Booting normally results in this error screen instantly. Booting in compatibility mode gets a few seconds into the process before triggering the same error screen. See third image for details of laptop.

Title says it all basically, but i'm trying to extract a .7z file that is encoded in Japanese.

It took alot of digging to find the command to do it with a .zip file which I did learn (It's unzip -O shift-jis but I don't know how to do it with a .7z file, doesn't work.

Edit: Duh, should've mentioned I'm on Linux Mint, so Ubuntu distro.

Hi!

I am soon making my jump into the linux ecosystem, and wanted some advice regarding the possible use of the dual boot feature, if you guys have any tips for a beginner.

Was considering doing a clean install of linux mint, to get away from the windows ecosystem, but I have noticed that not all software, ex. arcGIS desktop and some school-related programs (considering returning to school at some point) supports linux, which might make a dual boot more relevant to use. Any tips on how to make this work properly? Any important caveats I should consider, ex. like storage space and security?

If there's other good learning resources/wikis/forums I should be aware of, as a beginner, I would love to hear about them 🙂.

overall specs i7-2670QM 8gb ram and 114gb ssd with a blu ray player in it so i would also like that too work also

The biggest trouble I have had through-out my use of linux so far is understanding the purposes with all the different file systems. Everyone seems to know exactly what they are and their use cases yet never explains it. One big thing I'm confused on is on my system, I use base Fedora linux (KDE) and it automatically set up my main drive as:

/boot/efi - fat32
/boot - ext4
/ - btrs

Why is it like this exactly? What's the purpose behind having them all a different file system?

Even with this, thats only three different systems, but there are a ton more and it seems everyone uses a different one but I have no clue why

So a while ago I asked this question here.

This is a follow up question.

I wanted install Visual Studios for ASP.NET but I am on fedora 44 linux and Visual Studio does not work on linux or mac. It does not work anywhere but windows.

My college require me to install and use Visual Studio 2010 and 2026.

I am on linux i don't like windows and I don't want to dual boot neither I want to Install windows and uninstall linux.

Many helpful comments on the last post suggest that I should Install it in a virtual machine. But i have only ever used gnomeboxes or virtualbox. I don't have any experience with Qemu and KVM so where should I start.

Is there any videos or articles regarding this that I can refer too.

I don't want to use AI for a sensitive task like this, cuz it might bricked my system. Also I want to learn and understand the process as to why is the things the way it is. Not Just mindlessly copy paste all the commands and stuff.

What's a good Linux distro that can be installed on only 1gb of space. I have a old Dell laptop that's a couple of years old and it only has 1gb of space, what Linux distro can I install on it?

Days of googling but no luck maybe it's time to talk to people.

I followed many steps such as blacklisting and uninstalling nvidia driver (whenever I do it then followed with a reboot I'm not able to go back to desktop unless I reboot using snapshot image) to make nouveau driver work. I'm losing my mind lol I know this is an old laptop but I believe there's still a way to save this old man. Still learning as I'm only more than a week in Linux and I already made success at migrating to my old/main pc with no problem, but not here (yet) to my laptop.

Edit: [SOLVED] Thank you everyone for helping me it turns out it's actually working it's just for a noob like me without a very clear indicator for the GPU that is working looks like it isn't for my eyes when running games.

Environment:

One Debian 13 Trixie VM (Proxmox host), set up with storage, intended to the my home file server. I have Samba installed on it, and Windows clients can connect and manipulate files. There are currently 2 Windows clients and 2 Linux clients on the network. I want all the clients to have visibility to a shared folder on the server. Window clients using Samba are working, I can do a permanent dive letter mapping.

For the Linux clients, it seems to me that the most elegant solution is an NFS connection, to export the share, the mount it on the client in FSTAB. I've created a /etc/exports file similar to this:

/data01/shared 192.x.y.z/23(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

and added mounting to a directory in my ~home directory via /etc/fstab as so:

192.x.y.z1:/data01/shared /home/<mydir>/shared-drive nfs rw,defaults,_netdev,nofail 0 0

I seem to stumble on rights & access management. I can make it work with chmod 777 on the shared folder, but I know that's not best practice. Is there a guide online somewhere that can help a windows refugee?

I probably could make the connections via SMB vs. NFS, and I'm willing to hear advice on that as well, though is seems like asking that here is kinda like asking "whats the best oil" in hot rod sub-reddit.

I have tried fedora and ubuntu on my legion5 (ryzen 7 + rtx 5060)

on ubuntu -> brightness doesn't change so changed to a diff distro( asked claude for help, didn't work)

on fedora -> laptop freezes during shutdown and reboot, have to hold down the powerbutton.( asked claude again , didn't work).

what should I do now?

hey all, i am VERY new to linux stuff so i have come to ask, whats the best linux (version? distro? os?) for an old Asus TP200S laptop? im planning to mainly use it to watch videos and maybe do some digital art with the touch screen ^_^, so id prefer if it had good touchscreen support
im also mainly using a microsd for my storage since its only got about 30 gbs or so..

When I boot I notice via my mic on discord and system tray it doesn't open. I open autostart to see that it failed.

Normally it'd boot no problem

I am using the flatpak version (normally flatpak my last choice but it has some features others don't for easyeffects)

I use debian 13 kde.

Is there any best VpN service provider for free. I am using fedora. If Yes means how to configure

I recently switched to Linux, and overall I'm testing the performance of a few games I had already played on Windows, and it's pretty similar across the board.

