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I undertook a sizeable upgrade today, bringing a skylake era build into the 2020s with a 13th gen. All core components- memory, motherboard, GPU, everything must go… except the drives. We were nervous, my friend really felt we should reinstall. There was debate, and drama. Considerations and exceptions. No, I couldn’t let my...

Are there any software issues I may/should deal with when doing a full system upgrade? I’m going from AM4 to AM5, so new CPU, motherboard and RAM....

I recently an install of Nobara Linux and there seems to be an issue during boot. Sometimes it fails to boot correctly and the screen looks glitchy with random noise and colors with no obvious way to move past it, forcing a manual shutdown via the power button (a couple times it seems to have failed complete and the system...

I’m using Debian 12 from a fresh install (with Wayland). The mouse I’m using is an Azeron Cyro keypad. Azeron does not offer configuration software for Linux, but the device has onboard memory and can be configured via Windows or windows emulator. Importantly, what I’m trying to achieve here is not possible on Windows...

It’s in the eye of the beholder, of course. But it would be great to see some solid recommendations.

I was thinking about going immutable for a long time and now I’m choosing a distro to hop to....

Just installed Bazzite and it seems to work well so far....

Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for June 2024. This month was busy with events like the Community Summit in Berlin and the openSUSE Conference, but a number of snapshots continued to roll out to users. Developers, system administrators and users receive updates designed to enhance your experience and ensure...

I have an Acer Chromebook R11 which has reached End of Life and won’t receive updates (which is insane, I bought it new four years ago). I have checked, and my model is now fully supported by most Linux distros....

A video from openSUSE Conference 2024 about using distrobox on openSUSE Aeon.

All my ducks seem to be in order and the correct configs in the right place. But i keep getting this message. As you can see the file exists. It is not empty, but systemctl cannot find it. Any help would be very very appreciated....

Hello! I use Bazzite Linux with KDE, and I’m having some issues with duplex printing on my system....

UPDATE (13:40 ET / 2024-07-05): Got the connection working via SMB. Literally the only thing I changed was moving to a credentials file rather than specifying credentials inline, so … I’ll be trying to figure out what mystery affliction prevented the connection before. Leaving this up because there are a bunch of great...

Does anyone here use LXD/Incus? What do you do if you want to find the IP address of an instance, but incus list does not give you one? I am not sure what would be stopping one from being issued since that is how I have found that information before....

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17218011...

Which folders and files do I need to exclude from TimeShift?...

Where should I mount my internal drive partitions?...

This is a follow up thread as I saw some posts regarding games being used on Linux such as ports from Loki....

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17607748...

I’ve run a small business for over 10 yeas. I use linux. I’m grateful to the community and I use FOSS where possible....

[SOLVED] Go to Gnome Settings > Multitasking > Disable Hot Corners...

I am running Linux on my macbook pro and it has a Broadcom BCM4360 wifi card. Problem is that the driver for it is proprietary (or more accurately, mostly proprietary with some of the source code available), quite outdated, and I couldn’t get it to work with Linux kernel v6.9.5....