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>>106854542
Installed guix on my laptop, works well.
What is the easiest way to check which linux-firmware my laptop actually loads/uses and what its package names are so I can include only what I actually require in my guix config?

Example from nonguix:

(firmware (cons* iwlwifi-firmware
                 %base-firmware))

>>106854633
How many packages on guix did you have to compile or did they all have prebuilt binaries? Been thinking about switching to guix but i didnt know how to do it in a way where i can still multiboot and not nuke my other installations.

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>>106855354
Everything I tried had prebuilts.
For nonguix you have to provide a substitute server manually though because without it it will bootstrap and compile everything from there except nonfree blobs.
But I compile the nonguix packages specifically by choice. The only noteworthy compile times in my case are thus the kernel and Firefox. The latter takes forever.
> multiboot
I do that on my PC but I just give each OS its own physical drive, saves me a lot of headaches.

>>106855403
Ive gotten away with using btrfs subvols for multibooting different linux distros.

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How do i replace pulseaudio with pipewire on debian 13? I know pipewire is the default for debian with gnome, but i use xfce which defaults pulseaudio.
my goal is to optimize renoise(DAW program) by using pipewire as a drop-in for jack
Reading online i found this guide: https://github.com/orgs/linuxmint/discussions/462
Its for linux mint though and about a year old, would it still be applicable for debian 13 in current times?

>>106855423
You should be able to do sudo apt install pipewire and it should drag everything needed.

Which video player is better? Haruna or Celluloid? I'm trying to find something that is as similar to mpv-net on Windows as possible.

>t. new linux user

>>106855511
Haruna is a lighter libmpv frontend

>>106855511
Both are just wrappers around mpv. So whichever GUI you prefer. Or you can just use the default mpv and it's GUI.

i was trying debian in vmware and ran out of 20gb space, now I extended the disk in vmware but can't boot after grub as it gets stuck at some docker systemd shit. How do I expand the disk from live cd without losing data?

>>106855437
>sudo apt install pipewire
Did some more reading and it seems for debian 13 i think thatll only install the basic pipewire package.
Reading on the debian wiki it looks like i gotta

sudo apt install pipewire-audio

metapackage which includes wirepumber, pw-alsa, pw-pulse, etc. The only thing not included is pipewire-jack, so i guess ill have to add that to the command too.

I should still stop, disable, mask and delete pulseaudio beforehand to avoid conflicts, right?

>>106855574
>>106855530
I think I like Haruna more, so I'll stick with that for now.

Also, I might as well ask:
>what is the best sharex alternative on linux?
>is there a directory opus like file manager/browser? if not, what's the best one?

Thanks anons

>>106855613
It should drag all the dependencies but if you need to manually install them then install pipewire pipewire-pulse and wireplumber and pipewire-jack as well. I think pulseaudio should get uninstalled at the same time when pipewire-pulse is installed.
You can always check the list of packages to see if apt install pipewire will drag the rest of the dependencies it needs.

>>106855582
Any livecd with gparted should do it.

>>106855698
>sharex
The default screenshot/recording tools integrated into KDE and Gnome are good enough so there really isn't a huge demand for something like sharex. I guess there is Flameshot? I'm not sure if there's anything that has a built-in option to submit a screenshot to a hosting website like sharex does. You'd normally just take a screenshot and paste it from your clipboard or directly send the file.

>>106855788
Flameshot and Greenshot are good screenshot tools, but they aren't as full-featured as ShareX is.

>>106855795
What features does sharex have? I don't think I've ever needed anything other than cropping, marking things and blurring things.

>>106855818
Check its website it has a list

>use kde plasma as a backup environment just in case
>resize my partitions and create a new one, chown it to me
>open dolphin to transfer some files
>click paste
>nothing happens
>check directory size, it keeps increasing still
>try to find something from dolphin settings, maybe i have accidentally hidden a file transfer dialogue or something
Can't find nothing.
This is why this tinker tranny shit is so fucking frustrating. If I hadn't checked the directory size I could have closed down Dolphin and logged out or even rebooted. What the FUCK? Why these tools are so fucking bad, it is 2025.

