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    Screen tearing

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 01:06 AM PST

    Honestly wondering how to fix it on my laptop while still using Nvidia graphics bc I wanna use other distros but the screen tearing issue is stopping me-

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    Best way to distro hop?

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 11:56 AM PST

    Hey yall. I have been using ubuntu for the past year or so and I want to try out a new distro, maybe arch. My issue is that my ubuntu partition is HEAVILY configured to my current needs. I'm a software engineer and there are many specific installations and configurations that I use on a daily basis. I have wanted to try a new distro for a while now but I dont want to have to reinstall/reconfigure all my software and tweaks as it took a while to get all the things I needed installed correctly.

    So my question is, is there some sort of migrating tool I can use to make this process eaiser? Thanks.

    submitted by /u/RedEyesBigSmile
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    Dual boot

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 10:07 AM PST

    Hello,

    I am currently running Debian 9 on my SSD and want it as my primary OS. If I were to install Win10 on my HDD would it affect my other drive (with Debian)? I have important data there and not sure about the end result.

    Thanks in advance.

    submitted by /u/Jazingek
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    Which distro for gaming and media server?

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 11:47 AM PST

    Hello all,
    I intend to switch to Linux on my PC. I use a mac for work-related things and the PC is almost exclusively used for 1) a bit of gaming and 2) running a media server (serviio). I am new to Linux but have decades of experience with Win and Mac, including professional experience as a software developer (although that was a long time ago). I am not married to Serviio, by the way, any DLNA server with good support will do. So, a little gaming, DLNA server, ease of use and installation, that's the priorities.

    With this in mind, which distro would you recommend? I have tried to do my homework and it seems like Mint or Manjaro would fit the bill. Am I on the right track here?

    submitted by /u/PanzerKami
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    I don't like PopOS . Any other distros for Nvidia cards?

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 07:47 AM PST

    Hey guys so I'm pretty new to all the Linux stuff. I used Solus for near a year, bought a new laptop and installed PopOS to try it out, but i don't like it.

    It's fast and snappy but I liked Solus more.

    So if I'm considering to try another distro, Manjaro, Mint, or something else?

    My nvidia card is MX230 btw. I'm dual booting windows 10 as well as whatever distro i end up at.

    submitted by /u/basharshehab
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    Which bootable usb creator should I use for Debian?

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 08:51 AM PST

    Hello! I'm using Zorin OS at the moment and I want to switch to Debian because Zorin is kinda slow (probably because of GNOME 3 desktop) and I want to learn a bit more about Linux and Debian just feels good to use in my opinion. However Rufus isn't avalible on Linux and Debian installer says that using Unetbootin can cause problems. And etcher doesn't see my USB. Is there another alternative you guys recommend?

    submitted by /u/AnotherRetroGameFan
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    distros for a Netbook N150 from Samsung

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 01:41 PM PST

    So my brother and his wife gave me this old cheap looking netbook with W7 Starter and they ask me to restore it, honestly i probably just return it to them and should tell them to buy a newer PC but oh well...

    I ending up installing Zorin Os Lite and it worked... sorta slowish, but i assume it was because of the netbook specs and i told to my brother to not have high expectations.

    do you guys know any other distro besides Zorin OS Lite that i can try to install on this netbook? since these netbook is not for tech-savy users i choosed that distro (i read about it that is windows user friendly) but i think it can be improved further i pick another thing

    submitted by /u/Gilded30
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    Cheapest server hosting?

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 01:34 PM PST

    (Sorry if this is the wrong sub to post in)

    I'm looking for cheap server hosting for a small web server to fool around with. It's not for anything serious or public, just to learn some HTML/NodeJS. As pointed by a few sources, self-hosting can come with a bunch of security measures I really don't want to get into.

    Looking for: - Super low specs requirements (Anything remotely more powerful than a raspberry pi) - Ability to port forward ports 80 or maybe 443 - ssh or equivalent shell connection

    submitted by /u/MrSiliconGuy
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    can't get past the install screen

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 05:52 AM PST

    i'm trying to install linux onto a hp stream 14 via usb. i've tried like 5 different distros and sone don't load at all (lubuntu), whilst others completely freeze up once i click install (debian, mint).

    secure boot and fast boot are disabled in the bios, and legacy boot is enabled. is there anthing i'm missing? other people have done this successfully with the same model of computer, so what's going wrong here?

    submitted by /u/PsychologicalCorgi
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    Arch Linux - Thinkcentre M700 random crahes with games and video

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 09:14 AM PST

    Hi

    Problem

    Over the past few months I have been getting an increasing number of crashes at random. Mostly it's while playing games or watching video. Sometimes the issue goes away after a few seconds and other times it just crashes the computer and thereafter only hard reboots can bring it back up.

