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Now I'm puzzled. I gave it a quick "One last try. I'm sure it'll be different this time!" attempt at decrypting this morning and it actually worked. However the luksDump command is still showing all keyslots as empty. I must be misunderstanding luksDump. I'm 100% certain I was doing the password correctly yesterday so I wonder if the disk was playing up someway other than having previously corrupted the data. Edit: I am dumb and can't read the output from luksDump. That explains one bit of it. Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Nov 7, 2020 |
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I'm getting this error on WSL Debian when VS Code tries to install some plugin:code:I thought that ~ constraint meant " anything under 8.4.0-2 or anything that's at most minor bump ahead" , am I wrong?
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I've got 4 machines all built ages ago by someone else - all with the same partition setup. LVM not being used and everything is ext3. All of them have the same directories off the root partition and du is showing all the machines within a few MB of each other for all these directories. 3 of the machines are showing 1.5GB free with df and 1 is just showing 300MB. I can't find any deleted files hanging around, tune2fs is showing the same block size and reserved space, fsck appear to run clean, rebooted into single user mode etc. Any suggestions on how to find this lost space ?
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Baconroll posted:I've got 4 machines all built ages ago by someone else - all with the same partition setup. LVM not being used and everything is ext3. Look for a file in a directory that is being mounted over.
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Good call - other than unmounting everything and seeing what appears, is there anyway to identify these shadow files while its in this scenario ?
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Baconroll posted:Good call - other than unmounting everything and seeing what appears, is there anyway to identify these shadow files while its in this scenario ? Yeah, but I'm phone posting so can't give specifics. There is a way to remount the root filesystem an itself so you can just see it on its own.
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RFC2324 posted:Never do hard NFS mounts unless you WANT an issue with the NFS server to kill everything else. Hard mounts are like an amplification attack for problems. Not that soft mounts are always as soft as I'd like, either - though that seems to have gotten a bit better recently. At least it works well when it works.
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What's everyone's favorite visual disk usage display program? I am somehow nearing capacity on my main drive and I can't find anything obvious, so I am hoping for some visual help to see if it's just a million tiny downloads or some caches that never got wiped, etc.
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Filelight is pretty okay.
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effika posted:What's everyone's favorite visual disk usage display program? I am somehow nearing capacity on my main drive and I can't find anything obvious, so I am hoping for some visual help to see if it's just a million tiny downloads or some caches that never got wiped, etc. Gnome and KDE come with baobab and kdirstat respectively, both are good. If you want something in the tty, try ncdu.
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Thanks guys. All of those worked well enough! Turns out my music folder was effectively doubled as I had a bunch of Google Takeout stuff there after trying to rescue my playlists from Google Play Music (which only let you download your playlists if you downloaded your entire uploaded catalog).
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I'm building a new desktop for work, and I'm thinking I'll switch to using Linux. Having spent the past five years using macOS, the thought of returning to Windows is unappealing. Is there a distribution you'd recommend for a relative beginner who likes the look of macOS? I spend most of my time doing statistical programming in R, Python, and Julia and writing in LaTeX. I'd like to keep using homebrew for a package manager because of familiarity, though I could be convinced not to if this will be more of a headache than it's worth. The distro chooser quiz recommended Ubuntu, elementary OS, and Linux Mint; going through the last ~15 pages of the thread, I've seen Fedora, KUbuntu, and Opensuse Leap recommended for desktops. Is there a clear choice for my use case and experience level, or if not, are any of these bad choices?
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Bark! A Vagrant posted:I'm building a new desktop for work, and I'm thinking I'll switch to using Linux. Having spent the past five years using macOS, the thought of returning to Windows is unappealing. Is there a distribution you'd recommend for a relative beginner who likes the look of macOS? I spend most of my time doing statistical programming in R, Python, and Julia and writing in LaTeX. I'd like to keep using homebrew for a package manager because of familiarity, though I could be convinced not to if this will be more of a headache than it's worth. Fedora is my desktop of choice. And dnf/yum >>>>>> Homebrew, which I love on my Mac but its a slow awful piece of crap sometimes.
