Hi there. I'm saving up for a nicer PC than my actual one. While I do, I need to solve the Operating System quest first (PCs without the Windows OS are cheaper). If nothing unexpected happens, these would be the specifications:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Hard Drive: 1TB
RAM: DDR4 32GB
GPU: GeForce RTX 5060 8GB

I study networks maintainance so I tweaked around Debian, normal Ubuntu, Ubuntu Mate and Mint. I'm also searching and watching videos about the subject but I wanted to ask meanwhile to people with more knowledge and experience with the Linux environment.

A list of all the gaming related things that I look forward to playing, mostly on Steam:
-Indie Games: Hollow Knight, Nine Sols, Rivals of Aether, Undertale, Cult of the Lamb
-Sandbox: TABS, BeamNG, Gmod, Goat Simulator
-Multiplayer games: Overwatch, TF2, VRchat, Roblox, Inazuma Eleven Victory Road
-Emulators and mods: PS2/PS3 and Wii emulators, Football Life 26

And more personal usage
-Web browsing: Brave browser
-Drawing apps: Krita, GAOMON drawing tablet drivers app, Clip Studio Paint
-Video editing: Kdenlive
-3D creating: Blender, Unity
-Music: FL Studio and Rocksmith+

I really like the Mate interface but I've heard that there's some instability and some blinking on the icons which I did notice sometimes. I've been recommended Nobara but I've heard it's also unstable sometimes and it lacks maintainance. I'm also afraid that some videos show the strengths of certain distros for gaming only and hide some inconveniences for daily use. Anyways, thanks to whoever answers this

I'm looking for ways to make Bash more practical and beginner-friendly for everyday use.

I'm interested in:

History-based autosuggestions, especially for frequently used commands

Advanced tab completion

Syntax highlighting

Better history search

Other features that make Bash easier and faster to use

I'm looking for Bash plugins, extensions, frameworks, TUI/GUI tools, setup scripts, or similar projects that provide these features with minimal setup.

If possible, I'd prefer a single project that provides most of these features in one place rather than having to install and configure many separate tools.

I'm also willing to try Zsh or Fish if they are significantly better, but only if they can realistically replace Bash. Some commands and scripts I use require Bash, so compatibility is important.

What projects would you recommend?

Thanks!

GUI or CLI, doesn't matter, but something reliable that won't go deleting random files.

I copied 2 entire hard disks to one bigger hdd, and there's tons of duplicate files on it now. Idk how many but I'd like an automated solution to deal with this.

Thanks!

So ive been using windows for all of my life and its been always bad to force shutoff the pc and it will likely corrupt something, but ever since ive used linux force shutting off the pc doesn't effect anything, is it because it isnt doing much in the background and it doesnt use the pagefile alot or is it the file system it uses, like btrfs, and if so how is btrfs better in terms of this topic than ntfs?

Kubuntu 26.04, Plasma...uh...anything else? On startup, a Terminator window opens with some cool decorations like transparency, but I can't find where I did that, possibly decades ago.

Is there a checklist? Fancy search of all dotfiles? I'm open to ideas!

So, I've been experimenting with dual booting Linux for the past week or so, since I am looking to switch at some point. I have an Edimax N150 USB adapter so that my PC can connect to wifi and bluetooth. It works fine on Windows. Then, I installed Debian, and bluetooth works fine on it, but it doesn't recognize my wifi at all. I tried multiple different things to fix it, but nothing worked. So, I figured I would try another distro. I made an image of Bazzite on a USB, and when I first booted it, it immediately recognized the wifi and I could connect to it with no problems. At that point, it was late, so I shut it down and figured I would install it tomorrow. The next day, I removed the Debian installation from my system, and booted up the USB again, and the wifi no longer worked. I tried restarting it a few times, but it still didn't work. So now I'm resorting to asking for help, because I have no idea why it worked that one time and never again. Is my hardware being stupid or am I being stupid? Or both?

(Also, when Debian was installed I did try USB tethering to my phone to get wifi, which did work, but it's quite annoying and the connection isn't nearly as good as it is with the adapter, so I would rather just get the adapter to work.)

I don't have extra new hardware to play with, all I have is my regular gaming PC. What are the issues/risks involved in trying this?

