AIs say there are 3 ways to install KDE on Arch, plasma-meta (full fat, *This installs the entire Plasma suite and ensures all background services (like networking and power management) are included.*)
plasma (lets you choose)
plasma-desktop (minimal)
is this correct?.

>switched from nvidia to amd
Switching between TTYs is so good now bros. Even games don't crash when I do it.

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Okay I installed linux, Now what?

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Failed for the systemd alternative meme, installed devuan and now I'm using sysvinit. Anyway, I'm trying to launch a deamon from this init, and I can't find any straightforward solution to do it, any suggestions? Maybe is there any systemd alternative who are easy to use?

>>107808012
Is AMD going to continue to outpace nvidia in the future? I'm planning to upgrade my computer next year if we somehow avoid the rapture by then. I guess there won't be a choice anyways since they'll be done with the consumer market by then.
>>107807844
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Plasma
Pajeet, my son, you're on Arch. The wiki tells you everything. Why are you using AI. Am I falling for bait right now?

>>107808257
>Failed for the systemd alternative meme, installed devuan and now I'm using sysvinit.
fell for it award! anyway, sysvint is very archaic and old, youll have to do a lot of digging.
>Maybe is there any systemd alternative who are easy to use?
should have gone with runit, its very simple. i heard dinit is the best alternative to systemd because it works similary and its fast, but its beta software and only available in yet another protest meme distro: artix. theres chimera too (but thats troon os, we dont use that hier).

>>107808267
>Pajeet, my son, you're on Arch. The wiki tells you everything. Why are you using AI. Am I falling for bait right now?
Troon, my son, AI explains it even better than the obtuse wiki.

>>107808362
Is it hard to switch the init system whithout reinstalling the whole system?
>we dont use that hier
Found the frenchfag and the phoneposter

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>>107808423
I'm not going to engage since this is the friendly thread but I'm just going to let you reflect about what you said instead.

>>107808451
I already reflected after I compared the 2 answers, AI just presents answers in a more comprehensible way, simple as, literally.

>>107808267
>Why are you using AI.
NTA, but it's basically a "do/find it for me" machine. The appeal should be pretty obvious, the problem is that you can never tell when it's right.

>>107808477
I don't even buy these anons who are lashing out reflexively against AI as good-faith posters. They're just mad at not being able to gatekeep. Of course you should always cross-check with actual documentation. But just fucking use it and hope it makes your life easier. Ludditism is literally fucktarded and we're never going back to not having AI.

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>>107808436
thats german, and tu is a fagguete! anyway, i dont know, i think not in any pratical or supported manner, youll end up with some broken excuse of a system. reinstall with a better innit or learn sys.

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>>107808599
I think that I'll go for runit. Sysvinit is kind of a boomerware, amirite? Do you know anything about other inits?

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Omarchy 3.3.0 is out: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/releases/tag/v3.3.0

>>107808732
fuck off with this faggot nazi

>>107808744 (checked)
>faggot
>nazi
wtf i love omarchy now

>>107808790
ofc you do, poltroon

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Any free VPNs for linux mint to let me access dlsite?

>>107808688
ive never got my head over openrc, only know runit, its simple and fast, works with syslinks. here some references:
>a comparassion between innits
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems
>artix and void runit pages
https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/services/index.html
https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Runit
>jake@linux showing how runit works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX2uN_Vj6KA&t=269
i think thats a good introduction, good luck.

My thoughts on the Linux distributions I’ve tried:

Ubuntu: I like the overall experience, but the forced use of Snaps ruins it. Snap Firefox crashed randomly, and trying to remove it froze the system, forcing a reinstall.

Fedora: Pretty good, but I’m unsure if I trust Red Hat, and I’m not convinced it’s worth using as a non-developer.

Linux Mint: Very good and productive, especially Mint XFCE. That said, it feels a bit bloated and too Windows-like, and I dislike the “beginner distro” label. Still, it’s what I’d use if I just needed to get work done.

EndeavourOS: It was okay, but I didn’t enjoy it. i3 didn’t work for me, and switching WMs didn’t improve the experience enough.

Arch Linux: Installed via archinstall. I chose KDE Plasma, found it slow, and never really went back to fix or use it.

Slackware: Tried once, botched the install, and never touched it again.

MX Linux: Tried early on. Solid distro, but a bit too bloated for my taste.

Debian: Perfect for me. I usually only leave it if I break something or get curious. Otherwise, it’s rock-solid and my favorite.

Puppy Linux: Didn’t even install it. Booted it once, hated the look, and wiped the USB immediately.

Artix Linux: Very good overall.

NixOS: Interesting but not practical for me as a daily driver. GNOME and KDE are the only well-tested DEs; I dislike GNOME and find KDE too resource-heavy. XFCE caused issues. Maybe someday, but not now.

I’m still looking for the best distro for me. I’ve considered daily-driving Tiny Core Linux since it’s non-systemd, but it seems better suited for very old hardware, which isn’t my case (ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 5).

Can some anons recommend some good distributions?

>>107808937
install gentoo.
>>107808824
i was checking their packages for my free vpn and its not there, moreover why their package site is http? kinda sus.

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excellent use of my time

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>>107807799
Love that kind of wallpapers

Why does the Debian 13 DVD installer require internet access to install properly? If you skip the internet connection, it tries to assign your iso as your only repo. It doesn't install mandatory utilities like usermod.

