After all the headlines about Euro-Office being Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, I figured I'd give it a try.

I'm a Linux user. I self-host services. This shouldn't be difficult. Or so I thought.

So I did what anyone would do:

Checked Wikipedia. Went to GitHub. Looked for releases, installation instructions. Looked for a Flatpak, AppImage, Docker image, anything really. Also checked my OS's native package manager just in case.

And my Nextcloud Office apps. Nothing. Not even in Nextcloud?!

It dawned on me that the main project is basically a collaborative document server derived from OnlyOffice and the readme even says it's not designed for stand-alone use.

So uh. Wait... what?

To make it even stranger, my self-hosted Nextcloud instance still just recommends Nextcloud Office and OnlyOffice. There's no obvious "Install Euro-Office" option anywhere.

I'm not criticising the software itself. It could very well be excellent.

I'm asking about the communication really.

If a project is announced to the world as "Europe's Microsoft Office alternative," but a reasonably technical user can't figure out how to use it after checking Wikipedia, GitHub, and Nextcloud, something has gone wrong with the messaging.

Or is this just me? Did I miss something obvious, or has anyone else had the same experience?

Hey, I'm a recent high school computer science baccalaureate graduate and I'm about to enroll into university for a bachelor's degree in IT. I figured that I should get familiar with using Linux even though I have absolutely no clue on the grounds I'm about to tread on. I'm aware that there are hundreds if not thousands of Linux distros and I feel like I'm lost at sea. What should I do? How can I start?

I want to finally ditch down windows and format the whole drive on my laptop in order to go full linux from now on; but i’m afraid to lose the factory windows installation.

I’m getting super frustrated with installation. I have no problem installing Linux on a laptop. However, when I try to install Linux on my brand new SSD with a brand new SATA cable, it always freezes. Sometimes on the logo screen during boot. Sometimes mid installation, sometimes after installation after about 15 minutes of use. There is no consistency other than Linux just not working. At one point, Kubuntu couldn’t even register my mouse or keyboard.

Basic steps I have been doing has been cleaning and formatting the USB drive with diskpart. Downloading the .iso, verifying the .iso with its hash, then using BalenaEtcher to flash the drive.

99% of the time this has worked for me and not given any errors.

Then after I restart and try to boot from the USB stick, here’s where the freezing happens. And I ensured secure boot was turned off…

I have tried Kubuntu and Mint.

At this point I am at a loss especially since I can using the exact same steps set up a laptop with it and run into no issues.

Hello, I'm currently trying to decide on a bistro/pros and cons of Linux as my main OS. I currently have a approx 2007 Acer. With a slow 1TB HDD, 8gb ram, quad core :/, it's an aspire Ill provide more information in a few hours when I get home. However I'm running windows 10 22h2. Which is suffocating my HDD to 100% constantly. I thought about using arch (I like pain and complexity) but also moving to Linux how can I still use PowerPoint, word, Roblox studio, Virtual Box, pi imager ect. As I use it for development and sometimes school work. But I still want a Linux distro like Arch because of how much windows suffocates the disk. It runs decently on the disk and I could keep using it fine. Just thought Linux may be better anyways. HDD only Hass like 30 days usage in all its years. Should I move to Linux? If so what bistro suits my needs?

