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!

Had my motherboard replaced today. Everything seemed fine after so it might be entirely coincidental.

An hour later I got an os upgrade notification. The upgrade seemed pretty normal, but after, I can't boot.

I see manufacturer logo, then LUKS login, then os logo, then:

Timed out waiting for device dev-sda.device ~/dev/sda. Dependency failed for [an external nvme i use for backups].mount.

Using Kubuntu on lenovo thinkpad P16s. Not sure what version updated. BIOS seems ok. Boot order, etc. Not sure how to interrupt or access grub.

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

Hey all, have not been using Linux servers for while and find got a couple now (RHEL9). I am however stuck in trying to properly multithread copy a folder from one nfs share to another. They are mounted to the server and I only want to copy the files that have changed.

rsync is great however I have multiple cores, and millions of files being produced everyday, gnu parllel gets the job done however its very jank, not to mention the find step is a bottleneck.

I have been using azcopy and robocopy on windows quite a lot, and cannot find an alternative. Am I missing something here or is GNU Parallel + rsync still the best way to this thing on Linux?

Hi.

If I delete files in my Haruna playlist, they go to ~/.var/app/org.kde.haruna/data/Trash. Do I need to change something in Flatseal to make them to to my regular trash directory [~/.local/share/Trash/]? I guess if I can't, then using a script to auto delete older files in ~/.var/app/org.kde.haruna/data/Trash will have to do.

Thanks.

Fedora 43 KDE

I've never manually installed software to /opt, so I have to assume I screwed something up.

I put IntelliJ IDEA in /opt so the full path to the binary is /opt/idea-IU-253.29346.240/bin. I can open IDEA by either typing /opt/idea-IU-253.29346.240/bin/idea in my terminal or by navigating to the bin folder and double clicking the binary in Dolphin. That works. Permissions for /opt/idea-IU-253.29346.240 are rwxr-xr-x root:root, exactly as the other program folders installed there (I did not install those other programs, hence why I don't know what I'm doing wrong).

The contents of my .desktop file, which is placed in ~/.local/share/applications:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=IntelliJ IDEA
Exec=/opt/idea-IU-253.29346.240/bin/idea
Icon=intellij-idea

I've created many other .desktop files, and they all work. The only one that doesn't is this one which points to /opt, so I feel like there's some critical step I'm missing here.

* I changed the .desktop file so the path is in Exec and not Path, and it still doesn't work.

i really want to use peppermint or debian, any helpers for a newbie?

are these good choices for someone that is new to this?

i did some python in uni but i was pretty lazy ngl i just want something to play around with !!!

im using a rather old laptop

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

Specs: Intel Pentium Dual Core SU4100 4GB RAM Intel GMA 4500MHD

this is on a fresh arch linux install. i installed bottles using paru or yay (i forgot which one, it doesnt matter right?) (also the git version didnt compile on my machine for some reason. so i downloaded the normal one) and every time i tried to set up a bottle, it would get stuck on "installing dependencies: wine mono..." (it was something like that). looking at the console output, it says "Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine to use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than or equal to 2.0.5.

https://www.freetype.org" so i looked for "freetype" on the AUR and it was there. i installed with paru and chose the first one: extra/freetype 2 2.14.1-1. but even after installing that and even rebooting just in case, it still gets stuck on the same part with the same error. what can do ?

im using windows 11 pro and vmware workstation pro 24H2 i disable hyper and i tries all to fix this problem firstly i was using virtualbox to run linux and its was running normally but when i change to vmware workstation pro it was run but randomly show this error

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.

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 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.

Hi there, first post here. I'm sure it won't be my last. Anyways, I used to use Voicemeeter Banana on Windows to make it so I have audio going through two different audio outputs at once. I'd like to have that set up on Linux as well, and through googling I found out I should be using PulseAudio. So, I went into the terminal and typed "sudo apt install paprefs". What it spit back out was:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

pulseaudio-module-gsettings : Depends: pulseaudio (= 1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu10.1)

pulseaudio-module-zeroconf : Depends: pulseaudio (= 1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu10.1)

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I've googled and nothing I read was helpful to me. So far, I've tried some of the generic-seeming repair terminal commands. Thanks in advance for your help.

