Why isn't Nixos more popular?

Why are the gnome developers such utter cunts?

Why isn't there a NIGGIX?

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>use Gentoo
>want to optimise and shit, enable "lto" USE flag
>GCC is the only (currently) installed package that makes use of it
Does Emerge get any quicker or slower case I enable it globally instead of per-package?
>do a daily systemd timer for "emerge --sync" service
>when started manually via "systemctl start <service>" the command hangs until it's done
Is this the normal practice or should the execution be left at the background? If yes, how?

>>107365818
I use it for everything.
Nixos-compose coming soon. Docker troons on suicide watch

>upgrade ubuntu from 22.04 to 24.04
>used to have budgie installed
>the budgy startup screen is now the default
>it's still gnome that launches
>remove bdgie
>startup screen still there
>for some reason, cant use gnome browser connector becuase "native browser connector is not detected"
>despite installing it as according to the documentation

Why is the upgrading experience on here so shit?

currently having this weird issue on my cachyOS KDE plasma wayland setup, where my audio works perfectly fine when I boot the computer, but only for a few minutes, after that I have to constantly be playing some sort of sound, be it music, a youtube video, anything otherwise its like my audio drivers just go into idle mode and then can't turn back on for whatever reason, a workaround fix I've found is just unplugging my headset and plugging it back in and it sort of restarts my sound but then I need to be consistently playing some form of sound otherwise it'll shut off. I mean i got the fix of plugging and unplugging but it's getting a bit annoying

i'm trying to turn an old thinkpad into a hackintosh with mac os 10.4, but i have no idea how to make a bootable usb out of the ISO. plain ol' dd doesn't work, and most places online cite disk writing programs that are only available on mac/windows. is there any way to do this via linux? i'd rather not fiddle around with virtual machines if i can help it.

>>107366570
Why don't you look up what an iso is then reconsider how you go here.

>>107366658
the thinkpad does not have a DVD drive if that's what you're referring to

>>107366712
And neither does a USB memory stick.

>>107366298
Can you easily make minimal musl libc based containers with only Busybox (if you want/need coreutils + shell, otherwise not even this) and runtime dependencies yet?

Nix is never replacing Docker when it requires bloated Glibc and Systemd.

>>107366270
You should enable lto and pgo globally. It will be slower to compile packages that make use of it but they will have better runtime performance.

>>107366820
>>107366270
Also your systemd issue is normal. Systemd waits for the command to report the exit status. There's an argument you can pass to it that basically says "Don't wait for me" but I can't remember what that is.

>>107366765
what are you talking about you cryptic asshole i make bootable USBs from ISO files all the fucking time

>>107366820
I know I should enable it for all possible packages for le performance.
My actual question was about Emerge's dependency resolving speed case there's only one package using the flag.
>>107366829
>Systemd waits for the command to report the exit status
So the parent process, the shell in this case can see it, right.
>There's an argument you can pass to it that basically says "Don't wait for me" but I can't remember what that is.
Cool, I should read the manual then.
>>107366570>>107366830
Not all ISOs boot off an USB drive as-is, such as Windows ISOs. Could be the Mac installer is similar.

Im considering switching to Debian from Linux Mint. I love how it is, but I want something more minimal, with less stuff installed.

>>107367127
>So the parent process, the shell in this case can see it, right.
Yes, so it can report "This service started correctly" or "This service failed". Normally, it wouldn't block that long and Systemd would just consider it "started" pretty quickly but I'm guessing your unit is a oneshot so Systemd will just wait for the entire thing which is usually what you want.

>>107366814
You can use Nix on Macs even, so I don't see why not.

>>107367177
I know it's theoretically possible, but is it easy to do like with Docker? Not really. Glibc and Systemd assumptions are baked into most of the packages. You can't even have a bootable NixOS system without Glibc and Systemd.

did i screw up by installing the plasma group on arch?
maybe i should have installed plasma-desktop and then install all the other plasma packages i need

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>>107367153
Mint is just Ubuntu with tweaks. If you really want to neckbeard with APT-based distros for a minimal install consider Debootstrap: https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap. Follow the usual manual Linux installation methods such as with Arch Linux but replace Arch's "pacstrap" with Debootstrap. You can also do a minimal Ubuntu with it (and turn that into Mint if you wish)
>>107367164
Yes, it is a oneshot service that simply

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/emerge --sync

>>107367153
I went back to a minimal Debian from Slackware for mostly that reason. I do a netinst and after the base system only select Standard System Utilities in tasksel. Once it's installed I apt install menu, xorg, xinput, openbox, xsct, and firefox-esr as a base "desktop" to build from as needed.

my kde bluetooth icon has disappeared due to a krash, how do i get it back without logging out

>>107367669
Just realize that you never really needed it to begin with.

>>107367723
i use xorg kde plasma and not wayland gnome

>>107367736
>Xorg
well there's your problem

>>107367736
Way too much.

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/bluetooth-via-terminal

>>107349566
If having a more-than-60 Hz monitor, switching to X11 session for the first time will set the refresh rate back to 60 Hz.

>>107364549
Well I might as well test out KDE next.

How is KDE Neon these days? If it runs well, I'm going to consider staying with that and possibly going to Ubuntu if too many defaults annoy me.

>>107368004
*Ubuntu, I meant Gentoo. (Neon obviously is Ubuntu).

>>107368004
I'd avoid using KDE Neon. Go try out Arch or Bazzite

>107364870
>been sustained for 28 years
On servers, which are a controlled and usually lightweight/minimal environment.
On desktops shared library enforcement is one of the major reasons why adoption has never happened. Linux only got more popular and usable on desktops when flatpaks and appimages got popular.

