I do like using the bash shell but why do I have to use it so often to configure stuff or use conf files to configure stuff.

Arch shitters should be killed

Gaymers should be put into labor camps until they die from exhaustion.

>>107517135
Becasue you aren't using Yast or Cockpit instead

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>>107517135
Because it's easier?
for example, if there's a configuration file you would like to edit, then you either
-Open your GUI file manager, search for it by double clicking many directories, arrive at the file, click it and wait for your GUI text editor, edit the file, try to save it but oh no! editing this file requires root privileges! so you have to reopen your file manager as root somehow, renavigate to the file directory, open it again and edit it and save it as root.
-Open the terminal, type 'sudo vim path/to/file.conf' and done.
The second approach is much easier for most people.

>>107517169
i still cant believe opensuse is deprecating yast, thats like the major selling points of the distro

>>107517095
where the fuck do you get these old screenshots from?

>>107517223
Mint would be good if they brought back a KDE flavour or alternatively gave Muffin the treatment it deserves and actively develop it into a fully fledged independent Wayland compositor and not just a patched version of GNOME's Mutter that's forever behind upstream.

>>107517223
>>107517261
this. mint is great but gtk 4 and xorg hold it back. i always liked the mint theme but they become more inconsistent with every release.

>>107517223
Advanced users like Mint because it's a pretty good live rescue/install environment, very useful to chroot into broken installs or use gparted on your drives from an external USB.

>>107517297
It also just works and has sane defaults, plus you get to enable timeshift right out of the box

For me it's MX Linux and LMDE on second place. Third place is Debian GNOME edition

>>107517261
We need to stop pretending that anything other than KDE and GNOME is relevant. Mint should just ship with KDE and GNOME and be a better Ubuntu/Kubuntu. Pandering to the 1% of loud retards who use niche DEs is pointless.

MATE is used by almost nobody and hasn't been relevant since 2015. Xfce is fine, but honestly Mint Xfce isn't that much lighter than some GNOME and KDE distros, at least as of last couple of years. (could be related to the move to gtk3?). Even ZorinOS gave up on Xfce once GNOME got more resource efficient.
Meanwhile Cinnamon just looks and feels like a shittier KDE and doesn't really bring anything of value compared to KDE (or GNOME + a couple of extensions). At this point I feel like Linux newbies who jump into Mint as their first distro (simply because it was the best newbie distro a decade ago) are being scammed into using a half baked OS.

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>>107517514
Only tiling WMs are relevant to true GNU/Linux users. If you disagree you're just a noob.

I'm thinking of just trying a semi obscure derivative distro just to prove myself wrong
It's called GLF OS, did anyone try that one?
I heard it's NixOS for normal people

>>107517514
Cinnamon is their desktop though. The problem with it is they treat it like a rotten stepchild. It should be a much better desktop than it is but it isn't. They don't invest in it and can barely keep it afloat.

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>>107517664
>they don't invest
bro look at that team

>>107517154
That's not very friendly

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Can I make mpv retain window sizing handles when border=no
Cinnamon DE

>>107517154
thanks marx but you are a mushroom

>>107517664
>They don't invest in it
But they do? It gets slow, well thought out improvements.

If you want unstable broken feature creep shit, then KDE is right there for you.

Why would anybody use this outdated shit for anything but servers? It's so awful for desktop, you can't play games or use the latest apps, it's just shit.

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>>107517925
picrel

>>107517760
I don't want bleeding edge unstable broken feature creep (KDE isn't that by the way, you've been had if you think that) but at least keeping pace with GNOME given that it is a fork of GNOME instead of being years outdated and you still ending up with some unstable crap at the end of it because none of their developers actually know how to develop a compositor.

Any fonts similar to Terminus? I'm currently using Terminus at size 9 and want something slightly bigger. Size 11 is too thick, it would be ideal if there was a "light" version of Terminus.

>>107517664
>They don't invest in it and can barely keep it afloat.
Exactly why it should be abandoned. It's clearly years behind KDE and GNOME. They're just playing catch up at this point and failing to do so, and they haven't really made a compelling DE at all.

The whole reason why Cinnamon was made is because GNOME 3 was a shitshow and Mint devs couldn't patch it up with GNOME extensions. Meanwhile KDE 4 was not an option since it was krashing. So they decided to make a "GNOME 2+" and called it Cinnamon.
Cinnamon, Unity and MATE were literally created to be "spiteful DEs" because nobody likes working with GNOME devs. But seeing how good GNOME and KDE are right now (and have been in the past couple of years) it really makes no sense continuing the development of Cinnamon.
I mean, the reality is that in this hissy fit GNOME actually won. Almost nobody uses MATE, and Unity has been abandoned for years (Ubuntu Unity does exist, but it's maintained by 2 amateurs who didn't have the skills to build and publish the 25.10 release. And Lomiri is made for phones and tables which barely have any users, applications or developers).

Everything Cinnamon "does" can be achieved with a couple of GNOME extensions while leaving you with a better DE overall. Not to mention KDE is pretty much what I'd imagine "Cinnamon Qt" to be, just with significantly more features and a better UI.
So again, I fail to see why Cinnamon should even exist outside of being a hobby project. Mint devs should just do the same thing Ubuntu does, and switch to GNOME while pre-installing a handful of extensions.

>>107517925
Works on my machine. Maybe you just need to get good?

>>107517947
>but at least keeping pace with GNOME given that it is a fork of GNOME
Cinnamon is hard forked from GNOME. Why would they need to copy GNOME features 1:1?
If you don't like it, use something else.

>>107518163
They don't have to copy the features, but the compositing. That's the bit none of the developers understand and are too stupid to do themselves. They need to re-base that more periodically.

Ask yourself why Wayland, for example, is experimental where as its perfectly stable in GNOME and they've even removed X11 entirely now. The answer should be obvious. If you go and look at the number of commits that Mutter and KWin receive DAILY then it should be obvious why Cinnamon is falling behind.

>>107518201
For example, let's look at a recent commit in Muffin:
https://github.com/linuxmint/muffin/commit/ff7459027f8eb86cb24477384bf026fd8c7c4f5d

Seems reasonable, now let's look at the commit it references in GNOME:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/804

This was merged upstream in October 2020. Why did it take them 5 years to incorporate that?

>>107518017
>Maybe lxqt has a usecase for ultra old hardware but even there it might just be better to go with straight openbox or a tiling wm
For very limited hardware (as in, dual cores with 2GB RAM) simple WMs like Ice WM and Openbox are definitely better. LXQt, from my experience, is pretty bad compared to Xfce and Trinity.
And honestly, if your hardware is so shit that it can't run KDE and GNOME, then it's probably better to throw it away. It's probably struggling with simple shit like file management or web browsing. Even a $150-$200 computer or laptop will run KDE just fine.

>>107518201
>why Cinnamon is falling behind.
Why are they "falling behind"? What's the rush for Gayland? Xorg does the job just fine.

