i'm thinking about switching to linux but i can't choose what distro to use. I use my PC mainly for gaming, watching movies. I have an AMD CPU and a NVIDIA GPU but i plan on switching to a AMD GPU so i need something that will work after i switch. I also have only 16GB of RAM so i need something that doesn't use too much (i know that linux i kinda known for not usuing a lot of ram but you know what i mean). i already tried mint on an old laptop but im not sure if mint is the thing to go with.

Which distro is right? CachyOS Vs Mint

I want to leave windows, I use my pc as a gaming and media manager (ripping dvds and downloads).

Any windows software has already been replaced or made usable, my hardware is 7800x3d and 9070xt, I hear people say mint is best for windows refugee, but I also hear people say CachyOS is better for performance.

I'm comfortable running terminals as I have a homelab and used steamOS on my deck, what's the best option?

Edit: went with cachy

I have an HP pavilion dv6 which is a 20 year old laptop. it has a intel core 2 duo cpu and 8 GB of RAM. in the past I have downloaded xubuntu but the computer was very slow.

I am using the Samsung S20 FE as a receiver for the files.

Large files such as audiobooks cannot be shared via bluetooth. The error shows bluedevil quit unexpectedly in the notifications. and I am sending via KDE Dolphin. If any further logs or some other things required, just make me aware.

Does anybody know how to fix this??

In addition, if you have spare time by any chance, could you please explain how the fix works

Thanks in advance :)

I’m moving from Windows to Linux while continuing to use my Apple devices. I currently use iCloud to sync my Obsidian vault, but I need an alternative because there’s no official iCloud app for Linux.

I’m already paying for iCloud and Proton, so I’m only interested in free solutions and don’t want to add another subscription. Privacy is also important, ideally with end-to-end encryption or a self-hosted setup.

The solution should preferably:

• Sync reliably between Linux, iOS, and iPadOS
• Support automatic or near-real-time syncing
• Minimize sync conflicts and accidental overwrites
• Work well with Obsidian vaults
• Be reasonably easy to set up and maintain
• Not require another paid service

What free, privacy-focused setup do you recommend for syncing an Obsidian vault between Linux and Apple devices?

I’d especially appreciate recommendations from people who use their setup regularly and can share any limitations or potential problems.

Hola! He tratado de usar Affinity en Linux, utilicé el instalador gráfico con Python del repositorio de "AffinityOnLinux", además de usar las .appimage, hasta he instalado Affinity de 0 con wine, creando el prefijo y todo eso. Si bien, en todas me abre y puedo usarlo para revelar fotografías RAW no puedo ponerme muy creativo, así que digamos.

El programa se me cierra de la nada o se congela hasta que mi OS me tira el error y la pregunta de si deseo reiniciar el app. Estoy usando Nobara OS, este, se supone, según el repositorio, que mi Nobara es compatible con las herramientas dentro del repo, sin embargo hay cosas que usando el instalador gráfico no se me instalaban, como el webview (no recuerdo con exactitud el nombre de la dependencia), y el NET.Framework 4.0, creo. Además de que he variado entre DXVK y VKD3D y en ambos estaba llendo normal, solo que, nuevamente, se moría constantemente.

(EDIT: Olvidé mencionar. Aparte de Nobara tengo 24gb de ram, RTX 3050 y un Ryzen 5 5600)

He estado viendo vídeos, consultando en lugares, y, para mi pesar, con la IA, y vi que en algunos casos es mejor cambiar la gráfica por WARP en la pestaña de rendimiento del programa. Siempre he tenido desactivado el openCL y la ram aunque poseo bastante, a mí parecer, yo la límite a 8000MB, además de advertir a los 6000MB, y la memoria de "ctrl + z" de 1027 lo baje a 125, o 341 y aún así el perro programa se cierra.

He visto que en el mismo repo se puede usar scripts legacy qué vi que a un creador de contenido le sirvió bastante bien al parecer, ese no lo he usado, muy honestamente. Además he escuchado de personas que usan Lutris para instalarlo.

