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Turns out mounting your Google Drive as a folder in Dolphin using rclone isn't that hard, and it actually works unlike the KDE KIO GDrive app

I love kexec. I can re-boot into a new kernel on my OpenWRT system in a few seconds now just with a simple script:

#!/bin/sh -x

[ -e "$1" ] || exit 1
kexec -l --initrd=initrd --reuse-cmdline "$1" || exit 1

sync
/etc/init.d/dockerd stop
sync
/bin/echo u > /proc/sysrq-trigger
sync

exec kexec -e

>>108125274
Repost.

>>108129645
Now use it as a swap partition/file

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Update from >>108122343
The script is done and works perfectly, with all kinds of safety checks.
I have built a VM with the same partitions as mom's laptop to test, pic related.
The next step is to complete the manual installer script for Kubuntu 26.04 on the new partition, all the steps are already there but need to add sanity checking and handle some potential errors.

>update kernel to 6.18.9-200
>get bios acpi errors in dmesg (oem bios acpi bug, not harmful I guess I'm pretty sure it wasn't there before the update though)
>kernel parameter 'split_lock_detect=off' stopped working too
>Unknown kernel command line parameters "split_lock_detect=off", will be passed to user space.
Ehh? How the hell am I going to disable split_lock_detect now then?

>>108122343
Really building the case for some sort of rolling system here, or an immutable with easy rebasing and rollbacks.

Point release distros are deprecated.

>>108130047
literally nothing to do with point release. use snapshots. immutables, if you have to.

>>108130060
If you had a rolling system you could just do the update. Or if it were immutable you could run the rebase command and reboot, so yes, I would say it's accurate to say point release distros are hindrance, even more so when you're trying to maintain somebody else's system for them remotely.

>>108130080
>If you had a rolling system you could just do the update.
Uh huh. And risk something going wrong, even more so due to the nature of bleeding edge.

>>108130105
Which is why you have the previous snapshot selectable in the bootloader.

>>108130113
...which you can do on a point release distro just the same, so what the fuck is your point?

>>108130118
So do that then? Why overcomplicate things?

>>108130118
his point is that point release distros are more likely to break during a major upgrade and require a bigger intervention than an immutable or even a rolling distro with snapshots

Quick question: Would a TP Link Archer TXE75E work with Linux? Its the wifi adapter I got in my current PC and what to know if I'll need to switch it out or not beforehand.

>>108129490
my stupid fucking audio wont work. im running fedora, but had the same problem on mint. the headset, the dedicated microphone, and either through a usb soundcard wont work. they work without issue on a windows machine. the fucks going on?

>>108130047
>The last time I did an in-place upgrade remotely from Kubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 and it went fine, but now I'd have to upgrade 24.10 to 25.04->25.10->26.04 and it would take way too long
The mistake was veering off the LTS branch.

>>108130199
If they had snapshots they could just snapshot the root filesystem, chroot into it and upgrade it without affecting the running system. Optionally make snapshots at each jump along the way, when you're done make the final snapshot the new default to boot into and reboot the system and you're done.

They're using Ext4 though so good luck with that…

>>108130047
>rolling release
I'm not going to troll my own mother.
She's been using Kubuntu for 10+ years with no issues (at least not impacting her work).

>>108130199
You're right, but at the time it looked sensible. I think it was Plasma 6 that tipped the scales.

>>108130156
Easiest way to find out would just be booting a livecd of mint or whatever distro and seeing if you can connect to wifi on it. might also be worth checking dmesg to see if any firmware errors come up

>>108130258
The new partition will be btrfs, and I'll do as you described.
I'm already using that process on my desktop and it works well.

>>108130156
boot into the current version of fedora or cachyos and check

downloading ubuntu 26.04 snapshot 3, will try it out live and see how it goes

Last thread I posted about how my WiFi was acting inconsistent, sometimes working fine and sometimes dropping out entirely. However, I found a solution!
I stopped using CachyOS and swapped to Nobara. Now it all just works.
I still don't understand how this even happens, but whatever.

>>108130943
Different kernel versions or missing firmware. This is why distro hopping is dumb. You don't learn anything.

>>108130984
I just need to learn enough to make my computer usable. The simplest way was to swap to a new distro. You can't blame people for taking the path of least resistance.

>>108131072
It's the most intellectually lazy fix not the most expedient one. You could've asked any chatbot and had it fixed in a few minutes.

>>108131160
>You could've asked any chatbot and had it fixed in a few minutes.
I did. The AI's solution didn't work. I then asked here, but I got no help. I then did a lot of googling, and none of the solutions I found fixed it.
You can't get mad at me for finding a solution that works for me.

Running Fedora and notifications seem to be krashing my KDE panel/shell a lot. Any way I can narrow down the specific cause for it? It's not a huge deal since it just auto restarts a couple seconds afterwards but it's quite jarring.

>>108130943
>I stopped using CachyOS and swapped to Nobara.

Nobara extremely underrated well-tested by development team disto which is actually in many cases more reliable than even Fedora.

> Now it all just works.
Just use official nobara-updater and you will be fine. Yeah, slow. But worth it.
I broke my system last year by using dnf update. Hopped into Arch, etc. But came back and love it for almost year already. The one and only disto as daily driver.

>>108131514
I'd guess something would show up on journalctl

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I just keep pressing ctrl shift V instead of ctrl V to paste things

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>>108129490
Arch question.

for some time i am using Arch with yay. i have read that yay informs me, when i have to deal with pacnew and pacsave. My question is how does a notification like this look like?

>>108131928
Same as Pacman. After upgrading the affected package it'll spell out something like: "Warning, X package was saved as X.pacnew" in the terminal.

>>108131928
Just so pacdiff -s and go through the files

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Posting from 26.04
>Drives not being displayed in nautilus
>gparted crashed while looking up partitions
>dock autohides by default now
overall looks pretty and feels snappy on my shitbox

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>new to Linux, have only been using Mint for about a month now
>download Ruffle because I'm feeling nostalgic for old flash games
>automatically assume that using it will be a hassle, so look up how to do it with an AI
>follow the instructions to open it via the terminal
>it doesn't work, 'ruffle.exe' was not found
try navigating directly to the file location to try it
>no luck
>wonder if I'm just retarded, go to check the file's properties to make sure it is actually an .exe file
>right click
>right there at the top of the menu: Execute
>click it
>it just works
>close program
>double click the file
>it just works
I'm starting to wonder if the majority of issues people have with Linux is just them over-complicating things because they expect them to be like that.

>>108132052
IIRC you can use gnome-disks to mark the partitions as visible in nautilus or do it manually by adding x-gvfs-show,x-gvfs-name=<the name you want> to the mount options in /etc/fstab
Nautilus is retarded

>>108132127
yeah I'm going back to Plasma and Dolphin

>>108132143
Dolphin is easily the best file manager

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Im a-lookin for
- persistent, thumb drive ready live distro with minimal, ideally no setup required
- preferably secureboot capable so i dont have to bother turning that shit on and off when i boot
- has encryption (not sure if thats even possible with a live image?)
- has a text editor - preferably a basic word processor like abiword

What I wanna do is use that for personal writings and journaling. I know, gay. Thanks for any suggestions!

(I'm too paranoid to write in a physical journal or on my [unencrypted] main system. I dont like the idea of getting hit by a truck or something and my family finding my diaries and reading my every retarded thought ive ever written down)

>>108132323
>thumb drive ready live distro
tails os? That's the only live usb I keep hearing about. Oh yea puppy linux. But that's more barbones.

