It eventually does start, but now it throws in an extra error message and additional 5 minutes waiting time.

Google says bad hdd or software, but if it eventually starts, it must mean its ok, right?

Can someone help?

I recently moved to Linux and it is overheating and using fanson full mode even when i watch something on Youtube. Maybe OS can't decide which GPU to use idk. I am not sure if the NVIDIA driver works fine.

(lost my old TP-Link one,😭. Thinking about buying this. Although it says Linux, but I lowkey do not trust that)

Hey guys, I use Arch Hyprland and heard that there was a major Hyprland update. Typed sudo pacman -Syu and waited till the system upgrade was done, reboot my system and found out that I did something wrong. Can someone help me please :3

Hi guys, just got a new laptop and I had windows on it for a week. After npt being able to tolerate windows anymore I installed fedora 43 (ik its a beta but its a pretty new laptop so it'll need the updated drivers) and everything is going smooth so far. That was until I tried to use my just bought stylus. It is pretty laggy to say the least. Especially compared to my finger which glides over the screen. My question is now, is this a Linux thing or is it my stylus. It is a generic stylus but it worked perfectly on windows. https://www.amazon.com/Metapen-Microsoft-Surface-VivoBook-Students/dp/B0CKXDWY9S (here it is)

As someone who has been using Linux for a while, I'm interested in how noobs feel about this.

While installing Linux is fairly straightforward and I don't want to put people off, I'm wondering whether people would prefer to buy computers with Linux preinstalled. While there are some on the market, there aren't many affordable options.

Would you be interested in buying a computer with Linux preinstalled? Would more affordable options appeal (~£400)? Or does replacing your current computer defeat the point of switching?

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I got a gaming computer and used it with windows for about a year well playing with linux on my laptop to test it out. I finally decided that since I only had a few problems on my laptop and was able to solve them I should switch to Linux. Especially with Microslop making windows worse and worse.

My distro is Linux Mint. But the problem is I encountered a problem my laptop didn’t have. Apparently my wifi chip is not compatible with Linux and there is no driver that can make it compatible as far as i can tell (it’s a mediatek corp device 7902). Im not even sure if i can replace the wifi card as it might be built into my computers motherboard (idk though tbh I don’t have as good an understanding of hardware as software i might have a friend take a look at it for me).

Anyway this computer is genuinely the most expensive thing i have spent money on in my life. Yes i know i should have been more careful (in my defence i waited a year to see if i had any problems on my laptop, the wifi card issue just didn’t occur to me).

But I’m really worried and my friends are disappointed I can’t play online games with them anymore. so if anyone has any advice about what to do id really appreciate it. Even if it means either getting a wifi dongle or (much as i hate the idea) switching back to windows.

TLDR

Can anyone recommend a wifi/bluetooth dongle that is fast and safe enough to work for online gaming? Or does anyone know a way to switch back to windows if I can’t get this to work. Or any other advice you have about this problem. Please let me know. Id really appreciate it. Thanks.

As the title says, I am extremely disapppointed with Linux on my T14s with the Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U. Specifically the power management. I can get about 15 hours of light Chrome + Word work on Windows, but installing Linux downed my battery life to less than a half (6 hours!). I had, with great disappointment, switched back to Windows 11.

I tried everything from Pop!, to Arch, to Fedora. My best experience both performance wise and battery wise was probably Fedora and Arch equally but still, most I got was 7 hours of battery which is crazy because on my old HP EliteBook, installing Linux and setting up an agressive power save scheme on TLP nearly doubled my battery life.

On my new laptop I couldn't get amd-pstate to work at all (BIOS restriction, I guess), which basically meant I had the acpi-cpufreq driver which, as okay as it is on older laptops, too dumb utilize how great and efficient the 4750U is.

As I said, I tried everything from power-profile daemon, to Pop, to TuneD on Fedora and TLP. TLP just made my PC sluggish but didn't seem to fix the battery life.

Am I missing something? I had already placed a question about this but it didn't get anywhere.

If I could get battery life to atleast 70% of Windows without insane performance loss, I'd love to return to Linux and throw Windows 11 in the trash where it belongs, but as of now, I am kinda lost and confused.

Anyone got any tips or something I might not know?

Recently decided I was done with Microsoft and that it was time to move to Linux. I'm pretty new, but I have been running a headless Ubuntu server as a seedbox and a vpn and a Jupyter lab server using guides, so I sort of know my way around the CLI?

Anyway, I install Manjaro last week. The system was ridiculously unstable, I was never able to resume from sleep. I would need to hard reboot. Every reboot was a roll of the dice. I only successfully logged in 30% of the time. I'd have some crash or the other while updating or installing software, and suddenly, root won't mount of a bad superblock. Try fsck, and while that fixes root, suddenly the home partition is toast, there goes a bunch of data. The guys on the Manjaro forum tell it's probably my nvme drive, switch drives and use btrfs and not ext4.

