Have you read this book? How it compares to The Linux Programming Interface?

For some reason the window manager seems to matter when it comes to GPU rendering on a Raspberry Pi.

Using LXQt and Xfwm, UI animations are sluggish, and video playback drops frames. So I kept LXQt but switched from Xfwm to Openbox, and now the UI is much smoother, and so is video playback.

anyone got any recommended dark KDE themes? a lot of the most popular ones are ugly as fuck (e.g. "Sweet"). probably gonna go with tokyonight on github but thought i'd ask.

>>107884192
>sam altman would like to know your location
lol
>in a diskless setup the node mounts network storage for its root fs too
>>107884349
>If they're writing to a network drive then you can just make the network drive the boot device and boot from NFS

This makes me really like a diskless network boot system, but I have a tutorial on precisely how to do what I am trying to do that doesn't use that. (https://countuponsecurity.com/2015/05/07/step-by-step-clustering-john-the-ripper-on-kali/) and I'm scared to deviate from it because I'm a magnet for frustration inducing problems. How likely is it that using a diskless boot setup will require extra work or troubleshooting?

>>107900984
hah, you fuckers wouldn't share that book with me and now it's in the OP? Are you mocking me?

>>107901161
Is there something you don't like about breeze dark? In my experience all the custom themes suck compared to just regular breeze dark. Otherwise you could maybe try the one that tries to look like windows11? since the theme is probably the only good thing about windows11 though win7 aero is still much better than whatever crappy "modern" theme they've been trying to do with windows10 and 11

>>107901337
Anon...
>>107894868

Does BTRFS root require any maintenance? Should I run balance often? What else?

>>107902167
Just install the maintenance scripts and leave it be. It'll run a small balance now and again.
https://github.com/kdave/btrfsmaintenance

>>107902215
I wouldn't trust random scripts like this

>>107902288
That's not a random script though. It's written by a BTRFS developer, someone who knows what they're doing. But, yes, a filesystem is a complicated thing and you shouldn't rely on this to solve all your problems but it's a good start.

>>107901528
breeze dark is fine, just a little ugly around the edges imo. the tokyonight theme looks a bit better imo (https://github.com/nonetrix/tokyonight-kde) but i was just curious if anyone had any suggestions that might be overlooked. the problem with a lot of custom themes is the ugly buttons they put everywhere, and many of the icons they choose suck too. a lot of them feel about a decade out of date wrt modern design trends. i should just stop being lazy and build one out myself desu.

>>107902379
oh neat, catppuccin also has a kde theme.
https://github.com/catppuccin/kde

>>107902288
It's developed by and enabled by default on SUSE. You shouldn't need to do balances unless you keep a very deep snapshot backlog or run <15% free space.

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i think my biggest issue with kde feeling dated is buttons like these. they really don't need icons as well as the text. feels cluttered.

How do I give Bottles (Flatpak) permission to access all my drives?

>>107902446
i could be misrembering but i think Flatseal is used to do that.

>>107902424
If it had no text then you wouldn't know what it is and if they got rid of the icons then it'd look like a soulless GNOME app built for an IBM corpo NPC.

>>107902474
the future is now old man

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>>107902446
flatseal?

>>107902482
Yes, that's kind of the point. Just because everyone else is doing soulless UI design with no icons doesn't mean KDE has to follow them. They have their own identity.

>>107902502
if you want to call being stuck a decade in the past an identity then more power to you my nigga

>>107902167
I dont really do anything other than manually trimming once a week and maybe manually doing a scrub if i had a sudden powerloss. If you havent already i'd recommend turning off autodiscard with the nodiscard mount option and just running trim weekly on a cron job or timer.

>>107902521
Better than copying everyone else. There was never any justification for getting rid of icons. If everyone else brought them back tomorrow you'd ride that dick straight up your ass. You only call it dated because they're not doing what everyone else is.

>>107902321
>It's written by a BTRFS developer
Then why isnt it included in the main btrfs package with all the util programs?

>>107902482
>old bad new good

>>107902553
Because there may be use cases where you want the BTRFS utilities only. Splitting up packages is quite common.

>>107902321
>a filesystem is a complicated thing and you shouldn't rely on this to solve all your problems
Why is it a complicated thing for me? Why can't it just work, it shouldn't require maintenance on my part.

>>107902568
in this instance, absolutely and undeniably correct.

>>107900984
It's been a long time since I was full time on Linux, the last time was around ~2017, when I was in college. I came back to Linux after hearing how great the gayming experience has gotten. I strongly disagree with that sentiment though.
Everywhere I look, everything is Flatpak bullshit. When did people decide that installing applications from the command line using your distro's package manager was a bad thing? Debugging Flatpaks is retarded as fuck, muh sandboxing is way more nonsense than I want to put up with, not to mention how even configurations no longer feel standardized the way that they used to over eight years ago.
Am I doing something wrong?

>>107902580
>Everywhere I look, everything is Flatpak bullshit
I use gentoo and I never encounter flatpaks. It just works and I have 0 flatpaks installed and I play games on steam all the time.

