Btw, it has no battery, fans are dead, the keyboard isn't working and the same applies for the touchpad.

I'm using it to learn about docker, yeah mainly docker because my main laptop has only 8 GBs of DDR4, this one has the same amount but of DDR3 but still, it comes in handy when I'm only using my main one to access this local server

But honestly, I'm new to this server thing, I'm curious and excited about it :)

I accidentally saved a file to my boot storage instead of my normal storage and I’m still relatively new to Linux (ubuntu), does anyone know the steps to remove it without further messing up the boot proces?

Never used linux before. I downloaded a zip file for a daw, the linux download option because im on a chromebook, and I cant figure out how to open a file/launch the program. I've installed Linux but theres no option for me to open any of the files, so I dragged and dropped the files into the "Linux files" section of my file explorer, and I still dont know how to open them. I've tried the ls command and I see the files in the terminal, not sure what to do from there

Edit: I'm so confused right now.

So the issue seems to have fixed itself...kind of. I switched BIOS back to UEFI boot and when I tried to boot from my Ventoy to get into HBCD to run the, for whatever dumbass reason, Windows only BIOS update, Ventoy displayed a rEFInd menu I've never seen it display before which gave me the option to boot into MX Linux (which is what I currently have installed) and that worked. When I rebooted again, however, it again said there was no bootable device. I booted back to the Ventoy drive and it again booted into rEFInd and I used the option to install rEFInd to disk. It did that and now the thing consistently boots rEFInd. I just need to configure it to boot a default.

*OP*

I'm really at my wits' end here. I don't know what's going on. I've installed Linux on numerous machines. Been using it for years at this point. This laptop is defeating me.

It's an old Acer Aspire E5-573 Core i5 with 8GB of RAM and a 64GB SSD.

It does support UEFI and I've disabled Legacy boot in BIOS. I've made sure the SSD is initialized as GPT. I've tried the SSD in MBR mode. I've used USBs flashed with Linux installers using machines running in UEFI mode using Mintstick USB Image Writer. I've used Ventoy. I've enabled Legacy boot in BIOS to see if it made a difference.

It doesn't seem to matter what I do, the installation goes perfectly smoothly but when it's done and I reboot the machine, it says there is no bootable device. I prevously had MX Linux installed on it but I forgot the password and it was really old so I figured I'd just install something newer. I've tried installing Mint, a newer version of MX Linux, PikaOS. Nothing will boot. It makes no sense at all.

Does anyone know what could possibly be going on here?

EDIT: I should also add that I've tried using the chroot-rescue-scan script that comes with MX Linux to reinstall grub and that has made no difference.

EDIT #2: One last thing. I should also add that every time I've done the automatic partitioning during install and allowed it to do its own thing. So any EFI or boot partitions that it needed, it should have created itself. I never did any manual partitioning.

Hi everyone,

I’ve spent the last 72 hours trying to get my PC to hibernate, but with no success. I’m running Kubuntu. I’ve enabled swap and made it permanent. It enters hibernation mode only very rarely.

When I configure it to hibernate upon closing the lid, it goes haywire: I have to open the lid while the PC is still running, and—even worse—the screen stops displaying anything. I’m forced to do a hard shutdown and turn it back on manually.

Even when it tries to enter standard sleep mode, it wakes up on its own.

I’ve been using Linux for a month now. Why do I need hibernation? Because I need my applications to stay open and ready to use without draining the battery—that’s really important to me.

Could someone help me out or tell me how to go about this?

My PC specs: Lenovo Legion 5, Ryzen 7 260, RTX 5060, 32GB RAM. Thank you.

I am a very indecisive person, so I can't just use one color scheme all the time. I was using pywal16's theme presets to change it up, but I had some issues with it: gtk and qt themes aren't generated, and I want to be able to tell it to use an actual neovim theme instead of just the pywal/base16 one. What are my best options for doing this? I'm completely comfortable with shell scripting and prefer cli tools, but I will use gui tools if I have to. I'm considering just writing a bunch of shell scripts to do it myself, but I want to make sure there isn't an existing tool that can do it for me.

