Linux Newbie Einrichtung

Hallo ich habe den Sprung zu Linux gewagt. Ich hatte mich so dachte ich auch gut vorbereitet. Distribution vergleichen geprüft ob das mit meiner Hardware passt usw.
Die Installation fällt mir als Windows dulli jetzt doch wirklich schwer.
Das Grundsystem bekomme ich hin alles kein Stress aber Mint erkennt nur noch einen meiner vier Bildschirme noch dem installieren der Nvidia Treiber ich habe alle Treiber die ich finden konnte versucht ohne Erfolg.
Was ich noch nicht probiert habe ist ein Post den ich eben fand der secure boot als Schuldigen sieht kann es das sein? Was kann es noch sein was muss ich tun? Bitte helft mir ich bin komplett unerfahren und die Foren quellen über mit unterschiedlichsten Möglichkeiten.
Ich habe das Abenteuer Umstieg tatsächlich ein wenig unterschätzt. Danke für eure Hinweise und Tipps.

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My Journey from Windows to Arch btw thank you people

To start off, my journey began with Ubuntu in somewhere around mid 2021s, I had my old laptop and like everyone in the beginning, I dual-booted it alongside Windows 10, liked it, then went full bare-metal Ubuntu but FOMO got to me as Windows 11 was releasing with "so many features" so I reinstalled Windows 10 only to realize my laptop doesn't support Windows 11 due to its insanely stupid requirements, I still stuck on to Windows 10.

Two years later I got a new laptop, nothing fancy but a basic Intel 11th Gen i5 laptop with ig graphics, it did got Windows 11, definitely better than my previous laptop and me thinking 'ah what folly child I was to use a pesky little OS like Linux, pfft' (just kidding)

Only a few months ago, I reinstalled Ubuntu onto it cause I was feeling for it, used it, worked it but I was at my parent's house that time for holidays, and the wifi is pretty bad as they don't use it that much, and I felt the need to upgrade my system and midway thru the upgrade, the wifi tuned off, in a panic move I hit Ctrl+c and ran the 'remove' command (don't remove the exact command) that somehow removed the bootloader (defo my fault now I look back), so I got Windows 11 again.

NOW, a few weeks ago, I thought lets give Arch btw a try, I've done this dance before, I can do it again, so I strapped in a USB and went for it, gotta tell you the level of choice and the customization is beyond par, like I had to install Bluetooth after I was done with everything as I forgot initially, how cool is that! I installed literally fucking bluetooth and I could literally change system shortcuts, something that would kill Windows to do so.

I began using Edge since I literally just accepted MS won't stop shoving it in my ass so I admit defeated, to my surprise, it did ran surprisingly well, even better than Chrome in so many cases but then I realized, the glory is not on the other side, it keeps crashing on here so I've switched to Firefox and you are telling that my OS won't shove a browser down my throat and changing my default ACTUALLY means something?

My office computer still has Windows 11 and I can definitely feel the snappier feeling that Arch has and that's irrespective of hardware as the office computer has a slightly better CPU albiet less RAM and that's definitely a big part as Windows loves to eat up RAM kind-of like Kirby, rn I am at 4.3 GB on Arch with 4 hours of uptime (while having a game downloading from Steam and running Firefox) which in Windows (on my personal laptop) I've also seen at-best during at idle while my office laptop feels like its saying "Sire! Mercy!" even if I just graze more than 4 tabs on Chrome (which I need for my work)

Seriously, I was so afraid to remove Windows as this is my laptop and didn't wanna screw it over, but I am loving Arch experience so much better, its just chef's kiss plus I can say to people the classic phrase, [adjusting my tie\] "I use Arch btw" [a gentle smirk\]

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Installing from Manual Page?

Sup guys, i'm kinda newbie regarding Linux but i've been bashing my head against the wall trying to learn and set up the system and so far, so good. Thing is, I want to install Chitubox on my pc because Lychee seems to be broken or something, always crashing during the slicing process due to a memory leak. Tried everything but nothing seems to work.

I downloaded the Chitubox installer from their website but all i have is a Manual Page file but i dont know how to run it, or even how to access it. I've read about the man command but i just dont know how to use it at all. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks!

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Is it really that easy?

I have a nvidia gpu and I'm using arch btw. I was using kde x11 since I had bad experiences with wayland and i3 wm in the past. Yesterday out of curiosity I installed Hyprland to see how things were going in terms of compatibility and gaming and to my surprise its incredibly smoth. To be fair after I installed hyprland I used a noscript to set up hyprland (HyDE). This noscript even fixed a problem I was having, the monitor wouldn't display anything after waking up. Once finished, it was beautiful and fairly simple to use. I only modified some keybinds and borders which were so easy to modify in the .config files. So the question is, Is it really that easy? Will this break after an update?

https://preview.redd.it/o3ysr4xda91f1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=c4a7688627f311f2238219e1fba282bfd0008afa



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I was reading this furry comic from 2000 and found this mention of Linux
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How do I get started?

Hey everyone! I've been thinking lately about switching to linux, but I don't know which version of linux should I use considering that my pc is an old piece of hardware from 2008. And also what are the pros and cons of switching from windows to linux?

