am i the only one having erratic behavior with the new mesa update? arch linux btw

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Thank you to all who responded.

>>107454077
I do not appear to have that option in my BIOS. I'm fucking pissed at ACER. How do I switch to AHCI if it does not provide that option in my BIOS? I tried this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWCRQBJd7jE and I simply do not have the same BIOS options.

>>107454130
So how do I do it correctly?

>>107454265
I don't use "AI." Not certain hat the implication is.

>>107454370
What model is your notebook, exact model from the sticker on the bottom?

>>107454370
>So how do I do it correctly?
Why do you want to disable a raid that probably does not even exist?
If you'd had a hardware raid (what is this, a server?) you'd disable it in bios.

what xdg-desktop-portal do i use on xfce?

>>107454370
https://cachyos.org/download/

>>107454370
>Not certain hat the implication is.
The implication is that people who follow AI advice tend to get they systems in a state that's impossible to troubleshoot. The lack of coherence in your posts made me think that's what you had done. The problem is obviously that Linux can't find the storage device so the first thing you should do is investigate this. The kernel log (dmesg) or BIOS is a good place to start.

>>107454346
yep this may be the problem
removed lib32-vulkan-mesa-device-select
removed vulkan-mesa-device-select
installed vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers
installed lib32-vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers

This is or the new mesa 25.3.1 is broken

>>107455015
yep im not the only one
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310631

>>107454779
I assume you are using the experimental wayland session? You don't need it for X11.

You need the one that matches your compositor. For labwc and wayfire that would be xdg-desktop-portal-wlr.

how THE FUCK do I capture exit code, stdout and strerr into 3 separate variables (actually 2 arrays for output streams and one variable for exit code) in one go without using temporary files in bash? why is it so simple to output different streams to files but requires mind boggling gymnastics to do it with variables?

this pathetic piece of shit is what I am using right now...

multiline_output.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 
error_code=$?
mapfile -t my_beloved_array  < <(multiline_output.sh )
mapfile -t my_beloved_array_errors  < <(multiline_output.sh 2>&1)

synced my pc with arch linux and now gtk2 is gonzo. can will gentoo remove gtk2 too?

>>107454191
but android is not ganoo/linux??

Thanks again everyone.

>>107454502
Acer Predator Helios Neo 18 AI (PHN18-72-91VK)

>>107454719
Alright - so that isn't the issue. Probably the lack of AHCI rather than SATA.

>>107454923
Thanks but everything I've read points to Mint rather than CachyOS. You'd really have to sell me on it because I just want the easiest and most simple distro.

>>107454955
Gotcha, no definitely not using some machine. This seems to circle back to BIOS which doesn't give me an AHCI option to locate the SSD during Mint Install.

Should I just call ACER and try to have a tech tell me how to switchout SATA for AHCI on my BIOS? I literally cannot see the option even in advanced BIOS with Ctrl+S etc. Is there a command I can use in the terminal?

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>connect USB-TTL-thing to a Linux single board computer (running Armbian)

minicom -w -t xterm -l -R UTF-8 blah

>power on the single board computer
>receive loads of seemingly garbled data
>nothing seems to happen
>hit enter dozens and dozens of times while receiving even more garbled data
>finally a login prompt appears
Why is this even? Was the data actually something meaningful but in wrong format or something?
>log in
>do stuff, works
>fire up text editor to edit conf
>can't do shit, appears like it's operating as if there's only one row of screen output available
>exit text editor
>do a command that outputs color
>colors all messed up
Why are serial lines like this?

ok im really liking xfce but it seems like its configuration is more "manual" than other DEs i tried like plasma and gnome
i dont see options to change the regional format settings for example

>>107455080
i think you need one if you want to use flatpak?

>>107456410
>Regional format
Are you talking about disc drive settings, or clock settings or something else?

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>>107454191
I have two monitors, and I can add some plugins only to one Xfce panel (for example, the Status Tray Plugin). Surely there's a way to add them to both panels?

>>107455040
jesus, he's even on amd integrated graphics this shouldn't be happenning.

>>107454047
Anyone?

How is performance of the rx9070 xt on linux?

>>107456950
i dunno much about the specifics, but i think cloud services are better integrated on gnome, nobara is kde by default. not sure about the hdr too, but many features are limited on a live environment (theres a good chance of everything running accordingly on bare metal). kde hdr support is good.

also nobara is just fedora with extra stuff, consider that too.

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how am I supposed to troubleshoot this? I know this game works on wine, but I tried in a clean prefix with dxvk and it just goes full "something happened" without any actual error

You know that list of [OK] that flashes by when Linux boots? Is that logged to a file somewhere so you can analyse it after the system has booted? Particularly if something red [Failure] flashes by with no time to actually read what failed.

>>107458073
Check

journalctl -xe

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>>107457546
Pretty good. I have a 9070 XT myself, zero issues with it.

>>107458225
>-xe
Useful to know. But journalctl doesn't log the boot info in the same format as it's displayed during boot.

>>107458446
It should do. If this happens "pre-boot" in the initramfs then you might not see it though.

>>107458460
>>107458446
What I will say though is that generally you can ignore those things. Sometimes things fail and that's normal. If it's fatal then systemd will drop you into a recovery shell so you'll know if shit is fucked up.

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>>107455159
okay got it, it only took 6 million hours browsing through AI-generated answers on modern web
it looks beyond horrid and now I am beginning to understand why some prefer powershell...

eval "$( ( multiline_output.sh) \
        2> >(readarray -t my_beloved_array_errors; typeset -p my_beloved_array_errors ) \
         > >(readarray -t my_beloved_array; typeset -p my_beloved_array ); error_code=$?; typeset -p t_ret )"

thanks for reading my blog

i'm using sudo paru -Syu --noconfirm to get system updates
is there any way to skip the bloat of asking for root password or is that something that's just impossible

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>>107458598
I do not approve of Child rape jokes, even indirect memes. Please delete this and consider the children harmed by "pornography."

>>107458555
I did read your earlier post, and I did spend a couple of minutes looking into it, but I decided that nope this is not something I want to deal with on my day off.
I still don't follow what's going on in your new solutions, but at least it looks like you're only running you command once now so that's something.

chromium takes some time to be recognized by gnome so you can't easily just alt tab to it
on arch btw, any ideas?

>>107458737
Sounds like a GNOME bug. I've never had any issues Alt-Tabbing on KDE.

>>107458753
probably since it was persistent on fedora and ubuntu with gnome as well

I got GUIX installed and it's shit so I put Debian back on . During installation I unchecked everything but base utils and Openbox, and it installed all kinds of shit including a GDM. Then the Openbox menu is full of all kinds of things that aren't actually installed. It had Firefox and Konquerer, and lots moar. I expected GUIX to be very minimal unless you selected things for it to install, but it put on a GDM without even including Xterm. I couldn't find any way to get a terminal, and since it booted to the GDM it covered up the tty login.

GAY
NIGGER
UNCS

very disappoint.

I think unless/until they get their act together I'm going to drop the GNU PLUS and just call it Linux.

>>107457974
WINE wow64 is pretty unstable

I'm having a lot of problems with Linux Mint and I have no idea where to check. I have a GTX 970 and a lot of games just don't run using Proton, they launch but they go at unironically 0.1 fps. Most of the times i can fix these by using an old proton version like 7 or disabling DXVK altogether. I have the latest drivers, 580, and vulkan works. My biggest question is how do I fix this and why it happens in the first place, when one of the first things that pops up in Nier Automata's protondb page is someone who's game works out of the box with a pc worse than mine.

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Why there isn't a standalone panel/taskbar with a good system monitor applet?
Icewm has a memory graph and CPU graph applet but it's integrated into the panel which is integrated into the window manager so it can't be used with other window managers
Xfce4 system monitor plugin/applet is shit because it doesn't show a graph
I tried tint2 but third party applets are all old python2 stuff that I can't even compile
I also found MATE panel which has exactly what need (see picrel) but it's kind of bloated and installs more dependencies than the two mentioned above

>>107459094
>muh graphs
just use top

>>107459171
I do that when I want more details, but when I'm simply doing other stuff like browsing I want to see my memory/cpu/disk/network usage at a glance and not open an entire fucking window to see it.

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>>107458886
no one that i know cares about or say gnu, its just linux, they dont seem to grasp the concept of a distro too.

>>107459201

Customize btop into a widget. That's what I did.