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Tip: you can download all 4chan banners with these 3 commands:

seq 0 300 | xargs -P0 -I{} wget -q https://s.4cdn.org/image/title/{}.png
seq 0 300 | xargs -P0 -I{} wget -q https://s.4cdn.org/image/title/{}.jpg
seq 0 300 | xargs -P0 -I{} wget -q https://s.4cdn.org/image/title/{}.gif

>>108132914
don't put this in the terminal, it's a virus

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I've just started playing with a nvidia tesla m60 GPU that I've crammed into an optiplex running xubuntu. Right now I'm using it with john the ripper and have both the GPU's on the card running at once but looking at the GPU clock speed I think I might be missing out on a lot of performance. Its running in the higher of the two performance modes, but the actual reported GPU clock frequency is way closer to the lower end of the range for that power mode. Pic related. Its running at 588MHz instead of the maximum of 1177MHz. I don't think there is anything that would be bottlenecking me before GPU clock, so any idea why it isn't automatically clocking itself higher, and any ideas as to how I can persuade it to do so?

>>TLDR: Using tesla m60 datacenter GPU, but GPU clock is just barely faster than the minimum speed range for its current performance level. Why is that happening and how do I make it run closer to the maximum GPU clock speed for better performance?

>>108132323
Ventoy has a persistence plugin that allows you to make a persistence partition that can be used to changes persistence with any live .iso, some people have done crazy things with this plugin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGvyR-UQgak

Alternatively if you're too paranoid about using Ventoy then there's MiniOS which has persistence:
https://minios.dev/

>>108132127
Did they do this because Snap mount pollution retardation?
Why would you not want to see all mounts?

>>108132965
I mean that video teaches you what you gotta do, but it gave me anxiety.

>>108132914
I fixed there's crap for you:

wget2 -q https://s.4cdn.org/image/title/{0..300}.{png,jpg,gif}

is there a document viewer with a bookmark functionality that does not make you want to jump out of a window

>>108129645
Which distro does Þiu use?

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Is OpenSUSE the only "mainstream" distro to default to Plasma?

>>108129490
Is systemd really that bad?

>>108133240
It's... actually... WORSE!
Mwaahahaha

>>108133240
Depends on your use case and stance on the Unix philosophy. It's fine for most of the possible users and the default almost everywhere if you just want to measure its usefulness.

>>108133119
I mean Okular just werks

>>108133115
damn didn't know there was wget2
why isn't it being used by default instead of wget?

>>108133240
systemd is both a service manager and a collection of software projects. The service manager is quite good. To the point that any plausible replacement has to emulator it. The associated software projects range from good to bad to unrelated except by political affiliation. You have to be aware of which part people are talking about.

>>108133240
I remember back in the day laughing at the windows task scheduler for having so much bloat, compared to the simplicity of crontab that you could understand in minutes. Now systemd timers remind me of task scheduler except without the UI
That said everyone who actually has to deal with system admin seems to like it, and it seems polished enough. I initially hated the idea of binary logging but journalctl is fine and feels a lot nicer to use and browse than event viewer. Controlling services is also nicer. So eh, it's okay by me.

>>108133283
It is in Fedora. Other distros are more conservative because it drops some features that barely anyone uses (like FTP support) so rather than break wget for 1% of people that don't even matter they keep wget as the default.

>>108133325
>Controlling services is also nicer.
That's neither here nor there it's just

systemctl <VERB / ACTION> <UNIT>

instead of

 service <UNIT> <VERB / ACTION>

.
Basically they flipped the order of things which some people feel is more natural.

I assume a VM made on Gnome-Boxes can be ran on Virt-Manager without any issues? I'm planning on switching over but I don't want to set the whole thing up again.
The VM is stored as a QEMU QCOW disk image.

>>108133240
it's fine, people like being contrarian
>b-but the linux ecosystem is so fragmented! there are myriad of alternatives for a single usecase!
>systemd appears, unifies shit
>it's bad!

>>108133348
Commands aren't that different but the old way involved every service making its own janky scripts that all worked differently. For example systemctl status gives a lot of standard information and process logs by default. It's just nicer.

>>108133240
If you only knew how bad things really are

>>108133419
It's mostly only Sysv that had that issue but outside of Debian nobody was using that and even if you look at the Systemd-free alternatives people run today for the most part it's not Sysv which has multiple issues with it.
Yeah, Systemd is probably better than that.

Should I switch to a corporate time sync server like time.cloudflare.com? Lots of distributions use the NTP Pool Project, which means you can connect to any volunteer server and track your uptime. To me that's a privacy concern.

>>108133592
You should use a mixture of servers because NTP can do a consensus thing where it uses multiple servers at once to maintain tiny offset adjustments. It's pretty smart.

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>>108133325
I like systemd timers, what's so bloaty about them?
>>108133348
systemd way makes more sense as you can list multiple units.
>>108133592
Don't your ISP have one? It's usually given in the DHCP answer but most people have NAT routers and therefore unaware of this.

>>108133881
>Don't your ISP have one? It's usually given in the DHCP answer but most people have NAT routers and therefore unaware of this.
Some do, but not all. I have packet traces (was troubleshooting a DHCP issue in OpenWRT after I upgraded to a new snapshot where I kept getting NAK from the DHCP server but I think that may have been my ISP's fault. It fixed itself in the end. Booting the old snapshot worked fine so I now have a good packet trace for what DHCP should look like and a bad trace where it didn't work) and there's only DNS information, no NTP servers.

My old ISP had NTP servers though and they are public so I still use them.

>>108133172
They don't do that anymore, GNOME is the default now.

>>108133115
Based shell knower.

>>108133881
I don't know if bloaty is exactly the word I'd use, but if you just casually wanted something to run daily as your user, crontab was so fucking easy. You could understand and use it in literally a few seconds. You could then ignore it forever, and if your process failed it'd mail you to let you know.
Timers are probably more robust, but creating a user timer is kind of an ordeal of bureaucracy and you need to create multiple files (the service and the timer) in various places. I do appreciate that you can run the service on demand for testing, though, which was always a serious weakness of crontab.

>>108133947
The good news is that somebody agreed with you and made a crontab interface to Systemd timers.
https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron

>>108133979
Oh, and this still gives you all of those same benefits of using Systemd Timers and generates a .service file for you and you get logs through the journal, etc.

I really don't know why Debian still ships a separate cron daemon and didn't switch to this yet.

>it is possible to install CachyOS kernels on Almalinux
Interesting.

>>108134038
Technically you can use any kernel on any distro if you know what you're doing.
I wonder if the server focused kernels they're making now make sense to run there?

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It is a bad idea to use my router as a DNS server on my desktop? I am using my router as a forwarder to external DNS servers, and want my PC to use those DNS server, also what that loop-back IP doing? 127.0.0.53? It was there by default.

>>108129490
Does anyone here use bottles I have a question about how it accesses data? When I play a game in regular WINE it works fine, the music lags from time to time, but its fine.
But when I open it in Bottles the game music doesn't lag at all but a specific enemy spell actually crashes the game when it doesn't in WINE and I get an internal program error code (aka the error code is spat out by the game in a .txt) that says that a bmp file is missing when it isn't.
Does bottles do any sort of access or read/write permission fuckery while it is running a program?
Thanks!

>>108134224
No, that's in fact intended in any standard network. You can use a stub if you want but your router should be caching on its own and latency is anywhere within the range of 0.1-5ms which is nothing.

