Strategy to manage multiple linux installation personal

I have been using Linux for about 15 years in different flavors and machines.

It has been a lovely marriage, however, it is getting more complex as I am having more computers than when I was a teenager (3 + family) and each of the machine has a great deal of tinkering.

I would like to know what are your strategies for this, this is, how do you:

- Keep your personal data across multiple personal computers.
- Keep your aesthetics confs across each computer.
- Keep your backups running and visible in the three machines.
- Keep regular updates.

I have a great deal of experience in sysadmins, however, there things are more straightforward as you want to keep the same distro/version/update in every machine, and every machine specs are same.

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22 years ago today, Linux users protested in front of Microsoft's headquarters in Foster City demanding a refund of unused licenses.
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/

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Manjaro with Plasma Mobile to be the default operating system for the PinePhone
https://www.pine64.org/2021/02/15/february-update-show-and-tell/

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Linux hosting company shutting down due to hack
https://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/

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Good Old Siduction with new release!
https://news.siduction.org/2021/02/release-notes-for-siduction-2021-1-0-c-blues/

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Tuxi Update: I merged a pull request which made Tuxi now out of the box. No need of gsearch or any cookie.

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Announcing Monado 21.0.0, an officially conformant OpenXR implementation!

Monado, the OpenXR runtime for Linux, is now officially conformant! In recognition of this milestone, a first major release version of the OpenXR runtime for Linux is now available, bringing with it a SteamVR driver!

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/monado-2100-officially-conformant-openxr-implementation.html

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GNOME Shell 40 UX Changes: The Research
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/02/15/shell-ux-changes-the-research/

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Im sick of windows

The first time i had a personal computer for me was only 7 months ago, i used computers before that just in my childhood and was using android phone for all that time and it really made me love technology and i wanted to know how to build such apps and os so i decided to learn programming, i bought a midrange laptop and i was struggling with windows from the start and i thought this happened just for being new to it but now? I just hate it, i can't study i can't browse i can't do any damn thing without facing a problem that require a long search to find a solution, i know this does not happen for most of people but i love to expolre and know the os i use very much and i spend more than 6 hours in front of my pc, please till me these things does not happen in linux and i will find it useful?

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Businesses that solely use Linux ?

What are common companies that use Linux for business? I am seeking a discussion and a beta test of security software that will prevent Stuxnet or SolarWinds et cetera attack vectors. We're a pure InfoSec small business with powerful software.

We Speak IT®

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Having trouble getting linux to boot on older Mac

I have this old 2007 a1181 macbook that is no longer supported but otherwise works fine and I was trying to put Mint or something on it but I can't get the boot USB to be recognized, it works fine on my other mac. I tried different versions but no dice, it just doesn't show up. It's running OSX 10.7 and I tried Mint 32bit and Ubuntu MATE 32. You're supposed to hold the option key and boot but only the HD shows up no matter what I do.

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Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan) now supports OpenGL 4.6 & GLES 3.1!
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/9072

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Linux guidance

Howdy,

Been doing some research on RHCSA certification. What would you suggest is the best approach to studying effectively? Dedicating 6 months to studying before taking exam. Should be ready in 4 but really want to learn this. What distro/books/online resources do you recommend for this journey?

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I have a NOOB question.

I have a old dusty laptop left to me by my dad, from when he sadly he passed away.

The laptop runs pretty slow.

I was interested in becoming a web developer in future. And i need a laptop for that.

So if i could run linux on this windows, it would help a bunch.

So, in short how do i get Linux on my windows 7 32bit laptop?

Thanks in advance for any replies, love you all. :)

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What are the implications of deprecating the k10temp?

I'm a bit worried about using Arch without the k10temp kernel module/extension, related to temperature measurement and similar stuff.

Could someone with a bit of expertise explain it to us?

Thank you very much beforehand!

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linux mint 20.1 mate live usb login loop. It's not timeshift related, I just want to login with live usb but I can't even do that.

and yes I've googled it, and all I got was a bunch of timeshift stuff about drives filling up. I haven't even installed the thing and I can't login or do the ixte xxxxxxx whatever command so I can give you guys the wall of text you need to decipher my problem.

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Restrict shell so u can only use some commands

Hey guys. I am pretty new to Linux so I am sorry if this is a starter question. Is it possible to restrict a shell to some commands? I am looking for a way to have ssh but only being able to use some commands.

For example. A shell where I only can use commands like

Ls, cat, grep, cd, find

So only commands where I can lookup some stuff and not being in danger of changing or deleting something.

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Absolut Beginner: How to use CONFIGHZ1000 for a gameserver?

Good morning everybody. I am hosting a gameserver from home and Windows isnt cutting it despite very powerful hardware. After a lot of research it appears the way to go is Linux/ubuntu with a CONFIGHZ1000 Kernel.

While it appears straight forward to install Ubuntu, every documentation about how to use CONFIGHZ1000 seems to require some form of advanced knowledge that is way over my head to comprehend. Like compiling a kernel. Any advice or pointing fingers the right way would be appreciated. Thank you very much!

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Is it me, or is Libre Writer and Mendeley integration terrible?

Am I doing it wrong?

In my experience the Mendeley reference plugin for Libre Writer is absolutely terrible. In-text citations aren't too bad (but God help you if you want to save as .docx to collaborate with colleagues), but building a reference list is completely broken.

Is there a better way or better software for academic writing? At this point I would happily install Word for an easy life. Mendeley referencing not available for Word365, as far as I know.

I have used Latex in the past, and whilst it works for me, collaborating on documents is not really feasible.

Help me /r/linux.

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Any linux newbies in here?

Hey any linux newbies in here. I have had people teach me a long the way and I figured now would be a good time to pay it back with people stuck inside from the pandemic. I do not claim to be an expert or anything just someone who has time on there hands that would like to share what I have learned.

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Tauon Music Box v6.5.0 released

This is my pet project Tauon Music Box. It's a modern style music player for Linux.

While this isn't a major release, its been a while since Ive shared this project on Reddit. Cumulatively there's been quite a few improvements since! The notable changes:

* Added tracker file playback support (mod, xm etc)
* Remote control Android app now available (In fact there's two)
* Added support for the self hosted scrobble server Maloja
* Added radio station search browser
* Added ability to play tracks from a Jellyfin server (Its kind of experimental, no promises)
* Entirely rewritten audio backend
* Enabled Flatpak builds for ARM/RPi

You can check it out the main website [tauonmusicbox.rocks](https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/) or see the [Github](https://github.com/Taiko2k/TauonMusicBox) page.

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