How do I do this in a Makefile except have it work?

OPTS:=$(ifeq($(BASED),giga),--gigabased,--s𐐬y) -ntma

>>102129079
ifeq ($(BASED),giga)
OPTS := --gigabased -ntma
else
OPTS := --s𐐬y -ntma
endif

>>102129121
There's no way to do it inline?
But thanks, I'll do it the way that actually works so I move on.

I am currently on mint 20.3 and am attempting to follow this guide: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade-to-mint-21.html
The "mintupgrade" program fails and returns a message saying to run "apt upgrade" and fix the errors it returns. The errors are as follows:

<code>
The repository 'https://pkg.cloudflareclient.com ulyssa Release' does not have a Release file.
The repository 'http://dell.archive.canonical.com focal InRelease' is not signed.
</code>

My understanding is that both are due to deprecated PPAs, however I cannot find any information on how to correctly update those PPAs. Most results seem to either be for ubuntu and use ubuntu GUI tools or are very old stackexchange posts dealing with third-party PPAs. Any suggestions?

Is there even any point in continuing to bother with this shit
>Successfully install Arch and KDE
>Use the built in Theme installer
>Bricks Arch install
I may as well go back to Windows

>>102129258
>Most results seem to either be for ubuntu and use ubuntu GUI
doesnt mint use some ubuntu repos anyway. figure out which repo the gui tools are correcting them to then sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list and correct them, and ctrl o to save and ctrl x to quit.

>>102129354
hm, is it a matter of just deleting the relevant config files in your home folder i wonder. then kde should regenerate them on next login.

>>102129397
I already tried that to no avail, then after I tried removing KDE entirely and replacing it with XFCE which still did nothing, im convinced it deleted some important files and bricked the install entirely

>>102129258
open the software sources program and get rid of them

>>102129421
how far does it get? sddm? flashing cursor? specific error?

>>102129441
solid white line on a command interface. I already installed Windows 10 IoT LTSC and at this point I'm getting quite sick of constantly reinstalling OSes and dualbooting isn't an option as my only other drive is a 5 year old hard drive

>>102129460
if you werent interested in fixing it then maybe linux isnt for you just yet.
found this https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1bixmbx/do_not_install_global_themes_some_wipe_out_all/
seems kinda yikes. i dont use cinnamon because they dont clean up their user widget browser, this is a pretty shit situation too.

>>102129505
I did try to fix it but at that point I had already spent 3 hours trying to give myself write perms on my hard drive and automounting it to the correct directory that i gave up at that point

>>102129518
gnome-disk-tool, or whatever its called in package form. lets you add things to boot disks and it writes it into fstab for you. if you ever come back.

>>102129536
If I come back I'm 100% not using KDE and using either Cinnamon or GNOME because KDE is a broken pile of crap that refuses to work properly

>>102129575
Plasma 6 will probably be worth revisiting by then. Do it from a distro that puts effort into it, either fedora kde spin or manjaro.

Can someone help me installing custom fonts in console?
I downloaded a bunch of ttf files, put them in .local/share/fonts
and when I use setfont - it doesn't work

Lately I've been getting random full lockups, can't even switch to tty. Sometimes I get a few beeps. Anyhow, how would I go about diagnosing this? I'm kind of worried Ill kill an ssd bc I keep having to force shutdown. Running nobara kde, nvidia gpu.

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Arch LInux .... won the b4est distro of 2024 award awarded by me and my freisnds who all use arch and game and play anticheat stuff and love KDE and like free and open software from the source idk what its called but arch is really sweet because systemd is good and nobody really hates it except placeboware enjoyers like fartix and btw arch is great

t. posted from my arch computer desktop computer using Katie E's Plasma Enviroment .

>>102127505
>force it all into RAM by using a tmpfs mount or symlinking it to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/cache
How am I supposed to do the former? Because I checked the latter option and the directory does not exist. Thanks again.

If i were you the first thing i'd do is keep dmesg somewhere and watch out for anything weird looking
> dmesg -wT

>>102130146
>>102130341
(You)

>>102129505
They still haven't patched this?

>>102129575
Gnome barely allows theming, windows doesn't either.
Take the immutablepill next time

>>102130080
bump

Trying Linux first time, since Winows crapped on me once again - I chose Fedora, used it all day, decided I didn't like Gnome, installed KDE to try it out. Should I now remove Gnome? Will it break apps already installed and Desktop Entry files i already created?

>>102130080
What terminal do you use? Try terminal settings menu

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>>102130404
Also second problem, pic related, what does it want from me?

>>102130404
It's not recommended but it shouldn't break apps or touch your home folder at all.

>>102130457
uh, default one? idk lol
I use ubuntu 20.04 in an lxc container, I've tried using "dpkg-reconfigure console-setup" too to make font bigger but no success

>emacs-wayland still memory leaks on hyprland
sad day

>>102130513
Nevermind, I misunderstood. Try:
>fc-cache

>>102130503
idk.. install it?

>>102130643
nope, didn't work

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I challenge everyone who is using the trinity desktop environment to beat this highscore i just got on kbounce

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>>102128661
linux mint guy from earlier. So decided to find the issue tonight and turns out is both a combination of file permission and nvidia drivers (tried installing cuda on linux, saw it tried to install 560???) now I am stuck to these two screens. How do I remove file permissions to get rid or revert nvidia drivers? I am testing this on my backup shitty pc

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>>102131192
this is where it takes me, I cannot log into the desktop. I would give a shit so much but the "snapshot" I made earlier had that shitty driver on it which is preventing me

ive spent nearly 20 years repairing electronics, soldering on circuit boards, assembling electromechanical devices, even making CPUs.

I just want to be a Linux Sys Admin. What do I need to do?

>>102131225
Install gentoo

>>102131206
I meant to say, I wouldn't give a shit so much but the snapshot which I thought would be safe has important work I need to recover. Any help appreciated.

