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Guess I'll ask here since Nvidia fags in /pcbg/ only know about video cards. Is there anything neat I can do with an Nvidia Jetson TX2? I can get a good deal on one ($10).

>>102030226
Isn't that thing like an overpowered Raspberry pi? You could use it for a NAS or regular home server stuff.

>sometimes get a black screen when waking up from sleep using kde wayland with an nvidia gpu and have to hard reset pc
not a big issue since reboots are so fast but is this life with an nvidia gpu?

What's the correct way to assign a static IP?
On the device i did

ip addr add $IP dev $Device

In my router I bound an IP to that specific mac, but it's still pulling addresses from the DHCP server. Will I need to totally disable to DHCP server in my router to get this to work?

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>>102029266
I ended up doing this. Thanks for the rec bro.

>>102030667
desu i avoid so much linux trouble by avoiding doing shit with no use case at this day and age like "sleep" and "hibernate"
be more like me

>>102030932
>7800x3d
>7900gre
very based
>gnome
very unbased

Its insane how bad ubuntu is now.
I need a lightweight distro that doesnt containerize everything, and stable but non ancient packages.

>>102031014
Honestly I feel like every DE has it's strengths and weaknesses after testing out a bunch of them. Gnome is just what I like.

>>102030932
>AMD GPU
>165HZ
Use radeontop to check your memory clock, there was/is a bug that causes excessive power draw on some cards at very high refresh rates

>>102030974
shutdown after use or keep running forever unless a reboot? based. i might. be nice if it worked like its supposed to but my fault for not having amd lol

>>102031193
>shutdown after use
yes, startup is so fast these days there's no reason to do sleep instead

i fell for the nix os meme. i just installed it on my throwaway 2012 macbook though. how do i uninstall firefox or useless programs like weather or contacts? i don't see them in the /etc/nixos/configuration.nix file. i thought i could just delete the package/program from an array and rebuild

How hard is Gentoo to learn and maintain? Any good video guides? Wiki seems great though.

>>102031236
there actually is some kind of excludepackages command from what i remember

>>102030803
just set static ip for that mac in router's webgui, no need to do it on the device. Then set dhcp for interface and don't forget to restart the networking/device.

>>102031226
is it bad for your components to keep powering off a computer or is that a myth?

>>102031021
You can only go linux mint or debian or one of the other distros based on it like MX or go for something like fedora xfce

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Anyone here manage to get jschan running?
https://gitgud.io/fatchan/jschan

>>102031698
it's certainly bad for hard drives

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Arch was frustrating at first, but I really like it now.

>>102031945
I would like it if I didn't have to deal with pacnews and troubleshoot shit that randomly breaks on update.

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Anyone have the Ubuntu nude artwork to download?

>>102029780
Hey guys, I'm running linux min and I've noticed that my graphics card fan hasn't ran in a while, or I haven't noticed that it has ran in a while. What are some programs I can use to check this? Its a radeon card.

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Where do I begin to learn philosophy and best-practices for package generation.

I'm starting to make my own private alpine apk packages. There's documentation about the tooling, but I find the guidance on how to structure packages to be a bit lacking.

There's also some weird link that I wasn't expecting, like why can't I export files to /opt.

Anyone know where I can start?

>>102032446
Plato and Descartes. Everyone else is a meme.

I got gnome mostly configured the way I want.

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>>102032482
Pic related.

>>102032498
>change gnome until it no longer resembles gnome
There is no such thing as a good Gnome desktop.

>>102032551
ngl the taskbar is fairly aesthetic even if its styled off of apple's.

>>102031423
i got it. my shitty chink router blows ass. i had dhcp binding on with mac security binding. i guess it didn't like both of them on

>>102032348
>download basemark off of linux mint's software manager
>its a flatpak
>download it anyway
>doesn't launch
Why...

>>102032599
I like it too but it looks like it's permanent so it doesn't work the way Gnome was intended. I am just using this as an excuse to complain about no one using vanilla Gnome because vanilla Gnome actually sucks.

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>>102031236
If they aren't in your configuration they are either pulled in by something else that is in your config or you installed them trough nix-env. On nixos you *never* want to install packages through nix-env. If you are not sure where in your config something comes from, use

nix-tree /nix/var/nix/profiles/system

>>102032728
I have the dock set to intelligently hide, so it's only omni present when nothing is over lapping it.

>>102032348
>>102032652
nvm, I just used glmark2, is a score of 11760 good?

>>102032765
this should be the default. who is it harming, really?

>>102032765
KDE has this as an option. I only wish there was a setting to ignore overlapping windows if I'm focused on a different display.

>>102032987
What issue are you having?

>>102032990

Disregard that. I'm a moron. It was masked by a keyword but I forgot to add the keyword.

>>102032765
A mouse is a great usecase for this. However, Gnome developers don't care about mouse users.

>>102032835
What graphics card is it? For what it's worth my 6700 XT scores 12146

I don't know if there's any public database you can use to compare scores. Maybe Phoronix has something as part of their public test data?

In terms of fans not coming on you want to look at temperature data though. If the temps aren't high then they're programmed to never come on (notice my fans are 0 RPM).

amdgpu_top is a really good program for checking things like this:
https://github.com/Umio-Yasuno/amdgpu_top

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>>102033225
Forgot the pic.

hello anons, im currently customizing my setup but i want to make some small widget like applications for my second monitor to display. imagine things like a music controller and a smart home controller.

anyone here able to point me in the direction of the best way of creating these types of small apps?

>>102029933

Should I install the minimal NicOS ISO? What's the difference with the normal one with the GUI, I mean besides the GUI

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I finally got jschan working. The solution is to not copy/paste a bunch of commands at once or the setup won't run properly.

>>102029780
I'm thinking about buying a AMD GPU to replace my GTX 1050 TI. Is it worth it for the jump? Do AMD GPUs support video decoding in web browsers?

