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It quite literally just works

>>108492347
>posts the definition of Just Works™
>"it just works"
They call him Captain Obvious for a reason!

>>108492347
yeah but snaps tho

>>108492698
They just work, but if you really don't want them for whatever reason then you can uninstall snapd

>>108492309
Can anyone recommend a gui program for making contact sheets? Ideally one with that uses the system file navigator when selecting the files / folders.

im on debian 12 stable, kde, dolpin
my 'pictures' directory is a massive labyrinth of subfolders

this is my based and redpilled way to write an image to a usb drive (i know because i'm based and redpilled and do it this way)

% sudo sh -c 'cat Downloads/debian-13.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso >/dev/sda'
[sudo] password for user: 
% sudo cmp Downloads/debian-13.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso /dev/sda
cmp: EOF on Downloads/debian-13.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso after byte 790626304, in line 3045284

eof on the file means it was fully written without errors
i have one usb drive that corrupts what you write to it and fails the second command (usually resulting in a broken installer), started using cmp after i found out

>>108492347
Thanks but I prefer Linux Mint.
All the goods of Ubuntu, none of the nonsense.

>>108492347
>>108493610
Shit compositor though. The only Ubuntu based distro that's probably worth using is Kubuntu.
Phoronix recently did some benchmarks between KDE Plasma and GNOME on Ubuntu and KDE shits all over them.
They didn't test Cinnamon but given it's a shittier even more outdated version of GNOME's Mutter it's probably not winning any awards.

>>108492351
systemd has it built in
why use other tools

>>108492309
Fractional license.

>>108493687
Code snippet, fractional payment. Auction style Bug bounty board... BUGCHAN!

>>108489909
You use Dig from bind9 like everyone else does.

>>108493652
Other tools generally have better diagnostic features for tracing the DNS root or debugging DNSSEC issues, etc.

>>108493630
>kubuntu
It's been demonstrated that if you want KDE you really should steer clear of Debian-based distros. Fedora/Arch are leagues ahead of Debian for KDE Plasma.

>>108493610
>All the goods of Ubuntu
Except updates and good desktop environments? Mint only has the Ubuntu LTS base and uses hobby-tier DEs.

>>108493630
This, but as the other anon said, KDE Plasma is best used in Fedora or Arch. Even some KDE devs recommend against using KDE on Ubuntu.

best distro against these shitty 1984 laws? I refuse for the way to use computer to change like this

>>108494058
None of them even implemented age declaration. So, all of them are still good.

>>108494058
All of them. Just didn't live in a shithole. It's not your OS vendor's job to go to bat against the government for you.

>>108494058
artix but then everything is gonna get worse just take the offline PC backup pill when it really hits the fan

>>108492309
>dealt with enough gnome slop for far too long
>decide to install kde plasma to see whats up
>starts in light mode, try to get it in dark mode, spend like an hour going through 10 different configuration methods
>ended up getting things mostly working, dolphin still has a different theme for some reason
any kde wizards know wtf is going? Is this normal?

>>108493881
That's the funny thing though, it's not even the best possible KDE Plasma experience you can get but it's still stomping all over GNOME.

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>>108494151
Don't know. I just use the automatic theme switching and it just works works for me.

Light theme in the morning and then it fades to the dark theme at sunset. Only thing I changed was duplicating the theme to make the cursor be Breeze Light since I prefer that to the Dark cursor.

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>>108494262

I have a drive I'm keeping as storage only, no OS. I have a Linux machine and I'll add another to the network that's a Windows 10 machine. For ease of file access, should this storage drive be NTFS or another format?

>>108494275
If it's a drive accessed through a network then it doesn't matter which file system you use. NTFS is not a good FS so you're better off with pretty much any other Linux FS.

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What's a good company to rent a Linux VPS from? I would like the location to be outside the U.S., preferably someplace like Switzerland or Peru or maybe Spain. Can't be Germany or Australia or France. Can't be one of the U.S. companies that "has servers worldwide", it cannot have any association with the U.S. at all.

>>108494275
>>108494529
If it's connected to the Win10 machine it will need to be NTFS. If the Win10 machine is accessing it via some network protocol that hides the underlying filesystem architecture, I'd suggest EXT4. EXT4 has the advantage over EXT3 that it is easy to do an undelete if you fuck up and erase a file (or a bunch of files).

