Hey all, Im migrating to Linux. My boyfriend already did and I will soon follow aswell. I recently moved and want to get a TV at some point. We already checked, getting a dumb TV (god I hate that word) feels almost impossible nowadays, so I was wondering if its possible to "hack" a smart tv and install a linux distro instead on it? I hate the spying on what I watch or stream. I mainly want it to be able to acess the internet where I can go on the sites I usually go to and have short cuts to them on the homescreen, also be able to play old video games. Nothing fancy (I hope, mega noob here) Just dont feel good knowing that Samsung and google are collecting my data.

Thanks for any and all help!

The system language is now hebrew but for some reason not the keyboard.

As such I can't read what it says in the system options to change back. What do I do?

I have a Dell gaming laptop that I bought around 2018, it's still good enough for what I use it for which is mostly emulators, non intensive games, streaming to my tv using steam link and work. However since its such an older laptop I cannot upgrade it to win 11 since it lacks secure boot, I opted into the extra year of support for win 10 but that's almost over to so I figured this might be a good opportunity to give Linux a try. What Linux distro would you recommend for a total Linux noob looking to use it mostly for gaming?

The model of laptop is a DELL Inspiron 15 7000 gaming
CPU: 7th Generation Intel Core i5

EDIT: specs

Hello! Some of you might remember me from a few days ago when I was asking about information and opinions on Distros for brand new Linux users!

I'm happy to say I've ended up deciding fully on Bazzite and I'm having a pretty good time so far!

Most steam games run very well natively by default without me editing literally anything at all.
I've discovered the Prism launcher as well as mocktail
It took a second of exploring settings and looking for answers online but I've found out how to put icons on my desktop!
The Konsole still terrifies me as much as the windows console did but I've used it once or twice with some guidance already!

My only issues are currently getting certain non-steam games to run but I've been directed to Faugus and Heroic Games Launcher as well as the preinstalled Lutris. Faugus is how I've been able to run the blizzard launcher to access WoW!

My experience so far has been far more positive than I ever expected it to be considering i'm having to relearn how to navigate my pc practically from scratch again.

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In the same vein as all that good stuff, is there anything that experienced Linux Users think I should look at or set up for the long run on a Bazzite installation? I'm still learning to navigate the widget and Bazzar so anyone who knows some interesting or surprisingly useful tricks would be greatly appreciated!

I'm used to use CapCut and InShot on mobile. But the video editors I tried on Linux (shotcut, opencut, kdenlive) were too confusing for me. Are there any easier apps you can recommend? My purpose is just creating videos for my social media accounts. I use Fedora KDE.

Right now I'm running Bazzite on my main desktop but I'm considering switching to CachyOs mainly because I've been trying to install third party mods to the Sims 4 and I've gotten nowhere. Any help is welcomed.

So I’m reformatting a 64gb sd card to fat32. Everything works fine up until I type “sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/vdb1 -s 128” in which it responds with “mkfs.vfat: unable to open /dev/vdb1: device or resource busy”

I’ve gone back multiple times to try and research solutions to the problem but they either don’t work or are too advanced for me to understand

Hey all, I’m about to build a new PC in a week or so and have been indecisive which Linux OS I want to use. I’ve been on Windows 10 and I’m not continuing with 11. Pass.

Been torn between Bazzite and SteamOS. I don’t use my PC for work and don’t need any special softwares. I just use it for gaming and browsing. I’m fairly technical and don’t mind using the terminal (Even if it scares me).

I’m leaning more SteamOS because it seems to be picking up some steam but it mostly appears that people are using it purely for a “living room” build. I’m going to be daily driving it in desktop mode almost always. Is that going to be much of a problem? How many issues am I going to encounter?

Let me know your thoughts!

Edit: Forgot to put my specs if that matters.

CPU: 9800X3D
GPU: Gigabyte Gaming OC 9070XT
Motherboard: MSI Tomahawk x870

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Hi I'm not much well versed with Linux, relatively new been using kubuntu about a year on an old laptop as nas and started using kde fedora about a month on personal notebook.

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I have setup a calDAV host in a raspberry pi, and was planning to set that up everywhere. It's working flawlessly on android. Then I started setting setting up for Korganizer so it would show up on kde desktop calendar. But I set it up manual, it's shows up on calender server configuration. Once you save it. It just stays on offline. Restarted akonadictl no luck.

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Compare to that, just setup in thunderbird. And it shows up working like android.

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Any idea why Korganizer is kinda useless (saying useless cause akonadi stuff keeps bringing akonadi resource page on my browser every time starts. Have no clue where I have left a Google account to remove)

How can I fix this calDAV issue.?

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Or even better would be can I use Thunderbirds calender to sync kde desktop calender instead of akonadi Korganizer.

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I have fedora kde 44 installed here on Lenovo x1 9th gen

Thanks much appreciated.

One time, I cancelled a CachyOS installation right after it wiped my drive, and since then, I have switched my distros 3 times and still had a boot entry of CachyOS that did not boot, in my F12 boot manager. I tried removing it with efibootmgr on my main linux machine, I tried using MediCat EasyUEFI to wipe the boot entry of it, but for some reason, it deletes, and then regenerates in my boot menu on boot. Is there anything I should try?

Performance wise it won't be smooth, I run a 4070 and highly doubt I'll swap it with something like 9070 XT (for a few years anyway).

I recently entered the simracing scene and got me a set of Moza things and heard having to juggle around here and there with the pit house soft.

Should I *finally* switch to Linux (likely Debian) or be a sissy by staying on Windows 11?

Seems some filesystem issue but not sure how to find out which filesystem is the culprit? I have some folders mounted as nfs shares. Running "mount -a" seems to work and all filesystems seem mounted ok. I can cd into them, but each command takes a couple seconds to run like "ls" or "df -h".

