>>108661614
>SteamOS
>Fedora Atomic
>KDE Linux
>ROCKNIX
Immutable is the future of Linux. Is your software stack ready for it?

>>108661715
I will never switch my main pc to an immutable os, but I will use them for specialized devices

>>108661715
>Is your software stack ready for it?
The dirty secret about every immutable is that your "software stack" just runs in a mutable container and is none the wiser.

The only annoying thing with them is if you want to change the base system it usually requires building an entire custom image or extension of some description but that's not even a bad thing as long as the tooling is good.

I'm a Gentoo die-hard OpenRC user but I've running KDE Linux on my laptop and I'm very impressed with what Systemd has been able to do with the Sysupdate infrastructure they have.
It is not overly over-complicated and engineered to hell and back like OSTree. At its core it is is just image based updates and there's something to be said for that simplicity. Yes, it wastes more space on disk but that should just be taken as an invitation to make the base-system less bloated so your images aren't huge.

>>108661614
Between Fedora, openSUSE or Ubuntu (or something else entirely) which would you pick for the employees laptops at an enterprise environment? I'm looking for something robust, easy to automatically upgrade and easy to add the a microsoft domain.

>>108662007
Debian stable or RHEL (if you can afford it).

>>108662033
>Debian stable
I thought about it, I use it for many servers, but I was under the impression Ubuntu LTS would be a better choice here, for endpoint client devices. If I'm not mistaken, I believe most of the work to add the machine to an azure domain (forgot to mention it's azure) is already done.

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Holy shit that wallpaper sure takes me back.
The battle for Freedom continues.

>>108661715
Now that I think on it, is there any reason you couldn't build an offline snapshot system with any filesystem with reflink? IE

cp -a /root /root-$(date -c %s)

on every offline upgrade. Just have a top level filesystem layout like typical btrfs deployments and have your early boot pivot_root into the top level /root directory. Wouldn't this be 99% the same as an Atomic distro with none of the drawbacks?

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>>108662033
>if you can afford it
that shit's already free nigga

>>108662096
Rocky is a free-use version of current CentOS not RHEL itself.

I just swapped to Artix I used the community version on X11 the taskbar at the bottom is split in half horizontally I have tried many fixes nothing works my drivers are fine.

Anyone know a fix? I could just use wayland but I want to sort this first because I want to try out xlibre.

>>108662007
I would personally pick either Fedora Kinoite or Fedora Silverblue. There's just far less maintenance and less things can go wrong with Atomic distros. They're pretty much perfect for corporate environments. Between the two Kinoite is the better choice since people are more familiar with Windows-like UI.
My second option would be Ubuntu LTS.

>>108661715
Immutable is a meme.

>>108662007
Pretty sure ubuntu has integrated easy support for connecting to an active directory domain, dunno if fedora would too.

>>108662250
>far less maintenance
Fedora silverblue and kinonite are cucked by fedora codecs and require the rpmfusion repo.

>>108662129
No, it's a free use version of RHEL. CentOS Stream is a free use beta of the next RHEL release.

>>108661614
>lilo
>grub
>gcc
What an odd selection

>>108662337
>codecs
>rpmfusion
A thing an average workstation doesn't care about. If you need codecs then use Aurora or Bluefin.

>>108662413
An average workstation cares about being able to have proper h264 decoding and not be stuck in redhats legal drama.

>>108662337
I've been using Fedora for about 10 years consecutively and only had rpmfusion issues twice. Both times were trivial. In terms of maintenance overhead it's totally negligible compared to learning Atomic and its recurring administrative work.

>>108662501
>not be stuck in redhats legal drama
There's no legal drama unless you're buying RedHat support contracts.

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regardless of what you think of the program itself, should I use flatpak to manage wine prefixes or should I just ignore the recommendations of the author and use AUR?

Can you use the CachyOS repos on Artix the same way you can on Arch or will it break things?

>>108662501
You don't want video decoding on work machines. The last thing you want is for your employees to fuck around on youtube or tiktok all day.

>>108662659
as far as I know the only thing that artix does different is no systemd so regardless of what repo you use if a program only supports systemd init you will write your own inits

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So apparently Ubuntu has GPO support and piss easy AD joining during the installation process. This might actually be the distro of choice. Not a big fan of Canonical and even less GNOME, but what can you do.

>>108662803
isn't there a krashde flavor

>>108662836
https://documentation.ubuntu.com/adsys/latest/how-to/use-gpo/

You can do a lot more with GNOME/dconf

>>108662634
The legal drama is the codec patent issues

>>108662761
I had a look and apparently it will cause a lot of problems because it will pull packages setup for systemd so I'm not gonna use it. It is only a minor difference anyway.

>>108662659
You probably can since artix gives you the option to add the regular arch repos as well you'll just have to be careful when it comes to stuff depending on systemd.

>>108662884
Also established to be totally negligible.

>>108662737
You will need video decoding for stuff like slack or whichever company chat program or for whatever embedded electron js app the company uses since everything now is just a webapp.

>>108662891
I mean you will probably be fine by just using their kernel. Anything more is whatever

>>108662934
If it was negligible then fedora would have those codecs by default in the first place instead of requiring the user to install a 3rd party repo.

>something used to work
>update
>it don't work
I'm getting tired of the systemd enshitification

>>108662974
rpmfusion is a US patent law dodge. There's no technical challenge in compiling ffmpeg with slightly different flags enabled.

>>108659834
It is, but I was recommended to try a later driver to see if my game performance would improve.

>>108661797
only sane answer

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>>108661614
why do some Appimages like DuckStation automatically create a desktop/app-menu icon while others like PSX2 appimage does not?

>>108663641
Because there's almost nothing standard about AppImage. It's just whatever the guy authoring the file wants.

>>108663641
>DuckStation
I kind of like the emulator but the dev is actively trying to kill Linux support as much as possible.

Suddenly every single program in my KDE Application Launcher got marked as New.

>>108663840
kde has corrupted every program. i'm sorry anon.

