who do you guys thing is responsible for all the retarded pro corpo spam outside of generals?

how does loonix handle HDR? I recently bought an oled monitor and from what my friend tells me it's a pain in the ass

rtx 4080 btw

>>106943533
Where can I get the iso for this? I kind of want to try it for the lulz

I need a program that implements a vpn on my computer and I don't wanna pay for it. Is there anything better than proton vpn?

>>106943707
do you know how VPN's work in general?

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>>106941586
>>106941636
I've looked at the properties and no differences except the lack of destination for the exe , and even when I copy it from the ones that don't ask me how to launch when I launch it, it doesn't change anything.
Btw, are there any risks to run the machine and its original nvme at pcie 3.0 speed via a command line ?
https://youtu.be/_LYU-I1LzcI?t=870
Will it damage/overheat/provoke bad sectors the chips and or the Nvme in the long run ?

>>106943730
yes and I get that using other servers to reroute and hide my traffic usually would be costly.
I'm just asking if there's a program for linux that is free and better than proton.

>>106943573
in some boards, like /int/, generals are the designated cesspit where the mentally ill are contained
/g/ is the opposite, and unfortunately the pro corpo spam is not the only one, if anything it gets overshadowed by polshit mental illness

>>106943754
i like how you've added "via command line" here, very cute

if hardware specifications allow then there should be no issue
personally i like to run things at lower speeds
less load on power supply, more stability, less heat etc.
>Will it damage/overheat/provoke bad sectors the chips and or the Nvme in the long run?
well i dont think you will put that nvme under sustained load, will you?
usually raspberries arent used for something like that
at least not to my knowledge
>>106943771
you will need to find providers yourself tho
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Internet#VPN_clients
>>106943800
somehow polshit is less damaginf to society than corpo trash
you cant eat or drink money
but you can if you have to fry and eat retarded "ironic" incel national bolshevik

Does it make sense to dual boot fedora and bazzite? I'd like my gaming to be on a separate os and I don't want my main productive system to be immutable (whereas I'd like to try that for gaming)

>>106943754
also what do you mean by "lack of the destination for the exe"?
>>106943848
why not? they wont delete each others bootloaders they arent microsoft products

>>106943573
microsoft and google shills most likely
it doesnt make sense to me why someone would do it for free

Is there a permanent fix I can do to stop me having to manually rebuild initramfs after every kernel update?
If I don't do that, I get no external GPU output during the boot process (meaning I have to undock my laptop).

to get it to work in the first place I had to add "rd.driver.pre=nvidia" to grub cmdline and make a file in /etc/dracut.conf.d with this text "add_drivers+=" nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm " "

I got the fix from Gemini so I assume it's partially wrong.

>>106943533
finally, a distro that i can enjoy

>>106944057
What's depressing is that the prime95 test is lasting long that some of the gaming sessions I have

>>106944156
*Longer than
Damn fast typing

i'm just glad there's a flavor of linux that understands me

>>106943848
split the difference with Nobara

>>106943306
So I went with thunar, but I'm still lost on the bootloader errors. Can anyone give me some extra help?

>don't update gentoo for 90 days
>spend 2 days updating everything
I'm surprised it was even salvageable though desu

>>106944007
you can probably shove a script into your package manager
they can do so much shit that i bet there is a hook somewhere where you can add or place your scripts
>>106944551
i would run homelab for shit like this if i were you
>>106944229
is it on shutdown?

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Anyone have any experience getting xcode to run on a debian system somehow? VM, docker, whatever?

I just found out there's a blender branch developing for iOS and I'm dying to fuck around with it and maybe contribute, but I'm ~3k into my desktop and I'm not buying a mac just so I can program for my Ipad. I'm not against spending some money though on a license or mac-cloud instance or something if that helps

Also have a couple old early 2010s MBPs laying around if that helps (but they're very slow).

I don't get it the RAM is ok via memtest86+ and the CPU is passing the cycle of tests via prime95 with option #2 being selected. This means both are working fine right? Then what is causing my PC to crash during gaming? I don't get it.

>>106944594
download occt and stress the whole system

>>106944587
It was on a reboot, I think by that point it had finished shutting down and was booting up.

>>106944594
sometimes when i open a window at my work th big ass monitor that is closest to it becomes epileptic and just fucking shows lines on screen instead of video output
some random ass capacitor gets cold and just fucking stops working
i have to unplug it and hold the power button for 5 seconds and then it works again

computers be like that anon
and as ive already said ultiple times if some weird shit happens its likely your power supply
tho you did replace it if i remember correctly, so it might be something else

anyway i dont remember if you ever showed us any dmesg errors
>>106944615
weird why would it try to deactivate it then
is this happening constantly?

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>>106944637
Not besides this one. I'll have to replicate it with one of the games.

>>106944648
didnt you figure its some CPU voltage bullshit?

>>106944637
Seems to only happen on reboots. Not on shutdowns, not on boots. Only on reboots specifically.
I rebooted with systemctl reboot without sudo'ing it, don't know if that could be related.

>>106944657
Yeah but the curve optimizer and PBO settings didn't work either, so I'm still in the dark

>>106944666
i have a feeling it happens on the "turning off" stage of the reboot
tho it does say continuing boot process and there is a message about checking filesystem which makes no sense in that case
maybe some weird race condition or mishap with systemd targets
i dont remember if you also gave us and dmesg logs

>>106944683
you can try turning CPU's off
are they always the same CPU's that get errors?

Let's have an argument.
What's the best general system font? Don't say the default your DE uses.

>>106944706
No , sometimes it goes from CPU 1 to CPU 11 then to CPU 5 to CPU 8. I've not noticed any patterns. I'm going to crash it again to see if any match up

>>106944698
>dmesg logs
I can run them and post it here. Any args I should parse or just the full "sudo dmesg" output?

>>106944734
The full logs from 0s right up to boot finishing would be ideal. Just give them a quick read make sure you didn't give a partition your first and last name or something.

>>106944712
any coherent sans font
or something slick and well designed like noto
>>106944716
thats the spirit of scientific discovery
>>106944734
no you should look up flags for correct level (error and warning) and how to get correct session
apparently you can use journalctl for that
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/181067/how-to-read-dmesg-from-previous-session-dmesg-0

>>106944742
>https://pastebin.com/mu3ZKTAj
Here you go.

Imagine trying to get Linux to cater to Windows normies.

>Linux Mint
>KDE
>Zorin

>>106944796
xp like interface is pretty good
thats why every new addition microsoft does to it makes it only worse and worse
every redesign is shittier than last one because formula works too well

>>106944796
>Zorin
I don't get their end goal. All the new stuff they added to help winfags use win software on linux isn't gonna help anyone in the long term. The normalfags are gonna still be stuck with windows crap, not learning to use proper linux native alternatives and are sure to at some point not be able to run their crap on wine anymore. It'll only lead to frustration to everyone involved.
>KDE
Just like microjeet they love bloat so winfags should feel right at home.
>mint
That's the only good one distro on the list. It ain't great but for normalfags that just the computer to browse the internet and write docs, it's perfect.

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>>106944773
So it did again, but only one crashed this time around and it was CPU 7.

