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>mfw troonix

>>108695748
How does it feel that the EU is dumping Microsoft for Linux and millions of children will grow up using Linux instead of Microsoft?

>>108695748
good morning sir!

>>108695748
I never got this reeing about people using Linux or Windows, though its understandable to kinda ree about Windows because after work I had to stay to update my computer and it took fucking 4 resets and a total of 30 minutes for 7 updates to occur which is insane.

>>108695787
that brings up a good question, why does windows demand that you restart when in linux you don't need to restart to update? you'd think they would have stolen that feature and integrated it by now. or is this an architectural thing that can't be fixed?

>>108695766
what a weird thing to say when every OS will be banned for everyone except the government

>>108695800
Good thing Linux is a kernel and not an OS

>>108695800
>OSes are banned
>self-host my own terminal like in Ageless Linux
>Legally I'm not using an "Operating System", I'm using a terminal that interacts with a script that emulates a kernel
You act like this isn't something new, there are whole Linux distributions that are nothing but binaries and scripts that self-build every time you boot and aren't legally considered a Kernel or an operating system.

>>108695868
>aren't legally considered a Kernel or an operating system.
judges and lawyers may have very different opinions on technlogy than us

>>108695748
>Hindus 11

>>108695887
Which is why they'll need to set presidents and call in experts and if they don't rule in a favorable way the community reacts and finds another inventive way to be in a legal grey area again.

>>108695887
Do you think they'll ban calculators? Because that is all a computer is, a calculator, you can even build "analog computers" that run on water or fire and wait on input. You can also claim that an abacus is a human powered computer if you want to stretch it that far.

>>108693306
Thanks. The values I want were already set though, according to gsettings. Similarly, the theme I want was also exported everywhere as an env var already.
I ended up finding a fix just now. I went into about:config and set
widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker = 0
Which goes against everything I've read, but now it works perfectly.

>>108695927
You're not going to do your present day computing on a calculator

>>108695948
You can actually play games, write scripts, write documents, and even play music on some of the TI calculators, you can even shove very, very, very small AIs into some of the newer ones. Keep in mind you could do all of this on a TI back 2010, so are they computers? What about phones?

>>108695962
phones are the main target of this bullshit to begin with. Why would they be spared?

>>108695978
I don't think the financial system would survive if phones were banned, even in North Korea they have smart phones.

Anyone here using the DualSense controller on Linux? It works great for me, but are the haptics/vibrations/rumble like this on the PS5 too? I also use a DualShock 3 for some games, and as much as I like the DualSense's ergonomics, the DS3's haptics/rumble/whatever feel so much better than the dogshit smartphone-tier buzzing of the DS. Or is this a limitation in the Bluetooth driver? NixOS 26.05 btw

>>108696030
Newer controllers are manufactured like shit. Best buy up DualShock 3s while you can because they're the mass-produced high-quality gamepads.

>>108696076
Hard to find ones that aren't bootlegs

>>108696076
*they're the last mass-produced[..]
>>108696150
Check Facebook Marketplace

Nobara vs. CachyOS is just preference right? For the underlying system I mean. Nobara even uses the latter's kernel patches these days.

>>108696030
>is this a limitation in the Bluetooth driver?
It's Sony's driver. They're just like that.

>>108696076
They really went to shit late in the DS4 period, like around JDM-050 or 55. I have a 040 with probably a thousand hours on it and no issues.

>>108696350
Nobara is awful. CachyOS is actually usable as a daily driver whereas Nobara is nothing more than a test bed for Proton-GE.
Nobara's repos are so broken that it isn't even compatible with Discover, and even using DNF can break your system. So you're forced to use the dog shit "Nobara Package Manager", which looks like a GUI from the 1980's and is accordingly intuitive (ie not at all). It's also slow as FUCK and will take minutes to check for updates and then install them. Nobara is the RPM equivalent of retards trying to daily drive Kali Linux.

