A partition for each one the drive should work alright, but it may turn to custard if they both try to access the drive at the same time.
Dr Jekell
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You should be able to highlight the ones that you want to remove then click on the delete button.
From what I understand is that each backup is just the difference between the original backup and the current system.
To be honest I haven't had the need or the time to delve that deeply into how Timeshift works sorry.
Hannah Montana Linux
I had this come up when I was using a locked down version of FF.
Basically what happened was the security settings were not allowing Twitch the access it required.
Once I went through and allowed access it worked fine.
- Linux is not Windows
Do not expect things to work as they do in Windows.
- The terminal is not to be feared (it only bites when told to)
While you can get most things done via a GUI option using the Terminal is much more powerful and gives more information.
- Not all hardware works with or works well with Linux
This pertains mostly to Laptops and peripherals, but always do a quick Google search to check for any issues.
One of the big issues for people is sound, a lot of computer & parts makers like to use the cheapest no-name parts they can because Windows lets them require "drivers" aka software fixes for poor hardware whereas Linux tends to give unaltered output leading to complaints about sound quality.
- Not all software works on or works well on Linux
You are not going to find software from Adobe, Microsoft office 365 etc running on Linux even using WINE.
Some games will not work on Linux even using the Proton compatibility software.
- Linux software is often lacking in the visuals but has lots of options under the hood.
There is a lot of software made for Linux are made by devs who focus more on the under the hood performance than making the software GUI look pretty. So don't be put off by the looks of a lot of Linux software.
- Alternative to is a great website.
I highly recommend Using the Alternativeto website to (as the name implies) find alternatives to software you use on Windows.
- Backup's are your friend
Setup an external device be it an internal hard drive, external hard drive or NAS as a backup target for your files.
You can use Timeshift to backup the entire drive (and it can reload a chosen backup directly onto the drive), Lucky backup to sync specified folders (either one way or both ways) to your drives or as I do use both.
And backup before doing major updates.
I have Timeshift setup to backup the entire drive (including $home) to a separate internal HDD and Luckybackup set to backup my important folders to an external USB HDD.
- Accidents will happen
As you are learning how to use and navigate you will have accidents that will require a full reinstall, don't fear this has happened to everyone else and why you backup your files so it's an annoyance instead of the end of the world.
As others have said there are a couple of options that may or may not work as Apple loves to make sure that their products only work with their software and a lot of them haven't been updated in years.
For ease of use you can install Rockbox on a good number of iPod devices, that will allow you to drag and drop music onto the device without having to use software to load the music.
If you are wanting an even easier option, you could sell your iPod and get one of the many different Digital audio player options that use microSD cards to store the music files allowing for ease of storage upgrades, ease of moving to a new device and being OS agnostic as they show up as a USB mass storage device.
I use a Fiio M7 as my daily driver with either a set of Jade audio EW1 TWS earphones or FiiO JH3 IEM's & I have an older Fiio X3 2gen connected up to a dock for playing music in my living room.
Unfortunately Apple seems to be actively working to make sure that the only way an iPod can be loaded with music is by using iTunes which is only supported on Mac or Windows.
You have a few of options on how to move forward:
1: Make a Windows virtual machine, install iTunes onto it and pass the iPod though to the VM.
2: Install Rockbox (if able) onto the device to enable it to act as a USB mass storage device allowing drag n drop loading of music.
3: Sell the iPod and get one of the many different digital audio players available on the market as most are OS agnostic (they show up as a USB mass storage device) and most use MicroSD cards to store the music meaning you can move the card to a new player as you upgrade later (so you are not locked to one vendor).
This is why you back up your data!
I use both Timeshift and Lucky Backup.
Timeshift is setup to back up the entire OS and user data and fire off a backup when updating (onto an internal drive).
Lucky Backup has been setup to do a one way sync of my user folders (doc's, download, pictures, videos etc) onto an external drive.
From what I understand about pipewire is that it has an API for Jack calls.
When you removed pipewire it may still be associated with Jack and it's trying to talk to software that isn't there.
Maybe try reinstalling Jack &/or removing the config files?
There is mark-up that turns text blocks to a code block that doesn't change anything.
You can also try pasting it into a text editor as what you copied it from may be at fault (Microsoft word is known to do this).
Settings > advanced > open links in apps
Set it to never and the blue dots should disappear (the instal option doesn't go away from the menu though).
