>>108330060
>Bazzite
>CachyOS
is there any other good distro out there?

>>108330111
Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE...

You just named a meme gaymer distro and preconfigured Arch and thought those were the only worthwhile distros out of hundreds?

how to make that pingu?

how can he spin?

how can he be as fast as super mario

>>108330246
>Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora
nodrivers

>>108330422
>Uses nvidia
>filtered by a terminal command or GUI driver manager
How do you even use a computer?
It's literally the Linux kernel, the drivers are the same. If you need to be handheld and have the proprietary driver preinstalled you could have just said that.

Is there a way to transfer/burn a qemu image to a physical disk to use in metal? I want to build Gentoo in my modern machine inside a VM and transfer it to a disk to use in my old AMD K8 machine.

>>108330614
I think you can just use the qemu img tools for that. Gemini says you can just do something like this:

sudo qemu-img convert -p -f qcow2 -O raw /path/to/image.qcow2 /dev/sdX

>>108330577
>not wanting to waste time is "being filtered"
keep telling yourself that

>>108330614
I did something similar with rescuezilla except I was moving from physical to a VM. you just need a USB drive for rescuezilla and another external storage device where you'll store the snapshot of your VM disk. pass them both to the VM and boot into rescuezilla to make a snapshot, then just do a recover on the physical PC.

So Nvidia GPU is a no go on Linux? AMD is way better? I hear shit like Gsync, HDR, and more are broken on RTX.

>>108330614
i've done this before directly using nbd
>>108330677
this command is incorrect. that takes /dev/sdX as a qcow2 input and outputs it to /path/to/image.qcow2 as raw output, which is certainly not what anybody would intend to do
you want to swap the two file paths

>>108330742
AMD is usually better but NVIDIA has improved a lot recently, anything after Turing should bring you a decent experience, still if you are looking to buy a new GPU and use Linux I would go with AMD.

Any of you have used Winrar's recovery records before? It seems like Winrar has had a CLI version for Linux for a while
https://www.win-rar.com/rar-linux-mac.html?L=0
I'm wondering if recovery records are worth trying to write a tiny wrapper around said CLI. Par3 is vaporware at this point.

>>108330764
par2 does the job
yea it's ancient but so are winrar recovery records, pretty sure the latter is even older

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>>108330754
I think I'm going AMD because I see stuff like this.

>>108330742
hmm, its worked great for me so far, open source version of the drivers + cachyos, i should add.
the blackpill is just keeping windows 10 on another ssd for cracked games and shit, though.

>>108330746
>that takes /dev/sdX as a qcow2 input and outputs it to /path/to/image.qcow2
Not according to the man page. I just double-checked now:
> convert [--object OBJECTDEF] [--image-opts] [--target-image-opts] [--target-is-zero] [-- bitmaps] [-U] [-C] [-c] [-p] [-q] [-n] [-f FMT] [-t CACHE] [-T SRC_CACHE] [-O OUTPUT_FMT] [- B BACKING_FILE [-F BACKING_FMT]] [-o OPTIONS] [-l SNAPSHOT_PARAM] [-S SPARSE_SIZE] [-r RATE_LIMIT] [-m NUM_COROUTINES] [-W] [--salvage] FILENAME [FILENAME2 [...]] OUTPUT_FILENAME

The output goes last. If you swapped them then you would be writing your hard drive over the top of your VM image.

>>108330784
if you have the opportunity to pick one or the other, you should pick amd
nvidia is workable if you already have an nvidia card and you don't want to replace it at this point, which given the market i can't blame anyone, but if you seriously want to use linux and can handle not having CUDA, then amd is the best option

I can use drop-in configs even without a main config file existing right?
Basically I made /etc/systemd/coredump.d/custom.conf with some lines to disable core dumping but /etc/systemd/coredump.conf does not exist in Fedora by default.

In what world is creating a 12 GB dump file because a process that used 12 GB RAM crashed good default behavior for a desktop system?

>>108330944
yea i disable core dumps as well, useless for anyone not wanting to debug applications or submit core dumps to developers, which is most desktop users

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>>108330944
>systemd

>>108330784
Bear this in mind:
7900XTX is more stable on AMD than the 9070XT right now and has better raster performance
Gaytracing on linux still needs some work

>>108330742
With blackwell CUDA works, games work and HDR works on my machine. But hassle free AMD is generally recommended.

>>108331195
there is literally nothing wrong with systemd

>>108331403
>https://without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Arguments_against_systemd/
try again glownigger

>>108330742
What I have broken on my 4070S on linux is:
-DSC (or maybe just max refresh rate on a monitor that requires DSC to reach that refresh rate)
-Graphical artifacts on wayland
-HDR on GNOME (works on Plasma)
The rest is performance related. It's not that it doesn't work it's just that it's not comparable to Windows. I've seen tests with 595 and they don't seem promising at all.

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>>108330784
this made me go amd

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I want the Arch + Hyprland experience: CachyOS or Omarchy. I am a python backend and ML engineer btw need this to actually work for work

>>108331550
what's DSC?

>>108331925
Display Stream Compression
If you have a modern monitor with a really high refresh rate or resolution the cable doesn't have enough bandwidth for, it needs that sort of compression. It's kind of fucky but the only way to drive some of these monitors to their limits. On windows + nvidia, you cannot use DSR or DLDSR while this is enabled.

>>108330111
>PikaOS
gaming optimized Debian. This completes the trifecta of gayming meme distros for Debian, Fedora and Arch (the only real distros).

>>108331948
openSuSE has this brazilian gayming distro as well, but it doesn't need it.

Is there a handy way to view a file's "size on disk" like what's shown in the Windows properties dialog? It was dead handy on Windows to quickly see how well compression was working on a given file or directory on my server's ZFS array.

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Is Artix literally the only distro right now that took a strong stance against age verification?

>>108332138
compsize or whatever the native zfs command is. Read the manual.

>>108330742
It's not a "no go", it's just that some games (especially modern ones) will take a 15%-35% performance hit and there are some minor quirks related to wayland and some random software. In general it's actually fine and has been for a decade.

>>108331948
Debian is real on servers, but Ubuntu is the "deb king" of desktops. I wonder why there isn't an Ubuntu based "gaming optimized" distro considering it's significantly more popular than Debian.

>>108332172
Turns out du shows the on disk size by default and running it with --apparent-size shows the actual filesize instead. Not as convenient as having it right there in file properties but I can live with it and probably make an alias/small script that shows both values next to each other.

>>108330111
>bazzite
>good
Its literally just one fag shilling it here

>>108330614
Clonezilla

>>108330689
>>>not wanting to waste time is "being filtered"
youre wasting time by using pajeet trash instead of copy and pasting a few commands for 3 minutes

Any recommended alternatives to ventoy? GLIM sucks.
I don't really think ventoy is malicious despite what outrage schizos try to force but it might be too big with too many features for 99% of use-cases.

