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I need some help
>while back, switch to Linux for good fromW indows 10
>W10 never gave serious warning about my Archiving HDD (mostly RAW photo files)
>linux rings all bells, SMART, device failure imminent, etc.
>decide to use my clone cradle to port
>clone cradle never goes beyond 25% progress
>give up
>bring to computer store
>offer software saving
>week later, say they couldnt save anything because of too many faulty sectors
>but the copied palte had the same storage space statement (implying all data was copied)
>plug copied drive into PC
>lots of empty folders
>many images wont load meta data
>other images wont open because "file format not supported" (lie)
>am thoroughly convinced that the majority of files is still intact, just the reading somehow inhibited
Is there a way to force open the iamge anyway some other way or restore them?
Hardware salvaging costs 900 euroshekels and what's really important is the Photos, which seem to be alright according to Darktable (I havent opened every single one of them)

>>107611445
>am thoroughly convinced that the majority of files is still intact,
convinced by what?
>the copied palte had the same storage space statement (implying all data was copied)
Erm, nope, that's not how it works. Consider that your data are utterly corrupted and opening the files one by one is the only way to check if they are fine.

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All the guides for switching back to the Nouveau driver involve simply uninstalling the proprietary driver. I don't wanna do that, as I just wanna temporarily switch between drivers to do some benchmarking. Is there a non-destructive way to switch back to nouveau?

when did you realize linux was a meme and go back to windows?

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I can't get anything out of a DVD, which does have real data on it, even when using two different Linux computers (both can read CDs and DVDs).

I copied a VHS to a DVD using this setup: VHS player's video out -> DVD player / recorder's video in -> burn to DVD. With the DVD player / recorder's video out I can watch the video on the DVD on a television, but in
- computer 1 (Arch Linux): "sudo xxd /dev/sr0" = "Input/output error"
- computer 2 (Debian-based): "sudo xxd /dev/sr0" = "" = it sees it as completely empty

I doubt anyone here has experience with this specific hardware -- "PyeVideo PY90DG" or "Pye Video PY 90DG" -- but I'm asking anyways. I recorded a television program from like 1991 which I can't find any video of on the Internet. As far as I know, I'm the only one who has this recording; I just see records online that this did air in the 1990s, but no video. (BTW, I didn't see that this thing was a bit dirty until looking at pic related that I took.)

Woah, Firefox has split-tabs now. I know Vivaldi has had that forever but that's a game changer.

>>107611669
>convinced by what?
In almost all cases where photo files are unopenable, they are ALL in the same folder pertaining to the date they were taken. While almost all openable files are also in the same folder together.
This applies to screenshot folders created by Steam as well.
Not the this doesnt mean they were all copied onto the plate that day. Most commonly in batches of several weeks or months.

>>107611698
You can have both installed. Drivers are loaded as kernel modules. You can blacklist the proprietary driver at boot then load the nouveau driver and vice versa. If you have a second GPU you can do it without rebooting, to do this, make sure nothing is using the Nvidia GPU, then unload and load modules with 'modprobe -r' and 'modprobe' commands respectively.

>>107611769
It's also had vertical tabs for a while too.

>>107611786
Yeah, I know about that but I don't care about that because it's a shitty implementation that forces the minimum width of the viewport to be increased so if you have a small window (think chatbox sized) it ends up way bigger than it should be.

Horizontal tabs for me. Split-tabs seems genuinely useful though.

>>107611735
This was true before windows became an "agentic" OS, microsoft basically shot themselves in the head and now I'm never going back.

>>107611773
anon, files do not exist inside of folders on a disk. That's just a bit of metadata.
Some files can be screwded despite being in the same folder as files that are fine.

>>107611817
Indeed, it's all just inodes that reference an internal block of metadata and data that the filesystem manages. Indeed, you can even have the same file with the exact same reference stored in multiple folders even thanks to hardlinks.

>"man SSHFS is awesome, encrypted, secure, don't need to set up anything, why do people bother with anything else"
>server goes down
>

kern  :err   : [ +28.032929] INFO: task dolphin:1840 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
kern  :err   : [  +0.000004] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
kern  :info  : [  +0.000003] task:dolphin         state:D stack:0     pid:1840  tgid:1840  ppid:1342   flags:0x00004006

>editor also stuck on a file from sshfs
>both unkillable even with -9
>kill sshfs fuse daemon, everything else exits and back to normal
Welp. That might be why.

