Is it possible to distrohop without losing main disk data?

>>106826622
put your data on a separate partition and don't format it when installing another distro

>>106826622
This is why people keep their home directory on a separate partition

lol look at the thumbnail for this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOuBCk8XMC8

He stole the manpage for GCC.

>>106826622
Back up your individual config files and app data.

>>106826493
Okay - I have preconceptions about updating. Even in the past when I was Windows only I stopped updates after MS fucked up some of them. Anyways, after rolling now, I checked my kernel modules and stuff and seems like it didn't alter anything at least now. Of course I make backups too but I wouldn't like to tinker without a good reason.

>>106826592
Can you use a different image for the OP instead of the same apple flamewar shit every thread?

>>106826830
Windows can be run without ever updating it. But Linux very much depends on system updates because of the retarded way software is packaged on it. Unless you're exclusively using Appimage, Flatpak or Snap, you will need to update your system.

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Can distros please stop auto installing this bloat? Most people use a web browser now to edit documents and spreadsheets.

And why do I get a disc burning software when I have no disc drive? Xfce really is stuck in the past.

>>106827156
>And why do I get a disc burning software when I have no disc drive?
You can burn to an ISO file, the same way you can print to a PDF.
What a loser...

>>106827182
I can make a tar. Why would I make an iso?

Any way to grab all my drop in configs and have them copy over to the correct locations on a new install?

>>106827156
There's plenty of distros which don't pre-install an office suite.
>why do I get a disc burning software when I have no disc drive
portable disc drives exist

NIXOS!
NIXOS!
NIXOS!

Please spoon feed me and recommend me a good DE for a laptop.
I have KDE on my desktop and I love it but eats a lot of ram. So I decided to go hard and install XFCE, but the default keyboard shortcuts sucks ass.
IDK if I should try gnome or cinnamon. I've tried hyprland but I never remember the shortcuts between sessions

>>106827364
Cinnamon or LXQT.
KDE can be light too if you don't install the full version. In Arch 'plasma-meta' is such package.
I personally went from Hyprland to LABWC (wc...toilet).
Nothing wrong with hyprland but not sure if I enjoy tiling that much. Gnu-screen is better, no need to tile everything.
Biggest issue with memory usage is the bloated nu-web browsers.

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>Every single Arch affiliated site has been under DDOS for months.
>Except Archwiki, which uses Anubis and is magically fine.
>Anubis is already used by Gnome’s gitlab, the linux kernel mailing lists, and many other sites.
>Anubis getting adopted by the AUR would be another feather in its cap.
How long before Arch bends the knee to the Anubis mafia?

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>>106827364
I must once again shill newm-atha, since its whole grid scrolling was built for touchpad

>>106827590
I'll try LXQT for 10min and then cinnamon. I'll also try KDE again without that package. Thx
>>106827639
Very convoluted but cool

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>>106827364
swaywm. tiling, very simple to config, wayland

any of you know reliable arch maintenance software / script? something that i can run every week or something to update everything, clean caches, removed unused dependencies after building stuff or whatever else, removing dead symlinks and whatnot

>>106827743
You can just make this yourself via making an alias command that does all that within one command.

>>106827758
sure but im asking for the insides lol, like what to put in that script

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>>106826592

>>106827883
If they (end user) see an Apple logo, they've fucked up

>>106827694
Sorry I was writing whatever
'plasma-meta' is the minimal setup.

What the fuck am I doing wrong? I have configured vim, screen and even my browser to support middle clicking etc. But I can't paste text from my screen/vim (or even neovim) to my browser (librewolf). I don't use any faggot clipboard manager either.
This is so damn frustrating. I have never had this issue in my life. Quite the contrary, pasting between things and terminals was always bit too easy and resulted in accidental pastes but this was 10+ years ago.

>>106827632
Arch ddos is 100% feds. Anubis troons are too afraid to lose their hrt to do felony computer trespass.

>>106827639
This looks pretty cool but seems like its built for the mouse and not the keyboard

>>106828210
Middle click paste uses the selection clipboard while the usual ctrl+v or paste uses the primary clipboard

I love Xfce so much, bros
Xue is my waifu

>>106828246
Yeah I know but it doesn't seem to work either.
This is a wayland issue and all these new faggot devs.
I never had this issue in the past. Not on Irix and not on some fucking old Gentoo in 2012.
I suppose I should change terminal, Alacritty isn't necessarily the best choice.
I also don't have any x-server related things running. It has to be related to some tranny faggotry at this point

>>106828287
based ratfucker

>>106826592
What's the best distro for an old mac (2011) laptop.

