Could learning Linux in more depth get me into the IT? Which distros shall I focus on?

So, I'm over 30 and working in hospitality. Considering to change my career for a while. I would like to learn myself something valuable, but not really any pressure.

I was thinking cybersecurity in the long term, but for now I need to focus on the fundamentals first.

As I did my research I was thinking why not go down the Linux path. Although I've been using Microsoft mainly in my life, I also installed Linux recently and I quite enjoyed it. Both would require me to learn in more depth anyways.

Would I be able to land in an entry level job by learning Linux admin? If so what is you recommendation to dive into? Would you is be also useful to learn some Python basic?

Any recommendations and opinions are welcome 🤗

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Windows 11 installation “missing drivers” error on PC running Mint

I’m trying to install Windows 11 on a PC that’s currently running Linux Mint. I used Windows media creator tool to create a bootable USB, but when I try to boot, I get an error stating that the computer is missing drivers, but does not tell me which drivers are missing.

I’m stumped, please help

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From Windows 11 Enthusiast to Linux Convert

I genuinely loved Windows 11 at its launch; I was an incredibly enthusiastic beta tester. However, my initial excitement quickly turned to disappointment. Early on, incompatibility issues with AMD chipsets caused performance degradation and bottlenecks in games for users with AMD processors, including myself. These problems persisted until a necessary BIOS update was released.

After that initial hurdle, a brief period of calm ensued, quickly followed by a barrage of unfounded criticism and comparisons to Windows 10. For some reason, being a tech enthusiast who used Windows 11 became a negative point among my friends. It felt like they couldn't accept that Windows 11 was at least a decent, usable system, or even on par with Windows 10. The fact that Windows 10, despite its own UI/UX flaws, was constantly held up as superior, combined with the general rejection from my peers and the public, gradually fostered a sense of resentment within me towards the system.

But the final straw came in late February 2025. A microscopic crack in a Razer mouse cable (which I only discovered months later) somehow caused peripheral drivers, or perhaps another critical driver, to prevent the system from booting without immediately presenting a blue screen. I managed to enter Safe Mode, and using the system's built-in driver error detection tool, I pinpointed the issue. However, activating this tool created an insoluble loop: it prevented me from re-entering Safe Mode to disable it and attempt a fix, while I couldn't boot normally either.

This incident was the breaking point that pushed me to permanently abandon Windows. The thought of even reverting to Windows 10 felt like admitting defeat, even if it meant giving up games like Valorant, one of the few online noscripts I still enjoyed with friends.

Ironically, I now love Windows 11 because it led me to leave it and finally experience Linux. While Linux isn't perfect and I miss many beloved Windows applications—like SteelSeries Sonar, HWiNFO, and others that truly enhanced my user experience—I've found something fundamentally different. These small programs are, in my opinion, still a major differentiator for Windows.

Now on CachyOS, I've found a system that, to be honest, often feels like a work in progress (which makes sense, as I'm using Cosmic, a desktop environment still under development). However, its modularity combined with robustness and simplicity makes it infinitely more functional and logical than Windows. It feels like I'm constantly learning new, more intuitive ways to interact with the system. The ability to manage packages directly through the terminal has been a paradigm shift I can't live without.

Of course, not everything is perfect. Even in KDE, many apps and interfaces lack visual cohesion, and this is exacerbated in the still-developing Cosmic. GNOME, while more cohesive, feels too much like a mobile interface, which isn't to my taste.

Another significant challenge is the lack of many Windows-native programs, including all the "GOATs" from Adobe (despite complex and abusive relationship of this company) and applications like CapCut. As for games, I've come to terms with not playing online noscripts like Fortnite or Valorant.

I doubt many will read this entire text, but I needed to vent and mark this as a personal turning point. It's not just about operating systems; it's about discovering a new way of engaging with the digital world.


