I installed debian on an external hard drive today

It's not a post asking for help nor anything, probably more a message to linux noobs ( as me ) who are curious, and who can't make a virtual machine work well ( the cause being a potato pc ). We can install OSes on external hard drives easily enough. I just had an issue with grub install ( had to create a partition manually, and had to choose the right mode - non-dynamic ) but now my debian works - a bit slower than normally cuz it's not a perfect hard drive, plugged in with usb 3, there are better solutions. And you can do that too, you can install many distros on one hard drive and try them all, explore again and again, without risk of ruining anything else. I'm not sure this post will be of any use, but I guess I just love linux

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PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/847412/d7826b1353e33734/

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Flutter is the default choice for future Ubuntu apps.
https://twitter.com/ubuntu/status/1367063203600031746

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Do you know any Linux distros reviewers that is inquisitive about distros actually being open source and respectful of unredestributable proprietary programs

Do you know any Linux distros reviewers that is inquisitive about distros being actually open source (public configuration and possibility to build a system image) and respectful of unredestributable proprietary programs (Chrome, Spotify, Oracle Java...), because I don't know any, it is several years that I read news and reviews; these 2 aspects are never present.
I don't know if it is the same for video reviews.

Uploading an ISO on SourceForge/OSDN with GPL license or similar but no public configuration and no possibility to build yourself the system image isn't "making open source"

Also a reminder that Chrome, Spotify, Oracle Java, Visual Studio Code (Microsoft proprietary binary) have unredestributable license unless you have an agreement with them.

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On March 1st 2021, EmmaDE3 1.04 gets even more freedom !
https://emmabuntus.org/on-march-1st-2021-emmade3-1-04-gets-even-more-freedom/

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Never Satisfied?

Anyone ever go through periods of saying "this is amazing" but, then something stupid happens like you pin a new application to your taskbar and all of a sudden the size of the other icons become microscopic? All of a sudden you're asking yourself if you should be switching DEs maybe distros? Gnome shell extension doesn't work? Cinnamon here I come. Cinnamon missing a feature from KDE? KDE here I come, KDE has everything I want but, something stupid annoys me guess I'll try to make xfce pretty etc etc etc. I think I spent an hour trying to make the fonts look good in firefox so I could ditch chrome.

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AMD+Microsoft secured-core server, and what does it mean to opensource?

This joint AMD\+Microsoft announcement means a lot to opensource/security-conscious people: since the closed-source concept of "security by obscurity" doesn't work, and - unlike Intel and other competition - AMD DRTM (Dynamic Root of Trust Measurement) can use a 100% open-source stack: no dependencies on binaries with questionable redistribution license.

There was a rumor at Open Source Firmware Conference 2020 that SMM Supervisor is going to be open-sourced. Thanks to AMD moving the RAM init complexity from BIOS to ASP (aka PSP) firmware: /u/CyReVolt has advanced in oreboot open-source firmware porting to his Ryzen board, and Open Source Firmware Vendors (OSFV) \- like /r/3mdeb \- could deliver the Open Source Firmware to more AMD Ryzen platforms!

All this stuff should give a lot of flexibility and high-end security for OEMs and reduce the dependency on closed source, royalty fee-based models from BIOS vendors of the previous era. Some discussion on Twitter with Microsoft Director of OS Security: https://twitter.com/dwizzzleMSFT/status/1366825073529683969?s=19

EDIT: if you'd like to learn more about AMD DRTM with open-source, TrenchBoot developers are having a nice online conference on March 24th - https://twitter.com/TrenchBoot/status/1367176630326751236?s=19

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Zstandard v1.4.9 released (>2x Faster Long Distance Mode)
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.4.9

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"Ultimate YouTube-DL Scripts Collection" now on Version 3.1.0!
https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection/releases/tag/3.1.0

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Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
https://gist.github.com/akihikodaki/87df4149e7ca87f18dc56807ec5a1bc5

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X vs Wayland & Compositors

So with traditional X, if I run a window manager like BSPWM, I can add any compositor with any features on top of it, like blur for example. So I usually do this with KDE, and switch the WM to BSPWM.