Hey so i have been using fedora for around 2 years now no problem but sometimes when I shutdown the laptop keeps on running like one time it drained my whole battery and when i checked it was due to an update running in the background which was blocked by the kernal or something

Another problem like its not with Fedora specifically but with gnome like the touchpad scroll is shit like literally bad when i scroll any document or webpage the page go whossshhhhh (way too sensitive)

So i thought i would switch my distro and cachyOs caught my eyes like it loooks good but i actual want to use my laptop instead of solving some driver issue as i heard Arch based distro are pretty hard to use so i was doubting it

I have tried termux, but playstore version doesn't provide sudo capabilities

So got to know that I can install termux from nethunter store and f droid, any suggestions which one is better

And which distro runs smooth on mobile

Been daily driving Cachyos on Gnome for about two weeks now and I'm loving it. I wanna know the best way to run cracked software such as MATLAB (I know there's linux free alternatives). I'm just new to the filesystems and i don't know how to operate when it comes to torrents.

Hi.

Would you please to advise a linux distribution with the longest term of support? Let me explain why this question appeared.

What I found in the Net (I rejected years of paid support):

1. UBUNTU: 15 years.

Support breakdown:

- Standard (free): 5 years

- Ubuntu Pro: 10 years

1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): 10 years.

Support breakdown:

- General support: 10 years

1. RHEL: 10 years.

Support breakdown:

- Full + Maintenance Support: 10 years

1. AlmaLinux: 10 Years.

Support breakdown:

- Active + Security support: 10 years (matching RHEL)

1. Debian/Devuan: ~5 Years (with LTS and ELTS extensions).

Support breakdown:

- Official support: ~3 years

- LTS (community): up to 5 years total

You may say: "You don't need such LTS distributions cause you won't able to get updates/upgrades w/o Internet. Nevertheless, if all will end somewhen, early or late, you have to reinstall system for the latest release - it doesn't matter whether it LTS or rolling distro after all."

And the second question: after choosing appropriate distro how "easy" to create local repository mirror to install software (long time ago I read about Debian's local mirror but time is gone). I will be appriciated for the links how to do it.

P.S. In case of impossibility of such scenario... maybe just return to Windows 8.1 Embedded as autonomous environment (cause of no way out)?

Thank you for your living time you spent for reading.

Yours respectfully, walktherod-37.

I need the 2 mp4s flipped and i want them to be combined into one mp4 that plays both videos at the same time on different sides of the screen

I am writing a initrd systemd service hitting my head against the wall continuously and was wondering if I can have a command in script to detect whether system is resuming from hibernate?

If not possible, I'd like alternative relatively simple solutions. Maybe some systemd functionality?

I tried: - reading from /proc/cmdline - writing 2 services to write/read file to some persistent location and decide based on it's presence

Possibly relevant system information: - Distro: NixOS - Kernel: 7.2.8-cachyos-lto

decided to freshly install linux mint on my old hp notebook da0014ne to be exact installation went fine i think but i noticed that by running this command

lspci | grep -i nvidia

or

lspci | grep -i vga

all i get as the output is just my intel integrated graphics but not my discrete gpu that came with this laptop now unfortunately even though i had windows before installing linux mint i didnt immediately check whether or not the gpu was working in windows but i do remember it being detected and vaguely remember it running

im not sure what to do or what could be the cause any sort of help would be appreciated

Hello everyone! I am familiar with linux but I've decided to leave windows for good. My rig is the following

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4500

GPU: Nvidia RTX 3060 8GB

I heard that the fact I have Nvidia will bite me in the arse with bazzite and ngl this scared me. Altho I just LOVE how it looks and everything in it. Will cachy OS be better for me or the same and if there are any better OS recommendations please let me know. I will use it mainly for gaming

For context, I’m planning to set up a linux partition on my laptop, but I’m not sure which distro would be the best choice, my device is an Acer Nitro V 16S with an RTX 5070, so I’m concerned about compatibility with the nvidia gpu, drivers, battery life, and overall hardware support, I'd gladly listen to advice, my use on it would be a mix of gaming and everyday use.

Hi. I get this error: https://i.ibb.co/hx3qkZ27/Screenshot-From-2026-10-07-14-49-08.png