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>>107458886
>>107459221
Gentlemen, I present you with Busybox/Linux, or as I've recently taken into calling Busybox+Linux...

>>107459236
How do you do that? does it show a graph or is it just numbers?

>>107458598
cp actually stands for communist party, that's why you should use rsync

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>>107459242
NOPE
O
PENGUINS MUST POPULATE MY X
E

>>107447791
>Keep in mind that your "cluster" won't reach 50% of the speed of a single modern GPU.
Really? The 10+ desktops I have actually seem to perform remarkably well even just in regular CPU mode with no GPU usage. For the particular hash I'm trying to break the one I've been using will check about 100k permutations/second. I also recently bought an old Tesla K20Xm datacenter GPU (circa 2012) (for an unrelated reason) and on windows it's only doing about 150k permutations/sec. (despite showing 100% gpu utilization, its definitely being bottlenecked by something because I can watch the power draw on the GPU core specifically and it spends a LOT of time drawing almost no power, then suddenly shoots up to ~40 watts for a few seconds)

These also aren't the only computers I have, although most of the others aren't as powerful. Yes, a modern beefy GPU would be great, but I have a TON of free hardware laying around already.

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https://discuss.kde.org/t/fedora-41-kde-virtual-keyboard-keeps-enabling-itself-how-to-disable-permanently/30127
AAAAIIIIEEEEEE

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>>107454191
Why this does not work

cat test | sed -E -e '/hello/{s/world/sed/; be; }; /anotherline/=; :e '

why is /anotherline/= executed?
does not matter if I do t or b - neither skip to the end of the script. I tried b and t without without the label, but they do not skip to the end either.
I know about q but for some reason using it makes the file go from

1
2
3

3
1
2
3

Yes, it is a script on a router, I have nothing else besides posix and gnu utils.

>play windows game on linux through steam
>game often hangs on loading screen when loading save file
>attach game process to strace -p
>game loads fine
I've never seen it hang while attached to strace. But it is an extra inconvenience to find the pid of the game and run strace and then quit strace when the game has loaded so that it's actually playable.
I don't even know who I should report this to.

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>>107456280
Try with stty something like
stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 cs7 parenb -parodd -cstopb crtscts
Before you connect
Also try with screen instead.
If you have a screen session working try setting TERM=vt220
tput reset
That'll make it more bearable, but won't make it 100% like the normal console or pty you're used to.

My SSD gets really hot on idle when using Arch. Doesn't happen with Alpine or Haiku OS
Any clue what could the issue be?

>>107456092
What exactly about Mint sold you on it?

/fglt/ how is looking glass these days?
Any latency issues?
Does it support high refresh rates?
Do you think it's worth using it?

>>107458587
you shouldnt trust paru more than pacman. use paru/yay only for the aur. you have to input the password for upgrades ust the way it is

>>107459978
recent update is unstable

>>107460169
It's been like this for multiple weeks, though. I just didn't get around to fixing it

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>>107454191
Not a question, I just want to vent because for a split second I became the biggest retard on Earth.
>install ungoogled chromium
>it wont run for some reason
>type "chromium" in a terminal to see logs
>something something '~/.config/chromium/stuff' already exists
>for some reason my retarded self decided to run 'rm' with sudo, and on top of that I mistyped the command as 'sudo rm -r * ~/.config/chromium'
>sudden realization
>out of panic try to restore a Timeshift snapshot and restart system
>remember I don't include my @home subvol in my snapshots so it's useless
>system boots and greets me with picrel
I don't have anyone to blame but myself, how come my brain randomly decided to acquire room temperature IQ in that moment? And yeah I do keep backups, last one is from a month ago, I didn't lose anything important anyway, I'm just flabbergasted by my own stupidity.

>>107460184
not for me. i update every week on friday religiously. yesterday update is the one unstable.

>>107459978
They are running # hrt /dev/sda

>>107460262
I can't tell if this is a shitpost or a genuine reply

>>107460226
>I didn't lose anything important anyway
That's good at least.

>>107460226
i dont see the problem deleting a config file inside the chromium folder

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How do I make this retard read my folders? I am just starting with podman/docker and wanted a GUI as a beginner. I pull the image I want, run it and have the options to set the path to my host (which I fill out with my folder path) and the container path where I want the data to show up. Whatever I do none of my data shows up. I am working with clinical data and I should be only reading it from my local storage. Is there any risk to simply uploading it into the container? Dunno if this is standard practice, doubt anyone at my uni will care.

>>107460671
>folders

>>107460692
Yes, folders.

>>107460692
it cant read folders? dont tell me this is only able to read "volumes"

>>107460226
Fuck, thats the reason why I only daily snapper OOTB or atomic distros.

>>107460671
The same as with docker you have to mount volumes :

volumes:
- '/mylocalpath:/mycontainerpath'

Also, use Z flag if you have SELinux

volumes:
- '/mylocalpath:/mycontainerpath:Z'


I use Portainer on my server or Pods on my desktop, but seriously just use docker compose synthax and run that. GUIs can become a clusterfuck really fast, though portainer allows you to stash custom templates which are Compose files.

Ok It's decided. Given the circumstances with my current Arch Linux instability I will be using CashyOS ISO with the mesa 25.2.7 and lib32-vulkan-mesa-device-select drivers instead of the new mesa-implicit-layers as a daily driver for the next two weeks and hopefully it is resolved by then.

>>107459891
>game stops hanging when you strace it
this is like some quantum wavefunction collapse bullshit

>meme hopping

>>107461984
Probably a timing issue

>>107454346
Sorry, I'm on Debian. I don't have this problem.

>>107462228
That's because your packages are ancient unc

>>107462228
Absolutely based. Debian just works.

>>107462228
This. Linux users can be sorted into two taxa: 1) Debian, and 2) Non-Debian Shitters.

>>107461978
If that works, why go back?

>>107461984
a Heisenbug

>>107459891
>I've never seen it hang while attached to strace.
Tracing forces some degree of serialization, there's a race condition somewhere.

>>107461984
nanonigs

Does KDE have a better way to show I'm connected to a VPN instead of a tiny lock on the network Icon that I can barely see?

>>107462870
What do you have in mind?

It seems to me that the most practical thing to do is to use a stable distro like Debian as the main distro on the computer, and that all software that needs a new version or isn't directly supported should simply run inside a docker container running for example Arch Linux.
Any comments on this?

>>107463025
Some people just run Debian and have everything run as a Flatpak, though you might as well just use something like Bazzite in that case.

>>107463025
Congratulations, you've invented Immutable Distros.

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>>107459959
>stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 cs7 parenb -parodd -cstopb crtscts
Did that before firing up minicom.
>Also try with screen instead.
Tried running minicom inside screen.
>TERM=vt220
Thanks, this was it. On the remote system it was set as "Linux".
>tput reset
On the connecting machine or what?

>>107463025
Is the *need* for the new versions in the room with us now?

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>>107462228
>>107462334
>>107462524

>>107463083
how does an immutable distro resolve the problem of unstable updates you fucking retard?

arch trannies are going into camps with the MAGAts and jews.

Real melty hours.

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Post more memes.
>>107463323
NTA but I assoom the point is all the "instability" happens in the containers instead of messing up your bootable system.
>>107458460
>>107458446
If it's kernel messages we talking here:
dmesg

>>107463660
It messes up your bootable system too, but it's ostensibly (not really) easier to roll back. It doesn't manage state for any user files which may have been corrupted or migrated to non-back compatible formats either.

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It does you a lot of gud to play games like ace-of-penguins freecell and xmahjongg where you get dealt "hands" that you can't win against, but you play them out to your absolute best until you reach deadlock. Both of these games put the brain into intense pattern awareness and seeking modes, and both have randomosity that that is often "un-defeatable" in the classical sense. You have to de-faggotize and push it till they make you stop. If you just reset to a new game once you realize you won't win it (in the classical sense), you're perpetuating your innate faggotry.

If you play modern games with lots of action and noisemaking instead of intensely focused, deeply cognitively engaged strategy in silence, you are also perpetuating your faggotry. You will never be a man, much less a woman. You have allowed the vidyajews to extract your worth into their attention economy. They fill your head with their corporate created and owned "intellectual property". They have shekelized your mindtime.

Gabe is not your friend, either. Fuck him, fuck Steam, and fuck NIGVIDIA, too. It's not too late, you're still a young faggot, faggot. I realized these things and stopped playing vidya back when the original NES was still the latest. Faggot.

