how do i mic spam in games? i want to route audio from one program into a virtual microphone

>>108303426
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqEWD0cPXU8

>>108303426
I never used it but I think JACK can do that
https://jackaudio.org/

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Whenever I try to use mpv to play a file with the Pipewire backend I only have output on the left channel.
Using any other audio backend (even Pulse over Pipewire) has proper stereo output.
It worked yesterday, it doesn't work today.
I have no idea why. I didn't upgrade mpv nor Pipewire. I upgraded my kernel but going back to a previous kernel didn't solve the issue.
The issue is "solved" because Pulse works but I'd like to know just what the fuck is going on here.
Any ideas?

>>108303426
i use qpwgraph to route all my audio through some calf studio gear plugins, but you can route anything to anything
this assumes you're using pipewire

>>108303490
Did you try explicitly settings:
audio-channels=stereo

I think some surround sound requires that to force a stereo down mix.

I asked AI if I should switch to NixOS considering my needs and it went "nah dude don't even bother"

>>108303614
What are your needs? It's probably right.

>>108303617
Well it's more wants than needs honestly. It's basic desktop usage plus video editing (on AMD) plus gaymes.

>>108303608
thank you. i assume i can split it so it routes into my speaker device as well so i can still hear the sound?

NVidia is leaking file handles on KDE? What the flip?

>>108303666
yep, you can make more than one connection between inputs/outputs, so you can for example have a music player output to both your speakers and a microphone input of a game/discord/etc, as well as your microphone to the microphone input as well

>>108303666
>>108303682
can even do fancy shit like for example if i wanted to do that, i might add a sidechain compressor from calfstudiogear so when i speak it reduces the volume of the music so i'm not trying to talk over it

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got the 2006 pc all set

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>>108303829
my only issue right now is taht the Realtek "PCI-E Gigabit ethernet" from the mobo isnt working so im using a third party network card

>>108303665
The AI is right, don't bother. NixOS is peak autism and a major inconvenience.

>>108303672
Which driver you have? Latest 580 branch is buggy in many aspects still.

>>108303609
The file only has 2 channels.
My audio device only has 2 channels.
Why do I have to specify that I want 2 channels instead of 1 with Pipewire?
Why does Pulse (over Pipewire) still work?
No I didn't try that. I don't see why I would have to.
I have already found a solution to the problem by using Pulse. I just want to know why Pipewire doesn't work, when Pulseaudio (provided by Pipewire) still works.
Might as well cut out the Pipewire overhead and just go with Pulseaudio directly.

>>108303850
What is the model? You should be able to get it from lspci. I remember the older realtek stuff being a pain though.

>>108303665
what video editor are you comfortable with?

>>108303890
580.126.09
It's ok, I'll just restart Plasma Shell every few days.

Which desktop environment should I try next? I have so far tried Cinnamon, KDE Plasma, and Xfce. I'm on pretty old hardware (3rd gen i5 8gb) so I want a lightweight one, but Xfce although very light is ugly as hell and took a lot of work to get looking half way reasonable and was still missing half the shit I wanted, so I'd rather something that looks good enough out of the box and only needs a little bit of tweaking. I do not care for animations and shit like that but I do want it a bit more user friendly and not to look like it comes from 1993.

>>108303665
nah dude don't even bother

>>108303963
Try KDE again but this time disable file indexing and visual effects. I've managed to run it on a very old dual core and it was as snappy as Xfce after only a few tweaks. I think Q4OS configures it to be as light as possible by default.

>>108304019
I already did exactly this and it did make it feel a lot more responsive. But it still uses quite a lot more resources than Xfce. Nothing crazy, but I'll take the overhead if I can get it. I do like KDE but I was hoping for a middle ground.

I'm trying to install CachyOS on my new PC, but the BIOS cannot find the bootable USB. (motherboard: MSI B850M Gaming Plus WIFI)
I only got a 16 year old external hdd to boot from, but it works for both my laptop and old PC, but they only recognize it half the time.
Any tips?

>>108303911
come join the land of the guhnome

>>108304143
Unfortunately all other DEs are shit. The only ones remotely usable are the 3 you tried and GNOME once you add a few extensions to it.

>>108304143
You could try something like LXQt or Enlightenment. Not sure how riceable those are.
I use MATE, which is basically GNOME 2, and pretty easy on resources. You probably wouldn't like the older design though, if you prefer KDE.

>>108304160
This has nothing to do with buggy gpu drivers, retard.

>>108304456
works on my machine

>>108304512
good for you faggot.

Good afternoon anons, I am riding out Windows 10 LTSC until 2032. In the mean time, I am trying to learn Linux because Windows 11 is garbage. I am currently on Ubuntu (just werks). The new California digital ID globalist agenda being forced on Ubuntu has me reconsidering my future OS choice. I use my computer mainly for school work and gaming. I would prefer a distro with lots of resources and videos to get help. What do you recommend?

>>108304558
okay krashy

>>108304609
Mint is decent for new users. People switching seem to also like the meme gaming distros, but I've never tried them.
I use Debian.
Also, if Ubuntu does this, I guarantee there will immediately be a Ubuntu based distro that's exactly the same without the age verification shit. Just switch your repos over to them, at that point. No need to reinstall.

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>>108303392
I'm downloading a Perl module from CPAN for the first time because I want to see quotes for my stock indices on the command line. I've been staring at my terminal for probably 10 minutes now as it's compiling a hundred modules from scratch. WTF is this shit?

>>108304609
>I would prefer a distro with lots of resources
>What do you recommend?
Ubuntu and Fedora are the only serious distributions unless you're autistic enough for Arch.
>The new California digital ID globalist agenda being forced on Ubuntu
There is no such thing as a "digital ID" coming to any Linux distro. It will just be a checkbox you can click which will tell the OS if you're above 18 or not. It's the same thing you see in porn websites or on 4chan when you first visit it. There is no personal data or age verification involved.

>>108304638
>Perl
I can already see your issue. More serious answer is native extensions written in an actually good language.

>>108304641
You forgot about Debian, and the true autists use Gentoo or Slackware if they're old.

>>108304609
> I use my computer mainly for school work and gaming
bazzite or cachy

>>108304645
I just canceled it and deleted 300MB of build files, that's the last time I consider Perl again. Thing is I can't find a better alternative, it was the Finance::Quote module and it's used as the backend for GnuCash. All I want is to see stock quotes without having to open a web browser.

>>108304666
Just write something yourself, using whatever API this thing was going to use. It's probably just a really simple REST API.

>>108304658
>You forgot about Debian
I didn't. When it comes to desktops it's significantly less relevant and "serious" compared to Ubuntu and Fedora.

>>108304691
It's not a bad desktop distro just because it's not almost solely focused on the desktop use case.

>>108304686
I forgot that's what I was going to do a while ago, thanks for reminding me. There's a free one here: https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/

>>108304637
Thanks for the advice anon. I have been exposed to Debian before through the Raspberry Pi. Would you say that it is a good alternative to Ubuntu?

>>108304019
XFCE can look pretty good. Another option would be lxqt. Mate exists, too and it is light weight but I'd consider XFCE to be superior to Mate in almost every aspect.

anyone installed KISS linux before? my wifi is not working. im getting no errors from dmesg, eiwd, or dhcpcd. i followed the install guide as best i could up to this point, but i have no idea why its not working

>>108304641
I am unfortunately not autistic enough for Arch. From what I hear, it is the best distro. I am basing that statement off of the fact Valve is using it for their SteamOS. But, I don't understand the file system well enough on Linux to setup or use Arch. I am just planning for the future in case I can't get around the digital ID. With so many countries, coincidentally, pushing for this legislation all at the same time who knows what the future holds?

