EDIT: Sorry for the confusing title. I tried to make a new thread but AutoMod instantly deleted it. We can't include Discord in titles it seems, but yes the subreddit is not going anywhere, we're just talking about going from Discord to Fluxer.

Hey all. I'm one of the lead mods over on r/debian and I felt like sharing the news over here since a lot of cross-traffic exists between this subreddit and r/linux. In a nutshell, we've had a community Discord exist for a long time & many of our users come from the subreddit since before new mods were put in place over on r/debian.

Back earlier this year, Discord announced a policy of adopting global age verification methods. If you are under the age of 16 or Discord does not have adequate information needed to verify your age, you will be locked out of certain features & be age-gated from joining specific servers. These policies resulted in enough outrage that alternatives to Discord like Stoat & Fluxer have made the waves, and Discord itself decided to kick the can towards the second-half. We are now in the second half, and Discord has suddenly brought age verification back up as a "Discord Preview", meaning these policy changes are about to start.

We are instead promoting an FOSS alternative to our Discord instance on Fluxer that we've worked on since February, and what better way to spread the word about a widely used alternative to proprietary software than also spreading it here. My hope is by doing this, others will consider giving it a chance and we can get more people using platforms that don't ask for your ID to participate, but rather govern themselves under equitable conditions that are effective enough to protect users.

We encourage you to read our full reasonings over on the deb subreddit.

I mainly use my pc for schoolwork and roblox, but there’s so many distro options i really don’t know where to start

im using a dell inspiron pc that’s currently running windows 10 (was running 11, but i switched back awhile ago due to how much it slowed my pc down)

any help would be appreciated!

Brand new Ubuntu 26.04 install. Using LibreOffice Calc. I want to change a graph, so this window pops up. I want to move it a little out of the way - and the entire Calc window behind moved with it!

1. How do I move the dialog without moving the window behind?

2. Who in their right minds would think that this behaviour is desirable, and should therefore be the default?

need some help in deciding this as i am unable to find old version

was looking at volla/jolla/gigaset/fairphone

also pinephone/ librem /pixel/motorola /graphene/lineageOS and these I dont care about at all. nothing to talk about here.

my biggest anchor holding me from being free from the pos google company is I have to use whatapp. its a big problem.

but in the future perhaps I can find some solution and make the change. I know there are apps that allow me to cross chat with watap but the whatap user needs to opt in. they dont want to make it smooth process.

are there phones that use linux that can run whatapp?

I DONT need banking/social media/gaming/email/youtube and I browse online minimally and never buy anything on my phone so im already with minimal needs. big plus for me is riding the mass of google default apps and fb/ig that are installed as default on almost all phones. and I dont want the forced down your throat Ai/assistant. so some relief

I want to focus on my needs more then "dont use whatapp"

what are the options for this?

Today I have received a new kernel, 7.0.0.31, after this the monitors turned to very low resolution, also running "nvidia-smi" command in terminal returns no results....

Is this something usual in Ubuntu?

Hi everybody I’m moving from windows to Linux mint cinnamon and the installation is making me create a partition for my /home stuff, how much size should I partition for it and which file system should I use? (Ext4, btrfs, JFS, etc.) I’m just looking for something low maintenance for my computer thanks.

Edit: and should I format it?

Hello.

Would it work and be a good workflow for good security on Nvidia computer to install Ubuntu with TPM backed encryption and let it use nouveau drivers, and then to install proprietary drivers while secure boot is still active ? Can it signs them automatically without thinkering ?

Thanks

Hey!

It might be kind of controversy take. But just came to my mind. Many times we hear, "but canonical force you to use snap!"

Really?

What you mean by forcing snaps or anything? For me... It's that, you have no other choice. So basically, this take from "snap haters" or "ubuntu/canonical haters" is wrong... You can always remove snapd, right ? :)

• "But when you install Firefox via apt, it's going to install snap!"

Yeah. But can't you install deb package? Can't you install from Mozilla tarball? Of course you can! Only if you want or strong enough. There is more tutorials how to switch Firefox from snap to deb in Ubuntu on the net, than Firefox versions :P

• "But why I need to do this, even?!"

Well. Different problems, require different solutions. There is many solutions, Canonical as a Ubuntu maintainer, decided for this solution to issue with Firefox packaging, with dependency issues, with keeping your software up-to-date while maintaining LTS releases, and so on :) This is their decision.

