maliciousonion

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[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's the same error, no matter how many times I reinstall. I assume it's a hardware issue

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 15 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah the important stuff is backed up, but I am still concerned my entire OS will suddenly go kaput. How fucked am I?

 
[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I still browse through the political communities occasionally but I hate how their posts absolutely dominate the main page by default.

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Now you can thank yourself for making that good decision!

 
[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah..... I am so sorry but I'm just a beginner and all I see here is a bunch of jargon. I am trying the solution that @nightwatch_admin has suggested here at the moment.

Could you please point me to some sort of simple guide/video? If that's not too big of a hassle

 

This laptop has one hard disk with two partitions. One of them has a bunch of data. I can't delete the data at all, dolphin(the file manager) gives a "not enough permissions error". When I try to delete stuff with rm it displays this:

rm: cannot remove 'filename': Read-only file system

What do I do?

EDIT: I backed up the data and reformatted the partition. This completely broke my install and fedora wouldn't open at all. I popped in a live USB, backed up some other stuff and I am reinstalling fedora right now (writing this from the live installer :P)

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Start praying for the souls of the poor Linux atheists and their leader Mr.Torvalds"

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How can I test one for lead?

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah don't worry, you'll mostly be copying and pasting stuff from the Internet. Not much mental exercise, just follow instructions.

The Arch Wiki is an amazing resource, It contains tons of useful info that isn't specific to only ArchLinux.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by maliciousonion@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I had installed Debian on an Acer Aspire One Laptop. It has a 32-bit Intel Atom CPU with just 1GB of RAM. I obviously can't run it like a usual desktop anymore, it's way too slow.

I tried it to connect it to my TV with HDMI to create some sort of "Smart TV" setup, but that didn't work out because I can't even play 1080p videos on VLC with it smoothly.

So.... What now? Can I only use it for headless stuff like pihole, nextcloud, etc. now?

Is there any hope left for my unsuccessful "Smart TV" contraption?

 

I torrented a few episodes from 1337x, but they are quite compressed/low-quality. Is this the best there is or is there a higher quality version hidden somewhere? It wasn't originally filmed it at such a low quality, right?

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, it doesn't :(

 

Couldn't run Windows 7, and Windows 10 ran like shit. My old PC basically got a second life with Linux.

This is Half-Life GOTY running on Wine, runs really smooth.

The only downside is lack of directX support, OpenGL is there but the integrated graphics card only supports till OpenGL 2.1, which is not enough for many things, and also slower than directX. Still, my PC feels much faster now, and doesn't scream like a demon whenever I open up a browser :)

(Maybe I should dual boot Win7(While never connecting it to the web), just to play some more games with DirectX?)

Also, my local hospital has started using Ubuntu, their old PCs also couldn't handle the heavy burden of running Windows I guess 🤣

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah It's more reliable in that way.

Still, I wish there was a something like a simple flag for the package manager so I could control if user data gets preserved.

I'm a bit surprised that that isn't a feature.

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Thanks. I wish there was a more straightforward process though.

Every other OS I've used purges all app data after uninstalling, why is Linux different?

 

I recently installed chromium, created a new user and logged into a website. After my work was done, I removed chromium with "sudo dnf remove chromium".

A few days later I installed chromium again through dnf. My user account was still there and I was logged into the same site.

Is there a way to avoid this and uninstall an app along with all its user data?

 

I had an Aspire One D270 laptop with a 32-bit Intel Atom CPU and 1 gigabyte of RAM, so I installed Debian with Xfce on it, but even then it's running way too slow.

Is there anything I can do to make the laptop faster and more responsive given its limited memory?

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