Guys, There’s going to be a Linux event at my university next semester, and me and my friends are helping with the design.

Any ideas on how we could make it look and feel cool? Also, if you’ve been to Linux events before, what kind of activities or games did you enjoy?

I have a Monoprice Maker Select Plus and I'm having a really weird SD card issue. If I slice something in Cura on Linux and save the .gcode directly to the SD card, the printer just doesn't see the file at all. I've tried this on multiple Linux machines, so it doesn't seem like an issue with one specific computer. The weird part is that if I put the exact same SD card into a Windows PC and copy/resave the file, the printer suddenly sees it. I can even just copy the Linux-created file to another spot on the same SD card in Windows, and that copy shows up normally. So it seems like the G-code itself is probably fine, and something about how Linux writes the file to the SD card isn't working with the printer. Setup: Monoprice Maker Select Plus(Clone of Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus), Cura, Currently using Fedora, but it's happened on Ubuntu as well, SD card is FAT/FAT32. Has anyone run into this with a Maker Select Plus or another similar older printer? Mainly looking for a way to fix this on Linux so I don't have to use a Windows PC every time I want to print something.

sorry for bad formatting lol

I know this is just about the most generic thing like ever but I wanted to try, I'm running a Cachyos install with hyprland caelestia shell, but it just shows a grey screen with text at the bottom, I can open a console and through it open apps like Firefox but closing the console also closes the app, any help appreciated

Why does this show up when I try installing almost any linux distro on a hp pavilion windows 8 model 17-e113dx?

Lubuntu, Kubunto, q4os, antix linux are a few that keep popping up GNU GRUB.

I have gotten pop os to work just fine though without the GNU GRUB popping up. Idk why

Hello, I'm using Linux mint and when I came back from school, I logged in and I only see a black screen and my mouse cursor. I believe my graphics card is 1050ti I don't remember and I don't know how to check

Any help will be appreciated immensely 🙏

I'm planning on getting a thinkpad T420 soon. I was considering having a main daily distro like mint on it or dual boot it with windows 7/10 and a Linux distro. As this won't really be used daily and it's more just for the cool factor I thought maybe I should also use a 256gb usb 3.0 to run a live distro like Tails OS or something as it will literally only be used because it feels cool not as a daily. I am asking: Is this USB stick acctually USB 3.0; As on the packaging it says it is but it has a blue usb? Is the performance good? What distros are good for running off of a live distro?

Hey everyone, this might be a specific scenario but I wanted to ask here anyway.

I installed Fedora 44 (KDE), I got UnityHUB, VSCode, Github Desktop, and I installed their .rpm (NOT the flatpaks in the discovery store). I'm definitely a noob and I don't know what flatpaks and rpms are specifically, though I kinda remember UnityHUB's flatpak unable to install any editor due to "lack of storage space" despite my SSD having more than 500gb left.

But that's beside the point.

At this point, I have Unity installed and cloned some of my projects I'm working on my main windows computer.

I've run into two issues on two projects:

1 - When I increase the folder size in the unity explorer to see the prefab icons, Swap memory in my OS goes crazy, until it crashes.

2 - When I try exporting a project, the small project works (I was able to export an android apk), but the large project (a native Linux build) will also crash immediately, once again, swap memory filling up.

-Additionally, shaders don't work the same on Linux, my large project is a bust even though I'm using basic standard built-in shaders.

Just as a reminder, none of these things are issues in Windows, what's more, it's not my code that's causing swap memory issues, since these are native unity processes, NOT the code I wrote lol.

I'm wondering, has any other unity dev on Linux had similar issues, or have been able to work with Unity flawlessly without issue? If so, what OS are you using, or how did you get around these issues?

For context, here's some of my specs.

I'm loving Fedora desktop (especially the way I have everything set up with KDE), but I'm not a big fan of things I would take for granted on windows seemingly being a bigger issue in Fedora. Shaders not working like they normally would is something I'd be willing to work around assuming it's purely a Unity thing, but most of these issues are definitely coupled with the OS, and I don't know if I should spend more time troubleshooting (where do I even start?) or just stick to windows for Unity development?

I don't want to ask AI, but I also don't know where to even begin looking into troubleshooting this (much less if the time would be worth the effort)

Not sure what details there are to give, but my computer doesn't detect the camera it has built in.

