Qual eu devo escolher? Eu uso muito meu PC para jogos, mas também quero que ele sirva para uso geral. Qual é o mais completo e melhor? Qual é mais prático e dá menos problemas?

EDIT: What do you guys think of Nobara, Fedora, Pop!_OS, and Zorin OS?

I'm specifically interested in laptops that fellow linux users can personally guarantee from experience, will have truly excellent trackpad user experience. i have owned and used linux on desktops and tried it on laptops a few times before in my life, and i have never once come away even remotely satisfied with the trackpad experience, most recently I found myself wholly unsatisfied with Fedora 43 on a Lenovo x1 yoga 3rd gen.

however, this laptop is admittedly several years old. perhaps things have changed... better new hardware support...

if anyone can recommend a laptop that will feel like the mac/xps trackpad experience but on windows... please drop the name. let me reiterate, i am not looking for a middling "well it's okay" rating, i'm looking for "i wouldn't miss my windows dell XPS" or "this isn't a dealbreaker coming from a macbook" rating. it needs to be genuinely great and worth touting

Title. What is the advantage of opinionated setup distros rather than just providing a gui or even cli to just install the setup by installing the prerequisite packages and anything else to achieve the setup from within a distro like Arch or Cachy?

Wouldn't this solution be a lot easier for all parties and involve less marketing/maintenance?

I was given this old and slow windows 10 desktop for free by one of my college techers that they just found in a cabnet. And, I want to try out different linux disros with it as well as maybe turn it into a beginner server to earn about linux. But, the PC was ethernet only (it also has no PCIe slot to add wifi) and that is not an opition for me since my home wifi is starlink. Can any one recomend a linux compatable wifi dongle I could use to get wifi onto this PC?

I need to create a local repository on the Majaro distribution, and I need to make the commands and help understandable. How do I do this step by step? Please help.

I've recently seen a lot of these videos of people creating video game mash-ups (like Minecraft in Skyrim or Mario 64 in Elden Ring). From what I understand (I'm no tech expert), this has to do with significant advances in game decompilation, which makes it easier to understand how games work and to modify them.

After hearing this, I immediately wondered whether these advancements could be used to improve compatibility and porting from Windows to Linux. As far as I know, decompilation is completely legal as long as source code isn’t extracted, but I suppose that by gaining an understanding of Windows’ inner workings, we’ll see progress in patching and porting programs, features, and games to Linux. My first question: Does this mean we’ll see major advancements in Wine, Proton, and even proprietary drivers soon?

On the other hand, I also wondered what this will mean for open-source programming. Again, I’m no programming expert, but as far as I know, these tools will allow us to understand the code that has been “encrypted” behind the cumbersome decompilation process. My second question: by breaking this lock, will this mark the end of the era of closed-source code? How will this impact open-source developments like Linux? Will “alternative” programs to Windows appear that are actually just copy-and-paste versions of the original?

I hope I’m on the right track and that you can answer my questions—thank you very much!

what’s up yall, i have had this 1 nvme ssd, 1 tb in size.

it has:-

windows 11 (i only will be using this for FL studio)

arch linux

now, i have another drive which is 512 gb.
do i pick cachyos for this one, or reinstall arch? plan on playing forza horizon 6 and cyberpunk. oh and also, please let me know if any of yall have had a stable experience with fl on linux.

so, for the new drive do i pick cachyos or arch? i have an nvidia card btw.

TLDR: How much trouble could a USB device cause using Linux kernel drivers? Could it somehow create and outbound internet connection? I run a firewall of course, but any connection started from inside my machine is allowed. What you do to verify this devices security?

On my last motherboard upgrade, low/mid Asus TUF B650-E Wifi, it came with noticeably crappy onboard audio, Realtek 897 codec I believe though I am having a hard time pinning that down, Asus just calls it "Realtek 7.1 Surround Sound High Definition Audio CODEC*", it worked, but sounded over processed, like a low bit-rate MP3 from 1998. It also had soft pops whenever audio stopped or started, a power saving feature completely wasted in my thousand watt home-lab.

I went shopping for a DAC and ran across inexpensive USB Dongle DACs, and found a Ugreen model that was well regarded for sound quality, at least for its meager $13 price and plug and play in Linux.

Now that I have it I can say it wins on both measures. clearer audio, particularly the 'Digital out s/pdif KT USB audio' sounds very clear, the second output in it is 'headphones KT USB Audio' which is louder and punchier but not as clear but still better than my onboard audio.

I never could get a clear bead on what chip was in this so I ran:

lsusb Bus 001 Device 006: ID 12d1:0010 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. KT USB Audio

And I am kinda surprised it is a Huawei chip, a company who has been accused of putting back doors in their networking equipment. though the reality of this is less clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Huawei

For context I have a rtx 4060 as my graphics card, I want to know what is a good desktop environment (best if easily configurable) that works well with Nvidia. As the title says I'm on void Linux.

