When I moved from Windows to Linux, the most confusing part was software. Some apps come from

the distribution, some from Flathub, some from Snap, and some are a file you download from a

website and then... put somewhere? There is no "run the installer, and uninstall it later".

So I built Yar, an app manager that tries to make that simple:

- Drop a downloaded file on the window (AppImage, zip or tar archive, .deb or .rpm, Flatpak

file), or paste the download link. Yar checks what it is without running it, shows you

where it will go, and adds it to your app menu with its icon. Later you can remove it

cleanly, because Yar remembers what it put where.

- See every installed app in one list, wherever it came from.

- Install, update and remove apps from Flathub and your distribution, with a preview of

exactly what will happen first.

- Undo from a history, and removed data goes to the Trash, not away for good.

- Paste the checksum from the developer's website to check the download is genuine.

It is an early pre-release (0.3.0). I use it on Fedora with KDE; other distributions should

work but haven't been tried much. I'd really like to hear where it confuses you or breaks.

GitHub, with screenshots: https://github.com/mirinio/yar

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Recently I have been more aware of my privacy after reading some news of apps I'm using and want to switch it up a bit and go from microsoft to a linux type, the problem is that I am currently not a professional and don't understand/get overwhelmed by most tutorials, so

Can anyone give me a simple 5 year old like explanation on how to switch and what systemto choose for thesepurpose: I have an HP laptop, I need to use office 365 and want to keep things like wallpaper engine and steam (mostly single player) also worried about one drive and most of my files. If anyone could help me I would be terribly grateful.

What features, usage patterns, configuration methods, or other aspects do you find in NixOS—but not in Arch—that you particularly appreciate?

Additionally, how would you compare the two in terms of system boot time and package manager installation speed—which one generally feels faster to you?

I’m getting tired of Windows and all its bloat, notifications, and stuff constantly being pushed in my face, I’m considering switching to Bazzite or Mint, since they seem “newbie friendly”

What I mainly use my PC for:
- Streaming with OBS
- DJing with Rekordbox, although I’d probably switch to Mixxx if I move to Linux
- Image editing with GIMP
- Video editing with DaVinci Resolve
- Gaming

I’ve been looking at Bazzite, since I’ve heard it’s great for gaming. However I read somewhere that it automatically boots into a gaming mode similar to Steam Big Picture/SteamDeck. Is it true, or can I just boot straight into a normal desktop, like on Windows?

Looking for
- a regular desktop experience, without unnecessary stuff running in the background
- The ability to customize my file explorer (stuff like automatically show dimensions of an image directly in the file name)
- Something beginner-friendly, since I have no coding experience
- Good gaming performance and compatibility with drivers

I got
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600x
- RTX 3060 Ti
- One 165Hz & One 60Hz monitor

Is Bazzite a good choice, or should I look at something like Mint?
Is there anything else you need to know about my hardware or usage to give me a better recommendation?

I started dual booting mint and windows a while ago. What made me migrate to linux was the promise for improved pc performance. And while I did notice that a little bit, it didn't feel like a huge difference. So I wonder, is dual booting making my linux partition slower or is it just not that big of a difference.

Sorry if this is poorly worded, I'm tired right now.

My computer seems to be using 5gb of memory with nothing running other than task manager and spectacle. sometimes it uses less but it's always at least 3gb of memory and 1gb of swap.

Using kubuntu

I have an older Samsung Galaxybook360 with a intel i5-1130G7 cpu and 8gb of ram. Looking to swap it to linux to see if I can make it more responsive. It has a touch screen and a fingerprint reader, so I'm wondering if there is an ideal distro that would support both out of the box? This would be my first time using Linux so if there is something that supports those features and is also beginner friendly that would be ideal. If I had to compromise the finger print reader is not essential.

Any advice would be welcome!

Hi, I want to try dual booting windows 10 and a linux distro (bazzite for now i think) on my main laptop to see how much of what i normally do on windows i can do on linux instead.

