I'm trying Q4OS Trinity and it's defaulting to llvmpipe for whatever reason. I've got Intel HD Graphics goddammit, how do I get my GPU working?

Arch users are shitters and retards. Reads a fucking book you incompetent fucktards

How do I choose an ISO on VirtualBox wihout touching the crashing file picker? All the "workarounds" that I found just consist of going to the settings afterwards to launch the same crashing file picker. Typing the file path doesn't work either.

dudes dont expect people here to immediately answer complicated issues
people who can answer them rarely visit so be patient

>>108020998
does virtualbox executable have any flags?
>typing the file path doesn't work either.
wdym by that
>>108020940
xorg/wayland?

I'm starting to feel confident in my Linux knowledge

>>108021042
Trinity is Xorg only, it's forked from KDE 3 (ie pre-Plasma KDE from the Bush presidency)

>>108021057
then you should look up xorg logs (make sure to look at correct ones tho)

Debianbros,

kde-plasma-desktop

vs

task-kde-desktop

? The latter metapackage comes preinstalled on the Debian KDE .iso, but it also comes with bloat apps/services. The former is as lean as KDE gets, but is it going to be missing any crucial components for daily use?

anyone here use a TRMNL device? thinking of hosting my own server and using my kindle for it

>>108021098
my shit quite literally just opens windows and shows me some basic system info that i need to keep track of, what can there possibly be in that DE that is "crucial" for the everyday use?

>>108020885
new bazzite drama dropped

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1qrura1/bazzite_postmortem_from_antheas_kapenekakis_of/

>>108021126
kio slaves I guess.

>>108020990
Cope, seethe, dilate.

>>108021159
>some irrelevant autistic developer kicked out of the project
cool. still using spazzite anyway

>>108021159
> bundling the Steam client plus problematic codecs so Bazzite cannot ship on hardware
Listed as something problematic. Is this guy for real? Stuff like that is why people like Bazzite. You need to make a special OEM edition (which should be easy thanks to OSTree) without these things if you want OEM adoption but realistically this is a pipe dream. Successful commercial Linux hardware with Bazzite pre-installed is just not going to happen.

Vim isn't bad but somehow it doesn't blow my mind. I've seen people do so cool stuff but I rarely have those usecases.
Would emacs blow my mind?

>>108022066
vim blows your mind, emacs breaks your hands

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THOUGHTS ON DEBIAN NETINSTALL.

I installed Debian with the netinstall .iso specifically so I could download

kde-plasma-desktop

, which is a lighter KDE metapackage than what comes with the actual Debian KDE image.

I'd like to know which comedian thought unselecting "GNOME desktop environment" should still install GNOME anyway. I was expecting something similar to Raspberry Pi OS Lite, which just boots you straight to a TTY with no graphical applications installed. I went through the installer a second time and suddenly it worked just fine.

Moreover, the Debian "graphical" installer is not very graphical and I didn't feel comfortable using the manual partitioner. What I had to do was exit the installer to free up some disk space via an existing distro, then boot back into the netinstaller again and select "install to the largest continuous free space". I wish this graphical installer were just a fullscreen Calamares so I could do graphical partitioning within the graphical installer.

>>108022094
>me, who never used the partitioning inside an installer for 30 years
interesting

>>108020990
> Reads a fucking book you incompetent fucktards
Hello ESL

>>108011694
>Also set ConfigureWithoutCarrier=yes and IgnoreCarrierLoss=true in the [Network] section on the bridge's .network file.
The bridge got IP without any active slave interfaces but it didn't appear any sooner -> no fix.

>>108022094
Installers are trash. Boot up any live USB and Debootstrap any deb-based distribution, assumed you know the Arch/Gentoo/etc neckbeard way of doing installs.

>>108022268
What is the actual problem, what does 'nft -c -f /etc/nftables.conf' say? Are you referencing the bridge interface in nftables rules using the 'iif' conditional? That applies to the interface index, which can and does change for all kinds of reasons. The only interface it's actually safe to use on is loopback. Try using 'iifname' or match by address/range instead.

>>108020998
vboxmanage storageattach?

>>108022325
The problem is the bridge is mentioned in nftables configuration and the bridge isn't there when nftables starts as nftables starts too soon.
Even tried
>Requires=systemd-networkd
>After=systemd-networkd
on the nftables service unit file, no fix.
But when I manually start the service it works as the bridge is there.

>Try using 'iifname' or match by address/range instead.
Yes, that works and I'm using it now. But it's a stupid fix.

>>108022094
>I'd like to know which comedian thought unselecting "GNOME desktop environment" should still install GNOME anyway.

I think APT can have dependency trees which pull complete Gnome when you install certain applications. This is something people call "getting gnomed". I have never seen it on another distro, but heard a lot about it on Debian based ones.

>>108022357
>Yes, that works and I'm using it now. But it's a stupid fix.
No, it's not. It's the way you have to do it if you don't want to specify address ranges. nftables (i.e. the kernel) only knows two ways to match an interface, by index or name, and the indexes can change anytime an interface goes up or down, or in systemd-networkd's case, reconfigured. There is no other choice.

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>>108022450
>how do i do this? resizing the browser window to be 1920 logical pixels-wide horizontally centered on a *2560* logical pixels-wide screen
>fedora 43 kde/wayland/firefox
forgot pic

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>>108022411
This crap worked before.
>1. system boots
>2. nftables starts and fails because no interface
>3. interface gets created by systemd-networkd
Now the problem is 2 and 3 are in the wrong order.

Also there's the other problem mentioned in the previous thread:
>1. system boots
>2. hostapd starts and fails because no Wi-Fi interface
>3. Wi-Fi device gets detected
How on the earth I tell hostapd to start after the device is there? It's an USB one (picrel) so apparently it's not so instant as PCIe.

>>108022456
You can do it with the tiling:
>Press Meta+T
>Add splits either side so there's one on the left, one on the right and a big centre region
>Hold shift while dragging the window and select the centre region

You should be able to script this with a KWin Script though but I'm not sure how.

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>>108022094
Minimal install of Debian plus KDE. Why isn't the Devices section showing in Dolphin? This works just fine on the regular Debian KDE .iso but not here.

>>108022525
Missing Udisks maybe?

>>108022472
>>2. nftables starts and fails because no interface
>>3. interface gets created by systemd-networkd
>Now the problem is 2 and 3 are in the wrong order.
No, they're not. You want the rules in place before interfaces are brought up. Use iifname and stop beating yourself over it. The additional computational cost of comparing a fixed size 16-byte string instead of a 32-bit integer is negligible.

>>108022357
>Requires=systemd-networkd
>After=systemd-networkd
Because that's not what you want.
Try
>After=network-online.target
>Wants=network-online.target

>>108022601
iifname specifically makes it fail as the interface is not there
>>108022604
That worked, thanks.

>>108022636
>iifname specifically makes it fail as the interface is not there
No, it doesn't. Rules with unmatched iifnames are simply ignored. What distro/kernel are you even using?

>>108022776
>unmatched
Meant to write non-existent.

>>108021098
> is it going to be missing any crucial components for daily use?
Most likely, if you dont care about the bloat and dont want to hunt down missing packages then just install task-kde-desktop

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>>108021159
I'm not familiar with this particular subset of FOSS faggotry. What's going on here?