>>107611856
This happens with every network filesystem. It's why people use things like Autofs to try to work-around it but ultimately you need that server to stay online if you don't want file operations to hang like that.

>>107611445
Are you using an external drive (from BestBuy?) or an internal one? How many years was the warranty on it when you bought it? I know for sure that some HDD models are terrible chink shit, made in China or something. I'm curious to know what brand and model of HDD you were using.

>Archiving HDD
You can call it that but it doesn't mean it is. Unless your HDD is synced everyday to one or two other HDDs, or you use a ZFS mirror pool, then isn't an "archiving HDD". I have an "Archiving HDD", which is a mirrored zpool of two hard drives: protects against single-disk failure but not multi-disk failure.

>Hardware salvaging costs 900 euroshekels
I know that feel. That's rough dude. I've had multiple HDDs die on me. Two or three of them had/have stuff which I "really care about"; cost like 1000 USD to fix those shitty HDD models, and maybe I'll never pay that to do that.

>>107611752
MakeMKV in the Arch computer didn't work. I tried that ~yesterday. I successfully installed MakeMKV but it said something like "no usable optical drives".

Perhaps PyeVideo PY90DG is doing some weird things or using nonstandard formats which makes it hard/impossible to get the recorded videos.

>>107611817
>Some files can be screwded despite being in the same folder as files that are fine.
That's not what I said.
That's the opposite of what I said.
I said all screwed files are in the same folder as all other screwed files, implying the folder wasnt accessed properly (note that the plate Im accessing is the COPIED plate. The real plate I am not accessing because Im too afraid that might screw it up even more).
Still thinking about shelling out those many shekels for a ahrdware-based saving of files.
What Im most bitter about is that Windows didnt tell me there was an issue with my HDD. I even did a checkup with windows tools because it took a bit long to access some files.

>>107611769
>Woah, Firefox has split-tabs now
Is that the thing where you see two tabs at once side-by-side in one window? You right click on the tab(s) and it has an option to do that. Brave browser had or has that, but sadly not on my version of it -> Brave Version 1.77.97 Chromium: 135.0.7049.84 (Official Build) (64-bit)

>>107611445
>other images wont open because "file format not supported" (lie)
That's because the files are (a) empty, or (b) missing large portions of data, replaced with a bunch of binary zeros. Look at the files in a hex editor and you may see what I'm talking about. Compare that to working jpg/png/gif image files.

>>107611892
>cost like 1000 USD to fix those shitty HDD models
Cost 1,000 USD per drive repaired.

>>107611982
>Is that the thing where you see two tabs at once side-by-side in one window? You right click on the tab(s) and it has an option to do that.
Yes.

>>107611752

If the recorder machine can read the disk, but the regular dive cannot, did you finalize the disk?

>>107611964
Well, I dunno how this thing was copied, usually you'd copy the data blockwise (and with that, filesystem agnostic).

A hardware recovery service is unlikely to help you I'm afraid.

>>107611786
is this native functionality? only reason i switched to brave was because of this

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>>107612203
Yes

>>107611445
Cloning stations usually start from the beginning of the disk and stop after many errors are encountered.
Try doing the clonig through your computer, either both disks connected through the docking station, or just the bad disk.
Use ddrescue multiple times, each time pointing it to the same image file (or destination disk) and the same log file.
ddrescue can stray from the end of the disk, and it can skip arbitrary number of sectors when it encounters read errors.
Once you've tried that a few times and nothing else seems to work, try freezing the disk. There is a slim chance that a frozen disk can skip past a scratched region.

>>107611445
Try using ddrescue. It's a software that attempts to rescue as many sectors from any damaged storage medium as possible while skipping over and not freezing or crashing whenever it encounters a damaged sector like most rescue software do. That's your best bet atm.

>>107611769
What's the point of this? Every single OS is able to tile windows.

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>>107612295
>Cloning stations usually start from the beginning of the disk and stop after many errors are encountered.
That makes somewhat sense, since the copied disk just stops after a few months of my photography work
>ddrescue
okay I will try that, thanks for the...
>try freezing the disk
Are you talking about... ice? As in my fridge? Like putting it below 0°C? Are we talking about a physical process here or is "freezing the disk" some esoteric data wizard thing I don't know of?