After falling down the distro-hopping rabbit hole, trying many distributions like Zorin, falling in love with Linux Mint, and finally finding my place with CachyOS, I now truly understand why Linux is so important to many people. It's hard to fully explain, but in short, the system (and its packages) just work. It's lean, functional, and the fact that I've built it myself—choosing the Cosmic Desktop Environment, the Limine bootloader, and understanding the logic behind each installed package—has given me an invaluable

sense of satisfaction and happiness.

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Maya 2023 Installed on Ubuntu 22.04, but it Closes After Splash Screen

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to run Autodesk Maya 2023 on Ubuntu 22.04 (Lenovo laptop, Intel UHD 620 + NVIDIA MX230). I’m completely new to this, so please bear with me. Here's what I've done so far:

# ✅ Installation steps I followed

1. Installed Maya via .deb package:bashCopyEditsudo dpkg -i maya2023-64_2023.3-2072_amd64.deb
2. Created missing library symlinks:bashCopyEditsudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre16.so.3 /usr/autodesk/maya2023/lib/libpcre16.so.0 sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62 /usr/autodesk/maya2023/lib/libjpeg.so.62 # Also linked SSL, Crypto, Xp, and PNG libraries
3. Set Maya environment variables:bashCopyEditecho "MAYA_DISABLE_ADP=1" >> \~/maya/2023/Maya.env echo "LC_ALL=C" >> \~/maya/2023/Maya.env
4. License seems OK:
Registered using:bashCopyEditsudo /opt/Autodesk/AdskLicensing/Current/helper/AdskLicensingInstHelper register -pk 657O1 -pv 2023.0.0.F -el EN\_US -cf /var/opt/Autodesk/Adlm/Maya2023/MayaConfig.pit
Checked with AdskLicensingInstHelper list — everything looks "Authorized", "user_lic_enabled: true", etc.

# 🐛 The actual problem

When I launch Maya using:

bashCopyEdit/usr/autodesk/maya2023/bin/maya


It shows the login, lets me sign in, shows the splash/startup screen, and then just closes without any error.

# ⚠️ Warnings or logs I’ve seen

1. OpenCL warning (but I disabled it):vbnetCopyEditOpenCL evaluator failed to find OpenCL device with vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
2. GL/Driver-related output:(I set MAYA_OGS_GPU_MEMORY_LIMIT=1024 to force a limit.)javaCopyEdit VP2 Warning : Graphics hardware has been detected to have insufficient memory (0 MB) Adapter : Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2)
3. License log shows everything as authorized:logCopyEditadlsdkAuthorize: status ADLSDK_STATUS_OK licenseProductName = Maya 2023 licenseUsageString = "USAGE_USER"

# 🤔 Suspicions

I have NVIDIA driver 570 installed (`nvidia-smi` works), but:returns nothing — even though `libnvidia-gl-570` is installed.bashCopyEdit find /usr -name "libGL.so\" | grep -i nvidia
Maya might be using Mesa's OpenGL instead of NVIDIA’s. I tried launching Maya with:But `/usr/lib/nvidia-570` does not exist.bashCopyEdit LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH=/usr/lib/nvidia-570 /usr/autodesk/maya2023/bin/maya
I ran:but it shows only libGLX_nvidia.so.*, no actual `libGL.so` symlinks.bashCopyEdit dpkg -L libnvidia-gl-570 | grep libGL

# ❓ What I need help with

Why is Maya closing after the splash screen with no crash message?
How can I force Maya to use NVIDIA's OpenGL libraries (if they even exist)?
Do I need to manually create a symlink like:or is that risky?bashCopyEdit sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libGLX\_nvidia.so.0 /usr/autodesk/maya2023/lib/libGL.so
Any way to debug Maya startup properly? (strace or log flags?)

Any help, ideas, or working setups from others using Maya on Linux would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks a ton in advance! 🙏

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Kanboard - Password Reset Poisoning via Host Header Injection
https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/security/advisories/GHSA-2ch5-gqjm-8p92

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Introducing Nebulux (Alpha): Ubuntu-based, pie menus and custom UI written in Slint+Rust, Hyprland

This is the announcement of Nebulux, a new distro featuring an innovative new user interface optimized for speed and usability!

