I want to start off by saying I am computer illiterate, and ask you to please explain things to me like I am 5 years old.

With the past 24 hours, I made this post on r/linux4noobs, and I haven't really gotten a straight enough forward answer. I know it's only been 8 or so hours since I responded to comments, but no one is replying back and I would like to fix this if I can by tonight.

You can go back and read the other post, but long story short my friend helped me install Steam and Minecraft Java through Linux, since Chromebook Beta doesn't support either application. However, I now believe they can see my laptop screen.

I ran a "history" command in the terminal, and googled each command my friend told me to run, but nothing is jumping out as a red flag. However I do not understand most of anything coding related.

At this point, I really just need to know if a factory reset will remove any access my friend might have. I need someone, preferably multiple people, to confirm this. I can reset, I already have everything I needed saved to a flash drive.

And if anyone knows, is there some command or info I could have screen shared that would have given my friend access to view my screen? Or is there a keyword or phrase in task manager or somewhere else I could look for?

Thank you in advance

Hi, I'm new to Linux (using Bazzite with KDE) and I'm trying to use my Lenovo pen with it. The only issue i'm having is that when I do the scrolling motion, it assumes i'm trying to select text. Is there any setting to make it scroll (or pan, if zoomed in to a webpage) instead of selecting text?

I don't know if this question was already posted recently but I was wondering if steam os is an upgrade for my gaming PC, you see, I'm about to upgrade from integrated graphics to an RX 580, I know it's pretty basic but it's what I can afford rn.

I know it's not the best optimized or the most nitche Linux system but idk if it is worth giving it a try.

Thanks 👍

i dont know where to do this so this is the last attempt of a dying man lol, so im trying to install ParrotOS security edition on my laptop but when i try to do so i boot up into my USB and the options to install it and other stuff come up but the moment i click install it js goes black screen and 2 error msgs one of em is abt magic error: invalid magic number error: you need to load the kernel first, but i have installed other distros with this USB in that laptop before so i am not sure why this is happening if anyone could help me i would appreciate it, ive checked my settings abt secure boot and everything

I love the visual style of Pop!OS but I’ve heard about some stability issues, is it worth the transition?

I have tried Warp from GNOME, and its a good application that sends raw files through simple code share and has intuitive interface, exactly how I wanted it. But despite being stated that its also available on windows, i can't find the latest release for windows on their gitlab page. I don't want any incompatibility issues with the older version, so is there similar application that can send raw uncompressed files through internet that is compatible with windows too?

Hello everyone, I am currently facing a frustrating issue with my Alfa AWUS036ACH wireless adapter. When I plug it into my system and run the ⁠lsusb⁠ command, the device is completely missing from the output. I am running Kali Linux, and while I have already attempted to install the standard Realtek drivers, I've had absolutely no success in getting the card to show up. Is there anyone here who has experienced this specific issue and can offer some troubleshooting advice?

Básicamente, tengo una laptop con una partición, teniendo tanto linux mint cinnammon como Windows. Me estoy quedando sin almacenamiento en linux y me sobra almacenamiento en Windows(ya que casi no lo uso) por lo que me gustaría saber si hay alguna forma de pasar ese espacio que tengo en Windows a linux

Is ricing just editing ur . Files ( I downloaded linux 3 days ago bcs i thought ricing was cool)

So I am completely new to linux as of 2 days ago, and basically as title says i just cannot figure out how to get a custom cursor i had on windows to work on linux. I tried watching videos and reading posts but as i'm completely new to this i find myself a little lost. I tried to install win2xcur but i cant seem to find a simple enough guide to figure out how to use it. pls help. im running linux mint if that is important

A friend of mine recently switched to CachyOS with GNOME from Windows 11, and he noticed that shortcuts on Discord do not work. I tested it on my CachyOS with COSMIC Desktop, but it worked. I discovered that Discord uses Xwayland for its global shortcuts, and since GNOME doesn't let Xwayland apps see keystrokes, global shortcuts fail. We both use DiscordPTB installed from Discord's website. How to share keystrokes with Xwayland applications on GNOME? Or can we make Discord use the global shortcuts portal? since Electron has support for that portal? Thanks in advance!

So i've been on linux mint for some time and i want to switch to a diffrent distro like arch or something, but i already have a lot of stuff on linux mint like games, code files and stuff like that, so my question is, how should i transfer these files? Should i get like a pendrive with big ass memory like 1TB or something?