>>102131192
If you mean how you can get access to a root account to modify this stuff, flash an os onto a flash drive and boot into it and mount your disk in it. You can use the installation iso for mint since it comes with everything your should need.
If you mean more specific advice as to what to do I can't help you unfortunately.

i used ventoy and threw on like 10 different installers. But out of maybe 5 i selected once ventoy booted, only 1 seemed to actually work.

what gives

>>102129380
Tried it. The mint tools do not seem to have 1:1 compatability with the ubuntu ones. Also /etc/apt/sources.list lists no PPAs/repos.

>>102129427
Tried it. They're either not there or are contained within some other PPA/repo.

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>>102131304
Kind of what you said in the first part. But, getting sleepy, been at this all day and its 3am, so Im just going to do a fresh install of mint and access the files from external drive (I make a few snapshots, one is a clone of the other snapshot where I am praying it can be accesed, I just hope to christ I did fuck the UEFI

>>102129354
>"installing a theme bricked my system"
Yeah right.
>>102131228
Do sys admins coompile?
>>102131340
I've always asked the opposite question: how can that thing even work? How do you prepare the hardware for "booting a CD-ROM" while not actually being booted?

>>102131228
very well

>>102131192
>nvidia gt 730
uh we sure this gpu drivers are deprecated?

>>102131693
They obviously are, its the only extra gfx card I have. The other is an rtx and that is needed for work and its with windows. I'm leaving the windows settings and hardware as is, as it works. Very disappointed with linux but, its expected. Hopefully this fresh install can do the retrieval -_-

>>102131780
>buy nvidia
>blames linux
good luck!

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What do Anons recommend for security and simplicity? I use Qubes OS on my old thinkpad and mint on my PC. What are some good alternatives that provide security outside of your own opsec practices?

>>102131833
i thought nvidia was free now

I COULD use firefox, but then I'd have to shake off the "open incognito window" muscle memory...
(seriously why the FUCK is new tab ctrl + n but private tab is ctrl + shift + p?????)

>>102131873
openBSD

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I WANT to get better at Debian because I know thats how I will get better at Linux, but Mint just works for me. Need to find the plugin that shows currently playing music on the taskbar though. Or at least customize it more

>>102132393
you are more or less using debian already

>>102132393
>Get better at linux distribution
Write software then package it for that distro

whats the state of linux on ARM laptops? worth getting if I dont plan on doing anything intensive, or should I avoid it?

>>102130324
Either:

mkdir -pv ~/.cache
sudo mount --bind tmpfs tmpfs ~/.cache

Or:

sudo mount -t tmpfs tmpfs --mkdir $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/cache
ln -svf $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/cache ~/.cache
(You may have to 
rm -rf ~/.cache
 if it exists first)

Also you might have to do the same for ~/.config or the various directories in ~/.config because Chromium is fucking retarded and stores state in ~/.config (e.g databases) and will probably throw a shitfit if it can't write to them. If you want to keep some configs read-only while allowing writes to a tmpfs you could setup some sort of overlay filesystem (e.g overlayfs).

>>102130361
i dont even know if it was the issue. like knowing which theme it was, etc, would be handy. awell.

>enters
>shits all over the floor
>leaves
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Maintainer-Step-Down

>>102130404
>Should I now remove Gnome?
you need to be more familiar with your system to make that judgement. like which login manager is currently in use, if you took away most of gnome and lost the login screen youd be stuck. if you have the disk space, and dont mind big updates, let it be.

>>102133364
Why does this always happen with Rust trannies?
>Good technically sound language
>Guy wants to use it
>Trannies bring their non-technical bullshit and other gossip into the fray
>Guy doesn't like it anymore
>Guy has to step down and do something else

>>102131229
looks like you should start by installing the 470 legacy drivers. seems to be a script.
use wget after logging in
wget https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/470.256.02/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.256.02.run
then run it
sudo ./NVI press tab and enter

>>102133378
Why are you talking about? Rust is highjacking the Linux kernel because C is wasist and too white. Now the Rust trannies are fighting among themselves and leaving the project.

>>102133401
>I am retiring from the project. After almost 4 years, I find myself lacking the energy and enthusiasm I once had to respond to some of the nontechnical nonsense, so it's best to leave it up to those who still have it in them.

This is the white C guy saying "I'm out!"

>>102133418
>Wedson Almeida Filho is a Microsoft engineer who has been prolific in his contributions to the Rust for the Linux kernel code over the past several years. Wedson has worked on many Rust Linux kernel features and even did a experimental EXT2 file-system driver port to Rust. But he's had enough and is now stepping away from the Rust for Linux efforts.
He is the og Rust tranny and from Microsoft too to make it even more gay

>>102133452
The Rust for Linux developers were all C guys. Why? Because Rust developers can't write C for shit and it needs to integrate with the rest of the kernel.

It was always just about making Rust work for some C developers that wanted to use Rust in the kernel. It was never about any of the non-technical bullshit they deal with now.

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>>102133476
>It was always just about making Rust work for some C developers that wanted to use Rust in the kernel. It was never about any of the non-technical bullshit they deal with now.
so the "C guys" wanted to Rust the Linux kernel and his mission is pretty much completed. Now fucks off back to Microsoft like that other Microsoft faggot Poettering.

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Thoughts on Debian GNU/Linux?

>>102133378
>>102133401
>>102133418
>>102133452
>>102133452
>>102133452
>>102133476
Keep your political crap off /fglt/.

>>102133608
Ywnbaw

>>102133575
It's fine, packages are too old for my taste and defaults are kinda nonsensical to me.

Try it, might be perfect for you.

>>102133575
Good server distribution. If you have a VPS or home server (I run Gentoo on mine because I'm a retard but in retrospect I should have used Debian) it's perfect.

Don't run it on a desktop.

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What file my system is using instead of ~/.xinitrc? I put some commands like feh bg in there but they don't get executed. I only get my wm started.
It seems like its just using some other file on startx.

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What's a good file manager (GUI)
Nautilus is not good

>>102133719
Double Commander

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>>102133719

>>102133719
dolphin

>>102131228
But thats just installing arch but longer

>>102133719
Dolphin would be the best, but since you are probably using GNOME maybe try nemo.

