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Why too many partitions on Windows 10?
I have just installed Windows 10 (20H2) by partitioning disk as C and D drives and shrink the C drive using Disk Management Tool of Windows for installing Ubuntu. Then I installed Ubuntu and on ...
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Windows 10: cannot run WSL (Ubuntu, Alpine, Docker)
On my laptop (Dell Latitude 5590, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8650U CPU @ 1.90GHz[Cores 4] [Logical processors 8], BIOS v 1.16.0), running Windows 10 (10.0.19042), I cannot start Ubuntu any more, nor start ...
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USB connection issues
I've been having USB connection issues for a while on my main computer, it started a couple of years ago on Windows and reamains now that I've switched to Ubuntu. I don't know if the problem comes ...
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Dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20 on different drives, can't see Ubuntu drive from Windows
I have 3 disks, C, D and E.
Initially I had Windows 10 installed on disk C, then I formatted and made a clean install of Ubuntu on disk E. When I start my computer I can choose to boot to Ubuntu or ...
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Reflect modified `hostname` in WAZUH - Security monitoring solution
After installing wazuh-agent service in a Ubuntu box( or in Windows ). if hostname is changed then, which is the best way to correct the wazuh-agent configuration to reflect the new hostname in wazuh-...
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I have a dual drive hard disk(SSD+ HDD) and my ubuntu is installed on SSD, can I install windows on the HDD? [duplicate]
I have a dual drive disk(SSD+ HDD) and my ubuntu(20.04) is installed on SSD, I've been trying to install windows 10 on the HDD (I made two partitions, and left 1TB unallocated), but everytime, windows ...
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How can i remove Linux leftover partitions from my computer?
I used to have a Win10/Ubuntu Dual Boot, but now I want to remove Ubuntu.
I deleted the content of two partitions (one of each disk) I was certain they were a part of Ubuntu system, but now i'm left ...
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Are there any usable Linux/Ubuntu recovery methods for WSL?
As a previous StackOverflow question alluded to, is it possible to use any normal recovery tools (live booting from usb, grub command line, etc.) on a WSL program and, if so, how?
For instance, if one ...
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Will Windows run slowly if in a VM?
so I was thinking about switching my main OS to Ubuntu so I could get my foot in the door with linux and start experimenting around with it a bunch. However, I know if I do that a lot of games will be ...
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Do I need to disable access to HDD where does windows live when using Ubuntu installed on SSD?
I'm afraid to harm data on HDD. Are my concerns justified? If yes, how to fix it.
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Open WSL's .exe with Windows Terminal
I just installed Windows terminal and automatically got it working with my Ubuntu 18.04 WSL, appearing in the right-click menu as well, and was able to easily set it to the default shell upon launch ...
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Backing up Windows drive under Linux OS?
I have a dual-boot Linux/Windows machine, each having a separate 1TB SSD drive. Mostly Linux is used, Windows just occasionally.
An incremental daily/weekly/monthly backup using rsnapshot is set-up on ...
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How to make Linux stop eating power?
I recently switched to Linux (Ubuntu), and I noticed that my cooler(in laptop) is always on. I didn't have my cooler always turned on(or I didn't notice), when I was using Windows. Is there anything I ...
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Why is my mount point busy or being used? Windows to WSL file transfer
I am trying to transfer files from my Windows system to my WSL (which is running Ubuntu). I can access the files through /mnt/c, and move them to a directory in Ubuntu. But I don't have permission to ...
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Should I bother using Ubuntu for work when everyone else is using Windows?
I've just started a new job and I've stayed with Linux because it's the OS I prefer. However the rest of the team uses Windows.
I'm running into problems like where I can't execute .sh files from the ...
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Finding ubuntu file system files on Windows
I installed Ubuntu file system on my Windows 10 using this tutorial: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/wsl/install-win10
Now I want to find installed on Ubuntu libraries files (and add some ...
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Can I fix a windows 7 booting issue with ubuntu?
I had a windows 7 machine working fine. Then it crashed and wouldnt boot, it wouldnt even post. So I assumed the motherboard went so I bought a new one and replaced it. Still nothing (i gave the ...
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The Ctrl keys are stuck
The two Ctrl keys of both my laptop and USB keyboard seem to be stuck. They are pressed automatically. I have tried restarting the Windows, unplugging and replugging them, uninstalling and ...
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How to get my School's Wifi CA Certificate on Windows?
I am trying to connect to my School Wifi on Ubuntu.
The network specializations are:
I can't get the network specifications right now. But I do know it uses WPA-Enterprise, PEAP, MSCHAPv2
I need to ...
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Hypervisor / server that I can install on laptop with three OS'es: Windows 10, Ubuntu server and Ubuntu desktop
I want to install Hypervisor on my Gaming laptop with RTX 2060, so I can have 3 OS'es:
Windows 10
Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS
Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS
I am interested in GPU passthrough of Nvidia RTX ...
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FFmpeg amerge filter - Continue on with longest audio stream
I have a video that already has 1 audio stream. I have another m4a file that I want to merge with the already-existing audio stream in the video.
The m4a file is about 10 seconds shorter than the ...
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Notebook with 2.7GHz i7 processor is stuck at a clock speed of 0.8GHz
I have a Dell Latitude 5411 Notebook. It has a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10850H CPU @ 2.70GHz processor, 32GB DDR4 memory and a GeForce MX250 GPU.
Despite this quite powerful processor the performance of ...
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I'm using a Dell G5 15SE 5505 with Ryzen 7 CPU and Radeon RX 5600M graphics processor
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 on my computer using a bootable USB stick. I'm using Rufus to install the Linux ISO with a MBR partition scheme with target system of BIOS or UEFI and a FAT32 File ...
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Should the partitions related to a particular OS be continuous?
My Disk Management Window:
I want to shrink my C drive and create a partition. In that partition Ubuntu will be installed.
But I doubt one thing, Will my Recovery Partition work if i create that ...
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Export VirtualBox machine as 2nd OS
I have a Windows 10 as main OS and VirtualBox Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machine in it. PC has only one internal hard drive. I'm not satisfied the virtual machine perfomance, so I'm looking for the way to ...
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Cannot SSH into a virtual machine unless restart my computer
I am using xShell to connect to my virtual machine (Ubuntu 20.10) on set up via VMware on my Windows laptop.
Every time, the connection won’t go through unless I restart my computer (I cannot ping the ...
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Infinite reboot loop "System BootOrder not found" after Windows 10 install and Ubuntu install
After wiping a disk, installing Windows 10, then installing Ubuntu with Grub, I experienced an infinite reboot loop with this error message (displayed less than 0.5 second, hard to read!):
System ...
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Linux doesn't see Windows Boot Manager while installing
On the other day I was installing Linux on my new laptop, which I just have obtained. It didn't have any system preinstalled so I installed Windows 10. After that I realized that I want to do some job ...
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Windows Update Not Working with Dual Boot
I have been having dual boot Windows 10 + Ubuntu 20.04 for a few months, and (almost) everything has gone ok, except for one thing: Windows Update does not work anymore.
I'm stuck at version 1809, and ...
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How to ssh into linux host in VMware Workstation 15
I am using VMware Workstation 15 inside Windows 10. I have created an Ubuntu instance under it. From another machine, I can ssh into it if I am connected into local network, but I am unable to connect ...
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