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I cannot get Bluetooth to work correctly on Arch despite the fact it works using commands. It worked perfectly fine when I got the laptop and it was running Windows, and I can get it temporarily working after starting the service with the command sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service. I don't...

Arch Linux KDE plasma - bluetooth works fine if I run sudo systemctl start bluetooth, and sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service, and I get the logo on the taskbar too. However, after a restart if I try to start bluetooth I get the message "bluez daemon is not running, blueman-manager cannot...

I've just got a used laptop and its fantastic, however some cretin has put a supervisor password on it in Bios and they've not bothered to remove it when they sold it. Please don't tell me to go get a refund or swap it for another, I intend to keep this PC and the password really isn't so bad...

I've just got a used ThinkPad, but it has a supervisor password set in the Bios that I can find no way of removing. I got it used from a PC shop local to me, there's nothing wrong with it at all aside from a few minor scratches on the outside of the shell and its quick enough to do pretty much...

Ive downloaded VLC to play DVDs on this old laptop running Arch KDE, but it wont play video at all. Ive gone through the setup after installing, making sure /dev/sr0 is selected and also tried with /dev/cdrom - but all I get is the timestamp at the bottom flashing up at 00:00 for a second, the...

Hello, apologies if this isn't in the right place, wasn't really sure where to post this. I'm looking suggestions for things to do and things to install after getting Arch running on an old laptop. I'm not new to Linux in general, Kali is installed on another laptop, Ive spent a fair bit of...

I had a Chromebook running Mint Cinnamon, and I really liked the UI and how it all felt. I sold it at the end of last week as it was having 900 billion issues on a wide range of distros, in the end it turned out to be certain hardware that's apparently very unreliable on Linux, multiple people...

Hello I have freshly installed Mint Xfce on my laptop, everything seems to be working as expected, aside from Power Management wont open. I have tried opening it through the settings menu, and by searching for it in the search bar on the menu, but this gives me nothing. If I try to open it...