did you end up switch everything to the 2.5 ssd?
mazzilius_marsti
joined 8 months ago
oh LibreOffice works great for me in general. Only for some documents with macros that were created in MS Office, I have problems running them. Eg: I once received a MS Word document that has some preprogrammed drop down list - so you click to extend the list and choose your items. The document opens fine, but I couldnt get the drop down feature to work. For Excel, documents with lots of VBA codes, I need to go in and do some manual changes.
In general, for 99% of the tasks, LibreOffice is fine. But it is that 1% which makes me still open up my Windows VM for MS Office.
After their shenanigan with subscription only models, we still see MS Office being used a lot. It shows how strong MS grips on the Office area is.
You are correct that 365 is used for most people. I used to use it too..For me, I prefer to be able to access stuff whenever I want. I live in an area with very shitty internet (both Wifi and 4G). Once, a client and I had to wait 5 minutes because Office Online takes too long to load up a spreadsheet. Offline for me is just a peace of mind.
LibreOffice better step up their games and make their office suites better. Outside of very niche and specialized applications like CAD or video editor, the average Joe will just need a good office suite to do stuff.
i see, so the file names are: autostart_blocking.sh and autostart.sh
I dont need to create a weird file name like: autostart.sh &
But, whichever command I put in autostart.sh will run as if I run in terminal with the & sign. E.g: dunst & to run in the background.
yes, that is what I thought: so "dunst &" means to start dunst in the background. But the way they attach to the end of a file name is weird.
hows the search fuction in mutt? For eg, if i want to search an email thread from like 3 months ago, does it function well or do I need to open my broswer....
Well thanks everyone. I finally managed to get it to work on Arch. System has separate encrypted root and swap in LVM, and a separate encrypted home. It can suspend and hibernate. Below are my steps
DISK PREP
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partition the main drive for your swap and root first. For me, it is a boot partition + an EFI + a LUKS container with LVM on top. Create your volumes. I use Arch, so format and mount them appropriately before pacstrap. Leave out mount point for /home.
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Go to your other drive, follow: https://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/cryptsetup-add-enable-luks-disk-encryption-keyfile-linux/
to create a LUKS container that is encrypted with: a keyfile and a password. Test both to make sure you can open the locked drive. Format and mount it at /mnt/home or where you want the /home to be.
- Pacstrap and then genfstab.
Important: Make sure to copy the keyfile from your archiso environment to your chroot environment aka your system. Otherwise, when reboot, the keyfile is gone. I put it in /root and set permission so only root can read.
AUTOMATIC UNLOCK
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First, fstab. When you do genfstab, things should be fine. But just double check the UUID is correct for /home. Note in fstab, the UUID is the unlocked one: so the one with /dev/mapper/home. Change to noatime if you desire.
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Second, crypttab. Assume you decrypt your LUKS home as "home". Add this:
home uuid of the unencrypted home drive location of the keyfile luks
The link above said to just use /dev/sda, but imo UUID is safer if you have a removable drive.
- Third, grub. Edit your /etc/default/grub and append the following to GRUB_CMD_LINUX:
"rd.luks.uuid=UUID of the locked luks home drive"
FOR HIBERNATION
For some reasons, hibernation doesnt work out of the box. It works when I have everything in 1 drive, i.e 1 boot, 1 efi, 1 lvm on luks for /home, swap and /. The fix is simple:
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add "resume" to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. Add before "filesystems" . Rebuild your initramfs with mkinitcpio -P.
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add to /etc/default/grub: "resume= uuid of the unlocked swap partition". Or if you do LVM, just use "resume=/dev/vg/swap".
Special thanks to bodaciousFern@lemmy.dbzer0.com and Lemmchen@feddit.org for giving me correct ideas about "rd.luks.uuid" and that LUKS can do both pass and keyfile.
Good ! Good !
I see I have inspired an apprentice: https://lemmy.world/comment/15349991
The only thing missing now is to ditch the desktop environment and run EXWM. Or just run emacs from tty.