So let me get this straight, my root folder, after a year and 1780 pacman packages, is only 25GB?
So when my 2TB SSD arrives and I reinstall my system I can set my root partition to just 64GB and it will never fill up?

>>107936601
God i love systemd.

>>107936601
what method do you use when your program isn't in the repo?
do you install it to /usr/local?
or maybe you write your own package?

>>107936774
Usually ~/.local unless it's a setuid program. Haven't had to make a package in eons.

>>107936774
I write a Gentoo ebuild or if it's a GUI we're talking about may use the Flatpak if it exists.

Alright bros, I'm done with distro hopping. I'll go straight to the source of everything and configure things to my liking.
Which should I choose: Arch or Debian?
>use case
Everything. I'll use this OS for everything forever more.

>>107936864
that'd be like something like slackware where you setup everything manually

>>107936864
Arch if you want to take that to its logical conclusion.
Debian if you want something comfy.

>>107936907
I'm an autist not a boomer.

>>107937054
try crux
it's what arch was based on and it's so much more simpler than arch

>>107936774
I create a Distrobox container then install the package using it's official install method.

>>107936864
Arch. Debian Sid is practically unusable. Debian stable is even less usable as a destkop.

does anyone know of a convenient method to mount bin/cue images on Arch?
sudo mount -o loop doesn't work in this case

>>107937195
>Debian stable is even less usable as a destkop.
how so?

>>107937234
they're not mountable as far as I know, even on windows
they're an archive format

>>107937245
because he wants his distro to break after an update and stable couldn't provide this feature

>>107937245
Debian stable becomes unusable a year after release because of it's outdated packages.

>>107937312
Debian breaks more than Arch.

I wanted to do some AI experiment where I process frames from PipeWire and holy shit that was annoying having to do the whole DBus XDG Portal dance. Why isn't there a nice library that handles this and abstracts it away and gives me something usable. I went through using GStreamer directly which doesn't work (doesn't bring up the Portal selection dialogue for windows or monitors), two different DBus (PyDBus and dbus-next) libraries which both shat themselves and finally Claude was like, "Oh, you can just do this with dasbus" and it'll work and indeed it did work.

Working code if anyone is curious:
https://pastebin.com/C9eKaYnE

>>107937245
the massive security implications of a consistently out of date OS. it's fine on a server which is hardened by some sysadmin or developer and doesn't use anything outside the minimal core packages. an average PC is far more complex and exploitable than a server.

>>107937368
Now sometimes I get this:

Requesting screen capture permission...
Creating session...
Selecting sources...
Failed to get screen capture permission: DBus specification has no member 'org.freedesktop.portal.Request.Response'.

Other times it appears to work but never shows the portal selection dialgoue. Amazing. So it worked once and never again.

>>107937368
>>107937438
I just found:
https://github.com/bquenin/pipewire-capture

This is the library I wish the PipeWire or Portal people would have built. I do not care about your portals. Just give me video frames!!!
Doesn't look like this supports monitor capture though only windows but that's fine.

>>107937328
>Debian breaks more than Arch
debian is stable

>>107937328
>can use it
>not usable

>>107937328
It's perfectly usable and there are regular security updates.

>>107936674
64 GB realistically is never filling up but you might want to consider wiping the pacman cache once in a while, there is the paccache script that can be used automatically with a systemd timer.

I want to leave jeetcrosoft, what distribution, desktop and file-manager do you think will give the most frictionless experience? If this is a dumb question where is a good resource to look it up?

>>107937846
you can try redefining the word "stable" all you want. sure, debian is a stable PLATFORM, but it's not a stable USER EXPERIENCE. users don't give a shit about platform stability. they give a shit about their software not being eternally buggy due to the lack of updates and their OS and apps not randomly breaking after a major update. so it's only """stable""" as a server or container distro.

>>107937864
>only applies security updates when there's pull requests with a CVE attached
congrats, you've just covered under 10% of security updates. it's still less secure than running arch and getting immediate updates which cover undocumented and undiscovered security issues.

>>107937960
Look into Bazzite or Aurora

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Around a decade ago probably, I was fiddling with Raspberry Pi and needed a way to access it without constantly swapping cables that were plugged into my display. There was some sort of remote access software that let me plug an ethernet cable between my regular computer and the RPi. I installed software on the RPi and on my regular computer, and the regular computer would have a window (might even have been in just a web browser) that I could click the mouse on and type at, and the mouseclicks and keypresses got sent to the RPi, and it would do its shit, and the image of what the RPi screen should look like got sent back to the window on my computer.

It was kind of slow and crappy, but it worked.

Anyone know what the software is called? I need to use it again, but the remote machine will be a Linux blade computer I'm renting in a remote facility.

Many thanks.

>>107937960
>what distribution, desktop and file-manager do you think will give the most frictionless experience?
Bazzite or Aurora, KDE Plasma, Dolphin

>>107938263
You probably used some VNC client and server. KRDC (the KDE default), Remmina, MultiVNC, TigerVNC Viewer, etc.

>>107938308
>>107938248
>Bazzite or Aurora
Oops, VLC can't watch videos because they're on a different drive. You just got Flatpak'd!
>>107937960
Pretty much any popular & non-immutable distribution with KDE Plasma.

>>107938308
>some VNC client and server
That acronym sounds familiar, thanks. Is there a current "best of" or "easiest to use" that you would recommend?

>>107938325
>VLC
Use mpv, baka anon.

>>107938325
>muh flatpak
Then install the non-flatpak version. Or learn what application permissions are and how to use flatpak instead of using the archaic and insecure method of installing linux packages. Clicking a toggle "allow access to all files" is less complicated than using even more convoluted distributions.

>>107938248
>>107938308
>>107938325
Okay, thanks.

>>107938325
>non-immutable
that's bazzite and aurora. "immutable" is a misnomer used by people who have no idea what they're talking about.

>>107938334
mpv would have the same issue since he's a mentally handicapped person who can't comprehend how to use something that's the equivalent of an android application. he thinks that if anything doesn't behave exactly the way desktop operating systems were designed 20+ years ago, then it's wrong and bad.
he's literally the definition of that meme:
>all operating systems are improving, but linux users are still arguing what a "native application" means
too bad for grandpa, nobody cares and linux is moving to a flatpak future

>>107936674

make it btrfs with snapshots and 64GB is soon full ext4 is easy

>>107938454
But if you made it BTRFS you wouldn't use partitions (apart from the EFI System partition and the BTRFS partition itself) because partitions are obsolete when you have volume management (subvolumes).

>>107936601
systemd good

i have the stupidest problem i have ever seen
basically i got a new keyboard, it uses an active ps/2 adapter. it works fine and there are no issues with it
however, when its plugged into my laptop every time i add or remove devices from it it just shuts down. usb, hdmi and the headphone jack all do this
the problem goes away when i unplug my keyboard but i really want to use it
any commands i should run to help troubleshoot? ive tried everything that i could think of (wihch wasnt much)

>>107938553
Probably a platform bug. Just buy one of those USB PS2 adapters and use that.

>>107938603
it is an adapter, did you read my post? female ps/2 to male usb plugged into my laptop
its active, meaning that it translates the ps/2 into an actual usb signal for my computer to read. a passive adapter does nothing. look up the difference between them if you want but im pretty sure its not the fault of the adapter

>>107937967
arch devs are so fucking lazy they never bother maintaining a stable release where every package is guaranteed to be compatible with the entire system, so much they keep bumping the version number of packages without making it backwards compatible

>>107938635
If you think it's software have you tried different kernel versions? It seems strange though. I doubt this is the sort of thing Linux would do which is why I said it sounds more like a platform bug but if you're using an adapter then it's probably not that either. Weird.