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took a while to figure out how to do this finally but it's finally working. i now have permanent icons in my waybar that will mute and unmute low latency output for my guitar (with an ampsim) + a keyboard + processed mic all being mixed together in a master bus. (I have more stuff to add but just figuring out the basic audio shit took forever)

the whole clock rate/quantum thing not fucking up my system sound while this worked was a headache but got that working now so all my system audio runs isolated from my music stuff so my music stuff can be super low clockrate, running all the time, and not fuck up my system audio. (system stuff all runs in pipewire while the music stuff uses a separate jackd thing)

i switched to linux like a month and a half ago and could not be fucked getting all my vsts/ilok shit workign so figured i'd just try to put my own custom thing together.

being able to click a button and hear my guitar through an ampsim at anytime is really nice
next is to add a bunch of stuff to manipulate a bunch of other hardaware linux is fun

>>107808135
Set up your nanonig scanning and defenses.

is musicbee through wine really the best music player if you want synced lyrics

>>107808436
>Is it hard to switch the init system whithout reinstalling the whole system?
artix literally had a script on their website that would turn arch into artix with removing systemd and everything
in fact i remember reading about someone turning one distribution into another "in place"
you can hotswap literally any part of the system if you know what you are doing
>>107808135
send me a photo of your penis
>>107808456
>trusting autocorrect
you dont do what that thing says, you just google whatever terminology it gives you for an actual information
if you think otherwise you will learn the hard way eventually just like many who already did and came into this thread crying "anons halp ive chatgeepeetee'd all over my system and now my shit is fucked!!! what do???"
>>107808937
>Puppy Linux: Didn’t even install it. Booted it once, hated the look, and wiped the USB immediately.
dumbass lmao
>>107809043
you can add colors with ascii escape sequences
>>107809196
not sure about utilities but repos make sense, you usually have to update links and stuff
>>107809232
i like that i can just save a string into a file and change my CPU governor that way without needing to use some random freeware trash

>>107808937
>Can some anons recommend some good distributions?
Zorin OS
Elementary OS
OpenSUSE
Mageia
Fedora Silverblue
Void Linux
Alpine Linux
Bazzite
CachyOS
Solus
Manjaro
KaOS
Gentoo Linux

Remember that there are variants of distros you've tried, like Fedora's "spins" and Ubuntu's "flavors."

What's most important for you in a Linux distro?

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What attachments should I get for my steam deck

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>>107809276
maybe fooyin? no idea

>>107809463
who are you drone striking anon

>>107809463
dunno, but i like your chiclet keyboard, i have one, they are nice.

What, is Puppy Linux good or something? It probably wouldn't be suitable anyway, considering it is for old hardware.

From the distributions I have tried, something I value is simplicity/minimalism and a distribution that doesn't make bad corporate decisions, if it is corporate. I really like Debian because it doesn't get all up in my way, and it hasn't made any terrible decisions. It is boring in a good way. Take Ubuntu, for example; the snaps thing is horrible. Red Hat/Fedora, on the other hand, doesn't make particularly bad corporate decisions, and it is actually bearable.

As for my use case, I just use it for basic stuff: gaming (I try to stay away from gaming, though), browsing, office work, etc.

>>107809690
You probably should stay away from Puppy Linux, then. It's just a stripped down Linux distro (usually Ubuntu as the starting point).

>>107809690
forgot the quotes I am so dumb

>>107808135
upgrade your monitor

[Help!]

I use linux mint and wanted to transfer to a larger ssd. So I booted a live usb, made a fresh install on ssd#2. Then I used rsync to copy the home folder of ssd#1 to ssd#2.

After that was done, it seemed all was copied correctly. So I reset my computer and booted into ssd#2. But what the hell, everything is missing!? Just an empty default home folder. I go back to the live usb boot, mount ssd#2, and all the stuff is there.

Why isnt my copied home folder being used when I boot into ssd#2? It only looks like a fresh install when I run my OS.

>>107809690
puppy linux isnt meant to be your heckin' redditerino gaymer distribution
it has a pretty specific purpose and utilizes pretty specific technology for that purpose just like any good project should do
good FOSS projects arent your freeware trash or corpo slop that just try to do generic shit in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator
good software shouldnt "look good" or "be accessible", it should do whatever the fuck it is supposed to do in the most adequate way possible
>>107809903
do you have some fucky fstab or something?
how many users are in the /home directory?

>>107809930
fstab whatnow? There's only 1 user.

So maybe I have to edit this fstab thing? Maybe I didn't mount my drives the correct way? I just went into Disks and mounted the root partitions, and by default they show up as 'media/mint/#######/home'. And so I rsynced one to the other. I see some guides that specifically mount in /mnt. I also have them encrypted with LUKS/LVM2 if that matters. I just hope there's a simple way to fix this without having to recopy everything.

I've been trying to get games running on Wine through a VM. I ran into errors about OpenGL not working or something similar. For a good while, I assumed it was just something about VirtualBox or something.

It turns out the whole goddamn time all I really had to do was install some 32-bit video drivers.

>>107810089
whats in /etc/fstab on the second disk where you copied your files?
what filesystem are you using on disk 2?
if you load second system and type in 'mount' into the terminal what does it show?
and also df -h

>I just went into Disks and mounted the root partitions, and by default they show up as 'media/mint/#######/home'.
thats not relevant, you are able to mount whatever you want however you want, this is just a mount point where you mounted it

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>>107807799
Hello anons, I've been looking into switching from windows to linux like every other shmuck on earth at the moment but I have an Nvidia GPU, granted an older 1060
I know the driver support officially is non existent but are there drivers for older cards like this?

>>107810181
Yeah you have to use version 580 instead of the new 590. Don't use alternative drivers, they're in their infancy.

I don't actually use Nvidia cards so I have no experience, but I'm pretty sure distros like Ubuntu will figure out what driver you need on their own and just install the correct one through the proprietary driver app.

It will probably be several years until open source drivers for your graphics card are mature, you shouldn't use them until then.

>>107808937
>I’m not convinced it’s worth using as a non-developer
If it works, then why not?

