>>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?

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Does 4Chins have a problem with Linux machines built as VMs?

I have recently spun up a Debian 13 machine in Virtual Box and wanted to use it as my daily driver for the newxt few weeks. However EVERY tme I post here I get the 120 second cool down. Its not happening with a Windows machine here. Nor is it happening with my phone which is on the same network?
Is there something in place here that regards Linux VMs as always suspect and thus treats them in this way?
Its a pain in the ass.

I am a total retard that installed linux for the first time earlier this week. I have acclimated to the new file system and have gotten mostly everything in order. One concern I have is with gaming and particularly anti-cheats. I really abhor them and would prefer not to give such programs access to my system files. I have 2 SSDs and was wondering if I could somehow create an isolated environment in the 2nd so that such software runs but doesnt get access to anything. Is this possible?

Does anyone spend ages installing and configuring a distro in a VM and then delete it ten minutes later once you've booted to desktop?

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>>106515571
Anyone?

Like 4 computers I had mysteriously died. Now I'm left with my 20 year old computer. z_z

>>106520146
Funny. Two weeks ago my PC monitors died and then two motherboards got fried. I switched to T470 in a docking station and I have to admit I should've migrated earlier.

>>106520156
I tried to get a credit card, but I don't have a job. I'm going to have to find someone to order shit for me -_-.

are there any babby versions of emacs like mg that have syntax highlighting

I got a new monitor, which is hdmi 2,0 and 180hz, the previous was hdmi 1.4 and 144hz
Using 120hz or above causes the screen to flash black. like it's changing mode, when something happens or fullscreens
Using 60hz does not do this
Does Linux have problem with HDMI 2.0? I don't have a DP cable to try.

>>106520414
Probably, but could be just HDMI at fault too. DP is overall better if you aim above 60hz.

>>106520126
NetworkManager and base wpa_supplicant can connect to WPS-enabled wireless if you use the right commands. Like for PBC you can use wps_pbc within wpa_cli.

>>106520602
From the GUI?

>>106520623
No GUI ways

>>106520635
what it the command line for this then?
On GNOME simply pressing the WPS button, I'd get a notification for the WiFi network to connect to it.

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retard here. is there any way to centralize pacman and AUR and flatpacks and snaps and whatever else? i miss wingetui...

>>106520648
Why are you even trying to connect via WPS? It's been deprecated for over a decade.

>>106520652
You can centralize pacman packages and AUR packages using a wrapper like paru. Flatpaks need to be interacted with their own commands.

>>106515856
>>106516588
you need to set PATH in your shell login file (~/.profile, ~/.bash_login or ~/.bash_profile, whichever you're using), it is read on login and will affect the whole session

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>>106520657
>Why are you even trying to connect via WPS
Because it's still enabled by default on 90% of routers, the same routers are easily accessible to push the button to gain WiFi access without trying to crack the WPA2/3 handshake.
Your pint is moot.
>ask for the wifi password
Then you'd need to pay $10 for it.

>>106520652
You could always just alias a command to update pacman and AUR packages through paru/yay then run the Flatpak and Snap update commands.
>alias update="paru && flatpak update -y && snap refresh"

>>106520414
>Does Linux have problem with HDMI 2.0?
No, but AMD on Linux doesn't support HDMI 2.1. You're supposed to use DP or USB-C for anything that requires more bandwidth than 2k@120Hz.

>>106520674
>>106520911
good idea, thanks anons

>>106519998
As long as the anti-cheat is not kernel-level there is no real worry about it compromising your system. Most anti-cheats just want to check that you're not altering the actual game process in any way and you'll probably be playing these games in Wine, which is separate enough.

>>106520918
What might be the problem? The monitor even though it works at lower refresh rates?
Could it be related to these new red lines in dmesg and showing at boot?

amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: psp reg (0x16063) wait timed out, mask: 80000000, read: 0 exp: 80000000
amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: psp reg (0x16063) wait timed out, mask: 80000000, read: 0 exp: 80000000
amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: psp reg (0x16063) wait timed out, mask: 80000000, read: 0 exp: 80000000

>>106520852
Well to use PBC you can use the wps_pbc command in wpa_cli.

sudo wpa_cli -i (name of your wireless interface)

Then at the > interface just run "wps_pbc", which should then show an "OK" response. Then press the PBC button on the router then it should start auto-authenticating, ending with a "CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED" output showing that it's connected via PBC. Then you can just run "quit" to leave the interface.

>>106520974
Nice.
Pretty convoluted though.
Now that's connected how to get the password?