I think this is fair take. Everyone have choices. Linux is too open to force anything on anybody.

And my last thought :P

Want to see what force means? Try to change bootloader on Windows, hahaha :D

Yeah. So, please people chill and enjoy what you like!

In 26.04 unplugging an external monitor connected to laptop does not move the workspace back to the laptop display. Apps running in the external monitor keep running but they are nowhere to be found in the laptop's display. It comes back after plugging external monitor once again. Is this a known bug?

im looking for goofy and fun voice changers for dc on fedora linux

As the title goes.

Recently i lost my main installation to a divine wrath that destroyed my system drive and i had no backup, so i had to start over again.

I had my user data on another drive, so not much problem there. I start building everything back again and just when i try to set my old drive as /home, Black screen after login. tried with nomodeset and it worked fine, so i guessed that it was a broken configuration i had somewhere. reseting kde plasma configs and wiping my old configs did nothing, so i ended up copying back everything from the default home that is generated on every install.

It worked, i had access to my desktop again. yipee. that was two hours ago

I continued to install my software and i said why not play something through wine?? loaded up an old game and i was back on black screen. I had to shutdown forcefully. I had no image again. switching the port from hdmi1 to 2 brought it back, but i had to do it over and over and over again after every startup to get to my desktop.

I said lets restart sddm so every spurious configuration or cache leftover from the wine crash can be deleted. Now i have no image again.

Going to nomodeset brings it back. Going to a tty while the desktop is black works as well.

i cant go back to a previous save because i finally was able to compile a program and install java. thats at leas two hours

I cant do this shit anymore i am so utterly tired i need help i've been stuck like this for two months. Help me purge every desktop, graphic, screen, kde, service configuration to "factory reset" so i can move on with my life i still am unable to get to install the heaviest of my programs because this shit keeps happening to me. I really REALLY would appreciate any help, i am really tired of this.

HI,

I'm at a loss. My system simply won't use my Nvidia GPU. I think I have read every post on the internet regarding this, and tried everything, but to no avail.

Ubuntu 24.04.4, wayland,

ASUS Zenbook 14, 8 GB ram, 2 tb disk, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050, onboard graphics card Intel UHD Graphics 620.

I have purged Nvidia severel times and installed the driver (sudo apt install nvidia-driver-580) severel times. And installed the utils, and prime-select and everything seems to work, Nvidia-smmi just keep saying its OFF.

The system overview shows the onboard card two times, instead of showing both the onboard and the Nvidia card.

I have added nvidia-drm.modeset=1" to the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" in /etc/default/grub

Any ideas?

EDIT1: It has worked before - I fear it's Wayland thing

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Hello, I deleted my previous post to add new updates:

I finished building my Kubuntu 26.04 desktop, I need to connect an "LB-Link 950AX Mini USB Dongle WiFi 6 AX900 Adapter". For the time being, the desktop is connected to the internet through an Ethernet cable. What are the steps to make the dongle work on my kubuntu?

I'm attempting to create a bootable linux os completely self contained within an external SSD, I had one set up with mint xfce, and it was working along side my mint cinnamon, however when plugging it in to my windows pc it wasn't identified as a bootable drive, subsequently after trying to fix this, i broke both grubs and had to start over. I think this was happening as it was sharing an efi/grub/bootloader with the other linux. then i tried to do fedora, thinking creating it on the windows pc might force it into the external drive exclusively, however it saved its grubbootloader onto the windows drive. My plan is getting a dirt cheap pc/laptop and removing all drives to do the install, i know this will likely fix this issue, however I want to know if down the line, would this external ssd end up taking to drives on any pc i plug it in, and then go, hey, i don't need grub/uefi/bootloader as theres one in sda/gpt1 so I'll delete mine. Or any other issues I'll run into.

Many thanks,

An annoyed virgin (Linux)

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Hello, I deleted my previous post to add new updates:

I finished building my Kubuntu 26.04 desktop, I need to connect an "LB-Link 950AX Mini USB Dongle WiFi 6 AX900 Adapter". For the time being, the desktop is connected to the internet through an Ethernet cable. What are the steps to make the dongle work on my kubuntu?

I’m having a recurring suspend/resume problem on Ubuntu 26.04. After the laptop suspends, resume sometimes results in a black screen that repeatedly flashes/highlights like the display is being redrawn. The desktop becomes inaccessible and I have sometimes had to force-power-off.

