I'm using Kubuntu and the default printing menu doesn't have even have half the features as my windows PC.

I'm looking for a program that has options for double sided printing (both long and short side binding), print multiple faces per page, select which pages to print (odd, even, custom selection), and a preview screen to show what your print will look like.

These are standard features on every other printing interface I've used, I'm astonished I can't find anything on linux that has these (not to mention when I look for "linux printing software" 95% of what comes up is related to coding and not paper).

Any ideas? Thanks reddit army.

I'm using Ventoy
When i'm trying to boot any ISO, it gives me errors
error: invalid magic number.

error: you need to load thekerel first.

Press any button to countinue

I installed Linux before on different laptops with that flash. I've already tried to update it, or re-install Ventoy. Nothing. Now It has the same problem when im booting on mine regular laptop. I cannot use Rufus cause i don't have any Windows devise

So, i fairly recently moved form windows 10 to mint, then to cachy and Ive now moved to Arch. I used Arch install because im still a noob, but i really liked the idea of having an absolute barebone install that i could slowly build up myself with exactly only what i wanted on there. I did however use this system for gaming very successfully in CachyOs, so I opted to install the Cachy Kernel and repos. So I now have my Arch install + Cachy Kernel and i setup snapper with BTFRS. I am pretty happy with this setup, but I have thought to myself.. have I just basically installed CachyOS the hard way? is this setup pointless? or is/was there some benefit to my setup aside from the sometimes fun..sometimes infuriating learning process?

I was given the above computer, and thought I'd set up a self hosted server on it as an experiment. I have now spent over 12 hours trying to get it to connect to my internet, to no avail. I first tried Lubuntu due to me being scared of running a headless is, immediately ran into issues, troubleshot, gave up, installed Ubuntu server instead, same issue.

I feel like I am not savvy enough to even explain what's wrong, but I have scoured every damn forum I can find with similar problems.

From what I'm gathering it's lacking drivers and support, that need to be installed, but I can't install them due to no internet...

I realize this is a worthless plead for help because of no real world info, but my brain is so burnt out that this is all I have.

I guess what I'm wondering is if anyone has the same computer, managed to get anything to work, or if this machine is just a dead end and I should give up...

Quisiera probar fedora porque algunas características me llamaron la atención, sobre todo algo que escuché fue el creador de Linux, utiliza esta distribución. Soy desarrollador web, docente y creador de contenido de videos sencillos.

Fedora sería una buena distribución para mí?.

No lo voy a utilizar para juegos ni para diseño gráfico ni nada muy pesado para las computadoras, más que todo porque tengo especificaciones un poco deficientes.

He utilizado ubuntu y Debian, o sea que estoy familiarizado con el entorno linux.

my partitioning is really bad I'm sorry😭😭 I don't have a spare drive or anything to back up my data so it has to be like this for now. I know that it's not a very good practice to put ntfs and ext4 partitions on the same drive

so I'm trying to go from mint to debian while keeping my /home and all the other directories and I got super confused about the boot loader

I tried mounting sdb1 as /boot/efi on the new install, but debian complained that it has to be at least 300 MB in size, so I guess that's the windows' boot loader? where is the grub's installation then? or /boot/efi I guess

also if I go to my boot priority settings in UEFI, grub shows up as ㅤㅤㅤㅤ for some reason so i have no idea which drive it is on

i really wish I could just wipe that other windows nvme but there's like 2 programs that don't work on linux no matter what i tried

honorable mention fuck AI, if it wasn't for data centers I could just buy a bigger nvme for windows stuff and not have to go through all of this

