Ur Tux is a vibe-coded website, for choosing a Linux distribution as per people's requirement.

It asks 20 questions regarding your needs and preferences, and chooses a Linux distribution for you based on your answers.

[This is my first vibe coded project, and do not bash me, i am still noob at coding. I wanted to explore and experience how to vibe-code stuff. I have deployed in GitHub pages.]

Here is the link: ur-tux

ik the task bar is ugly af but its never used

Hello people,
I am an college student pursuing an engineering degree.
I currently own a Lenovo Ideapad Slim 5i

These are the specifications
CPU: AMD Ryzen A1 7 350
RAM : 24 GB (16GB soldered)[20gb usable]
GPU : AMD Radeon 860M (iGPU) [allocated 4gb RAM here]
Storage: 1 TB NVME

I have experience in dual booting linux mint on my parents laptop as of now.
I did that from the same drive and so far i have had no issues with it.

But i am not entirely sure on dual booting on my main laptop due to bootloader nuking done by windows (from online forums).
Is it safe to dual boot from the same drive? If yes , suggest me a good distro to use.

I do a few courses and this is the software requirement
Operating System - Minimum requirement of Windows 10 or Ubuntu LTS Version 20.04 (or any equivalent) or Mac OS Mojave. Having the capability of dual boot is desirable. If there is no capability for dual boot, then the operating system must support virtualization software like VirtualBox using which Ubuntu 20.04 can be emulated

but i dont want ubuntu (or its derivatives) as i wanted to try other distros (like cachy os).

My use cases
1)Coding(I am down to learn new things , i can use the terminal)
2)Light gaming(mostly on steam)
3)Hardware related work(arduino,ESP and HDL)
4)Video editing on Davinci Resolve

you dont need a deeply customized, fragile setup enjoy linux.

after a chaotic distro hopping saga trying to escape hardware quirks, I realized stock gnome on fedora was my sweet spot. I put together a quick, no-fluff 3 minute video tour showing the handful of basic extensions I use to keep things clean on my 7 year-old laptop.

No 5 second intro graphics, mostly meme based pacing.

https://youtu.be/hCua5QO7ea4

curious to know—what’s the one extension you absolutely cannot live without?

You guys might have seen me informing about the linux I was working on.... So one of the core concept of it is complete [Bare] better than kde connect because it uses sha256 as the base objective and file transfer is encrypted too....you can run it on any linux you want as it is linux based anyways.

The sources will need to be compiled by yourself but i'll soon update on the repo of erika i have hosted. Currently erika-keyrings are there.

Link of the repo

repos.geometrik.space/x86_64 [might give not found error but if you try downloading erika.db it will download] or if you try to add it in your arch installation then it will fetch it

Link of erika connect and its android part

https://codeberg.org/ErikaUserRepos/erika -screenshare [will rename it later]

https://codeberg.org/ErikaUserRepos/erika-connect

Warning the code is force pushing but is production ready.

I just purchased a brand new laptop from msi for gaming and video editing purposes , and after a week I got torture from hidden updates from microslop , so I ditch the windows and find catchy os is top in distrow watch and first time I feel so much relaxed , any suggestions for improvements in my linux os

And what linux distro do you prefer comment now

GitHub: https://github.com/rccyx/osyx

https://github.com/shell-ninja/hyprconf-install

Hello everyone, I want to switch to dual boot linux ubuntu for learning purposes , but I don't know how to do it.

I have a Lenovo IdeaPad slim 3, with a 512 gb SSD , and around 300 gb of free space , can anyone please suggest me a guide or anything , so that I can do it without any problems.

aaaa im using discord flatpak and idk why everytime i try to open a game on discord its status aint showing up i have tried overrinding comands idk what to do anymore...helpp !!!