>>108696350
There's a reason why CachyOS is 10x more popular than Nobara. Nobara is very fucking buggy. If you want a gaymer OS based on Fedora nothing beats Bazzite.

>>108696475
>nothing beats Bazzite
Fedora itself beats Bazzite. Bazzite is good for a HTPC but using it as a daily desktop is asking for annoyance.

>>108696350
Use regular Arch or Fedora. 99.9% of the time gaming distros just break shit front-running new features that don't even fit your use case.

>>108696442
The only reason to run Nobara is if you read their modification list and see something you must have and couldn't do easily on your own. It's definitely not a general use distro.

>>108696493
buy an ad

>>108696514
>buy an ad
What

I'm on Xubuntu and how do I get my external storage to be read when the computer enters sleep mode or boots up? I'm getting tired of having to plug and unplug it to get detected again.

>>108696604 (Me)
Did a search and found hd-idle and downloaded it, I tried to access it with but it didn't do anything so I'm guessing this is something that just runs in the background?

Updated to Fedora 44 just now. It went without a hitch. It's unofficially out; it's already ready, but the images and announcements are coming out on the 28th.

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>>108695668
I'm dicking around with old hardware, like P3 aged hardware.
Are the only newer distros that would really work on a system this old DSL and Tiny Core?

If I want a distro that just works™ when migrating from Windows do I just go for Debian or Ubuntu? I'd like to use Fedora as this would possibly help job aspects down the line since RHEL uses the same commands. All I really need is a distro that supports my massive Steam library, and I don't need to spend 500 hours reading man pages to do the simplest things.

>>108696684
There's no distro that can take your massive Steam library, Anon.

>>108696699
>There's no distro that can take your massive Steam library, Anon.
Nigga what?
>>108696684
Any. Just create a folder in your NTFS Steam Library called "compatdata" that is just a shortcut (we say symlink) to a folder on your Linux drive.

>>108696679
Slackware still has 32 bit support.

>>108696684
>job aspects down the line since RHEL uses the same commands
this is hilarious

>>108696729
let the kid dream, for fucks sake. he's making the right choice by not opting for a crusty neckbeard distro anyhow.

>>108696684
If you want RHEL, you can just use RHEL, Rocky, or Alma.

>>108696791
>>108696684
RHEL and RHEL-clones have extremely small repositories. There's just no point in using them outside of servers.

>>108696791
As a RHELfag, I'd say Fedora is definitely more noob friendly. Can always switch when Fedora gets too annoying to babysit.

>>108696810
The point is the long release cycle. The small repos may not even be an issue. Depends on needs & wants.

>>108696856
>The point is the long release cycle
If you really like RPMs but want an LTS distro, there's OpenSUSE Leap, Mageia, and OpenMandriva Rock.
>Depends on needs & wants
What if you need a web browser, lmao?

>>108696864
I'm not married to RPMs, I just want a relatively mainstream distro with the longest release cycle possible. Leap is not a real LTS to me, Mageia failed to install, OpenMandriva seems way too crusty a frankendistro to even bother.
>What if you need a web browser, lmao?
I don't get what you're trying to say.

>>108696937
Why not Debian?

>>108696493
>using it as a daily desktop is asking for annoyance.
Sounds like you've never used it for more than a day, if at all. Either that or you're a total edge case. I have Bazzite installed on all my devices, including my work PC, and I never had issues.

>>108696684
Bazzite is the closest thing to what you're looking for. Either that or just regular Fedora. Between everything mentioned Debian is the furthest thing from what you want so you can immediately cross it out.

>>108696958
>edge cases
Ok, so you are projecting your own needs onto Anon instead of answering his question. Many such cases in FOSS discussions!

>>108696955
It was a coin toss between Fedora and Ubuntu when I started out. Fedora won, so I'm on RHEL now.

>>108696964
I am assuming an average user with the needs of "I just want as many things to work out of the box and I don't want to micromanage my PC". Bazzite is pretty much perfect for the average gamer.

Meanwhile you're just shitposting without explaining why a distro would be "inconvenient". Many such cases as yourself, right? Next time look into a mirror before posting.

