At the time you first install the system do: “yay -Qqe >newinstalls.txt” which will create a list of installed packages. Then later you can do it again but to another file: “yay -Qqe >nowinstalls.txt”. Then do: “diff newinstalls.txt nowinstalls.txt” which will give you a list of the differences between the two.

LXQT on Arch

I’m very happy to see OSM moving in the vector tiles direction. I was glad to contribute.

NIXOS. It has a very steep learning curve without acceptable documentation and once I climbed the learning curve, I realized that it was very different from the Linux that I love.

NIXOS is definitely not for me. The documentation sucks and there are less cumbersome ways to restore a system.

Color green for normal users and red for root. then date, hostname. and finally time of day

LXQT followed by Plasma

Lotus was so intent on protecting their revenue stream from software piracy that they built copy protection into the program. If the program was copied from one drive to another, it would not run. So if one bought a new computer or if the hard drive failed, the program could not be transferred to a new drive. The first versions of the software were pretty buggy too. I always visualized a Lotus company with a few programmers and many lawyers. They finally included a floppy disk that would allow a very limited number of copies, but still a PITA.