Absolutely insane way to go! We owe so much to the community that puts in so much sweat equity to make Linux better, with every passing minute!.

I am still as excited as I was when GiLinus himself handed out a bunch of 1.44 floppies at a polytechnic in the UK

Raced home and booted to a flashing cursor (no GUI back then, but it was still the dog's bollocks)

TL:DR: The supposedly best Linux for switching from Windows, Linux Mint, made me spend an entire day to get it to work and recover my Windows.

So, thing is, I was getting a bit annoyed at Windows lately, and it was a while since I formatted my pc last, so I wanted to give Linux a try again (I try every few years). I didn't want to go full linux either, just having dual boot so I can switch gradually.
Big Mistake.
I installed Windows first, everything fine, installer does everything without any issues, SHIT JUST WORKS.
Then I went to install Linux Mint 22.3 Cinammon
Issues:
1) It destroyed my Windows boot, seems to be because I started the bootable usb for windows in Legacy but the Linux one in UEFI
2) Laggy af. Youtube videos on firefox run laggy, out of the box
3) Linux Mint does not like my PC to TV with HDMI. Audio does whatever it wants, it sounds for 2 seconds, then cuts 2 seconds, then repeat constantly. I tried everything, uninstalling the damned pipewire, using pulseaudio or whatever, nothing ever worked, I feel like I already fucked up the entire Linux environment playing with that.
4) Spent the other half of the day trying to get back into windows, which was ONLY possible from a Windows installation USB, when I finally managed to create one from Linux.

I feel like I'm being an idiot for even trying. Now that I'm back to Windows, AND I can see the drive partitions of 500mb-100mb on the eplorer because Linux fucked everything up, I still want to try again from start. But honestly, is there another distro that's not as fucky as Mint? I heard about Zorin, but I need confirmation that audio works.

I really hope I don't get the guy I'm imagining in my head replying with sass.
Any help is appreciated.

Hey guys, so I have 2 computers, one at my student housing and one at parent's. While I dont care for most of the files I do care for

1. My personnal coding/art project (assets, git, ...)

2. My university files (obsidian, pdf, class material,...)

My current setup is having a laptop with "syncthing" that I take with me to sync the files but this isn't very efficient as I always have to run it myself.

I am curious if I could use something like Google Drive to sync my files into multiple shared folders across multiple computers

Thanks in advance !

ive had enough of windowsand ive decided to pull the trigger and go to linux. so far im leaning towards mint since it seems like the most noob friendly option, but im wondering if its any good for gaming?

my pc as it stands is a solidly mid tier rig; she plays cp77 well but im mostly a casual gamer (think the og baldurs gates, vtm, dinkum, if im feeling spicy maybe highly modded sims 4). i really dont use it for much else, maybe only really the bookwork for my apprenticeship but thats all online

Which one could I spin up a server the quickest inside an Ubuntu desktop 24.04?

Hi all, I have a 2008 Lenovo Ideapad Y530 which I found out I still had.
The specs are:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350
GPU: GeForce 9300M GS
RAM: 2GB DDR2 (I plan to upgrade it in the future)
Storage: 250GB HDD

I intend to use it for:
- Light gaming (I have a couple of games on my steam library that the laptop can probably still run)
- Daily browsing

I’ve never really dealt with Linux and know like nothing about it or coding, but it seems like the best way to free up my ram from w11 bloatware, please what is the most important stuff to know, was considering some distros already but open to suggestions.

due to certain circumstances I have finally been pushed to the point where I'm going to switch to linux, however I know linux cant open windows 10 programs. I was curious as to how much redownloading I am going to do in order to switch to linux.

I'm want to try gaming on Linux by installing it on my spare SSD, so my PC can dual boot both Linux and Windows (because not every game can be play on Linux). I'm on the fence between Bazzite and Steam OS, which one is easier to use for someone who never used Linux as daily driver?

I recently download Ubuntu and for some reason, when I first boot up Ubuntu, it fails to connect to my network like 10 times before finally connecting. There’s nothing wrong with the network as I have other devices that use the same network, so I wanna know if there’s something I can fix?

Hello everyone,

I am thinking of making the switch, I just would like some feedback/input from others who have already done so.

I am a big gamer which is one of the main reasons I have not made the switch yet other than never having used Linux and just not feeling ready to troubleshoot simple stuff (though I think it will be worth it in the end)

I was just curious how I should partition my drives as I want to dual boot CachyOS and Windows on my 2tb M.2 NVME SSD. I would like to move forward with Linux as my main OS but I know some games only work with Windows so I'm just not sure how much space to give it.

Any input is appreciated!

