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Why are people shilling this distro so much recently? What's so special about it?

>>107551270
Uriel, my beloved...

>>107551330
New OS, new converts who think its the new best thing.

I FUCKING MISS THE MID 2000S

>>107551337
i have an uefi mobo, so i cant encrypt that efi partition, right? i know you can on /boot. regardless, isnt it a huge attack surface to let these boot partitions uncrypted? if the glowies get your hardware they'll try to mess around with it. do you see a way where they could access your data tempting with these partitions?

>>107551330
>recently
tinkertrannies have been shilling it for at least 3 years now

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4 hours wasted and a broken mouse from raging over broken drivers again award
turns out i was glancing over the setting i was looking for repeatadely because they changed the layout in the kde settings

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>>107551330

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>>107551616

I like rape!

>>107551330
nothing really. it's for spergs who can't go 2 days without reinstalling their OS.
Could never be me, I installed my fedora workstation in 2022.

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>>107551483
I miss him

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Fresh install of Fedora + NVIDIA drivers. Why are background services using half a gig of VRAM?

>>107551938
not this shit again

>>107551938
>novideo

>>107551766
Distros for this feel?

>>107551938
Because you have enough RAM to spare.

>>107551966
probably gentoo if you mean as the receiver

>>107551938
because you're using kde plasma

>>107551330
afaik its for people who think arch isnt bleeding edge enough

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>>107551938

Linux hasn't been my daily driver for about 15 years but I can't stop thinking about coming back to it on my gaming PC so I can cut ties with Windows before it gets too unbearable with its poor design and dogshit "agentic" aspirations. I've been reading up on what's available in Linux these days and it sounds like it would be a much easier transition than it was back then and virtually everything I use in Windows has a Linux build or easy equivalent or is just part of the OS in the first place.
I think before I do it I'm going to set up a VM so I can experiment with software and get a basic feel for what tools I like before I'm stuck in the environment, then try repurposing one of my storage hard drives to play with it, then finally make the jump on my main drive once I've gotten a feel for it and know how I want everything. Since it's been so long I figured I'd drop by here to ask, do you guys have any less obvious gotchas you'd recommend looking out for, or anything you wish you had thought about or known before switching over/doing a fresh setup?

After much testing I have concluded that there are only 3 distros worth my lack of time:
- Linux Mint/LMDE
- MX Linux
- Debian

>>107552498
MX Linux looks ugly as sin.

>>107552498
for me it's bazzite. debian and ubuntu distros have always been massive disappointments.

Richard Stallman's raider list:
https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/g/mysociety-community/c/zkyZpOXjgoQ/m/_8xyXSxv9zYJ
>A supply of tea with milk and sugar would be nice. If it is tea I really like, I like it without milk and sugar. With milk and sugar, any kind of tea is fine. I always bring tea bags with me, so if we use my tea bags, I will certainly like that tea without milk or sugar.

>>107552520
There's a ton of fun Xfce themes out there so that can easily change. Also MX Linux has that cool retro vibe going on with custom grub themes

>>107552563
>There's a ton of fun Xfce themes out there
nta but proof?

>>107552530
You know you're dealing with at least a turbo-autist if they say that shit without just stating what tea they like.

>>107552693
But there's so much to tea other than what tea you like?

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>>107552664
https://www.xfce-look.org/p/2076848
https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc
https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
https://github.com/et0ndyy/Win2k
https://gitlab.com/dejan-z/xfce-stuff
and many more

>>107552744
Everytime I see Thunar I'm reminded that it doesn't have recursive search

>buy amd gpu because it's "better" for linux
>shits the bed constantly, can't seem to get it to work for 5 fucking minutes
>check the amdgpubug tracker
>tons of other people have been having the same issue for months
>no fix
this shit is so retarded

>>107552940
works on my machine

>>107552943
thanks for the help nigger

>>107552940
That sucks anon, I'm sorry to hear that but you did learn 1 valuable lesson that was way more expensive than it should have been.
ALWAYS DO RESEARCH!

>>107552940
which GPU and which distro?

>>107552951
no problemo. just buy a good psu and stop being retarded.

>>107552734
Sure, but when it comes to all the if this then that shit rooted in which tea bags it's going to be and he has his own tea bags just say what his own fucking tea bags are so they can have them.

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>>107551938
>discovery
how i hated that on my kde days, its useless bloat, cant install shit properly and runs on background evevy fresh boot.

>>107552954
Yeah I guess I messed up when I didn't pull out my crystal ball to magically divine that the drivers would have this problem and that I would encounter them.

>>107552962
>driver problem? BUY A PSU
how's the weather in India?

>>107553118
gpu drivers can crash because of a bad psus. good morning sir. is this the first pc you have build? do you need any help with it?

>>107552954
>DO RESEARCH
*USE OLD SHIT YOU FIND ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD

>>107553132
at least use a better translator, ranjeet

>>107553144
and you a better power supply

>>107553160
>DO NOT REDEEM DRIVER ISSUE!!!! SAAR IS PSU!!!!!!

>>107553182
again works on my machine

>>107553118
>messed up when I didn't pull out my crystal ball to magically divine that the drivers would have this problem and that I would encounter them.
New user huh? Almost every Linux distro keeps a hardware lag of sometimes that tells you how compatible the distro is with your hardware, you could have always asked in here first.

