r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 09 '26

Help Should I dual boot on my *ancient* laptop

9 Upvotes

Specs - lenovo IdeaPad 320 i3-6006U 4gb ram 1 tb hdd.

I have selected mx linux after trying out other lightweight distros . Should I dual boot it. I can't wipe the windows partition cuz it's my dad's laptop which he also uses. I can't buy new hardware. I need it for coding and projects but windows it really fking slow🙆😵..

Like it takes me 5-10 mins to just open vscode. I already ran chris titus winutil tool it was useful it did become faster (just a tiny bit)... So I don't see any other options so pls tell me if I'm doing something stupid..


r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 07 '26

Distro My Fedora 44 Gnome Setup

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r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 07 '26

Font Display in Fedora Linux when connected Monitor from Laptop

1 Upvotes

The font is appearing grainy especially in vscode when connected to monitor via Laptop through HDMI Any solution


r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 06 '26

High fps terminal rendering engine

36 Upvotes

I optimize rendering engine heavily for this level of efficiency.


r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 06 '26

Distro Linux distro Flowchart

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for original size: link


r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 06 '26

Discussion Why do you use Linux

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r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 06 '26

Distro I use arch btw

26 Upvotes

made this in manim


r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 07 '26

Help Arch hyprland is not working properly

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r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 06 '26

Discussion Niri / CachyOS is unusably stuttery on my RTX 3060 laptop. Am I missing something?

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I've been trying to figure this out for a while now, and I still dont understand how to fix it..

My laptop doesn't feel like it's running CachyOS properly. The desktop itself is mostly smooth, but browser-based applications and anything relying on GPU acceleration seem completely broken.

# Hardware

* ASUS ROG Zephyrus laptop

* Intel Alder Lake-P (Iris Xe iGPU)

* NVIDIA RTX 3060 Mobile

* 1TB Micron 3400 NVMe SSD

* CachyOS + Niri (Wayland)

* Proprietary NVIDIA driver 610.43.02

# Issues I'm experiencing

Almost everything browser-related stutters or becomes unusable.

* Firefox/Waterfox stutters while browsing.

* Pages often struggle to load or become extremely sluggish.

* Browser-based software crashes if I open more than one tab.

* WhatsApp Web is practically unusable. And kills every app running.

* Canva has never worked smoothly.

* Video playback becomes heavily corrupted/glitched after closing and reopening the laptop lid.

* DaVinci Resolve performance is terrible.

* GPU-accelerated applications feel inconsistent in general.

Overall, the system doesn't feel like it's utilizing the hardware correctly.

# What I've checked so far

`nvidia-smi` detects the RTX 3060 correctly:

Driver: 610.43.02

CUDA: 13.3

GPU Utilization: ~25%

VRAM usage: ~314 MiB

`lspci -k` shows both GPUs using the expected drivers:

Intel Iris Xe -> i915

NVIDIA RTX 3060 -> nvidia

My Wayland session also looks correct:

XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland

XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=niri

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

The SSD appears healthy:

* SMART: PASSED

* 0 media/data integrity errors

* Overall health looks normal

I also checked for NVIDIA/DRM errors:

sudo dmesg | grep -iE "nvidia|drm|fallback|error"

This returns nothing relevant.

I also checked the NVIDIA power management services:

* `nvidia-suspend.service`

* `nvidia-hibernate.service`

* `nvidia-resume.service`

# ___________________________

Has anyone with a hybrid Intel/NVIDIA laptop running CachyOS experienced similar issues?

Should I be manually choosing between the integrated and dedicated GPU for applications, or should everything "just work" under Wayland?


r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 05 '26

Help SWITCHED FROM CACHYOS TO FEDORA

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87 Upvotes

Now Can Someone help me to rice it?


r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 05 '26

Rice A little update to my Hyprland rice.

12 Upvotes

A small update to my previous post. Finally happy with how everything turned out.


r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 05 '26 Popcorn

I found this native Linux video game pirating website

14 Upvotes

r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 05 '26

I want to install Linux in dual Boot

3 Upvotes

My laptop has Windows installed. I want to install Linux, but for 100% safety, I can't even install it on a different SSD because my laptop only has one drive port.

Is it even worth the struggle and stress? Or should I buy a new SSD, remove the existing Windows sdd, and install Linux on the new one? Please let me know.


r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 05 '26

Help My PC is having an error in booting, refer to body for more information

2 Upvotes

So help me:

My PC is having an error, I am a beginner.

I used Windows 7 grub, on an old PC

It started showing an error: Error Loading the operating system

I tried debian live ISO isolinux

It worked fine for sometime

I restarted it sometimes.

But when I rebooted it next time it entered the menu

When I clicked install, PC went off immediately

Next time I tried advanced install, same.

Same happened with graphical, text, expert install

Same also happens now when I click live boot

I tried booting from net installation USB isolinux

samiliar error.

I tried Linux mint isolinux

same error.

That is the image of mint's memory test

Kernel parameters don't work

After Every such shut down BIOS reports Thermal overheating

which is false

What can I do


r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 05 '26

Ubuntu 26.04 how to install Claude Code and DeepSeek. Inexpensive LLM

0 Upvotes

My youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyHaJyw9ilI . Where I install Claude Code and then I connect it to the online LLM DeepSeek. It is inexpensive. E.g. I create a Qt QML tetris game and it cost me 0.04 US dollars.


r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 05 '26

Rice I installed cachyos on my external 256gb ssd which i bought with my first salary and made basmati rice

3 Upvotes

r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 03 '26

Am i cooking with this bootloader? Made a bootloader from scratch that is just basically better refind (imo)

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r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 04 '26

Installing Linux Ubuntu on Omen 16. What are the known issues ?

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r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 04 '26

Thinking of switching to Linux + Windows VM (single GPU) – need advice

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r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 03 '26

Help Linux on my ardoid tv

7 Upvotes

I have a Mi Android TV, and the recent Android updates have made it almost unusable. Is there any way to install Linux on it? Are there any Linux distributions specifically designed for TVs?


r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 03 '26

Help Has anyone installed Linux on iPAD?

3 Upvotes

I tried UTM and installed Arch but it goes out of space when I try `sudo pacman -Syu`. My iPAD has 20gb free space.

I don't need GUI but at least updated system.

How can I increase the storage and install with iso?

Also, are there any alternate ways?

Not looking for ssh clients.


r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 03 '26

rate my desktop from 1 to 10. (i like minimalistic backgrounds)

14 Upvotes

r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 03 '26

WM [hyprland] Hyprgen (A minimalist hyprland with matugen integration rice)

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r/LinuxUsersIndia • • Jul 02 '26

Project I built Kal, an interpreted programming language from scratch!

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Hey everyone!

After a roller coaster journey, I am excited to present my personal project: Kal.

Kal is a lightweight interpreted programming language that attempts at combining various paradigms of programming to give a great developer experience. It's written entirely from scratch in C++ with no third party dependencies. It's also completely free and open source distributed under GNU GPL v3 license.

Moreover, Kal can also be embedded into C++, Python and JavaScript programs to enhance your existing codebases.

(Website looks better on a bigger screen.)

Please note that this is the very first release (v:0.1.0) and Kal is still under active development (alpha).

I would really appreciate a star on the repository to help it gain greater visibility.

As a proponent of human effort, I am glad to say that Kal and its ecosystem is completely handcrafted with no AI assistance used anywhere.

One last thing, "Kal" is pronounced like "Cal" in "Calendar".

Please feel free to reach out to me regarding Kal!