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Mac bro here, I've tried arch, kali, and fedora, and I gotta say, I like macOS a lot better. I'm on it right now and my virtual machines are in the corner collecting dust.
is the "save-as/open..." interface on firefox changeable at all on linux? looks like shit
>>107920405https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#XDG_Desktop_Portal_integration
>>107920437extremely based, thank you
When my PC shuts down the systemd text goes all localhost, localhost, like 5 times over, is it bad or just systemd being systemd?How many captchas of 1/3 do i have to do for single posts? I still cannot post threads and i have made 10 proper replies by now.
>>107920155Anons, is there a way to use wine libraries to compile native linux executables?Basically I want to use winapi but get an elf instead of an exe.Because gtk is literal cancer (fuck you in particular, ebussy) and qt is meh.
>>107920721No. Probably Mono / .NET with C# is the closest you'll get to that.
>>107920155you forgot a link OP:https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Category:GNU/Linux
Why doesn't FileZilla have drag and drop?
Man this new Fedora update fucked everything up.>FileZilla now takes forever to launch because it's taking over 9000 years to read locales>Gwenview doesn't work at all>Right clicking shit in Dolphin is slowwtf were they thinking? Did they even test this shit?
>>107921067Gwenview has never worked right for me unless I run the Flatpak version of it which is what I do now. No idea why, although sandboxing an image viewer makes sense to me anyway.If I compile it on my Gentoo system it always Krashes and freezes and it's the only KDE program that does that, everything else is fine. It's cursed.
>finally get around the fopen error by placing redshift.conf inside of ~/.config instead of ~/.config/redshift>piece of shit still complains about geoclue2 even though i set it to manual in the config fileWhy does this have to be such a massive fucking headache? Gammastep is the exact same thing, no idea what is even different about it besides the name change.
>>107921067Stop updating your system all the time. Once a year update is more than enough.
>>107921220>>piece of shit still complains about geoclue2 even though i set it to manual in the config filei had that too. from reading https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/geoclue/-/work_items/3 looks like it's about api thingy stuff. something like ratelimit.the fix was too change the server backend on /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf to one of this:url=https://api.beacondb.net/v1/geolocateurl=https://api.positon.xyz/v1/geolocate?key=56aba903-ae67-4f26-919b-15288b44bda9
url=https://api.beacondb.net/v1/geolocateurl=https://api.positon.xyz/v1/geolocate?key=56aba903-ae67-4f26-919b-15288b44bda9
>>107921464Okay, somehow I managed to fix it by downloading the config sample file here https://github.com/jonls/redshift/blob/master/redshift.conf.sample and then opening my text editor and pasting THAT directly into the config folder (no subfolders) and it no longer throws any errors, I can finally launch the fucking redshift-qt applet and have it just work now. Good god why did that take me so long. You have to copy it via text editor or else it will throw the malformed error due to blank spaces.
for some reason my battery charge limit keeps getting reset on reboot, how can i make it persistent and apply as early on boot as possible? sadly theres no bios option to do so>>107921067works on my machine. sounds like it could a gpu / driver thing maybe
>>107920155I use truenas scale with several apps (nextcloud, Jellyfin, Mealie, komga, etc.) hosted as docker containers on it. Is there a lightweight directory service, I'm only familiar with Active Directory, that I can deploy in a container to have one account for several apps? Ideally I want to use the same directory service for my smb shares on truenas as well.
>>107921067>boot the previous kernel>roll back to your last root snapshotsooo hard>Did they even test this shit?Yeah but not that many people are running rawdog b/c it does shit like this every week.
This is the default wallpaper in Lubuntu. AI generated slop. A simple minimal logo on a blue background would have been more effort than this. It just shows to me the Ubuntu flavours are stalling. Even the developer of Ubuntu MATE wants to focus on MATE in Debian.
You cannot view screenshots in Synaptic Package Manager anymore on any distro because screenshots.debian.net switched from http to https. When do you think this will be fixed? It's been months.