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HOLY

>install fedora 10 years ago
>go to great lengths to disable thumbnails
>set every setting that exists
>make thumbnail directory read-only
>open a folder full of images
>thumbnailer still chugs away trying to generate thumbnails
>uninstall the thumbnailer program
>everything is great
>upgrade to fedora 43
>open folder full of images
>cpu 100%
>know right away what it is
>try uninstalling the new thumbnailer
>this time it's a hard dependency of programs I actually use
>disable it explicitly in /usr/share
>if it runs again I'm nuking half my desktop to get rid of it

>>108022934
nvm, went sifting though a couple subreddits. Apparently he's a transphobe. Is bazzite really that pozzed?

>>108022959
May I ask what the cause for this autism is? And is there a cure to it?

>>108022963
Holy fuckin shit. I can't stop reading through it. These faggots are something else.

>>108022963
Bazzite was created by microsoft employees.

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>>108023111
Makes sense.

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what is to be done about all the arch users shitting up every single linux community with their retardation and incompetence?
these people need to be isolated from the rest of us.

>>108023139
hello beautiful lady pls post bobs and vegana

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mah /g/'s how do I become ascended in bash? I know the basics except for ftp and ssh (everything went wrong and nothing worked in those two for some reason)
I need your insight because I really do love bash, I think the old school /g/eniuses that designed were fucking megamind

>>108023216
bash is a language, not a program launcher. how about you start there, you fucking arch shitter.

>>108023232
why are you hostile you fucking nigger? I've never used arch to begin with

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Does anyone have a no-bullshit guide to getting started with ZFS? I just want it on one drive like I would setup ext4. For things like compression whatever is standard is fine.

>>108023297
yeah, there is a simple one: Don't

Did LTT actually kill Pop OS or were there other reasons?

>>108023297
btrfs is betterfs for single drive. Don't even start with zfs unless parity raid + availability or cache drives are serious considerations.

>>108023193
>lady
That's a man

>>108023297
https://docs.zfsbootmenu.org/en/v3.1.x/
There's a few installation guides for several distros.

>>108023371
I've always heard that BTRFS is buggy and prone to losing data whereas I've never heard this said about ZFS. Is this not the case?

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>>108020885
mx linux is now systemd instead of sysvinit by default, do i bite the bullet and will it justwerk?

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>>108022776
I built these router boxes using Debian, Fedora, Arch and currently Gentoo. I assumed it's the default nftables behaviour to refuse a bogus configuration, regardless the distro.

ExecStart=/sbin/nft flush ruleset; include "/etc/nftables/rules/main.nft"

>>108023529
They're about the same and have been for 8 years or so. btrfs is more accessible so you have higher instance of retards blaming the filesystem for their hardware losing data or the tooling refusing to let them paper over integrity issues.

>>108023459
Did you NuGet his balls?

>>108021159
Sorry, I'm supposed to care what this CHUD thinks... why?

>>108022361
I have it on Arch, but mostly because a flatpak wants it.

Thankfully, not the full footfag system, just a few files.

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I installed TLP on my ThinkPad running Mint XFCE, but every time I try to suspend due to inactivity while on battery, it only locks the screen, and this message appears after I log in.
Suspending while on AC power or suspending from the log-out screen works fine, it’s only broken in battery mode.

Wat do? I also uninstalled that TLP but nothing changed.

>>108021159
I'm glad that Ubuntu/Canonical don't have petty drama like this, that they're simply a professional organisation who are focussed on providing a good OS and computing experience.

>>108023748
Looks like it's trying to hibernate. Hibernate and suspend are different things

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>>108023812
That's true, but it's set on suspend instead of hibernate. I think TLP messed with Mint's default settings and it's trying hybrid sleep or hibernate instead of suspending.

>>108022185
Hello retard

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>>108020885
What are you guys' recommendations for backup software/general backup strategies? I finally want to get around to set up something proper I can run regularly. Ideally something relatively straightforward but still configurable so I'm not just rawdogging rsync commands. I've been looking at backintime or maybe something like BorgBackup or restic, but I wanted to know what you Anons think.

>>108024022
I'm rawdogging rsync commands

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You guys have backups?

>>108024080
I'm probably not going to do that, but please share anyways, I'd be interested to know how much you need.

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>>108023719
>Sorry, I'm supposed to care what this CHUD thinks... why?
Who's gonna maintain troon distro #694201337 in the far future?

>>108024187
What are you suggesting?

>>108024230
What's the attrition rate?

>How can I X on Wayland?
You can't use X11
>How can I Y on Wayland?
Wayland was designed in a way that makes Y impossible. Use X11
>How do anything else on Wayland?
use X11
>How do I use HDR on X11?
You don't

Why is linux like this?

>Beat distros for Plug n Play (minimal to no tweaking after install).
Pop!_OS
Fedora
Mint
>Beat distros for learning Linux (and how an OS works)
LFS
Gentoo
Arch
>Best distro for making you thrown your PC out of the window
Slackware
All other distros are more or less out of contention at this point

>>108024094
I just have 2 machines that I keep my important files synced between

I have XFCE and would like to create a Link on Desktop (that part is solved), but I would like that specific link to only open with Firefox since the website only works properly in Firefox.

I have a different standard browser configured though. Is this possible somehow?

>>108024763
Instead of it being a "link" just make an .sh file.
So, open your text editor, paste in either this:
>firefox "www.your-website.com"
or if you're using the flatpak version of firefox paste this in instead:
>flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox "www.your-website.com"
Save the file as "website.sh" or whatever you want to call it. Right click on it, go into properties and toggle the "allow execution" and that's it. Double clicking it will open the website in firefox.

>>108024837
...
The solution was trivial and did not cross my mind. Thank you friendly anon.

>>108023602
>I assumed it's the default nftables behaviour to refuse a bogus configuration,
But it's not bogus. An interface name not being valid at the time nft is invoked to parse the file doesn't mean the interface name will never be valid. It might be created later - like your bridge.

>>108024324
>Beat distros for Plug n Play (minimal to no tweaking after install)
Add Ubuntu
I'd also add Debian Stable as a place to learn about Linux

I am trying to run CUDA on a GTX 980M. It has been a fuckfest so far. Turns out the official pytorch builds never shipped with sm_52 support. All the rolling distros have log since moved on from building for it. Now i am downloading Kubuntu 22.04 since the XFCE variant had serious issues with the 580 driver. Fuck you leather jacket man and your proprietary bullshit.

>>108025065
>CUDA
>GTX 980M
How about you just stop trying

>>108021159
Why is this completely unsurprising to me
I mean you should look at pozzite's mascot

>>108025083
>a literal tranny mascot
HOLY KEK MY SIDES ARE IN ORBIT

>>108024837
>>108024879
You could probably achieve similar with a .desktop file if you need easier integration into menus and shit but those are kind of autistic to manage for some reason so the .sh is perfectly adequate.

>>108019424
>>108019429
>>108019438
Thanks. I figured something like this being the case and have reconstructed the drives history as much as possible:
It used to have a swap partition.
Also a data partition of unknown type. I suspect it's fully backed up. The UUID it used to have can not be found anywhere on the drive.
I must either have decided to nuke it and add it to a btrfs pool or accidentially done so. My suspicion is that for the purpose of backing it up I converted the existing partition to BTRFS, pooled it and moved the data or balanced it.
But:
The system does not find any partitions on it. It's just /dev/sdk and no UUID apparently.
btrfs check /dev/sdk
Opening filesystem to check...
No valid Btrfs found on /dev/sdk
ERROR: cannot open file system
If it was taken from RAID would BTRFS report something different?
What if it only held metadata and system since it's such a small drive?

