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- What do you look for in a distro and what matters?
- Goal: Install multiple Linux flavors and other os on 2 ssd windows on dedicated ssd and store all general files to one large hdd
- WIFI Issue
- Questions(rant?) about differences between Arch and Fedora
- CF disc densest recognize unformulated drives
- Wifi adapter not working after installing Ubuntu 20.04
- installing other software while on a bootable usb
- For some reason, my audio to my speakers is also being piped into my mic. Any way to tell why?
- Popping/crackling with vidoeo playback... Help!
- Help me installing touchegg
- How to check charging speed on laptops?
- Linux Multi-Boot Question
- Arch Linux destroys initial ramdisk after kernel update
- About install partituon
- SSL Issue
- Question about stdin from 'Linux Journey' website
- NEED HELP!!!!!!
- fan control ?
- Can’t boot from USB
- samba share issues with user created folders
- How to save changes of my PC in ISO file?
- What advice would give to someone who uses Arch or Arch based distributions for the first time?
- Installing Ubuntu on Surface Laptop 3
- Help: Allocate full SSD to Linux and move Windows to HDD
| What do you look for in a distro and what matters? Posted: 03 Sep 2020 08:36 AM PDT So I'm still new to the linux world but I'm learning. I've jumped around to loads of distros and de's. I've been with Manjaro KDE for about two months and change. I keep reading about how Manjaro is going downhill because of treasurer drama, bad certs and the forum debacle. So I started looking into other distros and it seems like Manjaro is not alone in 'behind the scenes' issues. Heck, Solus had one of their founders go AWOL which caused all sorts of issues. With that in mind, do you guys pay attention to such things or just go by the performance of the distro? I'm also finding out that some of these smaller distros have a very small dev team. I haven't been around long enough to see the rise and fall of distros, but I hear "X distro is the successor of Y distro" quite a bit. I would imagine these small dev teams don't usually survive a team member leaving. On the other hand, something like Ubuntu seems rather large and not as nimble. Does dev team size matter to you guys or just the product? When the Manjaro forums went down, I went to the arch wiki for answers but missed the years of info in the forum (now I know you just put 'archive' in front and you're good to go). That said, I like the idea of a larger community that has a wider support base. What do you guys think? In the end, I'm just curious what goes into your decision to stay or leave a distro? What would make you leave a distro or try another even if everything is performing alright with the distro itself? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2020 03:10 PM PDT So the goal is to have the operating systems on the ssds Windows gets it's own so I can also install editing software to it and keep current editing files on the drive along with brushes and such. The end goal though is on the hdd to store files from all the operating systems. I know you can only have 4 partitions on a hdd can I store files from multiple Linux installs to the same partition? How would I go about doing this? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:24 PM PDT Hello! I recently purchased a Lenovo Idea Centre A540-24ICB, I also installed Mint right away however I cannot get WIFI to run. Any ideas? Also I'm a Linux Newbie [link] [comments]  |
| Questions(rant?) about differences between Arch and Fedora Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:03 PM PDT Hey guys, I have been using Arch linux/Fedora/Elementary for a while now(Yes, triple boot!!). And until sometime ago, I really liked it. I still do but maybe not as much. This post is just me writing my thoughts about the 2 distros I use and compare them on few points. Please provide your opinions or similar situations if any. Also if you can explain any of the below problems/results, that would be great too. Never stop learning!! I am a python developer mostly working on ml. I recently needed to use windows so I installed virt-manager instead of virtualbox. In Arch I had to go through a few bunch of pages including the manual ofcourse before I was able to set it right. Basically I spent around over an hour to install it. However, while doing research for arch about this, I found the fedora magazine article about installing virt-manager on fedora. It was pretty straightforward. I switched to fedora and tried to install it and I got it running in 5 mins. Similarly, I felt something over my time using Arch, AUR is over-rated. People say that you find 99% of the packages you need in there. That's definitely true. But it breaks often, atleast for packages I used. imagewriter and picome-tryone are the latest ones that comes to mind. Some even have a git version of them and even that is broken. I understand that it's the issue with upstream changes, but this doesn't happen on other distros