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Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share experiences.

*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread ***

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If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
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Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.
Many free software projects have active mailing lists.

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Don't know what to look for?
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Try a random distro:
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Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
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https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://suckless.org/rocks/
>What are some cool terminal commands?
https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
https://cheat.sh/
>Where can I learn the command line?
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/
https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit
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>How to break out of the botnet?
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux

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Previous thread: >>106943533
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>>106957490
Are vim keybinds retarded or am I?
>dollar symbol = eol
>zero for the start
>but caret for first non-blank character
>and g underscore for the last
what the fuck
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Good evening virgins
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nix os
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>>106957649
Dollar and caret are from regular expressions, you can also use them in grep, sed, awk, programming
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I just installed Linux Mint 22.2 and Luanti/VoxeLibre on my Dell Inspiron to replace Windows 10 and Minecraft. I honestly don’t think I’m going to need more.
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>>106957676
Its time to compile the kernel. Yours seems a little dated.
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Longshot but is there any fullproof way of forcing a game to accept controller inputs even when unfocused (mouse is clicking on other things on another monitor) etc on linux when the game seems to demand it be focused? Specifically right now the game is skyrim.
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>>106957740
This is literally the way Linux wins
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>>106957741
Yeah I've putting it off for a while
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any fun stuff you can do with ascii art on the terminal?
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>>106957846
cowsay
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>>106957846
Spam fwrite into a .pmm file with random 32 but rbga and trip balls with feh
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I found paste on my CPU pins. No wonder I got CPU hardware errors
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>>106957846

christmass trees are classics
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All of you are women. Congratulations
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>>106957461
please respond. it took almost exactly 30 seconds to load the folder to post this image
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>>106958441
How large is that folder?
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>>106956561
Ok chud
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>>106958441
Why not just download and use a different file manager besides Nautilus? It's not very well known as a browser that's actually efficient.
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>>106958845
>anti-X
I installed Windows 11 and it has literal communist propaganda baked into the OS. Something about carbon footprints and shit like that.
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Possible or not possible?
Run nouveau and nvidia-proprietary drivers simultaneously?
I want to do something silly.
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>>106958979
Progress so far:
Tried binding vfio-pci driver to nvidia card, nouevau still loaded.
I have another approach.
Boot with nouveau. Drop to tty. Run script that unloads nouveau (sudo modprobe -r nouveau)
loads nvidia
loads nouveau to get display output back on the integrated graphics
starts lightdm
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>>106957649
and? what's your suggestion?
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>>106959065
this is after booting with nouveau enabled
now I have to switch computers
the P106 is going on an AM2 board with nForce chipset and GeForce 6150SE integrated graphics
the first goal is to get a spinning cube
the second goal is to run The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
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>>106959146
We've run into a bit of a snag. I'm having trouble getting to GRUB.
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on the verge of installing omarchy as my daily driver. convince me not to.
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>>106959310
Why would I do that? I'm sure it can convince you all on its own.
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>>106957846
vlc --audio-visual goom --vout caca somemusic.mp3
vlc --vout caca somevideo.mkv
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>>106959310
>Omarchy
>Short answer: Yes, it's a meme.

>Long answer:
>It targets developers who are opinionated ultra-autistic minimalists, but those developers don't actually want bloat and have their own opinions. Devs who use vim and tiling wms are generally against having a ton of pre-installed bloatware. Omarchy is targeting a very, very tiny niche which mainly consists of people larping as developers.
>A real/average dev will just take Ubuntu or Fedora with the preferred DE. And a very opinionated dev using vim and tiling wms will just take plain Arch or Debian, or take the Fedora net install and install everything manually. Bluefin is actually much better configured for your average developer and even it is something that most devs just won't use.
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>>106959287
Hold Shift after pressing the power button, release it when you see the GRUB menu.
Try the other Shift if the first one didn't work.
Failing that, keep spamming Esc and hope that your BIOS doesn't eat it.
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>>106959451
This pc has an old PATA drive this motherboard can boot, I updated the grub to include the new ssd. I think I can bring it up that way.
Sadly I had the ethernet cable plugged in and now Xubuntu 16.04 is updating itself.
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>>106959464
we made progress.
before plugging in the P106 I want to test whether I still get display output after unloading and reloading nouveau
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Saaars, how the fuck do you I get QEMU to use my pc speaker. The host can use it fine and everything online has the old command or is nonspecific. Using Commodore OS for context
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>>106958830
6,598 images, so pretty large but not HUGE. I could probably delete a whole lot of these but that's not a real solution
>>106958852
Thunar handles it reasonably well but I don't know if I can tell my browser to use Thunar or something else instead of the default Gnome file picker. I'd love to if it's possible
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>>106959566
I meant Commodore OS is the host. The guest is Temple OS, but that doesn't matter
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I'm on KDE (EndeavourOS).
I've got this program I want to launch using separate profiles each with its own icon. I already made the two .desktop files and they work.
The issue is, on the panel the program always shows up with the default icon so I can't tell which window belongs to which profile. I figured out how to change it to a custom icon, but it only works for all instances of the program, so the issue remains.
I need some property to distinguish between the two .desktop files that the "window rules" can use to customize the settings. I thought StartupWMClass would work, but either I can't figure out how to use it or it's not what I'm looking for.
Ideally I would like to do this without for example downloading a separate copy of the program.

Please refrain from going full Stack Overflow (why would you want to do this, >using the panel at all, switch to [other DE] etc.) thank you.
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>>106956417
>>106956595
>>106956680
>>106957000
>>106957512
This is exactly why you will never get popularity with linux and people will still use windows; instead of admitting Linux has some flaws and trying to fix them, instead of listening to feedback you cry like autits and double down on defending useless crap that shouldn't be there in the first place.

You have people telling you that Linux has a lot of compatibility problems and instead of trying to make it compatible with more programs, you start masturbating.

Heck, valve had to do it themselves with steamOS because you are so fucking useless.

