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What's (you)'r favorite music player?
Until 3 months ago I was still on windows and used "Magix MP3 Deluxe 19" because I had a key for that from some humble bundle. I liked that it was easy to sync with my phone, to tag and manage my songs and that it was easy to change metadata from the browsing view (so you don't have to open some dialogue).
Currently I'm using rhythmbox, but I was wondering if I was missing out on some better alternatives.
Rhythmbox is nice in that it has the table view I'm used to from magix, but to change metadata you have to open a dialogue, it doesn't have a sync option (not a big deal since that is just as easily done with rsync) and the automatic album art fetching doesn't seem to work.
I'd prefer it to be lightweight, handle the usual audio formats (most of my shit is youtube ripped mp3s from decades ago, so no exotic filetypes in there) and not look ass.
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going to be dual-booting my laptop all on one SSD - windows, arch, and a shared storage partition. what file system will work best for that shared storage partition? getting conflicting results for NTFS vs exFAT. also the partition will be fully encrypted w veracrypt
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>>103087617
NTFS. Use the ntfs-3g driver in Linux. Never run ntfsfix. exFAT has no metadata safety and gets wrecked by single bit errors. It's an expendable filesystem for digicams not a real fat32 replacement.
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In Linux you can edit file Metadata while it's open by another program (aka 'is in use'). Has Windows 10, let alone Windows 11 overcome this challenge?
What's the formal term for this feature?
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>>103087324
Is there anything better than RSS/Atom for periodic text-based updates sent in an encrypted format over the internet? I have a server in a remote location, and I want to be able to periodically run checks on the health of the hard drives, and send updates to my other devices - desktop, smartphone etc. I want it to be encrypted, because even though I'm not going to be publishing instructions to access it, the idea is that the data should be transmitted over the internet. I want the whole thing to be automated requiring as little manual intervention as possible, whether over ssh or actually going to the location. The server will be running linux, but the clients may not be. Ideally there would be some mechanism to only notify me explicitly if a message is marked urgent, but otherwise have updates automatically download and be available should I wish to look at them.
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What's up with Firefox on Linux Mint? Always seems to have some kind of issue.
Before, it was really slow compared to the windows version. Youtube videos would randomly stop working or the browser itself would just suddenly stutter or freeze and you would have to terminate it/restart it. Trying to dock a browser tab takes so long that it skips the animation. Trying to display your browser fullscreen on one monitor swaps it to the other monitor to fullscreen instead.
Two updates ago Youtube no longer loads videos, it's just a blank spot where the video should be. I can watch videos through embedded links on other websites (like 4chan) for some reason, but going to the actual youtube site no longer even renders the video. I can turn off all my extensions/adblockers and it still won't work.
Chromium on Mint works fine even with adblockers/extensions. The Windows version doesn't have any of these problems either.
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>>103087669
>>103087617
alternatively you can use the ntfs3 kernel driver now for better performance
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>>103087617
I've used NTFS for that exact purpose for a while without any issues. Just make sure when you shut down your windows OS, it doesn't go in to hibernate mode but fully powers off. There should be something in the power management settings about that. Otherwise your storage partition might not unmount which can lead to issues if you modify the contents in linux.
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>>103087811
Distro provided Firefox builds are always stale (unless you're running Arch, etc). Always install from Mozilla directly. If you're running a Debian derived distro like you are then add their PPA.
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>>103087897
I installed LibreWolf on Ubuntu, and it's just as shit.
Ungoogled Chromium is the most consistent.
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>>103087422
I use Rhythmbox because I gave up on Linux music players and it's the one that has all the features I need and works flawlessly, the only problem being that it looks like shit and has no customizability.

Out of the ones I've tested, Strawberry wasn't better, Audacious is barren and it's winamp skins are meh. Kate looked promising, almost like Musicbee, but I felt it was slow and it crashed on me a few times. Amberol, the player by debussy, looks great but has zero features and didn't support my .ogg files.

So yeah, Rhythmbox for listening, and Beets for library management. Auxio for listening on phone.
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>>103088007
*Kate, sorry, I meant Elisa
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>>103088007
>>103088012
Thanks for the review anon, I'll have a look at some of those. My main issue with rhythm box is that changing metadata is cumbersome, so maybe if I use Beets as well I won't mind as much.
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>>103087955
Of course Librewolf is shit. They include a bunch of privacy schizo defaults that render it worse in almost every way and often end up breaking things.

Use plain, vanilla Firefox.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions-recommended
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>>103087811
>>103088275
>>103087955
Finally have an excuse to try out Waterfox now, works pretty good so far. Not having the Youtube video issues that Mint's Firefox is currently having. And it's basically Firefox so it's very familiar. Some extra privacy options too. Will test for a bit (At least until Firefox fixes their youtube video situation).
>https://www.waterfox.net/
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>>103088572
LOL maybe I spoke too soon. Basically the same issues Firefox has (like choppy video, lag, stutter)...but at least the videos are loading on youtube's website...Maybe I should try chromium? I wonder if the fullscreen mode switching over to the wrong monitor is a Mint issue. I know Mint hates Display Port for some reason.
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>>103088572
Did you try the vanilla Firefox repo yet? It should work. There is something wrong with your system if it's not working.
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>>103087324
is hyprland a meme?
can be used for serious work?
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>>103088614
no, hyprland is chad software for chads
configuring the look and feel can take more than average probably
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>>103088653
but how is the day to day?
I tried it once but when launching some apps they looked like shit.
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>>103088671
hyprland doesnt come with a launcher. youd have to find one and configure that as well
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>>103088671
hyprland has dwm’s master/stack layout. so if you like dwm, you can use hyprland like dwm but with fancy decorations and animations
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>>103088606
I'll keep testing Waterfox for a bit more. I've always wanted to try it so I think now is the perfect time. If it doesn't work out, I'll try the vanilla Firefox repo. Thanks.
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>>103087825
No trim, no permission mapping, filesystem constantly marked dirty b/c random fuckups
>but 20% faster
Check me again in 5 years, thanks.
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is updating my dwm 6.4 to the latest worth it? I'm too dumb to know what's going on above me in the main tree. it's conflict hell in my fork since I accidentally ran a formatter over dwm.c 8 commits ago. Merging is a pain. I'm p comfortable atm otherwise, but I want to know if I'm missing anything significant. I may just start again...
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Im trying to use shod https://github.com/phillbush/shod
I compiled it and added
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=shod
Comment=Acme like window manager
Exec=/usr/local/bin/shod
Icon=shod
Type=XSession

