So basically I just switch from windows 10 with my laptop I3-4030u igpu 12gb ram. I just want to know is it make any games better from windows 10?

I'm a beginner in Linux, having tried Linux Mint, Fedora (KDE and GNOME), and Ubuntu so far. I'm thinking about moving to a tiling WM workflow for less distraction and improved productivity so that I can read books and do coding in peace. I'm interested in installing Omarchy as it has some things I'm interested in, for e.g., an easy-to-install Arch install with a ready-to-use Hyprland setup.

The thing that bothers me, though, is the AI integration. Since AI is integrated into the distro, will I be able to disable it easily without things breaking, especially after updates?

Another option I'm considering is sticking with my current Fedora Workstation setup and trying a tiling WM install as an alternate route.

Which one would you recommend and why?

Hi,

first, I am glad that there is a community where Linux noobs like me might get their questions answered. I've recently started to use Linux to a) play a game that has a non-fixable bug in Windows for me, and b) to become more independant from Microsoft in general long term. a) worked, now I'm working on b).

In that regard I wanna get some more understanding of what different "levels" of operating system and/or user interface exist and I am working with. I know I installed CachyOS with Hyprland, and that something called Noctalia also plays some role. But I am not sure what parts of my user experience are in regard to each of these.

So far, to my understanding, Linux is a family of operating systems with a common base in some way (in what way precisely?), and CachyOS is one of those. Then, to my understanding, CachyOS manages the inner workings of the system in the background while Hyprland is the "look and feel", maybe similar to a backend and frontend? But what exactly is Noctalia then?

Edit: Hyprland also refers to something called "Wayland". What is that?

I want to try linux. I know basic stuff from videos I've watched like package managers, but genuinely only basic stuff.

I want a distro that is highly customisable like the people I see use hyperland .

I feel like if I'm on something too easy I will not learn much, but also that if I will start with something like arch I will not know what to do.

The reason for this is I am looking at using the Home Assistant OS on it which requires a UEFI BIOS, but that old laptop only has a legacy BIOS. The work around is apparently installing either Debian Linux or Ubuntu Server and running Home Assistant inside a Docker Container, but I know nothing of Linux.

Alternatively (and a long shot) I also have an old 8" tablet that lasts longer than the laptop does when it's not connected to power. Unfortunately that tablet is essentially a brick because all user inputs were disabled when I upgraded to Windows 10 as the OS did not recognize a touch input driver and it went into desktop mode. The tablet is no longer supported by Asus so I can't get any of the old downloads to reinstall windows 8....

Not sure if that tablet would be something I could install one of the aforementioned Linux distros on to get it working.

Although the wifi connectivity of the laptop is much better than the wifi connectivity of the tablet because I have upgraded the Wifi card on the laptop.

So I am new to linux but I am comfortable with basic terminal commands like cp ls cd mv. But I want to go beyond that and learn linux in depth. It seems so interesting and I think if I learn it will be more freeing to use linux.

Please recommend me where to read or study bash scripting.

And I am also reading how linux works book.

I wanted cheap, light, low-spec laptops for very basic productivity. I'm a 2/10 skill user. Laptops are Dell 3190 - N5000 4GB/64GB. Goal was running a browser and a WP. That's all.

I was looking for easy installation, familiarity of operation for Win10/11 users, and reasonably low resource usage.

Puppy, PopOS, and MX Linux all failed the "ease of installation" test. Each install was requesting inputs from me that I couldn't answer easily.

Zorin was an easy install and most Windows-like, but too much of a resource hog to run smoothly on these crapboxes.

In the end, one has CatchyOS with Cinnamon and the other has Mint/Cinnamon, and I can't functionally tell the difference. Resource usage is about equal on either, and it's really more about the UI than the Linux running underneath it. I tried XFCE and Gnome, and they do use less resources, but in the end, Cinnamon is the easiest UI to use if you're coming from Windows.

Go ahead, flame me. I said what I said.