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>>108020885
storyboarding for writing ?

how do I go about making realtek audio sound good on linux? or am I fucked?

>>108025146
Yeah I tried with graphical tools only, might be possible to change it in an editor later...they do have the advantage of custom icons though.

>>108025643
yeah you can just open .desktops with a text editor. Annoying thing is knowing that and saving them in the proper place (~/.local/share/applications for user-defined ones for me) and having them show up in your menus properly. If you just copy an existing one you can probably make it work fairly easily as all the necessary bits will be in there.

>>108025632
>linux
>audio
Dude, the people at Linux are still trying to figure out how to display an application window.

>>108025737
ahahahaha
im switching to intel based sound devices in the future

KDE neon

It just works

>>108025737
>>linux
>>audio

Can anybody hear this nigger right here?

>>108025632
Depends on which realtek and which linux. Check your dmesg / journalctl -b for complaints about missing firmware. Sometimes laptop mfgs do retarded shit that has to be addressed with userspace fuckery / the OEM's special realtek driver for Windows. Apple dongle is $10 at Walmart if you want something that works.

What is the most customizable bootloader that works nicely with btrfs? I'm having issues with GRUB not detecting multiple btrfs subvolumes and would like to explore other bootloaders

>>108026248
You might as well switch to systemd-boot.

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Linus finally understands the "shirt-off" command prompt.

>wireless wifi is fine on Mint Cinnamon
>switch to Cachy Plasma
>suddenly my wireless wifi stops working for a few seconds often
What setting is causing this?

>>108026314
Could be a kernel regression. Test the LTS kernel.

>>108026023
i also have another laptop (non realtek(?)) that has similar audio issues, and the default audio device it uses is Generic [HD-Audio Generic]. The only other audio device that's detected is HDA Nvidia, but I don't think using alsamixer to switch into that works. I'm using a Lenovo Legion 5 15ARH05, and Linux Mint.

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>>108026455
I found the driver but since I'm not on Windows, I don't know how I'd use this audio driver

>Get bored of Linux Mint
>Switch to Fedora Linux
>Battery lasts longer
>There's less bloatware
>Gnome Desktop environment looks better compared to Cinnamon
>DNF though slow, is better than APT as it makes sure nothing gets left out
>And most importantly, it just werks
I'm happy

>>108026606
Personally never understood the appeal of the Mac layout desu

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>>108026606
>DNF slow
You can disable the automatic directory update or set a longer update interval. If that's the case.
>>108026314
>>108026347
It's a Linux thing to have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth broken on too new kernels. I assume on 6.12.x they should just work.
>>108026248
Why not just EFI-stub?
>>108024979
bruhh.....

>>108023557
Systemd has always worked

>>108026606
>It's 2015
>install Ubuntu LTS 15 or so
>install 16 LTS
>upgrade installation once in a while when LTS
>Unity was meh
>Now on 20.04 LTS
Honestly I did never regret it. I tried this and that on my laptop and other random machines. But this shit always just werx
>Make all sorts of funky changes and fixes
>Never document a thing
>Eventually the install is beyond tyding up
It's time I refresh this. It was a nice ride. But thinking I'll hop on Arch to live there. This time around I'll try to be more organized and hygenic.
>>108025378
Preparing to distrohop. So I started backing everything up. Starting with the system itself, using rsync and a script that uses --link-dest against the last time. Wrote 1 TB to BTRFS RAID10, all spindles (SMR). The disks remain audibly busy for a long time after the write completes. Noticed this before. What is happeningn and would a power failure during this be catastrophic? Is it automatically balancing, I believe BTRFS doesn't do that automatically...

>>108026937
>It's a Linux thing to have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth broken on too new kernels. I assume on 6.12.x they should just work.
Generally it just works but regressions slip in sometimes and then you have to either use an older kernel (Arch distros only keep a single kernel though because they're dumb like that), the LTS or upgrade to the development release until they fix it in the stable kernels.

I want to use a linux live iso which reverts after each shutdown so there's no local record.

It will just be used for browsing normienet type of stuff so tor isn't needed. Would prefer an easy/convenient OOB distro (having to run apt upgrade && update each boot is kinda anooying and want to minimise that) which also has decent privacy pre installed like ublock and dns like librewolf, but doens't need to be librewolf specifically. I'm essentially looking for something that balances privacy and convenience OOB on live non-persistant iso.

What distro live iso or solution can anons recommend?

>>108027234
just try anything that fits into RAM and leaves some free
you'll have to choose so try arch first and go from there.

>>108027234
All the non-persistent images I can think of require updates every time. Mostly when I use one I just use the out-of-date software, but usually I'm using one to format a disk or something, so it's not relevant.
I believe there are tools to spin up your own, so you could probably have a cronjob or something set up to automagically make you up-to-date images.

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I've been trying to get smooth 1080p 60fps video working on this old laptop. I've nailed it down using this config:

gpu-api=vulkan
gpu-context=waylandvk
vulkan-device="Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)"
vo=gpu-next

Swapping out the vulkan device with "Quadro K1000M" resulted in screen tearing, so I looked into Nouveau and just installed that and NVK and so on. But if I use "Quadro K1000M (NVK GK107)" as my vulkan device, I get tons of dropped frames. In short, at the moment the integrated GPU gives smooth 60fps, the Nvidia does not. Perhaps I haven't set up NVK correctly?

>>108027452
>REQUIRE updates every time
Those images and the software inside are dated when they were packaged. That does not mean anything REQUIRES updates. It just means your >>108027234 software is out of date and there may be benefits from updating. In your case updating will mean either downloading or rolling a new live system or, going against what you wanted, either chrooting into your squashfs or adding a second partition on the usb to be permanent, for /bin/ and such.
>I believe there are [...]
Sure like xorriso but it's even easier than that.

>>108027548
mpv, forgot to say. Also: now that I switched to nouveau, btop only shows a single GPU now

Im pretty used to ubuntu/Mint and debian, what should be my next distro in order to learn more about linux?
i was trying alpine in a laptop but that was so fucking annoying to set up and even after installing the wifi driver it wasnt configured properly

>>108028393
Go to Arch next.

>>108028393
>ubuntu/Mint and debian,
so, debian, debian and debian. Cool. Maybe get something that's not motherfucking debian next?

>>108028396
Is arch an easier setup than alpine? i thought alpine was more streamlined...

>>108028402
Arch is a much more normal DIY binary distro built on systemd and gcc. Much less friction.

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>>108028393
>>108028396
>Arch
>learn about Linux
If the idea is to start minimally and slap in packages until your system looks done: could just use the plain old Ubuntu or Debian but Debootstrap it instead of using an installer.
But anyway, manually putting together a Linux system is distro-agnostic and a nice skill to have.
>boot up a Linux system from an USB drive
>partition hard drive and create appropriate filesystems
>mount under /mnt/whatever
>put a Linux system in said mount point
Debootstrap a DEB-based system or "pacstrap" Arch or extract Gentoo's "stage3" or use DNF to install Fedora or some other RPM-based distro, no matter.
>chroot in
>install more packages (such as Wi-Fi tools if your internets depend on it)
>set passwords, configure stuff and make it bootable
>????

>>108028393
Fedora, so you can understand why so many people prefer dnf to apt.

>>108028455
i used to do that with ubuntu before trying arch. once in 2011 i set up a little thin client with barebones ubuntu, setting it up from the base rootfs image, which is functionally the same as the arch bootstrap image. got a gnome (2) desktop with firefox and some other basics on it with its' 1GB of storage, and this was before compressed btrfs was an option

Anyone here ever tried this?
https://lowtechlinux.com/2025/07/15/enabling-automatic-updates-on-opensuse-tumbleweed/

>>108020885
How do I set a hard limit on RAM usage for my programs?