>>106828305
Antix or MX Linux. Lubuntu, Mint Xfce/Mate, Ubuntu Mate, any lightweight Fedora spin.

>>106828296
Just use X.

>>106828296
Do you have xwayland installed? I know that vim does not have wayland clipboard support but neovim should.

>everything is a file in linux
what does that mean? how can things not be files? how does windows do it?

>>106828365
Windows hides a lot of things. In Linux, literally everything is a file that you can see in the root directory folders, like /sys or /proc for example when it comes to CPU calls and the like.

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>>106827974
yes veddy good saar

>>106828396
It's amazing what conditioning does to a human being.

>>106828365
C library API calls. Not everything is a file on Linux either. You have things like domain sockets which can exist in their own namespace. It's one of those 'muh unix philosophy' things.

Windows 10 support is ending soon... I have a GTX 980 Ti; will I get the same performance as on Windows if I play Windows games on Loonix? back in 2016 I used Arch btw on a ThinkPad without a dedicated GPU.

>>106828708
According to redditors from 5 years ago, the Vulkan support on nVidia is ass on anything below 20 series. So Proton will underperform, which means over half your games will perform worse than they did on Windows.
Maybe things improved in the past 5 years. The only way to know for sure is to test it out yourself.

>>106827364
I use LXQt on an old laptop and I think it's good. It does what I need it to do. I use it with Openbox as the window manager but I think you can also use it with Xfwm, the XFCE window manager.

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>>106828708
>GTX 980 Ti
>2015 release
no? i had a 960 i played witcher 3 goty with linux and was getting 30fps i think, this was 8 years ago? i offloaded that gpu to someones truenas for just jellyfin. guessing if you could live with a fps dip in performance it should be fine dunno, as always depends on game >>106828767
ye ididn't care was playing it witcher3 as a console with controller then

>>106827156
You were given a complete fucking OS for FREE even with all the software installed by default and YOU're the one complaining that you got too much free stuff with an OS nobody forced you to use? I don't get it.

>>106828708
What's stopping you from continuing to use Win10 on a GPU that old? I think I heard NVidia is stopping driver support for Win10 next year but they probably haven't made any significant changes to the Maxwell driver for years now anyway. By the time actual applications start dropping support you'll likely have moved onto something newer anyway.
Like >>106828767 said it's not going to do well under DXVK and the like. If you need a cheap sidegrade to tide you over under linux look for some used high end GCN cards from the same era. R9 390s and RX 480s are cheap these days and should work well under 'nix.

>>106827156
very simple solution
get arch and build your own

>>106828317
>>106828336
I did have it but coincidentally I finished up my labw setup today and decided to take out xwayland too. It was automatically running in the background.
I'm going to take a look at that or, at some external clipboard manager (bloat).
I'm not going to give up... Vim is fun because it's like playing a videogame. Very satisfying!

>>106828708
It depends on the engine or renderer but I doubt it, nvidia drivers are notoriously shit, just recently I tried GTA IV with a RX 550 and I was getting more performance than when I used a 1050ti

>>106829230
Do you have the wl-clipboard package installed?

>wayland apparently doesn't support the clipboard without installing some separate package
>doesn't even work with vim, one of the most popular linux tools
>distros are still switching to wayland and deprecating X
grim

>>106829310
Nope, I'll check it out...!
Also, contrary to popular opinion, instead of having this in .vimrc
>mouse=a
changing it
>:set mouse=v
Disables visual mode when painting text and this way I can paste from vim to terminal and back at least. I don't know why mouse=a is commonly recommended setting.

>>106829357
use case for clipboard in windowing protocol?

where / how do i find software to use when i dont start with gnome/plasma? after a fresh arch install, how do i know what bluetooth or network manager or file browser of any other tool one might need to get? is there like a recommended list of tools? and no im not using cli to connect fucking airpods to the computer

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>>106826592
Godd day anons, so my grandma has an old pc that has a core 2 duo, 1 gig of ram and an hdd; and she was fine using it for facebook and such; but then my retarded cousin updated her pc to windows 10 and things went south fro my grandma, the pc is slow as fuck and opening facebook takes like 90 seconds, watching a 1 minute video takes like 3 because glitches and so on; so i installed 4 gigs of ram on the pc and an cloned the drive to an ssd but its still insanely slow; my question is, any distro good enough for my normie grandma? she is an adept windows user as she can use office and such; but she justs wants something to get her old pc back to life and browse FB in peace; thanks in advance anons
>inb4 install gentoo
im 2 stupid 4 that