I've still got an EXT3 image laying around that some day I'd like to recover a deleted file from. I just don't have the patience or the brain cells to piece it together myself. :-{

>>108494262
Check if you set the QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME environment variable somewhere and remove it

>>108494074
These identity/age verification laws are passing EVERYWHERE. A friend of mine had to do it to access porn sites from Wyoming. Indiana recently did it too. And now California. And of course Europe. It's all "for the children" (meaning politicians who want to control you).

>>108494561
Meant for >>108494151

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In Windows, I had a bunch of shortcuts to run my python codes via ahk. What should I do to run it on fedora gnome? Trying this does nothing

My Hannah Montana Linux isn’t working anymore. She didn’t pass age verification. Fuck you linux.

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>>108492347
Use case for GNOME?
>>108493881
Debian KDE is really good though, Plasma 6.3.4 isn't lacking in features.

>>108494624
maybe try the full path to python3

usecase for usecases?

Thoughts on cachyOS?
Been on mint for a while, want to try something new, ive seen good things about cachy being a slightly easier arch, worth checking out?

>>108494624

#!/usr/bin/env python3

You can add this to the start of each of your .py files and make them executable in the GUI or with chmod. Then you can omit "python3 " from your command field and only write down the absolute path of the py file.

>>108495086
It's an improvement over Mint at least, but it lacks polish desu.

>>108495142
should i just full send into arch? seems like a bit of jump from mint.

>>108495176
>should i just full send into arch?
No. There is no reason to use Arch when you can just use Endeavour or Cachy.

>>108495176
just use pure arch. only try the arch based variants after using vanilla arch. honestly, if you use vanilla arch, you won't even want to use the variants because you will realize, vanilla arch is simply great.

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told gemini i was thinking about finally settling on linux for my main workstation pc, A.I + 3D rendering + a tiny bit of coding possibly maybe, it's trying to meme me into Artix + KDE
legit or am i being JEET'D?

>>108495219
>>108495220

Two polar opposite replies within 2 seconds of each other, Ill just flip a coin.

>>108495266
maybe it wants you to spend more tokens on troubleshooting lol

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>>108495279
and they'll continue to never get a single dime from me no matter how many logic loops i get forced through

>>108495270
Vanilla Arch is for people trying to build their own OS from scratch. An Arch-based distro like Cachy or Endeavour is for people who aren't autistic enough for that. If you're moving from Mint, which is supposed to be one of the "babyproof distros", then you probably won't want to waste time installing and configuring Arch through it's TUI/CLI. You can just use EndeavourOS. It's literally "Vanilla Arch but with a GUI installer and a DE set up" and that's probably what you're looking for.

>>108495340
appreciate the info

>>108495266
You're already in the contrarian minority for using Linux instead of Windows or macOS. Using a distro without systemd will only make it worse since almost everyone is using systemd.
Any distro will work fine for what you need, but avoid meme distros that remove systemd, or that are FSF-approved, or Gentoo. Stick to Arch, Fedora or Ubuntu.

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>>108495387
Why not plain old Debian?

>>108495387
How much do you get paid or do you do this for free?

Switching from IceWM to fluxbox on antix linux broke my audio. In IceWM alsamixer was working fine but fluxbox decided to fuck that up and set pipewire/pulseaudio as defaults or some shit

what do? my retarded AI agent suggests i manually edit mpv config files to force it to use alsa, which works but also implies id have to do the same for every other program which sounds retarded

>tfw filtered by fluxbox

>>108495176
this >>108495220
just vanilla arch is perfect for desktops
>>108495340
wrong, vanilla arch installation using archinstall (who would've guessed) is completely painless, it even asks you to preinstall a desktop environment so you just login to whatever you choose, it now feels like a "babyproof distro" as you said, it isn't as autistic as it used to be (and that's a good thing)

>>108492347
Is it really just works when you have to spend time removing snap closed source garbage from it?

>>108495555
>preinstall a desktop environment
eww

>>108495535
>what do?
use your own brain instead of ai shit, then figure out what's actually broken and fix that.

>>108495626
it would be faster to just install lubuntu then, or go back to icewm

>>108495663
and then how are you ever going to learn something?

>>108495535
just setup pipewire for everything, alsamixer should still work

>>108495741
OK my AI agent solved it for me, i think this did the trick
$nano ~/.asoundrc

defaults.pcm.card 0
defaults.ctl.card 0
defaults.pcm.device 0

not clue what it does or how it fixed things but audio works now lol
i love linux!!

Do updates on Debian also install NEW recommended/suggested packages if the optional dependencies change?

IS THERE ANY FUCKING IMAGE EDITOR THAT DOESNT SUCK COMPLETE DONKEY BALLS ON THIS FUCKING OPERATING SYSTEM

>>108495874
I've been using GIMP my whole life with issue. I've never even used Photoshop, what am I missing out on?