>>107553201
Do you not understand the meaning of "driver issue"?

>>107553259
the driver itself can crash because of faulty hardware

>>107553259
>taps the hardware log
Shoulda checked it chum... Have you tried generic drivers yet?

>>107552459
Don't waste your time with a VM. Guest GPU isn't real GPU.

>>107553452
Oh yeah no, that step wouldn't be to test performance or anything, more to fuck around with various utilities from the comfort of a disposable container in a still-functional environment. If I get bored with it I can kick the can down the road without having to fuck up my secondary drive, and if it gets me even more interested then I can go in knowing what I want to install for various purposes based on hands-on experience rather than just reading about them. If I'm really feeling scrappy maybe even get configs ready for some of them and push them up to my old dotfiles repo.

the 7zip packages on the latest fedora are confusing, there is 7zip then there is 7zip-reduced and 7zip-standalone packages, p7zip seems to just install standalone one, so what's the difference?

>>107554057
Just "7zip" is the one you should get now, as it's pretty much just the Windows version built with Linux compat.

backups are fucking meme
been trying all weekend to backup my work files and porn from a mint usb and it starts off fast and then slows to a crawl i'm never getting outta here

>>107554090
what's the standalone one then?

>>107554196
No plugins, so less compatibility with certain formats. But installs smaller.

>>107554210
alright, thanks.

>>107551330
Everything defined on your system with a single file. What applications get installed, what services get set up, what desktop and display manager you have installed.
If an application gets removed from that file you rebuild your system and it's gone.
It's a source based package manager with a binary cache. You want to customize a package, you can build it yourself. If you don't care it will download it.
Larger package cache than Debian, also more up to date than Debian.
>Why is it being shilled so much
I don't know, you tell me

>>107551330
easy to deploy on hundreds of machines.

basement dwelling anon's on their own machines, well, you do you.

>>107551330
It's basically HomeBrew for Linux which can also function as its own distro. Except the distro part never really came together. Even a lot of people within the project think it doesn't have a use case.

>>107554583
Nobody but basement dwellers is using that shit.

Got a question. Trying to upgrade my system because it's been about a month since I did it last, but I'm running into this conflict:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing ffmpeg (2:8.0.1-2) breaks dependency 'libavcodec.so=61-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:8.0.1-2) breaks dependency 'libavutil.so=59-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:8.0.1-2) breaks dependency 'libswresample.so=5-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:8.0.1-2) breaks dependency 'libswscale.so=8-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing icu (78.1-1) breaks dependency 'libicuuc.so=76-64' required by freerdp2

As far as I can tell, freerdp2 is an AUR package that's used as a dependency for krdp. Thinking that krdp is likely out of date, I tried updating it manually but then I get this conflict:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing libbluray (1.4.0-2) breaks dependency 'libbluray.so=2-64' required by ffmpeg4.4
:: installing rav1e (0.8.1-2) breaks dependency 'librav1e.so=0.7-64' required by ffmpeg4.4
:: installing libvpx (1.15.2-2) breaks dependency 'libvpx.so=9-64' required by ffmpeg4.4
:: installing x264 (3:0.165.r3222.b35605a-2) breaks dependency 'libx264.so=164-64' required by ffmpeg4.4
:: installing x265 (4.1-1) breaks dependency 'libx265.so=212-64' required by ffmpeg4.4
:: installing ffmpeg (2:8.0.1-2) breaks dependency 'libavcodec.so=61-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:8.0.1-2) breaks dependency 'libavutil.so=59-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:8.0.1-2) breaks dependency 'libswresample.so=5-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing ffmpeg (2:8.0.1-2) breaks dependency 'libswscale.so=8-64' required by freerdp2
:: installing icu (78.1-1) breaks dependency 'libicuuc.so=76-64' required by freerdp2

How do I proceed from here? As far as I can tell this is something of a catch22.

>>107554849
>help my shit is broken
>AUR
Every time.

>>107554849
IMO probably removing all these packages, running a full update, then re-installing them from the AUR again might fix it. Guessing you don't use paru/yay?

>>107555067
Never installed anything directly from the AUR. I'm guessing one of the packages from the extra repository used the AUR one as a dependency. That seems very sloppy though and I don't think that's the case, but hey, I'm new to all this.
>>107555093
I do not. Built this machine back in April~ because my current workhorse/laptop is dying and I don't want to put up with Microshit's shenanigans. I use this lightly so I haven't had much reason to dig into the regular workings of the OS.

>>107555202
>I'm guessing one of the packages from the extra repository used the AUR one as a dependency.
That can't happen unless you fuck shit up because there's no way for pacman to pull from the AUR.

>>107555218
That's my thought too. Is it possible for something to be moved from an official repository to the AUR? Something like a downgrade in status? Maybe that's what happened.

>>107555270
PACMAN DOES NOT PULL FROM THE AUR
you fucked something up and you did install something from the AUR

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>>107555341
Then can you tell me what is going on here? I never got anything from the AUR until today trying to fix this. Is it possible for something to be moved from the Core/Extra reposit to the AUR if it hasn't been maintained or something? Looking at my pic it says freerdp2 has been orphaned, so maybe it can?

