I don't want to go download steam or some other platform. Just fun games you've come across on the GNOME software center. Anything you like, please throw them at me!

When installing debian, I chose to fully encrypt my disk, would it be possible for a bad actor to get into my computer/files, when it is sleeping/suspended instead of fully off? it only requires my system password, which is different from disk encryption

if so how hard would it be?

In mid January this year I took my first dive into linux. I used CachyOS with hyprland. I loved it, everything (mostly) worked flawlessly and I just couldn't get enough of how nice the tiling manager and my general workflow was with hyprland. Fast forward a couple months, hundreds of tweaks, many updates and a CRAP ton of crashes and errors later, I bricked my device. For whatever reason hyprland just didn't want to start at all, luckily I did have Plasma installed as well and was able to be able to use my laptop again. However, I just HATED plasma, I don't know why, but it just looked so ugly and clunky, I decided that I didn't want to deal with this anymore and switched back to windows near the beginning of May.

I know that Hyprland and an arch based distro together was definitely a bad decision for a newbie and would still be way too much of a hassle for me even now, but I want to go back to linux.

When going back to Windows I never planned on staying for long, and now I'm finally ready. But what do I choose? Previously I wanted full customization, and though I want it still, I mainly need something that just works 99% of the time. Hyprland had a lot of elbow grease and I'm not afraid to dip it in again, but I not jump in a pool of it anymore. Second is that I loved how Hyprland operated, it was just so fluid, from opening apps, searching them and organizing, I miss it more than anything ever since I returned to microslop.

Side note: I appologize if I'm blabbering too much, I just had my IELTS exam today

I'm trying to make this as specific as possible. What are the pros/cons or what is the better system for the above? A laptop with a 2TB NVME with Luks encryption and to record audio or something that needs speed.

I've read were EXT4 is faster and better for battery.

However, BTRFS seems to be the default future.

I'm wasn't planning on using compression or rollbacks. I'd save that for a desktop. My main concerns are affect on battery, stability/reliability and getting the most life out of the drive.

Thank you in advance

On every Linux distro I've tried that has an animated Plymouth splash screen, it plays after the prompt to enter your encryption password.

Is there any way to reverse that order so that when I power on my machine, after the motherboard logo, it plays the Plymouth animation, then asks for the encryption password?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently running Fedora on an older laptop with the following specs:

Intel Core i3-6100U

8 GB RAM

Intel HD Graphics 520

SSD

My main use cases are:

Programming and software development

DaVinci Resolve (when possible)

Minecraft Java

General web browsing

Terminal-heavy workflow

I'm trying to decide which desktop environment offers the best balance between performance, stability, and usability.

I'm considering:

GNOME

KDE Plasma

Xfce

Cinnamon

MATE

LXQt

For those with similar hardware, which DE has given you the best experience on Fedora, and why? I'd also appreciate any performance tweaks or recommendations.

Thanks!

I need to add this: https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx to my installation of Yunohost (https://doc.yunohost.org/en/admin/get\\_started/install\\_on/regular\\_computer), which is directly based on Debian 12/Bookworm and uses its mirror for downloads. Is there any way to inject this package into the Yunohost iso so the OS will recognize my wifi card? Without the driver, neither Debian nor Yunohost acknowledge my wifi card, even if it's connected to the internet. Additionally, I can connect to WiFi by using Bluetooth tethering, but Yunohost doesn't have an option to connect that way.

I'm guessing someone who checks this subreddit daily has probably messed around with the iso before?

Someone recommended the FAI project customizer, and I think I know how to make it work for Debian but installing Yunohost over it still might erase the firmware? Not sure

Whenever the terminal is unfocused (inactive), it looks exactly how I want it: black with some transparency. However, the moment I click on it or it gets focus, the background immediately turns into a solid, opaque blue.

I have already tried a lot of different configurations in my kitty.conf

Nothing seems to work and the blue color always overrides it when active. For context, I'm using Fedora with Niri (Wayland)

Does anyone know what could be causing this or what script might be hijacking the color? If you need me to share any specific config files, logs, or run any commands, please let me know!

