>>107580381
>>107580902
Go on then, let's see your proof of this bullshit claim

I like rape!

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>>107581434
Gonna need that pape anon

>>107581519
>*rapes you*

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Best distro for tinkertrannying?

>>107581688
Any non-systemd distro

>>107581688
Arch

>>107581688
URMOMSMUFFIX

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>want to set up different equalizers for my rear jack and front jack devices
>done in 10 mins on linux
>4 hours on Windows that consists of setting shit like pic related in some cursed realtek software to enable the displaying of the checkbox I need in the realtek console
this was fucking hell on earth

I might be building a brand new system tomorrow and I'd like to quickly set-up arch exactly as I have it on this system, is there an easy way of doing this?

>>107581434
Any reason why I'm getting a lot of crackling from Pulseaudio when dmusic.dll plays a midi in wine?

>>107582071
Put the disk into the new system, or use dd or clonezilla to copy the old disk to the new disk.

>>107582203
xruns probably.
increase the number of buffer samples.

>>107582270
I increased buffers with PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC to 120 and that seems to have worked kinda, but it seems that sound effects are kinda delayed now, or at least it seems to me that sound effects are now delayed, I didn't really test it for long. I guess when I get a chance to test it for longer I'll look into xruns, unless you have any insights into that.

>>107582203
Because you're using pulseaudio, nigga

>>107582560
Well I don't really have a lot of experience with the sound system of Linux, I generally don't even have to think about it because "it just werks" most of the time.

>>107582542
well when you increase buffers it's normal that everything gets increasingly delayed.

if you need no latency, using wine is probably never going to work. you need to go native, not sure what you're after but midi works fine with something like jack2/jack-pipewire with qjackctl for graph and patchbay overview + carla for vst's.

>>107582813
hmmm, well I don't mind the crackling I guess because I'd rather have that than delayed sound effects but I did go from presumably 60 to 120 so maybe there's a good inbetween that reduces crackling a bit without sacrificing the sound effect.

>>107582572
>I don't really have a lot of experience with the sound system of Linux
All sound on Linux requires ALSA, every sound system is written on top of ALSA.
But ALSA is too low-level, so pulseaudio came in, but it's now old bloated garbage written by Lennart Poettering, the same guy who wrote systemd. Pipewire is the new thing now, it's much better than pulseaudio in many ways and it also "just werks"

>>107582462
>every single desktop Electron app, every single video game
I don't have /any/ Electron apps and the only "video games" I play are very old UNIX/Linux/X ones (Xboard, ace-of-penguins card games, xmahjongg, etc.), so I personally see none of that. The last actual "vidya" I played was Tux Racer in maybe 2002! I did see Fortnight over my son's shoulder many years ago before he went off to college (now long graduated and working in a lab).

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Is DaVinci Resolve good on AMD yet? From the way people talk about Resolve + AMD, I'm worried that buying a RX 9070 would not even be an upgrade over my 3060 Ti lol.

>>107582981
My intention will be to use DaVinci Helper on Fedora btw if I end up buying a 9070.

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>>107582029
Noice! Can you share the (crab internal) program?

Also, sometimes laptop vendors put more than two speakers inside but don't map them all in ACPI, so Linux (and Windows, out of the box) can't find the extra speakers. You can "rewire" them with `hdajackretask`.

>>107582981
Why not use Kdenlive? Resolve's Linux support is ass

>hate redhatfaggotry
>use fedora
>love fedora
What did I mean by this?

>>107583132
>Why not use Kdenlive?
No OFX.

>>107582203
dmusic in wine is a wip, I remember it worked fine years ago on gothic but I recently tried it and it was noticeably worse

>>107583161
Fedora is a good distro because all the redhat faggotry stuff (systemd, dbus, pipewire, wayland, gnome, etc...) are highly integrated with eachother, it's however really annoying when one component tries to fuck over your system on another distro because you didn't suck RedHat's cock all the way

>>107583161
your final copium is not running fedora rawhide, so you can say you're not really beta testing

>>107583583
Why do people say Fedora is beta testing as if it's more bleeding edge/less tested than god damn Arch?

>>107582921
>Pipewire is the new thing now, it's much better than pulseaudio in many ways and it also "just werks"
So is it just another wayland or is it actually good?
>>107583559

So i just found out this tool on the arch repo: switcheroo-control.
Basically it lets you chose which GPU a program will use if you have an optimus system or 2 card.
My question is, is there any point in forcing Firefox or VLC to use the dedicated GPU? Or is it a waste?

>>107583735
Pipewire is a redhat project but it's actually a good one, at least that's my opinion. If you don't use any apps that require advanced sound features then you probably can get away with pure ALSA without pipewire or pulseaudio.