>>102032937
Dock to dash (make it very short) + auto hide. It took me 2 years before I got rid of all the other shit (extensions) and did 2 simple things.

>>102034233
>Do AMD GPUs support video decoding in web browsers?
In Firefox they do. Chromium has a bug that makes it not work properly but that'll probably be fixed once they move to Vulkan and Vulkan Video Decoding.

>>102032599
You can make polybar look the exact same way on any DE or WM you want

>>102034322
So you're saying you ruined the Gnome workflow. You might as well use any other DE.

>>102034557
Yeah, just imagine making your DE work for you instead of you working for your DE.

>>102033225
NTA but I just got 19703 with a 6600, are you running a different version?
https://pastebin.com/vvQtY3GJ

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I'm getting hard filtered. I don't know how to install mullvad or wirevpn on mint.

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I won't be able to use my left hand for a while. Is there something like pic related for arch?

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Honest to god I'm pretty sure Krita is by far one of the best drawing programs out there even compared to proprietary options
Tho man I wish its text tool was better, even if it doesn't seem as bad as I remember
Dunno if placebo or not but it seems to run better after I switched to ganoo/linux too

>>102034726
I was about to ask something related, I need something that makes adding and editing text less of a pain compared to GIMP. Krita isnt suited for that, right? Photoshop is the only thing I've been missing ever since I moved to linux.

>>102034595
I built the latest version from git. My system isn't exactly idle though, there's a lot going on with it.

>>102034726
Nice art. I bet even ebussy would get a chuckle out of that

>>102034772
I haven't a clue how it compares to GIMP since I never used it, only ever focused on drawing rather than photo editing.
With that said it's pretty poor in that regard, think you could try inkscape if you want something in the foss area.
Outside of that only one I know with good text tools that is free(but not foss) is Medibang. Does well with text, unsurprisingly since its made for comics/manga, though it can be a bit annoying with its advertising.

>>102034654
Did you run this?
https://mullvad.net/en/download/app/deb/latest

>>102034557
Gnome was my first committed attempt with Linux, my first experience with it. DE knowledge was not instinctual for me. I had to explore the nuances and learn environmentally. Bizarre, I know

Why doesn't Gentoo enable verify-sig by default in profiles?

It seems like such an obvious thing to do. Anyone that doesn't want it can easily disable it.

I'm playing with Librewolf, getting a feel for it. I'm having a hard time deciding if clearing history on close is worthwhile. If somebody has access to my filesystem in that way, I'm already pwned beyond reason. Browsing history isn't part of any API that could be used for fingerprinting, so why bother? Local shared computer privacy?

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How do I change this god ugly unusable highlight color in st? Changing the config.h file seems to do nothing.

>>102035556
getting rid of session restore/history has been good for me. i don't hoard as many tabs now. it only kinda sucks if it crashes. even then, i think it doesn't erase anything on a crash. if you really care about something, bookmark it.

>>102035579
This was set up using LARBS by the way.

>>102035597
Good call on the bookmarks. I don't use them enough. I also don't hoard tabs, though. From an ergonomic or habit-building perspective, I can appreciate your opinion. Given that I don't share them, I think I will allow history. There's a general thread I like that I rotate out when a new one is up. I like to leave it as a pinned tab and I want my browser to restore it on launch.
I don't believe I'm exposing myself to anything by allowing that.

>>102033413
Might be useful to give us more information, like your DE/Setup.
I know KDE has a lot of widgets you can enable and customize.

installed fedora on a spare machine. why is dnf so slow?

>>102035718
They know about it. In the next release it will be quicker:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Switch-DNF5-Approved

>>102035718
Weird... I've never experienced any problems with DNF.
But anyways try playing with this in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

fastestmirror=True
max_parallel_downloads=20

If that does not help, you can always just switch to dnf5.

>>102035718
because it's being rewritten. get dnf5 and alias it to dnf.

kde uses 1.7GB on boot. I've seen people get it down to 500 or so...how?

>>102035789
KDE usage varies depending on how much you have.
Do not worry about it, unused ram is wasted ram.

>>102035789
Likely disabling unneeded/optional services and fancy effects, etc.

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>>102029780
Hello! I just Installed Linux Mint [XFCE] onto a ThinkPad I bought and I did:
>sudo apt install
Then I Did:
>sudo apt upgrade
After that I went into my Settings and just started configuring everything to my liking but now what do I do? What do I do now, I want to learn about Linux more and get into Programming aswell.

>>102035953
>what do I do?
Nothing, just use your computer like your normally would, break it, learn from those mistakes and fix them.

>>102035953
Goodluck doing any programming wth ais taking over.

>>102036019
Until we have AI prompting AI somebody has to operate it

>>102036042
a manager can do that tho.

>>102036051
You need somebody that knows what they're doing not a retard in a suit. All the companies laying off tons of staff for AI are fucking morons. Most likely they know that and were just looking for an excuse to get rid of people.

>>102036073
>You need somebody that knows what they're doing not a retard in a suit.
Not every manager is a retard in a suit, you will see managers with "AI Experience" coming soon.
Making AI was the dumbest thing programmers could have done.

>>102035953
linux is pretty painful for programming.
as a C++ programmer I would tell you that the linux package manager is fine for C libraries, it makes no sense for C++ libraries, because C++ libraries change (and add breaking changes) while C libraries are pretty stiff.
I would normally say the advantage linux has over C++ is valgrind, but I found out you can use valgrind with wine apps, but I haven't tested it yet (and windows has wsl to run valgrind with).
because I like making graphical applications, valgrind as well as Address sanitizer bundled with Leak sanitizer, no way to disable other than with a environment variable (linux only), they will give false positives to all graphics API's. You can suppress them, but leak sanitizer will still show a report telling you suppressions.
And don't sleep on address sanitizer, it's the only useful tool for debugging C and C++ code, since it has zero false positives (except for the leak, not asan, that's lsan), and ubsan is also cool.
I don't care about leaks, it's usually pretty hard to make a leak in C++.
Overall if you are interested in using C++, I would suggest just using windows with msvc and use the vs studio project file + vcpkg until you feel like you need to learn cmake to port your code to linux.
And if you want to make games, you probably should use any game engine anyways.
If you are not interested in C or C++, or making games, you are lucky soul. But you should have mentioned it in your post baka, explain what you want.