>>106521007
PBC's whole deal is that it doesn't need a password though? This is why it alongside WPS has been long, long since phased out/hidden deep.

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>>106518062
>Never recommend Ubuntushit.
t. unemployed

>>106520957
>Could it be related to these new red lines in dmesg and showing at boot?
No.
>What might be the problem?
It's very likely that you're actually using HDMI 2.1, which AMD doesn't support since they were blocked from implementing an open source driver for it because the HDMI forum didn't want it to be open source. So you'll have to wait for them to implement 2.1 support in a proprietary blob or on a hardware level like nVidia does.
Or maybe you actually are using an HDMI 2.0 cable (or HDMI 2.0 port on your PC). HDMI 2.0 has a 3x lower bandwidth compared to 2.1. You can't go over 4k@60Hz or 2k@130Hz. It's just the limitation of the 2.0 protocol.

>>106521050
I could just use DP if that's the issue no?
I'm on 1920x1080, it happens when it's 120hz or above. 60hz is fine

>>106521067
>I'm on 1920x1080
Huh, then scratch everything I've said. FHD on HDMI 2.0 should work just fine even on 180Hz iirc. It could be some weird issue with your DE/wm/distro. Or it could be a faulty cable/port (same thing happened to me using an old slightly bent cable, but in my case it would also happen if I even slightly touch the cable no matter the refresh rate)

Did you try a lower/higher resolution with 100+ refresh rate to see if the same thing happens? Are you using x11 and more than one monitor? What distro, kernel, driver are you on?
I mean, you should try using DP to see if the same thing happens there. If DP works, then it doesn't really make sense troubleshooting unless you really need HDMI.

>>106521067
I haven't followed the conversation but all unexpected issues I've had with HDMI and DP have been bad cables, have you been able to rule those out?

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Can someone help me make a decision? I'm new to Linux, only ever tried Mint before. I was going to install it on my gaming rig but the GPU is too new apparently. This sucked because I really liked Mint and now I'm experiencing choice paralysis. My specs are:
Radeon RX 9060 XT
Amd Ryzen 5 5600
I've been recommended Fedora, Ubuntu, CachyOS, TuxedoOS, Opensuse and a whole host of distros. What should I take for minimal fuckery as someone who mostly just games, draws and watches various media on my PC?

>>106521202
Use CachyOS

>>106521213
Why this over the other options?

>>106521277
It's an easy way to install Arch set up in such a way for easy modern desktop use.

>>106521202
TuxedoOS and OpenSUSE are complete meme distros. Avoid those, honestly. Pretty much nobody uses them.
CachyOS is fine but it's generally not for new people since it's still just a modded Arch which doesn't hold your hand at all.
Fedora is fine, but it's not really good out of the box because you need to enable RPM Fusion and disable the fedora flatpak repo.
>gaming rig
Go with Bazzite. It's extremely easy to use and it's already set up for daily use and for gaming. Universal Blue distros are effectively the best beginner/simple distros Linux has right now.

>>106521135
>>106521158
Arch Linux
6.16.5-arch1-1
sway version 1.11 (Does it on KDE too)
driverVersion = 25.2.2
one monitor
Can't try a different resolution as it doesn't support >100hz on those, but 75hz at those worked fine
Tried every HDMI cable I can find in all of the two HDMI ports, and same thing with them all. God knows what version they are.
I've ordered a DP cable I'll try that

>>106521303
>Sway, KDE
Did you try it on X11 instead of Wayland?
>doesn't support >100hz on those
On X11 you can get around this by defining your own custom resolution and refresh rate. You could do something like 720p@180Hz, or 1600x900@120Hz.

>>106521301
CachyOS has fairly similar helper tools to Endeavour though, so it does hold your hand a tiny bit.

>>106521301
>Nobody uses OpenSuSE
~170000 Tumbleweed users would like to disagree
https://metrics.opensuse.org/d/osrt_access/osrt-access

>>106521343
Just tried it won't, I set 180 rate and it selects 75
It still did it on 1920x1080@180hz
This was xfce 4.20.3-1
I have a feeling I'll have to request a replacement. The audio jack is making a high pitched noise sometimes. This is already a replacement...

How do I build portable GUI apps? Last I checked, my options were apparently Vulkan and ncurses. (I develop on a Linux machine, which apparently rules out MAUI.)

>>106521277
It's the new cool thing for ricers

>>106519788
Streamlink

>>106518062
>Never recommend Ubuntushit.
Why?

>>106521648
Ubuntu isn't really what it use to be back in the day. Forks of it like Mint or what have you are much better then straight Ubuntu.