>>108134458
>>108134224
The 127.0.0.53 is systemd-resolved by the way which should be using the DNS from your router anyway if you're advertising it correctly over DHCP and RDNSS.

>>108133172
Define "mainstream". SteamOS is locked into Plasma and CachyOS and Bazzite which are mainstream to gamers default to Plasma.

I don't really understand gentoo use flags (or more like how to use them in practice). How many flags are you guys globally enabling, disabling, and why? Because I feel like when you go to use portage to get software, you basically need to make a file package.whatever that has the flags anyway.

Also is it a good idea to be globally disabling X11 if I'm running Wayland?

>>108134498
The general rule of thumb is you set global flags for the things that multiple packages share that you generally want enabled by default.
Multimedia codecs and image formats are a good candidate for that.
Conversely, you can set global flags for things you want to disable by default and then optionally enable that thing per-package in package.use

>>108134506
>>108134498
Also yes, you can disable X11 globally but you'll need to enable it for some packages if you want XWayland support. Also some pre-compiled binaries (not an issue if only building from source) expect X11 support baked into GTK, etc, and will break if it's not there.

>>108134497
Those 3 are all too niche for mainstream

so what's the favorite VM for running windows xp these days?

>>108134706
Just use QEMU/KVM through virt-manager.

>>108133947
>You could understand and use it in literally a few seconds.
crontab is a bunch of magic numbers you first have to look up what they do.

>>108134728
Technically true in terms of the original cron but most of the modern implementations support special targets like "@hourly" or "@daily".

I've been wondering about derivative distros these days.
About a decade ago or more I remember wrestling with garbage like Manjaro or KDE neon. Antergos, elementaryOS. Stuff like that which always gave me the impression these were garbage.
Today it seems much more tame in comparison with some newer distros. I haven't used linux in a while and it seems a lot of people are happily running the popular flavor of the month (or year) distros instead of opting for just using one of the base known ones (Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch) without that much trouble, so I guess some lessons were learned.
I've seen complaints for shit breaking, but almost on equal measure to "I installed this base distro and I can't just for the life of me get this specific hardware to work, and I grabbed the gamer one and it just does it". Initially I thought "oh well, that's because they probably didn't have something installed by default" but the amount of changes I've seen on some of these derivative distros make me wonder if this thing about "people installing these are either lazy or new" rings always true or if it's actually daunting to get some stuff to work right on something like for instance, Fedora (I name this one in particular because most of the time I've seen complaints about this one getting "in the way").
I know a lot of you /g/ents have things "just working" but do you really think it's simpler than this, or do you think there's some merit to these more popular, more used "gaymer" or "easy" distros? Have you had this experience where you could not get something very specific to work at all until you tried one of these?

>>108135028
just use whatever the fuck works for you. stop worrying about the popular consensus regarding the merits of arbitrary collections of programs.

>>108135028
It's all just third-party software and drivers. For example to configure my Razer mouse I had to install OpenRazer and Razergenie. I don't particularly regard that as taking much time or effort but if this just works out-of-the box with inputmapper or whatever the gaymer distros use then it's not hard to see why people opt for that.

Finally new Debian 11 kernel fixed that regression where all the characters were fucked up on most of the tty's.

>>108135055
In my experience, but this could be wrong (I mean maybe I did miss a step somehow, I'm sure I'm on my way to alzheimers), with a very specific gamepad 13 people have, I have my little instructions on how to make it work on a few distros (arch based, openSUSE TW), but I could not manage to make it work on Fedora for the life of me. It does work on Bazzite/Nobara for instance. I particularly need to add an udev rule that uses xpad, and an usbcore quirk as a kernel boot argument to make the gamepad behave properly and be detected as an xbox gamepad.

>>108135090
I think I know what you're talking about. Those sorts quirks are needed when the retarded device identifies as the wrong thing so the kernel loads a different driver or it simply doesn't work, etc. Yes, those quirks are annoying to have to apply yourself.

>>108134696
There is no such thing as a mainstream Linux distro because Linux itself isn't mainstream. So the best you can do is look at the mainstream in each niche. For gamers that's those 3 distros plus Arch, Mint and Ubuntu. For governments and businesses that's Ubuntu and to some extent openSUSE and Fedora. We don't really have any data for your average home user because most distros don't make usage statistics public, but I would assume Ubuntu dominates by far and pushes other distros into a "niche" category.

>>108135028
>do you think there's some merit to these more popular, more used "gaymer" or "easy" distros?
Downstream distros are designed to be more convenient for a target user demographic. If you can get a distro that "just works" instantly then you should. The only exception are tech enthusiast people who are willing to tinker, which is a minority of PC users and even Linux users.
Most people don't want to know what KDE/GNOME, systemd, wayland/x11, repositories, drivers, libraries, kernels, etc. are. They just want their computer to work and to be able to install their apps and games without wasting time. The more things work out of the box the better. That's the whole reason why Ubuntu and Mint got popular 15 years ago, they just worked better than other distros.
So is there merit to these distros? Clearly yes. Just like there is merit to Fedora, openSUSE, Debian and Arch compared to Slackware, Gentoo or doing a LinuxFromScratch build.

>>108134708
just works ty

>>108134708
>Virt manager
Stop recommending this dogshit. It's garbage and bloat. Just use qemu.

I bet you use arch. Fucking arch shitters.

>>108133947
I guess drop-in files will always have that "bureaucratic" feel but IMO they are preferred over a single config.
>>108134055
>I wonder if the server focused kernels they're making now make sense to run there?
What makes a kernel "server focused"?
>>108134498
A desktop system with a desktop profile:

USE="bash-completion colord dvb extra ffmpeg gstreamer gtk3 idn introspection lto -modemmanager mtp -networkmanager offensive opencl pgo pulseaudio -qt5 -qt6 raw tmp vaapi vdpau"

..which adds up to loads of flags because there's the desktop profile itself. Just saying case you wondered how much manual configuration there would be.
Then I got a Gentoo server with no desktop profile:

USE="cryptsetup idn"

>>108135116
Yeah, the gamepad itself behaves weirdly. If those quirks aren't applied it's detected on a sort of safe mode that makes it sort of work like a generic gamepad without vibration at a much lower polling rate (and some bindings get fucked as well for whatever reason). This problem also persists after a reboot and applying the quirks if the gamepad isn't unplugged/plugged again.
I am kinda curious about why this wouldn't work in Fedora, in case it stops somehow working in a different distro as well.

What irc client is the best between konversation, quassel and kvirc and why?

>>108135591
Irssi is the best irc client and I don't need to upsell it even.

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>>108135600
I don't want a cli irc client, friendo.

>>108135591
Konversation is the easiest to use if you just want to start using an IRC client right now.

>>108127067 here
I was able to fix it by enabling systemd-networkd-wait-online.service and editing its exec script. And it just works perfectly now.
systemd is straight up godware.

>>108135663
I installed konversation. Kino. I used hexchat in the past but it's not on the arch repos.

>>108130943
i have been using linux for many years.
installed linux mint on a family member's computer.
amd driver totally bugged out after a while of running the computer, black screen and all, nothing works.
go through the logs, pinpoint it to the amd driver.
find out there are two amd drivers around, try to install the other one, nothing changed.
gave up and installed random distro, opensuse (production version, stable)
this amd driver works just fine.
leave it, show him how to update the system and he has never been this happy with this computer, maybe any computer ever.

and i use linux since 20 years. i only use the command line and fluxbox, i program some stuff, write scripts, compile my kernel and everything.

just sometimes, you can't be bothered fucking around.
i could have tried another kernel, i could have tried another version of the driver again but sometimes you're just tired i guess.

and i know it has nothing to do with linux mint or opensuse. it just happens that the particular version of the driver on that particular version of the kernel just happened to work and the other one didn't.

