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On Gentoo FAQ page it says
>Do not confuse rolling release with bleeding edge. Gentoo updates may be fast-paced, but Gentoo is a stable distribution, with exceptional reliability. All packages are fully tested, and must meet high standards.
How is it that Gentoo can be both stable and rolling release? where do they get the time to test the packages?

>>107435324
They have a separate unstable branch for testing. Calling it 'stable' is probably misleading because of course it's not 'stable' in the Debian sense of software never changing except for security updates.

>>107435324
Think of it like the difference between Debian Stable and Debian Sid only the stable packages on Gentoo move quite a bit quicker (which is a good thing) but even so you have the ability to pin versions with package.mask entries, etc.

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arch linux shitters and retards ruined linux. it's openIndiana for me now.

>>107435559
If it doesn't have a Linux kernel it's shit. I need my network namespaces and CGroups and containers.

>>107435559
post proof you daily drive this or it's larp

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>>107435625

>>107435854
Nice VM. What's that running on?

>>107435854
>unix timestamp filename
>QEMU Standard PC
Confirmed LARP.

>sleep randomly broke on gentoo again
Fuck

Fedora bros, why are the fonts so fucking blurry?
Googling doesn't help at all, it's like I have 10 different fonts in all different programs I use and they all look blurry

>>107436445
what DE? do you have some odd fractional scaling setting going on it?

>>107436454
I think I have Plasma KDE, 27 inch 1440p lcd monitor, 100% scaling, fedora 43

>>107436445
Fedora still uses greyscale scaling instead of subpixel rendering. You can tweak fontconfig to make it better.

>>107436498
Isn't it supposed to be a more modern distro than Mint/Ubuntu? Why the fuck does it use such old tech?
I don't want to use arch/cachy in case something randomly breaks because it's too bleeding edge

>>107436574
Looks fine on my screen. Bleeding edge is getting away from font smoothing of any kind because good displays don't need it any more.

>>107436610
4k i assume?

>>107436574
INSTALL
DEBIAN

Can I use systemd-boot on a distro that uses a different init system than systemd? If so, how?

>>107436626
I don't have a 22" display, no.

OPENSUSE WHERE ARE MY UPDOOTS? THERE HAVEN'T BEEN UPDOOTS IN TWO DAYS NOW AHHHHHHHHH
I WANNA UPDOOT

>>107436445
In KDE settings search "hinting" and add in sub pixel rendering.

If you use Firefox and any sort of scaling, go to about:config and enable the wayland scaling support.

>>107436648
Yes
Consult your distros wiki

>>107436720
It's blurry even with rgb subpixel and slight hinting on

>>107436812
Everything is blurry, or just some programs?

>>107436972
The text on almost everything is extremely blurry. Even the clock widget on the bottom

>>107437009
Ok, what resolution, monitor size and scaling are you using?

>>107437052
nm I see above.

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What does /fglt/ think of this?

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I got an old 2016 hp probook that im trying to save from the landfill. Everything works okay, but the SMART check shows that the m2 SATA SSD is aged and prone to eventual failure.
Is it fine to save $200 from buying a samsung evo 860 brand new, and just buy it used on ebay for $40? Or should i go with another brand and model and buy new? On amazon theres some cheap chinese brand called teamgroup that sells these drives new for around the same $40 as the samsung evo. But from what i gather reading on the net, is that samsung has a higher TBW rating so itll likely last longer than the generic chinese brand, no?

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>>107436445
>>107436812
NTA but I literally came in the thread to ask about the same thing. I have the same issue on Plasma Wayland at 125% scaling. Everyone online is saying to set up subpixel rendering in the Plasma settings. Not only does that not work, but the control panel text is broken like in picrel until I click on each item. Wat do?

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>>107437315
Another question relating to this laptop is that the bootloader is locked cuz this machine was bought secondhand and the seller never included the bios password. So right now i can only run fedora since its able to get around secureboot. However i was thinking of buying one of those bios chip reprogrammers to reset the password. If i do this, should i just stay with the stock bios, or does anyone here think i should install coreboot or libreboot instead after i get bios access after using the bios reprogrammer?

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>>107437358
With widget.wayland.fractional-scaling.enabled, Firefox looks arguably worse. It's blurrier.
When disabled, the text distorts as you move around the page: https://files.catbox.moe/nazabu.mp4
When enabled, some elements render more acceptably (though still not sharp like they should - basically how text is rendering on the rest of my system), yet others become even blurrier, as in this recording: https://files.catbox.moe/uqqu0i.mp4
The best-case scenario is very small fonts as the blurry artifacts/edges are least noticeable on those, see picrel. It's as if it were doing hinting properly but somehow messing it up afterwards.
Setting 100% scaling doesn't really fix the issue btw.

>>107437295
Torvalds is right, and since Melon Husk spends so much time online, he'll probably come across this and seethe about it

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>>107437358
>but the control panel text is broken
...In various ways, in fact.
Look at this shit?!

>>107435559
I tried this several years ago on an old C2D Dell laptop and it seemed less “put-together” than predecessor OpenSolaris did back in like 2008. It had even lost the “time slider” for ZFS snapshots in the file manager that Opensolaris had. At this point I can’t imagine what practical advantages OpenIndiana offers over FreeBSD, for either workstation or server.

>>107437358
Wayland fractional scaling is shit. Can you just increase the font size and keep 100% scaling?

>>107435324
because when linux distros like debian or ubuntu say "stable" they mean packages years out of date sometimes with security fixes backported to an arbitrary version unqualified volunteers unaffiliated and only vaguely familiar with the original projects decided on
and not stable as in bugfree, atomically versioned without half completed features, and well tested i.e. actual stability

>>107437441
>https://files.catbox.moe/uqqu0i.mp4
Okay update. It only becomes blurry like this if the window is maximized. Fullscreen and windowed are fine. It also doesn't happen while maximized at 100% scale.
>>107437554
>Wayland fractional scaling is shit.
It sure is. Has the situation improved with X11? Why can't they get something so basic right? It's been years upon years and hiDPI screens continue to become more common. Gah
>Can you just increase the font size and keep 100% scaling?
I tried. The UI elements unfortunately become too small to be comfortable.

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>>107437597
Still, even at 100% scale, there's little rendering quirks like picrel. The rendering just isn't quite right.

>Rust is a cult
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrQcpIeBts

>>107437597
>I tried. The UI elements unfortunately become too small to be comfortable.
I mean it works... But it's grating for long term usage. I guess I'm being picky, but I also don't see being picky as inherently wrong. The reason why most of us are on Linux is because we are "picky" and care for details that "normal people" don't. I suppose I'm saying water is wet but it bears repeating. Sorry if that sounds rude.

>>107437616
don't ever post that yid here again you tranny.

>>107437616
it's right under "Reply to Thread" fampai

>>107437295
That’s it. SpaceX and Tesla are going back to Windows. Friendship ended with Linus, Satya is my new best friend.

>>107437655
Loondook might be a jew but he's the only one leading the white man to the linoox promised land, all the white linoox men trooned out

>>107437712
>white man
>jew
kill yourself

>>107437380
I don't think there is coreboot bios for probook - you are stuck with stock. Give https://bios-pw.org/ a shot, but I never managed to unlock HP with it. As for ssd - $200 investment into 2016 probook with locked down bios is rather excessive.
Backup your important data regulary and live the old ssd..ssds sometimes die, even brand new ones.

blank screen after kernal update on linux mint, monitor stating "no signal" but PC is still on and /appears/ to be at the user login screen (educated guess here). kernal boots into recovery mode fine. anyways to figure out what the cause is?

>>107437716
>Rust
>Troons
The Loondook posting will continue

>>107437733
>don't think there is coreboot bios for probook
Just looked into this and ur right. Guess im stuck with stock.
So you think i should get the used samsung evo 860 500gb for $40 on ebay? The company selling it is synergy industrial corp, based in wisconsin and has 98% positive reviews.

