I tried Linux mint and other debian distros, and since i dont have the sufficient skill to manage linux, this time i’m choosing Kubuntu because of the KDE environment , which i like a lot

KDE is a great desktop and my personal favorite non tiling desktop. Very customizable! It can take a bit of time to set it up just the way you like. When moving to a new distro and using KDE getting your settings back the same as before can be a pain. Luckily there is konsave might come in handy in the future.

I know more about linux mint and kinda know how to work with him, but kubuntu never tried and i will try this time… but i have some questions if someone can help me.

Kubuntu is in the same family as Ubuntu. Mint is based on Ubuntu so you already know more than you think you do.

The ubuntu family of distros has great documentation and community to get help in as another commenter pointed out. Most of all your questions probably already have answers on their forums.

Kubuntu is ok for a new person on linux?

I think it is a good option for a newbie. Ubuntu is where I started my journey into linux many years ago.

I want to install apps/programms via flatpak, since this looks more easily for a newbie as me and because of the sandbox, which seems is good (?).

Flatpak is a great option for beginners! The sandbox is a nice feature. I dont really use them myself. Ubuntu has Snaps installed by default and snaps are similar to flatpak. Flatpak is a far better option IMO.

Make sure you read the Ubuntu or Kubuntu documentation on how to add the flatpak repo/PPA. If you get any errors you should search the kubuntu/ubuntu community forums for the right answers. If you cant find the answer you can always post there for an answer.

Other question is about flatpaks from flathub. I know flatpak usually dont follow the theme of my DE. Which is the best way these flatpaks have the same theme as my DE? Is using the flatseal? Any tip about this?

I have never used flatpak so I dont know the best way of theming them. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will come along with a better answer than I have on this.

Other question I have, is about some apps i want to install if i dont find it or just find it on github or something similar. I find an app that really like but this app dont appear in any store, and this app is only available on github via flatpak and .deb . In this case, since the app is not available on flathub or diskover, or via command lines (like sudo apt install firefox - if you understand me) , how can i check this is not a virus or can do bad things on my linux? I use total virus for this, and the checks gives zero flags, but would like to know if for example, i install this programm via flatpak, can break my system.

Finding trusted software outside the official repositories can be difficult. Like the other commenter said try to vet the github app as best you can. You can always ask in the kubuntu/ubuntu forums. There might be a similar alternative app already in the Kubuntu apps.

Another option is to ask here on lemmy. People here might have experience with the app your interested in using. People here might know of a better alternative. Many of us lemmings are helpful geeks that are happy to help.

And, btw, if you can give me some tips and advice as linux/kubuntu newbie, it would be amazing for my journey. Cheers all!

Here on lemmy there is a linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev community. It’s just a bot that posts about a free linux course. The course starts every month on or around the first. It’s a good way to get your feet wet so to speak.

Don’t worry if it’s a bit over your head. That’s how the best journeys begin. We all start somewhere.

If you have questions or problems the Kubuntu forums would be my first stop. You can always ask questions here on lemmy too. Like I said earlier, we are a bunch of knowledgeable nerds and most if us don’t mind helping or pointing you in the right direction.

Welcome to your linux journey.

alias SickBoyDo="sudo !!"

Did you take her off any sweet jumps?

Hope the surgery goes well and a speedy recovery. Rest well.

Running arch as well and have it installed. Works just fine with linux-g14 kernel and headers. I use the zen kernel mostly so i don’t have the armory settings most of the time because I use zen but everything else works.

Just did a pacman -Q | grep linux and my linux-g14 is on 6.15.2 and zen is on 6.15.3.

Did you add the keys?

https://asus-linux.org/

Might be worth checking out, not positive it supports your laptop but if it does it might give you control over some bells and whistles like fan curves and lighting.

steamtinkerlaunch has a mo2 and a vortex installer. I suggest the mo2. Playing skyrim with 400 mods and ENB as well as FO4 with 500 mods with ENB NAC. Both running extremely well on my nv3080. Well still have the FO4 NG stutter but overall playable.

Might have a hard time modding Starfield though. Last I checked STL installs an outdated mo2 version.

I have started modding cp2077 but haven’t given it much time.

