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Which is the correct reaction to the mention of the following word? (Extensions)
a) "Extensions? I love them! Hell yeah! Do whatever you want, bro! Hey, if you find any interesting ones, let me know. I'll share mine with you too!"
b) "Wh-What did you say?! By the Gods..how dare you corrupt this consecrated air with such a blasphemous, sinful suggestion! Repent! Beg for mercy and forgiveness!"

>>103311866
The only correct reaction to your post is "Meds".

>2000+24
>Still no hardware video acceleration on browsers with nvidia

>>103312036
Have faith:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1753129

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>>103311168
>>103311798
No

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>>103312175
choose you distro wisely, chud!
Captcha: 2pypHH

>>103312036
>retards will blame literally anyone but njudea for their extremely shitty drivers
Many such cases!

>>103312175
>redditards are offended by soijacks
Meme literally writes itself.

>>103312211
If ffmpeg and mpv can use nvdec without issues, there is no technical reason for firefox not to use it, and yes, nvdec works on opengl.

I just hope vulkan-video solves this mess once and for all.

>>103312175
it's so fucking over void sisters... I feel like every distro is corrupted by these "people". Not switching to artix doe because it has bad performance

>>103312258
>CLI tools have no issues THOUGH
Need I to remind you their support for Wayland?

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>>103312327
What about wayland?

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RED HAT!
RED HAT!
RED HAT!

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>>103312365

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What exactly does the eval command do and how am i supposed to be using it?
Is it similar to another command?

>>103313009

$ eval "help eval"
eval: eval [arg ...]
    Execute arguments as a shell command.
    
    Combine ARGs into a single string, use the result as input to the shell,
    and execute the resulting commands.
    
    Exit Status:
    Returns exit status of command or success if command is null.

>>103313009
>>103313058
wasn't there a thing back in the day where if you post a certain eval function on 4chan you'd get instab&?

>>103313100
For what possible reason? Some shitty WAF thinking you're attempting to hack the site?

>>103313058
I have no help command
I did do man sh and looked up eval in there but it made no sense to me

eval string ...
    Concatenate all the arguments with spaces. Then re-parse and execute the command.

>>103313129
Help is a Bash built-in (also Zsh). Use a better shell.

>>103313167
Im using zsh and there's no help built-in

>>103313121
yes, something like that. or maybe just an easter egg. this was back in 2008 or so.

>>103313189
I could have sworn Zsh had a help system too. I'm also using Zsh. I have help aliased to man which is probably why I made that mistake.

>>103313281
Should i alias help to man as well or just use bash's built-in help as a function/alias ?

help(){
      bash -c "help \"$@\""
}

>>103313281
Anyway, the bash_builtins and zshbuiltins do a good job of covering these. Just use

/eval\s

in your pager until it gets to it. Maybe there's better way to search for sections in Man pages but I don't know it.

executing scripts containing $PWD via thunar custom actions gives the parent of the expected PWD, what gives?

>>103312327
Firefox uses FFmpeg to interface with VA-API...

Why can't I use Tailscale and ProtonVPN at the same time on Android, /g/? The former is just there to give me a tunnel to my servers and shit. I want both of them running at the same time, but no matter how I set up split tunneling, settings, and Android's "Private DNS" setting, they can't run at the same time.

>>103312258
>>103313557
Nvidia should write a proper VAAPI driver with a stable API. The community proved it's possible:
https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver

>>103314251
By the way, Nvidia is still maintaining VDPAU drivers which fucking nobody uses. If they spent less resources on that then they could actually offer their customers a better experience but that makes too much fucking sense. Gotta self-sabotage so more people switch to AMD.

>>103313327
Their explanation doesnt really make any sense

>use linux
>closing laptop lid crashes everything

crying emoji

>>103313009
Probably the most common use case is to unwrap shell escaped input. E.g.

v=$(printf %q 'a b'); echo "$v"
eval "v=$(printf %q 'a b')"; echo "$v"

It can also be used to reproduce features from other shells, which is especially useful for minimal POSIX shells because POSIX sh fucking sucks. For instance if you want the last argument, the only way to do it in O(1) time is something like

eval destination=\$$#

>>103311491

hello /g

i try to install ffmpeg onto my kinoite machine, but it doesnt work, because there are conflicts with the pre installed free versions of the software and when i remove it and the dependencies, ffmpeg gets installed flawless, but i cant no longer update, upgrade, reset or rebase the system ...

...anyone an idea, the thing is, some youtube vids doesnt run with out ffmpeg!?

