I've been working on a modern interpretation of BeOS. However, unlike other "themes," this one is built predominantly using CSS to follow GNOME's guidelines. It's a Wayland-first design with a complete complement of assets, icons, wallpapers, and install and uninstall scripts.
It's a work in progress, but 85% complete.
You can find it here: https://github.com/infamous-pattern/NewBe
We all know Linus' biggest pet peeve is the lack of system wide middle click autoscrolling. I built a universal solution called midscroll that operates at the kernel input level, meaning it perfectly replicates the Windows autoscroll behavior across every single application on both Wayland and X11. It anchors your cursor, uses the exact same speed curve you are used to, and runs entirely in the background.
FOSS under the Unlicense.
You can check out how it works here: https://github.com/gnhen/midscroll
EDIT: Now with a Settings menu GUI. Supports Hold & Drag as well as Toggle mode. Native scrolling mode supported.
Long story short:
I know the passphrase,
I have an access to root,
I use Fedora Kinoite on NVME drive with LUKS2 encrypted BTRFS home partition,
And I need to recover a file which was... Not really deleted (as in I put it in the trash and clicked erase, no) but more like.. Removed by a manual instance update of a folder,
So, my question is, how can I recover that said file from that directory? As the btrfs restore command doesn't recognize my drive saying there are no valid btrfs filesystems available (I presume it is due to LUKS2 encryption, as the filesystem itself is in tact, and the system is in a working condition)
I've loaded WinBoat and it sets up ok, but occasionally has issues with the service and more recently the NIC drops out entirely even after a clean reboot and disable/enable of the LAN adapter.
Have some container platforms run better than others for this specific app suite?
So i had issues, cuz i installed it both via flatpak and the repo listed on brave site
I uninstalled both, am i safe to reinstall with no issues? if i only stick with 1 this time? ty guys
I'm mostly concerned about SELinux working with flatpak, and flatpaks sandbox working with brave via flatpak
Well, the problem is that for a few weeks now, I’ve been hearing a notification sound (it sounds like a water droplet), and I’m not exactly sure what’s causing it.
It happens suddenly while I’m using the terminal, the browser, or doing anything else. There are no notifications or anything of the sort in the GNOME notification section.
Does anyone know what causes this or how to silence that little notification sound?
First of all, I am REALLY happy that I switched to Linux.
It all started because of overheating problems on my Dell G3 and the RAM usage on Windows 11. It was getting so bad. I could barely open multiple apps anymore, and recently, after some updates, things got even worse. Booting up the laptop, trying to open an application, or switching between apps would sometimes cause lag or even crashes.
I talked to one of my friends who also uses Linux, and they told me that Linux is great for power users. That honestly made me interested, but I was also really scared to switch.
I had a lot of data on my laptop, and I didn't have enough storage to move everything to another drive. Luckily, I managed to move the important stuff, and that gave me the confidence to finally make the switch.
Another reason I was scared was productivity. I use a lot of Windows apps every day — Zoom, OBS, CapCut, BlueStacks, Docker, and various other tools. I was worried that I would lose all the productivity and daily-use apps I rely on.
And yeah, BlueStacks and CapCut aren't really available on Linux in the same way, so I definitely miss BlueStacks. 😂 That's probably one of the biggest things I miss after switching from Windows 11.
But honestly...
The performance I get from Linux is SO GOOD.
The RAM usage especially shocked me. I'm just sitting here thinking, "How is this using so little RAM?" 😂
I've installed a bunch of software already, and somehow the system still feels incredibly lightweight. Even the amount of storage the system itself takes compared to what I expected surprised me.
I've also been getting into Docker and automation, and Linux feels PERFECT for that kind of stuff. For coding, I honestly don't feel like I'm missing much at all so far.
That being said, I still have a few annoying issues.
My touchpad feels a little buggy sometimes. Scrolling and zooming don't feel as smooth or natural as they did on Windows, and I'm still trying to figure out if there's a way to improve that.
Another thing is my screen. Sometimes it flickers slightly, and I can't figure out what's causing it. It's kind of hard to explain, but when I move my mouse around different parts of the screen, the brightness seems to change slightly. It gets a little brighter in some areas and darker in others. At first I thought it might be something related to my graphics card, but honestly, I have no idea yet. 😭
Fingerprint support is another thing I haven't figured out. There doesn't seem to be an option to set it up, although I don't mind typing my password. A fingerprint reader would just save me a few seconds every time. 😂
It's only been about 5 days since I switched, and I'm still learning.
I'm learning terminal commands every day, and whenever I get completely lost, I sometimes ask AI for help. 😂 I'm slowly starting to understand what I'm actually doing instead of blindly copying commands, though.
For now, I've already installed pretty much everything I need for my daily use and coding, and I'm genuinely surprised by how little I'm missing.
