Activity for matthewsnyderâ€
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| Edit | Post #291639 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Install and run Windows applications You can use Wine, or a VM. With a VM, it's pretty straightforward - install Windows in the VM, and then run the program as you would normally inside the VM. With Wine, the "basic" way (which you shouldn't do!) is to run `wine evil.exe` in a terminal. By default, this uses the Wine prefix under som... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291632 |
I was expecting an answer like
> You can try to check it from your package manager, and you can also see if the program has a `--version` switch.
Feel free to post that one as an answer :) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291563 |
https://linux.codidact.com/posts/291631 (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291634 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: How do I keep track of configuration changes? I think there are three general strategies: 1. Take notes. 2. Configure everything through some utility that keeps track of it. 3. Learn the default state and diff the system vs. it. Taking notes is self evident. This is a bit tedious, but taking notes about what you are doing is a good g... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291633 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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How do I send console output to the clipboard? Suppose I have a command that prints to the standard output, like: ``` $ echo hi hi ``` How can I send this to the clipboard instead, as if I selected the output and did Ctrl+C? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291632 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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How do I find out the version of a program in a terminal? How can I print the version of a program in the terminal, so that I know which one I have installed? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291631 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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How do I keep track of configuration changes? Occasionally I ask how to do some configuration, and people tell me to do stuff like edit some config file in an XYZ directory. But if I configure everything this way, it will turn into a mess, and after a few months I won't know what things I configured where. How do I keep track of it all? This ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291630 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: How do I find the code of a keyboard key? On X, open a terminal and run `xev -event keyboard`. You'll get a white box. Make sure this is focused and press the key. You should see some output in the terminal about what the key is. Particularly, you probably want `keycode` and `keysym`. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291629 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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How do I find the code of a keyboard key? How do I find the exact code of a key on my keyboard? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291626 |
It's a partition. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291626 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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What happens on a modern Linux if you hibernate with less swap than RAM? On a modern Linux system, what happens if you attempt to hibernate when your swap is smaller than your RAM? For example, say RAM is 16 GB and swap is 8 GB. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291123 |
This is also why I'm not a big fan of distros like PopOS that customize things too much in the name of newbie friendliness. All the customizations make it hard to follow generic instructions like Arch and you lose a valuable source of information. If everything works, then great. But eventually somet... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291123 |
Ah, I see. Well for Nvidia, maybe 10 years ago it was hard to make it work, but now just about every non-niche distro has an easy way of setting up the Nvidia driver, that's not a PopOS thing.
For UI scaling, the other big DEs are KDE/Plasma, Cinnamon, Xfce, Mate. Try those and maybe they'll work ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291594 |
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| Edit | Post #291598 |
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| Edit | Post #291598 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Kmail creates files outside mail directory When I create a new Maildir account in Kmail, pointing to `/foo/bar`, I expect it to create directories like: ``` /foo/bar/cur /foo/bar/new /foo/bar/tmp /foo/bar/some-folder/cur /foo/bar/some-folder/new /foo/bar/some-folder/tmp ``` However, it also creates: ``` /foo/cur /foo/new /foo/t... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291594 |
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| Comment | Post #291541 |
Maybe it's better to recommend something like KDE/Plasma's "System Monitor" instead of Lenovo's proprietary (I'm guessing) tool? Also, you should link to where it can be installed from, it's hard to find. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291521 |
Dunno about PopOS's own monitor, but: https://linux.codidact.com/posts/291595 (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291597 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Basic GPU usage monitoring If you are using KDE/Plasma, there should be a widget for the taskbar that shows GPU usage. Go to the same screen where you normally add widgets and look for a "system monitor" widget. In the configurations for it, there should be an option for monitoring GPU usage. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291596 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Basic GPU usage monitoring For a TUI solution: https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop Install it and type `nvtop` in a terminal. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291595 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Basic GPU usage monitoring How do you monitor GPU usage on Linux? I am most interested in a "% GPU usage" and maybe "GPU temp" statistic, not so much very detailed stuff. (more) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #291521 |
Suggested edit: UX of other OSes has little to do with Linux. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291594 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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How to run offlineimap with Python 3.11 on Arch? Arch switched to Python 3.12 which broke offlineimap. I want to use Python 3.12 as the default on my system, but just offlineimap should run with an alternative Python 3.11 environment. Is it possible to do this? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291123 |
The short answer is you should probably try Ubuntu, Debian (unstable), Fedora, Manjaro like the post says.
How on Earth did you end up choosing between PopOS and Arch? They're like two opposite extremes. I can't imagine how they could both appeal to the same person. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291456 |
I would recommend adding more detail about:
* Which distros exactly you tried, including version and/or approximate date
* What exactly is laggy
Nvidia drivers are not "laggy" on every version of every distro, so there's that. However, I noticed that a recent update from KDE 5 to 6 has made KD... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291359 |
Ah, I hadn't noticed that :)
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| Edit | Post #291360 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Is libostree practical for user files? Is it practical to use libostree for user files? Or is it too specialized for tracking an entire OS? I am not familiar with libostree, but sounds like it's "Git for filesystem trees". Seems like this is originally intended for versioning entire `/`, I'm guessing so that you can just checkout files... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291359 |
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| Edit | Post #291359 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Does Fedora have cutting edge features, and what makes it so? I saw another post recommend using Fedora if you want cutting edge features. Is Fedora really a "cutting edge" distro? I am not very familiar with Fedora, I know it's a community counterpart to RHEL and sometimes less tested new stuff goes into Fedora before going into RHEL, since they don't ha... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291314 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Systemd unit needs to start at boot but wait for network I have a systemd unit that does some stuff on the internet. Sometimes this gets fired at startup. I want to make sure it's delayed until the computer is connected to the internet. In my notes I found: ``` Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target nss-lookup.target ``` Is this ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291283 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: How do I migrate my main filesystem to a new drive? I'll add a specific, simple way that worked for me: 1. Create some kind of Linux Live USB 2. Boot into Live OS 3. Use `lsblk` and `blkid` to figure out which drive exactly is the old and new one. Stay in the same Live session (don't reboot) in case the drives move around between boots. 4. Doubl... (more) |
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