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>>107241291
First post!

Friend, I am trying to set up a Linux PC as a living room console thing. I want to play video games on it and watch youtube and other streaming sites.

I currently am running AntiMicroX to use my controller as the mouse.

For my distro, I am on Ubuntu and don't really want to distro hop...

What are somethings I can do to make the UI cooler, comfier, and more akin to a console?

Thank you in advance

>>107241574
https://plasma-bigscreen.org

now that arch is the default distro for shitters and retards, what's the cool kid distro?

>>107241827
Debian

>>107241574
guess you could set up steam big picture and open kodi from it

>>107241574
Steam BPM. Pegasus, ES-DE and Cartridges look decent but idk about their controller support

>>107241827
freebsd

>>107241827
>default distro for shitters and retards
Because of SteamOS? Does it even count as Arch if Valve makes it retard proof by locking shit down?

>>107241827
Void or NixOS with window managers instead of full desktop environments.
>>107241850
Debian is respected by the cool kids but it’s not where the cool kids are at.

>>107241827
SteamOS is functionally closer to fedora than arch despite being arch based

>>107241978
>NixOS with window managers instead of full desktop environments.
false, nix with KDE is objectively superior to everything.

>>107242008
valve 100% would've went with fedora if they came out with bootable OCI containers before the steam deck. a bit too late now.

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>>107241827
Whatever the oldest GNU/Linux is that's still being maintained. It doesn't matter which one that is, as long as it's that one. I don't know if it's coincidence or not, but that's also the only one that's not gay, if that matters to you.

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I'm using pipewire 1.4.9-1 and a couple times every few hours I get this weird issue with audio crackling for a few seconds. It happens both on my browser and mpv, so it isn't specific to a program. It does not show up on recordings (I tried capturing an instance of it on OBS). How could I go about diagnosing this?

>>107242206
write a script that turns off your audio for a few seconds every couple of hours.
bam damn done famalam

>>107242206
pipewire is really annoying for doing this. look up general crackling issues and make those adjustments. if you use amd try the zen kernel--that's what fixed it for me.

>>107242224
Strange thing is that this is the first time I've noticed this happening on this system in years of using pipewire. Problem is that I'm not sure exactly when it started, since I used it a lot without sound in the last month... so crawling through an apt log of tons of packages to downgrade is not a great option

But thank you, I'll look into this. I am in fact using an AMD CPU

>>107241827
PuppyOS

>>107240055
Very woman-coded reply.

>>107241827
dude it's linux, just build it from scratch and roll your own. even better you can make it the most byzantium and baroque shit possible so only you know how it works and sometimes not even then. you can literally spend your entire time fucking around with linux and never do anything else. think of all the cred you'll get in the community. like one stop wizard shop. bitches* will be all over your balls.

*these bitches will not be real women.

>>107241574
>What are somethings I can do to make the UI cooler, comfier, and more akin to a console?
copius amounts of weeeeeeed.

>>107241827
Come home to Fedora, white man
The true patrician’s distro.

>>107241827
Because Omarchy? They have their own community, just stay away from them.

dosbox's keyboard assignment thing doesn't work for setting up a keyboard layout it doesn't have. It is full of bugs.

Anyone here running FreeBSD? (Maybe >>107241885.) Can you tell me if it has rfkill installed by default (preinstalled)? I want to run "rfkill unblock all".

I installed freebsd on an internal 500GB SSD today. It doesn't detect my wireless device. Same problem when running GNU/Linux: ifconfig would only show loopback and Ethernet devices until i ran that rfkill command. Also, FreeBSD uses more CPU than Slax Linux; I can tell by how hard the fans are blowing in this old laptop. (FreeBSD installation tip: remember to add user to wheel group so he can run sudo or whatever.)

If it wasn't obvious, I'm asking about rfkill in FreeBSD because I can't use it right now and maybe won't have access to FreeBSD for days.

>>107242760
That post is someone replying to someone, the message is "Yes." I don't know the context without opening that thread.

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Does someone work as a Linux Kernel Engineer? Could someone drop some advice on how to get into the field?

>>107244121
You can be your own kernel engineer. Build kernels from source, modify them, submit patches, get them accepted after mountains of legal buraceacy, and hope someone notices you.
It would be smarter to get involved in an existing project that a company has investments in. Anduril is always trying to poach nixos devs.

Anyone here having problems running the Monero daemon in Linux? It says it can't bind to port 18081 even though nothing else is using that port. I ran ./monerod with an CLI flag to use port 18083 and it ignored it, going with the default 18081 instead. I'm using the latest version of the software.

>>107242206
I assume you've done basic stuff like use different headphones and use pulseaudio instead.

>>107242672
I used that before. I remember feeling that it was bloated. So it's a bloated puppy. PuppyOS is intended for new users, I think.

Why do you use Linux, /fglt/?
I was concerned about Windows 10 no longer receiving updates, plus I was sick of how nonsensical it was to navigate through menus to find what I wanted on Windows. I'd wanted to switch to Linux for many years but was always too lazy to, but when my last computer died I finally had an excuse to start fresh.
Linux is comfy as fuck compared to Windows. If it were easier to set up I'd recommend it to anybody, but I needed an IT friend who'd been using a Linux distro for many years to help me debug the first couple days.

>>107244319
I use it to jerk off to tranny porn and goon to disfigured prostitutes sticking stuff up their buttholes

>>107244334
Same honestly.
No 3DPD though. Just a bunch of really fucking weird hentai. I got banned from /d/ before for being too weird.

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simplest way to expand BTRFS partition "leftwise"?
sites say to boot from a liveusb and shift root & home non-destructively, but I was under the impression that BTRFS could do all that online

>>107244319
>Why do you use Linux, /fglt/?
I didn't like Windows Vista and I didn't want to be on the Windows train when it got to the SAAS station.

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>>107244138
>$ ./monerod --prune-blockchain --zmq-pub tcp://127.0.0.1:18083
>[...]
>2025-11-18 [time] E Exception in main! Failed to add TCP socket(127.0.0.1:18082) to ZMQ RPC Server
Oh, because 127.0.0.1:18082 is being used by I2P.

>bloated puppy

>>107244483
full of soup

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>>107241827
Gentoo

>>107244319
I use Linux because it's the best operating system and Bash is great. I'm probably locked into Linux now with the software and stuff I'm using. Better to be locked into Linux than Windows. I also use Linux to archive 4chan /gif/ (has too much interracial porn which I dislike); no one downloaded this torrent of full images and threads for some reason even though it was released 4 days ago at >>>/t/1385971

[Magnet link would be here, but I can't post that in /g/ as it says it's spam = lame. See the /t/ post]

>>107244319
Because one day my Windows 10 install bricked its bootloader so I decided fuck it and installed Fedora Linux. That was nearly 3 years ago.

>>107244551
Bash is great because it's a programming language where you open up a terminal and use it to get shit done easily. Other language are useful for whatever they do but I can judge them like this:
- Python: whitespace cringe, update broke "print hello" vs. "print(hello)"
- JavaScript: mostly just for web stuff, but node is changing that
- Java and C: write a bunch of stuff and compile it, .h and .c files everywhere
- Rust: also compiled
- Go: write networking code

Stupid question, but why use C instead of Python/Rust/Bash/Java? I feel dumb for not knowing the reasons right now, or maybe I forgot them.

>>107244483
Sorry cryptobros, gotta proon:
>https://red.artemislena.eu/r/Monero/comments/x4s88m/how_do_i_prune_blockchain/
>https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/11454/how-do-i-utilize-blockchain-pruning-in-the-gui-monero-wallet-gui
I'd have the full blockchain if I had a multi-terabyte internal drive. Currently only have a 500GB NVMe in that computer.

>>107244606
Like 8 months ago I was using Windows 11 on a new PC. I intended to switch it to Linux before buying it. I filled out the Windows 11 login thing with a made-up email address as it required I have Internet accounts to login. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I know I got basically locked out. As I remember, days later, I turned the PC on and Windows ask that I verify the email or some shit. It wanted me to look in the inbox of the non-existent email and click a link to verify that I control it. Windows is ran by clowns. Switched it to Linux at that point.

>>107244319
got bored one weekend and nuked windows and installed linux just for something to do but ended up liking it and sticking. I don't even have a problem with windows.

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>>107244658
Typical Microsoft employee

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>>107239632
May I see a screenshot of your window for the 'locally installed game' tab?

who is the best looking person that primarily uses Linux?

>>107245134
You

>>107244658
Now they want to push AI on Windowa 11 by turning it into an "agentic" operative system.
I totally want a completely useless text generator that has access to all the registries of the pcs and uses the informations stored there to make a profit for Microshit; I am switching to Linux because I can't fucking stand when things are pushed on me.

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is that a bad idea to move /tmp and cache to tmpfs? it's not like im running out of disk space but it's less write cycles for the ssds and i do have a surplus or RAM

>>107245048
Oh wait, maybe you have to change the runner to wine there. That's the only difference I see

>>107245251
Cache is supposed to be persistent. It's not temporary. Applications should handle that and re-write the cache again, etc, but you probably shouldn't use tmpfs for that unless you never power this machine off.

>>107245251
/tmp is on tmpfs by default
Not sure about the others. Some programs might expect that storage to be persistent

>>107245372
>>107245385
i see. thank you

>>107245385
>/tmp is on tmpfs by default
Not necessarily, you still need an entry in Fstab for that unless Systemd is doing it, etc. Some distros like Ubuntu explicitly do NOT use tmpfs for /tmp.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/62928/why-doesnt-tmp-use-tmpfs

>>107245406
It's the systemd default setting

>>107245458
Yes, but your distro may disable or alter that is what I'm saying so you'll need to double check. As far as I know only Ubuntu does this but there may be other distros.

>>107229136
>>107229181
I dunno, despite what people say, my experience with distrobox so far has been smooth, though the only graphical programs I've tried running in distrobox so far are steam and firefox, and both seem to open faster than their flatpak version, even after a fresh reboot. Also haven't noticed any lags or speed difference from their flatpak versions, maybe there is a performance drop but at least it's not noticeable to me.
I do plan to test it for gaming but I only figured out how to pass my GPU to the container after a lot of pains.
I wonder how distrobox with GPU acceleration compares to a VM with GPU passthrough? that's a more relevant benchmark for me
>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.
That's what I'm planning to do.
>Here's the performance difference between a web browser running inside distrobox vs one running as a flatpak
What is exactly being measured here? also what was the host and guest distro? Flatpaks contain the latest versions of software and their libraries, but this is not the case for distrobox as it is determined by the guest distro, I imagine the choice of the guest distro is what determines the performance here.

