I'm a Linux noob using Tumbleweed and Gnome. I occasionally run into issues that I can't solve on my own. More and more I'm successfully using AI to troubleshoot issues (like thousands of other Linux noobs). Today one of my apps stopped working and Gemini showed me how to fix it. AI is making it easier for me (a Linux noob) to stay on Linux and use it successfully. I'm slowing learning basic CLI commands and slowly learning about Linux.
So I just switched from windows 10 to pop os and one of the first things I did was download steam to play games but when I loaded into Arma 3 and selected code four gaming KOTH it would let me get past role selection screen so I joined another server and got into the game but didn’t make it 5 mins before disconnecting so I decided to play sea of thieves but when I loaded into the game i could run fine everyone else was smooth I could tell but my screen just shot everywhere. Any help please
Relevant Hardware: AMD Radeon RX570 graphics card (AMD GPU drivers are installed and in use)
So, to preface this, I'm aware I've probably made several mistakes at this point, but I've gotten myself completely lost and am in desperate need of help.
Earlier today I decided to run a full update on my Arch system, since it had been nearly 2 weeks since I'd updated any packages, so I ran a full "sudo pacman -Syu" command and let everything update, then I did a reboot of my system. In doing so, something has gone horribly wrong with my monitor config, and not only is the LXQT Monitor GUI app not letting me set anything, but nothing I was doing to the relevant files was having any effect either. I tried to do quite a bit of troubleshooting on my own, but I've made no meaningful progress.
After the aforementioned reboot my screens are all in the wrong order (I am running 4 monitors all connected to the RX570) and the resolutions are all wrong, and the wrong monitor is default. I attempted to run the lxqt-config-monitor GUI application but for some reason all it gives me is a blank box, there's no options or anything available in it, which is not how it's been working up until this most recent update of packages.
Faced with the above window, I opened the settings dialog which showed me that I had 1 presaved setting, but wouldn't actually display the information in that setting, it simply showed the date and time I'd saved it, I tried to apply that, but nothing happened. When that didn't work I navigated to /etc/xdg/lxqt and found the lxqt-config-monitor.conf file that resided there, and tried to manually edit it by copying my save to the "current config" section of that file, then rebooting. This had no impact. As such I went to ~/.config/lxqt and found the lxqt-config-monitor.conf file in that location and did the same thing, copying the settings I wanted into the "current config" section of the file then rebooting and again nothing happened.
After manually editing both files failed to have any effect I made what I'm sure is my first mistake in this process and deleted both files then rebooted. The computer rebuilt ~/.conf/lxqt/lxqt-config-monitor.conf but did not rebuild the file that was in the other location, however the file it did build was blank. I realized then not backing up the files before I deleted them was probably a bad call but that's neither here nor there at this point.
The next thing I attempted was to uninstall and reinstall lxqt-config, so I ran a "sudo pacman -Rs lxqt-config" followed by "sudo pacman -S lxqt-config" and then rebooted, however after the reboot nothing had changed, the lxqt-config-monitor GUI app still looks as pictured above, the config files are still blank, etc. I did at this point try to use the GUI app and tell it to save the current settings. This updated the ~/.conf/lxqt/lxqt-config-monitor.conf file from being blank to containing the following but nothing else has changed, and I can't dump the saved data I had before because I deleted it.
After that failed I decided to open up a terminal (which I realize I probably should have done much earlier in troubleshooting) and run "lxqt-config-monitor" as a terminal command, but that just said "Connecting to KScreen..." and opened the same GUI window as shown above. I then ran "sudo lxqt-config-monitor" and that's where I seem to have hit on something error wise but several hours of web searches haven't gotten me further than this. The output for that command is as follows:
LXQt::SingleApplication::SingleApplication(int&, char**, StartOptions) "Can't connect to the D-Bus session bus\nMake sure the D-Bus daemon is running"
error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is invalid or not set in the environment.
Failed to create wl_display (No such file or directory)
I've run a "sudo systemctl status dbus" and confirmed the D-Bus service is active and running but that's as far as I've managed to get, why the app thinks it cannot connect to the D-bus session or what these other errors mean and how to resolve them I've not made any progress on, so I'm really hoping for some help in figuring out what I've broken and how to fix it.
For what it's worth this seems to be the only component of the entire system not working, I do have a display on all 4 monitors, and everything else seems to be working normally, I just can't properly arrange my monitors or change the resolution on them.
A couple of days ago I posted about GUI problems, freezes etc. I had reinstalled Linux Mint on Oct 3 (v22), but the problems keep happening since spring, when I was still on v21. I also changed the SSD used.
A lot of people suggested changing the kernel used.
