I am looking to install Linux on a new laptop I have, with only 64gb of storage.  I am curious if there are any sources that compare the base install size of various distros.  I am not looking to go off the beaten path, so I am really only considering maybe Lubuntu, Xubuntu, or Ubuntu Mate. I might consider Ubuntu 18.04 with minimal install, but I only have 4gb ram as well, so I rather avoid gnome.  Is there any hard data (besides recommended storage size) that I can look into?
For a given hardware configuration, how do I find out if Ubuntu will run on it? What considerations should I take into account when choosing an Ubuntu version and  such as:    with a lighter desktop than the usual Gnome and Unity  with the even lighter LXDE desktop   Obviously Ubuntu does not run on some processor architectures. So how do I go about choosing the right version and derivate. How can I find out the minmal system requirements?
How to connect a Nokia Lumia 730 to Ubuntu 14.04? Can grep output only specified groupings that match? Say I have a file:  # file: 'test.txt' foobar bash 1 bash foobar happy foobar   I only want to know what words appear after "foobar", so I can use this regex:  "foobar \(\w\+\)"   The parenthesis indicate that I have a special interest in the word right after foobar.  But when I do a grep "foobar \(\w\+\)" test.txt, I get the entire lines that match the entire regex, rather than just "the word after foobar":  foobar bash 1 foobar happy   I would much prefer that the output of that command looked like this:  bash happy   Is there a way to tell grep to only output the items that match the grouping (or a specific grouping) in a regular expression? ASCII to Binary and Binary to ASCII conversion tools? Which is a good tool to convert ASCII to binary, and binary to ASCII?  I was hoping for something like:  $ echo --binary "This is a binary message" 01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101101 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100001 01100111 01100101   Or, more realistic:  $ echo "This is a binary message" | ascii2bin 01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101101 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100001 01100111 01100101   And also the reverse:  $ echo "01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101101 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100001 01100111 01100101" | bin2ascii This is a binary message   PS: I'm using bash  PS2: I hope I didn't get the wrong binary What suggestions should I make when reviewing a poorly written paper? Since I need a break from the reviewing...  Often in my field I review papers from researchers in Asia (reviews are not double blind) which are poorly written. By poorly written, I don't mean that the prose is not pleasing to the eye, that there are problems with how the writing flows, or that there are innocuous typos or spelling mistakes. Instead, the grammar used by the authors differs seriously from normal English, and often produces significant changes in the meaning of sentences.  Usually such papers are ultimately readable, but one has to go back and re-read sentences or paragraphs several times to infer the meaning (and this is with strong knowledge of the research area!), so I generally won't reject a paper solely for this reason. However, I would feel remiss in my duties as a reviewer if I didn't instruct the authors to improve this aspect of the paper. I'd like to provide helpful advice for the authors without just giving them a laundry list of the errors.   Typically I highlight a few places where I had significant trouble understanding what they actually meant to say, and suggest seeking a professional editor before publication.   Are these reasonable things to suggest?   What other suggestions can I make? Iterate over all pairs of consecutive items in a list What is the LaTeX command for "em dash" (—)? I am trying to insert the symbol in the title of the question, which I copied from a PDF article, but it appears as space in the output file. What is the corresponding LaTeX command? Getting "experimental" true displacement to work Finding net magnetic and electric force on charged particle This is from my textbook, it is not an assigned problem, but I want to understand.   It says:      Consider the situation in the figure, in which there is a uniform electric field in the x direction and a uniform magnetic field in the y direction. For each example of a proton at rest or moving in the x, y, or z direction, what is the direction of the net electric and magnetic force on the proton at this instant?   I believe I need to use the equation   $$ F_{net}=(q\overrightarrow{E})+q(\overrightarrow{v} \times \overrightarrow{B}) $$  But I'm not sure exactly how. We've just started to learn about this, and I want to get a head start. Could anyone put me on the right track? How can I set the box plot (i.e. axis) ratio of a usual 2D plot to a given value, say 4:3.  I don't want to use unit vector ratio since the quantities of the independent and dependent variables are of completely different orders of magnitude. Internet is working, but Firefox 67 browser cannot connect after update Degree of minimum polynomial at most $n$ without Cayley-Hamilton? Bijection between an infinite set and its union of a countably infinite set I have $A$ as an infinite set and $S$ as a countably infinite set, (so that means there exists a one-to-one correspondence between $S$ and $\mathbb{N}$).  How do I show that there always exists a bijection between $A$ and $A\cup S$? Can it be done by showing that there is a bijection from $A$ to $S$ or from $A$ to itself? I am lost on this one.   Oh, and can it be possible that there is no bijection if it is between $S$ and $A\cup S$? What about a map that maps $\mathbb{N}\to \mathbb{N}\cup\mathbb{R}$? Intuitive explanation of the tower property of conditional expectation I understand how to define conditional expectation and how to prove that it exists.  Further, I think I understand what conditional expectation means intuitively. I can also prove the tower property, that is if $X$ and $Y$ are random variables (or $Y$ a $\sigma$-field) then we have that  $$\mathbb E[X] = \mathbb{E}[\mathbb E [X | Y]].$$  My question is: What is the intuitive meaning of this? It seems quite puzzling to me.  (I could find similar questions but not this one.) Cancel misclicked flags I'm wondering (since it just happened to me), is it possible to "cancel" ("undo", "delete", "retract", whatever) a flag I just raised if I misclicked it, so the mods won't waste time?  I looked everywhere, but I can't find such a feature. Is time dilation an illusion? Stack Exchange doesn't allow me to answer protected questions because I gave away earned rep in bounties URLs: Should I use hyphens, underscores or plus symbols? Which is better for search engines?   example.com/my_cool_page.html example.com/my-cool-page.html  example.com/my+cool+page.html Reinhardt's main strength is his shielding abilities and the protection he provides for his team, but Are there any abilities that cannot be blocked by Reinhardt's barrier field? Do superheroes/villains like Quicksilver or Flash with super speed get tired due to running? Non-standard signature of main() compiles successfully