My pc is starting to fail booting up windows 10 most times so it might be time to reinstall it. I think I might give fedora kde a chance, but I have a nvidia gtx 1660, an old wacom cintiq 21ux pen display that I use a displayport to DVI-I adapter with different other monitors of different resolutions, and I would like to still use fl studio. Is this a realistic option for me?

>>107938663
should i boot from a live usb? and say what i see? or is there a better way

>>107938325
>>107938334
>Oops, VLC can't watch videos because they're on a different drive. You just got Flatpak'd!
This isn't an issue in the Flatpak version of mpv. So go cry to VLC Flatpak maintainers about this since it's clearly not a Flatpak issue.

It's already embarrassing that mpv is a much better media player. A "comprehensive and working UI" is what VLCfags always bragged about when comparing it to mpv, but it seems like mpv mogs VLC in this category too. So why even use it then?

>>107938665
>a nvidia gtx 1660, an old wacom cintiq 21ux pen display that I use a displayport to DVI-I adapter with different other monitors of different resolutions
That may not be that great. Besides, NVIDIA, KDE did just recently merge support for custom resolutions though (you have to do it via the command line through kscreen-doctor though).

>>107938665
>fl studio
There is no FL Studio on Linux. You'd have to use the Android version in Waydroid (nVidia has no GPU acceleration in Waydroid yet) or you'd have to somehow make it work in WINE. From what I can see there is a guide to make it work in Bottles (a WINE management GUI) but I have no idea if it works.

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Can you install an iso into a VM, install any additional programs and shit you want and then turn it back into an iso for a permanent offline install image?
>can't upload an image of how to disable the robot dog by pulling out the battery on his belly
intredasting

I'm new to all of this (Vindozz refugee), contemplating whether to install LXQT or KDE Plasma 6 on an Ubuntu. Not necessarily asking for advice, just thought I'd let you know and leave you free to respond (or not) however you wish.

>>107938794
why? it's a straightforward process to create the iso directly
https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/examples.en.html#826
>>107938899
ok man

>>107938794
You can, here's a guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization

What is to be done about all the arch shitters and retards? Every where they go they shit the place up with incompetence, dunning Kruger, and retardation

>>107938794
Yes. All distros support this.

>>107938899
LXQt is a slightly shit DE which behaves like a Windows 98 UI while KDE Plasma is what you'd expect a proper modern DE to be like.

>>107938963
How do I add a drop shadow to Audacious in Winamp mode?

>>107938717
>somehow make it work in WINE
Just install .NET 4.0 and it works.

>>107938436
Bazzite and Aurora are immutable-ish, which is not a distinction I feel is necessary because there is a clear difference in how cumbersome they are to ordinary compute users compared to normal distributions.

Dear anons, how does one become a ricer, the creator of art and desktops? I have finally gotten past the distribution hopping stage and settled on NixOS. It is basically perfect for ricing since I do not need to do a bunch of complex things just to switch distributions. Just change a few lines in my configuration.nix file, and then I am done.

Anyway, I have never riced before. Currently, I am trying to get into Hyprland. However, I might try out other things than Hyprland. Basically, I want my first rice to be a Nyan Cat rice. I want to rice so I can start posting in those cool desktop threads. Can any anons give me some pointers to get on the right track?

>>107939108
>how cumbersome they are to ordinary compute users compared to normal distributions.
Thank you for your opinion.

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>need to connect to new wi-fi network
>nm-applet (network manager) constantly refreshes the list of networks and does this

does no one take their laptops outside and feel this is a major annoyance?

>>107939263
Most people use KDE/Gnome which provide their own UI for managing wireless networks.

>>107939276
Many users want to use better desktop environments or a window manager.

>>107939263
Use Nmtui in a terminal

>>107939289
Not really, there are very few users like that. But I'm sure they have their own convenient ways of connecting to wireless networks too.

>>107939299
Or if the TUI is still too much then there's nmcli

>>107939299
Never knew about that. Looks like you can select wifi networks that way. I've been using nmcli commands.

>>107936601
don't forget the /g/ wiki
https://igwiki.lyci.de/

>>107938454
>>107938466
I want performance, my plan was to set / as btrfs with 64GB and the rest of the SSD as home using XFS, from what I have read LVM has a performance overhead over traditional partitions.

>>107939441
Are you actually experiencing a performance issue with BTRFS or is this imagined?

>>107939464
btrfs is slow anon, simple as.

>>107939497
So you're imagining it then. Unless you quantify how or why it's slow instead of whatever this general misleading feeling you have is then I wouldn't bother switching to something else to chase some mythical performance goal.

I forked a Gnome shell extension so I can move my windows with hotkeys, because I couldn't into sway.

>>107939510
Ok rheltard, all benchmarks show btrfs being slower over something like XFS or F2FS, some times over 50% slower.

>>107939510
It is slower, but not in a noticeable way unless you're operating a large scale server.

>>107939616
Even on servers it's fine. Facebook runs it on all their fleets. It's fine to say it's slow but unless you can say why it's slow and why you should be using something else then you're just running around in circles chasing something which may not even be an issue.

>>107939156
Why, exactly, should you and any other normal user need an immutable distro which more often than not limits the options you have, oftentimes to an inconvenient at best, crippling at worst degree?
>b-but muh retard proof!!
Any sufficiently retarded person will break Linux regardless of how foolproof the distro they use is. See: the Linus PopOS meme.

>>107939635
>why
Doesn't require maintenance and starts with sensible defaults.
>inconvenient
It's only "inconvenient" to people who are old school Linux ricers and don't want to learn anything new. Which is funny because these are the first people to mock Windows users for not being willing to learn how Linux works and saying RTFM.
To most people it's no different other than being noticeably less prone to random update bugs and breakage especially after years of use.

>>107939707
Nah it is inconvenient as fuck, specially with flatpaks permission management hell, I tried Fedora Kinoite and it was fucking ass to do anything on it.

>>107939635
>>107939707
>>107939852
Let's not forget that Windows is not immutable and normies aren't exactly nuking their systems left and right. Non-atomic distros are already way more foolproof than Windows, so immutability just solves a problem that was already solved much better years ago.

How do I go about diagnosing occassional audio dropouts? I'm on Fedora so presumably I need to look at what Pipewire is doing. Setup is an HDMI 5.1 output to an AV receiver via an RTX 3070 (inb4 it's some bullshit NVidia driver bug that will never be fixed).

>>107940397
It is 100% pipewire's doing, shit has idle suspension by default

>>107940424
The power saving bullshit is a different thing. I'm talking about dropouts while an active stream is playing rather than the irritating delay after a few seconds of no activity. A restart makes them go away temporarily but sooner or later I start getting brief drops that last about half a second every so often.

Is there a proton/wine env variable to set the audio sample rate? E33 has issues with anything other than 44.1K and my default sample rate is 96K

>>107936674
You could get away with less than 64gb if you really wanted to.

>>107938308
>Bazzite
He said he wanted to leave microsoft not use the distro created by microsoft employees

>>107939635
Hes a schizo who unironically worships android, one of the most anti-user OSes out there and wants linux to become exactly like android.

>>107937234
Cdemu

>>107939441
Is the speed difference really going to be that noticeable in the first place?

>>107939125
Just copy other peoples configs and modify them to suit your needs.