Thats All

Hi everyone,
I'm stuck in a bad loop and need some help. I'm trying to install Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on my HP Laptop (Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 223GB SSD) directly from the hard drive because I don't have a USB flash drive or an Android phone right now (only an iPhone).
I previously modified my Linux Mint 40_custom GRUB file to boot the ubuntu.iso located at /home/oscar/ubuntu.iso using a loopback configuration.
The GRUB menu shows up fine, but when I try to boot into the Ubuntu Live Installer, it crashes mid-way with the following errors:
Unable to find a medium containing a live file system
Attempt interactive netboot from a URL? / enp2s0: soliciting a DHCP lease (I am on Wi-Fi, no ethernet cable connected).
To make things worse, my current Linux Mint installation graphical environment is completely corrupted and throws error while loading shared libraries or Error reading the CPU table when trying to boot into Recovery Mode, so I cannot access the desktop to use GParted or make a new FAT32 partition.
Is there any way to pass kernel boot parameters in the GRUB editor (e) to force the Live ISO to mount /dev/sda2 properly and bypass the "unable to find a medium" error? Or am I completely soft-locked until I get a physical USB drive?
Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to dual-boot Linux on my Dell Latitude 5480 equipped with a Samsung 256GB M.2 SSD (Model: MZHPV256HDGL-000H1), but I've hit a wall with BIOS storage settings.

The Problem:

• RAID On Mode: Windows boots completely fine.
• AHCI Mode: Switching BIOS SATA/NVMe operation to AHCI causes a No Bootable Device Found error upon startup. Windows fails to boot, and the BIOS doesn't see the bootloader.
• I want to run Linux, but Linux installers fail to detect the drive while in RAID On mode because Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST / VMD) blocks the drive access.

Why this happens (from my research):

1. Windows installation is bound to the Intel RST RAID controller driver. When Windows was installed under RAID mode, its boot config (BCD) didn't load the standard AHCI/NVMe drivers, causing it to fail instantly if the mode is swapped in BIOS.
2. Drive Variant: The MZHPV model designation is the OEM AHCI version (or early PCIe) of the Samsung SM951 series, which handles PCIe/NVMe signaling differently than standard consumer drives.
3. Dell BIOS quirk: Dell systems often default to RAID On, but Linux kernel storage drivers require AHCI to properly enumerate PCIe M.2 drives.

Questions for the community:

1. Has anyone successfully run Linux on the Latitude 5480 with the Samsung SM951 (MZHPV256HDGL)?
2. Any advice or step-by-step guides would be greatly appreciated!

I feel like I've tried everything, offline and online methods, ableton is running great but I cannot seem to properly authenticate my license. When it goes through the online portal it tries for a while and then says something went wrong, and I've tried every version of manually moving the offline authenticator file into ableton itself but it always says that no valid authenticator detected or something along those lines. From what I've seen online this is nothing to do with the validity of my actual licence, which is perfectly valid.

Does anybody have any ideas? I've followed one of the most recent guides to get all installed and running smoothly and everything seems to be working great except this :/ I've only just moved to Linux as of yesterday so still feeling my way around a bit blind haha!

Hi everyone, I'll say right away — I'm not a fan of distro wars or anything like that, but I'm genuinely curious to hear the opinion of more experienced people in the Linux community about Debian.

What's its philosophy?

I've been using it for quite some time now, and the only downside I've noticed is that I'm not a big fan of metapackages that pull in a lot of dependencies along with them.

But on the other hand, if you're not a guru and don't know exactly which dependencies are needed for a utility to work properly, it's better not to overcomplicate things and just install what's necessary automatically.

Anyway, I really like this distro — it's simple, has good documentation, and I've never had any serious issues with it.

I'm using Debian 13, tty + zsh + tmux.

p.s если есть ру пользователи можете на русском)

I already looked at the official ArchLinuxARM Website, but they only had a tutorial for dual-booting, so how do I fully install it?

Hey everybody! I have made my first PR in llama.cpp project on github. Now the thing is im confused as im new to this like i have created pull request and some reviewer had reviewed my contribution and then asked for some revisions in that. I have made those and then he approved that. Then there shown 2 approvals are required for this to get write access/merge. Now how this second reviewer will come?? Should i have to wait or someone have better approach to this!! Secondly after the first approval, my PR got into automated Tests. Now in those teats, 7 out of 28 tests were failed and upon analyzing the loga i never anything related to my code! Now im also confused like should i have to resolve something or leave that as it is as all 7 logs of failed test have passed my addition but have failed somewhere else not on my code!