Treasure your mind and your mindtime. Don't let the mindjews hold you captive, faggot.

Any Artix users itt? Looking at migrating to it for my next build, but I'm curious about the day-to-day experience of running with Arch packages installed.
The documentation's kind of vague except for a warning that their repos update at different rates and that you can break your system that way, but there's a few horror stories on the forums about accidentally dragging in tons of Arch dependencies, there not being a good way to differentiate between Arch and Artix-provided packages in pacman, etc etc.
Is it the sort of setup that's just asking for problems and takes constant vigilance to not explode every time you update, or is it fairly straightforward to keep working with a handful of programs pulled in from upstream?

>>107460118
Is there a more user friendly, simple, and familiar distro?

>>107460118
>>107464417
Mint has some outdated packages and is rough on some edges but it is a perfect no brainer for anyone who wants a system that just works.

How do I browse IRC safely and anon on ubuntu desktop?

>>107462765
Because live iso life is not the life I want to live. It's just a momentary thing and it allows me to play with other distros at the same time.

>>107464503
Just use a VPS with a bouncer. It's what everyone does. Or stop caring, literally nobody cares what your IP address is on IRC.

>>107463782
Containers don't mess up the host, what are you talking about?
>>107464432
>has Ubuntu's latest LTS as package repository
Obviously there's something outdated. No such thing as "Mint packages" desu.
>>107464503
>>107464514
Also depends on the IRC network, not all of them reveal your IP/hostname.

>>107464514
I can't afford a VPS, why wouldn't tor over router work?

>>107464537
you can't afford 4 dollars a month? did y ou blow all your money on your gender surgery?

>>107464537
Then VPN or Tor but be aware that a lot of IRC servers may filter them for spam.

I built a new computer last week and tried using Linux for the first time, installed Mint Cinnamon and no other OS.
>multi-monitor doesn't work, headphone jack shows up but produces no sound
>installed Nvidia driver 5.80
>play Team Fortress 2, it lags like shit
>use Steam in game performance and see that there's only 2 gigs of vram available for some reason
>spent a while to figure out nvidia drivers aren't working at all, disable secureboot
>2nd monitor works now, play TF2 again
>alt tab out and the display crashes, goes all black and stays black
>restarts,wallpaper is all black for some reason, try opening steam and the entire display crashes again
>restart, same shit happens, get black screen multiple times when opening steam
>roll back nvidia driver to 5.70, restart, can't even log in it's all blank
>enable secure boot, try the noveau drivers, only 2gb vram available again
>install 5.80, it seemingly works on log-in, open TF2, try open the sound settings on desktop and it can't open it, try opening firefox and the display crashes after a few minutes
I thought Mint was supposed to be the stable one, is it just bad at handling 5000 series GPUs?
I might just try installing and using Fedora instead.

>>107464550
You can even get a dollar (yes, ONE whole USD dollar, $1) VPS from some places. Of course the hardware is shared and the virtual CPU and RAM is shitty but it's plenty for an IRC bouncer to run.

>>107464550
Might have been OF whores. He pays to chat with dudes and bots posing as the woman.

>>107464580
this is how i make money. pajeets will drain their wallets if you pretend to be a white girl.

>>107464573
It is a very good and stable all purpose distro but not the best for gaming. Using Novideo drivers also don't help your case. Try Fedora, CachyOS or Bazzite.

>>107464514
DigitalOcean's vps?

>>107464610
Any will work. Just get one and install whatever your preferred bouncer is. It runs 24/7 so you always stays connected and can read the logs, etc, to see what you missed.

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>>107464585
Funny because white boomers also love simping third world women; chinks, gooks, latinas, even Black. Almost every hot negress account on Instagram is filled with old coots drooling on them.

>>107464608
I don't know man, playing a videogame that is legal-to-fuck years old and plastered on the front page of Steam, while alt-tabbing to firefox doesn't seem like hardcore PC use to me, but Mint is utterly failing to do something so simple.

I sure hope Fedora works way better cause this isn't getting my confidence up as my first linux OS.

>>107454191
Distrohoppers/tinkertrannies have you disabled secure boot? Or do you re-enable it each time after a new install

Android is dead and google has killed it.

>>107464670
i installed nixos 8 years ago and haven't "hopped" since. you sound gay and probably do buttstuff

>>107464670
I installed Fedora in March 2023 as my first full time Linux desktop OS and haven't felt the urge to switch distros even once.

How do people even have problems with Linux? Everything just works for me.

>>107464701
Because your hardware happens to be well supported. Good hardware without good drivers is useless.

>>107464701
Survivor bias. It works for lots of people but also lots of people have problems, so they rush to forums in order to solve them

Is mpv player having issues with ubuntu latest? There are 3 types of mpv to install. I got the regular it got me a black screen that I cannot close the vid. Should I have installed mint or whats the issue with mpv on ubuntu?

>>107464701
Certain types of people are more likely to get AIDS than others.

>>107464701
>>107464732
Shit just works case your hardware is all supported AND you use nothing but free as in freedom software.

>>107464826
To add I tried installing the restricted extras for renew codecs it gets a splash screen and I cant advance further.

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>>107454191
How the fuck do I setup btrfs snapshots on Fedora?

>>107464897
Use Snapper

>>107464659
>while alt-tabbing to firefox
That's exactly the weak point of Mint for not using Wayland

the cursor flickers/jitters when in changes shape on xfce
anybody knows how to fix this?
this is on a laptop with an amd APU
if i cant fix it they i will have to use another DE but i really am liking xfce

>>107465469
forgot to mention i was using the xorg generic modesetting driver then i installed the xf86-amgpu one and it helped, it made it better but it still happens

In FreeBSD, my wifi interface isn't showing up from running "ifconfig".

"ifconfig" shows re0=Ethernet and lo0=loopback. The airplane mode button on the keyboard is not a problem, and I even ran "service netif restart" and "service routing restart" after pressing that physical button.

"pciconf -lv" shows "re0@pci0:3:0:0: [...]" for re0=Ethernet and it shows this for the wifi hardware:
>none2@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x028000 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x10ec device=0x8171 subvendor=0x103c subdevice=0x1467
> vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
> device = 'RTL8191SEvA Wireless LAN Controller'
> class = network
I manually typed all of this because that computer has no LAN or Internet connection.

This is especially annoying because I think I used this same FreeBSD version in the computer in the past (in liveboot mode) and WiFi worked.

>>107465656
Install Linux.

>>107465656
It's almost 100% confirmed nanonigs if you used the same one on the same machine before and it worked, but doesn't now.

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Been wanting to really learn Linux™ lately (have been using it casually for about 5 years now) and have an old e-waste tier laptop I don't know exactly what to do with. Was thinking of doing a fresh Debian or Fedora install to do the bandit/Linux journey practices and setting aside some partition space to create an LFS build later down the line.
Would this be feasible? Every single LFS tutorial, build, and instruction book I skimmed has them creating it from a liveCD. But I was wondering if it would just be possible to create it from a separate partition and dual boot once I'm able to actually create a working system.

This is my first and probably last post ever made just to tell you guys this is the first time I have ever sent a message from linux (it's fedora kde)

just thought you wouldn't want to know, luv u

>>107465673
Maybe I'll install Tiny Core Linux or Spirit OS instead. But for now this command in FreeBSD says:
># sysctl net.wlan.devices
>net.wlan.devices:
>#
So no devices detected with that. Command from this thread:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/wlan0-interface-does-not-exist-cant-find-wireless-interface.93623/

>>107465709
Based enough to pass.

>>107454191
I'm sick to death of Windows 11, how is the Nvidia experience on Linux? Last time I used it a year ago I was using Wayland and opening videos the wrong way would cause this horrific epileptic effect of flashing black/white that I couldn't continue using and frames would display out of order.
I know that's been fixed with explicit fix but I'm just a bit hesistant to switch back per se as I know I'll go through cock and ball torture getting my Paradox Games and VR Games running with my "shared" DLCs and my Mod Loaders with my Quest 2

>>107464623
So I got the cheapest one, setup fail2ban and ssh on it. Already a few bots trying to login to it kek

>>107465843
So much of this would just evaporate were it not for the insistence on being played by goymes instead of playing games. Just install it and find out what happens. You will suffer either way. Suffer wisely.

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

>>107462800
>nanonigs
Meaning what?

>>107465656
pciconf detected it but not other stuff, so I successfully loaded the "Realtek wireless network" module by running "kldload rtwn". I then restarted the network interfaces service. Loading that module into the kernel changed nothing; "ifconfig -a" remains the same.

