i accidentally forgot to set the date on my digital camera so many of my pictures have the date set to 2006

is there any decent photo manager on linux that helps edit metadata to change the date of pictures? manage pictures, categorize them, etc

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I have a Banana Pi M2 (similar to Raspberry Pi Zero form factor) and i have installed Retrorange Pi on it, which allows me to use the Emulation Station frontend and easily use it with a gamepad to select consoles and games to emulate

How do i add some IPTV or other streaming services to my Emulation Station frontend on RetroPie?

Alternatively, how do i add a frontend that lets you choose between opening emulationstation or opening IPTV and streaming services to watch tv shows, movies, and so on ?

The idea is, of course, that its usable with just a gamepad so you dont have to connect a keyboard, so that its more of a media center or a modern console for my living room than a computer.

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>>107793846
wtf, is this true? if true then Hyprland is actually based.
anyone got emacs working in wayland without switching to emacs-pgtk? last time I used it, the popups for completion where malfunctioning. Deciding if it is worth switching to it or not. I am on x11 right now

>>107793957
>the popups for completion where malfunctioning
in emacs-pgtk*
>emacs
doesn't even launch in wayland

I'm replacing the wifi module on my motherboard, because it uses a proprietary antenna. I've also had issues with my current wifi card not sleeping/waking properly.

In any case, I'd like to get a card that is fully compatible with gentoo linux, and my 9800x3d/Asus B850-i. Is the AX210 my best bet?

I don't think intel wifi 7 works on amd.

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>>107793846
>Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread
Use case for being friendly? What metrics do you use to determine friendliness?

>>107793957
>[some guy] on discord
>[some other guy] made a blog post
This reads like some teenage highschool drama out of nothing. Who cares. No wonder these guys are unable to create functional software.

So what do I pick between VIM and Kate?

i have this laptop with 8gb of ram
i have a swap partition + zswap
should i increase the swappiness?
i know the default is 60

>>107794356
Use VIM if you need terminal text editor.
However in most cases it's faster to use gui editor even if you are "proficient" in vim.
Faster = less typing, less work.
I keep using vim because I find it fun but if I need to create bunch of readable text files for other and under a deadline I would use graphical text editor for that task, no question about this.

>>107794415
I don't think there is any difference unless you are using the machine for heavy workloads 24/7.
Heavy workloads are something else than few terminals, web browsing or gaming btw.

>>107794449
yeah i mainly want to play games

>>107794418
I like vim, but it just feels like it’s better suited for smaller projects

>>107794575
Try and see how it behaves. There is no other way to find out. It's a simple command.
>sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=133
Or whatever you'd like to test.

Is Fedora a good daily driver for a low maintenance, just werx, distro? I would have went with Debian 13 but I wanted something with newer packages but also somewhat stable. I also dont want to constantly be fiddling with it to keep it working.

I have already installed Fedora 43 on my desktop with a dual boot configuration with windows just in case. So far, it has been fairly straight forward and I havent had any hardware issues. The only issues have so far have been getting the dual boot to work properly.

>>107795565
Why do you need to ask if you already are using it? This doesn't make any sense.

>>107795609
Yeah, I just want to bail out now before getting too far down the road if there are pitfalls ahead that I am unaware of. I would rather go ahead and switch if I am going to have too.

>>107793866
digiKam

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>>107793957
>discord drama
And this is why Linux will never have more than 10% of market share

>>107795565
Fedora is generally more stable than Debian and Ubuntu from my experience (in terms of actual stability and lack of bugs/issues, not the meme software engineer definition of "stable").
But that's only my experience with Silverblue, Kinoite and Bazzite. I'm not sure about the regular/non-atomic versions (workstation, kde edition, etc.).

>>107795637
Yet again, this does not make any sense.
You might as well as stop reading or writing because you might make a mistake and read a book you don't like and so on.

>>107795565
>Is Fedora a good daily driver
Yes, I've been using it for a few months and it works fine. Just keep in mind that it's a bleeding edge distro unlike Debian

>>107795759
it's not a bleeding edge distro aside from keeping KDE Plasma and a couple of other components mostly on the bleeding edge. the rest of the packages are only updated once every 6 months compared to Debian's 24 months.

>>107795723
Im not sure what the disconnect is here. There are experienced Linux users in this thread who have used Fedora, know what it is good for, and know about other issues that I do not. I was hoping to lean on that knowledge to save myself going down an incorrect path I chose out of ignorance.

>>107795721
>>107795759
Thanks. Im not looking for meme level stability, I just have tried several linux distros before that required a lot of fiddling. That's fine for a project machine, but for my main desktop replacement, I need it usable for daily tasks and not constantly requiring me to go in a fix something or spend a lot of time on getting something basic t o work.

I personally like Debian and its level of stability, but I always run into issues needing to run something I need that isnt supported. I would rather use this for a server or something other than my main workstation.

>> Yes, I've been using it for a few months and it works fine. Just keep in mind that it's a bleeding edge
What would you suggest on upgrading? Wait a few months on each upgrade?

>>107795842
Yeah but fedora is an established setting.
I have had more issues with Windows 11 iot ltsc and Microsoft's broken updates during ~1 year than what I have had with linux in general.

>>107795842
>I personally like Debian and its level of stability, but I always run into issues needing to run something I need that isnt supported. I would rather use this for a server or something other than my main workstation.
That's the whole point of Debian. It's a distribution primarily designed for servers. Desktops need to at least have the update frequency of Fedora and at best have the update frequency of Arch. Fedora itself also has an actual focus on the desktop experience, rather than being a baseline distro for servers and specialized machines like Debian aims to be.

>What would you suggest on upgrading? Wait a few months on each upgrade?
Not that anon, but waiting at least 4 weeks after a new major version is probably a good idea. You could wait even more since each Fedora version is supported for at least a year.

>>107793846
I'm trying to import a level from a video game program that I'm running in wine, my problem is that when I try to import the level a terminal window pops up for WineDB spits a couple lines out in a millisecond then terminates itself and the program crashes.
How do I prevent the window from terminating so I can actually read the error and fix it?

>>107793906
>How do i add some IPTV or other streaming services to my Emulation Station frontend on RetroPie?
Using Kodi
>Alternatively, how do i add a frontend that lets you choose between opening emulationstation or opening IPTV and streaming services to watch tv shows, movies, and so on ?
Does emulationstation not have a launcher to open up kodi?

>>107795565
If it wasnt for rpmfusion being a pain in the ass then it would be

>>107795914
> It's a distribution primarily designed for servers.
No it isnt
Its a distribution designed for whatever you want it to be
They focus on doing stable releases because thats what both redhat and debian were doing back in the early days when everything came on a bunch of cds and internet was too slow and unstable. It was never "primarily designed for servers"

>>107795996
Well it currently is and that's what it's being used for. The desktop experience on it sucks ass compared to most other distros. That's almost the whole reason why Ubuntu and Mint exist and are infinitely more popular as desktops despite being equally "outdated" in terms of package versions and having similar flaws.

>>107795920
WINEDEBUG=-all,+err,+warn,+seh wine program.exe &> program.log

>>107795842
>What would you suggest on upgrading?
I don't run any critical software on my machine so I don't give too much thought. I haven't had any problems so far. If you don't want to updoot right away you can choose what to update like any other distro

>>107795965
On this note, I have a noob question. Is it generally better to stick with Fedora's RPM/FUSION as much as possible or lean more on flatpaks?.

For example, latest verions of Calibre in Fedora's package manager is 2 versions behind the current. Flatpak has the current version. I went ahead and installed the latest with Flatpak and all seems fine. I would assume you take a little more risk using a bleeding edge flatpak over the RPM version.

>>107796011
>Well it currently is
No it isnt.
> The desktop experience on it sucks ass compared to most other distros.
They use the upstream defaults the same as what arch does. Nobody complains about the desktop experience being bad on arch.
> That's almost the whole reason why Ubuntu and Mint exist
They exist because the same reason every other distro does, because they want to do their own thing.
Popularity as a desktop != whether a distro is designed to be used as a desktop or not.

>>107796120
>RPM/FUSION
Rpmfusion is a repo used to work around the licensing codec autism
>. Is it generally better to stick with Fedora's RPM/FUSION as much as possible or lean more on flatpaks?.
It doesnt really matter usually its better to stick with rpm or whatever native package manager because running things from flatpak might create issues that dont happen if you run the same thing installed from the regular package manager.

>>107796018
I'm gonna need more help than this. Do I do this when I launch the program? Do I just type this into a terminal and its global for any program?

