>>106514081
is that window maker?

Nixos

for me? it's cachyos

>>106514151
Yes.

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What distros, aside from ubuntu MATE and mint, offer a good default MATE desktop?

>>106514409
I think fedora has a MATE spin

>>106514430
thanks, gonna check it out

EndeavorOS says
>We do not enable Bluetooth by default, because of several security risks, and to prevent unneeded power consumption.
Are they just being overdramatic

>>106514784
No. Bluetooth is a security vulnerability and it should be minimized

>>106514409
Don't do Debian 12. For some reason when I transfer a large file, the transfer bar reads out ridiculous numbers like exabytes. Could never figure it out but it was enough to make me give up on it.

>>106514987
I excluded debian, arch, void, and other similar distros that provide a barebones install of DE's.
I'm specifically wanting to see if there are distros out there, similar to ubuntu MATE and mint, that provide a preconfigured MATE install.

>>106514455
COME HERE LET ME KISS YOU ANON. Even my other (one being genuine ps3) joysticks are working now. Still no bluetooth joystick on debian, though. Perphaps a few kernel updates later, it will solve itself.
I don't have anything left on winblows, except maybe cheat engine, but I rarely use that.
GameConquerer is slow & krashing trash. I might contrib something if I feel strongly about it.
I love debian and my GNU friends so much. I am still shocked by my printer working OOTB without drivers.

>>106515062
Bluetooth for ps3 and similar controllers requires changing something in the config of bluez because the way they paired is a legacy method that's unsafe (only unsafe during the pairing tho not on further connections after that, so fine to do it at home imo) just look up "bluez ps3 controller"

>>106515062
Something here might help fix with the bluetooth gamepads
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Playstation_3_controller

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>>106514081
Open-side and out spills the ketchup and mustard

>>106515144
>>106515160
I am afraid this one is near impossible. I have tried ClassBonded and manually trusting and so on, but bluez keeps asking for pin and recognizing it as a keyboard. The closest I got was bluetooth pairing only when usb is connected lol

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I wish I could fully transition to GNU/Linux and ditch winblows. All programs that I use are available on Linux but an annoying overheating issue with the AMD discrete GPU on my craptop is keeping from fully switching to Linux.

I have been using linux for 2 years on desktop.
What should I do next? What books can help me to become a linux sysadmin or scripter? I want to fully embrace the path of foss.

>>106515482
What's the GPU? Perhaps there is a solution on Archwiki or Reddit.

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>>106514081
haha, this photo is so much like one I would have taken myself in like 2007

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How to connect to WPS enabled Wifi on linux?

>>106515482
>overheating
You can manually reduce the maximum power drawn by your GPU: https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT
Alternatively you can use the power profile control which most DEs have, and set it to power save. But this one would also affect your CPU.

>>106515512
Follow these steps:

1. Learn Tcl/Tk.
This will enable you to write powerful scripts and GUI tools.
https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl8.6/contents.htm
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Tcl+Tutorial+Lesson+0

2. Learn C.
This is the original Unix programming language. This'll give you the expertise necessary for full immersion.

3. Install Debian.
Then, explore the Debian package repos and install all kinds of random weird stuff, play with it and try to work out how to do stuff with it.
This will give you the hands-on experience necessary to thrive in the linux ecosystem.

4. Install firefox on your Debian system. Go to danbooru dot donmai dot us, search "huge_ass hatsune_miku".
This will strengthen your resolve and help you continue using linux.

>>106515512
If you're looking for good books, check out:
- "Tcl and the Tk tookit" by John K. Ousterhout
- "Practical programming in Tcl/Tk" by brent b. welch
- Effective Tcl/Tk Programming: Writing Better Programs with Tcl and Tk (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

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>>106515584
>Go to danbooru dot donmai dot us, search "huge_ass hatsune_miku".

