So I was looking for a new android based OS for an old laptop I had a while ago. I chose BlissOS since a friend has it on his work PC and it works perfectly; I followed a youtube tutorial on how to install it and follow all the steps correctly. Now, for some specific reason (I don't even know what else I could try), the installer on my USBs works fine and installs the OS fine; But when I reboot, the Grub2 menu to open the system simply does not appear or it even appears in the list of bootable systems in the BIOS. Does anyone know why this happens? When I installed the OS I created an "EFI System" partition as the tutorial said, should I select another partition type? Maybe I should allocate more space to the System partition (Currently 30GB)?

I just installed Mint on a new laptop and pycharm is not showing in the software manager.

I have pycharm installed and working perfectly on my desktop (also running mint) I am not sure why it is not showing in the software manager at all here while it is showing both versions on my desktop.

I would ideally like to not install via the tarball on the pycharm website as I prefer using flatpack.

Only thing I see is that my fresh mint install is missing repos but that is odd as I do not remember doing anything on my desktop.

Help would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

Hi everyone, I'm still very new to linux but liking it so far, the only problem is that I can't figure out how to make my laptop use the Nvidia GPU when playing a game instead of the integrated graphics of amd, I'm using Opensuse Tumbleweed and I tried with suse prime and switcheroo but had no luck.

I already downloaded the drivers for Nvidia using the opensuse guide, but when launching minecraft it says I'm still using the integrated graphics and on other games the perfomance is pretty bad, my gpu is a gtx 1650.

Between Opensuse Tumbleweed KDE and Fedora KDE, I am looking for the distro that optimizes high and continuous loads better. I am looking for a better power distribution without dispersion, a better terminal management and I want to avoid the increase of cpu and ram as much as possible. I know, it depends on the computer, but up to a certain point...

My idea was to install Fedora Kde, because Fedora is slightly better than Opensuse during prolonged use with heavy loads, because Fedora optimizes cpu, ram and thermal management better. Opensuse is still good in the case of prolonged heavy loads, but Fedora slightly more.

PROBLEM
But on the web I read that Fedora is not perfectly optimized for KDE and could consume slightly more ram and cpu during prolonged high loads using Kde compared to Opensuse Tumbleweed which has the Kde integrated and optimized.

DOUBT
Perhaps during prolonged heavy loads, PARADOXICALLY the greater optimization of KDE on openSUSE could lead to more efficient resource usage despite Opensuse being slightly less optimized for prolonged heavy loads than Fedora?

PARADOX
If Fedora is better than openSUSE in managing CPU, RAM and temperature for heavy and prolonged workloads, and I decided to install Fedora KDE because I don't like GNOME, then:
Is it better to install Fedora KDE, even though KDE is not perfectly optimized on Fedora and may consume slightly more CPU and RAM?
Or, paradoxically:
Is it better to install openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE, which is less optimized than Fedora in general management of heavy and prolonged workloads, but consumes less CPU and RAM thanks to its better native KDE integration?

Hello ladies and gentlemen. How is your day going? How can I automatically apply the colors from my wallpaper, defined by Pywall, to the text colors in Neofetch, so that the text appears in the colors I'm using, like in the file colors-waybar.css?

colors-waybar.css:

https://preview.redd.it/o9csu5k90k2e1.png?width=445&format=png&auto=webp&s=2db93df6819f353236bdb0eb331929a85289dee1

neofetch colors:

https://preview.redd.it/j99mijxb0k2e1.png?width=522&format=png&auto=webp&s=9b2f6dd835791c5dbf42d5c2072702f875d5158f

hi

I bought this android box Sometimes ago, and i want to repurpose it with linux

1st-is it possible to do it?

2-what distro can run good on it?

(i know core z looks weird, it's because the device is RTL)

https://preview.redd.it/k3pmfwjfuh2e1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd447f4596abb878b9af532ba5b8e94d375faccd

If you want the specific model,you can't find it,but if you think im wrong, try "netbox eco",here is the pic:

https://preview.redd.it/7u9wh7gmvh2e1.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e7c06244a932804070ec820749bc8afe9da5154

https://preview.redd.it/ulvlvrgmvh2e1.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=098b31a24119d23604a3c2e36ee27d37868ecda7

Hey guys, I've used different linux distros before in VMs, many times in college, but just about a week ago I made the switch from Windows to Arch as my main system. I've created Arch VMs before, and believe I'm familiar enough to know my way around and safely learn everything else along the way.

