haha first

How does having two monitors with different resolutions (and refresh rates) work these days?

>>106627498
Pretty good on Wayland

>>106627396
>Try using a distro that isn't a chore/meme. So, anything that isn't Arch-based.
NO!

On a serious note I'm used to arch and it never broke on me except when I used AUR packages that were made by retards.

The problem likely stems from my non default/conventional setup with limine as bootloader and snapshot integration. The arch ostree package likely expects a normal grub or systemd-boot install and something doesn't jive with limine. I didn't have this issue with my main computer that runs cachy.

I've got a laptop with easy-swap SSD so I'm going to put a blank drive in and try Omarchy. I've mostly been using GNOME for the past few years but having a pre-riced Hyprland seems fun.

>opensuse's Signal repo for Fedora 42 has a newer version of nodejs-electron than what my dnf is asking for
Anyone else have this problem? I mostly care just because it prevents dnf update -y from finishing

>>106627498
Zero issues on both Wayland and X11 here.

>>106627777
install gentoo

>>106627744
Omarchy is made by a macfag redditard and makes macfag redditard choices. Just warning you.
I am pretty sure even widows doesn't come with a whatsapp client preinstalled. There's a spotify hotkey for crying out loud. This man even sells merch like he actually made something.
I would recommend you read up on the official docs and see if this is actually something you want. Just know that if it doesn't; configuring and ricing hyprland isn't difficult at all and the wiki will allow you to understand and configure it top to bottom in a single day. So unless you plan on not changing much of omarchy just install arch and hyprland normally.

>>106627867
>whatsapp client preinstalled
>a spotify hotkey
yikers
just fucking use windows at this point lmao

more and more distributions are going for the atomic model where user apps are installed as snap, appimages or flatpak only.

>>106627974
No they aren't. Stop shilling your crap.

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It's over GNOMEsistas

>>106628020
archGODS reign supreme

>>106627867
It's not just the Hyprland rice, it's the integration of a bunch of tools I'm not familiar with yet, and a custom pacman repo for stuff not yet in Arch main. If it turns out the nice parts of the setup are replicable from base Arch (or, ideally, Fedora) I can roll my own bootc based distro around it.


>>106627989
They actually are, I'm running Bluefin right now. Its sister distro Bazzite is one of the more popular distros and it's immutable-base.

>>106627989
they are. suse micro os, the incoming KDE Linux**, Fedora atomic desktop, Aurora, ...

** https://community.kde.org/KDE_Linux

>>106628020
sheesh

>>106627974
>>106627989
>>106628069
also, this: https://distrobox.it/

atomic distributions will be the next trend.

>>106628069
>More and more
>Projects that have been around for ages, going nowhere
>Plus 1 (one) new distro
Also, let's check out them metrics, since Fedora has telemetry built in

https://github.com/ublue-os/countme

>28k Bazzite users
>2100 bluefin users
>1400 Aurora users

Ooof... Not looking too good for the next big thing.

>>106628106
Yeah, AerynOS, which is atomic but not immutable and doesn't force you to rely on flatahit.

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>>106627408
I hurts my soul when generals have no edition

>>106628200
This general is rolling release, no need for editions.

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File pickers for discord and brave stopped working. I don't know how to do formatting here, pic related is journal output. I use i3 without login manager, have xdg-desktop-portal-gtk installed. Found some threads on the forum, didn't help me because I'm too dumb probably. I reckon the session is broken, but I have no idea how to fix it. Didn't change anything in . xinitrc. Arch.

>>106627767
Manually installed the newer package and it stopped asking for the old package, wow I am a genius

holy shit writing a flake is impossible

>>106627534
>>106627773
Good to know, last time I used it is was a complete disaster. Was a few years ago though.

>>106628457
whats a flake

>>106628510
The only issue I have with multi-monitor setups is that, since my side monitor is to the right of my main one, some programs tend to open on it because that's where the X:0 Y:0 coordinate is. On Windows, my main monitor is always at X:0 Y:0, while my secondary one is an offset of that, like X:-1920 Y:0.

Most developers can't be bothered to query for the main monitor on Linux and automatically assume that X:0 Y:0 is where the primary display is, which isn't always true on Linux.

kinda sucks not being able to update gnome. "Gotta wait for the next Ubuntu release to avoid breaking a bunch of stuff" is what Reddit tells me

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>>106627408
I'm using Mint for about three years now. Should I move on to other Linux, the babbies guide is not really helping.

>https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux

Android-x86 - is still android, probably can't handle large spreadsheets
Tails - is a fed honeypot
Unix-like - so back to MS-DOS?

>>106628830
>Tails - is a fed honeypot
how so

So I created a .desktop file to launch a windows application through wine and it works but how do I change the icon to be the same as the windows exe? I tried adding the .desktop to the menu editor and it allows me to choose an icon but the exe's icon doesn't show up. How do I add it?

>>106629262
you can edit .desktop manually in the text editor
its just a plain text file

>>106629275
Yeah I know, that's how I created it in the first place and I saw that you can add a path to an icon too, but how do I select the exe's icon? I tried just using the same path for the icon as the exe but I just got a blank white icon.

>>106629305
wait so what icon do you want to change additionally? the executable itself?

>>106629322
I want the .desktop file to have the same icon as the .exe file

>>106629346
oh cool ive lost ability to read it seems
you need to look into other icons to see what format ad icon size is being used
i vaguely remember having similar problems and i think i had to change dimensions and format

>>106628413
Just dump the error log to chatgpt and be done with it dude.

>>106629366
I don't understand, the .exe file is already displaying an icon, I just want to copy it to the .desktop file.

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Just noticed the jump to Firefox ESR 140 for Bullseye, Bookworm and Trixie. Finally some new browser features.

>>106629441
so you dont have the icon itself?
you should extract it and point the icno path in the .desktop to it

>>106629441
You have to extract the .ico resource from the .exe with wrestool, then convert to a PNG with icotool, then dump it in ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/<size>/apps and refer to it by name in the .desktop file.
Wine does this automatically when installing apps.

>>106629441
nta but you have to extract that icon to be able to use it
wine has that feature built in and often places the icons on .local/share/icons, desu I wish I knew how it works to be able to manually trigger that
if it's not there one way to extract an icon is with wrestool

wrestool -x -t 14 source.exe > output.ico

>>106628830
Fat ass nigga

is it possible to run modern macOS through qemu/kvm? they still support x86-64, right?

>>106629470
>>106629471
>>106629475
>Wine does this automatically when installing apps
Is there a better way to use software through wine? I currently have a portable piece of software that I launch through the console by just typing "wine program.exe"

I tried using one of the generic icons already available but even they turn the .desktop into a blank white icon. Any idea what causes that?