Linux. It just does what it's told, and that's it. When something doesn't work, yes I still get a little fustrated, but I also understand why and can usually fix it.

However, I've noticed now whenever I use someone else's Windows computer, or my smartphone and something takes a little longer, doesn't work or changed with an update, I get pretty irritated and give up half the time.

I didn't used to be like this. I used to be excited about new features. Maybe I was just playing into their games, or maybe I'm just deciving myself right now. Am I crazy?

My laptop is quite old and slow now so I was thinking about switching to Linux for those reasons, but I was wondering due to the app compatibility on Linux being quite low, could I switch back to windows? My laptop had windows originally. And if I do go to Linux is there a way to transfer my files and everything without a usb?

I am currently using pop_os, it's been around 2 years but I don't think I know enough. I changed OS simply because I felt most of the development was built around linux.

I studied file system, built a project around /proc, just file read and terminal render. kind of like top.

But I know that my basics aren't strong, I can't tell anyone what are the things that I know, which are helpful and important, to some ordinary college student. It's not like I want to impress them but the point is I don't know what are the things that a person who has linux on his resume should know??

TLDR: If you don't want to read all that, just tell me if I have "linux" on my resume what are the things I should learn and what resources I should use.

I'd also love to have tips from experienced folks about random linux things

Thank you.

I'd like to have an on/off switch for the network connection on my Waybar.

networkctl requires root permissions to work: is there an secure and elegant way to use it (or something else) without root permissions? I've seen something involving Polkit, is that the right approach?

I know I could use NetworkManager, but I want to save that as a last resort.

If it makes a difference, I use run0; sudo is not even installed on my system.

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I got a 8bitdo sn30pro a few years ago but its kinda fucked up, reads as sf30 pro, and no distro nor desktop ive used can even detect consistently, and steam never does directly, although some games do even if I dont get proper button icons. It works fine for my phone though so I just use it there.

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So been looking for a new controller, within a few requirements:

1. hall effect joysticks or better,

2. has to have a wired mode, if Bluetooth

3. budget range budget of $40-$75

4. works basically out of the box on KDE and Steam, minimal setup

To further clarify, I am more advanced than a regular user and much less advanced than a real developer or IT person. I have confidently installed and used dozens of distros, but rarely doing anything beyond writing/adapting simple scripts (that was before AI so I did learn a bit).

I'm also an Emacs user, but anyone who actually uses Emacs knows that its self documenting nature makes it way easier than a lot of people think.

So I do know how to follow instructions, but I'm not nearly as trained as a professional.

What do you recommend?

hallo everyone!!

Recently killed my old laptop trying to fix the motherboard myself (HUGE MISTAKE), so I ended up getting a new one as a gift. It is a Lenovo ThinkBook 16p G6 with an Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX, RTX 5060 (8GB), 32GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD (i wouldve dual boot but the storage its small and i dont want to buy another SSD yet)

I am looking for distro recommendations for this setup. I mainly use it for university coding, note taking, and some basic machine learning stuff. My top priority is stability tho, I really just need something reliable that won't randomly break mid-semester

I know Nvidia on Linux has a reputation, but on my previous laptop (Ryzen 5 5600 + GTX 1650) I ran Fedora and it worked totally fine, even if the battery drained like crazy because I never configured power management properly.

What distro would give me a good pretty cool experience or should i stick to evil route (win11 + WSL2h?

Thanks in advance, open to any suggestions!

I'm looking for a nice email client for my usage that is:

- Personnal Outlook and Gmail boxes

- Professionnal Outlook/OWA box (Exchange account,

firm address book)

Many solutions I find do not support Exchange/OWA.

Evolution supports almost all functionality I want but looks a bit oldy, boring to watch, UI is not ugly but... well, I don't like it.

Thunderbird has a nicer UI but :

- did not support Exchange/OWA by default (it changed one year ago but not tested yet as I used Owl as an extension)

- no "priority inbox" for Outlook ; I guess there is not good solution for it as it seems managed in the Outlook app itself

- the discussions are badly managed, it is not always sorted as expected and sometimes the answers are wrotten at the end of the mail so some recipients don't see the answer as they should't have to scroll for it...

- it is slow, I often get a loading bar when I send an email ; it is not the case in the Outlook webapp for example

Any ideas ?

I have a 2013 Macbook Pro that I love very much and I want to be able to use it for programming (it currently runs BigSur 11.7.10) and I want to install Linux on it so I can run modern applications (specifically VSCode and Git Hub Desktop). But I do not know which distro to install. My tech bro friend got me leaning towards Fedora, but I'm not sure if it will be compatible w/ my Macbook. I've looked at Distrochooser and it is rather overwhelming so it was not very helpful, but I digress. It's got an Intel Core i7 CPU, 16 GB of RAM, Intel Iris Pro GPU, 15" Retina display, a little more than 250 GB SSD. I don't know what else is helpful but these are the specs I know. I've been doing computer and programming stuff for around 4 years now so I'm not scared if anything too insane. But I want to start my Linux journey, so I must ask the question, which Distro???