>>108495879
without issue*

>>108495879
freudian slip lol

>>108495879
I was gonna reply angrily but then I remembered the subject of the thread, but to put it simply I can't use gimp.

>>108495879
I can't really use photoshop or gimp, and for the rare cases where I need to edit an image I just gimp it.

>>108495919
That's a shame, as I've been using GIMP since I was a small child and I use it professionally today.

>>108495879
Depends on what you want to do. In my case, I wanted to create nice simple box diagrams for flowcharting, and GIMP absolutely sucks for that.

Last time I tried using Inkscape, it sucked absolute dogshit. One of its features was supposedly the ability to import an image to draw diagrams onto it, but every time I tried it it crashed. Le Heckin' FOSS Community was fucking useless as usual, telling me I should go find and fix the bug myself, because yeah I totally have three months to learn a codebase and go fix the stupid errors some fucking moron pretending to be a software dev never bothered to do even the most basic thirty-second test to find.

Anyway, I ended up using some crappy Adobe product on Windows, which worked fine but had constant obnoxious licensing issues.

>>108495956
I just use LibreOffice Draw for diagrams.

>>108495874
affinity
tons of tutorials teaching how to install it

Anybody tried out scrolling in Hyprland? My dream DE/WM is scrolling like niri/karousel on my main display and tiling on my second display, is that possible or is there anything else that can do that?

>>108495810
Anything involving NEW and Debian defaults to NO as an answer.

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Is distro fragmentation a problem in linux? no distro has more than 10% of the linux "market share" among steam users other than the steam OS that comes preinstalled on the steam deck, meaning that the chances that if you put 10 linux users on the same room theres a high chance no two of them use the same distro

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>Linux Steam users Languages:
>82,60% English
>3,60% Russian
>3,17% German
>1,75% French
>1,65% Simplified Chinese
>1,48% Brazilian Portuguese
>1,25% Latino Spanish
>1,00% European Spanish

>>108496696
Explain how that could be an issue.
The only thing that varies is package availability because some distros use different versions of the same deps, which might or might not have breaking changes, so you don't share binary files (what you call an .exe file) between different distros, that's it.
If the worst comes to worst because you're using a niche distro, you just compile what you need and call it a day. Generally there are instructions to do so, and its pretty easy to do.

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If I have some .mkv files named Sousou no Frieren - 01.mkv through Sousou no Frieren - 28.mkv and I have some .srt files named something else and I want to rename them to that of the corresponding video files, while keeping the .srt extension, how could I achieve that? How would /fglt/ do it?
Compare these two:
>[amZero] Sousou no Frieren - 01 [1080p AV1 10Bit][Dual Audio][MultiSubs].mkv
>Sousou no Frieren - 01 「冒険の終わり 」 (AT-X 1280x720 x264 AAC).srt
And the last two:
>[amZero] Sousou no Frieren - 28 [1080p AV1 10Bit][Dual Audio][MultiSubs].mkv
>Sousou no Frieren - 28 「また会ったときに恥ずかしいからね」 (NTV 1920x1080 x264 AAC).srt
Help me learn something useful today please.
>inb4 ask ai
Already did, I wanna ask a human now.

>>108496733
>russian
>german
Linux is indian sisters...

>>108497201
krename

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>>108497249
But then won't I have to install a lot of kde-related dependencies I'll never use for anything else?
I mean if it's the only way, sure, but I feel like knowing how to do this from memory could be super useful and I could turn it into anki cards too.

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>>108496696
-Mint is really just Ubuntu but with different set of preinstalled packages
-CachyOS is Arch but with preinstalled desktop system
-Bazzite is Fedora
>>108495176
Mint (Ubuntu) and Arch are both binary distributions so there's no huge difference between them.
But when you install something that comes with a service on Arch you don't get the dialog thing that asks you questions about enabling or configuring it. So there's that. Arch generally 'doesn't have anything' and is a bit crude.

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>>108494534
Hetzner has finnish locations if that's ok.
>Can't be Germany or Australia or France.
Does this imply can't be EU? Hetzner itself is a german operator.
>>108494552
>If it's connected to the Win10 machine it will need to be NTFS
It can be anything if you share it via SMB/CIFS/NFS.