>>108696979
I mean, if you want mainstream, LTS, doesn't care about RPM's, want something that just works and can play steam games, Debian sounds perfect for you. The exception is if you get newer hardware that needs newer kernel versions but then you wouldn't want LTS.

>>108697035
Lmao, how do you install your printer drivers on Bazzite? Or get VLC to read files off your USB?

Distro wars are fucking retarded.
You can just try anything you want and see if it works, and if it doesn't just try something else. Having to vehemently defend (You)r choice of distro like it's somehow objectively superior is a clear sign of autism.

>>108697062
Distro wars are how you prevent newbies from trying something retarded and going back to Windows permanently.

>>108697062
what did you just say about my distrofu?

>>108697036
Debian has the package availability advantage, but I seem to not care much about that. I like RHEL's frankenkernel, the kmod availability and the 3 year release cycle. Too comfy to switch to anything other than a RHEL clone at this point.

>>108697045
>how do you install your printer drivers
I don't. They're included out of the box. One of the biggest reasons why I started using Linux is because I never needed to fuck around with drivers.
The real answer is: any driver made for Fedora can be installed on Bazzite because they're the same distro.
>get VLC to read files off your USB?
Works on my machine, you're making shit up.

>>108697096
>They're included out of the box
For Anon's specific printer?
>any driver made for Fedora can be installed on Bazzite because they're the same distro.
And yet you're accusing me of making shit up. You can't freely install drivers on immutable distros lol, kernel space is completely locked down and cannot even be layered onto with rpm-ostree.

printers? The fuck are you guys doing?

>>108697141
yeah it's 2026 what's the use case for *GULP* printing stuff?

>>108697062
>>108697068
I don't understand why this is something what people need to spam all the time. Most of the time it doesn't matter what distro you pick up.
Unless it's arch or gentoo based ones.
If someone needs to go back to windows because they have never installed device drivers in their lives... I always need to install my own drivers in Windows too. And create my gpedit rules, then make sure that there is no extra bullshit.
It takes few hours to set up Windows, it's comparable to Linux.

>>108697161
I dunno man, tell me.

>>108697115
>And yet you're accusing me of making shit up.
You're the one inventing a mystical non-standard printer out of thin air and lying about media players being unable to open files from external drives.

>You can't freely install drivers on immutable distros lol
>freely
You can do whatever the fuck you want on Bazzite, it's just that a handful of niche things are handled differently. It's not even considered to be immutable except by people like you who have no idea what they're talking about.

>>108697173
maybe if you want to stick corn on your wall like some weirdo i guess

any tips on KDE rice?
I just figure out how to blur my search, I thought it was bugged at first, turned out my blur strength was too high. lol.

can i see some desktop?

>>108696958
Ty. I assumed Ubuntu and Debian would be the best all rounders due to their popularity. I truly thought there were Linux distro's that could do what Windows can. Instead it seems you pick a distro to do the single task you do the most and just endure? It's 2026..... not 1986

>Try CachyOS
>Really like it
>PlasmaShell crashes due to shit video drivers for the 50 series
>Try X11, Hyprland, XFCE
>Try everything I possibly can to stop or mitigate the problems
>Can't stop the constant crashing
>Have to go back to Win10 because it crashes much less often

fuck you Nvidia

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>>108697352
never happened on my mint cinnamon install with the 595 driver shoved in

>>108697352
You didn't even try to google it or find another generic driver? You didn't look up your hardware before you switched over?

>>108697467
>find another generic driver?
it's novideo, what do you expect?

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>>108695800
Just wait til someone tells the purse snatchers how much Windows licensing costs.