to /usr/share/xsessions/shod.desktop
but when i try to start it in SLiM it just become the SLiM background color but the shod program is being executed, am i missing any dependencies or something? latest shod version btw
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>>103090038
I even tried to remove [spoiler]Enconding=UTF-8[/spoiler] and use startx instead of SLiM but it still doesn't work
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>>103090060
forgot to replace [/spoiler] with [/code] lol
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Old but retard Linux user here trying to study Wayland.
If I want to try it out I get to choose between Gnome, KDE and a mishmash of crazy neckbeard window managers, right? Where's the list of Wayland desktops?
>>103087617
I assume most people would use Windows' own NTFS partition as the shared storage.
But if you absolutely don't want to *and don't care about journaling* -> go for exFAT. People like to shit on *FAT*s as they don't journal but IMO that's up to the end user to decide. Not having journaling saves on writes and not all storage devices undergo constant I/O when operating.
>also the partition will be fully encrypted w veracrypt
What partition? Be very careful now about your wishes.
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>>103087798
File locks? By the way, the latest POSIX finally added them.
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>>103090233
I guess. Thanks for answering.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/196897/locking-executing-files-windows-does-linux-doesnt-why
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>>103085462
>>103084246
didn't read all that shit just wanted to remind you to take your meds foobar doesn't make your music sound better schizo
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>>103090630
It's not about sound quality, retard.
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>>103090687
yeah we know you don't care about quality, you use foobar lmfao
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>>103090720
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>>103090729
not a concern you'll be back on windows next week
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>>103090736
I last used Windows a year ago.
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>>103090758
and yet you've only just begun setting up jesus incarnate the music player that can't be lived without! curious.
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>>103090768
I'm not >>103085462, retard, I just use it as well because there's nothing on Linux that even comes close to its plugin/format support.
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>>103090232
>What partition?
the shared one. Win installation I'm thinking BitLocker, Arch volume with LUKS. unless I'm missing/overlooking something critically wrong about this
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Anybody knows of a project that enables controlling linux through one of these? I want to map all actions to perform actions on my desktop. Or at least try it to see if it's something that improves my experience.
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>>103091048
here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ
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>>103091048
https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper
don't know if it's compatible with your controller specifically
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>>103091065
The F310 is a basic Xinput/Dinput controller so it would work fine with anything
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>>103091065
This is based, I'm already able to move the cursor with the stick. I'll spend some time thinking about how to customize this.
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>>103091149
>move the cursor with the stick.
back in the days I did that with just x11 settings. Never actually used it though.
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In awesomewm. How do I disable mouse moving to a different screen when I change focus with keyboard. Default command I have in config for changing focus is awful.screen.focus_relative, and in docs it specifically said to move mouse and I can't find how to just change focus without moving mouse to the other screen.
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Is there any way I can set a webm as my background? I use plasma (wayland)
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>>103090038
ldd /usr/local/bin/shod
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>>103091548
https://github.com/catsout/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin
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hello friendly gay lesbian thread! does anyone know if there is a fix or workaround to Ubuntu 24.04 not auto mounting ntfs drives? I regret "upgrading" from 22 desu
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>>103091542
If you changed focus without moving the mouse, the mouse would just steal focus back like immediatly?
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>>103091650
You can disable it.
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Is getting i3wm to work skill issue?
I have used it for few months ago, while I liked how snappy everything feels, many things failed to work.
Like setting a printer, getting BT to connect, KDE connect.
Notification didn't work as it should and even sub window applications didn't intilize as it should plus the dozens small hassles.
I'm using KDE now, while it does all what I need perfectly it require some hardware upgrades.
Just opening firefox take ~1 GB of ram and my system start to swap on my HDD, which make thinks very slow.
What should I do?
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How to remove this cloudflare zero trust client from my panel?
After a reboot it was there.
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>>103091746
You posted this in the previous thread. How much RAM do you have? It shouldn't be swapping just because you opened Firefox.

Also, swap on a hard drive == a bad idea. Use swap on ZRAM
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>>103091746
read up on CUPS and bluetoothctl. as for notifications, yeah, those are ass to set up and the fact that it was hard to get consistent theming across the entire WM is why i switched back to KDE.
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>>103087324
>Linux
No thanks.
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>>103091756
>>103091746
For reference, I'm running KDE and Palemoon on a system with 8 GB of RAM and zero swap usage is being used. I even have Mpv running in the background playing a stream right now so it's not as if the system is doing nothing either.

If you have less than 8 GB of RAM then you probably shouldn't be using that system in the current year. Upgrade or replace it.
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why does localsearch want to rape my hard drive whenever I open a GTK file selector? I already have plocate, I don't need your shit.
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>>103091746
Why do you tinkertrannies spend so much time ricing useless DE instead of actually doing something productive with your time like earning money. Are you yall mentally ill?
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>>103091783
i run KDE fine on a 3GB thinkpad. i just have to be conservative with my tab usage on firefox.
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>>103091797
This laptop had 4 GB before I upgraded it. Yes, your web browser will chug RAM. It's not nice to use a system with 4 GB of RAM at all. You can make do if you have to but laptop RAM is cheap to buy. Just upgrade it.
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>>103091792
Just looked into it, it's Nautilus and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.
localsearch
─nautilus
─xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

sudo pacman -Rsc xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
checking dependencies...
:: xdg-desktop-portal optionally requires xdg-desktop-portal-impl: Portal backends

Package (15) Old Version Net Change

exempi 2.6.5-1 -1.44 MiB
gnome-autoar 0.4.5-1 -0.52 MiB
gnome-desktop-4 1:44.1-1 -0.56 MiB
gnome-desktop-common 1:44.1-1 -2.45 MiB
libcue 2.3.0-1 -0.04 MiB
libgxps 0.3.2-5 -0.58 MiB
libiptcdata 1.0.5-3 -0.42 MiB
libnautilus-extension 47.0-3 -0.24 MiB
libportal 0.8.1-1 -0.56 MiB
libportal-gtk4 0.8.1-1 -0.03 MiB
localsearch 3.8.0-1 -3.28 MiB
nautilus 47.0-3 -13.20 MiB
totem-pl-parser 3.26.6+r30+g51b8439-1 -0.57 MiB
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 1.15.1-2 -0.42 MiB
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 47.1-2 -0.78 MiB

Total Removed Size: 25.10 MiB

:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] n

I briefly ran Xfce and have used i3 for years, HOW IS GNOME SHIT EVEN HERE>
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>>103091851
Xfce is just GNOME lite nowadays. They use the same toolkit, CSDs, etc.

Use LXQt or KDE.
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>>103091863
Unhelpful post.
I have removed localsearch after saving the associated packages to a text file in case something with my desktop shits the bed.
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>>103091863
wat is best image viewer im on windows
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>>103091901
IfranView

(This is /fglt/ though)
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>>103087422
cmus - given it's a TUI, it's understandably not everyone's cup of tea, but I like it.
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>>103087955
Care to expand on why it's shit? (genuinely curious, as I used it for some time and found it OK)
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>>103091806
i was thinking of getting a 16GB upgrade for it. supposedly the X201 does support it but it's undocumented.
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>>103091756
>How much RAM
6GB (2+4)
>Use swap on ZRAM
Easy way to set it up?
>>103091768
>get consistent theming across the entire WM is why i switched back to KDE.
pretty much what I did.
>>103091783
>palemoon
It does several memory enhancing stuff if I recall.
>>103091795
I spend time on it when I want to relax.
>>103091797
How?
Idle use ~1gb, opening firefox and extra ~ 1 GB
could forbid if I wanted to run VM for winapps
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>>103092044
>Easy way to set it up?
Use zram-init or the Systemd generator
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What version og manjaro should I get?
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>>103092049
>2024
>doesn't know about https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zramd
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>>103092220
archlinux
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>>103092220
If you have to ask, the KDE edition. Not that I'd ever recommend using Manjaro in the first place.
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>>103092235
because I want something that werk OOTB.
>>103092241
KDE?
Any reason?
I get cinnamon/i3/sway are community and are not supported.
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>>103092220
Get Mabox
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>>103092252
>Any reason?
It's the best desktop environment. It has the most features, the best compositor and just works everywhere.
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>>103092253
>Mabox
copy of a copy
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>>103092260
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>>103087422
>>103091919
Yeah I like cmus too and it even supports the mouse. The keyboard controls are pretty simple though.
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How to enable pin control kernel module/config?
I tried modprobe but it didn't work
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>>103085977 here
I've been reading around a bit, is docker just what I'm trying to describe here?
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>>103087324
I thought I'd have to make a new boot thingy changing a motherboard but it just worked. I updated BIOS and it still just worked. Linux use is so simple.
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>>103092418
>this is the only argument footfags have against KDE
You lost a long time ago.
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>>103092959
Not quite, but yeah you can build stuff against specific versions using docker.
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>>103092993
KDE is bloat.
And I don't mean it comes with many applications.
It uses too much ram and cpu, other DE's do with less.
They killed bismuth.
The switch from 5 to 6 was the least smooth.
But to be honest, it has the best features.
You just need high specs, with mid old hardware.
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>>103093050
>XFCE
>Great
Kej
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>>103093090
What's wrong with xfce?
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>>103093050
Xfce is as bloated as Gnome these days, and yes I used it for years while I still had hope for GTK. Unity was always shit. LXDE looks like ass and is abandonware. Cinnamon is a meme. MATE is "I'm staying with Windows 7"-grade copium. I don't know enough about the rest.

