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  • Windows is hell, i need to do something

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  • Here you go ;-)

    What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

    Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

    There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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    I second your advice against Arch, EndeavourOS, or Manjaro as I would not call them 'beginner-friendly'.

  • Windows is hell, i need to do something

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  • The most obvious difference for the end-user compared to Windows is that you can choose different desktop environments, such as KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXQt, Mate or Cinnamon to name the most prominent among others. As you are used to the look-and-feel of Windows, I'd suggest giving KDE a try.

    For a beginner, I'd recommend using a 'beginner friendly' distribution such as Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE) or Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu using Mate/Cinnamon DE). Fedora, Linux Mint Debian Edition or plain Debian are also suitable, but for a more experienced user.

  • What Calendar and To Do solution do you recommend?

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  • Then, maybe, Baikal a Cal-/ Card-DAV server is what you are searching for.

  • Easily find program name from context menu/without terminal?

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  • If you are interested in editing text files as root directly from nautilus, the package nautilus-admin may be helpful. Link

    As I am using KDE, I know that Kate, the KDE text editor, prompts for the sudo password when saving an edited text files that is owned by root. I don't know if Gedit does the same.

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  • Obviously the dongle is recognised properly and the network interface eth0 enx.... should in principle be configurable with network manager.

    Are the services networking and network-manager running?

    Edit: As I understand now, you are using Ubuntu server. Then your network is configured by systemd's networkd and netplan, not by network-manager.

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  • Does it display further information, e.g. if the device is put into service correctly?

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  • The first question which arises before proceeding with network manager: is the USB Ethernet dongle recognised?

    You can check the output of sudo dmesg shortly after you plug in the dongle into the USB port.

  • I respect people who don't like snaps, but Canonical will not abandon a successful project

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  • Unity was a nice DE. Being on KDE since 12 years, I still miss some of its features, e.g. merging the menu items with the title bar.

  • [solved] Using Nextcloud as a directory/folder/remote location

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  • That would not be equivalent to 'remote location', as the files would be stored locally on your computer and being synced with the cloud.

  • Yes, it is all Unix

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  • UNIX is trademarked by 'The Open Group', Unix is not. 🙃

    To make things more confusing, according to German Wikipedia, Unix is used for Unix-like OSes which are not officially UNIX-certified. 😵‍💫

  • Yes, it is all Unix

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  • Nice to know, I've always thought BSD is actually UNIX.

    The BSD variants are descendants of UNIX developed by the University of California at Berkeley, with UNIX source code from Bell Labs. However, the BSD code base has evolved since then, replacing all the AT&T code. Since the BSD variants are not certified as compliant with the Single UNIX Specification, they are referred to as "UNIX-like" rather than "UNIX".

  • How to create a bootable Linux USB drive

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  • Yes and no, it's the other way round. The ISOs often are hybrid images which you can burn onto a CD/DVD or dd onto a USB pen drive. Until approximately 10-15 years ago, if I remember correctly, the distributed Linux ISOs where standard not hybrid images, thus you always needed some other program to create bootable USB media.

  • How to create a bootable Linux USB drive

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  • For Linux you don't need a GUI tool, most how tos just dd the ISO onto the USB medium, e.g.

     
        
sudo dd if=<file> of=<device> bs=16M status=progress oflag=sync

    like described in the Debian FAQs

  • Crisis table set up for the "Kakao disaster"

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  • I find the beginning of the text carries more information (translated with DeepL, I don't see heavy errors):

    "Chocolate bunny in danger", warned the WWF before Easter, drawing attention to the growing cocoa shortage, which is also affecting food manufacturer Spitz from Attnang-Puchheim.

    "We are currently struggling through the worst cocoa bean harvest of all time, which is relevant for cocoa powder and chocolate, for example," confirms Managing Director Walter Scherb.

    Global warming, distortions and poor harvests have led to the situation. "It was actually foreseeable for some time that something could happen, because global cocoa stocks have been falling since the early 1990s. In combination with a poor harvest, a crisis suddenly arises," says the 34-year-old. Spitz has also responded by setting up an internal emergency response team.

  • Made me chuckle

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  • Idk, but it could be because the payment of the delivery is done 'via surname' to the postman when the package is handed over. So the bank can't track on what you spend your money on (in case you are afraid they do). This option exists at least in Germany. However, it costs an high extra fee.

  • I AM SO DISAPPOINTED WITH UBUNTU 24.04 😡

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  • OK, so it's actually apt itself that's different on Ubuntu, not just fake/virtual/transitional deb packages in their repos.

  • I AM SO DISAPPOINTED WITH UBUNTU 24.04 😡

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  • Why does this break apt? Just because, I assume (I am using Debian btw), it installs a placeholder deb-package which, while running the postinst script, installs chromium via snap commands?

  • TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe.

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  • The same issue has happened to me a few times already. It seems to be a bug, no magic involved.

  • TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe.

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  • At the big bang only Hydrogen, some Helium and spurious amounts of Lithium have been formed. Heavier elements have been bred by stars in the meantime.