Linux - Ubuntu 24.04 Lts keeps crashing.

Folks - facing issue when booting into Ubuntu instance, that's at initial boot time.
Post rebooting, in bios if i specifically pick only 6.14.0-29-generic from GRUB then only it works

Choosing other kernel version like 6.15.0 or 6.15.0-33-generic from GRUB screen still results in Kernel Panic

Setup
Dual booting OS on separate boot drives
Storage
M.2_1: Lexar SSD NM790 2TB -> Feodra
M.2_2: Lexar SSD NM790 2TB -> Ubuntu

I got two boot drives
Main - Fedora-42 (works perfectly fine, no issues or whatsoever. This setup for personal use time)

Secondary - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (uname -r 6.14.0-29-generic), runs into kernel panic at 1st launch and frequent crashes when using it, error logs below)


Hardware
Asus Motherboard
Intel Core Ultra Arrowlake CPU
Nvidia D-GPU

Ubuntu 24.04 at initial boot after selecting drives from bios



lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,MOUNTPOINT,SIZE,MODE

NAME FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT SIZE MODE

loop0 squashfs /snap/bare/5 4K brw-rw----

loop1 squashfs /snap/firefox/7084 249.2M brw-rw----

loop2 squashfs /snap/core22/2133 73.9M brw-rw----

loop4 squashfs /snap/firefox/6966 247.6M brw-rw----

loop5 squashfs /snap/firmware-updater/167 11.1M brw-rw----

loop6 squashfs /snap/firmware-updater/210 18.5M brw-rw----

loop7 squashfs /snap/gnome-42-2204/202 516M brw-rw----

loop8 squashfs /snap/gnome-42-2204/226 516.2M brw-rw----

loop9 squashfs /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535 91.7M brw-rw----

loop10 squashfs /snap/snap-store/1270 10.8M brw-rw----

loop11 squashfs /snap/core22/2139 73.9M brw-rw----

loop12 squashfs /snap/snapd/25202 50.8M brw-rw----

loop13 squashfs /snap/snapd-desktop-integration/31 576K brw-rw----

loop14 squashfs /snap/thunderbird/812 226.2M brw-rw----

loop15 squashfs /snap/thunderbird/825 226.2M brw-rw----

loop16 squashfs /snap/snapd/25577 50.9M brw-rw----

nvme0n1 1.9T brw-rw----

├─nvme0n1p1 vfat /boot/efi 1G brw-rw----

└─nvme0n1p2 ext4 / 1.9T brw-rw----

nvme1n1 1.9T brw-rw----

├─nvme1n1p1 vfat 600M brw-rw----

├─nvme1n1p2 ext4 1G brw-rw----

└─nvme1n1p3 btrfs fedora 1.9T brw-rw----

Crash logs -> Mostly attributed to nvidia-kernel-source-580

cd /var/crash

/var/crash$ ls

linux-headers-6.14.0-32-generic.0.crash mlnx-ofed-kernel-dkms.0.crash _usr_bin_dash.0.crash

linux-headers-6.15.11-061511-generic.0.crash nvidia-kernel-source-580-open.0.crash _usr_lib_xorg_Xorg.1000.crash






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I need desperate help

I dont use reddit much so I dont know if there is a specific place to put this but I'll just put it here for now. I basically trapped myself in the bios menue of a laptop after an archinstall gone wrong. When I try to boot into the USB it just goes back to the bios menue. The only devices in my house are a Chromebook from my uncle (which i dont know how to get an iso from) a work desktop (which from my mom I dont think would allow me to download etcher. And the bricked laptop. Is there anything I can do?

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Fatsort for MECHEN DAP

I am having difficulty installing FATsort for my MECHEN audio player. I have used the codes in the terminal examples. So far, there have not been results in alphabitizing my music library. Does anybody know how to do this code correct?

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Graphics card fun with X11...

Today my colleague installed Manjaro KDE on his PC. Everything was set up well and cleanly. Only the performance with his gtx 960 and the 580 driver (which is his current one) with x11 was not optimal. A lot of jerking and a bit sluggish. The gtx960 is actually a pretty good GPU. Well. We've been fiddling around with the nvidia settings for a while, including the kwin compositor... didn't bring any improvement. A little annoyed, we wanted to look for another distribution when I noticed that it was running x11. So I switched to wayland and lo and behold:
The box performs excellently. Why none of us had the idea to check which session was active when we first started...
Well. Apparently the plasma version and the nvidia driver are no longer compatible with x11...
We could have saved ourselves all the fiddling around 😅

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What to do now?

Hi 👋 community,
I’m here for a question that’s making me go fool.
I have a Lenovo Notebook with the following specs:
- Amd E3020
- 8gb ram DRR3
- 240gb SSD

I’ve friend to use it as second pc with Linux Mint but as the work becomes harder it sticks and I have to push the power button to make it alive again.

It makes me fool to throw away this pc, it has never been really used, and it looks really good.

