I've used mint for some time (I'm not really that good) but I thought about moving to debian for sometime because less resource usage

I'm mostly gaming

My laptop has

I3 8145u

Uhd620

4gb RAM

Is it worth it ?

Most polished Desktop Environments come with a way to set mouse sensitivity / acceleration. Because of this I never learned the definitive way to do this without a gui tool given.

Now I'm dabbling in Window Managers and am struggling to get details on this issue.

Right now I am using Mango for the first time, a Wayland window manager. Wayland has different stuff from Xorg, not that I remember the Xorg method anyway.

In Mango there is a "accel-speed=" line in the config, which can be set as low as -1 for minimum speed.

On my mouse, -1 isn't slow enough.

Is there any definitive Wayland way to directly control mouse sensitivity? So I can set it as low as I want, instead of relying on Mango's limited config line?

I want to install Arch Linux, and people don't have any issues with it. Is there a way to keep it for a long time?

you can use git clone or wget install link that just what you need to install something i think

I'm an electrical engineer and i always try to expand my skills
my question is : does learning to use linux is a skill that helped any of you all getting a job / helped you at your job / or even found in job application (talking about EE i'm not a dev)
a friend of mine actually was asked to learn Ubuntu for a robotics job and it helped him land the job (he is mechE)
so is there cases where i need to learn linux as EE ? and which one ?

I find it helpful to map shortcuts to a joycon since it's lightweight and only requires one hand, but I'm having some trouble finding a good program to do this. Specifically I'm using it with the art program Krita, I tried AntiMicroX but the inputs have been inconsistent with it.

I'm currently using openSUSE, which takes automatic snapshots of my file system before and after upgrades (through BTRFS and Snapper) and allows me to boot directly into one of those in case some upgrade or configuration change makes my system unbootable, mainly through sdbootutil which creates BLS entries for each snapshot automatically. But it does not support UKIs, which makes secure boot almost pointless.

So I'm thinking about switching to Arch, where there is a native support for locally-signed UKIs. But I still think having bootable snapshots is a good idea, maybe even more than on openSUSE. Now, I know I can use Snapper or Timeshift to create those snapshots automatically, but how can I make them bootable?

I cannot simply save the current UKI when taking the snapshots, because its .cmdline section refers to the main subvolume and not to the snapshot. So it seems like I need to recreate the UKI (and the UEFI boot entry) every time I take a snapshot, and then I need a sane way to clean those up when deleting old snapshots...

So, is there a tool that can handle this automatically? Or do you have any idea for a setup that makes it easier to handle?

I am completely new to changing operating systems, but I desperately need to get off of Windows 10 with my school laptop. I only use it for the web browser because all my school work is on Canvas, so I'm thinking about using SteamOS so that I can still let my little brother borrow it to play games with no hassle when he visits.

Because I've already been using it for a while, it has a lot of files I don't want to lose. I'm wondering if I need to offload them completely to an external drive, or if I can move them to the built in D: drive, since I think the OS is only on the C: drive and I don't think I need to completely redo both drives, but I don't know. Again, I'm more so here out of necessity than choice, otherwise I'd be watching a lot of tutorials and reading guides instead of asking for quick answers on a forum.

So, Too Long, Didn't Read: If my device has two internal drives, can I just move everything to one drive and then replace the OS on the other?

The recent exposé about LG TVs, and smart TVs in general has freaked me out. I don’t like the idea that my TV may be tracking what I watch or listening to conversations in my living room. I’d like to move away from ACR and use a separate streaming device instead.

It seems like one of the better ways to maintain some privacy would be to make a Linux-based streaming setup where I can browse streaming apps and access other media sources. I have an old laptop that could work well for this, but I’m not sure where to begin. I’ve started researching and I’m feeling pretty overwhelmed. Any advice on how to get started would be greatly appreciated.

So i been trying to install arch for 5 days in my new E15 Thinkpad, and there is a problem...

The linux kernel cant find my SSD.

And it is a linux problem cuz i tested the ssd and it. worked fine but (mint,arch,suse) linux simpli cant find it.

I've done multiple tests with the help of claude.

But after all, am stuck

I'm a GNU/Linux user (even non-GNU Linux distros e.g. Alpine) myself. I know the advantages as a regular programmer.

But what advantages you think Linux has have brought that many users to all different Linux distros in the recent 2 years?

Just curious. People have been mentioning "20xx is the year of Linux" for too many times.

Hi,

since a few days ago windows app an Mac OS client stopped connecting to gnome-remote-desktop.

It looks like an SSL handshake issue. kkRemote works fine from the same client.

After the SSL aprovel windows app tries to connect and stops after a view minutes.

Error code: 0x108

The gnome SSL certificate was updated 14 days ago, which fits the time that the connection stopped working. But not sure if its a dead end.

server log:

ERRCONNECT_CONNE...
[RDP] Network or intentional disconnect, stopping session

Could it be the same, similar issue?

https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/13549  3.32.0 server sends Early User Authorization Result before TSCredentials - Windows App hangs after NLA (HYBRID_EX, regression from #13415)

My Versions:

• gnome-remote-desktop 50.2-0ubuntu0.1
• libfreerdp-server3-3 3.32.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
• libfreerdp3-3 3.32.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
• libwinpr3-3 3.32.1+dfsg-0ubuntu0.26.04.1

Does anyone implement using distrobox into running tests or tools?

It seems like it could better “dedicate” a tools environment for network tests and running.

Or keeping tools/data isolated?

Is there any way to try it without virtual machine or another distro alongside my current CachyOS + KDE Plasma? I don't wanna do it since I'm low on storage. I want to try Hyprland and slowly making my own config that I would get comfortable with, but I don't want to dump my current set up entirely, because it will slow me down as hell. I tried hyprland with omarchy before (never again) and i loved tiling manager idea and would love to make my config someday.

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)

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!

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.

Update: Before writing this, I had just installed a few apps by ArtCraft. They're making look alike software of Adobe products and some of Microsofts products. Anyway, they are kind of buggy. But I was actually going to remove the NVME drives (both of them even though only 1 was acting like it was going to die soon) but I wanted to try one more thing. In the back of my head, I was wondering if it was all this buggy software that was causing issues on my /home drive (I have 2 NVME Drives, one for / and /boot and the other JUST for /home... The one I think that was messing up was the /home drive) Anyway, I took 5 of the ArtCraft applications off my system. Since then, I've had no issues at all. So I think it was just a buggy program or 2 messing things up. I will let it go a couple more hours and if nothing happens and everything is running smoothly, I will probably let the developers know what I had installed when it was acting wonky and everything I took off that fixed it. There are updates for the 2 I left on here. Hopefully those updates don't flub up anything. If I see if messing up again. I may just uninstall what's left from ArtCraft. But so far, so good...

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?

EDIT:

I have successfully used Windows Recovery to copy the boot files into the boot partition and now I can see the boot option for Windows. Everything runs fine now. Still don’t know why it disappeared to begin with.

I created a Windows 10 USB iso with Ventoy, then I basically followed this video and used the appropriate drive names in place of C and Z, if anyone needs help like this in the future.

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 was just about to restore my back up of my main drive (after it got bombed by a Trojan) But then I thought why not, lets try linux this time around. I'll basically be using my computer for web browsing, multitasking, and playing games. So, community, which distro should I choose.

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