>>108446898
Linus met with Bill Gates after it was known Gates was an Epstein associate.

>>108446898
linus jacks it to loli. dunno which is worse.

>>108446866
and you can suck on my balls.

>>108446919
but is he friends with him?
>>108446921
real children are definitely worse.
>>108446926
even the pcbg retards can link to new threads even if they have three right now. why are fglt retards so stupid?

>>108446926
You'd love to have a man suck on your balls wouldn't you?

>>108446934
>oh no i have to find a thread in a mountain of AI and tranime threads, what ever will i do?
>search and filter? nah that's for trannies

>>108446921
Raping actual people is worse, in case you needed that spelled out for you.

>>108446669
Getting this thread back on track with complaining that I updated to Noble 11 only to find out that wine hasn't moved to wine 11 yet, what do?

>>108447103
make from source.
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine

you do know how to build software, correct anon? you're not a retarded shitter arch user, are you?

>>108447103
Go back to windows

installing gentoo only used ubuntu before

>>108447136
Good luck fren, see you tomorrow

>>108447146
thanks anon

>>108447065
you are worse than the monkeys in the pcbg thread. you are on par with the desktop, battle station and keyboard niggers.

>>108447103
I fixed the problem with "sudo apt --fix-broken install" like the terminal suggests right after asking this question and it fixed it.
>>108447125
I'm good until Noble 12
>>108447131
its against the law to be rude here

lol pengu go boop

Just wanted to share my linux win of the day
(warning I'm a retard)
>buy two new identical external HDDs to match one I already had
>they get randomly mounted different locations on restart
>fuck okay time to edit fstab
>manage to get the entries right right away
>oh fuck now I need to unmount and remount
>GUI not working to unmount
>manage to nail the umounts and mount -a the first time
>everything works perfectly now
I was fully expecting this to take all night so I'm really stoked.

>>108448291
Congrats, anon!

openSUSE slowroll or latest Ubuntu?

give it to me straight, is there any hope for the new Nvidia drivers to fix DX12 performance? I'm trying to weigh between a 9070 XT or a 5070 Ti

>>108448520
>SUSE mentioned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLdexZlVkAY
obligatory

>>108448541
Didn't nvidia open up their hardware to generic drivers or to linux driver devs recently or am I just retarded?

>>108448545
Honestly this is both so cringe and so based at the same time that I'm really considering using suse. Props to the fat, probably gay, dude though. If you're gonna be cringe, go hard or go home.

>>108448551
Some parts have been open sourced but there is still a lot of proprietary crap, some of which has been pushed to a co-processor on the newer Nvidia cards

>>108448551
No. They tried to get the kernel devs to take over maintaining an open source shim for their proprietary driver and got shot down immediately.

>>108448541
It'll only be fixed for next gen cards like every other nVidia problem.

>>108448580
It sounds a lot like I should go for a 9070 XT then, path tracing is neat but the only games using it are movieslop

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If it's not possible or a colossal pain in the ass that's ok, I can just say these laptops are as-is with a link to a suggestion box of software to add and handle them as they come but I'd prefer to need as little intervention as possible.

>>108448697
>"They are trying to make me learn stuff that I don't care about!"
>"I just want to be a shithead!"
>"I'm le artiste!"
>can't use a saw
sigh...

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>>108448697
fucked my post up, basically can I mimic Faronics Deep Freeze on Linux (user has admin, changes wiped on reboot, password to unlock and update/modify)?
My next up to test is fsprotect (or alike overlayfs/aufs with root protection), but I'd really like to use low spec "e-waste" machines so RAM and swap may be limited.
The fallback is to send them as regular user with at-request software additions but then my life gets a little harder maintaining them.

>>108447136
I keep waffling on gentoo. I want to try a non systemd setup and gentoo's philosophy seems the most resilient against encroaching surveillance and ID laws making it a no brainer in that regard. My arch install eventually just broke over time, issues cropping up and as I'd try to fix one thing something else would inevitably break. Gentoo is similarly piece mealed together and I have a feeling I'd eventually just break it.

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Is there something mild about Linux or the ecosystem that bugs you out a little despiste being frankly irrelevant? I.e. Konsole is a nice terminal emulator, but i kinda hate that it has a built-in split view mode, always gets in the way when i wanna learn to use Tmux. Is also, as far as i know, fairly coupled with Plasma so if you replace it with something else you can find odd bugs here and there.
Also for a serious question, i wonder if you can run this thing on Wine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPFvo19L400
>inb4 is bloated dogshit
You don't understand my autism, if i gonna shit on something i HAVE to get a hate attachment to it, otherwise it'll just feel pointless.
>>108447176
Wtf is even Noble 11 some codename for Ubuntu intermin releases or something?

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Use case for GNOME?

>>108448917
I renember seeing a Plasma rice that made it have a similar layout to WindowMaker, being this customizable is cool, too bad for the random bugs.

>>108448917
less bugs

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Should I try PikaOS or stick with Debian 13? Just looking to try a new flavor, or any cool Debian flavored would be nice.

>>108449005
This.
Something about KDE feels like a restaurant that invested heavily in interior design and branding but their food is terrible.

>>108449024
Pika seems cool honestly.

>>108448917
>>108449035
>using a DE at all an not a CLI with a DE emulator

>>108448917
>use case for GNOME
You're new to Linux and have an apple background in computing. Other than that no one else will take you seriously unless you rice the shit out of it.

>>108449024
I like how they called it PikaOS but then use a budgie that has Pikachu coloration.

>>108448545
Are there other Linux OSes that make songs or is it just the silly chameleon company that does this?

>>108449024
Who's running this thing? I don't trust these small projects to not pull the rug when out of funding desu.

>>108449035
i wish there was a no nonsense version of kde without all the bullshit it ships with a neutral "profesional" "native" theme and good defaults. i'm going to keep using gnome until there is a consistent version of kde that isn't full of bugs.

>>108449145
>Download OS
>never update if your that paranoid about the creator more than viruses or w/e
>problem solved.

PikaOS. Then tell me how you like it so I can decide if I want to use that over Arch or not. :^) I've installed it once, because it doesn't like VMs, and it does seem more or less of a "first" distro just based on how the installation process is. Even manual partitioning has a bit of handholding to it. Which isn't a bad thing, because despite the amount of times I've done it I still fuck it up sometimes. And then they have their own package manager, but you can still use apt.
I mostly want to use it as I've mostly used Debian flavored distros, and it does look like a more just works sorta distro. The wallpapers are nice too. I also want to give that hyprland DE a try.

>>108449115
I think one of the guys that started it has one like that he named Pika.

>>108449158
Fuck me, somehow deleted the link. >>108449024

>>108449155
What's the point over Debian Stable if i'm never going to update it anyways? I don't mind the distro but since Sabayon i've been wary of smaller projects.

>>108449145
I wouldn't worry unless its super new and the linux autists didn't have time to pursue the code, generally the community is autistically good at gatekeeping spyware out of the ecosystem, sure stuff slips through the cracks, but generally the Eye of Autism will reveal them.

>>108449158
Pika is basically Nobara if it used Debian Unstable as a base instead of Fedora. So you get the clean responsive feeling of Debian but with modern up-to-date packages optimized with shit like AVX2, LTO and O3, and has a similar kernel to the CachyOS one.

Accidentally canceled in the middle of pacman -Syu yesterday and lost my kernels in /boot. Woke up and took me 1-2 hours ot get it back to normal. I fucking LOVE timeshift. Thanks for reading my blog.

>>108449300
would have been faster to have /home on a different partition and just reinstall arch

>>108449305
Well I'm a retarded nigger so don't expect much from me.

>>108449311
nah DW I'm not going to diss you or anything, I'm just pointing it out as an option not a whole lot of people are aware of

>>108446921
so we're just saying shit now I guess
katie from KDE is my girlfriend, konqi says its okay

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still no linux benchmarks btw

>>108449389
He did do some though?
The problem with Steve doing Linux benchmarks is he's an uber autist that's a perfectionist and has all these quality controls he needs to account for to make sure the data is accurate and that's difficult on Linux.

