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submitted 7 months ago by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I thought I'll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I'll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

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[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago

How do you get the flavor out of it?

[-] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

I have a feeling this is a joke. Either way I'm not following sorry 😭

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[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What's the difference between /bin and /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin from an architectural point of view? And how does sbin relate to this?

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[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Is there a desktop environment with full wayland support other than Gnome and Plasma? I'd really like LXQT but without X.

I know about Sway and Hyprland but would prefer it if I didn't have to install and configure all the parts of a DE separately.

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[-] j4k3@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

Any word on the next generation of matrix math acceleration hardware? Is anything currently getting integrated into the kernel? Where are the gource branches looking interesting for hardware pulls and merges?

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[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How the hell do I set up my NAS (Synology) and laptop so that I have certain shares mapped when I'm on my home network - AND NOT freeze up the entire machine when I'm not???

For years I've been un/commenting a couple of lines in my fstab but it's just not okay to do it that way.

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[-] Stillhart@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Short version: How do I install apps onto a different partition from the default in Pop_OS! (preferably from within the Pop Shop GUI)?

Long version: I have a dual boot with Windows and I shrunk my Win partition to install linux and eventually realized I wanted more space on the linux side so I shrunk my windows partition again. But Linux won't let me grow the existing partition since the free space isn't contiguous. Since I don't want to reinstall everything, I just created a data partition and have been using that for Steam installs. But I am still running low so yeah, looking to move some apps and realized it doesn't actually ask me where to install when I install. I saw this thread and figured I'd just ask.

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[-] Tovervlag@feddit.nl 6 points 7 months ago

Ctrl Alt f1 f2 etc. Why do these desktops/cli exist. What was their intended purpose and what do people use them for today? Is it just legacy of does it stll serve a purpose?

[-] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

Each one is a virtual terminal and you can use them just like any other terminal. They exist because the easiest way to put some kind of a interactive display up is to just write text to a framebuffer and that’s exactly what your computer does when it boots and shows all that scrolling stuff. The different ones are just different framebuffers that the video card is asked to display when you push ctrl-alt-fnumber. You can add more or disable them altogether if you like.

Years ago my daily driver was a relatively tricked out compaq laptop and I used a combination of the highest mode set I could get, tmux and a bunch of curses based utilities to stay out of x for as much of the time as I could.

I mean, each vt had a slightly different colored background image, the text colors were configured, it was slick.

I used to treat them like multiple desktops.

With libcaca I was even able to watch movies on it without x.

I still use them when x breaks, which did happen last year to my surprise. If your adapter supports a vesa mode that’s appropriate to your monitor then you can use one with very fresh looking fonts and have everything look clean. Set you a background image and you’re off to the races with ncurses programs.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago

If your system is borked sometimes you can boot into those and fix it. I'm not yet good enough to utilize that myself though, I'm still fairly new to linux too.

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