>>106945213
Took longer to crash too.

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Linux noob here. Is gentoo good for daily use? Is it as difficult to install as people say? I already have some experience after installing arch manually.

>>106945327
Gentoo can easily be a daily driver, you just gotta remember to maintain it. It's like Arch but a little more difficult.

>>106945327
You do know the whole point of gentoo is to compile everything yourself, right? If you're not a decent enough programmer to optimise your packages for your own setup, there's no reason to use gentoo. If you were that kind of guy, you wouldn't be asking that on here.
That said, if you want the hassle with none of the benefits, it isn't that hard.

>Downloaded fedora media writer to make a bootable USB
>it always fails the media check
>I want to restore it and use Rufus but my system doesn't seem to detect the USB when I plug it in into Windows anymore
What do I do? Just get a new one?

>>106945354
Plus with how many packages in the Gentoo repos that're just binaries now to get more users, it's probably the easiest time to use Gentoo right now.

>>106945364
you might try with diskpart from windows command line i have had to do that to format a usb windows wouldnt read normally

>>106945364
Have you tried using diskpart in the Windows environment to wipe the disk with its clean command and remake it? Add the primary partition, put NTFS on it and assign a letter? Then you should be able to use it just fine in Rufus to do whatever you want with it.

>>106945346
Do you think that it it better than arch?
>>106945354
k, better stick to arch than.

>>106945400
I'm too stuck in the Arch ecosystem to want to move, but from what I've seen it seems cool if you want to truly use its features to get the most performance/customization out of source code.

>>106945408
Yeah it seems cool, but I know shit about programming.

www.distrowatch.com

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>>106945388
>>106945387
It only shows my harddrive.

>>106945456
Actually, I just switched which port I plugged the usb in. False alarm.

>>106945408
I'll probably try gentoo when I'll get a threadripper

>>106945461
If you want the commands for diskpart, just run these in an admin command prompt.
>diskpart
>list disk
>select disk (x)
>clean
>create partition primary
>format fs=ntfs quick
>assign
And then you should just be able to use the USB is diskpart perfectly fine.

>>106945472
there are a ton of things where the configure takes 45 seconds because it's all single-threaded and done by some ancient autoconf shell script and then the actual 32-threaded build is done in two seconds
You'd only get much of a benefit from a gorillion-core CPU for a few packages that are real pigs and can peg dozens of cores for a long time. gcc and firefox are bad like that, rust and chromium are the worst

>>106945408
Some things that have been useful for me with Gentoo are that its easy to carry patches, since you're building the software locally anyway by default. Also slots come in handy for anything that doesn't like the current version of whatever.

i fucking hate linux. IT broke my archive. All of my life's data is gone

i hate all of you

>>106945529
just restore it from your backups

>>106945529
>he doesn't create backups

Really considering doing an actual Gentoo install now that I can just ask GOT for help ultra optimizing it….

>>106945529
How did it break your archive? Did you ended up erasing a partition by mistake?

>>106945529
>Did something himself
>Blames his tools and others
Classic

>>106945529
Diagnosis: Issue of skill

>using i3
>have picom installed
>Can get rounded corners, fading and shadows, but not transparency
>Googling gets me answers from years ago

>>106944648
Have you tried setting your system to all default in uefi. Obviously no overclocking like expo or xmp.

>>106943581
Works fine with KDE

so i want to install arch but i need the latest version of this firmware because the previous version was bugged
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/linux-firmware-mediatek/
can i update the live environment to get that version or should i use the previous month iso?

>>106946035
At this point, I'll try anything except sell my soul. Everything passed testing. Might as well load defaults. Will post in the morning results.

>>106944712
Ubuntu

>>106946149
Reason I'm asking is because that dmesg log is full of MCEs which you wouldn't get on a healthy stable system.

hello sorry if it has been asked many times already but how do you handle shader caching from steam? do you just download x GB every morning or let your COU compile them when needed before starting? and if the latter, how long does it take?

>>106946406
Pretty sure shader downloads are only for the Steam Deck, if you don't use a steam deck you have to compile them yourself. Depends on game how long they take. Can be a second or two, can be several minutes.

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>>106943533
Is there a greentext meme arrow quote syntax highlighter for xed or any other relatively lightweight text editor? I tried Markdown syntax highlighting but it only colors the meme arrow, not the quote itself. While green is best for the memes the quotes don't have to be green I just want them to be visually distinct.

>>106946428
good to know. are shaders being cached in any way? or are they lost after a reboot? I am planning a build

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#facts

>>106946449
They are only recompiled if there's an update.

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It's a peaceful life

>"hey if you're interested in checking out linux and want new shit you should install fedora"
>oh cool new version comes out in a few days
>gets pushed back once
>now gets pushed back again
fuck you

>>106946675
Just install Fedora 42 and upgrade when Fedora 43 comes out
The only significant change in the installer will be that /boot is increased from 1GB to 2GB

>>106946456
on a steam deck it redownloads them on every reboot. such a weird management

>>106946675
There's no reason to wait, Fedora can easily be upgraded.

>>106946892
I don't think it does that, but it has been a while since I used steam deck. It certainly doesn't recompile them on my normal PC unless there's something changing with the game, but then again I never shut that down.
I did restart it earlier and there was no shader recompilation.

>>106946629
Pretty peaceful in the desert, yeah.

>>106943533
WE WUZ HACKERZ N SHIET

>>106943841
This will be used for basic internet, 1080p youtube and space cadet pinball.
The power is drawn from the ground, and the screen is the official Rpi monitor which draws its power from the Rpi500, because I'm lacking the power plug for it.
I have a JBL charge 4 that can act as a battery though, I wonder if it could be drawn as a power source to get the screen to its full potential ( max sound and max brightness from the screen), while also plugging the JBL charge 4 into the Rpi 500 to charge continuously... I don't know
>>106943866
In the shorcut made on the desktop, on looking at the file properties in the desktop entry section ,the first line is "Command Line" which is blank compared to the two other ones (launch menu and taskbar), and even when copy pastin its content from one of those two, it still asks me if I wanna run it with command line.

>>106943848
As long as you keep them on separate drives, sure. Apparently Fedora immutable distros don't like sharing the same disk with other operating systems.

>>106944712
Comic Neue

>>106944796
You're forgetting AnduinOS.

>>106946438
Some text editors allow you to edit or create a syntax highlighter of your own. You can just extend the Markdown highlighter with a custom rule that paints the whole row containing a quote arrow rather than just the arrow itself.

>>106946892
This shouldn't happen on a reboot. But it's normal for it to happen when a game gets updated.

How can one get smooth desktop video performance out of a QEMU/KVM (virt-manager) Windows 10 VM? I've tried the drivers, QXL is best probably, virtio gpu is second best, but they both lagg even if I increase their vram.

>>106947617
GPU passthrough

>>106947023
>>106947351
I do own a steam deck and surely it download gbs of shaders every time I turn it on. I'd attach an example but I'm not at home right now. It honestly puts me at ease knowing that's not normal. I thought it was a drawback of gaming on linux

I'm kinda new to Linux, giving it another go but I'm annoyed how ugly Gnome looks out of the box. Can't find a music player that looks good from the default repos and is not ancient software. What's with the huge title bars anyway?

