I've got a question after being off /g/ for some time (5 year GNU+Linux user).
Looked at Distrowatch for the first time in many moon cycles. Notice CachyOS is well over 4k hpd. MX Linux & Mint follow, distantly at over 2k, BUT MX & Mint were always around 2k in the number 1 & 2 slots.
Is this Win11 at work?
Is this "The Year" ?

>>108005559
no it's not the year it's just a bump for new meme distro that will fade with time.

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>>108005559
There's a new massive wave of new Linux users. CachyOS is just a popular pick since it's marketed as a "high performance distro", a "gaming distro" and a "distro for power users".
>Is this Win11 at work?
Pretty much yes. But also partially Valve/SteamOS. CachyOS is based on Arch just like SteamOS and techtubers have promoted it as a good alternative to SteamOS which many gamer normies want to try out or use. The other one being pushed is Bazzite.
>Is this "The Year" ?
Could be, at least to some extent. Especially since Steam Machine is being released. So there's finally a more mainstream Linux-only pre-built PC.

But there's a high chance it will become irrelevant in 5 years just like Manjaro did. Pic related.

>>108005559
Influencers are doing their thing. It won't stick. Problem to a new cummer is that there is too much choice and if one thing gets promoted as the gayming distro...
In reality they would be better of with some standard redhat or debian.

>>108004919
just check what GNU is doing.

> strace -e read cp x /dev/null
.....
read(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 262144) = 262144
....
> numfmt --to=iec-i 262144
256Ki

>>108005569
It seems like a pretty significant bump. If I remember correctly (probably not) the number 1 & 2 HPD's were usually around 2k each. I probably need to look back at those numbers and see. Even if the HPD's are are on the rise; I suppose you're right about "the Year", it's not.

>>108005657
Steam Machine is being released? Interesting.

>>108005681
>better of with some standard redhat or debian
Maybe Fedora for a while before CachyOS? I don't Arch so I can't really speak to that.
>it won't stick
We'll see, the hate for win11 seems pretty strong. Many tech Influencers have been posting at least occasionally for GNU/Linux for years, so win users finally saying win11 is too far can step into Linux with a lot more assurance than the win7-10 jumpers had.
I'm not sure that made any sense.

>>108005681
>Start my fedora installation
>Nothing proprietary is allowed to be installed by default
>Sounds fine
>Turns out youtube videos and webm don't play
>No nvidia drivers by default too
>Try to use report program to report something
>Retrace failed every single time
>Look up fedora stack for something
>It was written 10 versions and there's no note if it works on current
More nerd shit for people who spend more time ricing their computer than actually using it. Sasuga.

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use case for ads in my fucking notifications?

>>108006371
Do they at least let you turn it off?
(KDE does the same thing but it's only shown once a year and can be disabled)

>>108002979
>>108002992
Have the same issue on https://riceballman.web.fc2.com//frame.html
When I opened the Inspect I noticed the website has a custom priority list for which font it wants you to use, so it overrides whatever you choose for it

>FontAAB
>font-family: "Mona","IPA モナー Pゴシック","IPAMonaPGothic","IPA mona PGothic","IPA MONAPGOTHIC","MS PGothic AA","mona-gothic-jisx0208.1990-0","MS PGothic","MS Pゴシック", "Saitamaar", sans-serif;
It doesn't seem to be working very well though. I think its supposed to set the font to the one with highest priority one first, which should be Mona, but due to a mistake it sets the font to sans-serif?
Not sure if that applies to your website too though.

What IS useful is that I just used some addon to override the font manually, I think stylebot. Its a bit tricky to use though.

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>>108006389
Yes but not in the control center. You need dconf-editor

>>108005559
>MX & Mint were always around 2k in the number 1 & 2 slots.
Nah, MX was (allegedly) botted to 4000 hits in 2019-2021.

>>108006482
Fontconfig is literally black magic. I'm already satisfied when my fonts aren't completely shot

>>108006482
>What IS useful is that I just used some addon to override the font manually, I think stylebot. Its a bit tricky to use though.
You could just override CSS with Stylus.

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>>108006483
Typical GNOME.
>We need a way for power users and enterprise customers to disable this nag
>Do we put it in the settings?
>Hell no! That would be too confusing. Let's make the user type out some magic dconf command to disable it instead.

>>108006486
Do you think CachyOS is currently a botted number? win11 hate might really be that strong AND hardware prices might be pushing win users to GNU+Linux with very capable win10 machines. I don't game so I have no idea what win11 game compatibility looks like.

>>108006678
Everything on Distrowatch is botted. It just tracks page views you can't trust it for anything more than a vague feeling of which distros are somewhat active.

>>108006699
Yeah, sorry about that comment/question. The 2019-21 reference to MX had me thinking briefly there was some scandal I missed (my first dive into GNU+Linux was in '21 with a C2D laptop with antiX, later bodhi Linux).

>>108006882
edit
>(my first dive into GNU+Linux was in '21 with a C2D laptop with antiX, later bodhi Linux)

That was my second, 1st was Ubuntu 20.10 on a ddr3, am3+ desktop in 2020

>>108006486
lies

>>108006183
fuck off we're full

>>108007099
"Friendly gnu linux thread" but people keep recommending crap and its full of the usual /g/ shitposters. Is this a joke?

>>108005709
NTA but this a really neat trick, thanks

>>108006371
>GNOME needs your help
No it fucking doesn't, they get enough money from Red Hat to argue about basic features they will never implement

>>108007136
>he said
>while rage baiting for tech support
you're the biggest cunt here

>>108006183
>>Turns out youtube videos and webm don't play
Had this problem before, you're missing libavcodecs or ffmpeg, just install those and it should work

>>108007185
>Ragebaiting for tech support
Its a explanation on why suggesting Fedora to a newcomer is retarded. It actually contributes to the thread, unlike your shitposting.

>>108007206
I'm fine, but thanks.

>>108007136
I've had the same 'crap' on my machines (2 dtops, 3 laps) for a quite a while now, so not crap and no MSwins for 5 years. I haven't posted here in almost a year so prolly not the same shitposters. Anything else?

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Why does compiling from source feel so good bros?
I really like when my terminal shits text on the screen and goes brrrr... haha
And when it's done I get to enjoy a great piece of software compiled to my own liking
Thank you RMS for giving us this wonderful gift

>>108006183
bazzite™ doesn't have this problem

I wish Paint dot net was on Linux. GIMP sucks donkey balls.

>>108007305
Use Kolorpaint or Krita then

>>108005178
>pic
Those old book covers were so whimsical. Do people still make them like that?

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how do i make my kernel use less ram

In my opinion, LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is the logical conclusion to GNU/Linux desktop computing. It is simply the best distro.

when i log in to my cachyos install, i get a black screen for about ~2 seconds before my desktop appears, though i can still type things so the DE is definitely loaded behind it. the input selection icon (hdmi 1) appears on my monitor's osd so i think the monitor is actually losing signal when this happens. i'm still using sddm, might switching to the new plasma login manager that ships with the latest iso fix this? not a big deal but it'd be nice to have the login as instant as everything else seems to be on linux.

I want to host a server somewhere like a VPS basicallly whats decent nowadays? I switched from linode to digital ocean but then DO went down the fucking shitter. What a pile of trash. I just want to host a basic ass go website and not have it be slow as fuck.