>>107555270
yeah happened with redis

I feel so happy I don't need to deal with Arch.

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>100GB disk on laptop
>30GB free +10GB Unallocated (apparently)
>Can't shrink the C: partition at all, Event Logger brings up PageFile.sys
>Turning off virtual memory doesn't remove it
>Can't delete it
>Restarting turns it back on
>Resizing it from 2000MB to 16MB gives me ~8GB to shrink
God I fucking hate Windows so much.

It's doing literally everything in it's power to stop me from installing Linux I fucking hate Microsoft

>>107555560
Thanks for confirming.
>>107555586
I honestly don't mind this. It's always interesting to learn something new and it's not like I can't use my system as is.

>>107555670
you are a retard and you should feel bad. i am not going to help someone who is ignorant like you.

>>107555506
krdp doesn't depend on "freerdp2", it depends on "freerdp", which is in extra. You have a broken AUR package installed, get rid of it.

>>107555713
>friendly thread
>anon isn't friendly
I'll have to ask you to leav, anon
I'm sorry

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>>107555670
Disable hibernation.

>>107555506
even if something got moved to the AUR, pacman does not connect to the AUR, thats why you need "helpers" to install AUR packages

>>107555807
That goes in hiberfil.sys.

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How do I resize systray icons in Plasma? I'm using a bitmapped icon pack and all of them have been bilinearly upscaled. I'd like to display them at native resolution instead.

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The absolute GOAT of youtube clients is searching on duckduckgo and just dragging videos into an always open MPV player.

No lag, no ads, no crashing, no personalization, no algorithms, no bloat just raw video playback the way God intended.

>>107555807
already disabled, pagefile is virtual memory
Defrag Event is telling me that's what's limiting the shrink... So I assume it's written right near the end of the drive

>>107555960
Certainly a way to do it. Just counts on Youtube not breaking yt-dlp again for the hundredth time. Guessing you've set up Deno for this, right?

>>107556160
This is just firefox and mpv player out of the box.

>>107556184
How does that work? You need yt-dlp to have mpv directly run youtube videos like that?

>>107556188
oh sorry yes, I also have yt-dlp installed.

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>>107555960
I didn't even know this was a thing, thank you lol

>>107555911
thats the neat part. you can't.

>>107547917
>>MBR is a disk partitioning scheme. It is possible to boot a MBR partitioned disk in UEFI mode.
>Use case?
Booting from a flash drive.

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>>107551938
Post nvtop usage. Plasma System Monitor is useless.

>>107555960
Having an "always open MPV player" is AIDS as fuck, but even if you set mpv to open whenever you play a video, it's still not worth it. Some streams will be limited to 360p no matter what, or skipping won't work (which includes sponsorblock plugin for mpv). Invidious might be a better solution.

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>>107557037
This by the way is the perfect example of what I was talking about before about:
>Allocation != Usage
Notice how Nvtop is telling me that Plasma Shell has roughly 8 GB of VRAM 'RESERVED' but there are 2 GB of real VRAM usage.

If I check in Plasma Shell it is completely and utterly inaccurate. It thinks it's using 14 GB of VRAM which is absolutely not the case.

>>107557171
*If I check the usage in Plasma System Monitor

Why is my timeshift backup so big? 25gb on a fresh EndeavourOS install, and i have "exclude all files" selected.
i think lib and lib64 are the main culprits, but i only installed steam and 2 flatpaks (protonvpn and localsend)

>>107552459
>>107553560
It's a personal journey, so it's kinda hard to tell what to look out for. Pick what you like, stick with it and git gud. Main thing I'd recommend is using a filesystem like Btrfs and making snapshots before any tinkering or updates - will help you avoid having to reinstall/fix when things will inevitably go wrong.

>>107557103
There's an Mpv extension for Sponsor Block actually.

>>107557268
Well multiple, rather I should add. If the one you're using isn't working then try a different one. It works the same way as the extension in the browser does (makes API call to sponsorblock to get sponsor segments and then skips them in the player) so if something is wrong then it's the Mpv extension.

>>107557268
>>107557287
Did you actually read my comment?
>skipping won't work (which includes sponsorblock plugin for mpv)
Clearly shows I'm aware of there being a plugin. The issue has something to do with the type of multi-file(?) stream that gets loaded, which crashes the stream when you try to seek to an unbuffered segment. It's not caused by the sponsorblock plugin itself, which merely triggers the issue by skipping to a different segment, which you can trigger yourself by using the seek bar. Best I could tell there is no solution for this. It doesn't affect the 360p stream, because it's a single file for compatibility reasons, but watching at 360p is not exactly a solution.

Either way, I went down the rabbit hole, turned out shit sucks in one way or another and have decided it's not worth it.

>>107557392
That sounds like a bug in whatever version of Mpv you're using. It's not supposed to crash when trying to skip to an unbuffered segment, it's supposed to instead pause while it fetches that segment and then continue playing.

>>107557103
Youtube pegging my CPU just scrolling through their front page is AIDs as fuck.