Yesterday, I was trying to access the image I made of my Windows OS (made with Macrium Reflect) before I switched, as it still has lots of important files, but to access that, I needed Marcium Reflect again, so I decided the best course of action was to set up a quick Windows 10 VM, install MR, and copy the OS image to it and access what I needed.

So I installed VirtualBox, set up what I needed to to get it running, then tried to create the VM on my storage HDD. It's 4TB, and my Windows image was on there already, so I figured it would be best since it is an HDD after all, and transferring between it and my NVME isn't a fast process for very large files. Well... in the Windows installer, while it tried to set itself up, it was stuck at 0%. That wasn't the case when I made a test VM on my NVME, and I gave it time with the HDD, but it didn't help. I tried to stop the process, but then the VM froze. I wasn't thrilled, but because the process wasn't coming back to life anytime soon, I tried to kill it in htop. That.. did not help. In fact, it started slowing down my system and making it lag. That actually made me concerned, enough that, when it wasn't getting any better, I restarted the PC while I was still able to.

After the restart, I discovered that I couldn't access my HDD anymore, and that freaked me out thinking it might've gotten damaged or corrupted somehow. Luckily.. I think it's just the result of NTFS adding some bit to the drive to prevent mounting as a 'safety' mechanism incase of a "dirty dismount" iirc the term I heard somewhere. Rn I'm making a Windows bootable USB to run chkdsk so I can correct that, but I still don't know why this happened. Can anyone help explain?

Ok, ok, I was doing something I shouldn't have with sudo while I was trying to download an app. I don't understand what I'm doing with installing apps yet, so I was trying to follow a user's instructions from an AskUbuntu post.

Now, every time I open terminal, there's like 50 lines of text that starts with " declare -x" and a bunch of all caps stuff I also don't understand.

How bad did I fuck up?

In case it makes a difference, I'm running Ubuntu 24.04

I have Ubuntu with Gnome. I saw a lot of well known people using i3 and it seems cool and straight to the point.

I told a friend "Yeah now that I only use nvim I think I will migrate to i3 to be more consistent"

He said no giving the following reasons:

• I3 will slow me down as it has a learning curve, really decreasing productivity at first
• i3 will cause problems that are already fixed by default in Gnome. He gave the example of notifications (ex. Teams notifications won't be visible by default)
• Share screen on HDMI/USBC apparently is not built in and need some tweaks
• Using multiple monitor also require third party apps

He said and I quote : "as someone who tried every window manager out there with every extension, you should stay on Gnome and maximum move to Hyperland."

I mean he convinced me... But idk, like when I see all these famous geeks (not linkedin influencer but real knowledgeable people) use i3 I feel jealous.

What do you think ?

Hello everyone

I have an issue with downloading OpenTabletDriver. I used it in previous distros in Nobara, Bazzite and PopOS. Now I am in Kubuntu right now and I can't even install it and keeps giving me this message: Dependency resolution failed.

If anybody know whats the problem and knows what I can do to deal with it, please let me know. Thank you.

So I was having some bugs and glitches on 24.04 LTS and I've realized they were because of a broken mouse, my mouse became defective and was causing problems for me, I thought these were bugs with Ubuntu but nope it was because of my mouse. So I got a new mouse and yeah it was indeed because of the mouse, see this thread, yeah I had a bad mouse and didn't know it https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1gu2szk/im_having_one_bug_in_nautilus_file_manager_where/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Also just simply copying text in Firefox (and I thought this was because of 24.04 LTS) was acting extremely glitchy but that was cause of my bad mouse. Yeah what do you know my mouse became defective.

Well see I deleted "~/.cache/thumbnails" and now 98% of the video thumbnails are not showing up https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1gkvitz/i_deleted_cachethumbnails_and_now_98_of_the_video/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button and I couldn't figure out how to fix it so I'm just gonna have to re-install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

So for a moment I was thinking about jumping over to Mint but since I've realized that all those bugs were being caused by my mouse I'm gonna stay on Ubuntu. I'm just gonna re-install 24.04 LTS

But listen when I first installed 24.04 LTS the installer was broken and I saw some random comment that said that Ubuntu 24.04 has shipped with a new installer that's got bugs, yeah the only way I could successfully install 24.04 was to use "safe graphics mode".