>>102133719
nemo is a fork of nautilus with stuff like split screen kept in its options

>>102131340
AFAIK Ventoy relays on your firmware ability to emulate a CD-ROM drive.
So it might just be your firmware fault.
Ventoy has always worked for me no matter what i throw at it.

If you haven't make sure to create the usb drive after fully wiping it, including the partition table.

>>102133724
>>102133732
>>102133764
>>102133790
>>102133791
I did not think you people would reply to me, if I'd known id of put in what I would like in a file manager kek
I'll check these out thanks

>>102133915
You are in a flg, you are among frens
good luck

>>102133764
i'll add that i love dolphin because of how trivial it is to rice. it even has dual-pane mode which makes those norton commander clones obsolete once you get the bindings for it set up.

Besides the lack of scrollback, dvtm is actually pretty nice:
https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/

I'm using it because I had some weird issue with Tmux.

>>102133625
>packages are too old for my taste
Fair point but at least it might mean that Debian is less likely to be a victim of things like the xz backdoor

>>102133686
It can't be that bad for desktop if you just want a stable OS

>>102134049
You don't want a stable OS though (at least not by Debian's definition of stability).

When most people think of stability they think of:
>Does not crash
>Supports my hardware well
>Gives me good performance

When Debian thinks of stability they think of:
>The button in the user-interface doesn't change from one version to the next so grandma knows what to click on

It's a boomer's mentality that is exactly what you want on a server but not the desktop. Maybe you are a grandma in which case Debian is the desktop for you, but not for most people.

>>102133711
I checked and it is using my xinitrc file. Because commenting out "exec awesome" breaks it.
But why the fuck other commands not working then? I tried starting it outside ly loging thing, and with it some commands are working like one for changing the keyboard layout, but feh command for bg creates a .feh file in home directory that contains broken version of the command original command
#!/bin/sh
feh --no-fehbg --bg-fill '/home/user/bg.jpg'

What the fuck is happening with this shit?

>>102134177
>But why the fuck other commands not working then?
Are the other commands above or below your

exec awesome

line?

If below, then they will never be executed because the shell execs the awesome binary which replaces the shell itself and then the shell ceases to exist afterwards.

>>102134207

They are above.

>>102134304
Then they should work. Maybe when Awesome starts it resets things somehow? I'd recommend avoiding the .xinitrc and launching things via autostart scripts or Awesome's lua config.

>>102129212
>There's no way to do it inline?
Something like $(if $(filter giga,$(BASED)),--gigabased,--onions) should work, if I recall correctly.
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Text-Functions.html

>>102134326
>>102134304
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Awesome#Autostart

>>102134326
I put it into awesome config initially, and decided to move it to xinitrc so it doesn't run them after every restart of awesome and it seemed better than awful.spawn.once.

>>102130404
Install Fedora KDE or Fedora Kinoite.

>>102133575
Seems kinda pointless when Ubuntu does 12 years instead of 5 and seems to be better supported overall.

dunno actually know how to code format hoping kuroba told me right
frens can someone who knows about crontab tell me why:

* * * * * /home/opc/RandDir/start.sh

and

* * * * * sh /home/opc/RandDir/start.sh

and other variations on this don't work, but,

* * * * * cd /home/opc/RandDir/ && sh start.sh

does?

like genuinely i don't understand
i had to add a shell and a path and all this other stuff, but when it was in my home directory i could get away with just

* * * * * ~/start.sh

>>102135238
The current directory is probably the root of your drive (/) or some other directory.

You shouldn't rely on Cron to do this for you add:

cd /home/USER || exit 1

to the top of your script.

>>102135338
oh wow that really did it
changed crontab to the first thing i had above just to be explicit about it but added the bit you said in my scripts and now they run fine
man i assumed that scripts made the the dir they're run from the working directory
but now it makes sense why it didn't work since the script i have that runs every minute just checks for a process and executes another script if it's not running

what's the exit 1 for though? is there ever an instance where trying to cd into an existing dir would fail or is it to just check for typos?

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>>102134074
>The button in the user-interface doesn't change from one version to the next so grandma knows what to click on
You laugh, but this exact type of constant pointless reshuffling of desktop elements was what drove me nuts back when I was using Fedora. I do not want to go through interface overhaul every 6 months, give me something that will last a decade. If this makes me a boomer grandma, then so be it; you can keep your ADHD zoomer tinkershit mentality.

>>102133790
How bad is it to use Dolphin on a GTK desktop?

>>102131439
>>"installing a theme bricked my system"
>Yeah right.
nta but i selected an SSDM theme using the kde plugin and SSDM failed to start, had to change it back to breeze in the conf

>>102135465
>is there ever an instance where trying to cd into an existing dir would fail or is it to just check for typos?
If the directory doesn't exist or you don't have permission. It will catch typos too though, yes.

It should never fail but it's just to be explicit about exiting the script in case it ever did for some reason.

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>>102128661
Arco, artrix, or archcraft?

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How to get office 2019/2021/O365 to work with linux?
Is my only option VM+ passthrough for printer?
Because Libreoffice isn't doing what I want.

>>102136100
You're gonna have to run it in a VM, yes.

>>102136141
Wine won't do the trick?

>>102136188
It doesn't work correctly in Wine

>>102136194
I found this
https://nowsci.com/winapps/
Is it good?

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>>102136226
This I have it grayed out, and not able to connect.
I can make a qemu/KVM user session, though.
Is it the same?

>>102133719
Dolphin is king for me but I'm using kde which helps

>>102131388
Good luck anon. Although you should probably try to salvage anything you have in your old install, if it's important.

Just installed Ubuntu on my laptop because on Mint, just opening VSC caused all the cores hit 100%. I have no idea why and I tried solving it for 5 hours yesterday.
Anyway, Ubuntu doesn't have that issue with VSC so I'm sticking with it for now.

>>102131873
why do you use Mint in the first place if you care about security? Fedora, Tumbleweed, Arch, Void, Gentoo, Alpine are vastly better when it comes to security

Why does Arch break if you don't update for a long time but other rolling distros don't?

>>102137172
meme

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New Nim based distro
https://glaucuslinux.org/

I have 7tb of heterogeneous SSDs, how should I format and manage them?

