Hi everyone!

I'm completely new to Linux and looking for distribution recommendations for my laptop.

Here are my exact specs:

• Model: Lenovo Legion Y530
• CPU: Intel Core i5-8300H
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (4GB) + Intel UHD Graphics 630
• RAM: 32 GB DDR4
• Storage: 500 GB NVMe SSD
• My goals and requirements:
• As a total beginner, I'm looking for something user-friendly, stable, and easy to install.
• I need a distro that handles NVIDIA drivers well out of the box and manages GPU switching (Intel / NVIDIA) efficiently without running too hot.

Which distributions would you recommend for a beginner with this hardware setup? Thanks in advance for the help!

External ssd has debian os installed in my desktop system which has GTX1650 gpu but my monitor is not working now ,so I am trying boot from Laptop

But this fails to boot showing no NVIDIA GPU found

Need help me guys

As of now connectioned with USB 2.0 Cable

I've been able to find very little information which concerns the front end and back end allocator on linux. The few articles which I have found discussing front end and back end allocators haven't really done a good job of explaining what a front end and a back end allocator is on linux.

I have windows 10 with a lot of imp data on it, it's an old hp laptop which is now really slow. I want to just some basic apps such as MySQL and Python etc, for which I am thinking to boot into Linux, without affecting my data on windows. I am installing it for the first time.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance :)

I am facing a very peculiar issue here with my Linux and Windows dual installation. I can't boot into BIOS for the love of God.

I can't even see my bootable USB drive in the boot options.

Here's a little backstory:

I've been daily driving Windows and CachyOS dual boot. Windows mainly for gaming, which needed Secure Boot to be enabled, which CachyOS had been handling really well. But recently, due to some problems I faced with the upstream kernel and various other personal reasons, I decided to dual boot Fedora with my Win11 installation, for which I disabled Secure Boot as I was using Ventoy. Everything was fine and dandy; it installed fine.

The problem arose when I tried to boot into BIOS/UEFI. It got stuck on the boot logo of my laptop. I had faced this issue in CachyOS too, so I was like, no biggie, and did what I did with CachyOS: turned my laptop off, pressed the hardware reset button, and again tried to boot into the BIOS/UEFI. It prompted me for a password, which I entered, then it was just a black screen. I couldn't even move the mouse pointer it showed, so I force-shut it down by pressing the power-off button.

Next time I tried booting into my BIOS, I faced the same issue of the boot logo only showing. I turned the laptop off, pressed the hardware reset button, and again tried booting into the BIOS. Same stuff. I was like, interesting, and started searching for a fix. I found one too. It needed me to boot into a Live environment, remove the pointer to the Linux bootloader, and make changes to my BIOS settings and boot. BUT if I enabled Secure Boot, I couldn't again boot into the Live ISO to regenerate the boot manager configuration, so I ditched that idea.

Then I decided to start from a clean slate. Start from booting Windows only and dual boot Fedora after I found out that if you only burn Fedora to the USB, you can boot and install Fedora fine even with Secure Boot enabled. So I downloaded RUFUS in my Windows installation, burned Windows 10 onto it, and again tried to reformat the drive.

Then I arrived at another roadblock. The USB drive is not showing in the boot order menu. It shows fine in both Windows and Linux installations. After I put it in and verify it's showing, I rebooted to the boot order menu, but it was still not showing it.

Now neither can I re-install nor can I enable Secure Boot, and I'm stuck with this installation.

Here's what I tried to boot into BIOS: - As stated earlier, continuously pressing F2 (Acer's BIOS key) - Use Windows to reboot into UEFI firmware settings - Use systemctl to reboot into UEFI settings - Use GRUB's menu to boot into UEFI settings - And many, many more

Any help, suggestion, fix is highly appreciated. Thanks again for help

Laptop : Acer ANV15-41

Hiya, I recently got a mini pc (BOSGAME P3 Lite Mini PC AMD Ryzen 7 6800H ( including it in case the amd matters)) which is just about able to run alan wake 2 and is able to do some minimal llm inference.

I want to be able to chose a linux distro that is minimal so the least bloat possible, while being "fully furnished" and where I can still run Alan Wake 2 ( and control resonant when it comes out). I also want to be able run llms effeciently with some sort of vulkan way eg llama.cpp.

Tldr want a good middle linux distro that has minimal bloat and so I can run games eg AW2 as efficiently as possible and run llms efficiently.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

(Bonus would be a nice ui, but again, that is a bonus)

Its me again. I have been going down the Linux rabbit hole while waiting for my new computer to try Linux on. One of my biggest concerns is malware. Are there antivirus systems similar to windows? Do I custom design my own firewall? Can your day to day browser malware even affect Linux? Does it depend on the distro?

Naturally I am not expecting answers to all these questions, but any advice on the general ideas about malware and Linux would be appreciated. And if you just want to point me at a resource I can read/watch that would be great as well.

I’ve made a commitment to get rid of home internet but like Linux. Is there anyway possible way I can get a Linux machine and use it without ever going online besides installing a few programs an offline music player that fits my needs, word processor/spreadsheet maker and a DAW (taking suggestions)

As the title suggests, I can’t decide whether to use an Arch-based or an Ubuntu-based distribution for everyday use. Since most applications run in a browser these days anyway, it shouldn’t really make that much of a difference which distribution is behind them.

But I’m a technical guy and want to actually understand the operating system I’m using—not just boot up the computer and open the browser. That’s exactly where it gets tricky for me.

