Coming back to Linux...partly.

My home IT estate is Windows Server/7/8.1/10 and some Mac stuff, mainly because those products are how I make my living. I toyed with Ubuntu between 8 and 11 - a decade ago - but it was a bit awkward and I was out of my comfort zone back then. We just didn't get on.

Last night, my sofa laptop (a cheap-ass old Windows Dell Latitude) threw its toys out of its pram, so I had to put in a new hard drive. And I thought, "Heh. Why don't we go for Linux on it?" I went for 18.04.3 LTS.

I'm *impressed*. The setup was clean, configuration/personalisation is easy, the experience is seamless and it runs like a buttered otter. It's still possible to get it all wrong - I trashed my original install trying to install Wine - but it really feels production-ready now for someone like me who is IT-competent but not necessarily knowledgeable about Unix things.

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Tips on password protecting files
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20191223#qa

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Debian votes on init systems
https://lwn.net/Articles/806332/

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Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - December 23, 2019

Welcome to r/linux rants and experiences! This megathread is also to hear opinions from anyone just starting out with Linux or those that have used Linux (GNU or otherwise) for a long time.

Let us know what's annoying you, whats making you happy, or something that you want to get out to r/linux but didn't make the cut into a full post of it's own.

For those looking for certifications please use this megathread to ask about how to get certified whether it's for the business world or for your own satisfaction. Be sure to check out r/linuxadmin for more discussion in the SysAdmin world!

_Please keep questions in r/linuxquestions, r/linux4noobs, or the Wednesday automod thread._

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Top Games on Linux

Hi guys,

Im new to Linux, what are the top games I can play?

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lsof output looks crazy to me

$ lsof | grep -v PID | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq | wc -l

294

$ lsof | wc -l

110829

$ echo "scale=3; 110829 / 294" | bc

376.969

Now I just have a little old laptop. It is already a little surprising that there are 294 processes, but how is it that the average number of files open per process is almost 400???

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Recover SD card that does not list with lsblk

Trying to recover a microSD card from my gopro, hoping there are some powerful FOSS tools to help me out!

`lsblk` brings up nothing (as in, only displays the other *known* drives)

`dmesg | grep usb` also only mentions USB drivers

`dmesg | grep sd` only mentions SSD and other known stuff

Both my laptops (HP Stream and Macbook Air - both booted to Arch Linux) behave the same way, so I don't think its the card reader.

All the recovery tools (photorec/testdisk) want a `/dev/sdX` as input, so they don't seem much help. Note: `dmesg` tells me that `sdc` is the Macbook's cardreader.

Funny thing is, when I use a card reader and plug it into my android phone, I get a message to format the card. GoPro (Hero 7) does a similar thing - comes up and says only way to fix is to format which wipes all the data.

So... *some* devices seem to at least recognize the device, which gives me hope.

What should I try from here?

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Cinammon vs KDE in terms of promising future?

In this moment and time, there are a lot of DEs and every one of them has it's own pros and cons. But it feels different when an organization works on something (ex. KDE) compared to an individual + the open source devs (ex. Cinammon). Like, one can make more improvements and fix more bugs while the other is slower at doing the same things.

My question is do you think that KDE has a promising future compared to Cinammon or even XFCE?

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A minimalist modern web browser

My laptop is a pretty old (2gb ram and an i5) tecra m9 and struggles to cope with most modern browsers if I have more than the browser open. I love browsers that allow minimal interfaces (no tab bar, no address bar etc) as well as minimal hardware resource requirement, so I tried qutebrowser. However, it looks like it doesnt support things like cross-platform, device sync ( I use a windows pc at work ) and streaming media from platforms like prime video, netflix and twitch.

Does anyone know of a web browser that has these features and doesn't require as much resource as chrome/chromium based browsers?

edit - Im running Ubuntu 18.04.3 if that matters

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Default keyring?

