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Lubuntu 19.10 on AMD A6 APU stuck at 640x480 resolution

Recently installed lubuntu 19.10 on a pc with a AMD A6-6400K APU. In order to get it to boot off usb and also after the installation i had to use the nomodeset option. All the icons are huge and the resolution is set at 640x480 with no other options listed. I checked in additional drivers but there aren't any listed. Can someone help me out?

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"Forced lull in kernel development" during the fall of 2011

What happened in the fall of 2011? I was reading [the homepage for Subsurface](https://subsurface-divelog.org) (a project Linus developed) when I came across this tidbit near the bottom:

> In fall of 2011, when a forced lull in kernel development gave him a chance to start a new project, Linux creator Linus Torvalds decided to tackle his frustration with the lack of decent divelog software on Linux.

What "forced" such a lull in kernel development?

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Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - April 20, 2020

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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Linux on a 8088 with 640kB of RAM

Hi guys. I've been playing around with ELKS on my 8088 laptop. It's a Linux-like kernel intended to be executed on 16 bits machines. And it actually works! You'll find all information in here: https://github.com/jbruchon/elks

I did a short video of some of the stuffs I was able to do on this antique machine: [https://youtu.be/ZDffBj6zY-w?t=687](https://youtu.be/ZDffBj6zY-w?t=687)

If you don't like Youtube, you can watch the video on this Peertube instance: [https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/304e088f-4091-4e53-950f-220c136cda16?start=11m27s](https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/304e088f-4091-4e53-950f-220c136cda16?start=11m27s)

For Spanish-speaking folks, here you have de Spanish version on Youtube: [https://youtu.be/YTW3d0qTA0U?t=687](https://youtu.be/YTW3d0qTA0U?t=687)

And the same on Peertube: [https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/70116036-1b30-421c-a958-79e0cad84131?start=11m27s](https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/70116036-1b30-421c-a958-79e0cad84131?start=11m27s)

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The video was edited with Kdenline: [https://kdenlive.org](https://kdenlive.org)

The music was created with LMMS: [https://lmms.io](https://lmms.io)

The audio was recorded and edited with Audacity: [https://www.audacityteam.org](https://www.audacityteam.org)

The subnoscripts were created with Aegisub: [http://www.aegisub.org](http://www.aegisub.org)

And everything was mixed and cooked on Mageia: [https://www.mageia.org](https://www.mageia.org)

Disclaimer: I'm still learning and the result is far from being professional. All these FOSS are able to do way better things!

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Porting drivers to linux

I have a Dell Vostro 3468 laptop. The wifi card in laptop Qualcomm QCA 9377 performs excellent in windows 10 whereas it struggles in every linux distribution. Link speed in windows 10 is 150 mbps with download speed 10 mbps whereas in ubuntu 18.4 and fedora 31 link speed is only 1 mbps with download speed not more than 500 kbps. I have also turned off wireless power saving. This must only be a driver issue. Is there any way to port windows driver of this wifi card to linux?

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Beginner Question Concerning Flavors

Hi all!

I have probably a beginner question, but here it is - if I switch from Ubuntu to Kubuntu fully (not just install KDE Plasma), could I expect to be able to run all the software I am now running on Ubuntu?

I had the idea that flavors of the same distro were just about the aesthetics, but then again, when I installed Xfce I was struggling to get touchpad tap to work. So that got me a bit cautious because on my Ubuntu install I managed to set up almost everything with relative ease and now it's not the best time to experiment, but to improve my workflow.

I installed just KDE Plasma yesterday and it worked much faster and used less resources on my Lenovo laptop so that's the main reason why I want to switch, to improve workflow.

Any insight would be appreciated!

Oh, and btw, if you were wondering about the essential software I'm referring to, it's mostly:

* Visual Studio Code
* Eclipse
* Libreoffice Package
* Mendeley
* Xmind

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I am very disappointed with Windows

I have been a Windows user for years. I use it daily at home, at work and I never had troubles with it.

However, I feel like the path it has taken lately does not really resonates my needs. I tried Linux a handful of times in the past but I always got back to the comfort of Windows. I could really get a work done in Linux and *I did* sometimes but the learning curve was still a little steep for me.

The whole OS as a service thing of Windows 10 made me insist on developing some skills on Linux and be able to use it more seamlessly in my daily routine, to be more familiar with Linux.

I still have to use Windows cause I need some electronics engineering CAD tools that doesn't run on Linux. And I also don't see the reason to wipe it completely out of my SSD. It doesn't bother me anyways. But the fact that it's eating my whole system's resources it's astonishing. I have 13 tabs on firefox opened while I'm typing this post and the RAM is below 4GB (from the 8GB I have) on Manjaro. On Windows that would be over 6.5GB.

I mean, why do I have to buy more RAM to run the same tasks I was running a week ago? I don't play videogames... My laptop can't really work with Windows anymore. And it was working fine a year ago. And now all of a sudden it can't. The OS is too heavy.

It makes me wonder, where does this thing go?

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