I was having issues with running an AppImage and I asked Claude for help (I know how stupid that was even before doing it) it suggested I run this command: "sudo rm -f /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 sudo rm -f /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2" shortly my entire system started freezing and I decided to restart it, I got a Kernel panic blue screen and after forcing restart I got this black screen. I've tried booting to Endeavor OS intrafms for recovery and I don't have a live USB rn for recovery, please what do you suggest I do?

I'm on Endeavor OS

now my entire screen is just a small group of pixels directly surrounding my mouse. how do i stop this?? i restarted my laptop and it won't stop.

im running manjaro with kde plasma. i installed a few very basic plugins and shit like oh my zsh and yaourt, and i haven't had basically any problems. im sure i must have hit some kind of hotkey i didn't know was a hotkey. Please help me. i have class in three hours and i need to finish the readings!

I went down the rabbit hole of linux and most of the benefits listed by users are stuff like:

No automatic updates

Privacy

No bloatware

Full "control" (not sure what it means)

Unlimited customization

Better for dev

Now I'm a normal lightweight user who watches movies, does college work and studying, and practices coding. I'm not very tech savvy and not comfortable with Terminal. Windows seems perfectly fine to me, you just click and get the work done. Help and support is widely and easily available, you don't need to spend hours just to fix some driver issue.

Linux users frequently say that Windows is slow and things sometimes takes lot of time to load, but to me windows feels fast enough to get the job done. I don't get stuck for 2 mins opening some app.

I've never got the Blue Screen of death.

I'm not bothered with any customization or the updates as they notify weeks before, so I have a lot of time to choose when I want to update my laptop.

I don't do any shady stuff that I would be concerned of "privacy". I am also not into any high level dev work.

I also visited subreddits like windows11 and linuxsucks to understand their pov and well linux has plenty of disadvantages too, like stuff breaking easily, help manuals not easily available, having to write 20 lines of script in some situations.

So what exactly do y'all linux users glaze linux for and how would linux be beneficial for a lightweight normal user like me?

I tried to make a backup before doing a fresh install of Fedora because of problems. When erasing the external drive for making the backup I was in the wrong disk and nuked my fedora installation.

How Do I get at least my important Documents from /home/username/ back?

nothing more to say, why people don't like it? it's not supposed to be better?

edit: thanks to everyone!

I have been linux for a while and im absolutely love it, but i was wandering how do i scan my system for viruses and how hard is it to get viruses. I have heard about clamav and rkhunter but i also heard that they are pretty mid.

Hey, so I wanna try out Linux but I am really fucking stupid and bad with Computers. I once needed to use Ubuntu and it was a fucking nightmare. You had to use the console so often to Install stuff you can do with a single click on windows. i dont know If every Linux system is like that but I dont want windows anymore because it annoys me.

so I wanted to test out Linux. In the best case it should exactly behave like windows but without the annoying stuff.

I often hear from friends that you cant Play every game on Linux. It should be able to play modern games but also old ones like might and magic VI, Heroes of might and magic III and IV stuff like that.

Sry if that Info is irrelevant but like I said I dont know anything.

If you need any informations please let me know

Has anyone bought a craptop off a classifieds and then had a play around with installing Linux and configuring it? I thought if I find something dirt cheap, I could experiment with Linux in a low stakes environment.

I have a old laptop that cannot run 64 bit OS, so I tried to download some 32 bit systems, however none work and I can't find any help anywhere.

Edit: Specs-Intel Atom 1.6 GHz CPU, 160 GB SATA HDD, 1GB ddr-2-667 MHz. Name of laptop is EEE Pc 1000HA

Edit 2: Figured out I had a corrupted hard drive not allowing me to install a new OS, thanks so much to everyone for your help and advice, and I will EOL the laptop.

