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How do I watch TV on Linux? Managed to gobble together the firmware blobs for picrel and presumably it "works" now, no errors on dmesg or anything.
Like what do I use for scanning the channels and what do I use for watching them? All the guides I found are outdated.

>>108314608
Why do you have a USB device for TV? Why not IPTV or streaming?

>>108314811
>IPTV
>streaming
No such thing exists for these channels. And even if it did I rather pick transmissions from the TV socket instead of having to internet it.
t. bumfuck european country

>>108314849
Kaffeine (Best for Desktop): This is the go-to "instant" TV application for Linux. It is incredibly user-friendly for scanning channels and watching live DVB-T/T2 or DVB-C broadcasts.
To install: sudo apt install kaffeine

You can also use VLC but it can be clunky to change channels apparently

>>108314608
If you have a Plex Server that can do it and then you can stream it on any device.

I normally use fancyzones on Windows to have my side monitor easy to organize whenever something happens and my windows get messy. Is there an equivalent for linux? Running nobara if that matters

>>108315530
>is there an equivalent for linux?
depends on your desktop environment or in this case the compositor.
gnome or kde?

>>108315548
kde, my bad

>>108315571
i'm sure kde has some stuff for that, the keyword you're looking for is tiling.

>>108315571
you can use Meta+T to open a tile editor

I recently switched to nobara, but I'm having some issues compared to when I was on windows:
First, there any way to control my rgb stuff? On windows I use armory crate for mobo and gpu, and icue for fans but on Linux I'm not too sure. Also, my fans are also controlled by icue based on my coolant temp, is there any way to do the same?
Second, I have an LG C2 as my main display, with hdr always turned on. I'm using kde so I can enable and calibrate the hdr from there, yet the colors on see games are "wrong" compared to windows, any idea why?
Third, and probably most important, I have some issues running my main games, especially Genshin. Despite running perfectly on my deck, it crashes after a couple minutes on desktop. I've tried lutris, I've tried through steam, no idea what I'm doing wrong. Also semi related, how do I get an fps counter/perf monitor that I cn toggle on and off with a combination of keys? On windows I use msi afterburner and rivatuner
Last, I have a stream deck that I use as a display to monitor my temps and fps (it grabs the data from hwinfo), and that uses soundpad as a soundboard for the few times I stream. Is there any way to get the same things on Linux?
Sorry for all the questions...

>>108315837
>how do I get an fps counter/perf monitor
mangohud: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MangoHud
>there any way to control my rgb stuff
openrgb

>>108315837
>yet the colors on see games are "wrong" compared to windows, any idea why?
You should calibrate in-game too and set the max peak brightness in nits to whatever the monitor is capable of. Sometimes games don't detect that right and require calibrating them properly. Not to mention sometimes you want different settings for UI/Overlay/Text/etc compared to the game.

>>108315837
>it crashes after a couple minutes on desktop.
might be its anti cheat

recommended laptop brand for Linux(Mint)?
or is that irrelevant nowadays?

>>108315940
Lenovo, Dell and HP are usually best for Linux using.

>>108315861
I'm talking about older, sdr games though, some of which don't even have a brightness slider
>>108315882
Weird since it works on my deck just fine

>>108315959
>Weird since it works on my deck just fine
nvidia? that's the problem in 90% of cases.

>>108315959
last time I bothered with it I got kicked out of the game after a few minutes by it. Decided to drop it back then.

>>108315959
>I'm talking about older, sdr games though, some of which don't even have a brightness slider
You might as well just toggle HDR off for them then if the colours look off.

>>108315943
ty

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>>108314563
APT doesn't allow you to learn what packages were explicitely installed, vs. what dependcies were also installed vs. what was pre-installed on the system. This makes the apt list --installed pretty useless if you wish to learn what software you installed using APT. Not sure how it is for other package managers. Anywho, is there some easy method to export a nice list of what software you installed through APT? Without sifting endlessly through the giga-document containing thousands of packages.

Shared memory, why do consoles use that? And apparently macbooks too? Is there a pro to it? Can i do that with my desktop?

Is there a distro for me?
>stable 6 month release schedule
>has gnome
>decent support and repo
fedora seems best so far desu. i'd go for something like kubuntu but gnome equivalent, but as no such thing exists yet...

>>108316076
fedora is the answer.
>i'd go for something like kubuntu but gnome equivalent
debian.

>>108316069
You can do that actually. All you need to do is buy an apu! Then you can share your cpu memory with your onboard gpu. Amazing.

>>108316069
Cheaper because less pin-out, and since you're soldering the chips down you can use bespoke memory instead of standard and get a little speed bump.
>Can i do that with my desktop?
If you're poor enough, sure.

>>108316100
dGPUs do this too. This is how you can exceed your total VRAM capacity and address more VRAM than the GPU physically has, it'll just share memory with system RAM and throttle heavily because of all the paging in/out it has to do. Obviously, performance will tank though.

>>108316158
Yeah if performance doesn't matter you can use free space on Google cloud for memory.

>>108316076
ubuntu has a vanilla gnome session, all you need to do is select it in GDM.

>>108316076
>stable 6 month release schedule
there's not that many distros with a 6 month release schedule, there's Ubuntu interim, but Fedora has a longer support period allowing you to always stay 1 release version behind, which I guess makes it more "stable".
>has gnome
pretty much every relevant distro out there "has" gnome
>i'd go for something like kubuntu but gnome equivalent, but as no such thing exists yet...
what the fuck are you talking about, retard?

>>108316210
>Fedora has a longer support period allowing you to always stay 1 release version behind, which I guess makes it more "stable"
Unless you run Fedora KDE in which case your stable Plasma N gets forced to N+1 despite running Fedora M-1

>>108314563
I'm in a little bit of a pickle with my specific monitor. I'm running an MG279Q and had to apply a hacky workaround with a custom driver in Windows to get GSync to work properly on it (I'm using an Nvidia card) at 144hz and I'm not sure how to make it work or get the equivalent settings on CachyOS according to the guide found here, especially since the Nvidia driver utility is so limited. What do y'all think?

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/n31gq3/guide_to_properly_enabling_gsync_with_the_asus/

>>108316232
the reason why fedora has 1 year support is because GNOME has 1 year support.
kde is more of a rolling release, they only offer 4 months support.

>>108316232
From what I remember, there's no stable upstream branch for Plasma anymore anyway. I'm sure you can lock the version down if there's a regression or if that's just what you want to do.

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>>108316253
>>108316259
Only one release is supported at a time for GNOME, KDE Frameworks and Plasma. GNOME releases yearly, KDE Frameworks monthly, and Plasma every four months.
So given that Fedora releases every six months, it is basically forced to keep Fedora KDE current even if it is on Fedora M-1.

>>108316253
>the reason why fedora has 1 year support is because GNOME has 1 year support.
Gno.

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>>108316311 (Me)
Sorry, disregard the GNOME part of this post. The KDE part is correct.
GNOME releases every six months and has one year of support per release.

>>108316311
>it is basically forced to keep Fedora KDE current
They could backport their own fixes, if they really wanted to.

>>108316341
Sure, but as a downstream packager why bother with that burden when you can simply follow upstream and keep the responsibility on them for fixing bugs

>>108316357
>why bother doing something you don't actually need?
you tell me. some distros actually want to provide a coherent user experience, instead of hoping that upstream will actually fix bugs, and instead of blindly pulling newest upstream code and breaking the system.

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Is there an open-source way to have a calender synced across both my phone and computer? Possibly where I can make edits from both ends?
If I had this, I think I could start autistically organizing my life like I organize other stuff on my pc.

>>108316381
Who does this, though? Debian does in theory, but plenty of bugfixes don't get backported.

>>108316410
RHEL, Ubuntu LTS, SUSE.

>>108314563
Bros, KDE has basically perfected the base system with 6.6
I literally feel every other DE is incomplete compared to KDE. It kinda sucks to not be able to enjoy anything else.