>>107518399
It doesn't do the job just fine. Or do you think everyone is just switching to Wayland for the fun of it and it brings no real benefits?

For one, it supports modern display technologies better and allows better multi-GPU support (important for hybrid laptop users). Cinnamon is still five years behind everyone else though and whilst Mutter and KWin receive regular daily commits Muffin only gets a handful.

>>107518438
And yes, you're right there's no real rush. Cinnamon will be a great desktop ten or twenty years from now.

>>107518399
>xorg does the job just fine
it does if you only have a single monitor and you don't use anything other than a terminal

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Debian is keeping up with the biggest DEs better than its children? Am I reading this thread right?

>>107518453
Just as much as it is today, yes. Unless they force me to use Gayland. Then I'll switch to MATE.

>>107518483
>Debian is keeping GNOME/KDE more up to date than Cinnamon is up to date with GNOME/KDE features
Yes, by multiple years.

>easyeffects on gtk
>works preftectly
>easyeffects upgrades to qt from gtk (or other way around)
>now im constantly hearing static noise
epic shit niggers

>>107518879
I don't like Guhnome but I always had less issues with GTK

>>107518879
Works on my machine. Maybe a kernel or firmware issue.

My new nerve pain medication is causing me gastric distress, painful bloating, and diarrhea.
Distro for this shituation?

>>107518879
Placebo/Personal BIAS. You want to imagine Qt is the issue so you see Qt as the issue even though none of the plugins touch Qt at all. It's only the GUI that's Qt.

>>107519112
Arch Linux is the fat man's distro of choice.

>>107518879
The flatpak version works fine for me

>>107517563
>tiling WMs are
*Openbox is

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>>107516311
ok, figured it out, turns out it was just an issue with the driver. Guess the open-source one isn't built to work with the game, so I just switched to the proprietary driver, and now everything functions as it ought to. Kinda sucks that the open-source alternative seems insufficient, but i guess that's just Nigvidia being Nigvidia. Thanks for the help everyone who replied.

asking again here
please rid me of the ambient mode light on youtube forever, on firefox

>>107518334
i'm on a 2015 laptop with 8gb of ram and KDE would sometimes hit 1.7gb on idle
lxqt is at 900mb (still way too much, somehow the power managment and farewalld applet eat a lot)

>>107519717
No one is forcing you to use YouTube at all. No one is forcing you to watch muh vidyos. If you don't like it, don't do it.

>>107517954
These are some good looking bitmap fonts, I use sgi-screen.
https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts

Is there an actual reason to use a systemd-free distro? I don't do programming, I use Debian for basic student stuff (email, browsing, libreoffice, etc.)

>>107520228
No

Be honest - Have you put Mint on your mom's laptop yet? Why not?

>>107520264
i put my cock and balls in your moms bhole, if that's what you're asking.

>>107520282
Nice, good for you man

>>107520264
I tried to convince her to switch, but she's not interested. Maybe I'll try to get her to use it in a virtual machine, but i doubt that would bring her about.

>>107520264
>women needing moar than phones

>>107517095
I'm trying to use reipatcher to translate a unity game into english as I play but once the .lnk is made and I click on it wine keeps on giving a "There is now Windows program configured to open this type of file" error.

Need help with slow booting times

% systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 3.670s (kernel) + 5.078s (initrd) + 2min 31.139s (userspace) = 2min 39.888s
graphical.target reached after 2min 31.139s in userspace.

% systemd-analyze critical-chain
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

graphical.target @2min 31.139s
─multi-user.target @2min 31.139s
─smb.service @2min 30.969s +169ms
─network-online.target @2min 30.967s
─network.target @1min 30.975s
─wpa_supplicant.service @1min 30.946s +28ms
─basic.target @1min 30.627s
─dbus-broker.service @1min 30.584s +30ms
─dbus.socket @1min 30.580s +44us
─sysinit.target @1min 30.579s
─systemd-update-utmp.service @1min 30.558s +21ms
─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service @1min 30.465s +91ms
─local-fs.target @1min 30.461s
─run-user-1000-doc.mount @1min 38.119s
─run-user-1000.mount @1min 36.740s
─local-fs-pre.target @512ms
─systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service @477ms +35ms
─systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev-early.service @410>
─kmod-static-nodes.service @386ms +22ms
─systemd-journald.socket

>>107520264
Why the fuck would I make my own mother suffer with a shit distro?

>>107520737
kida slow, i get nice speeds on my nvme. maybe its the bios

>>107520598
Are you sure you're opening it with the correct wineprefix? If it doesn't work try inspecting it with lnkinfo

>>107520737
Use windows, or at least test it for faulty hardware somewhere

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>>107520264
I put it on my Grandma's laptop. She listens to music, watches youtube, and reads the news.

>>107520264
Because Mint is a degenerate shitfest and I'm not going to stick a family member with an OS I won't use.

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>>107517223
Mint is perfectly fine.
I like Fedora/Bazzite/and SteamOS...
But mint is fine

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>>107517095
I want to have a 1-Stop use distro for my laptop and be done with it, because my Linux Mint decided to ack itself for no reason, and all of my data has been lost.
Should I switch over to Arch as my main? I'm even considering Manjaro. Just a distro that won't break easily, so I don't have to fix something all of the time.

>>107521756
>>107520264
I put Linux Mint on my laptop, and thought I'd be done with it, and I let my Mom use my laptop whenever she needed too, but for some reason it decided to just DIE one day and so I've finally snapped, and I've finally decided that I want to dailydrive something like Arch that won't break on me so I can maximize my security and anonymity.

>>107521789
bait used to be believable

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should I bite the bullet and distro hop to something more updated like cachyos? I'm very new to Linux I've been using kubuntu for about a month and it's been wonderful but I've been having some problems getting kde plasma to fully cooperate with my nividia card since I use a 180hz and a 60hz monitor, and I'm thinking of switching to something bleeding edge and waiting for Nvidia/Wayland support to get better. Would that be a worthy investment or would I have to deal with other problems?

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>>107521242
>>107520786
I don't understand how anyone can react so strongly to such an inoffensive, vanilla distro. It's there for casual/beginner users who are already used to Windows. If you're a hacker or a gamer, just use a different distro. If you just need to watch youtube, check your emails, and write up a report, and you don't want to use Windows 11, then this is a perfectly fine distro to start with.

>>107521822
Try moving to Cachy and see how it feels to you. Having Arch repos will let you get the latest Nvidia drivers you could use.

>>107520737
>─multi-user.target @2min 31.139s
lmao
lol

>>107521831
i mean, its a fork of a fork and as for the begginer friendly or casual user, FEDora + KDE is already filling up that niche.

>>107521756
Ublue

>>107521831
Fork of a fork like other Anon said. Bad package base and badly out of date.
>but flatpak
Kill yourself.

