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Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago (8 children)

How do you get the flavor out of it?

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have a feeling this is a joke. Either way I'm not following sorry 😭

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[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

What's the difference between /bin and /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin from an architectural point of view? And how does sbin relate to this?

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

There's a standard. /usr was often a different partition.

/bin - system binaries
/sbin - system binaries that need superuser privileges
/usr/bin - Normal binaries
/usr/sbin - normal binaries that require superuser privileges
/usr/local/bin - for executables that aren't 'packaged' - i.e., installed by you or some other program system-wide

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[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Is there a desktop environment with full wayland support other than Gnome and Plasma? I'd really like LXQT but without X.

I know about Sway and Hyprland but would prefer it if I didn't have to install and configure all the parts of a DE separately.

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[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

How the hell do I set up my NAS (Synology) and laptop so that I have certain shares mapped when I'm on my home network - AND NOT freeze up the entire machine when I'm not???

For years I've been un/commenting a couple of lines in my fstab but it's just not okay to do it that way.

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab#External_devices

looks like this will do it. no-fail and a systemd timeout

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Any word on the next generation of matrix math acceleration hardware? Is anything currently getting integrated into the kernel? Where are the gource branches looking interesting for hardware pulls and merges?

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