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I'm looking at buying a new laptop which will run EndeavourOS exclusively, no dual boot no modding no nothing.

The choice is either Lenovo or MSI (neither have NVidea grahpics and both have intel i5/i7 chips with integrated graphichs).

Which brand is likely to be more Linux friendly?

There's also an option for a Asus but again i'm only looking at whether i'm likely to run into Linux issues, the specs are virtually the same for all.

Ive been trying to get this to work on Ubuntu and it seems to not work. Has anyone tried Nyxt?

I think the problem with btrfs is that it entered the spotlight way to early. With Wayland there was time to work on a lot of the kinks before everyone started seriously switching.

On btrfs a bunch of people switched blindly and then lost data. This caused many to have a bad impression of btrfs. These days it is significantly better but because there was so much fear there is less attention paid to it and it is less widely used.

Hello everyone, I've been running Bazzite as my primary OS for about 7 months now and love it. I used to have my primary 2TB SSD running Windows 11, my secondary 2TB SSD running Bazzite (main boot for 7 months) and then I recently bought a 1TB SSD so that I can keep a small Windows install for the few things I need Windows for.

I finally bit the bullet and backed up all my important Windows files and wiped my primary 2TB SSD and installed CachyOS on it, and now I can't install Windows 11 on my 1TB SSD. Bazzite uses GRUB as the default boot launcher, and I can boot into either Bazzite or CachyOS just fine, but no matter what I do I can't install Windows onto my new 1TB SSD.

I've tried multiple options to wipe the 1TB SSD, including using KDE partition manager to wipe everything off of the 1TB SSD, booting into the Windows live installation off of a USB and using the command prompt (diskpart) to wipe the 1TB SSD and format it into NTFS, and deleting the partitions manually in the Windows 11 installer, but no matter what I do, the Windows 11 installer always pops up at the end with a "failed to install Windows 11".

I have 3 seperate SSDs, two seperate 2TB SSDs, and a 1TB SSD. My main boot is one of my 2TB SSDs that's running Bazzite, what used to be my Windows 11 installation has been recently deleted and overwritten with CachyOS, and I'm trying to install Windows 11 onto my 1TB SSD. No matter how I format the 1TB, the Windows 11 install fails when I try to install it onto my 1TB SSD. My 1TB SSD is wiped clean yet Windows always fails to install on it.

I can see both Bazzite and CachyOS in GRUB but Windows 11 always fails to install. What do I need to do to be able to install Windows 11 on my 1TB SSD? I still need Windows for certain things and I'm getting frustrated with not being able to install Windows onto this SSD no matter what I do. I've tried searching and have come up empty handed, although that may be a skill issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I find this hilarious. Is this an easter egg? When shaking my mouse cursor, I can get it to take up the whole screens height.

This is KDE Plasma 6.

Hi all - I've never done an install of Linux before but have always hovered around the community. Now that I have a "spare" and old Macbook Pro that is no longer supported by Apple, I am interested in installing Linux on the device. Obviously I am asking a very broad question here, but are there recommendations on what OS to install on Macs? What are some good resources to find installation guides? In general, just looking for guidance as I start this process as I'm very green to the idea. Thanks all.

I tried searching prior to me asking here, the best I could find was: https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/sej9no/configure_sddm_to_show_password/

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/login-screen-no-longer-has-show-password-icon-in-password-form-text-box/78041

Unfortunately the SDDM page on Archlinux is devoid of any solutions to this so I thought someone here might know better.

And for clarification I'm looking to modify SDDM to show the reveal password button during the first chance users have to input in their password. This is the same button that appears on the right-hand side of the password box during an incorrect attempt.

Hey everyone, I have 3 seperate SSD's, two 2TB SSD's and a single 1TB SSD that has Windows 11 on it. I'm running Bazzite OS on one of my 2TB SSD's, and I used to have Windows 11 on my primary 2TB SSD but I just wiped it to install CachyOS on it so that I can have 4TB of total SSD storage for games on Linux. My current set up is the 1TB SSD has Windows 11, and the two other seperate 2TB SSD's have Bazzite and CachyOS on their own drives.

My primary OS at the moment is Bazzite, and has been for about 6 months now, but I finally stopped being lazy and copied over everything from my old 2TB Windows install to the new 1TB Windows install and then installed CachyOS on the now free'd up 2TB SSD. But after installing CachyOS on what used to be my primary Windows drive, I no longer have access to booting into Windows. I keep a Windows partition for things that don't work on Linux.

When I go into my motherboards boot options, I'm presented with 3 options. 1. Bazzite (default boot option for me) 2. CachyOS 3. UEFIOS which only lets me boot into CachyOS. My Windows files are still safe and accessible on the 1TB SSD so I know everything is still there, I just don't have a way to boot into it anymore. GRUB gives me the same boot options as the motherboard does, so I'm locked out of my Windows install for now.