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What's a good distro if I just want to play steam games and use browsers.

>>107521992
NIGGIX

>>107521992
Bazzite

>>107521992
Literally any of them.

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>>107521916
Fedora requires you to download certain codecs manually. You can do them in Mint much easier. And KDE can get a little buggy while customizing the desktop/themes if you're not careful, where Mint has more guard rails. Yeah, both of those distros are beginner friendly and look more polished and sleeker than Mint, but Mint still edges them out in terms of ease of use. It's also friendlier to nvidia cards.

>>107521982
>Bad package base and badly out of date.
Define bad. Just being a little out of date isn't the end of the world if you're just trying to type up a letter or use a printer. GIMP from last year still functions the same as the latest version of GIMP from this year, if you need to resize a photo and touch it up with extra color/contrast, you can still do that in any version. Unless you're a developer or beta tester who is constantly experimenting with bleeding edge new features, you're not actually using all those latest and greatest features, let's be real. If you need the latest features then you're not a beginner user, and Mint was never for you any way.

>>107519806
Thank you anon!

is there any point in using anything but pipewire for audio?

>>107522275
No

>>107522275
Not these days. Just install pipewire and wireplumber along with the pulseaudio/alsa/jack emulation layers and you're good for sound.

>>107517254
Why does op never answer this question. Fuck you

>>107521916
Mint isn't a fork, it uses Ubuntu's repositories directly. So it's just Ubuntu that's set up differently.
>>107521992
Arch.
>>107521756
Manjaro is an Arch fork and therefore doesn't make any sense.
>>107520228
Hating it is one reason.

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>>107521756
DEBIAN: THE UNIVERSAL OPERATING SYSTEM

>>107521756
How about you fix your mint installation instead of distrohopping? because whatever happened could possibly happen in any distro and distrohopping won't save you.

I'm pretty sure whatever you did is fixable unless you did something obscenely stupid like running 'rm -rf /' or 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1'

>>107522210
>Define bad
They got their own shit haphazard layered on top of Ubuntu, which breaks installing a lot of big ticket items from Ubuntu, and then nobody packages for Mint because Ubuntu is 'close enough'. Which actually means 'not supported'. This kind of slapdash management causes reinstalls for reasons that may not be obvious until months after the fact.

Just use a distro with a good package library that's actually built for the distro. Mint introduces more and worse avenues for breakage than most fast release distros.

>>107517925
I got both Elden ring and Expedition 33 running on cachyos today. Actually ran smoother than on windows, heat reduction, max out graphic settings and higher fps. The downside is i just started using linux a few days ago and it took a while to figure out how to get them working.

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use nixos

>>107522667
you first

>>107521059
I was actually troubleshooting it myself and it is the wineprefix, how do I change to be my desktop?

>>107522686
i am though. running 26.05 unstable on my desktop, laptop, poweredge, and retard thinkcenter where i test harmful code.

>>107522546
Most people don't pay the attention to to learn about external depot and the installing nvidia.
Typing two commands is a problem to Linux users.

>>107521992
Gentoo

>>107521756
Hannah Montana Linux obviously.
If that's not your cup of tea then Vanilla Debian is stupidly stable.

Anyone else on CachyOS having crash issues with, what I assume, RE Engine games?
First I assumed MHWilds was just built shittily, and it is, but I just tried the Pragmata demo and it also crashes right as gameplay starts

I saw somewhere that it's an issue with the latest NVIDIA drivers on 50 series GPUs (5080 for me), so I reverted back to 575 which worked for Wilds but that fucked up Sunshine
Now that seemingly the same issue is happening with Pragmata makes me think it's an RE Engine thing, but I'm retarded when it comes to debugging this shit

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Why do KDE background services require 1 GiB of VRAM?

>>107523420
GPU powered environment

>>107523458
Neat.

>>107523420
It's not >>107523458 but every little service is capable of showing GUI dialogs and crash reporters, etc, none of the services are truly "headless" so Qt is still instantiating all of that crap just in case it _might_ need to show a dialogue window once in its lifetime.

I suspect there are multiple opportunities to improve this but nobody really cares because the cost is minimal on most modern systems.

>>107523699
People would only care about a gig of VRAM being used if they had a computer from the early 2000s

>>107523699
>1 GiB of VRAM
>minimal cost
Erm, nope, that's still quite a lot, even grippling on systems without dedicated gpu.

>>107523737
Even so, if you REALLY care then it's probably easy to "fix". Just edit all of the service files to run through a wrapper that forces Mesa software rendering with Llvmpipe. If it ever does show some dialogue window it's not like it matters if it lags a little because of the software rendering. It's not Crysis.

>>107523749
iGPU systems share VRAM with system memory anyway. They have fuck all dedicated VRAM.

>>107523751
Although the only problem with that would be if it spawned a sub process then that process would inherit the environment variable. KDE has helpers for spawning processes though. Maybe they could make some KDE Framework API to turn off/on GPU rendering but only for specific apps/services

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>>107523761
There's even gamers who don't have that much vram to spare.

arch
sway
hyprland

how do i rotate the login screen?
can't seem to get it working.
meanwhile the terminal while booting is rotated to portrait just fine.

>>107523807
"Gamers". They have to be VM users or people stuck with GT 710s and 1030s, right? Please tell me nobody seriously uses a system with 512 MB of VRAM in the current year.

>>107523810
i meant sddm

>>107523816
that's a standard size for a iGPU system. Don't tell me how shitty that is for gaming, non-gamers are even more likely to have such systems.

>>107523844
Ah, if it's counting iGPU systems as VRAM then that makes sense. They should only really count dGPUs in my opinion. An iGPU system can still handle the requirements of more VRAM it's just it'll run like crap because you're sharing the system memory.

>>107523855
You expect common people to go into the bios and change settings?
Anyway, half of people on that survey have 8 or less GBs of VRAM, which is still a size I'd totally care about wasting 1 of it. There is no good reason to waste that much VRAM, even browsers can live with 300MB or so.

>>107523884
Again, that doesn't mean what you think it means. The system can still handle the requirements of needing the gig of VRAM for these services, it just means that IF there is contention for resources (and only IF) then it'll run like dog shit.
>Allocation != Real world use

>>107523855
>it'll run like crap because you're sharing the system memory.
But I keep hearing it's completely fine and my NVMe SSDs don't need their own memory either!

>>107523906
I mean it is completely fine though?
Or did you really want 4K 244Hz HDR dialogue boxes from your background services rendering on an iGPU?

>>107523902
allocation usually means that yes, process A now has the memory, no other process can use it until it gives it back to the OS.

>>107523946
In the context of an iGPU that's definitely not true though. You are always sharing VRAM with system memory and guess what? If that's unused and not backed by real hardware buffers then that can potentially even be swapped out without you even noticing.

>>107523906
that's a completely different thing

i told you motherfuckers that kde was a VRAM hog but you didnt listen
windows vram usage is so much lower its insane
something aint right with plasma

>>107520264
I've put Aurora, but will completely wipe it and put Secureblue soon.