Top DIstro List
>Gaming
Pop!_OS
>Everyday workflow
Fedora
>Learning Linux
LFS
>Proving You Are a Sheep Brained FOTM Chud
Catchy, Nobara, Nix
>Proving You Have No Idea About Anything Linux
Ubuntu
>I Just Want It To Work
Mint
>I Want To LARP I Grew Up On Linux In The 90's
Slackware
Pretty straightforward if I do say so myself.

>>107810418
Not him, but Fedora had lots of problems for me which were obviously a product of it basically being polished beta software. Really weird random bugs like rewinding any video would cause the video to freeze and no longer update frames until you fast forward, so to rewind ten seconds I would need to rewind 20 seconds and then fast forward 10. Only happens in Fedora.

Using it is just asking for minor computer problems, the positive being that a lot of core software to Linux like systemd and pipewire are on their newest versions so the bones of your operating system are up to date.

>>107810479
Oh I forgot to add
>I Want To Be A Tranny One Day
Arch

>>107810479
lmao what did slackware do to you my mans?
this is like 3rd time you are posting this shit

>>107810483
Not obsessed btw.

>>107808267
Who knows? The shit part about nvidia is that the only viable provider for nvidia driver is nvidia. They are legendarily bad at that job. Maybe one day the open source drivers for nvidia will be good, but since nvidia provides very little to the public when it comes to knowledge of how their hardware works... I can't see a rosy picture in the future for nvidia on Linux. Unless you're doing AI of course, then nvidia has impeccable software for Linux, best in the industry you could say.

>>107808267
>Is AMD going to continue to outpace nvidia in the future?
Anon, AMD has been unambiguously better on Linux than Nvidia since GCN2.

>>107810150
If you are using a virtual machine there's zero sense to run wine instead of the native os, eg. windows in vm.

>>107808257
>Debian with sysvinit
How?

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>>107807799
How do you set a global limit on audio output so you don't accidentally destroy your audio devices? I was playing Burnout Paradise Remastered and for some reason someone's car's engine was so loud it was peaking my headphones and now my ears hurt and my headphones are rattling. What do?

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I'm on linux mint xfce, and I have an older laptop with integrated graphics and a 1050ti. I swear I've prime selected, reinstalled drivers, checked vulkan over and over again but no matter what, even when the damn thing says the nvidia driver is on demand, it always defaults to CPU rendering when launching games. And for a further point, it takes forever to boot said game before it instantly crashes. Im not exactly sure what to do, i think ive done it so many times that the drivers are corrupted

>>107808257
init scripts are actually pretty easy to write, check out /etc/init.d/README and /etc/init.d/hostname.sh for a clean example
>>107810614
Devuan, it's Debian with the systemd parts sliced out

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>every time I think I've decided on a distro a new one catches my attention

>>107810618
Volume slider is a pretty common solution.

>>107810561
I figured it would help to see how it would handle some of the more obscure programs and functions and whatnot.

I actually did encounter a bug specific to Wine and filed a report. I don't think it was ever noticed or anything though.

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>>107809506
>>107809476
I’m just using ukraine pics because mine is still being fixed

>>107810481
Never experienced that one. Sounds like a hardware decoding issue.

>>107810618
EasyEffects if you're using a modern-ish distro with pipewire

>>107808257
Install OpenRC, it's just as easy to use as Systemd and supports most of the same modern features it does including a supervisor.
Sysvinit is garbage and doesn't even do process supervision so the simple act of launching a binary in the foreground (optionally redirecting stdout and stderr to log files) is a real chore.
I really don't know why Devuan still insists on defaulting to that inferior piece of shit.

>>107810561
Actual retard take.

>cockli database partially leaked half a year ago
>no more web client
Well well well... another free, but not open source this time, service dies on me...

I want to understand better why this is. It takes a good second for a video to launch and I noticed my CPU fan kick in. On windows a video launches the moment I hit enter. Is it my DE? I'm running plasma

>>107811732
?

>>107811774
Supposedly POP and IMAP are still working

>>107812000
Yeah, but I don't use mail clients...

>>107809774
1080p is all you need

>>107812145
Once you use a 4K monitor double that then you can't really go back. 1440p is a good compromise though.

>>107808135
Why did you install the Russian spyware distro

>>107809690
>Debian
>hasn't made terrible decisions

>>107809690
Based Debian enjoyer
>>107812662
Name three

>>107812788
systemd, usrmerge, Jackie Chan

>>107808501
Your AI is also telling there's "3 ways to install KDE". AI isn't a replacement for a brain.

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reviving my 2010 mbp as a little side project of mine is xubuntu still the most lightweight distro out there or are there other/better options

>>107812000
they do, the other day it wasnt working, i always use pop but i dont use cockli for anything serious.
>>107812864
debatable, specially sysd, all its alternatives are trash.

>>107813018
You can probably put whatever distro you want on that thing. A 2010 Macbook probably isn't as bad hardware wise as you think it is. If it has an NVIDIA GPU then that will be problematic and if it has Broadcom wireless then that will also potentially be problematic but besides that you can probably get whatever you want running on it.

Ubuntu distros used to always be the best though because they included the wireless drivers on their iso (no need for Ethernet).

>>107813048
unfortunately it is indeed the geforce 320m/broadcom combo so i got some extra hoops to jump. guess it's time i go wild then, kinda dig how that pop os one looks

>>107807799
that render looks like shit, can you even make the shadow the same font?

>>107810614
Actually, you can run devuan without systemd, even without using devuan, just enter sudo apt remove systemd. Systemd should be replaced by sysvinit

>>107813068
i could never get official nvidia drivers to work on my fx360m and it ran nuclear hot until i gave up and put windows back on it. have fun.

>>107811688
Did you test runit? Is openrc the best init out there?

>>107813155
Runit is a process supervisor and that's it. You can technically run it as an init (no idea how well it's support is in Devuan for doing that) but it's lacking in a lot of features.

