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Dual Boot Linux and Windows

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

I personally don't see much value in dual booting Linux and Windows. Please refer to Windows Emulation on Linux if you need to run Windows apps on Linux.

Mount the Windows …

Tips on the Fish Shell

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

Tips & Traps

  1. Configuration files of the fish shell are located at ~/.config/fish.

Installation & Configuration

icon makes it easy to install and configure the fish shell.

icon fish -ic

Key Bindings …

Rip Is rm Improved

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

rip2 is the successor of rip.

Installation

cargo

cargo install --locked rip2

icon

Or you can use the following command if you use the tool icon. Notice that icon automatically configures rip to add a symbolic link to /usr/local/bin.

icon rip2 -ic

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 …