Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2017-09-14 Thread R0b0t1
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 8:16 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > Install it in a VM! > Yes, this is a very good option. I can verify everything "works" but sometimes you will experience sporadic errors with new hardware. You won't waste time on this if it does happen; in every case I

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2017-09-14 Thread taii...@gmx.com
Install it in a VM! If your system supports IOMMU for graphics devices here is something special you can do: I would instead consider purchasing an additional PCI-e graphics device and a PCI-e usb card then installing Windows in a VM with IOMMU-GFX, this way you can have your cake and eat

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2017-09-14 Thread R0b0t1
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:20 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 14 September 2017 05:09:14 BST R0b0t1 wrote: > >> The trickiest part is still the same - going from GRUB or, now, your >> EFI shell, to Window's bootloader. See here: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

2017-09-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 14 September 2017 11:33:50 BST Mick wrote: > On Thursday, 14 September 2017 11:11:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:25:14 BST Mick wrote: > > > Another complain surfaced: apparently users cannot edit their own > > > user > > > icon, the one that

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

2017-09-14 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 14 September 2017 11:11:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:25:14 BST Mick wrote: > > Another complain surfaced: apparently users cannot edit their own user > > icon, the one that appears to the left of the name of the user in the > > start up panel.

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

2017-09-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:25:14 BST Mick wrote: > Another complain surfaced: apparently users cannot edit their own user > icon, the one that appears to the left of the name of the user in the > start up panel. systemsettings5 only allows one to add a user. Existing > user accounts are

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

2017-09-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:57:17 BST Mick wrote: > Hmm ... I have the following: > > $ env | grep LANG > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > > $ grep GB /etc/portage/make.conf > LINGUAS="en_GB en" > L10N="en-GB" > > I wasn't aware there is a LANGUAGE variable. I couldn't find it here: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

2017-09-14 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:03:21 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:38:48 BST Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:16:07 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:07:20 BST Mick wrote: > > > > Another little problem I came

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

2017-09-14 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:38:48 BST Mick wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:16:07 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:07:20 BST Mick wrote: > > > Another little problem I came across with Plasma is that neither the > > > keyboard, nor the spell

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2017-09-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 14 September 2017 05:09:14 BST R0b0t1 wrote: > The trickiest part is still the same - going from GRUB or, now, your > EFI shell, to Window's bootloader. See here: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Chainloading_Windows.2FLinux_ins > talled_in_UEFI_mode. That advice, though

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

2017-09-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:38:48 BST Mick wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 23:16:07 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:07:20 BST Mick wrote: > > > Another little problem I came across with Plasma is that neither the > > > keyboard, nor the spell