Man somehow I killed my USB stick and I can't install linux

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I keep getting audio crackle when
>Watching something with low quality audio from youtube, or while listening to a .webm someone posted
>Emulating PS2/Saturn games
>Sometimes randomly when nothing is happening

I already tried:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/howto-troubleshoot-crackling-in-pipewire/82442
>Disable suspend
>Enable sample rate switching
>Tweaking alsa headroom
>Try tweaking the alsa period size
>Set minimum playback buffer size

>Setting niceness to -20
>A bunch of other stuff
This is my inxi -A, its device 3 but I get shit sound if I just plug my headphones in directly too
Now what

My system often stutters for 1-2 seconds when apps need to access the disk. The cursor doesn't move, the display freezes. I suspect it's the NVidia driver, but how can I troubleshoot this ? Are there tools to record a trace of what the system is doing when this happens ?

>>108135971
Which DE? Gnome has some stuttering issues because it's a single threaded piece of javascript shit.

>>108135903
isn't there a no-usb install method now? or like boot over network from your phone or some shit. plenty of solutions.
before usb i installed windows xp over network on a laptop with broken cd drive from a mounted iso on another pc.
there's always a way.

>>108132323
Kubuntu.
Unpack the ISO to a FAT32 partition on your flash drive. Edit the first "menuentry" in boot/grub/grub.cfg and add "persistent" to the "linux" line.
Create a ext4 partition called "writable" on the same flash drive, 2-4GB.
Reboot and test.

>>108136032
why go through all that when Ventoy exists

>>108136010
yes, Gnome

>>108135380
>What makes a kernel "server focused"?
Mostly the pre-emption model and scheduler, same as what makes a "gaming focused" kernel.
Different defaults favouring throughput over interactivity which is less important on a server.

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how to prevent the OOM killer from ever killing my fucking apps again ? It never happened to me in 25+ years of Windows use that one memory leak would rape all of the other open apps. FUCK the OOM killer. FUCK Linux' ass backwards memory management.

>>108136118
Stop running out of memory. The OOM killer doesn't just kill your apps, in fact it is a very last resort.

>>108136101
Kinda like how Windows Server & Windows Pro use different Win32priorityseperation. Server favors background processes, Pro favors foreground processes.

>>108136118
https://github.com/tobixen/thrash-protect

may help a bit. otherwise, expand your ram with zram. the only way to download free ram.

>>108136120
This idiot kills the wrong app. One firefox tab leaks and the OOM kills every other app except Firefox. I have 12 gigs of RAM + twice that in swap, it should be way enough for some web browsing.

>>108136118
It's still better than the system going completely unresponsive, at least it gives you chance to kill the offending tab instead of crashing the whole system down.

Im running linux on CachyOS how often should i update the System? Once per Week or more than that?

>>108136118
skill issue, increase swap space, you won't get oom'ed, beware that it's slow as fuck so might as well have a fast ssd

>>108136138
Yes, it's not very smart. The reason it kills Firefox first is because the retards set oom_score which means the kernel is more likely to kill their child processes.
The kernel OOM killer is very bad, you should really use something like earlyoom.

>Some very quick testing on my machine shows that even small adjustments to oom_score_adj (such as +100 or even +50) are more than enough to make small child processes have a larger score than a much larger main process. This will however make the affected child processes be more likely to be killed compared to other applications too. That's not necessarily a problem though, if we only make sure that background child processes get killed then Firefox will play nicely with other apps under memory pressure without visibly affecting the user. That isn't a bad outcome.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1771712

Another words they protect the main process (or at least try to) but all of your tabs and extensions are more likely to get killed.

>>108136159
You can full update every day if you want, but most say you can wait a week or so each time if you want.

>>108136170
it doesn't even kill firefox first. It kills all other apps first and the offending app last because it apparently relies on a score for each process that doesn't take into account the consumed memory.

>>108136181
Yes, the kernel OOM killer is really a hail mary, you hope it never gets invoked but when it does it just picks some arbitrary victim and kills it. It's brutal. The idea of the oom score stuff is you can influence that but still there is an algorithm in the kernel where it sums up a bunch of different metrics (oom score is only one) and randomly offs the offending process it found using this arbitrary formula.

>>108136041
Because it takes 10 minutes and you learn something useful.

>>108136017
>now
You could install Linux distros from your internal disk partitions since forever. UNetBootin lets you pick an arbitrary partition to flash a Linux iso to, then you just reboot into that partition and install Linux to the rest of your disk.

>>108136118
If you're using earlyoom then you can whitelist processes by name in the config file. Otherwise enable Swap. Without an OOM killer or swap your system would permanently freeze when running out of memory.

>>108136159
I personally update once every month or two on Fedora.

What's a good tool for backing up a home directory regularly? Basically like syncthing but to a local volume instead of a different device. One direction only, reflect modified files and deletions, customizable sync interval.

>>108136312
rsync and a cron job

>>108136159
As often as needed, which often means you don't need it at all so it can be done every 2-4 weeks if you want.

>>108136312
borg

>>108136312
rsnapshot

>>108136365
>>108136405
>>108136422
Thanks for suggestions, anons. Will look into.

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Just installed Artix on my T480 after a break from linux. Had win10 previously and it was always hot and reaching throttling with just browsing, now it barely reaches 450C on idle. Good to be back.

>>108136521
450°C on idle sounds good for a stinkpad

>>108136521
>450C on idle.
That's pretty cool how it doesn't just melt or burn through your desk/lap.

>>108136534
That's the temp my GFs fuckbox gets when I pound her from behind

>>108136553
Yeah I can confirm, when I do the same your GF does reach that temperature

>>108136550
The laptop hovers in the air thanks to its fan

>>108136571
I know you're lying. She was laughing about you and telling me your little peepee was so small she couldn't feel anything. And you kept making weird grunting noises like a pigman.
We both laughed at your expense

>>108136665
Anon... I'm sorry to say that was your neighbor you're mistaking me with. It seems she's popular.

>>108135808
>hexchat
It's gone because no one wants to support GTK2 these days. I moved to Konversation too since it's very similar.

What media player and torrent client do you use?

>>108136696
>no one wants to support GTK2 these days
I was forced to quit freefilesync for the same reason

>>108136778
mpv + qbitorrent

>>108136843
this

>>108136778
mpv for videos
audacious for music
qbittorrent for torrents

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>>108136778

>>108136843
same

>>108133283
The wget2 dev said its not intended to replace wget (he's also the wget dev)

>>108136778
I use transmission headless but i'm open to an alternative if its better.

>>108136917
comfy...

>>108136917
What youtube frontend is this?

>>108136917
That song is great, very akiba. The vocalist did a great Dokuru-chan OP cover a couple year ago too.

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>>108136917
>that feel when you realise both normalfags and autists are extremely insufferable cunts and you will never truly belong anywhere and you will most likely die alone

holy FUCK i hate systemd-resolve, how do I make it stop using the fallback dns? no other device has issues with my router default dns, this stupid fucking nigger just decides to use the fallback on every boot and I need to restart the service to use my own dns.

>install NVIDIA driver package
>DKMS or whatever signs the open kernel module automatically
Which part of this is supposed to not work with Secure Boot? It works fine on my machine.