>You just need high specs, with mid old hardware.
Anything made in the last 10-12 years works. I almost wrote 15 but then I remembered how shit onboard graphics were and GPUs from the time are probably dying by now.
There's no excuse.

>>103093139
Lives and dies with GTK. It's Gnome's bitch.
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>>103093218
>Xfce is as bloated as Gnome
>XFCE ~450MB
>GNOME ~1010MB
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>>103093139
It looks like windows 2000. Gnome might be bloated but at least it looks modern, I have 32gb ram and a 6 core cpu so bloat isn't an issue for me.
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>>103093249
prove it fuckboy, i can write bs too
>KDE ~1KB
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>>103093319
typical KDE user
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>>103092744
Bump to the question
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>>103093273
>It looks like windows 2000.
I wish.
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Anyone know how to stop this nonsense? It started after I added an internal card reader on my motherboard's USB 2.0 header. Boot is slowed by 30 seconds with this in "systemd-analyze blame":

17.380s lvm2-monitor.service
14.183s udisks2.service
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>>103093569
lsusb shows its recognized

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0151 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass Storage Device (Multicard Reader)
Device Descriptor:
bcdUSB 2.00
idVendor 0x0bda Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
idProduct 0x0151 Mass Storage Device (Multicard Reader)
iProduct 2 USB2.0-CRW
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 0x0020
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 4 CARD READER
MaxPower 500mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 2
bInterfaceClass 8 Mass Storage
bInterfaceSubClass 6 SCSI
bInterfaceProtocol 80 Bulk-Only
iInterface 5 Bulk-In, Bulk-Out, Interface
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
bLength 10
bDescriptorType 6
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 [unknown]
bDeviceSubClass 0 [unknown]
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
bNumConfigurations 1
Device Status: 0x0000
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>install arch
>yay librewolf
>open htop
>walk away to piss
>come back and PC has frozen, maxed out my 16GB RAM
How do I make it not do that? Besides buying more RAM.
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>>103087324
Is it better to use FreeBSD over linux for ZFS? or it doesn't really matter that much?
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>>103087807
you could use a system mailserver on the server with exim4 or something and some ssh scripting instead
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>>103087811
Firefox in general has just been really slow with the newer versions, i think chromium-based browsers use less ram and cpu than firefox.
You can always try librewolf and see if its better.
>>103088572
I remember waterfox being spyware and were bought by an advertising company, this was years ago and i have no idea what happened since.
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KDE stuck with blackscreen when loging out.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=297684
I tired this and only solved the issue with shutdown and reboot.
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>>103093716
You probably won't like this answer but I will say it anyway.
>switch to wayland
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>>103093716
Disable session saving (it's borderline either way) and keep using X11.
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>>103087897
>librewolf
>privacy schizo defaults that render it worse in almost every way and often end up breaking things.
No, they dont.
>>103088275
>use plain vanilla firefox with all the spyware and whatever malicious features they include enabled by default
No, fuck off.
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>>103093090
Nothing wrong with XFCE
If your reasoning is "muh gayland" then cope and seethe
>>103093218
>Xfce is as bloated as Gnome these days,
>source: my ass
>LXDE looks like ass and is abandonware.
I wonder why.
>Cinnamon is a meme
Most popular desktop uses cinnamon
>I don't know enough about the rest.
You don't know about any of them at all.
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>>103091048
try either sc-controller or antimicrox
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>>103093797
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>>103093736
>>103093750
I disabled session saving.
>wayland
Doesn't allow me to change since I can't logout to Light DDM
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>>103093676
Doesn't matter. If you have a legit use case for ZFS you shouldn't be using anything but LTS kernels in the first place, and they're not going to have ZFS problems.
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>>103090958
Should pose no problem as VeraCrypt is supported by both.
>Arch volume with LUKS
Encryption is good and all but does the Arch system contain any private stuff? If not, I'd consider not encrypting. Boot process being simple could be a good thing.
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>>103093834
Switch to another VT and kill the session or just reboot.
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>>103093638
Add 16GB zram and have a OOM killer to prevent freezing. Add normal swap if it still fails. Linking big C++ programs takes a lot of memory.
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>>103091783
>If you have less than 8 GB of RAM then you probably shouldn't be using that system in the current year. Upgrade or replace it.
the fuck are you on about? less than 4gb i can understand, but 8gb? this isnt bloated winshit
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COSMIC is really neat and I think I will end up switching over to it in full release. Only thing I really can't stand is COSMIC Files being inferior to Dolphin.
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What's the "ideal" distro for WSL? Does it really matter?
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>>103093908
Browsers are the same amount of bloat no matter which OS.
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>>103094063
even Andreas KING’s ladybird?
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>>103094081
If you want a browser that can interact with the modern javashit hellscape for basic tasks like logging in to your bank and filing taxes, yes.

There will never be a minimal web browser because the web is not minimal.
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>>103093569
>>103093604
tried updating my kernel to 6.11, made the boot go faster since it didn't spit out that message as many times before giving up, but it still logs it repeatedly.
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>>103094063
There's more things to run than just a browser, and you have more issues to worry about if you're reaching 8gb ram usage with just a browser.
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How's everyone's experience with BTRFS? I either hear that it's very reliable or it destroys people's drives. I'm not sure who to believe.
Have to say, it's nice getting BTRFS and snapshots by default on Tumbleweed, but some of the comments I've seen about BTRFS are kinda making me worried.
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>>103093736
I get a feeling KDE is deliberately breaking stuff on X to get people to move to wayalnd.
Earlier version of kde works perfectly fine.
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>>103094281
KrashDE breaks random stuff every release. There's not necessarily an agenda.
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>>103094249
I think if you dig into the 'destroys drives' comments, you'll find there's not a lot of substance.
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>>103094249
I've been using it on an ssd and a 2.5 hdd for half a year, nothing has happened yet. Sometimes my cpu spins up due to scrubbing and maybe also compression, nothing else has happened yet.
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>>103094281
>I get a feeling KDE is deliberately breaking stuff on X to get people to move to wayalnd.
Nah that's gnome. I don't think KDE really cares. There's still stuff on Xorg that still has no proper replacement on wayland for yet, mainly stuff like xrdp. Though i heard that GNOME can now do an xrdp equivalent on wayland.
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>>103093846
Did that.
The same.
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>>103093869
Is it good idea, to get USB 3 flash drive and format it as linux swap and use it?
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>>103094460
Not if you want it to finish compiling this year. Good write speed is kind of a requirement for swap. You can add a swap file without making new partitions on your existing storage.
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>>103087324
I clicked on a link in Pixiv that didn't seem to go anywhere, and the poster deleted it. Turns out it was a shortened link, so I'm afraid it was a malicious one.

Nothing shows up in the firefox downloads, but what's the worst that clicking a link could do? And what should I do now?
I'm using linux mint.
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>>103093050
>Lumina and CDE above modern KDE
Yeah, this person has no idea what they're talking about and it'll not jump Wayland. Try using half of these desktops on a HiDPI display with fractional scaling and they'll fall over immediately.
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>>103094420
KDE already has Krdp. It's very experimental still though.