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>sorry, can't write this on a Christian operating system
>sorry, can't not write this on a satanic operating system

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>>106855922
عذرا، لا يمكنك كتابة هذا على نظام تشغيل إسلامي.

>>106855844
I really don't see anything relevant. 90% of features are there in Spectacle and Flameshot. Flameshot apparently also supports uploads, so I guess there's nothing special about sharex?

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>sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal-1.20.3 requires >=media-video/pipewire
I fucking hate Linux

>>106856094
what does xdg portal even do anyway? I remember something wanted to pull it in as a dependency a while back, I turned off some use flag and got rid of that

experienced my first Krash today and it was all because i plugged in an iphone 3gs

>>106856134
it's for sandboxed shit, if you don't use flatpak you probably don't need it.
I don't use flatpak, and my only need is that firefox uses pcmanfm-qt as the filepicker. Gods know why the fuck it needs it to do that. I can't wait for Ladybird.

also
>You have disabled desktop-portal, which is not supported.
>An xdg-desktop-portal backend is needed for file pickers
>and other desktop components to work, e.g. when adding a
>non-Steam game or a new library folder.
I fucking hate Steam

why can't i get grub to work ever? i want to try linux but it never even gives me the option to load it after installing.

>>106846256
Breeze doesn't do the kind of transparency throughout the whole window, does it?

>>106856202
Sounds like you aren't installing it properly. I've always done it like this.
>Firstly install the grub and efibootmgr packages
>grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB
>grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
GRUB should just werk for your installed system now after a restart.

>>106856239
Any transparent Kvantum theme plus any transparent aurorae theme should do the trick. Or try Klassy https://github.com/paulmcauley/klassy

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>install bazzite because I heard it's the easiest linux distro for retards like me
>can't even change the wallpaper because I have to manually mount my drives every time I log in and the pre-installed wallpaper folder is part of the read-only file system
I-I got memed guys?

>>106856202
ditch grub, use something more modern

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>>106856312
I currently have Klassy+ kvantum. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but the title bar doesn't really blend in seamlessly with the window. If I move them to 90% transparent, it's close, but not quite there, plus it's barely legible against a white backdrop

>>106856355
you got meme'd on

>>106855729
Got it running! Awesome thanks for the help man.
Now just need to figure out how to configure it properly. For most songs its plays fine, but for larger projects theres a bunch of cracking and clicking sounds

>>106856249
>>106856047
Sorry, remnant from the previous thread.
As far as I can tell, immutable means there's some kind of stability thing going on.
I literally do not care that much about a lot of things in PC stuff. I do most my work online, I barely use programs beyond games and dark table, sometimes blender. I don't need bleeding edge stuff. The most complex thing I'm going to do is use the steam-in-built proton to run Windows games.

>>106856171
>Gods know why the fuck it needs it to do that. I can't wait for Ladybird.
Ladybird won't fix that. The issue is that Firefox uses GTK3 and GNOME only decided to add a file picker to GTK4. It's nothing to do with Firefox at all other than the fact that they made the foolish decision to use that toolkit. Ideally someone would bring back the Firefox Qt port but barely anyone at Mozilla works on Firefox for Linux except for some Red Hat developers and they spend most of their time chasing Wayland issues.

>>106856561
*A file picker with thumbnails I mean
(The GNOME developers could have worked on a GTK3 version too but they don't care about GTK3 anymore, nor do they care about the various ways Mozilla abuses their toolkit in ways it's not intended to be used)

>>106856134
they're basically hacks for a more secure version of certain insecure features like screencapture and webcam
it also can handle your filepicker

>>106856542
Immutable means that not much can be changed but its a nightmare to deal with when you're trying to add or change things to the base system
And they expect you to use a secondary package manager for installing stuff instead of your native package manager

>>106856620
I'm starting to believe I'll just go with vanilla fedora over bazzite.