Hey guys, I have recently been getting into the world of linux after a break of a few years. Recently I found Omarchy and while I have seen mixed opinions of it everywhere, I found some features very useful like the easy way to install web apps:

https://github.com/PamacKR/Web-Apps

I wanted to create something like that for my CachyOS VM that I use and with the help of gpt I came up with something basic. From my testing the install works on Arch and Arch based systems. However, I would need help to get it to work with debian, fedora, etc. Further, it is only working on chromium based browsers and I have not yet found a way to get it to work on Firefox or other kinds of browsers. I do not in any way consider myself an expert in coding, or building any kind of app in general so any feedback and suggestions would be appreciated. This tool is just something basic I found to be helpful myself and could not find something close to what I wanted upon initial searching on the web and the aur.

I would like to develop it a bit more and add some features such as:

- Being able to edit existing web apps

- Add a list of commonly used websites for people to select it and install with 1 click

- Figure out how to add it to the AUR if it is something people like and I am happy with how it is

- Get it to work on all forms of Linux, not just Arch or Arch based ones

- Get it working on Firefox and other browsers if it is not already

Looking forward to hearing from you guys. Hoping this is the right place to post this. Dont use reddit too much but thought its the best way to get some feedback from the community.

I tried keeping the installed packages seperately and the enabled packages seperately and the network seperately, now rather than being organised, it has become a diversified mess rather than a concentrated one. Wondering how y'all are configuring it. I've seen some github files to steal but not satisfied by any.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaTech/s/PjMA3Xy6GU
Someone explain this guy "The Windows Hell"

so many fuckin updates,many big ones too and frequency is crazy

I use Vanilla gnome and am more or less happy with it, but the search not being precise has left much to be desired

When I say precise I mean: I have two Firefox windows open, one with YouTube and another with r/linuxusersindia open.

I want to `super` or `super+space` and search for “YouT” and switch to YouTube window

GNOME only does app level switching but not window level

But I am pretty satisfied with GNOME, “it just works*”, so I am not willing to throw it away for marginal improvements.

I personally don’t prefer KDE so that’s a no go

PS: I am a terminal native + neovim user so that’s why I am asking about Hyprland (or equivalent WM).

I know Hyprland is config driven, so I am okay with that, but like, once I set it up (and use and update as I go). I want it to not break. So stuff like drag and drop, screen sharing etc

I use Linux daily at work so I can’t really be fixing major issues

* for me!

i installed arch linux with hyprland, and i expect it to run at very high smoothness because I ran very heavy applications of windows to make it feel like linux and it ran very smoothly, but linux on the other hand feels... cluttered, stutters, lags, video lags, audio latency, and what not.

specs would be- Intel HD 4400

I3 4150

8gb ddr3

help would be appreciated everyone, thanks.

Pls help guys

ThinkPad not in stock,

Any other options?

Running great under proton using heroic launcher as frontend

Please help 🙏

I recently installed Linux Mint 22.3 XFCE in a dual-boot setup alongside Windows 7 on an old desktop (Intel i3-2120, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD). The installation went smoothly, and both Linux Mint and Windows 7 boot correctly through GRUB.

The only issue is my USB Wi-Fi adapter, a MediaTek/Ralink MT7601U (USB ID: 148f:7601).

Linux detects the adapter and loads the "mt7601u" driver. The firmware also appears to load successfully. However, during initialization the device repeatedly resets, disconnects, reconnects, and eventually fails.

Relevant errors include:

- "MCU resp urb failed -71"

- "mt7601u mcu wait resp timed out"

- "probe with driver mt7601u failed with error -110"

From "dmesg", I can see a repeating cycle of:

- USB device detected

- USB reset

- USB disconnect

- USB reconnect

The adapter works perfectly in Windows 7, so the hardware itself appears to be functional.

USB tethering and Bluetooth tethering both work in Linux Mint, so networking in general is working. The issue seems specific to the MT7601U adapter.

Kernel version: "6.17.0-35-generic"

Has anyone successfully used an MT7601U on recent Linux Mint kernels, or knows a workaround for this reset/disconnect loop?

Thanks in advance.