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Not cooking USB3 ports on Linux?
I'm still using an 11" Linux notebook bought in 2016 as a beater and "kitchen workstation". It has a single USB3 which works fine in itself but has a tendency to get cooked. I say ...
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Help Diagnosing Freezing Linux Host
I have a home built system that I've had random complete system freezes happen that I can only physically power down and start up the system. The network access is gone (I do a fair bit of remote SSH),...
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Preserve kernel and GUI from freezing
I would like to prioritize stability over performance. So I would like my processes to hang instead of my whole OS when I hit hardware limits
I would like to always let some resources for the kernel ...
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What unvisible process consumes almoust all RAM?
I am using Fedora but had this issue also with other distros for a long time and never found a solution.
So while using my computer, mostly only browsing with Brave and coding with VStudio, memory ...
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Add Manjaro repositories to Arch during install
I know it's a terrible idea to add Manjaro repositories to Arch Linux, but would it be possible to add the repositories to a custom installer made using archiso?
How would I do that?
( I want to ...
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What does it mean for a Linux distribution to be stable and how much does it matter for casual users?
What exactly is a "stable" Linux distribution and what are the (practical) consequences of using an "unstable" distribution?
Does it really matter for casual users (i.e. not ...
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What would be needed by Debian to ship newer versions of the KDE desktop environment? (Or to add an option for it in Debian stable.)
The latest version of Debian (10) stable packages version 5.14.5 of KDE Plasma which is ca. 1.5 years behind the latest release. I'd like to use a newer version which only is a few months behind the ...
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Properly downgrading from cuda 10.1 and driver 440
This is my first question so if I missed anything please let me know. My knowledge of linux is quite weak at this point.
I am running ubuntu 18.04 with 1080ti gpus (x2). This is with a threadripper ...
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Best Practice for long term Linux/Ubuntu laptop usability [closed]
I have been using several Linux distros for about 20 years, and Linux as my main laptop OS for about 10.
Several times, after installing software (notably different python or perl versions) or ...
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Getting a rolling release just right and then freezing it: a good idea?
I really like how rolling releases offer the latest versions of everything, because sometimes that is important. However, once I have things working well, I am not that anxious to keep updating to the ...
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apt: What's the difference between "apt install php" and "apt install php-defaults"?
What's the difference between apt install php and apt install php-defaults?
In a first glimpse I would theorize that php should include everything default for a (latest) php program.
I ask this as a ...
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control-flowed variable in Bash
The web-application document-root for Debian-Apache is typically /var/www/html/ but for Arch-Apache it's typically /srv/http/.
I wrote a distro-agnostic LAMP-establishment script and I need it to ...
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Using cron.d in Arch
Till now I organized my non-crontab cron-jobs by cron.d in Debian-LAMP environment.
My cron-jobs use me to upgrade CMSs containing my web applications.
Here's how I do it from the beginning:
#!/bin/...
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Apache/Nginx document root environment-variable
Apache/Nginx "default" document root path is usally /var/www/html but theoretically this could change tomorrow.
Having a distro-default and communally-maintained environment variable for it (instead ...
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How to print the version of a specific MediaWiki installation to terminal
I have a LAMP environment with /var/www/html/x which is a MediaWiki website. I have a few more MediaWiki websites but I'd like to print the version of the x one to terminal.
I need to do so I could ...
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