>>108640872
The background reminds me of winter, which I don't want to be reminded of because it just warmed up here.

spent like 6 hours trying to get wayland to work, something decided to disable my TV connected by HDMI no matter what I changed with wlr-randr or nwg-display whatever it would not come back after reboot disconnect reconnect anything. But every time I switched over to X, it worked fine (and then resumed being fucked when I switched back to wayland). Guess I'll just go back to based bspwm and forget my tv can do "hdr" (it's an old samsung I doubt it was very good hdr).

>>108641882
I try out Wayland on at least one live ISO every year, and never got the point of switching. I can already see all the things I need to see, in all of the ways I like seeing them. X works flawlessly on every machine I got, and has been doing so since at least 2012.

>>108641882
>>108641915
personally, I've never installed a specific display server. usually whatever desktop environment or window manager just pulls that in for me, and I've never even thought twice about what was running behind that. never had any problems with multiple monitors, other than Windows has a nice feature that remembers what sound output was last used with a specific setup when you disable a monitor.

>>108641927
>remembers what sound output was last used with a specific setup when you disable a monitor
On the Mint forums, of all places: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=320218

>>108642068
that's exactly the kind of customization shit that inevitably ends up failing. it's not that important to me.

Any just not rice up their distro? Do you just keep it at the default? That's what I do. I'm sure I can make it look nice but I hardly care.

>>108642229
KDE looks nice enough by default I don't really mind. At most I enable a dark mode theme.

>>108642138
sir plz be froembly

What is the best office suite with compatibility for MS Office? I see too many options in LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, WPS Office, Collabora and this makes me confused. Preferably something that I don't need to make an entire cloud infrastructure to make it work(like Nextcloud)

>>108642437
OnlyOffice

https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/desktop/installation/desktop-install-appimage.aspx
https://pkgs.org/search/?q=onlyoffice
https://flathub.org/en

>>108642437
>best office suite with compatibility for MS Office?
Microsoft Office is a web app these days. Just use that in your browser if you need the compatibility.

i hate linux

>>108642496
Where did it touch you this time?

>>108642491
the web app lacks many features of the desktop office versions, the most common one being macros

>>108642501
on my penis, sir.

>>108642502
Makes sense. I guess they can't execute arbitrary code in the browser. Well they could with some WASM thing but their pajeet developers probably don't want to make the web app any better.

>>108642507
my beard is soft

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MAGEIA VS OPENMANDRIVA?

I'm gonna switch since for some reason these are the only two distros which maintain projectM plugins for VLC. What's the general difference between these two and what are you going to miss out on by using these distros?

>>108642612
Mageia = Mint-like
OpenMandriva = openSUSE Tumbleweed-like

>>108642643
>openSUSE Tumbleweed
OpenMandriva ROME is rolling, but OpenMandriva ROCK is stable.

>>108642683
It would be like using openSUSE Leap, which not many people at all do these days.

>>108642229
Me with KDE. I do very minimal changes to it.

>>108642612
Mageia has better repos, otherwise they're both really comfy. Pick your poison.

https://www.mageia.org/en/downloads/get/?q=Mageia-9-Live-Xfce-x86_64.iso

https://sourceforge.net/projects/openmandriva/files/release/6.0/openmandriva-6.0-lxqt.x86_64.iso/download

>>108642437
WPS > OnlyOffice > LibreOffice

>>108642229
I only kinda mess with the KDE taskbar, wallpaper and color scheme so it doesn't sear my eyes as much. I used to do the while openbox/tiling WM thing too but that's a god damn waste of time. I don't even rice Emacs.

I just moved to linux recently (Nobara specifically) and I'm looking for linux alternatives to VoiceMeeter and itunes

For voicemeeter, the only feature I need is noise suppression/noise gating so my buddies don't have to listen to me breathing. Audio routing for micspam is a plus.

For itunes, I need something that can upload pirated music to an iphone (insert your apple product jokes here. I'd rather have an android device, but my current phone hasn't broken yet so I can't justify buying a new phone).

