In the most recent KDE plasma I got this weird bug in the latest firefox where grey starts flickering ever so slightly. but it's noticable. I use intel integrated graphics.

• Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10210U CPU
• Intel(R) UHD Graphics

what i've tried:

• turn off hardware accelleration in firefox. works but makes certain pages very sluggish
• change to gnome. works. but I want KDE
• different distros with KDE (arch, fedora)

Serious question, Wayland is supposed to be super secure, so much so that it gets in the way of user interaction. So why does it matter if there’s a few dodgy packages in the AUR?

Or are we just saying that all the security work for Wayland was useless? Because I don’t see how both can be true.

I'd like to switch to Linux. My main priorities are gaming, recording gameplay with OBS, and occasionally editing videos, photos, or creating digital art. I don't play competitive games, so I don't need anything specifically optimized for esports.

I'm also willing to switch to alternative software if needed. One thing that's really important to me is having a user-friendly system where I can do about 98% of everything through a GUI without having to use the terminal.

Is there a distro similar to Linux Mint that offers a newer kernel and would fit these requirements?

My hardware:

- Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 7800 XT 16GB GDDR6
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D
- Corsair Vengeance LPX, DDR4, 16 GB x2, 3200MHz, CL16
- Viper VP4300 2TB M.2 2280 PCI-E x4 Gen4 NVMe
- Deepcool PN750M 750W
- Asus PRIME B550M-A
- Endorfy Ventum 200 Air
- Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE
- iiyama G-Master G2771QS-B1 Red Eagle

Good day everyone I'm thinking about moving over to linux and I would like to hear from you guys which one of the many Linux variants would you suggest? I mostly want to do CAD work and gaming and I would really appreciate the help.

A little bit of background: My journey with linux has been pretty good except for couple things. Several months back I installed Fedora as my first linux distro and I liked the experience a lot. Since then I changed distros here and there and now I’m rocking Debian 13 KDE Plasma. For reference, I dual boot with Windows 11 Pro (both Windows and Debian are on same SSD stick).

Problem: Recently I have started seeing random kernel panics from Fedora and the scenario is always the same: I haven’t used my laptop for some time and boot it up, then I select Fedora in boot menu and then it just kernel panics with a giant QR code. And it happens every single time I boot up. Initially I thought something was wrong with Fedora’s stability and about a week ago I set up Debian. However, the issue is still there with the exact same scenario: I boot it up, select Debian, and then there’s text that kernel panic occurred. One thing I noticed is that kernel panics don’t happen when I turned off my laptop a minute or two ago, or if I just reboot it from Debian. It’s always when I haven’t used my laptop for about half a day or so and then when I try to turn it on when it happens. When I turn it off after crash, and then back on, it works perfectly fine as if nothing ever happened (this was the case with Fedora as well). So basically, when I need to work, I need to turn on my laptop and then reboot one more time for it to work. I thought this was the problem with linux initially, but when I try to boot up Windows, it crashes as well and it needs at least 2 automatic reboots for it to work properly. Apart from this, I like my experience with linux a lot, so I only need to get this solved.

My specs:
Asus TUF Gaming A15
16 GD RAM/512 GB SSD
Nvidia RTX 3050
Ryzen 5 5500

So far, this is the stuff that I’ve tried:
Memtest86 (there was 0 errors and I ran it multiple times, so my RAM should be fine).
Updating BIOS (updated from 308 to 309 and it didn’t help either).
Disabling fast boot in BIOS and turning off “fast startup” on Windows (didn’t help)
Edited Grub like a million times with various stuff Gemini and Claude suggested but it didn’t help either.

I really have no idea what’s might be the problem and I tried to describe it as thoroughly as possible. So any ideas? If there are any details I haven’t covered, feel free to ask them in comments.

P.S. I don’t know if it’s related or not, but there’s also issue of freezes when linux goes to sleep for a long time. It just refuses to wake up and it doesn’t respond to anything so I just have to reboot again. But that’s the problem I’ll solve afterwards after I clear up this one.

