nice image, sick of those boring distro logos.

>>106910882
Geeko is based

I just updated my OpenSUSE bros

love my loonix anons
unfortunately im stuck with win11 while working

What's the oldest kernel version you have running in your home/on your network?

For me, from an IP camera:

# cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.0.8 (appollo@Trusty) (gcc version 5.5.0 (b220190606) ) #1 Tue Jul 26 18:06:43 CST 2022

>>106911089
my router

root@wrt01:~# uname -a
Linux wrt01 5.15.167 #0 SMP Mon Sep 23 12:34:46 2024 mips GNU/Linux

Wish it was the PS2 tho

>>106911089
5.10.0-36-amd64

>>106911089
Linux 2.6.22 on my router. It says it was compiled in 2022 though, I wonder why these old versions are kept around for so long

>>106911224
probably due to driver support of the chipset(s)

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>>106910834
Can anyone running a linux OS on a machine with USB 3 that also owns an iphone pro (max) which has a high speed USB C connection port use a compatible USB 3/USB C cable to tether the phone to the machine and tell me they get high speed internet ?

also how do I get rid of the posting delay on Brave? I am using a phone tethered to USB 2 for internet and I know this site can force this every time with a new ip but it never used to do it every time... for every post has the site changed the captcha policy or has the brave setting somehow changed?

>>106911261
If you're talking about the 15min delay it uses browser cookies

>>106911224
Linux 3.x is slower than 2.6 on these old-ass machines, and their CPUs are anemic.

>>106911224
Blob drivers. You're married to the same kernel forever unless the vendor provides updates. This is why Mediatek is so much better than everyone else.

>>106911375
seems different but I have basically set the security to five dolla street hooker level
(had to switch to firefox)

How do you fix video codecs in firefox on gentoo again? I'm using librewolf-bin, I can't remember how I did it before, this is a new installation.

>>106911569
>>106911597
I installed both and neither really did a difference, at least for timberborn

>>106911875
Damn, then it sounds like it's either something with your setup or the game itself, guess you'll just have to report the bug to the devs a hope they can fix it

What's the equivalent for essid for wired connections? I want my bar to show the name of the network.

How should I map my Synology NAS network drives on my Fedora KDE?

Right now I've just mapped them using Dolphin, but it requires me to type my password every time I want to open them.
They are also seemingly unavailable in all my applications, since their path starts with "smb://..."

>>106911960
>>>/g/sqt/
There's none, the closest is NetworkManager's connection name you could create something that shows it, if it doesn't exist already

sup
so how does linux gayming work in practice? do you have some wrapper that simply lets you install winblows games on linux and it more or less works? or do you use a vm for it?
I have win10 ltsc installed and I'm reasonably happy with it, but I'd like to give linux a fair shake since microsoft has been really user-hostile of late. but I also have a macbook and daily driving three different OSs seems like mental illness so the idea is to replace winblows with linux completely, barring what few things just won't work on it

>>106911974
>do you have some wrapper that simply lets you install winblows games on linux and it more or less works?
yes, that's the way most people gaym on linux
>or do you use a vm for it?
that's the other approach, not recommended tho

I always recommend to have 2 systems, one loonix, other windows and use them in tandem, seems I'm the only autistic doing that

>>106911974
Gaming on Linux is a lot like setting up an emulator, it involves lots of tweaking in some cases. Here's an example of how to set up Escape from Tarkov in Bottles.
>https://github.com/MadByteDE/SPT-Linux-Guide/blob/main/docs/bottles/manual_guide.md

>>106911974
Depending on what you play, you don't need to bother with it, it works on linux natively.
Depending on what you play, even with all of that you can't make it work (anti-cheat).

>>106911996
nta but isn't that fragile as fuck? linux occasionally shits itself when you update the system, I can't imagine this janky setup being particularly resilient
honestly there should just be docker/podman for bideo games

>>106912028
Not really. Bottles is a flatpak and it downloads the runners (eg, wine-proton-ge, proton-ge) separately. It's isolated from the other system.
So far it's been great. I think Tarkov is probably one of the most difficult examples.
For example Mechwarrior 5 was running perfectly for me just with vanilla wine and dxvk, there was no need to tweak anything.

>>106912028
to add: It's not a bed of roses. If you are mainly a gaymer who plays a new game every week, I'd stay on Windows. It's just not practical to use linux for that.
But if you only play couple of games here and there and don't rely on online multiplayer Linux is not that bad.

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>>106910834
day 2 of calling out distrowatch conspicuously omitting any mention of omarchy

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>google what the fuck is omarchy
>"built on top of arch...."
>close tab

>>106911943
Do I have to turn off Proton Steam before Protonplus takes effect? How would I do that?
I can select using Proton 10 (beta) via the launch menu but even that does nothing? so I doubt the 10.0-30 version that ProtonPlus offers is any different. Or should I switch to a more stable version like 9.0-4?

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>>106912101
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

>>106912132
After you Inject a new version of proton say GE or EM you restart steam for it to show up in the compatibility menu, Unless it's documented that an older version works better and a new one introduces a regression then the newer version is better in 90% of cases.

I assume this is Bobergame anon I'm speaking to? Have you tried any of the other versions of Proton in ProtonPlus? I all honesty they probably won't help but you seem very eager to play with your beaver so you might as well give it a shot

>>106912194
>bobergame anon
Beaver, yes. Timberborn. Beaver dwarf fortress, basically.
I tried the 10.0-30, 10.0-20, some others.
Also, ai don't understand what "runners" are, I just go to "games" and select the specific version for timberborn. The result is always the same. Searching and asking steam community yielded nor results so far but much earlier posts (2024-2022) say there's no issue. So maybe it is just my setup. Then again, no other game has this problem of holding down the mouse button not working.

>>106912308
You know what give me 15 min and I'll try Timberborn myself and see if i have the same problem

>>106911873
Well fixed it myself: You just have to install ffmpeg.

>>106912308
Well boberanon, I've just installed the latest releasee of Timberborn and I’ve got the same mouse problem where i can't lasso, so it seems to be a problem with Proton/the game itself :(

>23 G of data freed by eclean -d distfiles
whoops

>>106912473
i hope you did set up useflags for ffmpeg, default ones are pretty bare

>>106912308
one of the devs shilled that game for me on discord

>>106912624
>being on discord
You only have yourself to blame
>>106912496
That is both reassuring and disheartening. Guess I'll hope the steam community chimes in.

Has anyone here tried to install linux on old android phones? How did it go?

>>106912619
I actually didn't, I'll edit later if I have to. I'm using binhost now on this new install, it's awesome and I don't care too much about -march=native so whatever. It still compiles packages that don't have binaries with matching USE flags.

>>106912679
whatever suits you as you're settling in anon, you're welcome

>>106912666
It doesn't. Android isn't Linux. In most cases the best you can manage is a glorified tmux app.

>>106910834
Hello frens, does anyone have an educational resource on reverse engineering and cracking software? I would like to know how to crack games, the only RE project that I did was skipping a few block screens on some windows apps that I used in the past. I already know C.