I want to preface this by saying that I was really looking forward to moving away from Windows and learning Linux and hopefully running it as my daily driver. However, I unfortunately can't really see myself doing that. For the past week or so, I have been tinkering and having to fight against my PC for various things. For context, I am using KDE Plasma on the non LTS kernel of cachyOS. I update daily with cachy update. I have a Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 3080, and 32gb 6000mhz ram.

One of the issues is for whatever reason, when I turn on variable refresh rate to "automatic" on my main monitor (MSI 321URX), whenever I would take a screenshot with Spectacle it would make my entire screen go black for about 3 seconds. The same thing would happen whenever I would be watching a youtube video in Fullscreen and upon exiting the Fullscreen video my monitor would go black for 3s. This didn't seem to happen with VRR turned off.

Another issue was when using Brave browser, if I tried rebooting the PC without fully closing Brave beforehand, upon starting Brave up I would always get a warning about Brave crashing unexpectedly. On top of that, it would also just straight up crash randomly for no apparent reason. I also would not be able to autofill my passwords from Bitwarden for whatever reason.

A really weird issue I had was with some obscure font that I was using on one of my Discord servers for the channel names. It took like two days to figure this out as I was testing this with other cachyOS users and some of them were seeing this font correctly, while others were not, it had turned out I was missing some "gnu-free-fonts' package that wasn't installed by default on cachyOS for me.

Before cachyOS, I tried out Linux Mint on my living room pc(i7 6700k, 32gb 3200mhz, gtx 960) and Zorin on my main desktop, and those both had their own set of issues, but as to not make this post longer than it has to, I'll just tldr for these two and basically say that for Linux Mint, my BT keyboard didn't work no matter what, but worked flawlessly on cachyOS. As for Linux Mint, I tried running resident evil 4 (2005) and couldn't get it to run until I forced proton to use openGL, which I found strange as the game has a platinum rating on protondb and my drivers were all up to date. For Zorin, it wouldn't switch the login screen to my main monitor even tho I had my monitor set as main, resulting in me having to login on my vertical monitor with the image still in horizontal mode. No matter what I tried this would still happen.

All in all, I had to spent about 20 hours over this past week just constantly tinkering with my OS just to make things work the way I wanted. I really wanted Linux to work for me, but it is really exhausting to have to do all this. Yes I know Windows has it's own bugs and issues, but for the most part, I never had to deal with so many bugs and issues like this in a row just to use my PC. And I can't imagine how much more I'd have to keep fixing going forward. I'm at my wits end... I think the best I can do is just continue running Linux Mint on my living room PC as I have been, and then run Windows on my main desktop.

My little brother's computer ran Windows 11 and struggles quite a bit running stuff, hence why I installed Linux. Debian to be specific, as it's rock solid stable so he won't blow up his install by looking at the clock wrong. I made it so it will be user friendly... However, I fear it might not be enough.

What else can I do to make it more friendly for him?? I figure KDE and a familiar setup works wonders.

EDIT: He's 11

Gnome DE by design has a very good touchscreen friendly UI / UX. But KDE is more suited for a more traditional desktop Mouse + Keyboard UX. Since Valve's most ambitious product was the steam deck, which is a touchscreen device, shouldn't it make more sense to use Gnome instead of KDE?

Went to install some application called Zram. I run out of memory frequently.

I'm on mint 21

And the final step of the instructions was to restart, now I restart and it's bricked. Tried different kernel versions too, since i have like 3 different kernels installed. All do the same thing.

Please help

Windows has been on a massive downhill for a while now, my laptop isn't good enough for Win11 but even without that my current Win10 has been performing way worse after the end of support. That being said, Windows has been the only operating system I really used in my entire life and I know my way around it, but I wouldn't call myself all that knowledgeable with computers in general, just your average guy. Enough is enough though, so I wanted to try something new, the most logical option being Linux. Are there any distributions that are fairly user friendly and wouldn't require me to learn all those commands and stuff from scratch right off the bat? I'm using my laptop mainly for playing games and browsing the internet, but I've heard about steam's compatibility layer that makes gaming easier, so I guess I don't have to be too worried about that. Would it require me to do a completely clean install or do I have to prepare myself to wipe out my hard drive? Are there any more things I should be aware of, learn about or just anything important at all? Sorry if this question is asked here a lot and if I'm being slow, I'm just kinda nervous about breaking anything but at the same time I'm really fed up with Microsofts bullcrap.