>>108029300
cgroups

Happy Linux freedom day!

>>108020885
Still trying to turn off KDE plasma automatic tonemapping because certain HDR games get double tonemapped which makes highlights blown the fuck out, and shadows cruched and way too dark.

How the fuck do I fix this shit on KDE plasma?

I want the HDR parameter on, but the autoHDR linux uses to be turned off.

>>108027234
Isn't this just TailsOS? Just disable the Tor connection if you don't need it.

>>108026937
>a Linux thing
Nope.

>>108029631
It is extremely common for new kernel branches to have broken Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, this is common knowledge.
This is why you wait a couple of dozen minor versions before going for it.
>>108029051
>rootfs image
>bootstrap image
You mean a rootfs tarball?

>>108029438
KWIN_DISABLE_TONEMAPPING=1
Not ideal but I have the same experience, hopefully they fix this shit soon

>>108029640
>You mean a rootfs tarball?
yes, they each have their own name for it, but it's the same thing. basically a bare minimum rootfs with a package manager and maybe a kernel
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-base/releases/

>>108029640
>common for new kernel branches to have broken
...anything. it's in no way specific to wifi. or to kernels, even.

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How is OpenSUSE for absolute beginners?

>>108029716
tried that, didn't seem to do anything, I'm not sure if I implemented it wrong or if it literally does nothing.

The games are starting to work on linux meme only applies to normie games on the gamer distros doesnt it ive been trying to get touhou 8 to run for 2 hours on wayland and the closest ive got is not upscaling with my controller stuck pressing the up button. i bet league of legends works fine

>>108029954
LoL hasn't run on Linux at all ever since they added Vanguard to it.

>>108029972
that actually makes me feel a bit better, thank you. im going to make some enchiladas and be at peace

>>108023459
a mesopotamian demon*

>>108029954
League of Legends got a kernel level anti-cheat 3 years ago. Up until that point it did run fine.
Now the only way to play it is to play that new open source private server that was made for S1-S3 league of legends, but that's still under development and barely has anyone working on it or playing it.
>https://gitgud.io/skelsoft/brokenwings
>>>/vm/2027576

>>108029954
That has nothing to do with normie games, old games tended to use a lot of hacks, windows apis they weren't supposed to use etc.
Games from that era are just as hit or miss as they were 20 years ago.

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Why is my ram usage slowly increasing, even though any monitoring program doesn't show the culprit?
this is with a recently open firefox session (<5min), no game or any other demanding task running on the background

what can one do about it, besides restart?

>>108029887
Where did you add that env variable?
Did you restart?

>>108029858
If you want absolute peace of mind, no. The packman repos aren't comaintained with the official repos, so if you update your computer too quickly, your codecs will go out of sync and you won't be able to watch videos.

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>buy that ugreen adapter so I can get the most out of my OLED TV
>it works
>wake up PC next day, it doesn't work, just static (pic related), but unplugging and plugging back in fixes it
>next day same thing except can't fix it this time
>think PC is frozen but just found out I'm retarded and it was fucking up my monitor arrangement
>just a few minutes ago try changing the adaptive sync option from "never/automatic" to "always"
>suddenly works again
Can somebody explain what happened? I don't know how VRR works so maybe that was the issue?

>>108026248
Grub is the best bootloader that works with btrfs though since you can keep /boot on btrfs instead of having to make a separate partition for it.
> not detecting multiple btrfs subvolumes
Its not grub's job to detect btrfs subvolumes. Do you mean other distros in separate subvolumes? You would need to mount them and have os-prober installed while doing update-grub

Is gamescope always recommended over the DE's compositor or should I just use the DE's compositor and resort to gamescope if I have issues? AMD GPU btw.

>>108022066

have you tried nano

>>108030525
Only if you have issues, particularly because it will run on top of you compositor, unless you're talking about a standalone gamescope session or something
for instance, some games won't be able to recognize that you've minimized them when running on gamescope, meaning features like "mute when minimized" will not work. similarly, gamescope is godsend for games that have trouble alt+tabbing to and from.

>>108024094

for partial data yes

>>108030525
Anecdotal and it might be something wrong with my setup but on KDE plasma, I notice lower latency through gamescope. In fact I was bothered by latency by just straight up using wine on wayland.
But you can also just open up a gamescope session or try to bypass this thing entirely. There is a specific program that does this slightly easier but I think it's not really achieving anything crazy.
https://github.com/dillacorn/smtty

>>108030570
>gamescope is godsend for games that have trouble alt+tabbing to and from
See I don't get this. It's perfect for that, but it's dogshit if you want to alt+F4 out of a game or close its window. It always freezes and crashes.

>>108025632

see that audio levels are ok mic off/on headphone feedback off/on delay off/some ms delay

>>108029094

yes maybe is like windows then
better download new image or zypper no vendor change

>>108029858

1/9

>>108030612
I decided to try it myself
It's essentially just applied to updates. I can also install programs that way, but the system isn't read only like with immutable distros. It's kind of weird. I guess it's better than offline updates in the aspect that it doesn't make the boot process slower because everything is installed "online", just not usable.

>>108030585
do you have a "gamescopereaper" process running even after the game is closed? I was fiddling with it yesterday but I assumed it happened because I was running a 90s DX7 game

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>>108029791
That's just silly.
>>108029802
True.
>>108024094
For personal data, yes. How's this a Linux question?

>>108030693
I just checked and yep, I do have that process running. I just tried cyberpunk with it so it's not a DX7 thing.

>>108030693
For really old games you're probably better off just running Windows in a virtual machine. Especially Win9x shit.

>>108030712
Apparently a fix is waiting for months to be merged https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/pull/1908, thanks valve.
I noticed that if you run gamescope with "--backend sdl" at least it lets you close the window without crashing, even though gamescopereaper and winedevice.exe will keep running in the background

>>108030772
skill issue

>>108030975
You can cope all you want, but it's just not a priority for the Wine project anymore.

>>108031099
Because it's been finished for probably 10 years at this point. The only cases I've encountered where wine doesn't work you need a real PC emulator with proper Voodoo support.

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>>108031188
Voodoo mentioned. What are some ways of getting 3D accelerated Carmageddon to work on Linux?

>>108031339
you can use dgvoodoo in wine as well

About to go to Linux but wanted to hear if I can just go into about:profiles on Firefox and copy the profile folder over to Linux with no issues?

>>108031671
Yeah I did it just recently and did it a lot while distrohopping and also between Linux and Windows. Just make sure you have firefox closed when you make a copy or it might not copy properly.

It's one of the perks of Firefox over Chromium browsers imo although some might consider it insecure.

>>108031671
Yeah it works as long as you've updated to the same Firefox version or newer. You can also use Firefox Sync if you're unsure.

>>108031714
>Yeah it works as long as you've updated to the same Firefox version or newer
Oh yeah that. Sometimes it won't open if you move a profile from an older version of Firefox to a newer one. Can be fixed by deleting compatbility.ini last I checked.

>>108031699
>some might consider it insecure
Browsers are insecure by design. The whole point of constantly changing web standards is to force you onto compromised ad company browsers for 'security'

>>108031737
Opening profiles from older version works fine, in fact you do this every time you open Firefox after a new update. The actual issue is opening profiles from a NEWER version.