Could you recommend me a distro for my parents laptops? They're used to windows but its becoming too bloated for these cheap pc. They're doing simple web browsing with rarely some jewtube and office things (they need docx compatibility and microsoft like ui, so onlyoffice?)

>>107813191
Aurora Linux with OnlyOffice

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So you can't boot from an SD card if the SD card reader is built-in? It only works if you plug in an external USB SD card reader? That's super lame...I was hoping to keep Windows on the SSD and put Linux on the SD card. The workaround apparently is to put my home folder and files on the SD card but have the boot files on a partition on the SSD or get a USB flash drive and boot from that, but both of these seem less elegant than just putting all of linux on a single separate drive.

And my laptop doesn't support booting from an SD card so I'm SOL. Might as well just split the SSD in two and hope Windows doesn't eat into my linux install after a Windows update.

>>107813298
>So you can't boot from an SD card if the SD card reader is built-in?
Of course you can. You just need the modules for it built-in to the kernel image or contained within the initramfs (most distros won't hold your hand here. You'll need to know what you're doing)

>>107813298
>So you can't boot from an SD card if the SD card reader is built-in?
Correct. On most machines you can't. Your SD card reader needs to be registered as a boot device by your motherboard. It's entirely up to your hardware manufacturer to make this work and most of them don't connect SD readers in a way which makes them bootable.
You can always just use a USB device instead. They're basically as cheap as an SD card with the only drawback being that you're losing a USB port to it while you're using Linux.

>>107809425
>Bazzite
>CachyOS
Fucking kek

>>107813191
ChromeOS unironically
>>107813298
it depends, one of my thinkpads can do it

>>107813191
I just put Linux Mint on my uncle's 10 year old laptop a week ago and he's loving it. He needs Microsoft Word and Excel, and watches Netflix/Youtube. He's older and not so good with computers so he doesn't want to fiddle around with it and just wants it to work like Windows. And its basically that. LibreOffice comes installed by default and he can use the same formulas he used on Excel in Calc. MS word documents even from the MS Office 2003 release work with Libre Office Writer and you can save your work as a Microsoft doc.

That being said, the UI is a little different going from Word to Writer and I've read that compatibility isn't 100% perfect. But the formatting symbols/options are all really similar and easy to pick up, they're just not arranged exactly the same as the toolbars in Word. He can still type out documents fine without needing help, and was basically at home with Libre Office Calc. I was worried the formulas/shortcut keys might be different and I don't use excel or other spreadsheet software much, but he was able to crunch numbers with it, so I guess it worked out.

Google doc stuff I assume can be done completely online in a browser. But I guess if you need to edit them offline, I don't know how compatible they are with offline software like MS Word or Libre Writer, I haven't tested them.

Printers work fine. Setting them up is really quick, if the pc can detect them on the network, you can just print from them. The hardest part about setting up the printer was buying the overpriced ink cartridge and printing enough test pages so that it cleaned the old dry ink off by itself and smoothed the rollers out since he hadn't hooked it up in several years. I configured automatic updates for him too, it updates itself and has timeshift setting up restore points every so often.

>>107813191
Look into WPS Office. It's a Chinese knockoff of Microsoft Office which has historically been much more compatible with MSOffice than FOSS alternatives. But OnlyOffice is a good 2nd choice.
Also, if they're already used to Windows UI just give them ZorinOS or anything with KDE Plasma. If you don't want to be their tech support later on just give them an immutable distro like Aurora or Kinoite.

Where does
update-initramfs -k all
look for kernel versions?
It's correctly making the image for my current kernel, but it's also complaining about missing files for older kernels, which are not installed anymore according to dpkg --list

>>107813231
>>107813422
>>107813470
>>107813525
I will use kinoite I think, aurora doesn't support ventoy and their server takes ages to send the iso for some reason
I will install the WPS chinkery and onlyoffice to see which one I prefer

>>107808732
>supposed software developer
>no deep eyebags and tired look

Fake poser

>>107813734
He is a dev. He's just one who got lucky and became rich. That's probably why he gets good amounts of sleep.

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After the last update, yay installed GGC-14 from the AUR.
How to know what package needed it ?

>>107809276
Synced lyrics work well on fooyin, I prefer fooyin to musicbee in almost every other way too, as someone who used to use musicbee before Linux.

>>107813623
>aurora doesn't support ventoy
still worked for me

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Is there a way to change color saturation/vibrancy in kwin with SDR?

>>107813899
Only with an ICC profile.
https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues#Screens

I think they will probably add that eventually though. They've been slowly working through that list.

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>>107808135
>zorin

>>107808937
>Arch Linux: Installed via archinstall. I chose KDE Plasma, found it slow, and never really went back to fix or use it.
Every single time I installed KDE manually it felt weird for some reason. Although the Fedora KDE spin worked right for me.

From all I've tested, I had the best experience with Fedora KDE and CachyOS using Gnome. Arch with Gnome is good too, but I was in a bit of a rush when I formatted my machine (ThinkPad T14 Gen 4), as I was about to board a flight in the same day, so I just installed CachyOS and copied the home folder from my desktop over. Although I have heard that some of the patches in the CachyOS kernel may cause some issues with some hardware, but that is very hard to tell without trying it.

>>107809465
Get the official dock.

Question: is any of that gear capable of showing interference on WiFi bands like 2.4 GHz?
In one corner of my house (behind the TV) nothing works, WiFi is intermittent and the 2.4GHz keyboard only works 50cm away from it's receiver.

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I had AI write all the firewall rules for my ubuntu server, and yesterday when I was transferring about 1tb to my zfs array, it logged every packet to my boot drive, which used a full percent of my nand wear. I guess I got what I paid for.

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>>107809463
Get the official dock.

Question: is any of that gear capable of showing interference on WiFi bands like 2.4 GHz?
In one corner of my house (behind the TV) nothing works, WiFi is intermittent and the 2.4GHz keyboard only works 50cm away from it's receiver.