>>108316424
terrifying, it's all downhill from now on

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>>108316418
Same deal as Debian. None of these will backport bugfixes except security patches. And Debian doesn't even do those for certain components e.g. the web engine.
KDE isn't ideal unless you're running Fedora, Arch or Tumbleweed.

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>>108316424
>KDE has basically perfected
Take a look at its bugtracker sometime

>>108316498
That's actually a good thing. A bug tracker with regular bugs being reported is evidence that it has a healthy userbase using and breaking it. I'd be more concerned with a project where nobody is reporting bugs because that doesn't mean it's perfect, it in fact means you don't have much people using it and discovering flaws in it.

>>108316477
>KDE isn't ideal unless you're running Fedora, Arch or Tumbleweed.
Plasma for EPEL 10 targets minor releases now, which should result in an experience close to Fedora and will hopefully prevent things like EPEL 9 having KDE Connect constantly crashing right out of the box, with seemingly no fix besides disabling Connect or upgrading.

back?

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Installing EndeavourOS on a 10yr+ old laptop with an nvidia Geforce 940m, should I just go with the default install or the nvidia install? Is it too old/shitty for either option to make a difference?
Thanks frens

>>108316756
Too old / shitty to make any difference. You probably need to go with the default (Nouveau) unless Endeavour installs the legacy driver for you.

>>108316756
>>108316862
Your advice is simply not true, having a dedicated gpu and a functional driver is always better than just saying "too shitty lol i use ipad because i'm so dumb".
Install legacy driver after you get the system up and running.

>>108316874
Nouveau is a proper driver and it's actually maintained.
You can definitely try your chances with the legacy driver if you want to though but don't expect much. I think it doesn't even have proper Wayland support and never will.

>>108316862
Thanks for clarifying

>>108316874
Thanks but I don't think this Geforce 940M is even supported in the legacy driver
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/
Or am I misunderstanding your post?

>>108316756
just go debian or devuan atp

>>108317045
Of course it is, you just need to find the last driver version. I will be damned if you can't find a driver for that card. Last time I had 965M or something, that was in 2017 on some Asus laptop I used at the time.
That's not even 9 years ago.

>>108316756
940m should go with 580 drivers. Read Arch news, they covered what to do recently. As for your install options, I dunno what they do.

>>108317045
Needs the nvidia-580xx-dkms driver from the AUR according to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA and https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html#NV110

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New to Linux here. Just installed Ubuntu. What are some must have Linux utilities that you guys find useful/nifty?

>>108317251
grep is such a great tool, if it wouldn't exist I'd have to create it myself.

>>108317102
>>108317189
>>108317238
Cheers frens

>>108317059
I probably should have gone with something even more beginner-friendly but I don't mind a bit of friction while I'm learning

>Try to open a compressed .zip file with Ark
>Extract
>Get a bunch of folders and nothing inside of them
>What
>Try again
>Bunch of folders
>Try messing around for a bit
>Press the base folder and try to extract it
>Finally get a password prompt
Why is Ark such a assbackwards program?

>>108317331
>Ark
people actually use that?

>>108317346
Its the default in multiple distros.

>>108317356
default? You don't just call whatever tool you want dierctly?

>>108317367
No. Do you?

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It was surprisingly annoying to get XFCE to look like this but yeah I'm proud of it

>>108317372
Yes, that's the way I roll

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>>108316037
>APT doesn't allow you to [...]
Actually it can, APT is a very powerful package manager but nobody knows it but all its useful features are hidden behind obscure manpages

>what packages were explicitely installed
APT has a marking system which marks packages as either "manual" when they have been explicitly installed or "auto" when they have been pulled as a dependency.
To list manually installed packages:

apt-mark showmanual

To list automatically installed packages:

apt-mark showauto

You can change the marking of a package using the

apt-mark

command, see its manpage for details.

Additionally you have

apt depends <package-name>

and

apt rdepends <package-name>

which will list out the dependencies and reverse dependencies of a package respectively. If you want to limit it to installed packages then add the

--installed

option to that command.

APT also has a more advanced package listing feature known as apt-petterns, see

man apt-patterns

for details, for example to list all installed security updates you could do:

apt list "?and(?security, ?installed)"

>what was pre-installed on the system
This is difficult to ascertain, because there is no difference between the Debian installer installing packages and you installing them, since in both cases it's just APT under the hood. However, APT has also four priority rankings for packages, these priorities are:
"required": These packages are essential for the system and must always be present
"important": These are packages that are not essential for the system functioning but are almost always installed because they provide some important functionality
"standard": Standard system utilities, can be installed by Debian installer.
"optional": This is basically everything else.
To list important and required packages:

apt list "?or(?priority(required), ?priority(important))"

Just installed Fedora KDE edition.
>Mp4 4chins posts don't work. Say they're corrupted
>a tutorial in a v.redd.it format I wanted to watch won't load.
What's the fix for this? I'm a bit worried lads.

>>108317493
do you have codecs and ffmpeg installed? IIRC fedora doesn't ship with proprietary codecs

Any distro you would recommend for a ~10 year old laptop? Something that's secure but also good for a linux noob? I've heard Xubuntu but I wanted to know if I should testdrive something else too.

>>108317501
>do you have codecs and ffmpeg installed? IIRC fedora doesn't ship with proprietary codecs
Probably not. I'm updating Fedora KDE right now.
And I will look into enabling those. I'll report back if it works or not.
>t. buck broken by Windows 11.

>>108317531
It's not very straightforward for a brand new user. Run the following commands:

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf config-manager setopt fedora-cisco-openh264.enabled=1
sudo dnf update @core
sudo dnf install rpmfusion-\*-appstream-data
sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing
sudo dnf update @multimedia --setopt="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin
sudo dnf install libavcodec-freeworld

But other than this step of enabling non-free stuff I think Fedora is one of the easier distros to use.

>>108317516
Mint is good too if you have older hardware and want something easy to install and manage.

>>108314929
I remember trying it, didn't work. Also VLC didn't work, gave it a list I created with w_scan2 but nothing happens.
>>108315504
Jesus. Is all this crapware my only options lol

>>108317516
>secure but also good for a linux noob?
doesn't exist

>>108317597
>Jesus. Is all this crapware my only options lol
It's overkill for a desktop, yeah. I only mentioned it in case you wanted to stream on multiple different devices, etc.

In the old days people used to use MythTv for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythTV

>>108317569
Alright the is finished and I restarted.
MP4 4chins vids and v.redd.it tutorial worked.
The tutorial needed some time to load but it worked.

>>108316241
Gsync/adaptive sync seems to work at 90hz, just seeing if there's a way to get it to work at 144hz is there a Linux equivalent to CRU or a way to limit the framerate like you would in the Nvidia Control Panel on Windows?

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Guys which distro do I use? I just want something that fucking works and I don’t have to fuck with too much. I like how Ubuntu looks but was also considering opensuse or fedora…I just want something solid that won’t break every time updates roll out. Needs to work for writing code, games, media consumption, general computing tasks. Must have drivers for nvidia gpu/intel cpu. I’m just totally retarded when it comes to Linux distros. I would like one that has a solid base desktop environment that I can customize fairly easily(changing desktop background and colors, etc.) and an easy interface. I dont want to have to edit text files by hand to change shit please help.

>>108318118
Ubuntu is probably your least bad choice. Having an OS that just works means buying hardware with working drivers.

>>108318118
>games
>nvidia gpu/intel cpu
How modern for both of these?

>>108317408
Looks pretty good, I got it about there too but also found it more fucking around than it was worth so I switched back to KDE.

>>108318118
Mint. Only caveat is they update pretty conservatively so if you are on very new hardware then you might get some driver issues.

>>108318235
Genuine question. Have no idea.
Wouldn't Mint (and Ubuntu LTS versions) run into issues with newer games? I'm assuming they need newer versions of proton/whatever to work properly?

