how to block the nvidia firmware from installing? already tried deleting it months ago and it just keeps popping up. this split they did in arch was stupid

>>106867306
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fwupd

>>106867249
It is actually. I used Mechwarrior 5 as a test. It's UE4 game and it works flawlessly even with base Wine without any proton or tweaking.
However, gamescope with wine creates stutters and input lag - it clearly messes up the compositor or buffering. Bottle with Proton gamescope just fucks up and creates a surface with broken textures. I'm on wayland.

I wanted to use X11 originally, but because I could not get my mouse scrolling wheel to function in normal fashion (outside scrolling one line) I decided to use Wayland instead.
This is the true 2025 linux experience.

Is it possible to run Android apps on Linux? There's a great Music player for Android and I can't find anything like that for Linux, so I was thinking if it's possible to run directly?

I'm using Linux Mint

>>106867323
ideapad is not supported

>>106867360
What is the name of the software?

>>106867360
Waydroid, but it has no hardware acceleration on nVidia. So the UI will lag.

>>106867332
You can try to set the vrr in your compositor by disabling vsync (eg. enabling 'tearing') from the compositor. Hyprland and labwc has a setting for this. However labwc uses baked in wlroot afaik and on nvidia this seems to be bugged and results in screen flickering because it does not handle screen properly with games.

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>>106867323
>microsoft
>microsoft
why should anyone want microsoft to update unknown shit you retard?

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i delete the fucking nvidia driver and it just doesnt give a fuck and installs it again

>>106867554
The only package that could pull the nvidia firmware is the linux-firmware meta package

had to disable adaptive sync on linux because of the screen flickering it causes

>>106867306

pacman -Rdd linux-firmware-nvidia

Then in pacman.conf:

IgnorePkg   = linux-firmware-nvidia

This will prevent the linux-firmware from ever updating though.

pacman -S linux-firmware
warning: linux-firmware-20251011-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
warning: ignoring package linux-firmware-nvidia-20251011-1
warning: cannot resolve "linux-firmware-nvidia", a dependency of "linux-firmware"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      linux-firmware

TLDR; Yes, they are retarded, every linux-firmware user needs NVIDIA now.

A better way might be to set this in pacman.conf:

NoExtract = usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/*

This will keep pacman happy and not extract the files into your firmware but you still have to download a useless package you're never going to install.

>>106867612
I think you can also simply uninstall linux-firmware and then only install the linux-firmware-* packages you actually need, but this is a solution for when you want everything apart from NVIDIA.

>>106867585
i deleted it and installed it again as in arch linux guide but it keeps installing the nvidia driver despite no nvidia hardware. do i have to remove the linux-firmware package and then install all other drivers by hand so the damn nvidia driver stops showing up? jesus have we gone backwards?

>>106867612
So uninstall linux-firmware and manually install only the linux-firmware-* packages you need.
linux-firmware itself is empty. It's just a collection of dependencies

>>106867635
Pretty much, yes.

For me it's the Kubuntu

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>>106867269
Good evening Please help me.
I just installed Debian with XFCE on my HP Laptop but I am unable to make my touchpad smoothly scroll. It behaves like a Mouse (so it is very stuttery).
The scroll was very fast so I fixed it by using xinput commands, However they get removed everytime I disconnect from my session.
Is there something I am forgetting here?

>>106867269
Gtk Filepicker meme already got fixed last year and kde filepicker has worked for years before that

>>106867360
Waydroid but its wayland only though you can run it through a nested wayland session ontop if you know what you're doing

>>106867884
>implying the iJeet OP cares

oh i think i figured it out hopefully
because i already have all the firmwares available all i need to do is remove linux-firmware and the linux-firmware-nvidia that i dont want as i dont have any nvidia hardware and pacman -Syu will still upgrade all the other firmware already installed in the machine without pulling nvidia because the linux-firmware meta package is no longer present

I'm trying to create an smb share for a usb attached HDD in my system.
I used this guide https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/samba/ and I did exactly what it says to test if it works and it worked for creating an smb share in /home/user/share. Then I followed the same guide to create an smb share for the attached usb HDD. I added another [share] with the same attributes and I only changed the "path = " in the smb.conf file but it didn't work. Questions:
>Did I fucked up something with applying these commands in my external HDD location:
>command1
"sudo semanage fcontext --add --type "samba_share_t" "/HDDLocation(/.*)?""
>command2
sudo restorecon -R ~/share
How I can make this work? I'm frustrated. I've read a lot of guides but almost none explain what I should write in the smb.conf to make it work. I don't need any authentication. I just want to be able to access my files in my LAN. pfff plz help

>>106867905
At least iJeet OP is too busy shitting up /spg/ to shit up /fglt/ after creating the thread. /spg/ is literally a dead general.