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>>106515519
>What's the GPU?
My craptop has an Intel HD Graphics 5500 integrated GPU and an AMD Radeon R5 M255 discrete GPU. It uses a muxless hybrid graphics scheme. On Linux, the discrete AMD GPU is on all the time and idles at 44 °C. Opening a single 1080p video with mpv will bump the dGPU's temp to 60 °C! I used Artix Linux for two weeks and I tried to fix this annoying issue but I failed miserably. Now I am forced to use Windows again.
>Perhaps there is a solution on Archwiki
I exhausted Archwiki but I still didn't manage to fix this issue. It is by far the most severe computer issue that I ever had in my entire 30 years of computer usage.
>Reddit.
This piece of shit never helped me fix any computer issues. It's filled with retards that will down-vote you for no obvious reasons.

>>106515638
>>106515584
Very big thanks fren.

>>106515660
mpv issue can be fixed with --profile=fast
your hybrid graphics issue and using the integrated intel gpu instead of the amd and only using the amd manually on demand might be able to be fixed with https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME
tldr set DRI_PRIME=1 or DRI_PRIME=0 or some other number in /etc/environment or some other place to export environment variables
you can also create an xorg.conf.d snippet to force xorg to use the igpu

>>106515668
No problem fren. When you learn even just a bit of scripting, it can make your life a lot easier. And it's a lot of fun writing scripts and working on programming projects. Study and stay focused and come back to fglt to ask if you ever need help.

>>106515512
Read this guide in the OP: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
I learned Bash thanks to it

>>106514805
What's the security risk of pairing my fucking headphones?

>>106515707
>DRI_PRIME=0
That has no effect, only 1 is recognized.

How do i add something to my global $PATH in arch? On mint i had $HOME/.local/bin and $HOME/bin as default. I managed to add them in bash but i need it to work globally so rofi/dmenu etc. may see and work with them.

>>106515856

#
# /etc/profile.d/user-local-bin-path.sh
#
append_path ~/.local/bin

>>106515707
>DRI_PRIME=1 or DRI_PRIME=0
I can switch between the GPUs using DRI_PRIME=1 , but the AMD GPU still runs hot for no reason.

$ glxspheres64        # This command utilizes the Intel GPU
Polygons in scene: 62464 (61 spheres * 1024 polys/spheres)
GLX FB config ID of window: 0x177 (8/8/8/0)
Visual ID of window: 0x304
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2)

$ DRI_PRIME=1 glxspheres64        # This command utilizes the AMD GPU
Polygons in scene: 62464 (61 spheres * 1024 polys/spheres)
GLX FB config ID of window: 0x177 (8/8/8/0)
Visual ID of window: 0x304
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: AMD Radeon R5 M255 (radeonsi, iceland, ACO, DRM 3.61, 6.12.36-1-lts)

On Windows the discrete GPU is completely off most of the times but I think that's not the case with Linux.
>you can also create an xorg.conf.d snippet to force xorg to use the igpu
How can I do so? Do you have any resources that can help me apart from the Arch wiki link that you provided?

>>106515934
Thanks anon!

>>106516044
See if powertop shows it as "Bad" and if so enable power management?

Just to clarify, modified environment variables aren't saved in *.bashrc* unless I explicitly say so using the *export* command, right? So I can fuck around with $PATH without creating a backup, close the terminal session, open a new one, and it should be as if I never modified it?

So on KDE if I snap 2 windows (one to the left and one to the right) I can resize the windows by grabbing them in the middle of the screen, is there any way to disable this? I just want the windows snapped to the left/right to take up half the screen and never be resized when snapped. It's very annoying when I accidentally resize the windows slightly and it fucks with how many files are displayed in Dolphin.

>>106516588
>*.bashrc*
Shit, I mean *.bash_profile*

>>106516588
export doesn't save anything, it modifies the shell's environment block and that's inherited by child processes.
Normal variable setting (without export) doesn't actually modify the shell environment.

>>106516588
yes. each time you run the terminal then its reloading from the bashrc state

>>106516615
>child processes
Which are typically shell sessions?