What the fuck do you even do with a Linux system, starte at the console window all day doing nothing?
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i have used mint in the past and liked it, but want to try KDE. I read that I should find a distro built around KDE rather than try to make it work with mint. Is kubuntu a decent choice? I was going to try openSUSE but I read it may be difficult to get some games working on there
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Does anyone have asome gtk themes that have a kvantum version?
I can find a few like Adapta Orchis Ambiance (orange) Qogir Arc etc. but I can't find any gtk equivalents easily for the other kvantum defaults and in general most gtk themes just don't have one.
I want to have matching themes for both GTK and Qt but some of my Qt applications don't work properly with the gtk3 and gtk2 theme engines for Qt.
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>>106959484
The motherboard is too stupid to load the PCI-E card if there are no display outputs.
It doesn't load a different card either if I use the integrated graphics for display.
The plan is dead in the water.
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>>106959666
I especially want to find some that are more skeuomorphic in their design architecture, most of the ones I find are based on material design.
Ambiance is a good one but I can't find a kvantum equivalent for the blue one
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>>106959615
>What the fuck do you even do with a Linux system, starte at the console window all day doing nothing?
Yes.
>fix them
>make it compatible
No.
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>>106959600
Is the program sandboxe (Snap, etc)?
Is it a web browser?
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>>106959705
>Is the program sandboxe (Snap, etc)?
No
>Is it a web browser?
One of the programs I would like to do this with is a web browser (Vivaldi), but ideally I'd like to do it with other programs that aren't.
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>>106957663
Thanks for the advice, I'll save your reply and thoroughly check everything you mentioned. The thing that I did not understand and wanted to get from my first post is (I apologize if it's obvious and I'm just that much of a noob) do you download the same torrents for games, as you would on Windows, and then run the game in some kind of emulator, or there has te be a specific Linux version that can be played natively? If it's the latter, how is availability for the games, is there enough people out there creating ane sharing the Linux versions?
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>>106960055
the current thing to do is get the windows version, import into steam and run it through proton.
you can use things like lutris or bottle instead, if you prefer.
i haven't had much luck with native torrents, personally.
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>>106960055
>torrents
i haven't tried pirating yet (honestly i'm kinda trying to put that off for as long as i can) but yeah, you download the windows game and run it through a compatibility layer (steam does this by default with proton, i believe Lutris does it some way or another)
as far as i can gather there's no real need for linux-specific versions of games anymore
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>>106960173
>honestly i'm kinda trying to put that off for as long as i can
What are you, an underage redditor? Perhaps a game console would be more suitable device for you than pc and linux threads.
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>>106960095
>>106960173
That sounds promising. Thanks, I appreciate the help!
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>>106960181
sorry if i said something that hurt you're feelings, anon
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the bot fucking broke again
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>>106960204
nvm i think this faggot was doing "updates bad" trolling
but these 12 y.o's are so incoherent that their shit makes no fucking sense
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>>106959670
Update: tracked down a newer bios version and trying to flash it.
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I just noticed Fedora doesn't clean up shit like wallpapers from old versions when you upgrade. I had default wallpapers from Fedora 37 to 42 installed. What else does it not clean up that I can safely delete on version upgrade?
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>>106960229
>I had default wallpapers from Fedora 37 to 42 installed
the horror
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>>106960234
Shit adds up, it was nearly 300 megabytes of wallpapers I don't fucking use.
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>>106960229
>deleting users data without users input
i dont think i want my software do this anon
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>>106960229
the biggest load of leftover junk was caused by PackageKit, upgrades or no upgrades
i don't allow that shit anywhere near my systems
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>>106960238
I don't want it to do that. I want to know what else it doesn't clean up that I can delete. Can you fucking read?
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>>106959146
>nForce chipset and GeForce 6150SE integrated graphics
i had one of those, first board i had which could decode HD H.264 video (bluray). obviously not so good for games, i don't remember if i ran any games on it since i used it with a discrete gpu
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>>106960226
are you trying to do double GPU and ine GPU needs proprietary drivers or something?
>>106960249
>I just noticed Fedora doesn't clean up shit like wallpapers from old versions
i think i can read just fine
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>>106959659
Kubuntu is great. Also try PikaOS KDE
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>>106960267
I haven't really used it, my grandma used it for solving crossword puzzles
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>>106960272
If default wallpapers aren't in active use it should be deleting them. Should it keep around every old package as well just in case I might start using them?
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>>106960289
>Should it keep around every old package as well just in case I might start using them?
i mean some package managers do exactly that, they have cache you can clean
and yes it did came in handy for me at least twice
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>>106960302
bro runs dnf install * on every new install
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>>106960334
Name a valid reason why this is a bad idea.
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>>106960402
for one i dont think it would let you do that
someone should fire up a VM and try it tho
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>>106960402
oh the shell expands it into all the files in current directory
obviously, no shit it would
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Ive been thinking a out converting from windows for a while
Whats the best all round system for an absolute newfag. I heard mint’s pretty good tho idk
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>>106960454
Aurora or Bazzite
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>>106960454
literally any non "DIY" system
they all work more or less the same
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>>106959065
Yes this works. We can run nouveau and nvidia proprietary at the same time.
It didn't work on the original hardware we planned to use (>>106959146) because the motherboard refused to load the graphics card
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>>106960560
>We
Shut up.
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>>106960598
hes just schizophrenic
be tolerant please
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>>106960454
READ THE OP >:(
>https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
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>>106959615
Compatibility problems are ideologically mandated. It's adherence the same ideology that has normalfags fleeing here for sanctuary.

Did you ever consider you're just not very good with computers? Something like 6% of people are daily driving gnuuul. It's the most popular non-Windows desktop since the 90s and somehow your galaxy brain can't make it work.
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>>106960238
System-managed wallpapers aren't user data.

>>106960237
Every file belongs to a package, so you should query rpm for this info.
On Ubuntu you'd do `dpkg -S /path/to/file.jpg`
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>>106959615
>Linux has a lot of compatibility problems
It doesn't. 3rd party software has incompatibility problems with other operating systems. You're relying on software that's Windows exclusive and has years if not decades of technical debt which prevent it from being ported to anything else.
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>>106959615
>>106960771
exactly, the entire world runs on POSIX or near POSIX systems
windows is LITERALLY the only exception
philosophically windows is mammoth shit from 90s a fucking fossil
>>106960763
yes they are
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>>106960848
actually not even 90s, the 80s
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>>106960848
>yes they are
Explain.
And no, "a user might touch that file" is not acceptable.
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>>106960867
the same way how your hidden backups that your text editor generates every time you close it without saving are
just because its generated by software and managed automatically doesnt mean its not your data and you wont need it or miss it
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>>106960560
Dude update your driver:
https://github.com/dartraiden/NVIDIA-patcher/releases/tag/580.95.05
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>>106958979
It's not possible to have one device load multiple drivers for it at the same time it defeats the purpose
Its like you want to drive multiple cars at the same time even though you can only be in one car at a time. Remote controlling the car doesn't count.
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>>106960924
the last driver version before nvidia gimped the mining cards is 515
trust me it's much easier to install the latest driver rather than patching a years old version to work with new kernel versions
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>>106960942
Gimped how? The description on that Github lets me think they work without restriction.
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>>106960887
Anon, take a deep breath, you're schizoposting now.
We're talking about JPEG files installed by a package manager with the OS, not data that gets created in response to normal user actions.
Not everything on your computer is user data, some of it is system data and follows the system lifecycle.
What next, the old program manuals should be kept on upgrade just because you might want to read the old manual at some point?
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>>106960969
works a lot slower than older driver since version 520
I have not tried dartraiden patch on linux, I thought that's only for windows. I will try it, thanks for bringing it to my attention
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>>106960560
What sort of work will this allow you to accomplish? Running demos is one thing but...
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>>106960970
im just imagining some chap getting upset when his wallpapers that he really liked from previous releases get deleted
he would consider them HIS data

