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- Best distro for a 10-year-old laptop w/ tendency to overheat
- Can you guys share startup checklist???
- Help a newbie convert her laptop?
- Firefox 80 made me so happy
- Looking for an up to date, easy to follow guide on puppet/foreman
- Is there a way to control backlight with polybar?
- Nouveau driver: How to see GPU usage?
- Ubuntu Server <-> Desktop pedantic questions
- Why does swap get used occasionally when I have way more than enough RAM?
- Help installing something
- Using Linux Mint on LiveUSB with persistence and facing a few problems. Can anyone please help here?
- I need help booting my system
- Installed qt creator IDE from software manager, but what is best practice for completely removing it?
- How can I make my computer go into a sleep/hibernate mode when I'm done working for a little while?
- Black background on Debian 10 KDE
- Anyone got get_iplayer working nicely?
- Unable to pass traffic to new gateway from Debian 9
- basic commands not working in linux
- Weird tearing on my external monitor.
- Linux Essentials For Penetration Testing - Part 2
- Window resize glitch
- Reinstalling Win10
- Help understanding
- Freelancing with FOSS on standalone Linux?
| Best distro for a 10-year-old laptop w/ tendency to overheat Posted: 30 Aug 2020 08:50 AM PDT Hello, I recently had my old laptop fixed, because the hard disk was dead. The dude who fixed it installed Win10 on it and I feel like it's overheating a bit (it used to run on Win7 Pro). Regardless, I've wanted to try out Linux for a long time, and I've finally got a secondary machine to try it on. I was wondering which distro to choose. So far I've come down to 3 favourites: - Linux Mint (but I don't know which desktop environment to choose from that would save some resource while being enjoyable, stable and easy to use – xfce maybe?) - LMDE (I'm not sure how different it is from the previous one, but I've read that Debian is super stable and reliable, but not very beginner-friendly...) - Zorin OS (because it looks very noob-friendly). That's the only I booted on that computer, just to try it out. It was slow and buggy, but I don't know if it was the distro's fault or the flash drive I used. I will use a better one for the installation. Of course, what I'm looking for is something stable, fast, easy to use for a noob like me, and that will hopefully work right off the batch with an NVidia Geforce 310m – I've heard that NVidia can give a lot of trouble with Linux. It's also got 3GB of RAM and a Core i3-380M processor. Thanks in advance for the advice. Picking a distro among so many choices can be a real challenge. [link] [comments]  |
| Can you guys share startup checklist??? Posted: 30 Aug 2020 11:51 AM PDT Things what you do after installing linux Ex. Updating system, etc [link] [comments]  |
| Help a newbie convert her laptop? Posted: 30 Aug 2020 12:01 PM PDT Hi. After possibly the world's most frustrating experience last night I've decided to give Linux a shot on my secondary, much more portable laptop. I use this device mainly for studying, so all it really, really needs to run is Chrome, something where I can read PDFs, and a note-taking app. Specific programs for math, chemistry and biology would be useful. I'm planning on picking a distribution and putting it on a thumb drive today. I'd really like to have someone I can come to with specific questions once I get the process started. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2020 04:48 PM PDT Lack of hardware acceleration for decoding videos was one biggest things keeping me away from using Linux as my main os. Now I'm happily running Ubuntu 20.04 and not looking back! [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for an up to date, easy to follow guide on puppet/foreman Posted: 30 Aug 2020 12:59 PM PDT Like the title says. I was following a guide that was a couple years old and got stalled when it came to the provisioning instructions. In the future, I'm hoping to use a combination of puppet/foreman and ansible to automate system setups and builds for the company I work for. Any help would be appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Is there a way to control backlight with polybar? Posted: 30 Aug 2020 02:08 PM PDT I managed to get polybar up and running, but it seems I can only see what my brightness is at, rather than adjust it using polybar. Is there a way for me to be able to change it using poly, or should I just use xbacklight whenever I want to change my brightness? [link] [comments]  |