>>106912798
What exactly is the problem that prevents it from working? There are some distros that supposedly work on ARM, so it can't be that. Is it because the distro would have to be configured for the specific hardware the device uses? Or maybe jewgle prevents you from flashing linux on it somehow?

which distro should I download if i want my user experience to be objectively worse in every way imaginable.

>>106913016
BOSS os
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Operating_System_Solutions

>>106913016
lfs

Am I supposed to create a page file for Fedora KDE? I got tired of OOM crashes so now I'm back on Win10 unfortunately

>>106913232
yes
make it as big as your ram

>>106913244
so "zram" or whatever isn't sufficient

just tried the Bazzite live ISO with KDE and I like it, but the resolution and pixel density looked rough, I'm assuming that an actual installation will properly utilize the GPU (I have a 9070 XT) and have equivalent sharpness and pixel density as my Win11 config?

>>106913259
ZRAM is compressed Swap in RAM. It works very well but you can still run into OOMs in some scenarios. What you can do is add in an extra Swap file and the kernel will use ZRAM first but spill over into the Swap file when needed.

>>106913554
Unless you plan to hibernate I would NOT make it as big as your RAM though as this could potentially cause thrashing when using a lot of Swap and paging from it heavily.

You need to try to figure out what is an acceptable amount for your workload to still feel snappy but get killed when something bad happens. You can only find that by experimenting.

>>106913569
nta, what are you recommended settings for swappiness etc? I have 16gb of ram and use these for 8gb of zram
>vm.swappiness = 133
>vm.watermark_boost_factor = 0
>vm.watermark_scale_factor = 125
>vm.page-cluster = 0
>vm.dirty_background_ratio = 20
>vm.dirty_ratio = 50
>vm.dirty_background_ratio=1
>vm.vfs_cache_pressure=500
Still have regular swap on nvmve but it's priority is -1.

does anybody else feel like they can't take people who primarily use windows seriously anymore? i try not to be elitist about tech but i really can't understand how anybody who does anything serious with computers can tolerate the malware that windows has become. why do people even bother at that point? buy a chromebook and playstation if your'e that retarded and willing to eat whatever horse shit you're fed. i don't get it

>>106913661
it all comes down to software compatibility anon, unfortunately windows/microsoft has had support ever since computers became mainstream and people will use it regardless how shit it is. Now if you're just gaming then that's another story

>>106913661
maybe because in my first few days using Fedora KDE I endured about 20 crashes where I had to pull the plug and reboot

>>106913703
there isn't any software i use that doesn't either work on linux or mac os. i know, i know, apple hard ware lol, i know. all i'm saying is at this point i'd rather put a gun in my mouth or use shitty apple hardware than run windows

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>>106913717
>kde

well there's your problem. you should have installed xfce

>>106913626
nta but swappiness = 200 is about right for zram
I think it's also important to use lz4 for zram unless you're really struggling for free memory, then use zstd

Some sources I've collected for myself regarding this:
https://github.com/pop-os/default-settings/pull/163
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/mzun99/new_zram_tuning_benchmarks/
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/vla9gd/deleted_by_user/ie1cnrh/
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=263561#c16

>>106913661
if you have a normal corporate career and a family, nobody cares about which OS, they just want convenience, only people with busy lives that mess around with linux are enthusiasts or they use it for work

what i'm saying is, they will just give you deer in the headlights look if you tell them about your moral superiority because you daily drive linux

>>106913731
Thanks, I'm still experimenting. Of course 16gb is not that much these days so that's that.

>>106913661
i dont judge if they had tried and didnt like or never heard of it before; most people want convenience, they dont want to spend time learning.

but i get you, windows is so bad nowdays that looking from outside makes you genuinely wonder how they come up with the perseverance to use it, the answer: they dont, its all they know and they dont know any better.

>>106913727
so is KDE like a fancy spruced up desktop that just eats up your RAM and isn't really necessary

Is there a way to get Ubuntu's OEM installer rolling through the terminal?

If it matters, this is actually for Zorin OS, which doesn't have an "OEM install" option, but I figured the same thing could be applied here

i like arch and gnome

why not use a swap file?

>>106913748
yes it is exactly that. kde is the linux equivalent of ricing out your car

>>106913755
why would you want a swap file taking up disk space that is intended for actual user use?. this isn't windows; we can do things that aren't backwards and retarded

>>106913717
>krashDE
in all seriousness thats hardware problem, try not buying ngreedia GPU next time

>>106913772
it was maxing out my 32gb as well as my 16gb "zram" and freezing again and again, so i guess it needs even more memory from the disk or i could just upgrade to 64gb to run this KDE shit

>>106913794
kde is bad but it isn't quite that bad. something else is going on

>>106913772
i think they are easier to work with than partitions and zram, go better with an encrypted drive

>>106913801
im running AI models with 10 vram so I think its spilling over and overwhelming the system. posted about this in the last thread too

>>106913803
how is it hard? you make a partition and set it as swap. what are you smoking that you can't figure it out

>>106913755
What do you need a swapfile for other than hibernation? Memory compression is faster and saves space/write cycles on SSDs

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thinking about installing debian...

>>106912798
And then theres stuff like canonical's plan to make a phone Linux, and KDEs plan and most recently "mobian".

>>106913661
>windows
if only. i don't take current day it tech seriously at all. don't get me wrong, i like computers, but fuck, the shit that humanity does with them is malicious, disgusting and retarded. there's just no winning.
i'll not believe a single word of net tech supremacy retards. tech is a tool, and we use it to dig ourselves some graves.

>>106913842
Yeah those work with 5 devices each

>>106913232
Describe OOM crashes. Normally oomd force quits individual programs when you start running out of RAM. Full GUI halt is most likely a driver problem.

Whats the consensus on Pop! Os? Thinking about switching + cosmic beta

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>>106913909
don't do it

>>106913909
just install xubuntu and avoid the bullshit. pop os is a meme

>>106913866
>run ComfyUI in Windows 10
>load Qwen
>RAM usage 26/32 but never crashes
>able to continue generating images while surfing net with multiple tabs

>run ComfyUI in Fedora KDE
>load Qwen
>RAM usage 26/32, generates image
>RAM usage climbs to 32/32
>entire system freezes
>after a while, oomd popup forcefully shuts down comfyUI
>or else it seems to stay frozen and I have to do a hard reset

i know it sounds like a memory leak but why would it happen on KDE and not Windows

>>106913945
because KDE is bloated dogshit for people who wish they could rice out their honda 1.5L honda civic but can't afford to so they rice their linux install instead

>>106913053
truly, the worst hell a man can experience is one of his own creation.

systemd-analyze 
Startup finished in 7.270s (kernel) + 2.927s (initrd) + 10.538s (userspace) = 20.736s 
graphical.target reached after 10.538s in userspace.

.
How can I speed this up? Am on Arch
I also have weird bug/issue where login sound I setup (KDE/Plasma latest) along the splash screen is not always heard, but only sometimes.
Why is it random?

>>106914249
there's a command to analyze the load time of each process and not just the categories but i forgor what it was

>>106913814
I use LLMs too and generally eat up all my ram in very aggressive fashion. In Windows 11 this never resulted in any drastic issues - but in Linux my cursor gets often jittery. This is why I am experimenting with different zram/vm values.
I haven't actually compiled llama.cpp for my new system yet so don't know what will happen now.

