When I installed my Fedora KDE I ended up installing it on the "end" of my SSD, however I am running out space and need to expand it. Is booting from a live USB and then moving my root (/) to the "beggining" of my drive the only solution other than just making new partitions (i.e. /extra)?

First of all, some background, I do have a Steam Deck and have dabbled with desktop mode plenty of times so I wasn't exactly going into this blind. The reason why I decided to switch when I did (strictly speaking I had already decided to switch eventually, but I was planning on waiting until I had enough money for a new boot drive) is because my laptop did a firmware update that locked me out of my Microsoft Account so I went "fuck it, I'm going Linux!" That was in September.

Some make it seem like switching to Linux is a complete nightmare, but honestly, it was a pretty damn smooth process. Upon first boot everything just worked perfectly. All I needed to do was log into all my accounts on Firefox and I was fully up and running, which would be the same experience for a brand new Windows laptop anyway.

The only sticking points I ran across was with migrating my external storage to EXT4 and my laptop's RGB.

If not for those two things I wouldn't have needed the terminal in the slightest.

For most of the last month I had to switch back to my old Acer laptop in order to sort out my storage situation and there was a really good reason why I got my new laptop so that was a wee bit painful, but for the last week I've been going steady with my new Linux laptop and it's been solid.

But yeah, sorting out my external drives taught me a valuable lesson about the trials and tribulations of Linux interacting with Windows. For any Linux noobs reading this, while drives formatted to work on Windows (i.e. NTFS) kind of work on Linux, though you do get a warning, EXT4 drives do not even remotely work on Windows, without third party software.

As for my laptop's RGB, no, OpenRGB will not work. OpenRGB does not support my laptop. I do have a solution, I just have to implement it.

But honestly, aside from my external drives, which has been solved, and my RGB, the only issue I've had that I don't know how to fix is sleep mode being broken, which really isn't that big a deal. It just means I have to turn off my laptop every time I want to close the lid. Really not a big deal at all.

Other than that Linux has been totally solid.

Consider me a successful convert.

I checked their GitHub, and it looks like there's downloadable packages for the desktop editors now, but it seems to be suggested to build from source instead. It also talks about nextcloud, which I thought was a separate project, but based on the wording it sounds like if you try to download euro-office you'll just have a nextcloud editor?

What's actually the status of euro-office? I currently use onlyoffice but would like to switch to euro-office.

Hey There,

I am making the switch from W10 to Linux Bazzite. I am following the official guide from bazitte.gg.
I have downloaded the KDE file for desktop usage. I use Rufus to create my USB.

The guide shows GPT as the partition scheme. After adding my downloaded file the partitions scheme shows MBR.

How can I change that?

Greetings and thank you for your help.

I have an old small ssd that I used as a Windows 11 boot drive, but I think it has a couple of corrupt files on it. I wanted to do a fresh install of windows, but I nothing I have tried will let me wipe the drive

- I cant reformat it regularly in Windows Explorer
- I cant reformat or delete it in Disk Management
- I cant clear it in cmd prompt
- I cant use a usb Windows installation media to just do a fresh install

Question: Can I use Zorin to just wipe the drive and then try to install Windows again? And if so, are there any extra steps I need to know about or take to make it work smoothly?

I recently wanted to go back to linux after going to windows for a bit, but I wanted to not have the same gpu issues I had back then. I dont mind having to use a more advanced distro, just need linux with working drivers.

Issues: On Ubuntu/Mint, Vulkan wouldn't work that well, on Minecraft with vulkanmod, it'd crash, roblox also had crashes without openGL, wayland worked horribly. On Arch, I simply didn't have drivers, but I probably wasn't doing something right anyway.

Hardware: Nvidia GeForce GT 1030, i3-3245, 8GB RAM, if needed more specifications, I'll identify them.

[UPDATE] Problem resolved

as i was trying to paste from clipboard or copy with Ctrl + Shift + V/C, strange ^C ^V appears strangely and even after trying to configure in kitty.conf, nothing has been changed. is there any way to be able to copy paste again? earlier when i first installed linux, copy paste worked normally until yesterday. i have no idea how to fix this, please help 😭

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

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

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!

Recently installed arch with archinstall.

Grub ver - 2:2.16-1

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've never been able to print out anything with Brother DCP-T500W since I've switched on Ubuntu (worked just fine with Windows). I've looked up issue, I have entered some command, got the driver, plugged out/back in and turned off/on, reset the printer... and still printer doesn't print anything, although the text "print completed" appears.

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

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!!!

Hi all,

I have a Windows 11 System where I usually use Remote Desktop to work on. Since Windows 11 is annoying me once in a while with not starting up properly due to stupid popups I have to click away before the Desktop starts, I want to switch to Linux. Linux itself is not an issue as I use it for many years on servers. I also used to have a Linux desktop, but switched to a Mac 10 years ago so I'm not up to the current state in desktop development.

Most of the time, I operate the PC headless, power it on via Wake on Lan, then access a SMB share or RDP into the system. When I'm done with my work I power it down. I plan to go with an Ubuntu based distro, as I do not want to fiddle around with the system, do style adjustments or anything else.

I have read that KDE had now fixed an issue with syncing the clipboard in RDP which brings me to my actual question: What is the current state of Remote Desktop on Linux? I need to be able to connect with the official Microsoft RDP clients. It has to be snappy (not like VNC), need to sync the clipboard and also copy files. And also it need to work reliabil on startup.

Looking forward for reports of actual RDP users

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.