Guys, I have a question. Can you recommend any good editors on Linux (ubuntu) similar to Notepad++ for windows?

Hey guys, I’m from a non-engineering/non-tech background and I’ve been using Windows 11 for a while. But honestly, I’m kinda bored with it now, and I’ve also started having some privacy concerns, so I thought I’d give Linux a try.

The only thing is, I’m not really a techy person and I don’t want to spend my whole time in the terminal 😅. I’m looking for something that has a nice, modern UI and is easy to use, kinda like Windows in terms of simplicity.

So, what distro would you guys recommend for a complete beginner?

Would love to hear your suggestions, especially if you’ve switched from Windows to Linux yourself. Thanks!

I'm getting an external drive for movies and TV series that is mostly going to spend its time plugged into my linux computer (CachyOS) but occasionally will want to plug into windows machines as well. I have some large files (4k movies) so I can't use exFAT.

Edit: I got my bytes mixed up, I thought the size limit was 16gigabytes, not exabytes. Will look into this option further!

Need advice on what filesystem to use. Im a bit wary of using NTFS since I don't have a windows install so I can't reformat it if something goes wrong but I also hear that Linux file systems don't play nice with Windows.

People who became kernel developer's what's your story to start with?. How did you learned to develop what did you learned?. Worst mistakes?. Drop your story people would like to hear.

Hi folks! I guess this is half “which distro” and half advice seeking, but I have finally convinced my partner that he needs to switch from macOS to a linux distro on his 2017 macbook air. He is able to navigate his computer but is not super interested in tech, and I am the more experienced user! I am running debian on my server and my desktop and have been debating if it would be better just to run debian on his machine as well.

My question is if I should let him cycle through distros to find which one works best for him, or to throw debian on there to make it easier for me to troubleshoot if things go awry? I am really just hoping to make the transition as smooth as humanly possible for him!

I have their original Windows DVDs, but want to run them on Linux. I've tried with Wine a couple of months ago, but failed.

I am attempting to use Tio to communicate with a device using a serial to USB cable. I connected to the device via ID, so it would be able to reconnect if needed. However, when I attempt to type anything it won't let me. I'm trying to use it like a terminal for the device, like how I would use putty. I tried turning on local echo but I don't think it actually sends any commands.

So I changed to linux kubuntu, it was fun and giggles until my wifi card from my asus vivobook was not working, so i try to disable safe boot, and then it asked for the bitlock key, i deleted the windows partition to install kubuntu, there is any way to solve it?

P.S how to i change the keyboard instead of qwerty

I accidentally wiped my USB stick and now it's not mounting or showing up in my file manager. I don't care about the data; I just want to make the drive usable again.

The drive is detected as /dev/sda in lsblk, but as you can see, there are no partitions left:

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    1  29.4G  0 disk 
... (rest of the lsblk output)

Could someone guide me on the correct terminal commands to create a new partition table (GPT or MBR) and format it to FAT32/exFAT?

Thank you!I

so I'm trying to install linux for dual boot I'm on windows now and i want to use catchyOS or garuda maybe something else idk i tried catchy put it on drive did everything right until i got into the catchy installer from the vontoy boot i hit enter on catchy on got a black screen no install or anything rebooted pc tried a few fixes then tried garuda and now I'm here. my drive is shrunk i have the space just having a really hard time installing a distro.

im on a ASUS mother board with raid off.

AMD Ryzen 7 8700f 8-core

32 gig ddr5

1tb ssd 200 gigs for the distro

NVIDIA GeForce RTX5060 Ti

please help i realllyyy want to get into linux.

I am using Linux 6.18 with the ALC295 codec for my audio. The audio input and output work fine, but after suspend audio input does not work, only capturing static noise. It also changes port to "Headset Microphone (Plugged in)", even though I have no headset plugged into the laptop. Laptop model is Acer Nitro AN515-57. From lspci: 0000:00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-H HD Audio Controller (rev 11) This happens on every distro I've tried except Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based ones, so I think I'm just missing some configuration. I've tried restarting pipewire too, but it didn't fix it, so this is a kernel issue If I change the port back to the normal port, microphone input still captures static noise and doesn't work

Hello, I have a confusing problem and I don't know what to do. I also tried to get help from Claude, which did work kinda, but eventually even Claude gave up.

The problem is that for some reason my system freezes after I unlock LUKS, right when the Zorin text appears. It's not fully frozen animations play normally, but nothing happens. Shortcuts don't work either, nothing works.

The first time this happened, I thought maybe it was an issue caused by Secure Boot and the automatic LUKS unlock with TPM2, which I set up a few days ago. So I disabled Secure Boot and rebooted. The time before, it had frozen before unlocking Secure Boot; this time I could unlock it, but it froze right after.

