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Psynthesis, in Clevo Laptop doesnt boot any Linux USB sticks? partitions not found, fstab errors and all?

I have never used those tools, I usually just dd the iso to a usb. I am assuming you are on a linux distribution already. I would download a fresh iso and verify the checksum. Then use dd to write to the usb. I use this format, and of course replace the path to iso bit and /dev/sdx (your usb)with what is relevant to your situation. Just open terminal and type

sudo dd bs=4M if=path/to/your.iso of=/dev/sdx conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress

You probably already know but you can find the usb’s specific /dev/sdx with sudo fdisk -l

Pantherina,

Both tools use dd underneath so this should be no problem. But I can try

netchami, in Thanks to dust I deleted a 70 gig file on my drive

I think something might be wrong with your Neovim if it aggregated 70 gigs of log files.

Aatube,
@Aatube@kbin.social avatar

don't worry, they've just been using neovim for 700 years, it'll be alright

nik282000,
@nik282000@lemmy.ca avatar

So I found out that qbittorrent generates errors in a log whenever it tries to write to a disk that is full…

Everytime my disk was full I would clear out some old torrents, then all the pending log entries would write and the disk would be full again. The log was well over 50gb by the time I figured out that i’m an idiot. Hooray for having dedicated machines.

rutrum,
@rutrum@lm.paradisus.day avatar

If you have ideas please let me know. I’m preparing to hop distros so I’m very tempted to ignore the problem, blame the old distro, and hope it doesn’t happen again :)

netchami,

I would have to look at the log file. Some plugin probably has an issue and writes massive amounts of data to the log every time you use Neovim. Monitor the growth of the log file and contact me via DM if it goes crazy again, I’m gonna try to figure out what’s going on.

danielfgom, in What has been your experience with Flatpak?
@danielfgom@lemmy.world avatar

Only using it for Telegram at the moment but it’s been good. A like slow to launch but otherwise works great and integrates with the notification features of Linux Mint.

Other things like WhatsApp, Inoreader, Mastodon, Lemmy I run as a web app using Mint’s brilliant web app tool which makes the web app like and with like a native app.

woelkchen, in Anyone have experience with Intel Arc GPUs?
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

As a general rule for new hardware from Linux friendly companies, you’re pretty much in the best possible position already by using a rolling release distribution. It’s the same with AMD where reports of bugs from 6 months ago are basically ancient past by now.

art, in What has been your experience with Flatpak?
@art@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve been using Flatpak applications for a year (I think) and it’s been wonderful. There are a few bugs here and there but overall way less headaches.

I can run my mature, rock solid Debian system and sell have the freshest builds of desktop software that I use.

mcepl, in What has been your experience with Flatpak?
@mcepl@lemmy.world avatar

I am on MicroOS-based distro, so all my GUI applications are from Flatpak. I don’t see any difference from more traditional distro, it just works.

njordomir, in Just learned about AppImageLauncher

Not sure if I’m using the same package or just a similar one. I’ve been annoyed at all the snaps, flatpacks, appimages, etc. for a while now. I just want to update from the repo and not end up with a bunch of slow, broken, poorly integrated alternatives on my computer. Being able to properly manage app images with a tool like this made the alternate distribution formats so much more tolerable. Now when I install something I pray that I’ll find an app image if it’s not in the repos!

uranibaba,

I mostly used apt-get but when I installed Ubuntu as a desktop OS, I used their store until I understood that Snaps were not always the officially packaged versions. The same thing with Flatpaks. I wanted to install Sublime Text so I looked to Flathub and found a package by Sublime HQ Pty Ltd. Imagine my surprise when went to Sublimes own website to saw that they offer it via apt-get (on Ubuntu/Debian), they even say on their forum that they do not provide via Flatpak or Snap.

Someone just uploaded a package using a name that looks official, while not actually being the owner of the product.

backhdlp, in 8 Websites Linux Users Should Have bookmarked
@backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

IMO:

  • Arch Wiki
  • Gentoo Wiki
  • Your distro’s wiki
  • Your DE/WM’s wiki
  • Documentation, bug tracker, etc. of things that you use on a regular basis
  • Some people’s who use similar things to you dotfiles
roguetrick,

Yeah but which only fans pages should I follow as a Linux user

TCB13, in Just learned about AppImageLauncher
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

The best launcher you can get for AppImages is to just drop the thing and move to Flatpaks that don’t take 2 seconds to launch apps.

beta_tester,

Some apps are only available as appimages.