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Just tried out AeroThemePlasma on an old piece of shit laptop and it runs smooth, even in power saver mode.

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>>108029954
Huh? As part of my initial testing I tried running all kinds of niche games from my ntfs partition, PCB worked out of the box. Just tried 8 for you and it ran with no issue, thcrap even pulled another fucking update, thankfully it didn't break its own translation this time.

You know old touhou needs a patch to run on Windows too right? My setup had vpatch.exe or whatever already in place.
Your general point is correct but Touhou is too normie for it to apply. I only got linux to break on old niche wolf rpg games, the gameplay/visual stuff worked but some music didn't play.

>>108023778
Based. I'm a Kubuntu user. It works really well out of the box. The KDE deskop is comfortable and pretty customizable. It works well for gaming. Driver packages are latest releases. Only things I needed to add were Steam and Lutris and were easy to set up. It even supports my Kamvas 13 tablet with just the driver.

Life is good here.

>>108031671
Some extensions might complain about changed paths

I apologize if you're sick of answering questions like this all the time. But if I'm a normie looking to switch to Linux, which distro should I go for?

>the wiki page is right there in the OP, retard!
It lists a lot of options so I'm really not sure where to start.

I mainly just play video games and draw stuff. What I basically wish for is a Steam Deck experience, where you get a convenient customizable desktop environment out of the box, everything just works and you never have to mess around with drivers or open the terminal. Frankly I'd just get SteamOS, but as far as I know it's not designed to be put on home computers. And I know it's based on Arch so I though perhaps I can just try that, but I've heard it's not really beginner friendly.

>>108032000
>What I basically wish for is a Steam Deck experience, where you get a convenient customizable desktop environment out of the box, everything just works and you never have to mess around with drivers or open the terminal
Pretty much anything with KDE Plasma 6 will get you a SteamOS style experience since that's the GUI SteamOS uses.
>never have to mess around with drivers
How do you mean? Like, you never want to install drivers ever? If that's the case, Linux is certainly more convenient than Windows since you don't need to hunt down printer drivers or DualShock drivers or AMD drivers as they're already pre-installed. The only thing that isn't pre-installed is NVIDIA drivers and even then there are some distros that do pre-install them.

If you want minimal fuss, get Ultramarine Linux (KDE edition). It's based on Fedora, which is a lot more stable than Arch while still giving you the latest driver improvements. I suggest Ultramarine KDE over Fedora KDE simply because Ultramarine does a few minutes of extra setup for you (comes with multimedia codecs and, if you connect to the internet during the install, comes with NVIDIA drivers too).

>>108031339
You could run pcem or whatever its called since it has vodoo graphics support.

>>108031989
Depends on the extensions but I never had that issue. When I switched from Windows to Linux, all I had to do was copy over the profile folder and set it to the default.

Some extensions might need the path changed in the extensions settings themselves, not about:profile or about:config. Such as extensions that download stuff like a Youtube to MP3 or something.

>>108032000
People usually say to use mint.

>>108032186
That should be a last resort though. wine is good enough almost every time.

>>108032186
Stop giving "advice". DgVoodoo2 works perfectly with wine or proton.

>>108032134
Thank you for your response.

>How do you mean? Like, you never want to install drivers ever? If that's the case, Linux is certainly more convenient than Windows since you don't need to hunt down printer drivers or DualShock drivers or AMD drivers as they're already pre-installed.
I guess what I mean is that I've been spooked by (probably outdated or exaggerated) tales of how your input devices/printers/loudspeakers/etc. aren't going to work on Linux and good luck troubleshooting anything or finding the required drivers. And I have to say, I don't think I've ever had to manually hunt for drivers or anything on Windows, I guess stuff either auto-updates or Steam automatically installs everything you need to launch a game for you. (I remember needing to look for multimedia codecs, however). And yes, I've been warned that NVDIA doesn't like to play nice with Linux, but I have AMD at the moment so I suppose it should be fine.

Which distro has the nicest rendition of XFCE?

>>108032331
As in theme? probably manjaro since their themes are like one of the only good things about that distro.

>>108032288
Ubuntu works well with Nvidia. The drivers are easily installed through APT on the terminal. It doesn't need much else besides that, especially when using Steam which does everything else for you. No having to fuck around so much with Wine.

>>108032288
NTA replying to you, but the important part is the WiFi drivers. If your WiFi card requires non-free drivers and the distro didn't ship with them it can be a headache trying to get it connected to the internet to add the non-free repo.
Not an issue if your distro ships with nonfree stuff or if you're plugged into Ethernet.
Also not a Linux exclusive experience, because I've had similar issues trying to get WiFi drivers onto Windows machines, haha.

>>108032253
As long as you use version 2.8.2... Newer ones don't work

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>>108030525
Do you need it? It's mainly used for FPS limits, FSR and resolution swapping without affecting your underlying compositor resolution.

>>108023778
Just a couple of years ago the Canonical job application forms required you to list your pronouns, gender, religion and ethnicity. Pic related is still on their website.
They also have drama and are pushing political agendas. The only difference is that they keep that shit internal and hidden instead of people sperging out on some random discord group.

>>108032400
Thank you, I'll keep this in mind. My PC is on Ethernet but I thought I try putting Linux on an old laptop first, I guess I'll have to check this first.

>>108032331
Mint, Manjaro and ZorinOS Lite are the only distros where Xfce doesn't look like a dogshit UI straight out of 1995.

>>108030525
I used to use Gamescope to work around games appearing on the wrong monitor or showing the wrong resolutions but now that Wine's Wayland backend is usable almost all of these issues have disappeared for me.

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>>108021159
CachyOS stays on winning, but now I am worried, ptr1337 said too much, he should have stayed quiet or make a small statement like:
>Our goals are simply different.
Now troons will target CachyOS too.

>>108032758
CachyOS will be fine as long as they stay the small independent project that they are.
He's very right to be wary of bureaucracy. If politics gets involved then that's when you get the nasty takeovers and kicking of people you don't like. As long as he keeps a hold of his project then he's sheltered from all of that. He doesn't have to join any foundations or collectives. CachyOS can just keep on keeping on.

>>108032798
>He's very right to be wary of bureaucracy. If politics gets involved then that's when you get the nasty takeovers and kicking of people you don't like.
Yeah but now troons on reddit are assuming from his statement he is against COC (so am I) so therefore he must be an alt-right nazi chud.
People now pointing out the
>we had some concerns that this could get a "burocractic loophole", which seemed to be more or less true so far.
and using as proof he is against the kicking of Antheas from Bazzite.

>>108032758
>>108032798
Meanwhile Artix just werks and doesn't get pulled into any of this retarded drama.

>>108032288
>tales of how your input devices/printers/loudspeakers/etc. aren't going to work on Linux and good luck troubleshooting anything or finding the required drivers
That sorta stuff was solved a long time ago but unfortunately horror stories from 2003 are still rampant.

>>108031802
I have the moriya shrine version and it works for me fine on X11. By any chance do you play on controller? Both controllers I've tried the game has been reading repeated up inputs. Don't have that issue on other games.

I'm curious what workflow people use for workspaces, do you go numbered? I see a lot of people giving their workspaces names/icons but the idea of having everything on a labeled space and then opening an infrequently used app on a numbered on annoying

>>108032900
Nah I use keyboard, touhou doesn't use analog inputs anyway and the dpad on my xbox controller is ass. I actually didnt realize the old games supported controllers at all. All the modern controller apis were developed later so I assume its using some old windows joystick settings.
Maybe running it through steam would help since steam input does its own thing?

ffmpegthumbnailer or ffmpegthumbs? on a non-kde DE.