>>108332151
Who cares. Linux is a kernel. It doesn't apply. Each distribution will handle the requirements independently - I suspect there will be a sort of unified enrollment that they can adopt sort of like how all the distros used the MS shim for secure boot. The libre/non systemd distros that are all about "freedom" are the only ones that are going to have to realistically have to put in actual effort since they base the development of their OS on morality/philosophy and not actual usability

>>108332701
>it might be too big with too many features for 99% of use-cases.
What does this even mean. If it works it works. Ventoy is like 20mb

>>108330742
Nvidia is hostile to Linux software development so you'll be very limited in what you can do.

>miss using linux
>decide to get back
>remember this bullshit phase of deciding a distro
sigh. what the fuck should i pick as a daily driver. no bullshit.

>>108333715
just use your favorite one

Is there some sort of comprehensive video that explains important linux concepts like "what is the difference between a .exe and a .deb" and other things like that?

>>108333867
Ask AI, unironically. MSI is a direct analog to DEB. EXE is just a normal program file.

OK this is one i've been trying to fix for months and still can't find a fix other than to roll a distro i don't want to use. (ubuntu).

i want to use arch or cachy, it works fine on my other computers/laptops. but on my "newish" alienware area 51 (aa18250) no audio hardware is found. (internal speakers won't work) audio via hdmi works but i'm not using a monitor with speakers I am on my couch for maximum comfort with my feet up. i can use headphones with it's own usb dac/bluetooth. but the internal speakers don't work because it for some goddamn reason the system won't see it in arch or linux. (works fine in microslop).

i've found a fix but it's only for ubuntu has to do with some kernel quirk. I've reached out to the suppport from cachy on discord and their fix was .. just buy a usb dac and use desktop speakers. baka i'm not using it on a desk. no help since. Headphones are ok for a short while but not long term use. i need the onboard sound to work when i go on roadtrips ect. i've been paitinetly waiting on a fix so i can finally remove wangblows off this laptop. i can't find any help doing it.

>>108334045
i would use a different distro if that's what they tell me to do to fix the issue in their distro

>>108334045
>i've found a fix but it's only for ubuntu has to do with some kernel quirk
because shit like that has to be fixed in the kernel, and since the kernel is super distro agnostic it should work for your distro, too. Might require adapting it to the different kernel version though and rolling your own kernel.
If that's too much of a hassle, go with a distro that just works for your hardware.

>>108334066
use case OS edition

Is there any reason at all to care about your display manager?

>>108334066
but i don't want to run ubuntu/pop os
https://github.com/capybloomer/area51_16_soundfix


>>108334074
the commit to the kernel has been in for like 8 months. still not applied

maybe the fix was applied and there is something that's so niche and not documented that fixes it.

>>108334109
what you linked is not a kernel fix

>>108334131
it's the fix on ubuntu/pop os to fix it.

see last post: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=445682&start=20

the other was a link shwing the fix for that other os wondering if it gave a hint for a fix in arch/cachy

>>108331403
>There is literally nothing wrong with Systemd
…She says, replying to a comment pointing out something wrong with it.

>>108334109
Well, since you don't have to update alsa-ucm-conf you could just try running enable-sound-switches.sh and/or enable-sound-switches-intel.sh from that github link and see if that does anything.

>>108334213
doesn't work in arch/cachy only in pop os or ubuntu

>>108334223
Did you actually try it? These are just some amixer commands

>>108332511
> I wonder why there isn't an Ubuntu based "gaming optimized" distro considering it's significantly more popular than Debian.
Pop OS was that, or at least people suggested it as one, until they released Cosmic and became a complete meme.
Gaymers don't need an "optimized" distro, they need to be taught how to do shit on their own instead of bringing their tech illiteracy over from Windows to Linux. I miss when people actually knew how to use computers beyond tapping apps on a phone.

What's the best alternative to systemd?

linux is such a meme
hopeless era for os as a whole

>>108334131
>>108334155
why would you install either ubuntu or pop - they are bending the knee to the AV and later they will bend the knee to ID verification (because that's coming next).
You're better off with a community maintained distro like Arch or Debian.
At the end of the day they all do the same fucking thing. The only real difference (from a user perspective) is the amount of work needed to get it all set up for what you do.

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>>108330111
i am trying out pop os
i will let you know if it is good later
not a good start

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>>108330111
Linux Mint (Cinnamon).

>>108334601
>Linux Mint
more like Linux Shit

>>108331920
Just install arch + xorg + plasma. You'll have a working desktop. Install hyprland on top and that's it

>>108331920
Why not just use Arch, or something like archinstall and Endeavour?
Cachy is fine, it's also just Arch but with optimization related shit thrown in. It strikes me as mostly placebo, but I don't really care.
Omarchy is DHH's personal desktop shoved into a distro so it's opinionated as hell. If you care about the things it comes with then it's also fine.

>>108334472
OpenRC

systemdeez

>>108334765
How is it better than runit? I was getting ready to install that one.

>>108334800
Has the most overall support just under systemd, mainly because Gentoo defaults to it.

>>108334472
s6/66 if you want advanced process supervision
OpenRC for pretty much everything else

>>108334577
this is exactly i refuse to go to ubuntu/pop os

>>108334247
yes i did .. AND IT DOESN'T WORK

>>108334800
Actual dependencies
CGroup support
Run levels
/etc/local.d Start/Stop scripts (here you can put your own scripts to run on startup or shutdown)

>>108332511
>Ubuntu based "gaming optimized" distro
Literally Pop_OS

>New to Linux/Debian
>Using an old laptop as a server to try to dip my toes into this whole thing
>Want it to run continuously, not automatically enter sleep mode
>Go into the power settings via the GUI while logged in, turn off auto suspend
>Works great
>Reboot
>It suspends automatically after some number of minutes (I wasn't counting)
>Wake it up and log in
>Doesn't automatically suspend anymore

So it looks like me changing those power settings in the GUI only changed those power settings for once I've logged in? As in, those changes are somehow specific to my user? How can I make it so that those power settings apply at a system level, so the server never automatically suspends no matter what?

>>108334877
>>108334860
>>108334853
Alright, what distro do I use that has openRC and works on a pi 3? That isn't gentoo.

>>108334919
Artix (except I don't think they have an ARM version)
Alpine
Devuan

>>108333715
Linux Mint. You might not like it but that's what peak performance looks like.

>>108334919
funtoo

>>108334930
Tried Alpine but it is very barebones and comes with basically nothing (I'm installing vim because it doesn't have neovim, for instance). Artix would be awesome as I'm already familiar with arch, I'll try digging around for for their arm version (supposedly they have it but I can't find the download link and instructions).

>>108335082
Artix originally started as a protest version of Arch that used OpenRC as it was changing over to systemd, so Artix with OpenRC is IMO the best OpenRC distro besides using Gentoo.

>>108335097
They have ARMtix but the website is too barebones and looks like some abandonware project by some random russian.
Alpine is having issues updating it's own repo indexes.
How's Devuan?

>>108335155
It's Debian without systemd. Nothing special.

