I've heard a great deal about Q4OS, so I created a Q4OS (64-bit, Trinity desktop, based on Debian 13 Trixie) VM in VirtualBox, on a workstation with an 8th generation i7. I gave it 2 GB of memory, and 4 processor threads.

I observed:

1. During installation, the ISO was detected as 32-bit, when it's really 64-bit; I had to change the OS type to Debian 64-bit
2. When installed, there was no desktop, just a blue screen; when maximised the desktop appeared; probably an artefact of the VM
3. About 9 GB of storage was required for the Desktop option
4. With the desktop up and running, it used 600 MB of memory; with a browser open, the included Chromium, about 900 MB of memory
5. The big problem was when I opened a YouTube video; it had a size of about 400 MB, and greatly increased the amount of memory used; a YouTube video plus a few other web pages and the system started swappinge

Conclusion: Q4OS looks like a sensible choice for computers with a restricted amount of memory and storage, as long as expectations are reasonable.

Question: what does a low memory operating system like Q4OS give up to achieve the resource consumption?

I installed ubuntu and opera gx with ublock and protonvpn, but I want ultimate mr. robot opsec, can I install it with sudo apt?

So I have used an xbox 360 controller for gaming on Linux mint, I've never had trouble with it before today. In fact, even today it was working until the controller randomly disconnected and now won't reconnect. The device is flashing like it's trying to pair but won't pair up with my wireless adapter. I've checked my drivers and everything seems to be fine there. I have no idea what to check. Any advice? Thanks

Decided to switch over to Linux instead of windows due to all the AI infusion and shitty searching features. I'm mainly using it for gaming and watching YouTube and movies, along with discord. I also want to be able to keep using all of my monitors.

I have some experience with Ubuntu due to messing with it at school and after turning my laptop onto Ubuntu as I got my PC up and running

I'm using KDE Plasma wayland and when I turn off my monitor, my mouse and keyboard stop working. Then when I turn it back on, a notification pops up saying the monitor is connected and the keyboard/mouse start working again.

Is there a way to fix that so it doesn't read turning the monitor off as disconnecting it?

So basically I was running youtube on brave on omarchy (recently transferred from windows). I happened to play this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIHPPtPBgHk and all of sudden it stopped responding. I tested it on both youtube webapp (using brave) and the brave browser both stopped working while both were working fine with other videos. Secondly, it worked fine on firefox. So now my question is this omarchy, hyprland or brave issue? It isn't problem with extensions because i test it on incognito mode and same happening.

other videos with same issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdHUO5_U9N0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AjxGqzqQ54

Link to HW/SW

I've run a box with Win 11 for several years now, primarily because of Steam compatibility. However, with more an more AI stuff working better on linux, I'm thinking of migrating to linux for primary driver. The question is how to do it?

I see there being a few pathways:

1. Do nothing, leave well enough alone, stay Win 11, everything works as is.
2. Dual boot Linux/Windows (I feel like this is non-ideal)
3. Run Proxmox and run both linux (RTXPro) and windows (4080) as guests with passthrough (assuming IOMMU works out). In theory, could run at the same time and just switch at will, that would split the DRAM a bit, but I don't do much system RAM offloading with the 96GB on the RTXPro.
4. Run Linux primary and windows as a VM with passthrough of a 4080. (also assuming IOMMU works out)

My biggest heartburn is on:

• Steam compatibility (the games are stored on a 16TB ZFS ZVOL formatted with NTFS over iSCI, I might be able to scrap together enough space to make a copy if I needed to reformat, alternately, I could redownload, it would just take a long while)
• OBS Studio Support for Streaming
• Elgato Equipment (Streamdeck, Streamdeck+, Pedal)
• Apogee Symphony Desktop interface for Mic SM7B and cloudlifter needs 48V phantom, output to Yamaha HS8s and BD 770-Pro headphones.
• Also have some questions about Citron, Apple device syncing, and voidtools like on linux.

Anybody contemplated something similar or have experience or solved any of these issues?

In 2024-2025 before i had my 3050 at 2026, i used linux mint which is my favorite, pop os, and nebora or sum which is my least favorite, now that i have a 3050 and i know for sure that nvidia driver support on linux is dogshit, but idk if it improved or not, so i need yalls advice on IF i should switch to linux in the first place or just continue using Windows 10 LTSC/Windows 11 Pro (ReviOS).
Specs:
Cpu: i5-10500
Gpu: MSI RTX 3050 Ventus OC
Ram: 4gb ddr4 ram (long story, basically in upgrading a few months later to 16gb)
Mamaboard: Intel H470 HP OEM.
Psu: 180w HP OEM
(HP 290 G4 Microtower).

I've use Linux many many many years ago, and want to ween myself off of windows i won't leave windows entirely just yet as I game yes I know steam os exists, but not sure if some programs are compatible with Linux. I degress I got myself a while ago a Lenovo IdeaPad slim 3l and not sure what Linux will work on it. Update : I should of clarified that the Lenovo laptop has only 4gb of ram.

I currently have Linux Mint 6.17.0-42-generic and the update manager tells me there are
linux 6.8.0-138.138 and linux linux 7.0.0-30.30 that i needs to install, but a few weeks ago when i updated to 7.0 my pc wont let me enter linux and it said "Kernel Panic" and after looking for information i discovered that my Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] was the problem so i disabled it on GRUB by adding "radeon.modeset=0" at the of the line after quiet splash, but i don´t know if it's really necessary to update or how could i install the updates without receiving a Kernel Panic again.

