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Yeah, completely fair enough :) ! Another long-time photographer here (and a long-time Lightroom user from before I went Linux in everything I can), I've shot on SLRs for way over two decades. Some commercial work and published stuff too, never decided to make it my actual profession, though. Agreed ...

A shout out for Darktable from over here btw :), on Linux I used to use Rawtherapee, but this year I find I've effectively switched to Darktable, that's the one I always seem to go to. The recent version feels really great in use (currently 5.2.1).

MX Linux merch like this would be pretty cool, actually :3

I'm a little confused with your response. Are you running MX installed or Live and if installed, then why bring up Ventoy in the first place, it has no bearing whatsoever on an installed system.


OP live booted from USB into stock MX 23.1 in order to (successfully, in the end) resize the ...

Looks funky... :P

And HUH. I live booted from a stock MX Linux ISO (xfce), installed Chrome using the Package Installer... And sure enough, it does look like that. No settings altered, everything default. I'll say it again, looks funky also here in Finland, hah.

BV206 wrote: Mon Sep 01, 2025 6:49 pm Run iotop -o -a or press o and a while it's running to filter only what is active and show the accumulated totals.

Yep, I did a "iotop -a -p [conky PID]" to make sure and keep an eye on just that one, and I can confirm there definitely aren't any writes showing in iotop over here.

siamhie wrote: Mon Sep 01, 2025 6:08 pm I don't show any conky activity when I run iotop.

Yeah, that's what I was saying, too. Not seeing writes from conky over here either. So if OP is seeing such, what might it be? :)

His config is to check for any activity and report on it every two seconds.
If nothing is happening on the drives, there's nothing for conky to show. That variable is just to show all activity happening.


Are you sure we're talking about the same thing here?

That is, iotop showing that conky ...

Depends if atime or noatime is set or not with mount. (try with noatime)


Ohhhh, good call. Yes, you are right, if it's updating the access timestamp (and it likely is), that would do it. Edit: or would it? :D I mean, I don't recall seeing writes being registered in iotop explicitly from all the ...

siamhie wrote: Mon Sep 01, 2025 1:59 pm It's monitoring your disk activity.

Monitoring shouldn't constantly accumulate actual bytes written to disk, seen in iotop, by the conky process itself, though?