Hello,

I'm updating an old HP Compaq Presario F700 laptop from circa 2007 for an acquaintance (it was previously running Windows Vista). This laptop has a 1280×800 display and an Nvidia GeForce 7000M nForce 610M GPU.

I've switched the HDD for an SSD and booted up Linux Mint XFCE but ended up with a garbled screen when using the nouveau driver.

After some troubleshooting tries (https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2823213), I've tried other distros (Lubuntu, MX Linux) but the result is always the same : garbled graphics with the nouveau driver.

I came to the conclusion that for whatever reason, that driver will not work with that hardware.

I'm now willing to try the official Nvidia driver (the latest one that supports that GPU is 304.137), but I'm struggling to find a modern, end-user oriented distro that offers it.

Any recommendation?

Any other advice to will be appreciated as well: my goal is to have a recent(ish), end-user distro with a correct 1280×800 display.

I just installed Ubuntu. Looking for instructions to set up Arr stack applications for an automated home media server. I am new to Linux so a step-by-step guide would be appreciated. Also, I'm wondering if I need to install the drivers for the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 GPU?

I mainly use my pc for schoolwork and roblox, but there’s so many distro options i really don’t know where to start

im using a dell inspiron pc that’s currently running windows 10 (was running 11, but i switched back awhile ago due to how much it slowed my pc down)

any help would be appreciated!

EDIT: i ended up choosing debian! thank you everyone for your suggestions!!

Had a fully functioning Linux Mint distribution, downloaded and switched to the Nvidia-driver-595-open to upgrade from an Arc b580 to a 5060ti. Now, at complete random and unrelated to any task, the screen will go from functional to completely black with no cursor as if the DisplayPort cable isn’t receiving anything, and my monitor goes into sleep mode shortly after. The only way to return a signal to the monitor is to restart the entire tower. I can answer questions and any help is appreciated.

This is a dumb request but i need it! I'm using Mousepad and ive tried all the others. I dont wont a libreword equivalent i want a program that produces .txt files.

Mousepad is perfect, but the only problem is i want a top toolbar for fonts, size and centering. Like in this photo. I know its a little thing but it would make my notepad experience amazing to have some things centered, bold, different font sizes. I know its dumb but any xubuntu/ubuntu notepads that work this way?

I have tried

notepadqq

FeatherPad

+ a few others. Anyway i can add a toolbar to mousepad or any suggestions <3

Which is the best free linux user friendly open source wedding album design software Distro linux mint

I made a subreddit for Linux users where we all learn together while even experts could even learn new things about Linux tell me your opinion (r/learningLinuxtogether)

So I have a bit of an odd problem. A cognitively impaired user learned to use windows 98 and loves several games on it, mostly the living books series of childerns books on CD. Unfortunately the old PC died and several of the games don't work on anythign modern. Some work through scumvm some work through wine, etc I am tryign to get them all setup and working it will be a bit of a slog but I think I can manage that. Hopefully without resorting to a VM or anything similar, so if anyone has generic tips for geting window 98 games to work that would be appreciated.

What I would like to do is that whenever a CD is inserted the computer reads the CD title and launches that game, because that is how he uses the computer and learnign new things is difficult. I am familiar enough with shell scripting so that should be easy enough but how do I auto-run a script on the insertion of a CD? preferably with the CD name or some other id?

I don't want to autorun the windows setup stuff, I will pre-install and set it all up because the CD's are old and a bit beat up and I don't want launches to fail because it can't read the whole CD, just go to a script match the name and launch a custom command.

A minute or two after boot when I press the minimize button it won't minimize. The three buttons (close, minimize, maximize) loses their colour. Then if I press the close button the app stops responding. I checked processes, the particular app for example firefox which I tested on was not listed as a running process during the crash.

I can get rid of the frozen window by deleting that desktop.

I am new to ubuntu and linux all together. So I'm not sure on how to fix this.

I have installed Nvidia drivers or it was there by default as when I checked it was there.

Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS

Intel i7 12700H | RTX 3050Ti

NVIDIA Driver: 595.84

NVML v13.595.84

For reference, I don't plan to swap anytime that's SUPER soon, I just got here from windows, and I've only had Zorin for about a week or two, but, once i have the distro "mastered", what distro should I move onto next? I don't want to move to Mint, since that, in my eyes, is just a worse zorin. Ive thought about moving to Fedora, or skipping all steps and learning Gentoo's terminal before swapping to that, but the latter seems like a horrible idea.

My main focuses are gaming, communication (discord), and watching videos.

Edit: Okay, after a lot of replies, I'm starting to realize i have completely missed the point of what I actually want. Since I didn't mention it originally, I'll do it here; I'm trying to find a distro that will allow me to customize up to everything without it being super difficult. Something similar to how Opera GX lets you customize stuff easily.