Also a bit unrelated question: correct me if I'm wrong, but Isn't distrobox using chroots under the hood? at least that's what the result of the 'ischroot' command run inside distrobox make me believe.
What is the difference between distrobox and a chroot with /dev, /proc, /sys and various other directories mounted in the correct places in the chroot to simulate the magic of distrobox?

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Has anyone tried to daily drive a Type-1 Hypervisor (not necessarily just picrel)? what's it like having any OS at your fingertips? And most importantly, should I do it?

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>>107245364
Really?

>>107246024
In the game options tab you should add an empty prefix
In the options tab you should now be able to select the proton version

>>107246076
>In the options tab
*runner options

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yo is this the fedora 42 updates or the actual 42 -> 43 upgrade?
come to think of it, should I upgrade to 43 or reinstall from the ground up? I haven't been using 42 for long so it's kind of whatever. idk how it's done in linuxland

>>107246122
The general rule of thumb is to backup your data and then upgrade to the new version, if everything werks then you're done, if not then can always do a fresh install now that your data is safely backed up.

Also, please, for the love of god, stop using GUI package managers for your updates, those things are horrible and they sometimes end up removing packages without your knowledge. The worst part is that if an error happens it doesn't tell you or is very vague about it. I had my system break multiple times due to GNOME's software center doing absolutely retarded things in the background. I really think Major DEs should stop shipping GUI package managers altogether and force the user to learn how to use apt, dnf, pacman, etc...
Anyway, just do

sudo dnf update

Like a normal person and watch it roll

>>107245251
/tmp on tmpfs is fine, many distros even default to this. most programs don't tend to write large amounts of data to it at any one time, and /tmp is always cleared on boot anyway (yes, on boot, not shutdown)
~/.cache on tmpfs is also fine, though this may affect performance a bit, since that is intended to be persistent, so any cache programs generate to save time later will need to be generated again. i'd only consider this on storage-limited systems. like i have a linux installation on an 8GB usb drive, and so i have ~/.cache on tmpfs both for space and also for reduced writes
modern ssd's can handle a /lot/ of writes, it's likely to die or become obsolete before you run out of writes with anything resembling normal usage

>>107246486
>>107245251
oh as for /var/cache, i haven't checked how safe that is to make tmpfs. i have set my package cache to tmpfs on the aforementioned usb install (/var/cache/pacman/pkg), those are safe to remove any time as they're only there for reinstalls without downloading them again

>>107246122
>to be able to upgrade, first apply all updates
So those would be the F42 updates.
>should I upgrade to 43 or reinstall
Upgrade. The GUI upgrade was kinda broke in my F42, but just follow the terminal upgrade instructions and it works fine. It's like 3 commands.

>>107246340
Sounds like you're making a frankenredhat. It shouldn't have any decisions to make for you with just current version Fedora packages.

>>107244658
>Stupid question, but why use C instead of Python/Rust/Bash/Java?
When the language native bindings are insufficient. They're all C(++) under the hood.

Some people just enjoy watching the computer shit itself.

>>107246486
>>107246509
>/var/cache, i haven't checked how safe that is to make tmpfs
system has booted fine can tell you that much.
i did check /tmp and it is indeed mounted to RAM on my system. i reverted everything back and left it how it was.

>>107244384
btrfs device add <partition> <mount_point>

my root is on ext4 am i just fucked in terms of backups or snapshots

>>107244384
>>107246673
yea you could add it as a second 'device', making a spanned volume between them
you could even then remove the original partition so it's all on the 64G volume, then extend that to fill the space "rightwards". should be possible while it's mounted even, since it's still technically the same volume. just make sure your fstab entries are not partition-specific

>>107246737
not at all, you can convert ext4 to btrfs ;)

>>107245953
Your question is too vague to give a meaningful answer. I did however daily drive qubes for a bit. I think anyone curious about it should at least test it, the install takes slightly longer than your average distro, but not too long (took about an hour on my machines).
On one hand, running qubes was extremely liberating. Finally, I could download shit from npm and sketchy PDFs without care. Having whonix baked into the system is something I never thought I'd appreciate. It's so easy to route traffic for VPNs and such.
Drawbacks: learning to manage your system and take advantage of what qubes devs have set up takes time. Installing software from outside your template repos is a pain (unless you do standalones). You're pretty much capped to 1080p video (and even then you're lucky to get a smooth experience).

Would definitely suggest if all you do is email/terminals/browsing and don't really have the need for playing videos or games. I didn't really run it for the sake of having any OS because you can have any OS at your fingertips with better performance with qemu already. But QubesOS UX is amazing, idk what magic the devs pulled of when you can have seamless windows from various vms as if they're native apps on any DE.

>>107246779
whats the success rate on that

>>107246737
You can make snapshots with timeshift and backups with rsync, don't see why you're paranoid, ext4 is the default on most linux systems.

>>107246789
no idea honestly. it should be pretty safe considering how it works. it basically analyses the data in the volume and creates new btrfs metadata in free space that points to the original data locations. because of this it's even possible to roll back to ext4, and the original ext4 volume becomes a file inside of the new btrfs volume (once you're happy with it, you can delete that file)

naturally, anybody would always suggest updating your backup first... you have a backup, right?

>>107246786
While Qubes seems nice, I don't care that much about security and I mainly doing it for the convenience of having multiple OSes at my fingertip.
I am actually thinking of installing Alpine+Xen and make something similar to qubes but for the less paranoid
>you can have any OS at your fingertips with better performance with qemu already
But I thought Qubes gets better performance because it uses a type-1 hypervisor (Xen hypervisor)? isn't qemu a type-2 hypervisor?

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>try to archive ~2GB of files with Ark
>says the archive was created
>in reality it wasn't, it just crashed halfway through but it says it worked fine
>install File Roller
>it's some unintuitive gnome trash
>have to google how to create an archive with an archive program because gnome
>...actually nvm I'll just use something else
>grab Pea Zip
>ok the UI looks a bit weird but at least it's clear what's what
>select folder, pick 7z, select 'store'
>archive created successfully
>...but RAM keeps climbing
>64 GB reached after 20 seconds
>entire system shits itself for several minutes
so this is the power of linux...

>>107246918
dude just use tar lol

tar cvf <path/to/output.tar.gz> <path/to/input-directory>

>>107244319
My old shitbox couldnt run anything past win 7 well(last good windows version btw) so I put linux on it once Steam dropped support for 7
Ive long since upgraded the hardware but kept linux because if it runs well on a shitbox itll do well on a good machine too and I didnt play the games that refuse to run on it even when I used windows anyway
Plus kernel updates are comfier I guess, fuck windows updates shit pisses me off, still use it on the work machine and its aids

>>107247055
whoops, it's "tar czf" not "tar cvf", although you could add v for verbose output so it becomes "tar czfv"

So im on win10 right now and really dont want to switch to win11. Im not super familiar with linux outside of tinkering a bit with a steam deck. I want to switch but have heard that nvidia doesnt play well with linux. How true is this?

>>107246869
I guess it boils down what you actually mean with "having multiple OSes at my fingertip". Do you want something like QubesOS (nice UX running multiple VMs) or can you live with something like virt-manager? I guess you could even spin up Incus if you just wanna use the terminal to access vms with shared kernel.
There are a lot of options here, and I don't know the intricacies of Xen vs KVM. I believe KVM is more performant for the average user.

>>107247055
I don't want to 'member six gorillion terminal magic spells, it's why I use a distro that displays more than a terminal. I just want to make a fucking archive, the process which has always worked for me flawlessly since I used windows 95
cmd is for shit like foobar which has a billion options and flags, in no universe is it supposed to be necessary to make a goddamn .zip

>>107247138
i've been using 2060 without problems for years now
only problems I've had were with wayland. solution: don't use wayland.

>>107247138
Depends on how new, or how old your nivida card is (really new cards, that is cards that are merely months old, might not be supported yet, conversely really old cards might only support the nouveau driver), but for the most part nvidia works on linux if you install the drivers, which is actually the only complicated thing here because installing the nvidia drivers is going to depend on your distro. You should NEVER install the nvidia drivers from nvidia's website unless you have exhausted every other possibility.

If you have hybrid graphics then things are more complicated and you need to learn how to do PRIME offloading if you want to use both your iGPU and dGPU effectively.

>>107247138
>nvidia doesnt play well with linux
it can be true if you use stuff like Debian, which isn't really meant for the latest or greatest. Distros aimed at a more modern audience, like Fedora, have good nvidia support - at most (like fedora) you need to enable a third party repo (nowadays you just click a button during the setup to do so) and it just werks (tm)

the actual downside is that DX12 games do run slower on linux, and nvidia in particular is worse at it than amd. On average you should expect 5%-15% lower performance in DX12 games than on Windows, which isn't an issue 95% of the time but it's good to keep it in mind.

>>107247159
Okay since you're insistent on using a GUI app then use Xarchiver, it's the one that I've used and it works well.
But I do hope one day you will get enlightened by the terminal and memorize the six gorillion sacred terminal magic spells by heart and become a linux grand wizard like I did.

>>107246486
>(yes, on boot, not shutdown)
Of course it's on boot, how else would it get cleaned after a system crash or power loss?

>>107247254
>>107247339
ah ok, I have a 4090 and am not sure which distro I would choose. I see Mint shilled quite a lot but i don't know if they are actually good or not.

>>107247437
arch based it's not as hard as you think

>>107247138
It's true. Nvidia is antagonistic to open source development which is most Linux stuff.

>>107241291
Just tried Linux Ubuntu and honestly why the fuck would anyone torture themselves with this crap.
It's annoying as fuck, installing programs was a nightmare. UI is shit, you constantly need workarounds and googling just to do basic shit.

>>107247474
>installing programs was a nightmare

 sudo apt install <program> 

is hard
>UI is shit
i guess
>you constantly need workarounds and googling just to do basic shit.
no you don't, you just want to use windows. linux isn't windows

>finished neovim :tutor chapter 1 and 2

Now, how do I configure it to work with c/c++? I don’t want to learn lua and mess with config files for too long.

>>107247437
Just pick any distro, it doesn't matter, you're going to distrohop eventually anyways, it happens to the best of us.
The most important advice I could give you is to create a separate partition for your data and home, this will make distrohopping a lot less painless. Also use Ventoy for multiple ISOs on a USB if you intend to install from a USB.

>>107247577
>lot less painless
a lot less painful*
pardon my ESLness

>>107247472
Didn't Nvidia open source their drivers?