Will KDE have a bit more unity in how different apps look without too much tinkering? I just want to to get stuff done (3D modelling). Both Windows and MacOS are great for my use case in terms of productivity but I refuse to go back.
I just need something modern, secure and that looks good out of the box. That was my idea with Gnome...

>>106948039
You won't get unified look on Linux. KDE/Qt applications will look at home on KDE. Gnome/GTK applications will look at home in Gnome.
You can use both on both, but Gnome shit is kinda miserable compared to KDE.

Anyway as for music player, I use Strawberry on KDE and it's really good. It supports global hotkeys which is very useful or me because I like to control my music player with the keyboard while doing other stuff. Looks fugly though.

holy shit Linux is loading all the thumbnails in my massive AI slop folder instantly. Windows 10 struggled severely with this, then seemed to give up and wouldnt load thumbnails at all

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>>106948230
Yea I tried Strawberry and it pissed me right off. What were they thinking?

>>106947771
So, shader cache needs to recompile/re-download in these cases:
>Game updates
>You clear the shader cache for your game(s)
>The Proton version used for your game gets updated in a way that affects shader-related components (DXVK or VKD3D within that Proton build)

If you're being forced to re-download shaders after every reboot, you're probably using Proton Experimental. Proton Experimental is updated very often and can introduce changes that invalidate previous shader cache.
You can "downgrade" to Proton Beta (currently Proton 10). Beta receives fewer updates, so it’s less likely to require shader recompilation.
Or, you can stick to stable Proton versions (currently Proton 9 and older). These are pretty much feature-frozen platforms which don't change, so you probably won't need to ever recompile shaders on them.

>>106948039
>Will KDE have a bit more unity in how different apps look without too much tinkering?
KDE does have a "Gtk Theme" section where you can try to match the consistency between Qt and Gtk software. So it should be more consistent compared to GNOME which just doesn't care about Qt.
>I just need something modern, secure and that looks good out of the box. That was my idea with Gnome...
You can customize KDE to look identical to GNOME if you want. Or you can make it look identical to macOS or Windows 11. It's very, very customizable.

>>106945376
i find it useful to get something installed quickly which i'm only going to use once or twice. like just today i was setting up a smart wall socket with custom firmware, and the tool to flash the device needed mono, which i didn't have installed nor really felt like compiling just for this, so i grabbed the binary package in seconds

>>106948466
>>106945376
really, if you want to, you could make binary packages the default and only build stuff you actually want to customise. like you can just treat it like arch with more customisation options if you prefer

/g/entlemen, I have joined the KDE Plasma gang

>>106947166
Stay mad

>>106947334
Try twisterOS, it's comfy

>>106948389
Its KDE 3, pure sovl
Noobs won't get it

how bad is an idea of using two efi system partition on a single drive for dual booting windows 10 with a linux distro? it doesn't seem like the uefi spec prohibits this. is it something that just works nowadays? (i remember there were issues back on win7 and earlier)

this isn't something long-term, but a needed setup for like a month or two. after that, linux related partitions will be nuked from this drive. the distro in need uses systemd-boot and requires 1gb wide esp (i guess it stores kernels there), but windows 10 made only 100mb wide esp for itself, which well, isn't enough. plus, i've heard that mixing bootloaders on a singe esp (with windows) can also be a bad idea.

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>>106948389
>all this UI bloat
Pic related is all you need in an audio player.

>>106948039
I use gnome with the defaul theme and
https://github.com/nukusaba/Libadwaita-KDE for qt
https://github.com/lassekongo83/adw-gtk3 for gtk3
And gapless/g4music

>>106948700
>how bad is an idea of using two efi system partition on a single drive
An ESP has a type UUID that is expected to be unique on the table and the UEFI firmware is likely just going to stop scanning after finding the first one.

Now that my system is running under BTRFS with various subvolumes, what is the best way to approach snapshots? How does anon utilize snapshots? Should I just create a subvolume for snapshots and manually take them whenever I feel the need to?

>>106948877
There's multiple UI tools for setting up snapshots on a weekly or monthly interval, for example.

>>106948877
I use snapper with a pacman hook that takes a snapshot every time a package gets installed/uninstalled/updated
I do home snapshots manually when I feel like fucking around with my system and want the ability to restore my configs

>>106948915
>I use snapper with a pacman hook that takes a snapshot every time a package gets installed/uninstalled/updated
Cool, I was thinking at first that doesn't thinks take too much extra space but it really shouldn't thanks to copy-on-write, right?

>>106949002
it functionally keeps the old version of packages that were updated until you remove the snapshot, but more efficient than that, as only changed data is kept. like say you update an icon theme which just added some new icons, the snapshot won't take up any space, as there's nothing unique in it to take up space. now if they replaced some icons, then the old versions of just those icons will take up space in the snapshot, but still not the whole old package.
taking a snapshot alone doesn't use any space, it just prevents deleted/replaced data from being removed

>>106948458
thanks. that actually makes sense and explains everything

>>106949002
I mean if you're going to take snapshots it's before updates/package installs anyway and you can limit the amount of snapshots to a reasonable number.

I remember there used to be native GUI for 7-zip FM for linux but I can't find it anywhere anymore. Why? It was good, it was like the windows version, almost exactly like it and it just worked.

>>106948877
I use Pika backup (GNOME) or Vorta (KDE) for backups of /home and Timeshift for weekly system snapshots. If I'd use a rolling system, then I'd do snapper.

>>106949208
Peazip?

>>106948715
audacious my beloved

I'm so frustrated with this linux crap. It's 2025 and I still cannot interactively edit the 'start menu' in Linux Mint. Jesus fucking christ.
No wonder why people tolerate Microsoft's abuse.

>>106949416
Mint is not a serious distro

>>106949416
>doesn't like his desktop environment
>continues using it
You did this to yourself

>>106948778
i see. can i just toggle this guid (from a live environment) between two esps without repercussions, to boot to a needed target? and if both have the same guid, do linux installers typically not update the nvram entries post the install? or relying on nvram alone isn't reliable without having a full rescan by the firmware?

>>106949416
they recently updated their menu applet for the next release https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4895. maybe this will allow you to edit whatever you need?

>>106949416
Just install a menu editor like Alacarte:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alacarte

It's for GNOME but the Freedesktop menu specification is widely adopted so it probably works for Cinnamon too (not tested it though. I use KDE which has this built-in).

>>106949416
You're using a niche desktop environment and a hobby distro. Use something that ships with KDE.

Jesus fucking christ did KDE get even more broken? I had to reinstall so I am on kubuntu 24lts and it's like smashing my balls with a hammer.
I can't even install new global themes from the store because it keeps showing dependency issues, though I see many people mentioning this online too.
Then I tried to log back in from sleep and the keyboard and mouse simply did not respond to inputs, had to restart several times to get it to work.

>>106950125
what's your experience with KDE? steamos seems to suffer from growing memory usage over time meaning I eventually have to reboot if I have to use something requiring lots of ram. I was wondering if it's a common issue of low ram systems or just a poor implementation

during arch install, it's kind of cumbersome to manually keep track of uuids in the terminal
is there some copy&paste mechanism in the terminal built in, or how does one solve this problem without sshing into the installer?