>>108304662
Thanks for the recommendations anon. I will keep them on my list

>>108304702
>It's not a bad desktop distro
It is a bad desktop distro in comparison to most other distros. If it were good then it would actually have a significant number of users. By all real estimates only 2%-3% of Linux users use it as a desktop OS. Everyone is running Ubuntu, Arch, Mint or Fedora.
>just because it's not almost solely focused on the desktop use case.
Neither is Ubuntu. Desktop is an afterthought to Canonical and yet they're providing a better experience and Ubuntu is considered a hundred times more relevant.

Debian is fine for servers, containers, appliances, embedded devices, IoT, etc., but if you're using it as your desktop you're the odd one out. It's as weird as running Alpine as a desktop OS.

>>108304719
Yes, because snaps are awful and Canonical shoves them down your throat. It's a little harder to get setup than Ubuntu or Mint, but far easier than Arch.

>>108304800
>source: I made it up

>>108304807
Thank you anon!

>>108304821
Don't listen to that guy. There is nothing wrong with Snaps or Ubuntu. App installation on Linux was a complete shitshow until Snaps and Flatpaks were popularized. Anti-snap autists are the same as anti-systemd autists. It's just morons who want Linux to stay shit forever.

Arch
2 nights ago I ran a pacman sync+refresh+upgrade as one often does and I had a surprising number of packages to upgrade, like around 100. OK, no problem, happens from time to time. I just ran it again today and now I have 276 packages to update, most of them seem to be related to KDE. Does this sound off to anyone or did KDE just drop a bunch of patches to packages? Looking but I don't see any mention of a Mar 4 or 5th update.

Im getting my linux essentials cert so I need to install linux in a virtual box do I want lmde with cinnamon or debian xfce. Obviously I dont want any shit on my computer but if its all open source then I guess its fine if some stuff just works and I dont have to learn anything. All of lmde stuff is oss right?

>>108304837
I just wanted alternatives in case Ubuntu complies with California's new law: "California AB 1043". If you would, why are "snaps" a point of contention for Linux users? From what I understand as newbie, snaps are similar to .exes on Windows which "just werk". But I have also heard that they tend to be slower such as Firefox's snap to a noticeable degree. Am I missing important context here?

>>108304837
There's a reason why only Ubuntu uses snaps. Even downstream distros like Mint get rid of that garbage. Flatpak, while I don't really like it, is significantly better, which is why they aren't only used by RedHat maintained distros.

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>>108304861
hey, I am also in a class that's prepping me for CompTIA's Linux+. If you or any other anon have particular study guides or materials you'd rec I would love to have access to them.
I tried for my A+ like a few years ago but the "complete video course" I was given access to at the time went over much of it but overlooked a great deal of important port and protocol memorization info that blindsided me on the exam. I'd love to prevent another situation like that for this test.

>>108304861
Debian xfce or theres going to be shit on your computer

>>108304892
do redhat users use flatpacks over rpm packages on average?

>>108304861
Just make VMs for each or install them both on the same VM. You can easily wipe away a VM if you don't like it.

>>108304885
See >>108304892 but here's some bullet points.
Snaps are centralized and controlled by Canonical.
Only the client is open source, the rest isn't.
Both Snaps and Flatpak use static linking, which means you have 20+ copies of the same libraries on an average machine. Most software on Linux outside of these is dynamically linked, which saves space. This also means that you may get delayed updates to libraries because they're now bundled with each app.

>>108304925
No clue, but I think no? I don't think RedHat is pushing flatpak as much as Canonical does with snaps, but I use Debian and don't mess with either.

>flash a Distro with Balena Etcher
>network issues every day after install
>flash the same exact Distro with Rufus
>literally zero network issues after install
I don't get it

anybody actually LIKE linux?

>>108304981
Yeah, loved it so much I decided to REALLY learn it

>>108304981
I like some parts and features. Always loved 'unix' and terminal ever since [redacted]. But otherwise it's a shitshow.

>>108304981
How else would I be certain Microsoft didn't install viruses on my computer?

>>108304997
This, name one proprietary os that isnt malware.

>>108304981
Eh, it's better than the other options. I don't think I'm capable of liking an OS at this point, only disliking to varying degrees.
Before someone says BSD, I would but the memes people post about availability of software on Linux are actually true over there.

>>108304691
>Debian less serious than Ubuntu
Not sure if bait.

>>108304311
I never tried straight gnome but it seems like kind of the opposite of what I want so I didn't bother.

>>108304398
Actually I tried MATE ages ago and I mostly liked it, but I there were a few weird quirks I didn't like. Like it didn't have scroll buttons by default, so I found out where to turn them on which took some moderate level of fucking around, and they were < & > icons instead of ^ & v. WHY? Maybe I'll give it another shot.

>>108304930
I appreciate the explanation anon. Thank you

>>108305022
That's probably theme related? Dunno, I use the mouse wheel exclusively

>>108303829
Nice, I'd show my old PC but the GPU I was using died and I don't have a replacement at hand

>>108303392
Is dual booting Ubuntu on an encrypted partition on the same machine as Windows a sane or feasible thing to do? It's not even opsec I would just want the Ubuntu system to be completely immune to Windows fuckery. Maybe that's opsec and my threat model is "Fuck Microsoft"
>yes anon that's called using two computers
I get it but it would be convenient to have them on the same computer.

>>108305031
It's nothing. If you want to use one of them, Flatpak is the way to go. They both try to do Windows/OS X style packaging where you don't need to worry about dependencies or distro. I'd still say that traditional packaging with dynamic linking is generally superior for everyone but package maintainers and devs.

>>108305064
Ubuntu or anything else will never be immune to microsoft fuckery as long as they share the same bootloader, microsoft can fuck up your certs for secure boot at any time, and also it could, if it really wanted, just wipe your whole ubuntu partition.

>>108305064
Yes. Most of the memes about dual boot bad are from putting GRUB in the same EFI partition as the Windows boot loader. Just do custom partitioning since I think Ubuntu uses the Windows EFI partition by default.
I would recommend against Ubuntu as a distro. For a new user, I'd go Mint instead, but that's what half of the posts above you are about if you want more info.

>>108305089
>bootloader
Fairly easy to fix.
>fuck up your certs for secure boot at any time
That would fuck up the windows install, not the linux one. Besides, I don't see that happening the same way that bootloader fuckery or copilot fucking with the files would.
>wipe your whole ubuntu partition.
I don't anticipate a rogue employee going after me so they would have to really flip the table to just start deleting linux partitions.
>>108305099
I'm not new I'm just kinda retarded. Ubuntu just werks although like everyone else I occasionally weigh my options to jump ship to Debian or Arch.

>>108305131
>That would fuck up the windows install, not the linux one.
If Microsoft revokes the cert used in shim, nothing relying on shim will boot, but windows using newer certs still can.

>>108305170
unless you disable secure boot, obviously

>>108305170
>>108305177
You can always just use a MOK instead of the built in cert.

>>108304981
I don't like to make my os my whole personality so no, i'm pretty neutral on it.