I also started customizing my desktop a little. I watched a tutorial and set up what I think is Breeze Dark for now. Later, I definitely want to go much deeper into customization.
I feel like I still have SO much to discover — especially those hidden Linux gems, useful apps, tweaks, terminal tools, and optimizations that you only find after using Linux for a while.
So yeah...
It's only been 5 days, but I'm loving Linux so far.
I'm really happy I finally made the switch. ❤️
If you're a Linux user, what are some apps, tools, tweaks, or "hidden gems" you think I should try next?
And if you've dealt with the touchpad issues or weird screen flickering/brightness changes I mentioned, I'd love to hear how you fixed them!
YESS I USED AI TO CORRECT MY GRAMMAR CUZ IT SUCKS!! SOWWWYYY
Hello everyone. I am in the process of performing a manual installation of Fedora with a Dual Boot setup with Windows 11 on the same drive.
Windows 11 has already been installed. I installed to its own individual partition, leaving the majority of my drive as an empty unallocated partition to use during the fedora installation.
At the final stages of the installation, the installer notes that it will be formatting nvme0n1p1, the 210 MB EFI drive, which I understand is the windows boot loader as seen below.
This does not seem right to me. I thought this would prevent any attempts to boot into windows at all from Grub for a dual boot system.
The following is the screenshot of the installer's storage configuration and mount point setup. I have not made any changes to any of the windows created partitions after installation.
Here is the output of lsblk from the live installer
liveuser@localhost-live:~$ lsblk -alNAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTSloop0 7:0 0 2.3G 1 loop /run/install/sources/mount-0000-live_os_image/run/rootfsbasesda 8:0 0 232.9G 0 disksda1 8:1 0 2.6G 0 part /run/initramfs/livesda2 8:2 0 30M 0 partzram0 251:0 0 8G 0 disk [SWAP]luks-3ef5fc94-2f20-4801-82f1-a07b47def597 252:0 0 803.4G 0 cryptnvme0n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disknvme0n1p1 259:1 0 200M 0 partnvme0n1p2 259:2 0 16M 0 partnvme0n1p3 259:3 0 124.2G 0 partnvme0n1p4 259:4 0 780M 0 partnvme0n1p5 259:5 0 1G 0 partnvme0n1p6 259:6 0 1.9G 0 partnvme0n1p7 259:7 0 803.4G 0 part
And a screenshot of the nvme drive form Gnome-Disks
Should This be considered expected behavior, and is good to proceed? Thank you for any assistance on the matter
Hey everyone,
I'm planning to switch from Windows to Fedora GNOME on my laptop (Lenovo LOQ 15AX9 – Specs: Intel i5-12600HX, RTX 3050).
Before making the jump, I have a few specific questions about daily usage, gaming, and system management:
Lenovo Vantage features: Since Vantage isn't on Linux, how do you manage power modes, quiet mode, and setting the battery charge limit (conservation mode)? Does the Fn + Q shortcut still work out of the box?
NVIDIA Driver Support: How straightforward is setting up the proprietary NVIDIA drivers for the RTX 3050 on Fedora, especially with Secure Boot enabled?
BIOS / Firmware Updates: How do you safely update the BIOS on a Lenovo laptop without Windows? Does Lenovo support fwupd / GNOME Firmware on Linux, or do I need a bootable USB?
Xbox Game Pass: Does PC Game Pass work on Linux at all, or am I strictly limited to Xbox Cloud Gaming through a browser?
Minecraft & Game Repacks: How well do custom/offline Minecraft launchers run on Fedora? Also, how smooth is installing and running repacks (FitGirl, etc.) using Wine, Lutris, or Heroic?
Battery Life: Will the battery life be noticeably worse than Windows on a hybrid/NVIDIA gaming laptop, and what's the best way to optimize it?
Dev & Creative Apps: Do VS Code and Blender work fine out of the box? Any issues with NVIDIA CUDA/acceleration in Blender?
(P.S. I am completely new to Linux and still learning how everything works, so sorry if some of these questions sound basic or annoying! Thanks a lot for the help!)
Hi, I'm not really sure where to post this with so many Linux-related subreddits, so I’ll probably cross-post this in a few different places.
I started using Fedora almost a month ago for many reasons that I won't get into, but I mention it because I want to make it clear that I really want to use Linux permanently. I'm putting effort into learning and figuring things out. I tried Ubuntu in the past, but I got frustrated by errors I didn't know how to solve, and now I'm running into some of the same issues again — little things that I know wouldn't bother me on Windows because I simply wouldn't have to deal with them.
The biggest issue I'm having is with WoW. I don't know if this would happen with other games because I don't play many other demanding games, but while playing WoW, my RAM usage seems to keep increasing over time and never gets released. I'm running the game through Faugus.
