Please don't initiate flamewars between DE fanatics. This is a friendly thread.
Whether you are a foot or a lizard, we are all riding on the shoulders of a smug and free GNU.

NIXOS
NIXOS
NIXOS!

Is there any decent antivirus on Linux?
>you don't need it
I want to use Wine, so I do.

>>106442459
There is no decent anti virus anywhere, it's all bullshit.

>>106442538
Malwarebytes is good for scanning for files. Realtime protection I agree is a scam, but preempting shit is a good system to have.

>>>106442347
You don't have to be a foss absolutist. Be free/secure within reason and just use your computer instead of going down these tinkering rabbit holes. If you think you're such a valuable target that authorities would target your bootloader then you have bigger problems anyway and nothing you can do will stop them.
>>106442459
Install a firewall and harden your kernel.

>>106442686
This. Hell I have 11 IoT LTSC on another PC and besides using a closed source OS I try to use as much open source software on it as possible.

is gamescope just broken on nvidia? Can't get it to launch anything

I can't believe there is no cli interface to change kernel config settings. I'm so far just using "sed" to change settings programmatically but I have to do this carefully because flipping one setting on might spawn new settings and kernel compilation goes all fucked up if you do such a mistake. There are like 5 tools to manually edit the config so why none of these tools include a cli interface????

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mom cancel my meetings, piece of shit audio interface started acting funny again

>>106442459
So run wine in a sandbox. There's still no use for AV.

Any anons have experience with archlinux ARM? Are packages usually kept up to date at the same rate as regular arch?

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>>106443117
menuconfig exists

>>106443219
>pulseaudio
found your problem

>>106443367
it's actually pipewire-pulse

>Install Fedora minimal through the Everything installer
>Anaconda picks up my WiFi just fine
>The actually installed system doesn't
How to fix this? Will this work? (With DNF equivalents of course)
https://reddit.com/r/debian/comments/wvobot/for_all_the_people_that_need_to_install_packages/
Anyone else have tried Smth like this?

>>106442459
>Wine
Just install a Windows AV inside your wineprefix, duh.

On a serious note, your first step should be isolating your wineprefix (Wine's windows environment) from your system. Most wine setups will have your entire "/" and "/home" directories accessible as symlinks inside a wineprefix.
Even Bottles, which runs as a Flatpak and is supposedly "isolated", will create it's wine prefixes with a symlink to your home and root. This means that malware could affect all files in your home directory (wannacry does this I believe), while a specialized exploit could affect your whole system. So, the first thing to do would be removing/disabling those and that should isolate you from 99.99% of Windows malware.

As for an AV, you probably want to use ClamAV and set it up to scan your system from time to time. It will detect Windows malware too.
You can also have it scan files as you download them, but this is something you have to set up manually and it introduces some overhead (at least it was the case last time I used clamav, but maybe I just misconfigured it)

But there are Linux versions of ESET, Bitwarden, Comodo, Sophos, etc. Unlike ClamAV these aren't open source. My former company pre-installed ESET on people's Ubuntu work devices so I assume it's fine since it's used professionally.

>>106443279
I use nconfig. And what do you mean by this? Ofc menuconfig is a thing, I meant editing the values programmatically in a script so that editing one value changes its dependencies if any.

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I unironically enjoy using GNOME sometimes.

>>106443450
>I meant editing the values programmatically in a script
for what purpose?

>>106443540
>uhm chud for what use case? what's the use case chud uh oh
Yeah well maybe I want to fucking automate my shit? Huh? Ever thought of that? How can these fucking distro developers live without properly automated kernel configuration?

>>106443483
3 add ons and i think I'm set with gnome. I just hate the default look.

>Hm... Users regularly install dash to dock / dash to panel
>There's still a flashback session
>What should we do next?
>Wellness center.

>>106443586
automate what? Changing your kernel config? You just decide what you want with the standard tools, save the config and later load said config. Why would you want a script to do the changes one by one?

>>106444348
>have a bunch of architectures
>be fine with mildly edited defconfig
>want to automate editing the defconfig for all these archs instead of doing so manually every time I change something

>>106444348
I just want to call a script in one line to do the same thing I would do from the nconfig or menuconfig. Is that too much to ask? I don't understand how we can not have that already in 2025.