| Nouveau driver: How to see GPU usage? Posted: 30 Aug 2020 09:46 AM PDT Now that Firefox supports vaapi with xorg, I switched to nouveau driver but I don't know how to check if hardware acceleration actually work. Any idea? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Ubuntu Server <-> Desktop pedantic questions Posted: 30 Aug 2020 10:54 AM PDT For context, I want to run a 24/7 ad-hoc service (Python, Postgresql, and TWS Gateway) which would greatly benefit from having a GUI in my opinion. However, I don't want the "user-friendly" overhead that typically comes with mainstream-oriented products. So I'm looking for something like what Windows Server 2019 is to Windows 10. I looked at installing Ubuntu Server and then installing the GUI, but:
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| Why does swap get used occasionally when I have way more than enough RAM? Posted: 30 Aug 2020 08:50 AM PDT I am running Kubuntu 20.04 on a machine with 32GB of RAM, and try as I might, I have never been close to using even half of that RAM. However, occasionally when I am doing a file transfer, my swap usage will be around 100MB though there is plenty of RAM left. It was my understanding that swap is used when RAM fills up. My guess is that maybe this swap was used while the system was shuffling things around in the RAM? When I look at htop or similar (I use bpytop) it looks like 100% of my free RAM shows up as cached, so I assume that was being used for the file transfer. I feel like this is related, but I am not sure how. If anyone could shed some light on this, I would greatly appreciate it [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2020 02:06 PM PDT When I tried to install glava, on the step where I do [link] [comments]  |
| Using Linux Mint on LiveUSB with persistence and facing a few problems. Can anyone please help here? Posted: 30 Aug 2020 10:13 AM PDT This is the first time I am using Linux. I use Windows 10 and I am using Linux Mint on LiveUSB with persistence enabled. I have the following questions:
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| Posted: 30 Aug 2020 01:02 PM PDT So I'm using an Ubuntu 18.04. I downloaded a .exe file on it, then used wine to run it (from terminal). The file opened, a welcoming screen showed up too, but nothing was clickable. The other programs were functioning normally. I forced shutdown from the main power button, and ever since then, I am only able to go to a black screen with a lot of white text on it. Please help, I'm very desperate right now. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2020 09:02 AM PDT I installed qtcreator ide from software manager. When i removed it using the software manager and reinstalled it i noticed that it still had configuration changes i made before uninstalling it. Thus, i discovered that there was a hidden configure file on my system that persisted through uninstall..So right there, removing things using the software manager does not seem to be a good route to go if its going to be leaving traces all over? I also noticed several other programs that i believe were not on my system before and were installed with qtcreator were not touched when i uninstalled it. (new to linux and this is a fresh install of mint)...there were 4 in total... called like "qt linguist" , "qt designer","qt assistant" and one with a different icon then the previous three called "qt settings" or so. so i reinstalled qt creator using the "synaptic package manager" and after i marked it for complete uninstall, this method apparently is supposed to remove the config file that removing from the software manager did not. But the 3-4 other programs installed with qtcreator, the "qt linguist" etc still remained....i had to search and remove them individually using the synaptic package manager? ..im sorry this got longer then i wanted. Am i misinterpreting or missing something.. If i install something from package manager and uninstall it i want it and everything it got installed with to be removed..i dont want residue programs and hidden files to accumulate over time or be a hassle to track down.. [link] [comments]  |
| How can I make my computer go into a sleep/hibernate mode when I'm done working for a little while? Posted: 30 Aug 2020 12:26 PM PDT I don't want to fully power off, but I want to make the computer become inactive, turn off the lights on my mouse/keyboard, etc. This is on Ubuntu 20.04. [link] [comments]  |
