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Tips on VirtualBox

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

  1. If the graphics resolution is not correct and you cannot see the whole desktop when installing a Linux distribution in VirtualBox, quit the installation, enable the EFI mode for the virtual …

Desktop Environments for Linux

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

  1. desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ different DEs might have different format. At least I know that a desktop file created by Xfce cannot be used in GNOME, not sure the …

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 …

Use Share Folders in VirtualBox

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

  1. Do NOT check any of the following options unless you know what you are doing.

    • Read-only
      • You won't be able to write to the share directory.
    • Auto-mount
      • Auto-mount uses the root …

Managing Fedora Atomic Core System Using rpm-ostree

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

Fedora Atomic Linux ditributions use rpm-ostree to install system tools.

Upgrade

sudo ostree admin pin 0
rpm-ostree rebase
rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/43/x86_64/kinoite

Install VirtualBox Guest Additions

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

Atomic Linux Distributions

Fedora Atomic Linux Distributions

Open your terminal and run the following command to layer the package.

rpm-ostree install virtualbox-guest-additions

If you receive an error stating the package is …