>>108318169
>>108318118
Distro kernels don't differ much. Having lots of programs installed out of the box means shit regarding hardware support.

>>108318243
Distro kernels differ a lot where nVidia is concerned. Not having a LTS option makes more work.

>>108318243
Only difference are custom scheduler support and ntsync support which can help with game performance, but this isn't such a big deal some people think it is. Eg. any kernel over 6.14.something is okay if you care about gayming.

>>108318241
Proton is updated via steam, as far as I know it is always as up to date as anyone else. Where you would be behind is the Nvidia drivers, but even those you can update manually if you ever run into issues.

Important to understand that conservative update schedules are the default of Mint for various reasons, but it's your computer you can do whatever you want with it.

>>108318118
>>108318241
Been using Mint Cinnamon with an Nvidia card for a few weeks now and running "some" latest games, so far very few issues. Stuff like frame gen and path tracing works from what I've tested. I like it.

>>108314563
can ghost clicks be neutered in linux?

>>108316037
I believe you need dpkg for that

>>108318219
Thanks :) yeah I do still prefer KDE, but the laptop in the screenshot has negative ram so I needed something much lighter. It can barely run zen browser lol

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>>108318118

>>108318320
I've been using Mint Cinnamon with a 3080 for about 6 months and had precisely ONE issue - Portal for some reason only works with the iGPU, shitty bitch crashes every time I try to open it with the 3080 running. I don't play VERY new games though to be fair, might be more quirks with newer stuff. I didn't even care enough to try to fix it or figure out why, it runs really well on the iGPU so who gives a fuck. Obviously you can't do that with a lot of games, but as I said it's the only issue I had and I've played a lot of newer and more intensive games than that.

I love linux!

I hate Linux!

>>108318344
Yes I saw that lol. I've also got 8gb and I don't really have any issues using KDE. Right now running Librewolf and not much else I'm at about 3gb/8. Xfce is definitely a lot lighter but I was trying to fix a problem I didn't have by switching so a few minor annoyances turned me back. You might as well give it a few gb more swap since you have plenty of space to spare.

>>108318349
Arch maintenance is actually really easy, I'll give you a comprehensive guide:
>Install Arch
>Install the software you want to use
>If anything doesn't work then fix it
>Never update
I don't know why people have so many problems with this.

>>108318428
What DE/WM do you use?

Linus Tech Tip's 30 day Linux challenge just came out.
[spoiler]It's not good. Pop OS[/spoiler]

I'm running gentoo and I realized I haven't upgraded in a month or so. Fuck I don't want to.

>>108318428
What happens if you don't update Arch in couple of months and then suddenly do pacman? Will it still work?

>>108318438
KDE Plasma

>>108318349
I cannot understand why KDE is the go-to recommendation. I installed Fedora on my mother's laptop and every time you boot up the damn machine random shit crashes with "Oops!" notifications piling on for no reason even on a fresh install.

I swap it out for Mint and everything works with no issues ever since. It's not even a really old bleeding edge machine either, just an average Lenovo with an AMD 5800U

>>108318462
nta but yes. Breaking changes are very, very rare.

>>108318462
So far yeah, I'm not that out of date yet though so can't say for like a year or more. Maybe I should go so far as to advise a yearly update?

>>108318492
This is what I've been doing with my fedora installer but I can't help but to update from time to time.
It actually doesn't make much sense to update unless something is clearly broken. Insanity to update kernel version with 0.001 increments.

>>108318503
*insallation not installer

>>108317746
Just had a weird glitch where I had to solve a captcha and the selected boxes kept selecting and deselecting.
And the refresh button the firefox window kept rapidly switching to an "x" symbol and back to the refresh symbol oddly enough.

Should I reinstall my Fedora KDE plasma edition? Or is this a sign of a bigger problem?

>>108318350
I heard source engine games are kinda fucky but idk how true that is
I also heard you can just use vulkan and it should run fine but again idk

>>108318488
This may come as a surprise but your case is not typical.

>>108318503
When I was pretty new to Linux one time I had an issue with suspend/resume on kernel update, and a few weird quirks another time after updating Nvidia drivers. Since then my logic has been - how often does an update notably improve anything? How often does an update break things? It's an easy choice. If you have a problem because any particular thing is not updated then you can always just update only that thing.

It's probably better serious advice to at least do it a couple of times a year, but any more than that seems like making problems out of no problems to me.

>>108318587
Half Life 1 ran fine for me, 2 I didn't play yet but at least opened it and it seemed to work. Portal 1 had the issue I explained but Portal 2 works flawlessly.

>>108316037
>most popular package manager
>"can't do <thing>"
Nah, my money is on you not knowing how.

>>108318649
the more often you update the less problems you have per update.

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>>108318488
Post beef

>>108318649
>not installing security patches
Great advice! Help why is my mouse moving on its own??????

I have been using BTRFS but finally decided to learn ZFS
Are zpools the same thing as subvolumes? and what is a dataset?

What do you guys prefer to use to make webms for posting? I used to use webms for lazys but it doesn't want to work for me on arch after switching from mint.

>>108318965
ffmpeg

>>108318937
Just do mitigations=off.

Will arch ditch systemd? Ubuntu is gonna implement age verification and they're most likely going to do it via systemd.

>>108317872
I use mangohud to limit fps. Dunno about other game launchers but on Faugus you edit the game options and tick mangohud on and in launch options put:

MANGOHUD_CONFIG=fps_limit=90,no_display

This might also work if you don't have / don't wanna install mangohud but haven't tested:

DXVK_FRAME_RATE=90

>>108319113
Arch is a systemd distro through and through, it's too embedded in normal backend stuff.

>>108319129
So how to escape jewish verification? Artix?

>>108319138
You can't. You will be forced to click "I am an adult" on any OS.
Just like with 4chan

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>>108318488
on KDE I also get the Oops! often enough but 99% of the time it's something that doesn't matter and is not even related to KDE like some process not exiting cleanly when it's done. I suspect it happens just the same anywhere but KDE is the only one that bothers to give you a notification about it (and you can disable them).

>>108319182
I wouldn't mind if that was all it was. Like clicking "I'm 18 or older" on Grok. Would suck if it was full blown KYC where you have to open their link in your smartphone, take a picture of your ID then take a selfie. I've only ever seen that for crypto and I think a banking app though.

>>108319113
>>108319182
How is that even gonna work? Is it only on a new install or will they push that with some update and then one day you boot your pc and suddenly there's a "Confirm you're 18" prompt?

>>108319213
In the future you'd need to show your license during purchase and also register your computer and all your drives. You'll also be required to have the webcam and the mic open at all times so they can make sure you're being a good goy.

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Why is this abysmal dogshit recommended over setting up a traditional VM?

>>108319229
Imagine: webcam open at all times, only users registered to the computer can use it. Webcam is verifying your face constantly. If it detects an unrecognized face, computer gets locked. On the bright side, your computer is unusable if it gets stolen.

I doubt it will get that bad, but it's interesting to think what sort of dystopian measures can be implemented.

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>>108319258
>I doubt it will get that bad

>>108319251
Good question. Maybe Wayland compatibility issues but no piece of software has behaved as poorly as this shit for me so far
>Launch a Windows app
>Try to drag the window around
>Has a stroke and blinks around my desktop at random
>Try to fullscreen it
>Occupies the top left corner of a different monitor, can't be made bigger than that or moved elsewhere.
>Just full of graphical glitches like random blinking colorful pixels too

>>108319311
I can't even fucking get the stupid bastard to progress past the downloading Windows 11 stage. So I tried just using an iso instead and it shit its pants and stopped working at all immediately after rebooting.

