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benitiv got a reaction from CactusMan in Troubleshooting why Linux / Grub / etc. won't boot on my desktop PC?
that's what i call a man cave 💯
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benitiv reacted to PianoPlayer88Key in Troubleshooting why Linux / Grub / etc. won't boot on my desktop PC?
Okay I was able to boot to Linux just now on my desktop. Because of past behavior though (it working once, then not working subsequently), I'm not quite ready to call the issue solved yet.
Here's what I did...
I already mentioned previously about reformatting and reinstalling the multiboot loaders on my USB flash drive, and my desktop still refusing to boot to it.
Meanwhile, my laptop hit a RAM, CPU and swap file wall (was 95+% CPU (i7-6700K) usage, RAM about 63.5GB +/- 500MB (64GB installed), total committed in Win10 task manager said 164/164 GB. The GamersNexus Ryzen 3 3300X review video froze, then the screen went black (backlight still on), the sound did that stuttery buzz for several seconds (know what I mean? Idk what it's actually called), then the laptop powered off.
After rebooting and confirming it was a fresh session, I shut it down, then took all 4 of the SSDs (250GB M.2-2260 Crucial MX200 boot, 1TB M.2-2280 Samsung 970 Evo, 2x 1050GB 2.5" Crucial MX300) out of the laptop.
Then, I grabbed a blank 1TB 2.5" Toshiba MQ01ABD100 HDD I had laying around and put it in the laptop, plugged in my USB flash drive, and turned it on.
Once I hit F7 (on laptop) to bring up the boot menu, it booted to the flash drive. UEFI boot is off on the laptop - been set that way all along. (F2 to go to setup, then changing boot order in BIOS also worked.) Funny thing - my 4790K desktop has a fancy UEFI graphical interface, but my 6700K laptop is the old style classic white text on blue background.
Also Interestingly, Parted Magic on UBCD doesn't work from the flash drive (chokes when searching for parted magic 2013 whatever .sqfs), but it works from an actual CD. (I noticed when YUMI was putting ubcd on the flash drive, it was copying the ISO directly to the drive.)
Anyway, I started up Ubuntu Studio from the flash drive, then proceeded with setting up for install. Set a 2MB partition at the beginning of the drive (thought it was weird I wasn't getting the option to make it a reserved boot partition), 40GB swap (desktop has 32GB, I want hibernation available, yeah I know recent Ubuntu can use swapfile instead but I was reading about issues with hibernation and swapfile), 80GB "/", 600GB or so as /home, and the remaining 240GB or whatever blank.
Installed Ubuntu, rebooted to the HDD. Installed GParted, noticed the HDD had an extended partition. "Wait, GPT disks aren't supposed to have that." Opened Gnome "Disks" Utility, it said "Master Boot Record". Okay I gotta redo this.
Rebooted back to the flash, ran Ubuntu Studio "try" mode. Opened GParted, created a new GPT partition table on the HDD, then re-added partitions similar to what I did before, with a few minor changes. (One being that I also put a 500MB partition after the 2MB BIOS grub partition thinking I might try to make the drive compatible with both boot types. Right now Linux thinks it's swap though. Also I added an NTFS partition in the remaining blank space.)
Ran the Ubuntu installer from the live session, choosing the "something else" option with the disk.
The first 2MB is set as reserved BIOS boot.
Next 510 MB is swap, although I intended to leave it unformatted (for later possible EFI boot partition). Then, about 40 GB swap, 75 GB ext4 "/”, 576 GB ext4 "/home", and 240GB NTFS "/windows".
Proceeded with the (re)install, then booted to the HDD with the fresh Linux install in the laptop.
After installing a few programs, I loaded GParted and Disks to verify the partitioning was set properly this time. The 2MB partition was properly set as BIOS grub, among other things. (The 500MB partition is still "swap" - I'm beginning to wonder if maybe it's not possible to have the same disk be compatible with both boot types (BIOS and UEFI)? I'm already thinking I won't be able to use that HDD in the old Dell D830, which predates GPT.)