>>106856640
So far there's been like five anon in these threads who have tried bazzite only to regret it and switch to something else.

>>106856620
nixos wins ago
stay losers, lintroons.

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>>106856542
>I do most my work online, I barely use programs beyond games and dark table, sometimes blender. I don't need bleeding edge stuff. The most complex thing I'm going to do is use the steam-in-built proton to run Windows games.
If that's the case then there's no difference between immutable or not. In which case going with an immutable system makes more sense since they're more stable and need less maintenance.

>>106856684
And there's also been plenty who swear by it and claim it's better than what they've used before. If it was actually unusable it wouldn't be one of the most popular distros on Steam. Gamers are the least patient and most entitled user group.

>>106856912
>7th
>most popular

>>106857111
It doesn't matter if the end result is still a mess. Easy to produce and discard dumb terminals able to do 1 and only 1 thing are the best objectively because literally everyone's a retarded bald monkey. Neither hobbyists nor renowned company employees can do that.

>>106856355
Bazzite is shitty Windows repack that's memed by retards as drop-in replacement to Windows. If your IQ starts with zero and decimal point maybe it is since you won't need much from your PC. Otherwise go with Fedora or Linux Mint. Second one is kinda easier, first one is better. Just Google how to do first setup. Specifically RPMFusion and flathub what's gonna interest you.

I've been on fedora for a few months and it really doesn't feel any different than debian stable, if not for the fact that security updates last 1 year instead of 3
on both distros I have to use flatpak for 90% of the software I use
I'm thinking of either going back to debian or trying out arch since I now know more or less what software I need

Is systemd-timesyncd better or worse than chrony?

I'm gonna make the jump to linux on my main computer that I use for work/personal hobbies. I know PS and Clip Studio Paint dont work on Linux, as well as most drawing software except for GIMP. Is it useable now or is there a way to run it in a virtual environment? I also use VS for coding is there an alternative to help me integrate into linux better? Also how is gaming on Linux?

>>106857412
vscode has a linux version
You can use winapps for ps and clipstudio but they're not easy to set up and your mileage may vary
like 90% of games work fine but it really depends on the game

>>106857412
>how is gaming on Linux?
in my experience it's fine on steam if you use proton compatibility but the nvidia control panel in linux mint is so basic compared to the one in windows. you can't even use DLDSR if you game in 1080p

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>can no longer ignore strange framedrops during browser playback
>all the HW magic is enabled, so suspect it's wayland forced vsync or something
>some fuckery with main monitor getting picked up as 59.951Hz
>can't just feed it a safe modeline like with win CRU and apparently even xrandr
>kernel-level shit actually
kusoland

>>106857412
>Clip Studio Paint dont work on Linux, as well as most drawing software except for GIMP
I know some CSP users scoff at Krita, but for drawing it's certainly no worse than GIMP

>>106854542
OP is a faggot btw

>>106857412
>Also how is gaming on Linux?
Good enough to replace Windows completely

>>106857350
depends, it's worse in functionality but better in being less bloat.

thunar or pcmanfm-qt?

mint or debian kde for my moms pc? i cant decide

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>desperately want to switch fully to linux but none of my important software works correctly
>still have to dual boot and end up spending all day on windows anyway

>>106857725
Kubuntu
There are literally grandmas on the Kubuntu council

>>106857412
i would be a lot more willing to believe something like clip studio paint would work but adobe products are enterprise slopware of the lowest caliber and have tons of issues
looking it up it has some issues, though it seems like it has an android app and there's ways to run android apps properly on linux with GPU accel in a container through waydroid which might also be an alternative
i think? both AMD and NVIDIA seem to be working on things (MxGPU/vGPU) that let GPUs be shared properly with VMs, which hardware is actually capable of, but both seem to be very early stages, and otherwise to get real graphical acceleration you have to do GPU passthrough which involves disabling the GPU on the host
there's krita for digital painting and from what I understand it's perfectly fine, not shit like GIMP