I installed fedora a month back, got the nvidia drivers working and then didn't touch it for a month. Now I logged back into fedora, installed the updates it prompted in the discover thing, rebooted and now my desktop is black. What the fuck happened? I'm sure I can figure it out with google and chatgpt, but is this what it's like? I really don't feel like I did anything too special.

I haven't used a tiling WM before but wanna mess with one. What's a good one to start with?

>>108335327
i3 or Sway are classic beginner tiling WMs.

>>108335327
Do you care for bloat? Hyprland just works and it's easy to setup and get it to do what you want.
i3 and Sway are options too but more barebones from the get go, you'll have more settings to mess with to get it right and if you're coming from a floating/stacking window manager, you don't really have your tastes figured out when it comes to tiling. The advantage is that they're leaner and use less resources.
If you absolutely want X org then I don't know what the equivalent would be.

>>108330111
This is my first post from Fedora, I think. I'm liking it so far.

>>108335287
Welcome to Nvidia land

>>108335327
bspwm

>>108335097
Why do non-systemd geeks go for something like OpenRC? It stinks like sysV and can't even into parallelisation.
>>108332511
What makes a distro "gaming optimised"? Newish kernel and graphics stack?
>>108334439
>>108334893
Poopos uses Ubuntu's repos directly so the binaries are the same. Where's the optimisations?

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What exactly is the difference between UMU-Proton, GE-Proton, Proton-EM and Kron4ek-Proton and which one should I be using? Also if it's not a game should I not be using Proton at all but just Wine? Is there a downside of using Proton instead of Wine to run other software?

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>>108334591
i built fastfetch from source and shit, and a game that didn't work in cachyos no matter what I did is working

>>108335488
You should only really use GE-Proton for actual game playing through Steam. UMU is basically Proton but for use outside of Steam like for manually installed games in prefixes. Proton-EM is basically bleeding edge for use with latest AMD tech (for testing and the like) and Korn4ek-Proton is like Proton if it was like Gentoo's Linux kernels.

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>>108330060
I've reached my limits working with two devices(samsung-j7poplte and samsung-j3poplte) and none of the postmarket guys have been able to really help me.
I have a BOE panel with a synaptics TDDI rmi4 touch device/displayer driver. The backlight of said display is driven by an ISL98611 backlight driver. However, I can't get the panel driver to actually work to enable gpu accelerated display on them. I'm using the mainline synaptics-tddi panel driver, and when mdss turns on, the display becomes completely inert. No backlight, no output, fucking nothing. I don't even know how this is possible given I assume the 20v for the backlight driver isn't going through the synaptics TDDI driver. Even enabling mdss without a panel and with regulators is enough to turn off the backlight. The backlight gpios can be entirely disconnected and the thing will still turn off. I'm losing my fucking mind.

>>108335488
>umu-proton
It's just proton, like the one you get on steam
>ge-proton
This is the one you'll most likely want to use, it includes fixes and stuff that valve can't legally include in vanilla proton (video codecs, mf patches and libraries, game fixes)
>the other two
I have no idea, never heard of them
>Is there a downside of using Proton instead of Wine to run other software?
Unless you're on old hardware generally no, it depends on the game/program

>>108332151
There isn't any need to "take a stance" because the age verification bullshit is unenforceable for the majority of distros

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>>108330944
>In what world is creating a 12 GB dump file because a process that used 12 GB RAM crashed good default behavior for a desktop system?

>Spend the last 2 years telling everyone that Linux is great and everything works great and games work great with Proton now and everyone should switch over
>Except for audio stuff, it's a fuckin nightmare to set up and almost no VSTs run natively, it just isn't a viable option to produce music on Linux
>Anyway cut to today
>Finally decide to play some games at my new battlestation
>None of the fucking games I want to play work
>Like 6-8 games which used to work now do not work
>Spend the whole fucking day trying different combinations of drivers, kernels, display and performance modes
>Even when I go back to the exact ones I have used in the past they are not working now
>Rocksmith 2014 works though
>It can't detect my rocksmith cable even though it is detected by Linux as a rocksmith cable
>Somehow this is not passed on through the compatibility layer
>Latency is way too high
>Fuck around setting up Jack patchbay again (which was a huge pain in the ass and made me give up on Linux for audio work)
>Force Steam to open via Jack
>No sound at all, doesn't show up in patch bay, not even being recognized
>Try to force only Rocksmith, same issue

I actually hate Linux. I shouldn't have been so proudy in talking shit about everyone having problems.

This Laptop is on Mint, notwithstanding the audio stuff am I likely to have more luck by switching to a more gaming-oriented distro? Try Wayland instead of X11? I use Arch on my other laptop so I'm not afraid of it, just not sure if I'll get any benefit from it.

>>108335685
I don't know why stuff would suddenly stop working. I've never had anything like that happen. If it's not something in the system maybe you had the Proton version set at experimental and it changed? But that level of regression is weird. More likely something really basic is just completely busted, like video drivers are no longer installed or something.
I don't know if Mint has something like Cachy's snapper but I would try rolling back to a previously working snapshot if you can. Although this won't deal with any proton issues in your home dir.

>>108335429
>Why do non-systemd geeks go for something like OpenRC? It stinks like sysV and can't even into parallelisation.
is there even something better? robust parallelisation is one of the reasons people moved to systemd. most systemd-haters i've seen just tank the lack of performance because "at least it's not systemd"

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>>108335685
how long ago was this?
i ask because why would you use Jack on a desktop when PipeWire exists?

>>108335772
Today, I'm was using jack via pipewire I think the same one as you have there

>>108335760
Honestly I would not be happy with rolling back even if it worked, because I want to know why it broke in the first place. I think it must be something to do with Proton because I am pretty conservative with my updates, I don't think I have updated the kernel since it was working and I have updated the Nvidia drivers but I went back to the one I was using and it still didn't work.

>>108335789
i see, pipewire is compatible with jack applications but it's not jack, so it's a bit confusing to say you're using jack itself

>>108330111
>Linux Mint
Great novice level distro that's almost fully viable to use without touching the command line, and doesn't come with a bunch of gay bullshit like Zorin, Pop, and Elementary do.
>Fedora
>OpenSUSE
Still good for programming and productivity shit.
>Debian
>Ubuntu
Still good for servers.
>Gentoo
>ArchLinux
Still good for autism.

>>108333107
I hear this constantly, but I've literally never had an issue out of a box installing a Linux distribution on a system with an Nvidia card.

>>108330742
It's not completely unviable but it is less than optimal in most cases. I can't get Gsync to work at all without this obnoxious flickering on the sides of my monitor. If you're moving to Linux as your primary OS definitely consider an AMD card the next time you upgrade.