Is my machine going to be bloated and slow now that I installed the 27 prerequisites for installing mangohud? It was like gigs worth of C+, python, libsgfx3/ or whatever it was never ending for a freaking overlay app. Mango is still missing dependencies after all that, I went one by one installing them for nothing, I don’t want to install more dev junk.

>>102036099
It's not dumb but the people with "AI Experience" are all grifters, that's for sure.

Future programmers will be data scientists. You need somebody that understands how AI works, how to debug it and train it, how to understand why it went wrong and how to fix it, etc.

>>102036108
Just because a bunch of libs are sitting on your disk does not mean they are running/doing anything.

Number of installed packages is a meaningless metric.
Software does not magically run itself just because.

>>102036131
contrary to windows where a bunch of libs sitting on your disk, while not slowing down shit, they can wreak havoc, plus, in a windows context "to install" something normally means it adds another process to the start up

>>102036131
Unless you use Debian where the retards auto-enable every Systemd service the moment you install a package (not applicable to Mangohud because it and its dependencies have no services but it's still retarded).

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When I try to use xdg-desktop-portal-kde or xdg-desktop-portal-kde on Debian on my standalone WM there are no icons. How do I fix this?

>>102036177
Install the Breeze icons package and qt5-svg

>>102036185
>>102036177
Also:

export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=kde

Put that in your profile file somewhere. You're not using the KDE platform theme for Qt. That's the ugly as fuck default fusion theme.

>>102036148
>contrary to windows where a bunch of libs sitting on your disk, while not slowing down shit, they can wreak havoc.
How tho? libraries by definition are only accessed when something else calls them.
A thousand of DLLs in system32 won't do anything.

>>102036163
While you are right, I didn't want to confuse the newbie with too much info.

>>102036196
But I'm already using qt5ct with gtk2 widgets for the style.

>>102036269
Well it's not working. That's not GTK2.

You probably want:

export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct

>>102036005
Thanks, I'll try to use this ThinkPad more over my PC so I can get more acustomed to Linux.
>>102036019
Don't we still need Programmers to manage all of that?
>>102036103
Making games is always something I wanted to do but overall I just want to learn Programming so I can hopefully get a Job in the field.

>>102036282
>>102036269
Interestingly the UNIX Stack Exchange website recommends adding it to /etc/environment
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/680483/how-to-add-qt-qpa-platformtheme-qt5ct-environment-variable-in-arch-linux

This is probably because things like the portals are spawned via DBus so might not necessarily pick up your environment variables properly. On KDE this isn't an issue because they take care to start DBus themselves or import the environment properly into Systemd, etc, but in other environments it is.

>>102031014
>gnome
me thinks wayland is suitable for gaming without annoying screen tearing

>>102036403
NTA
KDE Supports Wayland just as good as GNOME, if not better.
Still, enjoy it.
What are you playing btw? i might be looking to play something.

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>>102036403
Too bad it doesn't have HDR yet and its VRR support is still experimental and it doesn't support screen tearing for those that do want it (either retards playing Counter Strike that want to eek out every last millisecond of performance but don't want to switch to Windows for some reason)

KDE is the desktop for gamers. It's what Valve went with on the Steam Deck and they contract some of their developers.

>>102036456
Just let the guy enjoy GNOME, is his choice.

>>102036476
If he enjoys it then that's great for him, I wouldn't call it suitable for gaming though.

I've been playing Starfield with the Luma HDR mod and it looks and works great on KDE. I could never go back to GNOME. I'm probably a KDE user for life now.

>>102036501
>Starfield
Maybe i should finally give in and try it... does it have an unofficial patch like skyrim and fo4?

Also, chill on the shilling mate

>>102036333
Yeah I give up. Qt5ct still works on normal apps. I tried forcing the environment variables but it made no difference. Why can't someone just make a desktop-agnostic Qt based xdg-desktop-portal? Or even just a GTK2 based one.

>>102036564
Most of the bugs are getting patched by Bethesda since it's still a new game so I don't think there's many unofficial patches like that yet.

>>102036593
You need to put it in /etc/environment and then reboot (because it won't pick it up until you restart the portal)

>>102036610
>Most of the bugs are getting patched by Bethesda since it's still a new game so I don't think there's many unofficial patches like that yet.
They are not and that does not matter, with both Skyrim and FO4 the unofficial patches popped up from the very beginning. Bethesda used to made such a terrible effort patching bugs that they were a necessity otherwise you would most likely end up with a corrupted save (thanks to the fact that scripts are saved in your savegame) after playing a few hundred of hours.
Anyways i just looked up and it exists: https://www.afkmods.com/index.php?/topic/8939-relzwipz-unofficial-starfield-patch/
Same team from Skyrim and FO4 Unofficial patch

Looking at the changelog I can also see that there are a couple script fixes... After decades bethesda hasn't learned anything
https://www.afkmods.com/Unofficial%20Starfield%20Patch%20Version%20History.html

>>102036698
>Looking at the changelog I can also see that there are a couple script fixes... After decades bethesda hasn't learned anything
You can also see that they're reverting fixes (precisely because Bethesda has been patching them).

You are right though, they probably won't bother fixing everything except the game breaking bugs.

>>102035953
i'd say play around with some scripting. make some aliases. writing bash scripts counts as programming

Why should I use linux over ubuntu?

