Arch Linux permanently broke after I enabled Secure Boot on my computer. Even disabling Secure Boot doesn't fix it, it just refuses to boot.

I tried chrooting into it to get my Chromium passwords back, but even within the chroot environment it's not able to resolve the keyrings or whatever, so it can't decrypt my passwords.

I have the Chromium SQL file containing my passwords, as well as KWallet's decryption key. What do?

>>108084251
Nice, but can it drive a GeForce???

>>108084282
Backup the files and reinstall Arch.

>>108084358
The keys don't work even after putting them in ~/.local/share/kwalletd/

>>108084282
Whatever you do first make sure you back up your home folder.
I think if you just re-install the kernel and rebuild the initramfs it should fix the issue.
You can also try installing one of the other kernel packages like linux-lts or linux-zen and boot those to see if it does the trick.

N100, arch, hyprland, mpv, decoding 4k(makemkv bluray rip) is crippling the system.
vo=gpu
hwdec=vaapi

vainfo shows all in terminal.
any ideas? i though 4k decoding would be peanuts for the n100.

>>108084464

profile=fast

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>>108084469

So I went back to arch recently. So far:

>plasma-desktop, no display manager
>kscreen for scaling (i use a big monitor from far away)
>alacritty for tty
>pipewire + pavucontrol for sound

Can I get some recs on other packages? I downloaded nvidia stuff but currently have no real way to test my 5070 TI. Also, what kind of window manager would you go with? If things go well and I can keep this a clean + stable setup, it will become my daily driver workhorse so I'm gonna be doing programming, arduino, blender, video editing etc. What would be your recs? Its intel machine

>>108084485
I don't know why its not used as the default profile instead of having to manually configure it.

Is there any viable gaming Linux distro at all?

>>108084611
cachyos is meta but ive never tried it bc i'm not a faggot gaymer

>>108084611
Maybe stop using 'gaming' distros. Gaming is generally not a super special use case that needs tinkertroon mods.

>>108084435
Nope, even after installing different kernels and rebuilding initramfs it don't work. It just keeps telling me

error: bad shim signature.
error: you need to load the kernel first.

>>108084611
Anything with Wayland support

>>108084621
>>108084644
These are the cancerous linuxtards
>>108084678
This at least tries to give an answer

>>108084712
You haven't even given a real question.

>>108084644
i agree but you can get some moderate performance gains from dropping windows, which is why so many normies and gaymers are sharding and shiddign themselves trying to figure out even the most basic tier noobuntu-like distros

>>108084730
It is an easy question. A distro for playing games. Many of the popular games have kernel anticheat. I don't even know if there is a Linux distro at all that lets you play Fortnite.

>>108084712

>year 2026
>still paying microtransactions to support nigslop capeshit disney games

okay kid

>>108084611
i play games on debian and its fine i cant really tell a difference between it and others ive played games on

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>>108084765
>Many of the popular games have kernel anticheat
There is no distro that bypasses any of today's kernel anti-cheat systems.
>>108084769
Just play Parasite Eve 2.

>>108084611
Any of them will work.

>>108084769
>>108084800
>>108084810
>You don't need X program
The same answer every time someone has a problem with Linux.

Aw nice kernel 6.18.5 is now on the Debian backports.

>>108084863
You can't play games with anticheat.

>>108084872
So why is Fortnite better than Parasite Eve 2? Parasite Eve 2 has no microtransactions, battlepasses, annoying children, and is just honest soulful fun.

>>108084889
Yes, you can. You can't play games with KERNEL anti-cheat (literal spyware btw), but userspace anti-cheat works fine.

>>108084666
chroot with non arch secure boot enabled live usb. debian can be signed with shim

>>108084921
You can't play most competitive games then.

>>108085000
I'm not Korean, also Counter-Strike is THE e-sport and it's Linux-native.

>>108084930
chroot and do what? I've already been chrooting from a proper Debian install.

let it be no surprise that in less than 1 hour this thread got shidded up by faggot gamers. zoomers are an absolute embarrassment

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It will still work, right?

>>108085025
not him, but have you tried pacstrap or whatever the equivalent is for debian to rebuild kernel and initramfs? chroot in from a live usb and do that

>>108085054
let kids enjoy computers, faggot.

>>108085025
get rid of old arch shim, inspect what keys you have. You should have Microsoft + MS #rd part CA keys to boot shim afaik. Also make sure that MS 3rd part are enabled in uefi
aw:Secure_boot

>>108085077
A Live USB of Arch?

>>108085072

yes 100% guaranteed by me it will work

>>108085094
I don't know what any of that means, sorry.

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>>108084611
You could've just looked at Steam Hardware Survey to get an answer.
>Gaming distros
SteamOS (not counted in pic related), Bazzite.
>Regular distros that can game
Arch, CachyOS.
>Regular distros that can game but often need jumping through hoops to get working drivers and newer dependencies required by Proton
Ubuntu, Mint.

>>108085089
they can enjoy computers in another thread dedicated to gaming or on the actual gaming board itself, you fucking boylover

>>108085099
Thanks, I knew that I could count on you specifically to help out.

>>108084575
because most people don't play videos on potatoes

>>108085105
why you wanted secure boot in the first place without veryfing on arch wiki how to do it properly? shim is used as something signed by MS 3rd part key, so after booting this, you can boot anything else. It's a whole procedure to get it working. If you can boot ANY live usb (linux is linux, you don't need arch usb if it doesn't work), you can always just exfiltrate your data and reinstall if time is important. But you can try first reading about how secure boot works, and what keys you need. Also you can try checking if in your computer bios settings, secure boot page, there is "MS 3rd part keys" enabled, it's sometimes disabled, and precents linux booting

>>108085121
anytime, you know exactly where to find me

>>108085130
bro nta please learn how to press enter, this is not enjoyable to read

>>108085130
>why you wanted secure boot in the first place without veryfing on arch wiki how to do it properly?
this is what confuses me the most, someone who can't fix a bootloader should have no reason to even want secureboot in the first place

Does has anyone have experience with SolusOS? What do you people think of it for an all purpose laptop?

>>108085146
if the lines are too long for you, resize your browser

>>108085152
>all purpose laptop
>weird ass obscure illuminati pedo OS

yeah dude, just stick with a chromebook or whatever people are using these days. its a laptop, you aren't gonna be editing motion pictures... you gonna check email and play minesweeper

>>108084765
Just throw LAN parties with your friends instead of playing with random third world cheaters.