>>108335824
Well it's a jack patchbay via pipewire in any case, which Steam was meant to open with. But didn't. Not sure why and don't care to find out. The bigger problem was all the other games not working.

anyone familiar with certbot?
certbot claims my certs aren't due for renewal yet;
>....com/fullchain.pem expires on 2026-05-07 (skipped)
but my mail client says it's already expired;
>Expired on: 09/03/26(Mon) 08:04
what gives? it doesn't auto-renew because of this

>>108335829
Debian is perfect for first-year CS students and bi-curious people. It's the perfect distro to learn basic stuff like how to use GCC/G++ and clone repos off Github.

>>108335869
there's no need to try to make steam go through jack because pipewire support pulseaudio/alsa applications in the same graph. it's only if you're using actual jack that you have to do more hacky setups (which i have done before pipewire showed up)

>>108335873
ooh, i needed to reload dovecot otherwise it keeps using the old cert in memory. need a way to do that automatically...

>>108335875
There is need, to get the latency low enough to make it useable. I'm not sure if you know what Rocksmith is but there needs to be no perceptible latency at all or it isn't playable.

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In KDE how do I trigger Overview (i.e. show all windows on current desktop) using a three-finger swipe up on the touchpad instead of four-finger swipe up?

Is Mint worth using past the noob level? I've been hopping on various distros for the past year and I still like it, but I also have my gripes about it that are mainly Cinnamon's fault. I kind of wish they had XFCE on LMDE at least.
Either way I'm probably going to hop into a gaymeme distro like Nobara or Cachy since I'm bored and want to see what all the buzz about those is about.

>>108336335
Mint no longer provides anything of value over Ubuntu.
>a gaymeme distro like Nobara or Cachy
Meme distros always disappoint.

>>108336335
It's not even worth using at a "noob level". The distro is still stuck in 2010 in terms of the UI/UX and it's years behind in software/driver updates. You'll have more issues with Mint than you would with Ubuntu or Fedora. The "noob distros" of today are ublue Fedora images.

>trying peppermitn OS
>"huh, doesnt come with a browser

$ sudo apt install librewolf
librewolf is already the newest version

>they have librewolf installed but didn't add it to the "internet" category on the start menu somehow
If they messed this up WHAT ELSE did they mess up?? anyone tried this before?

>>108336190
you can put cursor in top left corner

>>108336190
It can't be configured yet

>>108336335
i personally move back and forth between ubuntu-based distros and debian-based distros, the only different is the debian ones have a pretty ugly less visual package manager if they have one at all preinstalled
Everything is "worth using" if it gets the job you want done, dont listen to cynics

>>108336335
But they do have Xfce anon. And it's much better than standard Xfce. It might be the best reason to go with Mint at all, you want a nice familiar, simple, and lightweight desktop experience, but without fucking around too much. I still like Cinnamon but it is by design very conservative.

>>108336409
I don't browse categories like a caveman because there is a search bar in every single modern app menu. You could've just typed "firefox", "chrome" or "browser".

>>108336448
This. The only redeeming part about Mint is their Xfce edition because it doesn't look as shit as Ubuntu and Fedora Xfce versions.

Should I be grabbing a Linux iso now for archiving purposes with whatever drivers just in case? This age verification shit getting worse. Not just the California thing. They're putting age verification via id into search engines here in Aus.

>>108335589
This.

>>108332151
>we will never require passport photos and blood samples to set your username
Yeah, retard, no shit.

>>108330944
>In what world is creating a 12 GB dump file because a process that used 12 GB RAM crashed good default behavior for a desktop system?
Ubuntu used to enable `apport` by default on daily ISOs so anyone running prerelease builds of the OS were automatically offered to submit crash reports.
This would then be disabled by default on the release ISO.
I don't know if this is still the case, I always install the latest Kubuntu before release and haven't seen apport dialogs in a long while.

>>108336591
>They're putting age verification via id into search engines here in Aus.
Lmao. Dark web will rise again.

Been using Linux / CachyOS for a year now. Only two things grind my gears:
Why does the shutdown come with a 30 second delay? Yes I can click "Shut down now", but why not do it right away?

On a similar note, why does the shutdown sometimes not shutdown and only close the browser (and other programs), and I need to click shutdown again?

>>108336723
I don't know how much this applies to you, but I also got annoyed by the fact it took 4 clicks to instantly shutdown and the DE designers said it's to avoid accidental shutdowns/reboots. I couldn't understand why that would ever be an issue, until I had to upgrade to GNOME 40 and saw that they replaced the separate shutdown/reboot/sleep buttons with a fucking dropdown menu where each item is 20px tall. Yeah, no shit that would cause misclicks. So I'm guessing what you're experiencing is (a remnant for) a workaround for an issue that they have themselves created.

>>108336810
you can always create a custom shortcut to shutdown the pc. personally, i use a terminal command alias.

>>108336829
I'm not gonna go down the rabbit hole of trying to fix the DE and I'm not gonna start using the keyboard just to work around a mild annoyance.

Having said that, I do miss being able to shut down my PC with just WinKey + U + U back in the XP days.

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>>108336883
>creating a custom shortcut is too much for me
there's also a shortcut to shutdown these days that you can add to the overview, your dash to dock or whatever.

Has anyone tried Cinnamon with Wayland? I think X11 is causing me issues I want to try Wayland but I can't really be bothered doing a full distro swap

>>108336723
>why
To prevent accidental shutdowns

>>108336966
Again, I'm not gonna go out of my way to make suboptimal custom workarounds for poor design decisions just to have things change again a couple of years down the line. Best I can do is accept that I'll never have a perfect desktop, get used to the way things are and allocate my mental energy towards anything other than futile frustrating attempts at desktop ricing, I'll leave that to whoever actually enjoys doing it.

>>108337090
>i care but not enough to do anything about it except complain on 4chan
well you do you, i'm sure the 2 extra clicks every day will hurt you to your grave. you probably spent more effort in this entire conversation than you would have in a year of pressing that shutdown button.

>>108336993
Expect it to perform like GNOME from years ago, i.e missing features and performing like shit. Cinnamon is not ready for Wayland.

>>108336993
I tried it once on my laptop and it was hell on earth. I don't think cinnamon is made to handle wayland at all.

>>108336723
just type "halt" into cmd bro

>>108337117
Sure. Same as when I wanted XP-style variable width bitmap fonts systemwide. Same as when I wanted browser tabs to be grouped by domain into a single tab. Same as when there was no simple way to make XFCE stack windows in the way I wanted it to. I spent a fair bit of time looking for solutions to all of the above and there were none that did exactly what I wanted them to do. When my ideal solution boils down to "just code it yourself bro", I'm more than happy to put my hands up and accept defeat. And yes, I enjoy taking the time to explain my own logic, does that bother you?

>>108336993
you shouldn't need a full distro swap just to change the DE

You lied to me, bros. Zorin OS is amazing. Basically a modern Mint, ready to go and it just works.
I despise gnome tho, but oh well.

>>108337188
the problem here is the cognitive dissonance, you say on one hand that you allocate your energy to other stuff, but readily complain about it anyways.
and fyi, it's always easier to mod shit for yourself than it is to design a system for everyone. so yes your solution might be perfect for you, but it's probably worse for another segment of the users, eg the large buttons are very important on touch based devices.