>>106912981
Proprietary boot loaders and blob drivers out the ass.

Is there any easier way of checking a distribution's hardware compatibility than installing it and seeing if it breaks? It's not difficult, but downloading a 4 gig iso, writing it to the ventoy drive, doing a full install, following the nvidia driver directions for the distro, and then swearing at the resulting failure to boot is time consuming, and it'd be nice if there was a list somewhere.

Omarcy:

[?] YES
[?} NOO

>>106914478
What sort of 'incompatibility'? Most distros ship with all the canonical drivers (ones in the kernel). This covers almost everything, save for, maybe a printer or something like that.

The PC hardware is extremely standardized. Unless you're installing Loonix on an obscure SBC, it's all taken care of, again, save for printers, which are the Achilles' heel of Loonix.

>>106914542
Graphics card compatibility. Unless you like using "nouveau" drivers, which are little better than software rendering and only viable for hosting a live cd demo environment while you google for the real thing

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>install Windows App Support on Zorin OS
>other updates or even shutting down is held by packagekitd

A+ distro

>>106914700
the real windows experience

i can't stop running sudo pacman -Syu
i've done it six times today even though there's nothing new to updoot
how do i stop

>>106914729
As an Arch user you should be addicted to running sudo pacman -Syu at all times

>>106914729
Set a timer to do it for you.

>>106913554
>ZRAM is compressed Swap in RAM
No, it's a compressed tmpfs that people love to abuse.

>>106913569
>>106913626
Just use zswap instead of fucking around with memory management options. It defaults to on in the kernel for a reason. You can even use it without a swap file/partition now (no writeback). zram as swap is obsolete.

>>106913755
No reason not to, people who insist on no swap because "muh SSD cycles" is an idiot.

>>106913772
So you can afford RAM to not need swap, but can't afford an SSD big enough that 4/8/16/32GB isn't a significant loss? Make that make sense.

Unless you have way too much RAM, you SHOULD have some swap.
https://linuxblog.io/linux-performance-almost-always-add-swap-space/

>>106913016
Hannah Montana Linux or Red Star OS.

>>106913047
>BOSS Linux was developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing with the aim of promoting the adoption of free and open-source software throughout India.
>Despite the name, the source code of BOSS GNU/Linux is not publicly available.
Amazing.

I installed arch manually then used jakoolit script to install hyprland. I use a br-abnt2 keyboard but the system is using it as a us keyboard. It shows a error message at the top that says "Invalid keyboard layout passed", when I run the script to switch the layout, it doesn't work.

>>106914903
Ih, alá...
Open your hyprland config file and set:
>kb_layout = br
>kb_model = abnt2

>>106914921
The config file doesn't have kb_layout.

>open Bottles
>create a new Bottle
>cannot be created due to missing Arial

A+ upkeep. The shit you'd think would just werk out of the box...

>>106914903
Never mind, I found the right hyprland config file, if you are using jakoolit script, just press windows+shift+e and go to user settings.
>>106914903
Thanks.

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>>106910834
I have a Suse plushie also.

>>106914831
zswap isn't a default anywhere.

low xp user
my troubles started when I tried changing the keybound password manager on omarchy to bitwarden

>bindd = SUPER, G, Signal, exec, omarchy-launch-or-focus signal "uwsm app -- signal-desktop"
>bindd = SUPER, O, Obsidian, exec, omarchy-launch-or-focus obsidian "uwsm app -- obsidian -disable-gpu --enable-wayland-ime"
>bindd = SUPER, slash, Passwords, exec, omarchyu-launch-or-focus bitwarden "uwsm app -- bitwarden"

i simply copied the formatting of signal and obsidian, but have also tried a direct exec without using the launch-or-focus script
the keybind, as well as the uwsm app cmd in terminal return COMMAND NOT FOUND
I assumed signal and obsidian had some association with uwsm somewhere on the system.
started with .desktop files, and have fuzzed and grepped around forever without finding anything
how are signal and obsidian known to uwsm but bitwarden isn't?

>>106915018
i should add the error specifies "bitwarden" as the command not found when i try to launch

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Not a question just recently discovered sc-im and am really enjoying it.
These figures are obfuscated.

https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

I just realized...is there a way to set certain default pinned apps for new users in Zorin OS or something? I want to replace Brave with Firefox and one rub I saw is that with a new user, Firefox isn't pinned by default like Brave was.

>>106915017
>zswap isn't a default anywhere.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zswap
>Officially supported kernels have zswap enabled by default. This can be verified with zgrep CONFIG_ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON /proc/config.gz.

Also:
https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/
>Rule of thumb / TL;DR:
>If your system only uses swap occasionally and keeping swap demand within ~20–30% of your physical RAM as zram is enough, ZRAM is the simpler and more effective option. But if swap use regularly pushes far beyond that, is unpredictable, or if your system has fast storage (NVMe), Zswap is the better choice. It dynamically compresses and caches hot pages in RAM, evicts cold ones to disk swap, and delivers smoother performance under heavy pressure.

>>106915069
Yeah, I was just reading this...
Well I guess I'll give it a try. Whatever gets me closer to what Windows 11 did, that did feel good on my system. Obviously I should get more physical ram in any case.

>>106915069
>>Officially supported kernels have zswap enabled by default. This can be verified with zgrep CONFIG_ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON /proc/config.gz.
That doesn't tell you if it's on.
Check:

$ cat /sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled
N

I have it off because I'm using Swap on ZRAM and ZSWAP and Swap on ZRAM can conflict (no need to compress it twice)

>>106915069
What about the other settings? Should I leave them to default or use the same as I did with zram?
eg. high swappiness and cache pressure etc.

>>106915113
It wouldn't compress twice anyway, zswap takes precedence and pages are decompressed when writing back to swap (because storing them compressed could be a problem when faulting them back in later).

>>106915386
With zswap you just use the normal settings, it's integrated with page management unlike the hackjob that is putting a swapfile in a ram disk (zram).

>>106914831
>No, it's a compressed tmpfs that people love to abuse.
no, tmpfs is a filesystem in ram, zram is a block device in ram.
he's wrong as well as zram isn't specifically for swap, you can format a zram block device as a raw swap volume, and it's a common use for it, but it's not all it can do

>>106914831
>>106915406
I know ZRAM is more than just for Swap. I use it myself for RAM disks.
I just meant in the context of using it for Swap "Why do I still get OOMs" (you get OOMs because you're storing Swap in RAM and you only have 16 GB of it to go around)

>>106915398
I see, thanks. All set up and running.

>dolphin (kde default) is probably the best file borwser I've ever used
>"hmm I guess it makes sense that linux niggas would have a rock solid file browser"
>mfw tried nautilus (gnome default) for the first time
bro what is this trash

>>106915069
just because it's activated in the kernel doesn't mean it's activated in the system.

