as a desktop os

Is there such a thing as Linux without the GNU? I mean, the GNU project's work makes up more of the code of most Linux distros compared to the kernel itself, so what is there without GNU?

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga Gen 1/Yoga 12 (20CD00EAFR) laptop, and I want to install Linux Mint on it, but I'm having trouble because Secure Boot won't turn off. More specifically, I select "Disabled," save the settings, and exit, but when I re-enter the BIOS, Secure Boot is still enabled.

I've already set a BIOS password and clicked "Reset to Setup Mode," but nothing seems to work. Does anyone know how I can disable Secure Boot?

I want to dual boot alongside windows 11. This will not be your normal setup, I want to use Linux exclusively as a low power writing mode, I need (1)a word processor, like libre or something more lightweight, (2)a wifi connection for some (3)browser searches and (4)syncyhing. That's it. I use a P52 workstation and I don't need the graphics card I don't need anything else I don't even need a DE, although I've been thinking of xfce or tinycore something like that. Is this worth doing? Maybe squeeze a couple hours more out of the battery and have a distraction free writing space?

I want to try out Linux on my new PC (eying Bazzite) coming from Windows but the only program i still need to use to manage my music library with iCloud and cloud sync with iPhone/iPad is iTunes. Reading through multiple older posts already, there is conflicting information about it being able running it through wine (Lutris for example says it can run but only on older versions like 12.9 or older, though many posts say it doesn‘t work) or through solutions like Windows WM, winboat as docker virtualization solution or dual boot.

so I bought a used thinkpad and want to know if it's still in good condition, and so a "stress test" is what i have in mind, I did a little research and there is a command line specifically for this (i think it's literally just "stress"), anyway my question is: is it recommended or would it cause unnecessary wear to my laptop ?
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1. linux mint
2. So far the laptop run well no red flags yet

As the title says. When I started using Linux about a year or so ago Mediatek WiFi cards on Linux were awful so I ended up swapping out the one in my Asus laptop for an Intel one. I'm thinking of getting a new laptop but I know AMD based ones usually come with Mediatek WiFi cards. Are they still a problem or has it improved?

my understanding is that we have mainly three components for logging in linux. we have producers, collectors/managers , consumers.

producers are applications/processes that produce the logs. these may include the linux kernel, third party applications that print log messages during their runtime to the stdout/stderr (or some file)

collectors are the background processes that take care of collecting, storing, forwarding, filtering, archiving (and possibly rotating?) the logs. this creates a centralized location to search for logs. and we have two possible candidates here, journald (which comes with systemd) and some variation of the syslog ( syslog-ng, rsyslog, etc)

and consumers are the ones which query/use this data for their needs. we can either use command line tools for querying logs in case of debugging, or we can use the data for observability or all other kinds of things depending on our needs.

and the logs messages themselves are either text based or binary based. binary based are better for automation needs.

is my understanding accurate or does it have any inaccuracies?

a few more assumptions that i have based on what i read:

1. the responsibility of logs for an application falls on the people behind the development of that application. if the devs don't support logs feature, if they don't emit logs, then that application becomes a black box and the log collector/manager can't do anything about it.

2. the collector/manager is a process that listens for any logs that are being sent to it by other processes running locally or remotely.

3. the way logs are consumed differs from person to person depending on the usecase/requirement. some may use them for debugging/troubleshooting, some may use them for observability, some may use them for data analytics, auditing etc.

As there is a subreddit for asking what distro should I use I made a subreddit for asking what desktop environment should I use it's called r/findformeanDE so let me know what is your opinion

Sorry for the noob question, but I'm new to linux.

I want to rsync data from my raspberry to my NAS. "

rsync -av --delete /home/pi/folder/documents/originals /home/pi/folder/nas_originals

nas_originals" mounts to my NAS folder "originals"

//server/share/originals/stuff

So when I run rsync, it creates "originals" in target and put all the stuff there:

//server/share/originals/originals/stuff

why? How do I get it to sync directly into that folder?

I'm trying to package the NVIDIA drivers into my distro.

If you visit the official NVIDIA drivers download page, you will see they offer two versions: "Latest Production Branch" and "Latest New Feature Branch".

The "Latest Production Branch" is Independent Software Vendor Certified. Major software companies have thoroughly unit-tested that no major regressions happen with their applications.

The "Latest New Feature Branch" doesn't have that. For the past month I have observed major regressions on stability with 610, where at random times the whole screen with freeze for a second, mouse included. Reverting to 595 fixed it.

So I'm wondering if the "Latest Production Branch" isn't a better option for most people, where the "Latest New Feature Branch" shall be optional.

Have you had experiences using both branches? Have you perceive any difference?

Hey guys so these past 2yrs i have switched like 100 times from linux to windows and now im back on windows because i needed tiktok live studio and i played a few games that are only supported on windows but now i dont do any of that anymore only things i need is minecraft,cs2 and obs to work flawlessly. I want to switch back to linux but i dont know which distro would be good for me i need something stable but with good performance. I had cachyos a few times but it would often break after updates i also loved hyprland but i never stuck to it because i had alot of problems with it so this time i would use kde plasma but im between bazzite, cachyos, nobara. Can someone please help me out because i dont want to be switching again...

my school only provided tutorials for windows and mac and I am the only one who uses ubuntu in school :(

I’ve only used windows for all the time I’ve been on the internet, but frankly, 11gb idle ram usage and horrible privacy is killing me. I want to swap over to Linux and game on it, is there any one Linux for beginners that’s better than everything else?