>>108007260
now imagine using software (You) developed, compiled and deployed

>>108007440
the kernel isn't the one using most of your ram anon, it's userspace so you gotta look at alternative init scripts and cherry picking services

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>>108007897
that isn't true though

>>108007440
Only include the drivers you use.

What do you guys think of OpenSuse? I'm on Mint and I'm bored and want to hop

>>108007749
I'm using Vultr for a prod web app. I investigated Hetnzer recently because they give you about 2x the hardware for 1/2 the price, but testing what they give you the 1vCPU on Vultr outperformed the 2 vCPUs on Hetzner. These are dedicated VPS. I would think that any dedicated VPS would be plenty for just a website, though. Probably 10s to hundreds of websites depending on traffic.

I’ve have this old but reliable Alienware 17 R3, and after falling for the “Windows 10 is going EOL” meme, I decided to install Bazzite. Everything works great except for Bluetooth on the Intel Killer 1535—it doesn’t seem to understand LE and always defaults to BR/EDR. My DualShock 4 and Steam Controller pair fine initially, but if I turn them off and back on, they won’t reconnect. The same happens with my SteelSeries Arctis and DeathAdder. Every time I use Bluetooth, I have to delete the devices, restart the systemd Bluetooth dæmon, and pair them again. I’ve spent 40 minutes troubleshooting with no success. Is there a fix for this, or is it just how it is? If I can’t get Bluetooth working on Linux, I’ll go back to Windows 10 LTSC. The annoying part is that I just transferred most of the stuff from my mechanical 1TB drive to the NVMe just to reformat said drive from NTFS to XFS... and if I switch back to Windows 10, I’ll have to do it all over again.
Is not a rant about Linux; its great, but I'm not buying a new wireless card.

>>108008008
If by including drivers you mean module files, those modules won't load unless the device is there. Or if the "feature" isn't there, like using a filesystem only takes the module when needed.
Although there's stuff like virtualisation support you could ditch and save memory. And firewalling, that seems to load no matter what.
>>108007440
Use some super old kernel branch. Define maximum CPUs to the number of cores you currently have. Disable virtualisation unless you use it. Disable the '64-bit kernel' option.
You can spend days or even weeks neckbearding with that shit, I've done it.
>menuconfig
Isn't nconfig better?

I use to be on Mint but switched to Fedora this year, it's pretty nice I like it.

So I just got a new hard drive for my old gaming pc and I want to use it as a testing rig to try out different distros and experiment with them.

Right now on my main pc I use Mint Cinnamon, but I’ve heard other distros, like fedora, are better. What actually is the best distro for gaming? Other than Bazzite. Is CatchyOS good?

>>108006183
>>Turns out youtube videos and webm don't play
I use to have that problem until I typed this in the terminal
>sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing
Now webms/mp4s work on /wsg/ without a problem

>>108007327
I’ll try them, but have you tried Paint dot net? It’s perfect.

>2026
>still not a single fucking linux distribution that just works as a desktop with an appstore

Holy shit, when will linooox ever be usable. KDE is the most windowsesque you could say in its design, requirements and function and it still fails.

Your choices are kubuntu with snaps or manual installation with debian/arch. You could use MX linux but parents cant use that since theres no easy app store.

How hard is it to just fucking make a debian distribution with discover flatpak. For gaymers they can

>>108006486
Pretty sure MX is just that high because no systemd and how massive the Indian population is in general

>>108008505
Live boot something completly different like cachyos gnome and see if you have the same issues there. Intel wifi cards are supposed to be the best.

>>108009298
Ubuntu

>>108009298
Fedora KDE?

>>108007440
Disable CPU vuln. mitigations.

>>108008840
>Is CatchyOS good?
Yes.

>>108009298
>Your choices are kubuntu with snaps or manual installation with debian/arch
CachyOS, Bazzite, Aurora
>How hard is it to just fucking make a debian distribution with discover flatpak
Oh so you just want debian? It's not really made for KDE unless you use the rolling release version of Debian.
>For gaymers they can
Most "gaymer" distros are also good multipurpose distros. You don't need to play games or keep stuff like Steam installed or enabled.

>>108009668
Snap infested shit, although I will say kubuntu is the least shit out of all preinstalled KDE desktops if you choose the minimal option. That's what I'm using.

Now to a new user snaps may not be a big deal but flatpak is much better. Debian with the latest. Some kind of immutable arch distro with regular apps and discover flatpak as the main app store would be perfect. SteamOS fills that requirement but its not available and is too corporate.

Bazzite is unusable because everything is a flatpak which is absolutely retarded because its destroys load times on applications like your media player or opening images. Makes your PC feel slow and random. Sometimes it opens near instant, sometimes it takes a second, sometimes it takes 2 seconds to open an image.

>>108009708
Broken for new users, no codecs, basically unusable and they have their own retarded flatpak repos that consistently break flathub when you add it to discover.

>>108009709
CachyOS is a flavor of the month based on arch with the worst installer known to man, bazzite see above, aurora. I guess there's ultramarine that takes fedoras retardation and fixes it.

Arch+Immutable with flatpaks as the main source with a non retarded app store is the future but there's none.

>spent like an hour fucking with configuring and compiling the kernel
>just to only reduce memory usage from 400mb to 100mb even with vuln mitigations off
>and the machine was barely usable
feels bad man

>>108009757
>remove everything
>hurr durr shit doesn't work
classic

>>108009718
You asked for a distro that just werks with an App Store. Your personal distaste to Snap is irrelevant to the fact that Ubuntu is such a distro.

>>108009777
retard the point is that even with a minimal broken system the memory reduction was pitiful

>>108009718
>Broken for new users, no codecs
Well true, but other than that I would say its closest to your requirements. Don't know what you mean with the Fedora flatpaks, I don't really use flatpaks that much. It looks like you can remove them easily from Settings.

Fedora KDE, Debian + KDE and Kubuntu all seem like they would fit your requirements of "easy KDE distro with GUI installer".

I like Arch and it would probably be my second choice but, I just don't want to check archlinux.org before updates or use the AUR at all.

>>108009718
>Arch+Immutable with flatpaks as the main source with a non retarded app store is the future but there's none.
It's called SteamOS. You can install Bazaar if you dislike Discover. It will be "available" as soon as the gabecube is released. "KDE Linux" would be another option I guess.
>Bazzite is unusable because everything is a flatpak
This is just false. It has a package manager unlike SteamOS. So there's nothing forcing you to use flatpak. "rpm-ostree install mpv" work fine. rpm-ostree is basically dnf that applies changes in the form of system images. And bazzite itself comes with brew and distrobox/distroshelf as options for your CLI and non-fedora packages.

>>108009818
>saved 75%
>pitiful
bro?

>>108009818
Well here is your ~700K kernel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Juz5sQyYQ

>>108009757
use a 32bit kernel

>>108009949
>Resource efficiency
A lost art that modern developers have lost

I don't think linux desktop will ever be perfect compared to windows 10. Windows 10 I never have to change much besides just switching to dark theme.

KDE is the closest to windows and even then I have to do so many changes to make it function.