>>107523737
what?
1GB of VRAM is fucking insane for only the desktop envrionment, and what about laptops retard
i thought loonix was supposed to be lighter than windows

>>107524158
It's not the 2000s anymore grandpa. Even a Core2Duo system can handle KDE's VRAM usage.

>>107523988
But PCIe is even worse.

>>107524209
totally different usecase though.

>>107523420
>>107523749
In most distros KDE is set up to consume as much RAM and VRAM as your system can give it while avoiding overconsumption. If you had a 500MB VRAM and 4GB RAM system it wouldn't consume as much. But if you have a 64GB RAM and 8GB VRAM system, most KDE and GNOME distros will consume 5GB of memory idling.
The saying "unused RAM is wasted RAM" is unironically partially true. If your OS can be cached to RAM/VRAM to improve responsiveness then it should.
KDE + a browser playing multiple videos can run perfectly fine on 4GB RAM devices with integrated graphics consuming 250MB of it as VRAM. So it's not a heavy DE, you've just bought a PC that's considered powerful enough for the DE to consume 1GB VRAM.

>>107517095
God I love Mental Outlaw. That gentoo nigger. God damn he's hot as fuck! You know he's got a big fuckin' 10 inch nigger dick between his legs.

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is firejail good enough for some entry level security or i should learn and write profiles for apparmour? (i dont really want to mess with it. but give it to me) i think sandboxing firefox and being selective about javascript is a great start, will probably make me much more safer.

>>107524597
Use Bubblewrap/Bubblejail

You need to install the arc dark theme from the AUR now?
wtf has ebussi done the menace?

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>>107524730
WHAT THE CUNT IS GOING ON?

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>>107524197
In case you were unsure. I haven't booted this thing in forever but it proves the point. I also don't have a lot of background services running apart from the bare minimum though.

What >>107524257 said is mostly true. It's going to scale with your hardware.
If your system is struggling then you should really be disabling any services that aren't strictly necessary.

>>107524771
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arc-gtk-theme-git

>>107524652
why? firejail is easy to manage, has many profiles and can work along apparmour. bubblejail is not in any serious distro and has very fewer profiles and bubblewrap is just a tool for constructing sandbox environments, it is not a complete, ready-made sandbox with a specific security policy (from their git), so i think i'd have to start from 0.
>>107524838
not even 2h of uptime and its already raping the swap, cmon kde. there are trues in what the other guy said, your hardware has some impact, with me it uses 2gb idle. i think theres truth in here >>107523699 too.

>>107524945
That's ZRAM, it's intended. 10% use is hardly "raping the swap".

>>107524953
And yes, there are hardware constraints with running such an old system, I'm not going to pretend there is a non-zero impact in doing so. It's not the software that's the problem though. This hardware would be just as shit sat at a TTY or in i3 or dwm, etc.

Using hyprland, when I turn on my pc and login after the window manager just before the deskto\p screen loads it spouts a bunch of random text stuff and a few green lines, I want to read it but I have no idea where this text is, what am I seeing every time?

>>107524953
>>107524970
Memory Usage in case you were curious:

$ wgetpaste < <(free -h;swapon --show;sudo ps_mem -S)
Your paste can be seen here: 

https://bpa.st/EZ6Q

I still have 6 GB available so the system is fine other than the crappy CPU.

>>107524838
thats a cpu from 2010?
damn my laptop from late 2015 must run kde plasma really well

>>107525098
Probably really well, yeah. People have the perception of it being some big and heavy environment when really it's not that bad at all.

Just turn off file indexing and set animation speed to instant.

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>>107524885
bro I can't handle this shit like I'm actually having ectopic heart beats.
wtf is this shit. Why isn't arc-dark-theme in the official arch repos anymore.

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>>107525197
Certified arch experience

>>107525392
It's not arch it's fucking gnome faggots fucking up themeing OUTSIDE their own fucking DE.
gnome is a fucking cancer.

Can someone please help me out because nothing makes sense. I'm trying to create a bootable USB of Windows on Fedora 43 and it just doesn't work the way it should. When I start the Windows installer it says that it lacks the drivers which is something I have never ever seen before and have done that installation hundreds of times. And here's the epic culmination. After finding out what the issue is, supposedly I have to add these drivers to usb, maybe that will finally do it. But no, I can't add any files to the usb because I don't have a permission and nothing seems to work. Even used gparted, formated it to ntfs added the very same files but now the usb is not recognized as bootable in bios. I just don't get it at this point.

>>107517154
and faggots like you should be murdered at birth or in the womb

>>107525589
Are you making the USB with WoeUSB-ng or Ventoy? Because those are the only ones that work if you wanna make a Windows USB on Linux.

>>107525602
No. Never had this problem before. I guess MAYBE that will do it.

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>Last night
>Update wifi drivers on Windows partition
>Boot into Fedora partition
>Wifi not working
>Wtf
>Boot back into Windows
>Wifi works
>Try the other 2 kernels on Fedora
>Wifi still not working
>Try restarting network manager and stuff like that
>Google my problem
>Apparently it just needs to be left powered off for a while
>Turn it off and unplug
>Go to bed, wake up 8 hours later
>Boot Fedora 2 mins before writing this
>Wifi just werks again

Dafuq is this?

>>107525615
Windows is pretty much the only install image that doesn't come as a bootable system and needs tools to make it boot. Anything else and you can just flash it straight to the USB but Microsoft has to be special.

>>107525673
But then how did I manage to do it so many times before? It would work with any program or it won't show at all. It's almost done copying the iso, hope this really works.

>>107525673
Windows ISOs are the only ones that aren't hybrid/can be read as pure code unlike Linux ISOs, ergo they need something like WoeUSB-ng which basically builds a proper FAT32 Windows install USB from scratch via a GUI and Ventoy being able to read and install Windows ISOs no matter what.

>>107525684
Yeah, they use that awful WIM format so making a bootable USB involves making the FAT32 partition and then unpacking / extracting that. I don't know why they can't just make a proper hybrid image. I get that there are people's workflows that exist that you'd be breaking but it's for the best.

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>on standard fedora KDE
>want to install new Radeon card
>go to website
>linux downlaods available: RHEL, Ubuntu, SLED
Okay, which one do I get? RHEL, right, since RHEL is based on Fedora?

>>107525833
You don't need to install drivers from AMD. Fedora already has them included.

>>107525842
>>107525833
Although, you do still need to uncuck your driver via RPMFusion but if you're switching from an NVIDIA card then you're probably used to that anyway.

>>107525155
would gnome also run fine you think?

>>107525884
I haven't used GNOME in years so can't really say what it's like these days but I imagine it'll run okay.