Neverthrless you should ask the maintainer and work towards flatpaks.

unsigned,

As someone who tried to maintain a large application flatpak I would say it’s pain in the ass to work with and things break often. The way it’s configured and how permissions are set needs to be simplified.

wiki_me,

Have you tried nix? I wonder if it works better.

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Some apps are only available as appimages.

Yeah I know, I was just joking around, still AppImages are annoying.

M500,

Looking at you Bitwarden.

Appimage and snap. Why no flatpak?

There is a flatpak, but I’m pretty sure it’s a community version.

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Appimage and snap. Why no flatpak?

I know why. They’re most likely running into this scenario as well.

KISSmyOS,

The community flatpak of Bitwarden doesn’t have this issue.
Because it only lets you copy to the clipboard, lol.

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Because it only lets you copy to the clipboard, lol.

Fair enough. :P

JetpackJackson,

Wait why is appimage bad

Kusimulkku,

From the “universal package formats” that’s the one I’ve had issues with when using it on a distro not specifically mentioned to work, it was supposed to be universal! Though not sure if that’s an issue with whoever packaged the app or anything specific with AppImage. Poor experience anyway.

Also no repo model. I like package manager to deal with shit. We have sorta solutions for that but not quite like snaps and flatpaks.

Also the dependencies stuff is weird. They advice you to think of the oldest (LTS?) distro you think the app will be used on and use deps compatible with that one. Which just seems, I dunno, icky, for lack of better word.

But for a random one-off app, I think it’s fine. I prefer flatpak but it’s fine, I wouldn’t avoid it or anything.

JetpackJackson,

Ah ok. That makes sense. Thank you for taking the time to write out a long reply

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

Performance… or lack of it. Overhead.

gens,

It’s not.

___,

It’s not. These are opinions. Snap on the other hand… THAT is bad.

JetpackJackson,

I can agree with that

Spider89, in Clevo Laptop doesnt boot any Linux USB sticks? partitions not found, fstab errors and all?

Debian Live?

Pantherina,

I dont think that will change anything. Its not the distros fault, thats the thing. I used these exact ISOs

Spider89,

It may be the way the are burned.

Try using Balena Etcher or Rufus.

jw13, in 8 Websites Linux Users Should Have bookmarked

I highly recommend LWN.net.

otl, in Mozilla Finally Launches An APT Repository For Easy Firefox Nightly Updating
@otl@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Good to see development effort going towards actual Firefox and not those random Mozilla products that I can’t keep track of

dan,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Do you mean products like their VPN? They really need the revenue to try and become more independent from Google. Right now something like 90% of their income comes from a deal with Google to make Google the default search engine.

velox_vulnus, in this random process was using 25 % cpu is this a virus?

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  • Artemis_Mystique,

    sorry i panicked and killed the process this is the only screenshot ihave, basically my laptop fan was revving high for 1 hour straight, i was doing some text editing and light usage so i didnt think much off it, but i left my system for a while and came back and saw the fan was still revving, thats when i found this process

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  • badbytes,

    “more” allows you to view files. And agreed, if used incorrectly, might cause extra CPU. Generally mistakes like this just become memory hogs.

    Artemis_Mystique,

    Thank you after reading the comments i am relieved: I had saved a 3 page fully worded .odt as as .fodt and opened it with a text editor; but then again all the files had been closed and i deleted the file in question a at least 30 mins before i noticed the process; regardless thank you

    bbbhltz, in Dock / Panel suggestions
    @bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar
    saman34265,

    Ok

    ivanafterall, in 8 Websites Linux Users Should Have bookmarked
    @ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

    But I didn't bookmark them, so where do we go from here? The judgy tone isn't helping.

    abuttandahalf,

    Are you getting offended from a listicle title?

    squiblet,
    @squiblet@kbin.social avatar

    The intro is a little less proscriptive: “ Here's the list of my favorite Linux websites. Perhaps you'll like them too.”

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