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Why is Ubuntu power consumption lower than non-free Debian?
Part of the reason Ubuntu has gotten a reputation for being easier to install is that it has contained a lot of non-free firmware for a long time. That site even says so (indirectly though).
As @...
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Why is Ubuntu power consumption lower than non-free Debian?
In Linux, power management is completely user-configurable. Without knowing how the power management was configured in each case, the comparison is meaningless.
It is possible, for example, that ...
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25 second delay: "No skeleton to export"
Had exactly the same issue with Manjaro after the last updates (2023-11-28 and 2023-12-1).
I copied the /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/gtk-portals.conf file to ~/.config and renamed it into xfce-...
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Debian 12 no longer boots after sudo fallocate -l 32G /swapfile
You filled the free space in your / filesystem completely with a file called swapfile; no, files that you created do not disappear at a reboot, that would be bad :)
Nothing bad happened. Just grab a ...
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Why is it necessary to run 'dpkg-reconfigure' on bodged installs?
The postfix package uses debconf for its configuration. You can think of this as a kind of registry in Debian; it’s used by most packages which need configuration during installation. You can see the ...
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