Often when downloading a game on steam my nvme drive gets pinned at 100% IO usage and my whole DE (gnome) can lock up at times. Is there a way to limit it so that this never happens?

If I keep an RDP connection open to my other computer for awhile, eventually the connection will drop. When I check the RDP Server button under Remote Desktop in the Settings, it says it's off. Turning it back on solves the problem, but I've had it randomly turn off several times.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

So, I tried searching for pc hardware help, but apperently that community doesn't exist, or I'm too dumb to find it. In either event, I am posting this here to try to troubleshoot my pc. This is mostly a hardware post. Technically the hard drives do have linux, but the issue isn't with that I don't think.

Ok, so here's what happened. 12 year old computer, on all day every day for most of it's life. Lets call it a 98% uptime. Well about 2 weeks ago I decided to turn it off, change hard drives, and turn it back on.

I have like 10 small hard drives. Each with different a OS on them.

So when I turn the PC back on, the fans sounded like the were struggling. The dell logo flickered on the screen, and then the whole PC powered off.

Thats weird. Never saw it do that before. So I hit power again, this time, a loud audible POP noise from inside the PC. Like an explosion. I could smell burning. So I rushed in unplugging everything, pull the PC out of it's place, check for damage, but found no evidence of a fire.

So I removed the power supply. Then I started just removing the fans to clean them (been about a year), and then I removed the big heat sink fan over the processor. I don't think I ever removed that before.

So my PC sat like that, unused, no way to turn it on. I posted when it first happened, to get an idea of what happened, and I've been told a capacitor probably burst.

I was also told that it's possible the motherboard could have been blown out. I see no physical damage.

So Sunday I was at a thrift shop. I just happened to see a $10 power supply. My power supply was 300 watts. This one at the thrift shop was 220 watts. According to a calculator I found online, I use roughly 176 watts. So I figure I'm probably fine. Just as a precaution I didn't connect my dvd burner. Just using it as a band-aid fix until I can get a better one.

So, first time powering up since my power supply died, with the temporary 220 watt power supply, and the dell logo shows up......and thats it.

Never gets past that screen. I googled it, and I've tried the following.

I took out the ram that was inside during the explosion. Luckily I still had my old ram in a drawer. So now instead of 16gb, I have 8gb. That did not solve the issue.

I took out the hard drive with ZorinOS that was in during the explosion. I put in a hard drive with BazziteOS. This did not solve the issue.

I took out all ram and all hard drives. I knew it wouldn't boot, but I wanted to see what happened. No dell logo, totally blank screen. Power button was orange instead of white.

Put just the ram back in, no hard drive. I knew it wouldn't boot. I thought I might get past the dell logo, and get the screen that says something like "No boot drive" or whatever it says normally when it has no hard drive. It did NOT do that. It still just stayed on the dell logo.

So from here, my thoughts are one of two issues.

Either 220 watts really isn't enough, even as a temporary bandaid fix.

Or

Somehow the power supply exploding fried the bios?

Unrelated to all this, I don't have internet at all at home right now. That's a different unrelated issue that should be solved tomorrow, but in case it's not, I might not reply fast.

I'll post the computer model later. It's an inspirion 3XXX something.

Is there anything else I should try to help gather more information? Any ideas to temporarily get this thing up and running?

Edit: SUCSESS!!!

Ok, so two nights ago (the night I made this post) I went home, armed with the knowledge of everybody here giving me new advice. So I tried out all the advice at once.

First thing I did was took a picture with my cell phone of the motherboard, and how it looks before I do ANYTHING. This helps me know if I needed it, what it's SUPPOSED TO look like.

Now, I disconnected the CMOS battery. Then I disconnected every single wire from the motherboard. After that, I took out both sticks of ram. After that, I plugged only the power cord, and the VGA monitor cord back in. Then I turned it on. Nothing. No Dell logo. No power. Nothing. I paniced. I thought I broke something. Then I realized that the power button is probably connected to the motherboard by one of those wires I disconnected from the motherboard. So I took a look and followed the power button to a wire, and followed the wire to the end. Then plugged that back in. Hit power, and this time the power button stayed orange, and I had a blank screen. No Dell logo. Just a black screen.

