Is Linux audio and libasound in particular completely undocumented or am I missing something?

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Which way pemguin man?

>>107384663
ALSA documentation in general is very poor, yes. The recommendation is to target PulseAudio for casual apps and JACK or PipeWire for professional apps.

>>107384692
Both? LTS on server (with containers that are sometimes based on a rolling release) and rolling on desktop.

>>107384692
rolling, rolling, rolling

>>107384706
there's no reason to use lts if you put all your services into containers anyway

I just installed Nobara. Now I'm getting memed on for not installing CachyOS. What the fuck am I supposed to do?

>>107384750
>meme hopping

>>107384750
Did you know that you can always compile your own kernel? Everyone who recommends switching distro because of problem X or Y is a retard. Makes absolutely no sense at all to do so.

what are some interesting/useful linux websites you guys use.
i know the arch wiki and protondb

>>107384692
I don't want to download a gigabyte of updates every day just to have the most up to date version of libnigger64 and I don't mind outdated packages, and If I really want something new I install it through containers, simple as. LTS is the way for sane people.

>>107384725
The reason is having a stable base. It's fine if a container falls over, it's not fine if my base system or kernel or Systemd, etc, falls over.

>>107384836
And yes, I know stability is about API/ABI stability and says nothing about this at all and indeed I have run into bugs on stable Debian systems. Having that stability guarantee though means I know the base system isn't ever going to shift out from under me. It's always going to be as stable as it was when I spun the system up (barring any accidental regressions that rarely come from backports or security updates, etc, but can sometimes on occasion cause issues).

>>107384695
How do I go about targeting ALSA for hobby apps?

>>107384891
Find an existing app that does what you want and read its code.

>>107384487
>Why does this make a difference?
If youre able to connect to it through ssh then it means the system didn't completely crash and you can probably get some info from dmesg while if you cant connect then you likely had a crash or kernel panic

>>107384773
stackexchange and all its deriveratives

>>107384750
If you’ve done any testing yet, how is Nobara? I’m using Debian and set up Bazzite for a friend recently. I’m thinking about switching to a more rolling distro mostly for gaming purposes (Nvidia card). I only do gaming and development (C++, webshit)

>>107384909
I would rather kernel modesetting myself

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>>107384622
how the fuck do you sort by artist in RMPC music player?

Here is a video of Linus Torvalds building a computer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA

>>107384622
where distrowatch?

>>107386004
That's cool, if it wasn't LTT I'd watch it.

>>107386004
Amazing that the old man still compiles the kernel regularly.

>>107386481
any retard can do that. it takes zero knowledge and zero effort. so that excludes anyone who uses arch.

>>107386517
>so that excludes anyone who uses arch
rent free

>>107386525
look i meant no offense, i'm just stating the obvious that arch users are about as smart as your typical trump/israel voter.

>>107386481
He will still scream on the mailing lists when it doesn't compile after he takes your merge request too.
This is pretty much his entire job now.

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>>107384773
four chan dot org slah gee XD

>>107386004
Wait, Intel manufactures GPUs now? and I mean dedicated GPUs not integrated ones. How long have I been living under a rock? also how do they compare to AMD and Nvidia?

what terminals do you guys use? i'm using st because i followed the shitty /g/ wiki memes but it's too barebones and patching shit is too much of a pain.

>>107386858
Mostly Alacritty and Konsole, sometimes Xterm.

>>107386004
Linus seems like he's enjoying his semi-retirement.

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how do I make alacritty top bar the "legacy" one instead of the default garbage gnome forces it to use.

>>107386936
GNOME has no server-side decorations so Alacritty's toolkit is providing that garbage so that you at least have something. You can't fix this, either GNOME has to add server side decorations (never happening) or somebody has to add libdecor support to Alacritty.

>>107386621
Bro, have you been living in cave? Intel makes dedicated GPUs for years now.
There has been some progress, but they are not nearly as good as AMD or Nvidia, for gaming at least. But it's nice to have a third option even if it's kinda shitty.

>>107386481
He's responsible for merging everything right? So he wants to check everything works when he merges some new shit

>>107386621
Intel released their first Arc dedicated GPUs a couple years ago

>>107386858
QTerminal because it just works

>>107386858
terminator. works great and has a lot of features. most TE's are memes for ricers like arch shitters.

