Henlo Linux frens.

>>107009805
you know what, ive just remembered that i have Vygodsky handbooks for both basic and advanced math
cant believe ive forgotten about that

>>107009833
omg henlo <3

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Looking for recommendations for customizing the look of my VM desktop
I've looked through some of the more popular themes, but not a lot of them really stood out to me, so i'm hoping there's an obscure or unusual one that one of you guys know about. I'm willing to switch to the Xfce DE if necessary.
As you can tell, I like the colors red and black, and i'm into Aztec shit, so something along those lines would work very well for me.

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Doro approves this thread.

>>107009862
my fav is removing all the useless elements, making background almost everywhere pitch black

Why does nouveau cause my old ThinkPad with Nvidia to freeze? It's random but I notice it always happens when opening gufw. I guess it's just too ancient at this point.

>lost my headphone pad
this is it
im shooting up synagogue

>>107009953
paypal me 500 before you do it

this is so sad man all i wanted to do is to watch some minecraft slop, read my book and go to sleep
but fuck me i guess

>>107009937
How old are we talking here? Nouveau was causing random freezes for me too but this was a 6150 SE

holy SHIT ive found it
the jews are safe
for now...

>>107010019
darnit

anyone here use and train ai on their linux os?

>>107009862
I don't have a theme suggestion but...
The nice thing about GTK themes is that it's all CSS and the icons are just pngs so you have a lot of freedom to customize themes exactly how you want. If you find one you like with the wrong colors or rounded/straight corners or something else it's just a matter of finding the right lines and editing them or recoloring the pngs. You can even use a color picker to get matching hex values for colors if you want to go the extra mile, and this also makes it easier to copy colors from other themes. I would look for a specific theme you like then try to edit the colors exactly how you want instead of looking for a red/black theme specifically.

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>did an Arch system upgrade on a PC I haven't used in a while and lazily didn't check what it was doing
>on reboot, Kwin doesn't work
>have to install kwin-x11 to fix it
Gonna look through the pacman logs to see what I did wrong
>[ALPM] upgraded kwin
>[ALPM-SCRIPTLET] The KWin X window manager has been split to a separate kwin-x11 package.
Why did they do this? My fault for not checking, I suppose.

>>107010424
Because X11 isn't the default anymore, Wayland is. If you specifically want an X11 KDE session you need to install that separate package now.

>>107010449
Does Wayland still have forced vsync and you can't disable the compositor like you can on X11 when playing games? Or did valve fix that

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>>107009810
should i install arch or install gentoo

Looking for a KDE theme that supports transparent blur and the titlebar blends with the Window. Klassy + kvantum isn't quite there. Either that or I'm doing something wrong.

Nonetheless, I know such a thing is doable because I've seen some screencaps of something like that out there

>>107010481
Arch is easier

>>107010424
And somehow I was missing linux-firmware-amdgpu also.
This has been my first year using Arch and it's been good, but I need to be more careful about these things.

>>107010481
What are you even trying to do? Being a normal computer user? Arch. Wizard obsessed with customization and minimalism? Gentoo.

>>107010459
RedHat fixed it like 5 years ago probably

I hate modern Linux. The comfy boomerness of MX Linux is what I crave and need. Fuck your Wayland, fuck your systemd, fuck your cloud bullshit. We using Xfce and have cool grub themes like it's 2007.

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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=301804
anons I am having this issue. I have already added amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10 and 0x200 respectively to the file /boot/loader/entries/linux-cachyos.conf (I use systemd) but the issue persists even more so when display compositor is on. Strangely when steam is open in the background the issue is gone mostly.
Did I add the command errantly? Help would be appreciated.

>>107011041
Forgot to mention I use xfce4 rn

>>107011050
>Install Gentoo
OR
>swap to i3, sway, or hyprland

How hard is gentoo to install? I can manage a arch install so gentoo should be no different except lots of compiling?

Usecase for nixos?

I have set one of my monitors to portrait, works fine while in ubuntu gnome 25 with wayland, but the login dialog is still in landscape so entering my password is annoying.
I already tried a gdm3/.config.monitors.xml file but it doesn't change anything. Also tried an xrandr command in the gdm greeter.