Question (Or rather, I'd like to hear your opinion): Is it me or the landscape of RegEx usage in linux is a fucking mess? I'm asking because at times it makes me feel like a fucking retard.
There are like 3 sorta-frequently seen implementations (Non-extended in grep, Extended in grep and Perl-like) and then there is every single fucking language with their own flavour of RE and to top it off it isn't the most straight forward thing to learn.
Am I stupid or is anyone else also struggling at times with this?


>>108303963
LXQt looks sorta modern, it's lightweight and it's fast. But configuring it is a pain in the ass.

>>108304609
In terms of guides to read it goes (in order):
>Ubuntu (volume is lesser but it's the only community that's consistantly pacient even with the dumbest shit)
>Arch
>Debian
Then it goes downhill. My recommendation: Just use Fedora. Ubuntu is shit, Arch gotta be babysat and Debian is too old. Everyone is being a fucking pain in the ass with this CachyOS thing though, probably it's just 2 retards shilling it into the mesosphere but I haven't checked it myself.

>>108304947
Apparently Rufus installs some additional shit into your ISO. Admittedly I also got no fucking clue what it does exactly.

>>108304981
No fucking idea, I doubt that anyone that eagerly says "yes" or something along that line has ever fucked around with the kernel itself, most use it as a means to an end. I'm like 2 fucking years of casual experimentation away before actually messing around with the kernel.
I'd like to give GNU Hurd a try next year though.

>>108304947
did you confirm the integrity of your ISO?

>>108304981
Yeah, it's kind of like the chans where there's a lot of bullshit but you don't get that sense of freedom/chaos anywhere else.

>>108304641
>It will just be a checkbox
Use your legs when you move those goalposts anon.

So if I really don't want any shit on my computer I need to install arch linux? Is the Dan Mill udemy tutorial any good or should I follow the one on the wiki?

Give me one reason I shouldn’t switch to xfce from kde.

>>108305565
Just follow any video tutorial which uses the archinstall script, it's really fuckin easy and doesn't take very long. If you want to be full autist and do the manual install then I found its easiest to follow a video guide and have the wiki open at the same time for reference. There is very little benefit to doing it manually. Anyway, you can just use any distro and remove the excess shit if for any reason you don't want Arch. It's your computer man you can do as you please with it. Most of the extra shit comes from your desktop environment so make sure you look into that before you choose if that is a big concern to you.

>>108305565
Use whatever distro you like. I'd really only recommend against Ubuntu.

>>108305608
Use whatever DE you like. I don't like KDE, but that's just personal preference.

>>108305565
Archinstall is the easiest way to install Arch
>any shit
There's layers to this. You can get a minimal install with Debian as well. Gentoo offers the most control, even down to compiling individual packages without features that you don't want, but then you have to deal with waiting for compilation and increasing your CPU temp.

>>108305608
Bar at the top is more comfy than no bar at the top

>>108305625
Hmmm I do remember debian xfce being truly supremely comfy and fucking around with it was really fun and usually ended up working 95% of the time but I'll learn more about computers with arch right?

>>108305663
>I'll learn more about computers with arch right?
Debatable. It's not some fuckin magic thing like fuck man it's barely harder than installing a user-friendly distro using the script, and a manual install is just following a lot of instructions that you might barely understand because the wiki or guide told you to.

How you end up learning more is by fucking with it after the fact, which you don't HAVE to do but most people go in that direction because Arch lends itself to that. Your desktop environment is arguably more consequential that whether it is on top of Arch or Debian or Mint or Fedora or whatever.

>>108305706
Yeah but in Arch I HAVE to switch to a different virtual terminal and run wayland to get my de making me hacker man right?

>>108305608
xfce is boring, nothing ever krashes so you will get bored quickly

>>108304981
I have liked Linux even before I started using it as a desktop. I used it on my homeserver and familiarized myself with it extensively before installing Gentoo after Win7 died.
I remember being 12 and installing Ubuntu on an external USB drive HDD.
I was impressed that such a thing was even possible, and it was functional. Windows could never.
I would have made the switch way earlier if not for muh gay ming.

>>108305625
>Gentoo offers the most control
in terms of community-maintained packages. ofc you can always build your own system however you like but you wont get any help :-)

>>108305565
the installation guide on the wiki is the canonical source of info (i.e. its correct) and the arch wiki is generally regarded as the best wiki out there.
IMO its better to do the install manually and read the articles because you will understand much better how the system is put together, which will make it easier later when you need to do system admin. the first time takes longer but you can do it in an afternoon

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I don't know where to ask this since there is no "Friendly Solaris Thread" so here we go:
I am trying to install OpenIndiana on physical hardware (Thinkpad X380 Yoga), I have downloaded the .usb for the live environment and did 'cp openindiana.usb /dev/sdb'
I booted but I couldn't reach the GUI environment and I get the following error messages:

Mar  5 14:17:38 svc.startd[8]: svc:/application/graphviz/configure-plugins:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/graphviz-configure-plugins start" failed with exit status 1.
Mar  5 14:17:39 svc.startd[8]: svc:/application/graphviz/configure-plugins:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/graphviz-configure-plugins start" failed with exit status 1.
Mar  5 14:17:39 svc.startd[8]: svc:/application/graphviz/configure-plugins:default: Method "/lib/svc/method/graphviz-configure-plugins start" failed with exit status 1.
Mar  5 14:17:39 svc.startd[8]: application/graphviz/configure-plugins:default failed: transitioned to maintenance (see 'svcs -xv' for details)

I logged in to the live environment and ran 'svcs -xv', it showed this error code
https://illumos.org/msg/SMF-8000-KS
I looked into /var/svc/log/application-graphviz-configure-plugins:default.log and it showed the following error

Error: failed to open /usr/lib/amd64/graphviz/config6 for write.

And when I looked for that file I found that it doesn't exist. Any Idea what's going on here? I'm completely new to solaris.

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2.63 MB MP4

How do I troubleshoot this? I made a live usb stick that worked on my HP, but on my Thinkpad it's just a bootloop.

>>108305565
Mental Outlaw has a perfectly sufficient youtube tutorial of the archinstall command, which you will likely run when starting with a USB stick of Arch on your machine.
If you are running an Nvidia GPU MAKE SURE YOU INSTALL ITS DRIVERS BEFORE YOU BOOT THE NEW OS ON YOUR HARD DRIVE FOR THE FIRST TIME. You'll get like 4fps booting into your DE and will have to fix everything at that point otherwise, and let me tell you it's a bigger bitch than it sounds; your PC will freeze up on random keyboard inputs and
>sudo pacman
will end up
>suddddddddo pacmmmmmmmmman
so you will need to type everything into some text editor and c+p it into your shell. Learn from my mistake.

>>108306199
Is secureboot enabled?

>>108306199
Is it plugged in? Last time I had a boot loop I had to flash my mobo, I think it was a power issue. Restart it like 10 times and see if it doesn't make it through one of the times.

>>108306260
>>108306274
It wasn't but I toggled uefi/legacy settingsand it's working now

>>108305608
If you are using Nvidia drivers I would advice against switching over to Xfce4. 580.119 onwards drivers have been fucked on Xfce4, there was a github thread about it and one of the devs said that it's nvidia problem they are not going to do anything about it. It's related to page flips. Workaround is to disable vsync but that's not really a solution who the fuck disables vsync outside games anyway.
I don't know what is going on with the 590 drivers.

>>108306291
>>108305608
To add: here's more data if you are interested
>https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/580-release-feedback-discussion/341205
That's a long thread.