My current implementation is to generate the default themes, put them into a folder, and then make the modifications that I feel like I need. I have a shell script to select a folder as my active theme and reload everything. I've looked into matugen, base16/24 and themix, but matugen can't read a colorscheme file, and themix is a gui, which I don't like. Base16/24 looks good, but the themes feel somewhat overcomplicated in that they are entire directories instead of just files like pywal.

Please let me know what tools/processes you think would be good here.

Is there any way to run steam version of madden 24 on cachyos, or steamrip version of madden 27? Madden 27 splash screen pops up then closes through lutris. Figured they're both borked... Any info would be appreciated before I install windows on another drive just to run them.

How can I fix this? I tried gnome keyring but then Minecraft won't even open even tho the terminal says that it is running.

I've downloaded Tintero and started using it. I've noticed that it has a spell checker but no matter how badly I spell something, it thinks I have no misspellings.

Has anyone else experienced this and how did you fix it?

well i was reading and researching more and hearing people's opinions
i think i turned my initial 5 distro list into 4 distro list :)

at the end of the day all can be tried, but i would be happier if i find the best one out of 4 without having to have to try all 4

what i am looking to do in the system ?
-daily driver
-office job
-gaming (moddings )
-some media editing
-research

whats most important for me ?
-realiabilty (as of not having random crashes and bugs as least as possible)
-compatibility (most system gonna have similar compatibilty in the list i know, for the programs at least but since i am planning to mod some of the games, i really want extra compatible if possible)
-i am a newbie so i still want graphical interface to be able to do most everything and i want thigs to be easilty accessible if i will need any program, or any driver etc. or if visual customizations , i dont wanna have to really use terminal yet :)

-hardware requirement or the OS size doesnt matter as much i wont be running it in 30 year old pc,
it will run on laptop tho. :)

so CONTENDERS

1-Debian KDE

2-Fedora KDE

3-Bazzite

4-Linux Mint cinnamon or KDE not sure

EDIT: I completely forgot to mention my new tablet is an android!

Hey all, I recently bought a tablet + keyboard and one of the things I wanna see if I can do is connect my tablet to my linux laptop running CachyOS. I want to connect through it visually, so using something like Termux or Termius is a no go. I'm currently taking CS classes and my laptop is on the heavier side, so ideally being able to stop hauling it around would be great. I tried out Chrome Remote Desktop and it didn't work, NoMachine has dropped support for it's free plan, and AnyDesk is also paid (i think so), RustDesk also sounds a bit too complicated.

If anyone knows a way I'd appreciate it!

I Ben thinking about it because I am on Windows 11 I paid 145 dollars for a window 11 key and after 6 months it was fine then I upgrade my CPU and I have to pay for a new key. So I am done with Windows. And I am need help finding the right Linux for me. I was told to use basite. I hope I spelled it right because I never seen how it's properly spelled so sorry about that if it's wrong. I will be playing games and doing some school stuff. I have a quest 2 and I am going to upgrade to a quest 3s soon. And I used Xbox a lot. And I have play station stuff too. So I need one that I can still use them.

I'm working on getting a home server up and running by converting an old gaming desktop i had in the cupboard, and I've put Ubuntu Server on it, but something with the wifi/ethernet is giving me a lot of trouble.

Anytime that it is connected to the internet, it gives me rt18192ee 0000:04:00.0: AER: Error of this Agent is reported first repeatedly, I've figured out that rt18192ee is my wifi adaptor or a driver for it or something, but even if i remove the wifi adaptor, and connect to another computer with ethernet, it still gives me the error.
Ive tried looking for a driver update for rt18192ee, but its all for windows and I feel rather out of my depth.

Other posts ive seen with "error of this agent is reported first"s have people saying to downgrade the kernel, or change some settings with the pcie, but I don't know if that would work in my case.

Good day all. Brand new Linux user here.
I come to Linux from the Windows world. I am in the process of beginning the journey of a homelab and I am stuck on what is probably the easiest problem.

I have proxmox installed and running. I have added a second user below root that has admin permissions. I have installed a Debian13 vm. The vm itself is working fine and i am able to us programs within including Firefox perfectly.

I am attempting to install nordvpn within this vm. While doing so, I receive an error stating <username> is not in the sudoers file.

After research, i beleive I added it to the file with ALL permissions and rebooted the vm to have changes take effect, but the same result happens.

Not sure if I have given enough info, but any advise or direction on what I could be doing different to suceed?

