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  1. Hardware
    Laptop: Thinkpad T440p/Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Trackpoint: When using the trackpoint, the cursor on the screen has very stuttery motion, but I can still be precise with it for pixel perfect movement when moving the cursor very slow. Touchpad: The touchpad has a sort of motion deadzone that's hard to...
  2. Linux and Unix
    Hi all, I'm running into a confusing problem regarding BIOS setup. I have a Dell Latitude E7270 with ubuntu installed. However, I accidentally deleted ubuntu from the boot menu, and trying to add a boot option comes up with "no filesystem found." I booted my ubuntu installation USB, and...
  3. Linux and Unix
    My work computer has recently started freezing up. When I leave it running for a longer period of time (such as overnight) and returning to it, it looks much like it went to sleep (the screens are turned off but don't give any "no signal" messages, the power button on the PC is still turned on...
  4. Hardware
    My current OS is Ubuntu. I want to install windows to backup my files from my HDD. I have windows CD. I changed the boot order and tried booting from CD. But it didnt boot up. It directly gets booted to Ubuntu. Then I take out the iso from cd and created a bootable USB. Then I again changed the...
  5. Linux and Unix
    Computer Info: I just installed Ubuntu for the first time from a desktop computer first with a windows OS Issue: My usb wifi adapter, LINKSYS WUSB6300 needs a driver installed to Ubuntu, but my computer cannot connect to the internet I haven o ethernet access. I need to be walked through if I...
  6. Linux and Unix
    Can't for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong. I have tried multiple times a few different instructions but keep generally getting same results. Here's how it goes. user@user-ThinkPad-E550:~$ sudo apt-add-repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/' [sudo] password for...
  7. Linux and Unix
    I successfully installed ubuntu 20.04 alongside windows 10 yesterday, but ended up assigning it too little disk space, so I tried shrinking the D partition. When i noticed i chose too little again (forgot to add two zeros at the end) considering the small volume and the fact it has pretty much...
  8. Linux and Unix
    When I try to install Ubuntu 20.0.4 on my pc It pauses at the Updates & software page (Where you choose what kind of install you want) when I press install it just stays on that page and sort of freezes. I tried to do a minimal installation just to see if it would work and it did mostly install...
  9. Linux and Unix
    HI, I have a lenovo Ideapad 320, and it is installed with Ubuntu software. I have absolutely no idea about this software really and I am struggling. Basically, the laptop has got alot of crap on it - games etc which I think is causing problems (I have had experience before of games slowing a...
  10. Linux and Unix
    I want to rename a linux distro completely. For example, I will talk about Ubuntu. I want to rename Ubuntu as "AUbuntu" or maybe even "Aubuntu" will do (that does not matter). I want to rename Ubuntu in such a way that everywhere I must just be able to see AUbuntu in place of Ubuntu, be it in...
  11. Networking
    So I starting work for a company that use ASD. Basically they sent me the link for the program and I have to download it to my usb. If I start working for them then instead of logging into My windows 10 I'll be logging into the asd. It's like a whole desktop of its own. anyways, it works fine...
  12. Linux and Unix
    I wanted to delete commands that are common (such as pwd, ls -l, cd, ) and keep the ones that I might forget how to use. To do this I ran the following commands history | grep "cd$" | cut -c 1-5 > ~/sandboxArea/histDelTemp.txt cntr=0; for i in $(cat ~/sandboxArea/histDelTemp.txt); do var=`expr...
  13. Hardware
    Hi there, I recently tried to change my OS from Ubuntu to Windows 10 but couldn't see my usb in the boot menu so I formatted all the partitions including swap to NTFS using Ubuntu's disk manager, hoping that I will be able to boot from usb if the partitions were changed to NTFS format. But even...
  14. Windows 10
    Hello, I have enabled Windows subsystem for Linux by running Windows Powershell as administrator and ran the following: $ Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux After that I restarted my computer and installed Ubuntu. Then i ran the following...
  15. Hardware
    Hello all, I'm looking to buy a used laptop in January, after the christmas season has died down. The purpose of this laptop is singular. I want to run Ubuntu 64 bit, with the cinnamon UI. As you can probably guess, I'm going to be using it to learn Linux. That is its entire reason for...
  16. Apple Mac
    I have downloaded ubuntu desktop on my mac and I want to delete it and go back to the mac OS my mac came with but I can’t figure out how to. Please help. Thanks
  17. Linux and Unix
    Hi So I needed up pretty bad I wanted to install Ubuntu on a bootable drive and for that i made a bootable USB with Ubuntu installation disk on it. I booted from the usb and reached the installation screen. There were 3 options 1. Erase the drive and lose my data and install 2. Keep the data and...
  18. Other Operating Systems
    I tried to install android x86 in laptop ...I already had win 10 and tried to use dual os . I tried to install android x86 from my pendrive . It prompted to install grubloader and I installed it . Now i got stuck with the grub loader . Now I can't even load windows 10 nor android os ... It is...
  19. Windows 10
    I've Dell Inspiron 15 7000 and it came with all my drives encrypted with bitlocker. I dual booted it with ubuntu 18.04. However i'm unable to access windows drive from it. I tried disabling bitlocker on one of those drives yet it did not show up in ubuntu. Moreover it asks me recovery key every...
  20. Networking
    I've been trying to set up an FTP server on EC2 amazon web services. I set up a Ubuntu instance (free option) then connected this to Filezilla client. I can now freely exchange files between any machine and my instance using filezilla on SFTP... I still have a few questions however.. 1) I'm...
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