I'd personally, rather see them implement more of the Wlroots Wayland protocols so Wayvnc can work. VNC is enough for 90% of usecases and doesn't have stupid requirements like needing a .h264 extension barely anyone implements for RDP.

They could have two remote desktop solutions then, one for simple usecases that maximises compatibility (VNC) and the other for when you want the full works with audio, etc, provide the client supports it all.
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>>103094318
They have better compatibility than GNOME. What you're describing is GNOME.

KDE only breaks things in major releases such as the move to Qt 6. Patch releases shouldn't break anything, that'll a bug if that happens, please repost it.
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>>103095033
Is krdp able to be run headlessly without already being logged in?
>VNC is enough for 90% of usecases
Not really.
Rdp is a better protocol than vnc, and supports more features which vnc doesnt
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>>103095049
I'm not talking about compatibility, I'm talking about basic features break every time. Like Plasma 5 Wayland would just randomly lose focus in Thunderbird windows, #wontfix. Move to 6 and now window rules don't apply correctly to Firefox PiP windows. GNOME doesn't pull shit like that IME, but nobody wants to use base GNOME.
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Gdbus. Which is it. A tool or a lib?
I watched a talk and the Spaniard said it's a lib.

Is this misinformation?
It was gnome asia so it could be Mal information?
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>>103095384
Or is it both? The man says that it is a tool.
Why does he call it a lib?
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>>103087324
Sorry, I would've asked this on /v/, but there hasn't been a Linux thread on there for weeks. Anyway, could someone share their experience with pirating newer games and getting them to run on Linux? Let's say I want do download AAA slop from fitgirl or gog, does lutris or wine work well enough or does it require a lot of tinkering with config files?
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>>103087422
Youtube or mpv to play mp3's I downloaded from yt and converted to 128kbs mp3s
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>>103093050
>It uses too much ram and cpu, other DE's do with less.
GNOME has less features and it somehow manages to use more RAM, CPU and even eats my battery.
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>>103096149
Yuck. Why in 128?
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>>103096221
Because he's a retarded frog poster. The Opus files that YouTube provides are better quality quality in every way.
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>>103087324
How do I allow firejail to use shared libraries when opening a program?
I'm trying to
firejail rpcs3

and get
rpcs3: error while loading shared libraries: libLLVM.so.18.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$doas locate libLLVM.so.18.1
/opt/rust-bin-1.80.1/lib/libLLVM.so.18.1-rust-1.80.1-stable
/usr/lib/llvm/18/lib64/libLLVM.so.18.1
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>>103096364
The appimage seems to work for me
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>>103096397
I went through the trouble of compiling it myself already, so I won't be using that unless I can't figure it out
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>>103096405
Oh well good luck then, why do you want to firejail rpcs3 though?
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Does anyone know familiar with this problem? It only happens with the inter-flstudio windows, not the real ones like the settings menu
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>>103096418
Thank you. I usually do it for running programs with huge codebases, for peace of mind.
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>>103096435
Could be GPU acceleration.
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>>103096435
did you try gamescope ?
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>>103096435
What desktop? If KDE they added better XWayland resizing recently (should be in the next release).

>>103096466
Gamescope might work around it.
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>>103096364
i'm assuming you're on gentoo, you need /etc/ld.so.cache , /etc/ld.so.conf and /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ readable by the firejail
have you tried using bubblewrap over firejail?
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Could someone help me setting up something similar to this using bash?
I don't want any other feature other than this "previous command used suggestion", it's based on the hist file so I cannot see why bash wouldn't be able to do it.
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>>103096645
>i'm assuming you're on gentoo
That's right.
>you need[...]
Ok, I'll mess with the firejail profile and try it out.
>have you tried using bubblewrap over firejail?
I haven't, no. Not sure what the differences are. I'm using firejail because it's what I'm more used to. Should I consider switching?
Thank you.
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>>103096813
By the way
>because it's what I'm more used to
Just means that it's what I've used before.
I've no idea how to work it when the default profiles shit the bed, so I'm trying to
whitelist /etc/ld.so.*
whitelist /etc/ld.so.conf
whitelist /etc/ld.so.d/*
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>>103094965
Watch the video.
The thumbnail is clickbait
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>>103096397
what's your specs?
I have 3rg gen Core i5 + 8 GB of ram.
What can I emulate?
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>>103096770
Press ctrl+r, dunno if it's possible to have that on by default
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Why can't I find any information online about networkmanagers gmain thread?
There's FUCKALL.
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>>103097310
not the same thing, i want it to work like the picture. It's way less intrusive that way.
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>>103096858
Manually whitelisted every single file it requested now it's giving me this:
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0
qt.qpa.plugin: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin.
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: vnc, minimal, vkkhrdisplay, linuxfb, xcb, offscreen.

They're all whitelisted too.
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>>103097246
sauce on your pic? Also, you can emulate everything up to gen 5, I believe.
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>>103097456
Know what? I'll look into bubblewrap. Fuck this.
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I have an ancient laptop with 512mb of ram. Is there a distro I could use with this? I only have experience with lxde and mint.

I need it to write documents, print and scan. I currently have XP on it but the scanning software doesn't work.
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>>103097703
Linux Mint Debian Edition, use XFCE. You can also go with a minimal CLI-only Arch linux, or even CentOS.
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>>103087324
Check out my bashrc bros, its nearly 14k Loc !
https://github.com/japaniel/dotfiles/blob/master/ultimate.bashrc
>t. absolutely based bash autist
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>>103097806
what the fuck
what the fuck does it do
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>>103097806
>interactive shell checks in bashrc
Why do people do this? Not the first time I see it. Isn't bashrc ONLY read by interactive shells?
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>>103097635
@abkazias
I think its deleted now.
>5th gen
Seriously? PS1 is the best I can do?
Odd since I could emulate DS with melon, and DS should be seven gen.
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>>103097806
>14k loc
13k is new lines
500 comments
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>>103097857
Many things, including the login shell, often source these files.
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>>103097763
Thanks, I'll try those.
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>>103098103
You are welcome. Also, Fedora is normally not very demanding.
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>>103097860
Thanks bro. It's not a troon right? I don't fuck with that troon shit desu.

Also, yes PS1 will probably be the best. You could give gen 6 a try, but PS2 games are tough to emulate unless you have a dedicated GPU. You'd probably need at least a 1060Ti to run PS2 games smoothly. You can also try playing PAL versions of games if you experience slowdown.