>>107386858
Use tmux with st, it fixes a lot issues without patching. Personally I use xfce4-terminal, I also used terminator before discovering tmux, if you don't plan to use tmux then terminator is a good choice since it has multiplexing builtin

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I haven't used Windows in over a year and I've never been happier regarding my tech life.

>>107387080
The last time I booted into Windows, Steam wouldn't even launch anymore and I couldn't rollback any of the updates either. I had to re-install it yesterday. I don't even use the system much but still keep it around because it's useful to have a Windows install for when I need it.

>>107386958
Dear lord... Is there a terminal alternative with libdecor at least?

>>107387137
What is the exact issue here? I don't understand your problem. Do you want to change the title of the window or the window manager decoration?
>[window]
>decorations = "Full" # only full/none works, "Full" | "None" | "Transparent" | "Buttonless"
Here's from the config file.
If you want to change the windows title you'll need to edit your .bashrc and so on.

>>107387137
If you're using GNOME then you might as well use their ptyxis terminal.

>>107387157
He wants GTK decorations instead of the crap ones drawn by the toolkit but GNOME doesn't support server side decorations so that's not possible unless the toolkit that Alacritty uses adds libdecor support for fake client-side rendered server-side decorations.

I'm currently running Ubuntu and I'm wondering whether to upgrade my Ubuntu version or switch to Debian. I'm assuming that Debian might be a bit more lightweight and give me quicker boot times, since Debian doesn't have snapd, and maybe there's other random systemd services that it doesn't have.

Should I stick with Ubuntu or switch to Debian?

Inb4 "use Arch" - I can't be bothered to learn Arch

why did linus do this. he doesn't need the publicity. i'd be ashamed to be seen in the same country (canada/india) as ltt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA

>>107386936
You can try installing the gtk*-nocsd packages, but this will just give you another bar on top this one...
github.com/PCMan/gtk3-nocsd

>>107387215
Because they offered to build him a PC and he might as well not turn that down.

>>107387227
That won't work because Alacritty isn't a GTK app.

>>107387215
stop reposting this >>107386004
people already made a whole thread for this video, go talk about it there

>>107387233
he could ask any OEM for a computer and they'd ship him 10 for the publicity of him using one. take the pictures of him using a macpro for example.
>>107387252
gargle my cum and suck the hair off my balls you tranny.

>>107387246
darn... one more reason to hate gnome I guess

>>107387262
That'd just make him out to be an asshole asking for free stuff. Plus I imagine the requirement that it has to run Linux well probably makes it hard for most OEMs to fulfil that request. It's unlikely they sell much Threadripper + Intel Arc systems. They'll want to give NVIDIA garbage. At least LTT can build a bespoke system with friendly hardware.

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>>107386858
XTERM

>>107384622
why the fuck is ubuntu 24.04 such shit on a thinkpad t14s? i've used ubuntu for years and never had it fuck up, but less than 24 hours on a my t14s and it spontaneously unintalled packages for no reason, acted like a retard, and just plain b0rked itself. back to arch, which just werks. fucking loving this t14s though, no wonder you /g/entoomen go on about them all the damn time.

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>have a problem
>check the manual
>it says to check some config files
>they look fine
>google the problem, find some forum thread
>all the replies are ”RTFM” “google it” or “works on my machine”

>>107387416
Ask ChatGPT, it will listen to you as if you're not a retard

>>107387416
that's life giving you a subtle hint that you're retarded. better luck next life.

>>107387416
I usually suspect nanonigs or nanojews if everything seems to check out right on the surface layers.

>>107387422
>ask chatgpt
>it hallucinates and tells you to download an openai keylogger

>>107387215
Maybe Mr Torvalds isn't as misanthropic as you are

>>107387416
I had this problem earlier
Turns out the issue was some obscure permissions thing that was reported as a bug 2 years ago and never fixed

>>107386858
urxvt

im about to switch to linux for the first time and decided to go with nobara but what i read about it not being atomic/immutable throws me off, does that really matter?

>>107387926
Just means you can actually edit/change things outside of your /home.