>>108497201
Beware, jeet code below (my python skills sucks)

from pathlib import Path
import os

mkv_dir = Path(".")
mkv_regex = "*Sousou no Frieren - [0-9][0-9]*mkv"
srt_dir = Path(".")


for mkv_file in mkv_dir.glob(mkv_regex):
    #print(mkv_file)
    idx = str(mkv_file).split(' ')[5]
     #print(idx)
    srt_regex = f"Sousou no Frieren - {idx}*.srt"

    for srt_file in srt_dir.glob(srt_regex):
        #print(f"found corresponding str {srt_regex}")
        old_filename = str(srt_file)
        new_filename = str(mkv_file).replace("mkv", "srt")
        print(f"renaming {old_filename} to {new_filename}")
        #os.rename(old_filename, new_filename)

>>108496733
actually these numbers are fucked up because the linux steam client just defaults to english regardless of your distro language and most people just dont bother changing it
In the overall steam stats english makes up about 20%, the outlandish 82% english on linux is because of this

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>>108497367

>>108496777
>Explain how that could be an issue.
programs or games relying on libraries and packages that may be missing or on a different older or newer version

>>108497329
So that would make ubuntu about 15,86% and Arch about 17.66% not counting SteamOS, and 41,49% counting SteamOS

All this disregarding the "Other" stat which surely includes more arch and ubuntu distros

>>108497367 (me)
It can also be done using bash script with cut and mv it's just that string manipulation is easier with python

Is it possible to get an icon view on the Thunar file picker? I can't even imagine why this is not a feature.

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KDE Linux can now mount optical disc images. Surprisingly, this is functionality that is missing in virtually all Linux distros. Note that this is different to the "mount" command which mounts block devices.

Source: https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/465

Does anybody know how to get rid of old applications showing up in Krunner? I installed MusicBee with Wine but deleted it and it still shows up as a ghost entry, I even deleted the desktop icons in /.local/share/applications/wine/Musicbee

btw...what the FUCK was that captcha??

>use archinstall last week on a secondary pc
>haven't done much, decide to reinstall to change somethings
>last time I updated archinstall via pacman -Syy but it seem to do nothing
>plasma login wasn't even an available greeter
>this time do the same thing
>it looks like things changed
>plasma login greeter
What the heck? Did they just recently update it or something?

>>108498132
Plasma Login Manager is what KDE uses now as a greeter. Basically a very highly forked SDDM.

>>108498158
I'm aware, but last time I used archinstall didn't offer it and just plain ole sddm even though I updated it then. So now I'm wondering if it just didn't update correctly somehow or if they just pushed a new archinstall right afterwards or something.

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>>108498207
>they just pushed a new archinstall
Yes this is actually what happened. Pretty funny timing for you. Archinstall 4.0 came out yesterday and changing KDE login manager is one of the listed changes.
https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/releases/tag/4.0

>>108498223
Huh, that is funny. Good thing I was being a lazy schmuck.

>>108498254
if you're gonna reinstall arch a bunch of times why don't you do it yourself so you know what it means when you pick a greeter and enable it's service

>>108498294
You mean install Arch without archinstall? I've thought about it but this was only the second attempt. I don't plan to do it again. I get the gist of it, I'm not really confused on that part.

Anyone else use hyprpapr? Do you have a small text at the middle section at the bottom of the screen that reads "I'm still standing, better than I ever did" ?

>>108498412
that's the caption from hyprland, you need to disable that

splash = false

>>108498099
Delete the .desktop file from ~/.local/share/applications

>>108498510
that's what I did though...
and I rebooted like 2 times
that's the last time I try to use any non native music player. strawberry is a little weird but I should've just lived with its quirks.

>>108498498
oh lol. Hadn't noticed it before - thought i was either getting pranked for april 1st or hacked lmao

>>108498558
bro, come on, you only installed it yesterday, right?

>>108498549
wait i fixed it. I had to delete the Lost and Found file in the KDE Menu Editor.

>>108498586
I changed the wallpaper today lol
I've had the same wallpaper for years and it covers the splash with the same color i guess

>>108498625
now that's quite something

>>108498650
You're quite something :)

>>108494151
>install kde plasma
>try out the themes that come pre-installed
>some global theme or something changed the cursor and now it gets tiny in some windows
I guess it's some DPI setting somewhere but what the fuck lol

>>108495874
KolourPaint

>>108496696
It is irrelevant because all distros are either Arch, Ubuntu/Debian or Fedora. So there's really only 3 distros here plus SteamOS and Flatpak Runtime. The other distros are too niche to matter.

>>108497398
Pretty much. Arch, Ubuntu and Fedora are the main 3 and you can approximate each to have 25%-30% market share ignoring SteamOS. There's technically also Debian but compared to these 3 it's far less popular and distros based on it are far less popular (aside from Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros). And of course there's Flatpak Runtime which is technically a separate distribution itself.

