>>107346200
That's great to hear. I'm going to write it down for the future. I would not have even thought about that. Haven't tried that many themes on Xfce4 yet.

Is Fedora a good distro for a Windowbaby with an old pc?

>>107347058
They are all the same no matter what some cretin says (eg. qually bad but in different ways).
You could give Fedora 43 Xfce spin a try, for example.

I switched to linux after upgrading my PC and bought a good Monitor with HDR capability but I cant get HDR to run on my system.
Apparently HDR is not really a thing on Linux, is it?
If you have any advice on how to get it to work I would be very thankful.
I use Bazzite.

Running mint and starting to notice odd things happening
>while ago, the trash directory was missing
>after that video directory was misdirected
>now context menu in Firefox is missing all its text
Nothing serious, but it baffles me whats going on.
these just oddities that can happen and I'm just unlucky, a critical file thats gone wonky.
Running AMD so doubt its the dreaded oxidation issue or some other hardware failure.

>>107347253
the jews are using the ultra-secret linux backdoor to prank you.

>>107347264
This, but...fr fr nc.

>wrestle with easyeffects yesterday
>finnicky
>fuck it, just reinstall as flatpak
>just werks

File: .jpg (8 KB, 248x203)

8 KB JPG

>>107347058
i get lazy and just install nobara linux. gayming stuff and codecs already in it

you know, this thread isn't very friendly

>>107347058
my personal experiences with fedora were 100% negative, but don't let that stop you.

File: 1631754231004.jpg (68 KB, 500x374)

68 KB JPG

>>107347497
what issues? Last time I had major issues was with 33?. I did a 40 install once, and had to cross reference post-install scripts/guides on gits to get everything up and running, rpmfusion, codecs, nvidia, etcs

>>107347058
Using Fedora on a 14 year old Elitebook, works like new. As long as you have supported hardware (not Nvidia) it's gonna be fine

File: pepe-the-frog-angry.gif (536 KB, 498x498)

536 KB GIF

Failed to mount boot-efi.mount

>>107347170
You need to enable HDR in your monitor OSD settings. Some HDR monitors default to SDR.
Then, go into System Settings > Display Configuration. Tick the "Enable HDR" checkbox and then beneath it you'll have a "Calibrate" button. Just follow the instructions.

Keep in mind that HDR on Linux only arrived recently, so some monitors are not supported yet. Also keep in mind that HDR needs to be supported by applications you use. For example, Chromium browsers support it, but Firefox (or at least LibreWolf) doesn't. Although this is probably a LibreWolf issue due to some privacy setting, but that should at least tell you that HDR content is something an application will need to toggle on manually in some cases.

>>107347318
I just use Flatpak for everything. It's far less annoying than dealing with distro packages.

Is there a decent program for semantic image search? As in, it indexes a bunch of pics and then lets you search through them by describing the content of the image you're looking for?

>>107348327
Hydrus, but it relies on you adding tags to images. In theory you could use image recognition software alongside it to auto-tag your images, but it's not always 100% accurate.

>>107347779
Tried that but it fucked with Intel wifi chipsets for a while on certain kernel versions. It's best to go Debian on old systems.

>>107347058
You could always try mint first
Fedora always does stuff different sometimes for better or for worse

>>107347170
hdr is mostly overrated snakeoil that only works for specific stuff like """modern""" games and tv show movie slop

>>107346460
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Sharing_audio_devices_with_computers_on_the_network

>>107347253
Sounds like something broken in cinnamon maybe

Hello! I run Ubuntu 24 on PC with 1080ti and quite often it autoinstalls an update and ruins everything: dpkg, GPU drivers including Nvidia-toolkit, even ethernet connection.

Because of this, I separated /home to another partition so reinstalling would become less troublesome - but is there a way to make the process of fix even more comvenient? For example, a way to turn the current list of packages into a script that would restore the way my system is (for example ready for running LLMs with specific drivers) or to make it download correct drivers and not ruin everything randomly.

Thank you for advice in advance.

I'm curious and wanted to give KDE's X11 session a spin before it's phased out, but when logging into it, everything is laggy. Is this an nvidia issue or something I can actually fix?

>>107349506
Obviously you can make a script to handle this, but at that point you should just use Fedora which handles this out of the box. Both dnf (regular fedora) and rpm-ostree (fedora atomic) support package update history and rollbacks ("dnf history", "dnf history undo" and "rpm-ostree status", "rpm-ostree rollback" respectively). The atomic one is better because a system downgrade can be done offline, without relying on the remote still hosting your preferred package versions.

>>107349506
This shouldn't happen in the first place. Use a sane distro like Debian or Arch

>>107348327
undockit yolo

yolo image.jpg > image.jpg.txt
throw into faiss or something

I want to buy a new Laptop to put Linux on or something that already has Linux on it and definitely works as default, distro is irrelevant I like all of the big three (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch).

System 76 is too expensive, QWERTY only and I need QWERTZ, and I would get slapped with a huge sales tax, so I'm thinking of getting a TuxedoComputers laptop, currently I'm eyeing these two models

1) https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-14-Gen10.tuxedo#configurator (pro14)

2) https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-15-Gen10-AMD.tuxedo#configurator (pro15)

I'd put 2TB WD and 32GB RAM as on option no matter what model and i'd also pick the Ryzen 7 H 255 for both, only the display is different, 16:10 is fine, welcome even, but 2280 seems strange, pretty sure thats what phones also use. 5 mil vs 4 mil pixels, I dont even play that much and when I do I want it to still conserve power. High refresh rates are good but I'm on 120hz rn and it's fine, some games can barely keep up I dont need 300hz.
And I'd leave Tuxedo OS on it or maybe move to Cachy if performance isnt as promised.

I am aware of Librem and other Linux ready laptops, and the fact that a used T450 is 500 bucks but I'm a germaphobe.

Is TuxedoComputers good, would one of the two models be better for me ?

>>107349872
They're legitimate as far as I know. I've never bought anything off of them but they've been doing this for a long time. Probably just go with whichever is cheaper unless you want to pay the extra.

>>107349628
Thank you, I will read into it!

>>107349628
I heard that Arch is hardcore in sense that I need to manually install everything, but I will read into it too, thank you

>>107350050
>I heard that Arch is hardcore in sense that I need to manually install everything, but I will read into it too, thank you
That hasn't been the case since April 2021 with the Archinstall installer. Obviously, you still have to install any applications you want/need but you'd be doing that on any other system too.

>>107350077
Okay. Also, with local LLMs, it is now easier to debug problems even with no internet connection

>>107346882
That looks like the Slackware install

>>107350380
It is!
>Turning old computer junk into a Slackware FTP server. 20 GB hard drive, Pentium MMX 180 MHz, 32 RAM, power, hard drive, and other indicator lights on the front panel. I bought some red 2000 mcd LEDs and soldered them to the network card, replacing the original lights on the back panel. It's handy to be able to see network activity, especially at night. On the right is the soldering iron I used to solder everything together.

during what years was mac the best OS,
during what years was windows the best OS,
and during what years were linux distros the best OSes?

>>107350560
OSX Leopard was something cool. During the time Apple bought Shake and made it The high end compositing software.
Windows was best in 1996~ with NT4.0.
Linux Redhat was the best in 1998.
Pretty close calls.

>>107350560
macOS / OSX: up until 1998
Windows: 1999-2015
macOS: 2015-2024
Linux: 2024+

File: me, pretty much.png (183 KB, 342x395)

183 KB PNG

I'm retarded and bought a new laptop for starting with Linux, without seeing that Nvidia cards apparently don't have great performance with it (atm). Would it be better to dual boot it with some form of Windows to start with or am I overthinking things?

I want to check whether I get any performance improvements in a game by moving it from an NTFS drive to an EXT4 one. Is it possible for me to shrink an already existing NTFS drive and then expand the zone as EXT4?

>>107350642
What do you actually want/need Linux for? If you can do everything in WSL then you may be better off just sticking with Windows than put up with the hell of using Nvidia on Linux.

If you can bare the pain (maybe, you're a masochist?) then just tough it out and deal with any problems that come up.

>>107350642
It's primarily dxvk that's the issue (DirectX12 games being translated to Vulkan). There's some bugs, but nothing too serious. nVidia is slowly embracing desktop Linux as of late.

>>107350654
>I want to check whether I get any performance improvements in a game by moving it from an NTFS drive to an EXT4 one.
Generally yes. This has been tested years ago. ext4 results in faster load times.
>Is it possible for me to shrink an already existing NTFS drive
Yes
>then expand the zone as EXT4
Yes, but it would be a separate partition I think. For example, if your partition layout is [ext4][ntfs], when you shrink your ntfs one it will be [ext4][ntfs][blank] and then [ext4][ntfs][ext4]. I'm not sure if "shrinking from behind" is possible.

>>107350642
It's not that bad as the polarizing comments might say. Linux and nvidia is bad if you are wanting to run unreal engine 5 games but these are bad everywhere.
For workstation graphics it's still the same as it ever was.
CUDA stuff is probably faster than on Windows.

>>107350755
You almost always want good graphics from a laptop though. He's not building a headless workstation system where he'll do nothing but compute all day long, there Nvidia shines.