Add flatpak and flathub to discover
Turn off screen edges fully
Change the default color to materia dark
Change the accent color back to breeze blue
Turn off floating taskbar
Turn off mouse cursor feedback
Change keyboard speed

Not a huge deal just noting this.

>>108010278
Oh no, Linux isn't 100% like Windows 10?
And that's a very good thing.

>>108005569
Why do people keep insisting CachyOS is a meme distro? Out of the box it provides you Btrfs snapshots totally preconfigured, along with Zram and other niceties. Until other Arch-based distros default to these, CachyOS is well and truly the definitive Arch experience.

>>108010278
>keyboard speed
Huh? Nigga just use your fingers

>>108010477
It’s Germ*n and the name is stupid. EndeavourOS is the better choice if you want a simple Arch derivation.

>>108010538
Arch itself is pretty German.

I installed my first distro today (Lubuntu) to test it on an old laptop with 2GB of RAM. So far so good, but what would you recommend as the best browser option? I'm running the default Firefox on it right now.

>>108010560
Arch itself is Canadian

>>108010586
Firefox is perfectly good to use. Some posters here like Librewolf, Brave, and Vivaldi. Out of those I only really like Vivaldi but I use Firefox because I’m used to it. I recommend that you explore your options, but you may (or not) just return to Firefox.
And welcome!

>>108010586
firefox (native package, not the snap shit you probably got) is sadly still the best browser. Despite how shit it has become, the others are worse.

>>108010605
>>108010616
Thanks anons. I'm still tinkering with the system (mostly getting used to terminal commands) but I've been pleasantly surprised so far, will probably put Linux on my daily driver too.

Should I install CachyOS on my laptop? Currently using Cinnamon Mint.
It has RTX 5050 and 13th Gen I5-13450HX.

>>108010586
Brave, Chromium or anything else using the Blink/Chromium engine. It's overall noticeably faster than Firefox. Sadly all the modern browsers are resource hogs so might as well use whatever is the fastest.

>>108010640
Do it or else.

>>108010616
Lubuntu doesn’t use Snap IIRC, anon’s okay

>>108010640
Not to be rude, but why? Mint (especially LMDE) is one of the best distros as it is

>>108010811
wow, and it still may call itself a buntu?

>>108010811
I really doubt it. In order to be an official Ubuntu spin you have to ship with Snap. Canonical was twisting Kubuntu's nipples when they wanted to remove snapd from their distro.

Mint is best buntu. That's not saying much, but at least it's not as bad as the others.

>>108010919
That's a pretty cold take, anon.

>>108007485
I thought Mint was based on Debian already? (or Mint is based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian)

>>108011051
Mint's main branch is Ubuntu based while it also offers a Debian based variant too.

>>108011051
Mint is based on Ubuntu, but they also have a Debian based fork.

>>108011064
>>108011066
What's the difference?

>>108011196
Debian is a bit cleaner then Ubuntu is and can feel snappier, though it doesn't share repos.

>>108011051
Ubuntu is based on a snapshot version of Debian Unstable. So usually when Ubuntu gets released it's more up to date.

>>108011196
Different repositories are used, different versions of packages. They don't have the exact same ABI compatibility due to how Linux works. Something working on Debian is not guaranteed to work on Ubuntu and vice versa.

>>108007995
The kernel will reserve a chunk of memory for it to use because otherwise the system will crash if the kernel tries to allocate memory for itself and it can't do it.

>>108011256
This is a bit simplistic though. Copilot slop made this research paper you should read:
https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/pages/AAQgokemC8HA7poABshvs

>>108007440
The crux is you can boot with the mem= boot parameter which will force the kernel to assume that there is less RAM in the system. Why you'd want to do this beyond testing I'm not sure. But there's a mechanism to do it.

Do I need to install a firewall on Arch? Or any other security type software?

I am on a desktop PC on a home network and I use a wire to my router not WiFi.

>>108011376
If you're not running any services and aren't schizophrenic enough to be concerned about firewalling outbound connections then not really.

>>108011376
No one forces you

>>108011376
You can if you'd want. A simple firewall like UFW with the options "default allow outgoing" and "default deny incoming" can add an extra layer of security.

>>108011402
just denying all incoming traffic will break things

>>108011402
It doesn't really do anything for you if you're not running any services though.
The main thing it'd do for you is if you ever got infected with malware and that tries to open a port for a service then you'd be protected.
(Except not really, because a) you've got some virus or malware on your system, all bets are off, and b) this isn't really how command and control systems, etc, work, they establish outbound connections and can bust through NAT, possibly use P2P services, etc)

I never used a firewall and I'm still alive

>>108011413
Ufw allows established connections (i.e, inbound connection initiated as a result of an outbound connection). This is how most firewalls work.

You don't really need it but if it makes you sleep nicer then have at it.

>>108011426
You need more than established connections, for things like path mtu discovery for example.

>>108011441
As long as you aren't blocking ICMP and ICMPv6 (you shouldn't be ) then that will work fine. The Linux kernel also has its own probing for TCP which you should probably turn on.

MTU discovery is mainly important for retards that use a smaller or larger MTU than the suggested 1500 (because of crap like PPPoE and tunnels mainly. This ugly crap existing causes issues for people using standard 1500 MTU on the Internet when the receiver has a lower MTU)

>>108007260
compiling for hours and then at the last few lines it shits some errors is the opposite of feeling good.

>>108011451
Specifically this.

       tcp_mtu_probing (integer; default: 0; since Linux 2.6.17)
              This parameter controls TCP Packetization-Layer Path MTU
              Discovery.  The following values may be assigned to the
              file:

              0      Disabled

              1      Disabled by default, enabled when an ICMP black hole
                     detected

              2      Always enabled, use initial MSS of tcp_base_mss.

The default is 0 but I have it set to 1.

>>108011451
or they use a vpn, but no one would ever do something like that, right?

>>108011468
People using VPNs as proxies will never not piss me off.

>>108011499
chill, they aren't harming you at all

>>108011513
Some of them are, that's why so many services take an anti-VPN stance and block them. Yeah, if you're using your corporate VPN or VPN to your home you're probably not going to be seen as a threat but when you're using some shared service for privacy that hundreds and thousands of other "users" are also using it can be a bit difficult for them to sort through the traffic and block the bad guys whilst letting the innocent people through.

>>108011513
Yes, I'm sure when some retarded politicians manage to push a blanket VPN ban into law no harm will be done.

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My SD card reader broke, so I'm flashing Raspbian using a PSP

how do i unbloat linux mint mate for an old laptop?

>>108011538
#justarmthings

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>boot up a Linux router
>network configuration done via systemd-networkd
>network configuration involves a bridge device that enslaves everything that's Ethernet or Wi-Fi (a wired Ethernet card and one wireless USB dongle) and a WAN interface that gets its IP from the ISP using DHCP
>nftables fails to start as there's no bridge device
>hostapd fails to start as the USB Wi-Fi adapter is apparently not there yet on the very early boot
>start nftables and hostapd manually
>router works as intended
So. There's a race condition or whatever. What's the correct (or "clean") way to fix this? Was thinking of creating the service units manually and add an appropriate "After=" line to the configuration.

>>108011634
You install OpenWRT. There's a reason they never went with Systemd even though the embedded devices they target could definitely handle it these days.

