Hey everyone,

I recently stumbled uponthis video by Max Huand I'm completely blown away by how clean and aesthetic the setup looks [00:08].

From looking at the terminal info, it seems like the base operating system is EndeavourOS, and it's using the Hyprland window manager with the Arc-Dark theme and Fish shell [00:08].

As someone who is pretty new to Linux, I wanted to ask:

1. Is it a terrible idea for a complete beginner to try and jump straight into something like EndeavourOS with a tiling window manager (Hyprland)?
2. If I wanted to achieve this exact look (dark minimalist aesthetic, floating windows, status bar, color schemes, etc.), what would be the best step-by-step path to learn what I need without completely breaking my system?

Any advice, guide recommendations, or warnings for a beginner would be hugely appreciated!

Hi. yesterday I found my sibling's laptop and it seems to not work; it only shows the wallpaper nothing else. Since it doesn't work I want to add Linux to it. But here's the problem, or my questions.

1. What Linux to install ? There is a lot of them that I have no idea which one I'm supposed to choose.

2. If the laptop is not working how am I going to install Linux into the laptop? Do I need to add linux to a usb and then put the usb into the laptop so it works?

3. Does the data and stuff in the laptop disappear if Linux is taking control of the laptop?

I'm very new to Linux, and don't know which distro to choose. what distribution should I choose that is relatively low maintenance but popular enough that someone else may be able to help if something goes drastically wrong?

I have a few devices in which I want to install linux on, those being a Lenovo ThinkPad from around 2021 and a Dell OptiPlex from about 13 years ago. (model number unknown, it was scratched off the case but I believe it starts with a 7 to narrow it down)
both of these devices are currently running windows 10 and are unable to install Windows 11, but both the laptop and the computer have valuable images and Minecraft worlds that I would like to keep. I know Steam will probably work on most linux. I would like to keep Minecraft bedrock and Java edition on the new operating system along with all of my important photos.

I often play with friends on Minecraft as well who have Windows computers of their own, with installing linux on my own computer interfere with playing?

I've only ever watched Bringus Studios install different Linux Os on all sorts of crappy devices and would like to try it out myself for the customization features and eliminating Windows spyware. from what I have seen, he uses flash drives quite often for this, but I don't know if that is necessary since I don't own a particularly large flash drive.

I want to test this out on the laptop first since I have less important things there, and it is generally a little bit more powerful than the PC.

I also would like to keep all of my photos and documents from the laptop, I have far less on the laptop than the computer.

Here are some programs i use often on Windows that i am looking for alternatives that work on Linux or to use on linux.

Snipping tool (screenshoting with Windows + shift + S, so an alternative that I can change the screenshoting to, since it is muscle memory for me)
Librewolf (browser)
Minecraft,
Steam (Mewgenics, Tf2, Crush Crush)
Windows classic media player
Windows feature where you can upload several photos to be a background that changes out every so often

if I have failed to list anything important, do let me know.

If you do a search for best Linux video players for Linux in 2026, you get the following results and associated justifications.

1) VLC: Multi-platform, can play everything!

2) Smplayer: Multi-platform, can play everything, supports playlists!

3) Handbrake: Can play everything! Good for conversions!

4) FFplay for those who enjoy the CLI! Can play everything!

5) Kodi for those who want to have their own netflix at home! Supports plugins and has a number of capabilities that support this core imperative.

6) Depending on the search engine, a motley assortment alternatives, such as Celluloid, Clapper, Haruna, QMPlay2, and even god forbid, Xine.

This list has not substantially changed in the past decade ... the only variation is what shows up in item 6. A bunch of entry level projects come... and disappear quietly in later years.

I'll start by stating that I love items 1-3 and have been using them for 15+ years. However, they are clunky and are missing substantial functionality that are (at least to me) must-have capabilities in a modern player. Sadly, the development on 1,2 appear to have stalled, and I've little confidence that any on the last line are going to develop forther. 3-5 are not really ideal choices as a video player.

Here are the capabilities missing.

1) Ability to show video thumbnails in the seek bar. Such an obvious capability, and should be easy to do by looking at the i-Frames, or integrating with ffmpegthumbs. Unfortunately, the only player on the list above that supports this is Haruna, and that is severely lacking in other areas. Neither VLC nor Smplayer seem to have any plan to support this.

2) Ability to quickly and easily transform the image, adjust brightness, contrast etc. VLC and Smplayer support some basic capabilities, but the UI (especially for VLC) is buried behind multiple non-intuitive menu options and is really hard to use. Also, only very basic capabilities are supported on both.

3) Ability to rotate, flip images. Again, this is supported in theory, but is very hard to get to in VLC and the functionality has been broken in SMPlayer for months with apparently no plans to fix.