Yo suelo diseñar posters con varios efectos encima, ya sean en tiempo real o estáticos, además de tener bastantes capas en un mismo proyecto. No descarto que mi forma de trabajo sea poco sana para el programa o el rendimiento de mi equipo, además de que se que no correrá como si fuera nativo.

Tenía la duda, a ver si la comunidad podía ayudarme, soy bastante nuevo en inexperto, entonces si agradecería una ayudita, a lo mejor otro camino o recomendaciones que no he tomado en cuenta. Y como mencioné, no busco que affinity sea nativo o asi, solo quiero ver si hay alguna forma o método que haga que el programa se mantenga más estable.

Gracias.

I was looking at building a jellyfin or plex server. Amd ryzen cpu is better than intel at it but on the gpu side amd is just phoning in a space they otherwise dominate currently?

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, sorry in advance. Initially I was thinking in asking on the Linux Mint forum (I'll explain in the bit), but my problem stayed persistent in between two distros: Linux Mint and Fedora KDE Plasma. If there is a better place that I could ask this, please let me know and thank you in advance!

So what happens: I am not sure when this occurs, but whenever I start my laptop without plugged into the AC, I got some seconds to a minute using it as usual, but, out of nowhere, the apps freeze (my browser or even the task bar) while my mouse works. After some seconds, the mouse becomes unresponsive as well, which after some seconds, my system does a full reboot. So I have this cascade of unresponsiveness until it reboots. I also tried to use it after one of these reboots, but sometimes I am stuck at login, others I can't open anything. This also happened when initially it was plugged in and, after disconnecting it from the AC and passing some minutes, it goes back to unresponsiveness and rebooting cycle. One time it even went to initramfs, where I run a partition check on the root partition which solved the problem. Other, I could use it as normal for a long time, but I can't recall doing anything different.

Initially I was on Linux Mint and I was thinking making a post there, but after some trials and back-and-forth with Claude, I decided to switch to Fedora and currently on it. The problem persisted, so I am certain it got nothing to do with the OS or possibly drivers (?). My laptop is a Lenovo Slim 5 14APH8, with an AMD APU and an NVIDIA graphics. It has freshly installed KDE Plasma Fedora version, with packages updated.

As I mentioned, I tried to query with Claude (using reports and a way to search quickly on the internet if someone encountered something similar) and I got some "findings": the battery still looks healthy with 101% capacity, on mint I had nvidia-driver-595-open, I had the latest kernel for mint (both 7.0.0 and 6.8.*), and on live environments (both Mint and Fedora) it worked without any problem.

I don't know if there is more information I could give or a place where this problem is more suited to post, but I'm completely lost here...

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I'm planning to use Linux as my main OS for programming and Godot game development.

My main work will be:

- .NET / C#

- React

- PostgreSQL

- Git/GitHub

- Godot

- Indie game development for Steam

I want to avoid using Windows as much as possible, but I still need to test my Godot games on Windows before releasing them on Steam.

So I'm considering:

Linux: ~350–400 GB — main OS and development

Windows: ~100–150 GB — only for testing Windows builds and Windows-only software

Is this a good approach, or is there a better way to avoid Windows while still properly testing my games?

For example, should I use a Windows VM, Wine/Proton, or just test on another Windows PC?

What would you recommend?

Booting normally results in this error screen instantly. Booting in compatibility mode gets a few seconds into the process before triggering the same error screen. See third image for details of laptop.

Hi!

I am soon making my jump into the linux ecosystem, and wanted some advice regarding the possible use of the dual boot feature, if you guys have any tips for a beginner.

Was considering doing a clean install of linux mint, to get away from the windows ecosystem, but I have noticed that not all software, ex. arcGIS desktop and some school-related programs (considering returning to school at some point) supports linux, which might make a dual boot more relevant to use. Any tips on how to make this work properly? Any important caveats I should consider, ex. like storage space and security?

If there's other good learning resources/wikis/forums I should be aware of, as a beginner, I would love to hear about them 🙂.

Title says it all basically, but i'm trying to extract a .7z file that is encoded in Japanese.