>>106442315
Just want to say this was literally a problem I faced and it even persisted through putting my Windows on a completley seperate harddrive because I still have a Win10 partition on the Mint drive. I'm going to instal a custom ISO of Win10 for like the last 2 things I need Windows for and keep that shit locked on a different drive. Shit, someone here advised me to unplug my nvmes just to ensure no funny buisness happens to my main drive's Grub somehow when I do the win install. I may have installed Grub and my boot part from scratch on my build of Arch but I do not want to have to learn and troubleshoot things going wrong after this, I think I've spent enough time on it already.

>>106443483
I like GNOME too... If I want to use something that just works immediately without having to mess with it and it works the same in all instances it's nice

complete noob here, are AMDs as close to plug and play as it gets?

>>106444609
You still need to update drivers but its sure of a hell easier than nvidia.

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I'm on a journey to install Debian 1.1 and upgrade it all the way up, and I've hit a wall with trying to upgrade to 4.0 "Etch" onward, and it has something to do with the kernel.

2.4.18 is able to load Gnome, but with no sound. 2.6.8 fails to load X, something about not being able to find a mouse device? And 2.6.18 just doesn't load at all. It gets stuck here.

>>106444609
AMD drivers are in the kernel, which means it's completely shithouse on Ubuntu/Debian based distros. If you're on Arch or Fedora though, then yeah it's plug and play.

So, after a few months using Bazzite and learning Linux in general I finally understood how shitty working with an immutable system is.

I use my PC for gaming 90% of the time so I think I'll give Cachyos a try. It's based on arch which is great as well.

Any Linux chuds care to give me any advice about all that? If you wanna recommend any other distros go ahead

>>106444621
>>106444638
can't be worse than a 390.xx nvidia driver right?

>>106444609
Newest AMD cards need newest kernels, so keep that in mind. As others said, muh stability distros can be a problem with brand new hardware.
Other than that, it works damn well. (Though I never had a single problem with my nvidia card back then when I used one.)

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so sometimes my fuzzy find and my autocomplete compete with each other, when I press tab it will go to the first item in my fzf list when I am expecting to autocomplete, is there a neat and clean way to handle this?

>>106444738
don't use the same key for both maybe?

>>106442184
Hello. While trying to update some pacman packages during the wm configuration on a fresh arch32 install, i got an error with my network.
Looking into it on my live environment, i input ip link in the the terminal and see that both my wlan and ethernet device are listed as "DOWN".
rfkill doesnt do anything to fix the issue, and i'm worried it might be an hardware malfunction.
Does anyone know of a way to get my internet back to working?

>>106444855
Before considering it's a hardware issue, try to install windows. You don't even need to finish the installation process, since windows will attempt to connect to the internet to check for updates/Microsoft account.

If even Windows can't connect, yeah it's hardware related.

>>106444609
It depends, you might still need to configure something. But in general it's easier than Nvidia (which is usually still pretty easy)

gnome browser kings, lets hear it!

>>106444916
I thought the connection part only happened in the OOBE, after the "installation process" is finished

>>106444696
if you start messing with it don't expect it to work just like arch, they make assumptions for you that you might not want or know. if that's the case then you should just go straight arch
how much ram do you have and what is your disks?

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Supposedly plasma just krashed but its still running. The taskbar hid itself for a split second but that's all.

KDE works in mysterious ways.

>>106444630
Oh, forgot to mention, as further experimentation, I found Sarge install media and installed that to a separate VM. Kernel 2.4.27. Sound works just fine there, even after upgrading to Debian 4.0. Curiously, this kernel version does not show up in a search on the first VM.

>>106444609
Pretty much, yes. With AMD you'd want your kernel to be up-to-date and your mesa library to be up-to-date.
On Fedora/Arch-based distros it's basically a flawless experience. You never have to think about it, install anything or configure anything manually (unless you're on Arch/Arch-like distros which need tinkering)
On Debian/Ubuntu-based distros, you're going to be up to 2 years behind in driver/mesa updates which can cause issues, especially if you're a gamer and you rely on Proton (which is much better than Linux-native gaming). So you'll likely want to manually install the latest kernel and mesa.

>>106444696
>I finally understood how shitty working with an immutable system is.
What issues are you facing? Seems pretty flawless to me.

