The tool is called OSWarp. It gives you a simple shortcut and a friendly GUI to reboot into the other OS. With this tool, no need to wait for the GRUB menu anymore. Just a simple click. If you only have Windows and Linux, it can select the right item for you. Please give it a try and tell me if there is anything I could improve.
Hi Sub
Installed Linux Mint on my AMD A4-5300 Desktop with Windows 10 Dual Boot.
I require windows only for Time Attendance System.
I have used other couple of distros and linux mint also previously.
Smooth Installation. Attached Sys Info Screenshot
Linux Mint is Awesome.
Thanks to Sub for Support
Hey everyone!
I switched from Windows to Linux around 3–4 months ago and have been using Linux Mint ever since. Overall, I've had a pretty good experience, but I've been facing a frustrating issue with my NVIDIA(3050) graphics card.
Every now and then, my screen completely freezes while the audio continues playing in the background. I've tried troubleshooting it by switching between newer and older kernels and trying a few other fixes, but nothing seems to have worked so far.
At this point, I'm considering switching to a different Linux distro to see if that resolves the issue.
I'm not a complete beginner when it comes to Linux. I know my way around the terminal and can follow troubleshooting instructions, but I'm not a developer or someone who wants to spend hours tinkering with my system. I'd prefer something stable, beginner-friendly, and relatively hassle-free, especially when it comes to NVIDIA GPU support and drivers.I play game on my computer
Which distro would you recommend as my next step after Linux Mint? I'd love to hear about your experiences, particularly if you're using an NVIDIA GPU.
Also, if you've faced similar freezing issues on Mint and managed to fix them, I'd appreciate any suggestions before I make the switch.
Thanks!
TL;DR, search engines are terrible. How do I find information I need for using some of these programs? How do I learn what information I need vs when I've found what I actually need?
Today I spent some time trying to get my old HOTAS working on CachyOS. I found something called gx52 and saw that I can install the flatpak to make it easy. Neato! Just one thing: I didn't know how to use Shelly.
Cool. I search "CachyOS How do I use Shelly?" on Duck Duck Go and get the CachyOS wiki. It explains what Shelly is, but in my mind, not what I need to know to start using it. I toggle over to Google and get a couple feedback posts on some forums before finding a guide.
STEP 1. Synchronize databases. Cool, I can do that. Where's the button?
Button? You there?
There's no button.
So I search around some more, including the version number I grabbed from the bottom of the Shelly window to find that there is no longer a button. I don't find that from any links in the searches, I had to fight with the LLM and tell it the sync button is gone before I learn that Shelly syncs databases every five minutes after an update this August. Sounds like a good thing for it to do, but Google and Duck Duck Go failed to find the most pertinent information for me again.
How do you all search for information you need before installing or using new software?
I just started using Linux Mint as I’m a windows user, for now I’m in a dual boot with it and I found Linux very simple and easy to use. If there’s any recommendations for what I can do with it I do gaming and I like to code sometimes so let me know if any of you seasoned Linux users have advice
MSI X670E; Ryzen 9 9900x 64GB DDR5 RTX 4090
I've updated the bios, wiped all partitions (with gparted), disabled EUFI
Tried both Ubuntu and Mint (redownloaded the images a couple times to ensure they are good)
Tried on both the M2nvme and a SSD (both 1TB)
Tried disconnected from the internet (and connected)
NVME had windows 11 which ran fine.
Ubuntu gives me a "Something went wrong" error LMint seems to install but freezes on the "LM" logo loading page.
I've never struggled this much to install Linux and I'm at my wit's end!
I am completely new to linux and computer stuff in general this is my first time messing with computers at all. I was given a used macbook pro from 2015 (intel) and decided to load cinnamon onto it. Over all i have been happy but I am running into some problems I can't fix.
They first showed up while i was trying to copy some .avi files from an SD card onto the computer, and now it seems the same thing is happening after using the computer for a few hours.
Everything runs perfectly then I will tey to open an app and it wont load. When I try to open firefox specifically it says a version is already running and I need to restart. So I restart the normal way (going to the menu and shutting it off not forcing it off with the power button).