>>107796120
It depends. You can examine the version numbers on your own. You don't always need the latest one and especially with Calibre I doubt it makes any difference because it is feature complete software.

I personally avoid flatpaks because they are nasty and bloated. I use qbittorrent and couple of other things via flatpaks but otherwise it is native or nothing at all. Some people will install flatpak Steam and then complain why nothing like vkBasalt etc is not working...

>>107796120
You should primarily use Flatpaks whenever possible. It's the "standard" packaging format for Linux desktops nowadays and the only one which isn't shit. Anyone pretending otherwise is just delusional.

>>107796236
You should really get that iMac.

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>fell for manjaro meme
>do nothin but ricing with hyprland
>want to test android development
>a few seconds after android studio finishes loading the whole system reboots
>no kernel panic
>no segfaults in logs
>journalctl, dmesg, syslog all clean nothing strange
>only after a few boots crashes are marked as such pic related
>no other jetbrains IDE does this
how am I suppossed to troubleshoot this shit??

>>107796309
You don't. I have had random crashes with my system every couple of weeks, when it is mostly idle. At first I thought it was nvidia-open then I changed to nvidia proprietary. I have managed to narrow it down to either my bios or some conflicting power mangement setups. I have disabled X11 dpms for now at to test something.
I'd understand if this happened when I was running LLM when my system is at 100% cpu/ram/gpu wise but no.

>>107796309
Distro is just packaging setup- a packaging brand so to speak.
Modern Linux is the same slop regardless of the 'distro'. You are still using the same software as anyone else.
If it wasn't called linux it would be proprietary like Irix...

>>107796018
>>107796175 (Me)
I managed to grab a couple errors via launching through terminal:

wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 4920656C at address 4920656C (thread 075c), starting debugger...
07c4:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
07a4:fixme:win:NtUserGetWindowPlacement not fully supported on other process window 0x2400f0.
07c4:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module

>>107796361
You launch the program with that command, maybe remove the -all, part to get all of the info, also replace program.exe with the full path (eg "/home/you/downloads/program/program.exe"). Those fixme lines don't really point to what's wrong. Did you check the reports on winehq? That might be more helpful

>>107796505
>Did you check the reports on winehq?
I have not and I'll do that first.

>>107796175
What are you trying to launch and how? Would help more if you specify the software and potential script you are using etc?

>>107796505
>>107796593 (Me)
Nope, didn't have the game listed so I guess I have to do the WINEBUG thing. It used to work with Bottles on Mint, but when I downloaded Bottles on Xubuntu's software center app it didn't work when I tried to create a new bottle. I downloaded bottle from github but I'm too new to know how to launch it.

>>107796673
Knytt Stories, but the problem isn't launching its downloading a new level or applying a level patch to the client.
>wtf is a knytt stories?
Mario Maker before Mario Maker, I'm trying to play a new level.

>>107796236
It's so standard that things break on flatpak and create issues that dont happen outside of flatpak like steam flatpak being worse in performance than installing it with your package manager.

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>>107796710
Reading this error seems like you are missing a dependency.
I can do a test, I'll download Knytt Stories and see if I can run it with my already made setup.
From where are you loading this level?
It makes sense to either copy new stuff inside the prefix so it is under c drive or if you are wise you create a link to dosdevices.
I have a fake Windows D:/Vidya drive there

>>107793846
Hi I have a bit of a dumb question. I bought a laptop locally off ebay because its better than what I use in general (GTX 1070M instead of MX450 i think), but it makes a weird staticky noise, kind of like a hard drive maybe but it has an ssd.
I used arch with cachy v3 repos+kde+zen kernel for a while, at least 4 times it failed during setting up the kernel and i'd need to do the whole mount+ decrypt luks or lvm or whatever, mount btrfs and reinstall the kernel and nvidia modules so I can use the computer again.
I switched to cosmic desktop and the normal kernel and it hasn't happened since then, although there hasn't been as many kernel releases I guess.
My question is, will using fedora silverblue reduce the chances of the computer failing? Is there a performance hit? I like having the latest packages with slight optimizations (I know cachyos v3 isn't as big of a jump as cachyos v4 or whatever it is) but I don't know if I'd be missing out on anything.
I've had someone at work say it might be a capacitor issue. I replaced the ssd and still see the same problem.

>>107796753
Mint has a debian edition

>>107796761
This loops back but d: inside the prefix as D:\ in windows. I happen to have my Vidya directories there. But in Wine it looks like D:\Vidya\.

>>107796710
Tell me what link to download. I'm not going to spend time with a title I don't know and I have never heard of in my life. but if you give a link I'll try.

>>107796761
>It makes sense to either copy new stuff inside the prefix so it is under c drive or if you are wise you create a link to dosdevices.
I actually tried that by moving the game into the prefix and the level patch into the same prefix and I get the same problem.

>>107796803
Like I said I am not able to debug if you don't describe your setup in detail or give a download link. You are wasting your time.
I think best way to do this for you is to add the game to steam and let it handle everything for you. if it doesn't work you are shit out of luck.

>>107796757
>installing it with your package manager.
The only official release of Steam is the .deb file Valve provides, and whatever is there on SteamOS. You're not supposed to install it with your package manager. If anything the Flatpak is the better option.

>>107796791
>install with wget and dpk, or otherwise just git clone
Most people aren't developers and system administrators, so this doesn't make sense. This is like telling people to root their phone to install binaries instead of installing apks.

>>107796798
>http://egomassive.com/ks/
I must warn you, you'll get an http warning and if you don't download from that I don't blame you, but I have multiple times and it is safe. If you are too uncomfortable to download from that, you might find the source code floating around on github.
Once you have the client downloaded, make sure you upgrade to Knytt Stories+ and apply it to the original Knytt Stories files.
Then go to
>https://knyttlevels.com/?s=A+Christmas+walk
That's the map I'm trying to apply.
>>107796833
See above?

>>107796853
Ok cool. I'll see if I can run it in my default vc2022 prefix with umu and ge-proton.
5 minutes.

>>107796849
The "steam" package is nothing more than a shellscript that downloads and installs a chroot to run steam and is distro agnostic which runs perfectly fine without issues if you run it outside flatpak but somehow running it under flatpak gives it a massive performance penalty
Nice better option you have there.

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>>107796853
Okay base game runs fine without any issues.
I'll see what happens with the custom level.

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>>107796920
>>107796853
Seems to work, however the level requires a later version of the game client.
You just load in the game file using file browser.
So the issues is that your wine environment is not configured or something. I still suspect Steam is probably able to run this straight away.

I'm using my own scripts.

>>107796920
make sure you apply the Knytt Stories+ patch, then launch from the Knytt Stories Pluse 1080.exe

>>107796958
I proved my point here.

>>107796948
You didn't apply the KS+ patch that is the next link down in the original link and my problem is that I can't get the game to read the level in the first place.

>>107796856
Yeah I guess so. Just never had a laptop I own make these sounds (1/2) normal kernel and disabling AES-NI and the extra stuff in UEFI ended up working out for some reason and I don't wanna troubleshoot it a ton since booting into a usb and doing this every time gets a little annoying. Thanks for the advice anon!

>>107796962
So I'm missing a wine dll?

>>107796966
Stop trolling. You only gave one link.

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knytt stories... havent thought of that game in over a decade. is it still possible to play "dont eat the mushroom"?

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>>107796983
KS and KS+ are both in that first link, it's the second link in the first link I linked. But the problem isn't the fact that its KS or KS+ the fact is that you some how managed to port it over in your prefix and I can't. How do I check to see what prefix I'm running?

>>107797011
Yup, everything is archived on Knytt Levels and there are other websites that host forbidden levels.

>>107797017
Here are the two scripts I accomplish most of my gaming.
https://litter.catbox.moe/zre3i5hfw1h5nqk1.txt

>>107797094
Here is an example of Escape from Tarkov
it runs SPT_Launcher.exe inside the main windows_umu prefix
I have another prefix for wine called windows_wine because they have different file structures.
https://litter.catbox.moe/tpu4h4fw47lrc86i.txt

In any case you don't need any bullshit Python launchers like Bottles who beg donations. Or anything else for that matter.

>>107797094
>>107797151
Ironic because I managed to fix the problem with bottles but I'll look into your scripts regardless, I'm interested in learning why I wouldn't just do it via wine.

>>107797094
>>107797151
>>107797170 (Me)
Actually do you think the reason it isn't working is the fact that I don't have umu downloaded?

>>107797170
It's bunch of environment variables.
WINE_PREFIX is the windows environment you have created using wine or umu-run ""
Anything else revolves around the same environment variable and directory.

