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Akshually, it is GNU+Linux.

woah, 4chan general on 4chan :O

cachyOS is yes

>>107221189
4chin general edition

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I just remembered you can do this with the XFCE menu button.

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I'm tempted to change my start button on KDE to a Windows 98 logo, but the one I have currently is pretty kino.

>>107221977
that is pretty nice

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Hello hello, total beginner at Linux stuff here.
I was interested in moving all my PCs to Linux for privacy concerns by the end of the year, and was recommended to use Pop!_OS. Any thoughts on it?

It's written in Rust, idk what that means but apparently it's good.
I also heard it has good compatibility with Nvidia... idk what that means either (do other builds not have good Nvidia compatability?)

I'm somewhat concerned over software compatability though. Some programs I use are:
>Blender/UE5/Unity
All have Linux builds
>Clip Studio EX
This I'm very concerned over. I really need Clip, there is no alternative for me.
>Photoshop
I can live without it desu. I heard there's a new alternative out there too.
>Huion Tablet
I use a Huion Tablet, apparently they have Linux drivers but idk I never tried tablets on Linux.

>>107222070
Bait used to be believable

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>testing icon packs
>find a set that looks neat
>try red
>works
>try blue
>nukes the entire UI, including settings to change it back
>only manage to recover because terminal opens with a shortcut
What the hell.
>>107221956
Neat, but how could you abandon the mouse?

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>>107222197
not very good visibility. I currently prefer the wider format menu button

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hello frens
how do set up ssd trim on sysvinit or openrc distro like devuan or artix
ty frends

>>107222283
just look up how the fstrim service works on systemd and modify it for OpenRC.

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i installed arch through archinstall so it came with all the necessary drivers out of the box, i can play games fine, great fps and no vsync issues. but for some reason i get screen tearing when using firefox, it's specially noticeable when scrolling text or cycling through image carousels, weirdly it doesn't happen with youtube videos. why does this happen? im using i3

>>107222370
try installing a compositor like picom

>>107222370
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/snp1sh/screen_tearing_only_on_firefox_on_i3wm_arch_linux/

https://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+screen+tearing+i3&udm=14

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>>107221189
Why the frick can't I get Samba shares to work?

>>107222526
please first tell me what i'm supposed to do with this information.

>>107222526
ooh that reminds me i need to set up it up too. since moving to nfs i always forget to add it to fstab? too. And just use regular file manager for smb. SMB share once fucked filenames for me.

i yay -Syu and now the bluetooth is messing up, i doon't use it but it's annoying getting some error messages as i login

>>107222526
Literally put them in ChudGPT and ask it why it's not working.

>>107222668
>SMB share once fucked filenames for me.
you need to turn off filename mangling. mangling is used for windows compatibility, as linux filenames can contain characters that windows doesn't support

>>107222656
I mean, I tried it on 2 different distros, without any success.

First I tried to mount it in Slackware (through the terminal as root), but even though I used commands specified on the wiki and some variants, they failed. It either tells me permission denied, or no such file or directory exists, even though they actually did.

I thought I was terminally illiterate, so I tried it graphically in Mint instead, and I couldn't even log in to the share, or browse it as a guest, it would just prompt me for credentials ad infinitum...

>>107222893
Here's the smb.conf for my file server it literally just works:

[Video]
path = /mnt/storage
comment = Storage Root
delete readonly = no
public = yes
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
force user = nobody
create mask = 0666
directory mask = 0777
force create mode = 0666
force directory mode = 0777

>>107222707
"ThErE iS nO cOnTeXT PrOvIdeD FoR *bLaH BLaH BlAh BlAH bLah*", is all it gives me.

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>>107222124
What's unbelievable about it? I'm just an artist/wannabe modeler looking to change OS.
There's so many Linux versions (that's not the word, I think) though I just don't know what's good for me.

I'm not good with software, I've done coding before, but it was just gamedev/animation stuff.
I just want something that's secure and works with my workflow. I got recc'd Pop but idk I'm asking for thoughts.

[Also, I used Ubuntu --years-- ago when I was in Uni. I really didn't like it. Felt very sluggish and was kinda ugly. IDK how it is now]

>>107222979
I just copied the smb.conf-sample file in the same directory and renamed it.

Hang on, lemme switch to that computer.

>>107222993
Anon you're not supposed to erase the [global] portion...

>>107222979
>>107223001
This is everything that isn't commented out:

[global]
workgroup = MYGROUP
server string = Samba Server
server role = standalone server
log file = /var/log/samba.%m
max log size = 50
dns proxy = no

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes

[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
guest ok = no
writable = no
printable = yes

Samba doesn't have a problem starting, but it won't let me mount anything.

>>107223091
I didn't.

>>107223095
This is my global section, with changes so that my family member's faggy Macbooks play nice with the share. You still seem to be missing a fuck ton of shit, what version of samba are you running?

[global]
fruit:posix_rename = yes
map to guest = Bad User
fruit:veto_appledouble = no
usershare allow guests = Yes
minprotocol = SMB2
fruit:metadata = stream
fruit:model = MacSamba
fruit:appl = yes
os level = 20
fruit:wipe_intentionally_left_blank_rfork = yes
passdb backend = tdbsam
vfs objects = fruit streams_xattr
encrypt passwords = yes
fruit:delete_empty_adfiles = yes
fruit:nfs_aces = no
workgroup = WORKGROUP

>>107223000
Since you need to use a drawing tablet, I think you're limited to distributions with KDE.
My recommendation is to try Kubuntu 25.10 and Fedora KDE (whatever is latest), in this order.
Fedora has no video codecs but anons here swear it's easy to fix so just keep that in mind.

>>107223104
>what version of samba are you running?
4.18.9

>>107222707
please don't recommend new users use chatgpt to fix problems or write config files. it'll make something up that doesn't work and just create more problems. users need to learn to read the manual

>>107223124
the fuck, why is it so outdated, that's more than 2 years old now

Hello /fgt/! Will it still be GNU when the core utilities are replace by Rust-based uutils?

>>107222070
>Clip Studio
There is no Linux version. You'll have to either use the Windows version in Bottles or the Android version in Waydroid.

>>107223000
>I'm not good with software
Then stick to Atomic distros.
>I just want something that's secure
Almost no Linux distribution is secure by default. The closest thing you have is Secureblue Linux.

>>107223158
Stable branch, bruv.

>>107223104
I also have these in the global section:

        tls priority = NORMAL:-VERS-SSL3.0:-VERS-TLS1.0:-VERS-TLS1.1
        catia:mappings = 0x22:0xa8,0x2a:0xa4,0x2f:0xf8,0x3a:0xf7,0x3c:0xab,0x3e:0xbb,0x3f:0xbf,0x5c:0xff,0x7c:0xa6
        vfs objects = catia

>SMB2
Bump that to 3 if you ever transfer sensitive files.

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>>107223158
>2 years old
>so outdated

>>107223209
What even are these hieroglyphs?...

t. loonix noob

>>107223244
2 years is more than the mental age of an average /g/ poster

>>107223280
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/4.21/man-html/vfs_catia.8.html

>>107222526
Samba is deprecated. Use Ksmbd.

>>107223410
Ksmbd is deprecated, use sshfs

>>107223417
I do use SSHFS because the only thing I do is consoom. If you want performance then an in-kernel driver is better. They are also working on things like SMB over QUIC too.

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>>107223410
>>107223417
I would rather ksmbd.