>>106910834
hi /g/unts!
new linux user, what apps to use to "clean" an arch install(endeavour os)? 1 year old install and it kind of fells sluggish, installed and uninstalled a lot of shit over this time

>>106915816
You are special, huh.
https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/ZSWAP_DEFAULT_ON.html
>If selected, the compressed cache for swap pages will be enabled at boot, otherwise it will be disabled.
>The selection made here can be overridden by using the kernel command line 'zswap.enabled=' option.
And Arch doesn't override anything by default.

>>106915817
Have you done any maintenance ever? Cleaned the cache? the systemd journal logs? Dealt with pacnew/pacsave files at all?

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Debian stable is all I need

>>106915841
done that from the settings of the install apps (pamac, bauh), a maintenance helper stacer, welcome menu of the os itself, the command line once in a blue moon.

Thought this isn't enough, or I did something wrong so I am here to inquire about it. Maybe some of the shit I installed over time caused problems now, but I don't really know how to find a package that might bring trouble.

>>106915840
And Arch is a do it yourself distro, without manually configuring a swap you won't have zswap or any other swap.

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Oh no no no Bazzitezistas
We got too shilly

>>106916242
>hey anon you can pick aurora, the workslop atomic distro, or you can pick bazzite, they gaymer distro for gaymers
>pick gaymer distro
>it's good for gayming but not for workslop
man that's crazy

>>106916242
This sounds like it was written by someone that doesn't understand the system, which fair enough, Bazzite is targeted at those sorts of users. The last issue for example is nothing even to do with Bazzite and is because Krita runs as an X11 app still (they are working on Wayland but have dragged their feet forever here. It is finally gaining some traction though).

>>106916242
>>106916267
But what's the point of a linux gaming distro which doesn't work well for anything else? It's certainly worse than win10 no matter what you do
That being said, people who want a modern-ish desktop which works well enough for most use cases should just get fedora with kde rather than those weird ass tiny distros, the time spent tweaking and trawling the web then eventually switching to another (but this time it'll be good!) distro is way higher than setting up fedora properly

Is NTFS the least-bad file system if I use win10, linux and macos?
Linux works fine with it and macOS works... okayish with it. I like the journaling feature.

Or are there better alternatives I'm unaware of? I have a bunch of storage across several external HDDs, internal SSDs n shit but it's not in a NAS so it is a bit clunky.

>>106916326
There's WinBTRFS which works well to use BTRFS on Windows as long as you're okay with installing a driver.

If you need to be able to plug the external into anyone's computer (i.e one where you might not be able to install any drivers, etc) then NTFS is still the safest bet. Exfat (or just plain FAT32 for smaller drives) is even safer again.

>>106916379
>no journal
>even safer
No.

How can I get auto scroll on Linux? Using Mint.

>>106916426
By safer I mean in terms of compatibility. Yes, they're all dogshit filesystems.

bit rot isn't real

>>106916536
Yes, and cosmic rays don't exist, bit flips in memory controllers never happen and all hardware is perfect.

>>106916554
I'm glad you agree

>>106913523
Yes. Same as Windows until the drivers are installed. The open source drivers are surpassing proprietary in some ways, and generally it's recommended to stick with the open source drivers before going the proprietary route.

>>106912125
The only good arch-based distro is artix

>>106913232
The more i see issues about kde the more it seems like its just a giant meme pushed by one anon though ive never experienced any oom issues with kde

>>106913661
I only feel that way towards "tech experts" especially all these homeserver larpers who use windows on their desktop and cant use linux without a bloated webgui

>>106913731
Why would you want linux to start using swap when you have 200% of your ram left? The default used to be vm.swappiness=10 or =5

>>106916605
The only good distro, for me, is gentoo tho. Arch is like a superglued house of cards in comparison.

>>106915898
Anyone?

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Can anyone tell me why it's impossible to find signature files for some distros like Bazzite?
I'm new to Linux and heard it's a good idea to verify the hash and signature before using an iso.
Cachyos has them available on the same page and they even include instructions on how to verify.
Am I missing something or am I just retarded?

>>106916666
Jesus christ man don't post shit like this. I miss japan so much I want to go back but the flights cost like 1500€.

>>106916670
white piggu go home

>>106913960
The only reason why people use kde is because its currently the only working fully fledged wayland desktop. Whenever xfce is wayland ready it'll probably overtake kde again

>>106916666
Also I never verify signatures manually. I obviously configure package managers to do verification but downloading individual files like that I just never cared.
t. japan anon

>>106916666
Bazzite is a meme distro that nobody uses

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I miss my scrollbar snapback Tails... I miss her so much...

>>106916756
and also because kde is pretty good, unlike dogshit gnome and m-muh 500MB ram less xfce

>>106916794
In that case should I just go with Pop!_os, Cachyos or Nobara?

I've been upgrading my gentoo system and installing new packages and now I realized I've forgot to run dispatch-conf - FUCK

>>106916655
remove unneeded deps (packages both not explicitly installed and are not required by one that is)

pacman -Rsc $(pacman -Qtdq)

clear package cache (keep cache of installed packages)

pacman -Sc

clear package cache (don't keep anything)

pacman -Scc

list explicitly installed packages (so you can look for stuff you no longer need and remove them, remove the "q" if you want to list their description as well if you're not sure what they all are)

pacman -Qeq

disc usage analyser (can help find unexpected space hogs)

ncdu -x /

you might also like bleachbit, kind of like ccleaner in that it can "clean up" various applications, more home folder type stuff

>>106916536
i wish that were true

>>106916639
>when you have 200% of your ram left?
lol, swappiness is a bit more complicated than that. the limit was extended to 200 back in linux 5.8
values over 100 came about as we started getting methods of swapping that were faster than disc I/O itself, such as a zram-based swap
basically the idea behind values over 100 is that it lets the kernel swap anonymous pages out /in favour/ of I/O cache, like, when swapping out anon pages to zram is more beneficial than dropping I/O cache pages, as zram is faster than your disc

>>106916843
than you for the help /g/entlemen!

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>>106913945
That issue has nothing to do with KDE, it is specific to Linux in general – if you run out of memory the system hangs.
The only workaround is to not run out of memory, either by adding more of it, or limiting the programs you run, or configuring an "early OOM" daemon which kills programs when you're close to running out of memory.
But if you do run out of memory then it's game over, as you've discovered.

The retards who claim some other desktop environment would somehow fix this are just that – clueless idiots.

>>106913731
I use the following for zram:

vm.swappiness=100
vm.watermark_boost_factor=0
vm.watermark_scale_factor=125
vm.page-cluster=0

When people criticize debian stable's update frequency for its lack of security what do they mean exactly? What exactly are you risking by running firefox-esr at home for example?

>>106917033
btw if you installed ncdu 2.x it has a threaded mode that's nearly instantly, you call it with -tX, X being how many threads you want it to use.

>>106917071
if theres a big bug or whatever uncovered in some software youre going to have to manually go in and fix it yourself while someone on a cutting edge system just has to do
system-update

>>106917071
Debian Stable doesn't mean there's no bugs. Stable means it always crashes in the same way.

>>106917077
i >>106916843 use ncdu pretty often and didn't know that.
phew, tried it just then and it's way faster, like scanning my home dir with one thread takes ~1.8s, while with 24 threads is so fast it may as well be a human benchmark to see how quickly i can hit q to see the time output

>>106916445
There's no auto scroll for Linux, some apps may have it as an option like browsers but for Linux itself there isn't one.