This is the last time I talk about this thing today.

>>107797195
>This is the last time I talk about this thing today.
Dammit, I was gonna ask if you drag and dropped into KS or if you used the browse feature, that would help me narrow it down. Because for bottles it doesn't work if you use browse, but for whatever reason it works if you drag and drop within the prefix.

>>107797211
Stop pretending. You are Lev. Stop wasting other people's time.
You don't do or won't do an inch effort by yourself. You enjoy the replies and the attention.

>>107797230
>Stop pretending.
I'm not but I'm not gonna learn if you aren't at the very least going to throw links or videos for me to research.
>You are Lev.
Literally who?
>Stop wasting other people's time.
Is it really that much of a sin to ask for a guiding light when you are in the dark?
>You don't do or won't do an inch of effort by yourself.
If you don't want to spoon feed it to me that's fine but to at least not point me in the right direction then complain that people shit on Linux because you gatekeep information doesn't help.

>>107797269
You never wanted to learn in the first place.
You got people replying, that's great.
I'm happy to spread my scripts around beacuse I think even without trolling people need to know that all they need to do is to install a windows environment and then run the games. Fuck game launchers.

>>107797290
>Fuck game launchers.
This. How come Steam doesnt wanna let me play offline? Elden Ring doesn't even wanna launch without steam. Glory to crackers.

>>107797325
Goldberg is the saviour.
It works in the same dll space as any wine environment.

>>107797290
>Fuck game launchers.
So this is what the autism is about, okay I'll look into your scripts and compare them to bottles on my free time but that doesn't answer the question if you used the browser button or not on KS.
Everything else is weird schizo posting about something I don't know about.

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The one reason I still have to dual boot is that Boris FX Continuum isn't on Linux. Is there a community where I can commission to create DaVinci Resolve transitions?

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I'm using Linux for over 10 years now, and do things primarily on the command-line, as it's much easier to document and automate things. However, I have some FOMO because discoverability is just so much better with graphical applications.

For example, I just discovered that I can set my laptop on a power-saving or performance mode through the graphical settings application. Of course, I can change this setting on the command-line, but if it weren't for the GUI, I wouldn't even know this is a thing.

Another example: I installed Debian + Gnome on someone else's laptop, and when I took it a couple month ago to update to the latest debian version (needed to do a dist-upgrade), Gnome Software wanted to do a firmware upgrade for the laptop. I was surprised that it's so easy to do a firmware update, and when I searched for it, I learned about fwupd and how easy it is to do it also from the command-line, but how would I discover such a feature without a GUI?

Now I'm having real FOMO, and thinking of installing the entire Gnome Desktop on my computer as well just to keep up with stuff like this. What do you think, how do you learn about things like this?

>>107796208
Another stupid question....
So its generally recommended to stick with the RPM package over the flatpak, but what about using the official install script from the calibre site? I would imagine this is a try and see type thing and could not work or break something versus the RPM that has at least been tested to some degree.

I see >>107796849 which makes it seem like in some cases the official install script would be prefered over the distro's package manager.

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any way to force all apps to use the same file picker? qbittorrent installed via flatpak uses nautilus which is fine i guess, I've gotten used to it, but when installed from the fedora repos i get this thing that feels like it was designed to make searching for a folder as annoying as possible.

>>107797632
Ok.

>>107797580
You would know about all of these things if you'd read the archwiki.

>>107796986
You're just a faggot retard elitist.

>>107797733
>You would know about all of these things if you'd read the archwiki.
discoverability. ofc, if I know the feature exists it's easy to find on the arch wiki

When will Nvidia be good? I have a 5080 but im sick of windows.

>>107797151
>https://litter.catbox.moe/tpu4h4fw47lrc86i.txt
This fails for me client side, does it fail for anyone else?

>>107797632
To add to this question, the Calibre website literally states the following:

>> Please do not use your distribution provided calibre package, as those are often buggy/outdated. Instead use the Binary install described below.

>>107797788
It was a timed deletion.

>>107798026
For catbox? Why would you time it out?

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Does anyone here know how to alter polybar tray icons?
Just multiply it with 0.5 or something.
I followed gpt pajeet's advice but it doesn't make any sense.
I'm using Bspwm. It is one of the only real X11 window managers what don't mess up the window drawing like games.

>>107798038
what do you mean?

>>107797632
>So its generally recommended to stick with the RPM package over the flatpak
the opposite. you should always source your software from either flatpak or whatever else is the official source. distro maintainers are just unnecessary middlemen unless we're talking about actual low level system packages. there's no sane reason why your web browser, for example, should be provided to you by your distribution instead of the actual developers of said web browser.

>>107798061
Why would you set a catbox timed for deletion?

>>107798052
No niggers don't know anything about polybar?
Really?

>>107798077
What about the testing of specific versions for stability with the system as a whole? I thought that was the main benefit of using the distros package manager. Debian, for instance, has many older packages, but that is because those have been tested and verified to work with the system and what helps achieve its stability. Or am I missing something?

>>107798184
Flatpak's have their own "system" so there's no need to test them with your ancient Python 3 that belongs in a museum.

>>107798184
>What about the testing of specific versions for stability with the system as a whole?
There's no need for such testing on Flatpak because the platform/distro running the software is a specific Flatpak runtime, not your actual host distro. The only testing that's needed is done on Flatpak runtime itself, by the actual developer or the person maintaining the Flatpak version of the app.
>Debian
>testing
The only "testing" that's done is just checking if the package dependencies are satisfied and if it builds and opens. Debian has no real-use testing and no guarantee of backporting security updates or bug fixes (they're almost never backported for most packages in the repos because most bug fixes and security fixes aren't given a CVE).
>stability
Software on Debian isn't any more or less stable than it is on other distros. When tech people say "stable" to describe distros or software they're referring to the update frequency of the software. "Stable" is just a developer term which means "this is a fixed version of software which doesn't get any changes, new features or feature removals. it only gets security updates if we decide to backport them."

Either way installing packages system-wide through apt, dnf and similar package managers makes no sense unless you're building your own system for a specific purpose. It's pretty much the equivalent of rooting your phone and manually adding binaries to it instead of using APKs. It only makes sense in niche scenarios. For your average desktop use using Flatpaks and Appimages is the sane choice.

Least jeet and tranny infested distro that is actually good?

>>107797580
I'm a recovering windows babby, but I use the gui whenever I can because I'll never remember all the commands I might want to know, especially if I don't use them often. Maybe that will change, but when you're clueless, it's much easier to figure out how to do what you want to do visually within the system itself rather than bringing in other resources. I do like how well the CLI usually informs you what's gone wrong though, that's useful for troubleshooting without digging up a log file.

>>107798374
the only good distros are trannyware distros like bazzite

>>107798377
>I'm a recovering windows babby, but I use the gui whenever I can because I'll never remember all the commands I might want to know, especially if I don't use them often
NTA but a fun thing to do is to make little scripts out of them
literally takes 30 seconds to do

also i hope you are using tab autocompletion if you dont remember how to spell them and man pages if you dont remember flags

>>107798374
Much like the jeets and trannies parasite off of the government for hand outs, you should do the same for free software. The only thing I would be aware about is the "find Fasc" bullshit that some people in the community are asking to add into the OS. You can say "Oh well I'm not fascist" but then when you look at the definitions its basically anyone who its left of their current position.

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>>107793846
How many of you guys are running a steam deck?

Is it possible to apt install Librewolf in any way or am I going to have to use another Firefox fork to do this? I need a lightweight browser to use on this laptop for shopping.

>>107798499
I mean you might have a good position to my ask here. Linux kernel development has been infested with jeets and troons for a while now anyway so really the rest of the crap around it having more or less probably shouldn't really matter anyway.

>>107793846
Recommend me a no-bullshit home use linux distro.

>>107798518
>Is it possible to apt install Librewolf
just try and see for yourself?
if your distro doesnt have it in repos you can always download their appimage
>>107798588
criteria?

>>107798608
I will roll with whatever, been and in and out user of Linux since like 2012 and then a bit more pernement since 2018/2019.
Recently I was the most happy with Fedora and in the past it was Mint and a bit on a delusional side: Arch Linux.
Just want to try out something new, but I will more so roll with something reputable.
I will roll with almost anything from gentoo/slackware, arch/artix/alpine/void, SUSE, RHEL/CentOS/Fedora/Rocky, Debian/Ubuntu/Mint.
But honestly would probably remove the arch/artix/alpine/void from the list.

>>107798608
It will run on a semi-modern 202X machine.
Codecs, video hw accel, can run steam(can be via flatpak).