Then I remembered it did this the previous night when I had no ram. Now the point of disconnecting everything is that I wanted minimal power draw, since I was told one of the reasons I might be having issues is that 220Watts is maybe TOO big of a drop from 300Watts that this PC is used to...even though a power calculator told me I use 176Watts. I'm unclear if having ram uses extra power, or if a single 4GB stick uses more than a single 8GB stick. So I inserted one 4GB stick of ram, and turned it back on.

Now I get a Dell logo, and then.....it changed! It said something like

"Keyboard not detected,

Operating system not detected,

CMOS Battery not detected,

Fans not detected"

That's good! Even though I'd previously in previous nights turned the system on without some of those things connected at all, it never used to get past the Dell logo. Now, it got past the Dell logo, and was aware it was missing those things.

So then I reconnected all the wires except the fans. Put the Cmos Battery back in, and.......it still wouldn't boot. Just said "Fans not detected".

So, power down, reconnect the fans, and.....SUCSESS!!! Booted right up!

So I then powered down, connected all my accessories that draw from external power, and routed all my USB stuff through a powered hub I have. I figure I'd rather it draw power from an outlet connected to the hub, than the PC which would strain the power supply I have.

Then I swapped my old ram, single stick of 4GB, for 2 sticks of 8GB ram. So now I have my 16GB of ram again. And everything is running as good as you can expect it to, with minimal power consumption. I have not in any way reconnected the DVD drive. I haven't reconnected a few of the non-powered external drives I have. I'm basically running this bare bones.

I'm not even running firefox the way I normally do. Usually I have 5 million tabs open, and task manager says I'm running at max capacity for ram, and I have to close a few tabs. Now I'm only running a few tabs.

I'm also only running the PC during times I'm using it. It's strange turning off the PC just because I'm at work.

TLDR: I came here for help and you guys suggested a bunch of things, and I did them all at once, and it worked!

I'd like to thank everyone who responded and got my PC back up to almost normal state. I'm relieved to know that now I can confidently buy a power supply that will work with my machine! I was worried the motherboard was fried, and that I was going to buy a $40 power supply, only to find out my PC doesn't work anyways. Now I know it DOES work, and a new power supply is all that it needs. Which is a much easier install than I thought. Unscrew 4 screws, unplug 3 cables, and remove the box (which is already done). Then to install the new one, just do those same 3 steps in reverse. That's so EASY!

Again, thank you everyone! This Friday I'll be getting some thermal paste and a new CMOS battery. You never realize just how crazy you go when the one thing in your apartment that you actually use daily breaks down. It was broken for almost 3 weeks. Now it's at least functional. Thank you thank you thank you thank you!

Been using AMD gpus for years due to their superb Linux support. Would like to play around with AI image generation completely offline so a Nvidia gpu is kinda must. Besides that I do some gaming as well.

Currently I have AMD RX 6750 XT and am considering replacing it with a RTX 5060 TI with 16 GB vram. How well does Nvidia gpus work in modern Linux systems. I'm running Tumbleweed with KDE plasma on X11.

Other hardware is Ryzen 7 7700X and an Asrock B650 PG Lightning motherboard.

Edit: Been using InvokeAI so far but cpu only is super slow.

I am trying to create some systemd units that are supposed to start scripts at certain intervals. With Cron, I used an expression like 0 3 */7 * * to start a job every 7 days at 3 a.m. That worked great. With OnCalendar, I have no idea how to implement "every 7 days". Or can I use OnUnitActiveSec here? Additional problem: The computer is not always on at the specified time. The job should therefore be repeated as soon as the computer is available again. I have set Persistent=true for this purpose. However, I suspect that OnUnitActiveSec is reset every time I restart the computer. Or does OnUnitActiveSec refer to the time when the unit was activated with systemctl enabled test.timer?