>I could emulate DS
I don't doubt that you were able to do this, but DS is a not as graphically-demanding as the gen 6 consoles.
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>>103098153
>Thanks bro. It's not a troon right? I don't fuck with that troon shit desu.
Nevermind, I got my answer. Yuck. Protip: don't Google that @
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>>103097806
for Pattern in "alias" "function" "PS1"; do grep -c -E "^#? ?${Pattern}" "ultimate.bashrc"; done

>893 aliases
>635 functions
>59 prompts
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This is a rather obscure issue, but maybe someone here can help me out. I'm getting the following errors spammed in my system log:

2024-11-05T10:05:53.197521-05:00 Alice rtkit-daemon[260928]: Warning: PolicyKit call failed: Process not found
2024-11-05T10:05:53.406240-05:00 Alice rtkit-daemon[260928]: Failed to look up client: No such file or directory


This is happening with qtile and spectrwm, but not with lxqt or awesome. I've ruled out an issue with polkitd, because that's running in all cases.
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>>103095092
GNOME doesn't even have window rules, at least not like KWin has.
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what's a good power management package for Arch+KDE? mainly looking for power modes (e.g. battery saver, balanced, performance) and be able to customize
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>>103098802
Power Profiles Daemon
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>>103091149
This is how it ended up:
https://files.catbox.moe/h0zf5l.mp4
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How can I figure out what the fuck is happening to my game(wine). The screen suddenly starts to stutter, even though the DPS counter claims to be above 150.
The stutter doesn't stop until I reboot my pc and starts at random.
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>>103099041
Video drivers or compositor, which is technically part of your video driver stack.
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so after a long time suddenly rtorrent goes under development. when pressed the guy says he was paid by a see box company to to reignite interest in it

he also is involved in the development of rutorrent.

this does not sit comfortably with me and if anyone here knows what I mean have you looked at his commits?
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>>103098684
You can't have any bugs if you don't have any features.
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>>103097246
spend all your time looking like a woman
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>>103099051
Hm, I did just update my nvidia drivers. I am very new to Gentoo and I dont really know if I'm supposed to do something after the updates or not.
Doing a @module-rebuild triggers a driver reinstall for some reason so I don't think that's the solution.
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>>103099083
Very true.
If you want to pretend the feature doesn't exist like you would do in GNOME, you can do that though. 90% of the time I see someone having issues with KDE it's because they're doing something weird or deviating from the defaults and end up creating problems for themselves.
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>>103097860
>Odd since I could emulate DS with melon, and DS should be seven gen.
in this context, he's referring to home consoles, handhelds are another story
in terms of hardware, the DS is approximately comparable to the 5th gen of home consoles, they're usually a couple generations behind just because they're handhelds with weaker, battery-powered hardware
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>>103099103
>noVideo
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>>103099129
>0%marketshareMD
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>>103099141
Check the Steam hardware survey. Linux gamers massively favour AMD.
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How do I configure slstatus to look something like this, or optionally are there any other info bar options?
I’d like some that displays things like RAM/CPU usage, battery percentage, WiFi strength date and time, the latter preferably in the middle rather than on the right.
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>>103099108
Nah KDE is a total shitfest. It's just in the exact opposite orientation.
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>>103099103
Wait it's not the nvidia drivers, my INPUT what the fuck?
My frametime spikes whenever I move the mouse or press a key in my keyboard.
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>>103099503
Is that on Steam? And do you have the steam overlay disabled in that game?
There's a known issue about this if you have steam overlay disabled for some reason. You'd think it'd be the other way around but nope.
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>>103099518
It's a non-steam game launched through steam with Proton GE 9.7 using "DXVK_CONFIG="dxgi.syncInterval=0" mangohud gamemoderun %command%" as launch options. Steam overlay is disabled.
Since it's random and I don't know when i'll get it again I'll wait for more replies before I turn the game off and try to enable the overlay.
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>>103093569
>>103093604
>>103094163
Okay so I figured out that creating a udev rule can fix it

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bda", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0151", ATTR{avoid_reset_quirk}="1"
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1d6b", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0002", ATTRS{avoid_reset_quirk}="1"


BUT it seems like this rule is not processed during boot and it still throws the message 30 times during boot and slows it down. Then lvm2-monitor.service just hangs indefinitely during boot (just before desktop would load). So I opened my case, unplugged the thing, rebooted and masked lvm2-monitor.service and it can at least boot but the problem is not really solved.
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I really like geany :D
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I've found like three different shortcuts for this whatever it is. How do you leave this without restarting?
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>>103099835
i don't know what it is, a lock screen?
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>>103099856
Apparently, there's some kind of mini game in there, though I can only get it to say 'cleared' by pressing esc and 'wrong'. Random keys highlight a part of the circle.
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>>103099835
>>103099895
looks like the i3lock, just type your password.
or give it back, jamal.
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>>103099141
>he says, on the linux thread
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>>103098565
WOW I finally fixed it
from this page https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.0/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html
set kernel flag usbcore.quirks=1d6b:0002:ek,0bda:0151:ek

> e = USB_QUIRK_RESET (device can't be reset (e.g morph devices), don't use reset);
k = USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM (device can't handle Link Power Management);

I don't know if k was necessary but I threw it in there anyway.
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>>103087324
ugh, guys, we might be losing proton-ge https://x.com/GloriousEggroll/status/1854007267663712366
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>>103100208
He has a point
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>>103100227
he doesn't have a point, chud
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>>103100208
normal proton is good enough now
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>>103100234
he has been working at porting the entire steam runtime to lutris for non steam games can use normal proton things. his TDS and nazi paranoia is going to cause all that work to end.
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>>103100208
Oh no right wingers won't want to use it anymore
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>>103100247
yeah, thats nice but i'm still gonna keep on using open source software to promote maga even if he rage quits working on proton-ge and lutris.
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>>103100244
Damn that sucks, such a convenient project
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>>103100268
yup. it be sad to lose because he couldn't control his mental illness
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>>103099986
>alice
ywnbaw
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>>103100208
Fixed your link so people can open it: https://xcancel.com/GloriousEggroll/status/1854007267663712366

What do you need the GE version for anyway? I haven't encountered the missing codec screen for years now.
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>>103099986
I'm guessing this was meant for >>103099556
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>>103100298
He just said he doesn't like Trump. How does that correlate to him not making proton-ge-custom anymore.
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I'm trying to get my Series X controller to work with my Pop installation, but it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting - whether I use bluetooth or a cable. Has anyone had (and solved) this issue before?
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Just started using Alpine with xfce as my DE. I've set up i3 but now whenever I log in the volume isn't working, there's no sound unless I've logged into the default/xfce mode first, logged out and then logged into i3.
The error message when starting Pulse Audio Volume Control is:
"Connection to PulseAudio failed. In this case it is likely because PULSE_SERVER in the environment/X11 Root Window Properties or default-server in client.conf is misconfigured." But if it works when I log in without i3 then there's probably another issue I'm not aware of.
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>>103098153
Thanks man.
I realize DS isn't graphically intense.
But I could emulate PS2 on athelonII from 2008, although with shitty frames.
>>103098172
Sorry for that.
Let me help you with some nice OL
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>>103098153
>DS is a not as graphically-demanding
What about 3DS?
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>>103099027
share the github
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In qemu, how to get it to see other USB flash drives?
Like /dev/sdb?
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -drive file=/dev/sdc
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>arch boots so fast i cannot see my sick plymouth setup
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Any guides online to setup linux gaming without using steam?
Most of my games are pirated, and old.
And I'd prefer to have separate wine prefix for safety, all running within firejail.
I'm trying to get this
https://archive.org/details/command-and-conquer-red-alert-2-incl-yuris-revenge-win-rip-en_202201
to work.
I know I need cncdraw, but I would like to install some mods and maps as well.
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>>103101050
For playing games outside Steam you have Lutris or Bottles.
Lutris basically runs premade scripts to set up wine prefixs that make a game run properly.
Bottles emulates an entire Windows environment with the ease of use that brings.
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>>103101065
>Lutris
you would think so
https://lutris.net/games/command-conquer-red-alert-2/
Couldn't get it to run, got error code 255 or something.
>bottles
Failed to initialize the game.
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>>103101065
Aren't both just fancy wine frontend?
what happened to play on linux?
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>>103101081
For a last ditch effort try umu-launcher
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>>103101009
https://nextcaller.neocities.org/logitech/
https://nextcaller.neocities.org/logitech/logitechmap.json
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>>103101050
The most bloat free way of gayming with windows only games is installing wine-staging on bleeding edge distro, but it is not as just werks as the bloated alternatives, i expect 70% of gaymes to run with it
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>>103096770
Anyone? I can't even really search it because I don't know how to call this feature. Ctrl-r isn't as good as it.
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>>103101037
pacman -Rns plymouth
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is there a retard friendly distro with a larger / more up to date repository than mint? would like to consider my options before updating my old install. should i just use nix + mint22?
trying to get off of windows but want something that just works, help me bros
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>>103101484
Install Mabox
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>>103100208
And nothing of value was lost.
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Anyone having issues with KDE plasma?
I can't logout, I just get stuck with black screen.
And when I try to switch to wayland, I get that SDDM is not writable, and when i log in I get into another black screen.
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I'm having a bit of trouble configuring my slstatus bar together with DWM. Aside from missing fonts for the symbols, it is oversized and stuck to the middle. Any way I can configure it to look a bit neater?
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>>103101838
For reference, I tried to use the one from here.
https://gitlab.com/roidm/suckless/-/tree/main/slstatus-powerline

