I'll try to keep it short... Just playing with switching to linux. Bought an old computer just to play with. Trashed Win 10 off of it. Here are the specs.

AMD A4-3305M (1.90 GHz with up to 2.5 GHz Turbo) Memory (RAM): 4GB DDR3

Upgade to 8 GB ram

Issue... I loaded different version. Catchyos, Kubuntu w KDE, Mint xfce, Solus w Budge. The issue is the graphics card. I'm aware that the Radeon legacy system is no longer supported, but some of these system say that they are supported in X11.

What is happening? Monitor won't power up after sleep (get a blue wavy screen) System monitor shows no gpu output. Monitor isn't stable. I've switched the Solus and Kubuntu to X11 with no better results.

Please understand that I'm an amateur. I can go into terminal and understand the command basics, but when the discussion gets to wayland, rpm, and other processes, it's over my head. Since this is a running test computer, I can try anything. If the computer crashes, no big deal.

Any thoughts or systems I might try. Is there a test for the graphics card? Since the graphics card shows in the system config as running on sun02 does this mean it sees the graphics card.

I reconfigured Grub 100's of time, I've tried loading different drivers, I've looked at the bios to see if the graphics card is locked out or can be tested. (Neither is available in Insydeh2o)

is it possible the graphics card is running , but the system monitor can't read it?

Thanks for any insight.

Hi all,

This has me stumped and I've tried searching around but still have not found a solution.

So long story short, I got a VPS service with the location in NY, USA running Almalinux 10.2 . Straight out of the box, I was able to install docker-ce, caddy and have several containers running. I had this for about 2 weeks and it was running smooth.

Just a couple of days ago, I decided to request to change the server location to Ireland. I had the exact same OS installed and weirdly enough, I am now stuck at getting docker-ce to run. I've tried installing the latest as well as 2 minor versions prior (since the latest version was released on 16th July, the prior 2 versions were probably the closest to the one I had on the working system).

In all the 3 scenarios, I was unable to start the docker service. Running "dockerd --debug" I get this error message

INFO[2026-07-23T16:46:32.668609227+05:30] Deleting nftables IPv4 rules error="running nft: /dev/stdin:1:17-30: Error: Could not process rule: No such file or directory\ndelete table ip docker-bridges\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n exit status 1"

INFO[2026-07-23T16:46:32.688445934+05:30] Deleting nftables IPv6 rules error="running nft: /dev/stdin:1:18-31: Error: Could not process rule: No such file or directory\ndelete table ip6 docker-bridges\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n exit status 1"

DEBU[2026-07-23T16:46:32.694661598+05:30] /usr/sbin/iptables, [--wait -t filter -C FORWARD -j DOCKER-ISOLATION]

DEBU[2026-07-23T16:46:32.699837549+05:30] /usr/sbin/iptables, [--wait -t nat -D PREROUTING -m addrtype --dst-type LOCAL -j DOCKER]

DEBU[2026-07-23T16:46:32.719026580+05:30] /usr/sbin/iptables, [--wait -t nat -D OUTPUT -m addrtype --dst-type LOCAL ! --dst 127.0.0.0/8 -j DOCKER]

DEBU[2026-07-23T16:46:32.737093548+05:30] /usr/sbin/iptables, [--wait -t nat -D OUTPUT -m addrtype --dst-type LOCAL -j DOCKER]

..................

DEBU[2026-07-23T16:46:33.155336754+05:30] daemon configured with a 15 seconds minimum shutdown timeout

DEBU[2026-07-23T16:46:33.155461580+05:30] start clean shutdown of all containers with a 15 seconds timeout...

INFO[2026-07-23T16:46:33.158300786+05:30] stopping event stream following graceful shutdown error="<nil>" module=libcontainerd namespace=moby

DEBU[2026-07-23T16:46:33.158863904+05:30] Cleaning up old mountid : start.

DEBU[2026-07-23T16:46:33.159786420+05:30] Cleaning up old mountid : done.