>>103314758
Install it in /usr/local or use a container or stop using immutable distro memes and install the regular KDE edition of Fedora.

>>103314866
>>103314758
You could also use a static binary:
https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/

>>103314295
For me? It just works

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>>103314295

>>103314866
>>103314889
>>103314758
Also if your problem is the browser then just install Flatpak Firefox from Flathub (NOT Fedora's Flatpak repo). It should have codecs included.

>>103314758
Look into how to setup rpmfusion for rpm-ostree
Or just use regular fedora instead of this immutable meme

>>103314889

just for clearance, i install it at a place i have access too, add the path of the binary to PATH and applications who use ffmpeg run the binary?

>or use a container

kek, i ask chatgpt the same issue, it told me to install it with flatpak, naive like am i, i tried what it adviced me, end of story, it was fullon bollocks, there isnt any flatpack with ffmpeg of flathub.
but in general this should work too? you just connect the call for ffmpeg with the container where it installed in?

>>103313189
>>103313281
>>103313327
ZSH SHIPS WITH

run-help

which provides the ability to enable a widget for retrieving the documentation for whatever your cursor is at and displaying it with less

unalias run-help
autoload run-help
run-help

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>>103314931
>>103314911

>>103314251
>>103314274
Again, Firefox already interfaces with FFmpeg for VA-API, there is no technical reason or limitation for it not to enable nvdec support.

nvdec works with OpenGL with GLX or EGL just fine.

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i think i am done with linux honestly unless someone has a solution for this
a couple of months ago i installed Mint on my spare Dell XPS laptop which i just use for browsing and watching videos.
bluetooth just randomly stops working every 2-3 days
i connect just two devices. airpods and mouse. they're always connected to the same laptop.
every few days, one of the devices will refuse to connect or be acknowledged, the bluetooth app will freeze, i click to connect, it goes infinite loading, i cancel it, it throws an error. search for devices button is suddenly disabled for some unknown to god reason, so i have to restart the whole bluetooth service but that doesn't even do it so i have to google some random obscure terminal commands to "actually" reset bluetooth or whatever
then i have to re-pair the device from scratch
sometimes it will act like it's connected and the device just doesn't respond, i have to remove it completely, pair again
when i had windows on the laptop everything literally JUST WORKED with the same damn two devices
i am at the end of my patience

>>103315649
Linux Bluetooth is run by mobile companies who don't give a shit about breaking individual adapters in individual kernels so long as their adapter works in the kernel they want to use. Just buy a handful of <$2 adapters with different chips off Ali and use one that works with your particular kernel. It's not like Windows where you have to buy a magic $40 adapter for the AptX license.

Why does my boot device/partition keep getting wrecked, and how do I fix this? BIOS error:
>Reboot or Select proper Boot device
>or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key

This is the second time this happened: (1) a certain program, I know which one, ooms everything and the computer freezes (2) leave it on frozen screen for ~4 minutes; I can hear no IO on external 18TB HDDs, and before it was frozen there was lots (3) force shutdown the computer by holding the power button (4) press the power button to turn it on (5) I get that BIOS problem

This happened twice so far with Lubuntu or Ubuntu. In the first time, I kinda blamed btrfs, but I think it's blameless. Pretty sure I was using ext4 on everything internal to this crappy 4-GB-of-RAM budget-class-CPU ~2017 laptop.

I really don't want to distro hop or (re)install an OS. I just want to boot up a live boot and somehow fix the boot partition. Or even better, use GRUB to fix it. (If I have to distro hop, guess I'll go with Arch, and install /root and /home in the same partition, like a normal person.) Btw, took ~900 seconds to write this post.

>>103315885
Qualcomm and Intel adapters are all pretty good in my experience.

>103315941
*Pretty sure I was using ext4 on everything internal to this crappy 4-GB-of-RAM budget-class-CPU ~2017 laptop THIS TIME (the second time)

>>103315957
If you run mainline kernels you're going to have Bluetooth problems no matter what chip.

>>103315644
VAAPI is not NVDEC. They're two different APIs. NVDEC also isn't always enabled in all distros builds of Ffmpeg. There's no real reason for Nvidia not to support VAAPI. If they can support VDPAU which nobody fucking uses then they can support VAAPI too which would actually benefit their customers. I guarantee you there isn't a single person seriously using VDPAU yet they waste precious engineering resources on it when they could be supporting something that's actively in use and would benefit people.

woah. i think i get why some people compile everything (besides as a precaution).

