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While I'm thinking the polkit route is overkill this is a much simpler way to maintain it via that method.

For starters put any users who shouldn't be able to have any root of any kind in a...

While I'm not trying to start a debate this is why the Ubuntu way of sudo use is a bit dangerous. In a proper setup sudo should be for specific people to execute specific commands. Not for global...

Easier to just remove the user from the sudo group and adm groups. Make sure to set a root pw first else you lock yourself out. Same result. Much less screwing around.

One I wrote for myself. It makes searching for packages in repositories much less cumbersome by eliminating need to pipe through different commands to find only what I want. Breaks down to package...

I got fed up trying to get the right chain of shell commands to filter an apt list. Had trouble getting exactly what I wanted out of it. Wrote this dumb little utility. It gets right to the point...

I saw a video on this. I think this is the libfuse2 problem. Libfuse2 is old and barely being maintained. They've moved to libfuse3. As such 2 has been dropped from default installations for a number...

Better method is copy the .desktop file from /usr/share/applications to /usr/local/share/applications and edit this one. This will override the default one without worrying about it getting replaced...

If you are feeling frisky you can do the upgrade via the Debian method and and not use the provided upgrade tool. I did this to upgrade a chroot installed Jammy > Kinetic > Lunar > Mantic > Noble the...

/dev/nvme0n1p5 ext4 480G 455G 1.1G 100% /

Am I the only one seeing 24gigs missing here? Should have 24+ free space. not 1.1. And either way it wouldn't show 100%. The math is off.

To further respond to an earlier post about the bottles Battle.net script not working. I was in a mood yesterday and I apologize. I restored my backup get a configuration dump. I've never had much...

Just install it manually. Screw the script. Didn't even know there was a script. 8.06 or w/e version of wine. Solved. Although I just deleted it finally because I'm sick of the mini game crap in...

I'd also like to add the suggestion of the Bottles flatpak. It's self contained so you don't have to worry about foreign packages on your system running amok. And it has run everything I've tried....

I flip flop between Ubuntu and a pure Debian base quite often, I can't explain why.

The thing that keeps me coming back to Ubuntu specifically is I like having a corporate structure behind it. I...

You can write a script fired by a systemd service to configure iptables on boot. I know there is a better way but this is what I ended up doing. Easier for me to mess with a script than anything...

I don't understand this statement. Either the program can be compiled or it can't. At the end of the day you can't rely on out of date software to build your stuff.

Does the partition restore restore the UUID as well? If your fstab is going by uuid, which it should then boot doesn't exist according to it. You need to update the fstab if this is the case. You...

command line. terminal based tools. most linux users in my experience try to do this for everything but sometimes it just isn't worth it. the gui can be quicker and save headaches in some cases. Not...

I know the cli is the way people want to go. I just rip them with Asunder and call it a day. No screwing around for the perfect combination of flags to pass. CLI is nearly always faster. But...

You can cut the size of the name of your variables and function names. That should gain a surprising amount of characters depending on how often those variables and functions are used. Maybe keep a...

The myth user is set to nologin if I recall. If you give it a password and change shell to bash it should do what you want

Is likely all mythbuntu does.

You shouldn't need to create the myth user. The package will do it for you. You can su to that user if you need to but little to no reason for it I can think of.

Apt just update the flatpak package itself.


flatpak update is what you want. Use sudo for snap refresh. Sudo your flatpak update only if you did them as root and not your user.

With a few...

I haven't bothered tracking this one myself but I've seen it on Jammy with HWE and the current Elementary OS 7.1. In my case it sits there a minute then loads up anyway. As it hasn't caused me an...

depends on snap and flatpaks. with ubuntu defaulting / demanding snaps moving forward var will need to grow more and more each release I'd surmise. Gone are the days of a 2g var or whatever people...

Then there is the fully manual method of editing the sources list, and running the upgrade in turn as straight Debian does.
This is not the recommended way to do Ubuntu but it does work as long as...