My specs are:

•4gb ram

•Pentium dual-core cpu E5200 2.50ghz

•Nvidia 9600 GT

•ECS G31T-M7 motherboard

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I put Linux on the worst laptop i have and it works fine somehow
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My good ole EliteBook
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Anybody build Linux From Scratch here?

I did a Linux From Scratch run about 15 years ago and really tempted to do it again. I made a basic build on an old Pentium 3 and got X onto it but I messed up building a Gnome desktop and kind of left it. I really enjoyed it though as I learned so much about Linux systems and it would be good to get a refresher on the deep down stuff, particularly the kernel.

Anybody else had a go at it?

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Nefoin - Auto Install Any Nerd Font You Want in seconds via CLI. No Manual Download or Cloning Required.
https://redd.it/1koo3wb
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Resurrecting old machines with EFI limitations. Is Linux a viable option?
https://redd.it/1koq6va
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This Week in Plasma: HDR calibration wizard
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/17/this-week-in-plasma-hdr-calibration-wizard/

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Monster Hunter Wilds stutter

Hello I’m having stutter issues when traversing the map and sometimes in combat. Haven’t had these issues on windows so I ask if someone have a fix for this or is it just quirky game and it runs like that on this OS? Bazzite 42 GPU AMD RX7900XTX Mesa drivers 25.0.5 CPU ryzen 7 7800x3d Already tried different proton version, cleaning shader cache, running on gamemode, running on gamescope, swapping direct storage files. Just desperate because it one of few games I come back to often and I’m having worse experience on Linux than on windows with this game. Any input appreciated

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great website
https://endof10.org/

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A Citizens EU Countries Initiative, following the recent successful ones, to make Linux, LibreOffice and other EU Apps from https://www.goeuropean.org the standard OS, Apps in the EU public administrations since are funded by Germans, French People 40% tax money, is it a good idea? Have your say?
https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1kopwwn/a_citizens_eu_countries_initiative_following_the/

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niri v25.05: the all-new overview, and tons of other improvements
https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/releases/tag/v25.05

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Just got 2 badass old toughbooks, Which distro deserves to be installed?
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Samba shares are read-only on iPhone after updating to iOS18

Context: I tried to drop some PDFs into a samba share from my iPhone recently. This has never been a problem, but, today, the shares are suddenly read-only, but only on my iPhone. The shares are still read and write from other clients. I followed several guides that basically said I needed to add `vfs objects = catia fruit xattr_objects` to my smbd.conf. Cool, I add it. Restart samba service and now nothing can access that server via Samba.


Go to said server and try to access on CLI using smbclient and I get error: `tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME`


I'd love to be able to drop files on my samba shares using my iPhone if anyone has any idea about this. I've scoured the Internet for solutions, and nothing relevant has come up.

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Plasma 6.5 is gonna be a big one
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Successful Laptop dGPU Passthrough // Running Rust on Windows 11 X-Lite ISO
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Is a tiling window manager actually superior and more efficient?

Every single blog post/video extolling the superiority of tiling windows managers, they all amount to the same thing -

- how you don't need to deal with the 'mental overload' of a normal overlapping windows which is so horrible.
- the superiority of never touching the mouse
- the superiority of vim keybindings
- how tiling wm's means you can use multiple workspaces
- when someone points out apps like your browser, editor shouldn't be resized, they point out they are always fullscreen in a separate workspace with a shortcut
- if you then point out some apps are better off as floating, they point out sure you can tweak your config to make them so
- same for other things, the answer is always writing your config file
- presume that the alternative is always pressing alt-tab and resizing windows endlessly
- the lower resource usage

None of these are things that you need a tiling wm for. A regular DE lets you do all this and more with the exact same workflow and you don't need to write custom config files

- you can define multiple worskspaces/virtual desktops, put my apps in those, and switch between them just as fast.
- you don't need to confine yourself to one paradigm, choose what fits best
- the apps you most need tiling for - your terminal and code editor, support it natively - eg tmux, vscode etc
- the DE uses more resources because it does far more. by the time you end up adding polybar etc to your hyprland/sway/i3 and writing custom config files for disks,BT,volume etc etc its going to be the same
- what exactly is so inferior about using a mouse? its a GUI. I want to see tooltips and function definitions on mouseovers etc because they are additional info that a keyboard can't give. using my mouse to see an overview in Plasma/Gnome and then selecting a window is far more efficient than other methods
- DEs tend to work much better with multiple monitors/remembering positions etc

and the thing is most DE's whether it Windows or Linux have some sort of extension/feature that gives you tiking features anyway.

e.g Windows has a great implementation of snap zones etc, ChromeOS copied it, I believe KDE/Gnome etc might have it too. you can use powertoys/fancyzone or its equivalent and have the best of both worlds.

tldr - people who say tiling is superior are just talking about workspaces and shortcut keys essentially and you can do the same with regular windows.

Tiling multiple windows only makes sense with huge monitors and/or tiny fonts/perfect eyesight. why would you want to keep multiple apps visible at all times? most of the time I want them fullscreen or a given size/position instead of it jumping all over the screen as I open more windows.

this is an example -
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leukipp/cortile/main/assets/images/demo.gif

choose what you want, but there's an undeniable superiority complex about being a 'hardcore' user who uses tiling, never touches the mouse and is more efficient, and I just dont think thats true.

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