>>107222283
>>107222304
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD#Periodic_fstrim_jobs
Just set up a cron job for it

Why would I prefer gnome over KDE or vice versa? Also is fedora suitable for a gaming pc or should I look into arch distros for faster updates?

>>107223769
gnome is an android/macos type ui while kde is more windowsian
gnome devs are also significantly more mentally ill
if you want vidya the endgame is cachyos
technically you can copy cachyos's resources onto arch but why bother, arch is for ocd people
maybe learn linux through bazzite and then switch once you're confident, bazzite has the same user protections as steamos while cachyos will be as close to steamos as you can be while also being completely unlocked and functional

>>107224044
How does CachyOS deal with the occasional manual interventions you have to do on Arch?
>inb4 it doesn't

>>107224044
>endgame is cachyos
muh optimizations are in most cases like nothing, and in the few cases where it matters it's sometimes faster, but also sometimes slower.

>>107223769
>Why would I prefer gnome over KDE or vice versa?
GNOME looks like a mix between Android and macOS by default. Customizing it is done through GNOME extensions and a 3rd party plugin called GNOME Tweak Tools.
KDE looks like a less shit Windows by default. It's very customizable just through it's system settings, but it also supports extensions and themes.
Functionally, KDE and it's software suite have more features. GNOME feels better to use on laptops since it has better touchpad gestures.

The choice between the two doesn't matter outside of some edge case scenarios. Just pick one and stick to it for a couple of weeks to see if you like it.

>is fedora suitable for a gaming pc or should I look into arch distros for faster updates?
It applies feature updates once every 6 months. This should be fast enough for gaming. Otherwise you can use Bazzite which is just Fedora with the latest drivers and gaming-related libraries. It also supports both KDE and GNOME.

>>107224044
The end game for a gaming PC is just Bazzite. Anything else requires maintenance which is something most people don't want on a leisure computer.

>>107224108
This. CachyOS being "faster than other distros" is just a meme.

>>107223153
Does it really? Apps seems to open faster for me

how do i make everything look bigger on my laptop, using xorg and i3?
ive tried to write 'xrandr --dpi 192' (it was 96 by default) in ~/.xprofile and all it does is make my terminal font look ugly and pixelated and the i3 title bar look better, everything else stays at the same size

>>107224987
Just replace i3 with Sway. It has proper DPI scaling.

Hi there!
I'm this >>107087456, >>107087468 and >>107209845 guy.
I've made an image back-up of my Win10 SSD (drive1) using Clonezilla successfully. Then came the installation of the Mint part... I followed my steps and added the new SSD (drive2) to the system and unplug drive1 (Win10 drive). When I got into the Mint from the USB and run the install program, at some point I got the error message:
>Installation failed The following file did not match its source copy on the CD/DVD:
and then the path to the file
I just aborted, consulted ChatGPT and tried again, but this time plug the USB in the rear IO, directly to the Motherboard. Similar error, just different path to the file.
Tried different USB, similar error, just different file.
ChatGPT suggested to check the RAM, I run one MemTest86 run, no errors.
Then the forth time I tried and the same error occurred I noticed that at the error prompt beside "Abort" and I think "Skip" (not sure about skip, doesn't matter) there is "Retry" option.
>Let's try it
When I clicked it, it immediately wrote the message again, but for the different file.
>Let's try "Retry" again
Again, immediately new error, but yet again the new file.
>Fuck it, just spam "Retry" for every error
Fortunately after only like 5, 6 or 7 retries it stopped giving me errors and just continued, what I assume is copying the files.
After that no issues till the end of installation.
In the Update Manager I've manually switched sources to the ones near me, updated everything and rebooted. Everything seems fine now.
Should I be worried? Besides running some tests for the new Mint drive (drive2), is there a potential problem with the system itself? Has anyone had similar experience?

>>107224987
update: i tried writing ~/.Xresources and added 'Xft.dpi: 144' then i reduced my terminals font size and it fixed the issue

>>107221189
>he forgot the wiki link again
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Main_Page
shame on you anon

>>107225122
>and then the path to the file
Can you tell us what the file was?
maybe it was a corrupted .iso image? did you verify mint .iso image integrity with sha256sum before burning it to a USB?

>>107225229
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that. I did verify it, yes. Plus, I used the same iso to install it to the VM a few days ago and it worked fine.

>>107225122
>>107225266
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=408305
It seems the problem is either in your Disk or the USB
Also, you should use Ventoy for your USB sticks in the future, it will save you from having to burn your USB multiple times.

is the bazzite shill in these threads 24/7?
>>107221977
what icon theme are you using?

>>107225471
I can not access the link you provided.

>>107225854
works fine for me, check your network, try a VPN, etc...

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>>107225883
A VPN won't help, it's their hosting companies issue unless they have different backend servers in different regions (unlikely for a small forum).

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>>107226026
I tried accessing the link again, it took a long time to load but it indeed loaded in the end so I guess they do indeed have problems with their backend.
Well anyway, here's a screenshot of the entire page if you still can't access it.

>>107226169 (me)
also the link mentioned there is
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1037057/ubuntu-16-04-installation-failed-did-not-match-source-copy

Is there a reason to use OpenSUSE over Fedora?

I have an Odroid XU4 lying around. What should I do with it?
Installing Gentoo looks to be hard because I'd have to set up cross compiling on my main machine.

>>107225229
>>107225266
Here, I've found one message, if it gives any more clues.
Instalation failed
The following file did not match its source copy on the CD/DVD: /target/usr/python3/dist-packages/PIL/_imaging. cpython-312-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
I've typed it by hand, there might be some spelling mistakes.
>>107226026
>>107226169
>>107226179
I'm not even sure how many people this was, but thank you all! Even though it works for me now and it seems I can boot to it fine, I'll try reinstalling again till I don't get an error, just to be safe.

>>107226026
linuxmint blocks mullvad vpn too

>>107226248
Rolling release
Rotten meaf

how do you undervolt a nvidia gpu in Linux(Mint)?

>>107227044
LACT or sysfs

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I'm getting unplayable levels of input lag when I press ANY keyboard key, first half of picrel is me just not doing anything and the right part is me holding ANY key (not moving, not attacking, literally holding scroll lock) it dips immediately after pressing it and recovers just as fast when I release.
Happens on all proton versions, including GE.
I've tried a bunch of things, like using this "DXVK_CONFIG="dxgi.syncInterval=0" PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER=1 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 gamescope --prefer-vk-device 10de:1536 -W 1920 -H 1080 -r 180 -f --adaptive-sync --force-grab-cursor -- %command%" but nothing seems to solve it. It also only happens after an hour or two after I've launched the game so it's really annoying to test with different settings.

>>107227288
Not really "input lag" but I don't know the proper term. Frametime spike? Frametime drop? Whatever.

>>107227086
thanks

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Post weird packages you've found in the wild
https://github.com/bo0ts/ddate

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What are the recommended nvidia drivers these days? The new open ones or their closed stuff?

>>107227992
closed

>>107228069
Why?

On arch+kde, is x11 or wayland better for steam games? Or is there not much difference? I have a nvidia gpu if that matters.

>>107228088
AFAIK the open drivers are work in progress and contain closed firmware

>>107228131
i feel like wayland gave me less problems but that's under amd.

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>>107228136
I'll try the open ones and if I run into issues I'll switch, ty cracka

I wonder why there's no /geg/ GNU Emacs General.

>>107228221
We don't use obscure operating systems here.

Ayone have any pointers for getting proper rounded corners with proper corners on i3?