>>108032946
I only use workspaces on my laptop when it's not connected to my other monitors. The left one is a misc workspace while the right one is just used for an app that's in focus by itself, like a game or a movie.
On my desktop I just use 2 or 3 monitors at all times so I have no use for workspaces.

>>108027052
Bump
Why does a BTRFS Raid10 cause rw-heads to be noisy long after a big write, even after unmounting?
Is it ill advised to power down in that state?

>>108033215
You can power down whenever. Maybe run sync first if you want to ensure everything has been written to the array and all buffers and caches have been flushed but this is just extra peace of mind, it'll happen implicitly anyway.

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Waiting for someone from another board to post here, don't mind me.

Guys did I mess up?
>Have a SSD and HDD
>Both have Kubuntu
>Getting sick of Kubuntu
>Decide to install Bazzite on the HDD
>Checksum matches, USB installation goes without a hitch
>Bazzite won't boot, and GRUB doesn't seem to recognize it
>Trying to boot directly from the Bazzite SSD doesn't work either
Now what?

>>108020885
I want to switch to Linux, but I will have to continue to use google and/or microsoft stuff, mainly for productivity. If I value privacy, is it actually useful? Or should I just stick with my macbook / windows computer and save myself the hasstle of setting it up.

>>108033422
Fix ur grub most likely.
>trying to boot from USB wont work
Configure your UEFI most likely.

>>108033426
>privacy
depends on your needs and your adversary.
IMO many nerds will harden everything, use 4kb keys, read every source before compiling... and run it all on silicon that they simply trust.
If your adversary is glowing there might be nothing safe but linux might imply two things: It may be harder or take longer because billy and the fruit company didn't just give them a backdoor already and they have to consider if they are willing to expose an 0 day but at the same time, at least back in the day, using linux is like painting a target on your back.

>>108033426
>If I value privacy, is it actually useful?
Yes, it's still useful.
>I will have to continue to use google and/or microsoft stuff
That's fine, as long as you minimize the exposure to your data. For example, try only using their services/applications in a web browser which has uBlock Origin installed instead of not having the extension or worse yet run their applications natively installed on your PC.

>>108030150
Tested some games.
So it works for fixing native HDR games.
But some games where I use RenoDX for HDR, like ori and the blind forest, it still double tonemaps.
Oh well, progress I guess. now if I can only figure out this.

>>108020885
Any help with this?
>>108033638
>>108033618
>>108033611
>>108033592
>>108033488

I possibly need to fix my nvme drive. But I'm dead tired right now.
Can one of you leave some retard proof instructions I can follow some other day to try to fix it?

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Please God how do I fucking bypass the Calamares dictionary check? The "Next" button is greyed out, and if I choose some different password now and change it later, kwallet will go fucking ballistic.

>>108033709
We don't know even know about your stuff. So how are we expected to help? Just read your manual.

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Someone tell me this is correct and give me a gold star for following instructions
Feels like its missing something, somehow.

>>108033795
I figured it out: open

/etc/calamares/modules/users.conf

and remove these lines:

libpwquality:
- minlen=0
- minclass=0

>>108033848
I would recommend a separate partition for home, if something fucks up during an update or etc, it is easier to diagnose and repair.

>>108033848
You're not using the rest of your space, that's what you're missing. Just because you can squeeze an OS into 20GB doesn't mean that's all you want available. I would make / take up the full disk unless you have a good reason to need another partition (like an ntfs one for sharing data with Windows)
btrfs also works best when it has plenty of free space
You might want to use limine over grub for its built in snapshot support

>>108033955
Not really needed for btrfs, cachy should make /home its own subvolume. Its a little more convenient maybe but dealing with partitions is annoying.

>>108020885
I'm about to set up a physical server using Linux and NGINX, any advice?

>>108034271
know what you're doing

>>108034271
Consider setting up automatic security updates, if your distro makes a distinction between update types.

>>108033795
just use the old Debian installer, Anon :^)

>>108024022
There's a program called Pika backup that was shilled a few months ago, not sure how good it is. For system images there's BTRFS and its snapshots.

>>108033795
>these questions
did it also ask for the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

>>108032946
For Window managers they make more sense depending on the mental model of whoever configured them. I.e. there's a single workspace specifically designed for Gimp and miscellaneous applications like that in floating mode, then a fullscreen one for web browser or games, then another one to split PDF viewer, terminal emulator, text editor, etc... But ultimately if you don't need them, it's fine. I only use two and 99% of what I do with the 2d one is dump a terminal with mpd there, or a file manager, on XFCE.

>>108032946
I just have numbers

>>108032946
Numbers. I do have specific stuff running on specific workspaces (like, workspace 1 is always the e-mail stuff), but I like keeping it simple. They're in roman numerals for style too.

>>108033504
It worked, thanks.
I've had this problem before thinking about it, is it because the linux installer doesn't know how to handle multiple HDDs/SSDs by default?

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>>108033277
I figured so much but I am curious what is going on. Kernel isn't very talkative about it and I can not see how it's not kernel or modules doing something on unmounted disks.
I also believe btrfs has or had a sync utility of it's own but in the end it should always rely on some syscall.
I don't like where stuff like this is going, like mount and udisksctl being another example for 'maybe just merge it'.
>Picrel. I believe something like this shouldn't even be allowed to happen.

>>108023297
what guide do you need? just install ZFS and run zpool create on /dev/disk/by-id

>>108023371
>btrfs is betterfs for single drive.
Bull
shit.

>>108023476
That's for root on ZFS.

>>108024022
I have borg on a timer that backs up to HDD and offline backup to old HDDs with btrfs-send/receive. Scrubs more or less on a quarterly basis. Just systemd timers and bash scripts. Nothing fancy.

>>108033795
LINUX FREE AS IN FREEDOM

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thinking about switching to linux. recommend me a distro pls

i want
> something with a GUI that looks good, is consistent and functional
> no keyboard based UI pls
> broad community support, long term support (no flavor of the month shit)
> easy to set up and run (having to use command line sometimes is normal and fine, but i dont wanna have to do that every five minutes)

there's so many i really dont know where to start.
thanks in advance!

>>108035745
>>btrfs is betterfs for single drive.
>Bullshit
What's your technical case for zfs? I know it's got really bad fragmentation problems and it's out of tree. Don't say muh enterprise. Muh enterprise is running RHEL kernels.

There's way too many newfags looking to "switch to linux" today, and all of them asking the same questions. What happened? Did some jewtuber make another video on linux? Can't newfags read the thread?

>>108035778
Aurora

>>108035811
That seems pretty fotm Anon, why wouldn't you just recommend him Ubuntu or Fedora?

>>108035778
install gentoo

>try to run command as sudo
>wrong password, try again
hmm, weird, I type this password from muscle memory
>type it again
>wrong password, try again
WTF is going on
>manually type and verify each letter
>wrong password, try again
>joeover, probably have early dementia
>turn off computer
>worried about my probable dementia
>wash some dishes
>turn on computer again
>type password from muscle memory
>I go in without issues
WTF is this gaslighting KDE Plasma?

What's the best FOSS video editor available? Is Shotcut any good? I didn't like KDEnlive.

>>108035848
He wants something simple so I give something simple.

>>108035888
was your caps lock on, Senor?

>>108035778
I think Fedora KDE is the best choice here?
Ubuntu is good but GNOME is shit and they don't care about maintaining Kubuntu/KDE Neon.