>>103316166
Or Firefox could adopt NVDEC for nvidia GPUs and distros will simply have to --enable-nvdec on their ffmpeg builds.

>>103316344
They already have code that works for every other GPU vendor. They should give Nvidia special treatment why exactly?
Firefox doesn't have many people working on Linux as it is and you want them to waste their resources doing work twice when Nvidia could easily get off of their lazy asses and use some of the billions of dollars they have to hire an engineer to write a VAAPI driver, or better yet get the retard that's still maintaining VDPAU to stop doing that and instead do something useful.

>>103316408
>They should give Nvidia special treatment why exactly?
Because they have 85%+ of the discrete GPU market

>>103316430
That means nothing when the vast majority of people still use iGPUs. Unless Nvidia is going to start handing out GPUs most people don't use them. The discrete GPU market is tiny.

>>103315968
A thing that gave me bad/inadequate advice multiple times before said this:
>[maybe it got corrupted or failing HDD, run "sudo fsck /dev/sdX"]
Probably not failing, I think
>you can try reinstalling GRUB to fix the boot partition. You can do this by booting into the live environment and running the following commands:
>$ sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt
>$ sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdX
>$ sudo update-grub
>Replace /dev/sdX with the device where you want to install GRUB and /dev/sdXY with the boot partition.

third time arch update fails because i forget about it and the fucking password prompt expires

Why can't programs on Linux be installed like on Windows? You click on the exe and you install it, simple, safe and effective. Why there are 384 ways of installing shit on Linux but they are all obtuse and unintuive. Also why when you install a program in the terminal you need to install all those dependencies that take forever to install, like I'm installing a program but this shit is downloading Python 2 shit for forever, why can't they include all those needed dependencies along with the program like it happens in Windows?

>>103316844
Linux is not Windows.
https://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

If you want something that works just like Windows, then Windows may well be the best choice of OS for you.

>>103316844
>install arch or a derivative
>install wine-staging
>pick where you want to install the program
>?
>works

>>103316457
what?

>>103316844
>Why there are 384 ways of installing shit on Linux
For most things you can just use your package manager which is easier than going to your browser and downloading an installer, like you'd do on Windows

For other things (e.g. AppImages) you can download them through your browser like you would do on Windows

>Also why when you install a program in the terminal you need to install all those dependencies that take forever to install
Windows requires dependencies too, e.g. when you need to install .NET or Visual C++ in order for a program to work

I dual boot linux to do ML stuff and as a general purpose OS, keeping windows just for games. Recently I ran into an issue, still ongoing, which is rapidly leading me to believe linux is a complete fucking joke.

I have two identical hard drives for media files, formatted as NTFS in case I'm in windows and want to watch anime or whatever. The 2nd is a backup that I rsync to occasionally. Anyway, I ran rsync and after some time the whole system freezes. WTF. I eventually track this down to my hydrus network backup folder, which now has many tens of thousands of files in it.

Doing anything with that directory freezes the whole computer and requires a hard reset. Rsync, cp, taring the directory, all freeze the whole system. Trying to copy just that directory to the backup drive fucking CORRUPTS the folder on the backup drive after it freezes. input / output errors and shit when trying to do anything with the corrupted folder.

Seems this issue is a combination of:
https://www.heiko-sieger.info/does-the-linux-ntfs3-driver-corrupt-directories/
and
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2540350#p2540350

The new NTFS driver is just bugged to shit when handling a directory with a lot of files. It's honestly unFUCKINGbelievable that in 2024 with linux, copying a folder with a bunch of photos from one NTFS drive to another will consistently corrupt the FS on one or both drives. Multiple people keep reporting issues, but apparently it's just fine to leave this driver in the kernel as the default.

I still don't even know if I'm gonna be able to copy this one directory off the NTFS drive to something like ext4. Hopefully I can just mount it with the older fuse driver and it doesn't bug out like this. I have tons of valuable data, and I've never been worried before about losing it (because I do backups), but now I'm genuinely paranoid that linux is just gonna wreck both my drives if I look at it the wrong way.

V4L2 will save browser video decoding.

>>103316844
>Why can't programs on Linux be installed like on Windows?
No standard ABI. Every Linux distro is a different OS.
>why when you install a program in the terminal you need to install all those dependencies that take forever to install
Because your distro is shit or you're incompetent.
>why can't they include all those needed dependencies along with the program like it happens in Windows
That's not how Windows works at all. However nix, appimage, flatpak, snap, ... all do that.