Specifically, I've got 2tb (gen4) + 1tb (gen3) + 500gb (shitty gen3) of NVMe, and a 4tb SATA SSD

>>102130080
>>102130513
>>102130643
>>102130875

Hopeless bump

Where do you guys put your autostart bash scripts?
I`m configuring my hyrpland install and I`m gonna make a script to start swww-daemon and set a wallpaper

do I make a hidden folder in my HOME and place this and other scripts there and call them in my .bashrc file?

>>102137339
Try also putting them in /usr/local/share/fonts and /usr/share/fonts and running fc-cache

>SDDM still requires xorg

>>102137182
?

>>102137172
Because God hates Arch users specifically, and it is His will that they suffer uniquely

>>102137281
what are you going to do with the disk?
usage changes how you may want to format them.

>>102137374
did it

>setfont blahblah
>setfont blahblah.otf
>setfont blahblah.ttf

>>Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console.

>>102137209
Why isn't Nim more popular? It feels like Python but with the speed of a compiled language.

>>102137404
Configure it to use KWin as a compositor:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Wayland

>>102130080
Assuming you're talking about the TTY console, TTF files won't work for that. There should be a bunch of PSF fonts included with your distro under /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/ or /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/, which you should be able to set using setfont.

>>102137571
Are you trying to change the font the Linux Console uses? This does not support ttf fonts only bitmap fonts.

>>102137571
If you're on Ubuntu, in a graphical environment (i.e., not just a raw text console and nothing else), you're almost certainly using the default gnome-terminal application. The font customization should be done through the graphical user interface rather than through setfont. IIRC, it's under preferences > profiles > text > custom font

>>102137641
>>102137571
If you want something that does support TTF fonts though then look into fbterm. It's a lightweight terminal you can run from the TTY using fbdev.

>>102134334
Thanks, neat trick.
>>102136248
Nta, u may need to add your user to the libvirt group or enable virtualization in BIOS, or install qemu-kvm package
In any case you're using the right GUI to make and run virtual machines
>t. Debian

>>102137563
Aside from the generic desktop stuff, it's mostly software development (so running containers, VMs, databases, etc) and media piracy & torrenting

>>102137281
1tb should be enough for any one system... store them dry and low-vibration and you'll have enough for 2-3 systems + spare components.
>any kind of light use
Then pick whichever fs is going to give you the least component wear.
>storage
Make a 123 backup system for your personal data, e.g. 1 hot ssd, 1 in a NAS that you make autonatic daily backups to, 1 extra HDD that you make monthly copies to and keep in a fireproof box or store at a friend's house, a single 1-4TB HDD should be affordable.
I don't believe in cold-storing movies etc., 3rd party media on SSD with no backups, that's not what they're for.

thanks anons, will try to install fbterm
>>102137634
>>102137641
>>102137668


>>102137665
>in a graphical environment (i.e., not just a raw text console and nothing else), you're almost certainly using the default gnome-terminal application
nope
>102130513
>I use ubuntu 20.04 in an lxc container

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Is there a way to hide an EFI partition automatically? It's an USB partition and I connect it to various systems (windows, linux, macos). I found this solution but I really don't want to mess it up

>>102138079
You want to change the partition type to "EFI System" see instructions here for GPT/MBR with various options.
I forgot to do this recently with a disk and changed it after with fdisk and suffered no ill effects.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFI_system_partition

I'm gonna need some help with this one.
>switched to xterm recently
>tweaking things so I can be comfy right now and not have to do useless tinkering later
>trying out fonts
>good ol' terminus is fine but I'd like to try others
>...
>xterm doesn't want to listen
>commands aren't doing shit same for .Xresources
>it's just terminus, forever
>if I set something else I get an ugly ttf font
>if I set terminus I'm stuck with default sized terminus until I logout or reset xterm with xrdb -load and no settings
I'm a little stumped because I'm not getting any errors anywhere, not in journalctl or xsession-errors but I do see them if I set some bullshit so what the fuck is it with xterm and its love for terminus?

Is there a 2024 maintained fluxbox?
>copycat
>fork
>similar
Anything?

>>102138492
you can still use fluxbox

>>102138432
Problem solved I was being retarded and had the wrong version of the font I wanted. Should have checked with fc-list first.

>>102128661
What FS for 2x 4TB nvme ssds?

>>102138573
ext4 just werks

>>102138598
>not using a zfs zraid1 for maximum meme points
lol

>>102138573
I am from the church of LVM here to bring you the word. Welcoming LVM into your life can bring you profound joy regardless of your choice of filesystem.

>>102138517
its unmaintained,has bugs(i frequently get) and is outdated visually
Its also not ever going to have wayland support and moving forward as x11 is being dropped right and left ill have to switch to something new

>https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/28/asking-for-donations-in-plasma/
>I want us to fund the creation of a next-generation KDE OS we can offer directly to institutions looking to switch to Linux, and a hardware certification program to go along with it.
Imagine giving money to those beggars and they waste it on useless shit.

>>102138797
Can! this! faggot! stop! abusing! exclamation! marks!?

>>102138840
He's a redditor.

>>102138797
What's wrong with spending money on creating a real OS?

Because Debian ain't it
Ubuntu ain't it
KDE Neon ain't it

>>102138797
A fucking nagware on Linux lmao

>>102128661
Mint anon from earlier. Is there away to access my linux install's documents section through live usb? I only need one folder from there. I can boot up the usb fine but it says "permission denied" when I try to access the external drive. I just need to get to that folder so I can save it on an available drive.

>>102133391
I'll try this as well if all else fails. Just need to retrieve my work folder and I'm happy to just wipe the damn thing

>>102139002
At least they're trying. KDE is ambitious. Everyone else is, to quote Jeremy Clarkson:
>Ambitious but rubbish

A single notification (which you can outright disable in the settings) in December isn't going to hurt anyone.

>>102139070
>isn't going to hurt anyone.
Give an inch...

>>102139123
Your free lunch isn't going anywhere

>>102139123
KDE devs are leftists, so they think the slippery slope is a conspiracy theory.

