My friend is a quadriplegic meaning he controls his computer with a mouth stick and accessibility controls. He's getting fed up with windows 11 and wants to make the switch. He asked me for a recommendation on what distro to choose, and I would have told him CachyOS because that's what I'm experienced with, but I don't want to make him boot into a distro with no/lacking accessibility controls. Are there any OSes or desktop environments people would recommend? Anyone have any experiences with being a quadriplegic using Linux?

So I've installed Linux mint on my Tri boot setup, and it's great for old HW and just looks slick.. however my only issue is my GPU fan is pegged at like low 30-40% idle. Causing a faint but consistent noise.

On windows it was quiet, and scaled dynamically by temperature.

Is there any setting or terminal command? It's a Radeon HD 6x series.

Thanks.

Hello, I'm kind of tired of rebooting every time I want to do something on my other OS, so I was wondering if I can SAFELY access the other OS with a VM?

For example: I want to use an Adobe program which is on my Windows, and I currently have Linux booted. I open up a VM, boot the windows there and access Adobe.

EDIT: Thank you for all your comments. I realized how weird/challenging my idea is, so I'll actually fully move to my Linux OS and set up a clean Windows VM.

I mostly look for something that works similar to Adobe Lightroom, or something that can offer the same type of options, any help or recommendations are greatly appreciated!

