Linux SSD Transfer Flawless Victory!
So, my work machine was getting long in the tooth. Occasionally not booting and requiring me to jiggle memory sticks or tighten CPU cooler screws. It was a DDR3 machine with a Xeon E3 1230V2 with 8gb of RAM (and oddly enough an RTX 2060.) The fans were getting pretty loud, too....
Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y' (learnbyexample.github.io)
Did you know that Vim has an Easy mode? It’s the hardest mode for those already familiar with Vim 🙃
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Question about the order of FDE steps with LUKS and LVM
I’m setting up FDE and wonders which one is better. “LVM over LUKS” or “LUKS over LVM”? Or something else? Does one is definitely better then the other? What are your preference?...
KDE Slimbook V: The first KDE laptop with the AMD 7840HS CPU - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
Price starts at €999 and releases in April, and will come with Plasma 6.
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Evaluating some distros
Hello all,...
Hardening Arch Linux
Hi, I’m in a process of making fast, (extrenely) secure, and modern laptop. Currently I have Arch Linux with encrypted root partition (unlocked with Nitrokey or long password), secure boot, linux-hardened, firewalld, etc....
AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
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Why is jdownloader not available in most software managers?
Despite it being one of the most popular and feature rich download managers out there and it being foss, it seems that most repos don’t have it ( except for flahub iirc) Is there is any reason behind that?...
How different is Gentoo's new binary package system, compared to Arch Linux?
It was announced late last year that Gentoo is now offering binary versions of their packages. I’ve always had an interest in Gentoo, but the need to compile everything has always turned me away from it. I run Arch because it gives me the sense that I have more control of my system, when compared to other distros like Ubuntu,...
Problems on problems - Mint can't see my wifi card.
I check the spec and it has a wifi chip but the os can’t see it....
I feel like breaking my windows install was a rite of passage
Lately ive noticed that i was wanting to do certain things on Windows that just seemed much easier and more intuitive on Linux, based in the OS specific solutions i would see to problems i encountered. And i was more frequently using software where Windows support seemed like an after thought....
Is it possible to flash a new OS onto an old iPad 2?
I bought an old iPad2 for the purpose of viewing a Home Assistant dashboard via a web browser. My thinking was that the ability to browse the web was the sole requirement for a tablet for this purpose, but I was wrong: Home Assistant’s web pages apparently require a newer version of javascript than iOS 9.3.5 can handle, but...
What are the differences between linux distributions?
Hey guys! Trying to understand what developers actually do to create a yet another distro, or what are the differences between existing distros. Lets say we have ubuntu and fedora. What are the differences? Excluding DE, Installer, theme, installed packages/libs and package manager. They both are FHS compliant, both running...
[Solved] BSOD on Windows VM after update
Hello everyone! I hope to be posting in the correct place, if not please tell me and I’ll delete this. I have a W11 VM on my EndeavourOS KDE laptop that I use because of some software I need for university that does not run under wine (LabVIEW and Keil uVision). The VM is running on virt-manager (QEMU KVM) using the virtio...
Fixed Arch install error
Fixed by using grub....
would it be illegal to download Ubuntu on a Chromebook?
what if I, for example, had a job in Google and I liked Linux so much I install Ubuntu on my Chromebook, would that be illegal/send me to prison?? Or, if I had the job, would I be kicked?? I like Chromebooks because they are so smol and nice. But I don’t know if it’s legal to install a Linux distro on it. Thank you!!
can I be a Free Software advocate but still use non-free software??
I’m asking this because one time, while browsing the GNU website, I noticed that some of the members’ emails had “gmail” on them!! And I asked myself how would that be possible?? And I think other members of the FSF had Gmail too. Why? Richard Stallman is against Gmail, so why would those memberse use it?? Would that...
Why are gnome devs like this? (sh.itjust.works)
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3rd party discord client?
Once upon a time, ripcord was my favorite to use, unfortunately its been dead and dormant for over 2 years now. Id love to know if anybody knows any similar client (for example: be it in having custom design, or being super lightweight)...
Linux Gaming: Anti-Cheats question
There are games that we cannot play on Linux because of anticheat, which detects wine/proton translation....
Recommendations for OS on a rpi 4B (outside of RaspPiOS)
Quickly wondering what people recommend as OS for a rpi model 4b, outside of the RaspPiOS ofc. I want to use the RPI for all networking related stuff (dont worry its not using an sd-card). So PiHole, and I’ll also want to use it as my exit-node out of my Tailnet. I will also run ProtonVPN on it so that all my devices...
Help: Emergency Mode after Windows borked everything, BTRFS, LUKS, Fedora (discussion.fedoraproject.org)
Hey people! It seems I have some really messed up fstab or anything else, as Windows tried to do “disk repair”....
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Confused about the Write Zeroes command
I’m shopping for a new NVMe SSD drive for my laptop and with the second deciding factor being Linux compatibility, I’d looked up the names of specific drives in the source code of Linux and discovered that their controllers have quirks that have to be worked around....
My FOSS terminal clipboard manager is now at version 0.8.2! (github.com)
Hi everyone! I’m the developer of a clipboard manager that I know many of us Linux users here might know, called just The Clipboard Project....
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