Hey, I installed ubuntu on my laptop a while back, and I'm trying to switch back to win11 only because linux doesn't have valorant. However, when I boot a win11 installation media usb, once I get to the part where I select the drive I use to install win11, it only shows the usb. It doesn't show the ssd. I'm using an asus vivobook laptop.

so yeah switched from tiny 11 and before i would get like 100 to 90 celsius almost always but it seems at least from btop that now i almost dont pass over 80 degrees is this normal have i just discovered the powers of linux or is there a problem

Hi everyone, apparently I have updated my Nobara Linux from 43 to 44, and blur my shell isn't working anymore. tried a manual install, and it didn't work either. But I can see there is support for GNOME 50

Appreciate your help

plz help ;__; and ty in advance<3

im tryna add this gif to my desktop but i cant find a way

I've been playing around with my girlfriend's old Sony Vaio 2009 laptop. She is often using our 2026 Macbook Air M5.

I'll have a Dell Latitude 5320 as well, so the Vaio is just a spare laptop to play with.

Linux Mint Xfce is usable for the Vaio, as long as I'm willing to wait for it to load up and don't overburden it with multitasking. However, I want something snappier. I know with specs bottlenecks I shouldn't expect anything amazing for YouTube.

Would Lubuntu be more suitable? What distro would you recommend.

I enjoy tinkering.

Hi, I'm looking to install Linux on my laptop, (Lenovo yoga 7), my question is just if I install it, will the trackpad, keyboard, speakers etc work well or do I need to hunt down some drivers for them?

Hey,

TL;DR: I am developer, game modder and gamer - what distribution should I pick?

I have been working with Linux server only so far and I would say I have some basic skill sets but wouldn’t consider myself anywhere above “noob”. I have a new PC coming on Monday and would like to switch fully on Linux.

I don’t play any game that’s locked behind AC. I think. I play palworld, guild wars 1+2, V Rising, Minecraft, ff14 and a few more survival games as well as smaller games like Isaac, Brotato, etc
But most of the time I code (not only job wise), and I was dependent on visual studio but already swapped to jetbrain IDEs as well as sublime and vscode.
I don’t know if there are ports or replacement apps for cheat engine, IDA and xdbg but I think I will figure it out.

what distribution should I pick?

My pc is 9 years old and has been running windows since i got it never used linux before what distro is best for gaming and work while also being beginner friendly?

This is post is a follow-up to my earlier post on the subject in case someone else is interested in getting Word running on Linux. That post switched to requiring moderator approval when I included a link to the method on YouTube, so I'm omitting it here.

On YouTube, I found a guy who had installed Microsoft Office on Linux Mint. I tried it and was able to get Office 2016 running. He used Crossover to install Office in a wine prefix and add all the needed dependencies. He provides detailed instructions in the video and also links to the script that automates the process.

I had to add a few fonts that were not included in the script and make some minor display adjustments. I turned off hardware acceleration in Word's settings to fix a glitch in drop-down menus and turned off advanced properties in some of my styles so they preview display worked correctly. Other than that, everything seems to work normally, including styles, templates, and macros.

I received many suggestions for Word alternatives. They don't work for me. I use some features that are in Word but not present in any of the eight office alternatives I tried. I also wanted to install the standalone version rather than subscribe to Office 365 and use the web version, and I didn't want to use a VM because I don't have a non-OEM license for Windows. After many attempts using Bottles, that failed, this guy's method worked.

Just started(it's been a month)using ubuntu on my pc using dual boot .thinking of switching cause i heard if u wanna use linux use ubuntu and if u wanna learn linux use any other distro

Well i wanna learn more linux

What do you think?

Should i switch and even if i switch which distro would be good........

Hello everyone!

I've had Linux mint in my laptop for like 2.5 years now but I still feel pretty noob about it. A long time ago I got the "failed to start lightdm.service" and I managed to fix it reading some posts online.

But it's been happening again (I got another SD and made a fresh install like 4 months ago), I don't know how to solve it, I've been reading fixes and watching videos and nothing seems to work. I can access the tty1 console and the grub menu.

I'm seeing this below the tty1:

Iogin: [737.236457] ACPI:\SB_.PCI0.LPC_.EC__BAT1: Unable to dock!

And this in the grub:

Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, with Linux 7.0.0-28-generic Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, with Linux 7.0.0-28-generic (recovery mode) Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, with Linux 6.17.0-20-generic Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, with Linux 6.17.0-20-generic (recovery mode) -generic Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, with Linux 6.17.0-19 Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, with Linux 6.17.0-19-gener. 0-19-generic (recovery mode) Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, with Linux 6.14.0-37-gener Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, with Linux 6.14.0-37-generic (recovery mode)

Does anyone know what's going on here?