When I start it back up it goes right into initramfs. I do a manual fsck /dev/sda2 and I get a ton of messages about free block counts being wrong and free inode counts being wrong for various groups.
I tried to start cinnamon from recovery mode and when I try to run the grub boot i get an error saying the file is Read-only file.
I also checked my ssd health and it looks fine, nothing stands out as failing.
Other than these issues it runs smooth. I can run the fsck and my data is fine and I can use the laptop until the problem arises again. I have included some photos of the fsck and recovery mode if that helps.
OS: Kubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Plasma 5
Situation: I have 64-bit .exe app from a game developper (official tool). It’s a drag and drop texture converter, that accepts one or a batch of image files and outputs copies in proper format. It has no GUI, just opens commandline window, shows progress, outputs error messages, if there was any, outputs log and closes after you click confirmation button in dialog window.
Issue: AFAIK, simple drag and drop doesn't work. Despite it having no GUI, I tried running app via Wine. It does't work with any of the runners + 64 or 32 bit options, or any of Windows version emulations. If I run it with 64-bit option and open the log, it says "bad exe format". If I run it with 32-bit option, it says something about it not beeing a 32-bit app.
How do I properly run these kind of apps on Linux (how to tell Linux to use "this" app to process "these" files)? Search suggestions are somewhat contradictory and doesn't get to the bottom of it (I guess nobody uses such niche app on Linux).
I downloaded conky because I wanted to put some performance metrics on my wallpaper, but everytime I open the app, I freeze for a bit and end up at the login of Ubuntu, no full power restart. I just downloaded it and don't have it startup enabled. I have been using ubuntu for 1 week since switching to windows and this is the first real problem I found.
Hey everyone!
I've known about Linux for about a year now, but I've never actually used it. I recently got a new PC, and I'm thinking about dual-booting Linux alongside Windows.
I'm completely new to Linux, so I honestly don't know where to start or which distro to choose.
The main things that interest me are its customizability, open-source nature, and how useful it's supposed to be for programming. I've also heard that Linux can be great for CSE students, but I'm not sure how true that is.
I'd like to know a few things:
I'm not planning to leave Windows anytime soon. I just want to explore Linux, learn something new, and see whether I'll enjoy using it.
I'd really appreciate any advice or personal experiences. Even basic tips would be helpful since I barely know anything about Linux right now.
Thanks in Advance!
EDIT: Thanks everyone for all the advices, its already late at night I will try to read everyone else's comment when I wake up in the morning.
I got tired of Windows. Updates would randomly mess with my performance—making lightweight things like playing Hollow Knight while watching a video stutter, even though my PC can handle way more than that. Other times, it would take 10 minutes to shut down, or fail to wake up from sleep, forcing me to hard reboot for no clear reason.
So I tried switching to Linux. My problem is that I don't really like "gaming-focused" distros, and I hate having to fix or configure things just to get a usable system. I like Linux Mint, but it gave me gaming issues, and again, I don't want to tweak settings endlessly.
Right now, I have Nobara installed, but it gave me headaches from day one due to GRUB boot issues. I had to manually fix things in the terminal. Thank goodness for AI, but typing commands into a GRUB shell while reading off my phone—with my keyboard layout defaulting to US English and scrambling all the symbols—was an absolute nightmare.
I installed it yesterday, but I barely felt like setting it up properly after that. On top of that, small annoyances started piling up:
Super + Arrow keys doesn't fully maximize them properly, forcing me to use the mouse anyway.All I want is a system where things just work out of the box without endless troubleshooting. But every time I try a new distro (Mint, Zorin OS, Pop!_OS, CachyOS, Nobara), I run into these papercuts and end up crawling back to Windows.
Is there a distro or setup that truly "just works" for a multi-monitor setup without all this manual fixing, or am I missing something fundamental about how to approach Linux?
I want to try something new but most projects nowadays are AI and anything interesting seems to need a computer with massive horsepower OR I need to pay some corporation for access to 'tokens'.