>>107350642
nvidia still better than AMD on linux. Anything else you hear is freetard cope, they are butthurt about some gay politics shit about 'muh open source' but newsflash: everyone with a brain (people who choose nvidia) uses proprietary gpu drivers made by professionals

>>107350790
Professionals don't run desktop graphics on Nvidia. They build a box with a bunch of GPUs and SSH into it or submit jobs to it through some webui.

>>107350808
I meant AI gooners

Is there any specific distro that would be worth picking over just Mint+XFCE for a Pentium 4 system? From what I can tell 'lightweight' just means a minimal DE.

>>107350713
Yes, the core of my question was whether I could have two different types in the same drive, I probably phrased it wrong.
>faster load times
Is there a change that i'd get higher FPS numbers too? I'm not necessarily uncomfortable with any load times so I'd only commit to it if I could get some performance out of it too.

>>107350819
Even for AI gooners you'd be much better off running without display input and gen your slop from another machine in the web browser UI.

>>107350869
*display output

>>107350786
No but what I mean is that nvidia is all right. People make it worse because their games are iffy. For real work it's not that bad and never was.
Nvidia has been on linux for decades by now.
It's an exaggeration to say that nvidia drivers are bad in general.

>>107350882
Yes, if you're building a workstation I agree with you. There it doesn't matter that it can't play video games, still can't hardware encode via VAAPI (and has limited decode support via a community driver that NVIDIA themselves don't support) or that its Wayland support is still in shambles and that its driver leaks memory like a sieve.
None of that is likely to impact your professional usage.

If you're running NVIDIA shite on a laptop though then none of that describes you. You do want good graphics support.

>>107350859
>Is there a change that i'd get higher FPS numbers too
Probably not. The only thing I can think of is shader cache compilation stuttering which would be slightly less impactful since ext4 has faster write speeds.

>>107350826
Mint Xfce isn't really lightweight. You'd probably have more luck with Q4OS with Trinity DE or any distro with IceWM or Openbox.

File: screenshot-20251127-233850.png (51 KB, 597x881)

51 KB PNG

>>107350903
I don't know, I'm playing games right now.
Seems like you have a problem with something I didn't know even existed in the first place.

Most people who complain about the lack of support never used nvidia inspector in Windows or even undervolted their GPUs.
In my opinion you are just a normie who should play Call of Duty in Windows and be happy.

>>107350972
>I don't know, I'm playing games right now.
>Seems like you have a problem with something I didn't know even existed in the first place.
Go and watch Gamers Nexus latest video where he runs some benchmarks on Linux and demonstrates that a 9070 XT achieves better average frame rate than a fucking flag ship 5090 in some titles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovOx4_8ajZ8

That's very bad for Nvidia. You might not play those games which is why you don't notice it but it's a real and demonstrable problem.

>>107350972
Playtimes are not relevant as that software was updated while ago.

>>107351001
I don't watch youtube or listen to influencers.
Just install Windows and stop blaming others for your own incompetence.

>>107351001
*Not average frame rate, 1% lows rather. The 9070 XT has less micro-stutters (which you would definitely notice) in some titles.
>>107351021
I actually recommended they install Windows. Nvidia is not good for desktop usage on Linux.

>>107350970
I'll give Q4OS a try, thanks

>>107351034
>micro-stutter on top of the line workstation card
Perhaps turn on vsync then. 60 fps is more than any retard would want but yet these influencers are trying to push 100+ rates.
>>107351034
You seem bit naive.

I have an old computer with a 750ti and that one sucked hard under X. Stutters everywhere just by using the desktop. Now it works great under wayland. Almost too good to throw it away.
Maybe wayland + nvidia sucks with newer/certain cards?

>>107351062
>Just strangle your 5090 so it only outputs 60 FPS
>It's more than enough
Do you hear yourself? You don't have to deepthroat Jenson that hard you know. It's okay to admit they're very, very, very far from perfect.

>>107351065
Newer cards generally work better with Wayland. You've probably switched between the open source driver and the proprietary driver.

File: deseo lacan Opera Captura(...).jpg (104 KB, 506x855)

104 KB JPG

hi , newfag here
How are folders organized in Linux?
In C: I have Steam.
In D: I have Steam games installed.

F: etc., etc.

G: Games downloaded from other sources, documents, etc.
F: Uninstalled games, photos, etc.

>>107351113
No, I always used the proprietary driver. I remember fucking around with ForceCompositionPipeline in xorg.conf, etc. to fix the jerkiness but it was never smooth until I switched to wayland.

>>107350949
Funny of you to mention it, I get really annoying dips because of the shader compilation (you can check with DXVK_HUD=compiler) guess I'll give it a try. Thanks anon.

>>107350713
> game is faster on ext4 pastioned drive than ntfs

Does this also apply to btrfs (my favorite) and other formats ? Got some old HDDs that arent that big and could use a speed boost, as it stands ntfs via linux translation isnt much faster for me than on windows it's just that the file explorer actualy works for a change lol idk how anyone doing any serious 'work' can just say win explorer is fine

>>107350826
If you still want a traditional OS that's both usable and familiar try Lubuntu, that's very light. If it struggles with even that, try MX Linux or TinyCore

>>107351193
Linux has mounts, you can actually mount a partition anywhere in the filesystem, you can even mount a partition inside another one.
For example, let's say you have 6 partitions like in your pic, these are usually assigned names as follows: sda1,sda2,sda3,sda4,sdb1,sdb2 (or nvme0n1, nvme0n2, etc...)
You can use lsblk to list all hard disks and block devices.
You can then mount them anywhere you want, for example let's say you want your steam partition in /home/<username>/Steam, you would simply create that directory and then do

sudo mount /dev/sda2 /home/<username>/Steam

And your files should appear there. However this is not permanent and you need to do this command after every reboot, to make it permanent you would need to modify /etc/fstab to tell the system to automatically mount sda2 to /home/<username>/Steam.

i can run games via wine without issues but i want to use lutris because it seems a bit more convenient but it looks like it isn't using my nvidia gpu properly
>[Graphics]
>Vendor: Intel
>OpenGL Renderer: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2)
>OpenGL Version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.2.3-1ubuntu1
>OpenGL Core: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 25.2.3-1ubuntu1
>OpenGL ES: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 25.2.3-1ubuntu1
>Vulkan Version: 1.4.321
>Vulkan Drivers: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M (1.4.312), Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2) (1.4.318)
i'm on kubuntu

>>107350713
>I'm not sure if "shrinking from behind" is possible.
You can't shrink a partition from behind but you can move a partition through unallocated space, e.g.: [ext4] -> [ext4][blank] -> [blank][ext4]
However take care because moving a partition *may* change its UUID which can mess up your fstab

>>107351193
First of all you have the root, denoted as just "/". Everything else sits under this.

Generally you will never interact with anything other than /home and /media.
/home - this is where all your configs and user data are, including Steam.
/media - this is where your removable storage devices are mounted.

Then you have "le epic coder" stuff an average user will never interact with:
/etc - system-wide configuration files
/bin - system-wide installed package binaries (executables)
/lib - system-wide installed package libraries (dependencies)
/opt - contains some optional 3rd party software you install manually
/tmp - temporary files which are usually cleared after reboot

As for D:\, E:\,F:\..., Linux lets you arbitrarily decide where to mount partitions and drives.
/dev - this is where your devices are attached
/dev/sda - this is your hard drive
/dev/sda1 - your first partition, the equivalent of C:\
/dev/sda2 - your 2nd partition, the equivalent of D:\
/dev/sdb - this is your other hard drive
/dev/sdb1 - your first partition in the other hard drive
...

Depending on what type of internal drive you have, you might see "nvme..." instead of "sd..." as device names.
But, these are not actual mount points. You get to decide where to mount these. Usually either in "/media", "/mnt" or somewhere in your "/home/username". So your "D:\" might be somewhere in "/media/d_drive" if that's how you want to mount it.

File: 1751698867714500.jpg (112 KB, 1024x875)

112 KB JPG

>>107351193
what's on F: you sick fuck

>>107351378
i think i understand
so i can create for example the partition g:\ and F:\
sudo mount \dev\sdb1 \home\<username>\g:\

but if i want outside \home?
could it be possible direct from the root?

\ (root)
\home
\g:\
\f:\
are gonna be some conflict from root?

or what would you recomend me
thank you :)

>>107351193
>separating games/software
Installing software to arbitrary locations is not supported by most Linux package managers. The only exception I can think of is Flatpak. Alternatively you can use Appimages and place them wherever since these are portable .exes. And for your games or Windows software you can set up a Bottles path or a wine prefix in an arbitrary file path.

Basically, if you use regular package managers to install software, your software is split up between libraries that go to /lib and it's main binary/binaries (single .exe) which go to /bin. Rather than having a single Programs/MyApp/<everything is here>. Linux software is just not portable by default, which is a problem solved by some distro-agnostic package managers and package formats (flatpak, appimage, etc.).