>>108035778
Come home to Fedora KDE, white man.

>>108035921
Nope, keyboard even has a caps lock on led and it was off.

>>108035937
>>108035922
Fedwhora Fuckdora FUDora
GTFO Redhat shills don't tell people to sign up for your testing distro dumpsterfire, especially newbs
Linux is debian stable

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The Firefox that came with Debian wouldn't update at all so I had to install a new Firefox and now I have both. Is there a better way?

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>>108035937
>Fedora KDE
that looks alright

whats the deal with the taskbar floating above the bottom edge of the screen though? is KDE starting to "reinvent the desktop" in retarded ways like gnome 3.0?

>>108036174
Its a new setting, can disable it easily if you want by right clicking and entering edit mode.

>>108036174
it only floats if you have nothing in fullscreen
if you maximize a window it will dock to the bottom like a normal taskbar

>>108036174
No, it's just a default setting that's easily turned off as the entire point of KDE is "Traditional Desktop Experience" by default (think Windows 9x).

>>108036111
use case for not using a distro backed by large corporations?

>>108036111
>testing
You do realise that Rawhide is separate from the main release branch, right?

>>108036201
NTA, but if you want a usable corp distro use Ubuntu. There are no RPM based distros that don't suck. Plus, Ubuntu comes with Gnome, which should cover all reasonable use cases.

>>108036225
Fuck off Mark Shuttleworth

>>108036174
>whats the deal with the taskbar floating above the bottom edge of the screen though?
Looks cool, and it stops doing this the moment you maximise a window. It can be disabled 3 clicks btw.
>>108036192
>think Windows 9x
That's Xfce. Plasma is pretty much Windows 7 II.

Are there any distros that work well with dual screen laptops? I have Mint and Ubuntu on two other laptops but they're single screened and Mint doesn't want to work with my dual screen laptop. It won't let me rotate the screens and when I do it via terminal with the xrandr commant it shuts off the second monitor.

>>108036240
>7 II
Windows 8.1/10 hybrid would be more accurate.

>>108036169
Maybe uninstall the original now that you have a working one.

I got into Kubuntu about two years ago and at first it crashed a lot, but after I let the crash reports get submitted it stopped a few months in. Now I'm switching.

It feels a bit sad to waste all that effort. Isn't it a one person distro?

>>108036250
It still contains a Win9x style application launcher if you really want.

>>108036250
>Windows 8.1/10 hybrid would be more accurate.
I disagree. It doesn't have Windows 8's Charms or full screen settings app, and it doesn't have 10's retarded search bar next to the start menu (which itself has a search bar). In terms of aesthetics, yes it is minimalistic like 8 and 10, but in terms of functionality it's Windows 7 II.

>https://software.opensuse.org/explore
anyone else getting error 503 or is it just me?

>>108036373
503 here too, looks borked

>>108036373
Watch your tongue in the Temple of Dilation, child.

>>108036373
The opensuse shaman will fix it

>kubuntu 24.04
>occasionally get error sound alerts
>no error pop up happens
>check logs and no errors. everything is fine
>check system resource usage. its all normal

Either something is amiss that I'm not seeing or it keeps lying to me. Only happens on occasion though, maybe once every couple of days.

>>108036464
your carbon monoxide detector?

>>108036474
No my PC. If sometimes makes the little "bing" noise that indicates an error. But when there actually is an error, there should be a popup or at least something in the logs. But there is none. Probably just a bug? Idk. It just happened again a few minutes ago so I thought I'd ask.

>>108036244
This sounds like a broken video firmware problem not a Linux problem. Have you tried searching your specific model for solutions?

I have a soundblaster GC7 that i want to use with linux. I use KDE on bazzite. When I connect it, it by default is a audio duplex, and in the audio settings there is a dropdown with a headphones and speakers option. This option doesn't let me use it properly because they aren't exposed as two different audio devices to programs so i can't send different programs to the different outputs so that i can use the knob that balances the two. If I switch it to the pro audio option, this exposes them as different devices and so i can send programs to either one and properly use the mixer knob. However, this also exposes 8 channels, probably due to the shitty fake surround feature that i don't use. These extra channels become a problem when I'm running a program in wine/proton and create a lot of audio glitches especially in older titles or obscure programs. How can I go about configuring Pulseaudio/ALSA (not even sure what audio stack bazzite uses) to either remove the extra channels in the pro audio mode, or split the two devices in the duplex mode?

>>108036507
anon... you're dying...

>>108036536
We all are.

>>108036535
That sounds more like an application bug because it's correct that they're not exposed as two different audio devices. It is in fact one single audio device with multiple outputs.

You could try creating a virtual device that shows up as a separate device but sends all audio to whatever output you want.

I just updated Mint, everything updated fine but initramrd didn't seem to update. The kernel now panics when I try to boot. The error given is that no init was found.

I think the entire /boot/ partition can't be found, at least I think osprober can't find it. What options do I have to try fixing this? When I try booting the previous kernels, it drops me into busybox. So I have no shell to try fsck or update-initramfs. Could I get another image, put it to flashdrive , and try to fix the /boot/ partition using that?

I have timesyncd with a recent snapshot before the update, but I don't know how that helps if the /boot/ partition isn't mounting nor do I know how to use it if I can't get a shell.

Anons in your own experience how stable is your distro?

>>108036649
Right now? horrible. I've had less problems when I made Arch machines

>>108036649
I use Gentoo so it's as stable as I make it. If I fuck around and do stupid things then I might break it sometimes.
(Emphasis on me breaking it though. It's really stable as long as I don't do that)

>>108036464
Guess I should elaborate. When this happens, all that's running are KDE Connect, OpenRGB, and Firefox. I've checked logs for those too but still nothing.

>>108036649
Lubuntu is very stable, if something fucks up it's usually my fault. Release upgrades can be a bit of pain though because of the defaults that the maintainers push.

>>108036649
MX has just werked for me for the past year I've been using it. My hardware is nowhere near current-gen though, so that probably helps.

>>108036654
>Doesn't name it

>>108036649
Ubuntu? Fantastically stable! The bedrock is a solid Debian foundation. On top, Snaps keep my system well ordered, clean, and reliable.
If you're so inclined, you can even subscribe to Ubuntu Pro for an extended LTS end-of-support date for an absolute bulletproof experience for years to come.

>>108036240
>Plasma is pretty much Windows 7 II.
funny you say that cause being an old fart i remember when win7 came out everyone was outraged that they 'stole' KDE's look. they did sorta have that broad taskbar with large icon look first

>>108036725
This, but replace Ubuntu with Zorin and "extended LTS" with "literally free software".

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Any of you use RClone? I'm struggling to find a way to use this tool in a way that fits my mental model of how to manage my files. I have a kinda set in stone directory structure for all my files. Media i only read 99% of the tame is backed up somewhere else, the main use case i have for this tool is having an always sync copy of data that i still have to update and reference more often, i'll give you an example. This is roughly how i sort my documents.

