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waylandfags, I demand an explanation

>Kubuntu
>fsf

Kek, lmao even

>>107622975
explanation of what?

Can wayland capture the mouse in fullscreen/windowed games yet?

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>>107622825
old image

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Good morning, I hate AI.

>>107623190
Yup, that's the endgame

>>107623190
It's simple, we kill the jews.

>>107623077
Internet Exploder used to actually be a real thing.

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DAILY REMINDER that there's NO NEED to install MUH LATEST unless there is a security issue with the version you are using now and MUH LATEST has it patched. Otherwise, if the version you are using now is working just fine you can keep using it while MUH LATEST works its way through Sid and Testing by the Debian GNU PLUS LINUX devs and maintainers and Testing finally become STABLE and you upgrade to that and HOAP 4 THA BEST on that day.

Also you should know that you've been solidified into false PARADIGMS of ENTITLEMENT during your time using CORPORATE OWNED PROPERTIES where you expect any new MUH LATEST to have all of the bugs worked out of it on release day because they are MEGACORPS with MEGABUX who you have ripped off by using pirated versions of their software but still try to ACT like you are a PAYING CUSTOMER with demands and expectations and they should have had their JEET MASSES do everything right and make sure they did so before SHIPPING it out to the public but now you're in the FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PARADIGM where everything is different and you don't get to say what should or shouldn't be happening in the current year because unless you are a dev or absolutely willing TESTER then you should be using versions from 1-2 years ago anyway while letting the ADULT AUTISTS and TRANNIES do their jobs in PEACE and tell them nothing but THANK YOU for empowering (You) to be such a TURBOFUCKINGFAGGOT.

>>107623190
I'm too broke to afford a new PC, how long we estimating before manufacturers start selling micro PCs so they can build more AI data centres and keep the war going in Ukraine.

>>107623041
Why does a status bar need 48 MB of space?

I use vanilla gnome. However i do like Ubuntu's look. Did some research and does this sound about right? Yaru icons, ubuntu fonts (the compact one) and changing colours in terminal. Should be all i need yes?
t. like aubergine purple

>>107623313
based, this is why i use debian, stable as my dumb big titty highly insecure gf

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>>107623313
Wrong. You should install the latest update immediately. Don't use outdated abandonware.

>>107622738
Arch is being too much of a nigger right now. I've seen people saying they have fedora running on this laptop. Eww.

>>107623313
Haloperidol.

>>107623381
well, what modules do you even have inside it?

I've made a system user (no home folder). I want to redirect ~/.config and ~/.local/state to /etc and /var/lib, respectively. How can I define peristent XDG_ environment variables for that user ?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory

>>107623586
>I want to redirect ~/.config and ~/.local/state to /etc and /var/lib, respectively.
but why?

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>>107622417
If RMS = God Emperero, then...
GNU = Imperium
Linux = Adeptus Mechanicus
Canonical = The Ecclesiarchy
RedHat = The Inquisition
BSDs = Eldar
Unix = The old ones
MacOS = Drukhari
Windows = Forces of Chaos

>>107623586
I think you misunderstand the purpose of those directories. They are local overrides. /etc is for system configuration. Any well behaved software should support both local and system configuration without you having to go the nuclear option of "redirecting" ~/.config to /etc (you don't want to do that).

I need a privacy-respecting browser that is secure for banking, but also as lightweight as possible. What are my options?

If Firefox or Chromium extensions work that'd be great, same if I could grab them from the terminal.

>>107622818
like what?

>>107623671
>What are my options?
Become rich, then pay people to make one for you.

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>>107622738
So what's the "proper" way of installing a custom keyboard layout? I modified some files at /usr/share/X11/xkb (which apparently links to /usr/share/xkeyboard-config-2), and it does work, but sometimes when I update my system the files get overwritten, so surely there's an easier, simpler way of doing this, right?

>>107623671
Just use a separate Firefox profile and maybe also sandbox it if you're paranoid.

>>107623733
>but sometimes when I update my system the files get overwritten
Because you're editing a file managed by your package manager. You should copy/duplicate it instead.

