A Community depends on every member contributing in whichever way they can:
Sharing one’s knowledge and experience via meaningful answers to questions is the most common way to contribute.
The other way … is to ask a clearly stated question regarding a well-characterized problem, or to explore a new concept.
Recently, we’ve seen many newbies introduce themselves. Many, I would even say most, said they came here to learn. The Members have formed this Community … specifically … to fill that need for mutual assistance.
Please … consider the “floor mic” wide open to ask any question for any Linux topic that is “burning a hole” in your pocket. As some with more “chutzpah” would say:
Okay here we go. I’ve always wanted to learn to develop games on the Roblox platform. Roblox Studio is built for windows users.
There is some software available on Linux (available on flathub) that handles the compatability layer for the Roblox Studio program. I have used it on Ubuntu and Bazzite.
I am now using a system with Sway and the application just doesn’t really work. Certain buttons don’t render and appear as black boxes making the program pretty much unusable. Eventually I gave up on it.
What is the approach here? I’m very much not interested in solutions that alter the host. Would a windows VM be a good option to test out or maybe another Linux distro VM? Or maybe a container that runs a different DE? Or… something else?
If it doesn’t work on my system I’m okay letting go of programs. But I also believe that there may be ways to get things to work in containers that don’t play nice with my host. Any random ideas or insights are appreciated!
I have never used Roblox Studio, but like everything else it’s a program. Please share some details of what’s going on such as error messages, logs, etc.
Perhaps you should try a Roblox gaming forum to answer questions like:
I think the black boxes are a Sway/wlroots quirk with the Wine layer, not the app itself, so try forcing XWayland or the Wine X11 driver first. If that fails, a plain Windows or GNOME/KDE distro VM is probably the most reliable route since it avoids the compositor entirely.
I’ve been sitting on this problem for a while now and it never occurred to me to find a Roblox forum. Thank you for pointing that out, it’s a good idea!
Hi
I am an engineering student(fresher) and I have to set up a dual-boot system in my laptop for school with LINUX Ubuntu-- my current OS is windows 11–but the thing is I’ve been wanting to switch to LINUX entirely but have no idea about its technicalities whatsoever. Now idk if i should switch to Linux first then set up the dual-boot or set it up first and then remove windows11 later(if that’s even possible). I am also worried if this will mess up my laptop cause I can’t afford another one rn. I know am being really indecisive but I also don’t wanna use windows. I have no idea what to do…can someone pls help me
PS: I need to have that dual-boot system (no compromise)
Hello, everyone. I’m Claudio, from Rio, Brazil. I’ve started learning CS this year, to try and get into HealthIT (I’m a physician). I’ve switched to Linux yesterday to try it out (so far, it’s great).
I know mostly Python, though I’m taking Harvard’s CS50 classes, and forcing myself to do the hardest version of the Problem Sets (I even beat Tideman). C is pretty neat (though the issues I wanna tackle in CS aren’t fit to it). RIght now I’m learning fastAPI, Pydantic (specifically for the fhir.resources library) and some practice with FHIR servers and Postman.
Could anyone help me with finding good GUIs? I’ve seen one of diinki’s GUIs and it was actually what drove me to try Linux, but it seems my OS does not support Hyprland 0.55 or above. I’ve thrown multiple screen caps of the requirements at Gemini and tried installing the dependencies, but Hyprland’s new Lua syntax does not seem to mix well with my Zorin.
For reference, my OS is Zorin 18.1 Core. My laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad 1 15AMN7, AMD Ryzen 5 7250U with Radeon Graphics x 8.
I sadly cannot share the links for the GUIs I’ve tried due to being a new user, so I’ll name the repositories here:
diinki/linux-antiquity
and
diinki/linux-retroism
I’ve spent some 30 minutes blindly following the AI, but besides being exhausted from that, it makes zero sense switching to Linux and taking CS classes if I’m not even going to talk to other people about it. So please, could you please tell me:
A) Whether I really can’t install those GUIs in my OS current iteration (I’ll throw in any CL arguments you tell me I need to throw)
B) If it’s really helpless, do you know any interesting GUIs I might try?