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>>107421776
>Debian 13 was released this year, now go and check when Ubuntu's last release date was. They have a new release next year but until then Debian is more up-to-date.
Why are some people so damn stupid?

>>107437849
nta but lgtm
Don't sweat it too much really, those upcycled SSDs do fairly okay for a couple years.

does anyone know of an RDP client that works on wayland?
I was using Remmina on X11 but it doesn't work with multiple monitors on wayland ( https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/issues/2686 this is open since 2022, doubt its getting fixed any time soon)
it works when running with sudo but the performance is abysmal for some reason
i've been switching over to wayland and this is the only thing preventing me from it since I need RDP for work

>>107437905
I wish I knew what to tell you, sorry.
But like, between this and the blurry fonts spiel, this thread so far is the most embarrassing wayland user acceptance test ever.

>>107437905
>i've been switching over to this thing that doesn't work for what I need but I insist on switching over to it nonetheless because it's the thing that one switches over to is what they say and I need moar and other reasons but hey do any of you know watdo besides notdo?

>>107437712
No dipshit, he's leading you to pointless infighting over trivialities for his own aggrandizement. Aka normal Jewish behavior. Rust literally doesn't matter. It doesn't change how you interact with your computer one iota because you're not a programmer.

why are so many multimedia projects built on top of ffmpeg so afraid to just let you use whatever codecs ffmpeg provides
i should not have to wonder about whether or not an individual application like davinci resolve or obs has access to hardware acceleration and how when it's all done through ffmpeg anyways
if ffmpeg provides unlicensed access to patented hardware acceleration for some codec or proprietary codecs it shouldn't concern them and they shouldn't even be aware of it
why are they making decisions about what backend API is being called like several layers of libav deep?
let me use vulkan video ffs

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>>107437861
>lgtm
Lets get this money? So youre saying it should be fine right, no need to waste extra dollars from buying new?

>>107438118
Funny but nice to have things (or worse, anything essential for usecases) being broken or gimped for years on end is never a fun time.

>>107437905
thincast? that's what popped up when i searched

lads, I just built a new gaming pc with a 9070xt and wanted to get away from windows. My light research indicated I'd need to use bazzite or some specialist distro, but I've just installed debian w kde (have used it before on laptops and liked it) and it seems fine? Solid 60fps on ultra high raytraced settings in cyberpunk, rock solid 180 on highest settings in ow2, etc. Is it only going to be a problem for brand new games that require cutting edge drivers? I refuse to pay more than 20-30 dollars for a game so maybe that won't even be an issue.

>>107438153
>Lets get this money
kek
Looks good to me
>So youre saying it should be fine right, no need to waste extra dollars from buying new?
Yeah. Nah, no need. Of course, you're always taking a risk with SSD reliability, old or new.

>>107438118
Sure I could stay on X11 but it's being phased out from KDE too in the future, and I'm on nvidia so stuff is way smoother on wayland. On X11 it's like
>drag a window - lag
>resize a window - lag
>your tray is dynamic? - lag
>switch desktops? - lag
>alt tab from games? -lag
and it's so tiresome. On wayland everything is smooth and nice, but it has its own share of problems.

>>107438178
I think i remember giving that a shot, I think it was also laggy or something, not sure. I'll try again, thanks anon.

Why isn't there 1 distro that just werks?
Mint - outdated drivers
Cachy - developed by 2.5 people meme distro
Fedora - FONTS
Arch - have to spend 2 hours a day fixing shit
Not to mention the fact that to play a fucking game I have to use bottles/wine/lutris/proton instead of righclicking the exe and playing instantly

It's unusable as a daily driver even in 2025,hopefully by the time win 10 ltsc isn't supported anymore it's better, but I'm not holding out hope

>>107438185
>Is it only going to be a problem for brand new games that require cutting edge drivers
Pretty much. If your stuff works you're good

>>107438194
Thanks, just wanted to make sure i was making a sound decision. Because like the prev anon that first replied mentioned, $200 for reviving such an old laptop seemed silly. Right now im looking at spending ~$75 to get this thing kicking, $21 for 2x8gb ddr3 ram, $40 for the used m2 ssd and $13 for the bios reprogrammer. Which sounds more reasonable to me.

>>107438460
Before you go through with this though, consider how long you're thinking of having this thing operating anyway. Because it may turn out it's a better deal to get something slightly newer in the end. $75 is no small amount of money if you really know where to look and what to look for. Maybe you could even get a minipc instead of a laptop for instance.

Like really do think it over. Take it from me, I've done silly purchasing decisions because I didn't know there were more options or that I was handed rather shitty options.

>>107438534
>a minipc
Or one of those optiplex sff towers
Say, you expressed interest in libreboot, so you could look at something like one of the supported models. https://libreboot.org/docs/install/dell9020.html
It'd at least be a little more upgradable / modular / scrappable than a laptop. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=optiplex+7020&_sacat=0&_from=R40&LH_TitleDesc=0&rt=nc&_udhi=80

Idk. Goodwill? Craigslist? There's a lot you can try.

>>107437295
He's right and he should continue to say it.

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Whats the best option for bluetooth? I have pic related, it works but has low range and there's audio hiccups when listening to music.

>>107438217
sadly i have some issues as well
>be on bazzite
>inb4 muh meme distro
>want to install mullvad vpn
>after hours of research and FAQ here i came to the conclusion that bazzite is physically not able to install mullvad vpn -> one has to use tailscale FOR WHATEVER FUCKING REASON since even fucking MINT is able to this basic shit
>next want to use different versions of python next to 3.13
>ha loser! got'cha! even though i installed all the version (3.10 / 3.11 / 3.12 / 3.13) i CANNOT switch between the versions as interpreter in pycharm FOR WHATEVER FUCKING REASON

for fuck sake, JUST FUCKING GIVE ME A GOOD LOOKING, UP-TO-DATE and "GAMING ORIENTATET DISTRO" (gaming as in drivers for shillvidia)

it fucking sucks
also
>inb4 ARCH OR CACHYOS
seriously, fuck you

>>107438774
get a fucking cable
putting wireless things next to your heads for hours will give you cancer

>>107437009
Do stronger levels of hinting help?

>>107438217
>developed by 2.5 people meme distro
thats a good thing
ultimately not being able to find a distro that just werks is skill issue
you are shit at linux git gud

>>107438217
It would be cool if there were an Opertaing System out there developed by a company with a 3.57 trillion market cap that was trusted by all businesses and just absolutely had to work.

>>107438803
just use fedora and enable rpmfusion for the driver

>>107438921
yeah, figured

for fuck sake, i just finished my setup on bazzite...fuck me

>come back to gnome because of the built in emacs keybindings option
>melt as I'm able to cruise through random textboxes effortlessly
>update comes
>half your extensions break
>go back to xfce in order to get basic DE functionality
sad

>>107438217
Sounds like SOMEBODY needs NIGGIX.

>>107438217
sounds like you're a shitter who would probably use arch anyways, then shit up every forum with your bullshit. get the fuck out of here.

i have two pieces of software breaking right now and neither one give any sort of useful logs. any ideas how to fix them?
#1 i'm running emptty as my display manager and openrc as my init. the emptty service fails to start and i have to log in with tty then launch my gui with startx or sudo emptty. i'm using this init script: https://github.com/tvrzna/emptty/blob/master/res/openrc-service
nothing useful is in the logs. no error or anything. init script perpetually tries to load and fails when i check running services.
#2 i switched from barrier to input-leap on this same openrc machine and now the service fails to start 90% of the time. i had it working last night then it randomly disconnected and the service won't start.
switching back to barrier won't work because barrier decided to stop recognizing the different keyboard layouts on my pc's.

>>107438803
All of the major distros have tons of games right there in their repos. Debian probably has the most. Debian is the universal operating system, btw.

https://blends.debian.org/games/tasks/

>>107435324
>>107435410
>>107435542
Every package has a recipe for each version of the software and are marked either stable or unstable for specific architectures. There is no separate branch, it's just that packages are marked stable after they've been in tree for a certain amount of time or gone through sufficient testing by Gentoo devs.
For example:
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/kde-plasma/plasma-meta
This is the KDE Plasma meta package. 6.4.5-r2 is marked stable for amd64 and arm64 but is unstable for x86, ppc64, and riscv. 6.5.3 is currently unstable for all archs but you can unmask it if you wish

>>107439286
Currently using Mint, as a beginner would you say it makes a difference for compatibility with Steam and Davinci Resolve?

