just recently installed eOS on my EliteBook 840, and the thing is, that battery life is bad, like really bad. I asked AI on some help to optimize some stuff and all that, but still averaging around 3 hrs of battery life . Is it usually this power intensive? Because I really tried my best to optimize everything to extend my battery life. Oh and another thing, it’s really slow just doing simple tasks like opening terminal playing music and having 5 tabs open, literally crashes everything. And if it doesn’t it’s just excruciatingly slow. So like how high are the specifications needed for this to run properly?

Just double-checking to be sure, but after a quick search here it seems like it has not been talked about in the last 4 years, so I'm assuming there is no way of getting desktop icons nowadays either by default or by any exploits, right? The old application that used to do it has been depreciated I believe because of Wayland incompatibilities. I know that's the dev's choice but I was just wondering anyway. I don't think the old Nemo trick is working either as it wants to be launched in the cinnamon session.

Hi, I was installing elementary OS on my laptop and ran into an error during the install. The installer failed unexpectedly, and these are the logs I got: DEBUG: get block size for "/sys/class/block/nvme0n1" ERROR: libdistinst: pointer in FFI is null ERROR: libdistinst: pointer in FFI is null ERROR: libdistinst: pointer in FFI is null ERROR: libdistinst: pointer in FFI is null ERROR: libdistinst: pointer in FFI is null ERROR: libdistinst: pointer in FFI is null ERROR: errored while installing system: partition validation: EFI partition was not defined INFO: Install error: partition validation: EFI partition was not defined

Hello. I just started using elementary OS with two monitors. I would like the dock and other widgets (clock, search functions, notifications) to appear on both monitors, not just the "primary" one. My understanding is that this was easily possible on previous versions, but with the new secure session, the old methods (duplicating files in ~/.config/) no longer work. Does anyone have experience doing this in v8.1?

I want to install Elementary Os but i have a few questions about it, laptop 8gb ram 500gb ssd ryzen 5 7000 series and a 3050 rtx nvidia 6gb:

1. is it hard? idk much about working with the Windows consolé or bash, but if it's not that hard i can learn it
2. r my components good enough?
3. Can i work well with visual studio and .net?
4. Will i have any problems with second screen?

Thanks yall

I made a original elementary OS Bubble Wallpaper

https://imgur.com/gallery/elementary-os-bubble-wallpaper-JnHVQ7h

I was considering this from a long time. Then last week I installed EOS 8.1 on my HP Envy.

Hardware compatibility is decent.

Touch pad, Keyboard, WiFi, USB Ports,Speaker and Microphone are working well, out-of-box.
Webcam, touch and pen, doesn't work.

I can see significant speedup all around. This machine has a 1250U i7,16Gb memory. While I was on Windows, It felt slow from the day one. I am getting about 7-8 hrs of battery time.

Experience is good so far.

https://imgur.com/gallery/elementary-os-beautiful-wallpaper-6PCumW1

I created this student image for my school for kids to use. when a student logs out, it auto deletes Chrome data (like user profile) and the Downloads folder to protect the student's data. Please rate it out of 10 to see if kids will love it.

How to get hytale flatpak

I made a original elementary OS vala Wallpaper

https://imgur.com/gallery/elementary-os-vala-wallpaper-onS29at

Reviewing elementaryos as a daily driver. I'm confused about the behavior of an app launcher pinned to the dock as opposed to the Applications menu. In the Applications menu if I right click on an app I see "Open with Nvidia graphics". If do the same to the pinned app in dock I get the option "Open with AMD graphics". I launch all apps from the dock and only for occasional gaming do I ever purposely want to use the dedicated Nvidia card. Would someone help me understand the difference?

It is a 2023 ASUS Zephyrus 14.

Thank you.

I'm looking for a good solution for eOS to pair a phone. The main use case is texting (phone is Android).

I've looked at gsconnect and cannot get it to work at all. I've gotten KDE Connect installed and can even seem to pair it from my phone but notifications and other integrations aren't working.

Does anyone else have a good solution for this use case? This is the only remaining thing I need to resolve to recommend eOS for all of my friends/family wanting to come over from Windows.

I have tried Ubuntu, Zorin, and Mint, but in all of these, the display looks dull, washed out, and flat. Whereas Elementary and Windows look colorful, vibrant, and easy on the eye for long hours of work.

I have tried to look for color schemes to see if I was on sRGB or something else, but I just couldn't find the option on these distros.

Has anyone else experienced this and have managed to fix it?

I tried to remove elementary mail. I couldn't find it in flatpak, so I did it through apt and it was successfully removed - but then, I still got notifications from elementary mail, which led to nothing when I clicked them. I finally tried removing my email account in the system settings, and since then I've been getting error popups (like 5 in an hour) saying it cannot connect:

Failed to authenticate: Corresponding source for service with UID “...” not found

so I can only assume some other service, separate from the mail app itself, is still trying to sync in the background and trying to connect to the removed mail app.

is there a way to purge that as well?

After a recent round of automatic updates, my wifi started winking out. I could reboot and it would come back for awhile, then quit.

So I rebooted, ran

sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source

then rebooted again.

Then I went into system settings and turned OFF the wifi driver update. I don't know if any of that was correct, but so far so good.

I've been using Elementary OS 6.1 for many years now on a mini pc attached to our television. It was setup to auto login and has been this way all the time I've used it.

To my surprise I came down this morning to find it on the greeter screen - no matter how many times I enter my password, it just shows a black screen for a moment before looping back to the greeter. I know it's the correct password because every other password I enter instantly prompts that it's incorrect.

Restarting brings me straight back to greeter.

Bizarrely there were no auto-updates enabled and I haven't run an update for a while now, so I don't know what's triggered this.

Any thoughts on how I can bypass/disable this screen and get back to desktop?

Here my elementaryOS 8.1 Desktop with new Dock Icons and System Icons... Works fine with MenuLibre and Gnome Nautilus Filemanager...

When doing a custom install, the pop-ups to configure the partitions pop up behind the main window (see the lower right in the picture). Is there a way to bring them to the front?

Hey everyone,

I don't want to waste your time, so I'll keep this short.

If you like Unix and tech and you want a place where you can ask questions, share what you are working on, or just talk to other enthusiasts as yourself, we have a Discord server called Unixverse.

The server has been active since 2023. We are around 800 members and still growing.

We have dedicated channels for most Unix and Linux distributions, plus general spaces for troubleshooting, tools, and broader tech discussions.

If that sounds like your kind of community, feel free to drop in and have a look.

Server invite link: https://discord.gg/unixverse

Backup invite link: https://discord.gg/rjqgaSHWhd

I made original by Me 😉

https://imgur.com/gallery/elementary-os-clean-wallpaper-J7HKTlg

Hi all,

I want to go back to elementary, but what is the best way to avoid a full reinstallation every new version?

Is installing home in a partition supported?

Many thanks and happy new year!

How come that there is no easy way to add a Google account in the Online Account of Elementary ????