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Edit Post #291778 Initial revision 5 months ago
Question 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...
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Edit Post #291777 Initial revision 5 months ago
Question 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...
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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...
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Edit Post #291749 Initial revision 5 months ago
Question 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 ...
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Edit Post #291731 Initial revision 5 months ago
Answer 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,...
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Edit Post #291730 Initial revision 5 months ago
Question 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...
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Edit Post #291728 Initial revision 5 months ago
Question 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?
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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.
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Edit Post #291727 Initial revision 5 months ago
Answer 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...
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Edit Post #291726 Initial revision 5 months ago
Question 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?
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Edit Post #291724 Initial revision 5 months ago
Answer 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...
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5 months ago
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 ...
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6 months ago
Comment Post #291646 I think it would be.
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Edit Post #291673 Initial revision 6 months ago
Question 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 ...
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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
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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6 months ago
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...
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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...
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Edit Post #291644 Initial revision 6 months ago
Answer 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...
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Answer A: How do I send console output to the clipboard?
On X, `echo hi | xsel -ib` seems to work. I can then paste with Ctrl+V. Sometimes I have to repeat it a few times for it to "stick".
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Edit Post #291642 Initial revision 6 months ago
Question How to make changes to logind.conf take effect?
I added ``` IdleAction=hibernate IdleActionSec=30min ``` To my `bat /etc/systemd/logind.conf`. Then I waited 31 min, but nothing happened. It didn't hibernate. Presumably, the config changes are not loaded yet. Perhaps when I reboot they'll take effect... But is there any way to force a relo...
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Comment Post #291625 >Having to resort to the Terminal to open the application, is not sufficient. It needs to be available when I search in my app launcher list, or open the GUI app list. It is trivial to convert any command into a shortcut: https://linux.codidact.com/posts/291640
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Edit Post #291641 Initial revision 6 months ago
Answer A: How do I add a shortcut to run a program to my DE?
On Linux, the basic way to run every program is to invoke it through a terminal. The shortcuts in DEs come from ".desktop" files. On a Linux system, there are a couple of directories (system wide, per user, ...) for these files. If you put a file in these directories, with the extension `.desktop`...
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Edit Post #291640 Initial revision 6 months ago
Question How do I add a shortcut to run a program to my DE?
My DE has a bunch of programs in the start/applications menu. How can I add my own in there? For example, say I found a terminal command `foo --bar --baz` that does something I want. But I don't want to run it from the terminal every time, I want to make a shortcut that I can click on.
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6 months ago