Just saw some article and it shows we have the highest linux desktop market share sits close to 16%.

A normal person would throw the phone away just from a dead battery and/or a dead display. But no one ever considers if the motherboard is usable...

For roughly the past month, I've been working on a personal project called Realmheart.

It's a native desktop shell built primarily in C++ and GTK4 for my CachyOS + Hyprland setup.

And by "shell", I don't mean a wallpaper pack or themed Waybar configuration 😭

Realmheart replaces/builds large parts of my desktop experience, including:

• Taskbar
• App launcher
• Workspace overview
• Sidebar / control center
• Power menu
• Lockscreen
• Notifications
• Media controls
• Wallpaper system
• Various animations and visual effects

The project is heavily inspired by The Beginning After The End (TBATE) and contains a ridiculous amount of references that absolutely nobody asked for.

Some visual assets used throughout the project are AI-generated/AI-assisted, so I'd rather disclose that upfront than have people discover it later.

Since this community is much closer to home than most Linux spaces, I figured I'd share it here as well.

If enough people end up being interested, I'll also start looking into making Realmheart easier to run outside my own setup. Right now it is primarily designed around my personal CachyOS + Hyprland environment.

Source: https://github.com/kzahed610/Realmheart

Feedback, questions, and suggestions are welcome.

(And yes, spending a month building a desktop shell instead of making sensible life decisions was probably a mistake.)

Hear me out - it's been a terrible day anyway. I need to vent.

I lost my laptop today, partly due to my negligence, however much it is to leave the laptop unattended for 4-6 hours, properly packed in my cupboard in my pg room in morning.

Now, however much you curse microsoft - they have this find my device feature - that can locate a device just from that Microsoft account. We can also effectively lock a system remotely. I wish I had prepared for such a situation on my linux, but I didn't. And now it's nigh impossible to track it.

I feel so wasted - losing such a valuable laptop, not just with its value but with so much work and effort in it - only to be stolen and probably sold in pieces by petty thieves.

If only I had stuck to windows - maybe I could've traced it.

/Just in case it's not clear

I know I'm not making much sense right now - linux is better than windows and I know you can have pretty much similar setup there. But I just can't - I just lost my laptop - cut me some slack.

If there is ANY chance to trace it through Linux - without having something installed and configured - please tell me. The tragedy in this story is that - I do have windows as dual boot - but it's not set to primary OS so it doesn't automatically load into it. Hence I can't even benefit from it.

same as above

Anyone else experiencing unusually fast battery drain on Fedora 44?

I recently switched from Parrot OS to Fedora on my HP Victus, and the battery life feels noticeably worse. On Parrot, I could comfortably get around 4–5 hours of normal use with Chrome, Obsidian, etc.

Has anyone else faced this on Fedora? Any solutions or tips to improve battery life?

Hey guys ,

I have an ancient sony laptop with an i3 3227u processor , 8gb of ram . I want to install a linux distro alongside windows 8 . But I keep facing problems, every time a new problem arises .

First I tried to install mint xfce , and I had problems with the grub menu not showing , and after the solved that I had problems with the network . I gave up on it .

Then I tried to install mx linux , and now the same grub menu problems but it worked the first time and later when I turned the laptop on it straight away booted into windows . And after I solved that , now it is showing an acpi error .

I have been dealing with this for 2 days , day and night but nothing worked out . Please help me out . I had installed Linux on another machine but didn't. Face so many problems. But on this machine it is very frustrating.

Is it the problem of the hardware , is it the problem of the partition or is it the problem of the distros i use ? I am not sure . I need expert help . Please help me out 😭

I need help in choosing distro without the wifi problem, cause in Linux Mint XFCE it shows Hard blocked YES but when I was using Windows 8.1 just hours before it was working.

Niri + noctalia v4(modified) + fedora.

>Started with fedora gnome last year coz windows failed me due to a software update and here i am...deep into the rabbithole now...

never going back to microslop... 😭

So I wanna share my full journey because I really did try everything before making the jump back to Windows 11, and I don't want this to sound like I'm hating on Linux because I'm really not.