>>108137240
what's the purpose of a "fallback dns"? aren't you meant to have multiple, fully interchangeable servers?

>>108137318
It means his DNS is not working so it's falling back to Google or whatever it is your distro configured it at compile time to use as a fallback.
>>108137240
Systemd doesn't just fallback for nothing it means the upstream DNS wasn't working or maybe you made the stupid mistake of having DNSSEC enabled which works with any normal stub resolver but causes resolved to completely shit itself due to multiple bugs they're never fixing.

>>108137318
you're going to have to ask poettering what he was thinking when he came up with this shit, I just want to disable the fucking thing and use the ones given by DHCP.

apparently systemd-resolved is starting before the network manager (using systemd-networkd so you'd think this would "just werk" but nooooooo) so I need to wait until i have the network up before I start resolved?

>>108137240
>how do I make it stop using the fallback dns?
How do I check what DNS is my desktop using? I am also configuring mine.

>>108137352
Use resolvectl and it will tell you

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Like this? Seems like its using my router as I configured here >>108134224

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welp, I just removed the fallbacks and that obviously works. feels like a bandaid solution but what the fuck do I care, at least it works now. didn't have dnssec on either.

stuns me that you need to come up with these half assed "solutions" to nonexistent issues which only cause more issues they love to rub their nipples to on bug trackers

>>108137487
I think I remember this from years ago. Someone was complaining about it being set to 8.8.8.8 by default and Potternig said something like "there'd probably be more complaints if DNS just didn't work at all and if someone doesn't like 8.8 they can change it"

>>108137487
Are you trying to block ads from your DNS or something? It's going to use fallbacks if it fails to resolve on the first choice.

>>108137526
>Are you trying to block ads from your DNS or something? It's going to use fallbacks if it fails to resolve on the first choice.
yes, are there a known domains it attempts to resolve to see if it works? I can whitelist the domain if necessary but all I can see is firefox domains being blocked and nothing immediately after boot/when it falls back.

>Brave removed the option to remove the split view from the context menu with the latest update
what the fuck

>>108137797
You VILL split you're screen and you VILL be happy

>>108137809
>you're

>it's a google/chromium change that removed the flag and Brave might not be to add an option to remove
gay af

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>>108129645
Rclone is the most game changing piece of software i ever stumbled upon since Midnight Commander, i can't believe how much time i wasted tard wrangling Codeberg to do what i wanted, is so much easier to define a remote with credentials and keep that in sync. And if i change providers? swap the remote and move everything over. Git may be a powerful tool to share code at asynchronous times but its ergonomics are horrible for multiplatform note-taking, specially on smartphones. Generates a bunch of junk files for nothing, needs all this ceremony of commit messages and shit, is ass at handling media. Not the right tool for this job.

>>108136576
you mean the leidenfrost effect

>>108137797
They really don't have enough manpower to modify chromium in any meaningful way

>>108137888
What protocol/backend with rclone are you using for that usecase? ssh?

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How the hell do I install KDE plasma with Wayland

>>108138188

apt install plasma-session-wayland

?

>>108138200
>E: Unable to locate package plasma-session-wayland

>>108138205
Then plasma-workspace-wayland on older versions. This is probably really outdated KDE though. You're better off reinstalling with a different distro.

>>108138188
>Plasma on Mint
You will have a terrible experience, switch to Arch or Fedora.

>>108138213
>>108138217
I'm using Mint and I've been using it for a long time and never had any trouble, the only reason I need Wayland is for the HDR support in vidya
I'll try plasma-workspace-wayland

>>108138222
If you insist on staying with Mint then to may at least want to find the Kubuntu backports PPA and add that.

>>108138222
Again, it will not work nicely at all, the version of Plasma Mint ships is old and HDR has received a ton of patches.

I love using linux and I would rather kill myself than go back to windows. I refuse to even dual boot windows.

>>108138240
Ugh I'm gonna hate having to reinstall a distro
Is Fedora Ubuntu based?
>>108138242
Yeah having a Windows SSD in my motherboard feels like I'm giving my computer an STD kek

>>108138248
Sorry meant debian based but I looked it up and it isn't
What's the preferred distro for KDE Plasma

>>108138222
KDE is not officially supported by Mint. It's not even endorsed on Ubuntu as a base OS because they don't keep the packages updated.

>>108138250
>What's the preferred distro for KDE Plasma
Fedora, actually. And also Arch or anything Fedora/Arch-based. If you need Debian or Ubuntu packages you can just use Distrobox. But most things are packaged for Fedora too, if not primarily packaged for it.

>>108138222
You should just install debian with kde instead

>>108138250
>What's the preferred distro for KDE Plasma
Arch, Fedora or Kubuntu.

>>108138285
>>108138280
I'll give Fedora a shot this weekend after I get rid of my bitch girlfriend for our stupid Valentine's Day date

>>108138285
Actually I might look into Kubuntu since it seems purpose built for my use case of liking Debian based distros but also using KDE with Wayland

>>108138301
Make sure to use 25.10, not 24.04
I would still go with Fedora KDE

>>108138301
If you do go with Kubuntu make sure you're installing the latest release. Don't go with the LTS.

>>108138317
>>108138321
I'd certainly go with the latest release either way
I'm leaning Kubuntu just because I have so much experience in that kind of terminal where I assume Fedora's is quite different

>>108138242
You shouldn't unless you have a software you need for paying job.

>>108138285
>Kubuntu
The general consensus and my own personal experience say this is the shittiest of the 3 options you've listed.

>>108138292
I wish i had a bitch girlfriend i had to get rid of for a stupid valentine's day date...

>>108138355
What are the issues with it?

>>108138375
*snaps your dick off*

>>108138383
NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>108129490
how to get audio working on archlinux, through monitors
halp!!

>>108138408
PM'd you the fix

>>108132963
shamefully/dishonorably bumping this cause it's been a while and nobody's gonna see it if I dont...

>>108138375
It's buggy as fuck. It's the only distro where I've commonly experienced krashing and the panel freezing, killing itself and re-appearing.

I might be misremembering but PAM also didn't work last time I used it even when automatic login is disabled. So KDE Wallet needs to be set up manually.

I was considering SteamOS. How good is it? I am a huge gamer.
I've also installed many distros in the past (Ubuntu, Debian, elementary, xubuntu, kubuntu, i tried installing Arch but had a corrupted hard drive, etc). Do I have to dual boot with steamos? Something efficient for everything and then SteamOS?

Over the past 8 years I've been under some difficult problems in my life. So I am out of touch.

I want some really good distro that does working, studying, using the terminal, programming, everything. Do I dual boot steam OS for my games?

>>108138450
KDE Wallet is as annoying as copilot

>>108138460
SteamOS is just arch with kde so just install something with kde and it will be almost the same thing as steamos
>I want some really good distro that does working, studying, using the terminal, programming, everything.
Literally any distro but i guess something arch based would be better for programming.

>>108138510
Thanks. I think I'll do Arch with KDE.

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>>108136118
Never ever did a browser crash my whole system, until I used linux. When it happened I just couldn't believe it...

>>108137818
Germans don't know the difference

>>108138581
been using linux for 20 years and i haven't seen that either

>>108138581
Don't use tweaker shit if you're not a tweaker. End user distros always ship with swap and a userspace OOM killer.

>>108138408

sudo pacman -Syu alsa-lib alsa-plugins alsa-firmware alsa-card-profiles alsa-utils pipewire pipewire-audio pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack wireplumber pavucontrol && systemctl reboot

Use Pavucontrol to manage your audio settings graphically.