>>107368004
KDE Neon is abandonware. if you want a KDE reference distro then use "KDE Linux". if you want a working KDE distro then use Aurora (or Bazzite if you're a gamer)

>>107368054
Flatpaks themselves use shared libraries extensively.
The problem Flatpak solves isn't shared libraries, it's the software distribution mechanism because people don't want to have to publish repositories for every distribution under the sun.

>>107368074
>The problem Flatpak solves isn't shared libraries
In a way it is because you can have multiple co-existing versions.

>>107368086
You can have multiple co-existing versions of software with system packages to. I have GTK2, GTK3 and GTK4 all on my system right now. Qt5 and Qt6 too. Multiple versions of Python, etc.

Flatpak helps make this easier because it's containerised but it's absolutely possible without it. It's just most third-party developers hate doing that and distributions themselves sometimes enforce that only one version of a piece of software can be installed at a time and they remove other versions from their repos, etc.

also >>107368086, Flatpak runtime itself being a standardized distribution makes it a stable platform devs can target. Which is another way of saying "the shared library problem is solved".
If Flatpak was just a universal "App Store" it would not be nearly as good or supported because it would solve nothing. Because in that case some person on Arch and some person on Ubuntu would still have mismatching dependencies and would be unable to launch software. The fact that Flatpak runtime and Flatpak's shared libraries solve this is exactly what shows that relying on shared libraries is unsustainable.

>>107368108
>It's just most third-party developers hate doing that and distributions themselves sometimes enforce that only one version of a piece of software can be installed at a time and they remove other versions from their repos, etc.
That's exactly the problem being solved here. A developer often won't target "Qt5", they'll target "Qt5.4" because they need something introduced in that version or don't want to go beyond that version because there might be breaking changes. And the only way to solve this is to either not rely on shared libraries at all, or only target a single LTS distribution and force others to use tools like distrobox (or in the case of FOSS, force other distros or users to compile things and solve dependency issues themselves)

>>107368004
KDE Neon is a software repo and was never intended to be used as a desktop.

>>107368139
If the software is maintained then you have no option but to fix the breaking change. If it's not, then yes, you should definitely use something like Flatpak to distribute it as that's cleaner than installing Qt 5.4 in /usr/local or /opt, etc, which is something you can do. You can install any version of Qt manually and it will happily co-exist with other versions of Qt, it's just a pain. Far more effort than packaging it all up into a Flatpak container once that can be ran anywhere.

>>107368061
>KDE Neon is abandonware.
I don't think KDE linux is aiming to be the same thing. I see no evidence they're ending it.

>>107368144
I thought it was just newer Kubuntu?

>>107368150
>If the software is maintained then you have no option but to fix the breaking change
That's the problem. This means that distributions are the ones dictating the pace of development of software they're not even affiliated with, instead of the software developer being in charge of their own software.
The option is always there- pin the dependency version in your build system and distribute your application as an appimage or flatpak instead of targeting individual distributions.
Desktop Linux doesn't seem to have any intention of backwards compatibility like the Kernel does. Even on a shitshow like Android you can have an application work for over a decade across a dozen different versions of the OS. Even Windows has significantly better backwards compatibility.
>You can install any version of Qt manually and it will happily co-exist with other versions of Qt
Sure, but this is only something a software dev or sysadmin should ever do. An end user being targeted by software should be given a working product.

>>107368158
It's just broken Kubuntu that's maintained by a single person. That's the whole reason why KDE Linux was made this year.

>>107368200
It is a security issue to depend on an old version of Qt. Distributions dictate that for a reason. It's not realistic to pin the dependency and expect everything to stay secure forever. Flatpak's sandbox definitely helps limit the blast radius here but isn't a panache.

can reflector not rank worldwide mirrors anymore?
i remember you could rank by countries and worldwide

>>107366165
Ubuntu

What's a good tablet convertible laptop for Linux, and what graphical environment works best for touch? I have some old beater Latitude and it'd be nice to upgrade beyond 4c8t.

>>107368774
I would say any second hand Thinkpad X1 Yoga would be exactly what you want

>>107368235
>It is a security issue to have an outdated dependency in an application
Only if the security model of the OS is bad, or the application is expected to have root privileges. Flatpak at least almost entirely solves this.

>>107365603
Anyone tried Pop!_OS before? I want to switch from win10 but not sure to which distro. I want a everyday distro that can run games like starcraft 1 and diablo 2. I appreciate the help. Ove tried Mint and Debian but that was before win11 came and turned everything into pajeetware.

>>107368792
>Intel has upgraded from 4c8t to... 8c8t
>no noticeable bump in screen res from my 1920x1080 Latitude
That would be a sidegrade at best. I want something hidpi for reading detailed PDFs.

Testing out Fedora 43 (KDE). The performance benchmark I run is abysmal, Windows is better... discover
>tuned-adm profile hpc-compute
There we go. I actually might be able to transition some things off Windows.

>>107368982
>Testing out Fedora 43 (KDE)
try Nobara
https://wiki.nobaraproject.org/modifications/kernel


··• uname -a
Linux nobara-pc 6.17.9-200.nobara.fc43.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Nov 24 18:41:15 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux

>>107368982
I have manually changed my cpu governor and some power settings. Plus turned off mitigations via grub.
Not sure if using tuned-adm makes a difference but let's see.

>>107368893
No, root privilege escalations are not the only security vulnerabilities. Any vulnerability can also potentially escalate to that in the future by people chaining vulnerabilities. It's better to not install known insecure software on your system in the first place.

