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"It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal." There's another way?
Even as a Windows guy, I was wondering: Why would you use anything else than the terminal? When you understand deb packages then you only want the terminal. Everyone else, will want to use a UI and will have no idea what a deb file is.
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Sorry I’m not adding anything to the conversation here, but have they removed that strange ‘swipe-up to login’ gesture at the start screen?
I don't believe my 19.04 login manager does that. I do recall that being annoying because my first keystroke would actually just move that up. Now it starts up to the user list by default.
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Does the Nvidia chip drive the display directly? I think you also have an Intel GPU that drives the display, the Nvidia GPU will only be used to offload rendering. I don't know how it is implemented, but from my understanding, as long as the Intel chiip does the scaling you should be fine.
If you only ever want to use the laptop's screen then you can indeed run the X1E on the intel gpu only. Unfortunately the display ports are hardwired to the discrete gpu so you need run the nvidia chip in that case.
Am now to leave Ubuntu, that I used for the last 15 years or so. Thanks for helping me out that long. Going to NixOS and hope it will make my life easier, even if the start is more involved.
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> The only 'con' is the pushing of Snap packages. It looks like deb files only can be installed via the terminal. My main concern with Snap is security. Using the default Ubuntu Apt repositories, I can `apt install` pretty much anything I want and it's almost guaranteed to not be malicious/dangerous, as only trusted/well-established developers can get their package into the Apt repos. However, with Snap, everybody in…
The amount of cases for malicious snaps was about 1 with the cryptominer that was addressed within 3 days. Those snaps that are published go through static analysis and unless manually vetted will not have access to the rest of your system. You install it, at worst it will cryptomine that is it. Oh and you can remove it completely with all traces unlike deb equivalents. Snaps come with a tick against verified snaps c…
> You install it, at worst it will cryptomine that is it.
If that happens then I have no choice but to assume a full system compromise and nuke my machine. It's not a risk I'm willing to take, as there's essentially no way to definitively prove that that's all the malicious Snap was doing.
> Oh and you can remove it completely with all traces unlike deb equivalents.
Snap sandboxing is rarely utilised in a meaningful way, and the permissions for a particular app are controlled by the author by default. In most cases there's nothing explicitly preventing a malicious Snap from gaining persistence even after it is removed.
In other words, Snap sandboxing is in no way comparable to a 'proper' solution like a well-configured Firejail or a VM.
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The amount of cases for malicious snaps was about 1 with the cryptominer that was addressed within 3 days. Those snaps that are published go through static analysis and unless manually vetted will not have access to the rest of your system. You install it, at worst it will cryptomine that is it. Oh and you can remove it completely with all traces unlike deb equivalents. Snaps come with a tick against verified snaps c…
I don't know much about the Snap system - regarding 3rd parties and the "tick", is this using domain verification, or some other means? Do 3rd parties have to pay for this? I read something the other day about needing to pay Canonical $15k/y for a branded Snap store, but I'm not sure if that was about private stores, this, or something else.
You can view package info prior to installing, but if we're talking about a typosquatting issue here, that doesn't really help.
For a long time I've been using Lubuntu on my laptop. However, a couple of years ago they changed focus and From wikipedia: Lubuntu was originally touted as being "lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient", but now aims to be "a functional yet modular distribution focused on getting out of the way and letting users use their computer" I stopped updating my OS since (I'm on 14). Does anyone care to sugg…
> Does anyone care to suggest an ubuntu-like distribution for someone like me who wants their OS light? What about Debian? You staying on 14.04 for so long surely means that the slightly slower moving Debian stable is not an issue for you. It supports lots of window managers. I'm using i3 with a simple xinitrc here, but also XFCE or LXDE are available. You can install it very very lightweight and as Ubuntu bases of D…
How behind Ubuntu is Debian, and where can I read this information myself (i.e. is there an official list by either the Debian or the Ubuntu people that says "here's all the stuff that the latest stable Debian is missing from the latest stable Ubuntu"?)
For a long time I've been using Lubuntu on my laptop. However, a couple of years ago they changed focus and From wikipedia: Lubuntu was originally touted as being "lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient", but now aims to be "a functional yet modular distribution focused on getting out of the way and letting users use their computer" I stopped updating my OS since (I'm on 14). Does anyone care to sugg…
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It's still work in progress but snaps genuinely make packaging easier. There are rough edges, especially on the desktop, but those are all being worked on, in collaboration with flatpak actually. It will take a while but in the future it will not be any worse at runtime and it will be much, much easier to package and run apps across releases and OSes
Ubuntu had the calculator as a snap! What's the idea with that? It suddenly took 2 secs to load and uses load of memory... I dont care packaging got easier. I care for a smooth working system I can understand and instrument, and that does not hog resources.
For a long time I've been using Lubuntu on my laptop. However, a couple of years ago they changed focus and From wikipedia: Lubuntu was originally touted as being "lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient", but now aims to be "a functional yet modular distribution focused on getting out of the way and letting users use their computer" I stopped updating my OS since (I'm on 14). Does anyone care to sugg…
Installation on a machine with 2Gb RAM resulted in a system that works just fine, for running scripts, compiling medium-sized projects, running web browsers, media playback, etc -- all on a credit-card sized machine.
The desktop is based on XFCE. The post-installation steps I took are listed below.
# emable swap to compressed RAM
sudo apt-get install zram-config
# log to RAM for speed, less wear on eMMC
echo "deb http://packages.azlux.fr/debian/ buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azlux.list
wget -qO - https://azlux.fr/repo.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
apt update
apt install log2ram
# remove icon generator that hogs machine
sudo apt remove --purge tumbler
# remove powerline garbage
sudo apt remove --purge powerline
# Liquorix kernel, see https://liquorix.net/
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:damentz/liquorix && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-image-liquorix-amd64 linux-headers-liquorix-amd64
## NEEDS linux-firmware from focal distro
## see https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/all/linux-firmware/download
## for latest link
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_1.187_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-firmware_1.187_all.deb
rm linux-firmware_1.187_all.deb
sudo apt install powertop iotop
# fix font rendering
cat ~/.fonts.conf
false
EOF
# remove spectre mitigations, make computer fast again
sudo perl -pi.bk -e 's|splash"|splash mitigations=off"|' /etc/default/grub
sudo update-grub
# disable and completely remove AppArmor and snapd
# https://www.simplified.guide/ubuntu/remove-apparmor
sudo systemctl stop apparmor
sudo systemctl disable apparmor
sudo apt remove --purge apparmor snapd
# suppress this language related updates from apt-get
echo 'Acquire::Languages "none";' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00aptitude
# remove irqbalance
# see https://github.com/konkor/cpufreq/issues/48
sudo apt remove --purge irqbalance