Getting a laptop with the intent to install Arch Linux using an AMD Ryzen CPU and Nvidia 5070. Friends caution me the headache of this config, how fucked am I when trying to game?

>>106443407
Bump

>>106445107
>installing and using Arch
>using nVidia
You're fucked in general, not just when it comes to gaming

>>106445190
Do I have a better chance with RX than Nvidia? I'm a fan of the UI of Arch and plan for it to do everything from work to personal.

>>106445107
On the note of >>106445190, when you are installing Arch on your machine, make double triple sure you install the nvidia gpu drivers BEFORE you end the live/external session. If you do not do this properly your graphical rendering cannot be performed properly by your GPU and your entire machine will run at a single digit framrate. I had this happen when I logged into the newly setup Arch with a DE, when I went to input text into the terminal it seemed some of my inputs, seemingly at random, would be read between 6-20 times, giving me shit like
sudoooooooo nano /etccccccccc/mkinittttttttttttttcpio.conf. i had to open a text editor just to highlight and delete the extra inputs to copy and paste into my terminal, because backspace also had the same "random multiple input" problem. It took me like 8 tries to properly edit conf files in nano when I did get the damn thing open. Literally took an hour to do what would take seconds. So yeah, learn from my mistake.

>>106445107
>how fucked am I when trying to game?
not at all if you cancel a update if you see 'nvidia' being mentioned in the packages.
Wait 3-5 days and then its safe to update.

With nvidia updates can randomly brick your system on arch so wait a bit for other beta testers to report the issues and update after a fix has been rolled out or no issues were reported in these 3-5 days.

>>106445318
>>106445337
Thanks, I'll keep these in my notes when it arrives.

Using Kubuntu on a T440p here, how do I keep the middle mouse button on my touchpad from pasting from the clipboard

Resources on how to do this are years out of date and nonfunctional, I've tried. (As an example, System Settings > General Behavior doesn't have a 'middle click' option)

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>>106445395
Dunno if there is a system wide toggle on kubuntu but its a per-application type of thing sometimes.

>>106445305
>UI of Arch
What UI? On Arch you pick and choose UI by yourself. There's no "Arch UI" unless you're thinking of the terminal or TTY.

>>106445395
>KDE
Workspace > General behavior > Middle Click [ ] pastes selected text

>>106442269
shut up, nigger

>>106442184
I find the idea of LTS really appealing, how bad would it actually be to game on a LTS debian 13 for example, if I'm mostly interested in (relatively) old games that released before Debian 13 did like Metro trilogy, Witcher trilogy, KCD duology, and I plan to run them from GOG offline windows installers I have on my HDDs. Will it just werk? I tried using Fedora but fuck I hate how many updates it gets and I always feel anxious that shit will break or change too much, main reason I want to fuck off from Windows is because I want to customize my OS to my liking and then never have anything change for years unless I do it myself. I'm using a RX 5700 XT and a i3 12100F, so it should have good compatibility with deb 13 since they are both kinda old

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>>106445917
>I'm mostly interested in (relatively) old games that released before Debian 13 did like Metro trilogy, Witcher trilogy, KCD duology
>Will it just werk?
Yes, Linux gaming is great.

>>106445917
>how bad would it actually be to game on a LTS debian 13 for example
I'd run all things vidya and wine in flatpak so that side would still be up to date.
Helps with some games and lutris environments not to run them natively.
So you have a stable foundation thanks to debian and only have things changing that really need to like wine. Sounds comfy.

>>106442459
For me it's ClamAV + VirusTotal

>>106446003
I'll give it a try, it sounds like that'll work pretty good, flatpak lutris should handle most of the gaming shit by itself. I'm still not sure what filesystem and desktop environment to run. I'm kind of split between ext4/btrfs, gnome/plasma. Also not sure if LUKS encryption impacts vidya performance too much, I saw some plebbit thread say it can impact SSD speeds up to 50% but idk realistically if that matters much in games on a NVME SSD

Which distribution is most appropriate, or optimal, for desktop users, web development, and (old) games (older than 2007-2015)?

