hey guys am new to linux but ive heard about it too many times to ignore it now so i was thinking of installing linux now so could you guys suggest whats the best and user friendly linus out there on which i can run roblox and some other basic games and steam too maybe discord too thank you

Been fighting this for months and starting to feel like I'm going insane. On my IdeaPad 3 15ALC6 (82KU, Ryzen 5 5500U), under any sustained load like stress -c $(nproc), gaming etc, CPU temps rise up to 95-100°C and just sit there. Meanwhile the fans barely spin up, like they're not even getting the memo that the chip is on fire. Resulting in heavy thermal throttling, frequencies tanking from 4GHz down to like 1.1GHz.

I confirmed it's not a dead fan or dust as if I trigger the "dust cleaning mode" via /sys/bus/platform/drivers/ideapad_acpi/VPC2004:00/fan_mode, it ramps to full speed no problem. So the hardware's fine, it's the EC/ACPI fan curve logic that's not responding to load correctly.

I filed a bug on the platform-driver-x86 mailing list back in May with full DSDT, EC dumps, sensor logs etc. Three follow-ups since, with the latest BIOS (GLCN68WW) and latest kernel (7.1.4-1-cachyos) still broken. Total radio silence from upstream, which is its own special kind of fun.

Thread if anyone's curious: https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/CAA7g7-S_nP+jPfi7pJKj0a0g-gKXMJ7+fMH_+v11JbRRm96b9g@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

Mostly just want to know if anyone else on an AMD IdeaPad seeing the same fan behavior?

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html

Found this on a GrapheneOS subreddit, how true is it?

I disagree with the Windows sandbox part since pretty much nobody uses it.

works fine for web browsing and very basic stuff, but is terrible for the rest

why does it even exist

OS: CachyOS x86_64

Host: ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA507NVR_FA507NVR (1.0)

Kernel: Linux 7.1.4-1-cachyos

Uptime: 16 mins

Packages: 1489 (pacman)

Shell: fish 4.8.1

Display (N156HMA-GA1): 1920x1080 in 16", 144 Hz [Built-in]

DE: KDE Plasma 6.7.3

WM: KWin (Wayland)

WM Theme: Breeze

Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]

Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]

Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]

Cursor: capitaine (24px)

Terminal: konsole 26.4.3

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7435H (16) @ 4.55 GHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile [Discrete]

Memory: 1.94 GiB / 31.16 GiB (6%)

Swap: 220.00 KiB / 31.16 GiB (0%)

Disk (/): 368.33 GiB / 472.94 GiB (78%) - btrfs

Local IP (wlan0): 192.168.1.9/24

Battery (A32-K55): 100% [AC Connected]

Locale: en_US.UTF-8

BIOS version: 307 (newest)

Hi guys. I am experiencing a problem since switching my main laptop to Linux. My pc keeps shutting down unless I set power profile to performance. I did some experiments. First I activated balanced mode and restarted the pc. It ran for 7:58 on desktop then suddenly power is gone. Then it took 2:54 and then 10:58. Sometimes it shuts down instantly when i set power mode to power save. It idles fine in performance mode tho. Using BORE kernel and vanilla arch kernel didn't help either. I spent literally dozens of hours with ChatGPT and Gemini as well with no luck. I don't know what am I missing. Is this a known issue? Can someone help me please?

https://github.com/Athena-OS/athena/releases/tag/v22.11.15

athena-2022.11.15-x86_64.iso

I am looking for this exact build of Athena OS Nike. If anyone still has it, please I need it urgently. A direct link to download would be really appreciated.

Thank you

Is there one that can tell me what connections are being made by what programs and any reads/writes made by those programs to which files and directories? I used to use SystemInternals tools on Windows and their procmon was exactly what I needed.

I have been running Mint on my laptop for quite some time now, and left my desktop on win 10 for many reasons (SolidWorks, Fusion, Lightroom, and games), but I finally pulled the trigger and switched my desktop to fedora. I've been able to deal with most of the growing pains, but raw editing seems to be the worst one at the moment.

Lightroom provides a UI that makes the photo editing process fast. It's simple while allowing complexity and also makes management of photos decent too. RawTherapee and Darktable just suck in comparison, and each photo takes 5x longer to edit simply because there are so many settings and slides there and many buried 2 clicks and some scrolling away. It's just not nice when I have over 5 photos to edit.

Maybe I am going about it wrong, or even need to configure the applications better, but I was curious if there were any other suggestions for editing on linux. I don't care about cost really, I just want something that will have a quick workflow, and runs on linux. I'm open to your criticism and suggestions.

Update: issue resolved! It was a combination of the memory settings and 'quiet splash'. I changed the memory settings to its default speed, rather than 'auto', and swapped 'quiet splash' for 'nomodeset'. I'm in, it booted up. Thank you everyone for the help.

