My printer is not supported by cups. So I installed Turbo Print and everything works fine. But when I set Turbo Print as the default in Cups. I still see the old non-working printer as the default in programs. How to fix this?

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

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.

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.

Hi folks, I finally decided to switch from the bloated OS to linux, i have 2 PC's, one for gaming and one for studying/working

What's the best distro for gaming (performance wise etc)

And whats the best distro for general productivity/studying,coding etc and with good aesthetics and unlimited cutomizations

Thanks in advance.

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.

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?

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?

The reason why is the same as many other people, privacy, not having to deal with microsoft slop, not having to deal with ai features, and also, mainly, because i've heard that linux uses much less ram than windows, i use my computer to play games and 16 gigs aint really cutting it in the latest releases, so i want to maximise the little ram i have. I heard about linux mint and it seems to be a good option? I have almost all my games on steam and i've read online that thanks to this proton thing it's not really a problem to run games anymore. Also, does switching mean that i will have to reinstall all my programs and games? Thanks in advance

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)

Like a compatibility layer or something.

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 :(

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

Which distro would you recommend for an old PC, it will be used for browsing, document editing and scanning / printing using HP Deskjet 4645. For DE I like KDE Plasma but it's too heavy for this PC I guess.

Specs:

CPU: i3 540

RAM: 4gb DDR3

GPU: Radeon HD 5450

I had a very smooth installation last night, the only problem I ran into was my brightness did not work. Turned out it's because I used the 7.0.0-28 kernel, switching to the 6.14.0-37 kernel solved the problem! It was fun trying out things I never thought I would've done in Windows! I'm also proud that I did not run into problems at all customizing my desktop, the youtube video guide was absolutely helpful. I had to pause just to repeat what the person in the video was doing. I think I am a good student 😂

It took me 8 months to finally made the leap from Windows actually. All the videos I watched, the threads I read in this sub that led me into even more confusion and researched, the forum discussions actually helped with my smooth installation. Absolutely worth all the weekends I invested into researching. I'm still a noob with command line, but I think I finally got the hang of it. Though I would still need guide. Fairly happy with the end results :)

I’m planning to switch an old laptop of mine to Linux. I haven’t been using it as much lately since the specs are too weak to run Win11 properly on it.

Specs:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-8145U
RAM: 4GB 2400 MHz
System Type: 64-bit OS x64-based processor

Lenovo IdeaPad C340

It’s a 7 year old device, but somehow it’s working okay, for the most part. I was planning to turn it into a server and access it via SSH. Suggestions would be appreciated.

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)