I have spent around 12 hours the past week trying to fix a printer bug only to find out it is the printer itself that is the problem. On the bright side, I have found even more reasons as to why HP is terrible and I will never give them another dime.

Any good tutorial on dual booting Windows 10 and Linux (I think I'll go with Xubuntu)?

>>107369331
It's better to design an OS which can safely execute vulnerable software than to shift this responsibility to the user.

>>107369584
1. don't
2. if you must, install Windows first, so that Linux can manage the bootloader

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If I want to switch off windows for gaming, what's the first distro I should try? I already have experience with PopOS and Ubuntu.

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What's the optimal ganoo slaanesh linux to keep my porn doujins and images safely stored?

>>107369794
Do you mean as just a server? Debian Stable is great for that.

>>107369632
cachy is easy to setup

>>107366830
I think he is referring to you using dd to copy files to your USB drive, which is stupid.
Double-click the ISO and drag its contents to the USB drive instead.

>>107367127
>Not all ISOs boot off an USB drive as-is, such as Windows ISOs
My bootable flash drive with Windows and Kubuntu disagrees with this statement. Literally dragged and dropped the files from two ISOs and both operating systems boot to desktop.

>>107369632
>for gaming
try Nobara (based on fedora but with performance customized kernel ABOVE cachyOS and more)
https://wiki.nobaraproject.org/modifications/kernel

I just started my distrohopping year ago with dualboot configuration. First was Nobara but I screwed by updating system using dnf but not nobara-sync. Removed it and tried AS ANY REGULAR IDIOT to install Arch\hyprland and all this shit.
The only one benefit from this Arch journey that I learned a lot of things.

But after, I gave Nobara a second chance and I don't regret it.

Works for me for year. no dualboot anymore. Windows 11 partitions completely removed.
Yesterday upgraded to 43 version. No bugs or issues.
I'm using as the one and only gaming laptop for all my needs: gaming + development.

Check protondb.com for steam launch options customization and you will be ok.

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>install mint
>paste usb backup stuff
>.txt with all my accounts and passwords is now blank
how fucked i am?

>>107369983
nbd because you have a backup on each of your Android devices, one on a thumbdrive and a password protected encrypted archive zip uploaded to Proton Drive.

>>107370009
but why did this happen? even one of my usb drive got fucked, but luckily i also had another one

>>107369935
>dragged and dropped the files from two ISOs and both operating systems boot to desktop.
Yeah, that's not the ISO as-is. If you

dd if=windows.iso of=/dev/flash_drive

it wont work. But creating a FAT/NTFS and drag-dropping the files creates an UEFI-bootable thing. (try booting that on a BIOS-bootable PC and it wont boot (there's no boot sector))

>>107354435
>>107354220
>thing becomes less usable after update in what sounds like a work scenario
>"works fine for me, screencapping memes every now and again! Here's paragraphs about how I'm unaffected"
kek, that reddit bookmark is no joke.

>>107369912
>>107369961

I cleared off a drive for this install, so I won't be dealing with any partitioning issues. Are there other things I need to look out for with a dual-boot?

running ubuntu LTS on my school laptop but really want to run a newer version of gnome; is it possible to force an update? have considered switching distro but don't know if I want to drop LTS

>>107370120
I just always suspect nanonigs or nanojews.

NEVER RELAX

>>107368899
mint>popos, I'd consider bazzite for more up to date packages and immutability (less ways to fuck up but more restrictive in general)

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>>107370129
>there's no boot sector
How's the weather back in 1999, grandpa?

This kind of explains the inane takes in this general, some people are frozen in the past and can't comprehend that technology evolved.

>>107370748
I'm not legacy booting if that's what you are saying. Just saying copy pasting the files might not be enough in some situations.
And the fact that copy pasting files don't create an ISO to begin with. Did you have a point to make?

>>107370120
Did you copy it and unplug the drive before it was written from the buffer? Always eject drives in your OS before removing them, or just "sync" in the terminal.

>>107365603
How can I move and/or copy files from a Windows 10 x86-64 desktop and a laptop with some kind of Linux? Copying via a network folder (samba) in this case is slower than copying between two computers with Windows 10 x86-64. What to do? Raise the FTP server? Or is there a better solution?

>>107370263
use two drives thats what i did and have had 0 issues

Haven't used GNU + Linux in a decade
Has Wayland taken off yet or is everyone still using X?

>>107371256
more people use it probably but i still use X and lots of others do, too. wayland hasn't taken over

>>107371256
Wayland is slowly getting better and on somewhat related news, recently (about few months ago) a mad lad forked Xorg and named it Xlibre and it caused a bunch of drama.

Is there a wayland wm where you can make application or window specific hotkeys or is that just not possible with wayland?

>>107371325
window specific hotkeys should be handled by the application itself, otherwise you would need to write a bash script that detects which window you have focused and changes global hotkeys appropriately

>>107371352
A script that detects windows and changes global hotkeys based on that seems pretty good. It's what I use Autohotkey for right now. But can you even write that kind of script (or program?) under wayland?

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reposting >>107363483
if someone knows please respond

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>>107370818
>I was just pretending
Sure, whatever...
>copy pasting files don't create an ISO
Wait, are you a bot or an actual retard?

>>107371459
>returns files even though I don't have access to /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db
Check the flags of /usr/bin/plocate

>>107371476
Having a FAT32 or NTFS formated drive with some files isn't an ISO. Do you know what an ISO is?