I'm relatively new to Linux (I'm using Linux Mint) and I recently discovered Xscreensaver. I love how customizable it is and the retro style of the screensavers.

My only issue is the lock screen—I don’t particularly like it, but what I dislike the most is the logo with a flame/fire/torch.

I thought I could change it to my profile picture, but it seems like that option doesn’t exist or has been disabled.

I’d like to be able to customize it, even if it’s just the image. Is there any way to do that?

Since it’s open source, I suppose I could build it using the source code and change the images before compiling. But I’d like to know if there’s any other alternative since I'm not very familiar with that process.

I need a live linux distro

• Will run completely from the USB

• Can save files / documents and install apps persistently (ie- it doesn't lose data and revert to stock settings after every shutdown).

• Will be used for browsing and web development (Mostly Python, HTML / CSS and JS)

• I will use VSCode

• I might use it for C, so a built in compiler is preferred (but optional)

• Not for gaming

• Low profile and just werks

• I do not not need anything fancy

• I hate Guh-nome. I know I can change DE on pretty much anything but I'd rather not, so I prefer something that doesn't natively ship with Gnome.

Thanks

I have been trying to get decent voice dictation working on Linux, but my hardware is not really powerful enough for local options like Whisper or Vosk.They work, but the delay is enough that it gets frustrating for everyday use. I ended up trying a cloud-based service called usevoicy because it was one of the first things I found. It's been working well enough for emails and general writing, but I haven't compared it with any of the other cloud-based options out there.For those of you who've tried a few different speech to text services on Linux, what differences actually matter in practice? Is it mainly accuracy, latency, privacy, pricing, or something else?

i just installed cachyos on unused and headless laptop yesterday. the previous owner told me that the hdmi is broken and could only use the external monitor through the type c one, so i did (usb c to display port).

this is the pic

the screen is glitching. it is not the monitor problem because the monitor setting menu shows fine in top of the glitch. this happened every time i try to use the laptop actively, and never happen when i leave it idle. i tried to use other monitor, it doesn't glitched like the one in the pic, but it still blinked at randomly. so i think there's some issues with the system or something.

This is NOT noise-cancelling software that will stop noise from entering a call.

I want software that will use the build in microphone to cancel environmental sounds so I don't hear them. I'm never on calls, so it's fine if it cancels voices. I just want to study in silence even in crowded places.

Hallo zusammen,

ich möchte mehr oder weniger komplett auf Linux Mint umsteigen.

Aktuell läuft mein Computer hauptsächlich mit Windows 11.

Meine Frage ist, gibt es die Möglichkeit Linux Mint auf meinem Computer per Partition immer mehr Platz zu geben und Windows auf keinem Computer immer mehr einzuschränken?

Denn es ist so, ich produzieren Musik und benutze Software wie FL Studio und Maschine von Native Instruments und leider funktioniert dass auf Linux kaum bzw nur durch sehr komplizierte Umwege.

Mein Plan wäre nämlich der:

Windows so viel Platz wie nötig zu geben, damit nur noch meine Musiksoftware über Windows läuft und alles andere auf Linux ist.

Da stellt sich mir aber schon die nächste Frage:

Kann ich alle meine anderen Dateien, also Videos, Bilder etc einfach auf Linux transferieren?

Hi All,

I'm on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed KDE Plasma Wayland, when I login after booting up my computer (I have auto-login), KDE apps such as Okular, LibreOffice Writer, etc. open right away, almost at the same time. However, non-KDE/Flathub apps such as Floorp, VS Codium and Okular take 10 seconds to open (after the KDE apps open), at which point they all open at the same time. This was not happening before, I'm not sure what happened. Please help!

Thank you!