For dual-boot involving any version of Windows, be sure that your Windows is installed first, then install the dual-boot setup for Linux.
Any time Windows is installed second, and with any updates/upgrades, Windows “tampers” with the dual-boot in a way that it breaks Linux.
If at all possible, if you can install 2 separate physical disks (NOT 2 partitions on the same disk), leave the Windows install by itself on an entire physical disk, then install Linux, with the multi-boot GRUB, on the second disk.
Any time you want to install/upgrade Windows, be sure to boot to the Windows first. That way, it will not be aware of anything related to Linux on the second disk.
So as @ericmarceau said, I think it’s better to give Linux a whole disk if you can. One disk for Windoze and another for Linux. Feel free to contact anyone here about what you plan to do before you do it. The main thing as Eric said is that if you installed Linux somewhere and tried to reinstall Windows (or run an update), it will most likely trash Linux.
Dual booting is the best way to gain confidence in using Linux, try a few different distros to see which one floats your boat and then you can consider throwing Windows out of the window for good. But not until you’re ready.
Now to much more interesting matters, which branch of engineering are you studying? And at which university? (You don’t have to answer, I’m just nosey because I used to teach a number of engineering and computing topics at Durham and at Brunel University, both in England.)
Hello
Thank you guys for your advice, really appreciate it
I am double majoring in EEE(electrical and electronic engineering) at VIT and , Aeronautics (BS) at IITM.(India)
Also once am done finishing a few things I will set up the dual boot system. Will update sooooon …
Also what topics did you teach Mr. Roger, any advice for freshers (I jus started soooo yea)
Nice to meet you
@Runi I taught control systems theory at all levels and all flavours; I also taught some programming languages (FORTRAN, Pascal and some others), distributed computing, web services, RDBMSs, quite a lot of XML-related stuff such as XSLT, XPath, XQuery. That sort of stuff.
For the Aeronautics side, if you feel India will grow its domestic aircraft manufacturing, the first strategic lynchpin should, in my view be engine manufacturing. To that end, you might want to consider “internal” aerodynamics as a specialty, studying axial and centrifugal compression, as well as axial turbine and stator stages. As high-quality example of small/medium turbine engines, look at the PT6A series as an example of a good template to follow … for fuel-driven engine. That type of engine is good for short-haul STOL (DASH-7 or DASH-8), helicopters, Sikorsky SeaKing, Bell 412, Leonardo AW139 and AW609. The follow-on generation of engines, PW100 or PW200 series engines carry on the tradition, allowing P&WC to dominate the turboprop market with 89% market share.
I recently wanted to get Affinity Studio running on my Fedora Sway. ChatGPT suggested I use a program called Lutris, which manages a Wine installation. I did get Affinity Studio, a windows program, running. I haven’t used it fully yet, but thought I would pass that on.
I am also an engineering student and I was in a similar situation when I wanted to move from Windows to Linux. I have an MSI gaming laptop with Windows 11, and I also wanted to switch to Linux because Windows was using more resources than I expected, so I decided to try dual boot first.
I started with Ubuntu, but I faced some issues with my hardware, so I tried Debian and used it for a few months. It worked, but I noticed some performance and resource usage issues. Later, I tried pop os because it has better support for NVIDIA GPUs, and it worked better on my system.
From my experience, dual boot itself does not reduce performance because only one operating system runs at a time. However, gaming laptops can sometimes have hardware compatibility issues with Linux, especially with dedicated GPUs, power management, and drivers. It depends a lot on the specific laptop model.
If you have a laptop like Lenovo ThinkPad, Dell Latitude, or similar business laptops, Linux usually works very smoothly because of better hardware compatibility. Gaming laptops can also run Linux, but sometimes need extra configuration.
If you are new to Linux, you can also try Zorin OS because its interface is more similar to Windows, which makes the transition easier.
My suggestion would be to keep Windows 11 for now and set up dual boot first. Use Linux for some time, learn it, and once you are comfortable and sure you don’t need Windows anymore, you can remove it later. This is the safer approach.
Yeah, that’s the plan as of now. My Laptop is very basic though, got it in 2021 for online classes but didn’t use it much.
So am gonna try out different distros.
Thank you for pointing that out, it’s a good idea!
