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"What activities will you be doing on the remote system?"

off the top of my head, file management, very light web browsing (though not essential) and transmission

the idea is for downloading...

really is news to me! always thought vnc was the goto for remote desktop on linux! but thanks for the suggest! In process of giving x2go a shot.

I have a mostly stock xubuntu 21.04 so its running xfce4

adding "startxfce4 &" to the bottom of the vnc startup script did nothing even if I typed the full path.

I saw someone else suggest x2go...

didn't know to post this in networking or desktop but figure the main issue is the desktop.

I apt-get install tightvncserver, I run vncserver set the passwords etc I can vnc into the machine but...

with my acer laptop I had to goto advanced boot options in grub changing / add after "quiet splash" by "quiet splash nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=5500" due to some issue with the configuration...

Don't really want to bump that other thread tthough It was an interesting read, also feel this feature isn't very well thought out for a few reasons.

anyway I recommend anyone just do the...

during setup on the latest ubuntu users wanting to use LUKS are forced to setup a recovery key.

this key is not editable by the user but is a 16 numerical character long ! Is there any reason why...

bump also found this https://old.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/iv6qf2/i_really_need_some_help_booting_my_acer_aspire_3/ actually seems to have gotten the live image boot to happen "managed to...

thanks for the response, the kernel on the official live iso is still a version 4 kernel though right? I did try the daily build but I don't know if the live part of the image is still using an...

"burnt" the xubuntu image to flash drive, several times, also tried mint variant both do the same thing when I enable the boot text it gets to around "a start job for monitoring of lvm2 mirrors,...

I find it hilarious I can find hundreds of videos like this one for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHTNogr1cbs which seemingly have cheap tablets running native linux fully supported...

background:
I love tech gadgets my last/current tablet was the win8.1 hp stream 7 I have to say I just LOVE the flexibility this thing gives me, its not giving me the disabled "I can only do one app...

after a little research...

I figure the vpn thing is mainly for tunnelling network traffic over the internet and not encrypting/securing local networks, it wont work as far as I can tell?

I...

I have a laptop is connected to the router via wifi, I would to share internet through the ethernet port but I would like the only data / routing it does to be encrypted (vpn?) because the other end...

trying to boot the live usb on a system with no keyboard but Im just given the grub options screen that I am expected to select.


did a little searching and found...

oh ... /lib/modules has a copy of modules for every single kernel version that has been installed

down to 61% usage, libs down to 358mb, anyway to automate this process ? anything else I should...

"his is probably more likely :smile:

~/Music or ~/Videos"

all the videos on the device are installed on the fat32 flash drive

"Give us the whole terminal output."
output is empty

"Did you run the command ?"
yep. before and after, it tells me ubuntu is using 11G and from before/after I freed up 1% with the apt commands

largest folders are lib and usr both weighing in over...

thanks that cleared up 1% but im curious what is consuming the rest, I have the live image installed on usb that runs fine and its only a 2gb flash drive wondering what's eating the other 9gb?

my laptop has the following setup

16gb SSD
128GB USB

I partitioned the following

SSD 15GB /
SSD 1gb swap

"The only reasons I can think of for this requirement (which will remain unsaid) can be solved"

I wanted to edit an iso (which I created) by loading it into some old but reliable windows software...

just wondering, I have / shared as drive "z"

is it possible inside wine to open for example /dev/sdc (cdrom) as a raw read only file from inside wine and have wine treat it as a regular file?

I...

@yancek laptop runs seabios as far as I know there are no configuration settings, if it detects a removal device while booting it tries to boot from it ;)

@yancek I suspect this will work thanks...

I have one of those usb sticks that sit almost flush to the laptop and are intended for permanent storage, the problem is on boot the laptop sees this device tries to boot it then proceeds to hang...

for anyone still experiecing the problem it is fixed by adding the following

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="tpm_tis.force=1" and running sudo update-grub

thanks goes to the guys on the bug...