sneed

>>101979415
right-wing dog whistle alert!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUbo0IeWTY4

Can I use this repo even if I am using mint? It supports both debian and ubuntu but not mint specifically https://fruit.je/apt

>>101979564
I ain't going to click that shit nigga

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I'll try posting this again: I've been trying out EndeavourOS (arch + KDE plasma X11) and everything seems to be working nicely except for one thing. There is a 2 second loading time when opening programs. This happens with konsol, dolphin and other programs that should be instant. Opening the settings actually takes 3-4 seconds. Once the program is open everything works fine. Moving, minimizing, maximizing and so on is instant.
I've been searching around for a fix but haven't found anything definitive yet. A lot of people suggest that xdg-desktop-portal-gnome is causing issues, but I don't have that package. Disabling the compositor did help a lot and brought the load time down to just about 1 second, but it's not perfect.
Is this an Nvidia + X11 thing? Do I just have to deal with it? Before you suggest Wayland, I need X11 for certain programs to run.

>format=nv12,hwupload,scale_vulkan,hwdownload,format=nv12
Is this really how you get vulkan to hardware accelerate for ffmpeg encoding or am i missing something?
>2x encode speed

>>101979742
anon you're using kde uninstall xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-kde also disable kwin and all its effects

>XZ 5.8 suspiciously missing
so is this just not happening now? git activity basically stopped.

>>101981128
.xz is and always has been shit, let it die.
https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

>>101981266
yeah but he did a fuck ton of work for 5.8 and sanitizing the repo, I think he brought up cmake support, too. all of that just to not release it.

>>101979742
>>101980956
This is a KDE problem. There is a lot of latency when clicking anything even with animations and effects disabled.

>>101981450
Bullshit, I'm also on Arch with Xorg and KDE and have no such issue. But I'm also not on nvidia.

Why can I literally just not rebind keys on wayland/gnome? every stinkin thing doesn't work, I have xmodmap and it doesn't do anything, tried changing my keyboard layound nothing. I don't want some kind of obscure add or work around just to get the functionality either

>>101979742
this rings a bell. .... its not related to the search cache whatsit? its morning here, the exact name eludes me.

>>101979564
mint is ubuntu

>>101979742
EndeavourOS forum is pretty much the most helpful and friendly distro forum there is, I recommend it.

>>101982280
The Wayland server is implemented within the compositor/window manager. Configure that.

>>101982280
>wayland
>xmodmap
what the fuck do you think the x stands for?

one of the things that drew me to kde when i got serious about having my laptops run linuxes, was that it had the builtin ability to set shortcuts to be regular keys like home and end. super + a would be home, super + e was end. this was because the fn key on that laptop was glitched (still is) in linux and once held, stayed active until a reboot.
several gtk apps still ignored the inputs, but was handy for firefox, and embedded those shortcuts in my mind for terminal use (except with ctrl obvs)

Does anyone have random freezes on kernel 6.8+ ?

>>101982679
it's a shame the binding system was kinda crippled when they moved to wayland. they're working on restoring it but it's not very high priority from what i can tell. what i miss the most was mouse gestures. i had one that would open a context sensitive pie menu for any program i scripted it for and i could open any folder i wanted any quickly.

>>101982608
Are you thinking of Baloo? The file indexing thing KDE uses?

>>101982669
fair but why do I have all this piece of shit software preloaded on my pc if it doesn't do anything and can't even TELL me it doesn't do anything when I run it? I don't understand linux distros.

>>101980956
In my experience the main thing to disable in kwin if you want better performance is the transparency blur. Not even transparency as a whole, just the blur.

>>101982850
The blur is functional, it's a focus device; you get the visual rice but less of a distraction from transparency. If your GPU can't handle it you shouldn't be wasting cycles on transparency either.

>>101982907
I agree that transparency looks better with blur on, but on my laptop which is not as powerful as my pc I saw a significant boost in performance by disabling blur, but little to none when disabling transparency.

>>101982786
Because we are still in a tansition phase where most distros ship xorg and wayland session. And you can just select whatever you want from the login.

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Hi I want to do some video editing on linux. Not a thing I ever did on a professional level and I want to have essentially a slide show with music in the background. But of course I want to use a wide variety of transition effects to not make it bland.
Is there a simple tool that still retains such capabilities that I can use? Or should I just learn kdenlive/shortcut/etc? In that regard already have kdenlive installed because KDE, but do you any other tool will be better?

>>101982734
that'd be what I was thinking of. I forget if it was related to slowdown of launching.

>>101983424
if you already have kdenlive installed might as well use it

>>101983851
Yeah I guess.
But wanted to see what people who has experience think.

>>101983424
Video/Audio editing are one of the few things that don't really have any simple command line tools or whatever. You kinda need a GUI for that because it's highly visual.
Unless you want to try and script it, like if you're going to make a bunch of videos with the exact same types of edits, then you could try to cobble something together with ffmpeg, but for a single video or two that's definitely going to be a lot harder and not worth it.

>>101983424
i think kdenlive is good enough in a "i just need to put clips on a timeline" scenario

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can I do anything about this

>>101984589
idk about the exacts of AUR but when you compile from sources you need some header files. Arch doesn't separate them so you'd be searching for "vulkan-headers" package.

>>101984761
I needed to install vulkan-headers-git, the stable is outdated

>>101981303
It will be released when he's ready to do so. A lot of software has maybe one or two releases a year, so it's no big deal.

>>101981266 is right though, let it die. We need to keep it around for existing archives but everyone else should move to Zstd. Almost the same compression ratio (Xz does do a bit better) but considerably greater decompression speeds. What's not to love?

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Post more Linux memes.
>>101979564
>Mint
It's Ubuntu. Check your package sources if you don't believe me.
>Mint Debian edition
Then it's Debian.
>>101984784
Ah, forgot to eyeball the version numbers too.

>>101984993
The only downside is compression takes fucking forever but that's not your problem, except if you're building AUR packages and the pkg.zstd compression phase uses --ultra.

I should probably configure it to use something lightweight like LZ4. I don't really care how big the mesa-git packages I build are. I'm going to delete the older ones anyway.

>>101985040

COMPRESSLZ4=(lz4 --best -q)
PKGEXT='.pkg.tar.lz4'

Much better! My mesa-git is now 134M instead of 200M but compression speeds are considerably faster. I'll take that.
I could probably tune Zstd at lower levels to be similar too if I wanted to.

Firefox isnt scaling on my 4K monitor. Ive created an .Xresources file with Xft.dpi of 192. This works for all programs except firefox. Arch wiki says firefox should respect Xft.dpi but it doesnt. Anyone know why this is?