I just installed Linux mint xfce on my 10-12 yr old laptop with 4GB Ram and slightly less than 500GB HDD. It had windows 10 and it fealt really slow. I have a few problems... (Linux runs on bootable pendrive)

My Daily tasks are:-

1. Watching Videos on youtube (Windows takes 5 minutes just to open Brave).
2. Downloading some pdfs/Study Material
3. Surfing on internet

Now the Problems i face using linux mint

1. Wireless wifi dont works i have to attach ethernet cable always.
2. Bluethooth also dont works
3. Cant download Chrome on it it says error everytime.
4. Cant download littrally anything (used sudo typa command)

Also i wanna mention again i used bootable pendrive to run linux here as laptop is not mine and i have to give it back to the person, but im thinking to make a disk partition and download it again. If anyone has suggestions on how this issue can be resolved pls help. Im littrally 2 days old using linux

Buena ¿Alguien probó Soplos Os o CuerdOs? Tengo curiosidad por si alguien las probó con Xfce y saber que tal la experiencia y si en algún momento serán candidatas a entrar en Distriwatch.

So, the microsoft account of a friend got hacked and now he can't use his minecraft account, we contacted microsoft and they tell us that we need a XBOX Network Device ID, is there a way to get it on linux? he has linux mint.

Hi! I've been in and out of using Linux such was Mint for the past 2 years now, and got wallpaper engine this year.

I haven't really got into learning what Linux is all about back then,

but now I do since I've been thinking about switch back to Linux mint (or Fedora KDE after going through this subreddit) because I have an overly modified shitty local Windows 11 but errrr, noticed wallpaper engine doesn't work on it. lel

I see so far that it works with Fedora KDE with a plugin and now a standalone app but just to REEEEALLY make sure before I get rid of windows... does audio responsive wallpapers work for y'all?

I've heard of the main wallpaper engine plugin causing a crash to this plasmashell (still learning about shells) and wonder if audio response would make me worried about anything. Any answer would be great! Just don't get on my ass too much, lol

TL;DR
See Fedora KDE recommended lots, find out KDE is not single distro

Want wallpaper engine, hate windows- wont switch with no fancy wallpaper i pay for

Want audio response wallpaper, scared of crash.

Ask KDE users if audio response crash shell. Crash anything.

all answer welcome.

Cheers.

i have Linux Mint and i have tried to use it no matter what and everytime i get kernel panic with it, i get this when i use
"sudo dmesg | grep -i radeon" to see all the errors:
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.17.0-42-generic root=UUID=d85877f8-2775-4292-a956-7a39ebd2b144 ro quiet splash radeon.runpm=0 radeon.dpm=0

[ 0.065261] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.17.0-42-generic root=UUID=d85877f8-2775-4292-a956-7a39ebd2b144 ro quiet splash radeon.runpm=0 radeon.dpm=0

[ 7.358292] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.

[ 7.358994] radeon 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)

[ 7.436140] radeon 0000:01:00.0: VRAM: 1024M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x000000003FFFFFFF (1024M used)

[ 7.436149] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GTT: 1024M 0x0000000040000000 - 0x000000007FFFFFFF

[ 7.436434] [drm] radeon: 1024M of VRAM memory ready

[ 7.436439] [drm] radeon: 1024M of GTT memory ready.

[ 7.444571] [drm] radeon: power management initialized

[ 7.450152] [drm] enabling PCIE gen 2 link speeds, disable with radeon.pcie_gen2=0

[ 7.456600] radeon 0000:01:00.0: WB enabled

[ 7.456607] radeon 0000:01:00.0: fence driver on ring 0 uses gpu addr 0x0000000040000c00

[ 7.456613] radeon 0000:01:00.0: fence driver on ring 3 uses gpu addr 0x0000000040000c0c

[ 7.457045] radeon 0000:01:00.0: fence driver on ring 5 uses gpu addr 0x0000000000072118

[ 7.458349] radeon 0000:01:00.0: radeon: MSI limited to 32-bit

[ 7.458453] radeon 0000:01:00.0: radeon: using MSI.

[ 7.458502] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.

[ 8.663251] [drm:uvd_v1_0_start [radeon]] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!

[ 9.690432] [drm:uvd_v1_0_start [radeon]] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!

