Tip: Installations on SD cards are like using TAILS

I have a Windows laptop which can't handle the space needed for VMs or Linux dual-boots, or whatever.

So I've started putting full, complete installs of various Linux distros onto SD cards, 64GB and up.

Then I set the BIOS to boot first from the SD card - no card, and it boots Windows

Each distro install I've done successfully detects the Windows bootloader and adds it to grub, so I can still swtich to Windows from it.

So admittedly, I have to reboot to use another OS, unlike a VM, but this laptop boots really fast.

The biggest advantage to me is that I don't have to fuck with Virtualbox - I hate that program.

Once I shutdown the Linux distro, there's no trace of it on my clean Windows machine.

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Neo-mc – a Midnight Commander fork with noscripting and other features
https://github.com/neo-mc/neo-mc

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Goodbye MacBook Pro, Hello Linux laptop!

After 15+ years of being in the Apple ecosystem, today I ordered my very first Built for Linux laptop from StarLabs! I’m excited yet nervous, it’s like Christmas and now I wait in anticipation for the day it arrives. Sorry for the fluff post but I just wanted to share my excitement with the Linux community.

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The Windowing Revolution of KWinFT's upcoming 5.21 release
https://subdiff.org/blog/2021/the-windowing-revolution

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The most readily available text editors aside from VIM.

Hey people! i’m new to Linux. As I’m educating myself more on the os, I see that VI/VIM and Nano appear to be widely available CLI text editors.

However, I’m curious to see of there are others that are as widely distributed and available that are as powerful as VIM and as user friendly as Nano( for us newbs).

So I post the question here. Aside from Nano, and VIM, what are the most widely available CLI and User interface text editors? And what are the most powerful when compared to VIM?

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Mailsync Is Now GPL!
https://community.getmailspring.com/t/a-free-open-source-future-for-mailspring/484

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What would make you switch to windows?

There is a milion of arguments behind going to Linux, but there must be some things in Windows playbook that you may find attractive?

In contrast to the question if you don't have an answer for the first one - what is that one thing you would never give up from Linux?

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Am confused, is this normal?

I (16M) have started coding for about a year now, and it has changed my life, I love it, My favourite activity was always to code something and keep learning a new language in my Ubuntu VM, but when i started coding in ubuntu, i discovered Linux itself, and i love it, i use opensuse in my laptop, and started learning linux (terminal, bash) But I made Bad choices and left this learning habit apart for a couple of months, now i want to go back but i don't feel as excited as in the end, and that scares me because after 8 months of coding and messing vm's for fun, I started thinking programming itself as a career for me but now it doesn't excites me as before, is because i started thinking about it as a career that in the future could give me a job instead of something fun? I really don't know and am a bit lost, any help? :)

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Iptables and ufw

Stupid question. But I suck with iptables and prefer ufw. If there’s rules in iptables but I then go and install ufw and set my own rules. Will ufw override iptables?

So for example. If port 22 is allowed in iptables but I block it in ufw. Will it be blocked? Or what if it’s the other way around?

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Linux distro thumb drive services from the 90's?

I distinctly recall that there were a few services from which you could, for the price of the thumb drive and shipping costs, get a USB stick with the distro of your choice pre-installed. This would have been very early on when the internet was dial-up for most consumers, probably closer to 2000, though.

I doubt any of them are still running, but any leads on some of them or info about the practice of sharing them at trade shows and user group meetings would be fantastic ;) - TIA

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Access Google Drive from Ubuntu

Hello I've been using Ubuntu for a few months now and I'm very happy with it. Only one thing bothers me a lot: No matter what program I use Google Drive does not really work well.

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I just want to:

* Have files available offline (e.g. a folder that is synced all the time).
* When I drag files to a folder, I want them to be visible on Google Drive within 1-2 minutes.

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So far I have tested the following programs:

* opendrive (doesnt sync some files)
* vgrive (deletes entire folders sometimes)
* rclone (no offline access)
* gnome online accounts (no offline access)
* InSync (works great, but costs too much money)

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If it is easier I also like to use Microsoft OneDrive. The main thing is to have a cloud storage that I can access from my computer.

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From my experience, LTS releases are not more stable to justify the old packages than "regular" ones.

Hello to all of you terminal warriors.

So I've been using Linux for some time and I go on and off from distributions and releases. Always interested to see "what's new" on distributions I like.

Usually, I am going for Arch-based and more specifically Manjaro or for *.10 releases because they are more up to date with the software and just work better in my experience.

But when a new LTS or second point release comes I give it a try hoping it will be really stable and I will just leave it for a long time like LTS is supposed to be used.

But that's never the case. It's not only more stable it's buggier and very often works worse/slower than the 9 months supported releases or Manjaro.

