So i got my old laptop dug out and threw a new battery in. Decided to put cachyOS on it since I wanted to try it

It does pretty well considering its only a turion x2 and 3gb of ram. But im not all sure what to do with it. Its not worth selling as its a bit slow for a normal person to put up with, it works find for playing dvds and such. Maybe I could use it for messing with light programming learning? Not sure

What would yall do?

*side note, if anyone knows why sound wont work, id appreciate a fix..it appears to not see any audio devices. Its an hp laptop (g60 i think) originally had vista.

Also Torvalds almost kill Linus Tech with a sword, so, worth watching.

Linus Sebastian is an investor in Framework Computer, Inc

CHAPTERSs ---------------------------------------------------0:00 Intro

• 2:42 Autobiography
• 4:08 Linus Builds a PC
• 6:20 CPU: What Does he Need it For
• 8:30 Motherboard: Why is ECC Important to you
• 11:18 Linus T Hates Zoom Calls
• 11:40 Linus T Side Projects
• 13:20 Storage: How Much Storage does Linus Need
• 15:00 Git or Linux? What are you more proud of?
• 17:35 Cooler: Why Noctua?
• 20:07 What do you do to relax?
• 21:22 If you could start Linux over again, what would you change?
• 22:40 Have you thought about other companies profit using Linux?
• 23:38 How do you feel about Microsoft owning GitHub?
• 25:18 Youtuber Merch
• 26:48 Have you ever wanted to walk away from Linux?
• 28:10 Case Choice
• 28:30 Cats or Dogs?
• 29:55 Power Supply
• 30:50 Here you go Reddit...
• 31:14 Gif or Jif?
• 31:40 What happens to Linux if you "Vanish"?
• 33:13 What are your Thoughts on AI?
• 35:25 Intel GPU?
• 36:25 How much code does Linus T Write?
• 38:23 Blame Linus for the Computer
• 38:40 How much do you travel for work?
• 41:10 Linus or Linus?
• 42:00 Does Linus T know about Linus S Linux Adventures?
• 43:20 You can see Linus S almost cry LMAO
• 43:50 Turning on the Computer
• 44:26 The Computer Lives!
• 44:40 Xbox, PlayStation or Nintendo?
• 45:26 Setting Up Linux with Linus
• 45:43 Why Fedora Linux?
• 46:45 Is there too many Linux options?
• 48:30 Linus S broke Linux again...
• 49:48 Linus T Email Hyenine
• 50:40 Linus T Background!
• 51:10 iPhone or Android?
• 51:37 The Final Question
• 53:26 Outro

Valve released the statistics from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2025, which shows once again that Linux use is trending nicely upwards.

Good morning With recent changes to the Windows platform I've decided to make the swap to Linux. While it's not the first time I've tried it out I'm hoping to find the transition easier this time. I'm giving Mint a go and will try and make this my main OS. I will keep windows as a dual boot option for now just in case I have to do a task that I haven't learned how to do with Linux.

So far I've managed to get steam running and tested a game I'd play to confirm it was working.

I suspect the biggest challenge will be terminal.

If anyone has any feedback or suggestions I'm open to them. Heck even funny moments when you first started. I still find when Linus nuked his setup very funny.

I have been seeing a lot of NixOS content recently, and a part of me appreciates the ideology of Nix.

1. No need to remember how you configured your machine (running some random command inside some random directory).
2. Separate the config from the physical machine. Redeploy elsewhere instantly.

I loved the idea even before I knew Nix when I switched from Gnome to i3 way back in 2017. Configure your i3 config once and never worry about "new" (read "breaking") features from the distro. I used the same config for nearly a decade with minor changes, till I switched to niri this year. So the way I interact with my desktop has not changed for a long time.

Back to the topic; while Nix configures your OS in a declarative manner, it's very different from what I'm used to. I have managed Ubuntu systems in depth, and now I know there is a huge carry-over of knowledge across other distros (arch/fedora/centos). And this "hobbyist-level" knowledge has helped me multiple times at my work. But Nix is very different in the way we configure a system compared to the norm.

My fear is that not only do I have to throw away chunks of my existing Linux know-how, but the new Nix-way will interfere with what I currently know and require at my job. Is there some truth behind my thinking or am I just being a bit paranoid? Fresh and veteran Nix users, please help.

I've got a NAS. I've got a Music folder on the NAS. I've shared it with SMB.