I bet he's probably refining his processes still in the background. In the meantime look to people like Phoronix or Level1, etc.

To be honest, I think Wendell putting Steve on Bazzite was a mistake. I understand the logic being his audience members might be better off with it but for Steve and all of his quality controls I honestly think he'd be better off using something like CachyOS or maybe even build his own in-house distro based on Gentoo or something (that way he'd have full control over everything).

>>108448291
I'll share my Linux win of the week
I managed to get my buddy to migrate from Windows 11 to Linux, his idea not mine. I made him download Bazzite, Cachy, and Nobara (he already had Linux Mint). For some reason Bazzite and Nobara wouldn't boot, probably a ventoy issue. Luckily Cachy worked. I was a bit hesitant for him to use an Arch based distro and seems most everything is smooth for him. I've been learning Arch and the AUR as a Linux Mint user (I've installed Arch on a seperate drive) and helping this dude with stuff and its going a lot smoother than I thought. The only issue he has is with Oblivion Remastered getting laggy at times. For some reason when he's connected via ethernet, the connection drops but somehow wifi still works, which is a win in my book. I have to tell him not to use Brave Leo AI to help him for reference though. But overall, his gaming experience is great, battery life has improved, and he's finally getting Linux.

>>108448903
you can edit Konsole so that it only shows the title bar and the terminal, no extra bloated tab options

>>108446921
proof?

>>108449440
i think one of the reasons wendell recommended bazzite was because they micromanage their distro a bit. at least when it comes to the kernel, mesa, and the amd firmware all getting lined up before they get updated. i heard that weirdness happens if you don't do this. i know that other distros do this too and it's nothing special but an image based distro that everyone can just use is ideal for someone like him. they aren't running stripped down windows installs for benchmarks. they just pause windows update but someone like ltt debloats his installs and disables transparency for his testing.

>>108449476
>i think one of the reasons wendell recommended bazzite was because they micromanage their distro a bit. at least when it comes to the kernel, mesa, and the amd firmware all getting lined up before they get updated
Yeah, that sort of thing is good for his audience members but Steve doesn't really need that. He's the kind of person that would have no issue putting internal processes in place to fetch the latest linux-firmware-git or re-compile Mesa, etc. It's just a matter of finding the right process for testing and documenting it all and making it reproducible.

Anyone had issues with Fedora 43 dimming your screen while you're actively using the PC?
I was playing ZZZ with my controller and it started dimming my screen after every 5 mins as if it thought I was idle

>>108449510
What desktop? Sounds like its not interpreting controller button presses as mouse movement so it thinks you're inactive as you're not using the keyboard or mouse.

>>108449571
wayland, I tried vibedebugging with claude it reached the conclusion that it's likely some bug with the latest version of mutter, as I just updated it yesterday and coincidentally its when the bug started happening. It's either that or RPCS3 changed something about how my controller is detected since I also installed that yesterday but I find that one more difficult to believe. Anyways I tried checking the mutter gitlab for anyone with similar issues but couldn't find any recent at least. So not sure whats going on

>>108449596
Probably just best to display the screen dimming / locking altogether. I never found it useful on a desktop because I habitually lock the screen manually when I get up anyway.

>>108449608
*disable it

>>108449608
I guess thats true, but its just annoying when shit is working one day and the next it isn't and you have no clue what happened

>>108449571
>Sounds like its not interpreting controller button presses as mouse movemen
That's what it is, and this made me disable that feature long, long ago. Same shit happens when watching videos, so even if the controller issue could be fixed there's still situations where you use the pc without movements.

>>108449510
Sounds like your program isn't setting idle inhibit correctly. You can wrap it with gamemode, gnome-session-inhibit, kde-inhibit, ... The compositor only watches the keyboard and mouse for idle timing.

>>108449682
yup gamemode fixed it, the launcher had a gamemode option that was off for some reason, still curious why it worked all these months without it but its fixed now

>>108449708
rpcs3 or whatever you're using fucked something up on their end.

>>108449769
dont think its possible RPCS3 did anything, its an appimage and I didnt do anything outside of RPCS3 or ran it with any priviledges at all, doubt it can do any changes to the system. Also ZZZ isn't running through RPCS3

>>108449822
Whatever program you're using that takes gamepad input is responsible for setting idle inhibit.

is there a bug with Wayland, HDR, and full screen apps? whenever I set my browser or mpv to full screen it looks washed out (arch, amd GPU)

just had my btrfs drive go read-only after some heavy torrenting, never had this happen before because I used to use a ramdisk to download but this was a fresh machine where I didn't set that up yet.
I sorted it by doing
sudo btrfs check --init-extent-tree /dev/sda2
but what kind of maintenance type shit can I do to catch these things early?

>>108449943
Works fine for me. Are you using gpu-next in Mpv with --hdr-compute-peak=yes?

>>108450167
Check S.M.A.R.T stats on the drive. This probably happened because of one of two reasons, you ran out of disk space (BTRFS locks the drive read-only for protection when that happens, you can normally fix that by rebooting into a minimal environment or recovery environment and freeing up disk space) or actual hardware corruption occurred (check S.M.A.R.T stats, your drive could be dying)

>>108450196
i did try smartctl but it didn't tell me anything severe had taken place. other than torrenting, the other thing i probably fucked up on was a hard power-off because this shit cunt NUC has weird power modes where it just remains on even if i power it off. only time it hard powers off is if i put it into low power mode (in the BIOS) but that causes other shit.

>>108450215
That could do it if some data ended up corrupting when that happened. Force-mounting the drive read-only might seem extreme but BTRFS really doesn't have another way to shout loudly at you and say "Hey, something went seriously wrong with your data. Integrity isn't guaranteed anymore".

>>108450167
in general, you should set extended attribute +C (no cow) on the torrents directory

chattr +C torrents
lsattr

>>108450252
That will disable checksums if you do that. Shouldn't be an issue if you have a dedicated torrents folder like that, your client will verify the integrity of the data anyway but if you just download to ~/Downloads, etc, then it's probably a bad idea to turn them off.

>>108450261
You have way less problems with fragmentation if you use a separate nocow incoming directory and have your client move it to a regular directory on completion.

>>108450305
that's kind of what I was doing with the ramdisk copy

should I install the distribution kernel or do manual configuration?

>>108448801
LVM snapshots. At every boot, delete the previous snapshot and take a new snapshot. I would do this with an initrd script.
Snapshots don't use any extra memory, consuming disk space instead.

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Is it feasible to use Konqueror as a web browser in the year 2026?

>>108450414
Yes, if you hate yourself. Modern Konqueror uses Qt Webengine and not the old KHTML (ironically, it was Chromium that came from KHTML and now KDE using it in the form of Qt Webengine, they've come full circle)

>>108446669
>can no longer switch ttys with fkeys
>can no longer change sessions in display manager (uses fkey shortcuts)
>troubleshoot for hours
>turns out pressing fn+esc switches your keyboard layout and fkeys no longer work
>somehow, this didnt show up anywhere in my searches, found out about it in a random google gemini response

Anyone else have computer fatigue?

>>108450549
>i took hours to troubleshoot a basic issue
happens to all of us. fkeys being toggeable is very common with laptop keyboards.

why do people make a big deal about indians being involved with linux development?
first of all, aren't indians involved with MOST tech development nowadays?
secondly, is there something inherently wrong with indians? it doesn't seem to me like there are, they seem fine. it's not like they're scraping homeless people out of the mud pits of calcutta or something to start working on arch or whatever.
t. white person from the US who has literally only ever seen two first-generation indian immigrants in person and does not know what indians are like

>>108450641
>why do people make a big deal about indians being involved with linux development?
The couple of hundred racists on 4chan aren't a representation of all people in the world. Nobody cares about people being indian aside from women since they find them visually repulsive.

>>108450641
>>108450941
I can tell you guys never worked with indians before. Anyone who had to work in an international tech company has worked with indians and ends up being racist towards indians, even your average normie coworker

>>108451021
I currently work with an Indian and she's fine. Not the best or brightest but then again, very few are in my cozy as fuck company.

>"linux is better than windows you can configure everything to your liking!"
>ok can i make middle mouse button click to auto-scroll?
>"no fuck you that's a windows feature give it up retard."

