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Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share experiences.

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Don't know what to look for?
$ apropos %something%

Try a random distro:
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how do i hack bitcoin banks with kali?
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>previous thread isn't on page 8
>in fact, previous thread hasn't even hit bump limit
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I installed Bazzite (KDE) on a laptop as a trial
idk what I did wrong but it's so fucking slow. Like, I'm talking 3+ minutes to boot, 30s to open the explorer or start menu..

Like, this isn't some chromebook laptop it's got 16gigs of ram, an AMD gpu. It can at least run W10 and MH Rise at 25fps.
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>>107534414
Majority of distros that are marketing themselves as immutable, atomic, are abominations.

Try mint(ubuntu/debian) or manjaro(arch)
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>>107534493
Mint is dog shit. Manjaro is ok but not great.
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>>107534414
Bazzite is bloated by design due to its reliance on Flatpaks. For your use case, you want CachyOS.
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Is every program in the included app store on Secureblue supposed to work? Crypomator gives me an error every time I try install it. I don't want to install it the other way because it will force me to lose some security.
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I just installed gentoo and I'm in slight disbelief at how easy it was (though it may be too soon since just installed the base system without graphical environment yet)
And this is coming from someone who mostly just used Debian, although I have experience doing minimal deboostrap installs of debian, so maybe that's what helped me.
The main hurdle was the kernel, after it compiled it just got stuck at initramfs generation, I redid the install with a binary distribution kernel and it worked, however I still plan to compile the kernel once i get everything else set up.
Also I made the stupid mistake of adding "-nls" to my USE flags in make.conf and it started to recompile gcc because of that one tiny flag, I had no idea gcc was such a huge bloated program that needs almost half a day to compile.
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why do some DE or WM set a lower limit for the refresh rate of my monitor? like for xfce, gnome, cosmic, dwm, and niri wm they all limit the refresh rate 15hz lower than it should be. while for kde and hyprland it works just fine
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>>107534805
is your monitor 144hz?
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>>107534820
it's 100hz. this issue really bugs me even though the difference between 85hz and 100hz is pretty small
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Hey arch shitters, does your pacman have super cow powers? guess not! checkmate!
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I am on tumbleweed w gnome. But no matter what i set my BIOS secure boot to, the gnome interface for security doesn't recognize that my pc has secure boot on.
Which is weird since opensuse is compatible with windows style secure boot.
Any ideas?
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>>107534508
>>107534493
>CachyOS
>Manjaro
I heard about Arch but I also heard it's bad for beginners and has a "bleeding edge" update policy...
Like, I'm looking for something reasonably stable with security updates that'll work out the box without much maintenance which is why I gave Fedora a shot.

Like, there HAS to be something wring with how I set it up I just don't understand how it can be this slow.
I'll give Mint a whirl maybe
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do you know how I can procrastinate super hard at work on GNU/Linux while looking busy as if I were researching new technological improvements, while actually just tinkering with stuff and not doing anything serious?
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Any openrc users here? How can i make a custom runlevel start on a separate custom x session? I use artix with xfce as my daily driver, but i created a .desktop file that only launches my DAW(reaper) and openbox-session. It works fine, but im just trying integrate a slimmer runlevel when i start the session so that unnecessary processes like bluetooth, netmount, etc are disabled
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>>107534918
Well we have a pacman eating coins as download progress bar.
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>>107535634
You don't need to mess with runlevels to autostart programs, xfce already has an autostart program, just add your .desktop or script or whatever to there.
For more info:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Autostarting
As for slimming your runlevel, just remove whatever you don't need with
rc-update delete <service> <runlevel>

and as always, consult the gentoo wiki for openrc documentation or just read the manpages:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC
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>>107534414
i went from bazzite to arch and it's so much better, not even that h4xx0r but the immutable factor makes it impossible to properly install apps, arch is better
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I really don't know what's going on. XTerm seems to stutter every second, having like a 500ms delay between a key press and a character showing up on the screen but the address bar in Firefox works just fine. What the fuck?
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>>107535911
Fortunately it wasn't happening in the Linux console and restarting X11 helped
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I've been using swap partitions ever since I first started using Linux. I'm now installing a new system, should I switch to a swap file?
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any linux image editing software out there that can automatically remove backgrounds like ms paint? preferably something easy to use because i'm a brainlet.
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>>107535757
Im not trying to autostart programs in xfce. Im not trying to do anything with my xfce session. What im saying is i created a separate openbox + reaper xsession by creating a .desktop file for it and moving it into the .xsessions directory.
When i startup my custom openbox session, it has the default openrc runlevel already going and what im trying to do instead is use an alternative, slimmer runlevel because i only need this xsession environment for creating music. I dont need internet, bluetoothd, cups, etc daemons/services running. And i dont want to have to use the rc-update stop/delete commands every single time i login under this custom session
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>>107536142
yes easier to manage/create. speaking of which i forgot to create mine after my last installation. nothing happens
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>>107534414
Did you install it onto a USB drive or something? Check your disk read/write speeds, I believe Bazzite comes with the "Disks" application where you can benchmark your drive speeds.

>>107534508
Flatpaks wouldn't cause his bootup times to be slow nor would Dolphin open slowly. I've had bazzite installed on a shitty 64GB micro SD card and it wasn't as slow as that anon describes it to be.

>>107536157
If you're just using it to automatically select a solid color, then GIMP. It has a fuzzy select and a foreground select tool.
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>>107536198
Oh i see, sorry I misread, I think the way you do it is like this
# cd /etc/runlevels
# cp -r -P default custom-runlevel
# cd custom-runlevel
# ls -l

Now just remove the services you don't want and then run
rc custom-runlevel
, this will start all services in custom-runlevel and stop all services not in it (except for boot and sysvinit). If this works then you can add that line to your .desktop file
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>>107535911
Happened to me a couple of times, they were just processes that didn't close properly
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>>107535156
Vanilla Arch is bad for beginners, but Arch-based distros give you a preconfigured Arch and they're totally fine for beginners. I know Archinstall exists, but it still looks ugly and you can't use a mouse for it. The main downside to Arch-based distros is that the Arch community never developed a culture of offline installers; on deb/rpm-based distros you can download an offline installer for some program from a website and double-click to install it offline, which just isn't a thing on Arch. If that's not a problem to you, then Arch-based distros won't be a problem to you...except for potentially Manjaro.

Manjaro has a big promise: it aims to be Arch but with less frequent updates. That sounds great, and if you stick to the official Manjaro repos it is indeed great, but the issue is that Arch (and by extension Manjaro) has a smaller repo than say Debian or Fedora, so there is a chance you might want to install something from the AUR. The issue is that Manjaro's slower update schedule causes compatibility issues with AUR software, which are updated for the latest versions of Arch. If you're certain you'll never need to use the AUR, then Manjaro is fine, but honestly Arch-based distros like CachyOS don't even break, and CachyOS is rivalled only by OpenSUSE in brick protection and automatic maintenance. I'd only recommend Manjaro over CachyOS if update notifications simply annoy you.

TL;DR use anything EXCEPT for Mint, god no.
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>>107536909
Even without the AUR Manjaro was buggy as fuck for me back around 5-6 years ago so I never gave it another chance. Did they improve or is it still a collapsing pile of shit?
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>>107537092
I tried it around 2014, felt like shit, tried it two years ago, still shit
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>>107535156
just use cachyos dude it's fine. If it's a problem you can switch but I doubt you are going to have an issue with it.



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