>>107582921
Back when I tried screwing with pipewire, it was always way too high latency, and I couldn't do anything to solve it. Nothing I did in the config file would bring it under 10ms. I never had that issue with jack and pulseaudio.

I'm running KDE Plasma 6.5.3 and have my application launcher set to look like the Windows start menu
Every time I boot my computer it grows by a few pixels horizontally and vertically. I manually resize it to the minimum possible width and whatever height can fit everything without a scrollbar, but if I don't resize it for a few days it will slowly increase to take up half my monitor.

>>107583766
>switcheroo-control
I'm not sure what this does exactly, but this feature is already present and built in the Nvidia driver and it's called PRIME render offloading, here's the official documentation from Nvidia:
https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/440.64/README/primerenderoffload.html
I have Intel iGPU + Nvidia dGPU, I configured Xorg to use my iGPU by default, but if I want to run an application with my dGPU then i prepend some environmental variables like this:

# Run some_app on iGPU
some_app
# Run some_app on dGPU
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia some_app

You can check what applications are using Nvidia with

nvidia-smi

command
>My question is, is there any point in forcing Firefox or VLC to use the dedicated GPU? Or is it a waste?
Not really, at least i don't see a difference at least for me.

>>107583942
Yeah i already use the prime-run command on lutris or steam

>>107583942
Also, what about the optimus-manager? Useful or not?

>>107583801
Why is everyone's advice on this board so suicidal and masochistic?
> use pure alsa so you can't control the volume of individual applications like w/ pulseaudio, bro. You can get away with it. Use my hyper-complicated specialist software to listen to youtube videos.

>run pacman -Syu
>wine update shows -1GB
What the fuck.

extra/wine                                         10.18-1                   10.20-2                    -1025.93 MiB      56.25 MiB

Surely that's not right? Is my shit gonna break?

Is anyone using linux on a macbook with thunderbolt ports? I can't get my ethernet to thunderbolt adapter to work UNLESS it's plugged in at boot. It's not recognized at all otherwise. I frequently switch between wifi and ethernet so this is driving me crazy rebooting every time.

>>107584151
If there's anything you can do about that, it's probably in your bios settings. Does your thunderbolt port recognize other devices plugged into it after boot?

>>107583735
How under the rock are if you don't know about pipewire? Never mind that Wayland just werks on Plasma now (still shit on meme DE's though).

Why does everyone on this board seem to hate omarchy? i think it is really comfy and it came with 90% of the stuff i would install anyway pre-installed. it's like the perfect balance between a distro for normies and a distro that linux veteran users can enjoy. i've been using linux since 1994 and i'm enjoying omarchy on my thinkpad t14s more than any distro i've run in the last decade. artix being a claose second becaus no systemd

>>107584142
You're misinterpreting what that means. It means you're saving space after this update. It's telling you that Wine is one gigabyte smaller than the last version.

>>107584092
he's right thoughever. if you just want audio on a simple setup, pure alsa works great. pulse/pipewire are useful if you plan on doing more configuring.
although if you're an audio config wizard, in many cases alsa would be better anyway.

>>107584240
Better until you want Bluetooth, or software mixing, or network streaming functionality, or literally anything else that a sound server provides you that ALSA doesn't.

>>107584231
>hyprland
>bloated with apps most normies don't use
>arch, the distro for system maintainers

>distro for normies

>>107581688

maybe opensuse since packman repo possibly other repos and suse commercial software compability

>>107584231
> install scripts that curl into bash
> super-custom influencerfag attention-seeking distro
> It has a script to switch the wm's colorscheme and lazynvim
llmao

>>107584253
Arch-based distros, by virtue of already being preconfigured with a DE, apps, etc, are perfectly normie-tier distros. The actual thing making Omarchy hostile to normies is the meming window manager.

>>107584253
how the fuck do you figure it's bloated with apps normies don't use? 1Password, ChatGPT, Google Photos, Chromium, there's loads of stuff that normies use every day

>>107584284
Does the menu with an option to update your firmware come with a disclaimer, yet?

>>107584284
why do people use chatgpt in 2025 when Lumo and LeChat are a billion times better?
also, i've been trating my arch install like an abusive husband treats his wife for the last 2 years and i have yet to break it

>>107584293
dunno. haven't used it. i use a firmware update tool from lenovo.
>>107584306
because normies haven't even heard of those?

>>107584317
Are you intelligent enough to know why you should? Because I've seen some issues on Omarchy's github from some alienware owners with questions.

What do you guys use for controlling fan curves? I've been using https://getfancontrol.com/ in Windows for so long that I forgot that my case fans are obnoxiously loud with everything left to defaults.

