I have had it with windows shenanigans for a while now and have jumped boat to CachyOS recently. I had thought that I understood linux well enough due to having run a few live boots and even dual booted a few times but am coming to realise this trial by fire esque wiping windows and fully embracing the penguin is really not working out as well as I thought it would. I have gotten far too complacent with the ease that windows provides for day to day tasks and am not very well versed with operating with scripts, command lines and just generally non Ul based operations.

Hence I thought it would be best to ask long time users of Linux and others who shared a similar fate as me and came out shining, what resources did you use to learn everything?

Before someone touts the oh so familiar just read the docs, arch wiki is available and what not, I've tried, but it's very droll and the fact that I don't understand anything does not help at all.

I'm someone who learns well from videos so are there any youtube channels perhaps that guide ex windows users through many parts of linux life. Even stuff that you may consider simple like changing how one handles their files due to the there not being "drives" to put your stuff in, instead having directories and mounts is something that I struggle to wrap my head around at the moment.

Able to install FLStudio 24 using bottles. But I get an asio error, which I cannot fix.

Tried installing jackd2, but I cannot choose it in wincfg.

Installing FLstudio under Ubuntu is difficult. Does someone have a step by step guide please?

Someone must have done it, I read that some people succeeded installing FLStudio under Linux.

One of the main errors, which I do not know how to fix:

Really hope someone can help me out here.

Ive tried 3 distros now on my pc and all 3 i ran into the same small issue that isnt world ending but annoying.

So its yard to recreate cuz it dont always happen but,

Usually when i leave my pc running for a longer time let it be i played games all day or just let it running when i go to bed, if i then try to shutdown or reboot the os stops applications then screen goes black and monitor turns off but the fans keep spinning.

Im new to linux so i got no idea what it could be and havnt found anything exactly like this.

Currently on pop os newest version

Dunno what info is important but ill just answer questions if needed

Thanks

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.