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Vanilla Ubuntu

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Installing things

App Images

can be downloaded and run without installation or the need for root rights.

Making it executable
You can make the appImage executable as follows:

 chmod a+x exampleName.AppImage

Executing it
You can execute an appImage as follows:

 ./exampleName.AppImage

Uninstalling things

If the application has been installed via the package manager, all you have to do is run

 sudo apt-get remove <application_name>

Sometimes applications can be split up into multiple packages (for example, many games have a separate package for their music). To make sure that you uninstall all related packages AND configuration files, you can type

 sudo apt-get purge <package-name>

ElementaryOS

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Its Of Utmost Importance

How to boot from USB

Elektra:

  1. Shut down your Surface.
  2. Insert the bootable USB drive into the USB port on your Surface.
  3. Press and hold the volume-down button on the Surface. While you’re doing this, press and release the power button.
  4. The Microsoft or Surface logo appears on your screen. Continue to hold the volume-down button. Release the button once spinning dots appear beneath the logo.
  5. Follow the on-screen instructions to boot from your USB drive.

Shut down your Surface.
Once Surface has turned off, press and hold the volume-up button.
With the volume-up button held down, press and release the power button.
Continue holding the volume-up button until the Surface or Windows logo no longer appears on the screen.
You should now see the Surface UEFI.

Terminal keyboard commands

Ctrl+Shift+C : copy
Ctrl+Shift+V : paste
Ctrl + A or Home : Moves the cursor to the start of a line.
Ctrl+ E or End : Moves the cursor to the end of a line.
Esc + B : Moves to the beginning of the previous or current word.
Ctrl + K : Deletes from the current cursor position to the end of the line.
Ctrl + U : Deletes from the start of the line to the current cursor position.
Ctrl + W : Deletes the word before the cursor.
Alt + B : Goes back one word at a time.
Alt + F : Moves forward one word at a time.
Alt + C : Capitalizes letter where cursor is and moves to end of word.
Up Arrow or Ctrl + P : Scrolls through the commands you’ve entered previously.
Down Arrow or Ctrl + N : Takes you back to a more recent command.
tab : It autocompletes any commands or filenames, if there’s only one option, or else gives you a list of options.
Ctrl + R : Searches for commands you’ve already typed.
History : The history command shows a very long list of commands that you have typed.

Current problems

  1. Dropbox

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