>>107937967
>updooooot
99% of security vulnerabilities will never affect the average linux desktop user.

>>107937328
>source: my ass

>>107940384
>Windows is not immutable
Well every other OS is becoming or already is immutable. MacOS, iOS and Android are. Harmony OS and Deepin Linux are (they are currently being phased into Chinese businesses while Windows is being phased out, so they will be massively used). Plenty of Linux distros are immutable - SteamOS, NixOS, VanillaOS, BlendOS, KDE Linux, GnomeOS, etc.. Ubuntu and openSUSE are experimenting with immutability as well. Some Fedora devs have considered turning Silverblue and Kinoite into the flagship/default distros instead of Workstation and Plasma Edition (likely to happen in a few years). Bazzite is clearly a widely accepted Linux distro among a variety of gamers, ranging from technical to non-technical (6% of Linux Steam users use it).
Windows 12 or 13 will most likely become immutable too since it's clearly the future of operating systems.

So there's over a billion people using immutable operating systems at this very moment and they're clearly completely fine with this OS architecture for various purposes, including general desktop use, smartphones, gaming machines, developer machines, servers, media/creative workstations, etc.. So using "Windows currently isn't immutable" as your only argument is completely disingenuous when immutability is clearly a proven solution and works for casual users, professionals and even tinkerers (who are actually the only group resisting immutable distros).

>>107940816
>Looks up to locked down operating systems on locked down hardware with zero user freedom as rolemodels and wants linux to turn into this
This has to be a troll post.

>>107940816
Yeah and? Still sucks, just taking power away from the user.
I should have the freedom to blow my system up, unironically.
And using MacOS and iOS as an example is not helping your cause buddy.

>>107940858
Especially IOS and Android.

>>107940856
Are you suggesting that Linux distros will also remove your root account access like iOS and (most) Android devices do? Are you retarded or just pretending? Even SteamOS, which is actually restrictive compared to Fedora/Bazzite, gives you the ability to enable root mode.

>>107940858
What power is being "taken away" from you exactly? I've been on Kinoite, Silverblue and Bazzite each ever since they were released and it's absolutely no different compared to other distros aside from not breaking in some way after a year or two of use.
>I should have the freedom to blow my system up, unironically.
Nobody stops you from doing this. "Immutable" doesn't mean "unchangeable" no matter how much you've convinced yourself it does. In fact people being too retarded to understand how Fedora's Atomic distros work is the whole reason why they stopped calling it immutable in the first place. You're thinking of Gnome OS.
>And using MacOS and iOS as an example is not helping your cause buddy.
How is MacOS not a valid comparison when it's being used by every single consumer and user category out there? Normies use it just fine and find it even easier than Windows in many cases. Media producers use it just fine and if anything they actually prefer it over Windows. Developers are using it just fine, if anything most software devs use it and prefer it over Windows. People are ricing MacOS just as much as they're ricing Linux. So what exactly "sucks" and what is oh so necessary that's being taken away from you?

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Steam keeps flashing a white flash when I alt tab to it no matter what settings I use. I'm using Linux Mint with i3 window manager. It's the same flash Chromium gives when it's still loading a page. It's annoying because it's an actual flashbang every time I alt tab to Steam.

>>107940960
I think that's an issue with your compositor

>>107940973
I don't have a compositor. I run i3 without one.

>>107936864
Arch

>>107940988
>I don't have a compositor.
That might be the problem then. You could try running a compositor and see if the issue persists.

>>107937960
Zorin or ultramarine

>>107941022
I'll try. Thanks.

>>107938899
Kde is a bloated mess. Lxqt looks like shit but you can theme ans customize it to look good, kde has more mature wayland implementation though which I think is the only reason to prefer it.

>>107940960
Stop using steam. It's bloated spyware.

>>107941093
Stop using any distro that isn't TinyCoreLinux. It's bloated spyware.

>>107941103
Wrong. But linux kernel is fat too, it comes with all the drivers you don't need.

>>107941103
>tiny
>comes with bloated kernel

>>107941154
>>107941115
Would Kolibri or Haiku be better?

>>107941192
Nah tinycore is fine i just think its funny it calls itself tiny but has a bloated kernel

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>>107936601
Been using Debian Stable for over a decade. Should I keep using it for the foreseeable future? How real is the concern that Debian is slowly turning pozzed and trooned?

>>107937328
The KDE team hardly updates their games, theyve basically been in the same state since KDE4
So no harm on sticking with Stable

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I'm on a laptop, and whenever I plug up my external monitor nothing happens. Tried HDMI, tried DisplayPort. The monitor works fine on other machines. With the DP, KDE Plasma did at least give me a prompt about whether I want to mirror, extend, etc. But the monitor says "no signal."

man i wish gwenview wasnt slow as fuck, its the only image viewer ive tried that will use the directory sort order from dolhpin. qview and swayimg are quite fast but i really like that feature.

>>107941220
Be more concerned they don't have enough people to do basic maintenance.

>>107941220
>slowly
It's already trooned out than most other distros, i can't think of any other distro that has diversity statement like debian.

>>107941220
Debian is abandonware and has been troonware for years now

>>107941263
Install gnome and gthumb

>>107941271
>>107941283
Thankfully Devuan exists.
(Although, they really need to stop defaulting to Sysv init by default and work on whatever is missing for something like OpenRC to be the default)

>>107941292
Devuan is retrograde degeneracy + abandonware

>>107937960
Zorin, Mint, Pop, Fedora.

>>107941292
Dinit is the only alternative that doesn't suck dick.

>>107941264
>>107941271
>>107941283
So they're gonna be like Mozilla, where their product slowly falls apart, because the obese black trans lesbian in a wheelchair working there wasn't hired for xir code or work ethic? And they're more busy rewriting technical language than actually making the product work?

So where to now?

>>107941296
It's not abandonware though, it's actively developed. They just need to stop with the retrograde degeneracy and pick more modern defaults (doesn't have to be Systemd, just something more suited to the task than Sysvinit)

>>107941022
>>107941027
Didn't work

>>107941304
Install Solus.

>>107941292
There's no point in using Debian when you can use Arch
>inb4 muh too frequent updates
Just don't update until you want to
>inb4 muh servers
Alpine

>>107941304
RedHat or Arch. Mozilla is only as bad as it is because making browsers is capital intensive by design. You can still start a major Linux distro with like one full time guy and a handful of volunteers.

>>107941349
Isn't Fedora even more corpotroon?

Trying out Fedora KDE Plasma for the first time and it feels very advanced, but also overwhelming compared to something like a mininal Lubuntu installation. How much did they customize under the hood here and how much is this just the desktop environment/window manager?

Only used Mint/Lubuntu thus far.

>>107941425
Linux is corpotroon. Nobody caters to your pol brainrot.

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>>107941451
Also apparently circling my cursor does this for some reason.

>>107941425
Somewhat, but they're at least more focused on making Linux good instead of falling into complacency and not giving a shit about Linux or it's users.

>>107941451
Fedora stays pretty much on-spec when it comes to KDE, so it's not customized at all. A few actual KDE devs are involved in the maintenance so it's set up the way it's supposed to be out of the box, minus Fedora's lack of proprietary drivers/codecs.

