felahdab

For some reason I can't really explain, I woke up the other day with this urgent need to change of Linux distribution.

I have been a long time user of debian or debian-derived distribution.

My laptop has been running Ubuntu since at least 2011.

I didn't know Arch Linux until a few weeks ago.

I read an article about it online, and it took some time before I made up my mind.

felahdab

I just bought a Dell G3 15 3500 laptop.

I wanted to make a complete backup of the system before using it. Therefore, I planned to use Clonezilla but encountered difficulties.

Here a brief summary of what I had to do to have Clonezilla work:

1. If you want to save some disk space, you can disable Bitlocker. That will require you to boot and go thru the first system setup. I recommend to avoid connecting to a Microsoft account.

felahdab

In order to make QGIS portable on Windows:

• get a copy of a vanilla QGIS install (usually Program Files\QGIS 3.16)
• Create a "profiles" directory in the root folder of the QGIS copy
• Modify the qgis-ltr.bat file and add the 2 following lines before the start line:

del %OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\qgis-ltr-bin.env
%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\qgis-ltr-bin.exe --postinstall

• Modify the start line and add --profiles-path "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%" before the %* which should remain at the end of the line

felahdab

How to host a complete Laravel application thru a domain "subfolder", when using Nginx_proxy_manager:

For this example, I suppose you have an nginx_proxy_manager instance (docker container) setup, and that you want to make an application which is served by another web server container at its root (say: http://web-container/) in a subpath of the nginx_proxy_manager proxy host entry.

Create a custom location:

• define the path (ex: foobar/)
• make it point to the application serving the Laravel application you wish to access (web-container/ be careful to include the /)
• modify the advanced settings and insert the following directives: