I've known about linux for some time now, and i just recently been hearing about it alot since my involvement with thinkpads. im gonna buy a thinkpad t480s soon and im thinking of running linux on dat. figured it wouldnt hurt to get myself familiar with it on my main pc. i love this pc so much i feel like to me its lasted an eternity, i built it myself and im just overall proud of what i created. starting to get to the point where i dont like how windows runs so i was getting cracked optimized versions of windows for my gaming experience but those get sketchy sometimes and its hard to keep up. i heard some nice things bout linux like no bloat ware, and something about backdoor security i dont remember, but im trying to join the community. im wondering what are the best ones to learn purely for optimization but i dont want to loose the functionality that my windows system has, like i wanna run epic games and play rocket league sometimes with my buddies or yk use the browser like usual with google. im doin some of my own research on youtube, but i like to second source and because reddits been so helpful for me i figured yall would be helpful too! any help is appreciated thanks for reading!

Hello, Im having problems with my spotify, it doesn't log in after authorization in the browser. I have installed xdg-desktop-portal and the gtk backend, d-bus is running. My distro is arch. I have a ryzen 7 4700, 8gb of ram and run linux out of an ssd. This is the error it returns when i run spotify with flatpak run --log-session-bus
https://pastebin.com/EexnAyZP

I'm a long time Windows 7U, 10 & 11 user who had fear of switching Windows version and even more so of switching OS because I'm afraid of accidentally f---ing up and bricking the laptop. I have a 4GB RAM laptop with 118GB storage came installed Windows 11.

For a long time I didn't really realize how slow it is because it's the only laptop I had. Then as time went on I grew frustrated with it because of how slow simple things can be. Like, opening a YT video on any browser will lag and load for at least 10-15 seconds before the video starts playing at all.

Of course I know about Linux, but due to needing Visual Studio for my study course, I can't switch from Windows to Linux. I had to ignore the pain to carry on. Then finally, the course ended. I also have another laptop with Win 10 in case I need something only Windows can do. I decided it's time to "set out of my comfort zone" and "explore undiscovered horizons". It's gonna be one heck of a ride.

I backed up all the datas from one laptop to another, then bought an USB. After watching some guide videos to get an idea of how to do it, then get going. It was simpler than I originally thought. I had ChatGPT answering whenever I had any confusion about what or how to do something.

After installing Mint XFCE and ran Firefox to test out YT, I have a big grin on my face. It's blazingly fast, feels like Rock Lee after dropping away all the weights tied on his legs. The UI looks kinda... "nostalgic" like those old Android versions and I like it. I'm currently continuing to explore it. Now I became a part of the free world, unbounded by Microsoft bloated telemetry slop dictatorship. Thanks everyone the nice people who commented and helped me on my previous post here. Thank you,

Long time Windows user, recently installed Linux Mint XFCE. I used an USB to flash the Linux. Then I formatted the USB so I can use it as storage again. But after formatting (on Win10 laptop using Disk Management) the Linux laptop doesn't recognize the USB anymore. Here's some relevant log:

ncldmr@TravelMate-B311-31:~$ sudo dmesg | tail -n 20 [ 4480.986053] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 11 [ 4481.242543] usb 1-3: new full-speed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd [ 4481.358232] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 4481.577968] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 4481.793572] usb 1-3: new full-speed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd [ 4481.908623] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 4482.129585] usb 1-3: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 4482.232936] usb usb1-port3: attempt power cycle [ 4482.619348] usb 1-3: new full-speed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd [ 4482.619509] usb 1-3: Device not responding to setup address. [ 4482.823573] usb 1-3: Device not responding to setup address. [ 4483.031381] usb 1-3: device not accepting address 14, error -71 [ 4483.031487] usb 1-3: WARN: invalid context state for evaluate context command. [ 4483.145548] usb 1-3: new full-speed USB device number 15 using xhci_hcd [ 4483.145746] usb 1-3: Device not responding to setup address. [ 4483.351386] usb 1-3: Device not responding to setup address. [ 4483.560525] usb 1-3: device not accepting address 15, error -71 [ 4483.560659] usb 1-3: WARN: invalid context state for evaluate context command. [ 4483.560764] i2c_hid_acpi i2c-ELAN050C:00: i2c_hid_get_input: incomplete report (14/60418) ncldmr@TravelMate-B311-31:~$

Btw I installed Linux Mint 22 XFCE. I'm probably missing some info to provide but idk what, pls let me know. Sorry, I'm kinda frustrated things that are obviously supposed to work fine just break and I have to try to find impossible niche solutions.

My old laptop is fine. Am looking into this for 200€ and possible running Manjaro

Lenovo Thinkpad T490 Intel Core i5-8365U/8GB/256GB SSD/14"

Thoughts?

30 1,7,13,19 * * * sh home/Kevsosmooth/restic_data.sh

I have the above saved in my crontab but it never runs...what exactly is wrong with this? I tried running it with just sh home/Kevsosmooth/restic_data.sh and this worked but just alone in the crontab it does not work.

Now my linux machine never shuts off but have a few minutes you do have to enter your password to get back into your account

i dont know if this issue been around or if its new but either way, i cant get any icon pack to work fully on my machine, it doesnt matter if i switch between x11 or wayland, still getting same issues on both of them . https://i.imgur.com/lIS6i4k.png here i found some windows xp icon pack that barely manages to display most of the icons, if i select any other icon pack, it turns to this https://i.imgur.com/VkIRz3z.png . it doesnt display anything, no taskbar icons, no inner menu icons nothing. im not that experienced in linux so.... , and that thing , whenever i try to install any global theme from the built in installer i get this error - Installation of /tmp/OiecaP-Nordic-darker.tar-20240831002851.xz failed: Could not install dependency: 'kns://colorschemes.knsrc/api.kde-look.org/1629062'

My girlfriend has and old samsung notebook, and after replacing the hard drive (with an SSD of course) and the charger it's usable. It's not horrible, but windows on it is very slow (about 5 seconds to open a internet browser, for example).

I've used mint on a VM, can it "revive" this old machine?

Hi, since adding a new ssd to my windows laptop, I was considering dual booting linux to try it and hopefully getting a better battery life for when I'm on the go. Since my laptop is a gaming one it has been impossible to use unplugged because of its less than 1 hour life, and since I'm an engineering student being able to use it a little more unplugged would be great. I'm looking for a distro compatible with as much software as possible for what linux can do, and beginner friendly if possible. My laptop has an intel i5 13th gen and an rtx 4050.

Hey guys so updated my laptop with max 8gb ram and 1tb ssd.. (its 2013 windows 8.1 HP pavilion g6 3210) Got my usb.. loaded linux mint 22.. flashed it using rufus because etcher kept failing install setup. Stuck into my laptop and pop went the weasal.. it said "can not find boot disk" and basically bricked. It does not turn on.. plugged in.. plugged out.. no idea what to do.. first attempt and i was so proud.

Anyone know what happened.. and how can i fix it? The old hdd i have put into an external hardrive enclosure.. so i assume it still works. Has full windows 8.1 on and all my stuff. But i cant turn the laptop on.

Thanks

Hello guys!

I am currently searching for the best Linux distribution for me. I am using Windows on my desktop & my laptop since always but I now want to switch to Linux on my laptop. My points are :

• The lack of personnalisation of Windows (I am really obsessed with that & I would like to go on a similar UI/UX to MacOS for example)
• The difficulties of using Docker on Windows
• My personnal interest in IT in général (beginner but yeah)

I was thinking about Zorin OS (Pro) because of the UI principally but I do want some opinions. I also have some questions on installing some applications on Linux, for example I am currently using Arc as my browser and there is no official version for Linux. I saw tools like Darling, but I don't know if it's simple or not...

(Sorry if my english is not perfect, this is not my native language)

Hello, I’ve recently started using arch and everything is going smooth but I can’t get my spotify client to log in after browser log in. I downloaded xdg-desktops-portal and the gtk backend. I assume the problem is with d-bus but after checking it is running fine. Thanks in advance!