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Want to do raid 1 for some drives I have, should I use BTRFS again which I am already familiar with or try out lvm or mdadm which I've never used before? No zfs please. I don't really need auto-healing but I feel like I should have it anyway.
>inb4 picrel

>>108318965
The webm script for mpv.

update(){
if [[ "$PWD" == "/home/planimal" ]]; then
    export PS1="(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ Hello Master uwu ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶  ~ "
else
    export PS1="\e[0;30[[\u@\h $pwd] ~ \e[m "
fi
}
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I get a small microstutter when I press push to talk on discord, I'm on gnome with wayland. I can't really find that much info from other people having the same issue but from I could see it seems to be a wayland quirk "security feature" of sorts. Any tips? I already deactivated hardware acceleration on disc

So how do I scroll up and down on lazy neovim LSP snippets without using the mouse? They open when I'm on insert mode so I can't use j and k.

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I'm using linux mint and I just downloaded some sick fonts.
How do I change the font of my conky?
It's that x app that displays texts on your desktop, it's super cool.

>>108319638
For hard drives there's not much reason to use anything but btrfs.

>>108318344
>the laptop in the screenshot has negative ram
das nothing, bitch, I have less than 4
if it wasn't for Xfce my laptop would be completely useless right now
I pray so that the project doesn't get overrun by indians much

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>>108319638
come home, white man

>>108314608
tvtime. i remember using it back in 2005 to watch my cable tv in my bedroom when i was 15. i had hauppauge tuner and it worked great.
used them up until 2011.

>>108320239
https://tvtime.sourceforge.net/

>>108318937
Again, when have you ever actually in the real world faced this problem? If I'd had some security issues relating to not updating soon enough then I would be more inclined to do it more frequently. But I haven't, I've only ever had issues caused by the updates themselves.

>>108318799
If you do a full update there isn't much reason why you would have any more issues than anyone else. Let's say you update every 6 months, you have skipped lord knows how many problems which got fixed on a later update. It's not like they just accumulate endlessly, things get broken, things get fixed.

I'm being slightly facetious with my anti-update tirades here, but I genuinely think the best advice is leave it for at least a few months, unless you have some specific problem which you know the update will fix, or there is some specific security issue which is actually a real tangible threat.

>>108320515
>has problems updating
skill issue. Use Debian stable then.

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>>108314563
How good/bad are Nvidia cards for muh gayming? I know Nvidia drivers are closed source and so more difficult to make compatibility with Linux but I still see a fair few anons post their rigs here using Nvidia GPU's.

Is it limited to newer cards only? Or is it just in general you'll run into issues but its not detrimental.

>>108320515
>If I'd had some security issues relating to not updating soon enough then I would be more inclined to do it more frequently
Implying that you'd even know if you were owned

Good evening anons. I swapped to CachyOS from Ubuntu following advice from the previous thread. I am happy with it and seems to work well with my laptop. What are some beginner commands I should know for up keep? I found out about "update" and "paru". Is that all I should know? Are there any video resources you'd like to recommend?

>>108320654
As I commented earlier I had an issue with Portal when it tried to use the Nvidia card, and one time a driver update fucked everything so I had to roll back to an older driver. Everything else has been fine, played some new-ish games and some old ones, also used it with Unreal Engine pretty extensively and had no issues. Basically you might have a few quirks but most of the time everything works fine.

>>108318964
you decided to "learn ZFS" by quizzing the forum about it? just use the damn thing.

>>108320850
>Basically you might have a few quirks but most of the time everything works fine.
thx anon

>>108320654
Pretty much same experience as >>108320850 also custom resolutions are locked unless you disable some checks

>>108317408
XFCE looks good. Is that the default layout

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Wish me luck!

>>108320515
>having a conditioned fear response from something as benign as updating
Sad, but especially obsolete now that snapshots exist. In the 0.1% chance that you have an issue just roll back. The rest of the time you get bugfixes and things generally improve.

>>108321116
>having a conditioned fear response from something as benign as using 3 month old software that works perfectly
It's not a fear response, its a pragmatic response to save time and effort. Half of my point is I have never had any noteworthy improvements from an update.

If you want to do it then just do it, everyone gets to choose how they like to use their computer best for them.

>have lenovo ideapad laptop
>laptop has 8gb ram
>gnu/linux has only 5.5gb capacity
>windows has 5.7gb capacity
>has an igpu instead of a dedicated card
>bios seems locked down to hell with no option for "advanced" settings where I would expect to be able to set vram
is there a way within gnu/linux to use less vram? i'm guessing it's pulling system memory to create the vram

>>108321411
Nah it's a BIOS feature and the 5.5 VS 5.7 could be just because Windows reports it as GB instead of GiB.

>>108321411
Using 2.5 GB for that is excessive, it's usually way less than that.
Are you sure the total RAM is only 5.5 GB?
But sure, the vram of integrated graphics is taken from RAM. Where else should it come from?

how do i disable updates from grapheneOS? i red i need to disable the system updater in apps, but apps has no such entry. can i debugmode it?

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>>108321465
>install security based system
>want to disable updates
this is a linux gnu thread, android has very little in common with desktop.

>>108321059
did anon make it? Did his pc explode?

>>108319638
BTRFS is the best bet if you want auto healing. I would definitely avoid mdadm (old/slow/badly maintained/has limitations) and LVM (large/complicated/lacks features of BTRFS and ZFS without layering a bunch of crap on top / underneath it, for example checksums)

>>108321528
my security comes from not having to verify my age, among other things
i fear a coming update is going to change that

>>108321567
if you are connected to the internet, you need updates.
the use case for disabling updates is being retarded.

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>>108321455
>Are you sure the total RAM is only 5.5 GB?
yes
pic rel
>>108321441
that would be disappointing. for windows i just checked system monitor (or whatever they're calling ctrl+alt+del these days) and gnu/linux i used fastfetch/htop

>>108321584
an update will protect my info if im being attacked
a verification is putting info that does not exist in my phone and volunteering it without ever being attacked

>>108321590
>gnu/linux i used fastfetch/htop
the program to use for this is "free".
Anyway, this is quite bad indeed.

>>108321593
How did you get a sim without giving them your id?

>>108317408
based

>>108321654
>How did you get a sim without giving them your id?
good point and an exlent argument for phones not to have age veryfication
but on the off-chance they get it, i want out

>>108317408
>5gb out of 8gb used with just xfce open
what

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If i want .flacs should i get qobuz and download my playlists through it? Just 1 month and get rid of the sub? desu

>>108319184
That has nothing whatsoever to do with KDE. It is a notification from the program listed in the top-left corner. Heck, the notification doesn't even look like a Plasma one, but maybe that's your theme.
It sad when someone can't figure out such basic things.

>>108321728
And an open browser. Don't forget the damn browser.

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>>108316387
Please? Anyone?

>>108321955
Proton Calendar?

>>108316387
>>108321955
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcal

wayland tiling wm that doesnt suck? swaywm and hyprland both give me issues. i had 0 issues with i3 for years but i upgraded to a 9070 xt gpu and the cursor breaks with x11 using it

>>108322253
What issues did you have with Sway?

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>>108322262
some games had weird issues like ffxiv would spin my camers when id click, the only solution people offered was to use gamescope but i didnt want to. it didnt do fractional scaling very well either. sadly im using kde right now and it has no issues with anything but i miss using a tiling wm

>>108322418
Was this with XWayland or Wine's native Wayland driver? I would try with Proton GE and Wayland and see if still happens.

>>108322420
For reference I launch most games nowadays like this:

DISPLAY= PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE="4.0.2" PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 DXVK_HDR=1 mangohud %command%

I've not encountered any issues like that, although admittedly haven't tried playing ffxiv. Wine's Wayland support is getting good now. Hopefully Valve makes it the default backend in the future.

>>108314563
I want to erase my boot (system) nvme ssd, everything else in my PC is just harddrives
I read that zeroing or shredding is bad for ssds what's the best option I can safely delete all data on it ? And do I need to use a live usb ? I got nvme cli but I am stuck on how to use it, from a live usb or within the system?