>have to use timeshift to fix my broken drivers
>now brave doesnt work because "Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module"
I fixed it by just reinstalling but I lost all my tabs and saved bookmarks and im fucking pissed
I'm never attempting to upgrade my nvidia drivers again

>install tlp
>works to some degree
>AC mode works
>switching to BAT then AC once again kneecapped the performance, compared to never doing so, which also caused stuttering in games for some reason
>install tuned instead
>it werks
>no stuttering even in power saving mode, temps are low as well
my only complaint is that i had to write a script to turn on and off the batery charge limits, but otherwise tuned seems to work pretty well. The battery saving mode's default settings seem to be pretty good, i mostly use them to keep the temps low and it just hovers around 60°C instead of spiking to 70°C like the battery mode did with tlp. For reference it goes up to 90-95°C in performance mode.
I havent bothered to check what the real differences are in terms of changes yet, i know they both fiddle with the same settings

Really happy how far wine and all has come. All I had to do off a fresh install to get a vn working was set the locale variables in lutris. Amazing.

>>108664484
I never figured out how to use Lutris lol

>>108664743
the way I use it it's basically just a wine prefix manager with some variables and commands I can click easily instead of remembering them and typing them all out. And sometimes it's an easy script that someone else made to quickly do a bunch of things to the prefix to make a game work. But usually just the former.

>>108664743
All that shit gives me the ick. System wine and a bash script to spin up new prefixes is all you need. Maybe proton once in a blue moon if you play a lot of brand new games.

>>108664882
>bash script
No one was ever able to answer me why I can bash into nodejs but once I do I can't execute the 2 line javascirpt code I wrote.

>>108664824
I prefer winetricks for that, I don't know what it is about it but winetricks just feels "like a part of wine" to me, maybe its how the menu is setup.

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How long until I can install a noob friendly distro on M4 MacBook Air?
I use Ubuntu and Kubuntu on my other machines

>>108664958
Probably not quoting it correctly. Use shellcheck.

>>108662337
not a problem with yt-dlp and some flatpak/distrobox mpv client

>>108664958
if you haven't thrown the question into claude/gpt or whatever yet, this is the one thing ai is actually useful for rn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnaCuj1gnC0
I'm confused
is George Droyd a linux soldier fighting against Microsoft according to this video?
please help me understand the linux situation

Is there a better OCR than Frog? Most of the time, it outputs inaccurate or gibberish words.

why do appimages not work on Ubuntu?

>>108665519
no you imbecile
microsoft literally created the fent reactor that george droyd needs to sustain himself
this is pro-windows propaganda

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Are you serious freetards

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>>108665605
work on my machine

>>108663523
The only noteworthy issues I have ever had in 2 years of using Linux is when some stuff started to shit itself because I updated from 580 to 590 on Mint. Can't really offer you much advice but just to confirm it's not only you.

>>108663827
What became of that? I heard he had a little meltdown because the Linux autists were being shit heads as per usual, what was the end result?

windows troglodyte here
qrd on how do i into linucks

>>108665605
what the fuck lol. On Cinnamon you can right click a folder to open as root, I used to do it all the time because I'm an anti-CLI extremist. I never figured out how to do that on KDE, which is one of the reasons I switched back. Now I know.

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>>108663641
AppImage itself is irrelevant here, the program in question could exist in whatever format. You are basically running a random program from random location and now it's up to the program itself to place a menu entry under ~/.local/share/applications.
When you install stuff 'normally' (as in from your distro's repositories) you get menu entries added under /usr/share/applications as your distro's package maintainers make sure of that.
>>108663341
Extra info?

>>108665655
>back up all the files and whatever you need off Windows
>download Linux Mint iso
>get a tool like Rufus or Balena Etcher to flash the iso to a USB drive
>you may need to go into your BIOS to turn off secureboot
>reboot and go into your boot menu (often F12 but it depends) so you can boot into a live version of Mint
>Check that your internet and sound and other basic shit works
>Assuming everything is all good click on the desktop there will be a thing for a permanent install
>It's retardedly easy you don't need to know anything
>WIPE YOUR SHITTY WINDOWS INSTALL WHEN IT ASKS (dual booting is for gay homosexuals)
>Reboot
>You are now using Linux

DO NOT listen to any trannys telling you to start with Arch or any other retarded shit. There are a couple of other acceptable beginner ones but none are as reliable or appropriate as Mint. There are like a million youtube videos to walk you through the process if you are unsure about anything. Good luck brother, report back once you have joined the side of love and light.

I just switched from Win 10 to mint. Should I punish myself and learn to code by trying to install arch?

>>108665697
sounds easy enough, will do friend

>>108665622
>>108665658
I have two dolphin instances open, one on my home dir, one on /etc/ and I can't simply drag a file from one to the next, get a sudo prompt and continue with my day? LOL

>>108665717
Installing Arch won't teach you how to code, it will teach you to install Arch. If you want to learn how to code, pick a language and start coding, you can do this with any distro.

>>108665733
Which language do you use and why do you use it? What would you recommend to a complete beginner?

Is there a meaningful difference on CPU usage between XFCE and Plasma on a 2017 laptop CPU? I'm looking to switch from Fedora Workstation to something that fits my own style, this time going from the ground up with the Everything ISO.

>>108665717
No. I started on Mint and switched to Arch after a while because I had done the 'beginner' distro and wanted to know what I was missing. There is so much to learn you see. Well, there isn't. You either use the install script which is easy as hell, or do it all manually which is just fucking around with localizations and drive partitions and basically the same outcome as the install script but with a lot more fucking around. You don't really """learn""" anything noteworthy by doing it, other than it making you realize that the desktop environment is a more consequential choice than the distro.

I stayed on it for a while, it was quite fine actually I never had any problems but I didn't like a few things so I tried a couple more distros and eventually went back to Mint. There isn't anything you can do on Arch that you can't do on Mint, and as the other anon said you don't learn anything that isn't specific to installing Arch.

>>108665761
Python is beginners code, so start with that.

>>108665761
If you want to get right into it then do Harvard's CS50 course which is available for free. It's a lot of work but its set up to be doable for beginners. Starting with C is good to get a lower level understanding, but most work by most people is done in higher level languages so in that case probably start with Python, just find some free course online or youtube tutorials if you can't be bothered with C.

>>108665780
Thank you

>>108665767
No. KDE Plasma and Cinnamon are the only desktop environments that meaningfully exist in current year, complete waste of time to use anything else unless you are so limited that you need a basic window manager type workflow. 2017 is recent for the purposes of this discussion. 2010 and older maybe you have to consider other options.

>>108665717
The absolute most installing Arch will teach you is what steps make part of a Linux installation and how to configure them. You need to try writing a small 2D game or something like that to learn programming. Get started with JavaScript using the Three.is tutorials or look up Python. If you want to learn how to apply programming to your Linux workflow, pick Python and then bash (bash manages simpler concepts but is full of extremely unfamiliar syntax and legacy workarounds, Python is almost like speaking English, both can compliment each other).