Any of you niggers use cron tables for any automated tasks that make sense for an average joe?

welp i just installed nano on accident even though vim was already installed, my pcs bloated and borked

>>108304981
Yes. I like it on a philosophical and practical level. I believe everyone in the world should be using Linux.

>>108306408
As long as it's some ethical distro with zero amount of proprietary software.

Well I tried LXQt (>>108303963)
Already uninstalled. Back on KDE. Difference in resource usage is simply not enough to justify the extra fucking around. It's not that ugly actually I kind of like the look, but certain parts of it are ugly and its hard to fix. I don't think I'll try anything else now unless I give MATE another go. KDE is actually pretty good once you set it up right.

>>108306370
It is what it is, time to commit ritualistic japanese suicide anon.

>>108305663
>but I'll learn more about computers with arch right?
I'm trying to learn this so I can get a job so let me get you the answer: Fuckno. Installing arch won't teach you anything really useful.
You should much rather really define what you ACTUALLY want to learn and then learn what software is ACTUALLY used on it.
>"I wanna learn networking!"
Learn the OSI model, then repeat yourself the question again "what do I REALLY wanna learn?". If the answer is closer to the application level then learn how to do VMs or Linux Containers just to get yourself a mini network to practice.
If it's stupid close to the physical layer then start considering buying raspberry Pis or something, idk, this isn't my FoE.
>"I wanna learn coding!"
Leave. Using Arch won't do shit for you, using Linux is comfier for coding but you don't need this shit.
>"I wanna learn low level coding!"
Still, you don't really get a lot of benefits from using Arch.
>"I wanna learn Kernel development!"
why- ...why the fuck are you here?
>"I wanna learn how to be a hacker!"
Arch won't teach you that.
>"I wanna learn how an OS work!"
only here it might actually START to make sense, because here is the thing, you still won't learn a lot, but if you come from a babies first linux distro then hopping straight into Gentoo or LFS (which will actually force you to learn) will absolutely fuck your shit up. So Arch might be a little gateway drug into installing and setting up linux, which should make Gentoo or LFS easier.

>>108306308
>cron
achtually I use systemd timers but anyway: fetching new package lists from the package repository and updating a couple of Git tree source codes.
>>108306199
Boot mode?
>>108305565
Gentoo lets you tweak compile-time features and therefore there's the option to trim down some package dependencies. Some desktop environments for example have a dependency on NetworkManager but on Gentoo you can skip that.
t. NetworkManager hater
>>108304842
KDE is very "atomic" as in it's composed of a high number of individual packages. So it all just looks big when you look at the numbers.

>>108306535
>LFS
That's the ticket, thanks anon. I accidentally made my boot partition 5mb instead of 512mb so it didn't work but that doesn't matter because im LFS now.

What will look better on my resume a neat MERN project or LFS or would both be really good?

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Thoughts on AliveColors?
https://alivecolors.com/en/index.php
I've been trying it, seems decent, only downside? is fairly bloated (pulls in 2GiB of shit) but for the basic uses i give it, it's very decent. Fairly more intuitive than Pinta for semi complex shit to be honest, albeit compared with more robust suits it can come ut behind in features. It has some AI shit bolted on but is opt-in.

how do you guys keep track of all the changes you make to your system, without using something like nixos/guix? i get you can keep a git repo for your .config directory, but what about all the various tweaks to /etc or unit files?

>>108306933
I don't, but I also don't modify much system config.

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>>108306933
>tweaks to /etc or unit files
I don't tweak any of that

>>108304620
How can you be this retarded?
KDE Krashes because of the GPU driver being unable to allocate any more memory because it's a hot pile of garbage that isn't releasing memory properly not the other way around.
This is a long standing issue you can read about to death on their own Linux support forum. They already know about it and are working on a fix for it. No, switching to GNOME won't magically fix their driver.

>>108306933
You can also keep a git repo for /etc:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Etckeeper

I don't keep track of this though. If I set a new system up then it'll be stock and I'll tweak things as and when I need to.

So when will arch finally make a statement about when and how they will implement their age verification?

>>108307236
They're a community distro with no business entity behind them. They probably won't.

>>108307242
They're taking to long to say anything about it. They must be planning something.

>>108307246
Other way around. If you don't see anything it's because there's nothing to be seen.

>>108306449
Did you try gayming with lx-cutie?

i used linux mint persistant release from usb, and i want to get another distro
is any distro presistant by nature or do i have to wipe my hd unless provided otherwise?

>>108307566
Just dual boot. Install Linux on another drive if you're worried about fucking it up.

>>108307484
No it's on my old thinkpad. I basically opened it up, spent an hour or two fucking around with different settings and downloading a few extra packages I wanted, a few quick checks to compare resource usage to KDE, decided I didn't like it that much, then deleted it.
>but I'll learn more about computers with arch right?

>>108307590
can i do that without deleting stuff in my hardrive?

>>108307617

>>108306449
Oh and one other thing about LXQt, you need to download a window manager separately, then you need a compositor to stop screen tearing and a few other weird visual glitches. That alone makes it more fucking around than it is worth. I'm now pretty firm in the opinion that unless you are on an absolute potato, like 2gb ram or less, then there's no reason not to go with a fully featured desktop environment. All of them are lightweight.

>>108307613
Yes, simplest is to just pop another drive into your computer if you can get or have one.
If you can't do that, how much storage do you currently have in your computer, and how much is free?

>>108304981
I love Linux.
I just may not like what some people do with Linux.

>>108304160
It really was working fine on Gnome, but I want to try KDE a bit more for other reasons.

>>108307634
i don't want to start moving stuff from hd to usb. if i have to use usb id rather put linux there.

is any distro presistant by nature? like, can i use any iso with rufus on a usb and it will be presistant?

>>108307622
In its current state, these laws are unenforceable. Even if you assume all of the big distros bend the knee, someone will immediately fork them to remove the age verification. It's not even likely to get to that point, it'll probably just be the ones developed and distributed primarily by companies like Ubuntu, RedHat's distros, SteamOS, and stuff like that.

>>108306933
What changes do you guys actually make? I barely change shit and if I do its so inconsequential it doesn't matter if I wipe it with a new install.

>>108307650
I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm saying get another m.2 drive and put it in your computer. Install Linux there. If you can't do that, I had two questions to help you more.

Do ya'll think Fedora will bend the knee to the new bs age verification law?
I already fled Ubuntu (debian), I don't want to leave Fedora too and go to Arch.

>>108307622
>>108307654
Does anyone here actually care about this? I don't give a flying fuck, there is no way this could affect me. The people trying to bring this in are so tech illiterate that there are going to be huge holes in everything they do, not just this law but whatever they follow it up with to try to escalate.

Just another good reason to get off windows and never return. But I already did that.

>>108307670
>put another drive in
my computer is quite old, i fear one of the 2 ram slots stopped working and i could hardly find a gpu for it
it has like, 2gb of ram
im not even completly sure it is 64 bit
i don't want to buy hardware only to find later its incompatible with my system

judging by your answers i understand only certain linux distros can be installed as presistant
do you know where can i find list of those distros, specificly, light ones

>>108307679
Probably. RedHat wouldn't want to risk the liability.

>>108307700
Any distro can be persistent if you really want to stick with flash drives. Just do the normal install process targeting the flash drive.