>>107439343
Those are proprietary things. This is GNU PLUS LINUX which is FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE. If you insist upon using proprietary things then you will suffer accordingly. If you insist upon using FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE then you will suffer accordingly.

SUFFER
>SUFFER
SUFFER
wisely.

>>107438534
Dammit i think youre right. Now i think the investment might be a waste. It looks like i can buy a used thinkpad t490s for as low as 50 (if i win a bid that low). Even if i win an auction at $100, id have a better cpu, 32gb of ram and 500gb ssd out of the box: https://www.ebay.com/itm/197920431507

>>107438774
Every Bluetooth adapter works with Linux, but some kernels break some adapters. They're cheap; have several.

Also check the codec selection is reasonable and you weren't defaulted to something extra high bandwidth like SBC-XQ or LDAC.

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>>107434876
Anyone know whether you can install a desktop Linux distro like Fedora ARM/Debian ARM/Rasbian on Retroids?

>>107434876
Right before the login screen on my system, there's some lines of text that concern me.
>ERROR: Failed to start CUPS scheduler

Should I address this or leave it because it doesn't matter. It changed recently.

>>107440093
nanonigs

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Anyone read?

>>107440178
no, all those books are for tards(arch users). learn how to use netcat and curl.

>omarchy
>bazzite
>cachyos
>atomic distros

what's with all this meme shit lately?

compiling chromium took me 5 fucking hours today and I'm using a 9800x3d

>>107440642
isn't that really good? i thought the norm was like 17 hours

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I've been a dwm-fag for years. Started getting sick of some annoying shit in x11. Trying out wayland via Hyprland.

Any tips to adjust?

>>107437295
Musk isn't particularly smart, he's just a guy with a lot of money that got a lucky break.

>>107437856
That's not the LTS. You should be comparing against Debian Testing and Sid in that case.

>>107440770
Yes. I don't compile Chromium anymore but when I did it took my 5950X upwards of 9 hours:

$ qlop -aH www-client/chromium
www-client/chromium: 9 hours, 38 minutes, 7 seconds average for 15 merges

>>107439743
I wouldn't actually recommend a T490s!!
Those laptops are too hyped up. You take a lot of risks with refurbs. They may have all sorts of quirks and caveats and degradation from use that you aren't anticipating. Used PCs are much safer.

Converted
>every png to webp
>every jpg and gif to jpeg-xl
>every h.264 video to h.265 (no 266 hardware acc yet)
>every vp8 and vp9 video to av1
Zero regrets so far and my SSD is thanking me for it

>>107441031
Your files will never be women.

>amdgpu: ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout
How do I diagnose the cause of this error? My system is fine in stress tests, but on the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark it throws this error and crashes. I already have the latest version of mesa and amdgpu kernel driver.

Running a 9070xt on Gentoo (btw).

>>107440264
Normies are too stupid to configure shit on their own, so people have to keep making distros that do most of the work for them because not even Mint is good enough for the casualfag crowd anymore.

>>107438803
>>>want to install mullvad vpn
You're supposed to use the VPN settings of your DE, not install extra software.

>>107441091
Oh, it sometimes does it while I’m just using a browser too. But that benchmark seems to guarantee it happening.

It’s kind of made my pc unusable

>>107441704
>you're supposed to...
Nigger, if I want a programm with a nice and perfect GUI instead if funneling every shit in a terminal than that's what I want
>hurr durt then switch your OS
Yeah, I fucking will

>>107441832
install gentoo

>>107441832
It's literally a GUI option... I couldn't help not pointing out this windows-ism of installing software for every little thing when the OS already provides it.

>>107441853
I just got to Linux from goydos and you tranni-faggots get already ready to shit on noobs for not using terminal for everything

I hope you are comfy and have nice day

>>107440953
Got any suggestions for used mini or compact pcs for the cheap? I was looking at the lenovo M920 tiny which is supported by coreboot but the price is a little more than i was hoping for and ig justifiably so. Id prefer to get a steal if i can though.
Im not specifically looking for something that will support libreboot or coreboot, just thought itd be interesting to try out an alternative bios firmware.

>>107440086
Definitely not. On ARM you need a dedicated image for each board, there's no such thing as one ISO working on any board.

>>107440093
Probably safe to ignore.

>>107440879
Stop posting, you're moving goalposts faster than you could move your own fat ass outside.

>>107441091
>How do I diagnose
Do you have AMD GPU? Then you have error.
AMD have not yet learned to write drivers.

>>107437295
he's right in that he's too incompetent, but also wrong
upper echelons of tech companies are full of rich idiot psychopaths nowadays so he fits right in.

i'm trying to get my encrypted raid6 array to unlock and mount itself at boot on debian 13. my crypttab has the following
>raid6 /dev/disk/by-uuid/<uuid> /keyfile luks
my fstab also seems to be correct
>/dev/mapper/raid6 /mnt/raid6 xfs defaults,nofail 0 2
if i run cryptdisks_start raid6 it gets decrypted, but why isn't it working at boot?

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>>107442146

>>107435324
it's "rolling release" as in there are no Gentoo releases like Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13, Fedora 44, etc. You just have Gentoo.

>>107441892
It's literally baked into NetworkManager and accessible via the settings app. He didn't say to use the terminal.

>>107442244
Nigger, tailscale is marked as inactive by default, you need an account to use tailscale, just import the settings from wireguard, just funnel the location you want in the terminal, just use the settings bro, ujust tailscale

You know? I just like mullvad because it's piss easy to use and it just works and strangly enough you faggots ignored my second remark on using different python versions as interpreter is simply not possible, except of course ones uses a work-around, BUT GUESS WHAT? I don't want to diddle my fiddle for two hours just for basic shit like this

>>107438202
well I gave thincast a shot again and it's just extremely laggy, scrolling actually makes me nauseous
why the fuck are all rdp clients bad on wayland
even if I get remmina working with sudo, that one is laggy too while it works perfect on x11 (where my own pc is laggy)

is there any point in using anything other than kde and gnome at this point?
even on shit hardware?

>>107442558
>using any DE at all

>>107442094
I thought Linux supported Snapdragons?

>>107434876
i tried a ublue distro called Aurora Linux that has kde desktop.
at idle on powersave i lost 2-3 hours of battery compared to running arch with kde.

what the fuck is the system doing? is it flatpak and rpm-ostree firing on all cylinders all the time to check for updates and shit?
i see a lot of activity over different cores even with nothing open.

>>107442558
XFCE on low end shitware, other than that no.

>>107442558
if you need X11 support. GNOME removed it and KDE will remove it soon.

>>107442672
I used KDE plasma on a fucking AMD E-350 netbook with 0 issues, which is worse than one of the old Conroe intel core 2 duos, even XFCE is deprecated.

>>107442788
kde uses less ram than xfce these days too

>>107442788
have you seen the system requirements for the kde linux distro?
they are really low, obviously they are not the "recommended" requirements but they are insanely low for a distro runnign kde

>>107442808
>>107442788
Actually over for real for rat sisters

>>107440264
Memes now, but one or two may become solid distros in time.
Gaming on Linux is a big thing today, so naturally people try to ride the wave.

>>107435324
gentoo has quarterly releases. like freebsd and netbsd

>>107442808
hwat? just checked and all my xfce processes summed up use 378MB of ram, but that's with the panel and all of its elements, which are ~20 each (kinda bloated tbqh). with the panel subtracted it's ~150MB.
there's no way that KDE is anywhere near 200MB, i will never believe that unless shown concrete proof

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Would a swap partition help at all with using stable diffusion for videos? My Linux setup always freezes when I try to gen when it works on windows.