>>107228457
0x00000000 is pretty round.

can i get a job if i like to use linux or is the only use case linux ricing, avoiding microsoft's spying and anti consumer practices, and generally making simple things a lot harder than they need to be?

>rdseed32 is broken. disabling the corresponding cpuid bit

anyone else?

>>107228772
No, I use Intel. My CPU is broken in differently stupid ways.

My woes with cleaning out lost+found. Probably a scrub question.
>>107228783

>>107229069
Did you try:

fsck.ext4 -f -v /dev/sdX

>>107225122
>>107226535
Okay, here's the update after idk how many hours. I tried with bunch of different USB drives, but still the same result of the errors. Then I run some tests for the SSD from the Mint on the USB: so, I just had image on the USB and then the new, empty SSD (drive2) connected. After that it somehow did manage to install it without any errors. And then my foolish brain thought:
>If it worked this time, it must mean that it's good now, should I try installing it again?
But after starting install, I forcefully terminated it (I forgot why), thinking that it would be okay, when I try installing it again it will format the drive and install. My, oh my, when I tried running install again with the option to Erase the disk and install Mint I got hit with the usual
>Instalation failed
>The following file did not match its source copy on the CD/DVD
After more consultation with the ChatGPT it suggested that the installer probably have a tough time dealing with the aborted installation and we decided to reset everything on the drive by running:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M status=progress
After that the installation went smoothly.
I'm tired and my brain is totally fried right now. I'll continue tomorrow. For now, I just wanted to share the process and ask if any of this seems reasonable to you, or perhaps I should be worried.

>>107229097
I've fscked the disk already, these are just a bunch of files that live in lost+found after a directory got corrupted.

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>>107224959
I assume you're talking about the case where you've already booted up distrobox instead of doing a true "cold boot" of the app (distrobox startup + app startup)?
Either way opening an app isn't how you interact with it most of the time. You only do that once after which the application would be cached. It's not really a relevant usage benchmark unless there's a 5+ second difference. An app opening faster only matters for stuff like image viewers, terminals or simple text editors.

When it comes to actually using software it's the runtime performance that matters. That's what 99.9% of the time spent in the application will be.
Your fps in video games matters more than how long the first loading screen is. The speed of editing and rendering a video matters a lot more than a couple of extra seconds it takes to open a video editor. The time it takes to load web pages matters a lot more than the time to initially open a web browser. If you're watching a movie on a laptop, the video player taking 2 extra seconds to load matters a lot less than the decoding efficiency which affects your battery life.

Here's the performance difference between a web browser running inside distrobox vs one running as a flatpak. The flatpak version is almost 50% faster.
Both browsers are clean installs with no modifications whatsoever.
Maybe it's possible to somehow tweak distrobox to utilize system resources or hardware acceleration better, but this is the out of the box experience that most people will have.

>>107228457
>My rounded corners need to be proper, and rounded corners, guys!

>>107223153
>>107224959
Another anon here, that's my experience too. I tried running some Wine apps with distrobox and they were pretty slow. I'd only use distrobox for cli. Graphical programs might not work so well, the distro images are even missing a lot of the gui libraries by default.

>>107229128
Then you should be able to delete them. Usually the only reason you'd not be able to is if something was corrupt somehow. I'm not sure why it won't let you but it screams like hardware failure.

>>107228088
The 'open' driver is just an open source shim on the kernel for the purpose of loading a closed source driver. So it'll never be mainline and it's just an unnecessary out of tree patch.

Basically some shit nVidia did to make it look like they're serious about fixing they're drivers when they're absolutely not.

hello anons I am getting black screen on login with nvidia any ideas what i can do? using kubuntu 25 if that helps at all. typing my password still logs me in but there is no login screen displayed just a black screen

 anon@kubuntu25:~$ sudo systemctl status sddm.service
● sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2025-11-16 17:11:49 EST; 4min 55s ago
 Invocation: 91782ccbecc04ca3b7b48879aa0ca821
       Docs: man:sddm(1)
             man:sddm.conf(5)
    Process: 1740 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ "$(cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager 2>/dev/null)" = "/usr/bin/sddm" ] (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 1743 (sddm)
      Tasks: 8 (limit: 37901)
     Memory: 148.1M (peak: 163.5M)
        CPU: 24.904s
     CGroup: /system.slice/sddm.service
             ─1743 /usr/bin/sddm
             ─1745 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -nolisten tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt1 -auth /run/sddm/xauth_PnEyst -noreset -displayfd 16

Nov 16 17:12:20 kubuntu25 sddm-helper[1814]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Nov 16 17:12:20 kubuntu25 sddm-helper[1814]: pam_unix(sddm:session): session opened for user anon(uid=1000) by anon(uid=0)
Nov 16 17:12:20 kubuntu25 sddm-helper[1814]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session
Nov 16 17:12:20 kubuntu25 sddm-helper[1814]: Writing cookie to "/tmp/xauth_uKzMbF"
Nov 16 17:12:20 kubuntu25 sddm-helper[1814]: Starting X11 session: "" "/etc/sddm/Xsession \"/usr/bin/startplasma-x11\""
Nov 16 17:12:20 kubuntu25 sddm[1743]: Session started true
Nov 16 17:12:20 kubuntu25 sddm-helper[1814]: Failed to write utmpx:  No such file or directory
Nov 16 17:12:25 kubuntu25 sddm[1743]: Greeter stopping...
Nov 16 17:12:25 kubuntu25 sddm[1743]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 255
Nov 16 17:12:25 kubuntu25 sddm[1743]: Greeter stopped. SDDM::Auth::HelperExitStatus(255)

>>107229231
I think it's just a syntax problem of some sort.
>rm: cannot remove '/lost+found/*': No such file or directory

Can i run a Mumble server on Android? Or some other similar voIP server that can be used through LAN

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>>107221189
How many of you guys use linux because you got a steam deck or gabecube?

>>107229489
Shit literally looks like a subwoofer.

>>107229478
used to run one on the original raspberry pi for my friends and i and worked just fine so I don't see why android would be an issue. maybe not enough power if you plan to have a lot of users and use lots of plugins

>>107229489
Does SteamOS even need that much Linux knowledge? Is a SteamOS user more of a Linux user than and Android user is?

>>107222070
Join the 41 percent faggot

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>>107221189
I switched one o my machines to Debian 13 and felt the sound kind of sucked compared to shitdown. I installed EasyEffects and used a custom eq json thing, but now there's some weird issue where if I start one stream (a youtube video, for example), pause it, and start playing another, I get like a split second of the old stream's sound before it shifts over to the new stream.

That's the best way to describe it, it's strange. I tried disabling some of the plugins and it eventually goes away... if I disable all the plugins.

>>107229489
no i have thought about the deck but i am unsure how much i would actually use it

>>107229525
My idea is to run a local mumble to use for motorbike comms as we ride and share wifi to make It a LAN server and have negligible latency
The easy thing would be to just use discord and go off our phone data but that induces a lot of ping whem using phone data, and makes comms spotty in places with bad reception
Idk what the range of wifi would be while Rising a motorbike on the road Will be but id like to try It out

>>107229534
if you go do desktop mode then it's about as linux as fedora kinoite. it's available to you if you want to, but there's nothing forcing you to ever use it
>Is a SteamOS user more of a Linux user than and Android user is?
definitely

>>107225702
This one https://store.kde.org/p/1339434

>>107229069
The filesystem won't let you delete the folder itself. Go into it and rm *.*

>>107229766
>rm *.*

>>107229766
>>107229772
Oh ok thanks, I wasn't trying to delete the folder anyway lol. I'm kind of green with that stuff, I usually use the GUI for working with files desu.

