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  • Desyn0xox@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Got another one hooked guys!
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    2 months ago

    Dumb question here, but you did remember to point at a directory to mount the share to, right?

    Part from that, I’ve encountered needing to provide the domain as well (typically WORKGROUP) as the credentials for a user with access to the given share. Furthermore providing username and password on the command-line is known to have some issues, thus I encourage you to provide them in a credential file, which would look something like this:

    username=value
password=value
domain=WORKGROUP

    My typical command, changed for your case, would be:

    mkdir -p ~/mounted_music
sudo mount -t cifs -o credentials=~/creds //DESKTOP-N840KKP/My\ Music ~/mounted_music

    Not sure I’ve encountered it myself, but some shares doesn’t support Unix Extensions which can be disabled with “nounix”, you might want to define access rights then either “rw” or “dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777”. (0777 is not a good practice, but it’ll do for testing) thus something like the following options argument.

    -o credentials=~/creds,rw,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,nounix
  • Desyn0xox@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Any window manager suggestion
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    6 months ago

    I feel like hyprland is really popular, or at least it’s the one I most often hear mentioned. It should be really configurable as well, so maybe it’s worth a look. I’m not sure you’re going to notice much of a performance difference though, unless the device has a really limited amount of RAM.

  • Desyn0xox@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•What should I expect upon switching from windows?
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    6 months ago

    I’m excited you’re giving Linux a try! There are a ton of excellent ressources online for learning about Linux, how to make it your own (a practice commonly called ‘ricing’), or fix errors you may encounter. These are explored further in the links below :)

    1. Picking a distro. What I hear is that, unless you have some problematic hardware it doesn’t really matter what you pick. So if it feels overwhelming, don’t stress too much over if it’s the “right one”, you can always try different ones out. Having said that, my impression is, many coming from Windows seem to be happy with ‘Mint’. Likewise ‘Bazzite’ seems popular as of late. But ‘Pop_Os!’, ‘Debian’ or ‘Fedora’, are also all perfectly valid choices. Personally I’ve liked using Endeavour OS with KDE, for quite a while.

    2. Software. There’s so much cool software out there, so maybe search around for which can solve your needs. I like browsing Flathub.org or blogs, such as, Phoronix to discover new software. There might also be a discovery feature in the distro itself. Both Firefox (and its derivatives such as LibreWolf) and Chromium (along with its derivatives: Chrome, Brave, etc.) runs well. Even the much smaller project: LadyBird, does so. I have no experience with music production software on Linux, so cannot comment on that.

    3. Games. Might depend on which types of games you play. But to me it seems Steam (using Proton/Wine), Heroic Games Launcher, and Lutris, works great. The steamdb as others mention is also a super ressource!

    If you made it this far through my wall of text, I’m delighted by your curiousity. Two Linux “introductory videos” I’d like to share are respectively from Nick@thelinuxEXP Linux isn’t (just) better, it’s also more FUN! and Brodie Robertson’s Linux Resources Every New Linux User Needs Odysee YouTube