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I have been experimenting with lightweight distros, and am now onto Tinycore. To the best of my understanding most Linux programs have to be downloaded for a specific distro, or am I wrong? Could I install Tor, Geeqie, or GIMP for just any distro and have it work on Tinycore? Or would I just find myself struggling to find packages?

I don't know how, but upgrading from 16.04 has broken ALL tiling window managers in one of two ways: the ones I try to build from source fail because the 18.04 toolchain is already too old, and the ones I install via apt fail by sending nothing to the monitors after I've logged in at the desktop manager. It's not just blackness either, my external monitor thinks it has been unplugged and goes hunting through other inputs. If I use Ctrl+Alt+F1 I get back to GDM, which shows me as logged in but locked, although typing my password again just repeats the blackness.

This latter failure mode happens with all combinations of: Wayland, X11 crossed with awesomewm, xmonad, dwm, i3, subtle,

So I switched to Mint about 2 weeks ago because I was using the Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu and I really enjoyed it.

However, I have been having a pretty big issue with chromium. When I have hardware acceleration turned on in chrome it often causes my mouse to become temporarily unresponsive. It goes back to normal after a few moments but I can see in the chrome task manger that my GPU is spiking (sometimes over 100 whatever that means) and this seems to coincide with my issue.

So far I've tried updating my kernel and updating my graphics drivers (nvidia) but no luck the issue is still there.

Im thinking that maybe if I upgrade chromium the issue will go away but I can't figure out h

I'm building a time clock with a local server.

I was wondering if there was anything out there that would run with the following:

1. raspberri pi
2. USB Hardware i/o support (RFID / WebCam / Num Pad)
3. Boots into a sort of kiosk mode with a preset website.

Please and thanks

I have JBL EB50BT headphones. It connects fine. In sound configuration it shows three different modes: High Fidelity playback(A2DP Sink), Headset Head unit(HSP/HFP) and High Fidelity Capture(A2DP capture).

When I connect there is no sound at first. If I put the low quality headset head unit mode on, I get low quality sound. If I put hifi playback, only silence. Then if I reconnect, I can select hifi and get good sound. But I dont understand why is this happening. Why do I have to connect always twice to be able to get sound out of hifi mode?

The problem persisted when I changed distro from elementary os to linux mint. In windows 10 and android it work normal.

I have an old windows Vista machine that is rarely used however some members of my family have some applications and files that they would rather keep. I recently bought a new SSD and put it into said windows machine and installed manjaro onto it. I now want to use the SSD in a pc build however GRUB is installed on the SSD and so if I removed it, the machine will not boot. Is there any way to fix this without using a windows recovery CD i.e can I move the GRUB installation onto the HDD that came with the vista machine?

I am using Kali Linux. I do a lot of writing and want return to the loving arms of Linux.

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I installed a print driver from the brother web site. Now my Linux ques the print jobs but they don't reach the printer. Is there a place I can look to see what is going wrong? I am also wondering if I made trouble along the way try to get CUPS to work using help videos.

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https://youtu.be/En2DJAMpwmY?t=257

My girlfriends laptop has been out of comission for a while but it just needed a new charger so she is back in business.

I think its from 2014 and I want to put linux on there as she already mostly used open source programs that are available on linux.

Her 1 program that she used to use often is Picassa. I see that Google has shut that down and I was hoping someone could recommend a program that functions similarly to picassa.

I've never used it before so I am unsure what functionality it had.

Hi everybody,

I know this has to be the most frequently asked question; but I can't install Firefox on my computer.
I downloaded the tar.bz2 file, I can open it by double clicking, and then I'm lost.

I'm running Kubuntu 18.04.

Thanks!