File: 302449307_412753604307737(...).jpg (49 KB, 495x486)

49 KB JPG

>>107351542
H games

>>107351524
thank you so much
i didnt know about the other files like \tmp
my plan was use this files for junk storage or anything else
jejejejejeje
thanks thanks :)

>>107351556
First off, Linux doesn't use backslashes for paths, it uses forward slashes (A good mnemonic to remember this is that windows is a backwards operating system so it uses backslashes, while linux is more modern so it uses forward slashes)

>so i can create for example the partition g:\ and F:\
That's not how partitions are named but yes, you create the partitions then they appear in /dev, it is important to understand that for example /dev/sda isn't the mount point but rather a file representing your hard disk, because in linux EVERYTHING is a file, and yes, all your devices have file representations and these representations live in /dev
>but if i want outside \home?
You can do that, you can mount a partition anywhere, so for example you could create /my-custom-folder or /home/another-custom-folder and mount /dev/sda2 on it. The only exception is that you can't mount two partitions on the same folder, that is, you can't mount sda2 and sda3 on /somefolder, but you can mount sda2 on /somefolder and then mount sda3 on /somefolder/someanotherfolder

Also, if you mount on a folder which is not empty, then the original contents of that folder is hidden until you unmount from it.

>>107351560
so \HOME is for all apps, programs
instead of 300 GB , i change to 500GB

can i ask for a recomended partitition?

i would apreciate it

>>107351666
Apps that you install from your package manager do not live in /home, instead they are mostly in /usr, some packages do install stuff outside /usr (such as /var) but most are confined within /usr. Also, most linux distros have /bin, /sbin and /lib symlinked to /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/lib respectively.

>>107351556
>could it be possible direct from the root?
Sure, you can mount things anywhere. But it's not really recommended to do this. "/media/your-user-name/" or "/home/your-user-name/MyExampleDiskMountFolder" are generally where you should mount things. That's pretty much the common and standard behavior all software will expect and you avoid creating a name conflict with some root-level directory (for example, naming your mount point "home" or "dev" or "etc" would probably either fail or mess up your system)

Is there a reason you're making separate partitions rather than just separate folders? Compared to folders, partitions are very "rigid", as in they have a fixed storage size you have to constantly worry about.
Partitions only make sense if you're using different filesystems for each or if you're using multiple physical drives. Otherwise you're kind of just making life harder for yourself for no reason.

I have an ISO image and several ogg files that are the audio tracks of a certain CD. How can I mount this as an image, so that I can play a game with audio tracks inside an emulator?

>>107351653
now i got it
thank so much !!!!!!!!!!!!

>>107351575
a man of culture I see, I have every partition on sda (/boot, /timeshift, swap and /home) and my other drive in ~/data but that's just me, some people prefer /mnt but you can do whatever you want

>>107351691
can you help me, please
how would you do the partition with this 2 nvme 2.0?

>>107351691
>Is there a reason you're making separate partitions rather than just separate folders?
NTA but obviously the biggest usecase is keeping your /home separate from your system in case you reinstall or distrohop so you only need to format the system partition and not worry about your data each time you install a new system.

>>107351694
If you mean a windows game that uses CD audio you can use something like
https://github.com/ayuanx/ogg-winmm
If you mean emulating a console with different music I have no idea

>>107351694

sudo mount -o loop /path/to/file.iso /path/to/mountpoint

>>107351666
/home is for your app data and config files, not actual apps.
For example, it will store the settings of your web browser and your saved files, but it will not contain the web browser as a program. Your web browser (as in, the program/app) will be stored in a place dependent on how you install it.
Appimage: The appimage file is the program, it doesn't "install". You can freely move it anywhere.
Flatpak: "/var/lib/flatpak" or "~/.local/share/flatpak". You can also set up custom install locations.
apt/dnf/pacman: program scattered in "/usr/"

>>107351756
thanks, thats a new stuff to learn
i apreciate

File: file.png (83 KB, 769x548)

83 KB PNG

>>107351736
>>107351750
I found something called cdemu that mounted a cue/bin image file to /dev/sr0.
Unfortunately Qemu doesn't recognize the audio tracks when using
-cdrom /dev/sr0
although the data track is visible. This is for Amiga PPC emulation, I am testing Quake 1 and the background music is stored as CD tracks. I can play the CD audio using
mpv cdda://
Oh well, perhaps there is something that mount a cue/bin image for AmigaOS 4.1 FE.

File: 1761800453723490.jpg (459 KB, 1290x963)

459 KB JPG

How do I get .otb bitmap fonts working on Linux? I've tried but I have dozens of issues with things like pango and qt apps being broken when I enable an otb font.
What do I do? all the ttf and otf fonts I have look awful when i disable anti-aliasing...

Alternatives to crystaldiskinfo? I have some old drives and would like to know how they're doing, bonus points for GUI

>>107352734
>Alternatives to crystaldiskinfo?
https://gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev/

I'm wanting to use Linux for a new job that requires occasional desktop monitoring (retarded I know but I need the money) should I use Fedora KDE Plasma or something easier like Kubuntu? I'm honestly super interested in swapping over to Linux entirely at some point and don't mind learning but I'm having trouble deciding which distro to go with for now.

File: scrot.png (12 KB, 395x316)

12 KB PNG

I have a weird bug in firefox (and not on chrome) where some website will render in a horrendous way.
Pic related is how code tags render on https://mlflow.org/docs/latest/genai/tracing/quickstart/python-openai/
I use arch and this has been going on for a long time now. My GPU is and r270X, very old.
Has anyone ever experienced it and knows a fix (besides using a chromium based browser)?

>>107352780
depends on what distro supports their desktop monitoring software and what library versions you'll be using to develop. i generally consider fedora the professional choice for development work but debian has superior stability. but they'll probably force you to a use a company compliant OS—ask your coworkers or employer

File: scrot_2.png (36 KB, 983x668)

36 KB PNG

>>107352806
here are infoboxes

File: screenshot-20251128-012834.png (290 KB, 742x1148)

290 KB PNG

>>107352734
I don't use gui but smartctl has all the info

>>107352780
Maybe go with SLACKWARE and then FUCK 'EM IF THEY CAN'T TAKE A JOAK.

>>107352780
i would go with fedora its really not more difficult than ubuntu they even ask if you need the third party repo after install now

>>107352806
Either an installed fonts problem or a gfx drivers one.

Confirm the first by right clicking and inspect element, then mess with the CSS styles to edit the font family or face or whatever it's called. If this fixes it, check your installed fonts and what Firefox is loading. Use strace to see what it loads. Claude or GPT or Gemini will help you get the command line right so you can see which ones are broken and get clues around what to do about it.

To prove gfx driver thing try switching off hardware acceleration. If that fixes it enjoy your driver hell.

>>107352849
>>107352814
I'll go with Fedora, thanks. Would you say Workstation or KDE Plasma overall for a new user? I still don't truly understand the difference ngl.

>>107352872
it's gnome vs KDE. gnome if you're coming from mac and KDE if you're used to windows

>>107352862
turning off hardware acceleration didn't change a thing
It also doesn't seem to be the font, it can also trigger on elements that don't modify font. But checking in the dev console was a nice hint, it seems like "vertical-align: middle" might be a necessary condition. Maybe I can just patch it on the few sites where I have the issue

>>107352940
Before you troubleshoot any further what is your version of Firefox?
Is it up-to-date, does the problem happen in a clean browser profile (go to about:profiles and make a new profile and then launch that), have you tried downloading Firefox Nightly to see if this is a regression that has since been fixed?

>>107352940
Could be corrupted cache files or user profile. Try private browsing to prove/disprove cache issues.

To check profile problems, `pkill firefox -f` then `firefox -P` to get the profile selector. If it is your profile then you probably wanna run fsck too 'cause it's probably a disk problem.

>>107353038
You beat me to it, and I didn't know about:profiles, seems less messy than -P. Thanks anon

>>107353045
>>107353038
>what version
this has been happening for over a year on a rolling release distro (arch btw)

both profiles and cache make no difference
but your tip lead me to try a firefox fork. it works in librewolf. This is good enough for me.

another day of laughing at arch shitters who have no idea what they're doing.

>>107353119
i used archinstall btw

>move to wayland because x11 sometimes crashes and gaming
>games either freeze or get glitchy as fuck
>all wayland software is shit
wayland is a joke, i thought i could finally ditch the gpu passthrough nonsense

>>107353089
If it doesn't happen in Librewolf then it may be a problem with system fontconfig versus Firefox's own fork of fontconfig. I would guess the Arch package probably uses system-libs and librewolf probably bundles them like Mozilla does.

Most likely things would work the same in Mozilla's own binaries if you download their tarball and extract and run it. This is probably an issue with the Arch package.

>>107353152
I blame fashy wayland devs. No creative workarounds to problems because you need to fill form 34.C in black ink and fax it in triplicate before the design committee will consider authorizing a new use case. This is the Free Desktop way.

>>107353152
Those are bugs in the games. Wayland can't magically make your buggy and broken games run right. Sometimes they still crash, yes.

>>107353152
xboard plays perfect on X11. There's countless games that do. Maybe it's the games you are wanting to play that are the real problem.

RETHINK
YOUR
LIFE

>>107353152
works on my machine
maybe stop trying to run njudea shit

>>107353173
I changed some random `about:config` values based on your intuition
After setting browser.display.use_document_fonts from 1 to 0, websites render as expected again
Thanks!

>>107353233
i actually never had problems gaming on x11, the crashes there were random crashes (related to power saving and screen saver, but fuck me if i can debug it), which is worse, unfortunately.