>>107814015
Did you not even look at them?
Yeah, you deserved that. If you read them instead of copying and pasting them then it would have been blatantly obvious by the log rules.

>>107810659
Yeah it's really hard to switch to dgpu on linux in general.

>>107813964
They are sure taking their sweet time.
Thanks anyway.

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>boot up a live USB system recommended by anon
>doesn't use Systemd
>therefore no systemd-nspawn
So, in order to chroot into another target system I have to do all those bind-mounts and shit instead of one command?
Am I supposed to recursively mount /dev and /sys as there's other mounts under them? Or mount /dev/pts and what have you separately?

>>107814016
You should be able to use a wifi scanner on your phone in that area to see if neighboring networks are causing interference. Then adjust your wireless channels accordingly.

>>107814043
Colour management as a whole is still pretty new on Wayland and there's a lot to it, it's not a simple thing. If you look on KWin's pull requests they're still actively working on it. For example, this one:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8613

Which would allow using ICC profiles with HDR which currently isn't supported.

If you can calibrate your monitor then you can use that ICC profile in SDR mode at least. That works fine.

are all linux users just unemployed bums with too much free time ?

>>107814123
I don't think so but I can't arse myself to neckbeard with it now when I'm employed, which is sad.
>>107809903
There's not much info here. Same home directory with the same UID should just work out of the box.
And why do people use rsync instead of just copying?

>>107814123
No, that's emacs users

>>107814123
Linux is used in every Fortune 500 company.

>>107813796
Try to remove it. Pacman will tell you which installed package depends on it

>>107809425
He asked for good distros not shitty meme ones
The only good ones on that list is gentoo and alpine everything else is a meme including void

>>107814076
I did, nothing overlaps in terms of WiFi, I live in a village.
Also this would not block my wireless keyboard. The source of interference must be very close, maybe the TV itself or any of the other devices I have there. I just need to identify the one responsible.

is there a volume extension for gnome that works on the latest version?

>>107810659
Theres a shellscript called prime-run you can use as a quick workaround
All it does is export some env variables so thta it will use the dgpu instead of your integrated

>>107813191
Mint is probably the best choice

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>>107814123
That would make sense
>The advice dispensed by The Manual includes: "Firstly, you must be skint and on the dole. Anybody with a proper job or tied up with full time education will not have the time to devote to see it through... Being on the dole gives you a clearer perspective on how much of society is run... having no money sharpens the wits. Forces you never to make the wrong decision. There is no safety net to catch you when you fall."
>The Manual, KLF

>>107814179
If it's a roku, I wouldn't be surprised, all my rokus have hidden networks for direct connect that can't seemingly be turned off.

>>107813140
debian's wiki states that runit is experimental and that sysv is the supported alternative to sysd. in other words you can use other innits just fine with debian.
>>107813169
openrc seems more complicated then it needs to be, also isnt it just an extended sysv? anyway, ive read sysv is default on devuan because its just the best implemented, their openrc and runit are half baked it seems.

>>107814304
>openrc seems more complicated
It's really not that complicated. What's difficult in your mind? Did you try it?
>>107814304
>isnt it just an extended sysv
No, it's its own init system. It can run as PID 2 underneath Syvinit but it can also run as PID 1 which is how I run it on my Gentoo system:

$ ps 1
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    1 ?        S      0:01 /sbin/init
$ readlink -f /sbin/init
/sbin/openrc-init

>>107814016
>official dock
Why? I got the jsaux one

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>>107814033
I looked but I didn't understand them. The problem is as I added various functionality, it had given me many different rules stacked on top of each other, loading with weird priorities and causing various issues. Yes, it technically worked but was not sensible and probably not secure. The logging was probably turned on at some point because I was diagnosing an issue, but I never realized it was still on until the large transfer began eating up space.

I guess the solution here is to learn something about nftables, but I'm obviously too smooth brain for that.

>>107814383
https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Quick_reference-nftables_in_10_minutes

>>107807799
Is wine automatically set up with umu or is there a way to check to see if your prefix was setup with umu?

>>107814168
I tried, it didn't

>>107814414
What's umu?

does/can cs2 send xdg-notifications from round starts etc?

>>107814433
Because nothing needs it as a dependency, it'd be listed as a makedepend.
If you remove it and nothing needs it then it won't be re-installed but if something does in fact need it then it'll be pulled back in the next time you update that package.

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The 2tb Gabecube is allegedly gonna be $1100 before tax
Really I hope people start killing stockholders, investors, executives and CEOs for companies like microsoft and openai for causing pricehikes in PC parts, or just for fucking over the working class in general with ai

>>107814512
The really sad part is the bit where that actually represents excellent value for money!!!
PC ownership is dead right now for anyone but the uber rich.

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what's your opinion on using ntfs formatted hdd under linux for media storage and torrenting? i heard that ntfs driver are now good enough for daily use. I've got 8tb of data and i would like to avoid moving it to another partition since my hdd is quite old.

>>107814512
not my problem. I will keep playing games in 20 fps on my 10 year old laptop.

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Installing Linux on my Surface Pro. I'm going to lose Photoshop and I don't have the disk on hand to reinstall it anytime soon even if I wanted to go back to Windows, but GIMP feels responsive enough. Krita feels slightly laggy but I'm hoping that's because its running off the thumb drive and not bare metal yet. If I can get that running as smooth as GIMP then I can get by without Photoshop.

Wish me luck, bros.

https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

>>107814409
If I post my firewall rules will you give me your opinion or hack my server?

>>107814563
>>107814582

>>107814563
Good luck; Can always download windows and throw the .iso file on a disk drive flashed with ventoy.

has anyone tried [spoiler]solus[/spoiler]? i love distrohopping and 'd like have a look at what the [spoiler]Irish[/spoiler] has to offer.