>>106446066
>split between ext4/btrfs
Why not xfs? Yes btrfs can do a lot of cool stuff but its sorta advanced and it has some sorta catastrophic bugs in the past so i don't trust it.
xfs is just sorta like ext4 but better. Does the same things with more speed and less read and write amplification which should help the SSD last a little longer.
>gnome/plasma
Plasma. No question. Gnome is some weird tablet/laptop type of thing. Maybe if you have a 2in1 laptop. But especially if you are new then its plasma. If that causes trouble somehow i can also recommend xfce. xfce in particular should match very well with debian as its even more stable and has a slower release cycle than the damn OS which is really something.
>LUKS encryption impacts vidya performance
I always used LUKS and i never really noticed anything. SSDs are fast. So 5 gb/s or 7gb/s don't really feel any different if there even is a difference.

>>106444696
>So, after a few months using Bazzite and learning Linux in general
Tbh you're too new to judge a system. Immutable Linux discourages bad practices so you should rethink what you were doing.

>>106445985
The DXVK dev team is pretty great. A while back I reported a graphics issue with an old obscure game and in less than a month they fixed it.

>>106446117
I didn't know about btrfs bugs, I was just reading the wikipedia page and it was glazing it saying the lead developer of ext4 says btrfs is a better more advanced fs, but I see that all both deb lts and ubuntu lts default to ext4, while some non lts distro like opensuse and fedora go btrfs, didnt really look into xfs much, I'm using this site to get a somewhat overview of distros https://eylenburg.github.io/linux_comparison.htm
>Plasma. No question.
Yeah plasma strikes me as just better if I'm coming from windows, I did see a lot of krashes shitposts though that worried me a bit, and I notice debian and ubuntu default to gnome, but I doubt KDE is shit when valve is using it. I kind of need it since I want VRR support that to my understanding is still experimental in GNOME, and I'm not sure if XFCE has it at all. Even though XFCE kind of seems like a perfect fit for LTS.
>I always used LUKS and i never really noticed anything.
So on one hand I feel like the security and privacy gains of it are kinda too good to pass on, but at the same time I kind of worry what if my drive starts failing and I need to clone it or get files of it and don't know if encryption would cause problems then. I'm assuming all the files should still be accessible if I know the password?

>>106446126
bad is subjective if anon wants to tinker let him learn

I started using Linux with Ubuntu 7.10 when I was 13 years old, and tinkered with Linux for a few years after that point, but lack of hardware and gaming support made me keep on going back to Windows.

Now, I returned to Linux almost a year ago with Fedora and Cachy. The experience using Linux now compared to 15 years ago is so incredibly different, I can't imagine going back to Windows, because Linux finally feels like a viable alternative.

Are there any tests in phoronix-test-suite that:
a) tests different aspects of GPU performance
b) doesn't take several GBs of storage
The b is more optional if a is really good.
I already have CPU/ram tests, I just need some reliable GPU tests.

>>106446259
Windows was busy getting worse over all these years, too.

>>106446271
probably, they tests lots of things after all.

>>106446297
Well I asked anyone here uses any of them.
The list is a wall of text.
I tried the Vulkan RT test but it is too specific and takes 4 GB.

>>106446177
>but I see that all both deb lts and ubuntu lts default to ext4
Its the old and reliable one. Nobody in the entire world had issues caused by ext4 being unreliable. Can't say the same for btrfs. XFS is just like ext4 but a little speedier. It can handle more IOPS and is very easy on SSDs. Even more so than F2FS which is purpose build for them.
>I kind of need it since I want VRR support
Don't quote me on that but i think that its more of a display server thing. With wayland the DE does most of the work so support is necessary there but with x11 you have more options. Just take a look at the arch wiki, it explains everything very well even if you are not using arch. Its a good general resource.
>I'm assuming all the files should still be accessible if I know the password?
That you need to research yourself. But from what i know LUKS behaves similarly to archives when it comes to corruption. Don't see however how it would complicate copying a drive. I did just that and it just worked. But i have no experience with LUKS when the drive is failing but does that even matter if you are keeping backups like you should?

>>106445917
>Will it just werk?
If the games work currently, they'll keep working. You only won't get any future compatibility or performance improvements, until you move to Debian 14 in 2 years.
I'm pretty sure almost all GOG games work as of Proton 10, which should be supported by the current versions of Debian's drivers and mesa.