>>108335491
>a game that didn't work in cachyos no matter what I did is working
Probably kernel related or something to do with compile flags since cachy uses a different kernel and compiles stuff with LTO

>>108335768
>is there even something better?
Runit, dinit, and s6
Not sure if "better" is the right word but they all have advantages and disadvantages.
I've used both runit and openrc, they're both fine and it really just comes down to how much the distro supports it.

It's truly amazing how legit and genuinely stupid the average person is today. Back in my day, we installed and ran Slackware and OG Red Hat. Back then Linux WAS hard. You had to compile your own drivers deal with the nightmare that was CUPS. There was no Proton, there was hardly anything. Now? Here in 2026? We have Mint, Pop, Nobara, Catchy, Ubuntu that do everything for you... Basically install themselves and fucking NPCs can't even do that.
People are fucking dumb. I mean legit dumb.

>>108337270
>People are fucking dumb. I mean legit dumb.
i'd say lazy would be more accurate. nobody wants to spend hours getting their pc working when they have a mobile readily available.

Is Endevaour OS any good? I use Arch on my main desktop, but I can't be fucked with the install on a laptop just want something simple that works tried Manjaro but that with KDE was garbage thinking about giving Endeavour a shot as from what I understand it's basically just vanilla arch with an installer and some other minor things.

>>108337297
It's a GUI Arch installer with sane defaults and a small repo of its own that includes popular AUR binaries.

>>108330060
I installed Arch KDE and Arch Hyprland for the first time coming from ubuntu

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I've realized my Router is too limited for OpenWrt and the wifi is extremelly spotty so i want to restore the original firmware or something similar

but when i go ahead to flash MOD VFES_3.0.11 from OpenWrt UI i get this scary message

is it fine if i go ahead

>>108337212
To me there's no cognitive dissonance at all. I'll rant about this shit maybe twice a year - there's people who engage in daily DE/WM discussion; safe to say they spend *far* more energy on the topic than I do. I quite enjoy complaining about things being badly designed and explaining why I believe the designs to be bad. Doesn't mean I'm willing to learn C++ and start fixing them. Doesn't mean I'll stop pointing out bad design decisions on an anonymous Micronesian crab fishing forum, just because you find it hypocritical. OSS project leads often tend to dismiss valid criticisms in much the same way, because they generally don't care about retaining users: "go use something else / go code your own solution". That's why the entire ecosystem consists of a dozen highly opinionated solutions, instead of maybe 2 projects with plenty of simple customisation options. How cool! - You get to swap out one half-baked shit with another half-baked shit with a different set of issues. I don't like it, but I'll have to go along with it.

>and fyi, it's always easier to mod shit for yourself than it is to design a system for everyone.
I don't see the point you're trying to make with this. Designing a complex GUI that pleases everyone is virtually impossible. So just about anything is "easier", including me designing and coding my own desktop environment from scratch. Something being "easier" than something that's near impossible, says nothing about my willingness or ability when it comes to actually doing it.

Besides, if the target is touchscreens, then why did they replace separate buttons with a tiny dropdown? There's just no rhyme or reason with these people, they introduce changes for the sake of change, even when it goes against their own alleged philosophies. Again, even less of a reason for me to really care about any of it, beyond my obligatory two rants a year (this is a rare post, so enjoy).

>>108337280
>nobody wants to spend hours getting their pc working
The whole point of the modern distro is that you don't have to do that. But you have to have at least three braincells.
I walked my 70 yr old grandmother through installing Mint on her old laptop. She's been using it for overba years now with no issues at all.
Now you got retarded on massive channels who are supposed to be tech "experts" who can't even work Bazzite or Pop. You got NPCs who can even pick the right version of Proton of a game they want to play (literally 3 clicks of a mouse).
People ARE dumb AND lazy.

How the fuck do i stop vsync and have screen tearing while having rx9070xt on cachyos for gaming. i feel like it's always on

>>108337393
>2 projects with plenty of simple customisation options
customization is a trap, you can't design a system around customization. and the worst part about customization is that you have to account for any customization that is available to users. animations can be disabled? guess what, now every application needs to make sure it works correctly when animations are disabled.
oh and fyi, you can customize your gnome shell with css, you don't need any c++. also there's dozens of extensions that let you customize it without opening a text editor.

>>108331291
that's why my 9070xt (the lamest model) struggles a bit and not stable

>>108337433
>customization is a trap
It's a trap even from the user's perspective, that's why I don't bother straying from the default UI much anymore. I'd rather fuck around with filesystems, bootloaders, DNS, things like that.

>>108330784
>stuff like this
Am I retarded for not seeing what the fuck you're talking about, or are you retarded for assuming that everyone knows what you're talking about?

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>>108330111
Mint is alright for everyday tasks. With gaming I haven't had as great of an experience. Probably because the hardware I ran Mint on wasn't very powerful though. But for everything else it was pretty great.

>>108337382
it's warning you that it doesn't pass any openwrt firmware file checks, which should be expected when flashing an original firmware.
it does mention there "use <force> to override this check when ... flashing to vendor firmware"

>>108337206
Why do you hate gnome?

>>108337497
I wouldn't classify it as good, at least not in the same category as the other two.

>>108337430
Which DE?

How's Endeavour with KDE Plasma? The big thing that's driving me nuts about using KDE Plasma on Mint is that I don't have HDR since Wayland is super annoying to set up.

>>108337497
Mint is still probably the best distro for the majority of users otherwise it would've been fedora kde if it wasnt for things like rpmfusion and their flatpak repo.
Gaming on linux is going to suck on old hardware if the gpu doesnt support vulkan or has a poor implementation since 99% of linux gaming relies heavily on vulkan for any modern game.

>>108337768
Just use fedora if you want KDE and know how to deal with setting up rpmfusion.

>>108337777
>gpu doesnt support vulkan
maybe if your gpu is like 15 years old.

>>108337768
Arch+KDE is meant to be these days.

>>108337747
KDE Plasma 6.6.2

>>108337798
pretty sure you mean arch + gnome.

>>108337791
~10 years old. Any igpu older than skylake has poor or incomplete vulkan support.

>>108337808
Not at all, Valve have made it that they're basically lovers now.

>>108337768
>use an LTS distro with KDE
Mint, Ubuntu and Debian are not suited for KDE. Even KDE devs themselves say you should use Fedora or Arch if you want KDE.

Last month, I made the switch to linux (Used CachyOS at first, now I'm using Nobara).
I'm happy to finally be rid of Windows.

>>108337830
Don't know about kubuntu but I've been running kde on debian stable for awhile without any issues. I ran plasma 5 wayland on the previous debian stable as well without any issues.
>Even KDE devs themselves say
Source?

>>108337845
>I've been running kde on debian stable for awhile without any issues
You're not getting any security updates for it. And you're not getting HDR support like the anon wants.
>Source?
Do a google search yourself, I'm too lazy to dig it up again.

