I like Cinnamon and Xfce.
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I use Xfce and IceWM . I also have a soft spot for Lumina , but it is not being maintained.
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ok i never used xfce or iceWM will try them later .
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To day i bought a book Bash in easy steps by Mike McGrath since i came to this lovely forum and reading through many posts i come to realise that i need to learn atleast the basics in how to use the command line,so i can atleast install the software i want and if i need to trouble shot something if anything goes wrong it will be much better then runing around forums and ais to ask how to all the time and if nothing else i learn something new 
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Thank you Neville.
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I’ve been using Kubuntu almost forever. I’m hooked on the KDE desktop environment because it can be customized to look and act the way you want it to more that almost any other desktop.
Now that you’re a Linux user, you should change your user ID. It’s man cat ! (CLI humor) JK LOL
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I really like KDE also as i have Fedora KDE and like it very much and i also use Cachyos with KDE.
CLI humor ? never heard of it
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This KDE brigade are starting to outnumber us.
I have used KDE… have it currently in Chimera, but I dont use it anywhere near its full capacity, so it is a waste. Same applies to Gnome. I like simple DE’s or WM’s because they provide all that I need.
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Do you mean what software do we use to make a bootable usb key ? If that is what you mean i personally really like using ventoy but for people still using windows i recomend rufus, good luck !!
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In the terminal (CLI) if you want to know more about a command, there is a way to display the format of the command and it’s options by typing man followed by the command as in ‘man cp’. So the joke is ‘man cat’ would be the correct format.
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MX and antiX have a nice GUI utility for making bootable flash drives.
It can make
- read only drives … ie like what you use for an install
- writeable drives with permanence … like when you want to carry around a linux and plug it into different machines.
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Hi neville yes i know about that utility if memory serve its called mx live usb maker i have used it a few times when i was on mx linux 23 but i personally i am verry attached to my ventoy usb key it allows me to have several iso images ready to be installed . I suppose we’re all attached to the software we use i know i am nice recomendation though !!
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Ventoy is fine. It sometimes has trouble booting some distros.
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Very true i had problems booting spiral linux a while back but outside of that one ventoy has been pretty reliable so far do you only use the mx live usb maker or do you use others as well ?
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I have tried to install Garuda Linux 4 times now on one of my ssd drives i have made live usb with both balena etcher and ventoy and i come to the welcome screen and click on install with nvidia driver and it starts loding
And it seems fine but after a while i get this
And yet after a while i get this
I have no idea whats wrong and every time its the same and i have made the live usb on 2 diffrent usb and tried different usb ports anyone know whats wrong ?
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I mostly use dd command … especially if I am just putting an iso file onto a flash drive for an install.
At the moment I have been using the antiX gui program , because I am making a spin of antiX26 with Xfce, and I need to test my iso file.
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The key line is the warning message in your third picture
It cant find some disk partition … probably cant find the one containing the / filesystem.
You need to go into the grub menu in edit mode and change the parameter root= on the linux line to use a UUID so it can find the partition. It is trying to find it with a label … that is not reliable.
It is a distro problem, not ventoy.
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ok . I hardly used grub so im not sure how to do it but i will take a look and now i remember 1 option on the welcome screen is to boot to grub. i will look and see and thanks you for the answer
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