>>108451120
what? you absolutely can

>>108448823
try it anyways don't let them win

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>>108451120
skill issue

>>108450641
>it's not like they're scraping homeless people out of the mud pits of calcutta or something
They kind of are if you're dealing with firms in country.

>>108451118
...and there's one very nice black family in my neighborhood, but I'm not looking to move to a black neighborhood.

>>108450641
Calibre was made by an Indian guy and it's a good program. 4chan racists will seethe of course

>>108451216
>Calibre was made by an Indian guy
I use Calibre, but that explains a lot.

Recommend a way for me to play midi files on Linux, and no I want something other than VLC.

>>108451147
how about outside of firefox?

>>108451256
just plain fluidsynth in the terminal

>seriously considering Gentoo with OpenRC now
am I being too paranoid?

>>108451317
are there really no GUI options for playing midi files?

>>108451364
Audacious or whatever. Lots of music players handle midi.

>>108451364
Deadbeef can play them, VLC can too (but you don't want that.)

>>108451120
anon it's really hard to not call you a retard when you're acting all retarded like that
I will admit that it should be the default option everywhere though

>>108449305
Not that anon but I actually got curious, what are the disadvantages of making /home part of another partition?
Most distro installers say that just putting it together with every other system file in the same partition is recommended, as if implying that there is a drawback to mounting /home in a separate partition.
What are the drawbacks? are there even cons to doing it other than "oh it's not the SIMPLEST and you will have to fiddle a bit with fstab"?

>>108450641
We are in times of political extremism and the /pol/ quarantine failed.
Don't get me wrong, I'm xenophobic myself and >>108451021 isn't lying. The issue is that said anon is more traumatized than a 60's battered housewife.
It's a bit of a convoluted explanation but buckle in.
Basically indians know damn well that the wages on their country are abysmal dogshit so they are very much interested on working for foreigners which sling pocket change that feels like god bars to them.
The issue is that IT workers in india tend to lie fucking hard when applying to remote jobs, "selling yourself" and bartering is a thing in there, so they legitimately think that charisma can make up for their lack of actual, technical knowledge and soft skills.
So you'll get middle or sometimes even upper management which just see the reality that they can pay cents to this dudes and they inmediately get them onboard thinking that the low as fuck costs must definitively outweight any kind of internal friction involved.
Thing is, they barely know the language and their code is shit, because who fucking cares about consequences when you literally live on the other side of the world where law almost doesn't exists.
The hatred is such that people legit schizophrenically think that they are guilty of everything, despite the fact that they forget that their presence was ultimately allowed and encouraged by useless cheapskates that haven't touched code in fucking decades, among other crippling fumbles.

>>108451120
???

>>108446669
Is the radeon rx 9xxx series on linux still broken?

>>108451614
Only if you don't use a rolling or semi-rolling distro like Arch or Fedora. The problems have pretty much been fixed now.

>>108451318
I think everyone has been checking on alternatives lately so I won't call you paranoid. Jumping the gun without any confirmation is dumb though.

>Drive 1 = Windows OS
>Drive 2 = Linux OS
>Drive 3 = Shared storage (Partition 1 = EXT4 for Linux, Partition 2 = NTFS for Windows)
>Drive 4 = External USB Drive (EXT4) (Backup)
Drive 3 has some bad sectors according to linux but says the disk is okay. I ran a check on the ext4 and NTFS partitions in linux, and then did a check on windows for the NTFS partition. On linux, it said there was no damage, but the description still says there's some bad sectors despite being okay. On Windows, it said it repaired the errors and the drive is healthy and undamaged.

I plan on backing up Drive 3's files to Drive 4 and then wipe Drive 3. Will it be okay to do whatever checks/repairs are needed after the wipe? And should I format it in ext4 and then do an additional check/repair, or can I go straight to creating the NTFS and ext4 partitions and reusing the drive as storage again (if there aren't any new errors)?

Drive 3 is an HDD, I don't hear any clicks and it seemed to be working fine. I just happened to run the check because I wanted to reformat and resize the partitions but figured I should check it first. Wonder if I should just keep it as ext4 to make troubleshooting/maintenance easier in linux. I don't really use windows much anymore outside of certain games.

>>108451686
Do you have to do anything special on Fedora or does 43 work with the RX 9000 cards out of the box?

>>108452388
The latest version of Fedora has the kernel and Mesa versions that make them not act shitty anymore.

>>108446669
What filesystem or setup should i be using on an ssd if my goal is to prevent it from going dead with as little write cycles as possible. The ssd is soldered onto the motherboard so replacing it is not possible.

>>108452642
ext4 for maturity and stability, f2fs for a younger filesystem made with NAND flash memory in mind. Use options like noatime in your fstab, or options like commit=60 to make it only write changes to the disk every minute instead of every five seconds. Have your /tmp, /var/tmp and /var/log as tmpfs so those writes go to RAM instead of your SSD. Make sure you use zram for swap if you want that, plus remember to enable the weekly TRIM service.

>>108452642
F2FS. Or Btrfs since it's cow.

>>108452642
xfs because CoW data without the overhead of btrfs. Honorable mention to btrfs if you want to spend a whole bunch of CPU time gambling on compression.

>>108452692
>>108452954
>f2fs
Mobile vendor slop. No consistent performance improvement over ext4 or xfs, can't use the space saved by compression, no CoW, always breaking backward compatibility.

>>108453049
Isn't CoW writing metadata going to reduce the lifespan quicker? The idea was to have as little writes as possible.

>>108453354
Data is generally larger than metadata. If you elide whole file copies into metadata updates it's a large net savings. xfs doesn't have large metadata like btrfs either. It's ext4 but file copies within the same filesystem are reduced to metadata updates.

>>108453049
>Mobile vendor slop
Seems really good considering I never had a mobile phone's storage die on me and I repurpose all my old phones into various types of servers.

>>108453544
It works great until you start doing kernel updates.

>>108453631
>muh updoots
just don't update if everything works?

>>108451480
general drawback of partitioning your system is running out of space on one of them while still having space on another.

>>108453706
Why not just use a reasonable filesystem that doesn't place bizarre constraints on you? Especially when there's zero benefit to the alternative.

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is there any option for htop to show short-lived processes? something spawns a lot of processes given how quickly PID numbers grow and I would like to catch whatever that is, how can I do it?
as far as I know top,htop and the like simply read /proc so if a process starts ans exits within one scan period it will not be reported

i have this weird problem where some gifs loop and some gifs don't on arch linux, it happens in my image viewer (ristretto) and discord

>>108455933

gif might have run once feature i do not remember that good

Anyone here use Void on an nvidia gaming PC? If so what is your experience?

I have been messing around with Artix and Void on my laptop and I have decided to stick with Void as it was a much smoother experience and I just really like it I know Artix is "based" and Void is "trooned" but I am not interested in politics or any nonsense like that I am just trying to escape systemd.

>>108449187
Who cares about backdoors when big corp has them backed in the kernel anyways, I care about maintaining, what guarantee do I have that Pika OS servers won't die tomorrow cuz the 2 autists running it died in a crash or couldn't keep paying the bills and now I'm stuck with a dead system I can't upgrade?

Am I getting this right?

For btrfs snapshots to have the right kernel you either need /boot on btrfs root partition, which if root is encrypted, means you need unencrypted bootloader in /efi partition with decryption capabilities, which as far as I know, is currently only grub (and apparently canonical wants to remove that capability?). Or you script something to backup old kernels and initramfs to /boot, create a bootloader entry, and select the right kernel for your snapshot. But then you have to make sure /boot doesn't run out of space with too many snapshots, and its a bit clunkier overall.

FAT-fs (sda1): codepage cp437 not found

Trimmed my kernel down like a retard, how would one figure out beforehand which codepages are needed?
>>108447136
It's a nice skill to have, you can install any distro like that. Also having a custom kernel to serve a particular hardware is nice (and it's distro agnostic too)
If you ever hop back to Ubuntu at least use the custom kernel you made and Debootstrap the Ubuntu system: https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap
>>108448823
You can piece meal any distribution desu.
>>108453631
Extra info? IIRC I did my F2FS root when I had 6.12, now at 6.18 and works.
>>108451318
I don't get it.

