Hello! 1st post here! Thinking about making a new machine with Linux, but not sure what to use for photo organization/importing. What do you use?

I have a laptop with two storage drives - an SSD and an HDD. I have installed NixOS on the SSD, which uses the systemd bootloader, and MX Linux on the HDD, which uses the GRUB bootloader.

Currently, each operating system has its own separate boot partition and bootloader configuration. I would like to be able to choose between booting into NixOS or MX Linux from a single, unified bootloader menu.

What are the steps I can take to configure either the systemd bootloader in NixOS or the GRUB bootloader in MX Linux to display an option for booting the other operating system?

Ideally, I'm looking for a solution that will allow me to select between my NixOS and MX Linux installations from a single, seamless bootloader interface, regardless of which bootloader the individual operating systems use.

So, I have an old Asus laptop with Intel 2.3 Ghz and 4 gig of RAM.. Which of these should run better (faster) on this dinosaur? I have linuxlite on it now but it seems slow...

For some time now I've been having trouble getting my linux boxes to see my removable NTFS hard drives. I have two computers running Manjaro KDE. From time to time I'll transfer large files between them via USB. But even flash drives are hit and miss.

So to rule out USB or HDD enclosure problems, I plugged a 4Tb HDD into the motherboard via the usual means. SATA cable and PSU power cables. No effect, the drive is still not recognized. On the rare occasion when it does decide to work, it seems to work just fine.

I wish I knew why my PC's are so whimsical about when it lets external drives work. Any ideas?

Hi, i need for my work to install MS Office for collaborate with team. How i can install it ?

I created a dual boot on the same SSD, but after a while I got the problem "Minimal bash supported, such as line editing" and I can't boot into Linux or Windows. How can I fix this and what do I need to do to avoid this problem in the future? P.S. Yes, uninstalling Windows is a great option, but not now.

Why shouldn't I install Nvidia drivers from their website and install it from the repositories of my distro?

I tried to update the graphics driver, but I couldn't. Apparently it is up to date.

Newbie here, I don't know where to go from here, the script works to disable the caps Lock key's original function but the remap doesn't work and I am unsure of how to fix this issue. Here is the script:

#!/bin/bash

# Exit immediately if any command fails
set -e

# Disables Caps Lock key's original function
xmodmap -e 'clear Lock' &

# Remap Caps Lock to Escape and Escape to Caps Lock
xmodmap -e 'keycode 66 = Escape' -e 'keycode 9 = Caps_Lock' &

# Use xcape to make Caps Lock act as Esc
xcape -e 'Caps_Lock=Escape' &

# Make hjkl move faster in nvim
xset r rate 250 50 &

# Wait for all background processes to finish
wait

I tried to fix the issue I was having by only executing the essential commands for disabling Caps Lock's original function and remapping it to act as the Escape key although it didn't work with xmodmap (or xcape.) Here is my attempt at fixing the issue:

#!/bin/bash

# Exit immediately if any command fails
set -e

# Disables Caps Lock key's original function
xmodmap -e 'clear Lock'

# Remap Caps Lock to Escape and Escape to Caps Lock
xmodmap -e 'keycode 66 = Escape' -e 'keycode 9 = Caps_Lock'

Any feedback or solutions you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Hi folks! I have an old tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 (SM-T285) 8gb and I'm looking for guidances about installing some of possible ways to install Linux OSs. If it possible to work with touchscreen - perfectly. If it isn't is there a way to work with it like tablet+keyboard(Bluetooth)? I'm not that experienced one who has known much about working with Linux(I'm Ubuntu/Mint user for about 6yrs and mainly using it for JS frontend development) so I'll be excited to get some advices and guidances from you like how to understand which distros is available to install for this device(I had already read some topics and there was a thing about 'arm' or another types though how to check which one in mine and so on moments which I should check before. Maybe someone has already working device/s like mine and has relevant topics about installing. Be glad to read all your advices✌️