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how would You fix this ?
>>106867830

So the kernel compiles with CLANG now? Is there any work being done to sanitize the source code to be fully compiler agnostic and follow any defined open standard like C99?
Tccboot really inspires me, I'd love an OS that can be built by such a lightweight compiler. Busybox already replaced GNU core utils for those who want a less bloated replacement, the only monolith still standing is gcc. Apparently not even the BSDs are compiler agnostic enough to be built by something else.

>>106868086
might just use GNOME because They say it natively supports this Smooth Scrolling option...

total arch troon 42%

is it a good time to try hyprland yet?

>>106868334
No, because the kernel uses compiler plugins for optimisation and security hardening. The only reason Clang can be used is because they decided to adopt the Gcc specific features that were needed.

ok for any gaymer lurkers here thinking to switch from windows to a casual distro. gaming in linux looks perfectly fine to me for both old and nu games. some anons told me to use either bottles or lutris to run my windows games but that didn't work for me.
the easiest way to fix this was to add any .exe to steam as a non-steam game and just let proton do everything. I'm playing a wow pserver right now and everything works fine with no issues at all

>>106868811
That's a shame. Is there even a single OS in existence that adheres to a specific C standard?

>>106869054
Doubt it. Eventually you're going to want to use a compiler plugin for something or other because the C standard isn't good enough.

>>106869072
>>106869054
If you're looking for a portable (in terms of source code) OS then I imagine you'd want to look for something written in assembly but even then I think there are still GNU extensions for some things.

>>106868912
>casual distro
drop this speech. it doesnt mean anything anymore as all distros are retard proof nowadays specially those targeted at gamers like cachyos. the hardest distros are debian and arch because they dont hold your hand but they are still way easier now than they were 10 years ago.

OK anons. I'm about ready. I got a brand new 4TB drive (because I'm a hoarder), gonna format it in ext4. I also got a USB flash drive. I will copy Fedora KDE onto it. Then I'll press del when I boot up the computer, change the boot order and select the new drive for fresh Linux install. I'm slightly excited. I'm totally tech illiterate but I have faith that it will pretty much work out of the box, that I'll be able to run ComfyUI, and that I'll be able to fire up Silksong right away by mounting my old Windows drive and using NTFS-3G or whatever. Maybe I'll have to use Wine/Proton but it's gonna be shockingly easy, right?

>>106869162
You'll want to reinstall all your games on ext4 or XFS, as while NTFS support has come a *long* way in the past 20 years, it's still mostly read only unless you want to risk data corruption.

>>106869072
>>106869088
If raw assembly is required it can be easily translated into object files and linked as required. Seems more like the programmers took shortcuts to get shit done quickly by using non-standard features.

>"friendly" general
>full of slurs
Why is the GNU/Linux userbase so evil and violent?
I'm going to try Guix soon

>>106869294
do you want some specific help? or do you think that retards being mean deserve to have their retarded hands held while they bitch and moan about a problem they created and what the thread to solve?

>>106869317
>do you want some specific help?
No, came here to say hi

>>106869294
nigga is this your first day on /g/?

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In the middle of jumping ship from windows to linux, what packages should I get for what will be a daily driver? I'm installing Arch, btw.

>>106869162
GOG Silksong might work. I haven't tried it. In general don't count on programs installed under Windows working under Linux unless their runtime dependencies are very simple or you have time to spend tinkering.

>>106869257
You're not going to lose any data with ntfs-3g unless there are other problems causing the filesystem to dirty itself and you keep running ntfsfix like a moron instead of chkdsk from Windows. The kernel ntfs3 driver may still have issues.

>>106869696
whats your usecase? do you code, do you game, do you just browse web?

>btrfs corrupts data again
i'm so fucking tired of this shit, first ext4 bricks my shit after a power cut, now this randomly im going back to xfs

>>106869872
Thanks for reminding me to update my backup.

>>106869649
Second

>>106869872
>ext4 bricks my shit after a power cut
how prevalent is this?
i'm a thirdie its not uncommon to get power outages when it rains

>>106869939
As a journaled filesystem that's actually incredibly rare. Running a fsck will fix it again unless you get really unlucky and some core system file ends up corrupted.