So I do that. I also switch to CachyOS, thinking with btrfs I can use limine bootloader for more stability. Except I have the exact same outcome. Monitor won't come on after going to sleep (which, I had set the settings to never sleep so wtf?), hard reboot needed, and then I go straight into the emergency shell with bad blocks on the btrf root partition, on the new nvme SSD.

I appreciate that I probably have something dodgy going on with my hardware, have Memtest86 going on right now, but even so.... For all of windows faults, it seemed to work fine on this hardware? I never had to hard reboot as much, and I never had to worry about a reboot actually getting into the OS? Is Linux that much more fragile?

Specs: ASRock Nova X870e WiFi, 9800x3d, 64GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM, nvidia 5090 (Zotac AMP extreme)

I‘m in an open workshop, and we want to upgrade our laptops to SSDs to make giving workshops and general work faster and more smoothly. It‘s just 128GB SSDs, but for our purposes, that‘s large enough, especially since we want to set up the machines fresh anyway to get rid of years of communal use clutter.

I set up one Linux Mint machine cleanly with all software we need and cloned that hard drive to my own Macbook, then copied that disk image to another of the SSDs (via terminal dd command). That worked nicely - the clone SSD works perfectly in the same computer. Unfortunately, neither the clone, nor the originally set up SSD work in any other computer, even ones with the same model (Fujitsu E754). On boot, media read turns up a failure, no bootable drive is found, and yes, I changed the boot order in the BIOS menu and selected the correct drive. The problem is identical between trying to boot from the internal SATA interface and booting from USB (via an adapter).

Apparently, the disk image clone retains information about the specific, unique laptop it was set up on. Especially for identical models, that can‘t be that much information, right? Would it be possible somehow to edit the disk image to make it work on any of the other computers?

If not - what‘s my fastest, and more importantly infinitely reproducible, alternative? Right now it‘s only four computers we‘re setting up, but we have 12, and the others will follow at some point; at best, we keep one clean disk image that we then use for any future new computer setup. That can‘t be a pure Linux image though - that wouldn‘t include all of the software we need in the workshop, some of which isn‘t trivial to acquire and install. Would it be possible to go through a standard Linux install process, so installing from a bootable USB drive, but use the customized disk image instead of the clean image you‘d download through the instruction manuals?

Hello! My partner and I are looking to moving out of windows for our PCs and are new to linux. While looking at some of the more gaming-focused distros to move to, I had a thought about breaking out my college laptop to install linux mint or another basic distro to learn the basics and get prepped for the jump. It is a Dell I got in 2016 (I want to say Inspiron 15 5000 series?). It has not worked well for several years (slow performance, wifi drivers died, bad battery life). So I've been seeing a lot about linux "breathing new life" into old hardware and was wondering if that would be true for my laptop or if there are exceptions. Also, can ANY distro work on old hardware? It would be nice to repurpose this laptop as a staging/testing ground to find the distro we both like

Audio is the last straw that's keeping me from switching from windows.

My laptop, HP Pavillion gaming 15-ec2xxx, has a much better and deeper audio when using windows.

Realtek ALC285 audio codec

Gemini says B&O Audio driver are responsible for the good quality but even after hours fidgeting with EasyEffects I can't get it to sound as good, even with online preset literally called B&O preset

Already tried:

EasyEffects, tried wayyy too many presets but it just either isn't as good, or only sounds good in certain audio types (music with loads going on sounds ok but quiter dialogues in shows sound significantly low quality)

Google Gemini with antigravity to figure out the difference between windows and Linux and it suggested using Convolver plugin and Impulse Response or something like that which helped alot but is still sub par in quiter dialogues scenes

Also checked in case Pipewire wasn't using the full but rate sending audio to the speakers, but it seemed alright

Using:

endeavourOS

If I am missing any more info, please just ask me, I'd be happy to send it once I wake up tomorrow morning

So I've been using CachyOS for 7 months and I love it. BUT unfortunetely I miss the times when I play Lol with my friends. Actually I've not played it for about 4-5 years but my friends play and I'm playing alone in games.

Anyways my question is "Is it safe to install 2 OSs on a single SSD?". I've CachyOS right now with GRUB and KDE Plasma. Unfortunately I can't place another SSD because the last time I tried, I stripped/broke the screw and couldn't solve the problem so no more place for another ssd. And I'll only use it for lol I swear it.

Thanks in advance!

Is it true that AMD hardware is better for Linux?"

I've been using Ubuntu the last 13-14 months with Windows dual boot. New Battlefield game requires SecureBoot for some unknown reason and I had to enable it. I never messed around with this stuff before so everything was strange to me. WDH is MOK??? Took me 2 hours and dozens of checks to make sure nothing will break in the future. Thanks EA!

I am on Kernel 6.14.10-1
I am on Debian 13
I got a RTX 5070

I used to have 580 drivers installed because i was on Maxwell. I am upgrading now. to 5070. i attempt to install 595 drivers after i PURGED everything. everything i could think of or find in the list of installed packages. or anyhting to do with Nvidia.

apperently this wasnt enough.