>>108665810
Alright Python then Bash

>>108665786
You learn the most by doing projects by the way so once you feel comfortable enough try to think of something you actually want to make, then figure out step by step how to do it. I have made numerous programs in C and python and even made entire functional 3D games in Unreal and there is heaps of basic shit I don't even know or barely understand. I barely understand what I actually did when I look back at it. There is infinite stuff to learn so if you get stuck trying to learn everything before you start you never get anything done. Eventually you gotta just start doing shit and figure it out as you go.

Most people don't know that much outside the scope of what they are actively working on, and even then you have to look up every little detail the whole time because there is too much to remember. Before I started I had delusions of these superautist hackermen tippidy tapping endless lines of code to make functional software off the top of their head, but such thing doesn't really exist. Programming is 90% staring at your dumb code figuring out why something doesn't work, googling or asking ChatGPT about shit, spending an hour reading about different libraries which achieve basically the same thing to decide which one to use, etc etc. You never reach a point where you've LEARNED to code, you learn little bits and pieces of functionality from different languages and different libraries and so on. Then after a few years you've made a few things and are more advanced than 99% of computer users and someone says 'you know how to code?' and you say oh god no, I have no idea what I'm doing.

The only distros a true straight white man should consider
>Void
>Void
>Void
Everything else is for trannies

>>108665795
OK thanks, now anyone here has tried a minimal Plasma install on Fedora? What core packages should I care about?

>>108665849
Isn't void uhhh.... made by trannies?

>>108665832
From what I have gathered is that you really don't need to remember most syntax, just the concepts behind coding, like backpressure, thundering herd and to log everything inputs | outputs | and errors

I didn't install Arch the "right way". I read through the guide. I know all the commands. But I'm not wasting my time when archinstall will do it for me much faster after selecting the options I want. Sure, maybe I didn't beat the game but I don't care.

>>108665771
>I didn't like a few things
I'm curious, what were they?

>>108665849
Fedora is the one true Aryan white man distro, you need look no further than IBM.

>>108665830
More like python, then surface level bash, then C and Unix API, then actually get good at bash, then C++ if you're a real masochist.

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>>108661614
Got a t480s and want to install a dual boot. Managed to install Arch once but fucked up the fucking grub implementation and formated my files partition.
So now i want to do it again but with a more stable distro.
Is ubuntu good and based?

>>108661614
Legitimately tempted to switch back to Linux, I don't need any distro advice, simply if the Nvidia drivers are better than when I stopped using it on my main rig back in early 2025(?) Just before explicit sync got merged into the drivers, as the out of order frames and video output issues were killing me.
I just have begun to hate using Windows that much and I know it's not a placebo to enjoy knowing your PC is your own like you do when you're running Linux.

>>108666068
>Fuck up grub
>Blame the distro
What? Just use arch install.

>>108666110
Oh no it was a fuck up on my part and not trying to deny it.
Just want to know if its worth it to roll with arch instead of something like opensuse

>>108666152
It depends what you want out of your machine, I like Arch personally after distro hopping a lot, all I sum it up as is, it works, I can grab the software I want, I don't have to depend on PPAs like I did on Ubuntu, I have everything at my finger tips and none of the bloat attached to it.
Is it the most beginner friendly? Not really, I know a girl who uses mint and she's fine with it with no complaints.

>>108666244
Hmmm. I'll give Arch another try then. But this time ill have backups of my shit

>>108666152
There's no correct answer, everyone is biased towards what has worked for them. If you ask me, I wouldn't bother with arch because I prefer point releases and the safety net provided by no major version changes within a certain span of time.

>>108666014
I've seen videos calling C++ antiquated and verbose as in you have to write several lines of code just to the same with Python in one line and that people only use it because it was industry standard years ago but is still shuffling along.

>>108666327
Which distro do you use then?

>>108662803
With Samba you can already join AD domain (or Samba AD domain)
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member
Samba has proper Group Policy implementation with its own Administrative Templates that work just fine on Linux.
https://dmulder.github.io/group-policy-book/index.html
As for this Canonical adsys I can't find information if it configures AD Member properly: sounds like it manages user account support, but there's no information about SMB and Kerberos support.

>>108662803
usecase for GPO?

>>108665683
something related to this allegedly
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2291294#p2291294

>>108663641
you can extract app image like a zip
https://inkscape.org/learn/appimage/

>>108664743
Same. I originally just used it to play League. When Bottles was released I just started using that and it was much more intuitive.

>>108665539
It doesn't have FUSE pre-installed.

>>108665646
>what was the end result?
At first he changed the license in a way where it was no longer technically FOSS, so newer versions of DuckStation cannot be used as "cores" in RetroArch and similar software. This made some people create SwanStation and the SwanStation core.
After that he changed the license in a way where nobody else can distribute the app but him, which made distros remove the app from their repositories. He did this because he was pissed off by almost every distro packaging outdated (broken/buggy) versions of DuckStation and users massively reporting old bugs.
After that he removed the Flatpak version saying he fucking hates Linux anyway and Flatpak is too much for him to handle, so the only official version was now the Appimage.
But then he realized that a ton of people are installing Duckstation through AUR. And legally speaking the AUR version is just a script which pulls and builds Duckstation locally from source, so nothing he can do about it. This made him create a malicious update which breaks compiling or something on Linux. But then the Arch nerds just made a patch which fixes it. That was the last drama related to DuckStation.

The end result is: The Appimage version is the only official version, DuckStation core cannot be used in RetroArch so people using consoles/htpcs are stuck with old DuckStation or SwanStation, AUR version still exists.
The next likely escalation is him breaking Linux support entirely.

>>108666652
i've never really understood the argument of "i keep getting bug reports from users of old versions on linux", as it suggests people can't use old versions on windows and report bugs from that, even though they can.
i don't think a dev has to care about linux users if they don't want to, but why make shit up to excuse it? just be honest about it.

>>108666652
To add to this:
The Linux version isn't even displayed on the official website. Despite the fact that it exists and is officially made by the DuckStation dev, he considers it unofficial and lists Linux as "other platform".
He also sperged out about Android users at one point, but I'm not Indian so I don't know what it was about.

