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Environment Variables and Secure Path for sudo

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

sudo -E command_to_run

sudo $(which command_to_run)

sudo env "PATH=$PATH" nvim

The "correct" way is to update the secure path using the commanding sudo visudo.

For more discussions, please refer to …

Run Virtual Machines on Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

While VirtualBox is a popular cross-platform tool for running virtual machines, KVM is a superior solution for Linux as KVM is a type-1 hypervisor which runs directly on the hardware via …

Tips on Toolbx

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

I personally devoted effort on Docker images which makes it easy to develop in Docker containers.

  • Create a user with same uid/gid as the user on the host on the …

COSMIC Is a Rock Solid Desktop Environment for Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Auto Login

/etc/greetd/cosmic-greeter.toml

[terminal]
vt = "1"

[general]
service = "login"

[default_session]
command = "cosmic-greeter-start"
user = "cosmic-greeter"

[initial_session]
command = "start-cosmic"
user = "username"

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-greeter/issues/80

Atomic Linux Distributions

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Atomic Linux distributions (often called "immutable" distros) are a modern breed of operating system designed to be more reliable, secure, and maintainable than traditional Linux distributions. See chat with Gemini .

Some …