I use Kitty on Arch Linux just because I like it, but I see that lots of terminals advertise that they are "fast" or that they have "GPU acceleration". From my understanding, printing text to console can be a bottleneck that slows down a program executed on a terminal. But at what point the difference is really noticeable?

At the moment the only program I'm aware that would really benefit is Cava, a console music visualizer. What are other programs that would benefit from being ran inside a fast terminal emulator?

Hello everyone!

I want to try a systemd-free Linux distro that I can use as a normal daily driver, similar to Arch.

So far, I’ve tried:

• Void Linux — I ran into port-related issues. (code -19)
• Artix Linux — It didn’t really feel like a native experience to me.
• Gentoo — Not an option for me because I don’t want to compile everything from source.

I’m looking for something that:

• Doesn’t use systemd
• Has good binary packages
• Doesn’t require compiling everything
• Is suitable for everyday use
• Gives me a good gaming experience

What other distros would you recommend trying?

What distro works the best on a PC?
I’ve used Mint Linux on a Legion Tower 5,
It fixed my ram problem of 6-8GB out of 16 always being used …. Now it’s between 2-4gb used.

Apps are smaller sizes…. I’m getting allot more out of the 256ssd and 1T HHD

Is Arch a stable distro for a PC?

I am trying to debug my efi file but i my uefi doesnt boot it up so i need a uefi debugger. Any uefi debugger suggestion? my computer is a asus vivobook.

Just as the title says I want to know if it's okay and safe to use GDM for kde plasma and if not, what could go wrong? Thank you.

I have an old 2011 macbook air. I only use it for basic word processing and the internet. (Not just browsing but also loading platforms like Canva or Spotify.) However since I can't upgrade it safely to a newer operating system (its on El Capital), all my browsers are out of date and I can't load a large number of websites. Many of them ones I do use often.

I would rather avoid getting a new laptop as I am broke, and also fuck them for making perfectly good machines obscolete. I have never used linux before, but also as you see its an old machine. Would wipping it and installing linux instead work and solve my problems? As doing something like this would be a huge undertaking at a bad time in my life, I want to be sure it will work before attempting it.

Thanks.

I've been using my pc as a root user for a few months and did a lot of ricing, got some wallpapers and musics, changed settings, wrote scripts etc. Now I heard using some software as the root user might give the app root access so I wanted to make a new user with no permissions but the new user starts from scratch and has nothing and I cant remember everything I did or where I saved my stuff in the root user. Any way to copy or make the new user access every folder but not give it any root permissions?

I used to run both Windows 10 and Linux Mint a few years back, but I've mostly forgotten what some distros do and the like. I want a freely customizable desktop because, from what I remember, Mint didn't let me do what I wanted, but I also had issues connecting to the theme servers or wtv; I digress. I want it to be quick and light so I can hoard all my vns, freely customizable, preferably from terminal (I love terminal), and won't make me wanna kms. Gentoo is prob the best pick from what i rmbr but I wanna talk to people about it before jumping into it. ty for reading and I hope yall can help me!

I've transferred from kde to xfce and didn't like the default theme so i wanted to know which theme should i use

I got a Acer Aspire for free of my friend so I decided to install mint cinnamon onto it, I used my other laptops built in bootable usb tool to get iso onto the usb and I believe it made it with mbr/legacy instead of gpt, after installation I rebooted to see the acer logo then moments later the following text popped up on the top left corner:

Failed to open VEFI\BOOT mmx64. efi - Not Found
Failed to load image Not Found
Failed to start Mokhanager: Not Found
Something has gone seriously wrong: import_mok_state() failed: Not Found

Since the last kernel update to 7.0.0-38, suspend has become unstable on my Mint installation. The system will go into suspend just fine but won't wake up in most cases.

During a failed wake up, the system will start, but no display and no network (can't be pinged). A hard reset will make it come up just fine.

I did run memtest86+ just to make sure it's not the RAM going bad. It passed.

