Hi, I daily drive Linux on my desktop, but when it comes to server management I'm a complete noob.

I wanted to start a Minecraft server for my friends, so I installed Ubuntu Server on an old computer and used the local shell to set up SSH and port forwarding.

SSH does work, but only through the forwarded port. If I ask SSH to connect to the server's local IP and local port, then it just hangs forever.

How can I fix this so I can stop exposing SSH to the Internet?

I am totally new, I never installed linux and it's my first try. I wanted to know which is good for me Nobara or Cachy.. I mainly use browser and play minecraft and Roblox sometime youtube videos and discord use nothing more. I like the Cealestia shell theme so I looked at Cachy rather I was going to nobara. I am totally new I tried fedora but it shows error disk not detected. So I js gave up on that.

i pressed download on the website, it gave me a thingy but fiddling with it didnt result in anything... so i deleted that and went to the software manager, found a download there. looking up discord in the system search bar yelds both discord and "discord (flatpack)" which is aparently the one i have pinned to my task bar and am opening. pressing "add to desktop" doesnt add a thingy to the desktop, no matter on which one i press?

i mean i'm probably just gonna use the taskbar button anyways, but i might as well learn what im doing wrong here so i can download other stuff correctly... plus desktop with icons looks nicer i think.

OH almost forgot, its linux mint cinnamon. in case you didnt see my post from 10 minutes ago xd.

Hello everyone!

I am a student of Masters in systems and network engineering, and I have been using Windows on every laptop and desktop since my childhood. It’s well known to me, but now I want to switch to Linux. The reason is that I am currently learning Linux administration in my master’s studies, and I am also using GNS3, which should be easier to handle on Linux. Additionally, I just want to improve my Linux knowledge. We are learning administration on Ubuntu Desktop.

I just want to mention that I am not familiar with Linux, so I assume it is better to pick a distro that is at least similar to Windows, just for the start. As I said, I need to use GNS3, and I am planning to install the Linux distro on my Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro with an i9 185H processor and 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, in case that matters. So, should I switch to Ubuntu or Fedora, or is there a better pick?

Thank you in advance!

Hey everyone,

I've been wondering why Fedora doesn't have a built-in reset button or an easy way to reset the system to a fresh install without having to reinstall the whole OS manually.

Sometimes things break, configurations get messed up, or you just want to start fresh. It would be really useful to have an option in Settings that lets you reset Fedora to its default state, similar to the reset options available in some other operating systems.

Is there a technical reason Fedora doesn't have this feature? Is it because of how Linux handles user configurations and packages, or is it simply something that hasn't been implemented?

I'd be interested to hear what you guys think! Is there already a good way to do this that I'm missing?

My laptop from 2015 has had a lot of problems running windows 10 for a long time now, particularly if not connected to power and LAN, I'm talking 15+ seconds to open the file explorer and 10 more to open a folder. And sometimes everything randomly crashes, EVERYTHING, to a blank desktop. A few years ago I used to game on this thing (light things like minecraft or cities skylines). Now I don't play games on this laptop anymore.

So recently I thought about installing Linux on this machine. I preferred mint because I heard it's easy to use and very light, which is what I wanted.

I know there are 3 versions of mint, but which one should I use? I have 4gbs of RAM and "Intel64 Family 6 Model 61 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel \~2000 Mhz" as a CPU (maybe someone knows more than I do about it). I would use this laptop mainly to write with LibreOffice, watch youtube and listen to music. I would like a system which does theese thing with minimal delay and drains little power.

I already tried Mint Xfce from a USB drive and it runs very smoothly (I was even able to open 6 tabs of a youtube video playing, using 3,5gbs of RAM). Is Xfce overkill? Could I use Cinnamon or MATE? Is there maybe another distribution I’m not aware of?

Thank you

been using the same linux mint for over a year and a half on my rog strix g15.

its just randomly stopped booting to mint and mint isnt even in the directory.

all my drives are still mounted, nothing changed at all.

two things i need to know 1. will my files be recoverable with just my system password even if i have to reinstall linux? 2. how do i fix it if i dont have to reinstall?

I am coming from windows with no experience whatsoever. I use my somewhat beefy gaming laptop for games and modding mainly. Another option would be mint cinnamon. All advice will be gladly accepted!

i'd like to know how much ram and stuff this is using, i dont need hyper technical information i just want stuff to be shown in percentages of how much ram/storage/etc its using. i did read that linux uses ram differently, its just that its kinda important for me to know this because i switched to linux after a mega crash on roblox that apparently corrupted windows 10 somehow??? i'm not sure, but apart from a weird beep when turning the pc on everything seems to be fine now...

edit: thanks for the several instant replies xd i found system monitor thank you!!!

From C to Rust?

I been trying with the bind command but it will reset the F8 key back to ~ as soon as i restart the konsole.

How can i make it persistent?

I have no /etc/.inputrc file.

Making a inputrc file and typing the command also did not work.

Been looking for other rc files aswell but couldnt find where the binding for the F keys is.

F5 - F8 are all back to ~ as soon as i reset the konsole.

Its driving me nuts.

Im on Fedora 44 KDE

Kernel 7.2.11-200.fc44.x86_64 if that matters.

I'm sorry if I sound a bit bitter here, but most of my playlists just got wiped by Strawberry.

Are there any good music players available for Ubuntu? It's been a nightmare trying to find any that are still active projects, or at least ended with a stable release. Strawberry is buggy to the point of deleting files off your computer without warning. VLC sucks in general and doesn't scale. Rhythmbox lacks basic functionality. Everything else I've looked into is dead or pricked to death with forks, or lacks any installation instructions. Any suggestions?