>>107247662
No, that was just a publicity stunt

>>107247516
trust me did the right comands like sudo and it would sometimes install. But actually it didn't install shit

>>107247577
Thanks for the advice

>>107247516
>

 sudo apt install <program> 

is hard
Well it is, if <program> is in some package called librandomlib1-extra-bins

>>107247697
I dunno man, have you like tried

apt search <program>

?

>>107247437
>am not sure which distro I would choose
as a resident fedora kde shill:
fedora kde

>>107247723
*** The required package gtk+-2.0 was not found on your system.
*** Please install gtk+-2.0 (atleast version 2.10.0) or adjust

>apt search gtk
>get more results than fits in the terminal window (2000 lines)
you're move, fucko

>>107247814
Use apt-file

# apt update && apt install -y apt-file && apt-file update && apt-file search gtk+-2.0.pc
libgtk2.0-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/gtk+-2.0.pc

>>107247814
by default apt has this annoying thing where it searches descriptions, not just the actual package names. You can turn that off,
drop a file containing

APT::Cache::NamesOnly "true";

into /etc/apt/apt.conf.d

>>107247405
>use Xarchiver
I trusted you, and then I got a fatal error when running `make`
fuck this shit I'll just boot winblows for it, cbf'd spending hours on bullshit like that. hopefully updating to 43 next week will help (lol as if)

>>107246918
Free as in freedom. The correct action to take in this situation is to report the bug.

>>107248113
>The correct action to take in this situation is to report the bug
I can't, my ram is full

>>107246918
i'll truly never understand how new users seem to find ways to fuck things up that i've just never run into
like i just made a dwarfs archive of 194GiB of files (~900k files) the other day with half the ram you have no prob

>>107248143
idk man, he tries to compile the software too
people will do the weirdest things instead of just choosing the easy path (and reading the docs)

>>107248045
>running `make`
what? are you compiling it from source??
just what in the hell are you doing?
>>107248140
Why can't you just kill the process that's taking up your RAM???
>my system is frozen
Use the magic SysRq key to free memory by killing the current virtual console

Alt+SysRq+K

This is like logging out, it will kill all programs on your screen
Note: might not work if your kernel isn't configured to respond to the SysRq key

>>107248197
i can sympathise with not knowing what the easiest path is, but what did he even do to make an archiver use >64GiB of ram making an archive of a 2GiB dataset? like i'm not sure i could do that if i tried

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>>107248291
>what? are you compiling it from source??
the sourceforge version links to an archive that has the source. the github releases has a version that has the source. readme says to run .configure then make. the fuck else am I supposed to do?
>>107248370
it's pretty clearly a bug in pea zip, you can't really fuck up selecting a location and pressing 'archive'

eventually I just used le magic terminal spell from >>107247055 and it worked fine, but sweet fuck you'd think something as basic as creating a damn archive wouldn't be such an ordeal

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>>107244319
I boughted my first computer during Windows Me and went to the bookstore to get a book on computers. The book I boughted said "If you want all the mommies to ride you everywhere you go then you're going to need to use Linux instead of literally anything else".

So I looked Linux up on the DMOZ and it said all kinds of things about OPEN SOURCE and why that's important and it told me about RMS and I read a lot about him and I wanted to be as close to as smart as him as I could get while mommies rode me, so I started using GNU PLUS LINUX right away and ordered some t-shirts from the FSF and never looked back.

I'm pretty seriously unironically RETARDED and can barely operate a computer so it didn't make me LEET or anything like that, but MELIKES LINUX regardless.

I like to see the text config files that people wrote and I can know that someone on the other side of that file wrote all that and I can modify it if I both 1) need to and 2) can somehow manage to know how on that particular one without BORKING literally everything. I just think that's really neat.

I am essentially 100% computer code ILLITERATE but I like to go and read the KERNEL source sometimes just to admire it and contemplate it, MEDITATE UPON IT, if you will. I like to think it expands my subconscious into the depths of the fundamental workings of LITERALLY EVERYTHING, and by that I mean far beyond computers, unless you understand THE UNIVERSE to be software running on hardware. I have a breddy gud book on that, btw, called The Intelligent Universe by James Gardner. I sometimes wonder if he is related to FAMOUS AUTHOR F. GARDNER who got famous for writing Call of the Crocodile.

None of this is made up, btw, all of it is true exactly as stated. Except for the mommies part. But don't get me wrong, I have had a few mommies take rides, it just wasn't in that book on computers I boughted.

>>107244319
>Why do you use Linux
I was already leery of windows 10's endless lust after all my data ever. Win11 took that behavior to 11, appropriately enough, so I bailed.
I really like it... as long as it works. But sometimes it doesn't and I spend several hours on total bullshit.
I much prefer it over MacOS, which feels like an OS made by aliens. OTOH macos does just werk (tm), which is only sometimes true of linux.

The actual usability: winblows wins it easily desu, barring a few exceptions like no tabs in explorer. But it's increasingly a funnel for advertising so I bailed.

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>btrfs backup tools are so fucking weird that I reverted to making a full disk clone with rescuezilla once every few weeks, despite it not even having the functionality to omit given paths to stuff like my music collection

>>107248441
>the fuck else am I supposed to do?
Always search in the software manager/in your distro's repositories first

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>>107248621
>Always search in the software manager/in your distro's repositories first
thanks boo

>>107244319
I got a steam deck and realized gaming on linux isn't a meme, and after some research found out the nvidia experience is actually usable. So after have all of my monitors black out for the third time that day from nvidia's dogshit Windows drivers, I said fuck it and blew up my install

>>107248643
Distro?

>>107248441
Holy fucking shit, no wonder you have all those problems if you install your software that way,
>the fuck else am I supposed to do?
You're supposed to install the damn thing from your damn package manager. I didn't expect a noob to actually go to these lengths just to avoid using a package manager, this is somewhat hilarious.
Do you have any idea how much you are fucking your system by compiling from source? did you ever hear of the term dependency hell? because you're about to find out what dependency hell soon if you keep doing this shit. There is a reason package managers exist, this is not windows and you should not install software like windows.

>>107248664
>>107248643
fuck me sideways I wanted to double check and apparently Discover isn't just a gui facade of dnf, because dnf found it
I guess I did at least learn something useful for all this ballache

>>107246918
>>107248441
What distro are you on? If it's a Debian-based distro then run this to install xarchiver:

sudo apt install xarchiver

If you're on a Fedora based distro then replace `apt` with `dnf`. If you're on Arch or something then use the internet to find out how to install a package from the package manager on your distro.

It's very rare that you should need to compile something from source. Most Linux distros have massive software repositories full of software that has already been compiled, so you can just use your package manager to (apt, dnf, etc) to install what you want.

>>107248699
>Discover isn't just a gui facade of dnf, because dnf found it
kek I suppose Fedora is too noob friendly at times, instead of telling you to figure shit out using terminal it'll tell you to use Discover for all your software needs and then retards try to compile shit written in 2006

This is why beginner friendly distros are a meme

ventoy is such fucking bait, nothing works as it should with it
I'll die with 10 different 8gb slow as shit pendrives from mid-2000s

>>107241802
Nta but I've never heard of this, thanks for the hot tip.

>open a video on winblows in vlc
>seeking is pretty much instant
>open the same video on linux in vlc
>sound plays instantaneously but it takes 1-3sec before video shows up, on a 1440p60 video
playback is fine so I guess it's not really a big deal but.. what gives?

>>107249036
vlc version? also maybe an issue related to X11 or wayland or maybe GPU drivers if you're using video acceleration.
But anyway, most people use mpv instead of vlc on linux, mpv is superior to vlc in many ways. I suggest installing mpv and trying it, if it doesn't solve the problem then this is probably an issue with the display server or graphics drivers.

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oi m8 u 'avin a giggle? whaise my fooken <title>?
>can't even screenshot the screenshot program
baka my head

>>107244319
I started using it a decade ago because Windows 10 was a shitshow on release and never got better. I kept using it because Windows just kept getting worse while Linux just kept getting better.
>but I needed an IT friend who'd been using a Linux distro for many years to help me debug the first couple days.
The installation is currently the only thing that's "difficult". Using the OS is pretty easy if you stick with the normie distros like Bazzite and Mint.

>>107247138
>I want to switch but have heard that nvidia doesnt play well with linux. How true is this?
It's generally true, but it doesn't mean your display output won't work. It just means stuff like directx12 games performing 30% worse, Waydroid not having GPU acceleration, some window managers and desktop environments not supporting all the refresh rate and resolution combinations properly (depending on your GPU model and driver version), etc.
Stick to distros which include nVidia drivers out of the box rather than requiring manual setup. Bazzite, Nobara, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.

>>107246918
Perhaps those three GUI programs are buggy because few people use them. I guess most people just open up a terminal and run:
>7z a file.zip folder

Or for store-mode (no compression):
>7z a -mx=0 file.zip file.mp4

>>107247116
>tar
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the time resolution on .tar is 1 second. So tarballs have a most-specific time of 1 second increments and not more specific, like milliseconds. With .zip, the time resolution is 2 seconds. ZIP is better than TAR because it has an index and you can therefore quickly get stuff out of a large or 6 GB .zip files (can't do that with .tar without using sidecar files or some other software). TAR is better than ZIP as it has better metadata, that being the timestamps and maybe other stuff. There's the less common IPFS-related CAR format which is like TAR but sometimes has an index. CAR is better than ZIP and TAR as it both has specific timestamps and indices, but it's worse than both as it's more uncommon than both.

>>107244483
Solutions:
>$ ./monerod --prune-blockchain --no-zmq
For CLI. Go to http://127.0.0.1:7657/i2ptunnelmgr and set I2P to use a different port, then the GUI at ./monero-gui-v0.18.4.3/monero-wallet-gui will work. I sycned to the latest block and it said:
>2025-11-18 08:55:21.054 I [223.132.150.168:18080 OUT] Sync data returned a new top block candidate: 3470710 -> 3546519 [Your node is 75809 blocks (3.5 months) behind]
>2025-11-18 [time] I SYNCHRONIZATION started
>2025-11-18 [time] I Synced 3470730/3546519 (97%, 75789 left)
>[...]
>2025-11-18 [time] I Synced 3546619/3546620 (99%, 1 left)
>2025-11-18 [time] I Synced 3546620/3546620
>2025-11-18 [time] I Synced 1711 blocks in 9.5 minutes (3.001 blocks per second)
>[...]
>2025-11-18 12:21:51.849 I You are now synchronized with the network. You may now start monero-wallet-cli.
Done in 3 hours 26 minutes 22 seconds. It synced about 1 month per hour.

