 @KMyers So are there any after-christmas chromebook deals?
 Not sure
 Hello from slackware+
 I just got the nvidia driver installed so the screen resolution is alright- now I've got to figure out how to get a boot screen or maybe live with a usb stick boot for a while, the uefi/efi/gpt world scares me still.
 Maybe I'll install grub
 2019 will be the year of Linux on the Desktop.
 haha
 I can't seem to get google chrome or chromium to run though
 Maybe I'll fall back to Debian
 What happens when you try to run it?
 Hm.
 I tried building a newer nss but I think I had trouble with that too
 Seems not to be the first thing that went wrong either
 Maybe bs up an /etc/machine-id first
 I have not done enough with Slackware to offer much advice.
 @RazPi, Seems logical. Just create a 32 char GUID and stick it in there
 I din't even consider a guid
 I was writing "thisismymachineidsongitisntverylong"
 It looks like that is only used for playing DRM protected content so I don't thing that it will fix the browser
 Well I'll want that eventually, xD good to know, I chose chrome so I could netflix
 Honestly I would go with Debian or Ubuntu as it will be easier to get the movidius working on that. I don't believe slack is supported so it would require a lot of hacking around to get it to work
 oh that's an interesting point
 to be fair, slack is already that
 Ubuntu is technically the only supported distribution but I am able to get it working on Debian with the addition of 2 lines to the install.sh file
 I'm going to try and build mozilla-nss from source first
 I don't know how I feel about there being like 20 build systems
 autotools, cmake, scons, ninja
 and so on
 Is there a way to add a folder of lib's to a system in a way that's easy to clean up?
 I see suggestions of using a bunch of ln's but I don't think that's easy to clean up
 Add libs to your libs path
 what's the libs path variable?
 my LD_LIBRARY_PATH seems to be empty
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 Man ldconfig
 Ldconfig is another way to load a lib path
 annnd that was it
 I had to build nss, which meant I had to install gyp and install ninja, and then add nss to the library path
 Ldconfig or ld lib path?
 I just did a simple LD_LIBRARY_PATH, I'll need to do something about making it stick
 I actually don't know where to place this and how to add it permanently
 its sort of just sitting in tmp atm
 😢 It won't even connect to the internet
 ERROR:cert_verify_proc_nss.cc(974)] CERT_PKIXVerifyCert for www.netflix.com failed err=-5992
 ldconfig or add LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path-to/my/libs/; to /etc/profile
 This is very helpful thank you!
 You're welcome!  I knew that all that time and money I put into Linux certs would pay off one day :D
 XD
 TIL that the grandson of the guy who designed the character art for Monopoly also wrote Bash
 Link?
 Discovered it through wikipedia, sec
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(computer_programmer)
 What the heck is a desbian desktop environment :O
 I can select it separately from xfce and gnome
 i'm afraid to ask
 I'm considering installing budgie for the desktop
 n/m I'll go for KDE for now
 Well I installed the nvidia drivers, set up hardware acceleration, but I've got some screen tearing everywhere
 scrolling in chrome, netflix in chrome, etc.
 ah, might've been the kde compositor
 weird.. can't get it to change, maybe trying xfce next to see if its kde
 annnd.. fixed
 KDE's compositor was causng screen tearing.
 and here I am back at xfce
 As always.
 so the kindle i got from the grid has a cracked screen
 d'oh
 Ouch
 @KMyers I think there's something to your stories about using linux to get away from windows
 I've spent all day messing with the same type of config errors as I do for work but somehow they stress me out less on linux
 Yeh... No regrets but it did not do what I planned in the first place
 haha
 Also it turns out I may need to either reinstall windows on a smaller drive or get a 500gb ssd
 My nvme was 500gb
 I gotta get away from xfce though, been using it too long
 a lot of the CUDA libraries seem to expect 18.04 so I may have to standardize on that until dig through the .deb's and unpack them and see what they're made of
 I think it's just a tar archive with some config text
 Slackbuilds had a file that actually extracted from a .deb
 I saw one at best buy for about 74, is this one better? let me look
 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-860-evo-500gb-internal-sata-solid-state-drive-for-laptops/6178650.p?skuId=6178650
 n/m same price
 @KMyers This worth it? https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sandisk-ultra-512gb-internal-sata-solid-state-drive-for-laptops/5969506.p?skuId=5969506
 Seems like more memory for a cheaper price
 If it was 1TB I might do it since a spinning disk is crap with Windows.
 I am partial to Samsung but you can't go wrong either way
 It looks like it was twice as expensive before so might be a decent quality
 I'll give it a run