I was thinking I could just install another distro like Mint in it, I'm on Cachy OS right now, shouldnt that be enough ? I want to sell my ssd, so my data shouldnt be recoverable.

>>108322253
installing GNOME and getting something like https://github.com/domferr/tilingshell is always an option.

>>108322728
installing GNOME is never an option.

I'm retarded /fglt/
What does USB_QUIRK_LINEAR_UFRAME_INTR_BINTERVAL actually do?
I could swear it fixed an input latency issue for me.

>>108320654
Most games run just fine though with slightly less performance than you would get on Windows (or AMD on linux). Some outliers supposedly run extremely bad, like single digit framerate tier but I haven't run into any yet. Your experience will vary based on what you play. If you already have a PC with an Nvidia card and want to move to Linux then a dual boot setup is probably a good idea just so you can keep the Windows option in the back pocket as a last result. Personally haven't needed it so far. If you are thinking of building then by all means go for AMD.

With System76 and Canonical both cucking to faggot "think of muh children" trojan horse laws, what distro is least likely to incorporate the AV bullshit?

>>108323077
I mean what are they doing? Just adding a "choose your birthday" section in Calamares?

>>108323077
>both cucking
I'll need a source for this, cuck.

>>108323089
>just add your birthday
do you really think that is their end goal? do you really think it will stop there?
they don't give a shit about the kids and they know this is meaningless, they are counting on it.
>we need to protect muh children
>we are passing a law that requires you to say that you're over 18, that's it!
>a few moments later
>whelp that didn't work lol kids are just putting in any ole random date
>we need to protect muh children so now we're going to require you face scan or upload your driver's license or passport, it's the only way you see! for muh children!
if you don't kill it now, you will be required to face scan or upload an ID for EVERYTHING you do in the future, count on it.
and it won't just be windows, mac, and linux - it'll be iOS and android to, and if you think that's where it will end... lol

>>108323107
You don't understand what he's getting at.
How exactly do you think they're gonna do it? How are they going to enforce it? How are they going to be able to tell that a linux user is an adult or a child? Which mechanism can they actually use for that, that you, me or anybody cannot easily bypass?

>>108323137
all the need to do is pass a suplemental law that requires website and online services to request age verification completeness from the requester. if it's not there, you will be 404'ed and cut off. so you either comply or you'll have an OS and system that can't do shit.

>>108323077
just dont use normgroid distros

>>108316076
>get Linux Mint
>Use Gnome Desktop Environment
>Be happy
You should do that, anon

>>108323143
No, they will never cut anyone off. The worst they would do is treat you like a child by default. Okay, so you didn't verify your age? No PornHub or Linux Isos for you but here's some educational content about gender / diversity inclusion.

>>108323147
>just use the untested desktop environment inherited from ubuntu
that's a terrible idea mate.

>>108323143
How is this different from what some websites already do?
Linux was explicitly mentioned, not websites. So what do you suggest, a digital ID for online services. Ok, what about decentralized services?

>>108323143
Why are doomers always this computer illiterate? I sincerely doubt "le surveillance state" is going to be able to enforce any of this shit to any real degree.

>>108323181
They will definitely be able to get whatever they want into the corporate distros that can't risk not doing business in California but how are they going to get it into the Arch's and Gentoo's of the world? Good fucking luck with that.

>>108323137
Remote attestation

>>108323190
California and Colorado are just the first. Entire countries are already following suit.
>>108323143
They don't even need to do that. All they have to do is retire the ISP confirm it before you're allowed "access."

>>108323233
Alright cool. Now you have an adult and a kid using the same computer, and the adult is an irresponsible shitposter. What now?

>>108323240
Face recognition

>>108323240
It's not about actually protecting kids, jackass. It's ultimately about tying your identity to every thing you do online.

>>108323239
Anon you're FUD-ing way too hard about this.

>>108317251
Usually I install the thing barebones so I need to pick the best for each individual common function, so:
>PDF viewer
Okular, it's lean, pretty and it works.
>Image viewer
back then I used nomacs, it's real nice honestly, but now I use Feh with the auto resize options running by default by modifying the .desktop file.
>Compressed file handler
Ark, it handles everything and it's not obsenely bloated.
>Misc
KDEconnect is kinda fun; I use the papirus icon theme so I also need papirus-folders to change the color of the folders as I like; qtct and lxappearance to handle both Qt5 themes and GTK themes respectively; mousepad is a nice notepad, it's lightweight and it looks decent.
>Autism related
Not only do I like the terminal, I also need to live on it because anything else would catch my shitbox on fire, hence: st (terminal), tmux (terminal multiplexer, haven't used GNU screen and I doubt I ever will), nvim (neither will I ever use emacs), ranger (I got PCManFM as a file manager but given that I use the terminal and Tmux I tend to rely on ranger to yank out dirs from wildly different places that'd be a pain in the ass to explore by spamming cd and ls),

>>108318456
Has any modern video made by linus even passed the low bar of not being absolutely fucking mediocre?
The only video I'd rescue is the one in which he made a desktop PC full of noctua fans, and it wasn't even that good, it's just that I'm a noctua fanboy and I wanted to see peak AIR, peak N2 + O2 + (small ammounts of) CO2, peak THERMODYNAMICS.

>>108319113
No.

>>108321059
So? are you still alive?

>>108321955
Not quite a helpful answer but I just wanna say: thanks anon, I've been wondering for a big while what to code and you made me realize that in general there is a huge lack of software that reliably works together with linux on the desktop and android. Might get on android development next year because by the looks of it this will be a busy year for me but at least now I got ideas.

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>>108323077
Non-corpo ones.
>>108323137
>How exactly do you think they're gonna do it?
wasn't the latest thing, using DBUS? haven't kept up

>>108323286
Nobody has done anything yet. They're just in the discussion phases of how to implement this and consulting with their legal team on whether or not they even need to and if they do to what extent.

For example, this is Canonical's official response:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntus-response-to-californias-digital-age-assurance-act-ab-1043/77948

This is in contrast to System76's total capitulation (they're American though, so to be fair it's far more serious for them).

>>108323252
Oh no. It's a desktop PC with an old monitor, there's no webcam.
>>108323253
I'm not talking about the goal, I just proved it's "not enough", there's a hole in that. It's not any more effective than the good old "input your birthday date".

>>108323281
>Has any modern video made by linus even passed the low bar of not being absolutely fucking mediocre?
No one who has genuine tech knowledge watches or pays him any attention. He's a clueless paid shill that caters to normalcattle techlets.

>>108323296
>It's not any more effective than the good old "input your birthday date"
They know this already. They're counting on it. It's the gateway they're going to use to push the next "phase."

I don't get the issue with the age shit everyone is talking about.
>Worst case scenario is your favorite Distro puts in bad things
>Remove them
>Release your uncucked fork of the Distro in a country that does not care, yes there will always be such countries no matter how much you doompost.

>>108323299
I'm surprised people watch him anymore.
I found this other channel, Switch and Click.
It's this chink worthless cock slurping slut, she behaves like him, she shills stupid shit, and has a similar level of tech knowledge. She also deceives people similarly.
I feel like there's quite a few of these LTTs out there and the cancer is spreading.

>>108323296
>Oh no. It's a desktop PC with an old monitor, there's no webcam.
The websites already thought of this. They give you a QR code to scan on your phone and continue there. No phone? Then you must live in a cabin in the woods and none of this concerns you.

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>>108321972
Won't they read all my data without telling me or sell it to indian scammers? If there's one thing I don't want some weird corporation or indians reading it's my person plans for the week and what I'm doing at which time of the day. If there's nothing like that here then I wouldn't mind using proton calendar.
>>108321977
I'll read up on this, thank you.

>>108323322
Proton's suite is E2EE, they can't read what's on your calendar.

>>108318649
you never know, which is why you make a backup before doing a full system upgrade.
ideally with clonezilla on anoter drive and not someting quirky like snapshots or timeshift.

