I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, I'm using openSUSE right now and I have no reason to do so

>>107711139
Stow your urge to distrohop with the knowledge that distros are 99% the same.

>>107711139
B-but why?! You are insane

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>>107710984
I am only browser + image viewer + 3/4 terminals + emacs. Should I be worried because I have very less free ram? Also why does it use so much for "cached".
>t. only understand what ram is from it's definition; nothing more, nothing less

>>107711157
I will never understand distrohoppers. They make their life harder by hopping distros all the time. If they get the urge why not just run it on a VM for their weekly fix?

>>107711163
'Available' is the one that matters. 'Cached' is just RAM that isn't allocated to anything that the kernel is using for caching stuff to improve performance.
I'd say buy more RAM, but if you're still on an 8GB machine then it's probably prohibitively expensive to do so.

>>107711139
Didn't they get rid of yast? At that point OpenSUSE is the same as every other distro, which isn't a bad thing.

>>107711163
cached are things that were used and freed. Instead of wiping the ram, the kernel keeps it there in case you want to use it again. It's pretty good that way.

>>107711163
Available RAM = Cached RAM + Free RAM
Cached RAM is just RAM that holds data that you might wanna access later, for example, if you open a heavy app (like firefox) it will open slow the first time, but the next time you open the app it will be faster because it was cached to RAM.
If a program needs more memory it will clear some cache and use the now freed space.

tldr; you don't need to worry about it

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>>107711163
cutie numbers.
Damn you, firefox.

>>107711270
Stop hoarding tabs

>>107711303
that's easier said than done

>>107711220
>>107711250
>>107711229
>the kernel is using for caching stuff to improve performance.
>cached are things that were used and freed
>Available RAM = Cached RAM + Free RAM
>If a program needs more memory it will clear some cache and use the now freed space.
it makes more sense now and here I was really worried like wtf is going on, I thought Cached ram was different from what we normally refer to "cache". I will buy more RAM when the price decreases, most of the stuff except compiling works okay for me. Thanks!

>>107711270
lol, I just use Auto Tab Discard with only 3 tabs active at a time.

>>107711270
unsed ram is wasted ram or something

>>107711344
You could use zram or swap for memory intensive applications, look these up and learn about them if you want to squeeze more memory out of your system.

>>107711348
Majority of my tabs shouldn't be loaded either. But I have 1618 of them.

>>107711358
true

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>>107710984
any reason NOT to use veracrypt on linux?

>>107710984
Did you just find your old Linux shitbox from 2008 and took a screenshot kek?

>>107711396
because luks

>>107711381
wtf lol, highest i ever had was around ~120, at present it's 54
>>107711358
yeah

>>107711380
I use swap, will look into zram, thanks

>>107711607
the number just keeps growing. (send help)

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My distrohopping journey has begun. I will explore and build my next desktop experience piece by piece as I see fit. I will no longer allow myself to be burdened with useless programs, runtime dependencies, and files cluttering my system.

I will probably keep Lubuntu on my laptop. It serves. My desktop needs some cleanup.

>>107711689
>distrohopping journey
you have nothing better to do at the end of the year?

>>107711689
If you don't want to be burdened by useless programs, do an arch install. Add ufw, a browser, and whatever else you want. Select a DE. Done.

>>107711412
but vcrypt is easier and more convenient

>>107711718
Why would you need ufw if you are behind a NAT router?

>>107711718
Do you even need ufw in arch?

>>107711734
Extra layer of security
>>107711761
Gives me peace of mind

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>you can actually cd into your music folders and just "mpv *"
>all controls work
Hehe I am so minimal I barely exist.
I found out it's pretty fun to tinker with small terminal programs and see how small I can get in storage space and limited compute.
I can't yet escape having a huge browser like firefox for the shared bookmarks and passwords function, but anything else is free range. I see it as a natural progression in my linux usage. A kind of software purity that drew me in, in the first place.
Do you guys bother with minimalism in general? Do you think it's a trap? A refuge? A stupid tinkerer's obsession?

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Is there any reason to use "real containers" such as Docker instead of just

systemd-nspawn -D /path/to/some/linuxsystem

?

>>107711761
Nobody needs ufw anywhere.
>>107711941
So you just want to make your system unresponsive to pings and basically have all that "desktop ruleset" junk? There are plenty of NFtables examples out there.

>>107711702
>you have nothing better to do at the end of the year?
I've been sick all Christmas and my stationary computer is in shambles, literally.

Has hyprpaper stopped working for anyone here after updating arch recently?