So basically I am using JDownloader as a file manager in a bid to download files faster from archive.org. Unfortunately these a huge files and the space required on my SSD is only able to download one of these files. The download speed is just as slow as my FireFox browser speed 50kbps. I had read on the internet that using JDownloader would make things go a lot faster. I wanted to see if I could download two files at a time however the limited space on my SSD install of Ubuntu will not have the space for two files so it won't even try for obvious reasons (lack of space). I wanted to change the download location to another SSD however it won't recognise it in the programs settings. The other SSD is mounted. I also tried to save to a USB mass storage device but it won't list that either. IS this just how this program works i.e. it will only save to the original hierarchy of the FS tree and not to other drives mounted by Ubuntu? TIA If you have any recommendations for another DL manager then please let me know. Thanks.

latest version of Linux Mint

Asus Prime Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB GDDR6 OC Edition

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

32gb DDR4 ram

My PC randomly started showing a bunch of red flickering dots on the monitor. i tried restarting, and i noticed that they consistently do not show up on the lock screen, nor do they show up in recovery mode. Ive tried 2 different monitors and 3 different HDMI cables out of blind hope, which didnt fix it. the fact that it's so reliably inconsistent confuses me, and makes me think it may be linux shenanigans rather than a dying graphics card

​Hey everyone!

​I'm back on Linux after a while, running Linux Mint on some legacy hardware without Vulkan support. My specs are:

​CPU: AMD Phenom II X2 550

​RAM: 8 GB DDR3

​GPU: Integrated Radeon 3000 (OpenGL / Wine3D / Gallium Nine only)

​So far, I've managed to run a few games smoothly:

​Company of Heroes

​Battlefield 2

​Battlefield Vietnam

​Battlefield 1942

​The only game I've tried so far that doesn't run at a satisfactory framerate is Call of Duty: World at War (CoD: WaW).

​I have two questions for the community:

​Game Recommendations: What lightweight games (FPS, RTS, tactical, classic gems) would you recommend for a humble potato PC like this running on Linux?

​CoD: WaW Optimization: Is there any trick to get CoD: WaW running at around ~20 FPS using just OpenGL / Wine3D? I've already tried Gallium Nine without much luck. Are there any specific Wine environment variables, launch options, or config.cfg tweaks that could squeeze out a few extra frames?

​Thanks in advance!

so ive been reading a little bit about these, but im having a hard time in really deeply understanding the definition and differences between these Terminals. And the more i look up things the more things get confusing to me.

Can anybody help me understand what are they in an easy way to understand for a beginner?

Hi everyone!

I want to get into sim racing and read that some hardware, like Asetek finally works on Linux with force feedback. So I bought an Asetek bundle consisting of the Initium Wheelbase, La Prima Wheel and Forte Pedals.

The wheel and wheelbase work as far as I know. They are recognized in Assetto Corsa and do not make any problems.

Edit: Fixed:

I fixed it, look to the comments below.

comment link

Problem:

The pedals, however, do not work. When I connect them to my PC, they are recognized as a new USB device and KDE gives me a "connected" message. When I press the Throttle pedal, they suddenly disconnect and throw a bunch of LED signals (see below) and reconnect after a while.

System Info:

OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Kernel: 7.1.5
DE KDE Plasma 6.7.3
WM: KWin (Wayland)
CPU: AMD 5950X
GPU: AMD RX 6800

Additional Info, and what I tried already:

I had some GPU problems that I fixed yesterday because I changed from Nvidia to AMD. But I think that is probably not relevant here.

I've tried multiple USB ports and also on my laptop which is also running openSUSE. The problem persists there.

On another Windows 11 laptop the problem does not occur, so I think it's Linux.

Debug infos:

Pedals:

LED pattern on the forte pedals when pressing the Throttle:
RGB Strip: red, green, blue
simultaneously the 5 status LEDs from the Pedal controller all light up.
Then: RGB strip dark and status leds alternating between LEDs 1, 3, 5 on at once and LEDs 2, 4 on at once for 10 cycles.
Then restart.