>>106515847
I see, i know =1 works for switching to the dgpu if your desktop is using the igpu but i dont know how to do the reverse

>>106521590
Did you actually think before posting this?

No plugin can handle URL: https://superlivetv.com/livestream/120637016

>>106521675
Find or make a plugin, there's also "raw access" which works with many sites if you point it to the actual stream itself, sometimes this requires you to set the referer or a key

>>106516044
I think doing this should be enough https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics#Xorg_configuration
Pretty sure these days the modesetting driver is used but im not really sure. I havent needed to config Xorg in a long time.
Though if DRI_PRIME=1 works for switching to the amd gpu then that should mean your desktop is already using the intel gpu so im not sure if making an xorg config snippet will make a difference.

>>106516680
Having first party driver compatibility is always a good thing

>>106521301
There's something really hilarious about someone calling opensuse a meme distro but also recommending literal meme distros like cachyos and bazzite along with all the other fedora immutable distro crap

>>106521690
If I knew I wouldn't be asking here would I?
I can't find the stream anon.
Take a look please.
I tried several stream detectors, and it didn't detect anything.
Even though it works fine with other sites.
There doesn't seem anything of interest in the network tab either.

Hello frens. Anyone know if there's a special way to eject a Ventoy USB from a laptop?
I unmounted and then did

echo 'offline' > /sys/block/sdb/device/state
echo '1' > /sys/block/sdb/device/delete

(found on stack overflow) which seemed to work but now fdisk says "buffer i/o error on dev dm-[0/1], logical block 0, async page read". Anyone know what I did wrong?

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What' the least bloated way to install Plasma on Debian (starting from a net install) plus printing support and power management packages without pulling in 6GBs of useless shit like mini games and their crap email and IRC clients. Any list of packages you recommend? I tried to use ChatGPT for this but it kept changing the answer every two messages.

>>106521475
JavaFX with any language supported by Graal's Native image.
Tcl/Tk.
A language with bindings for Imgui.
Using gtk-webview and write a small webpage.

>>106521805
Next time use udisks2

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>>106518953
Does it all boil down to the kernel or what? I'm kinda retarded what comes to the OS as a whole but I can compile and boot my own kernels.
t. NTA

>>106521817
Install it via "plasma-desktop" with sddm then just install the bits you want like "dolphin, konsole, kate" etc? Then install CUPS and print-manager plus powerdevil. Then font packs like the noto-font or dejavu ones.

Do you backup your Bash history? Mine has grown since I increased the number of commands saved. It's pretty useful which is why I don't want to lose it now.

I do this every time I start Bash, seems like the simplest way to keep one backup for every day in a month. At first I thought it was wasteful but I can't actually measure any difference in startup time with it absent or present. It will still save 31 files eventually which I think is quite a lot, so I'm still thinking if there's a better way to do this in a simple way.

cp "$HISTFILE" "${HISTFILE}_$(printf '%(%d)T')"

>>106521997
i use system-wide automatic btrfs snapshots. if anything were to break in some way, be it a bug or user-error, i can just copy it back from a snapshot.
it's one of those things that i rarely actually use, but is invaluable when i do use it. just knowing i can "rm -rf ~" right now and not lose anything is a good feeling

>>106518062
You say that but Ubuntu still offers the best out of box experience of any distro. You can have system with all the stuff you need without any tinkering and you can download all your essentials without using a terminal, it also has by far the friendliest and most helpful community. I’ve distro hopped a lot over the years but I invariably drift back to Ubuntu because it just does what I need it to do and does it without issue.

>>106521817
Look at the kde article on the debian wiki instead of immediately jumping to aislop answers

>>106521855
Thanks

>>106521475
Appimage is the standard way to do this.

>>106522276
>but Ubuntu still offers the best out of box experience of any distro
Absolutely not. Aurora/Bazzite completely shit on it, at least when it comes to Kubuntu.

>>106521475
>>106522685
>Appimage is the standard way to do this.
I completely misunderstood what you were asking. Anyway, just use Tauri or Electron along with whatever your preferred JS/CSS library is.

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>>106521202
Use opensuse tumbleweed, ignore what the other anons say against it, opensuse is great and i say this as a opensuse user myself, opensuse is good for gaming aswell, the only thing that irritated me in opensuse is that the installation is ugly, other than that it's a really great distro.

>>106522685
Aurora/Bazzite are literal meme distros that cant figure out who their target audience is supposed to be

>>106521668
With DRI_PRIME, you don't. That variable is effectively a boolean defaulting to false.