>>107371538

~ $ ll $(which plocate) /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db
-rwxr-s--x 1 root locate 327K 09-02-2025 10:02 /usr/bin/plocate
-rw-r----- 1 root locate  37M 29-11-2025 17:11 /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db

So whoever executes plocate does so with privileges of the locate group and therefore can access the database, makes sense. But then the strace(1) manpage says:

       -u username
       --user=username
                   Runs command with the user ID, group ID, and supplementary groups  of  username.
                   This  option is only useful when running as root, as it enables the correct exe‐
                   cution of setuid and/or setgid binaries.  Unless this option is used, setuid and
                   setgid programs are executed without their effective privileges.

Can you just drop the privileges assigned to you via the setgid bit? I'm getting "/var/lib/plocate/plocate.db: Permission denied" and the same thing happens when I try t run it from within a bwrap sandbox.

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I've always used windows for best part of a decade due to always having obsolete hardware. I bought a computer (before this RAM price hike) a little bit lower midrange with the cheapest RTX the 5060 at 8GB.And Turns out having something somewhat decent (first time using an actual GPU in my life + an nvme drive) has given me a hell of a hedache, turns out I have a bottleneck with linux only due to the poor energy negotiation management of my motherboard.

I've read in manuals,web examples and dealt with LLM hallucinations, I'm fucking livid about finding about the width of of the PCIe lanes of muh motherboard, even after tweaking the bios after submitting reports and having strangers to come on through to help it's been of no use cause the changes were at the linux kernel level, I did even roll back the version but to no avail.At best changing this line in the grub has been the greatest help so far.

>if you have shitty motherboard which NVIDIA downgrades your GT/s my only suggestion is to do something along this line and if there is downgraded written you're on this problem and once you solve your BIOS settings you gotta modify your GRUB file (LLM/google search will help with this no problem)
>sudo lspci -s 01:00.0 -vv | grep -iE "LnkCap|LnkSta"
>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="yourUUID rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core modprobe.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core pcie_aspm.policy=performance pcie_port_pm=off processor.max_cstate=1 pci=no_d3cold"
>this will buy you at least 12 hours of good gameplay,4k,8k video playback.
>after this the big bad kernel wolf gets his zipper down and starts fucking you over with his massive power savings code.
>insane spikes and stutters will occur.


This is a problem easily solved by throwing more money at it, in my case a more expensive motherboard which can handle the Nvme and GPU lanes, or by going back to windows11, all my older hardware will run on linux but I won't touch it as much, I'm livid.

>>107369631
I must, unfortunately. However isn't the windows managing the bootloader better, since it's known that Windows often breaks GRUB?

>>107366814
If i understand nix correctly you dont need to make any minimal musl libc busybox only containers because it shares all the same libraries as your host system similar to flatpak but host wide instead of flatpak wide

>>107367153
You could just try doing the debian netinstall and installing whatever desktop metapackage of your choice

>>107368774
You could try your luck with an older surface model as long as you're aware about needing to install their custom kernel to make things work

>>107368158
Kubuntu is newer and much better maintained than KDE Neon

>>107368899
Just use mint. Ignore any anon who forces bazzite down your throat.

>>107368004
I don't really like fedora but it probably has the best kde experience as long as you can get rpmfusion set up and properly working and disable the fedora flatpak repo

>>107371413
>But can you even write that kind of script (or program?) under wayland?
Actually I'm not sure now that I'm looking it up
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61575428/on-wayland-is-there-a-way-today-to-get-the-currently-focused-windows-title-and-p#75902572
Maybe check the documentation for ydotool or wlctrl? The only thing you really need is a cli tool to detect the title or pid of the active window and the rest is bash scripting.

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>>107368899
>not sure to which distro
You could partition your drive for some easy distrohopping:
>ESP (if an EFI PC)
>50 or so gigabyte partition for distro A
>50 or so gigabyte partition for distro B
>rest of the drive for /mnt/anime which holds your $HOME and some other stuff like /var/lib/bluetooth

>>107371770
Gayming drives people to madness. I'm sure it will run xboard just fine. Calm down and play chess.

>>107371690
>>107371476
This conversation is bloating up the thread.
Anon trying to make the bootable USB:
Look up Ventoy and follow the instructions.
Stop asking 4chan, people here are unhelpful assholes. You would have better help from reddit or chatgpt. Stop arguing with other anons, they do not want to help you. Take no for an answer and go somewhere else.

>>107371931
>Stop asking 4chan, people here are unhelpful assholes.
That's not true at all. I try to help people in these threads whenever I can and have solved many of their problems in the past.

>>107368899


Mint was one of the best options if you want ricing out of the box you are in for a bad ride, the main point of choosing one of the big distros like Mint(or OpenSuse,Fedora or Ubuntu) is the tons of support available which LLMs can help a lot since they are trained on such scrapped data.

I'd avoid the more "niche" Distros like Pop Os! or Bazzitte(this being innmutable doesn't mean you can't fuck things up btw as a matter of fact for someone clueless about linux its more likely to be bricked by your own doing) cause they each come with their own flavor of problems.

If you want to use Pop Os I'd keep mint/or ubuntu and rice it out to your hearts content, after wards you can spend 1 or 2 days deleting all the stuff that came with your system by default or the pajeet ware as you wrongly call it.

If I were you I'd settle for one of the first distros I told you about and forget about the smaller ones.

>>107371690
At no point have I claimed anything about creating an ISO, you unsupervised bot.

>>107371734
It looks like pretty much all capabilities and be dropped at the thread level: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/capabilities.7.html
I'm too lazy to dig into this, hopefully someone else has the inclination.