>>106917077
>>106917121
-- i'm actually not new to the idea of multi-threading i/o, like there's a one-liner i use to list off my media by file size if i need to cull some stuff or replace them (my tv/movie downloading is automated)

find . -type f | parallel -n100 "stat -c'%s %n'" "{}" | sort -rn | less

this is over a network to a nas though, so it's quite slow to check each one at a time

>>106915069
>if swap use regularly pushes far beyond that, is unpredictable
Disagree on this. Swap isn't extra memory, it's a space for memory management. If you OOM with any kind of swap, you don't have enough memory.

>>106917147
not him, but i've only ever used autoscroll in browsers. what other parts of windows can be autoscrolled?

>>106917071
Stable in a linux context means you don't get updates

>>106917206
I feel like that applies to all software in general

>>106917079
>>106917085
>>106917206
None of you answered the question

>>106917071
maybe they mistake old packages for less secure packages. distros like debian still backport security fixes to its' packages.
i don't know enough to say how comprehensive that is in practice. in an ideal world this could actually be the best of both worlds, that is, patches for known problems, and also less chance of getting hit by a new problem (in a new package).

>>106916825
Go with Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu or Arch.

>>106916825
Go mint, ubuntu or fedora

>>106916816
xfce doesnt use 500mb ram youre confusing it with mate and im pretty sure kde still uses more ram than both due to lots of caching

>>106916902
I thought the whole point of the swappiness value was that you want to make sure your system uses up as much of your actual ram as it can before being forced to start swapping?

>>106917071
people think packages updooted to the latest release or even to upstream are more secure packages because devs patch cve (((discovered))) by corporate whitehat researchers
it's the spectre/meltdown situation, no one's actually using these cves without an already established route of passing malware code for evaluation or getting elevated permissions
which you wouldn't be getting if you have your ports closed, javascript restricted to trusted sites; and vm hosted browser btfos everyone atm afaik

>>106917079
And someone on a cutting edge system could update that package to one with more bugs or instability

>>106917147
Thanks. But why? Is there a way to shoehorn it in?

>>106917071
The only issue with firefox-esr is that you might be more easily fingerprintable than regular firefox.

I have EndeavourOS with KDE at the moment.

Looking to try out a tiling window manager. Should I look towards hyprland or i3?

>>106917541
no, that's the opposite of what it does. what you described is a swappiness of 0, which isn't a good idea performance-wise

>>106917670
Its up to you but sway is wayland for i3 and both more documented and stable than hyprland however both hyprland and sway/i3 are different styles of window managers even though they're both tiling.

>>106917678
A swappiness value of 10 is supposed to mean that the kernel will start swapping when there's only 10% of free ram left. 0 would mean no swapping or when theres 0% of free ram left to start swapping (if thats even possible)

>>106917700
setting it to 0 means it will only swap when there's no other option. if you want to swap as little as possible for some reason, you should at least set it to 1

>>106915727
I like Nautilus better, what's wrong with it?

>>106916825
Ultramarine Linux

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>>106910882
Maybe you'll like this too

>>106917715
>setting it to 0 means it will only swap when there's no other option
Yeah that makes more sense
I remember the recommended number was around 10

>>106917594
If there's a security issue then everyone has to update regardless and sometimes security upgrades themselves can cause regressions. A good example of that is this shit show with Go:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/963930

If you were on Arch you got this security fix very quickly presumably with the regressions it caused still there (I don't see them applying any extra patches)

>>106917819
really, if 0 is confusing, so should 100, since it should follow that if 0 means "never swap", then 100 should be "always swap", that is, don't use ram at all, just swap

How to mount a veracrypt encrypted windows 10 installation from linux? I've been trying cryptsetup but no matter what I do it always says "No device header detected with this passphrase".

>>106918046
Have you tried downloading the actual Veracrypt frontend and seeing if it can deal with it?

>>106918061
No. I may have to do that I guess.

>>106918061
Well I installed it and it has a GUI similar to the windows app. Let's see if it works, initial attempts seem to fail.

>>106916843
>pacman -Rsc $(pacman -Qtdq)
Is that the same as
>pacman -Qtdg | sudo pacman -Rsc
??

Posted on /sqt/, might as well post here too since it's linux:
Hyprland. Dwindle layout.
How do I make it allow for vertical split (top and bottom) when only having 2 windows open? Since all screens are wider than they are tall, it automatically splits them horizontally which is fine for most thing, except when it isn't.
I can enable smart_split to get that behaviour but then it splits vertically when I don't want to. I know it depends on mouse position, but the whole point of tiling window managers is to not use the mouse as much, I don't always keep track of where the cursor is and don't want to move it whenever I gotta open a new window.
What I want is the default dwindle behaviour without smart_split but also for it to allow me to split top and bottom if I want to (which I usually do by dragging with mouse, but if I can do via keybind somehow then that's even better).

>>106918179
No.
There is only one pacman process in the first example (the subshell is a second process that evaluates first and then it's stdout is used as the arguments).

Where as with a pipe there are two processes with both ends connected and the second process on the end of the pipe processing the stdin.

>>106918140
Yeah does not work. I don't know why. Fuck.

>>106918231
Well now it works, "mount as system partition" or whatever in mount options.

>>106918187
I stopped using Hyprland but afaik windows are automatically split vertically.
>bind = SUPER, J, togglesplit

>>106917700
>>106917855
swappiness is supposed to be a rough ratio of IO time cost for swap vs filesystem on a scale of 0-200. That's why everyone with zram/zswap is running values >100.
See kernel.org/doc/html/v6.0/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.html#swappiness

>>106918337
Thanks a lot.

Debian stable + Flatpak for newer stuff (including mesa updates) + Xanmod/Liquorix is the secret to a long life full of happiness.

>>106917855
Never said 0 was confusing just didn't know what the value of 0 meant.

>>106918342
I've been using vm.swappiness=5 since forever even with zram

about to nuke winshit for arch (on my main, already have it on some NUCs), do i need to install a GPU driver for my Ryzen APU?

>>106918895
then you're doing it wrong

>>106918578
what do you need alternative kernels for?

>>106918578
How is the xanmod and does it make any difference? Why not compile your own kernel?

When I boot up, it takes half a second for hyprpaper to load my wallpaper. Can I fix it or should I just give up and use feh instead?

>>106918944
Going fast and being up to date features

>>106918971
Compared to LTS kernel? Yes
Also I'm lazy

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>use Linux on my laptop because I think it's neat
>Spend a lot of time fucking with power settings got get the best battery life I can
>Get 5h of constant use on a good day
>Check manufacturer website
>Claims 10h of battery life
>Reinstall windows
>8h of battery without changing power settings
I might have to go back

I'm happy when the 15 year old battery lasts 30 minutes while hibernating.

>>106918932
Why? I dont want swap to be used until most of my ram gets used first.