VSCode, MS's lightweight cross platform electron based extensible editor would probably be the most "familiar" because it uses a lot of the same design language as VS proper
probably the best option for cross platform .NET dev
some more of the jetbrains IDEs are free for community use now iirc and there's cracks out there as well
i started using qtcreator full time for C++ when i switched and i'm very happy with it

steam makes running games and managing compat braindead, you just add software games as non-steam games and you can use steam to manage proton
sometimes you have to use a third party version of proton like GE-Proton for one reason or another, usually video codec related since the valve versions can't bundle them due to copyright
there's also other options like the heroic launcher for Epic, GOG, and amazon of all things, or third party launchers like lutris and bottles

if you have an AMD gpu games and other shit will work better more stable with access to more features (like being able to run FSR4 AI upscaling on RDNA3 gpus)
NVIDIA is much better than it was but still not as good and i think installing the drivers can still be a pain

>>106857678
I've never used pacmanfm-qt before, but I've used spacemanfm so close enough. It's decent, and surprisingly good for an old file manager program. Afaik it doesn't require gvfs or other weird dependencies to function properly, and ironically it has more functionality than some modern managers like Nautilus. For example you can change your prefered terminal emulator right in the settings, while managers such as Nautilus or Nemo require you to use dconf editor just for that. Personally I only have 2 issues with it: thumbnails load one at a time, everytime you enter a directory. It's fast enough but every other file manager doesn't do this, thumbnails are always there. This also creates a ".thumbnails" directory in your home path. The other thing is it doesn't have support for "per folder" sorting preferences, so if you select "sort by latest modified (descending)" in one place, it applies globally. Regardless, it's a nice program but pacmanfm might differ a bit so ymmv.

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i'm using some dell mini pc on windows 10 which is about to lose support. and this piece of crap can't do win11. all i do is: web browser and occasionally osrs and aram on league. which distro(s) are great for lifetime Windows users up until now

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I got a microSD which I want to perma-plug in on my toaster. What FS?

>>106858014
tmpfs

>>106857678
pcmanfm-qt seems more portable than thunar when it comes to dependencies but thunar seems better

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this machine kills rustoddlers

>>106858014
f2fs is supposed to be designed for it but you might be better off just using ext4 make sure to mount it with the noatime option2

I'm looking to hop off of arch because of the aur shenanigans lately, plus one of my recent updates nearly bricked my shit for the first time in 2 years. I don't do any hobbyist projects or anything anymore on my desktop, just gaming, torrenting a bunch, and reading. Too burnt from work to do more tech related shit.

What should I jump over to? I really don't want to tinker anymore.

>>106858008
League won't ever be supported with anti cheat on Linux, so none.

>>106858332
Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian and derivatives. Choose what you like.

>>106858118
and it runs elementary os instead of the abomination known as arch

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>>106858332
Why don't you archive the whole AUR and make a local package manager? These packages are just PKGBUILD, which are essentially specialized shell instructions.

>>106856355
>can't even change the wallpaper because I have to manually mount my drives every time I log in and the pre-installed wallpaper folder is part of the read-only file system
What the fuck are you even talking about? You right click on an image and set it as a wallpaper. It doesn't have to be in the system wallpapers. You don't change the system default wallpapers on any distro. That's what your Pictures folder is for.

>>106858332
Bazzite of course.

>>106858504
Something like that would be a huge timesink to maintain and you would need to spend a lot of time on checking for possible malware every time you update the pkgbuild

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>>106854542
My previous Linux's record was 2 days before I uninstall it and go back to Windows and this time I'm going to try my best to NOT fuck it up again.
>Flashed OS ISO to my flash drives and it somehow got corrupted so 2 of my flash drives are dead atm and I have absolutely no idea why
>ESL and my native language on PopOS is absolutely hideous and really difficult to read and it took me likes the 2 days to actually make it "bearable"to read
>I use AMD GPU and I'm still surprised to see that AMD Adrenalin isn't on Linux... like, what do I do now wtf? lmao.
>Tried to play Minecraft Bedrock with my niece and nephew and it cucked me that Game Pass isn't available on Linux (I mean, obviously but I wish there is a workaround) so I have to play Minecraft Bedrock through some sort of an open source launcher that launch the game through the phone edition which run like shit

