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Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux! (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I thought I'll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I'll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Short version: How do I install apps onto a different partition from the default in Pop_OS! (preferably from within the Pop Shop GUI)?

Long version: I have a dual boot with Windows and I shrunk my Win partition to install linux and eventually realized I wanted more space on the linux side so I shrunk my windows partition again. But Linux won't let me grow the existing partition since the free space isn't contiguous. Since I don't want to reinstall everything, I just created a data partition and have been using that for Steam installs. But I am still running low so yeah, looking to move some apps and realized it doesn't actually ask me where to install when I install. I saw this thread and figured I'd just ask.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

How can I run a sudo command automatically on startup? I need to run sudo alsactl restore to mute my microphone from playing In my own headphones on every reboot. Surely I can delegate that to the system somehow?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Running something at start-up can be done multiple ways:

  • look into /etc/rc.d/rc.local
  • systemd (or whatever init system you use)
  • cron job
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Try paveaucontrol, it has an option to lock settings plus it's a neat app to call when you need to customise settings. You could also add user to the group that has access to mic.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (12 children)

How do people not using Debian/Ubuntu follow along with tutorials when their package manager doesn't have a package that's in Apt?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (14 children)

I use Kali Linux for cybersecurity work and learning in a VM on my Windows computer. If I ever moved completely over to Linux, what should I do, can I use Kali as my complete desktop?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

No never! Do not use Kali as main OS choose Debian, Fedora, RHEL (not designed for this use case) or Arch system

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Ctrl Alt f1 f2 etc. Why do these desktops/cli exist. What was their intended purpose and what do people use them for today? Is it just legacy of does it stll serve a purpose?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

They are TTYs, they're like terminals your computer spawns at boot time that you can use. Their intended purpose is really whatever you need them for. I use them for if I somehow mess up my display configuration and I need to access a terminal, but I can't launch my DE/WM.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (6 children)

What is the practical difference between Arch and Debian based systems? Like what can you actually do on one that you can't on the other?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

You can “do” the same thing in Debian as you can arch, the main difference is packaging philosophy, Debian packages are older and more stable, while in Arch world you typically have the newest version of software packages as late as a few weeks from their release (the caveat being breakage is a bit more likely), Arch also has user repositories where the community can contribute unofficial packages

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

You can do pretty much the same things on either. The difference is one is a rolling release with fresh fairly untested packages and the other is a fixed stable system with no major changes happening.

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