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?

>>106452005
Samsung Magician is what you gotta use anon.

>>106452010
Its in a headless server running consumer hardware so the datacentre-cli version doesn't do it. And its not in the repos anyways.

>>106452049
Maybe try making a boot USB using HirenBootCD via WoeUSB-ng or Ventoy so you have access to a Windows live environment so you can run Magician properly?

>>106452069
why would i be running non-free software as a linux user? Supposedly smartctl and hdparm can also upgrade the firmware but i can't find the actual firmware binary i need on their site.

Updating the thing is not a critically important task but i want it to stop reporting that its melting when its actually fine.

>>106452096
Being a Linux user doesn't mean you -always- gotta use open source stuff. That's just unattainable.
The best way to update Samsung SSD firmware is with its Magician program, which only runs on Windows, ergo using a live environment like HirenBootCD.

>>106451063
Thanks for the helps, managed to test it for a while, couldnt get firefox to open, at all, it would just crash apparently
But managed to download tor and test it a little with random pages, Ui ran just fine

I wont be doing any heavy gaming here,all I play here is stuff like Holocure, BUT i need to know if its possible to run doujin games from dl site and koikatu before going for this over windows 10, now its late so ill just keep testing tomorrow

>>106452111
You should just be able to run the games in Bottles or something.

>>106452110
>Being a Linux user doesn't mean you -always- gotta use open source stuff
gtfo, poser.
Once you have seen that RMS is right, there is no going back. Yes 100% FOSS is almost impossible but i avoid non-free software whenever possible. Which in this case it is. Its just a update to make a sensor not spaz out, i don't really need it.

>>106452111
>BUT i need to know if its possible to run doujin games
Yes. You don't even need bottles but whatever environment you choose in the end setting the locale to japanese and stuff like that is supposed to help. I never did and just ran them in my main and native wine installation and they worked fine without any fixes.

>>106452121
I mean if there was a way to update the firmware properly without needing Magician (and it was also FOSS) I'd be using that instead. Wonder if fwupd could update it...

>>106452128
>Wonder if fwupd could update it...
it can't. I already said that samsung doesn't support LVFS for some reason. fwupd depends in it.

>>106451070
I use dd like a normal person

>>106452228
dd scary

>>106452228
You can't use dd to write from Windows-based ISOs, but otherwise you can use it for Linux-based stuff.

>>106452138
Looking around, it seems that the Samsung website actually has ISO-based firmware installers for flashing to USBs for each SSD they make. So you can burn the ISO to a USB and boot directly into it, which comes with the latest firmware your model can use and install.
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/tools/

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>>106452297
Thanks a lot, this is what i have been searching for.
Apparently looking for firmware on the devices support page is wrong?

>>106452314
I guess they really want you to use Magician.

>>106452323
and its still a installer and not the actual firmware. I guess not having to taint my system with their software is nice but its still kinda shitty. is it that hard to provide a .bin that other existing tools can use?

>>106452334
and i still have to take the server out of the closet and connect a display...

>>106452334
>>106452346
Like I said anon, just running Magician from a HirenBootCD USB will get this all cleaned up in a couple minutes.

>>106452360
Its has the same issues as samsungs .iso but at least that installer is more lightweight. I still have to run non-free software and poweroff the server, take it out, carry it to my desk, etc.
Simply having the firmware on LVFS would allow me to do everything remotely. But still thanks a lot. I didn't think that they would separate their site like that.

Does using Sway with the Vulkan renderer actually make it faster for anybody?

>>106452425
You should try using Vulkan whenever you can really cause it's just more efficient then OpenGL is.

>>106451113
do you read the source code of everything you run?

>>106452465
If something has an issue with it publicly pointed out like that, I will try to use an alternative.

>>106452497
if you cared you'd build all the tools it uses yourself

>>106452452
I don't doubt that, just would be nice to see metrics

>>106452513
It's simple. If a program has an issue like that, I don't use it unless I really need to. As far as I know, none of the software I use has an issue like that.