Hi, I had reinstalled Arch Linux because of some problems I had with storage. Everything was ok until today when I tried to run Ardour for the first time in this installation, everything seemed fine but soon, during the playback of my project, my system freezed out. I don't know why. Tried to look into the logs of Ardour and there are no clues about the freeze. Same with journalctl.

I'm using Arch Linux, default kernel, Wayland, pipewire-jack.

Can anybody help me to debug this issue?

Im trying to set up temp monitoring for my system and i keep seeing psensor as the way to go. However, aparently i need lm_sensors installed so after installing and answering these weird questions it tells me no sensors are detected.

Furthermore, i cant seem to find psensors when using dnf install.

Any ideas? Im using the latest fedora distro.

I just installed fedora on a spare hdd bc i want to try dualbooting and for some reason steam ist detecting games that i have on my windows ssd someone please help

So I've installed Aurora on my mom's laptop. I disabled root account since I don't think I need it, and it also disables remote access so I thought it was safer like this. Then I set up an account with no password, so she will not need it - earlier I've put ChromeOS on it and she was complaining about the password at the login screen. I know I can turn it off, but my dad was also complaining about the system asking root password for some things (but back when I've put Mint on his PC). So I wanted to make sure that they will not need root any situation. Was this a stupid idea?

Tldr; I've installed Aurora on my mom's laptop withouth root account and withouth password. Was this a bad idea?

I have a laptop with a pretty good configuration (that's not the problem) but with a pretty bad battery
For the moment when it is in battery mode, my only use would be internet and NOTHING ELSE

I am currently on Windows because I have a pretty basic use.
I would like to know which distribution you would recommend just for web browsing (not even YouTube) + which browser (I know that those based on Chromium are quite energy-intensive)

How would you recommend setting up the partition table for a home desktop Ubuntu PC? It has a 256GB SSD. Want to aim for a flexible setup, and I kinda like tonlive dangerously and try this and that so it's not uncommon that I mess up and reinstall the OS. Don't judge, it's my learning curve. Recently I had to try to increase the EFI size, also had to move the other partitions that finally bricked by bootloader completely. Not sure if it could have been avoided with any setup but anyway, apart from this learning I also look forward to hearing your recommendations. Thx!

the laptop is one of those horrible hp windows 7 starter things so obviously very bad specs, also im not very expirienced so i'd prefer one thats easier to install

Bricked my laptop? Edit: This is more of a rant/rambling on my own mistake, that said I'd appreciate any ideas of pointers to things I could try before I have to take the pc to a technician.

Hw: Gigabyte G5 (16gb ram, Nvidia 3050ti 4gb, 2 ssd 512g + 1tb) I've been using arch for a few months now as daily driver, with Wayland + hyprland, first time with a WM. It was fun, lots of learning and basically every other day included some sort of troubleshooting. It all started with the install, took ages since I used luks for the drives and lvm to have them partitioned as follows: 1gb for efi Then the luks on both ssd with the lvm inside holding: root, home and swap.

It was all good until last night, I added the black arch repo and tools in order to run some forensics on an old drive today, it was late, I messed something up with dependencies or something, not sure, but in the morning I just didn't want to get to troubleshoot, decided to distro hop back to mint, solely because my workload is picking up and I want something stable (I plan to get back to arch when I get an extra machine to toy with).

Anyhow, I backed up my files to an external drive, stick ventoy in the box, run live mint, used the disk utilities to format the drives as I wanted to drop the lvm since I'll likely get another ssd for xmas and there are only 2 slots so I would need to redo the table anyway. I then run the install app, got some error which I stupidly ignored thinking I could reboot into the same iso and try again but after selecting iso on ventoy it gets stuck at loading initram...

Tried different isos, all the same, not working, the uefi/bios manager doesn't even show the ssd drives and I have no idea on how to begin fixing this... Any ideas? I'm thinking of trying a live stick with balena instead of ventoy but I won't have access to a computer until tomorrow to do that...

