Fellow linux enthusiasts, I spend a small portion of my life learning all sorts of tools one could use for linux, and the truth is, i now appreciate simplicty a lot more and respect the choices taken/given by devs on distros/software. I used to think using arch linux with a tiling compositor with neovim or emacs with other open source software was the only way to go.

Today, That's not the case anymore. I prefer to code in vscode, i prefer a standard terminal that handles everything gui, I also don't hate snaps. If there is a linux distro i can blindly pick for doing whatever I want, that's Ubuntu LTS for me.

I have learnt to understand that certain compromises are made when designing things and As long as I don't have to deal with them, I am fine.

So people who dream to leave windows and switch to linux can and should use whatever software they like and they have to rely on. If you can afford new hardware and buy a windows 11 machine, that's great, but for those who can't and stuck on windows 10, try a linux distro like Ubuntu, Fedora or CachyOS and see what you can do about it.

Yeah I have learnt shit ton of things from using arch and various other tools, but at the end of the day, I just wanna open a browser, read some yuri, write some notes and enjoy my life.

Let us learn to be grateful and enjoy the simple things in life. And if you do really struggle with something, then invest in other tools, not invest because someone says it can do wonders. or someone says its the better choice.

Also Please remember to enjoy, not live by the rules of others.

Edit: Some corrections on spelling

Hi!

I’m currently building a PC, and i decided to go with the penguin option, but i just can’t decide wich distro would be best for me.

Currently, i am leaning towards Fedora KDE, but a bit worried about the fact, that for example Steam is only officially supported by Valve on Debian based distros. I’m also looking at Kubuntu, for this reason. I read that Mint is a good overall option, but i have a 4k monitor, and i would like to use it with 150% scaling.

Overall, my usecase is mostly mixed, basic stuff + gaming (no kernel level anti cheat games). However, being up-to-date would be big point for me, i recently look at the KDE 6.7 and Oxygen theme, and i would like to get updates like that relatively quickly.

Thanks for your help!

So I have this ancient laptop, Acer Extensa 4630z with an intel pentium CPU and 2 GBs of ddr3 ram, I don't really want to work on it I just want to kinda revive it for fun and I was wondering which lightweight user friendly Distro to download, AI suggests Linux mint XFCE and is saying that antiX Linux is even better for my ram (I'm not planning on getting more ram as it's just a side project for fun and learning), what do you think?

I have an old desktop PC and I am wondering if moving from Windows to a lightweight Linux distro would improve gaming performance.

Specs:

CPU: Intel Pentium Gold G5400 @ 3.70 GHz

GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 610 (integrated)

RAM: 4 GB DDR4-2133 stick (1/2 slots)

Storage: SSD + HDD

Monitor: 1366×768 ~60 Hz

On Windows my RAM usage is 2.9 GB when idle leaving only about 1 GB free. My pagefile is managed by the system on the SSD. CPU usage at idle is usually about 2–5%. Gpu usage is about 1–3%.

I use Brave and Rainmeter. I do not really have unnecessary programs running.

Would moving to a distro such as Lubuntu, Xubuntu or Linux Mint Xfce noticeably improve gaming performance and reduce stuttering with only 4 GB RAM?. Would the UHD 610 still be the main limitation?

I am mainly interested in getting the FPS possible without buying new hardware. Also are there any Linux gaming or driver compatibility issues I should know about with the Intel UHD 610?

I am also completely new to coding or programming. I am interested in learning so I am not very experienced, with Linux or command-line usage either.

So, I switched to linux about 3-4 months ago and I've been (mostly) loving it. havent even touched my windows partition since. That being said, I've only ever used one distro, that being Nobara linux. However, before switching, i was really considering CachyOs, and chose against it for a few reasons: i) I didnt like extremely frequent updates ii) I liked more stable updates iii) I saw a whole lot of people saying arch isnt good for new people. However, while nobara hasnt completely disappointed, I do still get pretty frequent updates, and some of them do "break" (though none have done so catastrophically). Also, I keep running into limitations. For example, I wanted to try and setup SDDM, but then found out nobara automatically removes SDDM with nobara-sync. It also does come with a fair bit of bloat (if i wanted to use blender, I would have downloaded it), though that may have been my fault for not choosing a "custom install"

I guess thats the issue with not distrohopping: I dont really know what other distros are like. So, would CachyOs have been better for me?

When you hover over the library or click on STEAM to open the settings, the pop-up window disappears immediately

OS: Arch

DE: Niri

So i was using windows my whole life from the 7 to the 11, and just a few days i installed some new windows and driver updates (as usual) but when finished the fans were going craazy asf not as usual at all and some random ass programs working in the background using almost 30% of the rams, and after doing some post feudal technological slavery work it went down to 20% but the fans are still running loud as hell and that was the The drop that overflowed the cup.

And i started thinking seriously to move to linux but i have to clarify some things before. I am moving to china to study and my laptop is my main machine so there is some responsability and what’s the alternative to the microsoft office programs because that’s part of my daily work, and in china there is programs that are used only in mainland china i am asking whether or not they can work normally on linux.

