Just use CachyOS instead. It's Arch in fucking fast, without introducing any weird deviations like Manjaro did(or still does?), rock solid and stable, while everything you may know from Arch can be applied, still. No real need to use their tools, but why not?
They work, and don't break things.
Their defaults were sane at time I tried it, which were BTRFS over one single device without further partitioning (except for 2GB 'small' boot), systemd-boot and Plasma/KDE.
It's still running like that, for about two years now. From that same installation.
Maybe the experience can be different with different paths chosen, or different hardware. Can't be known without trying it.
To each his own. I had a phase of emulating the classic W2K look, but like W95/98/ME all of this it feels too dark, dirty greyish for me now. Still in times of late KDE3 I then switched to https://store.kde.org/p/1100735/ but with different more colorful (soft pastel) icons which I can't remember the name of anymore, later then to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluecurve , but not like the ugly default depicted there. It could be customized to a mix of that Reinhardt style and Microsofts 'dot.net' style, still using the forgotten soft pastel icons. Which would then be applied to apps for other toolkits as well. Very consistent. I like consistency.
Meanwhile, Plasmas Breeze (light) does all of that for me, again. One could maybe depart from the breeze window decorations, and exchange them for 'Klassy', they can 'fit', there is much to change, chose from. I'm trying them out at the moment. The thing with Breeze is, many other apps have presets for that also, like LibreOffice, which leads to even more visual consistency :-)
My desktop is blank, a mix between soft pastel yellow and 'manila' paper. No icons, widgets, clocks, weather. I don't care about CPU or Network speed there. I wouldn't see them anyway, since I tend to have windows maximized. If something would be wrong Kget or Ktorrent would make themselves known, which they won't ;-> CPU speeds suffice, even if mostly clocked down to 800Mhz :-)
My 'taskbar' is at the top, only 24px high. I switch between 3 by 3 virtual desktops by either using that too small (for that arrangement, it should grow a little when hovering the pointer over it) widget in the taskbar, or by jamming the mousepointer into one of the four corners, which makes that 'expose'-like thing appear.
I concur in your liking of Breeze. It's an amazing teme, really. My only objection is that the default light color scheme is too light. Fortunately there are good color schemes such as Steel or StormClouds that solve that problem, a light theme that isn't too "white".
As for the monitors, I have them because sometimes I have issues with CPU speed (due to a hardware quirk of my laptop) and the network connection is kinda iffy at the time.
I tried both of them out. They are not for me, ATM. Maybe the too light for you results from different hardware. I have screens where I can adjust brightness and contrast separately, running at a color temperature of 5000K (warm).
That's different from what most laptops do, or fiddling with xgamma, or one of its frontends, using 'redshift', etc.
Even at brightest sunshine I don't go over 55% brightness, otherwise during the day, between 38% to 44%, at night just 20%, with contrast always two below these settings, or any I may use in between.
Despite all this, pictures look just right, even if I visit sites for calibration.
It uses a semi-flat design with raised 3D motifs to help give depth to icons.
I remember Noia, they were too 'shiny/glassy' and 'playful' for me. Looked different and funny for a while, but unusable for daily driving. I prefer something more 'serious', unobstrusive, not distracting.
Depends on if you like to make heavy use of virtual desktops. That's not really IceWMs department. FVWM is still king there. Otherwise, yes, (recent) IceWM is good. But so is (recent) Plasma/KDE, if you can spare the RAM.
You were likely asking: 'Why is this code throwing an error and fighting me?'
The transition from Conflict (fighting the code) to Contemplation (Observing/Viewing) suggests the solution isn't to type more code, but to step away and look at the logs (or the documentation).
This is a profound question, and looking at your specific moving lines (Lines 2 and 4), the answer is almost startlingly precise.
It’s rare, but both of your moving lines start with the exact same verdict: 'One cannot engage in conflict' (不克讼).
Line 2 says: Retreat and return home. (Don't fight the reality.)
Line 4 says: Turn back and submit to fate. (Acceptance brings peace.)
The Oracle seems to be validating your feeling of loss, but advising that this isn't a battle to be won against time (Conflict). It’s a transition to be understood.
You are moving from Hexagram 6 (Fighting) to Hexagram 20 (Contemplation/Viewing). The 'supernatural power' of youth is active energy; the power of age is perspective. You aren't losing the code, you're just moving from 'Writing' to 'Architecting'. :)
Maybe. But I'm not at (birth and growing up) 'home'. Which would be Bonn Bad Godesberg at the Rhine in Germany. Instead about 8800km west, somewhere high up in the Rocky Mountains, rather comfortably.
The power of youth aside, I had real supernatural powers. Which I've used to heal some early love affair of mine from a bad traffic accident, by impossible means.
I could also see the future of my personal experiences, and that way general development up to about 2024 and some 2025, but from the latter just some trickles, from 1982 on.
Actually some years earlier, but not that clearly.
Another short flashback from around 2050, me still living well in the Rockies, with the same woman, but no general clue about what's happening in the world, or what happened up to then. Or how the skies would look.