also picrel
>>106960980
usecase for accomplishing work?
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>>106960980
cuda
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>>106960867
>>106960887
Both of you are being autistic for no reason.
1. Having leftover wallpapers is not a big deal. You're losing a few MB of storage once a year.
2. It is a fact that OS-provided wallpapers have no reason to be preserved unless one is in active use.

Deleting obsolete wallpapers would be completely fine. If a person really wants to get an older wallpaper, they can just download it like people have been doing with the Windows XP "Bliss" wallpaper. Pretty much every single wallpaper that is provided on any Linux distribution is public domain or has a permissive license, so it's a non-issue.

As for the original question the anon posed (what are all other leftover files after a system upgrade) the only way to know for sure is to install Fedora 41 in a VM, then upgrade it to 42 and apply all the latest updates. Then install Fedora 42 in a separate VM and apply all the latest updates. Then do a full disk comparison between the two systems (upgraded install vs clean install).
I'm 99.9% sure there isn't any documentation on which system files are unnecessarily preserved since I've never seen anyone talk about this issue before.
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>>106961011
You just need cuda 13.x toolkit and proprietary drivers.
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>>106961135
I don't need anything, I was just trying to come up with a scenario where you have 2 nvidia gpus in your system that worked with 2 different driver versions
Realistically it won't happen, if you can afford a $10,000 datacenter card you can afford a suitable display adapter too
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>>106960924
Huh it actually works, would you look at that. Can't believe I didn't know.
+20% performance over my patched old driver, +90% over non-patched 580
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>>106961179
The patch has only been up for 2 weeks. So its understandable.
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Di you have a recomendation of a good agenda app for arch, preferably one that doesn't ask for your email?
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>>106961395
What's an agenda app?
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>>106961395
Planify
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can I ask what /fglt/ thinks of Xubuntu? Is there anything similar to try?
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>>106961788
It's Ubuntu but it uses XFCE as its desktop. That's it.
If you wanna use XFCE there's plenty of distros that give the option of using it.
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>>106959310
>trannycase
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>>106961788
It's a stagnant distro flavor built around a stagnant desktop.
You're better off running KDE which is actively developed and has the same memory footprint once you've gone through the settings and disabled the bling and useless services.
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>>106961788
Their website just got hacked, don't download. It's a very pretty distro.
If you want you can try linux mint xfce. It's fully compatible with ubuntu 24.04.
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>>106961788
>lightweight desktop
>*actually more resource intensive than kde
XFECES has been obsolete for like 10 years at this point
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>>106961788
Mint Xfce has a better default theme and layout. It's fine if you like Xfce, but I personally stick to KDE and GNOME. They're not really that much heavier than Xfce. If you're just looking for a lightweight desktop, then there's better options like Openbox, IceWM, Trinity, etc.
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>>106961889
How's life three days ago, Yesterday man?
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>>106961788
Xfce is great. There's hundreds of themes around for it so you can make it look however you want. It's the most sane option in terms of UI.
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Could someone please explain to me why Krita's filepicker does not have image previews as the file icons? I'm using KDE, Dolphin has it, I've set Firefox to use the native KDE filepicker, which has it, and yet Krita, a KDE application, does not?? Wtf?? You'd think an art program of all things would understand the necessity of image previews.
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>>106961788
Snap. Not even once.
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>>106962008
t. Flatchud and his lack of proper browser sandbox
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>>106962002
Screenshot your file picker and send it here. Maybe it's just defaulting to the wrong preview mode.
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>>106962067
It does have the preview pane but I want icon previews the way everything else does it. Also because I have KDE set to single click to select, so then I have to click and drag to select an item for the preview pane which is annoying.
I've tried checking and unchecking the "use native file dialog" option in the settings and it makes no difference. Krita is installed through pacman not an appimage or anything.
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>>106957734
>>106959124
I understand the reasoning behind some of them, but that doesn't make them any less retarded, specially when some of those keys are far apart, I don't want to do acrobatics with my hands just to move my cursor. I know it's way too late to change them, I just think using simpler keybinds or even mnemonics would make more sense. I think the Micro editor does a good job at this
>alt+left/right to move to start or end of a line
>ctrl+up/down for the beggining or end of a file
>ctrl+o to open a file
>ctrl+f to search for a string
>ctrl+s to save, with the option to map alt+s to save and quit
It's not perfect, and Micro itself isn't as "powerful" as Vim, but it does feel better to use. I'm surprised Vim keybinds are even popular to begin with, seems like every CLI program has them baked in.
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>>106962146
You're out of luck anon. Looks like it ignores your system and uses it's own customized dialog which doesn't have the same preview features as other KDE software. Normally the first icon here would display a grid view and you'd have an extra icon to the right which toggles thumbnails. For whatever reason Krita doesn't have this.
I guess the workaround is just using your file manager and doing the good old "open in Krita".
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>>106962037
Nope hate fatpak just as much.
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Debian stable is my gaming distro
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>>106961788
XFCE is nice, xubuntu might be the only xfce distro with good defaults set up if it wasnt for the snap and telemetry. Maybe mint xfce will be better than xubuntu? Shame with what happened in regards to their wesite getting hacked.
>>106961800
>If you wanna use XFCE there's plenty of distros that give the option of using it.
There's not many that have a good default config of xfce though. XFCE defaults are really terrible and for some reason devs dont want to improve them.
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>>106962364
MX Linux
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Any handy tips or tricks for reducing bluetooth audio latency in pipewire or in general?
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>>106962375
I dont like their placement of the panel on the side instead of the bottom
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A 4GB is not crashing while gaming compared to a 8 GB 5700xt. What fucking nonsense am I dealing with? This bullshit was the cause?
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>>106962364
I think Majaro used to tweak xfce out of the box, can't remember. EndeavourOS also changes it, Artix as well. As much as anons hate Ubuntu, I think it does a pretty good job customizing the different desktop environments, Ubuntu MATE is a personal favourite.
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is there to view what files are being accessed by what drives?
ever since i copied over all the data from my windows partition the head on my hdd is clacking nonstop but the kde system monitor shows no activity
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>>106962376
Look for PipeWire Quantum Settings.
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>>106962644
If its clacking its about to die.
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>>106962699
i just bought the damn thing
its a 8tb drive and i only ever put 2tb on it
no way its dying
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>>106962644
Use auditd
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>>106962717
>>106962644
If you just want a general overview of which process is doing I/O the most though then use iotop but that won't give you the per-file/directory granularity you want.
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>>106957490
I need an AM5 motherboard that works well with Linux. 8XX or 6XX. I will be using an AMD Ryzen 9.
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>>106962726
Also iostat is another good tool to have in your belt.
Something like this (updates every 10 seconds) is incredibly useful sometimes to get a general overview of I/O reads/writes:
iostat -h 10
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>>106962828
https://linux-hardware.org/
https://ubuntu.com/certified
look here for approved hardware
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>>106962828
Makes 0 difference
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>>106957846
pokemon battling game. theres ascii cart for all the original pokemon.
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>>106962851
Yeah because Linux runs on everything, but the majority of AMD boards come with Realtek networking and spit out warning if you don't have the same USB controller as Linus Torvalds.
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>>106962726
i tried iotop and it showed 0 byte r/w on everything
currently deleting the backup again to see if it will still do it
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>>106957490
I'm on mint and I was wondering if there is a program that organizes windowed tabs differently? Mainly I want the bar bui to tell me what is minimized and what is maximized or is there a feature I'm missing on mint that can do that?
Thanks!
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So how would I fix my system on Linux where the 5700xt doesn't crash the system? And why is a 5700xt being cucked by a rx580?
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>>106962871
>running wifi on a desktop
>buying a motherboard with wifi
shigdiggydo
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>>106962876
deleting is taking ages
maybe copying the whole user folder(500k files) from windows wasnt such a good idea
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>>106963044
Is resizeable bar (REBAR) enabled in the BIOS?
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>>106962280
>>106962146
i think you can just drag files into krita window, no?
>>106962556
A 4GB of what exactly? RAM? VRAM?
>>106962644
you can use smartctl to check its health if its making weird noises
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>>106963075
No it isn't and the 5700xt still crashed then too.
>>106963095
4gb vram on a xfx rx 580 vs 8gb on a sapphire 5700xt.
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>>106963067
>>buying a motherboard with wifi
Why not?
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>>106963044
not some shit about your mobo switching pcie gens on load?
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>>106963095
>freetard does not understand the concept of gpus
You are just like Richard Stallman.
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>>106963112
What psu do you hav
My vega started crashing when I switched to a crappy old prebuilt tier power supply (solved by disabling undervolt)
You can try dropping the power limit to the minimum and seeing if it still crashes
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>>106963112
well thats straight up just different card, gigabytes dont mean shit here

