Note: The tips here are for Debian-based Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, LinuxMint, Pop!_OS, AntiX, etc.).
If you installed Debian without a desktop environment, and wants to install a customized desktop environment now, make sure to install a DE manager (e.g., gdm, lightdm, etc.) as well. without …
The simplest way to check whether a Linux system is running systemd, upstart or SysV is by running the following command.
ps -p1 | grep "init\|upstart\|systemd"
How to determine which system manager is running on Linux System
FAT32 is an outdated filesystem. The maximum size for a single file is 4G. You should instead exFAT instead of FAT32 where possible.
exFAT is great cross-platform filesystem that is support out-of-box by Windows, Linux and macOS. There is practically no limit (big enough for average users) on …
First use diskutil list to list all avaiable disks
and identifiy the external hard drive to mount.
For example,
running diskutil list on my Mac gives me the following output
and /dev/disk2s1 is the partition (NTFS) to mount.
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme …My Windows PC in my office slows down signficantly after running for several days. I have cleaned up the startup applications to the most I can. The only way I can think of is to automatically restart the computer early morning every few days. The article [Windows10] How to set …
mktemp is preferred to tempfile.