>>108697467
it ran fine on Ubuntu before switching to CachyOS, but switching back to Ubuntu yielded the same results. I reverted to the previous driver, tried Nouveau on each OS and finally gave up after 3 weeks of fighting it to go back to Windows 10

>>108696350
>Nobara vs. CachyOS is just preference right?
meme distro vs meme distro is just preference, yes

>>108696810
>RHEL and RHEL-clones have extremely small repositories.
because everyone uses EPEL...?
generally speaking, RHEL distros have access to most software, only beaten by Ubuntu or Arch+AUR
and if you go with Fedora then you also have copr and at this point there's everything

>>108697352
>>Try CachyOS
>fuck you Nvidia
I mean fuck nvidia but you kinda played yourself
why do y'all retards jump to obviously shit distros instead of the big ones that obviously get 2000x the attention and amount of bugfixes and effort
small time "gamer" distros are all memes (well-intentioned ones, but still) and that much should be obvious to anyone with 2 braincells

think about it this way, anons. A bug exists that relates to a relatively unique combination of software and hardware.
which distro will have it fixed first?
1. Ubuntu type distros with 3 gazillion users and maintainers
2. EpikGamerOsFlavourOfTheMonth with 35 users and 4 maintainers who do it in their spare time in high school
come on now, you can't be this fucking stupid

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I just installed the HDD from my old laptop into my new laptop and this happened, wtf is this?

>>108697569
Over the past 10 years, those were exactly the reasons why I couldn’t make the switch to Linux. This time, it was just a network driver regression and 4K issues.

But once you’ve managed to get the right hardware, it’s awesome.

I switched over a week ago, and after all the struggles, Linux > Windows. By a mile.

>>108697597
Cachy is just arch with optimized repos/kernel and shit you would have to manually set up otherwise you retard, you can literally enable the shit they use on arch/EOS and it'd be the same thing
The nvidia drivers should be the same as any other distro, so if something is fucked it's either the user's hardware being dogshit on linux because only like 1% of all manufacturers actually test against it or nvidia being retarded foss haters as they have always been
The only gaymen distro that actually fuck with shit past the surface is nobara, even bazzite isn't as much of a frankendistro because it's still just fedora atomic with bloat

>>108697868
yeah that's my whole point
>optimized repos
not a thing
>[optimized] kernel
my nigger, you realize the kernel doesn't come un-optimized yes? if there really were magical double-digit percent performance patches just waiting to be merged... they would have been merged already.
>and shit
yes saar
>even bazzite isn't as much of a frankendistro because it's still just fedora atomic with bloat
yeah, and 99% of gaymen distros are literally that:
- a custom kernel alleging MUHPERFORMANCEGAINZ (it's actually within margin of error, when they even bother with benchmarks)
- COMES WITH STEAM PREINSTALLED POGGERS DOGGERS 67
- gaymen marketing page

anyway, my point stands: just use a normal well-maintained non-flavour-of-the-month distro, install proprietary nvidia drivers if you have an nvidia gpu, and it will be the whole fucking same
people are so fucking autistic about it, I get déjà vu from the >KALI LINUX era, except the nu-lincucks then go on to complain about their stupid distro being shit
what the fuck did you people think installing this crap. I'm worried that LTT's consistently retarded takes on the matter really does not help in that regard

>>108696679
try archlinux32

how are you enjoying ubuntu 16.04 bros? I've been having a blast on my secondary desktop pc

>>108698394
s/16/26/g

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>ubuntu 16.04
hey i remember that one

>>108698524
uuuughhh SOVL

i like fvwm but the config is worse than eggdrop its like here bro just learn emacs overnight

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You know, I think I kinda hate Arch now. But I don't want to set everything back up, Debian is going to go to shit, and I'm not using Fedora so I guess I'm stuck with Arch.

>>108698910
What makes you hate arch?

>>108697257
If you are unsure of what to choose, and you want a good experience, just install the latest Ubuntu LTS release. 26.04 just came out and it's the most 'it just works' distro you're going to find. More opinionated users will find reasons to use something else, but you aren't missing anything of value.

>>108699108
*Kubuntu

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i disabled fast boot and the computer continues to boot at the same speed. does this work on windows or is it just placebo?