>>106452517
It's not going to be visibly more performant, it'll just use less power. Sway isn't doing anything heavy enough for a Vulkan-powered device to see a framerate impact.
To test the actual difference you'd either have to measure power draw, or throttle an already weak device down to 1W and have it render your desktop at 4k or 8k to compare the framerate.

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is that "Protected MBR" a standard thing along with GPT?
in wang, the system doesn't say shit about it when partitioning to GPT
and I dunno how to force gdisk to make it "purely" GPT if that's a thing

>>106452886
It's not required, it's just a way to protect a GPT drive from being mangled by old disk utilities that only understand MBR.

>>106452886
yes, it is a standard thing. it's a safety/compatibility feature of gpt to prevent gpt-incompatible software from believing the drive is empty/unpartitioned, as it is often easy to accidentally make a new partition table. for example in windows if you attach a drive with an unrecognised partition table, it pops up a window with a single button press to make a new partition table on said drive
a less standard thing you can do with it however is add actual mbr partition entries to the protective mbr that point to partitions on the drive. this can be useful for things like getting a non-gpt-compatible bios to boot a gpt disc

>>106452886
>>106452979
-- also there's no reason to bother disabling it if you even can. an mbr uses a whole half a kilobyte of space

>>106452110
>The best way to update Samsung SSD firmware is with its Magician program
Actual retard take.

>>106453094
Then how would you then, smart guy

>install mint
>driver manager doesnt work
>nuke mint and install bazzite
>firefox doesnt launch
>disable igpu
>firefox suddenly works but wont take my old profile
it's all so tiresome

>>106453230
Usually incompatible Firefox profile can be solved by deleting compatibility.ini. Be careful though.

>>106453230
Mint is a 2017 meme and Bazzite is meant for Steam Decks. There's only three things you need to check off to know for sure that a distro is going to be fine:
>it's NOT based on Debian/Ubuntu
>it's NOT immutable
>it's NOT Garuda
If I were to randomly choose a distro given these criteria, I'd say CachyOS, but I'm not going to battle you if you chose Fedora or EndeavourOS or Manjaro instead. I'm sorry you landed on two meme distros but I promise you that they're not representative of Linux.

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I figured out why my gamescope wasn't working and fixed it after digging though forum threads

>>106453284
Why wasn't your Gamescope working, Anon?

>>106453374
necrobumping isn't allowed. thread closed.

>>106453269
idk it just worked under mint
>>106453273
fine i'll give cachy a shot

>>106453230
Bazzite uses the flatpak version of firefox. The profiles are not stored where you think. I forgot where they are exactly, but I had the same issue when I was mixing Appimage and Flatpak versions.

>>106453273
>Bazzite is meant for Steam Decks
Are you fucking retarded?

>>106453586
Don't be memed into using Cachy or anything Arch-based. Actually, don't be memed into using anything. Just stay on Bazzite for a year and learn how to use the OS. There's no point in wasting time jumping ship every week when there's no distro or OS which has 0 problems. Bazzite is almost perfect, and Mint is pretty close too.

>>106453772
>Don't be memed into using Cachy or anything Arch-based.
Just use Gentoo

>>106453772
>Don't be memed into using Cachy or anything Arch-based
Arch-based distros are easy to use; that's the entire point of having an Arch-based distro instead of just regular Arch. Bazzite is not good for a regular desktop due to reliance on flatpaks.
>Mint is close to perfect
Jfc, Mint has packages from 2018 and all its DE options are ugly. How is it nearly perfect? Call me when btrfs is preconfigured on Mint.

>>106453273
Don't Mint make sense *now* as Ubuntu forces Snaps? Never understood why people used it back when Ubuntu was "normal".
>>106452925
>old disk utilities that only understand MBR
So, irrelevant when speaking of a boot drive on a current year system?
>>106452243
What are some ways of (manually) creating a MBR/BIOS bootable USB stick out of a Windows ISO?
I know how to manually craft an UEFI-bootable stick: create partition, format as NTFS and copy over the ISO contents.