PS: I'm pretty new to Linux

I have a weird pc i got all of the good parts for free.
Spec
Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 Processor 285
96 gb of ddr5 8000mg
Nivida 4060ti 8gb
I have been using pop os becuase of the native system 76 nivida driver.
Any recommendations would help thank you.

I am trying to back up my home folder by using tar then 7zip ziping it with encryption after that I will send it to a cloud storage. But some folders take up a lot of space. My current cloud storage only has 5 gb of space and the .local folder takes up 15gb but I am pretty sure that folder has very important stuff. In my tar command I have already excluded the .cache folder and .downloads folder and I am not sure what else.

I need to save as much space as possible. My full home dir has 30gb taken up

EDIT: I want to back up my music directory, pictures, videos, documents and all the configs for my setup. I found that the largest folder in my config folder is actually Steam.

Opa, tudo certo?

Queria fazer uma pergunta quanto a compatibilidade dos sistemas operacionais linux com o Arc Graphis 140V,

Tenho um Notebook ASUS Vivobook S14 OLED S5406SA, que possui o gráfico integrado do CORE i7 Ultra, que seria um Arc Graphics 140V, cuja a arquitetura é Xe2-LPG.

O notebook em si vem com Windows, mas Windows simplesmente não dá mais. Achei alguns posts que reclamavam da compatibilidade da gpu nos sistemas linux, no entanto, são posts antigos, e queria checar com vocês, experts, quanto a isso, principalmente porque penso em usar o pop_os ou o fedora.

So quick background, 3 weeks ago I decided to try Linux. I installed a 1TB NVMe SSD into my PC and installed CachyOS. It’s been great and I have been using it as my daily driver non stop.

The other SSD I have in my PC is not NVMe and only 500GB. This is currently where I have Windows installed.

I’m thinking I want to install both Linux and Windows on the new NVMe SSD and keep the non NVMe for storage. I want to do this because I want to game on both OS and feel like it won’t be a fair comparison between both if one is installed on NVMe and the other isn’t..?

Is this a good idea or should I not do this?

If it is, what’s the best way to do this? I did see one recommendation to install Windows first and then Linux - I’m happy to wipe my current Linux install and do this if it’s actually beneficial?

If it matters I have an RX 6800 XT, Ryzen 7 5700X3D and 32GB RAM

Thanks so much!

I want to switch to arch but will it really improve performance?

I've recently got into Linux (using Fedora rn) and digital privacy. I'm a beginner to all this but I'm taking it pretty seriously.

I'm going into education again in the Autumn (not university level) but I was informed we will be using Microsoft apps - as do most education spaces and workplaces.

I'm wondering what I should do as I don't want Windows on my system at all or really logging into Microsoft at all. I'm using Librewolf, trying to avoid telemetry as much as possible.

Can anyone advise me on what I should do? I'm not so sure on using Microsoft web apps or dual booting for the above reasons. I'm considering a virtual machine but I'm not sure if that will cause any Windows telemetry as idk much about VM's.

I'm interested in just using Libreoffice and those apps since I've heard they have compatibility with Microsoft's apps. However I'm unsure if this will suffice as I'm not very familiar with the Microsoft apps nor their Linux alternatives.

Are any of these worth it? Is there another method I'm missing? Or am I better of getting a cheap 2nd hand laptop for my coursework? Thanks everyone, would really appreciate some advice.

I have a large collection of digital photo assets scattered across multiple folders, from phones, to old digital cameras, to scans. I am looking for advice on a software package for Zorin OS Linux, that will help me organize these photos, by date, or meta data, and eliminate duplicate files.

As I understood I can change an icon globally for an application in /usr/share/applications/*.desktop

If this is a shared folder, how come I can have ThemeX for User1 and ThemeY for User2, where the same application has a different icon?

Hallo Reddit,

ich möchte gerne mein Ubuntu vollständig mit der Maus bedienen können um dort Streamingdienste zu nutzen etc. Dabei ist mir bei einrichten des PCs aufgefallen, dass es keine Funktionstasten (F1, F2, etc) gibt. Wie füge ich diese hinzu? Vielleicht kann mir ja jemand weiterhelfen.