Running CachyOS with Kwin right now. Any good reasons to move over to a tiling window manager?

File: 20251128_073454.jpg (1012 KB, 2090x2980)

1012 KB JPG

Is it true that Nvidia is overall worse on Linux than Windows?
Does the Distro matter (not just in performance, but also in simplicity of management) for Nvidia?
I'm thinking of switching to Linux.

>>107353631
it's true that you're a tranny lmao.

>>107353631
>Is it true that Nvidia is overall worse on Linux than Windows?
There 100% is a performance hit from switching but that's just their drivers being shit and them not giving a fuck about it
>Does the Distro matter (not just in performance, but also in simplicity of management) for Nvidia?
For nvidia not really but in general yeah you have to figure out what you want out of your system, how often do you want to update, what package manager you like more, etc

>>107353631
Yes
Yes
Don't

>>107353631
mostly just works even if you are a tranny. if you can stomach ubuntu it works without installing or doing anything at all. anywhere else you need to ask jenson for a driver.
problems: ray tracing on high end nvidia cards has frame delays (steve nexus covered it in depth), anti-cheat isn't supported so competitive multiplayer games don't like linux

File: Screenshot_20251128_040258.png (2 KB, 310x91)

2 KB PNG

I'm getting really tired of kde changing things for no real benefit. Of all the changes to spectacle, look at THIS shit, goddamn, someone's a retard

The save buttons are also impossible to click, now, too

>>107353631
>Is it true that Nvidia is overall worse on Linux than Windows?
Yeah, Nvidia drivers have been getting better though but AMD is better supported
>Does the Distro matter (not just in performance, but also in simplicity of management) for Nvidia?
Most distros should perform similarly to one another. Some distros come with a driver manager program but not having one isn't too big a deal, worst case scenario you just install or update the driver through the terminal. My advice is to try a few different distros and see what you like
>>107353871
Not having access to competitive multiplayer slop is a benefit tbdesu

>>107333359
I'll install AeroThemePlasma on Kubuntu for her, unless Fedora would be easier? Q4OS looks like Windows 98 but it's also a different DE entirely, so if she had to pick one look it'd probably be Aero.

File: Screenshot 2025-11-27 at (...).png (21 KB, 992x405)

21 KB PNG

>>107353972

>>107353881
I don't know what that is but that's not Spectacle. The save button is very easy to click in Spectacle.

>>107354133
Oh, my bad. That was the new file save dialog, that I am also unhappy with.

As for the save button in spectacle, it is tiny now. I can't take a screenshot of it because it hides the window, but it's just a pair of tiny downward arrows now, and before it was a two nice big blocks labeled "Save" and "Save As" to click. Did people want it to be two tiny little buttons on the top left, instead of two big buttons on the top right? I don't think they did.

File: mpv-shot7606.png (851 KB, 1920x1080)

851 KB PNG

>>107354187
It's not tiny for me. It's very easy to click on, also if you do take a screenshot (instead of saving the fullscreen like here) then a window pops up in the middle of the screen so it's easier to save it.

You don't actually have to click on the save button though so maybe changing its design was a conscious decision to make people think about saving the image less. It saves it for you as soon as you take it. You only need to press the save icon if you want to save it somewhere else.

>>107347253
From other stories I've heard, random bits of text being fucked up on Mint is usually an Nvidia driver issue. The nouveau (open source) drivers suck and you might have to do some work to get the right proprietary ones depending on your exact card.
Trash icon can be hidden or shown in desktop settings, the actual folder is "hidden" by UNIX convention (leading dot in filename) and there might actually be a bunch of such folders depending on your setup.
wym by "misdirected"?

>>107349506
Use Timeshift to make restore points and roll back as needed.

If I hypothetically dual boot windows and linux on two separate drives then pirate a bunch of virus infected shit on my linux drive what are the risks of it jumping over to windows and breaking it or steal all my info?

I want a piracy machine where I dont store any sensitive data on it but I wonder if its actually possible to isolate it from windows.

>>107354220
>It's not tiny for me. It's very easy to click on,
Well, it is for me. I'm using a 4k screen, and everything else is scaling well, but I keep missing it.

My normal usage is
>full screenshot
>save as to location
or
>select rectangle
>save as to location
Which is why I preferred the old version, it's much easier to do.

>You don't actually have to click on the save button though so maybe changing its design was a conscious decision to make people think about
I don't use the automatic saving. For work purposes, collecting references and such, it gets very messy. I like to categorise them, when I save them, not afterwards.

Also, judging by your setup, your eyes are much better than mine, so I won't hear this
>looks fine to me!
That is ableism, kde bigots. I'm going to go to the footfag degenerate gnome users! That'll show you all...!

>>107354378
I like to save everything to /tmp and it remembers that. I then copy it somewhere else if I want it permanent or if I'm just uploading it somewhere to share to someone and don't need a permanent copy then I can just sort by last modified in /tmp and it's at the top of the file selection dialog.

>>107354362
Last I checked Windows doesn't even know how to read typical Linux filesystems like ext4 (Linux can read NTFS but it's not perfect and NTFS doesn't store Linux permissions so Linux has to fill in some defaults when you mount the drive).

If the malware is running under Linux, normally it will be running with your user ID and it has all the same system access (You) do (except for sudo). This is still bad in the sense that it can crypto-lock all of /home and send your porn to China or whatever but it won't get at your Windows stuff unless you already mounted the drive and gave your user account permissions for it. The mount command requires sudo, and /etc/fstab is root-owned and write-protected normally.

(If you have a normie setup then removable media will auto-mount thanks to pre-configured stuff that runs as root. So hypothetically Linux malware can still fuck with your Windows-formatted USB keys.)

>>107354362
pretty high because you don't have any fucking sense

>>107354362
>pirate a bunch of virus infected shit on my linux drive what are the risks of it jumping over to windows and breaking it or steal all my info?
pretty much zero because linux viruses all but don't exist. maybe a few crypto stealers here and there. not serious infect your bios type shit.

Why does

timedatectl

report NTP service as inactive when I set

ntpd.service

to run at boot time?

finally installed kde on gentoo after compiling for a long ass time
now what

>tried to post this on my new pc but the ip is rangebanned

>>107354803
Because timedatectl controls timesyncd not ntpd

>>107354803
>why does a systemd controller not use a non systemd service
arch shitters.

>>107354803
Because timedatectl conflicts with ntpd.service so ntpd disables it.

Check with ntpq instead:

ntpq -npc rv

this is probably way too of a niche question and i do not know anything about linux power management but is running a small vulkan program that does nothing but wait and has a tiny memmapped buffer of VRAM as a systemd service is enough to keep a secondary thunderbolt/USB4 eGPU powered on? or like any other solutions
i don't want to write vulkan code without a good reason but i've confirmed running vulkaninfo is enough to cause the GPU to power up (i don't know about other graphics APIs)

the only reason this is a problem is rocm's kfd driver can't handle GPUs being unplugged apparently, it doesn't seem to do any deinit
prior to this i was using a dummy monitor since using a real one just caused massive amounts of artifacting even though i've confirmed both eGPUs work on their own
but now after an update kwin has started shitting itself, causing a GPU page fault and forcing AMDGPU driver into a reset which the gpu recovers from but kwin doesn't
i've tried disabling automatic power management related kernel options and they either did nothing or fucked everything completely
and the eGPU i'm using doesn't appear to have a setting for disabling shutoff

>>107354861
Thanks for letting me know. I'd have used the former had I realized it was enough to fix an incorrect system clock reading.

>>107355028
You can probably just disable whatever power management turns it off.

>>107355103
>>107355028
And by disable it I don't mean in the kernel or BIOS, etc, but something like Powertop or TLP etc should let you disable suspending USB.

>>107355103
>>107355110
i'll take a look but most of the stuff i'd read said because it's technically running as thunderbolt power management stuff wouldn't work as well and this is some kind of weird thunderbolt specific issue
maybe there's a way to force the port to only run as USB4

>>107354098
?

im retarded and didnt know you could view the arch install guide from the live iso, you just type Installation_guide

>>107355606
Arch shitters keep putting themselves as people who need protection from themselves.

im trying to dual boot arch with windows on a 1tb drive
how much space would be enough for arch?

>>107355845
Don't dual boot on the same drive because Windows updates maliciously destroy non-MS operating systems if they're on the same disk.

>>107355845
64GB should be enough, but go with 120GB just in case. It really depends on what you plan on doing with it.

>>107355904
This bug was fixed about a year ago apparently. At least on W11.

>>107355914
thanks
what desktop environment is more stable, gnome or kde?

>>107356100
Probably GNOME because it has less moving parts.
But both are stable enough to be used in enterprise. They're both default DEs for work machines and most general use distros, KDE is a default on SteamOS in desktop mode, GNOME is the promoted default in Ubuntu which is still one of the most popular distros, etc.
It's up to you to pick between KDE's plethora of built-in features and customization options, vs GNOME's reliance on user extensions.

The only noticeable difference is that GNOME only cares about Gtk and doesn't style Qt apps, while KDE at least tries to keep a consistent theme between Qt and Gtk software so that apps don't look out of place.