>>103317086
Okay an update, by blacklisting the ntfs3 driver, ubuntu automount now always uses the older ntfs-3g FUSE based driver. With both drives mounted using that, I was able to rsync the folder with lots of files to the backup drive.

Since I'm forced to use linux for my machine learning work, I guess I'll just buy new drives (I need to upgrade the size anyway) and fully convert over to ext4 or btrfs, and just give up on being able to access my media files if I'm in windows.

It's still mind blowing that this is even a problem. When John Normie tries out linux mint, and needs to copy his photos folder from one NTFS drive to another to back it up, it's just gonna freeze his computer and corrupt his filesystems. This is the default behavior with recent kernels now, and nobody sees this as a problem apparently. "Why isn't linux gaining market share as a desktop OS?" I fucking wonder.

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anon@fedora:~$ wayvnc
ERROR: ../src/main.c: 546: Virtual Pointer protocol not supported by compositor.
ERROR: ../src/main.c: 547: wayvnc may still work if started with --disable-input.
ERROR: ../src/main.c: 1871: Failed to initialise wayland
anon@fedora:~$ 

I'm on Plasma Mobile. Is there any Wayland VNC alternative that doesn't suck as much as Krfb?

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Why is apps volume mixed? When I change volume in ncmpcpp it also changes volume of mpv for some reason when it open it next time?
Also Zen browser shows volume per tab, and I would like to have just one general volume for browser in mixer.
Arch/PipeWire/Pulsemixer

>>103311491
Brothers, what CPU governor should I use: schedutil or ondemand?
The performance gorvernor won't do since my CPU doesn't support AMD P-State so it can do its own thing.

I wish I could take Fedora's stylus/tablet support, desktop experience/performance, and Firefox GTK4 file picker and put them in Linux Mint to create the ultimate Linux Distro that would defeat all other distros.

>get new pc with 1TB SSD to replace ancient laptop with tiny ssd
>install arch
>opt for seperate home partition because it sounds like a good idea to keep the OS in a seperate partition from all my files if i want to wipe the os alone
>go with default suggested size of 50GB for the OS and 950GB for everything else
>start installing applications
>turns out all the applications are going into the 50GB partition for the OS
>look online to see if this is normal
>"of course fellow redditors, apps will take way less storage than your personal files"
guess i'm going to wipe this drive again and start from scratch, the exact thing i was trying to prevent with the seperate partitions

call me a retard below the dotted line:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

>>103317928
Well now you know that pretty much all programs you install through the package manager will be put anywhere but your /home folder, unless you're installing Flatpaks (which you're on Arch so you don't need to cause it has basically everything.)
Just give the root a more healthy amount of space, like 250/300GB or something, if you want to do the separate / and /home.

>>103317928
when i first got my nvme years back i did this, but upped it to 64GB.
it's 83% full, and have had to delete some big programs before that ate up a lot of space for no good reason. guess if you don't want to bother with cleaning up root it would be a better idea to give it more space.

>>103317928
you should look into LVM or Btrfs, so you can shrink/expand your partitions as needed.

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hello, apparently I'm borderline retarded so I'd like to ask a question regarding tar. I'm trying to back up my system root. I'm running

tar -cvpzf /home/anon/root.tar --exclude=/home --exclude=/proc --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/dev --exclude=/sys /

as root, but I get a "tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors", however I can't find any error on the terminal history, and it happens every time

am I doing something wrong? I'm scared of wiping everything and it ending up being incomplete

>>103318033
try running as root or sudo privs

>>103317989
>>103318008
I'd probably just split my SSD 50:50.
I suppose the alternative is having a sata SSD and putting applications on that, but that won't be as fast. I guess it's pointless to install applications separately from the OS since

>>103318009
I went for EXT4 because it seemed the most stable. Is BTRFS actually usable? I read that BCA-chefs is definitely not stable enough for common use, and assumed that BTRFS is better but probably still not sufficiently stable.

While I'm wiping everything anyhow, should I opt for something other than KDE?
And can I get my bootable flash drive to boot when my SSD has a bootable OS on it? It isn't giving me an option. It just has 5 options (I don't really get the duplicates) and none of them include the flash drive, pic related. Last time I had to invoke a dd command to wipe the drive before the flash drive would be visible again.

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>>103318287
forgor

>>103311798
meme

>>103318287
>Is BTRFS actually usable?
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-611-filesystems/2

Using tty in Slax Linux is cool because it's like the only one where you can copy and paste while in tty. Copy by selecting text, paste by right clicking.