maybe your card is defective
maybe there is a driver issue
maybe there is a power issue (PSU cant handle 5700 for some reason?)
maybe 580 uses less lanes and some of your PCI lanes are fucked
>>106963142
not him but real men use rj45
you do have crimping tool in your household anon, right?
you arent gay are you?

>>106963160
skibiti toilet labubu dubai chocolate baby gronk big chungus kai cenat ohio 100%
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>>106963155
I didn't get that error and I tried that fix too. Didn't work with the 5700xt and it still crashed during gaming. I've done the
> rebar on/off
> PBO on/off
> CPB on/off
> DOCP on/off
> Voltage on CPU/RAM lowered/Increased
> Etc.
>>106963205
Thermaltake toughpower gf-1 850W Gold standard
It's the 2nd and current one used. I recently switched it in. So it can't be that.
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>>106963095
it's broken i guess?
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>>106963067
Realtek NICs. Now be a good /g/oy and recommend me a decent AM5 motherboard.
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>>106963216
Shouldn't be PSU I switched it out (cords included) and still, it crashed. 2 PSU in row seems unlikely.
Drivers upgraded/downgraded still presented a problem
I keep reading that undervolting the 5700xt is the answer but I am wary of damaging the card that way.
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>>106963259
Undervolting does not damage the card in any way, if anything it makes it last longer
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>>106963290
Then in that case would the 5700xt GPU that crashes in gaming still be able to pass stress testing with no errors?
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>>106963319
it would crash in testing too
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>>106962828
>>106963248

> Asrock
Blows up your CPU
> Asus
Hates their customers / Support hell.

And those are the ones that i see popping up with actual support. I am running the Asrock B650 Steel Legend myself. Everything works on Arch btw after i loaded the respective kernel modules for temp monitoring.
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So I managed to make the switch 4 months ago and everything is perfect, except that one software I need to use once a week for work that only runs on windows
I tried to run it through bottles but I didn't really know what I was doing and the UI was wrong, the font was wrong, it just didn't work and crashed a lot
Would it be better to run something like Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine or is it possible to run a software seamlessly thought bottles/steam/wine/whatever? I don't want to dual boot
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>>106963347
See that's what's confusing it lasted the limit two hours on occt, but graphic intensive games trip it?
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>>106963230
googled and the drive seems to be healthy
it randomly stopped doing the clicking noise after a restart so idk wtf was going on
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>>106963230
>-O--CK
it craves for it...

other than that ive forgot how to read them
https://www.almico.com/sfarticle.php?id=2
this says that higher is better
and 0 treshhold is informative
so i assume you are good?
>>106963259
well in that case its your card most likely
unfortunate, hope you still have warranty
>>106963363
you can check here if you can do it with wine based stuff or you need a VM
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>>106963363
You can use winboat if it doesn't require a gpu. Gpu sharing is supposedly somehow in the works for winboat but don't wait up on it.
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>>106963363
>>106963395
https://appdb.winehq.org/
forgot the link
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>>106963230
> Start stop count 1600
> Claims its a new drive
Anon...
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>>106963428
i got it last year in april
that's not that old
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>>106963373
games load down your cpu too, it may be a power issue after all
try different pcie plugs on your power supply
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>>106963449
last april
i gave you my drive
and the very next day
it bitrotted away

this year
to save me from tears
ill give it to someone "special"
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So if I press the escape key while the screen is locked it'll go to sleep mode, is there any way to disable this behaviour?
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>>106963373
Use something like LACT to set the power profile to maximum and see if it still crashes. Power management on AMD is notoriously bad.
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>>106957791
The word is
>foolproof
zoomerkin. As in beyond the means of a FOOL to fail at, such as iToddler products.

