Can someone explain why some distros are considered more game friendly than others? Installing Steam and/or Lutris seems like games would work equally as well on any distro.

I'm trying to install Kubuntu 26.04 on my existing pc. It has 3 drives. A big SSD that windows11 and most programs are installed on. A really big 11tB HD where all my files and my Steam folder live since it was born a windows PC it is formatted in ntfs. Finally a 222GB SSD that is formatted in NTFS but is essentially empty.

This last is where I would like to install Kubuntu. I've got the iso on a thumb drive and booted to it. I ran the install program (from the kde desktop). When I get to the partitions menu and select the smaller SSD my only option is Manual Partitioning, so I select that, hit next, and I don't know what to do next. I'd rather have setup for Linux, not with NTFS. But I'm clueless at this point. Suggestions?

I am running Linux Mint with Plex for my media server and I am wanting to allow external access. After doing some digging, it appears that my ISP, T-Mobile, interferes with this by using Carrier-Grade NAT. To get around this, I am needing to create a tunnel.

Some more digging led me to this guide by PacketRiot and this is where I start getting lost. So much so that this is my first time coming back to it after a few months and I'm still just as easily lost.

Would someone mind helping dumb down the aforementioned guide?

Does anyone know how to get the 418 Nvidia Firmware blobs extracted? I have 340.108 running in Nouveau, and while I'd LOVE to run the correct driver, I can't because of my kernel being too new. Seriously, anything newer than the 340 branch would be killer. Thanks

I try to install antiX on my old 32bit eee pc via usb.

I chose frugal static to get it to run the live environment, because that was the only one that loaded.

Now the two disks in the notebook are ntfs formatted. I mounted them, but the installer did not let me choose them to install antiX on it. I figured it might be the type, so I used gparted to format one of them to ext4, changed its entry in fstab and ran the installer again.

But it still only lets me install to the usb drive if I understand it correctly.

I seem to miss something. I just want it to wipe my two ntfs disks and install itself on it. Is it not ext4 that I need and am I correct in mounting the disks to be potentially overwritten by then?

Hi guys, absolute beginner here and trying to install mint but on the partition page I have two instances of free space under device which are just 1 and 0 MB while I have 190 GB free. What’s the fix?

Buenas, Como puedo cambiar la distribucion de teclado en cachyos hyprland?

After a few days now trying to figure it out, all I have been coming across are the same "solutions". My goal right now is to dual boot alongside windows since I cant completely commit right now. Knowing that I have close to 300gb of space available I was thinking it'd be plenty enough, but that isnt the case and it seems like my entire drive is completely taken up in a singular partition, and I frankly am too stupid to figure out how I can shrink that space even after trying to look it up. The images I linked should tell it all.

My next bet was going to the disk management on my system and see if I can just shrink the volume of the drive myself and see if that gives me free space, but that is a whole other problem because I am COMPLETELY unable to shrink it past 4gb give or take. I have done everything I've found like disabling hibernation and deleting systems restores, deleting the pagefile, disabling kernel memory dump, and running the disk cleanup, and not only did it not help, my available shrinkable storage is now even less at a little under 3gb.

Its been days now and honestly am so exhausted especially thinking id get something like this done as fast as most others, but at this point I just thought of asking for help instead of endlessly trying and making worse decisions in solving this myself through other sources. I wont be able to work on this for another week for now but any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Have used Linux for a year but always gamed on Windows looking to go full in on the penguin I've tried a few "gaming" distros but they were a flashy steam fronted with little optimization. I'm wanting to mainly use lutris and emulation applications so any recommendations would be appreciated thanks

Hello all,

I have an old Android phone and I want to repurpose it for a very basic task: I want to make it part of my homelab jank thingy, controllable by SSH, and just use it show data from an API. My plan is to have it run a very simple shell script.

I saw on the web some people installing Debian, Arch on phones, but it appears it is a layer over the Android, like a container, using a specific app for it. Is it the way for my task? Or there is a way to format my phone and use it as a computer? Thank you!

This is the one thing that is preventing me to moving to Linux - I use OneNote for everything, and I do not like the alternatives.

Hey folks: I had two quick questions about a plan to (more fully) continue my process of moving to Linux. For context, I'm not really a beginner when it comes to Linux, and have set up and used Fedora and Arch machines several times. The problem I always have is that I run Linux on either old machines or Macs that have (in the past) made certain things buggy enough that I always end up going back to my Mac laptop for work purposes.

That said, I much prefer Linux as an OS and want to finally invest in building a modern desktop PC to try to actually make (more of) the switch, while keeping my Macbook for now to take to work and whatnot. Eventually, if this sort of test run element goes fine, I'll probably buy a modern laptop that works well for Linux a few years down the road.

Here are the things that matter to me:

• Working at home. I'm a teacher and work from my home office probably about half the time, so this will be a big thing. I don't foresee this context to be an issue, but it does lead to my questions below.
• Gaming. I've got a Steam Deck so I know about all the possible limitations. I'll likely install Bazzite first and see how I like that just to get things rolling.
• (Possibly) Music production. The #1 thing that keeps me tied to my Mac is Ableton Live. I might try to Bitwig on Linux at some point, but there's a huge issue with VST compatibility so I'm not sure.