If the intended app uses Vulkan you can use VK_LOADER_DRIVERS_SELECT to filter which ICDs to allow use of.
For example, this will prevent vkgears from running on the dGPU (unless you have an Arc dGPU of course):

$ 'VK_LOADER_DRIVERS_SELECT=*intel*' vkgears

Something in my system resets the mixer controls for my on board audio when I merely plug in a device with USB audio. How do I find out what does it? I'm using ALSA without sound server.

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>>106523104
>I'm using ALSA without sound server.

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>>106522695
If I wanted to ship a web server for the user to deploy locally, I'd do that. Nobody needs another web browser that only works for one website.

>>106522695
Ah, you're just trying to help. Thanks!

>>106522975
According to the archwiki DRI_PRIME allows you to specify the pci id

>>106523151
But sound servers do even worse things. I couldn't find out how to stop shitwire from muting my main audio just because headphones were plugged in. They all have this automatic "policy" garbage that is more work to configure away than anything else.

Question:
How can I get from linux into cybersec?

>>106523819
i dont know anything about that

>>106522937
Why is it that every time a distro that vastly improves the end user experience arrives, retards like this show up just to shit on it. No, you're not special for wasting your time on half broken shit distros or "muh minimalism" distros which would take an average person a whole week to set up.

>>106523819
from what I've looked up online, you get a helpdesk job, then you do a shit ton of practical pentesting work, then you get your relevant cybersecurity cirt like OSCP, then you ... uh... I don't remember the rest

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>>106521202
This thread has only made my problem worse. My GF is on Mint so I'm just gonna go with an Ubuntu based distro like Kubuntu so I don't have to learn to maintain two different things.

>>106524139
Make sure to install 25.04 instead of LTS. Ubuntu LTS has the same issue of outdated software, drivers, libraries, etc. It's a release model for servers. See >>106524169

>>106522696
Is there a way to make Dolphin's Thumbnailer to work with HEVC files without using Packman? Is the only thing holding me back. I hate that shit when they desync with the main repo.

>>106524185
Got it, my iso doesn't say LTS.

>>106524056
>>106522276
He's half-right though, the immutable distributions can get in your way unless you use your PC basically like a smartphone (only installing through a couple of vendored sources and rarely tweaking them) and you don't need to configure anything beyond what the immutable image provides for hardware support. If you don't care about some edge cases here and there, the immutable distributions are good for end users.

>>106522318
The aislop failed hard to give me a good answer, that's why I'm digging myself.

Which is the best filesystem on linux?

>>106524414
whatever you want to use is the best for you. without explaining your needs or hardware then nobody is going to be able to answer you

>>106524414
ext4

>>106524056
>Why is it that every time a distro that vastly improves the end user experience arrives
But enough about OpenSUSE, Mint and every other good distro that arent literal meme distros like Bazzite and Aurora

>>106524414
butter file system

>>106524393
You should be looking at the wiki or at least doing a web search before resorting to aislop.

Asking chatpgt returns more useful answers than this general desu

>sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward
>net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
what the fuck, how can I check what enables ip routing on my box?
/etc/sysctl.conf has nothing relevant

>>106524904
check /lib/sysctl.d and /usr/lib/sysctl.d incase your system isnt usrmerged

>>106524904
Do you have container runtimes or virtual machines with bridged interfaces?

Is there a reason to disable IP forwarding?

>>106524904
How safe/dangerous messing with this?

>>106524990
I do but none of my virtual networks are NATed, host only so I hoped my host gets an IP in that bridge interface and can talk to VMs without routing

>>106525012
IP forwarding enables other hosts to use your machine as a routing gateway, that is, IP traffic not meant for the system is checked against the routing tables and forwarded appropriately instead of just dropped. Having it enabled means you allow other hosts to move through or bounce traffic off the machine, so it should be paired with conservative firewall rules to prevent abuse, i.e. checking that unsolicited traffic from the Internet matches a NAT/port forward rule before forwarding a new connection.

>>106524484
>complains about meme distros
>starts listing non-meme distros with OpenSUSE
Back in my day, bait wasn't this obvious.

>>106524364
>the immutable distributions can get in your way unless you use your PC basically like a smartphone (only installing through a couple of vendored sources and rarely tweaking them) and you don't need to configure anything beyond what the immutable image provides for hardware support
You say this as if it's not how most people use a computer.

>>106524414
btrfs or ext4

>>106524670
No shit. There's 5 people here with conflicting opinions all the time.

>>106525141
So the problem is that your machine might accidentally forward traffic from the internet to somewhere? Why is that a problem?