>>107612329
>>107612295
I tried findign ddrescue and all I can find on Fedora KDE is DDRescue view.
Is this something I have to get somehow else? by using the konsole?

>>107612203
It's built-in to the browser which has advantages sometimes when you don't want to deal with two separate windows.

>>107612475
I mis-clicked. Meant for >>107612394

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Have you donated to any FOSS projects this year, friends?

>>107612517
Too poor for that

>>107612517
I would if I had a job

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Switched to Ubuntu 25.10 a week ago, everything worked perfectly until a new update destroyed directx12 and 11 vulkan layer thingy. Too lazy to troubleshoot so I just moved to Linux Mint and everything works even better.

The thing is, Mint is so. fucking. boring. I feel bad because it truly just works and has never treated me bad but I kinda want something more, idk, interesting

>>107612568
Should have used Ubuntu LTS, or give Fedora a shot

>>107612568
the feminine urge to fuck up something thats working perfectly fine

>>107612079
Good idea. I'll do things in relation to that.

>>107612435
sudo apt install gddrescue
sudo pacman -S gddrescue

It's called GNU ddrescue or something. Once you install that package it includes the ddrescue CLI program.

>>107612475
True. I use i3wm and was too lazy to find out how to easily make two windows side-by-side each taking up half the screen. Split tabs make it easy as it's built into the web browser.

>>107612414
I'd also like to know what "disk freezing" / "HDD freezing" is. I imagine that the spinning disk RPM becomes very slow or temporarily stops.

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>>107612568
>>107612568
fedora kde
>hit get captcha
>verification not needed
>hit post
>no valid captcha
>mfw

how do i get macOS like font rendering?

>>107612568
You obviously have too much free time if you want to use something you know you will have to troubleshoot for it to vaguely work.
What about getting a job?

>>107612591
Friends of mine on LTS has the same directx12 and 11 problem now

>>107612864
buy a mac

>>107612864
Turn on slight hinting and make sure the sub pixel anti-aliasing layout properly matches the layout of your display.

>>107612864
ew

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>>107612864
>pajeetOS font rendering

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>>107612637
I prefer Gnome, what's a good distro that uses Gnome that's not Ubuntu?

>>107612927
Wait, they removed the hinting and anti-aliasing? Lmao

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>>107613030
>I prefer Gnome
fedora

>>107613067
I don't know why but I don't really want to use Fedora

I'm struggling to install Fallout New Vegas Mods. There's two problems, one is installing wine and the other is the steamtinkerlaunch
>Inb4 YAD has to be 7.2
I got that part but when it comes to actually adding it to the Steam Compatibility I get the following error

>>107612435
>>107612414
>Like putting it below 0°C?
Yes. If it's winter, do the cloning outside, if not then you need to put the disk in a resealable bag before chucking it on the fridge (or freezer) so it doesn't condense water from your warm air as you take it out.
Like I said, this is your last resort, *after* you already got most of your data and you have an (almost) complete ddres ue log file, so it skips straight to the bad zone before the disk gets warm.
I have recovered tens of disks using ddrescue and a docking station, and a few could only be recovered when frozen.
The docking station is critical when recovering damaged disks since it's easy to reset just the station when the disk locks up, as opposed to resetting the whole computer.

>>107611806
>This was true before windows became an "agentic" OS
WRONG
It was never true. Anyone who ever thought it was "a meme" was only seeing a reflection of themselves.

>>107613191
>Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module"
then if I try and download the Module
>Package 'xapp' has no installation candidate
or
>ibxapp-gtk3-module is already the newest version (2.8.2-1build3).
Despite this, still can't patch the tinker to steam
WINE also isn't working for me and won't open. Kinda stumped here and pretty frustrated that I can't download the two most important mods
(4GB and NVSE). I'm using LInux mint and this is my first time with Linux

>>107611735
Unironically feel like going back for simplicity sake, but fuck windows

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>havent had a single gpu crash for days now since replacing the amdgpu firmware blob
holy shit life is /comfy/ again

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I have a Chinkpad 20D9 and I'm thinking that I might get off Windows 7 and install Linux instead for more recent software support, since I only need this machine for basic tasks like emails, browsing, banking, and writing.

How different is Debian Stable XFCE versus Mint XFCE? I don't know if any recent distros have proper touchscreen support or not, which would be nice as much as something that has low power consumption.

Considering I can't even get past Cloudflare on this browser, it may be time for me to strangle this baby.