So, I've had the same computer for about 12 years now. Nothing special. A Dell Inspiron 3847. Bought it in 2014, and it's not a gaming PC by any means. No graphics card, just the onboard chip.

Last week, I had been playing Civ6 on it. It was going fine. Well....my game wasn't going fine. I was getting boxed in by both Germany and America. But the PC performance was going just fine.

I generally leave my PC on at all times, and have for the past 12 years. Well, I also have a second sata drive port that I disconnect and reconnect various drives.

After playing a game of Civ, I saved my game, exited to desktop, and wanted to connect my other hard drive as a second drive. So I turned the PC off, connected the drive, and turned the PC back on.

When I do this, normally I see the dell logo appear on screen almost right away. This time I didn't. The screen stayed black, the orange light on the power button looked like it was struggling to keep itself on, and then the whole thing went dead.

I said "That's weird. Never did that before." And so I pushed the power button again. This time, I hear an audible POP inside my computer, and immediately smell fire. So I INSTANTLY yanked my desktop out of the little wooden stand it sits in. No fire, but the whole thing smells like fire.

I disconnect all the cords, and open the side of my case up. I see no damage. I see no fire. After a while I figured out that something inside my power supply literally exploded. I don't know enough about the terms for what would have exploded, but something exploded. For the next 2-3 days, in that room you could still smell burnt plastic. It's a very distinctive smell. The only time I ever experienced that was 20 years ago when a Windows 98 computer actually DID catch fire. That's what I thought happened here. The motherboard of the Windows 98 computer caught fire, and burned the motherboard.

So flash forward to today, and the only thing I see is that my internals are very very dusty. Other than the dust, everything is in good condition.

So, right off the bat, I KNOW I need a new power supply. But I have questions first.

Was it just the age of the power supply that did it in? Or was it me playing Civ6 for 6 hours straight that overloaded it? Should my power supply be a straight replacement? Should I get a more powerful power supply? I also heard that some graphics cards need power from the power supply. Should I buy one of those, in case I want to upgrade later?

This is the power supply I was looking at

Would this be good?

I've never in my life bought a power supply. Usually when I shop for something, I compare multiple products, and make an informed decision.

In this case, I don't even know what I'm looking for in a "good" power supply. I don't know how to measure what's good and what's trash. Is $35 good on a power supply for a computer this old? Should I look for something else?

I've included a pic of the back of the power supply, just so everyone can see what I was originally using.

Hi all;

Question since I came across a weird issue on my mom's laptop (Acer Aspire) that I just installed Linux Mint on over the holiday break. She's in another state, so I'm debugging remotely.

Occasionally when booting up, she'll get to the GUI log in screen with the selection for individual users, she'll enter her password and press enter, and then it will just end up with a black screen with the regular Linux Mint cursor.

The weird thing is that after rebooting and going into GRUB, selecting Advanced (option #2), and clicking continue boot normally, it will go right back to the login screen and boot normally with no black screen. In fact the one video I found of this is the one that basically told me to do just that - go into advanced, continue normally.

My question is, what causes this; is this just a quirk of Acer? It doesn't happen on my two computers so it boggles my mind.

TL;DR: Is my statement below incorrect? Are there in fact meaningful efforts to improve accessibility on Linux? Are there distros that people have actually used practically that make an effort to be accessible?

I have used desktop Linux on and off since 2009, mostly flavors of Ubuntu with occasional detours into things like Arch or CentOS (RIP).

I currently have Mint installed on a separate drive but I can't fully break away from Windows because as a blind user the experience is not only unsatisfactory it has gotten worse in the years I've been using it. Orca hasn't improved at all, and the magnifier has actually lost functionality at some point, my guess is the move away from GNOME 2. Among other things you used to be able to assign arbitrary modifier keys to zoom in and out with the mouse wheel but this is no longer the case.

