what are your experiences using game controllers with linux, I'm especially interested in the xbox series s controller because it's the one I have, but I'm also interested in other controllers. From my experience the latency is disappointing, but I have no way of proving it.

So, I primarily use this controller in bluetooth mode using xpadneo. There's definitely noticeable latency, but in most games it's fine, I played through a lot of games without bother... until I played Conker: Live and Reloaded. On the infamous race level, it took me like two days to pass it, and I only made some progress when i connected the cable and dropped BT. Even that was fine though, It was just one old game and just one level, there could be a number of things to blame for that. Come hollow knight, as the game got harder after beating Hornet, it quickly became apparent that I couldn't get far without the cable, save for traversing the world, still, not that bad... until I got to fight radiance. It has been extremely frustrating, I tried it for days and eventually I started just doing a few attempts every few days, without any improvement, finding it hard to get to the second phase. Today I visited my parents and in the late evening decided to try it on a windows computer I left here, mind you, the last time I played was more than a week ago. So, I start the game, plug the same controller in, with the same cable, I beat Radiance on the fucking first try, with half health bar left...

It literally happened 10 minutes ago, I'm still riled up, this doesn't make sense, this has to be latency, there is no way I got that better just like that, It is literally impossible.

So, after all that, I need to unfuck the latency of my controller someway... Ok, it's fine on most games, but this situation is... frustrating

edit: I think it was steam input. The game was running natively, but I had to use steam input because the controller were broken. I solved by running the game in proton, so I wouldn't need steam input anymore.

Hello,
Basically I want to pick a distro and like most beginners I'm coming from windows. I don't want to go on a full learning process from the start but I can probably handle some level of terminal usage. I, like most people play games(or thinking about playing games and it's one of main things I'm looking into but because this isn't the only thing I'm thinking of doing and do)

So here's what I'm looking for to give a good idea,

-Can play steam games(since steam is compatible, this is mostly always checked(I think))
-Can play other games outside steam(like from GOG where you download the setup. Heard about apps like "bottles" but idk how good it will be)
-Video editing softwares (Resolve works but I might want to use another)
-Can run a CAD software(I do like designing and stuff so I do look forward for this(I have used some on windows and don't know how its will be in linux. I know blender works but it's more of a modeling than CAD))
-Programming(I don't think this will be a problem)
-Microsoft like apps(Spreadsheet and stuff, Just need to be able to do work)
-Not sure if this is needed but I do sail the seven seas sometimes

My laptop has these if details are needed for compatibility
-GTX 1050(dedicated)
-intel i7 8th gen
-Intel UHD 630(integrated)

I heard a distro called "Pop! OS" which supports Nvidia GPUs but I also wanna know how intel stuff works too(cpu and Igraphics) It will be helpful if I can get details on how much change of performance I might have(increment or decrement as my pc is pretty weak) I just need your recommended OS and a brief explanation on what to look for in the OS and what to expect on the stuff I looked into (I'll try doing my research according to your recommendations)\

Apologies if this is another "recommend me an OS" post, I do see all gaming related stuff but just doesn't see much of the things that I look for

Thank you for reading!

I'm currently writing an article on the subject, and want to properly represent people's views.

I’ve been meaning to make the leap for some time, but I had a hiccup with Mint a little while ago, and my key reason for choosing Mint above all others has disappeared. My Windows machine is doing the usual “you’ve had this installed for a while so it’s just going to keep getting slower unless you do a fresh re-install” thing that Windows seems to do, and I’ve got more time on my hands than last time I tried, so I figure why not put that time to use.

The first thing is that I’ve got an nVidia card. I’m not allergic to having to play around with settings and download drivers, but it’d be nice to have something that just works with that card and which is designed to work with that card, rather than having to bodge something together out of sellotape & string.

I also have 3 monitors. And they don’t all connect with the same kind of socket/lead. I believe that both nVidia & multiple monitors, and especially nVidia and multiple monitors is a bit of a sticky point with many distros.

I am something of a gamer, but I don’t tend to play stuff which is resource-intensive. No AAA titles. Think more “games which cost £20 or under on Steam”. So I don’t think I need a distro which is optimised for gaming, but I would like one where I’m likely to be able to play most things I own with a minimal amount of fudging.

I do have some utilities that I use. I’d like to avoid dual-booting, if possible, but I understand that it might be necessary. Reaper has a native Linux version, so that’s not a problem, but if I understand correctly using vst & clap plug-ins might need some attention? Again, if that can be done with as little difficulty as possible, then that’d be great. I also have a usb keyboard/controller (piano, not typing), so if there’s any potential issues with that, it’d be nice if the distro had been built with something like that in mind.