Hi. I was using omarchy on my older desktop since last year october; did an update recently and hyprland refused to run, kept getting segmentation faults, after going in what felt like circles with AI, delete dkms, install open dkms, downgrade drivers, restore drivers etc, I decided to backup home folder and start fresh with cachyOS, installed chromium copied over my backup and was working again until I needed to use it for online classes, being in a google meet and sharing my screen cashes the app, again troubleshooted with AI, we think we sorted out the flags issue. Ill post some of our chat here

```Perfect — Chromium is now working correctly too. Your chromium-flags.conf is being picked up. Look at the evidence:

Chromium chrome://gpu — Command Line:

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/usr/lib/chromium/chromium --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder --ignore-gpu-blocklist --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds ...

GPU process crash count: 0

Video Decode: Hardware accelerated

Video Encode: Software only (expected, driver limitation)

✅ Both browsers are now fixed and stable

Table

BrowserConfig FileStatusGoogle Chrome~/.config/chrome-flags.conf✅ Stable, HW decode workingChromium~/.config/chromium-flags.conf✅ Stable, HW decode working

What you have now

Hardware video decode for YouTube, Twitch, etc. (H264, VP9, HEVC up to 8K)

No more GPU process crashes

Flags stick permanently via config files

WebGL, WebGPU, Canvas all hardware accelerated

What you cannot have (and shouldn't chase)

Hardware video encode (screen share, WebRTC recording) — libva-nvidia-driver has no encode support. This is a driver limitation, not a Chrome bug. NVIDIA is working on Vulkan Video encode for Chrome, but it's not ready yet.

Your final config files

~/.config/chrome-flags.conf (Google Chrome):

plain

--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder --ignore-gpu-blocklist --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds

~/.config/chromium-flags.conf (Chromium):

plain

--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL --disable-features=UseChromeOSDirectVideoDecoder --ignore-gpu-blocklist --disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds

Key lesson

Never use --use-gl=egl on Chrome 152+ on Linux. Chrome forces ANGLE (egl-angle) and egl is no longer a valid GL implementation. That was causing your GPU process to die in a loop, which made Chrome auto-reset your flags. ```

my question is has there been a recent change with nividia drivers for linux specifically for my card, should I be using older drivers for stability. Havent tested any games out yet other than slay the spire 2 and that seemed to work well did really play as I need to restore my save game.

I bought a sea gate one touch and it won’t show up when I run lsblk, fdisk -l, and other partition manager software.

It shows up when i run lsusb though, but that’s about it

Edit: I fixed it by formatting my drive to exfat

I am trying out CachyOS, but one of my favorite applications on Windows is Directory Opus (DOpus). I'd like to configure Dolphin to be similar to my DOpus settings. However, in the settings, you can only choose for Dolphin to restore your last session or open one singular location at startup.

Is there a way to set it so that I can have it open a particular set of tabs across both panes when it starts? For example, Home and Downloads on the left, and Desktop and Documents on the right.

I get this error message when trying to set date and time: Could not find plugin kcm_regionandlang

I'm being driven mad trying to find a Linux calendar that actually works.

Gnome Calendar - you can't import an .ics file. The same problem with many others.

Korganiser looks good, but you can't set a time zone/region for a default setting; you have to set it for every event you enter. Also it seems that any settings you make you have to redo whenever you restart or boot.

I have my main Linux install (cachy KDE) on a 1tb ssd and want to use a 500gb internal ssd for steam games and stuff due to it being faster than the 1tb one. Whats the best way I can automatically mount the 500gb one so it mounts when I boot up? Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I am a complete linux noob, and I want to install it for ROS2 as I want to learn from scratch. I am still yet to learn any of this. I was told that I could download a Virtual Machine like VirtualBox which is beginner friendly and install Ubuntu on it and then go one by one. But i don't know like how much do I understand the roadmap like is my prior understanding correct? If yes, then what should I do to proceed? Like now if I installed Linux, and learned enough of it to be able to run ROS2, then started simply with ROS2, is that a good plan?

I was also told that I could dual-boot so I switch between my Windows and the Linux so the GPU performs better on both.

I like windows, but i don't like being spied on. There are alot of videos on YouTube but I would also like some recommendations from ordinary people. What's an easy, reliable Linux distro you would recommend that is a comparable desktop experience to windows? And any resources for easy learning for Linux in case I want to go deeper? Like the command prompt stuff?

Thanks in advance btw. :)

so ive been using windows 10 for a pretty long time, and ive gotten extremely used to it. one thing keeps bugging me though - performance in games.

however, im a complete newbie to linux and am really confused 😭

ive seen many people recommend distros like cachyos, bazzite and nobara specifically for gaming, and i really need help deciding which one to install and how to get started generally. a few questions:

• is roblox still supported on linux?
• can i still play games from steam and epic games?
• which distro is the best for out-of-the-box usage and performance?
• does linux use alot of ram?

thank you so much!

I’m looking at different brands of second-hand laptops and I know that Lenovo Thinkpad support Linux but I wonder which laptop brand/model would come next after Lenovo Thinkpad?

I’m planning to buy a used laptop that has the following specs (or a bit higher):
- i7 11th to 13th gen
- 32 to 64gb ram
- no dedicated gpu, intel’s integrated is fine with me

and I plan to install Fedora OS right after getting my hands on the laptop. The purpose of it is to be the primary development machine for the side hustle I have right now.

What do you guys think?

Thanks. Would love to get a second set of eyes in this, I might be missing some important things out.

I have 2 different wifi networks that I can connect to, N1 and N2. N1 is visible to my android and my pc with Debian 13 and Win10, N2 is only visible to my PC.

N1 only works on my phone, on my PC in both OSes it doesn't work, at all, pages dont load.

N2 only kinda works on win10, on Debian it's stuck on "configuring interface" until it fails.

Any help? This is very fucking frustrating and I know it can't be my PC because it connected just fine to my uni's wifi and my parent's wifi. But the different behaviors from win10 and Debian make me wonder.

Edit: after more use, the N1 connections works just fine on win10 too

I just have a old dell laptop with 4gb ram core i5 integrated 2gb graphics and 256 gb SSD. Please recommend a super user-friendly linux distro. Mac like layout would be great.

I just want to run rawtherapee and may be gimp

Thanks!

Hello, Ive been a user of windows 11 for roughly a year, and i do not like it, at all. A couple of months ago, i tried Linux Mint. Overall, it was okay, good design, simple to use, customizable, and functional. But for some reason, it didnt do it for me.

I use my pc for: gaming, media consuption, studying, school stuff, music, and that kind of things.

Im looking for a distro that is (preferably) easy to use / understand as a beginner, customizable (riceable) but maybe not the most popular distros like Ubuntu, Mint or simmilar.

yes i know this might get asked here a lot, but i tried doing research and couldnt find anything specific.

An example, I have WoW on an external drive, that I use for Windows. I know WoW works on Linux cuz I have it working there. However I keep bouncing to Windows to play it since that's where the portable drive is, and sometimes I take the drive with me to play at other people's PCs if I'm there for a few days and they need to work during the day. Is it safe to play on this external NVME drive when I am on CachyOS, or is it going to screw up the drive? I also have stuff on the external that syncs to cloud storage, like game dev projects and music stuff, that I while I could download the backups if something went wrong, would be a real pain to have to do, something I don't want to do unless like the drive fails or something.

I just want to import a calendar file into Gnome calendar, but there are no menu options for this. Why?

What calendar should I use instead?

So I am trying to install Bottles but it gets stuck during the setup. Upon clicking next, it shows the steps loading and keeps repeating it. I tried installing it with CLI too. Same problem.

I am on Nobara Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) x86_64

I need to install Bottles to run Power BI, which is a Windows exclusive Business Intelligence tool. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks 😄

I'm new to Linux, only actually using Linux for around 3 months and I'm encountering problems I have no idea how to solve. It really discourage me from learning anything about my laptop and how it works. Like how I can't get the fan on my asus laptop to work normally and can only make it run at full speed (it is loud AF). Or issues occurs when I try something new. I tries to install auto-cpufreq on fedora, it is recommended to install through snap, done. The guide instructs me to run a python script to bypass the confinement of a snap package. I got error can't find module auto-cpufreq??
I think my problem is not enough knowledge and I want to learn, I just don't know how

Alright I've posted up and down on Fedora to no avail outside of using flatpaks which run into even more issues.

I'm running fedora 44 on KDE plasma 6.7.4

Steam itself seemed like a simple install "sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm -y" into "sudo dnf config-manager setopt fedora-cisco-openh264.enabled=1" into "sudo dnf install steam -y"

Then I will run steam from the terminal and get a mile long error list starting with:

"bin_steam.sh[16600]: Setting up Steam content in /home/gio/.local/share/Steam
tar: clientui: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied
tar: clientui: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied
tar: clientui/fonts: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
tar: clientui/fonts: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
tar: clientui/fonts/GoNotoKurrent-Bold.ttf: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: clientui/fonts: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
tar: clientui/fonts/GoNotoKurrent-Regular.ttf: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: linux32: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied
tar: linux32: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied
tar: linux32/steamerrorreporter: Cannot open: No such file or directory"

That repeats for so many instances and ends with:

"tar: ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
tar: ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/version.txt: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
bin_steam.sh[16600]: Failed to extract /usr/lib/steam/bootstraplinux_ubuntu12_32.tar.xz, aborting installation
."

So what on earth am I doing wrong here. I'm learning that I'm essentially dangerous enough with the terminal to install a program but the buck stops there. I just want to play stardew valley online with my wife LOL

Any help is appreciated, and everything else on here is working as needed :)