>>107146379
>/fglt/'s website:
it doesnt work tho?

>>107146583
Just like Linux KEK

>>107146615
linux is a kernel

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>>107146379
Speaking of KDE, I recently moved to Kubuntu and it isn't as bad as I thought, did /g/ lie to me? memes aside, so far I've only found a few minor quirks/annoyances with KDE itself, but nothing serious. As for Ubuntu, my biggest gripe so far would be package management, as an Arch guy I'm used to "pacman/yay -S package" for any program I'd ever want, here however some of my favorite software is either unavailable for Ubuntu, hasn't been updated in years, or only available as a Snap/Flatpak/AppImage/Portable package that may or not even work. So I end up using "ppas", random wget installation scripts, pacstall or other random shit, how do regular Ubuntu users even keep up with this? it's a complete mess, I even had to edit apt's config just to install Firefox-esr properly. I ended up biting the bullet and use Flatpak now so there's that. Anyway, I get the appeal now, it's pretty good ootb (at least for me) and just works(tm) so far, Canonical shills... I kneel. Thank you for reading my blog!

>>107146667
>i kneel
>shills
>did /g/ lie to me
Why do you write like a retard?

>>107146695
I'm retarded, please be patient.

>>107146667
soooo... why not just use arch with kde kek

Installed my void linux to an image in a qemu VM, it boots fine on hardware but gives an error after "loading initial ramdisk..."

How to prepare my image for real hardware use

>>107146667
Yeah ppas are a mess, purge all of it before running an upgrade because it will fuck you up

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>>107146591
Enjoying life in the Kingdom of Slackware.

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>>107146591
Reminds me of this classic

>>107146736
I tried but I never got it to work right, I don't know, maybe it was the way I set up my system initially or KDE is just finicky. I went for Kubuntu because I never really tried it before (I did use regular Ubuntu once like 5 years ago) and I really didn't want to tinker too much with my computer anymore. As I said, Kubuntu has been pretty solid so far, but I do miss Arch a bit.
>>107146790
what do you mean?

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>>107146816
latest version is from 2006
http://mshiltonj.com/software_wars/

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>WinSur doesn't blur the titlebar
>Feeling ripped off

Guy who wanted to make a script for random wallpaper on the last thread here. I now have a pretty little script that just works. And I did do the filename thing instead of hardcoding the names.
I still can't fix the mangled fonts on wine applications. But I'm trying to mess with the fonts on winetricks. Also is there an easy way to disable the wow64 pop-up warning on wine? Shit's annoying.
Now, since I have a working script, I was thinking of automating it to run every hour or so. I'm on arch so I don't have cron by default. I can either install it or use systemd timers, which I never used before. Which option would be best?

>>107146816
>>107147030
saved!

>>107146840
They're not supported across versions eg if you don't purge 20.04 ppas when you upgrade to 22.04 they'll be incompatible and cause version conflicts

>>107146816
Lol sweet summer child, this didn't age well

>>107146667
>so far I've only found a few minor quirks/annoyances with KDE itself, but nothing serious.
Just so you know Nate puts out a blog post about once a month or so with all of the things fixed in KDE. Distros like Arch pick up these updates but by design unless someone backports it to Kubuntu they stay on the annoying version of KDE until the next operating system update.

>>107147556
>>107146667
Arch or Fedora are the best distros to use if you want to KDE, btw
Fedora is at most a couple months behind upstream for KDE, and Arch a few days.

Anyone have experience with undervolting an Intel laptop? I tried intel-undervolt but I get errors when I try to apply the settings.

# intel-undervolt apply
CPU (0): Values do not equal
GPU (1): -0.00 mV
CPU Cache (2): Values do not equal
System Agent (3): -0.00 mV
Analog I/O (4): -0.00 mV

Processor is an i5-10500H.

>>107147070
learning cron is better cause every system has cron in repos but not every system uses s o y stemd

third option is to use

 sleep 1h 

in your script
>>107147597
why not do it in BIOS? no option?

>>107147651
>why not do it in BIOS? no option?
Nope, not in the BIOS.

>>107146398
I don't know if someone clarified this to you but themes don't necessarily require C++, it's just the implementation of the theme's styling/theming backend that requires it because they are essentially plugins to Qt. This is bad for no-code mid-wits but extremely powerful in terms of the flexibility it gives you.

If you just want to make a theme using an SVG and some config files for theme colours and styling, etc, then you can use something like Kvantum.

>>107147651
Cron it is then. I'm trying to set up cronie. Does the deamon have to run system wide or can I enable it with the --user flag? If it's running as root, can I leave the script on the /home dir? Systemctl gave me an error when trying to enable it with the --user flag so I did it system wide.
I tried setting the crontab with crontab -e to:

*/1 * * * * /home/[redacted]/path/to/script >dev/null 2>&1

*/1 so it runs every minute for testing purposes.
>dev/null 2>&1 because arch wiki said it sends e-mails and I want e-mails.
It isn't working at all. Am I supposed to specify which shell to use, it should understand bash as the default, no?
>sleep 1h
That'd mean the script is always running on the background. Seems more appropriate to only run it when it's needed.

>>107147856
>DON'T want e-mails

So if you want a truly new 286, you have to go fpga?

>>107147270
Really? I'm currently only using the Mozilla one for Firefox-esr and Thunderbird, the latter made me tweak something just to get the regular version instead of the Snap one.
>>107147556
>>107147569
I was referring to things like design choices. For example, I changed my wallpaper to one of the many other default ones, but this didn't affect the one used in the lockscreen. I then discovered you have to manually set up that one separately, Security and Privacy > Screen Locking > Change Appearance. Imo selecting a built-in wallpaper should automatically set it up everywhere, not just the desktop, it doesn't make any sense why it doesn't behave like this by default. Actually, when selecting one of your own pics as a pape, you can select wherever apply it to just the desktop, lock screen or both, they should at the very least give you the same option for the built-in ones. I also had a bad time trying to find the option for auto-login, turns out it's in the "Colors and Themes" menu, for some reason. Also I can't seem to find how to remove a previously selected location in the "Weather Report" widget. So yeah, minor things like that, I still like KDE regardless. And yeah, maybe setting it up in Arch could have been a better idea, but as I said before I never figured out how to do it properly, but that's just skill issue on my part I guess.

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>>107147917
The lockscreen having a separate wallpaper isn't unique to KDE big dog. Even Windows does that.

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>>107147924
>server replied:
very cool

>>107147917
Yeah, I think there was a command to disable them before the upgrade but I've heard sometimes it fails anyway. If I was using debian/ubuntu today I'd just stick to flatpaks

>>107147969
It listened :')

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>>107147947
I was referring to the setting itself. As I said, when selecting one of the default ones in the "Wallpapers" menu, I would like it to be applied to both my desktop and lock screen automatically, or at least give me the option to choose it myself, just like how I can do it with my own pics. It's just a nitpick, but I find it annoying.

>>107147856
>If it's running as root, can I leave the script on the /home dir?
yes, why wouldnt you be able to?
>Does the deamon have to run system wide or can I enable it with the --user flag?
however you want
id do --user flag is safer
the safest setup requires root i think, cause you would need to make your script read only for your user
>That'd mean the script is always running on the background. Seems more appropriate to only run it when it's needed.
from what ive read sleep doesnt consume CPU cycles so its fine
>It isn't working at all. Am I supposed to specify which shell to use, it should understand bash as the default, no?
i think your redirect messes it up, tho im not sure i dont use cron
you can try putting all of it in the quotes and also put bash -c before (after quoting)

>>107147597
>sudo vim /etc/intel-undervolt.conf
>undervolt 0 'CPU' -100
>undervolt 1 'GPU' -100
>undervolt 2 'CPU Cache' -100
>undervolt 3 'System Agent' 0
>undervolt 4 'Analog I/O' 0
This applies -100mV offset. Should work.
Then test it with
>sudo intel-undervolt apply
>sudo intel-undervolt read
If it works then create a service..
Not sure if specific cpu models are locked though. I'm running an older intel so that's not a problem.

>>107147924
Yeah the built-in theme store in KDE is a bit wonky sometimes, but you can install it manually. I think for themes you move them to either /usr/share/themes or ~/.local/share/themes, but I might be wrong.
>>107147856
You are adding an extra "*". I use a cronjob to exec a script each morning and it looks like
>0 10 * * * /home/anon/.local/bin/script

>>107148154
Actually I'm retarded, your cronjob seems fine, idk. Here's some info with examples however
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/crontab-in-linux-with-examples/

>>107148047
Oh you meant how it's a bit hidden. Yeah it's rather bizarre where they put it.

>>107148113
That's basically what I tried already.