>>107798498
We have different definitions of "fun." I've got sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade (the && is a neat trick at least) down pat, beyond that I don't want to touch the terminal outside of one-time setup/repair stuff I'd be following instructions to do anyway.

>>107798518
Firefox browsers aren't lightweight. Get anything based on Chromium.

>>107798588
Aurora or Bazzite

>>107798663
atomic is bullshit

>>107798364
This seems a bit off.

Seems like distro package manager would have packages that have at least somewhat been tested within the distro and all share common libraries with the distro and such. No issues with needing different library versions or duplication.

Direct install scripts could install packages that have not been tested with distro at all and have other conflicts.

Seems riskier and more prone to breakage if not done for a specific reason and benefit. Remember, this is my daily driver that I dont want to be fiddling with it all the time.

I've been using Fedora, kde and workstation in alternance for like 2 years. I've recently gotten to understand that it's quite a bit more stable a distro than I thought. Every day there are updates but apparently these are minor version updates to programs, bugs or security fixes. Apparently all major version updates to programs come with new Fedora releases and then for the 13 months lifetime of the release there are no major version updates except the kernel.

I don't know how to feel about this, but I previously thought the daily updates had them. So I'm thinking maybe I wanna try a distro which updates major versions like CachyOS which is a rolling release.

Anyone have any experience with rolling releases and how linux stable they are compared to a Fedora install? Do they break constantly? I don't usually play around with mine too much and barely install any programs. I only rarely have any problem with Fedora however and would only really consider something a bit more unstable if it were as problem free.

>>107798588
Suse

>>107799065
I run Debian Sid. It's generally fine.
About once a year something breaks in a major way, but it's always resolvable if you know what you're doing.

Does the new captcha discriminate against Linux users? I have to solve 3 difficult challenges to reply on my laptop every single time.

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anyone else having problems image searching on ubuntu

>>107798717
>stable system updates are bad... because they are!

>>107798721
>install scripts
Flatpaks/Appimages aren't install scripts. They're self-contained apps similar to Android APKs, iOS apps, Windows .appx, Windows portable .exe, or MacOS .app. They have their own libraries baked in, that's the whole point.
Meanwhile your distro's package manager is injecting binaries and libraries directly into your system, modifying it. It's similar to directly modifying system files on Android or adding .dll/.exe files into system32 on Windows. The problem here is you're modifying your OS in a way which will never be tested for migration issues, which is why non-atomic distros like Ubuntu often fail to update smoothly and require manual intervention.
>Direct install scripts could install packages that have not been tested with distro at all and have other conflicts.
Most scripts that install software are installing things to /opt, are completely distro-agnostic and will never cause "conflicts".
Also, installing software via scripts is rare outside of dev software or games from GOG. Most Linux apps are distributed through Flatpak or as Appimage.

>Seems like distro package manager would have packages that have at least somewhat been tested within the distro
I don't think you realize what a distro maintainer is. Most of them are not developers or even related to the project/package they're maintaining. They're just people ensuring dependencies are satisfied and packages compile. Distributions don't do usability testing for most packages in their repos.
>prone to breakage
Distro maintainers randomly breaking software is the whole reason why Bottles is exclusively on Flatpak, why OBS project almost sued Fedora and why the DuckStation developer changed the license multiple times to forbid distros from shipping broken versions of it. In fact, that old approach to distribution is why Linux is so unpopular and why Flatpaks/Appimages are starting to be the default package formats.

Hey I just got a new 1440p 27in monitor and everything is small compared to my old 1080p 24" monitor. I'm on Mint is there a good way to scale everything or should I just get used to everything being smaller.

I wasn't sure if I should post this here or /pcbg/ but this seemed more like a Linux question.

>>107799195
Depends on DE. Cinnamon has decent fractional scaling IIRC. MATE, while I love it, doesn't really do fractional scaling. XFCE, not sure.

>>107799216
Oh it's Cinnamon.

https://youtu.be/AZdgxWV4SgU

>>107799226
There should be a scaling setting somewhere in display config or a related area of settings. Just fiddle with that until you're happy.

>>107799065
If you're worried, select the limine bootloader when installing and use BTRFS; it'll automatically set up snapshotting and it takes a new snapshot whenever you install or upgrade packages. Even if you're really broken you should be able to boot straight into previous snapshots from the boot menu.
That said, I've never had any reason to use snapshots, so I'm not sure how much you should worry about it. I don't notice any stability problems. The main issue with rolling release is that everything managed by the package manager wants to be on latest all the time, which could be an issue with something like postgres that actually has an involved upgrade process. But you can just not use pacman for those things. Like, I assume no one is auto-upgrading python without looking.

>>107799162
It might, when dual booting I get those nasty capchas on linux but easy ones on Windows

>>107799065
>13
Fedora gets a major update once every 6 months, not 13.
The 13 month time frame is the support lifespan of each major version. It means in case you don't update immediately when a new version is released, you'll still get some security updates for the next 7 months. Basically: if you're on Fedora 43 now, once Fedora 44 is released in 3-4 months you can still stay on Fedora 43 until the end of the year instead of having to update in April or May.
Is there a specific reason you need bleeding edge? I feel like the 6-month release cycle is pretty usable.

>>107799195
Apply scaling. Anything above 1080p is unusable without display scaling.

>>107799281
>Is there a specific reason you need bleeding edge? I feel like the 6-month release cycle is pretty usable.

I just like to use programs which have the latest features. Sometimes major updates add those. But mostly it's the desktop environments which I want to be immediately updated for the same reason.

I'm still thinking about it, I just learned this about fedora recently so I don't know if it's desirable for me or a rolling release would be better. My criteria is just what I listed, I like to use the latest features on programs, which is also a reason I hate and will never use Debian stable. But the fact there are new Fedora releases every 6-7 months is pretty good, it's not perfect but maybe this stability is desirable, again I don't know as I never used a rolling distro.

>>107799268
I wonder what I have to do to get the system to trust my machine as if I was using a stock android device, I spend more time solving puzzles than actually posting when I get tired. It's really annoying.

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>buy myself some random hardware crap from local marketplace for my bday
>one is a Toshiba AC100
>ARM dualcore 1GHz Cortex-A9 processor
>512MB RAM
>Nvidia Tegra 20 GPU
>Nvidia Embedded Controller (NVEC) controls basically every part of it and has no documentation whatsoever.
>officiall ran android 2.1, latest official linux kernel is 3.1, full of binary blobs
>can't even manage to replace fastboot with custom-built uboot, have to use some online bin file to flash it.
>find "GRATE linux" project which aims to support the AC100 for open-source.
>finally get alpine linux running on it
>notice there's no "driver" for the lid closing
>decode the NVEC signals and write a driver for it
>mfw am now kernel dev
we did it lads

>>107799258
>There should be a scaling setting somewhere in display config or a related area of settings. Just fiddle with that until you're happy.

I got it ty.

>>107798518
>Is it possible to apt install Librewolf in any way
There are instructions on the Librewolf website for Debian based distros.

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why doesn't power profiles work on my kubuntu 25.10 install? it worked as expected when I was running fedora kde. i've tried reinstalling power-profiles-daemon but it didn't solve the problem

(it says "power saving profiles are not supported/available on this device")

>>107799268
>It might, when dual booting I get those nasty captchas on linux but easy ones on Windows
Im dual booting Fedora/Windows and I am on Fedora now and always getting 3 captchas to complete.

>>107799322
This is me. I want something recent enough that I am not missing major features but I don't want my system breaking constantly. Fedora seems like a good in between that fits the bill. Some of that might be because im a noob, but still, this is what I need. I dont really need

>>107799171
I still think this isnt exactly accurate. But what do I know. It sounds like you are positing that no linux distro had any measurable level of stability prior to flatpak being created.

>>107799171
desu I completely understand why a dev would want to use flatpak, I would love to only test on a single environment. As a user I'll always go for a non-flatpak install if it's available though, I don't want that sandboxing shit and overhead. Flatpak is for thee not for me.

>>107799492
fedora's kernel mightve had a kernel feature enabled that supports your specific device. you gotta figure out what you're missing.

I've got flickering white pixels on a monitor with arch, kde x11. It only happens with certain colors, I believe. Out of my two monitors, it only happens on one of them. I never had this problem on an old arch system with the same monitor configuration.