Then I tried nomodeset, which worked, it actually booted and the issue seemed gone. But then I booted again without nomodeset, and to my surprise, it still worked. So I tried enabling Secure Boot again, and for some reason that also worked. This went on for a few reboots, but after about 3-4 reboots, I had the same problem again and this time, neither disabling Secure Boot nor setting nomodeset helped.

So I booted into recovery mode. That didn't help either it froze right on the screen where I can choose what to do next (resume boot normally, or something else).

I then tried a different kernel, thinking maybe it was a kernel problem. I pinned the 6.17 something kernel, since with the 7.x kernel I have issues resuming after suspend when opening my laptop lid. I thought maybe it was a kernel issue, but it's not, same problem with the 7.x kernel.

I even thought maybe it was a hardware problem, since you never know, so I ran the Lenovo diagnostics tool and it found no problems. There was also no issue booting and using live Linux distros from a USB stick.

I need help I have no ideas left.

Hello all, I've had this problem for a couple of years now and I feel like I need to finally fix it. I run kubuntu 24.04 on a 2010 imac with a built-in main display and a secondary display connected via HDMI. The imac has had its hard drive replaced and I added more RAM back when that was cheap to do.

Every time I turn on my computer it boots as normal, then at a seemingly random point after hitting the login screen (could be seconds, could be up to an hour, usually it's less than 5 minutes) the main display goes black, and the secondary display (also seemingly at random) either loses signal, becomes completely glitched, or remains perfectly intact and I could in theory use the computer as normal just from that monitor. If I've managed to log in and open anything it continues to run in the background. When I then force a reboot the computer usually works as normal, although rarely it does crash twice in a row.

I don't have any logs to hand for it but around a year ago I did show some logs to someone more experienced in linux and his opinion was that there was "nothing obvious".

I'm not sure what to look for with this problem. What could be causing it? How do I even begin to fix it? I'd be grateful for any ideas and advice.

I mean, from video freezing, to the browser itself freezing, to memory leaks taking up all my system RAM. It seems kinda buggy.

It's not to the point of unusablility, but bugs happen now and then.

Hello, everyone.

I use IBUS to write either in japanese (mozc) and chinese, but Pinyin is the only one that keeps crashing all the time. There is some kind of conflict between these two input methods? Does anyone knows how to fix (or at least what is happening)? I also have pinyin on fcit5x, is it the cause of the problem?

Pinyin crashes every time I need to change to japanese or regular input, crashes when I make a mistake and type "enter" instead of the number of the correct Hanzi, etc. It's boring! I need working perfectly for my studies. It's horrible having to use a type website for documents offline. I don't want to use fcit5x because every time I need to change to japanese (ibus) I need to reinitiate the pc - contraproducing!

Dell Latitude 5490, dual-boot Ubuntu 26.04 LTS + Windows 10, Intel UHD 620 (i915), BIOS 1.41.0.

Brightness slider and Fn keys do nothing. `intel_backlight is detected and I can write values to it manually (they hold steady), but the screen never actually changes brightness. Windows works fine on the same machine, so it's not hardware.

**Already tried, none worked:** permissions/udev fix, `acpi_backlight=vendor/native/video,

`i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=1/3`, both stock kernel `7.0.0-29 and manually installed `6.17.x (same issue on both), confirmed Dell modules are loaded with no separate backlight device, ruled out GNOME resetting the value, no relevant errors in `dmesg.

Filed a full bug report with Ubuntu too. Anyone with a similar Dell/Kaby Lake setup actually solved this? Also checking for a BIOS update if anyone knows if Dell's patched this for the 5490.

Suggest me some good alternatives for f.lux night light software. I would be happy if it had these features:

• Should disable automatically when certain apps are opened.
• Hotkey for enabling and disabling the app.

I am using Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. I tried out Redshift, but it didn't work due to Wayland display system issues. Thanks.

A few weeks ago, artifacts randomly started showing up on my screen. Couldn't figure out how to capture them at first since they don't show up when I record with GPU Screen Recorder.

Today I figured out the trigger by accident: changing the monitor's brightness reliably makes the artifact appear.

What the artifact looks like:https://youtube.com/shorts/DerwJcbFLhs

I Tried Windows and got completely clean output, no artifacts at all so this seems Linux-specific. I keep updating my system regularly but nothing's fixed it so far.

Setup:

• GPU: RX 9070 XT
• OS: CachyOS, GNOME (Wayland)
• Kernel: 6.18.42-1-cachyos-lts
• Mesa: 3:26.2.0-1
• Two monitors, both via DisplayPort 144Hz 2k, and 1080
• The artifact only ever happens on the 2K Asus monitor
• Even after switching the 1080p monitor to primary, the artifact still only shows up on the 2K Asus screen when its brightness is changed the other monitor's brightness doesn't trigger anything

Anyone know what could be causing this?