What happens if you add a local record to your local hosts file?

Also, are you using domain.local and not an actual custom domain?

It’s in the drive.

I’m confused… Did you ever at one point have BOTH drives hooked up to this same machine? Also, you said it boots fine on a separate machine, so it should be there, no?

From the LiveUSB, make sure to check the boot record, and that Grub is there. If not, look up installing grub properly from a LiveUSB. Here’s a general example, though it’s using Ubuntu (shouldn’t matter much) https://www.fosslinux.com/4477/how-to-repair-the-grub-bootloader-using-a-ubuntu-live-usb-drive.htm

du -hsc /var

Check the sheets to see which directories are taking up your space.

Not impossible you just killed your drive somehow, though unlikely.

Does the laptop have a manual boot menu you can try and select the drive to boot from?

If it still boots off the LiveUSB, plug that in and see if you can view the filesystem of the drive having issues. Double check in a disk manager that it says it’s bootable, then reboot, go to the LiveUSB Grub menu, and see if there is an option to skip booting the LiveUSB and boot from disk. See if anything happens then. It’s only two levels of debugging, but one or the other is going to show if your drive is not cooperating.

100% Brother, but shop from their Refurbished Store and save a ton of money. Comes with the same warranty as if it were new, and everything ships with toner included.

Time usually means Heat or Memory issues.

1. What are your system specs?
2. How much times passes before it crashes?
3. Does this happen with a brand new user you e created and logged in as, or just this one user?
4. There are errors for core apps in those logs. Do Kontact and Discover actually launch?

The only reason has wider device adoption (if that argument can even be made) is because manufacturers were given incentives for a long time to ship drivers for Windows. As it became the defacto desktop in corporations, they were further incentivized to ensure their hardware or peripherals had drivers available. The tides are turning a bit more towards Linux again, with every hardware manufacturer who even cares to dream of selling their products to the largest buyers (data centers) provides extensive support for Linux, because that’s what the backbone of everything really runs on anymore. Windows isn’t even a contender in the DC space in comparison, so much so that the entirety of Azure runs on Linux, and Microsoft has their own Linux Distribution.

xdg-open is responsible for handling those. You just need to change what it thinks the default might be: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1ha9czj/setting_default_browser_for_opening_links_with/

Lolz, are you joking?

…and the rest of it?

Also…do you know what the word “animosity” means? This ain’t that.

Ever dealt with packaging files? You tell them where to go. It’s a simple manifest that says where files get unzipped and put on the filesystem.

You have zero idea WTF you’re talking about.

Then you package them differently to address the naming. It’s not rocket science.

If there are two people named “Tom” in a room, do you just give up and walk out of said room because it’s impossible to find a way to communicate in a room with two people of a similar name? No.

Love Osnews. Been reading since the 00’s.

This is a dumb explanation and take by somebody who is stuck in their ways, and refuses to understand modern permissions systems.

The location of a binary executable matters less now than ever, and it’s location on the filesystem doesn’t matter whatsoever. It’s up to whomever packages and nothing more. As long as it’s documented, it doesn’t matter.

Try running sudo shutdown -h now and see if it still does the same thing.

If so, try forcing ACPI actions like so and see what happens: https://askubuntu.com/questions/125844/shutdown-does-not-power-off-computer#127022

I know this an ACPI tables issue, but there’s a wide variety of debug steps to figure out which one.

Have you updated the firmware recently? https://us.starlabs.systems/blogs/news/firmware-update-announcement-25-05

They’ve fixed a lot of ACPI and power issues with various models, including the mk7: https://github.com/StarLabsLtd/firmware/issues/139

What’s the model of the laptop?

Pro ably some ACPI issues. Have you changed BIOS settings or anything else recently? Did it previously work fine?

There are Linux tricks for these models of Surface devices. Go for that.

Rsync will always be faster than SMB. NFS will be faster than both other options. It’s a protocol thing. You should tune your SMB config properly though, as there are tweaks that can benefit throughput greatly.