>>106910834
hello friends, I am a newfag as my question will undoubtedly allude to, and I could use some help.
what: I want something like Event Viewer from Windows, that lets you see why something like a crash happens. any advice on how to do that?
distro: kubuntu 25.04
problem: I played doom 2016 and the game just randomly black screened on me. the whole system crashed, it wasn't a CTD, the PC restarted itself. I suspect that this graphics card, which is only like 1.5 years old at this point, is defective, but would like to assess the problem from as many angles as possible (i.e. maybe there's something else that is the problem). this issue has happened before, but it really depends on the game.

I'd really appreciate the help anon.

>>106910834
I sandbox firefox using firejail. I also want to use a VPN using wireguard. As soon as I connect to the VPN, firefox through firejail doesn't have any network access anymore and I get a "the software is not supported for /31 networks" error.

What's the easiest workaround there? Apparently, someone with a similar error has set up his own bridge device, but I don't know enough about networks and really don't want to spend the entire weekend reading iptables documentation.

>>106919284
Company I work for has a 3year standard service life for laptops which is nice because I was able to snag a $2000 enterprise laptop from 2021 that was on it's way to indefinite storage

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>>106910834
I love Suse so much.

>>106913755
Kubernetes, vms, any edr.

Gonna switch from windows 10 to linux. Just trying to figure out which distro.
I have mostly debian on my home server, but that's not gonna cut it for my desktop (Ryzen 7 / RTX4070) as a daily driver.
Use case is mostly gaming, software development and music production (REAPER and VCV Rack).
Currently considering Fedora KDE or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, though I've heard good things about more niche distros as well, like Bazzite and CachyOS.
Any recs/advice?

>>106919301
because the kernel uses ram not used by applications for i/o cache and other caches. by restricting it's use of swap, you may be throwing away performance. like, there are situations where it's more beneficial for performance to swap out some data that isn't being used in favour of more caches that are being used

>>106919252
so you don't know why you're doing it, got it

>>106919252
I was looking at xanmod kernel but I'm not sure if I have balls to install.

trying to get the built in mic on my earbuds to work but all I get is this ringing noise anyone know what could be causing it?

[EAR RAPE WARNING] https://voca.ro/1fFXGvNFmrv7

I tried the earbuds on my laptop which runs the same distro (Fedora) and they work there. I alread checked case specifications and they say front I/O has a headset jack so it sholdn't need a splitter and the jack outputs perfect audio (actually now that I think about it sometimes i'd hear like a bubbling noise for a few secs but just when I lift my earbuds to put them on)

>>106919322
Meanwhile, in academia, if you want to get rid of 50 year old equipment you have to go through 3 years of bureaucracy and it absolutely must go to a landfill.
18 year old me fucked up big time by going this route...

>>106919321
someone with a similar issue proposed this as a solution
https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/1600#issuecomment-335847527

>>106919380
Does the jack work with a different set of earbuds/headset? Could be grounding related if so, the mic contact is the first one beside the ground.

>>106919301
Because the entire point of the system is it already knows 'swap bad' and it's asking you for guidance on how it should manage not ideal situations based on your knowledge of how fast your hardware is and your workload's requirements. You're playing yourself when you try to 'outsmart' it by supplying values you know are bullshit. If you don't want to use swap just have an OOM killer service and enough memory and be at peace with the fact that you're always going to waste like 10% of it.

>>106919455
dont have any available unfortunately

>widget.swipe.pixel-size
I just found out how to decrease the swipe threshold for back/forward navigation with two fingers in firefox. I halved the default value and now it's much more comfortable to me

>>106919358
I do it because I can. There are no downsides to using a custom kernel.

https://gitgud.io/nixx/WebMConverter
is there something like this but for loonix?
doesnt need a gui but the file limit option is a must

>>106919674
ffmpeg does all you need

>>106919730
yeah but i have to figure out the settings myself instead of clicking the "make this 4mb" button

>>106919390
I have tried that now and it still doesn't work. I've set up the br0 device but can't actually enable it.

ip link set br0 up

returns 0, but the device is still down. Running firefox through

firejail --net=br0 firefox

works as usual, as long as I'm not connected to the VPN. As soon as I'm connected to the VPN, I don't get any network access.

Why does Kwrite select/highlight an additional space on the second line when triple clicking a line/sentence? When triple clicking and copying it adds an unnecessary line break/space at the end. Why does it do it and can you change it?

>>106919751
https://github.com/ekisu/mpv-webm
or
https://github.com/Aida-Enna/boram but you prob need to update the yt-dlp executables yourself

>>106919818
>need to update the yt-dlp executables yourself
oh that's fine
i just need something that shits out the right filesize cause i make a lot of soundposts
ty for the links

>>106919760
Okay so it's apparently the difference between UNIX vs DOS/Windows for some reason. Changing to Windows only selects the line while UNIX adds an additional blank space.

Why would you ever want to have an additional space at the end of a sentence? I assume it does serve some practical use.

Is there any harm in using Windows format over the UNIX one?

>>106919846
nvm I'm retarded, that didn't fix it

>>106919340
Honestly, Debian is fine for gaming. The current stable release is 13.1, which came out a month ago, so it's not like you're getting ancient packages. And there's always Debian Sid if you want the most recent packages.

Personally, for desktop use, I always end up using Arch. I don't think "niche" distros like CachyOS are that great, especially since it's advertised for beginners. CachyOS is basically Arch with a bunch of bloat preinstalled and their own repos, which aren't actually significantly faster than Arch when it comes to gaming, and sometimes the devs forget to update keys and you'll have to do more manual maintenance that you'd do on Arch. I'm sure you'll be able to install Arch in like 5 mins using the archinstall script and if you want one of the CachyOS kernels, just add their repo. Then, install paru as an AUR helper and enjoy having a rolling release distro with the largest collection of software.

Fedora KDE is fine as well. Personally not a fan of fedora, but that's a good alternative. I think immutable distros like Bazzite are cool if you mainly want to use a web browser and game, but if you want to do software development this eventually becomes limiting.

I have no experience with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

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>>106919455
ok I think I figured it out and you might be right, I live in an old place with old ass wiring I think the PC isn't grounded properly kek

>>106919340
Debian should be good on your hardware. Fedora KDE, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed should be as well. Bazzite and CachyOS as well, although I tend to avoid FOTM projects that aren't 100% backwards compatible to their origin distro.

>>106916825
you're getting trolled. there is more people using bazzite than Pop_OS

>>106919340
according to steam hardware survey neither bazzite nor cachy are niche. opensuse doesn't even appear in the top 10 distros there while bazzite and cachy do.
>inb4 steam is not representative of all linux users
yes, but it is representative of most gamers

>>106920041
I understand cachy isn't "backwards compatible" with arch, but bazzite is effectively a post-install script for fedora kinoite. they don't even like being called a distro because they're just fedora with extra fluff like proprietary drivers and codecs. you can "rebase" the distro back onto fedora kinoite whenever you want with just a single command.

>>106920086
>you're getting trolled. there is more people using bazzite than Pop_OS
I highly doubt there are less than 31000 pop os users, which is the number of active bazzite installs.