# cat /etc/intel-undervolt.conf
# CPU Undervolting
# Usage: undervolt ${index} ${display_name} ${undervolt_value}
# Example: undervolt 2 'CPU Cache' -25.84

undervolt 0 'CPU' -100
undervolt 1 'GPU' 0
undervolt 2 'CPU Cache' -100
undervolt 3 'System Agent' 0
undervolt 4 'Analog I/O' 0
# sudo intel-undervolt apply
CPU (0): Values do not equal
GPU (1): -0.00 mV
CPU Cache (2): Values do not equal
System Agent (3): -0.00 mV
Analog I/O (4): -0.00 mV
# sudo intel-undervolt read
CPU (0): -0.00 mV
GPU (1): -0.00 mV
CPU Cache (2): -0.00 mV
System Agent (3): -0.00 mV
Analog I/O (4): -0.00 mV

Maybe it's locked down in the BIOS? There's no way to undervolt it in the BIOS but there might be an option to unlock it somehow.

>>107148188
Maybe read my post again.

>>107148154
And to think a YouTube video from just a few months ago seemed to have less issue with it.

I have since installed We10XOS from GitHub and have found that the "sharp" window decoration doesn't blur the title bar, but the "non-sharp" one does.

At this point I'm starting to be convinced that there isn't a theme that will look exactly how I want unless I roll my own, and I'm not sure I'm willing to go through that effort for something I probably won't even keep

>>107148200
The only difference between yours and mine was the GPU setting, and I also tried that and it still didn't work.
I did find this video for my laptop though and he had to edit the BIOS settings from Windows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZIXq8UFaSg

>>107148101
>id do --user flag is safer
Gives me an error.
>bash -c
Doesn't work.
>quotes
Doesn't work.
>sleep
Does it keep track of time when the notebook is suspended? If it does I'll use that instead. Cron would be nice because of anacron but it refuses to work and doesn't give me any useful error code or log.
>>107148154
Is that all you have on the crontab? Did you put a
>SHELL=/bin/bash
or
>SHELL=/usr/bin/bash
Anywhere in the header? Is there anything else relevant in the file? What's the permissions on the script? Where is the file even stored? Could I maybe edit it directly without crontab -e?

>>107146793
Slackware still has reiserfs, pretty cool

>>107148441
>Does it keep track of time when the notebook is suspended?
i assume it doesnt? not sure how it works under the hood
also not sure why its important either
"i want for my script to change wallpaper EXACTLY each hour EVEN if my computer is turned off" is a weird requirement (unless you are talking about wether or not sleep works after suspending, and the answer is: yes it does)

but if you need something like that for some reason the closest solution i can think of right now is to get current hour from date command, check it against previously saved hour variable using a simple condition statement and then change your wallpaper if they differ
thats like 4 additional lines of code, pretty trivial

>>107148562
>also not sure why its important either
Not important for wallpapers, but nice to know. If I get cron to work with anacron then I could use that for backups or updates. The wallpapers are just learning exercise.

>>107146591
Arch is too small for how popular it and it's forks are

>>107148765
>it
Sure.
>it's forks
The only relevant one is artix, the rest are all memes.

>>107148781
How much you like them is irrelevant, shit like manjaro and endeavor and more recently cachyos are very popular, and steamos is based on arch. So is kde's new immutable distro.

>>107148441
So after some echo testing it seems it works as it should with other commands that aren't bash scripts.
But I still can't make it work with my script.

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>>107148765
toy os, innit?

>>107148447
>reiserfs
When ai gets more automatic, I'll tell it to finish what he started.

When making scrips that run commands on the terminal, how do I make it not actually open the terminal every time the script runs? Just do it in the background.

>>107149305
What are you doing exactly? Are you trying to start terminal from Cron or Systemd or something? Weird requirement if so.

>>107149342
Using hyprctl to set wallpaper. It returns an "ok" after a successful command. No cron or systemd.

>>107149356
Why does that need a terminal then? I'm confused.

>>107149360
>>107149356
Or is this just some Hyprland thing? I guess you would have to configure it to not do that somehow.

Maybe something like:

nohup /path/to/your/script > /dev/null 2>&1 & disown

>>107149360
Because the script calls that command and that command runs returns an "ok". Script runs on login, sets the wallpaper and opens a terminal window with the "ok".
>>107149378
Hyprctl is part of hyprland.
>nohup
It doesn't hangup, it does what it has to do but it returns an OK message after it does that, which I don't want.

>>107149378
>>107149393
I think this is also what

setsid(1)

is for (specifically making sure a command is not attached to the controlling terminal)
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/setsid.1.html

>>107149393
Or did you just want to suppress the message? I think that's what you want. I'm retarded.

hyprctl <BLAH> > /dev/null 2>&1

I need ideas for a color scheme that's "close" to the default for i3. The default makes blue text unreadable, and tango from terminal.sexy is a bit too muted.

Whatever KDE's Konsole does might work, but I have no idea how to port that over.

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>>107148441
>>107148884
Just make sure the script has the correct permissions, you can also just use a simple command inside the script to test if it works, like echo, then go into the directory and do "./script"
>>107149378
>>107149432
This is why I prefer feh, way simpler to use

>>107149527
At least supervise (Pic related) with Systemd. If you're using OpenRC it also gained user-service support recently and comes with user services for PipeWire.

>>107146379
What's a good dmenu or rofi alternative for wayland? I have a bunch of scripts that use dmenu as a frontend, I need a replacement.
>>107149443
It's called Breeze, you can get the hex codes from gogh
https://gogh-co.github.io/Gogh/

>>107149542
yeah I know, that's what I used since forever and it worked so I never had any reason to change it, it was just a random example of a script for the other guy to see.

>>107149555
IIRC there's bemenu and wofi.

>>107149432
I just want to suppress the message.
That works if I run the command manually, but the script still opens the terminal for half a second before closing. The script is called by a autoexec file ran by hyprland, the code is:

exec-once = $terminal bash /path/to/script

>>107149527
The script works. Cronie works when echoing random text (tested by creating a cronjob to echo random text into a text file, without scripts).
>permissions
It has the following permissions:

.rwxr-xr-x

So it can executed by anyone.
>feh
Doesn't work on wayland.

>>107149625
not him but cant you just... not open the terminal?
judging by that line you are opening a terminal emulator window and in that window you are executing your script with bash
when you can just... execute bash directly

>>107149645
I can't.
Removing $terminal makes it not work. I tried that already.

>>107149652
Also, I assume it wouldn't open the terminal like that if it wasn't started by hyprland this way, if I get cron to work then I'll have it run this on startup as well as every hour, but as is, it refuses to touch the script.

>>107149652
bash -c /path/to/script
doesnt work?
even with quotes or whatever?

>>107149575
It works until PipeWire segfaults (happened to me recently) and then your audio stack goes down and you have to restart it manually again.

It's nice when Systemd or OpenRC can do that for you.

>>107149666
Still opens for half a second.

>>107149700
even without $terminal ?

>>107149716
Without $terminal it doesn't work at all. Even with -c and quotes.
Like I said, this might be a hyprland problem. If cron worked that might work better but it doesn't work.

>>107149736
how does you script look like?

>>107149758

#!/bin/bash

WALLPAPER_DIR="$HOME//pictures/wallpapers/"
CURRENT_WALL=$(hyprctl hyprpaper listloaded)

# Get a random wallpaper that is not the current one
WALLPAPER=$(find "$WALLPAPER_DIR" -type f ! -name "$(basename "$CURRENT_WALL")" | shuf -n 1)

# Apply the selected wallpaper
hyprctl hyprpaper reload ,"$WALLPAPER" > dev/null 2>&1~

>>107149787
ok so
does hyprland execute script at all?
what if you put

 touch /tmp/women 

at the beginning of your script?
are there any women in your /tmp/ ?

>>107149863
Hyprland cannot execute scrips, this is why I need the $terminal in there. It can call the terminal and tell it to execute a script, but it cannot execute the script on its own. If I put

touch /tmp/women

on my script it would touch those women but only if it calls the terminal to do it.
exec-once = touch /tmp/women wouldn't touch anyone.

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>>107149872
NTA and I don't use Hyprland, but you sure about that?

>>107149872

are you sure it doesnt?
https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/1089
this suggests that you can actually do that
are you sure that path/to/script is an absolute path?
also you can try adding sleep before it like suggested here
https://www.reddit.com/r/hyprland/comments/1i50fky/how_can_i_run_bash_script_on_startup_properly/

>>107149916
Adding sleep fixes it, but now I'm waiting 2 seconds for it to set the wallpaper rather than waiting half a second for the terminal window to close. Really I'd rather just get cron to work instead.