>>106950171
>keyboard did not respond to inputs
i sometimes get that on system restarts and unplug>plug usually fixes it

>>106945327
Use debian if you're a newbie, mint is fucking ass.

Why do people shit on Cachy so much?

>>106950244
they hate us cause they aint us

>>106950244
At this point it's probably because it's the hot new distro. It being basically Endeavour with a modified kernel made to run better with modern CPUs is making it popular, and naturally certain people shit on the new popular thing.

>>106948700
i don't think that will work. just get a small SSD, they don't cost anything these days. or run a VM or something.

>>106950183
I reboot my Aurora KDE laptop once a month when I apply a system update. So my uptime is generally 60+ hours if you don't count standby/sleep. The only memory issue I have is with Firefox as I never close it and I constantly pile up tabs. If I start running out of memory I just close FF and instantly regain almost all my RAM.
>wondering if it's a common issue of low ram systems
I wouldn't call 16GB a "low RAM" system.

>>106950244
Some Linux boomers want to gatekeep people out of using Linux by shitting on distros that are easy to use. I'm not saying CachyOS is the easiest distro to use, but it's very convenient if you're into tinkering. It's basically easy mode Arch, and Arch oldfags hate this.
Also, some people treat Linux distros like sports teams or countries. Humans are inherently tribal animals and it's a primal instinct to always think of things as "us vs them". Dumb animals just don't know how to control this and will say "CachyOS is shit don't use it" instead.

>>106950171
Global themes are a meme and insecure. Sddm is running code in /usr lmao. Them not installing should be a security feature to protect you from getting pwned.
In 6.5, the version that comes out next, it will be replaced by plasma login luckily

>>106950244
It's a ricer distro with a small team and without backwards compatibility.
Literally the Solus of the current year.

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>>106945529
Skill issue.

>>106950306
maybe it is by nowadays standards..

>>106946388
Yeah, I'm going to set everything back to default and see if it happens again. But what's eating at me are the individual components are fine, even the PSU which I replaced. Passed all stresstests.

>>106948381
what file manager are you using? and how large are the pics?
>>106948877
I just do automatic weekly snapshotswith Timeshift.
>>106949416
Funnily enough, it was possible back in Gnome 2 (and Mate). If you still want to use Cinnamon, try an applet called "Cinnamenu".

>>106946675
You should let new Fedora releases mellow for at least 6 weeks anyway. Unless you like filing bug reports.

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They weren't kidding when they said that you cannot theme gnome desktop. Literally cannot theme gnome desktop and programs.

>>106944589
Xcode won't run but you don't need it to compile stuff.
I was building Python C extensions for MacOS/arm64 from my Linux/amd64 desktop, all I needed was some directory from the Xcode distribution.

>>106950680
There's multiple extensions which enable theming.

>>106944712
Ubuntu. If you're feeling adventurous, you could use Fira Code (it has programming ligatures) instead of Ubuntu Mono.

>>106945213
That doesn't look good. Have you tried resetting BIOS to defaults and not changing *anything*? Most of the time, overclocking is responsible for hardware errors.

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>>106951253
>>106946388
Yeah gave a similar error after loading defaults. I don't understand how everything passed stress testing a couple graphic intensive games trip up a b450-f

>>106943533
I have two multiple gig folders that are almost exactly the same except for tweaks, how do you guys recommend that I standardize the two folders? Should I manually go through it all?
Should I merge both of them then organize it?

>>106951320
The instability might occur in processor c-states that aren't C0, C1 or C3. It could theoretically be possible to avoid the issue by disabling all the low power cstates on the CPU. I've heard some other people have similar issue and fix it by disabling some of the low power c-states, I think. Kinda sounds like busted hardware to me personally though. Or like maybe something isn't plugged in properly.
There are all kinds of meme things like PCI-E risers and such that can cause issues.

>>106951443
There's an option in my BIOS called global c-state would turning that to 0 keep the cores volted?

>>106951523
I don't know. UEFI is a mystery. There are ways to disable c-states in Linux too.

>>106951549
I may do that

>>106948877
>Now that my system is running under BTRFS with various subvolumes
Realise that it's a failed imitation of ZFS and that you should have used it instead.
>Should I just create a subvolume for snapshots
Not how it works - with ZFS, at least. A snapshot is basically an attribute of a dataset, not a file that you store somewhere. You *can* copy a snapshot into a different dataset, but that will essentially re-create the entire file structure in a different location.

Personally I just create one manually, before I do something potentially destructive, like messing around with initramfs or installing system updates.

>>106946675
Kubuntu 25.10 is already out.

>>106948389
I used Strawberry with my iPod and it was fine, there are a few bugs but overall it was a good experience.

>>106943533
i installed Mint on my 2017 Macbook Pro.
I am looking into getting the toucbar working, and I found this tutorial.
www.collegesidekick.com/study-docs/13850638
I am a Linux noob, do I type each command here one at a time into terminal or copy and paste the whole thing?

cat <<EOF | tee -a /etc/initramfs-tools/modules # drivers for keyboard+touchpad applespi apple-ib-tb intel_lpss_pci spi_pxa2xx_platform EOF

>>106951583
Why should I use ZFS? Isn't that a BSD thing, AFAIK you need to tinker quite a bit on linux to make ZFS work, I don't really like tinkering too much even though I'm running gentoo. BTRFS works out of the box.

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every discord frontend app is just a blank screen for me. works in the browser. what did I do?
it's flatpaks. I uninstalled, ran flatsweep and tried different frontends. all the same

>>106951960
does the official one work?
i had problems with the 3rd party shit aswell

>>106951987
didn't even check that one. yeah works fine...

>>106951819
Main issue with ZFS on Linux is that new kernels can break it, which is not ideal on bleeding edge distros with limited or no kernel freeze or rollback.

If you want root on ZFS, then you'll also need a ZFS compatible bootloader, like ZFSBootMenu or a patched GRUB.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS/rootfs

As for why you should, I'll let you do your own research and decide if it's worth it.

>>106952074
I'm not aware of any issues regarding BTRFS, I know some obscure raid configs have issues and are marked unstable but my setup is completely stable so I trust BTRFS to do its job. So no reason to even look into ZFS.

>>106951960
AWS issue?

>>106951549
So I put cstates to 0 and put pstates in passive. Time to see if it helped

>>106947351
>Some text editors allow you to edit or create a syntax highlighter of your own. You can just extend the Markdown highlighter with a custom rule that paints the whole row containing a quote arrow rather than just the arrow itself.
Do you have recommendations for any such text editors?

>>106946453
kek

Does anyone here use and like Gnome? I tried it, but couldn't get past how clunky and different it is. It looks like a big phone os

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>>106952330
Same deal, I'm done messing with it

>>106952513
I do, yes. It's certainly different than other UIs, but once you get used to it, you don't want anything else. The secret is that you can do pretty much everything on it with keyboard shortcuts.

>>106952590
The only other possible idea I have is that the cooler on the CPU is not making full contact somewhere and causing heat to build.

