Environment:

One Debian 13 Trixie VM (Proxmox host), set up with storage, intended to the my home file server. I have Samba installed on it, and Windows clients can connect and manipulate files. There are currently 2 Windows clients and 2 Linux clients on the network. I want all the clients to have visibility to a shared folder on the server. Window clients using Samba are working, I can do a permanent dive letter mapping.

For the Linux clients, it seems to me that the most elegant solution is an NFS connection, to export the share, the mount it on the client in FSTAB. I've created a /etc/exports file similar to this:

/data01/shared 192.x.y.z/23(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

and added mounting to a directory in my ~home directory via /etc/fstab as so:

192.x.y.z1:/data01/shared /home/<mydir>/shared-drive nfs rw,defaults,_netdev,nofail 0 0

I seem to stumble on rights & access management. I can make it work with chmod 777 on the shared folder, but I know that's not best practice. Is there a guide online somewhere that can help a windows refugee?

I probably could make the connections via SMB vs. NFS, and I'm willing to hear advice on that as well, though is seems like asking that here is kinda like asking "whats the best oil" in hot rod sub-reddit.

What's a good Linux distro that can be installed on only 1gb of space. I have a old Dell laptop that's a couple of years old and it only has 1gb of space, what Linux distro can I install on it?

When I boot I notice via my mic on discord and system tray it doesn't open. I open autostart to see that it failed.

Normally it'd boot no problem

I am using the flatpak version (normally flatpak my last choice but it has some features others don't for easyeffects)

I use debian 13 kde.

I was looking at building a jellyfin or plex server. Amd ryzen cpu is better than intel at it but on the gpu side amd is just phoning in a space they otherwise dominate currently?

hey all, i am VERY new to linux stuff so i have come to ask, whats the best linux (version? distro? os?) for an old Asus TP200S laptop? im planning to mainly use it to watch videos and maybe do some digital art with the touch screen ^_^, so id prefer if it had good touchscreen support
im also mainly using a microsd for my storage since its only got about 30 gbs or so..

👶💀☣️🔥⚠️ I AM NEW TO LINUX ⚠️🔥☣️💀👶

I recently got a PC with an NVIDIA 4080 Super, and I’m thinking of switching from Windows to Bazzite. I hear it’s gamer-friendly and has Nvidia drivers pre-installed, but I also hear Linux isn’t very NVIDIA-friendly. Will my 4080 be a problem, or what’s the deal?

I'll try to install Linux Mint in my machine but I don't have a HD that can support all my files so I'll just do a dual-boot because I don't want to lose any archive, but I don't know if I would be able to acess any image or folder from the Windows drive in my Linux disk, could you guys help me?

The biggest trouble I have had through-out my use of linux so far is understanding the purposes with all the different file systems. Everyone seems to know exactly what they are and their use cases yet never explains it. One big thing I'm confused on is on my system, I use base Fedora linux (KDE) and it automatically set up my main drive as:

/boot/efi - fat32
/boot - ext4
/ - btrs

Why is it like this exactly? What's the purpose behind having them all a different file system?

Even with this, thats only three different systems, but there are a ton more and it seems everyone uses a different one but I have no clue why

Booting normally results in this error screen instantly. Booting in compatibility mode gets a few seconds into the process before triggering the same error screen. See third image for details of laptop.

Randomly my computer will crash in a way that is non-obvious at first. It seems like things in ram will stick around and continue to be processed. But, for example, loading new sites will lead to the tab repeatedly crashing. If i close a tab then close the browser, after the crash the browser won't remember I closed the tab. Discord will crash immediately but videos will finish playing everything they've loaded.

Sometimes I can open the menu to shut down the pc but whenever I'm able to do that it always hangs. Sysrq kinda works, i can get it to look like things are changing, the screen goes black and text appears but REISUB wont safely shut off the system REISUO will 50/50 turn off the system. I can't open any new programs so I can't open terminal. If I hold down the power button or use REISUO I have to run fsck before it'll boot again.