because they are either in repos or 3rd party repos which you just install from like any other package. Fedora, is a really great distro and I really like dnf. I do hate that 100MB of overhead repo metadata(or whatever it's called!?). But the selinux is a bit hard to figure out for me. I most of the time don't understand what is it warning me against. Even searching online doesn't really help. It also has probably the least amount of software availability through its repos, even when rpmfusion is added, which is still pretty big. Example similar to virt-manager, I installed android-x86 image on virt-manager in both Arch and Fedora and was thinking that Fedora might have better performance because I was able to install it instantly and never recieved any warnings or errors through the installation and running vms. But I was completely wrong, Arch had a noticeable lag free performance for some reason, maybe because of it being lightweight and bloatfree? I use xfce on both distros, so that shouldn't have effected it much. Arch also doesn't have something like Fedora magazines which I have come to like very much. There are some great stuff in there for new and advanced users both. I also read that you need to set selinux in Arch which can be a pain conpared to Fedora coming preconfigured. I don't understand selinux so this doesn't really matter much. But this got me thinking what else does Fedora do by default that I may have to configure manually in Arch and I may have never known about it until ran into a problem or unexpected behaviour? I may have forgotten some of the problems, but these are the ones that come to mind. Just from my experience, I have felt that Fedora is a better doatro for someone who wants to be an advanced user but have easy time with its system. Arch for me has been great, no doubt. My only -ve point would be too much time going through documentation to know how to install/configure something. Whereas for Fedora, it's either in docs, fedora-magazine or subreddit. Subreddit for Arch points to wiki most of the time and that's fine too. It's wiki is just way too good. Please write in comments if you have had similar experiences. Even if it's with other distros. [link] [comments]  |
| CF disc densest recognize unformulated drives Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:37 PM PDT |
| Wifi adapter not working after installing Ubuntu 20.04 Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:08 AM PDT This answer relates to this question. So I ran the command How do I get past this? [link] [comments]  |
| installing other software while on a bootable usb Posted: 03 Sep 2020 12:25 PM PDT I have a bootable usb I made with Ubuntu 20.04 on it but whenever i try to install anything on it it says there isn't enough space (which I know there is, Ubuntu is only 2.5 ish gb and it's an 8gb drive). I suspect it's something to do with ubuntu ocupying the entirety of 1 partition and the software trying to install on the occupied partition but im probably wrong. Just want to know how to install other software wihtout it saying theres not enough space. [link] [comments]  |
| For some reason, my audio to my speakers is also being piped into my mic. Any way to tell why? Posted: 03 Sep 2020 12:23 PM PDT I assume this is some kind of software bridging them? I can wear headphones and open up Spotify, and whoever I'm in a voice call with can hear my music. They say it's 100% clear and not just a matter of the mic hearing the speakers. There must be something piping the data from one to the other. How can I see if I might have some kind of mic test software running? [link] [comments]  |
| Popping/crackling with vidoeo playback... Help! Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:23 AM PDT Hey. Recently I converted my convertible tablet/laptop to Linux, and while it went nicely, I'm now having a problem with the audio on any video I watch. There's a low popping like a phone reciever being dropped, then buzzing/crackling all through the video. It's not corelated to whatever the video is, just a background noise all throughout. Once the video ends or is paused the sound continues for a few seconds before there's another loud popping, then silence. It's a T-1000 running Mint. Any help would be appreciated. I have limited computer skills. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:12 AM PDT I have a hp touchsmart tx2-1380la laptop, I recently install it linux mint mate and works great, the problem is that I want touch gestures like zoom in, scroll, etc. So I found about touchegg and I checked the githubpage and follow the wiki install, (https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg/wiki/How-to-compile-Touchégg-source-code), I did 1.Clone the source code , 2 sudo apt-get build-dep touchegg (in order to get the dependences, but at the time to make the qmake and make it tells me theres no comand, so install qmake 5 default, and tru to do the qmake and tells me theres an error cause theres no files, can someone help me please, also I heared theres a touechegg-gce but idk how to install it or what does it does. Please help me [link] [comments]  |