>>103317086
>linux is a complete fucking joke.
Read my problem at >>103315941

>>103315941
"Rare error":
https://desuarchive.org/g/search/text/%22Reboot%20or%20Select%20proper%20Boot%20device%22

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>>103315941
Did you happen to write your install directly to the device (e.g. /dev/sda) rather than creating a partition table and writing to the partition (e.g. /dev/sda1)? I've had issue before with I think the BIOS 'fixing' my disk for me because it figured the partition table was corrupted.

>>103317549
Use pavucontrol where there is per app volume (for only mpv or other program) and device volume (for speakers A,B, headphones), all browser on Linux do that per tab volume for some reason dunno if there is a setting for that, also make sure to have the correct output and mixer type in your mpd config.

>>103318409
Meant problem at >>103315941 >>103315968

>>103318486
With my latest installation of Lubuntu I installed it to /dev/sdaX (a partition) and not the entire HDD at /dev/sda. Both times I had this problem it was immediately preceded by the computer oom-freezing, I hard force shutdown, turn on the computer, and the BIOS says it cannot boot anything. Why?! Maybe because when (or around when) it froze it overwrote part of the disk that it shouldn't have: the bootable part ;_;

>>103318033
run with sudo privs.
also, is /home on the same partition as root, or is it separated?
if it's the same you'll end up creating a loop where tar will try to add the archive to itself until you run out of disk space.

>check out the firefox pip on top gnome extension
>suddenly a huge jewish flag is on my screen
wtf is this? am I part of the goybotnet now? I thought this shit was safe

>>103318371
You can just chattr +C the database files and it performs normally. Databases already do integrity and revision tracking on their own. They don't need the filesystem trying to do the same thing less efficiently.

>>103318294
you'd have to trigger the boot menu before getting to that screen. what key that is depends on your mobo. also, you could just use one partition for root and home and never worry about wasting space.

>>103318548
Why would the OS be writing to that part? It doesn't make theoretical sense.

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>>103318510
>Use pavucontrol where there is per app volum
I already change volume per app with pulsemixer, the issue is that when volume for mpd changes volume for mpv changes too. Even if they listed separately in mixer with different names.
>make sure to have the correct output and mixer type in your mpd config
I tried to change audio output type to pipewire from pulse it changed nothing.

>>103318790
oh and changing mixer type to hardware kinda helps, because I can have mpd volume always on 100 in mixer. But it's just bad workaround since it doesn't actually solve the issue with volume of two separate programs being linked somehow. And it's also makes volume change in ncmpcpp feel laggy.

Don't put your root filesystem inside anything, keep it super simple.
It makes up a slightly more retarded disk scheme but hey: how big does a rootfs has to be? 20GB? Can you sacrifice that much space being outside LVM/btrfs/other?
>>103317928
>opt for seperate home partition because it sounds like a good idea to keep the OS in a seperate partition from all my files if i want to wipe the os alone
>home partition
"home" as in "gets mounted to /home"? I wouldn't do that, I'd do a /mnt/whatever mount point and them manually place $HOME under it, like /mnt/whatever/anon.
>turns out all the applications are going into the 50GB partition for the OS
Of course(?)
What kind of applications are those? IMO 50GB is huge. Always thought 20 gigs is the usual lol.
>>103317086
>"Linux is a joke because this filesystem that was specifically crafted to not work with it, doesn't work well"
You can blame NTFS or Linux, your pick.
>>103316844
>You click on the exe and you install it, simple, safe and effective
lmao

>>103316538

# /etc/systemd/system/pacman-updater.timer 
[Timer]
OnCalendar=daily
Persistent=true
[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

# /etc/systemd/system/pacman-updater.service 
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pacman -Syuq --noconfirm --noprogressbar

>>103315941
>boot question
>no boot mode or hardware or anything mentioned
UEFI or legacy BIOS boot? Or is it a Raspberry Pi perhaps?
>>103311798
>want to try minimal Void installation
>Void insist on pushing a kernel to me
Have they fixed this issue about their "base" metapackage?
Even Ubuntu doesn't do this.

what command does xfce use to suspend?
on artix suspending from xfce works perfect but on i3 it freezes when waking, the cursor can still move but nothing else works, cant even switch tty

Can't install Brave Browser on a 32-bit or i386 computer - https://brave.com/linux/ then
>$ sudo apt update
>[...]N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
Maybe can't compile it for 32-bit either.

