Elementary OS on Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7

I successfully installed Elementary OS on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7. I had to use "acpi=off" during the installation. Trackpad does not work during installation, but is fine after the first reboot.


Here are remaining issues:


1. The machine burns through battery. Even when the lid is closed over night, battery is depleted.


2. Trackpad still does not work with all features. For example, clicking on the bottom right area of Trackpad does not simulate a right mouse click.


3. I can connect to an external monitor via a USB-C to Displayport cable. However, I do not know how to turn off the laptop display.


4. Sound is either off or on. I cannot control volume otherwise.


Otherwise, I feel Elementary OS is very well polished. I would certainly recommend it.


I assume most of my issues will be similar on Ubuntu.

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How about 'TuxEco' as total web ecosystem?

We now have RedHat, Canonical and OpenSuSe. I thought this idea quite a long time, 'an unified ecosystem'. What I mean by 'ecosystem' is as you expected, from email service to cloud storage. We can serve email such as username@tuxeco.org, calendar and even tux drive! But whatever reason, it's not yet here. So I want to hear about your mentors' ideas about this. (If it was already tried but I didn't know because of my ignorance, then I'm really sorry and will delete this post)

+ Now DEs are quite modern and crisp so we can have those services as native apps. Also supporting on Android and iOS. Not only that but also CLI for easy to add and edit or delete for i3, bspwm etc WM enthusiasts!

+ It's time to gather. We all developed great distros and services for specific purposes in their minds, so with those sharp tools we can build more broad and wide ecosystem! (And avoid Goo#le)

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Apple macOS 10.15 vs. Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu 19.10 Performance Benchmarks (TL;DR GNU/Linux beats macOS & Windows on a Apple MacBook Pro!)
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macos1015-win10-ubuntu&num=1

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Suggest Best Lightweight Desktop Environment

Currently using GNOME.

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What is DE consists of?

I know we have the likes of KDE, GNOME, XFCE, etc is called DE. But, what makes those considered a DE in the first place?

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systemd.volatile=overlay

> Also new with systemd 242 is the ability for booting the system where the root file-system is setup as an OverlayFS mount with a root-only root directory with a writable TMPFS. In other words, the underlying root device is not modified albeit all changes lost at reboot. This behavior can be started with the systemd.volatile=overlay kernel command-line parameter. Systemd-nspawn also now supports this volatile overlay mode.

Does anyone know how to set this up?

Thanks

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LibreOffice project recap: October 2019
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/10/29/libreoffice-monthly-recap-october-2019/

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Kernel CI: Automated Linux Kernel Testing made easy
https://kernelci.org/

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Fedora 31 is officially here!
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-31/

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GNOME Foundation Patent Troll Defense Fund crosses $100k - Thank you!

The patent troll defense fund has crossed over the 100k mark! Our adversary is getting nervous. Let's make them sweat some more. The funding has been coming almost on average of 15 minutes per pledge. I just want to thank all of you for your kindness and generosity. We are so grateful. Fighting bullies is something we can all appreciate and come together for. Let's continue to show them that an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. Let's set the precedent. Not only should they not patent troll us, but that we will fight back and take their patents away from them if we can.

Help get us to 125k! - [https://secure.givelively.org/donate/gnome-foundation-inc/gnome-patent-troll-defense-fund](https://secure.givelively.org/donate/gnome-foundation-inc/gnome-patent-troll-defense-fund)

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Unix Tell All Book From Kernighan Hits The Shelves
https://hackaday.com/2019/10/29/unix-tell-all-book-from-kernighan-hits-the-shelves/

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What made you switch to linux? (If you were not using it initially.)

Just plain curious.

I know there have been posts like this in the past but upon searching, the few ones i found were at least half a decade old.

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I've just finished reading "Just For Fun" by Linus Torvalds. Are there any other good books about Linux/UNIX/free software that aren't (just) technical?



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The .NET Process class on Linux
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/10/29/the-net-process-class-on-linux/

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Get audio confirmation of the success of your shell command!

So, many times I will be running some task that needs its time, like a compilation task, a package installation or upgrade task... And then I need to come back to that shell once it has finished to continue the process.

The problem I used to have is that I sometimes browsed reddit when this long-running task was running and I was polling the terminal to see the process of the task, which is tiring and you could even day dream for a bit and forget about it for several minutes.

In comes the solution!