>>108085193
yeah I mean LAN parties are the whole point of competitive gaming: low latency and people facing each other in person to show they're not pussies.

>>108085177
I need to code in C and Julia though I don't think I can do that with chromeos. I also just want to try new shit out of curiosity

>>108085130
>why you wanted secure boot in the first place without veryfing on arch wiki how to do it properly?
Works just fine on Debian. If it works on an outdated distro then it should work on the one with the latest improvements.

i joined the linux community i use zorin os now im a fucking hacker and i will hack all of you and you will lose 2100 megabytes of your own fucking data stay alert in march day 67 i will fucking steal all of the datas you produce i will steal them

>>108084800
>debian
The big problem with LTS distros is shit hardware support. The performance difference on new hardware between Ubuntu 24 LTS and Ubuntu 25.10 is insane, assuming Ubuntu 24 can even run on it. Distros like Debian, Mint or Ubuntu LTS are not an option to people who just bought a new gaming PC.

>>108085152
I'm pretty sure that's the project that got into weird drama multiple times and was discontinued at some point. Do you just want to use it because of the Budgie desktop environment? If that's the case why not get a more popular base distro like Ubuntu, Arch or Fedora? Pretty sure Ubuntu, Fedora, EndeavourOS/CachyOS all have a Budgie option.

>>108085225
LAN doesn't necessarily mean you're playing with people in person. People have been using VPNs to simulate being on a LAN network for gaming since the days of Hamachi, GameRanger, Evolve and Tunngle. Pretty sure people still use stuff like Hamachi, ZeroTier and Tailscale to "game on LAN".

>>108085305
>works on an outdat
it's a disto agnostic thing. assuming your distro isn't some diy shit without proper packages. the easiest solution is shim. more elegant is adding your MOK, hardcore is using only MOK

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>>108085321

feel like ive been using arch on and off for years and i still dont know shit. literally had no idea how to fix my audio issues the other day ive just been using claude to troubleshoot stuff

>>108085408
Obviously you'll never learn when you turn off the majority of your brain and use a slop generator to spit out answers that may or may not be related to your issues.

>switch from hyprpaper to swww
>CPU runs 3-4 °C cooler
>uses almost 100x less memory
This is criminal. What were the hyprfags thinking?

>>108085408
Because linux is a convoluted mess with 20 ways to do one thing.
If you're actually interested in systems design and programming I think it's more conducive to be on netbsd or openbsd or something like that, and then go back to linux if so choose, but that's just my opinion.

>>108085408
have you considered that you don't know anything because you've just asked a chatbot for answers rather than actually researching it yourself?

>>108084765
The only way to fix a vendor demanding to install a rootkit in your kernel is for the vendor to support your kernel. It's not a Linux kernel or distro issue.

>>108085470
these claims sound like bullshit

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>be win-drone
> notepad fiasco was final straw
>install cachyos instead of mint because slave to hype
>btrfs by default
>hmm seems cool but when would I ever need that?
...

>also be me
>install desktop environment; break system
>install different gpu drivers; break system
>install different display manager; break system

I derided this system, and it ended up working in my favor without me even fully realizing how... What I mean is, I thought I knew what I was doing, but I didn't

Ever funnier: Each time I monumentally fucked up, I would boot a snapshot from my grub menu and restart, and that's it -- thinking this is how you fix a broken system. I never even used "btrfs-assistant" or "snapper" to actually rollback, because I didn't even know that was a thing...
I was pointlessly going into a snapshot, then restarting my computer thinking it was applied. It wasn't until later that I found that you actually have to apply and confirm a rollback.

FUCK... I'm just now realizing I'm the usecase for the BTRFS design philosophy: the sem-tech literate midwit.

>>108085507
>convoluted mess with 20 ways to do one thing.
You've just described every single desktop OS. If you want an OS that isn't "convoluted" to the user then just use iOS or Android.

>>108085562
Nah I didn't. See: netbsd and openbsd

>>108085561
I luv btrfs. Can't wait for the whole .deb sphere to catch up.

>>108085547
I can't guarantee the temps are solely due to this, but I haven't changed anything else in the system. The only other thing that could maybe potentially have affected this is me fixing my table fan (it's quite hot in here where I live) and it partially blows on the notebook while I use it, but the vents are on the opposite side.
The memory I do have actual data on, btop makes that clear. The 100x less is an wrong because I wasn't considering my script to change wallpaper. All together, memory use by swww and my script to change wallpapers use less than 10 MB, hyprpaper could hit 200 MB. I'm using the same wallpapers.
Swww github page says it can be a resource hog when using large .gifs, but I don't use those and I even if I did, I don't think hyprpaper supports that anyway, so not comparable.

>>108085523
are you illiterate?

>>108084251
>install OpenSUSE over a w10 laptop
>set it to remove the old partition
>bunch of error messages about unable to read root at 90% install
>ignore and reboot
>launches into windows, nothing wiped.
No clue whats going on here, was doing the installation blind.

>>108085725
>bunch of error messages about unable to read root at 90% install
>ignore and reboot
niba, either screenshot them and send to linux subplebbit or partition before installing. backup your windows data and learn something like fdisk or parted. If you were smart enough to choose suse I believe you can do it anon

i've updated fedora to v43 and ever since then all i get is a black screen instead of sddm. I've gotten around it by grabbing a different TTY and manually starting sway, but it's a bit of a hassle and I have no clue about what's causing the issue. journalctl isnt throwing me any bones either, or maybe im retarded.
I see some ACPI bug/errors but they most likely were there before. I was just hoping for a magical fix to come during some update but it doesnt seem like its happening.

>>108085762
Is sddm running as an xorg session or a wayland session? It might've switched to running as a wayland session by default on fedora43 while 42 was still running through xorg.

>>108085762
Sway does not officially support using a display manager. If you insist though then you'd probably have better luck with a simpler greeter like greetd.

Waydroid is basically running through an lxc session under the hood right? How is it able to run lxc as the user without requiring root access and howcome nobody ever tried something distrobox-esque but with lxc?

>>108085827
His issue is with sddm not working properly, not with launching sway.

>>108085852
Yes, that's why I recommended a simpler display manager. Sddm is pretty bloated just for launching Sway.

>>108085762
>broken updates on cuckdora
install gentoo

What is the better updoot frequency, every week or every month?