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Sigh.. think I'm gonna have to use windows for a while. I'm getting amdgpu: ring gfx_0.1.0 timeout at least once every 30 minutes which makes the experience unbearable. I did come across https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=baf6c2f67a247eba7f298ed74bc471de43ad632d which may or may not help but I've no clue how to get that up and running on fedora

>>107557449

git clone --depth 1  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

Then copy the AMD firmware files to /lib/firmware and delete the existing ones.

>>107557474
thanks gonna give it a try

>>107557037
>>107557171
>It thinks it's using 14 GB of VRAM
It doesn't say "usage" anywhere, that's just your assumption. It shows allocations.
If it displayed usage instead, someone would complain that they've allocated 14GB in their process but System Monitor shows only 1GB so it has to be wrong™.

>>107551938
>bigga numba bad, smolla numba good
There is no single number that would be correct from everyone's perspective, stop obsessing over these numbers like monkeys.

>>107557741
Yes, you're right it doesn't say anything other than "memory" which could be anything and retards will quite rightly assume that's real usage since it's not explained otherwise. Regardless it still doesn't match Nvtop or amdgpu-top so who knows what it's measuring. The amount of air exhausting out of my ass cheeks maybe?

>>107557474
>>107557580
Had to run dracut -f to get it to use the new firmware. Let's hope it helps

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>>107557771
By the way, it's not even explained in the Configure section what it is. For "Memory Usage" there's a description noting that it's at best an approximation of real world usage, but for GPU Memory there's no explanation at all. Nothing.

It's easy to see why some retard would look at that and think "What the fuck!? KDE is using all my VRAM!!!".

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>>107551270
Can anybody help me with this?
I'm trying to get a AutoHDR working for a game using reshade.
I installed everything acording to instructions but I get this error. Any idea what to do about it?
Here is the tutorial I'm using https://github.com/DXC-0/Linux-HDR-Guide
And here is the error I'm getting, pic related.

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>>107557845
Also , more signs that this is wildly wrong. If I run a ROCm program (you know, something that is actually using my GPU and using a lot of VRAM at that) the reported GPU usage spikes massively. There is no way this is in any way right. My 9070 XT doesn't even have 36 GB of VRAM. So good job whoever programmed that but I'll be sticking to Nvtop and amdgpu-top.

>>107551330
functional programming

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>>107557910
Interestingly, AMDGPU Top does make a distinction between VRAM, CPU-Visible VRAM and GTT. So I would guess this is GTT that Plasma System Monitor is measuring which is essentially Shared VRAM.

>>107557953
Although, even AMDGPU Top doesn't show anywhere near the levels that Plasma System Monitor reports. Is it measuring child processes too I wonder and counting that against the usage of Plasma Shell? Because that would be wildly wrong.

>>107557883
Some of the reshade include files are missing. Also, afaik some reshade stuff isn't working in linux? It could also be a path issue.
Even in Windows I had some strange compilation issue with a crt shader setup I created, it worked usually but with some game it could not compile the shader. Not sure if it was a bug or a dll version mismatch.
I haven't even tried to set up reshade functionality in linsux.

>>107558167
Well fuck! I want to play certain games with HDR in linux. windowsfags get a autoHDR thing and dont even need to mess with reshade. Why does this shit not work for linux?

>>107558178
Perhaps try to problem solving first before complaining. Seems like most people are unable to do simple testing. They can only commit to one 4chsn post and google search, and then their "problem solving" is done.

Is there a GUI system monitor that has GPU data as well?

>>107558410
AMDGPU top if you have an AMD card, otherwise just use Nvtop in a terminal. Its TUI like Htop so easy enough to use and interpret even if you're a retard.

>>107558448
yeah i've got AMDGPU but i was wondering if there was something that fed the GPU activity and showed it side by side with CPU, memory and network usage

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>>107557449
>>107557474
Almost 2 hours in and no crash, we might be back bros

>>107557449
>>107557841
Did it work? I keep getting the same thing.

I think it's because the card boost clocks way too high and becomes unstable. It never happens in any benchmarks for me except unigine heaven. And games too, but only in particular intensive spots.

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>>107558521
There's mission centre but it also has the same issues as Plasma System Monitor.

>>107558539
So far so good

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>>107558563
It does show the GPU and its usage itself though which is very nice.

>>107555270
>Is it possible for something to be moved from an official repository to the AUR?
yes, it's possible for something to be demoted from official package to aur, or promoted from aur to official package. however, no official package can possibly depend on something from the aur, as pacman does not support the aur at all, by design. the aur is strictly unsupported

>>107558569
That's nice, thanks

>>107555670
that's more of a windows thread post, but fyi you can shrink ntfs from a linux livecd ignoring any immovable files. (how much you can shrink a C: depends on where the last immovable/system file is, if there happens to be one or a fragment of one beyond where you want to shrink, you can't shink past it, but in linux, or i suppose a windows-based livecd, system files aren't in use so can be moved)

>>107555911
Only by resizing the panel

>>107558569
>Fan 1
>Chipset
>3738 RPM (77 ºC)
Your shit's burning bro.

>>107558766
It's fine. It's below 100°C and as soon as I stop loading the CPU so heavily it'll lower again. It could be better and yes, you could probably fry an egg on this thing but the chipset always has crappy cooling.