>>108642906
I just plug my phone into my computer and drag and drop files. Can't you do that on iOS?

>>108642915
That only works for things saved in the camera roll or the files app last I checked.

>>108642906
Linux and iOS just do not get along well at all since most Linux users don't buy Apple products. Lower your expectations and do not expect this to ever change. KDE Connect could be useful but its iOS support is quite bad compared to other platforms.
Easyeffects should work fine for your other issue, though. The state of audio on Linux has improved massively over the years.

>>108642941
Thanks for the suggestions. I wasn't expecting much luck for iOS support, but I'll give it a go. Worst case, I do have an old, barely functional windows laptop lying around somewhere.

>>108642906
>VoiceMeeter
EasyEffects
>I need something that can upload pirated music to an iphone
Use a USB cable. Or KDE Connect, but it's very experimental on iOS.

>>108642920
It should be possible to use the File Manager to "save" files into other apps.

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Holy shitballs I hate Microsoft so much.
>want to make a remote desktop for Wayland
>everyone screams "GIB RDP!!!!" because there are eighty squillion devices that support it
>ok fine
>how bad could it be?
Imagine if the X11 protocol designers from the 1980s tried writing a video streaming protocol extension in Win32 C while taking copious amounts of drugs and you will begin to imagine the horror.

>>108643406
fuck, that meme is pure soul

>>108643406
>I fucking hate nixOS
why?

>>108643406
You're trying to write your own remote desktop program?

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>>108642906
>I need something that can upload pirated music to an iphone (insert your apple product jokes here.

>>108642906
You could run a Windows VM just for iTunes. Of course that takes up some space to do that.

I found an old Dell tablet with an intel atom inside of it, running Windows 8.
What desktop environment is the most tablet friendly while not gobbling up all the RAM and without having the CPU be at 100% all the time?

Getting real fucking tired of Gentoo's bullshit, but I have no idea what distro to switch to
I've had good experiences with the BSDs in the past so I want to try FreeBSD but I'm in no position to remake my partition table right now

>Fedora atomic
>flatpak for everything with a gui
>distrobox for everything with a cli
everything just... works, God is good.

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>>108643682
Gnome actually sounds the best for a touchscreen but it uses more RAM than the others. KDE does have an option for them but I've never used it. It's considered heavy too but not as much as gnome.

>>108644351
>Gnome actually sounds the best for a touchscreen
On paper GNOME looks like iPad OS, but the actual touch screen integration is mediocre. I'll give GNOME credit for having a better touch keyboard than Plasma, but if your tablet has a physical keyboard then I would 100% use Plasma on it.

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Does anyone know if it is possible to install the Deluge 1.3.15 Thin Client (Windows name: deluge-1.3.15-win32-py2.7.exe)?
I'm not sure if the Thin Client is separate or if this is just the 1.3 client. I'm on Nobara and I can't find it in their repo or on flathub.
I've got two months of experience using Linux so forgive me if the solution is super obvious. I haven't been able to figure it out myself or found a solution by searching.

>>108644438
https://deluge-torrent.org/userguide/thinclient/

Recently moved to Void. So far, it's been great. Everything i need works. Really not change in my workflow at all, just no more systemd which is perfect.
But Linux is in trouble. This slow creep of standardization... Systemd Wayland gnome.. means that ultimately there will be one distro. If you think the standardization will stop with just those three now and won't eventually include everything from package managers to terminals, you're a fool.

>>108644624
Anon just be happy with your Void install. You're happy now, right?
Or if you still feel like dooming, are you not?

>>108644438
That's a very ancient version of Deluge. You won't find it in your repositories since a repo only holds 1 version. And since Linux userspace has almost no backwards compatibility it's possible you won't be able to run the 1.3.15 even if you find it. You'd have to install Distrobox and use Ubuntu 16 or Ubuntu 18 to run it the client.