I need to replace my nvme, my current partitions are XFS, is there any benefit from switching to anything else?

>>107229611
Bought mine because the gaming pc market is hell for broke niggas
>>107229534
If you want to install mods for something yeah

>>107229807
Unless you want snapshots, not really.

>>107229489
I can't even imagine anyone needing that when Slackware comes with 46 games preinstalled on a full install.

>>107229975
Oh RETARD me forgetting the additional 13 games that come with GNU Emacs. So 59.

>>107229975
If the gabecube is cheap and is good bang for the buck it’ll sell well

>>107230006
But you can literally find a laptop laying on the side of the road and put Slackware on it and pay only 10 years of a janny's salary for it all.

>>107229604
Shot in the dark but if your Debian installation is using Pulseaudio try switching to Pipewire

>>107229975
Retard

>>107230246
Yes anon he was clearly serious.
Although tbf I would probably have more fun tinkering with slackware than playing some modernslop.

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>set up H/W acceleration
>get rid of the noveau open source NVIDIA for the closed one.
>swap from Bottles/Lutris for Heroic games launcher.
>install pirated games.
>set up each wine prefix on it for GE-Proton
>check out every single game on proton if I need to set up any variables.
>Games perform with the perfect frames on high settings but the audio still stutters a lot.

I don't know what I'm missing in my checklist, but I'm starting to think this is because I have my audio from the hdmi from my graphics card towards my monitor which has an audio jack on it, I guess I will call it quits and just plug the damn headphones in the motherboard in my pc, that ought take care of the audio stuttering, AI said those might be interference from my GPU going right into my ears because an "magnetic field" or some magic shit who knows.

>>107230246
>CONSOOOOMS
>calls others retard
NNNNNNNNNNNN
Sounds like SOMEONE needs to spend moar time with GNU Xboard in total silence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy

now that arch tranny distros are the default for retards and shitters, what is the cool kid distro?

>>107230440
debian stable

>>107230457

Debian is like the equivalent of Stack Exchange, everybody but them profited off their hard work.

>>107230457
debian is the original distro for retards and shitters.

>>107230440
Fedora

This goes out to GNU Emacs.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rod+stewart+have+i+told+you+lately&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdoCIvWFEgN4

I just setup bazzite to dual boot, and I have a separate drive that I use for windows to store media and games. I see that ntfs is not supported to launch games from but would it be ok to mount the drive and just use it to access the media files?

Should I use Devuan or CachyOS?

>>107230752
no one wants to help you, you shitter. rtfm and get the fuck out.

>>107230761
neither one will affirm your gender, tranny.

>>107230774
Well this sounds like a botpost. Just looking for my next distro. Tired of using Mint.

>>107230780
i'm gonna bot my post into your post hole. bussy sex

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I'm so tired of Windows. I'm tired of the bloat. I'm tired of the ads. I recently had my Windows install totally brick itself for absolutely no reason; I spent 2 days recovering files and getting everything back just how I liked it. I'm fucking done. I want to switch to linux and have wanted to do so for years. The only reason I hadn't was because windows Just Worked and didn't cause me issues. Now neither of those are true.

The only thing I use my PC for are
>general internet browsing, music/video play back and office tasks
>playing vidya - mostly Runescape and Helldivers with my friends and Fortnite with my kid
>occasionally run legacy software and games for older PCs like C64/Win 95/macintosh via VMs

My only remaining concern is playing modern games. I know Valve has made a bunch of effort to get modern games running on Linux, but I have no idea how good it is, or if that works on non-valve hardware. Can I play those games on Linux? Or will I need a windows virtual machine?

>>107230818
You're thinking about it all wrong. What you do is install Slackware and do whatever you can do with it. Anything you can't do with it is bad for you to be doing to begin with. If you install Slackware and get frustrated by not being able to do something, it's a signal to rethink your entire life.

Is it hard to setup steam games on hyprland? I'm on arch KDE but I'm thinking of switching because hyprland looks pretty.

>>107230885
This does not answer my question. I just want to know what software compatibility is like.

Oh, and hardware. I remember hearing that nvidia cards didn't work with penguin OS.

>>107230818

if your games run though steam then you've got nothing to worry about.

There might be extra steps like troubleshooting an install by looking up your name in ProtonDB, then copying and pasting the commands from the comments from people who have solved your problem, and if its a pirated game you just do the same but instead of adding the %command% from steam you look what it is (most of the time it will ve a variable) and just add it where it should in your game launcher (Heroic,Lutris(outdated it works but hasn't got updates over a year) or bottles)

You might have some problems with modding, I haven't tried yet but the Skyrim mod packs might be a bit of a pain in the ass to put in your wine prefix, you might have to install in there the nexus mod launcher and do it all normally but I haven't done it already so I don't know.

And you can run every single games launcher out there, the problem will be setting them up in the first place.

Usual problems will be you installing the wrong H/W acceleration drivers or having them downloaded and not in use or not assigned to your games, besides that for non steam games you might experience a bit of a Audio stutter (not much but it will be a pain in the ass getting used to it)

>>107230912
nta but everything you listed should work fine except Fortnite because of its anticheat. Nvidia cards work mostly fine.

>>107230912

I have a RTX 5060 8GB Vram and it works almost perfect for what I've said in >>107230925 already. to put something I haven't said by now is I made benchmarks between my W11 games and those in Fedora 43 and its the same with the GPU,CPU and ram usage, also did benchmarks for local AI stuff and I got the same results in the same time using 99% of my poorvidia RTX.


Also claryfying some stuff I've said before like in pirating or modding, installing things in the same windows prefix means getting your games launcher to open other .exe files inside your wine prefix = an emulated instance of a C:// filesystem in linux its just a folder you might have to look at youtube video, ask AI or read the documentation it sounds more easy than it does read.

Also try to stick with one of the main Distros like Ubuntu,Linux Mint,Fedora or Archlinux don't go for the obscure specialized distros, even if its for gayming (Maybe PopOs) but the reason I've said these 4 is cause they have the biggest support wikis, you can google/AI your problems and it will find someone who previously had your problem before you and how did it fix it.


The drawbacks are Linux can fuck up your drivers, It won't brick but unless you know what to do it will feel exactly like it.

>>107230995
not that anon but can you just make one singular wine prefix for all your pirated games? I followed an older guide for the steam deck and I was making a new prefix for each game I installed.

is the aur down for anyone else?

>>107231044
i dunno, i don't use aur because i'm not a shitter.

>>107222070
post art.

>>107231043

I think I might be lazy I don't mind the extra 100mb per game, usually in bottles I'd get it in a single bottle but I use heroic and by default each game is encased in a single wine prefix, so far I haven't bothered

By the way I fixed this >>107230331 just got the headphones towards the Audio jack of my motherboard instead of the GPU for the sound now everything is kewl cucumber my first week with linux and so far everything works perfectly. >>107230818
you might want to take this into account if you use your monitor as your speaker or has an audio jack port you might want to use this is a feature of Linux that forces you to use your motherboard for the sound otherwise it might stutter a bit with pirated games.

