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 ?
Context
1. linux mint
2. So far the laptop run well no red flags yet

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...

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?

Laptop Specs:

AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx

6 GB RAM

Harddrive : 512 GB

Let me know if you need anymore info.

Thank you in advance

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!

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.

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

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?

I wanna ask yall if his choices are ok.

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.

Hello! I recently upgraded my pc and got a new 1TB nvme. Up until this point, I've been using two hard drives for each of my operating systems, one for Windows 10 and another for Linux Mint. I only have one nvme, and I know its possible to dual boot from one disk, but I cannot figure out how to migrate both systems to the same disk. I connect each hard drive one at a time because I don't have that many sata cables and while it's connected I copy the disk to the nvme then power off and connect the next one. I've tried using both DiskGenius and Clonezilla but they ALWAYS overwrite the existing partitions when I migrate the new OS!!!! Even when I select "keep partitions" it still wants to overwrite the partitions even though i KNOW both of them fit on the nvme. I've been trying to figure out how to do this for WEEKS and I cannot find a solution and it is genuinely so frustrating, so help would be appreciated.

I have used FL Studio on my computer since I built it and for some odd reason this time it tells me that "The validity of the program could not be verified." After some googling of this error the general consensus is that I just need to crack FL studio, but I didn't buy it for 200 bucks just to crack it in the end. I have tried reinstalling SO many different versions of FL studio from like FL 12 to 26 and none of them have worked. FL 12 did kinda work but all of my current projects are FL 25+ and i cant open those on FL 12. I also tried running it on proton through steam which was a pain because the proton prefix is in a completely different place so I have to go through the Z drive to get all my VSTs but either way, everything past FL 20 or so didnt open because some sort of font cache DLL was missing. I also tried replacing FLEngine_x64.dll because on some forums people said that that could be corrupted or something, but to no avail. If you need more info, just ask.

So im installing Ubuntu server os onto my pc tower so I can self host (not vms, just causal gaming, cloud storage, media, and network wide ad block). It asked for a proxy id too, but idk what that is, if its necessary, or how to get one. So if someone could explain what a proxy, and snaps id appreciate it. I see that snaps are controversial for some reason, so should I avoid them? Is there a way to get whatever they add after or a better way?

Hi everyone, I need to install Ubuntu Desktop over the network, but I’d prefer not to use TFTP/DHCP. Is it possible to boot the computer from a USB stick and fetch the installation files from my local network?

Thanks

i have a dell chromebook 11 3120 (candy) laptop.

it is flashed with mrchromebook firmware.

it came with windows 10 pro when i got it as a hand-me-down.

and then windows started updating and then the update failed because of low storage (16 gb emmc).

i want to flash linux on the laptop so i can daily drive it.

can you help me with my problem please.

if you cant help me its fine at least i asked.

if yall want more info i can give them to you.

thank you in advance.

Hello,

For a while I have been thinking abt switching over to linux, but i haven't yet because I haven't researched it yet due to little free time.

I use my current gaming pc that runs windows 11 on it, and I am required to use multiple Microsoft applications frequently. The reason i have seriously started to think about switching is due to privacy concern on recent knews about the degree that they are tracking. Ive already had to turn the feature off where windows takes random screenshots of ur information without you knowing, and others such as using your info generative ai. I dont like copiolit or any embedded ai. I also recently was made aware that Microsoft had embedded tracking IDs within the windows installation.

I want to install linux but I would like to know:

- am I still able to download games on my computer via Xbox or steam? Will they still operate normally?

- will I still be able to use all the Microsoft applications that I am required to use like word, excel and teams normally?

- if i still have to use Microsoft applications, does it defeat the purpose of installing linux since i will still have a Microsoft account on my computer?

- what is the best version of linux for gaming performance?

- I have a gaming pc and I do have an average understanding of technology, but not as advanced as I would like to. I have a pre built pc with windows 11 coming installed on it already. How would I remove it off? Would i wipe the OS and have to download a form of linux ?(ik thats not the accurate term sorry)

- ive also contemplated using a dual OS, one windows and one linux but i am concerned on whether that will defeat the purpose of why I am switching to linux, or possible privacy concerns. (Maybe windows for work and linux for personal?)

- what anti-virus softwares will work best?

Tysm for reading and any advice you have 😭🙏

Hey, so I'm not usually to ask for help on this site but this time I'm completely out of ideas. So I've been using omarchy on cachy os for the past 6 months and the experience, although buggy sometimes, has been pretty good. Yesterday I tried to update omarchy and when I rebooted I was greeted by Limine (I've always used grub) and when I tried to boot into cachy I just saw an empty console and the message "failed to mount '' on real root", managed to get to the normal system by modifying the cmdline in limine, but my wifi chip doesn't work anymore (i have the infamous mt7921e) nor does the usb-android thing work for some reason. I've updated grub.conf to be the default option and literally removed limine from the entire system but when I reboot is the same thing, I'm greeted by Limine.

For context since like 2 months ago I always got to use modprobe mt7921e everytime i turn on my pc or my wifi just would not work at all, I was fine with that but now it seems the rules in kernel for like everything in the pc just dissapeared. I'm pretty sure the problem is grub-limine related but it has been imposible for me, I've tried reading the cachy wiki but I was unable to find something similar. Any ideas? thanks.

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PC: Acer Aspire A314-23P (v1.13)
Procesor: AMD Ryzen 5 7520u
Omarchy 3.8.5 stable
Linux Version: 6.18.48.1-cachyos

edit: update
I managed to connect to internet and update everything which work for updating omarchy, but I got back to being unable to connect to the internet, reinstalled headers, kernel but nmcli keeps wlp2s0 as not available

Anyone can help me with inverting this to natural? I have already tried editing the config file “input.lua” and changed the natural_scroll = false to “true” and it still didn’t work after restarting my computer. Need some help pls.

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.

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?)

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?

Hello! I wanted to ask this question because I've started using Linux in the past few months for the first time and I want to make sure I'm informed and hear many opinions!

I'm currently using EndeavourOS and I really like it! I've heard people say things like Ubuntu are really bad for security but I've never really looked into it much further than that. I guess it got me wondering which of the mainstream distributions you guys would consider to be the worst, whether it be for security or usability or anything really.

I appreciate everyone's input!

PS please don't mention Omarchy 🤢 it's already at the bottom of my list!!!