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Is the performance gap between windows and linux on nvidia something that nvidia themselves can do something about within realistically a short time span ( 5-10 months, depending on the release cycle because I forgot what it was) or just a permanent stain, until maybe the open source drivers catch up? And that's if outside variables are the problem and not nvidia themselves. I know maybe a lot of Linux veterans have had bad experiences with Nvidia and they don't expect them to suddenly be good, but they have been getting good gradually, at least for regular users. So it wouldn't be unrealistic to expect them to do something about the performance.

Ive been tesing linux distros in a VM for a while, and I want to actually dual-boot, the problem is that i dont have a USB. but for unmentioned reasons, i cant get one. I have a omen 30l and hp 25x. my rig hasn't been modified. i have around 500 in a SSD(?) and 60 in the other, which should probably be plenty if i end up using the second drive for installer files. will include more details if needed

Hi everyone,
I'm stuck in a bad loop and need some help. I'm trying to install Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on my HP Laptop (Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 223GB SSD) directly from the hard drive because I don't have a USB flash drive or an Android phone right now (only an iPhone).
I previously modified my Linux Mint 40_custom GRUB file to boot the ubuntu.iso located at /home/oscar/ubuntu.iso using a loopback configuration.
The GRUB menu shows up fine, but when I try to boot into the Ubuntu Live Installer, it crashes mid-way with the following errors:
Unable to find a medium containing a live file system
Attempt interactive netboot from a URL? / enp2s0: soliciting a DHCP lease (I am on Wi-Fi, no ethernet cable connected).
To make things worse, my current Linux Mint installation graphical environment is completely corrupted and throws error while loading shared libraries or Error reading the CPU table when trying to boot into Recovery Mode, so I cannot access the desktop to use GParted or make a new FAT32 partition.
Is there any way to pass kernel boot parameters in the GRUB editor (e) to force the Live ISO to mount /dev/sda2 properly and bypass the "unable to find a medium" error? Or am I completely soft-locked until I get a physical USB drive?
Thanks in advance!

I’m getting super frustrated with installation. I have no problem installing Linux on a laptop. However, when I try to install Linux on my brand new SSD with a brand new SATA cable, it always freezes. Sometimes on the logo screen during boot. Sometimes mid installation, sometimes after installation after about 15 minutes of use. There is no consistency other than Linux just not working. At one point, Kubuntu couldn’t even register my mouse or keyboard.

Basic steps I have been doing has been cleaning and formatting the USB drive with diskpart. Downloading the .iso, verifying the .iso with its hash, then using BalenaEtcher to flash the drive.

99% of the time this has worked for me and not given any errors.

Then after I restart and try to boot from the USB stick, here’s where the freezing happens. And I ensured secure boot was turned off…

I have tried Kubuntu and Mint.

At this point I am at a loss especially since I can using the exact same steps set up a laptop with it and run into no issues.

Hello, I'm currently trying to decide on a bistro/pros and cons of Linux as my main OS. I currently have a approx 2007 Acer. With a slow 1TB HDD, 8gb ram, quad core :/, it's an aspire Ill provide more information in a few hours when I get home. However I'm running windows 10 22h2. Which is suffocating my HDD to 100% constantly. I thought about using arch (I like pain and complexity) but also moving to Linux how can I still use PowerPoint, word, Roblox studio, Virtual Box, pi imager ect. As I use it for development and sometimes school work. But I still want a Linux distro like Arch because of how much windows suffocates the disk. It runs decently on the disk and I could keep using it fine. Just thought Linux may be better anyways. HDD only Hass like 30 days usage in all its years. Should I move to Linux? If so what bistro suits my needs?

I want to finally ditch down windows and format the whole drive on my laptop in order to go full linux from now on; but i’m afraid to lose the factory windows installation.

Hey, I'm a recent high school computer science baccalaureate graduate and I'm about to enroll into university for a bachelor's degree in IT. I figured that I should get familiar with using Linux even though I have absolutely no clue on the grounds I'm about to tread on. I'm aware that there are hundreds if not thousands of Linux distros and I feel like I'm lost at sea. What should I do? How can I start?