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>>107231055
I'd like to not use the aur either, but unfortunately I don't know how to run flatpaks on arch either and the one program I need to run now in order to save the VN I spent several months reading that no longer works after the new wine 'update' and I just want to read it, I don't want to lose hundreds of hours of fucking progress. First my VN refuses to run, even though it worked perfectly before, then I spent hours consulting an ai chatbot, which resolved nothing, now I'm at a stage where I have to install a protonup-qt, which just so happens to only come in the form of flatpaks on the github page, which won't work for me on arch, then I find out there's an aur package only for the aur to be down exactly right now.
I'm so tired, I just want to relax and read my VN, but it's been a string of bad luck for me today and I am mentally drained. My back hurts from exercising yesterday and I am sad and lonely and I have no real skills at the age of 23.

>>107231142
>I don't mind the extra 100mb per game,
It's a lot more than 100MB once you install all the runtime support shit.

>>107231167
Is your VN on Steam?

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>>107230818
haven't had issue in years. Only hurdle I found myself in recently-ish, was someone gifted me an extra usb shure mic. There's a windows program to properly tune? it. I need to use either winapps or winboat? with usb passthrough to get it to fully work. Still haven't done it, too lazy, always forget
>>107230936
oh yea anticheats dont work

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>>107231300
Yes but I'm (was) trying to read it in Japanese for the achievement. I could purchase it on steam but I don't know if it has Japanese language and I'd also lose my progress, so no go.

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Does archinstall work well now? I installed arch manually around 2020 after trying it since it was giving me all sorts of issues, but it was still new back then.
I would go for a manual install again but this time I want to use btrfs with snapper using btrfs-assistant and the btrfs layout on the arch wiki is giving me a headache, archlinux has an option to setup btrfs to work with snapper, supposedly.

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How flexible are aliases? Do they work with filepaths?
Like instead of remembering ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 9.0 (Beta)/proton" run in my head or having to open use the history command each time, can I turn the path ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 9.0 (Beta)/proton into an alias?
like alias sex='~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 9.0 (Beta)/proton'
and then I can run sex run skyrim.exe or whatever?

>>107231627
Aliases simply replace the aliased word. You can put anything there. So yes, you can do that.

>>107231627
>instead of just testing and trying it out let me type a retard post on /g/ 4channel. i'm so based!!!!111
god i hate shitters. i bet you use arch

>>107231671
Awesome, I tried it out and it worked. That's all I wanted to know.
>>107231700
True, but you can learn more by asking and trying it out too.

>>107231740
>Awesome, I tried it out and it worked. That's all I wanted to know.
There is a little bit more to it but that's basically the only thing aliases do.
For example, normally aliases only replace the first command you write. You can change that if you alias the command to itself, plus a space. So for example

alias cd='cd '

would allow you to cd sex to open the proton dir.

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>>107231797
Wait, are you saying you normally can't chain commands together?
This article seems to make it work perfectly fine.

>>107231852
That's setting the alias, I'm talking about using it.

>be arch shitter
>can't even do an alias
>troon out

>>107231912
Arch doesn't make you troon out, baka.

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>>107231881
Oh okay, I get what you're trying to say.
So before trying to change my alias together with other commands, I have to add a space to that command using an alias. Very weird and confusing, but okay. Guess I could try writing it down or making an anki card.
>>107231912
If I wasn't hairy and balding I might've fallen for the tranny/femboy fad, but unfortunately for you I'm just a regular incel. Besides, it sounds like you think a little too much about troons anon.

>>107231606
I've had no trouble running archinstall, though getting the snapshots to show in Grub took a bit more work. And I never figured out how to get it to automatically update.

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>>107231057
okeh
I'm noticing a lot of bot/spam replies on /g/ though, it's a pretty popular board so it's not much of a surprise
>>107223180
I'll probably start with my laptops just to check if Clip + the tablets work.
>Atomic
looking that up. an OS I can't break sounds like something I'd want desu
Now searching for distros I am getting kinda lost
>security
maybe I'm using the wrong term here idk, but I'm not feeling safe sticking to Windows both because of hackers/potential exploits and Microcock themselves

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>>107232126
Zamn!
What made you go from drawing four women to suddenly drawing an ambush?

>be arch troon
>can't into linux
>hurrrr durrr i play video game!!!!!

>>107232126

Don't want to sound mean but those same people don't limit themselves to windows, and something being open source doesn't mean its either safe or hackproof, always be very weary of the sources from where you get stuff.

There have been more than a couple of incidents where bad actors, one of the last ones involved Xubuntu, someone took over the website and swapped the .ISO file for one of his own with something to take all copied text.


That being said make sure if there is something like a "digital fingerprint" like SHA-256,MD5,etc and learn how to verify your files.

That can also be applied to repositories, if its unofficial make a few google inquiries about it to see if its very used and maintained.

And for stuff you get at github being realistic nobody bothers to read the source code cause it would be one hell of a chore, but at least try to make sure the users are somewhat legit.


I get the privacy concerns regarding windows but you should take them to your internet habits as well for making good computer habits.

>>107232126
You're good, may I ask why you insist on using clip studio?
What can it do that krita can't that you absolutely need? Just cruious.

is cad on troonix still complete dogshit or what?

>>107232126
erm, SEXO?

arch troons jerking it to tranime again

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>>107232133
I've always drawn men, in fact I spent 2021-3 literally just drawing men. They're sort of a comfort-zone for me.
The Pixiv is pretty recent actually, I started forcing myself to do stuff I usually don't do (females, colors) if you check the Twitter you'll see more guys and OCs
>>107232266
Clip is just better. It has a better brush engine, more brushes, more assets, more interconnectivity (I have it on an Android tablet too) and the layers functions like the Outline are a god send. Also the Comic formats are really convenient instead of saving things page-by-page all of them are saved as one project.
>>107232254
Good point, you're not being mean by pointing it out.
In a sense, I think there's a lot of studying I need to do before switching considering how Linux (from my research) seems to do exactly what the user configures it to, which is a good thing in the hands of someone experienced but could be disastrous if someone like me who's not of any IT-mind gets their hands on it.

arch troons be like
>i'm gonna jerk off to anime so hard today. i can't wait to cut my dick off

What's the most lightweight distro for a shitty 2017 Chromebook? I put Debian XFCE on it for the moment, but if there's something even lower end I'm interested. Only 16GB of eMMC and 2GB of RAM.

Debian stable. Docker instances dont start on boot until I run “docker ps” or similar, even though docker.service is enabled and all the containers are set to restart unless-stopped. i suspect some systemd faggotry but I dont know what.

>>107228131
depends on which nvidia gpu you have

>>107229478
You can host almost any server you want on Android provided that the server software is available on Linux.
Install termux, install a linux distro within it, install murmurd. That's pretty much it.

>>107230752
>would it be ok to mount the drive and just use it to access the media files?
Yes? NTFS works fine on Linux. It's just that Proton or Steam can't use it for games since they use features specific to other filesystems, mainly symbolic links which don't exist on NTFS.

>>107232126
>Atomic
>looking that up.
>Now searching for distros I am getting kinda lost
The popular ones are Silverblue, Kinoite, Bazzite, Aurora, Bluefin. There are non-Fedora ones too, but from what I've seen Fedora is the easiest to use.
If you're using drawing tablets then KDE has the best support from my experience. So your best choice would be Aurora, Kinoite or Bazzite.

>>107232457
Bodhi, Q4OS (with Trinity), any distro that uses IceWM or similar (Antix, TinyCore). These all idle on 300MB RAM.

>>107231507
>I don't know if it has Japanese language
The store page always mentions which languages are available.
>I'd also lose my progress
Just copy the progress files to the right folder, dumbass.

I'm retarded but genuinely curious on how such stuff happens:
>arch linux basic installation just with firefox
>no configs or any other modification to system
>update
>doesn't boot (initrd not found)
>somehow at the end of the config file it was added ",.O"
>remove chars
>works
Just how?