This is half a question about linux, half about prebuilts, but I figure this is a good place to start. I'm going to college soon for civil engineering, and want a desktop computer for physics simulations I may need for college as well as games and music I produce. Issue is, every prebuilt computer I can find is windows 11. I refuse to use windows 11 because privacy concerns and an ever burning hatred of AI and vibecoding. I never had a reason to look into linux before, but I remembered it and figured it might solve my problem. Do you think it'd be worth it to buy a windows 11 pc and switch to linux immediately? How easy is it to switch to linux from a brand new computer? I've had some small coding experience and I'm not clueless when it comes to computers, so I assume it wouldn't be too user unfriendly to a newby.

Meganoob question. 🙏

When these countries announce something like this, do they actually mean they’re going to replace Windows on every government computer with Linux? How exactly are they going to do that? I assume that would cause a massive compatibility and migration headache, especially with legacy software, internal systems, employee training, hardware, and existing workflows.

If a government really wants to move away from Windows, what does the actual step-by-step migration look like and how do they keep critical government services running throughout the transition?

Is the hate towards bad choices by Canonical? Is it because tends to be noob friendly? Is it the all together?

Hi! I just barely switched over to using Linux (Ubuntu Budgie!) and was wondering - what browser should I be using? I don't want to use Chrome, because I don't want Google Tracking all over my machine - and I don't want to deal with the incoming storm of AI that's going to be facing the Firefox browser, after recent announcements.

So, what browsers do you all use? What do you suggest?

I mean as far as i have seen on yt if you become Hackerman with the terminal enough all distros look the same, the thing that matters is Desktop environment like gnome xfce or KDE plasma

i am not talking about stuff like arch where you are responsible for everything but stuff like fedora, ubuntu, mint linux etc.

TL;DR Please can someone give me their experience of using Linux whilst also working in finance and needing excel/ access to a cloud server?

Recently I realised how much windows is trying to mess with my life by slowing down my perfectly good laptop to the point that using the internet feels painful.

I have learnt that Linux allows for more freedom regarding what processes the computer needs to run and allows you to make better use of a perfectly good machine.

That being said, I am scared that if I use Linux I won’t be able to use certain things like Microsoft excel, or at least its newer versions, and access my cloud server for work. I have seen people use things like word and excel locally but it looks like an older versions. Is it possible to use Linux effectively when most services are primarily catered toward Windows or Mac?

So I'm trying to install Steam, but its just spitting out tons of errors at me...

I currently have a MacBook for personal use & a business-provided Windows HP laptop for work. Massachusetts sales tax holiday is coming up in a few weekends and I’m planning on getting a gaming PC.

Would Linux be an option if I want to avoid using Windows on it?

I'm primarily a single-player gamer, if that helps. I have no experience with Steam so that's a whole nother thing.

so alot of the downloads i want to do seem to require sudo which apparently i need to be the root to do but i dont have a root password but people are saying to not make a root password login or something i really dont understand what im supposed to do. How am i supposed to downloa dthings that require it if people are telling me not to??

i use xubuntu

Sorry if this is too basic or dumb but what's a better os for someone like me?

Im currently looking to ditch windows 11 but I don't want to lose access to some of the multiplayer games I have and maybe future multiplayer games.

I'm a very basic user. I just browse the Internet, watch movies and YouTube, and play games. I don't really do anything else on my pc.

So I'm asking what's better for someone like me? Is Linux that worth it or should I just downgrade to Windows 10?

(Update)

So after more research and help from everyone I've decided to try out Linux through dual booting, and if I like it I'll fully make the switch.

Thank you everyone for your input.