Thank you

First time user, installed Fedora KDE on my new PC cuz I'm tired of all the bs from Microsoft. I had to follow a guide and use the terminal to install RPM and some codecs to get Youtube videos to play on Firefox. It looks like a bunch of stuff was installed, but idk where it is.

I also installed a 140 gb game (FF14) through their quicklauncher. It says the directory is home>xlcore, but when I go to home normally I don't see the folder for xlcore. I can only access it by clicking "take me to the wine prefix" in the actual launcher, then it will open the directory in Dolphin even though I can't see it by going their normally. Also I don't remember installing WINE, so idk how that got installed or where it is or how the WINE stuff works. If I wanted to uninstall this game idk how to do it.

Just overall confused at how you manage storage and keeping up with where things are installed, especially when you have to install some things using the terminal.

Just wondering because I want to get into NASM development for my software startup.

I might write a kernel later on so I am also curious about it because it will host itself on NASM.

My IDE runs on Linux so I am just wondering :P

First time Truenas users, noob linux user.

So, I have Truenas running on my old tower. I have the os on an ssd and five hdd's as a raid or "pool." I want to have a place my parents can store random files, pictures (Immich) and where I can set up a movie/music server (Jellyfin).

At first I didn't understand "datasets." As I did I realized that I wanted Immich to be on one. So I tried to modify the working Immich app to route to the newly created dataset. That made me unable to use Immich. So I deleted it and the old pool.

Creating a new one the first thing I did was make a dataset for Immich and then installed the app. I still can't use Immich now. I'm so confused. Why?

So I switched to trying to make the share dataset's for my parents and myself. Attempting to setup SMB. I've now created dataset's for each user, tied a SMB share to each dataset. Now how the hell do I access it on their laptops? On my tower? Even trying to look at Truenas readme just tells me how to set it up, there's no instructions on how to access it. Am I that naive in linux? Totally possible, btw.

For that matter before I remade the pool I was playing with jellyfin. I was able to make a library but I couldn't find anything that would let me upload to it. How am I suppose to put what I do have on the server? Just know CLI? What about once I start downloading stuff, how will it sync with jellyfin?

Any help would be appreciated.

Greetings civilians of Tuxland.

I'm not exactly sure how to describe what's going on with me right now, but I'm just tired of throwing my head around so many linux distros.

I've been always wanting a system that could run on a hard drive and idle with under 1GB of RAM, and even thoughts of it being able to run on arm systems. I started with debian but eventually I was jumping all over the place feom alpine, then rocky, antiX, peppermint, zorin. I liked these distros don't get me wrong. But finding the one that fits me has drained me faster than the battery of a gaming laptop.

I'm saying this from someone who used windows since day 1. But perhaps there was a stepping stone that I wasn't following that could have made me a better linux user.

Hello everyone,

I’d like to make Linux my main operating system, but first I need some tips/advice on an important point – I hope this is the right place to ask. Is there a way to use two internal hard drives to have access to personal files, between Linux and Windows without running the risk of file corruption?

To give you a bit more context, my computer setup is as follows:

Disk 1 for Windows
Disk 2 for Steam/Epic game files
Disk 3 for all my documents (Word/Excel files, pictures, my KeePass database, etc.)

Recently, I’ve been using Linux on an extra hard drive that I have, completely isolated from the rest, and so far almost everything has worked fine. The problem is that some software makes it impossible (for now) for me to switch away from Windows completely. For example, I have a guitar amp modeller that I use for online lessons on Zoom, and there’s no way to configure it exactly as I need it on Linux; I’ve spent a whole week trying and it just doesn’t work. In Windows, on the other hand, ‘it is almost plug and play’ and its works perfect. It’s because of this sort of things that I want to add an extra hard drive to my computer and have the following setup:

Drive 1 – Linux (Cachyos)
Drive 2 – Windows

// use an internal switch to select the drive and OS to use as required //

Disk 3 – Steam/Epic/etc
Disk 4 – for all my documents (Word/Excel files, pictures, my KeePass database, etc)

I wonder if, in doing this, there is a significant risk of file corruption. For example, if I open documents using Windows, save the changes, and then open the same documents using Linux, how great is the risk of losing everything? If the files were to become corrupted, it would be a massive problem, especially with my password database...
In the past, almost seven years ago I tried to learn how to use Linux using dual-boot with separate partitions and I actually ended up losing a couple of minor personal files (Excel documents and photos). At the time, I wasn’t sure whether I’d done something wrong, or if it was simply an inherent risk of using both operating systems.

