Looking for opinions/experience Kubuntu vs Ubuntu for gaming/Steam

I am planning on switching my main desktop over to linux. I have narrowed it down to Kubuntu vs Ubuntu. I really really like KDE over Gnome but, I am wondering what the issues are when it comes to gaming or steam. From everything I have seen everything leans towards gnome but, I am wondering if that is just due to that is what Ubuntu and Debian use as default or if there is a real reason for it.

Other things I plan on doing on this install is: cybersecurity tools, office, programming, running virtual machines, small amounts of video recording and editing, possibly some streaming in the distant future. So if you know/experienced issues with any of these feel free to chime in.

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How to Create a Truly Portable Ubuntu Installation on an External USB HDD or SSD
https://www.58bits.com/blog/2020/02/28/how-create-truly-portable-ubuntu-installation-external-usb-hdd-or-ssd

https://redd.it/fb4rmj
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Feel like a simple maintenance monkey for hire

Recently been doing routine maintenance on on peoples computers for money. I've only had three customers so far, all friends and family. Been payed $40-$60 for each job.

On Windows I cleaned up viruses and bloatware(ultimately speeding up the system). For others I've just installed a distro of their choosing on a laptop.

I had been studying computers on my own for a few years. And now it's like I've found my side hustle. 😙

https://redd.it/fb6dd8
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Librem laptop, where to sell?

Hi folks,

Won a librem laptop at a hackathon. Any recommendations on where to sell it? I have it on eBay but was wondering if there is another good place:

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[https://www.ebay.com/itm/Librem-15-Version-4-Secure-Laptop/362929449863?\_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160727114228%26meid%3D36520751887c4ec9b58b6662c0214a75%26pid%3D100290%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D2%26sd%3D254508357184%26itm%3D362929449863%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2060778&\_trksid=p2060778.c100290.m3507](https://www.ebay.com/itm/Librem-15-Version-4-Secure-Laptop/362929449863?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160727114228%26meid%3D36520751887c4ec9b58b6662c0214a75%26pid%3D100290%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D2%26sd%3D254508357184%26itm%3D362929449863%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2060778&_trksid=p2060778.c100290.m3507)

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AppCenter Stretch Goal: Privacy & Security Sprint
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/appcenter-for-everyone/#/updates/14

https://redd.it/fb8pin
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This Week in Matrix 2020-02-28
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/02/28/this-week-in-matrix-2020-02-28

https://redd.it/fb9tfd
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SSH Tricks
https://medium.com/@hungrybytes/ssh-more-than-secure-shell-d35220ff7d65?sk=50fd226484f93211f8bff24fb200b43b

https://redd.it/fbb3d4
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Ah yes, I Tux Linux too
https://redd.it/fbbph6
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Is this how I got hacked last month?

Linux noob here. I had a file named testfile321.php in /public\_html/testfolder321/ on my server last month... it was a test file I forgot to delete. The file testfile321.php had 0755 permissions, allowing anyone to execute. Here was the code in that file:

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`<?php`

`exec('node/bin/npm install jt-js-sample');`

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That's all there was to it. There was only one other person who knew about the existence of testfile321.php in my public web directory, a coder I was hiring. My server suddenly got infected by phishing malware and started sending out thousands of phishing emails, and people were replying to my server's email address saying I was sending them phishing emails.

I've since restored my server to a clean image before that file ever existed, and changed all the passwords to everything, including the root password.

Now my question is this: was it possible for him to execute commands and gain remote access through testfile321.php, seeing as how it had 0755 permissions? Did the existence of that file allow him to inject his own commands and gain root access? Can someone ELI5 what commands someone would've injected through that file to gain root access and/or install malware?

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Looking for a graphics tablet for Fedora or OpenSuse

Hi, I am looking for a non-Wacom graphics tablet that would work on Gnome Wayland (Fedora) and/or KDE plasma(OpenSuse). I have spent hours researching and while some models by some manufacturers (eg XP-Pen and Huion) seem to work with Linux systems, there is conflicting information from users - for some it works, for others not.

Would it be wise to choose a model that has Android support, as it might have better chances of working on Linux?