>linux mint, new install
>need 13.x cuda compiler, nvidia-cuda-toolkit package in software manager is for 12.4
>follow instructions from nvidia page and install 13.x cuda sdk etc
>everything is fine
>until now
>update manager says that package system is broken
>now it somehow managed to uninstall my nvidia drivers even
What a piece of shit distro. Yeah yeah, this is not the first time I am using linux but I don't have time for this shit. Might do the needful and go back to IoT LTSC W11.

>>106952513
I started using it a few days ago. It's fine, but I had to add a couple of extensions to it to make it usable.

>>106952709
Skill issue. Install an up to date distro for newer hardware support.

>>106952737
>skill issue
Low effort garbage post.
I was using linux before you were even born, faggot.

>>106952887
Then why the fuck would you ever install mint?

>>106952887
>I was using linux before you were even born, faggot.
damn grandpa I think it's time for you to go to the farm

Is it best practice to use two separate drives for dual booting? I've heard a lot of horror stories of Windows / UEFI just randomly fucking around with boot managers and removing options on drives

>>106952887
Yet you get filtered by babbies first layer 8 problem lmao

>>106952930
I have them separate on different drives, works fine if you know how to

>>106952930
I find it to be less hassle.

>>106952930
Separate drives has always been the easiest more reliable way to go, especially before UEFI. The only time I've ever had issues dualbooting was when windows somehow hosed its own efi loader.

>>106952930
Yes. You shouldn't use the same drive for multiple operating systems.

>>106952930
one SSD for winblows + storage for stuff like movies and music, accessible from linux
one SSD for linux + stuff you don't want to accidentally get uploaded to oneDrive, like documents, you're mom's nudes etc, inaccessible from winblows

>>106943533
Finally a distro for windows users.

I just noticed I have nothing to open gif files with, feh doesn't work with them. What are some good lightweight ones? Or does feh have some addon that fixes this? That'd be ideal.

>>106953101
Do terminal weenies really?

opening gif is bloat

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>Hmmm, today I will install Xubuntu-Safe-Downloader.exe from the official xubuntu website.

>>106952227
Fair enough. My distro doesn't support Btrfs at all, while the kABI compatibility is fairly easy to accommodate, so ZFS makes more sense in my case.

>>106953317
>My distro doesn't support Btrfs at all,
huh

>>106953262
it has safe in the filename?? what could go wrong?

>>106953357
Just RHEL things.

>>106953357
Probably Hat Red, they have their own competing Stratis FS

>>106953145
>>106953135
I need my cute anime girl gifs, anons...
How could I live without them?

>>106953499
Embrace the GUI, you can't have animations on a terminal without major hacks.

>>106953262
It's the gayest malware too, it just detects if you copied a bitcoin address and replaces it with their own

>>106952952
>le filtered
Why are you writing like a discord teen faggot Because you are one.
>sudo dpkg --configure -a
>sudo apt --fix-broken install
>sudo apt remove --purge nvidia-* cuda-* libnvidia-*
>sudo apt autoremove
>sudo apt clean
>sudo rm -rf /usr/local/cuda*
>sudo rm -rf /lib/firmware/nvidia
>sudo apt update
>sudo apt install nvidia-driver-580-open

>>106953513
Alright, but what are some good image viewers for it? There's way too many to choose from.

>>106953519
>having a chudvidia device
kinda cringe, but you do you.

>>106953540
Enjoy your 30 minutes long inference.
Oh wait, you are unemployed.

>>106952709
use pop next time. it's ubuntu based, but with the latest gpu stack + kernel and bunch of other goodies.

>>106953576
That's as much a Frankenbuntu as Mint is. Homeboy needs something arch based.

>>106953598
I had Arch but wanted to see if there is anything else what could actually work and apparently not unless the only 'work' you do is browsing the web and listening to music.

>>106953598
Usual go-to is Endeavor if you know what you're doing

>>106953598
>Homeboy needs something arch based
nobody needs fucking arch

>>106953632
Gooning to AI porn is not work

>>106953640
Debian and Arch are the only real distros

>>106953571
>inference
AI isn't real

The hardware for my new desktop is coming in today and tomorrow. I want to try out Linux on a dual boot since it seems like a good opportunity.
What is baby's first distro? Bonus points for working well with bideo gayms.

>>106952930
Yes, you should always use two separate physical drives for dual booting, especially for Windows and Linux. What I did was turn off Secure Boot, TPM, and all that slop then had the Linux drive as primary and used systemd-boot to start Windows 11. Never had an issue aside from Secure Boot being off, which is a good thing.

>>106953773
cachyos

>>106953773
Bazzite is gaymer focused and is immutable so you are less likely to fuck something up on your own.

>>106953773
Debian, then move to the endgame Arch when you're ready if you end up sticking with Linux.

>>106953773
Bazzite fits your description well.

Hello /g/entlemen, new to linux in general, running Cachy with KDE. Is there a way to bring a process to foreground through the command line or other means? There's this game called Black Desert where essentially, you can afk for certain resources by minimizing to tray, but after a couple of hours, the icon in the taskbar goes away, making it impossible to get back into the game, even though the game keeps running in the background, confirmed with steam and a system monitor. For now, I just turn it off and back on, but it would be nice to properly get back into it

>>106953645
I've been unemployed for so long that I have become delusional.

>>106953801
>>106953804
>>106953825
>>106953840
Thanks, I'll check these out.

>>106953773
>What is baby's first distro?
Probably Mint but you don't want this garbage, especially if you care about vidya.
Fedora is a good pick for all-around usage. Enabling third party repos for nvidia drivers etc might be something your grandma struggles with, but you probably won't.

Bazzite is gaming ONLY imo, at which point you might as well install Win10 instead. I wouldn't recommend it as a daily driver.

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Incredibly bizarre question, but I don't know where else to ask; does anyone know where to find a good monospace medieval gothic font? I want to use one on my terminal since I think it'll look kewl. Closest i've found to something usable is Rotunda Pommerania, and that's proportional so it just makes everything look really elongated and weird. Any advice on what to do?

>>106953967
>that font
why do you do this to yourself.

>>106953967
Pretty cool font! I think this is perfect as it is.

>>106953921
>Bazzite is gaming ONLY imo, at which point you might as well install Win10 instead. I wouldn't recommend it as a daily driver.
There's nothing wrong with using Bazzite as an everyday OS.

>>106953804
bazzite isn't immutable

>>106953981
like I said, I think it looks kewl aside from the fact that it's proportional. Also, couldn't find any Mesoamerican themed ones that didn't look retarded, or completely illegible.
>>106954003
Honestly, if i knew how to make it monospaced, i'd stick with it. It is pretty close to ideal.

>>106954016
Nothing right about it either though

>>106954036
it is with an asterisk

>>106954036
It is immutable. People just don't seem to understand what that means.

>>106954057
>stop using distros I don't like!

>>106954220
Bazzite themselves don't consider it immutable in the truest sense of the term, even if it technically meets the criteria

>>106945670
just use hyprland or sway lmao why are you still using x11 crap

>>106954220
>It is immutable
no, it's atomic
>People just don't seem to understand what that means
how ironic

>>106954038
Just browse some font websites and get the closest alternative. I'm afraid there is no monospace script fonts.
>https://www.1001fonts.com/gothic+medieval-fonts.html
etc

>>106954260
Atomic is the update process. It has nothing to do with immutability.

