Best Desktop Environment for Couch & TV?

I have Linux Mint as a distro and Cinnamon as a DE. I would like to use cinnamon when I have my laptop at my desk. What could I use when I hook my laptop up to my TV to watch videos and for gaming?

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I would like one that is user friendly when your on the couch and one that may have everything bigger such as the window buttons, menu, and font size.

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HP 14" laptop (14-df0023cl), $299 at Costco (and it loves Linux)

Costco has an HP 14" Laptop on sale for $299. I just got one for my mom, slapped Fedora 30 with XFCE4 on it and everything worked out of the box perfectly; wifi, bluetooth, the touchpad and all. It only comes with 4GB of ram, but it does have a second memory slot open and will take up to 16GB in total. It comes with a 128GB M.2 SSD already in place, but also has an internal drive bay if you want to slap in a 2.5" SSD (although you do need a mounting tray/special cable for the SATA connection, available only from HP and semi-hard to locate). The display is beautiful, nice and bright, and all the function keys for volume up/down/mute and brightness controls also "just worked" out of the box. It comes with an 8th-gen Core i3 and feels plenty snappy as-is.

Specs: [https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06166782](https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06166782)
Service guide: [http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06146792.pdf](http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06146792.pdf)

I pulled off the bottom chassis (using the directions in the service guide above) and found that the m.2 socket is keyed for NVMe. I then found on the HP support site that their Core i3/i5/i7 systems all support NVMe, so I ordered a Samsung 970 EVO 500GB NVMe m.2 2280 module from Amazon ($90USD on sale/delivered). I just so happened to have a spare 4GB DDR4 2666mhz SO-DIMM in a box, so now it's running on 8GB or RAM and 500GB of NVMe goodness.

Not too shabby for a Costco special and some Linux loving!

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How to manage multiple SSH key pairs | Enable Sysadmin
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/manage-multiple-ssh-key-pairs

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KDE Usability & Productivity: Week 86
https://pointieststick.com/2019/08/31/kde-usability-productivity-week-86/

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Btrfs vs RAID 0 for Cheap Home Server

I want to create a home media/storage server. I can only afford 2 HDDs + 1 RaspberryPi.

I don't care for downtime but I don't want to lose data (given that both disks won't fail simultaneously). I want to know if there are bad sectors as soon as possible so that I can replace the broken disk.

Is this even a good idea? Can I restore the data if both disks go bad (assuming I still have a good copy on one disk)?

What would you suggest?
Thank you in advance!

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.Net core

I think it is an amazing job that Microsoft are doing with bringing .Net core to Linux. And I hope it will enable developers to bring even more good programs to our beloved OS.

And I think it is cool that Microsoft are putting the code under a open source licens

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Correction on Gnome complaints I've made

Not that I have any crazy influence, but I recently found an issue I originally blamed on Gnome was another issue.
That issue was that might memory had some bios settings making it unstable. This made Gnome crash my whole system when ever it did the large memory transfers. I had apparently only "fixed" this with KDE because it just didn't use my memory as heavily.


I might try gnome again, that said has the stuttering been fixed yet?

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i replaced my laptop screen with a new one, and now every thing is bigger.

linux mint cinnamon 19.1

i don't know what to do, can anyone help me with that.

thanks.

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The best way for a fantastic partitions in Linux

Hi,
If you are newbie , you have to use Gparted software in linux as superuser.
make sure that yo have a sufficient hard drive area,be carefull when you are useing Gparted.
the first partition is SWAP partition let's say 2 G.
Second partion is for HOME 60 G.
At last the ROOT partion is about 30 G.
this the optimal partitioning way,if you anytime want to FORMAT or reinstall your Linux distribution , all your home files will be safe.
thank you for reading

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Librem5 with UbuntuTouch is starting to take shape
https://twitter.com/Mariogrip/status/1167985168960933888?s=20

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Help Us Beta Test Krita 4.2.6
https://krita.org/en/item/help-beta-test-krita-4-2-6/

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AMD A4-PRO HP ELITEDESK 705

Hi All,

Average Linux user here.

I've been trying to install Linux on my pc , however the computer stutters for 2-3 seconds every 2 minutes or so.

This happens on Ubuntu, Kali , xubuntu .

I mean I love Linux but the stuttering / freezing is putting me off it.

has anyone dealt with this issue before ?

CPU usage when device freezes / stutters is not high ( still freezes when CPU issue is low)

I've updated it all and also checked the driver page on Ubuntu and it says no additional drivers are needed.

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Anyone working with a Linux desktop and a Macbook on the road?

I have always switched my Operating Systems, but for 10 years I'm stuck at macOS. For several reasons (more flexible desktop hardware, some projects where Linux is better suited) I intend to switch back to Linux on the desktop, but will continue to use a Macbook on the road (and on the couch \*g\*). I'm mainly doing development work, from web development (Node, PHP) to cross-platform application development with Qt. And some occasional machine learning projects, mostly with Python.

Are there people out their that use Linux and macOS interchangeably? What are your experiences? Any recommendations?

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GTK BoF at Guadec
https://blog.gtk.org/2019/08/29/gtk-bof-at-guadec/

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Ubuntu 19.10. Any thoughts?
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The Tinkerboard S, a Rapberry Pi clone, runs KDE withoutbissues.

I installed KDE earlier and it is running great. A few more iterations of these tiny machines will make for a very nice computer.

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What makes you use Gnome?

I'm curious for other opinions on Gnome?

I never understood the need or desire for a Windows8/tablet like experience on a PC, and could never get myself to use Gnome (dropped Pop! Immediately due to it)

I personally prefer KDE, Mate, Cinnamon and Budgie for the traditional desktop.

But what makes you use Gnome? What stands out for you to use it outside of the many other DE's?

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Well,guess i am officially addicted too
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FreeBSD core team appoints a WG to explore transitioning from Subversion to Git
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2019-04-2019-06.html#FreeBSD-Core-Team

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Let’s Talk To Linux Kernel Developer Greg Kroah-Hartman (Video)
https://www.tfir.io/2019/09/01/lets-talk-to-linux-kernel-developer-greg-kroah-hartman-open-source-summit-2019/

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A reminder of why you should always have a strong password and not have your ssh port on 22.
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