>>101983394
>transition phase
Yeah just two more weeks and linux will be streamlined use just one environment

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I suspect something may be wrong with my RAM, but I don't want to buy RAM and find out I was wrong. Is there any conclusive way to test?
Basically my issues are that any application I run with Ubuntu 24.04 crashes frequently and I tried to download and Deadlock on steam since I got an invite and every attempt has failed with a "Corrupt Update Files" error.

>>101986310
Use memtest86

>>101986310
You wouldn't happen to have a 13/14th gen Intel CPU, would you?

>>101986326
Ryxen 5 5600X

>>101986320
I'll try this and report back

>>101986361
Try also testing with XMP disabled.

>>101986361
My issue with Ryzen is that if you're using older ram with it, the ram is probably fine. You still need new ram that's got chips on the ram sticks that let it communicate with Ryzen. It's prevalent on DDR4. Old it 8400, 16gb of DDR4 RAM, built a new system, used the RAM, would not post, sometimes would but unstable. Put new ram in the system and it just works. Put ram in old system and it works flawlessly.

>>101986437
Noted

>>101986390
Forgot to check if this is disabled or not, but I'm on test 6 and I already have almost 12,000 errors so yeah I guess my RAM is fucked.

>>101986437
That is probably IMC degradation.

>>101986492
If it fails at JEDEC speeds definitely RMA.

>>101986525
I checked my BIOS and XMP profiles were off, but I don't think I can RMA since my RAM is 4 years old. I guess I can email G Skill in the morning just in case.

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How convenient. I will be doing an RMA then.

>>101986538
>G Skill
Yeah... I have two sets from them. One stopped running at XMP speeds after 2 years, my latest one becomes unstable if I let the motherboard "optimize for bandwidth" or latency, implying the XMP settings are borderline already after a year. If this DDR5 kit also degrades I'm never buying from them again.

Check your warranty: https://www.gskill.com/sn-check

How does anon autologin into awesomewm? I'm already using LUKS so i want to skip the user login. I've been using DWM for a while so the Lua file seems very cluttered and confusing to me.

>>101986656
dunno, I do not autologin

>>101986595
>my latest one becomes unstable if I let the motherboard "optimize for bandwidth" or latency, implying the XMP settings are borderline already after a year.
No

>>101986831
Yes, because it was stable when I first set it up. Not anymore. Disabling "optimizations" the errors go away.

>>101986839
it's a stupid autooc feature
use your normal xmp profile if you're not into ram tuning or set your timings normally for performance

What is the best photoshop version for wine? Photopea functionality is enough

>umm, there's this gimp the
No

>>101987637
I'm not an expert but I use krita

>>101987637
What are you looking to do?

Gimp despite what your feelings about it may be is fine for image manipulation.
Krita is good for drawing
Darktable is good for photography

>space_cache=v2
This is enabled by default now, right? No need to specify it anymore?

>>101984993
Is it more cpu heavy?

>>101989287
About the same for compression, decompression is much faster though.

>>101987637
cs4 worked, but last time i did it you need to limit the ram it can use or itll just set everything you have left as the scratch disk as soon as its opened. that was before all this wacky steam proton development stuff.

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>What's the difference between stacking, tiling, dynamic WM?
Anyone using archcraft?

>>101989354
Stacking is floating
Tiling is windows tiled across the screen, either statically (meaning manual tiling like i3), or dynamically (like Awesome or Dwm)
Dynamic can mean dynamic tiling or some sort of hybrid approach

The "Discover" thing in KDE is so bad. I remember going to uninstall a flatpak, which is just clicking a button and no dialogue asking you if you're sure. Later I realize that it's still there, so I must've uninstalled a different flatpak but I have no idea what it was. It could've been some important dependency for my other flatpaks, or something like the calculator. I fucking HATE this feeling. Is there any way to check flatpak installation history?

>>101989545

$ flatpak history
error: history not available without libsystemd

I hope you have Systemd.

>>101989491
Got you, because the theming was the same I got the impression it's all the same.
Is there anything good about archcraft?

>>101989571
No idea. I've never used it before. I assume it's some sort of spin?

>>101989560
Thanks. Looks like I might've uninstalled org.freedesktop.Sdk, which was then installed again by the next flatpak I installed. Is there a better GUI for this stuff? Discover is probably the jankiest software I have installed on any device.

>>101989591
It claim to be arched improved.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/ptyxis
This is the new default terminal for GNOME.

>>101989774
So GNOME's default terminal is now a Flatpak?

The menu bar in VSCodium is green like Breeze Dark. I have a monochrome color scheme, so the green menu bar looks a bit ugly. Is there a way to change it?

>>101989774
>Serializing a connection to a TTY over DBus
Yikes

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Finally took the Linuxpill and installed Arch (by the Manual /wo #archinstall).
Now I need a Desktop Environment. It seems Gnome is quite standard and supported im the wiki, but alot of people call it trash, slow, etc.
What does /g/ recommend?

>>101989900
KDE

>>101989900
KDE for full features, or XFCE for sane defaults.
For few years, I used xfce with i3wm as WM which was very nice.

>>101989998
Does xfce have a non-broken file picker with thumbnails?

>>101990041
>file picker with thumbnails
This is a meme made by /g/, even with KDE you won't use it.
Learn to using something more useful like feh or mpv.

>>101989916
Yes
>>101990075
>This is a meme made by /g/, even with KDE you won't use it
Wrong

Just use KDE

>>101989900
KDE if you want a windows like expirience with a lot of 1st party programs that just work, i3wm if you want minimalism, Cinnamon if you don't like plasma but want a gui, xfce is nice for weaker systems.

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>>101990075
>more useful like feh or mpv
How do you use those with firefox to choose an anime image to post/save?

>>101990099
https://github.com/occivink/mpv-gallery-view

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how do i fix this?

>>101990230
have you tried following those instructions?

>>101990367
yes, of course

>>101990516
I see, MTP can be a pain, I can suggest you try KDE Connect instead

>>101989900
fluxbox

No matter what cursor I install, it's only shown when hovering on certain windows. Do I need to logout and back in after changing cursor?

>>101990733
Yes.

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>>101990772
Tried and it didn't work. I also tried following these instructions but none helped https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cursor_themes#GTK
When I preview the cursors some of them don't even show properly. Does this mean they are incompatible with gtk?

bros. i updated a buntch of shit and now all of a sudden this shit happens
- pipewire cannot communicate to the headphone jack
- alsa seems fucked (?)
- for some reason, firefox stalls each time i right click opening the context menu for a few seconds

what the hell does this mean. there don't seem to be any conflicting packages. it's been like this for 2 days.

>>101991105
Distro?

>>101989900
um excuse me sir you're missing your socks and your legs are too hairy and that's not a thinkpad sir

>>101990075
>feh
imv

>defrag
>balance
>scrub
Can I just ignore them if I'm using Btrfs on a single SSD?