>>107442645
It does, but a CPU does nothing by itself. Something needs to supply power to it, to initialize it, to initialize memory for the CPU, some sensors, some communication channels, and so forth.
That "something" is unique to every board and needs a kernel compiled and configured with that unique configuration. Plus DeviceTrees. Plus drivers.

>>107442128
How is it moving goal posts exactly? If you go to download Ubuntu from their website the LTS is literally the first thing thrust in your face. You have to go out of your way to end up with the non-LTS release.

>>107443719
No because VRAM doesn't use Swap. Get a better GPU.

>>107444137
It works fairly well on windows, I never get freezes when even low vram workflows freeze on linux

>>107444155
What hardware and software are you working with?
Have you checked with something like Nvtop to see what's using up all of the resources?

>>107444199
I use a 3080 and have 32gb ddr4 ram. Haven't checked nvtop but I might later on when I reinstall comfy on my current Linux setup

>>107434876
newfag here, how easy is it to play games on devuan ?

>>107444245
i forgot to ask, how easy is it to do a gpu passthrough (win 10 guest) with it ?

>>107444239
>10 or 12 GB VRAM for both genning and running the desktop
Yeah, that's going to hurt. Only thing I think that might help you is running more software with software rendering:

env LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=llvmpipe application-to-run

If you've got your browser open and multiple applications competing for GPU resources, etc, then that's going to hurt.

Also NVIDIA's driver stack is a piece of shit that still leaks memory like a sieve if you aren't running it headlessly with a GUI in a data centre environment. You could be having a better time on Windows just because of that.

>>107444270
*headlessly without a GUI

i can create the .xinitrc for my user from the chroot right?
it should work just fine?

>>107440788
There is also dwl, not sure how good it is though.

Anyone have some advice on getting emacs packages managed through Guix home? I keep getting no code for module errors.

how can I set up hibernation on fedora 42

I asked duckai and got it to "work" but once I pressed hibernate the computer just turned itself off and I lost the pc state

>>107444741
Do you have Swap setup properly and bootloader configured to resume from it correctly?

whats a good malware scanner to run from time to time
i have defender enabled but you can never be sure

>>107444861
ooops

>>107444851
I set up a swapfile, the "hibernate" button got unlocked
Duckai told me to add resume=UUID=your-swap-uuid to grub config

>>107444861
Kaspersky has a Linux release now if you want to give all of your data to Vladimir Putin.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kaspersky-Linux-AV-Home-Users

>>107444877
That's wrong. That's for a Swap partition. For a Swap file you need the resume offset of the Swap file.
https://docs.kernel.org/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.html

Without resume_offset it will hibernate but never resume.

>>107444901
>>107444877
Also here's the relevant Arch Wiki article on finding that offset since the Kernel docs haven't ever been updated in forever and don't tell you how:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Acquire_swap_file_offset

>>107444901
>>107444918
Thank you, sis. I'll give a try later.

>>107442197
turns out i needed systemd-cryptsetup installed

>>107444861
good ol common sense™

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Alright Niggers,
i just switched to fedora kde (from bazzite) and guess fucking what, after installing all the major repos/flatpaks/w.e. it works just like bazzite

BUT

i was finally able to install mullvad vpn without a hitch AND IT FUCKING WORKS AS INTENDED

BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE

I was finally able to set more than python 3.13 as an interpreter in pycharm

SERIOUSLY FUCK BAZZITE, such easy bullshit should NOT be a problem at all for how hyped that shit is

>>107446507
LET THIS BE
A LESSON
AGAINST MEMES
Do your part each day to belittle meme users so that other potential meme users will see it and not become meme users. Help ANTI-MEME spread far and wide. Help build a default ANTI-MEME instinct into humanity, person by person, generation by generation.

Name 1 good reason to use arch over gentoo

>>107446727
compilation time

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>>107446741
no threadripper?

>>107446727
Being gay, but not *that* gay.

I recall Windows XP ran fine on just 256 MB of RAM.
However a modern Linux distro will barely even boot (even without graphics) in a VM with 256 MB of RAM.
What's up with that?

>>107446799
LENNART
POOTERING

>>107446799
>modern Linux distro
use cbpp

>>107446671
Nah you just a bitch ass nigga who had to distro hop to set up a VPN lmao

>>107444112
>I'm too stupid to scroll down
>therefore things that appear below my current viewport don't exist
You're a retard. Stop distorting reality to suit your worldview.

>>107447102
I'm not that Anon, I'm the one who distro-hopped you faggot.
But my stand is a bit different. Meme-Distros may work for general purpos but as soon as one has to do non-conform shit it gets unnecessarly complicated.

And again (because of the VPN) if this shit is so fucking basic to set up, why doesn't a package from the provider work from the get go? I mean Bazzite is just a fork. One would think that this basic shit works out of the box.

>>107446799
Use TinyCore. Its basically magic.

>>107447114
By that measure you might as well say:
>I'm too stupid to use Debian Testing or Sid
Why do you think anyone would compare stable Debian to the latest non-LTS release of Ubuntu that doesn't even receive updates for that long and will be outdated in less than a year?

>>107447102
Who (You) b quoting, negrotard? I am nice and comfy remaining in my Debian.

I need one (1) distribution of linux that works with secure boot turned on.
>ubuntu, fedora
tried.
please I just need to fix something in my gentoo box I went schizo with the security options.

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My ultimate goal is to set up a multiple-machine cluster for use with john the ripper to brute force the hash from an encrypted zip archive. (made with aes256 encryption using 7zip, not the old, easy zip encryption. Despite making the archive with 7zip, it is still a .zip archive, not a .7z) so if that information lets you tell me something that skips my current question/plan, by all means please feel free to do so.

Currently I am trying to get a single instance of john working with openCL on linux with older AMD GPU's. I have 6-10+ office optiplex computers with an intel i7 7700 and an AMD R7 450 4GB gpu each so that's what I'm starting on. I'm trying to install the AMD fglrx drivers (I'm not even 100% convinced this is the right driver to be honest) and I'm having trouble with package dependency.

>My actual immediate problem (start reading here if you don't want the big picture)
I run
sudo dpkg -i fglrx-core_15.302-0ubuntu1_i386_ub_14.01.deb
as instructed in the installation instructions from AMD and get
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fglrx-core:i386:
fglrx-core:i386 depends on make.
but I DO have make installed. 'I've run apt-get update' and 'apt-get install make' already. I noticed earlier when trying to run dpkg on all 4 components at once (instead of just fglrx-core first) that one of the listed missing dependencies was 'make:i386' and so I tried installing that manually with 'apt-get install make:i386' but it apparently conflicts with the regular 'make'. This is what apt says about it
The following packages will be REMOVED:
build-essential dkms dpkg-dev make
The following NEW packages will be installed:
make:i386
And that would be fine, except dkms, build-essential, and possibly dpkg-dev (or at least one of those) is required to install at least one of the 4 AMD driver components (fglrx-core:i386, fglrx:i386, fglrx-dev:i386, and fglrx-amdcccle:i386)
I feel like the x:i386 thing is an indication I'm doing something wrong. Any ideas?

>>107447791
Also, for right now I'm using mint 21.2 because I happened to have that installed on a drive I had laying around. My understanding is that mint is basically the same thing as ubuntu under the hood and so should be able to use drivers intended specifically for ubuntu as well right?

>>107447791
>i386
if you're running a 64bit OS this is wrong.

>>107447826
I decided to look at the "older drivers" section from AMD and found that they had an ubuntu driver for 64bit there. (they only had a 32 bit driver on the most recent build for some reason)

So maybe that's been the issue? I'll try installing those instead.

>>107447868
why do you think you even need to install this? AMD drivers are just shipped with the kernel usually.

what do people normally do when they want to backup and transfer files during an upgrade to a newer version of a distro?

if I'm using Mint, can I just copy paste the /home/ directory from the previous version to the latest version if it's a fresh installation?