Yesterday, I tried Winapps via a Docker VM, but it was unusable because of entire system freezes, so I looked into the coredumps since my Oct 3 install:
$ sudo coredumpctl list
TIME PID UID GID SIG COREFILE EXE SIZE
Sat 2026-10-03 20:50:13 CEST 1081 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Sat 2026-10-03 22:13:53 CEST 5873 0 0 SIGSEGV missing /usr/bin/python3.12 -
Sun 2026-10-04 02:20:23 CEST 1077 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Mon 2026-10-05 10:22:25 CEST 1125 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Mon 2026-10-05 15:15:48 CEST 1060 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Mon 2026-10-05 16:35:29 CEST 1071 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Mon 2026-10-05 16:40:58 CEST 3210 1001 1001 SIGSEGV missing /usr/bin/gnome-screenshot -
Mon 2026-10-05 17:27:40 CEST 6087 1001 1001 SIGSEGV missing /usr/bin/gnome-screenshot -
Tue 2026-10-06 02:19:55 CEST 1079 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Tue 2026-10-06 15:23:15 CEST 1064 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Wed 2026-10-07 00:15:36 CEST 64530 1001 1001 SIGABRT missing /opt/zoom/ZoomWebviewHost -
Fri 2026-10-09 00:38:00 CEST 1136 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Fri 2026-10-09 10:47:58 CEST 1069 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Sat 2026-10-10 07:56:09 CEST 1139 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Sun 2026-10-11 15:21:08 CEST 1076 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Mon 2026-10-12 00:55:49 CEST 1146 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Mon 2026-10-12 13:00:42 CEST 1059 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Tue 2026-10-13 15:46:46 CEST 1146 0 0 SIGABRT present /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 8.9M
Wed 2026-10-14 17:04:52 CEST 1062 0 0 SIGABRT present /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 8.9M
Thu 2026-10-15 15:16:11 CEST 1165 0 0 SIGABRT present /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 8.9M
Fri 2026-10-16 11:34:22 CEST 33279 1001 1001 SIGSEGV present /usr/bin/gnome-screenshot 3.9M
Sat 2026-10-17 08:09:38 CEST 1171 0 0 SIGABRT present /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 7.8M$ sudo coredumpctl list
TIME PID UID GID SIG COREFILE EXE SIZE
Sat 2026-10-03 20:50:13 CEST 1081 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Sat 2026-10-03 22:13:53 CEST 5873 0 0 SIGSEGV missing /usr/bin/python3.12 -
Sun 2026-10-04 02:20:23 CEST 1077 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Mon 2026-10-05 10:22:25 CEST 1125 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Mon 2026-10-05 15:15:48 CEST 1060 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Mon 2026-10-05 16:35:29 CEST 1071 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Mon 2026-10-05 16:40:58 CEST 3210 1001 1001 SIGSEGV missing /usr/bin/gnome-screenshot -
Mon 2026-10-05 17:27:40 CEST 6087 1001 1001 SIGSEGV missing /usr/bin/gnome-screenshot -
Tue 2026-10-06 02:19:55 CEST 1079 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Tue 2026-10-06 15:23:15 CEST 1064 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Wed 2026-10-07 00:15:36 CEST 64530 1001 1001 SIGABRT missing /opt/zoom/ZoomWebviewHost -
Fri 2026-10-09 00:38:00 CEST 1136 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Fri 2026-10-09 10:47:58 CEST 1069 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Sat 2026-10-10 07:56:09 CEST 1139 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Sun 2026-10-11 15:21:08 CEST 1076 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Mon 2026-10-12 00:55:49 CEST 1146 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Mon 2026-10-12 13:00:42 CEST 1059 0 0 SIGABRT missing /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -
Tue 2026-10-13 15:46:46 CEST 1146 0 0 SIGABRT present /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 8.9M
Wed 2026-10-14 17:04:52 CEST 1062 0 0 SIGABRT present /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 8.9M
Thu 2026-10-15 15:16:11 CEST 1165 0 0 SIGABRT present /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 8.9M
Fri 2026-10-16 11:34:22 CEST 33279 1001 1001 SIGSEGV present /usr/bin/gnome-screenshot 3.9M
Sat 2026-10-17 08:09:38 CEST 1171 0 0 SIGABRT present /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 7.8M
I've successfully and permanently switched from Windows to Bazzite KDE Plasma and I'm running all my games through Steam via Proton Experimental/ge/cachyos, but someone told me that they're using Gamescope. What is that and are there any advantages over Proton?
So I've been dreaming of switching to Linux over months deciding which distro and it's benefits and everyone knew that id pick mint
I heard that there is a catch
I had GT 610 Fermi architecture with 4 gigs of ram and i3 3220 but indie titles (silksong nine sols ultra kill etc.) ran VERY well as I mean and there was some kind of a catch on Linux
It only supported vulkan and I have openGL I read that there is a way to make it run opengl via switching to it and downloading the preparatory drivers (installing nouvue first then on desktop installing preparatory ones) will that reduce my overall fps or make games crash? And if it did... Is there a way to make it run well just like it did on windows with my potato toaster?
