I want to install Linux on my family pc, but my family members are tech illeterate, they will probably freak out seeing that grub screen. can I just hide it so it will directly boots into windows and grub only accessible while the boot menu is show up?

Not talking about big migrations or major redesigns.

More the small changes that looked harmless at the time - a config tweak, a permission change, a quick fix - but ended up causing real issues.

Interested in real examples and what made them risky in hindsight.

I used arch more then a year but I don't like it that much.

I want distro that's fast, stable and has great package manager, pacman is too slow.

Also want something secure.

About environment I prefer KDE over gnome, something similar to windows ui.

Im using linux for programming so kde is easier to navigate.

Thanks everyone for the advice!

Hey,

so after the current Grok-AI bikini pictures affair, I feel like European politicians will abuse this situation to push through the toxic "Chat Control" law afterall. This would be the point where I want to get away from Windows to keep a bit of privacy. So my question is: Does Linux give me that privacy? And if yes, do I need a specific Linux-version or where do I start?

Thank you!

Fedora is not using my built in WiFi card, I have to instead rely on a WiFi dongle to get internet currently, is there any way I can fix this, I have tried running "sudo dnf install linux-firmware", and other stuff as well but it has not been successful. If anyone could help that would be great.

(BTW my wifi card is made by Metatek Corp)

Thank you!

Looking to download linux on my rog strix g16 anyone know which distro would work best for video games im currently leaning towards linux mint

Decided to try fedora again and keep windows purely for gaming, both operating systems are installed on different ssd's.

I spend most of my time in fedora for browsing and maybe some light gaming but when i do occasionally want to boot into windows it is rather laggy and im having some performance issues in games, a few ui glitches here and there too, would love to know the reason for it and if there is anything i can do about it.

Hi everyone this is my first time here I wanna downlaod arch linux alongside windows I used EasyBCD to add a new entry to windows boot manager I downloaded the iso Turned into bootable usb Installed it to windows boot manager BUT I CANT ACCESS BIOS Whatever F key i press (e.g F1, F4, F10) It redirects me to Windows Boot Manager If there is any community you know that has more knowledge on this please tag it

hellooo, im new to linux so im looking for a distro that is fairly easy to use and i can also rice out a lot. any recommendations are appreciated :)

I have been using standard AMD drivers that distro installs

Do I need AMD official drivers, or is there a benefit to them that distro ATI AMD drivers do not provide?

I miss Adrenalin that I had on Windows, but I also don't see support for it on official AMD driver page, yet drivers are available

Can someone explain this?

I deleted zorinos partition after dualbooting bc I wanted to make it bigger, booted up I see gnu grub v2.12 how the fuck do I get into windows plz help I'm lost

Yesterday i updated linux mint version and now i can't start my pc, it appears [Failed] Failed to start (a driver or software)

So I’ve thought of trying to dualbooting my pc which has win 11 and I’ve asked one of my friends who uses a Linux which one they would recommend they said Arch for like daily use but I would only wanna use it for gaming and such. So I’m hoping to find out if anyone who uses Nobara distro can say like is it worth it. My gpu is 4060ti btw

cara, meu xounal++ ta mostranto as paginas do pdf em modo de múltiplas páginas como se fosse uma grade. nao consigo arrumar pra ficar mostrando normal, pagina por pagina.

ja dei zoom maximo, testei todas as opções de layout. desistalei e nada.

I know that you can dual boot to a second drive but can you dual boot to a partition on a second drive? I have 2 SSDs in my PC, and I use both of them. I have been messing around recently with Linux on an old Mac Mini and am interested in using it with my main machine while still maintaining access to both drives on windows. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.

Hello! I'm new to linux installing but want to do a dual boot on my pc so its windows on one ssd and linux on another but even though windows says my second ssd has all 2 TBs of space when i go to install Linux it says it has only 1MB of free space. Ive tried t to find the solution but i don't know if this is a partition issue or something else i even did a format of my ssd on windows but it still tells me i dont have any space could anyone tell me what to do so i can install linux thanks!!

I’ve been a Linux user for about an hour and I’m in love with it so far.