>>108456068
is there a way to make it so every gif automatically loops regardless of the program?

>>108456196
It's pretty easy to play games on a Void install. Just activate the non-free and 32-bit repos and install nvidia-dkms.

>>108456239
>Extra info? IIRC I did my F2FS root when I had 6.12, now at 6.18 and works.
key concept backward compatibility

>>108456403
Okay nice, I'm gonna install it on my gaming pc then.

>>108449120
https://youtu.be/QSdRTOh2jeA

>>108456232
Just keep the last 3 kernels on /boot + grub menu like any sane distro and you won't have problems.

>>108456705
You wouldn't be able to boot into any snapshot that used an older kernel than those 3, but I guess theres not much usecase for that

In i3, is it possible to bind workspaces to specific displays? At least on startup?
If not, please recommend me a tiling wm that can do this

>>108457900
awesomewm can do that.

>>108457900
Just find the names of your monitors through xrandr and then add some "workspace" commands within i3's config file.
>workspace 1 output (your main monitor name)
>workspace 2 output (your secondary monitor name)
etc etc.

>>108446669
>age verification
>systemd
>attestation in a few years
Nice freedom you’ve got there, retards

what options do you use with reflector?

>>108457959
Ten latest fastest HTTPS mirrors from my country and surrounding.

>>108457948
the one's with freedom are offline PC gods

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I have three (stupid) questions:

1. Why can't anyone make like a normie version of Linux that would appeal to a broad audience? How hard can it be? People are getting tired of MSFT bullshit and shovelware AI bloat.


2. Why is so little software (games especially) compatible with Linux? Is it simply because Windows has always been so dominant that it was pointless investing in a platform with very little users? Like Square Enix or Rockstar don't want to commit the ressources to making a version for a platform used by like <1% of the users?


3. If one were to start using Linux as a pet project, how do you even get started? Are there any special CPU architecture requirements or can you straight up just build a PC and run Linux on it? Are there any shit with like BIOS or anything you need to worry about since everything is so default windows focused?


I wouldn't mind having a dedicated AI-free and spyware-free Linux PC just to try it out. But if you simply end up with third grade stoneage tools (wordprocessing from the 90s, fucking GIMP that can't draw a circle) what's the point.

>>108458093
You sound retarded so you should probably stick with windows

>>108458120
Oh my bad I thought I clicked on the friendly linux thread, not the rude one.

>>108458093
1. Multiple exist. Linux mint, Bazzite, ubuntu, blueifn are all very easy to use.

2. Kind of. Linux has always been a niche platform up until the release of the steam deck. Bazzite absolutely mogs windows for gaming now though as valve began investing in translation layers for native windows games and it will continue to do so in the future. Bazzite actually outperforms windows for fps in games for the most part.

3. you install a distro just like you'd install windows if you are using an easier distro like linux mint.
>use rufus to boot iso from usb stick
>boot and go through installation set up
>it just werks

Basically, get bazzite if you game on your pc, get linux mint if you dont game as much and you just want something for browsing and doing normie computer shit.

>>108458132
>Bazzite absolutely mogs windows for gaming now
lol

>>108458132
>3. you install a distro just like you'd install windows if you are using an easier distro like linux mint.

So zero special requiments to actual CPUs / architecture or whatever?
I might have to try this at some point.

>>108457910
>>108457929
thanks

>>108458138
the only problem is anticheat garbage. If you pirate everything ( you should) then bazzite mogs. It equals and sometimes outperforms windows most of the time. Its a mixed bag but the trajectory is only gonna be upwards in comparison to window 11, which is actively getting worse performance in games every update.

>>108458093
>1. normie version of Linux that would appeal to a broad audience
This already exists and it's called Universal Blue. You simply have to pick between KDE (Aurora), GNOME (Bluefin) or "I'm a gamer" (Bazzite).
>2. Why is so little software compatible
Most software people use is Linux-compatible, the only exceptions being some corpo software. The reason why Windows appears to have more software is because most Windows software is unnecessary slopware. There's no need for 50 different driver manager or debloating tools on Linux. And there's no reason to have 100 different media view/playback applications when the open source and cross platform ones are already the best at their job and the most popular.
>2. (games especially)
Most games work fine since you have WINE and Proton. And by "most" I really mean over 90%-95%.
The reason why there's less Linux builds is simply because developers are less familiar with it as a platform and it's a less stable/backwards-compatible platform to target. Which is why the best way to game on Linux is to run Windows builds of games through WINE.
This is not even considering emulation where Linux is the primary platform that's supported by emulators. Windows doesn't even get sloppy seconds because Android is the 2nd most important platform for console emulation.
>3. pet project
What do you mean "using Linux as a pet project"? This is as ambiguous as saying "using Windows as a pet project".
If you just mean using Linux as your OS, then you can simply use whatever PC you can get your hands on. If you want to avoid nVidia quirks and have as much of a "just works" experience stick with Intel and AMD on x86. ARM is a bigger mess so with ARM devices you need to explicitly look for those which advertise Linux support.

>>108458093
>1. Why can't anyone make like a normie version of Linux that would appeal to a broad audience? How hard can it be? People are getting tired of MSFT bullshit and shovelware AI bloat.
At least from the people I know, most either won't switch due to intertia or because one program they use (like microsoft office) not being available on linux. Your second point directly interacts with it, network effects are hard to overcome
>3. If one were to start using Linux as a pet project, how do you even get started? Are there any special CPU architecture requirements or can you straight up just build a PC and run Linux on it? Are there any shit with like BIOS or anything you need to worry about since everything is so default windows focused?
it is possible that your hardware has some quirks. Not that much of an issue anymore these days, but it happens. I.e. my laptop bootloader hardcoded some windows paths into the booting process, so I had to manually adjust some filepaths. It's probably best to ask here first, even an LLM might be useful for this, since for most stuff there is good documentation about the issue on wikis or forums, but you have to have some basic familiarity to know what to look for

>>108458176
>>108458203
Thanks for the answers.

Two additional questions:
1. Would there be any downsides to like getting your aging parents on Linux over Windows? We're talking purely light browsing, and paying some bills and looking up a stew recipe. Almost seems like Linux would be more lightweight and better suited for that, if the browsers are safe on Linux (I assume they are)

2. What distro would be the most Windows-esq in terms of pure interface/GUI. There's gotta be some kind of Linux "windows clone" out there right?

>>108458215
Linux Mint for both of your questions

>>108458215
>1. We're talking purely light browsing, and paying some bills and looking up a stew recipe
Linux would be fine for this. Probably better than Windows since it's generally faster and doesn't have nagware and ads built in.
>2. What distro would be the most Windows-esq in terms of pure interface/GUI.
ZorinOS is probably the most popular as a "Windows clone". But I'd honestly pick Aurora since KDE looks Windows-like anyway.
There's also distros like AnduinOS which go for the "clone the Windows UI even harder" approach, but you're overestimating how much the UI matters to people. After a week of use people will get used to anything.

>>108458233
>>108458236
Appreciate it.

Also as a side note, you see how all these different distros kind of makes it hard to get in? It seems like there's suck a fucking vast amount of choices, which is nice for the enthusiasts, but your average window zogbot (probably myself included) only get intimidated/confused which I think is such a shame. If you buy Windows you get Windows, if you buy Apple you get iOS. If you go linux... here's a list of 25 distros you should try!

Not trying to rag on you guys, but you see what I mean? because I do appreciate the recommendations/help.

How do package updates work? When I update something that the desktop environment needs in order to function, how come it doesn't like turn the screen black for a moment or something? Does it only actually apply updates after a restart?

>>108458167
>from "absolutely mogs" to "equals" and "sometimes outperforms windows most of the time"
>sometimes most of the time
>to then "it's a mixed bag"
lmao
come on man

I need a stable no bullshit minimal just works distro for a 65 year old mum that won't leave me running to diagnose krashes or random bullshit, should I use Lubuntu 24, Mint XFCE, or Mint Cinnamon?