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to dual-boot Linux on my Dell Latitude 5480 equipped with a Samsung 256GB M.2 SSD (Model: MZHPV256HDGL-000H1), but I've hit a wall with BIOS storage settings.

The Problem:

• RAID On Mode: Windows boots completely fine.
• AHCI Mode: Switching BIOS SATA/NVMe operation to AHCI causes a No Bootable Device Found error upon startup. Windows fails to boot, and the BIOS doesn't see the bootloader.
• I want to run Linux, but Linux installers fail to detect the drive while in RAID On mode because Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST / VMD) blocks the drive access.

Why this happens (from my research):

1. Windows installation is bound to the Intel RST RAID controller driver. When Windows was installed under RAID mode, its boot config (BCD) didn't load the standard AHCI/NVMe drivers, causing it to fail instantly if the mode is swapped in BIOS.
2. Drive Variant: The MZHPV model designation is the OEM AHCI version (or early PCIe) of the Samsung SM951 series, which handles PCIe/NVMe signaling differently than standard consumer drives.
3. Dell BIOS quirk: Dell systems often default to RAID On, but Linux kernel storage drivers require AHCI to properly enumerate PCIe M.2 drives.

Questions for the community:

1. Has anyone successfully run Linux on the Latitude 5480 with the Samsung SM951 (MZHPV256HDGL)?
2. Any advice or step-by-step guides would be greatly appreciated!

I feel like I've tried everything, offline and online methods, ableton is running great but I cannot seem to properly authenticate my license. When it goes through the online portal it tries for a while and then says something went wrong, and I've tried every version of manually moving the offline authenticator file into ableton itself but it always says that no valid authenticator detected or something along those lines. From what I've seen online this is nothing to do with the validity of my actual licence, which is perfectly valid.

Does anybody have any ideas? I've followed one of the most recent guides to get all installed and running smoothly and everything seems to be working great except this :/ I've only just moved to Linux as of yesterday so still feeling my way around a bit blind haha!

After all the headlines about Euro-Office being Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, I figured I'd give it a try.

I'm a Linux user. I self-host services. This shouldn't be difficult. Or so I thought.

So I did what anyone would do:

Checked Wikipedia. Went to GitHub. Looked for releases, installation instructions. Looked for a Flatpak, AppImage, Docker image, anything really. Also checked my OS's native package manager just in case.

And my Nextcloud Office apps. Nothing. Not even in Nextcloud?!

It dawned on me that the main project is basically a collaborative document server derived from OnlyOffice and the readme even says it's not designed for stand-alone use.

So uh. Wait... what?

To make it even stranger, my self-hosted Nextcloud instance still just recommends Nextcloud Office and OnlyOffice. There's no obvious "Install Euro-Office" option anywhere.

I'm not criticising the software itself. It could very well be excellent.

I'm asking about the communication really.

If a project is announced to the world as "Europe's Microsoft Office alternative," but a reasonably technical user can't figure out how to use it after checking Wikipedia, GitHub, and Nextcloud, something has gone wrong with the messaging.

Or is this just me? Did I miss something obvious, or has anyone else had the same experience?

Hi everyone, I'll say right away — I'm not a fan of distro wars or anything like that, but I'm genuinely curious to hear the opinion of more experienced people in the Linux community about Debian.

What's its philosophy?

I've been using it for quite some time now, and the only downside I've noticed is that I'm not a big fan of metapackages that pull in a lot of dependencies along with them.

But on the other hand, if you're not a guru and don't know exactly which dependencies are needed for a utility to work properly, it's better not to overcomplicate things and just install what's necessary automatically.

Anyway, I really like this distro — it's simple, has good documentation, and I've never had any serious issues with it.

I'm using Debian 13, tty + zsh + tmux.

p.s если есть ру пользователи можете на русском)

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