>>107249250
>Perhaps those three GUI programs are buggy because few people use them
and why would you?
gnome, kde, and xfce, all offer archive tools out of the box

>>107249036
Did you install VLC from your distro's repos, or the VLC snap, or from Flathub? I wouldn't bother with the Flathub version because it's unofficial. The version from your distro's repos will usually just work. It might not have the very newest features but it should be reliable.

Like the other guy said, it could be a GPU issue, or a Wayland issue, etc. If you're using X11 you'll probably have the smoothest experience because it has been around for so long.

You could try running VLC from the command line (just run `vlc file.mp4` but obviously use your own filename). It will show you some information on the command line - you might see an error which you could google.

>>107249282
>>107249250
>few people use them
ark is the default archiver for kde
fileroller is the default for gnome
and xarchiver is the default for xfce
those three archivers are quite literally the most popular

>>107249378
the most popular is just using the cli

>>107249210
>can't even screenshot the screenshot program
You can use scrot to do that. Run this in a terminal emulator program like Konsole: "sleep 3; scrot". While it's sleeping, bring up what you want to screenshot; you'll have 3 seconds to do that.

>>107249250
>Thinking about file formats
Perhaps I feel like this is a waste of time (especially if I wrote about this before) or I'm being too nerdy/autistic. Eh, file formats matter; would be neat of .car was more popular.

>Monero blockchain synced via CLI with prune flag
Blockchain file went from ~/.bitmonero/lmdb/data.mdb -- 250.6 GB = 250,628,112,384 bytes -- to 250,633,158,656 bytes (250.6 GB). It only increased in size by 5,046,272 bytes or 5 MB. Without running --prune-blockchain I think it would have increased by hundreds or megabytes or gigabyte(s). As stated by
>https://www.publish0x.com/solareclipse/howto-prune-shrink-the-database-of-the-monero-blockchain-on-xpgwjx
>Methods of pruning the Monero Blockchain
>Run monerod with --prune-blockchain
>[...] will prune in place and will not reduce the blockchain size on disk. Instead, it will mark parts of the file as free and future data can utilize the free space. If you use the first two methods, the resulting file will not grow until free space becomes scarce.
So --prune-blockchain does not shink the database/blockchain file, only does not make it larger until it has to make it larger (months/years in the future it will have to make it significantly larger). It gets free space within data.mdb due to storing less verbose data and making old data less verbose, AFAIK.

>>107249378
>those three archivers are quite literally the most popular
Bugs as described by >>107246918 are from what? As I understand, could be a combination of unstable latest version of a distro + desktop environment + whatever else the distro maintainers have setup to happen in that run time that user was in + whatever other settings/software/setup that user has and changed things to be.

>>107249250
>Done in 3 hours 26 minutes 22 seconds. It synced about 1 month per hour.
Synced at 75809 blocks/12382 seconds = 6.12 blocks per second.

>>107249398
That's what I was thinking.

>>107249466
>Bugs as described by >>107246918 are from what?
They from compiling from source instead of using the package manager, obviously things are going to break if you compile the latest untested package onto a stable system

my fans sometimes spin as if my pc had high temps but my cpu isn't going past 32C and GPU around 40ishC idle. doens't happen often and usually a few minutes after i stop playing a game. what could it be?

>>107249466
*would be neat if .car was more popular

>>107249505
>>Bugs as described by >>107246918 are from what?
>They from compiling from source instead of using the package manager
I thought he was saying he was using Ark, File Roller, and Pea Zip because they were preinstalled in the distro. But I think you're right, one or more of those three were compiled from source once the first one(s) were found to not work. Maybe there's an AppImage for those 3 programs which shouldn't be buggy but also be GUI.

I really wanted to make the switch to Linux, I even spent an entire day gaslighting myself into thinking that I won't miss the programs that don't run on it (I will miss them for sure), but then I found out my hardware (usb microphone, webcam and mouse) isn't properly supported.

>>107249210
what

>>107249657
That's what should be done before switching to Linux. Make use of cross platform programs and use Linux compatible hardware. It's actually a long process that could take months or years. I stopped using Nvidia GPUs in 2015 because of that and started looking for cross platform solutions so the only thing I had to do was to copy my config over to Linux.

>>107249657
i'm really not sure what i'm supposed to get from your post.
like i'm not sure why you'd write "not properly" without defining what exactly was improper about it. do you have absolutely no desire to find a solution or ...?

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>>107249657
Ask not what GNU PLUS LINUX can do for you, but what you can do for GNU PLUS LINUX.

>>107249250
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the time resolution on .tar is 1 second.
Depends on if it's using basic tar or extended tar. I *think* non-extended tar has a resolution of 1-s, and that type of .tar is written by GNU tar. Wikipedia:
>In 1997, Sun proposed a method for adding extensions to the tar format. This method was later accepted for the POSIX.1-2001 standard. This format is known as extended tar format or pax format. The new tar format allows users to add any type of vendor-tagged vendor-specific enhancements. The following tags are defined by the POSIX standard:
>atime, mtime: all timestamps of a file in arbitrary resolution (most implementations use nanosecond granularity)

Running "man tar":
>TAR_ATIME
> Time of last access. It is a decimal number, representing seconds since the Epoch. If the archive provides times with nanosecond precision, the nanoseconds are appended to the timestamp after a decimal point.
>TAR_MTIME
> Time of last modification.
>TAR_CTIME
> Time of last status change.
>--atime-preserve[=METHOD]
> Preserve access times on dumped files, either by restoring the times after reading (METHOD=replace, this is the default) or by not setting the times in the first place (METHOD=system).
>--delay-directory-restore
> Delay setting modification times and permissions of extracted directories until the end of extraction. Use this option when extracting from an archive which has unusual member ordering.
>--mtime=DATE-OR-FILE
> Set mtime for added files. DATE-OR-FILE is either a date/time in almost arbitrary format, or the name of an existing file. In the latter case the mtime of that file will be used.
>-m, --touch
> Don't extract file modified time.

>>107249466
*hundreds of megabytes

I may end up deleting ~/.bitmonero/lmdb/data.mdb and restarting but only using --prune-blockchain in the CLI and GUI whenever I sync.

>>107249772
I'm not >>107249210 but he's saying that the settings in the screenshot program in regards to naming the files don't correspond to the actual filenames that he got.

>>107249975
Other time-related info from running "$ man tar":
>--newer-mtime=DATE
> Work on files whose data changed after the DATE. If DATE starts with / or . it is taken to be a file name; the mtime of that file is used as the date.
>-N, --newer=DATE, --after-date=DATE
> Only store files newer than DATE. If DATE starts with / or . it is taken to be a file name; the mtime of that file is used as the date.
>--clamp-mtime
> Only set time when the file is more recent than what was given with --mtime.
>--full-time
> Print file time to its full resolution.
>--utc Print file modification times in UTC.

>>107249657
which usb microphone webcam and mouse?

>>107249657
What programs? What hardware?

>Some people will also have disagreements with GPL licensing because of non-compliance possibly being met with the threat of governmental action. Some people will take a more libertarian approach to software that doesn’t involve the state.
These people are mentally ill

>>107249657
Weird. I have two mice and they both work fine on Linux. My laptop's web cam and microphone work fine. Even my USB WiFi adapter works fine.

If your devices are relatively new then they might be supported by newer kernels. You could try a live USB of Fedora and see if your hardware works, since Fedora tends to use a pretty recent kernel.

>>107249657
>mouse
>not properly supported
Must be a very fancy mouse.
>>107248576
Why even back up the system itself, other than your custom configs maybe? Your $HOME is the important one.

>>107249657
>miss the programs that don't run on it (I will miss them for sure)
Like what? You can find replacements, or use wine (Windows compatibility layer) to run whatever Windows program. Someone said he couldn't find a replacement for Void or Void Tool's Everything program; that can probably be run in wine. I use cmd dot exe then the type program in wine to properly render .nfo scene release files. (You can also use an emulator in Linux to run Windows then run whatever software, but that's not a great solution; so just use wine).

>>107249772
>>107250009
Upon further inspection, he said he couldn't screenshot the Spectacle program by using Spectacle to screenshot it. Makes sense that you can't do that. He also said the window title for Spectacle didn't show up in the filename. Also makes sense, the window's title is suppose to be whatever active window you are screenshoting.

Even if you need windows just run a cracked version in a VM

>>107249282
>and why would you?
ark is a disaster. it's literally the most buggy software I ever used, I had endless issues with it. half the time it doesn't even silently quit, it tells you that the work's finished but the archive is either not there (lol crashed halfway thru but have a SUCCESS message) or the archive IS there but it's fucked
idk what kde is thinking having it as default

>>107249792
Yeah, when my current ones break down I'll make sure to replace my peripherals with standard compliant ones.
>>107249828
Sorry, I just wanted to rant. I've made the switch to Windows 11 a couple of years ago because I have an Intel cpu with e-cores (bought it before am5 cpus came out and at the time it made sense since I could keep using my ddr4 ram) and I've hated this piece of shit software with a passion ever since, hence the frustration.
>>107249837
I would unironically be fine with spending the time and writing the drivers myself, were I a better programmer.

I tried to reply to the other posts but the system thinks this is spam. I'll try splitting the message to see if having less quotes help.

>>107249505
>They from compiling from source instead of using the package manager
yo I'm the confused nigga, there was no compiling pea zip, I just downloaded the latest version using Discover which is supposed to be the default "get your software here" on fedora. I didn't even change any settings.
oddly enough it's one of the highest rated programs I've seen in discover

>>107250030
>>107250042
>>107250067
>>107250074
Elgato stuff and a Razer Deathadder V2.
Elgato stuff is not standard compliant and I found no workaround on the internet.
As for the mouse, I successfully managed to make it work by patching the kernel with the proper drivers but that means I had to disable secure boot and the Windows installation I kept in dual boot complains about that.
>>107250113
Mainly Clip Studio Paint (incidentally, there was a thread made by another anon complaining about the lack of linux support for this recently) and Photoshop. I know Krita exists and I've tried using it on Windows but I've spent so many hours using the former programs that adjusting to a new one isn't easy.

>rescuezilla doesn't allow you to exclude a directory
bby pls

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>>107250371
GIMP beats most of those out of date limited techs in image editing and graphics editing similar to photoshop raster format, it works on windows, linux and mac. Krita sucks dicks if you aren't using it for illustrator like shit (brushes and work with a drawing tablet.) I recommend sticking to the classics.

>>107245953
>Qubes OS
I gotta remember that that and TailsOS are in fact Linux distros. They don't quickly come to mind when I try to think of a list of distros (first thing that comes to mind is Arch Linux, Ubuntu, ...). Bazzite is a gaming-focused Linux distro, so I don't really care about that one.

