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Hi, Okay, i guess SteamOS is kinda BigTech too, as valve is not small. But at least it is a private company and the operating system is open source.. As topic says, i am too tired of big tech companies screwing me from infront and from behind. So ive decided(Not just decided, ive actually...

I'm doing my research on what people like about operating systems and which is best in terms of performance. Kindly share your Thought about each operating system you people are using and what you like the most in terms of performance, features, security and others.

I recently installed Linux Mint on my Acer C720 chromebook, which no longer receives OS updates from Google. I have the 2GB RAM, 32GB SSD model. Even while still running ChromeOS the 2GB of RAM was showing its limitations. But now that I have Mint running I was wondering what my options are...

Disclaimer - I am primarily a Windows guy and all of my career has been 80% centered on the Microsoft world of software for small businesses, enterprises and the like. Over the past year I've been primarily using Manjaro Linux with Gnome3, Plasma5, XFCE and i3 as well on my personal laptop. I...

Linux has always been more for technology hobbyists who want to learn how software works inside and out, and then create new software afterwards (whether it'd be individual programs or a whole OS). While there's nothing wrong with people using it for that purpose, and I respect the people who...

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Hello I've bought a USB to HDMI adapter (external graphic card). I don't know, where to find drivers. My device PID is 6021 and VID is 534d. It's name is MACROSILICON USB extscreen. My Linux distro is Ubuntu (newest version 20.04). Please help. Thanks in advance.

Hi, I need help with a problem with a linux laptop machine. The laptop was installed with a Linux Ubuntu 15.10 and I took the time to upgrade the distro. So I upgraded from 15.10 -> 16.04 LST -> 18.04 LTS and it all seemed so far, so good. Then I put the machine to upgrade to 19.04 and went...

I am specifically searching for an OS for months now that allows Netflix to be installed also allowing downloads for later viewing. My main reason for this is to mount a Raspberry Pi 4 to the back of my TV connected to the internet and whilst I am asleep I can download a few episodes and/or...

Hi, I bought a second hand HP Spectre X360 13" (2016 model), I installed Windows 10 on the system a few months ago using the 'legacy mode', however, now I wanted to reinstall using the 'secure boot' option on & 'legacy mode' off. For complete picture's sake, I will also be installing Ubuntu/...

I'm looking for a Z390 mobo whose features are well supported in Linux. Like hardware monitoring software and drivers. Which of the big mobo companies are the most open-sourcey?

I am faced with a strange problem(at least,strange to me). I have a laptop(running Arch Linux), which does not have Bluetooth capability(let's call this device A). I also have another computer which has Bluetooth as its only means of communication(let's call this device B). I need to access...

Tails Linux 3.9 is out - • https://tails.boum.org/news/version_3.9/index.en.html • https://blog.torproject.org/tails-3.9-is-out • https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/plain/debian/changelog Tails 3.9 is the biggest update of Tails this year! It includes two new features on which we have been...

This started happening more recently... basically, my Ubuntu 16.04 system will turn itself on shortly after one of my other computers is powered up. I looked in BIOS just to check to see if there were any wake events configured but there aren't. The second part of this is that the system...

I have been using onboard graphics since building this machine in♩2012! Didn’t realize it was that old till I looked up the stats today: I3770 32GB RAM Asus P8Z77 V-Pro m/b Ubuntu (mostly) but may add W10 or W7 for choice of editing software I want to add another monitor, Dell U2415 next to my...

Gpt is a real pain. I want to format my hd as GPT follow some of this guide: https://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-mint-17/ make 2 partitions, (grub and efi), and then copy root and home from an existing HD will this work? how do I update fstab with the 2 new (GPT) related partitions?? what...

Hello everyone. I have a 16GB M.2 SSD to put in my X230 Thinkpad. I already have a 1TB SSHD with Windows 10 that I still want it to automatically boot to without a prompt. I want to put Linux on the 16GB M.2 drive just for coding. What is the exact process to do this? Do I disconnect the SSHD...

I'm trying to get my HTPC with an ASUS H110S2 motherboard to boot Xubuntu 17.04. For complicated reasons, I can only use an M.2 drive internally, and I don't have one of those. So I'm trying to install to and boot from a hard drive connected by one of these to a USB3 port. The USB stick I use...