>>107387926
Atomic is a pointless timesink

>>107387926
Atomic is code for "endless time sink with almost no documentation"

>>107387926
Fuck off back to winjeets

>>107387926
>i'm about to switch but pls hold my hand
fuck off faggot go sit on a traffic cone(so that it goes into your anus)

>>107387926
>nobara
WTF kind of memescape have I awakened into?

IT'S MEMES
ALL
THA
WAY
DOWN
O
W
NNNNNNNNNNNNN

>"Friendly" GNU/Linux Thread
kek, why are all linux users insufferable faggots? no wonder why its full of troons

>>107387926
You really should avoid atomic/immutable distros as a beginner. Just choose a true and tried beginner friendly distro like Mint

>>107388084
It's just some vocal shitposters, I've been trying to help people here as much as I could

I'm running sudo apt dist-upgrade in KDE but it krashed and now I can't see what apt is doing or provide the user inputs it needs. I'm scared to force-reboot. what do?

>>107388118
Open a virtual terminal with Ctrl+Alt+F3, log in then use htop or top or

ps aux | grep apt

to see if apt is still running or not, then just wait for apt to finish and the process to exit and then reboot your system with

sudo reboot

any problems dual booting linux IF I use a completely separate drive for linux and windows? imagine popping a brand new nvme into the PC and just using that. tired of windows and i kind of dont care about bf6 anymore

>>107388174
All good suggestions, the problem is that apt needs user input from the console, it can't just complete in the background.

>>107388214
just reboot you fucking tranny, any user input will take place before the install phase. jesus christ

>>107388189
None but offline the other disks first just because I don't trust the Windows installer. I did that when I re-installed Windows onto a separate drive yesterday.

Open a Command Prompt with Shift + F10 and run

DISKPART

then list your disks with

LIST DISK

and for all of the disks you have which you don't want the installer to touch then run

OFFLINE DISK N

. Then you can continue with the installer.

>install OpenRGB
>doesn't detect RAM and mouse
>nothing really solves it
>fuck it RGAYB is overrated anyways
>next day it stops working completely

Is rgayb shit a pain in the ass to deal with on Linux or I'm just retarded?

>>107388118
This is why we don't use Ubuntu, Anons

>update earlier today
>sleep breaks
>spend several hours tracking down the issue
>update again
>it's fixed
it's been like 3 hours
what the fuck happened

>>107388233
Diskpart is so fucking useful. If I ever need to install Windows I always use the command prompt shortcut in the USB installer to wipe the drive's partition data, plus do the "taking disks offline" thing with the other command if others are connected. So useful, the actual GUI you get sucks ass.

>>107388232
OK good to know
>>107388241
it's Debian actually
Anyway, update worked except LXQt seems to have deleted itself, simple to reinstall it again though

>>107388214
If apt is really stuck at user input then it's not writing anything to disk so you can terminate it safely (make sure this is really the case with some process monitor like htop, i.e. check that apt isn't writing to disk before you terminate it) and then run

sudo apt --fix-broken install

To fix any broken packages, then redo your dist-upgrade command and hopefully nothing wacky happens this time

>>107384692
Rolling for daily driver

>>107386858
Konsole and Ptyxis on GNOME (defaults). I only require a scrollbar and tabs, what else do you want from a terminal?

i have shit old laptop
it has an AMD a8 7410 2.2ghz quad core with radeon R5 graphics and 8gb of RAM
would KDE run fine on it? or do you recommend something lighter

>>107388700
It can run it, KDE looks gorgeous it's really bloated (last time i checked it used 1.6-2GB of my RAM on idle) meanwhile XFCE is usually the best DE when it comes to both being light and usable, it uses as little as 600MB of RAM and is really snappy and can look good if you theme it.

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>>107388700
Back your data up, load up a USB, and give it a whirl. Then report back.

>>107388769
my only concern is that desktop environments like xfce are less supported due to having smaller teams working on them and less people using it
I would take the lighter option as long as i can make it look decent

>>107388797
Try Cinnamon then, it looks better than Xfce and is supported by the Linux Mint team, it's not as light as Xfce but it's still pretty damn light when compared to KDE or Gnome.

>>107388700
Mine's a low end Win8 era laptop I don't know the specs for other than it has integrated Intel graphics and 8 GB RAM. It runs KDE perfectly fine. I don't have KDE installed anymore but did have while I tried Slackware for a few weeks. Just try it, worst case scenario it sucks and you hop.