I need help
Last week i finally built my new pc. I put arch on it, which ive used for a good half year now. But today im getting a kernel panic whenever i try to boot. With this error:
Loading Linux linux
Loading initial ramdisk
error: fs/fshelp.c:find_file:260:file `/initramfs-linux.img' not found.
Press any key to continue....

How do i fix this? Ive tried doing a clean install but the uefi isnt recognizing the thumbdrive with the iso as bootable, despite being the same drive i used to format the pc in the first place
What can i do?

File: cow.jpg (33 KB, 600x600)

33 KB JPG

>>107346882
Weighing my options when considering how I to make a new setup for emulating games. Since I don't really want to clog either of my two computers with gayming stuff, would also be fun to have a linux system to rice/mess with.
I'm in Japan right now and am considering getting a used laptop on the cheap if I can find it, or save my money and opt for a live/portable setup I can just plug into any PC I want and play games that way (though I'm not sure how good the performance would be). What's the Internet's opinion?

>>107356100
Neither. Both are fast moving DEs that don't give two fucks about stability. Either use something like Xfce/MATE, or don't use a leading edge distro.

Is Mint still the go-to for linux newbies? I know this was true ten years ago but what's the consensus now?

>>107356204
>Since I don't really want to clog either of my two computers with gayming stuff
Just make a chroot or use flatpaks.

>>107356204
>just plug into any PC I want and play games that way
how exactly do you envsion this?

>>107356204
get a steam deck or some shit

>>107356279
it's been replaced by bazzite

>>107346882
>run your previous OS in a Virtual Machine.
How do I accomplish this?

>>107356409
Just use WSL unless you really want to fiddle about with KDE or GNOME, either way you won't ever get a real feel for it until you install it on bare-metal.

>>107356308
I was thinking more in the realm of having a physical delineation between my work & play environments, but this is probably the truest answer in terms of what I'm looking for
>>107356370
I'm showing my ass here because I honestly have very little experience running portable distros beyond using them to install a proper one onto a computer. I assume it would involve a usb partitioned so that there's some space to make the system bootable/functional while the rest of the space can be used to store files. the system itself running off the hardware that it's currently hooked up to.
>>107356379
As a handheld it feels way too big & bulky, also don't like the lack of/ requirement of a separate keyboard.

>>107356506
>I was thinking more in the realm of having a physical delineation between my work & play environments
If that's all you want and you use KDE then you can configure Activities so all the gaming crap launches in a dedicated activity which is like a completely separate desktop and then have your work stuff elsewhere.

I don't know what desktop you use though.

>>107356486
But I already have my previous OS installed on bare metal.
I also have Linux installed on bare metal.

>>107356529
Then what do you need a VM for? If it's just for quickly trying out different distros then use Qemu.

>>107356279
99% of modern distros are "Linux for noobs"; shit just werks now.

>>107356100
GNOME is utter ass lmao

If I plug in a specific HDD, it shows up as /dev/sdc but I need it to show up as /dev/sde. How do I get it to show up as sde always?

Only /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are already-used in the computer. The rest are external ~20-TB HDDs sitting nearby which I plug in if wanted. Running "sudo blkid" shows:
>/dev/sdc1: LABEL="zd" UUID="15108021370358128846" UUID_SUB="8438664830417746686" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="zfs_member" PARTUUID="37d71e29-6cf1-482c-b0fa-fa411b6317bf"

Then what do I put in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-custom-hd.rules ? Best way to do what I want? (BTW, I'm seeing this ad at the bottom of this thread -- https://creatives.us-cdnbo.org/vmrj7WC-76b59e99a2bc2888498d7cc5cad7349de79cfa88.png -> https://store.steampowered.com/app/3908900/FoE_Remains/ -- neat game, might play it, but there's a comment saying that the fonts don't work right in Linux.)

How many of you guys daily drive gentoo?

>>107356578
Why didn't this work?:
>$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
>KERNEL=="sd?", LABEL="zd", NAME="sde"
>$ sudo systemctl restart udev # unplug hdd, plug it back in

lsblk still says sdc on that device. Info from
https://superuser.com/questions/687055/how-to-make-the-system-detect-hard-drives-as-a-designated-block-e-g-dev-sde

>>107356538
>Then what do you need a VM for?
So that I can go back and reference my previous OS installation without booting out of my current linux session. And also just to learn how to do it.
>If it's just for quickly trying out different distros then use Qemu.
Is Qemu a VM? Will it let me run my previous OS?

>>107356578
You should use UUIDs for everything. What relies on it being sde?

>>107356528
Maybe I just have a fetish for amassing a horde of computers, but I'm having hang-ups about just having it BE on my other computer(s). If I ever decide against it than I think I'll just look into something like this (I run KDE on my laptop).

>>107356698
Annoying! This also didn't work:
>$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/99-custom-hd.rules
>KERNEL=="sd*", ENV{ID_FS_UUID}=="15108021370358128846", NAME="sde"
>$ sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
>$ sudo udevadm trigger
>$ # fuck this shit

>>107356727
>What relies on it being sde?
When I set up a ZFS mirror pool in the past, the two HDDs for it are based on /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd. I have a non-mirrored zpool HDD which is /dev/[whatever] and I wish it only showed up as /dev/sde so when I plug in the aforementioned two HDDs they would show up as /dev/sdc + /dev/sdd. If they don't show up as /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd then the zpool gets a "degraded" status.

I gave up and when back to what I normally do: plug in the HDDs normally for /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd in the correct order, even though I don't really need to use that mirrored zpool, THEN plug in the HDD normally for /dev/sde which I do want to use.

>>107356506
>I'm showing my ass here because I honestly have very little experience running portable distros beyond using them to install a proper one onto a computer. I assume it would involve a usb partitioned so that there's some space to make the system bootable/functional while the rest of the space can be used to store files. the system itself running off the hardware that it's currently hooked up to.
That... doesn't sound like anything that exists. You're looking for a portable OS that directly interfaces with the hardware of arbitrary standalone systems? Nah... Closest thing I can think of is filling an external drive with portable executables of your vidya and then using the standalone PCs to play them. I've done this back in college where the entire building had big Counter Strike Source LAN parties, was fun while that lasted.

>>107347058
Moved from Windows a few months ago, didn't like GNOME, landed on XFCE (very stable and easy to customise without editing a million config files) and its been great so far. Any issues have been sorted with a google search or a couple of rounds of questions from ChatGPT. The retards here have also been a great help.

does anyone have an idea why gwenview stopped playing video files? it started crashing after an update a month ago or so (Arch)

>>107356100
XFCE. Just works, has a cute mouse, done.

>>107356197
Sounds like /boot got rekt. Only hope now is to chroot in and run grub-install. Something like this might work:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241130013235/https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/103311491/#103331897

I don't exactly know what I'm talking about and my experience is different than yours, so be careful or do your own research for a solution.

>>107356797
*went back to what I normally do

>>107356797
>When I set up a ZFS mirror pool in the past, the two HDDs for it are based on /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd
You fucked up and are paying the price for your fuckup.

File: 1613320821068.jpg (93 KB, 335x385)

93 KB JPG

how do you guys summarize spreadsheets with AI and sign PDFs on linux?

>>107356578
It's possible to move a partition number to something else, but IDK if /dev/sdc can be moved/renamed to /dev/sde (when nothing else is plugged in after /dev/sdc was plugged in). Posts >>107356902 >>103331897 show how to "move [or rename] /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda2":
># sfdisk --dump /dev/sda > sda.bkp; cp sda.bkp sda.bkp.bak
># vim sda.bkp
>Change "/dev/sda1" to "/dev/sda2", save the text file
># sfdisk /dev/sda < sda.bkp

>>107356934
server, n8n and stirling pdf

>>107356917
Instead of blaming the user for lack of knowledge when setting things up initially, blame ZFS for being inflexible. I probably can't change those zpools so things are based on /dev/disk/by-id/ instead. Maybe the only solution now is sfdisk >>107356950 but those commands/changes are sorta scary and I feel like they might catastrophically mess things up.

>>107356934
If you know a bit of python you can vibe code this kind of thing fairly painlessly. I was able cobble something together to read some shitty bills in pdf and dump them to a spreadsheet, not quite the same has a bunch of the same bits you will need to string together.

Or as someone already suggested, n8n or one of the low code solutions.

>>107356677
I tried to get it installed in a VM, but I guess I'm retarded, cause it didn't boot.

>>107351193
on linux you have / (root) and all folders exist in that. what you see is called the VFS (virtual filesystem) and doesn't represent any particular physical storage (if any)
windows technically does this as well (native nt has an internal root not that dissimilar from linux), but that's hidden from the user
there are common places to mount volumes in linux, but you can mount things wherever you like
>>107351378
you can mount ntfs volumes to arbitrary folders in windows, too, if you like. you don't have to use drive letters (except the one, typically "C:") if you don't want to. drive letters are a compatibility thing, not something nt actually needs to do

>>107354362
depends if you install a driver in windows to read btrfs/ext4/etc. windows ootb doesn't support any linux native fs

>>107354435
i do that too, i wonder how common this is.
it makes sense to me and doesn't cause a downloads folder full of hundreds of single-use files. only downside is if the power goes out or you reboot while forgetting to actually save the things you wanted to keep

>>107351378
if you think linux is strange, windows is even stranger.
remember; current windows started with NT (1993) but windows dates back to 1985, basically a shell for DOS (1981). drive letters are a dos thing, and NT emulates this for compatibility reasons.
linux on the other hand, follows the same kind of vfs system as unix systems, which is much older than dos. linux's vfs may seem strange to a windows user, but it's really windows that is the odd-one-out. macos also uses a unix-like vfs, though it does try to hide some of it to make things appear simpler than they really are

>>107356934
>sign PDFs
Firefox. Unless you're talking digital signatures, in which case almost every pdf viewer will support that.