At last I've gotten Linux to burn a DVD correctly! Four in a row, actually! But I'm having a few issues with wodim, and some other software: 1. Half the time, wodim fails to burn at all: TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '/dev/sr0' devname: '/dev/sr0' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Linux sg...

Hi guys, I have been a Windows user for most of my life. When I was using Windows my HDD was divided into 4 partitions called C: , D: , E: and F: I had Windows on C: and all my data(Music, Photos, Documents) on the other partitions. I did this to prevent data loss. In case I have a OS corruption...

not sure exactly how or when, but the graphics software on my Kubuntu SFF PC got scrambled or something; now I can't login. I've encountered a similar issue before which was resolved by reinstalling the amdgpu-pro software but it's not working this time. after a normal boot I get the limited...

Hey guys, What do you think about this following NAS Do-It-Yourself project Using the same Marvell Armada 388 SoC than Synology DS416j and WD EX4100, but with more memory, highest CPU clock, much cheaper and on top of that completely Open Source.

I'm trying to install Fedora 25 on my rig with an E5 2670, Asus Z9PA-U8, R9 390 and 64gigs of ECC ddr3. But it gets stuck at [ OK ] Reached Target Sound Card. And this comes up first, it looks like an error but I'm not sure [4.533829] Can't request iomem region...

I've got a bit of code that compiles and runs in Windows, Windows w/Cygwin, and Linux. It builds a series of static libraries. I've got a little menu-driven console code that simply accepts numbered commands and invokes functions from these libraries and displays results (as text),a s well as...

I use a Dell Latitude E7440 Notebook. Experiencing slow boot performance, doesn't appear to be a hardware fault but the load of installed applications. I am planning to configure Intel Rapid Storage Technology. Is it imperative to install a SSD or can Intel Rapid Storage Technology be configured...

In the interest of benchmarking — specifically considering using Linux to test some things, I happened upon Funtoo Linux, a release of Gentoo that has profiles for most every processor so one can build one's system to extract maximum performance (maximum in terms of taking into account the...

I'm trying to schedule a Linux cron job that runs a software update on about 20 systems around 2 AM. I don't want them run all at the same time, though, because they'll kill the update server if they all run at once. Does anybody know of a way to add a randomizer to the time when a cron job...

for necessity i tried ubuntu, had to make a bootable usb to install an OS on an hd...my usb was only 2gb so i had no other choice other then windows xp around 600mb or ubuntu around 1+gb...so i choosed ubuntu... even installing it is so incredibly confusing, ended up deleting everything despite...

On my computer I have two operating systems installed, Windows 10 and Kali Linux. The problem is that they are on separate bootloaders and on separate hard drives. I want to be able to add one of the operating systems to the other bootloader so that I can boot both operating systems from the...

Some of you may remember a time when Sony decided that despite people paying a load of cash for the PS3, they would delete the ability to use it as a computer if they wanted to continue playing games. Well there was a class action lawsuit that started in 2010 then dragged on before being...

Hello, i have AMD Phenom II x4 960T BE 3.0 GHz (the well known Thuban 6-core, with 2-core disabled and turned to Zosma). I haven't unlock it, simce my motherboard and BIOS version don't support it. I had time to spare, and was using some hardware commands to check my system (Linux - Fedora...

I was looking af Amazon Web Services and notice they have this installed in their instances. I never new about Webmin until I read about that and it looks like a brilliant way to configure your server rather than typing in so many damn commands. The Dev who coded the thing coded back in 2003 I...

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I'll try to make this as simple as possible... since I don't have a whole lot of nix knowhow. I have a small computer with Ubuntu 14.04 installed and I can't seem to be able to find it on my network via a Windows computer. I've successfully joined the domain but the system doesn't appear in the...

I want to use an old computer I have lying around for internet browsing and streaming. Sadly Win7 seems a bit too strenuous, so I'm looking for a lightweight Linux to use instead. Disclaimer: I'm totally new to Linux, but have lots of experience with Windows & some with Mac. I have a 2004 £250...

Anything anyone can think I should check? Or is maybe webmin going crazy? These didn't exist until I just did a reinstall of Mint to upgrade to 18. I am thinking it's more of a software issues... I see no smart data that shows anything is going bad and I've ran fsck and no issues there...