>>106453809
Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS which means it's practically worthless.

>>106453772
>Bazzite uses the flatpak version of firefox. The profiles are not stored where you think
i just went into about:profiles and clicked on the local profile path(root doesnt exist for some reason)
then i just copied over the old profile and renamed it exactly like i did on mint

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This a bootstrap script I got from the Gentoo wiki.
Millennials are a fucking mistake.

>>106453956
Soul

this guy is retarded >>106453796

>>106453809
>Never understood why people used it back when Ubuntu was "normal".
- Unity was buggy and wasn't Windows-like
- Gnome3 was shit and wasn't Windows-like
- Canonical bundled Amazon search into your menu/application searchbar
Mint was primarily made for people who are more used to Windows-like UIs and for those who don't know that Ubuntu doesn't just mean "Ubuntu GNOME LTS".

>>106454022
>any Linux system out there
>"Windows-like"
idk about that but Ubuntu flavors existed case someone wanted a start menu.

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These days it is really difficult to fight against flatpak, appimage, snap etc. and only use deb packages. I finally got back to 100% clean deb packages situation, but mpv player and it's libass and other lib files in Linux Mint 22.1 are so old that it still has that bug where subtitles don't work even when fonts are 100% configured right. There is some repositories and deb files but it is dependency hell and in the end there was still the same bug. Maybe we get new mpv player after GTA VI is released and Linux Mint 23 and LMDE 7 are out?

>>106453809
It's fairly similar to making a bootable UEFI disk manually. Just make it MBR instead of GPT with a single partition of FAT32 type and set the partition to active. Then format the partition as FAT32 and then use ms-sys to add a Windows MBR boot record to the USB (the Windows 7 flag should work fine with 10.)
Then just do the usual moving around of Windows 10 ISO files to the boot USB while not moving over "sources" at first, then making a "sources" folder and moving everything over besides install.wim, then use a tool like wimlib to split the file in two so it'll fit on a FAT32 filesystem.

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>>106454235
Gimp 3.0 + G'MIC + Resynthesizer + GEGL plugin, were also really difficult to get working as deb binaries from different places but in the end it did work. I even removed all the repositories and keys so Linux Mint is now clean and original except these installed packages that are now stuck in time. But who cares if Gimp 3.0 doesn't update if it works? Oh, Tenacity was one that I couldn't compile, download as binary or install manually from AUR one lib file at a time. In the end it almost worked but there was some wxwidgets error and nothing fixed it so I gave up. Now I have safe version of audacity (telemetry removed) and I run it via shortcut with "firejail --noprofile --net=none" so it should not even have internet now? At least it works.

>>106454066
>windows-like
We're talking about the UI here. There's a reason why ZorinOS is somewhat popular and liked despite being outdated shit.
>Ubuntu flavors existed
Sure, but new users don't know what a flavor is or what a DE is. A new user will land on the Ubuntu page, and primarily be presented with the current GNOME LTS, with the non-LTS version being secondary and flavors nowhere to be seen. A newbie is more likely to find Linux Mint than Kubuntu or Ubuntu Cinnamon.

>>106454235
I personally just use flatpaks for everything and things work just fine. I'd rather have a consistent experience than hope my distro maintainers aren't incompetent. Not to mention it actually makes LTS distros usable.

>>106454235
You have so many distros to choose from and you're hung up on fucking Mint of all things?

>>106454235
Or you could, you know, not use a retarded distro.