    Hardware

    • Lenovo Thinkcentre M700 (i3-6100T)
    • Bluetooth Lenovo Keyboard
    • Wireless Trackball

    Software

    • Arch Linux (fully updated, of course)
    • Steam
    • Mpv

    Software from repos

    multilib/extra/mesa 19.3.1-1 [installed] lib32-mesa 19.3.1-1 [installed] extra/xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+899+gf66d3954-1 (xorg-drivers)

    Troubleshooting

    At first I tought it was about temps, but they seem to be fair, around 60-65, I can't ssh into the computer after it has crashed, however, today I was able to survive a crash and found this in dmesg:

    [ 630.370348] i915 0000:00:02.0: GPU HANG: ecode 9:1:0x84df7cfc, in FalloutShelter. [4753], hang on rcs0 [ 630.370352] GPU hangs can indicate a bug anywhere in the entire gfx stack, including userspace. [ 630.370353] Please file a _new_ bug report on bugs.freedesktop.org against DRI -> DRM/Intel [ 630.370354] drm/i915 developers can then reassign to the right component if it's not a kernel issue. [ 630.370355] The GPU crash dump is required to analyze GPU hangs, so please always attach it. [ 630.370357] GPU crash dump saved to /sys/class/drm/card0/error [ 630.371370] i915 0000:00:02.0: Resetting rcs0 for hang on rcs0

    Which at least tells me it's GPU related. Nice. Now, I went to [bugs.freedesktop.org](bugs.freedesktop.org), but that site is down and refers to Gitlab, but there are no projects with i915 or even Intel, where I have reported the issue.

    So.. any suggestions?

    submitted by /u/lastchansen
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    Anyone knows good alternatives to Plex, Kodi etc to put a nice UI over media files ?

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 03:12 AM PST

    Anyone knows good alternatives to Plex, Kodi etc to put a nice UI over media files ?

    I want to put a nice UI over media files for my 70 years old father something easy to use and all local, no internet, server client config etc just something a la windows media center but a bit better...

    submitted by /u/Cloud_Strifeeee
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    How to run X headless and access remotely?

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 06:37 AM PST

    I just built a home lab with a cpu w/o integrated graphics and the only discrete GPU has been bound to vfio for a planned macOS vm instance but before that I want to run an X client and even a Windows 10 vm with QXL graphics for OneDrive management, both available from a LAN peer running Windows 10 natively via SSH and Xming as X server.

    As before I can login to the TTY but as I don't quite appreciate the underlying mechanisms of X, I did as instructed by the [Arch wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Running) to have xorg-server and xf86-video-dummy installed, as well as writing a conf file indicative of headless-running.

    When I, however, systemctl start lightdm, I got the error message stating:

    Job for lightdm.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status lightdm.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

    systemctl status lightdm.service printed the folllowing info:

    ● lightdm.service - Light Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2020-01-02 22:11:57 HKT; 18min ago Docs: man:lightdm(1) Process: 3628 ExecStart=/usr/bin/lightdm (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 3628 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

    Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager. Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.

    AND, journalctl -xe gave me the followling message: ```

    -- A stop job for unit lightdm.service has finished.

    -- The job identifier is 2512 and the job result is done. Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager... -- Subject: A start job for unit lightdm.service has begun execution -- Defined-By: systemd

    -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

    -- A start job for unit lightdm.service has begun execution.

    -- The job identifier is 2512. Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE -- Subject: Unit process exited -- Defined-By: systemd

    -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

    -- An ExecStart= process belonging to unit lightdm.service has exited.

    -- The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1. Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. -- Subject: Unit failed -- Defined-By: systemd

    -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

    -- The unit lightdm.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'. Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager. -- Subject: A start job for unit lightdm.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd

    -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

    -- A start job for unit lightdm.service has finished with a failure.

