Linux

I am building a mid-range system to play some games. However, the system isn't booting into Windows 10 or 11 or Ubuntu even after multiple attempts of re-installing and troubleshooting. System Specs (All parts are brand new): CPU: Intel i3-10100f GPU: MSI RX 6600 RAM: XPG Z1 DDR4 16 GB (2x8...

Can someone tell me what are some good anti-virus programs for Linux Mint? According to some articles i have read, i don't need anti-virus programs for Linux. However, i don't think this is the case. If my computer gets viruses, and there is no scanning program to show me a notification there...

Ive always been a Windows user and would be considered a noob in terms of what I know of Linux. I sell fulltime online across a couple different marketplaces and Ive been debating on experimenting with a Linux Distro just to play around with. For futuristic purposes, Id like some opinions and...

I'm having lots of trouble burning some MP4's to a Bluray for use in a Bluray player. Every software I use seems to just burn the files to the disc without formatting them OR just fails to burn the files at all. Could anyone with experience in creating bluray player ready blurays discs tell me...

I've a system with the bellow mentioned components. CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 Mobo: Asrock B450M Pro4-F R2.0 RAM: PNY XLR8 8GBx2 HDD: WD blue 1TB SSD: Lexar 256 GB PSU: Corsair CV 450W OR Thermaltake Litepower 450W GPU: Amd Radeon RX 550 4GB OR Nvidia GTX 960 2GB I bought the system in February 2021...

Hi. So, if i install Linux Mint on a USB flash drive, connect the USB flash drive to my Windows 10 laptop, start surfing dangerous websites and Linux Mint gets infected with a virus, could Linux pass the virus to Windows through the USB port? If yes, what component will get infected, the BIOS or...

Guys I have a T430 with 8GB RAM and i5-3320M 2.6Ghz cpu. Battery’s dead and there’s a newer BIOS version but I can’t update it without battery. It was very slow and stuck every time I run a heavy software like visual studio. It is having windows 10 pro and I recently noticed that it limits the...

I've installed a very large sized package through "sudo apt-get install ...... " on my primary computer but I need to install those packages on my other computers too. I don't want to re-download the files as they're extremely large. Also, It's irritating to do "sudo apt-get update " in every...

A couple of years ago, Linus Torvalds starting grilling NVIDIA about the chips screwing up Android phones. He said, "NVIDIA, **** you!" and stuck out his middle finger. This made me conclude that NVIDIA just sucks for Linux and other Unix-based products. But as for Windows, NVIDIA's still...

Anyone know any good x86 SBC alternatives to the RPI? I'm mainly gonna use it for tinkering and testing some of my own software with Linux but don't wanna have to deal with ARM, as that means I will have to recompile some of my code. I would highly prefer if it has a GPIO pin header with...

I'm looking into a gaming pc build with 5600X & 6600XT, but I'm not sure which motherboard would be best for GPU passthrough to a VM under linux. I have a spare old card I'll use for the main OS. I heard you want to look into IOMMU groups and some motherboards say they support it, but don't...

Recently, I updated my Kali Linux to the latest version along with the microcodes. Ever since then, the Wifi seems to be dropping and requesting a DHCP request in the time interval. Also, the speed seems to be throttled due to the dropping. However, I checked the adaptor by booting into Windows...

Hi! I have an Asus G551JM laptop. I accidentally turned off USB BOOT SUPPORT in the BIOS. My Integrated Keyboard does not work. I only have a USB on my laptop and I can't navigate in the bios since I turned off this menu. I managed to install a Linux Mint 20.2 (UMA) boot and it works perfectly...

I could really use some help with this. It's been driving me crazy, not to mention interfering with my activities, for quite some time. I'm not even sure where to post this, as I'm not sure just where the root cause is. There are two systems here. Both are similarly set up and have Gentoo Linux...

Does Kali Linux support 2 x 4GB RAM sticks of different frequencies, and also other OS like Android ? Like Windows runs on different frequency. Like 1st - 4gb 1333HZ Frequency 2nd - 4gb 1600HZ Frequency

Actually, I want to test some Windows software, they could be malicious. Currently, I'm using MX Linux. I tried virtualization with every software out there, but it makes my system lag. My system is not that superior. So, should I go with a dual boot then?

Hi, I'm using dual boot windows and Linux recently I have installed kali Linux but while using kali I'm get horizontal black bars screen and system crashing (like mouse and keyboard light getting off). sometime this issue gets while login. i tried some boot parameter method but not working. i...

Hello All! Today I purchased a Crucial BX500 1TB SSD and threw it in my older laptop to use for practice. I was learning how to use linux terminal to partition and format and manipulate drives and storage devices. Essentially I was trying to set up a rather complicated dual booting scenario...

As the title suggests, which laptop model supports linux better? pls leave a comment below if u know. btw i am thinking to buy a used thinkpad t470. what are your opinions?

When I tried Linux Mint i had xserver-xorg driver and it worked ok but ofc you cannot play games with it So i updated the drivers and after this i get black screen after entering into the system I then tried Xubuntu and it also became black when entering the system (No login, etc.) I am using...