>>106453230
>>106453772
Not trying to be rude anon, but you should stop using meme distributions. The thing with immutable distros is that they limit your OS for "security reasons", but in doing so they end up reinventing the wheel, I don't know why they are shilled so much. It's like me locking all doors and windows in your house because "it's safer that way", and then tell you to enter through the chimney. Arch isn't difficult to use at all, and it doesn't break everyday, that's just shitposting. It's just a bit time consuming due to its DIY nature, which you can somewhat "bypass" by using something like Cachy or Endeavour. If you start tinkering with your computer with no knowledge of what you're doing, you're going to mess up regardless of the OS. The tl;dr is that you should take your time deciding how you want to use your computer. If you want to keep on using Bazzite that's fine, but at least learn how to use it properly, and the same goes for Arch, it's up to you. Don't jump into Arch/Gentoo/Mint/etc *just because* an anon in a mongolian basket weaving forum told you to.
>>106454307
Funnily enough, I remember always having some weird bugs when using the flatpak versions of some programs, which were not present in their native counterparts.

>>106453956
Gentoo Prefix has always had that fun little bootstrap script.

Any anon using user.xdg.tags for organizing media collection? I'm tired of using folders for everything.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Extended_attributes#Software
Adding tags in Gwenview is fairly simple. They're indexed by baloo and can be searched in Dolphin or from command line. I'm a bit hesitant to commit because nothing outside KDE supports them and also I'm afraid of losing everything during file move lol.
Also are there any good AI tools that can scan collection and automatically add tags?

>>106454478
i'll swap to cachy then if immutable distros are really that bad
i only chose bazzite because it was the first one that popped up when i googled gaming distros for retards

>>106454478
>immutable distros
I don't see the point of these outside of VMs or some otherwise intentionally isolated environment.

>>106454478
Isn't shitposting, AUR is shit. People should avoid AUR if you can. Maybe not for Electron/Java/Go packages and some well established Rust ones, but for anything that requires C/C++ libraries is a shitshow.

>>106454709
Bazzite isn't even fully immutable, you're allowed to change the system as you wish. And there's literally nothing wrong with immutable distros, that anon is just being autistic for no reason.

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>>106455149
too late now im already on cachy molesting the terminal as we speak

>>106455176
see you in less than a week when you distrohop again

krunner firefox bookmarks integration is so fucking useful

>>106444630
>>106445064
Nice autistic quest.

Stuck choosing between CachyOS and Nobara. Both seem good but I can't decide what to use.

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>linuxmint xfce
>hp envy 4500 printer
>select draft quality
it's normal quality

>>106442184
i fucking love kde, fuck you gnome

Is there any reason to use librewolf over firefox with the correct settings? Didn't librewolf say they didn't plan to remove any of these new firefox features that caused all this shitstorm? I just expect the same stuff to end up in librewolf when it eventually gets updated.

>>106455319
get help.

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What distro would you install for a techlet giga retard family member?

>>106455319
no use case for krashde, by default SLE uses GUHNOME, RHEL uses GUHNOME, Ubuntu uses GUHNOME, Debian uses GUHNOME, and they're all contributing to it, while KDE is used by .... SteamOS and Manjaro I guess? But nobody even uses desktop mode on SteamOS, and Manjaro's used by like 5 african kids in Nigeria

>>106455297
both are equally janky/buggy, so just toss a coin to decide.

>>106455338
>Is there any reason to use librewolf over firefox with the correct settings?
convenience
>Didn't librewolf say they didn't plan to remove any of these new firefox features that caused all this shitstorm
what new features? if you're talking about AI integration, it doesn't exist in Librewolf.

>>106455436
bazzite if they're a gamer, aurora if not.

I'm so close to getting WinApps working for fucking Paint
I have tried every "like-paint" program and my muscle memory from 10 years of MSPaint edits just doesn't translate
Pinta -- Rectangle selection, drag the corner of the selection, it doesn't do anything? I feel like I'm going crazy. I want to make a stupid little image in 30 seconds and I end up giving up

>>106455455
GNOME still doesn't have stable fractional scaling after all this time. It's probably okay for Jenny in accounts though.

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>>106455563
I have no problem with scaling in GNOME, if I needed one that is not in the list there is GNOME tweek tools for that.

