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/var is various, not variable. Web root directories for webservers are often placed here, due to a historical default for earlier versions of Apache. (They tried to shift it but many web developers are just used to /var/www or some such).
Even the great Linux master himself Erik Dubois of Arcolinux (and Arch advocate) has repeated many time; If you have a slow ISP, then Arch is not for you. His statement was due to the copious updates that Arch rolls out.
[Raising this to top level] Note that /home is NOT a standard (and wouldn't be followable even if it were), and home directories can be in, and in large sites MUST be in, lots of other places. Developers who can't get this through their heads (like the Snap developers as of 2024) cause lots of trouble to large sites, and to users whose smaller sites are set up like large sites. The correct way to determine a user's home directory is to use the $HOME environment variable, explicit ~ or ~username expansion (or a utility function for that, like Python has) or to look it up in the user database through a library call - developers and users MUST NOT ASSUME /home/<username> is correct, nor even assume that /home itself exists.
The FHS states just what you said. But in the vast majority of distros being used for personal use, it is the way. Of course for commercial/enterprise use a lot of things don’t apply, including where home can be elsewhere, even mounted to a remote location. Though I’m not aware of any common applications that assume the /home directory location. Any code I’ve seen use the home variable, or DE setting.
Great video, but one topic wasn't covered. If I have data files on Wimdows that I have been using for years to keep financial data, reports, etc, can they still be used in Linux? If I dual boot, can they be used by both systems? Thanks
Thanks! Yes you can still access your windows partitions from Linux. You CAN also access Linux files from Windows but you need to install programs that can do that. The easiest way to dualboot and have common storage is to make sure you have a drive or partition that is NTFS to store all your commonly used files. This way you can access them from both OSes and
I remember my first System which ran Linux. It was Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and I messed around with the system (I was 13). I tried many things until I somehow deleted my shutdown file and couldn't shut down my system any more xD well, I had to repair it by my self again. So I learned a lot of stuff during that time, especially I learned really fast English, because it was my second language and all the help I got was in English forums.
I know it's an old video, but what if i overwrite the whole harddrive which had Linux OS by installing Windows 7/10/11 then I want to recover my files that were in the Linux OS
there is a lot of good information in this video. BUT, the youtuber can NOT get to the point. Long drawn out explanation with a lot of unnecessary verbiage.
MsDos wasn't just a disk operating system! It was a rip-off from CP-M OS that Bill Gates stole from Gary Killdall after his mysterious murder in a pub fight and asked a local company to reverse engineer it that called it "Quick and Dirty Operating System". Later on he changed the name to Microsoft Disk Operating System and sold it off to IBM and become a billionaire by continuing the same theft style of doing business! Even tried to own TCP/IP the same way but did not succeed!
Guys, is it possible to install distros to lv partitions? Like i make them from first OS, and while installation new distro choose this lv? (LV from lvm)
Fun fact. The D in DOS originally stood for "Dirty" and is QDOS (quick and dirty operating system). It was changed to "Disk" for PR reasons since it managed all systems operations, systems, memory, ports, peripherals, etc., not just the disk. The concept of DOS being quick and dirty is exactly what made it intuitive and easy to learn, and superior to other alternatives at the time, and since.
I had the problem, that Gparted and Ubuntu wouldn't see my hard drive. Here is a quick fix: make sure to turn off raid in your bios (default in many laptops) and use AHCI instead. Also if you are using a WIndows Laptop, disable hybernation under "choose what opening the lid does".
After seeing the dystopian copilot snapshots that microsoft is shipping out soon, i'm now trying to migrate everything including games over to linus. That's completely unacceptable. Id give mint another shot
Good job on keeping it simple and straightforward. However, I think you downplayed the security concerns a bit. It’s not big, but there are vulnerabilities out there.
So beautifully explained! And I used the word beautifully instead of clear because not only it makes it crystal clear but it does it in a way which makes you appreciate the beauty of the LVM feature! Thank you for this lesson, it is so much clearer what LVM is.
@Doriandotslash as Ubuntu doesn't release those mini ISO installers anymore, what would you recommend? Just go with Ubuntu Server which doesn't have a GUI by default? I've noticed that even Lubuntu minimal installation includes all the desktop stuff and doesn't play great with some of my old hardware.
I like how detailed you are when doing your demonstration. You're very clear and pedagogical. And you enunciate and pronounce your words clearly without a lot of uhms and ahs, which actually isn't always the case with all youtubers. Great work!
I've been an Arch user because it worked best for gaming on Linux. Now that my focus is less on gaming and more on syadmin and coding work, I have been considering migrating a more stable distro. Rolling release has its uses, mainly using the latest versions of software.