I've tried different cables and ports. I'm using the onboard graphics of the x870e tomahawk which uses radeon. I've also got an nvidia card but it's not connected to any monitors

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>>107798646
you can try bedrock for the meme
>>107798662
you just create a text file, then you put shebang line fist and then you just wirte down whatever commands is it you are using
then you just make it an exeutable and put it somewhere in $PATH (for convenience)
somewhere inbetween all that you can run shellcheck to make sure you arent doing something retarded
and if you want to add some functionality (like flags for example) you just google stack overflow posts, copypaste shit, run shellcheck so that it can tell you why you are retarded and thats it pretty much
>>107799352
>toshiba
holy shit THAT fucking thing
ive tried so hard to get slackware on that bitch
kinda sad ive accidentally fried the screen, but now i have a better "toy" thankfully

>>107799956
it's a hot mess, but it's got a comfy keyboard

>>107800075
it is, better than the bluetooth shit that i have

>>107799171
>stable system updates are bad... because they are!
All modern package managers have stable system updates. Atomic forces you to upgrade everything upstream does when upstream does or not upgrade at all, which is bullshit.

So with my new monitor I when I try to launch the MCC in steam it freezes. Launching it in windowed fixes it but putting it back in borderless or fullscreen causes it to freeze again. I'm like 99% sure this is a Linux issue. How fix?

I tried asking ChatGPT but it has been no help.

>>107800552
Tried using proton-ge-custom?

>>107800587
I don't know what that is. I think it's running proton experimental by default.

>>107800619
*hotfix

>>107800552
What GPU? Also try launching it with gamescope, something like this might work
gamescope -W 1920 -H 1080 -f -- %command%

>>107800650
I have a 1660ti. I do have a 9070XT that literally just arrived in the mail a little bit ago but I haven't installed it yet.

I don't think I have gamescope. Putting that launch option in just makes the game not launch. Also ChatGPT tried to send me on a wild goosechase of installing gamescope and a billion different dependencies but that didn't really work out so I rage quit and came here.

>>107800650
Oh I forgot to mention, it's a 1440p monitor. Everything worked fine on my old 1080p monitor.

>>107800619
It's a version of proton-experimental with more patches and tweaks done to it. Using it might fix your MCC issues.

>>107800695
Tried it, didn't work.

>>107800747
Tried running it through gamescope with the exact resolution of the screen?

OH MY GOD YOU JUST TYPE IN "flatpak install gamescope" WHY WAS CHATGPT TRYING TO GET ME TO BUILD IT?

Also doing the gamescope command still just prevents the game from launching.

I'm using systemd-networkd on Debian 13 and I'm trying to add a routing policy rule to a macvlan interface but it won't take effect.

This is my scenario: I have two WAN interfaces over a single link (don't ask), both of them are macvlans with different MAC addresses, DUIDs, etc. Inbound connection packets reach the macvlans, but then the replies try to go out the default gateway and connections fail. So I'm giving the macvlans their own routing tables with:

[Route]
Gateway=_ipv6ra
Table=1234
GatewayOnLink=yes

... and trying to add routing policy rules to match, but my settings in the .network file are not being applied unless I match on the IP address, for example this works:

[RoutingPolicyRule]
From=2001:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::1
Table=1234
Priority=200

But this, which doesn't require knowing the IP address ahead of time, doesn't:

[RoutingPolicyRule]
SourcePort=80
Table=1234
Priority=200

Because systemd-networkd doesn't add the routing rule, 'ip -6 rule' shows nothing. If I add it manually:

ip -6 rule add sport 80 table 1234

Then it works. Anyone have an idea why systemd-networkd would fail to add the rule? It doesn't report anything in the journal.

>>107800757
It won't launch with the gamescope command.

Fucking Linux, it's nice but I randomly have to spend hours a day trying to get one stupid game to run because it decided to shit the bed.

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What is the middle point between something like Damn Small Linux & Tiny Core and something like Mint?

>>107800978
Minimal debian install and just install the packages you want/need

So turning off the desktop scaling lets me run the MCC without it freezing. But I want UI scaling on, and turning it on and off is obnoxious. Is there a way around this?

>>107801075
Try a different DE?

I'm changing things up and decided to try out a tiling window manager. For the most part it's working out fine as I'm learning how to mesh all these individual programs together to make a good experience but there's one thing I can't figure out well and it's arguably the most important: posting images on here, or just viewing large amounts of images in general.
Normally when posting an image I either just open a new dolphin window, find what I want, and either drop or copy and paste. Sometimes I do use the file upload button here but it's WAY slower at rendering thumbnails (or sometimes they just don't load at all) than just opening a new dolphin window. Dolphin works alright in a tiling wm except it doesn't have the same theme (it's trying to use breeze dark but keeps the text color black so it's unreadable), and then the dolphin file picker itself is stuck in light mode. How do you guys handle this kinda thing? I liked yazi but that doesn't work well for looking at a 40,000+ image folder (neither does swayimg)

>>107798588
I've been using Aurora from universal blue the last few months and so far... it's great. I'm not a fan of flatpaks but they seem to "just werk". Maybe with time they'll get better and more optimized.

>>107801135
Just try other file managers, like thunar or nemo.

I like the idea of self-contained applications. What's better between the two, how nixOS does it or flatpaks?

any good terminal file manager that isn't just a rust rewrite?

>>107801197
mc, it just works

arch doesnt come with man pages. do i just install man-db and less and that's it?

>>107797750
Linux is not meant to be for everyone.

>>107801244
The install guide mentions installing man page packs if you need them

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How do I prevent folders from displaying its contents like this? I'm using Dolphin and KDE plasma.

>>107801244
You could install a non shit distro

>>107801244
Isn't the point of arch that it doesn't come with anything, you just install what you want? Ergo, no shit there's no man pages if you didn't install man-db and man pages.

Two types of software devs

Type 1
>includes shell scripts for configuring dependencies in the release and repo
>provides concise details for the biggest n00b in readme
>answers common basic and advanced questions in FAQ section of readme
>detailed setup instructions, possibly on many environments

Type 2
>no README, or readme is 1 line long with some make command
>absolutely 0 setup instructions or documentation
>0 fucks given about questions or issues
>doesn't even list dependencies or outline build targets

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>>107801516
Imagine being such an illiterate negroid that you don't want to read no pesky manpages. Reading could make your skin white, can't have that!

Here's the breakdown of Linux Distros and their users.
>LFS
Congrats you have earned your PhD in Linux. Fantastic distro
>Gentoo
The Jedi of Linux. Fantastic distro
>Arch
The brown belt of Linux. Learn just enough to think you're a Jedi but you'll always be just another tranny.
>Pop
Babies first Linux. Windows refugees all of them. (Honestly though, it's actually a pretty solid plug n play distro).
>Nobara, Catchy
FOMO shit that will be forgotten in 5 years. Used by YouTube sheep who do what ever the funny man tells them, like HEY GUYS INSTALL CATCHY LIKE
MEEEEEEE
>Slackware
Absolute and utter dogshit. Only used by old fucks who are stuck in the 90s.
>Mint
Lol LMAO LMFAO ROFLMAO ROFLMFAO
>Fedora
Solid OS, used by the master himself. If it's good enough for him it's good for a typical New Deli /g/ poster.

Sorry sorry gotta keep it civil
*puts away AK

>>107801094
Change my entire desktop environment? For one little thing? Surely there's a more reasonable solution. How are other people not having this issue?

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>>107796710
i was looking for a way to just extract the levels since running them works, and found this;
https://github.com/youkaicountry/yknytt

>>107801568
Where is Jewbuntu and what is funny about Mint

>>107801568
You forgot to shit on ubuntu and praise debian.

alright ni/g//g/ers (respectfully)
whats the most minimal valid config file for fail2ban jail?
where valid is defined as it actually bans fuckers

>>107801572
My DE barely even has scaling. This is kind of how things are over here.

You could always dig into the source and figure out how the scaling is being applied, compile it yourself a few times with parts of the scaling disabled to figure out what part of the scaling is breaking the game, and go from there.
Nobody here is going to do that for you though.

>>107801625
I figured it out. I just had to change text scaling and a few other things to make them bigger and now everything looks fine without UI scaling.

What a fucking nightmare that all was to figure out. I guess that's just the cost of a free OS.

>>107801640
I feel like desktop scaling should not be interacting with a game in any way, you don't want the game itself being scaled. Is it borderless fullscreen? I wouldn't want to mix fake fullscreen and post-processing on any OS

>>107801651
I have no fucking clue what happened. ChatGPT said it was some proton bs. It was in borderless fullscreen, should I have done regular fullscreen?

>>107801671
ChatGPT is horrific at Linux. Gemini is actually a lot more accurate.