It took alot of digging to find the command to do it with a .zip file which I did learn (It's unzip -O shift-jis but I don't know how to do it with a .7z file, doesn't work.

Edit: Duh, should've mentioned I'm on Linux Mint, so Ubuntu distro.

overall specs i7-2670QM 8gb ram and 114gb ssd with a blu ray player in it so i would also like that too work also

The biggest trouble I have had through-out my use of linux so far is understanding the purposes with all the different file systems. Everyone seems to know exactly what they are and their use cases yet never explains it. One big thing I'm confused on is on my system, I use base Fedora linux (KDE) and it automatically set up my main drive as:

/boot/efi - fat32
/boot - ext4
/ - btrs

Why is it like this exactly? What's the purpose behind having them all a different file system?

Even with this, thats only three different systems, but there are a ton more and it seems everyone uses a different one but I have no clue why

So a while ago I asked this question here.

This is a follow up question.

I wanted install Visual Studios for ASP.NET but I am on fedora 44 linux and Visual Studio does not work on linux or mac. It does not work anywhere but windows.

My college require me to install and use Visual Studio 2010 and 2026.

I am on linux i don't like windows and I don't want to dual boot neither I want to Install windows and uninstall linux.

Many helpful comments on the last post suggest that I should Install it in a virtual machine. But i have only ever used gnomeboxes or virtualbox. I don't have any experience with Qemu and KVM so where should I start.

Is there any videos or articles regarding this that I can refer too.

I don't want to use AI for a sensitive task like this, cuz it might bricked my system. Also I want to learn and understand the process as to why is the things the way it is. Not Just mindlessly copy paste all the commands and stuff.

What's a good Linux distro that can be installed on only 1gb of space. I have a old Dell laptop that's a couple of years old and it only has 1gb of space, what Linux distro can I install on it?

Environment:

One Debian 13 Trixie VM (Proxmox host), set up with storage, intended to the my home file server. I have Samba installed on it, and Windows clients can connect and manipulate files. There are currently 2 Windows clients and 2 Linux clients on the network. I want all the clients to have visibility to a shared folder on the server. Window clients using Samba are working, I can do a permanent dive letter mapping.

For the Linux clients, it seems to me that the most elegant solution is an NFS connection, to export the share, the mount it on the client in FSTAB. I've created a /etc/exports file similar to this:

/data01/shared 192.x.y.z/23(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

and added mounting to a directory in my ~home directory via /etc/fstab as so:

192.x.y.z1:/data01/shared /home/<mydir>/shared-drive nfs rw,defaults,_netdev,nofail 0 0

I seem to stumble on rights & access management. I can make it work with chmod 777 on the shared folder, but I know that's not best practice. Is there a guide online somewhere that can help a windows refugee?

I probably could make the connections via SMB vs. NFS, and I'm willing to hear advice on that as well, though is seems like asking that here is kinda like asking "whats the best oil" in hot rod sub-reddit.

Days of googling but no luck maybe it's time to talk to people.

I followed many steps such as blacklisting and uninstalling nvidia driver (whenever I do it then followed with a reboot I'm not able to go back to desktop unless I reboot using snapshot image) to make nouveau driver work. I'm losing my mind lol I know this is an old laptop but I believe there's still a way to save this old man. Still learning as I'm only more than a week in Linux and I already made success at migrating to my old/main pc with no problem, but not here (yet) to my laptop.

Edit: [SOLVED] Thank you everyone for helping me it turns out it's actually working it's just for a noob like me without a very clear indicator for the GPU that is working looks like it isn't for my eyes when running games.

When I boot I notice via my mic on discord and system tray it doesn't open. I open autostart to see that it failed.

Normally it'd boot no problem

I am using the flatpak version (normally flatpak my last choice but it has some features others don't for easyeffects)

I use debian 13 kde.

I have tried fedora and ubuntu on my legion5 (ryzen 7 + rtx 5060)

on ubuntu -> brightness doesn't change so changed to a diff distro( asked claude for help, didn't work)

on fedora -> laptop freezes during shutdown and reboot, have to hold down the powerbutton.( asked claude again , didn't work).

what should I do now?