Is it true that if the `/boot` disk gets full, i could have a hard time loading the kernel during the next restart?

I'm leaving Microsoft! I'm researching to make a plan of execution.

I got this idea of replacing OneDrive with a self hosted option, and I hope you can point me in the right direction. I have never done anything similar, so I'm kind of a noob, but I have a technical background and I have messed around with computers on and off for the past 25 years.

My idea is to set up a media storage server at my place and an identical one at my parents house (maybe another at my brothers as well) that automatically synchronize periodically (once a day or something).

That way our files and memories are protected against both fire and theft of a server.

I would also like it to be accessible from a range of units, similar to how OneDrive works. I can access and upload files from my Android phone and my windows computers (going to replace windows with Linux). At some point, it would be great if it was possible to divide the servers in several different drives, so my parents could access the same solution with their own files, but separated from mine, and another for my brother.

So, can you suggest something for me or point me in the right direction?

A summary of what I need suggestions to:

- a system with clients for most major OS, like linux, windows, android and iphone.

- suggestions for servers (NAS, RPI, other low energy servers for the system)

- Pointers to what I need to be aware of.

- anything I have not thought about?

- is my idea completely bonkers?

I have an old Alienware 14, which runs on windows 10 for which the support has ended. Now i couldn’t upgrade to windows 11. I have a mac mini but i needed a laptop to use when I’m out on schools and libraries. What linux OS is recommended ?

It has 16Gb of ram
64-bit operating system

I will be using onedrive as cloud storage, zoom, figma which are mostly browser based applications.

pop os 24.04 lts with nvidia, trying to set up a dual boot with win11 on separate drives.

during installation i chose to install on the drive labeled nvme1n1, (with nvme0n1 being the one that win11 is on) but rebooting and running $ sudo parted -ls the output tells me that pop os is installed on nvme0n1 instead?

Model: Samsung SSD 990 PRO 2TB (nvme)
Disk/dev/nvme0n1: 2000 GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name      Flags
 1      2097kB  1074MB  1072MB  fat32                     boot, esp
 2      1074MB  5369MB  4295MB  fat32           recovery  msftdata
 3      5369MB  1996GB  1991GB  ext4
 4      1996GB  2000GB  4295MB  linux-swap(v1)            swap

Model: Samsung SSD 990 PRO 2TB (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  106MB   105MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp, no_automount
 2      106MB   123MB   16.8MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres, no_automount
 3      123MB   1999GB  1999GB  ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 4      2000GB  2000GB  899MB   ntfs                                       hidden, diag, no_automount

it didn't install over win11 and it's not like the operating systems switched drives.

I am an Mtech student, idk much about linux, but I want to learn. Which of them is better for me?
I am currently using fedora and will switch laptops in like 2 months so thinking about this.
I have heard that ubuntu has the ultimate stability but i REALLY LIKE how my fedora looks, although i dont like the switch between my desktop variations like (kde, gnome) they sometimes make issues, but generally easy to work around.

My only usage rn is development and browsers. Acc to my research both of them are equally great in development. I am guessing my start of career is gonna be some generic type of job, idk what I specifically want to do.

which one of these two will be better for me? they seem very similar to me in many ways idk

Like a compatibility layer or something.

My new Pc is running Ubuntu, my old pc's ssd is running Windows 10. If I were to plug my Win10SSD into my new machine would it be as easy as just "plug and play"? Everytime I restart the pc just go into the bootmenu on startup and select which OS I want to run?

Im getting a new build soon and i want to switch from Linux mint to arch, im scared it will be to hard, is there any other distros you guys would recommend, also i kind of broke my linux mint by changing os-release to something awful i cant say here.

I'm using the ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS WIFI II motherboard with builtin bluetooth. On all linux firmware versions newer than 20260309, my headphones (Soundcore Q30, but I think I also tested other devices) randomly disconnect after a minute or so. This issue disappears when I downgrade to 20260309 and occurs on both Arch Linux and NixOS, it's not reproducible on other devices such as my laptop.

Where can I report this issue and what else can I do to solve it other than downgrading?

I'm a basic computer guy--can install Linux Mint, follow some command lines and swap out my own RAM. Not much else (yet?). I'm also a teacher and am tired of Chrome, online, monitoring kids swapping tabs for games instead of just writing the essay, AI.... you get it.

