I didnt notice at first but a friend pointed it out: it's the same game loop as cookie clicker. This is just an idle/clicker game. You start manual dealing/clicking. And then you automate it. and it turns into a game of managing your automations rather than actually clicking yourself.
"I was expecting it to be a joke 20 minutes then throw away game, but holy crap, this is actually pretty deep and well thought out." - Also my friend.
AMD doesnt have any software for controlling RGB on windows. They don't make graphics cards, they only make the GPU chip that goes onto the card (and the GPU chip doesn't have any LEDs on it).
The LED controllers on the cards are per brand. If you have a Sapphire card, it's Sapphire software that controls the RGB. XFX card -> XFX software, etc.
I have an XFX 9070xt, and it doesnt have any RGB on it. so I haven't had to disable it.
OpenRGB is going to be your best bet for Linux RGB management. Sometimes they dont have every device supported (especially newer ones), so you might not be able to change everything immediately. But it's mostly just a "scan devices, set color values" once it's working.
And the iGPU you can probably disable in the UEFI config.
My arch install is 10 years old at this point.
I would be interested to know what inspired the need to "feel fresh" from OP. Is this an extremely underpowered laptop that just can't handle having a few extra packages installed? Is it the Windows bad habit just making them perceive it as "needing a cleanup" ?
If you have hard drive space, unloaded packages are generally never loaded and just take up storage, not CPU/memory (though you should check to see what services are running too).
Also importantly. pacman -Qdtq and pacman -Rns are 2 separate commands.
"Qdtq" means "Query, dependencies, unrequired, quiet" ("quiet" makes it so just the package names are output, to be more neatly piped into the second command. This queries the unrequired dependencies (ie, packages that were installed along with another package, but are no longer used by another package), and lists them
"Rns" means "Remove, no backup, recursively" . and the - at the end means "Use the values from the first half of the pipe"... This removes the packages listed, skips creating any .pacsave fields for config files, and then once the package is removed, checks all of ITS dependencies to see if they can be removed as well.
For this command, a "dependency" is any package that is installed as a dependency of another package (and hasn't been directly installed manually). If you installed package X, and it brought in package Y and package Z, then uninstalled package X, and now youre worried about package Y and Z, this will find them and clear them out.
This also teaches us that if you uninstalled package X with pacman -Rs packageX , the s bit would make sure that package Y and Z were cleaned up at removal time in the first place.
But overall, there's very little reason to reinstall arch unless you are running out of disk space due to how many obsolete packages you have hanging around and they are all explicitly installed so wont be cleaned up with the above method.
But worst case, if you manage to break things just by clearing out unused dependencies, you can just copy your files off and do a full reinstall. Your system works right now, why reinstall? Might as well try to improve it a little bit (if thats even needed) before giving up and starting over.
Based on the only comparison we have, the OP is twice the age of their sister. so the sister is now 44/2, or 22. Easy problem.
My take is that Windows experience sucks so bad that even HP won't touch it. But "HP sucks" is a very valid point.
This can go one of two ways:
The second way shouldn't even be possible, but never underestimate HP's ability to make something worse than you thought possible.
My current system was installed as manjaro, but i immediately started having AUR issues, so I just changed all the repos out to the official arch ones and over time everything manjaro specific has been updated or removed.
The first lines in my /var/log/pacman.log are from early 2015, and ive fully rebuilt my computer since then, including swapping hard drives (dd' to clone old drive onto new drive). So at this point my PC is a hardware and software ship of theseus.
If those personal photos and videos are important to you, you should have them backed up anyway. If you ever spill anything on that laptop, or it gets dropped or broken or lost. All those things are gone.
But as others have said, you can sometimes resize a partition from gparted if the drive isnt mounted (ie, use the live USB).
Also starship hasn't started its operational lifespan. These are test articles still. They should absolutely be treating them with respect and due diligence since they are launching, but this is just highly public testing on a reusable rocket. Success not guaranteed and that's why they aren't flying real payloads (even of their own).
Also, pretty sure Apollo 1 was a great example of Saturn rockets not being flawless.
Sure.you figure out which parts to scale when.
But point being that it quickly pivots into automating away tasks you were previously doing by hand.