Then, I shut down the laptop, yanked the 1TB Toshiba HDD, went over to the desktop (which was powered off), unplugged ALL drives (including my 256GB SSD which has dual Windows and Linux on it), plugged in the 1TB HDD, powered on the system, and...
Looks like it did successfully boot to Linux on the HDD ... THIS time.
I'm still concerned about whether it will boot properly once I boot to Windows, then try to boot to Linux after that.
I guess the thing to do now in the meantime is hot-plug some of my 3.5" HDDs, and do some of the file / folder shuffling I had been planning. That includes tasks like deleting duplicate folders/files, consolidating things to fewer drives, shuffling partitions (maybe deleting a few if they're no longer needed), etc. I couldn't do it from Windows cause I wanted to be able to work with ext4 filesystems, and for now Windows won't let me.
And of course someone 😻 likes to keep interfering with my work. 😝
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benitiv got a reaction from sp331yi in Best linux option for the specs
Hello,
we just had a very similar topic 2 weeks ago.
https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1180526-linux-for-an-old-laptop/
I think this forum does support a decent search function.
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benitiv reacted to some random person in VN in Installing the drive for the TL-WN822N v3 using the latest drive of v5(support v3) & installing pyrit in live persistence kali linux
So I'm having some problems with installing my drive for the wlan adapter in kali linux live persistence 2020.1. I'm having issues during installation(Bcuz i'm a newbie, I don't know how to compile...). I would really appreciate if sbd would send me a full vid install guide from his/her screen at phamduyphat3110@gmail.com (my gmail). You could just send a word instruction on the forum.
Also when i install pyrit it just pop up that i have some sort of error and i think that its' bcuz i didn't install sth correctly so i would prefer to send me a vid guide to my gmail.
Appreciate every supports .
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benitiv reacted to Daweeedo in Linux wifi driver
Tried this one, and it worked.
https://medium.com/@kimiyukiyukawa/installing-rtl8821ce-network-controller-on-ubuntu-335d8ccb8a92
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benitiv reacted to Dutch_Master in Running Linux: terminal commands, more terminal commands, constant troubleshooting
Well, there's your problem. They are not equal. That's why they exist in the first place.
As for the problems you encountered, as much as you may not want to know about it, from your description I have to conclude that the root cause isn't Linux, but you. Or more precisely, your perception of how an OS should work. You've been educated on that by others already, so no further lecture from me required Linux is known for its (mostly) friendly community where help is always just a question away. So, had you asked, you would have received help with your installation issues. Probably with recommendations on trying a different distro.
Free tip (aren't we a generous bunch ), Linux will run on old(er) hardware, but only if you take into account its age and thus don't ask it to do something it wasn't designed to do in the first place. Like, running systemd on a P4 🙄
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benitiv reacted to Kilrah in Running Linux: terminal commands, more terminal commands, constant troubleshooting
Not just linux. if you criticise anything in just a rant without context people who like that thing will come at you regardless of the topic.
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benitiv reacted to Sauron in Running Linux: terminal commands, more terminal commands, constant troubleshooting
I wouldn't say copying and pasting a couple of commands in a terminal is painful. With that said nothing stops developers from releasing an installer for Linux, some of them do like, for example, vmware; most simply don't bother because the repository model is superior in almost every way.
Regardless, this doesn't depend on the developers of the distribution. And why oh why would you install notepad++ on LInux? There are so many superior alternatives...
"Linux" isn't one monolithic body that decides a common course of action for everyone involved with it. There are hundreds of separate distributions that do things differently because they aim for different goals and they have no obligation to "make people migrate from Windows". Many of them exist just because a handful of people came together one day and thought, "I don't really like Debian, let us just make our own distribution to suit our needs".
Most distributions are not trying to be Windows but free. Windows is bad and being like Windows often makes a distribution bad. If you disagree, that's fine - Linux is probably not for you. You need to realize, however, that it's not as simple as saying "hummm let's add more gui" and magically you'll never need to touch a terminal again and the gui will just work and be well designed - that's hardly the case for Windows, too. The gui in Windows is extremely clunky and rigid with half a dozen different design philosophies clashing together to make your life harder.
Besides, 99.9999% of what a "normal" user might want to do on a distribution like Ubuntu can be done entirely graphically.
