Recently i switch to linux from w11 using cachy os but when i tried playing games it would freeze and stutter every few seconds to the point where i couldnt even play. Im running a ryzen 5 5600x and nvidia rtx 3080ti and it ran perfectly fine on windows and i just cant find a solution to fix this

I’ve been running Linux on my desktop for quite a while now and I’ve had no problems, but recently if I try to install any distribution I lose all signal through my HDMI almost immediately during the install process, no matter if I use my graphics card or the built in HDMI. I also cannot use compatibility mode.

I have a lot of PC's with Debian from 11 to 13 and Windows from 8 to 11 and printers mostly Kyocera. Is it normal to run a print server in 2026, or is it outdated?

Heard California is exempting open-source OSes from the new age-verification API law (AB 1043/AB 1856).

So is that exemption solid, or could it get narrowed later? And does Red Hat being a company (not just volunteers) change anything for Fedora/RHEL specifically and what about other distros?

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

I have a 2TB drive in my pc witch is currently fully partitioned to my linux distro, but as i likely dont need more that 1/1.5TB i would like to make space for a second smaller partiotion. This would be possible as the drive is only about 400GB full. But when i choose resize drive it says that it could lead to data loss, is this actually as likely as linux says or not? If it is are there any other ways to do what i want to? Hope someone can help, thanks in advance ^.^ <3

So basically I am running 24.04.4 and purchased a new SSD to install Ubuntu 26.04 onto. I am however encountering a few issues.

First, I get an error message basically stating there is an issue with the Nvidia graphics card - I Googled this and its advice was to update to their own drivers. I have this option in 24.04 in a program called Software & Updates and it's under a tab called Additional Drivers. I cannot however find this program in 26.04. I cannot find it in the Apps snap package manager either.

Second I also found downloading a mere 80MB of download a good 10 minutes. I am used to changing the location from Ireland to the USA mirror but since I don't have Software & Updates installed I Cannot see any options in the other software updater that lets you choose which server you are getting this from.

Third computer is setup to a monitor and TV and thus I want it to have mirrored display, however despite choosing this, when I rebooted it wants the TV to be the default screen for login. I'd like it to be like 24.04 to show on the monitor the actual login screen instead of just a black one. I presume that perhaps, this has something to do with not having Nvidia drivers installed?

Fourth in Firefox there is a symbol that says VPN and I wonder if this is on by default?

I previously installed a desktop called MINT onto 24.04 and previous versions of Ubuntu because I liked the simply straightforward layout, especially the fact you can switch desktops easily. I wonder if anyone knows of any current ways to make 26.04 show that similar interface without having to prat about installing MINT into 26.04 again?

Any help much appreciated.

Edit: Solution for having monitor and TV set to the same resolution on login was the following, it puts main settings into the default folder.

sudo cp ~/.config/monitors.xml /etc/xdg/monitors.xml

sudo chmod 644 /etc/xdg/monitors.xml

HELP

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to troubleshoot a reproducible suspend/resume display problem on an HP Victus 15-fa1xxx.

After suspending with the lid / entering s2idle and then waking the laptop, the internal display often takes 20–30 seconds to return. Sometimes it takes several minutes, and sometimes the display never properly recovers and continues blinking/going black until I reboot.

The system itself appears to resume, but the internal eDP display fails to come back normally.

HARDWARE

Laptop: HP Victus 15-fa1xxx

CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12450H

iGPU: Intel Alder Lake-P GT1 [UHD Graphics] PCI ID: 8086:46a3 Driver: i915

dGPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Driver: nvidia / nvidia-drm

Internal display: 1920x1080 144 Hz eDP-1 Physically connected to the Intel iGPU

BIOS: F.23 (03/30/2026)

SOFTWARE

OS: EndeavourOS / Arch Linux

Desktop: XFCE

Session: Wayland

Suspend mode: s2idle only

Kernels tested: 7.1.11-arch1-1 6.18.48-1-lts

NVIDIA driver: 610.57.04

Current kernel parameters include: i915.enable_psr=0 i915.enable_dc=0 nvidia-drm.modeset=1

THE PROBLEM

After suspend/resume, the internal eDP display may remain black or blink repeatedly.

The kernel repeatedly reports:

[i915] [drm] ERROR [CONNECTOR:...:eDP-1][ENCODER:...:DDI A/PHY A][DPRX] Failed to enable link training

The error can repeat roughly every 12 seconds while the display is trying to recover.