My friend's laptop needed an upgrade and because of how much I glazed linux he decided to try it, i went to his home and had my tools ready, a laptop, a usb drive, and a bunch of ISO's, i showed him different DE's and distros, we tried to install arch (i told him i would be his tech support lol) but for some odd reason the iso was broken, we tried cachy os but it didn't work either, even when using other cachyos boot options, his laptop is dell Inspiron n5110, it's too old to have secure boot, it has an Intel gpu ALONGSIDE an NVIDIA gpu, and they are ANCIENT i tried ISO's on my machine and they worked just fine, on cachyos it stuck at loaded graphical interface, also his font was strangely weird, i decided it was another nvidia problem so i went and made intel the default from bios, but it still didn't work out. I didn't want to try mint and Ubuntu because he wanted something that's new, fast and cool, while mint is just a super fast windows (from the outer shell ofc) I'm so frustrated and I'm taking it as a challenge, please help. Sorry for bad English

So, i have a problem which idk how to fix. My Mercusys red antenna just doesnt work, and i tried installing some drivers i found on GitHub but nothing worked

System: Nobara Linux + KDE Plasma

My model: i think MU60HE or something like that

Drivers: rtl8812cu/5.8.0.14 (or similar)

Hello! I’m not new to Linux; I used it as my primary (and only) operating system from 2011 to about 2018 (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Debian, etc.). Since then, I’ve used Windows exclusively—mainly because the PC was intended solely for gaming, and I didn’t want any unnecessary complications (please don’t crucify me for switching to Windows!).

I’d like to start using Linux again from time to time, and I want to run it on actual hardware rather than in a VM. Since I’ve rarely (if ever) set up a dual-boot system, I have a few questions about how to partition my drive for this.

My setup includes an i7-13700KF, an RTX 4080 Super, and 32GB of DDR5 RAM. I’m running Windows 11 in UEFI mode with "Fast Startup" disabled; Secure Boot is enabled (and must remain so, due to certain games).

Regarding storage, I have two 2TB NVMe drives. Windows and some games are installed on the C: drive, while the D: drive holds a large collection of other games. I can’t dedicate an entire drive to Linux (and I don’t need that much space for it anyway), so I could free up about 500GB on the D: drive for a Linux installation.

How should I partition that 500GB space? Do you have any recommendations for this dual-boot setup? In the past, I’ve run into issues where the system time would be incorrect when switching back to Windows after using Linux—how can I prevent that?

My goal is to minimize any impact on my current Windows installation. I even considered using a small-capacity external USB SSD, but I feel that wouldn’t quite be the same as a "real" hardware installation, given the limitations of a USB connection.

Any general tips on how to set up this dual boot? Thanks!

My friend's laptop needed an upgrade and because of how much I glazed linux he decided to try it, i went to his home and had my tools ready, a laptop, a usb drive, and a bunch of ISO's, i showed him different DE's and distros, we tried to install arch (i told him i would be his tech support lol) but for some odd reason the iso was broken, we tried cachy os but it didn't work either, even when using other cachyos boot options, his laptop is dell Inspiron n5110, it's too old to have secure boot, it has an Intel gpu ALONGSIDE an NVIDIA gpu, and they are ANCIENT i tried ISO's on my machine and they worked just fine, on cachyos it stuck at loaded graphical interface, also his font was strangely weird, i decided it was another nvidia problem so i went and made intel the default from bios, but it still didn't work out. I didn't want to try mint and Ubuntu because he wanted something that's new, fast and cool, while mint is just a super fast windows (from the outer shell ofc) I'm so frustrated and I'm taking it as a challenge, please help. Sorry for bad English

Let me give you a little context: This is my first time installing Ubuntu, and I’m slowly starting to realize the problems that come with it. I mean, I’ve already finished the installation, but I’ve run into the huge SNAP space issue, the library dependency problem, and who knows what else. I just wanted a program that could save or get my old PC—which is about 5 years old—working properly again. With Ubuntu, I’m managing to do that more or less, but I wanted to explore other alternatives or just get some recommendations
I realize it's impossible to make my 2018 laptop perform like my main desktop computer, but I want to see if I can get the most out of my old computer (since it runs relatively well on Ubuntu)

Rtx 3060 12400f 16gb ddr4 adata legend 700 512gb m2 ssd (This is the disk I will use for the installation) samsung evo 870 evo sata

Nobara 44 Official and KDE ISOs both fail Media Check.