I've got two users on the NAS, an admin account with read and write, and a guest account with only read privileges.

I used Dolphin on a KDE box, I clicked Network > Shared Folders (SMB) > The_NAS > Music. It threw a login window, I logged in as the admin.

How the fuck do I log back out to switch to the guest account? I know SMB is Microsoft's doing so it's pure weapons-grade gonorrhea but...why is this extremely obvious usability feature missing?

Unique ask, but I hope some folks here will help me out a bit. I'm talking with a youtube creator who focuses on waste in society, and they are interested in doing a youtube video on Windows 11 and the planned obsolence around ending Windows 10, and requiring the TPM.

Part of this that I'm pushing is the "Don't throw it out, install Linux". While I can describe a good amount, does anyone have any good resources that you recommend that I can forward on about what Linux is, and why someone may want to look into it? This would be for someone who is non technical - think an average Macbook user.

Appreciate any links or youtube videos or anything you may have stored away for this teaching Linux!

I was messing arround trying to customize my desktop and i followed a guide on how to install and setup latte-dock (kde). Long story short, i failed removed latte (although I think it may have left some stuff behind) and when I restored my cinnamon panel the icon was like this. I've already restored the system with timeshift but it made no difference and tried to set "symbolic icon size" in panel settings but it completely ignores it. I googled for a solution but cant find any :c

Any ideas?

P.S. If I set panel height too small, all the applet icons go halfway off screen through the bottom, something they didnt used to do.

SOLVED: Using this comand:

gsettings reset-recursively org.cinnamon

Reverts the icons to their normal behaviour. Thanks to potatoguy

Abstract: I installed an 18 year old sound card in a modern-day Linux PC and the damn thing just worked.

Shit talking my dad

My father is an IT professional, AS400 class, "I remember when it was called the System 38" rank. When it comes to PC hardware, he can usually identify a PC when shown one. Doesn't really give a shit. He buys Dells because they gave him a line of credit. He shops by buying the second most expensive XPS they offer. He's been doing that since Core i7s had three-digit model numbers. I know because I've got one of his old machines in the other room. And I'd like to beat the teeth out of the four-flushing worm-headed sack of monkey shit that sold it to him.

This machine was surprisingly full of option cards for a PCIe-era box. Graphics card? Fine. USB 3.0? Was new in those days, that's a reasonable cost option. Gigabit ethernet NIC? You mean like the one built into it's motherboard? Soundblaster X-Fi? Huh. See, the bottom section of the motherboard IO shield has this curious plastic blanking plate. Pick that off with your fingernails and it pops free, revealing six 3.5mm jacks. The motherboard has functioning built-in surround sound. And yet they sold my father a goddamn Soundblaster. They did this enough to manufacture blanking plates specifically for that job. Corporations are bullshit.

Installing an 18 year old Soundblaster in a modern Fedora box

So, I've got a reasonable self-built gaming PC, I run Fedora KDE on it. It's got a Realtek 7.1 something something chip built in, but only 3 plugs in the rear. I happen to own an old Dell 5.1 surround sound speaker system. You can attach these things together, in Linux you have to use HdaJackRetask to reassign the rear jacks to put out the rear, front and subwoofer channels properly, and once you've got that done you'll be treated to these eardrum rupturing pops as the sound chip turns itself on and off to save power. Changing a couple files somewhere in /etc can fix that...until you reboot the machine, to make that change permanent you have to change some other file somewhere else...

Then I had a thought. I own an old but functional PCIe Soundblaster designed specifically to drive surround sound PC speakers and an open card slot in my machine. Why not?

I go to extract the card from the old Dell, noticing a cable is plugged into the front edge of the card. Memories of old sound cards of yore having passthrough cables from the optical drives went through my head before I realized it was the HD audio cable from the front IO panel. Oh yeah. So when I installed it in my new PC, I made sure to move the HD audio cable from the motherboard to the sound card.

Booted into Fedora, open the audio settings, select 5.1 surround, and it works. The driver is built right into the kernel, nothing to install or configure. Then I thought to test if the front IO worked. I plugged in a headset, and I got audio out of the headset and the speakers.

Nothing I could do would get it to detect the plug and mute the rear IO. I dug through alsamixer and such, no dice.

I tried a bluetooth headest, that worked fine. Because a Bluetooth device is kind of a whole other sound card, it just...stops sending audio data to the sound card.

