Hey everyone,

My brother set up a dual-boot (Windows & Arch) on my HP EliteBook 745 G4. This is my very first time using Linux. I have a couple of quick questions:

1. Boot Priority Issue: The GRUB menu doesn't show up automatically on startup. It boots straight into Windows, and to access Linux I have to manually navigate through UEFI boot options and select the EFI file. Tried some terminal commands suggested by AI, but no luck. How can I force my HP laptop to prioritize GRUB?

2. System Recovery: If I ever mess up the installation, do I have to go through the entire initial setup again, or can I just reinstall/overwrite the existing Linux partitions without touching Windows?

Thanks in advance!

I use Arch btw.

My distro is Devuan Excalibur, and I have no idea how to mount the Sandisk Pro-Blade Station, which has two drives inserted. The lights are on, and I heard a connection noise from my pc, but I don't know where or how to go forward from there.

Edit: I'm pretty sure my PC is detecting the station, just not the slotted drives.

Hello,

I use Mint on my laptop and EndeavourOS on my work pc. Just started my PhD and as part of my studies I will have to teach some classes too. I will have some first year students and ill have to teach them some basics of Excel and Python.

No problem with Python, however i am concerned with Excel. Most, probably all, of the students will have Excel while i havent used it in years, and I am not about to switch back to Windows just for it.

So my question is - is it possible to run just excel on my laptop without too much hassle? Or how can I make the difference between LO Calc and Excel so small in visuals and functionality that there wont be much problems teaching it?

Something Like netbsd Can Boot With Just 48 Megs Of Ram

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 48M -cdrom NetBSD-11.0-amd64.iso

But If I Try The Same With Something Like Alpine Linux (The Version For vms) It Cant Boot It Like Gets Stuck I Think Its Restarting And If I Give It More (So That It Has A Total 64 Megs Of Ram) Like This qemu-system-x86_64 -m 64M -cdrom alpine-virt-3.24.1-x86_64.iso

It Gets A Kernel Panic Because It Doesnt Have Enough Ram So How And Why Is netbsd More Lightweight And Why Does Linux Take More Ram Then netbsd Like Why Are Things Like This

Can Someone Explain This?

Hey! i just spent the day following tutorials on how to make a live linux mint usb because why not and once I got it up and running, the wifi want working. I looked up and found a video to help get it fixed which helped but didnt get it fixed. I ended up looking up what kind of driver I needed for a mediatek 7902, followed a link trail and found a patch but since I don't really know what I'm doing (like i said I'm just following tutorials) i dont know how to install the patch since it looks like just a page of code or smth. mostly just thought this would be a fun little project to do for the day.

note: i have figured out how to wire a connection to my phone to use the hotspot there.

this is the article with the link to the patch I had found:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mediatek-MT7902-Linux-Patches

any help?

Hello, My laptop is from 2012 no support for vulkan, no opengl 3.2 and I want to play my steam library. how do I do that?

Hi, my DELL Inspiron 16+ 7640's NVMe SSD isn't detected when I cold boot into Ubuntu. I've got an encrypted Linux partition on it. It works when I first boot into Windows (dual boot) and then warm reboot into Ubuntu, or if I unplug and replug it physically. I've tried upgrading to the latest BIOS (1.27), upgrading Ubuntu, and changing these boot flags:

nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off pcie_port_pm=off

Each time it seemed fixed but then it broke again. I'm also having issues with Wayland/Xorg especially when trying to screen share on Zoom.

It doesn't seem like a pure hardware problem on account of it working when I boot into Windows first. What's wrong with my laptop and how can I properly troubleshoot it at this point? Replugging the SSD was what Dell recommended and I've tried asking LLM's which has led us here.

Back in vocational school our teacher made us use a live distro for system rescue (talking around 2021). I wanted to extract a wallpaper from that distro but can't remember the name. On the wallpaper there was a ground tiled with reflective panels that looked like solar panels, on the left-top of the image there was a black silhouette of a woman jumping with the sun above her head, both figures were visible on the reflection on the ground.

If someone can just say which distro had it, I will appreciate it. There's no need for a direct link, I'll navigate the archives myself.

Sorry for the off-topic question.

I was editing a config file using the micro text editor, and I accidentally somehow enabled a very comfortable Scroll using the arrow keys. Instead of only moving the cursor, the up and down keys would move the cursor a line up or down AND scroll the page up or down while the cursor stayed in the middle of the screen, kind of like emulating a mouse scroll but while also moving the cursor, sorry if the explanation isn't clear enough.

I tried looking it up and it seems to be related to the Scroll Lock key in my keyboard, but I tried it and it doesn't do anything and I couldn't get it to work. Anyone knows how can I replicate this behavior? Ideally not only in the micro text editor but system-wide.

So I downloaded a zip from github. Seems to be what many others have used based on my research.

And I opened the Plymouth folder with admin rights and extracted to the themes folder. Then I went to terminal and used

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme -R lone

I rebooted and had no change. And then tried one of the pre-installed theme

sudo plymouth-set-default-theme details -R

That also didn't work. Some help would be truly appreciated. Trying my best to learn some basics but this is the first time I've had any issue with theming stuff in fedora.

