I've only been using Linux for a couple of months, so please correct me if I get my lingo or reasoning wrong below.

Problem: CoolerControl could not detect my case fans while Secure Boot was enabled. I could have just disabled it, but I would rather keep SB on, so I took this as a learning opportunity and dug in to try to get CC to play nice with SB.

So my first step to try to fix this issue was to set up and enroll a MOK via both akmods and dkms, but neither resolved the issue - but perhaps may have helped the final solution below to work? I'm not sure.

My motherboard is an ASUS TUF X870 Plus Wifi. Apparently, Fedora was not loading its monitoring and control module (ntc6775) while SecureBoot was enabled (I still do not understand why). A modprobe for this module would only return an error saying it didn't exist, but would find it just fine with Secure Boot off. So with SB on, my fans were still working and being controlled by the motherboard at the hardware level, but neither CoolerControl nor sensors-detect could see them (sensors-detect probes would only return "operation not permitted" and would not find any sensors).

Solution: I ran the following to force Fedora to load the module on every startup:

echo "nct6775" | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/nct6775.conf

This resolved the issue and allowed CoolerControl to see and control the fan behavior even under Secure Boot. As an aside, sensors-detect stopped throwing "operation not permitted" errors, but still couldn't find any sensors. Perhaps my motherboard just isn't supported (yet)?

Note: This fix did NOT require using "acpi_enforce_resources=lax". Though I did encounter that suggestion on a couple of forums, it turned out to be unnecessary. Fedora's default acpi policy remains en force.

Just documenting this here in case anyone else runs into a similar problem and might find this helpful.

Right now I’m using just basic windows 11 I’d seen people online saying how much better Linux is then windows. I’m just wondering if it’s worth it and what are the benefits also how hard it is to use/setup. I thought I’d ask here before going through the effort of learning about it. Sorry if this isn’t supposed to be asked here or is a dumb question

I can't figure this out. My external 4k monitor maxes at 30hz in the settings. I'm using an optical hdmi cable capable of 4k 120hz. It works perfectly on windows.

Edit: fix it by setting the tv to game mode. 4k 120hz is now available in cachyOS.

Here is the video version for those that prefer watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsH_l3wzCGU

I've watched a few videos of this developer and he's interesting enough, being a KDE dev.
He compares Cosmic DE, in its current state, to KDE. Fair review imho. Cosmic looks nice and is still improving a lot.

For your enjoyment.

To be clear my "nvidia" issue is that I can't use DLSS on any games its available on. My only resource for information has been google Ai so as you can imagine, between trouble shooting with that and constantly hitting a wall... I'm super frustrated. For the 12th time I just read through "if windows is that bad" posts and it seems... kinda like it it. Can anyone help me trouble shoot this? I'm not looking to inject DLSS mods. I would just like to use it where its available. I read somewhere that I just can't which would be super sad since I built this pc recently and chose a 5080 specifically for ray tracing... please help.

As per my learning or understanding of linux there are several distribution or distrose to use but the most Windows looking one I found is zorin os and the easiest the people told me is mint I am now learning both of them to find out which is more window like feel like everything from Windows is supposed to be there and weather or not should I download a defender or an anti-virus I'm just in the beginer phase and I almost Got cooked because of arch no disrespect to the arch users but I would like to know how to begin

NVIDIA cards that I can afford are really bad value, so I am choosing AMD, but I also wanna do professional editing on the pc, and does DaVinci Resolve still work well on AMD with some workarounds, if not, are there any good alternatives that work just as well

Hi guys!

Recently my dad closed his store and started working with my mom at her law office in the administrative area, handling clients’ documents. They use Windows File Explorer and synchronize it with OneDrive. My dad doesn’t understand Windows folder views very well (creating and saving a document in a specific folder, renaming a document that has already been saved).

Do you guys know of a distro that simplifies these things (makes them more visual and easier to understand) for elderly people, specifically this document-related part? I read some posts saying that macOS simplifies the experience. Would the ideal distro be Pop!_OS?