>>108699370
Fast boot was introduced with Windows 8 as a way for HDD booting PCs to boot faster then they would otherwise booting 8. These days with a majority of people running Windows off of SSDs fast boot as a concept is pretty much obsolete (even though Windows still defaults it to being on.)

>>108697648
try a fallback initramfs if you have one

>>108696684
Start with Ubuntu. Only use Debian when you label yourself as an experienced user and only if you REALLY need something Debian does that Ubuntu doesn't (which is pretty fucking rare).

>>108696030
Do you use the DS3 with Unity games?
Have you noticed that some (usually recent-ish) games will not recognize the controller?

>>108696684
If you want to use Ubuntu, use Kubuntu instead. Regular Ubuntu's interface is weird.

>>108699494
I've only used it with PS3 games emulated via RPCS3

>NVRM: Xid ... 79, GPU has fallen off the bus
Why am I getting this error?
Linux mint 22.2, Kernel 6.17.0-22-generic
Gpu: Gtx 1660 super

>>108696684
I haven’t had issues with LMDE for gaming, I’m still pretty new to Linux but I used arch for a few months and got tired of having to configure shit so I gave up on it, Cinnamon feels great but the only downside is non fullscreen games have nasty screen tearing

>>108699687
Could it really be a driver issue even if my pc doesnt display anything when i turn it on?

>>108697257
>Instead it seems you pick a distro to do the single task you do the most and just endure?
Distros are just the defaults, anon. That and the repositories. Even Windows has "editions" and 3rd party editions with varying defaults. The "vanilla" Linux experience like "Windows 11 Home" is would be Fedora, Ubuntu and Arch depending on which repositories you want.

The reason why people don't recommend some of these to beginners is because these distros make assumptions that you know what you're doing (especially Arch).
EndeavourOS and CachyOS take Arch, give it a GUI installer, pre-configure it for you, and add some maintenance tools on top.
Universal Blue distros (Bazzite, etc.) take Fedora and add proprietary codecs and drivers on top as well as some additional apps to make it as usable for a beginner or casual user. These distros are made for people who don't want to waste time configuring them or don't know what a driver/codec is or how to install it on Linux.
Mint takes Ubuntu or Debian and replaces the DE with their own DE which is preferred by people who liked the experience of Windows 7. It also has some opinionated changes made for old-school Linux users, like removing Snaps.

>>108699936
>It also has some opinionated changes made for old-school Linux users, like removing Snaps.
sensible chuckle

>>108699950
I mean, am I wrong? Snap is mostly just hated by long time Linux users and Lunduke's small echo chamber of people with autism. Most people don't care what package type or package manager is used as long as their app works.

>>108697352
>cachyos
found your problem. Try using non-meme distros like Ubuntu LTS/Mint (maybe even Fedora) and check again.
If shit doesn't work on those, then it's a lost cause.

>>108699529
Kubuntu tends to have weirder bugs than regular Ubuntu tho. Thanks to KDE.

>>108699978
Show us beef on your plate

Something like simplewall but on linux and works along ufw? Is there anything?

>>108699974
Read the reply chain again before posting, retard. Distros don't solve the problem of nVidia being shit.

>>108699972
because you need to know how things are meant to be (without snaps) to notice how shit things are (with snaps). Someone new doesn't have the experience to do a comparison.

>>108699983
If you're looking to manage ufw through a GUI gufw is the common way to do so. If you want something working alongside ufw then you can use OpenSnitch.

>>108699995
I used Linux before Snaps were introduced and before Flatpaks and Appimages were popular. I'd rather only ever have these 3 than use apt.

>>108700003
what's your advantage of using those?

