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I feel like it's quite opinionated and quite barebones in what it offers in terms of themes and ricing. I've only been using it for like an hour but coming from KDE Plasma I feel like it's not super intuitive? For example, I can't even drag around the applets on my dock lol. Reordering, removing and adding applets mostly has to be done in settings.

I wanted to try COSMIC because I saw some really pretty rices and I understand it's still quite new but I'm just wondering if theres something I'm missing. How do others feel about it? Do any COSMIC users have any tips for me? I really wanna give this a fair go because it really does look lovely out of the box and would love to be able to make it even more beautiful!!

hi there, i am currently running windows as my main (and only) pc atm, however i've been having some driver issues that just cant seem to be fixed, and they seem to be a windows problem.
i used manjaro linux daily for a good few months a couple years back and loved the experience, and over the last year i've really wanted to try out cachyos.
my main concerns about switching over to linux is a lack of photoshop and premiere pro, as well as possibly saying goodbye to some games i play, not entirely sure if i will actually have to tho.
would really appreciate if someone gave me their two cents, i only have one ssd and i dont feel comfortable dual booting off of it as it was a pain last time so itd be a full swiitch, i feel meloncholy about leaving behind my riced up windows cos i've spent a lot of time on it but i think linux might be the way to go for good now...
thanku in advance lovely penguins <3

Okay, so here is what I want to do:

1. Be able to play games (I play Neverness to Everness, Zenless Zone Zero and Ananta once it comes out)
2. I am a SWE so I want to be able to run python, node and other program languages

Here are my system specs:

Laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15ACH6 (82K2)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H (6C/12T)

RAM: 8 GB installed / ~6 GB usable (iGPU reserved) / ~0.5 GB free right now

OS: Windows 11 Home Single Language 25H2, build 26200 (some WMI fields still show Windows 10)

BIOS: H3CN39WW(V2.09), UEFI, 2023-05-31

GPU 1 (iGPU): AMD Radeon Graphics

- Driver: 31.0.21921.13001

- Display: 1920x1080 @ 120 Hz

GPU 2 (dGPU): NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

- VRAM: 4 GB (reported)

- Driver: 32.0.15.6614

- Current resolution: not reported (likely not driving display right now)

Other:

- Hypervisor/Virtualization: present

- Device Guard: HVCI running

- Processes: 319

- Pagefile: C:\pagefile.sys

What kind of linux distro would you guys suggest and if there are any specific tutorials that I can refer to please feel free to post them in the thread.

Thank you for helping 😁

I’m using zstd, but based on what I've read on Reddit and around the internet zstd seems to be the most commonly preferred option Why is that? Do the other algorithms have any significant advantages or not? Why aren’t they used as much? What did zstd get right compared to the others etc. ?

I have a really frustrating problem on Windows 10. I copied some files from Ubuntu directly into C:\ (the root of the system drive). Windows Explorer does not detect them at all. However, if I use Everything (voidtools), the files appear and Everything says they are located in C:\. But I cannot open them, copy them, rename them, or delete them. Nothing works.

The strange part: in Everything, the file names look completely normal. There are no weird characters, no trailing dots or spaces, no extremely long paths. Just normal names. They always showed up normally before, but after copying them from Ubuntu, Windows won't let me access them at all.

What I've tried:

· 7-Zip: it doesn't see the files.

· Linux tools like ntfsls, fsntfsinfo, ntfstool: they don't show the files either.

· I'm looking for an application that can access files with forbidden names, or a command to access ALL existing files on C:\ without restrictions.

Does anyone know what could be causing this and how to fix it? I need to recover these files. I'm willing to use command line, PowerShell, WSL, a Linux live USB, or any tool. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

So, my father is studying Industrial Automation (postgraduate and some additional courses) and I talked with him about the possibility for him to use Linux and study Automation.

I don't think he would like using Linux honestly, he prefers simple things, but he said to me to ask someone who works with Automation in Linux (if so). I mean, if TIA Portal V21 works on Linux, specifically.

It's a little harmless question. Curiosity.

Sorry for this big text and if I made any mistakes while writing this.

Just as the title says I want to know if it's okay and safe to use GDM for kde plasma and if not, what could go wrong? Thank you.

Hello,

I just got done setting up a dedicated minecraft pc for a friends daughter. But there is one issue. Shes not allowed to browse the internet with it. So i set up firefox to not be usable with her account by revoking permissions. That worked as intended.

BUT

The issue is that she might need the browser for log in into discord and minecraft (microsoft account). So removing permissions is not working in this case.

I setup her account to not be a root user and my plan is that firefox asks for the password of the root account before its opened so her dad can be there when she needs to log in.

I've tried scripting, browser extensions ... i bet it's a very simple solution but i can't wrap my head around it.

Thank you for your time!

I just upgraded three different systems that had been running KUbuntu 24.04 to 26.04 via the "do-release-upgrade". EVERYTHING works fine but one.. Don't judge me, but I love the old-skool Gkrellm monitor program, and on Kubuntu 24.04 it was working fine. Now, under 26.04, It refuses to stay BEHIND other windows. No matter how I set the configuration/properties "set on top of windows of the same type" OR "set below windows of the same type".I cannot get other windows to go OVER Gkrellm, they ALL go UNDER. I have properties set "set sticky state" and "set window type to be a dock or panel". On 24.04, the "set below other windows" made other windows go over Gkrellm.. Is this some different way 26.04 handles this issue? Is there a fix?

Olá gente, vou migrar pro Linux, tenho um computador desktop que divido com minha mãe, mas ela se adapta fácil a novos sistemas, então gostaria de uma distro básica que atenda as necessidades mais básicas dela, e integre bem os meus jogos.

Um ponto importante é que, eu estou começando a estudar TI, estou em um curso básico de técnico de informática, então o terminal não é mais uma novidade para mim, gostaria de uma distro que me ajudasse a me desenvolver sem medo, por favor preciso de ajuda.

Cada vez que pesquiso fico mais confusa sobre qual escolher, eu penso em não escolher Mint, pois não sinto que é meu estilo apesar de funcionar.