It's been a few years since I got into ricing so this is almost like starting from scratch again.
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>>103101016
add another -drive to it
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>>103087324
I have a bunch of plain text files that I need to convert to TTS audio. I know that I can manually import and export them in Speech Note but it doesn't seem to have any terminal options for automating the conversions. Are there any TTS apps that do?
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>>103101780
I'm assuming Arch because your post is very similar to previous ones involving Arch, mention what distro next time.

Disable session saving, do not re-enable after, it's broken. Make sure systemdicks is up to date because lol dbus. Disable/remove SDDM and install/enable another DM (lightdm, ly, ...) and reboot.
If you get stuck switch to another vt with Ctrl+Alt+F1/2/3/4/5/6/..., log in and
# reboot
.
The sporadic desktop failing to load and only getting the panel up at log in (black background) issue is known on X11 and remains unfixed. Relog and it should work. Switch to Wayland unless you have a reason to stay on X11.
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>>103102022
Yeah it's arch.
>Disable session saving, do not re-enable after
It's disabled.
>Make sure systemdicks is up to date
I'm on the latest.
>Disable/remove SDDM and install/enable another DM (lightdm, ly, ...) and reboot.
Just lightdm?
How to disable SDDM?
>Switch to Wayland
It's what I'm trying to do
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>>103102216
>Just lightdm?
Any dm that isn't broken. They really (d)on't (m)atter.
Pick one: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_manager

>How to disable SDDM?
For example:
# pacman -S lightdm
# systemctl disable sddm
# systemctl enable lightdm
# reboot

Pick the right session (Wayland/Plasma/etc) from the dm's menu and log in. For lightdm it should be on the top right; it's usually paired with Xfce, but the DE choice is irrelevant.

Personally since I don't use Plymouth either I just use Ly, it's really basic but that's also its strength.
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for some reason the arrangment of desktop icons isn't saved from session to session
is something overiding it?
is there a way to save it?
using mint btw
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>>103102022
>>103102278
Thanks daddy.
welp
Now nothing works.
I guess KDE doesn't like lightdm
Back to SDDM
>failed to start lightdm
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>>103102306
Consider another distro.
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>>103102348
I'm on arch.
I though you said DM doesn't matter?
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>>103102361
It doesn't. Something else is fucked up and you're not competent enough to fix it. Thus,
>Consider another distro.
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>>103102369
In other words you're a parrot.
nvm fixed it ;)
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>>103102361
>DM doesn't matter?
It doesn't, if it works correctly. It's not a case of "KDE not liking lightdm", that's not how display managers work.

Most likely you're seeing some sort of graphics driver crash and it probably only happens on Arch because of its bleeding edge nature. Lightdm is a shit display manager anyway though, it still runs everything as root:
https://github.com/canonical/lightdm/issues/18
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>>103099122
What about games that have ports on consoles?
Dragon crown is on PS3, but has PSV game port.
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>>103102376
It's shit alright.
Even autologin doesn't work
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>>103102393
i'm not very familiar with playstation vita, i don't know how it compares to a ps3
in general it doesn't matter if it's a port from something else, like a port for ps vita is just a ps vita game, the existence of a ps3 version doesn't change that. in some cases it could indicate being easier to emulate, like if it's a port of a game originally for a much older console, that has had little to no changes made to it, basically underutilising the new console, though not as easy as running the original game in an emulator for the original console (assuming emulators of comparable "quality" for lack of a better term, that is as efficient relative to the hardware of the original system)
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>>103102393
>(pic)
The source for that couldn't be more straight. Find a rope and a tree and hang around, faggot.
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>>103087324
>Have a proton tricks command
>Works fine pasted directly into command line
>But consistently breaks as a text file with a magic number error
How can I start troubleshooting this?
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>>103102646
>breaks as a text file
As in a script? Does it have a valid shebang at the top?
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>>103102646
>wants help
>doesn't post error messages or the command
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>>103100996
3DS is. A lot of chinkhandhelds struggle to emulate it, but any decent PC with a dedicated GPU should be able to handle it.
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>>103102657
Haven't put one in, and this command used to work fine without one. (Plus $shell was just there just to stop the command line from closing, haven't seen it affect anything else). Its literally just this:
cd /home/anon/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/284160/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/BeamMP-Launcher
protontricks-launch --appid 284160 BeamMP-Launcher.exe
$SHELL
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>>103102728
Its the magic number error, but a moot point if the command works just fine when pasted directly into command line
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/anon/.local/bin/protontricks-launch", line 8, in <module>
sys.exit(cli())
File "/home/anon/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protontricks/cli/launch.py", line 18, in cli
main(args)
File "/home/anon/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protontricks/cli/util.py", line 149, in wrapper
return cli_func(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/anon/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protontricks/cli/launch.py", line 187, in main
cli_main(cli_args, steam_path=steam_path, steam_root=steam_root)
File "/home/anon/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protontricks/cli/util.py", line 149, in wrapper
return cli_func(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/anon/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 329, in main
proton_app = find_proton_app(
File "/home/anon/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 821, in find_proton_app
tool_app = find_steam_compat_tool_app(
File "/home/anon/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 610, in find_steam_compat_tool_app
appinfo_sections = [
File "/home/anon/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 610, in <listcomp>
appinfo_sections = [
File "/home/anon/.local/pipx/venvs/protontricks/lib/python3.10/site-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 540, in iter_appinfo_sections
raise SyntaxError("Invalid file magic number")
SyntaxError: Invalid file magic number
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>>103102278
Well, it turn out xorg is still running and preventing the logout.
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>Arch updated Plasma
oh god here we go again
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I've been struggling with this.
I'm trying to get this
https://archive.org/details/yugioh-power-of-chaos-joey-gx
To work with bottles/wine.
I get black screen but the sound and game itself run fine.
Any idea where to start fixing it?
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I've searched for explanations of the write hole problem, but never saw any good ones. Seems that https://chat-gpt.org/chat helped explain to me why COW filesystems don't have the write hole problem:
>>ZFS is a copy on write file system and is not subject to the write hole. Explain the write hole problem to me like I'm four years old.
>Okay, imagine you have a coloring book and you're coloring a picture with different colored crayons. But sometimes, when you're coloring really fast, the colors don't get saved properly and they get mixed up or deleted. That's kind of like the write hole problem in file systems. But ZFS is like a magic coloring book that always saves your colors perfectly, so you never have to worry about them getting messed up.
I suppose this would be an OK answer if I was that old.
>>ZFS is a copy on write file system and is not subject to the write hole. Explain the write hole problem to me like I'm eight years old.
>Imagine you have a really big coloring book that you share with your friend. Whenever you want to color a picture, you have to tell your friend which picture you're going to color so they can write it down in a special book.
>\Now, if you decide to color a picture and your friend is writing down the information at the same time, there's a chance that your friend might not finish writing before you're done coloring. This can cause a problem because if something goes wrong while your friend is writing (like their pencil breaks or they get distracted), the information might not be complete and your picture could get messed up.
>\That's kind of like the write hole problem in a file system. Sometimes, when a computer is writing information to a file, something can go wrong in the middle of the process, which can cause the data to be incomplete or corrupted. But with ZFS, this problem is avoided because it uses a special technique called copy on write, which makes sure that the data is always written correctly without any holes or mistakes.
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>>103102847
It's a patch release, you retarded frog. Expect bugs to be fixed.
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>>103102957
Is this more of a GNU/Linux comment or a BSD one? Depends on which group uses ZFS more (user counts, and ZFS is the default filesystem in BSD). So in my understanding, COW FSs work like this: every time data is write, it's write twice. The first one is the source and the second is the destination. After it verifies that source and destination are the same, it deletes the source copy leaving only the dest copy. With other filesystems, if you write data, it only writes it once, which could result in problems such as the write hole. I've read that the write hole is rare. Also, I think I'll use ext4 and not zfs on a SSD because those have a limited number of writes. (Additionally, remember that SSDs can get corrupted if they are left unpowered for a year or longer.)
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>>103103000
>Expect bugs to be fixed.
And a few more to be introduced, as usual.
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>>103103013
That's not what copy on write means at all. It can actually reduce writes because data references the original extents and is only copied/duplicated if it changes.

