Latitude 7350

Anyone know if linux will work well enough with this model.

Example: [https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitude-7350-Touch-screen-Hybrid-Tablet-Laptop-Great-Condition/303233507758?epid=219466731&hash=item469a2021ae:g:cToAAOSw72NdG3t8](https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitude-7350-Touch-screen-Hybrid-Tablet-Laptop-Great-Condition/303233507758?epid=219466731&hash=item469a2021ae:g:cToAAOSw72NdG3t8)

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I am not a linux genius but I usually throw it on older laptops and use it for streaming or remoting into work. I can lookup and follow instructions but ideally I am looking for something not to difficult to set up. All my research shows there are issues with some audio but most stuff has been solved. I liked the idea of the versatility for under $300 used but I am leaning towards a chromebook or something similar as I think there may be too much hair on getting this working. Anyone use this laptop or have any experience with it and linux?

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I know I am a newb but I like to mess around with stuff (keeps me young) so thank you in advance.

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My journey with window managers (aka WMs)

Forget distro-hopping! WM-hopping is way more fun, at least for me. Just wanted too reminisce here about some of the WM I used on Linux and other Unixes. This post is intended for people who are open to the idea of using a (different) WM, to give them an idea of what's out there. Please post your experiences with WMs, too.

The first WM I used on a daily basis was `openbox`. The nice thing about openbox was that it was very fast and stable. It is considered feature complete and hasn't changed in a few years at all, it only receives bug fixes. The down-sides of openbox was its configuration files. The main configuration file for openbox is in xml format and kind of hard to follow. Later on I found out there ware some tools to help with that, but I didn't try them, as I had moved on from openbox at that point. Also openbox doesn't include a taskbar, so you have to install one (like `tint2`).

Next I used `i3`. I3 is probably the most popular tiling WM. The nice thing about i3, when compared with other tiling WMs I tried is the control it gives you over the position of the windows and the number of container layouts, as they are called in i3, it supports: split (one window next to the other), stacked (one noscriptbar over the other with only one window/container visible), and tabbed (self-explanatory). You can then combine the layouts any way you like and stuff as many windows as possible on one virtual desktop without losing sight of any of them.

Then I used `fluxbox` for a while. Fluxbox is kind of similar to openbox (apparently they have some shared heritage), a stacking WM. Unlike Openbox, Fluxbox has a taskbar included and supports tabbed windows, which I found very useful. You can noscript the WM, so that new windows of a particular class always appear in tabs of the first window of that class, or you can drag the noscriptbar while holding Ctrl over the noscriptbar of another window to move the dragged window into a tab. The downside is the limited configurability of the taskbar.

Next I went through a phase of minimalism (i.e. software, in this case WMs, that have least amount of features while still being useful as a WM). I used `spectrwm` for a while (formally known as `scrotwm`), and still do occasionally. It is a tiling WM from the OpenBSD devs, of course available on many Linux distros. It does only what it's supposed to: tile windows. Titlebars, gaps, all the bells and whistles are disabled by default. It has a indicator bar for clock, workspace as well as other (optional, generated by third-party programs) system info. As a result it can't arrange windows in tabs, something I had gotten accustomed to by now. So I started using `tabbed` to create tabs for supported apps.

Also from the OpenBSD devs, I'm still using `cwm` ( aka Calm Window Manager). This is a stacking WM. It also doesn't have much in terms of features, it just draws the window in a rectangle (i.e. border), no noscriptbar, no taskbar (again you can install one yourself), zero distractions from the content, zero wasted space. Amazingly fast and lightweight.

I've also tried `dwm` from the [suckless.org](https://suckless.org) guys. This is one of the oldest tiling WMs still developed and one of the simplest. I decided against spending much time with it, as it was too minimal for me.

Lately I've been looking at Wayland and use `sway` on one of my machines. Sway, for those who don't know, is kind of like a i3 clone for Wayland, so everything from i3 applies here, too.

In conclusion there's a wide spectrum of WMs available for Linux, from very feature rich to very minimalist. WMs are a very Linux-y (and BSD-y) phenomenon. They are very fascinating for the speed, lightweight, and flexibility/noscripting capability they offer.

So, what is your experience with WMs?

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One man's journey in creating the most powerful USB drive possible.

I might be getting a little ambitious with this project for being a new user, but I learn best by diving in head-first and getting hands-on. I have several goals for this project. My intent is to have a bootable linux USB with encrypted persistence, that has a partition readable both by windows and itself, and is chock full of useful packages for any kind of typical everyday situation or IT related things. I will be posting my successes and failures, and by the end I hope to be able to make a guide, as cohesive information on how to do all these things is rather sparse.

Naturally, I am open to any and all feedback and suggestions about what to add and how to add it.

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My great grandfather bought game disks for his pc but..