>>107623671
Shouldn't this poast have been a Claude vibe coding prompt, then once you release the results and it becomes wildly popular you will >>107623710, and it will become privacy-respecting browsers that are secure for banking, but also as lightweight as possible, ALL THA WAY DOWN.

>>107623710
Or you could just say Falkon or IceCat.

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What is the best way to download and install or store software on a minimal installation? Some programs want me to use Snap or Flathub some kind of package manager, others let me use the terminal to download the software and "install" it god knows where, whereas some give me tar.xz archives which I guess are analagous to portable applications on Windows I can extract anywhere and run or create shortcuts to.

I have OCD by the way and don't want to clutter my filesystem with loose files I cannot keep track of.

>>107623824
>I cannot keep track of.
that's the job of your package manager. Use your distros package manager. Ignore Fatpacks, Snaps, and downloading some fucking tarball.

>>107623392
+Ubuntu's font rendering tweaks
+some Gnome extensions (appindicators?)
+10 years of support

>>107623889
>10 years of support
?

TLDR on what's the current FS meta in linux?
Must pool drives, must stripe, mirror & both, must at least somehow support encryption without encrypting the entire pool.
>>107623824
You should use a package manager to not end up in dependency hell.
Most sources can be compiled into an executable.
Now that you have something executable, assuming you're using deb you can always make your own deb, using checkinstall for example. Similar tools exist for other pkg managers.
Tools to make executables from languages like python for example also exist but in this case I would make a directory, with the code and a venv and a desktop file or similar that points to it and activates the venv.
That should cover almost all your needs, with the package manager simply fetching most software from it's sources.
Always think about dependencies and how you'll remove everythibng. Streamline everything and do not rely on something where you have to remmeber specifics.

>>107623757
I highly doubt even the best AI can make a privacy respecting browser from scratch. It'll just guide you through the process of forking Firefox or Chromium and changing the name and logo like everyone else.

>>107623824
I have "similar issues" and do a Debian netinst of the base system with only Standard System Utilities selected at tasksel (if you don't know WAT that is, it will make sense when you see it during the installation), then first boot into root and start apt installing each component that I need for my setup. If menu, then xorg, then wutevs WM or DE you are going to use are first then you can startx after that and be on a desktop or "desktop" to go further from there.

I only EVER install things using apt install, but I also do not play GOYMES or any of the other faggoy shit that the kids these days all insist upon, so there may be something you "need" (you don't /need/ that shit) that requires MUH SNAPFLATS, idk.

I use only Openbox WM for a "desktop" and mc for a file manager so I don't even have directories for photos, videos, "desktop", etc. in my /home. Build your system piece by piece up from base and it will be as close as you can get to satisfying your OCD. Apt will handle dependencies so all you really have to figure out is the main components, and then whenever you run up on a task you want to achieve but can't, do a search and find out how and what you need for that.

>>107623665
>>107623603
syncthing doesn't

>>107623928
You can absolutely configure Syncthing to run as a system daemon.

>>107623922
I /absolutely/ doubt it and we are in for unspeakable levels of CODE CALAMITY ahead as moar and moar of this shit is getting injected into our total global tech architectural structures.

THERE
WILL
BE
BLOOD

>>107623229
You mean the whites? White "people" are the cause of all this.

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Is archinstall script good for me? Does it sane defaults? I don't have any particular requirements

>>107623956
Show hands and nose.

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>>107623964
>Does it sane
Unlikely.

>>107623863
apt install and apt remove or bust then

>>107623924
I'm on a Ubuntu/Debian derivative so yeah, I would prefer not using all Flathub or Snap stuff when I was always taught you should only need to install things and their dependencies through apt. Does removing packages through apt also remove their dependencies though? It's been a while.

>>107624112
Well once you get on one of those derivatives you're in a whole other PARADIGM of software installation/management. Debian as I described installing it doesn't even have a "software store", much less MUH SNAPFLATS or any of that other gay NNNNNNNN shit, not even Synaptic. Synaptic is as far as I will ever personally go beyond apt in a terminal, and I do not have Synaptic installed, either.

To uninstall a package you apt purge and it will delete all of the config cruft too, then apt autoremove --purge will uninstall the dependencies and their configs.

