Linux 101 stuff. Questions are encouraged, noobs are welcome!

The number of issues I've been having with Bazzite, due to its immutability and my lack of experience, has finally reached the point that I'm no longer willing to deal with. ...

I went to install some software today (Gradia) which is only available via Flathub apparently, the install size is larger than my distro which feels like a bit much for a screenshot tool. What's the deal with the massive size of Flatpaks and is it really worth all the extra space? 4GB per application?

I have been able to see online that the problem I am having is a known one where the Firefox flatpak needs version 23.06 ffmpeg-full as a dependency. ...

Just installed CachyOS and the drive I used alongside system drive for media\archive storage can't get mounted anymore. It's internal HDD and uses NTFS, I created it on Windows 10 years ago and used all this time from under Mint (no dualboot, only Mint). I did a regular reboot before OS switch and didn't even mount it this time. ...

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I am having a problem with my Linux desktop and hoping this community can help. The hardware is only about a year old: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX. I am running KDE Plasma 6.4.4 on Wayland. My distro is Feodra 42, and I keep up with regular updates. Kernel version is 6.15.9. ...

Hi, i've searched high and low for a solution to this issue and can't pin it down. ...

I have a 144Hz ultrawide monitor, and recently I bought another little monitor for music/Discord. However, even though I'm running it on Wayland, If I try to change the framerate of the big monitor in KDE settings, it spits out an error (something about the framerate not being compatible with the driver - unfortunately I can't ...

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Hi all! On Win10 I used PhonerLite to connect to fritzbox SIP services. I'm looking for a sip/softphone client that lets me at minimum make and receive calls. I did some research and found the following packages in the arch repo/aur: ...

What Kernel are you guys using? ...

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I've set up an old laptop with Linux mint some months ago, and while the laptop's speed is fine when there are no disk write, even a very small write can cause other applications to hang until it is done, and i can also tell because i have an IO led so whenever it is on i know that i can't really interact with stuff whenever ...

I've tried various versions of these: ...

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I am about to try switching to Linux, and will start with a dual boot so I can still use Windows if necessary. I'm planning to buy a new M2 SSD for Linux. ...

I'm using CachyOS (Arch) with BTRFS. And tried to restore snap of root subvolume and it didn't work ( see previous post ). ...

caveat; i've used linux in the best from debian to fedora to ubuntu to redhat on servers but this is the first time i want to actually switch to using it on my laptop because win11 is increasingly bad but also because i love it. ...

Context: I updated my CachyOS (Arch) BTRFS system. Some new things caused few problems especially brave browser(missing tabs), some icons missing. ...

I updated arch. After the update mangohud is not showing any GPU stats except GPU model. ...

When using the " xfreerdp3 /u:"Your Windows Username" /p:"Your Windows Password" /v:192.168.122.2 /cert:tofu " command I can remote desktop with the viewer. The install fails because it can't do what that command does? Using Libvirt KVM, Cachyos Arch, not sure if i'm better off trying this again with the docker method? Could ...

I am using CachyOS (Arch btw) and when I tried to update using paru, it says some packages are in conflict, and asking to remove those. What should I do ? ...

Trying to install LMDE on a laptop (Windows 10). ...

Thank you for your time! ...