>>107612624
>True. I use i3wm and was too lazy to find out how to easily make two windows side-by-side each taking up half the screen. Split tabs make it easy as it's built into the web browser.

<splith key> <move tab to next window key [ctrl+w in vimium c]>
in vimium c will only bounce a tab between two windows, though. It will only create a new window if none exists to house the tab, but that doesn't stop you from shift+clicking links.

>>107613739
>>107612624
I MADE A BIG MISTAKE. OOPSIE!
ctrl-w closes the tab. Shift-w sends it to the next window (in vimium C)

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I'm using XDE plasma wayland.
When I run some games, they don't display their original intended icon in the tray and instead display the x.org logo as an icon.
1, why would it display the x.org icon? I'm not using X11, why wouldn't it use the wayland logo for an icon or something else?
2, why is it displaying this and not the intended icon?

>>107613832
Gayland devs are vibe coders so the AI is just pulling random bits from random sources and glopping it all together.

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Should i pick nobara for my first distro or i sbould try cachyOS?
Yes i am a gamer

>>107612864
put

FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="cff:no-stem-darkening=0 autofitter:no-stem-darkening=0"

into /etc/environment
Also turn on grayscale font hinting

>>107613883
clair obscur is a very good game, I wish the writing was a little bit less marvel-tropey though

>>107613883
nobara, should be more stable in the long run

>>107613832
>>107613867
The game has no installed .desktop file and doesn't set an icon itself so KDE's task manager displays a generic icon.

>>107614001
weird. I am running the linux version of a game, I'll install the windows version and play it through wine and see if it does the same thing

>>107614049
If you open KWin's debug console you can inspect the actual window and it will show you all of the metadata for it

Messing with wine + cmd.exe. Can I say that here or is that term still unallowed text?

>>107612901
Macs don't use subpixel rendering

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>>107614085
OK, "cmd.exe" isn't unallowed anymore maybe. To render NFO files correctly I run:
$ wine cmd.exe /C "type darksiders.nfo"

because that same file via curl doesn't show up correctly (question mark box characters):
$ curl https://derad.network/raw/OLcSu47XV83sMyeEWe03P_4kAdYHOG5jo3MHFw63s8I

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>>107614140
>question mark box characters
What I mean by that: image. Wonder how to make NFO files render correctly in Linux without using iconv.

Is there a meaningful difference between Debian and Fedora for normal desktop (laptop) use? Don't care about the DE flavors, installing a minimal version to run with my own DE.

>>107614103
They used to. I didn't know they dropped it:
>>107612927
>>107613040

No wonder they get shat on nowadays. They had perfect font rendering before.

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Pascal sisters, how do we cope?

>>107614260
Fedora repos have more up to date software, Debian-based operating systems have an easier to use package manager imo, apt vs dnf

>>107614260
Typically newer packages on Fedora (unless you run Debian Experimental / Sid which you probably shouldn't)
SELinux instead of AppArmor
Newer kernels
Worse multimedia codec support (without RPMFusion which is basically needed in order to fix the broken distribution)

>>107614307
You don't. That's what you get for using NOVIDEO. At least AMD kept legacy support for their hardware in AMDGPU.

>>107614340
to my defense, I bought my GPU before i became a Linuxfag and knew about the importance of opensource

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linux is fucking based
low iq street shitting gaymers who can't code(arch users) are not.

>>107614358
>BDSM user buckbroken by the archad

>>107614375
why yes i do partake is BDSM with your mom. bitch like it rough.

>>107614307
Thanks for this heads up. I was wondering why graphics started acting glitchy. I picked a bad time to update just BEFORE they put up this notice on the front page.

>>107614386
>BDSM user is indian

>>107613202
>The docking station is critical when recovering damaged disks since it's easy to reset just the station when the disk locks up, as opposed to resetting the whole computer.
I have a docking station for cloning as well as a cradle in my tower where I can just pulls tuff out if need be. Is one recommendable?

>>107614310
>>107614323
Thanks for reminding me that Fedora comes with SELinux. Fuck that shit, i choose Debian.

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>>107614394
>his mom gets railed by a street shitter

>>107614387
590 isn't on the repos yet, you wouldn't have gotten any output if you blindly upgraded to 590

>>107614403
You can just set it to Permissive like everyone does anyway.