>>106954295
What does "immutable" mean to you?

>>106954309
>I'm afraid there is no monospace script fonts
damn
thanks anyways

>>106954369
immutable filesystem - base OS is pretty much entirely image-based, and you don't really change those, they're read-only unless you really go out of your way to change it. this also applies to almost all folders, including /var, /etc and so on
on Bazzite you will almost certainly fuck around with rpm-ostree which, well, mutates the image, even if the old one can be easily rolled back. You have both /etc and /var that is writable, you can fuck around with systemctl, containers / paks can reach host (like podman running with user namespaces tha ttouch host paths mounted by you) - doesn't work on immutable distros. You can even fuck around with rpm-ostree to apply changes without a full rebuild, and whether they're meant to be temporary is irrelevant when they make /usr writable for a given session
hence bazzite being atomic

>>106951777
Enter the commands line by line.

im trying to set up a win11 vm so i could use fusion 360
and im going insane trying to passthrough the iGPU so it wont be complete ass and i could use looking glass
but no matter what i do i still get error 43 on the GPU driver
is there something fundamentally wrong with what i am doing? am i trying something thats not supposed to work?

>>106954439
See, you're completely wrong and misguided. Which is why I'm saying people have no idea what immutability or atomicity even are.

Immutable = you cannot change the state directly, you must use a proper state management tool (rpm-ostree). This stops you from improperly tinkering with your system (directly changing the state is considered an anti-pattern in immutable data systems).
Atomic = an update cannot be applied partially, it either applies fully or the state is reverted back. This helps you recover from broken updates.

One has nothing to do with the other. Fedora doesn't want to call their distros immutable because immutable operating systems historically didn't give the end user the tools to manage system state in any way at all - rpm-ostree does this on Fedora.

And immutable does NOT mean "it cannot change or be mutated", it means "it cannot change or be mutated directly and you must use a proper mechanism to do so". Layering packages or using rpm-ostree does not mutate the state directly, it creates a new state through a controlled mechanism. So the overall system is still by definition immutable.

>>106954534
- to add to this, one of the major reasons why Fedora abandoned the "immutable" label is because people clearly have no idea what it means and they think "this OS cannot be changed at all"

>>106954534
You're talking about an idea, not reality.
>Immutable = you cannot change the state directly, you must use a proper state management tool (rpm-ostree).
cool but the host isn't really sealed on bazzite, so saying "the overall system is still by definition immutable" is silly
>And immutable does NOT mean "it cannot change or be mutated", it means "it cannot change or be mutated directly and you must use a proper mechanism to do so"
well the proper mechanism seems to not exist for /etc and /var on bazzite, what with them being writable by design, so it doesn't seem very immutable
bazzite didn't even read-only stuff like /sysroot and /boot in the past, and afaik there's still discussion whether it should be ro in the future

bazzite is an image-based distro with atomic updates and strong read-only defaults. it's explicitly not immutable in several ways.

So everything else runs fine, no crashes during videos not web browsing. Heck, some games work fine and don't crash the PC. I wonder if it's certain games themselves interacting with the hardware causing crashes and errors.

>>106954618
You don't need to make the entire system/disk immutable for it to be considered an immutable OS. This is like nitpicking and saying "because the user home directories are not immutable, the OS is not immutable". /etc and /var don't need to be immutable, just like /home and /tmp don't need to be immutable.
Yes, Bazzite is image based. Yes, it has atomic updates. But it is also immutable enough to be considered an immutable OS.

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>windows randomly disappeared as a boot option
I LOVE WINDOWS
the efi partition is still there? can i just boot with a windows stick and fix it?

>>106954437
Okay found one but it's pixel...
>https://raiton.itch.io/medieval-pixel-font
You just need to scour the internet.

>>106954749
>can i just boot with a windows stick and fix it?
well as long as it wasn't a recently updated win11 setup, which broke kb/m in recovery move and being able to input letters in disk encryption

>>106954869
nah its win10, or atleast it was the last time i booted into it
i think i deleted the windows boot manager when i formatted my game ssd to ext4
the windows stick refuses to fix it, cause there isnt anything to fix i guess

>>106954884
yeah ok shit's fucked
i dont get why windows installs the boot bullshit on a different drive
tried to downsize the partition so that i could make a new boatloader on that drive but it's corrupted for some reason, dont want to sit through 16 hours of chkdsk
gonna clone the drive and just reinstall w10

Ok anons, I'm willing to switch from windows 10 to Linux. I want a close experience for what im used to but I don't want to deal with all the autismo. Is Ubuntu good? I want to still use my programs, I also want to set up veracrypt and all the security measures.

Every time I ask I get swarmed with a lot of tech terms Linux yards assume I know for some reason.

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>>106943581
>Caring about HDR
You do realize a dim screen in a dark room has nearly the same perceived contrast as an HDR screen in a brightly lit room, don't you?

Oh well, enjoy your migraine.

>>106955316
i will force you to use autismo technology
i will force it INTO you
you WILL love it
you WILL use server utilities without frontends through terminal and you will fucking LOVE it

other than that most distributions work fine
most of them work the same way anyway
the only thing is you might want to stay away from DIY stuff if you cant handle it
so just pick whatever you vibe with out of the most popular ones

>very time I ask I get swarmed with a lot of tech terms Linux yards assume I know for some reason.
just ask what they mean, most of them are pretty trivial actually
there only a few hard to comprehend concepts like the difference between POSIX systems having one big "tree" of a root filesystem and everything being mounted into it and microsoft systems having separate drive letters instead for example

>>106955430
This single comment made me cringe a bit to be honest.

You REALLY need to learn how to talk with new users. One of the main reasons people don't want to use Linux is because Linux users.

I just want to know if I can use Adobe, steam, YouTube and the normal browsers and gaming.

>>106955316
>I want a close experience for what im used to
Then use Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu. KDE Plasma is closer to a Windows UI than GNOME is. There's also some other Winbaby distros, like Zorin, Anduin and Mint. They're all pretty much the same thing just with a different default UI and pre-loaded apps. Or you can try the more "modern" (atomic) distros like Aurora or Bluefin.
>veracrypt
Every distro supports LUKS, which I believe is the equivalent to this?
>I want to still use my programs
You'll have to check if they're supported. Not every program is cross platform. Some stuff is technically cross-platform, but has a different name on Linux because it uses a different GUI. So check the "AlternativeTo" website.
Some Windows-only software can run in Wine/Proton compatibility tools, but you should switch to native alternatives if possible. If not, you can install Bottles or Lutris (they're the GUI launchers/managers for Wine/Proton) and then see if your stuff works under Wine.

>>106955449
>Adobe
That's a definite "no" unless you either use their web browser versions of software (only some have it and not all features are there) or if you set up a Windows virtual machine (Which would mean you'd run the Windows OS inside your Linux OS just to run Adobe software). If neither of these 2 are an option, and if you cannot switch to an alternative creative suite, then you'll just have to stick to Windows either entirely or at least just for Adobe products.