Eventually, my computer runs out of RAM for other processes, and it happens surprisingly quickly. Many times it got to the point where the entire computer became practically unusable, and I had to restart.
The other issues are more minor (I'm using KDE Plasma):
Sometimes the desktop on one of my monitors stops responding. I'll click on a desktop shortcut and everything seems to be frozen until I press Alt+Tab. Then it suddenly works again. ¿¿??
If I have Spotify playing music, the system still goes into suspend when the inactivity timeout is reached. I tried looking into this and found someone else who apparently couldn't find a solution either. I thought, "Okay, no big deal, I'll just increase the timeout." But the setting never persists, and the computer keeps suspending after 5 minutes.
I also tried configuring Num Lock to always start enabled, but that setting doesn't persist either.
These are all relatively minor issues — except for the first one, which really annoyed me yesterday — but they're the kind of small problems that slowly wear down my patience with the system when I can't find a solution for them.
I genuinely want to stick with Linux, so I'm not looking for "just go back to Windows." I'm mostly trying to figure out whether these are known issues, configuration problems, Fedora/KDE issues, Faugus/Wine issues, or something specific to my setup.
Any suggestions on where I should start troubleshooting would be
Using this workstation 44 how do you update this ?
Just got this Lenovo Yoga 7i 2 in 1, so it can flip around and stuff. It works wonders to play games and draw, but I'm having an issue with the rotation. It just won't enter tablet mode or rotate at all. I'm on Fedora 44 Workstation, and I've tried installing some packages, checking monitor-sensors to see that no rotation is registered, but nothing seems to be working. It also seems that this was fixed in an update? But not for me! Any ideas? Thanks!
I am gamer, Steam Gamer, and i am going to switch to Fedora KDE, anything i know before i switch?
The error I'm getting is:
>While pulling app/org.mozilla.firefox/x86_64/stable from remote flathub: Decompressed delta part exceeds configured limit of 76330069 bytes
Can someone help me out here? Is this Flathub's issue or Fedora's issue? I'm using Fedora 44 KDE. I've never had any issues with updating of Firefox from Flathub. I'm using Flathub version for a reason because the Fedora's version was nothing but trouble.
Projeto pessoal criado para trazer a experiência de “Circular para Pesquisar” do Android para o ambiente de desktop GNOME. Código aberto sob a Licença MIT.
🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/dznass-cmd/lupa-ocr-extension 📦 Extensão GNOME:
Feito com ❤️ para a comunidade GNOME
Hi everyone,
I'm running Fedora with PipeWire and looking for a tool to add fun real-time effects to my microphone while chatting on Discord with friends.
Specifically, I want to apply a military radio / walkie-talkie effect and be able to toggle it on and off with a keyboard shortcut.
What tools or setups do you recommend on Fedora for real-time mic processing/voice changing that play nicely with PipeWire and Discord?
Thanks!
Sorry for picture being so dark, I finished assembling it at late at night.
A little bit of a story:
I bought a W541 from an auction for roughly 325PLN (~87$). In the listing the seller said that it had some "bug" that prevented main display from working. Figured I can take a look.
Previous owner apparently attempted to fix a broken screen with a new 3K Panel but probably didn't disconnect it from power and had blown the F11 fuse that was . Brough to a repair guy who replaced the fuse for 100PLN (27$). In the action the seller said that it had some "bug" that prevent main display from working. Figured I can take a look
There apparently was another hurdle. The screen panel it came with (defenitely not the original one it had) was also broken. Yraces were exposed on the bottom-left corner. Had to replace it myselft with a new FHD panel and cable - 235PLN (~63$). 3K panels were too expensive and I wanted this to work. Thankfully that I can repalce myself.
Side note: There was A LOT of hot glue on the inside holding parts of together. Not sure who did that but I hate you.
Summary: a lot of screen related stuff was broken but I manged to repair it well enough 👍
Overall cost: 660PLN (~177$)
Specs:
CPU - i7-4810MQ
GPU1 - Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU2 - NVIDIA Quadro K2100M
RAM - 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3L-1600MHz
Memory - 512GB SATA SSD
System:
I have already tried:
What could the problems be? How can I fix this?
So I am using fedora 44 on my Asus expertbook P1 i3 model. When I firstly installed fedora the Scrolling speed of the whole system was way too high so I search over internet and find some solutions to fix that scrolling of gnome but the only software which has not been fixed is google Chrome and other chromium based browser. I searched every part of the internet but nothing worked now I am frustrated by it I can't use Google Chrome but I want to use linux ( Please don't advise to use other browsers ).
So is their any fix to that google Chrome too high scroll speed on trackpad in gnome distros....
I’m attempting to boot fedora onto a thinkpad t480 off a usb, what went wrong?