I just recently installed ubuntu as a standalone os. he was running something older than xp mind you. he bought a game thats called like a 1000 card games, and prolly a board game game. is there a chance that these will run with wine. I havnt seen the disks but i assume they only work on windows cuz ya.

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[LinkedIn] [OC] Episode 01--Client-Side Exploitation: A Dirty Little Redirection Trick
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/episode-01-client-side-exploitation-dirty-little-trick-singer/

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GitHub starts blocking developers in countries facing US trade sanctions
https://lwn.net/Articles/794752/

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Announcing coreboot 4.10
https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2019/07/22/announcing-coreboot-4-10/

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Linus Torvalds: floppy driver marked as orphaned
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/47d6a7607443ea43dbc4d0f371bf773540a8f8f4

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Developer of GameHub looks into self-hosted GitLab following his account being blocked in the sanctions
https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub/issues/289

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Any uzbl like web browser ?

I had test uzbl ( https://www.uzbl.org/) year, and it 's quite cool. It's a lightweight Webb browser with a great usability with keyboard and a lot of extension ability using python....but the development is freeze, and it's ok not support WebKit1. Do you known some kind of lightweight browser keyboard oriented ?

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Official Place To Download Apps And Programs And Softwares And Things Alike?

I am not talking about those places like you know to get your stuff for your mobile devices. You know. Like Google PlayStore For Android's Mobile Devices Or iOS AppStore. I am talking about those places for PCs. For your desktops and laptops and things like that. Microsoft Store for Windows PC. Also. macOS AppStore for Macs.

Give me one official place for all General Linux Distributions' PCs. Maybe another one official place just for Debian Linux OS PCs. Also. Maybe just another four other great ones for that matter albeit being not the official ones of anything..

Another thing. I have found these three places for now. Are they the super official Linux places for all downloads or maybe just even just a regular official place just for Debian? GoodDay ;-)

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THE USEFUL METHOD OF CREATING BOOTABLE WINDOWS USB FROM LINUX
https://linuxidea.com/woeusb-bootable-usb-tools-on-linux/

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Arch linux and performance troubles

I'm mostly working on android apps lately, after staying of on Windows for a while, I switched to Arch linux recently.

Now even though my KDE plasma setup consumes a minimal 700 MB memory, whenever I run the android emulator along with chrome and say a music running on YouTube the whole systems freezes as if it's fighting a deadlock! With around 5 GB memory consumed out of the 8GB capacity. The system feels sluggish (both in X and Wayland) it's a laptop with i5, I have proper drivers installed(nvidia) and I disabled all the mitigations too.

The weird thing here is Windows 10 multitasks butter smooth even with 800 MB free memory!

Are there any specific boot parameters I'm forgetting?

PS: Not using TLP or anything, just optimus switch from AUR.

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I just got a Ryzen Cpu and an ASRock b450m motherboard, why does my arch usb keep giving me this error when trying to boot.
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The new evolution of a Linux user

**What would it be? **

I came across this
http://humorix.org/10207

And while it is still funny, it's losing some of its humor due to being outdated.

Here's mine:

* Buy a bunch of Raspberry Pi's...learn a bit of Linux
* Fall in love with the user interfaces seen in /r/unixporn
* Buy a laptop to only run Linux.
* Start ricing
* Distro hop
* Install Linux on all the devices you can
* Become a FOSS evangelist
* ????
* ????

What's yours?

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Your personal favorite Linux distro?

Hi! I was wondering what your guys’ personal favorite Linux distros are, and why!

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battery life

hey guys I got a thinkpad x1 carbon 7th gen and am debating between arch or debian. my main question is would my battery life improve compared to windows?

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CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE as non-root

I have a question... it's not technical support. CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE is only available for root to run things on < 1024...

I understand it's setup like this for cybersecurity reasons?

If so, does it matter anymore? With our current capabilities to combat those reasons.

I'm asking since that would open many apps to us without needing root. Would that decrease in elevated permissions actually be better for security overall?

My apologies for the long ass question but I'm curious has anyone "run the numbers" to see which way would be best.

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Ryzen 3 3200u graphics driver Linux Mint 19

So... after battling with a new Acer Aspire 5 w Ryzen 3 3200u processor and finally getting Linux Mint 19.1 installed alongside Windows... it is software rendering mode only. There are no graphic drivers installed and AMD's website does not show any options to download a driver for this processor. Anyone know where and how I can Vega 3 running on this? THank you

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GitHub banned all Iranian users. Our accounts are restricted now. Please help us with contributing to this repo and show your support with a pull request. Thanks.
https://github.com/1995parham/github-do-not-ban-us

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KDE Usability & Productivity: Week 81
https://pointieststick.com/2019/07/28/kde-usability-productivity-week-81/

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