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Hi everyone. As a Windows 10 user, I want to try switching to Linux purely for gaming and maximum FPS, but I have a very old and weak laptop, so I’m afraid of making the wrong choice of distro. I’m not expecting “magic”, but I want to squeeze the absolute maximum performance possible out of my...

Hi everyone. As a Windows 10 user, I want to try switching to Linux purely for gaming and maximum FPS, but I have a very old and weak laptop, so I’m afraid of making the wrong choice of distro. I’m not expecting “magic”, but I want to squeeze the absolute maximum performance possible out of my...

Let's take it step by step. I have tried everything possible to install a different distribution on my brother's laptop, and it has not worked. His laptop is a Victus by HP Gaming Laptop 15-fb1013dx. Secure boot is disabled and nothing can be changed. When I try to boot the ISO in the Grub menu...

Hello everyone, I bought a new Acer Swift X, which comes with an rtx 5060, touchpad with stylus and touch screen. All of it works perfectly fine except the touchpad. It does recognise the Stylus as a mouse it seems but the stylus buttons dont do anything. Also touch and gestures don't work. So...

I have googled, searched forums and even asking gpt5 for advice (potential skill issue here since i'm not that good at searching). However the power just wont go below 20W, according to powerstat, tlp and upower -d. My ideal goal is to lower the power consumption to 10-15W. I think it is worth...

I'm needing a new laptop - I hate Windows 11 Home so am looking at installing Linux. I understand from reading here that new laptops can have problems with drivers being available for new specs, and that there are also problems with newer intel 13th gen builds. I'm considering a Refurbished Dell...

Hello all, my sincere apologies if this is not the right place for this. I have an "old" laptop that has been starting to struggle on W11, it's an ASUS UX430UAR, has an i5-8250u, 8GB DDR3 ram, and a 256GB SSD. Originally I was thinking of install Debian with XFCE, but realized this hardware can...

Im using an MSI Thin A15 AI B8VF (REV:1.0) Laptop While doing some regular usage (video call, and some coding) my laptop froze. And it was very unresponsive as the video shows. Not even closing or pressing the power button would send it to sleep. I had to hold the power button for 5 seconds for...

Hello, my name is Dominik. Ive downloaded linux on my gaming laptop because windows kept deleting my drivers and my laptop was not functional. As I have this 6 year old gaming laptop, I play some basic games. When im playing some games I use my track pad and the laptops keyboard. When i push any...

If you spend some time on YouTube and you watch a lot of stuff about computers and tech, then you probably have seen videos about mini computers. I was interested enough that after my dev machine died a sudden and unexpected death in 5 days my wife said I could buy one. Bottom line is that they...

Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to linux but I have some experience, and I've been trying to make this work for the past 3 days. I am on a dual boot setup with MX linux and win11 right now. The problem is, my computer refuses to make any sound come out of it when running Linux (win11 still works)...

Hi everybody, i recently downloaded manjaro to learn how to code but i was going to get ubuntu after i learned that arch doesn't run on amd cpu's very well, so i deleted my manjaro partition on windows and rebooted, after i got the error-(error: no such partition, entering rescue mode... grub...

I am trying to install a Linux Mint on my new laptop from a usb. It is an Alienware m18 r1 with 32 gigs of ram. However, when I attempt to boot it up, it goes to a black screen with an unblinking line and will not go foreward from there.

Hi A few months back I installed on my almost 10 year old laptop Linux Mint. Everything worked great until recently, maybe 1 or 2 months, my browsers are extremely laggy, chrome and firefox. My wifi connection disconnects and reconnects several times within an hour. Videos take forever to play...

Laptop is not shutting down Completely in any linux distro but it shutdown in windows 10. My laptop is Dell Inspiron 3542, core i3 4th gen. First what happening when I power off by shutdown button in menu or using cli, laptop disconnect every peripheral devices, lcd goes off as normal shutdown...

I've come into possession of an Acer Inspire One D257 "laptop". In quotes, bc it's really, really small. It has an Intel Atom N570 1.66ghz processor. 16gb memory 1mb L2 cache. It had Windows 7 "starter" whatever that is. Windows would load to the login screen, but of course I had no login...

I crammed out the old stuff folks! :) My oldest notebook is still working. It has been used for gaming (minecraft when it was new), office work and other things and it survived with no damage. Just the battery is dead so I threw it away. Since it used to server me well but still has windows 7...

Hello, I would like to make sure that this Laptop supports Fedora. I found out that it only had RHEL and Ubuntu Certification (https://ubuntu.com/certified/202309-32038), but not Fedora. So my question is will Fedora 100% work on it without any problems...

Hi Everyone, Currently running a MacAir (13) 2015 with Linux Mint for my daily computer. Love LINUX also have a Desktop that works amazing that I built for the wife. My current laptop however, is starting to freeze up when opening multiple windows and the back lit keyboard a lo of the keys are...

[ I just posted this to the gentoo forums https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8795977.html#8795977 Not sure when/if I'll get an answer there, and not sure if anyone here is likely to know any helpful details on this... But I figured I should just go ahead and post a copy here anyway, just in...