>>108011634
>enslaves everything that's Ethernet or Wi-Fi and a WAN
You never bridge the WAN device with LAN devices. A bridge is a software switch, if you place a bare switch between the WAN and local nodes your local machines are directly exposed to the internet.

>>nftables fails to start as there's no bridge device
Create and configure the bridge device earlier. systemd-networkd uses the same ordering scheme for configuration files as other parts of systemd. Also set ConfigureWithoutCarrier=yes and IgnoreCarrierLoss=true in the [Network] section on the bridge's .network file.

>>router works as intended
Probably only because you have forwarding enabled. Everything else is misconfigured and likely insecure.

>>108011641
systemd-networkd is lighter than dhcpcd, radvd and all the other shit a non-systemd router needs.

Is it true I should update my initramfs after blacklisting a driver in modprobe?

>>108005681
>In reality they would be better of with some standard redhat or debian.
Surely gamers will love troubleshooting selinux every time they run an app on RHEL-likes.

>>108011694
>systemd-networkd is lighter than dhcpcd, radvd and all the other shit a non-systemd router needs.
It's not lighter than odhcpcd. That thing is tiny.

>>108011711
You can even use the version that's IPv6-only or IPv4-only instead of the "fat" -full version if you want.

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dumb question from a somewhat noob: I'm using Ubuntu Server 24.04, which is an LTS release. Why is this LTS release using the kernel version 6.8.0, which is not a kernel LTS? In fact, from pic related, it seems like kernel 6.8 is not even supported anymore. Does this even matter?

>>108011720
>Why is this LTS release using the kernel version 6.8.0, which is not a kernel LTS?
Because "LTS" applies to Ubuntu itself, not the kernel, and they chose to use 6.8.

>>108011546
Install debian instead and use MATE

>>108011739
Ubuntu choosing a non LTS kernel for their LTS release is a pretty damn big stupid move from them.

>>108011833
At this point not really, the kernel 'longterm' branch has had so many regressions since 6.x it's about as stable as mainline.

>>108011914
Yeah, why let upstream handle the backports and instead do it on your own?

>>108011833
>Ubuntu choosing a non LTS kernel for their LTS release is a pretty damn big stupid move from them.
this is what I mean, why choose this when you could have chosen an LTS kernel just the same? Which would have been kernel 6.6, released just a few months before

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>>108009869
100mb is still bloated as hell

>>108011993
>ARM
sometimes, I dont know if you guys just have no fucking clue what you're talking about.

Why is tasksel on Debian trying to install the entire fucking knowledgebase of human history, just give me my fucking desktop environment cunt I don't need all this shit

>>108011694
>You never bridge the WAN device with LAN devices.
Forgot to mention the bridge excludes the WAN interface. The whole setup involves a specially named bridge and specially named WAN interface and *the rest* automatically goes under the bridge device.
>Probably only because you have forwarding enabled
Bridging wouldn't involve routing ;)
>ConfigureWithoutCarrier=yes and IgnoreCarrierLoss=true in the [Network] section on the bridge's .network file
Cool, thanks.

>>108010278
>Turn off screen edges fully
>Change the default color to materia dark
>Change the accent color back to breeze blue
>Turn off floating taskbar
Anon this isn't broken, its customizing the desktop environment to your personal preference. Do you wish it came preconfigured or what?

>>108011993
What's the point of Gentoo on a Raspberry Pi when Raspbian is already built for spec?

>>108012178
just fucking around. it's spare hardware

>>108012135
Have you tried telling apt not to install recommended packages? it pulls a lot of extra dependencies which are not needed most of the time, either use
>apt install --no-install-recommends ...
Or to stop apt from doing it globally you can put this line
>APT::Install-Recommends "false";
in some file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d

I use a Tecknet keyboard it is RGB I want to be able to change the RGB the controls on the keyboard are limited I use openrgb for mouse but it will not detect keyboard.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TECKNET-All-Metal-Illumination-Anti-ghosting-Resistant/dp/B0C39ZT2QF?th=1

Link related.

I know it is chink shit I don't expect a solution but I figured I'd ask, I tried asking AI and it just spouts a load of shit.

>>108012346
OpenRGB doesn't support that keyboard. It expects you to be using its Windows app to do shit with it outside of default hotkeys to mess with the lights.

Is Wine easy to set up on a Raspberry Pi?

>>108012457
About as easy to setup as on any Linux distro that you install on it.

>>108012178
>>108012294
idk about the Raspberry project but they rarely see all that trouble, it's likely just a generic 64bit ARM system.
Doesn't Raspbian pull its packages from a Debian source?

>>108012467
So I just install Wine and it works?

>>108012457
sudo pacman/apt/dnf -S/install wine

Then run wine followed by whatever you want to run so wine program.exe

Don't see why it would be any different than normal but I've never used a rasberry pi.

>>108012523
>Don't see why it would be any different than normal
Because Raspberry Pi's aren't x86

>>108012542
what is it arm?

you use different command for that? or gotta find different version of wine?

ah okay my bad

>>108012560
>what is it arm?
Yeah they are ARM. So I imagine I'd need an additional compatibility layer just to run Wine itself.

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isn't asahi mostly pointless for end users that want to run linux on macintosh since you can already do that today using free as in cost software by just fullscreening a linux VM while getting better performance and functionality (thunderbolt, external displays, usb, sound, battery, etc)? it's a pretty safe bet that 2 years from now asahi will still be behind in every aspect to just downloading vmware fusion

>>108012607
https://pi-apps.io/install-app/install-wine-x64-on-linux-arm-device/

this not work?

>>108012653
I cannot see how running two operating systems simultaneously will give you better battery life (and especially not RAM usage).

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>run dnf update on my Fedora 42 machine
>all of my VFIO scripts are denied by selinux now
>Some fucktarded regression in linux 6.18 prevents me from doing anything related to single GPU passthrough
>it worked for years btw
I fucking hate Red Hat.

>>108012659
>battery
asahi consumes anywhere from 1.5% to 2% battery on standby, compare that to 0.1 to 0.3% per hour
for active use asahi gets around half the battery life compared to macOS on the same hardware, as you might imagine just running vmware will not halve your battery lol
>ram
unused ram is wasted ram

>>108012702
Hey anon how stable has Fedora been lately, besides this?

>>108012702
for gpu passthrough you should be on ubangoo like me, install the desktop version and revert the kernel to GA (6.8) instead of HWE, smooth sailing for years

>>108012744
It was okay-ish. Drivers and codecs in the RPMFusion repo broke updates sometimes (Fedora was too slow to update shit) and fwupd is broken but apart from that it was fine.
>>108012763
I used ubongo for years but I despise the Ubuntu Pro fuckery (some updates are locked behind a subscription). Bonus: Some packages I depend on are broken on debian and ubuntu (qwt, and qwt6.3-or-later is missing :^) )

>>108012788
ubangoo pro is free for personal use, you just make an account on ubuntu.com and run "sudo pro attach [token they give you there]"
scummy, yeah, but i'm basically locked out of other distros since i need vendor-reset for my amd gpu and older kernels since newer ones break it
>qwt
idk anything about that good luck breh

>>108007264
It has the problem of being created by microsoft employees though.