>>108085820
>It might've switched to running as a wayland session by default on fedora43 while 42 was still running through xorg.
Seems like you're right, or at least this points towards the right direction because switching to xorg finally starts sddm and let's me use i3. Sway doesn't work this way though, but at least now I know where to look at. Thanks.
>>108085827
They have a spin that supports sway and it's what I've been using, comes with sddm by default. You could be right, I might be better off using something different though but I'm gonna try and fix it anyway
>>108085866
To be fair, it's the first time it's caused an issue in 2 or 3 years of use.

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It's been stuck like this for ages wtf do I do did I just brick my PC

>>108086010
>To be fair, it's the first time it's caused an issue in 2 or 3 years of use.
ok but do you want to stay redhat's little cuck?
install gentoo it will solve your problem

>>108086044
if you didn't overwrite your data then you should be fine. you can start over with new ISO

>>108086076
What happens if I turn off my computer or unplug the usb

>>108086044
I mean, you could always delete the partitions it created and start over if it's stuck.
But check if there's an option that shows terminal output somewhere to see what the error is if any

>>108086096
The USB flash will be fine, since it's read only, the root partition may get corrupted, but if you're planning to reinstall then that's irrelevant since you're going to reformat it anyway.

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https://www.theverge.com/report/875077/linux-was-a-mistake

https://archive.is/ReOLn

>>108086228
Go shill your post to someone who cares, Terrence.

I want to run claude code in a container and I want to hide my IP. Is it a good idea to connect the container running on my host to a Whonix gateway running in a VM?

>>108086228
Blame snaps, not Linux, Flatpaks just work fine. This is one of those issues that could be solved with a single search query

Stupid new user here, why do I keep needing to put my password in to access my drives?

anyone here running fightcade and managed to get the Enhanced blitter running on fbneo, it's grayed out for me and I have no idea why

>>108086580
It's a bug, you have to delete outdated packages
debian based: sudo apt remove dbus pam polkit

>open up pc to put in more ram
>reassmble and plug everything in
>now when I boot up it fails and I'm told "you have to load the kernel first."
How does this come about from putting in ram?

anyone here use a ramdisk for firefox cache?
think I might try one to stop my m.2 getting worn out

>>108086664
that's on you for choosing to use ssd
onions slop drive

>>108086725
wdym? why would i use anything other than ssd/m.2? are you a pajeet

anyway i switched to a ramdisk firefox cache and this fucking thing is FLYING

>>108086745
HDD RAID is superior in every possible way
>muhh write speed so my porn opens faster
ssd is pajeet slop technology, like vibecoded drives

>>108086580
I hope it goes without saying that you shouldn't do this >>108086649

It's asking for your password because it needs root privileges to mount the drives. The solution depends heavily on what you're doing exactly and what is doing the mounting. But in general it's possibly for the mounts to be specified with a "user" option that allows you to mount it without root

>>108086780
OP is probably seeing polkit prompts I don't know what are you after here, the solution is to get rid of them

>>108086775
>HDD RAID
nigger its a fucking laptop from 2018
where am i supposed to put a hdd, this shit is like 0.5" chassis height
>ssd is pajeet slop
you are a spiritual pajeet

>>108086791
well that's on you for choosing to use such a laptop. download some iq while you are at it

>>108086803
stfu already you stupid cunt. we already established you're retarded because you are a jeet luddite.

>>108085149
>Fell for the propaganda award
I can count on zero hands the number of people that have ever been infected with malware targeting their UEFI firmware whilst on Linux.
In order to do that somebody would first need root access to your machine remotely (you're fucked either way in that case) or to be in physical possession of your hardware to tamper with it (also fucked).
Secure Boot is a problem in search of a solution yet so many people fall for it because the Microsoft Propaganda tells them they need it when in reality all Secure Boot does is throw up a warning if your machine gets tampered with which you'll never see because that will never happen.

>>108086791
>where am i supposed to put a hdd, this shit is like 0.5" chassis height
I usually duct tape it to the back of the monitor

>>108086809
> uses superior technology from the past
>" jeet ludite"
cope and seethe with your 0.5 inch chassis and 0.5 inch dick
how the fuck jeets can be ludties anyway shiny shit like SSD's are india main export

>>108086819
Pics or you're larping.
Don't forget the timestamp.

>>108086836
>SSD's are india main export
prove it

>>108086810
>Nothing happend to me so it cannot happen
>Im cybersec professional on reddit
You can literally purge MS and vendor keys and enroll MOK you dumbass. As for security you should be able to correct your stupidty. Or dunno, don't use seatbelts when driving, it's big car propaganda and you never had accident

>>108086848
shiny shit LIKE ssd's
read between the lines autist
You call yourself jeet specialist and don't get the mentality: new gadgets, toy technology. That's on me for phrasing it this way.

>>108086871
oh shit that was one of the fastest backpedals i've seen on 4chan
so you can't prove it

>>108086780
>>108086788
It's just asking me to mount my drive each time I turn the PC on. Granted the only reason I'm turning it on and off instead of putting it to sleep is because I'm still moving things between my new and old PC but I'd still prefer to get rid of the password requirement if possible

>>108086877
yes I can't pove it, you can now go eat your only allowed kind of cereals or watch trains
>seen on 4chan
I trust with your lifestyle you seen a lot here

>>108086886
Then just add an entry for it to /etc/fstab and it'll get automatically mounted every time you boot.

>>108086906
uh, with systemd it's not enough, don't forget updating your unit files
systemctl stop udisks2
start it again next boot

>>108085094
Thing I find confusing about this story is I'm pretty sure there's no Arch shim. That's why you can't boot the Arch live USB with Secure Boot on. You can only set Secure Boot up after you've installed Arch. I've done it multiple times before, generating and enrolling my own keys and signing my boot files with sbctl. Very strange imo that the system would brick like this simply by turning Secure Boot on and it doesn't resolve by turning it back off, and that it's throwing this shim error. I have no advice to give, usually turning Secure Boot off fixes things.

>>108085896
Every 6 months unless you want something specific software updated in-between...

>>108086871
>new gadgets, toy technology
Yeah because only jeets like new tech. You're fucking dumb.

>>108086228
>SNAP'd!

>>108085896
>uptime on PC
>21 days
>uptime on laptop
>29 days
Seems like a month or two for me.

>>108086978
use case for new tech?

man, wine/proton prefixes are confusing

>>108087022
list the specs of the machine you're using right now and I'll tell you, faggot

>>108087024
Each prefix is just a separate Windows install. Think of it like that.