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>>107558766
forgot your image

i wish there was a kde plasma without all the customization shit
i dont need any of it

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>>107558805
>>107558766
There, I just power profiles daemon to power-saver. Happy, now?
I don't need to use my CPU right now anyway.

What magic do I need to perform to get the silent hill 2 remake to play on Linux without it chugging frames?
I have gentoo and proton working just fine every other game is perfect. It's a ThinkPad p16 with 128gb of DDR5 and an Nvidia ampere GPU with 12 gb of vram so I really don't understand why this one game can't play.
What sort of ungodly GPU does one need to play this game?

>>107558973
Thank Unreal Engine 5 for being a piece of shit. There's a performance patch you can download from Nexusmods if you wanna try putting that in your prefix. Also try proton-ge-custom if you haven't.

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>>107552760
>spamming hoax from 10 years ago
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/the-file-manager-window

>>107558831
You do know you don't have to use any of it, right?
You can just take KDE and use it. Don't have to customise a single thing. Nobody will stop you or a point a gun to your head and make you fight for your life by adding Plasmoids to your desktop.

I use default kde
default vim too btw

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How do I configure neovim so that it becomes completely non-modal and I can use a Visual Studio (not VS Code) keymap?

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>>107551270
I am going to install Artix. I just have to back up all of my files first and it is a chore.

>>107559195
Why are your files in the root volume?

>>107559174
why? use tool for its intended purpose

>>107559195
do a manual install, it will not wipe the disk

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Not sure if I'm the one being retarded here but is there a way to show an image from inside a folder in the folder icon on Mint? Does Cinnamon just not do that at all?

>>107559253
>use tool for its intended purpose
>t. Linux customization advocate when you customize something the wrong way

>>107559303
I mean they provided source code but you're still asking question
anyway, any windows-like keybindings is called CUA (Common User Access), originated from IBM
always use CUA as your search term in your search engine
https://github.com/norandom/nvim-simple

>>107559396
>(((Berg))) Theme
Hell yeah, let's fucking go. Thanks, Anon!

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>>107559265
Dolphin doesn't have this problem.

>>107559005
Will try now.

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ever since i bought a macbook this september i haven't even turned on my linux desktop for anything except playing video games and immediately shutting it off right after, the fact that a FANLESS, thin, lightweight 2025 laptop beats my top of the line 2019 AMD workstation in everything except gpu performance (and OS availability i guess, i'd rather run fedora on it instead of macOS) is pretty ridiculous
might as well throw proxmox on the thing and make it useful as a homelab server lol

>>107559606
Offtopic, try >>>/lgbt/

god fucking DAMN i hate transparent drop shadow bezels around screenshots

shit needs to die already

>>107559720
I blame gays.

>>107559106
Can't help but notice that that isn't a recursive search...

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Microsoft software updates broke my PC so I'm switching to Linux. Which distro requires the least amount of autism and can run steam games with an Nvidia GPU?

>>107559896
Install Gentoo

>>107559127
default KDE theme is super ugly so no

>>107559919
No.

>>107559896
>least amount of autism
>gaymer
bazzite

>>107559895
it is though
I search inside bash-5.2 folder, and it recurses into examples/loadables/perl
if it weren't recursive the Location would've only shown bash-5.2 without any subdirectories

>>107559896
NIGGIX

>>107559896
Probably Mint, Ubuntu or PopOS

>>107560014
Thanks

>>107559896
Bazzite. Ignore anyone recommending Mint, Ubuntu and especially PopOS.

>>107559896
yeah you're gonna need gentoo for this one
install gentoo-kernel-bin and make sure you peep the xorg, hybrid graphics, and proprietary nvidia drivers.
Once you get a working system copy the kernel config from /boot into /usr/src/linux after emerging gentoo sources and running eselect kernel
you have to actually TURN OFF gentoo's binary kernel config for nvidia options for the proprietary driver to work AND you need the kernel you've just configured to be installed and running for those drivers to install into the kernel afterwards.
Otherwise you'll be stuck on nuovou or whatever.
Also pick KDE plasma since its less of a headache.
I run gentoo and can help you ITT if someone just explains where the fuck silent hill 2 remakes .INI files are.

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>>107559896
Bazzite
>based on fedora
>used by gamers nexus for benchmarks
>recommended by wendell from level1techs
Easy choise

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>>107559895
another proof with more subdirectories

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default gentoo with a few use flags is all you need

>>107560064
>based on fedora
easy drop

>>107560106
>stability BAD
baaaased

>need to mod silent hill 2 remake
>cd ~//.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/
>only game ID present isn't 21244900 or whatever sh2 is
>dunno what to do
what the fuck man
where do i drop these .ini files

>>107560139
this is the directory the modpage says to target
>SteamOS: /home/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2124490/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/SilentHill2/Saved/Config/Windows/

and I don't have a 2124490 directory
what teh fuck

>>107560149
have you tried running the game first?

>>107560120
>no bro, you HAVE TO use a Red Hat distro

>>107560171
>HAVE TO use a Red Hat distro
simple as

>>107560149
2124490 could be random number

>>107560184
ok shill

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>>107560206
i do it for free

>>107560106
There isn't a better option for your average desktop user. Arch and distros based on it are just too unstable and unpolished. Debian/Ubuntu and distros based on those aren't even a real choice considering they're primarily made for servers, while the desktop versions are an afterthought and a pile of shit.