>>107233616
>,.O
You fat fingered trying to save in nano.

>>107229385
It said that sddm-helper has crashed. Seemingly you're using the X11 session, which I haven't tried yet. Can you try the Wailand session? It should be a choice on the login screen.

I run some stuff on a t3.small ubuntu instance on AWS (2 GB memory). I noticed that it was running low on "free" memory, got a bit worried, so I talked to my good friend chatgpt about it as I don't have much experience as a linux server person. Chatgpt convinced me that I don't need to worry because the actual available memory is much higher (something about cache and buffers that the kernel will make available to applications when needed, so far so good).
But then it told me I should probably also set up a swap file so the system doesn't crash hard the moment it runs out of real memory.
I'm just wondering why swapping isn't enabled by default if it's so important? Is it just chatgpt hallucinating on me again? Do you guys have swapping enabled on your linux instances?

>>107229489
I use Linux because it runs much better on my computer than Windows (granted my computer is old but still)

If I had a gaming PC though then I'd probably run Windows because I want to play online games which use anti-cheat. Most anti-cheat systems don't work on Linux. PC games that don't use anti-cheat usually run well on Linux though, and lots of people are happy just playing those games on Linux.

>>107233718
plenty of anti-cheat games work fine on linux actually. there's just a few which explicitly disallow running them on linux.

>>107234331
It mostly comes down to if the game uses Easy Anti-Cheat and the dev has flicked the switch that makes it work on Linux.

>>107233718
Most anti-cheats work on Linux. It's just the kernel level ones that don't fully work, but many games just whitelist Linux and allow Linux players to play. And a lot of games don't even use KLAC.

This website lists the popular games with anti-cheat https://areweanticheatyet.com/
But it's actually underestimating Linux support since it also includes 3rd party anti-cheat solutions that are only used in private servers. So it's not 60% of these games that don't work, it's probably closer to 30%.
For example, there's 20 entries for Counter-Strike games and the official versions and servers are fully supported, but there's 16 private servers running custom anti-cheats which don't support Linux native or Linux Proton so it makes it seem like 80% of Counter-Strike games are not supported. When in reality an average player will just install the game and play on Valve's servers.

>>107232391
Are you a boy or a girl?

>>107234436
It's not just the kernel level anti-cheats that have issues though, things like EAC (not a kernel level anti-chat) have issues if the developer doesn't whitelist Linux. Why? Because it's still possible to tell that you're running under Wine/Proton and not Windows and most anti-cheat will block that as a foreign environment they don't support or because they think someone is trying to reverse-engineer them, etc.

>>107234549
The difference is that a KLAC is inaccessible on a technical level on Linux (at least for now). Whereas user-level AC works fine and at that point it's up to the publisher if they want to enable Linux support or not.

>>107234607
Yeah, conceptually it can work it's just that most of the publishers don't care enough to enable it. Proton/Wine can probably do more to hide the fact they're running on Linux to make this work regardless but there's only so much they can do and a single update to the anti-cheat could undo it all.

Meanwhile, hackers and cheaters use all the tricks they can anyway so blocking Linux isn't helping anything.

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>>107233549
>The store page always mentions which languages are available.
True, but there are VNs that have this thing where you can switch languages on the fly and that tends to make a mess with texthooker. Plus I'd need to keep steam open and worry about censorship which would be yet another pain in the ass.
>Just copy the progress files to the right folder, dumbass.
So then I purchase Muramasa, only for the save files to be incompatible with the english steam release, since the version I was reading was neither in english nor a steam release. What now?

Just to be clear, the game isn't even on steam. It is on gog, but english only, so this reply is completely pointless anyway, not that it would've been for the reasons listed above. I'm replying to you anyway to let you know you're a retarded faggot.
>why am I a retarded faggot?
you called me a dumbass first, therefore you're a retarded faggot.
I'll just run sudo pacman -u or commit to using lutris with proton-ge once aur is back up.

>>107231167
Just downgrade Wine.

>>107234705
Thanks, I think I'll do that. How are downgraded packages affected when updating pacman exactly? Will wine then get updated to the then latest version after that?

>>107234721
If you edit pacman.conf you can hold the package. There is no guarantee it will keep working forever but if it worked before and doesn't now then downgrading it is a quick and easy fix.

>>107233642
But I didn't ever open it.

Is there any point in creating a swap partition if I have 32gb of ram?

>>107234748
Thanks, I haven't tried your step yet, but I think you've potentially saved me.

>>107234687
Download an older proton version from https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases
Extract it to ~/.local/share/lutris/runners/proton/
Select it as a runner in Lutris

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>>107235278
I did that, but I don't really see it anywhere inside lutris.
I just have the 'steam' option which could be any proton version I've got in that directory.

>>107235190
No, but you should have an OOM killer service to prevent GUI freezes if you run out of memory.

>>107235359
Is the path correct? It has to be in ~/.local/share/lutris/runners/proton/GE-Proton<version>

>>107235190
At least use swap on ZRAM. Swap is still useful for memory reclamation even if you have lots of memory. It lets the kernel swap out unused pages of memory so that you can have a larger working set.

can i log out of the ssh session without killing the process running in the terminal of this session?

>>107235190
If you want the "hibernate to disk" instead of only having "suspend to RAM". You need a swap file/partition of the same size as your RAM.

>>107235469
>ZRAM
Switch to zswap and stop being stupid.

>>107235494
>exit

>>107235665
That will SIGHUP said process.

>>107235663
Nobody cares poindexter. zswap was too late to the party.

>>107235711
>this thing that only needs a switch to be flipped to use is too late to replace thing that requires configuration
Actually stupid.

>>107235663
Sadly it doesn't work without a swap file being cache for it

>>107235663
See:
>>107235989

There's no way to use ZSwap with memory alone, you need a backing device. If you don't want a backing device it's better to use swap on ZRAM than no swap at all.

>>107235190
Yes, theres been a few instances i have run out of memory in my 64gb system.

>>107235989
>>107236033
Yes you can, and I'm getting real tired of you zram fetishists.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Disable_zswap_writeback_to_use_the_swap_space_only_for_hibernation
And even if you couldn't, you SHOULD have some real swap regardless, even with zram.

>>107236158
That doesn't mention how you configure it without a swap file or swap device.
>Disabling writeback != ZRAM

>>107235751
>bro just write a unit file by hand
pass
already have my one line systemd zram-generator.conf
work on your tooling

>>107236192
Your stupidity is not for me to fix. Good luck.

>>107236225
>pass
Or you know, just add a normal swap too? Are you one of those retards afraid of actually using their SSDs?

>>107236226
You're the one saying it can be done. How? With zram you just use zramctl or one of the generators and then put Swap on it. What's the equivalent for "ZSwap like ZRAM" without an actual physical swap device or swap file? It doesn't say. You can't just reference a wiki to disprove something that only proves that the original statement is in fact accurate and not disproven.

>>107236251
>How?
Are you blind, stupid or just dishonest?
>In Linux 6.8, zswap gained a per-cgroup option to disable writeback. By using systemd unit setting MemoryZSwapWriteback (see systemd.resource-control(5) §Memory Accounting and Control) in all possible unit types, zswap writeback can be effectively disabled entirely. This allows to use zswap just like zram with the added benefit of supporting hibernation.

>>107236273
That tells you how to disable writeback,. How do you configure the swap device without using a physic swap file or swap device?

>>107236285
You can just use a dummy swap. Do you need me to wipe too?

