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  • Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail.

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  • Try CachyOS or Bazzite!

    Bazzite, sure, but it's not gonna magically solve these kind of issues.

    However, if one is struggling as a beginner with Linux, I would strongly advise against switching to an Arch-based distro (CachyOS). Arch is great, but this is not its target audience.

  • Everytime I try to start something with Linux I fail.

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  • I strongly disagree with u/brucethemoose here. You wrote below that you're currently using Linux Mint, which is a great distro for beginners. In my opinion, Bazzite offers nothing essential that is not available on Mint. IMHO, the easiest ways to play games are:

    • Use Steam to play your Steam games (native or using Proton). This should just work (on both distros)
    • Use Heroic Games Launcher to play games from GOG, Epic, or non-store games. The recommendation is to install the Flatpak version, which is available on both distros. Afterwards, the setup step is to install a Proton-GE version before you can play your games (https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/Linux-Quick-Start-Guide).

    You can - of course - still switch to a different distro if you like, but this is not necessary or helpful to run games.

  • The impossibility of finding a Linux laptop that I like

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  • In the specs for the Laptop 13, it says:

    Fingerprint Reader (2nd Gen)

    Same for the 16, but not the 12.

  • Bazzite has gained nearly 10k users in 3 months while other Fedora Atomic distros remain fairly stagnant

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  • [SOLVED] while upgrading from debian 12.11 to 13.0 errors were encountered while processing: plymouth, plymouth-label and initramfs-tools, how do I solve this?

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  • I've created a small helper script to help me with this:

     bash
        
#!/bin/bash
USED_VER=$(uname -r)
echo "Kernel version in use: $USED_VER"

echo "Other installed versions:"
dpkg --list 'linux-image*' | grep ^ii | grep -v $USED_VER

echo "Remove unneeded packages above using the following command:"
echo "sudo apt remove linux-image-VERSION"

    It prints a list of the installed kernels (excl. the running one) and prints the command to uninstall the packages (it doesn't remove anything by itself).

  • [SOLVED] Upgraded to debian 13.0 from 12.11 and now unit NetworkManager.service could not be found. How do I install a network manager now?

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  • That sounds pretty bad and probably means other things are broken too. The easiest option would probably be a reinstall at this point, but if you want to learn something you can also try to salvage your install.

    To recover, it's probably easiest to manually configure your Ethernet connection as described by InnerScientist and then re-install the network-manager package.

    You can check the status of the network-manager package using dpgk. It should look like this (ii at the start, but it sounds like it's not installed in your case):

     
        
$ dpkg -l | grep -i network-manager
ii  network-manager                         1.52.1-1                        amd64        network management framework (daemon and userspace tools)
ii  network-manager-l10n                    1.52.1-1                        all          network management framework (translation files)

    You can also check /var/log/apt/history.log to see what went wrong and if there are other things you need to fix.

    I performed the upgrade in two steps apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs and apt full-upgrade (based on the release notes). I can see the following on the line Upgrade: for the command apt full-upgrade:

     
        
network-manager:amd64 (1.42.4-1+deb12u1, 1.52.1-1)

    On the Remove: line you can see the packages that were removed. Unfortunately, the names of many libraries were changed in this release (e.g., libreadline8:amd64 to libreadline8t64:amd64), so there's a lot of noise in there. Maybe you can look at that line and ignore everything that starts with lib to see if any other important packages were removed.

  • Just got a new GPU, why is it so hard to use it?

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  • One thing that comes to mind is that the 50series is only supperted by the open version of the proprietary Nvidia drivers. The closed version doesn't support your new GPU, but would work with your old GPU. Do you know which version you installed?

  • How it feels to use Debian

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  • Plasma 6 is a significant upgrade for sure, especially on Wayland! I'd rate the crash frequency (on Fedora) at between once per week and once per month ;-)

  • How it feels to use Debian

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  • Ubuntu Pro for Personal/Home Use

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  • I'm running Ubuntu on a server. I've enabled the free Ubuntu Pro subscription to get ESM patches for the universe repository. Not sure if it really matters, but better safe than sorry.