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I just finished a minimal install of Lubuntu 24.04.3 LTS on my Lelnovo ChinkPad. My initial impressions on this system so far are pretty exciting.

As far as issues go;
>4-4.5 hours on a relatively new battery for this machine with touch screen and bluetooth out of the box
>need to figure out how to get proper synaptics drivers for the touchpad
>need to figure out how to get the fn/modifiers working so I can use the fnrow properly
>bluetooth always enabled by default on startup
>redshift does not seem to work out of the box, clicking on it causes geoclue2 fatal error just like on mint xfce
>memory consumption is amazingly low
>startup time with full disk encryption enabled during installation is comparable to diagnostics + bios boot into windows 7
>some windows do not seem to be responding such as bluetooth or redshift
>the qt terminal seems buggy, i can't see my password text when doing sudo commands or i might have to press enter a few times, neofetch bugs out and mixes with the previous commands
>interface is pure joy when it does work, similar to windows xp in terms of responsiveness with familiar flyout startmenu and minimize/maximize animations which is a creature comfrot mint xfce does not have
>installing falkon was a breeze, 4chan captcha accepts me at once with no extra wait time to post here and cloudflare loads well enough, youtube/banking sites/search engines accept it reasonably fast too despite me using a slower router for internet access, hopefully this will be the only browser I will ever need to use or install on this machine though I do already miss my Firefox extensions

Hopefully this can be a worthy daily driver for this machine,

Should I even bother with Linux if I have a gaming laptop?

>>107624272
Are you gaming on the laptop?

>>107624258
>redshift
Come home to xsct, _ "man".

xsct 3000 (or whatever temp) .7 (or whatever screen brightness you want), is all it takes.

>>107624276
Yes but I don't really bother with that many modern titles.

>>107624169
>synaptic
The only synaptics that interest me right now are the synaptics touchpad driver and whether I can install it through apt to get the same level of comfort as I did on Windows.

>>107624323
I've had that issue due to different DEs ways of handling things, but I don't use a DE at all anymoar, just Openbox, and all I have to do is install xinput, then run xinput set-prop 11 (the hardware device number for my touchpad) "libinput Tapping Enabled" 1, and it JUST WERX from there. Then I put that into autostart in .config/openbox (along with my xsct setting) and it's auto ran each session. But, I don't have any other way to adjust the touchpad, so thankfully it works better like this for my needs than it does trying to use, for example, at least the version of XFCE on Slackware 15, where it's a nightmare, but handles fine after tweaks in KDE on that exact same system.

>>107624408
>libinput tapping enabled
That seems to have done it, thanks. Also shows up in keyboard and mouse settings.

>>107624313
If it's on steam and doesn't require anti-cheat then you're likely fine

>>107623889
>Ubuntu's font rendering tweaks
?

>>107624198

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How do i get it so that my openbox session doesnt load apps from my xfce session? Im using fedora and decided to try openbox because of how light its supposed to be. So i installed openbox>logged in>run htop>850MB ram on idle.
I heard openbox is supposed to be between 200-400mb on idle but im getting double. Then i look at the processes running and it seems a lot of the processes that run in xfce are loaded

Is there a quick and simple way to isolate these processes so that theyre only active during xfce session, but disabled for openbox?

>>107624408
>I don't use a DE at all anymoar, just Openbox
Openbox can be both your WM and DM? Interesting. I'm on Lubuntu which obviously has LXQT and then Openbox as the WM.

>>107624775
Figure out whatever is auto-starting them and make it don't do that.

If they're DBus services then the only fix is to uninstall them. I think since you are using Systemd then you can also mask them though but that will stop them from running in XFCE too unless you unmask them.

>>107624857
Base Debian with Standard System Utilities, apt install menu xorg openbox, startx, BAM, you're on a "desktop", right click, you have a menu. For whatever reason, many years ago, I discovered that something in there "likes" for the menu package to be installed first. I suspect nanonigs or nanojews.

>>107624878
>>107624775
Also this is pointless, just let them run if they don't cause any issues. If you're chasing lowest possible RAM use then you shouldn't be using Fedora with Systemd anyway.