>>107447965
because neither clinfo or john the ripper are identifying the AMD GPU as an opencl device. I'm also 99% sure that the prevailing wisdom is to use the proprietary drivers if at all possible when using john. I'm not sure if its just that they are faster or if the generic/free ones just don't work very well or even at all.

>>107437856
Based *buntu user

>>107440879
Ubuntu 25.10 is a stable release, but Debian Testing is not a stable release

>>107448033
Proprietary for AMD?
They literally just stopped shipping their proprietary slop in favour of a fully free Mesa stack. It's just a re-packaging of what's already in your distros repos now (although may be more up-to-date in the case of distros with outdated drivers like Ubuntu).

If you want OpenCL on AMD then you need the ROCm stack. OpenCL is provided as part of that.
https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-systems/tree/develop/projects/clr

>>107448063
It's not a long-term support release though. You can't compare that to stable Debian which only gets one release.

>>107448073
the original argument is which is more up to date and...
who gives a fuck you're not using debian to use cutting edge packages in the first place

How is it that it's 2025 and you can't still use negated terms for tagged file search on Dolphin?
What the fuck do I do if I have 200 files and I want only the ones that are tagged blue, but not blue AND red? What's the point of adding file tagging if it doesn't have such a basic feature? They already removed shit in Plasma 6, might as well remove that, who uses it? It is not effectively any more useful than filenames at that point.

>>107448073
>It's not a long-term support release though. You can't compare that to stable Debian
Yeah you can. I thought the question was about which one has the latest packages. At the moment it's Ubuntu. Debian had the latest packages when Debian 13 was released though.

>>107447764
WHY ARE NONE OF THESE BOOTABLE WITH SECURE BOOT ENABLED
WHAT THE FUCK
this is why I use gentoo to begin with there are ZERO binary distros that just fucking work

>>107447976
You can just copy your files manually like that. Another option that some people use is to have a separate disk partition for the system and the home directory. That way you can upgrade the OS on the system partition and not even have to do anything to keep your files besides telling the new OS where the /home directory is.

This sounds super convenient, and it is, but do be mindful of the amount of space you have in the system partition. My advice is to give yourself plenty of extra space, otherwise you could end up without enough room to install software and such later down the line. You can always re-size partitions if you have too, but supposedly that carries the risk of catastrophic failure/data loss (I've never had any issues with it though) but it's also just a little annoying.

>>107448064
>If you want OpenCL on AMD then you need the ROCm stack.
>https://github.com/ROCm/rocm-systems/tree/develop/projects/clr
OK this is gonna sound REALLY stupid but so I apologize in advance but how do I take that github page and convert it into having it installed on my system?

>>107448128
The question was about which stable version is more up-to-date and that's Debian (here "stable" meaning "long term support", nobody whose running Debian is interested in something that doesn't even have a years worth of support).

>>107448145
Go and download ROCm from AMD. They have APT repos.

>>107448125
you unironically learn regex or sort that shit in the cli. Why isn't bash autocompletion enough for you to find anything in any directory?

>>107447764
>>107448143
you're trying to boot a live environment with secure boot turned on?
isn't that literally the whole point of secure boot, so someone can't do that to you? you'll need to sign the bootloader with your key from your install or disable secure boot, fix the problem, and then turn it back on.

>>107448166
why don't these distros have signed live bootable systems. What's stopping someone from just booting a win11 OEM install USB for my device?

>>107448143
>WHY ARE NONE OF THESE BOOTABLE WITH SECURE BOOT ENABLED
To try and force people to use winblows, why do you think they required it and tpm2.0 in the first place? microsoft requires hardware companies to put it in their hardware otherwise they cant sell to most customers cause windows wont run without it, and it in turn allows them to prevent people from using alternatives to windows. And if they can't use an alternative it doesnt matter how bad their product is.

>>107448207
Because to sign them you have to pay money to Microsoft on an ongoing basis and that's not something most distros are interested in.

Some enterprise distros do pay up for that though and some distros like Ubuntu even work with hardware companies and board partners to get their own secure boot keys preloaded into hardware.

>>107448207
you don't have to enroll Microsoft keys if you don't want to to your secure boot setup.
secure boot is kinda pointless unless you're doing something like storing keys in the room for automatic decryption. just disable it if it's too much trouble.w

>>107448152
Because I might have multiple directories with multiple subdirectories with multiple subdirectories in those multiple subdirectories and maybe I just want to pull files from very different places and not have every single file in a single folder.
And because it's just simpler to grab a bunch of files and tag them than to rename them. It's preferable to have 13 tags on a file than having a long ass filename with a string of random words.

>>107448227
>Some enterprise distros do pay up for that though and some distros like Ubuntu even work with hardware companies and board partners to get their own secure boot keys preloaded into hardware.
unironically why I thought the "just works distro" would actually just work but fuck me for thinking that. thanks for the info about the microsoft keys, ill just turn the thing off and fix it.
>>107448227
Its gonna be a SELinux install so why not.

>>107448251
Use case for hoarding porn?

>>107448269
It makes me feel bald and powerful

>>107448269
i have an obscure fetish and have to hoard anything i find.

>>107448260
If your board partner pre-loaded their MOK keys then it would just work. It's common to see Canonical's key preloaded if you view them in the BIOS on say a Dell or HP system, etc. but obviously not everyone does so which leads to the awkward dance where you have to disable secure boot until you store the keys in the systems store and then enable it again.

Secure Boot is honestly a pain in the ass for a problem most people don't have. How many people do you know that have ever had their firmware attacked? It's not a concern most of the time but Microsoft pushes for it because it makes installing alternative operating systems more difficult for technically inept.

>>107448151
>Go and download ROCm from AMD. They have APT repos.

Sorry, can you be more specific? I looked on AMD's website and found the page talking about it but didn't see any way to actually download something.

I'm also getting nervous looking at this because it looks like it might be meant for very recent GPU's only...

And what exactly does this thing do? Is it a replacement for the existing display drivers or is it JUST focused on high intensity compute?

>>107448330
https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/latest/install/install-methods/package-manager/package-manager-ubuntu.html

>>107448269
what if the internet gets down?

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Couldn't get any version of subtitle edit to work on linux, which version are we meant to use?
I just wanna generate subtitles for my incest JAV's

>>107448463
I've used it recently with wine and it just werked, it was like a month or two ago

>>107448269
If the globohomo ever disables the internet that nigga will be ready for it.

>>107448463
just use whisper cli. it outputs srt files. this gui wrapper is all unnecessary.

>>107448589
Could you narrow down or link which windows version of subtitle edit you used with wine?

>>107444245
anybody who can help ?

>>107444245
Unnecessarily difficult compared to sane distros, but not very.

>>107444268
Arch wiki, /r/vfio

>>107447764
Ubuntu, Kubuntu...
>doesn't boot
Your motherboard firmware must be very old or broken. Does it rely on the "DO NOT TRUST" certificate by any chance?
Or maybe you've added your own Platform Key? If so, you need to sign any binary before it can be booted (bootloader, kernel, drivers).

I can't boot any recent ISOs on my mini PC because its root of trust is literally "DO NOT TRUST" and no firmware updates were ever released, fucking chinks...

>>107444245
It should be as easy as apt install xboard and apt install ace-of-penguins.

>>107448947
thanks for answering my newfaggy question
>Unnecessarily difficult compared to sane distros, but not very.
i checked devuan's packages repo and thankfully it looks like they added everything necessary for playing game, i am sure i will get used to
>Arch wiki, /r/vfio
sadly those have outdated tutorials "especially r/vfio" guess i have to either dual boot or try to figure it out myself
>>107449030
i was foolish trying to get pleb games to work, but you anon have shown me the way. Thanks

>>107449095
Pretty sure the Arch Wiki isn't outdated:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

Although that's more of a guide than a tutorial.

>>107449317
You can't have a simple tutorial because so much depends on your hardware, and you may need out of tree kernel patches. It's not a plug & play situation.

>>107448351
holy crap that was so easy. As in, when I followed the instructions, they worked! Instead of shit not doing that which is what normally happens to me. Thank you so much!