>>107465731
That thread linked to:
>https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/network/#network-wireless
Not helpful.
>https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/advanced-networking/#networking-lagg-wired-and-wireless
Probably not helpful.

There's no BIOS settings preventing wifi or only enabling wifi if Ethernet isn't present.

couple random dumbish questions
1. on a source based distro where you compile the stuff yourself, how do you even get stuff like steam or discord? Like when the software isn't open source, do you just use a flatpak?
2. Why is librewolf seemingly the most commonly used alt browsers, but is never packaged anywhere? A distro will have like 30 random browsers you've never heard of before librewolf
3. Is there a browser better than librewolf? I remember it having some kind of controversy or maybe that was the pale moon browser or something? Really don't know I just want drama free software

I met RMS at the Atlanta Linux Showcase in 1998. In the area with vendor booths in the lobby area of the show, he had laid down a blanket and was sitting in the middle with his legs crossed. He had printed copies of man pages printed and stapled together with covers laid out in front of him.

I walked up and introduced myself and said that I was a big fan, appreciated his hard work, etc. He looked at me coldly and just said "so are you going to buy something?" and motioned toward the booklets. I didn't need a printed copy of the `sed` man page so I shrugged and he seemed quite annoyed, turned to his assistant with a notebook computer and started dictating something to them, as almost to make it clear that our interaction was over.

I'm not sure what the point of posting this is, but that's my RMS story - it was my first "never meet your heroes" moment, I guess.

>>107466018
>1. on a source based distro where you compile the stuff yourself, how do you even get stuff like steam or discord? Like when the software isn't open source, do you just use a flatpak?
You can use Flatpak, yes. Source based distros like Gentoo also often package the binaries too though, e.g Gentoo has a Discord package:
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-im/discord

This is just their binary blob because obviously it's proprietary and there's no source code to it. Just because you use a source based distro it doesn't mean you can't also run random binary packages (as long as your base system is binary compatible with the expected ABI and API of course)

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>>107465656
It's detected but not supported. Read + click links on:
>https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/any-chance-to-bring-up-realtek-rtl8191se-wireless-network-card.79287/
> Unfortunately, no one has managed to get it working on BSD yet: https://bsd-hardware.info/?view=search&name=RTL8191SE#list
>
> A best BSD-way to get it working is to use WiFi driver in Linux VM under bhyve. See: https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/t480-bhyve-wifi-pci-passthrough
Also
>https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/FAQ
>https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi

>>107466155
Pics or it didn't happen.

>>107466201
>Using a Linux VM with PCI passthrough to get WiFi working and then using evil NAT hacks to route traffic from the FreeBSD host
Jesus Christ, just run Linux.

>>107466174
ah okay. what would be safer then, running the flatpaks? those are easily contained separately right?

>>107466018
>3.
Use Brave Browser. But I assume you want something Firefox, so how about hardened Firefox?

>>107466155
Eh, maybe ignore my "pics or it didn't happen" comment.
>I'm not sure what the point of posting this is
Telling your memories of experiences is worthwhile. I sometimes wish such (re)tellings were more valued.

>>107466201
I know that wifi hardware -- WLAN, Realtek, RTL8191SEvA -- works in GNU/Linux. It doesn't work it *BSD. Curious to know how I could fix this. Maybe port the Linux driver source code or whatever to FreeBSD.

>>107466267
Yes, if you want to hide access to your personal files, etc, then Flatpak can be an easy way to do that.

>>107464573
Give Ubuntu or Kubuntu a try. You won't have any driver issues.

>>107466274
>so how about hardened Firefox?
how hard is that to keep up with and update? its a config.js file or something right?

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>>107465656
>FreeBSD
>WiFi

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hey everyone
i want to get rid of win10 and switch to linux. i heard that steam has something like proton built in now and i can just install steam and hit play and most games will work. i fucking hate win11 bullshit and corporate ai. which distribiution should i get? i would also like for unity to work but that's honestly secondary

>>107466422
also i kinda forgot to ask about the things that actually mattered
i'd like to "test drive" the distribution from an usb stick, if possible
i'd also like to have 3 monitor support with monitor switching, i.e. put some monitors to sleep on a hotkey etc

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Anyone have any explanation for this?
>Do my weekly update
>Then sudo autoremove
>Couple of things showed up, can only remember things like "linux-header" and such
>Removed
>Restarted my computer
>Only when it reached the boot screen, it shuts off
>Panic
>Turn on again, shows me the gui, select my distro
>Reaches boot screen, shuts off again
>Turn on again, select the 'start in recovery mode' option
>Actually boot into my desktop
>Mess around for a couple minutes, check my files, play music, open browser, nothing seems wrong
>Turn off and on again
>Boots normally now, everything fine
I was worried there for a sec. What exactly did I do? Ubuntu 24.04 btw

>>107466422
>which distribiution should i get?
Bazzite
>Unity
You can run it with Distrobox, which is pre-installed on Bazzite.

>>107466512
>put some monitors to sleep on a hotkey
You'll have to set this up yourself under settings > keyboard shortcuts.

>>107466540
thanks, i'll look it up, appreciate the answer

well i tried several things and couldnt fix the mouse cursor going crazy every time it changes shape on xfce
guess im going back to kde or gnome

>>107456636
>stuff shouldn't break on bleeding edge distros
the cope is unreal

>>107464336
i liked the first paragraph but then you just devolved into inane drivel. why not apply this lecture towards something like... sticking with a distro and its flaws and really learning it instead of moving away and hoping something else will be easier? besides, it is customary in chess to abandon effectively lost games early

Is the linux experience that you immediately have to input some arcane command or place a file somewhere on the system in order for your install to work right

I immediately had to invoke runes for wifi to not suck ass, it worked but like, why did I have to do this, why wasn't it this way to begin with

>>107467310
You have shit hardware with shit drivers which leads to needing magic incantations to make it somewhat work.
If you had good hardware from a company that provides good Linux support then you wouldn't need to do that.

>>107467310
Less of a Linux problem and more of a hardware problem.
I've had hardware that has been a pain to set up on Linux that has been fine on Windows, and hardware that has been a pain to set up on Windows that has been fine on Linux.

>>107466595
>guess im going back to kde or gnome
No reason to use anything else since other DEs are non-standard hobby-tier DEs.

>>107466540
i installed a bazzite live usb and ran it. unfortunately, it didn't load any gpu drivers, and as i understand it, i can't install a gpu(nvidia) driver, because this distribution is an atomic distro(whatever that means).
so am i fucked here? i don't want to nuke my system without trying things out first, but with this live usb i can't try out anything, cause i can't modify anything and no driver is installed, and i'm stuck on 1024x768 one monitor, can't try if any games work, or unity or anything else really
or am i misunderstanding something here?

why's something like debian considered stable and safe if they only update software packages once every 2 years? isn't running outdated software unsafe?

>have wireless razer mouse
>i don't have openrazer installed so no idea about battery level
>install openrazer
>it hijacks the razer chroma as well so openrgb stops working
Just great, this whole rgb thing is cursed. I spent like 2 months troubleshooting why it sometimes wouldn't work, and why my PC would hang before POSTing at every single restart, requiring a power cycle.
It was openrgb, I have to kill the process and unbind the chroma before every shutdown to fix it

>>107466685
yeah, that's a nice toy you have there, man. meanwhile, on Fedora you have access to the latest versions and don't have to deal with this kind of retarded incompetence from the maintainers.

>>107467622
you can't install the gpu drivers on a live windows either now can you?
nvidia is supported though, so you just have to bite the bullet.

>>107467646
They supply security fixes. So for example I'm on Ubuntu 22 LTS and I have ffmpeg installed from Ubuntu's repos, which is version 4.4.2. The latest release from ffmpeg themselves is version 8, but my version will keep getting security patches from Ubuntu, even though Ubuntu isn't going to give me a feature update for ffmpeg. Same applies with Debian.

>>107466155
kek what a jew
>>107466422
>>107466512
use ventoy to test drive all the isos you want, or check <distrosea.com>.
i'd recommend fedora, for that multi monitor rig, go for kde or gnome.
>>107466523
damn no idea man, but i feel scared for you, fuck ubuntu, cant do a proper updoot for shit nowdays.
>>107467646
im pretty sure they do receive security updates, along the years.