Are you playing in windowed or dedicated fullscreen? What's stopping you from alt tabbing to change focus? You might try a VM for the other monitor and mouse. There is a way to lock inputs to an application without focus changing, can't tell you what, it was long ago. X11 and Gayland will handle it differently. You'll have less headache using a secondary machine entirely for the other monitor.
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>>106958979
For two separate GPU's I think.
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>>106963404
It's not on the list but that's expected, it's a work software https://www.formware.co/slicer

>>106963398
>winboat
I'll give it a try, it looks somewhat simpler, it's worth a try
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>>106963602
Just because I forget how to spell and the meaning behind words sometimes doesn't mean I'm a zoomerkin. It means I'm getting older and my brain is starting to melt and regress.
>Are you playing in windowed or dedicated fullscreen?
I've tried both but they both demand mouse focus for controller input.
>What's stopping you from alt tabbing to change focus?
Very weird use case where I want to play the skyrim together mod with a friend but his laptop is awful and crashes everything and runs poorly anyway so I just stream games for him to play on my machine through moonlight and sunshine. I can isolate what I'm doing and seemingly even a separate instance of the game for this purpose with dual monitors, but if only one instance of the game is allowed input we can't both play it.
>You might try a VM for the other monitor and mouse.
I might be able to do this, the reason I prefer not to is because the backup gpu I could passthrough is very outdated and at best will just barely run the vanilla game good enough. It's also just easier at this point with my kde window rules and qjackctl audio isolation and such setup to do everything on my base system aside from things like that.
>There is a way to lock inputs to an application without focus changing, can't tell you what, it was long ago. X11 and Gayland will handle it differently. You'll have less headache using a secondary machine entirely for the other monitor.
That might help if I can assign a specific controller to be locked to the application and force it to always accept it's inputs, no idea what those are that actually work though. I've tried numerous things I already forgot because they were useless including the most recent making 2 isolated cursors but that also didn't work even if one cursor wasn't locked into the game.
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>>106963644
Maybe switch to a slicer that has Linux support? There are options.
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>>106963583
It's actually holding and no crashes 20 minutes in. Wattage is a max and everything is running so far. Will update if anything changes.
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>>106963354
Thanks
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what should I use for brightness control/night-light on wayland?
i tried gammastep but it last got updated 6 months ago
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has anyone encountered this issue with nvidia?
playing and after a little while the framerate drops to half, alt-tab and everything is immediately back to normal
nvidia optimus, intel integrated
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>>106964088
no. because i don't use nvidia.
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>>106964040
https://github.com/solarkraft/awesome-wlroots?tab=readme-ov-file#brightness-control
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switched from ubuntu to fedora
holy fuck this is so much better than few years ago, everything just werks and looks so polished
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>>106959615
I literally don't give a fuck what you use, though. If you want to use Windows, use Windows. As for me, I play video games on Linux.
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I'm running Mint 22.1 and it's the first time to install something from codeberg in my life. I want this: https://codeberg.org/dehnhardt/IConnConfig/src/branch/master

I found something online and did this:
>git clone https://codeberg.org/dehnhardt/IConnConfig.git
>cd IConnConfig
>python3 -m venv app-build
>source app-build/bin/activate
there were no dependencies as far as I understand any of it
>make install_local
Then I get: make: *** No rule to make target 'install_local'. Stop.

If I understood correctly this is the last step for having it installed. Please help.
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Is there a way to make the smallest icon size in Dolphin not be symbolic? Similar to how it looks in Gnome or Windows for example.
I like symbolic for the side bar but I kind of hate it for the actual file browser.
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>>106964379
Did you download the ubuntu or the debian branch?
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>>106964379
This looks like Qt / C++? Where are you getting that you need a Python virtualenv?
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>>106964379
>make: *** No rule to make target 'install_local
Are you sure it named 'install_local' cause make does that when it can't find the file to make.
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>>106964379
>RTFM
https://codeberg.org/dehnhardt/IConnConfig/src/branch/master/BUILD.md

or use the build script
sh ./build.sh
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>>106963583
So it seems limiting power to 175W is the sweet spot for my card. It seems to hold for an hour and counting.
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>>106964401
I have no clue.
>>106964404
I was following something random, can't even find the link back.
>>106964425
No clue.
>>106964453
This is what I need probably, thank you.
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>>106964379
>>106964453
I would build the debian package and install that
sh ./build.sh build_deb
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>>106964404
>>106964379
Anyway, this one-liner works in an Ubuntu 24.04 Docker container:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y build-essential git qtbase5-dev libasound2-dev libclalsadrv-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev && mkdir -pv /tmp/build && cd /tmp/build && git clone --depth 1 https://codeberg.org/dehnhardt/IConnConfig.git && cd IConnConfig && ./build.sh
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>>106964547
That's really nice of you anon. Wold have been hours before I got to this. I'm just trying to troubleshoot an audio output issue and need this for it.
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>>106964547
And now I still need to compile it, right? I end up in /tmp/build/IConnConfig

Instructions:
>compile
>change to this directory
>qmake (be shure that QMake uses at least QT >5.2. e.g. with the switch: qmake -qt=5)
>make

Do I need to change directory now? Make doesn't do anything. I really don't understand any of this btw.
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>>106959659
Mint is a desktop environment built for Ubuntu. Ubuntu is the OS, and Ubuntu itself is built on Debian. If I understand correctly, openSUSE is Debian based.

Kubuntu, as mentioned is Ubuntu packaged with the K Desktop Environment or KDE. A kubuntu spin for 24.04, the latest LTS Ubuntu release willbe more "up to date" than Mint, but there's nothing stopping you from adding more up to date repositories to your existing. You can get a Debian distro to play games just as well as an Ubuntu base, but it's less plug and play. Steam OS is almost a reskin of kubuntu, and that'll be you're easiest plug and play to get into.
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>>106964670
The build.sh will build it, you should see the icconconfig executable in the directory and can probably run it like ./cconconfig

I don't know how you're supposed to install it though.
make install
didn't do anything.
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>>106964670
did you already run the commands? the binary could be in that folder, no? check the contents
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>>106964729
>>106964730
Ok, I understand a bit more. I'm able to start iconnconfig and the gui opens and it works. Thank you for the help so far. But the program is only temporary right? This is what I get with the make command:
>/tmp/build/IConnConfig$ make
>make: Nothing to be done for 'first'.
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>>106964802
I think you can just copy the executable anywhere, I'm not sure. It doesn't look like they defined an install target in the .pro file so make has no idea what to do.
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>>106964718
OpenSUSE is sourced from SLE you yahoo. Has absolutely nothing to do with Debian.
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>>106964840
Well, it works and I can save changes to the device. Thanks for the help!
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>>106963583
Thank you, anon. That was the trick
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>>106964188
not an nvidia issue this time.
the issue could be recreated with an amd card in the same configuration, display connected to the motherboard not the card
card is chilling at 60-70%, suddenly it goes to 99-100% and fans ramp up
alt tab out and back in, issue is resolved
it's something to do with prime render offload or intel driver
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>>106965031
You can also configure gamemode to set the card to full power while gaming to work around this.
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>>106965071
So most likely its your DE causing the issue.
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I want to try linux on my laptop because it has had performance issues ever since I upgraded to windows 11 a few years back. I've been experimenting with a few in virtual machines and I'm struggling to decide between down to the following three:

>Mint (Cinnamon)
Recommended for beginners, looks good at first glance, but I remember experimenting with it in the past and disliking it after a few weeks.