>>108307709
It's not easy if from and to are the same flash drive

>>108307709
thank you

>>108307721
its ok my computer can at least support usb, and i have a laptop with win10 to do the heavy lifting of setup

>>108307684
Pretty much. Supposedly they want an update to make it apply to existing operating installs too and not just new installs. Well good luck getting that on my Gentoo machine. That will be going straight into package.mask

>>108307700
>>108307721
>>108307729
Use two flash drives, not one. One to install to, one for the installer. I thought that was obvious, but that might just be expert's curse.

>>108307765
oh, so id need a flash drive to install from because the enviorment im installing from needs to match the enviorment i want to run in?
i can't install from hardrive to usb?

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>>108304981
i do, i've used it long enough to know it's not perfect either, but i find it the most fun out of any other os i've used
>>108305761
i remember first trying it when i as 14 after seeing my neighbour's computer and asking about it since i hadn't seen anything like it. he was running slax with kde 3.2 from a 256M usb drive
not sure what version exactly but i found a slightly older one which does the job, this is a 187M iso and it's got a full kde desktop with all the basics one might want already available, that was insane to me at the time since that's smaller than a bare windows 98 install with nothing added to it

>>108306933
I document the important things in my notes.

>>108307654
>In its current state, these laws are unenforceable
As-is, yes. I read through the bill for my state, and the way it's worded, it appears they have some expectation that application developers will make use of the age bracket data. They aren't explicitly required to make use of the age data; developers can disregard it entirely, but it's easy to imagine them later being required to make use of it and alter application functionality depending on the user's age bracket.
>>108307684
>so tech illiterate that there are going to be huge holes in everything they do
Part of why they included that line about provisions being severable.
>I don't give a flying fuck, there is no way this could affect me
If you're a fellow Burger, then you can expect your local state legislature to pass some bullshit bill sometime soon.

>>108307793
Not quite. So, the installer/live image you install from needs somewhere to go that's bootable. It's technically possible to do this from a partition on your primary internal disk, but, if you're asking these kinds of questions, you shouldn't try that. Easiest way to do that is to take a flash drive you don't mind wiping and flash it with the installer/live image for the distro you want to install. You also need somewhere that you don't mind wiping for the OS to go during the install that is going to be wiped during the install process. If you try to wipe the flash drive with the installer while installing it'll stop working after partitioning. That's why you want two flash drives. One to flash the installer to and one to install Linux to. Like >>108307721 said, it's possible to do it all on one flash drive, but, again, if you're asking these kinds of questions, you're going to have trouble with that. When installing to the flash drive that you want Linux on, and I don't mean flashing the installer, make absolutely sure that you select the right flash drive and not your primary Windows or whatever drive. If you pick the wrong flash drive, it's not the end of the world, you'll just need to start over.

>>108304145
Set boot options to legacy mode and see if it helps.
Although the fact that it seems to happen on and off suggests hardware issues

>>108307855
>if you're asking these kinds of questions, you shouldn't try that
ouch
so one usb for live install and than use that live install on another usb for actual install
got it
i guess the best way to make sure i get the rght flash drive is to lsblk before plugging in the usb i want to install to and lsblk after, and than compare the two

>>108304981
Yes but I made the mistake of trying to use Arch on another computer. That's why I think those memes about people installing Arch everyday until they get a gf/bf are stupid because installing Arch is so easy. Arch only becomes difficult when you have to install a DE/WM, fix audio, brightness is at max for no reason. I just wanna use my computer.

https://odysee.com/@Luc_Larabie:e/re2-gog-linux:b

Anyone know how to achieve these specific animations on plasma? They look sick as fuck.

>>108307622
hwat the fuck
how did you post from the future?

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>>108307885
>lsblk before plugging in the usb i want to install to and lsblk after, and than compare the two
Yep that's a decent way to do it, and, hey, if you were able to figure that out, maybe I was too harsh. You'll want to select the wipe and use entire disk option in the installer, but, if you were able to think of using lsblk, you might already know that.

>>108307933
yeah, i do have an extra usb or 2 lying around. if the distro i choose won't have a presistant option ill use the two usbs method as you suggested
thanks for the advice

>>108308027
No worries anon.

>>108306933
Atomic distributions do this automatically so I don't have to

>>108306933
txt file that says which changes I made or which files I changed

>>108307650
>is any distro presistant by nature? like, can i use any iso with rufus on a usb and it will be presistant?
yes and no.
no, not every iso is configured to have persistence as a feature, most livecd's don't have any mechanism configured to save changes on shutdown
the yes however is if you install the distro to the usb drive, if you install it then it's just a regular install, basically treating the usb drive like internal storage. all distros can be installed to a usb drive and will persist changes. if you have two usb drives you can can boot the installer from one and install it to the other, or if not, an alternative is to attach your usb drive to a virtual machine then install to the usb drive through the virtual machine

>>108305051
>GPU I was using died
happens a lot with these old ones, i had one start artifacting like crazy before it died completelly
may have needed a thermal paste replacement desu

>>108306656
I used it for a while. I liked it quite a bit.
Not too useful for what I do though.
My issue is I couldn't use it on Wayland.

>>108307650
Keep in mind that while you can install Linux onto a USB drive, you will have a few issues with it. One issue is speed and the other longevity.
It will be extremely slow to fully boot and open applications. Especially if your PC is old since that probably means you're using USB 2.0.
Flash storage isn't suited for desktop operating systems since there's usually a lot of reading and writing involved. You'd have to use f2fs instead of btrfs or ext4, you'd have to avoid updating your OS more than once a month or two, you'd have to disable disk cache in every single application you run (like the web browser), etc.

>>108308077
>if you have two usb drives you can can boot the installer from one and install it to the other, or if not, an alternative is to attach your usb drive to a virtual machine then install to the usb drive through the virtual machine
This isn't necessary. He can just create a 10GB empty partition on his internal drive and use uNetBootin to flash an iso onto that drive. Then he can boot into that live environment and install the Linux distro onto a USB drive. So there is no need for a 2nd USB drive or a VM.

>>108308137
Oh nevermind, now it works.
This is a decent alternative to GIMP I should say.

>>108308147
its not that bad. i ahd mint 19.2 for quite awhile and i managed to work with it just fine. i did a mistake while installing nvidia after getting a new card so now i think of trying another distro, as par advices in this general. the experiance itself wan't too slow or something like that.

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>https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
I'm a babby with a small brain so this is overwhelming. Which distro would you recommend for someone who makes music (for this I'm probably gonna need Wine because of the VSTs when I eventually make the switch) and other media, and also codes?

>>108308259
Mint, Fedora, or one of the meme gaming distros.
I use Debian, but you might not like it since it's not as batteries included as the distros above.

>>108308280
>Mint
If I go with MATE or Xfce I won't have problems? Does Cinnamon have something crucial for my use case

>>108308259
>baby with a small brain
>media production
>coding
Nobara or Aurora/Bluefin. Or Fedora but you have to set some things up manually in that case.

>>108308337
MATE and Xfce are more performant then Cinnamon is. I'd recommend using MATE.

>>108308337
all of them are shit compared to the flagship desktop environments (kde plasma and gnome)

>>108308337
Pick one, try it, if you don't like it you can always either install another DE or just totally reinstall.

as a "FuckLinux" "Win wins" user, where should I start to learn about Linux server administration and basics?

>>108308446
RTFM

>>108308446
You know what the f in /fglt/ stands for anon? You'd probably get helpful replies without the beginning of your post.