[umu.umu_run:667] DEBUG: Child 23186 exited with wait status: 0
Monitored process exited.
Initial process has exited (return code: 0)
All processes have quit
Exit with return code 0

Why do some of my games on Lutris fail to start like this?

I'm on AMD and I already installed VC++ onto the prefix.

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is there a friendly luks frontend?
something like veracrypt?

>>107372024
Turn on logging, by default it shows basically nothing

>>107372051
yes it's called dm-crypt

>>107372095
Thank you! Now I can see that I'm missing a DLL.

Never have realized that a toggle like that exists. Makes it a whole lot easier.

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>>107372111
isn't dmcrypt a backend and cryptsetup/mount are the frontends?
they are also not clicky gui things

>>107372206
yes that is correct.

>>107366570
balena etcher

I'm thinking about purchasing a 5950x, a cheap air cooler, and a cheap motherboard for a headless server build. I already have 32gb of ddr4 (non ecc), some spare ssds, and a suitable power supply.

Firstly, is this even worth it? It would cost me ~$450, give or take.

Secondly, what distro(s) should I use? Proxmox?
This server has to kind of do everything. I want it to:
>host websites
>store files
>run game servers
>run simulations/calculations
>run wireguard
>maybe automate some shit
I don't want to learn a million different distros for each container. But I'm limited on resources so I also need to keep things lightweight.

>>107366570
cat foo.iso > /dev/sdc or w/e your drive is

>>107366814
Looks like it. What's your use case? Simple nix flake can construct the whole env.
https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.05&show=musl&query=musl

>>107372362
Further nix compose aims to isolate the whole environment with a ssh login, but I suppose you can already do that with some namespace groups.

>>107371770
I don't get it? what is the problem exactly? you bought off a cheap GPU and you get what you pay for. Also how do even know it's the motherboard that's the bottleneck?
>>modprobe.blacklist=nouveau
I shiggy
did you not have nouveau blacklisted before?

>>107372336
The 5950X is great CPU. I've been running it in my Gentoo Linux desktop since the day it came out. I had the 3950X before then too which was revolutionary to have that many cores and threads in a consumer desktop CPU. AMD did what Intel didn't want to and finally took us plebs away from 4 cores 8 threads.

$450 is a lot but you won't get much better on a consumer platform. You could go AM5 instead though but then that'll cost you a lot more and the 5950X is still a great CPU.

>>107372362
Mainly building micro services so I wouldn't want >>107372374
Sometimes I don't even want a shell so SSH login to it is bloat.

>>107371052
Use Rsync in WSL or Cygwin/MSYS2, etc.

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>>107372601
my nigga

>>107372051
If you're on KDE there's Plasma Vault. It doesn't use LUKS though but is probably the friendliest interface to get an encrypted folder on a Linux desktop that's easily accessible to tards that can't into crypttab.

>>107372396
Its the motherboard (chipset H610), and this nor the GPU (RTX 5060) are cheap components.

You need to work in your reading comprehension I did explain everything in that post you might invest some of that wealthy money in an English teacher, you got it wrong.Also I forgot to mention its also solved by taking away the NVME and getting a sata drive and then the GPU has all the width it can.

I'll just get a very lightweight distro and use it through the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

>>107372878
what tool is that on the left?

>>107373831
looks like btop

>>107373837
thanks

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>>107371982
>At no point have I claimed anything about creating an ISO
Didn't say you were, said you created FAT32 or NTFS or what have you, from an ISO. By copy pasting the files as you said.
Just trying to point out that an ISO is a filesystem created for CD-ROMs, therefore a FAT/NTFS can't ever be an ISO as they are different filesystems altogether. Seems like you think anything that boots up an installer is called an ISO.

>>107365603
I’d like to see more gnu programming material, e.g. link glibc documentation

what? go to the gnu website. they have a library.

How reliable is WineHQ's information on software that doesn't have Linux support?

I'm interested in using Clip Studio Paint on Linux as it is one of the few software that is why I stick with Windows.

>wineHQ link:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=15102

If not WineHQ how is Winboat?

>>107366119
Because GNOME exists to sell training services. The more obtuse it is the better. As long as you can still teach 110 IQs to use it on a reasonable time frame, it's fine.

>>107374430
Why don't you try the software, takes five seconds to setup? Of course if you don't have linux installed...
Problem with Photoshop and probably with Clip Studio Paint is that it doesn't probably support pressure sensitivity if you are using a wacom tablet but everything else is more or less fine.
Haven't personally tried yet setting up CS6 so can't really say anything else at this point.

>>107374539
>Why don't you try the software, takes five seconds to setup? Of course if you don't have linux installed...
I haven't switched to Linux. I briefly used Linux but went back to Windows and now I'm fed up with Windows 11.
>doesn't probably support pressure sensitivity if you are using a wacom tablet but everything else is more or less fine.
Is there a better drawing tablet for Linux?
I keep seeing Wacom being recommended because there is community support.
Got any opinions on Digimend though? How is it?

>>107365603
I'm answering the Penguin's call /fglt/.
How well will my AMD CPU and GPU work when I get a fresh install on Xubuntu? Are the necessary things to utilize the functions of those parts already in the installations?

>>107374633
won't work. linux doesn't support that. you should go back to winjeet shit.

>>107372896
Stuff in crypttab is accessible to all users, Plasma Vaults are only available to the user who set them up.

>>107374295
You genuinely are retarded. All that stuff is made up in your head.
What I said is that you can drag and drop the files from a Linux or Windows ISO image to a flash drive with your mouse, wait for them to finish copying, and wala – you have a bootable flash drive.