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I downloaded the latest spirit OS (Linux distro)

Probably going to burn it to a CD; ISO file has a size of 274 MB. I still don't know how to storagemax and put other "random" files on the same CD without messing up its bootability and Linux install disc functionality. I could put 300 MB of data on it in addition = 574 MB used. Whatever, maybe I won't do that.

I can open up "spiritOS-16.2.iso" with File Roller then it has an "Add Files" option ("+"). I could do it if I really wanted to.
- Positives: (1) zero redundancy to some redundancy for certain files
- Negatives: (1) "weird" modified ISO file (2) may have to rely more on CDs if I want some files

Screw it, I did it. In the ISO: /cde/added_2025_12_21_utc/ = 313.2 MB. Now to burn it to a CD and see if everything works. Pic related = one of the images in there. It's a tapestry that a memelord has on his wall (>>107618730 = other post with this meme).

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>>107624890
Spirit OS info and original ISO file:
>https://spirit-os.sourceforge.io/
>https://sourceforge.net/projects/spirit-os/files/spiritOS-16.2.iso/download
>https://web.archive.org/web/20251221181713/https://netactuate.dl.sourceforge.net/project/spirit-os/spiritOS-16.2.iso?viasf=1

>>107624857
>>107624881
BTW, when I ran this same setup for many years years ago, I used tint2, which gives you a MUH BAR, but now I prefer startxing into nothing but BLACK VOID and using alt+tab to switch between windows.

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What's this shit called? Happening to me on Openbox. Probably graphics issue. I have old AMD for 16€ I thought it would work with Linux and Linux-libre, but no. What graphics card should I get

>>107624955
>Linux-libre

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>>107624955
Nice timing, I just got this issue too when I went back into the error box for Redshift-qt tonight as I tried to take a screenshot. I don't remember how I solved this problem on Mint, all I know is that Redshift isn't working and left clicking on it causes it to crash.

So the unresponsive windows and this are the two biggest issues I have on Lubuntu right now besides fnrow hotkeys.

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>>107623190
yeah fuck ai, this thing is malfunctioning:
>Me: Will a 573.2-MiB ISO file fit in a CD?
>GPT-4o mini: No, a 573.2 MiB ISO file will not fit on a standard CD.
>[...]
>A standard CD has a capacity of 700 MiB (or approximately 80 minutes of audio).
>Since the ISO file size is 573.2 MiB, it is less than the CD capacity of 700 MiB. So, it technically can fit on a CD.

Wikipedia: CD capacity is 650 to 870 MiB of data.

>>107624890
>tapestry that a memelord has on his wall
Someone is selling that thing on Amazon from what I saw in image search results. That's where I got that image from.

>ultra unnecessarily high refresh rate monitor for ultra gay mers
>nvidia GPU
>set adaptive sync to always on plasma
>brightness flicker, monitor blanking out on 360hz, have to drop it to 240hz
>upgrade to AMD GPU
>now 360hz works
>drop it to 240hz because flicker is still there, just to test it out
>now 240hz makes the monitor blank out so I have to set it to 360hz
huh

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Tak the CB++ pill

>>107624034
Every single time.

>>107625091
>Crunchbang
What year is this

Why do they pre-install screen grab with distros instead of flameshot?

>>107625121
https://www.crunchbangplusplus.org/
The current year

>>107625074
Some monitors are just weird like that. From what I can gather it's not a GPU issue at all and is just the monitor panel not liking that.

>>107624889
Your post is useless. Please stop this. If you don't understand don't even reply, faggot.

>>107625204
You're right. I don't understand why you're trying to disable all of the desktop services and chase the lowest possible RAM use whilst still using bloated system services like Systemd.
Care to explain to the class?

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>>107624258
First major problem of using Falkon on this installation; trying to load the Linux Mint forums gives me a 403 error and comments on github do not load properly.

>>107625247
I would wager that the version of QtWebEngine it's using is very outdated and Mint are never going to update that.

>>107625004
Is Redshift even maintained at this point? Why do some distros still prepackage it? Should it be apt removed and replaced with something else?