>>103319128
>>boot question
>no boot mode or hardware or anything mentioned
>UEFI or legacy BIOS boot? Or is it a Raspberry Pi perhaps?
Hardware: 64-bit 4-GB-of-RAM budget-class-CPU ~2017 HP laptop (stated in >>103315941)

I didn't change the BIOS settings or boot mode at all. I don't dual boot, it's all Linux, just one OS.

>>103319128
>>103319325
legacy BIOS boot, not UEFI. In this computer: HP-Laptop-14-bw0xx

>>103312271
>I feel like every distro is corrupted by these "people".
obviously, they all use the kernel corrupted by the same people

Hello /fglt/, I'm a linux noob. My sound isn't working. I believe I updated and after a reboot it stopped working. I'm on Linux Mint 22. I know my sound actually works because it's worked before and I just booted a live Ubuntu 24.04 and it works there, but not on my Mint install. How do I completely wipe my sound drivers/config whatever and reinstall? I know I could just reinstall my system but I'd like to learn.

>>103319419
Please describe in some more detail how it's not working. Are there no devices available? Or are the devices there, but there's no sound output?

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>>103319477
There are devices but not the one I use (attached). When I boot into the live Ubuntu though, there's a 4th device and it plays sound.

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>>103319509
I think I might know why but I don't know how to fix this. How can I reset/fix the profiles for a sound device? In Ubuntu it works but when I'm on Linux Mint it doesn't have the attached profile.

>>103316844
The setup.exe/msi thing your talking about is basically doing the same thing a package manager is doing, doing an extraction of files to put them in the correct directory (usually C:\program files)

>>103317028
Integrated GPUs like Intel and AMDs APUs. If you look at any stats at all you'll see that those are the most popular, especially on laptops and conveniently enough VAAPI works great on them.

Having a dedicated GPU is a privilege.

>>103317535
KDE Plasma has remote desktop built-in to it and yes, it's unfortunately pretty shit right now. They're working on it though.

Wayvnc won't work because it relies on Wlroots protocols which Plasma doesn't support.

>>103316844
There's nothing fundamentally preventing that it's just inferior to proper package management and updates via repositories.

Have you ever installed a game from GOG on Linux before? They have exactly the same sort of graphical install wizard you'd see on Windows.

Just like on Windows you also don't get any updates unless you update it manually.

>>103320995
>updating a singleplayer game

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Thoughts?

>>103321230
Their Distrowatch bots sure work overtime

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>>103306430
>>103204300

And guess what? It broke again.
But the distro is good overall.

>>103321278
>it broke again three times
>but the distro is good
????

>>103317535
Does plasma mobile support X11?

>>103317928
There's no way you managed to use up 50GB of space from just packages installed with your package manager
If you're using flatpak or something, you can just remount /var/lib/flatpak onto your other partition
>>103317989
You dont need 250gb for root, there's no way root would use up more than 30-40gb unless its for snapshots or backups, or container images from docker/podman

>>103321284
More than three. If the distro is easy to install and allows to install and launch other programs without severe problems in the first ten minutes of use, then it's good.

>>103321217
It's true it's probably not getting much updates in the first place but most other software does. Under the Windows model everything has to run a background service to check for updates.

>>103320995
>There's nothing fundamentally preventing that it's just inferior to proper package management and updates via repositories.
I don't entirely disagree with the mswindows way of doing things. With Win you have your software downloaded in an EXE file (or ZIP for source code), which ideally would enable you to install all of it while offline. Ask the average Linux user if he can install the software he downloaded+installed over the years while offline (or switching/reinstalling an OS). He can't. Didn't save the installation file because it was downloaded and installed via a package manager. In windows they sometimes have all of the installation files locally and can therefore not depend on certain things.

>>103321395
You almost never have a usecase for that. When was the last time you've needed to do that?

Only once on Linux this has come up for me and it was when I was using a MacBook with Broadcom Wireless and needed to install the proprietary drivers and I did save the package manager files. They installed fine offline and I got my wireless working and went on with my day.

For most people this doesn't come up and if you do have a legitimate usecase like I did you'd just save the package manager files onto a USB.

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>>103321395
inb4 wait... you have no internet access in 2025??

>>103321426
They must be posting on 4chan via carrier pigeons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

>>103321395
Its entirely possible to download the packages and install them offline later or just to keep the cache and not clear it since most package managers usually keep all downloaded packages cached
The BSDs also let you do offline installations using the livecd

Whats the correct way to source a bash/zsh file on a webserver over the network with curl?

>>103321426
>>103321438
>not wanting to locally retain your software no matter what
On a scale of cringe to based, this is cringe.