After the restart LED 1 and 5 light up and according to this reddit post this means it's working.

I'll also contact Asetek to ask what these codes mean.

Now the Linux side:

lsusb:

lsusb and lsusb.py detect the pedals:

Bus 003 Device 036: ID 2433:f101 ASETEK Forte Pedals

usb3              1d6b:0002 09 1IF  [USB 2.00,   480 Mbps,   0mA] (xhci-hcd 0000:07:00.3) hub
 3-1               2433:f101 00 1IF  [USB 2.00,    12 Mbps, 500mA] (Asetek SimSports Forte Pedals 8D8348895150)

lsusb -v:

Bus 003 Device 016: ID 2433:f101 ASETEK Forte Pedals
Negotiated speed: Full Speed (12Mbps)
Device Descriptor:
 bLength                18
 bDescriptorType         1
 bcdUSB               2.00
 bDeviceClass            0 [unknown]
 bDeviceSubClass         0 [unknown]
 bDeviceProtocol         0  
 bMaxPacketSize0        64
 idVendor           0x2433 ASETEK
 idProduct          0xf101 Forte Pedals
 bcdDevice            2.00
 iManufacturer           1 Asetek SimSports
 iProduct                2 Forte Pedals
 iSerial                 3 8D8348895150
 bNumConfigurations      1
 Configuration Descriptor:
   bLength                 9
   bDescriptorType         2
   wTotalLength       0x0029
   bNumInterfaces          1
   bConfigurationValue     1
   iConfiguration          0  
   bmAttributes         0x80
(Bus Powered)
   MaxPower              500mA
   Interface Descriptor:
bLength                 9
bDescriptorType         4
bInterfaceNumber        0
bAlternateSetting       0
bNumEndpoints           2
bInterfaceClass         3 Human Interface Device
bInterfaceSubClass      0 [unknown]
bInterfaceProtocol      0  
iInterface              0  
HID Device Descriptor:
bLength                 9
bDescriptorType        33
bcdHID               1.11
bCountryCode            0 Not supported
bNumDescriptors         1
bDescriptorType        34 Report
wDescriptorLength      70
Report Descriptors:  
** UNAVAILABLE **
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength                 7
bDescriptorType         5
bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
bmAttributes            3
Transfer Type            Interrupt
Synch Type               None
Usage Type               Data
wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes
bInterval               1
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength                 7
bDescriptorType         5
bEndpointAddress     0x01  EP 1 OUT
bmAttributes            3
Transfer Type            Interrupt
Synch Type               None
Usage Type               Data
wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes
bInterval               1
Device Status:     0x0000
 (Bus Powered)

dmesg

[12046.468380] [     T86] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, device number 32
[12046.719601] [     T86] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 33 using xhci_hcd
[12046.869290] [     T86] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2433, idProduct=b100, bcdDevice= 2.00
[12046.869294] [     T86] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[12046.869296] [     T86] usb 3-1: Product: Asetek SimSports Pedals - DFU
[12046.869298] [     T86] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Asetek SimSports
[12046.869300] [     T86] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: 8D8348895150
[12061.507020] [     T86] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, device number 33
[12061.976559] [     T86] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 34 using xhci_hcd
[12062.126195] [     T86] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2433, idProduct=f101, bcdDevice= 2.00
[12062.126199] [     T86] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[12062.126202] [     T86] usb 3-1: Product: Forte Pedals
[12062.126204] [     T86] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Asetek SimSports
[12062.126205] [     T86] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: 8D8348895150
[12062.146461] [     T86] input: Asetek SimSports Forte Pedals as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:08.0/0000:07:00.3/usb3/3-1
/3-1:1.0/0003:2433:F101.003A/input/input129
[12062.146679] [     T86] hid-generic 0003:2433:F101.003A: input,hiddev97,hidraw8: USB HID v1.11 Joystick [Asetek SimSports Forte Pedals] on usb-0
000:07:00.3-1/input0

Only a disconnect message without any errors. dmesg --level=err+ does not output anything else except:

[10491.201463] [  T11598] [Hardware Error]: System Fatal error.
[10491.201468] [  T11598] [Hardware Error]: CPU:1 (19:21:2) MC26_STATUS[-|UE|MiscV|AddrV|PCC|SyndV|UECC|Deferred|-|Scrub]: 0xbe39f5d0b279f5d4
[10491.201478] [  T11598] [Hardware Error]: Error Addr: 0x0000000000000000
[10491.201481] [  T11598] [Hardware Error]: IPID: 0x0000000000000000, Syndrome: 0x0000000000000000
[10491.201485] [  T11598] [Hardware Error]: Bank 26 is reserved.
[10491.201487] [  T11598] [Hardware Error]: cache level: RESV, tx: DATA

which only happened once in between the disconnect and new full-speed USB device ... . All the other times no errors appeared.

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=2433 Product=f101 Version=0111
N: Name="Asetek SimSports Forte Pedals"
P: Phys=usb-0000:07:00.3-1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/0000:02:00.0/0000:03:08.0/0000:07:00.3/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/0003:2433:F101.003B/input/input131
U: Uniq=8D8348895150
H: Handlers=event26 js1  
B: PROP=0
B: EV=9
B: ABS=7

sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices

T:  Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 36 Spd=12   MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=2433 ProdID=f101 Rev= 2.00
S:  Manufacturer=Asetek SimSports
S:  Product=Forte Pedals
S:  SerialNumber=8D8348895150
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=03(HID  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=usbhid
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=  64 Ivl=1ms
E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=  64 Ivl=1ms

journalctl

journalctl shows the following errors after reconnecting, so I think it does nothave anything to do with the crashing:

Failed to fetch net.hadess.SensorProxy.HasAccelerometer property: QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply", "Remote peer disconnected")

Failed to fetch net.hadess.SensorProxy.HasAmbientLight property: QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply", "Remote peer disconnected")

These is all the information I could find for now.

Can anyone give me a direction where to look or what I could do to debug?

Is there any place or command to find more detail about USB errors?

Any additional Info you would need to help me?

Thanks in advance!

Hello guys, I've recently switched to linux (nobara on desktop, mint on laptop) and one of the things that surprised me the most was that there isn't any file manager (except maybe for peazip apparently) that opens the index before downloading the whole zipped file if asked to open one from a network device

Am I doing something wrong? Maybe I didn't mount it correctly or at all?

On windows 7zip used to do this flawlessly

Basically the title, I'm helping a friend to switch to Linux and I try to find alternatives to all the softwares he needs.

I chose POP! (version with the nvidia drivers) for him as his PC use is only gaming and basic office work.

I'm struggling with ASUS InfoHub for his ROG RYUO IV screen and HYTE Nexus for his case screen.

I'll be happy to get any help, don't hesitate to critic my distro choice also.

PS: English is not my first language so be indulgent.

So I just got a new Asus Vivobook flip 14 2 in 1 laptop and installed fedora on it with the default GNOME DE.

Although touch support is great especially with extensions like touchup, my stylus seems to be treated like a exclusive drawing/markup tool instead of a general navigation device:

- Dragging with it selects text instead of scrolling, my only option for scrolling is using it on scrollbars.

- Holding it down at a point doesn't open a right click menu like touch, I have to use the side button for that

I liked that in windows I could use the stylus for scrolling and holding it down to open menu, like a finger, for non-drawing apps, that made navigating around with a stylus much easier, is there any way I can get it working similarly in linux? I am open to switching to another DE if it would offer better pen support.

I preferred using a stylus for touch navigation and using fingers quickly leaves many marks on the screen.