[sf-lug] Post-01/05/24 Mtg

[aaronco36 at sdf.org]

Several items re: today's meeting, i.e., today's SF-LUG meeting of
2024-01-05.

1. John S., Ken S., Sanjiv K. were already on the virtual Jit.si Meet
meeting when I joined ~11:20am.  After they departed, I stayed on until
Bobbie S. and Victor joined-up.

2. The system specs of the Lubuntu PC I was and am currently still using
to host virtual guest machines is detailed at the bottom of this message.
Chose some MS Windows 10 wallpaper for the LXQt desktop on the host
machine, installed and configured the LightDM display manager to somewhat
mimic the
Windows 10 login experience, changed the internal names inside the
<username>/Desktop/<appname>.desktop icon shortcuts to Windows 10
equivalents, and theme-mimicked other aspects of the desktop to better
reflect that MS Windows' look-and-feel.

3. For John S's (and others') informational purposes, have three
virt-manager virtual machines on the above host system:
A. Same Lubuntu OS (Lubuntu 24.04.1 LTS) as above installed on this guest vm.
Similar Windows 10 configuration as host system and such
fairly-standardized apps as LibreOffice suite, Firefox browser, Text
editor (LeafPad), Media Player (VLC), PDF Viewer (Okular), Image Viewer
(LXImage-Qt), ...etcetera.
HD: 48 GiB /dev/vda with 4 GB (3.8 GiB) virtualized "physical" RAM
partitioned as
../vda1 BIOS boot 8M
../vda2 ext4 /(rootfs) ~40 GiB
../vda3 swapfs 7.8 GiB
Of the ~40GiB of /(rootfs), 8.5G is used, 29G is available, and 23 percent
of /dev/vda2 is used

B. Same Lubuntu OS (Lubuntu 24.04.1 LTS) installed as above on this
smaller guest vm, but as a separately-nested vm under the host system vs.
a 2nd-level nesting under A.
This smaller Lubuntu guest was configured to mimic the look-and-feel of
MS's now long-expired Windows XP with automatic login and low-resource
standardized apps such as the same LibreOffice suite, Firefox browser,
Text editor (LeafPad), Media Player (VLC), PDF Viewer (Okular), Image
Viewer (LXImage-Qt), ...etcetera.
HD: 16.0 GiB /dev/vda with 2 GB virtualized "physical" RAM partitioned as
a sole /dev/vda1 /(rootfs) with a created 3 GiB swapfile.
Of the 16.0 GiB of /(rootfs), 11G is used, 4.1G is available, and 73
percent of /dev/vda1 is used

C. The minimal antiX v23.1 "Arditi del Popolo" distro is installed as a
separate and small vm guest.
This smaller antiX guest was not especially configured further than its
default zzz-icewm desktop, but it _was_ installed as automatic login
similar to vm B. above, and its default wallpaper was set as "Bliss";
vaguely mimicking the look-and-feel of MS Windows XP.
As antiX uses various assorted window managers vs. a desktop environment
such as LXQt, IMNSHO much further configuration steps are required to more
fully mimic Windows XP.
Just like vm B. above, HD: 16.0 GiB /dev/vda with 2 GB virtualized
"physical" RAM partitioned as a sole /dev/vda1 /(rootfs) with a created 3
GiB swapfile.
Of the 16.0 GiB of /(rootfs), 8.6G is used, 6.3G is available, and 58
percent of /dev/vda1 is used

Individual Notes:
Virtual machine A. with its 48 GiB /dev/vda and 4 GB (3.8 GiB) virtualized
"physical" RAM was easily the fastest and most responsive of the three.
Virtual machine C. with its installation of antiX seemed faster and more
responsive than the Lubuntu install on vm B., although did not run any
actual benchmarking tests to quantify the actual metrics on this :-\
_Will_ mention that IMHO, antiX appears to be somewhat more difficult to
install and use than is Lubuntu :-|


4. IIRC, nobody attending today's meeting mentioned using
Wubuntu/"LinuxFX", although I and perhaps others mentioned one could also
better mimic Windows by tweaking Linux distros such as Kubuntu and others
with the KDE plasma desktop environment (and/or MATE, Cinnamon).
Bobbie S. mentioned that she would rather use KDE Plasma on Mandrake,
Mandrive/Mageia, and/or PCLinuxOS.


5. For Victor, don't know much about the MATE DE's Caja file manager
myself, but quoting 'man wc' gives me
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ quoting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Print newline,  word,  and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
more
than one FILE is specified.  A word is a non-zero-length sequence of 
printable
characters delimited by white space.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always
in the
following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum line length.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Please specifically note the "always" in the last above sentence(!)

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That's all I've got for now, please feel to pipe in for omissions have no
doubt made above.

-A



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More detailed 'inxi -F' specs of the following "look-and-feel" Windows
10'ish host system here....
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Distribution: Lubuntu 24.04.1 LTS (Noble Numbat)
  Latest LTS release  Supported until April 2027
  LXQt Version: 1.4.0
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 10AXS02601 v: ThinkCentre M73
serial: MJ02PB1X
  Mobo: LENOVO model: SHARKBAY v: 0B98401 WIN serial: N/A BIOS: LENOVO v:
FHKT87AUS
    date: 12/21/2021
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Pentium G3220T bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2594 min/max: 800/2600 cores: 1: 2594 2: 2594
Info:
  Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.57 GiB used: 2.2 GiB (29.1%) igpu: 128
MiB
  Processes: 207 Uptime: 28m Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Shell: Bash
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
    driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: Z-Star Micro Venus USB2.0 Camera driver:
snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 tty: 89x29 resolution:
1680x1050
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,swrast platforms: surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.3
    note: console (EGL sourced) renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (HSW
GT1), llvmpipe
    (LLVM 17.0.6 128 bits)
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio driver:
snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio driver:
snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-51-generic status: kernel-api
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I217-V driver: e1000e
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
(redacted but _Real_ Ethernet interface)
  IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx  (redacted but
_Virtual_ Ethernet interface)
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 79.85 GiB (34.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 114.79 GiB used: 42.82 GiB (37.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
  ID-2: /home size: 97.93 GiB used: 37.03 GiB (37.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 15.63 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev:
/dev/sda2

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