[00:07] <genii> FoxBook: There is a way to correct it on this guy's run-through of installing Xubuntu on that model https://www.bobjohnson.com/blog/adventures-with-linux-xubuntu-on-a-toughbook-cf18/
[00:08] <CrazyLikeAFox> genii: Oh thank you, Ill give that a read through (this is my main laptop)
[00:09] <CrazyLikeAFox> my particular one is a mk5, but stff for the 4 should still apply
[00:09] <genii> It's fairly comprehensive and well-written, from what I've read of it so far
[00:10] <CrazyLikeAFox> yeah, looks like just the ticket, but it address all my issues
[00:11] <CrazyLikeAFox> other main issue is, I need something to read the old HDD to do a bitwise type copy over to the new larger ssd
[00:12] <CrazyLikeAFox> then I should be able to use gparted to add a partition into the blank space and fix the mbr if need be
[03:11] <CrazyLikeAFox> Oh, I got the usb drive cradle to work, and got the old drive migrated in- sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sda (it took a bit over 2 hours to push 60gb over usb 2.0)
[03:12] <CrazyLikeAFox> Hrm, I need to figure out how to get the windows bootloader to invoke xubuntu though
[03:51] <genii> No, rather you should use GRUB to choose between your installed operating systems. Windows bootloader does not know about any other operating systems except Windows
[04:40] <tomreyn> i think you can actually convince it to boot another efi boot code such as grub's stub
[04:42] <tomreyn> for a multi boot system wihch involves an OS which is notorious for just overwriting things it doesn't know about, going with this systesm's boot loader could actually be an option (if it doesn't loose the boot loader configuration also when it overwrites it)
[04:44] <CrazyLikeAFox> I did find a couple different approaches, but ti looks like the windows vista+7 loader (win7 partition has the boot flag and is the primary OS of the laptop) and no uefi is the ideal case to make it work
[04:44] <CrazyLikeAFox> and that is my current case
[04:44] <CrazyLikeAFox> but that'll be tomorrow or this weekend
[09:35] <lilililil> hi i was trying to install xubuntu but got an error,.,. it says that the grub-efi-amd64-signed failed and the installation just broke, ive been getting a lot of problems with installing linux (any kinda) on my acer, what should i do, i am new to this.
[11:16] <DarkTrick> Wouldn't it be nice to have a "scroll distance setting" for mouse settings?
[11:17] <DarkTrick> Is this something for xubuntu or upstream?
[11:26] <well_laid_lawn> it depends on the program
[12:28] <DarkTrick> which programs are there?
[12:29] <DarkTrick> xinput, ... ?
[12:32] <brainwash> DarkTrick: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/issues/185
[12:50] <DarkTrick> brainwash: Thank you for the link
[12:51] <DarkTrick> It seems like they are just testing a libinput implementation
[12:52] <DarkTrick> I'm not sure if libinput is the right place, but I'll wait and hope
[13:00] <brainwash> DarkTrick: there are links to other report too
[13:00] <brainwash> reports
[13:00] <brainwash> but I've only read the bare minimum
[13:01] <DarkTrick> I have to admit to also skipped the middle parts.
[13:01] <DarkTrick> It seems like a long discussion over the years
[18:55] <xubuntu20w> Hello, my apologies if this is the wrong channel, feel free to redirect me. I am running Xubuntu Voyager GS, but it doesn't seem very smooth at switching between user profiles. Things work great for the first profile to log in, but when I switch to the next user, it defaults to a low resolution with no option to change it.
[18:58] <diogenes_> xubuntu20w, rename .config dir for that user.