>>102036748
>You can also see that they're reverting fixes (precisely because Bethesda has been patching them).
Yeah that has always been done, no point on fixing something twice.
Basically if something finally gets fixed on Bethesda's end then it gets reverted in order to avoid conflicts.

>You are right though, they probably won't bother fixing everything except the game breaking bugs.
Yup, you should check the logs for the older games, it's insane the amount of bugs that Bethesda simply chooses to ignore.

Anyways I hope this info helps someone, maybe you could try the patches.

I became "obsessed" with these patches after my very first character for Skyrim (v1.0, 2011) basically died on its own (the save file became so corrupted the game would crash to desktop with no exceptions every 5mins~ or so)

>>102036837
ubuntu is a kernel

>>102036837
>>102036875
potato

what a shitty bot

I just installed debian 12 via USB. When I went for guided partitioning it listed the USB stick as /dev/sdb without a partition. Now after removing the stick and booting up, under lsblk it still lists the stick as sdb. It doesn't show up under fdisk, I only have one drive on this machine. Nothing else is connected to it so I don't know what else it should be. How do I get rid of this entry?

in a honeymoon period with fedora 40. its nice. i cant find a grammar package for libreoffice though.

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>>102029780

>>102029780
I'd like practice practice WPF, but I'm on Linux, what makes sense.
Because I can't run visual studio, I would have to use visual studio code, and run the application Wine?
Does that make sense?

>>102038122
Use a Windows VM. You really don't want to do Windows development on Linux unless it's something like Dotnet (the cross-platform version, not the one with proprietary Windows specific APIs) or Mono.

This is fucking retarded, why is qemu only passing through half of my l3 cache, no matter which cores I assign to the vm? Unless I'm the one being retarded and it's purely visual.

>>102038253
but it has to be Dotnet

>>102038253
How does one get a windows vm running really fast?

Your take on this?
>>102038738

How lightweight are Sway and Hyprland (with visual effects disabled) compared to GNOME, KDE and COSMIC?

>>102038844
Much more so. As they're much simpler environments with less moving background parts they're less harsh on your hardware, really like any window manager compared to a desktop environment. Hyprland's whole deal is basically being a WM with pizazz and pretty looks while still being performant, while Sway is basically i3 ported to Wayland. When COSMIC actually makes it to full primetime I'm expecting it to really shake up the DE world with how it performs compared.

>>102038579
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

>>102038916
ew

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Anyone know how to get a count of how many commands you’ve ever put into the command line?
I wanna keep a high score.

I'm trying to run Linux in QEMU with the disk image coming off an external HDD over USB 3

It's not very fast but I don't have much space on my local disk for the image

Maybe I should try something small like Alpine Linux and it might be faster

>>102039997
You can't. But you could start keeping a record of them by not limiting the size of .bash_history assuming you're using bash and then counting that.

>>102040040
Won't work, the last instance of the shell saves its history overwriting other instances' history.

>>102029780
I'm getting real tired of Microsoft becoming more and more like Mac and restricting their user base so I wanna scope out Linux before I'm forced to get win11 or who knows what trash they drop next, but why the fuck are there so many different versions of linux?
Wouldn't it be easier for people to focus on a handful that way retards like me have an easier time getting started and "the year of linux" will finally come about? Also how do you make a virtual machine?

>>102039767
Do you know a quicker way? I'd personally spend the time to configure it myself but if you're short for time then those ready made evaluation images are great.

>>102040469
There being many distros comes from the Linux's kernel's open source nature, among pretty much everything else you use to build around it to make a functioning desktop.
If you don't wanna think about it, use Linux Mint.

>>102039999
Okay never mind, I realised I can just run Linux using Docker, which is way faster and more lightweight (I don't need a GUI for my purposes)

Thanks Docker

>>102039997
wc -l ~/.bash_history

>>102040416
>won't work
>overwriting
Yes it will, histappend exists.

>>102040040
>>102040555
Thanks and checked.

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>stability of the debian coreutils
>bleeding edginess of the arch kernel
>minimalist init system of void linux
>configurability of Gentoo's portage
>still uses a stale distro despite being able to get the best of all worlds
ISHYGDDT

>>102040706
>>configurability of Gentoo's portage
This is all you need.

>>102040719
Sorry to break it down to you but openrc is a slow poke

>>102040706
it's shit

>>102040775
OpenRC isn't slow, it supports parallelism. Turn it on. Runit doesn't even have dependencies but if you like shit not working due to it's complete and utter lack of what needs to be up and running prior you can install it on Gentoo too.
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-process/runit

>>102040775
Oh well, at least it gets replaced by sysV easily. In fact sysV is already there, openRC is just a plugin.

>>102040522
Do you need to hold a system and do an occasional upgrade?
You can have an arbitrary system in an arbitrary directory and simply chroot in if that's the case.

>>102040469
>Wouldn't it be easier for people to focus on a handful
just ignore everyone that says you should use such n such.
ubuntu 2404 has some great ease of use from the get go (should i really be so excited about keyboard backlight control from the os?). but its very on the nose with its crash and crash reporting.
havent put fedora 40 on anything modern yet, so if theres the same ease of use from the get to, forgive me for only mentioning ubuntu. if fedora 40 has been crashing, it hasnt told me. when you do updates its default is to make you restart to apply them. gnome software center has come a long way in stability and telling you what software is rated well.
opensuse leap is one i came close to recommending to newcomers but then they went and said they werent sure if thered be any more versions of it.

>>102038077 (checked)
KEK

>>102041271
Classic Wayland cope*

Is there anything similar to user.js for brave so i can disable all the tor and crypto shit instead of having to do it manually every time?

>>102041995
Nah, Chromium doesn't work like that. It has a js file called "Preferences" but you can't really tweak it without shit breaking.

mint keeps reinstalling kernel 6.8
I want to stay on 6.5, but it just keeps on reinstalling 6.8 every single day
what's going on?

