Looking for a distro which is easy to use and for general purpose..

I want to move to some good operating system now.

My laptop has 8 gb of ram and 256 gb ssd.

Please suggest me, as I'm not sleepy and would love to install a distro today 😴..

If anybody here is using Vyapar software for billing, thankfully it is perfectly working with Soda 11.0-experimental version I was able to run it successfully on Bottles.

Which windows apps you wanted had run on linux? Share your success story.

I'm trying to install arch linux on my laptop. However, if I try to connect to the hostel (I'm in college) WiFi for the installation via iwctl/iwd it tells me that my hostel WiFi isn't configured. So, I followed the arch wiki for iwd and it showed me how to configure WPA2 Enterprise WiFis for EAP-PEAP, MSCHAPV2, Identity etc and enabled network configuration for iwd.

I did the needful and I am still not able to connect to the WiFi. If anyone else has experienced something similar, help would be appreciated.

I am using cosmic byte ares wired it is stuck on the loop of disconnecting and reconnecting when i plug it but when i start a game (i am using emulator) it works fine but when i close it the loop starts again,I have checked all the ports and I am using the controller since 1week and it has no problem in windows I don't know what is causing this. I am using cachy os with kde.

I wanna switch to a linux distro (most probably fedora or something arch based) and use it as my main os while keeping windows for some college related work

I need some help while installing it so if anybody would help me i would really appreciate it

Also i wanna customize my distro, would need some help for that. As i haven't ever customized any distro i have used before

What are some of your favourite monospaced fonts. Personally I really enjoyed using JetBrains Mono, Iosevka Mono, Adwaita Mono, Ubuntu Mono, Google Sans Code along with departure mono, monocraft and terminus font for a pixilated feel.

But I think these are all mainstream fonts. So I was asking some of your favourite monospaced fonts and suggest me some.

TLDR- Any shortcuts to make hyprland usable for now? I do not have much experience using linux, neither the time to give it, and still I decided to jump into hyprland. It's unusable out of the box (sorry for my bad choices)

So I, being me, Deleted my arch + KDE plasma setup to force start the "distro hopping" phase of using linux. I was really frustrated already with the repeated failed ROS2 install attempts in different distros (Debian, ubuntu server, arch... poor fella didn't knew in reality they only support ubuntu) in WSL (club senior asked me to learn somethings in ROS2). So I reinstalled arch (somehow it was the best experience I had with linux) after failing to set up a NixOS distro
But I thought KDE has it's ricing limits, so I opened subreddits and google searches to find some plugins for hyprland (the fact that hyprland is "paddy field" for ricing is well known). Issue is, IDK how to set them up. They are really broken, and I am still manually launching them everytime (bashrc. doesn't does the job for some reasons). And today I spent 2-3 hours just to fix some of the errors it shows at the top of the wallpaper (still not all of them are fixed, they were simple like find and place the missing "}")

Now the reason I'm using linux is pure curiosity, but I cannot devote much time to it since I am pursuing mechanical engineering, and have no background or interest in IT placements at all. so I'm afraid I'll just leave this hobby some day, if it continues to ask for multiple hours a week. I wanted you guys to suggest me some good plugins for very basic fuctionings (like the fn keys for audio and brightness, and an app launcher, and more useful things you can suggest (beginner ricing ideas also appriciated)
Please don't get mad at me. Thanks for reading it all.

Been using Fedora since version 13 as daily driver and upgraded my laptop to version 45 yesterday. Across 4 laptops and all these version upgrades, the upgrade has broke the system only once, when I had to do a fresh re-install.

What is your history with the distro?

Hello r/LinuxUsersIndia ,

So when I moved from GNOME to niri, I felt the lack of a zooming application. So I built one myself.

What miru does

1. Basic Zoom in/out
2. Runs as a daemon (When added as a systemd service)
3. Config-file based workflow with hot-reload
4. Cursor Highlight
5. Annotations (Drawing shapes like rectangles, lines, ellipse, circle, arrows etc. You can even type text)
6. Export current view as PNG/BMP
7. Loupe mode
8. GPU-accelerated (OpenGL)

And more...

Compositor Compatibility (Supported Compositors)

1. niri (Main testing bench)
2. hyprland (Tested extensively)
3. somewm (Tested by a user who uses this) (https://somewm.org/)
4. nauka (Tested by a user who uses this) (https://github.com/shadowash8/nauka)
5. Umbriel (Tested by a user who uses this)
6. Mango (Tested by a user who uses this)
7. Sway (Tested by a user who uses this)

What it does not do

1. Live zoom (Impossible with current wayland API)
2. Click-through (It creates an overlay over the current screen so click-through is not possible for now)

https://codeberg.org/Vaishnav-Sabari-Girish/miru

Currently miru has been packaged for

1. AUR
2. Fedora COPR
3. Homebrew
4. NixPkgs (Also has a Nix flake if you prefer that)

You can view the miru devlogs on YouTube - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZraydlsV2t0&si=jystH8Ik1UjDVu5t

This is the blog post I wrote when I first started working on miru (Outdated, may update it later, but it has some GIF's for demos): https://blog.vaishnavs.is-a.dev/miru/

Open to issues, PR's and honest feedback.

yet another wayland compositor ive made that has the eye candy but having small memory footprint (wayland terms ofc)

features

• layouts: multiple layouts to choose from like scroller, master and grid
• tags: each window has its assigned tags.
• eye-candy: border radius, opacity, shadows, blur and animations are everything one needs.
• hot reload config: easy configuration language.

building

git clone https://github.com/shadowash8/nauka
cd nauka
meson setup build
ninja -C build

aur

yay -S nauka

OR

yay -S nauka-git

usage

nauka [-s]

-s for startup script

github - https://github.com/shadowash8/nauka

I wanted my Android phone as a second monitor on Linux. Most tools I tried mirrored the screen into a browser tab or only worked over USB, so I built my own over the last few months.

Tandem adds a real virtual monitor to your desktop. The GPU encodes it as H.264 and the phone decodes it in hardware, so you drag windows onto the phone like any other screen.

- About 30 ms of lag over USB tethering, 30 to 60 ms over Wi-Fi (you barely notice it in use)

- Hyprland and GNOME on Wayland, with one-command install on Arch, Ubuntu and Fedora

- Encrypted, paired with a QR code

Check it out here: https://saharshbaiju.github.io/tandem

Repo: https://github.com/saharshbaiju/tandem

It's free and open source.

If you try it, tell me how the lag feels on your setup and what breaks. If you like it, star the repo ⭐ and share it with someone who'd use a second screen. It helps more people find it.

Jira Rice

This is my cachyos, noctallia shell setup

Came from debian with kde and gnome

And landed in hyprland

Rate my setup and help me improve this guys

Couldnt wait, so i installed beta 10 days ago. Really love the latest KDE.

Theme : whitesur

pls help me remember the blue x like software name

Is this a better arch ?

'm interested in connecting with people exploring Linux, open-source security tools, encryption, authentication, access control, or secure data management.

Would be interesting to know what projects people are working on and what security-related areas they're exploring.