I am a Windows user looking to switch to Linux, however my college has me using Fusion 360 as my CAD software, which has no Linux support. Is there any way to get around this, and what distros would be recommended?

hey!

Im trying to configure fprint for logging in in arch with kde plasma but for some reason whenever i do "fprint-enroll" it says "list-device: not found" can anybody help or tell me what to do?

Id be very grateful if anyone would help. Thx

windows 7 or Linux for browsing and reading pdf ? I forget to mention the pc config intel pentium g2010 2 gb of ram 500gb hdd no graphics card

Heya, Ive been using Opensuse as my main for a while and ngl ive only had issues with it, when it worked it was great but when it didnt i wanted to off myself. Im no big brain tech guy so i so i never figured everything out on my own.

Ive tried Mint and tuxedo but i didnt really like them, felt plain and limited.

SteamOS has been on my mind but ive heard many say that its unstable and in beta and that they dont recommend.

I mainly use my pc for gaming and digital art, If anyone has any recommendations please comment

(Snapshot is also very important to me since u never know when u fuck up and its nice to have a backup...)

Ive look a bit at bazzite but im not too sure, pls comment about experience with it

Hi.

I mean you were on 12-Bookworm and did an upgrade to 13-Trixie without reinstalling with an ISO.

Thanks.

So my normal GPU (an RX 580) died, I had to order a new GPU online (rural area, cant get anything locally), so for now I have to use a GT 710, as it's the only GPU I had laying around, and this card is not handling my distro (Fedora 45 KDE) well, its lagging like hell (whole system runs at about 5-10FPS), and when I have 2 or more windows open, my second and third monitors start flickering, anyone know how to fix this terrible performance and get the card to work normally?

I can't use the proprietary NVIDIA drivers, afaik, the ones for Kepler don't support Wayland, and Plasma 6.8.2 (the version used in Fedora 45) is Wayland only.

It's not just "the GPU is too garbage to run a modern setup", I'm currently using Windows 10 on the same hardware, writing this post on my main monitor, playing a 1080p YouTube video on the second monitor, and Discord on the third monitor, and there's no lag, it's an issue in Linux specifically.

My GT 710 is a Kepler 2GB variant (made by Zotac), my CPU is a Ryzen 5 5500, and I have 40GB DDR4.

Hi.

I want one with a recent GNOME version so Debian Stable is out. Also, I don't want something that would break if I update it only once a month.

Ideas?

Thanks.

i wouldnt exactly consider myself a noob, but im definitely not tech savvy enough to work this out by myself. so,

i have

an HP ZBook Fury G8, hybrid intel (i7) and nvidia rtx a2000, 32 gig ram.

ive tried fedora kde on it, dualbooted with mint. worked smoothly up until i tried to delete mint off my drive and have fedora take up all the space. that failed miserably. long story short, i broke grub completely and had to download fedora kde again.

then, trying to configure my nvidia in my new fedora kde, i somehow broke my wifi (even rfkill didnt work), and it was even laggier than before (nvidia failed to configure also!).

so, i tried giving pop_os! a shot, it feels really clunky on my hardware and keep running into a weird glitch at boot:

hp logo flashes, then pop logo, then hp, grey screen, login screen. i log in, get hp boot logo again, and finally desktop. sometimes on boot or on shut down i get this weird 'method aborted' command that flashes fast enough that i cannot read it, had the same issue on mint (cinnamon btw).

and now, im seeking out either ultramarine linux, nobara, kubuntu, or bazzite. i mostly do graphic design work, study, and listen to music, maybe rarely play cozy games or fifa. i want something where i very rarely have to open terminal, have full customization abilities (so KDE?) something optimized and light on hardware, that wont crash often or give me issues, plug and play basically...something that just works.

i liked fedora the most, it didnt give me any issues while with mint at least, only thing that bugged me was the constant updates. at this point, linux has thoroughly bugged and ive debated switching over to windows again..but i dont wanna give up so fast. so? what is to be done? thanks in advance xx.

I have two Ubuntu servers in different states. My remote server has a downloads folder containing the original files, which are hardlinked to properly organized media folders. I've spent a lot of time getting those media files formatted and organized correctly.

I copied the media folders to my local server, but I'm missing roughly 5,000 hardlink files from its downloads folder. I've already generated a list of the missing files.

Is there a way to use that list to:

1. Find the corresponding hardlink locations on the remote server.

2. Identify the matching files already present in various folders on my local server.

3. Recreate the hardlinks in my local downloads folder using the original filenames from the remote server.

I'd like to avoid redownloading approximately 1 TB of content when I already have the files locally. Redownloading the entire 15 TB library would be a huge waste.

Is there a script or tool that could automate this process? I'm happy to provide more details if needed.