Does anybody have any suggestions for tech hobbies that don't require money?
Tech just doesn't excite me anymore like it did 20 years ago as a teen and I'm looking for something new.
I've been fiddling with Fedora and Obsidian, if that helps.
Hi,
With my Windows 10 Extension finishing, I think it’s finally time for me to migrate to Linux.
You can see more details about my thoughts about it here.
My specs: 13 year old desktop computer, 16 GB RAM, 1TB HDD, core i3 CPU, Intel HD Graphics (integrated with CPU).
I thought Linux Mint XFCE is “best” for me. But still, for some reason, it feels a bit “boring”. I know the cutting edge Fedora does not fit so much to my pc. And I don’t know much about distros like CachyOS to tell.
What do you guys think? Maybe there’s nothing wrong about Mint being “boring”, but I read in some post some claim that Mint’s security is not so good, because it gets security updates behind Ubuntu and not using Wayland.
Also, should I consider btrfs, or stick to ext4?
Thanks in advance.
Hi so I changed the name of the terminal after looking it up bc I didnt like konsole with a k and now it doesn't open, plasma desktop workplace says it cant find it. Idk what I did wrong please help
Pretty much the text above says it all
I'm gonna get my PC soon and I want to do light gaming and learn light programming (Godot ren'py) so I just want to know which one is the best and also I don't know anything about Linux like kernels or any os terms
I literally just migrated from Windows to LMDE and have been using ZeroTier for a couple years now to play certain multiplayer games.
When I went to go install it, I realized that ZeroTier comes with an issue that I wasn't aware of with LMDE specifically, it seems this Github link explains the solution to the exact same error I had, but I literally just got here and have no idea what any of this means... LOL.
I'm mainly here to ask if 1. This is possible at my skill level, and 2. If yes, I need a much more beginner friendly, hand-holdy guide.
Thank you, and I apologize if this is hard to understand!
I intend to get an Asus Rog X870 Motherboard since it’s in an amazing bundle, but I’ve heard that the wifi chip that it uses (Mediatek) has had issues with Linux in the past. Is that still the case or has it been fixed/updated? I know that I could just buy a seperate wifi adapter too, but I’d like it if the built in wifi would work. I intend to use CachyOS, so hopefully it would be compatible.
I know its a dumb question but ive seen a lot of linux setups with cool animated anime wallpapers like the ones in wallpaper engine, but since wallpaper engine isnt available for linux, i have a lot of trouble searching for wallpapers without wallpaper engine because, for example, pinterest has a TERRIBLE quality, most images less than 720p and those pages that supposedly have thousands of 4k wallpapers are always just official anime covers taken from the crunchyroll page and one or two fanarts, and thats only the images, i dont seem to find moving wallpapers
If it helps im using cachyos with niri and noctalia
I have a need to type the middle dot character • regularly for reasons.
I'm not a Linux noob I've been using it on and off for years.
I know that the Compose Key exists and what mine is set to: Right Alt.
I'm using Mint:
$ uname -a
Linux dellminty 6.8.0-134-generic #134-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jun 26 18:43:11 UTC 2026 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
X-Cinnamon
There are so many helpful pages which tell me that it's various things but I can't make it work with Compose-period, Compose-double-period or any of the things which "AI" tells me to do.
I can get by with:
Any ideas?
I don't suppose there's any kind of hack which lets me use the keyboard shortcuts I already know for Mac and for Windows?
Hi, I need some help with my setup. I'm running CachyOS and Windows on separate drives. My bootloader is limine. Recently I wanted to enable Secure Boot because a game I want to play requires it.
I followed the wiki and everything seemed to work fine. But then the next day I got an missmatch error and had to boot into a live iso and copy the limine_x64.efi to the BOOTX64.EFI. Now everytime I do an update or install something (I think it's when a new snapshot is created) these two files get out of sync again.
So I manually have to sync them again every time something changes. I don't think is was the intended outcome of the tutorial in the wiki but I also don't really know how to fix this.