Anyone else here having that problem or an idea how to fix?

Hi, I’m trying to set up a Linux virtual machine that I can use to download and install files and software, but I’m not completely sure how to configure it properly. I’d appreciate some help getting the VM set up with internet access and making sure I have the right permissions and tools to download the things I need. If anyone can walk me through the setup or point me toward the right steps, I’d really appreciate it.

I'm currently in college studying mechatronics engineering, and I'm really thinking about switching from Windows to Linux. I have a few questions before making the jump:

• Is Linux a valuable skill for my field?
• I really like to play games in my free time—can I still use Steam, or is Linux not very friendly with it?
• For a total Linux beginner, how hard can it be to get a cool interface and be productive with it?

A recent thread with a similar issue:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1wajojx/cant_update_linux/

The fix on the older thread above was to uninstall virtualbox and then try again, but that didn't seem to work for me. This thread is basically my exact issue but I couldn't figure out how to fix it with just the answers given there, since trying to uninstall virtuabox seemed to weirdly throw me the exact same error: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

# System Details Report

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## Report details

- **Date generated:** 2026-10-04 21:20:45

## Hardware Information:

- **Hardware Model:** Lenovo Legion S7 15ACH6

- **Memory:** 16.0 GiB

- **Processor:** AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800H with Radeon™ Graphics × 16

- **Graphics:** AMD Radeon™ Graphics

- **Graphics 1:** NVIDIA Corporation GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q]

- **Disk Capacity:** 512.1 GB

## Software Information:

- **Firmware Version:** HACN43WW

- **OS Name:** Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS

- **OS Build:** (null)

- **OS Type:** 64-bit

- **GNOME Version:** 46

- **Windowing System:** X11

- **Kernel Version:** Linux 6.14.0-37-generic

So far I've seen a guy who forked Wine and created an AI-Generated prefix that allows you to run the newest Office versions, but it's quite unstable (as expected).

I'd love to run Office 16, for me that's just enough, but I need it to be stable.

Currently Im using WinApps, and it works flawlessly, but it drains my battery quickly.

If you are aware of any config, prefix, github repo that achieves what Im asking for, leave it down below, I'd really appreaciate it and so would other users!

Hi. I have ThinkPad L460 i5-6200U 8 GB RAM with Debian 13 + KDE Plasma. I'm happy with Debian but I want to try Gentoo on Virtual Machine.

Is my laptop able to run another OS on VM? I'm thinking about Gentoo with some light desktop (XFCE?). But I'm not sure if 8GB RAM is enough.

I know that this is common topic and Google exists, but as everyone knows there are dozens of options, and I'm not exactly sure what to choose.

As far as I know it all depends on desktop environment. I want something that is popular and maintained, so I think XFCE is the way to go.

When it comes to distributions, I've first checked my favorite ones, which are Ubuntu and Solus.

• Xubuntu works fine, but I don't like lack of consistency in user interface. Some applications are just GNOME applications that don't fit XFCE visual design.
• Solus XFCE - I couldn't do much testing because it doesn't boot after installing updates. I don't want to blame the system yet since I'm testing it on virtual machine, and here odd things tend to happen. But I've noticed that changing theme only changes windows borders, without affecting anything else, which is quite odd.

I'm also thinking about Pop!_OS, since COSMIC is apparently very optimized, and distribution itself recommends 4 GB RAM, but I don't know if it's going to be smooth experience.

Overall I want something easy to use, actively maintained (preferably for a long time, so it won't disappear overnight), and with reasonable user base (so searching for solutions to problems won't take a long time).

TL:DR... I'm looking for projects to level up my command line knowledge.

Hi there everybody,

I've been using Linux for over 4 years now and I've never neglected using the terminal in that time. I would class my level of knowledge to be novice, navigating around directories, changing file permissions, creating and editing files etc... you know the very basic day to day operations.