>>107149979
Lowering the sleep timer works, got it down to .1 which is plenty fast. Now this part works.
I'd still like get cron to work, it might come in handy in the future to have it available for other scripts and I'd like to learn how to use it.

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>>107149999
when you are executing graphical apps you obviously need graphics
i dont have much experience using cron
does your rule (or whatever its called) starts your script on your video server startup?
also i dont know if you need window manager for your wallpaper thing to work
i assume you dont but who knows
i havent had wallpapers in like 2-3 years

>>107150027
exec-once runs a command whenever hyprland launches, yeah.
The wallpaper thing is using hyprpaper which is like feh for wayland.

>>107150038
no im talking about cron
because cron can start your shit whenever
but whenever isnt necessary after your graphics started
and so if it tries to start script before graphics then it just errors

>>107150054
That's future me problem, right now I can't even get it to run the script with everything already initialised.

>>107150019
And to make things worse, the grub menu isn't completely up to date. It only shows the last 12 snapshots when I have at least 18, if "btrfs subvolume list /" is anything to go by. I was able to boot to one of them with some manual GRUB tweaking and successfully boot to that, but I'm stumped with where to go from there, especially since I can't install new packages, apparently.

Also, I made a manual snaphot through BTRFS Manaer (which I don't have in this earlier snapshot) and I'm not sure where it is.

So I discovered the new Anaconda webUI Installer outright crashes if you try to make an install without a /boot partition and just a rootfs + /boot/efi.
Bravo Fedora, really made sure everything worked huh?

>>107150019
are you trying to boot a read-only snapshot?

>>107150183
I guess so. This was what was automatically laid out for me. The ultimate goal is to roll back to the latest snapshot, or maybe second latest

I'm new to Linux, I'm installing it on a brand new computer soon and it's my first Linux install ever. I just had some questions as a previous Windows user.
Is it true that GNU/Linux desktops are infected with malware less frequently than Windows desktops?
Is it true that GNU/Linux desktops crash less frequently than Windows desktops?
Should I necessarily get a package manager for installing everything I need or is it fine just grabbing everything off of github manually on GNU/Linux? I heard that most Linux users rely on package managers but I don't know the specifics.
Aside from not all games having perfect compatibility on GNU/Linux, are there any other noteworthy downgrades that exist when moving from Windows to Linux?

>>107150237
that's possible, but not how you've currently configured it

>>107150251
>malware
Yes. Partly because of smaller userbase, partly because of it's inherent security features.
>crash
Do you plan on using KDE plasma?
>package manager
Whatever disto you pick will come with one, just use that.
>downgrades
Less spyware, less access to jewish apps and a 0.0003% chance you'll grow bald spot on your beard.

>>107150256
IIRC it was pretty much just running by what archinstall did, plus, I think, installing grub-btrfs just so there would be a menu in Grub

>>107150277
>Do you plan on using KDE plasma?
openSUSE Tumbleweed is what I'm planning on using

>>107146379
Why does every Linux distro insist on looking like it did in the year 1999? Is it actual, legitimate, unironic autism (as a confirmed diagnosis for those who really resist change)?
I mean this genuinely too.

>>107150295
Doesn't matter the distro, KDE plasma will find a way to krash.

>>107150316
What is KDE plasma?
Is that like some kind of software architecture openSUSE is built atop of? pardon me for not knowing anything

>>107150336
Desktop environment.
SUSE has three options for those, KDE being one of them. I think the default is GNOME and they also have XFCE.

>>107150305
Do they though? Mint and Ubuntu have fairly modern looks to them, Same with DEs like KDE.

>>107150349
In that case should I avoid KDE?

>>107150251
>Is it true that GNU/Linux desktops are infected with malware less frequently than Windows desktops?
yes, "centralized" package management, open source and popularity is mostly the reason
>Is it true that GNU/Linux desktops crash less frequently than Windows desktops?
no, unless microsoft fucked up windows so badly that we are back to the XP era it should be more frequent
FOSS communities dont have hundreds of millions $ for QA departments
but then again the crashes are so rare that it doesnt matter

personally ive never experienced software caused crash in linux based systems
be that videoserver, DE or kernel
all my crashes were hardware related
in fact one time my system straight up survived RAM stick death
and there were numerous times my system survived my main drive with the system disconnected completely
windows cant survive things like that
>Should I necessarily get a package manager for installing everything I need or is it fine just grabbing everything off of github manually on GNU/Linux?
you will have package manager by default, you wont need to "get" it
its not realistic to maintain your install by constantly coompiling shit from github (unless you are a kiss linux autist or something)
>I heard that most Linux users rely on package managers but I don't know the specifics.
you do

 sudo package_manager install_flag package_name 

and then press "y'
here is your specifics
>are there any other noteworthy downgrades that exist when moving from Windows to Linux?
you learn to hate faggots like linus tech tip, most of IT technicians and sys admin faggots that love their fucking web panels as well as niggerkettle GUI software after you learn how to use your computer as an actual fucking computer
you will realize that none of these dogs know how operating systems work and that most of the tech culture is a fucking cargo cult and that most of the "computer literate" people just know what software buttons they are supposed to press 1/2

>>107150353
It was meant as a joke. Use whatever you want, but bloated stuff like that just krashes some times... GNOME is another heavy DE. Some people like them...
OpenSUSE won't be your final stop and you'll go through plenty of DEs and WMs before you settle, so just experiment around a lot. Try it out on a VM before you commit.

>>107150362
>>107150251
2/2 ...like well trained fucking dogs that they are

>>107150362
>you learn to hate faggots like linus tech tip
I already hate him, one time I told him on twitter that he needs to be more careful when he handles computer parts because he keeps breaking shit in his videos and he got like a hundred people to harass me, I had to close my fucking account and make a new one so I wouldn't get followed. I didn't even swear at him or insult him or anything, I just matter of factly told him that he broke his computer parts

>>107150316
Can't edit a panel or widget without it krashing at least once

>>107150385
this faggot just plugs and unplugs graphics cards and then runs fucking lara croft to see if it runs at 60 fps
i bet when he was reviewing 30 series nvidia cards when they came out he didnt even mention one of the coolest fucking things we have seen in GPU's in a while - tensor cores
instead he was probably yapping about fucking frame times or some gay shit like that

or how this fucking loser gives CPR to any laptop he reviews like a fucking clown that he is and says absolutely nothing of value during review
or how he makes reddit tier videos about anti corpo tech
or how he confidently has the most retarded fucking opinions
or how despite being in IT industry for that long he cant actually use a fucking computer
or how he tolerates niggercattle slop tech on his channel and sometimes even promotes and praises it as if it doesnt slowly rot the fucking industry and makes our societies worse year after year

there are like 3 and a half good videos on his channel and for the most part they are good cause they are made by/have people that are better than him in them

the only two good things that he ever made in his miserable life is his PSU testing website and that one monitor refresh rate video with shroud

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>>107150491
forgot the pic

>>107150491
damn you must really fucking hate him.

>>107150491
if you hate him that much, why do you watch him?
>inb4 i don't watch him
yes you do, otherwise you'd know none of what you're talking about, like i don't.

>>107150362
>no, unless microsoft fucked up windows so badly that we are back to the XP era it should be more frequent
>FOSS communities dont have hundreds of millions $ for QA departments
Funny you should mention that, neither can Microsoft. They can't even release an update without it bricking systems nowadays. We're back in pre-SP1 XP days again with Microkek Wangblows

>>107150525
we live in mixed ( mostly market) economy
in order for it to work properly we need regulations (we have that) AND ethical consumerism
in order to practice ethical consumerism consumer must be informed
average consumer does not have time/ability to be properly informed about technology
therefore it is a duty of tech journalists/"content" creators to inform the public
almost every single tech journalist/celebrity has failed general public
hes a very good representation of that failure

honestly i hate that nigger mark ass brownie even more but i simply have more to say about our canadian cuck
>>107150566
>yes you do, otherwise you'd know none of what you're talking about, like i don't.
i've USED TO watch him ;)
>>107150571
they just use to much AI (Actual Indians) during development

>>107150604
are you a communist or anything like that by any chance

>>107150757
im a pragmatist
i dont care for political ideologies, they are for midwits
nor am i married to a specific economic system
shit works - i like it
shit doesnt - i dont

not to mention not wanting to live in a trash pile full of plastic and chemicals while being surveillanced 24/7 and fed slop "entertainment" that costs you an arm and a leg and not being able to use your devices for anything useful for humanity because a bunch of CEO faggots and upper management really care about their IP and bottom line doesnt make you a communist
it means you are not fucking brain damaged

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tried to guess POSIX compliant script in akinator
didnt work out

>>107146793
Is there any reason to use it over Gentoo?