>>107374633
>xubuntu
what year is it?

>>107374633
I haven't tried Linux with an AMD CPU or GPU (I've only run it on my Intel laptop with Intel iGPU) but yeah I would assume Xubuntu would work fine. In general though, I've heard that if you have really new hardware (a very new model of CPU or GPU) then you might need a recent version of the Linux kernel in order for your hardware to work properly. But if your CPU/GPU are a few years old then you shouldn't have a problem.

Also while I've never used an AMD or Nvidia GPU with Linux myself, I think AMD should be more straightforward, because AMD's Linux drivers are open source and then will already be included in the Linux kernel (included in Xubuntu). With Nvidia it's different because I think their official Linux drivers are closed source and you have to install them after installing Linux.

Xubuntu can be run from a USB stick anyway, so yeah, you can just download a Xubuntu disk image, flash it to a USB stick, and boot from the USB stick. Hopefully all your hardware will just work straight away - you might want to test things like WiFi, if you have it, and audio. Also you need to decide whether to install Xubuntu 25.10, the latest version, or 24.04 LTS, which is the latest long-term support version. The former only gets 9 months of support before you have to upgrade, while the latter gets 5 years of support.

>>107374678
If you're going to make a worthless post then just don't post at all.

Is Linux still shit on battery power?

>>107374832
no

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>>107374633
>>107374810
combined score 2/10 posts (normgroid hands typed them)

>>107374678
solid 5/10 shitpost

>>107374810
nah i'm good. you should go sit on a traffic cone though.

>>107374633
install gentoo

>>107374633
install gentoo

>>107374797
It is almost 2026 so 2025.
I found out about Xubuntu from Ubuntu's website from their Ubuntu flavors section.
I am under the impression that XFCE is the most lightweight DE on their list as far as I know.

>>107374810
>I think AMD should be more straightforward, because AMD's Linux drivers are open source and then will already be included in the Linux kernel (included in Xubuntu).
That puts my mind more at ease. Thank you anon!

>>107374832
never was. your hardware is shit on linux

>>107374633
NIGGIX will make all your wildest dreams come true.

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>>107374887
>>107374890
>

>>107374881
I'm talking about Linux and all you can think about is gay shit. Do you ever think about anything besides your gay fantasies?

I will never get over how snappy linux feels in comparison to windows
it's so fucking fat and bloated

>>107374974
>all you can think about is gay shit
sadly you are always on my mind.

>>107375096
Clearly not because instead you're just thinking about gay fantasies all the time.

>>107375256
well here you and i are talking, so it isn't a fantasy.

If Debian stable is aimed for servers, why shouldn't I install Debian sid for dev?

>>107375340
Because Debian Sid packages aren't even tested to make sure they run.

>>107375340
i tested out siduction, and i spent half my time just updating packages and managing dependencies

>>107374837
Could you be more specific

>>107375589
>>107374911

>>107375340
Debian is aimed for gen Xers still living in the late 90s. Not that I blame them. I want to go back too, but pretending doesn't land you anywhere good.

How do I create and move multiple files into folders with the same name (excluding the extension)? I have a bunch of movies in a single directory and I'm trying to organize them for jellyfin/radarr.

>>107375279
Okay homo

>>107375709
Never mind. chatgpt gave me a script.

>>107375589
Linux used to be shit at battery life because it was incapable of accessing lower sleep states and wasn't as good as Windows about downclocking or powering off circuitry not in use. That hasn't been true for a few years now.

>>107375641
If it was doing that it wouldn't have systemd and gayland.

>>107375793
This is always changing depending on which CPU platform you're talking about. Principally Linux has had really good power management about 20 years. If it has bad power management on your hardware, it's because you made a poor choice of hardware.

>>107375090
Windows still takes the lead for font rendering and overall convenience. It's honestly more enjoyable" to use due to everything "just working". With linux (any distro), anything I do becomes a tinker project. Oh well, that's why God invented dual boot.

>>107375808
They're eccentric not batshit insane.

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What printer vendor provides the best GNU/Linux support? HP, Brother, or Canon? I'm on openSUSE btw

>>107375902
Brother is always mentioned as the legit best printer brand like everywhere these days

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We the linux now.

>>107375828
>Principally Linux has had really good power management about 20 years
Been a Linux user for 23 years and every distro I've ever used was configured ootb to write some log or temp shit to the hard drive every few seconds or minutes, preventing the drives from spinning down. Not as terrible an issue nowadays where the root drive is almost always solid state, but back when having those 7,200 RPM fuckers was the norm, it sucked both in terms of power usage and noise.

>>107375828
Well I plan on getting a thinkpad t480 or t14 gen 1 or 2 most likely.

>>107376134
>use server OS
>why is this thing always logging???????????????

loglevel=0

Safest OS for hosting a web page? I don’t want my shit hacked

>>107376194
I need a log log so I can keep track of all my logs

>>107375980
you just KNOW these niggas got an anime of the season
these niggas play fighting games
these niggas got a favorite comic run
these niggas got they shoes laced and they belt securely fastened

>>107376214
Debian stable

>>107374598
>Is there a better drawing tablet for Linux?
Huion is decent.

>>107375980
Fedora sisters, not like this

>proton 10
>kde plasma 5.27
>bottles
Game window stays behind the taskbar/panel until I press alt+enter twice. I've heard it's a wine issue. Any workaround?