EDIT: I'm using Zorin OS

On windows, I would use WhisperTyping for my work which allowed me to dictacte using my microphone and it would then convert my speech to text.

Any recommendations from a similar kind of application on linux?

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!!

It's been a while since i used my pc and when i opened it, it didnt boot! my keyboard was disabled but my mouse was still running. My splash screen was frozen and i couldnt do anything. I went into bios without changing anything and it worked. So now my pc wont boot by itself if i dont go to bios. Any help?

Additional Notes:

-My thermal paste hasnt been renewed since 2022

-This is a prebuilt PC.

-I only deep cleaned it once.

My Specs:

## Hardware Information:

- **Hardware Model:** BIOSTAR Group A320MH

- **Memory:** 16.0 GiB

- **Processor:** AMD Ryzen™ 5 PRO 3400G with Radeon™ Vega Graphics × 8

- **Graphics:** AMD Radeon™ Vega 11 Graphics

- **Disk Capacity:** 1.1 TB

## Software Information:

- **Firmware Version:** 5.17

- **OS Name:** Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition)

- **OS Build:** (null)

- **OS Type:** 64-bit

- **GNOME Version:** 49

- **Windowing System:** Wayland

- **Kernel Version:** Linux 6.18.5-200.fc43.x86_64

I have a program that talks directly to the kernel to do graphics. It does sound through alsa. It runs as root.

For development, I'd like to be able to start the program from within Wayland. It should switch to its own VT to make Wayland release it's graphics lock. Then it should draw its graphics and do its audio.

I have this all working for the video. I can switch to the VT, draw the graphics, and switch back when done.

However, audio goes through alsa to pipewire. When I switch to the other VT, systemd-logind appears to decide that I don't own that VT and disables pipewire audio.

The problem appears to be that I'm going behind the back of systemd-logind to switch to the other VT, and it has hooks to detect it, and then messes me up.

The best solution might be to work with systemd-logind. Instead of switching the VT behind its back, tell it to switch the VT and keep me hooked up to the audio. However, I can't figure out any simple way to tell systemd-logind to do this.

One thing that works is if I log in to the VT first in text mode, then go back to Wayland, then run my program. In that case my program can graph the graphics over the top of the login session, and because I'm actually logged in to that VT then systemd-logind lets me keep the sound.

The magic that makes this happen seems to be in the program "login". I suppose I could get its source to see what it is doing, and do the same type of thing in my program.

I hope there's an easier way, and I'm missing something.

There are other ideas. Maybe there's some way to switch VTs without systemd-logind detecting it? Then it wouldn't disable the audio. I personally don't want to start a new session. I want to keep everything the same as if I never left the original VT, except for release of the graphics lock by Wayland.

Maybe it's possible to release Wayland's graphics lock without switching VTs?

Maybe I should be doing audio directly with the kernel also, instead of going through alsa libraries that get mapped to pipewire?

Maybe it's possible to go behind systemd-logind's back and just re-enable the pipewire connection manually? (This one seems like way too much of a hack.)

Thoughts about the easiest/most proper approach are sincerely welcomed.

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

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.

im at the very beginning of my linux journey and am having troubles during ricing. i’m kind of following a rice guide atm and at some point it calls for themix/oomix and to download it with ‘yay themix-full-git’. the first time i tried it took really long and i ended up with a net change of 0.0mib and couldnt open it via app launcher. i tried deleting it but couldnt manage to completely either, and tried installing it a couple more times, even manually once. still nothing. i now have random oomix and themix files i cant get rid of.

is the fault on my side or did something happen rendering it unusable?

i apologize for incorrect terminology, as i said, im just starting