>>107614407
she doesn't though, rajesh

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If I may interject for a moment, I'd just like to say the words:
RICHARD
STALLMAN
because I am of the belief that those words do not get said quite enough, nor especially following two other words:
THANK
YOU
thus forming the four words:
THANK YOU RICHARD STALLMAN
together. Thank you for your attention on this matter.

>>107614425
>no you can't BDSM my mom. you can't!!!!!!!
sorry son, now go eat cow shit and pray to lord vishnu.

>>107614403
I removed selinux and installed ufw when I was using fedora

>>107614387
>I was wondering why graphics started acting glitchy.
Yeah that aint why lil gup

>>107614444
you got suspiciously angry for getting called an indian. you might just be an actual indian, kek

>>107614455
you got suspciiously angry when i BDSM'd your mom, she is actually getting raped by my big indian cock. BIC #1!

Mint XFCE or Lubuntu for an old Windows netbook? I have previously installed Chicago95 on Mint XFCE manually with the extra tweaks like SDDM and setup my cellular modem so I don't feel totally lost yet, but I value simplicity and stability when downloading software and running it.

>>107614475
i'd go with mint

>>107614469
you need to be 18 to use this website

>>107614497
i know you do son, you were only born 14 years ago, 9 months after i met your mother.

>>107614500
ok rajesh, feel free to keep seething, but you will always be brown

>>107614412
>>107614449
You're right, I have 580.119.02-2 not 590. Guess something else in the update broke on my system then, because it started acting up today after I updated yesterday just before I went to bed.

>>107614505
so will you, son =^)

>>107614403
this >>107614416

>>107614307
FUUUUCKKKK
Time to buy a used AMD card for my shitbox. Using a graphics driver from the AUR doesn't sound fun

>>107614630
>graphics driver from the AUR doesn't sound fun
it should be fine

>>107614653
I still want to stop using nvidia

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I'm trying to record desktop with "ffmpeg -f x11grab" on debian 13 but I end up with a video containing only black frames for some reason.
I can't see the "--enable-x11grab" flag in ffmpeg configuration even though libxcb seems installed on my system so that could probably be the problem but idk
What should I do chat?

>>107614664
yeah that's a good idea anyway, i'm just saying the driver from the AUR should be fine

>>107614670
I had a similar thing happen with HLS playback. This fixed it for me:
$ ffmpeg -hide_banner -video_size 1280x866 -framerate 30 -f x11grab -i :0.0+0,140 -f pulse -i default -vcodec libx264 -profile:v baseline -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf "scale=-1:720" -c:a aac -f flv rtmp://localhost/live/stream

My frames were black with like green bars at the top.

>https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_boot_process#Boot_loader
Why the fuck is rEFInd mentioned in the boot loader section, when it's a boot manager explicitly WITHOUT a boot loader

>Lubuntu
Isn't this abandonware?

Is there a linux tool that can read standard output or standard error from running processes?

For example if I run
(while true; do echo nigger ; sleep 1; done) &

This will print output to stdout, this output is read in the terminal, now if i disown the process and close the terminal, i lose access to this output even though the process is still running and printing to stdout. Surely there is some way to get logs from running daemons/processes, right?

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How do I use ddrescue on fedora? is there no graphical interface? Do I need to run this in console purely by knowing what each command does?

Can someone explain why KDE and GNOME need twice as much ram as Xfce or lxqt? Always thought it would make no difference just depends on whatever background task is running.

>>107614799
It's easy. Help:
>$ ddrescue --help
>$ man ddrescue

Format:
>ddrescue [options] infile outfile [mapfile]

So you run this in console/CLI
>$ sudo ddrescue -r0 /dev/sdX copy.img copy.img.log
the first time for zero retries and after that finishes, 3 retries or whatever you want:
>$ sudo ddrescue -r3 /dev/sdX copy.img copy.img.log

Then you gotta freeze the HDD (lol) and do such and such, as per what that other anon said. Haven't heard of that before, not sure about it.

>>107614716
I still get black frames but ty anyway

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>got a gpd pocket 4
Anyone here have one? What do you recommend?
It has a weird-ish layout and is extremely small, so I'm thinking of trying Hyprland. I'll mainly be using it to manage network devices and as a kvm. I don't need it for regular desktop use and I've got a much cheaper netbook for taking with me when I go out.