>>108087029
sony vaio vgn-z21xn, core 2 duo, geforce something but it's fried, 256 GB 5400 rpm wd spinner, what are you on niba?

>>108087047
ryzen 3, 16gb ddr4 ram

you should have bought a pentium 3, faggot. why do you need a c2d? single core should be fine for people like you

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Are AMDs drivers for the 9060xt 16gb fucked for anyone else? I'm having issues that can only really be explained by faulty drivers. System wide crashes that make everything unusable because I open a youtube link while I have a game running, crashes for no apparent reason while gaming, desktop wallpaper looking like it's missing pixels

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Why did this happen and How do I fix this?

>>108087075
yeah I know it's a bit overkill for gooning+4cuck browsing. but I want to play solitaire from time to time

>>108086745
Please stop replying to the resident thread baiter, thanks. Also nothing wrong with using ramdisk for firefox.

>>108087092
well can't you read?
rm -rf /boot/efi

>>108087095
ah so you concede new tech has utility
>>108087101
ik ik, i'm hardly here but yeah

>>108086664
Just don't buy $30 chinkshit QLC drives and you won't have to worry about tiny amounts of writes wrecking your drive.

>using mint
>replace old 8 gig sticks of ram with 16 gig sticks
>pc still says I'm using my old total of 16 gigs of ram.
is there something I have to do to enable this new ram or something? I should have a total of 32 now so I'm only getting half

>>108087092
How big did you make your EFI partition? most EFI partitions should be 512 MB to 1GB in size, which should be enough for most things. If your EFI partition is 100MB then you need to reformat it with a bigger size, this will wipe the partition of course.

>>108086664
I disabled disk caching on firefox completely. browser.cache.disk.enable in about:config and some other browser.cache ones I think. Another perk of Firefox over Chromium.

>>108087124
this, rm -rf and restart YaST

>>108087124
I don't know how to change it

>>108087114
well now that I'm using it it's just ridiculously faster so that's not the only reason to use a ramdisk
this is like going from a pentium 75mhz + 3dfx voodoo to a pentium 4 + geforce 128 in one jump

>>108087133
fdisk

>>108087135
Your SSD or something in the block IO chain is fucking up huge.

>>108087133
gparted if you're a noob, fdisk or cfdisk otherwise, you need to be in a live environment obviously.

>>108087160
it's a 2018 laptop so i don't expect a lot out of it and the m.2 is probably a few years old now. it's impressive that it can get this fast tho. i'm not super bothered but if the speed boost is for free, then i certainly won't say no.

I recently installed Fedora (after years of being an Arch user) and I'm finding it a little harder than Arch, ironically.
Can someone please help me troubleshoot some graphical issues I am having?
Boot takes ages. I think for some reason the installer used bios instead of EFI, this is obviously not necessarily a graphic issue.
I believe the graphics driver of my RTX 4070 Super is installed correctly, because I'm running Kingdom Come Deliverance II and Resident Evil 4 Remake on all Ultra with over 100FPS, but for some reason, when booting, the screen that asks for the encryption password is all fucked. The fonts are blurry and huge, and the screen flickers when I type the password characters. This reminds me of something related to kernel parameters (?) when installing graphics drivers in Arch, but I can't figure it out.
Also, for some reason, I can't enable HDR. If I go to KDE Plasma settings and enable it, the screen goes dark, and I need to restart the settings of my monitor screen, and then the setting on KDE reverts back to HDR being deactivated.
Also, when the system finally boots and I enter the user password, it takes like 5 solid seconds from login screen to desktop.
Moreover, not most importantly, but very annoying, I can notice a slight sluggishness on the window animations, but only sometimes, like when maximizing or minimizing windows, and again, only sometimes, not every time. I can't put my finger on it, but it feels like some vsync issue, but at the same time doesn't really look like the screen tears or anything. It is barely but surely noticeable. Same thing on Sublime Text, the scrolling is a little sluggish.
I really don't know how to start solving this, so, thanks for any help.

>>108087101
>resident thread baiter
are you plebbitor? what is your problem?

>>108086664
I'm personally using LibreWolf and it has cache disabled by default. If you're going to use a ramdisk then aren't you effectively doing the same? (clearing cache on exit/reboot) Why not just disable cache entirely?

>>108087191
i guess. i'm too used to the mental model of a browser having a cache. and in theory, having a ramdisk cache would still work out a little quicker as (in theory) it would first go to the cache rather than attempting to download an existing resource again.

>>108087191
NTA, how do i disable cache? is there an option in about:config for that?

>>108087252
I think "browser.cache.disk.enable" does it. It's set to false for me.

>>108087252
Yeah, browser.cache.disk.enable and some other browser.cache options

>Kernel 6.19
>Mesa 26
>Plasma 6.6
>All in the same month
My dick is ready.

>>108087281
>>Mesa 26
i've been around since ubuntu 5.04 and i still don't get what mesa is or does. i've even had chatgpt explain it to me. probably just stupid.

>>108087309
The user space GPU drivers for AMD and Intel anon, Mesa 26 will bring a good RT performance boost for RADV (the AMD user space Vulkan driver).
If you are on NVIDIA its irrelevant for you.

>>108087175
Fuck this, reformatting as soon as I click SUBMIT
See you guys in a couple of minutes

>>108087361
kek
i was going to write something about how once you've been an arch chad you'll always just come home but you beat me to it

>>108084464
next one.
ytdlp > mpv streams.
dropping frames like a mofo on the N100.
any secrets there?

already using 1080 and mp4.
mpv --ytdl-format="bestvideo[height<=?1080][ext=mp4][vcodec^=h264]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]"

vaapi hw enabled, still get about 30-50% framedrops.

if this isn't going to work any low power platform that can take its place?

>>108087333
Does it affect Intel Graphics too?
I've never experienced a performance boost from a driver update, probably because I'm running 10+ year old hardware

I think something's causing my graphics driver to fail on endeavorOS, occasionally my screen freezes, but I can still move the mouse. I can ctrl-alt-F3 to terminal only mode and that works fine, but when I sudo lightdm start, the problem is still there.
Is there a way that I can try restarting the driver and determine what causing it? I think it might be youtube on chromium but I'm not sure

>>108087536
Re-read my post anon.
>The user space GPU drivers for AMD and Intel
>and Intel

>>108087482
I reinstalled Fedora. But yeah, I was close to just reinstall Arch. I mean... ten years.

