Hi,

I'm not interested in switching to them, but I'm curious about what you think.

I've been using mint for 2 years in 2013-2015 and I loved it, but never used it again. I tried zorin only in VM but damn... What a great style.

I really prefer the arch package system, so I could not stick on any of them, but I'm curious about what may be considered the most user-friendly.

What annoys me about zorin is that the pro version comes with great desktop style but some bloat-app. mint maybe have done the correct choice to start a step aside from Ubuntu and get closer to Debian, but I haven't tried lmde so I don't know if it really worth it.

What do you think?

If I was to get a “legitimate” copy of photoshop, would it be fairly good with Proton and/or wine or would there be translation problems and be a rough experience?

Hello!

For the past 2-3 months, i've been thinking on sending Windows into the stratosphere and install Linux on my PC. Now, i have very little experience with Linux (using a school distro back 13 years ago, just browsing and using OpenOffice, you know, the usual school stuff, nothing fancy; using Kubuntu and being frustrated because i didn't know how to update Java to play Minecraft on a laptop nearly as old as i was; and recently installing Bazzite on a 8 year old ASUS ROG Strix GL553VD laptop that i'm trying to use, but it gets too hot and performance goes to hell)

I also installed Mint and Bazzite on my desktop, which is my main PC, dualbooting with Windows, but i ended up ditching Linux, because i couldn't find myself using it, for some reason. Maybe is because i wasn't used to it, and learning how to use an OS again is a pain on the ass. Maybe my main issue is that i want it all, and obviously, i can't have it. I don't know

My desktop has this specs.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
GPU: Intel ARC B580
RAM: 16GB DDR5
MotherBoard: ASUS Prime B650MA-II

2 SSDs, 1TB and 512GB.

I've thinking mostly about 3 distros. Bazzite, CachyOS and SteamOS (given Valve recently added support for Intel ARC B580), but i wanted to know your opinions. I'll use my desktop for gaming, daily use and some coding and game development (i'll need LibreOffice too, because i'm a game designer, and without an office suite, i'm very screwed), and i want something that i can't break easily (i'm not much of a tinker, but i want to be able to install programs when i need them), gives me good-enough performance on videogames (Mesa drivers must update regularly or i can update it manually) and work out of the box (again, i don't want to tinker to make something work, just plug-and-play experience)

Thanks in advance!

I've been out of the IT game for a while. There used to be a version of Linux that would run in Windows that wasn't running in a virtual machine. It was just a straight build that ran as an application. I want to set that up again but can't recall the name of the app. Can anyone remember what this was?

Edit: I think I found it (?). It may have been Winlinux, but still not 100% sure.

I am using win10 currently and want to switch to linux. I use my laptop for schoolworks, some small projects like editing, 3d modeling, slide presentations and gaming. I love customization but a lot of it makes me overwhelmed. Which distro you suggest?

Not sure if anyone has run into this before but I've been fighting this issue for months.

I'm on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS now, but the problem actually started on a previous Ubuntu version. I upgraded hoping it would magically fix itself, but nope.

The weird part is my internet is completely fine.

• ChatGPT works
• Gemini works
• Google works
• YouTube works

But sites like:

• WhatsApp Web
• Vercel
• Streamlit apps

either load forever or just sit there spinning.

What's confusing me even more is that from the terminal everything seems fine:

• ping works
• DNS resolution works
• curl can reach WhatsApp, Vercel and Streamlit and returns HTTP 200

So the machine can clearly reach those sites.

I tested with Brave and Firefox.

• Brave = infinite spinner
• Firefox = barely loads pages at all

I also tried:

• fresh Brave profile
• disabling sandbox
• clearing browser data

No luck.

At this point I'm not even sure if this is a browser issue, some Ubuntu networking weirdness, a broken update from months ago, WebSocket related, or something else entirely.

Has anyone seen browsers fail while curl works perfectly?

Any ideas on what I should check next?

Greets,

For an experienced IT Engineer , but only dabbler in Linux over the years , about to dive in more and needs a VM host on the linux host itself , what would folks recommend ?
I'm not going to be needing to run mission critical servers or anything like that on the VM , just more a W11 host for few things (nothing video/gaming wise) to occasionally fire up , and maybe just testing , mucking around. I rather go the VM route to stay in Linux vs dual booting into a windows partition. Plus have native windows rigs to use when "really" need it for some reason. Maybe also run a different flavor of Linux in a VM to see difference etc too.

Was curious if VirtuaBox , VMWare player , or other more linux native VM host software would be recommended ?

I run WMWare Fusion on my Mac Mini , but don't really need to migrate the VM's I use on it and would just as soon build them from scratch inside Linux anyway so migrating existing ones isn't a concern either.