I was bought by my mother to my sister a few years ago ago (against all my suggestions and alternatives)


What would you do with a pc like this ?



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Are we now unknown?
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"Ok but can your GRUB do this?" - GRUB Bootloader Running Pong
https://github.com/aqarooni02/GrubHackPro

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Little brother got his first pc
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Nyno 2.0 "The Engine" Release: Build Linux Workflows using Plain Text YAML + Bash + High-Performing Python, PHP, JavaScript Extensions using Multi-Process Worker Engines.
https://github.com/empowerd-cms/nyno

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Mozilla is a 65 million dollar per year organization that makes 25 mil profit, and has hundreds of millions of hoarded assets in securities. 15 CEOs make 10 mil. Employees are contracted for 2 mil, and 2 mil goes to "consulting and marketing" firms. A podcast firm is paid 50,000 per ~25 min episode
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This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.5 is here! - KDE Blogs
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/25/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.5-is-here/

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Improve Linux for the PS2?

As many know, the PS2 have an official Linux release, my question is: area there any mod/homebrew version of this that work better that the official release?

I know that you cannot ask for too much with 32 MB of ram and a 300 MHz CPU, but I'm curious to know if someone have done it before, because as far I'm researching, I didn't find anything related to that

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Flatpak is essentially entirely reliant on Cisco to function at the moment, and it could bite you in the ass

Hi.

As you may know, Cisco have banned users from Russia, Belarus, Iran and the occupied Ukrainian territories from accessing their services. What's awkward is that they have a special relationship with the open source implementation of h.264 OpenH264—they distribute the binaries that users would otherwise have to pay for (even to compile!), and quite a lot of projects end up relying on it.

This leads to a very weird situation. Take, for example, the LocalSend app. It relies on the GNOME runtime. The GNOME runtime needs OpenH264. Flatpak tries fetching the binary for it from Cisco, but they respond with 403.

This means that for anybody in those territories (or really GeoIP'd as those territories), you essentially CANNOT use any Flatpak that relies on GNOME without a VPN. There's no mirroring, there are no attempts to mitigate this, Flatpak just is broken.

Sure, you might say that there are some weird ways by which you may block the OpenH264 from being downloaded, but who's to say that dependency management won't get stricter in the future. Sure, currently these sorts of problems are limited to a few places, but they very well could be expanded anywhere the US desires, or Cisco's servers could just die for no reason and break Flatpak with them.

So here I wonder, is there anything that could be done here? Could Flathub at least mirror the binaries? Or is there a policy of simply not caring if something breaks because of a hidden crutch?

PS: This also extends to Fedora which fetches OpenH264 from Cisco's repo in much the same way.

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My Current Linux Trajectory, After Almost Two Years

TL;DR: There’s a lot about Linux that still sucks, but it sucks far less than Windows.

I’ve been enjoying Linux (mostly) for almost two years now, and I thought I’d share my trajectory for anyone considering making the switch. No, this was not written or altered by AI.

It Starts with Windows

It all started when I bought a new computer with Windows 11 preinstalled. After using Windows 10 for so long, I was looking forward to taking advantage of all the goodness that Windows 11 has to offer. As it relates to more modern hardware, there’s actually a lot of good technology lurking inside of Windows if you look, and there were so many other improvements that I read about, so I was rather excited. Unfortunately, my excitement ended shortly after the first boot.

The Windows 11 onboarding process was lengthy and annoying. It required countless updates and reboots, that seemingly nullified the performance of a modern system, and the whole process took hours. Hours! Who at Microsoft thinks this introduction to Windows is a good experience!? After finally logging in to this new wonder, I was ready to install my applications.

But, Windows 11 didn’t want me to install my applications, at least not right away. There were popups; so many popups. A popup to introduce me to something, another popup for me to subscribe to something, another popup to upgrade to a “pro” version of something else. It was nonstop popups. WTF? Did I just visit a shady web site with malicious ads that redirect you all over the place to try to get you to install something? It definitely felt like it, but it was just me logged into my new Windows 11 installation.

After dealing with all this popup stupidity, I began to install my applications. While this was largely uneventful, save for yet another random popup asking to install some Microsoft game thing, my brand new system felt more sluggish than I expected. In poking around a bit, it appears the usual Windows Defender, .NET Optimization, and related pundits were gleefully using up CPU and I/O resources in an effort to keep me safe and, get this, help things run faster. Oh the irony.

After a couple days of Windows 11-ing, and more popups, I was not as impressed as I thought I would be with my new machine. Heck, this has a bunch of cores, oodles of RAM, the latest NVMe hotness, and this thing is still not awesome. I figured things would get better over a few more days as Windows “settles down” maintaining itself, but it never got better.

After a few more weeks of dealing with more annoying popups, updates that constantly and annoyingly change things, lackluster performance, and other annoyances, I thought maybe I should give Linux a shot. Windows 11 has been unimpressive, worse than Windows 10, some of my colleagues have been talking more about Linux and, since I just got this machine, I figured now is a good time to try something new, so I did.

