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How can I set colors on my WSL Ubuntu app?
I have the ls command returning ridiculously illegible blue text, as below:
How anyone (not colour blind) could ever justify using such a colour on a black background is beyond me.
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Windows | LxssManager is missing from services.msc
I am trying to download Ubuntu on my windows machine via WSL, and facing difficulties.
I need to turn on Windows Subsystem for Linux in windows features. After I do that and restart the machine, it ...
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Install Debian 12 alongside Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11
I have a laptop with a succesfully installed Windows11 and Ubuntu 22.04.
I have 2 nvme ssd disks.
I can start Windows11 or Ubuntu 22.04 via dual boot.
On my first nvme disk (named nvme0n1) have the ...
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How can I get back my grub menu after Windows update?
I have a dual boot installation on my laptop, I have both Debian 12 and Windows 11 installed. I updated Windows 11 yesterday and my laptop boots directly into Windows after the update, no grub menu is ...
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Mistakenly edited something while booting Windows. Now it doesn't boot
I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10..
I had just finished a session on Win7 which was extremely slow, and I decided to restart in safe mode to uninstall some ...
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Network cable not working - dual boot Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10
I have dual boot (Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10) installed on my laptop.
I found out, that when I shut down Ubuntu and run Windows then often happens that network cable stops working. I usually restart ...
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Switch partition drive on dual boot
I have a dual boot with Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11. Each partition is on a specific drive, ubuntu is on a sata 500GB SSD and Windows is on a NVMe 1TB SSD.
The windows partition barely use 200GB of ...
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Connection to localhost refused in Ubuntu subsystem on Windows
I have made a server-client model in python on Linux. When I run the server on Ubuntu Subsystem on Windows, it works just fine. But when I run the client(which tries to connect to the server) I get ...
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Windows not dual booting with Ubuntu [closed]
I recently installed Ubuntu 24.04 L.T.S. I had a lot of problems during installation but now, I just can't boot up windows. Even if i give it top priority through BIOS, Ubuntu somehow keeps opening. I'...
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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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Grub does not detect windows 10 efi boot files
I recently installed lubuntu on new partition, and in doing so, I formatted the efi partition to FAT32. Now I want to boot into Windows 10, but none of the usual recovery methods have worked for me - ...
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How to make boot menu always appear without pressing F11
How do I make boot menu appear without pressing f11 every time? I switch between operating systems like few times a day, which makes it annoying having to press it all the time. I have a MSI ...
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Making switching between Ubuntu and Windows faster
Do you know a way to make switching between Windows and Linux faster?
I have a dual boot set-up were I am using Ubuntu as a dev environment and that's great l!
But unfortunately I also need Skype for ...
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Problem with .cbr comics
I have several .cbr comic files that I downloaded and am now unable to open. I have downloaded at least 5 different comic book viewers (including comix) in Ubuntu through the package manager and ...
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What's inside APPDATA and will it be reinstalled if WSL Ubuntu files accidentally deleted?
I was installing WSL and got some problem with the environment variables after doing nano adding 'export $PATH' to the ~/.bashrc. The WSL no longer able to do 'ls' commands nor doing anything else. ...
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Error while installing Ubuntu in E drive (status : 0xc0000225) [closed]
status: 0xc0000225 in Windows serverI’m in big trouble right now. I need Help. Recently I was attempting a Ubuntu installation on a Windows Server. The Windows Server have 3 drives C , D , E. After ...
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Is Windows / Linux Dual Boot a scam? [closed]
I have searched for this topic a bit on the web without any success.
Is Windows Dual boot + Linux way worse than it is imagined ?
Installaed a dual bot linux mint on a windows 11 computer. THe main ...
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WSL 2 on Windows 11 (Ubuntu 22) freezes after ~15 hours of running
This appears to be a similar problem to this unanswered question.
Usually I have a tail -f nohup.out command running in one pane, and nvidia-smi running in the other pane (refreshing every second) to ...
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Share Clipboard Between Ubuntu and Windows Remote Desktop
I am trying to copy paste text between Windows Remote Desktop and Linux Ubuntu Server LTS 14.04 with Mate Desktop.
I have seen several posts that mention killing the rdpclip.exe process (on Windows) ...
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Execute windows exe files on wsl after metadata,umask=022, fmask=111
WSL can't run any exe files after I added options = "metadata,umask=022,fmask=111" to wsl config. The reason I did this is so I can share ssh keys from a parent windows machine. So I would ...
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Cyberoam authenticated network only allows browsers to connect to internet, not any other application
I'm accessing my college network (which is protected via Cyberoam) via Wifi, and I need to authenticate to the network using my ID in the web browser. Once done, I can access internet with the browser ...
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Share AMD GPU from Windows (Host) to Ubuntu (Guest)
Can't seem to find a solution for this anywhere.
I've got a Windows Host with an AMD GPU (Radeon 6800 XT).
There's software I need to run that requires an AMD GPU but it's only available in Linux.
I ...
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Dell xps 15 9570 dual boot windows 10 with ubuntu 18.04, serious errors
I have been attempting to dual boot my Dell XPS 15 9570 with Ubuntu. I turned off fast boot and changed raid on to ahci. I had the latest version of Ubuntu loaded onto my USB flash drive and I tried ...
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Installing Linux without disabling Bitlocker encryption
Is there a way to install and dual boot Ubuntu / Fedora along with Windows 11 without disabling bitlocker encryption?
Possible approach
The other solution for continuing to use Bitlocker extending ...
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Preserve Windows partitions when computer is not booting from HD and MBR2GPT fails?
On attempting to install Ubuntu alongside an existing Windows installation on the same hard disk, the Ubuntu installer created a mix of MBR and GPT partitioning scheme, and UEFI/BIOS don't find any ...
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How to expand ubuntu server root storage?
I have a windows server inside of which there's an Ubuntu 22.10 server, more space was given to VM of Ubuntu. But inside of Ubuntu, when I connect through SSH, it shows that it's still the same size. ...
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WSL 2.0 : The file cannot be accessed by the system
When I open my terminal and run WSL, the following error is shown:
The file cannot be accessed by the system.
[process exited with code 1 (0x00000001)]
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How do you bridge Internet from Windows to Ubuntu?
The setup is currently 1 Windows 10 Home laptop with wifi internet access from a router that I don't have admin access to (Thus no custom DHCP config). The Windows machine is connected to a switch ...
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Set wsl2 to use host nameserver
I'm using wsl2 on Windows 11, and I recently encountered a problem where when I change networks, the wsl2 dns (nameserver at resolve.conf) address doesn't update, to match, and there for cannot lookup ...
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WSL2 make available/visible all Windows' network adapters inside Ubuntu
I have a Windows 10 with installed WSL2. In WSL2 I have an Ubuntu. I need to work directly from Ubuntu with different adapters that I have in my physical PC and have access to them from Windows. But ...