>>107941478
That's an intentional accessibility feature to help you find the cursor.
Fun Fact: macOS does this too which was likely the inspiration for it.
You can turn it off in Settings if you don't like it for some reason.

whats the the distrohop for that 30 year old boomer these days. ive been on arch for a long time, wouldn't mind something more low effort. i spend a lot of my free time making enchiladas at home now that im a big boy. i dont know how i could live without the aur though and manjaro is asswipe

>>107941493
this is the lowest possible effort >>107938248
or cachy os if you need aur

>>107941478
I like this it's funny and genuinely quite helpful when I'm having a blind retard moment.

Is Slackware a meme os? Whenever I do any research I get the,
>muh oldest Linux distro
Shit and it gives me a hard time taking it seriously. Is it worth daily driving? I got a new computer and was gonna get arch but remembered how much of a pain it is to install and didn’t feel like bothering and wanted something quick and easy and Slackware seemed neat. I’m leaning towards just sucking it up and installing arch or just going with Slackware. Open to others thoughts and opinions

>>107941093
Stop using any modern GPU, they used spyware blobs that connect directly to the NSA.

>>107941600
There is no alternative for that. For steam you can just pirate games or use gog.

>>107941520
Yes it's a meme OS, and no it's not worth "daily driving".

>>107941630
What makes you think so?

>>107941660
different anon here, slackpkg does not do automatic dependency resolution. this will forever keep slackware in meme distro status.

>>107941660
0% market share. there's probably less people using slackware than there are using gentoo, which itself is also a meme distro.

i'm using debian testing. sometimes i scroll down in firefox and the command is stuck and it keeps scrolling automatically and won't stop until i shut the lid of the laptop and log in again. it's rare but i have lived like this for months. what did you have for dinner?

I use Ubuntu, literally never had any problems, nothing negative whatsoever to say about it, been an absolute dream for years

>>107941764
Same. I started with Mint about 6 years ago and switched to Ubuntu after about 6 months, never switched again.

I use bazzite, also never had any problems, nothing negative whatsoever to say about it, been an absolute dream compared to mint

>>107941690
>>107941700
Those were both things that I wanted to look into because they seemed like cons. I’m so used to pacman and AUR and the arch wiki it would be tough to switch over. Thanks for the responses

>>107941700
Only on 4chan. It's still the go-to for custom appliances.

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Is there a GUI for xen/qemu/libvirt that isn't complete ass? I like virtualbox's gui but the virtualization itself is a bit shit, and vmware is crashing whenever I press certain keys on my keyboard

>>107941957
There's a KVM port for Virtualbox

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What is this?

>>107941969
Congestion control algorithm for TCP. BBRv3 is the successor to BBR and BBR2.
It's made by Google and they use it on YouTube, etc. It's a really good TCP congestion control algorithm that reacts faster to changes than Cubic (the default TCP congestion control algorithm) and doesn't solely rely on dropped packets as a signal for congestion. It is smart and actually models the network and measures the in-flight RTT, etc.

>>107941989
So it is good for a custom kernel?

>>107941997
Yes, definitely. Even on non-custom kernels without BBRv3 the original BBR is still way better than Cubic. I set the sysctl for it on pretty much every system I use:

net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = bbr

>>107941957
I have never used anything other than virt-manager and it's fine.

>>107938899
To the extent that it matters or if anyone cares, I decided on the stock Ubuntu. It looking pleasant though being opinionated work well with me and my needs.

>>107938963
This is a good summary of what I found while trying them out. KDE is nice but there was so much going on it was just a bit much and it put me off.

>>107941049
That’s a severe but probably accurate way to describe KDE, but I can really see why people would like it. I played around a but with Lxqt but it just couldn’t land with me, but it is a great little system.

>>107936864
I did this with debian, no complaints rn

>people pretty much evenly split between arch and debian
the duality of man

>>107942011
Thanks anon

>>107936601
Thank God someone gave this nigga some new glasses.

how do Arch devs normally update the LTS kernel to the actual latest LTS kernel?

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i set up my NTFS drive to automount from linux. On my NTFS drive i have images, music, films, etc.

For some reason, when i try to upload images from my NTFS drive into discord it doesnt show a thumbnail and says "empty file" when i try to proceed
Why is that? How do i fix the automount permissions to have this work?

>>107942427
as an arch user btw, I see the worth of debian. can't say that about other distros. it's basically debian and arch now.

>>107942348
Do you have any post install recommendations or tips I should follow?
I'm planning on going with Debian 13 + KDE.

>>107942261
Budgie is also going qt, so there will be a 3rd option.

>>107942687
Discord probably doesn't have access because it's a sandboxed app (flatpak). Install flatseal and change the permissions. Or if you use Ubuntu it's probably snap but I have no idea how to deal with that

>>107942803
you're right, its flatslop
there seems to be no official discord package on my version of debian, just flathub slop
guess ill have to look up flatseal or just use the browser version of discord

>>107942856
You can also download the tar.gz archive off their site and manually install it however you want.

>>107942856
Or you can install this.
https://pacstall.dev/packages/legcord-deb

Is Debian just Ubuntu for adults? Why should I use Debian?

>>107942963
ask chatgpt

>>107942963
nobody uses debian apart from those who make ubuntu

>>107942975
I'd much rather ask other humans and get a unique response not one gathered from skimming reddit.
>>107942976
I see a lot of people using Debian nowadays. I just want something easy to use but something for more advanced users. I just don't feel like fucking around with arch install anymore. I just don't get enough out of it

>>107942963
>Why should I use Debian?
>conservative in a good way
>just werks
>let's you chose your WM of choice in the installer
>comfy
>apt (see just werks)
>runs on a potato (XFCE, LXQT)
>updates for 5 years

>>107943127
I'm downloading the iso rn. Thank you

>>107942427
What do you mean "evenly split"? Arch is a much more popular distro among desktop users. Debian practically isn't even a blip on the radar in the real world unless you count it's forks.

>>107942687
Drag and drop doesn't work on Flatpak if you haven't given it access to a file path. Install Flatseal and give Discord access to all files or if you're on KDE or GNOME you can do this in the settings without the need of Flatseal

>>107943085
>I see a lot of people using Debian nowadays
The opposite is true. Debian is losing ground and it's only being used by people who really love it for some reason, similar to other more niche distros. This has always been the case, but it's increasingly becoming even more true. Debian only exists as a base distro for containers or other (better) distributions like Ubuntu, Mint and Zorin.
If you've started to "see more Debian users" then you're likely only in circles where it's popular.

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>>107943174
>Debian only exists as a base distro for containers or other (better) distributions like Ubuntu

>>107943220
>The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring interest in Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch was accessed each day, nothing more.
>They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions.
>NOT usage or market share
Great, your tiny little echo chamber is constantly clicking on the Debian link. What's your point?

>>107943252
Cool rant bro I'm going back to doing real work on my Debian 13 ’trixie’ system

I'm a retard so bear with me
What's the difference between using openSUSE TW with transactional-updates and using Kalpa

>>107943278
That's the direct quote from the website you're sourcing your screenshot from:
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

Learn to read and critically think, please. Debian is at best used by 2%-3% of Linux users compared to something like Ubuntu which has a 30%-40% Linux market share.

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I'm running Steam with the -system-composer flag since it doesn't work by default on i3, but my system composer makes Steam have a white flash when alt tabbing to it. What should I do?

>>107943538
Upgrade to Swayland

I know probably half the board knew about this already but if you have HDR looking like fucking trash on KDE Plasma for whatever reason in some applications/games, just set
KWIN_DISABLE_TONEMAPPING=1
I thought games were broken, I thought firefox wasn't actually capable of displaying HDR youtube videos properly despite the flag being there, but no. It was KWin fucking it all up.

