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  • Apr 29, 2022

Do pre-boot tweaks

On Windows 10

TBD

On Linux

GUI (GNOME)

Screenshots are from GNOME but other GUI desktops are similar

Drop to terminal (command line) to add empty usercfg.txt to boot partition via ’touch usercfg.txt’
File manager with empty usercfg.txt in display
File manager with cmdline.txt highlighted
Text editor showing adding consoleblank=300 to kernel commandline in cmdline.txt

On Mac OS

TBD

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    • Daniel F. Dickinson

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