>Kubuntu
I hated default ubuntu when I used it in university because of gnome, but I keep reading that Kubuntu is a bit janky. I do like the look and feel of it though.

>Debian (XFCE or KDE)
The installer didn't let me select anything in virtualbox and once it did install apt did not work even after getting the correct permissions. Hopefully just because of virtual machines, outside of that it looks good if a little advanced.

Any anons have suggestions? Whichever I pick I will do the home folder partition thing for easier distro hopping.
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>>106965122
I suggest cleaning it and applying fresh thermal paste.
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>>106965081
Does it do better than LACT?
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>>106965142
Its if you don't want to manually switch it all the time / not always run at full power. If enabled you just set up every game to start with gamemode and the card will go into high power automatically and switch back when done.
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>>106965122
Kubuntu is okay, doesn't update as often as other KDE distros and follows Ubuntu release schedules, which line up with GNOME rather than the KDE releases. So it's still stuck on 6.4.5 when 6.5 was just released today.

Mint is a good choice if you like it. I recommend using LMDE. For pure Debian, use the live images. They have calamares and make for an easier install.

There's also https://github.com/r0b0/debian-installer this installer here, which sets it up pretty well, I think. I'm running Debian GNOME myself.
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>>106965183
Thx
>For pure Debian, use the live images
Looks like the same install mechanism as linux mint, I will try this in a virtual machine.
>LMDE
I checked that out but I decided for normal mint instead because LMDE seemed less actively developed. And my problems were more look and feel related IIRC
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>>106965107
you may be onto something here. ran bare openbox and I can't tell whether it's still happening.
earlier I tried xfce with standard xfwm4, xfce with openbox, xfce with xfwm4 and compositor on.
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>>106965122
Don't use mint, Xubuntu is also a flavor of Ubuntu to look into.
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I installed linux mint on mine and my mom laptop since they couldn't update to win11 and we only used them for emails and web browsing. I did the guided setup, beside the updates that come from the shield icon on the bottom right, do I need to run the "sudo apt update" every once in a while or is the system going to tell me if there are app that need updates?
Also, I have an old macbook from 2009, is it possible to install mint or a similar (extreme noob friendly) linux distro on it?
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>>106965477
The system will show you the shield and green circle icon for when you have pending updates, if you leave it for long enough or an important update is pushed for the kernel or your version, it will open on boot and tell you that you should update.
I think you can set it to auto update or to check and apply updates if there's a time in the day you are away from the computer but its still on, but I don't really recommend worrying about updating constantly because things will break now and then.
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>>106965473
I was checking that out (didn't download anything though) the same day they fucked with the download links, so I have not tried it yet.
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>>106965510
I can drop an olderish iso I have in archive if you'd prefer and if you trust me enough. Or you can wait for them to fix it lol
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>>106965406
Nope still happening (I don't care I don't have to use render offload)
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leaving systemd shit-flinging aside, would there be any performance gained from a non-systemd setup compared to an identical systemd one, purely by the reduction in underlying processes? like Devuan vs Debian or Artix vs Arch, I can't really get a concrete answer on this aside from ideological discussions.
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>>106965564
>I can't really get a concrete answer on this aside from ideological discussions.
Generally in the Linux community, when it comes to things like that there is no end to the arguing. I don't even know what it is, but the difference between me and the linux neckbeards is that I just USE Linux, these people live and breathe it.
I'm listening to a video right now on what systemd is and why people don't like it but, yeah.
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>>106965564
SystemD is actually modular and it depends on the Distro which parts are shipped. I can not see there being any performance benefit in something like Arch that ships the bare minimum anyway.
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>>106965742
*compared to Arch
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I have Fedora 42 with GNOME Wayland with proprietary Nvidia drivers installed on a Samsung data SSD. If I move this drive to a new desktop PC on a totally different hardware (let's say an AMD graphic card) is there anything I should be aware of or can I expect the system to boot up and work just fine (at least until I install the drivers for the new system components)?
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>>106965757
Most Linux/Unix OSes actually keep documentation on what hardware their OS has drivers for and a log of any major problems. While this problem has honestly been minimized due to drivers of NVIDA and AMD being opened up to any and all developers to make tweaks; I'd suggest you leaf through the Fedora docs or the forum and just check. Generally, you should be 100% okay, if anything, you should flash the ISO to a flashdrive and boot the demo version for a day and two and see if everything works fine before installing.
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>>106965742
yeah that's mostly what I noticed from testing in VMs and whatnot, was just curious of any bare metal experiences. I know I can get shit like Artix down to pretty low resource usage but I couldn't tell you how much that actually translates to better performance overall.

>>106965708
oh yeah I've been here long enough to know the can of worms that that discussion is. was mostly just curious about it honestly. I find DJ Ware's vids on systemd pretty interesting at least.
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>>106964862
I don't know how I made that connection. I've been digging deep in debian and it's offshoots a lot lately.
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I've tried also running this thing (https://github.com/BinSquare/battery_swap_fix_t480#) to try and fix linux draining the main internal battery instead of the external one but when I try to run the .sh file the terminal doesn't open.
What do I need to do?
>>106965503
thanks.
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>>106965477
Should be fine since it's intel based, to install whatever. The newer macbooks to my knowledge, with the m-chips?, are the one's that require a certain distro to run.
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>>106965890
TLP might solve that for you. Seems to be the go to power management for thinkpads and laptops.
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>>106965961
i already tried that but it keeps using the internal battery. tomorror I'll try again with it doing a tlp recalibrate since for one user it seems to have worked.
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How much importance do you place on distro/package maintainers when deciding what to use?