>>102040469
>why the fuck are there so many different versions of linux?
Ignore all the forks.

>>102039997
try this one as well

history -c && history -w

Why is cross-compiling C or C++ such a fucking nightmare

With Go it's insanely easy

>still can't recover from sleep on Nvidia wayland
Wish green would stop being such uppity cunts

POP OS? Yay or nay?

Also have many people had luck with SBC and NixOS?

>>102042868
it alters default keyboard shortcuts messing with muscle memory, so nay from me.

>>102042268
The 6.5 kernel is out of life in the ubuntu hwe bullshit thing now, you can either go back to 5.15 or update to 6.8
I just installed the 6.6 lts xanmod kernel, not sure if that's a great idea but it works.

>>102042868
> popos
No, but cosmic looks very promising

> SBC and NixOS
I am running nixos on a cm3588 and haven't had major issues yet. Most of the popular arm chips are well supported

>>102043200

>I am running nixos on a cm3588 and haven't had major issues yet. Most of the popular arm chips are well supported

This is good to know, I am going to play this wekeend and some initial reading/research appeared to show that a lot of people were having some issues.

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new to Linux, how do I get this cool console profile thingy on my machine?
>mint btw

>>102043491
It's called neofetch, but as neofetch has been archived by its creator people use updated alternatives like fastfetch now. You can get fastfetch via adding its PPA to the sources list on Mint.

Can you please give me your output for

showkey -a

when you press Alt+Backspace?

>>102043491
That's konsole, KDE's terminal running neofetch (which is abandonware and we use fastfetch now fyi)
Open Mint's terminal, open the preferences and enable transparency, run fastfetch

>>102041137
I was just testing a command-line program for Linux which is why I didn't need a GUI

Also I just installed VirtualBox and for some reason it's much faster than QEMU. Maybe QEMU runs better on Linux hosts, I dunno.

>>102043605

^[^?     27 0033 0x1b
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>>102043491
Who cares anon, its all just fluff anyways. Neofetch never had any real use.

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How do I make XFCE display the wifi icon instead of the wired icon in the networking applet ?

>>102043427
Well you are likely going to run into some issues. If you know what you are doing they are fairly simple to resolve though. Afaik the only SBC with a truly "plug & play" experience is the Pi. If you have any trouble, the nixos-on-arm matrix group is (usually) happy to help.
What board do you have and what have got planned for it?

>>102034084
What's the point of doing this? You just want to be able to talk to yourself and indulge in your schizo fantasies?

>>102034693
What's stopping you from using your right hand to type with?

>>102043670

    194 0302 0xc2
    136 0210 0x88

Thanks. I have no idea why mine is different

Today I tried Ciannamon Mint USB on my laptop that didn't boot anylonger its Win7. I like it but before installing it I need to recover a couple of folders. How can I access them?

>>102044040
You should be able to access your Windows drive through Mint's file explorer as it comes with NTFS drivers.

>>102044058
I can see Devises but it fails to mount and open System (7dev/sda2)
wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, missing codepage or helper program or other error

>>102044179
*Devices
*error mounting /dev/sda2 at media/mint/System

anyone that dualboots has had a problem with the august windows update?

How usable are Bcachefs and COSMIC right now?

Say.... If I have a remote SFTP server and a backup of that server on a local HDD, is there a good way to compare the two? I'd assume rsync is good for this? I just ask because since doing a backup I've decided to delete some files from the server and may as well delete them from the backup too. Sorry if I sound retarded (I am).

>>102044459
Bcachefs has been usable for a long time now. It's not very stable though, they're still changing the on-disk format and it's a one man show.

>>102044586
Rsync will do, yes. You can make it do a dry run so it doesn't actually make any changes and just prints what it'd do.

>>102044740
>It's not very stable though, they're still changing the on-disk format and it's a one man show.
That basically means it's not usable at all.

>>102044841
It's usable it's just under very heavy development. I wouldn't use it. I'd stick with BTRFS which although performs worse than Bcachefs, has features which it lacks and is well battle tested and crucially has more than one person working on it.

>>102044773
Now I just have to learn to use rsync :/

>>102034084
Nice. Please host it so I can chat somewhere that isn't the cesspool of 4chan.

>>102043831
Someone shared an interesting imageboard topic idea the other day so I am putting in a little effort into fulfilling it.

>>102045086
I feel like forums just turn into cesspools anyway so that a new imageboard would not really be any better.

>>102044586
Rsync will do the job but make sure to read the man page so that you dont screw something up when it comes to deleting files
Usually the command everyone uses for just copying files is -AaXx and also -v if you want really verbose output otherwise you can do something like --info=progress2
The man page does a good job at documenting all the different args

>>102037882
What exactly is the problem?
You USB is supposed to show us as a drive.
/dev/sd*/

>>102037958
Just install libreoffice and a language pack, like libreoffice-langpack-en. Change -en to whatever language you use, it will pull the dependencies you need for proper grammar.

How do i increase my RAM usage?

>>102044247
Hasn't caused me any drama

>>102045689

tail /dev/zero

>>102045689
use your pc more

How can I get japanese input in the terminal? I'm just using fvwm, not a desktop environment.

>>102046332
haven't tried it myself, but have you looked into fcitx5?

every time I have to use the root user to mount any kind of device and do a whole song and dance to allow my user to read/write said device after mounted I also spend several minutes cursing the stupid faggot that made this decision

>>102030803
Commands which start with "ip" are only temporary. For debian-derived distros editing /etc/network/interfaces should be the best way.

>>102046486
https://superuser.com/questions/320415/mount-device-with-specific-user-rights
You could create an alias so you don't have to remember these args every time.

>>102043692
it usually displays the connection you are using.
if you want to use wifi just unplug the ethernet cable.

>>102046616
that's legacy

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OK I installed mint. Now what? I want to learn more linux to be better in my sysadmin role. What else should I do?