You can learn more at https://nebulux.org and try out the Alpha now.

Since Nebulux is in Alpha, expect many changes and improvements in the future. And of course you can contribute to help shape Nebulux into the perfect GUI. The components written by me are licensed under GPL.

What inspired the creation of it was this video.

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Fedora 43 Change Proposal: Drop i686 support (system wide) - devel
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/SV75P7F4N6KFTUIFK34PFAVJH5JGVNCH/

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If you had a really old Toshiba Laptop, what distribution of Linux would you use?

Hello there, baby Linux user here.
I found an old Toshiba laptop recently running windows 10 (Albeit pretty poorly) and I wanted to give it a new life. I dont intend to upgrade any of its components (excluding an SSD later on.)

Specs:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GZ
Memory: 6.0 GB DDR3
Running with a HDD

What would you folks recommend for this lil guy?



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Shifting linux to different ext4 partition

Hey guys. So my system contains two types of ssd. 500gb nvme and 500gb sata. The operating system on them are as follows :-
500gb nvme - Windows 11 installed (for office work)
500gb sata - Windows 10 (440gb), Linux Mint (60gb)

Because of low space I managed to free up 100gb of space and want this type of configuration :-
500gb - Windows 11 (400gb), Linux Mint (100gb)
500gb sata - Windows 10

How should I go about this so that my configurations on linux machine remain same when I copy the files to this other partition?

Would prefer to nuke my Win10 and Install it on a vm inside mint but don't have any storage for backup. Can you please tell me how should I go about this? I do not fear if some terminal commands come my way (⁠⁠_⁠⁠)

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Switched from Windows 11 to Fedora 42 + Wayland + Plasma KDE. So happy!!

I always had pretty rough experiences with linux distros, games wouldn't work, system would randomly freeze (gpu drivers issues), softwares would crash, and i would end up back to windows... (this with pop os, mint, my own arc)

Well not anymore!! I randomly found Fedora 42, and i must say...

After a confusing install of the gpu drivers (on nvidia gpu, to resolve the os randomly freezing)

Everything worked much better than i've seen in both windows and mac os, the os itself is just insane (even supports dual monitor out of the box with virtual desktops grouped per monitor!! and much better than windows could ever hope to), the amount of work and love that the community must have put in there is crazy! I love it, it's so fun, it's got so many features, everything works straight out of the box, all my peripherals got recognized, and i get way more data and control of those peripherals than i did on windows. Windows doesn't even get the names of the devices right more often that i like.

I can control multi-monitor brightness and contrast, i get super useful widgets (first time i actually use those, it's not like when using rainmeter on windows, which always ends up being uninstalled eventually, since it's just a gimmick that sucks plenty of resources.. nope... here is functional and lightweight)

Of course, i can customize virtually any aspect of the os, but the default setup is already pretty nice, and provides tons of guidance and detailed information, towards every aspect of this distro

I would love to list all of the amazing features and quality of life improvements this distro has over windows, it feels exactly like switching from a galaxy s3 vanilla rom, to a pacman custom rom or something like that, my fellow modders from that time, know how crazy the difference and control and customization is, compared to vanilla (which gets slower and worse with each update right?)

But i would have to write for days honestly...

All i wanted to say is:
"To my fellow windows people, if you have enough of that os for whatever reason, like: random perfomance drops, random feature breaking updates, half hassed implementations (like the multi-screen support which is hot garbage even on 11 (just try fancy zones and you'll get what i mean) etc.. then please give this distro a try, you can simply boot it live directly on a usb stick, without even having to actually install it, and simply try it there, i can assure you it's one of the smoothest and coolest linux experiences you will have (if what you except is simply a great os and something to substitute windows with)."