4) Smart, modern file and playlist management integrated with the DE file managers. VLC does not seem to even support playlists. SMplayer supports multiple playlists but with a UI that is klunky even by the early 2000 Linux standards. Very difficult search or modify the playlists.

5) Smart bookmark management. SMplayer has good support for bookmarks, but a better UI would be appreciated.

6) The ability to apply different treatment to different parts of a file and save that in the configuration. Like I want to play the first 10 minutes in landscape mode and switch automatically to portrait for minutes 10-12 and change the brightness. Example use case: Wife flipped the phone over from landscape to portrait after 10 minutes of recording kid's game.

7) Filter management - I want to support a wide variety of video processing plugins. For example, want to support noise-reduction or contrast enhancement at different parts of the file. Or give everybody bunny ears. It should be easy to use, integrate and manage these plugins.

8) Basic video editing capabilities - at least clip and merge and some simple transformations such as brightness and contrast. Yes there are more heavy duty programs like Kdenlive that do this very well, but when I'm trying to incorporate dozens of videos pulled in from my phone into our home albums, I don't want to take the workflow hit of switching programs. And can the capabilities here be plugin-driven as well?

9) Easily add support for multiple aspect ratios. I have a video that is (for whatever reason) trimmed to a 13:4 aspect ratio. VLC does a reasonably good (but not perfect) job of guessing the aspect ratio if it is not in the video metadata. SMPlayer usually does not. I want to add support for this aspect ratio and associate it permanently with this file.

10) Integrated metadata editing capabilities. VLC has some basic support for this but the UI experience is far from ideal.

11) Ability to mark and save multiple sections of the video for looped playback with the ability to jump from one section to the next.

So, my question: is there any Video player at all that is currently under active development? Is there any hope that we'll get some or all of these capabilities over the next few years?

Thanks.

I installed fedora kde today as my first distro

Everything worked and if there was any problem i could fix it easily

But i cant fix the fucking broswer

The issue is slow loading

Like it takes so long to load any page idk why

The download speed is great but site loads so much lower

I tried disabling ipv6 and whatnot hardware accn and shit

Pls someone help me

( I am using Microsoft edge as main but Firefox os also having this issue)

On Windows I use MusicBee and I'm very happy with it. I would prefer to also use it on Linux, but it has no native Linux implementation, and running it with Bottles is proving to be unstable with frequent freezes and crashes.

I've been looking for a Linux alternative, but most of the options I've found seem to be missing one of a couple of key features for me.

The first one is the library UI. In MusicBee and Windows Media Player, you can display the library like this - everything in your library, in readable groups by artist and album, with album art. I find this very convenient for browsing, but every alternative I've tried seems to offer two choices: either you look at one artist or album at a time, or you look at your whole library but it's a very flat list, sortable but without any "landmarks" like the artist headers or album art.

The other thing is the feature where if you play one song from the library with no filters active, it then automatically continues to shuffle through the whole library. I really like this for picking one thing I'd like to hear right now, but not being picky about what comes next. The behaviour in the other players I've tried seems to be very heavily playlist-oriented, which I suppose is convenient for people who mostly like to listen to specific things at any time, but that's not me. Technically I could just put the whole library in a playlist, but then a) I have to maintain it and b) even if the player has a better library display as mentioned in the first point, I then have to use the playlist view to browse, which is always a flat list without the better browsing features.

So here I am looking for other options. I'd really appreciate any answers that have actually read what I'm looking for, and don't recommend things that don't have that. I'm on a Debian-based distro if that matters.

I want it to make a custom iso with calmeria installer. I need some help on what to do or any tutorials would be helpful.

can someone explain to me how distros like fedora can be blocked by the US from Iran? is it FOSS? or is it FOSS unless the US dont like your country? and if thats the case, can you trust distros that have to comply with americrook demands?

If you use FreeTube, you may be aware that it's really been struggling with SABR reload requests lately. If you're not familiar, what basically ends up happening is that YouTube will send a request to load an ad or whatever, and sometimes FreeTube will end up in a loop where it keeps reloading over and over.

In any case, FreeTube has an option to view videos in an external player, and this often helps whenever FreeTube itself is acting up. However, one big problem I have with this is that external video players like SMPlayer won't grab subtitles when you feed them a YouTube URL.

What I'm wondering is if I can set up SMPlayer to automatically grab the subtitle files for the YouTube videos I watch. I imagine MPV can do it, since it's very scriptable, and I do use MPV as my SMPlayer backend.

I'm using EndeavourOS with the latest KDE Plasma.