Honestly I'm tired, and right now I'm tryna learn how to customize the DE theme. I did try KDE but it pissed me off, so I reinstalled the entire OS and try again with GNOME and honestly, whoever think that it was a good idea to rename terminal to konsole should get fucking shot on the back of their head.
Is GNOME tweaks the only thing I have to customize my DE? is there a way to remove the task bar on the top and make the main taskbar similar to Windows?

>>106858332
Debian

>>106858630
Have you tried mint?

I want a screensaver on Slackware, but every time I try it seems like a crap shoot if it works or not. Sometimes it will, but other times it will lock the screen without turning it off. The mouse will still be able to move and nothing can be interacted with. No keys on the keyboard do anything either. I can't unlock the computer so I have to restart it.
Do I need to do something in the terminal to start screensavers? I see there is an option in settings, but that hasn't helped much.

>>106858630
>Doesn't know how to click 2 buttons to flash a drive
>PopOS, a distro which didn't get an update in 3 years
>Minecraft Bedrock instead of Java
>Picked GNOME over KDE
>Doesn't know what GNOME Extensions are
I don't think you will beat your record. I'll see you back in /fwt/

>>106858676
Friendly thread dumb windows retard

Are there any recommended usb bluetooth adapters to use on linux? All i want is something with large range and can connect multiple devices

>>106858778
>Threads filled with name-calling and bickering about which distribution is shit
>Responds with insults to a post which did not make any
COMMIT SUICIDE

>>106857558
Small world, isn't it?

>be recent windows refugee
>replace broken HDMI cable
>continue working on art stuff for my game
>finally get to put in new animation system + models
>why the fuck is it stuttering this much?
>spend hours trying to profile my code
>turns out my display changed to 30 Hz
>spend another few hours trying to force Wayland to use HDMI 2.0
>give up and have to accept 1080p

Of all the weird things I use in my setup, I didn't expect that a god damn cable would be the thing linux can't handle out of the box.

>>106858814
>brings up windows
>insults anon at every opportunity he can
Gastlight harder.

>>106854542
Why I am getting filtered again and again by that batshit insanity that is nvidia optimus?
> Have a laptop (Aspire-A715G)
> Not supported on Win11 because the CPU is 7th gen, and Intel didn't give out DCH drivers to 7th gen or earlier CPUs
> However I don't want to trash the GPU
> Install linux mint
> Works perfectly on nouveau
> Install nvidia drivers for muh gaymen performance
> Box shits itself, outputs only on the internal screen
/g/, I thought nvidia was a solved issue

>>106858895
The anon brought up Windows and you can't point to a single insult. I cannot account for your mental illness when making posts.

Booted up a liveusb so I could run fsck on my boot partition:

sudo fsck /dev/sdb1
fsck from util-linux 2.39.3
fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
There are differences between boot sector and its backup.
This is mostly harmless. Differences: (offset:original/backup)
  65:01/00
1) Copy original to backup
2) Copy backup to original
3) No action
[123?q]? 

What should I do?

>>106858926
Unsupported legacy drivers
Find the right version and install it or stay with noveau
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

>>106858676
>fwt/
whats that

>>106858961
Genuflect.

>>106858676
>>Minecraft Bedrock instead of Java
no, I do play Java instead of Bedrock, but when you're playing with your nephew and niece, obviouls you have to play it on Bedrock when they're on iPad, use your fucking brain retard

>>106858676
please consider killing yourself, faggot.w

>>106859003
play real games with your family instead of that slop

lol peepee goes in bhole of another man lol.