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>>107943174
>Debian practically isn't even a blip on the radar in the real world unless you count it's forks.
nigga the post was clearly talking about the replies ITT not popularity

>>107943310
>Ubuntu which has a 30%-40% Linux market share
damn Mark stop shitposting

>>107943085
>just want something easy to use but something for more advanced users
Without knowing your opinions on what you really want out of a distro it's hard to say more than yes, you can make Debian a home. You could also make Arch a permanent home. Personally I really like Debian's community and approach to Linux but I'm elsewhere because I'm a dumb fucking gamer and that's one area that can be a big pain point using Debian as a daily driver.

You can go with a minimal install or you can just install it with defaults mashing enter in the installer and choosing a DE and it won't feel much different than most distros until you want to install something that's not in Stable. Out of the box Debian decides much less for you than its derivatives. You can opt into faster update cycles than Stable, you can pull backports (essentially yoinking things from testing into Stable) which is very common for things like the kernel, build or install packages yourself and handle their dependencies yourself, you can use flatpaks to get around some things not being up to date. So if you want to make it easier or harder on yourself you can and you'll find it rewarding the more you know. In that sense it's good for enthusiasts but I have no idea if it would actually be good for you.

You are probably seeing lots of Debian posters here because people tend to deliberately choose Debian instead of landing on it at random. You don't really stick with Debian unless you really like it. People tend to migrate to Debian after becoming familiar with Linux. Someone on Fedora or Ubuntu or Mint might not be enthusiastic about their distro they're just picking something that's easy and works.

>>107941520
>Is Slackware a meme os
It's supposedly about as popular as lubuntu according to distrowatch

>>107941478
Why does this look so funny?

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I just thought I'd try Cachy

I'm trying to run Hitman 2 through Wine in fullscreen. I'm using Fedora KDE Plasma.

The game doesn't support my screen's resolution by default so when I force the faked KDE Plasma fullscreen feature the window gets zoomed in. The default game's fullscreen feature doesnt work. There is no maximize button.

What I want is to go fullscreen but using black borders or at least maximize the window. Are there any obvious things I should look for?

I'm currently messing off with the windows rules but I'm bit new to linux.

>>107943918
You have two choices:
>install BorderlessGaming and run it alongside Hitman 2, and force borderless via that way, it works really well with problematic games
>or use gamescope I guess

>>107943918
Forgot: for borderless gaming you will need to always run the game in a window.

>>107943918
[SOLVED]

>>107944014
>>107944022
I'll have that in mind for the future but I just downloaded a spicy hotfix. Thanks.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=219405228

>>107944049
It's good to have a software stack because some games don't like gamescope (your mouse cursor might escape and when forcing cursor grab its sensitivity feels different if its a FPS game) therefore I recommended borderlessGaming.
dgVoodoo2 is also good to have for 2000-2010 games, but afaik the new versions are all having issues with the latest wine/proton.
2.79.3 still works. Unfortunately it's not available via the official repo any longer.
>https://github.com/legluondunet/mlls-tools/tree/master/dgVoodoo2
If you are paranoid use virustotal to scan the dll files.

>>107944049
>>107943918
WINE also has a virtual desktop that forces full screen to run in a window.

how do I get fedora kde to stop maximizing windows into a third of the screen when shift dragging?

>>107944126
nta but Is there a way to enable the virtual desktop via command line only? wouldn't like to use winecfg especially when I have only one prefix for my stuff.

if proxmox is debian does that mean i can install regular debian, then install proxmox, then start proxmox, then access a shit ton of random vms/sandboxes from the same machine by connecting to localhost?

i havent undersood the premise of proxmox yet in a practical sense. do you USE vms through the remote browser? or do you connect to host through a remote virtualization-viewer client program? i am vaguely aware of something called libvirt (a daemon working with qemu) and a gui that acts as a client, and the result is something that feels like virtualbox.

>>107941478
fuck i cant do this with my left hand

>>107944174
Not easily. I think you have to make a startup script that uses regedit (wine regedit add KEY...) to enable it. You'll have to look up the keys since I have no idea which are required

>>107944297
>wine regedit
It's actually just "wine reg" to add keys from command line

>>107944333
>>107944297
Thanks, I can script that one, registry is just a text file. Don't need it right now but maybe in the future. I do everything via scripts anyway.

has anyone here gotten hardware video decoding to work on any chromium browser?

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I'm trying to add fcitx5 as a runit service so I can have a japanese input method without having to manually start fcitx5 every time.
I made /etc/runit/sv/fcitx5_custom with:

 
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/local/bin/fcitx5_custom >/home/me/debug 2>&1

where fcitx5_custom is just:

#!/bin/bash
export USER="me"
export HOME="/home/$USER"
export USERID=$(id -g $USER)
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$USERID
/usr/bin/fcitx5

This isn't working; the logs in ~/debug look fine except for:

E2026-01-22 18:07:53.841075 addonloader.cpp:96] Failed to create addon: dbus Failed to connect to session dbus
I2026-01-22 18:07:53.841095 addonmanager.cpp:200] Could not load addon dbus

So the issue seems to be dbus. Of course I can run fcitx5 manually and everything works normally, but I'd like it to work as a runit service. Can anyone help?

>>107936601
which distro should I pick for desktop use?
I've only ever used debian stable on headless servers but I'm gonna see if I can get comfy with desktop linux. Arch seems fun and that's what I'm inclined to pick, but I hear a lot about updates breaking everything and I'm the type of person who wants to set my computer up the way I like and have it stay exactly that way for years.

>>107944652
I wonder if you need the variable $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

But honestly if you're having to set all these user-specific vars it's probably a sign that you're trying to reinvent the wheel here and run user services as system wide ones.
The concept of user services is a common thing, and I think just about every init system supports some method of doing it. You may have to run a 2nd instance of the init system, but that's normal. I'm not totally sure how it's done in runit but I'm sure you can find it documented somewhere.

>>107938663
i used a live mint usb and tested everything
the same thing happened, and i checked that its a different kernel version
what nexts?

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Newfag here, how do I permanently disable a pcie device on Linux? Finally bought a QCNCM865 card so I can get rid of the God awful integrated motherboard WIFI.
There is no setting in the BIOS to disable it btw.

I tryed booting up a thumb drive of fedora 43 and got:


0.875516] nce: [Hardware Errorl: CPU O: Machine Check: 0 Bank 27: baa000000
000080b
0.875524] mce: [Hardware Errorl: TSC 0 MISC d012000100000000 SYND 5₫000000
IPID 1002e00000500
0.875533] mce: CHardware Error]: PROCESSOR 2:a20f10 TIME 1769121798 SOCKET
APIC O microcode O
1.4500601 dracut-cmdline[442]: //lib/dracut/hooks/cmdline/29-parse-livenet.
34.1492691 igb 0000:26:00.0 enp3BsO: NETDEU WATCHDOG: CPU: 8: transmit queue 1 tined out 5360 ms


what is that about?

I've got a virtual camera using v4l2loopback
/dev/video10

How do I make firefox use it as my camera?

>got fedora with btrfs
>don't know how to actually do a roll back if I need to
I just know there's gonna be a hundred different utilities to choose from that are all anywhere between 0.1% different and completely different. Is there one that comes pre-packaged with fedora that I should start with?

>>107942963
The way I see it, Debian is just Ubuntu: Server Edition (or Ubuntu is just Debian: Home Edition). Not literally of course, but in practical effect.

>>107943576
A lot of schools, businesses, agencies, etc use Ubuntu-based setups around the world tbdesu. That figure seems quite possible.

