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  1. mtwest
    I believe Windows 10 has a nice feature that enables you to do this without having to futz around with the suck that is CMD. Can you recall what exactly that is?
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    Could you be a little more specific as to the resetting the windows boot loader? Which commands?
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    While there may be slightly different quirks in the uninstall procedure for different distributions, I am curious what you all recommend as the preferred method. There are lots of existing forum posts and youtube videos, so am hoping to harness something of the wisdom of the crowds here. I am currently running Fedora 25 alongside Windows 10, but Ubuntu, LinuxMint, openSUSE, whatever you found on DistroWatch details are welcome.
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    So I will recommend Piriform's products to anyone. Defraggler is wonderful. Paired with WinDirStat, I should be able to at least clean up the system. And then see if that makes any difference in how much space I am granted to new partitions. That seems to be the case if I am reading Defraggler correctly. Will keep GParted-Live in mind for latter use after I am more comfortable with mucking about with the system. I think I am going to go with the general consensus on the thread and clean-up, defrag and see if possible shrink scale improves. Will report back results.
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    Currently trying to set up 2016 Razer laptop to dual boot Windows10 and Fedora26. I was hoping to set aside about 100GB of the decent sized 512GB PCIe SSD for the Linux partition and fast access to data I intend to be work on. For some reason, I can only shrink the C: drive down by ~44GB despite having 372GB open. In the SysInternals Suite, there is a nice old utility called DiskView.exe that does those colored block file placement analyses you used to see with old Windows defrag tool. It frustratingly has a bunch of fragmented (& continuous) files parked at the right side (end?) of the volume. WinDirStat is also helpful in understanding what's taking up the most space but the info-overload doesn't necessarily help me understand what's the stuff limiting my partition effort. Is there any way to properly optimize this drive so I can shrink down C: farther for additional partitions? That is besides, wiping the system and starting over from scratch.
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    Following this https://fedoramagazine.org/verify-fedora-iso-file/, each of the three .iso files is marked as OK. There are some warnings which may indicate problems but sha256 CHECKSUMs check out. So yeah... has anyone else had the same problem, ala installing recent Fedora versions?
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    Thoughts on Rust?

    mtwest replied to a topic in Programming

    What sort of thoughts are you looking for: how easy is it to learn, what other languages is it like, or what is it good for?
  8. mtwest
    Yeah, I should in principle be good. https://fedoramagazine.org/install-fedora-virtualbox-guest/
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    Given that I have 4 other working virtualizations available on the machine, one from Fedora & another one running Gnome, I'd say that the CPU has that functionality enabled. Though I don't exactly recall needing to go into the BIOS to enable it as part of the VirtualBox instructions. Maybe certain spins of Fedora are particularly finicky but that feels unlikely.
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    Am trying to install a Fedora26-GNOME iso in VirtualBox on my relatively new Windows 10 machine and keep running into this obnoxious boot error: boot_image = vmlinuz crashed At this point I am not evening getting that warning anymore, just a blank black screen in the VB Guest window. What is further annoying is that the Fedora26-Cinnamon spin seems to work just fine in VirtualBox, as do the latest versions of OpenSUSE, Scientific Linux and some Ubuntu spins. So I don't think it is specifically VirtualBox nor the Linux Kernel being shipped with Fedora26. But I don't know enough about the guts of linux distros to diagnose it further than that.
  11. mtwest
    I have had nothing but good interactions with Razer's support service to be honest. And the noise could just be the reflected sounded reverberating off the desk I have the laptop on. Just was asking the community if anyone else had heard of similar issues. Thats all.
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    Have 10-ish month old Razer and starting to notice that the fans are starting to exhibit a metal/mechanical clicking noise to them when in "Quiet Mode". As if the fan isn't rotating smoothly on the bearings or something like that. Anybody else had this problem? Thermals seem fine, but as is the case with Razer's machines, the fans spin a LOT, so they get a decent amount of use and wear. Just trying to make sure I am not tilting at windmills and if something is wrong, to deal with Razer support before the warranty is up.
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    I am currently noodling about in Device Manager and seeing what the posted versions of various drivers are. The thing that got all this started was a problem with wireless drivers a few weeks ago that kinda sorted itself out. But still, I decided to check out http://www.killernetworking.com/driver-downloads/item/killer-control-center-x64 page and compare their listed versions to the one's I currently have. Using the wireless example Killer Wireless-n/a/ac 1535 Wireless Network Adapter Driver Date: 2016-03-21 Driver Version: 12.0.0.230 The current version is 12.0.0.325 which if I am reading the release notes properly, came out a week or so ago. Now Killer looks to have its own driver manager like Nvidia does, but I expect I could just go through Device Manager and do the manual updates that way. I will take collective advice and stay the hell away from all-in-one third party driver managers. Not surprising that they are a haven for malware.
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    Finally got a Juiced Systems hub because a lack of a SD card reader and an ethernet port on the Razer Blade was driving me crazy. USB and HDMI ports work without issue, but for some reason the 1Gb ethernet port is not picking up an IP address. I might just be blanking on a necessary step, but am at a loss at the moment. Again, I don't think the hub is the problem but cannot tell what else it could be.
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    I try my best to keep up with Windows and individual application updates, but as the title suggests driver & firmware updates not so much. Any ya'll have any recommendations on the best way to track the current status of drivers. Nvidia does an OK job with "GeForce Experience" and was curious if anything similar for other standard components ala WiFi, USB, etc.
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