Today i was creating my ISO for personal use and i got this error :

install: cannot stat '/home/xaurch/iso/GSOS/output/x86_64/airootfs/boot/initramfs-*.img': No such file or directory i was just thinking i could just do sudo pacman -Syu && sudo pacman -Sy after i did those i reinstalled archiso sudo pacman -S archiso after i did that i did the command to make the ISO sudo mkarchiso -v -w ~/iso/GSOS/output -o ~/iso/GSOS/output ~/iso/GSOS/releng/ i got the error again :

install: cannot stat '/home/xaurch/iso/GSOS/output/x86_64/airootfs/boot/initramfs-*.img': No such file or directory so i reinstalled Arch Linux did all of the above and still got the error can someone help

whats up guys :

so i have been using linux mint (debian basically) for a while and there is this tool called nala which is like apt but with a gui and organized and it gives you the best mirrors to download updates or other packeages but i wanted to move to fedora just as new experiment.

My question is :

Is there a tool like nala on fedora with dnf package manager ?

I've been using Arch for a few months now and I think I'd prefer to just use Debian(mainly for the stability), and use Windows for gaming, but dual booting with Windows is a bit daunting to me, and I've heard it can cause issues(such as it removing Linux?), but I don't know how true that is.

I can figure out how to install windows and debian on my own, what I'm asking for is what special steps I have to take, like what to install first, how to make sure I don't overwrite debian/win10(depending which i install first), etc. any advice is appreciated!

Also yes i realize arch is considered good for gaming but I'm not very smart, plus i don't like the rolling release thing that arch does.

Alternatively:

Could I game on a virtual machine? I'm guessing it'd be too laggy, my computer is fairly middling, but it does have 32gb of ram, and I've heard VMs are mainly RAM intensive, so could I do it if I didn't have anything major running in the background? Probably not.. but it'd certainly be cool.

I'm using a Dell precision 5540.

I mad a really stupid mistake.
I am really use to windows where everything is easy but yesterday my brother wanted to play a coop game with me and because it was not really heavy to run I thought I could play it on the family Linux computer, and so I had to instal drivers and such, but now I'm realising I am a buffoon, because the pc dose not even have a graphics card.
I looked online to see how to instal drivers and it told me to run this command
'' sudo apt-get install linux-aws ''
Now when I boot up my pc it goes like usual it says some some stuf in a font that is not readable but after instead of booting it goes to a white screen and dose not boot.
I can still go to the BIOS, I'' wondering is there a way to fix it or if there is no way to fix it how can I get the data that was on the pc like images and videos.
(if you need more info plz reply to the post and ask what info you need)

Okay so I was trying to install Arch Linux in VirtualBox (before installing it on my pc). I used commands and instructed in arch wiki Installation guide and also solved all errors happening between it but, when I did install pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware vim error: failed to install pakages to new root...

It also included the error not enough disk space but I had given sda1 (boot) 30G and sda2 20G (says idk how much it was but maybe 15444 blocks required and 6455 block free)

(At first I gave partitions 500M to sda1 [boot] and 29.5G to sda2 but, it didn't worked so I made it 30G and 20G)

[I faced this error 4 four times after doing things again & again]

{timedatectl is set manually, updated keyring too; error not fixed}

Hello, I am not sure if there is a more apporate subreddit for this question, if this is not the best I am sorry.

However, I am looking to backup my flatpak apps. To be clear, I want to backup ALL of the app in question and not just the configurations fo the app. For context, I have a app that is no longer a Flatpak so reinstalling seems to not be an option. If more information is needed, I would be happy to provide it. Below I have some system information that might be useful. Thank you in advance :)

Kernel: 5.15.0-105-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4

tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia

base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy

I know that you can use wget and curl to download a browser through the terminal, but how do you scroll through the browser's website to find the download link without using a gui?

Hi everyone, so recently I moved to Debian after a clean installation, my problem came when I installed some packages of XFCE to make my DE and it went well but the problem is that I don’t know how to set up the audio and I think that I need to install another packages or maybe it is already installed and I don’t know how to enable it.