>>107801679
ChatGPT is fucking shit these days compared to the latest Gemini Pro or Claude Opus.

>>107801671
Which game did you try? Some need even double the scaling. 180 dpi.
This is why I still use my crt scaler. That's extra $20.

>>107801671
Do you know what borderless fullscreen is? It's just making a window on your desktop for the game and sizing it to take up the screen. It adds input lag and reduces performance slightly even in the best case (in any OS), but combining it with another feature like scaling is really dumb because it's going to try to scale the game.
At least try real fullscreen first? If that doesn't work you could try feeding it through gamescope or something, idk I haven't had to use special game compositors yet.

>>107801716
Halo Master Chief Collection.
>>107801721
Look all I know is that it's eaier to alt-tab out of a borderless fullscreen game. So I should go for regular fullscreen from now on?

>>107801738
MCC needs an extra kernel module. Check the protondb.

Anyone here have any experience with PostmarketOS or other mobile Linux OS? Specifically daily driving it and sending/receiving calls and texts. I ordered a OnePlus 6 just so I could tinkerfuck with it for fun

>>107801827
its linux
it works
it has virtual keyboard for tty which is unfathomably based

>>107801856
DE recommendations? I like the simplicity of sxmu but will probably go with plasma

>>107801756
I ain't doing shit my nigga, it works now, I'm done. I even got a new gpu in the mail today and I am not installing that shit because I have spent enough of my precious day off fucking with this computer.

>>107801869
you mean sxmo?
this shit is aids at the beginning and default keyboard is unusable but once you get the l44t h4x0r keyboard of some kind it can suddenly replace your other devices
esp. if you get bluetooth keyboard as an addition to the virtual one and there are drivers for your bluetooth
shit basically becomes laptop without usb ports, you can straight up start developing your projects on that thing like you would on a laptop

>>107801869
>>107801910
oh and i almost forgot: hooks
yes they do reveal a horrifying truth: that this whole thing is just a bunch of bash scripts in a trench coat
but GODDAMN do they make system customizable

guys I'm retarded
I can't figure out how to mount "esp" to /efi

mount /dev/sda1 /efi ??

what am I missing here

>>107801964
whats the error message?

>>107802015
>>107802009
>>107801977
okay it says "cannot find EFI directory"

>>107801909
Are you using vim?

>>107801964
Isn't the efi normally /boot/efi? Also why the hell are you doing shit like this in the first place?

>>107802057
i followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFI_system_partition#Mount_the_partition

4.1 - mount the ESP to /efi:

so i am not mountaint to /boot but to /efi
i mkdir /efi and mounted can't find it, i can see the directory exists
what is the difference between /boot/efi and /efi? i don't want to mount to /boot

>>107802057
If you haven't noticed some tard has been trolling this thread for hours. Beginning with that game thing.
If an ip counter was still a thing this would have been obvious.

>>107802036
I don't know what that means.

I'm building my own kernel for the first time. I'm trying to run linux on my arm chromebook. I discovered that the dtb for mine doesn't exist in mainline as yet, so I'm trying to build the chromeos kernel in order to run it. I think I have the right source code tarball. It does not have the proprietary drivers for the GPU so I want to turn those off and live with a lightweight ui (LxQT). Because the GPU binaries are missing, my process is
compile
get an error
menuconfig, find the config that builds that thing, turn it off
repeat
it starts with high level stuff like the gpu, but cascades down to things like a hardware jpeg codec and other multimedia stuff
after a couple of hours of trial and error, I got it to build
But when I tried to boot it, I get a black screen.

Am I doing something obviously wrong or going about this the wrong way?

>>107802072
i'm retarded, but I literally just started posting with my first inquiry. I have never installed archlinux before, only ubuntu and centos.

i've somehow managed to mount the same filesystem 4 times, so trying to umount them. i deleted my other posts because they were irrelevant.

>>107802093
/boot
/boot/efi
/
/home
/swap
This is the litany. Please use your own fucking brain
If 4chan is your first source of knowledge you should unironically kys
You don't though because you are trolling on purpose.

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Imagine not using KDE.

>>107802065
Oh I see you're trying to make a more complex layout which puts boot on your btrfs partition or whatever.

>mount /dev/sda1 /efi ??
This is completely wrong
mount --mkdir /dev/sda1 /mnt/efi (assuming you've actually mounted the rest of your shit correctly)
or
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/efi
if the directory already exists.

Are you sure you should be installing Arch? Mounting your shit is in the installation guide which you're following.

>>107802093
>I have never installed archlinux before
try the arch installer anon

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>>107802104
>Imagine not using KDE.

>>107802111
the thing you shouldn;t use if you never installe dit before?

>>107802115
It's fine to use it, that said you'd be kinda fucked when it comes to solving boot issues in the future if you started out with that lol.

>>107802114
What's the usecase for all of that?

How do I get rid of mouse acceleration in Linux Mint? I've already done the basic things like setting acceleration to constant and 50-mouse.conf trick but it still feels off

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>>107802115
i think you probably want to do it the easy way first before you try to do it the hard way

>>107802100
I'm a beginner what the fuck is your problem?

The archwiki said there are various ways, and one is efi partition and root partition that you boot from. I do not need anything more than that. My problem is getting the bootloader to work because I can't seem to figure out how to mount to /efi and not /boot.

>>107802108
I've been following the guide, it didn't say to mount the esp to efi in earlier steps; it had me mount the root directory and install packages first. Then to install the bootloader it says choose a bootloader and in that specific step it says choose where to mount the esp.

So as long as I'm not mounting to /boot, then my partition is correctly mounted to /efi huh? I just wanted to encrypt my entire filesystem.

>>107802111
I wanted to try and learn this, if I'm truly too retarded even with help I'll use it as a last resort.

>>107802134
no, you have to do it the proper way first so you know how to fix shit in case something happerns later.

>>107802139
>I wanted to try and learn this
you might get arch installed, but you won't get disk encryption working on your first try
with the installer, you can at least get a decent setup to start off with and then figure out which options you like
like, it's way more fun to install arch and try KDE, then reinstall it and try Gnome, then again with xfce or mate or whatever. Each time you go through, you learn a little more.
You're trying to go from complete zero to linux god and you'll just burn yourself out without any success

>>107802204
>you won't get disk encryption working on your first try
I did that
>reinstall just to switch DE
all of my why

>>107802261
>I did that
congratulations
>all of my why
because it's fun

>>107802204
I think I'm just going to wipe everything and start over.

For more context I am using GPT (I cannot use MBR due to SSD size). Maybe I screwed up the partition - the EFI exFAT32 partition is showing as dos (MBR) I don't know why, and there is no EFI folder inside of it when mounted.

I am getting the error "grub-install error: failed to make directory: /boot/grub...so

>>107799532
>I am on Fedora now and always getting 3 captchas to complete.
The way 4chan cookies work is the more you post from the same browser the simpler the captcha gets. Windows is your primary shitposting machine which is why you're getting simpler prompts.
>no linux distro had any measurable level of stability prior to flatpak being created.
Lol. I mean, on a desktop that's arguably true. Linux had 1% market share for the longest time simply because how much of a clusterfuck packaging is. Until Flatpaks became popularized it was literally unusable unless you're a software dev or a complete autist who was fine with shit constantly breaking. And I'm saying this as someone who has used it for over a decade.

>>107801827
It works fine but if you need anything more than texts and calls then you're fucked because there's almost no software made for mobile Linux. You'd be better off just using LineageOS or something similar.

>>107801298
>Configure - Configure Dolphin.. - Interface - Previews
uncheck the "Folders" option in the list

>>107801568
Now try to make that list for aarch64

whole partition was jacked up the fuck guys?

are nixos and guix my only choices if i want declarative package management/system config? it's surprising to me that there isn't a package manager that just lets me define the packages i want installed and fetches them from my distro's repositories.

>bootable usb died
FOR FUCKS SAKE

>>107802368
Just get another one they cost barely anything

>>107802375
I already have one, just annoyed that maybe the device dying could've caused some issues. Very strange, unlucky day.

>>107802365
you can also build your own atomic image of fedora

>>107802377
Still have some garish looking travel usb stick with documents and stuff what is 8 years old. I erased it and used that for install.

>>107799532
>I don't want my system breaking constantly
you know, no one wants that. It also doesn't happen.

How do you keep your base and userland separate?

>>107802456
immutable distro + flatpak + distrobox

>>107802456
By not being a retard. You only need a set of around 10 external software or so.

Flatpaks are not actually safe but they are easy for the retards. Microsoft Defender was created for this type of users by the way.