I like basically every design decision behind Chimera Linux but the author and primary maintainer has a lot of mental health red flags.
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Is it my system or KDE Plasma? I installed Fedora with Plasma and everything seems buggy (Brave getting stuck on loading images even though my Wifi was fine, and the KWriter lagging), and I’m using AMD btw.
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>>106966049
maybe a kernel or mesa bug
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>>106966049
make sure your drivers/video server work correctly (they dont report errors in logs, hardware acceleration works, etc.)
check dmesg /journalctl for errors
make sure your storage isnt fucked (if you have hard drive you can check it with smartctl)
make sure something isnt fucking your CPU or RAM with system monitor of your choice
make sure you arent overheating
if you suspect its KDE you can install different DE and try it
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>>106966048
i choose software for the most part
if maintainers are retarded software will show this
case and point: gnome, anki, any chineese software ever
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>>106966048
Because you bought into a bunch of retarded schizo memes and only actual schizos want to keep using that shit once they start dealing with it on a daily basis.
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>>106966048
>>106966136
oh and another thing
anon do you understand the implications of using musl based distribution?
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I've reached the point in my Linux journey where I've stopped trying to convince anyone to use Linux. The vast majority of Windows users massively overestimate their computer literacy. Telling someone who, mind you, built their own PC to use Rufus to make a bootable USB just gets you the fluoride stare. In fact, I tell people to not use Linux since 99% of them will ignore the many disclaimers about arch not being a beginner distro, break their Arch install, go online, and say it's the fault of Linux (despite using the DIY distro) It's like going to Subway and complaining the sandwich you made was shit. Arch Linux was my first distro and I haven't had any issues with it because I read the wiki, and don't have like 2000 AUR packages on my system despite mouth breathers claiming that Arch will just break itself. I guess I'm realizing that the general populace is dumber than I initially thought

thanks for reading my blog
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>>106966268
Yeah, I've been using it for like 2 months now, works wonderfully for my purposes. I'm more so worried about the future of the distribution - but if it works today, I guess there's no problem.
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>>106966272
>AUR: 72
uh oh
careful with that
>I've reached the point in my Linux journey where I've stopped trying to convince anyone to use Linux. The vast majority of Windows users massively overestimate their computer literacy.
trvth
we have too many r*dditors already
>I guess I'm realizing that the general populace is dumber than I initially thought
welcome to the club
its been a few years since ive realized who im existing alongside of
its hard to realize actually, they like their social games and they are good enough at playing them so they end up appearing competent and mentally developed
but if you ever dive into these debate bloodsports communities and see them try and "step into the ring" a few times its like a fucking xray that shows the inside of their empty fucking skulls devoid of any fucking thought
>>106966318
if you like musl for whatever reason (i dont know why you do tho, it caused me a lot of pain personally) id recommend alpine
its like arch linux but with musl and openrc
people like basing their containers on it(they need to be tortured for that), there are some distributions that i actually do like that are based on it, overall its small and neat
the only downside (upside for me actually) is its pretty DIY same as arch, you need to set everything up yourself
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How do you install Arch on VM because i'm testing out builds to see what one i like
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>>106966512
whih VM? virtualbox?
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>>106966512
You do the same thing you'd do to install anything on a virtual machine, except with Arch.
And do be aware that some wayland stuff doesn't like being in a VM, so if you want the full "arch btw" combo, hyprland is likely not gonna work.
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>>106966414
>debate bloodsports communities
What's that?
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Hey has anyone tried Fedora Cinnamon?
:D
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>>106966567
basically political pundits on the internet and their communities
kinda like ben shapiro or crownder or that loser that got shot in the neck (forgot his name lol) but instead of yapping into camera and debating college students they mostly debate each other, professors, etc.
sometimes also "influencers", average people, specialists, journalists...

most of them are sophists, but some are smarter than the others and some of them arent (those are dangerous to debate for your brand lol)

its called "bloodsports" cause of how adversarial it is and sometimes it results in screaming matches and some fucked up personal insults
tho a lot of times there is a moderator present
if you arent prepared for these there is a good chance you will get metaphorically raped it a debate

its actually some of my favorite shit on the internet, shows insight into people's psychology and shows logic in action
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I'm going to try my hand at some limited home automation with a local LLM, using an AMD chip. Would Calculate Linux be appropriate for this if I want to use btrfs and am very lazy? Would the process essentially be setting up the OS and storage pool, spinning up a few containers with podman, and then configuring the actual stuff I want to do?
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>>106966736
why specifically calculate linux?
usually source based distributions are used when you want to compile shit in a very specific way or you want to add modifications to packages
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>>106957490
okay my linux mint has finally utterly shit itself and corrupt the file system.
I'm going to format it and install something else.
What linux os can I use.
I want something as simple to use as linux mint, but without file system corruptions that destroy my harddrive thanks.
Also I am thinking of HDR.
So something KDE plasma based perhaps?

So I want stable, gaming, HDR(if possible)
Suggestions?
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>>106966817
>okay my linux mint has finally utterly shit itself and corrupt the file system.
its not supposed to do that anon
did you try to fix it with fsck?
or check your drive's health?

you can try debian i guess, its mint's grandparent
i will be very surprised and you would need to be very concerned if something ends up corrupted right out of the gate with it since its one of the oldest and stable distributions
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>>106966858
>its not supposed to do that anon
I know, ITS SHIT!
>did you try to fix it with fsck?
Yes, it spent like an hour and showed like 120 000 errors. with the screen streaming lines of error code like mad.
>or check your drive's health?
its fine
>debian
primarily because it's stable? How does it handle gaming and hdr?
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>>106966891
>primarily because it's stable? How does it handle gaming and hdr?
it handles it
it doesnt have latest features (thats the point)
in general on any distribution you just install steam and wine frontend of your choice and just use them
cant comment about HDR tho, dont use it nor am i familiar with it
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>>106966891
>>106966924
ive checked it and HDR got added to gayland in 2020 it seems so you will have it regardless
tho i still dont know what it is or why you gaymers want it
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>>106966943
is HDR really hard to understand?
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>>106966970
never bothered to look it up cause i dont give a shit
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>>106966970
more contrasterer color, right? contrasting all over your screen?
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>>106967035
uh its about having highlights work, so bright stuff is bright.