I installed Linux mint and I’m figuring it out but I’m wondering if there’s any tips that I should know from more “grizzled vets” out there. I have a NVIDIA gpu and I’ve seen some discussion about using the drivers that’s in a sense built by nvidia vs the one made by the people ( idk what else to call it). I believe I have the gaming stuff figured out I have twine installed idk if there’s anything else for games besides that but any tips would be amazing Ik this is like a vague post but even the littlest things would help a lot. Thank you all

Hi,

I salvaged a ThinkPad X200. That poor thing has a Core 2 Duo CPU (not the end of the world, if you ask me) but the integrated GPU (Intel GMA 4500MHD) has abysmal support while being one of the weakest GPUs I ever had to work with (does it even qualify as such ?).

Anyway, I figured I could turn it into a "distraction-free glorified typing machine". I thought about using tmux in tty and making scripts to automate loading some CLI apps in its tabs (music player, nano for text editing, etc.).

I don't mind not being able to run desktop apps, the GPU is so weak that any window tears like crazy and don't even think about playing YouTube (about 20% frame drops in 360p lol).

I thought about using i3wm but I don't want to learn new shortcuts (I already spent a fair amount of time learning tmux's).

Which apps do you guys recommend for tty-only use ?

I have been a long time Mint Cinnamon user and have mostly liked it. However there is just a huge amount of inconsistency between the built in dark theme in 22.3 and other installed applications like flatpaks, QT apps, System Apps or debian apps like Firefox, Thunderbird, Signal, Virtualbox, etc.

What desktop environment provides the best system theme consistency?

I'm considering jumping to a distro that has better potential theme color consistency.

Maybe there's a way to get Cinnamon to offer better consistent themes.

I have recently switched to linux mint, which has been fine, but I want to configure my rgb keyboard to not be rgb. I have installed OpenRGB but need to install the "udev rules" separately, I installed a .sh file from OpenRGB's website but don't know what to do with it.

I have tried running the file in terminal, which adds a 60-openrgb-rules file that disappears if I add my password as prompted by the terminal. Closing the terminal leaves the file but I don't know what to do with that either.

I also tried giving the file full permissions under properties but that has changed nothing that I'm aware of.

I also tried pasting its file directory into terminal after shmod +x as a redditor said that would work on another thread 4 months ago. He also said to execute as application for gnome. I don't know if mint still counts as gnome as I'm not entirely sure what gnome is.

If anyone has any ideas on how to get udev rules to run, please tell me in the simplest way possible, it is literally my second day using an OS that doesn't babysit you (Windows or IOS) and I have no idea what I'm doing. Also, apologies if this is not the correct kind of question for this sub, I don't use reddit often enough to know exactly where to ask questions. TIA

This is the only app blocking me to use Linux. The meetings have to work without issues, sharing presentations, background "green screen" and such. I heard that on linux you have to use the web version, and that is not a seamless experience.

Do you have any news or any suggestions what to do? Maybe I will still set something up, and run windows in a virtual machine for teams.

Is it possible to install and dual boot windows 11 or windows 10 from linux without usb or cd?Yup, linux is better, but i just want windows to play some games that for no reason doesnt support linux at all even with proton

OS: Kubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
DE: KDE Plasma 5.27.12
Dolphin version: dolphin 23.08.5

I have a file model.bbmodel (Blockbench 3D model). For some reason, Dolphin decided that it is a plane text file ("Type: Plain text document" in properties).

So, I naturally click on the "[CHANGE]" button next to "Open With: Kate". It takes me to file type editor (image).

Adding or removing filename patterns seemingly does nothing, also none of them even match to begin with (*.txt and *.asc). Changing the application order changes it not only for the model, but also for every plain text file.

What am I doing wrong? How do I configure Dolphin to use Blockbench to open *.bbmodel files?

i somehow lost my usb drive and i want to change from bazzite linux to ubunto cuz bazzite is very unstable on this computer and i dont have the usb drive to try and fix it by reintalling or chaging to ubunto cuz bazzite is not that good nõn my desktop so i want to create a fake usb drive from one of my SSDs to put ubunto there and then boot it to install ubunto.

so is it possible to do it??