>>107249975
>>107250009
Appears to be 1-s time resolution in most cases:
>$ tar -tvf ~/Software/archzfs-archzfs-c82f446.tar.gz
>drwxrwxr-x root/root 0 2025-03-10 22:09 archzfs-archzfs-c82f446/
>drwxrwxr-x root/root 0 2025-03-10 22:09 archzfs-archzfs-c82f446/.github/
>[...]
>$ tar --full-time -tvf ~/Software/archzfs-archzfs-c82f446.tar.gz
>[...]
>-rw-rw-r-- root/root 159 2025-03-10 22:09:01 archzfs-archzfs-c82f446/testing/tests/archzfs-qemu-std-test-00-default/syslinux.cfg
>-rw-rw-r-- root/root 1783 2025-03-10 22:09:01 archzfs-archzfs-c82f446/testing/tests/archzfs-qemu-std-test-00-default/vm.sh
>[...]

That post quotes Wikipedia, and Wikipedia has recently enshittified further:
>https://web.archive.org/web/20251118165351/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tar_(computing)
>Please set a user-agent and respect our robot policy https://w.wiki/4wJS. See also T400119.
Wasn't the case as of 3 days ago (recent WBM captures of wikidata.org also show that anti-webpage-downloading error):
>https://archive.is/2025.11.15-042012/https://web.archive.org/web/20251115041833/https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136791457
Wayback Machine (WBM) sucks balls as they deleted that capture:
>https://web.archive.org/web/20251115041833/https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136791457 - webpage retrieved in 2025-11-18T17:02:04.551130359Z
>Hrm. The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL.

>>107250371
What can Photoshop do that GIMP can't? "Content aware fill": use the GIMP plugin named "Resynthesizer".

>>107250438
When people complain "GIMP can't do X" is because its not shipped in the basic program.

>>107250438
>What can Photoshop do that GIMP can't?
Gimp is an excellent piece of software once you're used to it, but it's not as good as photoshop - it's a bit like libreoffice's calc vs excel, it's good enough for most but it just isn't as good.
A bigger issue is that if you're used to Photoshop then Gimp's UX feels like it was designed by aliens whose knowledge of how humans use computers came entirely from a collection of hentai books from the 90's. Additionally if you gitgud at photoshop there's a chance you can get hired for it, while nobody cares how good you are at Gimp.

Photoshop just doesn't have real competition, and it's one of the few cases where if you need it daily you should prolly buy a mac or figuring out a seamless VM setup rather than fight against Linux or use Gimp.

>resynthesizer
it's a joke compared to adobe's shit. they charge out the ass but there's a reason why people keep paying.

What's a good way to run an exe that I don't fully trust? I don't expect it to fuck up anything but I would rather not have my wine prefixes or whatever get fucked and need reinstalling.
>inb4 "don't run it"

>>107250520
Its other way around, GIMP is more intuitive and hasn't had the weird controls of photoshop that make it harder to use where each misclick could cause the project go to shit. GIMP is more restrained in short-cuts but utilizes them well enough. Current gimp updates make it work flow more like photoshop.

>>107250559
>GIMP is more intuitive
if you're used to gimp, sure
but most people are used to photoshop

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>>107250054
>>Some people will also have disagreements with GPL licensing because of non-compliance possibly being met with the threat of governmental action. Some people will take a more libertarian approach to software that doesn’t involve the state.
>These people are mentally ill
Government enforcement being punishments of GPL violations isn't so bad, but it is concerning. It depends on the cases. Is some FAGMAN big tech company violating GPL and they get fined ~millions of dollars (have to pay the Free software Foundation / FSF or something)? Not so bad. However, government punishments of non-GPL copyright like "DMCA" or "copyright infringement" is usually bad. Like if you download some recent release TV show via BitTorrent and get punished by the government (looking at you kike Nickelodeon and HBO >>>/t/1384323) then that's bullshit and bad.

Public Domain is what TempleOS was released under, and Terry A. Davis describes it as "truly free and open source software". There is less restrictive licences which aren't GPL: such as BSD (bump on >>107244061) and MIT.

>>107250438
>Wikipedia has recently enshittified further
More people should seed the copies of Wikipedia in IPFS which is 658,038,834,798 or ~600 GB ( pic related is from there https://archive.is/vpnDM or ). There's also Wikipedia in Arweave (~2022 copy), but it's in a 20-GB ZIP file:
https://decentralizeguys.store/raw/jnL9BW7olBSMNgJWNZLVRKEA5slpd5fMFWZ01JjSJtE

>>107250569
If you are used to ms paint, gimp is intuitive. Things are named in "idiot proof" sort of way where if you are following a guide, you can easily just learn what's what and remember things later like plain markdown text language for the GUI, that's the main difference.

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>>107250520
>>resynthesizer
>it's a joke compared to adobe's shit. they charge out the ass but there's a reason why people keep paying.
I didn't know that, but I do remember resynthesizer not working so well when I was trying to edit some futa porn image (lulz). I was editing that image months ago. Perhaps you could use some FOSS AI/machine-learning thing to do content aware fill on the images.

>>107250598
*pic related is from there https://archive.is/vpnDM or https://en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org/

>>107250534
>I would rather not have my wine prefixes
Just running it in a new prefix is enough for this.
>or whatever get fucked
WINE will sometimes places stuff like icons or shortcuts in your home, see: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/FAQ
To stop this set WINEDLLOVERRIDES to winemenubuilder.exe=d

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>>107241291
Kino

>>107250598
>copies of Wikipedia in IPFS which is 658,038,834,798 or ~600 GB
why the fuck is it so big? I hoarded a bunch of random stuff with... kiwix, I think? and a full wikipedia rip, incl. images, was about 110 GB.

but what if my federal agent gets lonely and misses me after I switch away from win11?

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sup frens
I just built my gpu01 node that will be dedicated solely for gaming and porn generation and I have not ran/tested nvidia hardware with latest Steam/Proton and I'm aware that Valve focus a lot on AMD hardware due to obvious reasons. Should I be concerned? Does nvidia play nicely with Steam/Proton nowadays? Should I consider Windows instead? Thanks in advance

I'm giving serious consideration to trying nixos as my daily driver, I like the idea of configs and a much easier rollback experience, basically all I use is nvim and a browser - does it live up to the hype and is the learning curve as steep as everyone makes out?

>>107250672
Surprising it's that small, frankly. Text is one thing but wikipedia has a fair bit of media on it too.

[...]
Testing offline transaction
Importing OpenPGP key 0x31645531:
 UserID     : "Fedora (43) <fedora-43-primary@fedoraproject.org>"
 Fingerprint: C6E7F081CF80E13146676E88829B606631645531
 From       : file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-43-x86_64
Is this ok [y/N]: y

what are those things anyway
is it for internet schizos or

>>107245477
slackware is the only other distro i can think of that still does /tmp/ in mass storage. it's the first thing i'd tweak back when i used it.

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If I use Rescuezilla to preform a full disk clone of a LUKS encrypted boot drive from one NVME to another (same size, same slot, different model) will I need to do anything special to make sure the new drive is bootable (besides selecting the new drive in BIOS) and ensure TRIM keeps working? I just want to know if there are any gotchas I should be aware of.

>>107250778
nvidia is fine. the only negative is that you'll lose some performance compared to windows.
>>107250779
the initial setup does take work, but it's not that bad and after that you rarely edit it. keep the nixos options website open.

>>107250952
>nvidia is fine. the only negative is that you'll lose some performance compared to windows.
thanks anon, funny how AMD is the complete opposite here

>>107250636
Original developer of TempleOS died (suicide). What if someone made a fork of it named "AntichristOS" or something? It would be continued development of TempleOS and no longer a non-networked OS, which would mean that many more people would use it to use the Internet or something. "Terry A. Davis - TempleOS Archive":

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:30925b334a0cc4521c5e6a83b7ae7ec46fd296e2

>>107250941
Cloning and restoring isn't an issue, the only issue is that it's possible for a 100 GB install on a 2 TB drive to take up the entire 2 TB.

If all you do is clone the drive from one ssd to another then just dew it

Is lightdm the only way to get a guest account? (Using Ubuntu, but in general)

>>107247474
I've never had a problem. Have you considered a macbook instead?

>>107247474
you might like dicks

>>107241978
this, nix requires you to know functional programming
it will filter retards

Possibly unfriendly posts: >>107247474 and >>107251205

>>107251063
Huh, so I can post magnet links in this board. In that case, with >>107244551, maybe the system said it was spam because of that + the other text in that post. Trying again:

[Magnet link here with and without &dn=... = nope said it was spam.]

So you can post certain infohashes or magnet links but not others. Here's the link to the torrent because 4chan is retardedly censoring me or using cringey targeted or machine-learning methods to determine what is and isn't spam:
https://pastebin.com/eb7rsqmz
https://decentralizeguys.store/raw/BAW7uA3tKOsYEPL20V93pnAHUyCaB4BgENF8uTW1Xlk

If you find my posts exploring the censorship system of 4chan to be annoying or off-topic, just realize that I won't have been posting any of this if this censorship wasn't the case in the first place.

>>107241291
Has anyone managed to get WSL2 and VirtualBox to work together without having to enable/disable the hypervisor and restart the fucking system?

Screw you Linux nerds. Linux turned me into a red-pilled straight furry.
Without Linux I could just be straight.
> 0/10 would not recommend to a friend

>>107251288
This is a Windows question
>>>/g/fwt

>>107251068
Thanks, I knew it would have to do a full disk write due the encryption. I just wanted to make sure something insidious would not crop up later. God, I love how fast NVME drives are these days. The full disk write took only 40 minutes.

>>107247474
Depends on your prioritizes. For me learning to set up Linux was way less work than the Sisyphean task of fighting Windows, Mac OS, or Chrome OS. Unlike the alternatives Linux both allows me to set up the system the way I want (no spyware) and unlike them updates don't constantly mess with my system (unless I want them to).

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>>107250672
>>107250800
>>copies of Wikipedia in IPFS which is 658,038,834,798 bytes or ~600 GB
>why the fuck is it so big? I hoarded a bunch of random stuff with... kiwix, I think? and a full wikipedia rip, incl. images, was about 110 GB.
But what's the decompressed size? And I don't know the exact answer to you question. Contents of that CID (enwiki from 2017-05 from the kiwix ZIM file):
- Size: ?; CumulativeSize: 237,360 B; ./-/
- Size: ?; CumulativeSize: 44,323,016,540 B; ./I/
- Size: ?; CumulativeSize: 613,715,579,624 B; ./wiki/
- Size: ?; CumulativeSize: 826 B; ./M/
- Size: 154 B; CumulativeSize: 165 B ./index.html

Folder "I": images (two/three types), favicon = ~44 GB. Folder "-": CSS, JS. Folder "M": small metadata files. Folder "wiki": webpages. As to why it's 658 GB: one reasons is that it doesn't use raw leaves/blocks = more data overhead or metadata, and that adds up when the folder contains many or thousands of files. For years now I've ran an IPFS node which is pretty consistently online. It's accessible in Tor and I2P; see >>>/t/1385703 for the links.