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>>106455563
wrong pic.

>>106455631
>>106455640
It's not stable. You have to enable experimental features to even get that to display:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Fractional_scaling

It's so fucking hard for me to choose a distro. Not only do I have to pick one of the hundreds of variants of Fedora, Arch, Debian etc. But then there is KDE, Gnome, xfce. I just fucking can't. I found it difficult enough choosing between Windows Enterprise, LTSC and LTSC IOT.

>>106455805
It's not that hard, just ask yourself what you want from a desktop environment.

If you want something similar to Windows then go with KDE Plasma or Cinnamon (except if you're a gamer in which case only consider KDE Plasma for its superior compositor).
Otherwise just use GNOME unless you want something simpler in which case only then consider something else.

>>106455251
youre actually somewhat right
arch cant access the temp sensors of my motherboard for some reason so i cant use a software fan controller
but i really need one because i replaced the fanshroud on my gpu with 120mm case fans
guess i'll have to stick to windows and get spied on by their AI

>>106455696
It has been stable for a year or so.

>>106455805
Personally my path was Arch (was a total noob and broke my install)-> Fedora -> Back to windows -> Arch -> Cachy -> Endeavor (with cachy kernel and repos)

>>106455805
I just went with Fedora KDE because it was in the /cyb/ guide
Thn again this is a toaster where I wont be doing any heavy gaming and only browsing/anime watching

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>Download Heroic
>Big button to run installer first doesn't work
>Whatever. I'll just run the installer .exe and then find the game .exe
>Installer runs
>Can't find installer in the 20 folders it added
>If I do find it, it doesn't even work
>Download Lutris
>Option to run installer separate
>Do so
>Easily find game .exe
>Game .exe won't run
>This is truly Linux gaming
Fuck you, i'm not using Steam. It's been 82 years and linux still can't figure out the double click

>>106456191
Okay. I tried it with another game and it worked. Still hate the filing system of Heroic, but at least it works. No idea why the first game won't work.

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when did they remove notepadqq from Arch official?
or are the servers still getting ddosed?

so a family member basically got ripped off and ended up buying an All-in-One with like 4gb ram and no GPU, is there anything I could recycle it into since i got 'em a real computer recently?

>>106456683
NAS

>>106456573
Okay wtf. I'm technologically retarded, but someone online posted a long list of random ass letters and numbers that I copy and pasted under Environment Variables. It actually worked. What is this sorcery?

>>106442184
whats a good OS to put on an Acer all in one touch screen computer with 12 gigs of ram and an intel G3260T?

Is there any way to make a secure folder so it doesn't get deleted when installing Linux?
I want to move, but man my external is kinda full and while im finally organizing shit, I want to just get done already lol

>>106456191
stop using these fuck ass meme launchers and just install the launcher as a non-steam game in steam

>>106456747
can't even install a new OS to this because my only USB stick keeps dissapearing whenever I try to flash/reformat it. RIP.

I have a question about yt-dlp, where's the best place to ask?

>>106457240
>>>/g/mpv
>>>/g/sqt

>>106442184
Just checking to be sure. There is NO WAY to have thumbnails in the file picker on Mint right? Even if I install a different DE

>>106456601
huh? it's still here under the extra repo. did you sync your mirrors?

Do you guys know any working QT virtual keyboard that works on wayland?
It needs to work just like the windows one, a simple floating virtual keyboard.

>>106454022
>this guy is retarded
Enjoy your 2018 packages

>>106457061
Manual partitioning, create a separare partition for your data and don't touch it during the install process.

>>106443407
>>106450074
Bump

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>install xlibre
>expect nothing working
>everything works, is more snappy
>enabled tearfree, still snappy, actually tearfree
what the fuck things aren't supposed to just work

>>106457357
Works on Mint Xfce, but you best not use Mint anyhow

>Switch to windows 11
>It sucks
>decide to try linux again after a few years of pure windows 10
>Install KDE Neon
>Seemingly no built-in way to change graphics driver
>Logitech wireless mouse does not work upon reboot unless I remove and replace the receiver
>froze upon entering a sleep/power save mode, requiring a reboot

I am conflicted. There's a lot to like about Plasma, but I never had to worry about some of this dumb shit on w10. I might just go back to windows or Ubuntu/mint. Why did w11 have to be such shit?