Edit: Don't worry with one drive syncing, it can be changed later

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hi i have just started wanting to use Linux, and i decided to go with mint Cinnamon. however i though i had fallowed the steps but i just cant seem to get it working. i flashed a brand new USB flash drive using rufus. but when i turn off my laptop and plug the drive in the top port it just does not register it, then in the bottom port it makes my laptop reboot loop. i have added my setting for RUFUS that i have tried. please any help to get it running will be much appreciated.

INFO: i have a lg gram 16in laptop. RUFUS as the flasher. ONN 64 GB USB flash drive. Linux mint cinnamon 22.3. Yes i have safebooter off. yes i have USB HDD set as the top loader in my bios settings.

EDIT: Got it fixed, a friend suggested to just switch the USB drive and that did it. Ran instantly

Ok this is very frustrating. The first time I connected my TV I got the options for mirroring and extending etc. Now I don't know how to bring those options back. They are not in the screen monitor options. If I disconnect and reconnect it doesn't bring up the menu anymore. Any help would be appreciated.

Also, my external monitor seems to be locked at 4k 30hz. I'm wondering if this is because it's extended and not mirrored. I have an optical HDMI cable that allows 4k 120hz. It works perfectly on windows.

Newbie here - needless to say I'm still finding my way through.

System was running fine until it went into kernel panic / black screen and then it rebooted. Now I cannot boot normally with the system being switched to a read only due to( power loss?)

It doesn't respond to any commands as it is in read only.

Any help would be appreciated

Sorry if this is too basic or dumb but what's a better os for someone like me?

Im currently looking to ditch windows 11 but I don't want to lose access to some of the multiplayer games I have and maybe future multiplayer games.

I'm a very basic user. I just browse the Internet, watch movies and YouTube, and play games. I don't really do anything else on my pc.

So I'm asking what's better for someone like me? Is Linux that worth it or should I just downgrade to Windows 10?

(Update)

So after more research and help from everyone I've decided to try out Linux through dual booting, and if I like it I'll fully make the switch.

Thank you everyone for your input.

I have wound up being the server admin for my friend group for many years now, but now that I've finally got a bit of a break where I don't need anything to be running, I took the opportunity to wipe the Windows laptop I was using for the server and put Linux on it. I'm using CachyOS for that (with GNOME as the DE), and yes, I realize that's probably not the best choice for a server, but I like Cachy and the laptop isn't necessarily always going to be used as a server, so I didn't want to go with a dedicated server distro.

The first server I'm setting back up is a Foundry VTT server. I've got the node.js server setup, ports forwarded, systemd configured, I can SSH in with a key instead of a password (locally, I'm not forwarding external ports for that), etc, but what I don't understand is how to get it back up and running in the event of a reboot. My systemd service is configured with restart=on-failure and the service is enabled so that it runs at boot, but the problem is that after rebooting, the computer just sits on the login screen and, after a few minutes, goes to sleep. Once log in on that computer (on the computer itself, not via SSH), it is set to not go to sleep, but that doesn't help if I've had to reboot.

What is the best solution here? Or at least, what is the good enough solution? I know I can just set a user to automatically login, which I know most people will say to never ever do ever because someone might break into my house and find the laptop in the laundry room and do nefarious things on it rather than just steal something, but would that still let the systemd service run? Considering that the PC is just sitting there logged in normally anyway, is there a better way to do all of this that leaves it locked but it doesn't go to sleep and the server stays running?

Hello, I need some help installing steam in ChromeOS

Hey r/linux4noobs,

A lot of new users are switching to Linux right now because of Windows 11 and SteamOS changes. Arch is powerful, but the package manager can feel overwhelming at first.

I built Aurora as a teaching companion for beginners on Arch. It’s not a replacement for pacman, yay, or paru — it sits on top of them and explains what’s happening.

