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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Tell one thing that you miss after switching from another OS to Linux. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, it's Shared GPU memory.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

If I have to list a single thing that most irritates me on Linux then it is easily copying files to a USB connected drive.

The progress bar passes 100% and I get notification the files were copied but they were in fact not copied yet, it still takes several more minutes until I can actually unplug the connected drive or I'll lose the files.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Hokei, so. Usb "packets" are 12 bytes or something, and it's not good for performance to stop the flow. The solution is, as always, to have a buffer. Problem is that some kernel geniuses decided that GIGABYTES is a good buffer size. This was all when spinning hdds were the standard and new fast usbs were comming, but still.

Oh, and for some reason the transfer bar sometimes works fine for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

I run udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdX# in the terminal. When it completes, it means the files have finished copying and the partition was unmounted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 37 minutes ago

Our just run sync, which isn't as completely foolproof, but is easy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I'll give that a try next time I'll need to copy something, thanks