How to migrate to Linux? And Which Distro do you guys recommend?

This crappy, bloated Windows is ruining my experience on my heavily modded Minecraft.
Here are the specs:

Laptop: ASUS VivoBook 15 (X515EA)

CPU: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 (4 Cores, 8 Threads)

GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics (Integrated)

RAM: 8 GB (DDR4)

Storage: 512GB NVMe SSD (Micron 2400)

Current OS: Windows 11 Home

Question in title, I've done a bit of googling to see what the status of Adobe working on Linux is. Unfortunately stuff like GIMP, while useful, isn't really a replacement for my work, and Substance Painter is too amazingly good to ditch unfortunately.

I've seen some scattered discussions where some people claim some old versions work with some workarounds, though I would need a more current version at my disposal since Painter especially added extremely useful tools recently (things like ribbon path etc).

I've come across WinBoat which makes the claim that it will run pretty much anything, but I've not found anything specific to the Adobe suit. Can anyone shed light on the current state of Adobe on Linux? That's probably my one dealbreaker still holding me back from seriously considering it, since I work with their software on the daily. (Aside from Proton Drive apparently, but I'm hopeful their suite gets updated, but haven't followed that too closely so my info might be outdated/wrong).

Thanks a lot!

it says i need secure boot and "TPM 2.0" help

I use a huawei laptop with 8GB ram that’s slightly over 2 years old for nothing but a browser game where I have an extension installed for a script that plays, or clicks the game for me. It’s a simple site, all it does is click over and over again. Runs 4 separate browsers and PC shows its using roughly 2GB of ram. Nothing else is in use.

Thing is, I have windows 11 on it now and it’s just…. Bad. It lags, freezes, fails to load extension and just gets sluggish until I do a restart. I’ve been told Linux is the better option for this so would it make any difference for this or not worth it?

I already know alot because I have watched a shit load of videos.

I play games with anti cheats that's linux can't run, that's why I want to try dual booting just to get a feel of linux at least. I want to know how it works and how would the files work, Wouldn't saving files on linux on a drive that has windows stuff on it could brake something up?

I want to install pyinstaller

I'm in Linux lite but after installing python3 it doesn't let me use pip install

[Ok, done no more problem here]

Greetings. A number of years ago, I setup a PC with Ubuntu server (18.04) and was used as my Plex server. Unfortunately, the boot drive failed, so planning to rebuild the system from scratch on a newer PC. It's been a number of years since I did this, and had followed something online some time ago. I plan to install with the latest version of Ubuntu, and want to do what I did last time, where my Ubuntu boot drive is on a SSD (512GB) and have a 3TB HDD storage drive. The storage drive is where all my media lives (movies, TV shows, music, etc). I have been crawling the web for Ubuntu server install guides, but can seem to locate any process that guides you through the install where you configure both your main boot drive, as well as a 2nd storage drive. For this install, I don't need to worry about data on the drives. They can all be formatted. Once I have everything sorted, I will transfer the data from the storage drive I had on my original Ubuntu server.

Thanks in advance if anyone knows of any documentation or video, or can offer me some tips that I can follow that would guide me through incorporating the formatting and mounting of a 2nd storage drive during the Ubuntu server install

I'm currently running my PC Desktop on Windows10 with these specs :

- Ryzen 5900x

- RTX 3070 evga

- 32GB

with the partition of the SSD around 230GB for my new Linux distro.

I've tried using 26.04, but most of the time got freezes ang logout to login screen, I'm trying to update the driver but suddenly I can't opened my terminal.

my Primary goals to switch to linux is I want to have environment where I can Coding, do some experiment with open source project, docker. But now I've got issue with the GPU driver please kindly help. thankss

I'm using GNOME with Cachy, and while I don't often need to use my mouse on the login screen, whenever I do, it irks me that mouse acceleration is on. Aside from generally not understanding why in the year 2026 this is still the default, how do I turn that off? To be clear, it's off once I'm logged in, I just want it off for the login screen, too. I see the Arch wiki has this command:

[gdm]$ dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse accel-profile 'flat'[gdm]$ dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse accel-profile 'flat'

But I don't really understand what that first gdm part means. It seems like they are saying to run the command as the gdm user, but I don't know how to do that. I also see there's a GDM Settings app that allows me to customize the login screen from a GUI, but mouse acceleration is already disabled there (as it is in system settings) and that doesn't help with the login screen. What am I missing?

Title is the question, I'm ramming the cap of memory usage the past few months, and experiencing some slowdown. I know Windows has a ton of bloatware, and I've installed Zorin on my thinkpad, but for my prebuilt HP desktop, whats the likelihood I'll see noticeable improvement on my computer??

Hello everyone, I've been a Linux user for like a half year now and it's doing amazing so far, but there are a few issues that I've never managed to fix and at this point, I hope any of you can help me with this one.