I have little faith that things will improve. Any given Linux distro isn't one product, it's a bunch of different projects. One group makes the kernel, another makes the shell, another the window manager, yet another makes the desktop environment, audio, bluetooth, graphics drivers etc. All these make the assumption that the user is able-bodied, and bolting accessibility on top of all these disparate systems after the fact is very difficult. It's no accident that MacOS and iOS are frequently cited as the most accessible platforms. Apple controls the entire stack from hardware to UI and even many of the apps and has the resources to devote to serving a comparatively tiny portion of their userbase.

So, I made the switch to Linux Mint about 2 weeks ago, and have been having some issues, specifically with gaming and art programs.

The issues seem to be related to memory. I don't have the memory to open a large art file in either Krita or GIMP. My Coral Island game keeps crashing (OOM - kill process).

So, it would be easy to assume my computer just doesn't have the memory for these activities, except . . . they worked fine on Windows. I could open my art files in Photoshop and Coral Island ran like a dream for months.

It's disheartening because everywhere I look says the issue must be with my machine not having enough memory. But my machine could run everything just fine when using a different OS (with way more things installed).

Does anyone have any help or insight they might be able to provide? I have no interest in going back to Windows.

Thank you!

**SOLVED - increased the swap to 8 GB, which seems to have solved the issue for now. Thank you, everyone, for your help!

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/26202606

If you look closely, Kana appears a little thicker than Kanji and Latin characters. Hangeul also appears thicker just like the Kana.

It seems to affect Dolphin and Strawberry. But I noticed that the Firefox file picker is fine:

Actually, Firefox itself is completely fine and I'm pretty sure it just uses Noto fonts as well. Fonts on Discord are also okay.

One thing I did notice is that "Noto Sans CJK" (JP/KR/SC/TC/etc) DOES appear thicker in the Font System Settings of KDE. This is what "Noto Sans Regular" looks like:

And this is what "Noto Sans CJK" looks like:

Notice that both "Regular" text do not appear to be the same. The CJK one is thicker.

Right now, a work-around is to set my main font as "Noto Sans CJK" but set it to "Light" instead of "Regular" and it looks pretty good:

But the Monospace Noto Sans CJK is thick as well with no option to make it lighter. Not as much of an issue as the graphical apps though:

This is a fresh install of Fedora 43 KDE btw. Hope someone can help me out here before I nuke this install for Bazzite, CachyOS, or something else lol

here is my config where window switching is located. any help would be appreciated.

Hello!
I'm using a G27 with oversteer and new-lg4ff. Archwiki entry for Logitech wheels: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Logitech_Racing_Wheel

Its working great and especially the oversteer GUI and UX is an huge improvement compared to that awful Logitech Windows drivers for that wheel.

My only issue is that the button mappings are wildly different compared to windows. Most games which support a wheel come with pretty good presets for the G27 which are nullified by the different button mappings on Linux. Remapping all the inputs in a game is a minor inconvience. But eg Dirt Rally 2.0 doesnt let you reconfigure buttons to navigate the menus. With that i'm stuck with confirming menu items by shifting into 6th gear. Which is additionally cumbersome because my shifter is worn out af and doesnt recognize inputs half of the time. Maybe there is some .ini of the game to manually edit those buttons but for now i want to leave that option as my last resort.

I already found out that you can reorder the mappings by dragging the buttons on a UI to the "correct" position with jstest-gtk. Which is alright if you have to do it once. Sadly it isnt persitent after reboots. Doing that dance everytime isnt exactly what i'm looking for.

So to finally ask my questions: Is there maybe a different way to remap those buttons persitently and globally by editing a file or with a program i havent found yet? Most remapping tools i found seem be made for keyboards, mice, xbox pad etc and often create an emulated output device which may conflict with the FFB from my understanding. If there isnt another way would it be possible to write a little script to automate the actions i do in the UI of jstest-gtk so its just a one-click solution before i want to use the wheel? Where would i find information how to do that?

Thank you!

Edit: Alright, i atleast fixed the physical shifter. I regreased it a couple of years ago and as it turns out i maybe have overdone it a bit. Cleaned up most of the grease and now every shift is beeing recognized again. Its also so much louder now.