What's a good beginner-friendly OS to slap onto a Chromebook? I'm re-imaging one that was just given to me, so I can give it to my little sister.

>launch game from steam
>processing vulkan shaders...
>happens every time I launch the game, even if I let it finish
>just start to hit skip
What is this shit doing and why does it KEEP doing it? This better not be clogging my hard drive with duplicate cached shaders.

>>107814472
https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher
I'm using bottles to troubleshoot my own wineprefix install and I'm finding there are some crazy differences in quality of the audio and efficiency when running and I'm trying to troubleshoot it.

>>107814501
So how to know what program needed it so I can delete that?
I mean I think it's an old program that needed it that must have come from the AUR too right?

>>107814512
Best they can do with the RAMpocolypse I guess. Must sting.

>>107811920
Have you tried a different video player?

>>107814414
what do you mean? it will create a prefix in default place or in the place you direct it to when you try to launch something. you don't need to set up anything.

>>107814710
Settings -> Downloads -> Allow background processing of shaders

Note the game may be choppy until it finishes its background process.

Steam used to let you cache shaders but it was buggy, especially with "power users" (retards) who are constantly fiddling with their systems and don't know how to clear a shader cache.

>>107814815
So there is now way to set up an umu-less wine prefix in the current installment of wine?

>>107814512
Sure, but the 500GB one without a controller will be around 600-800.

>>107814961
You'd be very lucky for it to be as low as $800.

Why has nobody written a "startx" for XWayland?

I just got Copilot to write a basic one for me with the aim of having a nice wrapper to run an X11 window manager in decorated XWayland window (fed up of Steam notifications appearing in the middle of my monitor for no reason).

https://pastebin.com/b1uEXhug

This code looks horrible but it does seem to work. Don't try to start an LXQt or KDE Plasma (X11) session in it though whatever you do. Both seem to completely ignore the XDG_SESSION_TYPE variable and attempt to start a Wayland session because of the WAYLAND_DISPLAY variable (that's intentionally set because I want Wayland clients to run in my Wayland compositor outside of XWayland)

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>>107814961
Not too bad as long as I got my own MKB/controller
I still think this pajeet needs a bullet in the head

>>107814973
Should've bought one of the AtomMan mini PCs in that case. They were $800-$1100 just a couple of months ago except they had better CPUs/GPUs and 32GB/64GB RAM.

>>107815026
I'd be very suspicious of those things throttling.

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>>107814676
Ubuntu. It just works.

>>107815126
>.svg.png

>>107815134
Yes because it's from Wikipedia. They host a lot of SVG files and you can click on links to PNG versions of the SVG at different resolutions, converted from the SVG. Those PNGs have `.svg.png` as the extension

>>107814948
NTA but you can install and use both simultaneously
WINEPREFIX=/path/to/pfx umu-run will create a prefix with umu-proton (you can specify what you want with PROTONPATH)
WINEPREFIX=/path/to/pfx wine will create a prefix with wine
umu-run or wine will determine if it's a umu prefix or a normal wine prefix, with a frontend I assume it'd let you choose which one you want and create the pfx accordingly

>>107815134
4chan isn't ever going to let some script kiddy post an SVG with JavaScript potentially embedded in it that will pwn everyone.
It's better its a PNG.

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>>107814979
Never mind. It was a nice idea but doesn't seem to work.

>>107815112
Works on my machine

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>>107815134

>>107814123
maybe.. knowing linux implies you are a nerd or had a lot of free time to spare for once, also, its hard to see a working man using any distro let alone the tinkertroons ones.

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>>107815272
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>>107814562
>I will keep playing games in 20 fps on my 10 year old laptop.
Black americans call this "soul gaming".

>davinci resolve can't decode AAC audio on Linux and you have to re-encode it first
Guess I'll have to reinstall Windows again

>>107815126
It works at not working

>>107815486
If you can get along with kdenlive, it can decode your audio just fine.

>>107815490
I'm using it right now and it works fine

How is office under a VM? OpenOffice / etc isn't really an option unfortunately ...

>>107815486
The free version doesn't include codecs, and your distro or GPU might just be unsupported (mostly AMD). Nobara has some additional dependencies needed by resolve if you're into distrohopping.

>>107815596
Don't you need an AMD GPU to be supported under rocm for it to work? I've never tried.

>>107815546
It's great. PCIe passthrough is a bitch to set up though.

>>107815596
>The free version doesn't include codecs
That's only for h264/h265, neither the free nor paid version support AAC audio on Linux due to licensing. You can enable AAC audio encoding through a third party plugin but there currently is no way to decode AAC audio on Linux, you have to re-encode it.

>>107815486
Do you even need your VIDEO editor to encode audio? You can just remux it afterwards with ffmpeg.

>>107814547
I have a couple ntfs formatted HDDs that I use for media storage, I've been using them with Linux for ~18 years and I have never had a problem.

>>107815943
He's trying to get work done without extra steps. You can't hear the video while editing it.

>>107815943
I need it to decode the AAC audio, you can't import a video with AAC audio on Linux without the audio being unavailable.

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Why does it randomly start doing this

>>107814547
Linux cannot defrag a spinning rust NTFS drive, so over time you'll need to boot into Windows to periodically defrag it.

>>107815991
NTFS under Linux benefits from the Linux block allocator, so you shouldn't need to defrag very often if ever unless you're running 90%+ fill.

>>107815973
>>107815985
Does that matter? Do you actually need to hear the video while editing? If it does then just convert it to wav or something first.

>>107816051
Yes it matters, yes that's an extra step for no reason you can do. Duh.

>>107816159
It takes like 5 seconds to do and you can script/automate it. It's actually more effort for you to go and download the Windows iso, create an install image with WoeUSB and re-install Windows.

