Great question I’ve been wondering the same thing. I’ve been using a spreadsheet with some fancy lookup sheets for far too long, which results in only one ‘category’ of expenses ever being tracked.

Ya just gotta stroke the path

https://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-path-stroke.html

Veeery carefully

Maybe a third option: unplug the Linux disk and see if windows boots.

It pains me to admit this but VSCodium has become my de facto standard

https://vscodium.com/

I think ‘for sale’ would get the point across 😅

I think reactos is just in a weird space of semi uselessness like haiku. It’s not good enough to use daily and doesn’t have as much retro appeal as game emulators so not enough work is done to it.

Also building reactos is terrible, or at least was years ago (it’s a whole os and userland after all, I know it won’t be simple). If the development workflow improves the project could get off the ground.

As far as posix support goes I would love to see reactos get to the point where a posix nt personality could be real again, but really I think humanity has learned enough about operating systems to build a new one from scratch instead of liberating proprietary tech at great cost.

😅 naa for me encryption a bigger risk than theft

That said, you should be able to decrypt your disks with the right key even on a live boot. Even if the secrets are in the tpm you should be able to use whatever your normal system uses to decrypt the disks.

If you don’t enter a password to boot, the keys are available. If you do, the password can decrypt the keys afaik.

Again, I don’t do this but that’s what I’ve picked up here and there so take it with a grain of salt I may be wrong.

Live boot, plug in a display?

Maybe I’m missing something here, but won’t booting from live media run a normal environment?

If you don’t have a live boot option you can also pull the disk and fix it on another machine, or put a different boot disk in the system entirely.

You can probably also disable hardware virtualization extensions in the bios to break the VM so it doesn’t steal the graphics card.

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Don’t forget, the CEO is always the fall guy for the owners

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I’ve been trying to run a stable system with never overcommit and no swap . It’s impossible. this is the thing that may make me a kernel developer once I retire.

I’ve settled for tons of swap with never overcommit but I still can’t do normal things sometimes.

The downside to swap is wearing out your disk and latency when swapping, it’s good to have swap usage before ram is gone to let the system have more ram available for random allocations. My goal is to never need the oom killer, but it seems like many apps (chrome and FF mostly) basically require overcommit to function.

Right now my system has 30% ram used and is still keeping 700MB is swap. I would recommend to try benchmarking your settings but I don’t do that myself so I don’t know what to use 😅.

You can try disabling swap with swapoff, then your system is definitely maximizing your ram use, just be prepared for the oom killer to wreck your session.

Have you read through this thread? https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8682734.html

Seems relevant by the first few posts.

I was thinking grub may be unable to find the correct initrd for some reason, like missing grub modules. This doesn’t make sense since it can boot your vanilla image and doesn’t print an error when booting your image.

If it hangs after grub’s EFI loader I would check the EFI grub install… But I don’t know luks so no idea what to look for.

Bansi Buddy and NetZero of course!

But really it’s winamp, which of course I would still use on Linux except I’ve become a disciple of the streaming gods.

Plus software like that probably runs great in wine or proton or whatever the new thing is

I second the idea that this is a bad idea, but…

Maybe a remote desktop solution is what you want, keep your data local or in your cloud account and provide remote access to a machine that can use it?

You could roll your own self destruct script that will wipe the machine on boot if it hasn’t phoned home in a while. You would want to lock the bios and use secure boot. Qubes may have some relevant features.

Also, consider getting a Chromebook instead. ChromeOS is already a walled garden and I think they are remote wipeable and they can run a Linux vm supported by elgoog.

Get Ubuntu, uninstall the terminal emulator, disable vt switching, there you go.