  • (Yet another) help me choose a distro post

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  • The easiest distros to run Resolve would probably be Rocky Linux 8, Alma Linux 8 (both are based on RHEL 8). Instead of the EOL Rocky/Alma 8.6, you should use release 8.10 (8.6 would update to 8.10 anyway). However, while still currently "supported", these are still shipping (mostly) 6-year-old (!) packages. Also, only a small number of packages is actively supported by Red Hat. IMO, this implies that these distros offer a lower level of security. The most critical parts (browser, kernel) are still well-supported, so the difference is probably not too large for most regular users. However, you may also struggle to run some other software (although Flatpaks are available). It's unfortunate that Resolve only supports an ancient version of Rocky (Rocky 10 is now out)...

  • Looking for recommendations for a multi home NAS solution

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  • Read (only) access should be fine. What makes it complicated is if there can be writes from multiple locations. Basically, the simple version would be to just periodically copy the data from the primary to all secondary locations.

  • Looking for recommendations for a multi home NAS solution

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  • I can see why you'd want to go with an off-the-shelf NAS. But, I would carefully check if it supports your use case, as it's quite advanced.

  • Looking for recommendations for a multi home NAS solution

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  • If the data only needs to be read & written from a single server (and the others are just backups), you can also use simpler replication instead of synchthing. E.g. syncoid or TrueNAS replication. It sounds like you should be able to do that with separate datasets per household in your usecase.

  • Looking for recommendations for a multi home NAS solution

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  • I would probably go with a simple approach like this:

    • ZFS: Each house gets a "NAS" that provides a ZFS filesystem to store the data. This gives you the ability to share the drives across your use cases (you, rest of the family), snapshots, RAIDZ support, and usage quotas. For the OS, you could use what you prefer (TrueNAS, Debian, Ubuntu, ...).
    • Syncthing to synchronize the files across the servers/houses. This allows you to read and write data from anywhere and syncthing will mirror the writes to the other places. I use it to synchronize data across 5 devices and it works quite well.

    There are probably more advanced (enterprise?) ways to handle the file synchronization. But, I think this hould be good enough for normal, personal use. The main disadvantage is that you're only synchronizing the current data (excluding the ZFS snapshots). On the other hand, this also allows you to mix file systems if necessary.

  • GNOME Moves On: What the End of the X11 Session Means

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  • Gnome and KDE are not doing the same thing.

    KDE will continue to offer an X11 session for the time being:

    Current status: Plasma’s X11 session continues to be maintained.

    https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/21/about-plasmas-x11-session/

    Gnome will disable the X11 session in the next release and then remove the code:

    The most likely scenario is that all the X11 session code stays disabled by default for 49 with a planned removal for GNOME 50.

    https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/06/08/the-x11-session-removal/

  • How to move OwnCloud data? (Solved)

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  • I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do here. Are you

    1. Trying to create a new owncloud instance and put your data somewhere other than in /var, or
    2. Try to move the data location of an existing owncloud instance?

    If you're trying to do the second one, there's a useful guide on it here: https://omiid.me/notebook/25/move-docker-volume-to-bind-mount. The first one should be even simpler, you can just replace the volumes in the compose file by bind mounts (basically, just this step of the tutorial: https://omiid.me/notebook/25/move-docker-volume-to-bind-mount#modifying-docker-compose).

  • Deciding between mint and fedora, quick questions

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  • Deciding between mint and fedora, quick questions

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  • If you have an AMD GPU (except for the very latest GPUs), you should be good out of the box. The AMD driver comes pre-installed with mesa.

    Other than that... don't use NTFS to store your games.

    Edit: Maybe I misunderstood your question. I understood it as: What are some recommended changes to do after installing a Linux distro. Did you meant to ask about differences between distros?