>>108458294
Probably Mint XFCE with Flatpak versions of the stuff she uses.

>>108458261
>If you go linux... here's a list of 25 distros you should try!
Well that's only if you're installing it yourself. There's plenty of devices which come with Linux pre-installed, from PCs to laptops to handhelds. There's no thinking involved there. You get what you get and you're usually completely fine with it.
Some web shops do offer you to pick and choose a Linux distro, but that's completely optional and they usually just default to the business/LTS version of Ubuntu or Fedora.

You can make the same argument for Windows if you're installing it manually. When you go and install it you have to decide between W10 and W11 based on your hardware, then between the Home, Pro and Ultimate versions or the LTS version. And if you're pirating it or looking to get less bloat you need to pick between AME, AtlasOS, ReviOS or Privacy+.
Not to mention the choice paralysis when you're installing software. Most Linux distros come with everything you'd need pre-installed, while the default Windows software suite is subpar and incomplete which means you now have to google "download video player", "download office", "download pdf viewer" and such.

I need an external DAC or sound card compatible with Debian/Ubuntu based distros, I don't know if Sound Blaster PCI/PCIe cards can work at all.

>>108458308
Also I'm assuming if you're picking like any of the top 3 popular Linux distros you'll be fine either way right?

I mean you're not downloading the anime one with 2 installs and zero stars

>>108456231
Generally when that happens someone or multiple people pick up the mantle and there's a period of waiting for them to learn the architecture and then apply updates, patches, and changes to the system but that's really only if its truly loved an the community is motivated or skilled enough to do so.

>>108458317
USB-based DACs are the most plug and play on Linux.

saying gaming on linux is actually BETTER is just next level cope
it's fairly usable, which is a yuge jump forward from how it used to be, but in winblows everything is seamless, while on linux it really isn't. who even knows what environmental variables and launch parameters are on windows? fuck all people, approximately, while it's necessary fairly often if you use anything but Steam on linux. modding also tends to be a pain in the ass, assuming it's even possible. something like overclocking your gpu flat out isn't possible on gayland if you happen to own an nvidia gpu, which has like 95% market share
there are many benefits to maining linux but i don't understand the coping on how "ohhh gayming is so much better lmao" when it objectively isn't

>>108448903
>Wtf is even Noble 11 some codename for Ubuntu intermin releases or something?
Basically yeah, specifically its the LTS system they always do some sort of alteration names for their updates like "wobbly wombat" or "vivid virginia" or something like that. They usually have the naming conventions of adjective + animal; current one for Ubuntu is Noble Numbat 11.

>>108456232
Grub can now unlock a luks2 encrypted partition so the only thing you need is grub installed on the unencrypted efi partition and everything else can be encrypted in one partition including boot.

>>108458377
>Grub can now unlock a luks2 encrypted partition
well not for long

>>108458342
If you need to mess with wine for more than 5 minutes before launching a fairly modern game, you're on the wrong OS.

>>108458383
>mess with wine for more than 5 minutes before launching a fairly modern game
sure sounds like mogging windows where you need to double click an icon to launch a fairly modern game

>>108458391
Depends on the game, assuming we are talking about Win11.

>>108458323
Picking the "most popular" distro is difficult since most distros don't have any usage statistics at all. The only place I can think of is ProtonDB and Steam Hardware Survey, but that's heavily skewed towards gamers. Arch and CachyOS are the most popular there but those are enthusiast/tinkerer distros. The next most popular are Ubuntu, Mint and Bazzite/Fedora where I'd agree "you'll be fine either way" no matter which of those you pick. With the only caveat being that you should use KDE or GNOME if you have a more modern display and you should avoid LTS distros if you're on more recent hardware. So Mint is the least "fine" distro between these and if installing Ubuntu you need to be careful to install the non-LTS version.

>>108458381
Why's that? the commit got merged
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=6052fc2cf684dffa507a9d81f9f8b4cbe170e6b6

>>108458393
Haven't used 11 but on 10 I can't really think of anything that didn't Just Work (tm). Windows is the default, all the games target windows, all the gaming related software targets windows, all the drivers target windows, all the tools and third party accessories target windows.
It's quite amazing that linux is good enough with little more than Wine, Proton and a dream, but it just isn't as smooth as on windows, period. You'll probably be fine if you're a gaymer and want to use linux, but you certainly won't be better off.

>>108458400
redhat took over grub and it took them a week to start stripping out features. encrypting boot partition won't be possible pretty soon because, uhh, security.
not even joking

>>108458093
>Like Square Enix or Rockstar don't want to commit the ressources to making a version for a platform used by like <1% of the users?
Rockstar had perfect working support on Linux. It worked without a hitch on Proton until one day they decided they had enough of the Linux users and went out of their way to break it. Unfortunately they can get away with it too because people will reward them for this crappy behaviour and buy their games anyway. There will be no outrage that Rockstar blocks the Steam Deck and Steam Machine, etc, from using GTA Online. People will just accept that.

>>108458418
It's unironically better to have Cryptsetup/LUKS decrypt partitions from within Linux in the initramfs than have Grub duplicate all of that code.

>>108458418
I'll believe it when i see it. Grub will just get forked if they try to remove encrypted boot support.

>>108458447
>It's unironically better to have Cryptsetup/LUKS decrypt partitions from within Linux in the initramfs than have Grub duplicate all of that code.
It isn't. All grub does is unlock the partition to read the config file and load the kernel. The kernel still has to unlock the partition again while booting.

>>108458400
Why the fuck is GNU's Savannah redirecting Firefox to https://hell.jing.rocks?

curl -I 'https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=6052fc2cf684dffa507a9d81f9f8b4cbe170e6b6' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:151.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/151.0'
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: nginx
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:31:43 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 138
Connection: keep-alive
Location: https://hell.jing.rocks
X-Frame-Options: DENY
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

>>108458447
yes I also think having no encryption during boot so all the encryption after is worthless is a great idea
>>108458449
Linux has been overwhelmingly developed by corporate interests in the last few years, so of course they choose what happens to the big name projects. Please look forward to needing attestation from our ever-generous overlord lennard poettering who just happened to start a company doing just that a few months ago, after jamming through systemd in record speed. He has the backing for it and everybody except actual users are interested.
>lel just fork it
the track record of that has been abysmal over the last few years

>>108458467
>yes I also think having no encryption during boot so all the encryption after is worthless is a great idea
Your Grub bootloader is unencrypted.

>>108458407
You do know that when people say "gaming is better on linux" they are explicitly comparing it to past linux right? They are using better as in "easier than ever before" not better as in "superior".
Because gaming in Linux 10 years ago was a pain in the ass and had all the same problems you are bringing up now. Also, as someone who games on Linux, if you are a GayMer(tm) and switch to Linux and don't have any other programming or computer hobbies I'm going to automatically file you into the dumb category, unless the reason you switched over was privacy concerns, then your based like me. I'd sacrifice gaming as a hobby if it means preserving my privacy.

>>108458470
nigga come on
stripping this functionality lets you remove iommu and a number of machine check exceptions, which neatly bypasses some hardware checks, and also lets others fuck with init.rd
of course you do have an alternative... attestation! please look forward to it. after all, android DOES have better security, so it just makes sense to turn linux into it.

>>108458480
>linux fucking MOGS windows, bro
>uhh actually linux is better than it was in the past
words have meanings

>>108458483
Measured boot is indeed the answer. As long as you can verify the initrd has not been tampered with (which with code signatures you can) then you don't need all of that tons of duplicate code bloating Grub for no reason.

>>108458487
They do and obviously you are so windows obsessed that you assume every vague statement about Linux is comparative automatically to Windows and not Mac or past iterations of Windows...
You are doing what you are complaining about...

>>108458494
>Linux is comparative automatically to Windows and not Mac or past iterations of Windows...
past iterations of Linux*
FUCK, ITS CONTAGIOUS!

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>>108458494
>linux MOGS windows bro
>lmaoooo how the fuck did you get windows out of it? obviously I meant that current linux is better than previous linux, nobody's talking about windows

>>108458504
You proved my point, thanks lol

>>108458504
>>linux MOGS windows bro
no one says this because zoomers don't know to use computers and even if they did, they would give themselves away by being obsessed about being part of the "cool kids club" by trying to make terrible arguments for why their system of choice is good because everyone uses it, because popular = good.