How do I regain access to my Windows install? Again, everything is still there, I can access my 1TB SSD through either of my Linux installations and see all the files there I just can't find a way to boot into it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

I know the above question isn't fully complete and lacks some important information, I will (hopefully) provide that below, but first I want to explain where I am coming from with this question a little.

I would consider myself a power user in Windows (maybe even more than that). At one point I was even studying for my Microsoft Certified System Administrator (MCSA 70-270), worked in IT dealing with complex virus removal (anyone remember Combofix and Bleeping Computer?) and generally am comfortable bending anything up to about Windows 10 to my will.

I also have some experience programming in .Net, Java, Python, and Arduino's version of C++ (FWTW).

I have been trying to force myself to use Linux as my primary for a little while now. I ran Mint as my primary OS for a little over a year, and have recently switched to Manjaro to try Wayland and "increase the difficulty level" as it were.

The problem that motivated this post is that I recently installed an application via the AUR by cloning and making the package. Annoyingly though, the application is configured to run at startup and I don't see an obvious setting in the application to turn that behavior off.

I know I can "Google" how to figure out this particular problem, but it seems like a good opportunity for me to metaphorically learn how to fish rather than being given a fish by learning the Linux equivalent of what I would do in Windows for this kind of thing.

If I had this issue in Windows I would approach the issue in the following manner:

1. Depending on flavor of Windows do one of the following and check the autostart tab
   • Run MSConfig
   • Run Task Manager
2. Check the Startup folder for my User and All Users
3. Pull out the "I'm done messing around tools"
   • Hijack This
   • Autoruns
   • WhatsInStartup

I understand, and know the various locations and registry entries the applications from step 3 are looking at, it's just usually faster to use them than go digging into those locations individually.

My question therefore is, what is the Linux equivalent of the methodology I would use when in Windows? Is, or are there, specific tools for looking at startup programs and services? Is it as simple as digging into Systemd? Am I approaching this with the completely wrong mindset?

Essentially, what am I ignorant of, and can I that ignorance be rectified using my existing knowledge as a framing device?

Regardless of anything else, I very much appreciate your taking the time to read all of this and thank you in advance if you do have the time and knowledge to spare answering this question.

Cheers!

I am building a Wireguard tool for myself and I would like to receive events when a peer connects or disconnects. Does someone know if this is possible through some kernel API or EBPF?

Many of us are notorious fence-sitters. This video attempts to explore some of the psychology of our profound hesitation when switching operating systems. I will share my personal experience, talk about some of the fears we face when making big changes, offer some warm encouragement, and do it all without a whiff of the elitist technobabble that tends to rear its ugly head in Linux discussions.

Where should we post niche stuff when we figure it out so Google and OpenAI can eat it and show it to those in need? I see lots of answers coming from reddit but I don't want to post there obviously. I tried stack exchange/askubuntu but the barriers to adding information are pretty big.

For instance today I switched from xfce4 to lxqt and all the passwords and sessions I had in Brave were invalid. There was no simple answer but after some work I figured out I needed to open seahorse and copy the brave secrets over to the new keys in kwalletmanager.

I'd write it up and post it somewhere in case the solution could help someone else but what's the best spot in your opinion?

I've been running stock Fedora for about 5 years, but I'm really interested in immutable distros after putting Bazzite on my TV Gaming PC. Batteries-included works well for me in a use case like that.

I have about a decade of experience with containerisation, so leveraging that experience for my desktop is really appealing.

I took a look at Bluefin for my laptop, but it seems to be more opinionated than I'd like. I'm good with having an optimised kernel and tooling that makes sense for an immutable distro, but wasn't a huge fan of preconfigured Gnome extensions and the software I don't want.

I haven't tried Silverblue yet, but I plan to do that next. Vanilla OS is on my list too, but more out of curiosity in how it does things.

My questions are: should I be looking at any other distros? Do I need to shift my expectations of an immutable distro even more?

I'm running fedora with gnome. Has anyone had any success remapping the copilot key to something useful with this combo?

macOS has a variety of apps like Homerow, Shortcat, and KindaVim (watch the videos in those links if u can) that allow for navigation of apps using just the keyboard. Homerow allows for pressing a hotkey and then showing letters over UI elements which can be entered to move the mouse to said element, similar to the Vim easymotion plugin. KindaVim attempts to implement vim modal navigation inside GUI apps, so you can enter normal or visual mode and use j and k to move up or down. They all work using macOS' accessibility API which exposes UI elements for programmatic interaction.

I did a bunch of searches for Linux equivalent of such apps and Mac's accessibility API, and didn't find anything as comprehensive. Can you navigate a wide variety of Linux apps using mostly or only the keyboard (apps made with GTK, Electron, etc.)? Is it currently possible to develop an equivalent of the apps listed above?

This week was full of major feature work and UI polishing, in addition to a lot of bug-fixing! I'm pretty sure everyone will find something to be excited about here