The download finished, but the terminal is full of unreadable characters and there’s no file in the folder. I like that curl can send the same response straight to a file, with the saved name either taken from the URL or chosen by you. The key difference starts with where curl sends the response when
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After adding a newer Neovim, the regular nvim command can still open the older copy. I was curious how to try the new version without retiring the editor already in place. A read-only lookup lets you see what will open before changing anything, keeping your current editor as a fallback. The first check is command
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You want Discord on your Linux desktop so you can keep chats and calls outside the browser. The first thing you need is a current download that fits your distribution. Installing it adds the desktop app and any supporting software it needs through your system’s software tools. Knowing who supplies client updates also means you
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Your Ubuntu VM is running, and now you want it to work with VMware rather than just boot inside it. open-vm-tools adds the guest-side software that lets Ubuntu communicate with the host. The installation changes files and services inside Ubuntu, so you’ll need sudo access in the virtual machine. You’ll find the right install path
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Your old login name no longer fits, but you don’t want to start over with a fresh Ubuntu account. Renaming the existing account lets you keep your home files and their ownership. The change uses terminal commands from a separate administrator account while you’re signed out of the account being renamed. You can also move
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You can try Brave alongside your current browser and decide later whether to switch. It starts with its own bookmarks and settings, so you can set it up without changing your existing browser. For the install itself, your Linux distribution is the starting point. Brave’s native package route lets your usual package manager handle its
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Puppy Linux is a family of small distributions with different desktops and package tools. You can boot a selected build from USB without installing it to your internal drive. For a first test, I recommend live boot so you can check essential hardware before deciding whether changes should persist. What Puppy Linux includes, and what
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date prints the clock, and the argument after the plus sign decides which shape that clock comes out in. I ran date +%F on a UTC machine and got 2026-09-16, where the bare command printed Wed Sep 16 17:43:13 UTC 2026. That switch also produces the epoch number a script compares against and the ISO
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CPU temperature on Linux has two correct answers and each one fails on the wrong machine. Install lm-sensors and run sensors, or read a file under /sys/class/thermal. A temperature appears only after a kernel driver recognises a sensor chip and publishes its registers as files. The first command is therefore a detection command, and the
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useradd prints nothing and exits 0. That silence is not success, because the account it leaves behind has no home directory, a /bin/sh login shell, and a password field locked in /etc/shadow. I ran each flag on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 account and read the state back after every one. The flags that carry the
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