>>108666719
Windows users are less likely to report bugs, especially those who don't update software. They wouldn't even know what github is and they're fine with using buggy software. Meanwhile, a Windows user who would actively report bugs is more likely to be on one of the latest versions.
Linux users, especially at the time, were more likely to report software bugs and were most likely to be on a Debian or Ubuntu distro meaning they'd report bugs 1-4 years old.
That said, he could've handled this a lot better. Instead of sperging out about it he could've just filtered out or de-prioritized bugs reported by people who use older versions.

The DuckStation dev is just an autistic sperg in general and doesn't like people working on DuckStation. I'm pretty sure he was also working on the PS2 emulator and was hated by most contributors there. I'm just shocked DuckStation is still open source instead of him just pushing out binaries only.

Why does Fedora and Mint lag when playing YouTube videos? Works fine on Windows.
Tried multiple browsers including Chromium ones.

>>108665761
Bash is the most important language for Linux users. Makes your system so much for useful

>>108666852
Fedora strips out patent-encumbered codecs even if they are FOSS. You need to install rpmfusion free/nonfree and then follow the rpmfusion multimedia guide.
Mint is stuck on X11 and your setup is either not correctly configured or your hardware is too new.

>>108667194
>your setup is either not correctly configured
You mean, Mint is not correctly configured.

>>108667223
There's no amount of configuration that can make Mint or X11 work properly on certain hardware.

>>108664965
m4? years if ever, unless apple opens their stuff up. m1 isn't even truly usuable, bar the fags that want to show 3 terminals with neofetch.

asahi might get dp-alt mode soon, so that's nice, after 4 years...

>>108667262
Generic x86 hardware should work fine on x11.

>>108667319
>>108667223
Besides, x11 is not something that would cause "lagging" when playing Youtube videos.

What exactly is the difference between using bash as your shell or something like zsh or whatever that other one is called. Fish I think?

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>>108667336
fish is actually comfy out of the box

>>108667336
The interface of the shell, and also some scripting primitives are different.

In the case of Fish, it is very different to Bash and Zsh as it is not a Bourne derived shell so its entire language for scripting and interacting with it is different.

This may or may not matter to you though. A lot of people will use Fish but then write their scripts in Bash anyway. Personally, I like Zsh.

>>108667336
bash is the "it just werks" standard. zsh is a highly moddable shell (mostly via oh-my-zsh) with tab completion and spelling correction by default. fish has features like where if it notices you're writing out a common command you type it'll autocomplete it for you if wanted. Its main con is that it can't run bash scripts.

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>>108666852
>>108667194
This is why the best distro for Linux beginners is Ubuntu. It comes with codecs and it just works.
>BUT MUH SNAPS
Beginners won't care, and if they do care, it's exceptionally easy to uninstall snapd.

>>108667336
zsh is basically a much better bash and most people who use the terminal often will use zsh.
fish uses a different scripting language so it's less popular since it's non-standard.

knowing AI obliterated windows 11, how concerned should I be about AI potentially obliterating linux

>>108667352
>fish has features like where if it notices you're writing out a common command you type it'll autocomplete it for you if wanted. Its main con is that it can't run bash scripts.
That's why I use zsh with autocompletion and syntax highlighting. The best of both worlds

>>108667432
Unironically, it depends on how much of a Communist Torvalds is, and I mean that in a good Vanguardist way.
Ultimately, FOSS has brought a lot of highly motivated, hierarchically driven people who understand pecking order.

At the lower levels I'm sure there'll be a ton of low grade AI slop code, but I think in large part it'll become noise like script kiddies were. MS however are known to produce active Code Diapers so I expect the product to degrade consistently over time

Test

>>108667432
You really think AI would be added to the kernel?

>>108667480
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst

>>108661614
Kubuntu-fag here
Why are AppImages not appearing on "open with..." even though I specifically tell them to, and the associations even regularly appear on mimeapps.list?

>>108667508
You don't understand what I asked. Using AI as a code assistant does not mean AI features are added to the code.
Nobody with a functioning brain has issues with people using AI generated code. The actual reason people dislike "AI in Windows" is because it literally ships with an AI assistant injected into every application. The Linux kernel will never do such a thing.

>>108666333
People always come up with excuses why they haven't learned C++. It is antiquated and it sucks, but you're not a real systems programmer if you can't work with it. If you write anything of consequence in python, you quickly discover pure python is dogshit, and you use library calls written in a real language like C, C++, or rust at every opportunity. Probably 90% of what you call by SLOC is still C++.

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>>108667558
No, people have a problem with windows being made using AI.

>>108667675
It being "made with AI" makes no difference and people who think it does are dumb as fuck.

>>108667811
>issues skyrocket after ai code starts being used
>"makes no difference"

>>108667906
Windows has been shit and riddled with issues since Windows 10. AI is just a tool. The real people to blame are the QA (which have almost all been fired a decade ago) and the code reviewers and devs that don't double check or test their code.

>>108667675
People have an issue with MS stuff being made by AI and Indians. If you use AI as an assistant with your code I don't see any issue with it, it can save a lot of fucking around but when you have a bunch or Indians using it to do everything and not reviewing anything you get what is happening to Windows and MS in general (most MS apps and websites are kind of trash now e.g. the Xbox mobile app).

But I think >>108667432 was talking about Linux distros being bombarded with AI "helpers" like Windows is with Copilot, I don't see this as an issue as Linux obviously has limitless distros so if one uses an AI helper you can just swap to one that doesn't.

I personally like AI but I do think it is being used poorly by the majority of people and I do think that this is going to have great negative consequences on software, mental health and basically the world in general.

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trying to get 2D fighter maker 2002 running on wine.

Call from 7B5C8917 to unimplemented function comctl32.dll.HIMAGELIST_QueryInterface, aborting

I get this error.

>>108668485
Instead of the native version, try the built-in.

>>108667538
Wow, I finally found out what the problem was.
For whatever fucking reason, ALL relevant .desktop files in .local/share/applications included: "NoDisplay=true"
What the actual fuck?

>>108668551
built in creates pop up issues on my app.

>>108668602
Instead of using straight wine, have you thought of trying umu-launcher instead?

>>108667194
I see. I did use ChatGPT but the commands didn't help.
Would Bazzite or CachyOS fix this?
I can't be bothered troubleshooting.

>>108668612
dunno what's that.


002c:fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)
0074:fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)
0120:fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)
0128:fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)
0128:err:commdlg:DllMain failed to create activation context, last error 14001


Got now this error.

>>108668632
ultramarine

>>108668637
Did you make a 32-bit prefix for this game? Because if you didn't the game trying to run in a 64-bit prefix is probably why it's not working properly.

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>>108668660
the issue is an anoying pop up, not a crash.

still trying to sort out mousewheel functionality on arch+gnome+wayland, it just stopped working
suddenly
kernel does recognize the events when I run evtest on the mouse, so I expect the issue to be somewhere in wayland but I have no idea what to try next

>>108668717
Try using winetricks to add comctl32 to the prefix.

>>108668752
that causes the open file dialog to crash the app.

>>108668775
Then I'm out of ideas.

>>108665956
Enjoy your AI ridden kernel.

>>108668632
Yes, if it really is because of codecs or drivers. Bazzite is just Fedora with proprietary drivers and codecs added on top and Steam pre-installed.

So...where's Ubuntu 26.04?

>>108669208
Check under the couch

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>>108661614
I want install gentoo with her

>>108669211
Found it :p

Guys I just installed arch with archinstall but there is no wifi there is no bluetooth I'm fucked up what do I do?

>>108669437
Well it should've installed/enabled something like NetworkManager or enabled systemd-networkd/resolved so you get wireless net, also in how it should've installed bluez and bluez-utils to get bluetooth working along with blueman for a GUI control panel. Check if these are installed.

>>108669437
Not an Arch user but have you checked the wiki?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bluetooth
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless

>>108661614
installed mint today had to give up my 120 gb + porn because I didn't want to deal with frustration of moving around things too much ,collected some old pics transferred em on 32gb usb ,made an ISO and said complete fuck off to windows ,had to reinsert for partition because it allocated everything to system file .what I think of it
>computer feels like brand new and zero lags
>fast bootup time
>it has a 2gb d-gpu based on fermi architecture so it's unusable now ,searched through some forums and find out there's no supported drivers or anything so it's useless now on latest mint
>dealing with hidden files

how tf do you hide stuff in this thing without using . as prefix ,there must be something more complicated than this for linux man ,I dont want my retard cousin to open my shi and immediately blast mia k getting rawdogged by 3 blacks ,thanks

>>108669457
Okay I connected to the internet through nmtui but the graphic interface of wifi is still not there what should I do? I'm using kde plasma.

>>108669566
You should just be able to interact with NetworkManager through KDE's settings panel

>>108669541
>had to give up my 120 gb + porn because I didn't want to deal with frustration of moving around things too much
you can convert ntfs to btrfs in-place
>how tf do you hide stuff in this thing without using . as prefix ,there must be something more complicated than this for linux
there is several options

There isn't even a task manager or anything wtf

>>108669593
explain ps and kill, then

>>108669593
on mint there atleast is a manager but I mostly use htop

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>>108669586
It's missing

>>108669593
use btop

>>108669647
kara boga

>>108669647
And this is why I never use archinstall

>>108669541
>how tf do you hide stuff in this thing without using . as prefix
On KDE Plasma you'd just use the "Vaults" feature which encrypts folders. Check if Cinnamon has that, if not you'll have to do it manually somehow or get a 3rd party app for it.

>>108669647
Do you not have the KCM?

Try running:

kcmshell6 kcm_networkmanagement

>>108662129
RHEL is free. you do not need to pay for it as a single user.
retards i swear to god. i bet you use arch.

>>108669647
The classic Arch KDE experience. KDE is so modular and unbloated you end up with stuff like this

>>108669437
run the installer again, mount the system, install networkmanager and configure it, and reboot

>>108669709
>>108669647
If it's missing then installing plasma-nm should fix it for you.

>>108669718
>you do not need to pay for it as a single user.
Follow the thread, the use case is an enterprise's workstation >>108662007

>>108662129
If you're going to use a RHEL clone on the desktop may as well use Alma Linux. They have BTRFS and better KDE support, plus CERN uses them as their distribution of choice and if it's good enough for them it ought to be good enough for you too.

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>>108669709
Yes it's missing. Is there a way to install all missing KDE packages without installing it from scratch?

>>108667570
>Probably 90% of what you call by SLOC is still C++.
yeah because c++ takes 10x more lines to accomplish the same thing

Had many unrecoverable system freezes all of sudden when launching game since last updates on Mint.

>>108670259
out of memory?

>>108670268
Shouldn't be, that game only takes like 4Gb and I have 16Gb.

Alr everyone I solved it thanks to Claude. I'll come back when I have an another problem (5 min later).

Is there an Adwaita/Gnome icon theme that works with KDE? I've been looking like crazy but been unable to find one. Seems kind of crazy to me that there wouldn't be. Even if some icons have to use Breeze as a fallback.

>>108670043
again, you can just boot into the arch installer, mount the system, and install the package

>>108670351
That will look hideous with the fallback. You used to actually be able to select the Adwaita icon theme but KDE deliberately decided to hide it because it broke things so badly.

As always, anything made for GNOME will be completely broken in other environments like KDE. You'd need to find someone that cares enough about GNOME's design language but that also likes KDE to find a usable icon theme and that intersection of two people is so small so as to be almost non-existent. I doubt you'll find anything.

I noticed the 'user friendly' gaming packages button in CachyOS's helper wants to install mesa-git.
This seems kind of unstable, has anyone using it found it to be so? It's also incredibly annoying to switch from it to the stable package because it has ten dependencies I can never remember all the names of that are pulled by mesa-git, but not mesa.

>>108669721
Theres a plasma metapackage group for arch and it should've brought in all the other packages needed.
>>108670043
installing "plasma" should bring everything else in
otherwise try plasma-meta but both literally do the same thing

>>108670043
How did you install it?

`plasma-meta` should pull everything required to run the plasma desktop.
`kde-applications-meta` should pull everything else (even kde stuff you don't want).

For a more refined approach than applications-meta, pick one or more of the -meta packages here, https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=kde+meta

I would try to avoid the non -meta group packages as they make it significantly harder to remove all the sub packages later should you want to.

>>108661614
Why didnt you guys tell me to not install debian.gnome?

>wake pc to sleep
>on login screen
>keyboard doesn't work
>tried to plug in a wireless one
>still wouldn't work
Any ideas on what happened? Using KDE if that part matters.

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>>108671169
idk i use gnome

>>108671169
ssh in, look at lsusb and dmesg

>>108669593
Use Resources if you are used to windows, ignore all htop and that kind of shit.

