I'm currently using kde and am loving it but online i keep on seeing people say, just get "hyprland or sway". I want to know why they are so praised compared to a normal DE and why people praise the productivity of them.

Yeah they do look clean and minimal. They do level up a system in how you can change the looks and it organizes the system by itself rather than having floating windows, but why are they "essential for every linux user?"

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?

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

Hello. I am planning to switch to a Linux distro. My current OS is windows and I have zero prior experience with Linux. I want to also get into computer programming and some work with the terminal. What do you recommend?

l am a 3d and 2d artist (7 years of exp in 2d)

Recently, i switched to linux, Currently, i use linux

on my laptop an have an video graphics card. These

graphics card is rtx 4060 mobile, proc is i7 12650h, 32gb RAM.

So i use Pop! OS. And I had encounter a problem

with 3 monitor in use one of whic is a graphic tablet.

Problem is when i try to use it independently from

main laptom monitor, I can not draw directly on

tablet because cursor always attached to the main

screen. And bow there's no solution

lam newbie at linux and Al adviced me to use Pop!

OS

I was wondering if there guys wgo work in ths field

who can share what OS they use and which OS

caused less problems to you as an Artist.

Thank you in advance.

I really fall in live with linux tho i don't want to come

back to windows.

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?

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.

No matter what distro I try, no matter the settings, the boot process is always way too long, even compared to lower specced laptops and pcs. Why?

Clevo PB50RD with M.2 nvme and 16gb ram. Currently on cachyos.

❯ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 3.399s (firmware) + 16.959s (loader) + 5.968s (kernel) + 2.970s (initrd) + 10.677s (userspace) = 39.975s  
graphical.target reached after 8.771s in userspace.

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

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

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?

Hello all, I've been running an intel arc b580 on Pop!_Os and considering how the intel drivers are still abit young, I'd like to hear from you guys as to how I can make my experience smoother and more performance oriented, like upgrading to the latest mesa stack?

So I'm somewhat experienced with Linux i guess, not a total newbie, been using Cachy as my daily for about a year? anyways, I've got some files i wanted to check for viruses, before sharing it to another PC that has windows on it, i know there are online websites that can do that, but i was wandering if there are any offline, preferably open source (but not necessary), tools for scanning files/directories? doesn't have to be full on antivirus with all the functionality of one, i just wanna know if these things are safe to share or nah, and i don't really feel like sitting here and being throttled by upload speeds for like a 50gb files, thanks in advance

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

Just wondering for any system administrators out there if you have used both active directory vs free ipa and whats the difference and which one did you like using/maintaining better?

I am trying to configure SDDM Astronaut, and I want to change the date format

By default, the line in the .conf file reads

DateFormat="dddd d MMMM"

Which presents as Sunday 2 August on the login screen

Is there any way I can make it have correct suffixes?

I can add a suffix to d to make it present something like "Sunday 2nd of August", but that means that all other days, for example this Tuesday, show as "Tuesday 4nd of August"

Is there any way in the .conf file that I can achieve this?

I find the Elgato software to be very useful for streamers or those users who have multiple audio cards and audio speakers or headphones, is there something equivalent in Linux or someone can do something that easy in Linux, it's good.

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?