Activity for Andreas is speechless at the number of bird deaths
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| Edit | Post #292002 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Check which version of Debian a distribution is based on I want to download an application from the internet, but the website is listing versions for "bookworm", "bullseye" and "buster". I do not know which version of these to download, as I don't know which version of Debian my distribution two steps down from it, is based on. How do I check that? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291263 |
@#61308 Huh, seems to be a term used quite frequently, as opposed to on MacOS, where it’s merely a way to hide directories. Most of the mentions I found by a quick look, are about development environments, though, something quite different than a home computer for normal, casual use. I’m assuming the... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290712 |
What does "init" refer to in this context? It's an abbreviation for "initializing" (and other conjugations of the word, but that's not what I'm asking for. I randomly landed on this question, and I'm not learning much from either the question or answer, because I'm lacking context. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291263 |
Mind elaborating on how I am supposed to put everything on my main home computer into Git, and use that in my daily flow? (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291780 |
I guess this is a rather related question over at SE: https://superuser.com/q/333297 (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291780 |
If I’m correct in my assumption about the question, would it be a good idea to split this question into two questions, one asking to literally run two OSes on the same hardware as equal entities (has to be a beginner question) and one for running specific parts of one distro inside another distro (ad... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291780 |
As Linux distributions are entire operating systems, you cannot run them side by side on the same hardware; the OS takes control of the hardware, and the hardware requires this type of software to distribute its resources. So the only way to do it is by either running the distro B in a VM on A, or u... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291778 |
No, I’m just curious; drawbacks are listed in the Wikipedia article, so that’s not what I was wondering about. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291778 |
I read the Wikipedia article on systemd, but I’m still a bit confused why one would go out of their way to avoid it as a user. Are there any practical reasons why you want to avoid it? Something I’m missing? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| 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'll definitely get around to fix that. I just figured I enjoyed playing my other games on the new hardware so much that I postponed fixing this one. :P
I really don't th... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291707 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Lutris app or game renders incorrectly It seems as if there's an issue with the DBus connection. It's likely a bug in the software, so the solution for now is a workaround. When the application is restarted in Lutris, it leaves a background process running, which means the whole application is not actually restarted, which results in th... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291706 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Lutris app or game renders incorrectly If I have an application such as the EA App running from Lutris, after starting the computer from hibernation, it sometimes doesn't render correctly; the window renders some areas fine, while other are missing lots of UI elements, or are covered in a solid green colour. Restarting the application wit... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291681 |
@#84085 It's my understanding that your text is the post from VastIncrease2, so that's what I'm referring to, yes. A question does not need to be very long; it only needs to list enough information about it that makes it answerable in a focused way.
Does the edit to my answer clarify enough? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291679 |
Can you clarify and elaborate upon what exactly "general" means? I don't find the term very descriptive in this case. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291681 |
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| Edit | Post #291681 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Do domain-specific how-to's fit well within Q&A? I certainly think "how to do X" is perfectly good for a question on Codidact, so long as X is sufficiently focused. A well-explained overview of a system is also useful, given it contains enough information that the user can continue researching more specific aspects of them, too. Every question m... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291639 |
While I appreciate the in-depth look here (good explanations is what I've really found to be lacking thus far when migrating to Linux), the answer does not present a solution friendly to casual users. I've given your answer an upvote for the explanations, but I don't think the post answers _this part... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291644 |
It's not an anti-cheat problem, it's an OpenSSL issue caused by moving to a CPU with a certain extension. I've found pointers with how to fix it online, but I didn't know how to apply the fixes on Linux. I now know I can use WineTricks. I'll write up an answer later, when I've attempted fixing it. Th... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291638 |
I already have Wine 6 bundled with the OS, as well as what I assume to be more up-to-date Wine versions stored somewhere by Lutris. Yet I don't have any such Wine-installation-programs to open Windows installers with. I'm not on KDE, but Gnome, although I've understood it such that the same should be... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291625 |
That other question is only of use to more advanced users. To quote myself from chat yesterday:
> That's the thing I've been reading about as a programmer, when I looked at GLFW a year ago. It's honestly nothing that regular users should have to deal with. It's wonderful that advanced users can do... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291625 |
@#61308 I strongly disagree that it's a "separate" question. I do however think it's very useful to have that other question for when the user just wants to do that. But no, it's conceptually the same task when installing an application. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291626 |
Ah, yeah, that renders my question rather pointless. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291626 |
What limits the swap, remaining disk capacity, remaining disk capacity after purging temporary data, hardcoded limit, or software-controlled limit while the disk has more than enough remaining capacity? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291625 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Install and run Windows applications How do I install and run Windows applications downloaded from a website? Windows applications do not run natively on Linux, but can be run using Wine. When downloading these applications from a webpage, I will have a .exe or .msi installer in my Downloads directory. What are the next steps to instal... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291123 |
I am not going to switch right now; I’ll stick with PopOS for a bit, until I am more familiar with Linux. I’ll probably test some other DEs and distributions later. Much of the struggle comes also from just being unfamiliar with the system, such that when something doesn’t work, I have no idea in whi... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291123 |
I am entirely new to actually using Linux for anything more than from a USB or in a VM. It’s primarily for games, so I need something with performance, as well as isn’t too nasty with an Nvidia GPU and a 4K screen. PopOS works great with the GPU, but apparently Gnome (due to GTK) sucks with 4K.
I al... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291563 |
Well, that is sort of an application. (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291563 |
So that means I actually have to write an application myself. I can't rely on having to manually set up my desktop experience every time I log on. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #291547 |
Right, that can be an issue. The post does mention a possibility for reversing the behaviour, and I was planning to open a question for that, too. I’m currently using an iMac keyboard which defaults to special functionality for the FN keys, then using the FN toggle to send keycodes to the application... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291563 |
How much trace of a user change does this leave? In case I ever forget that I did this, can I then figure out I’m responsible for these changes without really giving it much though that it’s possible I did it? How easy is it to revert it, for instance when I replace the keyboard? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291510 |
Thanks, I’ll check that soon, and write up an answer if I find anything, then flag this comment thread for archival. :) (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291547 |
I haven’t looked at this case in a while, so I probably should do that again. From what I can remember from previously, when I tested reading keyboard output with the IOKit library in MacOS, it’s indeed true that the keyboard doesn’t output anything for the FN toggle key. However, in order for the O... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291543 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Auto-enable FN-toggling for the first N FN keys How can I auto-enable FN-toggling for the first N FN keys? F7-F12 on my keyboard are used for audio control, while, many games that I play, use the lower FN keys. Therefore, I'd like to relieve myself of the need to hold down the FN key for F1-F6. In other words, I'd like to change the default FN key... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291123 |
Are you able to elaborate and give examples about distributions like Arch requiring users to do programming?
I just moved to Linux, and for some reason decided that PopOS was the right choice, although I was also considering Arch. Apparently, by your words, that was a mistake. I have had some rea... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #291541 |
Install with:
`sudo apt install lm-sensors`
Run with:
`sensors`
As a beginner, I assumed this tool to be a part of the standard OS installation. I spent a while figuring out it's not, that there's no existing command to run it, that it's nowhere on the filesystem, and that it has to be installe... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #291456 |
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| Edit | Post #291521 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Show GPU usage in System Monitor In PopOS's standard System Monitor application, how do I see the GPU usage? I can see the CPU, RAM, disk and network usage, and graphs for them, but GPU usage is listed nowhere. It's available in MacOS and Windows with similar hardware (MSI Nvidia 4080S on Linux), so it should be available for monito... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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