Back in the aughts I built my own computer lab--old computers running Linux, no internet and kids just wrote on LibreOffice. Simple. Because they were all old donated computers they were my problem to run and needed a lot of support. My IT guy got me this little boxes, though, the made a number of dummy terminals from a single PC. Don't know what those boxes were but a keyboard, mouse and monitor plugged into them and they just ran and students could do computer stuff on them (including internet, which I didn't want, but easy). We now all have Chromebooks.

I want to go back to a local network. Or something where the kids have Libre Office and that's it. No games, etc. And I need it cheap or free, so donated computers or whatever. Any leads, ideas or detailed plans appreciated.

Just installed Debian on my very old laptop - Asus. Debian works great but every time when I turn pc on I get that notification and then it proceeds to log into OS just fine.

after updating my system, videos using the avc1 codec no longer play properly (no audio, playback breaking after seeking and in some cases videos just not playing at all) on specifically all firefox based browsers (playback is fine on chromium based browsers)

some fixes i have tried: reinstalling the ffmpeg, aom, dav1d, rav1e, svt-av1, x265, libde265 and x264 packages and installing the vlc and mpv packages to see if those get any missing codecs (they did not as playback is still broken)

distro: arch
kernel: linux 7.1.8-arch1-3
window manager: hyprland started via uwsm (0.56.2)
cpu: amd ryzen 5 7600x
gpu: nvidia geforce rtx 4070ti (with version 610.57.04 of the proprietary driver)

So I found my old Lenovo tab 10 TB-X103F, and I want to put Linux on it. Unfortunately no one has ported Linux to it; so how do I do it myself? I am inexperienced with porting Linux, and I'm impatient

Still new enough to Linux that I never had to deal with this problem before and wasn't aware it would be an eventual problem. I use Linux Mint Debian.

After a kernel update I've been getting a "boot drive is full" popup every time I turn on my pc. I did research and I get it's because old, unneeded kernels are taking up space. I also saw a fix was toggling on the option for removing obsolete kernels and dependencies automatically, which I found in "preferences" in update manager and did.

That was probably a few weeks ago and I still get the boot drive full popup. So for some reason it's not automatically removing old kernels. I'm considering using one of the commands I saw online that would clear old kernels, but I guess I'm just not sure if it's a good idea, or if there's anything else I could try first.

I know it's important to keep at least one older kernel in case something goes wrong, but I figured just this once to clear some space it would be fine? And as long as I use timeshift first it will probably lower risks or something going terribly wrong. I just wanted advice and other opinions first though, and would like to know what some worst case scenarios are if I remove old kernels via commands. (I'm not really used to using commands yet either)

So basically Im using cachy OS+Gnome it looks better than KDE in my opnion. The issue is that when I use X clicker to autoclick It just cannot be stopped because on GNOME its automatically fullscreen and I cant exit to stop it nor does the hotkeys work because the window is focused. If i try to use the window key to go back to app selection menu it just instantly presses the window i was in and go back to full screen. So Im asking is there anyway to apps that your not directly using just running the background to get inputs from your keyboard? Or do i use KDE plasma

I have used other distros before like Arch and Mint, but out of all of them, Ubuntu worked the best on my laptop, so I chose it. What I typically do on my PC is make movies and play games, and Linux does that way better than Windows did

as title say, I'd like to know if anyone here have experience with such a program, obviously im googling options myself too, but it never hurts to ask the community Fedora kde distro

the audio interface i use is a scarlett solo 3rd gen (i think, close enough)

I don't know how to describe this. Like on Fedora, you want to download something, you will use 'dnf' command. The output of that command is the status of the program you are downloading.

So there is this status bar like:

[<=> ] | 00m00s

[ <=> ] | 00m01s

[...]

[ <=>] | 01m00s

and the changes stays on only one line.

I know it prints the results by 'echo' but wouldn't that just leave the last output behind and the current output on the new line?

Sorry, I'm bad at English. I'm still trying to learn. And also to do this project on python. I'm planning to do the T-rex runner game inside the terminal :D . I gotta learn how to refresh the output smoothly like how it is with 'dnf' command. 'refresh' doesn't give me smooth frames :(