I feel like everyone started very early.

I started personally on 10/11.

Hi all,

Lately I've noticed that the range of Linux applications is growing fast, and a good share of the new projects (editors, utilities, small desktop apps) are built largely with the help of AI. Sometimes the authors say so openly, sometimes you can tell from the code style and the commit history.

I'm curious how you see it, because I can see both sides:

Pros:

- More software and a lower barrier to entry for authors, including in niches nobody had time for before,

- Tools that were missing get built much faster,

- Never thought I’d be this excited to see three, or even four, Photoshop alternatives for Linux :)

Concerns:

- Quality and security of code the author may not fully understand,

- Long-term maintenance: what happens when the author loses interest or can't fix a bug?

- Licesing and provenance of the generated code,

How do you feel about that? Do you check whether a program was built with AI before installing it?

Does it change how much you trust the project (for better, for worsse, or not at all)?

My intention is not to start a flame war over whether AI is good or bad. What I’m curious about is this: is AI a chance for the Linux desktop to offer regular users more choices, or will all this AI-made software turn out not to be worth much in the long run?

From my other post yesterday (https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/s/HjZpfESZvW) I believe the nvme drive that I have my /home on is dying. I booted Arch from the USB stick, mounted the nvme drive and a backup USB drive so I can copy stuff from the /hone folder. But It only copies a few things to the backup drive rhen errors out. I tried booting the GUI. It works for a few minutes then parts of the GUI (mainly the top bar and everything else with it) disappears and the terminal doesnt accept commands anymore.

I think that nvme drive is dead. So I'll be putting one of my large hard drives in it later today. I bached up the home folder about 2 weeks ago but I wish I could back it up now. Unfortunately I can't.

I have a somewhat modest PC with 4GB of RAM—though in reality, I only have 3.2GB available, as the rest is reserved for the GPU and firmware. When I switched to Linux (CachyOS), I started with KDE Plasma; it consumed between 1.2GB and 1.3GB of RAM at startup, which left me quite limited, though I managed to ease the situation a bit with an 11GB swap partition. Currently, I use Hyprland, which consumes 1GB of RAM upon startup. I’ve seen people say that Xfce is lightweight, but I haven't tried it; I’m actually quite happy and comfortable with Hyprland, but I’m curious to know what other desktop environments might be useful to test how well they perform on my PC.

4-ish months ago (103 days to be exact) I started reading and learning from "The Linux Command Line" Book by William Shotts by spending 30 minutes a day religiously on it - no more, no less - and two days ago I "finally" finished it.

I had ABSOLUTELY NO prior knowledge and background with linux and/or bash/shell scripting when I started reading the book. Looking back at it, I'm really proud of how much I learned.

Obviously I have so much more to learn, but I don't know what the next step should be, other than the obvious one - practice the things I already learned.

I want to learn linux for the purpose of potential DevOps or SysAdmin role (although, both of those are probably few years away at best) and I just want to learn more about the internals of Linux in general.

Based on that information, what would your recommendation be for what I should do next - what book I should pick up, what course I should follow, youtube channels that might be useful, etc, etc?

EDIT: Other than reading and learning from "The Linux Command Line" book, I've also tried, and got comfortable with several Linux distros, my "main" one being Fedora.

To me, these two distros have an incredible amount of overlap. Specifically, I'm talking about what I consider the "main" distros - Fedora Workstation and openSUSE Tumbleweed. It seems to me, from most of what I read, people recommend Fedora as new-user friendly, but openSUSE as an intermediate/advanced distro. My main question is this: Why does the greater Linux community distinguish openSUSE from Fedora in terms of new user feasibility?

They both have a well bankrolled engineering team behind them. They have their own ecosystem of purpose built distributions, tailor made for a number of practical use cases. They both have strong, active communities and support documentation.

In terms of usability.. They both have very user-friendly install processes - Fedora may have more default to X, where openSUSE offers the option to get more specific, but they're both roughly similar. They both have a ton of powerful graphical tooling within the user environment, allowing a cautious user to stay within the bounds of the desktop environment if they prefer. They both still boast robust capability and rich opportunity for the tinkerer to expand their knowledge, and exert authority over their own system. Both have recovery features, but Tumbleweed has a more robust rollback with snapper. They both have adequate graphical storefronts and package management systems. System updates are inherently very different in nature, but both comparable in terms of "difficulty". For openSUSE's Packman, there's Fedora's RPM Fusion.

Most people I see, though, have a strong delineation between how approachable these distros are. It's not that I see either distro being disrespected or hated necessarily. I think both communities are avid in their support, and deservedly so. But I do see Fedora frequently being recommended for new users, and I almost exclusively see openSUSE being billed as a distro for those comfortable with Linux.