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Anon with a Deck OLED here, I've been trying to mod HDR support in my games and I ran into some issues
>Special K HDR Retrofit works even for unsupported games if you replace the DLL in the game's folder with the injector (DX10/11/12 only)
This works just fine, no problems at all, but DX9 is unsupported and I've been trying to fool Special K with DgVoodoo 2, infact this is recommended by the guy who made Special K https://wiki.special-k.info/en/SpecialK/dgVoodoo
but it doesn't work for some reason
>My DX9 games don't have the DLL in the main game folder, therefore I can't replace it with the injector
>WineDLL overrides works to get around this issue, and the game boots up with the Special K overlay, but it stills shows up the DX9 API instead of the "DX9 to DX11" wrapper, therefore no HDR
>Kaldaien (the author of Special K) told me to create a file called "SpecialK.dxgi" to bypass this issue, but it doesn't work, the game crashes at startup
Fucking hell, I've been using Steam Tinker Launch, Lutris, Bottles, ProtonTricks, etc and neither of them work, I even tried to dual boot Windows 11 to use AutoHDR or this Special K tool but Windows HDR doesn't work on Deck because the Decks uses "MIPI" instead of DisplayPort interface...Any way to fix this or I'm screwed?

>>101991472
You could just stop trying to infest old games with the HDR meme.

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>>101991506
Anon...Call me autistic, shithead with bad taste or whatever but I really like the way it looks and with a little bit of calibration it really looks better compared to native

>>101990772
>>101991002
I just copied my cursor directory from ~/.local/share/icons/ to /usr/share/icons/ and now it magically works everywhere

any anons using Pipewire's/Pulseaudio's network audio feature?

>win fags could never

>having what feels like should be an extremely issue
>no mention of this issue on extremely active github repo
guess i'm just retarded

bump for this
>>101982693

>>101992984
extremely common issue*

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Where can I download the old nude Ubuntu artwork like pic related?

pyclip is not available in my package manager so I installed it in a venv with pip and added a symlink to ~/.local/bin but other programs still can't access it. do you think this is a $PATH related issue I can resolve by symlinking it into /usr/local/bin instead?

>>101990733
>>101991002
https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_wilma.php
>Mouse Pointer theme in root, Qt and Flatpak applications

I have this service to run script on_wake whenever my computer wakes up:

[Unit]
Description=Customisation options that should always run on waking from sleep
After=suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target suspend-then-hibernate.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/me/scripts/on_wake
# User=me
# Environment=DISPLAY=:0

[Install]
WantedBy=suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target suspend-then-hibernate.target

When I enable it I get these warnings:

init /home/me/.config/systemd/user/on_wake.service is added as a dependency to a non-existent unit suspend.target

and it doesn't run (status is inactive dead). What should I be aiming at instead of "suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target suspend-then-hibernate.target"? Running on manjaro.

(Helpfully when you search this you get people linking to the power hooks section of the arch wiki, but the page has since been rewritten and there is no power hooks section)

>>101989663
flatpak is just a few words to type to search, install, list, and remove. you could setup aliases to shorten them further.
gnome software is the only other gui option i can think of otherwise.

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>>101992984
many such cases

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>xdg-desktop-portal-xapp
>file chooser: no
Does this mean I can't use a different file picker in firefox while using cinnamon?

>>101992984
Me 3 times every week

Hello, I'm a Linux newbie here. Is there any app that let me chat with an AI for tech guidance? I don't want something fully integrated and invasive like on Windows. I want to open an app (or browser, don't mind), talk to the AI, close the app, and keep my system private. I'm still learning the terminal, so I'm not yet comfortable with it, but if it's the only way, I'll try it. Thanks for your patience.

>>101993868
just open chatgpt on your browser homie

>>101994074
Oh, it's that simple? Thank you!

>>101993868
If you get the bug for running your own, check out
>>101990712

>>101993868
I just use brave browsers AI search for quick questions, always gives me the command I’m looking for.

>>101993193
I couldn’t get openrgb to run upon startup and I think you need to give each app permission to execute in order to open on command.

>>101993849
>cinnamon devs can't do anything about it because it's a gtk problem
>gtk3 devs can't do anything about it because changes upstream from gtk4 won't be backported to gtk3
>mozilla devs won't do anything about it because they used gtk3 out of necessity and wish to work on a firefox wayland port instead because gtk4 isn't suited to browser development
>flatpak bundled firefox tried solving the problem using portal as middleman but depending on which backend you choose you might or might not be able to change file picker
>few big player patched their own gtk/firefox to "fix" the problem since nothing can be fixed on gtk3 without breaking everything
So what's the best course of action here? Does firefox on wayland even suffer from this problem?

>>101993849
>>101994409
use chrome on kde

So Ubuntu containers don't get access to man pages unless you run 'unminimize'. Is there a similar command or process for Fedora containers? I'm trying to get access to some really basic manpages like the ones for grep on my fedora container that I have running via distrobox but installing them (dnf install man-pages) and running mandb doesn't fucking work for some reason so I assume there's some unpack command I need as well due to the environment. However I'm using the full fedora image (registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:40) so I feel like I shouldn't be having these issues.
Already tried DDG, Google, Chatgpt, attempting to rope, etc. Pls halp

>>101994409
You get whatever file chooser your DE has if you use portals and since cinnamon is GTK3 its the same as the default Firefox one.

>>101994897
What's even dumber is I have them on my base system (also fedora) by default without installing anything and yet its not only missing on the container but also seemingly not installable. Don't know if there's some setting in distrobox or podman I need to configure to allow it to install the missing man pages.

$ ls /usr/share/man/man1 |grep awk 
awk.1.gz
gawk.1.gz
gawkbug.1.gz
pm-gawk.1.gz
$ distrobox enter main-box
$ ls /usr/share/man/man1 |grep awk 
$ man awk
No manual entry for awk

hey I seem to have fucked up my XFCE somehow after updating. Here are the symptoms:

>on reboot (no save session ticked,) default debian wallpaper
>using the XFCE tiling manager hotkeys seems a bit fucked, e.g. minimizing XFE in particular multiple times and maximizing it or moving it about then makes XFCE completely unresponsive... until you hover the mouse over a desk panel.
>default wallpaper cannot be changed via XFCE desktop gui
>boots with terminal open (sometimes on workspace 3)
>survived reinstalls of xfe and xfce desktop.

seems to be 'fixed' by the following terminal inputs, with which I have little idea of why what I am doing works until next reboot.

xfdesktop --quit && xfdesktop --reload
(ctrl-z here)
kill -9 $(jobs -ps)

There's gotta be something I can do right? what about the xfconf xmls?

>compiled mesa-git
>system won't boot now
Guess I'm reinstalling my OS today.

>>101995105
Use the live image and chroot into your install. Reinstall mesa.