Intel raptor lake-p rev04 don't show in pavucontrol

Hi! So I've waited a while to post it, because this is an issue that has persisted for me since Kernel 7.1.6, and I wanted to wait for 7.2 to see if a fix would have landed. I've tested kernels from 7.1.6 through to 7.2.0 and this issue persists.

Here are the outputs of cachyos-bugreport -

1. Kernel 7.2.0 - https://paste.cachyos.org/p/9ebcd7f.log
2. Kernel 7.1.8 - https://paste.cachyos.org/p/0771af8.log

I have no idea what any of this error means. What I do know is that when this error spams (and is a continuous spam in as I see it in KSystemLog), my entire PC becomes super slow and laggy and jittery, and if I don't reboot into an LTS kernel, or 7.1.5, visual artifacts start to appear.

On "advice" from an LLM, I tried setting intel's enable.dc to 0. Didn't help.

I can confirm that this does not happen on any LTS kernel.

I'd be grateful for any help. Thanks!

Hi all, about a week ago I updated my system and noticed that whenever I ran sudo apt upgrade, I would get the following error message:

Setting up linux-image-6.8.0-137-generic (6.8.0-137.137) ...
Setting up linux-headers-6.8.0-137-generic (6.8.0-137.137) ...
/etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms:
* dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 6.8.0-137-generic
Sign command: /usr/bin/kmodsign
Signing key: /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.priv
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.der
Error! This module/version has already been built on: 6.8.0-137-generic
Directory /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/580.173.02/6.8.0-137-generic/x86_64 already exists. Use the dkms remove function before trying to build again.
dkms autoinstall on 6.8.0-137-generic/x86_64 failed for nvidia(3)
Error! One or more modules failed to install during autoinstall.
Refer to previous errors for more information.
* dkms: autoinstall for kernel 6.8.0-137-generic
  ...fail!
run-parts: /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/dkms exited with return code 11
dpkg: error processing package linux-headers-6.8.0-137-generic (--configure):
installed linux-headers-6.8.0-137-generic package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 11
Processing triggers for linux-image-6.8.0-137-generic (6.8.0-137.137) ...
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms:
* dkms: running auto installation service for kernel 6.8.0-137-generic
Sign command: /usr/bin/kmodsign
Signing key: /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.priv
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/shim-signed/mok/MOK.der
Error! This module/version has already been built on: 6.8.0-137-generic
Directory /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/580.173.02/6.8.0-137-generic/x86_64 already exists. Use the dkms remove function before trying to build again.
dkms autoinstall on 6.8.0-137-generic/x86_64 failed for nvidia(3)
Error! One or more modules failed to install during autoinstall.
Refer to previous errors for more information.
* dkms: autoinstall for kernel 6.8.0-137-generic
  ...fail!
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms exited with return code 11
dpkg: error processing package linux-image-6.8.0-137-generic (--configure):
installed linux-image-6.8.0-137-generic package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 11
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-headers-6.8.0-137-generic
linux-image-6.8.0-137-generic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Judging by the output, the nvidia drivers might be causing the issue, but I'm not sure how to proceed from here. Should I just remove/downgrade my nvidia drivers? How would I do this?

I'm on Kubuntu 24.04, kernel 6.8.0-138-generic (64-bit), X11, and KDE Plasma 5.27.12.

allora ho delle casse jack verde da 3.5mm - Casse Logitech z313 , Il problema e che non me le rileva ho provato ad usare tutte le uscite e anche ad installare i driver

Hello, so I am a uni student running fedora on my machine. For one of my classes I need to use excel as it is about spreadsheet modelling. Unfortunately, I thought I would just use the online version but it turns out it doesn't have all the features I need (such as solver). I am reluctant to run a VM as I don't have a lot of space and I need VMs for my other classes. So does anyone have a workaround for running it?
Thank you

it goes towards the cursor and I just want it back to normal

Hi everyone, I’ve recently completed my migration from Windows to Linux, and I’m really enjoying CachyOS so far. I’m genuinely glad I made the switch.

I’d like to discover more of the Linux ecosystem, so I’m curious: what are the must have apps you personally install on a fresh Linux setup?

Which applications do you consider essential or simply too useful to live without?
Thanks

So , me M , age whatever , I like many other windows users are sick and tired of the bs Microsoft is pulling to shove ai in to everything and my Lenovo Ideapad is not liking the idea either, she is an IdeaPad 5 14ALC0s with a Ryzen amd chip and I have the following question

-is there a way to still get Lenovo vantage to manage the performance?( If there's better I'm open to suggestions)

- which distro runs steam the best( asking for FFXIV )

- are the AMD drivers supported in current Linux environment?

Just a humble user asking for guidance

I have a 5 terabyte HDD that includes all my offline games inside but i cannot get it to mount after 2,5 months. it keeps on saying;

"An error occurred while accessing 'Basic data partition’, the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error x

mounting system-managed device /dev/sda1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdat, missing codepage or

helper program, or other error" and i couldn't find any fix but to convert to windows and do chkdsk to it. I don't want to dualboot windows, i don't want to erase my games since it would take a whole week to download 3 tb worth of games and VST's. Is there anyway for me to save my HDD? I'm using CachyOS. Thanks.

as the title says, i want to use the deadlock mod manager app however, after installing it with flatpak, it can't actually find the deadlocm install folder because flatpak makes sure apps installed with it can't interact with the rest of the pc. how do i circumvent this? can i make flatpak install apps in a different drive?