>>107356992
>Instead of blaming the user for lack of knowledge when setting things up initially, blame ZFS for being inflexible. I probably can't change those zpools so things are based on /dev/disk/by-id/ instead.
You literally can. Instead of being a drama queen, try looking up solutions.

does ssd choice matters for Linux as much as it does for Windows? I've heard here and there that some ssd are slowers on linux than on windows, like samsung ones. So for a gaming pc which should I get? Preferably 4tb. Thanks

>>107357756
Crucial, WD or Kingston

>>107357767
Thanks, any models specifically?

>>107357756
see
>>107352817
works well for me.

>>107352817
>>107357891
thanks, but it's not really available where I live (western europe)
It's mainly samsung, crucial and wd that have a presence here

>>107357756
You will be fine any SSD because Linux uses an actually good filesystem (ext4) unlike the dogshit that is NTFS

>>107357861
T500/T700 for Crucial, Black for WD and Fury Renegade for Kingston

>>107357756
Linux has retarded things because freetard devs are stupid.
>mv a directory, it's instant
>mv a directory in "thunar", it begins to copy files
SSD will wear down faster in linux because of this sort idiocy and also because you'll get "updates" every two days. Of course you can ignore them.
Windows, if properly maintained, has less disk activity.
>>107357767
>kingston
>crucial
Just don't recommend random brands because you don't have any idea about their hardware configuration... Retards like you are absolutely worst advicors on this website.

>>107358034
They aren't "random" brands they're always brought up.

>>107357983
Dunno what part of western europe doesn't have Amazon. I'm in the UK.

File: Copilot-logo.png (650 KB, 960x640)

650 KB PNG

I think I'm finally ready to give up on windows.

>>107358034
Would the WD Blue SN5000 works fine then?

>>107358034
Crucial/Micron is probably the least incompetent consumer brand

>>107358111
Get something with reliable controller hardware. You will need to do your own research. it's better to pay up bit more than trying to save up money, as unfortunate as it might be these day.

>>107358034
Argument is valid for raspberry pi sd cards vs windows ce but modern SSDs have ~150TB of writes before they vanish in a puff of wear leveling.

>>107358089
YOU WILL USE COPILOT
YOU WILL USE THE HARDCODED LINKEDIN SHORTCUT

>>107358089
Copilot isn't even interesting, it's just a reskinned ChatGPT basically, what with how close OpenAI and MS are these days.

File: frustration.jpg (119 KB, 1280x720)

119 KB JPG

>>107358089
No, you are not ready to give up on windows. You will hate linux and be like that one faggot who posts linux hate threads because something didn't work as he thought it should work or didn't work out of the bos. Stay on windows, you are not ready - your mind is to weak and fragile to handle the frustration which comes with learning.

A little while back whenever I upgraded my linux kernel i'd get a broken pipe. Googling around suggests that it's nothing, i guess. Maybe reinstall kernel just to be safe, but I dunno
That went away, except now every time i update my firmware I get a broken pipe. I guess I could reinstall kernel there too, but I don't think this broken pipe is actually doing anything. Restart. Everything is fine. I guess it's nothing, but I'm curious.

>>107358507
I set up an ubuntu server with wireguard only access for my players, a 64TB raidz2 for work, and a 3090 for AI. I can handle setting linux up on a gaming pc, but I don't know how much I'm going to miss playing certain games.

can anyone explain the autism of obsessing over systemd while your desktop environment is insanely bloated functionality wise and no one bats an eye?

>>107358577
Different groups of people. systemd obcests are probably running a tiling window manager

>>107358507
me unironically, i switched to linux for daily usage and it was the most painful 4 months ever with ENDLESS troubleshooting 24/7. i kept it on my pc for when I'd like to tinker with stuff but no chance i'll use it as a daily driver.

>>107358577
autismos who are against systemd are using icewm, i3 or dwm and then shitting on any DE

>>107358575
Let's see. Answer these 3 basic shell/term trivia without consulting AI agents:
1. what does

^aer^ear

do?
2. if your terminal is suddenly unresnponsive to keyboard input - what is the shortcut key that may restore it?
3. what is stored in

$_ $? $$

variables?

>>107357998
>an actually good filesystem (ext4)
555-comeonnow

File: 8_(1).png (89 KB, 277x285)

89 KB PNG

Thots on Bazzite as a retard-proof daily distro? wb CachyOS? Feels like it's always these two people talk about...

Also how's laptop compatability? Was thinking of starting with my laptops (one's AMD, the other Nvidia) but I heard Linux can be finnicky with laptops.

File: Screenshot 2025-11-28 at (...).png (149 KB, 1576x718)

149 KB PNG

>>107358727
I built my whole server with ai and i'm not stopping now.

>>107358830
i said no ai agent, anon. i guess ai can be used to offset some frustration of learning basics, but sooner or later you will encounter some bug or quirk and you will break down in tears, anon

>>107358821
cachy is more or less a one size fits all type of distro and only spergs that care about shaving off megabytes of storage will shit on it and there's very little cause for switching off it on the high end
it's just as easy to fuck up as regular arch so you need to treat your baby steps with respect and humility as it will not limit a power user in any way
bazzite is a "i'm not a power user and i don't want to see the terminal" type of distro, fine for basic shit like being an internet browser or a living room pc that plays games but kinda limiting in the end

>>107358821
and the amd will be easier to run than the nvidia, but beginner distros are really good about helping people set up their nvidia.
linux mint should be in the mix there too. i don't care if it's a meme. it's a very good beginner's linux.

I WILL GIVE UP EVERYTHING BEFORE I USE FLATPAKS OR ANY SIMILAR THING

>>107358821
Bazzite is less error-prone and easier to use overall. However, if you install software with it's system package manager (rpm-ostre) instead of user package managers/formats (flatpak, brew, distrobox, appimage) you'll have to reboot your PC for the installation to apply. Same goes with system updates, they're only applied after a reboot.
Basically, it behaves like Android (or Windows, iOS, etc.), where apk installs/updates are applied "live" but a system update only applies after a reboot.

CachyOS has less polish and it's generally aimed at "power users". But it does let you live-install system packages (which you'd rarely if ever do anyway over using flatpak or appimage).
Unlike Bazzite it's not atomic, so there's less built-in guarantee that a system update won't break something. So you have to deal with backups and restorations rather than a simple "undo an update".

>Also how's laptop compatability?
This entirely depends on your laptop. The distro you choose won't matter much unless you go for something Debian or Ubuntu-based since those are currently almost 2 years behind in updates.

>>107358943
>fine for basic shit like being an internet browser or a living room pc that plays games but kinda limiting in the end
It's not limiting, it's not SteamOS. You can do whatever you want with it just like any other distribution.

>>107358989
BASED
I WILL USE OLD VERSIONS OF SLACKWARE IF IT EVER COMES TO ANYTHING LIKE THAT

>>107358963
>linux mint should be in the mix there too
>based on ubuntu lts
yeah, this is only for servers or office computers used for web browsers

>>107349352
I tired anon
These don't work, at least like what I want it to?
>big TV with HTPC
>laptop with wired headset
>control HTPC from laptop with SSH
>start streaming audio only on need from HTPC to laptop
I tried using various ways and all have some latency.
The best way with 500 ms latency was using netcat to capture the audio sink and stream it as compressed format and receive it from my machine.
The problem there's no proper way to shut it down when the stream ends, and if I pause it get like extra 200 ms latency
This is what I use

nc -l -p 5000 | pw-cat --playback --rate=48000 --channels=2 - & ssh HTPC "pw-cat --record --rate=48000 --channels=2 - | nc <RECIVER-IP> 5000"

File: .png (44 KB, 1018x204)

44 KB PNG

unlimited debian works for debian december

File: 8494d1630c1fd5f8.jpg (30 KB, 443x500)

30 KB JPG

>>107358651
I dont know what niggas like you are on about. "Constant troubleshooting"? Bull shit.

I daily drive fucking debian and after the first day's configuration (Maybe like 2 hours total??) I can play anything I want. No issues.

>>107358549
broken pipe is when SIGPIPE is uncaught. this happens when you pipe data into a program and the receiving end exits prematurely so there's nowhere to send the data to, the pipe is broken. some programs capture SIGPIPE and exit cleanly, like `yes` which just prints `y` over and over again and stops when the receiver has had enough.

Example using head to get the first `y` prompt:

$ yes | head -n 1
y

`dd` (data duplicator) will grumble if the pipe breaks, so putting a `dd` in the middle will leak a broken pipe message to stderr which goes to your terminal:

$ yes | dd | head -n 1
y
dd: IO error: Broken pipe

tldr don't worry about it, it's probably nothing.