Over all that time I've considered pinning one or both of the Wikipedia-In-IPFS CIDs (the newer one is from 2021 but uses .webp for images). I may as well just do it now, if only to analyze the data. But I won't be just looking at why it's that large, I'd also have piece of mind knowing I have that data locally. Plus I access various webpages/articles under that root CID for English Wikipedia like 20 times per month. Other reason beyond interest and frequent access is the HDD with said node is a crappy model and will probably die soon. The HDD has 1.9 TB free and will probably die soon (good thing I have one or more backups/copies of most of it). (Also, the old CPU will heat up my semi-cold living area due to processing need to pin it.)

>>107251313
>For me learning to set up Linux was way less work than the Sisyphean task of fighting Windows, Mac OS, or Chrome OS
This just straight up isn't true. Debloating windows takes half an hour, which is like a quarter of what the first serious "WTF is actually happening here" moment in linux will take. Mac is kinda weird because it has 40 years of cruft, but it's more of the "why the FUCK is there no window snapping???" and not "sweet fuck why did my microphone just randomly stop working I didn't even do anything" kind of thing, which happens very rarely but it does happen.
There are plenty of benefits to linux, and frankly KDE is probably my favorite overall user experience since it's mostly windows but with less suckage and more customization, but you WILL spend a few hours dealing with bullshit every now and then.
I also wouldn't use it on a laptop, mac power efficiency is just unreal compared to everything I've ever tried and linux is pretty underwhelming when it comes to battery life even compared to windows

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>>107251290
You probably would have became whatever you became without using Linux, I don't see how linux lead to you becoming a furfag. Linux made me more skilled at using technology, and Linux turned me into a new FreeBSD user. I'm now a FreeBSD noob; not sure if I'll keep using it or just stick to GNU/Linux.

>>107251365
>piece of mind
I meant "peace of mind"

>see >>>/t/1385703 for the links.
Can't post those links here. Also in this text file:
https://pastebin.com/j3rrPBfv
https://decentralizelocation.store/raw/FjMlew4B5Pl3RLjX0fKaJkrnpKEfLR4_60ZLvsHS-gQ

>will probably die soon
wrote that twice, oops.

>>107244319
Used win11 for two years before switching, and I've never had so much fun with a computer before installing Linux. My brother got really into it and showed me some stuff beforehand, and of course I lived through the full decade of Windows 10 shitting itself every time it updated; and I finally decided I'd had enough when they added an AI button to Notepad. From what I hear they've only added more spyware and AI code since I switched.
I'm sure I would have quit far sooner had I known just how good Linux is, but I'm glad I got out no later than I did.

>>107251463
you gotta use the correct tool for the task anon, mac should be used for laptops as you said it's king in efficiency, but, should you mount a mac-based server? no right
also, would you have a mac-based AI workstation? also no

>>107247474
Is that your first distro?

>>107251536
macs make great AI workstations.

>>107251525
>I lived through the full decade of Windows 10 shitting itself every time it updated
does it actually happen? I never had those issues with any OS I ever used
I avoid win11 since it's cancerous data exfiltration scheme masquerading as an os, but windows has been fairly solid for me on xp, 7 and 10 for years and years. the actual downside of upgrading is that your "no I don't want to upload my documents to oneDrive, thanks" tends to randomly switch to "yes please take all my data"; from technical side I never really experienced any issues.

>>107251536
>would you have a mac-based AI workstation?
uhhhhh *sweats nervously*

(local ai is a joke, but apple's unified memory is a uniquely good fit for it, unless you can drop half a milly on bigboy nvidia cards)

>>107251554
oh really? can they execute cuda code efficiently?

>>107251576
>does it have nvidia
of course not. studios with a bunch of ram are well known ways to run large models in a price middle-ground. you're obviously uninformed.

>upgrade OS to latest version
>krita crashes when launching
>"hey wanna share the crash data" -> yes
>"gathering crash information failed for unknown reasons"
well
alright

>>107251599
>of course not
there you go, not good ai workstation
and why is every single company buying from nvidia instead of apple if it's such "good middleground"?

i despise jewvidia btw

>>107251615
average archlinux user experience

I think you'd need to define what the fuck an "ai workstation" even is
obviously if you want a cuda dev box you... well you probably buy a few of those shitty nvidia spark boxes nowadays, but they're total garbage $/perf for inference, while macs (despite silly prices) are actually decent at it

>>107251622
Because if you're building a datacenter you're spending big money. If you want to run a full sized model at home, the studio is the best way to get more than 256GB of performant memory. You should really read up on things.

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>>107251646
If you're running full-sized models at home then you're also spending big money. Might as well build yourself an AMD workstation or buy (Pic related) if you're too lazy to do it yourself.

Absolutely do not buy Apple. You don't want an iToy.

>>107251615
Ive only had krita crash a couple times while running a decently big canvas with a good amount of layers, and that was on a ramlet setup
Let me guess, meme or tinkerfag distro?

>>107251714
AMD consumer shit tops at 256GB+whatever RAM you put in. When you jump to threadripper the costs skyrocket especially since you want the pro chips with more memory channels.

>>107251736
>+whatever VRAM you put in
sorry, dropped the V

>>107251733
basic bitch fedora distro, freshly updated to 43
128gb ram so I'm fairly sure it's enough to just start the program

>>107251755
launch it from the terminal and see if it throws a more specific error

>>107244319
I started making plans when I saw how terrible Windows 10 was. I had hope that Windows 11 would be better but M$ just doubled down on the bad parts. Windows 7 was a great OS and if they just kept improving it I wouldn't have had to switch. Basically Linux just keeps improving and Windows keeps getting worse and I want to see my OS get better.

>>107251714
also, the tiny people are whiny bitches. i got really tired of all of their drama. i'd never buy their shit.

>>107244319
because i have autism

>>107251807
>tiny people are whiny bitches
ain't easy being a manlet

>>107251840
George almost got in Lisa Su's DMs

>>107251519
Hey since you use freeBSD, can you explain this?
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nuke&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+13.1-RELEASE+and+Ports

>>107251755
Odd. I use a different distro(mint) but I dont see why fedora would throw a fit about krita
Out of curiosity, what install method did you use? I ran with the appimage option since it seemed simpler

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Linux uses the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, so when you look in "/", know that every file/folder and quite a few of their subfolders are defined by and adhering to that standard.

If you run "rm -rf --no-preserve-root /", then I think that will also wipe out any mounted HDDs or devices like "/mnt/ssd_drive" or "/zfs0".

Here's another similar thing:
>https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/guidelines/filenaming_recommendations.html
>Recommended File and Data Collection Naming Practices
>The following sections provide recommendations for laying out the directory hierarchy, naming the dataset or collection, naming the data files, and finally creating a Readme file for the collection. In general, use all lowercase text, except for specific files and subdirectories, and use a limited character set, to ensure maximum compatibility across computer platforms and processing languages. Use times in one of the ISO 8601 formats, such as 20160215T050357.123, or 2016046T050357.123, with or without the T, or standard internal time formats such as CDF_TIME_TT2000 (ns from J2000 in Terrestrial Time). Use well-known extensions, spacecraft and instrument short names, and datatypes when available.
>Directory hierarchy should flow from high level to specific: project/mission/spacecraft, instrument, data collections, time ranges. Time range directories (yearly, monthly, daily) should be chosen to keep the number of files per directory below 1000 to avoid delays in directory display. In general, avoid the use of levels (L0, L1, L2) as directories, but instead include them if needed as a subfactor in distinguishing between datasets in the data collection directory level names, perhaps prepended to make sorting easier (l2_gms_62ms).

Should I get the nvidia proprietary or open-kernel drivers if I have a rtx 3070?

>>107251463
>Debloating windows takes half an hour,
Finding a trustworthy script, evaluating what it does, and the potential consequences of it's actions takes way longer than that unless you are already the windows equivalent of a "Linux nerd". If you blindly run config scripts on any OS you risk breakage. On top of that your setup is liable to silently and inscrutably break on any given windows update, and even "debloated" you are almost certainly leaking way more personal information than a stock, run of the mill Linux distro. I prefer my OS to be "slightly janky" over "actively hostile".
>"sweet fuck why did my microphone just randomly stop working I didn't even do anything" kind of thing, which happens very rarely but it does happen.
In my expence is this happens more under windows than on LTS Linux distos, which tend to only break when upgrading to new versions. YMMV on bleeding edge distros. In contrast I have had almost stock windows break on me multiple times (in different ways) over the last several years necessitating reinstalls. Finding workarounds or bug reports on the FOSS side is also easier IMO.
>linux is pretty underwhelming when it comes to battery life even compared to windows
That is true, but how often are you doing significant work away from an outlet? Building codes in many regions require a ton of outlets.

>>107251892
>but how often are you doing significant work away from an outlet?
I don't quite comprehend why you'd buy a laptop if you're tethered to the wall anyway. The whole point of a laptop is it being mobile. Being able to take a laptop that's at 60% battery and knowing you can get several hours out of it was an absolute revelation when I upgraded from some shitass stinkpad to M2 pro.
The actual macos is... well I'm not a fan, but the battery life is so good I'm never going back until others catch up.

god I hate gnome

Haven't used Debian in a while. Is Nala a meme?

>>107251976
The Nala test might not be the most comprehensive benchmark but it definitely has its place

>>107251953
I like Gnome just fine, but I hate the people that work on it, and Fedora, and Debian. Gnome would be the best DE if it wasn't for the people that work on it and if it was X11 instead of Gayland.

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>>107244658
>>107244755
>Like 8 months ago I was using Windows 11 on a new PC. I intended to switch it to Linux before buying it. I filled out the Windows 11 login thing with a made-up email address as it required I have Internet accounts to login. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I know I got basically locked out. As I remember, days later, I turned the PC on and Windows ask that I verify the email or some shit. It wanted me to look in the inbox of the non-existent email and click a link to verify that I control it. Windows is ran by clowns. Switched it to Linux at that point.
Or, what happened was I forgot the random email address I type in a while ago so when Windows asked for it again I forgot it and was "locked out".