>>107921757I'm not even using rawhide
>>107920155What's the most straightforward way to block apt from favoring snap installs on ubuntu? Also would removing snapd completely fuck it up?
>>107921835Nah you're using nVidia. That's even worse.
>>107920155I'm currently using Debian stable with a backports kernel and video drivers. For the most part, I don't see any issues, but I'm wondering what I'm missing by having outdated KDE and some things over time, such as a very out of date chromium browser. I don't trust unverified chromium browser flatpaks, although that is a solution. The official Firefox flatpak is verified, so that is an improvement, but dispreferred.I have used Debian sid and testing in the past. I feel like sid was stable enough when I used it years ago, but its somehow less up to date than arch, while having more issues. Testing has problems linger for too long.I'm looking at CachyOS and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a desktop. Thoughts on these, or should I just stick with Debian?
You warned me about it/g/The meme distro named cachyos got an update and guess what, I can't boot anymore into it. Not even into snapshots. I get a spinny circle and if I press cancel it shows a start job is running for hold until boot process finishes up.
>>107921983>>107922119Welp Tumbleweed it is then?
>>107922119should've used bazzite like you were told to instead of listening to that debian schizo who memes people into not using normie distributions that just work
Come home, white man
KDE is windows-like and Gnome is appleshit-style between all distros?
>>107922191No. There are many distros which theme both.ZorinOS makes Gnome look like Windows 10/11, while Garuda makes KDE look like MacOS. Ubuntu uses their own GNOME style with the panel on the left side.
>>107920155What are the differences in use/capabilities between kernels? ie generic, low-latency, and real time?
>>107922119If you don't even get the menu to select snapshots then it sounds like your bootloader got fucked. Boot with their live USB and reinstall it.
>>107922230But third party themes should work on all as long as I stick to either of the main groups?i.e. https://store.kde.org/browse?cat=104&ord=latest after googling
>>107921757Yeah thank god I set snapshots up. It's all working fine now but Jesus man, I hope the next update doesn't screw things up again.
which distro is best if i don't want to cut my penis off?
>>107922300They will work fine, it's still the same DE.>>107922320Secureblue.
>>107922286It depends on whatever the fuck was compiled. But the terms you mentioned are referring to scheduling. As in how the kernel assigns CPU time to the running software. Generic is mostly the way the default works that gets shipped on kernel.org. Low latency is whatever the faggot who compiled it felt like is the superior scheduler to make programs feel "snappier". Real time is mostly a special effort to make the kernel work for people who need the absolute best response time for their application like pro audio applications (Audio recording studios etc). You might think "hey that sounds great for my esport game tournament rig, i am gonna go pro". But that is not how that works. Most applications need a multitude of system services to function and real time focuses on ONE task.
>>107922320Bazzite. Then show your dick to the maintainers to remind them of what they threw away.
>>107921915>>107921835>>107921757>>107921067>>107922304And it fucked up again. But I found out what the issue was. For some reason, if my PS3 is turned on, Gwenview fucks up, Dolphin fucks up, other things fuck up. I don't know what the hell is going on, but my PS3 is hooked up directly to my computer via ethernet for FTP.
>>107922173Did you bother to read his post or were you too busy finding an excuse to shill bazzite that you weren't paying attention?
>>107922288I could select and use snapshots, just I wouldn't get to the login screen.I managed to boot somehow, but sometimes I have to restart and try again, spam ESC. I don't know what's causing this
>>107922186>void linux>friendly to white men
>>107922390How do I make it so EVERYTHING on my system EXCEPT for FileZilla refuses to interact with a particular IP address? My PS3 is likely just going apeshit on my local network and I don't want any KIO shit like Dolphin or Gwenview or whatever to probe it and get fucked up.
>>107922230>ZorinOS makes Gnome look like Windows 10/11Fascinating and disturbing. The more I look at Zorin's page the happier I am to be on Debian with regular GNOME. The whole Ubuntu and its derivatives sphere is so bizarre. They're advertising slightly different dock positions and menu ricing as a paid feature.
How many linuxes are without any rust involvement? I don't want no glowie shit.
