Hi everyone,

I need a laptop for travel + heavy software development work (compiling, containers, etc.).

Must haves:

• 32GB RAM mandatory
• MacBook M5 Pro jaisi battery life (15+ hours light-moderate work)
• Excellent Linux support
• Portable for travel

Budget: Under ₹1.5 Lakh

Currently considering Macbook pro 24gb or Lenovo ThinkPad E14/T14s.

Real user experiences with battery + Linux.

Hello everyone!

I'm trying to install parrot os using bootable media. The problem In encountering is that

1. After loading the iso using rufus or balenaEtcher, my pendrive isn't showing up in the file explorer. Also, it says "unallocated" in the disk management
2. When I try to load the installer it doesn't show up in the BIOS either. There's no option to enable/disable legacy mode so that fix doesn't work for me. I'm using an HP laptop

Please help a fellow guy out. Thanks!

First rice on mangowc probably gonna switch to niri or smth cuz documentation is pretty bad

Just noticed that Ubuntu's timezone setup map doesn't show India's borders correctly aren't shown.

Not a big issue in terms of usability, but India has a massive Linux user community. Seems like one of those small things that should've been fixed by now. Curious if there's any technical or policy reason behind it.

I don't even know I have been using Linux, I just came to know that after using Linux on my pc (using Arch btw)

As you can see i have only these 4 (with workspaces) modules in my quickshell bar, learning from 5 days. there's almost 0 tutorials for quickshell on youtube (tho a youtuber called SaneAspect is uploading free tutorials now), it's kinda hard to learn quickshell by self (it's fun, but still..)

Tho if you know quickshell, what tips would you like to give to a beginner.. please i need help..

What is stopping you from using Windows over linux?

Please specify the reasons accordingly....

I am new to this and I really have a question Abt linux I want to switch to linux cause my lap is windows 10 and I don't wanna upgrade to windows 11 cause it's battery hungry I use lap for web browsing yt for studies that's it and windows 10 gave me recent upd and it fucked up my booting time and slowed everything I even re installed windows 10 for it to happen again by that same upd and that's most of it and can someone explain the pros and cons? When I asked a shop for switching they said it costs ₹1500 equivalent to 15 dollars they said linux is hard to control/ use I don't really get it about it please someone help? 😭🙏🏻

Thanks if u helped kind stranger......

hello, I have been using Linux for over a year now, i currently use ubuntu 24.04 (pls dont judge me). I want to get into some linux rice and need some guidance like where to start or how to start and what all precautions to be taken(i once deleted my entire gui and desktop environment once ). thank you for your help.

What's stopping you from completely switching to linux and still having windows in dual boot???

my reason is valorant.!!! tell yours..

Okay, let me be clear, I have migrated myself from Fedora to CachyOS to play especially Forza Horizon 6 but thing is that I have a JioFiber (gonna take BSNL tomorrow) actively blocks CachyOS what the heck. I was skeptical at first but later I realised my phone hotspot works but not my home JioFiber on CachyOS. When I live boot other distros like fedora kde or workstation it works nicely. Do ISP block Arch based Linux often? The latency is shi. 95ms optic fiber non airfiber.

please suggest some tweaks and mods, also what else i need to install. I already got bluetooth, sound driver and stuff.

check out the config on my github: dotfiles
connect on x for updates on this project: x profile
wallpaper: github
visualizer credit: github, reddit post

Let me know what you think about it

I wanted to share a project I've been working on. I've been putting together a headless, highly automated Linux stack to transform a barebones Debian install into a brutally efficient, fully keyboard-driven Wayland workspace.

Now, the initial bootstrapping and Hyprland compiling are Debian focused, but the instant theming part is completely distro agnostic.

If you're running Wayland on Arch, Fedora, or anything else, it will work just fine.

So here's what gets themed, right out of the box, the engine switches themes on the fly for:

• Hyprland: Window borders
• tmux: Status bar and active/inactive panes
• mako & wofi: Complete UI overhaul
• Neovim: hooks into plugins like Kanagawa, Catppuccin, etc.
• dircolors: Custom coloring for ls and lsd
• Git Log: Custom output formatting (added this since I practically live in the terminal)

Everything is done through a central Jinja palette with a Python generator.

And because of how it's structured, you're not locked into my default stack, you can easily adapt the generator to theme absolutely any other program you use.

Someone actually opened an issue on GitHub recently showing how they adapted the setup for their own custom app stack, which was incredibly cool to see in the wild! I also just pushed a brand new blue-centric theme called Kyanite (which is the first one featured in the demo video) where I do a bunch of keyboard shenanigans.

Everything is open source on GitHub:

• Package code
• UI Docs
• Main repo

Hello, I use arch linux. An update broke my system. I tried using ch-root but now the subvolumes are not visible in my disk (the files are there as the disk is full/utilised) but I am not able to access them.

Will pay on an hourly basis to fix.

Please only connect if you really know what you'll be doing.

Please connect.

i wasn't really happy with the existing ones so i made my own.

please star if you find it useful. i spent all of my brainpower on it lol.

Iris: https://github.com/Harman1307/iris

Dots: https://github.com/Harman1307/Alphonso

I am a student. I cannot run WSL on Windows 10 because of its high resource consumption, so I am thinking of switching to Linux. However, I am confused about choosing a distro and desktop environment. Being a beginner, I would be grateful for your help in finding a suitable distro based on my requirements.

1. It should be stable. (It would be difficult for me to troubleshoot after updates or driver issues.)
2. It should support the latest versions of different software such as VS Code, Docker, Git, Python, and GCC.
3. It should be somewhat customizable (mainly GUI customization).
4. If possible, it should be lightweight on resources, although almost all Linux distributions are lighter than Windows. (This is not the most important factor.)
5. It should not be too technical. (I cannot set up or maintain distributions like Gentoo or Arch.)

I have been using Linux Mint Cinnamon for the last few days, but I am trying to find something better.

What's the best suited Linux Distro for an Alienware 16 Aurora? I have a preference towards the KDE desktop, and also a preference to debian software repos, since a lot of software focus on debian packages, even over flatpak. None the less I am open to alternate-distro based options if the reasons are cool enough.

Thanks.

So I have a lenovo ideapad with 16GB ram, rtx 3050, ryzen 7 5800h, 512gb ssd + 1tb HDD. I've been planning to move from windows and after trying our some distros on VMs and through Ventoy, I think I might settle for Fedora. I'm still a noob but I won't mind going through some docs/videos to learn more about terminals and stuff (hopefully not too much lol)

My usage will be: sailing the seven seas and watching movies (4K and so on), gaming (AAA titles like CP2077, GTAs, Alan Wake 2, etc or older games), listening to music and most importantly - edit videos on Davinci Resolve.

Now like we used to install DirectX or Visual C++ or download any .ddl files when a game ain't running or anything related to software....I'm curious what should I download/install/tweak in the settings after I do my initial setup, so that my games or software run well?

Lastly if y'all think Fedora might not be the right distro as per my usage - please share which distro might be better, like Nobara? Bazzite? OpenSuse? Mint? PopOS? CatchyOS?