>>108700015
>just works
>not terminally outdated
>distributed by the devs instead of distro maintainers
>doesn't affect your system, so there's no breakage due to dependency hell when updating your OS. bundled dependencies are objectively better for general use devices.
>flatpaks and snaps are much more secure since they have a permission system
>appimage and flatpak don't require installing software as a root user
>appimage and flatpak can be downgraded and "version pinned" a lot more safely than a system package
>they all work the same no matter which distro I use, so I can focus on picking the best distro instead of worrying about packages being too outdated, broken, etc.
using appimages, snaps and flaptaks is just an upside for most people

>>108700087
>just works
Except when you have to tinker with permissions
>there's no breakage due to dependency hell
This hasn't been an issue since 2005

>>108700094
>Except when you have to tinker with permissions
then don't? toggle on all permissions globally so you never have to think about it. but most software has working defaults.
>This hasn't been an issue since 2005
this is provably false, especially for 3rd party software. some software I use stopped working on debian 13 due to dependency mismatches. this was 4 months after the release of debian 13 so you would think there was plenty of time to start supporting it. I had to switch back to debian 12 on that device.

>>108700087
>just works
try open something from /tmp.
Or have fun when the flatpak suddenly pukes into your face because you dare to not have a polkitd running on your host system. Just works my ass.
>not terminally outdated
gives annoying popups about updates at some time in the future instead of just updating it now.
>distributed by the devs instead of distro maintainers
There's no advantage of this
>doesn't affect your system, so there's no breakage due to dependency hell when updating your OS. bundled dependencies are objectively better for general use devices.
The fuck? If you stick to your distro's repos you're save.
>flatpaks and snaps are much more secure since they have a permission system
keep telling yourself that
>appimage and flatpak don't require installing software as a root user
no advantage in that
>appimage and flatpak can be downgraded and "version pinned" a lot more safely than a system package
Oh, wow, I could let that count as an advantage. Like the first on your list
>they all work the same no matter which distro I use, so I can focus on picking the best distro instead of worrying about packages
What else do you take as a measure for a distro? The logo?

>>108700134
>gives annoying popups about updates at some time in the future instead of just updating it now.
are you pretending to be retarded here?
>There's no advantage of this
except the fact that apps are updated in time instead of every 6-24 months and aren't broken like fedora broke some packages due to autism about licenses?
>rest of your post
never mind, I just now realized you're trolling

>>108700131
>then don't?
Show me how to get the Flatpak version of GPU Screen Recorder working without tinkering with permissions.
>some software I use stopped working on debian 13 due to dependency mismatches
Like what?

>>108700087
>appimage and flatpak don't require installing software as a root user
You don't need to enter the root password to install regular packages in Discover because it has a polkit rule.

>>108700169
you're still installing them into root. conflating system packages with user apps is a huge fucking anti-pattern and linux is the only OS dumb enough to still do this.

>>108699998
I tried opensnitch but it errored out when running the daemon, I wanted to disallow outbound by default and get notified when something wants to access

>>108700184
>linux is the only OS dumb enough to still do this
What is the difference between installing programs to /bin or /usr or /opt or wherever the fuck (who cares) compared to installing them in Program Files?

>>108695897
Kek

>>108700184
>conflating system packages with user apps is a huge fucking anti-pattern
how so? and where would you even draw the line?

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>use Fedora at work; boss uses Windows
>play game all the time on our break, Warzone 2100
>just updated from 4.6.3 to 4.7.0 a week ago
>Windows can just download the new EXE
>Fedora still stuck at 4.6.3; have to wait for new package version and update it
>could compile from source and get latest version, but other guys don't know how

I play this game often enough that I wouldn't mind being a "maintainer" so people can always be on the latest version for multiplayer. Is there a "for idiots" guide on packaging an application from source? Mainly for Fedora but there's a lot of other distros that have fallen behind the latest version, too.

https://repology.org/project/warzone2100/versions

>>108700495
Install the Windows version in WINE/Bottles.

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Anyone ever had pop out menus in xwayland apps do this? Only happens in hyprland, so I assume something there broke, or it's time for me to use a different window manager

>>108700495
you could try converting the Arch or Debian packages to RPM

>>108698910
You could always just set up TimeShift

>>108700495
It's on flathub

Is labwc momentarily freezing while playing games a known/widespread issue? Maybe it's wayland at fault? I didn't have this issue on X with awesomewm.
labwc 0.9.3 on Fedora 42.