>>107467793
>you just have to bite the bullet.
i'd rather not nuke my current system blindly, but thanks, appreciate it
>>107467914
thanks anon, i'll check those out, appreciate your reccomendation

>>107467310
>why did I have to do this, why wasn't it this way to begin with
Because you didn't want to pay Tim Cook to do it for you.

>>107467622
They have an nVidia image which works just fine, no need to manually install drivers. The Live ISO only supports Intel/AMD if I'm not mistaken. Also, a lot of stuff is set up only after the installation process, so a live boot won't be the representative of the real experience.
>can't try if any games work, or unity or anything else really
You wouldn't really be able to test this on any distro. Live ISOs are generally non-persistent (data is wiped after a reboot) while they don't load the latest drivers and software.
If you have an extra USB drive with at least 32GB of space, you can actually install Bazzite there instead of your internal drive. Aside from shit startup times of the whole OS and all applications, it should work just like it does when installed into internal storage.
>games
If you want to see if games work just check on ProtonDB.
>Unity
Apparently it should work: https://freakrho.com/installing-unity-on-bazzite/
Just keep in mind that game dev is in 99.9% cases done on Windows and is primarily optimized and tested on it. So it's not going to be a smooth experience no matter which distro you opt for, unless you switch to some open source engine which is more likely to have Linux people involved.

>>107467646
Stable = the abi doesn't change. "Stable" doesn't mean it doesn't crash, have bugs, etc. It's a word used by sysadmins to say "this distro won't get anything other than security updates, so if we deploy software on it we don't have to modify or recompile anything for years since we don't have to think about new features being added or features being obsoleted".

I made a Bazzite USB to install it but it fails at 4.8% every time on the check
I have Autoplay disabled on Windows (which is what I'm using to make the USB)
Any ideas what might be causing this?

>>107466512
Kubuntu and plain Ubuntu will be fully functional from the live environment, and you can test whatever you need straight from the USB drive.
All you need is to download the ISO, open it, and drag all its contents to a FAT32 flash drive. The flash drive doesn't need to be empty or anything, just to have 5GB of free space.

>>107466523
Your /boot or /tmp were full when you performed the update, and the new initramfs couldn't be built.
Make sure there is enough space (150 MB on each) and then do `sudo update-initramfs -u`
Should be all good now. Check /var/log/apt/history.log for any errors during the previous update, there must have been some logged.

>>107467914
>something mildly inconvenient happens with <thing>
>be incapable of responding to this change in any way
>"fuck <thing>"
You would have starved to death a couple centuries ago.
Anon was able to find the fallback boot entry by just clicking around and got a working machine within minutes because his brain isn't completely smooth. He would have claimed your wife and your land back in the day, and your starving ass wouldn't have had a chance.

>>107468056
Don't check it? I had a fedora usb fail but that was a bug or some freetard idiocy, who cares. install was fine.

>>107468480
Should be under ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/[the game's ID]/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/

Need your help. Want to exchange HDDs. But when I disconnect the old HDD I get an error on boot. Dependency failed. Timed out and it asks for my Admin pw.

>>107468560
My boot partition is on my ssd.

>>107468560
Remove the entry from your fstab or add nofail to the mount options and run systemctl daemon reload

Tried to transition into Linux trying to dual boot CatchOS and Nobara, I can't even boot into the USB disk due to an invalid key signature issue. And yes I tried disabling dual boot.

>>107468597
>add nofail to the mount options
on which partition?
>Remove the entry from your fstab
is it enough to #comment it out?

I like gnome.

>>107468700
All of them. Yes.

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>>107454370
If anyone has the same problem as me with new ACER laptops not showing an AHCI option in BIOS: if no operating system installed yet, simply disable the VMD controller in the MAIN BIOS section after pressing Ctrl+S.

Sheesh though guys Mint has a reputation of being the simplest distro but even still Windows offers a much easier install. Microjeet Winpoos is obviously on a steady decline while Linux is gaining ground; but if Linux can just polish itself up a bit and make install as equally simple there will be big changes in uptake.

You know how gamers say that Ubuntu isn't good for gaming because its drivers aren't new enough for recently released hardware?

What about non-LTS Ubuntu? Two releases a year. So the oldest it'll ever be is 6 months old. Also most people don't have bleeding edge hardware so it should be fine.

>>107467987
>a live boot won't be the representative of the real experience.
well, that's pretty useless then, isn't it
>If you have an extra USB drive with at least 32GB of space, you can actually install Bazzite there instead of your internal drive.
i was also thinking if it's at all possible, thanks for the confirmation anon
>>107468226
thanks anon, i used ubuntu was back in like 2008, so maybe i'll give it a try

>emerge lutris
>unmask ~amd64 because it's not stable
>don't realize it lists webkit-gtk as dep
>I guess it's now compiling a yet another version of webkit-gtk
Jesus fucking christ.

>see article about new feature update for program
>update pacman
>no update
>check versioning
>program is several versions behind the most recent update
This has happened many times, I thought arch was bleeding edge? I mean sure I can just build from source but I can do that on any distro. Hell, I checked the ubuntu repos and even they have a more recent update of this particular program.

My Dell XPS 9440 won't recognize my Ubuntu USB boot flash drive. Secure boot is disabled. GPT disk type. DD write mode. Tried all the USB ports. Tried two different drives. But the UEFI boot menu that comes up when I hit F12 doesn't list USB as a boot option. USB mouse works.

>>107469032
There are PPAs and kernel backports so you can make it work if you really want to. Although there's a reason Ubuntu always loses in all the benchmarks compared to rolling releases.

>>107469331
Arch isn't bleeding edge at all costs. Usually there's a reason for why a package isn't the newest version

>>107469331
Flag the package as out-of-date and wait for the maintainer. Also, yes, you can build from source on any other distro but Arch still wins here since it's just

paru blah-git

and you have built pretty quickly and properly managed using the package manager instead of manually installed into /usr/local, etc. Probably the only thing better than Arch here are actual source based distributions like Gentoo (Portage mogs everything)

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Anyway to run this network driver if i have debian 12? (Not supported)

>>107468359
>yeah man, you see, because you dont want to deal with bullshit or tinker on your machine, you've got a smooth brain and dont know how to trouble shoot
>btw heres a cuck wife fanfic i made up
pretentious cunt.

>>107469427
Do you know if that table is accurate? They may just have not updated it.
Usually the only thing that matters for driver support is not the distro but the kernel version so if the driver won't build against newer kernels then you can just install whatever older version of the kernel works (hopefully a somewhat recent and still supported LTS version of the kernel)

>>107469462
>Do you know if that table is accurate?
all i know is the last time i used this network adapter a few years ago it worked automatically without doing anything

Today the network adapter lights up but theres nothing coming up on the network applet in the taskbar regarding wifi networks

i also wanted to see if i could get an EDUP 802.11AC 1200M dongle working but that one seems much less likely to get working on modern linux

I have set up my .screenrc and .bashrc and never had any issues. Fedora 43 updated Alacritty (from 0.15.x to 0.16.x) and after this I suppose, screen scrollback history has stopped working.
When I switch from 'bash 1' to 'bash 2' in screen and return back to 'bash 1' its scrollback history gets erased when I hit shift+page up.
Month ago I didn't have this issue. Coincidentally I didn't do anything during this time so I haven't noticed when did the behaviour exactly change.
Is this a termcap issue? I haven't touched my config files either.

>>107469032
non-LTS Ubuntu is just a testing platform for the LTS release where they do a bunch of experiments on. Ubuntu is exclusively an LTS distro aimed at servers and business office computers rather than your home desktop.

>>107469369
PPAs are a hack and a guaranteed way to break your system after a version update.

>>107469542
To add: it's not related to Alacritty, Xfce Terminal exhibits the same issue.
Jesus Christ, there is ALWAYS SOMETHING with linuxshit.
I was supposed to be doing something completely else than to troubleshoot this shit now.

>>107469511
Can you see it if you type

ip link

or

nmcli device status

in a terminal?

>>107469635
>ip link
only shows lo (loopback) and enp8s0 (wired ethernet connection from my motherboard)
>nmcli device status
same

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>>107469032
Even very old Ubuntu gets recent kernels, firmware, drivers and MESA stack.
Where it falls short is stuff like Wine, compositors, Pipewire/Pulseaudio, which are all stuck at the same feature level they had on release.
You can download the latest Wine easily, but the latest KWin will require a PPA and PPAs aren't always trouble-free.
Keep in mind that Ubuntu is *the* foundation of gaming on Linux so it isn't even remotely bad, all Linux games target Ubuntu and most Windows games will run just fine.