>>107011140
Hobbyism

>>107011132
Gentoo as a beginner is not that harder to install when compared to Arch, it's the same process if you're thinking objectively about it: Just following the wiki and running several commands you don't know about(yet)

But if you're going to think about options and try to customize it to your needs, the complexity rises - but not the difficulty, since wiki is there for that too.

>>107011068
Isn't there a solution to this besides switching to wayland?
>Gentoo
Since I am a beginner I am afraid of this Distro

>>107011219
Noice. Will give a try.

How's EndavourOS? I plan to use it as my main OS and have a windows partition for like, Mostly Fortnite, maybe Clip Studio

>>107011282
It's basically Arch with a handheld live environment installer. It's a good way to get into Arch without going with the vanilla variant.

I just installed kde and tried it. In less than 5 minutes I uninstalled it. The task bar doesn't even work, and whenever I try to launch a program it is telling me to create some kwallet shit.

And I thought gnome was a piece of junk...

>>107011337
taskbar not working is just skill issue
but the kwallet thing is just their keyring, gnome, cosmic and a lot others do the same to encrypt passwords - which can be disabled, but I doubt you'd be able to do that

KDEConnect provides mouse and keyboard input via a connected phone, why not from another PC? I can only find the option to input key presses from another computer.

Is there a way to use keyboard and mouse on one desktop as "direct" mouse and keyboard to another computer on the network? I know SSH provides direct terminal access.

>>107009937
Because nvidia doesn't embraced open source. It's an nvidia Optimus system, right? X11 still handles that setup best, and the proprietary nvidia drivers will work better than the open source. You should be able to change from integrated to discrete. Might help you troubleshoot. It has a third mode, hybrid, which uses the discrete gpu on demand.

>>107009953
You thinking a white paint pen or white out?

>>107010494
Plasma 6? 5 has some glass themes. By blend you mean no border around the title bar? Theme creators are still catching up to Plasma 6 from what I saw for the hour or two I used it.

>>107011426
https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap

Side note: KDE Connect's virtual mouse/keyboard is still very buggy sometimes on Wayland. Now and again key repeat gets stuck so say you press the Enter/Return key once, it can spam it a million times. Sometimes the mouse gets stuck too (e.g Mouse down is held repeatedly and not released properly).

Not sure if this is a KWin bug or not. I know there's a bunch of challenges to even making this work at all.

>>107008208
Fedora removed wget and has it as a symlink to wget2 which isn't backwards compatible or intended to be a 100% replacement for wget

I have this problem with Linux that when I first turn my laptop on for the day, it will randomly reboot like 2-5 times before stopping..
I've tried Mint and Arch, KDE/Gnome and it still happens.. Running Omarchy now and it rebooted 4 times before I could log in.. Shit is annoying, probs go back to winshit

>>107011649
It's 90% compatible except it doesn't have any of the scraping/spidering features which most scripts don't use.

>>107011741
Also, no FTP support too but frankly anyone still using FTP in 2025 should be shot dead.

>>107011649
They swapped it back to wget1 all the way back in April of this year, after all the complaints from the swap in Fedora 40.

>>107011767
A pity we can't have nice things because of people's legacy crap. They could have done the swap themselves.

>>107011649
>>107011741
>>107011762
>not using curl
NGMI.

>>107011782
by "swapped" I mean they have both packages now. wget2 is still the default but you can have both installed.

>>107011785
I like Curl and it even comes with a nice wcurl script for easy downloading like

wget <URL>

you can instead use

wcurl <URL>

.

It's missing some nice quality of life things that wget has though like a decent progress bar.

>>107011785
wget has simpler syntax so if I'm just downloading a single file it's a lot quicker to type "wget Ctrl+V" than curl's longer syntax of "curl -o Ctrl+V filename.sh"

>>107011790
Ah, that's better then. People can update their legacy scripts to call /usr/bin/wget1 or whatever and /usr/bin/wget can still be wget2.

>>107011799
There's a package you can install that will set the wget symlink to point at GNU wget or vice versa.

>>107011873
Yes, that's what I meant by you can do the swap yourself. I didn't know they added a way to have both installed at once though, that's useful.

>>107009810
What theme is this?

>>107011975
It's just fairly default GNOME2 with Red Hat branding. If you want GNOME2 in the modern day you use MATE.

Chat, I am trying to set up a Ubuntu machine as a living room PC.