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Bark! A Vagrant posted:I'm building a new desktop for work, and I'm thinking I'll switch to using Linux. Having spent the past five years using macOS, the thought of returning to Windows is unappealing. Is there a distribution you'd recommend for a relative beginner who likes the look of macOS? I spend most of my time doing statistical programming in R, Python, and Julia and writing in LaTeX. I'd like to keep using homebrew for a package manager because of familiarity, though I could be convinced not to if this will be more of a headache than it's worth. Fedora is generally the choice, which desktop environment is a personal choice. I like the KDE spin if fedora because KDE is pretty and my computer isn't a potato, as well as its extremely configurable behavior, but everyone has their personal taste
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RFC2324 posted:Fedora is generally the choice, which desktop environment is a personal choice. I like the KDE spin if fedora because KDE is pretty and my computer isn't a potato, as well as its extremely configurable behavior, but everyone has their personal taste This sounds like the way to go. I'm guessing KDE takes a little bit of effort put in upfront to customize it to make it pretty? The image of the desktop on the spin's homepage isn't the most visually appealing, but the results on image search offer plenty of good looking examples.
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Bark! A Vagrant posted:This sounds like the way to go. I'm guessing KDE takes a little bit of effort put in upfront to customize it to make it pretty? The image of the desktop on the spin's homepage isn't the most visually appealing, but the results on image search offer plenty of good looking examples. You can make it 'look' like a Mac but it will never 'feel' like one. https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/b6o678/kde_macos_theme/ I run a MBP and ThinkPad side by side, I'm trying to just deal with box stock Gnome 3 or whatever it is. Played with KDE for a while but it was kind of annoying.
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I've used Fedora for a while, it's a very solid distro in my experience. GNOME honestly seems more Mac-like than KDE, especially if you use extensions to add a dock and so on. Couldn't say if it would feel like a Mac though, I've never had one. Also those desktop environments come on top of the rest of the distro, you don't actually need to reinstall to switch to try another one. Kassad fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Nov 18, 2020 |
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I would suggest installing stock Fedora with GNOME and then adding KDE. The KDE spin of Fedora just felt like a bunch of bloat with every bell and whistle turned on. I know it used to be that way around 30, not sure as of 33 as I just upgrade in place.
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I wouldn't call Plasma pretty, but it's a great productivity desktop. It integrates well into the entire Kmail, Korganizer, Kontact ecosystem (as it bloody should, of course) which makes it fairly cohesive. Kmail defaults to text-only top-quoting with a soft wrap of 78 characters, does not load external resources and does not display html by default, and has built in pgp support, just to make it absolutely clear what kind of person uses it. External calendars integrate into the calendar view of the clock widget, KDE Connect integrates your phone into the desktop, calendar alerts will surface even without Korganizer being open, and so on. Kitinerary extracts information from a wide range of plane / hotel /train reservations and tickets… I'm pretty happy with it. Also, it has wobbly windows, which I think is worth posting again: https://i.imgur.com/VUOo8iS.mp4
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The answer is always openSUSE Tumbleweed which has Gnome and KDE as first class citizens, has an amazing build system, is rolling release without breaking your poo poo all the time, and even provides packages for other DEs like Cinnamon. Additionally, YaST is good nowadays and zypper + rpm work well. *sweats and huffs from running over after noticing somebody asked about distributions*
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Hollow Talk posted:The answer is always openSUSE Tumbleweed which has Gnome and KDE as first class citizens, has an amazing build system, is rolling release without breaking your poo poo all the time, and even provides packages for other DEs like Cinnamon. Additionally, YaST is good nowadays and zypper + rpm work well. I tend to agree but for a first time user Fedora has better support. My personal use is usually OpenSUSE tumbleweed, its super easy and everything tends to just work, but when it doesn't finding help can be a challenge
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In cool things available for FreeBSD and presumably a lot of Linux distros, wlr-randr is a clone of xrandr that can interact with wlroots-based compositors for wayland.  EDIT: Apparently it isn't nearly as available as I thought.
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I'll plug KUbuntu again. KDE with its taskbar and startmenu gels better with my way of thinking, I don't like docks or launchers in a desktop OS.
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Mr Shiny Pants posted:I'll plug KUbuntu again. KDE with its taskbar and startmenu gels better with my way of thinking, I don't like docks or launchers in a desktop OS. KDE does make a lot more sense from a Windows perspective. Panels are a pain in the rear end though. The dock or whatever the gently caress they call it it GNOME is trash. Also, let me resize the fucker without downloading gnome-tweaker-hacker-tool
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I recently switched to KDE and absolutely love it. I migrated my work machine to a desktop VM and having a work specific activity is a huge productivity boost for me.
