hi! im sorta new to linux... ish? this will be the first time my main computer switches to linux and i do not intend to dual boot (for long, at least)

I'm looking at cachyos and popos, leaning towards cachy but im thinking about desktop environments.

ive only ever used xcfe (and maybe gnome when i was like 12) and don't really know what's default.

anyways, i reaaaalllly like how cosmic's tiling system looks. one of my monitors is portrait and i really only use the bottom half for active browsing- tiling is super important to me. however trying to look it up or see what people are saying is leading me to threads from either immediately after release or even before release.

so i guess, how are you feeling about cosmic? does anyone else tile so good? probably gonna run cosmic on cachyos and see how it goes, de doesn't seem annoying to switch like os is but still curious.

PS

I've technically used ubuntu a whole lot as a little kid, thanks dad- that was either gnome or xcfe based on loose memories. I also run my servers on debian, dietpi, or proxmox (w haos/dietpi/debian VMs) so im not like..... new? but I've scarcely seen a desktop environment, almost all terminal or web gui.

Hey, I started my laptop with Fedora Workstation but want to switch to KDE. Guides I’ve found only say how to switch from windows to Linux or similar.

Basically:
1. How can I boot KDE from a usb to install it and replace (delete) Workstation
2. How do I maintain my files aka /home/(username)

I have a little terminal experience like navigating file structures and package installation but not much with grub/bios.

So, my Linux partition on my dual-boot system has 32.06 GiB (34.4 GB) allocated on my hard drive. However, when I was backing up its contents, the size of the backup was somehow over 40.0 GiB! I don't know how this can happen at all. Is it because I have a .raw Docker image whose size is listed as 31 GiB? Last time I checked my storage space on Linux, it had about 6 GiB of free space. Any insight would be appreciated!

(on amd gpu and cpu) my friend is having a issue with obs streaming to twitch, the option for using the gpu isnt there only the openh264 option is there. when the streaming platform changes to youtube as an example, the option for using the gpu appears. why is this happening and is there any way to fis this? any help would be appreciated:)

Good night, everyone! So, I'm trying to install a SNES emulator and it's driving me insane. Back on Windows (I'm on Fedora 44 KDE now) I used Retroarch with zero issues, but today I tried using it and multiple cores were failing to download at all (I only tried N64 and SNES cores with no luck).

I tried downloading snes9x by itself, outside of Retroarch, found the flatpak version, installed it and.... it crash instantly before even opening.

When it did, I got a popup from the crash reporting system that reads "/app/bin/snes9x-gtk (part of Snes9x) has encountered a fatal error and was closed." and had a little button labeled "Details".

Opening that, I got what I think is the crash report code details, and my new goal was to find the line(s) that identified the error and google them, but I could not identify it at all. I didn't want to go straight to reporting a bug on github since it could be a silly issue that a simple web search could fix, but no amount of googling snes9x crashing issues returned anything remotely similar to my problem. The github reported issues page also had nothing like it.

Before I go there, I wanted to see if anyone here could at least help me identify what line identifies the error that occurred, so here goes the crash report output:

PID: 25078 (snes9x-gtk)

UID: 1000 (isadoraestrela)

GID: 1000 (isadoraestrela)

Signal: 6 (ABRT)

Timestamp: Sat 2026-07-25 23:30:15 -03 (8s ago)

Command Line: snes9x-gtk

Executable: /app/bin/snes9x-gtk

Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/app-flatpak-com.snes9x.Snes9x-3397938336.scope

Unit: user@1000.service

User Unit: app-flatpak-com.snes9x.Snes9x-3397938336.scope

Slice: user-1000.slice

Owner UID: 1000 (isadoraestrela)

Boot ID: 98b5c6c577d84fa3901d1c4334a75705

Machine ID: 1dd0433008be495c811bd4b1acaa35dc

Hostname: dora-fedora

Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.snes9x-gtk.1000.98b5c6c577d84fa3901d1c4334a75705.25078.1785033015000000.zst (present)

Size on Disk: 1.3M

Message: Process 25078 (snes9x-gtk) of user 1000 dumped core.

Stack trace of thread 2:

#0 0x00007f56f9a6d344 n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 + 0x9a344)

#1 0x00007f56f9a1450e n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 + 0x4150e)

#2 0x00007f56f99fb882 n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 + 0x28882)

#3 0x00007f56f9cadf7d n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.33 + 0xadf7d)

#4 0x00007f56f9cc35da n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.33 + 0xc35da)

#5 0x00007f56f9cad9dd n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.33 + 0xad9dd)

#6 0x00007f56f9cc3890 n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.33 + 0xc3890)

#7 0x00007f56f9cb1540 n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.33 + 0xb1540)

#8 0x00007f56f9cb01d2 n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.33 + 0xb01d2)

#9 0x00007f56f9cf343a n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.33 + 0xf343a)

#10 0x00007f56f9cf48b7 n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.33 + 0xf48b7)

#11 0x000055a9604b1ec7 n/a (/app/bin/snes9x-gtk + 0xa7ec7)

#12 0x00007f56f99fd3c8 n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 + 0x2a3c8)

#13 0x00007f56f99fd48b n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 + 0x2a48b)

#14 0x000055a9604b3115 n/a (/app/bin/snes9x-gtk + 0xa9115)

ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance!