ISO SHA256 checksum is verified successfully.

Tried Rufus in DD mode and Linux Mint USB Image Writer, with similar results.

Nobara Live Desktop boots, but installation fails during the final nobara-sync stage with an external command error.

Garuda Linux fails to install the NVIDIA driver, resulting in extremely poor desktop performance.

Btrfs (also ext4) installation fails with:

The installer failed to create

partition on disk 'ADATA LEGEND 700'.

LVM reports:

Device /dev/nvme0n1p3 has size of 959206984 sectors which is smaller than corresponding PV size of 994787944 sectors.

The ADATA NVMe previously contained Windows and multiple Linux installations. It was repeatedly cleaned using Windows DiskPart clean before attempting new installations.

The Samsung SSD contains Windows and personal data and is not the target installation disk.

Question: Could stale LVM metadata, GPT partition table inconsistencies, or a Calamares partitioning issue explain the installation failure? Has anyone experienced the same combination of errors?

Good morning linux users.

This is one of my first times using linux, for a laptop I’m converting into a writing-only distraction-free device.

I’m using Linux Lite 4.8 and LibreOffice 6.0.7.3

I just want to use a Dark Mode type theme for LibreOffice Writer. In the theme settings it requests a Firefox theme URL, or to search/browse within the same window in the app.

But no matter what I try, I can’t paste a URL, download a compatible theme, or search in the built in theme window.

Can anyone help me apply a dark theme in this old version of LibreOffice please? Thank you

Previously, I had set up this system with Windows 10, Windows 11, and the default Ubuntu-based Linux Mint distro. GRUB let me boot to Mint or the Windows boot loader where I could boot into 10 or 11. But I wanted to replace the default Mint partition with Linux Mint Debian Edition, and after installing it my system instead boots to a GRUB command line prompt and sits there waiting for me to enter commands.

If I run a few commands I can boot to LMDE or my Windows partitions from there, but I have to look them up on another system each time and I don't know how to make it stick. I want to keep at least Windows 10 otherwise I would have just wiped the entire disk.

What is wrong with my GRUB that it doesn't know how to point to my partitions anymore, and how can I install LMDE so that I get the expected GRUB behavior where it gives me the option to boot to LMDE or Windows and automatically selects one after a few seconds? Thanks.

ETA: Also, how does the boot process work now anyway? I used to feel like I had a grasp on it a few decades ago but not anymore. How can there be a Windows Boot Loader and GRUB at the same time? Could there be more than one GRUB instance now?

I tried running update-grub after booting to LMDE but after I rebooted I had the same problem as before.

I recently installed Arch and have been frequently running "sudo pacman -Syu" as I thought it kept the system up to date, but I saw someone talking about updating scripts in a video. Does the command I've been using not fully update the system? If not, I'd like to learn how to actually update it before my system ends up all out of whack or something 😅

I’ve had Linux on my laptop for basically forever now. There’s no aspects of the actual OS where I prefer Windows over linux at all. My laptop runs Debian with a simple GNOME UI and I absolutely love it.

I’d like to do the same to my PC, but there are 3 things that are keeping me from the transition and I wonder if those are justified:

1. Gaming and modding games. I don’t really play any of the big titles, but I would like to be able to play recent indie games. Examples being Castlevania Belmont’s Curse, Tunic, Elden Ring, etc. I understand that Proton has done a lot for gaming on Linux, but I’m wondering whether almost all titles work at this point?

2. GPU drivers. My PC has a full blown GPU (5700XT) and I want to be able to use it. If the GPU drivers are unstable or significantly less performant than the Windows drivers, that’s a clear dealbreaker for me.