Thanks.

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Srain - Modern IRC Client written in GTK
https://srain.im/2020/02/29/introducing-srain.html

https://redd.it/fbd4og
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I wrote a bash noscript to select a country using dmenu and open the respective YouTube trending page

https://www.youtube.com/feed/trending shows trending for your currently selected country. To view it for another country, you need to either change it manually in the menu or append a country code, such as ?gl=DE. This becomes tedious if you want to switch to multiple countries.

With this noscript you can select the country using `dmenu` and the respective trending page will open. Change the browser in the last line to your own browser.

How to use: just run the noscript with no arguments. You need to have `dmenu` installed.

#!/bin/bash
declare -A countries=(
["Algeria"]="dz"
["Argentina"]="ar"
["Australia"]="au"
["Austria"]="at"
["Azerbaijan"]="az"
["Bahrain"]="bh"
["Belarus"]="by"
["Belgium"]="be"
["Bolivia"]="bo"
["Bosnia and Herzegovina"]="ba"
["Brazil"]="br"
["Bulgaria"]="bg"
["Canada"]="ca"
["Chile"]="cl"
["Colombia"]="co"
["Costa Rica"]="cr"
["Croatia"]="hr"
["Cyprus"]="cy"
["Czechia"]="cz"
["Denmark"]="dk"
["Dominican Republic"]="do"
["Ecuador"]="ec"
["Egypt"]="eg"
["El Salvador"]="sv"
["Estonia"]="ee"
["Finland"]="fi"
["France"]="fr"
["Georgia"]="ge"
["Germany"]="de"
["Ghana"]="gh"
["Greece"]="gr"
["Guatemala"]="gt"
["Honduras"]="hn"
["Hong Kong"]="hk"
["Hungary"]="hu"
["Iceland"]="is"
["India"]="in"
["Indonesia"]="id"
["Iraq"]="iq"
["Ireland"]="ie"
["Israel"]="il"
["Italy"]="it"
["Jamaica"]="jm"
["Japan"]="jp"
["Jordan"]="jo"
["Kazakhstan"]="kz"
["Kenya"]="ke"
["Kuwait"]="kw"
["Latvia"]="lv"
["Lebanon"]="lb"
["Libya"]="ly"
["Liechtenstein"]="li"
["Lithuania"]="lt"
["Luxembourg"]="lu"
["Malaysia"]="my"
["Malta"]="mt"
["Mexico"]="mx"
["Montenegro"]="me"
["Morocco"]="ma"
["Nepal"]="np"
["Netherlands"]="nl"
["New Zealand"]="nz"
["Nicaragua"]="ni"
["Nigeria"]="ng"
["North Macedonia"]="mk"
["Norway"]="no"
["Oman"]="om"
["Pakistan"]="pk"
["Panama"]="pa"
["Papua New Guinea"]="pg"
["Paraguay"]="py"
["Peru"]="pe"
["Philippines"]="ph"
["Poland"]="pl"
["Portugal"]="pt"
["Puerto Rico"]="pr"
["Qatar"]="qa"
["Romania"]="ro"
["Russia"]="ru"
["Saudi Arabia"]="sa"
["Senegal"]="sn"
["Serbia"]="cs"
["Singapore"]="sg"
["Slovakia"]="sk"
["Slovenia"]="si"
["South Africa"]="za"
["South Korea"]="kr"
["Spain"]="es"
["Sri Lanka"]="lk"
["Sweden"]="se"
["Switzerland"]="ch"
["Taiwan"]="tw"
["Tanzania"]="tz"
["Thailand"]="th"
["Tunisia"]="tn"
["Turkey"]="tr"
["Uganda"]="ug"
["Ukraine"]="ua"
["United Arab Emirates"]="ae"
["United Kingdom"]="gb"
["United States"]="us"
["Uruguay"]="uy"
["Venezuela"]="ve"
["Vietnam"]="vn"
["Yemen"]="ye"
["Zimbabwe"]="zw"
)
choice=$(printf "%s\n" "${!countries[@]}" | dmenu -i)
brave-browser "https://www.youtube.com/feed/trending?gl=${countries[$choice]^^}"

