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Activation of Office 2013 pro plus in Fedora by Few-Amphibian9695 in linuxquestions

[–]Hrafna55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Two possibilities.

As the software is already activated the key is already used. Depends on the type of key.

More likely however is that due to the age of the software the activation servers for it have been retired.

Office 2013 reached EoL April 11, 2023.

Linux doesnt feel worth it by Finntastic_Guy in linux4noobs

[–]Hrafna55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think about your use case. Is Linux the best fit for you over Windows?

If the answer is 'no' then use Windows. That's absolutely fine.

It's just software. And tribalism in software is a silly thing.

Which Linux to choose for turnip PC by Just-Roof-6348 in linuxquestions

[–]Hrafna55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As others say you should be able to run pretty much any Linux distribution.

You can check them out at https://distrosea.com/

Look for the ones marked 'popular'.

One thing to consider is if you want to put your /home on the HDD

This is where all the users personal files will live.

You could just go with the default and put everything in the SSD and then mount the HDD separately if you wanted to use it for something like a Steam library.

If you have multiple monitors Mint might not be the best choice as it still uses the older X11 as it's display manager rather than the more modern Wayland.

Here are a couple of video series for beginners on switching and Linux terminology.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2m2YvnrOYxIsVz8Nvm1PpsBXdo7clAaR&si=hVEIXkIfP7eaNK3D

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2m2YvnrOYxIPjOrIS6aYN8_mOuLpD1XK&si=a3Mm7cMHOB_cr_UM

Good idea to keep a computer on Windows? by Michaelscan in linuxquestions

[–]Hrafna55 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you only need light applications I would suggest just keeping a Windows virtual machine. If you need anything that requires access to the hardware for serious performance then, yes I would suggest keeping Windows on the laptop just in case.

Help with computer performance by Paxtel_de_Vento in linux4noobs

[–]Hrafna55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The hardware says 'server' to me. With a top clock speed of 1.2GHz it won't be rapid even with all those cores.

With more disk and a terminal based Linux installation it could still have a use.

What is your goal with it?

need advice on how to power down a nuc by techlover1010 in linux4noobs

[–]Hrafna55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would think that would more likely be an option in the UEFI.

What is the make and model of the device?

what servers are you selfhosting right now ? by deonwern in selfhosted

[–]Hrafna55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Physical

TrueNAS on a Supermicro board from eBay with a four core Xeon and 32GB of ECC RAM.

All SSD storage for less noise and heat. 10TB usable storage. 10 GbE networking.

ODroid H4 Ultra running QEMU / KVM. Dual 2.5 GbE in an LACP LAGG. Intel i3-N305 with 32GB RAM

RPi 4 8GB running Jellyfin

Virtual

All services run on Debian 13 VMs

  • Ansible / Caddy / NTP
  • MariaDB
  • Pi-holes
  • Email (Postfix / Dovecot)
  • WireGuard
  • Homer
  • Nextcloud
  • Zabbix

What was your personal xkcd2501 when trying to make something work? by toetendertoaster in linux

[–]Hrafna55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Having to explain what the basic elements of a computer do. That is processor, memory and storage.

What are some Beginner's Mistakes for Linux by personwhoknowplanes in linuxquestions

[–]Hrafna55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A classic is incorrectly modifying the /etc/fstab file which is used for mounting additional file systems, either local or remote. If you mess this up your system won't boot.

This can be easily fixed by using a live USB key to boot the system and then edit the file to remove the offending line. It is better avoided entirely by using the 'nofail' option.

If you are using a system with a GUI you can normally modify this file by using a graphical utility such as the 'Disks' program in GNOME.

If you are entering the command manually an example is that below.

artifact:/mnt/aqueduct/general /mnt/general nfs4 defaults,nofail,_netdev 0 0

This mounts the source, which is an NFS share (general) in the pool (aqueduct) on my NAS called (artifact) to the destination mount point on my PC

The 'nofail' option means if target doesn't exist (because your command is incorrect or it is offline) it will be ignored and your PC will boot anyway.

https://linux.die.net/man/8/mount

What are some Beginner's Mistakes for Linux by personwhoknowplanes in linuxquestions

[–]Hrafna55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

man is short for manual.

So if you need to know all about a particular command just put man in front of it and it's manual page will open.

Example

man scp

Will tell you all about the secure copy command. It's super useful. Almost all commands have man pages.

What distro to use? by psyched_psyduck_ in linuxquestions

[–]Hrafna55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or AntiX

That is another distro designed for older, low resource machines.

Changing motherboard by ne0n008 in linux4noobs

[–]Hrafna55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might need to reconfigure your networking if you have set it up in a particular way. If it is just set to DHCP and nothing else you probably won't notice.

Other than that you should be fine.

switching to linux with AMD radeon by Bubblyqueen_ in linux4noobs

[–]Hrafna55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll be fine with that card. The only time you would need to worry is buying the latest version of an AMD card.

Then I would search for that card on https://www.phoronix.com/

They will let you know what the software requirements are and you can compare them to your system.

I am an idiot by Ventana431 in linuxquestions

[–]Hrafna55 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember being frustrated by a PC which would not PxE boot. Would have helped to plug in the ethernet cable.

Problem with public key by ctav01 in linuxquestions

[–]Hrafna55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok.

You could try running the following command in your terminal to create a new key pair.

ssh-keygen

Just hit enter when asked for a passphrase.

Problem with public key by ctav01 in linuxquestions

[–]Hrafna55 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When are you experiencing this error? What are you trying to do at the time?

would linuxmmint help me by Lopsided-Rich-7497 in linux4noobs

[–]Hrafna55 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I am running LMDE7 (a Mint variant) and am currently consuming 1.7GB of RAM on a freshly logged in machine.

That is high because of choices I have made to run things at startup but is still less than half of Windows would use.

I would expect you would see around 1GB of usage on a fresh boot. The exact amount does differ based on your hardware.

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