>>107802609
Forgot to add: flatpaks are also the only way for some distros unless you want to compile a web browser from scratch.
In this sense it's okay but shouldn't be the first choice by default. Was always amazed by the contrast of how Arch is getting touted so much but then again some essential software is only available via flatpaks or aur...
Unix has its own security and if that's not enough it is a failed system in the end.

Alright motherfuckers, I think I finally understand what I was doing wrong. Mounted it to /boot anyways, but I'm pretty sure mounting to /efi wasn't working because I was not creating the directories properly, install intramamfs or ensuring all the packages were installed in the right order.

But GRUB supports encryption for the boot directory, so fuck it. Will begin post-installation steps tomorrow, good night.

>>107802939
Great work. Your mother is proud of you, son.

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>>107801135
With 40K images I'd recommend Hydrus. But probably overkill in your situation. Once you get tags going, it's so much easier to find certain things. You can even get an OCR to tags pipeline going.

>>107799605
There's no overhead and you can poke holes in the sandbox until it's flooding if you want.

I think there's sort of misconception where people believe running an application through Bubblewrap (Flatpak's sandbox) will slow it down for some reason when that's not really the case. The sandboxing mechanism's all live in the Linux kernel and it is using Linux kernel features to tighten (or weaken) the sandbox. There isn't really any noticeable overhead in doing so. It's like saying a chroot has overhead. No, it doesn't! Not really. There's some extra memory usage from having to load more libraries and that's it.

>>107803286
This. Holy shit even virtual machines have less than a 5% performance impact and we're supposed to believe that bubblewrap will significantly slash performance.

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>>107802639
>Unix has its own security and if that's not enough it is a failed system in the end.
Unix security wasn't designed for a single-user running absolutely everything. It works great for daemons running under their own user with their own home-directory and chrooted within that for extra measure and unable to see or do anything else.

>>107802609
>>107802639
>Flatpaks are not actually safe but they are easy for the retards
>Unix has its own security and if that's not enough it is a failed system in the end.
Imagine being this delusional. Flatpak is the closest thing Linux has to an actually secure application stack and also the closest thing Linux has to a working runtime environment. The old "Unix security" model only works for servers which are running one or a few services and not entire desktop environments and user applications.

>>107803403
picrel is a skill issue
aint nothing stops nobody from separating banking from other shit
and it makes sense since you ever only do that periodically and you dont tend to do it while also watching youtube or some dumb shit like that

how the fuck do I disable the dynamic brightness on a amd laptop? Its a recent kernel change that introduced it every time I open a video via mpv the screen turns down its brightness for no fucking reason. I already set amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x40000 and it does nothing.

>>107803447
>you dont tend to do it while also watching youtube or some dumb shit like that
You don't?
People will randomly check their bank account whenever.
Anyway, the image is meant as an illustration not literally. It shows how in many, many cases our user-accounts are more privileged than the admin-account in real world terms.
Yes, you can run multiple web browsers and dedicated user-accounts for each one (they still need access to X11 or Wayland mind you and you're going to have to mediate that access somehow) and force the UNIX model to be shoehorned in somehow but most people aren't going to go to the lengths to do so.

Flatpak is simple. Securing multiple applications under different user-accounts within the UNIX security model whilst mediating access to X11 and Wayland (and hardware devices like USB, etc) is not.

Is CentOS Stream + EPEL the way to go if I want Fedora LTS for my desktop?

>>107803563
Just use the previous version of Fedora that's still supported.

>>107803530
>most people aren't going to go to the lengths to do so.
what most people do is their problem
their normaloid brains will never comprehend an enigma that is my schizoparanoid mind
>Flatpak is simple
im not against flatpak, i dont know why other anon is or if he even is at all
but maybe i'd go even further and use virtual machines

>>107803578
You're not most people though, I hope you can see that.

It's great that you know how to sandbox something properly like that within the UNIX model but it's a lot of work.

>>107803584
>You're not most people though, I hope you can see that.
yes? thats literally what ive said?

>>107803596
I know. The problem is the UNIX security model isn't really fit for most people to use and makes it hard to sandbox things like X11/Wayland and hardware devices, etc.

You need to learn about users/groups and permissions and ACLs, etc. The bar is quite high.

>>107803563
Just keep using Fedora without updating to the next version. Each version gets 1 year of support.

>>107803578
>>107803596
You're just explaining how you're using computers. The anon you're arguing with is explaining why Flatpaks are good because you're not the typical user.

>>107803577
>>107803615
That was my original thought, but I want to use vmware workstation, which tends to break with kernel updates.

I did try virt-manager/KVM/QEMU but graphics performance was shit

>>107803626
You can probably install the LTS kernel on Fedora. I don't know how you do that but I imagine it'll work.

>>107803632
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/kwizart/kernel-longterm-6.6/

>>107803608
well yea thats why i said "skill issue" lol
i believe that concerning yourself with what tech illiterate need when designing systems is inviting trouble
i'd be a better strategy to automate and package pro, hobbyist and semipro software into "big red "do everything" button" type of software for the midwits
or make an easy to use but still non normiefied abstraction and force them to learn it

>>107803646
Complexity is also a factor there. For example, we can package up wizards that will make multiple users/groups and allow configuring access but then somebody is going to want to drag and drop files, etc, and that's not going to work.

Flatpak was built with the idea of trying to make the sandbox as invisible as possible. Ideally, you don't even know it's there.

>>107803646
>i believe that concerning yourself with what tech illiterate need when designing systems is inviting trouble
This mentality is how you make software for literally nobody aside from the most autistic 50 users that don't contribute anything.
There's no reason not to design a proper, secure and easy to use system if you can.

>>107795914
>That's the whole point of Debian. It's a distribution primarily designed for servers.
Obviously not true. They release it with multiple different DEs so people can use it on desktops. If you don't like the update frequency of Debian then fine, but for some people it's perfectly adequate.

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What the fuck is ggc-14?
My PC has been building it for the last 12 hours.
Do I need it?

>>107803693
Do you mean gcc-14? It's a compiler. No, you don't need it unless a package you installed from the AUR (your image is a fat and obese as fuck so I assume you use Arch by the way) needs it.

>>107803677
>They release it with multiple different DEs so people can use it on desktops
Attaching a DE to a distro doesn't change the fact that it's a bad desktop distro and a distro primarily designed for servers.
>for some people it's perfectly adequate.
There's very few people actually using Debian as their desktop.

>>107803702
Yeah, it's the AUR.
How to know what package needs it?
And yes the image was to mock arch, but I'm heterosexual dude, I don't look at men because it's gay.

>>107803728
"I don't like it" does not mean "primarily designed for servers". Debian would be my second choice for a desktop distro - my first choice is Ubuntu which I daily drive, because it just works.

>>107803669
>There's no reason not to design a proper, secure and easy to use system if you can.
easy to use and useful are antonyms
in order to "dumb down" software you need to remove options
the more features you have the less "easy to use" it is
the more "fine" your controls are the less "easy to use" it is

just compare features, reliability and resource consumption of apt with whatever the fuck is being used for its frontend
>>107803658
yea im not arguing against flatpak here
flatpak or similar is what normaloids need
i dont know how it compares to using security features and subsystems manually, who knows maybe its just a superior solution all around except for virtualization
certainly isnt better than virtualization but it works and thats good

>>107803750
>Debian would be my second choice for a desktop distro
Good for you, but it's clearly almost nobody's first choice including yours as you've admitted yourself. There's a reason why most people use Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Arch and even more niche distros like Cachy, Bazzite and Endeavour.

i noticed that kdewallet stopped unlocking the wallet on login
anyone else has this issue?

How do I get my fonts to look the same as they did on windows 10? I already have segoe UI as well as the windows font pack. My OS UI is fine but I notice fonts across websites and even games have fonts they're falling back on and using instead. I don't get how the fonts are installed but not being used properly.

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TL;DR: help me choose between Arch and Fedora for my laptop

Here's the situation, In the past I'd always go back and forth between Windows to Linux, namely Ubuntu and Ubuntu-derivatives.
I'd always run into some hassle in the Ubuntu derivatives but figured it was just a sort of unavoidable "Linux Tax" on my time.
About a year-ish ago I decided to try Arch on my desktop to see what all the fuss was about and holy SHIT, Arch just werks in ways no other distro has ever just werked for me before. I fucking love this thing.
Right now I have a laptop running Ubuntu and it always gives me grief with the stupidest bullshit (like additional keyboard languages vanishing between restarts)
This laptop is something I use more rarely than my desktop and when I do I need it to be pretty reliable.
I'm tempted to slap Arch on it because I have such good experience with it, BUT setting it up is a hassle and I'm 100% not performing maintenance on it as often as on my desktop.
So I'm thinking maybe I should give Fedora a try, it should be pretty painless to install and it's supposedly aimed at professional crowds whose mantra is
>fuck it, whatever, I just want it to work and get out of my way
Which is how I use that laptop.