Wtf did I do? Any ideas on what I can try to fix this?

Hi, I tried installing various applications with sudo apt install, and I always get an error when it tries to compile it with the make command. I'm not an expert but from the log it seems that there is some sort of conflict with the WiFi dongle (rtl8821CU). Why is it and what can I do about it? It was already a PITA to install the wifi driver, so if I could I would avoid having to do it again.

Thanks in advance.

The OS is Debian 12 running on a very old 32 Bit computer. The kernel is 6.1.0-28-686-pae (i686). Here is the Log:

DKMS make.log for rtl8821CU-5.4.1 for kernel 6.1.0-28-686-pae (i686)

Tue 17 Dec 19:10:19 CET 2024

make ARCH=i386 CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/6.1.0-28-686-pae/build M=/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build modules

make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.1.0-28-686-pae'

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_cmd.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_security.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_debug.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_io.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_ioctl_query.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_ioctl_set.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_ieee80211.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_mlme.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_mlme_ext.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_mi.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_wlan_util.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_vht.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_pwrctrl.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_rf.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_recv.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_sta_mgt.o

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_sta_mgt.c: In function ‘rtw_mfree_stainfo’:

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_sta_mgt.c:379:25: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as ‘true’ for the address of ‘lock’ will never be NULL [-Waddress]

379 | if (&psta->lock != NULL)

| ^~

In file included from /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/include/drv_types.h:107,

from /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_sta_mgt.c:17:

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/include/sta_info.h:256:17: note: ‘lock’ declared here

256 | _lock lock;

| ^~~~

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_ap.o

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_ap.c: In function ‘rtw_ap_update_chbw_by_ifbmp’:

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_ap.c:4397:42: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as ‘true’ for the address of ‘padapters’ will never be NULL [-Waddress]

4397 | if (!(ifbmp & BIT(i)) || !dvobj->padapters)

| ^

In file included from /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_ap.c:17:

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/include/drv_types.h:1020:19: note: ‘padapters’ declared here

1020 | _adapter *padapters[CONFIG_IFACE_NUMBER];/*IFACE_ID_MAX*/

| ^~~~~~~~~

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_ap.c:4417:42: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as ‘true’ for the address of ‘padapters’ will never be NULL [-Waddress]

4417 | if (!(ifbmp & BIT(i)) || !dvobj->padapters)

| ^

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/include/drv_types.h:1020:19: note: ‘padapters’ declared here

1020 | _adapter *padapters[CONFIG_IFACE_NUMBER];/*IFACE_ID_MAX*/

| ^~~~~~~~~

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/mesh/rtw_mesh.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/mesh/rtw_mesh_pathtbl.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/mesh/rtw_mesh_hwmp.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_xmit.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_p2p.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_rson.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_tdls.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_br_ext.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_iol.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_sreset.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_btcoex_wifionly.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_btcoex.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_beamforming.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_odm.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_rm.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/rtw_rm_fsm.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/core/efuse/rtw_efuse.o

CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/os_dep/osdep_service.o

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/os_dep/osdep_service.c: In function ‘rtw_change_ifname’:

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/os_dep/osdep_service.c:2494:28: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘_rtw_memcpy’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]

2494 | _rtw_memcpy(pnetdev->dev_addr, adapter_mac_addr(padapter), ETH_ALEN);

| ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/os_dep/osdep_service.c:925:24: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘const unsigned char *’

925 | void _rtw_memcpy(void *dst, const void *src, u32 sz)

| ~~~~~~^~~

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/os_dep/osdep_service.c: In function ‘rtw_random32’:

/var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/os_dep/osdep_service.c:2618:16: error: implicit declaration of function ‘prandom_u32’; did you mean ‘prandom_u32_max’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

2618 | return prandom_u32();

| ^~~~~~~~~~~

| prandom_u32_max

cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

make[2]: *** [/usr/src/linux-headers-6.1.0-28-common/scripts/Makefile.build:255: /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build/os_dep/osdep_service.o] Error 1

make[1]: *** [/usr/src/linux-headers-6.1.0-28-common/Makefile:2034: /var/lib/dkms/rtl8821CU/5.4.1/build] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.1.0-28-686-pae'

make: *** [Makefile:2217: modules] Error 2

OS: Ubuntu 20.04.6 GPU: Intel i7-7500U (4) @ 3.500GHz I hope that's all the info needed, but let me know if something else will be more helpful.