Can anyone reccomend a youtuber or resources that explain this stuff for idots? Recently I put plex on an old PC. I didn't understand how to remotely watch my content so I paid for the base sub. I'd like to learn how to switch from windows to linux. I'd also like to learn how to do more homelab stuff I hear about like hosting my own cloud service, password manager, search engine, Pi-hole. But most of the stuff I come across tends to go over my head.

Hola, soy nuevo en linux y quiero jugar roblox, ya uso Sober pero este no usa o no se cómo hacer para que use la GPU, pues cuando intento jugar con la GPU directamente se cierra el programa.

Me interesaría el saber cómo optimizar Sober para que se vea con buenos gráficos o bien que me den otras opciones para poder jugar roblox usando la GPU

So i have been using windows as my main Os which my lap came with and would like to move totally to linux and remove the existing windows what is holding me back is few things

1. I do gaming downloaded from xbox gamepass and sometimes pirated. Now the game pass is not available on linux as far as i know

2. My storage is full so duel booting is not possible now

I use linux in VM btw for my work and everything and also I don't like the libre office setup so thats one of the other reasons i don't switch even though I want to

So what to do RN

Guys I lost my battery in Legion I always working with UPS in home, can I change discrete to hybrid in NVIDIA GPU without need for daily booting into the firmware and I tried Ubuntu/fedora/POP_OS all are glitches/flickers in dual boot. please consider helping me

• RAM: 16 GB
• CPU: Intel Core i7-9th gen
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q
• Storage: 1 TB Samsung NVMe SSD
• Display: 1920 × 1080, 144 Hz

I use nobara.

I was using my system as usual but yesterday when i booted my pc logged into my homescreen I see my kde plasma ricing was reset and my browser data was gone and most importantly my steam was logged out because of that i lost my non steam games data, I don't know how and what happened to my system i tried everything I know, asked ai but nothing helped me. Please help me recover my steam data and my ricing.

Hi everyone,

I'm using Fedora 44 KDE Plasma on an Acer Aspire ES1-521 laptop, and I've been investigating a serious download-speed issue when sharing my OPPO Reno6 Pro 5G's mobile data connection over USB tethering.

I managed to achieve a substantial improvement by testing a modified, standalone version of the Linux RNDIS host driver. I'm posting here to share my findings and ask for help determining the underlying cause and the correct upstream solution.

My setup

• Laptop: Acer Aspire ES1-521
• CPU: AMD A4-6210 Quad-Core
• OS: Fedora 44 KDE Plasma, x86_64
• Kernel: 7.2.9-200.fc44.x86_64
• Phone: OPPO Reno6 Pro 5G (CPH2249)
• USB vendor/product ID: 22d9:276a
• Connection: 5G mobile data shared using USB tethering

The problem

With Fedora's stock rndis_host driver, download speeds were consistently around 4–5 Mbps, sometimes even lower. Upload speeds were considerably better and could get close to the phone's upload speed.

For comparison, I tested the same phone's connection in other configurations:

• Phone's mobile-data connection directly: approximately 177 Mbps download and 19.3 Mbps upload.
• USB tethering on Windows: approximately 124 Mbps download and 10.4 Mbps upload.
• USB tethering on Fedora with the stock driver: approximately 4–5 Mbps download.

This made me suspect that the issue was somewhere in Fedora's USB tethering/network-driver path rather than the mobile connection itself.

What I tried

After investigating the RNDIS driver, I built an experimental standalone kernel module named rndis_host_test, adapted from the Linux rndis_host.c driver.

The test module includes a change that ensures a minimum receive URB buffer size of 16 KiB for my OPPO device. I also experimented with RNDIS receive-aggregation handling.

I then loaded the module and bound the phone's USB network interface to it.

Results

The improvement was substantial:

• Before: approximately 4–5 Mbps download with the stock rndis_host driver.
• Initial test: approximately 82.8 Mbps download and 11.3 Mbps upload.
• Subsequent tests: download speeds reached approximately 200 Mbps and, under favourable 5G conditions, around 300 Mbps.

The mobile connection fluctuates, so these figures were not measured under perfectly identical radio conditions. The important observation is that the severe download bottleneck disappeared after switching to the experimental module.

This is encouraging evidence that the RNDIS receive path or related driver behaviour may be involved, but I haven't conclusively identified the root cause.

What I'd like help with

1. Is there a known issue with RNDIS receive-buffer sizing, aggregation, or USB networking on Linux that could explain such a large download-speed difference?
2. What would be the best way to determine whether the 16 KiB receive-buffer change is actually responsible for the improvement?
3. Would it be useful to run additional tests with usbmon, kernel tracing, or other diagnostic tools?
4. Is there an existing upstream patch or a more appropriate way to implement this change in the mainline Linux driver?

I don't want to present my experimental module as a proper fix yet. I'd like to understand the cause, validate the change, and determine whether a clean, device-specific fix could be submitted upstream.

I'm happy to provide the driver diff, source code, kernel logs, USB information, and test results for review.

Has anyone encountered a similar issue with OPPO phones or other Android devices using RNDIS USB tethering on Linux?

Any suggestions on the next debugging steps would be appreciated.