The issue with using LTS distros for gaming are usually related to:
>performance improvements of newer drivers and libraries, they usually don't get backported
>compatibility improvements of the latest Proton version, which often heavily relies on the current version of Vulkan (in your case mesa library since you're on AMD)
>compatibility with newer games or game versions which run natively instead of on Proton (often not an issue, but it can happen a year or two into an LTS distro's life-cycle. You should primarily use Proton/Wine anyways, native ports are often shit)
>compatibility with newer 3rd party gaming software

>>106446066
>ext4/btrfs
Unless read/write performance is absolutely crucial for you, you should go with btrfs. In simplest terms it's more storage efficient, resistant to data corruption and has a native snapshot/backup functionality.
>DE
Plasma is the best one objectively speaking. It just has the most features and most work is done on it. GNOME is close second. Anything else is basically a niche DE.
Just keep in mind that Debian doesn't keep KDE Plasma updated. So if you have any bugs on the current version, you'll likely have to live with them for 2 years (unless they critically impact functionality/security, bugfixes aren't backported to most software).

>>106446073
>desktop user
>web dev
>old games
Literally any distro will be fine. But if you're looking for the most user-friendly one then probably Bazzite.

>>106446177
>I did see a lot of krashes shitposts
Mostly comes from the era of KDE4 and early KDE5. It really was an unstable mess, especially if you were on an outdated/LTS distro.

Is the Fedora COPR... safe?
I saw that Obsidian isn't available by default so I discovered COPRs and found this https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/alxhr0/Obsidian/ it was the most popular COPR with obsidian and it still has less than 1k installs.
>flatpak
Ideally not.

>>106444855
In the end, it started working again without me understanding why.
Right now, though, i am having an issue with configuring awesome. From what i can tell, the rc.lua is completely normal, but when i use startx, nothing relating to UI images is able to load.
The icons for the different tiling modes are replaced by text, there's no window options on the titlebars, and there's no wallpaper.
Does someone more experienced than me have any ide of what could be going on?

ladies and gents, i come to you bearing good news.

hold shift while you select in vim so that you can ctrl-shift-c. this way you don't have to set mouse=v and lose your ability to move the cursor position with the mouse.

thank you for your attention in this matter, and death to all zognald "diddling don" trump supporters.

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>>106445412
>>106445642
Can't see shit captain

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>>106446607
Is that still plasma 5? Plasma 6 has a billion more options

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How come kde still scrolls through comboboxes, sliders and other widgets with the mouse wheel?
shit is annoying as fuck, trying to scroll through a settings dialog and then fucking every field up, who really wants this?

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>>106446627
See, this is what I get for using the LTS version, because yes it's plasma 5

Is it possible to upgrade via apt get / Discover / Synaptic / whatever or do I need to reinstall kubuntu entirely

>>106446679
That'd be a Qt thing. Maybe it can be configured somehow.

Is there any benchmark to check if Linux will run fine in my 2014 Laptop?

>>106446685
Go rolling release next time.

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>>106446836
my genuine reaction

Swap partition, swap file, or zram. Call it.

>>106446836
Most linux distros have live images you can boot from an USB drive. Just try those out.

>>106446950
zram, get that systemd zram generator thing
I have 16gb of ram and 8gb through zram and it works fine without raping my ssd

>>106446836
Use xfce

>>106446836
If the iGPU is still supported you'll be fine, if it isn't there are workarounds but they're not ideal

>>106446953
oh right
>Fedora Media Writer
guess this is it?
ill give it a go

>>106441418
What program? I had something similar happen recently, need to submit a patch since the program had an incorrect shebang and broke after my $PATH changed.

>>106443407
>>106445111
Bump

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got mint
everything seems to work fine, was able to patch
but the driver manager says that my pc isnt connected to the internet
checked the sources in the update manager and they all respond
wtf do i do?

>>106445917
Nowadays you can use some level of sandboxing environment to keep gaming dependencies isolated. You can use Flatpaks (easier, has to tweak a couple of permissions) or use a Distrobox container with Arch to get the latest versions of everything (uses native packages from a different distro, needs to read up first).

>>106446452
There's an Appimage of Obsidian somewhere on their website, if you can live with that.

>>106447328
I really can't...

>>106447294
>driver manager
Does Mint really? Jesus Christ.

>>106447404
You're stuck trusting the COPR then. I bit the bullet and use the AppImage. There's an script that adds some basic system integration like a .desktop icon and such from that AppImage and places it at /opt/ (basically pretending that's a third party package).
https://github.com/jonasbjork/obsidian-desktop/tree/main

>>106442184
imagine being at computers so fat you look and see food

>>106443586
Why do you need to change the kernel configuration repeatedly/regularly?