>>101990099
not him but i do use an image viewer that can be scripted to send stuff to this:
https://github.com/mwh/dragon
very useful tool

uhh I was messing around with nvidia optimus
now when I put my amd card in it is SLOWER when the display is connected to the card and it is FASTER when the display is connected to the motherboard
my theory is that it is sending the signal to the igpu and then sending it back to the dgpu before displaying it
is this easy to fix like deleting a Xorg config file?

>>101992826
I used it to send audio to my steam deck so I could listen to what was playing on my PC while playing video games with headphones. It's really kind of jank because no one really does this.

>>101995518
Wait.... Why are you using Nvidia optimus on a desktop?
Its purely meant for laptops with integrated graphics+ an Nvidia GPU

>>101995587
I bought a used mining card without display outputs because I was bored
I made it run games but it's a little slow for my taste

>>101995614
Its likely the card's firmware that is at least partially at play here, since those kind of cards assume you're only going to have onboard graphics and not another dGPU with outputs.
So yeah, you're assumption that it's copying it's buffer to the system memory for your iGPU and not going directly to the secondary dGPU is likely correct, but I'm not sure there is much of anything you can do about it.

>>101995677
I think I figured it out... I need to put the mining card back in and switch nvidia-prime to integrated graphics.

>>101995614
Are those any good for LLM shit? I've been thinking of getting one for my home server.

is there any reason to use anything but Debian if you are NOT autistic?

>>101995791
No worse then any other Nvidia GPU.

>>101995791
I don't know

>>101995804
i play video games

>>101995826
Debian is no worse or better then Ubuntu or Fedora in that regard.
You can install Steam all the same.

>>101995847
sure, but then you don't get wayland improvements for a long time, you don't get new versions of mesa, etc.

>>101995873
I use X11 and get better performance for it.
Really, till Ubuntu/Debian gets Plasma 6.x and Nvidia 560 drivers, I'm plenty fine where I am.

>>101995614
Use mangohud to determine what card is being used to render.
Also in my own tests i could not measure a difference between a directly connected monitor and gpu offloading but that was with KDE wayland.

>>101995873
>wayland improvements
Wayland does have it's advantages, but in the realm of gaming, X11 is still the more proforment.
That said, now that support for wayland is starting to build, I'm sure things will pick up sooner then later.

>>101995531
nice

>>101995904
It used the mining card to render. It was slow because it's a halved 1060 with 640 shaders running over pcie gen1 x4.
It was 4+ times faster than intel hd graphics 4600 in my test

>>101992826
>win fags could never
windows has scream i think

Is elogind bloat?
Does anyone use seatd over elogind?

>>101995099
Fixed via something fucked with the saved session being cleared.

Building a new PC. Any reason to prefer Intel vs. AMD CPU for Linux in particular? Most sources say it doesn't matter, but then again it also determines the motherboard choice and motherboard compatibility issues were the major headache for me when building a Linux system years ago. How to pick a motherboard that just works?

>>101996253
Are you talking dGPU or iGPU?
Either way, you're going to be better off performance wise with AMD offerings.
That said, if you're doing anything "high end" or AI related, the answer is Nvidia.

>>101996433
The CPU, not GPU.

>>101996253
There's no reason to go with Intel if you're building a modern system, their newest CPUs are dogshit.

>>101995508
I've been meaning to reinstall the OS on this computer anyway. I'm currently booted into a live image and backing up the SSD now.
However on a different computer I've managed to compile mesa and get games running on it with some caveats. In particular, Metal Gear Solid V isn't letting me go full screen or even borderless full screen. It's not even showing anything in the monitor selection, so I'm guessing it can't detect the monitor's size or something? I tried running Team Fortress 2 (native linux port) and some indie games (using proton) and those work fine. Any suggestions?

>>101996468
Oh.... I don't know what my brain went there.
Really for Linux CPU/Chipset support its all the same for Intel and AMD, both are very well supported so it doesn't matter. You really don't have to worry about choosing a Linux compatible board anymore, those days are gone (thank god).
AMD is still going to be hands down the best bang for your buck on most CPU metrics.

>>101995713
This didn't help. Had to select the primary graphics in bios???

>>101996253
It doesn't really matter generally, though recent intel cpus are dogshit so I'd currently avoid them.

>>101994943
I'm surprised Cinnamon hasn't built an xdg-desktop-portal-cinnamom yet. It's a big problem that they inherit GNOME's stupidity all of the time.

>exposing SSH (and potentially Mosh) port(s) to Tor or I2P
For what purpose do people do this? Is this poor man's WireGuard or something? Even if you can't use WireGuard, exposing SSH to the internet directly should be fine if you turn off password auth, no?

>>101996792
They don't expose it directly, it's used as a backdoor to access it over an onion service or i2p service. Since you can't port scan tor or i2p, nobody will find it.

I like to use Yggdrasil to create an overlay network on my VPS systems. It's a mesh network that's pretty cool.

>>101996926
>>101996792
Also turning off password Auth and restricting it to key authentication only is in fact recommended security practice. This way nobody can connect at all even if they were somehow able to find it since their SSH key won't be in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

>>101996509
Update: I launched the game with DRI_PRIME=0 and it works in full screen now. DRI_PRIME=1 uses the old version of mesa I had installed while =0 uses the new one I compiled. Strangely, if I uninstall the new version, then the old version works properly. But if I have the new version installed, the old version no longer goes fullscreen.

>>101996926
>it's used as a backdoor to access it over an onion service or i2p service. Since you can't port scan tor or i2p, nobody will find it.
Well I know, I'm asking what prevents one from using WireGuard to achieve the same thing with better performance? I don't think port scanners can find a WireGuard port if it's not the default one

>>101997088
People do it for the security it provides. Wireguard can also be easily censored if you're trying to connect from a network that blocks UDP.

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What's the best japanese IME these days?

>>101997234
Still iBus and Mozc.
Fcitx and Mozc if you need good Wayland support

>>101997222
If the network isn't blocking UDP, what security benefits does using SSH over Tor/I2P provide over using SSH over WireGuard? Seems like the same thing to me, but slower. The only thing I can think of is that you might not want the network administrator of the network where the host that is running an SSH server to know what IP addresses you're SSHing from, but I feel like you wouldn't want to connect to Tor/I2P from such network in the first place

I have a wireless remote for my HTPC/Server, it works fine. The only issue is that it has a power button on it and it also works fine. Any tips on preventing the remote from turning the power off? I think it shows up under lsusb as Nordic Semiconductor ASA Smart Control.

>>101997358
Sometimes people want to hide the servers IP address too (e.g from this network you probably shouldn't be connecting from but are doing so anyway).

Performance usually isn't a consideration from the people that do this. It's overkill, but they probably have their reasons.

>>101991431
I think you should still scrub? Scrub will at least notify you of bad sectors/chunks/blocks/whatver they're called under btrfs. Defrag and balance won't do any good on a single SSD.

>>101997511
Defrag and balance are needed if you have lots of different subvolumes in the root and juggle the data around between them. You'll know if this is a problem though.