./
./Books
./Important Files -> accounting, invoices, taxes and shit
./Notes
./Off Topic -> this mostly contains SingleFileZ snapshots of random internet articles or shit like aws-cli or tmux cheatsheets, i want to note down the relevant bits then get rid of this over time 
./Text Dump -> lots of raw text i have copypasted over the years before i decide to start noting down shit

I also make a couple of edits so i made this directory structure to work with them

./
./current -> Basically a temporal directory acting as root for whatever i may be doing
./reverse_search -> duh
./edit_qq -> mostly has pictures i want to edit, remove watermarks, trim, sometimes there're videos 
./references -> i'm practicing handdrawing as hobby
./convert_qq -> 90% of the time i have videos here
./archive_later -> what i amn't working with anymore but dunno where to place yet, usually stays empty but is useful enough to keep around

I read about RClone and considered using a Gdrive account to keep sync of ONLY a couple of these directories, excluding the rest. Let's say, ./Notes and ./reverse_search. But i'm struggling to understand how to use this tool for my use case. It NEEDS to be Gdrive cause i want a sync option as normie friendly as possible so i can use it on any locked down corporate PC/Chromebook (specially the "Notes" i even got permission to install this shit so i can edit actual text files inside Gdrive https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/text_editor_for_drive/1014087004651).

>>108033413
Did he came?

Fedora Linux is seemingly pretty cool, dnf seems a lot better than fucking yum did back in the ol days. I honestly think what fedora is right now is more what ubuntu should have been vs whatever the fuck caonical has become. There's some cool stuff here, and I like the adoption of some less than conventional stuff (I don't think btrfs is all that new anymore, but it's still appreciated)

>>108037126
dnf 5 is desu the best package manager right now

Can someone explain to me why Canonical hates flatpaks?
I've heard someone explain it, something about them not wanting to be influenced by the flatpak team, but it just made no sense. What could Canonical be so afraid of?

>>108037138
Yeah it really is. I always liked pacman but that's because I have used pacman for like ten years maybe by now. We've come a long fucking away and it's not even close. I saw all the debug stuff as it went through and I can't believe how far this OS has come.

>>108034579
>>108035754
Thanks guys, I'll look into borg/restic frontends. Maybe I should take the btrfs plunge at some point, too.

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>>108037160
No unhinged reason that doesn't just boil down to "corporate rot" I think. Maybe because they've been hanging around gnome devs too long or whatever, but I think canonical just has gotten too big and is full of people who want it done "their" way.

They've really gone down hill since Unity got killed imho, that was like the first domino in my book.

>>108037160
Because Canonical have snap, their own closed source version of flatpak.

>>108037160
I can't speak for Canonical but I can't imagine anyone actually using Flatpaks in an enterprise environment. Snaps can actually be managed from the command line and with scripts like a normal package manager.

>>108037183
>but I can't imagine anyone actually using Flatpaks in an enterprise environment.
Flatpaks allow you to deploy your own repositories. Snaps force you into Canonical's store front or paying them money for a brand store. Flatpak is the clear winner unless you're intent on giving Canonical money.

>>108037187
>Have your retarded servermonkey set up a repo and deal with audits on top of their current workload for a worse product
>OR
>Pay Canonical

>>108037183
Well, then there's even less reason to be afraid of flatpaks.

>>108037200
Believe it or not some people have competent personal running their operations. Not everyone has switched to AI powered vibe coders as their system administrator.

Obviously, if you don't know what you're doing then I can see the advantage in paying Canonical to try to fix your mess.

>>108037213
>>108037200
Also, I guarantee that you'll do a better job auditing your own repos than the literal malware that's been caught in the Snap Store. Even a retard could do better.

>>108037221
it's just Arch vs Manjaro all over again.
Manjaro is Arch with clown maintainers.
Arch also has clown maintainers, but the clown is you, the user.

>>108037213
I don't think I'd call most operations competent, and even competent sysadmins can get swamped in work. Everybody is outsourcing everything to the cloud anyway, it's cheaper than hiring more staff and buying equipment.
>>108037221
I'm still trying to figure out how the hell Snap actually works. As far as I can tell it should be possible to host your own store, but it'll require building some tooling I think. I'd like to try it out, even if it's just for fun.

>>108037240
>As far as I can tell it should be possible to host your own store, but it'll require building some tooling I think.
Yes. It uses a bunch of API endpoints and the server isn't open unlike Flatpak so if an enterprise deployment wanted to host their own repos their only option is to develop all of this tooling themselves or pay Canonical.

please help me
my mint won't see nvidia and is stuck on nouvou
i have an old distro [spoiler](19.3)[/spoiler] that doesnt come with native support, and my pc cant use newer distros

>>108037370
Why don't you start by listing its hardware. Why can't it use newer distros? There should still be something out there that supports it.

>>108037398
my computer is 32bit with 2gb of ram
i use mint on a DoK to start up as i still sometimes use the xp that is already on my pc. if nothing else, i can watch videos

is there a simpler solution than switching to a different distro?

>>108037415
Switching to a supported distro would be your best bet, yes. You will still probably have issues with NVIDIA though, although it may be a bit better.

32-bit hardware is kind of obsolete now though so there's not a lot of options out there but still some big distros are supporting it for now.

>>108037515
which distro would you reccomend?

>>108037100
No, the little bugger scurried off!

>>108037570
No idea. It's difficult to recommend something because you have no idea if it will still be around tomorrow as more and more distros are dropping it.

I think Debian still supports it for now, although how long that will continue is uncertain.
As does OpenSUSE (although they dropped support in Leap, so how long Tumbleweed will keep it remains to be seen)
There's Arch32 which is the community maintained 32-bit version of Arch Linux.
Also Slackware and Gentoo, etc.

You're in a bit of a rough spot if you have to keep that hardware alive somehow. With NVIDIA hardware as well that just makes it worse since they've dropped support for all older hardware too so you have to use Nouveau or a DKMS version of the old proprietary NVIDIA driver which may or may not work.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-gnu-hurd/180283
which one of you faggots was this?

>>108037610
my nvidia card is also old. thats why xp has no problem with it.
do you know how i can install dnf? i think i found a guide for nvidia with it, but my machine can;t locate the dnf package.

>>108037617
Waiting for Lennart Poettering to come along and politely inform everyone that the Systemd operating system doesn't support Hurd and never will.

>>108037183
>Snaps can actually be managed from the command line and with scripts like a normal package manager.
Can't you do this with Flatpaks?

>>108037619
Dnf is Fedora's package manager. If you're using Mint then what you want is to look for a Debian package. Try asking an LLM "How do I install the legacy NVIDIA dkms driver for <CARD NAME> on Ubuntu/Linux Mint". I have zero clue how you're supposed to get this crap working nowadays.
>>108037638
You can. You can even install them offline from a USB stick or hard drive, etc (Flatpak has a built-in tool to make a repo on a USB stick: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/usb-drives.html). Much better for enterprise distribution (although in the enterprise you'd likely be using a network share, etc)

>>108037657
what command does mint uses instead of dnf?

>>108037676
Apt / Apt-get

They should still have some NVIDIA driver package there I think. You just have to make sure you're installing the older version of the driver and not the latest version which dropped support for everything ancient.

>>108037619
>my nvidia card is also old. thats why xp has no problem with it.
How old is your GPU? If it's extremely old, it won't even be supported on newer versions of the Linux kernel.

>>108037678
would apt allow me to install stuff from https?
a command of 'sudo dnf install https://****' would transform into what if im using apt instead?

>>108037687
geforce GTX 750 ti
do i need to downgrade my distro?

>>108037694
I think Mint should come with some driver manager. What does that show?

>>108037701
the driver manager has 3 options
a. nvidia-driver-390 (nvidia metapackage)
b. nouvou
c. nvidia-340 (nvidia binary driver)

>>108037732
should i switch in the driver manager to nouvou? would it stop my screen from flashing?

and yes, the word 'driver' is ommited from the third option; the first option is currently enabled.

>>108037748
You might as well try Nouveau given the age of your hardware.