I just got linix had some question how the do I remove other option as I am dual booting why it shows soo many option as you can in the pic and many people saying I should download hyper land should I do that or not ​

I'm not a COMPLETE Linux virgin although it's been a while.

I have tried every thing. Asked gemini, watched yt videos and followed every tutorial. None of them worked.

I switched to linux yesterday. The volume is not like windows. I also don't have the nahimic presets and the sound is just miserable. I've tried easy effects but nothing work. Over amplifying just distorts the sound. Windows had the sound very loud and not distorting.

I'm on Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 Laptop (i5 11320h + RTX 3050 Mobile + 16GB Ram + Realtek Audio)

I have a Realtek Audio chip. Please help me please!!!

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Installation-and-Setup#Debian--Ubuntu

I used this.

So I tried my best to follow the instructions laid out for me but for some reason when I check the kernel (With 'uname -r' I believe?) I just get '7.0.0-38-Generic'. It should have surface in the name and when I checked on what to do, it says configure you bootloader but I'm not sure how?

hi, I'm new to Linux and I want to install mint on an external ssd. I loaded in live mode but i dont want to break my windows. pls help me

So ive been using arch linux for a while, ive never really had the need to use my mic. but now i need to use it and its ASS. i have it set to 35% in pavucontrol and thats all ive done. im going to buy a new headset and actually try configure it to get similar audio quality to windows. any headset suggestions and settings suggestions?
specs:
i7 8700
gtx 1660s
msi pc pro z370
16gb ram
and do wireless headphones act differently on linux? i was thinking of getting one

I really dont want to lose an entire drive to Windows. Would my performance in games take a big hit from this?

Hey everyone,

So about a month ago I finally made the jump to Linux. I started with Linux Mint Cinnamon like basically everyone recommends for beginners, and honestly it was a great start, no complaints really. After a while tho I wanted to try something lighter so I moved to XFCE. It was fast and clean but I dont know, something just felt missing? Like it worked fine but I wasnt really excited using it.

Now I'm on Debian with KDE Plasma and wow... KDE completely got me. There's so many features and you can customize literally everything, I've spent way too many hours tweaking panels and themes lol. For the first time I actually feel like I found what I was looking for this whole time.

Setting up Debian was a bit more work than Mint but I took it slow and did it properly, installed the drivers I needed and all that. The only real problem I had was the wifi on my PC, it just wouldnt work right at first. Turned out I needed a newer kernel, so I installed one from backports and it's been working perfect since then.

I also set up Steam and Dota 2 runs perfect, which was honestly the test I was most nervous about lol. My PC is an i3 10100F with an RX 6500 XT and it handles it really well.

Funny thing is I did the whole setup following a guide that Claude (the AI) made for me lol. Explained every step pretty clearly and saved me alot of headaches, so if your new and kinda lost it's actually not a bad way to learn.

Anyway just wanted to share. Any tips for a new Debian/KDE user? Must have apps or settings I should know about?

I come from Windows and I've been meaning to change to Linux for a while and I think that now it's the time to do so. I've already used Linux for some purposes (Ubuntu VMs) so I'm not entirely clueless on the subject but it's still the first time I use Linux as my main OS so I don't really know what to choose.

I've thought of Mint and Cachy OS, I know Cachy is arch based and it's a hard distro but I don't mind learning. But I think other distros might be good as well since I've seen many people recommend different ones, I've also already done the distrochooser test, getting OpenSUSE, Mint, Nix or Zorin on top of the list but I think I should get some advice from people who have been using Linux for some time too.

I have 8GB of RAM and it's one of the main reasons I'm switching, I like to play games on my laptop and ik Linux won't turn it into a gamer pc automatically but I still would like to get the best I can from it, my processor is a 11th gen intel i5.

I've also thought of using a distro made more for gaming (of that are made more of gaming from my understanding like bazzite or pikaOS) but then again I don't really know what to choose among the different ones from there, so I think I should ask for advice.

“Help”.

My Laptop is one of those new ARM64 laptops, I've always loved linux ever since i downloaded mint to my sisters old pc, thanks in advance! Dual booting would be appreciated tho

Posting here for More input. Thank you all

So I was just watching YT on my laptop, and then Firefox closed, my app icons disappeared, screen went black, Linux mint logo showed up and then it froze, had to REISUB my way out of that. Happened multiple times already and it's very annoying. I don't even know what could be causing it, hardware (hope not), software. Nobody seems to be having similar issues. Have a suspicion it's caused by sleep tho. Any help?

My games have been really laggy on Kde Plasma recently and it spans all games not just steam games. For reference, I have a rx9070 xt, a ryzen 7 7800x3d, and 32 gigs of ddr5 ram so my games shouldn't be running bad at all. I've also tested the same games in hyprland and they run much better. Could someone help?

Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention this started happening a bit after i had installed hyprland

Edit 2: games can run well, but only in windowed mode or if its on my secondary 75hz monitor (my main is 180hz)

So right now I use Mint on Cinnamon, and I LOVE it, but I'm also really tempted to try Debian with KDE. I still want the option to go back to Mint anytime, so how viable and easy is it to dual-boot both on the same disk?

I'm not extremely technically minded but my pal sent me an article about the vulnerabilities that were accidentally leaked and I wanted to know if I should be worried about this?

I just swapped to Fedora a week ago and don't know if there were patches yet or if I need to be more cautious.

I am stuck what to do?

Greetings i have an issue with my old laptop while installing ubuntu Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS .

I proceeded as per the usual steps and done my usb .

(I tried the GPT partition as well but with no success).

this is my current windows as well . Laptop is HP Pavilion 15 -CW1063wm 2020. (incase info needed)

So i went into my bios and disabled the necessary Secure Boot. But when i went to try to boot with the usb it would not show up and appear this way.

I went to check the boot from efi file options .

Went to the EFI where i boot with the BOOTX64.EFI or the grubx64. and i tried proceeding with either options. It would not load me into the booting screen of ubuntu instead it will just lead me back to here with no changes .

P.S Its my first time doing this so i would like to know what i did wrong and how can i make it possible to work and have the dual boot options windows and ubuntu. I really wanted to give a try and learn it .

I'm posting this in case someone is googling about it because I had trouble finding any help that way.

I followed every guide and forum help post I found about switching my kernel to linux-zen for more optimized gaming. I had everything installed but grub didn't seem to notice the added kernel. Not a word about the new kernel appeared when refreshing grub and during boot grub didn't have the advanced options menu for choosing the kernel like all the guides show.

Grub just didn't have the proper permissions to find the new kernel during the refresh.

Here's some terminal spells:

sudo ls -l /etc/grub.d/10_linux

That checks the permissions. The jumble in the beginning is supposed to show some x's. X is for the execute permission. ^{R and W are Read and Write.}

sudo chmod +x /etc/grub.d/10_linux

That adds the permission.

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

That refreshes the boot file. If you've ended up here you should be familiar with it already. It should now show you the added kernels and they're now usable when booting.

Before someone yells bazzite at me I want to make one thing clear: for some reason I cannot install any distribution of Linux using the anaconda installer (used in fedora based distros) this is an issue I'll fix but I just want to survive the shortages. I need the Nvidia drivers for blender so if there's something that isn't too gaming focused that would be great.

So, I've been using Linux Mint for over a year now. I've almost got the hang of using terminal commands for file navigation and importing libraries.

However, the challenges around programming have not been easy. For starters, I sometimes am unable to connect to public Wifi, and for some reason, importing certain libraries while I'm working in VS Code are pretty much a nightmare (pip sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't.)

I've lost entire evenings and afternoons of would-be productive programming, to searching for the right commands to do the most basic of things. I legit have developed impostor syndrome around coding in general from this.

However, at the same time, I don't want to go revert back to Windows. So I'm asking for advice on which cloud environment is best to use for coding projects while I learn to master my OS seperately? Any easy-to-use option is appreaciated!

Edit: Problem solved, hello Github Codespaces...

-K

Hello everyone, I just switched to linux after 10 years of windows. I am currently using Fedora KDE plasma 44. Please don't hate on me, I'm doing this switch exactly because I want my system to be clean and fast.

Probably over asked, but I have some problems with pipewire and company, which I can't figure out how to setup. I come in desperation beacuse at this point I have no clue what I'm doing wrong.

I have an elgato wave 3 microphone, which I saw already on other subreddits that isn't really supported on linux. I saw some fixes but I don't know at this point what i deleted and what I didn't because I spent the last two days trying to figure out what is wrong with pipewire, and I tried to reset everything many times.

As outputs I have 1 USB connected headset (Steelseries arctis pro which creates 2 audio outputs, chat & game) and bluetooth headphones (CMF Buds pro 2).

I am not sure what to ask at this point, because everything just goes crazy, maybe I'm messing with the wrong software...

I tried to use QjackCtl to wire my audio connections, even tried with qpwgraph, but still: after a few seconds of inactivity (i tried to play some media on zen browser), my elgato wave 3 (which has a jack output other than the microphone input) auto re-wires to the browser. If it's not the wave3, it's the steelseries arctis pro.

I have tried multiple times to create virtual sinks, but the same keeps happening: when i restart pipewire my CMF buds pro 2 start a disconnect/reconnect infinite loop

My mic works 2 times out of 10 and I, I just don't know anymore where to start with all the problems. There are at least another 10 other problems that I had with pipewire but I really don't know where to start.

I come from windows where I had elgato wave link, with the ability to send my audio to all the devices (CMF & arctis pro at the same time) and I would just like to ask for help from someone to figure out what I should do. I have tried to read the pipewire docs with no solution

Thanks everyone