>>108323077
Have you ever considered NOT rampantly eating crayons and huffing glue?
You are yapping as they had the fucking brand of the devil just because they chose to voice compliance with the law (with canonical at least saying that the law itself is not clear at all in what it REALLY demands).
we still have no fucking clue on what they will do EXACTLY, maybe it's as easy as somehow commenting lines on a file to disable all the bullshit. Any OSS developer that's not a gigantic fag would code it in such a way that's easy to subvert just so they can have the cake and eat it too. They'd be law-compliant and they still made it as easy as possible for users to subvert this braindead law.
I'm sure that we'll eventually see scripts for undoing the age-verification.
Except that nobody, including ((you)) and me have no fucking clue on what will exactly happen because literally nothing has happened yet.

>>108323181
Whenever you think if something is enforceable or not just look at china as a benchmark of how bleak the internet can get.

>>108323256
He is not. If only dictatorships were doing this then I'd just go
>"woah there is shit in the shitter, what a big suprise anon!"
But that's not the case, people said "oh we'll never see ridiculous regulations on the internet on our side of the world! Because we're FREE and we're not in a DICTATORIAL shithole!"
>Australia regulates internet into being retarded
>"well they are stupid, but there is no way that we'll see such things on OUR part of the world!"
>UK comes up with the most retarded regulations on the internet, they even arrested people for saying dumb shit online, which is precisely what people advocating for privacy used as an example that was commonly dismissed as "impossible".
>"well lmao that's because the modern UK is retarded, time to see when will they riot or some shit lol, at least we're good across the po-"
>Now you are starting to have laws this retarded, on the US.
Good work, spectacular.

>>108323299
It's really baffling people still watch him even after all the cases that exposed his absolute incompetence and mediocrity. Also everyone he hires with even a morsel of actual skill and knowledge gets underpaid and quits. I guess Youtube algos are just too powerful. Even I get pushed his videos.

>>108323310
But anon, this will be implemented in every single western country. They will actually know your age! They know your name, address, social security number, what kind of things you eat and shit, what are your preferences in women or young girls, what kind of stupid shit do you often buy and deeply regret, how much did you shit the bed when you were in your teens with that crush you had that ended up sucking Jerome off instead, what countries do you feel like shitting on tomorrow, and how much have you actually contributed to making things better or worse for humanity, but now they'll know if you're not a child. And what's worse, is that they'll figure out that you aren't, so you have no excuses anymore for buying gay little Nintendo games.

>>108323343
Most youtube watchers nowadays are either tech illiterate normalfags who would care less about accuracy as long as the guy on screen is entertaining, or literal children. Linus appeals to both the most.

>>108323311
He's on the same level as Marcuck Faglee and MrWhostheFaggot. They're all paid marketing shills pushed by agencies and the algorithm for the sake of making money. Sharing actual knowledge and education isn't even on the radar.

>>108323342
>UK comes up with the most retarded regulations on the internet, they even arrested people for saying dumb shit online, which is precisely what people advocating for privacy used as an example that was commonly dismissed as "impossible".
>"well lmao that's because the modern UK is retarded, time to see when will they riot or some shit lol, at least we're good across the po-"
>Now you are starting to have laws this retarded, on the US.
The situation in the US is actually even more retarded because you passed a law that does not achieve anything yet pretends it does. It's literally self-report your age to use your operating system, or just pick your favourite number.

How stupid this is only makes the conspiracy theories that this is a launchpad for something more sinister seem just that less batshit crazy and make them actually believable. Why would you design and pass a law that does not work? Oh, right, you did it because lobbyists for Meta / Facebook and Google, etc, wanted you to because they don't want to be responsible for knowing if someone is a child and then fucking up with that information because that will cost them billions of dollars.

>>108323413
You sound pretty retarded. When did you get your Downs Syndrome diagnosis?

>>108323437
You think it sounds retarded until your read up on the text and find out that this all came from lobbyists:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rmhxk1/i_pulled_the_actual_bill_text_from_5_state_age/

Yes, that's a Reddit post I'm linking to but go and read it. It's really insightful and explains everything wrong with your country in 5 minutes. You have laws built by whoever has the biggest chequebook.

>>108323469
>You have laws built by whoever has the biggest chequebook.
No one denied that. We all know that's true. But let me add, the biggest check book and the holder of the Epstein files.
The powers to be, the true source of these laws want absolute control over the sheep. That is a FACT. No law is passed absent an agenda, an ultimate goal.
That ultimate goal is the complete destruction of all online anonymity.
If you can't see that, you're genuinely retarded, blind, or one of the many glowies gaslighting on this site.

>>108323483
See, this is exactly the conspiratorial comments I was alluding to that sound crazy in isolation but actually come off as seemingly on-point and accurate on the basis of how flawed the law actually is. There's no reason to believe this is the case, but 25+ US States just passed ineffective and broken laws so you're right, Epstein and his pals must be behind this.

I've been using Niri lately and I like it, but holy fuck xwayland-satellite is such a janky piece of shit sometimes

>>108323483
As opposed to the UK where lawmakers actively create human misery so the same families can stay in control of the government, while letting the US dictate their foreign policy.

>>108323190
>Arch
Systemd.

>>108323818
the beauty of open source is that whatever gets implemented upstream can easily get patched out by arch maintainers or anyone else.

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Im very sick of Windows 11, it's bloated, unstable and full of ads... i really liked windows 7, but i cant swap to it because i work as a Game Designer and need to run modern software quite often.

Should i bother looking for a windows 7 linux remake or do i just swap to linux, any recommendations?

>>108323899
>windows 7 linux remake
I hate this board...

>>108323912
i know it sounds stupid :(
i just want to find something that feels familiar

>>108323943
Have you tried google?
Check out Cinnamon or MATE. Apparently the former got worse on a recent update but the worse of linux is still gonna be a huge improvement coming from wangblows 11.

>>108323912
Don't be like that anon

>>108323899
May I ask what do you do precisely? That's so I can sorta get a grasp of what you need.
I know that gamedevs are basically codemonkeys and they'd benefit a lot from switching to linux, not so much the case of spriters, graphics devs, and the like.
If you need to do any kind of testing of testing that is likely to have a difference between platforms like windows, mac or loonix then yeah, you can't quite full-switch to linux unless you have a separate computer to test what you just worked on, alternatively to that you can dual-boot (which let's you choose on startup either to launch windows or linux)
if you don't need to test anything then the next question is if the software you use is known to work well on linux, if the answer is yeah then fuck it, lock in and install mint.
Alternative if you DO need software that is known to play poorly with linux you can either buckle in and cope with trying to hack your way into wine to make it run on linux, or if you got rather strong hardware you can run a virtual machine INSIDE of linux to essentially run windows within linux, which let's you flawlessly run graphics design software reliably at the cost of beating the fuck out of your RAM, CPU and graphics.

>>108323590
I've been using X for the last 10 years because of extremely shitty hardware, but by the looks of it in a couple of months I might be able to afford a different, better computer. Hence, say anon: Is there any notorious difference between using X and Wayland? As someone that only installs barebones distros, should I be aware of something?

>>108323973
Also a bit of a note on this, I forgot to say that Windows is NOTORIOUS for more or less going out of it's way to fuck up dual-boots.
Basically you rely on GRUB to let you pick which OS to launch but windows updates tend to nuke it, so if you go for the dual-boot route have a USB drive ready with a good linux distro for diagnosing and fixing that shit, that's because something that I also haven't said is that Linux tend to have live-systems, which in practice means that you can run linux from your USB drive without installing it into the computer proper. This also lets you access the filesystem to retrieve files or fix the OS.

>>108323158
>>just use the untested desktop environment inherited from ubuntu
>that's a terrible idea mate.
ok, enjoy using whatever other shit tier de you want to use

>>108324008
if you're gonna use gnome, do it properly and use ubuntu or fedora, you can even go for something more out there like debian or opensuse.
but going for gnome on mint is just stupid.