>>107376740
upgrade to Plasma 6

>>107376753
Unfortunately I can't because I need Kubuntu LTS. Last time I used a newer Plasma PPA there everything blew up

>>107376780
then stop playing games on your work PC

>>107376780
Upgrade to a better distro

>>107376810
Solved, thanks /g/
>>107376823
Solved, thanks /g/

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i just powered down my fedora server for the last time.
moving everything over to my nixos poweredge
.
fuck fedora, i'm burning the SSD that it's on.

what's up with this retard and nixos

I envision NIGGIX as the distro that literally anyone can use. It's not just "easy to install", it literally installs itself. In fact, you can be out with your family doing things, and come home to find NIGGIX on your computer.

>>107376621
Ubuntu devs in shambles.
>B-but we catered to you.

>>107369121
I need secure boot, and Fedora big enough that some proprietary software I use will work with little fuss.
>>107369190
I looked further and it's really the latency-performance profile (which hpc includes) responsible for the gains in my particular benchmark. Specifically force_latency=cstate.id_no_zero:1|3

>>107375980
All your waifus are going to leave you for these guys because it's like you, but with bigger dicks!

>>107377004
I'm sorry, I forgot arch and fedora were the default for retards and shitters. I didn't mean any offense.

>>107375980
bash programming club meeting

>>107377108
that's basically Windows post-7, aggressively self installing

>>107377571
Steals your computer, but yet you still get to "keep it".

NIGGIX should be multi-platform, too. You should be able to be out RELAXING with your family, when suddenly you go to check your phone and no matter if it used to be Android or Gaypple, now it's suddenly NIGGIX out of nowhere.

I think NIGGIX should be the FUTA of Linux.

In linux, is it possible combine 2 block devices (2 external hdds) and combine their space so its seen and acts as a single big hard drive? not really sure where to even begin...

>>107378136
Yes. You want to read up on "mdraid". Doing this with external drives is dicey because a lot of external drives have duplicate serial numbers.

>>107378147
Ok before I even read up on it: it's not a heavily used and stable/supported feature that may fail at a whim?

If it is not stable I won't bother with a hacky feature

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>>107378136
Not even a Linux question, that's called RAID zero and you can combine as many drives as you want.
>>107377182
>mainstream and popular distributions bad
>>107375340
>dev
Development of what? Debian project itself?

>>107378190
I know conceptually about raid systems, but in linux is there a widely used stable gnu package for it?

>>107378188
It's used all the time in internal drives. mdraid is Linux software RAID and it's the best RAID in the world aside from nextgen integrated filesystems like ZFS. It's just specifically cheap external drives and adapters that can be risky with it.

>>107378197
mdraid

>>107378197
>>107378212
>mdadm - manage MD devices aka Linux Software RAID
>>107378208
If ZFS is so great why isn't it in the kernel tree?

>>107378136
It's called a union filesystem, Anon. Ignore the retards talking about Raid.
https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs

>>107378208
ok thanks a lot ill look into it

>>107378217
Licensing. ZFS was deliberately licensed by Sun Microsystems to make it incompatible with the GPL to keep people on Solaris. So now ZFS is integrated into FreeBSD but ZFS on Linux is still out of tree. This is basically why BtrFS exists.

>>107378136
Definitely go for something like >>107378228
Don't RAID0. That's asking for trouble if you lose a drive then you lose the whole thing. At least with a union filesystem you'd only lose the half on the dead drive and could still access the data on the other drive.

Planning on switching to linux, got a few questions first
How's HDR support for movies and games? I'm planning on installing Nobara for what it's worth
What about dual monitor setup and VRR? Heard they had a few issue in the past with nvidia gpus
Are there any easy to use android emulators that support binding the keyboard to the screen? I exclusively need it for Arknights (which is also releasing a pc client soon so it might not be needed anymore but for now not much to do)
Is Discord screen share still broken? And can I run razer/corsair icue/stream deck shit or alternatives?

>>107376780
You're supposed to run Ubuntu LTS in an LXD Container for whatever you need it for and run the latest stable version on your host.
(Or just run Arch by the way because at that point distribution is irrelevant when you're using containers)

>>107378556
Nvidia just finally caught up with the rest of the competition.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580.94.11-Linux-Driver

It's still crap mind you but less crap if you use that latest driver. Maybe it works for you or maybe your PC explodes. I don't know. I don't use NVIDIA.

can anyone help me with this
what do i install, plasma or plasma-meta?
it seems like plasma-meta is easier to maintain because when you update it automatically installs new dependencies of the meta package and uninstalls the ones that get removed

>>107378556
Also forgot to mention, I'm an autistic fuck and I have an autohotkey script that automatically switches my cursor when I open the emulator for arknights on Windows, is there any way to do the same on Nobara?
>>107378588
>Nvidia just finally caught up with the rest of the competition.
That's a huge plus, might really buy a new ssd and install nobara there and try how it goes

Is Lightworks Pro a good video editor? I know it supports OFX, but does it support OFX transitions?

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>>107364132
After days of fiddling, messing, and dealing ChatGPT hallucinations, I finally discovered what i think the root cause of the issue which is xfwm4 builtin compositor, it seems that it cannot handle both client side decorations and hardware acceleration at the same time and it causes visual artifacts every time the window is rendered anew.
So to really replicate this:
>Have client side decorations (right click toolbar -> Customize Toolbar -> Title Bar) (if this option doesn't exist then a package is disabling client side decorations, on debian that would be gtk3-nocsd, uninstall that package and the option would appear)
>Hardware acceleration enabled in firefox (about:preferences -> Performance -> Use recommended performance settings)
>Have compositing enabled in xfce4 (xfce settings -> window manager tweaks -> compositing)
>Restart Firefox
>Enjoy seeing a multitude of visual artifacts as you open and minimize the Firefox window or switch to it from another desktop
I'm going to write a bug report to xfwm4 now

>mfw

>>107365603
Stupid question, but with bash scripts, is there a way to see the "child process" changing to the directory you're wanting it to move to as an error/sanity check?