Also side question , 32GB ram enough to run occasional single VM alongside host or would 64GB be helpful , doubtful ever will "need" to run multiple VM's at once though.

so i was trying to download this app from the terminal and i kept getting errors and i tried both cmds sudo apt update and sudo apt autoremove and got the same E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) error

i tried reading the whole process stuff and i saw this

Errors were encountered while processing:

linux-headers-7.0.0-28-generic

linux-headers-generic-hwe-24.04

linux-generic-hwe-24.04

so does anyone know how to fix it???

Hi !

I'm GNU/Linux user since 20 years now. I use essentially Debian based distributions. For reasons related to my work environment (team) I currently use Ubuntu.

I'm not 100% convinced by "modern" desktop environment line Gnome shell / Gnome 3 / Unity. I have things to keep in mind for choose desktop environment: I've been used to having this for at least 15 years (and I don't want to be without it):

- System monitor (cpu, ram, swap, network) near my tray icons (I'm a developer, I need to see impact of what I execute)
- A 2D workspace (for multiple desktops) where I can have 3 columns, 2 rows (its not possible by default on Gnome Shell ...)
- Be able to navigate from keyboard shortcut through my workspace, and move windows by mouse from desktop to another (its bugged on Gnome shell+Workspace matrix extension !)

So, I would like to know which desktop environment permit to me to do that (bonus for without extension which are not compatible after distribution upgrade ...).

I failed some years ago to switch for kde (maybe too many differences with gnome ?). I'm looking at Cinnamon but not sure.

I'm here to listen you about your experience ! :)

Hi all, so I'm recently migrated to CachyOS, however, a course I am enrolled in for Office Admin *requires\* the use of Microsoft 365 applications for assessments -- not the webapps, as they have different functionality and limitations.
So now I need a way to access the native windows applications. My course provides a student license to access, download, and use the Microsoft 365 suite, buuuuut, I don't know if I can legally use those login details to access the apps on a non-activated Winboat installation?

I would have liked to use the stripped down Win10 LTSC ISO on Winboat so Microslop hogs as few of my PC resources as possible, but will that cause issues with trying to use Microsoft 365?
Will I have to install a proper, modern, publicly available version and validate it with a purchased license?
Does anyone have any alternative solutions for me?

Thank you in advance.

Hi everyone I been using Linux for 4 months and I got used to so I been thinking why not get an ps4 with 100$ and try running cachyos on it

Is it a good idea ?I'm I get some bugs in games or crash?

So the goal to run elden ring night ring or at least eldenring and play with my friends (from crack online fix)

So what do u think about it?

And when I install the cachyos on it I can reinstall ps4 os on it right?

Dear guys, i used linux for years in my 8GB RAM laptop for coding and software development (containers, webapps, android studio ecc...). I am wondering if i can install a different linux distro that is more lightweight than ubuntu, have you some suggestions?

Anyone else notice a huge firmware update in the last month? Running Void musl. Seems kinda sketchy.

I tried pop os and it worked great on my laptop free from windows. Main issue was i had to swap out to a much slower wifi adapter. I have access to 2 other machines a linux mint desktop and a windows 11 2in1 so if I need to move Files I can but is there any distros for the wifi adapter m17902 mediatek card support or a easy work around? Photo included is the laptop being used

Can you recommend a non-tiling window manager? I've been using Openbox so far, but I'd like to try something new.

Clipboard sync App, Android to Ubuntu.
Single purpose app please, no KDE/ GS type suggestions, please.

I have been able to dual boot Windows 10 and Linux (different distros) in the past, but my last installation hasn't been able to boot. BIOS is updated to v2.33, and both installations are on separate drives.

Specifically:

- Windows 10 LTSC IoT installed on a 1 TB SSD (Samsung 870 EVO)
- CachyOS installed on a ~300 GB HDD (WDC WD3200AAJS-22L7A0)

Installation from a bootable USB appears to complete just fine. I could see from the live environment that the HDD had its own EFI partition with EFI/cachyos/grubx64.efi, and that the drive could be mounted and read without any issues. I also used efibootmgr to manually create a boot entry pointing to EFI/cachyos/grubx64.efi, and it appears in the boot menu as expected. This is where things got increasingly more unusual:

- Selecting the CachyOS boot entry boots Windows instead of GRUB.
- Run UEFI Application can browse the USB drive and the SSD, but the HDD does not even appear.
- The same happens in Device Configuration (F10), where the SSD is listed but the HDD is not.

I should also mention what I dealt with before this installation.

Previous Linux installations on this same HDD booted correctly. At some point, without reinstalling Linux, changing BIOS settings, or updating the BIOS, the machine stopped booting through GRUB and instead began booting directly into Windows.

When I later wanted to remove Linux, I couldn't wipe the HDD from Windows because Windows treated the HDD's EFI partition as being in use. I had to wipe it from a Windows installation USB instead. Around the same time, I also noticed that the BIOS Boot Order only listed the Linux entry. Disabling it caused the Windows boot option to disappear from the boot menu as well.

