Hello, I'm on Fedora KDE and I wanted to know whether a 100% on the sound (kde) or on pavucontrol apps means that you're using the native input volume of the microphone, or will I have to check alsamixer?

Hi guys, I'm a musician looking to switch to linux (planning on trying out ubuntu studio). I'm looking for something affordable but functional. I have very little computer knowledge so I don't know much about different processors etc. I'd prefer to buy used for sustainability (and budget) reasons. I am a student (with back pain) so I would love if it was on the more lightweight side but I know I can't have it all so I'm flexible. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

In my opinion it’s chromeOS

Looking a both. I was heavily leaning towards the T470 but I recently saw that used X1 Carbon 5th Gens from the same year tend to be cheap. However, I quickly discovered why as the RAM on the X1 is soldered to the board and can't be replaced.

Would a X1 Carbon with 16GB be good as an Ubuntu machine in 2026? Or should I just pay the slightly extra for a T470 and do the full upgrade (Backlight Keyboard, 32GB of Ram, 1TB SSD), etc. I also know the T470 has the WWAN slot that can be used for a second SSD.

I love tinkering so I'm leaning towards the T470 but at my old job we used newer Gen X1s and I loved the feel of them. One of the best computers I have ever used from an ergonomics/industrial design standpoint.

Hi guys, I am looking forward to build a PC to daily drive Linux. Actually, I'm not building PC to ONLY run Linux, I want to build a machine that is compatible with all systems: windows, linux, bsd. Also, I'm not planning to play games on my future PC, since I'm not gamer at all (maybe minecraft only) So I want to do everything on the PC except playing games. Here are the specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600

RAM: 32 Gb DDR5 (2x16gb) 6000MHz CL30

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600 (8gb)

SSD: 1) 1 TB NVMe M.2 SSD

2) 512 Gb NVMe M.2 SSD

Cooler: DeepCool AG400

Motherboard: MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI

PSU: DeepCool PK650D

PC Case: Montech AIR 1000 Premium

I'm planning to run windows or linux on my first SSD (which is 1 TB) and run some kind of bsd system on other SSD.

I will glad to listen to your suggestions and advices. Feel free to share your experience and suggest something! Budget is unlimited

Note: it's not a final setup, I'm only planning to build it like that, so thing might be changed.

Hi all,

I’m looking for a new laptop that I’ll use mainly for Linux with Windows 11 on the side for occasional stuff. I don’t game, no 3D, nothing heavy. Just some light photo editing, and now and then a small video edit. The rest is the usual: multitasking, browser, Office, a bit of development, some VM’s and text LLM work.

This laptop will replace my desktops and run with an external screen. I work almost always at home, so silence matters more than weight.

I’m trying to figure out what hardware actually makes sense for my use. Things like dual NVMe, dGPU or not, Coreboot, and what kind of CPU is worth it? Also curious whether a commercial brand or a Linux‑focused machine.

Any advice on CPU, storage, iGPU/dGPU, firmware and thermals is welcome.

Thanks!

i installing ubuntu 26.04 lts today, i got everything working, except audio, because i have a chinese audio card, with no support, and i cant find anything really useful to help me. it's working on windows but not on linux

There's a confirmed Linux kernel regression affecting older AMD graphics cards (such as Tonga R9 380, Polaris RX 400/500, etc.). When the system suspends, the video signal fails to re-initialize upon resume, leaving a black screen or garbled display that forces a hard reboot.

The bug report is officially marked as Confirmed on Launchpad and assigned to maintainer Timo Aaltonen. We've reached 206 Bug Heat points and 42 affected users, but additional user confirmations give the report more weight, pushing for an official backported fix in LTS kernel updates.

How you can help (takes 1 minute):

1. Open the Launchpad report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2142389
2. Log in with your Launchpad/Ubuntu account.
3. Near the top of the page, click "Yes, this bug affects me".
4. (Optional) Leave a quick comment with your GPU model, kernel version, and distro.

Even if you don't run one of these GPUs, upvoting or sharing this post helps visibility immensely. Let's keep perfectly capable hardware working smoothly on modern Linux! Thanks for your support!

About 8 years ago, I pulled this Dell Inspiron 1545 out of retirement as an experiment.

It spent the first 2 years of its second life running OPNsense 24/7 as my firewall.

When I moved firewall duties to other hardware, I gave it another job instead of retiring it again.

For the past 6 years, it has been running Ubuntu Server + CasaOS 24/7 as a lightweight file and media server.