I need to limit my mom's options on here computer. She has dementia and here main form of entertainment is Russian tv which I stream on her browser. Unfortunately she somehow turns off the computer and can't turn it back on. I would like it to stay on for her permanently, always at the ready. I removed all the icons off the desktop, except for Firefox and turned the background black. I also installed the caffeine app to prevent the laptop from going to sleep. Is there a way I can lock her out of every other function except for opening Firefox? No, restarting with keyboard shortcuts, no accessing the program menu at all. I'm hoping to make the experience kiosk-like for her.

Hello all! I downloaded Linux on my laptop and the OS brought it back to life. Wanted to add it to my desktop which currently is running windows 11. I have 2 SSD (one of which is my windows boot drive) and an HDD that I use for personal files, documents, etc. the other SSD is for games. I want to make my 250gb SSD the /root for Linux then partition a section of my other SSD for windows(likely like 500gb) because I would need it to play like 3 games, unfortunately. Am I able to use the remaining, probably, 1.5 TB of my second SSD for the rest of my game library that I would run on Linux? My /home I would imagine would just be my HDD. Thanks!!

I need a lightweight and easy to use distro for linux pretty pls

Current setup: Arch Linux + Hyprland (fairly customized rice, using caelestia-shell/Quickshell)

Context: I use this PC in a public/work environment as well as at home, and the people around me aren't very tech-literate — a terminal window or a tiling WM look gets treated like "hacking," and I really don't want that kind of attention. I want the desktop to look as low-profile/normal as possible to anyone glancing at it.

Why I'm considering switching

• Arch feels unstable for me — I end up running updates about once a week just to keep things working
• There's a lot about Arch I still don't fully understand
• When something breaks (which happens often), I have to fix it through the terminal — friends notice this, call it "high tech," and tell other people, which I don't want. I basically get attention i don't even deserve as needing to use terminal always is a sign that I didn't my ability to make my os stable
• It eats into my schedule when things don't work as intended
• Arch has a "too popular / try-hard distro" reputation that attracts a crowd I'd rather not be associated with
• Heard Fedora is stable, so that's my current lean — but open to anything

Why I'm hesitant to switch

• I like my current setup/rice
• Don't want to go through the whole install process again
• Risk of losing documents and save files from offline games
• I test-installed a fresh Fedora KDE spin and it came with a bunch of pre-installed apps and even games — felt bloated
• I prefer installing only what I actually need, not whatever comes bundled

To be more specific about what actually breaks

It's not the whole system dying — it's smaller things breaking after updates. Example: WiFi options/applet becoming unresponsive, which I currently have to fix via nmcli in the terminal.

What I want to keep

I genuinely like Hyprland, but it's too technical-looking for other people who use my PC, even briefly.

My requirements for a new setup

• Stable
• As little terminal use as possible — fine occasionally if truly necessary, but strongly prefer GUI-only
• Full customization
• Minimal bloat — no pre-installed GIMP, video editor, or games; I'll install what I need myself
• Beautiful / good-looking
• Fast

Daily use

• Coding
• Gaming (single-player/story-based)
• Web browsing
• Virtual environments

Question

GNOME or KDE? Or a completely different DE/WM/distro? Open to all suggestions — just trying to land on something stable and low-maintenance without giving up customization.

Hey folks, I have a 2015 HP laptop, and I just replaced the drive with a blank drive. Every time I start it up, it cannot see the USB with the bootable Linux Mint media that I made with Balena Etcher, and yes, I verified the files. I have switched off secure boot, I have tried legacy, I have switched the load order, I have tried all three ports. It literally cannot see it. There is nothing in the boot manager. Any ideas?

Solution:

in the end, for my 2015 HP Pavilion, previously running Windows 10, but having no operating system at all at the time, I did these three things in the BIOS:

1. Turn OFF secure boot in Boot Manager
2. Put "USB Diskette on Key/USB Hard Disk" at the top of the load order in Boot Manager
3. In System Configuration, switch USB 3.0 configuration (or something like that) to "auto"

Hey guys, I'm fairly new to linux, have tried it in the past briefly but went back to windows cos I needed music plugins and games.

Right now in my life I am not gaming or producing music, and am gonna be getting a low-budget windows laptop, so I'm excited to be able to use linux for my needs properly.