>>106955449
>I just want to know if I can use Adobe, steam, YouTube and the normal browsers and gaming.
No, yes, yes, yes, maybe

>>106955449
im just joshing around, relax your buttcheeks sweetheart

>Adobe
uh...depends
really depends
you need to look at these wine reports about how well different adobe products work with it
>steam
yea you can just do
sudo your_package_manager_command steam
its already packaged almost everywhere
>youtube
>browsers
why would you not be able to use youtube and browsers lmao
>gaymen
80% of steam works with proton
you can launch pirated games with wine frontends like bottles
anticheat shit (with valve games as exception) doesnt work

but remember you WILL get negative street cred from me for gaymin

>>106955316
They are all shit but in different ways.
Do you have a good reason to switch over?
If you are doing any professional graphics work or video editing or audio - stay on Windows.
I mean do you only play vidya and browse internet - install IoT LTSC W11 instead and setup a firewall and few gpedit policies to block most of the telemetry. Gaming on Linux is not what the shills want you to believe what it is...
If you are doing software development or research, Linux is not a bad choice.

>>106955559
good reasons to switch over for normaloids are only ideological ones
they cannot and do not know how to use computer as a computer so they cant leverage FOSS ecosystem

>>106955616
sounds like you have never played an instrument and/or used vst plugins in your life for example.
so much for your foss ecosystem.

>>106952930
Separate drives and also unplugging/removing the existing OS drive before installing the 2nd OS. EFI boot entries being removed can happen seemingly at random, I guess it depends on your firmware and bootloader. Using a portable bootloader like ZFSBootMenu means I don't have to worry about any of that, I just set my boot priority to USB and it just does its thing.

>>106955651
done both, ironically in lmms
i have a shitty but functional 5 octave midi keyboard that i wish i could give more attention
unfortunately life and geopolitics are fucking me right in my asshole

>>106955449
>wahh wahh people are being mean to me
Stay on windows then, you emotionally fragile faggot.

>>106955699
im not being mean to him, im being flirtatious
and dont call him a faggot anon, im sure hes very straight

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>>106953967
alright, I fucked around with the font file in Font Forge and ended-up making everything squished enough to where it looks much much better in the terminal. Still slightly awkward looking, but a vast improvement nonetheless.
>>106954804
Thanks, but I think i've managed to fix it myself

alright my turn asking questions
do i understand it correctly that you absolutely have to first use some other shit like cryptsetup in order to mount encrypted disks? mount cant handle something like that?

also how standard is cryptsetup as a utility? should i expect to find it on some random ass IoT android device? or only popular linux distributions?

>>106955971
if i ever have my own firm i will force people to use this font as punishment for being late

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>>106955995
I'd use it as a reward for being awesome

>>106953967
This one is more subtle and readable imo
https://github.com/romeovs/creep

Is anyone here running Linux on a tablet?

>>106953537
Please?

>>106956239
you wanna know how?

>>106956254
nta but use 'imv'.

Am I retarded or is filezilla server not on apt?

>>106956322
which distro?
they tend to have their own repos and not just ubuntu/debian repos sometimes

>>106956338
Mint.

>>106956344
you cant find it with apt search?

>>106956355
Only the client. Had I not found anything I'd understand but why would it have just the client and not the server. Could it have another name? Filezilla-server returns nothing.

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>>106955521
>>106955520
>>106955555
And you wonder why no one wants to use Linux?
Some of the most popular and useful programs don't work on Linux despite having 30 different versions, or you have to do a million command lines.

You guys are just a meme. I'm just debloating windows at this point.

>>106956368
they have deb on their site
you probably can just install it with dpkg
>>106956381
if i had my way it wouldve been ONLY command like and NOTHING else

>>106956381
Freedom isn't free.

>>106956405
Weird. Why they only package half of it?

>>106956381
>debloating windows
post wireshark logs when youre done

>>106956298
I'm just trying to get my cursor to align with my pen.

>>106956414
beats me
i assume noone fucking uses it lmao
every server that ive managed used shit like proftpd
i surely wouldnt use it, it gives VLC

>>106956429
oh THAT tablet
what exactly do you mean by "aligning"?
arent tablets absolute positioning devices?
you are using mouse mode or something?

>>106956443
like I have to touch above the cursor to actually close or open windows. It worked fine on Ubuntu but when I swapped to Mint it started giving me this issue.

>>106956463
oh you mean sensor screen
ok nvm

maybe something in this thread?
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=253005
staring at the xinput props in general can help, there might be some random ass prop that is responsible for offset of your stylus or some shit like that

>>106956381
>the FOSS operating system doesn't fit into my ecosystem of proprietary software REEE
least goy Windows user

>>106956513
thanks, I'll take a look at that thread before bed tonight. I was thinking about reinstalling Ubuntu and checking out how it works because I actually just got this tablet back from an RMA a few hours ago.

I like the idea of MX linux, but don't trust antiX and their "anti-facist" bullshit.

>>106956561
Any distro that needs to bot distrowatch is immediately sus

>>106956547
look up some calibration software
maybe there is something simple to use

>>106956381
At least I'm not a frogposter, which is worse than any insult you might throw around.

>>106956381
Nobody gives a fuck about what you use except you.

>>106956381
yes saar pls do the needful and download my DEBLOAT Winjows 11 iso now please install please enter your bank account to confirm it working

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>>106943533
Question. Why doesn't Linux allow you to download executable software installer packages like Windows?

It seems Linux insists you connect to the internet to setup your OS. Instead of simply downloading software packages and keeping them forever. App images suck, sorry.

If you cannot connect to the internet then it seems you are out of luck. Linux requires an internet connection to setup your machine.

>>106957073
>Linux requires an internet connection to setup your machine.
And so does microjeet.
>oh, but you can install it and updoooot later
And so can linux.
Also what do you mean you can't download a executable installer? It won't be an .exe, obviously, but you can download packages and build then locally, they'd be .deb or .tar files or whatever, but it's the same thing.

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>>106946629
I perfer

>>106957090
But every piece of Linux software requires 50 dependencies and updates all the time. You can't dump a bunch of software installers on a CD and reuse them whenever setting up a new OS quickly.

>>106957219
Who cares about updoots if you're offline anyway? As long as it does what it needs to do at the moment of install everything's fine.
And microjeet also updoots all the time. Often for the worse. Occasionally breaking itself. Without asking for you consent.
>dump a bunch of software installers on a CD and reuse them whenever setting up a new OS quickly
You can make an image of the entire system and install that on the new machine. That'd what you'd do if you get a whole lot of computers and need them all running the same software. This would be the same on windows.

>>106957073
>Why doesn't Linux allow you to download executable software installer packages like Windows?
Because every Linux distro is a different OS with a different user ABI. appimage works by packaging all the user libraries with the application.
>It seems Linux insists you connect to the internet to setup your OS
Nah you can download all the packages to a local repo. Nobody is stopping you.

>>106957219
>You can't dump a bunch of software installers on a CD and reuse them whenever setting up a new OS quickly.
You quite literally can.