>>106859003
>>106859014
>>106859025
Friendly thread dumb retards

>>106859061
You should start with yourself

>>106858940
He brought up windows because everyone used windows before switching to linux. You brought up windows as an insult towards him.
Your whole post is full of insults as other anons have pointed out.

>>106859025
slop slop slop
kys faggot

>>106859077
>Hallucinating insults
I thought mentally ill snowflakes like you were on Reddit and Bluesky

>>106858629
It's not a timesink at all to maintain, there is nothing to maintain if you can just let the script run and get changed packages, when it comes to malware, it's the same risk as on official AUR. You don't understand the problem at hand and that is the unavailaility of AUR, as it's down all the time.

>>106854542


So, i have networkmanager and ufw.

I installed dnscrypt and got it running. port 53, resolv.conf is nameserver 127.0.0.1

now unbound needs to be on port 53, so i tried port 5353 and 40 for dnscrypt.

So i tell dnscrypt-proxy.toml to listen on 127.0.0.1:5353

and unbound.conf to forward to that adress and be on port 53. And it stops working.

When i start unbound service standalone it works. If i start dnscrypt afterwards it crashes. When i have dnscrypt running and start unbound it wont start. Did if forget to put something in my configs?! also feel like i f'd my ufw config??

To Action From

-- ------ ----

Anywhere ALLOW 192.168.0.0/24

5353 on lo ALLOW 127.0.0.1

127.0.0.1 5353 ALLOW OUT Anywhere on lo

one comment said to put unbound on 5353 and dnscrypt on 53 but resolv.conf doesnt accept ports in its ip as a format, so what and how am i usppoed to do it? am i missing some configs in unbound.conf?

>>106858628
>You right click on an image and set it as a wallpaper
that's what I did but it automatically changed my wallpaper for a pre-installed generic one every time I turned on my pc because I'm forced to manually mount my drives for some reason. so yeah to fix this I had to move that .png to the default pics folder just as you said. It's my first time on any linux distro but it looks like it's a pain in the ass if you try to install games or apps in different drives

>>106856912
>Gamers are the least patient and most entitled user group.
>Arch, one of the most tedious distros to set up and maintain has highest percentage of users
What?

>>106858962
Thank you.
Pebkac.
Drivers weren't loaded due to secure boot stupidity. Disabled it, now worx as a charm in closed source drivers as well. And optimus works as it worked on windows. (Gpu pstates work, dgpu used only when needed.)

Thought on Kubuntu?

The only distro I've ever used is Mint but KDE Plasma iscalling to me.

>>106859450
just use Fedora KDE if you want to use KDE that badly.

>>106859375
>10% of people who are already into installing alternative operating systems have gone all the way and installed Arch
I mean, both can be true at the same time

>>106859450
Fedora handles KDE Plasma much better. I can't explain it but having used Kubuntu and Fedora KDE it always felt like Kubuntu was just slightly more shit

>>106859450
Arch with kde, do it

I was thinking of switching to linux but since I have a weird setup, I want to be doing something similar to what the Deck does to an extent. Desktop mode on X11, and a gamescope session.
I'm not entirely sure this will work, but the intention is to install my favorite non-wayland supported yet DE without having to use Plasma alongside -just- so I can watch videos or play games with HDR. Instead I would rather have this big picture mode.
I have two issues with this setup:
1. I don't know how to handle gamescope session with a video player with HDR support, I assume I could just add some mpv frontend and select files from there?
2. I have an nvidia GPU and I have not heard of nvidia working well with a gamescope session, is this broken or does it work well?
The reason I want to do this dumb thing is because I have some important issues with Wayland + Nvidia + my fancy monitor. X11 gets rid of some of these issues. But X11 does not have HDR support.

Speaking of (since I'm going to be using SDR on desktop anyways), is there anything remotely similar to this on linux?
https://github.com/ledoge/novideo_srgb
On Windows this is no longer necessary since automatic color management is a thing, but I'd like not to rely on sRGB clamping through my monitor options (crushed blacks).

>>106859489
>>106859558
Isn't Fedora way more unstable than Ubuntu? Plus can't use .deb files.

>>106859560
I don't wanna deal with Arch autism.

>>106859582
Quite the opposite in fact. Ubuntu is unstable crap. Why do you need to use deb files?

>>106859237
What are you actually trying to do? Run a dnscrypt client or a server?

And stop filtering the loopback device, there's no point, it can only ever connect to itself, that's why it's called loopback. THERE IS NO IN OR OUT.

>>106859450
It's great, I like it. The only distro where snaps and flatpaks are in one software store.

Kubuntu is at a mid point between LTS stable and bleeding edge like all the other KDE shipping distros, which can be both a good and bad thing.

Caveats: at the moment there is an apparmor bug preventing install of flatpaks. Gotta install the fix from questing-proposed. Then everything works again.

>>106859582
Fedora is generally less shit than Ubuntu interim releases, but they don't have a LTS branch or even freeze versions within releases. So it's always "unstable" in Debian terminology. Not that anyone should care.
>Plus can't use .deb files
You can but you shouldn't if you don't know what you're doing. Package files are normally for one release of one OS.

>>106859582
>Isn't Fedora way more unstable than Ubuntu?
no. when marketing teams and some people online say a distro is "stable" they mean it doesn't change software versions for multiple years, as in, it doesn't update aside from getting some security updates and some bug fixes. which is appealing to businesses because they don't have to change their own software, servers and workflows just because a new feature arrived or a feature got slightly changed. it has nothing to do with how stable (not buggy/broken) a system is, which is the only thing that matters to you as a normal desktop user. if anything Ubuntu is more likely to break between version updates than Fedora.
>deb files
most software is also distributed as rpm, or at least flatpak/appimage. if you really need to run deb files you can do so in distrobox, which is easy to set up and manage with DistroShelf or BoxBuddy.

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>>106854542
Could you guys recommend me some Minecraft clones? I know about Minetest/Luanti but it sucks, I just want a free (as in free beer AND freedom) virtual lego simulator, is that too much to ask? preferably similar to Minecraft beta 1.7.3 if possible, but I wouldn't mind something more "modern".

>>106859748
Just pirate MC.

>>106859560
>Recommending a distro that is insecure by default
Don't do that please.

>>106859770
This. The only distro anyone should ever use is secureblue.

>26.04 codename: Resolute Raccoon
I like it

>>106859761
I already do, I've been playing beta 1.7.3 and it's fun, but it has some issues when running on a modern system, so I rather play an independent game that doesn't require me to download a launcher or an ancient version of Java. Luanti with Voxelibre or Mineclonia is almost decent enough, but it feels clunky and unpolished.

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tauon is still my go-to music player

>To stay on 42, you don't have to do anything. If you stay on it for 6 months after the 43 release, it gets progressively harder to upgrade
Is this true? Does it get harder to upgrade the longer you wait? Why would that be the case?

>>106859670
IK THAT WITH THE IP IS RETARDED IM SORRY>

https://igwiki.lyci.de//wiki/Unbound
https://igwiki.lyci.de//index.php?title=DNSCrypt
say dnscrypt is best used together with unbound to act as a cache server and enfore dnssec. thats what im trying to achieve or is that not good?

Apparently the only way to get transparent Dolphin to compliment transparent everything else is to set the application style to "kvantum", but only "klassy" will allow the titlebar to blend seamlessly with the window. Plus only "kvantum" will allow for keeping a blurred terminal background. What gives?

>>106860051
More time between releases = more divergence between software.
Same reason why it's always best to reinstall when a new stable/LTS release comes out, while upgrading every half year usually goes painless and smooth.

>>106859237
>one comment said to put unbound on 5353 and dnscrypt on 53 but resolv.conf doesnt accept ports in its ip as a format, so what and how am i usppoed to do it? am i missing some configs in unbound.conf?
I said that and I said it the other way round:

You have Unbound on :53 (which works with resolv.conf. Unbound is your cache so it should be on :53) and DNSCrypt on :5353 (or any other port) and have Unbound connecting to it.