Also it's a nividia GeForce 610 so anyone doesn't get confused I don't know what fps i got there but after posting it in linux_gaming the mod suggested me to come here.
That's all and thank you:)
(Note: haven't switched yet so I couldn't regret it I'm planning to use XFCE Linux mint which is well for beginners)
i'm not someone with tech literacy, and i have a life, apologies if some of the things i say here feel stupid. i'm just trying to get by and customize my desktop 😭 stupid things happen everyday and linux mint is a beginner distro omg
so, i was exploring and trying to figure out a way to make my storage drive accessable to steam since i couldn't select it for a drive. i figured it was permissions, since i also couldn't download another thing (as i remember...)
then, i went to the disk management, i tried to change /storage to /home, but it didnt seem to work.. so i deleted the partition. nothing seemed to happen, the partition was still there.
i was pretty confused until i restarted my pc and got sent to emergency mode.
(sdit: in emergency mode, the partition is unallocated space now.)
(also, i'm not sure if this is connected, but in journalctl -xb, i saw:
i can't install anything, i can't do as much as the super user, and also, my timeshift files are gone (gee i wonder why), and my internet wont turn on.
Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit
7.0.0-38-generic
AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics x 6
NVIDIA Corporation GP108 [GeForce GT 1030]
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series]
15.6 GB
643.5 GB
Cinammon 6.6.9
X11
I've been on Linux (first Mint, now Ubuntu) for close to a decade now because Microsoft is evil and Windows sucks and runs like shit. I can browse the internet, play some games, manage my files, write some documents. It's good. I've recommended it to others for those reasons.
However, I've often felt like I was banging my head against a wall when trying to install more specific software. Most recently: LaTeX.
I've heard it's a better way of editing text documents and I was looking forward to trying it out. But I simply cannot get to that point. There's nothing in the AppCenter that's a straightforward install and run. I've looked it up and seen people say they use MiKTeX and TeXLive and Vim and EMCAS? So now I'm not sure I understand what it "LaTeX" really is at all.
The only thing that makes sense to me so far is Overleaf. You get a GUI that lets you type in the "code" and hit a button and it spits out a PDF. It's like markup. Cool! But I'd prefer to use it locally, and I don't understand how. I've followed instructions on this (1999 lookin' ass) website, which is supposed to be "straightforward". I still don't have anything on my computer that lets me edit or create documents. At least I don't understand how.
Am I that stupid? I'd like to think not. I've managed to install Linux at least. And I'm not scared of computers, I've installed some other stuff through the CLI in the past. I might be impatient. But is that so bad? I thought this was fairly common software, I'm on the most common distro, and creating documents is a common task. I'd have thought installing it would just work. But it won't and it's lowkey making me lose my damn mind.
Not sure I want help, I'm mostly just venting. Probably I'll just try Overleaf and see if I like that for the time being. But I really wish Linux was more user-friendly. A big selling point is that it lets you do whatever you want, but what use is that theoretical possibility if it's too complex to actually execute? Right now I'm feeling completely locked in.
Hey everybody I'm a windows user from the very start but I am considering shifting to Linux. The problem that I am facing is that I don't really know anything about it. All I know is how to use windows.
So I need serious help. If anybody can tell me where to start, how to practice before actually installing any type of Linux and where to practice as well. Why am I saying before installing is because I have only one pc which is behind handled for all my tasks so basically I don't want to lose any stuff and get blocked out.
Any help and advice is really appreciated. My DM is open as well.
I have tried linux mint a few times over the years and inevitably get frustrated and go back to windows due to needing to learn so many little things just to get going. Although I get frustrated with it, I still feel this enticing pull towards linux. I want to learn, I just don't understand how people consider this easy at all. Where do I go to get a good deep learning of this and to ease my biggest pain points.
Biggest pain points:
1. First and foremost, how do you learn the equivalent of the windows explore? I open it up and it looks familiar, but everything goes to weird pathways. I install things and I don't know where they go.
The terminal. How did anyone even figure out any of the commands for this? I have been told that terminal is essentially an optional thing you can do with linux, but most users use the terminal because it makes things "easier". I was dabbling in a few of the beginning commands. And when I thought I understood things it clearly showed I had 0 idea what I was doing. things like sudo apt commands. I just felt like whenever I was "downloading" anything through terminal it felt like I was downloading an unknown program and always had me wondering if it was really what I was searching for.
This also meant for updating, I felt like I had updates almost daily, if not multiple times a day it would show that I had updates.