So just to confirm, so 24.04 LTS indeed has a new installer that is buggy and glitchy? Cause the only way I could successfully install 24.04 was to use safe graphics mode.

So yeah I'm gonna stay with Ubuntu. Now listen to this, mouse movement on my 55 inch TV feels so much better on Ubuntu 24.04 compared to 22.04, they definitely made improvements to the way the mouse moves. I have got my PC hooked up to my 55 inch TV, when I first tried Ubuntu 24.04 I was like "Wow the mouse feels so much better and accurate!!!" So yeah I don't have to mess with the settings, right out the box, the mouse movement on my big 55 inch screen feels perfect on 24.04 LTS, feels much better than 22.04 LTS.

And it has something to do with Wayland cause when I go back to an X11 session the mouse feels shitty again (feels like I'm using 22.04).

So why am I telling you this? Well I created a live Mint 22 USB and took Mint 22 for a spin and Mint 22 has shitty mouse movement (on a large screen that is mind you) compared to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and see, Mint is still using X11 and I'm hearing Mint will not be moving over to Wayland for years to come.

So yeah I'm gonna stay with Ubuntu.

Hi,

I recently got an AMD Radeon RX 6600 from a friend. I installed it, and the ports worked fine. So I went to AMD's website and downloaded the best drivers for my card, and it downloaded in .deb form. I ran the deb file, and it says it installed OK. So I restart my computer, run "glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"" and I get "Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.2". From what I've been told, this means that the AMD drivers didn't install. What am I doing wrong?

ps. Sorry for the wall of text, I figured that any detail helped.

anyone know why when I try to download flatpack for obs studios it says Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package flatpack?

Hello, I wish to get a good thorough crash course in learning linux and I've heard using Archlinux is one of the better ways to do so. Thing is, I read about it needing frequent updates and I live in the countryside where I can't update frequently. Is Archlinux recommended despite that?

I had working ASUS TUF DASH F15 2021 (no mux switcher) with integrated graphics and RTX. Everything worked until, installing steam, I decided that I needed to install graphics drivers for the card. After doing so, the image on the external monitor stopped appearing, it remained only on the matrix. Trying to do things from the documentation and other advice from the Internet I messed up even more, and now I don't even display the login screen, there is only the mouse. What can I do? I use Arch Linux (and this has been going on for some time, but such a problem I have never had before)

I've got a purely black desktop background, and so with my top bar.

When I have a floating window, the top bar is not consistent with the background such that there is an ugly gray border that makes it inconsistent with the colour as demonstrated with the attachment below:

Window Title Bar of Discord being inconsistent with the background.

I'm looking at something that makes this title bar transparent (such that anything in the background appears) or black such that if anything is below it, it just gets covered. Or the background's opacity can be lower so that anything behind it is dimmer.

Is there an extension I can install that does this for me? If not, how can I achieve this desired appearance of my window title bar?

Distro: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS

Hi,

I read thet Neofetch is not maintained anymore and that Fastfetch is the one to get, so I went on installing Fastfetch from the command line on my Linux Mint OS.

I ran the following command as indicated:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zhangsongcui3371/fastfetch

Then i ran sudo apt update and ran Fastfetch but it doesn't run.It says that command fastfetch is unknown.

What is the correct way to install Fastfetch and run it on my distribution?

I am testing out ubuntu budgie and was trying to install balena edtcher on this system. For some reason i can not get it to run. At first i went back to other linux distros to make sure that i could just run it including my standard ubuntu install and it is working fine. etcher just does nothing after i extract it and try to run it. I also tried the 32bit version and could not get it to run on this distro either. any help with this would be appreciated.

https://preview.redd.it/bng35cghqi2e1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=7931674530657a3e6a8ed511539e3939f3b1e8b9

i figured i would give system info as well

I'm tired of Microsoft, but I'm so dependent on them. I'm used to Windows, office (word/excel/onenote), and my university runs off everything Microsoft.

I'm thinking, if I use Linux, I can maybe just use my office apps web versions. Or maybe have a vm to run windows specifically for those reasons.