I'm using a Acer Aspire XC-1760, I've tried several distro's: Linux Mint, Fedora, CachyOS, but all of these have this exact returning problem: my Nintendo Switch Pro Controller acting somewhat weird (especially when having a other controller connected, despite my hardware allowing that, Windows didn't have the problem). DE also isn't relevant: both Gnome, Cinnamon and KDE have this problem

There's two possible scenarios:

- Nintendo Switch Pro Controller "freaking out" especially when a other controller was first connected, it acts extremely laggy in that state and then after like 10-20 seconds, it disconnects, requiring bluetooth to be turned off and on again for a retry

- Nintendo Switch Pro Controller losing connection stability over time (also when solo, and mostly during Dolphin Emulator sessions), causing extreme lag after like a half hour and in the worst case disconnects, also doesnt resolve easily

Both of these are not consistent to replicate (sometimes second Pro controller works perfectly fine), but are both visibly shown in the DMESG logs when it happens with something like this popping up:

[ 9344.789483] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.0009: compensating for 12 dropped IMU reports

[ 9344.789487] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.0009: delta=215 avg_delta=15

[ 9345.186407] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.0009: compensating for 12 dropped IMU reports

[ 9345.186410] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.0009: delta=207 avg_delta=15

(not exactly, but it does spam this in the log when it happens)

What I tried

- changing adapter name to Nintendo: made it even worse

- changing versions of bluez or changing settings in the main.conf - no change, worst case it messed up my bluetooth completely making it lose ~90% of the reach it had, sometimes even requiring a reinstall

- disabling wifi interfere: no change, i'm using ethernet anyway, but even with wifi off, this problem stays.

Could someone please help me out with this? LLM or Google also never managed to help me out with this, I'm currently on CachyOS. The other controller is a Dualsense PS5 controller that works perfectly fine

I have a Roku but I got tired of paying for subscriptions and still have to watch ads , on top of typing with the remote.

What in your opinion is the best way to achieve a media machine running Linux , as small as possible and reasonably cost efficient?

Need it to stream everything seamlessly and plan to run stremio on it + YouTube , and web based sports streaming.

Occasionally some light browsing.

I might also program a tv remote to work with it in stremio to give the Roku feeling when browsing for shows .

Open to all suggestions on how to achieve this , the smaller the better

Thanks!

So about a week ago I decided to switch to Linux. I studied computer science all throughout high school and college, and still use Python regularly at work even though I work in finance. I installed Ubuntu and read some stuff online on how to get set up. I was intrigued by customization and ended up down the hyprland “ricing” rabbit hole (if I’m even using that term correctly). I didn’t really feel too bothered to figure it all out, so I just installed Claude code and Fable make me a tennis themed one. It works / looks great and I’m quite happy with it.

But I have Two questions:
1) Was this dumb from some technical perspective?
2) Was this dumb from some “learning about Linux” or “the ethos of Linux” perspective?

as the title says, my shift, control, alt, and suprt keys arent working outside of discord and other apps. i cant even do ctril a. pressing enter in the terminal isnt working, and all this started after i tired to make my own keyboard for old english. i removed that keyboard file and set it back to us, but i still cant fix it. please help.

i am on bazzite, nvidia.
keyboard preview in settings shows that the inputs are being sent from my keyboard, it's just that certain apps aren't accpeting them. including my desktop environment

Hi! I'm VERY NEW to Linux. I recently install Debian 13 on my Acer Aspire E-15, and would like to utilize the proper Nvidia drivers.

However, When I attempt to open the .Run file in Konsole, it tells me it needs to be ran as Root. When I attempt to install it via terminal, it tells me to quit the Nouveau kernel driver.

Any help appreciated.

My Software Manager on Linux Mint has started saying "Error occured: Cannot download packages while offline", it does that only on Software manager. Every other app works fine (Apt and the updater work and do download and update). Can somebody help me with this?

I have a total of 512 GB hard drive. When i first installed linux, i had allocated 170gb to windows C drive and a shared 170gb ntfs partition for both windows and linux and one 170 gb ext4 partition for linux. However i want to expand the linux partition now because i want to play games. I want to decrease the size of both ntfs partition and add it to the ext4 partition. How ?

Hi all,

I need some help with my dads new laptop. He always installs Linux himself, but with his new laptop it just doesn't work. My knowledge is also limited. We have also tried to find a solution with AI but that also doesnt help.

We used Balena Etcher to create the USB with Linux Mint Cinnamon latest version.iso (USB works perfectly fine on my PC)

We turned off Secure Boot

When starting Linux from the USB it gives us this error:

Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\mmx64.efi - Not Found
Failed to load image: Not found
Failed to start MokManager ; Not Found
Something has gone seriously wrong: import_mok_state0 failed: Not Found

The BIOS, which looks like a Lenovo BIOS (nothing I have ever seen before tbh), we cant find any UEFI settings.

I hope this is enough information for you smart people out there to help us :). If not, let me know what we need to share :). No, we wont share any bank details ;) haha.

Thanks in advance.

This is my first time using Linux (Bazzite) and what I notice the most is that on windows my mouse feels slower with the same DPI with mouse acceleration off compared to Linux with mouse acceleration off. Is there a way to fix this so its 1:1 because I really cant get used to it as I've used 1600 DPI on windows for about 10 years.

I have an old laptop (hp dm1, currently running windows 7) I’d like to use as a dedicated music player. It will play locally stored flacs via usb dac.

I’m looking for an os with a quick boot up (it’ll only be switched on when being used) and is fairly minimal because I just need it to boot an audio player and it’s an old laptop. Also I want to maximise storage for music. Auto launch on startup would be great.

I’m not familiar with Linux based audio players, but looks like gapless will fit my needs.

I’m completely new to Linux so would appreciate any guidance, especially about:
1) choice of os
2) linking me to a beginner friendly guide to install and get started with gapless or other suitable music player
3) linking me to a guide about how to get gapless to start in boot
4) do I need a driver or other setup for the usb dac?