>>107614732
Nope

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icecat? yay or nay. I was looking into a lightweight browser for localhost stuff and browsing repos and manuals and blogs. And yes, I considered qutebrowser, but from my pedestrian search it doesn't have a tab session manager thing.

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ddrescue is easy compared to socat, tsocks, and other programs.

>>107614732
>>Lubuntu
>Isn't this abandonware?
That's what I was wondering. Had that same question. Latest release is "25.10[1] / 9 October 2025; 2 months ago" --Wikipedia

>>107614859
Ill be honest, I dont know how to wield either of those.
Also, I am generally very bad at syntax in console. So how do I do it that I can copy from my old Harddrive to my new harddrive which I want to use as my rescued version? The altter is completely new and empty. Can I target specific folders within the old drive first?

>>107614716
>>107614716
okay I found out why it doesn't work, I'm using wayland and not x11..

>>107614744
Look at /proc/PID/fd for open file descriptors. In many cases daemons have their stdout redirected to a physical TTY (which might get logged in /var/log/messages) or /dev/null though.

>>107615088
Ffmpeg annoyingly still hasn't implemented PipeWire screen recording.

What's the best windows-manager/WM-extensions for Mint? Should I just stick to the default and not fuck with it?

>>107615138
Just make sure you keep a timeshift back-up before each modification. When you use the upgrade tool in the future it's likely going to uninstall all of your incompatible software

Info on Linux program "vbetool", a "low-level CLI tool" which is helpful to me:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137293479
https://reasonator.toolforge.org/?q=Q137293479

>>107615033
This creates a block-level copy of the HDD and its partition(s):
>$ sudo ddrescue -r0 /dev/sdX hdd.img hdd.img.log
>$ sudo ddrescue -r3 /dev/sdX hdd.img hdd.img.log
It'll be saved to file "hdd.img". Run "lsblk" and see which /dev/sda, or /dev/sdb, or /dev/sdc, etc is your HDD.

If you want a file-level copy of the HDD, then that's lower quality and I'm not sure if ddrescue can operate recursively on directories anyways. I know ddrescue can operate on single files like this:
>$ sudo ddrescue -r99 file.jpg file.jpg.bin file.jpg.bin.log

If you want to clone the HDD to another HDD then you can probably do that by running this:
>$ sudo ddrescue -r0 /dev/sdX /dev/sdY cloned.log
Make SURE that the destination (whatever you fill in for /dev/sdY is empty) because it will probably overwrite anything/everything in storage device /dev/sdY.

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I'm doing an update on Gentoo and apparently one of the packages (krunner) now requires wayland for some reason. My GPU doesn't play well with wayland though. Any suggestions besides changing my system, DE, or GPU?

Can I use the same kernel and initramfs for both Arch and Artix?
If I check

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf

in both installations and it's the same, does it mean the initramfs is the same or are there other parameters?

>>107615233
>not sure if ddrescue can operate recursively on directories anyways. I know ddrescue can operate on single files
IIRC, in the past I got ddrescue to operate on folders by running something like this:
>$ sudo echo -n; find /path/to/folder -type f | xargs -d "\n" sh -c 'for args do noC="$(echo "$args" | sed "s/\//+/g")"; sudo ddrescue -r1 "$args" "$noC" "$noC.log"; done' _
It goes over every file in a folder and runs ddrescue on it with retry=1 outputs each to a file where "/" in the path is replaced with "+" (avoids filename collisions and the need to make folders at destination).

>>107615020
They said they are going into maintenance mode starting from the latest release due to a lack of manpower.

>>107614307
>>107614630
>>107614653
I tried installing nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR. My system broke. I probably did something wrong. At least installing the official nvidia package returned the system to it's previous state.

>>107615400
have you uninstalled nvidia and nvidia-lts?

>>107615269
A google search suggests that if you are using KDE you can hit the gear icon before logging in and select x11 instead of wayland

>>107615460
I know, but I don't want to have wayland installed at all. That's bloat.

>>107615484
Some times you just gotta deal with bloat, unless you get an older version of KDE I don't see any way around it. Maybe someone else will give you a better answer. Good luck anon.

pretty sure KDE dropped or is planning to drop X11 all together anyway

>>107615484
>but I don't want to have wayland installed at all. That's bloat.
Then you better be prepared to fork the entirety of KDE:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-68-Wayland-Exclusive

Gentoo will likely be sticking with upstream then maintain a bunch of patches for X11 support.