I'm trying something new, I'm familiar with Linux (ish) I'm not one of the people who's gonna preach about switching to Linux, to be honest I really don't care lol, I just wanna try something new until Win11 is a little more improved. Anyways... I'm trying to create a bootable USB, NOT a live...

I have Dell Precision M6400, with an 5400rpm hdd, and Core 2 Extreme QX9300 processor, due to some drivers support and issues i cannot move to linux, i was experiencing many issues so have to go back to Windows and windows 10. I use win 10 debloater from Christitustech from github, by which i...

Hey there, My (mx500) SDD is fully partitioned by Windows 10. Recently, I noticed that there is a 509MB partition at the end of my drive. What's that? Can I merge it to the last partition? image: View: https://imgur.com/dG7r5Xo My other question is about the free space remaining on my C...

I recently dual booted my windows 10 Installention with linux mint. Today i cleaned installed windows 10 but without touching the linux partition (in the windows install menu i deleted all partitions except the linux one and i installed windows 10 on the same partition). I confrmed that i didnt...

Hi, I want a laptop with good CPU power, build quality and linux compatiblity (it doesnt have to have official linux support) in the 13" to 15" range! Minimum specs: 16GB RAM, i7/Ryzen 5 Of course, I already had a look at the obvious options: Dell XPS 13 (dev edition): I had one running Arch...

Hello There, I am a tech enthusiast and have Ubuntu 21.10 installed on my only driver of 500 Gb. My PC specs are as follows, H/W path Device Class Description ========================================================= system Vostro...

So I built my first gaming pc recently and it was working for the first couple months. Then suddenly, it froze while I was playing Destiny 2 and I was never able to boot it up again. It kept looping the failed automatic repair screen. I’ve tried stuff like wiping my SSD and booting windows 10 on...

I have old single core Pentium 4 511 processor yet, on Windows 7 in recent years, indeed it was frequently overheated above 70 grades. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/27453/intel-pentium-4-processor-511-1m-cache-2-80a-ghz-533-mhz-fsb.html I have read user reviews and ones...

NOTE: I don't like hacking. If I am going to hack, it's for ethical purposes. I am a Computer Science major, so educating myself on computers is IMPORTANT!!! I have an older computer (besides my gaming laptop which I'm typing on) that is about 7- 8 years old. It's a 2014 Samsung Ativ with...

I've got an NTFS partition on my computer. My operating system is Kali Linux and I figured out that it doesn't support NTFS defragmentation. How do I defrag that partition within Linux without having to boot into Windows ? I tried e4defrag but no use.

I flashed my USB drive with a Linux ISO today to run it from the flash drive and see how the OS looks like. When I finished and came back to Windows, the drive was showing only 2.8 GB space (ISO size), while it's a 64 GB model. I unplugged and plugged it again, but it wasn't showing up in File...

How do I check for file system errors in a Debian based Linux system? I'm running Kali Linux and the problem is I'm unable to run the fsck tool in the root partition.

While a file is being downloaded, where is it stored first? (I mean, while its still downloading) Because, I've observed that the download speed is usually higher at times, and I just wanted to know where those bits of data are stored while being downloaded and flushed to the destination directory.

System specifications: Laptop: Acer Aspire 7 A715-75g cpu: i5 9300h 4c/8t ram: 8gb DDR4 2666mhz gpu: 1650ti 4gb gddr6 storage: 512gb nvme (80gb space free) around 8-9 months old The problem: this issue has been troubling me for a long time, which is performance issues with csgo on windows 10...

Hi folks, I have a few questions around a specific hardware situation. In short: (1) I have an old HDD suspected to be dead and whose data I'm looking to recover if possible, and (2) I'm trying to decide on a storage solution with which to replace it. To preface, I've read the pinned threads in...

I am trying to get my SSD formatted and having windows installed on it but i can't see it in diskpart or any windows tool I tried. It started with me trying to format my SSD, but that hangs forever, i tried quick and not, formatting and the result was the same. I think my SSD has some bad...

One day when running Ubuntu I lost all ability to input. This happened suddenly and out of the blue after running linux for months. No mice or keyboard input were possible regardless of 2.0 or 3.0 port. I figured this was a linux thing and try reinstalling but couldnt because once the usb drive...

hi guys, i'm not able to do something simple in virtual box. As this is a problem related to linux mint, I decided to post in this forum section. I'm using Virtual Box inside Windows 10 and inside virtual box I installed linux mint Cinamon. I enabled the option where I can transfer downloaded...

My girlfriend's optiplex 990 had two OS's on it. Linux and windows 10. Her copy of windows 10 kept acting up, and it wouldnt update either. So i figured the best thing to do would be to reinstall. I tried to reinstall, and went through the windows 10 install just fine, but once i got to the...

I have 2 SSDs in my PC. One an nvme and one sata. I have windows installed on the first one and on the second linux. After installing linux i noticed that the nvme is not showing up as a bootable drive in the bios anymore. It still shows up in the "disks" app and i've been able to copy files...