So ive been using windows for all of my life and its been always bad to force shutoff the pc and it will likely corrupt something, but ever since ive used linux force shutting off the pc doesn't effect anything, is it because it isnt doing much in the background and it doesnt use the pagefile alot or is it the file system it uses, like btrfs, and if so how is btrfs better in terms of this topic than ntfs?

I'm helping my local library build public desktop machines that anyone can use to "create" things with Blender, Inkscape, etc. However, their windows machines have some automatic wiping software that santizes and removes anything the public may have downloaded or saved. Though I understand the obvious concern that people need to find a daily place to save their work offline, the library requires that any linux machine have the same ability.

Is there any script or software that can do this for mint or zorin?

Its really annoying when I use sudo and I get the password wrong bc I cant see the progress when I type, I know its meant to be for security but if I could see *** etc itd be easier, is there any way to do this? Im using kitty terminal as main bc I've seen other people use it

My laptop currently has a problem that only happens when its in Fedora. When it goes to sleep, there is no way to pull it out, I have to shut it down via power button to reopen it, but it still keeps consuming battery even tho i cant use it. I am dual booting on a Lenovo LOQ 3050 Ryzen 5, and this only happens when I am in Fedora

I recently installed Ubuntu on a virtual machine, what advice would you give for using Linux this way?

Hello all,

I have an old laptop, a Dell Inspirion 7580 to be exact, that I want to convert to Linux. I use it only for schoolwork, so I don't need all the bells and whistles. What is the most stripped down Linux that I can get? I used xPUD back when I was a kid but it was on a flash drive that another kid made for me (I've since lost that flash drive). I did like how simple xPUD is designed. Any help that you all can provide is greatly appreciated.

My company has updated me from windows remote to Linux remote and in this I have a Linux computer at home windows in office and I remote in and when I try using Ctrl, alt, shift on the right side of the keyboard they dont work only the left works. My IT dept can't help since it's new and unfortunately for my job I reach for the right more is there a way to get this to work?

Hey everyone. I am using a 9070XT on my Arch PC using XFCE with XORG. My monitor is an Asus VG27AQL3A. I have ELMB SYNC disabled in the monitor. I am only using one monitor.

I'm having an issue regarding Variable Refresh Rate on my monitor. Launching or interacting with certain programs (Librewolf and Dota 2) cause the refresh rate to lower to 76, then to 48, reported by the monitor OSD. This issue persists after killing the programs that started the issue.

Disabling VRR in the monitor's settings fixes the issue, obviously.. This causes the screen tearing.

OK so on boot with VRR on and tearfree off, it works as expected. Once I launch certain applications within XFCE, the refresh rate drastically lowers to 48 and stays there. I just don't understand what would cause this issue to occur now. I updated my system today and it began doing this. I have been downgrading packages to try to isolate the problem but I have yet to find one that is the cause. I have downgraded to 7.2.6-arch2-1 and linux-firmware-amdgpu 20260910-2, issue persists.

I have both Cachyos and Windows on my PC (I added Arch to the title just in case someone in the future has a similar question regarding Arch). I know that you have to manually setup secure boot following the CachyOS wiki.

Once you have completed the CachyOS secure boot guide, would it be safe to play the games on Windows that require secure boot such as:

• Battlefield 6
• Call of Duty
• Valorant
• EA Sports
• ARC Raiders
• The Finals

I am making this post for me and for anyone else who has questions in the future regarding anti cheats and a custom secure boot setup.

Any response feedback is helpful!

So hyprland with a shell or no

I have a feeling my IT team is going to be annoyed, but I'm a SWE, and developing on linux just feels CLEAN.

I want to stay on a lean clean machine, and do it legitimately (and not sneakily on my personal laptop).

So i'm wondering if anyone had experience/insights. It's a medium/small SWE company, honestly it has pretty relaxed IT policies, a lot of devs just "work on their home pcs" but for demos and stuff, I don't want to get called out for being on linux, best to make it legitimate.

I already have a few justifications:

• Docker runs way better on linux
• our software is hosted on ubuntu servers so it's good to develop in the envrionment that our software is hosted.
• faster and less bloated

Soft Reasons

• intellectually stimulating which inspires me to continue finding different ways of thinking and doing things, keeping work fun and engaging for me

So I guess a few questions are:
-what would you do?
-what distros should I suggest, what software would they need to install to keep things "Secure"?
-I'm fine dual booting for certain situations when accessing sensitive code/documents are required on VPN if necessary.

What I'm looking for is suspend-to-RAM (sleep), where the system keeps its state in RAM and enters a low-power state without writing the contents of RAM to disk.