How much overhead does LUKS and flatpaks add to your system in terms of processing power etc?

>>108337893
Flatpaks have almost no performance impact, just a storage space impact.

>>108337915
same with LUKS once mounted?

>>108337939
Apparently yes at least on modern hardware, but that's something I've never tested.

>>108337874
Does plasma 6.3 not have hdr support? I'm still getting security updates on debian stable.

>>108337440
They've been fucking around with it with the latest kernel releases. Eventually they'll get there but I think depending on the 9070xt model you have there is some actual fuckery there. Which might explain why it's such a mixed fucking thing with gfx ring errors that come from 20 different sources.
In my case, I haven't tried again (because honestly I really fucking hate when it happens) but I did get a lot of crashes just from enabling overdrive. Nothing else. Not OC, not undervolting, no settings changed, just enabled overdrive and suddenly cyberpunk is very happy to crash. However, this was on 6.18. I heard that 6.19 did at least fix some AMD issues.

>>108338074
curious about undervolting. any overclocking applications for cachyos so i can try undervolting?

>>108338168
LACT gets it done
Just be aware when you enable overdrive it writes up a file with the following: amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xFFF7FFFF
That number can change what's enabled or disabled. Your GPU might crash if you just use that so read up on what amdgpu.ppfeaturemask does and what values are best.
Also for nvidia you're kinda out of luck, I think you can only do some pseudo undervolting which is shit.

>>108338038
HDR support is still pretty much experimental.

>>108336723
>Why does the shutdown come with a 30 second delay?
It doesn't. Must be a hardware/systems issue for you

>>108336723
Systemd. The problem is always Systemd.

>>108337270
Ok

>>108338210
>it's a you issue!
Typical freetard. He's talking about the overlay that counts down from 30 when you click the power button in the Plasma app menu. It exists there to prevent you from accidentally instantly shutting down your PC. If you don't have this you've either removed it manually or your distro did for some retarded reason.

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>>108336723
Man that was hard

>>108338241
He specifically asked why the operating system has a 30 second delay. It doesn't. As you literally just specified, it's a KDE feature.

>>108337270
This. It's pretty bad when older millennials have no problems with technology and now we have zoomers who can't write in cursive or even do basic math.
It's over.

>>108315353
sysvinit

>Hardware video decoding in browsers breaks suspend
Nvidia moment

>>108338350
Windows fags have it worse. They worked really hard to vibe code their last driver update that made the fans spins again.

probably a dumb question but i want to know how to leverage ZRAM
i currently use ramdisks sometimes to download torrents because i used to get problems with wear and tear on the ssd with the amount of writes torrent downloads would do
would it help here?
if not, where could it help?

>>108338374
Just Google "Systemd ZRAM Generator" or ask an LLM.

>>108337270
There's been a study recently that said each generation is more intelligent than the previous one. That trend broke with this generation. Though I'm sure part of the reason are retarded immigrants coming iin and being counted in the study.

>>108338356
Small indie company, please understand

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>fall/winter 2025
>try to play minecraft after not playing for a while
>windows 11 msi laptop with i9 14900hx and rtx 4070 and 32gb ddr5
>valhelsia modpacks
>crashes after 30 minutes most times
>try other modpacks
>crashes the same or worse
>try vanilla
>crashes
>troubleshoot for 4+ months
>sometimes get 2 hours before crash
>dual boot bazzite
>install minecraft
>0 crashes ever
>pick and choose mods
>156 mods
>0 crashes out of total 2d8h3m playtime
THE GAME IS OWNED BY MICROSOFT HOW THE FUCK DID THEY FUCK IT UP SO BAD I FUCKING HATE MICROSLOP I'M DONE WITH WINDOWS FUCK THIS GAY EARTH I WASTED MONTHS OF MY TIME
THANK YOU BASED GAMERS NEXUS STEVE. THANK YOU BASED MUDAHAR

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Well, you heard the man

>>108338405
Historically the java version always ran much better on linux. Specially on AMD where openGL took a good shit on Windows.

>>108338259
>I got him on a technicality!
nobody likes you

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>>108338479
Sorry you're so upset about being wrong

>>108338405
Grow up, underage bitch.
Could you at least explain what sort of "troubleshooting" you tried to do? I bet you just uninstalled and installed the game for two months straight.

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With you agree, /fglt/?

>>108334719
>>108334684
After trying CachyOS briefly from the usb and installing some ML and AI dev tooling I found out Debian or Ubuntu base is basically required since most frameworks and runtimes provide debian packages or publish to apt. And I don't want to run everything in containers because of the local performance hit.

Also turns out Ubuntu doesn't play nice with Hyprland (even 26.04) so can't even do that.

Thanks for the advise bros, but back to trusty old Linux Mint (Cinnamon) for me

>>108338528
Would* holy shit I'm tripping

>>108338528
I mean yeah it's sound. Claude is usually pretty smart about these things.

>>108338528
>>108338579
Holy retards. Don't ever give advice itt.

>>108338600
It sounds like you won't either, by your lack of a counterargument

>>108338606
Read some real information instead of machine hallucinations. Swappiness should be high. Zoomers like you are so utterly stupid.

>>108338528
No. Read the kernel doc for vm.swappiness. There's zero reason to use zram+zstd with a real SSD. If you actually plan to use swap, you should be running zswap. zram is only useful as a stopgap so momentary allocation spikes don't make your OOM killer service start regulating.

>>108338405
how.. old.. you're?

>>108338517
not falling for it. not going back to windows (except for fruity loops) but yeah the troubleshooting I did includes
>reinstalling graphics drivers drivers
>reinstalling mincreaft launcher
>choosing different launcher options
>choosing different modpack organizer clients
>changing different graphics settings
>adding and taking away JVM arguements that I don't fully understand beside some guy online saying "this affects garbage collection" "this makes shit instead of piss"
>remove mods from modpacks
>start changing random windows settings that people say affects your system's performance
>change nvida control panel arguements for the java runtime(s) being used
>combinations of the above in different orders
There's probably stuff I missed and probably more steps I could have taken because there's always more but I have a job and if my only time spent on trying to relax is troubleshooting the thing I'm trying to do to relax then microslop can eat my whole ass. I only ever tried ubuntu, flavors of it, and linux mint to see that linux was viable and usable but never saw a reason to switch because windows still "worked". Now that every week is a new story about microslop breaking windows features and adding more surveillance and AI trash I'm actually done using windows as a daily driver. Still haven't messed with proton or wine yet but maybe I will in the coming weeks and see how much of fruity loops i can get functional. But I might just drop that and try ardour anyways

>>108338619
An actual answer.
By the way, given CachyOS supposedly "targets" modern hardware, and everyone with modern hardware uses at the very least an SSD and a considerable amount of RAM (16gb, 32gb or more), why in the fuck is zram the default and to top it off, equal to physical RAM size? Are these stupid defaults then? I guess the team in charge didn't read that kernel doc?

>>108338639
Is Minecraft Windows Store application? If it is, this alone is probably an issue when it comes down to modding. It was probably just running out of allocated memory or something.