>>107582029

you sure about that you maybe have 3.5W amp and set +6dB at 22kHz does your amp have 35W

>>107584306
also, right? people who break their arch install... i really wanna know what in the fuck they did to it because i've used nothing but arch based distros for the last decade and not once have i had one break on me. i think the closest thing to arch 'breaking' on me was on a desktop YEARS ago when they were sloppy with the repos and you would sometimes get a gpu driver update a day ahead of the compatible kernel and it would break xorg. but that hasn't happened in fucking ages.

>>107584336
I never bothered.
Why yes the fans are always a setting higer than normal on linux now that i'm thinking back at how it was on windows.

>>107584317
What tool, btw? My thinkpad came with a modified bios from lenovo, and I need to figure out what the fuck I need to do to update it.

>>107584181
Sadly I don't have anything else to test the thunderbolt port and the mac bios is a black box. I've been able to find every obscure linux fix for this macbook except this problem.

>>107584352
I locked myself out of everything but the power on and decryption passwords for my laptop, and then that broken grub update came out years ago. Had to kill the cmos.

>>107584092
You can only listen to one thing at a time, so all you need is one volume control. If you're going to do audio production then there's JACK.

>>107584367
my bad, apparently it's not lenovo's tool, it's just what lenovo tells you to use for linux (i assumed it was their tool) - fwupdmgr.

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht510810-how-to-do-software-updates-linux

If you're not on ubuntu or fedora it may also be called fwupd

>>107584431
Wrong. I listen to background music all the time while watching podcasts. It's why I hate when people put music in their videos.
>>107584515
Thanks anon

>>107584550
>>107584431
Now add a video game to this.
Now you need a mixer with your music player, browser, and game, so you can hear them all.
> using linux means you have give up everything enjoyable, bro, just use pure alsa.

>>107584550
np. also, i do that too. sometimes i'll listen to an audiobook or podcast at the same time as listening to music. especially if it's an audiobook where a certain genre of music quietly in the background helps with immersion and creating an image in my mind of what the author is descriibing.

>>107584284
>1Password
>used by normies
Nigga, normies use the same password for every website and don't even know what a password manager is. Their password saving is done by their Google account in Google Chrome and Android, and/or by their Apple account on iOS.
>Chromium
Normies don't want this, they want Chrome or at least Brave.
>comes with both ChatGPT and Grok
Literal definition of bloat.
>Google Photos
Unironically not used by most normies even on Android.
People think it's just a normal gallery app and don't even know it automatically syncs photos to their Google account and that it keeps deleted photos for a while. Literally every normie I've ever interacted with was shocked when I told them they had photo sync enabled and requested me to delete and disable that behavior. And most normies don't even open the app since it's considered a "duplicate" of whatever their OEM (mostly Samsung) ships and uses as a default gallery.
>Figma
Not used by anyone other than designers and front end developers, and those people mainly use it on their work machines and in a web browser.
>Neovim is a normie text editor
>Spotify, Discord, Zoom, Slack, VSCode, Obsidian, Docker
Most people don't use any of these. Shipping with these make it seem like the distro is just an advertising or partner platform just like Samsung's Android ROM is filled with shitware most of their users don't use.

>>107584253
ALSO, uses a TUI installer.

Omarchy is a distro for a very, very small minority of people. You need to be in the venn diagram of
>developer
>not being on Ubuntu or Fedora for some reason (the two most popular dev distros by far)
>using most of the default omarchy apps
>care enough about the control Arch gives you
>care about tiling window managers
>but don't care enough about pre-installed bloatware
This sounds to me like a distro for exactly 1 person. The e-celeb who made it and maybe his cult followers. A distro made for the 0.001% of desktop users isn't a "normie distro".

>>107584550
I nootice that you did not say you listen to background music while you LISTEN to podcasts. You can only LISTEN to one thing at a time.

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It just fucking works

>>107581688
gentoo if you want your computer to be a jungle where you water all the plants yourself

I use Arch but it actually made me quit "tinkertrannying" and realize that in many cases the default config is actually the best and doesn't matter all that much.

>>107584652
Still wrong.

>>107584671
Still way overstimulated and COOKED.

How much of a good idea to start using linux with Fedora?

I maybe be able use a HPC at university so i want to get my self familiar with linux.

I was initially i was planning on using Mint.

>>107584624
Omarchy is a skiddie distro. It's for skiddies to feel like developers. Developers don't need a distro. They're developers.

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Are you fuckers seriously using pulseaudio in 2025? Do you use ext3 too?

>>107584689
Have auditory hallucinations since childhood and get back to me, bud.

>>107584624
>Most people don't use Discord
Friendless nigga detected
>Most people don't use Slack
Unemployed nigga detected

>>107584695
Either Debian or Fedora are the primary two choices for starters IMO. I will never advocate for derivatives (Mint, Ubuntu, etc.).

>>107584725
Allowing a multi-source cacophony to play through your speakers probably won't help on that matter.