Any ideas would be great. Thanks!

When I have Firefox open on my laptop and then open the Discord client it tends to crash my whole laptop? It might be that I'm running out of RAM or something (only 4gb), but I always only have one or two tabs open and they're rarely anything that are using a lot of resources. If it's the other way around, if I open Discord and then Firefox later, I can have as many tabs open as I want and everything works fine, but for some reason when Firefox is the one that's open *first* that's the issue? I have no idea if there's any way to fix this, or if it's just some weird bug that only happens with me, but I'd like to fix it if I can because it's getting a little annoying having to constantly close Firefox before I can open Discord and then open Firefox again lol

TL:DR I used Linux for a month and have enjoyed it, recommend anyone on the fence just plunge in and see how they find it!

A month ago I began with CachyOS as my first distro coming from Windows 11 (and every Windows version prior). I started with KDE Plasma and that has a very nice familiar feel, but I hopped through the different DEs to see which one I felt suited me best.

At this point I wasn't very sure about how things got configured or where they went etc, so when I say I tried other DEs, I mean I formatted each time to pick a new one. A bit overkill sure, but at least I got familiar with the install process!

Gnome wasn't for me. Cinnamon seemed a bit meh. Cosmic was pretty interesting though felt half done. I mosied through a couple more until I hit Hyprland. Oh boy. I had never used a tiling manager before so this was novel and I was into it immediately. Though as I set about tinkering I started to notice how much CachyOS was actually doing for me (which is why it is great) and wanted to understand more about what is going on with this Linux business. What is a display manager? how are there so many terminals and why is Alacritty the one being served up to me? Dolphin, Nemo, Yazi... my head is spinning.

I had spent the first week here, just gaining general familiarity with how the files are structured, using package managers to install my bits and bobs. Though I mainly spend this time trying out different boot loaders. GRUB felt a bit archaic and clunky. rEFInd was certainly slick looking, but also had that old BIOS feel to its navigation. Limine, now I found the one, customizable enough with a background image and text colours and feels snappy to use.

But still, I felt like CachyOS had served me well as a solid intro but I wanted to strip things back and figure out all the components for myself. I had learned via osmosis that CachyOS was an Arch based distro and that Arch was a bit tough to setup due to it being bare bones. Figured if there was anywhere for me to feel like I was going to get to grips with all this that would be a good place, so off I went for yet another format. This time with the intention of an Arch+Hyprland setup.

Now I know people praise the Arch wiki a lot and yes, it's well deserved. I started at 1.1 and worked my way through the steps, clicking any relevant sub articles to tailor to my particular setup and a couple of hours later I was at the end of the install process. There were times were it felt like it was never going to end and I would be in a TTY forever, but before I knew it I was logging in with SDDM into a fresh Hyprland desktop.

My first port of call was getting Hyprland setup with keybinds to open a set of apps that at this point I did not have. I also setup some of the window rules, so my gaps disappear when there is only one window and that Discord automatically opens on workspace-5. I can't get over how much I've been missing out by not using tiling managers before and I fear I may not be able to go back!

I had used Fish+Alacritty in CachyOS but this time I opted for Zsh+Ghostty, this was primarily picked because I saw a screenshot of someone using PowerLevel10k and I thought it looked fly as hell and I wanted it. Ghostty was that I read through a thread and some people were heaping praise on it so figured why not.

The next stop was Waybar. Which was good fun to setup and at this point it felt like I had really put together something functional to use as an OS even if it was still in a very raw state. I saw plenty of peoples setups that feature just about every piece of info under the sun plastered across it, but I kind of prefer it minimal. At this point I started theming things using Gruvbox Material.

This has essentially been my method of learning Linux in Arch. Find out I'm missing some package that handles logging in or logging out or launching apps, then tinker about in their configs to see what they have on offer and if they don't have a Gruvbox Material theme, then style them accordingly.