I have an endeavoros install that I update with yay, but it shows outdated extras,

2 extra/yt-dlp-ejs 0.3.2-2 (51.7 KiB 168.7 KiB) (Installed)
    External JavaScript for yt-dlp supporting many runtimes
1 extra/yt-dlp 2025.12.08-2 (5.0 MiB 32.7 MiB) (Installed)
    A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

My normal endeavoros install works fine.
The out of date one says everything is up to date

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 endeavouros is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Searching AUR for updates...
:: Searching databases for updates...
 there is nothing to do

Any idea whats going on here?

>>108013179
Don't know but you might as well install yt-dlp-git from the AUR. It gets daily updates. Using an outdated release makes no sense.

>>108012702
Update: selinux is working fine, it's a kernel regression.
>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-VFIO
>While there was recently talk over marking the generic VFIO platform driver as deprecated with plans to eventually remove it from the mainline kernel, at least for now it's been saved. Some developers have stepped up to maintain the vfio-platform driver for now to avoid its deprecation/removal. Mostafa Saleh and Pranjal Shrivastava are the developers committing to maintaining the vfio-platform driver code.
>mujeet and pajeet
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>108013167
A microsoft employee saved Linux from the biggest backdoor in its history.

>>108013199
if you're so concerned, perhaps you could volunteer your own time to maintain it? i'm sure you would do a better job

>>108013179
out-of-date mirror?

>>108013210
Well, Bazzite is the most politically deranged distro. Yes, more political than "lets rebase to a copy of our codebase from 2 years ago because I don't like this guy" Xorg. Only a matter of time till it breaks.

>>108013226
I've tried both eos-rankmirrors and reflector, but neither fixed anything

>>108013199
>marking the generic VFIO platform driver as deprecated with plans to eventually remove it
What the fuck, why.

>>108013363
Another case of 'the entire internet rests on this one piece of software a guy in minnesota wrote for free'

>>108013396
With the amount of data centre's that run a hypervisor and have actual NVIDIA GPUs they're passing through (especially now everyone wants a slice of AI) it really should be better maintained.

>>108013429
Those should support SR-IOV though.

I just set up voice to text on Gnome Wayland. As always this was again a pain. But now look I can talk to your niggas. I can say niggas because I have a local model. Niggas!

>>108013476
That's nice. I can just type this reply using my keyboard like a normal person.

>>108013199
Problem is this: there is zero need to update your kernel every two weeks or something whenever there is 0.01 update. It's somewhat strange how most distros are normalizing this behaviour.
It's abnormal.

>>108011993
This. Tiny Core has a somewhat working GUI uses 80MiB in total when idling.

>>108013240
Take your meds.

If I try renaming more than one file within yazi, it opens neovim with all the file names and I get to edit them all there and then save. Can do I open up that without going through yazi first?

>>108013435
Given the state of SR-IOV 'support' in GPUs and the general state of the market, I wouldn't be suprised if VFIO gets used a lot anyway.

>>108013513
>There is zero need to get all of the performance optimisations that is going into the newer kernels
Sure, you don't need it. But it's nice to have.

it's pretty cool how easy limine is

>>108014125
And yes, I recognise that sometimes these improvements come with regressions. Best to get in the habit of updating your kernel manually and not relying on the broken distro kernel.

>>108014125
I'd still ask why newcomer friendly distros do it, knowing there's a chance something might break every update.

Shit like manjaro where the tagline is "Taking the raw power and flexibility of Arch Linux and making it more accessible for a greater audience." still does it, and when you look at the forums every update has people complaining that something broke.

>>108014125
>performance optimisations
those don't come every other week. That's more bugfix territory.

>>108014162
Why not? The current kernel version is always the one with the most eyes on it and always the one which gets any bug fixes as soon as possible.

>>108014170
You get a new kernel regardless, whether it's bug fixes or a new release.
>>108014162
Arch is the outlier really for only keeping one kernel version installed. Most distros keep multiple kernels. Fedora, for example, definitely does that so the person with that VFIO regression can just boot the older kernel until it gets fixed (assuming they don't want to build their own)

>>108014203
and since those bug fixes don't change much, there is like 0 chance of something breaking.
I mean sure, a major or minor bump could come with some regressions, but bumps on the patch level? They're kinda safe.

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debianbros...we lost

>>108014401
Context?

>>108014413
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDARtFe8rV0

>>108014413
big number good, small number bad!

>>108011698
I don't understand what you are talking about. Also "app" - you are perhaps better of using a phone then or something.

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>want to try linux
>install fedora xfce
>open mw works but the mod package installer doesnt
>their page says debian supported
>install debian kde
>open mw not supported pn debian
>install xubuntu
>it finally works
>takes 4 hours to download and install complete-overhaul
>runs on my t14 at 720p playably

>>108014490
>install debian
>it just works

Currently running OpenSUSE TW but I'm wondering if the grass is greener in another distro.
Don't like their pride politics, and not every program runs on it. Other than that I can't say I've had any issues at all...
Anybody had experience with TW and can recommend either staying or switching?

>>108014516
Debian works except random community projects don't like it. Seems like they're all ubuntu and arch

>>108014401
What happened to his voice? He sounds more jewish now than he used to. Granted, I've not watched a LTT video in .. 4-5 years.

>>108014490
just embrace distro agnosticism and use distrobox and flatpak to run your applications.

>>108014542
Hes c@n4d!*n (sissy cages government mandated for all white men)

>>108014462
Somehow Jake the retard is less of a retard than Linus from LTT. That went surprisingly well.

Only major issue he had was AppImages being a steaming pile of crap (Davinci developers what the fuck are you doing? Make a Flatpak. It was meant for people like you. You can self-host your own repo).

>>108014630
It would be better if davinci did appimage instead of flatpak since they wouldnt have to bother dealing with the mess of flatpak permissions.
Or even better just one static linked binary built with musl that can self-update on its own so that they wouldn't have to deal with fuse2

>>108014739
It was an AppImage he was using. If you want to avoid the mess of Flatpak permissions then you just set all the permissions by default. Not terribly secure but whatever. Power users can lock it down if they want.

>>108009840
>rpm-ostree
Slow piece of shit that takes an hour to install a package and still forces you to restart afterwards just to use it.

>>108014765
Which appimage? For the record i run openra using their official appimages and dont really run into any issues with them. They also don't recommend the flatpak for some reason but i don't remember why.

>>108014800
The .run file from their website I think and yes, I know it's possible to make a portable AppImage if the developer knows what they're doing. The Davinci developers evidently don't. Flatpak was built for developers like them because it's impossible for them to screw it up.

>>108014782
>didn't read the whole discussion
>jumps in and arbitrarily moves the goalpost
Your brain is a slow piece of shit

>>108014842
I remember davinci resolve used to be distributed as an .rpm and there were a few scripts made to repackage that rpm for your distro. When did they switch to appimage?

>>108014889
No idea. I doubt they abandoned the RPM packaging. The Appimage is probably an attempt to make it work better on more distros but they probably built it on some random Ubuntu distro and are too retarded to make it work properly in a portable fashion since the AppImage tooling does nothing to force that and it's easy for retarded developers to fuck it up.

Meanwhile Flatpak Builder can be confusing but makes something that will run on every distro no matter what because the sandboxed runtime ensures that it's running in a consistent runtime environment no matter what.