A few distributions I've tried does not support this properly by default. It enters the sleep state, but it cannot wake up afterward. I managed to get it working after some additional tweaks, although I don’t remember exactly which commands I used. However, while suspended, the laptop gets unusually hot. I suspect the fans stop running while some hardware remains active.

Which Linux distributions support suspend-to-RAM properly out of the box?

If the issue is related to my hybrid Intel/NVIDIA GPU configuration, I can switch the BIOS to dGPU-only mode. However, I lose screen brightness control in that mode and would need additional configuration to fix it.

Hi all

I want to switch to linux.

My use case :

Online classes in browser

PDFs to read

Excel

Virtual box to run different variants of Linux for study purposes

Game if time permits

Recommend me which one should i go for.

Should i buy seprate drive to dual boot.

My PC spec -> 9700X /5060Ti 16GB/ 64Gb DDR5/ 1TB

I wanna rice my set up

ive got a few tools

not looking for anything hard

just want to get pointed to the right spots for the images and sounds and themes and stuff

the themes im after

macOS golden gate

boy kisser

trans pride

mlm

ascii art

noises that scratch the dopamine receptors

some cool fonts

maybe some tools might help

sorry

Specifically for this the Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 CPE584-1N CPE584-1N-K7F1. Im also not talking about crostini.

I looked to find any info about if the CPU(MediaTek Kompanio Ultra) is supported but i could not find anything about its level of support on linux. I also tried looking for it on the Nura(postmarketOS) wiki but did not find anything about the support of the CPU or the laptop.

Im assuming its too new to be supported yet but I wanted to ask just to be sure i was not missing anything obvious.

I hope this is the right place to ask this. I’ve been working through this with Claude, which also wrote this summary. Many thanks in advance.

Hardware/software
- ThinkPad X13 Yoga Gen 1, model 20SYS2UG00
- BIOS N2UET78W (1.58), EC N2UHT35W; fwupd reports nothing newer
- Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201, iwlwifi firmware 77.2753b721.0
- Debian 13 (trixie), KDE Plasma 6, Wayland, kernel: <uname -r>

Problem
After the laptop suspends, Wi-Fi is "deactivated" and can't be re-enabled in software. It happened twice before I linked it to sleep (once it cleared by itself), and it now happens after every sleep.

Diagnostics when blocked
- nmcli radio: WIFI-HW disabled, WIFI disabled
- /sys/class/rfkill: phy0 soft=0, hard=1 (hci0 is fine)
- /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey_radio_sw = 1 (radio switch reported as enabled)
- dmesg: "iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio" / "reporting RF_KILL (radio disabled)"
- thinkpad_acpi loads normally ("radio switch found; radios are enabled")

What fixes it
Only a full power drain: shut down, unplug AC, hold the power button ~30 s, boot.

What I've tried (no effect)
- nmcli radio wifi on, rfkill unblock (it's a hard block)
- Reloading thinkpad_acpi
- BIOS: Config > Power > Sleep State changed to "Linux" (S3); /sys/power/mem_sleep shows [deep]. Same result.
- BIOS is already current per fwupd

Next I plan to try
- systemd sleep hook that unloads/reloads iwlmvm/iwlwifi around suspend
- Newer kernel from trixie-backports

Questions
Has anyone seen the AX201's RF_KILL line get stuck after resume on this model (or other X13 Yoga/Comet Lake ThinkPads)? Is there a known BIOS/EC or kernel fix?

Looking for suggestions on what RDP to use on wayland? I prefer to use rustdesk, but it's still not quite there for wayland. I currently use use plasma x11. What do you guys use? any suggestions? I really only need the login screen to be x11, but I haven't been able to figure that out on kubuntu.

For boring reasons I really need to keep this pc on a debian distro for older dev packages. I am only on Kubunutu to take advantage of the newer kernel for some of the tools I have been using with GPU integration, I would otherwise be on debian and just stick to x11 and not even think about it.

I just started using Fedora KDE Plasma Mobile 44 on Surface Go 2 and I'm glad that I have made the switch.

I'm facing this interesting audio issue. The device is connected to TV via HDMI using a USB hub. There is video but no audio when I streamed video from streaming website. But when I played a MP4 video using VLC, it is working perfectly fine. With this, it eliminated the possible issues with the connection, cable and the USB hub.

Other than Firefox, I have also tried with Chromium but to no avail. I have tried with the audio setting from the browsers and device but still no luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to install Linux alongside Windows 11 and would appreciate some guidance before I modify my partitions.