    -- The job identifier is 2512 and the job result is failed. Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=lightdm comm="systemd" exe="/usr/l> Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. -- Subject: Automatic restarting of a unit has been scheduled -- Defined-By: systemd

    -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

    -- Automatic restarting of the unit lightdm.service has been scheduled, as the result for -- the configured Restart= setting for the unit. Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager. -- Subject: A stop job for unit lightdm.service has finished -- Defined-By: systemd

    -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

    -- A stop job for unit lightdm.service has finished.

    -- The job identifier is 2621 and the job result is done. Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=lightdm comm="systemd" exe="/usr/l> Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=lightdm comm="systemd" exe="/usr/li> Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. -- Subject: Unit failed -- Defined-By: systemd

    -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

    -- The unit lightdm.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'. Jan 02 22:11:57 everServer systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager. -- Subject: A start job for unit lightdm.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd

    -- Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

    -- A start job for unit lightdm.service has finished with a failure.

    -- The job identifier is 2621 and the job result is failed. Jan 02 22:15:24 everServer nmbd[708]: [2020/01/02 22:15:24.838921, 0] ../../source3/nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:354(find_domain_master_name_qu> Jan 02 22:15:24 everServer nmbd[708]: find_domain_master_name_query_fail: Jan 02 22:15:24 everServer nmbd[708]: Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name WORKGROUP<1b> for the workgroup WORKGROUP. Jan 02 22:15:24 everServer nmbd[708]: Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup. Jan 02 22:30:24 everServer nmbd[708]: [2020/01/02 22:30:24.834670, 0] ../../source3/nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:354(find_domain_master_name_qu> Jan 02 22:30:24 everServer nmbd[708]: find_domain_master_name_query_fail: Jan 02 22:30:24 everServer nmbd[708]: Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name WORKGROUP<1b> for the workgroup WORKGROUP. Jan 02 22:30:24 everServer nmbd[708]: Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup.

    ```

    Someone help with clue?

    submitted by /u/everwisher
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    Thinking to switch from windows to linux

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 06:23 AM PST

    I have windows 10 on my Dell laptop. It has i5 8th gen and ram 8gb. The points that I am considering to switch is my laptop is a little slow now (it takes 2-3 seconds when switching tabs from vs code to chrome with 4 tabs open).

    Would it be good choice to switch considering my system is 2 year old. If yes, which distro should I go with?

    submitted by /u/chiragtutlani
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    normal.mod not found

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 08:11 AM PST

    I dual booted parrot os and windows 10 with grub but when I finished installing parrot os I restarted and got the /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/normal.mod not found but when I look in the files there's no x86_64-efi folder there's i386-PC folder tho with all the .mod files but when I link it to there it still adds the x86_64-efi directory on to the place of where it is looking even when I just set it to /boot/grub it still does that. I cant boot into the bios or boot menus I cannot into windows or parrot os I cant do anything apart from being stuck in grub rescue without any way to fix it.

    submitted by /u/Ashton0555
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    Installing linux on same boot device fails on partitioning

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 08:07 AM PST

    I'am installing linux mint on my usb flash drive and every time i try to do my partitions one of them fails. (Can't generated) no matter if it is efi, swap or "/"

    It is really frustrating because i was really happy to try Linux out .

    submitted by /u/gLr007Bm
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    Bad GPG signature found - Discover - Fedora 31

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 05:14 AM PST

    Hi everyone!
    I'm newbie on linux, and i'm having an issue with my fresh installation of Fedora 31.
    When a want to install an rpm package through Discover, i got de message "Bag GPG Signatura Found" and the rpm doesn´t install. If I install the package on terminal "sudo dnf install package.rpm", the package is succesfully installed without errors or warnings.

    All the packages are updated and i don´t know how i can fix my problem. Any idea what can i do?
    Thanks in advance for your comments!

    Regards!

    submitted by /u/big_palmeira
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    LFTP connection over TLS failed

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 06:40 AM PST

    I'm trying to use LFTP (v 4.8.1) to connect to my KVM. that uses FTP over TLS

    I want to do this in order to upload a folder recursively

    This is what I do:

    lftp

    lftp :~> set ssl:verify-certificate no

    lftp :~> set ftp:ssl-protect-data true

    lftp :~> connect 123.140.91.23 p 4567

    lftp :~> ls

    lftp :~> `ls' at 0 [Connection refused]

    Can you please suggest a possible solution.
    Thank you

    submitted by /u/Hotomatua
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    Too low battery life on ubuntu 18.04

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 04:27 AM PST

    I have a dual boot system. Windows 10 usually gives 4-5 hours of battery life but when switching to ubuntu, it drops to 1:30 hours. Not even 1%-1 minute.