I'm putting this out here just in case somebody else would be looking for it:

I put away my dear beloved an AMD 5800X3D CPU and my Nvidia RTX 3080 GPU because I'm taking a break from gaming. Instead, I installed a 5700G to conserve power. Upon booting for the first time, I had no internet connection. A quick glance at ip link and I noticed that the Ethernet interface no longer is called enp6s0 but enp5s0. Updating the interface name in my network config files solved the problem.

As a bonus, both the hardware and system clocks were also all over the place until I adjusted them...

I have no idea why a new CPU comes with these phenomena, but it did.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/57129095

Getting back into F@H and I'd like to move my dedicated folding rig from Windows back to Linux. I recall having issues with getting fan and voltage control + clock speeds to consistently behave correctly when I last attempted years ago on Ubuntu.

What's the suggested strategy for something that's fairly low effort and maintenance, without much hassle when switching GPUs around? Distro suggestion? Driver setup? Any third party tools? It'll mostly be Nvidia cards, and probably no CPU folding. I'd be remoting into it 95% of the time.

Thanks!

Heya,

I really like xfce as an out-of-the-box window manager to dump on any old machine. In my experience it makes a very noticeable difference compared to gnome, kde, and the likes performance wise. Sometimes you gotta fiddle with compositors to get rid of screen tearing, but that's about it.

Are there any you could recommend that are similar to xfce? The main priority is performance and out-of-the-box sane defaults and usability.

Thank you!

Hello Linux friends,

Looking for some help today. Some dummy who won't be named undersized the partition for his Debian VM at 32Gb. This was not enough space, as the VM is already out of storage. In Proxmox where the VM is hosted, I've already allocated extra space for this VM using Proxmox's built in GUI tools. The problem is, I'm not sure how to properly extend the partition within the VM itself, using the terminal only, without breaking everything (something I obviously don't want to do, lol).

I've done a bit of searching and people seem to be recommending tools like fdisk and resize2fs, both of which are not installed, and I'm afraid that I don't have any available space to install them. I'm also a bit of a noob and some of the language for drives and partitioning just flies over my head.

Any tips on:

• Clearing a bit of space on a Debian VM (that's mostly using Docker, no other programs/files running constantly)
• Resizing root partitions without too much headache
  Would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, and have a beautiful and safe day!

Hi all, about to install latest LMDE with Cinnamon. I like my taskbar / dock on the left, to make better use of real estate.

Mint doesn't have that option to move it to the left.

Can I ask if anyone has done this, in a good, usable way?

Thanks for your help.

Last year I bought an M-Disc drive and a bunch of M-Discs and burnt all my files in Nextcloud to them as a backup.

It's a new year, I want to take any files added or modified in 2025 to burn a new disc.

I can work out how to get all files with a modified date in 2025, the problem is that if a file was moved into Nextcloud but wasn't changed, the modified date doesn't change. So I will miss files that someone has moved into Nextcloud without changing if the modified date is before 2025.

I can't use created date as literally all the files have a created date 1 Jan 2025 or later as the created date is when they synced from the server.

Normally I'd rsync to find changes but the current copy is spread across like 10 M-Discs, and reading each of those 100GB discs at CD reading speeds is going to be painful.

Does anyone have a better idea?

Edit: In case anyone is finding this later, I didn't get a better plan other than planning ahead. I copied each disc onto my hard drive (into a folder "Old replica"), copied the current state into a different directory ("New replica"), and ran Czkawka to remove files from "New replica" that are duplicates of files in "Old replica". And also used the Czkawka setting to delete empty directories once I deleted all those files.

What was left in "New replica" I burnt to disc, then Rsynced these back into the "Old replica" which I have for now left on my hard drive. Maybe if I run out of space I'll consider saving hashes or something for comparing, but for now this is just an extra copy I am storing because I didn't find a better way 🤷

Noobie linux user here trying to get this app to work with bottles/lutris/whatever but the same error pops up that I can't figure out. Any help please?