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Gamma Text Editor - overview (Beta)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8B3HF2mzak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8B3HF2mzak)

Gamma (Γ) is a lightweight text editor. It is meant to be an alternative to Gedit or Notepad++. Although the current implementation is tested on linux under Gnome desktop environment, Gamma can run on Linux, Windows, and Mac if dependencies are installed (see Dependencies section below). Gamma uses GTK3 (cross-platform GUI toolkit) and PyGObject which is a Python package that provides bindings for GObject based libraries such as GTK, GStreamer, WebKitGTK, GLib, GIO and many more.

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Your thoughts please

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This month in KDE Web: KDE Connect gets a new website, we updated the sites for KMyMoney, Juk, KDE e.V. and KDE China, and a lot more.
https://carlschwan.eu/2020/02/29/this-month-in-kde-web-february-2020.html

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Don't Know What Else to Do

I am having issues installing grub onto my laptop. I have to do this again since a windows update deleted linux from my UEFI BIOS version boot menu. Whenever I am trying to install it onto my system(currently using pop!\_os from my USB because I can't load onto pop!\_os on my laptop. I would love to just install this on my laptop and wipe everything, but I have some files on my the original Pop!\_os that I would like to keep.

Is there a way to access the files without booting up the OS?

This is the error that I receive when trying to install grub:

"pop-os@pop-os:\~$ sudo apt install grub2-common

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

grub2-common is already the newest version (2.02-2ubuntu8.13).

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

1 not fully installed or removed.

After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? \[Y/n\] y

Setting up refind (0.11.5-1) ...

ShimSource is none

Installing rEFInd on Linux....

The ESP doesn't seem to be mounted! Trying to find it....

mount: /boot/efi: special device /dev/nvme0n11 does not exist.

umount: /boot/efi: not mounted.

///boot/efi doesn't seem to be on a VFAT filesystem. The ESP must be

mounted at //boot or //boot/efi and it must be VFAT (not msdos)!

Aborting!

dpkg: error processing package refind (--configure):

installed refind package post-installation noscript subprocess returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

refind

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"

Any help would be appreciated! Thank you in advance.

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installing from one partition to another without usb?

i just bricked my remaining usb large enough to hold an iso file. i was planning on installing a distro to run on my laptop. i had an idea and i would like to know if it'll work...

since i went and bought a new drive for the installation, can i just create a partition just big enough for the iso file and install to the partitions on the rest of the disk?

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Any good contact management apps?

As the noscript would indicate, I am looking for a good contact management app. It doesn't have to be quite up to level of a full CRM, although that would be nice. I keep my contacts in a number of differrent places (google, linkedin, nextcloud, etc) and would like one central place to work with them. Integration with email and text would be nice as well.

I've run a SuiteCRM instance and found its google and android integration troublesome. I've also tried Kaddress and it never did sync the contacts correctly for me.

Running Mint (Peppermint actually). Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Full year graphical calendar on Linux

Hi,

I'm looking for a desktop app on Linux that can show a calendar similar to https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/

I'd like to see public holidays for my country shown as well.

"cal" does something similar on a terminal, but I prefer something graphical.

Most calendar apps I tried just show 1 month at a time. That's not what I'm looking for...

Thanks

--Coder

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Wofi v1.1 Release - a launcher/menu program for wlroots based wayland compositors
https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi

https://redd.it/fbka9l
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Linux: gnome-keyring setup as Freedesktop SecretService
https://medium.com//linux-gnome-keyring-setup-as-freedesktop-secretservice-99521a20e9c4?source=friends_link&sk=a2b9521d6e7070dcdf505612858109b4

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Corsair K55 keyboard prints root password in plain text when pressing CTRL+G5 keys.

`\]]]*/***
ROOTPASSWORD
sudo dnf update
PARTIAL\]]]*/***`
The * are for privacy sake, no idea if they mean anything important
I have switched from openSUSE to Fedora and am now on Windows, un-plugged and re-plugged keyboard and it still has this in its memory.

keyboard in question: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71wSG1VzANL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

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