>>106829598
you can find stuff on archwiki by looking at their respective wiki pages
>network manager
networkmanager if you want full configurable gui, dhcpcd if you just want dhcp working in the background with not much effort
>file browser
you can technically use whatever you want. Most go with pcmanfm due to not having many dependencies
>bluetooth
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth#Front-ends
tldr: blueman

>>106829621
Antix

Made the move from Mint to Arch.. might install mint on the back up laptop tho, that shit was comfy

i as always am late to the party
>eselect news read

2025-10-07-cache-enabled-mirrors-removal
  Title                     Cache-enabled sync mirrors only for official repos
  Author                    Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
  Posted                    2025-10-07
  Revision                  1

Due to increasing maintenance costs and complexities, Gentoo is going to
stop providing the cache-enabled git syncing mirrors found in the
gentoo-mirror GitHub organization [1], and CI services for third-party
repositories. We will continue providing mirrors for a curated set of
official repositories, including ::gentoo, ::guru, ::kde, and ::science.
The remaining mirrors will be removed on 2025-10-30.

Users who have previously added repositories using
<app-eselect/eselect-repository-15 may need to re-add these repositories
with >=app-eselect/eselect-repository-15, in order to update their sync
URIs.  For example, the following can be used:

        eselect repository remove ${repository}
        eselect repository enable ${repository}

Once the mirrors are discontinued, we are going to remove them entirely
in order to trigger sync errors for the remaining users, and ensure
that they are not stuck on non-updated mirrors.

This change does not affect users who have not used eselect-repository
or the gentoo-mirror repositories.  It does not affect the availability
of these repositories via >=app-eselect/eselect-repository-15
and repositories.xml -- the official upstream sync URI will be used
instead.

[1] https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/

>>106829598
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications

>>106829621
Try lubuntu, xubuntu, mint xfce, linux lite
In no particular order or preference
>captcha: 0prah

>>106829656
From where do these people get money anyway? I get that Redhat and some others are probably sponsored by companies but what about the other tinker trannies?

>>106829643
yeah i can use everything since everything works lol but id still prefer to keep it cohesive? kinda not to mix gtk with qt with all the other stuff so that it looks somewhat nice
>>106829659
thats exactly what i needed. thanks

>>106829686
google

>>106829698
Back in the day I had two Redhat cdroms and that was it. I installed them and at some point they had a new version.
Unlike today where massive dependencies are updated daily and distributed wherever and however.

>>106829686
as in gentoo dev team is affilated with this company afaik because chromeos is based on gentoo

>>106828767
>Maybe things improved in the past 5 years.
They got worse. 9xx cards are part of NVIDIA's legacy driver series now, i.e "this shit may not work and if don't we don't care" series.

>>106829693
It doesnt really matter that much if you're able to use the same theme for both gtk and qt

>>106829686
Debian, MX, Mint etc all get free mirrors from companies and universities. Also some NGOs and Linux clubs like hosting them.

>>106829716
it's obvious even to a retard that distribution of programs became fucked because a lot of people got involved in programming and the development cycle has accelerated.

>fedora installer hangs
>tumbleweed installer hangs
fuck me am I forced to use ubuntu

>>106829621
Give her Q4OS with Trinity DE. The overall UI should be familiar enough to her since it's reminiscent of WinXP and Win7. I think it uses maybe 350-400MB RAM on idle.
If she's open to a less flashy interface, then Antix with IceWM is also an option. It uses around 50MB-100MB less RAM than Q4OS.

>>106829825
I read Linus Torvald's biography and he's a high functioning autist, he basically sat in his apartment programming for 6+ months straight. If you take a look at the first public version (the one for 386 processor) it's mostly assembler wrapped with C.
Supposedly people were interested about the project almost straight away.

>>106828767
Only problem I ever had with my old GTX960 (which I still used 2 years ago) was that 2GB of VRAM was just not enough anymore.

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>>106826592
How do you guys manage multiple versions of JDKs?
I'm running JDK 17 because it's the default in Debian 12. I've now started working on another project which needs JDK 21, but I don't know how to manage this without fucking up everything else.

Pic not related.

>>106829650
>>106829662
>>106830010
thanks anons i'm gonna give it a try with mint xfce since it looks retard proof to install for a brainlet bylike me, cheers anons

>>106829621
Do your grandma a solid and just get her a mini PC.

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Since a few days I'm getting an error 80% of my bootups, telling my root ext4 fs needs manual fsck checking. After checking, boot works once. Is this a current bug in something or is my nvme hd sharting and farting itself? Tried different kernels, that's definitely not the issue.

>>106829838
Maybe the problem is your USB or hardware.

>>106830077
For modern slop or anything above 1080p, sure. But most games still run fine on 2GB VRAM.