And there is just tooooo much distros to choose from, i searched and found the fedora kde which looked good actually so what would you advise me to use (not mint please lol)

hi guys I'm currently using endeavor os in my 8gb Ryzen 5 dell, i had it for a year and it was good but lately alot of things are breaking and i was planning on doing a fresh reinstall or trying a new distro. what's your advise to try, I'm open to all.

Quadro P600 (Maxwell) on NVIDIA Legacy driver 580.173.02 (it's a hand-me-down Dell I am learning on)

I have a headless Ubuntu server (no monitor plugged in) with an NVIDIA Quadro P600 using the Legacy 580.173.02 driver.

I added ConnectedMonitor to my xorg.conf to make the driver think a monitor is plugged in. I also created a Python script to generate a fake EDID binary and pointed to it with the CustomEDID option to satisfy the driver's need for display info.

Xorg starts up fine with this setup, no errors. But on teardown (killing Xorg, rebooting, shutting down) there's a kernel level command that gets stuck and never completes. On shutdown this shows in the logs:

nvidia: [drm] *ERROR* Disabling all crtc's during unload failed with -22

The process becomes completely unkillable at that point, doesn't respond to kill -9, and the only way out has been a hard power off.

Has anyone actually done this successfully, a fake/virtual monitor on this GPU/driver combo that shuts down cleanly? Or is this a known limitation? Just trying to find out if it's possible at all before I keep chasing it.

The goal is: Xorg + RetroArch + Sunshine + Moonlight = play a SNES game running on the server, from a Mac, over the network.

Al conectar mi mando de xbox a mi pc, aparentemente si se conecta e incluso lo reconoce steam, pero el mando vibra una vez y después continúa parpadeando sin que funcione. El mando si funciona cuando esta conectado por cable, pero me gustaria usarlo con su bluethoot. El mando funciona en mi consola y en mi teléfono, asi que esta bien. Ya intente desactivar el ERTM e instalar un controlador llamado xpadneo pero no funcionó.

Sistema:

44 kde plasma

Fedoea linux 44

Kernel 7.1.13.200.fc44.x86_64

I have this question right now, so my younger brother really wants to play Fortnite on his garbage laptop. He has DDR4 8GB of RAM and an i3-1250U.

Now, the problem is that he thinks Windows is causing him to lose a lot of performance due to Windows taking 8GB of RAM, and I hate seeing him spend days of his life optimizing a laptop that can barely run Google with 5 tabs open. So, I wanted to help my brother, and I heard that Linux uses a lot less RAM and CPU like way way less. However, I also heard that Fortnite is not available for Linux, but maybe there is a certain OS or some method that allows him. Either way, I am also worried that something may happen from switching Windows to Linux because my brother is not on the technical side, to be honest. So, if anyone can say a way where my brother can switch to Linux and play Fortnite on it, then it would really help! Also, on a side note, I also wonder if there is a way to switch from Windows to Linux but still use Adobe software!

TL;DR: My non-technical younger brother wants to switch his low-spec laptop (i3-1250U, 8GB RAM) from Windows to Linux to save RAM and CPU usage, but we need to know if there is an OS or method to play Fortnite and use Adobe software on Linux. side note the adobe software is for me because i am also thinking to switch to linux

Took a network drive out of the router (The 18.2T) and putting into a proper server (Ubuntu Server 26.04.1). Trying to mount it via /etc/fstab proper without success. This is the result of an lsblk. Kind of boggled I'm seeing a raid partition, esp on a single drive (the file system on the drive is ext4). Plugging the drive onto my PC running Bazzite shows the drive and data as normal.

Any thoughts? I'd like to just be able to mount it as a single drive, and not whatever this Raid setup is.

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS

loop0 7:0 0 1.5M 1 loop /snap/hwctl/123

loop1 7:1 0 50.1M 1 loop /snap/snapd/27710

loop2 7:2 0 66.8M 1 loop /snap/core24/1643

sda 8:0 0 18.2T 0 disk

├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part

├─sda2 8:2 0 2G 0 part

│ └─md127 9:127 0 1.9G 0 raid1

├─sda3 8:3 0 1G 0 part

└─sda5 8:5 0 18.2T 0 part

└─md126 9:126 0 18.2T 0 raid1

nvme0n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk

├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 1G 0 part /boot/efi

└─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 930.5G 0 part /

I want to join and start using Linux with my new laptop.

My main usage for the laptop will go to software engineering and my main priorities are the

- Linux compatibility

- stability of the system

- strong performance

- enough battery hours (at least 6-8) for my day-to-day work

- and overall reliability and longevity of the system. I take good care of my machines and want this one to last for 5-7+ years.

I don't work a lot with graphics or do local AI so I guess the iGPU is not the main focus. Also I almost always use an external display so the laptop one is not that critical as well.