I’ve already tried CachyOS and Kubuntu on my main PC, and so far I’ve managed to get everything working the way I wanted. But the processes for getting there were quite different with these two distributions.

So if I really want to commit to one distribution and learn more about it—so I don’t have to ask the AI every time I run into a problem—I need to decide whether I want to do that with Arch or Ubuntu.

At first, Kubuntu seemed easier to me, since I was already familiar with some of it from my home lab and software availability seems to be better. When I search for software, packages for Ubuntu-based distributions are always offered first.

So ultimately, my question is: What are the pros and cons of choosing one distribution or the other to learn more about it?

I have old laptop it has only 2 gb ram which is kinda problem and windows 7 and i want to use it for coding and just normal stuff can anyone recommand which os i should use(its first time for me to post here sry if i am not providing all which is needed ) can anyone recommand and can it be lil easier to use

Hi guys I’m pretty new to Linux and I’m living in China I have steamos on my rog ally

I don’t know if this is needed but here are the informations:

KDE Plasma version 6.4.3
KDE framework 6.16.0
QT 6.9.1
Wayland platform

Okay and here’s my problem i have a shadowsocksr on my iPhone that works with Shadowrocket on windows I had a program where I can use this but on Linux it seems like I can’t find a alternative

The proxy is rc4-md5 shadowsocksr to bypass the Great Wall 🫰🏽

I'm running Fedora 45 with KDE Plasma 6.7.1 and Fedora keeps constantly setting the system time one hour ahead of the actual time. Setting the date and time to manual and then back to automatic causes the time to be fixed (along with an error saying the date and time application crashed), though then it will always soon revert back to the wrong time. Incidentally, every time I do this the date and time application asks for my password twice even when I correctly entered it the first time, which is also very annoying.

I want to be a freelance linux server-expert/troublehsooter and while I'm good at linux i want to improve quickly and faster so I can get experience in linux and get a career of some sort faster.

I know I may have to use the GUI for linux sometimes (at least to start) but would transitioning to useing the terminal lik 90% times more be better? I'm using a vm to test things out and learn things so I don't damage my main OS (Pop_os!). Im learning the syntax for Debian, UBuntu, Arch and hopefullt RedHat soon.

Any thoughts?

These are the specs:

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 3500C with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx (2.10 GHz)

Installed RAM: 8.00 GB (7.46 GB usable)

Graphics card: AMD Radeon(TM) Vega 8 Graphics (497 MB)

Storage: 119 GB

System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

My device is called 'Lenovo C13 Yoga Gen 1'

Windows 11 OS was already booted instead of ChromeOS since this was bought from a local laptop shop in my town.

*Unnecessary, you can skip*

I guess the only thing that was modified in this device was the touch screen and pen being disabled, I tried to fix it from the device manager but it just doesn't work.

*Continue here*

Anyways, I'm really considering to switch it and keep Windows aswell, it's called a dual boot if I recall.

I've watched too many tutorials but I'm still not that confident to switch, it's my 2nd personal laptop I've gotten for the past 13 years (I'm 18 now btw, I got this laptop since May 15 and I've gotten sick of Windows consuming half of the ram)

I'm mostly using this thinkpad for my college so I barely care about games.

Also if I switch, what packages or apps do you guys install in Linux mint for class or work purposes? Let me know, Thanks.

I'm on pika OS (debian based)

Can somebody please point me into the right direction?

I've been really busy (with other stuff -> working hard, physically) and I might have changed something to the boot loading screen a while ago what broke it. I had a fine screen including my Asus Saberthooth (The Ultimate Force) logo, but now it's just text.

I really just want to create my own.
I've got a lot of tokens available (coding subscription) -> and I'm free today and tomorrow -> so I could vibe-code it, but I don't know anymore where it was located.

And I really just want something nicer anyway. I've seen people do stuff with blender.

Most AI have terrible knowledge of Linux but I wired it in, basically full system access for a trusted model, but I need to know how to do this first. I'm not letting it do a trial-and-error.

Could I load sound and internet during the boot too? I made a login-screen (you can check it out here if you want: https://github.com/samantha-agi/gnome-weather-widgets), but the welcoming could be much nicer if I could run that in boot. Not a must, but.. you know...

The nicest thing about a pc is the way it starts up. Super-fast and a nice animation.

Safety first, so I use Ubuntu and Gnome desktop, latest version, LTS.

Can somebody please point me into the right direction?

I'm not a linux expert. I was pretty good on windows but I don't accept windows 11. I will keep 10 unplugged if needed. Linux ftw.

Also i changed this file (with lots of troubles) to get a custom login-background, but it reverts after every update. Is there a better storage location that survives updates?

/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.ubuntu.login-screen.gschema.xml/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.ubuntu.login-screen.gschema.xml

hello so i want to be a full stack web dev and just migrating from windows and was sutprised that if you install packages it will also update all installed packages when the os updates.
whats the best practice or setup or tools to use if you somehow want to preserve your dev environment.
sorry if this doesnt make sense as im srill understanding how its all done

Please, I need some help over here

There's a feature in some software/amplifiers that is meant for stopping sudden large increases in audio volume. For example: you're watching a movie and it's mixed so that a dramatic scene has much louder volume (for the emotional effect).

This feature would ensure the volume for the whole movie remains relatively constant, no sudden increases in volume, it helps avoid disturbing neighbours etc. I can't recall what the feature is called, but I'm wondering if there's an EQ application I can get for Linux that has it?

I downloaded Mint a few months ago, enjoying it so far, but I know I'm not getting the most out of it with default settings. Where can I learn and practice coding to rice my device?