I dont really know if this is the place for this but whatever.
So I'm running a linux virtual machine through chrome os, one day a prompt came up saying "unlock keyring" and asked for a password, I tried my root password and any variations, none worked, another thread suggested I try my birthdate but any variation on that didn't work either, I don't have accessories "password and encryption keys" or a network icon, and I cannot change my password because I have no idea what my old password was. Thanks in advance.
Ubuntu
Gnome
Xfce4

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What to expect from Plasma Notifications in 5.18
https://blog.broulik.de/2019/12/whats-up-in-notifications/

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Introducing enve, free/libre 2D animation tool | Libre Graphics World
http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/introducing-enve-free-libre-2d-animation-tool

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The fingerprint reader finally works on the latest Lenovo laptops!

I just found out that libprintf works with the latest firmware for the fingerprint reader.

I just tested it on a T490 which worked.

If you are curious and an arch user you can read about it here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_T495#Fingerprint_Sensor

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Debian's base-passwd (sid) and logging freedom

I hope nobody perceives this as a technical "question", it is not, it is more of a question in semantics. Some of the content about debian's vote on init freedom may be relevant but here is a demonstration of intrusion, I think.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/eee59e/debian_votes_on_init_systems/

While upgrading base-passwd among other packages in sid it asked and "warned" that two users (log and s6log) do not match Debian's default and should be deleted. If I would ask why is Debian intrusive (by deleting not just adding) in /etc (sys-admin's personal domain) the answer would be "that's Debian". The next scale of questioning would be how would two additional users be a burden to any linux (unix) system? The 3rd line of questioning would have been what if my user name was systemd-log ... would the installer allow me "in"?

So in light of the init elections I am thinking logging freedom is becoming an issue as well.

Here is the output of the warnings and their wording. Note how it says software may not work if those logging accounts are not removed. Since when?

'
┌─────┤ Configuring base-passwd ├────┐

│ update-passwd has found a difference between your system accounts and the current Debian defaults. It │

│ is advisable to allow update-passwd to change your system; without those changes some packages might not │

│ work correctly. For more documentation on the Debian account policies, please see │

│ /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/README.

│ The proposed change is: │ Remove group "log" (19) │

│ If you allow this change, a backup of modified files will be made with the extension .org, which you can │

│ use if necessary to restore the current settings. If you do not make this change now, you can make it │

│ later with the update-passwd utility. │

│ Do you want to remove the group log?

│ <Yes> <No> │

└───────────────────────────────────────────┘





┌───────┤ Configuring base-passwd ├─────┐

│ update-passwd has found a difference between your system accounts and the current Debian defaults. It │

│ is advisable to allow update-passwd to change your system; without those changes some packages might not │

│ work correctly. For more documentation on the Debian account policies, please see │

│ /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/README.

│ The proposed change is:

│ Remove user "s6log" (19) │

│ If you allow this change, a backup of modified files will be made with the extension .org, which you can │

│ use if necessary to restore the current settings. If you do not make this change now, you can make it │

│ later with the update-passwd utility.

│ Do you want to remove the user s6log?

│ <Yes> <No> │

└──────────────────────────────────┘
'

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PoC - Libguestfs x Yara
http://acmpxyz.com/libguestfs-yara.html

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Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre is Announcing HyperbolaBSD Roadmap
https://www.hyperbola.info/news/announcing-hyperbolabsd-roadmap/

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Suitable Linux-based OS for Low End Tablets?

I have a Dell Venue Pro 5056 and I wanna use Linux as a second system beside Windows. I installed Ubuntu as it has a large repository of drivers and packages that are pre-installed but still faces errors with the sound driver. Is there any other distros that can behave better on devices like these?

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Presenting: ShoeTool -- Happy Holidays from the FSF
https://u.fsf.org/shoetool

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ELK in Docker
https://medium.com/@tuxlab/elk-stack-in-docker-6285ec1ac1aa

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My Business Card Runs Linux
https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-card-runs-linux/

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cmem module

How to install/build cmem module and run it on ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

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