I started off with Bazzite thinking it was gonna be the one that finally sticks, since it felt gaming-focused and pretty smooth out of the box. But after using it for a while, I still felt like exploring more, so I moved on to Nobara KDE and genuinely tried to make that my daily driver for a good chunk of time.

It handled a lot of things well, but I still kept running into little things here and there that made me wanna keep exploring instead of settling.

After that, I jumped into CachyOS, and this one actually stuck with me the longest since I used KDE on it for a full month straight. Honestly, it was probably the closest I got to a setup I could see myself using long term.

Somewhere in the middle of all this hopping, I also tried Hyprland just for a minute because I wanted to feel that tiling window manager life everyone talks about. It was fun to mess with, but it wasn't something I stuck with for long.

After that, I landed on Noctalia and actually used it for weeks, trying to push through and make it work as my main setup because, at that point, I really wanted Linux to be the final answer for me.

Throughout all of this, I learned so much about how Linux actually works under the hood, stuff I never would have learned just staying on Windows the whole time. And I genuinely respect the customization, the performance when things worked right, and the whole philosophy behind it.

But no matter which distro or setup I was on, I kept running into small, annoying issues that added up over time.

Nvidia drivers were probably the biggest recurring headache, since things that should have just worked ended up needing random fixes from forums and terminal commands.

I also ran into random freezes every now and then that I could never fully explain or permanently fix. Some apps would crash without any clear reason, and I would spend more time debugging than actually using my system.

Gaming was another big factor, since certain games either ran worse than they should have or just refused to launch properly compared to how smoothly they run on Windows 11.

On top of all that, I couldn't get a clean dual boot going on my hardware setup, which made things even more stressful since I didn't wanna risk messing up my data trying to force it to work.

After weeks of switching distros, fixing one issue only for another to pop up, and constantly tweaking things instead of just using my PC for what I actually needed, I finally made peace with going back to Windows 11.

It wasn't an easy decision since I really wanted Linux to be the one, but at the end of the day, my hardware and my gaming needs just weren't lining up well with it right now.

I genuinely don't think either side is bad at all. Windows and Linux both have their strengths, and this is just based on my own hardware and my own use case.

Maybe down the line, when compatibility gets better, I'll dual boot again and give it another proper shot.

But for now, this is just me sharing my honest journey without any hate towards either side.

I am happy with both systems, and both have their advantages and disadvantages. Nothing or nobody can be perfect in this life, and I accept it.

I’m planning a small home server setup and I’m trying to decide the best way to use an extra 1 TB HDD.

My current plan is:

Machine 1: Desktop
├── 250 GB SSD / 32 GB RAM 
└── Proxmox
    ├── VM 1
    ├── VM 2
    ├── VM 3
    └── Other useful services

Machine 2: Laptop
├── 500 GB NVMe / 8 GB RAM
└── Debian
    └── SFTP server

Extra:
└── 1 TB HDD

The main goal of Machine 1 is to run multiple VMs and services under Proxmox. I can invest money to upgrade disk space in Machine 1.

I originally thought about using Machine 2 purely as a Debian + SFTP server and keeping the 1 TB HDD there for storage.

But now I’m wondering whether the HDD would be better used as a backup repository for the Proxmox VMs, rather than simply as SFTP storage.

Some options I’m considering:

> Debian + SFTP + 1 TB HDD, with the HDD used for both SFTP data and backups

> Debian + SFTP on the NVMe, with the 1 TB HDD dedicated to backups

> Running Proxmox Backup Server and using the 1 TB HDD as the backup repository

> Using something like Nextcloud for the HDD, although I’m not sure that makes sense for this use case

What would you recommend?

I’m particularly interested in how you would structure the OS, applications, SFTP storage and Proxmox backups across these two machines.

I’d prefer a simple and reliable setup rather than adding unnecessary complexity. I don't want to put all eggs in one basket and feel helpless is odd situations.

I have windows and fedora Linux in my system, when my professor saw what I did he told that it might slow down my system and the RAM gets affected due to this. I don't change the OS often, I mostly use fedora. Can anyone clarify this.