I’m fine with compiling the drivers for my machine on my own, but they have to work.

3. General purpose software like video editing (Vegas Pro), image editing (GIMP, Aseprite) and I also enjoy being able to mod games. I’m fine with changing what I use, don’t get me wrong. But the Linux alternatives have to be capable.

I’m wondering if you guys can lend me your thoughts.

Hello! I'm looking to switch onto linux, and i've got some programs i need to keep for university use, arcgis pro, google earth pro, steam and R Gis.

I was looking at endeavour os but im unsure about the compatibility, or if i should start with a simpler distro like mint. Thank you so much for the advice!

sorry for the read

Situation:

I’m building a pc to mainly play bg3 with my brother but no distribution so far has install and play support, so I start troubleshooting. Over the course of somewhere north of 50 hours of total troubleshooting, I’m spent and asking for help.

Problem:

As stated, I’m stuck at the reboot phase of changing drivers so as to fully use the 1080. Got bazzite to start up with the correct iso as per the bazzite website. When starting bg3 it would drop to 10 fps or less. I forced display through the 1080 and got 800x600 resolution, at the time I didn’t know what drivers were so I swapped to Pop!_OS because I thought Bazzite was the problem. Since then I’ve learned about the 470-580 drivers required for the pascal architecture inside the 10 series and learned about the Software&Updates application found in the cosmic store. When trying to swap between any of the available drives it would apply but the restart within the app wouldn’t respond, so I would restart through the power icon in the gui, and later through the terminal. When it starts the boot process it shows the Pop!_OS logo for roughly 10 minutes then a black screen with a blinking white horizontal bar, typing doesn’t seem to do anything, no matter which driver I try. I’ve learned this is likely a conflict with nouveau and the nvidia driver and figured out how to blacklist nouveau but it still keeps happening. I’ve tried inputting all the major specific drivers between 470 and 580 through the terminal to no avail and trying to use the apt-mark hold because I found something that said the drivers get automatically updated to past 580. I’ve tried downloading from the NVIDIA website and patching it into the file system. I‘ve been through the grub menu to input a command at the end of some boot code to try and force boot into a shell and fix the configuration there but it never managed to boot into the shell. I know it’s not a secure boot issue. I have tried both 24.04 and 22.04 versions of Pop!_OS with both the nvidia versions that are said to not work as well as the non-nvidia versions for everything pre-1600. I honestly don’t remember everything I’ve tried but after following so many directions to a T and it not working, I’m just done.

Specs:

HP EliteDesk 800 G1 TWR

Intel Core i7-4790 (8) @ 4.00 GHz

Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics

NVIDIA EVGA FTW3 GTX 1080 ti

asrock 750w psu

tried bazzite-nvidia:stable, pop_os 24.04 & 22.04 so far and from reading around I might try mint just cause, and thank you to anyone who puts some thought into this.

Is Samba Registry for File Shares still a valid method nowadays? Or is it deprecated?

net conf import

[global] config backend = registry

Greetings everyone, I had a question: is it worth switching to Linux? I'm a big video game player and I don't know if switching to Linux would be worthwhile for daily use, or if it doesn't matter. I'd also like to start coding, if that's related. Thanks to those who will reply.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been chasing an extremely persistent hard freeze on my HP EliteBook 840 14 inch G10 that happens across completely different operating systems (Linux Mint, CachyOS, and Windows 11). I’ve narrowed down the exact trigger and ruled out almost every common software/hardware culprit, so I’m looking for deeper insights into Intel Raptor Lake PCH / xHCI / HP Embedded Controller behavior.

The Symptoms

• The entire system freezes instantaneously—display image locks up, mouse and keyboard become completely unresponsive.

• Interestingly, the screen backlight and hardware brightness/privacy hotkeys still respond while the OS is frozen.

• After 1–2 minutes of being frozen, the cooling fan ramps up to high speed and the laptop abruptly powers off (likely a hardware watchdog or thermal/EC safety cut).