Head tilt.

Shut down, switch the HD audio cable back to the motherboard, boot.

With no headset attached, audio is sent to the Soundblaster and out the 5.1 speakers. Plug a headset in the front IO, it auto-detects and switches to the onboard Realtek chip. The speakers go quiet and I get stereo out of the headset. Turn on my bluetooth headset and sound goes there.

It...works. I got audio to just fucking work. In Linux.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39410719

Error when trying to install Bazzite specifically

I get the following error message:

amd_pstate: failed to register with return -19

And there's more but then the screen turns into a creepy pasta gif looking thing of white and green shifting blocks, except for a few random letters.

But the issue doesn't happen when I used a Garuda xfce I had laying around I used for an older PC (that was maybe too old for Bazzite?). That went into the installer and live iso environment without issues.

It's a newish build I'm making for someone as a gift with the following hardware:

Asus Prime B550M-K AM4 microATX Kingston FURY Beast DDR4 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen 5 4500 AM4

And a used Nvidia RTX 3060ti.

I have secure boot off I think (the Asus EZ bios is weird)

Update

I managed to install it using the text installer, but now it does this:

Then blank screen. Ctrl-Alt-F2 gives me a terminal at least and I did just get-logs which gives me the following:

Is this a Wayland issue?

Update 2:

Not a Wayland issue. But tried installing Fedora Kiinoite to rebase it to Bazzite, but Fedora has the same issue Bazzite did when trying to install, only it doesn't mention the Elf 19 error, and it frezzes allowing me to take a picture:

I really love Bazzite and run it on my own computer, but I'm starting to think it doesn't really run on older desktop hardware.

Hello,

i am a new noob to hyprland and i used claude code to edit my dotfiles. For that i used ccusage.

Greetings!

0:00 sg2d - https://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/

0:48 rescatux - https://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/download/rescatuxdownloads/rescatux-stable/

1:06 cmd gems - https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse

1:30 tldp - https://tldp.org/index.html

2:05 wikis - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Main_Page, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page, https://wiki.debian.org/

2:38 cmdline weather - curl wttr.in

3:22 sh bible - https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible, https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible

4:10 shellcheck - https://www.shellcheck.net/

4:44 uefi vs bios - https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html

5:47 performance guides - https://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html

6:16 tldr, manual pages - https://github.com/tealdeer-rs/tealdeer

7:44 cmdline cheatsheets - curl cheat.sh

8:31 fhs - https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html

8:58 otw games - https://overthewire.org/

9:38 awesome lists - https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

10:40 how to learn.

My friend is kind of set on Ubuntu studio for music produciton. Should I talk them out of it ? I dont care for Ubuntu because of their practices.

I want to sort of recreate macOS 15's dynamic wallpaper, and downloaded this set of 8 wallpapers which are most / all the colors it cycles through. On Hyprland, I want to cycle through them throughout the day, but also slowly transition from one wallpaper to another for an hour or longer, crossfading / blending them.

I did some searching, and neither timewall or adi1090x/dynamic-wallpaper can do it. I looked at making my own script to blend images once every 60 secs, but I'm not sure how to quickly crossfade images. This command takes ~15 secs, I feel this should possible much faster with or without imagemagick: magick composite -blend 50 wallpaper1.png wallpaper2.png output.png.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/46161145

I've been using Thunderbird to sort out my junk email for a while, ever since I walked away from my Gmail account. Thunderbird does a great job, but it does mean it has to stay running somewhere.

However I'm currently in the process of moving and as a result I've had to shut down the system that that I had been running Thunderbird on. The result of which, obviously, is that my inbox is now being flooded with spam.

Since it's been a while since I last looked at the problem, I figured I ask. How do you deal with spam email?

I'm about to install bazzite on my wife's older (2017) Windows 10 machine, and I've been going over how to recreate everything she currently has. Most programs (even proprietary ones) are not an issue, but I'm not finding much in the antivirus department.

I never even thought to install one on my Linux machine (also on bazzite, but I have used other distros in the past). So although I am no stranger to Linux, this issue blindsided me.

I know clamav exists, and I'm educating myself on how to use it, but a GUI would be nice for the wife. She's not afraid of the terminal, but she likes the convenience of GUI programs.

Any suggestions? What do you use? Or is it just generally accepted that one should be careful and keep things up-to-date and that's enough?

