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Enter Bios/UEFI from desktop shortcut

I am currently dual booting windows and linux, i dont want to use grub because grub tends to get very flakey the longer things go on. IS there a way for me to create a desktop shortcut in linux to ...
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Windows not dual booting with Ubuntu

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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Is there a name for the text that shows up after executing each command line in a CLI?

for example in linux terminal I have jurek@debian:~$ man help No manual entry for help I want to know how the second line is called bc I want to ask an other question "How to copy this term (I'm ...
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Linux cannot see other hard drive after dual boot, also want to remove windows if possible

I wanted to switch to Linux and I did this by installing Kali onto my usb and and then booting from my usb. It then went through the process of installing on one of my two SSDs, it then installs fine ...
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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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Torrenting unbearably slow in Deluge

My Deluge client is consistently getting less than 1.0K/s on all torrents it is downloading There aren't very many peers on each torrent even though the website says >100 on every torrent... Why is ...
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Mount SFTP directory in NFS Share

Here's my issue : I have setup an SFTP with chroot directory is /sftp/usersftp In this chroot directory i have two subdirectory IN/OUT On the same serveur i had created a user with $HOME=/data/...
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Files and folders on shared drive created on Linux are not visible in Windows (dual-boot)

I have a dual-boot with Linux (Manjaro) and Windows installed on two separate SSDs, plus I have a shared ex-fat HDD which contains documents and the like. Problem is, very often, when I'm on Linux and ...
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Use the Windows PC as a middleware to access the restricted site

Assume my Windows PC has the ability to access the restricted.com site via a network adapter that only supports Windows. I want my other Linux PC to be able to access that site as well, but because ...
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Windows installer not detecting drives on dualbooted system

I'm running Windows 11 with Fedora dual booted, or atleast I was, until one day Windows started throwing "Inaccessible Boot Device". To fix that, I'm trying to reinstall Windows without ...
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Dual boot | Dual drives: Linux over Windows

Preface: This is/was an attempt at creating a dual boot laptop (Asus), primary drive is housed on the motherboard sda has Linux Mint installed, secondary drive sdb has Windows 10 installed and plugs ...
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is there a way to do something like a KVM but between OS on the same computer?

I need Windows to play games and modify them. Simply using Linux compatibility isn't enough. However I'm starting to hate Windows because I cannot know or control all the information it sends, and who ...
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Fix EFI/Microsoft in Windows 11 using Linux [closed]

I destroyed EFI/Microsoft. and Recovery Media doesn't work either. Are there any suggestions for fixing EFI/Microsoft in Linux based OS. My Windows version 11. I was going to install refind but ...
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Installing NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPU hangs on Windows 10 on Proxmox using GPU pass-through

I’m installing an NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPU in a Proxmox virtual environment using GPU pass-through. The virtual is Windows 10 Pro. GPU card is plugged on HP Z640 Tower Server - Intel Xeon E5-2670 V3. I'm ...
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Windows found problems with the file system that could not be corrected?

I have a NTFS formatted USB drive that I use both with Linux and Windows 11 and it normally works OK. Recently Linux gave me a rather dire sounding error: zog@kb:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdc2 ~/Templates/ [...
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Is there a Windows equivalent of Linux `.desktop` file to execute various commands (like as many custom "apps")

I am using Windows in parallel with Linux again, and I've got all the Linux habits and reflexes, without which I feel very frustrated. For example, how to create a file to launch a terminal with a ...
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How to share applications between multiple OSs? [closed]

My goal is to have a triple monitor setup, each running a different OS (Linux, Windows and MacOS) and have mouse/keyboard sharing using something like Synergy as well as moving app windows from one to ...
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Fix WSL - cannot access '/mnt/c': Input/output error

I hit a problem with my WSL Ubuntu system, where I can't ls the C:\ drive from within my WSL Ubuntu Linux system... mpenning@wsl$ ls /mnt/c ls: cannot access '/mnt/c': Input/output error mpenning@wsl$ ...
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Is it possible to recover bitlocker using a USB drive?

So I've got a laptop currently dual booting windows and linux. I primarily use the linux installation, but I have certain things that need to be on windows. Currently I have bitlocker set up on ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Samba can't access to directory created by local user

I have samba share [Attachments] acl_xattr:ignore system acls = Yes acl_xattr:default acl style = windows dos filemode = true acl allow execute always = Yes acl ...
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How to put Windows 10 on a thumb drive with Ventoy to install?

As suggested, I've downloaded Ventoy and did run the shell script. It's not clear to me what "install ventoy" does, but I did install it to a USB stick. How would I then get Windows 10 ...
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What path to write a Windows ISO to create a bootable thumb drive?