>>108014889
Nobody said there was an appimage for resolve. There is a fatpak option if you build it yourself:
https://github.com/pobthebuilder/resolve-flatpak

>>108014889
>When did they switch to appimage?
Never. They're still distributing it as a .zip file. The cross-distro solution to running it are either the flatpak which you build yourself (https://github.com/pobthebuilder/resolve-flatpak), or the distrobox (https://github.com/zelikos/davincibox)

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From: ashley
To: bug-bash@gnu.org
Subject: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fcf-protection -Wall
uname output: Linux devuan 6.12.67-gnu #1.0 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Sep 27 12:35:59 EST 1983 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Bash Version: 5.2
Patch Level: 37
Release Status: release

Description:
        you suck nigger balls

Repeat-By:
        breathing

Fix:
        wontfix

Let's get fishy

>>108015001
>Nobody said there was an appimage for resolve.
Did you read the chain?

>>108014921
Maybe one day they will at least opensource their build system so that people can help them fix it. Can't imagine they would have a lot more windows or mac os users compared to linux users when there's other paid video editing software those people could use while davinci is like one of the only options on linux.

>>108015001
>>108015088
Maybe I was wrong, or it was unofficial. From the video it looked like he was using AppImage for something though and it didn't just work. He also had to do some LD_PRELOAD workaround for Resolve wherever it was he got it from.

>>108015114
It shouldn't even be difficult to do. They should be able to do so easily themselves yet they don't care to.

The fact that we are still seeing software like that delivered as some opaque binary blob that isn't portable is quite frankly outrageous. It's like they want the Linux desktop to fail.

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>It’s Germ*n and the name is stupid. EndeavourOS is the better choice if you want a simple Arch derivation.

>>108015143
>It's like they want the Linux desktop to fail.
They probably just don't care but care enough to support enterprise rhel users or something since the rpm originally targeted the latest centos stable. There's like zero communication about it from them as well.

>>108014545
This, going distroless is the future.

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Is it a bad idea to disable wifi power saving even thought I am on a desktop? It won't burn up my wifi card?

bros, why is the tooling for selinux so fucking bad? how hard can it be to label an executable and then label the files it can access? I'm starting to see why, even despite issues like fs namespacing, chroots, etc, why ubuntu sticks with AppArmor. this shit is giga aids.

>>108015476
>how hard can it be to label an executable and then label the files it can access
That's what audit2allow does.

But yeah there's a reason Canonical and SUSE use apparmor even though the shit basically doesn't work. You have to put a lot of work in to write good selinux policy.

>>108015160
We don’t upload pictures of ourselves on this site, anon.

>>108015508
>That's what audit2allow does.
audit2allow is basically a fucking sledgehammer. I've seen what it generates and it doesn't seem like a "good idea" to deploy as is.
like I don't want x to read anything with var_run_t or whatever fucked up fcontext type. I'm just sick of it. the EL guide makes me want to do something else instead.

>>108015508
SUSE actually switched back to SELinux recently because they're trying to be a Red Hat copy. The most stupid thing they've done.

>>108015532
I suspect it has more to do with government clients demanding MLS or other security theater AppArmor can't do. SUSE usually tries to distinguish itself from RedHat given the chance.

>>108015591
According to this Reddit post, yeah:
https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/118twi8/why_is_opensuse_switching_to_selinux/

One single big enough client forced them to ditch AppArmor completely.

>>108015386
Distros are a meme, the only that matters is it’s base (ie, Debian, Arch, Fedora, OpenSuse, etc). The rest is just fancy wrapping, so you may as well just use the originating source OS.

>>108015614
>Hi guys, really felt the need to repeat this and your discussion seemed vaguely related

so is there any nonshit tooling for this?
I just tried sepolicy generate and it just spits out gibberish to me.

Friendly thread

>>108015626
You use audit2allow like the other guy said:
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/audit2why.1.html

General workflow for making an SELinux policy is to:
>Set it to enforce mode
>Run your head against a brick wall
>Use the audi2allow to translate the errors into a usable policy that allows the thing that was previously denied
>Keep running your head against a brick wall until everything works fully

Yes, it sucks. The AppArmor tooling for this is way nicer:
https://man.archlinux.org/man/aa-genprof.8

I installed Wine through WineHQ, then Lutris via the debian package. Here's a question, when I doubleclick an .exe and open it through Wine, what exactly happens? For example is it running the standard Wine prefix that I have, .wine under Home? Can I just click the exe of shit I know will Just Work and not need configuration, or is there some reason I would need to or be better off adding them as games in Lutris and launching them through it?

>>108005178
Now I get why artists are so scared of AI "art". Their "art" looked just as soulless.

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>>108005178
I am back.
The
>KWIN_DISABLE_TONEMAPPING=1
Doesn't seem to do shit. I see no effect.

video players are still the same where adjusting SDR brightness on plasma effects HDR videos.
And SDR brightness affects native HDR video games.
Here is some images as to how the game looks like in SDR(with what I am assuming auto HDR enabled through some system) and HDR(washed out and wrong).
Even though the monitor, the screen, the desktop and videogame settings on launch are all HDR enabled.

How the hell do I stop Plasma from fucking up my NATIVE HDR content?
It's doing a good job on SDR content and auto HDRing it. But that shit fucks up my actual good videogames and videos that have native support for that shit and don't need additional HDR emulation on top.

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>>108015821
and here is how it looks like with videogame ingame HDR on.
Please save me.

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I went from ububtu 10.04 to Win 7 and now I want to go back to Loonix. Hows Noobuntu these days? Is Mint the goto Windows replacement?
Win2k was my favorite OS.

I upgraded from Ubuntu 24 to 25.10 straight from Ubuntu itself (as in, not a clean install/reinstall) and it feels a bit wonky.
Nothing UNUSABLE but browsers sometimes crash, and Nautilus sometimes doesn't show right click options.
Is it always recommended to do a fresh install when a new version of Ubuntu comes out? Do you think that might be the problem or is Ubuntu 25.10 itself kind of wonky?

>>108015821
>>108015837
Does the game not provide any calibration options besides On or Off?
That looks to me as if it's not calibrated properly with the correct peak brightness for your monitor (and ideally a lower value for the UI)

>>108015929
I've used Ubuntu 25.10 very recently as a direct fresh install and had none of these issues. I think that you may have had some complications with your upgrade, because 25.10 is otherwise a very smooth and werking release.

>>108016119
I see, thanks for the input m8
I'll backup my shit, download 25.10 , make a USB installer and try again.

>>108016220
Glad to help you out fella, all the best to you

am I weird for using alt keybinds for tmux I feel like I always see people stick with leader but im too lazy to press the chords

>>108016539
Whatever works for you.

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>>108005178
>install mint cinnamon
>everything is sluggish
why?

>>108016644
How? Maybe set your cpu power profile to performance and check you have the right gpu drivers (also swt to max power pref)...
Ensure you have hardware accelerated codecs.

>use mint
>be bored
>install Fedora
>install open nvidia drivers
>install all my basic apps via flatpaks
>setup dev environment in toolbox
>LARP using an immutable distro, but without the drawbacks of one
>everything werks like in Mint, but the DE isn't ugly and packages are fresh

feels gud

It is a bad idea to disable btusb? I already disabled iwlwifi, I am trying to kill my motherboard wifi card, I don't use it.