>>107615400
Works for me.
I installed

nvidia-580xx-utils nvidia-580xx-dkms nvidia-580xx-settings lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils

pacman -Qm shows
lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils
libxnvctrl-580xx
nvidia-580xx-dkms
nvidia-580xx-settings
nvidia-580xx-settings-debug
nvidia-580xx-utils
>At least installing the official nvidia package returned the system to it's previous state.
Well, first you should uninstall the nvdia driver, then do a pacman -Syu, then install the AUR packages and then reboot
I removed

nvidia nvidia-lts lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-settings nvidia-utils

>>107615532
Not yet, but they will:
>>107615534

At some point in the future that will hit stable in Gentoo and then good bye whatever remnants of X11 support was remaining.

>>107612435
DDrescue view is a GUI application that shows you the result of the CLI ddrescue command. You need to first run the CLI ddrescue command, that should output two files one is the image file of the hard drive the second is the "map file" which includes info about all previous efforts to rescue the data so that e.g. if your hard drive crashes or you want mid-recovery to put it on a SATA cable or something you can just close the command and then restart it without losing progress.
Since you're in Fedora you need to open the terminal and type
```
sudo dnf install ddrescue
```
and then read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Disk_cloning#Using_ddrescue for detailed instructions.

>>107615434
I didn't have -lts and -dkms. I uninstalled nvidia, but now I have reinstalled it.

>>107615541
Thanks, I'll try again tomorrow.

>>107615575
>Thanks, I'll try again tomorrow.
Yeah basically just search for nvidia packages on your system and replace them with the 580xx versions from the AUR

>>107615534
Fuck, I guess I'll look into making nvidia work with wayland then. Worst case scenario I'll just force games to run through XWayland.

>>107614744
>now if i disown the process and close the terminal, i lose access to this output
just don't do that then. Problem solved.

>>107615621
Nvidia doesn't require special configuration for wayland these days. At least on my machine

>>107615271
Okay, a better question.
Can I simply edit /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset in both distros so that the Arch and Artix stuff is in its own directory? Or is there more I have to do for this to work?

What's the lightest supported web browser I can use on my newly linuxed shitbook? Supermium is too heavy on Windows 7.

>>107615702
Yeah, that's a little bit how I feel right now.

>>107615709
Supported by what?

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>>107615702

>>107615719
bon apetite!

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>>107615733

>>107615717
Debian-rivatives, obviously!

>>107614981
GNU icecat is just firefox-esr with preinstalled extensions and telemetry removed at compile time. It's about as lightweight as firefox-esr

>>107615702
NIGGERvidia did it again

>>107615097
Thanks.
>>107615634
Thing is, I want to access output from processes that weren't started in a terminal.

>>107615702
this is a distro problem btw

>>107615740
How is that obvious? You didn't say what you were using. I was going to hit you with a meme browser to be an asshole, but you beat me to the asshole punch.

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>>107613415
After valve started working on waydroid it hasn't crashed once for me.

>>107615871
>Thing is, I want to access output from processes that weren't started in a terminal.
Use GNU Screen or Tmux

>>107615301
>>107615233
Thanks, I'll try that.

>>107615871
>I want to access output from processes that weren't started in a terminal.
Then those processes better write their output to some sort of log.
Imagine if processes could just hook into the stdout or even stdin of other processes as they please - keyloggers, done the trivial way?

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Loading Lubuntu from a Ventoy flash drive for the first time, the select menu was unresponsive but pressing enter twice worked. Are these errors a problem? I was able to get into the live envuronment just fine.

>>107615835
Should I perhaps install icecat on my netbook as my main browser through the terminal, foregoing even having firefox preinstalled? Seems like a good pairing.

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it's over
guess you should use icecat while you still can

>>107616442
>It is not possible to completely remove telemetry from firefox by changing preferences, because telemetry is built-in or hardcoded in the binary installer and executables provided by Mozilla
Were all Librewolf users getting pwned as hard as a stock android user this whole time?

>>107616334ssaa
>keyloggers, done the trivial way?
You can already do that by reading /dev/input/event*

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find /4TB_DRIVE -type f -exec b3sum {} + >  ~/b3sum_bench.blake3

>11:53:54

rhash --blake3=256 --recursive /4TB_DRIVE --output ~/rhash_bench.blake3

>7:32:37
jesus
why the hell doesn't b3sum have a recursive function built in