Ironically, I'm also tempted to just install Windows.

>>108087565
sorry had a stroke there, i'm dumb, ignore my post

>>108087273
>>108087274
thanks

>>108087175
Did you blacklist the open source Nvidia drivers? It's a kernel parameter iirc. I recall it's linked to long ass boot times for some people

What is a good offline, end of the world distro? I remember years ago Debian offered additional ISOs with their repos for fully offline systems, what happened to that?

>>108084251
Is there a material for developers to start into audio stuff for linux? I admit I can't make heads or tails of ALSA, JACK, Pipewire, pulseaudio etc.

I'd like to make some processing on my mic input.

>>108086228
>not sure what the error is
what the fuck

>>108086661
Do you have more than one system drive? You may have GRUB installed in an EFI partition that points to a /boot on another drive, maybe you dislodged or unplugged your SSD somehow and it's not operational so it can't find the kernel.

>>108086664
Or you could just disable the disk cache. There will still be some writes but far less.

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>>108086228
MacOS exists for such retarded individuals.

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archinstall now has a full tui all the poeple who got filtered by terminal can now use the best distro

>>108088329
Didn't it always have that?

>>108088336
dont think so i only used it once years ago though never felt the need until setting up this vaio ux with its shitty keeb kek

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>>108086228
>(((O'Brien)))

>>108088329
They're going to get filtered by something retarded like deleting python and breaking everything that uses it as a scripting language.

I'm very pleased after finally replacing Win11 with Fedora KDE last night, the only difficulty I had was setting up Bottles for the non-Steam launcher for EVE Online. In-game it runs no worse than on Windows so it's a win to me

>>108088429
Of course python should be deleted. I don't want snakes on my computer

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>>108086228

>>108085323
Debian 13 has margin of error framerates differences compared to Fedora or CachyOS. The real issue is that Debian's NVIDIA driver is too old to work with the RTX 50 series.

>>108088429
pacman doesn't let you delete packages that others depend on though

>>108086228
>installs Ubuntu
>the distro even Linux fans have been calling abject dogshit for the better part of 15 years
>have an abjectly dogshit experience
>blame Linux
Saudi Arabia is right about journalists.

>>108086803
>>108086725
>>108086775
Post beef and fastfetch output

>>108087123
Mint issue

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>KDE Linux now uses plasma-login-manager instead of SDDM. This is a modern login manager intending to integrate more deeply with Plasma
SDDM is officially deprecated now.

>>108088592
Will SDDM themes work with Plasma Login Manager?

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cpu pinned at near 100% probs not gonna be able to use gnome on this thing kinda sucks i hate other des

>>108088603
I'm impressed it's running GNOME 3 at all, holy shit
You don't like Xfce or MATE?

>>108088592
Oh interesting. Always wondered when KDE would just make their own display manager and stop relying on SDDM.
Guess it'll be bundled for Arch and such soon enough.

>>108088601
Maybe, it's based on SDDM: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager/

>>108088493
They'll find a way. I actually remember someone who did that a few months ago.

>>108088603
Should try tinycore

>be me, switched to Fedora recently and enjoying it
>want to listen to some Mega Drive VGM files on a whim, look up VGM players for gahnoo loonix
>set up one called benben that just runs in the command line
>go to set file association in KDE, but something fucks up and now benben is set as the default option to try for EVERY type of file that doesn't already have an association and is the first and only option shown when opening the associations dialogue
How do I unfuck this? I'm about to try just removing it from every file association entry in System Settings but if there's a simpler less tedious method I'm all ears.

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The Flathub install/update system sucks. The progress bar is inconsistent and the total size is always wrong. Why does this happen?

>>108084282
I love arch but fml I have had so many instances of it just breaking after updates.
I now suck the d!ck of IBM aka Red hat and Debian for the just works gang. I hate it but fml I sometimes just need the laptop working.

>>108088669
Okay I removed it as an association for a bunch of shit, hit apply to make sure i didn't lose my progress in this tedious ass job and suddenly it's gone from everything.
No idea what the fuck happened there but it looks sorted now so whatever all's well now.

>>108084464

maybe makemkv did not make it or bitrate is higher than storage performance

>>108087092

you have weird way telling us that your nvme works

>>108088716
4K UHD bluray video has a max bitrate of 120Mb/s
120/8=15MB/s
Even my old ass 5200RPM Seagate HDD can sustain 150MB/s reads on sequential files.

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>>108088614
gnome really isnt that bad on shit machines ive ran it on core2duo shitpads fine, people overstate how resource heavy it is kek. i checked before and it used the same amount of ram as an openbox setup i had with a dock dont remember the specific setup. i think 1gb ram might be pushing it tho kek. and no those just dont feel as polished and i dont like their menus/ built in software especially xfce. cpu usage was fine after closing firefox kek are there any lightweight browsers that actually work on modern sites?
>>108088642
kek
>>108088663
dont like meme distros they always suck and lack software i want might try out flwm though probably wont like it

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Linux noob here. X11 or Wayland?
I was having some issues on KDE with Wayland that switching to KDE with X11 seems to have fixed.
But I hear that "Wayland is the future".
What do you guys generally think about this debate? Will I experience issues continuing to use X11 instead of Wayland

>>108088806
Even on Plasma I get screen tearing with X11. Wayland just runs faster while supporting more features.

>>108088806
If you have issues then stay on X11, check back on Plasma 6.6 in a couple of weeks.
Also, what is your GPU?

>>108088806
i have no issues with it on gnome i think they might not even ship with x support anymore. it used to suck because no screen recording software worked with it properly but its been fine for a couple years now

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>>108088813
Yes, after I switched to X11 I was able to fix one issue (keyboard commands not working on non-focused programs)
But something *does* seem off compared to Wayland. I think Wayland was a little faster and smoother.
Its only barely noticeable, but its noticeable and its a little bothersome. Maybe I should just use Wayland and deal with the hotkeys issue.

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>>108088819
I use an AMD Radeon 7800xt

>>108088841
Weird, you should have a pretty flawless experience, I am running a 9700XT and don't see any issues on Plasma 6.5.5

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>>108088848
Maybe I am just imagining things because I heard horror stories about X11.
I will use it for a couple days and if nothing notable happens then I'll probably stick with it for a while.
I plan on moving to Arch in a few months (I'm on Debian currently) so I'll re-evaluate my options then.