>>108135936
>>Set minimum playback buffer size
to what exactly.
try setting it to an insane level, like 4096.

>>108137240
>how do I make it stop using the fallback dns?

[Resolve]
FallbackDNS=

>>108138462
The difference is I've never seen it in Fedora or any Fedora-based KDE distros. It gets properly set up during install so that you never have to interact with it.

>>108138460
SteamOS is basically a shittier version of Bazzite. Outdated packages, no package manager by default (you're stuck with only flatpak and appimage), system overrides get overriden after each update, doesn't even support anything other than AMD, lots of games still launch in Steam Deck mode (800p), etc.. If you want a simple gamer-ready OS that's similar to it then go for Bazzite.

>>108138510
>SteamOS is just arch with kde
It's not. It's an immutable image of Arch with KDE. There's a big difference, especially in stability.

>>108138744
Does it still pop up anytime you open any application at all to give you helpful password tips

>>108138761
>Does it still pop up anytime you open any application at all to give you helpful password tips
No. I completely forgot KDE Wallet exists ever since I moved to Fedora 4 years ago. Normally it's the web browser itself that will recommend generating passwords anyway.

`du -sh ~/.local/share/containers `
374G
Podman seems to create containers (?) which I don't recognize.
Podman does not list or otherwise acknowledge them.
` podman system prune `
comes up empty just like
` podman container cleanup ... `
Is my interpretation correct that every directory in .local/share/containers/storage/overlay/ denotes a container with the ID = dir name ?
How to find out what they are or which image was used?
How to get podman to strop making those?

>>108139262
>How to get podman to strop making those?
You don't. Each of those containers is remotely created by a different agency. CIA, FBI, NSA, KGB, MSS, etc.

>>108139302
I noticed the faint glow. Unplug and torch ?

>>108139313
I think its aliens just hijacking your internet to watch porn

Is Flathub down for anyone else? I keep getting timeouts when updating.

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i have a usb hard drive connected into my pc, it's been connected for a couple of weeks now. i mounted it using

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

it didn't give me any issues until now, the location changed to

/dev/sdb1

for some reason, while the computer was on. what's that all about? should i be worried? why did it do that?

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>>108129490
What are your thoughts on antiX?

>>108140085
They're anti-facist and I'm a facist.

>>108140040
sleep / suspend can re-order the device labels if they are detected in a different order. just mount it to /mnt/usb ?

>>108140094
I saw that, but what does it have to do with the OS? Seems like a random thing to throw in. Does it have any bearing on the system at all? It sounds good on paper otherwise.

>>108140040
For permanently or semi-permanently plugged stuff like that, mount it by the UUID. Else that can happen.

>>108140113
>what does it matter if the people making your OS hate you and want you dead
I dunno. No idea whatsoever.

>>108140085
It seems to be actually configured well for shitty hardware, but I don't need anyone to do that for me, nor am I a communist or sexual deviant.

>>108139262
Bump

>>108129490
What's the best distro without systemd, without wayland DEs, without flatpak, without snaps, and without any tranny or woman on the team?

>>108140156
BSD.

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Somebody please shoot this faggot.
Debian has been in a steady decline ever since he's at the helm. Someone who didn't even manage to finish his physics PhD has no place being in a leading position for one of the most influential distros in the world.

>>108140173
The problem with Debian is the entire maintainer base. There's no way to make it better without alienating most of the people currently working on it.

>>108140202
Do you mean because they are so obnoxiously opinionated? Like, it takes a special kind of aspergers to start and maintain a beef with the FSF over something as trivial as documentation files. To this day you can't install the bash info pages even on ubuntu, last I checked. I don't mind it on my NAS but I would never install a debian based system as my daily driver for petty shit like this. Not to forget the update process being brittle and unreliable (just yesterday got to manually install and update kernel header files, thanks Andi).

>>108140156
TempleOS, but good luck getting anything to run on it though.

>>108140240
>distro
>TempleOS
KYS fag

>>108140253
You don't like Elephants?

>>108140236
I mean being stuck in 1998 and not realizing how irrelevant the entire model is in current year. It's hobbywank and geritocracy uber alles.
>info pages
Who the hell still uses info? Just load up the html doc.

>>108140236
>I would never install an OS over some petty shit the autist deving it has
>be me
>literally don't give a fuck about any of this and don't know anything
>picks an OS I personally like
>"That OS has trannies in it and 1000 other reasons why you shouldn't use it."
>don't care because I never interact with them or the greater community
>if I have a problem I google it and I will generally find the answer from older forum posts
>be happy
Probably best move into getting into Linux is ignoring everyone in it outside of the systems.

>>108140316
the html docs are compiled from the same source as the info pages but I find the info pages are easier on the eyes (if you open them out of emacs and have a sensible font setting). Also, the html doc is much worse to navigate (you can't just jump to indices, web browser search is dogshit, list goes on).
And yes it is immensely geritocratic and perpetually out of date, you are right.
>hobbywank
I don't know, Debian has been very reliable for some headless utility machines I make use of. That is why I don't wanna see it get fucked up after all. I am glad I mostly use RH stuff for work though.
>>108140349
I am not some fag with TDS who malds over some drama, I do use Debian for things. And it's not my fault that very real problems (which I fix and move on much like you do) can be traced back to people. I can look the other way and pretend problems just appear magically but why would I?

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>>108129490
how do you guys handle installing programs that aren't packaged anywhere? like this for example: https://grayjay.app/desktop/
It's distributed as a binary with supporting libraries and it's self updating. I know I can put it in a ~/.programs folder and type up a .application file to point to it but I was wondering if there's a setup with a little bit more precedent.

>>108140394
>~/.programs
first time I ever heard of that.
A very common thing to my knowledge is a ~/.local/bin and a .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications

>>108140420
Yeah ~/.programs is just an example. I didn't really know what to name it. Thanks for your suggestion though. ~/.local/bin feels much more conventional.

What's the best distro and DE for gaming? I was playing Pragmata on a 5080 and 9850X3D and it ran horribly

>>108140709
CachyOS with KDE Plasma

>>108140709
>DE
>for gayming
>not using a headless distro for maximum performance
NGMI

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>>108140709
Works in my machine

>>108140709
>nvidia card
you will get an inferior experience

>>108140844
you will unironically have a decent experience running launching steam in gamescope directly from tty. For a while it was the only way to get hdr to work. Its probably as minimal overhead as you can have.

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>>108141052
I love this system so very much.

did installing games with Wine use to be easier or did i get dumber?

>>108141362
it was never not shit. just yesterday I tried to install some fitgirl repack and that piece just freezed at 1% every time

>>108141362
It's a little bit of both depending on what kind of WINE you are talking about. Did you used to use any managers with it or was it Terminal based?

>>108141383
You're missing a .dll if it freezes a little bit after initiation most likely.

>>108141383
ive heard the easiest way to do it now is to install things through Heroic or Lutris and then add them to Steam to launch them with Proton

i downloaded image
not tried yet
they tell its greek 32-bit os

>>108140982
So should I just game on Windows

>>108141507
are you okay with a performance hit because the most valuable company in the world can't be bothered?

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Between Linux Mint and Zorin which distro is more retard-proof? Mint comes with Timeshift preinstalled (and LM's devs maintain that tool so it's guaranteed to work in LM) but Zorin has Flatpak, Snaps, AppImages and even Wine already configured to make installing new stuff easier. In theory all of these tools can be installed in both distros, but in practice installing, configuring and making sure nothing is broken can be a hassle.