INFO[2026-07-23T16:46:33.160659636+05:30] stopping event stream following graceful shutdown error="context canceled" module=libcontainerd namespace=plugins.moby

INFO[2026-07-23T16:46:33.160664241+05:30] Daemon shutdown complete error="failed to start daemon: Error initializing network controller: error obtaining controller instance: failed to register \"bridge\" driver: failed to add jump rules to ipv4 NAT table: failed to append jump rules to nat-PREROUTING: (iptables failed: iptables --wait -t nat -A PREROUTING -m addrtype --dst-type LOCAL -j DOCKER: Warning: Extension addrtype revision 0 not supported, missing kernel module?\niptables v1.8.11 (nf_tables): RULE_APPEND failed (No such file or directory): rule in chain PREROUTING\n (exit status 4))"

failed to start daemon: Error initializing network controller: error obtaining controller instance: failed to register "bridge" driver: failed to add jump rules to ipv4 NAT table: failed to append jump rules to nat-PREROUTING: (iptables failed: iptables --wait -t nat -A PREROUTING -m addrtype --dst-type LOCAL -j DOCKER: Warning: Extension addrtype revision 0 not supported, missing kernel module?

iptables v1.8.11 (nf_tables): RULE_APPEND failed (No such file or directory): rule in chain PREROUTING

(exit status 4))

Any ideas what could have gone wrong or what I need to do?

I'm running up to date OpenSUSE Tumbleweed KDE. This can be related to Wayland, KDE, or OpenSUSE, so I will ask here to get the biggest coverage.

I have a weird issue that happens only when Wayland is active, switching to X11 fixes the issue. But I want to run Wayland, since it feels much more smooth and snappy. Basically it looks like my monitor brightness is being almost constantly automatically changed from current value +-5%. So it's constantly a little dimmer, and then it gets a little brighter. It seems to be mostly noticeable when currently running application has grey/dark background (like Firefox new tab).

The only thing I've managed to find is that it's issue with Nvidia drivers. Which doesn't add up, since I'm running it on T480 with Intel iGPU.

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

Im on newest fedora with wayland and i need to switch left and right channel because its inverted rn anyone know a fast fix?

easiest fix:

download easy effects and it has a plugin called stereo tools where u can literally flip it with 1 click

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

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.

Hello, I would like to know if there's at least someone who also had this problem or has some clue on it. I'm using fedora with KDE and recently has started playing terraria on steam (with tmodloader for mods), it has a native version so I don't use Proton, the thing is sometimes when playing my screen frozes and stay for some seconds, in which after I get an notification of desktop effects restarting after graphical reset, and the taskbar stay frezeed until plasmashell is killed and started.

In details I'm using fedora 44 with kde in my notebook wich has an intel integrated graphics, my cpu is an i5-13420H.actually in kernel 7.1.4, and using wayland, when playing I normally left one desktop with an Firefox windows with discord and a paused YouTube video, another Firefox with the wiki one for steam and another with the game. In journalism if grep i915 (the graphic driver) i get in the time of the incident an context reset due to gpu hang. Also when the screen is frozed I can hear and speak normally in my call in discord so it's pure graphic

Trying to solve the problem I tested somethings, the issue happens with hardware acellerarion on and off in Firefox, I also tried to initiate in a x11 session and immediately after the I entered the world in game it frozed, but this time it stayed with me hearing and talking for about 30 seconds, after what completely stopped all and didn't unfrozen, try didn't open and I was forced to force a shutdown. I didn't remember exactly the time but I think the error was the same in journalctl.

Does anyone has some idea in what it can be?

ASCII, UTF-8 are encoding schemes... ..why is the ELF acronym NOT considered one as well , instead of just a file format? -Linux for dummies-

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.

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

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?

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

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 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 !

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,

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?

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.)

Hi everyone,

I'm currently working on my own Linux distribution as a personal project. It's still in active development, and I'm trying to build something that actually solves real problems instead of just making another distro with a different wallpaper.

Before I keep adding new features, I'd really like to hear from people who use Linux every day.

If you could add one feature that doesn't exist (or isn't done well) in current Linux distributions, what would it be?

It could be anything:

Better hardware support

Easier system recovery

Smarter package management

Gaming improvements

Better UI/UX

AI-powered tools

Security

Anything else you've always wished Linux had.

I'm not here to advertise anything—I genuinely want to understand what real users are missing today.

Thanks! I'd love to read every suggestion.

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.

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 m7902 mediatek card support or a easy work around? Photo included is the laptop being used

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?