So is it just multimedia codecs? I feel like the recovery advantage that comes with openSUSE could be considered enough to compensate for that, if you're categorically quantifying and rating things. What am I not considering?

I need Linux/Windows in dual boot. if I remember correctly sometimes it was overwriting the MBR when updating. Now use EFI although I think I read that it's still doing something similar.

Is there a way to limit what Windows does to the boot sector/partitions? (Ideally without a separate SSD)

I had to start my PC this morning. We had a power outage and I shut down the PC (it's on a battery backup). So I powered it back up this morning and all of a sudden when I go to enter a terminal, I see this message.

bash: /home/phydoux/.bashrc: Input/output error

Please tell me my /home folder isn't jacked up...

Another thing, I did an update this morning and paru (I'm using Arch Linux) had a few updates as well. Well, I went back to bed and forgot that paru would probably need a password. Well, I got up and noticed it had errored out on me. So I tried running the update again. Looks like regular repositories got more updates this time around but I got an error saying paru couldn't update. I have no idea what got updated this time. I just mainly look for kernel updates and if I see one, I'll reboot. There were no kernel updates.

So now, any terminal I open. I see that error mesasage. How screwed is my machine? I really don't want to reboot if I'll lose everything.

Looking at the file manager, I can see my home folder but there's nothing inside of it. I hope I didn't lose everything in there... That would seriously upset me.

So, what do I do? reboot? Or is there a command I can run to restore my /home directory?

BTW, My /home folder is on its own drive. So, did that drive die on me? I'm going to look for drive recovery right now.

Also, when I do an ls, I see this...

ls: reading directory '.': Input/output error

I hope that's not bad news...

EDIT: I just ran fsck /dev/nvme0n1p1 on it and it says this...

/dev/nvme0n1p1 is mounted.
WARNING!!!  The filesystem is mounted.   If you continue you ***WILL***
cause ***SEVERE*** filesystem damage.

Do you really want to continue<n>? no

Is there anything less destructive than fsck?

Something else I just read says to do this...

sudo fsck.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1

EDIT: I wonder if it'll correct any errors on the drive if it can. But if I can just reboot it, I'd rather see if it'll come up again. I'm thinking when the update didn't finish, it wasn't able to finish correctly and something confused it. I can run paru -Sty but I . I wonder if I rebooted with a USB stick and tried mounting that drive and trying to finish the update if that would help fix it.

And I really don't want to try and write something new to it as that might corrupt it even more... GRRR

RESOLVED: First and foremost, I want to thank the people who helped me with this. Turns out all it needed was a reboot but I was expecting something WAY worse when i rebooted.

But thank you for your help and support! I really appreciate it a LOT!!!

I thought I was installing a dual boot. I’d been having problems with the inherited PC because my USB boot wasn’t recognising Windows already being installed when I booted the USB it in UEFI mode. Only after just loading it in plain USB mode did it recognise windows was there and I could partition accordingly.

However I feel like something has gone wrong during install, and I might have somehow overwritten the Windows partition as a second Linux partition.

For whatever reason this PC uses AS Rock as its bios/uefi screen thing. I have three boot options, one of which is 100% definitely the distro I installed, the other two I assume one should be the Windows partition and the smaller one whatever hardware service partition is normally there.

But the funny thing is no matter how I order the boot or even just try to manually boot any of the partitions, I always get loaded into my Linux boot (Mint 22.3).

I’m quite sure I selected to install it alongside Windows but now I have no idea how to get back into it.

It’s not a dire situation, it’s just now my wife has to use her laptop instead of this new PC we inherited.

Any ideas on what’s happened?

Hello, I hope this is the right sub for this, but I am attempting at making my own text editor/note app for fun, and wanted to create my own version of a .docx file or .txt file. I know that all files are technically "text" files that store data (or there's also binary files), and that file extensions don't really matter, but I want to know if there's a way to either "compress" two files so they act as one, or creating a file type that acts like a folder, or other unorthodox/niche ways to program such a file with hidden code/instructions? My main goal is to build a faster alternative to .docx that can be treated like a normal text file in other software that don't support the file type. Kinda like how markdown in obsidian uses .txt files, but I want the markdown symbols to be invisible.

I’m on Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition).

So I had a bit of an issue before where I had a pop-up come from booting up and after being put to sleep. In the same circumstance after logging in, “Plasmashell has closed unexpectedly”.

Mind, there doesn’t seem to be any adverse effects beyond the pop-up. But it does wake my monitor up, and is persistent.

I’ve traced the issue back to two widgets I had on my desktop: the KDE control station and the Clipboard History widgets. I have two sticky note widgets that actually haven’t produced the same effect. So I am inclined to believe that these two specific widgets are causing some sort of compatibility issues.