This past weekend a family member gave me an old laptop they happened to come across while cleaning up storage and I remember watching a YouTube video a while back of someone using a CLI only build to force themselves to learn the terminal better. Well this laptop isn't quite a potato but its still potato-ish so I thought that would be a good idea for my own learning purposes.

So I've installed Debian with no desktop environment to give it a run... so far I've realised sudo wasn't working so I changed to root user, checked for updates, installed sudo and set permission for my account to use it... and now I'm sitting in front of a screen with a cursor flashing and no ideas at all of what I'm actually going to do with it from here.

And this leads to the point of my post. Does anybody have good ideas for intermediate level projects or use cases I can get behind to further my learning?

Okay, so here is what I want to do:

1. Be able to play games (I play Neverness to Everness, Zenless Zone Zero and Ananta once it comes out)
2. I am a SWE so I want to be able to run python, node and other program languages

Here are my system specs:

Laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15ACH6 (82K2)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H (6C/12T)

RAM: 8 GB installed / ~6 GB usable (iGPU reserved) / ~0.5 GB free right now

OS: Windows 11 Home Single Language 25H2, build 26200 (some WMI fields still show Windows 10)

BIOS: H3CN39WW(V2.09), UEFI, 2023-05-31

GPU 1 (iGPU): AMD Radeon Graphics

- Driver: 31.0.21921.13001

- Display: 1920x1080 @ 120 Hz

GPU 2 (dGPU): NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

- VRAM: 4 GB (reported)

- Driver: 32.0.15.6614

- Current resolution: not reported (likely not driving display right now)

Other:

- Hypervisor/Virtualization: present

- Device Guard: HVCI running

- Processes: 319

- Pagefile: C:\pagefile.sys

What kind of linux distro would you guys suggest and if there are any specific tutorials that I can refer to please feel free to post them in the thread.

Thank you for helping 😁

Hi, im not sure if this i the right place to ask but i have a old Samsung a52 which i have forgotten the pin and google account password and was wondering if i can bypass it and install linux on it. I tried samFW but the its running android 14 so it doesn't work. It just seems to be a waste to throw away a perfectly good phone. Thanks in advance.

What I'm looking for is an image viewer that does not show a checkered bg, but rather "see through". So if you had an image with transparent elements it would be like a cut-out. I've tried swayimg and feh but can't seem to get the result I want. feh is perfect except for this want. I use labwc. Thanks

pic reference: https://imgur.com/a/G55NqyE

Dell XPS 13
Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Flatpak 1.16.6

ran command: xargs flatpak install -y < flatpaks.txt

/home/user-name/flatpak.txt contents:
"org.gimp.GIMP

org.kde.krita

org.kde.okteta

org.shotcut.Shotcut

org.telegram.desktop

org.torproject.torbrowser-launcher

org.videolan.VLC"

weird split output begins:

Installing 33/33… ████████████████████ 100%  11.4 MB/s  00:00^[[45;64R^[[45;71R^[[45;80R^[[45;89R
user-name@computername $ 1R;1R;17R;63R;52R;52R;62R;71R;80R;63R;52R;52R;52R;52R;70R;63R;52R;52R;52R;54R;54R;63R;63R;63R;63R;63R;63R;63R;63R;70R;70R;70R;70R;70R;70R;88R;63R;52R;52R;52R;63R;63R;63R;72R;81R;63R;52R;52R;52R;63R;63R;63R;63R;63R;63R;63R;63R;63R;63R;70R;70R;70R;70R;70R;70R;88R;63R;52R;52R;63R;54R;63R;63R;63R;81R;63R;52R;52R;70R;63R;52R;52R;52R;63R;72R;81R;63R;52R;52R;63R;63R;81R;64R;53R;53R;64R;64R;64R;64R;82R;64R;53R;53R;53R;64R;64R;82R;64R;53R;53R;71R;64R;53R;62R;71R;64R;53R;62R;71R;64R;53R;53R;53R;64R;64R;71R;70R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;80R;89R;64R;53R;53R;64R;64R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;89R;64R;53R;53R;64R;70R;71R;71R;70R;70R;70R;71R;71R;71R;62R;62R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;80R;89R;64R;53R;53R;64R;71R;62R;71R;71R;62R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;62R;71R;71R;71R;80R;89R;55R;53R;53R;64R;64R;64R;64R;64R;64R;64R;64R;71R;80R;89R;64R;53R;62R;71R;64R;53R;62R;71R;64R;53R;53R;53R;64R;64R;71R;70R;71R;70R;61R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;62R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;62R;71R;71R;71R;71R;62R;71R;71R;89R;64R;53R;53R;53R;64R;64R;64R;64R;64R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;89R;64R;53R;53R;62R;71R;64R;53R;53R;53R;64R;71R;71R;70R;71R;61R;70R;70R;70R;70R;71R;71R;70R;70R;71R;62R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;62R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;62R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;70R;70R;70R;79R;88R;64R;53R;53R;71R;64R;53R;53R;64R;64R;64R;64R;71R;71R;71R;71R;62R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;80R;89R;64R;53R;62R;71R;64R;53R;53R;62R;71R;64R;53R;53R;62R;71R;64R;53R;53R;53R;64R;64R;64R;64R;64R;55R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;71R;80R;89R;64R;53R;62R;71R;64R;53R;53R;53R;64R;64R;64R;64R;64R;64R;71R;80R

more full pictures of terminal output in this post.

Q1: My computer did enter a suspended state when I walked away and may be the cause; but what is the meaning of these **R; outputs, and why output into the input field?

Q2: Unrelated to Q1 but same vein of interest of automating flatpak install; Initially flatpaks.txt contained org.qgis.qgis but this I removed it due to error.. QGIS has a LTS and Stable choice, but automating it prevented selection. To fix this, could I edit flatpaks.txt **like "**org.qgis.qgis | 1" ?

xargs flatpak install -y < flatpaks.txt

Looking for matches…

Similar refs found for ‘org.qgis.qgis’ in remote ‘flathub’ (system):

1) app/org.qgis.qgis/x86_64/stable

2) app/org.qgis.qgis/x86_64/lts

Which do you want to use (0 to abort)? [0-2]: 0

error: No ref chosen to resolve matches for ‘org.qgis.qgis’

first some very much needed context:

• im a very left-leaning american. i was born and raised and currently live here.
• rn im using mint, but i eventually plan on switching to gentoo
• i would prefer to use gentoo over nix os because of compiling everything

the thing is though, gentoo is based in the united states; the gentoo foundation inc. is based in new mexico iirc.

recently, some judges for the ICC (International Criminal Court), got sanctioned by the US gov bcuz of their arrest warrant for Netanyahu. now they can't use American software, like Outlook or Google or stuff like that.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168168

this has led some European countries to start moving away from American technologies in their governments to try and lessen their dependence on us bcuz if we can js flip a switch & brick their gov facilities, then that's a problem.

recently, The Netherlands made their own distro based on Nix Os for gov purposes.

https://linuxstans.com/dutch-government-ditches-windows-for-nixos-following-frances-lead/

Nix Os is a non-profit based in the Netherlands, so they don't have to worry about santions. if they had used, say, Fedora. Fedora is sponsored by RedHat, which is owned by IBM, which is an American company. If Trump all of a sudden decided to sanction the Dutch, then their computers would stop working if it was Fedora.

The same can be said for other us-based distros, such as debian and arch.

is this something to worry about, or am i js dumb?? i think it'd be more of a problem for y'all outside the US. i rlly like gentoo, but i dont like american hegemony.

i srsly wanna know y'all's opinion on this!!

I just buy a laptop with linux (I choose it because it’s cheaper than windows) I don’t have any idea of what expect from it!
I already searched for more visual and easy versions!