You can make a reflinks of two files and the only thing that gets written is a small bit of metadata. This is in contrast to non-CoW filesystems that copy and duplicate the entire file (thus writing more data)
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>>103103038
Pick your poison. The argument that they shouldn't fix bugs because they might introduce more of them doesn't really hold water. Yeah, they might break something new, expect it to get fixed in another patch release if they do (usually they get fixed pretty quickly in the git master branch but shit distros like Arch won't do backports so you have to wait for the actual release to get the bugs fixed)
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Anyone find a way to edit the Birth time of a file in Linux like that one anon (not me) was asking about in a previous thread?

>>103087422
>favorite music player
Sticking a bunch of MP3s together to get one long MP3. Put padding of binary zeros at the end of each MP3 for a better long MP3. Using cat/whatever and not ffmpeg. Recently had a crappy HDD die (no tears because I completely planned for it), so my options are somewhat limited with this method. (Only lost ~5 random files which I didn't care much about.)

>>103103013
*every time data is written, it's written twice
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>>103103053
>That's not what copy on write means at all
Ok. !w:
>Copy-on-write (COW), also called implicit sharing[1] or shadowing,[2] is a resource-management technique[3] used in programming to manage shared data efficiently. Instead of copying data right away when multiple programs use it, the same data is shared between programs until one tries to modify it. If no changes are made, no private copy is created, saving resources.[3] A copy is only made when needed, ensuring each program has its own version when modifications occur. This technique is commonly applied to memory, files, and data structures.

The rest of your post: sounds like you're describing turning the dedup option on which is off by default. However, I've forgotten or didn't know in the first place.
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>>103103066
Arch does backports though, see the recent intel wifi issues.
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>>103102957
The second explanation isn't very satisfying either.

>>103103144
So wtf is cow? Seems to be block sharing or file sharing thing in a deduplication sort of way. If a modification is made, then it copies on write. Why does CoW avoid write holes? Guessed that I knew, but it was the wrong guess. See above vague allegorical explanations for why it avoids it.

>>103103069
Name of dead hard disk drive: z7. Time of death:
>$ utc; rsync -a --info=progress2 --size-only --include="/mnt/z7/blocks/??/*" user@10.0.0.108:/mnt/z7/blocks/ /zc/ipfs/blocks/; utc
>2024-11-04T05:11:38.351357725Z
>[ded]
>2024-11-04T12:13:56.312686482Z
>$ # in the first half of 2024-11-04 GMT
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>>103103144
not him, but yea, copy-on-write is precisely what the name implies, when you write a change to a file, rather than overwriting the original data, it writes a new copy to a fresh location. it doesn't write twice, however
as for reflinks and deduplication, deduplication is when you take two or more duplicate files or files with partial duplicate content, compare them and remove redundant copies. reflinks on the other hand have the same result, but are created directly in a deduplicated form, that is, when you take a file and create a reflink of it, it looks and acts like a regular copy, except the contents are shared/"deduplicated" with the original. however unlike a hardlink, they are independent in that if you change one of them, the changes are made elsewhere (CoW) and only affect the file you made the change to
basically they act like two normal copies, but any identical parts of their content are only physically on disc once
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>>103103298
>Why does CoW avoid write holes?
in a non-cow filesystem, you make changes in-place, right over the old data. this means that if that write fails or is interrupted, that part of the file is simply corrupted
with a cow filesystem however, if a write fails or is interrupted, the old data remains intact, as the write never touches the original data
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Konsole looks like crap by default in LXQt in ~latest Lubuntu. Perhaps if I change some fonts and stuff it will look OK.

>>103101050
>>103102885
>archive.org
This website is like Reddit cringe because jannies delete offensive and non-offensive comments/reviews on items. Example:
>https://archive.is/2021.05.28-105438/https://archive.org/details/cd_tweedles_the-residents
>https://archive.is/2024.11.06-155556/https://archive.org/details/cd_tweedles_the-residents
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>>103102957
>why COW filesystems don't have the write hole problem
They can though. The important concept here is transactionality. Which means an operation either completes fully or it never happened. Copy-on-write is a prerequisite for transactionality. Because you can't undo a write operation if you overwrite the original data in place.

ZFS avoids the write hole by using transactional writes, and it lowers the performance impact of waiting for transactional writes to complete by having variable stripe size. This means synchronous writes cause huge fragmentation. Which is why other CoW filesystems like btrfs and bcachefs still have the write hole. Eliminating it adds a lot of complexity and IO amplification.
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>>103091779
I’ve heard that it was a legal requirement that the US-based Linux Foundation remove those slavs. Do you expect them to pay a fine or go to jail for Russians?

>>103103348
>not him, but yea, copy-on-write is precisely what the name implies, when you write a change to a file, rather than overwriting the original data, it writes a new copy to a fresh location. it doesn't write twice
Helpful explanation. (I already knew the rest of what you posted after that.)

>>103103380
Thanks, also helpful. I remember that I once knew that, I think. Like having a text file and copying it and making an edit to the copy, instead of an inplace edit with
>$ sed -i "s/find/replace/g" a.txt
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Why is video hardware acceleration so terrible on linux? It sometimes works for h264, anything else? Forget about it, VP9 on nothing, HEVC only plays up to 1080p in jellyfin (ofc not accelerated) 4K doesnt even launch. I have to modify a config file because its not default for mpv.
Whats is this retarded shit? I was gonna buy a new GPU but for what at this point because I bet AV1 won't be working either if they couldn't figure out HEVC and VP9 for a decade...
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>>103103511
Understood (99% of your post). Not sure I agree with this chatgpt answer about a different question that I had like a month ago:
>>Switch to previous transaction ID in ZFS?
>It is not possible to switch to a previous transaction ID in ZFS. Once a transaction is committed in ZFS, it cannot be rolled back or accessed directly. However, you can use ZFS snapshots to revert to a previous state of your file system before a particular transaction occurred. By reverting to a snapshot, you can undo changes made to your data and return to a previous point in time.