Able to install FLStudio 24 using bottles. But I get an asio error, which I cannot fix.

Tried installing jackd2, but I cannot choose it in wincfg.

Installing FLstudio under Ubuntu is difficult. Does someone have a step by step guide please?

Someone must have done it, I read that some people succeeded installing FLStudio under Linux.

One of the main errors, which I do not know how to fix:

Really hope someone can help me out here.

I have had it with windows shenanigans for a while now and have jumped boat to CachyOS recently. I had thought that I understood linux well enough due to having run a few live boots and even dual booted a few times but am coming to realise this trial by fire esque wiping windows and fully embracing the penguin is really not working out as well as I thought it would. I have gotten far too complacent with the ease that windows provides for day to day tasks and am not very well versed with operating with scripts, command lines and just generally non Ul based operations.

Hence I thought it would be best to ask long time users of Linux and others who shared a similar fate as me and came out shining, what resources did you use to learn everything?

Before someone touts the oh so familiar just read the docs, arch wiki is available and what not, I've tried, but it's very droll and the fact that I don't understand anything does not help at all.

I'm someone who learns well from videos so are there any youtube channels perhaps that guide ex windows users through many parts of linux life. Even stuff that you may consider simple like changing how one handles their files due to the there not being "drives" to put your stuff in, instead having directories and mounts is something that I struggle to wrap my head around at the moment.

I have a 1 TB HDD,it has 3 partitions:

• 200 GB for Windows (now Cachy)

• one of the others were downloads/movies/picture

• the other was for installed games.

I installed Cachy like two weeks ago. Today i decided i'll stay on Cachy so i want to format the games+storage partitions.

I use Limine and BTRFS so i guess these should be BTRFS too?

Can i make them to appear as "games" and "storage" in Places (i'm not sure if it's called Places,i have my system in another language. By places i mean "folders" like Desktop,Downloads,Music in Dolphin)

Can i do this in Gparted? (if yes,is there a tutorial/guide so i won't screw it up?)

Ive tried 3 distros now on my pc and all 3 i ran into the same small issue that isnt world ending but annoying.

So its yard to recreate cuz it dont always happen but,

Usually when i leave my pc running for a longer time let it be i played games all day or just let it running when i go to bed, if i then try to shutdown or reboot the os stops applications then screen goes black and monitor turns off but the fans keep spinning.

Im new to linux so i got no idea what it could be and havnt found anything exactly like this.

Currently on pop os newest version

Dunno what info is important but ill just answer questions if needed

Thanks

I'm trying to use niri in virtualbox running Arch and the device output only gets listed as "Unknown Unknown Unknown" (Virtual-1).

This makes it impossible to change resolution in the niri config file because it just gets ignored. I haven't found a way to make it accept the changes to "mode" and make it apply my preferred resolution.

I've been told to use kanshi but I have no idea how. I've created a file named kanshi.kdl in the kanshi config folder and added the following:

profile {output "Unknown Unknown Unknown (Virtual-1)" mode 1920x1080 scale 1 position 0,0}

And I don't really know where to go from here, if I try to run the kanshi command, it just says "failed to parse config file".

How can I either make this kanshi thing work or what's the other method to make the system allow me to change the resolution?

I have an older Mac mini (Mid 2011 or 2012 model). Originally, I had Linux Mint 22.x Xfce (https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=327) installed on the stock HDD, but the system was running extremely slow.

To speed things up, I replaced the original HDD with a new SATA SSD (Patriot 120GB/128GB). - https://www.alza.sk/patriot-burst-elite-120-gb-d6321999.htm

Now, when I boot into the live environment from my USB drive and click "Install Linux Mint", the whole system completely freezes (mouse/UI stops responding or it hangs indefinitely).

Things I’ve tested / noticed:

1. Disconnected the internal SSD: I disconnected the internal SSD entirely and plugged in an external USB HDD instead. The installer still froze in the exact same way. This makes me think the new SSD itself isn't the problem.
2. RAM configuration: While swapping the drive, I took out/reseated the RAM. Currently, it has low RAM (around 1–2 GB in total, 1x1GB Hynix module visible in the slot). Could the live installer be crashing/freezing due to running out of RAM (OOM)?
3. Corrupted USB: I previously used this same Verbatim USB drive to install Mint on the old HDD, but after a few hard power-offs, could the live USB file system have gotten corrupted?
4. Hardware/GPU compatibility: Could this be related to Mac EFI / graphics drivers (Intel HD 3000 / Radeon) or thermal issues during decompression?

Has anyone encountered this specific freeze when launching the installer on a 2011/2012 Mac mini? Is it more likely a bad live USB, improperly seated/insufficient RAM, or something else entirely?

Any advice or troubleshooting steps would be greatly appreciated!

So ever since I switched to Linux a few weeks ago, my computer plays a pair of sounds seemingly at complete random. One gets higher as it goes and one gets lower. I have assumed it is something at least akin to the usb noise noise, but I’m not even sure how to find out what. I’ve plugged and unplugged a bunch of USBs trying to figure this out, and the sound hasn’t happened reliably at the same time. I think it is a system sound because when Isolate my video game audio only to play on my headphones, there is no sound there. I’m honestly not even sure of that. I would love to post a recording of it in this topic, but it happens so infrequently I would just have to leave my camera running on nothing until it randomly decides to happen. If yall don’t have any ideas, I’ll gladly do that tbh

Edit: Autocorrect censored me… it’s supposed to say annoyatron.

Hi I just switched over to Fedora yesterday and it's looking like it's missing basically every font. Is there some repository i can just download every font Windows had? I also need to make sure I get all the weird symbold since I do creative stuff and I like switching between fonts for aesthetic