>>102047494
Check
>>102036005

>>102045882
>>102046209
I mean... in a way that actually helps, like keeping more crap in ram.

>>102046486
install udisks2

>>102047150
debian and alpine still use /etc/network/interfaces by default
there's no reason it's going to go away anytime soon

>>102047573
linux does that by default

>>102047523
LMAO the first thing I did was fuck around with python and screwed up the OS, had to do a restore from timeshift. HAHAHA

>>102047932
>fuck around with python and screwed up the OS,
god damn python

Why is pcmanfm so much more faster than both nemo and dolphin?

>>102047494

Are you comfortable using the terminal? If not I recommend changing your workflow to use the terminal as much as possible.

For a good exercise, nuke your de and focus on getting everything running again. Not even trolling here. Learn to embrace the terminal/TTY and you'll be miles ahead.

>>102047974
Because it does less.

>>102047150
pls, don't tell me systemd or gui is "current standard"

I am fucking seething. Gentoo's installation ISO doesn't include emerge. They have an "admin ISO"... it doesn't include emerge either.

I just need a small bootable linux environment where I can install some shit right now. What's the standard recommendation for that?

>>102048082
you want a gui or cli?

>>102042792
what? I was actually amazed that it's pretty fucking easy.

>>102048081
i hope he's not talking about the shitty one ubuntu uses either

>>102047974
>>102048034
Not him but I just installed it and can't add places to the sidebar.
what do

>>102047863
I know, but i want more. That's my question.

>>102048150
CLI. Ideally as "normal" and simple as possible (no musl/busybox shit, no preconfigured weirdness, etc.)

>>102048516
sysrescuecd or systemrescue whatever they're calling themselves these days
it has an optional desktop but does not automatically boot to one and it's based on arch so you can install whatever packages you need afterwards

>>102046486
lrn2sudo and fstab

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where do i find supported Banana Pi zero isos?
it seems way more obscure than the official raspberry pi stuff and i regret getting it instead of a raspberry.

I've tried putting raspbian lite in a SD card but i get no signal in the monitor at all

>>102048764
They have a wiki where you can find their OS builds, i gave up when i realised the device i bought couldn't run mainline linux
https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Main_Page

>>102048811
the wiki is a disaster full of dead links and outdated tutorials...
ive visited it but it wasnt very useful thats why i came here.

Are any banana pi "accepted" OS also accepted across the whole banana pi lineup or what? which devices are equivalent to the Banana Pi M2 Zero in that regard? so that i can get a frame of reference

>>102048764
If armbian doesnt support it then don't bother
learnt this the hard way with the orange pi zero 2 when i was trying to find a pi substitute back 2 years ago during the shortage

>>102048959
gonna try this one then
https://www.armbian.com/bananapi-m2-zero/

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Where do I get a sunlight map applet like in this screenshot?

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3 weeks of using cachy OS
once you get rid of all the flashy shit and move back to bash i can say I really like it. it will never replace arch but for my desktop it runs perfectly

>>102047494
Get newer kernel and drivers if you do gaming

>>102047494
install gentoo

>>102049359
I was thinking if I should try EndeavorOS or CachyOs but I settled with EndeavorOS. Maybe I try Cachy's kernel on it.

>>102048155
I installed the compiler for another platform but compilation kept failing because libraries weren't available, and I tried installing a bunch of packages to make those libraries available, but it kept complaining, so then I turned off some features to stop it complaining

Then once it compiled, I didn't know where the built binary was. So I gave up.

>>102049359
Meme distro.

>>102049479
what isn't a meme distro?

>>102049426
This seems like a pointlessly thing to do, considering latest mint (Ubuntu 24.04) is relatively recent.

>dual sense controller
>steam
>sudo modprobe hid-playstation
>controller found and setup
>load steam
>maps it as an xbox 360 controller.
>buttons all wrong,triggers spin camera infinitly

Is there a way to black list this profile from being loaded some how?

 usb 7-2: new high-speed USB device number 28 using xhci_hcd
 usb 7-2: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=0ce6, bcdDevice= 1.00
 usb 7-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
 usb 7-2: Product: Wireless Controller
 usb 7-2: Manufacturer: Sony Interactive Entertainment
 playstation 0003:054C:0CE6.0044: hidraw21: USB HID v1.11 Gamepad [Sony Interactive Entertainment Wireless Controller] on usb-0000:1b:00.4-2/input3
 input: Sony Interactive Entertainment Wireless Controller as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:1b:00.4/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.3/0003:054C:0CE6.0044/input/input235
 input: Sony Interactive Entertainment Wireless Controller Motion Sensors as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:1b:00.4/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.3/0003:054C:0CE6.0044/input/input236
 input: Sony Interactive Entertainment Wireless Controller Touchpad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:1b:00.4/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.3/0003:054C:0CE6.0044/input/input237
 playstation 0003:054C:0CE6.0044: Registered DualSense controller hw_version=0x00000414 fw_version=0x0104000c
 input: Microsoft X-Box 360 pad 0 as /devices/virtual/input/input238

>>102049563
>sudo modprobe hid-playstation
Why?
the controller has drivers (by sony) built in the kernel.

>maps it as an xbox 360 controller.
Stop using steaminput

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i installed nixos and eveerything is fine except wheen i turn off my laptop an alert pops up saying there's users still logged in, it shows the user i'm using but (console), what to do to make it go away?

>>102049603
>in the kernel
Yes but seeing how its being set as xbox i was forcing it to be loaded to make sure

>Stop using steaminput
The controller does not function with it disabled,via cable or bluetooth.
Hence being here

>>102049479
Funny, I was going to reply that to this: >>102047494

It seems everybody starts with Mint.

>>102048155
>>102049475
Okay I'm trying cross-compiling again with a different project. It's working so far. I will see how it goes.

