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Running Windows Games from Steam on Fedora Silverblue with NVIDIA Graphics
There are 2 steps to follow for this. Install RPM Fusion I just copied this from https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration#Command_Line_Setup_using_rpm. Once the above command is run, reboot. Install NVIDIA Drivers and Steam I tried using Steam from the Flathub, but it could not see the NVIDIA graphics card. Install “Nvidia System Monitor” from Flathub This will allow you…
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Fix Steam Proton Windows Games not Running when Accessed Through “Family Library Sharing” in Ubuntu Linux
If you have set up Steam “Family Library Sharing” in Ubuntu (Or other.) Linux (Perhaps following https://blog.budhajeewa.com/make-steam-family-library-sharing-effective-in-ubuntu-linux/.), you will notice that Windows games running with Steam Proton are not working when the secondary user (The one who is borrowing the games.) is trying to play them. To fix this, log in to the secondary user’s…
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Make Steam “Family Library Sharing” Effective in Ubuntu Linux
Steam has a great feature called “Family Library Sharing” that allows you to share games that you’ve already downloaded with other users on the same computer. However, in my experience, in Ubuntu (And most likely in other Linux OSes as well.), other users won’t be able to see any games you have installed, even if…
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Docker Limit Concurrent Uploads and Downloads: For Unreliable Network Connections
By default, Docker opens up multiple upload or download connections, so that it can move multiple layers of images at a given time. This is a performance boost, when used with a reliable connection. But if your network connectivity is not so reliable, doing one thing at a time and waiting for it to succeed…
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Fixing not being able to log in to fresh MySQL installation on Ubuntu
If you did a fresh installation on a new Ubuntu (~18.04) version, you may find that it is not possible to log in to MySQL with its root user, unless you do so as Ubuntu’s root user. Here’s how to fix it:
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Enabling Global MySQL Log in Ubuntu
If you use (You should!) MySQL Prepared Statements, you may not be able to see how the final MySQL queries looks like, within your application, with all the bindings put into place. This is how to view them:
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Fix USB Drives after Using them as Startup Disks
A problem I have encountered every time I use a USB drive as a Startup Disk, is that their block size get changed, and even gparted reports that it can’t fix the that. The following command will fix that.
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Sri Lankan English Locale for Ubuntu (And other Linuxes)
Sinhala (si_LK) is the only locale available for Sri Lanka in Ubuntu OS. While the Sinhala locale is not bad in itself, displaying “රු” in currencies, “පෙ.ව” and “ප.ව.” and Sinhala month and date names are a distraction, specially in terminal where Sinhala unicode rendering is not that good.
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I switched to Windows!?
In my previous post, I told the story of buying a new laptop [1]. I immediately burned an Ubuntu 16.04 ISO to a USB Flash Drive and began the installing process. I tried to install it several times, but it failed at the final stage of the installation process, saying that it failed to install…
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Fix Ubuntu Locales Error
Just installed Ubuntu, ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to encounter a “perl: warning: Setting locale failed.” error?