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Time wrong when dual-booting Windows and Linux
Ever since I started using Linux in dualboot with Windows I noticed that when I rebooted the machine, the time on the other OS was wrong, e.g. it was 12:00 on Linux, then I rebooted and on Windows it ...
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Completely reinstall WSL
I installed WSL 1, enjoyed having Linux on my PC, then discovered the limitations of the scarce interoperability over files between the two operating systems.
So I installed WSL 2 following the specs (...
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Is it safe to go into the directory where a program is installed?
Can I mess something up when I go into a programs install path? For example, could I break or alter something by accidentally moving a file from there into a different folder?
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Could deleting a file from the folder of a program, not just remove something from the program, but also modify the program? [closed]
For example: could I change a characters movement speed in a video game, by removing a file from the games directory, or would such a thing require me to modify a file rather than removing one. Sorry ...
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Make WSL register GPU as the correct GPU and not a microsoft driver
I am trying to run a cuda (qubic.li - Client) program on linux using WSL. I have two main problems.
my GPU is AMD (I get around this using ZLUDA)
WSL does not register my GPU as AMD meaning that ...
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Command to copy client public key to Windows OpenSSH SFTP/SSH server authorized keys file
I have a Linux machine, and I need to sftp to a Windows SFTP server. So for first step, I create my own id_rsa file and the id_rsa.pub in my Linux machine.
Then I copy the text in the id_rsa.pub into ...
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How to make windows .exe executables in Linux [No Duplicate- Extended Version] [closed]
Let me describe what I want to do. I want to make a software/application that I can run on both Linux and Windows. It could be any language for example: cpp,java,python.I need to know what is the ...
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Display issues on Notebook, but not in Windows
Since some time, there are some kind of screen Artifacts on my Notebook screen. From the bottom, there are around 50 rows on the screen, which do not Display the appropirate output they should(Aka the ...
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Error "Failed to connect to the server: Timed Out", on Barrier
I have a machine with windows and one with Linux Ubuntu.
I'm trying to make the connection between both, using Barrier (a software that connects two machines so I can use the same mouse and keyboard ...
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How can I delete the kali linux wsl folder on windows?
I installed Kali Linux a while back using the Windows and used a few times to play around with it but a couple days I got another pc and installed Manjaro on it so I could use it full time.
So I tried ...
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How to safely store environmental variables and make it actually invisible in my PC?
I am learning about environmental variables. I know for example that if I have a secret password I should not code it inside of my code.
From what I understood is that a .env file should be used to ...
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How to configure Windows/Linux to support absolute-mouse-mode for remote operation via KVM?
I am working on a project where we want to connect different dual-screen PC systems (mostly Windows+Linux) with a dualhead KVM switch. The KVM switch uses absolute mouse mode to position the mouse on ...
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Page numbers in a PDF are off, how can I change them?
I have a digital edition of textbook I bought. The pages are numbered from 1 - 570.
As a result, when I search page 68, it shows page 51 as the first pages originally in the textbook aren't numbered ...
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How can I run Cygwin Terminal under a current Cygwin installation under Windows 10?
In the past I have used Cygwin Terminal, i.e. a window similar in external appearance and external behavior to the DOS/Windows command line window that runs natively under Windows.
Right now, in my ...
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Putty history access weird behavior
I'm using PuTTY v0.78 on a Win10 host, connecting to Ubuntu v22.04. After I've pasted any command into the PuTTY terminal, when I scroll though the history using ↑, I can't scroll up to the prompt ...
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