>>107712015
everything stops working after updating arch such is the archlife

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>>107711978
Basically

>>107711948
That's great and all, but can you play video in TTY without having wayland or x11 installed using --gpu-context=drm ?
I've never tried that.

>>107712030
what kind of rules are these?

>>107712282
Just a few ports for steam and jellyfin, and then it blocks everything else incoming and allows all outgoing

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>>107712058
Sent me in a rabbithole
It would work on both mplayer and mpv but they bother require a shitload of libraries.
Mpv also requires wayland if I'm not mistaken so it's a nogo.
Is mpv really the smallest you can go, as far as video players go? It surprised me.
I thought I would find some based autist project with a 2000LOC C-based framebuffer-only video player somewhere, if such a thing makes sense.
Picrel doesn't look minimal.

>>107712343
Might have to use Gentoo. Should be able to compile mpv without requiring wayland. I don't think it actually requires wayland itself.

>>107712394
Or actually scratch that, you can just download mpv from github and compile it yourself for Arch too. Without the wayland dep.

>>107712401
That's pretty cool. So the answer is yes?

>>107712523
I don't know. It is probably not yes, but I don't know what the answer is if it's no.

>>107711157
>distros at 99% the same
false
opensuse is green
arch is blue
fedora is blue but different
ubuntu is orange
nixos is yellow
my dick is green
endeavouros is purple
cachyos is sort of green? teal
windows is blue
debian is red

>>107712742
wait no nixos is blue I'm talking about guix sorry

>look up KDE themes
>a hundred Windows imitations
>a hundred MacOS limitations
>a billion """modern""" flatshit themes that all look the exact fucking same
What a load of shite. The reactionary Win9x themes are cute but they lean a bit too far into "imitation" territory for me with some of the icons. Any nice KDE themes out there that have something of a boxy 3D and/or skeumorphic look to them?

>>107711734
NAT is not security, a compromised host on the LAN can fuck your shit up.

Also learn nftables and stop being a baby with ufw or whatever other retardation. It's not hard.

>>107711225
Some people would say it's pointless without it. In my honest opinion, having used openSUSE a few years ago, I found YaST to be stuck in the past (heh), seriously though there's a lotta shit you do not need a GUI for.
My problem with openSUSE is that at this point, Tumbleweed seems to be just basically arch + bloat - AUR + obs. It's not the only distro with snapshots set up by default. It's bleeding edge enough that it sometimes pushes newer packages before Arch does. It's kind of obtuse with stuff non-linux users might want to get working right away (davinci resolve and placebo shit for games like adding 25 different kernel patches). Or extra dumb shit you gotta do manually like adding your user to a group before things actually work. Not that it's difficult, just unintuitive.
Slowroll, I don't honestly know what the hell does it even try to do, a Manjaro?

>>107712771
Wew lad I mentioned this 2 years ago over here and people crucified me for it. It is true, isn't it? Hell if it's just imitations, where's the good imitation of Mavericks for Plasma? How do I make Plasma look exactly like fucking Mavericks? Or Snow Leopard or any of those before El Capitan and whatever came before I can't remember.
Oh no we need our fucking transparent blur

>>107712835
Yeah Slowroll is basically Tumbleweed except the non-critical updates come every month or two.

>>107712771
>Any nice KDE themes out there that have something of a boxy 3D and/or skeumorphic look to them?
Oxygen I guess

>>107712855
Is it worth switching to that?
I wonder if it's just a delay or if there's some actual testing done. If there's a criticism against a distro like the one I mentioned, Manjaro, is that they really seemed pretty fucking careless and lazy about the whole process of "freezing" packages.
I think I read somewhere that you can switch between TW and Slowroll back and forth with no trouble. Which is strange.

>>107711978
>Docker
>real containers
Real containers are LXC/LXD, docker is exclusively for application containers.

>>107711978
>Nobody needs ufw anywhere
It is very easy to manage and powerful, lots of people use ufw.

I know this is a stupid question but
Is there a way to configure notifications in Plasma so that certain more specific events don't show a popup or make a sound?
Not for this in particular, but an example is this: I want it to show a notification if I plug X device with X descriptor, but I don't want it to show one when I plug Y device. I just don't want to outright disable all notifications related to unplugging and plugging devices.

>>107712869
I searched for that and found one called "Suave" which appears to be inspired by it. It's pretty nice but it doesn't seem to let me change the window title bar colour which is gay.

>>107712902
Slowroll isn't publicly advertised yet as it's still in beta, so you'd basically be beta testing the OpenSUSE team's ability to curate a usable package base each month. From what I hear it's fine, but if you don't wanna be a beta tester, don't be one.