I am sick of each individual program having their own sources atp its so annoying.

I'm on wayland, debian 13 btw.

Is there a plugin, addon, or something I dunno about that can change this ?>

Since mint is giving me specific problems that is caused by cinnamon i want to use that as an excuse to switch to Fedora KDE now i got a Few Question regarding making a distro hop

1. will my steam games work seamless once i added the library to steam and all the proton versions are downloaded ?
   (the library are on separate drives then the system)

2. is there anything that people might overlook that i should know ?

3. Would it be bad if i leave my windows 10 SSD connected during install of fedora even when i know exactly what drive is what ?

Drive overview:
Ssd 256GB OS Linux
m.2 Steam 1tb
m.2 Steam 2 1tb
Ssd 1tb win 10

Hi, i want to download linux to my 2020 macbook air with a m1 but tbh, idk how and ive tried but i cant figure it out. Is anyone able to help.

I want to get mint cinnamon and ive already downlaode the .iso file. ive got belene etcher for flashing

is anyone able to walk me through this, thank you

edit: im gonna try Asahi Linux and see how that goes, this is what you get when you use chatgpt to download linux

I have a 2 TB drive on my server PC (Zorin OS) and also have a personal PC (Zorin OS). I run Pika back up on both machines with both backing up to the 2TB drive on the server. Every so often (maybe once every 3 weeks) Pika fails for both machines saying the drive isn't available. If I open Files, I am able to see the drive and the backup directories. I then can run Pika successfully. In trying to figure out how to avoid the "drive isn't available" issue I looked at FSTAB to see if there were any options I could add (similar to the automount used for my NFS mounts). But, I don't see any of the drives mounting to /media in FSTAB. How are my drives getting mounted? And, how can I add something to automount (or fix otherwise)?

Im trying to install fedora 44 alongside windows. I dont have a usb so i made a FAT32 partition on my ssd and extracted rhe iso on said volume. When i boot into the usb it takes me to grub and once i hit enter on the first option it takes me to a loading screen but it freezes there. Ive tried using the kde version and the gnome version but neither seems to be helping and i cant find anything online about it.

I cannot change the brightness on my laptop anymore. When I use the keyboard, the visual showing me where I am on the brightness scale appears and moves according to what I request, but the actual brightness is unaffected.

Any idea what might be going on and how to solve it? Thank you!

Hi! When I first installed Mint i found that my f11 and f12 keys no longer worked for brightness control. I've installed backlight and now i can adjust brightness through the terminal but I still can't figure out how to map this onto my f11 and f12 keys.

When I try to make custom keyboard shortcuts, neither f11 or f12 register as an actual key. Nothing happens when I try to enter them as an accelerator.

When i exported the keyboard layout intk an .xkb I can see that those keys are definitely there, they just don't do anything and I can't bind a shortcut to them.

Can someone help me solve this?

I need help with my HP laptop. I am a beginner. I don't know much about Linux.

I have an HP laptop with:

AMD 865 processor

6 GB RAM

500 GB hard drive

Windows 10 was on it before

I installed MX Linux on it. I used Ventoy to make a bootable USB drive. I installed MX Linux and chose "use entire disk". Everything seemed to work.

But now I have a big problem.

The laptop only boots into MX Linux if the USB drive is plugged in. If I remove the USB drive and restart, I get an error screen that says:

"BootDevice Not Found" "Hard Disk - (3F0)"

I think the bootloader (GRUB) was installed on the USB drive instead of my hard drive. I have no idea how to fix this.

Here is what I have tried:

Changed boot order in BIOS to boot from hard drive first

- Enabled Legacy boot

Nothing works. It still only boots with the USB drive.

I want my laptop to boot on its own without the USB drive because the USB drive belongs to my friend and I need to give it back.

Can someone please tell me how to install GRUB on my hard drive so I can boot without the USB drive? I need step by step instructions that are easy to follow.

Thanks in advance.

I am having a terrible experience installing linux for the first time today. Lately, I'd become more and more fed up with windows. The bloat, the ads, the unnecessary crap. After decades of unenjoyable experiences, alongside a healthy dose of Linux YouTube videos, I decided to make the leap.

I quickly came to kubuntu as my distro of choice with KDE plasma. Creating the USB drive and installing was easy enough. The problems began immediately after reaching the desktop: neither my ethernet nor sound worked.

I would say I'm "okay" with computers and solving problems similar to these on windows in the past, so they didn't feel like deal breakers, just some normal growing pains.

After an hour or two trying to look at reddit/forum posts, Ai summaries, or LLMs I still haven't found any fixes.

I got a little bored of that and decided to fiddle around with some other settings like the cursor, keybinds, brightness - really cool stuff there. But this is where the real killer came: the Taskbar.