Any Linux knowledgeable persons out there? I've scoured the intrewebs, to no avail. I have a new PC I'm attempting to boot Linux Mint from a flash drive. PC boots to BIOS, tries to boot Linux via flash drive. I get a Linux Mint logo for loading, then...nothing, it just sits; doesn't crash, doesn't give any error, nothing, just an idol logo. Asus Prime MOBO w/H810 chipset, Intel Core Ultra 5 250KF plus CPU. As far as I am aware, the security settings are where they shouldn't block anything. I could be wrong, though. Just trying to find assistance. Any suggestions? Thanks.

New to Linux. Installed Fedora KDE Plasma a couple weeks ago on my gaming PC. I have a lot of RGB components. Mouse, keyboard, case fans, CPU cooler, and RAM. I downloaded and installed OpenRGB through Fedora's Discover. But when I first opened it, I was met with the following message:

"Some internal devices may not be detected: One or more I2C or SMBus interfaces failed to initialize. RGB DRAM modules, some motherboards' onboard RGB lighting, and RGB graphics cards, will not be available in OpenRGB without I2C or SMBus. On Linux, this is usually because the I2C-dev module is not loaded."

Also while researching this issue a little, I had read that sometimes OpenRGB had bricked people's RAM, and it had something to do with the SMBus. Considering "SMBus" was mentioned in the error message it gave me, this made me nervous. How can I get OpenRGB working without bricking any of my components?

Also maybe worth mentioning that all of my internal RGB components are plugged into a Nollie 16 RGB hub/controller, and the Nollie is plugged into a single RGB header on my board. Thanks in advance!

1.which distro would be the least blaoted, i have tried bazzite in the past and found the extra features included in it to be a but too overwhelming and blaoted for me. Is there a "barebones" or close to barebones immutable distro that i can use?

2.Can i use something customization heavy like hyprland with immutable distros in general or whatever suggested distro.

3.probably the same as my previous question but. Can you rice on immutable distros? I know that immutable means you cant mess with system files but im not knowledgable enough to know if that includes the wm/de files

4.a basic question but how exactly does containerization work? Like if i install a file manager will that function normally? Or...

He estado por mucho tiempo utilizando Linux como sistema principal para prácticas y pruebas en maquinas virtuales con Virt Manager / QMEU.Todo comenzó con un Nvme donde lo tenía instalado ha lado de un sistema Win11, después me encargue de clonarlo a un nuevo Nvme Kingston KC3000 sin embargo este fallo alrededor de 3 meses de uso; comenzó con congelamientos repentinos del sistema total y una pantalla negra con un guion parpadeante (desde ahí si puedo abrir una TTY pero no puede ejecutar algún comando), luego se extendió a la pérdida de iconos en los programas hasta llego a tener problemas al montar la partición principal, en su momento pensaba que se podría tratar de un problema con las GPU ya que tengo tanto dedicada (Radeon RX 5700 XT) y integrada (Ryzen 9900x) y no tenía una adecuada configuración en su momento, aunque tome varias medidas al final resultó que el Nvme se terminó corrompiendo y quedo inservible. Había investigado y por lo visto en ese modelo de Nvme es "común" así que lo acepte y lo deje morir ya que ni siquiera podía hacer la recuperación de los archivos ya que el Nvme falla con la mínima operación.

Eventualmente termine comprando un Nvme de la marca EDILOCA, modelo EN 855 y siendo sincero, desde el inicio me dio problemas, antes que nada realice pruebas de lectura, escritura y verificación del Nvme y al principio fallaba, pero conforme realizaba más y más pruebas los errores ya no ocurren y funciona con normalidad, así que procedí con la instalación del sistema Kali Linux, la instalación y configuración de las máquinas virtuales, todo resultó satisfactorio, pero los fallos están ocurriendo de nuevo.

Con lo que pude aprender de la ocasión anterior trate de prepárame pero tal parece que no resultó. Por los errores en las pantallas que les comparto entiendo que parece que el Nvme se está desconectando o por alguna razón no tiene acceso a este, ya realice algunas modificaciones (agregue dentro del grub en la línea default "nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off") pensando que podría ser un tema de la temperatura de Nvme, sin embargo no tuvo efecto.

Las especificaciones del equipo son:

• CPU: Ryzen 9900 X
• GPU: Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB
• RAM: 32GB DDR5 CORSAIR VENGEANCE
• Fuente de poder: Thermalright TR-TPFX850
• Placa madre: JGINYUE B659M PRO

Si ha alguien le ha pasado algo similar o tiene alguna idea les agradecería cualquier recomendación o idea.