What's the cleanest way to run Excel on Linux

>>106957219
>You can't dump a bunch of software installers on a CD and reuse them whenever setting up a new OS quickly.
You do realize this is absolutely retarded and impossible on Windows, right?
It's 1998, you install Windows 98 and your software from CD. It's 2001, you buy a new computer and install Windows 98 and software from your CD.
It's 2004 you buy a new computer and install Windows 98 and software from your CD. This is so retarded. Nobody would do that.

Not only has the software been updated but so has Windows. The same is true for Linux. You can install both the OS and software from some installation media you put together 10 years ago, but it's all outdated crap that isn't suitable for current hardware and ecosystem.

GNU/Linux was Stallman's idea. He insisted this because Torvalds had originally compiled Linux kernel using gcc and used "gnu" tools. Stalinman pestered Torvalds.
Officially, Linux is still Linux and you are all nothing but a bunch of faggots.

>>106957331
This is true but it's better than the alternative of accepting jeetroid users or having constant flamewars with everyone using nVidia or a sketchy network adapter over whether they're actually running Linux (they're not).

>>106957331
lignux

>>106957321
3 basic options
- old version in wine
- web version
- vm with gpu passthrough

>>106957321
In a browser.

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Newfag here. I use Gnome, quite happy with it for the most part but the file browser is giving me issues. When I try to upload a file and open my reaction images folder it takes 24 seconds to display anything. Is there any way to fix this?

>>106957386
what did he mean by this

>>106957331
unmedicated post

>>106956381
>You guys don't understand i NEED to buy a subscription from a horrible company to edit my shitty sponsor infested Youtube videos and thumbnails
If you are that desperate to gargle Adobes cock you might as well suck Microsofts as well. No need to install Linux.

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>>106957515
we havent even hit bump limit yet

>>106957529
He just wanted to post that shitty comic again.

>>106957529
we have now

>>106957560
you still gotta wait til page 10

Hy there! A complete noob here. With the recent Windows shenanigans I've finally started looking up videos about Linux. It seems that it's easier than ever to transition. I'm not expecting to be completely painless, I'm ready to put some work in, dual boot and see how it goes. One flaw that I saw often mentioned is gaming, but it seems that even that has become much better recently. I do have a question: how is the piracy scene for Linux? I pirated pretty much all of the anime, movies and games that I'm consuming. I suppose that for anime and movies there's no difference, cause I just download video file that can be played everywhere. What about games though?

>>106957564
that's where you're wrong buddy

>>106957623
>anime and movies
take this opportunity to set up radarr and sonarr and maybe plex/jellyfin. automated downloading and shit into a netflix-style TV UI is SO nice
games are a bit spottier, you're simply not playing valorant or cawadooty or anything else that uses kernel-level anticheat. anything singleplayer works better than you'd expect. i've done some playing around with cyberpunk and helldivers to see how they run but i've fully played through the bioshock and dead space serieses since I installed arch in june and the only problem i've had is some weirdness around dead space 3 launching from steam through its own EA launcher. everything else has been painless
just go for it bro. don't even bother with dual-booting. i took clonezilla images of my windows drives before i switched and it was a total waste of time

>>106943581
NVIDIA may cause you issues but KDE has good support for it. Just make sure you calibrate it properly in the settings. It can be useful to double-check kscreen-doctor -o and ~/.config/kwinoutputconfig.json to verify what it's doing.

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I found thermal paste on the pins on my CPU no wonder it returns CPU errors

>>106958182
I'm not sure that's how that works. I think technically thermal paste is non-conductive (unless you're using stuff like liquid metal) so as long as it's socketed properly then it should technically still function fine.

>>106958196
I don't know if it was or not, I repasted after brushing with a soft tooth brush and cleaned with alcohol. If not, I reseated the CPU just to make sure

>>106958217
Best to clean it anyway, yeah. I'm not sure that would cause the CPU errors though.

>>106957073
Linux allows you to install packages that way. It's just that many software devs don't distribute software that way. GOG games come in form of single-file shell scripts which contain the whole binary inside, which is the equivalent of an .exe installer. A lot of software is distributed in an archive, you just unzip it and optionally run an install script inside to integrate the program with your OS (but this doesn't automatically handle dependencies).

>>106957219
You're given Appimages as the way to avoid this. At this point it's your fault for refusing to use a solution for your problem.
And a lot of Windows software also requires dependencies and doesn't bundle them. I remember having to manually install DirectX, VCRedist, or hunt down other random dll files on Windows 7.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1061288

Great job Debian. Does nobody even test this?

At the time this was filed it wasn't an issue as Trixie had 20.10.25+dfsg1-2+b3 but now it's on 26.1.5+dfsg1-9+b9

>>106958594
I guess I'll switch to nss-docker-ng
That's not packaged for Debian (if anyone is a Debian developer please do that) but it looks simple enough to build.

https://deepwiki.com/petski/nss-docker-ng/4.1-building-from-source

>>106958594
The overwhelming majority of packages are not tested by distribution maintainers. The only thing that's done is checking if the package compiles.

>>106958766
I get the memes about the one Chinese guy that maintains half of Arch but Debian is supposed to be better than that. I like Debian but come on, why are you maintaining a package for a plugin that hasn't even been tested/validated against the version of Docker that's in Debian? They literally have a useless plugin that compiles and will install but does absolutely nothing.

>>106958777
It's a package in Sid. Nobody sane runs Sid packages. They're expected to break..

>>106958836
It's in stable

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>>106958846
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libnss-docker

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>>106950244
>new kids on the block
>uses it's own custom kernel
>works out of the box surprisingly
it's a ticking time bomb

>>106952513
I think it's meant for touch screen devices.

>>106953101
sxiv?

>>106957400
nta, but is there any reason why you need gpu passthrough to run it? is microsoft software really that worse?

>>106958620
Script that builds nss-docker-ng in a Docker container and then installs it on the host if anyone wants it:

#!/bin/sh

if [ -f /.dockerenv ]
then
    apt-get update || exit 1
    apt-get install -y build-essential patchelf cargo git || exit 1
    cd /tmp
    [ -d nss-docker-ng ] || git clone https://github.com/petski/nss-docker-ng.git
    cd nss-docker-ng
    cargo build --release && \
        patchelf --set-soname libnss_docker_ng.so.2 target/release/libnss_docker_ng.so
else
    [ -e "/usr/local/lib/nss-docker-ng/libnss_docker_ng.so.2" ] && exit 0
    cd /opt/ansible_root || exit 1
    docker run -it --rm -v "$PWD":"$PWD":ro -v /tmp:/tmp debian:$(lsb_release -cs)-slim /bin/bash -x "$PWD"/nss-docker-ng.sh || exit 1
    cd /tmp/nss-docker-ng || exit 1
    DESTDIR="/usr/local/lib/nss-docker-ng/" && \
    sudo --preserve-env=DESTDIR install -m 0755 -d "$DESTDIR" && \
    sudo --preserve-env=DESTDIR install -m 0644 target/release/libnss_docker_ng.so "${DESTDIR}/libnss_docker_ng.so" && \
    echo "${DESTDIR}" | sudo tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/nss-docker-ng.conf > /dev/null && \
    sudo /sbin/ldconfig
fi

You also have to configure /etc/nsswitch.conf like:

hosts:          docker_ng resolve [NOTFOUND=return] files dns