>>108088835
In Plasma Settings you can enable keyboards commands for non-focused programs, in fact this is the default on all distros I've tried with Plasma. If an X11 app for whatever reason doesn't work with global hotkeys, you can add the environment variable

Exec=QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb

to force it to work.

>>108088759
Yeah but those huge ass round title bars are visually so offensive that I don't know what to say.

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>>108088860
>I'm on Debian currently
Then we are having very different experiences, from what am I seeing Debian doesn't even ship Plasma 6?

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>>108088883
That's version 5 of the Plasma METAPACKAGE; the packages within have their own versioning.

>>108088906
>That's version 5 of the Plasma METAPACKAGE
Isn't it version 162?

>>108088883
Yes, like >>108088906 said
according to plasmashell --version I am currently running plasmashell 6.3.6 on Debian 13.

>>108088906
>>108088939
Ok, but regardless 6.3.4 is still very old so we can't compare experiences, Plasma Wayland 6.5.5 works without issues for me on a 9070XT.
You are probably on Mesa 25.1 or something too.

>>108088957
>6.3.4 is still very old
It's functionally not that different from 6.5.5 and I like 6.3.4 because it doesn't have the kirigami regression from newer versions that breaks non-square start menu icons. With backports you can also get Mesa 25.2.6-1 which is from late October (the default in Debian 13 is Mesa 25.0.7-2 from late May).

>>108088860
>Maybe I am just imagining things because I heard horror stories about X11.
There are just as many horror stories related to wayland. Stick with whatever works for you, some of the issues are related to the hardware and either of those might have a hack to keep things working as they develop a real solution.

>>108088975
*There were just as many horror stories related to wayland
ftfy
Just don't use a meme DE like Xfce and Wayland will be great

I've been studying Japanese for years and didn't realize I could do this.

alias jvocr='wl-paste -t image/png | tesseract -l script/Japanese_vert - -'

I am a giant retard.

>>108088973
>It's functionally not that different from 6.5.5 and I like 6.3.4
Nah, stop coping Debian tard

https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/6/6.3.5-6.4.0/
>Wayland mentions: 157

https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/6/6.4.5-6.5.0/
>Wayland mentions: 107

And don't forget the 11 versions of bug fixes in between.

Totally different experiences.

>>108089015
You can list a lot of changes, but you won't tell me how much each change matters.

>>108089030
Considering he >>108088806 is having issues and I am not, I would say those changes mattered.

>>108088806
It's not a choice. Only use X11 for troubleshooting/workaround purposes

>>108088806
X11 if you like screen tearing and have old hardware. Once they go full on Wayland a lot of old, perfectly working computers will be fucked or perform worse under it. It's the Windows 11 of the GNU/Linux world.

>>108086857
There's a big difference between seatbelts because car accidents happen and firmware condoms because nothing happens.
Name one single person you know that has ever had their firmware compromised that Secure Boot has helped to protect.

Is it normal for my GPU to idle a few degrees hotter on Linux than on Windows 10?
Using Debian 13 KDE with an RX 580. It reaches similar temperatures when gaming on both systems and I'm going to upgrade soon anyway, but it still piques my attention. The GPU clock just seems to be constantly active, more so when I'm playing some video on youtube, though even with that, Windows always keeps it at a steady 300MHz unless I boot a game. I don't think it's a Wayland thing either since it happened with Mint Cinnamon and XFCE as well.

Holy shit, I just realized that Linux desktop sucks fat nigger dick.

>>108088806
Pick your poison.

Do you want these bugs:
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/X11_Known_Significant_Issues
Or these bugs:
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues

>>108089188
The default power profile was set to performance in the kernel a year or two ago. Set it to powersave, I find it even increases the performance sometimes.

>>108088835
>>108088878
The settings are important. KDE has focus stealing and keylogging protection in a "Legacy X11" page. Turning that off is important if you want the X11 keyloggers to work even when they are unfocused and running in the background.

>>108088615
>Always wondered when KDE would just make their own display manager and stop relying on SDDM
huh? last time i used kde it used kdm for the display manager

I'm tired of GNOME, is there a way I can switch to KDE with a terminal command.

>>108090006
Yes, but the command depends on the distro. What are you running?

Fedora Plasma, when I use meta+m the windows all minimize. When I open anything, all the previous windows maximize. How do I prevent the maximize behaviour from occurring? Meta+d has the same issue.

>>108090013
Fedora 43 Workstation

>>108090015
Right click the show desktop widget on your task bar, click Show Alternatives, and change it from Peek at Desktop to Minimise all Windows. Right click it again, click configure and set the shortcut to Start+D

>>108089854
That would have been KDE4. Kdm hasn't existed for years. It got unmaintained so everyone switched to Sddm but Sddm is pretty crap so KDE forked it, gutted it to only what they need and developed it further to make things like WiFi and Bluetooth work from the login screen (important for some things) and also add remote desktop support.

>>108090021
Pretty sure they have a package group for that although it's been a while since I used Fedora.

Try something like:

dnf grouplist | grep -i -E 'kde|plasma'
dnf groupinstall <KDE GROUP>

>>108090021
Best do this from a TTY by hitting Ctrl + Alt + F3:

sudo dnf swap fedora-release-identity-workstation.noarch fedora-release-identity-kde.noarch   
sudo dnf remove gnome-*
sudo dnf install @kde-desktop-environment

>>108090053
groupinstall isn't a thing anymore

>>108090053
This is probably better though: >>108090062
Since it looks like this would actually remove GNOME and not leave you with two desktops.

>>108090062
Oh yeah, you don't need sudo btw, just log into the TTY as root.

>>108090027
Fantastic, thank you.

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>>108090062
Holy shit it worked thanks man, have a cheeseburger.

>>108090241
The touchpad for some reason goes up when I go down and when I try to go down it goes up, gonna fix that in the settings.

>>108090259
Yeah the default touchpad settings are retarded

>>108090266
Alright I fixed it, this is the first time I'm using KDE, it's pretty nice, I like it more than Gnome.

>>108084611
Nobara

>>108090308
kek

>>108085323
Debian is fine if your parts aren't from 2024, especially now that 13 is out, and I sincerely doubt anybody is going to be buying PCs with latest-gen hardware in this economy.

>>108090259
That's a Tim Cuck invention from Apple that Linux copied for some reason.

>>108087775
Any of them will do. Just create a disk snapshot of it periodically as you update it and hoard appimages.