>>102049630
figure out what service is still using a login and why it's not shutting down at the appropriate systemd target

>>102049646
It will keep acting as a Xbox 360 pad so long you keep using steaminput.
That's what SteamInput does, converts everything into xinput.
Stop using steaminput/steam.

>>102049659
Mint is probably the best disto overall to be fair. I would use it if it had pacman and AUR.

>>102049890
distrobox

>>102049689
I've seem to have been able to get the controller recognized but not its spinnining infinitly again as if the right stick is being held down?

>>102050154
I barely understand you
What are you trying to do? What are you playing?
Are you sure your controller isn't just damaged?

where are the files open ports located, fd directory?

>>102050214
>I barely understand you
steam input disabled, controller recognized
>What are you trying to do? What are you playing?
The game is spinning around like the stick is stuck,using left and right trigger slows,raises the camera,
>What are you playing
Elden ring
>Damanaged
It works find in lutris on other games, this seems exclusive to steam
>play it on lutris
Its on steam :)

>>102050270
eh i guess i phrased that wrong. presumably ports are FIFO objects. Do active ports exist as a file on one of the virtual filee systems?

I have a bunch of MP3 files. Link to some simple html+js that can play them as a playlist in a browser? Like I could paste in the URLs/paths and it would automatically play them one after another. I can host this web software in my Apache Server. I could search more for this or rip off what this one website does. Maybe I will write a .sh script to run in CGI to do this (plus the htmx thing, or not).

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Anyone knows if the settings changed in synaptic apply systemwide to apt or only to synaptic?
I'm mainly talking about pic related in preferences

>>102049487
debian
mint
arch

>>102049487
nix

>>102050382
>debian
retards
>mint
also retards
>arch
trannies
>>102050393
does something new that no one needs

all memes

>>102050296
Alright that helps a lot. So at some point in the translation. either proton or steaminput is fucking it up.
Depending on your distro, check if steam-devices is installed, maybe reinstall it.

>>102050408
fedora

>>102050426
>fedora
meme desktop and also IBM corporatism

>>102050438
So you just throw any excuse you can think of, got it.

>>102050459
do you know what a meme is?

>>102050467
do you?

>>102050474
>The meaning of MEME is an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially ...
so all of my memetic definitions of these distros is accurate, as they're what most people would define them as.

>>102050492
So?

>>102050526
now you're becoming a meme

>>102050531
Am i?

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>>102050534

>>102050416
steam-devices is only avalible as a git package on my distro and wants to replace steam
Doing so only leaves steamtinkerlaunch as a steam command :)

>>102050550
are you?

>>102050312
>>html+js to play a bunch of audio urls in a browser?
>reply:

...<button onclick="playAudio()">Play Audios</button>
script
function playAudio() {
   let audioUrls = ["audio1.mp3", "audio2.mp3", "audio3.mp3"];
   audioUrls.forEach(url => {
       let audio = new Audio(url);
       audio.play();
   });
}
script...

>>102050382
what would you pick if somebody put a gun to your head and made you choose a fourth

>>102048959
>>102049031
fuck yeah armbian works, thanks anon, ill try to make the best out of it

eitherway i cant get wifi to work from the comandline, i wonder if i needed to buy an antenna beforehand to actually use the wifi in any capacity...

>>102043575
>>102043609
Thanks =D

>>102050623
This plays all of the audio files at once: not wanted. I then asked chat-gpt.org/chat "html+js to play a bunch of audio urls in a browser one after another?" then it gave me some crappy code which didn't work. Forget it, I wrote this code in the past which does what I want: https://archive.is/rHxjC (QmTH...A3Mm/playmp3s.htm). It's missing a pause and play button (audio controls). Also, you gotta change the array in the code to have a set of URLs (instead of the array being determined by newline-delimited text in a TEXTAREA or something). Audio files in the array can be ./audio.mp3 or http://10.0.0.113/file.mp3. playmp3s.htm code works in https://htmledit.squarefree.com/ - and I have a copy of that website hosted in Apache.

>>102043808
> Afaik the only SBC with a truly "plug & play" experience is the Pi

Well i do have a PI 4 that isn't doing anything rn, so I could use that for this first one.

> what have got planned for it?

Mostly just an excercise to learn how NixOS workrs but also with the goal of (hopefully) getting dynamic DNS and mail-in-a-box server set up on it.

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>>102050897
>I then asked chat-gpt

>>102048562
Neat, I'll take a look

>>102029780
So recently I got hooked to spacedesk using my android tablet as secondary monitor to extend
> being able to split audio for comms and general use
> touchscreen capability

Been looking at alternatives for linux, since from my research on google, spacedesk doesn't work on wine.
Have you guys tried something like this? Been eyeing on weylus, at the very least the touchscreen works, deskreen works well too but needs beefy connection.
Are there anything come close to spacedesk for linux?

>>102029780
Any of you Linux users use art or production programs? Heard Wayland ain't so good for tablets either but is more modern for the system.
Never touched a distro, but considering in the future.

>>102050661
gentoo. those are the only four distros worth using.

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>>102047494
Linux Bible
Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible

>>102050317
Go to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d , apply the setting and check if any file changed on disk.

How can I keep a window focused in wayland/hyprland? I've tried windowrule = stayfocused, ^("app")$ but I don't think it works. Either it doesn't work or I have no idea what to put in "app", whether or not it's supposed to be a keyword in the actual name of the tab in hyprland or if it's the name I would put into the terminal to launch the application

>>102052433
I guess I had to use windowrulev2, my problem now is I wanted both windows focused/updating information at one time simoultaneously

>>102043609
>abandonware
i remember when the dev first made a song and dance over how much better he could write the app compared to screenfetch. ...

>>102044179
youre gonna need to throw the disk into another windows system and run the ntfs disk checker on it, i think. dont try any linux tools to repair ntfs, unless you like double breaking ntfs.

