Recently, I encountered a strange issue on my Linux setup where VLC Media Player refused to play certain videos—specifically, vertical ones. The files were encoded with the H.264 codec, and while audio played just fine, the video failed with an error saying: Codec not supported. VLC could not decode the format.
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Remote desktop access should be simple, but if you’re using AnyDesk on Linux, especially under KDE Plasma with a Wayland or X11 session, you may have encountered a frustrating issue: the remote screen displays only partially, and some controls remain misaligned or unreachable.
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Windows, in general, and Windows 11, in particular, is a very interesting operating system. It has features that can sometimes be a little confusing, especially when it comes to disk encryption. For example, while it shows that the C drive is encrypted with BitLocker, if you go into BitLocker management, it might prompt you to
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.desktop files to run LibreOffice applications
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How to run a physical installation of Windows in a virtual machine without loosing the ability to still run this copy natively?
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On Ubuntu boot you get an error Failed to load session “ubuntu” and you would like to know the cause of it.
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So there are a lot of bogus entries in the EFI selection list of your bootmenu.
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When booting, Ubuntu displays an error: The disk drive for UUID is not ready or not present yet
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I hate many things about Ubuntu, but the most frustrating is that it doesn’t save backlight brightness settings and the screen glows right into my face at full power on each boot.
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If you have this error “The disk drive for /tmp is not ready or not present” it is related to mountall utility bug which tries to mount the temp folder before it has been cleared of leftovers from previous boot.
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