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>>106920177
proof: https://github.com/ublue-os

>>106920086
>they don't even like being called a distro
Which goes for all the Fedora Atomic based "distros" btw. Kinoite, Silverblue and the others all say they're "Linux desktop operating systems" and they're not "based on" Fedora, they /are/ Fedora. That's just part of the Fedora PR.
>effectively a post-install script for fedora kinoite
Which you also shouldn't use imho. All of these Fedora Atomic spins are cool if you want a laptop for web browsing, and Bazzite does install a bunch of gaming software for you, but anything too complex will not be fun. If you need to do some actual software development, and, God forbid, write some documentation using LaTeX, good luck with that.

trying to install clamav on opensuse. get this
i do sudo systemctl start freshclam
Job for freshclam.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status freshclam.service" and "journalctl -xeu freshclam.service" for details.
any clues?

Is there an easy way to get my ssh keys to a new pc, or is it just copying ~/.ssh to the install medium and mounting that when the installation is complete?

>>106919348
>>106919475
But its always been recommended to put the swappiness value low like the archwiki says 35 https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap#Swappiness
I could probably find similar notes on both debian and gentoo wiki but you get the point

>>106920177
It's the number of Bazzite installs which connect to rpm on a weekly basis. Not everyone is on their device weekly, some people disable this telemetry, some people don't reboot or update their PC often enough to be counted every week, some people use offline devices since this distro is also targeting HTPCs which only connect to internet once in a blue moon.
There isn't really a way to measure distro usage stats objectively because most distros just don't collect or at least publish that data. >>106920086 using the Steam stats is the closest thing to a usage stat you have, but it's only for keeping track of Steamies. So, for "muh gaymer" users Bazzite is 50% more popular than PopOS, but they're not the majority of Linux users.
It's hard to say how popular PopOS is nowadays. To me it seems like a dying distro. It has failed to deliver OS updates (Still stuck on Ubuntu 22) and there's less chatter around it now than there was a few years ago.

>>106920356
>If you need to do some actual software development
My dev machine is on Fedora Kinoite. Software dev works just fine for me. Mobile apps, web apps, websites, servers, desktop application development. All works fine on my end and it's not any different than it was on Ubuntu.
The only thing I had to fuck around with was a few configs in the Flatpak version of VSCodium. But from my testing the Appimage doesn't have the same initial issues. That said I did my setup 3 years ago so maybe the VSC Flatpak has fixed their defaults.

For me it's Fedora KDE

>>106920522
Yes just copy ~/.ssh over

>>106920454
>See "systemctl status freshclam.service" and "journalctl -xeu freshclam.service" for details.
What do they say?

>>106920554
Let me guess, bazzite has telemetry on by default and is opt-out? No wonder it gets shilled so hard here.

>>106919321
Maybe try something like the Wireguard SOCKS client and configure Firefox to use that?
https://github.com/whyvl/wireproxy

>>106916587
thx fren, does Bazzite make it dummy proof for driver selection? i can do command line stuff but i'm lazy af

>>106920714
If you have AMD hardware like you do then you do not need to worry about drivers. They are included with the OS (AMDGPU kernel module + Mesa Radeonsi/RADV).

The only thing that matters is that the kernel version and Mesa version is kept up-to-date which on a distro like Bazzite they will be.

>>106920602
× freshclam.service - Clam AntiVirus database updater
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/freshclam.service; static)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2025-10-17 19:42:22; 5min ago
Invocation: ad70644eac944882b0c0aec04bddc2dc
TriggeredBy: ● freshclam.timer
Docs: man:freshclam(1)
man:freshclam.conf(5)
https://www.clamav.net/documents/
Process: 8923 ExecStart=/usr/bin/freshclam (code=exited, status=11)
Main PID: 8923 (code=exited, status=11)
CPU: 23ms
frogposter@4chan:~> journalctl -xeu freshclam.service
Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
turn off this notice.

>>106920714
Drivers are usually baked into the kernel regardless of distro and proprietary firmware usually also gets installed aside from nvidia regardless of distro

>>106919751
Webm.py
https://github.com/Kagami/webm.py

>>106920671
not him but nice, this might replace my use of shadowsocks

>>106915113
>>106911089

How do I format these code block quotes?

>>106919751
I use a modified version of this one
https://gitlab.com/feed_and_seed/webm
For 6MB+sound I'm working on another script to automatically calculate the bitrate

>>106920542
try reading your own link
>A higher swappiness of 100 or beyond is desired (by definition) when the IO cost of swapping is equal or lower than the cost of reading from a file. This can happen when the swap is not backed by the disk, especially in the case of zram

>>106921153

It's a secret

>>106918046

cryptsetup --type tcrypt --veracrypt open [device] [name]

>>106921393
pls :3

>>106921395
That is exactly what I tried but it didn't work. VeraCrypt's own software works though.

Is there an easy way to deal with popup windows in sway/hyprland? Or do you just have to config them to floating one by one?
I'm thinking about trying a tiling WM again but I remember that being a huge pain point.

>>106921499
There's a rule you can set in sway/i3 to ensure that popups float

>>106921153
The code tags are explained here in the board sticky: >>105076684
(I'd have just told you directly, but I'm not sure how to write the code tags without them being turned into a code block.)

>>106921487
Hmm, maybe you need the --tcrypt-system flag? Take a look at the cryptsetup and cryptsetup-tcryptOpen man pages. It looks like you also want to make sure you're specifying the exact partition, and not the whole disk:
>While you can use a full device as a parameter (/dev/sdb), always prefer to specify the partition you want to map (/dev/sdb1), as only the system partition mode can be detected this way.

>want to updoot
>already fully updooted
Fug even arch testing isn't doing it any more
I NEED MORE UPDATES

>>106921734
thanks

>trying out fedora kde live usb
>adjust display configuration
>krashes and taskbar disappears
I thought it was just a meme. Is it really that bad?

>>106922666
yeah fedora is really bad
youre better off switching to arch

>>106910834
Just got a Thinkpad E14 G6, should I install CachyOS or Mint Cinnamon? I am planning to dual boot it with windows 11.

>>106922698
yes

>>106920522
you can also ssh-copy-id

tho i dont like that command
moving keys over internet like that is cringe (tho local network is not as scary i guess)

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How do I download se7en aero from the KDE store on Fedora? I tried to do it from the settings, but it's not working on a VM I haven't touched when it's definitely worked in the past.

>>106922836
did you read the description of the theme? seems like you need to tweak some stuff and then relog for it to work right

>>106922836
Try logging out and log back in.

>>106919313
if you want fresh errors directly from stdout you should launch your executables from terminal

there is journalctl (s o y stemd) and dmesg
x11 logs (i guess wayland also has logs but never seen them)
anything in /var/log

>>106922939
>>106922911
Oh right, it's been awhile, I forgot you had to log off and on.

>>106919313
Yeah journalctl. There are GUIs for that but I'm not familiar with them.
For your problem, you'll want to run

sudo journalctl -b -1 -r

. It will show the system log from your previous boot in reverse order.

>>106922709
Yes what?