Hi, I've been collecting lots of random Linux tips and tricks and just thought I might sharing of one in detail in case anyone finds it useful. It can be helpful to understand how Linux works; after all, it IS the "Year of the Linux Desktop". I hope this is ok for this community; please mods delete if not. I have saved a copy and can post somewhere else more appropriate if so!

I've made it deliberately detailed as I personally learn by understanding the why as well as the how. This solution works for GTK 2 and 3 apps, but not GTK 4 which apparently deliberately ignores this.

The start section is a simple TLDR, likely enough for most people. The rest is a detailed explanation which may be helpful for different options and understanding/learning a bit more about using Linux environment variables generally.

TLDR - Get GTK apps to use your DEs save/load dialogue box

First ensure you have the following installed if you're on KDE (Or use equivalents if you're on Hyprland, cosmic etc.) These are pretty commonly already installed already on most distros. They may have slightly different names in your distros package manager.

• xdg-desktop-portal
• xdg-desktop-portal-kde6
• xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

Next, open a terminal and type:

echo 'export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1' >> ~/.profile

This will add the GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 to your personal desktop environment set up, and it'll be set every time you log in. Just log out and back in. When you next launch a GTK app that supports it (like Firefox), you should find it now uses your desktop environments file manager dialogue boxes.

Detailed explanation!

The Problem

One thing that has always been a bugbear for me as a KDE user is when I use GTK 2 and 3 based apps, they usually default to use file/load/save dialogue boxes for GTK and not my KDE dolphin dialogue boxes. For example, Firefox uses GTK based dialogue boxes, so it has a different layout and different favourites on the left whenever I want to save an image or a page. It's just different enough that it slows me down each time I use it.

Some distros are set up so this doesn't happen (for example KDE Neon) but many don't seem to set this up in my experience. Certainly OpenSuSE and Nobara didn't have this set up.

It turns out, it's pretty easy to fix that for most GTK apps. Sadly this does not apply to GTK 4.

The Solution

There is a simple widely available and installed framework called XDG Desktop Framework that standardises how apps from different desktop environments work together. It's often used by Flatpaks, but also usually installed as a basic component of many major distros. But just in case it's not installed on your system, you want to look for the following type of packages in your package manager and install them:

• xdg-desktop-portal
• xdg-desktop-portal-kde6
• xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

You may want different backends depending on your set up; on my distro (OpenSuSE) I can there are ones for Gnome, hyprland, lxqt, pantheon, cosmic and a few others, and there may be more on other distros. I'm on KDE and the KDE6 and GTK seems to be enough for me for this particular use.

Once these are installed, you can pass an environment variable to GTK 2 and 3 apps:

GTK_USE_PORTAL=1

An environment variable in Linux is something that can change the behaviour of software on your install. There are loads of ways to use these to get things done; they've very useful and a core part of how linux works.

For example, they can be set as a one-off when you launch a specific program, or set for a user for every program for that person or even set at the system level so every program has it set.

Detailed: How to set environment variables

Use it for ONE program only

The most basic way to use this would be open a terminal, and launch a program like firefox with the environment variable; for example:

$ env GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 firefox

This command runs the env program which sets the variable and then runs another program, like Firefox. The "child process" inherits the environment variable set by env. Here it'll open Firefox from your terminal with an environment variable set to use the portal; it works but is probably not a very convenient solution day to day.

A slightly better way to use this would be to edit the menu entry for Firefox and add the environment variable. So as a KDE user, I could open my menu, find Firefox, right click and select "Edit Application...". I'd then get the Firefox menu entry and I can add to the "Environment Variable:" box. Now each time I launch Firefox from my menu it will launch with variable set. Other DEs will have similar but unique methods to do the same.

This works but is still a bit limited. So a slightly better method again would be to edit the underlying .desktop file. To do that I could edit the existing .desktop file in the system folder and add the variable to the Exec="" line:

EXEC=env GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 firefox

Bear in mind system .desktop files are often replaced when you do updates, so it may be better to copy the existing one to your home folder, edit it and then use that. I won't go into massive detail about .desktop files.

This isn't exhaustive; there are other ways of doing this for one program.

Use it for ALL programs for ONE user

However, I personally want ALL GTK programs to use KDE dialogue boxes if they support it, and I think this is probably the best solution for most users. This is also a useful method for any other variables you want to use. Instead of setting the environment variable each time on the fly or per program, we can set it for the whole user account.