I have 2 separate drives in the laptop i plan to dual boot on, one 500gb and one 1tb drive, the latter of which has enough space free for a linux install, but that drive already has a couple hundred gigs of data on it that I dont want to erase.

Do I need to do something extra when following bazzites guide to dual boot and which part of the guide should i follow?

the laptop has a ruzen 3750h and a gtx1660 ti mobile, providing the info just in case

Process hacker 2 is an advanced process introspection and inspection program for Windows that comes with a GUI.

Id like to know whether there are linux counterparts, preferably supporting other unix-likes (e.g. FreeBSD).

Kindly help! Thank you.

Build with Claude Opus 5.5, a self-contained Linux distribution (Arch & Gnome) that runs directly on Windows, engineered to continuously evolve.

You plug in your preferred AI agent (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini), and the operating system adapts and rebuilds itself around you. Zero Linux knowledge required, chat with the Agent for what you need todo.

With built-in security, the OS instantly reshapes itself around what you want, redesigning the interface, creating custom tools, or bringing new ideas to life on demand.

To keep the system stable as it changes, the agent builds and tests every modification inside an isolated sandbox first. It only commits the new features to your live environment once the code is verified and you give approval.

I have a Dell Precision Compact 3260 that has Windows 11 installed on the original hard drive.  I installed a 2nd NVMe drive and put Ubuntu on it, so I can currently boot from one OS or the other.  I'd like to be solely on Ubuntu now and want to have my old Windows OS drive available as storage in Ubuntu, either as separate drives or a combined storage pool.  I am not that well versed in Linux and am concerned about the bootloader breaking if I delete my Windows installation since that was the original drive.  Does anyone have steps or tips I should take to (somewhat) cleanly migrate my Windows drive to be used in my existing Ubuntu installation?  Or would it be best to wipe both drives and just start fresh?  I can do that, but have a lot of data stored on my Ubuntu instance so starting over would be the less preferable option. Thanks!

I'm pretty new to linux so far I have had a Ryzen 3 3250u I pretty much had no problems from the driver side everything worked great setting up drivers for decoding h265 etc didn't take much time . Now I was thinking of getting a ThinkPad with core ultra 7 255h right now I use umbriel wm with noctalia shell how hard will it be to mitigate my setup like configs installed apps whose names I don't remeber and will the drivers be a problem I have heard amd works very well on Linux does intel do the same ?

El año pasado cuando estaba en el colegio usaba Mint y luego Ubuntu, en una portátil con estas especificaciones:

Intel Celeron n2940 (no tiene soporte para Vulkan)

4 GB de RAM DDR3

En los juegos de la era 2008-2014 obviamente me iban mal en Linux, en Windows la cosa era distinta me iban aceptable, ahora que tengo un portátil con estas especificaciones:

Procesador: Intel Core i5-13420H.

Gráficos: Intel UHD integrados, sin tarjeta gráfica dedicada.

RAM: 16 GB DDR5.

Almacenamiento: SSD de 512 GB.

Me gustaría saber qué me conviene más, recalcó, los juegos que tengo en steam el más "nuevo" es de 2018 y el más viejo 2003, son juegos que un gama baja lo podrían correr.

You guys can try it :3 https://github.com/aokxmi/starkitty.git

Installed TCL for fun. Installed chromium browser and palemoon, which ended up not working. Trying to delete them, but don't know how. When I mark them for deletion, a bunch of other files also get marked. Can't do screenshots, since I don't know how to do screenshots in TCL.

I recently switched from windows to Linux (Ubuntu, and I know it's every beginner's choice lol) and I must say, it's really clean and smooth. I hope to learn how to use the system fully from the command line in a short time. DevOps is my end goal.

Just wondering i should keep windows 10 on my main pc or switch to some linux os of sorts? Also im up for os suggestions if you wish to share. I feel like lately performance hasent been that good on my desktop even when idle.

