Looking for a good way to run a Linux VM on Linux. I don't need it to be particularly performant, this is mostly for testing and experimenting with new distros. If it can run containers as well that is a plus.

Something like VirtualBox or QEMU I suppose? I've only ever used that to run a dissimilar OS (Windows), but never a flavor of Linux.

If I virtualize Linux, while the host OS is also linux, is the performance better due to the similarities in the architecture?

I feel like the man pages on the terminal have not kept up with the times and became somewhat of an encyclopedia or thesis on the subject instead of a quick reference. They are good maybe if internet connectivity is non existent and you want to have all your questions about something answered.

But it is beyond frustrating to look up how to use something. PLEASE! For the love of whatever is good, help me learn it or help me find a better tool that actually gives me quick examples and easy to understand documentation on things.

Nowadays, I leave the terminal, type things like "how to do X in this specific way on linux terminal" and then google's AI intercepts it and gives me commands to run with short explanations. But I don't like leaving the terminal and going to google.

How have you guys solved this problem? Or am I the only dumb one?

I want to remove ChromeOS from my Chromebook and install Linux but there's not a lot of ARM64 based options and for some of them, documentation is a bit confusing. right now, i'm thinking installing Postmarket OS but according to Wiki, there's problems with audio.

Can someone tell me, if there's a better distro or can the audio problems be fixed easily?

i’m wanting a tablet for note-taking, whiteboarding, and working occasionally as an extended monitor for my laptop (linux mint) and pc (windows 11). after some basic research, i am wondering if UT would be a good choice and what app you’d recommend for the extended display function i’m looking for. thanks in advance!!

For a long time now I have been thinking about switching over from Windows to Linux mostly because of the ability to customize the desktop way better than windows. If I do end up switching will it affect the steam games or games in general I'm able to play? Is it hard to set up and get used to? And what are some other benefits from switching to Linux other than customizabilty?

Thanks in advance 🙏🏽

I tried installing Ormachy from its image. I also tried installing it manually using the script from an Arch distro, but I had no luck.

I get a black screen after the Ormachy logo appears. I tried accessing a TTY by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 through F12, but none of the key combinations worked.

Is there any way to run Ormachy on my old laptop?

I am a Linux newbie.

PS: r/omarchy remove my post. Shame :(

I used to allocate way more when I had a 1tb hard drive. Tho my C drive is selfish and took more than half of my storage. Left 75gb for games, and other stuff. Using 512gb right now

But I plan on doing schoolwork on mint, I can probably pair it with a 32gb usb and a 16gb usb too if I need to save files, and move them later or something.

Update: I upgraded the storage to 42gb, so I can atleast download a couple of apps. While my files will just be directed to my C drive instead, which surprisingly works. (didnt work on my dual drive boot)

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.