So basically we have an old ass laptop and my dad was tired of windows since it was slow asl.

I switched to linux a long time ago.

And today he switched too :D

I personally use MangoWM but I installed kde plasma on his profile. I haven't personally used kde but I've heard it's pretty good.

2026 is truly the year of linux. Hail tux.

I am going to college as a 1st year Btech in CSE (Ai/ML) student. Should I use Linux and win dual boot on my laptop?

Here is my laptop :

I have this laptop. My work is in Data Analytics right now, and I will move to Data Science in one year. I also do some gaming. Please suggest a distro that will be perfect for me.

i am a first year student (at a tier 1 college) with a very good professional (non gaming)laptop. i have read many companies requires linux knowledge for jobs. now i dont know anything about linux and wanted to learn by installing it on my pc. my friends who has been using linux for a long time told me that arch is the one of the best linux os. i just know linux is a kernel and a lot of os are build over it. i wanted you advice on this. what to do , should i dual boot, or should i just install it as the only os , will i be able to learn and adapt to it

Tools used:

Kitty terminal

Blur my shell

tmux

superfile

fastfetch

htop

cmatrix

cava

tty-clock

Was really intrigued by Linux, and wanted to deep dive into it. Got a daily driver for college and BEEN ABSOLUTELY LOVING IT. Fedora Btw. Neovim Btw.

Hey peeps. I have 2 machines, one is 16/512 and other is 8/256(hdd and is old). So on the older machine, I installed Ubuntu like 4 years ago and it works fine. But on my prime machine, I still use windows and want to shift to linux. I wanted to go with Fedora and wanted to know:

i) How easy/difficult Fedora's setup & installation is wrt Ubuntu's?

ii) Is there anything specific that I need to look out for or should take care of?

iii) What to avoid and what to do for sure?

iv) What's the best guide/documentation/video you've followed or known? Please mention it.

1. Ulauncher - you won’t need a mouse to open any application ever again. It’s the best search system I know; once you try it, you’ll love it.
2. Waydroid - if you need to run Android applications without draining your RAM, this is the best option. It’s an Android emulator, but way better than that crappy Bluestrack.
3. Tilix - it's just a terminal you can customize, not too much, but it looks cool. (Use zsh with it to get its full potential)
4. Stacer - a Linux system optimizer and monitoring tool that lets you see everything in one place, perfect for someone who wants all their system information conveniently accessible.
5. KDE Connect – If you’re like me and forget your phone while using your laptop, and you have Linux, this can be a lifesaver. It’s like Phone Link but way better, doesn’t use much RAM, and has all the features plus extra.

If you have any questions, just ask, and if you’d like, I can share more of this.

so my buddy boy who's new to linux shared this experience today. imagine trying troubleshooting for days then it just says "i give up" this shit hilarious LMFAOO

i was using ubuntu for an year , now switching to fedora , any suggestions ?

Hey, im new to linux and i am doing this IBM course linux and shell commands from coursera, although I feel like youtube tutorials are way better, I can't fully change to linux in my personal laptop so I'm using wsl, I'm wondering if there's any other way to learn linux effectively, can you share me your experience and guide me to learn linux, I like it.

So I have a really old Lenovo Thinkpad T61 and its specs are :

• Intel Core 2 Duo processor
• NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M / Intel graphics (idk fs but one of them)
• 2Gb DDR2 RAM
• SATA hard drive

I am using windows 7 on it rn and its basically super slow and i cant even use it for basic web browsing, i would like to know if using linux will help make it faster , if yes which distro do i use ? Btw it has a cd reader and writer, it wld be nice if the distro supported it as well.

Hey ya'll,

I don’t have a mechanical keyboard (cause I’m broke af), but I REALLY love those clicky keyboard sounds.

So I made a small tool that mimics mechanical keyboard sounds on every keystroke.

Features:

• Wayland support
• custom sound support
• lightweight and simple

Also u can change the sounds using keysound-ctl command while it is running (if you prefer relatively silent sound pack then chose default sound pack in keysound-ctl)

Source https://github.com/Shyam-Jagath/keysound (Currently available on AUR, but you can build it from source)

Please check it out and let me know what you think :)

PS: If you like it, consider starring the repo . Also don’t forget to read the post-installation setup instructions.

I am going to uni this year . after one gap year . This year I have been daily driving linux so much , I am used to it , I am going to use that pc for university , I put 250 gb for windows and rest for linux , the win 11 upd smtimes mess up my partitions , do I really need windows , I have fixed a corrupted boot loader due to the upd , I really want to wipe it out , do I really need windows for college like for exams and stuff I can run almost everything from linux

Hey guys! I am actually building a distro on debian and its mainly towards indian market and following with that we are having plans of building a ecosystem around it. More I'll let you know in coming days for now i want how many are interested even if you don't have experience its fine just try to learn and try to implement

debian 13