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Experiences with vanilla os? Seems like a perfect distro for me.

>>107150965
Considering it doesn't even have a proper package manager and Portage/Emerge mogs it in every way?
No, not really. Use it for nostalgia maybe?

I was considering switching to linux for years but remained hesitant, afraid of missing too many windows only programs.
But for the past year I've been tinkering with self hosting stuff using proxmox/debian which has made me a bit more familiar with how linux is structured and with the end of support for windows 10 combined with a hatred for 11 I finally bit the bullet and made the switch to Fedora KDE Plasma on my desktop.
And holy fuck boys, I'm blown away by how much better the user experience feels to me.
No bullshit, a UI that feels more sensible, an amazing powerful terminal, awesome QoL features such as KDE connect, most games having significantly better performance, being allowed to tweak whatever the fuck I want, the list goes on. It's been a great experience so far.

What I find most ironic is that a bug that I had on windows where if my MICROSOFT wireless media keyboard's dongle was plugged in, then windows would be blocked from entering idle state, so when the idle timeout was reached, my screens would turn off and immediately back on. Since one of the screens is a TV and I switch audio outputs between that and my desktop speakers, if I had music playing on the TV speakers it would momentarily switch to the desktop speakers when the TV screen turned off and back to the TV speakers when the TV screen turned on again right away, with some audio dropout in between. Super annoying, plus that it just sucked that my PC could never enter sleep mode when unattended.
On Fedora, it just works. Lmao.
Get fucked microjeets, I'm never going back.

I was always a debian based baby ipad boy:Ubuntu,Xubuntu,Linux Mint.I always used it on an Outdated tech laptop from a decade ago and I managed it to put bottles and make it work decently with games.

Then I have a big tabletop pc that always had windows on it and I decided to swap to Bazzite, since I barely play anything online and I've tried to replicate my laptop experience to this one.

>Install the same games who used to work fine in laptop with half the RAM and 1/4th of VRAM the same way I did through Lutris.
>the game works fine but the sound is fucked sounds like my wired headphones are like a bluetooth headphone running out of battery.
>shut down the game and carry on my normal browsing.
>video and audio still fucked.
>need to reboot computer to make it work the way it used to.

I've prompted deepseek about it and it mostly tells me to restart my audio and gpu through the terminal but it doesn't work the issue still persists and I've got to reboot to make it work as normal.

I've grown quite fond of using baby ready made linux distros, I really feel like shit about this. Am I doomed to return to windows?

>>107151608
>ricer distro has ricer distro problems
what a surprise

>>107151696

Its very weird to explain but In my shitty Linux mint laptop I don't have the same issues, and I forgot to mention I used Linux Mint first in pc and still ran into the same issues, I formated and got Bazzite thinking the default optimization for gaming would help.

>but it didn't and I kinda have the same trouble.

>>107151704
So you mentioned the audio issue, but what's the video issue? Also specs would probably help.

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Is this a result of fractional scaling being dogshit on Plasma? Notice how blurrier task icons and the cursor are compared to the clock. This is with KDE plasma set to 125% scaling on Wayland.
Firefox also has a problem similar to this, but thankfully it got fixed in 145.

I'm having problems with printing pages from libreoffice writer and pdf. Pdf is incredibly slow, and libreoffice writer files have several text lines that are unreadable. The printer test page prints perfectly ok. I'm on a new kubuntu install. Has anyone else faced this problem?

>>107151870
>"Why do icons not scale as well as text?"
Keep doing you brotha

>>107151870
KDE actually has the best fractional scaling of any desktop environment on *any* operating system. So if it doesn't look good in KDE, it won't look good anywhere.

>>107151306
It works until it doesn't.
Linux systems are getting 100x more updates than Windows... probability of something breaking with your linux is much larger.
USB preventing sleep is something what you could have configured via power options and not a bug.

>>107151902
Fuck do you mean?
At 125% tray icons on Windows look sharper and fonts look considerably clearer.
>>107151898
Well why won't they? Aren't these icons supposed to be scalable? What year is this?

>>107151930
Anon, I...

>>107151838

>rtx 5060 poorman's edition 8gb vram
>32gb ddr5 ram
>an old 12th gen intel I7

And regarding the video issues it does stutter a lot as if it was lagging, and so far I've tried it with both video files in my computer and youtube, stutters the same.

I've decided to test the steam in Bazzite by default and I'm able to play stuff with decent graphics with my computer working absolutely fine, like I can play with everything on high, with DLSS on and the sound its perfect and the frames are perfect and when I close it there aren't any video issues.

I reckon its a "me" problem forgetting about something crucial in Lutris, I'll delve further and come back.

After the recent system update (Manjaro + Hyprland) every time the PC goes to sleep, after going back the fonts in Firefox become very blurry. OS restart fixes this until the next time the PC goes to sleep. Anyone had this problem and how do I fix it? My GPU is AMD. This only happens in Firefox (Didn't check other browsers).

Please respond.

>>107145758

>>107151982
sometimes when i delete something it takes a bit to update the free space but mines alright on my machine

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>>107146667
Ubuntu user here
>here however some of my favorite software is either unavailable for Ubuntu, hasn't been updated in years, or only available as a Snap/Flatpak/AppImage/Portable package that may or not even work.
Which software do you mean specifically? Sometimes I use Flatpaks/Snaps/AppImages if I want the very latest version of something. Homebrew is good too. Otherwise I'll just use Ubuntu's repos because they have a lot of stuff.
>So I end up using "ppas", random wget installation scripts, pacstall or other random shit
I try to avoid PPAs unless I'm absolutely certain the PPA has been made by trustworthy people. Installation scripts are okay if the source is trustworthy.
>I even had to edit apt's config just to install Firefox-esr properly. I ended up biting the bullet and use Flatpak now so there's that
I have Firefox installed from Mozilla's own deb repo, which is their recommended method of installation. Sure you can use Flathub or Snap instead if you want since they're also published straight from Mozilla and they're kept up to date. I prefer having the deb though (you can get ESR from Mozilla's deb repo, or normal Firefox, or dev edition, etc). See here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions-recommended

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IS GNOME EVEN SAFE TO USE OR WILL THE TRANNIES SPY AND STALK ME IF I POST TO THE FORUM KNOWN AS 4CHANG?

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>>107151982
Seems like there's some rounding going on but close enough.

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>>107150251
>Is it true that GNU/Linux desktops are infected with malware less frequently than Windows
I don't know, but malware for Linux does exist. Therefore you should always be very careful about where you are getting your software from. Even open source software can be infected with malware (e.g. the XZ utils backdoor last year), so make sure you're installing from a trustworthy origin.
>Is it true that GNU/Linux desktops crash less frequently than Windows desktops?
I think this will depend on your Linux setup. I have only ever installed Debian-based distros and they've been very stable in my experience. Other distros might be less stable but I don't know.
>Should I necessarily get a package manager for installing everything I need or is it fine just grabbing everything off of github
I think most major distros already have a package manager. Debian has apt (and dpkg), Fedora has dnf (and rpm), etc. You can install from where you like. Often the version of a program in the repos will be just fine. If you need a newer version of a program, you could get it from GitHub potentially, or Flathub, or Homebrew, etc. Personally I'm only going to install a package (wherever it's from) if I think it's legit. E.g. I probably wouldn't download and run something from a little-known GitHub repo with only 2 stars. But if it's a well-known repo, like github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp (134,000+ stars), then I would probably trust their installation instructions.
>Aside from not all games having perfect compatibility on GNU/Linux, are there any other noteworthy downgrades that exist when moving from Windows to Linux?
For me Linux is fine because my main computer use cases are programming and general stuff like web browsing, watching videos, etc. This stuff works fine on Linux in my experience. But with some software, your mileage may vary (Adobe Photoshop, some games, etc).

In summary: you could try Linux, then if you hate it, wipe the installation and reinstall Windows.

>>107151927
Trust me I've spent days fucking with the power options trying to figure out how to fix this. It wasn't behaving as configured and I'm convinced it was a bug.
Also the probability of windows breaking with the army of jeet devs behind it these days is about 100%.

>>107152239
>(e.g. the XZ utils backdoor last year), so make sure you're installing from a trustworthy origin.
installing from the most trusted origin wouldn't have helped you a single bit against that xz backdoor.

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>>107152001
>>107152135
Mine is completely wrong. How do I fix this? I already tried reinstalling Dolphin.