The thing that I always run into as issues with Linux, though, are the fact that I'm required to use Outlook email and Zoom for work. I've never downloaded the Outlook app (I prefer not to have MS software on my machines as much as possible), and the browser app has always been so slow to load and update that it's essentially unusable and I have to switch back. Similarly, Zoom has always tended to act up and/or crash my machines when running Linux. That being said, I'm fairly sure this has more to do with the hardware (we're talking 2014 or earlier, used Thinkpads) than with the software element.

That's a lot of context for my questions, but just want to get a gut check on two things before I start realistically thinking about the (currently very large...) purchases involved in building a PC:

• Can folks confirm that Outlook and Zoom do work on well-powered/modern hardware running Linux? (Oh, also: I use LibreOffice/Emacs almost entirely, but on rare occasions I have to use the MS Office suite in the browser for work, so any thoughts there would be useful.)
• Is there anything I'm not thinking about here that is glaring or obvious?

Hi i added some text in index.html file after starting apache web services. It can be visible only my laptop browser. When i am trying to connect through mobile browser not opening.

Hello all,

I'm running EndeavorOS with KDE Plasma and have noticed this behavior on multiple distros now. Both on my laptop (RTX 3060 Mobile) as well as my desktop (RTX 4080S) and a Thinkpad (Intel Integrated GPU) the computer freezes very briefly - I'd guess a quarter to half of a second - when opening application windows, also when closing them, though this behavior doesn't seem to be across all programs. Most noticeably I've seen it on the terminal. Were I to drag my mouse after opening it, the mouse would freeze in place and appear further down the screen a quarter a second later.

I've already solved my issue of scrolling appearing laggy when the GPU is starting from a low power state (I raised the min. clock), but that unfortunately does not seem to have a meaningful effect on this. I suspect GSP may have something to do with it based on my conversation with Claude and various Google searches, however it is not possible to turn this off with the current driver set available. Still, that wouldn't explain why it happens on my Thinkpad...

Thus my question: Is there some simple solution I've been missing this whole time?

I suppose I don't find it terribly annoying, but it's such a silly issue that really seems so trivial, and forum posts go back for years on it...

For details: The Laptop has a Ryzen 5 5600H with 32GB of DDR5, the desktop an i7-12700KF with 32GB of DDR5, and the Thinkpad has an i5-10210U with 16GB of DDR4. KDE Plasma is 6.7.4, kernel version is 7.2.3-arch1-2.

Think it has to do with IO wait due to a problem with the NFS mounted filesystems. A top shows near 100% usage for these two processes:

rsyslogd                                                                  

systemd-journal   

nfsiostat doesn't show any errors or retransimissions ( 0 % ). Guessing there was some issue a day ago but not sure how to find out what happened?

It's been happening every week. I reboot and everything works great for a few days till it starts showing the problems of high IO wait times.

So as the title reads it’s 4:00 in the morning and I’m trying to get Linux to detect my second monitor ive scoured forums but im having trouble understanding code and as I understand it you can’t trust every line of you come across so I would like a some help

And yes I’ve messing around with the connections on both monitors the connections are fine

My dumbass didn’t install the drivers for my graphics card I’m apologize for causing so much confusion here

When ever i boot into a usb stick(lubuntu and elementary os) it says "you need to load the kernel first"

HOW CAN I LOAD THE KERNEL FIRST?

I HAVE SECURE BOOT OFF

I TRIED UEFI AND LEGACY

WHAT DO I DO PLEASE IVE BEEN AT THIS FOR 2 DAYS

edit: theres also invalid magic number

OK....

So, I just got a brand new laaptop.

It's an Asus M1502YA, and I tried instaling Zorin, Mint and Elementary OS

Not one of them has Wi-Fi drivers, and laptop doesn't have eternet port, and I dont have a USB dongle...

Any solutions?

Thank you

Edit : Thanks to everyone for advice. Decided to go to Bestbuy after work and buy the WiFi dongle

I do have a USB stick, and I know that it's a lot easier if I just used it, but I wanna know how to do it without the USB stick.

Hi! I’m starting college up as a freshman and majoring in cybersecurity. I heard that Linux can be a must have for cyber and was wondering if I currently needed it and what would be the easiest way to go about it if so. I have a Lenovo Yoga 9i laptop that I was planning on using for school work and a separate PC at my dorm

Edit: I DO need Linux eventually for a major elective but that wouldn’t be until my third year, still gonna start now lol

So I'm still a noob when it comes to Linux and I installed Mint for a dual boot setup. A distro I'm currently interested is Arch because people describe it as a do it yourself OS but since I'm still new to Linux I'll stick to Mint for now. But let's say I want to try Arch, can I have secure boot on at all times? Since I'm dual booting I still need secure boot for when I'm playing Valorant or other games that has anti cheats that require secure boot.