Sorry for the pretty useless post for the linux people, but i was just so amazed and surprised that i actually could after years or trying out various distros, actually ditch indefinetely that mess that windows is. Thank so much to everybody who contributed to this project and made it this great, beautiful job boys!!! THANK YOUUU!

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Why fedora is more popular on reddit nowadays?

Is it about reddit and fedora America based but Ubuntu is British distro?
Or it is not about reddit, Fedora usage surprass Ubuntu on worldwide.
I see a lot of post about ı switched fedora. I want to ask European reddit users.
British are you use fedora or Ubuntu?
Germans are you use suse or fedora?
Turks are you use Pardus or fedora?
Greeks are you use antix, MX linux or fedora?
Russich are you use rosa or fedora?

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MacOS Spaces Behavior

I use MacOS for my job and find the MacOS "Spaces" feature to be great for me. When maximizing a window it will create a new space (workspace) where I can easily swap between them. I don't have to worry about the number of workspaces as they disappear when I un-maximize or close the application.

Is there any Linux utility out there that replicates this behavior, where maximizing or full-screening an application will send it to its own workspace?

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This month in Servo: color inputs, SVG, embedder JS, and more!
https://servo.org/blog/2025/06/18/this-month-in-servo/

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whatIsYourDefinition
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Changing to linux...

Hi! Well I would like to start this post with some context, I have been using Windows literally my whole life, I started with Windows 7 since I was like 13 years old I think, when support ended I was forced to switch to Windows 10 and since then I had been using it normally until recently when I found out that the end of Windows 10 support was behind me, at that time (which was recently in fact) I changed computers to one a little better than the one I had since mine wasn't that good so well I bought another one a little better, only that this computer when I used it came with a problem with the hard drive which I still haven't solved (which I will do by buying an SSD), and well, as I was saying, when I found out about the end of Win10 support and discovered that this new computer was not compatible with Windows 11 I questioned myself... "what do I do now? I don't want to get a virus or something strange by not having support on this thing" so I investigated and I I came across the option (which apparently many users have taken) of switching to Linux, before this I had already heard about Linux but I had not considered it an option because of what popular opinion thinks about Linux "Linux is only for experts, you need to know how to use the terminal, blah blah blah" but upon investigating much more I realized that it is nothing like that (at least if you do not use Arch, or even try to install it), I found out that there are distros that focus on that comfort that you couldHi! Well I would like to start this post with some context, I have been using Windows literally my whole life, I started with Windows 7 since I was like 13 years old I think, when support ended I was forced to switch to Windows 10 and since then I had been using it normally until recently when I found out that the end of Windows 10 support was behind me, at that time (which was recently in fact) I changed computers to one a little better than the one I had since mine wasn't that good so well I bought another one a little better, only that this computer when I used it came with a problem with the hard drive which I still haven't solved (which I will do by buying an SSD), and well, as I was saying, when I found out about the end of Win10 support and discovered that this new computer was not compatible with Windows 11 I questioned myself... "what do I do now? I don't want to get a virus or something strange by not having support on this thing" so I investigated and I I came across the option (which apparently many users have taken) of switching to Linux, before this I had already heard about Linux but I had not considered it an option because of what popular opinion thinks about Linux "Linux is only for experts, you need to know how to use the terminal, blah blah blah" but upon investigating much more I realized that it is nothing like that (at least if you do not use Arch, or even try to install it), I found out that there are distros that focus on that comfort that you could get on a system with windows 10, I have been investigating more than I would like to admit in fact, I have immersed myself in linux without even having installed any distro, why haven't you done it? you ask, well the answer is easy, I want to do it until I have an SSD to avoid problems, so well, now having a little context, I have been questioning which distro to install, I mean I want comfort and a nice GUI, I know the best option is Mint, but I was also looking at others like Kubuntu (which I am more scared of because I have seen that it gives more errors) among others so my question is: should I switch to Mint or look for another distro?, i actually tried mint already with a virtual machine so i can start to know how to use it before i can install it, and i'd like to say i like it, havent tried another tho, just Arch to see if i could atleast install it with that archinstall command and well, everything was going ok but mid installation gave me an error and this happened twice so i frustrated and didnt tried it again, i want to try or atleast see another

interesting distros soo thats why i ask here, hope i can get your advice sorry if the post is very big tho

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My experience using linux for the last 3 months and how it reignited my love for computers

Throughout my life, software and computers have always been present but they’ve never really fascinated me.