>>108458470
Only the efi binary is.
>>108458489
Not that guy but you can always have both instead of being forced to choose between one or the other. The better way would be to be like coreboot/libreboot and have grub embedded in the bios so it can;t be as easily tampered with as the unencrypted efi binary could be.

>>108458532
>no one says this
>>108458132

I admire you guys' disdain for microsoft

>>108458536
>Only the efi binary is.
That's precisely my point though, an attacker knows you are using Grub and can work out which version and find ways to exploit it. You're right that it would be more secure to have something like Coreboot or Libreboot.

It's just security theatre though to pretend that storing your kernels on encrypted boot will somehow protect you from an attacker like this.
Proper measured boot (even better if your firmware can help you with this) or bust.

coreboot is only used by terrorists
I'm glad microsoft signing keys are required to let me install linux

>>108458554
Also if you really wanted to you could still implement the same "Encrypted boot + load kernel" using kexec. Have the initrd unlock your boot and then use kexec to load the kernel + initrd from it.

>>108458538
It's generally weird when people don't disdain corporations. They aren't people, stop treating them like such, they don't need help defending themselves.

>>108458554
I don't know how difficult it would be or how much you can actually achieve with a tampered efi grub binary but none of the other grub files like the modules and config will get loaded until the drive gets unlocked which is at least an improvement over having your kernels/initramfs and grub files exposed though i dont know by how much. Either way having /boot encrypted and part of the same partition will help better with managing snapshots than without it.

>>108458483
>>108458489
>>108458554
Theres no security gain from having kernel and initramfs encrypted. Secure Boot is supposed to make sure your boot files arent tampered with, whether thats kernel+initramfs+bootloader, or just the bootloader. Arguably encrypted boot can be less secure because grub is much weaker in the pre boot environment and takes longer to derive the key. For a while it didnt support argon2. I dont know if grub still has this slowness problem or thats something that cant be overcome due to being in the pre boot environment. It at least has argon2 support now. The main advantage of encrypted /boot, as has been mentioned, is better snapshot integration.

XFS or Ext4 for my home PC? I use it for gayming, writing documents, watching movies, shitposting and coding.

Just about to install Ubuntu 24.04.

>>108459939
>Secure Boot is supposed to make sure your boot files arent tampered with
Does that include the grub modules and config? because those can be protected by encrypting the boot partition, which then will leave the efi binary as the only thing to make sure isnt being tampered with.

>>108460059
>desktop use
btrfs

>>108460059
ext4 has a UX closer to Windows or Mac, where you can always use fsck to coerce the fs back into valid format, possibly missing a few pieces. It also has filesystem level encryption, which is nice if other people are using the PC and you want strong protection between individual users with minimal compromises. It can also be shrunk without reformatting, but can't scale hugely in either direction because metadata size is fixed at fs creation. Ie you have a fixed number of files / directories and fixed format overhead.

xfs has copy-on-write data. Which is like having snapshots but not atomic. You can cp -r basically for free and use duperemove -rn to reclaim space used by identical files. It has lower format overhead because dynamic metadata allocation, and it's usually a little bit faster. Down side is if you want to shrink it or have serious fs errors, it's a backup & reformat.

>>108460089
I don't know. With systemd-boot and sbctl, the config file is not signed. So I guess someone could craft a malicious config file that exploits systemd-boot somehow, but that seems pretty difficult. systemd-boot doesnt support encrypted /boot anyway. Its been a while since I've used grub and sbctl. I think I remember there being more files to sign than with systemd-boot, but I don't remember if that included the config and modules (grub has modules?). Could be different with shim based secure boot too.

>>108460059
EXT4 for root partition for maximum reliability. Btrfs for home partition for the extra compression.
XFS is awful for regular usage. It will slow down for small files, you use that only if you're only interested in very large files, such your media partition on your home server. Not for desktop at all.

>>108460295
Grub has modules, located in /boot/grub/ in a folder called i386-pc or x86_64-efi depending on biosmbr/efi (also in /usr/lib/grub).
I don't know how the secure boot thing works with grub i assume its just the efi binary that gets signed. There's a whole article on the archwiki about it so its probably possible to generate your own grub efi binary and self-sign it for secure boot to protect it against tampering instead of having to use the microslop signed one.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Secure_Boot_support

>>108460351
These loadable modules are in fact the problem with secure boot signed Grub. Its not so much a Grub problem as a Microsoft problem, they won't sign a Grub that can be easily bypassed just by dropping in some module that does anything.

>>108460467
From what i understand secure boot won't allow modules to be loaded so they have to be compiled into the efi binary during the build process

>>108460484
Yeah, that's why Red Hat is looking strip back as much of the built-in modules as possible because any one of them is a potential SecureBoot bypass in waiting.

>>108460351
>>108460467
Are these modules needed for encrypted /boot? Do they need to be unencrypted on efi partition for encrypted /boot to work?

>>108460496
They don't need to do that, you can choose which modules get added to the binary during the build process. Anyone who cares about secureboot and security should probably be doing that while self-signing it.

>>108460515
Just read the wiki page, they're added to the unencrypted efi binary.

>>108460484
You can have modules, they just have to be signed by the same key that signed the kernel.

>>108460534
I see. So what is the issue for Redhat/Canonical? Just build grub efi binary with the needed modules and sign it for secure boot. The issue to me seems that grub's luks is weaker than the one provided by initramfs, so if you want a similar unlock time you're making brute force attacks easier. Im not able to track down exact numbers but this thread said he had to reduce argon2 memory parameter from ~1GB to ~100MB

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/standard-argon2id-keys-dont-work-in-grub-2-14/185711/21

Might be worth the tradeoff for better snapshots at least for me.

>>108460546
>Since GRUB version 2.06.r261.g2f4430cc0, loading modules in Secure Boot Mode via insmod is no longer allowed, as this would violate the expectation to not sideload arbitrary code. If the GRUB modules are not embedded in the EFI binary, and GRUB tries to sideload/insmod them, GRUB will fail to boot with the message:

>>108460300
btrfs has even worse small for performance than xfs. Unless your workload is cold indexing small files all day it's negligible in both cases.
>xfs for home server
Not unless it has hundreds of users. It'll shred on modern games with many-GB asset files, but media storage needs positive bit rot ID.

>>108460567
Not sure where the argon2 memory parameter is supposed to be specified but i set mine up with 512 keysize and sha512 hash and didnt really run into any issue but i also don't have that high of a threat level.

holy fucking cuckyos. 0% users by the end of the year.
https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2037217859739542005

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Are there any non-shit Youtube channels or blogs that talk about Linux software and news and such? Basically content where I can become more informed without having to have an exact topic in mind I want to gain knowledge on.
I recently moved over to Linux and everything is cool but I get the feeling I could be doing more things and using better solutions for some stuff, it's hard to explain.

>>108460572
That's just grub. The kernel and Secure Boot only care about signature chain.

>>108460619
I dunno what's weird here. They were explicitly clear that they ain't gonna do shit which means not implementing age verification but also not dropping systemd because it has a field to store age now. If people keep asking about it when you already answered it's just spam.
Although they should have been smarter about handling this if they don't want the knee-jerk reactors to piss and shit all over them.

Guys, I need some quick help.
I installed the Sweet KDE theme and used the Kvantum to apply the Application style / Transparency. All good, but the default Sweet application style text color is too grey / washed out and hard to read, so I tried editing it to make it whiter or higher contrast.
It worked for the System settings window, but the text color of other applications like the file explorer and the text editor are still grey and hard to read.
How to fix this?
https://files.catbox.moe/mddrko.jpeg
https://files.catbox.moe/i1hifw.jpeg

>>108460616
do cryptsetup luksDump on your root partition. you might be using pbkdf2. but yeah, I guess its a tradeoff between weaker key derivation and snapshot convenience.

>>108460059
>Just about to install Ubuntu 24.04.

26.04 beta releases today

>>108460678
>beta
How about applying to a janny role instead?