Assuming these GPU's aren't too old for this thing to support them, I'm hoping I'm just a re-boot away from making major progress!

>>107449335
Yeah, a general guide is as good as it gets. You just have to figure it out for yourself.

>>107449095
>i was foolish trying to get pleb games to work, but you anon have shown me the way. Thanks
UNIRONICALLY

>Firefox keeps randomly crashing every few hours again
Mozilla, unfuck what you broke please

>>107449442
Check about:crashes and see if the report mentions anything

>>107449442
WERX on my machine. Sounds like a DISTRO prob. Are you a MEMER, son?

>>107449454
Not seeing anything useful.
Reads like generic "something went wrong" crash dump.
>>107449459
(You)

>>107447791
fglrx has not been a thing for a decade.
Install rusticl.
Keep in mind that your "cluster" won't reach 50% of the speed of a single modern GPU.

>>107448145
ROCm doesn't support old GPUs, only the last three generations are (barely) supported.

>>107448151
>>107448064
god bless amd

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am retard, how 2 use yt-dlp for youtube music?

>>107449661

yt-dlp -x [link to video]

>>107449661
yt-dlp -S abr -f ba -x url
Meaning:
>-S: sort for formats
>abr: will prioritize formats with the most audio bitrate in kbps
>-f: select formats (different from sorting)
>ba: bestaudio, will select audio-only formats
>-x: extract audio in case it's necessary

You may also wish to insert --audio-format yourformat, e.g. --audio-format mp3 will convert your music to mp3 if you need to do so. Otherwise, you don't need to put it in.

Read the manual. It's an easy read, to be honest.

>>107447791
>>107448033
rocm dropped support for
>R7 450 4GB
that generation of cards a long while back (5ish?) and even when it supported it it had to be enabled with an environment variable
and like that other anon said you don't need the proprietary drivers for rocm, the proprietary drivers are only really useful for AMD's defunct vendor specific hardware codec library AMF
some people claim you do because rocm's older install scripts and repos will prompt you to install them unnecessarily, i think just because they pre-bundled them with a development version of their compute kernel driver so LTS distros could still use the newest features
rocm's opencl runtime has also been basically abandoned and doesn't have access to modern hardware features outside of building opencl kernels independently with clang and using inline assembly (you're meant to use their CUDA clone HIP which has support libraries for modern features) for hardware access which shares parts of the software stack) and is in questionable condition
iirc i think it also had a lot of stability issues back then too

alternatively mesa ships their own opencl runtime made with rust called rusticl with somewhat decent performance that actually supports opencl 3 and not a halfway finished implementation of 2.2 like AMD's official one
it won't show up unless you set the environment variable RUSTICL_ENABLE to radeonsi and optionally RUSTICL_FEATURES to fp64 and intel to enable double and intel related extensions

and if neither of them shows up sometimes the opencl platform files that tell the loader what backends are available don't get installed properly to the place it looks for them, /etc/OpenCL/vendors/ should have <platform name>.icd files which contain the filename or to the shared library that provides the platform
rocm's is libamdocl64.so and rusticl's is libRusticlOpenCL.so

>>107449906
>doesn't have access to modern hardware
2013 is what i meant by modern btw
i meant iirc my R9 290 on windows back in the day had the exact same half complete implementation of 2.2 and extension and feature set as my 9070 XT on linux has today
i don't know how much farther back it goes

Should I keep using apropos + man, or just tldr?

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>>107442570

>>107449695
>>107449738
didn't work for me, initially because i was in fish, but after i ran it outside of fish, i just got a bot error over and over again.

>>107448351
>>107449341
Well clinfo now shows an AMD opencl platform, but the only device in said platform is the intel iGPU.

I was going to install the entire ROCm platform even though I don't think I need most of it, but then realized that would take 24 GB of disk space and I only had about 14 GB free, so I just installed the rocm-opencl-runtime and rocm-opencl-sdk components. Maybe I need the amdgpu-lib component too?


Something weird I noticed is that on windows a given GPU card will be recognized as one model, but on linux it is usually recognized as a slightly different one or even multiple models(???)
for example with this specific card I run
lspci | grep -i vga
and get
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde PRO / Venus LE / Tropo PRO-L [Radeon HD 8830M / R7 250 / R7 M465X] (rev 87)
and it seems to give 3 different identifiers for the AMD card? "Radeon HD 8830M / R7 250 / R7 M465X". On windows it is identified ONLY as an R7 450. Why the difference?

>>107450005
tldr is for shitters.
learn to read man pages you shitter. i bet you use arch.

>>107450086
>On windows it is identified ONLY as an R7 450. Why the difference?
Linux doesn't differentiate between those different cards because they're all the same family.

You shouldn't need anything apart from the runtime lib. If that's not working then it could be because your card is too old to support ROCm. I'm not sure. If that's the case then you'd want to try and get Mesa's rusticl to work but its OpenCL support is usually not as good but better than nothing if you can get it to work.

Why don't distros have a setting that allows you to lock your system configs like a immutable distro once you finish configuring it?
Wouldn't that prevent the likelyhood of issues happening?
t. fucked up my fedora boot partition because time shift defaulted to that and I just pressed continue.
>Same drive
Wanted redundancy and I have enough space for a local backup if I need to rollback/decide to just reinstall the OS on the same drive

>>107450179
>Linux doesn't differentiate between those different cards because they're all the same family
Huh, I thought the radeon HD series and the Rx xxx series were totally different generations. You've answered something that has bothered me for literally years.

>it could be because your card is too old to support ROCm

Assuming the issue is age related, is it possible that an older ROCm version might support them, or does ROCm do backwards compatibility so that anything it ever has supported will still be supported in the future, but just might not have all the new features?

I also found a post-installation step that I missed before so maybe that might still fix it.

>>107450158
>learn to read
It's not a question about reading, anyone can read. I just want maximum productivity not having to force myself to search / through man pages as opposed to just seeing direct examples via tldr.

/ubuntu user

  ~ uptime
 23:42:39 up 9 days, 17:13,  1 user,  load average: 0.36, 0.73, 0.88
I don't want to reboot and lose my uptime info, what do I do?

>>107450306
fake your uptime like everyone else you tranny.

>>107450320
That would be like cheating in a game, not fun.

>>107450342
Usecase of keeping uptime on a desktop system and not a server?

Can someone please explain the 'muh SteamOS', 'when SteamOS finally' phenomenon?

Every single YT video that is even slightly related to Linux is littered with accounts begging and squeeling for SteamOS to be made available for desktop like it means something. They state it with the same repeated impotence as though they are offering a threat directly to Microsoft. None of them will ever actually leave Windows, even if Valve gives in to their stupid and pointless demands. Most of them have the retarded Clippy profile pic.

What do these normgroids believe SteamOS offers that isn't already available in a better package? Do they know what an immutable distro is or why they would even want one. This shit is driving me insane.

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>>107450306
I turn my PC off every night.

>>107450382
>What do these normgroids believe SteamOS offers that isn't already available
A paid development team. support staff, regular releases, and targeted game optimization. Aka it just werks.

>>107450382
Linux big complex and scary
Company I trust since I am a manchild obsessed with gaymes good
That's the gist of it
Don't overthink it, just laugh at normgroids and move on.

>>107450422
Only if you buy their hardware though.

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lol
lmao
kek, even

>>107450812
to be fair, all of the internet was down this morning what a jeet did the needful and CFia when down.

>>107448145
>You can just copy your files manually like that. Another option that some people use is to have a separate disk partition for the system and the home directory. That way you can upgrade the OS on the system partition and not even have to do anything to keep your files besides telling the new OS where the /home directory is.
interesting, thank you. can this be done going between similar distros like debian or ubuntu if I want to port all my data onto a clean ubuntu install?

>>107450382
It seems like a reasonable request. I guess the main assumption here is that most, if not all, distros come off as half-baked, so there's hope that some official release by Valve would guarantee something done properly for widespread use.