>>107150295
Just so you know, Tumbleweed was infected with malware from the xz package (used for file compression) last year. Many other distros weren't affected because they take longer to incorporate new software when it is released. I personally like Debian-based distros, where the packages are a bit older, but they're usually well-tested and stable. Then I can add specific newer programs on top if I want (e.g. from Flathub or Homebrew). Obviously this is all your choice though.

>>107152253
Okay sure, I guess it's not only a question of where you're getting your software from, but also what that software is. If you install OpenSUSE Tumbleweed then I would say SUSE is a trustworthy origin of software, but Tumbleweed is perhaps inherently a slightly bigger risk for malware, because it's on the bleeding edge. That's how it became infected with the xz backdoor, while other distros which take longer to incorporate new software were not affected.

>>107152363
bleeding edge distros like Arch weren't affected by it since the malware relied on modifications to upstream software done by some distros.

Given the almost catastrophic xz backdoor incident that was caught and stopped, I think it's safe to assume there are many more backdoors that we don't know about that have been successful. You probably have to treat literally any device on any OS as potentially backdoored.
I installed OpenSnitch (an application level firewall) that informs me about every outgoing connection and lets me create rules to allow or deny them. Probably a good tool to gain insight into what's phoning home.

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>>107152363
not that anon, but you've conflated contributors (project 'maintainers') and package maintainers. The xz-utils incident was a supply chain attack such that the origin of deliberately pozzed patches were ultimately introduced from the master tree of the source.


but regardless, packaging for Linux distros does fuck all in terms of security. A package repository is nothing but sources compiled and linked for a specific distrobution. You should not consider this a security bonus. It's well and good to use a Linux distro or official package repos because a bunch of autists compiled most of the stuff you wanna use already, but the software installed on your computer is no less vulnerable to unpatched bugs.

pic related, this is how we know shit's secure using Linux on the desktop

>>107151898
you know icons in ${currentYear} are made using svg, a scalable format much the same as modern fonts, right?

>>107152260
well thats just weird, a tmpfs for root. maybe dolphin is running under a container? was it installed with flatpak or snap? or is it some linux with an immutable system?.

running "df -h" in the terminal, does it report the correct free space?

can't find any issues like this atm, maybe try reporting to https://bugs.kde.org/ if you cant find a fix

>>107152591
>maybe dolphin is running under a container?
I don't know what that means.
>was it installed with flatpak or snap?
It initially came bundled with Plasma and then I tried to update it by downloading it from Discover, which I believe was a flatpak. I think that's what caused the problem.
>or is it some linux with an immutable system?
It's Ubuntu.
>running "df -h" in the terminal, does it report the correct free space?
Yes, so does System Monitor. This is a Dolphin problem.

>>107152646
>It initially came bundled with Plasma and then I tried to update it by downloading it from Discover, which I believe was a flatpak. I think that's what caused the problem.
Okay? Then uninstall it and reinstall the version from the repos

>>107152646
does installing dolphin through apt-get change anything? sometimes it just pushes snaps though.

you should be able to tell with the "snap list" or the "flatpak list" command and see if dolphin is there

if its a native package then i dont know what could be causing this

>>107152397
Fair point

>>107152491
>packaging for Linux distros does fuck all in terms of security. A package repository is nothing but sources compiled and linked for a specific distrobution. You should not consider this a security bonus. It's well and good to use a Linux distro or official package repos because a bunch of autists compiled most of the stuff you wanna use already, but the software installed on your computer is no less vulnerable to unpatched bugs.
But surely if I install GIMP from Debian's repos for example, or from Flathub, then I can be reasonably confident (although not 100% certain) that what I'm installing hasn't had malware added. Whereas if I install GIMP from github.com/some-random-person/totally-legit-version-of-gimp, or some other weird source, then perhaps there's a greater chance that the program has been tampered with

But yes, in either case, I could get unpatched bugs. In which case hopefully I would install security fixes promptly, whether they come through Flathub, or through my distro's repos, or some other legit source.

>>107152740
>>107152772
Simply removing the Flatpak version of Dolphin fixed the problem, but the bundled version is outdated and running Software Updater doesn't find a newer version.
I would rather remove the bundled version and use the Flatpak version instead. How do I do this?

>>107151963

Okay so I fixed it the problem was with running wine-ge-8-26-x86x64 I swapped it to GE-Proton and now it works like a charm.

Now I can be a true gaymer.

In retrospective I don't know if this Bazzite shit is really long term proof cause it feels like I've been told before a riced out tiny project.

So far I'm glad I have a computer able to run KDE on its own, a decade ago that was a dream from having such a shitty computer that couldn't handle that DE, I'm glad that's changed what I'm not sure if it has been optimized as to how it was a decade ago,

>only issue I have with KDE plasma right now is picture-in-picture pop up videos don't stay on top and get left behind when a bigger window takes over, but don't take my word on that one cause I think this is a common Wayland issue more than a KDE flaw...

>>107152491
>but the software installed on your computer is no less vulnerable to unpatched bugs.
Besides already mentioned addition of unwanted malicious extras by dubious sources, you also can be sure that the package follows your distros guidelines about where things are to be placed if you get it from your official repos.

>>107152821
>I would rather remove the bundled version and use the Flatpak version instead.
>How do I do this?
You don't, file managers are a type of a program that don't work well as a flatpak.

>>107152863
Well, then how do I get automatic updates for Dolphin?

>>107152882
use a sane distro

>>107152882
You rely on your distro's maintainers to do that.

>>107150277
>inherent security features
such as?

Linux tourist here (recently switched from W10 to Debian), why the fuck are there so many directories in root and why does different software install itself in (seemingly) random places? Are all distros this convoluted? Is it for some legacy reason or just developer incompetence that a random application with no deep connection to the OS can just decide to plop itself into /etc/.../bullshit (for example)?

>>107153190
Watch a video about the Linux filesystem hiarachy. It'll get you up to speed when it comes to where things are installed/what the folders do/why they're there.
After you watch one of those videos you'll finally get it.

>>107153190
Perhaps read about the history of computers bit more. It is the unix heritage but modern linux distributions are more convoluted than ever before.

>>107152821
this is how ubuntu works, for stability you use the version provided by the distro until the next big update in 26.04. if you're on ubuntu 24.04 you could upgrade to 25.10 and get a more recent version (but not the latest).

if you neeeed updates you might like the fedora kde spin. you get the latest dolphin within a week or two at most, and a system upgrade every 6 months.

theres also arch where it updates every part of the system whenever they can (rolling release), bit more prone to shit breaking, would not recommend if you're new to linux

>>107153190
it's for historic reasons, but it's not as bad as the clusterfuck when Microsoft got everyone to write their configs and stuff somewhere into the user's dir on windows.

I need to restart my pc to finish the update but I don't wanna

>>107153190
man hier

>>107153204
>>107153206
>>107153291
>>107153346
I get the intention but
>there seems to be overlap between some of these (in probably more ways than I can think of)
and
>I've been using Linux for a just a few weeks and I've already encountered (not obscure) software that doesn't seem to adhere to these principles
There wouldn't happen to be a command or piece of software that somehow scans you system and shows installed software and where their respective files and configurations are stored, right? Because that wouldn't follow peepeepoopoo principles or whatever.

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Guys, between opensuse tmbleweed, slowrol, aeon, fedora workstation and bluefin, which one would you pick for a workhorse machine? I want an up to date system 5hat is stable.

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What's the meaningful difference between running source my_file and bash my_file or ./my_file
I know that source executes the file in my 'current' shell, but I don't really know what that means or what that looks like.

>>107153448
When you install something it'll most likely end up in one of the /usr folders like /usr/bin. User-level configurations for these programs are most of the time stored in a hidden folder in your /home called .config, while system wide config (for things like your package manager) are stored in /etc.

>>107153448
There is overlap, but that just takes us back to the compatibility issue. Notably bin and lib, they're often just symlinks though. You basically only need to worry about /etc if you want to make system wide configuration changes. The other dirs are managed by a package manager.

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>>107146379
How do I make qt programs look consistent with gnome?

>>107153478

source my_file.sh
. my_file.sh

These will run the script exactly as if you'd pasted them into your terminal. They can change your directory, mess with your environment variables, tweak shell settings, and so on.

./my_file.sh
bash my_file.sh

These will start up a new bash process and run the script inside it. If the script messes with environment variables or other stuff like that, it only affects this new bash process and not the one you typed the command into because they're not the same.

>>107153520
Ahh, okay that makes more sense, thank you.

>>107153520
Wait so is one more permanent than the other, or do they both reset the same way?

>>107153516
Install kvantum

>>107153549
What do you mean by "permanent" or "reset"? Neither of those really apply to shell scripts.