On to Linux

I started researching Linux distributions and, ultimately, decided the granddaddy, Debian, was for me. “Rock solid stability,” plentiful packages, and the foundation for a very many successful Linux distributions. I’ll start with the venerable OS that started it all.

I proceeded to install Debian, but it wasn’t working with my video card (in hindsight, those in the know know installing Debian on a modern system is likely to be a miss). After some research, and figuring out how to get modern firmware onto my Debian installation, I conquered the installation and installed my programs with no troubles, or popups. (To those new to Linux, most of your programs are in an “app store” of sorts, but most popular Windows programs expect you to download and install them individually from their respective web sites.)

The first few days of Linux were rough, but fun; kind of like exploring an open world RPG. My productivity was off as I tweaked this or learned how to change that, but, with each change, my productivity improved (and it would almost get to my Windows 10 productivity level.)

However, not all was

well in my world of Linux. While, unlike Windows 11, performance was great, things didn’t work right here, there, and everywhere. I had issues with sound sometimes and in some places, varied Wi-Fi issues, sleep quirks, blurry font rendering, and others. In my spare time I investigated the issues one-by-one and solved them, mostly. The first issue was resolved by migrating to the more modern pipewire, the second issue required another firmware update that Debian was behind on, the third required a just-released BIOS update, and so on. While I was happy in my new Linux world, it required a lot of tinkering.

After a few weeks I began to notice a pattern with Debian; almost every time I ran into an issue, it was related to a bug or feature that was addressed upstream, but Debian’s packages would never receive the fix or update because this is by design by Debian. Not wanting to let Debian slow me down, I figured out how to get fixed versions of the packages on my system, but, slowly, and somewhat unbeknownst to me, I was building a “FrankenDebian,” and veteran Debian users know not to do this.

So, in trying to stick with my Debian pick, since I already started to learn it rather well, I decided to start fresh with Debian Testing; everything you know about Debian, but with newer stuff! Sounds like a win for me! I began the process and things went well, for the most part.

Debian Testing made my experience better; I had newer packages with less bugs and more functionality. However, over time, I started to have many little nagging issues here and there again, and I started to have them all the time. As I started to go down the rabbit hole to knock these out over time, I ultimately realized Debian Testing is, shockingly, for testing and not meant for production use (and, yes, veterans know this). Without going into more detail, I eventually ran Sid for a time, but, ultimately, it still had too many outdated packages and, as a Debian veteran, I eventually decided I was Done With Debian (tm).

I eventually switched to a rolling release distribution, things have been much, much smoother, and I am far happier. I won’t bother saying which, as that’s not my focus here (even though I singled out Debian), but you can readily figure out what I’m running anyway. With my broad Linux knowledge from troubleshooting Debian, I’m in a fairly steady place; I have far fewer bugs, less nagging issues that crop up, about zero popups, and I’m more productive today than I was with my well-fleshed-out Windows 10 system. Yes, I still run into issues here and there, but I also ran into the occasional similar issues with Windows 10. The difference here is, with Linux, there’s more support and, heck, if I roll up my sleeves I might even be able to submit a patch that solves the problem, or, at minimum, file a quality bug report that you can follow along on and often see a fix (you can’t do this in Windowsland).

Going back to Windows would be a definitive downgrade for me; I still make an RDP connection to a Windows VM that I maintain on another system, but the less I have to interact with Windows, the better.

I hope this post will help others considering the switch to give it a try. You’ll have some pain, but you might find it helpful. No pain, no gain, right?

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Kwin / GDM SwayWM style stacked windows?
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Fully open source peer-to-peer 4chan alternative built on IPFS
https://github.com/plebbit/5chan

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How the tables have turned
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The discourse around Gnome could do with a bit of maturing

There are many DE's out there and whatever your preference is you can pretty much pick and choose whichever you want. Gnome, like it or not, is one of those ways to do things; just like how KDE does things their way or Cinnamon theirs. If you want a traditional desktop go for xfce, KDE (you can turn that one into anything you want really), Cinammon or just style Gnome into it. If you want gnome 2 there's MATE which is still being somewhat alive. If you want nome for Gnome you go Gnome.

Do we see people calling the xfce devs fascists, paid opposition by microsoft to ruin Linux, redhat corpo puppets or that their userbase is "crayon-munching toddlers with room temperature IQ"? There are better ways to frame things and create discussion. Point out the things that do not work and that you do not like, but it does not need to involve name-calling or rudity which seems to be what all discussions around Gnome devolve into.

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What's going on with openssh.com?

Tried to access their guidance mentioned in the new-ish post-quantum warning, noticed their domain seems to point to a parked STRATO page, TLS is no longer working, registrar information changed, whois information last updated 2025-10-24.

Did they accidentally their entire domain?

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FYI - lenovo let's you configure with Fedora and Ubuntu
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