Was looking to use PXE, but now just directly downloading the Windows 10 ISO as: nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ ll /media/nicholas/ total 18 drwxr-x---+ 5 root root 5 Feb 19 18:23 ....
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Where to download a Microsoft PXE image?

When I look for a Microsoft PXE image to download I can only find different tools which will build a PXE image. Is it still possible to simply download a Microsoft PXE image directly? Looking to make ...
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Connect to VPN working inside WSL from Windows environment

I have a remote VPN set up, to which I can only connect to via Linux machines. As of now, I do have access from WSL to this VPN, meaning I can ping and interact with the hardware that is only visible ...
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How do you use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to Remmina?

I have a Chromebook with a Linux Virtual Environment that is a Debian 12 Bookworm. I installed Remmina after looking to RDP to my Windows XP OS. I know that I can connect to my Windows OS from Linux ...
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VirtualBox Installation

Sorry guys if this is a dumb question but I'm trying to learn all of this and am a bit confused. I have Kali Linux installed as a 'Live" program to a USB stick. I'm looking at using the Oracle ...
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How to identify and delete Linux Bootloader/GRUB from my HDD?

Im using win 10 in my principal HDD. I needed a dual boot with linux mint, which should be in my SSD, so I installed it. The problem is that it installed the BOOTLOADER in the EFI of my HDD and not in ...
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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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Windows 10 (C:\) in SSD to linux, moving the content of C:\users\me to (E:\)

I have Windows 10 installed in a 1 TB SSD (C:) and I want to use linux. To do so, I want to a backup of C:\users\me to (E:), that is a 1 TB HDD that I want to use as storage. Is it possible to ...
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Add "Windows 10" (with Bitlocker encrypted) boot entry to GRUB [duplicate]

I have a dual boot system with Windows 10 & Ubuntu Unity 23.10. My main system is the Ubuntu system, but from time to time i have something todo on Windows. Currently im switching with the BIOS/...
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What if I changed my subnet mask from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.255.255 on my Windows, will I be able to communicate with other hosts on my LAN? [duplicate]

Few days back, when I was surfing the admin panel of my router, I had found an IP address. I knew that this IP address was assigned to my router by my ISP. Also I knew that there are few other users ...
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ls in Docker on Windows not showing one directory

I'm running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter version 1607 (build 14393.6614) with Docker Desktop Community Version 2.0.0.3 (31259). I'm running an Ubuntu docker container in an interactive mode with my ...
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SSD not working in Windows 10 (write protected)

I just bought a new SSD for my laptop. If I boot Linux on it (it’s a dual boot system), the SSD works fine, but if I boot Windows the File Explorer says, that the drive is write-protected. I already ...
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How determine the type of device based on hostname, ip, operating system ...?

I'm working on integrating some scanners into one of our solutions, I need to be able to tell if a device is: a desktop computer (in a sens of computer used with os offering some gui) a server used ...
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I am unable to write data to the hard drive and cannot backup it

Known: A hard drive is a solid-state drive with a 512GB SATA interface. There are multiple partitions in hard drive A, each in sector order, used for [recovery/ESP (EFI partition)/MSR/Windows/Btrfs/...
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ssh linux to windows fails, Connection reset

I have set up the sshd server in windows 11 as in the official documentation. I have transfered my public key to the windows machine to C:\ProgramData\ssh\ as administrators_authorized_keys and ...
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How to regenerate Windows boot files without being able to boot into it

So I have an EFI dual boot system with Windows and Arch, and because of some grub tomfoolery I ended up completely wiping the EFI partition and installing systemd-boot. But now I don't have any way to ...
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Windows 10/11, Manjaro Dual Boot: WIndows lagging, freezing not booting and suddeny windows partitions missing

My PC has quite a view issues, and already a view Problem fixes couldn't resolve the issue. Also symptoms varied a bit over time from OS-lags, to OS-freezes, to getting this crapmachine to boot. So It'...
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Ubuntu not showing in boot menu (Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows)

A couple of years ago, I set up my machine to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu. At that time, it worked as expected and I was able to switch back and forth between Windows and Ubuntu. Today, I tried to ...
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How can I boot a live system iso on a partition of an USB drive

I am a linux and windows user, and I'm going to build up a USB drive(/dev/sda, got 3 partition already) which contains a windows PE and a linux livecd. I have got two iso files, and I'm trying a new ...
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Kafka running simultaneously in a Windows host and a Linux guest

I was following Pluralsight course "Getting Started with Apache Kafka", coming to module 4 about producing messages with Kafka producers. Then, I wanted to reproduce an author's demo which ...
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How to get file sharing (/mnt/c) to work for wsl linux VM running on Window-11

I have successfully got a Linux VM working on my Windows-11. However when I start either Ubuntu or Debian session I get the following error: WSL2-Linux-Kernel:linux-msft-wsl and once logger on /mnt/c ...
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