>>108338656
This one guy shills zswap here because he likes it more. If zram was a waste of time it wouldn't be enabled in multiple distros by default.

>>108338656
I think the basic idea with zram is tuning doesn't matter because you're not supposed to lean on it anyway. It's just there to keep people from going
>why are my programs getting whacked by oomd when ram is only 70% full?
100% physical with that much memory is stupid though

>>108338499
The Desktop Environment is a core component of the OS that's being used in this case. Saying "the OS does this" is objectively correct. At the end of the day you're the one in the wrong here.

>>108338736
Yes, and there is a wide array of desktop environment choices, automatically assuming that people are using KDE is stupid. That's like saying seat belts are a core part of an automobile and because of this every single automobile suffers from a design flaw that is present in one brand of automobile's seatbelt system

>>108338757
It is the default choice, and the one the live session uses as well.

>>108338774
Totally irrelevant. You're grasping at straws. The discussion is over.

>>108338786
Oh so you lost ok fine,

>>108338792
how old are you?

What browsers do Linux users use?

>>108338913
UC

>>108338913
emacs.

>>108337838
Glad you're enjoying it, anon.
Why did you switch from cachy to Nobara?

>>108338774
How's KDE a default choice when using Arch?
Never occurred to me.
>>108338913
Firefox obviously, it's the Linux default.

>>108338528
Is claude self-hostable through llama.cpp/kobold.cpp or is it one of those llms where you have to make an account on their website?

>>108339076
Faggotfox is trash. Everyone either uses Brave or Chrome, at least in the real world

>>108338913
Firefox with arkenfox user.js or librewolf
If you need chrome-based, brave or ungoogled-chromium

>>108339076
>How's KDE a default choice when using Arch?
It's the default selected option in the CachyOS installer, I don't think this needs to be explained

>>108337657
ok ive attempted flashing this twice and both times the router just restarted into openwrt again
i guess i need to do a hard reset to factory some other way

i think the physical button in the router could do that and load firmware from some ROM inside?

>>108338913
Librewolf, Vivaldi if I need chromium for whatever reason. I used waterfox for a while but I didn't really see the difference between it and any of the other forks.

should i make gentoo my daily driver
would i get my dick sucked at the screenfetch threads

>there's a debian flavored gaymer distro now
Forgive me anons for I am going to sin today

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>>108339256
Sure if you can tolerate the coompiling.
>>108338619
>zram is only useful as a stopgap so momentary allocation spikes don't make your OOM killer service start regulating
Swap in general is only useful as a stopgap.

lads, did mesa 26 fuck everything up for you too? Like sudden reboots and shit
AMD hardware

Why I cant turn off vsync i feel like it's always on + one of the updates, roughly a year ago, affected my performance by 1% after updating from vulkan's mesa device select to implicit layers (don't remember which version the change to implicit was) ever since 'that update' it never was the same and i definitely noticed in some game (UE5 game) and in that specific location i got 72-73 fps normally now it's 67-70 and unstable. I tried revert back to device select in that time but now the damage has been done so now it's constantly showing 66-70 fps even after reverting to device select, it can go even lower. Did that shitty update overlapped with device select somehow?

Or is it something to do with my PC build? I recently built a PC with an AM5 motherboard and a Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU, using an RX9070XT graphics card. I set the RAM to XMP profile via UEFI. It doesn't have amd's EXPO. Does it affect my gaming performance or it doesn't matter? I did buy this ram before the ram apocalypse or the update fucked with my OS, could be both. I am using Cachyos

>>108339327
There are batch processing workloads where you use swap all the time.

>>108339169
i don't have any specific advice for you. i've flashed openwrt on a few devices but never have i even considered going back to stock firmware. you'd have to check the page for your device on the openwrt website.

How do you remap keys for certain processes? Say you want to remap capslock to shift or crl for game x, is there a way to do it without a while loop running in the background?

>>108338711
It's objectively better if you're going to need physical swap, but 99.9% of people just want a tiny amount of overflow space.

>>108339501
my retarded solution would be to write a little script to swap the keys, launch the game, then swap them back when the game closes. It would stay swapped even when you alt-tabbed out of the game though
I used to swap keys with a tool called xmodmap

Arch on Thinkpad x1 nano gen 1. Using headphones, audio scales fine. When using built in speakers, it's either 0 (no volume) or 1 (100% volume). Setting volume to 1 or scaling it to 50 or 100, it all has the same decibel of output. Is this is a known issue on this laptop, or is it fixable?

>>108339689
yet another user having problems with audio in arch
meme distro, gentoo works better.

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>>108339689
run alsamixer and see if there are other channels you can adjust, i have a speaker that the normal control controls the PCM but it doesn't do anything. I have to control PCM 1 to actually adjust the volume but every app just controls PCM

>>108339321
PikaOS?

>>108338913
Icecat.

>>108338913
Pale Moon

>>108338913
>Firefox for 4chan and general browsing
>Brave for youtube, streaming or when FF shits the floor
>Chromium for work stuff
It's simpler than it looks.

>>108340066
thanks daddy

>>108339730
Fixed. Used this random thread that had the same issue, then set PCM to max in alsamixer. Now volume scaling works. Thanks.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310368

Linux is the best. Every day I wake up and look at my Linux desktop and have a big smile on my face.

>>108340292
lovely

>>108339256
if you're unironically considering it, I would consider NixOS instead

>>108339398
all good for me, 7900XTX
I did have one weird issue where after rebooting SDDM just gave me a black screen but restarting the service from TTY fixed it and it didn't happen again on subsequent reboots

>>108340449
I'm sure that'll definitely help with his dick sucking situation. You might even find a "girl" to do it.

Hey guys, new here, do you think any linux version will work at its best with Blender and graphic design software

>>108339256
guix or nix are the new gentoo

>>108340483
What are you asking

is there a way I can replicate 7-Zip's "Extract to *\" context menu option in KDE/Dolphin? Neither "Extract here" or "Extract to..." put the contents of each archive I've highlighted into their own autonamed folder.

>>108340561
You can make your own service menu that calls whatever the 7zip command is to do that.

Can anyone tell me why my system crashes when I try to install the xf86-video-ati driver?
Using TinyCoreLinux with a Radeon X1650 Pro, and yes, I installed the firmware-radeon package.

>>108340561
idk unar does that by default
stop being guicuck

>wifi adapter plugged into USB2 port keeps failing when used for operations like transferring large files
>dmesg shows horrifying terms like "kernel bug"
>buy a different wifi adapter to see if it's the adapter or something else
>have to manually install drivers for it with dkms, sure, whatever
>same issue happens
>installation instructions for the driver had me copy a file into /etc/modprobe.d/
>one of the lines in that file can be edited to prevent mode switching from USB2 to USB3
>perform that edit
>issue no longer occurs
So it looks like the issue is that the device or the port or whatever doesn't realize that it's not capable of USB3, so it tries to switch to USB3 and crashes horribly. Is there a general way to force Linux to only treat a port as USB2? I have a USB3 device plugged into a USB3 port, so I don't want to disable USB3 completely, just for that port.