>>106458086
DUDE do NOT use KDE Neon. KDE themselves recommend not using it; it only exists so the KDE developers can test their software. Sorry, but you've signed up to be an alpha tester for Plasma 6.5, AND you're getting fucked in the ass by the ancient kernel and programs of Ubuntu LTS.

Ubuntu and anything based on Ubuntu aren't any good these days. Use Fedora KDE or CachyOS with KDE.

>>106447294
Are you connected via ethernet and also have wireless onboard? Disable wireless if so. That was my issue.

>>106447294
Shitmint

Well I got a puzzling dilemma.

I wanted to give nquake/mvdsv a spin. For some reason, despite pointing to the "latest" install file, it downloads a version that is several years old.

I could download some scripts to "manually" update things, but then mvdsv complains about glib not being found. Some further digging revealed that a) it seems to mean that the version of glibc installed is old, and b) the image used was based on Debian Bullseye, not Stable

But when I tried upgrading the container to Stable, I hit a wall with `The base-files package cannot be installed because /bin is a directory, but should be a symbolic link.`, even if I try to force install usrmerge

So a few questions

1) Why did such an old version of the quake server setup install in the first place. Is there some kind of caching going on?
2) What can I do to actually have the software here up to date, barring rolling my own Dockerimage?

>>106458160
>avoid ubuntu
Even the non-LTS release? I figure that Ubuntu would be the standard for general use/compatibility.

>CachyOS
I might be having a boomer moment, but it seems like this come from nowhere.

>>106458396
>Even the non-LTS release? I figure that Ubuntu would be the standard for general use/compatibility.
Ubuntu hasn't been good since 2012. Even the non-LTS version has an outdated kernel and software, so compatibility is automatically diminished. There's a whole bunch of other reasons why Ubuntu is to be avoided, but to get to the point, Fedora or any Arch-based distro will provide a much more polished experience.

>>106456718
if you could post said command i could probably explain it

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>>106454022
why do you associate "normal" with "windows-like"?

>>106454022
didn't mint start when ubuntu was still on GNOME 2?

>>106458618
Because normal people want a desktop metaphor for their desktop. GNOME is a postmodern iPad and is shit.

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>>106458629
you haven't used ubuntu before unity (or gnome before 3), have you?

>>106458636
And it's retarded because there's two taskbars. Why do I need two of them? And why are LAUNCHING apps and navigating ALREADY LAUNCHED ones on opposite ends of the screen? GNOME was ALWAYS shit.

>>106458652
it's configurable, you can rearrange it trivially to be more like the windows taskbar layout if you like. lots of people did that

>>106458659
>you can
>if you
Shouldn't have to. Make the defaults intuitive and normal instead of intentionally contrarian.

>>106458652
it's one of those things that made more sense on a 800x600/1024x768 monitor

>>106458666
why is it people say linux should be more like windows, but nobody say the same about macos?
there's nothing wrong with doing something differently to windows

>>106458674
>nobody say the same about macos
Because I don't want to use Mac, it's shit. Linux fundamentally is not shit, but for the longest time it failed to provide a good out of the box experience—today, it does, provided you're using Plasma.
>there's nothing wrong with doing something differently to windows
The problem is when you forsake the good parts of Windows and make things worse just out of spite for Microsoft.

>>106448848
>>106446452
Alright, well that Obsidian you linked has no available packages/builds, so I can't study the contents. The other Obsidian package on copr also lacks them. So basically, you can't even install Obsidian from copr. I even attempted to bite the bullet and enable the repo and run

sudo dnf install obsidian

, but no Obsidian was found.

