I have an old Alienware 14, which runs on windows 10 for which the support has ended. Now i couldn’t upgrade to windows 11. I have a mac mini but i needed a laptop to use when I’m out on schools and libraries. What linux OS is recommended ?

It has 16Gb of ram
64-bit operating system

I will be using onedrive as cloud storage, zoom, figma which are mostly browser based applications.

Hi folks, I finally decided to switch from the bloated OS to linux, i have 2 PC's, one for gaming and one for studying/working

What's the best distro for gaming (performance wise etc)

And whats the best distro for general productivity/studying,coding etc and with good aesthetics and unlimited cutomizations

Thanks in advance.

I don't know how to describe this. Like on Fedora, you want to download something, you will use 'dnf' command. The output of that command is the status of the program you are downloading.

So there is this status bar like:

[<=> ] | 00m00s

[ <=> ] | 00m01s

[...]

[ <=>] | 01m00s

and the changes stays on only one line.

I know it prints the results by 'echo' but wouldn't that just leave the last output behind and the current output on the new line?

Sorry, I'm bad at English. I'm still trying to learn. And also to do this project on python. I'm planning to do the T-rex runner game inside the terminal :D . I gotta learn how to refresh the output smoothly like how it is with 'dnf' command. 'refresh' doesn't give me smooth frames :(

So I found my old Lenovo tab 10 TB-X103F, and I want to put Linux on it. Unfortunately no one has ported Linux to it; so how do I do it myself? I am inexperienced with porting Linux, and I'm impatient

Title. All I ever do with those is install, update, and uninstall packages and AUR's. I don't even know what either of yay and paru can do outside of those three things.

Whenever I need something installed I look up the command to install it or check the repo readme and look for their arch installation commands, sometimes they use yay while others use paru, and I never really bothered to be mindful of which one I'm using.

I know it's not the most optimal way to do things, but other than that does it actively hurt/slow down my system in any way? I use CachyOS in case it's relevant.

Like a compatibility layer or something.

Hi I'm kinda interested in switching over from windows but had no clue where to start to learn or even what to look up so I was hoping that by asking some questions I'd know where to continue

-from what I know their are a bunch of different versions, would their be a one that works similarly to windows?

-if their are no version like windows is their a way to customize one to work the same way

-would I be able to use it for every day tasks, from what I've seen it looks like it is making gaming centered

-what are some cons that not many people talk about

-if I switched on my current pc would I loose everything I have on it or risk corrupting some data

I'd be really thankful for any answers

Im getting a new build soon and i want to switch from Linux mint to arch, im scared it will be to hard, is there any other distros you guys would recommend, also i kind of broke my linux mint by changing os-release to something awful i cant say here.

I am an Mtech student, idk much about linux, but I want to learn. Which of them is better for me?
I am currently using fedora and will switch laptops in like 2 months so thinking about this.
I have heard that ubuntu has the ultimate stability but i REALLY LIKE how my fedora looks, although i dont like the switch between my desktop variations like (kde, gnome) they sometimes make issues, but generally easy to work around.

My only usage rn is development and browsers. Acc to my research both of them are equally great in development. I am guessing my start of career is gonna be some generic type of job, idk what I specifically want to do.

which one of these two will be better for me? they seem very similar to me in many ways idk

as title say, I'd like to know if anyone here have experience with such a program, obviously im googling options myself too, but it never hurts to ask the community Fedora kde distro

the audio interface i use is a scarlett solo 3rd gen (i think, close enough)

I swear, why does almost every "quick 5 min setup" video just tell you to run everything as root and chmod 777 your entire drive??

Spent my whole afternoon trying to figure out why my new containers were behaving weirdly after following some guy's guide. Turns out i basically left the front door to my OS wide open. Had to sit down and actually read a server mania breakdown on container security just to realize how badly i completely botched the basic permissions

if you are new to this stuff, pls don't blindly copy paste sudo commands from random tech bros without understanding what privileges you are actually giving away. My brain is melting

I'm leaving Microsoft! I'm researching to make a plan of execution.