>>107469032
>What about non-LTS Ubuntu?
That's what I've been running for the past few years, currently on Kubuntu 25.10 and it's rock solid for gaming.

>>107469353
Maybe you have USB boot disabled, it's a separate setting.
>DD write mode
I wish people stopped doing this, just copy the files from the ISO to a FAT32 stick.
>Secure boot is disabled
Leave it on, Ubuntu has no issues with SecureBoot. Same with Fedora and OpenSuse, it just works.

>>107469427
I cant find driver for 8187L in debian's firmware-realtek_20250410-2_all.deb package nor fedora's realtek-firmware-20251021-1.fc43.noarch.rpm
If it isn't some USB network card which should work with generic driver, I think you are out of luck

>>107469566
>>107469542
Not sure but I might be demented.
>termcapinfo xterm-256color|alacritty|xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt ti@:te@
Enables pageup/down but also forces screen to use terminal's own scrollback history. Switching screens will merge the history together. I don't know why I haven't noticed this earlier or I just don't remember.
You need to enter copy mode by using ctrl-a + [ or by defining a new key for this...
>bindkey -k F9 copy
This allows to pageup scroll the individual screens.

>>107469890
its an USB network card
https://docs.alfa.com.tw/Product/AWUS036H/

>>107465987
>Meaning what?
Latin for "tiny nigs".

>>107469808
>>107469353
I'm a fucking idiot. I was using an arm64 iso, not amd64.

>>107466780
You not liking something doesn't mean it's not correct. Your faggotry has its own immune defense system that kicked in because you do not want to let your faggotry go, because you love your faggotry, you are ADDICTED to your faggotry. Your mind has been CAPTIVATED by the goymes.

ROT
O
T

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>>107469956
This looks ancient abandonware:
https://github.com/Dekadencee/rtl8187-Linux-Driver

Go on Amazon and buy some cheap shitty $5 card and it'll probably be better supported than this.

>>107469761
>Linux games
Even Linux users have stopped playing Linux games. The current Linux gaming platform is WINE/Proton, which just means Windows. Playing "native" games is always a gamble.

>>107470074
I haven't bothered to set up linux native emulators even. I just use my existing yuzu/citron/winuae/whatever with umu-run and proton experimental. This way I can also retain my previously set up directory structure because I switched over from Wangdows while back. Same goes for dosbox, don't see any reason to use linux native versions at this point.
At least Proton is a one big positive aspect of Linux these days.

>>107470074
Proton is often better than native games anyway since the native versions usually have bugs and are poor ports.

>>107469032
non lts ubuntu is the playground for their weird experiments (like replacing coreutils with rust written ones). Also, ubuntu at release time is already outdated since the freeze time for packages is before that. So no, it can be older than 6 months.
And if you have bleeding edge hardware as you call it you can have issues even on bleeding edge distros. Have fun not getting these solved for a longer time on fixed release distros (if you run into them)

>>107469565
>PPAs are a hack and a guaranteed way to break your system after a version update.
You're supposed to ppa-purge before updating.

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>>107454191
How do I disable this confirmation thing on Dolphin? it's extremely annoying. Yes retard, I want to move it, that's literally why I dragged the whole thing into a folder.

>>107470273
Hold Shift before you release the mouse button

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>>107470335
>>107470273
Also this move behaviour is a global option that applies everywhere in KDE not just in Dolphin.

>>107470074
GOG has some really nice natives, i wish there were more. just works.

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>>107470335
>>107470358
What the fuck? it doesn't make any sense why this option shouldn't be included in Dolphin as well, how was I supposed to know this was located at System settings > Workspaces > Behaviour?
>applies everywhere in KDE not just in Dolphin
A lot of settings have multiple ways to access them, or at the very least "hints" that the option is located somewhere else. The more I use KDE the more idiotic I think its developers are, there are other settings/options that are located in seemingly random places for no logical reason. KDE 7 will have the Wifi and Ethernet settings inside the Date and Time menu because "Well, all of these are related to connectivity so might as well group them :^)".

>>107470567
Why do you do this to yourself? Just use Midnight Commander any time you "need" something more than commands. Uninstall all DEs and use only WMs.

>>107470516
I'll be honest, even with GOG games I just use Bottles. Managing and backing them up is much more convenient and I don't risk a system update breaking the games. Also lets me use mods and tools which are generally made for Windows only.

>>107470073
>>107469890
>>107469635
i tried a different USB-miniUSB adapter and the card worked instantly out of the box, i can now see all wifi networks in my area

sorry for wasting your time and thanks for the effort anyway

>>107470679
at that point you're back to steam already since gog may lack behind in versions.

>>107470727
(anoan from >>107469890)
np. have a nice time using linux.

anyway, it's nice to see multiple people trying to help : )

>>107469565
>Ubuntu is exclusively an LTS distro aimed at servers and business office computers rather than your home desktop.
But it isn't. They release a desktop version which they aim at developers. I guess the money they make is mainly from servers though, so I guess they aim the desktop release at devs to try and persuade them to use Ubuntu on servers

>>107469761
I think the LTS versions do get upgraded kernels (not just security patches) over their lifetimes, but I don't think non-LTS versions do because they're not around for very long.

>>107469771
Based *buntu user

>>107470232
I think most people don't have bleeding edge hardware though. Anyway I guess people can use what they want. It's just interesting that I see posts in this thread from people who install meme distros and then they say "my install isn't working, please help". When I've used Ubuntu (and Debian) things have just worked out of the box.

>>107470785
NTA, but I don't understand your sentiment at all.

>>107470811
If at any point in your life you're going to upgrade your hardware, you either will have new stuff at that point or deliberatlte buy older hardware.

>>107470567
File a bug. You're that it's reasonable to expect that to be in Dolphin's preferences even if it just opens up the KCM in System Settings.

>>107470847
Mods aren't just made for windows, they also are made for the latest version, which you sometimes just don't get from gog.

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Uhhh, what do I do here exactly?

>>107470785
I prefer having offline installers backed up on my external hard drive.

>>107470915
Usually mods are somewhat backwards compatible, and you have an option of downloading older versions.

>>107470898
Fair point

>>107470989
You can run the second to update the grub config a lot of the time and that's it. The reason they have this warning is because Grub once broke compatibility in an update that caused users that didn't re-install it to have a broken boot so now they just recommend always reinstalling it to the EFI or MBR every time.

>>107470989
You run the same grub-install command that you used when you installed your system. You did install your system manually, right?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB

>>107470915
I don't know why I even bother replying to a retard like you but games what need frequent updates are mostly live service / online slop.
Of course it is obvious to go case by case basis.
Your notion is also strange. GoG gets updates but in some cases it might get them later on than Steam.
You sound like you are afraid of something or just a consumer. Perhaps get a game console instead then.

Have this wine link (VCExpress) stuck in my open with menu. How do I remove it?

>>107471223
That was about my personal experience with the gog version of Stardew Valley and its modding scene. The mods were in active development so you wanted the latest version, which were made for the latest version of the game back then only available on steam and incompatible with older versions.
I mean sure, the fault here lies with the developer not pushing their latest version to all platforms. Still, not a good experience.

gaming is for trannies and "people" who use arch distros(also trannies).

Can someone give me a hand here? my linux mint machine is not booting unless i use recovery mode it was working just fine and i didn't install anything new on it recently, i just used it as an opportunity to get a fresh install since i don't have anything of value saved, but even after that it just gives me a black screen in normal mode, maybe it has something to do with the old-ass rx550 i'm using?it is also stuck in 1024x768 resolution during recovery mode.

>>107472676
>>107472676
the rx550 isn't that old, it should still just be using the amdgpu driver.
Can you post the output of `lspci -k -d ::03xx`

>>107472762
thank you for the help:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Lexa PRO [Radeon 540/540X/550/550X / RX 540X/550/550X] (rev c7)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Lexa PRO [Radeon 540/540X/550/550X / RX 540X/550/550X]
Kernel modules: amdgpu

>>107472796
HOLY FUCK! I just spent the whole day trying to fix this just for it to fix itself now out of nowhere, maybe the gods of linux took pity upon me when i proved my faith by consulting the oracles.

>>107472873
ya i have no clue why that would happen, but i guess it's done now

>>107472910
or it's a race and bound to come back.

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You ARE looking forward to Resolute Raccoon, right /fglt/?