I also do some video/photo stuff, which don’t have Linux-native versions. I use Affinity (v2 and the newly-released version), Magix Vegas, and Wondershare Filmora. I don’t know if it’d be possible to run any of them in a virtual machine or something. I have tried the Linux-native alternatives, and while they have their merits, I won’t be able to use them as full replacements.

Now, perhaps unusually for a newbie, when it comes to wanting something I’m familiar with, I’m actually not bothered by having an envirnment which resembles Windows. In fact, I think it’d probably be a plus if the distro does things differently. It’s fun to try different things, and if someone’s genuinely thought “this is a better way of doing this”, then I’m happy to give it a go. As long as there’s decent documentation. I’m not allergic to the idea of the terminal or otherwise having to use typed commands (I have a Raycast-ish-like app on Windows which I use to launch apps and search for files, for example), but I’m also not very experienced with that and would need very good, very newbie-friendly documentation.

And for customisation, I’d like to be able to be able to make it look pretty. Juxtopposed’s recent Linux video was very cool, and I could see myself wanting to do something like that but, unlike her, I’ve got very little coding experience and if there were any coding involved I’d need even better documentation than I would for the command line stuff. And, this really isn’t important, but ATM I run an app called Lively Wallpaper, which allows me to make it look like the glass looking onto the desktop has rain running down it. If there just happens to be a reasonably simple and non-resource-hogging way to have animated wallpapers, then that’d be a lovely bonus.

So that’s it. Sorry for the long, rambly wall of text, but I feel like for responses to be truly helpful, people should know exactly what it is I’m looking for. Please ask any follow-up questions if that’ll help with suggestions. I think I’ve said everything which could be important, but I don’t know what I don’t know.

What could be the best way to introduce the world of computers to a kid, let's say of 6 years old, so that he learns to handle it like a toy and stops dreading it like some esoteric, arcane and recondite machine from some eldritch, enigmatic, cryptic and phantasmal world ?

tl;dr: dockman changing permissions of /docker an I don't like it. Is it normal? Am I a control freak?

I've been using Linux for years, but always at a user level. Since last year I started tinkering, since I wanted to get out of big tech dependency. Now I'm running a modest home server and it's been great so far.

The problem I'm facing right now is that the number or docker containers grew up to a point where I thought of using a manager of sorts. Dockman feels good enough for me but it keeps changing permissions of the docker folder to root:root, so I keep getting pushed out.

I guess makes sense that, if I manage everything from Dockman, it would take control, but I really don't like that I can't manage permissions of folders on my server or PC and delegating that to a mere docker manager.

Thoughts on this?

Is it possible to reinstall Linux (or distro hop) without losing my Dropbox install? Could I move the Dropbox install to my home folder so it survives the OS install?

Always thought top was one of those programs frozen in time since the 70s, but apparently, it has a feature set comparable to htop and the like. The default configuration just doesn't show much of it...

I've been fighting with my Sony WF-C510 for days.

I've tried it on Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint. Same result every time: It connects successfully, but never shows up as an audio output device.

I even bought a USB Bluetooth dongle, thinking my laptop’s chipset was the problem... but nope. It still connects as a device, not a headset.

I’ve restarted Bluetooth services, switched from PulseAudio to PipeWire, and tried every "set-card-profile" trick from AI and forums, but nothing works.

Has anyone actually managed to get a Sony WF-C510 working properly on Linux?

It's clear this is purely Sony's fault for not caring about or supporting Linux drivers. Are they just ignoring the entire platform at this point?

Any workaround or success story would save my sanity.

Distros Tested: Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 12-13, Mint 22 Issue: Connects, but no A2DP/HSP profile visible

Finally, after some time I made the switch to #Linux !

🧵1/2

Here is my experience and the hiccups I found :
- It was hell to find how to boot on the USB drive. You needed to disable secure boot and it didn't tell you that anywhere, as far as I can tell
- It was easy enough to set up, connect to wifi etc
- Strangely Firefox has a bigger top app bar, instead of all the icons and tabs being on a single row, there are 2 rows (one with the tab name, and another one with the actual tabs
- The fingerprint reader could be set up, but when trying to log in it always says fingerprint not recognized
- Keyboard shortcuts changed, for example screenshots can't be done using Win Shift S, the clipboard history doesn't work by default etc
- The key to mute my mic doesn't work, and is not recognized as a key. The other keys like disabling the trackpad work fine.
- I like how typing the name of software from windows like paint and notepad gives the linux equivalent
@linux

This was made for mobian with phosh. Not sure if it will work on other distros. You can always install a dct tool to decompile it and hand copy the opp-tables for the CPU and GPU or something for yours if this doesn't work.