>>107153581
Does whatever variables set by the script differ depending on which method I use to run it? Like do they both reset immediately after I reboot my pc?

whats a good software to read manga from .rar/.zip files?
currently using mcomix and its kinda slow and i cant change the resize filter to something better

>>107153599
You mean environment variables?
If you run a command like

export VAR=something

then that only exists in the bash process you ran that in and any subprocesses you started from it. When you reboot, that process dies and you get a new one when you log in.
Doing "source script.sh" runs the script as if you'd typed it in so it'll last until you close the terminal.
"./script.sh" makes a new bash process and sets the variable only in that subprocess, not the parent bash process that you ran the script from. When the script exits, the child bash process stops existing so that variable disappears then too.

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How can I install Diablo 2 from disk? I'm using Linux Mint XFCE on an old laptop. I installed Lutris and tried to use the install script that's just for the base game installing from CD. When it comes time to insert the play disk, I do insert the play disk into my disc drive, but the installer doesn't seem to recognize it. Pressing 'OK' does nothing except have the popup telling me to put the disk in reappear.

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>>107153638
Interesting, I actually tried making a script a while ago that set a bunch of variables and then ran a command after that, however I was severely butthurt at it not doing anything when I tried launching that script with dmenu.
Typing out all the variables manually in my current shell and then executing the game I wanted to run right then and there worked, but turning it into a .sh script didn't.
Do you think this might have something to do with it?
If I wanted to make a script that I could launch from dmenu which set a few variables and then ran a game using proton afterwards, is there something I should be aware of?

>>107153650
wine has an "eject" function for exactly this kind of thing, to let windows programs know you've changed disc

To fix Fedora shitty h.265/265 playback (almost every website uses these)
Couldn't even scrub some shitty 4chan webm without playback getting frozen
>sudo dnf remove libswscale-free
>sudo dnf remove libswresample-free
>enable rpm fusion
>sudo dnf install ffmpeg-libs
This is pretty annoying.

>>107153719
h264 tyypo

>>107153709
You should put the command to start the game in the same script as the commands that set the variables. Something like

#!/bin/bash
export VAR1=something
export VAR2=something2

start_game --whatever --args

btw, I'm not gonna reply to another post with an animeshit image.

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Bros I need your help.
I was listening to music with mpv, and in the middle of a song it skipped to the next one with the error:

[ffmpeg/audio] flac: invalid residual
[ffmpeg/audio] flac: decode_frame() failed
Error decoding audio.

I run journalctl -b -p 3 -f, and there are 5 errors popping up whenever I play that song where it skips to the next one:

<date> <hostname> kernel: BTRFS error (device dm-0): bdev /dev/mapper/<devicename> errs: wr 0, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 191, gen 0

the number after 'corrupt' increments with each error

I remember seeing the occasional error in the logs before, but I never experienced faulty behavior because of this. Yesterday, I encrypted my disk where I had to shrink and enlarge the filesystem.

I'm thinking about reinstalling everything with ext4. I have some backups (on an external ext4 disk), so I can probably restore this song. But is there a way to find out if there are any other corrupted files? Should I return to ext4 asap?

>>107154042
>is there a way to find out if there are any other corrupted files?
run a btrfs scrub
>Should I return to ext4 asap?
lol no. while ext4 wont return corruption errors, this is because it can't detect them, while btrfs can. this incident should make you concerned for the storage device rather than btrfs

>>107154042
Anything in SMART data?
>smartctl -H /dev/sdX

>>107153714
NTA, but I once tried installing Republic Commando this way. It took a bit more force than expected. I wonder how much of that has to do with the fact that I was using a VM, even when I set up a real DVD drive to pass through

>>107154167
it is a tricky thing to work out. for many games you can just copy the contents of all discs into a single folder and install it without disc swapping, but some the installer insists you switch during installation so you have to set things up correctly, like have your cd mount as a cd-rom drive in winecfg and use the eject command to tell programs in wine you've switched disc

>>107154042
this is where the 'btrfs corrupts my data' meme comes from
amazing

>>107154089
>this incident should make you concerned for the storage device rather than btrfs
okay I'm in a bit of a panic mode rn, but what you say makes sense, especially since I bought the cheapest no-name chink-shit ssd I could find (a couple weeks/month ago). Like I said, I encrypted the entire disk yesterday, so maybe this was too much for it.
>lol no. while ext4 wont return corruption errors, this is because it can't detect them, while btrfs can.
okay, good to know, so on my next install (on the new ssd I'm going to order now) I will stick with btrfs then.
>run a btrfs scrub
130 GB scrubbed, 37 corrected errors, 108 uncorrectable, I don't feel so good...
>>107154152
>Anything in SMART data?

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

>>107154247
Actually I'm not sure if -H will show minor errors, what about with -a? If there are relocated sectors your drive is probably starting to fail.

>>107154260
I don't know how to interpret this.

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       0
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0032   100   100   050    Old_age   Always       -       0
...
SMART Error Log Version: 0
No Errors Logged

>>107154238
over 10 years ago sure, btrfs might have been the cause of corruption, but these days if you're seeing corrupted data, it's because btrfs is detecting it rather than causing it
>130 GB scrubbed, 37 corrected errors, 108 uncorrectable, I don't feel so good...
yea that's not good. this could be bitrot, or a failing disc, but it can also be a failure elsewhere, like bad ram. i would certainly do a thorough ram check before proceeding, and if you overclock your cpu, check that for stability as well, corrupted data on disc isn't /always/ the disc's fault

>>107154247
If the drive is under warranty it might be prudent to run a long self-test (smartctl -t long <drive>) and see if enough of the media is bad enough to warrant a RMA. This will slow it down for several hours.

>>107154274
Is that all it shows for the table? To me it looks like the drive is working normally. The next step would be checking your RAM with memtest as that can cause corruption too.

>>107154299
no I didn't post the whole table. other values are (ATTRIBUTE_NAME and RAW_VALUE, the other columns are exactly like the others I posted) e.g. Power_On_Hours 555 (it's not much, is it?), Program_Fail_Count_Chip 134217728 (?), Erase_Fail_Count_Chip 50095, Wear_Leveling_Count 128. but this is still not complete, but these look like the most relevant.
>The next step would be checking your RAM with memtest
okay I can give it a try

>>107154324
>program/erase failures
that's not a good sign
in flash chip terms, when you write new data (or update data), this requires erasing a flash block and programming (writing) it with new data, a failure here means the flash block has failed. it's kind of like reallocated sectors in a hdd in that it's also related to failed storage areas

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>>107153769
>You should put the command to start the game in the same script as the commands that set the variables. Something like
Alright, that makes sense because looking at the script I can see I did not bother to do that.
>btw, I'm not gonna reply to another post with an animeshit image.
Good thing I got what I asked for.

>>107154220
Yeah, that hasn't worked in this case. I just get /dev/sr0 is busy.

I also tried using "Virtual Desktop", which basically makes a window instead of using the actual Linux desktop space. Now it's just showing the installer background and I don't know how to switch back to the prompt window. I can't even force quit it.

>>107150305
they don't
but for me, personally, the more into the tech i get, the less frills i want
moreover, when one starts delving into the inner workings of their system, there is a certain pride and comfort in being able to grok what's there. building up from the base, one starts to focus on how simple things can be vs where they are. maybe such a person's menu bars don't slide into view and fade away and composite with other windows, say, but they know how they work, and that is more important to that type of person. hence their interfaces tend to become simpler looking and more streamlined.

>>107154349
Those tits are grotesque

When I do sudo btrfs subvolume list / I see two types of snapshots
Some are like .snapshots/2/snapshot and some are like @home/.snapshots/3/snapshot
The fuck is up with that
I only selected snapper in archinstall

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>>107153769
Sank you!

>>107150305
what distro even fits that? I might want it.

>>107154473
Your /home and / subvolumes are separate. Same idea of having a separate home and root partition. This means your home and root have separate snapshots as well.

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>>107154380
i got that game installed easily by using two cd-rom drives (virtual, cdemu), that's another potential option if like this game, it lets you pick another location part way through
the game didn't start however as this game uses securom (at least this original 2-disc version). nothing a trip to gamecopyworld can't fix. the launcher insists i install directx, which it doesn't detect as completing, but running the game directly from the system folder works

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>>107154380
>>107154605
ps. never heard of this game. the file layout immediately told me this is an unreal engine game, so i ran "stat fps" while i was at it

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>>107154436
In the best way possible. Unless you're a fag.

>>107154605
>>107154627
Now I suspect even more that my woes were due to being in a VM. I did managed to get by by ripping the CDs into ISO and having them both mounted at the same time.