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How to deal with .pacnew files if I'm slightly retarded?

>>101991431
activate the btrfs-scrub systemd timer, it will run it monthly, the other ones there is no real need to run regularly, you can run something like

btrfs balance start -dusage=10 -musage=10 /mountpoint

if you start having a lot of allocated space, but the used space is a lot less than allocated space according to

btrfs filesystem usage /mountpoint

, defrag can be used to recompress files, seemed useful for sqlite db files according to compsize utility last time I used it

>>101997674
diff them and merge anything that's different. Endeavour OS comes with some tools for this. I think the Arch Wiki also has some recommendations too.

>>101997674
install pacman-contrib and use pacdiff

while you're at it, look at the other tools it comes with. they're useful.

I have a Linux computer with 4 GB of RAM. Is it feasible to run Windows 11 in a VM? If so, what settings should be used?

>>101997783
The minimum requirements for win11 are 4gb of ram. And you're not going to be able to give it all your ram. And even if you did it would run like shit.

>>101997783
Possible, yes, advisable, no.
What are you trying to achieve? there might be a better way.

>>101997783
Time to go out and upgrade your RAM (unless it's soldered and not upgradable, in which case I feel sorry for you).

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Today I learned that you can very easily run an executable within a lutris game's wine prefix, making it much much simpler to install several DLC packs.

Qutebrowser is based holy shit. First time using a browser with vi navigation and its like I knew how to use the browser within like 1 minute of playing with it. Kinda curious how it holds up to Firefox with a vim extension, if anyone knows? I'll probably end up trying it at some point to see for myself but I'll try it a lot faster if its significantly better

>>101997783
>4 GB of RAM.
>Is it feasible to run Windows 11 in a VM?
hell no

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Lol

>>101997844
Firefox with a Vim extension is pretty bad because it can't affect Firefox's UI at all, only the webpage. It's decent if you don't care about navigating Firefox with Vim binds though.

>>101997838
i just wish lutris wasn't some buggy python/gtk bullshit

>>101997901
Yes, it should come as no surprise that the desktop environment known for Krashing has very good crash handling facilities built-in to it.

If an app crashes on GNOME you get nothing, no dialog to tell you something is wrong or to report a bug. Some distros integrate this themselves and will send notifications but you get nothing out-of-the-box.

>>101997935
>no dialog to tell you something is wrong or to report a bug.
Your app disappering isn't enough of a hint that something is wrong?

>>101997987
You might miss it and forget about it. Or it may be some daemon process you don't see because it has no UI.

>>101997793
>>101997814
>>101997846
Gosh darn it.

>>101997805
I am preparing for whatever an IT bachelors will throw at me. For my associates, I had to use MS Access. I want to avoid Wine if I can.

>>101997931
It could be better but it's serviceable enough. I just have it add all games it installs to my app menu and then launch them from my standard application launcher

Anybody ever used Adélie Linux? Installed it on Pentium 4 from 2003/2004 and worked surprisingly well(for what that computer can do).

>>101998008
Do you have any budget whatsoever to work with? You can get a decent enough laptop for like $200 used. Or you could try grabbing a sbc, they're getting to the point of being usable desktops now.

>>101998047
It's just a desktop spin of Alpine. I'd expect it to work fine, Musl weirdness aside.

>>101997700
>>101997708
nta but you're missing the point, these config files are often incomprehensible to newtards and no diff/merge tools will fix that

>>101998008
Well aside from the obvious
- more ram
- cloud RDP (students can often get free cloud credit)
- wine
- make do with swap
- dual boot

Perhaps windows server could fit your use case, it's a little slimmer, GUI minimum requirements are listed at 2GB.

>>101998061
Newtards shouldn't be using Arch if they need to be tardwrangled.

>>101998061
Then they shouldn't have any changes in them, hence no pacdiffs.

>>101998059
>desktop spin of Alpine
What's the point? Alpine works just fine.

>>101998061
if you haven't changed anything, you can just throw away the old config file every time.

if you edited sshd_config, it's assumed that you know how it works. most of the time you'll get a pacnew file that just overrides your changes so you can just safely discard it. it's not that hard.

>>101998087
Because they can. I would just use vanilla Alpine too. I ran it in the past and preferred doing a custom installation into a separate BTRFS subvolume on my drive but some people find these sorts of spins convenient. Usually though it's just made to scratch the developers itch. They built it for themselves first and foremost.

>>101997844
Tridactyl (vim extension for FF&LW) is overall pretty good but it's also kind of annoying because many pages disable extensions. If you ever open a PDF or browser settings you have to use the FF keybinds or your mouse to leave the page. Pentadactyl (Tridactyl's XUL predecessor) on Palemoon doesn't have this issue, you can use vim binds everywhere it's pretty great, but then you need to use Palemoon which has its own issues. I still mainly use Librewolf because of ublock origin and other webextension plugins that will never get ported to Palemoon or qutebrowser.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1ewhx2l/warning_increasing_maximum_volume_can_damage_your/
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1ewhx2l/comment/lj33lb1/

>>101998120
uBlock Origin still maintains the classic version which works fine with Palemoon. Other webextensions usually have alternatives too.

There are other reasons to not use it though like the speed of it. It works okay for 4chan but more demanding sites will struggle.

>>101998132
Counter argument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-rKeP-3Ty4

>>101998140
It wasn't clear but I meant uBlock on qutebrowser, the builtin adblock is pretty good but nowhere near uB's level and I hate seeing ads. Palemoon is great though, it's my go-to backup browser when something """""doesn't work on Firefox""""".

>>101997838
>>101997931
I just wish the devs would give more attention to the Wine support since its what 95% of people who use Lutris are there for, but they keep adding stupid shit like emulator support.
They may not like it, but the users just use the thing as a wine prefix manager.

>>101998400
>users just use the thing as a wine prefix manager
Why use Lutris at all? Bottles is just better.

>>101998834
DXVK

Today I learned that when installing Ubuntu Mate, the system automagically creates a /boot/efi partition when creating any other partition. Therefore manually creating a /boot partition isn't needed by default. Too bad I learned it after 3 failed installs kek

>>101998400
yeah, i use retroarch for 99% of my emulation needs so adding an extra frontend on top just seems fucky

>>101993205
I want a GUI that lets me browse for software, see screenshots, ratings etc. but also install, update, and remove it. Browsing in Flathub and then installing in the terminal etc. is not a very streamlined way to do it. Discover does this but it's terrible. No confirmation box for uninstalling stuff and you can't sort flatpaks by number of downloads. It's Krap.

>>101998917
i think theres actually a firefox plugin that allows you to outright install stuff in the browser

>>101998008
maybe you could just use your laptop as a terminal to a more powerful windows computer

>>101998049
I have another computer with 16 GB of RAM but it randomly hard freezes nowadays. It didn't used to so it's either a hardware problem or a really long lasting kernel bug.