To set Environment Variables for a user there are a few places we can put them to make use of them. For a single user with a bash based system (vast majority of people), the best place to set them is ONE of these 3 files in your home folder:

• .bashrc
• .bash_profile
• .profile

Lets try and understand these files:

.bashrc is used whenever a new interactive non-login shell is used - that generally means each time you open a terminal, this file is read and if you set an environment variable in it, anything run from that terminal will inherit and use that variable. That's fine, but it's not generally ideal for a GUI run program in a desktop environment and we're basically constantly setting the variable each time we run something. It'll work but it's not ideal.

.bash_profile (if it exists) is run when a user starts a new login shell with bash. You may not have this file; don't worry if not! This will run once per session; so when you first login to your desktop any environment variable in here will be run. This is better but it's still not quite ideal. If you have a bash based system, this will work, but if you've switched entirely to another shell script system (like zsh or fish) it won't. So this will probably work but again it's not ideal. Many systems seem to skip this file and use .profile as a more generic option.

.profile is run when a user starts a new login shell, regardless of the shell (bash, zsh, fish etc). Lots of systems even using bash may use this file instead of .bash_profile as it's more generic. If you add an environment variable to this file, whenever you login it will load and stay loaded for your session.

So the best place for most users to put GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 is .profile. When you log in that variable will set globally for your session and all new programs will use it. To use it, we need to add the following line to the file:

export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1

(For this, the export command will make an environment variable inheritable to all other programs run after it. If we just put GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 in, it'd actually be set for a moment but only for a moment - then the next command would be run during login and the variable would be forgotten again. If we used env instead of export, the env program gets launched as a new process, it modifies the environment and then it is designed to call another program straight after it. It's meant to set the variable for it's child process. It may still work but even if it does it's overkill: export changes the variable globally and is done, env changes the variable and then is supposed to start a new child process so is redundant here.)

We can add the line to the file in numerous ways. Via the GUI/desktop, you could open your file manager, find the file, open it with a text editor and type the line in. You'll probably find there isn't much in your .profile file, you can put it anywhere in the file, as long as it's on it's own clear line.

Or an we can add it in via the terminal. All we do is open a terminal and type/paste the following:

echo 'export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1' >> ~/.profile

(This command uses echo to take the text written after it in the quotes, and pass it on. The >> is a linux operator, and it takes whatever it is being passed and appends/adds it to the end of whatever file follows. So we finish with the destination ~/.profile for >> to put the text. So echo takes the text 'export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1', passes is to >> which then adds it to the end of the file .profile in the ~/ directory.)

Once the text is in your .profile file, you need to log out and log back in to your Linux desktop session. This is because .profile is generally only launched when you first login to your session.

After that, any program that launches will have the environment variable of GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 set. If it supports it, it will use it. If it doesn't support it, it will ignore it.

Use it for ALL programs for ALL users

If you want to set this globally for ALL users sharing a Linux install, then instead of using an individual home folder, we need to set the environment variable in a system file. This is overkill for this particular variable in my opinion, and generally I'd stick to user level settings (particularly as you will keep your changes if you back up your Home folder like a good Linux user!), but this may still be of interest as a concept for other variables.

To do this we need to add it to ONE of the following files:

• /etc/environment
• /etc/profile

You may not even have these files but don't worry. Many modern systems have loads of variables and settings, and are set up to generate these files dynamically from a collection of other files located in folders like /etc/environment.d or /etc/profile.d A folder ending with .d just means it's a directory containing partial configuration files, and the files in this folder are combined to make the final file by the Linux system. This is for convenience to make complex systems more modular, so things can be "plugged together". That helps complex distros separate out and manage different things cleanly.

We can also "plug in" our own settings by creating our own configuration files, and the good thing is if we give them a unqiue name, we usually won't lose our custom config if there is a system update and the distro changes it's own config files.

Either /etc/environment.d or /etc/profile.d is fine for this; I use profile.d because that's what my system is set up to use. If you don't have an /etc/environment file or /etc/environment.d folder, you could create one, put the "export variable" line in and it'll also work, but here I'll use profile.d as it's pretty widely used and it's a useful concept to understand how combined config files work.