Sure, I tried a bit of programming but dealing with Windows 8, 10 and 11 was a nightmare with the lagginess, constant updates and the nightmare of the closed ecosystem I was forced to enter. I remember countless days in my university dealing with buggy Windows update or crashes that fried most of my data. Suffice to say, my computer always felt hostile to me instead of working for me.

That was until I tried Linux. My journey first started at least a month ago before I was let go from my current job when I was tinkering with Lubuntu on an old desktop. Then, when I received a new Thinkpad that I had personally ordered, I installed EndeavourOS on it and was surprised by how fast and quick the installation process was.

Cue 3 months later and using Linux has made computing infinitely more fun. I learnt to explore and download random github repos and cli apps to use and play with. I learnt how to properly use the terminal and various TUI apps to replace common GUI apps that I would normally use. Everything is more customisable and fast. I rice my setup endlessly instead of doing all night gaming now. I get to control when I want updates to happen and not the other way around. It has felt immensely more rewarding to learn about computers and the nitty gritty of how they work with Linux compared to Windows or Mac.

As of now, I’m also into my third week of doing Harvard’s CS50 course online using my current setup, using LazyVim as my editor instead of VSCode.

My tips for anyone looking to try Linux are as follows:

1. There are plenty of youtube tutorials out there but use the current ones.

2. Learn to read the documentation about your distro, package, app etc up. Man pages, github and any wikis associated with the software are your friend. If you do fuck up, remember that you can bounce back by booting into a live usb, use Timeshift or by backing up your config in a seperate drive.

3. Don’t distro hop. Stick to one distro and its in and outs. There is no perfect distro and you will learn with time and effort what setup and config works for your workflow and needs.

4. Get comfortable with the command line. CLIs and TUIs are uncomfortable at first but there are plenty of tools out there to make using the shell great! Use the command line once or twice daily for some of the tasks you would normally do on your file explorer app such as file navigation, deletion or renaming

It has been an incredible journey so far and I can’t wait to keep learning and keep tinkering with my machine!


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how to cover up the windows key?

i'm getting a new laptop soon (not a thinkpad sadly) and i want to cover up the windows key with something like a "super" key, or maybe just tux. either way, any tips for doing such a thing?

the laptop that i'm getting is a Lenovo V15 G2.

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Linux certification questions

So i recently just passed ccna which took me a total of 2 months studying and I didn't have much prior knowledge or exp. I currently have sec plus net plus ccna and a bachelor's in cyber. My goal is to be a network guy but I also want to be proficient in Linux since most of the servers will most likely utilize Linux I was thinking of getting the comptia Linux plus certification or going the red hat route. I need to start off with something basic and I was wondering how difficult these certs are compared to ccna. I found ccna to be pretty difficult but I did pass on my first go. So how hard are the Linux certs and which ones should I start with. Thanks

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NixOS + Distrobox or Silverblue/Aeon + Distrobox

I was just wondering whether NixOS and Distrobox would be comparable to Silverblue/Aeon and Distrobox.

The way that I see it, is that NixOS is an immutable distro like Silverblue and Aeon, but it also has the advantage of having the rest of the OS as declarative.

I am curious as to other peoples experience with NixOS and Distrobox, were there some things that just didn't work, and it would be better to go with Silverblue or Aeon?

The way that I see it is that at least I can configure the base OS with NixOS, while also being able to use Distrobox for times when I don't need to have everything declared, and for when it may be too tedious to create a set up with Nix.

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