Title is pretty self explanatory, but since KDE is switching to Wayland, I'm seeing posts and comments from people who are bothered by this and I don't understand why.

Need for project

Been using windows 11 and it just keeps getting worse. Like I simply cannot believe that they would fire up my laptop in the middle of the night when it's been shut down. When I ask how to stop windows from auto updating online we get loads of cock suckers saying windows doing that for our safety my fucking ass. A bit of a rant yeah sorry but microsoft should hang in any case how do I switch? Do I need to just change everything including my hardware and whatnot? I am braindead when it cones to tech stuff hehe. I currently use a zbook and I do need to run some demanding stuff can linux handle it? Just any information really if push comes to shove I will watch a full course on linux but it just looks confusing.

Hi guys!

I live in Iran, and I need a reliable VPN for Linux Mint. I've tried using OpenVPN, but it doesn't work for me, so I'm looking for an alternative.

Note: Internet access in Iran is heavily restricted, and many VPNs don't work here.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a VPN that works well on Linux Mint and can bypass internet restrictions in Iran?

Thanks in advance!

Ok, first my specs: rx580 8vram - 16gb ram ddr4 3200 - i5 7400
SO: Fedora

I have a problem, I'm trying to enable 100Hz on my main monitor, but it won't let me. My second monitor which I fortunately managed to set up successfully only supports 60Hz, whereas my main one supports up to 100Hz; however, when I switch to that setting, the screen goes black. Yet, if I set it to 74.97Hz, the screen doesn't go black. So, what could the solution be?

Just to clarify, I’ve already tried disabling one monitor and keeping the other active, and that’s not the issue; besides, both monitors work perfectly in Windows exactly how I want them to, and I don’t have any damaged hardware components.

Pessoal, a algum tempo venho pesquisando sobre recursos de integração entre dispositivos Samsung e, principalmente, Apple, por terem opções multidispositivo muito úteis.

Uso Linux e um dispositivo Galaxy aliado ao KDE Connect, mas sinto que é insuficiente, pois recursos como copiar no Android e enviar para a máquina não funciona da forma que gostaríamos (só copiar e aparecer no outro aparelho)

Quero recomendações de vocês para ter recursos como multicontrole, dividir um mesmo fone Bluetooth, teclado e mouse do pc e outras.

Agradeço!

is there any tutorial or guideance that explain bash commands like:
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2 days ago, I decided to dual boot Ubuntu desktop alongside windows on my laptop. Yesterday morning I noticed that even with my charger plugged in, it showed that my laptop wasn’t charging and it was stuck on 0%. In a panic, I deleted my Ubuntu partition and stayed with windows. I reset my laptop and once that was done, I went through the windows 11 process of setting it up then unplugged the charger, sticked a safety pin into the reset battery button and then it started working. Has anyone else gone through this same problem when having any Linux distribution on their device?

So on my Arch laptop in my home partition I was only using 5GB of space in total

Then I used Virtualbox to create a mac os VM, and gave it a virtual hard drive of 80GB.

When I used fastfetch after it said my storage used was 65GB which I didnt really bat an eye at.

Then I completely deleted the MacOS vm and made sure to check the box that deleted the 80GB virtual drive too.

But when I used fastfetch again, even after a reboot and a couple days, it says I am still using 35GB, instead of going back down to 5GB.

There's nothing, even hidden, in the "Virtual box VMs" directory.

How do I get this space back? What's taking it up, or is it just reserved space that has no use anymore.

I also had a 2nd vm with TempleOS that I deleted, also checking the box, although I only gave it like 5GB to begin with.

So I'm looking int adding a PS LCD Sub Screen (auxiliary special screen) USB based to use it for monitoring my system, possibly my proxmox server.
My workstation is kubuntu 26.04 proxmox server is 9.2.2.
Being a usb based driver system, are their general drivers out there for linux?
I don't want to spend $75-125 on a hope it works.
Has anyone else used these auxiliary screens?

If you have both CachyOS and Windows on your PC and you have set up secure boot for CachyOS following the wiki, and you go back to windows and play a game that has secure boot requirements such as Call of Duty, Battlefield 6 or whatever, is there any risk of getting banned due to the custom setup of secure boot for CachyOS?

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!

UPDATE: Problem solved! Turned out to be my router's NTP service hijacking NTP requests, but it was only affecting some of the devices connected to it.

So for the past few weeks, I've noticed on IRC and Discord that there's about a 1.4-minute discrepancy between my desktop's time and the time stamps being displayed by those clients. I spent way longer than I wanted to manually trying to fix the problem, but couldn't find a cause. So I turned to AI and it couldn't solve the problem either (went through all the steps I was already doing).

I can see Discord actively correcting the time stamps on every message I send, but on IRC it looks like I'm sending messages from the past.

My laptop is not experiencing this issue. Both systems are running Linux and KDE, but the laptop is running Manjaro and the desktop (the one with the problem) is running Kubuntu 26.04.