TLDR: I'd like to use my computer for more than just drawing in Krita. Ideally I'd like to play at least SOME of my games in Steam. I'm so frustrated and feel so stupid. Please help.

I think I'm the most frustrated I've ever been in my life. I was given a laptop almost a year ago preloaded with Linux, which I've never used before, but was very open to. I thought I knew how to use a computer really well, but this is proving me SO wrong. The main purpose for the friend giving me the laptop was to play games through Steam. The one and only thing I've been able to figure out is running Krita sucessfully. In a year.

I can't figure out how to play any ganes except EuroTruck Sim. It won't even run smaller games like Dorf Romantik or Strange Horticulture. I can't figure out how to put icons on my desktop. I can't figure out how to get Proton to work. I can't figure out anything. I've read forums and I''ve watched videos, but all they've served is to make me feel like the dumbest person alive. None of it makes any sense to me, and every time I try to get something to work, I get errors or the system just doesn't find what I'm looking for. I even accidentally broke the app manager once which was a whole thing in itself to figure out. I've tried looking into other distros, and found one i like better based on reading about it, but i dont know how to install/uninstall/fix any of that, and im terrified of bricking the thing. I'm honestly at the point where I'm considering just buying windows, but I don't even know how to remove an OS and put a new one in.

One of the biggest hurdles I found with Linux was terminal anxiety, constantly having to google commands when I wasnt sure how to do some things and then someone said try Warp.

What an absolute gamechanger. Its got a version of ClaudeAI baked in so you can type plain english of what you want and it'll search for the right command, or you can type the command you think and it'll correct or auto-complete.

I feel like this is the type of tool that will get more folks into using linux with confidence

Hello,

Long story short: It was a while ago that a friend of mine installed Zorin OS on my laptop because my laptop is basically an electronic potato and didn't run Windows. He said it would be much better. He installed it and now I'm loving using my laptop.

Now I'd like to know if it's possible to install two operating systems on my desktop computer. It's much more powerful than my laptop and I have plenty of space on my C drive. Since I'm going to format my computer anyway, I'd like to know if it's possible to install Windows 10 + Zorin OS.

Any advice would be welcome and I'm also new to this kind of thing, so please be patient with me.

I want to partition sda3 on my hard drive. It's 500GB and contains my system files. Someone suggested I resize it to something like 500MB to contain the system files, and then partition the rest as needed, but I don't know what'll happen to my documents and pictures, etc., which I presume are also on sda3 (sda1 and 2 are already tiny, so they can't be there). How does this mysterious process work?

Edit: i'm running Mint 22 Xfce.

Hi people I have a 11 year old laptop that runs windows 11 and I want to transform to Linux So all of the apps I use like blender and stuff are on Linux except Autodesk's Autocad and Revit and I hate them for that I can't run a VM because how I could do that on a i5 2 core 5th gen

Any ways to use them on Linux ?

I don't have experience using Linux and have only done some research on it such as distros etc.

Is streaming easy to do on Linux? I know some things that work properly with windows don't work that well, or at all with Linux. And for some things there are worK arounds. For example to game you would use proton to make it work for most steam games. And then there's "solutions" that are much more complicated, and people who are not tech savvy cant really do them. I'm in this category. I want to use a Linux computer to stream movies and TV shows. Mostly from sites like kiss anime and 123movies, along with other sites shown in the FMHY THREAD. Every once in a while I may also try to use it with official streaming services like tubi, Netflix etc, but I mostly want to use it for FMHY type streaming sites for shows. Does it work exactly as it would for Android smartphone or windows computer where you just open a web browser and go to the site and click play? Is it that easy or are there additional steps I need to do?