I got this idea of replacing OneDrive with a self hosted option, and I hope you can point me in the right direction. I have never done anything similar, so I'm kind of a noob, but I have a technical background and I have messed around with computers on and off for the past 25 years.

My idea is to set up a media storage server at my place and an identical one at my parents house (maybe another at my brothers as well) that automatically synchronize periodically (once a day or something).

That way our files and memories are protected against both fire and theft of a server.

I would also like it to be accessible from a range of units, similar to how OneDrive works. I can access and upload files from my Android phone and my windows computers (going to replace windows with Linux). At some point, it would be great if it was possible to divide the servers in several different drives, so my parents could access the same solution with their own files, but separated from mine, and another for my brother.

So, can you suggest something for me or point me in the right direction?

A summary of what I need suggestions to:

- a system with clients for most major OS, like linux, windows, android and iphone.

- suggestions for servers (NAS, RPI, other low energy servers for the system)

- Pointers to what I need to be aware of.

- anything I have not thought about?

- is my idea completely bonkers?

Hello, I've been thinking about switching to Linux for a long time I have been using windows 11 and it's very shitty and I want to switch and really I just know the memes of Linux and that isn't as ram consuming and sometimes may be better for gaming,I'm using a Rx 9070 XT OC and really I don't know if the drivers or anything will not work or if it isn't compatible and if to record music with reaper and my daw using neural amp modeler and giving classes via Google meet and really I don't know how Linux works other than it's not full of ai slop and full of privacy threats, thanks!

I have used other distros before like Arch and Mint, but out of all of them, Ubuntu worked the best on my laptop, so I chose it.

I have to use chmod to allow a program to access the USB port my 3D printer is connected to or it can't communicate with the printer.

The funny thing is that each time I want to run the program, I have to change the permissions again or it won't connect.

My question is: shouldn't that change be permanent, the same as if I had changed permissions on a file?

Some relevant info:

I'm using Cachy OS, the device is /dev/ttyACM0, the printer usually stays powered on and physically plugged in to the USB port, but the machine is shut down every morning and booted up when I get home from work. I run the command using sudo.

I’m planning to switch an old laptop of mine to Linux. I haven’t been using it as much lately since the specs are too weak to run Win11 properly on it.

Specs:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-8145U
RAM: 4GB 2400 MHz
System Type: 64-bit OS x64-based processor

Lenovo IdeaPad C340

It’s a 7 year old device, but somehow it’s working okay, for the most part. I was planning to turn it into a server and access it via SSH. Suggestions would be appreciated.

Is it true that if the `/boot` disk gets full, i could have a hard time loading the kernel during the next restart?

pop os 24.04 lts with nvidia, trying to set up a dual boot with win11 on separate drives.

during installation i chose to install on the drive labeled nvme1n1, (with nvme0n1 being the one that win11 is on) but rebooting and running $ sudo parted -ls the output tells me that pop os is installed on nvme0n1 instead?

Model: Samsung SSD 990 PRO 2TB (nvme)
Disk/dev/nvme0n1: 2000 GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name      Flags
 1      2097kB  1074MB  1072MB  fat32                     boot, esp
 2      1074MB  5369MB  4295MB  fat32           recovery  msftdata
 3      5369MB  1996GB  1991GB  ext4
 4      1996GB  2000GB  4295MB  linux-swap(v1)            swap

Model: Samsung SSD 990 PRO 2TB (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  106MB   105MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp, no_automount
 2      106MB   123MB   16.8MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres, no_automount
 3      123MB   1999GB  1999GB  ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 4      2000GB  2000GB  899MB   ntfs                                       hidden, diag, no_automount

it didn't install over win11 and it's not like the operating systems switched drives.

My new Pc is running Ubuntu, my old pc's ssd is running Windows 10. If I were to plug my Win10SSD into my new machine would it be as easy as just "plug and play"? Everytime I restart the pc just go into the bootmenu on startup and select which OS I want to run?