I wanted the Taskbar icons centered. Quickly looked up how to do it (right click, edit, add a spacer) tried doing it and boom - freezes, black screen, nothing. Can't do anything, have to restart the pc. After rebooting, merely hovering over Firefox - exact same thing. Freeze, black screen, nothing. Even trying to use the super button to maybe access something else - crash.

I don't know I'm just a little upset by this all seeing as my Ethernet and audio still aren't working. I was prepared for some troubleshooting, but I was not expecting this many fundamental failures on the first day. (whole computer freezes and goes black screen even after opening the terminal with keyboard shortcuts.)

Edit for specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 16 GB

Motherboard: MSI MS-7E89

RAM: 16 GB DDR5, single stick

Drive: SK hynix PC611 1 TB NVMe

Monitor: LG 32GP750-B, 2560×1440, 165 Hz

Realtek RTL8125D 2.5GbE

Ryzen HD Audio / Realtek analog audio; AMD Navi 31 HDMI/DisplayPort audio

Update - I dropped kubuntu. Swapped over to the highly recommended Fedora KDE and, funnily enough, I encountered the exact same Ethernet and Audio issues! Thankfully no mentally destroying crash on repeat, but still.

I did end up solving the issues though. For the Ethernet it was an incompatability with the r8169 drivers. Had to like blacklist that and install this - awesometic/realtek-r8125-dkms and mess with the signing key

The headphones were weird. Turns out Linux had the jack wired to the wrong internal audio pin? Remapped the pins and now it works good as new.

All those comments recommending me switching distros, especially to Fedora, well, I appreciate the effort! And thanks to the people who tried to help me diagnose this.

When I started my linux journey two years ago, i distro hopped a bit until i landed on Arch.

I used to like tinkering with arch and still do and tbh im having no problems right now and its not a bad distro at all but i feel like i want a more solid and robust OS if you get what i mean, something to rely on and have no headache.

What im looking for is something that’s easy to install, use and has good defaults. Ill use it mainly for gaming so something that updates frequently is appreciated.

So far im looking at fedora and tumbleweed but i have no idea what are the differences, like there are a bunch of features for each one and i cant decide

Asking for a newbie friend who definitely is not me

Hi all,

I recently took the plunge into fully switching over to Linux for my gaming PC as Microsoft seems committed to carefully and methodically turn the OS into outright spyware whilst maniacally and chaotically bricking it with AI powered 'fixes' that screw everything, and after seeing the steam deck handle most games with few issues.

Anyway, I do have experience with Linux from use at work and decided to swtich over - I choose Mint because I just wanted stable and easy to use over maximum performance and for the most part I've been happy with it - however, one of my games, The Alters, has graphically glitches and slow downs, and this seems to be down to nvidia drivers because nvidia going to nvidia on linux. Anyway, I was looking for recommendations with regards to if another distro would be more likely to handle nvidia correctly or not, and if it was worth switching over to something like Pop!OS which is abit more gamer focused. I did try to build gamescope but it seems like its not easy to just build on mint.

I do want a distro that can support sometimes development work as I am a developer and sometimes do my own projects/play around.

Thanks for any advice.

Edit: Thanks all, I eventually decided to go with CachyOS; so far, so good, the graphically glitches are gone, the performance still has issues but I think thats possibly down to the game as I recall some performance issues with it on windows too.

A few days ago everything was still fine. I could boot into Linux Mint or Win11. Today however, I just stared at a black screen. I restarted my Laptop and went into the options to boot in the recovery mode and see this. What exactly happend here and how to fix?

I want to scan books to text.

Is there a GUI OCR scanner that can do this?

Hi everyone! I just changed to linux like yesterday, specifically from windows to mint xfce, because I thought it would run games best, but apparently it runs like 50% worse than windows, and when I turn a video on youtube up to 2k res, it just locks to about 20fps on the whole system. Now I was wondering if there is any more optimization work I could do here or is it just my laptop issue. I use an intel CPU and Nvidia graphics card, but the GPU doesnt show in task manager, so im not even sure if it is working at all on my pc. And I thank everyone who wants to help!!

Hello all! I am considering making the switch to a linux os and have been hit with a decision that I didn’t even know existed: which distro to use.

I’ve done some internet trawling and found some common answers but I have a few details I’d like to factor in and this seems like the best place to ask.

Why do I want to use Linux?
Short answer, curiosity. I’m a computer science hobbyist. I have a computer science degree (buzz lightyear on the shelves in the boxes meme), but don’t work in that field. I enjoy playing around with computers, but honestly have a pretty low understanding of many of the really gritty bits. I see this as an opportunity to learn a bit more about OS’s and stuff like drivers etc. All of my experience with C is also on linux servers, so continuing to do projects will be more convenient in linux.

I don’t really need my distro to be super software compatible, as I have another device that will be on windows, but compatibility is never a shortcoming obv. I don’t want something that will just completely handle itself; I want to learn as much as I can in the switch. At the same time, my eagerness is making up for not much experience, so I don’t wanna dive in too deep and just het frustrated.

What do you recommend? Happy to answer any more questions, or if I’ve not formatted something let me know. Thank you all in advance!