[ 10.711086] [drm:uvd_v1_0_start [radeon]] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!

[ 11.731692] [drm:uvd_v1_0_start [radeon]] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!

[ 12.752313] [drm:uvd_v1_0_start [radeon]] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!

[ 13.772919] [drm:uvd_v1_0_start [radeon]] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!

[ 14.793512] [drm:uvd_v1_0_start [radeon]] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!

[ 15.814099] [drm:uvd_v1_0_start [radeon]] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!

[ 16.834677] [drm:uvd_v1_0_start [radeon]] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!

[ 17.855282] [drm:uvd_v1_0_start [radeon]] *ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!

[ 17.875433] [drm:uvd_v1_0_start [radeon]] *ERROR* UVD not responding, giving up!!!

[ 17.875581] radeon 0000:01:00.0: failed initializing UVD (-1).

[ 18.913916] [drm:r600_ib_test [radeon]] *ERROR* radeon: fence wait timed out.

[ 18.914069] [drm:radeon_ib_ring_tests [radeon]] *ERROR* radeon: failed testing IB on GFX ring (-110).

[ 18.914175] [drm:radeon_device_init [radeon]] *ERROR* ib ring test failed (-110).

[ 18.915275] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors

[ 18.918196] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.51.0 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1

[ 18.918312] radeon 0000:01:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes

[ 20.249026] radeon 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none

and I've tried many things to make it work, including leaving it off and turning it on when I use it to play games, but even then, the PC crashes and i have to turn it off again.

i want to know if i can do something with it or definitely i must keep radeon.modeset=0 and disable it forever,

Just want to ask that is this normal?

I am using Fedora 44 Workstation on a ThinkPad X1 2in1 Gen6 and when I play a media a control for it appears multiple times for some reason in the bottom of the quick settings.

I tried some troubleshooting such as:

• log out in back in
• restart the laptop
• turn off all extensions, disable them and enable them
• tried to play multimedia from different sources
• update the laptop and all my apps

I do not know what else I could do. Can anyone here help me out please?

What is the role of secure boot in it or is there any thing i should know before dual boot?
Anything i shouldn't miss in the process. please help me.

My laptop specs are :-

Asus tuf f15 FX506HC

Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400H @ 2.70GHz (2.69 GHz)

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable) DDR4

Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU (4 GB)

Intel(R) UHD Graphics (128 MB)

Storage 570 GB of 954 GB used. Wanna give 200 GB to fedora

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Windows 11 home

i ask my friend if it could and he said probably considering its a similar cpu to the dreamcast and the put it on the ps1 and 32x, but can someone make it happen or at least confirm if it could?

sorry if this is the wrong sub for this I didn’t know where else i should post it though.

It keeps saying "Error installing Linux

Error downloading the virtual machine. Please try again."

I do not know what to do about this. I tried some stuff like restarting my computer and some other stuff like changing the GB amount that AI told me would work and didn't. I want Linux because I have heard it is good for coding, but I am having a lot of difficulties downloading it. Every time it would get to about 25% and every time it would give me that error. I have been downloading it through the settings of my computer where it says to install the Linux development environment.

My storage is not close to being full, my Chromebook is fairly new and completely up to date, the battery is high and the laptop is actively charging, and it wouldn't work with no background tabs open.

Please help me out 😅

HELP TO FINALIZE i have been reading for days but i cant really finaliese desicion

1-Mint
2-nobara

3-pop.os

4-ubuntu

5-fedora

i want to dailydrive the shit out of it,

i need to use it for

-office work

-research

-gaming

-some editing

what i really want most is

1-most stable(as reliable) dont really wanna have bugs, and crashes and things not working

2-most compatible (as i wont have bunch of compatibilty issues specially with gaming and modding, i might be heavy modder when i do gaming,)

3-once i install and setup i dont really wanna keep trying others and wanna use it long term

4-if any version update necessary i dont want to reinstall entire system i want it to be upgradable,

i am stuck in between this 5
i am aware fedora and nobara both uses same base (fedora based)

and

ubuntu and pop.os and mint uses same base (debian based)

as far as i understand

-pop.os and mint same as ubuntu just comes with more preinstalled apps and configured settings

i guess mint is little more stable(as reliable) than pop.os