>>108644438
>>108644587
not familiar with this being called thin client, this is pretty common for many kinds of servers in linux, especially torrent clients are pretty much all like this (server component with separate gtk/qt/wev/cli/etc frontends)
if you want just the server component, install deluge-daemon. if you want the web frontend as well, install deluge-web.
i don't know what that specific windows executable ships with

>>108644643
It's supporting alternatives to push back against the standardization of Linux. The last thing we need is for Linux to become fully standardized with maintainers having full control over everything with no accountability or oversight (systemd and age verification for just one example).
Fighting AV is pointless since you and I don't have enough to off the politicians behind that Zuckerberg has. But we can fight back again shit like Wayland and systemd completely taking over (they're just the start, eventually there will be a distro wide standard for everything from the terminal to the package manager).

I have a question about gentoo profiles. The handbook says there are handy profiles for gentoo/plasma that should do lots of heavy lifting for me when configuring the system. I thought it was just configuration of flags but when I did a merge @world it started pulling all kinds of plasma packages too. I was hoping for a debloated installation so I picked all the dependencies I wanted from the meta package.

Do you think I should just the profile do its own thing or is picking something like a desktop profile, slapping the plaama USE flags on it and then installing the packages I want something worth the trouble?

>>108644702
•enough money to pay off

>>108644646
Thank you, that's very helpful.

Coming from Windows I just took backwards compatibility for granted. I had no idea it wasn't much of a thing on Linux. That's good to know going forwards.

Thanks for outlining a possible solution, although it makes me think that the better approach is probably to either update my client/server to the most recent version or even just switch to another Torrent client. I had been putting it off and using the older version because I have never migrated between Torrent clients before and I dreaded making a mistake.

>>108644772
not him but this is something which is brought up often by windows users, the fact it's not as easy to install or keep old versions of programs.
as a windows user this surely seems like a disadvantage, but as someone who has used linux a long time, i can say the reasons you might want to use an old version of a program just doesn't really exist in linux in the first place.
it's not unheard of for some useful tool in windows to turn sour in some way, maybe being sold off to an ad company, becoming gimped in order to sell a premium version, just changing in a big way you don't like, etc. in linux, many of these don't apply, and in most of the remaining ones there is the possibility of forks. big changes in popular programs in linux often result in a fork.
in my 20 years of using linux i can't think of a single program version/lineage i'd like to be using but can't. also note that even in the unlikely case that you DO have a particular program which got worse to you in some way and doesn't have a maintained version/fork, running old versions of software in linux IS in fact possible, it just may require more effort than "double clicking a setup.exe" like it usually is in windows.

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>>108644704
>I thought it was just configuration of flags
Some USE flags pull packages on their own.
>>108644657
idk about Deluge but Transmission and aMule for example both have a "remote" which is a GUI that connects to a (remote) daemon. Not the same thing as the actual aMule or Transmission servent which is a GUI and works as a standalone.
So for example if you got a remote server serving Transmission web interface you can use it via web browser or with the "remote GUI".

>>108644919
>idk about Deluge but Transmission and aMule for example both have a "remote" which is a GUI that connects to a (remote) daemon. Not the same thing as the actual aMule or Transmission servent which is a GUI and works as a standalone.
>So for example if you got a remote server serving Transmission web interface you can use it via web browser or with the "remote GUI".
that's what i'm talking about.
i mean sure this is what thin clients are used for, viewing content running on a server, so it makes sense

if anon is after just the gui client to connect to a remote server, deluge-gtk should do the trick. i haven't used deluge in many years but i doubt this part has changed as it's a common feature for torrent programs

>>108644704
If it works it's fine. I have KDE Plasma installed on:

$ eselect profile show
Current /etc/portage/make.profile symlink:
  default/linux/amd64/23.0/no-multilib

As you can see, that's not the KDE profile. As long as you have all the packages you want then leave it be. You don't have to use the KDE profile.

>>108644972
Understood. I thought there was something esoteric done by profiles that couldn't replicate on something like a simple desktop profile. Right now I am trying to install gentoo in a VM to get accustomed to the installation process and even though I set binary-only there are some USE flags that clearly conflicted with the already available binaries so I ended up compiling stuff anyway. It wouldn't be a problem if only I didn't set 1 core in the VM settings