Hi,

I bought a Lenovo M910q (i5-6500T, 16Gib RAM, Intel Mesa graphics) to play with Proxmox, but I'm dying on the first level!

After installing Proxmox from Ventoy using either the default settings or the ones from someone's guide , I get kernel panics on the first boot. As a test, I've just installed Debian on it from Ventoy with the default settings, and it seems to work fine.

I ran the Processor, Memory, and SSD checks from the Intel BIOS without any flags.

Any guesses what I've done wrong here?

Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.1// Logitech G433 with on-wire microphone

Yesterday my headset-mic just felt like not picking up sound properly anymore. I do not recall doing anything that could cause this, like updates etc. I can scream directly into my micorphone and nothing. Yet, when I tap on it it suddenly records sound perfectly?

I tried

• rebooting
• installing system updates
• reinstalling pipewire packages
• replugging my headset
• checking and increasing sound levels of the mic using wpctl wpctl get-volume 50 Volume: 10.00 wpctl set-volume 50 100 wpctl set-volume 50 10000

I am at my wits end here. Do you have any ideas how to solve this?

I have bind mounts configured in my /etc/fstab. The source (i.e. where the files physically exist) is on a removable USB drive.

Right now it works but I have to mount/unmount everything individually when I plug/unplug the drive. I would like to be able to have the bind mounts follow the state of of the USB drive automatically.

Is there a way?

Edit here is relevant section of fstab:

/dev/mapper/external-crypt	/mount/external		auto	nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=5	0 0
/mount/external/realfolder	/home/user/folder	none	bind,nofail	0 0

So when I run sudo mount "/mount/external" I want sudo mount /home/user/folder to be implied; likewise for umount.

I've spent hours on MX fluxbox, but wasn't able to make the brightness and the time adjustments permanent.

I boot it from my live USB stick by the way.

What do you think of this framing of linux distributions? Accurate? Horrible?

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/53932495

I simply opened the power shell on my windows computer and gave the command wsl --install.

When l typed in a command for kolourpaint, this came up.

I'm totally new on GitHub, and don't know how to make good use of it. How do l make use of this link https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/testing-your-ssh-connection?platform=windows ??

My purpose is to try out my SSH key.

I am working on windows 10 currently. I was wondering if MX Linux could be installed directly from online. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Perhaps I missed the setting, but I want blank username/password fields instead of selecting from available users if that makes any sense. On KDE Plasma if that matters.

Thank you!

Hi, y'all. Running Linux Mint and I have the puzzle presented above.

From what I gather, I'm using rename (1p) which makes mention of Perl and in the man page it says it will also run as file-rename. I'm not sure if this is the right rename utility for the common argument

s/old_pattern/new_pattern/

but any time I try to run anything (including -n), I just get an angle bracket > and have to ctrl-c out.

I'd also need some details on how the wildcards work, which seems to be lacking in the documentation.

Edit: Instructions unclear. I have a bunch of episodes that are very wordy. I'm moving them onto DVD and truncated on my player the directory will look like:

Star Trek The Next Gene....
Star Trek The Next Gene....
Star Trek The Next Gene....
Star Trek The Next Gene....
Star Trek The Next Gene....

so I want to take (sample episode)

Star Trek The Next Generation Season 1 Episode 1 - Encounter at Far Point

and

• Replace 'Star Trek The Next Generation Season ' with 'S0'

• Replace 'Episode ' with 'E0' or 'E' depending on digits

• Keep episode title as is.

So it looks like

S01E01 - Encounter at Farpoint.mkv

Imagine a young explorer who's just heard that word, "git". But it actually means an entire world. How is this young explorer supposed to dive into this mysterious world with just a machine in hand ?

He's got vs code though !! And he's also got fish and zsh on WSL !

I wish to work on Linux, but the only machine l have at my disposal is my brother's windows laptop when it's free. Can I create a virtual Linux system using QEMU ?

I've installed Kubuntu (26.04 LTS) on a laptop with a touchscreen. When logging in, there is a button for the virtual keyboard in the lock screen, but it does nothing, nor does tapping on the password field. Once I've logged in, it works fine (including on the lock screen), but once I've logged out it breaks again. I also tried the Silent theme, which has a different on-screen keyboard, but that also didn't work (it shows up, but the keys do nothing). How do I fix this?

I installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS about a year ago. Now that 26.04 is out, I was planning to upgrade, but instead I think I'm going to wipe and re-install from scratch. Does anyone have any tips or tweaks they recommend for new installs? Things like, do or don't encrypt the drive during the install process, make an administrator account separate from your regular user account? I already plan to install the Flatpak repo and the Gnome Software Center.

