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  1. j2TX

    j2TX saying hello from Texas

    Recently retired and thought I would continue my learning skills. I've never tried Linux before, but I did think about giving it try a few years back though I just never could find the time to really dig in to it. So, I just wanted to be neighborly and say howdy and hope I can learn the "Linux"...
  2. G

    how to avoid bricking my computer again

    i have an ideapad flex 5 has an AMD radeon graphics and ryzen 7 4000 series im not super expeirenced with computers aside from basic using i installed ubuntu on a really old computer and it was really easy so i did that to my new laptop and it wouldnt recognize the mouse pad but eventually i...
  3. A

    Fresh Arch install in i3-wm: Can't unmute audio

    Hello all, This morning I made a fresh Arch install. I am trying to unmute my audio, but the instructions and the commands I've found on the Arch Wiki for alsamixer and $ amixer sset Master unmute $ amixer sset Speaker unmute $ amixer sset Headphone unmute don't work; the output is bash...
  4. avanturismo

    Very new to Linux

    Hello everyone, I just unpacked my new desktop computer with pre installed linux ubuntu However I just realized that I do not have network adapter to connect to Wi-Fi, so I bought external wireless adapter "D-Link DWA-172" I just plugged in to usb port, expected that that will work automatically...
  5. S

    Need help switching to linux

    Currently daily driving Windows 10 on my Acer Swift 3 SF314-511 Intel EVO Laptop with i5-1135G7, 8GB RAM, Iris Xe Graphics. Most of my use case is streaming video (My classes, YouTube, Twitch), and battery life is my top priority, since I live in an area with frequent power outage. So I used...
  6. SardonicApricot

    no localtime and hostname in /etc?

    Hey! Yes this is a question related to Arch and yes I could not complete the bizarre Capatcha on their forum so I require your help :) I just installed Arch and I've seem to have set everything proper, however /etc doesn't have localtime and hostname when I try to open them, nor do they appear...
  7. S

    Linux Gaming Server made easy

    Good day All, I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this but here goes. I am currently running Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS on my server at home. I have tried different types of game server managers for linux but found some of them to have very little control or be too difficult to use...
  8. K

    First time on Linux, I need someone to guide me

    Hello everyone! I'm thinking on switching from Windows 10 to Linux, because Windows 10 is garbage with the new Ryzen processors (it works, but the OS can't really handle the multi-cores and it's really inefficient, half of the time the cores are processing the information, the cores are moving...
  9. KinglyPack

    Pulling through .PNG files from specific sub-directories in a directory

    Oh hai everyone, First post, much excite... So, I was trying to pull out all the .png images from a series of sub-directories all called 'Images', these were each within a directory with a unique name, shown with a the wildcard * below. find /Documents/PB_Export/*/Images/ -name '*png'...
  10. C

    Ubuntu partition issues

    I bought a computer for my mom a little while ago and she wanted me to install linux on it and keep windows, So i made a ubuntu boot usb using rufus and the iso, It installed as normal but now my bios doesn't show the partition in the os boot manager? Windows disk management shows the partition...
  11. R

    Which distro for a very old laptop?

    Hello! I was hoping I can make a use of my old laptop. I am currently taking classes for which I need to use gcc so I'm looking for a linux distro on which I could do that. The laptops specs are: Pentium III, CPU 1200MHz and only 256mb of RAM. It currently has windows xp oh and the distro iso...
  12. jerahmia gaither

    Never tried linux before, have an old laptop how do i install?

    I want to take windows off of an all dell latitude E6400 that seems to be stuck in a stupid start up loop and i wanna try taking everything off and installing linux and try it out i am not completely illiterate with computers but i kinda just want to get a step by step maybe the best versions...
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