I mean, do I even need a desktop manager or whatever
can't I just like have text based linux that can just load the bare minimum to launch a windowed application on demand when I tell it to?

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>spent 2 days "le tinkering" tmux kitty and nvim
>remember a program exists that is essentially everything i want
>spend 10 minutes looking for the name, "gvim" that is
>delete my config files afterward

>>108498891
Yes but seems like you are confused about the terminology here. Maybe educate yourself more or get a Mac.

>>108498891
you don't need a display manager

ayyyy yo where can I find a list of STRAIGHT apps for my linux box? I don't want none of that gay shit

>>108499044
Incredibly based. I think the Duke of Lun has you covered, though you may be trading homosexual propaganda for Israeli spyware.

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why did my gnome suddenly start having icons in the top left? its ugly and i dont like it

>>108499152
If you're using GNOME on a fast moving distro, then you better get used to frequent, pointless and annoying changes.

>>108499044
https://tools.suckless.org/

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>Windows is constantly blasting my SSD writing god knows what to disk
Does Linux do this or does it respect my hardware integrity?

>>108498891
What do you mean desktop manager?
If you mean no desktop enviroment then yeah just use a minimal wm like i3/sway

If you mean no graphics at all you can use raw tty with something like tmux

>>108499222
There's Linux distros that don't even touch your drive until you manually start downloading files or updating software.
Most Linux distros don't rape SSDs at all. At most you have automatic update checks, background updates, software caching, thumbnail caching, file indexing. All of this can be disabled if you want. The most severe one is automatic system updates which only a few distros do by default and Ubuntu does only for Snap packages.

>>108499222
>have 1 chrome tab open
>writing 1.8mb/s for hours for no apparent reason
I don't get why all windows applications do this, I have 64gb of memory so it's not like it was running out or whatever

I was teaching my buddy about bash aliases and gave him this example
alias nigger='sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root
and told him specifically not to run it because it would nuke his system and the mf ran the command anyway. If Cachy didn't have btrfs snapshots set up OOTB, this dude would've been cooked. Thank u for reading my blog.

>>108499286
Just disable disk cache in your browser. There's no point in having it.

>>108499306
Only retards think that linux distro is an operating system. Fuck you retard.

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What is this Fedora KDE screen glitch called so I can look up a fix for it?

>>108499370
>KDE

lol

>>108499370
Didn't someone already post this exact same issue except it was Fedora GNOME? Could be a driver issue if you're on nVidia.

>btrfs for / and /home partition
>ext4 for data holding partition
Sound like a solid plan?

>>108499418
I don't frequent this thread that much.
There's a frequently repeating glitch where a command "repeats" usually in the form of the refresh circle constantly repeating itself.
Using the KDE capture function makes it go away for reasons I don't know.

I want to one day capture it where it isn't repeating constantly on something I don't want to be seen viewing like vidya guides so I can make a webm post it here and hopefully get a name of what the problem is so I can look up a solution to it.

>>108499450
Why use partitions at all if you're gonna use Btrfs?
Why use ext4 at all if you're gonna use Btrfs?

>>108499511
What are you? President of the btrfs fan club?

>>108499521
No, my distro doesn't even have Btrfs.

>>108499533
Damn. I was hoping to meet the guy finally.

they need to make a vim linux where everything is vim

>>108494897
This image is cursed

>>108498091
That's actually awesome. CDemu is trivial to install in Kubuntu but not easy (possible?) in the current crop of immutable distros.

>>108499631
>but not easy (possible?) in the current crop of immutable distros.
You can install it on Fedora just fine. Not sure about the others. But it's usually not necessary since .iso is the most popular disk image format by far and KDE allowed you to mount iso files out of the box for a long time now.

>>108495266
i'm curious what have you told it to pick artix specifically. No systemd?

>>108499790
>You can install it on Fedora just fine
Re-read the part you qouted.
>.iso is the most popular disk image format
No, it's not. Did you even read the discussion?

>>108499840
>Re-read the part you qouted.
Are you saying Fedora's Atomic distros don't count as "immutable" now?
>No, it's not.
By what metric? Any CD/DVD image I've ever downloaded was always in an .iso format aside from images of video game consoles.

Do you know ranger replacements? I like the fact you can use plugins but I am looking for a tui file manager that will let me see long filenames. On ranger they get truncated and I can't figure out a way to preview them on multiple lines if needed