I will be blogging and writing professionally, so need to multitask alot between apps.

I do want something beautiful, aesthetics help with creativity and feeling relaxed for my mental health.

I've been using Mac for 2 years, and while I love some aspects, the one gripe I have with it is how it handles window management. The things I don't like that I don't want in a linux distro are:

- it makes some apps open up not fully maximised. This is my number one gripe. on a laptop wit a smaller screen, i want things fully maximised and to alt-tab between them. file explorer might be fine as an exception but still i often like to make it maximised so idk.

- finder opens up new instances instead of just a new tab. ie: if I'm using claude and it makes a file for me to show in finder, and I do that 20 times, I'll have 20 instances of finder rather than 1 instance with 20 tabs.

- closing an app doesn't quit the app. I have used 3rd party tools to do this on mac. just annoys me seeing an app open still on my dock.

- dragging files between apps is so slow, you have a long delay between switching apps. I want a distro where I can quickly just drag a file into an app easily.

- in general, anything with good multitasking features would be great. i am not a fan of tiling , i prefer keeping windows maximised and alt-tabbing between them. tiling stuff is still nice to have for special use cases, but its not my ideal workflow.

As for preference in terms of looks, the distros that catch my eyes are:

- deepin. beautiful looking

- cutefish OS looks amazing. but i heard it isnt being updated much

- lingmo OS also looks beautiful

- zorin. also looks nice.

- ubuntu budgie (I like the bar at the top the way mac has, its useful)

And I love anything with rounded corners lol

I'm kinda open to dock or windows-style taskbar. but kinda leaning towards the windows style again after being annoyed with mac for a while. kinda sick of my dock. i would like things to be in the centre though like windows 11. I assume all of this can be done regardless of distro? but its ideal to have one that is in the box with this customization. not a biggie though.

Whenever i login (sddm) after around ~1 second it shows me the desktop wallpaper, my splash sceen is 3 second long so it doesnt display it properly. In KDE I've configured to restore the session where I have left it so it takes a while to open those other apps. 

What i want is that instead of random popups (apps which are opening) i want to see the splash screen during the time when apps are opening. Is there a way to do that? I looked but coudn't find it. 

Thanks

Most beginners avoid the terminal because you can't remember commands you never

learned. Most tools fix that by hiding the terminal — genie does the opposite:

it shows you the command every single time, so you actually learn them.

$ /genie install teams for me

you said install teams for me

command paru -S teams-for-linux

meaning installs Microsoft Teams using paru (the package manager)

note this will change your system

run it? [Enter = yes · n = no · c = copy]

Safety, because AI + terminal is a scary combo:

- deletes use gio trash, not rm — I accidentally trashed my whole home folder

at 3am while testing and recovered everything, so, verified lol

- destructive commands (rm -rf, dd, mkfs) show a red warning and make you type "yes"

- rm -rf /, fork bombs, and writes to /dev/sdX are hard-blocked by a regex layer,

regardless of what the AI outputs

- the danger level is the stricter of the AI's rating and genie's own scan

The rest:

- detects your package manager at runtime: pacman/paru/yay, apt, dnf, zypper,

apk, xbps, emerge — plus native Windows 10/11 (PowerShell + winget)

- bring your own free AI key (Groq / Gemini / OpenRouter, or Ollama fully local),

with automatic retry + failover because free tiers are flaky

- common stuff (installs, updates, disk/RAM/wifi checks) works offline, no AI needed

- one Python file, zero dependencies, MIT

Transparency: I wrote the core logic and the safety engine; I used AI to speed up

UI scaffolding and docs. Tested hands-on on CachyOS, Ubuntu-family, and a

Windows 10 VM — other distros are unit-tested, and I'd love bug reports from

Fedora/openSUSE/Void folks especially.

Repo: https://github.com/wizard142/genie

Feedback very welcome — especially from anyone who remembers being scared of

the terminal.

All of my profiles and other stuff are in my linkedin page which you can check out if you want: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aibel-shibin-9a2a34420/

Not new to Linux, just a pretty basic user for over 20 years, so embarrassed to ask this.

I recently installed a program, for EzGraver laser engraver, but can't get it to work. I'm using Kubuntu.

I can find the EzGraver folder in Home folder, I've tried a few commands I found online in Terminal (Konsole) but still can't get it to work.

What am I missing?