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

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.

Hi, for the last week i’ve wanting to change my main pc to linux bc is getting slower with a few apps running and i don’t have enough patience to wait 2 minutes for an app to open.

I have a HP PAVILION 360x 11th Gen, I5-1135G7, 8,00GB RAM, Intel Iris Xe Graphics, bought in 2022.

i use this PC mainly for Office work, so the apps the i most used are Microsoft Office and friends (i don’t have any trouble with using them online).

Should i switch (and what distros are the best for my pc) or should i stay on windows till i run out of patience and smack the pc?
(ps: sorry for my english this is not my first language)

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.

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...

Edit: well it fixed itself, while trying to figure out how to remove the hard block i ended up hardblocking the other given option too and just gave up for the day, tried it again after dinner and it worked, after that i did go into settings to make it so my laptop doesn't go to sleep when it's not in active use cause gemini mentioned it might've gone in sleep and then not be able to get back up properly

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 ?

Got a Chromebook I got for 10 bucks and I wanna play around some. I’m curious as to how hard I can push it with such crappy specs.

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Intel Core i3-7100U processor, Intel HD Graphics 620, 4 GB of DDR4-2133 SDRAM, and a 128 GB M.2 SSD.

I can upgrade the m.2 and the ram up to 16gb if necessary, but considering it’s just to play with I’m looking for ideas. How far can I rice it without it moving like a slug? Are there any projects worth doing with something so low spec? All ideas welcome, and thanks in advance for any replies

So I have a Chromebook which have 64gb of storage and 4gb of ram with Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4020 CPU @ 1.10GHz (2 threads, 2.800GHz) I copied it from the settings :')

I was wondering if there's any good Linux distro for these specs :D

Also I've seen and heard that a lot of distros will allow ai code etc?? Is there anything that would meet what I do while also not have AI in it?

I'm really confused and lost on what to do... Also for those wondering what I do on the laptop, it's a little bit of everything, gaming (pvz, FNF or even renpy games sometimes and sm64 coop with friends) and I do coding on vscode (I removed the ai stuff) and school work since I'm at university

Also I have a USB key of 8gb i know it isn't a lot probably but it's all I have :(

I hope it's the right flair 😅

Hi all,

I'm trying to install some software using flatpak onto ubuntu 24.04.1. I set up the installer without issues and came up with the error "ldconfig failed, exit status 256" when trying to open apps through the gnome launcher.

It seems the resolution is to create a file named /etc/apparmor.d/bwrap and add some contents.

I tried making a file in text editor and saving it as "/etc/apparmor.d/bwrap", typed my password when prompted and received the result: permission denied.

It's an old uni computer (which is why I am using linux, to avoid detection through windows), so maybe there's still some permission issues going on? Or is it something else?

Cheers

maidware project is meant for people who are moving from windows to linux, it's a suite of tools meant for people who are newer and want an easier way to move over.

i'm currently the only developer in my project, and i need help with translators, coding etc. i have gotten to my limit but i would need a bit of help.

thank you, and here is my project website -

https://maidware-project.github.io/maidware.github.io

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!

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

I need to run a web browser and LibreOffice. I’m considering Q4OS. Any tips?

Processor: Pentium T2390

2GB DDR2 RAM

A few days ago i switched to linux mint, and since then from time to time my pc suddenly shuts down.Doing a "sudo journalctl -b -1 -e" shows that it just dies immediately with no warnings (i think).

I had this issue on Windows about a year ago, but it went away by itself pretty early on.

Last time it happened the pc wasnt even doing anything too demanding, just watching yt.

Is there anything else i can do to check for possible causes? I can afford a new PSU if it turns out the one i have rn is failing for whatever reason, but id rather not.

Never used that much pc cuz of financial issues , finally got a used 16 gh 512 SSD laptop , can I use linux regardless of my less time on windows? I heard ppl switch to linux after getting hang of windows . If that's not the case help me download ing it it's confusing, any small help is appreciated:)

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!

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!

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

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 ?

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?

For a while now I've been dual booting linux mint and windows. And so when I turn on my pc it uses the GNU GRUB bootloader:

But I tried installing cachyos on a different partition and selected GRUB for the boot loader. But when I turn on my pc it still shows this menu with no option to boot into cachyos. How do I configure it so I can boot into cachy as well as windows and linux?

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?