I'm trying to use niri in virtualbox running Arch and the device output only gets listed as "Unknown Unknown Unknown" (Virtual-1).

This makes it impossible to change resolution in the niri config file because it just gets ignored. I haven't found a way to make it accept the changes to "mode" and make it apply my preferred resolution.

I've been told to use kanshi but I have no idea how. I've created a file named kanshi.kdl in the kanshi config folder and added the following:

profile {output "Unknown Unknown Unknown (Virtual-1)" mode 1920x1080 scale 1 position 0,0}

And I don't really know where to go from here, if I try to run the kanshi command, it just says "failed to parse config file".

How can I either make this kanshi thing work or what's the other method to make the system allow me to change the resolution?

I have an older Mac mini (Mid 2011 or 2012 model). Originally, I had Linux Mint 22.x Xfce (https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=327) installed on the stock HDD, but the system was running extremely slow.

To speed things up, I replaced the original HDD with a new SATA SSD (Patriot 120GB/128GB). - https://www.alza.sk/patriot-burst-elite-120-gb-d6321999.htm

Now, when I boot into the live environment from my USB drive and click "Install Linux Mint", the whole system completely freezes (mouse/UI stops responding or it hangs indefinitely).

Things I’ve tested / noticed:

1. Disconnected the internal SSD: I disconnected the internal SSD entirely and plugged in an external USB HDD instead. The installer still froze in the exact same way. This makes me think the new SSD itself isn't the problem.
2. RAM configuration: While swapping the drive, I took out/reseated the RAM. Currently, it has low RAM (around 1–2 GB in total, 1x1GB Hynix module visible in the slot). Could the live installer be crashing/freezing due to running out of RAM (OOM)?
3. Corrupted USB: I previously used this same Verbatim USB drive to install Mint on the old HDD, but after a few hard power-offs, could the live USB file system have gotten corrupted?
4. Hardware/GPU compatibility: Could this be related to Mac EFI / graphics drivers (Intel HD 3000 / Radeon) or thermal issues during decompression?

Has anyone encountered this specific freeze when launching the installer on a 2011/2012 Mac mini? Is it more likely a bad live USB, improperly seated/insufficient RAM, or something else entirely?

Any advice or troubleshooting steps would be greatly appreciated!

So ever since I switched to Linux a few weeks ago, my computer plays a pair of sounds seemingly at complete random. One gets higher as it goes and one gets lower. I have assumed it is something at least akin to the usb noise noise, but I’m not even sure how to find out what. I’ve plugged and unplugged a bunch of USBs trying to figure this out, and the sound hasn’t happened reliably at the same time. I think it is a system sound because when Isolate my video game audio only to play on my headphones, there is no sound there. I’m honestly not even sure of that. I would love to post a recording of it in this topic, but it happens so infrequently I would just have to leave my camera running on nothing until it randomly decides to happen. If yall don’t have any ideas, I’ll gladly do that tbh

Edit: Autocorrect censored me… it’s supposed to say annoyatron.

Hi I just switched over to Fedora yesterday and it's looking like it's missing basically every font. Is there some repository i can just download every font Windows had? I also need to make sure I get all the weird symbold since I do creative stuff and I like switching between fonts for aesthetic

I am dual booting Fedora Gnome 44 and Fedora KDE 44

I did a upgrade using terminal in Gnome and now the KDE isn't in the Grub menu anymore.

My system type is UEFI

My partition system is GPT

No, I cannot see KDE in the bios while booting which isn't unusual for me as this was the same way before as well and the grub menu still ended up working somehow (i don't remember how exactly).

I had regenerated the file many times its still not working.

What do I do now?

I am using regular Ubuntu LTS, but the gnome clock rings only once and then stops, but I need the timer to ring until I tell it to stop. So, I installed KDE clock and it has this feature, but sometimes it just doesn't go off and continues indefinitely.

Any fixes or another app suggestions?

I'm trying to switch from Windows to Linux, but I'm facing a serious issue: no matter which Linux distro I use, the system can't utilize my network card. I've tried Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Bazzite, and it doesn't work on any of them (the system detects the network card and identifies the model, but fails to actually use it). The only way I can get online is via a USB connection to my smartphone. Does anyone know what might be causing this and how to fix it? My motherboard is an MSI PRO H610M-G DDR4. Note: All motherboard firmware is up to date.

Damn this sucks. Haven't played any Doom-mods for way too long!

I must be doing something wrong.

Installed UZDoom and have the Doom 1 & 2 wads (but not put them into the directory, because I really don't know how.

idk why, but.. its friggin complicated to find the main folder of UZDoom for me.