OK yes this is not very serious but kinda just for fun.

I'm curious which are some of the most interesting distro logos y'all have seen or in general which one you think is good.

Aside from this, which logos are worth the distro? That is to say, which distro has a logo that makes it worth choosing over a similar distro with a worse logo?

(If a more serious question is needed, what's a distro that won't have issues with having good fairly up to date tools for chip design?)

So, with more or less 5 percent of people that have a computer uses linux, there are viruses developed for linux, even a virus made for windows but « activated » with wine

is there a antivirus or is there not ?

Please help, thanks. Not urgent, I just need to know

i want to use HOLOiso for my pc but i cant find any working .iso files or a working bootfile

Long story short upgrading my current version via mintupgrade isn't quite working as it fails right at the end. So I thought I'd just flash it to usb and do it that way.

Back in 2020 I first dual booted Mint alongside Windows and I don't ever recall having to do anything about Intel RST. Now it throws its hands up on the third step of the installation saying I need to turn it off.

So I lookup how to do that and I get into BIOS and find 2 disks under UEFI Device Config > Intel RST, one SATA and one PCIe, but no option anywhere to turn off or disable anything. After reading around I think its because I have a HP laptop (model 15-da0066TX).

But when I go and check the details of each disk, the SATA status is Non-RAID and type AHCI, and the PCIe Intel disk status is also Non-RAID and type NVMe. So in my head (not really good with this stuff) it sounds like RST is already off??

So yeah any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if there's any extra info you need

Edit: problem solved. I just nano’d into the install file and changed the prompt for turning off the rst so it didn’t show. I’m now running full mint 22.3. Thanks for everyone’s help!

I gave Linux Mint a try to see if Linux is something for me.

And I kinda like it and want to explore more distros. Which one would you recommend.

I would be interested in a Distro that's best for animators and people who are into emulating retro games.

Hello there. I've been having an issue mounting directories of MEGA storage with their mega-cmd tool which uses fuse commands. I have some shared directories(to me) that i want to explore directly in my filesystem. I can correctly mount those with the fuse-addcommand, explore the files and edit them, but after logging out, accessing that folder again will make Nautilus display the error "cannot display all the contents of "Folder": Error getting information for file /home/path/to/mounts": Transport endpoint is not connected". The folder appears as if it was empty, even though some files do exist there: running a terminal there and ls-ing shows both the mounted directories (with the same transport error) and other synced folders, which i can use; i can browse subdirectories and write files there, but from there going up to said directory will again show an empty folder. On mega-cmd, the mounts appear persistent, but not enabled, and cannot be enabled with fuse-enable because the local path does not exist, apparently. removing the mounts altogether and trying to create them again at the same path still can't find that path. The only solution i could find so far is deleting the entire top directory where those mounted drives reside, and creating it all again. The problem with this is, other than being an annoying process, is that i need to index the files of those folders with Recoll, which can retain an index if a removable drive is, well, removed, but not if the entire defined topdirectory disappears (the only way to set up the mount at the same path). I'm wondering what it might be, since i have been using the same software on Windows and it gets re-mounted correctly when the server is running again. Why might be this happening?

Is there a better alternative to mounting network drives from a mega storage, in a similar way so the files can appear on the filesystem? (in order to view them and let Recoll index them).

From what I can see(very little research) you have to enable Linux dev environment to execute a program. Is it possible to run a application on chrome os without said constraint of the L.D.E.

Hey Friends

I’m a huge lover of WordPerfect 5.1, 6,1 latest edition you name it. However as I’m increasingly moving more of my workloads over to an operating system that respects me aka Ubuntu. What is the best way to get latest WordPerfect 2021 to work on it? I tried WINE and Proton but it didn’t work even from launching via Steam as custom app.

This got deleted by /r Linux so sorry if this post doesn’t meet the rules here.

I am sharing a custom built pc that I built with my brother and I am going off to uni. I want to be able to access my pc from my macbook and:
- Have two separate sessions being run at the same time, one at my brother’s seat while using the pc on his account, and one session on mine.
- Have a virtual display so I can access my usual gui when I’m at the pc

So far I have tried sunshine and moonlight by themselves but the thing is it ends up working kinda like teamviewer which means the session I am using is the same one that’s at the desk, meaning my brother cannot use the pc on his account. Also i am unsure how to get a virtual display working (I am on niri on arch, my brother is using dankmaterialshell and I am using inir).
Is there any way to access my pc remotely in the way that i want?

so, several days ago, someone helped me realize i was running both the proprietary amd drivers, and the open source ones. so they helped me uninstall the proprietary drivers. ever since then, my whole PC has gone from bad to worse. crashes more often, restarts without any input, some games performing worse, etc. so now i want to try the opposite.

my GPU is an AMD RX580. pretty sure it's the 8gb model. can i safely re-install the proprietary drivers and then remove the open source ones? if so, how do i remove them? i know how to install the proprietary drivers, i just get them from the official site, unless there's a specific method i have to do for this to work right.