This is also overclocked from 1.15 to 1.3 ghz on the CPU, and the GPU from the stock 4xx to 540 mghz. This was stable on my device even with the undervolt. This also adds some lower steps so the CPU can drop down to 200 mghz.

This overclock is a medium undervolt so it may or may not work. I highly recommend installing towboot, so you can boot the phone in mass storage mode in case it doesn't work. Back up your old .dtc file first so if it doesn't work, you can copy the old one back. It's in the boot partition under the allwinner folder a few folders in. You will see many files and one called sun50i-a64-pinephone-1.2.dts. You need to back up this file to your PC and rename the downloaded file to this by removing everything after the last dot.

On Linux I had to use the terminal to copy since it detects the boot directory of the pinephone as a root directory. File managers don't want to copy to it.

I couldn't change the memory clocks because that requires a lot of extra work. Mobian however comes with decent memory clocks around 540 mghz.

These overclocks help out the pinephone alot. Especially the GPU. It usually doesn't thermal throttle with this setup, and probably gets better battery life. Mobian is by far the distro I like the most I tried two or three. In addition to having the memory overclock out of the box, which the pine phone really needs, the phosh UI is fairly decent on the pinephone. I get a few days of standby battery life. I will release my own fork of mobian with the overclocks when I get it Inca more complete state. Currently working on implementing hardware acceleration for video decode. The pine phone only has a couple years of life left as networks in the U.S are moving away from 4G.

If you have any issues, chatGPT can probably help. I used it to find my way around the tools and files I needed to do this. I used an online hex convertor to create the voltage tables. The GPU performance with this is not terrible.

I played Minecraft java edition 1.7.10, with the lowest settings and 3 block render distance at 8-12 FPS. I can probably do some tweaks to improve this significantly. Installing a few mods like fast craft, lowering the resolution away from native, switching the java 8 from java 21. I just haven't had the chance yet. I did this by installing prism launcher. If anyone's is interested I will make a lightweight mod pack eventually with some tweaks to hopefully get this to 24 FPS and add a lot of cool little mods to add stuff. That is my goal. I might have to use 1 chunk render distance.

Feel free to hit me up or ask any questions if you feel like doing your own pinephone overclocking.

UPDATE:

I tried the new packages, and it installed all except one package (librsvg2-common), breaking my system.

DO AT YOUR OWN RISK!

UPDATE 2:

Anyone else facing issue with the aforementioned package, following command allowed me to get my stable system back and install rest of 6-v3 packages.

sudo mv /usr/share/doc/librsvg2-common/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/librsvg2-common/changelog.Debian.gz_BK

Currently looking for a good DAW to run on Linux. I used Ableton Live 11 Standard back on Windows, got it running decently on Fedora with Wine, but kind of want to explore some other options.

Before I used Live, LMMS was actually what I used first while I was learning. I never did anything too real with it so I'm not honestly too sure what it's capable of, but it also seems to be abandonware? Hasn't been updated since 2020, what's that about?

I'm not 100% dead set on using FOSS btw, for this anyways. It would definitely be a plus, but i'll use proprietary if it runs well on Linux and is good at what it does. Are there any other options I should check out or look into? I've heard pretty good things about ardour and bitwig but don't know too much about them.

In all GUI text editors, web browsers and IDE's you can move a cursor:

• left/right arrows - move by char;
• ctrl+left/right - move by word;
• home/end - move to start/end of line.

Add Shift to any of above combination and everything you jumped through now is selected and you can: Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X,Delete to copy/cut/delete selection.

Also, you can Ctrl+Delete and Ctrl+Backspace to delete a next/previous word.

Also, you can Ctrl+Home/End to jump to start of first line or end of last line.

I want this to work when I type in a command in my Terminal.

Is it possible in Linux? It's a vanilla experience in Windows+Powershell, thanks to default PSReadlLine extension. It works both in conhost.exe and in Windows Terminal, but doesn't work in WT + cmd.exe, which makes me think it's PSReadLine which is responsible for this technological perfection.

"But you can't copy with Ctrl+C, it's..." - You can. When something is selected It copies selection to clipboard, otherwise it sends SIGINT.