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wtf is my default IceWM resolution

where do i find the resolution changer program in MX-Linux IceWM

and why are png files set to open with a pdf viewer that crashes on launch? kek

>>108308510
>where do i find the resolution changer program in MX-Linux IceWM
Use xrandr
>and why are png files set to open with a pdf viewer that crashes on launch? kek
Use xdg-mime to change it

You still owe us Olivença by the way.

>>108308510
openSUSE also includes IceWM by default
Why are you using mx linux

>>108308446
Install arch without the install script

Is there a distro to just get things done?

>>108308752
Debian

>>108308752
Aurora

>>108308752
openSUSE

>>108308752
gentoo

>>108308752
MX Linux

>>108303392
Is zeroing a 4TB drive with dd once enough to remove all data ? Normal delete and format before that maybe, I want it to be done in a reasonable time

Ssd doesnt need to be zeroed or shredded with bleachbit ?

[Desktop Entry]
Name=OpenShot
Exec=/home/jjes/AppImages/OpenShot/OpenShot.AppImage
Icon=/home/jjes/AppImages/OpenShot/icon.png
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Video;

OpenShot video editor is an appimage I have just been using it direct from the appimage but i decided to make a shortcut. I use gnome on arch it is default I have no extra extensions or anything and I have gnome tweaks but never used it so its default.

I used chmod to make the desktop executable but still it wont show up on my apps on gnome?

i out the .desktop file in the desktop folder

what am I missing here?

>>108308948
>Is zeroing a 4TB drive with dd once enough to remove all data ?
no. just take a hammer to it.

>>108308752
Fedora

>>108308752
Mint, Fedora and one of the Ubuntu spins, ignore the other retards.

>>108308752
Fedora + KDE if you're coming from modern PCs.
Mint + XFCE if from older PCs / you're riding outdated hardware.
Anything GNOME if you want to pretend you are some born-again user.

>>108308967
Never mind I fixed it. I used a program called appimagelauncher and it auto integrates appimages into the system like regualr programs.

>>108308752
Pretty much any distro with sane defaults. Ubuntu/Mint are good, CachyOS is Arch with preconfigured desktops and a GUI installer among other perks. Fedora is good but filters some since you have to add RPMfusion for encumbered codecs, openSUSE is similar with Packman.

Gonna install NebiOS ("Ubuntu Wayfire") in a bit.

>>108309094
>i put the file in the desktop folder
that's not where they're supposed to go.
custom .desktop go to ~/.local/share/applications
you're also supposed to have different sizes for the icon otherwise you won't get one. they go to ~/.local/share/icons

>>108309021
>Mint + XFCE
>outdated hardware
If your hardware can't run Fedora KDE then it's too shit to run Mint Xfce. Xfce is no longer a DE for old hardware and hasn't been in years.

>>108308948
What the fuck was on that hard drive that you're worried about what was on it somehow showing up even after zeroing it?

>>108308752
Ubuntu if you're a normal straight working white male.

>>108309143
That's not really true though. I mean in practical terms its mostly true because any hardware would have to be obscenely old and shit to not be able to run any distro, but at that point where you have like 2gb ram and an old dual core processor then the difference might be worthwhile.

>>108309114
Well now I know that thanks, I got my info from AI go figure lol.

Best thing is to install SolusOS and figure the rest out

Ubuntu just randomly changed my desktop background yesterday without update. Weird.

>>108309261
appimages aren't really used anymore because of poor integration, bloat and lack of updates
i recommend instead using flatpak in the future if the option is available eg:https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.shotcut.Shotcut

>>108309114
>that's not where they're supposed to go.
In KDE they can go on the .desktop and it'll show it properly. GNOME has no desktop icons though.

>>108309375
>GNOME has no desktop icons though.
not by default no, but ubuntu has them and maintains the extension for it.

>>108309368
its openshot sounds similar but different, very basic video editor I don't need anything more than it, the main download on the website is an appimage for some reason this is the only appimage I have used I try to avoid them.

But yes I will keep this in mind for the future.

>>108309375
By "desktop" I meant the app list when you click on the dots it opens up the list of all your apps in a graphical way for quick access.

>>108309400
yeah gnome reuses the desktop entry specification to generate the overview
you can always check the arch wiki for info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_entries

>>108309218
If you have 4GB of RAM or less both Fedora KDE and Mint Xfce use 1.2GB of RAM. A dual core CPU doesn't struggle with KDE as long as you disable a few settings.

ahem
windows lifer /mu/tant that lit just moved to linux today
what's your favorite music player/music library browser?
i was using musicbee on windose

>>108309509
deadbeef

>>108309462
I don't know about Mint Xfce but Arch Xfce doesn't use anywhere near that. I kind of doubt it for Mint too to be honest, did you test that yourself?

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Is this still true?

I wanna set up arch to be a default cachyos just to be able to see if I can do it but I don't know where to start after getting arch installed

>>108309676
https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/cachyos_settings/
https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/optimized_repos/#adding-our-repositories-to-an-existing-arch-linux-install

Should get you most of the way there
I believe archinstall has a limine + btrfs snapshots setup but I'm not entirely sure

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Mint 22.3 noob here, why can't I get a grid view on the GTK file selection dialog but I can when I use Nemo? Finding images or videos to post fucking anywhere is such a gigantic pain in the ass cause I have to either click through them one by one or cross-reference the filename in nemo and then select it in GTK. If I could just force the KDE file picker everywhere my issues would be solved, but idfk how or even IF that's possible

>>108309734
because the file picker is a different application from the file manager.
this was changed in GNOME 46 but mint and nemo are old ass forks.

>>108309738
Yeah I did figure out that GTK and Nemo aren't the same which is fine, but I just want to not use GTK ever and that seems to be a lot easier said than done

>>108309675
it is

>>108309752
>but I just want to not use GTK ever
then why are you using Mint? It's gtk all the way down.
anyways you might be able to get away with just changing your default file manager: https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/change-default-linux-file-manager/
everything works with portals these days and you can even have firefox use your preferred file manager.

>>108308547
obrigado
>>108308560
buddy recommended it as a lightweight linux
i have a modern laptop but i wanted to see how usable this 2006 PC was

also may have bricked my windows XP installation switching from IDE to AHCI, is there a way to repair that or am i forced to reinstall from scratch? if i install windows now it will nullify/delete GRUB right?

>>108309752
>just want to not use GTK ever
GTK is a UI library. You cannot "not use it" unless you avoid software that uses it. Which you probably aren't doing since all the Mint desktop environments use GTK.
If you're only talking about the GTK file picker then that's entirely up to the application and your DE to handle. In some cases you can use a Flatpak version of the application and that will pull newer dependencies without messing with your system, so you'd have either the newer Gtk file picker or the KDE file picker.

>>108309775
>switching from IDE to AHCI
Yep you're fucked
Time for a reinstall

>>108309688
How do I set up btrfs limine if it isn't

>>108309734
Yeah same, it's one of my biggest gripes with Mint so far. Everything else is honestly pretty much perfect but that one little thing bugs me a lot and it looks like there's no easy way to change that.

Docker newbie, how do you mount a directory as a volume within a windows container? I was setting up winapps and wanna access some files I've got on my second harddrive. I've tried looking it up but absolutely all results I get are for mounting files from a windows host to a linux container, never the other way around. Using a compose file for what that's worth.