>>107712954
>it doesn't seem to let me change the window title bar colour which is gay.
Open the svg (from $HOME/.local/share/plasma) in Inkscape to change the colours.

>>107712961
Yeah if I'm already pretty much a beta tester from using a rolling release like TW might as well stay this way

>>107712969
oh I get it, cumbersome but thanks to the pointer. The titlebar buttons don't align properly on maximised windows either but I doubt there's a similar easy fix for that.

>>107712987
actually I feel like my "fix" for both of these might just be to use the Plastik window decorations instead lmao.

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>>107710984
That's the coolest looking rice I've seen. How?

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Is it possible to move a partition leftward without data corruption? I want to get rid of my windows parition and give it to linux, but the linux partition is fairly far down the drive.

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Finally, someone from the Linux community speaking truth to power

>>107713051
Nvidia apologists are amusing. I used nvidia card myself not long ago and it was an absolutely miserable experience. Even if wayland fixed every nvidia issue pertaining to wayland for them it'd still be broken as fuck everywhere else.

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how can i set tearfree "on" permanently?

TearFree goes back to "auto" after i log out of my session. im using this command to enable it, it goes from "auto" to "on" and works perfectly with my amdgpu:
>xrandr --output <my-display> --set TearFree on
but it turns off after i log out.

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>>107713358
Gemini says

>>107713358
>manually configuring xorg
Are you one of them mythical "window manager" cavemen?

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>>107713407
thank u, that's what i read in this tutorial too:
https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_fix_screen_tearing
i will try it llater, i didn't yet because theres no file in /xorg.conf.d so i found strange, but i need to create one, got it

>>107713469
no, its xfce with their compositor turned off. their compositor acts strange so i turned off and got the tearing disease but now i can see the light

>>107711734
Most people either have a shit router or they dont trust their router to properly do its job

>>107711978
systemd-nspawn is more like a chroot on steroids than a container, it's closer to similarity with lxc than docker/podman but i dont think nspawn does rootless containers as the root user the same way lxc does

>>107713051
I've seen the exact same nvidia blame game played in these threads before

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>>107713158
Nvidia already open sourced their drivers, chud

>>107713358
You can just put it in a script and have it run on startup every time

>>107713741
>chug
ugh
nta, but its weird how so many people don't know that nvidia has open source drivers, did everyone fall into a time warp or something?

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>>107713737
>>107713752
AI is the future of compute, chuds

>>107713747
theoretically, would it work if i just throw it at .profile and .bashsrc? they basically start at startup

>>107713752
Nvidia drivers aren't open source. The kernel modules are open sores. Nvidia driver consists of several components and the kernel modules are only a small part of them.

I like boring distros that just work.

>>107713833
Based Fedora chad

>>107713833
List some then

>>107713774
Maybe but it wouldn't be a good idea because it would also run every time you open a tty, terminal, or ssh session
you could do something like

 [ -n "$DISPLAY" ] && xrandr 

But a better idea would be to just set it as a script and have it autostart when you load the desktop
putting it in .xprofile or .xinitrc might also work but i don't know if your DE will read that file when it runs at startup (there's also .xsession but i don't remember if that's been deprecated or not)

>>107713752
Not everyone is terminally online
I wasn't aware about the current shortage being a thing until recent

>>107713358
>but it turns off after i log out.
well, obviously? Do you think this little command you put in will stay magically active until eternity?

>>107713158
I used a Nvidia card for 10 years and had no issues with it (besides lack of vram)

>>107713868
Debian
Opensuse Leap
Almalinux Kitten/RockyLinux/RHEL
Mint/LMDE
Ubuntu LTS


>>107713861
Fedora is still too unstable for me

Just wanted to tell everybody my experience:

I hopped to EndeavourOS about two months ago, I've used Windows starting with 98 since I was a literal toddler and so far I've loved my Linux experience. I bounce between Gemini and the Arch Wiki for information on how to do certain things, last week I finally finished configuring my task bar and now I'm gonna rice the look of my file explorer.

The worst part is still the image and video software. GIMP is a nightmare, is way worse than PS in every way imaginable and I'm still figuring out plugins and patches to give it all the tools I need. Kdenlive and Friction are pretty good tho.