>>107251953
Do you dislike GNOME's politics or their software or both? Anti-GNOME posts:
>https://web.archive.org/web/20251118191857/https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/107131619/#107139537
Readable in web.archive.org until WBM troons delete that web capture again. Deleted:
>https://archive.is/2025.11.08-235849/https://web.archive.org/web/20251108235625/https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/107131619
BTW, WBM hasn't been able to correctly capture redirects for months recently. WTF is WBM spending their millions on? Hookers and blow? The price of becoming another arm of the corrupt mainstream establishment is a couple milly and archive.org took it. Keep winning, archive.today chads.

>>107252040
>Do you dislike [...]'s politics
ishiggydiggy
couldn't possibly give less of a shit about politics of internet strangers, I just deeply dislike the design of it
the latest "oh I guess this functionality is kind of janky, let's replace it with... nothing lol, just remove it" is bizarre. it's a fucking OS, not a figma frame
I should probably move to KrashesDE, I just don't have enough time lately

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>>107252040
>GNOME hired so-called shaman woman who know nothing of software development and it didn't work out
Cringe

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look what they took from us

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>>107248442
>I boughted my first computer during Windows Me and went to the bookstore to get a book on computers. The book I boughted said "If you want all the mommies to ride you everywhere you go then you're going to need to use Linux instead of literally anything else".
Name of the book?

>unless you understand THE UNIVERSE to be software running on hardware. I have a breddy gud book on that, btw, called The Intelligent Universe by James Gardner.
Makes me think of that one season ~9 Futurama episode where they kept making virtual realities within virtual realities. The explanation for the speed of light being so slow was funny: because if it was faster that means the data/information transfer would be quicker, which takes too much CPU and RAM.

>>107252112
>who know nothing of software development
I'm seeing my typo again; it came back to haunt me. I meant "who knew nothing of software development". More importantly, that's stated in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAzXypM5qPc
https://inv1.nadeko.net/watch?v=KAzXypM5qPc

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>>107252079
>>107251953
Move to Xfce, it's the closest thing to a standalone window manager minus all the tinkering.

>>107252141
Ubuntu 8.04 was my first distro...

What's a good DE for Arch that isn't too demanding on new users? I'm thinking about going with Xfce. I'm already slightly familiar with it as I use it on my Thinkpad.

>>107252185
KDE.

>>107252185
there's nothing wrong with xfce.

>>107252185
how is a DE demanding?
i'll say gnome though, compared to xfce or kde, the menus are third the size. xfce menus are giga bloated.

>>107252172
>Name of the book?
No recollection at this point, it was just something that stood out on the shelf at Waldenbooks. I remember it had essays by ESR in it, and I think he was the one who said things that perked my mind-ears up on Linux. I literally didn't know anything about any of it, or computers at all, but the ideals it mentioned "resonated", as (((they))) say a lot these days.

>>107251870
nuke is a helpful command-line tool in FreeBSD. I use it to kill off Boomer scum:
>The -e option requests disablement of computer equipment by way of EMP pulse only. This option should leave the lusers intact, however those with pacemakers may not survive.

>>107252269
>how is a DE demanding?
By that I mean how much documentation is available that I would. If there are thousands of pages of configuration options then I'd rather just opt for something else.

>Brian Keringhan - The Unix Programming Environment
What other book/material is there that’s more up to date? is lwn kernel index the goto? Cheers

>>107252346
I would need to sift through*

I've been seeing lotsa old folks switching to Linux lately. This is one of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS8h_8YNkXQ&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1HQg%3D%3D

There was another one on my feed, too, that dude was ancient compared to this dude.

btw, in case there's "le woke" people here, they themselves are calling themselves old, I am not being 'le ageist'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ynCVmw5AWk

Why does this Amish bitch got such nice keyboard. I want one too :(

>>107252185
KDE or GNOME with like 3 extensions.

>>107252346
GNOME is the one that looks best out of the box, and doesn't have bajillion knobs, buttons and checkboxes in the settings menu (though for many that's a bad thing), and it also has very poor documentation and by that I mean it has almost no documentation. Still I wouldn't recommend GNOME unless you want something that looks and feels like MacOS (though you can pretty much make any DE look and feel like MacOS...)

Also, you don't need to read documentation to use a DE, this is only necessary if you're going the standalone window manager route. Like others said, my go to recommended DE for anyone is Xfce. Cinnamon is cool too though I only used it briefly, it's like Xfce but a little more polished.

>>107252346
You don't need documentation to use a DE unless you're a developer. Just use the UI. Also use search bars instead of manually navigating through menus. That's all you need to know to use any DE/UI.

>>107252500
It reminds me of what I used to use, the Happy Hacker keyboards. I looked them up recently and they are /very/ expensive now. I'm writing a book in GNU Emacs right now so am actually going to listen to this video. I'm not using AI other than every now and then asking one for synonyms or something.

I installed omarchy to try hyprland. what a shit way to use a computer.
What should I install on my laptop to have a nice DE that doesnt look like a something from 2005. Anything clean like hyprland but not focused on tileing and with minimizing windows.

>>107252752
KDE

>>107252752
if only there was a way to install a desktop environment in omarchy and test it

>>107252752
Gnome is pretty good on laptops

>>107252782
Heard it breaks stuff that i dont know how to fix
>>107252779
Any distro?

I will only use my laptop for watching stuff and browsing. Is a old one i5 8th gen dell something 13”

>>107252817
Ufff the gnome ive seen are so goofy.
Do people only rice on hyprland shit?

Im a noob linux user

>>107252846
You can rice gnome, but a complete theme is like 5000 lines of CSS and it will most likely break in the next version

>>107252885
lol lmao

im going to try linux mint then since is for wintards like me

>>107252908
Or, OR, you could...not "rice" and just use your computer to accomplish various tasks.

>>107252928
I dont want to rice. I dont even know how but I was hoping for an os that is clean looking but not tileing shit.
Idk how people like to press that windows key so much it’s painful af

>>107252456
Good for them, learning new things staves off alzheimers.

>>107252940
I've used GNOME a lot and it's about as simple and clean as it gets, but you do use the WIN button to select between open windows, or the top left hot corner. I use KDE now after installed Slackware and it's basically like an improved classic Windows environment.

Am I the only one getting HTTP/500 errors when pulling from Github?

Is there any reason to think that Hurd will become usable in my lifetime?

>>107253043
It's never getting usable in anyone's lifetime. There's more chance of Redox OS and React OS being usable.

>>107252885
>>107252908
You don't have to worry about GNOME updates breaking theming unless you're using some obscure extension which doesn't get updated frequently, or if you're creating your own CSS themes or extensions.

>>107252940
The only real desktop environments on Linux are KDE and GNOME, everything else is niche and made by much smaller dev teams who have no idea how to make usable UIs.
GNOME requires at least 2-3 extensions to make it less shit and has overall less features than KDE, but it has better touchpad gestures which might matter to you on a laptop.

>>107252824
>Any distro?
Aurora or Kinoite if you want KDE.
Bluefin or Silverblue if you want GNOME.
Ignore unemployed people who will come here and autistically screech about atomic distros being "le bad".

>>107253066
>Bluefin or Silverblue if you want GNOME.
I installed workstation, did I fuck up?

>>107253079
It's basically the same thing but you don't have atomic updates. Which just means you don't have a guarantee that, if a system update or a system package install fails to apply, it will gracefully fail and revert instead of requiring manual intervention to un-fuck it.
It won't matter if you primarily restrict yourself to Flatpaks/Appimages instead of installing everything through a system package manager (dnf/rpm).

>>107253079
It's just more maintenance. Bluefin is very invisible as a a distro, it just does its thing in the background and you won't notice a thing

>>107253146
>>107253127
What distro would you say that win devs transitioning to linux mostly use? I’ve used workstation for a few days and installed everything I need via sudo dnf install. It was really easy, I don’t see the appeal for distros like arch

How exactly do you go about booting stuff on ARM? I have a low power Amlogic board that runs Armbian for Pi-hole but recently I felt like running Alpine on it, the problem here is that neither Alpine's nor u-boot's documentation are being very clear on how exactly this is done, Alpine's leaves at "Other boards are an exercise left to the reader." and u-boot's is very technical, I know ARM is a mess with DTBs and such but I'd just like an overview on how you pull this off so I'm not locked in on just using pre-built Armbian images for these things.

>>107253214
you're fucked, those boards don't have a standard Basic Input/Output System so there's no easy way of booting your arbitrary furry distro

Do you guys think someone might have directly or indirectly died because of the CloudFlare outage?

>>107253214
Booting on ARM depends on the board.

Sometimes, you don't even need to boot up.

Take my [planned] implementation of ANS FORTH for embedded systems. You connect the UART to a computer, and interact with the 'outer interpreter' of ANS FORTH via terminal.

The problem with Linux is its still not user friendly and there's still not a one size fits all GUI distro that just provides the basics of drivers and computing.

Closest is Linux mint XFCE but that's neglected by the mint team for the bloated cinnamon which can't run on all hardware from 2010-2025 and is slow.

You have MX Linux but its more complicated and less stylized like windows.

Why the fuck can't devs just make a lightweight polished and functional OS that rivals windows 10 and is similar and faster.

>>107253214
for amlogic you'll at least need a uboot that boots the media you want to use. you can steal a working one with dd if you look at the fdisk and see how much of the start of the storage is kept free for it. you'll also really want a way to see the uboot and interrupt it. you can look at the armbian boot to see how it's referencing the dtb, steal that dtb etc. it's not easy, but it's all quite doable.

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>>107250888
GPG keys verify that the software is from a good source like the creator of it (a team or an individual) or package maintainers. I think any data can be signed with a GPG key, then you can verify it's legit by using your copy of their public GPG key. (Only their private GPG key can sign it.) A similar topic is verifying checksums/hashes. Checking GPG-signed data is done automatically by the package manager and stuff.

>>107251365
>As to why it's 658 GB: one reasons is that it doesn't use raw leaves/blocks = more data overhead or metadata
I'm wrong about that. English Wikipedia siterip at QmXo...6uco uses raw blocks. You can tell as the sub-CIDs start with "bafkrei". It just doesn't use CIDv1 on everything. I'm using "ipfs ls -s ..." to list the contents of the image files directory and that dir listing made a >100-megabyte text file. Here's one of the files in there, named "Ipodlinux.svg.png".

>>107252928
>Or, OR, you could...not "rice" and just use your computer to accomplish various tasks.
Good idea. Beyond the necessary, don't gotta change the DE.

>>107253310
Fucking CloudFlare, I knew it was overly-used, annoying and untrustworthy. Someone's Cloudflare pacemaker stopped working and they died.