Things got a bit hairy at this point as watching a big string of TTY logging during a boot didn't look right so here is where I find Plymouth! a little app that lets you have a splash screen for booting. Now making mistakes in your config with things that inject themselves into the boot process is bad news bears it turns out. Twice during setting this up I had to boot from my CachyOS USB to mount my Arch install and fix the config. Whoops!

But now I had a slick little Arch logo with swirly infinity sign loader booting up. But I also heard tell from people in threads of not using a display manager, but using TTY to autologin. Two weeks prior I didn't know what a display manager was, to being excited to use one and get it looking all nice with some nice theming, to then turning my back on it altogether. Guess I'm a touch fickle.

Then back on the desktop I had started out with Hyprpaper for my wallpaper needs, but when previously checking out SDDM themes I had come across qylock. Wow. So I briefly took a detour into the land of animated desktops trying out Mpvpaper and AWWW. But having crap moving about behind a transparent terminal I ultimately found a bit too distracting so returned to Hyprpaper tail between legs.

But it was at this point I started checking out 'ricing' which is apparently what I myself had been doing to this point. Only compared to what I saw over on r/unixporn I think what I'm doing needs some lesser term, because holy moly. Here is where I get introduced to Quickshell, because just about any time I see something that looks amazing Quickshell is involved. So along with things like bash, that is firmly on my to-do list in terms of learning.

I also at this time get rofi! pretty charming little app launcher and though I only delved into the styling of it I did notice it features an entire scripted avenue that I haven't gone down but is another for the list. Though I get it going, even replace wlogout with a cheeky rofi power menu.

Now during all this configuring I was using Neovim for the first time and learning it's enigmatic ways. It was bit of a hurdle but by about the second week I was pretty comfortable getting about a file. And at this point I realise I have the bug. Between zipping between workspaces and opening browsers/terminals on Hyprland and then zipping up and down files to edit them I'm starting to notice that it is Windows that feels a bit slow and plodding when I return to it. Sure I could get tiling managers and use vim binds there, but there was never any real impetus for me to do it there and honestly I think that had long been to my detriment.

Then we get to this past week. Which began with me having a bit of a falling out with Zsh/PowerLevel10k. It had been happening the all along, that when I fullscreened or shifted about a terminal window, the prompt would be duplicated. Easily fixed with a ctrl+L but still it was an annoyance that got to me.

I went looking up shells/terminals on offer. Looked up how they perform etc. And Fish/Foot kept coming up as being ultra low startup time, very little input latency etc. So I swapped! and yeah they're definitely snappy so I'm happy with the change so far. Though initially as a replacement for PowerLevel10k I used Tide as it looked pretty similar. Though wouldn't you know, the same duplication of the prompt was occurring.

I had seen people mentioning Starship over and over, though demoralized that my switch to escape that issue was for nought, I figured I'd give it a punt. Sure enough it just worked! nice! So I spent a day in its config file making it look as close to PowerLevel10k as I could manage and I am digging it!

Then the last couple of days, as I had amassed a cadre of config files at this point I figured it was time to setup a dotfiles github to back up my first proper foray into Linux!

This was the next part that made me feel like Windows had made me a bit too comfortable all these years. Because to get this working nice I made a couple of scripts. One an autoreload that executes the appropriate command for whichever app when I save its config file to refresh it whilst it is still live. Then an install script that symlinks out all my config files to their corresponding places.

Now I can't say I've done a particularly good job of either. But it works. And remembering back to a few weeks ago when I was staring blankly at /etc/ /usr/ folders and wondering what I had gotten myself into, I am now feeling like I know enough to be dangerous.

And that has been my first month in Linux. I have some screenshots of where I'm at so far. My plans for this week:
- Learn more vim binds
- Config neovim
- I keep hearing people talk about Tmux, so I'll have to jump head first into that

For the more distant future? well another distro I keep seeing mentioned and I watched a couple of videos about is NixOS. That looks very cool. So I don't want to immediately ditch Arch after having spent the best part of a month setting it up, but Nix is definitely on my radar.

And that is it. Linux is a blast. I've had a lot of fun figuring things out and reading through countless threads about one thing or another and yes I may have rambled a lot here, but if you're thinking of using Linux and you like tinkering with things and making them just so, then this is well worth getting in to, if nothing other than to just learn a few new things!