>>107710984
Fuck this stupid OS, I'm on my, like 7th distro at this point.
Maybe I should go back to Ubuntu, suck Canonicals dick and have a just werks system

>>107713966
Sounds pretty relatable; I started off on 95. Started fucking around with linux a bit during the XP era. Finally swapped entirely during the windows 8.x era. Mostly used Mint, but then swapped to Fedora for a while, absolutely loved it. Had to downgrade to Ubuntu LTS for jellyfin
>>107713969
Depending on your needs, Fedora is best imo

>>107713966
There's a way to make gimp look more like photoshop but i dont remember the name of the project, i guess searching gimp photoshop theme or something similar might bring it up

I never understood distro hoppers, seems like a mental illness. I did my research and concluded that Fedora was the best for my needs and I never even thought about changing.

>>107714086
Sometimes you get bored of blue logos so you switch to a different color

>>107714086
Fear or missing out, and not knowing the difference between package managers, kernels, and desktop environments. It's obviously a learning process.

>>107713936
Good for you, but I didn't have the same experience. It was just issues after issues. Starsector? Needs workaround. MPV? Needs workaround. Frostpunk? Just don't alt tab. Escape from Tarkov? Lmao buy 32GB of VRAM/use specific version of Proton. Oh.. and make sure you don't alt tab. Want to record using spectacle? Tough shit chumbo, empty file for you.
Issues after issues after issues. Granted I know some of these issues can be fixed by installing a different older nvidia drivers, but I seriously don't need my life to revolve around tinkering with the nvidia driver versions just to get my computer to work normally.

>>107713407
this worked! yeee now xfce is great, i got lost on nano for some time, i barely use it, only geany
>>107713875
thanks for the input too, i think the solution above will do, and it seems stable enough. i didnt want to tinker with compositors so i was happy finding about that tearfree built in option in x11, thx for the anon who suggested it!
>>107713913
weeeell it could do what i telling it to do, forever i say!

someone times kde brightness control fails i.e. I can change the brightness via keys or the slider but the display itself won't change in brightness. I checked /sys/class/backlight/amdgpu_bl1/brightness and it seems it never gets modified. So I can just modify that to get brightness control back but its still halfbroken. Any ideas how to fix this? I tried systemctl --user restart plasma-powerdevil.service but that also times out.
Seems to be a recent bug due to using a external display and removing it when the device is powered off.

>>107714405
>Any ideas how to fix this?
a) install a working version of KDE where the bug is not present
b) install another DE where the bug is not present

>>107714327
That's dope dude, glad to hear it

>>107714405
Idk if they have redshift for kde, but that's what I was using back when I was using mint cinnamon. You don't have brightness control on your monitor?

>>107714450
I do I meant the laptop hardware button and the plasma manual brightness slider fail. I can plug in a external monitor and control that fine via usb4 but sometimes if you plug it out while the laptop is suspended the powerdevil service seems to bug out. Online seems to suggest disabling ddcutil but that also does nothing.
Its a strange heisenberg bug thats not easily reproducible.

How do I disable pipewire idling? I have an USB audio interface (DAC) and every time pipewire pauses and resumes I hear a fucking pop.

>>107714489
I have the same problem on a HP2000, but I just used redshift to correct it

Anyone else has lower performance when using gamescope? I lose a solid 10fps (92 vs 81fps) on wuwa, is this normal?
I do have a nvidia gpu.

>>107714739
Idk what that is. What OS are you using?

>>107714772
CachyOS
>Idk what that is
Gamescope? See
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope

>>107714538
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Noticeable_audio_delay_or_audible_pop/crack_when_starting_playback

But if you're using a DAC it might have it's own built in suspend function (mine does) in which case you can disable that with wireplumber by outputting inaudible digital noise to the DAC at all time so it doesn't get the idea of going to sleep.

>>107714739
Seems like you don't understand what you're doing.

>>107714739
Gamescope rarely works well with nvidia card.

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>>107710984
>have a 17.44 GB btrfs partition with gentoo rootfs
>about 14 GB are used, decide to move it and resize it
>try to move the partition using gparted from a live usb
>gets stuck at "17.42 GB of 17.44 GB copied"
>few hours pass
>still stuck at 17.42 GB
>check htop
>gparted is in D state (disk sleep)
>mfw
>try to send commands to the disk
>bash is now in D state
>panic
>reboot into the live usb
>repair the partition with gparted
>remount and check my partition
>everything looks fine at first glance
>run sudo btrfs check /dev/sda6
>no errors
>mounted /dev/sda6 on /mnt/gentoo and run sudo btrfs scrub start -B /mnt/gentoo
>"ERROR: there are 1 uncorrectable errors"
Just how fucked is my filesystem?
Is there any hope of repairing it or finding the corrupted files?