>>107358912
they just learned 3 things there thanks to AI though. if you read the outputs it's more like a personal tutor than vibnorance

>>107359603
retards have difficulty with 'hardware support'

File: 1758432285792437.png (297 KB, 622x606)

297 KB PNG

>daily drive Gentoo
>decide to install macports on a corporate macbook
>wait 16 hours for it to compile the whole world, including the same version of libgcc, gcc and clang 5 times for no reason whatsoever
This has to be the most niggerlicious Unix in existence.

>>107359603
>2 hours
no thanks, I prefer distros ready to use out of the box

>>107358943
>>107358995
I'm no power user but I DO use some terminal stuff to run some locally hosted web-apps and a website (I use it to control some stuff in my home remotely), I also use Windows Scheduler to run some CMD commands (mostly stuff that resets my web-apps every hour, which helps in case they crash/freeze).
If Bazzite can do all those things then I see no reason for me to go with anything else

Is git a dumb way of doing manual backups?

>>107359748
this guy fucks

>>107358912
A few days ago I was using one to try to learn how to mount a USB stick on my bare system that wasn't seeing the partition and it told me I needed to format it because maybe it was corrupted. I happened to know that I still needed dosfstools but anyone who just listed to what it said would have lost all their data on that drive.

>>107358912
>ai can be used to offset some frustration of learning basics
I mostly use it as a means of shitting out commands that I can't be fucked to look up or type out. Or as a troubleshooting assistant. You still need to know what the commands do and how to wrangle the AI when it starts to hallucinate, but it is a very helpful tool.

>>107360005
>Bazzite
>>107343062
>I installed Bazzite on my ROG Ally X
>But in dolphin the option to show hidden files/folders is greyed out.
>And I seemingly can't do anything to make it so I can see them?
seems like needless abstraction unless you need it for handheld or turnkey stuff

>>107360005
>run some locally hosted web-apps and a website
>I also use Windows Scheduler to run some CMD commands (mostly stuff that resets my web-apps every hour, which helps in case they crash/freeze).
you can do this on any distro, even steam os which is actually what people believe bazzite to be (locked down system that is immutable and unchangeable)

I'm reading about the Arch build system. What exactly is the difference between building a package using

makepkg

and installing it using pacman? The most I know is how a simple source program is transformed into a relocatable object file and statically (or dynamically, at runtime) linked with libraries to create an executable. Does the former process stop before the linking step and resumed by the latter process?

>>107356409
dd the disk to a file.
launch virtualbox with the file as your disk
install guest additions so graphics passthrough works

>>107360132
not usually but it can be

>zero mentions of GNU after OP
>80 mentions of Linux
Heckertsisters...

>>107357259
The only thing that's annoying about this is /tmp often will have temporary files/directories generated which means the UI will sometimes bounce about a lot while it refreshes each time.

It's not enough to stop me from doing that but I think the file picker really needs an option to try to ignore files/folders that follow the template of mktemp and sort them before others. So a folder like say /tmp/stuff would get sorted before /tmp/tmp.XXXX /tmp/foo.XXXX, etc (basically ignoring anything with a 'dot' in it except for common media files would be useful as a special case only applied to tmp).

KDE developers I know you browse 4chan sometimes. Please add an option like that. Or even just an option to disable the automatic refresh for /tmp unless you press F5 would be enough.

best distro for a ms surface?
hopping from nobara linux

>>107361552
>best distro
DEBIAN

>>107361552
what issues are you having with nobara? if it's update bugginess you can go for bazzite

>>107361552
Install Gentoo

on wayland how can i scale down firefox without touching the fractional scaling of the desktop environment? and if it is possible is it worth it or will it mess shit up

>>107361611
don't need to do heavy gayming on a tablet, would sacrifice all that for a little more touchscreen compatibility

>>107361974
You can make the UI compact by setting this in about:config:
browser.compactmode.show=true
browser.uidensity=1

You can't make it even smaller than that though. You can't even use variables like GTK_SCALE or GDK_DPI_SCALE as they don't support negative scaling (you can only make the UI bigger, not smaller).

>>107362225
>>107361974
Although, Firefox is customisable with CSS so maybe you can modify that but I'm not a tinker tranny so wouldn't know about that. Maybe ask in r/FirefoxCSS

>>107349506
Question: was this OS upgraded in place from an earlier version?
I had the same issue and it is resolved after uninstalling some packages (old Nvidia drivers?) and I suspect those were leftovers from the old OS version.
This is just a guess because I didn't dig deeper.

>>107349566
It shouldn't lag, in my testing they were visually identical. But I don't have an Nvidia GPU.

>>107351395
>isn't using my nvidia gpu properly
Explain.

>>107352711
>fonts look awful when i disable anti-aliasing
Then... don't?

>>107352780
Kubuntu is what I use, but I haven't tried Fedora KDE yet (the GNOME one sucked hard).
Try both and see what works best for you.

>normies storing their pictures/videos on SSDs in cold storage
How do we solve this retardation?

>>107362522
what's wrong with this? should they use cloud storage instead?

>>107362561
nta, but no electric charge = data degradation after a year or two. Meanwhile, vhs/tape chads: no degradation for decades or 10 to 15 years.

>>107362561
>what's wrong with this?
SSDs do not retain data in cold storage very well and data will start getting corrupted fairly quickly.
>should they use cloud storage instead?
They should use mechanical drives

>>107362561
SSDs are only guaranteed to retain data when powered off for a few months at best.

>>107362680
That's not entirely true given the physical action of playing the tape itself can cause damage, not to mention if it's not stored properly then that can cause issues too.

>>107362680
>vhs/tape
Aren't optical disks the best way to store data long term? Basically no degradation.

>>107362714
This is way overmemed. Bare QLC media is supposed to retain data for minimum 18 months, and you've got a FTL that can handle single bit errors on consumer flash. Maybe on a 3 year time frame you might experience partial loss, but not 3 months.

>>107356934

you dont need ai for that look sheet name and underlined results and possible colorfieds

add makernote to pdf

>>107362816
If it's non-organic media and your supplier didn't fuck you around. The best kind of backups are the ones you can validate periodically. Putting away anything digital for 10-20+ years and hoping for the best is really foolish.

>>107362863
>Putting away anything digital for 10-20+ years and hoping for the best is really foolish.
Well yeah, you presumably wouldn't be able to continuously burn new data to the optical drives anyways. Periodically burning data to an optical drive for permanent off site storage seems good though. Having on site mechanical drives that get updated and validated.

>>107362714
>>107362683
>quickly
>months
I don't really believe that. My external SSD gets powered on once a year and the data is still fine. I have a separate backup which confirms data integrity and I've never lost anything to "bit rot".

>>107362994
Not really because there are companies that rent tape library space for very little money. Nobody has automated optical library these days.

>Processing Vulkan shaders

File: nobara.jpg (42 KB, 432x432)

42 KB JPG

I LOVE NOBARA

>>107353631
Amd has had open source drivers for over a decade and nvidia only changed their minds about a year ago, generally amd cards will run better but there are nvidia versions of distros you can install like popOS if you want ubuntu, fedora nobara has an nvidia iso, arch linux as in endeavoir OS asks if you want nvidia or amd drivers, and even specifies into new and old cards... Everything works, just not at 100% capacity maybe. I own a soundcard and an obscure printer, they all work no matter if I uses fedora, arch, or ubuntu. And dad has a gtx1050, works as well.

File: Puppy_Linux_OS.jpg (139 KB, 1024x768)

139 KB JPG

>>107362816
>Aren't optical disks the best way to store data long term? Basically no degradation.
The old dialectic of high storage cost per small size vs. low cost per large size. With mechanical drives or tape drives you can store a lot for a low cost. Quality optical media costs a lot. Arweave is permanent on-chain storage, and that cost 16 USD per gigabyte, equates to something like thousands of dollars per terabyte (15 or 16 thousand USD/TB).

We can talk all we want about storage methods, but how about we actually store some real data? Thanks to the Linux program sshfs, I can extend my qBittorrent abilities. Save paths are local and remote, such as /mnt/sshfs/hpc/0/datatemp0011/ipfs-unk1 for this torrent which was dead until I restored it recently:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:fdfcf8853700990b5f6f6c292496b607f23f1089&dn=Courage%20the%20Cowardly%20Dog%20COMPLETE%20DVDrip%20and%20TVrip&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fp4p.arenabg.com%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F47.ip-51-68-199.eu%3A6969%2Fannounce

That's "Courage the Cowardly Dog COMPLETE DVDrip and TVrip" from 2011 in The Pirate Bay. Only one peer from Suriname (a south American country) downloading it now. Stats from /api/v2/sync/torrentPeers show that I'm the only one with 100%: 8.79-GiB folder; progress 36.01243%; uploaded 3,403,011,072 bytes (3.169 GiB); 36.01243% of 8.79 GiB = 3.165 GiB.

>>107363067
>I don't really believe that. My external SSD gets powered on once a year and the data is still fine
That's personal anecdote vs. statistical guarantee >>107362714

>>107356279
Fedora Nobara or CachyOS probably.

Sure (K)Ubuntu works too but it's too much babying imo, at least recommend pop or Zorin for gaymers/wintards.