Bash provides the PROMPT_COMMAND variable which is something that can runs every time before it displays the prompt: https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x264.html

It is used in cases like powerline-shell https://github.com/b-ryan/powerline-shell to update the contents of PS1. And I thought another use of it, to get auditory confirmation of whether your command has failed or not:

WITH_SOUND=1

function _sound_confirmation() {
exitCode=$?
if ! [ -z $WITH_SOUND ] && [ $WITH_SOUND -eq 1 ]; then
if [ $exitCode -ne 0 ] && [ $exitCode -ne 130 ]; then # not success and not Ctrl+C
(ogg123 /usr/share/sounds/Oxygen-Sys-App-Error-Critical.ogg 2> /dev/null &)
elif [ $exitCode -ne 130 ]; then
(ogg123 /usr/share/sounds/Oxygen-K3B-Finish-Success.ogg 2> /dev/null &)
fi
fi
}

PROMPT_COMMAND="_sound_confirmation;"

I am using ogg123 and some sound files that exist in my system (using KDE neon) but you can use whatever you like.

The above has helped me a lot and I'm not sure if there's a better way to do it. It has helped me so much with being efficient that it amazes me how there isn't an option for this in terminal emulators.

Have you done anything like this? Can the above be improved?

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Anybody Still Like Screensavers on Linux?

I guess I'm kinda old school, but I'm still a fan of screensavers. It's not really anything practical anymore, but I still like to have cool activity on my screen when it's not being used. I'm just curious, does anyone like screensavers anymore on Linux? I tried looking for Linux screensavers, but the only ones I found looked WAY out of date and in order to get them installed I would have to install super old, sketchy packages. I can still find decent ones for Windows, but not so much for Linux apparently...

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Gitlab rolling back Terms of Service and Telemetry Services changes

I just received this email from Gitlab noscriptd

`We apologize and have rolled back the changes announced in our October 23 email`


>
> Dear GitLab users and customers,
>
> On October 23, we sent an email ennoscriptd “Important Updates to our Terms of Service and Telemetry Services” announcing upcoming changes. Based on considerable feedback from our customers, users, and the broader community, we reversed course the next day and removed those changes before they went into effect. Further, GitLab will commit to not implementing telemetry in our products that sends usage data to a third-party product analytics service. This clearly struck a nerve with our community and I apologize for this mistake.
>
> So, what happened? In an effort to improve our user experience, we decided to implement user behavior tracking with both first and third-party technology. Clearly, our evaluation and communication processes for rolling out a change like this were lacking and we need to improve those processes. But that’s not the main thing we did wrong.
>
> Our main mistake was that we did not live up to our own core value of collaboration by including our users, contributors, and customers in the strategy discussion and, for that, I am truly sorry. It shouldn’t have surprised us that you have strong feelings about opt-in/opt-out decisions, first versus third-party tracking, data protection, security, deployment flexibility and many other topics, and we should have listened first.
>
> So, where do we go from here? The first step is a retrospective that is happening on October 29 to document what went wrong. We are reaching out to customers who expressed concerns and collecting feedback from users and the wider community. We will put together a new proposal for improving the user experience and share it for feedback. We made a mistake by not collaborating, so now we will take as much time as needed to make sure we get this right. You can be part of the collaboration by posting comments in this issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5672. If you are a customer, you may also reach out to your GitLab representative if you have additional feedback.
>
> I am glad you hold GitLab to a higher standard. If we are going to be transparent and collaborative, we need to do it consistently and learn from our mistakes.
>
> Sincerely,
> Sid Sijbrandij
> Co-Founder and CEO
> GitLab
>

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Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - October 30, 2019

Welcome to r/linux! If you're new to Linux or trying to get started this thread is for you. Get help here or as always, check out r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs

This megathread is for all your question needs. As we don't allow questions on r/linux outside of this megathread, please consider using r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs for the best solution to your problem.

Ask your hardware requests here too or try r/linuxhardware!

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POP OS

I just ordered a system 76 laptop with their custom operating system POP OS. Was wondering if anyone who has used it could share their opinion of it. I here its similar to ubutnu.

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Oh look, that severe bug that AMD downplayed is still a big problem
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/how-a-months-old-amd-microcode-bug-destroyed-my-weekend/

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Alternatives to Thunderbird

Hi r/linux!

I'm actually searching for a mail client. I don't use emails a lot, so complex mail managers like outlook or thunderbird aren't the best for me.

I'm searching for a simple, minimalistic, quite good looking mail manager (something like the default mail manager on win10)

Do you have any suggestions?

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