>>102139144
The worst they could possibly do is make a paid version of KDE but even if they did that it'd follow the Red Hat model of being Free Software with a support package that you're paying for.

They're certainly not going to pull a Manjaro and start shipping third-party ads or a proprietary office suite, etc.

>>102138573
How much redundancy do you want/need? Do you prefer to live dangerously?

>>102138573
Btrfs

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>playing games on steam last night
>go to launch steam today
>doesn't work despite doing literally nothing, just gets hung at this "logging in" window permanently
>update
>nothing
>restart
>nothing
>sudo pacman -Rsn steam
>sudo pacman -S steam
>nothing

What the actual fuck happened lmao

>>102140046

rm -rf ~/.steam && steam

>>102140052
>

rm -rf ~/.steam && steam

worked instantly, allahs blessings upon you brother

Using CachyOS right now
Never done this before, but how fucky would the process of replacing a GPU would be? I'm switching from AMD to Nvidia.

>>102135753
the only real trouble will be maintaining visual consistency between gtk and qt apps, otherwise there shouldn't really be any problem.

Installed Fedora 40 here, anything I can do to improve font rendering?

>>102140233
Just follow the Cachy instructions for installing nVidia drivers.

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My laptop fixed itself so I booted it up, got drunk on power, and decided to cast a curse against windows by opening up the partition manager and deleting it all. Now I realize I don't actually know how to reclaim all that space and the stackoverflow answers are looking a little too complicated for me to understand.
Did I fuck up?

>>102140474
Just make a new empty partition, store your files there.

>>102140474
open up gparted, move the boot partition all the way to the left, then do the same with the fedora partition (this could take a while), then expand. You will need to do this from a usb live distro.

>>102140521
I don't have a USB (ironic, i know). Thanks Anon. I'll look into what >>102140513 said.

>>102140538
>I'll look into what >>102140513# said.
Jesus fucking christ anon that is the most awful solution, also I'm pretty sure you have no idea how to mount the new partition.

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>>102140607
OK well it turns out I didn't click "apply" so nothing actually got deleted. What now? I want my 250gb back from microsoft.

>>102140689
answer remains the same

>>102140705
I still don't have a USB. Can't I just delete it and make it a fake drive mounted as Z:/ or something to put files onto? That doesn't seem hard.

>>102140724
>Z:/
please don't troll me anon

>>102133391
Tried this like 8 times, no luck, kept bitching about permissions and url not being reachable. I can boot from live usb, taken ownership of the drive with the disk gui but I can only get into a few folders and yes, I have "show hidden" enabled. Are there any commands to show these files and folders that should be there?

>>102140735
im not trolling i just want it to say 400gb free when i open dolphin instead of 200gb free

>>102140746
Just find a usb drive.

What is the purpose of jackett and prowlarr?

i don’t know anything.
i can’t understand half the jargon on this board, how does someone learn?

>>102140780
did you read the project pages?

>hate windows
>want to switch to linux
i've used ubuntu, mint and debian in the past
but my build has an intel ARC gpu
anyone use linux with ARC? anything i should be aware of before installing?

>>102140796
ELI5
I installed them and clicked some things and it looks setup but i dont get what benefit they serve

>>102140844
They are what you need to allow radarr and sonarr to search torrent sites, which they can't by themselves.

>>102140791
I haven't personally used this but I've seen it recommended and it seems neat.
> https://linuxjourney.com/

personally i learn by doing, so i got familiar by diving into using linux for stuff that wasn't important and it didn't matter if it broke - hence i wasn't too frustrated when i couldn't fix it and i could put it down when i was annoyed.
torrents, media streaming, remote access when i'm out - slowly things got more and more elaborate and now my job is linux and i use windows once a week.

>>102140791
Like a lot of things, if you have the opportunity to immerse yourself and try and fail, you'll learn some shit
Install an easy to use distribution and look for help on google on whatever problems you might have. Eventually you'll get to understand more and more. If your hardware is exotic or you're looking for something specific, you'll learn.

>>102138573
lvm/xfs

>>102138598
no reflink

>>102138609
>>102139761
huge cpu overhead

>>102140817
Even worse drivers than Windows and little prospect for improvement. Intel walked away from that heap and so should you.

>>102141127
>huge cpu overhead
noatime,lazytime

>>102141285
doesn't skip calculating data checksums at 4gb/s

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I've been using Conky for the better part of 10 years. I recently discovered "EWW" (not the browser, apparently), it seems like it's easier to configure. However, before I waste a few hours recreating my config, I'd like to know if it's easier to run than Conky. If it takes >50M for a simple root display I'm out. Also, conky takes up a fuck ton of resources for every redisplay when using execpi. Is the same true for whatever the execpi equivalent is in Eww?

>>102141489
Breasts.

>>102140791
I bought some course on Udemy to learn commands in the terminal and watched some YouTube videos.

>>102140046
thats what you get for not using CachyOS

Any player similar to Infuse? Something which fetches metadata and presents your movie collection neatly?

>>102141635
It's just Arch.

>CachyOS
I'm away for two weeks and another faggot version of arch is being pushed

>>102141705
It's been there for a good while now

>>102141705
only distro that does something different

>>102131340
Use EZ2USB, much better than ventoy for linux isos

>>102131340
>using chinese botnet software
JUST

>>102141241
It's been fine on windows in the 1+ year I've had it so far, but I mostly use it for bideogames.
Should my next build be AMD CPU+GPU if I want to switch to linux? I don't want to go back to nGreedya.

>>102141873
>Something different
Being, "We built Arch with -march=x86-64-v3 and released it as a whole new distro because we had to because Arch isn't Gentoo"

https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1f43cxe/triple_buffering_pushed_to_gnome_48/

>>102131340
Ventoy is malware.
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795

>>102142130
-v3/v4 packages
-optimized packages von Zen4/Zen5
-o3 compiled Kernel
-many performance tweaks/services out of the box like ananicy-cpp
-many kernels/cpu scheduler like sched-ext and BORE (Team works with BORE/sched-ext developers)
-best native gaming performance ootb
-pre compiled nvidia modules
-backport good stuff
-second fastest distro in phoronix tests

>>102142197
None of that is anything different it's just packaging it all because it's either not in Arch or too experimental to be included in Arch.