Thanks!

For some reason, most of Kubuntu's default themes disappeared on me. Is there any way to redownload them?

Context

I've started a Fediverse watch party (#ReMonsterdon on Mastodon) & want to store & organize info about it (films shown; films scheduled to be shown; candidates for showing; dates; relevant links like streams, trailers, Wikipedia; images like film posters etc).

At the moment, I'm using a combination of stuff on my computer, i.e. a folder with text & image files, and a collection on NeoDB, a Fediverse media catalogue.

But I'd like a more all-in-one & organized/organizable file (easy to search, sort etc). A lot of people use a spreadsheet for that kind of thing. But I was under the impression that that's what databases are for.

I don't know much about either. I use spreadsheets very little and databases not at all (except NeoDB, I suppose).

Request

Is there a simple, local, FLOSS, GUI database, suitable for beginners, that I could use for this?

(I had a look at my installation of LibreOffice, but for some reason the options for creating a Base file are greyed out or missing).

(I am not yet ready to try self-hosting. So something that is local, preferably in a system package, .deb or .AppImage. My OS: Linux Mint 22.2 Xfce.)

Thanks in advance

I'm just curious here. I use MySql Workbench on Windows and Linux. I am not storing the password in Workbench. On Windows, I click the database I want, enter the password and go about my business. On Linux (Mint), I enter my password...and then it prompts me for my password randomly from there on out. I might use it for fifteen minutes without a prompt. Then, I might get prompted for a password four times in a row. It does this if I start Workbench up as a user or as root.

Anything obvious I could do to make the Linux version mirror the Windows version a little better in this regards?

Also, just as an observation, the Linux version of Workbench is definitely inferior to the Windows version. There are all kinds of quirky things going on in the Linux version.

Thanks,

I'm on a desktop PC that's in my home office. I have personal documents and clients' intellectual property on it (source code, databases, documents, etc.). Hence, I like to use full disk encryption on all disks. Nobody else uses this PC besides me and it's safe at home. The only threat vector is if somebody gained access to my room and stole the computer. It's very remote, but still technically possible (if you think I'm exaggerating, I'd like to learn your opinion). Maaaaybe if I was sending the nvme for RMA, that's also a threat, but I have never had an SSD break on me. Never. I know it's anecdotal and sometimes they break, but I had multiple and I think it's such a small chance...

LUKS is a bit of a pain with having to type the passphrase on each boot. So I had it on auto-unlock via TPM, which works great when it works, but a) is also a pain when it breaks (usually due to system upgrade that changes something and I forgot to re-enroll the keys or re-generate the PCRs), b) according to Arch wiki it's unsafe, if anybody has physical access to my PC -- so essentially the only threat vector I was trying to protect myself against is not protected against.

But I was thinking -- I am OK with typing one password on boot. I just don't want to type two different passwords one after the other. What if I set autologin in my Desktop Environment (GNOME or KDE), but left LUKS locked down with a passphrase? Wouldn't that be safe? It's a single user system, nobody will use it. If it gets stolen, it's been shutdown and then they can't gain access because of LUKS.

Am I thinking correctly?

I'm several months into my Linux journey and this is one thing that is driving me absolutely crazy because it legit just works on Windows and OS X.

1. I hit the start button

2. I type "note"

3. I hit enter.

If I give it a full second between steps 2 and 3, Notesnook opens as intended.

But if I hit enter at a normal speed, a game (Necesse) launches.

This is presumably because it's executing the command before the search finishes.

Can I change this behavior? I use AutoCAD for a living so typing a command and hitting enter really fast is a habit I won't be able to break.

Here's my situation. I have an Asus router that allows me to connect an external drive to it and then it can function as a UPnP media server. Back when I was on Windows It worked perfectly. It always sat in the sidebar of the file explorer and I could just drag and drop files to and from it, download stuff directly onto it or play movies just by double clicking them

I moved to a Fedora-based distro (Nobara) a few months ago and have been unable to access the server the same way. I know it works, because if I open VLC I can access it under "Universal Plug'n'Play" and see my movies, but for the life of me I can't get it to show up in Dolphin or any other file explorer I've tried. I've resorted to turning on FTP on the router and mounting the drive with rclone, which somewhat works for my use case, but it's slow and occasionally just refuses to connect because sessions don't seem to get closed properly and I get a "Too many connections" error.

My google-fu appears to have failed me, because I have genuinely found nothing, besides just using Kodi or VLC. I also found a few threats from like a decade ago complaining about the UPnP support on KDE, but I would have expected things to have improved since then. Is what I'm trying to achieve here just not possible?