>>106446836
Even the heaviest DEs will run on 15yo laptops

>>106446452
To me, that one looks sketchy because they've set their homepage as Obsidian's official website. I'll have a look at the RPM's contents.

>>106442184
I love running Arch on an old Chromebook. Just had to get that out.

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I'm still stuck in a boot loop on my dell laptop with the error 'Failed to open Vol1\buntu\www64.erl ~ Not Found'. I've tried everything: created multiple known-good Linux Mint and Windows 11 USBs with Rufus and other tools (they work on other PCs), changed BIOS settings to AHCI and disabled Secure Boot, and even did a full clean Windows install by deleting all partitions. The problem persists—the machine seems to ignore bootable USBs and always falls back to this error on the internal drive. It feels like a deep firmware issue. Has anyone seen this and found a fix?

>>106449170
that import_mok_state is directly related to secure boot. did you try reformatting the drive to mbr and using dd to image the usb?

>>106449204
not sure to be honest. The first burns were done on mint and used the usb tool to write the iso. then I burned the rest on rufus and made them gpt under the advice of deep seek( I have lost all hope that's why i used ai for help). Windows runs fine. I just don't get what is the issue.

>>106449274
what the issue is*

>>106449204
sorry for being retarded, after reading your post post again, no I did not format the ssd. I let windows do it's thing. mint won't load at all.

>>106449170
that clearly says mmx64.efi not found
open your stick, go into the boot folder and rename grub64.efi to mmx64.efi

>>106449317
I'll give it a try. the stick does work on my other pcs. tried it on my 2 desktops one is mint the other windows.

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>>106449317
both or just one?

>>106449389
only the grub

>>106449389
my adhd is not helping. I'll just do it. Haven't felt this retarded in awhile

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>>106449395
going to run it now

>>106449421
nigga are you ok
there's 2 dots it wont work

>>106449425
he's dead jim. he's not coming back.

>>106449425
I corrected it after the screen cap.
>>106449395
Dude, ILY. it worked. Thanks for making my night now I'm not sure if I want to keep windows with 250gb and give the rest of the resource to mint or just purge windows.

>>106449459
I always come back. I even save links to slow threads so I can come back later. I'm special that way.

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What did baldy mean by this?

>>106449503
Glad I didn't fall for the Bcachefs meme.

>>106446392
>if you're looking for the most user-friendly one then probably Bazzite.
Is it friendlier than Mint?

>>106449849
Fuck yes. It uses Plasma 6 which is comfier than Mint's Cinnamon desktop, and it's also automatically easier to use because it doesn't have extremely outdated software.

>>106447282
Bump

Updooting Arch daily has gotten tiring. I think I'll updoot weekly.

>>106449481
>it worked.
for now, to avoid future problems you should make sure your mb wants to start your grub efi instead of some mmx64 thing.

I have a bunch of xinput, setxkbmap, etc commands in a single shell script that I want to run at startup. Can I just invoke this shell script in my .xinitrc before I start my window manager?
Also, am I supposed to be putting ampersands after each of those commands? After the line that calls the shell script too?

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What is the state of the art of DEs and WMs? Xfcefag wants to explore new and foreign graphical lands.

>>106450362
It depends. If you mean double ampersands, you should just write ; instead

>>106449849
Significantly so. On Mint you're stuck with an LTS distro, which isn't what you'd want outside of servers. Also, Mint only has toy desktop environments.

>>106446679
Nobody wants this. Scrollable sliders have been abandoned by all sane designers a long time ago. What's worse is this behavior is something the KDE team has enabled themselves manually.

>>106446788
No, it's not. All controls on Qt have the "wheelEnabled" option, which is disabled by default. KDE devs just enabled it for their sliders for some reason.
https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qml-qtquick-controls-control.html#wheelEnabled-prop
There's even a note there warning people not to set this prop to "true" if the control is in a scrollable view.

>>106447173
>Fedora Media Writer
You can use anything. Etcher, Rufus, etc. They're just tools used to "burn" a disk image onto storage.
A Live USB is something you automatically get on almost all distros. It's just referring to the ability of Linux to be booted and used from USB drives without having to install them to your internal storage.

