Cekan14

Could you recommend some trusted Linux-related forums? For troubleshooting assitance, discussion and what-not. Obviously, a good place to start would be your distro’s user forum, such as those of Debian, Mint, etc.; as well as your DE’s, such as that of KDE. Also, I trust this one here on Lemmy as well. But, searching on the web, I also came across some generally-focused Linux forums that I wasn’t sure were as trustworthy. I mean, perhaps they were, but, being a newbie to this world, I’d rather hear from you guys what places you go when having an issue with your system or things of the like. Thank you and have a nice Tuesday!

Good day, folks! I hope you won’t mind helping me with some troubleshooting. I currently run Debian 13 Stable with KDE Plasma (Wayland). I have an Asus laptop with an AMD Vega integrated GPU and an Nvidia 2060 Mobile dedicated GPU. Error shown in the attached GIF. Had to shorten it, but the flickering repeats non stop. First of all, I’m sorry I can’t provide you with a video; I tried attaching it to the post but won’t let me attach any other than photos. This issue shows up at random: when closing the lid and thus leaving the system suspended, I later open it up to continue using it and the bug manifests. The screen brightness ‘flashes’ and increasing or decreasing brightness manually doesn’t solve it. Most times, it suffices with closing the lid and opening it up again for the issue to disappear and, for the times it doesn’t work, a reboot is needed. Now, one might think that this is an Nvidia driver-related issue. While I currently haven’t installed the proprietary driver and, thus, I suppose the open source Nouveau driver is in place instead, what makes me discard that possibility is that, prior to Debian, I tried Ubuntu and Mint (based on the former), in both of which I did install such Nvidia drivers, and the exact same issue occurred. As far as I know, the AMD drivers are included with the Linux kernel, so that shouldn’t be the issue (?) It doesn’t seem to be a Wayland issue either, since I’ve tried both X11 and Wayland, the issue showing up on both. Finally, if it’s worth mentioning, this issue didn’t happen back on Windows. Not that I am planning on going back, rest assured. I am thus out of ideas as to what might be causing this or what else try to do. I appreciate any clues you could provide me with. Thank you in advance :)

I run Debian 13 Stable with KDE Plasma, and have Flathub enabled on KDE’s Discover software store. I have a slight idea of the difference between the two: that Debian packages share system libraries and are therefore lighter in storage but do require password to access those shared libraries and could therefore become a security hazard if installing from an untrusted source, while Flatpaks have all they need and don’t require password to install, being more secure that way, but, as a consequence, consume more storage. Also noticeable is the fact that, for some programmes, the Flatpak version tends to be more recent and it therefore becomes the obvious choice when looking for the latest software. However, I was looking at the SuperTux game, and what’s curious about this is that both, the Debian package and the Flatpak are version 0.6.3, while consuming 6.7 and 259,9 MB of storage respectively. So should the obvious choice here be the Debian package, or would you still go for the Flatpak? I am not asking this because I’m particularly interested on this game as much as to learn more about the two system packages and whether my assumptions are correct or I am missing something. Thank you and have a nice weekend!

I am learning about community-based Linux distros as they are my preferred choice compared to corporate ones. And when I get to Fedora, what I see from the fence is a sofisticated, well-supported OS. However, seeing that it is sponsored by the Red Hat corporation, the question arises: could Red Hat eventually take control of the project? I suppose the answer comes down to how much weight Red Hat actually has on the development of said distro. From what I know, it has employees dedicated full-time to it. Let’s rephrase the question and say that the Fedora project ditched Red Hat from its development due to some irrepairable decision; how viable would the continuation of the OS development be as compared to, for example, Debian, which is also community-based but, as far as I know, has no such backing from a corporation? Please, note that, while I am indeed a Debian user, I am not trying in any way to shit on Fedora. I myself am curious to try it out as I have recently arrived to Linux.