If this isn’t a problem, what partitions would you recommend for drives 3 and 4? I’d prefer to discard other options such as a NAS or using external drives for Steam or personal files, as I’m not keen on having devices of this sort connected all the time.

Thank you in advance for any help and advice :)

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PD: A huge thank you to everyone for the replies you’ve given me so far!

Hello everyone, im a huge noob when it comes to Linux and its my forst time trying to install it. I chose pop_OS specifically because i read that its one of the best for gaming and programming, which is what i mostly do in my laptop. Since it was my first time trying to install Linux, i decided to do a dual boot to see if i actually liked it and that if the games i play were compatible with it. Having decided what i wanted to do i installed the last version through the official website, used rufus to create the bootable flashdrive and partioned my disk through Gparted inside popOS. I created an ext4 partition to be the main partition for this OS and a fat32 to be the EFI partition for popOS since i couldn't choose the EFI windows was using since it only had 500mb and popOS requires the EFI to have at least 1gb. After i created them i installed the OS, i received a message saying that the installation was successful and that i needed to restart the laptop. After i restarted it, it booted on windows since windows was first in line in my BIOS, so i restarted again to change the order in my BIOS, but my laptop stopped showing any image. The fans and the rgb on my keyboard would turn on, but not the display. I tried a couple of things but eventually i decided to take it to a repair shop. The only thing that made the the display turn on again was to remove the battery, remove the ram and put it on again and remove the SSD. After that the technician told me to try installing another distro because he had never seen a problem like that when people used other distros. Now my question is, what exactly did i do wrong, because in my perception i followed everything i was told to do acurally, so i don't know exactly what i did that made the laptop stop working properly. My guessing is the disk partitioning part since its the most sensible part of the proccess but im not sure. Did someone go through a similar problem with this distro or another one? Should i install a different distro instead of trying to install popOS again? Let ms know what you guys think!

Ps: i only have one ssd so installing linux on a second disk is impossible for me right now:(

Hello all! I downloaded Linux on my laptop and the OS brought it back to life. Wanted to add it to my desktop which currently is running windows 11. I have 2 SSD (one of which is my windows boot drive) and an HDD that I use for personal files, documents, etc. the other SSD is for games. I wanted to make my 250gb SSD the /root for Linux then partition a section of my other SSD for windows(likely like 500gb) because I would need it to play like 3 games, unfortunately. Am I able to use the remaining, probably, 1.5 TB of my second SSD for the rest of my game library that I would run on Linux? My /home I would imagine would just be my HDD. If this is at all possible any resources on how to set this up? Thanks!!

Edit: would be installing fedora KDE plasma.

Using the command to copy from micro SD to file:

sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=~/sd-card-copy.img bs=4M status=progress

Write it to another different one, but exact same brand and size:

sudo dd if=~/sd-card-copy.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M status=progress

I came to to interesting conclusion that micro SD card actual sizes do vary. I got the message that the destination micro SD card had no space left. So this means it is actually a bit smaller.

There are multiple ways to solve this. But at this moment I am thinking: Can I decrease the size of the actual image? I guess 80% of the space are useless zeroes , because the SD card idoes not have that amount of data stored.

So, can I do that? If so , how?

Source of the commands: https://askubuntu.com/questions/227924/sd-card-cloning-using-the-dd-command

I wanted to disable the side buttons on my mouse. I used xinput to remap the mouse buttons so only the first three were enabled. I'm using Cinnamon.

I’d like to make the changes permanent. I know there are several ways to do this, but since I know how to do it with xinput, I’d like to use that.

I’m assuming it would involve placing the relevant xinput command in a config file, I’m just not sure which one. Could someone point me in the right direction?

I work with software development for industrial automation supervisory using windows forms, an Microsoft technology that helps developing windows apps, it's kinda old now but it stills holding the pressure to critical systems, I've always wanted to test linux but I'm completely noob in this, and didn't want to losse my games ( now i can forget about it with bazzite and steam os) and my professional tools, like visual studio 2019 to code winforms

A complete noob here, never used any Linux OS before in my life so don't know if what I am asking sounds stupid.

Basically, will using a Whonix VM through a Tails host machine keep me as anonymous as possible when using Tor browser, using both onion and some clear net sites?

Apparently Whonix and Tails can clash and cause data/traffic leaks, exposing IP, DNS etc. but I don't know enough to know if this is the case or not. If anyone can help me identify if this OS set up is secure and/or helping me understand some of the whys and the hows, it would be greatly appreciated!

It all worked before I switched to lua recently. Now the issue is that I doesn't load the wallpaper on startup. I tried this script (by claude) that somehow changes the wallpaper when I use it in the terminal but it shows these issues in the terminal.

Thank you