How do I get rid of screen tearing on TDE with Intel HD Graphics? The /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf thingo just makes me boot to a TTY

>>107944691
Debian is for you my friend. Debian KDE is perfect for people who want a GUI akin to Windows 7 onwards.

I'm having a wifi issue with an HP All-In-One 24-df1xxx where the wifi works but after being used a bit, the wifi drops completely until I reboot.
I'm using this wifi card:
RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter (vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.)

>>107945155
I think I found a solution but just in case I'm wrong
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2315549#p2315549

I am using Linux Mint and the Kernel driver in use is rtw_8821ce so I'm hoping this is the fix

>>107945139
>The /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf thingo just makes me boot to a TTY
What driver are you using? xf86-video-intel?

>>107945143
well I am very interested in ricing, I def wanna dick around with different WM/DE options to figure out what I like

>>107945188
Be careful what you wish for

Any good GNU/Linux Youtube channels you'd recommend?
Here are a few:
>The Linux Cast
>Explaining Computers
>Chris Titus Tech
>SomeOrdinaryGamers
>Linux for Seniors
>Switched to Linux
>Learn Linux TV
>Brodie Robertson

>>107939574
what benchmarks?

>>107939574
If it's 50%+ slower they're most likely teasing something with CoW enabled where it shouldn't be. It's something you have to be aware of if you use btrfs for random block write intensive programs.

>>107945155
Buy a real wifi adapter and try again. Realtek isn't worth trying to fix.

>>107945038
Mount the default subvolume, delete the current root subvol, and create a new RW snapshot from one of your existing RO snapshots.

>>107939574
>benchmarks
have no connection to real life usage, as you don't constantly write gigabytes of data to disk and kernel caches writes anyway.

>>107939574
>Rheltard
>BTRFS
They don't even ship it in their operating system. Lmao.
I ask once again, are you actually experiencing a performance problem with BTRFS?
Other people's benchmarks don't mean much when it runs more than adequately on my system.

>>107945155
>>107945653
well I'm pretty sure that mint forum actually fixed my problem. it wasn't my PC that needed fixing, it was my friend's and in my opinion he should've just used ethernet but meh

>>107945804
>finally my system is performing well after installing the rtl8821ce driver from github because the default rtl8821ce-dkms driver from the repo is outdated.

This is why you don't install Mint, it has become useless.

Just use something like MXLinux or Devuan.

Is there a desktop environment that fully supports Wayland that isn't a bloated piece of shit with 2-3GB of ram on idle?

>>107943679
Distrowatch isn't a measure of popularity. It's a measure of popularity among people who visit Distrowatch, which is almost nobody and a very specific subset of Linux users.

>>107945028
Usually a website will request camera access and give you a popup. Inside that popup you'll have a dropdown where you pick your primary camera. Otherwise there should be an icon in your URL bar which lets you do the same.

>>107946064
KDE and GNOME? It's not like a DE will take up too much RAM for shits and giggles. The way operating systems are made nowadays is if they detect you have RAM to spare they'll take up RAM more aggressively. If your PC only has 4GB of memory a KDE or GNOME distro will only take up 1GB-1.6GB. But if you have 16GB or more, it will take up 1.5GB-3GB of memory. You can disable stuff you don't need, like Baloo, KRunner, most desktop effects, etc.

>>107945433
lol, i've spent a good amount of time ricing stuff like weechat or tmux but I've never had a proper WM or DE to mess around with. It's one of the main appeals to me desu

>>107946064
>wayland desktop that isn’t bloated
>404: Not Found
Use Xorg with DWM built from source. Anything else is pointless.

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how do i figure out which sensor is where?

>>107946591
check the board schematics
>my board didn't come with diagrams
borrow your mom's hair dryer

>>107946211
>The way operating systems are made nowadays is if they detect you have RAM to spare they'll take up RAM more aggressively
be quiet you dunning kruger nigger

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anyone who uses steam suffering from this? https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/8003

I was wondering why I couldnt suspend my computer, it was like something was inhibiting it but it wouldnt show on the list of inhibitors, only after doing sudo demsg -w did I see there was some error constantly getting spammed and it lead me to steam being the culprit, apparently it has some pretty big bug that fucks with your CPU's performance. Pic is my demsg logs they just look like that for thousands of lines. The weird part is even after closing steam it still won't let me suspend

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I'm on Debian 13.
I start sway by using this in my .profile (no display manager):

if [ -z "$WAYLAND_DISPLAY" ] && [ -n "$XDG_VTNR" ] && [ "$XDG_VTNR" -eq 1 ] ; then
    exec sway
fi

In my profile i also set path to include both $HOME/.local/bin and $HOME/bin. It's the default .profile config in Debian.

Login tty1, sway starts, I open a terminal and the $PATH no longer includes my bin folders from $HOME. They are included on tty console, but mo longer after a graphical environment is up (sway, i3 doesn't matter). No terminal emulator sees the right $PATH as setup by .profile.

It used to be that starting from tty1 after login would mean the graphical environment would inherit the proper $PATH as set by .profile. This is no longer the case and I just don't know why and when did this change?

>>107946788
>stop saying factually correct things
Ok, retard.

>>107946818
>split_lock_detect=off
to your grubtastic kernel parameters.

>>107945577
I don't watch or use youtube.

>>107946064
Doesn't LXQt basically support Wayland now (2.3)?

>>107945577
>Any good GNU/Linux Youtube channels you'd recommend?
no

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>>107945606
>>107945646
>>107945748
>>107945758
oof, might as well don't waste money on a nice SSD and keep using spinning rust if you are using btrfs

Are Android x86 or Chrome OS good options for weak old computers which are still usable by the tech illiterate?
I tried Android x86 briefly but it only supports internet through wifi and seems to be tailored for tablets or at least laptops

Otherwise id install tiny core or antix but those are hard for people

>>107947019
Just use Mint

>>107947024
this but ubuntu
mint demands the user fiddle with drivers, updates, firmware, firewalls as soon as they start the os. it is not user-friendly for the tech illiterate. ubuntu handles all that in the background automatically and is much better for them

>>107947044
Yeah but GNOME is ass

>>107947051
a valid opinion. there's always the ubuntu flavours in other DEs though

>>107947060
>>107947044
Fuck off with your advertising.
>>107947019
Install any distro. Retards who are touting something specific are always techlets and/or underage brats. If you think some magical "distro" makes your computer like Mac perhaps lower your expectations and buy a real Mac.

stating a fact isn't advertising

>>107947091
>If you think some magical "distro" makes your computer like Mac perhaps lower your expectations and buy a real Mac.
its not about me, its about making it easy to use for seniors or for normies
>>107947024
I install mint when its an option
some computers are too old even for mint, and Ubuntu dropped 32bit so Lubuntu is not as light as it used to be in 18.04 LTS

>>107947119
>some computers are too old even for mint, and Ubuntu dropped 32bit
I am sorry and what am gonna say might trigger some autists on here but if your PC/laptop isn't x64, it might be time for the landfill.
Even my old ass Q9550 system can run any modern Linux just fine.

>>107947182
theres some high end laptops from the 2000's which literally run just fine, can browse the web and so on
then again those arent 32 bit
Its just a shame that working computers have to be sent to the landfill

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>open-sores VNC between laptop and main rig just doesn't want to work for whatever esoteric reason
>mfw it turns out Steam Remote Play is just a VNC that just werks out of the box without any additional setup
Great. But any security concerns? Like Gaben being able to jork it with me when I open my remote machines porn folder through a video signal that runs through Steam?