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I am trying to install jschan but for some reason, the resulting website looks like pic related.
https://gitgud.io/fatchan/jschan

What distro for an asus e406m?

It just cannot handle windows at all anymore

>>101999543
Looks like it's missing CSS or JavaScript. You either didn't build it right or didn't deploy it right.

>>101999557
Fedora KDE is my personal favorite. Try the live cd to see if your internet works and everything.

I tried looking up your wifi chipset. Why do laptop manufacturers make this so hard?

>>101999557
Fedora Kinoite

>>101999880
i'd recommend that to someone who knows more about Linux. he's just gonna get mad he first time he tries to run dnf and it's not there.

>>101998061
>>101998098
I have a basic understanding of computers and am usually able to find a way to solve my problems. But there are many cases where it's not entirely clear how to proceed.
Example: for /etc/bash.bashrc there was a negative change removing a line:
>[[ $DISPLAY ]] && shopt -s checkwinsize
Took me 20mins to find this change and verify it's okay to remove.
> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/bash/-/commit/718916089d7b27f93f3e4e3c5ab2c0b0a9304e2e

For passwd there has been a change from
> root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash
to
> root:x:0:0::/root:/usr/bin/bash
At least there's a thread with a bunch of nerds arguing which convention is better and most of them advising to ignore pacnew changes to passwd.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=292157

I have to say, it's a nice way to learn the system, but I'd never ever advise someone to deploy archlinux in a productive work environment, simply because of the steep learning curve and administrative overhead. Could you even efficiently automate these procedures for say, a few dozen computers?

>>101999946
The passwd change is just to skip the /bin -> /usr/bin symlink. Changes like that should be applied purely to reduce noise in future diffs.

>>101999972
Yet we still use #!/bin/bash or

#!/usr/bin/env bash

in scripts, not #!/usr/bin/bash (mostly because #!/bin/bash is more portable).

I don't think it matters much either way. It's probably slightly faster since it no longer has to de-reference a symlink but we're talking about micro-optimisations here.

>>101999946
no, arch linux really is for personal use. i guess you could run ansible or something if you've got a flotilla of machines to manage.

>>101999701
I am hoping someone has installed jschan before because I end up with the same issue despite reinstalls.

>>101999861
>>101999880
Why kinoite or fedora? Ive never used fedora distros and i dont think theyre light weight by any measure. This thing is a total pos

>>102000072
/bin/bash is not more portable than /usr/bin/bash. The standard doesn't even require /bin/sh, instead the path is expected to be set for every single script at install. Which is untenable in a modern system, hence reliance on env.

>>101999940
Fedora Silverblue and Kinoite are as easy as Android.

>>102000356
it's in this weird space right now where you can pretty much turn on auto updates and trust the elderly with it but it's bad for tinkerers.

yup, love my loonix

>>102000348
More portable in terms of actual usage in the wild. Yes, I know it can be installed in /usr/local/bin/bash on FreeBSD or fuck knows where on NixOS but most normal operating systems have it in /bin

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>>102000416
mmm hmm

>>101997674
Package managers are retarded, they just push you new configs regardless. Ignore it and your old config likely just works. If it doesn't work, you are going to get told why.
>>101997700
Diffing doesn't tell a regular end user anything. Not that Diff even 'understood' settings or even comments.
>>101998074
What if the newtard just happened to realize he can search packages?
There's nothing to Arch: slap in packages until it goes brrr. How's that any different from let's say Debian?

>>101998852
/boot is actually a boomer thing, don't mix it with modern EFI system partition. Some PCs back in the day couldn't load boot code any further than some random megabytes of the start of the drive (300-something MB?). To fix this, you created a /boot partition at the very beginning. Usually we had /boot as EXT2 and root as EXT3 and later EXT4 when it became a thing.
>/boot/efi
/efi works too and circumvents an issue where you had both. Don't want mounts inside mounts.

>inb4 "why'd I have both?"
idk
Maybe you want to humor your UEFI and GRUB using separate partitions? Or maybe you wanted /boot as Unix compatible, makes sense when you have something like
>kernel 6.10.1
>kernel 6.10.2
>kernel 6.10.3
>symbolic link named "latest" that points to 6.10.3
>symbolic link named "previous" that points to 6.10.2
Can't do links on FAT32. (this is why I was kind of amazed GRUB doesn't shit on anyone using ESP as /boot supplement)

>>101999940
It's literally just
toolbox create foobar
toolbox enter foobar
dnf install nigger

Learning two commands is a lot easier than learning how to not destroy shit by mutating your system.

>>102000314
What exactly is too heavy for you in Fedora? Are you just a retard parroting what you've seen others on here say? Let me guess, you use Arch because someone told you to, and you're unable to argue for why you use it.

>>102001582
Look up the laptop i posted moron

>>102001730
nta but Fedora Kinoite should work just fine on that laptop, moron

>>102001421
>Diffing doesn't tell a regular end user anything. Not that Diff even 'understood' settings or even comments.
Ask ChatGPT if you're looking for an in depth conversation. Most non-retarded people will be able to look at it and see what's changed.

>>102001799
>forcibly and immediately turns everything into person almost as if the topic didn't interest him at all
Why do normies do this? Talking about people is BORING.

>>102001569
distrobox is better but GUI programs don't always work. hell, what if he wants to experiment with WMs? those don't load when run from toolbox/distrobox. then you have to explain exports.

>>102001730
i use kinoite on a thinkpad from 2010

I want NixOS with portage cflags

Make me this distro anons, ty

>>102001730
>shit laptop
Doesn't matter, That seems like an awful laptop. Worse specs than a phone from 10 years ago. My first laptop that I got in 2008 had twice that amount of RAM. What will you be using it for?

>>101997674
Download pacman-contrib and use pacdiff to merge the pacnew and current config file, though make sure to install Meld to use that as the diff program as it defaults to vidiff.

>>102002021
Distrobox is not always better. They replaced it with Toolbox for a reason. Sharing the home directory and therefore all the dotfiles like .bashrc from the host is certainly going to make things easier for most people.

>what if he wants to experiment with WMs?
Just layer it? Just layer those very few things that don't work in a toolbox or flatpak.

is it a good idea to alter default DPI (in my case through XFCE appearance settings, although ive messed around with Xresources Xft.dpi as well)?
96 seems to be the default but apparently my monitor should be more like 109. do you anons leave DPI alone and just change font sizes?
there doesn't seem to be a practical difference other than font sizes feeling larger/smaller than they "should" be, but i wasn't sure if i was missing something

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what distros are lighter to install than mint MATE? i have an old chromebook i've wiped to UEFI, and i got a live session of MATE going, but i can't install it. it says i need 15.9 gb of space and apparently i only have 15.8

Getting frustrated trying to find opinions on why certain distros might or might not be acceptable to lesser experienced or senior pc users.
its like everything is 'well i can handle it, so they probably could'.
yet whenever I try something like this there's always something that gets in the way that I didnt foresee happening. in which case the pc gets put aside on a shelf doomed forever and they use their tablet or ipad for good.