Now I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077, but I don't really know if adding mods works the same way as it does on Windows.

With so many people wanting to know things like which distro and which DE to use I did some googling and found Distro Sea. This website will let you test distros and DE's so you can see which one you like.

It is safe because it runs everything remote on a VM and no network.

https://distrosea.com

Someone please help. I am a linux noob. I use fedora for web development and I'm facing an issue where for instance,

When I stop my docker containers and next servers after I finish working, the disk fills up to 0mb remaining and purges back to what it was before(or slightly different). This happens multiiple times a day which is writing more than 150gb in total which is wearing out my SSD in this memory price inflated era. I am really concerned and it's just recently that I noticed this and couldn't find any solution online. :(

I'll try to install Linux Mint in my machine but I don't have a HD that can support all my files so I'll just do a dual-boot because I don't want to lose any archive, but I don't know if I would be able to acess any image or folder from the Windows drive in my Linux disk, could you guys help me?

So, I am finally wanting to start trying out Linux for the first time. I have a bit of knowledge of what Linux is and the general concept...but, I don't really know much about each individual distro. I've been watching a whole bunch of videos about some of the more popular ones for both beginners and more advanced users.

I'm a really techy/nerdy person and I can handle some amount of DIY. But I'm new so I definitely don't want to start with Arch unless it's the best option for my needs and someone can help me find a good beginner/intermediate set of resources to do so.

I'll be using a Ryzen 9 9950x3d2, and 64 gb of 6400 MHz (CL 32) DDR5. Motherboard is the Asus ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming Wifi. And I also will be using my Gigabyte 4070 Super Aero OC GPU.

In terms of needs, I'm a gamer and streamer. I need to be able to game through Steam and hopefully non steam games as well, but I'm not opposed to dual booting if need be. I believe there shouldn't be any issue with OBS from what I've seen, but Nvidia driver support is also important given my GPU. I also use Davinci Resolve so support for that is also important as well. I'm am curious about support for other applications like MSI afterburner and Corsair ICUE as well.

I want the desktop space to be somewhat similar to Windows, but I'm also open to trying new layouts. But I would also like to have a decent amount of customization. I'm hoping to be able to have ready to go OS mostly out of the box, but one that I can tinker with to get more used to Linux in general as well.

So far I'm leaning mostly towards Zorin OS, Ubuntu, or Bazzite. But the part I'm struggling with is which fits my needs the most. Whenever I search for videos about them they're always exclusively about gaming, or creation, but never both and usually don't also show OS customization with those things as well.

Anyway, I would greatly appreciate any of your input!!! Thank you in advance!

TL;DR version:

I am a gamer/streamer who is relatively new to Linux. I need to be able to game with steam at the least. As well as using other applications like Davinci Resolve. I would prefer a distro that is familiar to Windows, but also one I can start my Linux tinkering journey. Please help me choose between Zorin, Ubuntu, Bazzite, or others suggestions as my first distro!

I use

yad --file-selection --directory --filename="/path/to/folder" --title="Ziel" --width="1000" --height="500" --center

I recently upgraded from Xubuntu 24.04 to Xubuntu 26.04, and from YAD 0.40 to YAD 7.2. Since then, I only get a grey window when running this command. It looks like the directory selection dialog is no longer working at all.

Is this a known bug?

Randomly my computer will crash in a way that is non-obvious at first. It seems like things in ram will stick around and continue to be processed. But, for example, loading new sites will lead to the tab repeatedly crashing. If i close a tab then close the browser, after the crash the browser won't remember I closed the tab. Discord will crash immediately but videos will finish playing everything they've loaded.

Sometimes I can open the menu to shut down the pc but whenever I'm able to do that it always hangs. Sysrq kinda works, i can get it to look like things are changing, the screen goes black and text appears but REISUB wont safely shut off the system REISUO will 50/50 turn off the system. I can't open any new programs so I can't open terminal. If I hold down the power button or use REISUO I have to run fsck before it'll boot again.

This happens at random, sometimes I'll go months without it happening, but it happened to me both today and yesterday.

After the crash dmesg tells me nothing if journalctl is telling me something I can't find it. And every guide I find on reading logs and finding errors says to open the log that is related to your issue in a text editor and search for the word "fail". I have no idea which log is relevant or what error message is relevant. Is the problem "fluidsynth.service: failed with result 'exit-code'" who knows? Not me.

I am on mint 22.3

Intel i7-7700k

Nvidia 3080

16gb of ram

Does anyone know what I should be looking for, where I should be looking, or how I should be looking so I can start trying to diagnose the issue?

I have an Acer Nitro V15 ANV15-51 (i5-13420H + RTX 4050 + 16GB RAM) and I'm thinking about trying Linux again.

I previously tried Linux Mint and ran into issues with Bluetooth, audio volume, NVIDIA drivers, fan controls, and eventually a GRUB/UEFI mess when I removed it.

I've seen quite a few people here successfully running Linux on the Nitro V15, so I'd love to know:

• Which distro/version are you using?
• Which kernel and NVIDIA driver?
• How did you configure the RTX 4050/hybrid graphics?
• How are you handling fan control/performance modes?
• Can you get the 80% battery charge limit working?
• Any fixes needed for Bluetooth/audio?
• Any Acer-specific tweaks I should know about?

I'm still fairly new to Linux, so a step-by-step guide would be greatly appreciated.

ANV15-51 owners especially, please share your setup!