Almost 20 years since I've moved to Linux (late 2006 to Arch after trying Knoppix) and KDE is still as unstable as it ever was. Why can't these fucks just feature freeze half a year and fix what's already there instead of adding new bollocks on a daily basis. I use it on one of my desktops because it fits my workflow, but fuck that.

>>108700969
What distro?

>>108700853
When I tried labwc 8 months ago it had the same issue, especially in fps games.
I wasn't educated enough back then, I think you can avoid that by using gamescope but that limits other options.
I changed to x11 and everything is as fine as it can be on Linux I guess.

I thought labwc dev had some posts on github about these problems but I guess not. labwc is based on wlroot compositor or whatever I don't really care about wayland unless they force me to do so.

>>108700983
Distro does not matter.

>>108700969
Most people are having a pretty good time with KDE these days actually. It's also the main DE for the Steam Deck as well.
Dunno why you're having so much trouble with it, whatever you're doing with it.

>>108701003
>The binaries I'm using do not matter
I'm not in the mood, please just kill yourself.

>>108701003
It absolutely does because different distros have different release schedules and KDE has it's own release schedule, often with separate release times for separate KDE components. Same applies to dependencies and their versions.
Arch and Fedora are the smoothest experiences because KDE updates arrive as soon as they're released as stable versions by the KDE team. Meanwhile Debian/Ubuntu are stuck with whatever mishmash of KDE components they can compile before they release their LTS and they then stick to that for the next 2 years.

From my personal experience I only had issues with KDE on Ubuntu distros and sometimes on some Arch distros which wildly deviate from Arch itself (like Manjaro). But I've used KDE on Fedora and SteamOS for the past 4 years and never had any major issues (freezing, crashing, etc).

>>108700969
I don't notice any instabilities in daily use but I can make it krash if I play with the panel and widget settings too much. Good enough.

>>108700969
The only time I've ever made Plasma crash is trying to set a Wallpaper Engine wallpaper the plugin doesn't support. You gotta be doing something wrong

>>108701066
spot on, its shitter on debian/ubuntu but manageble on fedora in my experience. it doesnt mean kde isnt unstable, bloated and incorrect tho.

>>108696604
make a script that focus on the specific usb device.

DEVICE="1-5.2.4"
sleep 1

echo "$DEVICE" | sudo tee /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/unbind
sleep 1
echo "$DEVICE" | sudo tee /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/bind

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I'm on arch linux with kde. I have bluetooth and audio working with pipewire just fine. When I connect my bluetooth earbuds or speakers, it doesn't auto switch my apps that are already open like firefox to bluetooth. It works as intended if I open up a new browser window/app. What do I have to do to get every app that's already open to switch to bluetooth just like on Windows? Pic just for attention.

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everytime i come here there are always arch fags struggling with something, more so than any other distro, specially with their audio. what gives?

>>108702218
it's a popular distro

I have two instances of the same app on my computer, how do I remove the outdated one in terminal? I'm on ubunutu.

>>108702267
Are you saying you have 2 different versions installed or 2 different versions running?

>>108702276
2 different versions installed, both can also run, when you look in the GUI you can see them but there is no version number after the program so I want to search it through the terminal to delete the older version.

>>108702267
it's been ages since i used ubuntu but last i checked it has no mechanism for installing two versions of a program with the same name (like for example gentoo does), so an alternative version will use a different name (like as a made up example perhaps libpng14 instead of libpng)
if you've installed a different version using a different package manager, like snap or flatpak, use the associated tool for those. i don't use non-native package managers so i don't know the names of the tools specifically

>>108702360
I looked it up and there is only 1 install listed when I dpkg it, but on the GUI there's two, maybe a reset will fix it? They also have two different descriptions when I mouse over them.

>>108702344
I assume you did an update? Did you reboot after updating? (yes, it's necessary to reboot when updating via apt no matter how much people pretend it's not)

>>108702423
I did an update, but I did not reboot, I'll try to do that later and see if it fixes it.