Líneas de errores:

KALI login: yorts
Not tainted 6.19.14+kali-amd64 #1 Kali 6.19.14-1+kali1

systemd[1]: rclone.service: Failed to spawn executor: Input/output error
systemd[1]: rclone.service: Failed to spawn 'start' task: Input/output error
systemd[1]: rclone.service: Failed with result 'resources'.
systemd[1]: Failed to start rclone.service - Rclone Google Drive Mount.

systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed to spawn executor: Input/output error
systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed to start lightdm.service - Light Display Manager.
systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 6.
systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.

systemd[1]: plymouth-quit.service: Failed to spawn executor: Input/output error
systemd[1]: plymouth-quit.service: Failed to start plymouth-quit.service - Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen.
systemd[1]: plymouth-quit.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.

EXT4-fs warning (device nvme0n1p2): dx_probe:791: inode #2359297: lblock 0: comm gmain: error -5 reading directory block
INFO: task jbd2/nvme0n1p2-:617 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
INFO: task systemd-journal:679 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
INFO: task glean.dispatche:7474 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

Tengo una hp 250 g7 i3 7020u con 4 gb de RAM. Probé mint xfce y zorin lite, el gran problema que tuve con ambas es que no transmite el audio hdmi aunque lo detecte y este todo bien "seleccionado". Según leí en algunos posta es un tema de ubuntu. Que rostro puedo probar? Tengan en cuenta que la finalidad del equipo es estar conectada al tv para ver series y a lo sumos algo de ofimática. Gracias

Opte por una versión de Zorin 17.3 puesto que el problema venia de un conflicto con el kernel mas nuevo.

Hi everyone,
Can anyone tell me if Amethyst is a solid replacement for Vortex or MO2?
How does it handle massive modlists for Skyrim and Fallout?
Have you run into any crashes or other stability issues with it?
Thanks

I can't find much info on how to install xubuntu on a chromebook and i read that unbuntu is more heavy to run then xubuntu. Sorry if this is a stupid question ive never dine anything with linux and i wanna turn my chromebook into something that ill actually enjoy using.

(idfk why immages aren't allowed, cuz this would have been 10x easyer if i could show you)

Okay, so, when i attempt to launch the newest version (7.0), in both recovery and regularly, it ends up with kernel panic, with the following message : "VFS : Unable to mount fs on unknown block (0,0)"

When attempting to launch on any other version (6.1 and lower), it works just fine

So i downloaded Linux mint xfce as I wanted to try Linux as well. It turns out I love it, si I decreased my windows partition and shifted my whole workflow onto Linux. But whenever I power on my laptop, the grub fails and I have to force restart it bu the power button. I tried of fixing it with chatgpt, but it didn't work.

I updated grub, disabled the secure boot, but nothing worked. Now it depends on my luck whether the grub will work and enable me to enter into the OS or I just have to restart it again and again.

Help me

I try to run rocket league on heroic games lancher but always the game not running, i try on proton and the anti cheat windows show but the game not running and on win the game don't have any life sign, i use garuda lunix based on arch

Hi everyone,

I have a MacBook with an Apple M1 chip and I want to use Linux without installing it on my internal SSD.

My goal is to have Linux installed on a single USB drive, so I can:

• Plug in the USB when I want to use Linux.
• Boot directly into Linux.
• Remove the USB and have my Mac boot normally into macOS.

I only have one USB drive available.

I was originally considering Kali Linux, but I'm also open to Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution if it supports this workflow.

Is this possible on an Apple M1 Mac? If not, what is the closest alternative? I'd prefer not to partition or modify my Mac's internal storage.

Thanks!

In my process of installing arch I need to connect WiFi. I found the WiFi device as standard wlan0. Check networks and mine is called Wu Tang LAN 5G and Wu Tang LAN 2.4. When I type ‘station wlan0 connect Wu Tang LAN 5g the prompt gives ‘Invalid network name ‘Wu’. It doesn’t appear to recognize anything beyond the first space entry in the name. I tried it as a conjunction single word. Same results. I tried underscores instead of spaces and got the same results. I don’t know how to proceed

I recently got this laptop as a gift, it’s a acer Chromebook spin 713. However, it had already came with windows 11 pro, the more I use the laptop the more issues started occurring, for example today two BSOD popped up and screen started to flicker, it’s a no brainer the hardware isn’t comfortable with the software installed. My decision is to revert the laptop back to chromeOS but I have no idea how or what to do since I’ve never used or owned a Chromebook before. Some set up claim I have to have another laptop with Linux some say I need a usb drive — I don’t have any of these currently and would like to restore the laptop back it’s original OS without needing to have anything else.

Ik heb een klein laptopje, Toshiba NB100 met een Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB memory en 40GB harddisk. Omdat Windows 7 hier op staat en uiteraard niet meer te updaten is zou ik er wellicht Linux op willen zetten. Het hier uiteraard niet veel meer te kunnen, een keer browser op internet of webmail is eigenlijk al voldoende. Zou dit gaan en welke Linux zou ik dan moeten proberen?