It's not that Mint isn't okay, but it's just that, okay. No new knowledge, looks old even with cinnamon, old af mesa drivers, it doesnt rly hit the notes for any one group, it's not gamers, not trch literates or illiterates, not old ppl, it's just weird and can't compete noe that literally all other distros are better. Not as bad as manjaro tho

Every now and then I check to see how well linux handles HiDPI font rendering. Right now as everything is in the transition to Wayland, it seems to be quite a bit worse. I suspect it's that some software is using the xwayland hack.

For me, it's not going to be year of the linux desktop.

>>107358727
>1. what does

^aer^ear

do?
Does anyone actually use this? I forgot it was even a thing. Like what's the use case?

>>107363402
If you're using KDE then turn off the scaling for X11 apps and let them scale themselves. Also make sure the reported font DPI, etc, is correct and if it's not then set it in XResources somewhere and merge it with xrdb like you normally would do in an X11 session.

File: 1759091915142072.png (39 KB, 400x419)

39 KB PNG

Could someone explain to me how plocate(1) works?
>returns files even though I don't have access to /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db
>returns only the files which I can list
>for some reason fails with an error when I try to strace it
this is black magic

>>107363216
>nvidia only changed their minds about a year ago
No they didn't. They submitted an open source kernel shim for their proprietary userspace driver, which was immediately rejected. In effect they asked the kernel devs to maintain their kernel patch for them and called it an 'open source driver'

nVidia will never properly fix their Linux driver. Those days were gone 10 years ago. The new normal is they sell you a handful of fixes with every new chip. Then KDE finds something nVidia isn't doing right, rinse and repeat.

>>107363449
I'll tinker with it later. Running RHEL 10 (gnome) but the program is using a qt gui.

Even just fractional scaling say 175% (after enabling an experimental feature) is terribly blurry system-wide, so while some programs exhibit major problems, it's overall quite unsatisfactory. If I were only using a 1080p monitor, it's a perfect world.

Why would you ever use Nobara over just Fedora?

>>107363768
Why would you use any distro over making your own?

>>107363793
Because it's retarded to make your own distro - outside of doing it just for fun - what kind of retarded false equivalency is this?

>>107363923
It's ok to admit you can't do it, Anon

>>107363923
Then you've answered your own question.
>false equivalency
No?
Using Fedora over making a distro yourself means you're getting an OS
that's ready to use out of the box with less setup required.
Using Nobara over Fedora means you're getting an OS that's more ready to use out of the box with even less setup required.

what be the wayland version of DWM?

>>107363977
The amount of out of the box configuration is fairly minimal and not worth it when you consider the downside of trusting your entire OS, updates and security to a single individual. Just no reason to use something like Nobara unless it's only used for gaming, but then Bazzite is likely a better choice.
>>107363971
I can't make my own distro, yes ^^

>>107364018
https://search.brave.com/search?q=dwm+wayland&summary=1

>>107364028
Based and Bravepilled

>>107361133
Not usually a dumb idea?

Attention all XFCE users, I think I may have found a bug, can you please test if you can reproduce it?
Steps to reproduce:
1. Be on XFCE
2. Have Firefox installed
3. Have "Use hardware acceleration when available" setting ticked on
4. Have a maximized Firefox window open on each virtual desktop (make sure you have at least 2 virtual desktops)
5. Switch rapidly between virtual desktops (by holding Ctrl+Alt+RightArrow or Ctrl+Alt+LeftArrow for example)
6. Watch as visual glitches and bugs develop on your screen

I'm not sure what's the issue here, this only happens with Firefox with hardware acceleration on XFCE, I've tested this same setup but gnome and it doesn't cause any visual glitches. I'm not sure if it's an issue specific to Firefox or XFCE or maybe the graphics drivers? (I only have Intel graphics drivers)

>>107358727
>1. what does ^aer^ear do?
>2. if your terminal is suddenly unresnponsive to keyboard input - what is the shortcut key that may restore it?
>3. what is stored in $_ $? $$ variables?
$? is exit code. idk the answers for the rest

>>107364024
>The amount of out of the box configuration is fairly minimal and not worth it
Clearly it has value to some people and is worth it to them. Setting things up for the end user as much as possible is the whole reason why distributions even exist. Otherwise everyone would just use Arch.
Not everyone is enthusiastic about learning and manually setting things up. Most people do not want to fuck around with setting up codecs and drivers and whatever other things Nobara does out of the box.
>trusting your entire OS, updates and security to a single individual
Sure. But again, unless you're building your OS and all your software and hardware yourself, you have to put your trust somewhere. The guy behind Nobara seems fine.
>Bazzite is likely a better choice.
True, especially if "trusting one guy" is an issue for you. Since Bazzite isn't really a distro, it's just an image of Fedora Kinoite. So using Bazzite is literally the same as using Fedora Kinoite where someone installed a few flatpaks and added a couple of rpm ostree overlays for you.

>>107364132
>Use hardware acceleration when available

Happy to test if you can confirm where the 3. setting is. XFCE 4.20 here patched to latest, Fedora 43.

>>107364367
I meant trust as in you're entirely dependent on one guy pushing every update and making sure it works. What if he just doesn't have the time or energy to properly do it one day? Having important security updates depend on one guy rather than a team of people like with Fedora proper seems very bad. I just don't see the pre-config worth it if you have your entire OS project depend on one guy making sure it runs properly.

>>107361524
i only see this when compiling something

File: polly.png (50 KB, 1086x729)

50 KB PNG

Hey how do I get this script to run? It used to run when I clicked on it but now nothing happens and maybe I could troubleshoot it in the console

>>107363563
>GNOME
Yeah, that'll do it. They don't have the option to turn off the scaling for XWayland and let clients handle scaling themselves like KDE does.

>>107364531

./PollyMC

If that doesn’t work you need to set it to be executable.

>>107364531
chmod +x ./PollyMC

>>107364529
If you have scripts or background services, etc, then lots of things of things can write to /tmp

If you just install KDE on a brand new blank laptop and it's doing nothing else, then yeah. You won't see this.

File: Screenshot_2025-11-29_11-19-59.png (8 KB, 746x154)

8 KB PNG

>>107364403

I can't replicate the issue you are seeing. Only performance setting I have is the one in the screenshot.

AMD card if that helps.

File: polly2.png (36 KB, 1070x106)

36 KB PNG

>>107364553
>>107364561
Thanks. Any hints on how to fix this?

>>107364132
>It doesn't happen on GNOME
Have you tried making sure you're using the modesetting driver for Xorg in XFCE (instead of AMD, or Intel, etc)? That may be more similar to the way GNOME works.

File: laughing_elf_man.jpg (60 KB, 600x829)

60 KB JPG

>>107363281
>filename

>>107359684
neat. thanks, anon

>>107364511
>What if he just doesn't have the time or energy to properly do it one day
I mean, welcome to any and all software development.
>Having important security updates depend on one guy
He's not the one in charge of security updates. Nobara is literally using fedora repos for anything that's not media/gaming-related. Fedora is the one providing security updates.
The only thing Nobara does is delay major version updates until everything is migrated over, which is a 4-6 week delay. But that doesn't make it less secure since Fedora supports previous versions for 6-12 months after they release a new one.
The only time the distro would become insecure is if the guy goes rogue and sabotages the project, or if he just abandons it and people using it never install a different distro.

>>107364625
You're missing a dependency. You'll have to figure out which package you have to install to get libQtWidgets.
Try using Flatpak versions of software if you can. These bundle all necessary dependencies (as software should): https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.polymc.PolyMC

>>107364693
This software ran perfectly for years, how does a shared object become not found like this? I'm forced to use the portable because none of this shit gets released in the .tgz format slackware uses.

>>107364565
i have a pretty quiet setup

>>107364761
ABIs change with new library versions. Linux is designed to make it difficult to use the same binaries forever on purpose.

>>107364761
>how does a shared object become not found like this
A system update probably updated the version or removed it. Linux is retarded and uses shared libraries for everything, which is very unsustainable in terms of backwards compatibility and overall software compatibility. Hence why you're better off switching to Flatpak or Appimage.

>>107364809
>very unsustainable
>been sustained for 28 years
guess we better institute the most retarded static linkage system imaginable with appimage for everything

>>107364403
>>107364609
It's the same one, if you untick that it shows you the hardware acceleration option underneath.
Also, I'm using Debian, and my xfce version is 4.20.1
>>107364629
>Have you tried making sure you're using the modesetting driver for Xorg in XFCE
Yes

I'm almost losing it trying to figure out why this is happening especially because I tested this on another machine and was able to replicate it.

>>107364809
>Hence why you're better off switching to Flatpak or Appimage.
That's probably not an option. There was some kind of faggot/tranny drama and the github is closed. Afaik I'm stuck with what I already have

>>107364871

Trawl messages I guess, throw shit into GPT and see if anything sticks.

Good luck

Gnome is actually terrible, no better coded than modern windows ui. It's mind boggling that this is the first choice for so many big distros
Just the touchpad support is atrocious
>Hey you want to scroll Down by swiping Down? that means you also want workspaces move RIGHT by swiping LEFT and pull the drawer UP by swiping DOWN
>sorry there's no option to change this and every patch and extension that tired to fix it is incompatible now
Statements conjured by the utterly insane

Fedora or Mint for a laptop? It's a newer laptop.

>>107365258
Fedora or Arch for new hardware