Hey everyone,

So about a month ago I finally made the jump to Linux. I started with Linux Mint Cinnamon like basically everyone recommends for beginners, and honestly it was a great start, no complaints really. After a while tho I wanted to try something lighter so I moved to XFCE. It was fast and clean but I dont know, something just felt missing? Like it worked fine but I wasnt really excited using it.

Now I'm on Debian with KDE Plasma and wow... KDE completely got me. There's so many features and you can customize literally everything, I've spent way too many hours tweaking panels and themes lol. For the first time I actually feel like I found what I was looking for this whole time.

Setting up Debian was a bit more work than Mint but I took it slow and did it properly, installed the drivers I needed and all that. The only real problem I had was the wifi on my PC, it just wouldnt work right at first. Turned out I needed a newer kernel, so I installed one from backports and it's been working perfect since then.

I also set up Steam and Dota 2 runs perfect, which was honestly the test I was most nervous about lol. My PC is an i3 10100F with an RX 6500 XT and it handles it really well.

Funny thing is I did the whole setup following a guide that Claude (the AI) made for me lol. Explained every step pretty clearly and saved me alot of headaches, so if your new and kinda lost it's actually not a bad way to learn.

Anyway just wanted to share. Any tips for a new Debian/KDE user? Must have apps or settings I should know about?

So, I've been using Linux Mint for over a year now. I've almost got the hang of using terminal commands for file navigation and importing libraries.

However, the challenges around programming have not been easy. For starters, I sometimes am unable to connect to public Wifi, and for some reason, importing certain libraries while I'm working in VS Code are pretty much a nightmare (pip sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't.)

I've lost entire evenings and afternoons of would-be productive programming, to searching for the right commands to do the most basic of things. I legit have developed impostor syndrome around coding in general from this.

However, at the same time, I don't want to go revert back to Windows. So I'm asking for advice on which cloud environment is best to use for coding projects while I learn to master my OS seperately? Any easy-to-use option is appreaciated!

-K

Edit: Solved. To quote u/pelazas1:

That's usually Windows Fast Startup leaving the drive half-hibernated. Turn it off in Windows power options, do a full shutdown, and it'll mount again.

I installed CachyOS on a separate SSD partition yesterday morning, went off without a hitch. No errors, no problems. It was able to handle all of my other NTFS-formatted storage devices that I've mounted in my system. Last night, I had to reboot into Windows to do a couple of things and make backups of some config files that I use on the same program across OSes.

I put all of my files that I need to share between OSes on my smallest HDD, which is several terabytes in size and has been working reliably for five years. Formatted in NTFS, obviously.

This morning, when I booted into CachyOS, I attempted to mount the drive using Dolphin and... it wouldn't.

"The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sdb2 at /run/media/(username)/(nameofdrive): wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2," so on and so forth.

I was under the impression that with the new NTFS driver, it would be fine. It was fine, in fact. It was reading and writing with no issues beforehand. It can mount, read and write to other NTFS-formatted drives instantly with no problem.

Reddit threads told me to run chkdsk on Windows. Chkdsk returns no errors. Once again, chkdsk returns no errors. The drive is fine. I did reboot into Cachy after running chkdsk. No dice.

I don't understand this. What incredibly obvious thing am I missing here?

Hello everyone, I just switched to linux after 10 years of windows. I am currently using Fedora KDE plasma 44. Please don't hate on me, I'm doing this switch exactly because I want my system to be clean and fast.

Probably over asked, but I have some problems with pipewire and company, which I can't figure out how to setup. I come in desperation beacuse at this point I have no clue what I'm doing wrong.

I have an elgato wave 3 microphone, which I saw already on other subreddits that isn't really supported on linux. I saw some fixes but I don't know at this point what i deleted and what I didn't because I spent the last two days trying to figure out what is wrong with pipewire, and I tried to reset everything many times.

As outputs I have 1 USB connected headset (Steelseries arctis pro which creates 2 audio outputs, chat & game) and bluetooth headphones (CMF Buds pro 2).

I am not sure what to ask at this point, because everything just goes crazy, maybe I'm messing with the wrong software...

I tried to use QjackCtl to wire my audio connections, even tried with qpwgraph, but still: after a few seconds of inactivity (i tried to play some media on zen browser), my elgato wave 3 (which has a jack output other than the microphone input) auto re-wires to the browser. If it's not the wave3, it's the steelseries arctis pro.

I have tried multiple times to create virtual sinks, but the same keeps happening: when i restart pipewire my CMF buds pro 2 start a disconnect/reconnect infinite loop

My mic works 2 times out of 10 and I, I just don't know anymore where to start with all the problems. There are at least another 10 other problems that I had with pipewire but I really don't know where to start.

I come from windows where I had elgato wave link, with the ability to send my audio to all the devices (CMF & arctis pro at the same time) and I would just like to ask for help from someone to figure out what I should do. I have tried to read the pipewire docs with no solution

Thanks everyone

I'm posting this in case someone is googling about it because I had trouble finding any help that way.

I followed every guide and forum help post I found about switching my kernel to linux-zen for more optimized gaming. I had everything installed but grub didn't seem to notice the added kernel. Not a word about the new kernel showed when refreshing grub and during boot grub didn't have the advanced options option for choosing the kernel like all the guides show.

Grub just didn't have the proper permissions to find the new kernel during the refresh.