I guess those are really my biggest pain points. I have tried looking at videos to learn, but it feels like I still need a background in coding or something to understand these things.
It could be as simple as the person saying so go in to the terminal and type in sudo apt upgrade and then they would just say what sudo was, but it made no sense to me. I would even consider myself a very tech savvy person as well. Which is probably why I always run away from linux, because if I feel like it's to advanced I just consider it not worth going further.
Maybe you guys can shine some light on this and really point me in a better direction. Possibly maybe even someone that was in my position and finally had that "aha" moment.
got a newer pc and on my current is mint and neon kde
1-any thing specific I need to do to transfer the whole drive to the new pc? will it work plug and play? do I need to upodate anything?
2-I do not like mint at all. too many issues. id like to try something else on that partition. I know how to cope with windows and install process on partitions but not with linux
some insight on how to remove mint and slap a different distro on that partition?
I have a 2017 MacBook with the following specifications:
Processor: 1.8 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5
RAM: 8 GB DDR3 (1600 MHz)
Storage: 121 GB total, with around 100 GB available
I wanna become a SOC analyst and hence I want to start learning skills on linux. I'm confused which linux should i use that'll be best for my MacBook. I asked chat gpt and it said I won't be able to run heavy labs on it so I want your help knowing whether it's right and if it's right then what should I do??
I recently got a new computer and added Kubuntu on it and I want to play Dolphin games on but I don’t know how. Can I have a very detailed explanation on how to add Dolphin games to Kubuntu? Also I don’t want to hear “just google it” because me and google are too dense to figure that out.
$ head `which apt`
#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys
import os
import subprocess
import shlex
import shutil
def usage():
print("""
$ head $(which apt)
#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys
import os
import subprocess
import shlex
import shutil
def usage():
print("""
But not
$ which apt | head
/usr/local/bin/apt
$ which apt 2>&1 | head
/usr/local/bin/apt
Well, I can do it, but it won't let me see the head of my Linux Mint's Python wrapper for apt.
Apparently - according to my internet research - that's because with pipe, the path becomes stdin and not an argument for head. I need which apt | xargs head for it to work.
Could you please elaborate on the difference between these two? I have a hard time understanding it.
I'm using Bazzite, and I literally just switched, so my knowledge on Linux is extremely bare bones. I'd like to set up a group of windows on a screen and 'save' their layout so that I can open them all at once at any time. Specifically, I'm trying to have OBS and a few webpages open, since from what I can tell, flatpak OBS can't add custom docks. Is there a way to do this? Or is it a manual process every time?
I'm not quite sure of how to word the question, but I'm wondering how well things can be sandboxed with Steam's Proton. I ask this in the context of the possibility some games or mods might be malware and it's assuming that the game is running as a windows game without native Linux options. I know roughly that everything in your home folder could be accessed by the game. How well can it be mitigated? Is it possible, assuming no linux malware hidden inside, to make windows based malware unable to effect or see anything beyond its own steamapp folder?
Running Debian 13 with gnome on an older system (gt 1030, i5-9400k, 16gb ram), and considering switching my DE to hyprland. Would this be a good idea / would it be as smooth an experience as gnome is for me?
I have an Acer Aspire 5610 (a laptop from around 2006, these are the specs https://www.miniputer.com/Acer/Aspire_5610.html ) with an original Windows Vista installed. However, my idea is to install Linux and then install a VM inside for Windows 98. I have checked several lightweight distros and I think the following are compatible with my laptop: Puppy Linux, Tiny Core, Linux Lite, AntiX Linux (and I'm not sure about others).
Which one would properly run a VM? (on top of my laptop being able to install said distro, ofc!)
So, either in a few months or more (depending on a repair thing for my current PC) I'm gonna build a new one, now granted if everything works out I'll stay on windows, but for my next PC that I'm gonna build as my first PC build, I wanna make the move to linux, granted I will have windows on a second SSD for games with kernel level anti cheats. Anywho, I wanna use Nvidia since I've had nothing but trouble with my AMD GPU and since I wanna use windows on another drive, I don't wanna use it for my next PC, so I wanna know if a 5070ti will work well on bazzite since I've heard that linux and nvidia doesn't mix that well. You can also recomend another distro, I want a gaming specific distro, well not specific but a focused one and I've heard CachyOS is good on Nvidia but I'm scared of Arch. I also don't care about it being super identical to windows, if it works well with wireless PCVR over steamlink (since virtual desktop doesn't support linux I've heard) then that's a total plus, downloading stuff should be easy, since I don't know how to install stuff with the terminal or whatever. I don't wanna use linux mint as my daily driver for a gaming PC, if it was a non gaming PC then yeah I would use mint, like if it was a work PC I'd pick it. What do you guys recomend?