>>106966858
I did some searching and the algorithms are recommending me:
elementary OS
Fedora
debian
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I have a handful of folders on my GNU plus Linux desktop that I'd like to be able to access from my Macbook. I'm looking for native or close-to-native integration i.e. mounting the remote directories in Finder. I've been using an FTP client but doing it this way sucks. Asked an AI chatbot before bothering you guys and it's telling me to use SMB but i don't really trust chatbots anyway. What's the recommended tool for this job?
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>>106967075
i dont think its useful for my 8 bit ass 1980s style terminal workflow
but its kewl i guess
>elementary OS
another flavor of bubuntu hm
here check this shit
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
most of the "distributions" is just someone's rice
only sometimes there is a meaningful distinction (for eample devuan is debian without s o y stemd, same with arch and artix)
>>106967102
samba is a choice you can make

there is also NFS
used it at work, kinda like it its decent as long as you set it up properly
would personally use it over samba

there is also sftp
which sounds like ftp but its actually based on ssh
which makes it actually functional and not utter shit like FTP

there is also open source cloud solutions that you can fire up in docker
a bit heavy but it is an option
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>>106967173
>i dont think its useful for my 8 bit ass 1980s style terminal workflow
sounds right

Oh I should mention, I have amd CPU and Nvidia 2000 GPU.
Does that change anything in terms of OS choice?
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At this point, the only thing holding me back from switching is gaming, my work doesn’t require any specialized software. I get that my Steam library stands a good chance of mostly just working via proton, but how well does stuff like Lutris realistically function for old windows games from offline GOG installers, for example? Can I really play (nearly) all of my stuff with enough tinkering?
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>>106967306
More or less. I find bottles better than lutris now days, but you might have to make sure everything is in it's working directory it's allowed access to. It makes wine prefixes and stuff less of a headache
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>>106967102
SMB/CIFS is usually the best option. It has Unix and Windows metadata and simple password authenticated encryption. As opposed to NFS, which is cleartext only unless you set up Kerberos.
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>>106966798
The wiki said it was Gentoo for lazy people who didn't want to set things up, and I didn't want something as slow to update as debian and wasn't sure about fedora
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Why is changing DNS server so hard on Linux? I've gotten everything else running but have bricked my network twice trying to change DNS, eventually resulting in a reinstall. Spent at least 2 hours on this.
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>>106967725
Editing /etc/resolv.conf is "so hard"?
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>>106967738
I edited it, saved it. Can open it up again and my edits are there. But it doesn't apply at all and then after restarting the file is back to it's default.
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>>106967231
no really
novideo drives are the same everywhere
most distributions use more or less the same kernel and drivers ( + - a few tweaks)
>>106967306
>but how well does stuff like Lutris realistically function for old windows games from offline GOG installers, for example?
it was literally made for this
lutris is essentially a community driven archive for videogames
>Can I really play (nearly) all of my stuff with enough tinkering?
depends on stuff
but as ive ly mentioned a million times in these threads around 80% of steam games work on linux (to my dismay)
>>106967531
still dont understand why you want to go with source based distribution
but you can run things like podman on any distribution
core utilities are all the same everywhere (except maye latest ubuntu lmao)
>>106967725
just go to your distributions wiki and type "DNS" in search bar
and then just follow instructions
if its shit like this >>106967738 then its literally changing 4 or 8 dot separated numbers
i dont know how youve managed to fuck this up so badly you had to reinstall your entire system
nor do i know why you didnt back up the config file before changing it if you are that new to this
>>106967901
something else is being used on top of it
i had shit like this happen with openmediavault
what distro are you using?
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>>106967901
chmod a-w /etc/resolv.conf
You have something else, systemd or networkmanager overriding the file. Just make it read only.
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>>106967913
>>106967231
not really*
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>>106967913
Bazzite, but the same thing happens on KDE Plasma and Mint too.
I know it's user error in some capacity, it just doesn't seem to work for me.
I've tried the following guides
https://www.linuxfordevices.com/tutorials/linux/change-dns-on-linux
https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls#linux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Aw95CQUIg
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>>106967913
>still dont understand why you want to go with source based distribution
I'm not attached to source based, just easy to install. I'm more interested in managing the services than the device they run on
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>>106967972
you have NetworkManager right?
if yes you can try this
https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#resolv.conf.DNS_configuration_for_NetworkManager
>>106968024
then you can use any distribution really
id go with the ones that arent musl tho, musl is annoying
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>>106967972
Easy way is to just do it in the browser. Who really cares what else sees your DNS? Check with a DNS resolver.
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>>106967972
also you can try this
https://serverfault.com/questions/1145358/how-can-i-configure-my-dns-settings-on-debian-12
and people ask why everyone hates systemd
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>>106968037
>>106968046
>>106968064
Posting from my phone... Network is connected but has "limited connection". Can't view websites.
Honestly I am so tired of this..
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>>106968139
what did you edit this time?
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>>106967972
for bazzite/fedora, you'll want to edit /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and add your dns in there like so: https://github.com/kuladog/fedora-gnome-setup/blob/main/configs/systemd/resolved.conf
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>>106968139
youre on systemd
fkn undo whatever changes you did
go into /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and change the dns to whatever you want to use under [resolve]
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>>106968200
That only applies if he's using systemd-resolved. And either way /etc/resolv.conf is what actually matters because libc uses it for name resolution.
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>>106968336
bazzite, and by extension fedora, uses resolved by default
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>>106968435
And there we go, another reason not to use trash distros.
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>>106957490
What is the easiest way to get Power Point running on Linux? I knew there is Libre Impress, but I do a lot of presentation and refused a lot of old slides. Lots of them have effects that ain't replicable on Impress
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>>106968455
winboat, i used it to get outlook running
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>>106968336
well yes but his shit is being overwritten so unless you teach him how to lock it completely that little factoid isnt really helpful
>>106968455
you didnt try open office?
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>>106968472
>open office
I believe there is no difference between Libre Office and Open Office no?
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wsl --install
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>>106968480
oh you are right
i wonder is there a way to convert them to pdf?
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>>106968480
Oh, boy...
You have Open Office, Libre Office, OnlyOffice, StarOffice...
Personally I like Only Office the best.
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>>106968506
its weird how libreoffice suffers if your hardware acceleration isnt working
tho if you run it in compatibility - or whatever the fuck - mode it is smooth
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>>106968450
What about CachyOS or Mint? (Arch vs Gnome)?
Zorin?
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>>106968583
Arch uses glibc resolver I think. It has systemd-resolved installed, but it's not enabled unless you manually enable it.
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>>106963711
There are two options, Prusa which is archaic, and Lychee which is subscription based and just announced some shitty gen AI feature
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Dolphin Manager on arch hyprland. Having issues with text suddenly being black and not matching current theme being used (catppucin blue), so it's hard to read. Happened after a recent update, but idk exactly when since I don't use dolphin much. Anyone know if it's a known issue or know a fix?
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>>106969361
nvm fixed. replaced existing qt6 with qt6-kde from aur.



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