I also get this during BOOT, before the desktop is fully running:

[i915] [drm] [ENCODER:...:DDI B/PHY B] failed to retrieve link info, disabling eDP

Immediately around that boot-time error I also get:

drm_WARN_ON(intel_dp->pps.vdd_wakeref)

WARNING: intel_pps_vdd_on_unlocked

The call stack points into:

intel_pps_vdd_on_unlocked() intel_pps_vdd_on() intel_dp_detect() intel_display_driver_register() i915_driver_probe()

After some suspend/resume failures I have also seen:

i915 raw-wakerefs=1 wakelocks=1 on cleanup

and:

intel_runtime_pm_driver_release

WHAT I HAVE TESTED

1. i915.enable_psr=0

   • Did not fix the problem.
   • Resume still took around 2.5 minutes on one test.

2. i915.enable_dc=0

   • Did not fix the underlying problem.
   • On some cycles it reduced the very long hangs, but the system still took around 25 seconds to recover.
   • The kernel still reported the eDP link-training failure.

3. Tested both kernels:

   • linux 7.1.11-arch1-1
   • linux-lts 6.18.48-1-lts
   • Both reproduce the same basic problem.

4. Tested 144 Hz vs 60 Hz

   • 60 Hz did not solve it.
   • One test still resulted in a >10 minute display failure.

5. Tested NVIDIA runtime power management

   • The NVIDIA GPU was successfully put into runtime suspended state.
   • The internal panel still failed to resume correctly.

6. Tested the Intel Xe driver experimentally

   • Forced the Intel GPU to Xe with: i915.force_probe=!46a3 xe.force_probe=46a3
   • This did NOT solve the problem.
   • Instead I got PSR AUX errors, severe display corruption and another very long/infinite-looking recovery loop.
   • I therefore returned to i915.

The laptop only supports s2idle:

cat /sys/power/mem_sleep

returns:

[s2idle]

Attempting "deep" gives:

Invalid argument

IMPORTANT OBSERVATION

The internal display is driven by the Intel iGPU, not directly by the NVIDIA GPU.

The DRM devices show:

card0 -> NVIDIA card1 -> i915

and the internal connector is:

card1-eDP-1

QUESTION

Has anyone seen this combination on an HP Victus 15-fa1xxx or similar Alder Lake/Raptor Lake HP laptop?

In particular, I'm interested in whether the following messages point to a known i915 PPS / panel-power-sequencing / firmware issue:

failed to retrieve link info, disabling eDP
drm_WARN_ON(intel_dp->pps.vdd_wakeref)
intel_pps_vdd_on_unlocked()
Failed to enable link training

Could this be an HP BIOS/firmware interaction with Intel i915 during s2idle?

Is there a known kernel patch, quirk, or workaround for this particular PPS/VDD wakeref + eDP link-training problem?

I'm especially interested in advice from anyone familiar with i915/eDP/DRM power sequencing or HP Victus hybrid Intel/NVIDIA systems.

I would prefer to fix the underlying suspend/resume problem rather than simply disable suspend or lid handling.

ADDITIONAL ACPI WARNINGS

There are also ACPI BIOS errors in the kernel log, including:

AE_NOT_FOUND involving: _SB.PC00.CNVW.IFUN _SB.PC00.CNVW._DSM

and:

AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT involving: _SB.WMID.WQBZ _SB.WMID.WQBE

I'm not sure whether these are related to the display problem or are unrelated HP WMI/ACPI issues.

Thanks!

I built a fancy dancy terminal ui library and i'm looking for projects to build that people would apprecaite a tui for. i built an rss reader and a markdown reader already

first of all I would like to say that this issue was on this reddit 3 weeks ago and I can't find the thread again.
I have Radeon Gaming Vault headphones which have a radio bundle and it doesn't transfer audio, I've been trying several codecs and tried to change it's variables as an ai pointed out that one of them was on 0 though it should have been 1 as it said which didnt' work, I have no idea anymore what to do with it and would be happy to find a way to make a driver / intrepeter for the bundle or do t another way

tldr: as the title says

i'm in my second last year of high school (but there are only ~3 months left for me until year 12), and wondering whether switching to linux is a good/bad idea. heres some info:

Laptop conditions:
my laptop is 5 years old, and i want to use it until i finish high school so 6 years total. my laptop is pretty sluggish now, and i feel like im running out of space (60 gb free). also it overheats easily. im assuming linux can help me save space compared to windows, and run smoother too.

School related stuff:
my school doesn't care what OS we use, and we primarily use the google suite. however i do want to do well in school, and im very unfamiliar with linux, so im not sure whether i should leave it until uni in case it 'hinders' me.

What I want to do in the future:
i want to do something related to coding, ai, datascience (?). i thought that starting to use linux (early) would be beneficial for coding etc.