>>107816175
No, it doesn't, and it's not as automated as not having to do it. Having duplicate files for no reason is stupid.

And no, reinstalling an OS is less effort. I'm not the guy you're trying to "give advice" to, btw.

If i want to do pcie passthrough and use the gpu for both windows and linux would it be a better idea to also use the gpu in a linux vm instead of the host system?
Does stuff like looking glass work with a linux guest?

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>>107816051
>Do you actually need to hear the video while editing?

Is there some method to save custom commands in bash, like a custom-history. Not alias.

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>>107813048
>probably isn't as bad hardware wise as you think it is
actually it's worse, much worse

Is it possible to get systemd-networkd to update /etc/resolv.conf using DHCP-provided DNS servers *WITHOUT* using systemd-resolved? I like networkd, but resolved turns into an unreliable piece of shit as soon as DNSSEC validation is enabled.

>>107816420
It's possible to do your audio mastering in a different application, that's why I asked. I get that you might need it to know where to make trims, etc.

>>107817202
Dude you're being fucking retarded. Why would you spend > twice as long on such a basic task.

>>107815486
Fix your codecs.

>>107816995
~/.bashhistory

>>107817266
>Why would you spend > twice as long on such a basic task.
Do you think Hollywood studios do their audio work in the video editor?
Open it in Audacity and tweak the audio a bit to your liking then export it out and remux it back into the video. Or if you don't want to alter anything then just use ffmpeg.

Then you can do whatever you want to in the video editor after.

>>107814414 (Me)
I'm obviously asking the wrong question, so I'll try again but from a different angle.
When I try to launch a wine game without bottles I will get audio crackling and other irregularities that occur when playing older games. However, when I set up and launch the game in a Bottle, all of a sudden the audio works, sometimes the graphics are sharper or at least clearer and my wineprefix that isn't a bottle.
It's probably because of the different of missing .dlls or something, but I've pretty much got the same .dlls as the bottle, thoughts?

>>107817299
Do you think most people have a professional sound crew producing 7.1 recordings + sfx with multiple editions for different venues? Just take the L and move on.

>>107815180
Oh shit sorry, I completely glossed over your comment, considering umu-run doesn't work I think its safe to say my wine prefix doesn't have umu.

>>107817339
So you don't give a fuck about your crappy audio? That's all you had to say. Okay, fair enough now go and get that Windows iso, fuck off and don't come back.

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>selene/audio converter doesn't support cover art
>freac doesn't do huge bunks
I just want something to convert my music library into m4a for my phone

>>107817299
>Do you think Hollywood studios do their audio work in the video editor?
During editing? Yes they absolutely do.

Don't talk about software you don't use.

>>107807799
using arch and dolphin file manager.
whats a program I can use to mount and unmount isos?
I remember i used something that let me right click on a file, tell it to mount and it did that for me.

Reinstalled my os and now I don't remember what that thing was that just worked.

Suggestions?

>>107817681
Just use Opus like a normal person

>>107817761
That's after the audio has already been mixed though

>>107817864
nta, ogg doesn't into cover art though

>>107817877
Ogg can do it in the metadata but not every player supports it.

>>107817870
It is not. Most editing takes place before most of the sound is in the movie. lol

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why is this shit enabled by default it was driving me crazy I finally figured out how to remove it.

>>107814512
It's not made for $CURRENT_YEAR AAA, it's just a bit better than the deck.

>>107818050
lol no

>>107814512
The Framework Desktop is fucking $2500 if you get the actually-a-unique-value spec (128GB soldered unified RAM). Boil Microsoft execs in acid.

>>107817344
ok wait give me a quick rundown, what are you trying to run exactly and are you using a frontend at all?

What's the most small and lightweight but noob friendly Linux with a gui? I'm running an application called tubearchivist that automatically downloads YouTube videos in the background, but it needs cookies and it keeps getting me temp banned even though I have it running extremely slowly. It has a companion browser plugin that can automatically upload your current cookie to the app, so what I want to do is basically just set up a small os that does nothing but periodically open and close Firefox with YouTube as the homepage so it'll automatically forward fresh cookies for one of my alt accounts that I don't care if it gets rate limited.

>>107818168
Your choice of distro doesn't matter.

>>107818204
So just mint or debian or whatever with a light de like xfce? I'm planning on running it in a vm in the background so I'm just shooting for the minimal amount of cpu and ram it will take up.

>>107818266
Just running a VM is going to be 80% of your performance in the first place. You aren't doing anything demanding. Yeah Debian is a good choice just cause it works.

>>107818266
in a dedicated vm you don't even need a DE, xinit directly into firefox

>>107814512
>>107818106
Maybe stop wanting disposable meme hardware instead of getting mad at executives who are just working for the banks?

>>107818281
K sounds good

>>107818291
>Noob friendly
I don't even know what xinit is, and I'm just trying to slap something together and make it work for a while, not trying to turn this into a full time job or resume piece or anything like that.

>>107817266
>Fix your codecs
??? It's literally not supported on Linux due to licensing, there is no fix.
>You can enable AAC audio encoding through a third party plugin but there currently is no way to decode AAC audio on Linux, you have to re-encode it.

>>107818513
That's a ffmpeg one liner. Why are you doing production with AAC?

>>107818623
lol no, you cannot force Davinci to use FFmpeg.

>>107818623
You can't do it, there are multiple threads on reddit and the davinci forums complaining/asking for this feature for years now. There is currently no way to circumvent this limitation.
>Why are you doing production with AAC?
I just use davinci to edit videos I've downloaded.

>>107818623
AAC is the standard audio codec for video. Unless you're using some meme Dolby codec, then you are using AAC.

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>>107818513
>play video with mpv
>don't realize that the audio source is encoded with aac
>sirens audible in the distance

>>107818339
RAM is not "disposable meme hardware".