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>>108702418
i'm not familiar enough with modern ubuntu to know which gui you're talking about. last one i used has synaptic
maybe take a screenshot

>>108702476
I'm not talking about the synaptic manager, I'm talking about the taskbar

I'm getting a minigalaxy error when trying to launch stating that the locale is unsupported, I went to github and there is a bug report on it and a commit reference in 2023 for a downgrade but I don't really know what that means and I've already tried to do update it to see if that would fix it.
Here's the bug report: https://github.com/flathub/io.github.sharkwouter.Minigalaxy/issues/2

>>108702586
Tried forcing locale with
>LC_ALL=C minigalaxy

>>108702612
That worked, thanks. I didn't know what that command was and I didn't know if I was supposed to bash it or put it somewhere in the minigalaxy code. Oh and a small complaint, could you put that in code brackets for people in the future so I can just copypaste? Small complaint but it helps when I can just double click and then ctrl+shift+v

>>108702632
Yeah you just run the command in the terminal. It runs Minigalaxy with a "classic" default-style english locale.
You can add the command to a .desktop file so you don't need to run the terminal command every time if you want.

>>108702682
.desktop or .sh?

>>108702686
Either/or really. You could even just alias it if you want.

>>108702697
I don't know how to alias

>>108700164
>Show me how to get the Flatpak version of GPU Screen Recorder working without tinkering with permissions.
Just install it. It already has all the permissions it needs and when it needs root permission it will show a prompt when using it.

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What was everyone's first experience with linux? Mine was suse enterprise 10, although at the time I don't think I even really understood what an operating system is

>>108702218
Nigga how is "I want my audio to automatically switch" a struggle
Go be pedantic elsewhere

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>>108700164
>Show me how to get the Flatpak version of GPU Screen Recorder working without tinkering with permissions.

flatpak install flathub [insert package name here]

Keep in mind that you can also search in terminal but when you do open your terminal full screen because if its windowed it will cut off the name of the packages and it won't resize itself if you go full screen.

flatpak search [insert package name here]

I did a search and I found it (pic related) but you can also just go to flathub and search on the web if that's easier for you.

>>108703076
i burned an ubuntu 8.04 CD and tried it on the family computer after reading about it in a magazine

>>108702218
People relatively still new to Linux not taking the time to learn the system and diving head first, though I'm also guilt of that on both Mint and on Xubuntu, something about how Linux does audio just fucks up for a lot of people. Same with external drives not being reread after boot up and boot down. Small things that windows has that Linux doesn't becomes very jarring if your new or inexperienced.

>>108700164
>Show me how to get the Flatpak version of GPU Screen Recorder working without tinkering with permissions.
You don't need it. KDE Plasma has a built-in screen recorder.

>>108703076
Ubuntu 14 and 15. It was surprisingly good aside from the lack of software and gaming support back then and some weird Unity-specific bugs (I tested out all Ubuntu flavors and they sucked in comparison)

>>108703169
>Small things that windows has that Linux doesn't becomes very jarring if your new or inexperienced.
Nothing on Linux compares to the shit I had to go through to get sound to work on Windows when I was new and inexperienced.

>>108703076
I honestly don't remember but it was in the 2010s

>>108703198
Yeah because you were younger lol

>>108703076
Ubuntu @university

>>108703076
Ubuntu 7.10, pretty much everything worked out of the box.

>>108703076
Slackware on a beater 386 my mom brought back from work

>>108703076
I think mine was Ubuntu before the amazon controversy and later some really unpolished Xubuntu after that I went back to Windows 10 for a bit and once they pushed the Win11 AI shit onto Windows 10 because people weren't adopting Win11 as fast as they wanted them too I came crawling back lol.

>>108703169
I jumped straight on debian when i was new, what a shit experience that was. Now with more linux time on my back, i couldn't feel better daily driving it. It's crazy how time and experience changes it for you.

>>108703206
juggling irqs around so they don't interfere with each other is just not a thing anymore.