>>107902572
It does just work. If you read the GitHub it mentions a bunch of corner cases that can happen in certain circumstances. Chances are if you didn't run these scripts nothing bad would happen. They exist to automate some self care as a background task. Think of it like the "disk optimisation" Windows does in the background. You don't need it but it can help in certain cases.

>>107902575
We exactly? Give one single good reason for getting rid of icons besides:
>I don't think you should have them
>Nobody else has them
>Icons hurt my feelings

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What's the best distro for phosh or plasma mobile? The focus is on the touchscreen and on-screen-keyboard.
Neither did work for me in Ubuntu.

It's an intel based tablet.

>>107902604
they're ugly and outdated, shrimple as

>>107902593
I don't believe in compilation.

>>107902631
echo 'FEATURES="getbinpkg"' >> /etc/portage/make.conf

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>>107900984
I keep reading posts saying Arch is actually for dummies and that I should have installed Gentoo. What do?

>>107902651
install cachyos and dumb dumb maxx

>>107902580
They didn't. Sandboxing and atomic bullshit is just the latest meme the verbal retards attached themselves to.
>Am I doing something wrong?
Maybe using a distro with ancient or no packages?

>>107902580
Flatpak is a bandaid solution created for debian and their derivatives having out of date packages. You can still use something arch based and get away with never having to use any flatpaks.

>>107902614
Pretty sure Postmarket OS?
https://postmarketos.org/

>>107902712
Theres one schizo in these threads obsessed with shilling bazzite and other atomic based distros and for some reason holds android on a pedestal and really wants linux to turn into android. And also thinks that for some reason new users will just never be able to use linux unless they use an immutable distro (even though new users have been using linux fine before the dumb immutable craze)

>>107902712
>>107902748
Yeah, I guess my mistake was using Bazzite to be desu. I don't like this atomic bullshit, it's a nice principle, but I never really had issues with installing packages with apt and it suddenly breaking my entire system. Hell, I never even had that issue with Arch.

>>107902728
I'm still shook from losing a bunch of assignments when I did a -Syu, what do?

>>107902712
>atomic
>immutable
The fuck does this even mean? Is the root a read-only fs or what? How is it immutable?

>>107902777
Like version control.

>>107902748
Not to mention that Windows itself isn't immutable. I think a lot of longtime Linux users just have PTSD from setting up Linux in the 2000's (and it really did suck back then), thus they never noticed how the ground underneath their feet changed into something completely hospitable for Windows noobs. If you've been putting up with the bullshit in Windows for the past 15 years, you are overqualified for modern Linux lol, this shit is so simple now.

>>107902738
It's a x64 intel tablet and It's not the supported hardware list.

And pm seems complicated to install and later on to use

>>107902790
I think they have a generic install that may work. I don't think those Intel tablets were ever known for their food power management though so good luck with that. Poor power management was why Intel completely lost out in mobile to ARM.

>>107902767
>I'm still shook from losing a bunch of assignments when I did a -Syu, what do?
Btrfs snapshots can help deal with things like that these days. Or just make sure to backup your /home and keep it on a separate partition/btrfs subvol

>>107902790
https://images.postmarketos.org/bpo/v25.12/generic-x86_64/
>>107902777
Its like you boot into a livecd but it also will set up a persistent /etc , /home , and /var . And if you want to install any packages outside of whats pre-installed you would need to either use a secondary package manager like flatpak or endure the slow-ass rpm-ostree shit where installing any package takes like an hour + a reboot

>>107902785
Windows also breaks a lot as well from doing anything including updates and people just put up with it and dont complain but suddenly when the same thing happens on linux its a big deal

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Every time I try to run a program with Bottles, it asks me to select the Bottle. Can I just make it default to a particular Bottle every time?

>>107902651
install gentoo

>>107902167

it is possible to disable snapshots

>>107902651
You should stop listening to faggots and use the distribution that's best for your needs.

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im having trouble dragging files from my mounted NTFS drive into my browser or into discord or telegram, is this a permission thing? how do i let my linux mint access the files from the mounted ntfs drive normally? i already have it set up to automount afaik

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>>107901337

>>107904020
I guess you installed the browser via flatpak? In that case you have to grant to browser permission to access the ntfs drive with flatseal

>>107902446
On KDE Plasma:
>Application Permissions -> Flatpak Permissions -> All system files
Otherwise:
>Flatseal (Flatpak app) -> Filesystem -> All system files
This guy >>107904020 will also need to do the same for his Discord and web browser. If a flatpak application doesn't have permissions to access a file path then drag-drop won't work.

>>107902580
>When did people decide that installing applications from the command line using your distro's package manager was a bad thing?
A very, very long time ago. It's just that Flatpak only became usable around 5-6 years ago.

>>107902785
>Not to mention that Windows itself isn't immutable.
It's laughable for you to think the system design patterns of Windows are good.

>>107902780
...for retards

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ah finally... the perfect KDE layout...