>>106829621
Nobody is fine running a web browser on 1GB of RAM. Come off $100 and get a used mini or raspi or something. 16GB and a SATA SSD minimum.

>>106830383
>most games still run fine on 2GB VRAM.
If you said 4GB it might be believable.

What's the most fuckable Linux Distro?

Yo I have a win10 in GPT with uefi boot, do linux distros work with this shit or do you need to change to some stank ass legacy boot mode?
I wanna try out fedora kde

>>106830425
secureblue because you won't get aids

>>106830445
Modern distros should work fine booting in UEFI.

>>106829621
You can buy a 10x more powerful machine in decent condition for like $150 second hand

>>106830445
pretty sure legacy boot is becoming increasingly unsupported by Linux distros, aside from those targeting old devices

>>106830454
Thanks dawg

>>106830425
AntiX, but not in a good way

Is NVIDIA still bad on Linux? Thinking on making the switch but my main PC is Nvidia.

nvidia has no choice but to support linux, their biggest customers run computations for big ai on linux.
the average windows gamer is small potatoes in comparison, regardless of "desktop os marketshare", most desktop computers in business use integrated graphics.
windows gamers just aren't buying as many graphics cards per person as huge ai datacenter are.

The best graphics cards are supported on linux.

>>106830587
i have a 4070 super and i was able to play games without any issues

>>106830587
short answer, yes. The driver is available on the nvidia website as an executable installer.

>>106830627
>short answer, yes.
So...yes that it's still bad?

>>106830393
as i said, i installed 4 gigs of ram and an ssd; the costs of things is already 2 paychecks in my country, so im limited by budget
>>106830460
50 bucks already broke my wallet, sorry anon

>>106830635
yeah bad but in a cool way,
bad because it's evil taiwan ai voodoo that torments the machine elves into summoning dancing pixies on the screen

it's also proprietary
and we all know property is theft.

>>106830617
>their biggest customers run
CUDA

big cooda

>>106830653
Try trisquel gnu/linux

>>106830383
>But most games still run fine on 2GB VRAM.
Because most games are old. But when fps starts to drop because VRAM runs out it's not funny

>>106830080
Nevermind, I asked gemini and it told me to use SDKMAN. If it works, it works.
>>106830324
I'm stealing that pic.
>Is this a current bug in something or is my nvme hd sharting and farting itself?
One way to find out:

$ sudo apt install nvme-cli

$ sudo nvme smart-log /dev/<device-name-here>

>Tried different kernels, that's definitely not the issue.
Try another drive maybe.

>>106830465
Not really
Grub still supports mbr and the only difference between mbr and efi is mbr/gpt partition type and the extra efi partition

Everyone says Mint/Ubuntu is the best distro for people who don't give a fuck about "working" on their OS, but what about the distros that cost money? Wouldn't you get a superior product from a company that has professional devs working on it instead of volunteers?

>>106826659
I'm not looking at shit. Cut your dick off tranny

Aight... screw Jeetdows 11.
Best distro for gaming?

>>106830985
looks good imo:

critical_warning            : 0
temperature                : 123 °F (324 K)
available_spare                : 100%
available_spare_threshold        : 10%
percentage_used                : 1%
endurance group critical warning summary: 0
Data Units Read                : 49113276 (25.15 TB)
Data Units Written            : 26575604 (13.61 TB)
host_read_commands            : 307068342
host_write_commands            : 160868936
controller_busy_time            : 529
power_cycles                : 388
power_on_hours                : 2163
unsafe_shutdowns            : 31
media_errors                : 0
num_err_log_entries            : 0
Warning Temperature Time        : 0
Critical Composite Temperature Time    : 0
Temperature Sensor 1            : 123 °F (324 K)
Temperature Sensor 2            : 89 °F (305 K)
Thermal Management T1 Trans Count    : 0
Thermal Management T2 Trans Count    : 0
Thermal Management T1 Total Time    : 0
Thermal Management T2 Total Time    : 0

I guess I gotta lurk kernel bug reports then... I really have no clue what else could be going on. Hope it's not my psu grilling my nvme, but I would expect that the log would've looked different in that case.

>>106831080
>Everyone says Mint/Ubuntu is the best distro for people who don't give a fuck about "working" on their OS
Nah, that's any arch based distro, because you are always tinker trannying around instead of getting actual shit done.

>but what about the distros that cost money? Wouldn't you get a superior product from a company that has professional devs working on it instead of volunteers?
Like? Ubuntu LTS? RHEL? SLES?
Ubuntu Pro is free for home users (without support). And you can buy a RHEL subscription starting at $328 a year. SUSE costs 374€ for 3 years for 1 PC.
So go ahead lol, nobody is stopping you.