>>107560171
At least 60% of your packages are developed and maintained by a corporation. You're almost certainly using multiple packages which are either directly made by Red Hat or one of their partners. So your irrational hate towards Red Hat specifically is nonsensical. Also, it doesn't change the fact that the best desktop Linux experience is currently provided by Fedora or at least distributions based on it.

>>107560153
I didn't think I would actually need to sit through the first cutscene at 4fps just to exit the game and install a mod
It's been over 14 minutes and I'm still waiting for the opening scene to finish

>>107560276
he didn't say to sit through the opening cutscene. just running the game for any amount of time should cause steam to create the proton prefix for it, which is the directory mentioned earlier

>>107560188
It's the actual game ID for steam every game has one.
>>107560307
Okay well I already tried starting the game and got to actual "gameplay" and I'm kinda assblasted over how this laptop can't handle this game. It's brand new with 128gb of ddr5 and 12gb of nvidia ampere 5000 that should run this or anything.
I also still don't have that directory after all this.

>>107560322
Wait I think I know what's wrong let me check the second nvme ssd where I install steam games since they're not on my main nvme ssd.

>>107560322
>It's the actual game ID for steam every game has one
pretty sure it's not the same for everyone. Check within steam to see the actual game ID

>>107560092
Huh... Why didn't my Thunar do that then?

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>>107560274
>Arch and distros based on it are just too unstable
meanwhile pic rel, when you live outside Red Hat offices
>Debian/Ubuntu and distros based on those aren't even a real choice considering they're primarily made for servers
Like Mint? I swear, Red Hat shills are getting more pathetic with each passing day
>while the desktop versions are an afterthought and a pile of shit
even Devuan beats the Fedora spin as an XFCE distro while GNOME is unusable by definition
>At least 60% of your packages are developed and maintained by a corporation
are those corpo Gentoo maintainers with us in the room right now?
>You're almost certainly using multiple packages which are either directly made by Red Hat or one of their partners
wrong again but that's to be expected of a Red Hat employee
>So your irrational hate
already made the point about quality of shills going down, won't repeat myself here
I mean, don't even (You) me, Steam statistics speak for themselves

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Is the IPv6 supposed to be this complicated on linux?
I'm trying to set up connection between two machine with Ethernet directly using ipv6 local-link.
I can ping both of the machines, but I can't ssh into either.
ipv4 work just fine as expected.
What am I doing wrong here?

>>107560410
Not them but 5% usage is nothing to snuff at. They're doing better than Ubuntu (admittedly not a hard bar to clear).

>>107560454
>5% is better than 8%
bro?

>>107560434
You have a firewall blocking access. I literally ssh over link-local connections all the time and it works just fine.
Pro-Tip you can add this to your ~/.ssh/config file:

Host server                                                                                                                                                            
  HostName "fe80::XXX%%eth0"                                                                                                                                                                                                              
  User root

Now you can

ssh server

. You can change the host name to anything you want. Also the double-percent encoding is not a mistake, it doesn't parse a single percent sign correctly for the interface scope.

>>107560480
Yes, I am aware that 8 is a bigger number than 5.
It's still respectable.

>>107560504
but Ubuntu is at 8

>>107560523
It's at 3.86% and 4.29% and the latest Ubuntu 25.10 doesn't even make the list.

>>107560384
I don't know, distro issue maybe?

>>107559896
cachyos, if you want the benefits from valve you need an arch derived distro like cachy. I installed it my nvidia gpu worked with games with literally 0 issue. bazzite is a meme os

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>>107560480
It's just a coping mechanism triggered by the fact that despite pic rel it's STILL getting powermogged by Mint.

>>107560038
You are too stupid to advice anyone else if you can't find UE5 engine.ini files yourself.
This is just a fact. Your distro this, distro that touting is pretty useless.
If someone can't install fucking nvidia drivers they should be using windows. It's not related to some specific distro.
Retards like you are making it worse for everyone asking for advice.

>>107560410
>Ubuntu Core
>The embedded Linux OS for devices
Who are these mysterious people?

>>107560565
hey shit dick I found them
they were on a separate nvme ssd
I know more about computers and linux than you ever will
and holy fuck how is this gpu not enough to run this goddamn bloober remake even affter I installed the Potato GPU .ini mod
I also don't see your bitch ass helping anyone you're just mad I use gentoo and you can't

>>107560578
Snap users but don't say it too loud. For some reason they opted to use that instead of Valve's officially supported deb package.
(Probably because they downloaded it in the app store and Canonical pushed it on them without even realising)

>>107551270
>>107551892
>another schizo offed shitself

>>107560491
>

User root

Now this is AI answer.
And now I don't have firewall blocking.

>>107560643
No, I actually do log into my machine as root. Contrary to popular belief there's nothing wrong with that. Biggest concern is if my ssh keys got leaked but if that happened and I used an "admin" account instead of the root account it'd make no difference anyway. Whoever got access to those keys would be able to easily plant a trojan.

>>107560663
>>107560643
Also if you don't have a firewall blocking it then the SSH server probably isn't listening on IPv6 or some switch or middlebox in between your machines is fucking with it.