HOLY SHIT WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG TO INSTALL FIREFOX ON GENTOOO I DON'T EVEN LIKE FIREFOX FUCK!!!

>>108460706
emerge firefox-bin?

>>108460670
>luksDump
As confusing as it sounds, my pbkdf is using argon2id.

>>108460706
I dont know why anyone would manually compile a browser on Gentoo unless there was a specific feature they wanted to exclude/include. Just use the official prebuilt binary from Mozilla or whichever Chromium flavour you use if you use Chromium. I mean compiling Chromium especially is massively inconvenient.

>>108460706
I think its the rust parts.

>>108460710
I don't like firefox
>>108460720
I just wanted a browser
>>108460725
is rust bad?

>>108460706
use binaries nigga

>>108460781
I don't know what any of this means

>>108460775
>is rust bad?
Rust compiles slower.

>>108460796
dang

>>108460795
Sounds like you should learn, or gentoo is gonna be a really bad fit for (You)

>>108460843
compile means slow
binary means fast

new libpng cve dropped:

https://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html

fix out on Arch. not yet on Fedora. dont know about Debian. One reason to updoot daily.

>>108460869
>use after free
>this latent bug has existed for 25 years
Nothing ever happens.

Hello. I'm trying to install ubuntu on my lenovo ideapad 100. I got to the point where boot-repair tells me my nvram is locked. Any idea how to fix it? I turned off all the secure boots and intel ptt

>>108460624
if grub can circumvent secure boot like that, it's yet another point of showing how pointless it was to begin with

>>108460915
Is there a Windows install on that drive? Try disabling Fast Startup. And try adding a BIOS password and see if that helps. I've seen a few Dell devices which disallow fucking with nvram unless you set up an admin password in BIOS.

>>108460665
Nevermind, I fixed it.
I asked AI and it turns out I just had to locate the user Kvantum config folder/file and edit the colors for all the text.

>>108460849
binary means surrendering

>>108446669
FreeBSD is literally unusable when compared to Linux. Unstable kernel.

anybody have firsthand experience with Red Star OS (North Korea) or Astra Linux (Russia)?

just curious how the government-sponsored distros stack up to the commercial ones

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How is this thing? Like to actually use as a daily driver.
>inb4: idpol brainrot
I don't give a fuck nigga

>>108461180
Just wondering, why do the proponents always have to mention they did it with AI.

Shall i say i did it with

 MAN -k 

, a good read indeed.

>>108461383
There's plenty of videos online related to these OSs. They're complete shit and RedStar OS spies on you more than Windows does.

NOW AFTER HOURS OF INSTALLING FIREFOX DOESN'T WORK BECAUSE IT NEEDS A DISPLAY ENVIRMENT FUCK THIS SHIT BRUH!!

>>108461418
Do you expect me to say only "I fixed it" without saying the solution like the meme?
And I used AI because none of you fags replied to my post, using a search engine gives me a shit ton of unrelated long blogposts so it's a waste of time, and the AI gave me a straightforward answer while answering my subsequent questions.

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What RDP server and client do you guys use? Is FreeRDP my best option?

>>108460886
If libpng had a readily exploitable bug, everyone would immediately find out in the rudest way possible.

>>108460983
It can't if the kernel is properly configured for secure boot because it'll refuse to load an unsigned module. I'm guessing some vendor fucked up and got asspained about grub allowing them to fuck up.

>>108461712
Remmina

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Looking for some Linux help. The long short is that I have terrible bufferbloat issues that do not exist on Windows using the same hardware.

I'm currently using CachyOS, but also spun up a Bazzite and Mint partition and got the same issue. I have also tried updating my ethernet driver and changing power settings and tested with other USB ethernet adapters, but they all act the same.
Currently this is the only thing stopping me from daily driving Linux.

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>mount my linux btrfs partition on windows using winbtrfs driver
>windows bsod
>try to boot linux
>get my first kernel panic in 20 years
>btrfs partition is corrupted
Lesson learned

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>>108462601
get to my level

learning to use docker so i can run games on my work laptop without making a mess of my filesystem and home directory with wine, proton, configs, all that shit. this will be fun!

>>108462947
Think of docker images like super flatpaks

>>108458261
ZorinOS gets a plus for better Windows program compatibility (on a fresh install I could run some old games (iirc gridwars and netstorm) without any extra effort), but Mint with Cinnamon is the most Windows-like with the most support (Anduin is better but it's one guy developing last I read).

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>>108462966
From "super" to "lesser"
>virtual machine
>container (docker or chroot'able system)
>standalone directory tree (usually under /opt) or an AppImage
>package management on top of the actual system (FlatPak or Snap)
>system packages
>>108462947
It's fine to mess your home directory, that's what it is for.
>>108461594
>hours of installing
You mean compiling?
>compiles Firefox for hours
How slow is your processor?

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Repostin’ from >>>108463086

Does anybody know a good desktop weather widget compatible with KDE Plasma? Weather Widget Plus isn’t working properly and everything else is either super minimalist or too detailed. The best one I found was Seeua Weather, but I want a different or customizable clock/date display.

Still deciding on a clock widget. Something like Customizable Clock or Advanced Modern Clock is alright. I’ll probably settle on Soniq Widget if I can customize it more.

>>108462772
My results on windows are A grade, Raj. I know you have English comprehension issues so you probably didn't understand that it's only an issue for me on Linux.

as a sakurafag (terminal) i haven't used other terminals in a while.
what's the current META? and does it really give good gains compared to this old pos?

>>108463280
Foot is the best terminal if you want pure performance in a Wayland setting.
Otherwise there's the old standbys of Alacritty and Kitty, plus Ghostty and Wezterm when it comes to GPU powered ones.
Then you have the DE included ones which all do the job just fine.

>install Mint (Cinnamon) because it just werks™ (allegedly)
>getting frequent stutters while only running firefox and some lightweight programs
>several full freezes in only a few days
>downgrading nvidia drivers to the recommended version didn't help
Alright, how do I troubleshoot this?

>>108463567
>Alright, how do I troubleshoot this?
You could start by checking if anything is actually eating up memory.

>>108463567
Buy an AMD card, see if the stuttering goes away.

first reply to this post will get to choose which DE / WM I'll be using for the next month, exceptions being Plasma and GNOME, which I already know (long time linux user btw)

>>108463611
rat poison

>>108463611
XFCE with Chicago95

>>108463618
alright, let's do it

Anyone have any opinions on PeppermintOS? Is it good? Looking for something Debian-like without systemd and other dystopian shit.
https://peppermintos.com

>>108463655
They're taking forever for the new Devuan version. Something about a new build system they're working on.

>>108463660
Should I just go for plain old Devuan then? I tried it once in a virtual machine but couldn't get KDE or any other DE to work properly.

>>108462947
I read a bit and it sounds like this isn't ideal. I'll just make another account and silo my games off that way. I was thinking of docker and giving each game its own container with whatever wine/proton version it needed and then everything would be neatly contained but it sounds like it's more trouble than it's worth.

>>108463708
docker is not meant for games or that kinda shit, might want to look for flatpak, or maybe chroots / LXC / operating system container

>>108463728
ok I'll look further. I found bottles but that's just a program that does the work for me. I did want to learn something so simply making another account is a resignation in that regard.

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>>108446669
Used Claude to clean out packages on my system I didn't need. I verified everything he told me to remove, but I removed them. He was right about 98% of the time. 245 packages removed. Pretty good.

>>108463773
I run codex with sudo to manage my NixOS config and it's actually gone great

>>108463773
Claude is one of the smarter LLMs (at least the Opus version) and it's usually a lot of the time correct about things. Gemini Pro is also pretty good.

>>108463788
>>108463800
I find it really useful to "filter" the Arch wiki. Arch wiki is fantastic, but so many articles. The AI can read everything so much faster and spit everything out.

>>108462734
I remember borking a partition a few years ago in an attempt to have a shared one, it ended just as poorly. Never again.
I think that experience was what made me completely switch to linux after I decided to install it.

>>108463618
based

>>108460623
Only one I know is Mental Outlaw. Distrotube kinda works as well but it's not as good.