>>102142197
>-pre compiled nvidia modules
Arch has that.

>>102142197
What does V3/V4 packages mean?

>>102142314
still faster than any other distro, except clear linux thats not really usable as a daily driver.

>>102142197
All that shit to get 1 more fps.

>>102142321
Packages optimised for newer hardware. Arch only has generic packages which aren't optimised for newer hardware but have wide compatibility so run on most generic X86 CPUs.

It should be cautioned though that just blindly building packages with V3/V4 doesn't make them any better. Sometimes they can use more memory or CPU for little gain or the same performance as generic packages.

>>102128661
need recommendation for a good distro with KDE and easy to use, i'm using gnome and the --no-sandbox stuff is killing my productivity while they don't fix the problem.

>>102142415
Fedora Kinoite

>>102142415
Arch or Gentoo are the distros with the least bullshit. Fedora KDE or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed if you want something more professional.

>>102142415
>the --no-sandbox stuff
What's that?

>>102142355
its way more in native games like cs2, around 20% min/avg fps

>>102142415
Kubuntu-snaps suck though
Fedora KDE
openSuse Tumbleweed-no parallel downloads though
EndeavorOS-Literally Arch with more things installed
CachyOS-EndeavorOS but more gaming focused

>>102142464
>Linux
>native games
kek

>>102142493
>>102142427
what's the difference?
https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde/
https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/

>>102142505
They exist but most of them run like crap and you're better off running the Windows version in Proton.

Valve's own games are a rare counter example.

https://feaneron.com/2024/08/28/fancy-titlebars/

>>102142538
Get the regular spin, you don't need an immutable distro.

With Kinoite you're expected to use containers and Flatpaks for everything. With the normal spin you can just install RPM packages as normal without layering bullshit.

>>102142557
What about Wayland native applications? Are they continuing to pretend that SSDs are not a thing on Wayland? Because they are and every compositor besides them supports them.

>>102142415
CachyOS

>>102142565
>you don't need an immutable distro
You do.

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>>102142557

>>102142620
You really don't. Having to reboot to apply updates sucks and turns Linux into Windows.

>>102142631
They still don't get it. Video players and games that use SDL, etc, don't want to implement their own decorations for no fucking reason. They just want an easy way to use the decorations that GTK uses without ugly hacks like libdecor.

>>102142464
proof on this claim?

>>102142538
Atomic=immutable=core system is in read-only state. That means more stability but you can't really make changes to your system so you have to rely on things like flatpacks instead of using a package manager like "normal" distros. Bazzite is another one that is atomic and is great for gaming. Most distros aren't atomic.

>>102142675
>Most distros aren't atomic.
Yet.

>>102142636
You have to reboot anyway after updating the kernel.

>>102142715
The vast majority of them never will be. It just doesn't make sense for most people, especially those that modify their operating systems packages in anyway.
>>102142758
Live kernel updates are a thing

I am currently posting from:
>Raspberry Pi
>1 gig of RAM
>Running Ubuntu
>Openbox instead of GNOME etc.
>qutebrowser
>zram enabled
I can actually browse the web but I'm limiting myself to 3 tabs at the moment because too many tabs will slow down the machine a lot due to swapping in/out of zram.

Any of you posting from low-end hardware?

>>102142715
Yeah I've read that it's supposed to be the future of Linux and now with things like appimage, distrobox, flathub it seems to be very doable and easy to use. Why aren't others immutable though, what are its flaws?

>>102128661
How come on Mint when I want to suspend my computer sometimes the button disappears and I have to cancel the box and click it again to have it reappear? Is there a way to fix it? I'm on 21.3 x86_64

>>102142918
nvm, I actually tried to recreate the bug and now the suspend buttom is completely gone now. F.

Dolphin, the emulator, is finally getting an official Flatpak instead of the current unofficial one

In my view, this is great

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/gamecube-and-wii-emulator-dolphin-getting-an-official-flatpak-for-linux-and-steam-deck/

>>102142791
>flaws
None, it's just new stuff.

>>102142948
Okay, it actually showed up again, what the fuck...

>>102142636
that's why the base system is kept small while you use containers on both fedora atomic and microos. its why i think silverblue/kinoite shipping with firefox in the image is kinda retarded but i swap it out for the flatpak. you do need to reboot for kernel, systemd, glibc updates and possibly more. no distro sets up live kernel updates by default and i'm pretty sure there's caveats to that.

Anons, my system resets keyboard layout to default on Backspace key pressed but the indicator in tray keeps showing previous layout. Looks like it's happening to KDE applications like KWrite, Konsole, etc. while Firefox, virt-manager and others are working fine. It's so freaking annoying.
How do I debug this issue?

>>102142768
>Any of you posting from low-end hardware?
No, but share your experience. Is Raspbian any good?

>>102142768
lowest spec hardware i've got is a X201 with 3GB of memory. its surprisingly usable with KDE but i can't have too many tabs open either. battery is also dying which makes me sad because it actually performs better than my mom's piece of shit acer laptop from 2016-2017

>>102143268
I'm running Ubuntu on this Pi. I think Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) did boot quicker although it's a while since I had it on this Pi. So I might go back to Pi OS.

I couldn't run the default Ubuntu DE, which of course is GNOME, because it's only supported if you have 4+ gigs of RAM, and only have 1. So I installed LXQt. This ran okay but web browsing was unusable. So I looked for more lightweight things, and now I'm running Openbox and qutebrowser, which seem to run okay.

>>102143354
LXQt uses OpenBox as its window manager (although sometimes it's configured with Xfwm or KWin) so you went from OpenBox to OpenBox

>>102133719
Pcmanfm.

>>102133719
>Nautilus is not good
Why?

why does OBS need VLC as dependency? Can it use MPV? I hate that full VLC install is sitting on my system for no reason other than "OBS needs it"

>>102140779
>>102140607
Why did you lie to me? It took like 30sec and two clicks. Now Windows is gone and I have a 240gb partition to stuff files into.