>>108309769
>then why are you using Mint?
Because that's the "I don't know what the fuck I'm doing I just wanted the hell off of Windows" distro and that makes it the appropriate distro for me. Thanks for the pointer though I'll see what I can get done. Love everything else about mint btw, if GTK file picker had a grid view option it'd be flawless for my use case
>>108309780
>If you're only talking about the GTK file picker
I was, soz I should use more specific wording lel
>>108309788
The fact we have the exact same opinion of Mint and also the exact same hyperspecific complaint is kinda nuts

>>108309787
If it's a new install, when you use archinstall you should pick limine as the bootloader and btrfs (should ask you if you want the whole thing with snapshots done).
Otherwise on an already installed arch linux... if you have btrfs I guess you'd have to switch from whatever bootloader you use to limine manually, and I don't recall the rest. I think there's a few limine related packages that hook up all of that mess. But I'm not sure if they're in the cachyOS repos or the official ones as well.
I'm blind on this, I never actually tried the process on archinstall. All I know is that I've seen that option pop up and Limine can be selected.

>>108309797
modern gtk works through portals and you can just pick your favorite file picker and it will respect that.
the problem is that Mint uses gtk2 and gtk3 and that's another story altogether.
afaik there's the GTK_USE_PORTAL environment variable that you can set for gkt3.

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>>108305909
Nevermind, the issue completely unrelated to those error messages. Turns out OpenIndiana's Intel Graphics drivers are so outdated that even a decade old Thinkpad is still too new to be supported. I tried the USB on a different and much older machine and it booted to the GUI live environment after 2 failed attempts, half of the stuff inside the live environment are broken and segfault when launched.
I can't believe you made me fall for this meme /g/.

>>108309812
NTA but is there a way to just update gtk? I don't really know what all of that entails but from what I've gathered gtk4 has that icon view functionality for the file picker.

>>108303392
What the hell do I do with 8tb of hardrive space for my partition. I am actually getting buyers remorse by all this free space.
My current setup is root and such on SSD home on HDD but I feel wasteful for just having even 6TB that for one drive.
Suggestions?

>>108309877
Lol no. Mint wouldn't be in such a mess right now if updating gtk was just pressing a button.
but if you have nautilus or dolphin installed you can probably get gtk3 apps to open the respective picker through the portal.
see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal

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>>108309734
>>108309788
Hell, I had this exact issue and I was able to solve it by installing a different portal, I chose lxqt portal but you could use the gnome or kde portals because those have thumbnail views too (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xdg-desktop-portal for more details)

First, Install xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt

sudo apt install xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt

Then create the file ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal/portals.conf and put these lines in it:

[preferred]
default=gtk
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.FileChooser=lxqt

Now launch firefox and go to about:config and change the value of widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker to 1.
Everything is set up now, run the following command to restart the xdg-desktop-portal

killall xdg-desktop-portal

Now try launching the file picker and see if it works. If it doesn't then try loggin out and loggin back in or restarting your PC.

>>108309879
Create a gazillion partitions and install every operating system known to man on each of them and start distrohopping between them
Or you know, you could just hoard data like most schizos

>>108309892
Oh and by the way, if you're using Cinnamon you probably need to change

default=gtk

to

default=xapp

I'm using MATE so default=gtk makes more sense for me.

>>108309812
>>108309888
Does Cinnamon really still use GTK2? wasn't it phased out from the Debian repositories?

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>>108309892
What a legend

>>108309955
>Does Cinnamon really still use GTK2? wasn't it phased out from the Debian repositories?
Honestly i don't know, gimp was using gtk2 as far as last year... i'd be surprised if Mint didn't have a few gtk2 apps.

>>108309976
>>108309955
They use GTK3 which is basically dead at this point despite a lot of applications like Mint's and also Firefox, still using it.
GNOME only ever added a proper file picker to GTK4 and since Mint and Firefox are never going to update anytime soon then the only option is to use the debugging hack for portals.

>>108309892
You legend, thanks. I'll have to get used to the inconsistent look between the file manager and the file picker now but that's a small price to pay for the thumbnail functionality.

>>108310146
>I'll have to get used to the inconsistent look between the file manager and the file picker now
You can change it to a dark theme if you want
Open ~/.config/lxqt/lxqt.conf and look for a line that says 'style' under [Qt] and change it to Dark like so:

...
[Qt]
...
style=Dark
...

Then kill the xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt processes or restart your DE for changes to take effect.

There are other options to theme the lxqt portal, I use style=Kvantum with Kvantum manager to theme it.

>>108310346
>lxqt.conf
I don't even have that? When I

xed ~/.config/lxqt/lxqt.conf

I just get a blank file. The only file that's in config/lxqt is filedialog.conf

>>108310462
Well it might be different on my system then, I don't know what exactly controls the theming for the lxqt filepicker dialog. Try creating that file and put

[Qt]
style=Dark

in it then restart the xdg processes. If that doesn't work then try installing qt6ct and change the Qt themes there then restart the xdg processes again and see if it has any effect, if that doesn't work then I have no idea how to change it.

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Debian still uses GTK2 for its graphical installer. There's no chance GTK2 will be going away soon.

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>>108310600

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>Be me
>See there is BIOS update for my Asus FA507NVR from 303 to 305
>Install it
>Boot Fedora KDE and login
>Only mouse and a black screen show up
Is Linux that sensitive about BIOS updates or is it my way I configured it to run proprietary nvidia and ryzenadj (I would sometimes get warnings? when updating kernel and some other times)?

>>108310682
Forgor to mention I have secure boot and LUKS but i dint think I configured my install of nvidia frivers correctly enough

>>108310699
>secure boot and LUKS
your pc would not boot fedora at all if that was the problem.

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>>108310711
It worked before the update

>>108310682
>is it my way I configured it to run proprietary nvidia
Yes. Of course.

>>108310734
>fails at login
try just making a new user and logging into that.

>>108310642
Old but stable.

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>>108310749
The open source drivers literally dont allow me to change brightness and when I put it to sleep the screen wont wake up thus making me power it diwn and up again.I am firced by the lack of stavle basic features to use proprietary drivers

>>108310757
I'll try

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Oh wow Plasma is dropping X11 support in August. I remember them saying they were only going to drop X11 once Plasma 7 rolls around.

X11 DELENDA EST!

>>108310799
>I'll try
otherwise you can try https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#From_the_console which should give you some debugging information. of course you probably should check journalctl too

>>108308510
Figure out the xrandr command for the res you want and put it in ~/.icewm/startup, if you need a gui install arandr

>>108308446
If you want to get into IT work then just pay yourself a course on basic networking then exploit the fact that you got windows to learn PowerShell and Hyper-V, and then use Hyper-V to virtualize different copies of Windows Server and then thorougly learn AD.
If you do that you'll get a job in no time.

>>108308752
95% chances it's bait but fuck it, I'll bite.
What do you even want to do?
>I wanna make server
Debian and then move to something based on fedora, ideally RHEL, alternatively plain fedora.
>I wanna game
Fedora. Apparently CachyOS has everything needed built-in so it might be worthwhile to check out, it could be shit though, I can see that there is a lot of samefaggers shilling this shit.
>Fuck windows and fuck learning it's alternatives, I just want shit to work
Ubuntu or Mint.

>>108310799
>The open source drivers literally dont allow
nVidia actively tries to prevent open source drivers from working. They literally spend money to keep you from using your own hardware.

I started with arch and dwm and have seen no reason to switch to anything else. Why are people obsessed with all these different flavors of linux with a bunch of bloat in them and DEs that do an animation when a window opens? It's like they jump ship from windows just to use windows but made by neckbeard trannies.