That's a gross misrepresentation of what installing things with the terminal is like. In 99% of cases the experience for me has been 1) run the install command 2) use the program, which is infinitely better than scouring the internet for a dodgy executable to install a program and having to rinse and repeat every time you want to update it.
As for MacOS, if you think the experience of installing something that isn't in the store is better than what you get on Linux then you clearly haven't used MacOS for very long at all. Homebrew works almost exactly like repositories except you have to deal with a non-native way of installing programs.
Of course, with all of this said - if you really want this and have a specific idea of how to accomplish it (rather than a vague gesture at "more gui") then you can always go and do it yourself. The beauty of foss is that you can literally do whatever you want with it so long as you publish your modifications.
Mainly because the terminal on Windows is pure garbage.
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benitiv got a reaction from Sauron in Running Linux: terminal commands, more terminal commands, constant troubleshooting
Linux requires the user to know what he is doing. This is just it's character.
Being more transparent also makes troubleshooting and customization much easier.
Linux is limitless. You theoretically can do anything you want without restriction and without any costs.
People are so familiar with windows-ish operating systems that they might find the idea of using the terminal intimidating. On the other hand, terminal usage is actually really just required for administrative tasks.
Also on windows and mac, many administrative tasks are more easy / efficiently made by using the command line.
Like if you set up PC for like your mom it will run _FOREVER_ without any trouble. So there is a more sharp line between administrative tasks and just the user layer.
Also i feel packet managers make linux distribution to such a great tool that they are. It's simple _SECURE!_ and just so easy to use. Usually you only run into dependency issues if you have goofy updates / program versions what usually only happens if you install software _without_ the package manager.
p.s. why would you want to run notepad++ on a linux system? 🙈
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benitiv reacted to TheFlyingSquirrel in Running Linux: terminal commands, more terminal commands, constant troubleshooting
What you have mentioned isn't entirely accurate you don't need terminal, you can use things like package managers, these are search and install, 2 click is updates.
Linux leaves you alone, it won't tell, hey update now, click here and click update. That is package manager specific.
It also requires you to understand installation thought process, you aren't looking for notepad++, you are looking for a text editor, you aren't looking for a Java ide, you want an ide, so on and so forth.
Your post reads like someone who hasn't taken the 10-15 minutes to click around their distro and see what is actually installed.
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benitiv got a reaction from TheFlyingSquirrel in Running Linux: terminal commands, more terminal commands, constant troubleshooting
Linux requires the user to know what he is doing. This is just it's character.
Being more transparent also makes troubleshooting and customization much easier.
Linux is limitless. You theoretically can do anything you want without restriction and without any costs.
People are so familiar with windows-ish operating systems that they might find the idea of using the terminal intimidating. On the other hand, terminal usage is actually really just required for administrative tasks.
Also on windows and mac, many administrative tasks are more easy / efficiently made by using the command line.
Like if you set up PC for like your mom it will run _FOREVER_ without any trouble. So there is a more sharp line between administrative tasks and just the user layer.
Also i feel packet managers make linux distribution to such a great tool that they are. It's simple _SECURE!_ and just so easy to use. Usually you only run into dependency issues if you have goofy updates / program versions what usually only happens if you install software _without_ the package manager.
p.s. why would you want to run notepad++ on a linux system? 🙈
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benitiv reacted to Bombastinator in BSD stability and reliability vs Linux
Linux is Unix-like but it is not Unix. It’s a hasty rework of minix which was sort of a rip of Unix.
history as I understand it:
BSD stands for Berkeley System Designs.
Berkeley in this case is the university in the town of the name.
Unix was owned by a company who was kind of cheap and liked free labor. U Berkeley (I don’t remember which exactly. Might have been u cal Berkeley. I’ve never been there) would do patches and updates for Unix because they used it and had a lot of bright people who could write code. One day the University noticed it had actually patched and rewritten ALL of Unix. All the code that made up the program was theirs. They accidentally owned the thing. (Verrrry stupid of the company. Greed will get you though) so what they did was release it under the BSD license which predates the GNU public license that Linux is released under. It’s more open. The owning company then came back with a gigantic lawsuit that lasted years. The only reason Linux even got written was BSD was tied up in court and there was this OTHER corporate legal oopsie, this time on the part of the owners of minix, where if a person could write an OS based on minix in a tiny little window of a few weeks they could have a legal copy of minix. There was this Scandinavian teenager named Linus Thorvalds that actually managed to do it. So Linux exists.