COPR is not inherently unsafe, and Fedora/Red Hat developers often upload software there. I use copr for a lot of stuff, but you need to be able to trust the package, rather than copr itself.

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>>106458686
you can't even do two panels in windows. just because /you/ don't want two panels doesn't mean others don't.
there's been distros configured with windows style layouts since the beginning, you can use those. ubuntu was never aiming for that. pic related, the first release of ubuntu.
i'm not saying your preference is wrong by the way, all i'm saying is that linux desktops are allowed their own look and feel, too.

>>106458711
>you can't even do two panels in windows
Use case?
>just because /you/ don't want two panels doesn't mean others don't.
Then give them the option to, but don't design your DEFAULTS around mentally ill trannies.

Plasma 6 exists now anyway, so this debate is a waste of time.

>>106458729
early kde uses a two-panel layout as well (gnome was a kde clone when it started, made because qt was proprietary back then). arguably so does macos with the top bar + bottom dock. it's not that unusual

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>>106458742

>>106458742
Now think about it from the perspective of someone who isn't mentally ill and doesn't have divorced parents.

>>106458601
Variable Name = WINEDLLOVERRIDES
Value= ddraw=n,b

>>106455696
Arch wiki is often a shit source of information

>>106458618
Read the post again.
Also, Windows-like was the standard back then. Only nowadays when most people's primary and only computers are Android/iOS devices would people be comfortable with something like GNOME or Unity.

>>106459038
making friends buddy?

>>106459033
nta but that's just telling wine to use the ddraw.dll on the game folder instead of the system one

>>106459033
>>106459255
yea, that changes the load order of ddraw.dll (directdraw, directx's 2d system) to "native, builtin", that is, it will load a native dll if available first (native as in not part of wine), and only if it can't find one, load the builtin (wine) version

>Install Linux
>Install Linux
>No Linux Holocure
FUCK

>>106459306
>*Install steam

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i just figured out how to modify the syscall table

is google chrome in aur a trap?

>>106459306
Just run Holocure through Proton like everything else?

new thread >>106459354
>new thread >>106459354
new thread >>106459354
>new thread >>106459354
old one is reaching bump limit

>>106459306
Steam version works
Itch.io version works in Bottles

>>106456009
So the wiki is outdated and you don't have to enable experimental features anymore?
Somebody should update it then. I'd do it myself but I don't use GNOME so can't verify if that is actually the case or not. Do you have a link to some release notes somewhere saying it's stable now?

>>106459038
It's a wiki, anyone can edit it to correct that but you need a good source to do so.

>>106459360
We haven't even reached the bump limit yet, fool.

>>106459613
I said it's reaching the bump limit, not reached the bump limit

>>106459682
Yeah, so wait for this thread to hit bump limit, and THEN wait for this thread to reach page 8, instead of shitting up the catalog.

Right clicking on anything in the xfce whisker menu doesn't show anything. What's going on?

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>>106459682
>>106459360
Yeah so that is a bait thread made by a known /g/ troll. We're not even at bump limit on this one yet so we really ought to just report his for spamming/flooding. That troll thread is also COMPLETELY USELESS for archival purposes since it links to a "Previous thread" from 3 threads ago lol.

Don't feed the troll by posting in his thread. Once this one hits bump limit I'll make a new thread that actually links to the correct thread.

>>106442184
>>106459970
samefag

>>106459876
I figured out that restarting my computer might work...
eventually I'll do it...

I wish the xfce devs weren't so lazy and finished working on Wayland and better dual monitor support. I like hyprland alot, but I do miss the ease of use and resource light environment that is xfce.

Any alternative to stuff like Solid Works?

>>106460089
BricsCAD is used by the US military and it's on Linux.

>>106460163
>brics

>>106459999
>gayland
time to upgrade to xlibre luddite

>real new thread >>106460244
real new thread >>106460244
>real new thread >>106460244
real new thread >>106460244
post in there