It says that you must have a snapshot to got back in time with the FS by 30 seconds, 30 minutes, 30 hours, whatever amount of time. IF I remember correctly, I saw Wendell/Tier1Techs guy go to a previous ZFS transaction with no snapshot.
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>>103103703
>Once a transaction is committed
Key phrase. When ZFS writes something, it opens a transaction and then closes the transaction after the write completes. Until the transaction is committed the filesystem retains all data necessary to undo it. This is automatic and not user visible.
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>>103103544
>I’ve heard that it was a legal requirement that the US-based Linux Foundation remove those slavs
The Linux foundation doesn't develop Linux. It's a fund raising organization. It could be dismantled and reincorporated in a neutral country, minus a few Western companies who aren't even it's largest contributors.
>Do you expect them to pay a fine or go to jail for Russians?
I expect Linus to move somewhere he can maintain neutrality, say an expat enclave in SEA, or step down. Moving Linux from being the universal kernel to the GAE kernel is incredibly damaging long term.
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>>103103863
>The Linux foundation doesn't develop Linux. It's a fund raising organization
they don't fund linux, either
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>>103097456
it either cant read your wayland socket or your xorg display socket
add /tmp/.X11-unix and /run/user/$(id -u) or whatever you have $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR set to, to the whitelist as well, or if you dont want to add the whole $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR directory, add $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/wayland-1
the only other thing might just be needing to add all of the qt dirs as well, an easy way would be to just whitelist the whole /usr/lib and /lib directories
bwrap is not that hard to figure out, the archwiki has some good examples to use as reference, it seems to be a little more secure than firejail as well
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>>103104701
oh, you might also need ~/.Xauthority as well, or whatever $XAUTHORITY is set to.
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Is it possible to have internet working on systemd without NetworkManager running? I was having issues and couldn't figure out (things in the terminal were taking ages to work if they had any online component like search) and i ended up figuring out that the networkmanager service wasnt enabled.
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>>103104908
systemd-networkd.
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>>103104912
Those pesky little systemd guys...
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>>103104908
Use dhcpcd
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>>103101993
https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
this might help. it's kinda jank since i think the binary it builds is meant more as a demo but you can definitely tardwrangle it. i used this, combined with llama.cpp to have glados tell me about my emails and stuff on my agenda.
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>>103101993
>>103105053
also be aware that this can and WILL sound like it had a stroke at times. it's obvious when it fucks up but still.
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>>103094063
ive never had a browser use more than 2G of ram
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>>103104908
No, hence why I can't read your question or reply to it. Cause I'ver never installed networkmanager.
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>>103105141
my browser eats over 20G right fucking now
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>>103105205
Close your tabs
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>>103105237
No
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What's the most plain and simple tiling WM out there? I'm looking for something that's basically a TTY + multiplexer but with colours and high resolution (and that do not require learning a programming language in order to configure it).
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>>103105285
just use tmux?
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>>103105285
i3 just werks, there is also this website to help you with customizing colors https://thomashunter.name/i3-configurator/
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how can I enable mangohud and gamemoderun to umu-launcher's toml? ive tried adding them to launch_args but i dont think thats the right place, the documentation fucking suck (or im retarded, or both) and i cant figure it out myself
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How big of persistence do I need to have Live USB of arch linux working?
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>>103088602
> LOL maybe I spoke too soon. Basically the same issues Firefox has (like choppy video, lag, stutter)...but at least the videos are loading on youtube's website

Use ViolentMonkey scripts to fix this
I've never had issues after installing this :
https://update.greasyfork.org/scripts/477498/Youtube%20AdBlock%20ban%20bypass.user.js
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>>103087324
What exact dependencies do I need for dwm on Arch? I don't want to install the whole xorg package.
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>>103105732
>download
>dd to usb
>???
>Profit!
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>>103105884
I don't think you understand the question.
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Wine keeps my system from turning off, I know it's that for sure because I get the stop job right after restarting the pc, opening the wine program then shutting it down.
I've tried a bunch of ways of setting up a systemd service before shutdown but none of them worked, I'm using KDE so maybe it has a different way of shutting down?
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>>103106010
And yes, I have added it to KDE's logout scripts you can find on autostart. The script works perfectly fine when I run it on the terminal.
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How do you people feel about elementary OS in $CURRENTYEAR?

I like the improvements Gnome and KDE have made lately, but I keep gravitating towards it. It's buggy occasionally, but if looks good out of the box and mostly just werks.

The other day I spent an afternoon tinkering with KDE 6, just to end up making it look like an uglier eOS anyway.

I do wish it had global menus thoughbeit.
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>>103105732
It's going to be slow af unless you have a high end stick. I'd recommend at least 64GB.
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>>103106010
>I get the stop job right after restarting the pc, opening the wine program then shutting it down.
That makes no sense at all
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>>103106100
Wine doesn't shutdown properly and hangs my shutdowns/reboot, I know it's wine because I can open the program through wine after a fresh boot and if I try to restart without closing it first i'll get a stop job that takes the whole 2 minutes 100% of the time.
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New thread:
>>103106189
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>>103103153
Sometimes, yes. It's at the discretion of the maintainer. They generally don't.
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>>103106095
Most USB are USB3 now.
And if it can boot ISO, how it would be different with persistence?
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>>103106113
ah, that makes it much clearer.
Wine may not shut down completely, and you need to kill its subprocesses for it to go away.
Annoying indeed.
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>>103103558
AV1 works fine on my 6700 XT. Your hardware likely lacks support or you have broken or misconfigured drivers.

Also, note: Jelltfin is _ENCODING_, not _DECODING_ (there my 6700 XT wouldn't work because the hardware lacks support for encoding. You need the absolute latest hardware to encode AV1 in hardware)
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>>103106259
>Most USB are USB3 now.
Doesn't matter, most USB sticks are sub-SATA2 levels of dogshit and generally awful at random access.

>And if it can boot ISO, how it would be different with persistence?
Archiso uses a squashed root it unpacks into RAM every boot, it's designed not to persist.
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>>103103558
>linux issue
>hardware issue
pick one
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>>103106113
what stop job? what isn't stopping? user session?
i've never had wine not close gracefully before. what windows programs(s) are you running with it? maybe the windows program is the one not responding to termination messages. i don't know if wine has a system for killing unreponsive windows programs automatically, though if the issue is a windows program not closing when asked to, you can run "wineserver -k" to tell wine to kill everything it's managing (sigterm followed by sigkill, similar to a shutdown)
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is anyone aware of a tool/service that do some kind of hot/cold storage like having a hot drive which is used normally, and a cold drive which is only periodically spun up to move files with the oldest access times to keep some space free on the hot drive, leaving symlinks in their place so everything appears to be on the hot drive
basically i want to set up a kind of file server, but most of the data will be very cold, so i think the hdd(s) could be spun down most of the time, with the hot ssd(s) running the show otherwise, only spinning up the hdd(s) to access data i haven't accessed in a long time
i don't think it would be hard to make a shell script to do this, like just periodically check the hot drive to see if it drops under a certain amount of free space, then move the oldest access-time files to the cold drive until a certain other free space threshold has been met
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>>103087617
Don't do it. Don't dual boot. Don't use Windows. If you need windows for some software buy a 100$ thinkpad and install Windows on it and never use that thing unless you really have to. I haven't had Windows installed anywhere in about two years and I don't miss it. Dual booting is a really bad idea because you should be a Linux purist.
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>>103108323
dual booting is a bad idea just because it's inconvenient. it encourages staying in one os most of the time
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>>103088275
I've been daily driving nothing but Librewolf for a few months and only had issues maybe on 4 occasions where I had to download Brave and uninstall it afterwards.
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>>103088572
I think you found a reason to distrohop for a few months. I myself have a few Steam games which aren't working even though they really should after everything I've tried.
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>>103096435
Did you Install with Lutris and add the special modified Wine version to Lutris with Proton Plus?
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Is it possible anymore to run Selenium webdriver from a Python CGI script?



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