There is also rockerbacon’s version. I think you can use lutris to install it. I think this is the newest version of MO2 so should work with Starfield. I recently tried it but the installer was complaining about a gtk-theme I have installed. I use KDE and whatever gtk theme I have is not compatible. Was in the middle of rewriting it in kdialog but i hit a snag and forgot about it. My bash is rubbish!

The biggest differences are STL is a whole program designed around proton/wine and offers a ton of tweaks that are as easy as clicking a button or dropdown for the most part. STL offers a single instance MO2 install using symbolic linking to all your game prefixes. While rockerbacon’s is meant to be installed for each game. Both have their benefits and drawbacks.

Both devs are pretty fucking cool!

STL’s interface is a bit odd at times but is well documented. Dont ever scroll over the right side of the Game Menu GUI as you can change settings you don’t mean to. That said it works pretty damn well.

The only thing I miss about X11 is xscreensaver. I hope the dev makes a port for wayland one day. I dont care if it ever has screen locking, i just want bouncing cows.

I’m so happy you found each other!

Story time. I used to work with this guard dog, German Shepherd. He spent almost all of his time alone. When we first met I thought one of us was going to get hurt. Wasn’t long till we were best friends. Almost every day I would spend at least an hour with him after work and several more with him while at work. He liked to chase the football around. Wasn’t great at fetch but loved the tug-a-war. I miss that silly old beast. When I left the job I tried to get them to give me him. Wasn’t successful though.

He and I came into each others lives at a time when we needed each other. I think much like you and Sandy did. Watching your stories unfold is wonderfully heart warming and I very much look forward to each new chapter!

I don’t leak navigator, you leak.

Such a pretty girl!

Arch isnt that hard to use, just more maintenance, you have to update often and you can break things easier. It is defiantly harder to install. Thats why I recommend Garuda as it has a nice gui installer. It comes fully riced too. KDE dragonized is what i went with. The non gaming edition.

You will have to maintain your new system with fresh updates very regularly. You will have to get used to going through .pacnew files. Luckily there are easy ways to do this using meld to view pacnew files side by side with their corresponding config file that helps you migrate data easily.

Being an arch based distro your on the bleeding edge of linux and this means sometimes you will get cut! But an update will come along fairly quickly to heal those wounds. For instance the screen rotation broke a few months back. Easy fix in udev config though.

Debian based distros are pretty bullet proof, takes a but more to fuck one up. You’ll have to wait a lot longer for the things arch users get every day.

Personally i don’t find garuda to be that hard to maintain but Im used to arch already so I know what to expect and more of how to fix things. One of the best things about garuda is it uses brtfs by default and sets up snapper for you so when things go wrong you have an easier time fixing things.

You can always try it out and if it’s not for you you can move on to the next distro. And hop until you find what your looking for.

Best of luck!

So I installed Fedora on my surface. It was a huge pain in the ass. Then I went the with easy arch install of Garuda and everything has been pretty painless. I’m not really suggesting you follow suit as arch distros do require a bit of maintenance others don’t. But you can research garuda and see if it’s a fit for your needs and see if the maintenance is worth it. One benefit of the arch install is almost everything worked right out of the box. Didn’t even need a usb heyboard for installation. Full disk encryption was easy to use because the keyboard just works. That wasn’t the case in fedora, i has installed with full disk encryption and would have to pull out the USB keyboard every boot just to unlock and boot then I could plug the surface keyboard back in to use. Just a heads up if you are wanting to use full disk encryption. You can also set up the encryption to unlock via USB and while not that hard to setup that might be more work than you want to be doing.

Whatever distro you pick you should install the linux-surface kernel and drivers for the stylus. They can be found here, along with specific instructions.

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

Great minds and all, they come to the same conclusions.

Having never been to Britain, this is the most British thing I have ever seen animals do. Blame Guy Ritchie.

Aperture Science. We do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead.

Hands down the most advanced and secure smartphone os is grapheneOS.

https://grapheneos.org/

It only runs on pixel devices. App sandboxing, buffer overflow protection, separate users, optional sandboxed google play if you need it for banking apps, automatic reboot after a set time to re encrypt your filesystem, assigning permissions for app access to folders and the list goes on and on.

Begun the mech was has.

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True, they are slugs.