>>107450880
steamOS will never be used outside their well established hardware targets.
and for good reason. they might consider a validated hardware route +/- diy with validated parts but steamOS for general use would just end up half baked like every other distro

>>107450880
valve is never going to release SteamOS as a general purpose operating system
imagine all the support they would have to provide to retards
imagine supporting all hardware configurations out there
imagine having to support all the nvidia bullshit
never gonna happen, its going to stay on a very small hardware selection and otherwise you are on your own

whats it like using linux on the arm laptops? like snapdragon x elite. there's a lot of buzz about it from last year but nothing recent.

>>107451366
even tuxedo give up, qualcomm is doing jack shit, it won't work or barely. pajeet tier tech.

Does anyone know why whenever I dual boot certain distros my windows boot entry always boots into linux? I tried endeavour with systemd boot and each time after restarting I tried booting into windows from the boot menu it either redirects to endeavour, or throws an error up

>>107451546
you should try not being an arch shitter.
arch shitters shit up everywhere they go, much like the yids.

>>107451366
Because it's shit hardware nobody asked for and the buzz died as soon as they stopped funding the social media blitz. See also Intel dGPUs.

>>107451546
don't yourself don't let some installer do it for you
1. leave windows efi partition to itself. install windows first on its own disk ideally.
2. install linux on its partition 2nd and make its own efi system partition. ideally again its own disk
3. set up a chain load the windows boot efi binary from systemdboot or whatever boot loader you want
4. set the default boot your linux boot manager
5. let windows update normally and all that shit to its own bootloader cuz you know it's gonna fuck up your efi system partition if you share it with linux

>>107451552
Arch>
>>107451594
I never use the installer for partitioning, I always use gparted to make a 1gb Linux partition and manually assign it in the installer.

>>107451366
asahi isn't bad if you're ok with the limitations.

>>107450837
>can this be done going between similar distros like debian or ubuntu
I can't say for certain, I've mostly stuck with mint, I might have used debian briefly once. But assuming it uses the same file structure (and I am pretty sure it does) I don't see why it wouldn't work.

If you want to play around with it to find out what works, grab a cheap ssd (or HDD if you're ok with it being a bit slower and dealing with the mechanical side of things) or two of like 128- 256 GB or so off of ebay. you can create a new test system and/or clone your current one to it so if something breaks catastrophically you dont risk losing anything important

>>107452003
it's already unsupported before it was, 6 years later, not everything work, only m1/m2. what a joke.

>>107451648
read
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-boot

>>107452074
i'm quite aware. m3/m4 will likely see some support next year. i used to main asahi.

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>>107450039
yt-dlp "url"

works for me. make sure you put the url in quotations ""

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Gay
Nigger
Uncs

How do I add a parameter in endeavoros? I can't figure it out for the life of me, I've tried everything I can find online

is xfce window management similar to windows?
i like being able to maximize windows with windows key + up for example

>>107452490
>uses a foss-only distro
>gets foss-only distro problems
Sounds like a self-inflicted problem to me.

>>107452569
What bootloader did you choose to install? You run kernel parameters through them.

>>107448725
Just tested it with SE4014.zip and wine 10.20-1, works fine out of the box, didn't even need to install mono or dotnet

>>107452490
humilliation ritual

>>107450422
What makes people think Valve is in the interest of providing support for anything beyond their own hardware running steamos?

>>107452616
I used the nonguix installer to avoid such issues.
>>107452674
Ye, they are forcing me to stick with Debian and be subservient to pedos and troons.
It's interesting that you mention that as at this moment I'm listening to materials on psyops and chaos magick. It's basically humiliation rituals all the way down.

>>107452620
Its systemd
I was doing it right, it just wasn't the solution to my problem

how the fuck do i get audio working on ubuntu?

>>107452836
Turn the volume up.

>>107452836
Try pipewire

>>107440264
Bazzite is actually quite good at what it set out to accomplish. Its a great 10ft interface experience THAT "just works" out of the box, and its impossible for the average normie to fuck it up.

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i am looking to jump the Winjeet sinking ship before the visnu rats decide copilot is good for me and disabling it is antisemite behaviour and the hallucinated code cause more issues than i have already experienced
I work in a factory and my machine is eclusively a gaming and media device and have no fucking clue who even is this sudo pacman guy
My GPU is a 9070XT Hellhound and my CPU is 7000 serie ryzen, which selection of distro i should check out? Word of the street mentioned Cachy and Nobara

>>107438803
Then dont use a fucking immutable OS dumbass. Just use debian.

>>107453274
Just use debian or mint. Dont bother with anything Arch related. You're not the target audience.

>>107453274
Both works just fine for gaming
>>107453338
cachyOS is retardproofed arch as it can get, he is the target audience

>>107452613
There's no substitute for installing and trying for yourself.

On windows currently, and would like to move back to Linux. Ideally I want to set my install and configs up in a virtual machine, and then migrate that all to hardware once everything is to my liking. What is the easiest, most idiot proof way to do this? I generally speaking now about setting up my home directory in its own partition, but what about all my programs and other configuration? It would be nice if there was a program for this.

Im planning on moving to Debian stable, in case that matters.

>>107453377
There's no need to over-complicate things, stop faggoting and install it as your only OS and set it all up.

>>107453395
Except that I want to do a minimal install and build it up with just what I need, which will take time and trial and error. Im not putting my only computer into an unusable state for an unknown period of time while I set everything up.

Thanks for the completely fucking useless response though which didn't at all address my question

>>107453377
This can be more difficult than you think.
May I suggest dual booting and nuking windows when you are done?

>>107453274
Mint and don't listen to elitist sweats. Have been running the same install for over a year now with zero issues, it is impressively stable. Haven't yet encountered a game that doesn't work or perform well.
It's honestly the best version of Windows that I have ever used.

>>107453411
Potentially, I know windows likes to break dual boots though. What is the main issue? Config files being spread out all over the place? I know some people compile all the instructions into bash scripts and just run that anytime they do a new install. Thats probably just outside what im realistically capable of doing though. Im assuming its no trouble to just grab my home directory and put that where it needs to be after the fact.

>>107453408
Base install, uncheck everything but Standard System Utilities, apt install menu xorg openbox firefox-esr, BAM, you've got a minimal system to build up from. Anything you need to accomplish from there just look up whatever package options you have, make a choice, install, move on to the next.

>>107453274
CachyOS is just the best gaming distro you can use as long you can read a wiki.

>>107453443
When Windows breaks your bootloader (which shouldn't happen that commonly, but it will happen given sufficient time) you can boot into whichever usb drive you used to install Linux and reinstall grub (or whatever you are using but debian stable will be grub by default). This may sound complicated but it is really simple and an LLM can guide you through it.
Still less complicated than exporting a VM setup to a real drive.
If you have more than one drive you can bypass windows issues by installing linux on a separate drive too.

>>107453467
In theory its that simple but in practice there is always some bullshit I would rather deal with it in isolation if at all possible since im not running something fully featured by default.

>>107453486
Non 0 chance I have had to do this before desu

>>107453443
>What is the main issue
-installing linux on the same physical drive as windows
-booting into windows from linux grub
-interacting with your linux drive in windows disk management
do any of these and windows is likely to be an absolute nigger

>>107453518
It's literally that simple every time I actually install. If you need a file manager then apt install mc. If you need an image viewer apt install feh. It is that simple in actual practice. Don't forget step one, I told you to stop faggoting. You'll have firefox-esr to look up whatever you need to go further whenever you have a need that you don't know watdo for. Faggot.

Im looking for steps on how to do this other places and the first things I am coming across suggest I just need to export the data from the VM in a certain way, and then use dd to put it into the partition I want, which I could probably do from a live image. This might be a lot easier than I first considered.

is lynx the best CLI/TUI web browser?

>>107453518
And if you need moar then you can do the base install plus choose XFCE, or do the same thing I said but apt install xfce4 instead of openbox. You'd want to look at the Debian packages first and see what all you'd have to have for your needs that goes along with just xfce4 (look in the suggested packages on the page for it). Faggot.

>>107453518
>>107453636
Look at all the packages labeled rec, faggot.

