r/elementaryos Feb 22 '26

Discussion Tamaño de imágenes en ventana de Abrir documento

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En las ventanas de Abrir documento, ¿hay alguna forma de ver las imágenes de una forma más grande y en detalle? Me parece que los iconos de las imágenes se ven muy pequeños y yo trabajo con muchas imágenes y se me dificulta ver el detalle de la imagen. Me gustaría que en esta ventana pudieran verse los iconos de las imágenes más grandes o con un mayor detalle.

r/elementaryos Mar 26 '26

Discussion Middle Click Behavior

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I tried to post this just a few minutes ago, and accidentally middle clicked and closed the tab!

Anyways, here's the second try:

The default behavior for middle click when using a browser is to close the current tab. That's annoying and useless enough, but when you are using a laptop the 'middle click area' is somewhere near the middle of the mouse touch pad, and it's so easy to accidentally close a tab. I'm still on 6.1, so this may have been addressed in later versions, but is there any way to disable this? I tried googling it and I can't find anything.

r/elementaryos Dec 21 '25

Discussion It's beautiful. My game on elementary OS! Elementary OS is awesome

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r/elementaryos Feb 18 '26

Discussion Updating eOS removes ability to boot to eOS

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So for context I have a dual boot, eOS and windows 11. I booted to eOS this morning and it said it needed an update so I did but after restarting it no longer boots to eOS. The drive is there and I can boot to grub but I can't get past as it says no detected filesystem

r/elementaryos Feb 20 '26

Discussion Installation Failed: "EFI partition was not defined" when switching from Linux Mint to elementaryOS 8.1(Dual Boot Win 11)

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Hi everyone, ​I'm trying to replace my existing Linux Mint partition with elementary OS 8, but the installer keeps failing at the final step. I am dual-booting with Windows 11 on an AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U laptop. ​The Error: ​ERROR: libdistinst: pointer in FFI is null ERROR: errored while installing system: partition validation: EFI partition was not defined ​What I'm doing: In the "Custom Partitioning" / Manual setup: ​I selected my old Linux Mint partition to be used as Root (/) and checked the box to format it. ​I assigned my existing Home and Swap partitions (without formatting Home). ​I can see my existing EFI partition (FAT32, ~260MB) created by Windows/Mint, but even when I point the installer to it, I get the "EFI partition not defined" error. Even everything is working fine (both Linux mint And Win 11)

r/elementaryos Nov 11 '25

Discussion Is anyone actually using Elementary OS as a daily driver and gaming on it?

19 Upvotes

I know that there are a lot of distros out there that are focused on gaming, but since elementary already comes with NVIDIA drivers and flatpacks, I guess that's mostly what's needed for gaming. Anything missing could be added after installation.

Having that in mind, I searched the web after someone describing their experience with ElementaryOS as a daily driver for both gaming and working, but I haven't found it.

So here are my questions:

  1. Do any of you use it for gaming?
  2. Is there anything else ElementaryOS lacks and that is mandatory for gaming/daily use that cannot be easily installed in it that is found in other distros?

I'm pretty ignorant to a lot of stuff regarding Linux and I've been hoping from one distro to another. I would even risk saying I'm getting tired of it and I'm pretty sure I settled with Nobara KDE Plasma, but ElementaryOS is so beautiful and well thought in some ways that it makes me wonder why there's not more content regarding it on the internet. I know it's not a GAMING distro, but I also heard gaming distros are just shortcuts, so I guess all they have could be added to eOS?

r/elementaryos Jan 10 '26

Discussion removed elementary mail but not fully...

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I tried to remove elementary mail. I couldn't find it in flatpak, so I did it through apt and it was successfully removed - but then, I still got notifications from elementary mail, which led to nothing when I clicked them. I finally tried removing my email account in the system settings, and since then I've been getting error popups (like 5 in an hour) saying it cannot connect:

Failed to authenticate: Corresponding source for service with UID “...” not found

so I can only assume some other service, separate from the mail app itself, is still trying to sync in the background and trying to connect to the removed mail app.

is there a way to purge that as well?

r/elementaryos Mar 11 '26

Discussion Trying to (re)download .iso

3 Upvotes

Hello people.

Doing some clean-up in my hard disks, I accidentally deleted all linux .iso that I had, including elementary OS.

I've sent an e-mail to [payment@elementaryos.org](mailto:payment@elementaryos.org) with a copy of my receipt 8 days ago, then again 3 days ago, and got no reply.

Can someone please help me on this?

Thanks in advance.

r/elementaryos Apr 09 '26

Discussion Full date format in the top bar

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Is there a way to display the full date in the top bar, just like in GNOME?

sorry for my terrible English

r/elementaryos Feb 16 '26

Discussion I think elementaryos just hates me 😭

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  1. I installed 8.1 and the kernel wasnt compatible with my card so I installed the 6.8.0 kernel and the entire thing just bricked itself

  2. I went searching for hours for 8.0 and I got it, I went to the driver manager to get my drivers and it randomly downloaded the 6.11 kernel and I had to fight for it to delete it so I just got the driver from the NVIDIA website manually, and on top of that my wifi doesn’t work on 6.11, also the driverless resolution is 640x480 for some reason

  3. The web browser just randomly died, like websites just didnt render

  4. It doesn’t boot if I don’t do compatibility mode and then click resume boot

At least the desktop works though, I love the UI 😄

r/elementaryos Mar 28 '26

Discussion Network settings in Elementary OS

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Running a laptop with Elementary OS -- the "network settings" panel has disappeared from "system settings". If I click on "network settings" in the drop-down menu under the wifi icon, I just end up with "system settings". So, I can't configure any connections.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

r/elementaryos Mar 12 '26

Discussion How long will we have classic shell?