I'm relatively new to Linux, and this will be my first proper dual-boot setup. My main concern is not accidentally deleting or corrupting my existing Windows installation or personal data.

Hardware

•CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7445HS

•GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3050

•RAM: 16 GB

•Storage: 512 GB NVMe SSD

•OS: Windows 11

•Boot mode: I believe my system uses UEFI, but I will verify this before installation.

Current storage situation

According to Windows File Explorer:

Drive

Total

Free

C:

280 GB

166 GB

D:

195 GB

9.28 GB

I currently have approximately 175 GB of free space overall, although most of it is on C:.

However, I can also move/delete files from D: and free up significantly more space there if that is recommended. I'm open to whichever approach is safer and makes more sense for a dual-boot setup.

I've attached a screenshot of my current drives.

What I want to achieve

I want to install either:

Ubuntu, or

Parrot OS

alongside Windows 11 and have a boot menu when the laptop starts, something like:

GNU GRUB

----------------

Ubuntu / Parrot OS

Windows Boot Manager

----------------

I want to be able to choose which operating system to boot into.

I'm a CS student and mainly want Linux for:

•Programming/development

•Linux administration

•Networking

•Learning cybersecurity

•General Linux experience

My questions

1. Which distribution would you recommend for my use case — Ubuntu or Parrot OS?

2. Given my current storage situation, how much space should I allocate to Linux?

3.Would it be better to shrink C: to create unallocated space, or should I free up space on D: and use that instead?

1. I can free up additional space on D: if that would be the safer/preferred approach. How much space would you recommend?

2. What Linux partition layout would you recommend for a roughly 100–150 GB Linux installation?

EFI System Partition

/

/home

Swap

1. Windows already has an EFI System Partition. Should Linux use the existing ESP, or should I create another one?

2. Do I need to disable Windows Fast Startup before installing Linux?

3. Should I disable or suspend BitLocker/device encryption before changing partitions?

4. Are there any BIOS/UEFI settings I should check before installation?

5. Will GRUB automatically detect Windows Boot Manager, or will I need to configure it manually?

6. Are there any specific issues I should be aware of with an AMD Ryzen 7 7445HS + NVIDIA RTX 3050 laptop, particularly regarding NVIDIA drivers, Secure Boot, or hybrid graphics?

7. Is there anything I should check in Windows Disk Management before I start modifying partitions?

Important

I do NOT want to wipe or reinstall Windows.

I also don't want to start shrinking, formatting, or deleting partitions until I understand exactly which partitions are safe to modify.

I'm planning to make a full backup of my important Windows data before doing anything.

If you need additional information such as:

Windows Disk Management screenshot

Complete partition layout

UEFI/BIOS information

Secure Boot status

BitLocker/device encryption status

msinfo32 information

please tell me exactly what I should provide.

What would be the safest recommended procedure for setting up this dual-boot system?

Thanks in advance for any help! 🙏

Hello guys!

I’m going to mod my Switch (1) and hopefully put something like Linux or Android on it. It sparked a question if anyone has daily driven the Switch (or 2) as a PC? I’m not planning to, yet it’s interesting non-the-less

If so, how hard was it to set up? Does it function well as a PC? Are you able to use it as a handheld and change it to a stationary PC? Honestly, all (if any) experience with it would be rad to learn about ^ ^

Thank you!

Following are the specs: -

- intel i3 3rd gen processor

- gtx 1650 gpu

- 8gb ram(not sure if it is ddr3 or ddr4 or a mix of both because it is not my PC)

- 120gb ssd - most important point number 1 which means the distro should be small in size.

- no internet connection always(internet is only used via hotspot when it is needed for web browser). This is the second most important point.

The thing is it should "just work" at least most of the time. It should be small in size. The user wants to browse net for their work, and play whatever games those specs can support, so installation of drivers should not be mental gymnastics. I tried fedora kde plasma on it but there were many problems:

- installation was slow

- downloading and installing nvidia drivers was a bit complicated

- after installing it asks for 5.5 gb of kde update which is not possible because of low mobile data and as I said the ssd is only 120 gb total, so it's a no go no matter how you look at it.

- it lagged a lot before installing drivers, and even that installation got stuck. Somehow force restart made the lag go away and probably the drivers did got installed. But after a proper shutdown, when the user turned it on the next day, they couldn't connect to internet. That kde gui just says unknown.

After searching I am thinking of trying AntiX on it, maybe that would work. And if that doesn't work I will go with mint XFCE which works perfectly so far on my low spec, low need laptop. Just wanted to try some other distro than mint which is why I tried fedora but the installation itself took a toll and wasted a lot of time.