>>102144253
Codecs maybe? Your distro probably has a crippled build of Ffmpeg, etc. The OBS Flatpak doesn't need VLC so you could always install that instead.

>>102144290
>>102144253
Also it doesn't actually need VLC, it needs libVLC (the library).

Distros should really start splitting VLC into two packages. If Mpv got more use (sadly barely anything does) it'd perhaps make sense to split libmpv too.

>>102144522
this is likely an arch problem too. they don't split packages, which i actually do kinda like.

>>102137700
>u may need to add your user to the libvirt group or enable virtualization in BIOS, or install qemu-kvm package
Or of these are installed and done.

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Bros, I'm running Plasma on Arch and it's being gay. Whenever I try to set anything in the Login Screen settings, it doesn't change anything. Or when I set my desktop to automatically log in as my user, the box is checked to do so, I apply, I enter root password, it saves, but then when I click off it and then back again, it's back to not being filled in, as it was when I started. It's almost like I'm trying to do something without proper permissions but I obviously have them. Any suggestions?

>>102144714
Try using a different DE

>>102144714
>>102144869
Try using a different distro

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>>102144869
>>102144879

>>102144923
Ok then
No suggestions for you

How do I manually fix grub if I have to chroot into /mnt/gentoo/root? No /bin/sh in /mnt/gentoo, boot is on nvme0n1p1, and root is on nvme0n1o2.

>>102144714
Plasma is a buggy mess.

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>>102128661
How to fix this

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Aside from debian, what are some other decent 32bit linux distributions? Ideally ones that can work on a toaster.

>>102138797
>the desktop I used for years and contributed 0 dollars to is asking me to donate once every 365 days
The west has fallen.

>>102146239
The West has been fallen for a while, we are slowly losing our lead to the East, but the East is also weirdly more worse off because they haven't had the lead we have had... I don't know, pick your poison.

>>102137601
Because it is a small hobbyist language, there is no foundation and a fractional number of corporate donors. Most people turning to it are not beginner programmers since there is hardly any material to learn from, but as more stuff like Glaucus and the number of libraries grow, more people will come on board.

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today I learned how to redirect the output of cat into a text file and thrust 4.9gb of garbage from /dev/urandom into it
neat

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i am using pyautogui to bot in vidyas, but i want to be able to use my computer while it runs in the background. it currently takes control of my mouse/keyboard to automate things. is it possible put it onto another tty or something to have two separate key/mouse environments?

is it possible to compile on nixos?
i want to use mujoco(physics simulator) i installed the package but it says the window wont open

>>102138797
this isn't THAT bad. maybe they could put a FUTO style "i already donated" button in.

>>102145266
I figured this out from trial and error
>initial problem
Ran out of room on my /boot partition
>kernel panic
>chroot with gentoo usb drive
>rebuilt grub incorrectly because it was building my shit to /root/boot/boot instead of /boot
>get a grub screen
>dropped to a dracut debug prompt
>don't know what this is
>reboot and edit kernel parameters to /vmliuz......old /initrd.....old
>get a command prompt
>mount my btrfs subvols
>startx
What a shitshow. I was going to reinstall but I don't have the time now that I wage
/blog

>>102147041
[deleted]
-Thanks that worked
--What worked
----[banned]
-------Thanks!

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>>102147093

>>102146152
Gentoo, TrannyX

>>102144680
modprobe kvm_intel/amd?

>>102142130
Building packages and distributing them counts as a distribution.
That's more of a distribution than let's say Mint.

>>102140791
>how does someone learn
The system is transparent and documented. Besides most understanding on this board is vague, it just looks cool.
>>102140817
Just works but you'd want the latest kernel. Linux distributions are kind of faggy when it comes to kernels and idk why.
>>102141127
>lvm/xfs
Why on earth? I'd get LVM + some primitive filesystem -combo.
Or do you habitually put everything inside LVM?
>>102138695
>outdated visually
Those things come with up to date look? Used FluxBox back in the day when PCs had like one fourth of a gigabyte of RAM.

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Can I use the 2 outputs on an RX 6400 GPU and 1 or both of the onboard DisplayPorts on my Optiplex, to drive 3 or 4 monitors total?

I am guessing for gaming it wouldn't work, but would it work just for web browsing, programming, etc?

>>102138079
>hide an EFI partition automatically
I don't get it. Define "hiding" and "automatically".
EFI partition is a FAT32 partition you can mount or not mount - up to you.
>>102137172
>other rolling distros don't?
Swetty, all rolling distros do break eventually.
>>102135869
>SSDM failed to start
There's always something with display managers.
>>102147382
Gets loaded anyway because of the processor itself. You specifically have to blacklist if you want to get rid of it.
(why does every fucking system load iptables module on boot?)
>>102146152
>>102147307
>Gentoo
*Runs* on the toaster but can't upgrade/modify on it - at least not very fast. Could use your better computing device for compiling and then 'flashing' it into the toaster.
>>102146915
Do you have UEFI and unencrypted/non-LVM/non-anything rootfs? Could cut a dozen corners there.

>>102134074
>It's a boomer's mentality that is exactly what you want on a server but not the desktop.
>but not the desktop.
Why? No really, explain why.

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I installed MX Linux on my Yoga 3 (Core M 1.2ghz, 8 gigs ram, Intel HD 5300) trying to get some more life out of my old laptop. Had Win10 on it and it worked okay but it chugged in a few parts and i'm tired of spending more time updating my laptop then using it. I just want to use it for browsing and youtube/media streaming.

So i'm clicking around in MX Linux, I don't really know what i'm doing but I get the task bar where I want it and set the scaling to 2x but things like the navigation bar aren't scaled and look tiny on the display. Also when I load youtube in firefox it can't stream 1080p without dropping a ton of frames, I could do that easily on Windows 10. Do I have to turn something on or is this just how MX Linux is?

Should I try something else?

>>102147712
>MX
I would recommend a mainstream Linux distribution. Linux Mint from the Ubuntu family, Debian or Arch to name some.

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i found the answer on my own

>>102147755
I originally wanted to do mint but someone in the last thread said it was doing something weird and wouldn't be supported? Specifically mint cinnamon.