>>108458294
Lubuntu will give you the best performance but probably your mom will feel more comfy with mint, so go for Mint.

>>108463997
mental outlaw is the best one. as an honorary white man, he's fantastic.
distrotube was great years ago. really, a decade ago. but he's grown tired. he aged and it shows.
the only other one is brodie robertson but he became a homosexual. has a hate boner for lunduke. if lunduke is supportive of X or against Y, brodie has to be the 180 of it and gets into twitter fights with him. he was better during his "ima copy luke smith" phase and was friendly to lunduke but when he came out as bisexual, embracing his dick sucking desires, after getting himself into tranny linux dev mastodon groups, he changed a lot. including his sexuality.

>>108462601
Try changing network queue length. 30ms of bloat NOT caused the sender or your router sounds like the NIC is buffering too much.

Post:

ip link show dev eth0

And in particular look at the qlen value. You can tweak that to be smaller (smaller buffering in the NIC means less buffering).

Also post:

tc -s qdisc show

>>108464141
>>108462601
Also check the TCP congestion controller:

$ sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control
net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = bbr

BBR is better and the CachyOS kernels come with BBRv3 available.

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>>108460623
I enjoy TechHut, but he fell down the homelab pitfall and most of his content has been dedicated to it lately. His older videos are good, albeit outdated in some respects. The way he speaks is super relaxing.

Fireship was surprisingly insightful despite what the thumbnails may leave you to believe. Leans more towards programming and related software.

The Linux Experience is your typical polished YouTube presenter feel but isn’t obnoxious. Provides up to date news, though his daily new stuff is members only. Fortunately, it appears he compiles these short videos into longer videos every week to the public.

LearnLinuxTV is some middle-aged dude that sounds like the How It’s Made narrator with less enthusiasm. Much like the former, he’s big into helping beginners and creates reviews. Isn’t really news focused, but discusses current events and software updates.

>>108464150
>>108462601
Also one final note, you mentioned USB NIC drivers? If these are Realtek then make sure you get the out-of-tree driver from them and compile them yourself. I also have some Realtek drivers and they perform crap with the in-kernel driver but fine using Realtek's out-of-tree r8152 driver. The in-kernel driver wouldn't even enable 5-gigabit speeds on one of the adapters I have.

# This is a Sabrent USB-C adapter running with Realtek's  out-of-tree r8152 driver
$ lsmod | grep r8152
r8152                 512000  0
libphy                196608  4 r8169,mdio_devres,realtek,r8152
$ tc -s qdisc show dev enp9s0f1u2
qdisc cake 8003: root refcnt 2 bandwidth 5Gbit besteffort triple-isolate nonat nowash no-ack-filter split-gso rtt 1ms raw overhead 0
 Sent 13726258624 bytes 17409780 pkt (dropped 339, overlimits 1522941 requeues 234)
 backlog 0b 0p requeues 234
 memory used: 1100236b of 4Mb
 capacity estimate: 5Gbit
 min/max network layer size:           42 /    1514
 min/max overhead-adjusted size:       42 /    1514
 active queues:                         0
 average network hdr offset:           14

                  Tin 0
  thresh          5Gbit
  target           50us
  interval          1ms
  pk_delay         23us
  av_delay          2us
  sp_delay          0us
  backlog            0b
  pkts         17410119
  bytes     13726293034
  way_inds       381477
  way_miss       571194
  way_cols            0
  drops             339
  marks          495473
  ack_drop            0
  sp_flows            0
  bk_flows            1
  un_flows            0
  max_len         66616
  quantum          1514

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>>108452163
Backed up Drive 3 to Drive 4, then formatted Drive 3 into ext4 entirely and erasing the contents. Ran check. Drive is ok, no bad sectors detected. Resized ext4 partition to make space for new NTFS partition. Will format the partition to NTFS in Windows. Will monitor to make sure no bad sectors start to pop up.

>>108463150
Going to retract my request, as I remembered that Conky can accomplish this and more.

>>108464141
I still don't really know how less buffering is supposed to increase speeds.

>>108463567
bazzite

>>108464272
The speed isn't the issue that causes you to get a B instead of an A. It's the latency and bloat. If the NIC is buffering too much then that's what causes this bloat.

>>108464284
>>108464272
Also, another thing to test before you tweak things like a mad man is to try different browsers. Bufferbloat can happen at the application layer too. You can sometimes get an A in Chromium browsers and a B in Firefox and that's nothing to do with the network it's just Firefox being slow and introducing its own overhead.

>>108464284
nta I just heard of that before and tried but failed to really understand it.

>>108464325
Very good technical talk that goes into it if you've got time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIozKVz73g

This guy literally discovered bufferbloat, it's because of him that people started realising "Hey, we've got a problem here" and started working on better queue management and congestion control protocols, etc, to fix it.

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after a few years of doing something else, i got assigned to a unix sysadmin role.
>centos kinda dead, they now use rocky linux
>init got supplanted by systemd
>LVMs
anything else i should look up in the meantime for enterprise stuff?

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Can someone explain why people claim that Linux is the "troon" or "LGBT" or "DEI" OS and why they cry about SystemD, license, code of conduct and other stuff? Windows and macOS are worse in every metric, even as these meme ones I listed. Why these anons cry about pride flag profile picture in some unofficial subreddit or discord, when Microsoft has official Windows LGBT website, product line, support phone, wallpaper packs, lgbt flags everywhere from search bars to settings menu etc.

Is this some US three letter agency or israel/palantir spamming this anti-Linux anti-FOSS thing or are these anons serious? Sure, I hate age verification thing in Linux, but how it is worse than Windows and macOS having this type of violating "features" 9001 times more while whole os is non-free and proprietary?

Also they cry about "tinkering bad" while they do that more on Windows and macOS to make basic things to work or even exist. Sometimes they pay for this and the "debloat" thing is some proprietary Russian malware some eceleb made.

>>108464535
systemd replaced syslog and cron as well. You should probably spend some time rehearsing basic tasks with it. Maybe python for automation because you sound like you're from the perl era.

>>108464674
Not him.
Is there any reason to use timers over cron? They seem so much more necessarily complicated.

>>108464588
>Is this some US three letter agency or israel/palantir spamming this anti-Linux anti-FOSS thing
This or corporate shills

>>108464588
They have to justify their sunken ship somehow.

>>108464758
Honestly it's probably just that these days. It's usually their fault, for many things.

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>>108464588
Corporations and political wackos trying to get you stop actually using functional stuff so they can line up their wallets. It doesn’t help that alt people, left or right wing, go for alt tech. Some people just bought into the propaganda and repeat buzzwords because /pol/ breached containment over a decade ago.

We all have our politics and shit, but thanks to mainstream social media the brainwashing became more efficient.

>macOS
I’m not a fan beyond having an iPhone as a part of my phone plan, but I’d still recommend it to people like my mom because it’s so streamlined. Apple still has a modicum of respect for their clientele and will TRY not to instantly sellout their customers.

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Do you use snapshots on your arch installation? I am researching safeguarding against blind -Syu runs and I found out you can add special hooks to pacman in order to trigger pre and post snapshots of your system (excluding your home directory) in order to effortlessly rollback to a previous snapshot via the grub bootloader in case something critical goes wrong. I thought this was something that only atomic distros could do but I guess I was wrong. The requirements are: Btrfs as root filesystem, snapper and snap-pac (the pacman hook that triggers snapper)

>>108464848
YOLO
Do have a separate home partition to facilitate recovery in case something breaks and you need chroot to fix it, but other than that, YOLO.

>>108464674
>systemd replaced syslog and cron as well
noted, thanks.

>you sound like you're from the perl era
fuck no, i'm not even 30.
i keep hearing about python but fuck me, tab indentation sounds like a nightmare. guess i'll have to look into it

>>108465077
>tab indentation sounds like a nightmare. guess i'll have to look into it
It's not that bad and actually helps with scanning code, the problem is when people go way too deep into the indention rather than a couple of the other more conservative indentation methods python uses.

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>>108463618
not bad, but the tri-key-combo for switching windows is kinda cumbersome/tedious

>>108465627
this shit is blazing fast tho

New thread: >>108465789