>>108332151
I really don't want to use Artix but I fear all the normalfaggot distros will fold.

All it really takes, all that really needs to happen for this to become normalized, is for SystemD to fold. It folds, then Linux as a whole has it. I'm sure Red Hat is aware of that.

>>108340948
Stop buying Realtek shit.
https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi/blob/main/home/USB_WiFi_Adapters_that_are_supported_with_Linux_in-kernel_drivers.md

>>108341014
Oh, thanks. The USB wifi adapter that I'm having trouble with is from that list, actually! How can I prevent the Fenvi FU-AX1800 from trying to switch to USB3 mode?

The adapter that I'm no longer having trouble with is some tp-link ac600 tiny form factor thing, just because of that handy dandy line option in the modprobe.d file included with the driver that prevents it from switching to USB3 mode.

>>108340923
Ark can do it with the -ba switch. I just want a way to call that from the context menu. I'll see if I can add an entry for it like >>108340781 says.

>>108340472
it's my piece of shit PSU acting up again then
I have to get a new one

>>108338913
Abrowser

>>108338913
Google Chrome

I want a VPS that won't cuck out to verification laws but can run wireguard. Any suggestions?

>>108341544
what kind of vps can't into wireguard?

>>108341544
Then you want something offshore or hosted in a country unfriendly to the US like Russia.

>>108338913
Firefox as main browser. Mullvad browser for sites/searches that make my tinfoil hat itch. Ungoogled Chromium set to bypass VPN for when I need good boy status or for the 1 site out of 10000 that somehow managed to be coded so badly you need Chromium based specifically.

Man symlinks are one of those things that when you start using them you wonder how come you weren't always using them. I feel like a retard for trying to painstakingly figure out how to make an app write its data in a particular folder in the past when I could have just made a symlink.

I have a peculiar issue I had to hard reboot my system the other day and now when I log in, KDE is frozen for a good minute. I suspect something corrupted but I don't know what. Tried creating a new user and it persists, checked logs and I don't see errors.

>>108338913
You can get Google Chrome on deb/rpm based distros

isn't it kinda crazy how we can just install stuff on our computers
like that's crazy to me

>>108341845
back in my day ya had to type it in by hand

>>108341845
but also stuff you shouldn't because it's bad

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>>108341845
It's just data

>>108341906
>some combinations of 1s and 0s are illegal

>>108341906
>it's just electrons being quantum tunneled into cells
do you even hear yourself talk? this is fucking MAGIC

>>108341951
gaslighting sand to solve our problems

>>108341845
Enjoy it while it lasts

are kde themes still allowed to execute arbitrary code? there was a big scandal about this 2 years ago

>>108338531
>After trying CachyOS briefly from the usb and installing some ML and AI dev tooling I found out Debian or Ubuntu base is basically required since most frameworks and runtimes provide debian packages or publish to apt. And I don't want to run everything in containers because of the local performance hit.
wtf kind of ML dev are you doing that involves installing debs? You're using the fucking system python? jesus.
For the sake of your own sanity and anyone who has to work with your project, use uv and keep shit in your home directory far away from system packages. Conda if you hate yourself and/or have to deal with legacy shit. Only thing you should be installing from packages is drivers and cuda.

>>108342026
Indeed CUDA or CUDNN you absolute pleb. I use poetry mostly (uv not production ready yet, for personal projects I use it). DRIVERS AND CUDA TOOLKIT IS THE FIRST THING I NEED FOR PYTORCH NIGGER

>>108342026
Every distro has cuda retard, you don't need mint for that.

>>108342103
meant for >>108342067
although now that I think about it, maybe it's difficult to get on distros with freetard autism like Fedora. And I guess if your project is so fucked that it HAS to run on old cuda/drivers, and Mint happens to have them, then sure. But it's a shitty position to be in desu

>>108337488
5090 on Windows is slower than 7900XTX on Linux and 5090 on Linux should be worse than Windows.

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>>108342134
For arch there are no official nvidia drivers or cuda distribution. The official packaging matters for supply chain and org procedures. In fact the AUR CUDA version is one minor version release behind the official distros. And indeed it can happen you inherit a legacy project but rarely.

>>108342134
>>108342192
I want Arch to work for out for me, but right now it doesn't mayne

Is Omarchy any good? Gaming? OBS? Kdenlive? Scripting?

>>108342242
>Is Omarchy any good?
I don't know, but if it's just an Arch rebrand then yes
>Gaming?
I like gaming.
>OBS?
It is popular for video game streamers to use, I don't personally use it
>Kdenlive
It's not very good unless it has improved a lot since I last used it
>Scripting?
I enjoy scripting, it is good.

>>108342192
>AUR CUDA
You don't need the AUR dude
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/cuda/
But I guess if you have to use the official one, there's nothing to be done. Although if a place is that anal I thought they would be on RHEL or something and not Arch or Mint.

>>108340483
Depends on what kind of program you need.
Pretty much everything will work with Blender, Krita and Inkscape plus anything else that's native. If you need windows-only software it's more hit or miss, some things like Affinity, Photoshop 2021, and CSP generally work well these days through Wine (or wrappers like Bottles) but most other things are still a gamble.

>>108331434
>page last modified in 2018
>beaucoup casino links

>>108342955
I, for one, appreciated the links to casinos so I can earn money.

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>>108330060
>mom can we have ubuntu
>no son we have ubuntu at home
>ubuntu at home:

>>108343201
I was wondering if KDE could be riced to be like Unity.

>>108343265
it can be riced how u like

>>108343265
Plasma is surprisingly customizable for being a DE, another anon's made it into an almost pixel perfect windows 7 https://gitgud.io/aeroshell/atp/aerothemeplasma

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Separating home and root means I can just distrohop with ease, right?

>>108343613
It means that every time you distrohop your /home will always be there.

>>108341661
>have a drive mounted at /mnt/drive
>want some system stuff stored in there (/usr/local, /usr/src, /var/lib/bluetooth and what have you)
>symlink it
>at some point your distro's "filesystem" package upgrades on an update
>update fails because of those symlinks
Always better to configure your software for alternative locations instead.
>>108343613
It gets even easier when you create two system partitions so you don't even need installers.
>home
Make it a general purpose filesystem instead of /home and mount it somewhere under /mnt.

New thread: >>108343947

>>108343634
>want some system stuff stored in there (/usr/local, /usr/src, /var/lib/bluetooth and what have you)
for this you should (bind) mount alternative locations to them
anything in your home folder as far as i'm aware is safe to use symlinks for

>>108338757
>automatically assuming that people are using KDE is stupid
Are you retarded? He is using CachyOS where KDE is the default DE.

>>108344469
Yeah, nobody has ever changed any of the defaults on Linux. All the desktop threads full of all the different looking desktops are all independent distributions that just ship like that out of the box.