>>106525075
If you're using lxc or libvirt they automatically add that sysctl option. Not sure if podman or docker does it as well

>>106525027
It only matters if you're running vms, containers, or acting as a gateway to route traffic between two network interfaces.

>>106525216
>he thinks openSUSE is a meme
Are all bazzite shills this stupid?

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>>106519950
Come on. Anyone?

>>106525501
it isn't used outside of some offices in EU

>>106525523
4chan sets a cookie in your web browser which contains a UUID. Each time you get a new cookie you have to wait 120s because the tracking ID has changed.
This will always happen if you clear cookies on exit (I assume it also happens if you block cookies entirely). It also happens sometimes if you change your IP address even if your cookie remains set.

>>106525531
Way more than that especially more than bazzite.

>>106525458
If you're firewalled properly you can have it enabled permanently. But there's simply no reason to have it explicitly enabled on a machine that isn't a router, depending on (mis)configuration it could effectively make you an open proxy. And if nothing else it could be used to DoS you with only half the bandwidth since your machine would contribute the other half for free.
Forwarding should be automatically enabled if needed for container runtimes or virtual machines, so you don't need to explicitly enable it for them.

>>106525588
bazzite is literally just fedora kinoite with extra stuff in it. if we're talking about the "base" distros, openMEME is much smaller and less relevant than fedora. and fedora itself is far less popular than debian/ubuntu and arch.

>>106525594
>depending on (mis)configuration it could effectively make you an open proxy. And if nothing else it could be used to DoS you with only half the bandwidth since your machine would contribute the other half for free.
That doesn't apply to a home pc.

>>106525594
I don't see how it could be turned into a proxy. I doubt my ISP even actually routes anything relevant to me.
I have it enabled without firewall because I have other sub-networks in my LAN connected to it.

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>>106514213
> look up nixos to see what's new over there
> rainbow logo
welp
>>106520386
> like mg
Do you mean babby as in easy or babby as in more minimal?
If you are open to straying away from emacs proper like that then I'd suggest taking a look at lem. It's not really "babby" emacs, but it has very good defaults and many keybindings are the same.
So you can use it like a "just works" emacs.

>>106525480
>libvirt they automatically add that sysctl option
literally why when I have only host-only network configured? also I just checked firewall rules it adds, what did they mean by allowing any/any/any as the first sub-chain in the forwarding chain?

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
LIBVIRT_FWX  all  --  anywhere             anywhere
LIBVIRT_FWI  all  --  anywhere             anywhere
LIBVIRT_FWO  all  --  anywhere             anywhere

Chain LIBVIRT_FWI (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
REJECT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere             reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
Chain LIBVIRT_FWO (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
REJECT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere             reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
Chain LIBVIRT_FWX (1 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere

>>106525635
>fedora kinoite
Which already isnt used much
>openSUSE is much smaller and less relevant than fedora
Its not being compared to original fedora though its being compared to your shitty meme immutable distros like b*zzite and a*rora

>>106525854
Its just part of the libvirt package so itll extract all provided files to their appropriate locations

>>106525912
>being this mad that SUSE is completely irrelevant among desktop users
touch grass

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>>106524320
just got back home, you don't need packman to install the video codecs in opensuse, they're on the normal repositories but not pre-installed, if i remember the packages I'll reply to myself listing them, you're risking your pc if you download shit from packman btw, if i were you i'd reinstall opensuse.

>>106525854
better to enable it so you don't get complaints from dumb end users. the harm is minimal, you're not going to connect directly to the internet with your machine and your LAN probably doesn't have anyone wanting to abuse packet forwarding. I would be interested to know who is using libvirt on their router directly on the internet.

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>>106526115
Here it is

sudo zypper install vlc-codecs ffmpeg-3 lame gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-libav libquicktime0 libxine2-codecs

How do I see the list of all environment variables?
printenv only shows the one I currently have set.

>>106526988
There is no global list.

>>106526988
For what? I don't think there's an easy way to see them as they have to be documented somewhere like the manpages. For example for Bash you can find them there.

>>106526988 (checked)

declare -p
set -o posix; set

>>106518809
install gnome

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I'm trying to get 3d acceleration working in a guest vm using qemu and libvirt. I have the nvidia gpu as the host and want my integrated amd graphics for the guest, which I feel should be pretty reasonable but I just get a black screen. When running virt-manager from the cli and launching the vm I get

(virt-manager:7274): GSpice-CRITICAL **: 19:52:13.911: spice_egl_update_display: assertion 'd->ready' failed

but I doin't understand why, I've got it specifically set to use amdgpu. Tried rtfm, google, and ai but couldn't get it. Any help bros