>>103321753
I know it's possible and you can use appimages and stuff. I'm saying: on average, the windows environment is more conducive to users keeping their files to install whatever software. With Linux, yes the software exists remotely (I suppose usually), but with package managers and repos, users are less likely to keep their software locally in a "portable" form that they'll continue storing.

>>103321753
It doesn't work that way.
In MS Windows you can install and run application made 5 years before or after installation of your system with 99% chance of success because 4 VC redist and 4 .net libs packs is all you need.
In GNU Linux systems this chance is close to 0% unless you bundle all your apps with required libs and libs required by these libs, kernels, and run without graphics server trying to minimize dependencies as maximum as possible, because of bugs and api changes. If you think about it, it's miracle that desktop linux not just exists, but lives.

>>103321782
I run Gentoo. I could retain the distfiles for every single thing on my system and install the entire thing completely offline if I wanted to yet I still don't (I do have my own local distfiles mirror but only for the distfiles currently in use by the current state of the Gentoo tree. I don't keep old distfiles).

>>103321910
The fact that it changes so much is actually a side-effect of it living. The reason there is no stable API is because Linux is a thriving operating system that is free to make those breaking changes that Microsoft wouldn't dare do. There are improvements to Windows that could be made but cannot be made because it would break backwards compatibility and Microsoft is too afraid to tell the people running some shitty accounting software that isn't getting updates anymore to fuck off.

>>103321976
> side-effect of it living. The reason there is no stable API is
Because of lack of consolidation. OpenGL and Vulkan are stable.

> There are improvements to Windows that could be made but cannot be made because it would break backwards compatibility and Microsoft is too afraid to tell the people running some shitty accounting software that isn't getting updates anymore to fuck off
And it's good.

>>103322107
>Because of lack of consolidation. OpenGL and Vulkan are stable.
They are only stable at the API layer. The libraries can still change ABI and cause things to break. That's why we have dispatch libraries.

>And it's good.
Being unable to make improvements to your operating system is "good"?

>>103322115
> They are only stable at the API layer
It's already significantly reduces the dependency complexity.

> Being unable to make improvements to your operating system is "good"?
Having certainty that it will work tomorrow.

>>103322206
If your software is maintained then it should receive an update if it breaks. If it's not maintained then you should be running that shit in a container.

Is Wine on Wayland supposed to have more issue than on X?

I have installed Ubuntu 24.10 on my laptop, and tried a handful of games. Most work fine, but for instance this one:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4499
... is supposed to run perfectly, yet I get visual glitches during the menu transition.

That is, if I use the integrated GPU. The laptop also has an Nvidia GPU, but with the closed source driver games either do not run, or have serious performance issues (e.g. the indie game NightSky runs at 30fps, vs 60+ on the integrated GPU and on Windows).

I barely play games on PC, so it is hardly a deal-breaker, but it keeps bugging me.

>>103322266
>Is Wine on Wayland supposed to have more issue than on X?
No, it's probably running through XWayland (read: It's still using X11) anyway. The native Wayland support only recently got enabled in upstream Wine and only if XWayland isn't active (it still prefers XWayland for now).

>>103321812
>users are less likely to keep their software locally in a "portable" form that they'll continue storing.
You literally just have to keep a backup of your /var/cache directory

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>>103311491
Which distro has the least amount of cuckolds?

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>>103322338
Gentoo.
>Return to source

>>103322303
So do you reckon I should be able to get the Nvidia GPU to behave?

>>103322383
Upgrade the driver to the latest version. If it's already on that then you might as well keep using Xorg Server instead of Wayland, at least until Nvidia gets their shit together.

>>103321395
back when i first tried linux in the early '00s this was a concern for me, being a dialup user. but now? call it cope all you want, but why does this matter?
i still have a folder full of windows program installers out of habit, but i never even use it anymore. any time i set up a windows system, all the programs in it are out of date and i just download them all again anyway. it mattered once upon a time, but not any more

>>103322430
Setting up a new Windows system is a laborious pain without a package manager anyway.

When I have to do it for myself, the first thing I will do is go and install Chocolatey:
https://chocolatey.org/

When I have to do it for someone else (i.e not myself, so Chocolatey is no good) I'll go to Ninite.com in Edge and check a bunch of boxes.

Not once does the idea of manually double clicking a bunch of exes and going through install Wizards come up as an idea I'd want to entertain. I haven't got time for that.

