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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word “Linux” in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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  • Will wine ever be able to run anticheat?

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    There's plenty of single-player games that don't use any sort of anticheat you can play and that work fine on WINE and Proton.
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    Well thanks everyone. I finally managed to get it to work on Arch. System has separate encrypted root and swap in LVM, and a separate encrypted home. It can suspend and hibernate. Below are my steps DISK PREP partition the main drive for your swap and root first. For me, it is a boot partition + an EFI + a LUKS container with LVM on top. Create your volumes. I use Arch, so format and mount them appropriately before pacstrap. Leave out mount point for /home. Go to your other drive, follow: https://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/cryptsetup-add-enable-luks-disk-encryption-keyfile-linux/ to create a LUKS container that is encrypted with: a keyfile and a password. Test both to make sure you can open the locked drive. Format and mount it at /mnt/home or where you want the /home to be. Pacstrap and then genfstab. Important: Make sure to copy the keyfile from your archiso environment to your chroot environment aka your system. Otherwise, when reboot, the keyfile is gone. I put it in /root and set permission so only root can read. AUTOMATIC UNLOCK First, fstab. When you do genfstab, things should be fine. But just double check the UUID is correct for /home. Note in fstab, the UUID is the unlocked one: so the one with /dev/mapper/home. Change to noatime if you desire. Second, crypttab. Assume you decrypt your LUKS home as "home". Add this: home uuid of the unencrypted home drive location of the keyfile luks The link above said to just use /dev/sda, but imo UUID is safer if you have a removable drive. Third, grub. Edit your /etc/default/grub and append the following to GRUB_CMD_LINUX: "rd.luks.uuid=UUID of the locked luks home drive" FOR HIBERNATION For some reasons, hibernation doesnt work out of the box. It works when I have everything in 1 drive, i.e 1 boot, 1 efi, 1 lvm on luks for /home, swap and /. The fix is simple: add "resume" to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. Add before "filesystems" . Rebuild your initramfs with mkinitcpio -P. add to /etc/default/grub: "resume= uuid of the unlocked swap partition". Or if you do LVM, just use "resume=/dev/vg/swap".
  • root (or sudo) access delay instead of password

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  • Asahi Lina quits Linux graphics development

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    Yeah I browsed some more and this site is indeed quite shit.
  • Ubuntu Will Replace GNU Core Utilities With Rust

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    How hard is it to just use a decent license like AGPL???
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  • Delicious!

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    With the help of AI and patience from God I was able to get this working. It does work, although I wouldn't say it's running flawlessly. Having said that, these are hands down the worst instructions I've ever read. I would not have been able to do this without asking multiple AI what the hell you were talking about.
  • Help me like desktop linux

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    Yes of course. It doesn't do what I need. Gimp is better for what I need
  • Feel safe?

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    reallyzen@lemmy.mlR
    You are right and I am wrong ; I guess I jumped too fast after the gulf of america thing. [image: 6a29c8cb-f756-4b1a-8920-e8d24936122d.jpeg]
  • Mysterious installation of ClamAv on my popos system

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    to answer this question: if you're on a dpkg-based system, check /var/log/dpkg.log (or /var/log/dpkg.log.2.gz to get logs from January, if your system rotates them once a month).
  • Today on Me or Linux?

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    Yup. All of that is true. It also protects you from yourself by preventing you from making changes outside of the home directory so you can't hose your system accidentally. It's intentional.
  • short question by an aspiring user

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    That's awesome! Welcome to the club and don't be afraid to explore your system and ask questions!
  • Time is now

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  • SWAY desktop

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    Nice, I didn't know about the all selector
  • Some great new features!

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  • I moved to Plasma...

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    Clicks onto post labeled "GNOME 48 Release Notes" Have you met our lord and savior Plasma?
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    Blew my mind too, sad really
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  • The Rust war is a travesty for OSS.

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