For example Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10:

20.04 is using older GNOME and compared to 20.10 it's a lot slower on my machine, the animations are worse - still laggy and jittery.

The software center is a lot slower and I have regular crashes like every time I try to install something from the store when I press the desired program the store just crashes.

Some packages are missing in 20.04 but are available on 20.10: Amule.

VLC has some weird problem and doesn't want to close from time to time. It stays in the try area and the only way to fully close it is to fully kill the vlc process.

And the list goes on and on...

Nothing of this is happening in 20.10.

I am a web and software developer and some stuff I use require more up to date packages (I think npm was one of them) that I have to manually update so I can do my thing.

So how OS containing old packages with bugs in them (there will never be a perfect release) are more "stable" than new releases?

Updates are usually to FIX problems.

New kernels: they are released for a reason too. Better support and fixed bugs. They can hold to update for a month to see if there is a problem just like Manjaro is holding packages for a little longer after they are released on Arch.

And the last thing: the security aspect - look the thing with Thunderbird.

Anyone else in the same boat as me?

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iBus mandarin doesn't work in budgie desktop environment? (it works in gnome!)

hello, i just got arch linux running on my virtual machine and installed budgie desktop environment as it looks lit. I tried to type mandarin occasionally using iBus, i found that budgie d.e seems to have a bug that doesn't appear mandarin word selections, whereas when i switch over to gnome, the bug doesnt appear.

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Using PowerEdge servers as desktop

I have never used server before. my laptop can not run a heavy computing task. However, the place where i work has an inactive server with 6 core processor and 16 gb ram. Can i config the server to run python codes? If yes, please help me with the steps.

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Forward proxy in 2021?

I have a requirement to provision a forward web proxy for my datacentre. It's been a while since I rolled out such a beast - and previously squid would have been my automatic choice. But when I google for "Open Source Forward Proxy" I find links to lots of projects, none of which are squid.

Is squid now frowned upon? (why?)

What should I be using?

(just to clarify my requirements - my immediate need is to handle logging and address translation, but in future I hope to provide caching - and therefore would need SSL MITM capability. Please don't tell me that a product works for you without telling me why).

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I have been using Ubuntu for 5 years and I finally figured out how to install arch! It works great!
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Not a support question: Peacock streaming service doesn't work on linux



Third attempt:

This is not a support question

Linux is not the issue here, this is an issue with the Peacock streaming service and its DRM.

(This is not a support question)

I am not asking how I can get it working, I already know the solution... change my OS to windows or use wine or use my mobile device as currently those are the things I have that peacock works on.

(This is not a support question)

No, what I am asking for is my fellow Linux users to give their feedback to https://www.peacocktv.com/help/web-to-case

And see if we can convince them to remove the anti linux DRM restriction

(This is not a support question)

Other streaming services work fine, but peacock is a hold out, and I would love to have it working natively in linux without me (or anyone else who wishes to use peacock with linux) having to fiddle with wine (which doesn't always co-operate) or setup a VM or turn my dedicated HTPC linux machine into a windows one.

(This is not a support question)

Also yes I can pirate, but I would like to do this legit.

Again the issue is not me, I know how to use Linux, have used it for 25 years and even though it's not on my main gaming machine anymore I still use it on my other machines.

The issue is peacocks DRM and there is nothing I as the user can do about it other than use windows or wine or a VM thus this is not a support question.

The only "help" I ask for here is to get other linux users to visit https://www.peacocktv.com/help/web-to-case and tell them to support linux, linux is not the problem.... they are

(This is not a support question)

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PSA: ACS Override patch now included in Linux Zen kernel.

As of now the ACS Override patch is now included in the Linux Zen kernel. So you just have to add the respective kernel parameter pcie\_acs\_override=.

I'm running 5.10.13-zen1-2-zen instead of linux-zen-vfio on Arch Linux and my usual VM with GPU-passthrough works just fine.

Source: https://queuecumber.gitlab.io/linux-acs-override/

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Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/

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Seriously, Fuck Nvidia

So unless you want to reminisce about the mid 90's, when you had to go to a website to search for drivers -'avoid Nvidia like the plague. Unless you know exactly what the marginal improvement you are using Nvidia for, and which/how to install the drivers - it is nowhere near the marginal benefits. I am not speaking to gamers here (who maybe know why they want to make the extra lift that turns out to be harder than installing the base operating system).

But for the rest of us that expect things to just work - know that Nvidia is the mark of either a lot of wasted effort - or a lot of wasted hardware that won't be fully utilized.

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Just out of curiosity, did anyone try installing every package available?

What i mean is did anyone try to install every package available to the distribution they are using (except obvious stuff like all versions of the kernel or multiple network drivers etc.) Just wondering if it would even if it’s even possible or break the system or slow it down to the point of being unusable.

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