>>107560674
Also, note that being able to ping the machine doesn't mean much as sshd runs off of TCP and not ICMPv6. It's useful but doesn't tell the whole story.

>>107560674
I checked addressfamily is set to any.

>>107561003
Do other link-local connections work?

For example say you run:

python3 -m http.server -l :: 8000

Can you then:

curl -s -L -vvv "http://[fe80::XXXX%eth0]:8000"

>>107561033
iperf3 between the two machines is another good test too because it can test both tx/rx and bi-directional

>>107561033
why is that eth0 even there?

>>107561112
It's the interface scope. Do you not know how link local connections work? You have to specify the network interface that the connection goes out of.

On Windows this is done with the network connection name so you end up with %0, %1, etc, but on Linux it uses the network interface name that the connection goes out of itself. It's purely used to setup the connection.

>>107561154
Another words, the eth0 in that example is just a placeholder. It could be wlan0 or enpXXX or vpn0, etc. Whatever the name of the network interface that you want the connection to go out of is called.

>>107560410
>meanwhile pic rel
The 3% of people who are already skilled enough to use Linux will obviously be skilled enough to use Arch. Linux had a huge barrier to entry up until a couple of years ago. If you were to switch all the Windows and macOS users to Linux most of them would agree that Arch is unstable and unusable and would gravitate to Universal Blue distros.
Also, Steam is a very biased source. You're barely looking at 10% of overall desktop gamers, let alone desktop users. The most used desktop distributions by far are Ubuntu and Fedora.
>Mint
It's a shitty hobby-tier distro
>Devuan
Irrelevant distro used by nobody
>Gentoo maintainers
What software are they developing/maintaining? I'm not talking about the distro maintainer definition of software "maintenance", I'm talking about actual developers maintaining software. An average distro maintainer is multiple steps removed from actually working with software code. They're not involved in any feature development, bug fixes or security fixes. They're just doing basic dependency management and compilation.
>wrong again
If you're not using any software RedHat has touched, then I doubt you're even using Linux.
>already made the point
I'm not seeing any real arguments of why RedHat should be hated. The only thing I can infer is that you're one of those autistic users whose existence shouldn't even be acknowledged.

One of the main reasons why Linux is a failure on desktops is because for decades developers have catered to the most autistic, obnoxious and loudest Linux users instead of listening to normal people.

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>>107557449
>>107557474
Ok, final update. This completely fixed the issue.
>pic related, it's me

>>107561198
>The 3% of people who are already skilled enough to use Linux will obviously be skilled enough to
avoid FEDora
tl;dr the rest

>>107560149
Why are you looking for that number? Just fzf silent. Make this shit so complicated.

>>107559195
next time make your /home a separate partition from your / partition and just mount it at /home

sure you get some misc . folders and files to clean up every time you distro switch but at least you dont gotta do shit else

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>>107551270
Is there a way to permanently show all file types in the Save as dialogue? It always defaults to only showing files of the same extension of the file I'm trying to save. I'm on Linux Mint Cinnamon.

>>107560410
i wish steam would show us all the distributions used, i wanna see if anyones doin some shit on like ancient ubuntu versions

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>>107559195
>>107561326
NEW
PARADIGM

Always use Syncthing between your PC and at least one other device. Keep all of your files in the Sync folder so that everything you do is all in one place and always synced. Then whenever you reinstall GNU PLUS LINUX, install Syncthing, run it, connect to your "main" other device, and all of your files will start pouring back in.

Also, at WATEVS intervals, make a password protected backup archive zip and upload it to WATEVS "muh cloud".

>>107561254
>Linux users will avoid Fedora
Meanwhile-
>RHEL is the most used distro in professional environments
>Fedora is the 2nd most used desktop distro

>I know the post is correct and I can't refute it, so I'll just type "tl;dr the rest"
Thank you for conceding

>>107560410
why are 4.29% of linux gamers using a version of ubuntu meant for embedded devices

>>107558210
>Perhaps try to problem solving first before complaining.
I did, I searched google, I saw no solutions. So I asked here.
If you think I can do beyond this, then you admit it's no easy problem to solve. Otherwise you'd just say "oh the easy fix is just x and y"

>>107561415
that's snaps

>>107561400
>RHEL is the most used distro in professional environments
Yet, I've never seen it used. Weird, right?

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>>107561400
>RHEL is the most used
Amazon Linux*
>Fedora is the 2nd
nobody tell him
>Thank you for conceding
lmao

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>>107560410
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-gamers-on-steam-finally-cross-over-the-3-mark/
Fedora is not being tracked correctly because GNOME and KDE are listed as separate for some reason in Steam stats. If combined it would easily land in the top 10 and surpass some of the options there.

>>107561400
>professional environments
*INDIAN IT & CALL CENTERS

SAAR
A
A
READY 4 MY SHIT CAKES SAAR

>>107561400
>RHEL is the most used distro in professional environments
GOOD MORNING SAAR

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>>107561488
>If combined it would easily
get mogged by Mint

Aw sweet, we're having distro wars again?
Can't wait "my side" to lose yet again.
t. RHEL user.

