tips and tricks section -would you contribute?

[viking60]

What do you think guys

[dedanna1029]

I think it would be okay so long as we don't become too much like another forum.

As to how much I'd contribute, I can't say.

My days of talking too much here are starting to wind down.

[viking60]

I am thinking along the lines of tips and tricks pure. No comments or questions in that forum except directly relevant ones to the solution provided. Other stuff must be moderated out of there. Tips elsewhere on this board could also be moved in. It could become a valuable toolbox. I see no problem in stealing the best tips from other forums either as long as we structure it right here- making it accessible.
The next time someone installs Mandriva, Arch or Gentoo etc he should be able find some tips without reading a whole bible first.
This is an example (Mandriva(:

When you discover that you do not have access to your documents on windows:
DO NOT:
chown -R username /media/win/User/user_name_folder. (Or any other folder)
It will break your access on the Windows side even if the user name is the same. You will have access from the Linux side.
DO:
Check your ntfs-config settings.
and

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chmod -R 777 /media/win/User/Your_User_Name

(Note that your path might be different like /media/windows or /media/win_c etc. you will have to check this and use yours)
Then it will work again on both sides.
Case closed

And this (Arch/Chakra):

After having installed KDE according to the instructions on the chakra pages:
Install qimageblitz

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pacman -S qimageblitz

This file is not correctly pulled when installing the chakra kde.
This will let you log in to KDE but plasma will crash after 10 sec.

To fix this new error you must remove :

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pacman -Rd kdemod-networkmanagement-networkmanager-plasmoid

(I also moved the chakre repositories up before the Arch repos in /etc/pacman.conf but I don't think that matters)

I think that a solved case in the Help section naturally would find its place in a tips and tricks section in a restructured and refined form. And of course a tip from the experience of the forum members.
This is not supposed to be the "look good and show off" forum. Just a collection of simple (and complex) solutions on topics we all have struggled with. What is trivial for one, might be the AHA experience of a lifetime for the next guy (probably me)
A simple link to the best Linux command site on the Internet would clearly belong in a forum like that.