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I might try that, since the laptop probably needs a new cmos battery anyway. Disassembling unfortunately is no small feat, since the board needs to come out completely and the display has to be removed too to access the battery, looked that up already.

Fn+F7/8 do nothing, tried that already.

I've got my hands on an old MEDION MD 96370/WIM 2170 laptop from 2007 and I'm having trouble bringing up the internal wlan adaptor. rfkill reports it being "hard blocked". Supposedly there should be some button on the laptop to enable wlan, but I can't find anything. There's also nothing on the Fn ...

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May 2025 be the year of the Linux desktop

timeshift.json ist the only config file. All other exclusions are hard coded into the program. Timeshift's exclude/include syntax can be very confusing. It's a while back I last configured it, but I remember you have to include directories before their contents. Back then there was also a bug with ...

Mint is one of the most-recommended distribution for new Linux users. It does a lot of things very well.

Oder man kann eben auf nur eine Tastatur reduzieren. Genau so habe ich das bei mir eingestellt. In den Einstellungen unter Tastatur kann man bedenkenlos nicht verwendete Layouts entfernen, sodass nur noch ein Layout übrig bleibt. Im Zweifelsfall könnte man entfernte Layouts auch später wieder hi ...

Debian 13 will probably be released in mid-2025, so the next MX release (MX-25) will probably be not ready before late 2025.

I think you can comfortably do fresh installs with MX-23 at the moment.

The thing with in-place upgrades is that troubleshooting them usually takes longer than doing a fresh install and you can never be sure there won't be more problems later. So I guess you will have to bite the bullet this time. One thing that's interesting in my opinion is finding the reason why the ...

We've seen reports here of folk using MX-Snapshot to create an ISO image of their complete system as large as 700-800GB in size, and verified them to be a workable full-recovery solution. That's pretty cool. MX-Snapshot is really one of the gems of the MX-Tools suite. I'd recommend backing up data ...

Zur Ergänzung, weil es in Scipts sehr häufig nützlich ist: Du kannst eine einzelne oder mehrere Spalte(n) aus einer Ausgabe mit awk herauslösen:
liefert in dem Fall die gleiche Ausgabe wie whoami. print $1 liefert die erste Spalte der Ausgabe.