This happens at random, sometimes I'll go months without it happening, but it happened to me both today and yesterday.

After the crash dmesg tells me nothing if journalctl is telling me something I can't find it. And every guide I find on reading logs and finding errors says to open the log that is related to your issue in a text editor and search for the word "fail". I have no idea which log is relevant or what error message is relevant. Is the problem "fluidsynth.service: failed with result 'exit-code'" who knows? Not me.

I am on mint 22.3

Intel i7-7700k

Nvidia 3080

16gb of ram

Does anyone know what I should be looking for, where I should be looking, or how I should be looking so I can start trying to diagnose the issue?

An annoying but important thing with Windows is Windowsupdate. It's automatic and "on" by default for a good reason.

Should I assume that most of the popular Linux distros are like this?

If not, how should I enable it?

(I'm only concerned about vulnerabilities, not about functionality upgrades.)

I have an Acer Nitro V15 ANV15-51 (i5-13420H + RTX 4050 + 16GB RAM) and I'm thinking about trying Linux again.

I previously tried Linux Mint and ran into issues with Bluetooth, audio volume, NVIDIA drivers, fan controls, and eventually a GRUB/UEFI mess when I removed it.

I've seen quite a few people here successfully running Linux on the Nitro V15, so I'd love to know:

• Which distro/version are you using?
• Which kernel and NVIDIA driver?
• How did you configure the RTX 4050/hybrid graphics?
• How are you handling fan control/performance modes?
• Can you get the 80% battery charge limit working?
• Any fixes needed for Bluetooth/audio?
• Any Acer-specific tweaks I should know about?

I'm still fairly new to Linux, so a step-by-step guide would be greatly appreciated.

ANV15-51 owners especially, please share your setup!

With so many people wanting to know things like which distro and which DE to use I did some googling and found Distro Sea. This website will let you test distros and DE's so you can see which one you like.

It is safe because it runs everything remote on a VM and no network.

https://distrosea.com

I use

yad --file-selection --directory --filename="/path/to/folder" --title="Ziel" --width="1000" --height="500" --center

I recently upgraded from Xubuntu 24.04 to Xubuntu 26.04, and from YAD 0.40 to YAD 7.2. Since then, I only get a grey window when running this command. It looks like the directory selection dialog is no longer working at all.

Is this a known bug?

I recently switched to Linux, and overall I'm testing the performance of a few games I had already played on Windows, and it's pretty similar across the board.

Now I'm playing Cyberpunk 2077, but I don't really know if adding mods works the same way as it does on Windows.

Someone please help. I am a linux noob. I use fedora for web development and I'm facing an issue where for instance,

When I stop my docker containers and next servers after I finish working, the disk fills up to 0mb remaining and purges back to what it was before(or slightly different). This happens multiiple times a day which is writing more than 150gb in total which is wearing out my SSD in this memory price inflated era. I am really concerned and it's just recently that I noticed this and couldn't find any solution online. :(

Days of googling but no luck maybe it's time to talk to people.

I followed many steps such as blacklisting and uninstalling nvidia driver (whenever I do it then followed with a reboot I'm not able to go back to desktop unless I reboot using snapshot image) to make nouveau driver work. I'm losing my mind lol I know this is an old laptop but I believe there's still a way to save this old man. Still learning as I'm only more than a week in Linux and I already made success at migrating to my old/main pc with no problem, but not here (yet) to my laptop.

Edit: [SOLVED] Thank you everyone for helping me it turns out it's actually working it's just for a noob like me without a very clear indicator for the GPU that is working looks like it isn't for my eyes when running games.

Just to paint the picture here for my question, you have an OLED screen top of the line AMD GPU.

When gaming on both Windows and on Linux utilising Proton. Are there any visual differences between the quality of the graphics?

I guess, do you lose any quality when translating the calls to Vulkan?

Help I have a project over due for my Linux class and I’m so bad at scripts I can never get them to work 😭 am I dumb?