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Just had someone tell me you should never play games in your desktop compositor and should just use gamescope for everything, are they trolling?

>>107473166
>ubuntu
>desktop
yeah, I gave up on ubuntu after a decade of it being shit compared to arch and fedora distros. no amount of "le cute animal" will bring me back to it.

>>107470011
Well, you were smart enough to figure it out, so it's not all bad.

>>107470073
All $5 cards use shitty Realtek chipsets. What one needs on Linux is a Mediatek MT7921 chipset.

>>107470074
You're not wrong but Linux ports will continue to exist and that's a good thing in my book.

>>107473349
it literally doesn't matter, gamescope is for more autistic and finicky shit

Is it possible to use swap over sshfs?

I looks impossible from the various things I tried and time I spent trying to do this. Stuff I did: sshfs mount with and without "-o allow_other" (sudo-only access vs. normal user access); dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sshfs/drive/swapfile bs=1G count=20; mkswap swapfile; chmod 600 swapfile; swapon /mnt/sshfs/drive/swapfile

The swapon command failed because the file is not owned by local root (perhaps impossible to do with sshfs paths). Is there a way to run swapon insecurely so the owner of the swapfile doesn't matter?

*It looks impossible from the various things

>>107473166
I'll maybe switch one of my computers to Ubuntu in the future.

>>107466339
Idk. I use Brave. Firefox indents webpage text and does stuff i don't like or is missing things.

>>107466374
I used Ethernet only with that computer in the past. No longer doing that for multiple reasons.

>>107470251
This, although I didn't do it the last time and the upgrade still went smoothly.

>>107473166
Yes, the KDE flavor of it.

>>107473349
Gamescope runs within your compositor and adds extra goodies such as scaling, sharpening, framerate limiting.

>>107473673
Not possible, the swap areas are mapped directly from storage blocks to memory and there is no block-level access over SSH.

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>>107455978
Android is a corporation-enshittified mutation of GNU/Linux. It uses and has GNU stuff such as the GNU Toolchain. Android uses a modified Linux kernel. Reminds me of this scene from "The Sopranos":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwcwJ9yFWXs
https://inv4.nadeko.net/watch?v=gwcwJ9yFWXs
>Sopranos Quote - Phil: Five fucking families, and then we got this other pygmy thing over in Jersey

>>107474233
OK. Interesting. So I think ssh only has file-level access. Block-level access would be like this: "sudo cat /dev/sda | xxd | head". On the plus side, I get to free up 20 GB.

>>107454191
I have an ISO image and some .wav files. What software can I use to create a mixed mode image with bin/cue?

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With Calibre adding AI as a feature are there any other non-pozzed document viewers? I gave Foliate a try, but it's quite slow.

>>107474572
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I56CNnM0180

>>107474601
Rename the iso to bin, create the cue sheet with your bin image + the wav tracks and use cdrdao (loads your cue file and outputs the mixed bin file, I don't remember the exact command, it was something like read-cd)

>>107474928
No, I mean, I have wav files, I want to write them as a bin/cue image.

>>107474940
>>107474940
I just checked it out and you're supposed to create a .toc file with wav2toc and then use cdrdao to outout bin/cue

>running steam games fine
>notice issues with some games in specific
>get protonup
>grab latest GE proton
>install
>go to steam -> compatability
>use new GE proton version
>force use of it on individual game
>games don't launch
idk what I fucked up here

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>>107454191
Hello frens I am making my own KISS distro, any suggestions before I figure it out the HARD way?

Installed nobara earlier today to give a try to Linux
Lutris for some reason seems to have tons of issues installing Genshin, but I managed to work through it by manually downloading the installer and using that rather than the one it automatically downloads. However, after installing it the launcher refuses to launch the game, but adding the game's exe to Steam and using proton ge fixes it. Except, it crashes every couple minutes, whereas on my Steam Deck it runs without an issue. Any idea what's going on?

>>107454191
Are there any efforts being made to unfuck all the arbitrary API/ABI changes made over the years so programs compiled decades ago just fucking work again?

How dumb do i have to be to infect my pc with malware or normal viruses?

>>107475558
You will use Flatpak and you will be happy. This is sadly and unironically the possible solution.

>>107454346
>>107455015
Turns out it wasn't any unstable updates. Turns out that somehow someway Nightly-Firefox became unstable after an update probably my fault for changing so many rendering settings. I fixed it by using stable Firefox.

Gonna take the linux plunge bros. Picking Linux Mint.

I'm also switching out for a new AMD card. Should I install the AMD card and then switch to Linux or is it okay to switch to Linux first then install the AMD card? Right now PC my doesn't have a graphics card inside it.

>>107475648
You'd actually have to be kinda smart since getting infected on Linux is an active endeavour.

>>107475779
https://cachyos.org/download/

>>107475779
install your new hardware and boot from the live USB with Mint.

>>107475648
what is happening

>>107475813
Nothing much, whats happening to you? :3

Never heard of "/dev/full" before today. Don't know what it is. Saw that when looking at this:
https://www.chise.org/ipns/en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org/wiki/Null_device
>Created on 2021-03 from the Kiwix ZIM file: wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2021-02.zim
which is buggy because the links to the Wikipedia articles for
/dev/null
/dev/random
/dev/zero
are broken and don't exist (I checked .../wiki/dev/null and .../wiki//dev/null).

>>107475980
you can always copy it to a file to see what it does

cat /dev/random > zelda_lyrics.txt

>>107476486
Bad advice which I didn't do. Running "echo troll > /dev/full" = error: disk/file full, out of space. It's a thing to simulate a full file or full storage device.

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"free -h" = a non-interactive alternative to htop and top! I gotta remember this.

>>107476515
Not bad advice if you mean "copy it to an empty file then cancel shortly after as those special files have a filesize of '∞ bytes'." Actual error message:
>$ echo Sorry_running_low_on_brainpower > /dev/full
>-bash: echo: write error: No space left on device
>$

Image unrelated

What version(s) of Debian came with gcc 11 as default?

>>107476733
check distrowatch

>>107476770
>distrowatch
Thank you! Sadly, it seems that Debian skipped gcc 11, going from 10 to 12.

Tried FreeBSD, WiFi worked fine to download the components during installation, but couldn't resolve after rebooting. It showed connected but couldn't ping anything or get pkg from the repos. I edited /etc/resolv.conf, and tried reinstalling and going through manual networking setup but same thing after rebooting.

FUCK IT
BETTER
STICK WITH
DEBIAN

>>107476770
I poked around a bit and Ubuntu 21.10 uses gcc-11.2.0 I need (the same in latest AmigaOS 4.1 FE SDK, 54.16).

bro i thought my arch box got some unstable updates but turns out its youtube! it seems youtube is deploying new stuff and its making the experience slow and more resource consuming. it even hammers my fucking ssd! jesus fucking christ what are these jews doing? will i be forced to use mpv to watch videos exclusively?

Using lynx, are you able to login to qBittorrent webUI? I can't. Mine is at https://10.0.0.53:7000/ and it looks like part of what's messing me up is I'm using HTTPS and not HTTP. If i could login, I'd then somehow get lynx to give me the access cookie. The web browser on the device I'm using now doesn't give me cookie strings.

>>107476814
If i had your problem and your stuff, I think i could fix it. At least your wifi hardware is supported, unlike mine >>107466201

>>107454191
I bet there's some mpv or vlc app for Android (maybe even one that works in Termux). Then you could watch MKV files containing H265, wouldn't have to have web-playable .mp4 or .webm to watch in a browser.

>>107472873
problems that fix themselves just mean it's a different kind of problem. like if you've actually done nothing at all, then an intermittent problem could indicate a hardware issue, or simply that you don't yet understand the issue fully. they're some of he toughest issues to fix

>>107473673
should be possible, but you'd have to use a loop device.. or maybe nbd.
you can use a file from a remote system as a page file, because of how page files work, but if you turn it into a device then that bypasses said requirements
nbd would make more sense than sshfs performance-wise assuming you don't need security

>>107477044
>>107473673
>you can use a file from a remote system as a page file
can't*
and to be specific i mean a file from a filesystem type mount (sshfs/smb/nfs/etc)

>>107474601
literally just write a .cue file. it's plain text. just make sure you specify the wav tracks are wav format, since raw cd audio tracks are not wav format, but most cue-handling problems can handle wav's

>>107477069
>problems
programs
that's a weird typo

>>107476919
I'm sure I could get it to work ultimately but having to type complex shit on a goddamn phone trying thing after thing wore thin without requiring substantial passage of time. I might give it another go, but the fact that it worked fine during installation, and showed connected after installation, but wouldn't ping/resolve, made me think the work is pretty sloppy. Your network setup during Debian or Slackware installation still functions after reboot so why is BSD lacking in that crucial factor that literally everyone "needs"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pndhO5DcSI0

>>107454191
I'm playing a very old game in wine, game runs great but I had to download the MIDI dll for the music to run, but now pulseaudio is crackling and popping when the music plays, it also sometimes stutters as well. pulseaudio works normally on my xubuntu distro outside of that. What do?