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Yeah, I'm a big fan of KDE 5. I was kind of resistant to the change from KDE 3 to 4 and ran other DEs for a while there, but have been really happy with KDE 5.
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Is anyone familiar with virt-viewer? Or any other program that will let me launch into a VM with all the displays active and fullscreen automatically? Virt-viewer works great but I don't know or otherwise can't figure out how to get it to launch with all the displays active; I have to go to the menu bar and View->Display->Check Box each display every time. Not the end of the world but kind of annoying.
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To offer a counter opinion: When I switched to Linux, I started off on KDE based on strong recommendations and I ended up not really caring for it. It's great if you like to move things around and tweak every pixel just so but it's just very clunky out of the box. You can make it more mac-like or more windows-like but I couldn't tell you what it's trying to be on its own. They give you some neat tools like activities but it takes a decent amount of work to get them set up to actually be useful. The Email/PIM software is pretty dire, buggy, and missing a lot of features. Last I tried it, Discover was completely broken and unusable. And subjectively, I think Breeze and most of the other big themes are pretty ugly, but that's just me. I will say Dolphin and Digikam are pretty nice.
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I started out using Cinnamon because it took the least effort to get to a sane start menu/task bar system. I switched to KDE a while ago for no real reason except I saw a theme I liked. I try Gnome 3 every now and then, but it always gets in the way of whatever I am trying to do.
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I use Kubuntu and am mostly happy BUT for some reason they've decided that Canadians all like their clocks in 12 hour with giant capital A.M. with periods and I haven't been able to find a satisfying way to fix that. Just a nice simple 19:22 for me.
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Desktop managers just seem like unnecessary bloat to me. I only use a tiling window manager, and it works great.
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The Gadfly posted:Desktop managers just seem like unnecessary bloat to me. I only use a tiling window manager, and it works great. Same. I use Arch Linux with i3 gaps and I love it. I really thought I'd hate it at first but hot drat it is the tits
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i3 for life. That said, that's not really a good answer for people who want something more like Windows or Mac. I think a bunch of KDE programs are good, I use Krusader quite a bit if I do want a graphical file manager, and Okular is really good. Re: time formatting -- setting LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8 or some such in your .profile might help, though that depends if you need/want the weird American MM/DD/YYYY rather than a sane format, and if all applications honour it.
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Hollow Talk posted:I think a bunch of KDE programs are good, I use Krusader quite a bit if I do want a graphical file manager, and Okular is really good. Just out of curiosity, what makes you prefer Krusader over Dolphin or Konqueror?
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Just out of curiosity, what makes you prefer Krusader over Dolphin or Konqueror? Just as a background, I'm coming from things like mc and (on Windows) Total Commander etc., but for me, the big thing is to have two complete panes side-by-side, with quick controls to jump to the same place in one windows as the one you have in the other etc. It just makes copying/moving things so much easier. It also lets you start a terminal in the current directory, and has a built-in terminal prompt, and the overall view is more compact. Profiles also allow to set defaults to a somewhat finer degree. I do use Dolphin for mounting USB-Sticks and for Google Drive (at work), yet while Dolphin can do split-mode, I find Krusader's version just much more usable. I haven't really used Konquorer in the past 10 or so years, so I have no idea whether it would be helpful for some things, and I never felt the need to try.  edit: 
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isaboo posted:Same. I use Arch Linux with i3 gaps and I love it. I really thought I'd hate it at first but hot drat it is the tits I have the same setup as you, except no gaps. Hollow Talk posted:i3 for life. That said, that's not really a good answer for people who want something more like Windows or Mac. True, most Windows and Mac users prefer using the mouse to do everything in their OS. i3 is more for people who don't like dragging windows everywhere, and prefer using the keyboard over the mouse.
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The Gadfly posted:I have the same setup as you, except no gaps. 
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Counterpoint: The plan9 desktop seems very mouse driven, but in a very different way than windows or macos. Consider acme - it's a text ... environment where everything is text, you can select and run any and everything, shell and text file are vaguely separated, toolbars are "macros with obvious names you run by drag-selecting them with the mid button", and so on. It's very weird, I can see how it can be productive, and it is very fundamentally mouse heavy. Ref http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/ , or perhaps https://research.swtch.com/acme . Computer viking fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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