Any other Linux users here? And has anyone fully migrated?

[DragonMals]

One might be inclined to ask if you're sure your installation media was formatted with the correct file system. I wouldn't imagine Linux just not booting is that common a problem.

It was only Manjaro, and I blame it for doing something to my ventoy drive as it nearly removed it for some reason. I had to reinstall ventory and put the IOS back on there.

 

[diapered]

One might be inclined to ask if you're sure your installation media was formatted with the correct file system. I wouldn't imagine Linux just not booting is that common a problem.

A fringe distro can cause a panic and crash. I forget what distro it was (only instance I experienced this and it was years ago), but the installer would crash to a garbled screen. But you're right it is rare, to not boot at all. I assume it is from using some windows tool that fucks up the flags or something and writes it like a storage device? Except for that one case where I'm pretty sure the distro itself was fucked, dd has always worked for me ^_^

dd if=*.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1MB

 

[aquova]

That's related to secure boot

Secure boot was my first guess. I have a friend on Mint with an Nvidia card, and until secure boot was disabled, the nvidia driver wouldn't load (and the open source nouveau was loading instead). She wasn't even getting the second monitor to be detected until the right drivers were loading.

 

[DragonMals]

So I remember somebody talking about me using Manjaro as my main Distro on Windows, and even with Propietary Drivers, it still manages to break my second monitor. This time, it's the one I think is correct where it locks my 180hz monitor to 60hz and anything above it will break the monitor. This is really sad. Guess I have to start investing in a Desktop PC catered towards getting this shit to run on Linux and whatnot.

The only ones that haven't failed on me as much as the others is Pop!OS, Fedora GNOME, and Fedora KDE.

Post automatically merged: Jul 13, 2025

I'm testing it right now with Open Source Drivers and while the second monitor is not acting up (this might be the one with visual glitches), I cannot make the monitors sizes of their own, only with a global scale (and the laptop screen not budging in the screen size)

So yeah, for my Gaming Laptop, I'll stick to Windows, cause anything I try with getting Linux won't work on this machine, sadly... Even with Manjaro.

 

[Leon]

So I remember somebody talking about me using Manjaro as my main Distro on Windows, and even with Propietary Drivers, it still manages to break my second monitor. This time, it's the one I think is correct where it locks my 180hz monitor to 60hz and anything above it will break the monitor. This is really sad. Guess I have to start investing in a Desktop PC catered towards getting this shit to run on Linux and whatnot.

The only ones that haven't failed on me as much as the others is Pop!OS, Fedora GNOME, and Fedora KDE.

Post automatically merged: Jul 13, 2025

I'm testing it right now with Open Source Drivers and while the second monitor is not acting up (this might be the one with visual glitches), I cannot make the monitors sizes of their own, only with a global scale (and the laptop screen not budging in the screen size)

So yeah, for my Gaming Laptop, I'll stick to Windows, cause anything I try with getting Linux won't work on this machine, sadly... Even with Manjaro.

Doing a bit of google searching i found out this is apparently related to nvidia gpu's specifically, there are fixes but as i don't have a nvidia gpu i can't walk you through it,
This one seems as good as any.

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/137w97c/how_to_enable_nvidia_gpu_on_arch_linux_with/

hopefully it helps but sadly again, i have no experience with nvidia on linux but it does seem to be a uniquely nvidia problem.

 

[DragonMals]

Doing a bit of google searching i found out this is apparently related to nvidia gpu's specifically, there are fixes but as i don't have a nvidia gpu i can't walk you through it,
This one seems as good as any.

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/137w97c/how_to_enable_nvidia_gpu_on_arch_linux_with/

hopefully it helps but sadly again, i have no experience with nvidia on linux but it does seem to be a uniquely nvidia problem.

As much as I appreciate this, im just gonna keep Windows on my gaming machine. My WorkPC with Fedora and my Family Desktop with Manjaro should simplify things out.

Guess I can finally say that by technicality, im an arch user now....

 

[KaiserMk7]

Can one use a MicroSD card in an adapter as live/installation media?

 

[DragonMals]

Can one use a MicroSD card in an adapter as live/installation media?

I've done it before, so yeah! It just needs to be above 4GB for most installations to be put on and whatnot.

 

[Leon]

Feel like i should post ventoy for people who don't know about it, it allows you to put multiple installers in 1 drive, here's a video of jayz2cents talking about it:

Saves ALOT of time if your someone who likes to experiement.

 

[KaiserMk7]

Is "won't even partially migrate to linux yet because they have only one working SATA HDD between all of their old notebooks and no USB to SATA cables, but will write the stock ubuntu iso to a flash drive to copy personal files from a dead windows 10 installation to a portable HDD" perfectly valid?

 

[aquova]

Is "won't even partially migrate to linux yet because they have only one working SATA HDD between all of their old notebooks and no USB to SATA cables, but will write the stock ubuntu iso to a flash drive to copy personal files from a dead windows 10 installation to a portable HDD" perfectly valid?

Ahhh we've all been there

 

[Leon]

Is "won't even partially migrate to linux yet because they have only one working SATA HDD between all of their old notebooks and no USB to SATA cables, but will write the stock ubuntu iso to a flash drive to copy personal files from a dead windows 10 installation to a portable HDD" perfectly valid?

What you use linux for is entirely up to you, but yes as @aquova said we've all been there.

 

[diapered]

Feel like i should post ventoy for people who don't know about it, it allows you to put multiple installers in 1 drive, here's a video of jayz2cents talking about it:

Saves ALOT of time if your someone who likes to experiement.