    Is this issue of bios or just OS sucking more battery life

    My device is Asus Tuf Fx504 (intel i5 8th gen, Nvidia GeForce 1050)

    submitted by /u/thelokeshgoel00
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    Internet is terribly slow

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 06:11 AM PST

    Hey there, I have gried almost every solution came up on google's front page but nlthing seems to work for me.... (using ubuntu) I am mostly using Hotspot from my phone... Internet is working fine in my phone but its very slow on my laptop.

    submitted by /u/mr_w01f
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    Unusable USB flash drive

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 09:38 AM PST

    I tried to install Arch Linux on my 16 GB Sandisk Cruzer Blade pen-drive. Everything went well till I tried to install GRUB using :

    grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/efi --removable --recheck

    The command ran for about an hour and then ended with an error which I don't remember. I just exited the chroot and shutdown my PC. I tried to format the pen-drive using fdisk but when I write the partitions, the pen-drive auto ejects and I get the error:

    /dev/sdb: close device failed: Input/output error

    I tried using dd to flip every bit to 0 but again the pen-drive auto ejects. I saw some many errors in dmesg after running the dd command:

    device descriptor read/64, error -110

    I/O error, dev sdb, sector 2048 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0

    Buffer I/O error on dev sdb, logical block 256, lost async page write

    unable to enumerate USB device

    What should I do?

    submitted by /u/m_mayank
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    To Dual-boot or VM Linux on ThinkPad

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 09:29 AM PST

    I have a new Lenovo X390 on the way and wanted to install either Mint or Pop OS. Would it be better to dual-boot or VM the OS? Which one offers better performance? Also, general thoughts welcome. Personal experience etc... Thank you!

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    Problem on a multi-boot system

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 05:34 AM PST

    Hi!

    I have a Toshiba Satellite C660-15N laptop on which I have a multi-boot. I'm running both Windows 10 and Linux Mint 19.3, which are installed on my SSD. The problem is, whenever I use Windows and then go back to Linux, my other drive (a hard drive on which I store my data) doesn't allow me to write new data on it. I can read existing data but can't make any changes (can't edit existing files or create new ones). Is there a way to solve this problem? The way I'm currently handling this is creating a snapshot on Linux using Timeshift and restoring it whenever I face this problem, but I'd like to know if there's a way to completely prevent this from happening.

    Thanks in advance!

    Edit:

    Trying to remount the drive as rw does enable the options to create new files/folders, but when I actually try to do that, I get an error message:

    Error creating directory /media/usr/DATA/Untitled Folder: No such file or directory

    Also, a little detail about the solution I mentioned. In order for it to actually work, I have to restore the snapshot, go back to Windows AGAIN, and then return to Linux to be able to write on the drive.

    submitted by /u/unxypted
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    Debian Software Centre keeps asking me for my password. :(

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 08:15 AM PST

    I'm getting really annoyed, I never had this problem previously when I first tried Debian, this is the first time I seen this.

    Is there a solution to this?

    submitted by /u/LegendaryJackzi
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    Where/how to install Linux?

    Posted: 01 Jan 2020 09:13 PM PST

    I apologize in advance for asking a question that's probably been asked a million times. I am interested in finally taking the plunge into Linux (probably Ubuntu, particular distro doesn't really matter right now). Here is the question:

    What is the best way to install it, meaning where, on what drive? I have a Windows 10 computer with a couple of SSDs. My boot drive is an NVMe Samsung, and I have an older Sata 3 SSD that used to be the boot drive in an older build. Should I install Linux on a partition of the NVMe or the older SSD?

    I am not interested in using a Virtual Machine, I want the "real thing" as much as possible (while coexisting with Windows).

    Thanks in advance.

    submitted by /u/EarthGoddessDude
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    [HELP] Installing arch Linux essential packages

    Posted: 02 Jan 2020 01:05 AM PST

    Hi guys I was installing arch Linux but messed up a lil with grub and partition and it failed so I'm installing it again. I wanna know what are the essential packages beside this

    pacstrap /mnt base linux linux-firmware

    That I should install in arch to get it working nicely this time, so I can get my wifi up and running Thank you

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