>>107389126
mine is from early windows 10 era
i know xfce would use less resources but it looks like ass by default
i would prefer to use kde ngl

>>107389161
Man I've had days I've done a dozen GNU PLUS LINUX installs, just try the shit and see.

>>107387416
I've had the same problem several times.

>gcc randomly starts sending your output file into the ether rather than overwriting the existing elf output
>spend 30 minutes trying to debug a bug that isn't there
fucking why. this is like the third time this has happened.

>>107388700
>would KDE run fine on it?
Probably. I feel like since HDDs and 32-bit CPUs were phased out literally everything can run any distro.

Just got a new PC and slapped Nobara on it. Everything works fine and dandy except for 1 or 2 things that needs Windows. One option is to use my old PC to deal with those but its kinda inconvenient. Is it worth setting up a Win11 VM in my current setup just for these? For the sake of clarity, I'm looking to install mods for a game and another is to control the LCD monitor of my cooler.

>>107388241
Dist-upgrade is risky on all APT-based distros though, could consider a rolling release system instead.
>>107388189
Physical drives are irrelevant. And usually anons here are scared of the opposite: *not* using separate drives. (physical drives make no difference on UEFI boot scheme)
>>107388084
Massive autism. The sperging starts when you even remotely try to educate someone with false beliefs.

>>107389466
even fuckin zypper is better than apt, and zypper is coded by Germans. Apt is unironically the worst package manager on Linux.

>>107387215
>"perfect" linux pc
what a crock of shit

>>107389575
>Apt is unironically the worst package manager on Linux
Do expand.

Is there any music player (or a plugin for one) that supports displaying animated album art?

>>107387206
Guess it depends what you are looking for and what issues you are facing outside of snapd and boot times (if any).

I assume the reason you mention upgrading Ubuntu is that you're not on a LTS release?

Perhaps take Debian for a spin in a VM, see how it feels vs. what you are used to with Ubuntu.

>>107388064
Think you missed the 'friendly' bit in the topic.

>>107389881
i'm gonna shit in your mouth and sploog up your nose.

>>107389734
apt is actually a pile of perl scripts in a trench coat pretending to be a program. The dependency solver is easily confused, and there's no way to just override it and ignore dependencies.

>>107390192
>there's no way to just override it and ignore dependencies
That's a good thing. It's almost certainly a packaging mistake to force the packaging dependency chain to break. It should never have been allowed to get to that state in the first place and the package maintainer responsible should have their Debian developer card revoked and never allowed to touch a computer ever again.
>>107390192
APT is written in C++ (soon to use Rust too). It doesn't use Perl at all.

>>107389575
>Apt is unironically the worst package manager on Linux
I don't know about other package managers, but I am very familiar with apt, and probably know some features that I think most people aren't even aware of. apt can actually be pretty powerful if configured and used correctly, though I will admit that apt's default configs are horrible. apt also lacks parallel downloads but this is solved by nala which makes apt prettier and adds a history feature similar to dnf.
>>107390192
>and there's no way to just override it and ignore dependencies.
Actually there is, you can use

dpkg --install

to force install a package directly without any dependencies, in fact apt is just a wrapper for dpkg, but like >>107390246 said, you should never ever ever do that unless someone at the debian team made a big nasty oopsie and you can't wait for them to fix it.

why is the debian package search page so shit? it takes like 5 min loading and then just times out.
I'm trying to revive an old (2008) thinkpad and apparently debian is the most "stable" distro for old machines like this one but so far it's pretty ass

>>107390314
This has been happening for a while, I'm starting to believe the Debian package search website is being DDoS'd

>>107390327
I suspect nanonigs attacking some relaxing.

>>107390314
https://debian.pkgs.org/

what display manager should i use with xfce, lightdm?

I need a tool to decompile and modify .net dlls. I am on Nobara currently, switched from Windows about half a year ago, and tried using dnSpy, because I was used to it from my Windows days, but can't get it to work no matter what. Created a new Wine prefix just for it, and can get it to launch, but when I try hooking it into a process, it just freezes, starts eating up more and more memory, and once my system runs out of memory, dnSpy crashes. If anyone has a solution, please, I just want to mod a game.