Also how do you deal with MS Office documents, specially those with macros? I don't know if I should use Wine, OnlyOffice the web version of MS Office or if windows in a VM is the better approach in this case.

>>108141609
Mint.
>MS office
You're just fucked. Pick your poison.

>>108141558
?

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>>108129490
>Nomacs
Best graphical image viewer?

>>108141677
One of the best, yes.

Been using debian on a new laptop for some weeks and I love it. Most shit just worked outright and the things that didn't were because I started tinkering with stuff out of personal curiosity.
What is a good distro for playing around with in a VM that will actually deepen my understanding of Linux?

>>108141849
You could install Arch manually within a VM while reading over the install guide on the wiki which explains everything.

>>108141609
>Mint comes with Timeshift preinstalled
Having Timeshift preinstalled on a slow-moving distro is a red flag.

>>108140040
What's the best distro for hugging your sister?

i realized i can temporarily change the boot order of grub directly from my loonix so i can boot into my windoze without having any input attached to it, very nice, very nice

>>108138161
I have two main remotes, one is for a personal NextCloud instance and the other is for my job's Google account. Only a fraction of my notes is updated often and need available everywhere to show them off, dump shit there or edit them, so i place them inside a "GSync" subdirectory, and the rest of my notes sit above that, i use a couple of Python scripts to orchestate the two sets of rclone commands, works both with Termux applets and on my PC. I update the rest of the directory much less often, grabbing the entire root once per day is enough as long as the tiny annoying subdirectory gets updated more often it works for me; because i actually want to preserve and sort the info in my personal notes beyond "just a date referenced record for whatever needs to be tweaked this week in their Kerberos clusterfuck so i can write a proper report later" or "these are the subnets that haven't been configured yet", or "i don't have time to analyze this so i'll screenshot it and dump it there for later". In the rare case i'm far away and find out something i want to add to my personal notes but doesn't have to do with work, i' created something like this

.../
GSync/
    Stash (Personal)/
        Topics.txt
        Links.tx
        Media/
    ..../

Though i only have used it like thrice so far, to save some articles, is worth keeping it around. If i really need to get my hands dirty in something (like using another device that's not mine) i can just log into my job's Google Account or ask them to send me their crap by email.

>>108141609
>Between Linux Mint and Zorin which distro is more retard-proof?
I can't tell, haven't used any
>Also how do you deal with MS Office documents, specially those with macros?
I've had good experiences with google docs but don't take it for granted as my docs/sheets were pretty simple compared to others. I'd suggest you try and see which works, pick one of your most complicated docs and put it to test. I'd do it in order of least resistance:
>GDocs
>Web MS Office
>Wine
>Windows VM
The last is the one guaranteed to work 100% (obviously) but the setup can be lengthy and frustrating for newfags and retards if you want good performance (3d accel and shit)

Does LMDE have the same package versions as Debian or newer? I like Debian the best out of all distros I tried but Nvidia driver 550 is not cutting it for me.

>>108141991
>>108141609
Stick with Linux Mint, it has more users than Zorin so it should be easier to find help. To deal with docx files i have been using OnlyOffice and works fine so far as long as you renember to install the Microsoft fonts, i think the package is called ttf-mscorefonts-installer but you can google it.
>Macros
Not sure about this, not even Microsfot supports them on most of their O365 line up, only on the desktop variant.

Browsed the internets today and found out exit codes have actual meanings instead of being all arbitrary. What's the manpage for them?

some_host:/var/db/repos/gentoo/ /var/db/repos/gentoo/   nfs     nofail,nfsvers=3        0 0
some_host:/var/cache/distfiles/ /var/cache/distfiles/   nfs     nofail,nfsvers=3        0 0
some_host:/usr/src              /usr/src                nfs     nofail,nfsvers=3        0 0

Also was there some convention or something on NFS mounts so I wouldn't have to do all that but do one mount instead?
>>108142091
Yes, LMDE literally is Debian.
Neckbeard yourself a custom machine specific kernel+module+firmware package and never worry distro shenanigans again.

>>108141929
Normalfags use Timeshift for basic document editing because they don't have any change management skills.

>>108142149
>What's the manpage for them?
Check errno. Linux adds some codes iirc, but does not replace the standard ones.

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OK I installed linux. What now? Do I win now?

How can I run any program (appimage GUI) and restrict its filesystem access to a whitelist, and restrict it's network to internet only (no LAN access)?

I am trying to run some electron based LLM tools I don't trust.

Firejail, bubblewrap, VMs have all be tried. They either don't work with electron, or are too tiresome/difficult to set up.

Does Linux seriously not have a method of achieving such a basic (probably not simple) task??

I have too many doubts X11docker will work to even try it out, so I'm asking here so I can save some headache.

I've considered creating a separate user like cursor-user and claude-user, but the number of directories I'll have to modify permissions for is exhausting to consider.

>>108141929
Explain. Isn't having system backups in case you break something a good thing?

>>108141991
>>108142134
How well do GDocs and OnlyOffice support Excel functions, especially in other languages?

>>108142404
Not tried using podman with forwarding?

>>108142519
sounds like a x11docker thing?
can you add more keywords so I can search your method on Google?

>>108142537
It's not simple like you want, you gotta write a bunch of shit out in bash.
Like you're talking about using Claude, you might as well just ask it to make the config files for you.

Fat chance, but does anybody have any tips on how to launch Vindictus through the Nexon launcher with Bottles? The game is already on Steam and does work from there, but due to some account linking shenanigans I'm forced to use the Nexon Launcher (which I'm seemingly unable to run, for whatever reason)

>>108142404
>I've considered creating a separate user like cursor-user and claude-user
Why not a group and give it access to a folder and it's contents recursively

Linux as a product for desktop use has never been successful because its fragmented and unintuitive but above all else gaming was not good.

Now in 2026, flatpak and flathub has made it so big programs like discord, steam, spotify, chrome just werk with no commands. Steam is now good and plays most games as just werks without tinkering or problems in most cases, over 90% when you click play.

Linux only works when its a user friendly. The only problem now is the desktop situation/wayland on linux.

KDE is still very buggy. The closest just werks desktop is zorin's customized gnome,

Every other desktop is either ugly or just unintuitive.

>>108142602
>KDE is still very buggy.
SAAR, GNOME doesn't even have functional VRR and HDR is a mess.
Plasma is the best normie desktop for Linux and the best performer for gaming.

>>108142585
Have you tried running it through a Lutris script if one exists?

>>108142618
No real distro for beginner ships it and its still buggy. It was buggy on my all AMD PC both with bazzite, cachyOS and vanilla arch. Krashed constantly.

ZorinOS is still the best for 99% of windows normies. Its clean, minimalist and just werks.

>>108142618
KDE is basically -the- DE for gaming ever since Valve started funding its development.

>>108142626
Yeah, the direct script tried to install a very old version of the launcher that doesn't even exist anymore (or was for a different game altogether, been a couple months since I last tried). Providing the script with my own downloaded launcher doesn't really work either. I'm usually able to login once and download the game, but then launching it fails 99% of the time and eventually the launcher doesn't ever start again until I reinstall it

>>108142629
>cachyOS and vanilla arch. Krashed constantly.
You are lying, had a 3060Ti on CachyOS Plasma for a year and didn't have a single desktop crash, and now I have a 9070XT and still smooth as butter, but keep enjoying your featureless feet desktop.

>>108142629
>>108142602
There is a reason Valve decided to ship KDE Plasma on a commercial product, because it just works and it is the best for gaming.