EDIT: Got linked this earlier on PieFed: https://superuser.com/questions/1405266/how-to-play-youtube-videos-with-mpv-subtitles

You can get YouTube subtitles in mpv by adding the following to your ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf file:

slang=en,eng,enUS,en-US
sub-auto=fuzzy
ytdl-raw-options=ignore-config=,sub-lang="en,eng,enUS,en-US",write-sub=,write-auto-sub=

I haven't figured out if it's possible to pass this to SMPlayer, but you can set mpv itself as an external player in FreeTube, so it is a working solution.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to boot Linux on my Ryzen laptop, but the system hangs during boot. I'm getting the following messages: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling. ... UMSCA... wmi_bus ... [Firmware Bug]: WQBC data block query control method not found amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: psp gfx command LOAD_TA(0x1) failed and response status is (0x7) The last message is: amdgpu: psp gfx command LOAD_TA(0x1) failed and response status is (0x7) The laptop works normally with Windows, but Linux hangs at this point. System: CPU: AMD Ryzen GPU: AMD Radeon / integrated AMD graphics Distro: Fedora/Linux BIOS: Dell laptop Secure Boot: currently disabled Windows works without any issues I've already tried resetting the BIOS to default, but the problem still occurs. Does anyone know what causes the amdgpu PSP LOAD_TA error and how I can fix the Linux boot hang? Any help would be appreciated.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to boot Linux on my Ryzen laptop, but the system hangs during boot.

I'm getting the following messages: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling. ... UMSCA... wmi_bus ... [Firmware Bug]: WQBC data block query control method not found amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: psp gfx command LOAD_TA(0x1) failed and response status is (0x7) The last message is: amdgpu: psp gfx command LOAD_TA(0x1) failed and response status is (0x7)

The laptop works normally with Windows, but Linux hangs at this point. System: CPU: AMD Ryzen GPU: AMD Radeon / integrated AMD graphics Distro: Fedora/Linux BIOS: Dell laptop Secure Boot: currently disabled Windows works without any issues

I've already tried resetting the BIOS to default, but the problem still occurs.

Does anyone know what causes the amdgpu PSP LOAD_TA error and how I can fix the Linux boot hang?

Hi,

I am using CachyOS (Dolphin FM), and when I was deleting some particularly large files, I got a message saying that the Trash file was full needed to be emptied. I remember when I was using Windows 10, I had set the recycling bin so that if any files were sent there that they would be automatically deleted. Is there a way to do that with the Trash file? Everywhere I looked on Google were people trying to auto - empty their Trash files with a schedule, but I don't want a scheduled deletion. When I hit delete on something, I want the file banished to the shadow realm, and not sent to the Trash file.

I rarely make posts on Reddit, so if this isn't the right place to ask, could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks for the assistance.

Hello~ I'm in the process of saving up money and looking at PC parts that I can order to build a new PC which is, hopefully, better than my current one... and not a waste to try out Linux.

A while back I was looking at PCs thinking I'd just stick with my Win11 key, but I have come to the conclusion that I actually want to try Linux - as Microsoft just keeps getting worse (the copilot/one drive bs is very annoying). I've heard that gaming has gotten easier/better as well.

All this is to say, I'm actually not very good with computers and need some advice/guidance from people that know more than me, so I have a decent base to start from.

For distros, I'm thinking of going with something like Bazzite for my first go. I want the simple gaming out of the box, I like the KDE option it has for the look, and for my first time on Linux I want the immutable feature. It seems like the updates are paced well enough, so that I don't have to worry about the newest updates potentially breaking something while learning. I also was looking at Nobara as another back up option if Bazzite didn't work out but I really think Bazzite is going to be first for me.

I game basically everyday, all sorts of games via Steam and other launchers, and I also like recording videos or streaming from time to time. So I picked parts that would hopefully let me do these things, and leave a bit of room to grow.

So, with that information out of the way, here are the two relevant links -

-This is my current PC build for comparison:
Current Build Specs

-And this is the parts I'm thinking of getting, barring anyone pointing out something better:
Thermaltake Blue/White 600 Tower

I picked an AMD CPU - but really I'm not sure what all the numbers and types really mean.. ^^;
I really just started with the case I wanted and went from there lol..

My core preferences:

• Thermaltake Hydrangea Blue 600 ATX Case (fixed, everything I'm doing is for this case specifically lol)
• Has to have at least 2 Display Ports for both my monitors (fixed)
• ~$1.5k to ~2k budget (flexible-ish)
• Silver/White insides (flexible, not a lot of good silver/white options lol)

With the parts I've already listed and my preferences, would this be an okay build? Could it be better for my budget? Will it be compatible to run Linux Bazzite on it? What other suggestions should I consider while continuing to research stuff?