BTRFS can at least attempt to prevent that with DUP profiles even on a single disk if you're willing to sacrifice the space for multiple copies of data (metadata is already duped).

>>106869987
i read somewhere that ext4 is the fasted file format for linux, is true?

>>106869866
I browse web (mostly 4chan), I write stuff (not coding, just fiction and shit), I might get back into vidya. A paint program would be good to have as well.

>>106870003
Since you've already decided to use Arch, just use the archinstall script, and when selecting desktop enviroment, pick KDE. it wil feel familiar to you, have 90% of what you need, and have a software 'store' for what else you might want

>>106869872
this is what hardware problems looks like

>>106869939
Downright impossible. Anon has a faulty disk or memory.

>>106869696
get cachyos its arch but for normal humans beans

>>106870044
never happens on xfs, tested my drives and absolutely zero problems with them, btrfs and ext4 are just dogshit filesystems that aren't reliable for powercuts at all

how often do you have power outages?
maybe invest in a ups or move to a country with plumbing

>>106870030
Sounds good
>>106870064
I have a second ThinkPad I was gonna try out Mint on but I might do cachyos instead

>>106870089
XFS IO patterns coincidentally jive with your defective hardware for the moment. Billions of people are running ext4 and they aren't experiencing device brickage on power cuts.

>>106869996
These benchmarks are a bit dated, but still mostly accurate:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-58-filesystems

what's in your profile? give me some quality of life ideas

export PS1="\e[0;30[[\u@\h $pwd] ~ \e[m "

alias cat='bat'
alias grep='grep --color -n'
alias ping='ping -c 3'

function godoc() {
    go doc ${1} ${2} | less

}

>>106870445
XFS having reflink makes it the default winner for desktop because ext4 is never realistically gonna work up a big enough advantage to overcome skipping full file copies.

>>106870668
ext4 has no CoW, so it always skips copies. :^)

>>106870089
You just got lucky. It can happen on any filesystem, yes, even XFS, if the power cuts mid-write before all buffers and caches have been flushed and written to disk properly (this happens explicitly on fsync/sync if the application is paranoid about ensuring all data is written).

If you live in a third-world shit hole where power outages occur often then you should really follow the advice of >>106870105

>>106870787
Also I recommend adding the sync flag to your mount options in /etc/fstab.

I used to get corruption a lot on my OpenWRT system until I added that. The sync flag basically stops the buffering and caching and says that every write should trigger a sync. This gives you worse performance but is more reliable.

I still do have to fsck the drive now and again but that's because of the Chink SSD it's running off of.

>>106870627
Pretty simple really

zstyle ':completion:*' completer _expand _complete _ignored _correct _approximate
zstyle ':completion:*' format 'Completing %d'
zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}
zstyle ':completion:*' list-prompt %SAt %p: Hit TAB for more, or the character to insert%s
zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list '' 'm:{[:lower:]}={[:upper:]}'
zstyle ':completion:*' max-errors 2
zstyle :compinstall filename '/home/XXX/.zshrc'

export ZCOMPDUMP="$HOME/.cache/zsh/.zcompdump"
mkdir -p "${ZCOMPDUMP:h}"

autoload -Uz compinit
compinit -d "$ZCOMPDUMP"

HISTFILE=~/.histfile
HISTSIZE=1000
SAVEHIST=1000

setopt autocd extendedglob nomatch notify
unsetopt beep

bindkey -e
bindkey "^[[3~" delete-char
autoload -U colors && colors

PROMPT='[%n@%m %F{green}%1~%f]%# '
if [[ -f ~/.aliases ]]; then
        source ~/.aliases
fi

precmd() {
  print -Pn "\e]1;%~\a"    # Tab title (directory)
  print -Pn "\e]0;%n@%m: %~\a"  # Window title
}
source /usr/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

My aliases are pretty basic too

alias cls='clear'
alias df='df -hx tmpfs'
alias free='free -h'
alias portcheck='sudo netstat -tulpn | grep LISTEN'
alias ll='ls -halF'
alias update='sudo dnf update'
alias rere='sudo dnf needs-restarting -r'
alias lt='ls --human-readable --size -1 -S --classify'
alias sano='sudo nano'

>>106867612
the idea is to not use "linux-firmware" if you don't want to have every firmware installed, and just install the firmware packages you need

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>>106868781
Always is