>>107384622
My job requires me to access work through Cisco Anyconnect VPN, using a pre-provided account and password. I looked it up and the VPN supports Linux, however I haven't tried it yet. Does it works normally like Window or do I have to dual boot for work now?

>>107386924
>Just force stereo like a normal person
The set-it-and-forget-it shit with making a virtual device in alsa config isn't fugging werking on my distro and doing it manually every time I boot up a game is tiresome.
I don't even use the other channels anymore, I use it like it's just stereo, a pair of monitors is all that's plugged in. I can't grasp why alsa itself just werks but a program calling it doesn't.

>>107391200
AvalionialILSpy

It still crashes for me after a while but it is somewhat usable.

>>107391502
Every other program, any browser, and even native linux games also just werk. Only proton (and wine, actually) shits itself. I expect better from gabentech.

>>107391200
>>107391526
There is also https://github.com/icsharpcode/ilspy-vscode
but i have not tried that yet.

>>107389661
I'm sorry that you're offended by the lack of housefires and anime figurines inside the case. This is a purpose-made tool for a man who does nothing but write emails, compile the kernel and watch the occasional cat video on youtube.

I'm thinking about trying out fedora atomic budgie. does it work fine with nvidia cards?

My laptop only has one HDD, but it seems to have a Windows (C:) drive that's 100GB and a D: drive (900GB)..
Can I just partition the D: drive to make a 100GB E: Drive for Bazzite?

Install says the Windows drive should be physically removed to prevent data loss but I only have space for one drive on this PC...
I'm trying to Dual-Boot btw

>>107392283
yes, you can. dual booting on one drive was always possible, but be aware that fixing your bootloader may come up at some point, like you'll need to use one that can boot both os's, and to make sure neither os messes with that

as a side note, your linux partition won't be "E:", that's a dos thing. some linux filesystems can be mounted in windows with additional software, but ootb windows won't recognise it. only mounted volumes in windows get a letter.

>>107386004
Holy shit linus torvalds lost a lot of weight

i installed arch kde but forgot to install a terminal
how do i install one now, from a tty?

>>107393264
If you haven't installed a terminal beforehand then yes you'll need to go to a tty and use pacman to install a terminal. You should just install the kde-utilities and kde-system packages to get konsole/kwake installed among other things.

>>107392791
>and to make sure neither os messes with that
Nta, how do you make sure windows doesn't mess with your boot loader? Windows doesn't give a fuck about limux and thinks it should be the only operating system installed on your computer.

>>107389871
Good advice 2bh. I think though I might stick with Ubuntu; I'm on 22 LTS currently. I could upgrade to 24 LTS and then 26 LTS in April, which will give me some newer packages compared to what's in Debian 13.

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i need a program/plugin that will go over a file (markdown, html, whatever) and either insert hyperlinks to all other files ("articles") that i have or will do it automatically when i save
CLI heavily preferred

basically every word that is a name of a file/"article" becomes hyperlink

can vimwiki do that?

>>107393368
yea, it's always been like that. i don't really have any advice since i haven't run windows bare-metal since 7. i have a windows vm for a particular work application, but since it's a vm i don't have to worry about the bootloader. modern windows as i understand it basically gets in-place reinstalls each 6 months like it's ubuntu, so i'm not sure if that messes with bootloaders. dual booting isn't uncommon so i'm sure there's something you can do about it. worst case just learning how to set it back up will be useful. back when i was a noob (before getting into linux) i used to think a broken bootloader meant reinstalling the os. they aren't as scary as they seem. if you're keen you could also keep your linux bootloader on a usb drive or something, that way you can keep it separate even with both os's on a single drive.

>>107384891
for a lot of frameworks, >>107384909 is unfortunately how it's done. I had this experience with GTK, nevermind something like ALSA that is generally speaking only supported by means of a compatibility layer.

>>107393275
ok so i didnt brick myself

>>107393664
even if a tty wasn't an option, like if you did something that actually can't be fixed while running the os normally, you can always use a livecd, chroot in, and install/reconfigure whatever that is from there
there are very, very few cases where a reinstall is the best/only option

is there any software that limits framerates when idle?
i'd love to get something that caps fps to 10 when there's no input after 5 seconds

I can't stop distrohopping lads.
What distro cured your distro hopping? Does the distro essentially cover all your needs from productivity to daily use stuff to gaming?