These are the only packages that I already installed:

-xfdesktop4 -xfwm4 -xfce4-panel -xfce4-session -xfce4-settings -xfce4-terminal

I've been using mint on my 2nd computer just to stop using windows 10 before support ends and found that i do like the experience but still find the command line a bit difficult to use. Some apps that I'm used to just quickly downloading an exe and setting up on windows require a lot more effort like resilio sync for example

I've also had many issues with losing data or almost losing data, like when i tried to solve a problem of my SD card not being able to write with the command line and that kinda messed up the SD card but luckily I still had my main windows computer and managed to back up all the data in it to reformat. Or when I failed to move my home directory to my 2nd hard drive via terminal and had to reinstall after breaking my system

I want to learn arch because it's an interesting distro to try and I've heard lots of good things about it, maybe not on an actual computer but a virtual machine if it's possible. But since it's very hard to install I'm wondering how much mastery I should have of the command line on mint before I try arch. Maybe learning something harder like arch could also give me better knowledge of easier distros like mint for the day I eventually start daily driving linux?

Honestly tried searching for an answer, but never found anything definitive on it. I know flatpaks published by flathub usually have all permissions they need enabled out the box, but I wasn't sure for firefox if it specifically needed it.

I always use hardware accel, so to me it seems like common sense to turn this on as well, which I always have, but today I felt that second-guessing that, to no avail however, as evidenced by this post.

Hi everyone. I just got my old laptop to work. Probably going to get the battery replaced and clean up at a repair shop before I install a Debian based distro. Some of my files though like the games I used to play are on there. Do you think I can just transfer the data through a usb? Btw my new laptop is running Windows 11 while my old one is running Windows 10. Will this corrupt anything on my new laptop or mess with the Debian install?

Thanks for your time.

I wanted to become expert at Linux but i found that all linux distros has terminal as a main administrator, so i want to be expert at it, what do i have to learn bash or PowerShell?

fairly new to Linux full time, been messing with it off and on for a few decades. Right now I'm using lmde and have had no real issues, recently I been distro hopping via VM, and took a strong liking to fedora 40 cinnamon spin. since both are cinnamon, which is my favorite, what are differences between mint Debian and fedora, from a os standpoint, is one more reliable than the other? I like to tinker and learn, which is more forgiving and easier to fix in the event I screw up? I also been using nixos a few weeks,, is it easy to get cinnamon on it? I really love the idea of the configuration file and not really being able to break it.

I am a little bit newer to Linux than most but apparently familiar with it, I've been super interested in having different distributions installed on different flash drives just to screw around with. I have a few different flash drives with Ubuntu and mint, but I wanted to install Ubuntu on my new SanDisk Ultra 128 GB flash drive ( the plastic one with usb-c on one side and USB 3.2 on the other).

And it will simply not work no matter what I've tried, and the place it gets stuck during installation keeps changing depending on the distro I try to use. I've used the exact same ISO file with the exact same installation Drive to install on multiple other flash drives, after encounting this issue I tried installing it on a different flash drive and it worked, so I flashed a different version of the same distro, used a different distros, and nothing will work on that specific flash drive. So I went to Best Buy and I return exchanged it for the same one, it's doing the exact same thing as the previous one.

Has anybody encountered this? And does anybody know the reason that this could be happening?

So, I've more or less had it with Windows at this point and I'm basically ready to switch. I like the look of EndeavourOS and I'm willing to give it a go. To reach that end I've been putting together a list of all the stuff I have on Windows that I'd like to put back on Linux (or at least find some sort of equivalent to) and I'm kind of stuck on a particular dilemma.