Any thoughts? recommendations? any stupid Fedora idiosyncrasies I should know about?

>>107803969
I would go fedora, but I hear good things about Catchy

>>107803969
fedora, or better yet one of the universal blue images like bluefin or aurora. you won't find a better 0 maintenance distro.

>>107803969
Fedora would do you fine honestly, but something like CachyOS would be a good way to get an Arch install going.

>>107803951
I can post my guide for setting up firefox/librewolf font rendering identical with win10 (also fixing that font smoothing issue which is specifically evident on this trash website). Not on my puter but this thread will be up still in few hours.
And if you are using Wine you should install dependency "allfonts".

>asahi close to usb-c alt dp on mac silicon
fucking finally.

>>107804027
appreciate it lad, I'm using librewolf as well and definitely noticing 4chan looks retarded in particular

>>107801910
Yea I meant SXMO. What makes it aids? Is it just hard to use or poorly designed? I’m trying to get a phone I can tinkerfuck and maybe one day make a daily. However I also want like zero extra shit (like not even a camera) only shit I need for work and to exist

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On KDE plasma, is it possible to get rid of the purple strip that appears when youre hovering close to the auto hidden panel? It's annoying and gets in the way

>>107795953
I have created a systemd service for ES and one for Kodi, when I exit one it automatically starts the other.
In Kodi's unit file there's this:

[Unit]
Conflicts=getty@tty1.service emulationstation.service
...

[Service]
ExecStopPost=sudo --non-interactive /usr/bin/systemctl start emulationstation.service
...

Obviously with sudoers configuration allowing those two commands for their respective users (which are 'kodi' for both, but you can have them be different).

>>107793906 see >>107804251

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>>107804242
uncheck this

>>107803969
Arch
Fedora is meme OS at this point

>>107794356
Vim's only advantage seems to be that it's a terminal text editor. I've seen even pro vim users fumble with it in ways that no one would with a GUI editor.

>>107803839
As i said, I'd rather have Debian on my desktop rather than RHEL Beta or whatever

>>107801584
>https://github.com/youkaicountry/yknytt
Keep in mind YKnytt is an imperfect recreation of the Knytt Engine which means some maps will be broken and you won't be able to complete them.
Which is why almost everyone still uses the original Knytt Stories + for Windows.

>>107804407
>using one of the most insecure distros
You do you I guess.

>>107804377
Paint Shop Pro via Wine? Sort of dire situation because it's always Photoshop or nothing.

>>107804263
omgg thank you so much, it looks so much cleaner now

>>107804377
What do you need from an image editor?

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I'm a Heterosexual White Male without a foot fetish who prefers the GNOME computing environment. However, I would prefer more customization. How can I do this?

>>107804593
Use GNOME extensions or switch to KDE

>>107803969
Fedora would be fine but
>setting it up is a hassle
Archinstall, easy setup
>I'm 100% not performing maintenance on it as often as on my desktop
I update once a month-ish on my laptop and it werks

>>107804593
what is the use case?
seriously gnome is locked down asf, any customisation just breaks. you can make plasma look like gnome pretty easily, and imo the suite of plasma apps just work unlike gnome

>>107803563
You're going to end up using a lot more than EPEL. Probably less work to denigrify Ubuntu LTS, where the interim release really is the beta, than hunt down all the requisite parts necessary to make RHEL a Fedora-like.

>>107804841
Ubuntu as a name is already so off-putting it's a miracle it has any users. What happened to manly names like Rock Linux?

Best way to make a restorable disk image with all my user data, programmes and everything just ready to go?

>>107804593
>I'm a Heterosexual White Male without a foot fetish
I don't believe you...

>>107804999
Just use the dd tool if you're not retarded and Clonezilla if you are.

>>107804467
Why do you think Debian is insecure? They backport security fixes. Same as Fedora I assume? Because Fedora will freeze their software for a release, then backport security fixes while that version of Fedora is supported, right?

>>107805061
>Because Fedora will freeze their software for a release
Because they won't.

Why do Debian neckbeards hallucinate how the RedHat world works instead of just try using it? Are they afraid they'll find out it's better?

>>107805030
thanks, im retard, so ill use clonezilla

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>>107803951
Right so here's what you need to do:

Librewolf/Firefox Match Windows 10 fonts:
>Firefox renders indeed fonts differently in Linux, because Microsoft TrueType fonts are missing,
and because default font settings are different. Try to install Microsoft TrueType fonts (Arial, Trebuchet MS etc). Then adjust the font settings in Firefox, i.e. open up Firefox:
>Edit >> Preferences >> Content >> Fonts & Colors - Advanced:
>Fonts for: Latin
>Proportional: Serif, Size 16
>Serif: Times New Roman
>Sans-serif: Arial
>Monospace: Courier New, Size 12

Font rendering fixes (I needed to do this already ~year ago when I was still using Windows 10, some Firefox update altered the font rendering pretty badly)
># about:config font rendering from windows
set
>gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families
to (string)
>Arial,Consolas,Courier New,Microsoft Sans Serif,Segoe UI,Tahoma,Trebuchet MS,Verdana
and set
>gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size
to (number)
>15
then ensure that
>gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode
>set to default -1
I had a comparison image but don't have it any longer. However this is how 4chins looks on my computer.

>>107805092
I can see that recent versions of Fedora are still on ffmpeg 7 even though ffmpeg 8 was released a few months ago

But anyway you haven't answered the question of how Debian is insecure. Enjoy beta testing for RHEL though.

>>107805320
>>gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families
>to (string)
>>Arial,Consolas,Courier New,Microsoft Sans Serif,Segoe UI,Tahoma,Trebuchet MS,Verdana
>and set
>>gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size
>to (number)
>>15
>then ensure that
>>gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode
>>set to default -1
Those do nothing on Linux because it doesn't use GDI or cleartype that are only applicable to Windows.

>>107805974
Post a screenshot how your 4chin is rendering, dumbass.

>>107806019
Irrelevant. Linux uses freetype and fontconfig. It doesn't use the Windows specific GDI font-rendering.

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>>107806060
Left, Librewolf with my settings. Right, Firefox without anything...
There clearly is a big difference in font smoothing you dumbass.

>>107805712
Fedora's ffmpeg is useless anyway. It has no codecs for anything anyone uses. The package might as well be named "ffmpeg-do-not-use-this"

>>107806115
Right looks better

>>107805712
>you haven't answered the question of how Debian is insecure
They don't have enough manpower to keep up with patches. Their average turnaround is dramatically worse than commercial LTS distros.
>I can see that recent versions of Fedora are still on ffmpeg 7 even though ffmpeg 8 was released a few months ago
8 is still in rawhide. It's a big change. Fedora doesn't arbitrarily hold back packages, but that doesn't mean you just drop the latest version into release without testing.

>>107806117
The rpmfusion one is fine.

>>107806115
Because you changed the fonts. You can be delusional if you want but I'm telling you Linux does not use GDI.

>>107804905
Ubuntu has the majority of Linux desktop users. Roughly 40%-50% according to most estimates. But then again, Linux estimates are unreliable due to the lack of telemetry in the whole ecosystem.

>>107805061
>They backport security fixes
They don't backport most security fixes because most security fixes don't have CVEs assigned to them and/or are accidentally fixed with bugfixes or refactors and are never discovered as "security issues".
The "Debian is backporting security fixes" is a complete lie because it's mostly untrue. For that to actually be true they'd have to somehow track all the unreported security fixes (which is the majority of security fixes). They just don't have the tools or funding for that since it would require keeping track of all the commits across all the 50k+ packages they provide while also somehow intuiting if any of them are handling a security issue.
Using Arch or Fedora would actually give you an overall more secure system than Debian simply because packages are more up to date.

>>107803563
Alma is the current enterprise meme

>>107803951
Dunno if its because i got used to it but i just use dejavu or noto fonts on firefox and they usually look better than windows 11

>>107804467
>moving the goalposts

>>107800978
puppy linux

>>107800978
Slax
MiniOS
Puppy linux
What is exactly your needs?
Because I'm running arch + i3 and it uses less resources (ram+cpu) than all those three.

>>107800978
Q4OS with Trinity DE

New thread:
>>107807799
>>107807799
>>107807799