>>102003005
Linux Mint is what you're looking for

>>102003074
I think Mint was one of my attempts. Because it was a touch screen laptop, I thought having one of the widgets on the desktop act as the shutdown button would be handy. But cinnamon apparently do no maintenance of any of the plugins, and it was extremely buggy to move into the position I wanted and I couldn't tap to activate it.

>>102003005
Granny? Immutable distro.
Tinkerer? Non-Immutable distro.
It's a trade off between robustness and capability.

>>102003107
>touch screen laptop
Just use Windows. Touchscreen Linux is hopeless.

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Be honest, is everything that isn't Plasma, GNOME or a Window Manager a dead end? Is Cosmic the only hope left? the GTK4 jump has been chaotic, and the ecosystem isn't doing that well: Plasma is a charade that can barely keep a web browser for a week, Unity is dead, you can't really trust things like Trinity DE or Moksha/Enlightenment to do beyond the bare minimum to keeps the lights on within their niche, every DE still stuck on GTK3 isn't going to be able to stand for long and distributions start jumping versions and app developers move on.
I really like Cinnamon, but Clem is insane if he thinks they can patch GTK3 to work with upstream features with their current manpower. Unless LXQt can pull out something with Labwc, things look bleak.
>>101978851
Isn't Pix the image viewer? What's wrong with it? That and Xed are the best default Mint apps. Simple and functional.

>>102003005
elementaryOS

it's mac-like and hard to break since olds use it as a firefox bootloader. my mother has been using it for years, no trouble.

>>102003005
Most distros are very similar, the criteria that's going to affect a new user the most are:
>how easy is the installation process
>how much software does it has available without thinkering
>what kind of release cycle adjusts better to their current goals
You can just pick something like Kubuntu or Fedora and go on with your life most of the time.

>>102002171
i think you're right. ewaste.

>>102003158
>Kubuntu
the whole wallet password for wifi is a huge killer for old people.

>>102003136
elementaryos would be good, but one person likes to compulsively install distros to usb sticks. the default web browser not being firefox is a slight point negative in that case.

>>102003125
>>102003107
Just use KDE then. KDE has good touch support. GNOME does too but that'd probably confuse them.

>>102003213
you mean kwallet? you can always turn it off for granny

reminds me of when i riced plasma to look like windows for mine since anything too different freaks her out. i had to install plymouth because systemd spooked her too lmao

>>102003257
it bothers me that gnome is confusing. would a minimise button there by default really kill them to add.
linux needs a DE that isnt the windows paradigm, i think it helps embed in peoples mind 'this isnt windows, be patient and learn it'.

>>102003213
Set the wifi adapter's mode to Infrastructure and set the password in System Settings. No password prompts, ever. Also not secure because it's stored in plain text, but it's just a wifi password anyway.

>>101989192
Yes

>>102003346
if they stayed at home and only used their own internet ever, sure.

>>102003319
Going against what the user wants and doing what you think the user needs is gnome think.

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>>101978959
I bought a samsung book 2 pro 360 and I plan to go full linux, wich enviroment you recomend that works well with th touch stuff, I was planning on using hyprland but idk

>>102003451
A tiler is going to have the absolute worst touch support because it's designed for keyboard use unless it has mouse regions like windows does where you can drag a window to the centre and it pops up a dialogue where to place it, etc.

>>102003467
>>102003451
On the other hand if the dynamic window placement works for you then it may be fine

>>102003467
In windows it detects when the keyboard is folded, I can write some scripts to detect that and change some settings (I dont know yet if I can read the position or something), but I wonder if other DE, WM, etc have support for foldable laptops and how good is it

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>>101978959
WHERE THE FUCK

IS

QBITTORRENT

4.6.6?~!?!?!?!?!?! ? JESUSU CHRISDT I am a smo mad.... I am so Fuckign Mad ..... WHerer Is MY Updooted TOrrent CLient ....

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>>102003567
Install Gentoo

>>102003253
uh just don't leave the live discs around and sudo apt install firefox + change default program

This is big. IPFS might actually be usable as a filesystem now:
https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/6920#event-13952160423

>>102003751
thinking about it further, with that gtk3 - gtk4 someone else mentioned, am i wasting my time putting effort in to making install and help docs for a distro that will eventually change how all their shit works..

>>101984127
Kdenlive is usually the go-to.

The Ask Noah Linux podcast recommended that a few times. Dude fucks around with Linux enough to be a sysadmin basically.

Would check it out imo

>>102004038
>Dude fucks around with Linux enough to be a sysadmin basically.
Not basically, he is a sysadmin. He has a company:
https://www.altispeed.com/asknoah/

I FIGURED OUT THE ISSUE WHERE EVERYTHING RELATING TO AUDIO SEEMED FUCKED. I HAD NO INTERNET SO I COULDN'T RESPOND TO THE ANON THAT ASKED WHICH DISTRIBUTION I WAS USING. it's mind, btw. AND BASICALLY; PipeWire SHIT ITSELF. SOMEHOW THAT CAUSED FIREFOX TO STALL AND CRASH WHEN DOING RANDOM SHIT.

I AM NOW ON PULSEAUDIO. THE DELAY IS HORRIBLE, BUT WE'RE GOOD :-)

>>101991472
Fag. Just get a separate micro SD card, slap Batocera on it, boot into that, and you're good.

There's a good ArcadePunks Steam Deck image out there, use that for all of what you need.

>>102004057
>SOMEHOW THAT CAUSED FIREFOX TO STALL AND CRASH WHEN DOING RANDOM SHIT.
This is yet another issue with their crap audio backend. If PulseAudio disconnects for any reason whatsoever the whole browser locks up waiting on a socket.

>>101990041
KDE is the only usable Linux desktop.

>>101984127
be careful relying on it to make a living, it has weird shit happen like the preview sound sync being fine and rendered product out of sync, or added effects slowing down the preview and throwing off the resulting end video time.
other than that its fine.

>>101985605
Anyone?

>>102002820
Debian 12 + Openbox + Tint2 + themes online, or use IceWM

>can't use home-manager for my irssi config without giving the irc user access to my nix socket
i'm tired of this shit

>>102003126
Use LXDE or Openbox with dmenu you fuckin pleb

>>102004463
Need plug and play support for external monitors unfortunately (to make presentations) I'm begrudgingly using GNOME for now, though is an annoying experience.

is regular fedora workstation just as fast as silverblue? installed sb to a old spare laptop and im not sure it really benefits someone like me but feels a shame to wipe the install already.

bore vs pds vs bmq?