However, with Wayland, the compositor is integrated, right? Like everything is one complete package? So the problem is, there isn't really a good tiling WM that also provides Picom-level compositing features as well.

Having it split up with X was better, because the compositor interested people can make a compositor, and it can work with anything.

Is there a solution to this problem? Thx

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Expand print view on terminal view (apt list)

I want to see the full apt list. Problem is no terminal viewer i use will show the whole list. About 1/10th of the way back up through the lib section it just stops. I dont want to show less at a time. I want them all right in front of me so i can scroll through them and study whats there. How do i do this?

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Newbie tips

Hey all! I am fairly new to Linux. I started on a wsl Ubuntu install on my laptop, and then had a vm Ubuntu install and started messing around with my Raspberry pi with Raspbian and Ubuntu on that. I am looking for tips or tutorials that you have liked or good next steps to start really learning more about Linux and what it can really do.

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EtherBlob Explorer: Search and extract blob files on the Ethereum network

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https://preview.redd.it/ouutoj3iywk61.png?width=1098&format=png&auto=webp&s=755b435d1682894eb7e41e5926ad7e1da59ff8af

Hey guys, this is my first time posting here, just wanted to share a tool I released yesterday that I think some of you could find useful for things like OSINT, data analysis, CTFs or even just out of curiosity/boredom. Good blocks to make a trial run can be found on this experiment made on 2017 by Raúl Kripalani. Python3.8>= and an etherscan.io API key are required.

Feedback and new features requests are kindly accepted, or if you want to do it yourself, contributions are accepted too!

More info about how it works and all the available features are inside the repo.

https://github.com/litneet64/etherblob-explorer

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Samba share limit at 2Go

Hello,

I have a samba share on my server and I would like to transfert some file or directory > 2Go but is not working.

I mount the share on a Mac and my disk is in EXT4...

Have you got some tricks to by pass this problem ?

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Thanks for your help !

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A python noscript for mapping keys on Huion tablets on Linux
https://github.com/erjiang/huion-keys

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This won't be the decade of Linux being at the top or Windows's arch nemisis, but this decade has a lot in share for Linux as a whole.

A while back, I made a post asking the subreddit if they think Linux will grow this decade and if so, by how much. It was divisive at the very least. I've seen many say that it won't or it will stay the same, and I've also seen many say that Linux will grow or hope to grow this decade. I thought it's time for me to give my opinion as a whole.

The tldr: I feel that this decade holds a lot in share for Linux as a whole.

What I think would be the big thing for Linux this decade is compatibility. Specifically, advancements in WINE, the Kernel, Proton(for the gamers, will be talking about y'all definitely), and the creation and advancement of Darling(WINE but for running MacOS programs instead).

First, recently, we got Kernel 5.11. It was supposed to help out with certain normal compat issues with AMD CPUs and some others but another thing was that now POSIX calls from Win applications running in WINE that were being sent straight to the Linux kernel are now being redirected towards WINE which should help with getting more Windows programs to work with WINE aswell as helping gamers get a better time out of Linux. If more stuff comes out in both WINE and the kernel, then the compatibility between Windows programs will increase and I suspect that this will happen even more this decade.

Second, with the creation of Proton last decade, gaming has gotten far easier on Linux and far less of a hastle. Your remaining issues now are primarily anticheat related which with steam being the developer of Proton, I expect steam games being run through Proton throughout this decade will have less issues with anticheat and less issues. Not to forget OpenGL which if you aren't using Nvidia on windows, good luck with any good performance with OpenGL, compared to Linux which has good OpenGL performance no matter what. Add all that in and I see gaming through out this decade on Linux becoming far less of a hastle and even maybe by the end of the decade, a better option than gaming on Windows(especially for non-Nvidia users).

Finally, with Darling and with its advancements, I see compatibility on Linux becoming even far less of a worry. If the Windows installer exe for Adobe Creative Cloud or HitFilm express has issues or they won't start after installation, then maybe download and install the Mac version though Darling. Darling when it advances enough will be an absolute blessing later this decade.