I'm not bound to any distro or terminal application, but right now I don't see these incredible text editing techniques working even in Ubuntu+Powershell+PSReadLine, to say nothing about the Bash. I've tried installing WezTerm, but it doesn't have text selection either, at least by default. And I'm inclined to think it has nothing to do with terminal emulators at all, since it works in conhost.exe+Powershell.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54075197

ArchLinux doesn't boot past the bootloader

I'm able to get to the BIOS on my desktop. But when greeted by the boot loader to choose between Arch or Arch fallback, after choosing, I lose display.

Sometimes I can get display, but its not consistent. Draining my computers power by unplugging the power cord and holding the power button works sometimes. Sometimes a simple reboot will work.

I have an Asus b550m-plus motherboard. It was working great with Arch until recently.

Edit: it uses by press e at the boot loader then putting nomodeset at the end, but the display is choppy compared to when its able to boot without it.

I'm using the systemd-boot loader.

I have a 6900xt GPU. The post I cross posted has more information in the comments. One common error I'm getting is:

probe with driver amdgpu failed with error -22

Here is what my GPU is:

lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'

09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT] (rev c0) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 232c Kernel modules: amdgpu 09:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller

This is my systemd-boot /boot/loader/entries/ -- conf file:

# Created by: archinstall
# Created on: 2025-07-06_15-37-58
title   Arch Linux (linux)
linux   /vmlinuz-linux
initrd  /initramfs-linux.img
options cryptdevice=PARTUUID=fg45ehg45-uj675-j76-j76-56756uj56j6:root root=/dev/mapper/root zswap.enabled=0 rootflags=subvol=@ rw rootfstype=btrfs splash

I need to aggregate a lot of details on what I've tried so far, but I figured I'd make this post now since I have time over lunch.

I purchased a used Thinkpad Yoga X1 gen 6 from a university surplus sale. Intending to move away from the data hoarder that is Microsoft I of course installed Linux. I decided on Linux Mint since I haven't touched Linux in about a decade and I've forgotten everything.

Everything that I need to use correctly for job applications, printing, etc is working just fine, but much of the reason I bought the yoga is to use the Wacom stylus pen for drawing and taking notes.

It was working in Windows, but now does not seem to be recognized in Linux. It's odd since the touchscreen does work.

I did find this post which I will try to follow tonight: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxOnThinkpad/comments/yvmr1s/how_to_get_your_wacom_pen_working_on_a_thinkpad/

If anyone has had experience with this or has some advice for a new newbie, I'd very much appreciate it!

Whoops... :-)

I've been using Bazzite for a couple of months now. I've been experiencing a few problems when connecting my PC to my Wifi router.

I've been noticing a few websites being extremely slow, such as reddit. I've also noticed that Flatpak downloads are extremely slow, with speeds being in two digits of....kb/s! Now, I can mitigate this issue by doing either two things:

1. Using a VPN
2. Connecting my PC to my mobile hotspot, which is connected to my same router.

This is puzzling, because if there's an issue with my ISP, it would show up on my phone as well. If there's an issue with my built in WiFi adapter, then it would show up when connecting to my hotspot.

I have absolutely no idea what's going on, could someone help me? I tried changing DNS servers, reseting the network configs, flushing DNS cache, non of these seem to mitigate the issue.

One thing I've yet to try is connecting via Ethernet, because as of right now I don't have a good Ethernet cable with the right length, and I'm gonna order one day and try it.

If anyone has any other suggestions, I would appreciate it

geteilt von: https://lemmy.ml/post/38167597

I was browsing Lemmy in the morning as I usually do. And I stumbled upon a post called "To all EU/Europe Open Source/Linux Enthusiasts", which is basically a philosophical post about someone proposing a plan to push Linux phones to the mainstream. But I noticed several factual errors, which is fine (please do your own research before you post something), but I also noticed one single piece of information that's missing: allowing local e-shops, like the green alien one, to resell your Linux device on their site.

Leave your thoughts on this down below.

Hi, I have an old HP Notebook - 14-an018au, which has 4gb ddr3 ram and runs windows 10 on a 10 ish year old 1tb harddrive. This is a secondary computer, but it has a lot of old files from when I was like 13 years old that I want to backup, but I also have like 300gb of space taken up on the harddrive. So things like my chrome history, app settings, and unique files I would want to keep, but the large apps themselves I don't want to keep. Also this computer is impossible to work on with its current operating system, so something which is a quick solution please.

And also, what distributions would you recommend that would a) work on this old computer and b) might be kind of fun to mess around with, as a secondary device

Anyway thanks