| How to check charging speed on laptops? Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:58 AM PDT I have a Razer Blade Stealth 13 (2020) with ubuntu 20.4 installed. I mainly use it for coding. Right now I'm looking for good chargers to replace the big default one but I'm never really sure if charging reaches the advertised values. I got one 61W charger which somehow works when the laptop is on, but does't work when it's off. Now I'd like to check how fast this charger actually charges. I googled, but can't find a proper solutions to this. There is 'upower -d' which gives me some good battery info, but not how fast it is charging (I don't think energy-rate is correct) Is there no way to check the actual charging speed in watts, so I could see if a charger is fully compatible with my hardware? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:03 AM PDT I've never used Linux before but I thought I should learn/try a few different versions. Sorry if my questions are pretty noobish. So, my current setup is Windows 7 & 10 on one SSD and Linux Mint on the other. I installed Windows 7 then 10 on the first SSD. Then I unplugged it and installed Linux on a different SSD. I've updated Grub however, when my desktop boots after bios it will give me a black screen which I assume is the Windows boot loader instead of Grub. It takes quite a bit of time before the black screen loads Linux Mint which once again I believe is the timer if you don't choose any options from Windows boot loader. How would I fix this problem? Once Grub is fixed can I install additional operating systems on my Linux drive? I want to install Ubuntu & MX on the same SSD as Linux Mint would I just plug in only the Linux SSD and install them through USB and select choose install along with Linux Mint? Also, sometimes my SSD that has Linux Mint on it gives me smart errors at startup but if it loads it will tell me that the smart test is fine from software. The SSD has never got a smart error until the bootloaders were confused so, I am wondering if this has to do with the bootloaders being confused? My last question has to do with the terminal. Can someone provide me with a link or something that will give me a "must know list" of commands/scripts? Any information regarding these matters would greatly be appreciated, thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Arch Linux destroys initial ramdisk after kernel update Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:02 AM PDT Hi all, I'm on Arch and every time I update with after it's done and I reboot the PC GRUB says it can't find an initial ramdisk. What I have been doing is the following: Boot from USB flash drive And then it works. But I don't wanna do that every time I update. Any ideas how to fix this? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:59 AM PDT Hey guys i want to install my distro in one partition my current pc have 2 partitions c/ for host system and d with other files can install linux in C/ partition with ex host system without deleting files in the D partition [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:46 AM PDT Hi all, When I try to install anything, I get an ssl error. https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000018620 Has some directions but cd /etc/pki/trust/anchors was missing. So I created that directory, copied that pem over but /usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates doesn't exist. Any ideas as to how to fix zypper/this ssl error? I'm running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) VERSION = 11 PATCHLEVEL = 2 [link] [comments]  |
| Question about stdin from 'Linux Journey' website Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:44 AM PDT This is my second day of learning Linux and I wanna make sure I understand this part before moving on. Here is the link if any of y'all are curious: https://linuxjourney.com/lesson/stdin-standard-in-redirect The lesson is on redirecting stdin but the example doesn't sit right with me. It was this: $ cat < peanuts.txt > banana.txt however this seems no different to me than this: $ cat peanuts.txt > banana.txt With the command "cat peanuts.txt" the stdin is already peanuts.txt so I don't understand the point of having to redirect it. Can someone please tell me what I'm missing? Even when I printed both of them to the screen they had the same output. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:38 AM PDT Hello guys, I am new to Linux (currently using Ubuntu, coming from windows 10). I am currently learning web-development and thought that I should try WordPress. so,I watched a few tutorials and in those tutorials I ama told to install PHP, MySQL or MariaDB. But alas! I watched one after another but nothing happened and now I feel I have messed it up by watching some more tutorials on how to remove those software and now the situation is so bad that I can't even install new software. I don't want to do a new clean installation. Please help. I tried many things including sudo apt-get install -f which returns(image attached) I even tried to manually remove some files(mentioned above) and it also threw error like X dependency depends upon Y Z. Please help me. Thanks in advance edit: I listed the currently installed packages using apt list --installed and tried to remove one and it threw the following error, [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2020 08:45 AM PDT Is there an application to control the fans of a laptop? I recently purchased a laptop, it is an amazing laptop. I went through a lot of youtube/forum reviews before making this purchase. I knew this laptop has heating issues but unfortunately, I underestimated this issue. My laptop runs pretty hot on Linux if I just plug it in to charge and using a standalone window manager just makes it worse. Is there an application which manages the the speed of fans, I want it so that the fan kicks off automatically if it reaches a certain threshold and goes higher according to the temps of the cpu/gpu? I am guessing there won't be a GUI for an application like this. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Sep 2020 08:12 AM PDT Hey there, I'm not exactly sure if this is the right place to ask, but... I've got a little problem. I was about to install Debian alongside Windows 10. The issue is, when I tried to boot from the usb flash drive, it just didn't work. I restarted my laptop, entered the boot menu and the usb drive didn't show up. And I am completely sure it is bootable since I've used it on another computer and it worked just fine. I've tried to turn off secure boot and some other things (like changing the boot order in bios), but that didn't work either. Any ideas what's the cause of this problem and how to solve this? Thanks in advance for response. The last idea that just came to my mind while writing this, I might try to use a different USB port, but I'm not sure if it's gonna help. [link] [comments]  |
| samba share issues with user created folders Posted: 03 Sep 2020 07:45 AM PDT I am running a Ubuntu server with samba sharing for windows computers and it's working very well, but I have a weird permissions issue. Whenever a user creates a folder within that share, the new folder has different permissions than the rest of the shared folder. For example the new folder will only have write access for the creator but read access for all. How do I make these new folders have write access for everyone on the share? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| How to save changes of my PC in ISO file? Posted: 03 Sep 2020 03:57 AM PDT Hey I have installed Zorin OS on my 7 years old laptop It's work Fine [link] [comments]  |
| What advice would give to someone who uses Arch or Arch based distributions for the first time? Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:30 AM PDT |
| Installing Ubuntu on Surface Laptop 3 Posted: 03 Sep 2020 07:00 AM PDT I need to urgently install Ubuntu 20 on my Surface laptop 3 for school purposes. I read on r/SurfaceLinux that the Surface Laptop 3 is partially supported by Linux and works very bad with Ubuntu 20. Is that true? I tried with a Ubuntu VM but the teacher said that we need Ubuntu dual-installed with Windows. What should I do? [link] [comments]  |
| Help: Allocate full SSD to Linux and move Windows to HDD Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:12 AM PDT In my laptop I have 1 SSD of 128GB and 1 HDD of 1TB storage.I have 3 operating systems: WIndows, Manjaro, Ubuntu. Windows and Manjaro are located in my SSD whereas Ubuntu is in HDD. Not sure but I think the bootloader is also in my SSD, because it opens with the manjaro theme. I want to move my Windows to HDD and give entire SSD to Manjaro. Can anyone please suggest a safe method to do this. Here are the exact details of my partitions SSD ``` Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 534527 532480 260M EFI System /dev/nvme0n1p2 534528 567295 32768 16M Microsoft reserved /dev/nvme0n1p3 567296 119055974 118488679 56.5G Microsoft basic data (Windows Partition) /dev/nvme0n1p4 119056384 120121343 1064960 520M Windows recovery environment /dev/nvme0n1p5 120123392 250068991 129945600 62G Linux filesystem (Manjaro Partition) ``` HDD ``` Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 838862847 838860800 400G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda2 838862848 1530677247 691814400 329.9G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda3 1918918656 1953523711 34605056 16.5G Linux swap /dev/sda5 1635534848 1717454847 81920000 39.1G Linux filesystem /dev/sda6 1530677248 1635534847 104857600 50G Linux filesystem (Ubuntu Partition) ``` The sda1 and sda2 are ntfs drives that I use for storing my files because ntfs works with both Linux and windows.I have around 95GB unallocated space in my HDD (not shown above). This is where I want to install the Windows. Thank You [link] [comments]  |
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