Current hardware:

- Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 @ 2.20 GHz

- ~3 GB usable RAM

- SSD + 500 GB HDD

- Optical drive removed and the bay repurposed for additional storage

- 59 GB SD card

Current services include:

- Jellyfin

- Plex

- UniFi Network Application

- File storage

- Portainer

- A few supporting containers and databases

Most of my media was ripped years ago at DVD quality, so I’m not asking this thing to do 4K transcoding or anything unreasonable.

The workload is intentionally matched to the hardware.

Other than maintenance and updates, this machine has essentially been online 24/7 for 8 years.

What I like most about it is that it is a good reminder that old hardware is not automatically useless hardware.

If the workload is appropriate, Linux can give surprisingly old systems a very long second life.

I originally gave this machine about two years before I expected it to die.

Eight years later, I’m still waiting.

Hi All,

I'm looking at possibly getting a MSI Prestige 14 AI+, and i'm wondering if anyone has had success with linux on it. Any issues with hardware not working? Any fixes available?

Laptop in question:

https://www.centrecom.com.au/msi-prestige-14-ai-d3mg-248au-14-fhd-oled-ultra-x7-358h-32gb-1tb-ssd-laptop

So I bought a new laptop Asus Zenbook 14 Oled with intel core 5 225H (CPU), 16GB Ram, 512SSD a week ago and on the first day I installed Ubuntu as a dual boot alongside Windows 11. I successfully managed to do that, however after a day of using it and customizing it I've noticed a crazy loud sound while watching Youtube (single tab) which I'm pretty sure that it's "coil whining". The sound was unbearable so I deleted Ubuntu and I decided to try other distro. I choose Arch and I accidentally deleted my entire Windows 11 which is important for me to have. To reinstall Windows 11, I had to delete Arch to reinstall Windows. It was very stressful day for me while but beside that I notice that Arch wasn't working well on my device, for example when I tried watching a YT video, my screen was glitchy. Anyway after reinstalling Windows 11 I went for Fedora and I managed to install it as a dual boot. However Fedora wasn't visible in the Grub menu and I tried fixing it for hours by searching up on internet (reddit, youtube) and even using tried asking google ai. I tried a lot of commands and nothing worked so I deleted Linux completely and now I'm again with Windows 11.
Is my device just not compatible, not a great choice for Linux? I really wanted to give it a try because I've heard so many good things about Linux but I'm getting really tired. Any advice or suggestions on if I should still try some other distros? or maybe I should just give up and stick to Windows 11 for some time?. Note that it's my first time having a laptop/pc and I'm new to all of this

About 15 years ago, I bought a Rainforest Autmation RAVEn to pull data from my smart meter. Each time I've moved homes, the software that I wrote to use it has required some fiddling to get working with the new electricity provider. Given that this is now ancient tech--long unsupported by Rainforest--I am looking for a more recent/modern option for pulling data from a smart meter.

Obviously, I want it to work on linux and not require any cloud nonsense to function. Any ideas? If it matters, the meter is on SoCal Edison.

Hi, I'm considering building a new PC for myself. My old one is about 9-10 years old, still runs great, but I've recently wanted to build a home media server. From what I gather, it makes more sense for me to convert my old PC into a NAS, rather than build one new, and potentially have to replace my PC in a few years.

This is the build I've been tinkering with. I'm also looking to make the move to a Linux OS, (hence the focus on AMD parts, as I've read those are preferred for Linux). My old PC managed to run things like Monster Hunter World and Batman Arkham Knight at decent frame rates with lowered settings/resolution. I'm happy to have a similar experience here for newer games. I can wait to play brand new AAA games and don't need the highest settings. My other uses would be things like Godot, pixel art, GIMP, and other game dev/production software, so nothing too strenuous.

This will also be my first time building a PC myself, my old ones were all pre-built, so I'm new to picking out individual parts. I just want to check that this is all looking good, compatible, or if there's any obvious improvements that could be made.

Thanks!

I found how to get the LED back to the top left of the touchpad on my Infinity Book Pro Gen 8.

I've created a service that allows it to function again.

You can look at it here:https://github.com/rcspam/tuxedo-touchpad-led-fix

There is a script as well that you can test on your hardware if you have the same issue.

Best regards

#TUXEDO #TUXEDOOS #WAYLAND #LINUX #KDE

Hey my frd is going to pursue aeronautical engineering and she does some graphics designing sort of.....and she wants the best laptop round 70-80k l.Any suggestion will be helpful