• Distro: Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon
• Apps tried: Bottles (flatpak) and Lutris
• Target app: Ginger (https://github.com/DominaeDev/ginger)

I've tried running it from different drives, in and out of the Bottles created folders, but the same error pops up no matter what gets changed:

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type of field 'Ginger.SpellChecker:s_Hunspell' (0) due to: Could not load file or assembly 'NHunspell, Version=1.2.5554.16953, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=1ac793ea843b4366' or one of its dependencies

I've also tried running the msi from the github and get the same error, with these extra lines:

02ac:err:msi:execute_script Execution of script 0 halted; action L"_3754A388_689E_46DF_B53A_3A872C23A5F5" returned 1627

02ac:err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"InstallExecute" returned 1627

02ac:err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"ExecuteAction" returned 1627

The zip file comes with the NHunspell.dll in a folder in the same directory, but i've got no idea how to point the programs at it. And I've gotten other programs running, but not this one. Hoping the solution is obvious and I just am too new to figure it out. Thanks in advance.

🙂‍↔️ in the screenshot you can see this shaking head emoji, as it is displayed in my terminal, it seems to not recognize the (newer) emoji made up of 2 unicode parts.

🙂‍+ ↔️ = 🙂‍↔️ 

Do I need to update the emoji, font, where do I get one? Is there a configuration option in terminals, like xfce-terminal, for this?

Other "bugs" include:

• the oil-barrel emoji is way to big for some reason.
• some emoji are colored, while some have only one color

What is your experience with emojis in linux terminals, equally inconsistent to mine?

Hello and happy holidays!

I've recently made the switch to Linux and I'm looking for a headset with 7.1 surround sound that'll also work with my PS5. I'm ok to switch to any distro as some won't work as well as others with the sound drivers. I'm currently using PopOS.

I did some research and even asked at a computer store but I found it difficult to get a reliable answer on a good set. I'd also like wireless and I'm ok with a usb over Bluetooth connection.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a great headset that'll work with what I'm looking for? Hunting for Linux things is certainly harder than that crappy os I switched from, but I know it's worth it.

Thank you!

I noticed that on some upper case letters the top part is cut off. It only happens for some letters, like E, B and P, and it does not happen in every application. As an example I added a screenshot when using "Easy Effects"

For posterity, here are my font settings and my system specs:

Hey there, I'm setting up my first custom arch install, having used Opensuse/Fedora/Tuxedo in the past with grub.

For now the arch install lives in a QEMU playground, but should eventually share an esp with Windows and Tuxedo. (I plan to shift Tuxedo from Grub to systemd-boot beforehand though)

For a this new setup, I've chosen systemd-boot and mkinitcpio with linux-lts. I've got the loader configs for sd-boot working with some trial&error. The default preset in mkinitcpio is still not doing what I want though.

Part of this is just me not understanding mountpoints in Arch. I'm used to the esp being mounted to "/boot/efi" with kernels and ramdisks living in something like "boot/efi/arch/{kernelver}-{kernelname}/kernel.img" and executables/UKIs living in "/boot/efi/EFI/Linux/arch/uki.efi". It seems that packages for kernels and ucode are hardcoded to the esp being at "/boot". Which does mess with me, but so be it. Mkinitcpio also has a disabled preset to put UKIs in "/efi", a mountpoint I have never seen used. Given that it references an "EFI"-folder in there, this seems to also want to be the esp-root.

Could someone explain the mountpoint setup in arch to me? And also, is there a point/way to bend the paths to use /boot/efi, or am I better served to just mount the esp at /boot and accept the difference?

Thanks in advance.

I am not sure how many files that this happens to, but it has happened to two that I have tried in the last few days, one .sh file and another program/executable. I am logged in as root - Linux Mint 21.2 When I try to allow executing as a program it unticks itself (as in this video) I also get 'permission denied' in terminal, as root and i have tried

chmod +x filename

and

sudo chmod -v +x filename.sh

sudo chown --verbose 1000 filename.sh

But still get denied.. What am I doing wrong here or how can I fix this?