How do I defrag my hard drive?



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2 years ago, installing linux on baytrail systems was a nightmare. Yesterday i tried it again and (almost) everything worked out of the box

Hi,
I hope this is the right place to post this. I just wanted to share my sheer amazement.

TLDR: Two years ago it took an usb keyboard, a usb ethernet adapter, digging around in efi variables, wanting no sound at all and lots of patience and crashes to get an [ASUS X205TA](https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/ASUS_EeeBook_X205TA/specifications/) (or F205TA for that matter, but they seem to be the same) to boot. Tried it yesterday with xubuntu and besides an initial x86 UEFI loader for the x64 system it required no extra tinkering.
I want to say thank you to everyone involved on making this magic happen every day.

For context:
My wife is currently in the hospital and needed a device to pass time and to better communicate with people as her phone didn't really do it for her.
Remembering that a lot of time had passed since my last installation of this [monster](https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/ASUS_EeeBook_X205TA/specifications/) and that i had to refer to two wikis ^[1](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ASUS_x205ta) ^[2](https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/X205TA) to get this thing remotely working before, i said fuck it to myself and tried it again.

After making an x86 efi grub standalone and patching a xubuntu iso to use it the thing just ran. Sure it crashed mid-installation because of the fucked up cstates on baytrail, but the well documented fix (refer to the wikis) did its job. After that it was just one config file to edit to make the headphone jack work and done. The xubuntu ubiquity installer even installed the right x86 grub onto the system. Something i had to do manually after the initial installation last time. It all just works out of the box.

And boy the performance difference to back then. It's like it is another notebook. Bundled with zswap you don't even notice the 2GB of RAM till you try [Banished](https://store.steampowered.com/app/242920/Banished/) in Steam's Proton now that they killed the native linux support for it. But even then, the game runs way more smoothly than it did before. It's just amazing how much work has gone into each and every component of this beautiful ecosystem.

So wrapping up i want to say thank you to all of you for making this experience possible and making my wife's time in the hospital a little more endurable for her.

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Any companies that deal with free/open-source software and have programs for autistic people (and for LGBT ones)?

In about one more year, I will graduate from college and be expected to find a job to support my family. However, I want to add working with FOSS to this mix. I already know most of the big-name organizations that work with them, but what I may not be able to discover easily is if they have support programs for autistic people and/or LGBT people, since I am both of these traits (gay/homosexual male for the latter).
I have a tendency to be slow on certain tasks (due to my autistic personality), which may impair my ability to work within shorter time constraints, and possibly get me fired if this gets bad enough. Additionally, while I haven't encountered bullying related to my homosexuality for my entire life so far, it is possible that this can change in my later life. If this bullying or similar happens in a work environment, it may discourage me from doing my work. I could try to find all this with web search engines, but I am unable to phrase my search query clear enough to get any relevant results.
TLDR/Summary: I am seeking for information about any companies that satisfy the three things below:
* Works primarily with FOSS
* Has a program for helping autistic people
* Has a program for helping LGBT people

I really don't want to sacrifice any of the three to get another, such has having to work at a company that primarily puts out proprietary software, or having to work at a pace that I am unable to keep up with.

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where does gdebi download packages?

Hi!
I need to make offline instalation for nagios + chcek\_mk according to documentation I need to use gdebi to install check\_mk.deb and I want to know where does gdebi download required packages to lately copy them for offline instalation.

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Linux-powered System76 Gazelle laptop allows users to avoid the Windows Tax
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-powered-system76-gazelle-laptop-allows-users-to-avoid-the-windows-tax/

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OpenMandriva 4.0 released. Clang 8.0, LTO by default, PGO, Znver1 ISO with optimization for AMD ZEN CPU and much more
https://www.openmandriva.org/en/news/article/the-best-until-openmandriva-does-better-released-omlx-4-0

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TalkingArch is one of the most wholesome projects I've encountered in my Linux journey
https://talkingarch.tk/

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Explaining File Systems: NTFS, exFAT, FAT32, ext4 & 8 More!
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=-3K8xh-mQKw&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_h30HBYxtws%26feature%3Dshare

https://redd.it/c19ziu
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If Firefox started an email service and offered “Sign in with Firefox”
https://jatan.blog/tech/if-firefox-started-an-email-service-and-offered-sign-in-with-firefox/

https://redd.it/c1afah
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Suppose you are in a corporate network environment and often times find yourself manually setting/unsetting the HTTP_PROXY environment variable in order to access different hosts. Sounds familiar? In this case, dePAC might help you!
https://github.com/creaktive/dePAC

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KDE Plasma 5.16, AMD Ryzen/Navi, Firefox Premium, Matrix 1.0, OBS, PinePhone | This Week in Linux 70 (notes in comments)
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=1k62sk9uH6g&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DtqsrKxM-1zI%26feature%3Dshare

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Meet The Affordable [Linux] Challenger To Dell's XPS 13
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/05/15/linux-laptop-benchmark-dell-xps-13-star-labtop-intel-i7-8550u/#2e4ef140470c

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LTT about the Theilo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTN1c1j6V1s

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charles leifer | Suffering for fashion: a glimpse into my Linux theming toolchain
http://charlesleifer.com/blog/suffering-for-fashion-a-glimpse-into-my-linux-theming-toolchain/

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Any thoughts on System76 laptops?

I'm looking at the Darter Pro and Gazelle laptops (for college) but I don't know which I'm going to get and can't find many reviews. Anyone have any experience with either or have any good articles or videos about them? I know the Gazelle just came out so it won't have a ton of reviews yet. Also I hope this is the right subreddit for this. If it isn't please let me know and I'll take it down.

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Have you heard about the Pinephone?
https://www.reddit.com/r/pinephone?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

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uas - Universal App Search

I wrote a tool to search for apps on snapcraft, flathub and appimage from the terminal. It also lets you install these apps and update them. If you want to give it a try, it's on github:
[https://github.com/cooperspencer/uas](https://github.com/cooperspencer/uas)


If anyone has any ideas for improvements, please tell me

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How to check a live USB drive's integrity after writing an image to it
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190617#qa

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Understanding entries in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

I was setting up my touchpad under Arch Linux and I tried out different touchpad drivers, synaptics, mtrack, libinput and created matching config files in that directory. What I don't understand is the different numbers at the start of the file name. Searching on the net about different configuration examples I have come across various filenames for the conf even for the same drivers, such as 70-synaptics.conf, 50-synaptics.conf etc ... What do they mean and what purpose do they serve?

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Seeing up macros for gaming with 1 hand

So I use my PC for 40% gaming, 20% media consumption, 20% work, and 20% editing. The main problem is in gaming part. My problem is in setting up macros. I have a condition where I can't move my left arm because an accident, so I rely heavily on macros to play games since I can't use keyboard and mouse at the same time. After months of reading a lot of article in internet about setting up macros, I still can't figure it out till now. All of the article are really old. And that's why I still can't totally switch to Linux.
Any suggestion?

My mouse:
Madcatz M.M.O TE
and I use no-name USB footswitch with 3 buttons

I use manjaro KDE

Sorry for my bad english

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Linux Experiences/Rants or Education/Certifications thread - June 17, 2019

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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