>>107561531
Mint mogs many options in usage, but my point is Fedora shouldn't be lower than something like Debian or memes like Manjaro or Endeavor. It's not that niche.

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>>107561563
SAAR DO NOT REDEEM THE POD SAAR

>>107561466
Amazon Linux is just another white box RHEL build

>>107561597
chat is this real

>>107561033
THese are AI solutions

>>107561049
Checked it works.
>>107561154
>windows in /fglt/
ick

Fuck Canonical
Fuck Red Hat and IBM
Fuck System76
Fuck any other corposlop infesting Linux
Reject corporate, embrace true freedom.

Why does Kwin struggle to keep up good performance when the window decoration is translucent? There's constant framedrops and lag and microstuttering with these window animations, even though the rest of my computer (cursor included) is updating at a full 120fps. I know the 3060 Ti is an old card, but Windows 7 ran on integrated graphics. Guess I'll just use Breeze...

>>107561704
Too bad you can't make a distro without corposlop. Well, at least not a linux distro.

>>107561701
>>windows in /fglt/
>ick
I was only using it to explain the concept of interface scopes. Basically they are just arbitrary identifiers used to express which network interface to use. They do trip up a lot of IPv6 address parsing routines that aren't carefully written though.

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>>107561704
BASED and agreed. Not being able to /completely/ avoid their "contributions" is not a reason to not avoid them to the degree which one /can/. The degree to which one /can/ is largely comprised of two things: 1) choices in distro/packages and 2) personal knowledge/skill. Essentially anyone can do 1, and then 2 to whatever degree the individual is capable of. Anything else is willing acquiescence to our FEUDAL LORDS and their henchmen (like LENNART POOTERING and KRISTIAN HOGS(((BERG)))).

I saw picrel in the DESKTOP thred and it is interesting contemplation material.

>>107559896
Another recommendation for Bazzite here. Also CachyOS could be a better choice but it requires a little bit more of know-how. Try both and see which you prefer.

>>107560543
Xubunut?

>>107551270
I need an editing software recommendation that isn't shotcut.

>>107562506
There's no substitute for trying all the big ones out for yourself.

>>107562599
I have limited driver space, its why I asked while looking for things to delete/archive.

>>107562506
Unironically blender, it's obviously not the main focus but it's very capable once you get used to how it works. Resolve is a pain in the ass to use if you don't pay for it

>>107562620
There is no substitute for trying all the big ones out for yourself. Every person will have their own needs, abilities, ways of working, difficulty/ease of learning a given system, etc. and no one else's opinion will be worth a pile of jeet poo in the skreet for (You). If you need to edit video badly enough you'll do what it takes to find the one that's "right for you". I've edited video for a living and known many others who have as well, and there is a lot of variance in "what is best" because of what I just said...everyone has their own needs, abilities, ease of learning a given system, etc.

THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE.

>>107561488
>>107561531
Eh, there's a couple of things wrong with just looking at Steam Hardware Survey.

A significantly greater % of Mint users are gamers compared to Fedora users since Mint is a distro mainly popular among millennials and Linux users who moved to Linux between 2010 and 2020. Same with Arch, it's a distro popular among redditors and other terminally online people which are more likely to be gamers. But that doesn't automatically mean they're universally popular.
People who have/use Steam are a minority of PC users, so only relying on Steam Hardware Survey skews the reality. For example, in the real world Arch is not nearly as popular as it is on Steam and in online discussions. And neither is SteamOS which is listed as being used by ~30% of Steam gamers. You can't with a straight face say that 30% of Linux users are using SteamOS.
In reality the truth is probably closer to ~40% of Linux users being on Ubuntu or an official flavor of it, ~25% on an Ubuntu fork (mostly Mint) and ~20% on Fedora or an official spin (or atomic image). The remaining ~15% are on all the other distros like Arch and Debian (and distros directly based on them).

Another problem, although less relevant, is the lack of clarity around the actual market share of each distro on Steam. For example, the Flatpak package doesn't display which distro is being used. And the 20% "other distros" are probably mostly different versions of popular point release distros like Ubuntu, Mint and Fedora. Saying "Fedora 42" and "Fedora 43" are different distros is nonsensical.

>>107562752
Why must you bully me with facts and logic when I am not but a smoll babby birb pining for slopware to be served to sate my appetite till the morrow?

>>107562859
>smoll babby birb
All the moar so for what I said. Each MIND has it's own way of understanding a video editing workflow, and each editing system has it's own flow. Some minds will NEVER understand certain systems and their flows, and each system/flow is a better fit for certain minds. There simply is no substitute, you have to try them and find what fits your MIND. It is a CREATIVE TOOL, after all, and thus an EXTENSION OF YOUR MIND.

>>107562883
Fucking kek

>>107562635
>using 3d modelling software to edit videos

>>107559919
>>107559975
>>107559998
>>107560014
>>107560029
>>107560038
>>107560064
>>107560551
>>107562315
Ended up going with Nobara because Pop wouldn't let me boot on a 5090 and it seemed like bazzite was gonna be a pain in the ass for cuda AI workflows. I'll need around with it for a while and see how I like it. Thanks all.

>>107551330
It's used to spy on people that's why.

>>107562967
big mistake

>>107562967
>Nobara
Welcome home, white man