>>107947019
>weak old computers
How weak and how old? Any distro or DE can run on 4 GB of memory. If you want to give them Linux, give them Bluefin. Otherwise try FydeOS.

>>107947051
GNOME is almost the same UI paradigm as Android and ChromeOS. If Android/ChromeOS are contenders, then Ubuntu (or ZorinOS for winbabies) should be too.

>>107947182
This. You can buy a new x64 PC or laptop for $200. Even less if you're buying used.

>>107947019
ChromeOS is pretty good

>>107947010
Moronix leaves CoW on for database tests

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>>107947462
>NOT FAIR, HE IS USING THE DEFAul....t settings...
Retard.

/fglt/ I don't know if I'm going crazy or not
I have a problem with how Plasma on Wayland has been handling fractional scaling for a long time. I'm using 125% scaling on Plasma and it's not great. With subpixel rendering set to RGB, smaller fonts look slightly deformed and inconsistent (sometimes letters will have their legs cut off, sometimes they won't). Things like taskbar icons are also somewhat blurry but that's not too much of a big deal.
By changing QT_SCALE_FACTOR_ROUNDING_POLICY to RoundPreferFloor I can have sharp icons, but oddly enough, while smaller fonts are no longer deformed, they go blurrier. In fact it's like someone smeared vaseline all over.
With Firefox there's a bit of a known issue where if you resize the window on fractional scaling, fonts go blurry. People report this is an issue on GNOME that Plasma has fixed. But this is happening to me on plasma. I have decent looking fonts on a maximized window. Fonts go blurrier if I F11. Fonts go blurrier if I restore the window size and change it around. Sometimes it's blurrier, sometimes sharper, depends on the size. Fuck is going on?

>>107947488
Databases track their own integrity. There's no reason not to disable CoW if you're doing multi-gb block writes.

>arguing back and forth over distrowatch
Okay now I want to see what /g/ uses

https://strawpoll.com/BJnXVE5DOZv

>>107945006
Bad RAM/motherboard or degraded CPU.

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>>107944798
AI is your friend (use it at your own risk)

What's the state of nvidia drivers these days, especially on wayland? Thinking of upgrading from a rx 580 to something newer

>>107947709
It's fine aside from issues with some niche things like 30% worse dxvk performance, no hardware acceleration in waydroid, etc.

>>107947709
Upgrade to something AMD if you want to use Linux. Nvidia driver is usable, but "usable" is the most generous description I can give it. In the year or so I used Linux with a nvidia card (up to about december 2015), only once did I feel like my experience was improving. It was mostly just getting worse to be honest. Games that worked great before started working worse, mpv started working worse and I was on wayland the entire time so it wasn't some x to wayland move causing issues here.

>>107947763
My bad, I meant december 2025. Damn, I wish it was 2015 again.

>>107945038
Pretty sure Fedora doesn't do that. The subvolume layout has to be made for rollbacks so that it doesn't delete your files. Snapper or Timeshift is what people use to rollback

>>107947488
It makes no sense to compare CoW to non-CoW, the featureset profile is completely different.

>>107947709
For games it's a mixed bag, performance loss is the biggest issue with DX12 titles
For desktop usage there's a couple of bugs here and there. It doesn't do very well with some display settings. Wayland is not perfect on it.
For productivity (graphics) and AI it is somewhat better than AMD in some cases though. Some GPU accelerated software just shits the bed with AMD.

>>107946831
Do you export them?

>>107947639
This confirms it. 60% of Linux users use Arch while 40% use Debian.

>>107947709
>hinking of upgrading from a rx 580 to something newer
Then upgrade to AMD

>>107944798
>>107947673
Looking at this gibberish makes want to throw up. You can just directly blacklist device driver via grub parameters.
eg. this is how you blacklist noeuvau drivers. Just add your device driver there and recreate grub
>modprobe.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core
Chatpajeet always recommends creating additional small separate configuration files which is not logical at all.

>>107947718
I heard about the dx12 having lower performance, but I mostly play old or indie games so it might not be too bad
>>107947820
>Wayland is not perfect on it.
Are there significant problems like crashes/black screens, or is it just minor issues?
CUDA seems nice to have for blender and maybe some local AI, I've had koboldcpp running on vulkan but it was pretty slow

>>107948008
>Are there significant problems like crashes/black screens
These problems exist.

>>107947010
You mean to say the CoW filesystem that's at an inherent disadvantage for supporting a more complex feature-set is almost on par with ext4?
I'd call that a win. You're not going to notice the difference in the real world.

>>107947820
>for AI it is somewhat better than AMD in some cases
>somewhat
Fuck off, it is so much better that you are wasting your money if you think AMD is suitable for AI on any platform.
>>107948008
Nvidia is fine. People exaggerate these issues because they are retards.

>>107948008
>Are there significant problems like crashes/black screens, or is it just minor issues?
Specifically my experience with the 4070S as of about 2 months ago (because I swapped to a 9070xt), I had small desktop artifacts, HDR wasn't supported over anything but Plasma (although to be honest, on AMD it's not a much better experience out of Plasma as I found out), and VRR is somewhat buggier with high refresh rates.
And firefox on wayland mode performs like ass. Scrolling is really stuttery unless you set the idle clocks to a fixed considerably high core clock frequency. Speaking of which I honestly don't like how you can't really handle a proper undervolt on nvidia on linux. On AMD it's literally 3 fucking sliders and everything's great.

>>107948045
HDR is only supported by Plasma and somewhat by Gnome. Other DEs are hobby projects.

>>107947786
There's nothing stopping you from making ro snapshots of root / home / whatever in the default subvolume. You don't need a special GUI to handle snapshots. It's all built into the kernel and btrfs(1)

>>107948040
Just because you get lucky and don't end up encountering issues doesn't mean they don't exist. I just tested the latest nvidia driver and they had fixed a lot of really crippling issues such as crashing and filling up RAM on alt tab in certain games, which is good, but that doesn't mean those crippling issues never existed.
Actually holy shit they fixed so many I'm honestly a bit impressed. Still isn't outputting wide gamut.

>>107947964
You are assuming anon uses ancient shit like grub

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>>107948022
>>107947806
>>107947631
Just take the L shartfs tards

>>107948333
What 'L'? Why would you want to use a filesystem with less features when you can use one with lots of good features and still get the same performance as ext4 anyway?

Daily reminder: That XFS can't even resize itself.

>>107941303
Any reason?

>>107941493
Debian. And you could probably get away with just running an arch distrobox to use the aur

>>107941520
The only thing i don't like about slackware is that they expect you to install a ton of extreme bloat (two desktops worth of bloat) due to not being able to handle dependencies

>>107941957
Gnome-boxes? Virt-manager?

>>107944174

winetricks vd=1920x1080

Or replace 1920x1080 with whatever resolution you want.
And to disable virtual desktop just do winetricks vd=off

>>107948325
No you stupid fuck, I am assuming people know what kernel parameters are.

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>>107947840
I don't. I use the default skel .profile which doesn't.
https://sources.debian.org/src/bash/5.2.37-2/debian/skel.profile

But this used to work. I'm not sure why it doesn't anymore or when did it change.