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is there a KVM software equivalent of multiplicity that I can use with all my work equipment. I want to switch to Linux but I'm actually way too lazy to just unplug my mouse and keyboard every time I want to use my work shit. All I have to do on Windows is hold down shift and I can controls all my devices. If there's something similar, I don't care if it takes ages to setup, I would be forever grateful.

>>107154782
Look at synergy / input-leap it's software KVM, you need 2 different computers, you can move your mouse to the edge of the screen (or configure hotkeys) to switch to the other computer like if it was a second monitor. I use it every day

>>107154782
Input Leap.

>>107154782
Just get Apple and use MacOS.

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>>107154799
>>107154800
nice dubs, I'll check it out, thanks.
>>107154814
no

>>107154782
barrier

>>107154854
Unmaintaned. The devs moved on to Input Leap.

>>107154324
>Program_Fail_Count_Chip 134217728 (?), Erase_Fail_Count_Chip 50095
Bad NAND, RMA.

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>>107154343
Did a memtest, and it passed without errors. 'btrfs scrub' showed >100 errors,
and with dmesg I was able to get a list of corrupted files - thanks to btrfs! Without the checksums I would not know which files were affected, and I might not have noticed until all backups are corrupted, too... I might create a new btrfs on the disk and install a system, and check if journalctl still shows btrfs errors, if it does than I can be certain it's the hardware.
>>107155058
So it's almost certainly the ssd. At least now I know what to check regularly:
jornalctl for btrfs errors, and smartctl -a.

Thanks for the help everyone, I learned something out of this.

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>>107146379
This alert suddenly popped up, no idea what's going on here.

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I'm doing some spring cleaning and I plan on finally changing terminal. Is there anything akin to urxvt but without the need to mess with a config file and have to reload with a stupid command?

>>107155112
this is why i won't touch anything but btrfs these days, it's amazing people still use non-checksumming filesystems and don't realise that their filesystem saying it's clean just means at best the metadata look ok but it doesn't actually have any mechanism to know if the data is ok at all

>>107155194
you've given us too much context

Is there a website where I can see if kernel and OS updates are available at-a-glance?

>>107155194
Check journalctl -b around the time of the message for clues.

I switched from Win10 to bazzite. Am I linux user now?

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>>107155357
Will do, I don't know if this is helpful, but this is what happens if I click on details. But I'll check journalctl as well. Worth noting I am still a noob at this so I am not sure if there's any warning signs in the log as well.

>>107155357
>>107155542
Tried Journalctl, but it only gives me results since 14:10:42. It does not give me anything for 00:36:10, which is unusual. Or maybe I am just doing it wrong.

>>107155540
you've been for years, you just didn't know.

>>107155542
>ino
That's the file inode number, but I'm not familiar with SELinux, so I don't know which file it's referring to (the bash executable?). You can run "find -inum INODE_HERE" in / to see which file it is.

>>107155540
No, you just have a shiny rock.

>>107155761
I just tried that, but weirdly enough it kinda returned...nothing? Just left a blank space after that. It's weird. I am starting to wonder if this is a false positive bug by SELinux

>>107155833
Wait shiny rock is no computer? Grug has been bamboozled!

Windows 11 installer fucked over my UEFI grub without me even attempting to install it. I kept this fucking cancer on its separate SSD but no, fucking retards from microsoft need the whole fucking computer. The best part? Shitdows doesn't even have drivers for USB on this FUCKING 7GB fat ISO image. I hope their HQ FUCKING BURNS TO THE GROUND.
Now sitting on my stinkpad T60 and making a bootable USB for my meme distro.

wanna hear a joke?
how do you get an archtroon to shut the fuck up?
tell it to read a man page
lmao

>>107155997

You gotta hoard SO DIMM DDR2 ram sticks for it you gotta make sure your grandchildren get a whole box of spares.


If I have a script to nuke all the cache memory is that considered good practice.

I'm unaware if there is a garbage collector with the 6.1 Kernel but I still keep getting massive spikes after playing games, in both sound and video, and running that is the best next thing to rebooting my whole pc to make shit work again.

I'm all ears gents

>>107155997
Skill issue.

>>107155997
>fucking retards from microsoft
They're obviously doing it on purpose. I can't wait for PCs to get locked down like smartphones. You VILL use Windows and you VILL be happy

>>107156136
Are you retarded? It's literally Microsoft's doing and/or firmware bug of the motherboard. Go suck microsoft's dick somewhere else, I'll probably uninstall this cancer and keep it in a virtual machine only.

>>107156138
This bug has been present on multiple devices for 10 years already. I had to chroot and reinstall grub on my friend's computer because the same thing happened after he literally only started Windows 11. Told him to never start that shit again.

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>>107155997
our governments, possibly driven by powerful juice and corporations are pushing hard for that shit. you either eat ze bugs or suffer now, it's not even a secret. makes you wonder who's really in charge.

>>107155542
Transition from system to unconfined is a service trying to open a shell with the same privileges as interactive users. I would run this by Ask Fedora. It might be an actual compromise, but given F43 is <6 weeks old it's probably a weird fuckup on their end.

>>107156179
Your skill issue is using a distro that configures the ESP incorrectly (only default .efi loader) so its gets clobbered when Windows swings its dick around.

>>107156254
I guess all debian-based distros do this incorrectly then.

>>107156361
>debian
Again, skill issue.

>>107155352
Depends on the distro I guess. E.g. if you're using Debian then you can look up a package on the following page which will show you the version number of the package:

https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

I think this metapackage from that site represents the kernel on x64 systems, and the metapackage will depend on newer and newer versions of the kernel as they're released:

https://packages.debian.org/stable/kernel/linux-image-amd64

>>107156370
Fine, I give up, it is a skill issue.
Now tell me wich distros don't have this problem, wizard-sama.

>>107156241
Will do. I'll just probably have to make an account first to submit my question.
>but given F43 is <6 weeks old it's probably a weird fuckup on their end.
It could be, I had strange problems with upgrading from 42 to 43 regarding Wine, so that might have something to do with it.
>It might be an actual compromise
Given I'll probably have to wait for an answer, if it is a compromise, what's the best thing I can do?
Also forgot to mention this since I don't know if it's relevant, but I am using TDE.

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Is there a diablo font somewhere I can use? I think it looks really cool

>>107156504
HTTPS://FONTS-ONLINE.RU

>>107156563
im scared

I use podman to start up a simple pod for seafile file sharing service, I love how it works but there is one problem, it requires ip_forward to be enabled in sysctl.
I know for a fact that you can't just set it to 0 again because host computer needs to forward packets from host to containers.
What I have to do instead is modify NETAVARK_FORWARD chain, which gets created upon pod startup, every time I boot the machine and start the pod.
My question: is there any elegant way to tell podman how should those automatically created rules look like? any kind of hooks?
Otherwise containers have unlimited access to the rest of my network and if I don't modify firewall on my router, which is arguably more clumsy and less resilient to e.g. container addressing scheme changes , they will have internet access which I don't want them to

>>107152841
The biggest problem with Bazzite is it's an atomic OS and if you don't know what that is the problems will become abundantly clear the first time you need to change config files.
Frankly you're better off just using their upstream (Fedora), as their "customizations" are things any retard is capable of doing. Even you, Anon.

>decide to try zsh after 10 years of using bash
>only upside I've noticed is that command history and autocomplete is better
>otherwise it has only broken stuff
What the fuck is the point of zsh? Literally some programs won't work, such as yt-dlp.

>>107156668
zsh is meant to be used interactively. All your scripts will still use bash, despite what zshfags will claim.
Also the best part of zsh is the script zsh-syntax-highlighting and the better globbing.

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I've tried three different things to get this game to run.
>wine won't run the game
>proton runs the game, but crashes at certain scene
>winboat won't let me select an installation folder
Is there something I haven't tried? I really really really want to destroy my dick and balls to this game, I really want to do it. I am so angry.

>>107156659
okay there is a somewhat unwieldy way: you can just add modified version of firewall rules, the system will apply those at boot time, and after starting the pod podman will append its own default rules to the end of the chain
since my last rule is deny any any, each subsequent rule will never fire so they don't matter. I would strongly support a better solution, especially when your ruleset doesn't end with explicit deny

>>107155997
Managed to fix grub by chrooting and reinstalling it. Any tips to prevent this in the future?

>>107156700
I have written some zsh specific scripts

>>107156720
what engine is this?

>>107156846
Not sure, but all ANIM.teamMM use the same engine.

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>yeah, we'll just taka e afew pixels of your more precious screen space
>no, you cant hide it
>no, you cant hide it
>maybe download a plug that only works half the time
>and to use any plugins, youll have to download some other shit as well
The top bar is cancer and GNOME needs to die. (I do love the general control scheme for laptops tho)

>>107156661

I honestly thought it had some tweaks down at the kernel level that were allegedly what made it good.