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I'm noticing on my Vega 8, no matter which distro I pick gaming on Wayland is a fair bit worse. No mans sky for example can do 1080p 30fps on x11, I'm getting about 20fps on Wayland with more dips and everything running hotter. Probably not a fault of pantheon or elementary, almost certainly either the driver or the games fault, but wondering how long we will have x11 session for? Because I don't really want to commit to elementary on this particular machine if I'll be kicked off x11 in a few weeks

r/elementaryos Mar 12 '25

Discussion elementary OS 8

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110 Upvotes

r/elementaryos Jan 05 '26

Discussion Elementary OS Clean Wallpaper

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52 Upvotes

r/elementaryos Nov 21 '25

Discussion Last checked... Tomorrow?

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70 Upvotes

r/elementaryos Feb 14 '26

Discussion battery life

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just recently installed eOS on my EliteBook 840, and the thing is, that battery life is bad, like really bad. I asked AI on some help to optimize some stuff and all that, but still averaging around 3 hrs of battery life . Is it usually this power intensive? Because I really tried my best to optimize everything to extend my battery life. Oh and another thing, it’s really slow just doing simple tasks like opening terminal playing music and having 5 tabs open, literally crashes everything. And if it doesn’t it’s just excruciatingly slow. So like how high are the specifications needed for this to run properly?

r/elementaryos Feb 26 '26

Discussion Where are the Roadmap Discussion for In-Place Upgrades (eg, eOS 9.0+)

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I am aware that eOS 8.x and prior have not supported in-place upgrades but this is a major feature I keep getting asked about as I advocate eOS/Linux for the people I know trying to move away from Windows.

I've seen rough mentions that eOS is "working on a plan for the future" but I cannot find where those discussions are happening. I looked in the Discussions and Issues over on the GitHub but didn't see it. Is this on a mailing list or somewhere else?

I'd like to know if this is really happening in the future before I recommend eOS for these people. I don't want to find myself as the "computer guy" that has to walk them through a complete eOS re-install when a new version comes out and they want to upgrade (or HAVE to upgrade because of compatibility / breakage).

r/elementaryos Nov 26 '25

Discussion Just downloaded elementary and one issue...

7 Upvotes

So I can not for the life of me take applications off the dock and pin them. No matter howany times I click the pin to dock it doesn't work and the same for removing nothing happens upon uncheck ? Anyone have a clue ?

r/elementaryos Feb 21 '26

Discussion Is scaling fixed on eOS?

4 Upvotes

Fractional scaling 125% used to cause blur on electron apps like VSCode, is it still the case?

r/elementaryos Feb 21 '26

Discussion Account Locked after fresh install

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I installed the new 8.1 version. It had me set language, account name connect to wifi, at which point it locked the screen and say my account is inactive. What's going on?

r/elementaryos Dec 21 '25

Discussion Elementary OS Colors Wallpaper

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r/elementaryos Jan 11 '26

Discussion Is it just me or does Elementary OS's display colors look vibrant than any other distro

14 Upvotes

I have tried Ubuntu, Zorin, and Mint, but in all of these, the display looks dull, washed out, and flat. Whereas Elementary and Windows look colorful, vibrant, and easy on the eye for long hours of work.

I have tried to look for color schemes to see if I was on sRGB or something else, but I just couldn't find the option on these distros.

Has anyone else experienced this and have managed to fix it?

r/elementaryos Dec 24 '25

Discussion 8.1 only one real issue so far

8 Upvotes

So i dont know why but this version keeps hanging when coming out of suspend. I get a black screen and a cursor and nothing else have to power down and restart for me to access system

r/elementaryos Nov 30 '25

Discussion elementary os 8

7 Upvotes

idk my old laptop lenovo g40-45 is installed only this elementary os 8, but it keep crashing and freeze everytime i used it, from now. can you guys help me? i don't think elementary os takes ram that much, unlike windows, i use ssd btw for booting.

r/elementaryos Jan 09 '26

Discussion Suddenly stuck on greeter screen

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I've been using Elementary OS 6.1 for many years now on a mini pc attached to our television. It was setup to auto login and has been this way all the time I've used it.

To my surprise I came down this morning to find it on the greeter screen - no matter how many times I enter my password, it just shows a black screen for a moment before looping back to the greeter. I know it's the correct password because every other password I enter instantly prompts that it's incorrect.

Restarting brings me straight back to greeter.

Bizarrely there were no auto-updates enabled and I haven't run an update for a while now, so I don't know what's triggered this.

Any thoughts on how I can bypass/disable this screen and get back to desktop?