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| Comment | Post #291786 |
Also, I feel like this invites the *interjection*. It would be better if the question sounded like it understands the difference between Linux and an OS, and maybe there could be another question like "Why do people say Linux is just the kernel, not the OS?" if it's really necessary. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291786 |
This is an interesting topic but there's multiple questions here. I tried to write an answer, but even though I stayed very superficial, it ended being long. I gave up because I don't want to keep up with the maintenance of such a long post.
IMO this should be split into:
* How do I analyze the... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291778 |
This question is not the place to ask that. Maybe you can ask a new question, like "What are the drawbacks of systemd?". (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291800 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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Adding new entries to Grub with alternate kernel parameters I installed Grub in the normal way and now I have entries in the Grub menu for linux, linux-lts, and the fallback versions of them. I want to add more entries to this. For example, I want to add `linux-lts nomodeset` that is the same as `linux-lts` but without `nvidia-drm.modeset=1`. Do I have ... (more) |
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Dual booting without rebooting Suppose you have two Linux distributions installed in a dual boot situation. One issue that can happen is when you need to frequently switch. Rebooting is disruptive if you have a bunch of things going on. You also can't copy/paste or move things between them in a second. Yes, you can mount the ot... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291779 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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Can you reuse your home directory while distro hopping? I want to install additional Linux distributions on my computer, so I can try some new ones and see if they're better than my current ("old") one. I've been using my current distro for a while. I've figured out most things. Generally most everything works and if not I have a way of fixing it. When... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291778 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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What are the most active distros without systemd? Ever since systemd was adopted by mainstream distros, there's been many reactive projects aiming to provide a distro without systemd. I've often had the impression that a lot of these were motivated by opposition to systemd to get off the ground, but then languished because the maintainers found i... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291777 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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How do you install Manjaro as LVM on LUKS? There is a popular partitioning scheme, described in the Arch wiki as LVM on LUKS. The meat of this is: `/boot` is its own unencrypted partition The rest of the drive is a giant LUKS partition Inside the LUKS there is an LVM The LVM contains the partitions of the user's choice, like the one... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291727 |
My intent was that people who are unfamiliar with these tangents would look for or ask a question about them. "How do I create a new partition?" "How do I move my files to a new partition?" "How do I find the UUID of a partition?"
These are, after all, not specific to relocating your home director... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291749 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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Initramfs: "triggering uevents" suddenly takes a really long time Early in boot, after `triggering uevents` but before the encrypt hook (decrypting drives) my system takes a very long time, over a minute. Actually, I bet it takes 90 seconds which is the typical default for how long systemd will wait on something before timing out. I get no error message, just a ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291731 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: HTTPie give SSLError for normal sites Sometimes Python packages fail to use your system's CA certificates (what your browser uses). For HTTPie, this is actually tracked in https://github.com/httpie/cli/issues/1581 One solution is to `pip install pip-system-certs` which will make Python use your system certificates instead. After this,... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291730 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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HTTPie give SSLError for normal sites HTTPie complains about TLS certificates ever for sites I know are fine: ``` $ https wikipedia.org https: error: SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='wikipedia.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATEVERIFYFAILED] certif... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291728 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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Best practice for splitting data between a fast and slow drive If I had a fast drive (SSD) and a slow one (HDD), what parts of my Linux system should go on the fast one? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291725 |
Does https://linux.codidact.com/posts/291726/291727#answer-291727 help?
There's a lot of detail in this question, but I can't tell if it's important or not. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291727 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: How can I put my home directory on a different partition? Suppose you currently use the partition `/dev/sda1` for everything, and you create a new partition `/dev/sda2` to use for `/home`. It doesn't matter if the partition is on a different physical drive, same drive, LVM, etc. All you have to do is move your files to the new partition, and make sure it... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291726 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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How can I put my home directory on a different partition? I want `/home` to be on a different partition than the rest of my files. How can I do this? (more) |
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A: How do I find out the version of a program in a terminal? If the program was installed with your package manager, the package manager should be able to tell you that. For example: ``` $ pacman --query bash bash 5.2.026-2 ``` If you don't know the package name, you need to first figure out the full path of your command, for example: ``` $ whic... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291643 |
Echo here is just an example of some command that has output, which anyone can understand. I'm certain most users would not be using the method here to send the output of echo to the clipboard. Instead, they would be replacing the echo with something else. For that reason, I don't think the newlines ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291646 |
I think it would be. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291673 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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How do you rotate webcam feed by 90 degrees? When I view my document camera's feed in guvcview it is in landscape mode. I want it to capture things in portrait mode, since I usually take photos of documents. Currently, I have to rotate all the images after I take them. It would be much nicer if the capture utility could have them rotated to ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291646 |
Ah, I see - so figuring out the package name is what makes it complicated. Good point! So this is actually a 3 step process:
* Figure out full path of the command
* Figure out what package owns it
* Figure out the version of the package (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291541 |
Seems like it, at least in `System Monitor 6.0.5` from Plasma. You have to dig for it though, I think CPU temp is under CPU and there is no "temperature" section for instance. But it has a text search anyway in the UI. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291646 |
The two answers I was expecting to this were what Monica said, and "whatever is your distro's version of `pacman -Q pkgname`".
I don't have a Debian handy to test, but does dpkg/apt really not have a "show installed package info" switch like pacman? I was surprised that you had to pipe 4 steps tog... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291625 |
Remember, this Q-A is not just for you, but also other people who have the same issue. There are three sets of people:
* `U` who want to install/run windows apps on Linux (this is *what the question title advertises*)
* `V` who want to convert terminal commands they use to shortcuts
* `W` who wa... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291644 |
In any case, sounds like the issue is not anti-cheat anyway. IMO troubleshooting games in wine is a useful topic for this site (or https://proposals.codidact.com/categories/67/tags/7470). But I dunno if it makes sense to basically duplicate what ProtonDB already does. For Codidact, it's probably more... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291644 |
Wow! That's interesting and weird. I'm curious to see what exactly the OpenSSL issue was, and also how you confirmed that.
I don't really know what the anti-cheats do exactly, but they behave in unpredictable ways. For example not every game with EAC is equally strict or encounters the same proble... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291639 |
Btw, nitpick:
>Ideally, installing the application should be as simple as on Windows or **MacOS**
On MacOS, I believe the fundamental process is about the same as Wine on Linux. Except with MacOS it's harder to make Wine work, and in some cases you have to use paid, proprietary versions of Wine... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291639 |
As a critique of Linux, yes, it is indeed true that running Windows programs on Linux is more fiddly than on Windows. Whether this is a deal breaker is up to you - some people feel that in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter all that much.
Similarly, yes, it would be better to have a "on... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291644 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: Enable multiplayer for Titanfall 2 from EA Games with Lutris My guess is that this is an anti-cheat problem. The symptom of those is often everything working on Linux except the multiplayer, with no explanation. I don't play Titanfall 2, but apparently it uses Easy Anti Cheat. EAC and Valve Anti Cheat are two very common ones. Usually, VAC is considered res... (more) |
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