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>>108309734
Mint is almost single handedly keeping a 20 year old meme alive.

>nvidia dx12 performance might actually be fixed
I am free...

>>108310815
Pretty much the only reason to use the X11 version still is NVIDIA. It's in good shape for everyone else and means they can stop wasting resources maintaining two environments (in practice the X11 session was already maintenance only anyway. All of the X11 code for KWin is in a different repo now)

>>108311426
Just vkd3d-proton now...

>>108311494
cachyos has a proton version with heaps enabled on their discord. I'm about to try it with marvel rivals

>>108311502
let me know if it's good

Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system.

>>108311880
Does GNU still exist or is it just debian, ubuntu, redhat, etc now?

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>>108311914
debian still calls itself Debian GNU/Linux
devuan (debian without systemd) calls itself Devuan GNU/Linux
Ubuntu and Manjaro just use "Linux"

>>108311914
It's harder to get rid of glibc so GNU will have its place. Other GNU components like coreutils can and are being replaced.

>>108311914
GNU still exists
You can use the GNU/Hurd edition of Debian and it's the basically GNU system, with almost the exact same software packaged, except it's all running on GNU's own kernel

>>108308752
Another vote for Fedora here;
Ultramarine Linux if you wanna save a few minutes post installation or are a lazy fuck like me.
Nobara if you're a gamer.

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>>108311531
p much the same on my system with marvel rivals. I'm on a 4080, 7800x3d, and at 3440x1440

has arch said anything about age verification? they'll bend the knee or not?

>>108312218
only if valve gives them money for it

anyone else just click "install all updates" anytime there's updates?

>>108312301
I don't click, I use dnf via terminal.
I still feel like it sucks, I should have an easy access to what packages and versions were installed during the last cycle but seems like it's impossible.

>>108312301
No I don't enjoy rebooting. I'm going to updoot once a month or less. Browser can be updated without updating the rest of the system or rebooting and thats the main attack surface for regular use.

>set up fullscreen game to a lower resolution because potato PC
>close game
>my desktop doesnt switch back to my regular resolution
why is linux like this? doesnt matter if its mx linux, linux mint, etc, it seems to always happen
Its either that or you change to a lower resolution and it only changes the resolution of the game rather than the monitor, which... sorta fixes it?

>>108312385
>I don't enjoy rebooting
I don't reboot so I dont get what you mean. It's only necessary if you want to switch the kernel

>>108312188
Might be better when vkd3d-proton actually implements the heap stuff. I think the cachy proton is just using the wip work on the PR for it? Once that gets done and downstream proton versions update hopefully it will be a nice improvement.

>>108312385
I don't reboot either, I just click install all updates and then it says installing and then it finishes and then it says my system is up to date. It's that simple.

>>108312036
>GNU's own kernel
Is there any advantage of using that over Linux?

>>108312385
>main attack surface for regular use.
Maybe thats overly optimistic but I'm willing to take the risk to not updoot.

>>108312420
>>108312455
I think some other stuff requires reboot like glibc. Also offline upgrades are default and recommended on Fedora, but it doesn't seem to be a huge problem for Arch so probably online is fine too. I just stick with the default.

>>108311426
qrd?

>>108312479
he bought an amd gpu.

>>108312479
Vulkan descriptor heap extension is in 595 which appears to fix the dx12 performance on nvidia. Some people with the beta driver are reporting CP2077 is within 10% of windows now

>>108312603
I always remember that CP2077 was DX11, was it. Anyways the real test are the sub par UE5 ports. CP2077 was already running 40+ even onGTX 1650 anyway (in Windows).

>>108312603
I'm on 590 and CP2077 is honestly running exactly the same as in Windows if not better, with full PT and framegen etc enabled
only problem I experience with fg is it breaks after reloading a quicksave and it gets weirdly choppy

>>108312301
My OS downloads updates automatically so I don't need to think about it.

>>108312712
Btw, are you Wayland or X11?
I would like to get away from buggy X11 580 drivers but don't want to use Wayland because I'm using bspwm.

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>>108305608
Because it isnt jeetcoded and you wont have to worry about krashes

>>108312839
on X11, haven't really had any issues so far except Darktide crashing with ray tracing enabled

>>108312899
Cool. For me (I have bad cpu) Darktide was problematic always because it is cpu bound but after using lavd scheduler my frame times were even. This on the older 580.95 etc drivers.
Some games are just in general.

>>108312834
I like to at least glance over the list of available updates, once in a while theres some language pack crap for some thing I never use and it reminds me to get rid of those packages

>>108308752
There can only be one.
https://youtu.be/YBdS6V8RA7A

>>108313263
I need her…

>>108312301
Personally use

apt list --upgradable

first.

>>108308752
https://www.gnu.org/distros/

>>108313401
>just get things done
>freetard distros
choose one and only one

>>108313409
As long as it is ethical. If you were employed, you would probably know what you wanted in the first place.

>>108305051
bake it

>>108313263
foids...

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>on Fedora
>learn of useful command dnf autoremove to get rid of packages that no longer serve a purpose
>Try it
>Removes my bluetooth codec that I was actively using even when I ran the command.
Okay then. Guess I'm not touching that again. I mean it's on me really, I saw aptx on that list but I thought that maybe it's some old version and it works without that package now since dnf is putting it on that list. What's the point of an automatic cleanup command like this if you need to evaluate every package anyway.

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>>108303392
Mint bros, Wine is fucking KILLING me with the constant losing focus of windows and sub-windows, randomly switching to the next window, etc. Is this really a Cinnamon problem? I read that it has to do with the way it manages windows. I've been thinking about switching to XFCE since I read it manages windows differently but dunno if it might still have the same problem.

>>108313638
Just try it? It's not installing another desktop environment is some commitment.

>>108313638
never had this issue

>>108313687
It's only some Windows programs. NoteTab Pro in particular, which was written in Delphi. Apparently Wine has more issues with Delphi programs for some reason. Any time a dialog box pops up in the program, it switches away to the next window. Also there's no minimize button. I tried different runners, etc. Same issue with a few other programs though.
All of this got a lot worse with the modal dialog changes starting in I think Mint 22.1.

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Is it fair to assume that if I can pull up the man page in terminal for x, I have and can use x?

>>108313626
Removing orphaned packages is a good thing. The question is how did your Bluetooth stuff get orphaned in the first place while you were needing it.
One explanation is it came with a big and bloaty desktop environment and then you removed the big and bloaty DE and replaced it with something minimal that didn't have a hard dependency on your Bluetooth codec.
(I'm fairly sure something similar happened to me)
>>108313421
NTA but having a handful of proprietary freeware packages in the repos means shit. Any distro out there is like 99,9% "ethical" in this sense.

>>108314511
Why do you think man pages were created?

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>>108313425
I did try it but it died due to a lightning induced surge, it didn't do anything
>>108308090
Nah this one is irreparably fucked

New thread: >>108314563

>>108314549
What I mean is do man pages only become added to your manual if you download and install the package for it, or are manuals just standardly updated and default to users?

>>108314567
Most packages come with their own manpages, they are installed on /usr/share/man.
If you're on Debian based distro you can use

dpkg -L <package-name>

to list the files owned by a package or if you want to know what package owns a file then use

dpkg -S /path/to/file

>>108314713
thank you

>>108311936
Which init you use