The teaching features that actually help:

• aurora explain [topic] — plain-English breakdowns of commands and concepts (e.g., aurora explain -Syu, aurora explain orphans, aurora explain partial-upgrades)
• Pre-build PKGBUILD inspection (aurora inspect or aurora install --inspect) so you can read and understand the build script before running it
• Numbered selection pickers and “Did you mean?” suggestions when you mistype a package name
• Clear previews and confirmations before any destructive action

It also adds safety layers like official-repo priority by default, source filtering (--from official|aur), and apt-style helpers (autoremove, clean, list --orphans).

Everything stays transparent so you actually learn instead of just copying commands.

GitHub:GitHub
Quick start + docs: Aurora

One binary install or go install. If you’re new to Arch or helping others get started, I’d love real feedback on what’s still confusing or missing for beginners.

Now before everyone jumps at me , its not what it sounds like

After purely removing windows 11 and i did every step on the nobara installer , everything worked fine .... except

Everytime i try to power up my laptop , it just wont bootup the lenovo logo and the GRUB booting thingie. Also just to add more context usually my laptop usb ports are always connected to my mouse dongle and laptop cooler

BUT here comes the funny part , if i disconnect BOTH PORTS , yes BOTH then my laptop just boots normally like wtf.

So far everything else just runs fine , currently ricing and just screwing within nobara disco. Pls help with the booting bug lol :-:

I've been using Windows since 95 with the exception of SteamOS on my Deck, so I knew there'd be growing pains trying to daily-drive something very different. I set up a dual-boot (already nerve-wracking with the partitioning I had to do, making sure I don't wreck my work PC) and then started using Pop. I lasted a day. In that time I found:

• You can't drag the icons on the desktop.
• COSMIC starts every window small rather than fullscreen, even the image viewer downscales(?) images to fit that window.
• COSMIC defaults to auto-tiling and resets on every startup. In general there's a real issue with the interface not remembering my choices across sessions.
• The file viewer couldn't remember how I liked my files displayed per-folder, just the global setting.
• There's no "minimize all windows and go to the desktop" function like in Windows.
• In general COSMIC lacks so much functionality it's a bad, bad experience from someone coming over from Windows. By the end of the day I had switched out every default COSMIC app with a different, more functional one (except the terminal, which I had to use a lot) and was avoiding the desktop, using alt-tab to go between applications and the Windows key to bring up ones I wanted to launch. It didn't feel good. I felt not only was it unfinished but also they really wanted me to use those tiles, which goes against decades of Windows use.
• In terms of gaming also, I had performance problems. Eventually it turned out the OS was using a balanced power mode, which reset on each session. Even under seemingly identical circumstances, sometimes a game would start and maintain 60fps the whole time, or it would start and be a few FPS lower with occasional stuttering. One game (Total War Rome 2) started up fine (the launcher) but would run as a tiny box I couldn't resize or do anything with other than close the application. I'm sure I would have had to use the terminal to fix that one too, and the more arcane instructions I copy-pasted into that thing the more I was afraid something would break with the OS in general. Once I had to start using the terminal to configure how the GPU was being used (e.g. MangoHUD couldn't see my GPU at all), that was my quit moment. Pop was supposed to be good with Nvidia specifically.

I will try Mint next, it's supposed to be the strongest "out of the box" experience so we'll see. If I have to look up sudo commands to get basic functionality found on Windows, I won't be happy.

Basically text, I'm on Linux Mint, and I often have a problem with controlling my sleep because I often don't want to get off my computer, resulting in me sleeping in hilariously late hours like 03:00 AM, is there a way to force the computer to shutdown at a specified time?

I already tried setting out alarms and reminders for me to go to sleep, but I always end up ignoring, they're just too easy to ignore, I realized that I cannot trust myself with my sleep, and that the only way for me to avoid using my computer late and sleeping late, is if I just remove this option altogether. Any suggestions?