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So what's the deal with stuff like pic rel? I've installed Linux Mint on a GPD MicroPC and a Chuwi Minibook X for my introduction to Linux but I want a tablet that runs it as well. I was thinking about using my Chuwi Hi10 X but reading online I saw that people suggested a tablet called Juno 3 and Starlite. They're a bit expensive for the chipset they come with but maybe there's something I'm not seeing. Is it just a premium to have customer support and support Linux devs or is it just a rip off?

>>106516653
Anything forked by a login shell or its children.

Environment variables and command line parameters are stored in the same area of memory on Linux. When a process is created it's given a copy of the parent's environment along with the new argument list. 'export' writes a new value to that area in the shell process, but 'var=value' does not.

I probably have a problem but I installed Bazzite on my main desktop over a month ago and now I feel like just going nuts and installing Linux on everything. I'm installing Mint on my shitty second hand laptop right now. I might end up using this laptop to fuck around on various distros just to see what they each feel like to use.

Which debian iso do I need to download to get a full offline local installation that's most hassle free? This site layout is so fucking confusing and I don't want a net install, I want to install the entire OS offline with ethernet cable disconnected

>>106514784

well 0.15W radio is radio

>>106515161

i do not remember right montage mass tube

Is there a recommended resource that walks you through the basics of X11 (a la Petzold for Win32)?

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I installed nyxt browser on my shitty netbook I was messing around in with sway on arch but its very unstable, it seems to crash every other website I load.
Is this normal? Is it just incompatible with this setup somehow?

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what distro should i get?
>going on a t495 ryzen thinkpad
>gonna use mostly for youtube, watching movies, web browsing and vscode
>some chance at steam games, maybe guild wars 1 through wine
>have experience with debian, ubuntu, manjaro
>never riced but kinda wanna because most default looks feel ass

>>106517387
Kubuntu.
Just install shit through discover.

>>106516989
i think what you want is the live install image https://www.debian.org/CD/live/

>>106516962
the difference between distributions can be pretty subtle as far as the end-user experience is concerned, if you're relatively new to linux i'd recommend trying out the different desktop environtments first (which can be done within a single distro) before committing to reinstalling a different distro.

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Is the AUR STILL down? What the fuck

>>106516989
https://www.debian.org/CD/

>>106517415
Never recommend Ubuntushit.
>>106517387
Just about anything based on Fedora or Arch, including Fedora and Arch themselves, is gonna give you essentially the same experience: https://distro.moe/

Does Linux Mint just not work with a Radeon RX 9060XT? Tried installing it today after it got it's newest update and my PC hangs on the mint logo forever. This was the only possibility I could find through Google.

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>>106517105
>i do not remember right montage mass tube
Sleeper cell activation?

>>106518250
Mint is more outdated than Debian 13. Stop using it.

>>106518354
Then what would you suggest instead?

>>106518362
cachy

>>106518362
PikaOS

>>106514784
More like
>we didn't bother to script anything that turns on the Bluetooth scanning

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any way of getting this thing to shut up?
i don't even have it mounted and i don't wanna open up my back panel

>>106518250
rolling release distros like arch are going to be your best bet for brand-new hardware support. i've been using arch since i got my 9070XT, never had any issues. arch derivatives like cachy are probably fine too, you can also consider openSUSE tumbleweed.

>>106518953
What annoys me about Tumbleweed is the patents autism forcing you to use Packman's repo for codecs (codecs that affect things like thumbnails' generation from your file manager so you can't just use Flatpaks for everything). It desyncs every so often, sometimes twice a week, forcing you to wait until they fix it. Snapper allows you to rollback updates, but is annoying.

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nixos or debian + podman for my home server? need to run nextcloud and jellyfin specifically.
trying to keep it simple stupid because it's just those two applications and i'm the only user.
at first i thought setup debian and nginx, then use podman over docker. but looking at the nixos docs this doesn't seem too hard? do a minimal install then add a block of code to my config for each service? i mean if i do anything wrong in that case i can just rebuild right?

For me, it's Fedora KDE

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Is there a way to record video streams that's not supported with yt-dlp?
Such as superlivetv streams.
Is there an added on for a browser that can save that? or something else?