I'm looking for any program that reads epubs and has automatic adjustable autoscroll.
I'm currently using Calibre, but other than my main PC i have no need for such a large program if all I'll ever use is the auto scroll feature.
I wish Okular had that but unfortunately it doesn't.
The program just has to read epubs, ideally allow you to use a dark-ish theme and have an adjustable (so scroll X lines per second, etc) autoscroll feature.

>>106831080
There most probably isn't enough critical mass behind paid distros. The two that come to my mind are Red Hat which is the exception to the rule, and Zorin which is just a paid UI.
>Everyone says Mint/Ubuntu is the best distro for people who don't give a fuck about "working" on their OS
Just use Debian. Sure, the packages are a little older, but if you don't need to sit at the bleeding edge, it is by far the most stable distro with the least amount of fucking around you need to worry about. Install one at release and you'll be set for five years as debian give 5 years of LTS support.
Ubuntu used to be the GOAT until they fucked around with snap and found out. Do not use.
Mint is sometimes fickle with the packages, we're testing a switch from debian to mint at work and nothing works on the testing machines.

>>106831117
>31 unsafe shutdowns
Why.
Also check the temps and properly apply thermal pads with pads of different thickness for different chips.

critical_warning            : 0
temperature                : 40°C (313 Kelvin)
available_spare                : 100%
available_spare_threshold        : 10%
percentage_used                : 1%
endurance group critical warning summary: 0
Data Units Read                : 11.632.273 (5,96 TB)
Data Units Written            : 38.597.121 (19,76 TB)
host_read_commands            : 273.119.672
host_write_commands            : 449.411.904
controller_busy_time            : 5.010
power_cycles                : 1.138
power_on_hours                : 717
unsafe_shutdowns            : 18
media_errors                : 0
num_err_log_entries            : 0
Warning Temperature Time        : 0
Critical Composite Temperature Time    : 0
Temperature Sensor 1           : 40°C (313 Kelvin)
Temperature Sensor 2           : 43°C (316 Kelvin)
Thermal Management T1 Trans Count    : 0
Thermal Management T2 Trans Count    : 0
Thermal Management T1 Total Time    : 0
Thermal Management T2 Total Time    : 0

Captcha: DKDKD

>>106827733
>manual tiling

>>106831161
>unsafe shutdowns
I blame systemd.
>a stop job is ACK!
maybe I should keep my cool in the future and not force off my computer. Will check the pads and check if the temps go too high at high load. Thanks for the advice anon.

>>106827364
Just edit the keyboard shortcuts to your liking? Thunar with Super + E etc.

>>106831080
>Wouldn't you get a superior product from a company that has professional devs working on it instead of volunteers?
What you’d get is texh support that is actual people that will fox your shit rather than a forum thread with some random stoners and femboys who might or might not help you out at some point in the future
support is kind of big for corpos

>>106831200
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Z09nU554Q
Video says Samsung, but it's applicable to most NVMes because manufacturers won't be fussing autistically about chip height for a cheap-ish commodity.
Also if you look very very close on your drive, you might have three different heights and not just two: NAND, DRAM, Controller.

>be pretty happy with linux on desktop
>in a fit of daring, install linux on laptop
>feels like I traveled 15 years into the past
dayum I’ll just stick with my fagbook for now

>>106831237
Works on my Dell Latitude 5440

>>106828415
>iNiggers
>human beans
pick one

>>106828396
Why are snow indians at 60% while indian indians are at 4% ?

>>106831135
>Like?
Linspire, SUSE, one or two others I think?

>>106831160
help kudasai i just want to read my visual novel

>>106829621
Kubuntu will work very well with those specs. You just need to create a 2GB swap file as well, since Facebook can cause all 4GB to be filled if multiple tabs are open.
Source: mom uses a Core2Duo with 4GB RAM.

>>106831314
Try Foliate.

>>106826592
Is using shutdown and reboot from the command always safe?
Like will it automatically properly dismount partitions, run sync and such?

>>106831851
Yes, because these just send signals to your init system to teardown the system before halting or rebooting, etc.

>>106831882
thanks

>>106831763
Where exactly is the autoscroll? I'm not talking about the infinite scroll vs paged I'm talking about the screen slowly scrolling down so you can read without interacting with your computer.

I'm formatting a new drive in ext4 and installing Linux on it rather than partitioning my current drive. Does it make sense to this? I guess I'm afraid I'll overwrite windows boot manager by accident with these janky linux repo