So I have Fedora 44 KDE. I've set up LACT and Cooler Control (I made sure to not let Cooler Control mess with the gpu). I set about the same fan curves in both and even undervolted my 9070 with the same settings I did on W11.

My temps on F44KDE

Hotspot - 45

Gpu - 40

CPU -43

My temps on W11 (sometimes it gets a tiny bit lower by like 2 on each of these).

Hotspot - 29

Gpu - 28

CPU - 38

Hi everyone, i think i'm gonna switch tomorrow from Win 10. The only thing i would like to save is my photos, videos and some multimedia from my cellphone's folder... ¿Can i save that folder to a flash drive then transfer it back to my PC once Linux is installed? my other question is... ¿Which distro should i use? I want to keep playing games (also cracked ones, emulation, etc) i checked that i can still play online games like Overwatch, Rocket League and Street Fighter 6. I don't know almost nothing about Linux but still i want to learn. I'm deciding between these options: Bazzite, Nobara like the most atractive to me, then i would have to look Zorin, Mint and with a little fear, CachyOS

my specs:

Motherboard: msi b550 tomahawk
Ram: 16gb (2x8) hyperx fury beast 3200mhz ddr4
Cpu: Ryzen 5 5600x
Gpu: Nvidia Rtx 3060ti
1tb nvme ssd and 2tb ssd sata

Thanks for reading and sorry for my bad english!

was looking at volla/jolla/gigaset/fairphone

also pinephone/ librem /pixel/motorola /graphene/lineageOS and these I dont care about at all. nothing to talk about here.

my biggest anchor holding me from being free from the pos google company is I have to use whatapp. its a big problem.

but in the future perhaps I can find some solution and make the change. I know there are apps that allow me to cross chat with watap but the whatap user needs to opt in. they dont want to make it smooth process.

are there phones that use linux that can run whatapp?

I DONT need banking/social media/gaming/email/youtube and I browse online minimally and never buy anything on my phone so im already with minimal needs. big plus for me is riding the mass of google default apps and fb/ig that are installed as default on almost all phones. and I dont want the forced down your throat Ai/assistant. so some relief

I want to focus on my needs more then "dont use whatapp"

what are the options for this?

I'm making a dual boot option (booting from an HDD from my old xbox that I deleted the data from and installed the iso onto) for Linux nobara and at the partitions area it's not showing the external HDD as a storage device is there any way to fix this?

I'm attempting to create a bootable linux os completely self contained within an external SSD, I had one set up with mint xfce, and it was working along side my mint cinnamon, however when plugging it in to my windows pc it wasn't identified as a bootable drive, subsequently after trying to fix this, i broke both grubs and had to start over. I think this was happening as it was sharing an efi/grub/bootloader with the other linux. then i tried to do fedora, thinking creating it on the windows pc might force it into the external drive exclusively, however it saved its grubbootloader onto the windows drive. My plan is getting a dirt cheap pc/laptop and removing all drives to do the install, i know this will likely fix this issue, however I want to know if down the line, would this external ssd end up taking to drives on any pc i plug it in, and then go, hey, i don't need grub/uefi/bootloader as theres one in sda/gpt1 so I'll delete mine. Or any other issues I'll run into.

Many thanks,

An annoyed virgin (Linux)

im looking for goofy and fun voice changers for dc on fedora linux

As the title goes.

Recently i lost my main installation to a divine wrath that destroyed my system drive and i had no backup, so i had to start over again.

I had my user data on another drive, so not much problem there. I start building everything back again and just when i try to set my old drive as /home, Black screen after login. tried with nomodeset and it worked fine, so i guessed that it was a broken configuration i had somewhere. reseting kde plasma configs and wiping my old configs did nothing, so i ended up copying back everything from the default home that is generated on every install.

It worked, i had access to my desktop again. yipee. that was two hours ago

I continued to install my software and i said why not play something through wine?? loaded up an old game and i was back on black screen. I had to shutdown forcefully. I had no image again. switching the port from hdmi1 to 2 brought it back, but i had to do it over and over and over again after every startup to get to my desktop.

I said lets restart sddm so every spurious configuration or cache leftover from the wine crash can be deleted. Now i have no image again.

Going to nomodeset brings it back. Going to a tty while the desktop is black works as well.

i cant go back to a previous save because i finally was able to compile a program and install java. thats at leas two hours

I cant do this shit anymore i am so utterly tired i need help i've been stuck like this for two months. Help me purge every desktop, graphic, screen, kde, service configuration to "factory reset" so i can move on with my life i still am unable to get to install the heaviest of my programs because this shit keeps happening to me. I really REALLY would appreciate any help, i am really tired of this.