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benitiv reacted to Nayr438 in gpu benchmark slternstive to pharonix.
Keep in mind most of those results are for windows, and don't make a direct comparison.
OpenBenchmark is a better place to compare, however they don't have enough Unigine Heaven Benchmarks to display anything.
Unigine Superposition will be your best bet for comparison. Just match the settings to one of the tests.
https://openbenchmarking.org/showdown/pts/unigine-super
Unigine Heaven, no results
https://openbenchmarking.org/showdown/pts/unigine-heaven
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benitiv reacted to VioDuskar in gpu benchmark slternstive to pharonix.
you forgot the newest- https://benchmark.unigine.com/superposition
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benitiv reacted to adwilson99 in WiFi Not Working on Elementary OS 5.0 Juno
Hi All, new to this forum, but I also have the same laptop JOI BOOK 150. And I run elementaryOS, it's awesome.
I fixed the wifi as follows:
Remember the onboard wifi is only capable of 2.4G, even in windows, so don't expect lighting speed.
Download the following driver https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723bu You'll need to compile the driver so you'll need make as well as linux headers. These commands should do the trick sudo apt install make sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname-r) sudo apt install gcc Remove the default wifi adapter. sudo modprobe -r rtlxxxu unzip your rtl8723bu driver and edit the Makefile, comment out the following line, by putting a # in front of it. EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_CONCURRENT_MODE Install the driver with the following commands: make sudo make install sudo modprobe -v 8723bu ant_sel=2 Your wifi should now work fine. However to make these changes permanent you need to do the following: Add the rtl8xxxu driver to the blacklist so it doesn't get loaded again: sudo su echo "blacklist rtl8xxxu" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf exit Make sure that the new driver loads with the ant_sel=2 option (the JOI BOOK internal wifi adapter actually has two antennas inside, the 2nd one is much stronger, hence you get a more stable wifi signal by doing this) sudo su echo "options 8723bu ant_sel=2" >> /etc/modprobe.d/8723bu.conf exit Reboot and all should be good. Also if anyone's interested I'm starting a blog for installing elementaryOS on the JOI BOOK 150, cause it's awesome once all set up correctly,just takes a lot of work. For anyone interested you can find my notes here. https://adwilson99.wixsite.com/joi-linux
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benitiv reacted to Eigenvektor in Need a way to install a Linux distro without DVD/USB
There is the option to install Linux over something called PXE, where installation is started directly over the network. Never done that myself and I assume it may require support in BIOS/UEFI which your notebook may not have. Here's a link: https://www.tecmint.com/install-pxe-network-boot-server-in-centos-7/
It definitely requires an additional machine on the network that provides the installation data, so if you do not already have a second machine with Linux on it, that may be an issue.
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benitiv reacted to ComfyCube in Pop_OS installer doesn't recognise SSD
So... I found some archive from the place i bought it, and apparently it didn't come with and SSD... (So my best guess is that they just made a partition of the HDD and named it Boot SSD with 126GB...) I'm sorry for wasting your time, but thank you so much for the help. Means a lot!
At least i got to take my whole computer apart so that's always fun:P Not too salty about it tbh.
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benitiv reacted to isaamthegreat in Can't login elementary OS Hera
Thankyou very much sir... That worked!!!
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benitiv got a reaction from LogicalDrm in Airflow Question. Anti-Dust. Cornered GPU. (with pic)
Even though this is considered to be solved, just a update to give this thread a clean finish.
I took some advice from @LogicalDrm and re-arranged the inner of my case so that the graphics card gets more fresh air blown in by removing the HDD cage.
Yes, I still went with the "lower midrange" Fans because
a) since the temperatures are pretty low anyway I figured I won't need super high performance fans
b) overall matched look and
c) for 3 of those I can't even buy one BeQuiet! or Noctua -> I rather put the money elsewhere
I took the 1200rpm versions and got them spinning at around 400RPM in idle / office work. The exhausted air from the graphics cards seems much cooler now too.
