Garuda Linux Gnome Install

All my life I never tried Garuda Linux, simply because it is a Gamer based distribution and come from a non English country.

On top of that it used Btrfs file system which I hate.

Since  it based on ARCH and if I do not make few line about it in my book it is unfair. I have included it under Gamers wothout checking.

Password is Garuda and I listened to a YouTube presentations any way.

I am glad it did not mess up my Partition Table while configuring Btrfs.

ARCH is on top of Linux and I haven't sern it on www.distrowatch.com.

Installation script is no different to other ARCH Distributions except there are no graphic interval between line of code or moving to next slide.

Installation is brick except wrting Btrfs file system.

I hope it would not mess up with my GRUB which is very unlikely.

These guys have done a wonderful job promoting Linux.

Time spent on graphic is well spent.

Image is under 4GB, 3.2GB exact which is excellent.

It is a gamer console in Gnome and I cannot install additional applications except game condoles. 

I am going to ERASE it after two bootups.

SZBOX S7 and Mini Stick with Linux

SZBOX S7 and Mini Stick with Linux

 

It is time to retire all the bulky and heavy LAPTOPS with batteries hard to come by with mini PC and mini USB sticks.

I am glad I did not publish my book on Linux Essentials.

I need to expand the chapter with HiGOLE mini PC.

SZBOX S7 is a hand held mini PC which looks like a cellphone.

In fact, a cellphone/tablet and mini PC combo.

Price around $500/= when upgraded but bare born is 270.

7" inch scree Alder Lake-N

INTEL inside.

16GB DDR5 and 128GB NVMe SATA without and operating system in which I can install Linux.

It is really worth for the price quoted.

It is portable.

Compact with a kick stand.

It is productive with enough video capability.

Impressive array of ports for connectivity.

Ideal for students and data handlers.

Dave space, save money and save energy.

Money saved can be used for a monitor of your choice.

7200 mill Ampere battery which last for 7 to 8 hour without changing requirement.

Intel WiFi 6 with Bluetooth 5 and Audio and HDMI video ports.

This is the perfect niche market product for a digital nomad or old potato-couch tech enthusiast like me. 

However, with some visual handicap, I prefer a bigger screen but with ability increas fond size I can make a blog piece on the fly.

Thank You guy for YouTube presentation and the tech guys who design these products.

Sky is the limit if you put mind into a productive and portable tool.

SZBOX-S1 is a DDR5 RAM in a USB stick Frame is even smaller. This stick is meant to be attached to a monitor with HDMI IO port. It is not suitable for games but ideal for a workspace where space is limited. It can hide behind the big TV but switching on and off will be cumbersome. I think if you have a portable mini TV this stick make it a work companion in a restricted space. SZBOX S7 is seven inch and with visual handicap I would go for 10" mini TV and this mini Stick. I won't recommend it for a car TV since watching TV while driving should be prohibited to prevent (RTA) road traffic accidents.

Portable Operating System on a Stick.

There is another stick with DDR4 which I can stick on my NUC with DDR 4. I fear sticking a DDR5 stick which different bus speeds might burn my NUC (CI) circuit board.

Do not stick these on an OLD PC even by accident.

This is a DDR4 RAM integrated into a mini Circuit Board and a USB port IO.

It has HDMI port for video and SD slot for DATA.

Thinks are getting smaller and nanometer chips are coming out. There enough holes in the modified plastic frame for heat dissipation. I want use this with over 10 USB sticks booting many Linux Distribution.

This stick is Linux compatible for Linux enthusiasts.

Linux is not Resource Hungry When Running my NUC

 Linux is not Resource Hungry When Running my Intel NUC

 I bought my Bare bone NUC in Ceylon and had been hacking it on daily basis.

I always worried it might break down.

Lately I begin to test it while running.

Dual CPU

Integrated graphic card

Memory 8GB.

with downloading TuX racer, writing this blog piece  

and having Pingus game running by the side

CPU and GPU use is below 25%.

Memory Below 2,5GB 

SWAP not used and disk 1.6GB.

All this because I am running Linux, that is also not Gnome but BlueStar Linux which has the mast beautiful KDE desktop.

CRON jobs and Daemons allocate the resources perfectly and my NUC will run for my life. I still want buy a Mini PC with Audio Video output, just for fun.

If I used Microsoft Windows my NUC would have been dead by now.

Windows in the BIOS is blocked by default.

No dual booting at all. 

 SZBOX S7 and Mini Stick with Linux
 
It is time to retire all the bulky and heavy LAPTOPS with batteries hard to come by with mini PC and mini USB sticks.
I am glad I did not publish my book on Linux Essentials.
I need to expand the chapter with HiGOLE mini PC.
SZBOX S7 is a hand held mini PC which looks like a cellphone.
In fact, a cellphone/tablet and mini PC combo.
Price around $500/= when upgraded but bare born is 270.
7" inch scree Alder Lake-N
INTEL inside.
16GB DDR5 and 128GB NVMe SATA without and operating system in which I can install Linux.
It is really worth for the price quoted.
It is portable.
Compact with a kick stand.
It is productive with enough video capability.
Impressive array of ports for connectivity.
Ideal for students and data handlers.
Dave space, save money and save energy.
Money saved can be used for a monitor of your choice.
7200 mill Ampere battery which last for 7 to 8 hour without changing requirement.
Intel WiFi 6 with Bluetooth 5 and Audio and HDMI video ports.
This is the perfect niche market product for a digital nomad or old potato-couch tech enthusiast like me. 
However, with some visual handicap, I prefer a bigger screen but with ability increas fond size I can make a blog piece on the fly.
Thank You guy for YouTube presentation and the tech guys who design these products.
Sky is the limit if you put mind into a productive and portable tool.