My end goal is to get off windows completely, just using this media room laptop as kinda the test bed

>>102142636
Everything in this post is incorrect. Like every part of it.

>>102140046
It was a global steam outage, next time check steamstat.us, twitter, reddit, whatever, before reinstalling your os

>>102140052
this deletes all your games. i'm pretty sure there's a way to force steam to reacquire its files though.

>>102147477
xfs is older than Linux and relatively simple. It doesn't have any kind of raid, volume management, or left resize capability.

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>>102147881
If you want to try out different distributions on the same bare metal, consider doing a distrohop-friendly partitioning:
>EFI system partition (if an EFI system)
>20-50GB for system A
>20-50GB for system B
Maybe more if it's Gentoo or whatever.
>optional swap partition
>rest of the drive for /mnt/rest_of_the_drive
...and then you'd host stuff like $HOME under the /mnt/rest_of_the_drive.
I have similar partitioning scheme and thought of it as having two small 'Linux blobs' and one big bag for personal stuff.

>>102148061
Gonna be honest with ya, that was all over my head. I'm older and have used windows all my life. I guess you're talking about dual booting? Last time I tried that it didn't go well.

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>>102148073
You never partitioned anything on Windows?
>I guess you're talking about dual booting?
You can call it that. It's all very simple with current day EFI hardware as every OS can have their own boot entry.
Main point being that you can have a personal partition and one partition for each OS - Linux specifically in this case. Makes stuff simpler desu.

>>102148150
So is it okay to run mint cinnamon? That other guy was a whack job?

>>102148224
Have no practical experience but I'll give it a pass.
And when you get it working, you never need installers again assumed you partitioned like I said.

>>102148224
currently running LMDE Cinnamon on an intel 4th gen and it is fine

>>102136040
ahh i see
tyty!

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>>102147615
bump

>>102148046
No, it wipes Steam's cache. Games are in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/

>>102148795
Nobody knows about the specifics of whatever Dell Optiplex it is but it should work if that onboard connector is connected to an iGPU (AMD APU or Intel iGPU). Then the system just behaves as if it had hybrid graphics like on some laptops.

>>102128661
Going to try Bodhi on an old laptop of mine that is struggling. Give it a good cleaning, fix some keys. Should be... pretty zen.

>>102148824
pretty much nothing is in ~/.steam

>>102142582
they don't give a single fuck
pretty sure they're just trying to sabotage desktop linux at this point

>>102149762
I've been very happy with bodhi (v6, 2 years) on a ddr2, c2d laptop. Hope it goes as well for you as it has for me.
Also tried;
Linux lite
antiX
Would like to try q4os

>>102147650
The why you want that on a server part? Or the why I have to explain to you that people want their hardware to work out-of-the-box and that requires updating your god damn kernel part?

Most people care more about the points I listed than anything else. It's not a big deal if a UI changes subtly in a new version yet that's what stability in Debian parlance is about. It's about ensuring that packages stay stable in a chemical sense (no new features, no new hardware support, frozen forever).

>>102148012
Are you saying you don't have to reboot to install updates? I know that's not true.

>>102142557
fucking hell lmao

what took them so long

>>102146152
Slackware.

>no xorg-server release in 3 years
this is criminal

>>102150338
it just werks

>>102150338
>*proceeds to

smart-live-rebuild -f xorg-server -f xwayland

*
Not my problem.

https://github.com/IBM/plex#-ibm-telemetry
Does this font really have telemetry?

>>102150467
Do they offer web font embedding, etc? I can't see how a locally installed font could have any telemetry inside of it.

That or it's a standard disclaimer they put everywhere to keep the lawyers happy.

>>102150467
>>102150482
The repo is for a node.js package containing the font files.

>>102150537
Then there's your answer. There's probably telemetry in the JavaScript somewhere counting install metric or something.
The font files itself should be fine to install. Grab the ttf files from wherever instead of using the Node shit (unless it's for a web project).

>>102150552
>>102150537
If you look at the release notes you can actually see when they added the telemetry.
They're being transparent at least:
https://github.com/IBM/plex/releases/tag/v6.4.1

>>102150565
It's also funny how they got two new contributors!!!
(To add telemetry to the project)

>>102150467
Imagine using a font with fucking telemetry in it lmao

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/
Any follow up news on this sort of thing? I want to build a gaming PC with Linux, and I'm unsure if now is a good time to change my plans to go all AMD into Nvidia.

>>102150839
This is dead code. AMD is still better and will be for a while.
There is a ton of work going into Nouveau and Nvk (Mesa Vulkan driver) though. This is the actual Open Source solution and not the "Nvidia throwed some code over the wall" solution. Eventually it'll be just as good as AMD.

>>102150856
alright thanks! I'll stick with AMD.

Do you only use big distros like Debian, Fedora and Arch or use lesser-known distros too?

>>102150725
The package has telemetry, not the font. Pay attention brainlet.

>>102151043
Only reason to use lesser distros is if they do something unique and worthwhile.

>>102151043
Back when I switched, I made a point of only using distros whose existence is acknowledged by various vendors and proprietary software devs, essentially making it a choice between .deb or .rpm. I'm a contrarian, so I went with RPM. No ragrets.

Can I replace hwclock with timedatectl when installing Arch?

>>102151714
Timedatectl is part of systemd and hwclock is part of Util-Linux. And since it's Arch so you can't pick individual pieces.
>>102151113
>choice between .deb or .rpm
*Ubuntu or Fedora. Deb and rpm files aren't exactly universal.

>>102151802
>*Ubuntu or Fedora. Deb and rpm files aren't exactly universal.
Sure, that's what I narrowed it down to also. But I was also considering OpenSUSE and Debian, whereas now I'm on RHEL.

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>>102148940
its an intel 4th gen. i believe thats integrated

>>102151043
Distros I would ever consider using:
Arch
Debian
Fedora
Gento
openSuse Tumbleweed
NixOS
Bazzite
Kubuntu
Mint
EndeavorOs
CachyOS
PopOS
I use Arch btw