Linux survival guide

dug

n2o Thanks for the restic mention. I've been looking at other options besides rsync lately. Not really sure why as it has never failed me.

n2o

dug I hear you! I totally love rsync. restic is more like time machine though. You can easily mount each snapshot and restore single files from way back then. So as opposed to simply making a 1:1 copy of the current status, it keeps a history. An alternative that uses rsync and does the same thing with hard links (like time machine) is dirvish.

With restic, a machine backs itself up to a remote location (thus encryption is included), with dirvish a central backup server picks up files from backupees by ssh.

dbarron

Despite having done Unixes for many years, I learned a couple of things (at minimum) useful from reading this thread. There are so many ways to do things , that sometimes I find I did NOT choose the easy way. Now if I can just change my behavior to utilize what I learned 😂

Harvey

Adding another, early days but seems to have fixed my issue. I'm guessing this could be adapted to any other DE that is behaving the same way.

Issue:
When you have multiple monitors on Plasma (KDE) and launch a game in fullscreen other monitors stop being updated properly. Example: Time displayed on panel freezes any video playing seems to pause (audio keeps playing but video is frozen).

Solution: Disable the ability of applications to block compositing:
System settings > display and monitor > compositor > untick "Allow applications to block compositing"

I suspect this may have some impact of performance but I'll take it.

JacekJagosz

SirOaken
For future reference for people googling the same problem as mine:
When I had 20-intel.conf with what you suggested it worked great on Intel, but nouveau and propietary driver stopped detecting Nvidia card, xrandr --listproviders showed only Intel card. It used to boot to a black screen.
I hope it will save some time for others.
Keywords: nvidia, fermi, 340, 390, empty TTY

sgvd

I have two fixes I have to do before I am satisfied with my Solus KDE install:

Audio distortion OS-wide:
Disable in Firefox 'media.webspeech.synth' and 'reader.parse-on-load'. Apparently Firefox activates SpeechDispatcher when these are enabled, which generates a lot of noise around any sound generated on the OS.
Crashes/Hangs/Freezing
Disable Hardware Acceleration in Discord and Firefox

The first issue, I don't think I actually raised it here on the forum. But since KDE is on unstable branch, it may not be an issue on stable Solus. The second issue is not specific to Solus as far as I see. However, since Firefox is the default browser, it is important to have it mentioned here regardless. Discord is just a pile of crap in general, as crashes are far from the only issue I have with it (audio distortion, mic input ignored, etc.). I removed it from my machine, but since it is a popular program, I mention it here regardless.

As for configs:
I set caps-lock as the Compose key for accented characters (need them for my native tongue) and I set num-lock to be enabled on boot as I use the num-pad a lot.

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A critical addition to that:
I forgot to say you need to enable the timers for your autoupdate services.
So sudo systemctl enable eopkgup.timer and sudo systemctl enable eopkg3pup.timer (is eopkg3p still around?)
Sorry for the inconvenience and dunno why did I forget that!

NKSHV

echo "nvidia-drm.modeset=1" | sudo tee /etc/kernel/cmdline.d/50-nvidia-drm.conf
I get error

tee: /etc/kernel/cmdline.d/50-nvidia-drm.conf: No such file or directory
nvidia-drm.modeset=1

nathanpainchaud

NKSHV The error here is quite explicit. It means at least one of the directory levels you're trying to write to doesn't exist. You can just do:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/kernel/cmdline.d

to ensure the directories exist before re-running your command.

EDIT: missing sudo permission in the command 😅

downhill

Harvey zsh with oh-my-zsh...s-w-e-e-t!

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Find files modified in /usr within last two hours (120 minutes)
sudo find /usr -type f -mmin -120

Find files modified in /etc within last two hours (120 minutes)
sudo find /etc -type f -mmin -120

You'll get the idea. For directories change the type to d

Find open ports
lsof -i -P -n
or
ss -tulpn

brent

[deleted] what you are doing here is "grep-ping" for modified files in a larger directory----beats the h-e-l-l out out sorting by date in endless open nautilus windows. Valuable for troubleshooting. This one got cut'n'pasted, graci,

brent

lifesaver when working from 10 paces behind and has saved me arse any times:

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