Fedora or Mint for noob?
A friend might let me install Linux on his secondary laptop he uses for university. He’s not a tinkerer and wants something that just works....
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A friend might let me install Linux on his secondary laptop he uses for university. He’s not a tinkerer and wants something that just works....
TLDR: XFCE and Cinnamon devs are begging beginning to work on Wayland support.
How to update BIOS on a system that only use Linux as OS....
Please don’t get me wrong, this is not meant to be rude slander. MX Linux is not a bad Distro at all (even tho I’ve always opted for Debian instead) and peops are free to use what suits them best....
What do you advice for shell usage?...
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/9319044...
Appimage for me ticks all the boxes for cross distro package as its very portable, simple to run, what are devs trying to do when creating snaps and flatpack?
Guys I truly don’t mean to spam the community but these are legit questions. Yesterday I posted about linux compatibility and computers and every single person gave me knowledge to use and you’re all awesome....
I’ve lost everything and I don’t know how to get it back. How can I repair my system all I have is a usb with slax linux. I am freaking out because I had a lot of projects on their that I hadn’t pushed to github as well as my configs and rice. Is there any way to repair my system? Can I get a shell from systemd?
I’m pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?...
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Hi, I was here and asked about a few distros already, so here’s a quick summary of my situation:...
It's an old model (Acer One D257) Processor is Intel Atom. Memory is 1GB DDR3 with 320 GB of HDD. I currently Have MX 21 running on it, but I need to reinstall because I forgot the root password. Since I'm reinstalling the OS, I thought I'd ask here for recommendations for an OS that makes the most of this oldie.
I know gaming has gotten a lot better on Linux and I’m working on a new PC and I’m wondering which distro to try.
Source: reddit.com/…/despite_having_just_58_sales_over_38…
Lately my PC has started crashing while it plays videos. It freezes completely, screen frozen and not responding to any input (keyboard, mouse), I mean I cannot change TTY (alt + ctrl + F(1-2-…)), and it cannot even respond to alt + PrntScr + REISUB. I have to force power off by holding down the power button....
can I get a W in the chat???...
You can totally use emojis as passwords. You can probably even make this a policy at your company....
I’m 43 and not really starting using Linux. I’ve dabbled with distros on and off over the years, but I never made the full switch because work always had some program or policy that just wouldn’t play nice with Linux. With all the crappy Microsoft decisions, bloatware, and ads I decided to try and use Linux exclusively on...
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