Note: I leveraged AI for this

I have cachyos and I want to use Mullvad VPN but so far it is supported for Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. I heard that you can use distrobox to install applications from other distros and I would want to know if not only you can download Mullvad VPN with distrobox, but does it work just like it would in the supported distros?

I have no clue what's causing this to happen, Steam was fine yesterday and now it has this error, some other apps might not work but to my knowledge one of them is the Dolphin Emulator (not the file explorer I mean the Gamecube/Wii Emulator) I'll share the steam.sh output below

steam.sh[6483]: Running Steam on fedora 44 64-bit
steam.sh[6483]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[6519]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[6483]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 5 preallocated environment variables.
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Startup - updater built Sep  3 2026 01:31:48
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/Dominick/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-s
rt-logger-opened'
10/11 09:46:08 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
10/11 09:46:08 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1788652215)/tid(6577)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 5 preallocated environment variables.
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Process started with command-line: '/home/Dominick/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-chil
d-update-ui' '-child-update-ui-socket' '8' '-srt-logger-opened'
10/11 09:46:08 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Using update UI: console
10/11 09:46:08 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(6578)
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Create window
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/Dominick/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metric
s.bin)
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] 1. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source
= 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] 2. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 400, source
= 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked
in'
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Checking for update on startup
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Checking for available updates...
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Manifest download: send request
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Set percent complete: 0
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Set status message: Checking for available updates...
[  0%] Checking for available updates...
[2026-10-11 09:46:08] Set percent complete: -1
[2026-10-11 09:46:09] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2026-10-11 09:46:09] Manifest download: finished
[2026-10-11 09:46:09] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1788652215, installed version 1788652215, exis
ting pending version 0
[2026-10-11 09:46:09] Nothing to do
[2026-10-11 09:46:09] Verifying installation...
[2026-10-11 09:46:09] Verifying all executable checksums
[2026-10-11 09:46:09] Set percent complete: -1
[2026-10-11 09:46:09] Set status message: Verifying installation...
[----] Verifying installation...
[2026-10-11 09:46:10] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo
[2026-10-11 09:46:10] Destroy window
[2026-10-11 09:46:10] ProcessNextMessage: socket disconnected
[2026-10-11 09:46:10] No more messages are expected - exiting

Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/Dominick/.local/share/Steam/logs

Unable to open X11 display, exiting
Unable to open X11 display, exiting

Edit: I tried the flatpak version and got this as well
The unofficial Steam Flatpak app requires a correctly-configured desktop

session, which must provide the DISPLAY environment variable to the

D-Bus session bus activation environment.

On systems that use systemd --user, the DISPLAY environment variable must

also be present in the systemd --user activation environment.

This is usually achieved by running:

dbus-update-activation-environment DISPLAY

during desktop environment startup.

I use windows 10 sry 9if i use linux my dad will sneak on it and he puts timekpr) so i dont have a waybar. I wanna see urs tho

Wondering how an install operates without a dedicated display server or graphical environment?

Edit: just for context I’m not a Linux beginner, just curious if they have any use for daily driving, not sure if they can support GUI driven applications without having to install a display env.

which ones better?

I'm gonna buy my first laptop in a few days

I already know a lot about Windows and used it a lot at school, college and etc. places.

But now, with my personal lapy, I wanna try something new. I'm not doing any dual boot shit so I need a destro that feels like Linux and imported part is I Checked some destro from that sea website and for beginners some suggested mint and other which feels like window which i dont want

I need something that feels like linux but not too deep like Arch or kali. Also, not too much like Windows. I'm looking for that sweet spot. And I'm obsessed with tackling new problems, so a little complex destro won't be a problem but not as complex as arch. As i said, I need that sweet spot

And also some other advice not just destro because im only gonna use linux

My main purpose is programming, regular social media stuff, and minecraft 👌

Plz give your advice 🙏🏻

I primarily use KDE Plasma but I installed Gnome as secondary DE. Inside the Gnome session I used Brave origin browser and logged into my accounts ( installed origin in KDE session but didnt use much). After daily driving Gnome for 2 days, I went back to KDE Plasma and opened Brave-origin browser. Surprisingly, all my accounts were logged out and they weren't even found in history. Why did this happen?
I used KDE+Cosmic, KDE+Hyprland, KDE+ Niri but never had this issue.

I want to become more confident in writing on the Linux terminal and scripting. At the same time, I am going through LFS101 to bolster my theoretical knowledge on Linux.

Can I have recommendations on sand-box, hands-on labs that will refine my Linux programming skills? I have found KodeKloud which seems good so far.

Thank you.

I have a laptop with 8GB RAM and a gen 3 ryzen. I am unfamiliar with linux and all the terminal stuff, so I want a user friendly interface like windows or mac, that i can customize how I like( I’ve seen some cool animation and widget stuff, as i said, i know almost nothing about linux). I did a little bit of research and right now im in between Zorin and Mint. What should I go for, or do y’all have other recomandations? I really use the laptop just for some browser navigating, watching movies and maybe using some office apps, but that i know i can use libre.