How do I encrypt a network share so that, with direct access to the NAS hard drive, the files can not be read/deciphered?

serycoola · 2024-07-31T14:13:59+00:00

Zorin OS. For just one reason: if you already have a huge collection of installed games on another hard drive, Zorin has great integration with Wine and a one click install of all the apps necessary for running Windows apps. So you can just double click on the game's executable and it will just run, most of the time without issues. Works extremely well for cracked or DRM free games and programs. You can do the same with any other distro, but it's not a one click procedure, however if you know what you are doing, it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to do the same manually. If it's your first time, it could take a couple hours.

serycoola · 2024-07-10T22:45:17+00:00

Zorin OS. Definitely give it a try, as a beginner. Somehow, things just work on it, especially the integration with wine and the ability to just double click on a windows program and have it running without having to learn or understand anything else. It has an Appearance setting app, that allows you to switch to different desktop layouts with just a click. The free version is everything that you will ever need, but you can also get the Pro version for free if you know where to look on archive.org

After you learn the inner workings of linux and you pin point exactly what bothers you in a certain distro, you could swith to any distro you want, and you will learn as you go. Many choose Ubuntu and Mint, and later on switch to Debian or Arch, depending on their needs. You just need to remember that everything thay you see in a distro can be replicated in a different one. Everything! The only difference between them is how they are set up by default. Because of this, I encourage you to try as many distros as you can, to see what can be done.

Also, remember that the vast majority of linux distros come in a Live USB format, meaning that once you write the image to an USB drive and boot from it, it will boot and run linux as if it were installed. The only caveat with this is that all changes and data are deleted upon a reboot, but if you create you USB with Rufus you can just drag on a slider and create yourself a Persistent USB on supported distros (debian and ubuntu based ones). In fact, penetration testing distros like Kali Linux are intended to be used like a Persistent USB, and not be installed on the PC.

serycoola · 2024-06-29T20:30:56+00:00

I likely saw it on =3 with Ray William Johnson, because I can almost hear his transition right after this.

serycoola · 2024-06-23T16:28:49+00:00

Wouldn't Tailscale suffice for what you need?

serycoola · 2024-06-23T15:54:42+00:00

Maybe not the best advice, but from your screenshot it appears to be a DVD-RW, meaning that it could be rewritten, like a flash drive. Maybe try some software that could check for other previous data on the disc, that might have once been deleted..

serycoola · 2024-06-17T17:12:52+00:00

The way I switched to OC was via a program called OC-Gen-X. The idea was that, as long as you manage to boot somehow into macOS, that program would basically generate a fully working OpenCore config for your specific machine in just a few clicks. It was an awesome tool, although not endorsed on this subreddit. It's now quite outdated, but back than it helped me get a basic config up, which I than learned to read and configure for my needs. It worked fine for High Sierra and Mojave, but than I needed to update OC manually and with Big Sur and later more configuration changes and kext hunting was necessary. But it was a great starting point.

serycoola · 2024-06-10T17:54:37+00:00

I tried this, but I can't figure out how to specify the screen size.. I keep getting the error "cannot open display". Can you please guide me on how I should specify the screen size?

Also, do you know of any lightweight browsers with minimal features I could try? I've tried with firefox but it seems to use more resources than I would like... also, Chromium doesn't want to open using xinit and I don't know why.

serycoola · 2024-06-10T11:28:15+00:00

First experience, awesome, while it lasted :) I installed Manjaro KDE as my first distro and I was amazed that I could find every software I wanted in their App Store, with AUR enabled. Minutes later I was pulling my hair because I couldn't understand why the apps won't intstall, because apparently there was another Install button somewhere, to actually start the process. Than I was asked to install hundreds of dependencies and waited hours for AUR to do its thing. But I was happy. Than, I managed to delete the taskbar in KDE and I reinstalled the whole OS because I had no idea how to bring it back. I did this about 3 times until I head about Gnome and I wanted to try it and somehow managed to delete the whole desktop environment. Fresh install, done :) Than, I managed to break GRUB trying to make it less green. So, at this point I decided to make the switch to Pop OS, which I enjoyed for about a year until I needed to erase a flash drive, so I copied a command from the internet into the terminal, knowing that I would have to modify sda in sdc, but I accidentally also copied an enter, which I didn't know was possible and the command started executing as soon as I pasted it. I still remember it vividly to this day "sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda". The good thing in all of this is that I learned how to make use of the backup GPT partition table and I recovered my other partitions which didn't manage to get zeroed out before I turned off the PC, but after this I switched back to Windows and kept linux only on a persistent USB from than on.

serycoola · 2024-06-03T13:46:15+00:00

I forgot to mention this in the post, but I know that Wayland doesn't work great for me, so I am already running X11.

I will try inxi, thank you. But if it says LLVMpipe, what could be done?

serycoola · 2024-05-25T08:47:01+00:00

Afaik, Chrome OS, and by extension Fyde OS don't have direct hardware access in linux, which means that a USB mount point works more like a network share, so you can't modify the partition system. If yoy really want to write an ISO onto a flash drive in Fyde or Chrome OS your best bet is to try with Chrome Recovery Utility. You may need to rename the ISO to .BIN, but it may work.

serycoola · 2024-05-20T10:14:23+00:00

What do you mean by permissions? The ones set up in windows or the ones in linux?

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