>>102004799
Yes

>>102004890
From looking around, BORE seems best if you game a lot.

https://emmabuntus.org/

The perfect old people/retards distro. It's used on old computers in africa with great success

>>102004799
i don't think there's any real difference in terms of the packages it comes with. it's based on workstation but it uses ostree to manage the file system instead.

>>102004799
The only real differences is that with Silverblue the root is immutable while being managed by rpm-ostree and you do all your graphical program usage via Flatpaks. They basically have the same performance.

Opensuse's default kernel management is very confusing.

im a windows 10 fag whos gonna hop into linux next year and i have plans to jump into CachyOS since i do game alot but im scared to try somethin new like Hyprland. i had a old laptop and only tried fedora KDE but i do love the hyprland design. are there gonna be any problems when i try to game if i use hyprland? Any recommends surrounding linux when it comes to gaming?

>>101978959
is there a less painful approach to picking .so files than going through your binaries with ldd(1) and seeing which pop up?
something short of just globbing the entire lib folder and copying it over wholesale

>>102005778
libtree/objdump/readelf can help with that.

>>102005382
>>102005698
>>102005724
thanks. i did the switch. benefit of workstation seems to be i can write to text files over samba, while silverblue refused to do that. so thats a plus.

>>102005967
Well normal Fedora allows you to change anything in the root filesystem with root privilege like any other normal Linux distro.

>>102005854
not sure how objdump or readelf are supposed to help here, function abi names are even less useful than heavily symlinked .so files.
libtree is nice, didn't know about that one, thank you! (even though I wish you could format the output as to remove the tree-graphic. oh well, pipe gluing here I come)

>>102005999
Use the -l flag:

$ lddtree -l /bin/bash
/bin/bash
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
/usr/lib64/libreadline.so.8
/lib64/libtinfow.so.6
/lib64/libtinfo.so.6
/lib64/libc.so.6

>>102006016
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lddtree

even nicer! libtree only has --path, which doesn't de-prettify the output. thank you again!

>>102005967
that sounds like a bug, in practice base workstation and silverblue should behave the same

>>101997234
I've been using fcitx and mozc

>>102005999
You gotta pipe the output to grep to get the correct info

>>102005778
in the context of a chroot, that's an important detail I omitted
but I like l{ib,dd}tree

>>101997931
I ended up writing my own wine frontend based on the one freebsd uses instead of using either lutris or bottles
The only downside is not being able to use custom wine builds

>>101998087
Preconfigured out of the box alpine desktop
Same reason ubuntu and all it's spins exist

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>>101978959
Any reason scrub on 4x 12Tb HDDs takes multiple weeks to complete?
I'm running BTRFS RAID5.

>>102001582
You sound like a retard parroting what others say without reading what's being asked in the first place.

>>102006042
well fingers crossed it doesnt re-emerge after doing the updates i was too lazy to do yet.

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>>102006151
that is one of the problems with btrfs raid5/6, unoptimised scrubs. it is in fact normal for it to be that slow. it's generally recommended if using hdd's to scrub one disc at a time, otherwise it will be thrashing the whole time

>>102006517
Scrubs will always be slow, even on highly performant filesystems like ZFS it's slow to perform a scrub because of the way RAID5 (RAIDZ in ZFS) works.

>>102006151
It's slow because it has to read all of the drives to check the parity. There's no way around it, it goes as quickly as it can.

>>102006549
you misunderstand, btrfs's raid5/6 scrub is much slower than it should be, it's not just because it has to read all the drives, the issue (iirc) is that if you tell it to scrub the volume, it will read all the discs simultaneously (fine) but for each read, it has to also read the other discs to verify the parity (thrashtastic)
the reason people say to just scrub one disc at a time is because even scrubbing one disc causes all the other discs to need to read, so at least in that case you only have one I/O thread trying to read each disc, hdd's perform like garbage when you have multiple threads trying to access different data at the same time, you end up spending more time seeking than reading
it's still way slower than it needs to be, since you end up reading each disc N times where N is the number of discs in the raid5/6
this is one reason why people say raid5/6 in btrfs isn't a good idea, while it's largely safe to use (if using raid1c3/4 metadata), it still has things like this making it not ideal to use

>>102006625
Sounds like they optimised it for SSDs. They have no issue with parallel I/O.

>>102006649
they just don't really work on raid5/6 much, most progress is done by facebook i believe, and if it's something they don't use, things move slow
on ssd's you probably don't need to worry about doing one at a time, since seeking isn't an issue, but it'll still be slower than it can be

>>102006151
just use zfs

>>102006735
scrubbing isn't something you have to do often, and there are other disadvantages to using zfs (especially on linux), so it's not quite that simple
even if scrubbing a zfs raidz5 is done ideally (reading each disc only once), all it means is that it finishes faster
you can stop/resume scrubs in btrfs as well, so you can just run it during off-peak times so it doesn't matter so much how long it takes

>>102006805
>there are other disadvantages to using zfs (especially on linux)
Such as what? Curious to know.
I know about the kernel module thing, but i thought zfs was doing better on linux than on freebsd at the moment.
Does btrfs still have the write hole issue with raid5/6?

>>102006939
They have bad support for mainline kernels. If you're somebody that runs LTS kernels then that's not an issue but if you want day one support for the latest stable kernels then that can be problematic sometimes. There are occasions where you can't update and have to stay on an EOL kernel series until ZFS updates their code.

>>102006939
zfs generally uses more ram, as it has its' own memory cache separate to the linux page cache, it has less flexible multi-device support than btrfs (like for example, anon could add another disc to turn his 4-disc raid5 into a 5-disc raid5 in-place, or convert it to raid1, or anything, really. pretty killer feature for small users), btrfs also handles mixed-size multi-device raids better, as in it can often use more or all the space available while traditional raids can only use as much from each disc as the size of the smallest member

>>102006977
anyone who uses mainline kernels together with the mainline ZFS branch is basically asking to have their shit rekt and imo deserves it

https://github.com/pop-os/popsicle
https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter
https://gitlab.com/adhami3310/Impression
Which one?

>>102008047
What kind of ISO are you writing? Another Linux one? Windows?

hello /fglt/.

I'm on EndeavourOS and everything's been great as an ex Winblows 11 user however i have an issue with the sound, on Windows i was able to change outputs from front jack to my rear jack which is my speakers and now the rear jack is muted unless i unplug my headphones.

Please help

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>>102005773
I’ve been doing well with Zorin OS. Even Black Myth runs flawlessly with Nvidia on day one of release. Makes me wonder why on windows 10 I’d crave the newest drivers when it’s not really necessary. No Nvidia GeForce bloated beta app needed.
Also since AMD is open source I can always run FSR and AMD frame generation if Nvidia made a game not play well with DLSS frame gen on linux. Not that I want frame gen but it’s nice to have options.