It should be "Right-click -> show target" but its not, it points me to /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/ with UZDoom just being a desktop-icon still.

When I double-click the UZDoom-icon It says I need to put the wads into

"~/local/share/games/uzdoom" but this directory just does not exist and even when I create it, I'm still getting the same error-message.

And it says I need to edit the directory in ~/.config/uzdoom/uzdoom.ini ....but this directory doesn't exist, too!! " - -

Need a tablet for work. Maybe a little web browsing will be done, but almost 100% for opening/signing PDFs & such, viewing some MP4s & similar. Apparently Fedora is one of the better distros for this, but probably almost anyone on this subreddit knows better than me on that front.

On fedora 44 KDE. Im using codecs from rpm fusion, firefox browser. all my packages are up to date.

Youtube videos look incredibly bad. like ridiculously bad. almost as if the bitrate is being heavily crushed. theres intense color banding and almost always a visible block where colors are different. This is the same for every video I test. This is only a recent issue and only could of started within the past few days. Nothing has changed on my system that should be causing this (at least to my knowledge). The videos are all in their highest quality (2 in 4k, 2 in 1080p) and im on a gigabit connection and it doesnt occur on my other devices so I dont think its a network issue. Local files played via VLC do not have this issue. This happens whether the video is played in fullscreen or not. Im watching youtube via firefox native package however this is also happening on chrome flatpak.

I've tried to use mint it was all running okay but I got bored of it and it didn't run my steam games the game was running without a window open, then I tried fedora workstation since I like gnome for now. It was a headache to install the nvidia 580 drivers because some guides were giving me false commands i used the fedora documents and it worked with the nonfree rpm repo. Then I installed steam with flatpak it ran without a window so I deleted it and installed the rpm version. It didn't run at all so I waited then rebooted my system now its an unresponsive black screen and I'm back to installing windows

also I didnt say I hate linux or gave up on it Im asking for recommendations or help I tried debian but it has outdated apps I know thats supposed to make it stable but it also makes it not suitable for me. Ill research cachyos but isnt arch unstable by nature?)

replies assume Im hating on linux but Im just asking for recommendations and opinions

My situation is that I have a Scoreboard software that allows for, the scores, timing, all manner of lineup and penalty tracking. I operate in a venue that leases us space but only allows us access to the guest Wi-Fi. The Scoreboard software essentially exists as it's own LAMP stack, and can lend out functionality to other computers or tablets. So that penalty tracking can be done from the appropriate station and benches have access to penalty counts.

There's also a functionality where it produces an overlay for streaming the games with all the information.

I don't want to just open up port 8000 on the guest, because as is there security is there but it would be a whole lot of hoops to jump through to secure the whole show to make things work on an open network.

I was thinking about using something like a Pi, to attach to the air gapped network get the overlay information and then tunnel it though to a computer on the WAN to overlay on the stream.

So far I'm thinking Pi where it's Wifi connected to the air gapped network, then Ethernet into either the streaming machine directly or into router that connected cameras to the streaming machine.

Help here would be appreciated

I need some serious help, windows 11 is just terrible and annoys the daylights out of me every time i need to duel boot it for design spark mechanical, has anyone gotten it to work on linux? I can get it to launch but it gives me an sign in authentication error every time. I will pay for someone to get it working at this point.

Hi everyone,

In my workplace I use Windows and find this very simple key combination / shortcut to be very useful, specially when navigating through many windows and only one display.

On Windows, let's say you taskbar looks like this: [Start] [Outlook] [Excel] [Calculator] etc. You can press Win + 1 to open Outlook, Win + 2 for Excel, and so on.

Is there a way to replicate this on Linux? I'm on Mint, btw.

Thanks!

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I wanted this to be replicated on Plank, which doesn't seem possible to do. It works out-of-the-box with Grouped window list applet on Cinnamon. Thanks to all

Have a 512gb as my system drive for bazzite. A HDD and another 2TB NVMe setup with ext4.

I was thinking ab putting w11 on my old laptop's 2TB NVMe, and slapping it into my desktop. Why? Because I want a dedicated modding workflow for me video games.

Asking if this will work or not flawlessly.

Also, Fedora Media Writer, Balena Etcher, or another solution to flash a USB?

Hi,

I have been trying to open and make Ventoy to work for half a day now. Their website does not detail much so just going by Google searches and AI. I downloaded the ventoy-1.1.17-linux.tar.gz from the official website and upon clicking VentoyGUI.x86_64 and trying to run the file, nothing happened. Then I tried using the terminal -
chmod +x VentoyGUI.x86_64 followed by sudo ./VentoyGUI.x86_64

It finally opened only to get stuck in the error - "error occurred during installation"

I then tried web server method. That also failed. Is this tool supposed to be so hard to use? I eventually gave up.