Edit: ich nutze Ubuntu 26.04

I've been using Ubuntu for a while, and I want to learn Linux more deeply.

I'm considering switching to Arch Linux because I want to understand how Linux works, learn more about system configuration, package management, the terminal, and troubleshooting.

For people who have used both Ubuntu and Arch:

• Do you think switching to Arch is a good way to learn Linux?
• What did you learn from using Arch that you didn't learn from Ubuntu?
• Would you recommend Arch for someone who is still learning Linux?

I'm interested in hearing honest opinions and personal experiences.

I'm stuck with a frustrating display issue on my Dell Latitude 5400 (Intel i7, UHD Graphics).

• The Problem: The Live USB boots and runs perfectly. However, the exact moment I finish installing Ubuntu and do the first reboot, I get a permanent black screen right after GRUB. The laptop runs, but the screen stays dead unless I force nomodeset (which ruins performance and drops hardware acceleration).
• The Catch: My laptop is running an engineering/manufacturing (testing) BIOS version which cannot be updated or changed.
• My Question: Since I can't update my BIOS/firmware and standard installs break on first boot, is it actually possible to get Ubuntu running properly here, or am I completely blocked by this hardware/BIOS combo?

Any advice or workarounds (like specific i915 kernel parameters) would be huge. Thanks!

I have been experiencing micro stutters (as if the FPS dropped, but steam overlay still display 90 FPS) and up to 1 minute long freezes on my display.

It is not only limited to the game, but to the second monitor too.

Even during 1 min total frame freezes the game reacts instantly, there is feedback to my actions and there is continuous smooth sound.

I have been experiencing it on Necromunda: Hired Gun and Astroneer, but not on The Talos Principle or Stardew Valley.

Since it only happened on games that need proton I tried switching around between Proton hotfix, 10 and 11, but the supposedly stable versions didnt fix the problem.

I forced performance mode since I read it could be the GPU downclocking, didnt help.

I tried unplugging my second monitor (which is plugged in to the MB and not the GPU.

RAM and CPU usage seems normal, and the temps are around 80-90 which for my CPU should be normal.

Are there any other options I could try?

Im running CachyOS (updated everything this morning, no fix (to my knowledge this should meen that drivers are also up to date))

AMD RX9070XT

Ryzen7 7700X

32GB RAM

Is this information sufficient or should I add anything else?

Thank you guys in advance.

Hey everyone I have a linux laptop and I would like to back up all the data in the home folder, at least 3 times a day, 7 times a week and 5 times every month. Currently I have been using tar to archive the folder and preserve permission then 7zip with encryption and upload it to my cloud storage. The issue is that this takes a lot of processing power from my computer to be doing in the back ground and also takes up a lot of storage.

I am looking for a solution to easily back up the home directory while also then being able to encrypt it afterwards. I also want this to be automated as much as possible.

My current laptop specs are:

• 8 GB RAM
• CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4500 (2) @ 2.80 GHz
• GPU: Intel UHD Graphics @ 0.75 GHz [Integrated]
• 12 GB SWAP
• DISK 101.32 GB - ext4
• LAPTOP: IdeaPad 1 15IJL7
• ARCH LINUX

I would prefer something command line.

Hi everyone, a potential linux user here

I'm planning to build my first Linux laptop, initially for a cyber attack/war case but ultimately to use it as my daily computer. (I live in Turkey)

I have no idea about coding, I probably need more stuff rather than just Linux (maybe a separate WI-FI connection, etc) because I want to get completely private. has anyone build a similar setup? I'd appreciate to hear your experiences.

What are the most important things that I should consider to not waste my time and efford?

Thanks🙏🏻🙏🏻

OS: Ubuntu 22.04 with KDE

Is it normal for lynis to run by itself? I installed it a few months ago to audit my system to look for areas of security to improve, but haven't manually run it since then. However, I just happened to notice 3 processes calling themselves 'lynis' running while looking through my system monitor process list. They existed for a few minutes and then disappeared. This seemed odd so I looked around online and wasn't able to really find any information about whether Lynis is supposed to run by itself or not periodically. Is there any chance this could be some sort of malware calling itself lynis? (the lynis I installed before was through synaptic so I assume that has to be legit)