I have a Nvidia rtx 3060 (12vram).
Amd Ryzen 5 3600 cpu.
32gb of low voltage ddr4.
roughly 500gb ssd for my main drive.
i also have a second hdd but its old and slow-ish, but its 2tb. I use it to store misc files and games.

Would it be the right call to swtich to linux, please briefly explain your thoughts.

Hello, im pretty new to linux and im running Mint on an old optiplex with an i7-4770k which im using as a minecraft server.

i moved it to my garage so i need it to be headless, but the rdm program im using (RustDesk) doesnt work unless i have a monitor plugged into the server.

i found a script that creates a virtual monitor to trick rustdesk and it works, but i am currently trying to make it run on startup and it straight up does nothing, i have to run it manually for it to work which wont work for me.

additionally when i try to create another script to put in the autorun folder, instead of the .desktop shortcut it creates, i get an error saying "Failed to execute child process. Failed to execve: Premission denied".

the file is in the following directory:

/home/server/Downloads/virtual-linux-display-0.1-alpha

and its name:

vdl-monitor

Hello.

I've been distro-hopping since the beginning of the year, trying to find a Linux distribution that will keep my 10-year-old HP ZBook 15 G3 running reliably for the next two years.

For the reference, these are the specs of my machine:

CPU: Intel Core i7-6820HQ at 2.7GHz
iGPU: Intel HD Graphics 530
dGPU: NVIDIA Quadro M2000M
Memory: 16 GB
Storage: 256 GB

For the most part, I've managed to get all my hardware working, including my NVIDIA graphics card.

My GPU requires the NVIDIA 580 driver, which I can obtain on almost all the distributions I've tried.

Debian is an exception. The 580 driver isn't available in its Stable repositories. I've also looked into version 550, but that branch is no longer maintained and the available 590 driver is not compatible with my card.

Although I've managed to get my hardware working on most distributions, my main concern is that the NVIDIA 580 driver is already on a legacy support branch.

I'm worried that future kernel updates may eventually introduce compatibility problems, particularly if distributions stop providing the necessary patches to keep the driver working. At that point, the driver might no longer compile against newer kernels.

What I'm looking for is advice from people who have previously dealt with NVIDIA graphics cards requiring legacy drivers.

Which Linux distribution would you reasonably trust to maintain kernel compatibility with legacy NVIDIA drivers until the end of its support lifecycle?

In my case, I'm looking for a distribution that will remain supported until at least October 2028.

Thanks in advance for you advice!

I downloaded linux last night everything was running well and i was just watch a YouTube video and my internet turned off an hour ago and i been trynna figure out how to turn it back on the wifi button greys out on restarting the laptop i can click it but it doesn't turn on, i did rf kill list it says the wifi is hard blocked (the rest of the options are good) i asked gemini and it suggested pressing f2 on boot to check if my wifi stuff was toggled which it was so I'm really out of ideas please help...

Hi everyone,

I want to get a framework 12 to switch to linux since my surface works exclusively with windows currently (f u microsoft for that).

Im pretty excited about using linux and i dont know whether I should go for NixOS or arch.

First of all, yes im a big noob and i know arch/nix arent noob friendly, the struggle is worth the larp and i already set up arch on an old laptop and on an imac, got hyprland and caelestia on both of them, works great :)

Honestly i still dont know shit about arch because claude guided me a lot, I dont want to distro hop on my main machine so i would be happy if anyone could share some opinions on NixOS, is there any flaw apart from the learning curve ? the config system seems sexy asf to me

I also have an other question, my plan is to get gnome for the tablet compatibility and hyprland for the aesthetic (with some stolen beautiful dot files), can I set up some kind of shortcuts to switch between them or do i have to log out/log in to switch ?

is it backports or flatpak and which apps do i need to keep modern beside steam

I'm using Nobara and I've installed Bottles from the official page and Flatseal from the app center, when I run Flatseal it doesn't show Bottles on the lefthand sidebar, any indication on how I could fix this?