slick-greeter VS void-packages

For example, do I start off with a 'git clone https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter.git' ?

No, that looks like a bug. There are some outstanding issues for individual options (e.g. https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter/issues/173), but nothing like this. Hard to say here what might cause that (maybe you're using TouchPad tap-to-click and it doesn't work there?) but you'd be welcome to make a new issue on the slick-greeter repo about this.

While I can't speak for how this information could be abused on platforms like mobile, the APIs used for battery reporting (amongst other things) is done via UPower. What you are seeing here is some weird reporting by slick-greeter (not developed by Solus) on the battery percentage level.

Seems more like a bug than anything. Should be reported at https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter/

The login screen however uses slick-greeter and lightdm. It has its own configuration system and can be set by installing lightdm-settings and running sudo lightdm-settings, alternatively manually making a file and setting up a conf, which can be seen at the bottom of https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter

Solus uses slick-greeter for Budgie, I am not aware of any option like that. Check the project page here, maybe someone discussed it: https://github.com/linuxmint/slick-greeter

Turns out that i have to edit the slick-greeter config file but as shown here on GitHub i don't have the option to a start-up script. I will have to change to the normal lightdm greeter in order to work

I was looking for a lightweight OS to run on old Asus Eee PC 1005 HA, which uses a 32-bit Intel Atom N270 processor. I installed Void Linux (https://voidlinux.org/).

I may give DSL 2024 a try and see how it compares.

Linux Void

My computer is running Void Linux and it has only a wired network connection. I can hook up my phone for USB tethering if I need to connect to the WiFi of the ESP32. How do I update the software without downloading some shady programs from filesharing site links on my system? I have the Arduino IDE and the esptool.py script installed.

Classic "everyone is using the software wrong, but it's the fault of everyone, and not the software".

Some distros like Void seem to patch this out.[1]

From mandoc/mdocml's mandoc_char(7) [2]

In roff(7) documents, the minus sign is normally written as ‘\-’. In manual pages, some style guides recommend to also use ‘\-’ if an ASCII 0x2d “hyphen-minus” output glyph that can be copied and pasted is desired in output modes supporting it, for example in -T utf8 and -T html. But currently, no practically relevant manual page formatter requires that subtlety, so in manual pages, it is sufficient to write plain ‘-’ to represent hyphen, minus, and hyphen-minus.

Which is the common-sense thing to do.

Meanwhile, GNU projects become increasingly less relevant due to obnoxiousness like this.

In general the amount of wankery of "the correct hyphen" is staggering.

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/mandoc_char

[2]: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/20c66829134...

So I was about to configure a new Archlinux build on my PC and came across Void Linux. I had already read about it a year ago but never researched it in depth. I know that is a Linux distribution made from scratch, with a different package manager and so on. Void Linux users or people who have tried it, what are your thoughts on it? Do you think the PM is easy to use? what about updates and bugs? what desktop or Tilling Window Manager do you use? could you tell me about it?

Good news about dbus-next: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/46760