First we need to create a new shell script file (.sh) in the folder which will be combined by the system at boot with the other existing files. System folders like /etc/ are system level and protected so we need to use the sudo command to do this as a root user. In this example I'm going to put my custom variables in a file called myvariables.sh - but call it whatever you want (within reason!). To do this, in a terminal we can put the following:

sudo cat /etc/profile.d/myvariables.sh
#!/bin/sh
export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1

(This first runs sudo - temporarily logging us in as a super user (we'll be asked for our admin password). Then it runs cat which will take the following text and put it in the target file (i.e. it'll concatenate the text). To do this we first tell cat the file location - /etc/profile.d/myvariables.sh - if it doesn't exist, cat will create it. Then it will put everything that follows into the new file. The first line is #!/bin/sh - this line tells the operating system when it reads the file it is a shell script, and to use /bin/sh to interpret it. In most systems, /bin/sh actually points to /bin/bash. The next line then runs the export command to set the environment variable to GTK_USE_PORTAL=1; because we use export this will be inherited by all programs running after it in the entire system, for all users.)

Alternative if we have already created a myvariables.sh we can instead just add the line to the existing file:

sudo echo 'export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1' >> /etc/profile.d/myvariables.sh

(This command uses **sudo ** to give us permission to use echo to take the text written after it in the quotes, and pass it on. The >> operator appends/adds it to the end of the file we provide it.)

Or we could also use a text editor to do this:

sudo nano /etc/profile.d/myvariables.sh

(This uses sudo to open a text editor in the terminal - nano - to open the file.)

Then we can just type in the following into the new file, and save the file.

#!/bin/sh
export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1

If you want to do this via the GUI, you can put the above in using a GUI text editor like Kate or Gedit; just bear in mind you need administrator level access to edit and save the changes as we're working within the /etc/ folder

Whichever method you use, you will likely need to reboot so that the new environment variable is set for all programs on your system.

Setting this for Flatpaks

Just to be completely comprehensive, we can also set this variable (and others) for Flatpaks if we want to. I won't go into massive detail though.

Personally I use a program called flatseal - you can install this from Flathub. This program lets you manage all your flatpaks.

In Flatseal, on the left is a list of all your flatpak programs. The first option is "All Applications". If you select this and scroll down on the right you will find an "Environment" section. You can click the + button to add a new line and add GTK_USE_PORTAL=1. This will tell ALL flatpaks to use this setting if they can. If you prefer you can instead just add it to individual programs in the same way - select the program from your list of flatpaks on the left, and then find it's "Environment" section on the right and add a new variable in the same way.

This can also be done using flatpak itself from the terminal if you prefer.

Hope this is helpful!

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/30887652

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My main concern is replacing the remote, because bluetooth on linux is quite awful.

Im guessing run kodi is the other solution? I want the SO to be able to use it as easily as the smart tv, which is of course riddled with ads and downloading random shit on my network that I hate (20 gigs to Disney + in a month. I dont have any subs. Wtf is it downloading? I blocked it now ofc)

For reference, trying to axe the smart tv and use my atari vcs with mint on it to fulfill those needs. It should have the power and I want to keep the sleek look and not have an actual pc in the room.

I have a windows work computer, a Dell Inspiron 27 7720 All-in-One. I am trying to set up a dual-boot system, but when I change the BIOS security settings to enable running Linux, then Windows won't run. When I re-enable it, It hangs at the grub prompt. Has anyone else run into this?

The BIOS is far more detailed than most machines I used in the past, so I'm not sure if there are specific settings that would work. I'm looking to install Zorin, which is based on Ubuntu. Would a different distro/bootloader have a better outcome?

Um.... What the f....

Looking for security camera clients that aren't server software and work on Fedora Linux

I don't need server software and just need a client to view and control my security camera's

I've already tried looking online but all results are just for server software

I made this Linux Mint logo emblem to cover up the Apple logo on my old MacBook that now runs Linux. I am not sure if it will cover the logo of all MacBooks but i am sure that it can be scaled to needs.

I used Prusa Slicer, to slice it, and it automatically offered the option of a color change. I used a translucent red for the lower part and a dark grey for the top. You may want to experiment a bit with the types and infills to get the appropriate effect. I used very fine layer hight as well as ironing to get a smoother surface.

Then simply glued it on top of the illuminated logo

Available for free on Thingiverse and Printables

PS: Many failed attempts went into take this fairly bad picture - i apologize but the dogs were too comfortable