>>107714816
What do you mean? This is the command I am using:

 PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_DLSS_INDICATOR=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 gamescope -W 3440 -H 1440 -r 144 --adaptive-sync --immediate-flips -f --mangoapp -- %command% -dx11 

And I lost around 10 fps when compared to just using:

 mangohud PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_DLSS_INDICATOR=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 %command% -dx11 

>>107714787
Sounds like slop, but you do you

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Any easy guide on how to make armbian? its quite heavy for my Banana Pi M2-Zero but theres not much else thats supported on it

I already disabled the DE

>>107713942
>Ubuntu LTS
What's your reasoning behind this? Isn't Ubuntu kinda a no-no cause Amazon partnership?

>>107714796
Thanks for the link, will check it out.

>>107714860
>[PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE=1 PROTON_DLSS_INDICATOR=1 PROTON_USE_NTSYNC=1 gamescope -W 3440 -H 1440 -r 144 --adaptive-sync --immediate-flips -f --mangoapp -- %command% -dx11 [/code]
In most cases you don't need any specific proton environment variables except for proton_use_ntsync (because this is something what steam don't seem to yet enable by default - also remember that ntsync is only supported by proton version 9 upwards).
I have some experience with gamescope and I think it is bit overrated in this sense. Only use it if you have trouble with plain game - if it crashes often or if it has trouble containing mouse. Otherwise you are better without goyscope in my opinion.
Also don't use mangoapp. -dx11 won't do much unless you have read that this specific game supports this particular parameter.
What I often do is that I disable vsync in-game and let my window environment handle the vsync. I can always turn off 'compositing' to disable window environment vsync too. So if you haven't, always turn off in-game vsync regardless.
eg. gamescope is one of a kind but it is surprisingly shitty unless you REALLY need it.

>>107714860
Oh wait I forgot you should always use 'gamemoderun' that's free fps especially if you are not setting the cpu power modes yourself etc. You need to install that first for your particular distro.
>gamemoderun gamescope -f --adaptive-vsync --immediate-flips -w 3440 -h 1440 -W 3440 -H 1440 -- %command%

>>107714890
>it has trouble containing mouse
a very common problem

>>107715004
Unfortunately at least for me, whenever I enable --force-grab-cursor, mouse sensitivity does not match the vanilla game sensitivity and also feels like it has slight acceleration too. Shouldn't be that hard to make 1:1 sensitivity really but it is what it is. I mean in my head it should be dead simple because the virtual window is the same size as the desktop anyhow...

>ugh... this distro doesnt have the specific aesthethics i want, im gonna download and install a completelly different distro
why do retards do this? do they not know you can customize the DE on linux ?

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Going through picrel after moving to gnu/linux from windows.

Feels like it is equivalent to Jeffrey Richters winapi books imo, liking it so far and easy to follow along.

>>107715037
dunno, I've never use it

>>107714869
>Amazon partnership
That was like 12 years ago..?
Get with the times, grandpa
Ubuntu LTS just works, and it's one of the most widely supported Linuxes

>>107715055
I don't know if this is an add or something but i'm intrigued enough to look into it.

>>107715168
It's still shit, just not for the amazon bullshit.

>>107715037
>but it is what it is.
Works in Xorg. And Xlibre (probably).

>>107710984
not really related to the thread but where is the best place to find metlaheart renders like this guy's background? i really miss that asthetic, and it's so hard to find these days

>>107715397
I don't understand your post. Seems like you are a typical /g/ imbecil who is only able to express himself in polarized manner.
"it works" doesn't mean shit, retard.

>>107714837
>Is there any hope of repairing it
No.
>or finding the corrupted files?
If a file is affected it should show the inode in dmesg

>switch between hyprland and kde
>all my browser cookies from that session get wiped
I'm going fucking insane how do I stop this

>>107715429
https://www.desktopgeneration.com/

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I made this wallpaper 10 years ago while blackout drunk and I don't ever recall sharing it online (probably did multiple times on this board, but that period is a blur, lol) and just found it in a folder. I don't even remember what program I used, I just remember fine-tuning the shit out of that concentric gradient.

>>107715436
>I don't understand your post.
Sounds like you're the retard then.

With X you'd have no issue with games failing to capture the mouse.

Anybody else experience random freezes on Void Linux? It will freeze and mouse and keyboard will not work and I have to reboot with power button. The caps lock light flashes which I think indicates kernel panic.
I installed Void many times and this seems to be a recurring issue. Installed it on Thinkpad X220.

>>107715525
nevermind it was kwallet