Specifically, I use Directory Opus extensively. It's a great program; very versatile and capable of doing a lot of things. I'm admittedly not a maestro of this software by any means, but it's become an integral part of the way I use Windows and I'd like to carry that over to Linux. The only issue is that I apparently can't since DOpus is Windows only. What are my options here? I know that there are a number of different file managers you can use on Linux but from my understanding none of them even come close to DOpus. I won't pretend as if I use every feature that Directory Opus has to offer, but these few are more or less non-negotiable for me:

1. Dual pane view with tabs, 2) folder labelling/tagging (I use colors to mark folders) and 3) mass renaming. I've seen that there are lots of file managers with dual pane view but I'm not sure about labels or mass renaming of files. I also use a lot of shortcut (.lnk) files on Windows as a sort of "quick access"/bootleg tagging way to find stuff and I'd like to copy that over to Linux. How do I do that?

Also, as an aside, are there any image viewers on Linux that have the "Next/Previous Folder" functionality that Honeyview can do on Windows? Really gonna miss that on the switch. If you don't know it's the ability the program has to open images in a sibling folder within another folder using the [ and ] bracket keys without closing or minimizing Honeyview.

hello, i would like to be able to lock the screen when i hit the windows button and then the button "L" but i don't even know if there is a keyboard shortcut for locking the screen on Linux Mint 21.3 x86_64

what is the keyboard shortcut naturally and how do i change it so it's the windows key + L?

thank you

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priorities are gaming and video playback.

240hz monitor and a 60hz tv. debian. x11.

being on nvidia what i've done for the last couple years is just disable the compositor in Plasma so no jitter in games on the monitor set the nvidia driver to force full pipeline for the tv so no tearing.

this works fine for me overall.

however i've been trialing other distros recently. on bazzitde/gnome everything just worked. i didn't need to do anything. i don't know if that's because of gnome or bazzite, or what i'm getting to. here on Solus/Plasma it's the same old thing where i need to disable the compositor to not get jitter in game.

i use flatpak for bottles/steam. i don't know what bazzite used. here on Plasma i have allow applications to block compositing enabled.

my question is, if because of sandboxing Plasma doesn't know to suspend the compositor? you would think that it would just be smart enough that if a program is fullscreen it just would, but i guess not.

is there a permission in flatseal that i could enable? is there a flag i could add to the game? (for the compositor to not interact with the game)

also, a side question. in Plasma 5 you could set the DE frame rate to whatever you wanted by editing /etc/environment and /.config/kwinrc, however, that environment file isn't there in Plasma 6. could also be a Solus thing i dunno. anyone know how to do it in Plasma 6?

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just played Planet Crafter through Bottles and compositor on/off didn't seem to matter. played Overwatch last night through Steam and it was an obvious difference though.

i compared permissions in Flatseal and didn't see anything that stands out. so i dunno.

---edit---

alright, so my solution is to manually make a window rule in KDE Plasma.

open window rules in settings (remember everything is searchable in Plasma)

click add new

name it whatever makes sense to you in "description"

click add property & use the search bar to search "block compositing". select it. (make sure you click the pointless "yes" toggle after adding it.)

click detect window properties & click on the game/program window (the actual window itself) and select "window class (application)". this is easy and takes the guess work out of finding the proper name.

apply

i think that's it. simple enough i guess. now i get to do this for every game and video player https://imgur.com/qGdIM45

I just switched to linux and installed a new GPU in my computer. I can get games to load but they run really badly (2 - 10 fps).

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This is games like Sonic Generation and Final Fantasy XV, which proton DB shows they're workable.

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My computer recognizes my new GPU (7600XT, was a 5700 XT). Is there a way to make sure the computer is using the GPU and not the onboard graphics? The processor is a Ryzen 9 3900X

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The only games I've been able to run so far is Sonic Mania (60 FPS, stable) and D&D: Chronicles of Mystara.

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A friend told me that perhaps the computer is running only off the on board graphics and not the graphics card... But they only work with windows so they can't really help me with Mint.

In Summary

• Linux Mint (updated to most recent)
• Processor: Ryzen 9 3900X Processor
• GPU: AMD 7600 XT
• Problem: Steam Gaming
• I have Proton enabled in Steam settings