>>106450374
>What is the state of the art of DEs and WMs?
KDE and GNOME are the only relevant DEs.
Hyprland is the current popular tiling wm like i3 was years ago.
Cosmic is being created as yet another GNOME alternative/replacement, like Budgie was supposed to be. It'll probably remain niche unless GNOME gets abandoned by users and devs (unlikely).
Xfce is still the best lightweight DE.

>>106450374
GNOME and KDE are both Wayland-focused these days and are the DEs most people use.
Xfce and MATE are still X11-only but have Wayland support "soon" for a long while now. WMs like Sway and Hyprland are popular because they're the only good Wayland-based ones. COSMIC is the most interesting up and coming DE, being basically what amounts to current GNOME if it wasn't a piece of shit.

>>106450449
Thank you for your input.
>COSMIC
Gonna take look at that, never heard of.
>>106450424
>Xfce is still the best lightweight DE.
I had a ricing and distro-hopping phase like 6 years ago and arrived to the same conclusion.
Thank you for your input too.

Very satisfied with Xfce here actually. Not venturing into DEhopping out of dissatisfaction or complaints, but rather out of "digital wanderlust", curiosity, but at the same time it'd be cool if whatever wm/de I try next is something I can actually use and get shit done with.
Thinking I'll try whatever in a VM and see what happens, unless /g/ can recommend me some c00L $h1t to try out. Anyone else? Still polling here.

>>106450237
so why do you think i;s doing this

>plasma
>gnome
>Xfce4
>Cinnamon
I'm too retarded for this. Which environment do I want for cachy?

>>106450541
Plasma.

>>106450539
Your EFI shitted itself or something, dunno.

>>106450553
I trust you, but why?

>>106450569
I'm this fag >>106450374 >>106450517
Dunno what you're trying to do but resource-wise nothing beats Xfce.

>>106442459
>I want to use Wine, so I need an antivirus.
You don't. Just don't execute things like gayfaggot.exe on Wine and you will be fine.

>>106450569
KDE Plasma is the one being worked on the most and the one with the most features. It's also the most popular along side GNOME.

>>106450602
It's not like it makes much difference unless he's on a 4GB< RAM device where every MB matters. KDE Plasma can work on devices with only 1GB RAM and 1 CPU core. GNOME and Cinnamon aren't too far behind either. With Xfce you're sacrificing a lot of features and polish just to save a few hundred MB RAM.

>>106450706
>With Xfce you're sacrificing a lot of features
This is misinformation. Xfce has all features that other DE's have.

>>106450781
I'm using both Xfce and KDE. Xfce is featureless in comparison.

>>106450706
>With Xfce you're sacrificing a lot of features and polish
first of all, name them.
second of all, i don't hate KDE or anything but i would pick xfce a million times over simply for the fact that customizing KDE is a massive pain in the ass.

Trying to run fedora kde media writer and I keep getting a
>missing D3D12.DLL
error message,windows 8.1 btw, so uh how do I fix this, I only find fixes for win10

>>106450953
Are you trying to make a boot USB on Fedora or Windows? If Windows, just use Rufus.

>>106450962
windows yes
>https://rufus.ie/es/
this?

Also dumbest question ever, BUT I lack a second usb drive for the ISO

BUT to make sure, I still have some empty DVDs around, I guess I can just burn the ISO and work from there?

>>106451046
Yes, that Rufus. If your PC has a disk burner/reader then you can install from a DVD like in the past still, yes.

>>106450953
>>106450962
>>106451046
>kde media writer
>rufus
>muh buhleena etcher
>burning DVDs
y'all toaster
just fucking take the ventoy pill already
you won't want to go back, trust me
also, that error sounds like something related to the ISO itself rather than the boot media utility

>>106451070
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795

>>106451113
Sorry anon still using Ventoy

>>106442184
Eating cow is immoral.

>>106449592
A bunch of tards donated for its development and kept spamming Phoronix forums when shit was about to hit the fan, hundreds of posts per day on an otherwise slow forum.
Kent is a sperg and pissed off everyone, so now Linus doesn't want to deal with anything associated with bcachefs. Which is a shame, because it isn't a bad filesystem.

Is there a way to update my samsung SSDs without running shady samsung software because they don't support LFVS for some reason?