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I just pulled the trigger on a 9070XT after being an nvidia user for years. What can I expect?

>>108671517
kde will now have a slightly lower chance of bugging out

>>108671067
>Debian
>Gnome
>Debian + Gnome

Posting from the newly released Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon. It's actually really fine. I might stop distrohopping for a while and stay here. Everthing just works.

https://github.com/benapetr/TuxManager
based

>>108672072
Nice. Now Windows refugees can have their comfort program. We just need to compile a list of decent quality 1:1 Linux equivalents for Windows applications so when someone complains about X not being like Y they can consult the list

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I still don't understand why kde deprecated ksysguard, that abomination they're pretending to be replacement is quite simply unusable
they killed something extremely useful (a small process manager that can be opened instantly) and replaced with whatever the fuck that kirigami piece of shit is

>>108672139
Now just port explorer.exe 1:1 and fix polkit so I don't have to deal with retarded dogshit like >>108665724

>>108671517
For once in your life everything actually just works like the Apple man said. No cache locality issues, no dwm issues, no kernel mode exceptions, it's just one giant chip that's plug and play with the kernel.

>>108672169
Just use htop

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>https://system76.com/support/articles/system76-driver
wtf do these genuinely, actually, do? I have a System76 computer and am looking at moving from the default Ubuntu to Artix, which doesn't have systemd, so would I need to make services/init scripts for these or can I just run without and be fine?
It's a Thelio Mira desktop system btw, not a laptop. I see in

https://github.com/pop-os/system76-driver/blob/8e51a6399a3135c3c6812bcb01af67a61071d00e/system76driver/products.py#L1376

that it says drivers is an empty list so does that mean it does nothing? The article also mentions a firmware daemon though, so maybe I just need that? idk.

>>108672703
I did a bit of a search apparently it is just for system76 machines to make them run better or whatever and you can install it on non systemd systems it doesn't seem like they are absolutely necessary desu, but what do I know I have never used a system76 machine before.

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How do I make this miserable thing stop happening every time there's a power outage now.

>>108672169
this is nu-linux. we have to rewrite everything in rust and with mit licenses and can't just help existing projects.

>>108672963

>>108672843
Buy an UPS

>>108672998
Why did they deliete my thread?

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is quickshell a meme?

kernel 7.0 finally hit nixos unstable

>>108673036
Ok so I installed Lutris now what?

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How do I get rid of this disgusting default font on arch

Been using Bazzite for a week now. Everything works fine so far but I've really only used steam

>>108669437
You need Wi-Fi tools to go with your Wi-Fi thing. idk what makes Bluetooth go exactly, the "bluez" package I guess.
t. tard
>>108669566
Try installing "wireless_tools".
>>108667480
Support for neural processing units is there. Not sure if counts as "having AI".

So what's the practical difference between iwd and wpa_supplicant?
I know the former was developed in part to replace the latter, and that the two shouldn't be used together, but is there any reason to favour one over the other as a user?

>>108673371
Great, that's the main reason to use Bazzite. If you're gonna do more than just play games then it might give you trouble.

Im going crazy
So I downloaded the iso for SimCity 3000 unlimited from the internet archive
Mounted the iso
Iso readme says
Log in as root:
$ mount /mnt/cdrom
$ cd /mnt/cdrom
$ sh setup.sh

I didnt do that I just mounted as regular user from the file manager
Then I cd to /media/myuser/CDROM
the I ran sudo sh setup.sh
It told me it doesnt recognize unknown Linux or something
I asked the AI and it said to try
sudo linux32 sh setup.sh
That seems to have installed it
I chose a directory in my home for the installation, then I change the owner to myself instead of root
Readme say to execute sc3u to start the game but I get command not found

>>108673689
>Readme say to execute sc3u to start the game but I get command not found
Go to the folder where you installed the game and look for that file.
It's not telling you to run the command 'sc3u' in the terminal, it's telling you to run the file.

>>108673689
As someone who played it back in the day, it's a shit port with bad memory leaks. Get a Redump copy of the Windows version and run it in wine.

>>108673775
How though

>>108672169
Somebody ported it to Qt 6:
https://github.com/zvova7890/ksysguard6
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ksysguard6-git

>>108673347
When it comes to default Arch fonts I always use the mix of ttf-dejavu, ttf-liberations and noto-fonts. Works for whatever you need.
You could also use ttf-ubuntu-font-family as well if you like the look of Ubuntu's fonts.

Too many LARPers are using Arch now, what do I move to?

>>108674045
Go use like OpenMandriva or something if you want to be a hipster

>>108674045
Artix or Solus.

>>108674045
Install Gentoo.
BSD.

>>108673820
nta but you get it from gog-games to and run the installer as a non-steam game (or in the launcher you use), then point the file path to sc3u.exe

Does anyone else use /tmp for scratch storage and get really annoyed when Flatpak's use a private /tmp in its place so anything you store there can't be accessed.

Can we please get some "shared /tmp for users" standard directory? "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"/tmp maybe?

>>108673820
>load iso with cdemu, mount
>wine explorer
>my computer -> whatever drive letter
>double click setup.exe / autorun.exe
May have to create a 32-bit prefix or put wine in Windows 95 mode. Ask AI how. Or just pay $5 for the GoG version and run it from Steam like other Anon said.

>>108674199
Fixed it. I just setup /mnt/tmp. Seems to propagate into the Flatpaks that have access to mount points at least.

# cat /etc/tmpfiles.d/mnt-tmp.conf 
# Type  Path               Mode  UID   GID   Age  Argument
d       /mnt/tmp    1777  root  root  -    -
# cat /etc/systemd/system/mnt-tmp.mount 
[Unit]
Description=23GB Tmpfs Scratch space

[Mount]
What=tmpfs
Where=/mnt/tmp
Type=tmpfs
Options=mode=1777,size=23G

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

>>108674199
I mount zram on /mem

>>108672843
use a modern filesystem such as btrfs

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How stupid would I be if I were to acquire 96GB of RAM for my PC build?

Dual booting Fedora with Windows 11 sounds like hell, so I must go the QEMU/KVM route for my CAD/CAM stuff. I’m willing to take the performance hit since tiling my workspace is super appealing. Needing two graphics cards feels less excessive since they won’t be the same strength.

Please understand this theoretical beast of a computer will balance my gaming/work life. I’m not rich, but have a decent enough savings to make a worthwhile investment.

