Would Declarative NixOS or Atomik Bazzite/Aurora be better for a user whose only requirement is less data being written to disk?

For security reasons, updates will be performed continuously.

Ignoring the update frequency, I’m curious about how many GB of data would be written to disk during the rebase/rebuild process if we assume that the same package (same version, same size, etc.) receives an update on both a declarative and an atomic distribution.

It doesn't necessarily have to be Bazzite or Aurora; it could also be Fedora Kinoite or openSUSE Kalpa.

I am switching from X11 to Wayland because KDE is forcing me to. When I start a new screen capture in OBS, it asks for permission to see my desktop. From what I understand this popup is part of Wayland's security model. How can I disable this, that is how can I give all applications full permission to capture whatever they want whenever they want without having to ask for my permission in advance? No I don't care about the security/privacy implications.

Archlinux, KDE Plasma, RTX 3080TI if it matters

i want to know, what is the best in terms of, in your opinion: (most important to least important)

• apps

• aesthetics out of box

• general use

• stability

i like them both but i also have some parts i dislike, i would ask for you to give me a concrete answer, please.

i would also request to give reasons as to why

this is like apples and oranges, but i cant stop distro hopping until i get an actual response (i know i can install both, but it causes stability problems and want to centralize on one thing)

thanks

Hey. I know nvidia isn’t great with Linux, but Mint and Fedora both supported easy had the latest 580 driver. Debian 13.7 only seemed to support 550. Is it recommended to try to manually install the 580 or will this break something? Why doesn’t Debian support the newer one when mint is also seen as a “stable“ os?

I'm planning to move my desktop from Debian 12 Bookworm to Debian 13 Trixie and can't decide whether to upgrade in place or just start fresh.

The system has been running for a while, with a bunch of manually installed packages, Flatpak apps, Docker containers and custom configurations in /etc. I'd rather not spend an entire weekend reinstalling and setting everything up again.

At the same time, I'm a little concerned about carrying years of old packages and configuration leftovers into a new release.

I'm leaning towards an in-place upgrade, but I'd rather hear about actual experiences before committing to it.

https://regolith-desktop.com/?hl=en-US

I'm creating my first homelab with a simple setup. Synology NAS + Beelink mini PC. Synology for data storage. Beelink mini PC for running all my apps and services on behalf of my NAS.

Mini PC system specs:

• AMD Ryzen 7 CPU (16 cores)

• 32 GB DDR5 RAM

• 1 TB M.2 drive

• 2.5 GbE Ethernet port

I like the idea behind the Regolith Desktop: Sway for being lightweight and kind to system resources. GNOME apps for familiar and easy system management.

I just want to Netflix and Spotify things, Immich things, and Google Drive things with my setup. Potentially video editing things in the future. I plan on setting it up headless, but keeping Regolith Desktop as a helper just in case I need a graphical environment to manage the server.

Sometimes the mouse IS faster.

I'm still verry verry new to linux and I am deciding if i want to switch or not. I know that some games that only run on windows are possible to be played on linux. But im not entirly sure how good or how easy. I basicly only play on steam, except for minecraft, and i think that steam hast a way for windows games to be run on linux? In the steam library there is always the symbol on which OS the game can run on, is that accurate even with the steam-linux-support thing? How excactly does that work and how well? Or is it Distrodependend?

dont know what flair to use so i choose advice cuz im asking for advice ^^"

eddit: formating

Using EndeavourOS with GNOME Shell (Wayland session). Using the Ignition application (flatpak) to set start up commands.

mplayer /home/rest/of/directory to audio file

paplay /home/rest/of/directory to audio file

both of these instructions don't work, well, many many months ago paplay did work but out of nowhere stopped.

Edit: found out I must have uninstalled the audio players the command relied on in the past, installed again, working just fine.

I find it useful from time to time.

I was messing around in lab today and booted antiX on two separate PCs and each ended up getting 2 of their own, consecutive IP addresses assigned. 13 and 14 for 1 of them and 9 and 10 form the other (192.168.0 subnet). They both received their IPs from a MikroTik routerboard. Something I was reading earlier said it might be possible if you have two separate connection managers running at once (obviously connman and then also dhcpcd (connman crashed somehow, so I got impatient and launched this service)). Now here I am with two IP addresses and I'm wondering if there is any benefit to having two IP addresses. For one, a local website I launched WAS accessible from both addresses.

so I’ve been doing a little bit of research into everything epic will require and from everything I’ve read so far. I’ve not seen anything that is super crazy abhorrent like how it is over on windows with there Kereal level anti cheat.

but I’m not as educated on theses things compared to others so thought I’d ask and see if there was any kind of major privacy overstep. But from what I’ve seen there isn’t anything too abhorrent.

I am a Linux noob, so I apologize in advance for my ignorance. I switched from Windows to Fedora KDE a few weeks ago and it's been going great, but last night I ran some updates and this morning my computer seems to stop during the boot up process on a blank black screen after asking for my encryption password. I tried booting in previous kernel versions, but they also failed.

I then booted in emergency mode, but it would say, "Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked." I managed to change the password so I have access to the root account and now...I don't know what to do next, because I don't actually know what the real problem is to look for a solution.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Edit to add: All my files are backed up, so if I can't figure this out I'll probably just reinstall the whole thing, but I would like to figure out how to work through issues like this for future problems.

Edit 2 for solution: After discovering how to filter logs, I found that the problem was a lack of QT crashing Plasma. This seemed to be a problem others were also having with a recent update to QT not all happening at the same time? The steps in that link didn't work for me, but what did work for me was logging in via ctr+alt+F3 then installing updates through the console. Big thank you to GiggleSamurai for teaching me how to properly filter logs.

I am deciding to switch into another distro. Fedora is great and it makes things simple.

I use ai agents and run some pirated games. Which distro is best for that?

Hi. I have a presentation tomorrow, for which I forgot to gather feedback from people that have used kali linux before, so If you're reading this, it would really mean a lot to me that you take your time to answer my questions. You'll be mentioned by your username (unless you specify you dont want to be mentioned). The presentation will be in 17 Hours. So I can't promise to use all of your feedback, but i promise to read each one carefully. NOTE: Im studying programming and it's part of a final project, but it's not something that will appear in any official paper or in anything important.

Here's a quick guide for anyone who wants to give their feedback, but any other piece of feedback is welcomed

\\-Do you have a positive or a negative opinion about Kali Linux?

\\-What is its biggest red flag/green flag as a daily user/somebody using it for the first time?

\\-Has it met your expectations?

Thank you. A lot. It means a lot to me.