SZBOX-S1 is a DDR5 RAM in a USB stick Frame is even smaller. This stick is meant to be attached to a monitor with HDMI IO port. It is not suitable for games but ideal for a workspace where space is limited. It can hide behind the big TV but switching on and off will be cumbersome. I think if you have a portable mini TV this stick make it a work companion in a restricted space. SZBOX S7 is seven inch and with visual handicap I would go for 10" mini TV and this mini Stick. I won't recommend it for a car TV since watching TV while driving should be prohibited to prevent (RTA) road traffic accidents.

Portable Operating System on a Stick.
There is another stick with DDR4 which I can stick on my NUC with DDR 4. I fear sticking a DDR5 stick which different bus speeds might burn my NUC (CI) circuit board.
Do not stick these on an OLD PC even by accident.

This is a DDR4 RAM integrated into a mini Circuit Board and a USB port IO.
It has HDMI port for video and SD slot for DATA.
Thinks are getting smaller and nanometer chips are coming out. There enough holes in the modified plastic frame for heat dissipation. I want use this with over 10 USB sticks booting many Linux Distribution.
This stick is Linux compatible for Linux enthusiasts.

China Syndrome

Friday, May 27, 2022
China Syndrome

I was intrigued by the fact that why China is currently Communist and is resistant to Buddhism.
 

I have found the answer.

Their religion was drug intoxication from ancient times.

MaO Tse Tung killed at least 3 millions to arrest this pan-drug-addiction syndrome that made China a Vasal State.

The Chinese are known for herbal  medicine.

In their quest for plant medicine they discovered addictive psychoactive drugs.

Manna Mushroom is one of them.

The story of South America is similar and they have more variants including Ayahuasca.

The problem is meditators (try to induce endogenous relaxants), alcoholics (temporary euphoria and later toxicity) and drugs addicts from Afghanistan (opioids), all fall into same to the same boat.

ADDICTION.

I have gone into detail how meditators end up with strokes and the latest was one of my classmates who died within 6 months is meditation practice.

Let me dish out a small passage from a book I never read but fished out from the attic few days ago.

Since the early days of humankind chemical substances have been available when consumed, alter some kind of behaviour or experience.

Often the effects are powerful and mysterious that the substances that produced these were incorporated into religious rituals of the society.

The power of these substances took on mystical qualities of their own.

Read also Philadelphia Experiment.

In other words, almost all religions originated from this fantasy.

Buddhism as it practiced today is no different.

I have introduced this subject briefly in my book "Charms of Alcohol" at Amazon Books. 

ISO is over 4GB (XFCE) and over 5GB (KDE).

Most likely I am going to erase it if WiFi is not available. 

Six Linux Distributions in my NUC under 24 Hours

Yes, that nasty Encounter with Brazilian BIG Linux (which I hate now) made me to install six Linux Distributions under 24Hours. I lost all the Linux images stored on two NTFS files. Then, I also realized Debian has shuned NFFS files for good (NTFS is proprietary). I did not lose  any DATA and quickly copied the DATA on NTFS files to my HOME folder which is never ERASED. 

This was done under Live BiG Linux when I realized BIG Linux has done enough damage to my System.

I hate Btrfs and I never use TimeShifts. 

My independent DATA SAVE Protocol, I use from my Thesis writing time has saved me from catastrophe.

However, I decided to save the five books I am currently working on two USBS.

Well, I have not lost a file since I started using Debian GNOME.

Six Linux Distributions in my NUC under 24Hours 

 

Six distributions I installed in my Single NUC are:

 

1. Debian 14 Testing Forky

 

2. Debian 13 Trixie (I am finishing five books on Trixie)

 

 4 ARCH Distributions.

 

Top of them is Catchy OS

Next is Manjaro 

3 and 4 are a close tie

 

BlueStar Linux half a neck ahead of Reborn OS.

 

I have KDE  in five of them for Testing and most beautiful KDE, by the way, is  BlueStar Linux that comes from Germany.

 

No for Tuxedo

No for POP OS

No for Zorin

 

Non committal on UBUNTU and Linux Mint.

 

I HATE all the distributions that RUN on Root and UBUNTU tops the list. It is a big security RISK. 

Way to avoid is to have a USER account under Root.

 

I now have 33 Partitions and only two are FAT.

 

One is tiny EFI and other is for storing Redundant DATA.

 

I am giving up on Puppy Linux except Easy OS on a 4GB USB. 

None of my books are saved there since it does not support AbiWord. 

 

I write my books on AbiWord.

KIRO Linux which comes from Belgium is a security RISK. I

t has the wallpaper Variety which is a back-end utility that is used for spying.

 

BEWARE of  all wallpapers that come with KDE which can be used for snooping and spying.

 

Adobe Software of Apple was known snooping as well as carry malware.

Reborn OS is most User Friendly ARCH Distribution to install and update Software.

No command line at all.