Every time the game updates, Steam takes ages >Processing Vulkan shaders
It never did this on Windows. Why is Linux like this?

>>107394006
would you rather have shader stutter?

>>107393982
I never really distrohopped. Setting up one installation to my liking is bad enough. I have no desire to go through all that again every week or every month or even every few years.

That said:
>What distro cured your distro hopping?
Install Arch and tailor you distribution to your needs.

>>107394006
how should i know? i don't use windows

>>107394033
I would rather things work smoothly, and not make me have to choose between pain and pestilence.

>>107393982
>installing Non-The Universal Operating System

>>107393982
gentoo. instead of picking a distro similar to your needs, with gentoo you select your needs

>>107393839
why?
>>107393982
distributions dont matter at a certain level of skill
i use every system under the sun because i have to (not to say i dont have preferences)

you dont need advice, you need preferences
and to have preferences you need technical knowledge
>>107394006
linux is a kernel

I'm thinking about making the switch to gentoo but I'm scared that my CPU is not powerful enough, is an 8th gen i7 CPU with 4 cores / 8 threads enough for gentoo?
Also how often does gentoo roll updates? does it roll updates as fast as arch or is it more towards the stable side?

>>107393982
>What distro cured your distro hopping
Debian
There's a reason all the great distros are based off Debian, it's because you can turn it into anything you want.

>>107394082
>why?
i like power savings and don't want shit to run at 200 fps when it's not needed
adrenalin on windows had radeon chill but it was kinda shit since it capped framerates immediately instead of waiting a bit and even then it only capped shit to 30 fps at least

>>107393982
When I finally decided to learn and use Arch. I didn't have need for any other distro afterward.

>>107394098
i run gentoo on my home server which has a 4th gen i5 in it. it's not really about being powerful enough. installing/updating things will be slower, but how often do you need an update right away? gentoo also offers a lot of binary packages for thing you either want quickly or don't care to build yourself.
>Also how often does gentoo roll updates? does it roll updates as fast as arch or is it more towards the stable side?
it's rolling-release, though the stable packages are 'slower' than arch. that said, since you built packages yourself, you can safely mix and match stable, unstable, and live packages, unlike arch

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I've been looking at Huion drawing tablets because they have drivers that support Linux.
I saw that there is a specific mention of Ubuntu in parenthesis. Is that a sign that the software will be most compatible with Ubuntu/Debian based distros?
Or am I just overthinking things and the software will generally be compatible with the popular Linux distros?

My apologies for my retardation, anons.

>>107393982
distro-hopped a bit after unity was killed. stayed in fedora since i liked having recent software. looked into arch when i saw that the steam deck would use it. never looked back again.

>>107394006
you can disable this in steam settings - downloads - shader pre-caching.

for retarded reasons this also disables pre-encoded cutscenes for linux which a few games use. might end up with a game or 2 not playing video correctly but its a rare issue and you can just enable it again if it happens.

>>107393982
RHEL.
It does most of what I need, but I do boot into LTSC 2019 for that one vidya I can't be fucked to troubleshoot on Wine/Proton from time to time.

>>107394126
so fps cap when application is actively running?
>>107394230
deb packages are specific to debian and debian derivatives (thats what ubuntu is)
is this driver open source?
if so you can coompile it on any distro
otherwise you are restricted to debian and debian forks (unless there is a way to extract shit from deb, but im not aware of anything like that)

>>107394361
cap when the system hasn't detected any inputs for a little while

>>107394379
if you arent running any applications that actively render something to screen this is pretty pointless

>>107394230
It's just designed for Ubuntu's package manager and they don't officially support other distros, but their drivers are available as tar balls and I see them available in the AUR for example too.
You don't even need them depending on your device because the Linux kernel usually comes with wacom and digimend drivers.
https://digimend.github.io/tablets/
If you check this link your device might already be supported and you wont need huion's proprietary drivers.

>>107394412
i meant it in a vidya context obviously
i want something that caps the framerate really low if it hasn't detected any inputs for a few seconds when i go afk

>>107394361
I don't think the driver is open source.
>>107394417
>that link
Alright then looks like I have more choices of drawing tablets. Thank you!