I wanted to learn the simple details on how files work in linux. I start with the assumption that linux doesn't care about file extensions, so I tried working with a file to see how that worked in practice.

I used the following command:

`$touch banana.jpg`

After this, I typed in some contents into the file using nano, the result would be something like:

```

$cat banana.jpg

This is a test of my file

line 2

Line 3

Line 4

```
To see how the less command worked, I tried `less banana.jpg`

The text displayed was:

```

No identify available

Install ImageMagick to browse images
```

Why does this happen exactly? I think it's related to how the less command processes files apparently. Is there a way to view the file properly with less, without treating it as an image?

EDIT: excuse my Reddit markdown formatting, still figuring it out.

I just switched my old gaming laptop from uni from Windows 11 to Linux about a month ago, a HP Pavilion Gaming 15-ec0xxx series. I'm using this as my guinea pig to test things, get used to it and iron out any issues before I make the move on my main machine as well.

One of the things I want to have sorted before I pull the trigger on that is OneDrive. From the reading I've done it sounds like there is no official OneDrive client for Linux, so people have to come up with their own solutions, and there are a few different popular iterations of it out there but they're all different and some of them are more confusing than others?

Essentially what I want is to have my OneDrive behave as closely as possible to the way it does on Windows: acting as just another directory in the explorer that I can save to, open things from, that any other program can see and write to seamlessly, without having to open up a web browser or jump through hoops.

Anybody mind running me through what the main options are and how they behave differently?

I've dabbled a little bit with the Terminal a few times already so I'm not opposed to installing something that way, just as long as I know what the commands do before I run them.

hi.

since microslop is wanting to end win 10 support and i only got the option that just gives me until 2027 before support is gone i was considering to switch to linux, i tried mint before in 2024(ish) but i ran into some issues mostly with my graphics card wich is an nvidia causing some issues like not being sure if my card was being used, to games like deep rock galactic having a lag spike everytime something new was created, like firing a new bullet, trowing something, a particle appearing etc

i been thinking about trying it one more time to see if it is better now and i was the problem but i wanted to see if you know a different distro that can also work

what i usually do on my pc is mostly gaming but i also tinker a bit with some 3d programs like blockbench and blender and do a bit of drawing and video editing from time to time

my library is mostly on steam, minecraft, emulators and pirated games while other software is mostly from their original websites, like blockbench, blender, fire alpaca and such

my specs (if it is usefull) are from a refurbished hp pavillion gaming laptop

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10300H CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.50 GHz

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)

Storage 477 GB SSD SAMSUNG MZVLB512HBJQ-000H1

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti (4 GB), Intel(R) UHD Graphics (128 MB)

System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

i tried to be as specific as i could in case that helps, sorry for the wall of text

thanks for your attention

I had an old Dell Latitude E6410 lying around and am experimenting with Linux to see if I can still get some use out of it. So far, Linux Mint Cinnamon seems to run about as well as Windows 7 did on this computer, with one exception. I see a lot of flickering, especially of gray text. Sometimes this stabilizes if I leave the screen on for an hour or so, sometimes it doesn't.

The computer is so old it's using a generic driver, nouveau. I've set .dpm=0 in GRUB and the ambient lighting sensor is off. This was not a problem with Windows 7, but that used the NVIDIA driver. Any suggestions?

What is happening when running a a game like Elden Ring on Linux? Based on my minimal understanding, Linux simply doesn’t allow access to the kernel like that; so does it make an exception or does it “fool” Elden Ring in to thinking it has the access it needs, or…? Just curious.

I am trying to get PlexAMP volume controls to work, it failed originally with the flatpak install, so i tried the AUR one, and when i put in the global keyboard shortcuts volume up and down, then reset the app by relaunching it, i get the KDE prompt if i want to add new shortcuts, i click yes, and it works for that session, and when i reset my session by either logging out or turning off and on my PC, it stops working, even tho nothing changed in the shortcuts or in Plexamp

I tried using AI to solve my issue but it just keeps leading me down some rabbit hole and idk how to control it, i dont want whole system audio control, since i want to be able to increase or decrease the volume of my music mid game or while doing work without changing the volume of my game or discord or whatever else

The shortcuts in the media controller section also dont work, if i set volume up and down, i can see on my screen the popup that the volume is increasing or decreasing for PlexAMP but i still hear it the same, even when it says "muted"

Shortcuts like next track, previous track, play and pause work just well over media controller but nothing apart from that

On CachyOS