>>107525664
its some NVRAM shit
or windows fast startup fucking up´
i had that happen with the bluetooth adapter many times in the past. had to shutdown my laptop and leave it like that for a couple of minutes, then it worked again

>>107524730
My entire system is now all kinds of fucked up just because these gnome pedophile trannies are trying to force adwata shit into everything.

>>107525915
Huh, interesting, I'll have to look more into that. I tried turning off fast boot for a Windows-related external HDD issue on Fedora as well, but have to keep running ntfsfix to make it writable. At this point, I'm planning on backing that drive up, reformatting to ext4 (not enough RAM for ZFS) or something, connecting to an old PC, and turning into a file server anyway.

Windows needs to keep its bullshit on its own partition.

Found a way how to reliably crash qimgv when saving a file in Xfce4. I still think it's xfwm4 related but can't be sure. Let's just say that a.jpg and b.jpg are problematic naming conventions.

>>107525833
>installing drivers manually
it's not 2001, grandpa

>Install Lutris
>Open game in Lutris
>Nothing happens
>Install Bottles
>Create a bottle
>Place game folder in bottle's directory
>Run game
>Nothing happens
>Open Lutris back up, run game while it is inside bottle directory
>It works

Fucking HOW or WHY? The only thing that consistently works is Steam's Proton but that requires adding it as a non-steam game.

>>107526133
It is in my mind. Now tell me how to install this, I need my 9070 XT to run perfectly smooth for original Quake-era Team Fortress.
(Also, nvidian constantly complained I didnt have the newest drivers back on Windows 10)

I'm getting into Linux after doing a bit of reading and research about it.
I got some stupid questions.

Will Linux tutorials in involving Ubuntu based systems and derivatives of Ubuntu like Linux Mint be applicable throughout Ubuntu based distros?

Is there any meaningful difference between Linux Mint's Cinnamon and XFCE versions?

How's Winboat versus Wine and Bottles?

>>107526422
>Will Linux tutorials in involving Ubuntu based systems and derivatives of Ubuntu like Linux Mint be applicable throughout Ubuntu based distros?
As long as they're targeting the same version (ie Ubuntu 24 LTS), then yes. Most tutorials and guides are applicable to any Linux distro. They're all pretty much compatible aside from having a different package manager and different versions of packages, and having different packages pre-installed which you can likely manually install.

>Is there any meaningful difference between Linux Mint's Cinnamon and XFCE versions?
Cinnamon is better but demands more resources. Both are basically grade school-level DEs made as a hobby. If you don't want a shit tier experience use a distro with KDE or GNOME.
Using these niche distros and DEs which are stuck somewhere in 2016-2020 isn't a good idea if this is your first experience with Linux.

>How's Winboat versus Wine and Bottles?
Winboat is a virtual machine. You're not getting hardware acceleration unless you pass your GPU to it (which isn't supported on Winboat yet afaik). And if you do pass your GPU to a VM, you're losing display out for anything that's not that virtualized OS, so you can't use your Linux OS at the same time. That is, unless you have an extra GPU to spare and pass that one to the virtual machine.

>>107526671
Thanks!
>Using these niche distros and DEs which are stuck somewhere in 2016-2020 isn't a good idea if this is your first experience with Linux.
Thought Linux Mint is good for a first timer. What other distros do you recommend then?

>Winboat is a virtual machine. You're not getting hardware acceleration unless you pass your GPU to it (which isn't supported on Winboat yet afaik).
Thanks for the head's up.

>>107526671
You are lying. Typical shit tier advice seen in these threads.

>>107526737
Mint is perfectly fine. Most people who advice others itt are not that competent and prefer to recommend distros for specific tasks but that's just plain idiotic.
Only issue with Mint could be that if you need to run professional software what is not certified for the runtime environment...

>>107520264
> mom's laptop
she's a normie, she'd just want windows again after not knowing how to use the software updater and needing to enter her password over and over again.

>>107520264
No, she's a macfag

>>107526847
I've never seen anyone used to Windows have problems finding Discover. It's kind of in your face. It's good you're not trying to put other people on Linux if you don't know how to turn off the password prompt.

>>107526737
>What other distros do you recommend then?
Bazzite

>>107523345
>debugging
>driver problemson a gaming distro
in the trash CachyOS goes

how can i rice my kde desktop? i wanna be like the cool kids

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>>107526742
>Typical shit tier advice seen in these threads.
pic related

>>107526938
cachy is not a gaming distro. it's a distro for arch tinkerers who don't want to install everything manually, but still expect to tinker with their distro to an extent. it's not a distro any sane person would consider usable just like arch isn't.

>>107526737
NTA but pick one of Arch, Fedora, or Ubuntu and don't hop until you make it work. Mint is a connectivity solution not a starting point. If you go on a Linux journey, one of your first steps is usually overwrite Mint with a developer focused distro that has a server edition or doesn't break if you try to install other GUIs.

>>107526963
>cachy is not a gaming distro. it's a distro for arch tinkerers who don't want to install everything manually, but still expect to tinker with their distro to an extent.
installing everything manually is the entire point of arch tho? whats the point? its like buying prebuilt lego kits

>>107522210
>>107522473
its just good practice to not install a thing with too much extra steps, i guess. i wouldnt recommend mint nowdays - "just install FEDora, its polished and retard proof".

>>107527301
some people just want the arch repo for it's rolling release nature and the AUR without having to install every single thing manually. that's the whole reason why endeavour exists. cachy is also just that, but it adds their own UI tools for tinkering and also gives people access to placebo optimizations while being an overall less stable system.
>its like buying prebuilt lego kits
yes, some people want to play with toys and customize them and not have to assemble one brick by brick.

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>>107517223
true im fine with my mint and xfce

hello anons, I'm trying to find an easy and fast way to change audio sources from a GUI because I use i3wm. Any recommendations? I use pipewire if that matters.

>>107527469
Install Pavucontrol Qt

>have 2 mechanical drives in old PC
>benchmark both
>one is faster
which partitions would it make sense to put in the faster drive and which ones would go in the slower one?

>>107526949
Install:
- Kvantum and Kvantum Manager
- Whatever global theme you like from a trustworthy maker, since sddm runs unaudited code in /usr and you can get haxx0red this way easily
- the corresponding kvantum theme from pling/store.kde.org manually
- the matching konsole theme from the same site
- install Active Blur as a background extension
- install Darkly
- install klassy
- install Latte Dock
- Tweak all the themes and settings of your theme and each of it's components to your liking
- enable wobbly windows and desktop cube under effects
- stay unsatisfied and repeat the same process a few hundred times more

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>>107527872
picrel are teh benchmarks for both
one seems much more consistent in speeds than the other
benchmarks done on the default benchmark options in the "Disks" tool in Linux Mint

>>107527881
>- Whatever global theme you like from a trustworthy maker, since sddm runs unaudited code in /usr and you can get haxx0red this way easily
FYI: Plasma Login Manager is replacing SDDM on some systems now and will fix that.
SDDM was never a particularly good login manager and was never even a KDE project, it just happened to be what was needed because KDM was unmaintained by KDE. Now they're making their own again.