>>107394437
It's also worth mentioning that there's a difference between having your tablet functional and having an easy way to configure it. You might wanna look at how your desktop environment supports rebinding and configuring it especially because switch from x11 to wayland broke some tools for that.
At least on KDE with wacom they seem to have added ways to map area buttons and pressure curves into a working gui again.

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>>107393982
just debian
debian december is a go

Did you know hyprland opens ads on your desktop? https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-guiutils/blob/e83430c137bb01346cdd0d91ced6b05fb1d565d6/utils/donate-screen/src/main.cpp#L32-L37

>>107387404
Storage malfunction?
Package operations are logged in /var/log/apt/history.log

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>>107389466
>Dist-upgrade is risky
You what?

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>>107395954
cringe post

>>107391444
It works just fine on Linux, like all other VPNs in existence.
You may need to install network-manager-openconnect

>>107396024
You the vax fag dev?

>>107396124
the fucking what now

>>107396134
The dev of hyprland fagnames as vaxy because he loves injecting people with ads and vaccines

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>>107394270
>you can disable this in steam settings - downloads - shader pre-caching.
Thanks. But shader pre-caching seems like something I'd want enabled. I want my game to load faster, not slower. And I need all the framerates and stability I can get.
>Steam will collect shaders from your system when needed.
Is that what it's doing when "Processing Vulkan shaders"?
Maybe I should just allow background processing.

>>107393839
I'm interested in this as well.
Sounds like the perfect job for gamescope, and this option is close but not really:

-o: set a frame-rate limit for the game when unfocused. Specified in frames per second. Defaults to unlimited.

>>107396188
nah my nigger
i just have enough critical thinking to understand that asking for donations =/= advertisement
are you actually antivax? like unironically?

>>107396272
You're being a nigger because it is obviously an advertisement. Vaccines are produced from organ cells of ritually sacrificed children, and don't work. Are you vaxxed unironically?

>give me money
>join my __namedrop__ product for sale
Oh I get it, its not an advertisement because he asked for money only twice on the unsolicited pop up

>>107396387
man this is why you dont talk to hobos

>>107396439
A pop up asks you to join a paid for blog how is that not an ad? Because I merely asked for a donation right before?

>>107396495
the donation popup isnt an ad
assuming they are separate
paid blog would be an ad if it isnt an alternative way of donating to a project

FOSS ecosystem isnt a free market
you dont "exchange money for goods and services"
donations is a solution to a problem of FOSS existing within market economy and requiring resources
its not meant to be a monetary exchange in the standard sense

you can still choose to view it that way tho, but the issue is that as far as im aware your standard econ theory might not be sophisticated enough to accurately describe whats going on

>>107396616
Midwits like you are the worst, and always vaxxed

Mint XFCE, Fedora Gnome, or MX Linux for old Macs?

>>107395954
They have every right to put that message in there because, as the message says, the people developing it are volunteers. You are not automatically entitled to free software that will never tell you that its developers are volunteers.

Any tips on learning nix and nixos? Been using it for a while and I love it but still don't know what I'm doing half the time.

>using a meme wm
If you didn't do this then you would never even know about the ads. Memes come and go and memers go wherever the meme winds blow.

>>107396810
I didn't ask if they have some made up right, I said its an advertisement

>>107396807
Fedora or Mint with Xfce. Fuck Gnome and MX

>>107392283
>100GB E: Drive for Bazzite
This won't be enough if you plan on gaming on it. If you plan on sharing a "game" partition between Windows and Bazzite you can forget about it unless you actually don't use Steam. Steam on Linux can't launch games from NTFS partitions. You'd have to convert the partition to ext4 or btrfs and install ext4/btrfs drivers on Windows and hope Steam on Windows supports running games from ext4/btrfs.

>>107394006
Because it's a choice between the two:
1. Compile shaders all at once, before you start the game. Game runs normally.
2. Compile shaders during runtime. Each time a unique game object appears on the screen for the first time, there will be a noticeable stutter. Alternatively, the game compiles shaders for you during load times in which case in-between game level load times will be longer.
In the first case you never have to recompile shaders unless the game updates or you switch Proton versions.
In the 2nd case, you never know when you'll encounter something for the first time and when you do you'll see a stutter. And the shaders will also be invalidated after the game updates.