I don't know why but my 7900XTX has this magical max clock rate of 2770mhz. any higher or lower feels slower and not right even just moving mouse. There's nothing wrong with stock but 2770mhz just feels way better.

>>108142661
Its not user friendly and its confusing. SteamOS doesnt exist yet, its experimental and not publicly recommended for new users.

Most people are trying to get away from windows, not game solely. They want a replacement that comes with video player, image viewer, file manager, archive manager, email client, office suite etc etc.

People want an all purpose just werks linux distro, not an overcomplicated gaming distro.

The only one that even comes close is zorin or mint but mint sucks.

>>108142752
Herding new users to Zorin will make people hate Linux more.
Might as well just send them to Aurora.

>>108142771
>Might as well just send them to Aurora
Because both Zorin and Aurora are shite?

>>108142752
>Its not user friendly and its confusing
Plasma is literally just Windows. It is user friendly and intuitive for Windows refugees.

>>108138680
Didn't work but thanks.

There was actually a time where Pipewire just werked. It all broke one update.

>>108142912
Nothing's wrong with Aurora though? It's just immutable Fedora with KDE based around flatpaks and brew.

>>108142984
Therein lies the issue.

>>108142364
You spend 39 years learning how to use bash and Emacs just so you can do do stuff you used to do with a few clicks on Visual Studio Code and the Windows Settings app.

Then you make a custom client to download literal petabytes of shotacon pornography onto an array of HDDs because uhhhhhhh reasons.

>>108140113
I remember some mentally ill retard creating a pull request which checks if you're using Xlibre, hyprland or some other "fascist" software and then bricking your PC if you do. I'm not sure if that's the guy behind the Antix project but it wouldn't surprise me.

>>108140394
It has a Flatpak and that's what I use.

>>108140709
A DE does not affect gaming performance. In some cases X11 and Wayland perform differently, but launching games through Gamescope is always a possibility.
When it comes to a distro, anything Arch or at least Fedora based since these actually receive driver updates at a decent pace unlike Debian/Ubuntu distros.

>>108141609
Zorin is more retard proof in general.

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>>108142969
Maybe try jack2 with qjackctl or something.
It's what I use.

Try a different USB port for that Apple.
Different cable. I know these sound retarded, but I had audio glitches before because of some shitty usb cable.

>>108140394
>>108140492
´man hier´ if you want to follow standards
I just put them in the bin directory of my home but the bin directories are generally meant for stuff you want to show up in your $PATH

>>108142404
You can't do that with appimages because FUSE2 doesn't work with namespaces, which are used for isolation. You'll have to extract the files from the appimage first.

>>108129490
is copying my /home folder enough if i want to backup my stuff

>>108142404
For such a simple case use a network namespace. You can create an "Internet only" namespace and add firewall rules to drop traffic to your LAN subnets.

>>108143627
Although restricting the filesystem will mean you'll have to do >>108143600 because of the libfuse2 garbage.
Then you can run it inside of something like Bubblewrap.

>>108143615
yes

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>>108143615
>>108143707
Case you want to restore the rest of the system:
>custom configs and shit from /etc
>list of installed packages
>Bluetooth pairings from /var/lib/bluetooth
>>108143600
>>108142404
As it's an AppImage it can be extracted to a "stand alone" directory and treated as a regular executable without any AppImage shenanigans.

>>108143873
I was worried about Almalinux not supporting 32 bit libraries anymore but some guy has made a current Steam appimage.
Flatpak is a no go because that would mean a performance hit plus mangohud/vkbasalt/gamemoded don't work with flatpak either.

>>108142458
>How well do GDocs and OnlyOffice support Excel functions, especially in other languages?
Read my post again, that's something you have to figure out yourself

Thinking about making the switch to linux. What linux distros have absolutely no rust code what so ever? Is theres a single line of rust in my OS then its not usable. What linux options do i have?

>>108144106
Anon the kernel has Rust code in it. You can't escape Rust.

>>108144106
Use an old version of Debian that predates Spidermonkey (used by Polkit) and Firefox's Rust usage and Librsvg (used by many apps for SVG) and of course the Rust added to the Linux kernel.

You can't use a modern system without Rust anymore. It is also just ELF executables at the end of the day though. Caring about which compiler/toolchain assembled it is kind of a retarded thing to care about.

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Why don't they make a modern grsync? GTK2 is deprecated I thought.

>>108144130
>you cant escape rust
Kill yourself you worthless nigger disgusting tranny freak. Linux isnt usable then, the whole kernel is spyware if what you say is true. I will escape rust, I will.

>>108144173
What OS are you using right now? If you answer Windows then they are using Rust too. Your best but would be going to one of the BSD operating systems (although I suspect they have some Rust usage too nowadays) or something like Haiku is probably a safe bet if it will even run on your hardware.

You know what winds me up? When a distro jumps to /dev/sda5 on MBR partitioning scheme just to avoid the four partition limit. You never need more than two partitions in most cases. Maybe three. Swap can be a file set up later or use volume groups/lvms.

>>108144173
>>108144106
Which part of Rust is spyware? Are you saying that Rust compilers automatically embed some spyware into every bit of Rust code? Can you show me a specific example of Rust spyware in the Linux kernel?

>>108144192
You only two partitions if doing UEFI/GPT or just a single partition if doing MBR (Grub can fit in the first however many kilobytes and then chainload the rest from /boot on your root filesystem)

>>108144135
>caring about which compiler/toolchain assembled it is kinda a retarded thing to care about
Wrong. The us government made a public statement encouraging rust usage. Logically speaking, that means rust is spyware, every line of rust code is part of a government botnet, evey line of rust code is designed to take your and my freedom away forever.
>>108144181
Windows 10 iot ltsc
Im pretty sure microsoft only started the trustrannying with windows 11
>>108144195
>are you saying that rust compilers automatically embed some spyware into every bit of rust code?
Yes. And i am able to logically confirm that as factual by simply reminding myself that the government wants me to use rust.

>>108144199
For some reason GRUB fails to install on /dev/sda1 (BIOS Boot) whenever I've tried installing Debian with the GPT partitioning scheme on a BIOS system.

>>108144215
>And i am able to logically confirm that as factual by simply reminding myself that the government wants me to use rust
The government also wants you to drink water. A logical deduction would involve examining a piece of code. There are several Rust compilers, including GCC; do you think GCC is spyware? Do you think you can avoid GCC software?

>>108144215
>Windows 10 iot ltsc
>Im pretty sure microsoft only started the trustrannying with windows 11
I think that's right although if you are using up-to-date applications like Firefox or Chrome then you are still running code compiled by a Rust compiler.

Windows 10 is already EOL apart from LTSC. You will have to move to 11or a different operating system without a modern web browser at some point in order to fully escape Rust.

>>108144233
Gcc is not a rust compiler its a c compiler. What the fuck does it have to do with rust? Are you retarded?

just realized debian trixie already has docker.io in its main repos, cool cool cool

>>108144363
gcc is the gnu compiler collection, it includes support for a lot of languages, not just c.
Rust is one of them.

Rust is dogshit dogshit dogshit dogshit. Theres no benefit to rust at all. This fucking worthless nigger actually said "you cant escape rust" think about that? How is that not horrifying to you? Its disgusting, someone needs to die because rust exists. Theres not one single benefit to rust at all. Not one. Every single line of rust code is worthless dysfunctional horseshit that doesnt work and makes everything worse. Anyone who says a single good thing about rust is a glownigger faggot kike and doesnt deserve to exist.