@Pythoniscool I have no idea. But I suggest you to ask a question in the main site as more people are there in the main site than compared to this chat room. But I will be glad if anyone else can help you out here.
@technastic_tc Thanks. I had to find a disk imager that can write .img too But there aren't many cool things for ubuntu. I have to use DD and now I am trying to learn DD. It is a COOL tool.
The coolest imager ever is Rufus but it isn't available for Linux.
I recently realized we can use cat as much as dd, and it's actually faster than dd
I know that dd was useful in dealing with tapes where block size actually mattered in correctness, not just performance. In these days, though, are there situations where dd can do something cat can't? (Here I wou...
@Pythoniscool It isn't bad. It is just very complex and extremely easy to get wrong and a mistake can destroy your system. If you use of=/dev/sda instead of of=/dev/sdb by mistake, you just deleted your OS. And if you are on an EFI system and use the EFI partition by mistake you could even brick the machine. This is also a risk with cat, yes, but because the syntax is simpler, it's easier to spot mistakes
> It is not UNIX’s job to stop you from shooting your foot. If you so choose to do so [sic], then it is UNIX’s job to deliver Mr. Bullet to Mr Foot in the most efficient way it knows.
@technastic_tc no, it isn't. There are only two systems that I know of whose main aim is to be user friendly: Windows and Macs. Most others' main aim is to be powerful and let you do what you want to do in an efficient and fast way, but not necessarily a safe one.
After all, not all OSs are designed to be used by non-expert users.
One of the things I hated the most back when I was using Windows 20 years ago, was its annoying insistence on needing me to confirm actions or hiding things from me "for my own good". Now, that's a great feature for many people, but it was nothing but an annoyance for me. I knew what I wanted to do so this thing was just making it harder for me to use the system.
So a Linux system that would block me from doing something because it perceives it as dangerous would be horrible! Of course, we always make mistakes, but in the Linux word it is usually your responsibility to be careful. I don't expect the system to protect myself from my own stupidity, that's my job!
Guys. I know it can screw the system. I actually listened to @technastic_tc solution. I have ubuntu but I have an ubuntu in gnome-boxes too. It is somehow a little ubuntu in ubuntu. Nothing would happen there.
Anyway if I get screwed it was my fault. Not like windows which is microdofts fault
PC specs:
RAM: 3.8 GiB
Processor: Intel® Dual-Core Celeron® N3050 SoC (1.6 GHz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-N3050M-D3P (If I recall correctly)
I've been using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS since past couple of months. I've had some freezes in the past (like this). Since past couple of weeks, Firefox started cr...
I am so sorry to hear that anyway. I hope you fix it. It depends on your region too. Where I live, a laptop is 100 Million T and if I lose mine I will be screwed
@Benny Why? Nothing wrong with images if you're showing something in the GUI. It's just images of text (things like screenshots of your terminal or your code) that we want to avoid because there the image does not help and, in fact, makes things worse since you can't copy the text from it.
But there's no rule against images in posts in general
I have noticed a lot of posts on AU with screenshots of their terminal showing commands and their output. This is seems like a very bad idea to me because:
You can't copy/paste the commands
They won't come up when searching
The post is heavier (in terms of the amount of data) and will take lon...
PC specs:
RAM: 3.8 GiB
Processor: Intel® Dual-Core Celeron® N3050 SoC (1.6 GHz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-N3050M-D3P (If I recall correctly)
I've been using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS since past couple of months. I've had some freezes in the past (like this). Since past couple of weeks, Firefox started cr...
I have noticed a lot of posts on AU with screenshots of their terminal showing commands and their output. This is seems like a very bad idea to me because:
You can't copy/paste the commands
They won't come up when searching
The post is heavier (in terms of the amount of data) and will take lon...