And another from about 2075, similar to the above, with me crashing in some experimental plane with an early prototype of a new energy source and engine.
Breaking one of my front teeth while I'm running away from the wreck as fast as I can, and the shockwave of its explosion throws me facedown onto a small rock in the desert. Blacking out in pain.
Getting collected by SAR Helo-like thing, tilt-rotor, but different from the ones which are flying now.
Laughing hysterically after having forced the female medic to give me 'the good suff', and she's stumbling into my lap/beween my legs because of some turbulence.
"Whoa Babe! Not so fast!"
Being annoyed at arrival, because I don't want to be wheeled in.
So I walk. Much commotion and protest. I just grumble "STFU!"
Being numb while having my rather stiff flight suit removed, and the few splinters which made it trough the back.
Hrrm, actually, writing this down, I 'premember' some supernaturalness there, while being checked up in some hospital in LA. Still same wife, having sex with her in the ICU, disabling all machines and cams by just wishing so, to the concern of the personell, but shooing them away. Gash in my upper lip gone after sex. And flown in from elsewhere stepdaughter healing the other patients currently in that wing. My security forcing all personell to NDA, gag-ordering them to NOT talk to anyone about this.
Something very strange and extraordinary happened to me while 'making love' for the first time to that early love affair of mine, in a strange place.
Which wasn't even my first sex, btw. Just very, very lovely, and unbelievably intense.
Something even stranger, and more extraordinary happened during a little celebration held for her return back to life in good health, which I've been invited to, because I did enable her return.
Shortly after that I rejuvenated some old nun, 90+, eaten up by cancer, waiting to die under morphines.
Told to try by the then acting chief nun, after she 'got wind' of me having sex with some of the girls they housed, and watched over.
When I explained myself, that she shouldn't blame me, they should feel blessed by my touch and semen.
As could be seen by the smile of one of them, whole again, because before one frontal tooth was broken off halfways. Also slimmed down her belly and hips a little. The other one was just right, maybe a little bit too horny. But youth, hormones kicking in hard! (Giggle)
So chief nun took me by my words, and I 'delivered'. I made that old nun free of cancer, and returned her to about 25 years of biological age, with all her memories still intact, and not addicted to morphine, clear minded.
Very sexy.
Which in turn led to a little celebration, and an orgy in their chapel. Which a few days later led to a meeting with some Jesuits near there, where they lived in cozy appartments below the ruins of an old castle tower.
Why? Because one of the assholes tried to exorcise the devil out of me. Which ended very bad for him, but I healed him too, after I messed him up, to be my messenger to the pope, or whoever is really pulling the strings in the Vatican.
Message more or less:
"I'm back, and I really don't like your ways! Change, or else...!"
I still don't like their ways, btw. Though they changed a little, mainly opening their archives which is very important to me!
Anyway, much sex ensued, most just joyful with sweet girls of my age, some slightly older, but still young woman, some middle aged female teachers, sometimes in orgies again, sometimes healing and/or rejuvenating(just one older) them.
Also got to know some female nurses, and took care of their needs.
Which in turn led me to heal the complete intensive care wing of a child hospital. With the exception of a child born without a brain, and being that way for all of its about 10 years of existence. Nothing to heal there, I can't make brains up. Just gently stopping its heart. Didn't even shiver. No parents that would care, either.
Left my home.
Fuckery continued in several places, sometimes in orgies. Where sometimes some supernaturalness ensued again during said fuckery.
Moved on, tried to live a more normal life, got experience in several fields. Wasn't really for me, could be considered a failure. Moved on several times again.
'Invented' something very technical, but not really, was just a rehash of old ideas, brought up to current technological standards, and combined where it made sense. With patents long expired, some not so long, but still.
That got noticed, and so I've been snatched up to where I am now, by ways of which I'm not at liberty to talk about :-)
With all that said, I don't see why I should turn back home and submit to fate?
What would that even be? Being exorcised? Crucified?
I've been 40+ years gone from there, and don't miss it that much, TBH.
I live very well where I am now, have cats, sexy women, (legal)drugs, and am healthy.
At least by reading all of the above, it seems they have something like Genode (running on https://sel4.systems/ , amongst others ), but instead of some academic research thing, widely deployed commercially, running on consumer ready devices of all sorts.
Lately all based on that HongMeng kernel thing, comparable in performance to SEL4, utilizing containerized Linux-drivers by way of compatibility-shim, still fast.
I really appreciate the scorched earth efforts to redo computing with security from the start, but personally I have reached the conclusion that compatibility is key to adoption, and that desktop focused linux distros like ubuntu with yolo security being used for servers is the practice causing the most harm we must end as soon as possible.
QubesOS falls really short in supply chain integrity, and server solutions, but IMO the overall hypervisor/IOMMU isolation architecture is the most practical and compatible way forward though nowhere near as elegant as some of the ideas in Genode.
In EnclaveOS my team and I chose to focus on remote attestation and best available security isolation technologies available to most server CPUs while still using (hardened) linux kernels. We talk about this here: https://distrust.co/blog/enclaveos.html
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