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/xfce4

>>107453408
Hate to provide too obvious a solution to your problem but just get a second PC.
Normies and boomers are ditching their older comps for Windows 11 machines and Linux isn't exactly demanding. Scoop up whatever machine from the past decade to fuck around with and try new OSes on.
um, duh

>>107438803
>even though i installed all the version (3.10 / 3.11 / 3.12 / 3.13) i CANNOT switch between the versions as interpreter in pycharm FOR WHATEVER FUCKING REASON
>he doesn't build Python from source

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Frens, I want to drop Windows and move to Linux, but I haven't used Linux in years and I'm not a real techie. I'm trying to install (supposedly the simplest distro) Mint and I'm having serious issues. The Mint installer is apparently unable to find my SSD and I do not understand why. I have Secure Boot disabled, Fast Boot disabled. I am not an expert, just a guy sick of Windows who wants to break free.

I've read some other options for me are: 1) Use Legacy Mode, 2) Disable RST, 3) switch SATA to AHCI, 4) run the command sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=10. I don't know what any of these things mean so I'm looking for advice on my problem.

I have a brand new ACER Predator Helios Neo 18 and I am gobsmacked by how unstable Linux installation is. I am by no means a computer pro but I'm definitely far-beyond the average normie and this has wasted hours of my time without even getting the OS running.

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>>107453905
Another image, how I disabled RAID. I'm disillusioned and seriously reconsidering Pajeetsoft Winpoos 11 if this takes up another several hours to troubleshoot. Please save me from it.

I have a ZFS mirror pool which looks like this:

$ zpool list -v
NAME         SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  CKPOINT  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP    HEALTH  ALTROOT
zc          16.4T  15.4T  1.01T        -         -    65%    93%  1.00x    ONLINE  -
  mirror-0  16.4T  15.4T  1.01T        -         -    65%  93.8%      -    ONLINE
    sdc1    16.4T      -      -        -         -      -      -      -    ONLINE
    sdd1    16.4T      -      -        -         -      -      -      -    ONLINE

But I can't change it from /dev/sdc# -> HDD UUID because both HDDs have the same UUID:

$ sudo blkid /dev/sdc1
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="zc" UUID="16703832596379041907" UUID_SUB="11672906294382628497" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="zfs_member" PARTUUID="1c530b83-bec3-5245-99a3-364b38e321f0"
$ sudo blkid /dev/sdd1
/dev/sdd1: LABEL="zc" UUID="16703832596379041907" UUID_SUB="11458967842504489676" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="zfs_member" PARTUUID="6adbf5bd-a07a-4a78-8abf-18042a113ac8"
$

BTW, I went to some cybersecurity meetup job social mixer whatever thing today IRL. It was mostly a waste of time. The cheese tasted bad if not eaten with crackers.

>>107453567
No, I don't think it supports JavaScript. There's probably CLI web browsers which do support JS; someone tell me about them.

>>107446799
Linux kernel is getting more bloated each year + systemd is what made it impossible to boot with that little RAM. Although there are linux kernel versions designed for embedded devices that consume less RAM but I doubt you would want to run that...

>>107453933
/dev/sdc doesn't even show up in "by-uuid":

$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec  5 22:47 0EED-FF4A -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec  5 22:54 16703832596379041907 -> ../../sdd1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec  5 22:47 3897b1f7-20cd-4dd5-8c75-358e5443938b -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec  5 22:47 8a1576fd-65e3-46a9-b0c9-a774d06ec25d -> ../../sdb3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec  5 22:47 CB20-547A -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec  5 22:47 e61311fe-5d0b-418b-a1a5-7787d93a79cc -> ../../sdb2
$

Wish I could just rename /dev/sdx without having to be or mess with the Linux kernel...

>went to some cybersecurity meetup job social mixer whatever thing today IRL
Very cringe thing that some guy who worked in the capital of my country said in the presentation section: something like "We want AI slop to be in charge of missile defense and missile attack." Seriously, he was saying something like you could get some job putting AI in charge of nuclear weapons and so, or some such nonsense.

>>107450812
and nothing of value was lost!

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>>107453975
putting AI in charge of nuclear weapons and so on*

Finally making the jump from windows, just tried nobara live install to see how it'd go and I'm sold. Just have a few questions though:
Is there any way to use iCloud Keychain and its extension?
How do I properly calibrate my screen's hdr? I tried following what the calibration said, but it resulted in video and images being too bright. Also, YouTube ok Brave refuses to play hdr content for some reason

>>107453905
Switch to ahci probably
If you have zero idea about linux, starting with a vm can be preferable to doing bunch of stuff you have no idea about.

>>107453917
>Another image, how I disabled RAID.
thst image shows that you did nothing

>>107447173
Cool, I'll have to remember that. Interesting thing I learned about that today: Spirit OS is based on or a remaster of Tiny Core Linux. Spirit OS works on 32-bit computers.
>Spirit OS is a lightweight remaster of Tiny Core Linux 16.2, designed for very old 32-bit computers (without UEFI). It includes IceWM 3.6.0, full multimedia support (video/music with codecs), Wi-Fi tools, and a lightweight browser. Powered by glibc 2.40 and Linux kernel 6.12.11-tinycore, it's everything you need to bring your old PC back to life in 2025. --https://spirit-os.sourceforge.io/
>Yes, Tiny Core Linux currently supports both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86-64) architectures as of its latest release, version 16.2 on September 28, 2025. --slop
You can probably put Tiny Core Linux or Spirit OS on a CD and boot into an installation thing. I'm thinking neither have a liveboot environment.

>>107453963
>Linux kernel [monolithic] is getting more bloated each year
How about a modified kernel only for your hardware: that would be a smaller data size, would also probably use less RAM.

>systemd bloat
So systemd has a larger data size and uses more RAM than non-systemd distros. I didn't know that.

>>107450306
systemctl soft reboot

>>107450400
Based literally me

>>107450880
>It seems like a reasonable request
I don't think so at all. It's parallel to Apple releasing an OS that supports all PCs. Building a SteamOS Hackintosh is what those people should be working towards.

>>107450400
This guy ain't crypto mining + seedboxing + home webserver-ing like me.

>>107454160
>systemctl soft reboot
I was wondering about something just like that a few day ago! A way to reboot the system without the entire computer turning off then turning on. Best I had was to restart swap ("sudo swapoff -a", "sudo swapon /swapfile") since I had no GUI or any other programs except the absolute-must programs running. This seems incorrect to me:
>If you are disabling a swap partition or file for the purpose of resizing or deleting it, make sure to back up any important data on the associated device. Although swap space usually contains temporary memory pages, there could be a small risk of data loss. --https://linuxvox.com/blog/linux-swapoff/
If I turn off swap I think it moves everything into RAM. I just have to make sure I have enough free memory to hold what was in swap.

>>107454191
>>107454191

>>107453905
>>107453917
This stinks of AI "support", did you use it? If so, reset your BIOS and then disable secure boot and boot into a live Linux environment and check if there are any errors in dmesg.

If you use a monitor which can be turned off then you don't need any screen lock software. Just go to tty3 or tty# (ctrl+alt+3) then run "vlock -a" then turn off the monitor. You have to enter a username+password to unlock it and use the computer at all (it locks all ttys). Of course, there's lazier screen lock solutions which require fewer keystrokes.

>>107441031
Hope you kept the original files.

>>107441055
>Your files will never be women.
Good. If my millions of files suddenly became women then I'd probably die from the explosion of expanding flesh which was previously very compacted and dense.

>>107454213
Link to a new thread (probably).

>>107453522
Is this in any way accurate?

>>107435559
>>107439221
>>107440220
>>107450158
>>107451552
Hating on Arch users. Why? Because it was popularized by PewDiePie (popular idiot YouTuber) and probably also Mutahar (popular jeet YouTuber)? BTW, your posts are unfriendly.

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Should I be worried?
Tinkering with grub scares me a little.

>>107454197
It is a reasonable request, but not doable in practice.