Rolling release distro and stable DE is the comfy life. I'll never leave MATE.

>>107527891
Try KDiskMark if you want to benchmark your drive speed. It's similar to Crystal Disk Mark on Windows if you've used that and uses fio for its benchmarking.
It's much better than whatever Disk Utility Mint ships with.

>>107528004
Gives about similar results.
Should i put the whole / thing on the fast drive and /home in the slow drive?

I put 10 GB of swap as a primary partition on the fast drive and then use the remainder space for the / logical partition? Then pick /home on the other drive as another logical partition?

>>107528101
Makes sense.

How do I add appimages and .sh files to the app menu? Going to the directory every time I want to start krita and hydrus is annoying.

got ue5 working on fedora after switching over from windows... the editor runs so much better, legitimately what the fuck. its so smooth and fluid and i seem to be getting 3-4MS faster render times at my dev quality preset compared to how it was on win11.

>>107528148
Make a .desktop entry for them. In KDE you can just write click the app menu and select "Edit Applications". In environments like GNOME (or other desktops) then you need to install a third-party menu editor like Alacarte.

You can also just make the .desktop entry yourself by hand in ~/.local/share/applications.

>>107528202
>In KDE you can just write click the app menu and select "Edit Applications"
Thanks, this worked.

>>107527761
I installed it but I can't make my monitor audio work from HDMI :(

>>107528327
Does it not show up in Output Devices or Configuration?
Post the output of:

pactl list cards

6.18.1 just dropped. I literally just installed 6.18. Oh, well.

>>107528349
the output is too long. Where should I post it?

>>107528557
Just post it to a pastebin somewhere

>>107528562
https://pastebin.com/AJz2fiv3

>>107528562
(the monitor I wanto to get audio form is mira253) aplay -l also shows this:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: HID [USB Audio and HID], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [MIRA253]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

>>107528575
So it does show up:

        alsa.mixer_name = "Intel Alderlake-P HDMI"
        alsa.components = "HDA:8086281c,80860101,00100000"
        alsa.id = "PCH"
        device.string = "1"
    Profiles:
        off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes)
        pro-audio: Pro Audio (sinks: 4, sources: 0, priority: 1, available: yes)
    Active Profile: off

You just have to turn it on. It's weird how you only have pro audio available though. It should have other profiles.

>>107528605
For example this is my AMD card:

        Profiles:
                off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes)
                output:hdmi-stereo: Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 5900, available: no)
                output:hdmi-stereo-extra1: Digital Stereo (HDMI 2) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 5700, available: yes)
                output:hdmi-stereo-extra2: Digital Stereo (HDMI 3) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 5700, available: yes)
                output:hdmi-stereo-extra3: Digital Stereo (HDMI 4) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 5700, available: yes)
                output:hdmi-surround: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 800, available: no)
                output:hdmi-surround71: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 800, available: no)
                output:hdmi-surround-extra1: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 2) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 600, available: yes)
                output:hdmi-surround71-extra1: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 2) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 600, available: yes)
                output:hdmi-surround-extra2: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 3) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 600, available: yes)
                output:hdmi-surround71-extra2: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 3) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 600, available: yes)
                output:hdmi-surround-extra3: Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 4) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 600, available: yes)
                output:hdmi-surround71-extra3: Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 4) Output (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 600, available: yes)
                pro-audio: Pro Audio (sinks: 4, sources: 0, priority: 1, available: yes)
        Active Profile: off

>>107528605
>>107528615
I tried setting it up as default device in the .asoundrc but it didn't work. When I connect my USB DAC it works fine. I also fired up a live usb with gnome and monitor audio works fine there.

>>107528630
I don't think asoundrc is going to do anything for PulseAudio or PipeWire. Does it really not show up in Pavucontrol? It should be there in one of the drop-downs. You can click the checkmark box to make it the default instead of fallback (that's not obvious unless you know it).

>>107528651
I just found an option in pulseaudio, in the configuration tab that showed build in audio and it was disabled. I enabled it and now it works! Thanks anon!

>>107528148
appimaged makes it automatic

https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage

>>107521992
Bazzite.

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I've been playing with GNU TeXmacs as a way to write WYSIWYG that still shits out git friendly plaintext markup instead of a Word style binary blob, and I'm really liking it so far. The keyboard shortcuts and menus are actually focused around structure rather than raw pixels so it feels semantically aware of a typeset document the way a good Emacs/Vim config is of source code. The Windows port is a disaster thanks to using an old version of Qt but the Linux/BSD and Mac ports are extremely solid, and there's even an Android beta for tablets and laptops! (Despite the name, it is no longer either TeX or Emacs, though it can export/import TeX.)

I would pick TeXmacs over Libreoffice any day for anything where I had the option, and it's so much simpler than fiddling with LaTeX templates.

>>107528943
GearLever

Luv me LMDE
It just works

Is redcore a good distro?

>>107529720
Never heard of it. Apparently, it's Gentoo with a pre-built binary repo but Gentoo itself does that now anyway so what does it actually do differently?

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Is this any good? But I don't need the AUR, i'm looking for a minimal distro with bleeding edge packages, but without systemd. Any recommendation?

>>107529812
Sounds like you need NIGGIX. It's the ZOMBOCOM of GNU PLUS LINUX.

https://zombo.com/

>>107529812
install gentoo

>>107529812
There's void and alpine but alpine is musl-only and uses busybox over gnu coreutils (though you can easily install coreutils on alpine to get normal functionality back) and void is full of mentally ill devs who care more about politics than software such as banning hyprland
Artix can work but it doesnt re-build everything and weird issues may come up when installing packages due to it expecting systemd

>>107529812
yes artix is great, i run it with openrc on all my pcs

>>107517514
>he thinks GNOME is relevant
Lol.

>>107526963
the only valid complaint in that pic is the outdated kernel (its just an lts branch its not really that outdated), and the vrr/hdr
everything else is literal schizobabble especially the filesystem thing since COW filesystems like btrfs actually creates more write amplification than ext4 would and would burn out an ssd faster

I'd make a thread for this but I don't want to get banned for 3 days for Loondook posting so I'll put this here. It seems the LibXML2 library which is used in EVERYTHING is now no longer maintained and has security bugs what are the technological implications of this? Also it says it's not safe to use to process untrusted data, what did they mean by this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDr4fKXmUvc

>>107530066
That's the exact opposite of reality you blithering retard. btrfs has higher metadata write amplification because it uses metadata to skip writing data. Yes, you write 10x more metadata records for a compressed or reflinked file, but that saves you from having to rewrite GBs of actual data.

>>107530292
Don't bother, you're wasting your breath. They'll never understand why things like BTRFS snapshots are a million times more efficient than the Timeshift cludge Mint uses.