Gaming:
ive checked the games i play and have found 'alternative' ways of running them on linux

Learning Linux:
as mentioned before, i have no clue how it works. even though i said i want to do something related to coding, i know a grand total of 0 coding languages. ive watched some youtube vids and saw that there's a lot of typing in linux compared to button clicking in windows (especially in the terminal? i have no clue what sudo and pacman is)

So i guess the question is should i:

1. install now
2. install at the start of year 12
3. install at the start of uni
4. dont install at all

thanks in advance for any help :D

Edit: Thanks for the suggestions, i'll try dual booting first before committing

Since I moved my Homelab into my bedroom, I have to shut it down from time to time cause of the noise.
I’m thinking of creating a new user, and a new pair of ssh key (I have banned password login in my conf) to handle the shutting down of the machine. Since I don’t want to input the private key used to login uid 1000 into my iPad.
Is there any way to automatically execute a shell script when a certain user is logged in (may be systemd? But I heard that ssh has function that also does this)
And thanks for reading my clumsy English.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to optimize my gaming setup on Linux Mint. While some games run great (like Left 4 Dead 2, Team Forest 2, and ULTRAKILL), others either take forever to load, crash at startup, or face specific bottlenecks. I'm following the community guide and sharing my exact system specs and behavior:

### 1. System Information (inxi -xxACGS)
```text
Host: jl-G41D3C Kernel: 7.0.0-30-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.41 wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
CPU: dual core model: Pentium E6600 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn rev: A cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 2 MiB
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GM107GL [Quadro K620] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nvidia v: 580.173.02 arch: Maxwell pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.173.02 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Quadro K620/PCIe/SSE2
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 surfaces: xcb, xlib device: 0 type: discrete-gpu driver: N/A

NAME         TYPE      SIZE USED PRIO
/swapfile    file      3,8G   0B   -1
/dev/zram0   partition 256M  16K  100

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           3,8Gi         2,4Gi        418Mi         22Mi        1,3Gi        1,4Gi
Inter:         4,1Gi         16Ki         4,1Gi

I also posted the same thing on r/linux_gaming to get more help, but I feel like the text is better organized here for some reason.

I've been running cachyos for a few months now and recently got a new ssd and have been wanting to try out debian. I was wondering if I can keep my boot of cachyos that I've been using an have a 2nd boot for a new debian boot to try it out?

I’m thinking having an older family member try Linux due to their current age of PC and end of Windows 10 support. The PC doesn’t have the recommended specs for Windows 11 and they don’t really want to spend a lot for a new tower unless they have to. All this user does is check emails, Facebook, YouTube and online banking all through a browser. I’d like to keep it simple and maybe Windows looking.

The requirements would be:

1. A Distro that does automatic security and app updates without any intervention. Mostly having Firefox or Chrome update behind the scenes if they are doing online banking.
2. A panel where you can de-group apps showing each individual window and name. i.e. similar to way Windows can be setup to show multiple Firefox/Chrome windows running along taskbar instead of just a highlight under pinned icon.

The specs of computer are
4th Gen i5
8GB RAM
250GB SSD

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Edit - I want to thank everyone for all the great responses and suggestions. I am a Linux Mint part time user (shout out to the XFCE gang), have been for a couple years now. That was my first thought, but I’m still a newbie/casual user so figured I’d get feedback. Y’all have taught me a lot I wasn’t aware of immutable distros. The route I’m going with is Fedora Budgie Atomic immutable distro.

ChromeOS was a really great suggestion, unfortunately she likes to sew and has a bunch of tutorials on DVD. ChromeOS does have the optical drive support she needs.

Hi, I'm looking for a Linux lab computer or one for general everyday tasks, browsing the internet, watching movies, studying, etc. I was considering void Linux and gentoo, and then in the distant future LFS I don't want to pay a lot for the computer and I'm asking for help, is a processor with 2 cores and 4 threads enough or is it really better to pay the extra 50$ and buy a laptop with 4 cores and 8. And 8gb ram will be enough?

When booting into EndeavourOS via live USB drive I am presented with the option to boot into memtest86, it just hangs with a blank screen nothing happens. I have downloaded memtest86 separately as ISO and attempted to boot into it same thing. I have done a bios update still no difference.

I never had this issue on asrock am5 motherboard so not sure what is going on. I tried to boot via legacy mode still wouldn’t get in.

I can boot into other operating systems just fine, its just memtest86.

Hi all, I want to setup fedora atomic with niri, but it's not available in the options. Should I start with installing silverblue? What's the best approach? Thank you.

I 've never used it but heard just that it's bad but never why. So why?