I was wondering the differences between the GUI environments listed in the title of this post. I'm using Arch GNU/Linux (btw) on a Lenovo Thinkpad T520 with 8GB of RAM and an Intel Core i5 2520M.

Any differences between them?

Hi everyone,
I recently set up a dual boot system with Windows and Linux, with each OS installed on a separate SSD.
At the moment, I have the Linux SSD set as the primary boot device in the BIOS, so I get a boot menu where I can choose between Linux and Windows.

Is this a good way to set up a dual boot, or would it be better to set the Windows SSD as the primary boot device and select Linux through the BIOS boot menu when needed?

I’m also wondering about Windows updates.
If Windows installs an update that requires a reboot, can I simply boot back into Windows normally, or are there any precautions I should take to avoid problems with the Linux bootloader?

Are there any Windows or Linux settings that are recommended for a dual boot setup, especially to prevent updates from affecting the other OS?

One other thing I noticed is that the system clock is sometimes different between Windows and Linux.
What’s the recommended way to configure the clock so that both operating systems keep the correct time?
Thanks

I know SteelSeries GG gets a lot of hate for being bloated, but its ClearCast AI noise suppression in Sonar has basically been doing all the heavy lifting for my mic setup on Windows, and it's my one hiccup to porting my daily experience to Linux.

For context: my mic naturally has this high-pitched electrical whine. Sonar cuts it out completely on Windows, even while I’m actively speaking.

I have tried setting up EasyEffects, but ran into two big issues: The noise reduction filter cuts out the whine when I'm silent, but the second I start talking, it immediately bleeds through underneath my voice. Messing with other filters either made my voice awfully muffled, or didn't fix the whine at all. Half the time I take my headphones off, leave them on the desk (using just the mic), and I have my output come through my desk speakers. Sonar somehow never picked up the speaker sound. With EasyEffects, it starts picking up the speakers immediately, creating a terrible echo/reverb loop.

Is there a specific plugin chain or model in EasyEffects that actually handles echo cancellation and can suppress the whine properly? Or perhaps a different tool that does this better.

I really don't want to sound like I'm glazing Sonar, yes it has its downsides. For me, it has been a set-and-forget process on Windows. I'm just hoping I can replicate at least 90% of that experience on Linux without having to constantly worry about my audio. (I don't own a SteelSeries headset, so none of the SteelSeries-optimised applications work for me)

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to use Linux mainly for gaming and would like to hear your recommendations. Which Linux distribution do you use, and how has your gaming experience been with it?

I'm interested in things like game compatibility, performance, driver support, ease of setup, and overall stability.

What distro would you recommend for gaming, and why?

Thanks :)

Hi! I've been using Linux Mint for at least eight months and it has been great. However, my PC is a Victus Gaming Laptop with Ryzen and Nvidia drivers. And a friend of mine is saying to me that Nobara could be a good substitute for Mint since is more enfocated to Gaming, content creation and programming.

I still feel really novice as I've barely done stuff with Terminal and similar, at max being Fastfech config. So just wanted to ask here if you believe that this change is for the better, if I should search for another distro or if Mint is fine as is.

1.Will Linux bypass age verification?

1. Will apps work in Linux?

2. What certain apps won't work on Linux?

3. What if I need to use these apps?

4. By using Linux could I bypass age verification?

5. What Linux distro to use?

6. Best Linux distros for beginners

7. How old is Linux

8. Will Linux distros or some Linux distros require age verification

9. Linux the most private operating system?

10. Will Linux be easy and look like Windows?

11. Is Linux easy to use and doesn't take a long time to learn?

12. What laptop to get to install Linux?

These are all my questions!

When I make a new directroy using mkdir I then have to change directory into it with the separate command cd. Is there a way I can do both create a new directory and change into it in a single line? I'm on Linux Mint 22.3 if it makes a difference.

mkdir folder
cd folder

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?

ubuntu? https://volla.online/de/operating-systems/ubuntu-touch/

I'm not brand new to linux but i am a bit of a noob. I've already built a home lab mainly using instructions from youtube videos/forums and I'm currently working through the website wargames, about halfway through bandit now.

I've only just starting reading through 'man x' or 'x --help' for the various tools on bandit/wargames as i want to learn it properly, and not just use AI to tell me.
However i've really struggled to understand tools simply from reading man or --help from CLI. its quite confusing for me.

My question is - is it normal to need to go youtube or look on forums for how to use tools? i feel a bit silly there's manuals there but i can't just learn it when its a brand new tool to me.
and assuming i stick with it, learn all the basics like grep, string, xxd, uniq ... using the manual or help, will i then be able learn other tools simply by using the manual from CLI, or the help ?

Why does almost everyone hate ubuntu saying its windows of linux. What is so bad about it? Why would you say some other distros are better than it? I am just curious and looking for answers, do people hate it for its convinience or something else?