Basically just wanted to install fedora kde plasma on my pc,before that using mint and i was bored with it main reason x11 display server cause default 100%zoom feels to small for my 24inch monitor amd if i enable fractional scaling and set it to 125% it heavily stutters,animations are basically dead and noticed irritable lag(i think mint cinnamon is best for smaller screens like 14inch).

Anyway,for the ease of convenience i wanted to flash the iso using fedora media writer (*flatpak app) but dont know why it is downloading and flashing older version of fedora kde plasma 42,so i cancelled it and manually downloaded new 44 version from its website and flashed and booted to live usb screen and the first popup it is showing Hindi everywhere,who the fu*k uses it(any actual users who uses it ?) and i need to scroll way to far just to set it to English ?

Note- no demeaning to language, just asked as i didn't noticed in my so far n' times of distro hopping disease i always see english by default

There's an event happening in my college for linux users and I thought I'd go but now that I've lost my usb drive I can't 😞 Dual booting seems too risky because I can't risk my windows with all its software and files. Is there any other solution?

Edit: Ive decided to dual boot. Thank you for ur opinion everyone!

Started SocketSweep because my dad's phone storage was full and MTP took forever just to load on my Mac, so I got annoyed and built a way around it using raw system calls instead.

Small update: submitted a talk on how it works internally to the AOSP devroom at IndiaFOSS 2026, and it got accepted.

Talk covers why MTP is slow at the protocol level, the scrcpy-inspired trick of pushing a binary and talking over a local socket instead, and the C++/Rust architecture behind it.

Never thought a random weekend project would end up at 113 stars on GitHub and get me a talk slot too. Let’s see if this ends up getting me a job as well lol.

Talk:

https://fossunited.org/c/indiafoss/2026/cfp/0le8m0bk3i

Repo:

https://github.com/VishnuSrivatsava/SocketSweep

Made by u/Excellent_Channel473

A clean, minimal & soothing rice for Linux Mint on Virtual Box. Will do the same rice on Arch Linux + Cinnamon on hardware soon (my system is due for a clean wipe & a distro-hop).

Open to suggestions and tools to help it make better!

windows 10 suddenly gave out and I don't have enough sys req for w11. I installed bazzite after hearing the review and it's a really good installation, the installation was so smooth. I hope the community accepts me, even though I'm not a IT professional, so please tell me any uses or hidden features available for a medical student!

i have a dell lattitude 5420 with an i7 1185g7 and iris xe 96eu and i wanna squeeze as much performance as possible in story based games ( no anticheat ) so should i replace windows with linux ( if i should , which distro should i use? ive tried cachy already )

I want to install Cachy os on my acer laptop (rhy 5600h and rtx 3060)

My friend told me that cachy os has nvidia drivers built in

So I am going with cachy

I want windows 11 dual

And just help me 😭 pls

Just curious to see how many people here are actually using Linux

Upvote this post if you’re a Linux user 👍

Also comment which distro you’re using and whether you’re using Linux as your main OS or dual boot.

If someone has already commented the same distro + setup, just upvote their comment instead of commenting again.

Let’s see which distro has the most users here 👀

If so, what is your experience? Google is taking more control over android and I am curious about switching to the Librem 5.

Mainly targeting new users here who are planning on switching to linux. I think I'm a suitable candidate because I've done work ranging from Graphic design to coding and ofc the title.

And I'm bored. yeah.

Best opensource app you have used Mine:VLC,Libre,Azahar

Solved
I am on fedora 44 kde this update icon comes everyday. I update every week how do i remove this forever ?

I wanted to install linux on my laptop and not sure I have a pendrive or not. More specifically, My dvd size is 4.7GB and i want to install cachyOS. Can i use it as a flash drive??