Main issue, getting my controller to work as a mouse. I have input-remapper working, buy it only works after I log in. I got it to run at startup, but I think because it uses user-profiles, I might be naynay'd.

Is there anyone who has gotten a controller to work as their mouse during the login screen?

What solution is there?

Can I make a hidden root account and have this autolog into a user account with no password?

>>107012035
Just configure your display manager to auto-login to your user-account.

>>107012054
I might have done a Windows noob mistake and just started setting up stuff on my computer with the first account I made.
Can I change this account to a User account or am I SOL?

how hard would it be for a noob to install gentoo and, most importantly, to make it usable to use daily with a window manager and all that

>>107012101
Just follow its install guide on its wiki. It's written out easily enough to grasp.

>>107012069
The "account" is not likely to be the issue because there are no accounts on Linux, just associations between names and numeric user IDs written in a text file. An "admin account" in a typical distro is just a user name that happens to be mentioned in /etc/sudoers and conditionally or unconditionally allowed to "elevate" to root through the sudo command.

>>107012069
It's a user account. Go to settings and search for login and enable autologin

>>107012124
>>107012128
Thanks guys.
Would you recommend leaving this acc in the Sudo group on this PC or taking it out? I feel like the latter is more secure but might make it harder to tinker with and configure everything

>>107012165
Just leave it as it is unless you have random people using the computer

>>107011658
Hardware problems

Why can't they just make linux but with windows gui?
People are bitching that nobody uses linux, well it's because it looks like ass, there are a million themes but not a single good one that looks like classic windows

>>107012300
Windows also looks like ass and people have no problem using it

>>107012300
https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

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Why the fuck is this one of the most popular themes for DEs?

>>107012300
Cinnamon = Classic Windows
KDE Plasma = Modern Windows

>>107012323
>people have no problem using it
I can't use it and feel like a damn retard if I try and hate every second of it.

>>107011741
It has several opts/args missing from wget
>>107011767
Must've missed that since 42 and i think also 43 didnt have it
>>107011785
Tell that to the scripts

>>107009810
what's the icon theme in the image?

>>107012408
>It has several opts/args missing from wget
Such as?

>>107012300
Type 'windows *versions* theme linux' into youtube for whatever version you want it to look like

>>107012408
They added it back in for 42.

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>>107012300
they can and they have

>>107012460
This fucks
What is this Anon?

>>107012492
a nightmare

>>107012492
Are you unbale to read?

>>107011591
Thank you, that appears to be exactly what I need. Haven't had those issues with KDE Connect but I've been sticking to X11 and Plasma 5. Seems to be working as it should lately. Last few issues I experienced were file transfers dropping off randomly and multimedia control being unresponsive, but that was a year or two ago now.

>>107012499
What do you expect from a zoomer with "nostalgia" for windows 7?

>>107012460
>that kerning on "FreeTube"
yikes

>>107009810
Fonts look like shit compared to clear type or MacBook. Why? How fix?

>100% scaling
>single monitor setup
>x11 and wayland both shit themselves
>tested on multiple desktop environments
>tried all combinations of aliasing and hinting

Fonts are not illegible but they're not as clear, aligned and """polished""". Linux really wasn't made for desktop use. Should've stuck to servers and stuff

>>107012492
https://gitgud.io/wackyideas/aerothemeplasma/-/tree/master/

>>107011221
NTA. Perhaps. It's part of troubleshooting. You separate parts and isolate to the piece causing the problem.

How much time do you want to put into learning? I'd suggest going with one of the more established ubuntu spins. They'll be much more stable for you to learn on.

>>107012416
I don't remember i was trying to run a bash script a few months ago and it was having errors with wget because of args that it was expecting wget to have but wget2 doesn't have
>>107012428
My f42 install doesnt have it.

>>107012654
Those arguments probably weren't necessary in the first place would be me guess. Apart from the scraping/indexing and FTP support Wget2 has most of the same things Wget1 had.

>>107012607
I'm certain I've seen this exact post word for word before. What hardware are you using dumdum?

>>107011975
>>107012413
Bluecurve
https://github.com/neeeeow/Bluecurve

>>107012688
>>107012607

Strange cause I haven't posted before. Maybe is common problem. It's an older laptop with an Intel i5 (4 cores) from 2013 coupled with a 2GB AMD Radeon GPU. 256GB SSD is the only new on that machine. 12gb ram. Too old?