Most likely rolling it out to a "small" segment of the user base to find any edge case issues before rolling it out to everyone.
What I do is start up Firefox first to create all the first start files then close it and delete everything in the Firefox folder then copy across everything from the original pc.
Seems to work alright.
Check your motherboards manual, there may be a water cooling pump specific header.
If you can, get yourself a wireless access point instead.
You can connect the computer by ethernet to the access point that then connects to the WiFi network.
By having the device separate you can have it situated away from the computer for better connection and the computer only sees a wired connection.
Plus they tend to be more stable than dongles.
Have you checked when the last time the extension was updated?
YouTube has gone through a lot of back end changes to try and force people to watch more advertising than videos so it could be that YT has broken the system the extension was using.
Startech does a M.2 SSD to 2.5" SATA drive adapter.
You will likely need either pulseaudio or pipewire for the audio hardware.
Because it is not supported and they won't offer any help if it borks your device.
The add ons at the moment are developed & tested for desktop not mobile.
He didn't specify what sort of M.2 SSD he has so I thought that I would throw it out there as an option.
Plus as he said it was for an older computer & was looking for the cheapest adaptor that works, I guessed that he wasn't too concerned about getting the most performance possible out of the setup.
Have a look at XNview MP
I can definitely say that it is avery good photo management program.
I am only using about 20% of it's features and it is my go to image software.
Most likely rolling it out to a "small" segment of the user base to find any edge case issues before rolling it out to everyone.
I use yt-dlg as a GUI for yt-dl.
I find it works pretty well.
For anyone looking for a basic PC have a look at off lease PC's.
Most of the PC's will be business class PC so even if they are several years old they still have several years more life left in them.
It's likely an unfortunate casualty of Youtube's enshitification
You can use the greater-than sign to make code blocks but for some reason it then picks up your use of pound sign as the formatting for headers even though putting text into a code block should stop that.
I have an LTS kernel as a backup in case something doesn't work with my main kernel.
Just recently I had an issue where my main kernel had a bug where snap's can't start up, so I just restarted into the LTS kernel to use it then restarted back into my main kernel.
Did you adjust the resources given to the VM?
I know with Oracle Virtualbox it defaults to like 1 processor core and 500mb of ram for a VM.
To be brutally honest about this, your best bet is to recycle the unit.
The problems of trying to get a distro to install properly, have all the hardware working right and have a usable experience are not worth the minimal upsides.
I have an ASUS X205TA which is a similar unit and after trying for countless hours to get a usable device out of it was not going to be worth the headaches plus if I was getting paid for the time I spent on it I could have brought an off lease laptop with better specs.
Using a VM is being suggested as it is:
- Relatively easy to set up.
- Gives the user a full Windows OS which simplifies software installation.
- Allows for snapshot backups to be taken of the install meaning if something breaks you just roll back to a previous snapshot.
- The VM can have the internet disabled meaning no auto updates to the software or OS.
- Easy to remove the VM and virtualization software at a later date if required.
- The VM (or another) can be used to run other Windows only software.
Timeshift is what you are looking for if you want a functional backup system.
Just had fun with this with my optiplex 790.
Things I have found:
If you are using the front USB ports try the lower ports.
Make sure that you have formatted your live USB properly.
On boot press F12 to get the one time boot menu, if everything is right you should get a menu that gives you legacy boot options with UEFI boot options below that.
The big thing here is that not all live distros appear to work with the Dell UEFI implementation (got Linux Lite and Manjaro working)
Don't use Gparted unless you know what you are doing as it is relatively easy to screw up.
Gnome disks is a much more user friendly option and you don't have to mess around with changing permissions as what changes you make in it are owned by the logged in user.
What you can do is have a 1-2Tb SSD and use that as your day to day drive then use Timeshift to regularly backup the entire drive to a HDD.
I use XnView MP to view and organize my photos.
Fairly certain that you can encode tags into the photo's metadata.
I have had several distros working on the X205TA (I even had a how to guide written up on reddit years ago).
But I was not able to get a usable system (i.e. being able to use the system without waiting on average 20-120 sec for the device to process an action).
Life has gotten to the point that the effort to do so is better directed into activities that I would enjoy.
It's not so much both computers being able to access it.
From what I have experienced Timeshift tends to lock a drive when it is doing a backup.
If computer 1 is doing a backup and computer 2 tries to start it's backup it may fail without you noticing.
Giving each computer their own partition on the drive should alleviate the problem.