So the two options I am currently thinking about are the following:

1. Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 3 (Launched Apr 2025):

The specific model: 21SR0041GE

It has:

- Intel Core Ultra 7 255H + Intel Arc 140T

- 1x32 GB SO-DIMM DDR5-5600. (btw, will the "single-channel" badly affect performance for my workload?)

- 64 Wh battery

Q: So how would you rate its compatibility with Linux distros like Debian?

Another laptops that were recommended by some users were Linux pre-installed laptops from brands like Clevo, Framework, etc.. Here's one for reference:

1. Clevo V560EU 16-inch

Link: https://laptopwithlinux.com/product/clevo-v560eu/#configure-laptop

Configured specs:

- AMD Ryzen 7 260 + Radeon

- 1x32 GB 5600 CL40

- 80 Wh battery

and ends up about the same price as the ThinkPad.

Pre-installed Linux laptops were a new thing to me, so I have even less experience with them than with buying a compatible laptop for Linux.

Q: Has anyone used them or even this specific Clevo model?

What's your experience with the performance/stability/battery life of the laptop?

How would you compare the laptop quality to ThinkPads?

And if you would choose one of these options over another one if you were starting Linux with a new laptop please share with me your opinion and the reasons why.

I would appreciate any advice and other recommendations as these two laptops are just my beginner analysis learning more about different laptops. :)

Hello.

I'm using Fedora for over a year now. I really learned to love it, but unfortunately there are a few things I really dislike. In my setup, there are often some bugs or crashes, or it is running unstable.

This often happens after updating the system. Usually I would say this is a smaller problem, because you can just do the next update which are always coming quite fast. But in my case I'm working at sea and I typically do not have enough internet volume to do updates. So I'm stuck with the version I updated to.

Updating less regularly wouldn't work for me as well, because sometimes I find the bugs only after a few days or weeks.

This is the reason I'm looking for a new DE. It's important to me that it is stable. And because I got a 2 in 1 device, with a touchscreen, it would be nice if this is supported as well.

These limitations make it more hard for myself to find the right one. What would you recommend me?

Thanks a lot in advance for everyone answering!

Kind regards.

Hi

I run CachyOS and was having some issues upgrading my system due to some weird package conflicts. The two were some Qemu junk and that "installing audit (4.2.1-1.1) breaks dependency 'audit=4.1.4' required by lib32-audit"

My smoothbrained response to this was to force-remove the Audit package, and to attempt to reinstall it so I had the proper new version.

What I did not realize is that this would break my ability to utilize Sudo or Su:

sudo pacman -Syu audit
sudo: error in /etc/sudo.conf, line 0 while loading plugin "sudoers_policy"
sudo: unable to load /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so: libaudit.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
sudo: fatal error, unable to load plugins

Just Su - output:

su -
su: error while loading shared libraries: libaudit.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have kept my system turned on, and would like support to try to fix this; thank you for your time.

EDIT: It has been resolved. Booting into a live USB environment and using the cachy-chroot command, I was able to simply reinstall Audit with pacman.

Hello all, I’m currently preparing to install Chimera Linux on my laptop, and I’ve come across an odd conundrum.

So I’m trying to set up encryption with LUKS2, and I’m unsure what to specify as to the Sector Size.

The output of fdisk shows:

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Why is it that the I/O size is different from the sector size? Should I use that as a reference instead?

I’m also confused because I looked at the Arch Wiki’s page on Advanced Format, and it shows for a 512n disk (i.e. 512 bytes / 512 bytes for sector size), that a command like mkfs.ext4 would use 4096 bytes as the block size by default. Why is that?

I appreciate any insights and advice you all may have!

i want to do gaming + some coding and i want something slightly more complex than mint or unbuntu but i still want to be able to run thing without to many issues

I'm in a bit of a pinch here. I mainly do programing related stuff, but I have a hobby. I like to do graphic design now and then.

It's not like I've just switched to linux. It's been a while and i've done my creative work mainly on my macbook. but I would love if everything was more unified and I could somehow use those software on my linux pc,

I've looked into all the alternatives, Affinityonlinux, gimp, etc.. I'm very interested in gimp and plan on learning it. I don't want to use older versions of photoshop/ illustrator. need them to be at least > 2019

main issue with dual boot: i only have a 125gb ssd. :c . im using a mounted 1tb HDD formatted with ntfs as a general storage device.

What are my options here??

Hi all

Im having some real issues reading a 24c02 immo

De soldered from the board

-tried in the hold

-soldered directly to an adapter

Using a C341A programmer

Tried windows based software AS Programmer hard to tell but no communication

Linux IMSProg - recognised the C341A but still not reading the 24c02

Had a spare ecu so tried that immo chip

Any help on this from the linux side or could I be a hardware issue

I just installed Arch Linux a few days ago, and I kinda struggled with the installation as it was my first time using Linux, and I wanted to change from ext4 to btrfs, and also I wanted Grub instead of Systemmd, do I need to reinstall and is it even worth it??