>>107393982
>What distro cured your distro hopping
Bazzite

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>>107384622
wish me luck. having grok make me an arch install script.

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>>107397609
oh, forgot i had it on the older grok 3. switched to 4.1 thinking beta instead. gotta get my monies worth from my supergrok sub.

now REALLY wish me LUCK

Troonix zizters and allies, Maggat Linux is strapping on their jack boots to oppress minorities and forcibly detransition all our people here is their Fuhrer Loondook who is also a KKK member gloating about it STAY STRONG SMOKE A BONG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6irWbo10VDY

>>107397756
Stop spamming this shit you mongoloid.

>>107384622
Let me guess you need more

>>107396264
i'm that guy and i've found a decent solution but it's not exactly passive
i've settled to enabling goverlay globally and i'll just toggle between a 480 fps cap and a 10 fps cap
not ideal but does the job if you get into the habit of pressing it

>>107397002
If you don't like it then go and use something else.

>>107398040
I need less

>>107398361
I do, I made my own window manager. I just bought this gpd micropc 2 tested Omarchis default userland to witness this nonsense.

>>107397489
I don't get why shaders can't be compiled during compile time like the rest of the game and distributed with the binaries. And why every game update invalidates the shaders.

>>107396899
Does you distribution not have documentation?

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why are arch retards so fucking stupid and outright incompetent?

Uh oh melty!

>>107398569
Because they think having to fix their config files every 4th update makes them good at Linux

>>107398569
Have you read the Arch wiki? It basically spoon feeds you.

>>107398758
no, i just poked around on their forums. literal shitshow.

>>107398792
>shitshow
That's every forum. Including this one. Especially this one.

>>107398569
Because Valve and Pewdiepie have made Arch the cool distro to go with right now, attracting newcomers who have absolutely zero business using an OS that's 99% conf files and vim

If Linux Mint is the main Cinnamon distro, which distros (stable ones, so no KDE Neon and Gnome OS) are related to Gnome and KDE?

>>107399060
GNOME would be Fedora.

>>107398849
It was always that though because Arch was once thought of as "hard" because you had to follow a wiki to install it but it was still doable in an hour or so by tards that can read a bit or follow a badly written YouTube tutorial or use something like Endeavour, etc.

It was never insurmountable like say Gentoo or LFS (lol, just use Gentoo instead) was so you'd get a lot of tards that don't really know what they're doing but still somehow managed to install the thing. Now it's even worse because it's even more accessible than ever.
At least Valve let babies be babies with SteamOS.

>>107395954
Did you know Vim used to tell you to donate money to children in Uganda?
Also GNU Parallel has a nag screen that tells you to please cite their software in your journal if you're a scientist and find their software useful.
Then there's KDE that once a year will send a desktop notification asking for donations (you can turn this off in the settings if you're a heartless bastard)

Lots of free software has some sort of advertisement or nag screen in it. The nice thing about being free software is that you have the source code and nobody can ever take that away from you. If it sufficiently annoys you then you are one single patch away from reverting it from the codebase.

>>107399882
>Did you know Vim used to tell you to donate money to children in Uganda?
it still does. nothing wrong with white men helping the struggling. only jews and subhumans laugh at the suffering of the less fortunate

>>107384750
You are supposed to settle in the OS you picked and test it under your specific needs and requirements. Stop listening to faggots, otherwise you'll end up installing Gentoo.

>>107398535
The shaders (programs run on GPU) are unique to each GPU and driver

>>107399895
>listening to faggots
the levels of trouble this has caused throughout literally everything is immeasurable.

>>107399413
And which one is the main KDE distro?

>>107398849
>>107399795
I didn't watch the video. Did he at least warn his viewers that Arch is not retard friendly even with archinstall? Why didn't he use CachyOS or something

>>107400040
FAGGIX

>>107400040
KDE Linux when it's finished (you can install it right now but it's still experimental).

There aren't too many great options. If you're a tard then Bazzite, otherwise Arch or Nobara, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed can be decent as well if the codecs mess doesn't bother you (it has the same licensing issues as Fedora which makes it hard to recommend).

Hyprland users, what display manager are we using?