>>107236316
How? Do you put your swap file on ramfs or use some disgusting loopback hack? Just use ZRAM.

>>107236324
zram IS the disgusting hack. It's a literal fucking swap file on a ram drive.

>>107236250
>just allocate a static amount of space for swap you'll never read from
>and add a fstab line for it
You're actually moving backwards.

zram is the simplest option for swap in 99% of cases. Meaning systems with basically enough memory which use virtual swap as a buffer between real memory full and OOM condition. It also serves to partially reclaim space wasted by shared library components which never get used. Its performance for these purposes is already good enough and can't be meaningfully improved upon.

>>107236352
Yes, it's compressed swap on a RAM drive that is the whole fucking point of it. What is the "ZSwap can actually act just like ZRAM too" way to do that which is less of a hack?

Not reading all of that. I'll just keep using zram without disk swap. The last time I ran out of memory was because gimp had a memory leak and it filled up my memory in 2 seconds. Swap wouldn't have saved me there

>>107236366
>zram is the simplest option for swap in 99% of cases.
No, the simplest option is enable zswap (if it's not enabled by default like it is on Arch), and configure a normal swap file/partition so you get the best of both worlds without being FUCKING RETARDED.

My Wacom Tablet on Linux is being recognised as a mouse, even after putting 70-conf in the /etc/ folder, like Arch Wiki suggested, the issue persists, how can I solve this?

>>107236381
>best of both worlds
Most people don't want runaway allocation to waste a fuckload of writes on their SSD for no reason. These aren't boomer times where you could tell you were running out of memory because the HDD started churning.

Everyone needs an OOM killer service to prevent UI freezing. Most people don't need swap of any sort. Compressed virtual swap is nice to have because it saves more memory than the code bloat wastes, but it's not necessary for the vast majority of use cases.

>>107236487
>waste a fuckload of writes
Yep, called it, you're one of those retards.

>>107236507
Explain the utility of wasting any writes.

Bruv everyone scared me into thinking arch was super difficult and elitist and that games don't work, then I tried it and it was pretty straightforward
>make partitions then format them
>run archinstall
>yay -S steam
>install and play Steins;Gate
Literally 0 issues or hiccups, it's not as hard as people make it out to be.

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>>107236956
>archinstall
>yay

>>107236956
Same with me lol. I installed Manjaro (basically Arch) and it's really easy to use.

If the laptop only supports Modern Standby and doesn't seem to support the traditional suspend-to-RAM (I couldn't find anything about it in UEFI/BIOS at least), would GNU/Linux work well on it?

Super fresh Loondookie dropped, Linux kernel will now be written by ai slop.... gg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZVAvd0N0Jo

>>107237366
Not watching that. Without looking I can already tell what the video is. It's him bemoaning the fact that they'll allow AI slop and forecasting the impending doom of code quality slipping when in actual fact all commits will still have to pass human review and a real human will have to justify why the code should be included and what problem it solves.

>>107237455
Yea I guess that's pretty much it but he also wonders what will happen when the ai bubble pops, is the ai bubble going to pop or continue to grow infinitely?

>>107237202
>Modern Standby
What even is that? I've never even heard of a PC unable to do suspend-to-RAM.

>>107237504
The AI bubble can't pop because without it the USA would go into a massive recession considering the entire USA economy is at a halt outside of tech companies invested into AI.

>>107236352
that just swap being a hack, if we could allocate a memory stick/card to do this job that would be better but here we are we some dogshit reserved space on hard drive.

i installed nobara and it seems to have problems with my ancient goyvida 760 gpu. the driver overview says its using some sort of vulkan drivers.
when i try to install any sort of nvidia drivers it shits the bed. am i SOL with this hardware?

>>107237709
Well, you're not completely fucked, but it's going to be painful. The GTX 760 is Kepler and NVIDIA basically abandoned Kepler on modern Linux distros.

Are there any friendly GUIs for LUKS? Something like veracrypt but for loonix?

>>107237669
>a memory stick/card
...so you would want to put a vital latency-sensitive resource on a shitty USB/eMMC/whatever device? I have no words to describe the stupidity.

>>107237738
no i meant a ram device, my bad. Plug a ram in your sata or nvme, pcie,whatever.

For Steam OS, could Steam have a custom part of the linux kernel that ISN'T open to allow for an API that anti-cheats could use to have kernel level anti-cheat? EAC already has an Linux anti-cheat but devs refuse to implement it to allow for Linux gaming because it doesn't use the kernel, due to the kernel being open therefore lacking integrity.

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Good afternoon I hate the antichrist

>>107237626
It's a Windows spec that essentially establishes a low-power idle sleep mode that is typically used instead of the traditional suspend-to-RAM. In it, the CPU remains on (presumably in some kind of low-power mode) and the OS can still perform some tasks during this sleep mode. It also requires the laptop to wake up from this sleep mode quickly when the lid is opened.
>I've never even heard of a PC unable to do suspend-to-RAM
Laptops often don't support it until you switch an option in BIOS, you can do

cat /sys/power/mem_sleep

and if "deep" isn't there, then suspend-to-RAM is not supported in the current configuration at least

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Today Steam worked on my Arch installation. A couple of days ago it didn't. Tomorrow it might not, again.

Today I played a game of Mini Metro.

>>107237877
for it to be effective it would also need to be a specific or certain specific binary kernel builds verified via secureboot
kernel anti-cheat isn't /just/ a driver, it also requires a fully attestated operating system/kernel, in windows for them to work the driver has to be signed by microsoft to be able to be loaded into an unmodified windows kernel which is also signed and attested by a microsoft key in your uefi (secureboot). this prevents the kernel or driver being modified to bypass the anti-cheat measures. without attestation it may as well just be userspace code

>>107237877
>>107237997
-- basically, for steamos specifically, sure they could do that, but it won't enable anti-cheat games for any other distro unless you want to use only steamos kernels and drivers

>>107237929
This was why God invented the Flatpak and said from the heavens:
>May the unstable Arch user have a stable Steam gaming experience. Only the NVIDIA heretic may interrupt him.

>>107238064
>Only the NVIDIA heretic may interrupt him.
¬_¬

>>107237997
>>107238010
So pretty much the answer is yes, but at that point they'd be an actual console with "their own" OS even though it's just a slightly modified Linux?

I don't see why they don't take that approach then honestly at least for Steam Machine, it'd take away the only problem people have with Linux gaming, anti-cheats. If you're going the console route fucking commit.

>>107238089
>So pretty much the answer is yes, but at that point they'd be an actual console with "their own" OS even though it's just a slightly modified Linux?
pretty much, yea
>I don't see why they don't take that approach then honestly at least for Steam Machine, it'd take away the only problem people have with Linux gaming, anti-cheats. If you're going the console route fucking commit.
it'd help them, but the linux community won't be happy about it. they haven't done anything to lock out other distros thus far, it'd be a real dick move to do it now. you just know if they did the existing supported anti-cheat games will probably stop supporting non-steamos distros

>>107238292
-- that and, it doesn't help push games away from such anti-cheats. things like the steamdeck have probably persuaded at least some games to allow linux to run them just so they can be supported by the steamdeck

What is a "Serial console"?

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any advice how to keep linux from changing the resolution during the boot? it resets to 1280x1024 every time.

>>107238509
Debug console for a piece of hardware with some sort of console / command-line interface akin to something like telnet.

>>107238560
As I understand it from some googling, in the linux kernel it is a console accessible from the hardware serial port. Is that correct?
And the printouts I normally see during boot is output on a virtual console?