>>108674697
>I'm not rich
>I'm gonna put 96GB of RAM in my next computer
Okay bud. Linux is much better at using large amounts of RAM by default, though if you want Windows to use all of it you'll need to use Pro for Workstations.

>>108674697
>CAD/CAM
Do these need VRAM to work? I know what they are in a general sense, but not what resources they call for. Does it also require that much RAM? If all you did on Windows was run those I would like to think even 8GB is good enough, but I have no idea on their RAM usage. Assuming you're trying to build a new PC, the CPU you get would most likely have an iGPU. You wouldn't need two discrete GPUs if that's the case.
I would think 32GB is plenty, but if you feel like you need more than 48GB would be a little more feasible.

How likely are Fedora KDE 43 bugs going to transfer over to 44?
Is it better to upgrade or boot Fedora KDE 44 in via a USB?

>>108674776
not him but it doesn't need as much as you might think, at least not the stuff i've made. i have assemblies with part counts into the thousands and they work fine with an old 8GB gpu. i have also done what anon is wanting to do and running it in a vm with a second gpu

>>108674711
I prefaced my question with my potential stupidity. The goal here is to avoid Windows altogether because their modern software sucks. Yeah, Win11Debloat exists, but living the way I did has made me paranoid of Microsoft sneaking their way in my PC. The virtual environment is my concession since my profession is filled with olds who know nothing else but deepthroat Microsoft’s cock. Doesn’t help that government/industry standards are partially based on kickbacks.

Maybe I’m spoiled because I hung onto Windows 7 until this year, but I’ve tasted digital freedom and I want more.

>>108674776
Most CAD/CAM isn’t that memory hungry, it’s simulations that start to get tricky. There are some bonkers core requirements for Ansys simulations involving fluids, I think Siemens NX can get funky too. I’m also pessimistic of the development standards for a few cycles since AI code is notoriously unoptimized.

The best comparison I can make is that the closer the software gets to stuff akin to video rendering, the more your computer starts chugging. I’m actually quite familiar with both, oddly enough.

>>108674819
>I prefaced my question with my potential stupidity.
You don't need to be that smart to check the current hardware prices.

>>108674810
Interesting. It sounds like just needing 32GB/48GB and using the iGPU for the Linux host while sending the GPU to the VM would be more cost effective. Of course if you want to play games then you'd need to move the display cables back into the GPU which might be a hassle.

>>108674819
Also interesting. A quick look up says CAD can easily take up 32GB. 48GB seems feasible, leaving the host with 16GB. 64GB for breathing room. Of course that's a lot more money. And it sounds like you would want a CPU with plenty of cores. Do you live in the USA?

>>108674804
It depends. Did you do something stupid and assume it's a bug or did you confirm it's a bug? If it's a bug, is it in one of the packages which only get upgraded on major releases? Because if it's not you're going to have pretty much the same package in 44 and 43 until 43 goes EOL.

Normally upgrades are trouble free.

>>108674851
Understandable. I’m also a worrywart and feel the urge to over prepare.

>>108674884
>64GB for breathing room. Of course that's a lot more money. And it sounds like you would want a CPU with plenty of cores.
Fluid mechanics aren’t my forté, the most I’d go in that direction is related to HVAC. Structural analysis is far better on memory while machining starts getting shaky. Admittedly, the 96GB RAM was my extreme end of the selection window.

My new laptop is 64GB and has been pretty smooth. Haven’t played any demanding games or returned back to serious video editing. After getting myself acquainted with Da Vinci Resolve as an After Effects user, I plan to edit for pleasure and quick cash.

>Do you live in the USA?
Currently, yes. Without giving out too much info, the past couple of years have pushed me to move down south very soon. Money can go further there, but not by much. There’s a demand for my work, however, the consequence of well paid people moving en masse to certain places is obvious.

There’s some real mixed feelings on my end.

>>108674915
I feel a bit tech illiterate sometimes when I shouldn't be.

Is there any point in reporting Fedora KDE 43 bugs?
I've talked about KDE graphics resets, but I think those might be fixed in the next version given Fedora likes to keep on the cutting edge.

>Normally upgrades are trouble free.
Thanks!

>>108675061
Then sounds like you don't need to go that high at least.
>Currently, yes.
Do you live near a Microcenter, or can travel to one? They usually have decent 3-in-1 combos for a CPU, mobo, and RAM. They had a deal that would net you 64GB, but it seems they don't offer that now. The bundles usually come with 32GB at least. Also check newegg. They tend to have some decent bundles, and some times really good ones but those go pretty fast. Both options don't let you exactly pick and choose what parts you want exactly, but it helps cut the costs down at least. Especially with RAM.

>>108675071
>I've talked about KDE graphics resets
That kind of stuff would probably be addressed in major upgrades, but I don't think KDE or MESA is getting a version bump with 44.
>Is there any point in reporting Fedora KDE 43 bugs?
It's probably reported somewhere if you google the journalctl output leading up to the reset. If it's not, post on their ask / forum to see if anyone has an idea before submitting an actual support ticket.

I think I got a solid grasp of what I’ll need given my circumstance. Given the nature PC building, I’m free to upgrade my system whenever necessary.

>>108675101
>Do you live near a Microcenter, or can travel to one? They usually have decent 3-in-1 combos for a CPU, mobo, and RAM.
That’s a good idea, but life’s been busy and I don’t believe time will permit me before the move.

>Also check newegg. They tend to have some decent bundles, and some times really good ones but those go pretty fast.
Fortunately, that is available where I will live and am planning to use it.

No doubt I’ll lurk online retailers and keep up with local shops. The is a process that will take time.

>>108673689
>I ran sudo sh setup.sh
Why are you installing a game with admin privileges?

>>108673820
It's the same process but you'd execute the installer with Bottles, Faugus, Lutris or just regular wine.

>>108673065
I've been enjoying noctalia-shell since i started using it late last year. It just works.

Are there any tiling window managers with HDR support?

>>108675953
Sway and Hyprland

i wonder if someone ever implemented a booru FUSE FS

>>108673145
If it's not running, run ldd on the executable to see what libraries are missing

>>108676002
Hyprland's HDR implementation is questionable at best (see some of the open discussions talking about incorrect or missing color management), I don't know about Sway.

>>108676431
They label it as experimental themselves so they're very honest about it. They "support" it though.