>>107253458
>The problem with Linux is its still not user friendly and there's still not a one size fits all GUI distro that just provides the basics of drivers and computing.
i honestly don't know what people do with their computers if gnome/kde/xfce isn't enough

>>107253458
>MX Linux
>more complicated
But it's more easily customizable than mint?
>lightweight polished and functional OS
Have you tried AntiX?

>>107253213
>What distro would you say that win devs transitioning to linux mostly use?
Ubuntu and Fedora are the standard distros in professional dev world. Their specific flavor/spin (desktop environment) doesn't matter and it's completely up to the devs personal preference. But KDE and GNOME effectively have an 80%+ market share combined, so it's safe to say most devs use Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Fedora Workstation or Fedora KDE Plasma.
Atomic distros like Silverblue/Bluefin are only recently emerging in popularity and are mainly used by devs following modern dev practices and utilizing containerization, and by very few more "agile" (smaller) companies. They're too new for most businesses, so you'd only see them on personal dev machines rather than work-provided ones.

>I don’t see the appeal for distros like arch
Arch is a distro for people who want to build and maintain their own Linux OS. It's for people who prefer having as much control as possible.
Not to be confused with Arch-based distros like Manjaro, Cachy and Endeavour. Those are used by people who want faster package releases. Arch releases system package updates pretty much as soon as the package developer publishes a new version. Fedora updates packages once every 6 months while Ubuntu only updates them once every 2 years. Some people just find that too slow, especially if they use very new hardware since drivers are distributed by the distro.

>installed everything I need via sudo dnf install
Just be careful to not overdo it since you're effectively building your own OS on top of Fedora at that point, which is not what most people want. The better thing to do is to source your GUI apps from Flathub and install your CLI tools with homebrew or within distrobox.
Using dnf/apt/pacman/etc. is effectively like injecting .exes or .dlls directly into your system32 on Windows. While using Flatpak is like installing an Android apk.

>>107251556
I was exaggerating a bit, but multiple win10 machines I used had a lot of problems, especially when they updated. I'm guessing it mostly happened on older or weaker PCs. For one, fatal errors writing updates due to some kind of odd hardware expectation that bricked the OS and needed you to reinstall it (this happened multiple times on multiple machines). The last batch of updates seems to be breaking the login function on my parents' machine so it has to be rolled back every time it updates (it might be because they used an online account).
I also had a laptop years ago where the Bluetooth drivers completely disappeared, and apparently the only fix was to hope that an update reinstalls them or that they randomly reinstalled themselves on startup.

>>107253310
I would hope so. They're a pretty essential service.

>>107253458
>Linux is its still not user friendly and there's still not a one size fits all GUI distro
Bazzite + KDE
>2010
>lightweight polished and functional OS
Oh, you're a poorfag using a $100 PC? Well you don't really get to use the good and fancy DEs.

I am finally upgrading and migrating all my storage to new drives but don't really know how I should use them.
My use case will be general personal computing with a focus on media (music, movies, photographs).
Currently have the following unused:
>2 x 1 TB SSD
>2 x 4 TB SSD
>2 X 4 TB HDD 5200 RPM
>2 x 8 TB HDD 7400 RPM
Is there any point in setting up RAID with these?
Or should I just use the spares as backups?

>>107253979
set up the 8TBs on a nas and get some onsite backups going maybe

>>107253999
>trips of truth
Should I get a matching third 8 TB for RAID5 in the NAS or just stick with two and RAID1 just in case?
Any recommendations for scheduled backup software or should I just write a chron job?
Maybe I should go to /hsg/ with this

>>107254038
Raid level is down to your personal risk and how much you want to be insulated from a drive deciding to shit itself. Personally, I have a systemd timer that runs once a day and mirrors my timeshift folder to my server in another room

>>107254070
I have not had a drive die on me in a long long time.
Since nothing I'm doing is very important, I should just keep it simple and smart: keep regular backups.
>systemd timer
Thanks anon that sounds like a good idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIP_hLaLnLo

This dude has politely asked me to write an essay. And I've taken my last Ritalin of the day. So I'll concur.

I've studied English lit for 3 semesters, and SWE -- aka CS for chads -- for 5. I have been using Linux for 6 years, and I don't need to post my Github with +70 projects, because if you frequent /dpt/, you'd seen a it a thousand times, I don't deny that I'm a self-promoting bellend.

So I wanna write an essay that rolls all my 12 semesters of college (the aforementioned 8 semesters of SWE and English lit, 3 semesters of French lit, and one semester of screenwriting).

I aim for the Pulitzer prize. Literally nobody in this world has the blend of higher-education that I have.

Yes, I don't have a degree. But as people often say "Jack of all trades, master of none, still better than master of one".

Here's a subject for a Linux-related essay: "How the greed of Jew-loving companies like Apple robbed us of a DSL-centeric world".

DSL = Domain-Specific Language.

Everything in Unix, and thusly, Linux, is a DSL. I think most of us here are mainly terminal users. I personally use i3 and I forgot the last time I used my mouse for more than a few seconds per each minute.

Alan Kay once said "Modern GUIs were supposed to be a stop, not the destination". I think that 'destination' was supposed to be something like Smalltalk.

Too bad Jews robbed us of it.

Good?

>>107254158
>all of this and no mention of P B Shelley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2ST_Eiiek

I did not know what an SFP is even.


>>107254197
My stupid friend used to think Frankenstein was written by Percy Shelly lol.

Why are young people so fucking dumb? They think if someone has your IP address, he can access your computer?

I swear, us people born between 1980-1995 (I'm 1993) are the one, and only, and the single generation of homo sapiens who are good at compooters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cJ79DNEQU4

This dude has an amazing channel, Makes videos about New England folklore. Kinda looks like a certain author from the region (if you squint right).

>>107253663
Ive been over this 1000 times. Just because I want a fast computer where my file manager loads instantly doesnt mean IM POOR. I prefer XFCE because it is fast and stable, not because I'm poor. My PC is a 1080p high end PC with a 5600X+6700XT. It's plenty fast for computing.

KDE is still slow on my PC, and not everyone likes KDE. I don't like KDE, It sucks and its clunky and slow to use even compared to windows 10. I dont want to use KDE and not everyone can use KDE.

Thats the problem with linux distro devs they make decisions that wont be good for everyone. XFCE should be the default linux desktop environment.

>>107254383
I'm using KDE on a laptop from the Win 8 era and it's not slow at all.

Do you guys think if a sheep wants to get gender-affirming care, it'd change into a goat?

>>107254208
>SMART SFP
When you really need your bridge between two mediums to run even hotter.

>>107254432
It is slow if it takes more than 500ms to load the file manager. That's almost half a second. Bloated, I think even windows 10 loads the settings faster.

XFCE loads almost instantly 20ms and folder switching is near instant under 10ms. KDE should not be the default linux desktop environment, Its not good.

>>107254469
I remember the world when there was no such thing as microwaves for heating our food. Now people seem to think microwaves take "forever",

>>107241291
Does system uptime have any practical purpose beyond just being mildly interesting.

>>107254607
Some people like showing other people the big number. Leaving their computer on for days/months is considered some kind of gold sticker worthy thing to do.

>>107254607
IMHO it shows how competent the sysadmin is.

>>107254650
For servers and such in business yes it's actually a number of pride.

>>107254607
They're trying to psyop you into missing out on seeing whatever fortune says each time you log into your Slackware system.

>>107254650
maybe. often it just shows how neglected a server is.

linux sisters. i have my genitals removed today.
i am finally a real woman.

>>107254924
Linux bros, I had my genitals bolted on today. I am finally a real man.

>>107255092
>>107255092
>>107255092

Is there any reason I shouldn't use Manjaro as a total noob? Every argument I've heard for why it's bad seems to be stuff that would only be a problem for someone who's way more experienced than I am

>>107256204
You know what you /can/ do is just install the shit and give it a go, see for yourself what actually happens. Worst case, you have to install something else instead. It's installing different ones all the way down.

I found this thread to be a more positive experience than in the past of this general.

>>107255117
That's a link to a new thread (didn't say that in your post).

>>107256204
Why would you use it? It's like Arch, but retarded

>>107256255
Genuinely just because the name sounds cool

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>>107244061
Tested with "FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso" via this VirtualBox AppImage:
>https://appimage.github.io/VirtualBox-KVM/
>https://web.archive.org/web/20251119030841/https://release-assets.githubusercontent.com/github-production-release-asset/833404714/2f6e802c-8e49-4c41-b897-1f5bf08a7bda?sp=r&sv=2018-11-09&sr=b&spr=https&se=2025-11-19T04%3A08%3A54Z&rscd=attachment%3B+filename%3DVirtualBox-KVM_7.2.0-archimage5.0-x86_64.AppImage&rsct=application%2Foctet-stream&skoid=96c2d410-5711-43a1-aedd-ab1947aa7ab0&sktid=398a6654-997b-47e9-b12b-9515b896b4de&skt=2025-11-19T03%3A08%3A41Z&ske=2025-11-19T04%3A08%3A54Z&sks=b&skv=2018-11-09&sig=lfNWZ994hUnwSFiRzWWtSWuYq8BHRg8a%2FUGGC9cWs8s%3D&jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmVsZWFzZS1hc3NldHMuZ2l0aHVidXNlcmNvbnRlbnQuY29tIiwia2V5Ijoia2V5MSIsImV4cCI6MTc2MzUyNTMyMSwibmJmIjoxNzYzNTIxNzIxLCJwYXRoIjoicmVsZWFzZWFzc2V0cHJvZHVjdGlvbi5ibG9iLmNvcmUud2luZG93cy5uZXQifQ.vMY_wqm-D5hbg7AcpOz8SgjegvAQk9-hjGEao_XstFo&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3DVirtualBox-KVM_7.2.0-archimage5.0-x86_64.AppImage&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream

Result after logging in as root:
# rfkill unblock all
-sh: rfkill: not found

So, you're gonna have to find something in FreeBSD that does what rfkill does in Linux.

>>107246628
>>Stupid question, but why use C instead of Python/Rust/Bash/Java?
>When the language native bindings are insufficient. They're all C(++) under the hood.
>
>Some people just enjoy watching the computer shit itself.
Not sure exactly what's meant by "When the language native bindings are insufficient". About "They're all C(++) under the hood". From what I read: Python and Bash are written in C(++). Like half of Java is written in C, and Rust isn't written in C. So yes, most of it is C/C++ under the hood. I find this topic somewhat fascinating. Like how you can write a compiler for a language in that same language. And what is Rust written in? Rust?

>>107256365
Install size or minimum space needed to use that AppImage is 1.2 GiB.