Anyhow, I really appreciate your help and that's how it looks now:
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benitiv got a reaction from Ivan Granic 01 in Trouble with installing Linux with existing Win system
Dear Ivan,
thank you for your well structured question.
Yes, it is.
I am confused: You say you want to install Mint on the 2.5HDD from your old Laptop but in point 1. you say you want to install it onto your SSD? Can you please clarify?
For most Desktop use cases ext4 is really the way to go.
Hard to tell what caused that problem.
How did you partition the 2.5 HDD?
As far as I know there will be no "Do you want to dual boot?" kind of option during the Installation process.
It works like this: When you install Linux Mint it will automatically install a boot-loader called GRUB. This little guy will manage your boot devices just after POST. You will be able to select the desired device after POST. Usually it will detect your windows drive and (of course) your new linux drive out of the box. Should be no problem.
By the way I am very surprised with how many youtube videos / written guides are out there that lead you through the installation of any Linux Distribution step by step. They might be a good place to start.
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benitiv reacted to Sauron in Why is there "Year of Linux" Hype
At this point it's a meme, the joke being that every new development gets hyped as though it will suddenly mark the year that Linux becomes popular on the desktop and yet it never seems to happen.
There is no single entity that develops a "Linux operating system" that you could consider to be a standard. Linux (the kernel) has its own development community, distributions simply package it with a bunch of other software that other people made to make it a complete operating system. When you say "Linux devs" you're talking about a bunch of separate groups doing their own thing, many of whom don't even consider themselves to be operating system developers.
You could just... pick one distro. The major ones all pretty much work.
Weird, it has always worked fine for me. Still, snap is actually an effort to do what you were asking for - one package standard for all distributions that doesn't depend on the exact libraries and repositories you have access to.
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benitiv got a reaction from TheFlyingSquirrel in When to know when your Linux install is bloated?
I am not aware of something specific like that, however, you could try and play around with "ls -lt" and check your whole filesystem for last access times. But I do not really know if this even will fit your needs.
Even though nowadays there is not much to worry about since hardware progressed to quick and far, I still share your curiosity and the unpleasant feeling of something being there just lurking around.
I spend most time of my life with veeeery outdated and refurbished hardware so I always had to try to keep the OS clean to get some decent performance.
Here is what I did / do:
a) as long as you take the vanilla version (or minimal install or server install, whatever they may call it) independent on the distro you'll get a bloat free expierence
(You can have an Ubuntu(server) distro with cinnamon desktop environment running snappier and skinnier(?) with less packages installed at the same productivity level than let's say a archlinux based manjaro.)
But it seems like you already installed your Debian from the scratch?
b) watch closer when installing packages
sometimes there comes a whole desktop environment with just installing a simple file manager - think twice before hitting "Y" - usually there is always less bloated alternative
c) kick out some modules
might be unnecessary nowadays where you have multiple gigabye of RAM, but you can clean your system by removing some modules ("lsmod" "rmmod" and blacklisting). - most people don't need bluetooth service on a desktop for example
〜 this step might require some research and should be handled with care, but hey you'll learn a lot living on the edge
For your reference debian buddy:
On my Debian10 (buster - vanilla) machine I have everything set up from office applications, photo and video editing, steam etc. running plasma and I am a 1769 package rate (all dpkg)
using around 1GB of ram writing this and having a couple of more tabs open.
Since there is almost a 1000 package difference between us I recon you had to add a lot of packages for your coding purposes, as well as wine.. ?
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benitiv reacted to Sauron in When to know when your Linux install is bloated?
A lot of packages are "unnecessary" in that you can probably do the same thing without them. You don't need a desktop environment, you don't need a network manager, you don't need a GUI based IDE etc. Sometimes the question isn't "what is the bare minimum to do what you need" but rather "what makes your experience more enjoyable".
If that's fast enough for you then maybe you're worrying about nothing. If not, start by getting rid of Gnome and installing something lighter like XFCE or a barebones window manager.