Just got CachyOS set up, last time I used arch I don’t remember it not connecting to an ntfc drive, do I have to do a big workaround to get that going? Or can I just install something quick.

>>102044179
lol just got the same error in arch. Didn’t have this issue with Zorin or any other distro before.

On Debian, are there benefits to using webext-ublock-origin-firefox over installing uBO regularly? I noticed the repo version is around a year old, but would it update to latest from within Firefox?

>>102052207
I tried it and only the "99synaptic" file has been modified according to properties, but weirdly nothing in the file changed
There's always only one line there and nothing more:

APT::Install-Recommends "true";

>>102029780
any good youtube channel about linux?

>>102052922
It won't update. It's pinned to that version. There are no benefits to using it.

>>102053199
>>102052922
I should add the reason it won't update is because it's built by Debian, has a different id and naturally isn't signed by Mozilla.

Any web extensions you install from Debian directly are like this.

how do i know if a motherboard is gnu/linux friendly?
Like will it suppot bt and wifi in the kernel or do I need to get special drivers?

>>102053384
Does it let you boot operating systems?

That's pretty much the extent to it. Other than the firmware there's not a lot preventing Linux from running assuming it's using all standard hardware (e.g if it has Realtek audio and Intel Wireless, etc, then all of that is just going to work on Linux)

You can assume that most X86 motherboards are not going to give you issues. The situation is different with ARM crap and other embedded shit but with the humble X86 PC we for the most part enjoy a large amount of compatibility.

>>102053384
put ventoy on a USB, drop in any flavor distroy, boot live and see if it works.

>>102053544
>Ventoy
Don’t do this it give you mustard gas.

>>102053515
yeah probably. I am window shopping. It says it has a Intel Wifi card. So I assume that is just going to work out of the box on linux.

I bought 2 wifi sticks before and didn't check if they're supported. I had to do some weird stuff to get them working.

>>102053591
>Mustard Gas(chinks)
better than
>Nerve Gas(NSA/Mossad)

>>102053602
speaking of which, is red sun the most secure OS in the world? it's not like Best Korea is info sharing with the glowies.

>>102053592
Intel will just work. Same for LAN, Intel makes the best on-board Ethernet, Realtek is supported fine too but their hardware is crap.

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>>102053515
He was asking about the usual: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support.
>>102053592
>Intel Wifi card
>work out of the box on linux
It does. Note that some "libre/freedom" distributions they may not provide the required firmware blobs but it's an easy fix.

Bluetooth: hci0: Found device firmware: intel/ibt-18-16-1.sfi
iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: loaded firmware version 46.ea3728ee.0 9260-th-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode op_mode iwlmvm

So yeah, a couple of blobs. One for
>Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 5(802.11ac) Wireless-AC 9x6x [Thunder Peak] (rev 29)
and one for
>Intel Corp. Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter

>>102053650
>It does. Note that some "libre/freedom" distributions they may not provide the required firmware blobs
If you're running one of those it probably won't work anyway because they tend to rip out the firmware loading code altogether so that it can't accidentally be loaded. In their view broken hardware is better than non-free hardware.

>>102053384
You have to look up the chip on the wifi/bt module and make sure it's not Realtek or Broadcom.

>>102053609
They practice security by air gap mostly. Linux, the kernel, will always favor enabling people to do what they want over security.

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why does swap never seem to clear itself out entirely when it's done being used? Even if I close absolutely everything it will decrease it by only a couple hundred megs, the only way to completely clear it out seems to be logging out and back in. Is it lying to me and it's not really that high? I'm assuming if it maxes out it will drop all the caches it seems to be saving and not oom me

>>102053729
so you're saying I need a hardline into their network independent of western networks. check. i'll report back with results.

>>102053737
>why does swap never seem to clear itself out entirely when it's done being used?
Because it's not "done being used". It'll never page out something that isn't being used because that's detrimental to your RAM.

Of course if you have something leaking memory like a sieve then you now have a situation where your Swap is full of memory that will never be paged out. You can force it by running swapoff and swapon again.

>>102053737
>linux ate my swap

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>>102053664
>In their view broken hardware is better than non-free hardware.
Yeah, never understood that part. Like if users decide to get proprietary blobs requiring devices or not, it's their decision to make.
Surely Linux-Libre could make sense for an application that NEVER EVER requires blobs - like a VM. Is it really smaller or faster even?
>>102042868
>SBC
Their hardware and kernel support is very random so you must evaluate individual devices.
>SBC and distributions
If and when those things make it to the Linux userland, they all work just as good or bad. Again: check out distribution kernel support.
(prepare your anus for some crashes though, I've seen them on multiple ARM platforms. Be it a $8 chink SBC or a virtual server running on some ARM server (bad binaries probably))

>>102053630
You have to be careful with checking the specs too because the same model will have different hardware snuck in. My motherboard has 3 different versions and it’s printed in small font in the corner. V1 is Realtek V2 is Intel, etc. pissed me off.

>>102053852
>V1 is Realtek V2 is Intel
Heh. They probably went with Realtek because it's cheap and then realised it's cheap crap that's costing them a bunch of RMAs and support requests and went with Intel instead.

If you buy a high end motherboard it's almost always going to be Intel.
I don't use Wireless though and my motherboard does still have 2.5 Gbit Realtek LAN which is awful, worse than the gigabit Intel LAN it also comes with even. When I next upgrade I'll be looking for a board with 10 Gbit LAN. Most of those tend to use Aquantia which I've had good luck with.

New thread:
>>102054141

>>102045655
But the USB isn't connected to the machine anymore. I figured it out regardless: I have an SD card reader that shows up even when no SD card is inserted.

>>102031021
How lightweight do you "need"

>>102040706
>install a mainline kernel on devuan
You've now achieved everything you listed without the extremely bloated and useless garbage of this metadistro