All the others have great suggestions but I’d just like to add there many open source projects out there and given example code of how something is done and letting him play with it can be tremendously helpful. For example finding some simple 3d programs and lettting him change the source code to do whatever he wants or just giving him a template like https://editor.p5js.org/1alimaze/sketches/IJpxIEME8 which I made when I was first learning and letting him play with the values and add more objects.

Thank you all for offering advice. I did eventually get it working and repaired all the packages.

Nevermind I ran a script that looped through all packages in the output of pacman -Qk and reinstalled them.

I couldn’t figure out how to mount /dev/sda1 and did pacman -Syu and then I mounted it once I figured it out now pacman says there is nothing to do.

Did systemd or grub not even show up?

Will this work from slax linux? I am sorry if I seem like I can’t fix the issue myself seeing as you have given the resources for me to do so but what would be the exact steps to do that?

Thanks I might try that out later.

I ran it on my pc with a gtx 1070 with cuda enabled and compiled with the cuda compile hint but it ran really slowly how do you get it to run fast?

Just to warn you it might be very bulky and the model that the script is downloading is deprecated so you’ll have to find a different .gguf model on hugging face. Try to find a lightweight .gguf model and replace the MODEL variable with it nane as well the rest of the link. Or just download from a browser and move it into the models folder.

I believe Llama is open source but not sure how complicated it is to get running locally. Nevermind: https://replicate.com/blog/run-llama-locally

You can probably write a bash wrapper around it that feeds in “Can you summarize this text: (text here)” by setting the PROMPT variable the bash script. (Probably just do PROMPT=“Can you summarize this text: $1”) (Obviously don’t recompile everytime so remove the clone build and download code)

You can use tldr for man pages but for generic text I don’t know. You would probably need a LLM.

It might be you don’t have the group for deepin so it wouldn’t be useless to try grepping for it.

If you want DEEPIN:

Update your system: sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

Install it: sudo dnf group install "Deepin Desktop"

And then after for change reboot your system You can do it from the terminal like: sudo reboot

If you want GNOME try: sudo dnf group install “GNOME Desktop Environment”

Although if: sudo dnf group list hidden -v |grep -i gnome returns nothing it won’t work

If your using gdm you can select DEs like:

What dm are you using and what packages did you install?

Just use Iceraven. Addons work great on it. Except for themes for some reason.

Your DM should be able to handle multiple DEs just install from command line and pick which DE you want from the DM.

Yeah the restrictions on Chromebooks are really annoying. Termux is the only way I can actually program on my chromebook and if they remove that I guess it’s time to buy a Thinkpad.

Nethack is also available on termux. I like to play on my Chromebook when at school.

If you would like to use a TUI this you can check out ncurses. Should be a lot simpler than an GUI.

FOSS > ONCE > SaaS

ONCE is a comprimize but it is not an ideal. I would rather have true freedom to use software as I wish.