Here's some terminal spells:

sudo ls -l /etc/grub.d/10_linux

That checks the permissions. The jumble in the beginning is supposed to show some x's. X is for the execute permission. ^{R and W are Read and Write.}

sudo chmod +x /etc/grub.d/10_linux

That adds the permission.

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

That refreshes the boot file. If you've ended up here you should be familiar with it already. It should now show you the added kernels and they're now usable when booting.

I'm not extremely technically minded but my pal sent me an article about the vulnerabilities that were accidentally leaked and I wanted to know if I should be worried about this?

I just swapped to Fedora a week ago and don't know if there were patches yet or if I need to be more cautious.

Hi there,
I’m sorry if this is not the correct way of doing this or if there is a better flair.

I’ve been thinking about switching to Linux for about a year now, and I think that I’ve reached the point where i’m ready.

I used to have my own pc that I build myself. But due to travel reasons, i’m now the proud owner of an Alienware AA16250 with an RTX 5080m and an Intel core ultra 9 290HX.

I’ve got some experience with html and CSS coding for websites, and am a beginner in Python.

Now I’ve watched some videos om Distro’s and am not sure what would be a good suit for me.
I do want to game, and I’m a freelance graphic designer on the side of my actual job. I’m willing to use the new art craft programs for my freelance work. I would like the ability to thinker a bit and learn on the go. I’d love to have some ability in customising the look and layout of the desktop etc.

I’ve seen pewdiepie use arch and that feels like, a lot. Do you guys have recommendations for a beginner friendly distro?
I feel like Mint is a bit too beginner.

Also, how hard would it be to install it on a prebuilt laptop?

I do have games installed and some files. Can I safely transfer those across OS? Mostly the files are important, games can be re downloaded. I do have an external 1TB harddrive that would suffice for all of the files.

Thanks for reading, and even more if you reply.

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My fellow Deepcool Mystique users.

After a lot of tinkering en research i finally did it in V1.3!
i have working metrics and gifs on my app.

https://github.com/LionheartTim/Deepcool-Mystique-AIO-Linux-with-dashboard

check out my github for more details.

(no self advertisement, just proud en trying to be helpfull.)

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Hi, I have dual boot Linux HP school laptop, I used to boot on windows before when im just at home but suddenly when I wake up the next day it doesnt work anymore, it just boot straight to the linux and doesnt give me windows option anymore. I'm a complete noob to these things, can someone with lots of patience help me?

So I was just watching YT on my laptop, and then Firefox closed, my app icons disappeared, screen went black, Linux mint logo showed up and then it froze, had to REISUB my way out of that. Happened multiple times already and it's very annoying. I don't even know what could be causing it, hardware (hope not), software. Nobody seems to be having similar issues. Have a suspicion it's caused by sleep tho. Any help?

Basically, i think i have the drivers for my laptop but the problem is i keep getting errors when i try to instal via terminal. Im currently using ubuntu and i just want wifi and bluetooth to to work so ican have a lightweight laptop for writing and such. (Maybe the occasional emulated gameboy game for a break)

Edit: Okay, tried to retrace my steps and: I don't have a battery indicator for my laptop, it just gives me a " ! " And theres no wifi or bluetooth.

Found a github for fixing it by "bryce-hoehn" and i want to use a prebuilt kernel so i can just get my wifi and bluetooth working so i dont have to usb tether my phone to get an internet connection.

When i try to install a Linux image.deb or header.deb, with sudo alt install ./* "Kernal file name".deb

It says Error: Unsupported file and ./"various folders" like public, pictures, etc.

Look im not gonna lie, im dumb as hell and i was hoping to get this running essentially as plug and play so you might need to direct me. Ill put files in folders, ive found the root folder and everything.

I just want wifi holy shit

Eu uso o Thunar e, sempre que tento procurar algo pelo gerenciador de arquivos dentro do Firefox, a janela simplesmente não abre. Por exemplo, em sites onde quero verificar as cores de uma foto específica, ele me pede para procurar nos meus arquivos locais, mas o gerenciador de arquivos sequer abre. This also happens when I want to install a non-Steam game, and the file picker simply fails to open Thunar.

I'm not sure if it's the right flare but I used few of linux distros on a very old laptop that has( Intel pentium inside )CPU so I think zorin OS was the smoothest one of them all linux mint was okay but I really had a hard time connecting to the network and also doing the bare things like scrolling browsing or even watching a video for an example I looked for zorin and it was the easiest one and even looks prettier in my opinion but the question is because I have a very old CPU and very old laptop how to make it work bit faster like is there any tweaks to do and also I tried pepperment os as the very first Linux distro I was just staring at the Fox and the fox's staring at me it was really really hard and really required higher gen kind of laptop or even cpu maybe like the ones with integrated graphics and but I don't know I thought it was cool because the logo reminded me of resident evil raccoon City I don't know so I thought maybe it would be a good I give it a try and it was like the worst distros for an old laptop

These are the specs :

The Dell Inspiron 1545 Intel Pentium dual-core processor 2GB of RAM

fiz a merda de instalar o linux bazzite, nao consigo de jeito nenhum voltar para o windows, sempre da algum erro, alguem consegue me dizer um passo a passo para fazer isso

ja instalei a iso do windows 10 e coloquei no pendrive com ventoy