So I gave up on Linux a while back because I would find myself unable to do simple tasks that were easy on Windows. I'd spend hours looking up how to do stuff and entering random commands until it worked.

But I'm getting so sick of Microsoft and their antics. Seriously, it's like they think they own my computer.

So I wanna give it another try. My first question is; what's the best distro with an easy out-of-box experiance? My laptop is only a few months old (Core Ultra 5), so I'm not concerned about performance. 2nd question; anything else I should know before starting my Linux journey?

Also, I added a 2nd SSD to my laptop for storing all my media (has 2x m.2 slots). I'd like to make a partition on my main C drive for Linux, and have both operating systems able to access my secondary SSD as a 2nd drive. Is this doable?

So, I am planning to resize my root folder.
My Partition looks like this:
nvme0n1 259:0 0 1,8T 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 1G 0 part /boot
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 126G 0 part [SWAP]
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 126G 0 part /
└─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 1,6T 0 part /home
i.e. the home folder is on another partition.

My plan is to boot into a live os like 'kde neon' and resize/extend the root partition with the 'kde partitioning manager'. I basically did this once a while back on my laptop and I got systemd error as far as I remember.

So my Question is, should this resizing work? without errors?
And do I have to input a command in the terminal that linux "reloads" the size of the root partition and recognises that it now has a different size?
(of course I have backups of everything)

Thanks for helping

Is there any way to get it to work. The device ID for my laptop is 06cb:00e7 and support for it was dropped by libfprint

https://preview.redd.it/m52gzo63cg2e1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e916a24a8bed5ab8f45e1bdf2992238e288f519

Are there any other solutions?

HI guys. I installed pop os today and fan noises are way more louder than windows. How can i fix that. I also want to reduce temps of my laptop

I have a portable DAP/Mp3 player that uses a windows file system. I am working on fulling switching to Linux and it would be nice to not have to open a windows VM to upload music and playlists to it. New to Linux so I'm not sure what my options are. When I plug in my mp3 to my Linux laptop there are folders and files missing. It is recognized by my laptop but only about half of the folders are shown. I use Linux Mint. Is there an app or software I can use that would let me mimic windows files systems? Thanks! If you need any more info to help out let me know.

I need help with the installation. I am installing Nobara 40. I have previously used Mint and PopOs! and I have never had this problem. I tried to boot Nobara on a traditional USB and nothing. I tried with Ventoy and I was able to enter the system to start the installation. Once inside, in the installation options, I select to erase the disk (clean installation) to only have Nobara on my 128gb ssd. However, once the installation finishes, when it turns on again. it tells me that it needs a bootable device. I connect the USB that I used and it sends me back to the installation. I tried without the USB and it says to connect it. The installation never finishes it is a loop.

sorry for the translate I dont speak english

I've used CrystalDiskInfo on Windows, and it shows me almost exactly how many GB have been written to my SSD. However on Linux, smartctl shows Total LBAs Written (14,869). When I multiply this by the sector size, I get a few megabytes written. After copying a 1GB file, Total LBAs Written increases by 30-32 LBAs.I’ve checked two different SATA SSDs, and both show similar results.

Hi,

Sorry if this is stupid question, I am on a learning process of backing up linux to cloud, currently using gnome. I don't know Git or any other tools yet.

As a start, to be safe, I am trying to back up linux configuration files to google drive manually. Idea is to copy them back in case of an issue that demands a fresh install, and I will have desktop as before (ie. with same look, extensions, shortcuts), minus applications and personal data.

I already make snapshots (rsync) using timeshift. But current idea is to copy important folders externally incase I mess up.

Is it okay if I just copy ./config for this purpose? I found a flatpack called 'save desktop' that creates a zip file. Is copying that to drive enough?

Thanks in advance!

I just spun up my first Ubuntu server on Hetzner last night, and I've been trying to learn how to set it up using ChatGPT. ChatGPT has helped a lot in some ways, but I've also learned that it's maybe not the best thing in other ways... Either way, my system is set up with Dashy and Cockpit. Dashy is accessible at the base domain level, and Cockpit is accessible at :9090. How can I make Cockpit accessible at /cockpit rather than :9090? Or maybe even a subdomain cockpit.domain . com.

ChatGPT was trying to help me, but just ended up breaking things. I THINK we got all the changes it asked me to make reverted... I hope.