>>107011975
>>107012739
it's the old Red Hat default theme
gtk2 had several really nice themes, my favourites were dust and crux

i've managed to get photoshop cc 2021 working under wine with lutris thanks to the chinese github thing
but somehow
the type tool
ONLY WORKS, when i hold down the super key?
which means i can only type K and S and some other letters because other keys like super+L lock plasma
what in the fuck could possibly be happening?

>>107012840
Window focus issue? Hard to tell. Could you post a link to the github? I'm still using CS6 but haven't set it up yet nor tried installing my tablet drivers yet and I doubt pressure sensitivity would work but at least PS itself is functional.

>>107012840
Forgot: if you are using mouse focus this can be buggy in some software.
Steam on Mint is one of those, some of the dialog panels stop accepting input if you are using mouse focus instead of the windows-like click to focus. It's annoying and should not even happen in 2025.

>>107012858
https://github.com/LinSoftWin/Photoshop-CC2022-Linux
may or may not turn your linux machine into chinese bot i don't actually know

>>107012840
Maybe try running it through gamescope

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>>107012903
i'll try that.

>>107010166
>The nice thing about GTK themes is that it's all CSS and the icons are just pngs so you have a lot of freedom to customize themes exactly how you want.
I see. That gives me a lot of ideas. Thanks for the advice anon.

>>107012665
Well i'm not going to go out of the way to modify the script and figure out which args i need to replace for a third-party script i'm only going to be using once or twice and nobody else should have to do the same just because fedora wants to force the depreciation of wget when even the wget2 dev said its not intended to be a replacement for wget which he's also the developer for.

>>107012941
It's intended to perform the same functions, just some features like scraping and FTP support aren't supported. It's in everyone's best interest to remove superfluous arguments that aren't needed in their script. It'll probably make it easier to read too.

If there's a genuine thing that Wget2 can't actually do that is needed then you may have a point but it works fine 90% of the time. You found the 10% edge-case.

>>107009810
I'm on Mint and I'm noticing hitching on games and videos on youtube that last for around anywhere from 1 to 5 seconds. What do you think the cause of this is? Is mint bad at using multicores or is it because I'm a retard with 300 tabs open? I know the answer might be obvious but I also found out that mint doesn't really do multiple sound systems and multiple monitors well either.

>>107012925
huh.
it works but now dropdown menus disappear when you hover over a deeper one

>>107012764
Not too old. What gpu drivers? What kernels? Make sure you have the correct ones installed. Try an external monitor? Were these DE's all tested on the same base OS? You didn't mention what distro.

>>107012968
Open up system monitor and see if things get maxed out at the hang. You have to narrow it down a bit. What do you mean by >multiple sound systems?

>>107012968
Fedora

>>107012958
Nobody should be forced to update their script for wget2 when wget is still supported and works fine. Backwards compatibility is always important especially when its old scripts that may have not been updated in years.

>>107012968
>because I'm a retard with 300 tabs open?
Probably
Check your cpu and ram usage. Hitching is likely related to your cpu being overwhelmed by the 300 tabs since browsers are bloated crap.

>>107013161
Most old scripts will work fine, you found one that didn't and you don't even know which option it was that caused it anyway which means it probably wasn't that important.

If you have really legacy code then you probably shouldn't run it on a modern distro and should shove it in an old container, for example with an older version of Fedora.

>>107012418
>>107012460
None of them look like classic windows on windows 7.
Chicago95 is better than nothing but it's also not great

>>107013246
i was commenting on "Why can't they just make linux but with windows gui?". for something specifically making a faithful <=2k theme, i'm not sure. i moved on from windows-like themes a long time ago

>>107012607
>Linux really wasn't made for desktop use.
agreed, it is the same conclusion I came up to after trying Linux distros again after almost 10 years. It gives me headaches after less than half an hour.
I am kind of amazed of how it still has not been worked out yet, to the point that I now think that linux desktop distros act as a containment for tasteless people, sorry to say.
No matter how much M$ fucks up now with w11 and in the future: linux desktop will never ever be a thing sadly.

>>107012300
BC your a faggot that cares about how something looks and not about how it works. Linux isn't for you.