>>108016992
Disable it in BIOS if there's an option. That will make it so that Linux doesn't even see it

>>108017038
>Disable it in BIOS if there's an option
There isn't, there is for the fucking wired LAN but not for the WIFI card.

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Usecase for changing your scrolling speed? Just trick the system into thinking you touchpad is actually smaller with evdev.

>>108017101
bug report link?

>>108015867
>Is Mint the goto Windows replacement
Hell no. Just use anything with Plasma

>>108017321
>*krashes*

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>>108016669
>How?
>firefox stutters from time to time
>youtube playback stutters on 720p60
>going pages up and down feels slow
>same as the program list on the menu
>animations from the OS are slow too
While on windows everything worked and felt fine
>Ensure you have hardware accelerated codecs
how can I do that?

>>108017326
Post beef.

>>108017326
I have been using CachyOS with Plasma for and it hasn't crashed once, and I have a novideo gpu btw.

Bazzite status?

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>>108017340
>>Ensure you have hardware accelerated codecs
>how can I do that?
Go to about:support in Firefox and scroll down to the codecs.

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Why do I use MX linux?

1. They use XFCE as their main edition, and since XFCE is the only good stable desktop on linux with X11, I will use it. I also just prefer XFCE it never fails me

2. The package manager is really fast and easy to use, allows installation of flatpaks easily and has an easy application categories

3. It has the latest kernel for gaming on 6.18+ with Liquorix Kernel

4. It has MX tools, which has a lot of useful features like snapshots, repo manager, boot options to customize, network manager, locale manager, USB formatter, Even has a nvidia driver installer, although I don't need that I use all AMD.

Basically it's the new opensuse but based on debian and actually good

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>>108016644
>>108017340
>Radeon HD 8570
That thing doesn't have HW decoding for VP9 nor AV1, h264ify

Also you are probably using the old ATI driver instead of AMDGPU, luckily your GPU is GCN 1.0 so maybe in Mint 23 you will get a performance bump.

>>108017340
If your whole Cinnamon feels sluggish and if it's not a driver issue, then there is something wrong with the packages/system itself.

>>108015440
Short answer: Nope — it’s not a bad idea at all
On a desktop, disabling Wi-Fi power saving is actually very common and often recommended.

Let’s break it down in plain terms.

What Wi-Fi power saving does on Linux

With NetworkManager, Wi-Fi power saving:

Lets the Wi-Fi card “sleep” between packets

Reduces power usage (mostly useful on laptops)

Can introduce:

higher latency

brief disconnects

lower or inconsistent throughput

On desktops… the power savings are basically irrelevant.

>>108017417
Nigga anyone can use chat gpt

>>108017421
Not him, but ChatGPT is correct.
>>108015440
Why would disabling the powersaving features "burn up my wifi card". What do you think will happen? It's not like it could make it run out of spec.

>>108017408
*use h264ify

>>108017421
Then why didn't you?

>>108017392
>>108017408
i forced it to amdgpu because i wanted to run something in bottles but it uses vulkan and it crashed with the other driver, now it doesnt crash but also doesnt run kek
>so maybe in Mint 23 you will get a performance bump
why do you think that?

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>>108017457
I forgot the image

>>108017457
Mint 23 will have a newer Linux Kernel and Mesa version with the patches they're image talks about.

You could backport it to Mint 22 today if you know what you're doing.

>>108017457
>why do you think that?
If you already forced AMDGPU then you will see no difference, maybe better stability and less bugs.
AMDGPU for old GCN1.0 GPUs will ship by default on kernel 6.19, Ubuntu 26 will ship with kernel 6.20 so will Mint 23.

>>108017464
Definitely install the H264ify add-on like the anon mentioned. That will make websites think your device doesn't support the modern codecs and they will serve you h.264 instead of they can.

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>>108017474
Linux mint ruined their desktop. Look at how ugly this shit is LMAO.

>>108017496
Looks the same as it always did. It was never particularly fancy. Looks are not its strong point. It's just a shit fork of GNOME and they don't have the team to maintain it properly.

Some people like it for whatever reason though. Give me KDE Plasma instead any day though.

I was just thinking, I don't remember GNOME having a memory leak. Did the Cinnamon team mess up and add one?

>request some government service
>they make me fill a form on a .docx document
>libreoffice takes more than a second to scroll this 3 page form that consist almost entirely of text and cells
I know word is total dogshit for interoperability but how do I cope with this

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>>108017509
No it doesnt, they ruined it from a clean windows 10 desktop colors to an ugly one

This new theme is ugly and the new menu is uuuuugly. They are destroying their own OS lol

>>108017554
Just use Word in your web browser I guess. Everything's a web app these days. I'm surprised they'd make you fill that out in a Word document though. Does your government know that there are these things called PDFs and they can contain forms and are perfect for that very use. Every web browser even comes with built-in support for filling them out.

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>>108016644
>radeon hd 8570
:Wilted Flower Emoji: lol
Time to upgrade anon

>>108017587
I'm not even arguing about how retarded it is, it's something at municipal level. just upset about having to fire up a VM so won't pluck my own hairs out

>>108017541
>Did the Cinnamon team mess up and add one?
Apparently kinda - and the developers have added a setting to restart the desktop once RAM usage reaches a certain point.

I just noticed, after two days of use, that I have some sluggishness on KDE on my Arch install with Wayland.
This is not a fresh linux install, I've been using Hyprland for some months now, so drivers and gpu stuff "should" have been working for a long time, but I started noticing that Emacs, and just now trying out on Sublime Text, are both a little, barely noticeable sluggish, I can feel a slight delay when typing text and the scrolling through lines using the arrow keys seems a little slow, but then I tried scrolling using the mouse scroll on Sublime Text and it was 100% sluggish as hell.
I don't know what could be causing this. Even games run flawlessly. Is this some kind of KDE bug? How do I troubleshoot this? It sucks because I was really getting used to KDE and hoping to adopt it to stop tinkering with hyprland and ricing useless stuff.

Are people still mad about SystemD t.oblivious

>>108018040
More as shtick these days. It's been so everywhere for like a decade plus that people still get mad about it for fun now.

>>108018040
Wayland is the token bogeyman now. and just as much of a non-issue

Thinking of getting back to Linux on laptop now that I have a desktop PC. Is Mint good if I don't use it for gaming?

>>108018091
Yes, Mint is a perfectly fine distro. It's the most popular for good reason

>>108011833
>>108011914
Stability in the distro jargon means 6.8.x will stay at 6.8.x.
And yes, distributions seem to pick the strangest kernel branches.
>>108018064
Were there any actual "issues" with systemd though?
>>108018091
>doesn't know which distro to pick
Could just partition for easy distrohopping: two small system partitions for two Linuxes and the rest of the drive for shared space. (plus EFI system partition if an EFI PC)

>>108018104
>It's the most popular
It hasn't been the most popular for quite a while.

>>108018147
Several recent surveys and distrowatch have Mint as the most popular distro. Obviously they only count the people who take the surveys, but I would suggest they are reflective of wider trends.