• Once rebooted, the machine runs fine.

The Specific Trigger Isolated

• The freeze seems to occur only after a cold boot (laptop powered off for a while) when a specific USB 2.0 flash drive is already plugged in at power-on, and I then unplug it after ~30–60 minutes of normal usage.

• If I cold-boot the laptop without the drive attached, and then plug/unplug that exact same flash drive while the system is already running (tested on both USB-A and Thunderbolt/USB-C ports, with manual mount/unmount), it never freezes.

Why It Looks Like an Instant Bus/Hardware Stall (Not a Kernel Panic)

• Zero errors in logs: journalctl, dmesg, and pstore show normal activity right up to the exact second of the freeze, then logs abruptly stop with no Powering off or panic trace—meaning the CPU/bus locks up before anything can be flushed to the NVMe drive.

• Magic SysRq is dead during the freeze: I enabled full SysRq (kernel.sysrq = 1 and sysrq_always_enabled=1) and verified that Alt+SysRq+h prints sysrq: HELP in dmesg during normal operation. However, when the freeze happens, Alt+SysRq+REISUB does nothing at all (not even b for immediate reboot), and the Caps Lock LED does not blink.

• The only minor USB anomaly seen in dmesg during normal use is an occasional usb 3-7: reset full-speed USB device (the internal ELAN fingerprint sensor 04f3:0c82, which shares xHCI Bus 3 with the USB-A ports) when fprintd wakes up.

System Specifications

• Host: HP EliteBook 840 14 inch G10 Notebook PC

• CPU: 13th Gen Intel Core i5-1335U (Raptor Lake-P)

• GPU: Intel Raptor Lake-P UHD Graphics (8086:a721)

• RAM: 16 GB (plenty of free RAM at freeze time, ~11 GB available)

• BIOS: V70 family (recently updated to 01.13.01 Rev.A, which updated Embedded Controller to 51.47.00 and Realtek USB-C PD firmware to 4.1.0 — I suspect the issue may have started after this update)

Everything I Have Already Tried (Without Resolving It)

• Full SSD Wipe & OS/Bootloader Switch: Completely wiped the NVMe SSD and clean-installed Windows 11 + CachyOS using Limine instead of GRUB (previously happened on Linux Mint 22.3 with GRUB). The exact same freeze still occurs.

• Kernels Tested: 7.0.0-42-generic, 6.14.0-37-generic (Mint), and current CachyOS kernel.

• Kernel Parameters Tested: pcie_aspm=off, usbcore.autosuspend=-1, iommu=pt, i915.enable_psr=0, i915.enable_dc=0, i915.enable_guc=0, intel_idle.max_cstate=1.

• BIOS Tweaks: Disabled Thunderbolt Type-C Ports in BIOS (though lsusb -t shows the USB-A ports are on Bus 003 / Intel PCH xHCI, separate from Thunderbolt).

• Hardware Diagnostics & Physical Inspection:

  • ~8 hours of MemTest (0 errors).

  • Full HP UEFI Diagnostics + HP Windows Hardware Diagnostics (all passed).

  • Medicat USB hardware tests (no issues found).

  • Opened the bottom cover: fan and heatsink are clean, battery is healthy with no swelling.

Questions

1. Could a cheap/faulty USB flash drive (346d:5678) cause an electrical transient or brief 5V VBUS short upon physical removal—specifically after sitting idle in a cold-booted state—that instantaneously locks up the Intel PCH xHCI controller or HP Embedded Controller?

2. Has anyone experienced similar PCH/USB hard locks on HP EliteBook G10 units with recent V70 BIOS updates (01.13.01), and would downgrading the BIOS (e.g., to 01.12.01 or 01.09.00) make sense here?

3. Are there any other ACPI, EC, or xHCI power-management quirks on Raptor Lake EliteBooks I should look into?

Any insights would be hugely appreciated!