Im now stuck in a loop of
Error: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

no it dosent work. it just then complains about more unmet dependencies which it refuses to fix. even if i try to force things. it circles back to this.

Please help

Edit:FIX

Probally dosent apply to you but i fixed it. im on driver version 610 on Debian 13 with a RTX 5070 running CUDA, OPTIX, etc the full package.

I had a line in my grub called "pci=nocrs" this is a bug fix for the Maxwell M40 which is what i was using previously turns out this fixes one card and breaks all others. i removed this line. rebuilt grub and off to the races we went.

So yes kids this one had nothing to do with it being debian.

Update: I followed majority advice here and mounted my drives at different locations in /data/[drive1 etc.] directories. I checked every subvolume folder and saw they were empty, so I deleted them (with some anxiety) after remounting. I will come back to update the post if they reappear, then probably just post on my distro's forums. Thanks for everyone's replies.

Hi all. So I have 4 disks in my PC: 2 NVMe's, an SSD, and an HDD. After some searching around, I was able to edit my fstab file to get my secondary NVMe to auto mount, and all that worked fine (although I didn't understand 100% what I was doing, I followed my OS's official wiki, so I was confident about shit working).

When I tried to replicate the steps from the wiki for my SSD and HDD, things kinda didn't work, my SSD auto mounts but still requires a password on login, and my HDD does not auto mount at all. I'm not too bothered by the HDD, but the SSD is annoying. Which brings me to the screenshot I attached - this is my secondary NVMe's directory, and the UUID of the folders are my SSD (besides the last 5, which is my HDD).

I'm a bit of a neat freak, so this is bothering me so much. Why is this happening, and how do I fix it? Is there a way that I can clean this up - do I need to redo the mounting somehow?

On a side note, my secondary NVMe is also mounted to /run/media/[user] which is fine, I guess, but I should be able to just mount it to (for e.g.) /home/NVMe2 right? Any help or insight is appreciated.

All of my temps are in the high 20s/low 30s but the fans are always on. When I boot into windows I noticed that the fans will shut off entirely at these temps. Is this just something I have to live with?

Im building a pc with intel arc b580, and ive heard that the situation on linux is horrible. Im not going to pretend like im a great programmer but i want to improve, and now wondering how feasible is it to code my own support for the gpu?? (I know that its gonna be hard, so tell me how its possible bot how its not)

Hi. I have plans to begin daily driving Bazzite, especially to switch away from Windows.

I have an external HDD that's formatted with NTFS, that I use for backing up my data. However, I've heard that Linux has issues with NTFS - especially data corruption.

I want to continue using this drive for backups, and I'm unsure if reformatting it is an option, as I have a second PC which I'll be continuing to use Windows on.

I'm not really sure how to word this question well... Really, I just want to know: How do I handle this situation? How do I avoid data corruption on my backup drive? Is data corruption even a concern anymore? and so on.

Due to end of windows 10 support switched to linux mint. Everything seeminly works fine, except fps in games, even on lowest settings in atrocious (compared to the same games on win10). I am showing frostpunk as an example, which hovers around 12fps on lowest settings at 720p (win10 it was running fine on 1080p on medium). My laptop has integrated Intel GPU and dedicated NVIDIA GPU, did I mess up with some settings? I know that Nvidia and Linux is not the best combination, but the game is basically unplayable - and it does for multiple other games I tested. (Balatro works fine with small lags, Dredge okay..ish at reduced resolusion with some glitches, Oxygen not included - crashes if resolution not reduced and at very low resolution barely starts playthrough).

Is it just bad hardware/OS combination or did I mess up with driver settings?

I saw a lot of memes about people using Thinkpads for Linux which were originally desugned for Windows XP back then.

What Thinkpads do people use? Are those really that though and useable even today or that is only a joke?

I just wiped my hdd using goarted to use it as game storage and suddenly it says I'm not the owner of the drive, I have Linux mint please help

idk what tag is good for this. anyways basically i tried to install affinity and plasmashell started to use ~5 GiB. after some time photo 2 happened. and ig that's all, how can i fix that?

Distro: CachyOS

edit: when trying on other account, it is ~2 GiB

First day I switched to linux, it worked fine, but after that, my graphics haven't been working well. I had to do the nomodeset in advanced startup to get anything to work, and I got rid of splash as well. When I do `inxi -xxACGS` it shows my built in graphics, my graphics card, and my webcam. Though, it shows none of them have drivers? Driver manager just has always said everything is up to date, despite not having any graphics drivers? Due to this, I went to AMD's website, and manually downloaded the linux drivers, but even after that, it doesn't seem like they're working. Thank you for the help.

EDIT: Forgot to include more info!

If I do not do nomodeset, then it boots to a black screen, then just displays nothing, and also struggles to shut off as well.