>>107477357
Shit like that is impossible to track down. Try another DAC if you have one. Try fluidsynth or winetricks dmusic instead of whatever MIDI DLL. IME fluidsynth + fatboy is the best synth you can get for old games without paying for Roland. Arguably better than Roland sometimes.

>>107477357
I wonder if it would work fine on ALSA with pulseaudio killed? I used to make music a lot and had to set JACKD to auto kill pulse on startup. I don't even have pulse installed anymore, just straight ALSA.

LENNART
POOTERING
IS A
FAGGOT

/etc/environment
KWIN_DRM_DISABLE_TRIPLE_BUFFERING=1

does triple buffering suck? Without, the cursor/input latency on plasma wayland feels so much better.

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>>107476919
LOL, ended up doing some "hacking" in relation to this. I found two password-less Internet-accessible "qBittorrent Web UI sites". Exfiltrated magnet links, logs, etc. (no API data which I could get):
- .txt https://arweave.fllstck.dev/raw/dc3ocGdvAnp-k22mLDLkjahrgu5qVf8_E3qfz6lrEGs
- .txt.gz https://algoul.xyz/raw/S-ATdQRIJVBm4c8zCfntnOzhrOyxVF2YdaN9BFrj4BY

The default username+password on older qBittorrent Web UI versions is admin+adminadmin. This reminds me of the time I found multiple API-exposed IPFS nodes on the Internet. Good times.

>>107477044
I've made loop devices before (such as for fulldisk.iso which contains multiple partitions and I mount one of them using losetup at a certain byte offset).

Haven't heard of nbd until today. I installed nbd-3.26.1-2-x86_64 but it has no man page or help thing:
>$ sudo pacman -S nbd
>[...]
>$ man nbd
>No manual entry for nbd
>$ nbd --help
>bash: nbd: command not found
>$ # not installed to $PATH ?

>>107477621
bins are called nbd-{client,server,etc} as are the man pages. learn to press tab.

>>107477666
he can also find out what binaries a package installed with something like;

pacman -Ql nbd | grep /bin

>>107477621
>(such as for fulldisk.iso which contains multiple partitions and I mount one of them using losetup at a certain byte offset)
you can use "-P" to make losetup scan for partitions inside the image so you get like /dev/loop0p1, /dev/loop0p2, etc. manually specifying offsets is only for images with unknown formats or the like

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>>107472164
I use Arch (am using Arch Linux right now). Can confirm that I'm a subhuman.

>>107477666
Gotcha.
>$ nbd-
>nbd-client nbd-server nbd-trdump nbd-trplay
>$ nbd-

>>107477704
also helpful
>-Q, --query
> Query the package database. This operation allows you to view installed packages and their files[...]
>-l, --list
> List all files owned by a given package. Multiple packages can be specified on the command line.

>>107477721
Cool, I'll have to remember that.

>>107475558
Snap and Flatpak completely fix this issue.
Someone just needs to put in the effort of packaging those old programs, which is not trivial due to their large number.

New thread >>107477810

>>107475558
Flatpaks are now the standard way to distribute apps to Linux desktops. They don't have this issue.

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"5 of the Best Steganography Tools in Linux"
https://web.archive.org/web/20230328165247/https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-steganography-tools-linux/
>1. steghide
>2. StegoShare.jar
>3. stego-lsb, stegolsb wavsteg
>4. stegsnow
>5. steganoroute.py

Basic steganography attempt below (TL;DR=it failed):

Ubuntu->nginx/1.26.3 is what hej.lol is running on (source: $ curl -I https://hej.lol/). You can upload .mp4 files there but not .torrent; I wonder how it knows that the following isn't a real MP4:

https://hej.lol/upload <- 4chan_gif_2025_07.zip.torrent
>Something went wrong finding the file type extension for mime, application/x-bittorrent
https://hej.lol/upload <- $ head -c736 mp4 > mp4.mp4; cat mp4.mp4 4chan_gif_2025_07.zip.torrent > 4chan_gif_2025_07.zip.torrent.offset-736.mp4
>Server Error (500)
MP4 detected per the file program
>$ file 4chan_gif_2025_07.zip.torrent.offset-736.mp4
>4chan_gif_2025_07.zip.torrent.offset-736.mp4: ISO Media, MP4 Base Media v1 [ISO 14496-12:2003]
MIME type "video/mp4" per exiftool, but it shows this warning
>$ exiftool 4chan_gif_2025_07.zip.torrent.offset-736.mp4
>[...]Warning: Truncated 'mdat' data at offset 0x28

It might fail at more advanced forms of steganography (as in, that .torrent.mp4 would be uploadable). Here's that .torrent file; catbox.moe is down right now:
>https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/catbox.moe?proto=https
>https://gyo tc/1pMsm

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CLI web browser which isn't lynx: w3m. I ran "$ w3m http://www.zjgjcjx.net:8085/" and it wasn't as easy to use as lynx. w3m showed me full-on images (<s>PNG or JPG</s> SVG) in the terminal emulator program = wow.

>>107476919
>Using lynx, are you able to login to qBittorrent webUI? I can't.
Seems to be impossible with lynx. What I tried:
- qbittorrent-nox running at the following LAN address: "$ lynx http://10.0.0.62:7000/" (not using HTTPS)
- Enter username+password and press enter (press "=" for page info which shows "Post Data: username=admin&password=adminadmin")
- Press g then paste in URL to go to: http://10.0.0.62:7000/api/v2/sync/maindata
- Result: "Alert!: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden"

After logging in in Brave browser then going to 10.0.0.62:7000/api/v2/sync/maindata , I see
>{"categories":{},"full_update":true,"rid":1,"server_state":{"alltime_dl":4368,"alltime_ul":5712[...]

>>107477621
>no API data which I could get
Exfiltrated API data:
- .tar https://arweave.fllstck.dev/raw/j4QS5pRjhsbx-fSIzQ5eZgIvn5LtAOKSPUNDi7tm6uk
- .tar https://algoul.xyz/raw/PgUAzD8HFKobFLSOVMof-aRHuKChlRhkGjyHilrFUlM

>The default username+password on older qBittorrent Web UI versions is admin+adminadmin
Is the case as of qBittorrent v4.5.2 Web UI and before.

>>107478675
This works, but the access cookies changes each time I run this command:

$ curl -sX POST -d "username=admin&password=adminadmin" http://10.0.0.62:7000/api/v2/auth/login -c - | tail -n1 | sed "s/.*\s//g"

>>107476919
>Using lynx, are you able to login to qBittorrent webUI? I can't.
SOLVED. Use cURL instead.

>>107478782
>but the access cookies changes each time I run this command
Doesn't matter. Use the latest one from /api/v2/auth/login and the following works; example:

$ curl -skb "SID=S0DUEHZMwBbLEb4XcD7MarCd25OhDZV3" http://10.0.0.62:7000/api/v2/sync/maindata | jq
=
[JSON here]

The cookie expires after 10 minutes or some amount of time.

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>>107477621
>>107478675
I gained maybe-unauthorized access to those two site or IP addresses. I checked /api/v2/app/preferences in both of them and got someone's SOCKS5 proxy username and login in cleartext! JSON:
>"proxy_ip": "89.[...]",
>"proxy_password": "n2[...]",
>"proxy_port": 10[...],
>"proxy_type": "SOCKS5",
>"proxy_username": "cs[...]",

Proof that it works:
>$ curl -x socks5://$user:$pass@$ip:$port https://checkip.amazonaws.com/
>89.[...]
>$ # w00t

What can I do with this?
- Change my qBittorrent settings to use that proxy then download torrents anonymously.
- Use those two P2P bros as botnet peers for torrent(s) of my choosing.
- Go to jail for "hacking"? I'm thinking "probably not", but I'm not sure.