> ~: ./script.sh
> (blank because it's cd in the script file but I haven't put anything after that because I want to make sure the script is hitting the directory)

I *guess* I could invoke a file in that directory and save it as a test, but I'm trying to make sure the cd changes to the right directory THEN && execute the program in the folder.

>>107378750
Yeah good luck with that. There have been 4-5 fixes this entire year on their git the rest is locale / build tools. Their development effort goes into wayland now.

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I finished setting up my sepples dev environment and it's so good and comfy.
In the past I was using VSCode and plain json files to configure everything. While it worked, it was a mess to maintain and it was ultra slow to compile things.
Now I'm using VSCodium and CMake, and holy fuck, the IDE itself is much less bloated and compile times with CMake are ten times faster. As I never used CMake for my personal projects, setting it up from scratch gave me a bit of trouble, but once I learned how things work, it's so much easier to maintain than manually editing those dogshit json files. Even Intellisense and debugging work without a hitch.

I already started porting my Win32 applications to Linux. As I wrote them in C++/wxWidgets, the porting process is pretty easy. But as expected, the UI is a fucking mess because I wrote everything with Win32 in mind.
Now, /dpt/ would probably be a better place to ask this, but I'm wondering what would be the best way to develop GUI programs for Linux.
I use Plasma+Wayland and Cinnamon+X11. One thing I noticed is that the GUI controls have different dimensions under each DE. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's because the underlying backend of these DEs is different: under Cinnamon wxWidgets uses GTK and under Plasma it uses Qt.
As I'm new to Linux dev, I'm not sure if there's a way to unify this process across different GUI environments. And no, I will not drop wxWidgets for Qt. I love wxWidgets too much. I already make use of sizers to generalize things, but still, getting the UI to not break between Cinnamon and Plasma is being a real pain. I'm not sure if it's good practice or even possible to use #ifdef for each DE. Probably not.

XFCE should be the default works with all hardware low spec and high from 2008-2025, fast, pragmatic and just werks

X11 should be the default it works with all hardware and is compatible with drivers and it should've been updated to support HDR

Its truly baffling on linux how only TWO distros have even a functional apt/flatpak GUI installer and system updater. Mint and MX linux and mint is really the only ecosystem on linux with a functional update manager and driver manager.

I use mint XFCE but idk what I'd use if this didnt exist. I'd probably fork mint myself and create a distro based on the mint utils.

>>107378750
does that happen if you dont use virtual desktops?

>>107378893
kde and gnome want to force everyone to move to wayland but the software is not following
even steam and wine/proton still default to x11
im trying to install arch right now and couldnt decide between kde and xfce, does xfce support laptop Fn keys?

>>107378900
Yes but it's more subtle, you have to minimize the window fully to the taskbar (not just bring it under another window) then bring it up again for the visual artifacts to show, the artifacts appear for about a second or less so you might want to minimize and bring the window really fast to notice them, this way also seems more inconsistent that switching from virtual desktops.
>>107378908
>xfce support laptop Fn keys?
It supports all the Fn keys i use, which are the audio, brightness, microphone, disable touchpad and disable microphone keys, not sure about the rest because i never used them

>>107378908
Yea I use X11 for smooth gaming and low latency on linux because wine and proton were designed for X11. It has almost no input lag. Xwayland is a hack that is pathetic.

Its an impossible feat to make every single app wayland compatible since its much stricter, the same way valve tried to make game devs port all games to native linux. Itll never happen and it hasnt after 20 years. Just update X11 it just werks and is stable.

>>107378846
pwd
>but I'm trying to make sure the cd changes to the right directory
Depends on how you define the right directory. A simple

cd /some/dir || exit 1

will exit if the cd is not successful.

>>107379075
do you have to disable the compositor when you play games?
i tried xfce a couple years ago and the compositor caused performance issues on games

>>107375793
Add to this that Windows can't even sleep properly on many laptops nowadays, and it can't put some USB mice to sleep so they drain power or wake the laptop at the smallest movement, even inside a bag.
It's so bad compared to 10 years ago it's not even funny.

I am so glad to be using my wayland compositor. It just fucking works. Having to disable the compositor for maximum performance? No sir, we use direct scanout. Want to enable tearing in games while keeping the desktop tear free? Check. Enjoying butter smooth freesync gameplay despite having multiple monitors? Alright. Watching HDR movies in mpv or on youtube in the browser? Ofcourse. The warm fuzzy feeling that no application records the screen or my inputs without my consent? Naturally. And everything without touching a single config file. Thank you Wayland.

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>>107378243
Damn. And wasn't btrfs' RAID support still experimental or something?
What would be some ways of RAIDing 3 or 4 NVMe drives into a larger logical unit?

>>107378599
Desktop metapackages are handy in situations where some app gets deprecated and a new one takes its place. Dependencies are a non issue when comparing a metapackage VS manually picking all the needed apps and components.

kde keeps shitting itself randomly

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>>107378243
>ZFS is integrated into FreeBSD
*ZFS-on-Linux is available for FreeBSD. It is no more integrated than it is on Linux, it is impossible for a Linux filesystem implementation to be more integrated into another OS.
As for how well ZFS-on-Linux could be bolted on top of FreeBSD, I would encourage everyone to actually try it.