>>107530017
It's the primary choice for the two most used Linux distros, which are Ubuntu and Fedora.
Only among the "video gamer" crowd is it vastly irrelevant compared to KDE. But even then it's still in 2nd place by a significant margin.

Even among the more niche desktop distros like Debian and Arch it's consistently in the top 2 most used DEs.

Debian install/usage stats:
>GNOME: 25.8%
>KDE: 12.2%
>-----irrelevancy filter-----
>Xfce: 11.7%
>Cinnamon: 4.7%
>MATE: 4.5%
>Openbox: 4%
>LXDE: 3%
>LXQt: 1.9%
>i3wm: 1.3%
>Sway: 0.7%
>Fluxbox + IceWM + Budgie + Hyprland + Niri: 1%

Arch install/usage stats:
>KDE: 38.4%
>GNOME: 19.8%
>-----irrelevancy filter-----
>i3wm: 12.8%
>hyprland: 12.6%
>sway: 12.43%
>Xfce: 10.7%
>Openbox: 7.9%
>Niri: 3.6%
>Awesome: 3.3%
>Cinnamon: 3.3%
>LXDE: 2.27%
>Fluxbox: 2.1%
>MATE: 2.1%

>>107530288
>Also it says it's not safe to use to process untrusted data, what did they mean by this?
This library is used by everything to process XML feeds from the web or config files on-disk. Both of these are untrused data from the perspective of your application because it doesn't control the data it's parsing.

Obviously, loading data from the web is the bigger risk here though.
This is a timely reminder of how shit a format XML is with all its XSLT crap, etc. Unstructured JSON is a million times better despite it not having schemas, etc.

>>107530288
>Steam
>Chromium
And NOTHING of VALUE was lost.

>>107530347
>>Steam
>>Chromium
>And NOTHING of VALUE was lost.

^Edgelord

>>107530310
>Fedora
>More used than Debian
Retard alert!

>>107530288
None. Prime example of nothing Lunduke talks about matters. The XML format isn't suitable for untrusted data because it has features which act as DoS enablers. If you're using a full fat implementation like lxml2 for arbitrary data you're already fucked in the head.

>>107530310
The Debian statistics for GNOME are completely useless because it doesn't distinguish between people that manually installed GNOME and people that got GNOME because it's the default Debian desktop and they didn't know any better.

>>107530434
It's more common than you'd think because libxml2 actually had a nice API to work with. The streaming parsers / SAX parsers that are resistant to DOS attacks have horrible APIs to use so when people just want to say "Fuck it. I don't care. Just parse the fucking thing" they use libxml2.

>>107530288
>(GNOME) they attack people, they attack jews
Why is he suggesting there's a degree of separation between people and jews?

>Also it says it's not safe to use to process untrusted data, what did they mean by this?
That XML parser is intended to be used only with trusted and safe XML files. So, nothing that would dynamically be fetched from a 3rd party URL. It's not the end of the world. Chrome can easily just remove the library and swap to using DOMParser which is already built into it. They'd lose a few features and performance, but it could serve as an immediate temporary solution.

>>107530415
We're talking about desktops here, not servers.

>>107530473
It makes no functional difference. This is like saying 90% of Windows users shouldn't count as users just because they bought their PC with Windows and don't know any better.

>>107530545
It makes a functional difference if you want to count people that made a conscious decision versus sheep but, yes, if you only care about "bigger number" then it's irrelevant.

>>107530505
The issue is individual devs using components which are expressly not fit to purpose. The fact that it has security issues in addition to issues built into the format is academic. It's like using bash for web scripting. You just don't do that. Any defects that may exist in bash are irrelevant.

>>107530566
Yes, but in the real world developer convenience trumps anything else.

>>107530572
Basically the libxml2 developers did too good a job of making such a nice to use API and now unfortunately it's not maintained properly.

>>107530572
Yes but that goes both ways. libxml2 devs aren't your slaves. They're not obliged to make their project applicable to yours.

>>107530600
Naturally. You can't really blame them. Companies like Google should be donating to the project or help to maintain it.

Im testing out hyprland, has anybody ever sucessfully display terminal output as a wallpaper?

I would like to replace wallpaper with btop. i wanted to ask at hyprland discord but they using some gay discord app and require phone to post

>>107530526
>Why is he suggesting there's a degree of separation between people and jews?

Man I don't know maybe he's being ironic the word "jew" has become meaningless anyway, libs think "jews" are white people, jews think they are Judeans from 3,000 years ago even with no confirmation of their genetics while being total Atheists, Judea was completely wrecked by the Neo-Babylonian empire and the exiles returned with the Talmud which is an ever evolving document which spits in Yahweh's face, are they da trueee jeeeeeewwwws? You tell me bro explain it like I'm a noob

>>107517095
> using opensuse tumbleweed
> uname -r returns kernel 6.18.0-2-default
> install source via zypper source-install kernel-default
> get /usr/src/linux-6.18.0-2/ and /usr/src/linux-6.18.0-2-obj/
> want to install some staging driver
> needs a Module.symvers which I copy from /usr/src/linux-6.18.0-2-obj/x86_64/default to /usr/src/linux-6.18.0-2/
> cd /usr/src/linux-6.18.0-2/
> install via sudo make -M=/path/to/driver
> works without any problems
> sudo make M=/path/to/driver modules_install
> works as well
> but it saves to fucking /lib/6.18.0-1-default
> lsmod doesn't find it of course but its there in /updates/common under 6.18.0-1
what the fuck why is this is such a huge fucking pain the ass. I already took me 2h to figure out I had to copy the Module.symvers and the ((ai)) doesn't help it insists what I am trying is impossible. Any ideas if that can be fixed?

>>107530706
Just:

sudo insmod /path/to/driver.ko

>>107530728
>>107530706
Also assuming it's in the right directory in /lib you have to re-run depmod to generate the module dependencies

Is anyone else getting crackles, brief high pitched sounds and other strange audio bugs after newer kernel updates?

I've been just fine with pipewire for years and suddenly this shit is acting up on me. It's not constant but it is annoying that out of nowhere I get them.

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>>107530288
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/1024#note_2627164
>Daniel: From my point of view we can close the opencollective.com and redirect all donations to the GNOME Foundation
>Nick: There's no way to close the account and redirect donations. Besides, all current and past donors specifically want to fund libxml2, not the GNOME foundation.
>Daniel: Okay, in that case you can transfer the ownership to me
lmao, this Daniel dude had ONE SINGULAR commit before Nick quit, now he's taken maintainership of the project, is talking "WE can close" and tries to siphon all the funds to fucking GNOME...

>>107530739
>>107530728
> re-run depmod
thanks that worked I just booted the 6.18.0-1 kernel and ran that now it shows up.

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>>107530785
I found this rando on youtube with basically the same problem I'm having
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RjjV6CfO34o

Does anyone know of possible causes for this?
Someone in the
>youtube comments
suggested it might be caused by sampling rate issues.