>>106919274
i get 30 more minutes on my laptop battery than manufacturers default while battery is 70% of original capacity and almost entire day of work on another mobile device with a pretty fucked battery

but i run powersave governor (i dont do any other power tricks than that) and i also run CLI software and a lightweight interface that doesnt have animations or updates every second
i dont even have wallpaper on any of my devices

so unfortunately its a skill issue my mans

alright bros here i go, about to install Bazzite KDE for my desktop, i'm gonna test drive with a 250GB spare SATA SSD, and if it's successful I will just connect my Win11 1TB SSD as a secondary storage (after deleting everything on it)

>>106923012
Do you need secure boot or no? If no, then use Cachy, if yes, then use Mint.

>>106922989
You don't necessarily have to log out. It's just that you must close and re-open each program for some theming to start applying. And the panel usually reloads automatically iirc, so this could be a VM-related issue.

Why is everyone shilling cachyos now?

>>106923045
Why would I need secure boot?

>>106923088
It's arch with extra rice

>>106923012
>>106922698
Use whatever you want anon. All distros have drawbacks. It's up to you to figure out what you can live without.

>Mint
>outdated packages
>stuck on 3 hobby-tier DEs which don't support wayland, HDR, VRR, etc.

>CachyOS
>made for experienced users who like to tinker with the OS
>manual intervention is sometimes required after an update

>>106923105
Nobody needs this.

>>106923088
So n00bs can install Arch and then cry when they don't know how to maintain it.

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I cleaned my room. I'm about to reinstall Linux. I'm on fedora kde. Even I installed it a year ago, I thought I wanted everything new, updooted, but I quickly got tired of it. Every update seemed so useless, I never noticed any improvement. So I just ignored every update since like maybe march of this year. Well, I want to install debian stable. I want something other than kde this time. Is kazzmic a meme or is it usable?
Oh shit I did it again.
TLDR: cosmic de usable or a meme?

>>106917715
>setting it to 0 means it will only swap when there's no other option
No, it is not supposed to mean that. You made this up in your head.

>>106923225
It's not ready yet

>>106923129
>Arch
>It just werks
Not seeing any drawbacks with this one.
>manual intervention required
Either a skill issue or not.

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>>106923088
It's cashews

>>106918930
should already come with your kernel
>>106917596
not him but i bet there is some random github meme you can find
there is a random github meme for literally everything, its actually insane how much random shit there is out there
any random shit i needed ive managed to find pretty quick
>>106915045
wait its still somewhat alive?
i guess ill download it again then

>>106913737
ive literally got a job cause i was daily driving arch
when you develop things you should try developing on a platform that you are developing for to skip some anal steps in testing
and if you are developing on linux you are developing for supercomputers/servers/IoT, a.k.a REAL and USEFUL technology
>>106913016
alpine
using musl on glib ecosystem is AIDS

>>106923232
Is that world of warcraft reference?

>>106912941
you can try to look up youtube channels and pick one that fits you personally
mine is tsoding for example, cause he tinkers with shit that is interesting to me on a level that is interesting to me
>>106912666
look up postmarketos
look up their list of devices
>>106911969
what do you mean by mapping? mounting them in a system?
>>106911086
termux


>captcha: 0STRT

>>106923225
Debian Stable Xfce

>>106921153
[ code ]
[ / code]

Jews did 9/11!

>>106923244
>Either a skill issue or not.
The last thing most people want when sitting in front of a PC is fixing some random bullshit caused by a system update. Wasting time fixing shit that shouldn't be broken in the first place is not skill, it's a pointless hobby.

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>>106910834
I changed to linux for 3 months and had no difference from windows, what's all the fuzz about linux is hard, what? (posting this as I forgot I was using linux)

my experience by far has been, software I already use still the same, stuff that didn't work I searched for a single thing and it worked (minus CSP, i can't make that thing work for some reason).makes no difference if all you do is come back from work and doom scroll in social media. I'm using debian.

>>106910834
How do I make fastfetch show my rx 9060?? I already updated the mesa drivers and firmware but it did nothing.

>>106923317
>CSP
You mean CP? Try >>>/b/ for that.

>>106912666
A few times I got duped into installing SailfishOS on old Xperias. The experience wasn't the best, but not super terrible either of you treat it as a dumb phone+extras

My audio's all crackly when I use Fedora in a VM.

>>106923306
No. If it isn't kazzmic it's gnome with mods to have taskbar at the bottom like kde plasma. Because I don't like how everything looks all over the place, at least gnome has a set of shitty programs that will look in the same style, there's even a theme for Firefox to have similarly looking window control buttons.
I just thought cosmic was supposed to be literally gnome but without bloat, but if it isn't ready yet I can just ignore gnome bloat for a year or two.

>>106923314
That's happened to me maybe 4 times in 10 years and it was always something minor and announced at https://archlinux.org/news/, with retard-proof instructions on how to fix. It's fine to get filtered by skill issues though anon. No shame in it.

KDE 6.5 comes next week
I'm gonna updooot

>>106923317
getting used to CLI takes some time, and you probably didnt have to interact with it so far, your gay GUI apps are for now sufficient

its unfortunate that normalniggers managed to force FOSS devs into making these tho, would be nice if it stayed CLI, i dont want my devs overworked and burned out but it will happen eventually
>>106923352
well its software rendered, get yourself CPU with 6 billion cores each 69 Ghz
>>106923314
>Wasting time fixing shit that shouldn't be broken in the first place is not skill, it's a pointless hobby.
yea thats why i switched to troonix
here shit either works out of the box, there are 3 different workarounds or there is a fix somewhere on the internet
all my suffering is therefore self inflicted, and i mean that sincerely

>>106923447
You're a retard indeed.

>>106923499
which reply exactly?
ive replied to three different people

>>106923529
all of them

>>106923537
in what way am i retarded?

>>106923338
clip studio paint, takes someone of your level to autocorrect to that aint it

>>106923447
i use the terminal to install and update, and that's it mate what there is more to use it for besides doing configs, fixing stuff or whatever

>>106923317
>CSP
this guy got it running but it looks like a pain to set up, look into krita
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=42586

>>106923549
>>106923575
krita is cool, i like krita
interface is aids but past that its neat
some neat options for drawing tablet smoothing
>>106923559
is that the retarded part?

well all the good software runs in it
its amazing for automation, indispensable even
aside from a few cases its a much more convenient interface
essentially same color scheme forced in every app makes my eyes bleed less
the only option for development and text editing on mobile devices
the only useful remote access interface since the only useful remote access method is ssh
and dont even get me started on resource efficiency

I am trying to install cachyos with windows 11 home dual boot. When I check the bitlocker status, it says that the encryption method is XTS-AES 128. Is that a problem?

How is nvidia support for wayland nowadays? A year or two ago I tried Fedora and liked it, but it did not like my nvidia card. I had to stay on the nouveau driver instead of the nvidia one otherwise the desktop and web browsing would get extremely sluggish, especially while watching youtube. But I needed the nvidia driver for games. So I ended up back on Mint.

Should I just get an equivalent amd gpu?

>>106923884
nVidia is still shit on Linux

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>>106923901
works on my machine

>>106923884
njewdia is primarily a software company
could you imagine what would happen to their company if they were to cooperate with FOSS community?

zamn bros, Librefox on Bazzite loads videos 2-3x faster than my Win11 setup, how come?