>>103322215
Elaborate on this? If my software breaks by my fault then yes, I will fix and update it. But I will not make it adapt for thousand custom environments and libraries, whose dumbass "maintainers" break compatibility for the sake of "improvement". Perfect is the enemy of good.

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On ZorinOs I only have ''Power Saving'' and ''Balanced'' energy profile, no high performance profile, by googling it seems it's a Gnome feature

>it is a new Gnome feature. It has already been stated elsewhere that new monitors, motherboards and so on have got to be environmentally friendly and reduce strain on energy supplies.

WTH, my laptop doesn't consume much to begin with...it doesn't need to be nerfed further..

>>103322508
Then you should ship a Flatpak and not bother with conventional binaries. If you refuse to update your software when Curl or Ffmpeg, etc, has an API change then Flatpak is the best way to ship your software.

>>103322510
Does it even do anything? And why are you using Zorin?

>>103322527
>>103322508
Or alternatively, just don't rely on any other libraries. Use your own libraries that you maintain.

>>103322534
>>103322527
I'll just choose to stay on Windows and let freetards waste time on porting.

>>103322560
Sounds like you weren't interested in supporting it in the first place then.
You're free to follow shitty development practices. You'll run into the exact same issues on Windows, only you don't realise because you bundle outdated and insecure libraries and never update them. You can do that with Flatpak too if you want.

>>103322482
i like scoop over chocolatey because it doesnt require admin privileges
if i was installing for a multi user system id probably just use chocolatey instead

Any good RSS feeder that doesn't require self hosting a web stack or a SaaS subscription? Just a dumb program that checks every once in a while?
>>103314758
If you want to keep using an inmutable distro use Aurora, it comes preconfigured with most of these things. Kionite is realistically a base image for barebones or customization purposes mostly.

>>103322685
>it doesnt require admin privileges
I actually like that, it's more similar to the way Linux package managers work. You can't just

apt install

something without root.

>>103322691
I am using KDE's Akregator but I don't really like it. I just don't know of anything better.

https://apps.kde.org/akregator/

>>103322711
I wonder how good is this one
https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
I don't wanna go for the hassle of setting up something that ends being shit.

>>103322752
This looks better at a glance. It looks pretty similar to Akregator.

The one thing I don't like about Akregator is its dependency on Qt Webengine. It's why I run it in a Flatpak because I absolutely do not want to compile that mess on my Gentoo host system. It keeps breaking all of the time due to the mess of Google and Qt code and different compiler versions, etc.

It looks like this has a lite mode without that:
https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L201

I'll have to test it but it sounds better.

>>103322691
Some of the email clients have built-in rss feed clients
For some weird reason i've been happy with just using newsboat and never needed to change, though i wish i could import my newsboat database into freshrss or something so that i can do cross-sync between devices

>>103322780
>>103322780
I amn't sure why would i ever need a WebEngine on a RSS reader to begin with, i want a glance of what the entry is about and a link to open in a real browser or a full entry text. Embedded web engines rarely work.
>>103322831
I don't dislike the idea of FreshRSS but i find Docker the equivalent of using a shotgun to kill a mosquito for my use case, as i rarely have to use more than a single device to read, phone screens are small to the point they are impractical for long prose. More than 3k characters and i just save it for later on a big monitor.

>>103322700
I dont really want to deal with UAC and having to get admin privileges every time i want to install or remove a package
I know its just one command or click or whatever but id rather just not have to deal with it in the first place

>>103322338
Slackware or CRUX i guess?

>>103322888
I tend to just open PowerShell or Windows Terminal as admin. For what it's worth, there is a "sudo" for Windows:
https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/Sudo

>>103322578
If by "it" you mean other not related software, then yes.

>>103322879
The web engine is there to handle rendering the html code
I use podman over docker, i didnt like docker at the start either since you're running random images as root, podman is better since it doesnt need to run as root. Freshrss is kind of a mess to setup in the first place and the same can be said about every other web app that uses a database.
I wanted the cross syncing thing for use across my laptop/desktop but i just do ssh instead.

>>103322900
I'm aware about the sudo thing, scoop had a package for it as well. There's still a slow ass delay for the UAC prompt when i last tried it.

>>103322913
If you're using those libraries directly or indirectly then they're your responsibility to keep your code up-to-date with them, not doing so is not an option (it invites bugs and security flaws).

You can get away with that in Windows because there's no quality control. Nobody is making sure all of the billions of shared libraries scattered across your system are kept up-to-date but in Linux that doesn't fly. You can make it fly with Flatpak but no responsible Linux distribution will ever hold back updates.