>>107238759
Yes. You'll see kernel logs over it and also be able to log into a primitive console to input commands into it.

Apart from embedded devices like routers, etc, it's not really something to think about. Definitely not relevant for most desktop systems, etc.

>>107238779
Thanks.

you know what we need? a simple "launch with proton" program where you can make a list of executables with a profile and run them with proton without any complicated nonsense behind it

>>107238987
binfmt solves this

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>>107238987
Steam

>>107239031
steam is one of the bits of complicated nonsense i mean

>>107238335
Just stop engaging with trash software vendors. It's not worth it. Get some irl friends if all the losers you hang out with online run f2p trash with free rootkit.

This example configuration file for tty autologin, from the Arch wiki.
Why are there two ExecStart= lines, does anyone know? Is there some meaning to it or is it just a typo?

/etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/autologin.conf

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --noreset --noclear --autologin username - ${TERM}

>>107235398
I ran pwd, here's the result
~/.local/share/lutris/runners/proton/GE-Proton10-25
Do I need to restart my computer maybe?

>>107239436
I don't think it's a typo. It's the same here https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Automatic_login_to_virtual_console
I've used that in the past and it works

>>107239436
I think it's a typo. If you get the two line version working, try removing it and see.

>>107239436
>>107239564
The first ExecStart= in the override conf tells systemd to blank out the ExecStart= field. The second one is the new value. systemd is weird like that.

>>107239448
Restarting Lutris should be enough. Not sure why it doesn't work, I install all my proton runners manually

>>107239586
Weird. What happens if you don't blank out the field?

>>107237655
The stock market isn't the economy.

>>107239658
It complains that there's 2 execstart fields

>>107239733
So just add another one to fix it. Brilliant

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I don't get this talk of arch being unstable or arch will randomly break itself after an update. In my four months of using arch I've only had one issue from updating and that was a regression in the latest nvidia drivers that caused one of my monitors to be stuck on the wrong resolution and that was fixed by just downgrading to the previous driver release. Am I just getting lucky, or are people just retarded?

>>107238089
>>107238292
Seems like an easier option would just be for these anti-cheat insistent game studios to ALSO offer to let people have non-competitive free servers + community servers. Valve has non VAC servers and community servers. I don't see why Epic and others couldn't do that so Linux players could at least play the game non-ranked.

>>107239781
New software can break. That can happen on every distro. Apart from that Arch doesn't break on its own as long as you check the news for manual interventions and don't install random critical components from the AUR

>>107239781
>be bored
>pacman -Syu
>something breaks, probably quietly
Such is life with a rolling release with daily updates.

>>107240040
If a package breaks but doesn't affect the user in any meaningful way... did it actually break?

>>107234532
Yes.

>>107239665
money isn't pegged to anything real like gold, so the stock market is the economy

>>107240051
>doesn't affect the user in any meaningful way
I didn't say that. You just won't notice until later. And then you won't know if it was some update or you've done something stupid somewhere.

>>107240202
Or a randomly manifesting bug. Was it always there? Who knows.

While googling for a specific edition of a book that I couldn't find anywhere I went through a lot of those iffy sites that force you to go through link shorteners and redirecters until you reach the actual download link. I remember back when I was on Windows and using Avast years ago that the antivirus shield would pop up all the time on such sites warning me of malware this, trojan that, but now I realize that I kinda went unprotected on Linux (all I have is the recommended basic UFW setup on).

What are the odds of getting hacked/infected from merely entering suspicious sites nowadays? And in case I suspect my shit's compromised would a full ClamAV scan suffice?

I have a script running that should set a custom power limit for my nvidia gpu at boot.
but it doesn't work.

nvidia-tdp.service - Set NVIDIA GPU Power Limit at Boot
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/nvidia-tdp.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)

 j systemd[1]: Dependency failed for nvidia-tdp.service - Set NVIDIA GPU Power Limit at Boot.
 j systemd[1]: nvidia-tdp.service: Job nvidia-tdp.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

any idea what the problem is?
I found it here

https://docs.lambda.ai/hardware/servers/set-lower-gpu-power-limits/

>>107221275
No... I'm using alpine, I'm just running Linux and a Desktop.

>>107240501
>What are the odds of getting hacked/infected from merely entering suspicious sites nowadays?
Very low. If they knew such a massive security hole in a browser they'd go for the big fish or sell the information to the browser devs for a good amount of money.

>>107240537
I'm not the best at Systemd but I interpret "Failed with dependency" to mean it failed because of a dependency of the Unit failed?

>>107240678
i.e, the problem isn't your Unit or script but rather what it depends on but that information isn't visible here.

so i have
VR working
steam working
piracy workng
EGS working
GOG working
along with every single game i care about all on linux i dont see a need to ever go back to windows and its uncomfortable bloated slowness along ith a 30 second delay between hitting shutdown and the system starting to shutdown

>>107240721
>i dont see a need to ever go back to windows
*locks down bootloader*
Heh, hothing personnel

>>107240789
how would microsoft be able to lockdown a bootloader i dont have installed? or did you think i was dual booting?

>>107240828
even if you were dual booting wouldn't this be a non issue if the two OSes are on different drives?

>>107240837
yes so im still trying to figure out what that guy meant

>>107240828
The endgame is to eventually do that on new hardware obviously. For security. For the children.

>>107233653
The problem is I don't get a login screen just a black screen. It was default to Wayland at first. I switched to x11 later and the issue persisted. At the moment I've just set it to autologin so its not a big deal just somewhat annoying. Thanks for at least responding I'm not really sure how to debug and whatnot

>>107232254
the xubuntu hack was a nothingburger. he swapped out the iso with a very obvious malware exe.

>>107222070
you'll do fine with an atomic fedora variant as long as you're not too much of a tinkerer. KDE specifically seems to have decent tablet support. if you play video games, go for bazzite. if you don't, aurora should be fine.

>>107240880
Did it work at some point? Do have hybrid graphics?
Do you have G-sync? Then this might be relevant.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=270564

>>107238759
>And the printouts I normally see during boot is output on a virtual console?
Not by default, but you can direct them there yes.

>>107238779
>Definitely not relevant for most desktop systems, etc.
If the motherboard has a serial port but there's no iGPU it may indeed be relevant.

>>107239020
It doesn't, because it uses the default prefix for everything.

>>107241033
>Did it work at some point?
No I dont believe so. Ever since installing Ubuntu Ive had this issue.
>Do have hybrid graphics?
No I don't think so. Google gave me these commands to try. Maybe my intel iGPU is being used at startup and thats causing the issue? I'm not really sure.

 anon@kubuntu25:~$ sudo lspci | grep -i vga
[sudo: authenticate] Password: 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GB203 [GeForce RTX 5080] (rev a1)
anon@kubuntu25:~$ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch
cat: /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch: No such file or directory (os error 2)
anon@kubuntu25:~$ glxinfo | grep -E "Device|direct rendering"
direct rendering: Yes
    Device: Mesa Intel(R) Graphics (RPL-S) (0xa780)

>Do you have G-sync?
My monitor supports it but its disabled.

>>107241059
>Not by default, but you can direct them there yes.
Then I don't get it? Where do they go by default what's the difference from a virtual console? Or has my distro configured itself to redirect the the boot printing a virtual console, and that's why I'm seeing them?

>>107241059
Thanks for the help setting nomodeset in /etc/default/grub did the trick

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash nomodeset'

>>107241291
>>107241291
>>107241291