>>108088478
Currently it's not far behind because Debian 13 was only recently released. But in a few months to a year it will be. Not that it will matter this year since consumers clearly aren't getting new GPUs anyway since AI companies have reserved everything for themselves.

>>108087123
No. It should just work. Check if it's reported correctly in your terminal by typing any of free/top/btop/htop to eliminate the possibility that it's just Mint's task manager being retarded for some reason. Check if your motherboard supports 32GB. Re-seat your RAM again.

>>108087123
Check what the BIOS screen reports before anything else. If the BIOS doesn't show it correctly either then the RAM isn't seated correctly.
You may also wish to run memtestx86 off of a USB for a bit to test the new RAM.

>>108087775
They still do. Search for jigdo images.
https://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/

There are a lot of them…
(28 DVDs…)

>>108086580
Open your preferred disk management app, there should be a setting in there to permanently mount a given drive.

>>108089185
Like it or not, the Linux community has to make Secure Boot work because it's enabled by default on all desktop and laptop motherboards, and telling people to disable it just makes them wonder why Linux doesn't work with it anyhow. Luckily most distros do in fact just werk with Secure Boot.

>>108090241
Late reply but thank you, I appreciate the cheeseboober.

>>108091194
Only the enterprise distros tend to pay Microsoft and the rest require manual intervention so I wouldn't say it's accurate to say most support it.
You can definitely make it work manually with your own keys, etc, though, but is it really worth it all to protect yourself from something that's not going to happen in the first place?

I definitely get the "telling people to disable it makes them think Linux doesn't work" though. That's the Microsoft propaganda speaking.

>>108091274
>Only the enterprise distros tend to pay Microsoft and the rest require manual intervention
How did Debian just werk with Secure Boot without manual intervention, then?

>>108091303
They probably pay the fee to sign their bootloader. Debian is a large enough distro that you can group them in with the other enterprise distros even if they are technically a community maintained distro.

anyone here compiles the dolphin emulator?
i want to compile on a 10 year old laptop with a quad core cpu
i wonder how long would it take

>>108091365
You should be fine to just run the latest distro packages/Flatpak. Dolphin itself can play games fine on a Core 2 Duo

>>108091380
the arch repo package doesnt get updated
and yeah there is a flatpak but its not on flathub
you have to add their repository

>>108091402
>the arch repo package doesnt get updated
It does, it just takes 3 months lol. You've still got the September build which is totally fine, the 2512 changelog doesn't seem all that big and you'll get it in a few weeks anyway. I avoid Flatpaks when I can, but just double clicking the .flatpak should be enough to automatically set up a flatpak repo, no?

>>108087633
seriously if i was to leave arch it would probably be for fedora. it's really just arch, fedora and debian now and the way debian is just meandering and cucking and doing generally dumb shit and wasting time/money i don't think it has a great future and it will just get whittled out by the wider community

>>108091474
>debian is just meandering and cucking and doing generally dumb shit and wasting time/money
qrd?

>>108091457
they tell you to add their flatpak repo on their site

>>108084251
Can someone spoonfeed me a distro perfect for me based on these criteria?
>First class support for KDE Plasma
>First class support for Flathub
>Great reputation, no historical fuckups or major security/privacy issues, has been in existance for at least 18+ years
>Has first class support for gaming (I'm assuming that means an up to date kernel, mesa, drivers, whatever)
>Very reliable and unlikely to have big breakage that results in stuff like kernel panic or data corruption/loss
>Is normgroid-friendly, has GUI for initial install, updates, version upgrades if necessary, etc. or is at least very simple to do all those in cli

>>108091613
I would recommend KDE Linux for that but it hasn't existed long enough to have a track record.

>>108091657
Yeah, KDE Linux looks really appealing but there's too many red flags in terms of the very first page warning you that it's practically in alpha still and that it shouldn't be deployed in any serious environment yet. But I love the idea of it, I wish I could just get put into cryostasis and wake up in 20 years when it's werking properly to see if it got abandoned like KDE neon or if it could become the de facto kde experience in linux.

>>108091613
>has been in existance for at least 18+ years
bro, when they told you to not use a minor distro, that's not what they meant.

>>108090763
Thanks!

>>108091695
I like my distros and desktop environments bottom heavy, curvy, thick, and mature.

>>108091613
Tumbleweed is about as close as you're gonna get to ticking all them boxes.

>>108090763
Looking at them, I don't think that's what I need, I remember Debian offering "extra" DVDs with their releases, you had DVD-1 which was the installing DVD, if you didn't have an internet connection you could invoke DVD-2 and 3 to install extra packages from them, each one was like 4GB.

>>108091789
That's what those images are. They just don't host them on their servers anymore because that's a waste of space. Instead they use Jigdo which is a tool that takes some manifest and downloads the packages and then assembles the DVD on your own machine.

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>>108091802
>downloads the packages
How am I gonna do that without an internet connection...then should have kept the old method, the one that makes sense for offline systems.

>>108091810
How are you posting this comment on 4chan? You obviously have an Internet connection. You download the jigdo tool on the machine you're using right now and use it to assemble the images that you can then use offline.

Read the fucking wiki. It explains all of this.

>>108091810
you can't download the dvd's without an internet connection, either. it's for using on another machine or to give to someone else.
if you have no internet connection at all (or a very limited/slow one), i'm sure there's still somewhere you can order dvd media from, i know you used to be able to back when high speed internet wasn't as commonplace (i have a couple of times ordered linux discs due to having dial up when i first tried linux, it just saves a lot of time. it's especially useful when you're new and want to try out lots of software, it's not as bad when you already know exactly what you want)

>>108091813
>How are you posting this comment on 4chan? You obviously have an Internet connection.
Anon...it is a hypothetical situation where I don't have any internet connectivity and need a complete distro with offline repos.

>>108091402
>there is a flatpak but its not on flathub
Huh? https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu

>>108091613
Nothing matches your criteria. Your closest choices would be:
>SteamOS (assuming you have supported hardware)
>Bazzite (assuming you don't mind it being 3 years old)
>Cachy (assuming you don't mind less stability and it being less normie-friendly)

>>108091850
There's no way to get a Linux iso without Internet unless you mail order like >>108091828 said (assuming that's even a thing still).

Since you have Internet though then you don't have to consider this hypothetical you can use the jigdo tool to download all of the files and assemble the iso image locally on your machine and then take that to any offline machine you want.