>>107584759
Doesn't affect it all, actually. Your complaint would make sense in a shitty dive bar with oversized subs where nobody can hear each other talk. If music at a respectable volume while somebody talks is enough for you to get distracted, stay far away from me. You're an adrenaline dump over something stupid and unnecessary just waiting to happen. I'm not a fireman. I can't carry you.

>>107584695
Yes Fedora rocks, and almost anything with KDE Plasma is a good beginner distro (and will be far more user-friendly than Mint). Fedora KDE is one of the best distros for beginners, but that's because it's one of the best distros period; frankly the concept of a "beginner distro" is kind of anachronistic in 2025 when pretty much every distro now qualifies as one.

>>107584805
KEK
COOKED
>>107584689

>>107584857
> Too distracted by background music to pay attention to someone talking
> somehow not a danger to himself and others that should wearing a helmet and kept away from sharp objects.

>>107584695
Mint is so horrifically outdated and abjectly inferior in every conceivable aspect that that modernising it by hand will teach you more about Linux internals than manually installing Arch ever will.

>>107584732
>Discord
Yes, I don't use Discord. My friends and I communicate in Signal, WhatsApp and Facebook groups and we voice chat on Mumble or Steam. Discord was popular maybe 5 years ago but since then most of us deleted our accounts because there's no point in using it when we're all already using instant messaging platforms.
Discord actually exists for friendless losers larping as being friends with people they've never met, and nowadays for pedos.
>Slack
Slack on a personal machine is just retarded. I have a dedicated work laptop and that's the only place where Slack is. There's no reason why any sane person would ever use it on their own PC or my phone. If I really need it I can just log into the web version.
Also, the overwhelming majority of jobs do not require Slack. It's mainly popular in software dev companies.

>>107584695
It's fine aside from the caveats of it not coming with proprietary drivers and codecs, which take a few minutes to set up. If you don't want to deal with that headache you can use either Bluefin or Aurora, depending on your preference between Gnome and KDE Plasma.

>>107584836
>the concept of a "beginner distro" is kind of anachronistic in 2025 when pretty much every distro now qualifies as one.
I disagree with this. I don't find Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and anything Arch-based (aside from immutable stuff like SteamOS) to be "beginner-friendly". Just from personal experience anything Debian/Ubuntu-based is a major pain in the ass under long term use. Same with Arch and distros based on it. They are better than Debian/Ubuntu distros because you're at least not constantly 1-2 years behind in software updates and compatibility, but it's still easy to break it.
Fedora is, at least from the experience of my immediate contacts and myself, the only distro which doesn't shit itself within 3 years and can be used long term. At least when it comes to Silverblue and other atomic images. That shit just never breaks even on my customized dev machine

>>107584965
Anything with Plasma is beginner-friendly. Even Debian KDE is more beginner-friendly than Mint Cinnamon.
>anything Arch-based
Manjaro comes with an app store and NVIDIA driver installer

why wont my default browser setting stick in gnome it always defaults back to the SHIT TIER "web" application that came with gnome thisd is some windows tier bullshit

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Help from really advanced users needed

I am trying to install replace openrc with s6 suite on Gentoo, I've been doing my research and have been learning the basics of init, it seems that openrc is really a service manager and not the actual PID 1 process, that would be sysvinit which lives in /sbin/init, so now I'm confused why people refer to openrc as an "init" system when it's actually started after the PID 1. Anything claiming to use openrc is actually using sysvinit under the hood but with openrc as the service manager instead of update-rc.d for the stock sysvinit, however I'm aware that /sbin/openrc-init exists and in fact I have tried it briefly though I don't know what really is the difference between it and regular /sbin/init other than the fact i had to manually spawn agettys.

Now, upon reading on s6 i have came to the conclusion that it is best init system i've came across, maybe dinit is close, but I like s6 more. I want to install it on Gentoo but I'm hesitant to just install the packages because people in previous threads mention s6 overlays but s6 is available in the official gentoo repo which makes me confused. Also gentoo killed eudev and instead now uses sys-apps/systemd-utils, i was quite shocked to learn that this was included in the openrc stage3 tarball, so much for being systemd free... So what should i use as an alternative to eudev? and what is the recommended way to install s6 and remove openrc from gentoo?

>>107585044
Use

xdg-settings

:

$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox.desktop
xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox.desktop

>>107584695
HPCs and basically anywhere else Linux is used in an enterprise setting apart from mere servers is gonna be running an RPM-based distro, usually RHEL or a RHEL clone like Rocky/CentOS/Alma. All of these are downstream from Fedora, so if you want the most similarity, may as well go with Fedora. Just know that every desktop Linux and cluster admin aren't really comparable.

>>107585078
is there a config file i can adjust instead

>>107581688
Ignore all these replies, the correct answer is NIGGIX