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>>108323950
>>108323973
Thank you so much for the in-depth answers! :)
Mint looks really nice visually, much less scary than ive imagined.

I'm a 3D Artist btw, i go between modeling software and engine a lot.
I use 3DS Max, unfortunately its only supported on windows. How bad is Wine?

>>108324056
wine is mostly used for games.
if you want to run software you'd better run a VM like winboat or GNOME boxes.

>>108324056
If you ever heard about Proton on Steam, then Wine is basically the thing that powers proton, so it's quite capable, but tweaking it and configuring it into making it run known-to-be-incompatible software is a bit of a science of it's own. Have never heard of 3DS Max so no idea how it'd fare on loonix. as a general rule for graphics software: If it's resource intensive it tends to be unstable, and if it's unstable then said instability tend to be amplified by wine. But it's not a rule set in stone and exceptions aren't exactly rare either.
Actually I just googled it real quick, apparently it's uhhh... it's shit. Old versions might run but newer versions are a pain in the ass with wine.
Consider using a VM.

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>>108324070
Ive looked into it. 3DS Max cannot run well enough to be usable in any meaningful way on Linux.
Seems like I'll either have to go through the pain of dual booting, or start learning blender.
Really considering the ladder... (3DS Max is getting old)

>>108324171
Isn't Blender one of the few open source programs that's used for actual professional stuff? That'd be a worthwhile investment if you can afford the time/effort to do it.
At least you don't need to learn how to use Krita or GIMP, which are either not as complete or worse in terms of usability than their proprietary counterparts.

>>108323807
Not entirely true. Kier Stalin voted to recognise the rogue state of Palestine which is something the US would never do. In the old days Bush would have rang up Tony Blair and convinced him that was a bad idea but New Labour doesn't care what the US thinks, they're more interested in appeasing all the sand people we let into our country so we don't end up having a riot on our hands (there are lots of sleeper agents in the UK just waiting to do untold amounts of harm. Thank God we have a good intelligence agency).

I'm not a Trump fanatic, but Starmer has single-handedly destroyed our relationship with the US. Everything Trump says about the UK is true. If he ends up ramping up tariffs and causing untold amounts of harm on UK businesses it'll be because of Starmer's ineptitude. Or if he refuses to do a deal to sell us cheap oil and gas to get us through this energy crisis caused by the war in Iran that'll also be because of his inaction. I don't blame Trump one bit for not wanting to deal with us right now. We're not exactly the most helpful to him. We refused to even let him use our military bases only to then get bombed by Iran and decide that he can use them after all. We look like a bad joke on the world stage right now, even France and Germany seem more respectable.

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I have three HDDs, two NVME SSDs and one SATA SSD. I use the smaller NVME SSD as the OS drive, the remaining SSDs I use for gaming or other activities that needs fast read. The three HDDs are used mainly for storing data: music, video, etc. As I was using Windows, all those disks use NTFS. What filesystems do anons recomend if I were to move to Linux? I was thinking of using btrfs on the system drive for the snapshots, and ext4 for everything else. Or should I use XFS instead?

>>108324252
>I was thinking of using btrfs on the system drive for the snapshots, and ext4 for everything else
That's what I'm doing. Although I still have one old NTFS HDD. I'm just waiting until it dies to replace it with an EXT4 formatted one

>>108323327
>E2EE
Isn't that just a meme? I mean, whatsapp supposedly has it.

>>108314563
What are the opinions on autodefrag mount option for btrfs on an hdd? Is it worth it? Or will it cause more issues and it's better avoid it? I see way to many conflicting opinions on this and on the web, and even among llm slot machine rolls.

This is for a desktop machine, secondary data drive.

Is there a program like Steam's verify game integrity function for Linux?

I have Fedora KDE and I am having some glitches. Little things like unable to post images of my pet on Discord and sometimes seeing some "rapid flickering" on Firefox.
I am worried that I messed up somewhere in the installation.

>>108324512
your package manager handles this.

>>108324198
Not a designer myself but what I heard is that while Blender does has enough functions to be considered able to do professional work a big part of it is it being understandable by everyone that could be in a proyect.
Basically it's the thing about people complaining about GIMP, it's technically capable but if you are a professional you can't always afford to learn a different tool when you gotta put the bread on the table.
By the looks of it >>108324171 can afford it though, which is kickass.

>>108324512
Checksums. They are a bit esotheric for new users but they work if you religiously follow the few steps described in the guides

>>108324512
Most likely GPU drives or bad RAM. If the GPU is nVidia, 99.99% it's GPU drivers. Use memtest+ to check RAM.

>>108324252
BTRFS is best for SATA drives pretty much 100% of the time. Scrub and positive bit rot ID is great for long term storage, and CPU overhead is limited by the relatively slow bus.

For fast storage XFS on LVM is the way to fly, but there's a steeper learning curve.
>Or should I use XFS instead?
Yes. reflink makes XFS dramatically better in terms of saving host writes and it has lower format overhead.

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Why does org.kde.platform redownload from scratch every time?

I've downloaded the same large package a dozen times.

>>108324759
It's downloading a delta. You can see that by the first value. It's not downloading the whole thing it's downloading 18.7KB and 5.8 MB of additional data and patching it.

>>108324803
lol no it's not! It downloaded the full 367 MB buddy. Plus the 21 MB package.

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I never get round to learning vim. I am too comfortable with nano. Should I switch?

>>108320235
I don't really have enough drives to warrant raid 10-ing it
>>108321565
>>108320084
BTRFS it is, thanks bros.

>>108324829
Would you make the most out of it? if so then just dig in.

>>108324845
I don't know. I mostly just cut and paste or use replace in nano. I don't write scripts. It's mostly just for adding and updating some configuration files.

>>108324845
yeah fuck it hop in then.
Honestly for modifying configs you are prone to use macros to mass-comment various lines which is kind of the strength of vim along with great control for replacement controls and the ability of summoning it to write complex shit in the terminal with the <ctrl> based commands.
also a bit of a tip: Don't do what I did, I hopped into vim when I had the chance of hopping on Nvim because "oh vim is kinda like a middle point between vi and nvim, it's somewhat of a common sight".
don't, fucking don't. Vi is a frequent sight, vim isn't really, and you will want to chop off your dick off when you find out that you'd much rather use nvim and most of your configs from vim don't mix nicely with nvim stuff. Just spare yourself the pain and hop into Nvim from the get-go.

>>108324898
err, I meant to answer >>108324857. mb.

>>108324898
>Vi is a frequent sight, vim isn't really
wtf are you talking about? It's very rare to see vi used on any linux distro, if you've just typed vi thinking you opened vi then you're wrong, vi is usually a symlink to vim, only time I needed to use vi was in Alpine Linux which didn't have any text editor and I used busybox vi.
Also vim is just enough, I've used nothing but vim to edit text and config files for the past year.

>>108324898
I tried nvim and liked some of the things it did that vim out of the box doesn't, however even installing a colorscheme doesn't work with the dinosaur version found on ubuntu lts, so I went back to vim and just changed my config to get the things I liked in nvim.

>>108324829
no don't waste your time. nano is fine.

Why did nobody tell me that Linux has finally filepicker thumbnails?

>>108325395
It depends on the desktop environment. Cinnamon and Xfce don't by default.

Looking to give GNU/Linux a try... I'm leaning towards Arch because I'd like something bare bones... but also stable. How true is that arch shits itself when you update/sync pacman when you forgot to update for a while?

>>108325452
>something bare bones... but also stable
Use Debian, it's even more bare bones than arch, and also very stable
>b-but muh old packages
You can use backports, and if you really need something newer than that then you can get it via flatpak

>>108325452
nigger, just install Ubuntu like every sane human being

>>108325452
Arch requires manual intervention from time to time. They'll announce that on the homepage and in a mailing list which you can subscribe to. Most people wreck their systems because they don't read the news

>>108325452
I've seen more update related problems on ubuntu lts than on arch

>>108325532
Ubuntu has not been used by sane human beings since they added snaps, why do you want new users to suffer?