>>108015001
>>108015038
Why does proprietary software have such a horrible time packaging their stuff? Why is it always some .tgz that works only on one distro? This was a lot more excusable before flatpak and appimage existed. Are those somehow busted in some way that's not obvious? Whole teams struggle with this while a lone dev working in his spare time can release something and it works everywhere.
Seriously if they're going to forbid repackaging for legal reasons they could at least release in a sane format wtf

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>>108018164
Bare Arch is more popular.

I'm sorting out some data from old HDDs. I came across a curious case:
1 TB HDD
I know some of the files that are on there
parted -l reports Error: Unknown partition table
But everything else seems fine.
hdparm reports nothing problematic
hexdumping it:
00010120 d2 4d 80 88 4d 3d 8a de cb c8 62 62 74 72 66 73 |.M..M=....bbtrfs|
looking for known files:
sudo hexdump -C /dev/sdk | grep README
02778020 52 45 41 44 4d 45 2e 6d 64 00 00 00 1e 01 00 00 |README.md.......|
Virtually everything seems fine and I know this disk worked on the box I am on before. Have I correctly identified this as some sort of btrfs or is it a fluke? How to proceed? Could it be that I did something brilliant like putting the partition table somewhere else?

>>108019112
You're using the wrong tools. Run

btrfs check /dev/sdk

(the actual partition number unless you installed BTRFS on the whole disk)

>>108019424
>>108019112
Also I'm guessing it's fine and you did just install BTRFS to the whole disk instead of making a partition table. This is fine as long as you know what you're doing and correctly matches with:
>parted -l reports Error: Unknown partition table
There's no error here.

>>108019429
Another words you literally do not have a partition table which is why parted reports "Unknown partition table". You'd usually never install BTRFS to a single disk like this and only do that for systems in a RAID but it's fine and works.

>>108018337
>Why does proprietary software have such a horrible time packaging their stuff?
>they're going to forbid repackaging
answered your own question, could have let the distro maintainers do it for them, but no, they don't.

>>108018337
>>108019596
I wonder why distros don't do more outreach. Canonical does a lot of this for Snap, even though I hate the format I can't fault them for trying.

Somebody from Red Hat or Canonical, etc, should reach out to the Davinci developers and say to them "Do you need help? We can give you an engineer to work on packaging. Free of charge. No strings attached"

What’s the best Linux (Ubuntu) compatible external hard drive available? Preferably 4-6tb to archive my vidya.

I don’t want to buy an external HDD just for it to not work because Linux.

To my knowledge when just archiving stuff an external HDD is the best.

>>108019731
Is there an external hard drive that's incompatible with Linux?
Just buy whatever you want. Read reviews if you want but unless you're shucking the drive then it's probably a crapshoot how well it'll work anyway.

>>108019731
Any external would work with Linux, anon. They all come with NTFS these days and would be mounted fine, though WD externals are usually best.

>>108019749
Why would you not wipe whatever is on it and format it yourself?

>>108019775
Well that's it, you might as well just wipe it and format it as like ext4 if you want to just use it with Linux.

>>108019605
RedHat and SUSE do outreach to government and large institutions so they can get contracts and get paid. Canonical precluded themselves from those contracts being incorporated in a tax haven, so they come up with harebrained shit like trying to create vendor lock-in for the 5 guys running MS Teams desktop on Linux.

>>108019799
I mean to proprietary software vendors, especially those that already have Linux builds available.

We all know the answer is because they don't actually care about the success of the Linux desktop though.

>>108019799
>Canonical precluded themselves from those contracts being incorporated in a tax haven
The UK is what now?

>>108019858
Isle of Man isn't part of the UK

>>108019883
Canonical sits in London

>>108019887
'headquartered' in London, incorporated in the Isle of Man

>>108015724
>when I doubleclick an .exe and open it through Wine, what exactly happens?
>For example is it running the standard Wine prefix that I have, .wine under Home?
Yes. It's running under the default prefix.
>is there some reason I would need to or be better off adding them as games in Lutris and launching them through it?
The point of Lutris is to use it as a game menu so that you don't have to navigate to .exe game launchers manually.

>>108017541
Cinnamon is basically 5-10 years behind GNOME depending on the component. I don't understand why it even exists anymore. It's not like it's any more lightweight than GNOME or Plasma, so using it over Xfce makes no sense. And it's not like it's any more "intuitive" for Windows users compared to a slightly tweaked GNOME (like ZorinOS does) or just the default Plasma.

>>108018164
Distrowatch is not reflective of real users. It's mainly just a couple thousand very specific people who visit it. Take any and all statistics there with a mountain of salt.
For example, MX Linux was at the top of the page hit rankings in 2019-2024 yet almost nobody actually used the distro or even knew that it existed. It was so bizarre that people still believe someone made a bot to push it up.
Mint is definitely popular, but the real most popular distro is Ubuntu and it's not even close.

>>108019912
>a slightly tweaked GNOME
>slightly
understatement of the century

>>108019912
>real most popular distro is Ubuntu and it's not even close.
Ubuntu popularity for home pcs has been on the decline, it's not that popular anymore. Case in point, >>108018362

Does anyone have any idea why my GPU (the only one, no iGPU) randomly changes its number on every boot? It works perfectly but it fucks with my KDE System Monitor Widgets.

>>108014518
>Don't like their pride politics
Look anon I'm not trying to be a dickhead here, but what do you think other distros pride politics are?
Arch? Fedora? Debian? All of these big fuckers are waving those flags all the same. Derivative distros get even worse. Seriously do you use the fucking subreddit? Do you give this much of a fuck to distrohop? Because no matter what you find I'll find the troon for you, don't worry.
Worry more about what you can do with the shit you're using. What doesn't run on tumbleweed?

Anons after using normal ass distros for a long time (Mandrake/SUSE >20 years ago, Fedora, Debian, Ubango and all its siblings and retarded cousins, Arch and derivatives, openSUSE) on and off and on again, I'm getting kind of old here. I really don't want to deal with more bullshit than I would want.
Are atomic distros good nowadays?

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>>108020113
Install Gentoo.
>>108020016
What's a GPU number and where do I obtain one?

>>108020148
>what's a GPU number
Sometimes my one and only GPU is "device1", sometimes it's "device2". I've only recently switched to Wayland and KDE so I'm guessing it's related to one of those (but I'm a technically inept newfag so what do I know).

>>108019749
>WD best
Alright.
Ive never wiped an external hard drive any things I should be aware of?

>>108020246
It's like wiping any other drive. It's easy done.
Wipe it, partition it, reformat it.

>>108020192
It's nothing to do with KDE. The kernel enumerates devices at boot and with one GPU it should always be the same device. Only thing I can think that happens is the device disappears and then comes back somehow and the kernel thus increases the device number.

New thread: >>108020885

>>108019942
>adding a handful of extensions to GNOME
>somehow this is not a slight tweak
I mean sure, the layout is vastly different, but it's done with just one or two GNOME extensions. Pre-installing a couple of GNOME extensions is definitely a small tweak unless Zorin is doing something I'm not aware of.

>>108019958
That might be the case, but that's still isolated to a specific subsection of desktop users. Gamers who use Steam aren't even 8% of all PC users. You could argue Ubuntu fell off on gaming devices, but it's not really the case outside of that.