>>107944652
Im pretty sure runit has a command that lets you run the service as a user with chpst -u me .
You're likely missing $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and either $WAYLAND_DISPLAY or $DISPLAY but you should just have it autostart from the desktop so that it doesnt miss any env variables
You also dont really need the custom script and can just put all the stuff in /usr/local/bin/fcitx5_custom directly into the /etc/runit/sv/fcitx5_custom/run file
>>107944724
>The concept of user services is a common thing, and I think just about every init system supports some method of doing it.
Aside from systemd none of the other init system properly handles user services the same way you can from using the built in autostart xdg functionality that most desktops adhere to. I dont remember how integrated turnstille is but that one was the closest to doing systemd user services automatically without having to get the desktop to autostart it.

>>107948408
thanks honey i will implement this to for my script

>>107944798
Does rfkill work?

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Can someone explain to a layman (me, anon) how ReactOS works?

>>107948451
>Aside from systemd none of the other init system properly handles user services the same way you can from using the built in autostart xdg functionality that most desktops adhere to.
That's because the desktops don't code the functionality for it. You could handle autostart services like that under OpenRC now if you wanted to but all of the desktops only integrate with Systemd.

>>107944691
Mint has a debian edition called LMDE but regular mint is basically also debian as well it just uses ubuntus repos instead of debians repos while lmde uses debians repos.

>>107945577
Kris occhipinti
I don't really find any of those channels you listed any useful aside from Explaining Computers

>>107946006
You know that mint, mx and devuan all use debians repos right? Devuan packages are just rebuilds of the packages from debian repos.

>>107948466
It's an operating system like any other only this particular one happens to work like some random version of Windows NT.

Unlike Wine which is emulating Windows userspace, this is running them natively almost as if React OS itself were Windows (which of course it's not, it's just a reverse engineering effort to achieve something that's kind of the same thing except not really).

What this means is you can do things in ReactOS that aren't possible in Wine like use USB drivers written for Windows.

>>107948333
You're literally the only one here having problems with btrfs

>>107948503
He also has issues with ext4 too apparently.
>NOOOO, YOU CAN'T JUST POINT OUT THAT BTRFS IS PERFORMING IDENTICAL TO IT
>THAT RUINS THE NARRATIVE
>Grrrrr

>>107946211
>KDE and GNOME?
>2-3GB of ram on idle.
Its pretty obvious he's talking about kde and gnome
>>107946973
It does but i wouldnt call it mature enough yet. It's still missing functionality from xorg mainly a way to setup and change screen resolutions without manually setting it from a config file.

>>107946831
You might want to put those in something like .bashrc or .bash_profile instead of .profile . It might be launching sway too early before it can read your bashrc or whatever shellrc you're using.

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>>107948502
Thanks. That explains it better. Have another Apu.

>>107947019
Last i checked androidx86 is abandoned use blissOS instead.

>>107948466
They're trying to reverse-engineer the nt kernel (the kernel windows uses) and create a foss version compatible with programs and drivers made for windows. Its like a step-up from wine since a lot of the work is based on wine.

>>107948467
How would you code the functionality for it? Can i do it manually through my window manager with a shellscript or something?
>You could handle autostart services like that under OpenRC now if you wanted to
How so? I kind of know how to do it with runit.

>>107948573
They added user-services to it now like Systemd. All you'd need is a converter program like Systemd has that reads the autostart entries and then generates user-services from them.

The problem though is that every desktop out there is going to handle auto-starting itself so you're going to have to find a way to disable that behaviour just like they disable it for Systemd.

>>107947010
>benchmarkfagging
...and how much do these numbers actually realistically matter?

been using cachyos on my lappy for a year now, it's alright, I want to switch to using arch linux because there are many apps I don't use in cachy, would there be any performance upgrades doing that?

>>107947193
Try sunshine + moonlight instead of steam remote play.

>>107948614
You might lose some performance by switching to arch since cachy is supposed to be more optimized

>>107948614
Arch requires you to manually configure it for performance. Unless CachyOS doesn't do the configuration for you (which I'm sure they do), you're far more likely to lose performance on Arch if you don't know what you're doing.
Most likely you'll see little to no difference.

>>107948638
>>107948661
thanks, I guess scrubs should stay with cachyos

>>107948460
Thanks for this command anon

>>107948282
I get why people shill AMD for Linux but it's irresponsible to keep doing it when someone mentions AI. I've never heard of anything but pure pain from trying to use AMD for compute tasks. You can't just discount that. You should be honest even if the answer is that: if you want both good gaming and AI performance, you're stuck with nvidia+windows. That's why I'm happy to see nvidia graphics improvements, its probably more likely that they'll get decent on linux than that AMD will get CUDA to work well. AMD has never been competent at driver dev, the reason they're good on linux now is that they gave up.

I'm kind of curious if anyone has positive reports for using comfyui/llamacpp on AMD now, but last I heard it was dire.

>main rig has wangblows
>broken by microslop jeetcode again
>wanted to switch to linux anyhow
>Use Ubuntu at work
>two machines already running LM (T420 and X13g4)

I want something works even if some setup is required, and it's basically it's a question of considering putting LM on the main rig as usually or trying either Nobara or CachyOS. Which distro the preferred one currently?

>>107948990
Your premise is broken from the start. When you sign off with "than that AMD will get CUDA to work well" it's obvious you never gave them a fair shot in the first place.

CUDA is proprietary NVIDIA tech, it will never work as well as getting an NVIDIA card to run it on.
ZLUDA exists and is performing miracles but there are limits to it.

>>107948990
Where was AI mentioned? That guy said he plays older and indie games, and I had issues crashing in an older indie game not some CUDA slop maker.
Yeah, nvidia is better for AI but how's that gonna help you play older indie games? What are you gonna make AI videos of gameplay or something? Nvidia with the current driver considering the fixes they implemented is better on Linux than Windows anyway. AI is significantly better on Linux.

>>107948990
what amd hardware do you mean? my 9070 xt does zturbo on comfyui very well on windows, it's probably even better on linux

Why can't I upgrade from Debian 11 to 13? The guide says you have to upgrade to 12.

>>107949057
There may be migrations that happen in 12 (maybe usrmerge? Can't remember if that was then or not?) that Debian expects your system to have instead of jumping straight to 13 so you have to go via 12 first.

That or it's just them being cautious.

>>107949071
I guess it won't take too long. Just seems like a waste of bandwidth if you're not doing a fresh install.

>>107949057
That's pretty normal for point release distros. You can take the risk and update but you might end up with a broken system.

>>107948529
Yeah. I know i can set the path propely in .bashrc, I just don't get why this config that worked before is no longer working. As I said, if i disable sway autostart, i login into tty, do echo $PATH it seems is set alright. while I'm on the console it ok. If I start sway manually, open the terminal, the path is reset, no longer including my $HOME/bin directories, so I don't think it's a thing of sway starting too early. The path is set before startingnit manually. I type and run exec sway or just sway and the terminals i open no longer have the proper path. What makes me wonder is what could have changed.

New thread: >>107949389

>>107949057
Because every major release of a distro has different package dependency semantics, and they only provide mappings from one release to the next. You can't just install all the same packages from the next version because they get merged, obsoleted, depend on different things, ...

>>107948968
I don't think rfkill is permanent though so you'll have to do it every time you boot

>>107948583
So how do you set it up with openrc?

>>107949261
Maybe it has something to do with whichever terminal you're using?

>>107946511
Dwl exists as a port of Dwm to Wayland

>>107949405
https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2025-09-04-openrc-user-services.html

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC#User_services

>>107949490
Will this be able to automatically get the env variables like $WAYLAND_DISPLAY $DISPLAY $SWAYSOCK like systemd does without having to be manually set?