>>107922402Just take the Bazzpill
>>107922610None. Use OpenBSD.
>>107922610I dont like rust either but i dont like it because of its awful toolchain and license, not for being glowie shit. If anything systemd is more likely to be glowie shit than rust.
>>107922879>>107922610Glowie shit is all hidden in crypto and RNG where nobody can recognize it. Just because your stupid ass can't wrap their brain around the entire manual doesn't mean a backdoor wouldn't be glaringly obvious in a basic state machine that's actively being worked on by lots of people.
>>107922879>licenseoh yea I saw something about arch and license changing too. Never gave the rust thing much attention but that rose concerns.
>>107922937Ok, so why Rust specifically and not everything else in existence?
>>107922970It uses the mozilla license so it has the same issues as firefox has when it comes to modifying the software forcing you to remove the "rust" name and branding
>>107922995Endorsed by glows. Schizo push to force it in random places.
>>107922995too agressive.as in shoved down everyones throat.no organic growth.so one can only conclude there are unspoken motives for this artificial push.
I symlinked the Documents and Pictures folders from my Windows drive lol
Why is LibreOffice so heavy compared to Office 2007? Writer takes over 11 seconds to open on a machine which would handle Office 2007 pretty much instantly.
>>107923063If you actually need to work with office format, just cope with google docs.
>>107923063Java
>>107923031Successful devs always push their own shit for no reason. It's baked into the personality type.If you don't believe in complex toolchain, there's a kernel for you, and it's called OpenBSD. Linux was never anti-corpo / anti-trans or whatever. Its declared goal since at least the late 90s was to be the universal globohomo kernel.
>>107923031Specially when there's a lot of funding behind it
>>107923063Office preloads with Windows.>>107923090.net
After I go through all that 30-minute hell to setup a minimal installation, can I then clone it to another drive or some kind of installation media afterwards so if I don't write down a huge list of all the settings and preferences I select during installation?
>>107923105Is c# / dotnet really as bad as java?
>>107923155You can use clonezilla something like clonezilla or just use rsync if you know what you're doing
>>107923177>You can use clonezilla something like clonezilla You can use something like clonezilla*
>>107923177I've never done a minimal install before but I really want to learn how to get into setting up a system that still isn't entirely DIY but just lets me to pick and choose my programs/de/wm instead, so I think it'll be a while before I know what I'm doing there.
>>107923163Yes, they just do more QoL than Java. It's same shit.
>>107923177Not that guy, but isn't there a way to make a custom iso and pick the extra shit you want with tuxmate or similar?
Does anyone know if there is a distro that can handle a dual monitor setup with two different refresh rates OOTB on an Nvidia GPU?
>>107923444Anything with Wayland
>>107923063>Office 2007 vs LibreOffice 20262 decades of bloat. Use an office suite specifically tailored to be lightweight, or just run an older version of LibreOffice or OnlyOffice.>>107923444Any distro which ships nVidia drivers and Wayland by default. Bazzite, CachyOS with KDE, Nobara, etc.
>>107923472Installing the proprietary NVIDIA drivers takes all of 5 minutes, so it is not strictly necessary to recommend distros that come with these drivers
>>107923501>installing driversAnon asked about distros so I assume maximum laziness.
is there a good paint alternative? i don't want 5000 features or buttons, just to crop and maybe redact things every now and then
>>107923771KolourPaint. It's Paint but better.
>>107923771I just use kolourpaint because it came with KDE. There's nothing stopping you from running paint.exe in wine either.
>>107923807forgot to add as i pressed post; one that isnt kolourpaint as it requires 400mb of kde stuff. i'm on gnome
>>107923840pinta
>>107923840If you just need cropping and redacting I'm pretty sure the GNOME screenshot tool already has that. And the default image viewer has it if I remember correctly. I could be wrong, I don't daily drive GNOME and it's been a few months since I last used it.
>>107923901thanks>>107923937it can do all sorts of cropping and rotating, but thats it
>>107923771https://github.com/misohena/el-easydraw