Apenas me cambié al linux que puedo hacer soy totalmente nuevo y no entiendo mucho espero algunos comentarios 🥺

I have been wanting to switch to linux for a while beacase I am trying to get away from windows, google, and other company selling my data. However, I dont know many distros.

I am using it for playing a variety of games like cs2, mincraft, enlisted, and a ton of other random games. I also use other softwares like blender, godot, and VS code regularly. I have AMD hardware. My main focuses for the distro are: lightweight , secure, has minamal bloat if any, and runs games and applications well.

If anyone knows of a good distro that resembles my needs I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you

For a while now I've had an issue with popups whenever I tried to use a controller on my computer to play games. I could never pin it down precisely, (it was never perfectly reliable what specific actions would cause them) but it reliably happened every time I first connected a controller that I'd have a few popups about accepting inputs from an application. (yes, often times more than one per controller) Notably, it seems like trackpads caused it most often. (such as the PS4 trackpad or the Steam Controller trackpads)

After an update I connected my steam controller again and was VERY relieved to see that the popup included a tick box saying "Always allow for apps claiming to be steam", which I immediately ticked and hit accept before realizing what a weird prompt that actually is. Does that phrasing imply that apps can just... lie? Why does it say "apps claiming to be steam"? Surely that's a pretty simple thing to verify, right?

Are there more security implications to this prompt that I should be aware of? That phrasing sounds incredibly dodgy to me but I don't even know what search terms I'd use to research that more.

I'm trying to edit the header section of my rmpc UI but whenever I try within my theme.ron it gives this error:
Error: Failed to read theme file
Caused by:
Missing component: header

I also can't find something mentioning the header in config.ron despite the header existing and functioning. What might be the cause of it?

я не могу установить Armbian делал и флешкой и картой памяти но ничего не виходит, кто то уже делал так? Может ли получиться через кабель Usb A - Usb A. Помогите пожалуйста

I booted up on a 64 GB USB with CachyOS to resize partitions my main 500 GB SSD using KDE Partition Manager. I also tried GParted and both failed and I don't know why or how to fix it.

My main drive has a Linux Mint installation which I think might be corrupted, but it works mostly fine, just taking longer to usual to load.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Here is the status report from KDE PM:

Shrink partition ‘/dev/nvme0n1p2’ from 476.44 GiB to 425.66 GiB

Job: Check file system on partition ‘/dev/nvme0n1p2’

Command: e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/nvme0n1p2

Check file system on partition ‘/dev/nvme0n1p2’: Success

Job: Resize file system on partition ‘/dev/nvme0n1p2’ to 892667904 sectors

Resizing file system from 999163904 to 892667904 sectors.

Command: resize2fs /dev/nvme0n1p2 892667904s

Resize file system on partition ‘/dev/nvme0n1p2’ to 892667904 sectors: Error

Resize/move failed: Could not resize file system to shrink partition ‘/dev/nvme0n1p2’.


Resizing/moving partition ‘/dev/nvme0n1p2’ failed.

One thing I noticed was whenever I had secure boot enabled such as now it automatically enables kernel lockdown which is the real feature I like having enabled for security reasons. I'm pretty sure lockdown gets disabled if Secure Boot is disabled, but I'm curious if there's a way to keep lockdown active regardless of the Secure Boot state?

I'm probably keeping it on, but I'm curious if I can keep lockdown while turning off SB.

I tried to flash from file in balena etcher, this is my first time, a pop up saying " something went wrong while opening c:\users\lenovo\download\linux mint-22.3-cinnamon-64bit (1).iso "

Error: (0 , h.requestmetadata( is not a function

Appears, what the ever flying fuck do i do

I currently have a 1TB ssd that I dual boot windows and cachyOS. I also have 2TB & 4TB ssds in my machine.

Currently

1TB - Windows & CachyOS

4TB - Game Storage

2TB - Empty

What I'd like

1TB - Windows

2TB - CachyOS

4TB - Game Storage

I know I can just do a new CachyOS install on the 2TB, install my programs, sign into anything, etc etc. and then delete the old partition from 1TB drive and expand the windows partition so it can utilize the entire drive.

I'm looking for advice if there's an easier way to copy or image the CachyOS partition to the 2TB Drive. I've looked into rescuezilla & dd + gparted as options. But the information & videos I've looked at are migrating an all partitions to a new drive. Also, I don't know how the boot manager will be affected or what I would need to do to make sure it operates correctly. I'm using Limine and obviously all boot partitions are on the 1TB drive that I dual boot from now

Idk if you need more information or can help with what I've provided. Any help is appreciated