Now, growth. Linux as a whole(anything that uses the Kernel so your usual GNU/Linux distro and the other Linux distros that the community likes to fight over rather if they are distros or not like the two Google made such as Android and ChromeOS/Chromium OS), counting all computers(ALL TYPES, not just desktops), you could argue that the Linux kernel is the most widely used in the world. Though, here, I'm talking about usage of your normal GNU/Linux distros on both Desktop and now even Smartphones(yeah, the Pinephone). There are multiple outlets for growth this decade and I'd say we got 3 primary ones to look at.

First, Gaming and Compatibility. Like I mentioned above, gaming and compatibility will improve heavily throughout this decade on Linux as it had last decade. This I believe will contribute to some growth on Linux though not by a lot as the final reason I'll discuss a little. In games that are ported to Linux and even a lot of games that aren't but can be run through wine or Proton, they either work normally or even faster. Minecraft is an example and it runs really well on Linux compared to windows for AMD and Intel GPU users. Can't be forgetting other examples. I see performance being a driving factor though certain gaming hardware more than likely are going to have issues as of the lack of drivers.

Second, Security. With compatibility increasing by a lot, I feel many more may move to Linux this decade because of the combination of Compatibility and Security because who wouldn't if they just heard

of Linux in 2025 or 2030 and they heard that security was awesome over here and they could run all their usual Windows or MacOS programs on Linux with Wine, Proton, and Darling. But that overall depends on how the word gets out and the popularity of Linux and Pro-FOSS Influencers.

Finally, I feel as of some of the recent events and many recent things done by the tech giants could cause Linux to grow and possibly Proprietary software to even decline a bit. I'm going to be honest here, a group of people that some of yall may dislike are probably going to be contributing to Linux's growth throughout this decade. I'm sure many of y'all can infer to who I'm talking about but I'm not going to make any full on mentions as I still don't want the comment section to become a charcoal grill in of itself. Though, if what is going on with big tech is enough to pose any alarm to anyone(not spying but alagations of censorship), I wouldn't be surprised if many people in the above mentioned group leave Windows and MacOS or at the very least, many proprietary programs for FOSS/GNU equivalents. No matter if you like it or not, if you agree with them or not, they could potentially cause us to grow by a lot this decade. Tbh though, I don't know what a mass exodus of that group would do to Linux on the outside.

At the end of the day, I feel this decade is when Linux will grow and improve heavily. Linux is getting more and more comfortable by the year and even now, Linux is comfortable for many.

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Infrastructure modernization remains the biggest use case for enterprise open source
https://www.silicon-mirror.com/infrastructure-modernization-remains-the-biggest-use-case-for-enterprise-open-source/

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Strange mouse bug in Lubuntu 20.04

So I recently installed Lubuntu 20.04 LTS on my machine and the installation went smoothly (It is a 2 in 1 laptop with touchscreen) However upon starting I noticed that my mouse had a strange bug that;
(A) the mouse cursor direction was inverted, so scrolling down will make the cursor go up and
(B) the mouse CLICKS were also inverted (so if I clicked on the top right corner of the screen, it would click the icon on the bottom left corner of the screen) also the mouse cursor itself is upside down.

It may be important to note that the touchscreen itself worked perfectly fine.

I then spent HOURS trying to fix this issue.

I ran "sudo apt-get update" and "sudo apt-get upgrade".

I removed the sensor of the screen rotation with
"sudo apt-get remove iio-sensor-proxy"

I constantly rebooted my machine.

I messed around with xrandr and nothing, then I changed the mouse settings on xinput, while I did manage to fix the mouse SCROLLING, the CLICKS were still inverted. So now the mouse cursor can go in any direction I want, but clicking was still inverted.

I managed to find a quick "fix" by booting from recovery mode. However this is somewhat time consuming and inconvenience.

Is there a more permanent solution to this problem?

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Best Programming language for making GUI or desktop application in Linux

I use openSUSE and I'd like to develop some software to use as a desktop software. But, I'm unsure what language or framework to use.

I moved not too long ago to linux and i know that for developing Windows applications you mainly use c++. Can you use c++ to develop GUI desktop apps in Linux??

Any insight or suggestions are welcome.

EDIT: Sorry, reddit glitched and posted my post twice

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