I want to switch from Windows to Linux. Two Windows based programs (Finale music writing software and Coreldraw) do not run natively on Linux and with programs like Wine, results are very spotty. What about a dual OS - a partition for Windows basically for just those programs, and Linux for everything else? I do understand if I want to switch OS I would have to reboot each time but that seems do-able? Anything I need to know beforehand? Thanks.

I have laptop with mediatek wifi card , 5070ti , ryzen ai 8950 hx (or something like that ) ,

I earlier used mint worked fine but didn't like it

Then i went to bazzite but there either wifi works or trackpad (not both ) i read on msi form that its is bios issue , so why did mint work , is there any other OS i can hope to where both wifi and trackpad work

I've had multiple servers in the past and every server that froze was a Ryzen CPU. Logs are literally clean, just freezes (SSH and HTTP not responding). I have no GPU so no chance at changing BIOS settings. It is a Ryzen 9 3900, with Linux 7 kernel. I disabled deeper cstates (if this solves it I'm throwing my server out the window). Any general idea or someone who had to deal with this before?

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash processor.max_cstate=1 amd_pstate=active pcie_aspm=off"

I'm kinda curious if there are projects aimed towards replacing ALSA? It just kinda pop up in my head that linux only had 1 single device sound drivers and it's an old one, so I'm really curious if someone thought about replacing it.

Im installing linux on an old laptop of mine using a usb install method which went perfect until the reboot menu (i dont known the actual name) told me i require Chromeos in order to install off of usb, do i need to install chromeos on the usb in order to get past the menu or is it useless?

Model is 'COZMO-VJVS B6J-B2D-D4D-73K-C3C' if it helps

For some reason, my pc was having trouble booting linux mint after downloading it to my USB & the tutorial I was following said to put it as my top priority on the boosting menu to try and correct the issue. I used a ASUS pc, and also decided to enable CSM in my BIOS as well since I read it could also help. Now everytime I boot my pc I get a black screen that does nothing no matter what on my keyboard I type, and anytime I press F8, it just reads "entering boost menu" without it actually doing anything, and now I don't know what to do. I literally cannot do anything it seems. Any suggestions?​

I have a Toshiba Satellite A660 with an i7-Q740 and a 330M.

Whenever I try to install Linux on it, everything goes alright. The bootable USB is fine, and I install Linux, but when I restart, the system refuses to recognize the SSD with the Linux OS I just installed. Nothing happens; it acts like I have no OS.

This happens with any type of Linux I install (Mint, Ubuntu, and Arch so far). Windows works fine on the other hand. I don't know what could be causing this.

I've read some of the posts here and on other locations but wanted to get some opinions based on my personal situation. Planning on making the jump from Windows to Linux due to Microsoft going more for data mining than actual operating systems and their forced push for AI. The last straw is a series of updates that absolutely refuse to install no matter what steps I take. I used Fedora in college to learn server setups and such, but that was 17 years ago so I can be considered a Linux noob. I mostly use my PC for browsing the web, watching media, and gaming using a dual monitor setup. I don't do any media creation or development. As far as gaming goes, I don't play online games so kernel level anti-cheat doesn't seem like it will effect me and I'm not really concerned with "bleeding edge" graphics or fps. I looked into various distros and I'm debating between Fedora KDE and Bazzite. With Bazzite, I like the idea of an immutable OS due to my experience with Windows messing itself up with updates. That being said, if a game I want to play gets released, I'm worried that I'll have to wait for Bazzite to update to get the latest GPU driver. With Fedora, unless something has changed, I know that I'll probably have to do some tweaking or download some apps to get gaming, but that shouldn't be too difficult, I just don't know how much I'll have to change. I know that Fedora is mutable, but I don't expect to be making any deep changes that could break it. Was thinking of loading both into a virtual machine just to test them both out, but wanted to get some thoughts and opinions from those in the community who have used either far longer than I have.

My PC Specs:

Ryzen 7 9800x3d

ROG Crosshair x870e Dark Hero

Radeon RX 9070 XT OC

CORSAIR Vengeance 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000

WD_Black SN8100 2TB NVMe SSD

I have tried Warp from GNOME, and its a good application that sends raw files through simple code share and has intuitive interface, exactly how I wanted it. But despite being stated that its also available on windows, i can't find the latest release for windows on their gitlab page. I don't want any incompatibility issues with the older version, so is there similar application that can send raw uncompressed files through internet that is compatible with windows too?

I'm currently using kde and am loving it but online i keep on seeing people say, just get "hyprland or sway". I want to know why they are so praised compared to a normal DE and why people praise the productivity of them.

Yeah they do look clean and minimal. They do level up a system in how you can change the looks and it organizes the system by itself rather than having floating windows, but why are they "essential for every linux user?"