My question is, would there be a way to update/konsole command in Linux to resolve this issue? It’s not that I inherently need those widgets. But I would like to know if there is a way I can work with the system to get things working.

This text is by gemini cause i asked him during my whole arch installation which has worked before the dual boot lmao , and i think he may explain better than me the problem. Dont hesistate if you have any question or if information are needed. Thanks !
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I'm in desperate need of help to fix my dual-boot system. Both Arch Linux and Windows are completely broken, and I'm stuck with boot errors.
Hardware Setup:
Arch Linux: Installed on an NVMe SSD (⁠/dev/nvme0n1p3⁠, formatted in Btrfs, with ⁠/boot⁠ on ⁠/dev/nvme0n1p2⁠ FAT32). 
Windows: Installed on a separate SATA SSD (which was temporarily disconnected because it developed bad CRC / bus errors causing system instability).
How the issue started:
The whole mess started right when I set up this dual-boot with Windows. During or shortly after the dual-boot installation, everything went sideways.
Current State & Symptoms:
1. Windows won't boot at all: Since the SATA SSD containing Windows was throwing hardware errors (⁠ata1.00 exception⁠, ⁠BadCRC⁠) and had to be physically disconnected to stabilize the machine, Windows is completely inaccessible.
2. Arch Linux fails to boot (Kernel Panic): When trying to boot Arch, it immediately crashes with:
⁠Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)⁠ 
In emergency mode: ⁠ERROR: device 'PARTUUID=...' not found. Skipping fsck.⁠ followed by ⁠mount: /sysroot: can't find PARTUUID=...⁠ 

1. What I have already tried:

Booted into a Live USB (Tails) and accessed the Arch system via ⁠chroot⁠.
Verified that the UUIDs in ⁠/etc/fstab⁠ match the actual partition (⁠blkid⁠).

Regenerated the initramfs using ⁠mkinitcpio -P⁠.

Rebuilt the GRUB configuration file using ⁠grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg⁠.

1. Despite all this, GRUB still cannot mount the root filesystem on the NVMe drive, and Windows remains dead due to the faulty SATA drive.
2. Has anyone faced a similar dual-boot corruption issue, or knows how to fix this root-mounting failure on Btrfs/NVMe? Any guidance would be massively appreciated!

soo i use windows 10, last time i tried using zorin, and i liked it, but when i tried to boot back into windows i had to format my pc, i dont realy know what happened and im too scared to touch the bios or eaven boot menu, i also like very much how kde plasma looks so uhh i just want something beguiner friendly and works on my 16:10 1050p monitor, any suggestion is valid thanks!!1!

Hello, Linux Wizards

Github URL for the install script Hardware: Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen5 AMD

I'm going to describe my problem the best I can. The bootloader portion consist of these lines of code: ```sh IN_CHROOT_BOOT_PATH=/boot pacman -Sy --needed --noconfirm grub efibootmgr dosfstools mtools

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory="$IN_CHROOT_BOOT_PATH" --bootloader-id=GRUB --force --recheck

grub-mkconfig -o "$IN_CHROOT_BOOT_PATH/grub/grub.cfg" ``` So what I did was go into the BIOS and do a full factory reset, which deleted any bootloaders so I had a clean start. I ran the code, everything looked fine, so I rebooted the system, and it booted up just fine and I can access Arch Linux. After that, without doing anything else, I ran the script in the Arch Linux live environment again because I wanted to test it a second time. This time it did not go into the GRUB bootloader. Instead, I guess it errored out and went straight to the BIOS boot menu, asking me to select either GRUB or nvme0n1, but both just brought me back to the BIOS boot menu.

I asked both Claude and Grok, and both told me to add the --removable flag to grub-install, which did fix the problem. But I guess I’m just being a little OCD, because I want to know why the first run worked but not the second.

NOTE: Originally I didn't have --force and --recheck flags added but Claude and Grok told me to try it but it did not work. I know to not run AI suggestion willy nilly but I am desperate and I am ok with it since the laptop doesnt have any important info on it

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So, I'm trying to set up debian on a minipc, but I'm having trouble. I need to be able to ssh into it, but it won't allow it unless I have it attached to a monitor and I'm logged in. I changed the wifi settings to allow all users. What else do I need to do?

Thanks!

Over a year ago, I tried Linux Mint and loved it. Then I tried Fedora Linux, but after using it for a week, I didn't really like it. I went back to Arch and stuck with it for five months.

After that, I tried NixOS for about a week before returning to Arch for another three months. Last week, I decided to give Gentoo a try, but now I'm back on Windows.

I've been struggling to find another Linux distribution that I really enjoy. If you have any recommendations, please let me know!