I don't understand how you haven't managed to do this yet, so post your exact config files to a Pastebin somewhere.

>>106860051
I've used Fedora like 7 years straight at this point and never noticed any difference. The worst time to upgrade ime is <6 weeks after a new release.

>>106854542
I'm on Linux mint. A while ago I set Celluloid's volume to zero, closed the window, and it remembered that. But now when I set the volume to max it does not remember it and I have to do it every time. I don't understand what's different. Any advice?

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How many Windows-fugees do you think will actually stick with Linux in a few months?

>>106859820
just pirate a modern version, it's easy as fuck

>>106860292
im gonna reformat my game drive and swap over to loonix in the coming days

>>106860068
If you want unbound to be local dnscrypt is useless. Just set up unbound and make sure /etc/resolv.conf is something like:

nameserver 127.0.0.1
options edns0 trust-ad

You don't need dnscrypt for this, remove it.

If you want dnscrypt you need to put both on a server under your control as well as the client on your local machine. Or you could use public dnscrypt servers, there's a few here: https://servers.opennic.org/

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installed omarchy on cachyos via the mroboff script
works ok except I get this error whenever I select 1/2 of things from from the omarchy menu (ie monitor, keybindings, screensaver)

>>106860292
Maybe 1k-10k. People will just stay on Windows because it's easier to disable updates than it is to pick and install a different OS and take weeks re-learning how to use your computer.
Linux won't ever gain a significant market share without the involvement of a very large company. It has no chance of competing without making an objectively superior hardware product which is Linux-exclusive and ships Linux by default. So, a good Linux distro needs to make a set of devices to cover each budget range and significantly outperform and underprice Windows devices. It's either that or government intervention.

>>106859572
This is the issue with linux: one solution is great for something but it always has something else what forces you to consider yet another solution. And the bloat stack keeps growing and growing. Install one more thing and you'll have 10 new dependencies and packages.
Very frustrating. Sort of regretting linux install. It's a great system if you only do web browsing and text file editing lmao

>>106858108
>>106857967
thanks, i'll try out thunar first then. i don't need a lot and never use sorting but i do want to have my thumbnails as streamlined as possible.

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as of a couple days ago super+F1-12 key presses via xdotool have stopped working for me on arch. has anyone else had the same issue or know why this could be?

I can hit super+F1-12 manually and it does what it should do. using xdotool to press an F key on it's own works fine too, it's just the super+F key combination that doesn't work.

I have an almost identical system on my laptop and this issue is present there as well. before updating on my laptop I screenshotted the programs to identify the potential culprits. I can only assume the issue is caused by one of the updates in picrel.

>>106860809
check what your input signal is registering. use showkey. check that against whatever your tard program is using.

first time using linux without a default KDE install and I'm getting filtered

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arch wiki states "Using the default settings will mount the NTFS partition(s) at boot. With this method, if the parent folder that it is mounted upon has the proper user or group permissions (e.g. /run/media/username/), then that user or group will be able to read and write on that partition(s). "
but i gave each of my drives its own mount point and i can read/write just fine?
am i killing my drives rn?

>>106861123
are you using a desktop manager?

>>106860292
Zero because if you're too dumb to figure out LTSC IoT you're gonna get raped by freetard bs. All the people who were going to stay tried Windows 11.

why the FUCK do i have to login to check maintainer profiles on the AUR

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How do I activate Linux?

>>106861399
don't ask questions goy, just download malware because we both know you can't read code.

>Gentoo users: Do you use Portage hooks?
I just added this to my /etc/portage/bashrc to auto-update PAM configuration updates:

# Auto-update pam.d configuration
if [[ "${EBUILD_PHASE}" == "postinst" ]]
then
        [[ "$(find /etc/pam.d -type f -name "._cfg*" | head -1)" != "" ]] && etc-update --automode -3 /etc/pam.d
fi