Below are a couple of things showing settings and what's going on (do note the times aren't quite going to line up because I have spent far longer than I care to trying to fix this).

The output of timedatectl is:

              Local time: Thu 2026-10-15 07:08:00 EDT
          Universal time: Thu 2026-10-15 11:08:00 UTC
                RTC time: Thu 2026-10-15 11:07:59
               Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: no
             NTP service: active
         RTC in local TZ: no

Timestamps in IRC look like:

[07:37:33] -Global- [Logon News - Oct 30 08:03:21 2014 AEDT] Have you read the Code of Conduct for Users? Go to <redacted> - this applies to ALL users!
[07:37:34] -NickServ- Password accepted - you are now recognized.
[07:36:20] * You are now logged in as <redacted>.
[07:37:34] * NickServ sets mode +r on <redacted>
[07:36:22] * Notify: <redacted> is offline (redacted)
[07:36:22] * Notify: <redacted> is offline (redacted)
[07:36:22] * Notify: <redacted> is online (redacted)

As far as I can tell, everything appears kosher system-wise, but the time is buggered and it has been causing weird issues in games and certain Web sites, too.

TL;DR: My system time is borked and I can't figure it out even with input from friends and AI. It's driving me nuts, can someone here maybe point me in the right direction to fix it?

Very new user to Linux and I hardly know enough to know what I need. I have previously tried Mint and Zorin. Currently using Mint 22.3 MATE and I am not very impressed with the speed, e.g.: the time it takes for my machine to open the start menu.

I don't need anything with many bells and whistles but I would prefer it to not need much configuration to get it working as a Parsec client.

Besides being based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for Parsec, I would also value one that includes LibreOffice out of the box, like Mint does, but this isn't a requirement.

If Mint is all that ticks those boxes, then so be it.

I'm a hobbiest, and would like to secure an install of MX Linux against evil maid attacks using TPM2 pin. HP dy2702dx laptop. I've tried getting AI to get initramfs, dracut, and clevis, but they didn't help.

I want a nice, modern, and different kind of Linux., estável, para uso geral, principalmente para jogos, e que seja prática, ou seja, que eu quase nunca precise usar o terminal, e assim por diante.

I'm mainly thinking about CachyOS, Bazzite, Nobara, Fedora and checking out this Solus and NixOS thing.

I don't intend to use Linux Mint, because I used it for a while and it has few desktop environments.

Hello there! I recently got an unused HP 250 G7 and decided to try Linux for the first time. I'm only encountering one problem, both distributions I've tried freeze after a few minutes. I tried Mint and Debian and they both have the same problem. The only way for me to actually use the OS is to add a little "nomodeset" at the end of some grub configuration line (Sorry for being imprecise, I'm really inexpert). This wouldn't be bad if it wasn't for the fact that I cant really adjust brightness or color, from what I gathered it disables graphic drivers and uses some generic ones.

Is there any way around this or am I stuck with nomodeset? I updated the BIOS and tried many different settings and nothing seems to work.

Thanks in advance!

Honestly i got linux last night and it definitely does feel lighter on my old laptop and feels nicer, but...i have been running into quite a few problems and worse is that none if the ways of fixing such problems I'm accustomed to work on linux, like for example something as simple as extracting an rar file on my kubuntu, the operating systems standard extractor (ark) kept failing n saying i don't have enough space which was false, i thought "oh well I'll just download 7zip from github" got 7zip and couldn't find it in my apps so had to search it up and apparently?? There is no graphical version of it on linux, so i used the terminal to extract my file but I can't always use the terminal yk so apparently there's some file roller smth app that is supposed to do what ark does...but ark is just a dumbass app n wasn't working before, so I'm just frustrated with everything please tell me I'm just dumb and there are easier way to do stuff on it and if so what should i look up (my current way of solving problems is just making gemini do everything...and ion think he's reliable)

If you use Ubuntu with certain browsers, you probably already know the problem: you can't access basic government websites. Cloudflare keeps blocking you, even though these sites should be open to everyone.

I started a petition asking Cloudflare to work with all browsers and systems—not just the popular ones. Millions of Ubuntu users deal with this daily, and it's blocking them from accessing public records, services, and information they're entitled to.

Cloudflare can implement security without locking people out. They have the technical ability to do this. It's about prioritizing inclusivity alongside security.

If this is happening to you too, or if you think government access shouldn't depend on what device you own, consider signing and sharing. Have you run into this problem? What sites are you blocked from accessing?

https://www.change.org/p/make-cloudflare-work-with-all-browsers

So I need a desktop device to manage discord, Google sheet and a couple macros. What would be the best way to do this. I have an old Oneplus7 and a small foldable keyboard with a trackpad. I don't have room for an external display. Would ubuntu touch, work if I forced it into desktop mode or could I easily install a whole distro on the phone.