A few commands to gather what packages are installed currently can greatly help with reinstalling them (f.i. after a major crash). You may want to install the home directories on a separate drive so that a system crash will have no effect on your user configuration. Otherwise backup your dotfiles, ~/.config, ~/.local etc. Consider backing up /etc to restore system configuration files.
Sometimes it’s useful to synch a directory using github. Here’s how.
It’s easy to run out of disk space. Notification that your have insufficient disk space normally come at the worst moment in time, just when you needed to upgrade or install that special package. There is a simple command that can help you quickly assess which files clog up your drive.
Over the years I learned some useful Linux tidbits that I want to share in this post. Some are useful for the terminal only, others also apply to a typical desktop environment.
Desktop environments allow us to connect bluetooth devices with little effort but what if you are running a headless Raspberry Pi? This post lists the commands needed to scan for and connect to bluetooth devices.