>>107818911 (checked)
KEK

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Is there a linux distro that I can play games on with an nvidia card (RTX 2070) without running into 90 billion driver problems or am I stuck on Windows 10 unless I get an ayyymd card?

>>107819032
Bazzite. Their site has an image picker so just choose your hardware and preferred desktop environment. They have GNOME and KDE versions.

Has anyone figured out a KDE thumbnailer for .3mf? I've only come across broken ones.

>>107819054
I see people shitpost that distro all the time but I guess I should find out for myself.

>>107815486
All copyrights and licenses are fake and gay

>>107819071
It's a Fedora docker image made bootable with bootc plus other shit layered in to the final image, including Steam, and Nvidia drivers if needed. The users are mostly /v/ermin, especially on handhelds, but that's what it's for.

>>107819032
Just use an Ubuntu based distro, you still have drivers, they're just that they aren't going to be updated anymore. You're stuck on 580.

You are going to have driver problems because Nvidia is opaque with their drivers. That means some other program, including important programs, has to just guess how the driver works or what problem is solved by what. Using version 590 doesn't really solve this problem.

I'd ignore Bazzite if I was you. It's a simple OS for things like HTPCs, nobody actually uses it as their primary OS, and you'll be able to tell why the instant you have a normal computer problem you need to fix. When in doubt, use the Steam survey as a popularity contest telling you what people actually tend to use for gaming.

>>107819032
With NIGGIX you can do literally anything you can imagine.

>>107818911
>>107819074
I was genuinely surprised there wasn't some easy fix to just use a third party codec or whatever. I understand that they can't ship for legal reasons (although you'd think the paid version would support it) but that it's impossible to link some library/codec/whatever to enable it surprised me.

>>107819126
>You're stuck on 580
Wasn't support dropped for 9xx and 10xx? He should still be okay.
The problem with nvidia is the same across distros, nvidia. There's no stakeholder who cares if shit works for you. Nvidia doesn't care. Valve's hardware is all AMD so they don't care either. Most people working on gaming-related stuff probably have AMD by now. If things do work (which is surprisingly often tbf) it's luck.

>>107816995
How would that be different from making aliases?

>>107819126
>You're stuck on 580
Doesn't really sound like much of a problem as of now since I just checked and that's what I have on my Windows PC too. In general I only tend to update like once a year or something because frankly nothing ever broke for me from having old GPU drivers unless they were extremely old.

>>107819032
i used to have a 1660 super and i played games on fedora with it

>>107817863
CDemu does that. FuseISO too but you might have to make the menu option yourself.

>>107819157
You're right, I was confused because Volta was dropped, which is the same gen as Geforce 20. Still, the point being that Geforce driver updates don't really fix things on Linux in the same way they tend to on Windows.

>>107814179
Found it! The HDMI cable had one loop which was absolutely destroying everything on 2.4 GHz while a 4K image was shown in the TV. 1080p wasn't exhibiting this.
Straightening the cable made WiFi and the keyboard work well again.

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>picking distro for GPD pocket 4 with ryzen ai 9 370 & radeon 890m
>some people have posted trackpad input is actually reported as a mouse emulator, not a trackpad
>monitor is actually a portrait display panel rotated 90 degrees without any firmware changes so bios is always rotated
>the AIs all say I need newer mesa so can't use a slower more stable distro like debian
>suggesting fedora and arch
>never used either
Fuck I really just wanted it for controlling stuff with the kvm module and its ethernet port without needing to pack adapters, but I'm planning on moving my desktop to linux too eventually so I want to stick to one distro and not have to hop and now I'm sitting here in decision paralysis with it ready to install.

>>107818636
>>107818721
>>107818721
Transcoding audio to lossless is a one liner. You can write an inotify script to transcode anything in a given directory. If you're already producing 2nd gen slop the generational loss is the same. There's no reason you have to use AAC in production. That's fucking stupid.

>>107819241
They only fix issues on Windows because the drivers are full of game specific patches for directx in particular.
Goyvidia engineers are providing support to game companies because their own software developers are too stupid to even try doing anything coherent these days.

>>107820063
>there is no reason to use the standard codec cause I say so
No. And no, it isn't simple or easy to transcode hundreds of gigs of files.

>just extract the audio and transcode it before you edit your videos bro
This isn't really a solution, the solution is ofc for davinci resolve to not be so Jewish and include AAC in the paid version of enable some third party plugin that decodes it

>>107807799
Why is Gnome Desktop Environment so widespread on Linux distributions?
Most people try out Linux because they hear it can bring new life to an old PC. But Gnome is so demanding it’ll scare people away

>>107820250
GNOME back in the day was -the- Linux DE, especially GNOME2. For most distros it's the default, though a lot a moving to having KDE Plasma 6 as a new default, which is a better DE in every way IMO.

>>107820250
>Most people try out Linux because they hear it can bring new life to an old PC
Incorrect. Also, a fifteen year old computer can run Gnome 3 just fine unless it's a netbook or some shit, in which case most DEs that people actually use won't work.

Gnome is AN UGLY! AN UGLY!!!

>>107820261
Most nontechnical users that is

Gnome is A CUTE! A CUTE!!!

>>107820288
Gnome was made by industry, for industry. The fact that it is as user friendly as it is is actually a small miracle and except for the Gnome 3 launch it has unambiguously been the best DE for stability. Yes this includes KDE in modern times.

It is and has always been funded by large corporations for workstation use.

>>107820291
This is a known lie, you are jewish!

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>>107820306
This is the cutest desktop you have ever seen.

>>107820357
that's not cute at all. it's an uglier clone of the macos launchpad. if I wanted that, wouldn't I be using a mac?

>>107820382
No, it isn't. You are just saying that because your only experience with computers for years was Windows and Mac. You just don't know anything about computers.

Apple didn't invent that interface paradigm. That's been a Unix thing since before NextStep existed.