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The chroot Technique - a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems

Ever ran into a Linux box that just won’t boot, even after making sure that BIOS settings are OK and that no major hardware errors are at hand? Then you need to know about the chroot technique, which can be a real life saver. For example, I managed to repair a Nanopore GridION device this way the other week, …

Random notes from installing Debian 11 with separate accounts for work and private

See especially the end for info about how to set up a nice integration between the work and private accounts, such that one can e.g. occasionally start the mail client or web browser from the private account from the work one etc. Caveats when installing Debian 11 Make sure that an EFI partition is created (when I …

Installing Qubes OS

I just switched to Qubes OS as operating system on my main work laptop (a Dell Latitude). Or in fact, one of the reasons was to be able to combine work and private hobby coding projects, that’s increasinbly been happening on the same machine. Anyways, these are my experiences and notes, as a way to document …

Terminator as a middle-way between floating and tiling window managers

I have tried hard to improve my linux desktop productivity by learning to do as much as possible using keyboard shortcuts, aliases for terminal commands etc etc (I even produced an online course on linux commandline productivity ). In this spirit, I naturally tried out a so called tiling window manager (aka tiling wm). …