>>108325395
Only Gnome didn't. KDE has had it for as long as Windows.

>>108325154
admittedly I assumed so because I also had that same experience in Alpine, and I also heard that Vi was a sort of a common sight among most non-major distros. I might also have been confusing Vim for Vi a couple of times. Thanks for letting me know anon.

>>108325452
happened to me twice, also it went into a sort of cycle of stuff getting progresively broken-er until inoperability twice.
You can prevent it but it requires an ammount of effort that straight up isn't necessary on other distros.
In all honesty stable and arch don't quite fit in the same sentence. Maybe manjaro could perform better though, or the old reliable, Fedora.

>>108325542
I don't really like to be this mean but... anon... Ubuntu users could have issues while drinking a glass of water. Of course shit would go sideways as they attempt to update their OS.

>>108325538
yay -Pww shows news. Theres also an rss feed

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I was playing a memory intensive game that has been killed by the kernel oom, which is good because it used to just soft lock the entire computer in a now distant past.
however the memory is still being used somehow and I keep getting oom kills, even though no process currently listed is hogging anything. and it's not kde, top/htop corroborates
>just reboot
yeah, but it's a recurring issue. what is one supposed to do in this situation?

>>108326821
If you can't see a process clearly allocating ram then it's on the system but because it is linux, you can't critize it as all the foss tards will pile up on you!

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>>108325930
>Fedora KDE usage
>Installed with Balena Etcher
>installed a few days ago
>former Windows user

I've had a few glitches like pic related that appears on the wallpaper. Thought it was a dead pixel on my 10+ year old monitor.

Or when I right click something the inspect element appears and keeps on appearing even after being closed.
Or when I use firefox sometimes it has stuff like the refresh page button rapidly switching from the x symbol to the refresh symbol.

Little things like that.

Should I reinstall Fedora KDE with the Fedora media writer or is Balena Etcher the culprit?
I'm not sure if I did something wrong or if this is something that is a problem on Fedora KDE's end.

>>108327017
>kept the link to the other thread when I decided to ask here.

I am perfectly capable of accepting that there may be some problems on my end due to my retardation.
I just want to know what the problems are commonly called so I can do research on fixing them.

>>108327017
Go to KDE's system settings then "About this System", then check what it says under the "graphics processor"
You're probably using the open source driver for nvidia cards, which is something calles "zink" for opengl (which plasma uses). You need to install the proprietary driver. I don't know how it's done on fedora, but I'm sure it's readily available with a google search, iirc through rpmfusion
I've used this zink driver before and it's vastly inferior to the nvidia proprietary driver

>>108327085
I used the copy details function to get the following info here:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 43
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.23.0
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Kernel Version: 6.18.16-200.fc43.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Processor
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (61.9 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Processor
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: B650 GAMING X AX

I'm not sure where to go from there.

$ conda update -n base -c defaults conda
>EnvironmentNotWritableError: The current user does not have write permissions to the target environment.
$ sudo conda update -n base -c defaults conda
>sudo: conda: command not found
I think I'm retarded but what am I doing wrong?

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Any Archbros here?

I want to use DWM but the configuration must be done before building, if that's the case why are DWM, ST and other suckless programs even on the AUR? Is it possible to point a config.h file to the AUR package so it can use that before it builds it?

>>108327683
The entire point of suckless is to config via editing the source code. If you can't into code, you can't into suckless.

>>108327689
I know, but why even have it in the AUR then? most of the configuration is done in config.h anyway, you don't really edit other parts of the source code unless you're diffing one of the community made patches. yay will download the source code and then build from source automatically, there must be a way to tell it to wait before building, symlink an external config.h file and then build, no? I basically just want to mantain new versions with yay instead of manually downloading the repo from suckless, but I need to find a way to use my own config.h.

>>108327683
bro just clone the git repo into .config, cd into ./config/dwm, then make clean install. then add exec dwm to your xsession or xinitrc whatever arch uses. done.

when you want to edit the config header or source you make clean install again and restart x.

you dont need a package manager for that. go to suckless.org and just copy paste the git clone cmd from within .config

>>108327432
>suudo %command%: command not found
command not found, retard. why not? because the `sudo` program isn't "Run as Administrator" on Windows. "Superuser, do (sudo)" is strictly for operations you WOULD NOT normally execute, say, using your personal user's permission level and environment. So `sudo` uses a fresh path to search for the file you want to open (commands are files, retard)

man sudo

DON'T do shit like `sudo conda` `sudo npm`
Never do it again. Ever.
but the accurate command for running conda with root permissions (only a retard would want to do this) you would need

sudo /path/to/conda

and voila. Absolute file path will always work provided a valid absolute path. `conda` can't be found anywhere in $PATH. This is ALWAYS the cause of this error if you see "command not found"

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Just realized I've been running steam games with PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1, I thought X11 couldn't handle reverse-handle Wayland shit.

I gave up on using bottles for Genshin and just went with An Anime Game Launcher, which works out of the box with also the fps unlocker. However, I'm getting some issues with MangoHUD, with Genshin it always defaults to the launcher's own settings despite following this https://github.com/an-anime-team/an-anime-game-launcher/wiki/Additional-configuration
And on a game I run through bottles, Vindictus, enabling it in bottles makes the launcher crash without ever starting the game. Any help?

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>>108327683
If you arent a suckless zealot you could try mangowc you can configure it to be a pretty similar experience to a patched dwm setup

>>108326821
>even though no process currently listed is hogging anything
Then it's hogged by the kernel, either directly or indirectly via things like tmpfs.
In such a situation, check alll your tmpfs. If they are not the issue, kernel itself remains.
Assuming you check all processes, not just those of your user of course.

>>108327904
>user requested Wayland, but we're not running on a wayland session.
>silently ignore the request

>>108314563
>you can't win by shitposting
>let's employ even more AI
>It won't work
>We rangebanned you all
>It won't work
>checkmate chuds we made the pajeet AI make you love us on 4chans/x
>While true in the immediate, it doesn't seem reasonable in the long-term... etc..

>Just don't shitpost when Haifa hours please guys
>4chan is very organic an real and loves freedom of speech!!!!

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Spent some time aggressively tweaking ram [~~and unborking what I broke with the help of claude until it worked~~]. Zram swap with zstd compression at 50% of RAM, swappiness at 180, vfs_cache_pressure at 50, dirty_ratio at 10, dirty_background_ratio at 5, min_free_kbytes at 32768, compaction_proactiveness at 20, watermark_boost_factor at 0, page-cluster at 0, NMI watchdog disabled, noatime on all mounts, and finally removal of heavy Electron apps like Discord (I can live with using it in browser). Now even with zen browser open on youtube and discord it hovers between ~1.8GiB - ~2.5GiB.

>>108328770
>removal of heavy Electron apps like Discord
the only thing that actually reduced ram usage.

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Recommendations for a good, easy to use booru viewer? I've tried ahoviewer, streambooru and grabber, but don't really like any of them. Grabber doesn't seem to work no matter what I do, ahoviewer sucks and streambooru lacks too many QoL features.

>>108328854
>ahoviewer
I wanted to try this but never got around to it.
Shame if it sucks

>>108327720
Write a pckgbuild

>>108328149
I'd be real careful using an fps unlocker for genshit, the only time linux users have gotten banned was for using exactly that

New thread: >>108330060

>>108314608
w_scan / mpv

Does anybody know how to get MangoHud to work with games from Nexon Launcher? As soon as I enable it in bottles it simply refuses to launch

>>108330841
You could try with the environment variable instead of running through the mangohud program.

>>108330855
That actually did the trick, thanks anon