| Black background on Debian 10 KDE Posted: 30 Aug 2020 11:22 AM PDT I'm getting a black background one of my screens (i've 2). Happened with my 2nd monitor once, but looks like it affects my main monitor more frequently. I'm still able to use my computer, but the black screen annoys me. Right clicking don't work in the screen with black background. The only way i found to get the background image back is changing the resolution to any resolution (after that i can go back to the higher resolution). But if i restart my computer it goes back to a black background. I don't know if its the reason, but before this i removed a file called ".xsession-errors", since, for no apparent reason, my free space went from 19GB to 0B. Using ncdu i found that this file was using 11GB. I don't know if it was the reason, but i deleted it. [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone got get_iplayer working nicely? Posted: 30 Aug 2020 10:50 AM PDT Tried the snap and it indexes thousands of shows but can't download any of them. Some problem saving to 'snap/void' folder iirc. Tried the recommended PPA (m-grant-prg) and that can download but only indexes about 70 shows. They start with A and ascend in alphabetically up to W so it doesn't seem to be truncated, just a very short list. On Ubuntu 20. Does anyone have this working nicely from a packaged version (is so which) or should I bite the bullet and do the manual install? [link] [comments]  |
| Unable to pass traffic to new gateway from Debian 9 Posted: 30 Aug 2020 10:39 AM PDT |
| basic commands not working in linux Posted: 30 Aug 2020 10:27 AM PDT this is quite hard to explain but I tried doing ifconfig and then it says bash: ifconfig: command not found same for iwconfig all network commands do not work and i have no idea why i am running the latest version of ubuntu hope some people can figure this out thanks in advance :D [link] [comments]  |
| Weird tearing on my external monitor. Posted: 30 Aug 2020 06:35 AM PDT I have a laptop, and a 2nd 21:9 screen connected over HDMI to it. I installed Manjaro, and after some fiddling, the monitor worked, but it has this fun pattern. However, setting the resolution to some 16:9 aspect ratio makes the image normal. I'd like to set the proper resolution, though. Some random commands output that I hope can be helpful: Thank you for your time, and a have a great day! [link] [comments]  |
| Linux Essentials For Penetration Testing - Part 2 Posted: 30 Aug 2020 01:32 AM PDT In this video tutorial, I carried on the rest of the essential commands and operators in Linux, and that is important before you start practicing penetration testing for OSCP. I discussed operators, permissions, ownership, piping, and linking. Video is here [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2020 10:00 AM PDT I have this bug where the when resizing the windows the animations is broken and looks glitchy. I had this issue in ubuntu and pop also it got resolved when I switch to wayland. I run elementaryos 5.1 with intel uhd620 grphics no discrete graphics. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2020 09:51 AM PDT So after using and loving Linux for months I need to reinstall Windows 10 for college. However, I can't get my Win10 bootable usb to work. I followed the instructions on this guide I don't think that it's a firmware setting misconfiguration because my computer will recognize my bootable Kubuntu usb. *Edit: I tried UNetBootin, but my system still won't recognize it as a bootable usb. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2020 09:50 AM PDT cat file1 file2 file3 |grep fruit Im wondering what the | means in this case. I know that cat gets files and and show the content. And grep searches files for certain words(in this case fruit). How i understand it is, it searches all free files for the word fruit ? [link] [comments]  |
| Freelancing with FOSS on standalone Linux? Posted: 30 Aug 2020 09:40 AM PDT I previously posted about using and learning adobe premiere and PS using wine but found out, it really not feasible via wine, and also about some good FOSS alternatives like Gimp/photo etc My real reason for learning these tools was to freelance and earn some extra bucks as a college student. So now I wanna know, will it be wise to invest my time in FOSS alternatives for basic level and then eventually pro level services for freelance projects? And also tell me or direct me to the source where I can learn and find info about some FOSS alternatives for some of the widely used adobe products? (My main focus will be for PS, illustrator,vector and Premiere) PS: Learning curve would not really matter for me as I have to learn either of the softwares from the scratch and also I m a speed learner. [link] [comments]  |
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