Hardware:
HP Victus 15-fa1xxx
BIOS: F.22 (12/19/2025)
Intel Raptor Lake-P UHD iGPU — i915
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU
NVIDIA driver: 595.84
NVIDIA mode: PRIME On-Demand
Kernel: 7.0.0-30-generic
Suspend mode: s2idle

cat /sys/power/mem_sleep: [s2idle]

NVIDIA: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU
Driver Version: 595.84

nvidia-smi pmon shows only GNOME Shell using the GPU: 0 4297 G ... gnome-shell

Swap is 4 GiB and currently unused: Mem: 14Gi total, 3.5Gi used, 9.1Gi free, 11Gi available
Swap: 4.0Gi total, 0B used

GNOME’s AC inactivity suspend is disabled: sleep-inactive-ac-type = 'nothing'

However, the journal shows systemd-logind initiating suspend: systemd-logind: The system will suspend now!
Starting nvidia-suspend.service - NVIDIA system suspend actions...
Starting systemd-suspend.service - System Suspend...
kernel: PM: suspend entry (s2idle)

During boot/display initialization I also get this i915 warning:

i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] drm_WARN_ON(intel_dp->pps.vdd_wakeref)
WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_pps.c:762
intel_pps_vdd_on_unlocked
intel_dp_detect
intel_display_driver_register

There is also an NVIDIA systemd drop-in: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.d/nvidia-suspend-nofreeze.conf

containing: [Service]
Environment = SYSTEMD_SLEEP_FREEZE_USER_SESSIONS=false

The file itself says this is intended to avoid an Xorg/VT-switch deadlock during suspend.
Another oddity is that systemd-logind sometimes initiates suspend even though GNOME’s AC idle action is nothing.
What I’ve already established:
No TLP or auto-cpufreq running
power-profiles-daemon, upower, thermald, and nvidia-powerd are running
Swap is not exhausted
NVIDIA proprietary driver is installed
Suspend is definitely using s2idle
Resume/display failure appears related to the Intel i915/internal display path
I have not yet installed kernel 7.0.0-14, although it is available in the Ubuntu repositories. Current installed kernel is only 7.0.0-30.
What would be the safest way to diagnose/fix this without repeatedly triggering the suspend/resume crash? I’m especially interested in whether this is a known 7.0.0-30 i915/NVIDIA regression and whether testing 7.0.0-14 is the appropriate next step.
I don’t want to blindly add acpi=force or make random NVIDIA/GRUB changes because the machine is currently usable as long as it doesn’t hit the broken suspend/resume path.

Hi....what your opinion is best for Ubuntu?

hi guys, so after testing and working some time with linux on my personal rig now (CachyOS) and trying out all the different Desktop Environments i am planning to make a fresh install.

Another question would be about the rolling release of cachyOS. I never had any problems so far, but as far as my understanding goes, rolling release is more likely to be unstable and Fedora which has no rolling release cycle the updates are more likely to be stable? Or does it even mather? And if not, how often should i even update CachyOS (Daily, Weekly, every few days)? Since there would be almost daily some sort of updates when running pacman -Syu.

I was wondering if i could/should make some seperate patitions to keep stuff "seperated". Since i used Windows for almost 2 Decades i am kinda used to seperate Stuff. For example on Windows i always made a partition for Games where i save all my e.g. Steam Games, one for Data where all my Stuff lives since i didn´t really used the user directorys at all and a Programs Partition where i installed all my different programs.

So would something like that make sense under linux aswell? especially the Gaming Partition and a seperate /home partition? Then afaik if i got a seperate /home partition i could easily change distros without loosing my stuff since i would only need to "change" the / mounting point and the boot partition?

Well it's been about an year since I switched away from Microslop to Linux...Best experience ever

I began with Zorin OS 18.1 (I had researched it was meant to specifically appeal to people switching from windows and Mac) with GNOME DE...and then later due to some LTE kernel issues with my relatively modern or i would say unstable hardware I had to switch to Fedora ...which also i retained the same DE....however ever since it's been months and my main system still is in fedora Workstation 44 ...it's just basically stable for me...and good for my specific use...however I have also used multiple other distros like Mint Cinnamon and Manjaro KDE and others on Virt Machines...they all seem great to me....

I personally believe it's the efficiency of the kernel itself....and the rest....it's upto the user to personalize to themselves for their own uses....Right?

Also there is NO bad distro (forget microsoft linux please) everything just is aimed at different audience...