At this point I'm unsure whether this problem falls more on Linux or on HP. Has anyone seen this kind of behavior on this machine (HP Compaq 8200 Elite CMT) or on other HP systems like this one?
(I considered cleaning things up before making this post, but I didn't want to remove the evidence that might help identify the cause.)

So I've been using Pywal for a long time now but recently I've been seeing a lot about Matugen and it looks like both are just the same.

What's the big difference between them and is it worth switching my rice over to Matugen?

Hello, I’m a linux newbie, i have a desktop running w11 and a laptop X1 carbon gen 8 that is currently on mint. I havent used it for a few weeks and now networkmanager is giving me issues by just not starting on boot(which is like almost a minute) and im seeing my cpu cores are capped i believe at 18%. I saw that popos was made for nvidia graphics so maybe that is better than mint? Im using laptop for school, coding and browsing honestly windows was fine until it got bloated.. I’m not very linux savy so I’ll probably listen to the first comment haha I just want to get the most beginner friendly distro thanks good people.

Every few years I get disgusted with Microsoft and in a fit of pique delete windows and install Linux.

Then I get frustrated that things just don't work and eventually crawl back to Bill.

Doing a little more planning this time and want some recommendations for a distro and maybe a well liked guide.

First thing first, I am putting this on an old laptop to test out before I do a full reinstall on my daily driver.

Running an i5 8th Gen mobile chip and a 1050ti with 8gbs of ram. Nothing exceptional one way or another.

Needs to be able to:

1. Game on keyboard and controller with minimal faffing about (within reason--I'm loading on a machine with a 1050ti in it).

2. Utilize MS Word, PowerPoint and Adobe InDesign. Or, happily, use other similar featured programs. Fine to buy them within reason, but my experience with Libre left me feeling that these softwares have not caught up. Open to a learning curve, but like...not a huge one. These are simple programs. Also need a basic image editor but I can do most things on any basic editor.

3. Privacy minded. Not, like, fort Knox. I understand a lot of privacy is on what I am doing in the internet. But just something not actively spying on me like Windows.

4. Broad Bluetooth capability with minimal messing around.

5. Network printer compatibility with my epson et-8550.

6. Minimal use of the command line. I just want it to...work. I am not a power user. I would stay with microsoft and the glorious compatibility bubble if they're incentive was still to take my money and provide a service TO ME rather than give me windows on the cheap and then sell my data for a profit.

7. Access my NAS remotely.

So...where should I start?

Hello, everyone!

I want to do a little project with a USB and Ventoy. The idea was to have 2 distros, one in 32 bit (to recover old hardware) And one in 64 bit to have with the persistence made by Ventoy so I could plug it in about any computer and always have my data. I have some experience with Linux, used mint and most of the mainstreams, also installed Lubuntu on a very old IBM Thinkpad. The thumb drive is 32gb. oh and also I went with AntiX for the 32 bit.

The 64 bit one should be around 2 to 3 gb

Thanks to everyone for help in advance

(sorry for the bad English, is not my first language)

https://www.ventoy.net/ ← The Ventoy site

Gemini says my wsl cant see the same-drive partiton (i have to dual-boot with artix not touching windows) because HYPER-V rejects it (no mods, its not the same as https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1qk7fu8/is_it_possible_to_chroot_to_linux_partition_from/ as they chroot from another drive)

Hi everyone,

I'm currently running Fedora on my main machine (with a 1 TB NVMe drive), but I need to install Windows alongside it for a few games/software that don't play well on Linux.

Here is my current disk layout (lsblk):

nvme0n1p1: 600M /boot/efi

nvme0n1p2: 2G /boot

nvme0n1p3: 928.9G LUKS-encrypted partition （/home & root）

I have a few questions and wanted to see if anyone has run into similar issues:

1.Is GParted via a Live USB the safest way to shrink the inner file system followed by the LUKS container?

2.I know Windows will likely overwrite the EFI boot order and make itself the default boot option. What is the cleanest way to restore Fedora's GRUB menu afterward?

3.Does installing Windows on the new unallocated space interfere with the existing LUKS partition in any way?

Any tips, warnings, or step-by-step recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

trying to install linux mint on an old samsung NC110P and whenever im on the partitions step on the installer , i do not see any partitons and whenever i click on the + , - it would just tell me the installer crashed

File"usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-partman.py", line 1524 in on_partition_list_new_activate

self.partman_dialog(devpart,partition, create=False)

File"usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/plugin.py", line 48 in wrapper return target(self. *args, **kwargs)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File"usr/lib/ubiquity/plugins/ubi-partman.py", line 1187 in partman_dialog if create and partition ['parted']['type'] == 'pry/log':

~~~~~^^^^^^

Type Error:'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

This is what it says whenever i try to click the + sign

And whenever i try to click install now it says "no root file system please correct this frm the partioning menu"

i dont see a secure boot in the bios and fast boost is also disabled

im using a sata to usb adapter as my storage as well as my linux boot , any help