>>108091850
it doesn't matter if you download a preassmbled dvd image or download packages to assemble your dvd image on your own.
In both cases you need internet to download stuff.

>>108091858
The only difference is ease of updating because the jigdo tool can download only the new files to update the iso image instead of having to download 4GB of garbage again so there is advantages to this tool.

All of this is explained on the page I linked though. For some reason they didn't even read it.

>>108091858
>In both cases you need internet to download stuff
Then the jigdo images are useless

>>108091850
https://www.shoplinuxonline.com/debian-full.html
here's one option

>>108091870
They used to offer something like that to download back in like Debian 9, now the jews are selling it.
Well then Debian is useless for my needs, need another Distro with offline repos.

>>108091884
Read the page. You can still download it using the jigdo tool.

>>108091884
you're not making sense, one post you want a download, the next you can't download it because you don't have an internet connection

>>108091890
Not downloading any tool that is not even in the Arch or Aur repos, fuck that.
>>108091892
Niggers here are really missing half a brain and can't understand hypotheticals huh

>>108091900
>that is not even in the Arch or Aur repos
You're just embarrassing yourself now:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jigdo
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jigdo-bin

>>108091900
>Niggers here are really missing half a brain and can't understand hypotheticals huh
i understand not having an internet connection is hypothetical, and that doesn't change the issue.
like this sentence;
>They used to offer something like that to download back in like Debian 9, now the jews are selling it.
is contradictory, it doesn't matter if debian provides pre-assembled dvd images or not, because you can't download them anyway (hypothetically)

>>108091613
>has been in existence for at least 18+ years
Just from this criterion alone, Fedora KDE is literally your only option.

>>108091884
jigdo gives you the same result, it generates disc images identical to those they previously provided, and does so in a more efficient manner, as it can download the contents from any mirror, as most mirrors (even back then) only mirror the packages themselves, few had the dvd isos beyond the first one because it's just a second copy of the packages that few people need (especially nowadays)
the dvd's are just collections of packages, there's really little need to double the size of an archive/mirror just for this

>>108091777
Tumbleweed would be great if the Packman repos were comaintained with the OpenSUSE repos, like how RPMFusion gets updated simultaneously with the Fedora repos. Otherwise, you'll have to wait hours or possibly days before installing updates on OpenSUSE or else your codecs and drivers will break.

>>108087494
I'm using [vcodec!=vp9] instead of vcodec^=h264

I wanna bake at page 8. I got a good image. You guys'll love this.

Is there a way to mount isos in wine?

>>108092028
I think you can use cdemu if it has to emulate an actual disk drive:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CDemu

>>108092043
that's what i do, it's only really necessary for some copy protection schemes (better to just get a no-cd if you can) and for games with cd-audio tracks, where mounting the iso with "mount" won't do

Is it just me or has there been a lot of Debian glazing in /fglt/ as of late?

>>108091854
unverified

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>>108092083
Yeah, shit is a turd stuck in the past, hopefully it will probably die soon.

>>108092092
Doesn't this like, put most servers in the world in jeopardy?

>>108092109
Nah, because this is about packages that barely see any work to them and were last updated ages ago.

If somebody just stopped updating say PHP or MySQL then people would notice. This article is a nothing burger. Its about packages that probably shouldn't even be in the distribution because they see so little work done to them. Debian doesn't really have a proper way of tracking package activity and that's a problem.

>>108092122
>Debian doesn't really have a proper way of tracking package activity
How not? Don't they have a website?

>>108092154
Of course they do and you can see commit activity, etc, but they're not tracking it, they don't have any scripts that look at that to identify problems or contact maintainers, etc. That's what this article is about.

>>108092122
>Debian doesn't really have a proper way of tracking package activity
https://tracker.debian.org ?

>>108092160
Why haven't these retards thought about this at any point in the last 21 years? Git has been around for a long time. THE backend operating system doesn't have a functional backend kek

>>108092184
Yes, that's the website but they're not using the stats as something actionable to contact maintainers and find out what the fuck is going on.
Basically, maintainers disappear sometimes and they don't really have a proper process of what to do about that yet. Yes, they probably should have thought about this before.

Give it to me straight bros, is there anything wrong with Mint? I've been on Windows pretty much all my life but for the past week I dual booted Mint and it feels pretty good honestly. Had some hiccups with games here and there but nothing so far that would turn me away from daily driving it. Should I take the plunge and fully switch over?

>>108092302
>is there anything wrong with Mint
Where do I start? The UX is fragmented as hell, it doesn't work with HDR/VRR/HiDPI/mixed refresh rates, the software is outdated as shit (it ships a 2018 version of GIMP lol), and the file explorer doesn't even let you right-click on hard drives. Literally any distro with KDE Plasma will be more functional as well as user-friendly for Windows users.

>>108092090
>unverified
So are most packages in your distribution's repo.

>>108092083
It's just a couple of Linux boomers itt who use old thinkpads and only a web browser where you don't really notice how flawed Debian is for general use.

>>108092109
Not really. Nowadays you usually don't run Debian raw on a server. It's either in a VM or in most cases in a container like docker/podman. Also most servers run a small controlled set of packages which are generally well maintained.

>>108092302
Not really mint is fine.

>>108092320
>Not really mint is fine.
Boomers will peddle advice like this and wonder why Linux is still unpopular. Just give them the distros they're seeing in the YouTube videos hyping Linux up that got them interested in Linux in the first place: god damn fucking KDE Plasma distros.

>>108092302
Bad user experience, outdated software and driver stack, lack of support for many modern hardware and display features due to it still being stuck on X11. It's not terrible, but there's a dozen better options and it's only "fine" if you're fine with the drawbacks.
Honestly just grab any distro which has KDE Plasma and you'll be much better off. Even the potential vaporwave distros like CachyOS and Bazzite are a better choice.

>>108092313
>it doesn't work with VRR
My VRR display works fine? Or maybe I don't understand what you mean by this.
>it ships a 2018 version of GIMP lol
Checked my installed applications and GIMP isn't in there at all.
>and the file explorer doesn't even let you right-click on hard drives
This works fine too. Maybe your info is outdated? I did notice I can't take screencaps while the right click menu is open though kek.
>>108092349
I'm a little reluctant with stuff like Bazzite because idk what the long-term support is gonna be like on these "young" distros. But I don't really know what I'm doing either.

>>108092363
Also on a related note, how easy/hard is it to switch from one distro to another? If I decide I want to get off Mint later down the line, what do I need to watch out for?