>>107530882
Though it should be noted by issue happens outside of games. Just watching youtube videos on my browser or mpv can trigger it sometimes, but briefly. It's not as constant in the video.

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>>107530822
Each day I hate gnome troons more and more

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I want to use linux but I hate this smug fucking bird. his existence actively lowers the status of Linux in my mind because he was always accompanied by the most insufferable cunts you'd ever see. linux will never be cool as long as he lives

>>107530611
That doesn't follow at all. Why should Google enable shitty behavior in hobby devs?

>>107523420
Dunno. I use LXQt, the based and lightweight DE.

>>107530924
>projecting

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How do I make sure the data between two different HDDs continuously stays in sync when one is plugged into one computer and the other is plugged into another? I have a Linux OS running on two different computers.

We can refer to these storage devices which should stay in sync by
user@10.0.0.74:/wallPoweredExternalHdd/
user@10.0.0.75:/internalHdd/sync/

Those two folders should recursively be the same as often as possible. rsync sounds like a bad solution because every time it has to check millions of files and see that there's no change or there is a change between them. ZFS mirror pool sounds possible, but I think sshfs won't work due to that only providing file-level access and not block-level access to the devices. Even if I could set up a mirror pool between local and remote drive, I feel like that wouldn't be the best solution.

Is it possible to do something like this: /wallPoweredExternalHdd and /internalHdd are both ZFS drives. Sync everything from /wallPoweredExternalHdd to /internalHdd/sync/. Then when wallPoweredExternalHdd is further updated, also update the sync folder: but the useful thing is it can pick up at the last transaction ID and only apply all the changes after that. So each time I sync the two it only updates since the ID of the last sync to be the current last transaction ID on both. That's more intelligent then rsync checking every single thing.

"zfs snapshot", "zfs send", and "zfs receive" aren't solutions because you can't delete stuff in ZFS snapshots. I sometimes need to delete things because I have data stored in 3 HDDs and can delete it from 1 to free up space, so a read-only ZFS snapshot isn't helpful.

The /pcbg/ is having a bit of a brand war over my question so I address this here:
My new Radeon 9070xt seems to be crashing my games frequently.
It's just a simple freeze or crash to desktop, no displays turning black or graphics going haywire. What could be the issue?
The journalctl log is already here
https://pastebin.com/jAxB2hTZ

>>107531123
I have no idea how well it works under load, but I'm happy with using syncthing for some folders on my pc and phone

>>107517135
Maybe you're feeling a bit annoyed/aggravated like me in reaction to this post: >>107501799

TL;DR:
>blah blah blah windows
>blah blah blah fix things
>Its true, it's always been true, Linux is free if your time has no value.

Full post:
> >>107500608
> I don't want a niche, I need to use many programs, I can do that with windows 10. But windows 10 is ending, windows 11 is shit and with Linux I can't use the programs or something breaks.
>
> I don't know why people say things on Linux work and in windows they don't (they are lying) it's the opposite. I need a computer that works, I don't want a broken pc that I have to be fixing each time, I don't have that much time neither I want to. I've never wasted much time with windows fixing problems, I don't want that either with Linux. But with Linux it seems it is a given, and when I complain about this, Linux people, instead of saying maybe we should improve stuff, they just don't care. And that's why they remain with that low proportion of users.
>
> I'm hoping that with the switch to windows 11 there comes a competent company or group of people that decide to make things right once and for all. Maybe necessity will force to make a distro that actually works and that had normal, user usage and experience in mind.
> >>107500608
> I'm not gonna start a journey, I don't want to waste time on computers, I have a life outside the pc and 4chan, I don't want to waste hours and hours to use a tool because people refuse to improve the user experience like in any other aspect of society, I will cope with windows 10 until someone makes a Linux OS that actually works. Every time you say X distro is easy for beginners and goof to use you are lying and I encounter a thousand problems.
>
> Its true, it's always been true, Linux is free if your time has no value.

>>107531272
>Its true, it's always been true, Linux is free if your time has no value.
Smug cunt: eat shit.

I rarely felt like I spent so much time on some Linux problem. Windows users also have to spend lots of time on certain problems; perhaps it's rare for them too. I'm thinking that guy made that post because he's a new Linux user and is frustrated with some unspecified problem. Also cunty of him that he never said exactly what his problem(s) were.

>>107517925
I'm playing games on it just fine. Sounds like a skill issue. Maybe MacOS is more your speed?

>>107531123
I feel like rsync doesn't work well at large scale: more than 16 TB and more than 8 million files. It would take too long. Unless there's some helper program/data that informs rsync of where the last changes were so it can skip everything else.

Alternative question: best Linux methods for incremental backups?

>>107531251
>I have no idea how well it works under load, but I'm happy with using syncthing for some folders on my pc and phone
How many files? But do you sync more than 8 million files each time? File count of synced folders "./source/" and "./destination/"?

>>107531272
Oops: reply to >>107517154 and not #107517135

>>107531279
That guy said he was using many Windows programs and they didn't work in Linux. With that situation I guess he was using wine or some shit and had compatibility problems. He could probably find replacements for whatever he was doing instead of spending so much time trying to get the many win-programs running in GNU/Linux. But I'm not sure as that fag didn't give many details.

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Fucking with Linux [spoiler]Mint[/spoiler] for the first time, just for fun. I've barely scratched the surface with it, but I'm having fun navigating all the menus. I'm still on the fence about installing it/replacing Windows, though.

I like how clean it looks.

>>107531123
>$ # pacman -S unison
>[man page:] unison — a multi-platform bi-directional file synchronization tool
>Unison works between any pair of machines connected to the internet, typically communicating over ssh(1), but also directly over TCP. It is careful with network bandwidth, and runs well over slow links. Transfers of small updates to large files are optimized using a compression protocol similar to rsync(1).
>$ # pacman -S syncthing
>[man page:] syncthing - Syncthing
The man page description for syncthing is too short. A related topic is distributed file systems; some require block-level access and others don't. IPFS only requires file-level access, but I think it's hard to delete stuff in an IPFS repo.

>>107530882
>image
Is that a horse?

>>107517748
sauce

>>107531500
Goddammit anon yes it is a horse.

>>107531339
>best Linux methods for incremental backups?
borg for local / LAN hosted, restic for cloud

On arch something recently has broken my openvpn command... I'm assuming it's the latest update to openresolv? I have not tried reverting yet - just wondering if anyone else ran into this?. I get >/usr/bin/resolvconf: line 999 10.1.0.1: command not found
I have the same setup on my laptop, VPN worked before the update, doesn't after. Based

>>107532034
>>107531470
my bad i'm retarded and you messed up your spoilers but i see now you said you're using mint. sorry anon.

I'm on Debian stable. How often should I apt update and upgrade?

>>107501799
you sound like a whiny bitch lmao, i hope you continue to suffer on jeetdows