Interesting, and it is in the chaotic-aur. I might play with it.

 

[SpikeSlania]

Again i don't know if fedora is LTS or bleeding edge so i can't comment there.

Might be late to the party, but yeah, Fedora is "bleeding edge" rolling release. It might be a week behind Arch in terms of packages. It's what I have been sticking to for the longest time and my next Distro hop would probably be from Fedora Workstation to Fedora Cosmic Spin if the Cosmic Beta goes well whenever that releases.

Also for those talking about managing GPU drivers and want an easier time, consider an OS like Nobara and PikaOS that have a built in Driver Manager that makes it super easy to swap which drivers for your system you are using. The devs behind Bazzite, Cachy, Nobara, and Pika get along well and tend to help each other out so won't be surprised if that Driver Manager also ends up on Bazzite and Cachy.

I still haven't used Ventoy and been always falling back on old reliable Belena Etcher or Fedora Media Writer.

 

[petran79]

I always had issues after a while when installing dual boot Linux and Windows, as Linux partition would become corrupt.
Years ago with Ubuntu and recently with Opensuse.
So I decided to have a laptop exclusively for Linux Mint and a desktop for Windows 10.

 

[Leon]

I always had issues after a while when installing dual boot Linux and Windows, as Linux partition would become corrupt.
Years ago with Ubuntu and recently with Opensuse.
So I decided to have a laptop exclusively for Linux Mint and a desktop for Windows 10.

Let me guess, single drive?
Windows tends to corrupt the boot sector of linux distros given enough time, the only time dual boot is ever viable long term is if you are using multiple drives, otherwise you will get corruption.

 

[raiden_dj]

Id love to post a screenfetch screenshot here and go wooo yeah im a linux user, but i was forced to install windows for college this year, looking forward to going back to linux tho

forgot to mention i was finally allowed to go back to linux

yippie

(opensuse btw)

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

neofetch can list steam games ?? and python packages ??

 

[KaiserMk7]

neofetch can list steam games ?? and python packages ??

I mean isn't the whole thing about Python that you import the packages of someone who solved a particular low-level problem before you right through the CLI?

 

[raiden_dj]

neofetch can list steam games ?? and python packages ??

 

[petran79]

Let me guess, single drive?
Windows tends to corrupt the boot sector of linux distros given enough time, the only time dual boot is ever viable long term is if you are using multiple drives, otherwise you will get corruption.

if only it was the boot sector I would have solved easily. It was the whole Linux partition, requiring reinstall.
Ubuntu after an update would not boot even in repair mode.

Opensuse while I was browsing inside the session, suddenly got various error messages and no application could launch. I couldn't even log out or reboot. Had to hard reset and after that Linux loader was gone. Also 1 tb of data was lost from a connected external USB drive.I recovered whatever I could from Windows.

Linux way of dealing with usb ntfs drives where if you forgot to click "safely remove" it becomes unreadable till you fix it only via linux, was the icing on the cake.

From now on, I use there only USB sticks instead of larger USB hard disks

 

[Leon]

if only it was the boot sector I would have solved easily. It was the whole Linux partition, requiring reinstall.
Ubuntu after an update would not boot even in repair mode.

Opensuse while I was browsing inside the session, suddenly got various error messages and no application could launch. I couldn't even log out or reboot. Had to hard reset and after that Linux loader was gone. Also 1 tb of data was lost from a connected external USB drive.I recovered whatever I could from Windows.

Linux way of dealing with usb ntfs drives where if you forgot to click "safely remove" it becomes unreadable till you fix it only via linux, was the icing on the cake.

From now on, I use there only USB sticks instead of larger USB hard disks

Well, when i said boot sector i was being kinda facetious, i can't remember exactly what it does but windows given enough time tends to overwrite parts of linux including important kernel files, i don't know if it's intentional per-se, but it's 100% on windows end.

NTFS is...ok i gotta rant a bit about this.
First yes this is MS's fault but it's far more than just MS trying to screw over linux, because it also messes up on windows too.
NTFS is a monumental POS that windows has had for 30 F**KING YEARS and hasn't fixed the corruption issues, yes it can and does happen in windows as well, however it's less noticeable in windows because chkdisk tends to check for errors in NTFS drives on windows and since NTFS is a MS proprietary file system linux can't permanently fix it due to it being closed source, it's such a mess.
NTFS is required for windows boot drives i think, but overall it's best to use EXfat if you want transferable file systems between windows and linux (honestly i kind of think EXfat is better for even windows on secondary drives due to only corrupting the file in use at worst since it doesn't work the same way but that's beside the point), or use windows subsystem for linux and just make a drive EXT4, NTFS is such a broken mess on windows, and even worse elsewhere.

 

[diapered]

neofetch can list steam games ?? and python packages ??

I've never seen it list BIOS by default, that's what I noticed.

 

[aquova]

neofetch showing BIOS data is new to me as well.

I do like the right-hand panel placement though, I might steal that idea

 

[SpikeSlania]

I always had issues after a while when installing dual boot Linux and Windows, as Linux partition would become corrupt.
Years ago with Ubuntu and recently with Opensuse.
So I decided to have a laptop exclusively for Linux Mint and a desktop for Windows 10.

Let me guess, single drive?
Windows tends to corrupt the boot sector of linux distros given enough time, the only time dual boot is ever viable long term is if you are using multiple drives, otherwise you will get corruption.

Funny enough if you go watch JayzTwoCents Linux video, at the end of the video he shows his Bazzite install corrupted and not booting with all of the video comments mentioning his Windows dual boot is corrupting his install.