Activity for Peter Taylorâ€
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| Comment | Post #283804 |
What software are you expecting to use the camera with? In my experience, most software that supports webcams has a preview mode of some kind, so you may not need to install anything extra at all. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282896 |
The entire section on Ubuntu seems to be copy-pasted from https://fossbytes.com/best-linux-distro-beginners/ without attribution. I haven't dug around to see whether the rest of this answer is original or copied from other sources, but you should either rewrite copied content or clearly mark it as qu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281852 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Is this a robust way to distinguish explicitly installed packages from those pulled in as dependencies? `apt-mark` aims to do this: the commands `apt-mark showmanual` and `apt-mark showauto` should show you respectively the packages which you explicitly installed and the ones which were added as dependencies. There are caveats. 1. There seems to be a common complaint that it shows too many packag... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |