>installed rasbian on the pi i was given
okay, now what? minceraft server?

I'm tired of the bugs and inconveniences bros, I really want to go back to winblows

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>>100339886
Install Gentoo. All your bugs and inconveniences are because you didn't install Gentoo.

>>100339829
pressing FN and putting the laptop to sleep makes xorg stop responding. i can still interact with active windows(keyboard works too), but window manager ui elements and keyboard shortcuts don't work at all

>>100339929
install guix
>inb4 too few packages
just package what you need yourself

>>100339953
I'm not packaging all of KDE myself.
(Yes, Guix really doesn't have KDE for some stupid reason. No idea why, it's free software. They should have it)

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Learned to build stuff and make it install to a temporary directory effectively having it as a "package" of sorts. But as a directory tree you can copy on top of your root.
Let's say I wanted to build packages like the big boys, which package management is le best? Apt? RPM?

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>>100339829
I'm tired of being a tinkertranny. Ditching DWM and Artix.
Debian or Linux Mint?

>>100339966
Actually, they have it now. They never used to. It's outdated though.

>>100339746

>>100339953
What's the benefit of guix and how hard is it to install things like nvidia drivers? How difficult is the init system for someone who mostly only knows how to use systemd and openrc with preconfigured scripts? And I use a different init system than shepard?

>>100340030

are you nihilist or something as xfce flavour mint?

>>100340030
You don't really need to tinker much with artix openrc do you? The AUR often seems to have all you need for that to make it go fairly smoothly right?

>>100340030
>debian or fork of a fork of debian
at this point just use the original and dont worry about some mint not taking all security updates fast enough, you can just use cinnamon in debian or any DE

>>100340120
Old stinkpad.
It does have 8gb ram though

>>100340131
It's just more shilling for Mint.
Whenever someone is "tired of tinkering", they never explain what they mean.

What exactly is tiring? Did pacman shit the bed again?

>>100340131
I am tired of downgrading packages. I barely use my pc anymore. Only for 4chan and movies. I need a fresh start, don't even have enough patience to install a DE. Started using wm's and artix because it got shilled.

>>100340107
all init systems are basically the same
>what's the benifit
for me it was that i could leave home for a few months, return and not have to deal with problems related to updates. even on gentoo you get slot conflicts after 2 weeks of no updates or so and it takes time to resolve them and i'm not even talking about arch and other rolling release distros. besides that, same benifits as gentoo: good version control tools, stability and easy patching. ah, all of the system configuration being in one file is great if you want to set up another pc quickly (though it's somewhat offset by having to spend time to set up one in the first place). guix takes some time to get used to, but i'd say it's the most comfortable distro to use in the long term. wish it had more maintainers though

>>100340012
RPM, obviously.
don't you wanna be fast?

>>100340107
>>100340332
forgot
> And I use a different init system than shepard?
theoretically, you can use any int system on any distro, but it's not officially supported on guix and i doubt it's easy to implement, since it's so different from other distros

>>100340030
Fedora Atomic Desktops. Silverblue/GNOME or Kinoite/KDE are super reliable. I've been running them with upgrade in place between releases for years. There's one minor rough edge for installing RPMs with rpm-ostree instead of dnf, but because of the podman and Flatpak integration that doesn't need to happen super often. I basically just have nvidia drivers, ffmpeg, and emacs-pgtk-nativecomp installed.

>>100340504
never went with anything RH. I'll try it.

>>100340541
The Fedora docs website, RPMFusion docs website, and #silverblue on LiberaChat are good for support.

>>100339886
Your options are (k)Ubuntu and RHEL, LTS releases only for both, and only if that LTS release is minimum 6 months old.

>>100340725
i think im just gonna go to winblows desu, i used linux for like 8 months now and while theres a lot of good in it i just want to play some f***nite again kek

>>100340725
>>100339886
Fedora Kinoite solves this.

>>100339829
Can I run modern Linux, especially ubuntu 24 and rocky, on i5 2400?
Older vbox and vsphere seem to not support them due to lack of some cpu features. So it's not that obvious.

How should I into zfs on arch?
Any gotchas to watch out for?
Is it even worth it on a machine with only a single drive? I mostly want transparent compression and checksums. Don't care about pooling for this machine.

>>100341558
>transparent compression and checksums
btrfs

>>100340150
>Whenever someone is "tired of tinkering", they never explain what they mean.
It means they don't like editing configuration files, they just want to grab and hold the mouse, clicking on things like Windows 7. They don't care if Mint is dated as long as they can keep holding the mouse.

>update arch
>sound in CS:2 stops working
tom hanks

>>100340185
>downgrading packages
Why would you need to? Though I heard Artix has only 1 guy in charge of the whole repo, which is a terrible idea.

>>100341591
>better filesystem
>more like btr have backups

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What does this do that plain Gentoo doesn't?

>>100341691
new updates include some shit that break CS2 if you dont have rebar enabled. That was a crashing problem for me mostly, but I had to update bios to make my games work

>>100341876
more fun, less gen

>>100342002
>rebar
what is this even?

>>100342030
resizeable bar as opposed to fixed size
run
>sudo dmesg | grep BAR
if BAR=256M or something, its not on

>>100339886
If you find a bug or room for improvement, report it. Unless it's GNOME then it's a waste of time.

>>100342096
apparently I'm fine but I still don't really get what it is

>>100341480
yup, you should be just fine with and old sandy bridge on those

>>100340030
>muh tinkering
That's on you not the distro/WM. You can set up DWM and then not touch it for 5 years if you like, only updating it and keeping the same patches.

>>100342282
I meant I got tired of the shortcuts and lack of graphical environments which have not helped with productivity at all.

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Does linux-libre support Intel Arc GPUs? I want to get rid of my nvidia GPU alongside with winjeetOS.

>>100343052
Intel provides a video driver for ARC like they do with all their (current) integrated graphics, though I have no idea of the mileage.

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Sometimes when I change icons in xfce the user directories stay with adwaita icons. What's going on here and how do I make it change to the icon theme i want? I found somewhat of a solution and that was to remove adwaita folder completely from /usr/share/icons, but that created more problems in other apps.
For reference I want to use retrofukation icon theme and i am using slackware

>>100344745
adwaita is a virus

>>100344899
It would appear so

>>100341480
I run Ubuntu 24.04 on my T420, which has a 2nd gen i5. Runs like a charm.

Any alternatives to XFCE-Looks?

>>100341705
>I heard Artix has only 1 guy in charge of the whole repo
No.
https://artixlinux.org/kotnr.php

Anyone has any experience running linux on ARM chromebooks? I know it's not really supported, but mine seems to handle running linux programs in chromebook fine.

I have a Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 with a Mediatek Kompanio 520, 8gb/128gb version, and I tried installing linux on it, xfce is the recommended version using crouton. But both trying to install xfce via crouton which is recommended and a clean install, but I just couldn't get it to work, it said that it was read-only iirc. I've read that I might need to install custom firmware or even take out a screw from the motherboard that's keeping it read-only, anyone has any experience?

>>100341705
>>100346094
maybe arco? i think that's maintained by just one bloke

>>100346094
>>100346144
Yes my bad, it was Arco.

>>100346144
I think you might be talking about Obarun.

Why are there no good icon packs?

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>>100346690
Icon themes are yesterdays thing.

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newfag linux user here, dualboot install of Mint went according to plan, fixed the nvidia drivers problems (just needed to disable secure boot and switch some shit in the nvidia-prime applet) and now it's smooth sailing
there's just so many different things to customize, it's blowing my eternal windowsfag mind
linux might not be just a meme after all

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Just updated the kernel on my Debian 12 laptop and I'm now getting these strange warnings during startup:

May 06 15:54:45 anon kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: rom_version status=0 version=1
May 06 15:54:45 anon kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8723b_fw.bin
May 06 15:54:45 anon kernel: irq 36: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
May 06 15:54:45 anon kernel: CPU: 1 PID: 22 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 6.1.0-21-amd64 #1  Debian 6.1.90-1
...
May 06 15:54:45 anon kernel: handlers:
May 06 15:54:45 anon kernel: [<00000000d4bf13ba>] azx_interrupt [snd_hda_codec]
May 06 15:54:45 anon kernel: Disabling IRQ #36

Then I get the below warnings, which I was getting before this update:

May 06 15:54:45 anon kernel: bluetooth hci0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtl_bt/rtl8723b_fw.bin
May 06 15:54:46 anon kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: loading rtl_bt/rtl8723b_config.bin
May 06 15:54:46 anon kernel: bluetooth hci0: firmware: failed to load rtl_bt/rtl8723b_config.bin (-2)
May 06 15:54:46 anon kernel: firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
May 06 15:54:46 anon kernel: bluetooth hci0: firmware: failed to load rtl_bt/rtl8723b_config.bin (-2)
May 06 15:54:46 anon kernel: bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for rtl_bt/rtl8723b_config.bin failed with error -2
May 06 15:54:46 anon kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: cfg_sz -2, total sz 22496

Can I safely ignore this? I'm assuming the new warning is something to do with the old warnings, but I just wanted to check.

>>100346751
I hate footfags so fucking much.

Apart from installing a bunch of Qt5 and Qt6 pakages, is there any way to get a QT-only setup? I don't want a single gtk file on my system.

Any links, tutorials or tips would be great.

>>100347116
>I don't want a single gtk file on my system.
Yeah, that's not gonna last long.

I hate the competition and fragmentation in linux. I used someone's dotfiles and I probably have about 20 different config files for themes and colors, from gtk2 to gtk4 and I get a headache trying to dissect what's going on and simplify them. So many scripts importing and exporting each other's config files, it's so annoying.

>>100347274
>I used someone's dotfiles
should have used someone else's

>>100347328
I always find useful scripts and info in them, shows me new ways to do things. It's just time-consuming and sometimes complicated. I use the stuff I find to update my own github dotfiles.

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>>100347361
>github dotfiles
Do people really...

>>100344745
It must be something to do with xfce. I have a laptop running Slackware and using the retrofukation theme, but I use bspwm and set the icon theme with lxappearance. Does running

xdg-user-dirs-update

do anything?

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God help me. I've had this error for like two months and it bricked my system, just been doing grass touching instead but my backlog has gotten huge and gotta fix this first.

System: Arch, fully -Syu'd. Fixing everything in install medium chroot.
Cause: Downgrading glibc (and libc-32? idk which other, but not the current issue, I think) by adding it to IgnorePkg, which was reversed.
Symptom: On startup, systemd-tmpfiles: /usr/lib/libm.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.39' not found (required by /usr/lib/libsystemd-shared-255.4-2.so). Rest of it in picrel. Doesn't let me do anything since sh is borked.
Other signs: ldd and pacman -Qi say glibc is 2.39. There's no such thing as /usr/lib/systemd/libsystemd-255.4-2.so, just the 5-4 version.
ChatGPT tells me libm.so.6 should be symlinked to libm-2.39.so, but there is no versioned libm-*.so file, just .a, in either my /usr/lib repos or in any docs for glibc I can find
libm.so.a is big, like a megabyte, which is weird for what should be a symlink.

And now I'm basically stuck. Will probably try symlinking the 4-2 to 5-4 and see if something works, but I'd really like help anons
>our systems think your post is spam
Fuck off, originally, jannies, reddit, blah

Linuxbros, how do we cope with the uncomfortable truth that Powershell mogs Bash?

>>100348210
You posted this before and the answer is the same. Reinstall.

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>>100348210
This might be a stupid question but; why are you downgrading packages? Not just any package, but glibc.

My solution, not that it would interest you, is to upgrade all your packages to the latest version and see if it boots, and if you *need* an older version of glibc then try again.

>>100340361
>le package management speed
What is this meme even? First time heard it here, never gave a single thought that my package management could be "slow".

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>>100348323
How does reinstalling to fix what's probably a single-file issue not sound like an embittering experience for you?
>>100348348
>why are you downgrading packages
protondb mindless advice-taking
I don't need an older version of glibc, I just want the current, seemingly installed version to work. And it is, just not for a fictional systemd file, from what I can tell

>>100348497
Because it's not a single-file issue. Reinstall glibc and regenerate the initramfs.

So apparently neither GDM nor SDDM support dynamically outputting to the most recently signed in user's primary monitor like Windows does.

I can manually copy DM configuration from user to system, but that's it.

Does anyone know if either KDE or GNOME is working on implementing this?

in the world of linux, is there anything to keep in mind? like how windows 11 doesn't support any cpus pre-2016
wondering if there are any parts to avoid getting building a simple all in one pc, with maybe an rx 6600 thrown in for light pc game playing and video editing (was going to use my old gtx 1650, but I've never used nvidia with linux and have heard its a pain)

>>100348210
You downgraded glibc and broke basically your whole system, you stupid motherfucker. Reinstall.

>>100340758
I need bleeding edge but wont destroy itself like my arch install just did

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>>100339829
How do I prevent plasma from doing this when I drag my cursor to the edge of the screen?

It's annoying as fuck

>>100349639
Can't tell what you're trying to do.

>>100349718
>>100349718
if I put my mouse near the edge of the screen, my whole workspace will slide to the right as if It was trying to show me another desktop behind it or some other bullshit like that people on tablets like to do.

>>100349737
Try Settings > Workspace Behavior > Screen Edges > Switch desktop on edge: Disabled.
Not sure if that is the one, but look around there and the Virtual Desktops section.

>>100349000
It's mainly avoiding Nvidia, the only other thing I can think of would be not trying to run cutting edge parts on a non-cutting-edge distro, but something like an rx6600 should be fine on basically anything nowadays.

If I install a program via .deb package, to update it, do I just download the new .deb package and run sudo dpkg -i ${path to .deb}, or do I have to uninstall the program first?

>>100349311
yeah

>>100349815
you can just install the deb to update

lignux

>>100339886
what are you on

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are there any upsides to using other distros besides Ubuntu? very very new to all of this but I like the idea of my OS being open source. I assume it ties to what you'll be using it for, but if I'm just programming is there really any reason to use something else?

does vscode have garbage fonts and menu drawing glitches on all linux distros or just ubuntu?

>>100350211
sounds like a missing fonts or bad gpu drivers issue 2bdesu

>>100350254
8th gen intel laptop graphics
fully patched 24.04
vscode installed by snap or upstream deb makes no difference

>>100349777
It didn't work...

What's funny is if I boot on the bleeding edge kernel ( Arch Linux) that's when that behavior is observed. However if I boot on LTS this doesn't happen.

It's been like that from before I installed arch, ( Was runnin a distro called EndeavourOS) it also uses plasma kde and I pretty much mounted my old home exactly as it was.

Something on the cache perhaps?

>>100350270
weird, try booting a live USB with a different desktop environment

>>100350094
The main differences between Linux distros are their package repos and their kernels. Ubuntu's whole deal is that it's an LTS distro that doesn't update packages as fast as some other distros do like Arch, Gentoo or Fedora. It's always been touted as the "beginner's distro" though which it very much was back in the 2000s/2010s, though over time a spinoff of it called Mint basically took over that moniker after the company behind Ubuntu started to advertise it more to enterprise business then the average user.

>>100349874
i am interested

>>100350094
>any upsides to using other distros besides Ubuntu?
Plenty, too many to reasonably list, actually. Big ones are the size of the repos and speed of the updates, Jimmy's Weekend Linux Project won't have the same package selection or update speed as something like Arch, for instance.
>ties to what you'll be using it for
Not quite, only "embedded" distros really restrict what you can do, don't install smartTV Linux and expect a regular desktop OS. Any distro can do any thing* so it's mostly a matter of how you want the starting experience to be.
*some distros use different core components and cannot necessarily do anything, they aren't the norm so you probably won't accidentally use one
>if I'm just programming is there any reason to use something else
There can be, Arch has very up-to-date packages, Gentoo is source-based so you usually compile everything, but certain programs can get significant performance gains by using new CPU features that a precompiled package cannot offer.
If you're not sure, go with Mint, it's good for both newbies and veterans imo.

>>100350416
understood. so it sounds like the appeal of using something else would fall more on the kernel than the packages for me, but even that sounds low-impact. is there an actual answer to "what is the best distro for development" or is it mostly based on preference?

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>>100349972
Thank you, saar.

>>100350404
i am considering a different distro anyway. no idea what. maybe i should just go back to being a based archbro

>>100350094
People will call ubuntu babby's first distro because it just works and you can get on with your life, but ask them what they can do on their preferred distro that you can't do on Ubuntu and you'll get alot of angry ad hom replies and insults, but no good answers.

>>100350387
EndeavorOS literally is arch

is neon the best kde distro according to the kde project, since it is actually made by them?
https://neon.kde.org/

or maybe kubuntu is, since they list it first on their distros page?
https://kde.org/distributions/

>>100350931
Neon is awful. For developers only. Kubuntu is the patrician's choice. Use ubuntu pro on it and enjoy 12 years of 5.27 stability

>>100350963
are the kde/plasma packages actually patched under ubuntu pro? i thought only the default ubuntu desktop got patches

>>100350963
>12 years of 5.27 stability
hmm, i want plasma 6 but can't make sense of repology. i know arch has me covered but i'm resisting installing that os for some reason

I have used arch for years but wanna go with non-systemd, is artix good or? Tbh I don't want to tinker I want just some /comfy/

>>100351030
seems like a good idea given that you're used to arch

>>100351030
Well if you've been using Arch for years and you want to try a non-systemd distro then Artix is pretty much what you'd want. I recommend using the OpenRC variant.

>want to make a nas
>get raid hdd enclosure
>put two 1tb drives in it, set the dip switches to raid 1
>get raspberry pi 4
>follow overly enthusiastic youtube guide on setting up the pi
>install open media vault
>get in via web interface
>under storage / disks it’s showing two 1tb drives
>wipe discs
>under storage / file systems its showing no drives at all
>look for help online
>just people talking about not being allowed to raid two seperate usb drives
>find one forum post:
https://forum.openmediavault.org/index.php?thread/27967-attaching-hardware-raid-enclosure-over-usb-to-omv-server/
>where his raid enclosure just seems to show up just fine, albeit as two individual drives
>still unsure whether the raid enclosure will do its thing or not
>format drives as ext4 using

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb

>now they actually have a file system type according to

lsblk -f

>still don’t show up under storage / file systems
>wipe discs again, still no dice

does anybody know what the hell i'm doing wrong? do i need to partition them too? because i thought that would be handled by omv.

>>100350860
Let me rephrase,

I realized I didn't need much of the stuff shipping with EOS and decided to make an arch installation as minimal and as custom as possible.

And I'm failing miserably

>>100339929
*Krashes

Been using EndeavourOS for an hour or two now, got most my shit setup. Just wanted to ask, is there any way to disable volume changing? I have an external DAC/AMP so I would prefer to have my audio locked at 100% all the time. Sometimes I find the audio has been reset to something lower. Any suggestion would be great, thanks

>>100351533
>try to set wifi password in omv
>no longer able to connect at all
great

>>100348589
>if either KDE or GNOME is working on implementing this
I doubt it. SDDM development in particular is slow and releases are very sparse.

>>100350094
Stick to the Ubuntu family. If you ever need to try a different desktop environment, there is Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu and so on.
Once you have more experience you can venture to other distros and decide for yourself if those are worth it.

>>100352297
oh it just hopped IPs, dynamic IPs seem to be a pain when sshing locally so i set it to static
though i just figured out i could connect to pinas.local instead of 192.etc, so i feel kinda silly now

>>100350931
Neon is fine if you want bleeding edge KDE on an Ubuntu vase, but sadly it doesn't get enough testing and development to be dependable, so you may need to deal with the occasional breakage.
Kubuntu doesn't get a lot of development either, but it moves slower than Neon and is thus more stable.

Give me a rundown on dual-booting.
Any specific things I should know that differentiate it from a regular installation?
I installed mint on my old laptop and it was fine for a while but now its hard crashing frequently

>>100352880
Dual boot or single boot makes no difference.
It gets trickier when you need to install two of the same OS, say two Linux distros or two different Windows versions, but few people do this.

Should I get an Intel Arc or AMD Radeon GPU for Linux use? I'm not gaming so only driver compatibility and desktop functionality matters.

My current Radeon RX550 is probably about to break, as my machine sometimes randomly freezes and according to syslog it might be related to amdgpu somehow. I doubt the cause is faulty RAM either as I have ECC and I don't get ECC errors too often, maybe 2-3 times a year.

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>>100351533
Hmm, it seems like instead of clicking on a drive to mount, I needed to create and mount a filesystem, whereupon it gives me a dropdown to select a drive to use.
But I still have the issue of seeing two drives, when I want it to act like a mirrored single drive since they drives are in an enclosure set to RAID 1. For now I'll only mount one and see where that leads me, with any luck it mirrors properly but I don't know how to tell. Like, is one drive the primary drive that gets written and read from, with the other being a backup? Or do any read instructions go to both at once?

>>100353184
If you're not gaming and not running like 3+ monitors, intel integrated graphics is honestly pretty solid.

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flatpak ot nix on debian stable?

I've had a home server that I've been somewhat neglecting in terms of maintenance for quite a while, and I just realised this thing is still running Debian Buster.
If I want to update this to the latest version, do you think it's just fine jumping straight to it, or would it be better to do 'Buster -> Bullseye -> Bookworm'?

>>100353664
Well, I don't have any integrated graphics, so I need a discrete GPU.

>>100350416
>Ubuntu's whole deal is that it's an LTS
Ubuntu interim releases exist btw, sometimes I forget myself

>>100339829
on debian
when i turn my computer on, when it goes through the checks before loading up X - there are now a few things that say FAILED in red letters instead of the usual OKAY in green
how can I check those things or find the logs of start up?

>>100353791
AMD is solid. I haven't used a discrete Intel GPU before, so I can't really directly comment on it.

>>100352631
i just don't get how no gnome/kde developer is triggered by this functionality being missing. i guess nobody docks their laptops and it's just something windows chuds do?

> file

can do the same as either

touch file

or

cat /dev/null > file

tried linux mint xfce on a 940mx laptop, works like a charm so far with the proprietary nvidia drivers
the open source drivers functioned too, but was wonky and offered really not even the basic features I wanted
surprised its working with external monitors with no trouble and recalling the previous session settings too
are there any meaningful downsides to using the proprietary drivers (other than them being proprietary) or are issues with it something I'll encounter down the line?

>>100339829
god damn the crux mascot is cute. it almost makes me want to run that os

Been running Arch + i3wm.
Because I am not sure what software I want, I have been trying lots of different things, e.g installed some brother printer drivers, nautilus, various gnome branded applications. How do I clean my shit up? On windows I would routinely go the the Add/Remove programs list and clean up, is there a similar process I can do in Arch? I understand the file system but I am completely clueless to how programs are installed in linux, because of dependencies I am afraid to uninstall anything in case I break something else.

Also, why are flatpacks so heavily shilled, is it comparable to anaconda for python? Stay away from snaps right?

>>100354215
yes. arch is one of the few distros that you can do this on without being an expert. check the pacman documentation on archwiki

>>100354215
flatpak is more open. snap is run by canonical

why is dragging and dropping files not working on thunar when the files are from an external drive
WHY

not to be a doomer, but are all linux desktops a buggy/unusable mess? is there anything decent? plasma 6?

>>100339829
Is there any linux that would be compatible with a 15 year old (intel based) macbook pro?

>>100354379
ubuntu probably

My frens, if you download some prebuilt binary of a foss project, where in the PATH do you store it? /usr/local/bin? ~/.bin?

>>100354606
~/.local/bin

>>100354308
It's usually a permissions thing. Putting

admin://

before the path in the location bar can be useful in an emergency.

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Ubuntu just works
Snaps just work
GNOME just works
Everything just works

>>100354215
>because of dependencies I am afraid to uninstall anything in case I break something else.
its very confusing when you use terminal to uninstall stuff. you can use

pacman -Rs

to remove a package and its dependencies that are not required by other packages or you can just simply use a gui for it like octopi.
https://tintaescura.com/projects/octopi/

>>100348210
>>100348497
If you tried chrooting, updating the entire system and it still doesn't work I think you broke it irreparably. Also, I haven't seen anybody say the obvious solution.... BACKUPS, where the fuck is your backup?

>>100339829
Interested with ani-cli
Where do the videos come from?

>>100357488
A vast majority of the time probably from Aniwave. Maybe GoGoAnime sometimes as well.

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>>100357517
I was wondering how it avoided piracy
So simple answer is: It doesn't.

Very weird things going on ITT
Keep getting connection errors on desktop specifically in /fglt/ on both brave and firefox logged in with a pass and not, using different IP, cookies cleared
No other threads anywhere else on the site having an issue, including other threads on /g/

Was getting the same issue on mobile earlier but now it's working (hopefully)
So I don't know someone doesn't want me to post in /fglt/ obviously

>>100357723
>Implying you want to use Funimation/HiDive/Disney+ to watch anime "legally" when Aniwave has everything.

>>100357808
lmao
Just don't want that shit on the clear net if I'm on other networks

I have two monitors, one horizontal (1920x1080+0+0), the other vertical (1080x1920+1920+0). This means that the area (1920x840+1080+0) isn't displayed, but my mouse can still enter it, which is anying because it makes aiming for the taskbar at the bottom of the horizontal monitor annoying.
The way I have "solved" it is with a little program that listens for

XI_RawMotion

events, if it gets one uses

XIQueryPointer

to check if the pointer has entered the forbidden area, and if so uses XIWarpPointer to move it back out.
This does only work somewhat. The movement into the invisible area is still perfomed, but then immediately reversed, with leads to some flickering, since e.g the Y coordinate keeps jumping between 1080, 1081, and back to 1079. Moving the mouse against the edge also noticably increases cpu load, from 2% to around 6% at idle, depending on how fast I move the mouse.

So, is there a non-retarded way to do this? Define an area of the X11 Screen the pointer isn't allowed to enter?

Honestly no idea where to put this, but I want to use a cracked copy of Vocaloid 6 on Linux. Issue is I have no idea where to find such a thing and how to make it work on Linux since it will obviously be assumed I'm using Windows. I have little experience using wine.

>>100358339
Wayland

>>100358491
I'm heterosexual

>>100358503
so use Sway or Hyprland

>>100354169
There are no downsides whatsoever, it's just that some people feel they go against the open source ideology, since it's obscure code that comes in the form of binary blobs. (Nobody but the company who made the firmware can review the code)

But it's a purism thing that doesn't really affect you unless your goal is to take a stance against propietary software on principle.

>>100354169
There used to be some technical issues (gimped color gambit under load, Wayland incompatibility, problems with hybrid laptop support vs. Windows) but these days it's mostly annoying because it's proprietary.

>>100358518
>tiling
I use openbox.

In all seriousness though. I personally don't see the advantages of using wayland. A lot of the differences from X would be the cause of annoyances, and the main advertised advantages (like mixed refresh rates, mixed dpi) don't apply to my use case.

>>100358613
Mixed orientations is directly something Wayland does better.

>>100358620
In what way?

>>100358639
no weird load spikes like you're experiencing

>>100358654
The spikes are only happening when *my* program runs. It's not something inherent to X11. I'm startign to get the feeling that you didn't actually read my post.

Im 37 years old. Been using Linux since I was 13. I have a graduate level stem degree. I still can't read a man page

Hello, I love Linux, I hope you love Linux too.

>>100358835
i like linux a healthy amount

>>100354361
gnome and other gtk desktops are largely bug free, at least to the extend of windows explorer
"usable" is probably dependent on your workflow but even gnome is extensible enough to make it just about usable for anyone imo

>>100341710
You should have backups anyway. BTRFS has never failed me though.

>>100342172
It's called resizeable bar because it allows the CPU to address more of your GPUs memory in one go instead of having to deal with smaller chunks.

This can offer some nice performance improvements in some cases but can also be detrimental in others.

>>100348210
If you're positive you've done everything right just re-compile Systemd against whatever the fuck your Frankenstein system is

>>100350984
You won't get it on Kubuntu.

Your options are:
>Arch
>Gentoo
>OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
>Fedora 40 (The KDE spin or Kinoite)

>>100352238

$ uptime -p
up 5 days, 3 hours, 15 minutes

I still need to reboot at some point to reboot into the new kernel but there's no point since it hasn't Krashed:

$ uname --all
Linux DESKTOP-AUQFSE1.lan 6.8.8-zen1 #2 ZEN SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Apr 29 06:26:54 UTC 2024 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

>>100358613
>I use openbox.
Use Labwc

Are there any archive formats commonly in use that have good random access? My use case is archiving/compressing a bunch of ROMs and ROM hacks.
Until now I've been using ZPAQ but I want to see if there's other options

>>100360005
The terminology is "solid" and "non-solid". With a solid archive, all of the data has to be decompressed to access a single file. With a non-solid archive, files can be read out individually. The trade off is in the compression ratio.

Most formats are aimed at solid archives. The UNIX way of doing things is typically tar+whatever which is inherently solid. 7z is probably the best option that can be be non-solid, although it's usually solid by default.

I've just experimented with creating solid and non-solid 7z files with otherwise default settings. The input is around 18000+ text files amounting to a bit over 1GB. The solid archive is 189.9MiB but takes around 15-seconds to extract a single file. The non-solid archive is 244.7MiB but a single file can be extracted almost instantly.

7z -a --ms=on      solid.7z input_folder
7z -a --ms=off non-solid.7z input_folder

>>100358476
>look up vocaloid windows dependencies
>winetricks dependecies
>run installer/program

>>100358339
Your mouse should not be able to enter the void, what window manager?

>>100342709
go for Linux Mint, Cinnamon is great.

>>100361558
Oh yeah. If I actually set it up the way I described it, in my original post I can't enter the "void". That's what I guess for trying to simplify. My actual setup has an intended 190 pixel wide "void" between the two monitors to account for the monoitor bezels. The vertical monitor is actually at 1080x1920+2110+0 and the area I want to be non-enterable is 2110x840+1080+0.

>>100360005
zpaq is pretty much never the answer to ROM storage. If these are optical images you should be using CHD or whatever specialty format your emulator supports.

I'm a Windows user looking to switch to Linux.

What is like daily driving Linux? Particularly unstable distros? Is there much maintenance or busy work? I've heard the memes of things like Arch crashing or Gentoo taking all day to install a web browser but I can't imagine this is the norm. If your PC was crashing all of the time or every application/update took 6+ hours to install outside of maybe some one offs I can't imagine many people would stick with the related distros.

>>100364559
Ubuntu is a good distribution to start and work with. daily driving shouldn't be a problem and if you need help with anything, you can easily find answers online. you'll enjoy Linux and if you feel like trying out another distro in the future, maybe go with Fedora. don't rush, be comfy

>>100364559
>If your PC was crashing all of the time
yet, people use windows (which has also been said to crash all the time)

>>100364559

like a german monk, 6 days scrolling wheel, 1 day gardening, you count hours with smart tools

I have to say, if I had unlimited time, I'd read the Guix manual, write a config, and try it out - many of the solutions they propose sound worthwhile. But for now, I'll just keep using Fedora.

>>100361313
Thank you, so looks like 7z is a perfectly viable alternative.

>>100364370
It doesn't look like there's any good console-specific compressors for my use case but it's a good suggestion if I move to larger ROMs like Wii or GameCube, GBA and N64.
ZPAQ does data deduplication pretty well, so I figured it would save space across the different versions of the same ROM.

>>100364627
Thanks! I'm actually excited to try Linux out, PC parts are coming in the mail soon.

I've been using windows 10 for about a year and a half for various reasons, but its driving me so fucking insane with how horrible it is I want to switch back over to linux. Which was inevitable, but I thought maybe I'd stick with microsoft for longer.

Are there any arch distros with a heavier emphasis on stability? I know arch is all about the cutting edge, but what I really want is a more stable OS that also has access to the AUR. I was using manjaro for several years, which was my first foray into arch based distros. For the most part I had no problems other than occasionally needing to downgrade a package or fuck around with files preventing an update.

Alternatively if you can recommend me something else thats stable but also has access to a lot of packages that would be awesome. I was interested in NixOS but im retarded and last time I was trying to set it up in a VM i couldn't. Vanilla Debian to me is like the platonic ideal of linux distros, but I also don't think its something I would want to daily drive.

>>100364559
You need to understand how software distribution is handled on linux systems. 99% of software you're gonna use is free and open source. You could just download the source code, follow the directions to compile it and then install it. But doing that is a hassle.
That's why distributions (distros) exist. They do the compiling part for you, package the software and upload it to the repository (repo). They also make sure the different programs play nice with each other, doing some modifications if necessary. This has some disadvantages:
- A program you want to use might not be packaged by your distro's maintainers
- Your distro might choose different compile time options than you want

These problems are why distros like Arch and Gentoo exist.
Arch makes it extremely easy to package a piece of software yourself. If you want to create a package for debian is a pretty complex endeavor requiring lots of manual work. On Arch it is likerally one file and one command. So for the couple of packages that your distro doesn't provide, you can very easily make your own.
And because all you need is a single text file, people can share these text files with each other. Why would you write this PKGBUILD file yourself, if someone else has already done the work and uploaded it to the Arch User Repository (AUR)? BUT: These files come with no guarantees of playing nice together or even working at all. They are community managed, after all. You are supposed to check them yourself before using them. But since Arch has gained so much popularity in recent years, especially among non tech-savy people, it often happens that someone blindly does some stupid shit (installing incompatible stuff fromt he AUR; copy-pasting commands from god knows where...) and fucks up his system.

cont.

>>100364559
>Is there much maintenance or busy work?
Linux is only as much of a time sink as you want it to be.
That said, if you aren't used to the Linux ways of doing things, it will probably feel like more work at first, since you will have to google your way around more often.
>I've heard the memes of things like Arch crashing or Gentoo taking all day to install a web browser but I can't imagine this is the norm. If your PC was crashing all of the time or every application/update took 6+ hours to install outside of maybe some one offs I can't imagine many people would stick with the related distros.
You are correct. "Unstable" means something very different apropos of Linux distros, it does not mean "breaks all the time". Some people even have *less* issues on rolling release distros, especially when their hardware is newer.

>>100364559
>>100364853
>cont.
Gentoo goes much further. While Arch makes it easy to complement the packages from the offical repos with ones you built yourself, Gentoo is based on the idea that you build all packages yourself. For a long time they didn't even provide pre-built pacakges at all. Their repos instead provide the recipes for building the packages yourself, the equivalent of Arch's PKGBUILD files. Their "package manager", portage makes it extremely easy to automate this process.
One of the issues with Gentoo is that some pieces of software take very long to compile. The most extreme case being web browsers. And they are getting worse every day. And because many people don't want to compile every web browser update for hours is why web browsers are some of the few packages gentoo does provide pre-built packages for.

Personally, I prefer Arch's system. A good base of pre-built packages, but making yoour own is easy. From what I've read, building pacakges on RPM-based distros (fedora, suse, etc.) is similarly easy, but you don't have the advantage of a community repository like the AUR.
As for maintenance, I update once a month, which involves skimming over the output of my package manger and occasionally updating a config file to a newer version.

>>100364837

$ head -2 /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Server = https://europe.archive.pkgbuild.com/repos/month/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/month/$repo/os/$arch

You don't get the the advantage of extensively tested software that stable distros have, but you no longer need to run -Syu before installing anything lest you get a 404 because the package has since been updated.

>>100365050
>And because many people don't want to compile every web browser update for hours is why web browsers are some of the few packages gentoo does provide pre-built packages for.
You can just....not upgrade it everyday.

>>100339829
I am currently using Arch with I3 and LY as display manager.
I am not content with i3 and I want to use KDE/xfce4 instead.
Can I just install the package with pacman, open new session and uninstall i3? Would it work?

>>100364559
I'm gonna give you the tl;dr summary anon.
You can do anything on any kind of distro. People who obsess over which distro to use are autistic.
They each have their quirks, but Linux is Linux. Every distro can do the same things and can be adapted for any use case.

Stable/Newbie distros:
LOW MAINTENANCE
These distros rely on stable repositories, you hardly have to do any maintainance at all, they work out of the box and don't break randomly. They can be used for everyday desktop use, programming or whatever. They are like Windows but better.
- Debian
- Mint
- Ubuntu
- OpenSUSE
- And the variations thereof

Testing distros:
MEDIUM MAINTENANCE
These distros work out of the box, but they rely on repositories that are frequently updated so every program is updated to the lastest testing version which may have bugs.
Overall however they won't break, it's rare. You are basically working for free as a beta tester for new program updates. However this may be of interest to some developer-types of user.
- Fedora
- OpenSuse Tumbleweed
- Debian Testing Branch
- And so on

>>100365104
Unfortunately, not updating your browser is a bad idea. They're riddled with security holes that you want plugged ASAP.

>>100365172
>>100364559
Autist Hobbyist Distros:
HIGH MAINTENANCE
These are the distros that /g/ will recommend to you, but they are NOT suitable for a newbie and are impractical to daily drive for a myriad of reasons.
If you want to do actual work on your PC you should avoid these distros that are suitable mostly for NEETs:
- Arch: Uses a rolling release model, shit breaks often even though the autists here will tell you otherwise. It's meant for people that like to tinker with their install and customize their system.
- Gentoo: Uses a rolling release model, like Arch, it's meant for people that like to tinker with their install and customize their system, but to an even greater degree than Arch autists, since you have to compile everything from source. Install is difficult, will break often, and the fact that you have to compile everything from source (takes hours to compile and install anything major) is seen as a *feature* not a bug.
- Slackware: Meme distro that is managed by a single autist since 1993, like Gentoo it's a pain in the ass to daily drive due to the requirement of compiling everything from source, but it has even less features since there is nothing like Portage, you have to download, compile and even manage the required dependencies yourself.

>slack
>high maintenance
>compiling everything from source
WSL larper go back

>>100365184
Yeah. But even if you updated the second a new version gets rolled out on Gentoo repos it still wouldn't be everyday. More like once a week really, and compiling for a few hours once a week isn't that bad.

Does NVIDIA works under Wayland on Ubuntu 24.04?

>>100365206
>Compiling and choosing with dependencies to use is the whole point of the distro
>N-n-no you can actually install binaries!
Yes but what's the point in using Slack then?
I have tried all these distros on metal btw.
(Except OpenSUSE)

>>100364958
>>100365050
Thanks a bunch for such a detailed walkthrough of everything, especially with what I assume is a realistic description of the actual time needed for maintenance. I was already leaning away from something like Gentoo and towards either a stable distro or Arch, but this makes Arch sound even cooler.

>>100365269
>Yes but what's the point in using Slack then?
there is none, doesn't mean you aren't larping
>I have tried all these distros on metal btw.
then you got filtered, pretty much every noteworthy distro "just werks" for at least one use case.
i wish garbage like foresight still existed so you dumbass kids knew what an unusable distro that breaks literally every day is actually like

>>100365172
>>100365190
Interesting, I didn't expect massive variations between distros to begin with but I didn't think there was a "middle-ground" area, I'll look into some of those distros. Thanks!

>>100365311
>there is none
Then you admit I'm right, kys.

>doesn't mean you aren't larping
I'm giving useful advice to someone who is a newbie. I have daily driven Slack, I like it, but the anon is deliberately asking for low maintenance distros. Slack is not low maintenance if you need the latest developer tools. Thinks like updating multilib GCC using the unofficial packages from the Alien dude are quite a hassle.

>knew what an unusable distro that breaks literally every day is actually like
I didn't say Slack was unstable. It's one of the most stable distros there are.
It's high maintenance for different reasons. Maybe you should re-read my post.

>>100365389
>Slack is not low maintenance if you need the latest developer tools.
if you need the latest shit then why the fuck are you even using slack? i think it's past its prime but i'm also not a complete goddamn retard who intentionally uses things not meant for my use cases.

Why Firefox can not fucking use hardware video acceleration even though is a native app shipped by the distro but Thorium can do it without any issues while being a fucking appimage?

>>100365451
tl;dr: security theater. Firefox makes you jump through a few hoops first.

>>100365429
Someone who is just coming off Windows and asking for low maintenance shouldn't be using those distros. They'll just get frustrated and go back to Windows.

My use case at the time, was being a hobby autist so I was happy with it.
I learned a lot about Linux.

>>100365451
It can? about:config -> media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled = true.

File: 1698125037550087.webm (1.93 MB, 962x826)

1.93 MB WEBM

>distros still package the old microsoft "corefonts"
How can we fix this bros? I swear this is a major reason why people have bad font rendering. By installing these fonts you're basically fucking up your font rendering.

>>100365160
You probably don't even need to uninstall i3, not familiar with ly but many DMs let you select your session at the start.

I'm considering installing Flatpak to containerize Discord for privacy purposes. I don't know that I'd use it for anything else. Should I not? I might be able to get by with running Discord in a browser but I don't have the option of relaxing anti-fingerprinting from feeding it UTC and fucking up the timestamps which means I have to run it in a second session (which I already have configured as a fallback in case something is broken in the primary arkenfox profile).

sudo mount -t nfs  -o rw pinas.local:/export/nashorn xxx/yyy
cd xxx/yyy
echo "hello" > test.txt
permission denied

it's all so tiresome

>>100365833
What is your user name on your local machine? Does a user of the same name exist on pinas.local? Does that user on pinas.local have write permission in /export/nashorn?

>https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112398647693125514
>There are multiple network management services in popular use on Linux. In systemd we ship systemd-networkd, and of course think it's the best choice. Weirdly, some people disagree though, and that creates problems of ownership: you either have to use one or the other network management service (i.e. *either* systemd-networkd OR NetworkManager), or you have to carefully make sure that there's exactly one service that manages each interface, so that they don't fight for ownership of the network device, trample on each other's feet and undo each other's settings.
Why is it still necessaty to install wpa_supplicant or iwd in order to connect to WiFi networks? I mean, perhaps networkd is better than networkmanager or iwd, but you still need additional software to make them any useful.

>>100365866
already tried that, made a user on the omv nas with the same user name as my laptop. edited this user's permissions, ensured it was read/write for the nashorn share, same problem. edited the permissions for the nashorn share directly, set it to read/write for all users and groups, same problem. also get the problem when i sudo the echo command, not that i expected otherwise.

>>100365866
>>100365946
Names are irrelevant, it's the UID and GID that matter.
Set up Kerberos or switch to Samba.

>>100365224
bump

>>100358835
Long live Linux

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I've been experiencing a delay when typing in terminals, I've tried ST, URXT, XTerm, but the delay persist. TTY do not delay, nor does programs like Firefox. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

>>100364837
Any of the Fedora atomic desktops is what you want. It's very stable in that it doesn't break, but you still get a refresh every six months or so.

>>100366666

>>100366677
Take that shit to /soc/.

>>100366663
Ive never used Fedora, does it have access to a comparable amount of packages to the AUR? Thats something I will really miss. I was considering giving fedora something a look this time around though just because I'm unfamiliar with it.

I'd like to have a very light GUI, but esthetically like an old GUI. How can I install one?

laptop-mode-tools or tlp?

>>100367245
TDE Trinity Desktop Environment is the solution to this. Mid-2000s desktop kino with all the sound effects as well.

>>100365919
No idea about the whole wpa_supplicant VS iwd battle but regarding IP addressing, use systemd-networkd on a systemd/Linux system.
>Why is it still necessaty to install wpa_supplicant or iwd in order to connect to WiFi networks?
Are you really asking why do we need separate tools for IP addressing and Wi-Fi? Well, IP addressing is generic, even a non-networked device would have it while Wi-Fi is specific to those devices that have Wi-Fi. One could similarly ask why doesn't every system come with Ethernet tweaking tools. ("isn't Ethernet everywhere?")
IMO it's kinda good the hardware specific tools are separate from 'IP tools'.

>>100367117
it's possible to have arch aur via distrobox(boxbuddy) without breaking anything

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>>100364958
>Some people even have *less* issues on rolling release distros, especially when their hardware is newer.
You can of course compile any kernel for any distribution, it's all Linux after all. Not sure if there's any newbie friendly ways on doing this, I've been manually compiling my own.

Anyone know if you can set Hyprland.conf env vars to be the out put of a command? E.g env = VAR,$(CMD)

Having issues with dbus-launch vars not automatically being set, so some apps don't launch without manually running export $(dbus-launch) and launching from the terminal

What is torrent client behavior (specifically qbittorrent) regarding directories for incomplete downloads?

Say I add a torrent with a partial set of files marked, let them go to completion and some time later get more files from the same torrent. Would it behave ideally, putting the first batch in the incomplete directory while downloading, move them to the final destination upon completion, put the second batch in the incomplete directory (separate from the first batch) until complete and then move it to be with the first batch?

I need to know regarding writing torrents to a nodatacow btrfs subvolume.

>>100369201
I don't know of any bittorrent client that cares to change its behavior depending on what filesystem it's writing in.
Don't torrent into btrfs is the easy answer. Use a filesystem that is less sensitive to churn and manually move out when you're actually done.

>>100369443
Buddy, I mentioned the filesystem context last for a reason. It's okay to just not reply.

>>100369488
And I answered with a long-winded NO.

>>100369443
>>100369497
The post asked how the client treats its incomplete folder and you didn't answer that.

>>100369654
Sigh. It doesn't. The move is a once-off event.
>Would it behave ideally,
NO.

>>100369201
The filesystem isn't relevant here, especially since you're not using COW anyway. I don't know why the other poster went off on one about BTRFS.

I'm not even sure the torrent client would move any of the files in the first place at least I don't think QBittorrent behaves like that. It'll depend on the client. I don't think it'll move already downloaded files though, that would seem stupid to me.

>>100368680
You should

export $(dbus-launch)

BEFORE starting Hyprland.

DBus should be up and running before anything depends on it. Starting it after the fact is wrong.

>>100369950
It's a common option to move files after completion and qbittorrent supports it. Prevents incomplete and therefore unusable files from appearing in a working directory used by other things.

>>100359431
Ah, but Ubuntu pro works on Kubuntu newfriend

>>100370061
Yes, but it won't move them back while downloading again.

It seems to me they want the complete folder to always be complete i.e

>Start downloading
>Files get moved to completed
>Download more files
>Completed files get moved to incomplete again
>The whole thing gets atomically moved to completed again once it's done

I don't think torrent clients do that. In reality once something is done it'll probably stay in completed even if you later download more files.

Maybe I'm completely misunderstanding what they're asking though.

>>100370069
But Plasma 6 doesn't. Ubuntu Pro is only needed if you don't get updates from upstream.

There's no need for security updates if your distro puts out new upstream releases (ignoring critical bugs, etc, which will have emergency patches everywhere, usually with coordination between the different distros that all take to eachother about these things in the relevant security mailing lists).

>>100370034
Understandable, but how would I go about that? It's not like I can use xinitrc or something

>>100370192
write a shellscript and end with

exec Hyprland

>>100370094
Seems more to be looking for the client to understand files split across two directories. The completed files stay where they got put and the new files stay in the incomplete directory until everything is complete again.

You might say this is an obscure scenario but is it really that uncommon for someone who wants to not have incomplete files in a working directory to download a torrent not in one shot?

>>100370034
what kind of variables should I have in my env?

I'm curious, how do you think tools like GNU/Linux can be used to further the liberation of the white race?
Windows and macOS are owned by (((them))) and have clearly shown that they don't care about white people and the coming collapse of western civilization.
The white man is in a tough spot and seriously needs to retake western civilization from (((them))), if they don't, things will be catastrophic.

>>100370323

export XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Hyprland

# IME
export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

# Qt (beware this can break AppImages, Snaps, Flatpaks, etc, without a Wayland plugin that require QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb and XWayland)
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland-egl

# GTK
export GDK_BACKEND=wayland
export CLUTTER_BACKEND=wayland

# Elementary/Efl
export ECORE_EVAS_ENGINE=wayland_egl
export ELM_ENGINE=wayland_egl

# SDL
export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland

# Java
export _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1

export  __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=mesa

# Or if you use Nvidia
# export  __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
# export GBM_BACKEND=nvidia

# DBus
export $(dbus-launch)

# Start your Wayland compositor
exec Hyprland

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Why do some man pages use a different kind of a dash character? For example yt-dlp and fzf. It's unsearchable and if you try to paste it it won't work for the command.

>>100370663
My yt-dlp doesn't even ship with a man page but:

yt-dlp --help 2>&1 | less -rf

is good enough

>>100340131
The AUR IS tinkering

>>100370212
I went with adding Exec=dbus-run-session Hyprland to the hyprland desktop entry which also worked. This is done by default for plasma & (I'm assuming other DE's) so why not Hyprland? Dbus is important to have running right

>>100370456
GNU was created by Richard Stallman, the living incarnation of the crazy bearded Jewish prophet archetype, by subverting and replacing proprietary unix one piece at a time until some ethnically Swedish college kid in Finland wrote a kernel, Linux, to tie it all together as a complete OS. The Jewish problem in computing is the state of Israel, and their program of stealing from Americans to sell to the Chinese or other hostile foreigners.

The biggest advantage of GNU/Linux as a computing platform is freedom. You can run anything from a blog to an orbital rocket launch control system with very modest hardware budgets, and nobody can stop you without physically kicking in your door. Hell, embedded Linux can control the rocket itself. SpaceX uses Linux on Falcon, Dragon, and Starship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

>>100365451
Works for me, and it's a snap even.

>>100340748
Make sure to give >>>/g/fwt/ a visit and get on that LTSC or Education shiz

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>>100365983
>Set up Kerberos or switch to Samba.
The advice /g/ doesn't want to hear.

>>100353796
The fact you forget says it all. Interim releases can be safely ignored, since Ubuntu's entire appeal is the LTS. If you want up-to-date, use Fedora, Arch, Tumbleweed or Gentoo.

I'm on Arch. I have no dedicated swap partition but I think the system uses the root partition for memory swapping.
I do not want it to do that because it sounds like a great way to waste an SSD. How do I stop it from memory swapping at all?

>>100372189
The swap partition doesn't actually see that much use, unless you like to push your memory usage to the limit constantly.
SSD wear isn't really a concern.

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hi frens, I need more space and have two 3.5TB nvme currently in RAID1. How difficult is it to transition and merge the md2 and md3 to a single megapartition? Is this possible without losing the data currently mirrored on the drives? In a dream scenario I'd just mdam --remove md2, md3...create a new formatted megapartition of the new unused space, all the while have my previous data untouched.

>>100372347
>raid1 [SWAP]
>4 RAID-1s on 2 devices
/megapalm

Start over. Make a Linux RAID partition on each device, put them together into a RAID-1, partition the resulting md device.
And do you really need the swap redundancy? The up-to-2X performance benefit of RAID-1 on reading only applies to multi-threaded workloads. And you're taking overhead from RAID on writing to swap.

>>100372247
I'm playing some buggy games while I have several mpv windows with large caches.
It's not infrequent the way I use my system. I've actually lost an SSD already to this exact problem.
It's actually pintless anyway because it becomes so sluggish that it's unusuable. I would prefer it just crashes some application.

Friend of mine has Xorg randomly pinning his CPU on Manjaro. What gives?
How can I profile this when it happens to see what code is actually being run?

>>100372189
>How do I stop it from memory swapping at all?

swapoff --all

and make sure it's not remounted at boot.
I sincerely discourage you from doing this, you're increasing the odds of a kernel panic and potential data loss.

>>100372427
kek, I just wanted to get it working and did not care too much about it being optimal.

>Make a Linux RAID partition on each device, put them together into a RAID-1, partition the resulting md device.

maybe I wasn't too clear with my intentions, I just want more space and don't care about the RAID1 performance boost. So I'd like to migrate away from RAID1 without touching the data currently on the drives. Is this possible?

>>100372189
Before turning off swap, try zram. It will swap into compressed memory which is basically free and it leaves your SSD alone.

>>100372463
The man page says that this will "disable swapping on all known swap devices and files (as found in /proc/swaps or /etc/fstab)" but neither of those files define any swap devices on my system.
I guess I'll have to exhaust the RAM on purpos to see if it works...

>>100365983
i'm retarded, what does kerberos do that would help me here? or what does samba do that would be better than omv? i want to be able to access my nas remotely as well as locally, i'll use it for storing pdfs and images. with r/w privelages locally and maybe also remotely.

now that i think of it i'd like this nas to be some sort of self-hosted "cloud" for documents (e.g. like how apple notes and pages have the same files across apple devices), is there a good way of doing that? especially if i could see and edit those documents from an iphone, but i'll probably upgrade eventually so that bit isn't a necessity. feels like trying to do this with a general purpose nas would be a big hurdle for a linux retard like me.

Passing an HDD to my Windows VM and noticed creating a file on it on Linux prompts checkdisk
I'm assuming this is because of permission stuff, but how would I go about managing that? Just want to share some files between them.

>>100372486
>migrate away from RAID1
To what?

>without touching the data currently on the drives
Well... You could rebuild the partition table without the RAID metadata (using say, TestDisk's partition recovery), but that would leave you with weird gaps between partitions and unless you clear the data it could confuse you or various tools at some point in the future.

The safer alternative is to break the arrays by kicking one of the drives, then repartition it as desired and copy data from the degraded arrays to whatever setup you end up with.

Make backups.

>>100372541

swapon -v

will show all active swap devices, including usage and priority.

>>100372486
>>100372347
I think converting one of the raid 1s into a raid 0 or something would work, but when it comes to merging them together, that's probably not going to. Filesystems typically don't tolerate being resized/moved very well.

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>>100372682
>>100372635
like pic rel.. so I want the top drive to be untouched and completely wipe the bottom one. Is it difficult to move to raid0 like this or is there another option?

and yes, I'm a world-class artist as u can tell

>>100372759
krita flatpak

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>>100372790

>>100372556
Disable "fast boot" on Windows.

>>100372752
RAID-0 is striped across both devices, you can not reform it without starting over. Also keep in mind the ESP can not be striped in any way shape or form.
But what you've illustrated is easy if you don't mind running a degraded RAID-1 (single device) until you can figure things out, just kick /dev/nvme1n1p* from the 4 md arrays and repartition the drive.

>>100372822
Don't know how much of a meme that is but it should be off
Problem isn't checkdisk, but that Windows doesn't seem to like files created or handled by Linux, at least when trying to delete them.

how much do the android logs tell you? resetting an old phone and took a peak, didn't have time to check.

>>100372548
Syncthing

>>100372858
how about this, since I need 2.5TB space somewhere, and I have 1.7TB free on md2, I turn the md2 into RAID0 with 3.4TB space. Does that work? Is md2 being mounted on / an issue? In this post the partition being switched was mounted on /var ( https://serverfault.com/a/1080683 )

>>100339829
How fucked is C# on vscodium?

>>100373251
All the good C# GUI tools are Visual Studio only, Windows only. For anything headless vscode is fine.

>Mageia
This would be the go to /g/ distro if there only were a bigger community and more software in their repos.

>>100373489
>This would be the distro people used if it was like better and like the ones they already use

>>100373510
Yes.

>>100348210
>Downgrading glibc
user error
load up a livecd, reinstall correct glibc using livecd's pacman, chroot and run your initramfs generator again

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>>100357723
>penis ha

>>100360005
i personally prefer using squashfs or wim for that, since those can be mounted

>>100364559
>What is like daily driving Linux?
like daily driving windows, you only mess with it when you want to. the difference is that linux is made to be messed with, so it's much easier to get yourself into trouble. if that doesn't sound like fun, then just get an "easy" distro and don't mess with it. done. if it does sound like fun, then enjoy messing with it, just be sure to have something to fall back to in case you mess something up
>Is there much maintenance or busy work?
not more than windows, i mean you could ignore it all and just reinstall your os every year, but then you can do the same in linux, too
>Gentoo taking all day to install a web browser
this is actually possible, but it's a figurative nit pick, like modern browsers are fucking huge, so if you have a weak machine than compiling one could genuinely take all day, but nearly nothing else will take that long. first time i installed gentoo it took me only 3 hours
i wouldn't recommend gentoo to a first timer, not because it's hard, but because you don't know what software you will want, and you don't really want to wait on compilation and setting up use flags just to try out a bunch of programs to see what you like

The day I decided to try linux for fun, I though those esoteric linux hackers were pretty crazy, definitely couldn't see myself ever becoming one, then one day I realized I hadn't just become one, but I was pretty fuckin deep in it

How dangerous is using pacman/yay --noconfirm?

>>100374110
You're living by the seat of your pants if you do it. Why would you not look at/review what's about to be updated?

>>100372347
>partitions both raid members and making each set of partitions their own raid
can't say i've seen that one before
normally the idea is to make a single raid, then partition that (the md)
>>100372486
if you just want to turn it into one spanned or raid0 volume, what i'd do is;
- erase one of the drives, partition it how you like (i'd recommend one large partition at the start for everything, then maybe a small one at the end for /boot if you need it)
- format the main partition as btrfs
- copy everything over from the now-degraded old raid
- once everything is copied, erase the old raid drive and partition it
- add the second main partition to the btrfs volume, run a btrfs balance on it to distribute data between them so it's not all on one drive (if you're keep it as just a span with no raid, then you can skip that)

ELI5:
What is all this fuss about "explicit sync" in x11 and wayland?
And how would it effect the average user?

>>100374279
It's very technical, and isn't really something an end user needs to know about.

It's to do with synchronization between different processes to a GPU buffer. So some program draws something, then the compositor needs to wait for that work to be finished before it can use it.
The "old" system is implicit synchronization, where the driver is just supposed to deal with it itself behind the scenes. But that system can end up being very inflexible and fragile when multiple devices/drivers get involved.

Explicit is obviously just that, explicit. For a compositor, it can use it to be a smarter about some stuff, and avoid accidentally stalling itself waiting for a particularly slow client.

>>100374121
I just wanna run a command and ignore it while it updates in the background

>>100364559
For people who don't do anything important on their PC, stability doesn't matter. Tinkertrannies on bleeding edge distros are a very vocal minority. Stable distros exist and just work. Pick your poison.

>>100374451
Then just fucking do that. Chances are, if an update is gonna break your shit, then looking at a package list isn't gonna prevent that.

>>100365190
>Arch: Uses a rolling release model, shit breaks often
You sit on a throne of lies

>>100365536
What should be used instead?

>>100372189
>How do I stop it from memory swapping at all?
This is a stupid idea. You are gonna brick your system.

Just create a swapfile, and tweak the swappiness settings so that it's barely used at all. I have my swappiness settings at "10" which means the swap memory is only used when RAM reaches over 90% usage. In practice my PC almost never swaps at all.

You could also go further and set swappiness at 5 or even lower, experiment a little.
But I wouldn't disable swap.

Guide:
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Swap

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>appimages
I know how to "use" them, just make executable with chmod +x and then run them like anything else BUT how do I manage them? As in where should I put the .appimage file itself, where should I put the .desktop file that makes it available to my system application launcher (kde), and how do i do all of this while keeping everything nice and clean?

>>100374966
AppImageLauncher

>>100374966
i put them in ~/Applications

>>100374982
This. Makes using AppImages much more intuitive.

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I'm scratching my head over this one

How come

$ sudo smartctl --help

is a valid command, but

# smartctl --help

is not? (bash: smartctl: ommand not found)

I don't understand how it's possible for sudo to have higher privileges than fucking root. I just ran into this trying to configure doas and noticing doas didn't see it either. What's the magic at play?

>>100375451
prolly a difference in PATH

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>>100375513
Please tell me if I'm being retarded here

$ echo "$PATH"
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/home/anon/.local/bin:/home/anon/bin

$ sudo echo "$PATH"
> the same

$ su
# echo "$PATH"
> the same

>delete or move 600GB of files
>still 0% available on df
what a piece of shit
i dont want to have to touch tunefs or whatever the fuck it is
why the fuck can't i use the space i freed up, it's a 20TB fucking drive
why is the 5% myopic rule from 1MB drives still a thing?

>>100375622
"su" and "su -" are different
iirc one reads bash configs and the other does
try that.

>>100375650
>why is the 5% reserved space still a thing
it's a good default, you can change it
>no i don't want to change it
well ok, nobody is forcing you to do anything

>>100375679
Oh, nice that did it.
So it seems smartctl is inside /usr/sbin/smartctl, which I take it is the "su only" binaries. I guess now if I can get doas to read the same env variables as root does, I can get it to work there

Thanks anon!

New thread:
>>100375828

>>100374587
The ones that come with Windows 10/11, the fonts were update with better hinting and more characters. The package installs like Windows 98 versions.

>>100370936
How?