>>108676439
I don't understand the problem tbqh, KDE has done the work, can't they just copy it?

>>108676448
No, because KWin is not Hyprland, this is why HDR adoption is so slow, every compositor author needs to be an expert in colour management themselves and to re-implement this stuff again for themselves in their compositor.

They can't just pinch KWin's implementation because Hyprland doesn't use Qt or any of the frameworks KDE uses, etc, it's its own compositor so they had to do all of this work themselves.

>>108675953
Just use KDE and install one of the kwin automatic tiling scripts.

>>108676448
>>108676457
It is testament what an extreme shitshow the HDR format in general is.
Both in software and hardware.

HDR sucks.

>>108676556
It's just metadata passedthrough to the display. The problem is that's way too simple. A fullscreen game or video can just passthrough like that but what if I'm watching a HDR video in one browser tab and have SDR content in another window side-by-side?

There's also lots of different formats not a single one.

>>108676577
>t. butthurt CRT owner

>>108676577
It's mostly a marketing buzzword for the normies.

is cachy pronounced "catchy" or "cache-ey"?

>>108676726
I've always said it as "cash-y"

>>108676726
It's a stupid moniker regardless.

>>108676754
>>108676726
I always assumed it's as a play on the word "cache" because cache is fast and CachyOS is also supposed to be fast (it practically destroy every other distro in benchmarks).
It could just be a coincidence though.

>>108676726
>Cache + E = Cachy
Look up how the word cache is pronounced.

>>108676766
>CachyOS is also supposed to be fast (it practically destroy every other distro in benchmarks).
proof?

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>>108676813
Just check their website or if you're interested in the performance characteristics of it, any random Phoronix benchmark.

>>108676813
It's not. In real world benchmarks it's basically within the margin of error and there's maybe 1% performance difference. There's only a few synthetic benchmarks where it's faster only because some packages are compiled for modern CPUs, but even Ubuntu 26 started doing this with their packages. So, as of this year any theoretical performance gap will either be smaller or non-existent.

>>108674045
Arch was never "hard" desu.

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>>108676907
Cachy also has a tuned kernel and has recently made a server version of their distribution with its own tuned kernels too. It will be interesting to see how it fares to Ubuntu 26 when Phoronix inevitably compares the two. Both will have kernel 7.0 too.
(Interesting point is that right now Arch doesn't even have 7.0 yet. They're both more outdated than Ubuntu and Cachy at the moment.)

Running Artix Linux openrc trying to play an EA game through steam I have played it like a month or 2 ago but on arch.

Can't get passed the EA app "preparing game" tried fucking loads of shit but still won't work does anyone know a fix?

Driving me fucking mad over here.

>>108674045
LFS and make Arch 2

sudo pacman -S nvidia
error: target not found: nvidia

How can I fix this?

>>108677094
Arch? Or arch derivative?

Check pacman conf file or try nvidia-dkms

>>108677122
>>108677094
Oh and linux-headers. If you are on rtx 20 and above try nvidia-open or nvidia-open-dkms linux-headers

Saves you having to redownload it when kernel updates.

>>108677060
Modern Linux software requires systemd.

>>108677153
That's what I was thinking but all my other shit runs fine it's just this fucking bullshit EA app that is giving me shit. I am going to install it standalone and see if I can point steam to it instead of installing the mini version for a single game.

Systemd can suck ass and swallow I will not give up

>>108677153
Well no it doesn't, Gentoo, Void and systemd protest distros like Devaun and Artix wouldn't exist otherwise.

>>108677122
Arch

I followed Claude's steps like this:

sudo pacman -S linux-headers nvidia-dkms
sudo mkinitcpio -P
sudo reboot

and then

nvidia-smi

But it says

"NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running."

>>108677179
I never use mkinitcpio don't even know what it is.

Just try the normal installation clause could be full of shit.

If it can't find the packages check your pacman conf file.

If you are in an older GPU may have to use different drivers or nouveau.

Ask Gemini that is usually good for arch info.

If not just install arch with archinstall takes 10 mins depending on internet and will sort Nvidia for you.

>>108677172
They effectively don't exist since almost nobody is using them.

>>108677261
If you move the goalpost like that, sure.

>>108676457
I get it, but I don't. Wouldn't all the values that determine color be the same? Why does the compositor make a difference.
I know that it does, because this is a problem, but I don't get it really.

>>108677230
Yeah my laptop is shit I have one GeForce MX330 and an iGPU maybe that's causing the problem?

Also iinm according to the ArchWiki my drivers are no longer packaged so idk what to do I'm very confused.

>>108672376
btop is better and uses less resources

>>108677312
You will most likely have to use nouveau. It is probably already installed but if you have been messing with the Nvidia drivers it may have been blacklisted but if you can see your screen it is probably working. Ask how to see nouveau status to your AI. If it isn't installed I'm guessing it's just pacman nouveau to install ask ai that as well.

Nouveau is the open source Nvidia driver made by the community that is used for older Nvidia GPUs.

>>108677312
If you have just installed arch which it sounds like you have just reinstall it using "archinstall" it will tell you which drivers to use. Just boot from usb then update archinstall pacman -Sy archinstall then run it and you have a text installation screen that is absolutely easy AF.

>>108677008
I assume Arch is holding back until 7.1 in case of major bugs (though version numbers are arbitrary and 7.0 should be no more special than 6.19 really). I believe they did this with 6.0, waiting until 6.1.
It could also just be random and the maintainer cannot be fucked building and testing 7.0 right now.

>>108677094
'nvidia' was dropped from the repos because it is no longer supported, use 'nvidia-open' instead.

>>108677384
https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/

>>108677305
Your compositor is outputting in SDR by default, it needs to specially configure the hardware pipeline to do HDR and configure the display right, etc.

>pure Arch
>reliable and easy to use rolling-release distro
>AUR
>mystery meat jeetware on par or surpassing Windows 11
I genuinely don't understand why people consider the AUR a pro of running Arch

>>108677503
Get a lot of extra software just make sure you read into what you are installing before you install it.

Not rocket science.

>>108677503
>hurr durr jeetware
It's called reading the PKGBUILD, anon-kun

>>108677380
>It could also just be random and the maintainer cannot be fucked building and testing 7.0 right now.
That's what the testing repo is for which is also outdated though. If you break somebody's boot (which isn't going to happen, 7.0 is fine, lots of people already running it) in testing then nobody cares.