I know the rest is just bloat in the shape of a flatpak, but I had some faith in the actual work behind the big boy stuff like the kernel and config files,not the default drivers or packages.

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>>107156720
>linux is so based it cucks the NTRfags

>>107156720
virtual machine with vga passthrough

>>107156896
>precious screen space
i set up two panels on my de, fuck it. btw, if i dare say... gnome looks bretty comfy on a laptop. dont want that on my pc tho.
>>107156720
thats some shit graphics. if wine didnt work is hard to guess, and proton crashed it, why not buy a chink ssd to play your slop?

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>>107156896
>tfw you just use a simple window manager to run console applications and you aren't affected by all these GUI kettle problems

>>107156930
The kernel level tweaks they do are geared toward handhelds, not desktops. There's a couple goomer drivers like xone pre-installed, but that's nothing you can't do yourself. Different CPU schedulers is mostly snake oil, as EEVDS was developed to completely demolish the old CFS.
CPU governors are less snake oil but still mostly bullshit, as Fedora uses powersave by default and it works fine for gaming.

>>107157038

Sweet baby jesus I'm retarded, I took down a perfectly fine Linux Mint install for this.

I mean the rice looks nice but its just useless, like everything its got by default it would have been like 30 minutes of downloading it by myself.

I'm grateful for the facts nevertheless, but I need to look into that powersave config cause I still have to resort for a script to nuke the cache memory from the CPU,RAM and GPU after I'm done playing, otherwise the whole thing stutters, and the craziest thing is that shit was going on my previous mint install as well.

>>107156896
>GNOME needs to die
Why are you complaining when there are many Linux DEs and you can easily switch between them? Why don't you just do that?

>>107157086
Can you say more about the cache memory issue? That's not something I've had before.

>>107157089
Currently looking into alternatives for my Thinkpad X250. Smeone recommended my CachyOS. Still got Ubuntu 20.04 installed on this one. I have the KDE environment installed, but I am tired of having to install all the stuff in the first place and also I forgot how to switch environments permanently.
Want something fast and easy to read on a 12" display.
It is kind of infuriating lots of DEs use a topbar for no reason other than that it is expected. And you cant even move it to the side.

>>107157086
That shouldn't be stuttering at all, as I do gaming with the following on Fedora 42:
>GTX 1080
>32GB DDR4
>Ryzen 5600
and previously I gamed with an Intel 7700K also with no stuttering.

>>107156949
>getting NTR'd by a shota
oh how i wish...

>>107157118
>>107157143

Well I might be killing a fly with a cannonball, but after playing games with either Lutris,Bottles or Steam I get this insane stutter in both video and audio, the video stutter its very tiny like the frames peak a little bit but its constant but the sound it feels as if its a bluetooth headphone about to run out of batteries.

Before I always shut down my pc,but I think this script should work. but I'll try it again and post a screencap of how it looks like when its all fucked up so you guys can get a better idea of what's going on.

>>107157152
What's your script?

>>107157172
hm?

>>107152530
Even if they're not they're often far larger than they need to be.

>>107157166
Post the script, too

>>107157191
>Before I always shut down my pc,but I think this script should work.
I just want to see what caches you're clearing. Is it the disk cache?

>>107156504
It's called Exocet.

>>107157172

I guess you mean me, here is an update I can't even play nothing,steam won't initialize a single game and I've checked and the files are still there.

https://paste.gd/xeYdlQr7#

I'm just going from bad to worse at this point.

>>107157246
wrong anon, anon

>>107157257
>https://paste.gd/xeYdlQr7#
Wow, you weren't kidding.
>echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > /dev/null
Are you sure you need to clear this? It's normally only a performance improvement especially on an HDD.
>shader caches
These I know less about, but I'm surprised you need to do all this.
>>107157261
Yeah my bad.

>>107147856
>

>dev/null 2>&1

What does this do? Explain it to me.

>>107157295
It routes them both there.

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>>107155244
XTerm

>>107157295
pipes stdout to /dev/null and reroutes stderr to stdout

>>107157359
>pipes stdout to /dev/null
That's the

>dev/null

part, right? That makes sense.
>reroutes stderr to stdout
Then that has to be this

2>&1

piece, but I don't understand the syntax here.

>>107157394
Basically, > dev/null sends filehandle 1 (stdout) to /dev/null. 2>&1 sends filehandle 2 (stderr) to filehandle 1

>>107157351
i have like 8 xterms open as i post

>>107157394
It's array assignment. Every process inherits an array of file handles from its parent process. Normally you get a read handle on 0 (stdin) and write handles on 1 and 2 for stdout/err respectively.

>/dev/null

the > operator creates a write file handle for the right hand argument (/dev/null) and assigns it to the implicit left hand argument 1. Operator >& copies the file handle in the right hand argument (1) and assigns it to the slot in the left hand argument (2). Thus stdout and stderr are both write handles on /dev/null

>>107157286

okay so deepseek prompted me a better script to nuke just the ram and gpu and leave the disk stuff in peace since linux it knows what its doing with that.

The question is I gotta format again cause I've tinkered on my own deleting shit from steam and now its even more fucked, even if deleted and redownloaded critical components still doesn't work properly.

So what is it going to be Bazzite again, back to linux mint or normal fedora?

You are the big brain people so I'll follow advice.

>>107157880
Fedora, if you understand how to read a one page document on how to enable rpmfusion and swap your codec.

>>107157880
Oh, running AI scripts for "cleaning caches" explains a lot about why you're having so many problems. These aren't normal, those scripts it gave you probably just fucked everything up.
Pick one of the non-meme non-immutable "root" distros that everything else is based on (ie Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, or Arch), and don't fuck it up with an AI script.

>>107157880
Deleting shader caches will free up some disk space but they need to be recompiled again. Not that many games will corrupt them (except some Unreal Engine 5 slop I guess) so deleting them for any other reason is sort of waste of time unless you stop playing the game altogether.
For everything else Linux should take care of its own memory management and does not need anything special.
I would go even that far to say that adjusting even vm_swappiness is excessive in most cases at least for a normal user.

>>107158217
Only time to adjust vm.swappiness is if you're using zram, in which case it should be adjusted along with these values:

vm.swappiness=180
vm.watermark_boost_factor=0
vm.watermark_scale_factor=125
vm.page-cluster=0

>>107158310
Or just use zswap, with or without backing swap.

>>107158392
zram is better than zswap desu

>>107158436
No.
https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/

>>107157993
>These aren't normal, those scripts it gave you probably just fucked everything up.
They sure did, I took a look and the script just deletes the wine drive symlinks, probably some other stuff too but I've seen enough. No wonder nothing is working for him. It blows my mind people use chatbots to write scripts for them and don't even read what they do baka

>>107158392
zswap can't be configured without a backing swap, Anon.

>>107158445
Joke's on you
https://linuxblog.io/zram-better-than-zswap/

>>107158501
>>107158445
https://linuxblog.io/why-disabling-swap-is-better-than-zram-or-zswap/

>>107157993
>>107158217
>>107158392


I'm not touching a single AI made script ever again, I'm going to take it slow and learn like the ancients, with youtube videos and one of those pdfs with pictures of animals on the cover explaining everytthing with use cases about linux.But I'm saving that vm.swamppiness for they day of tomorrow where I do know what that means or does.

>>107157984
>>107157993

I just formated and in Fedora 43 KDE, so far I get now I'm in control and it won't feel like using a smartphone with the modular shit, It kinda reminds me when I lost trust in snap with ubuntu, but I reckon there's cases for system apps and others for isolated flatpaks, thanks for giving me heads up with the rpmfusion and swapping codec,

>>107158445
>>107158501
>>107158509
>they're all by the same guy
Bruh. Either advanced autism, trolling, or both. I'd use zram simply because it offers better performance. If you MUST have a swap file then zswap makes more sense.

New thread >>107158506

>>107158537
Didn't click the links award.

>>107158534
It's not that serious. You just need to know what you're doing. AI can help but you need to know the consequences of course.

>>107158556
Damn, I've been had. Time to off myself.

>>107158489
Yes it can.

>>107158501
>>107158509
At least my link is real.

>>107158537
>I'd use zram simply because it offers better performance.
Except it doesn't, because it fundamentally can't, being a swap-file-on-ram-disk implementation, versus zswap being integrated with the kernel's page management.

>>107158644
>Except it doesn't, because it fundamentally can't
I looked into it and you're right, zswap probably has better performance as it can use zsmalloc now. Last time I checked that wasn't the case.

most jewish distro

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Is there an activity tracker that doesn't suck, picrel