>>108713292
neat pape, saved

>>108713301
It is very cute, ngl. I've been thinking about making a "Linux Chan" for my rig but that also might be super cringe...

>>108713301
I got it from >>>/w/2262641.

>>108713292
Naked feet.

Am I one of the only dudes who wants a cute anime girl on my desktop but I don't want her to be a loli or be overtly sexual?

>>108713424
I'm sure there's plenty.

>>108713424
safebooru has a bunch of that

>>108713292
So how are the neofetch ascii logos made? Are they done manually by an artist or do they have an artist do a clean digital picture of the logo then use a program to ascii it? I'm asking because I'm looking for either a way to learn ascii myself to do a custom neofetch image or a really good program that can translate an image for me.

>>108713488
The shitter version is to read in an image into python and group the pixels into brightness values represented by characters.

Due to bad choices I have my Steam games on my primary BTRFS filesystem. When patching, I'm experiencing high amounts of CPU wait which is locking up my entire machine.
I've disabled COW (then copied the files back in without references) but its still locking up my machine when writing the files.
The weird thing is I did the same thing (disable COW) for my VMs and all my perf issues have completely gone.
I'm not looking to repartition the disk.

>>108713488
Probably jp2a

How do you prevent Linux from running out of memory and slowing down to crawl and eventually just shitting itself for that reisub treatment?

>>108713795
Using an OOM killer like earlyoom. Using zram swap. Having any swap at all.
You could also use the magic sysrq key (alt+sysrq+f) to manually OOM kill whatever is eating the RAM.

*cough* *cough* a-anyone
>>108709686

>>108713863
No it doesn't work. This exploit is like installing a kernel-level anti-cheat, which Linux won't let you do.
If you want to use this exploit you need to play games on Windows.

>>108713874
I've seen a few of the crackers say a linux version was possible a few months ago and they were making progress towards it, but I guess it isn't there yet...

I am planning to install Steam on new Fedora KDE 44 build. Not from the flatpak, but from RPM.
>https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/gaming/proton/
Is the atomic desktop part of the guide the correct one to follow?
I did get red text about mismatched stuff so I may have done something wrong.
And I'm seeing some pixels change a bit on the text as I type these words.
Should I just reinstall my Fedora build and try again?

Also what's the "timeshift" of Fedora in case I break something and have to go back?

>>108713795
I've only ever had issues with a laptop that had 4gb of ram. Zram is enough imo.

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>>108713924
>Is the atomic desktop part of the guide the correct one to follow?
Are you on Atomic or regular Fedora? What ISO did you use? If you're on regular Fedora you want to use the first section listed on that page.
>I did get red text about mismatched stuff so I may have done something wrong.
I have seen some really strange behavior with dnf and rpmfusion this release doing a fresh install, never seen it like this before using Fedora since 42. Check KDE Discover to see what repos are up. For me Rawhide was enabled for no reason and rpmfusion free wasn't. Pic related is what the first command on that page should be adding nothing more. Obviously if you use Chrome or something that will have its own too. If you manage to sort it out reboot before doing anything else.

Be sure that the red text isn't just saying that it's running into bad mirrors. They're getting hammered so it might go through a bunch then work when it lands on one that's up. If you can screenshot or copy paste the warnings that will help.

>>108714042
>They're getting hammered
Not him but I've been trying to updoot and Im getting 200-300 kb/s. Release days are pretty fucked.

>>108714066
This is part of why the common wisdom is to wait a couple weeks before upgrading. I never listen anyways.

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I switched to Linux two weeks ago, and one of the things I missed the most was Afterburner for my NVIDIA card. Hardlimit was out of the question because of the massive spikes, so I decided not to use it at all.

Luckily for me, there’s now an Afterburner-like tool:
https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT/pull/957.

Just wanted to share my experience with other newbies and say it works as it should.
On average, I save 1/3 of the power consumption with barely measurable performance losses.

>>108713292
What's the reason behind pacman -Syu horror stories?

>>108714183
Is this a problem affecting NVIDIA cards or just a simple trick?

>>108715111
Usually someone with a billion packages installed and finely tuned to their wants. Problem is, the more cogs to the machine the more complicated it gets when you got to replace one. And not all get replaced at the same time. Add a new cog right next to an old busted and rusted cog and you're going to have problems.

Huh, it's not letting me bump my question

>>108715262 (Me)
Is there an apt version of gtk-common-themes? I want to get rid of the snap, also how do you check if a package is a dependency for another package or software?

What exactly makes Debian a 'server' distro? Is it just stability?

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I just learned about >>108712316
Is it preferable to do that, or use symlinks? I've been using symlinks for years and years.

>>108713424
>I don't want her to be a loli or be overtly sexual?
faggot

>>108715275
1. "stability" aka lack of updates
2. the default experience when it's used as a desktop is far shittier than the popular desktop distros

>>108715275
The stability, its LTS, the fact that they aren't rewriting large portions of the distro or changing it too much, just updating it (aka a conservative release cycle with well tested updates so you can update without fear of bricking your server or exposing it to security threats).
For many companies who are using servers as storage or to host its nice to have something that doesn't change too much so it doesn't fuck your workflow.
>>108715318
That's not very friendly and just because I don't want to openly display being a gooner, doesn't mean I'm gay. I find the super overt display of sexuality cringe. Be it a pin up calendar of women in bikinis or waifu figurines.

>>108713424
ya I get what you meant, even with loli papes I feel like it's much better to have something cute/pretty onscreen instead of obvious r18 illusts

>>108715324
>That's not very friendly
go back to r eddit or twitch if you have to live in a constant safe-space bubble

>>108715378
>friendly means safespace
What a self-report... How/s r/linux?

Which distro for pentium pro machine. Got bored od xp, reminds me of my office grinding days. ram is not an issue, has 1gb, don't care about gui. Would like apt package manager. Debian i386?

>>108715662
Q4OS

>>108713424

anon see /w/ you might not see 2002 animewallpapers models anymore

>>108715318
>the default experience when it's used as a desktop is far shittier than the popular desktop distros
how so? doesn't seem like it

How's VR gaming on Linux?

>>108716502
It's just getting started with Valve's new headset.

>>108716502
i think the non-standalone headsets can struggle for lack of support
but using wivrn on my quest 2 for pcvr is significantly more performant and stable than steamvr, amd's deprecated VR application, and facebook's official solution ever were on windows
it normally works wirelessly but also has a one-click option to set up streaming over usb using adb forwarding

>>108716531
This. Steam Frame is going to make VR on Linux work 100% properly.

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>>108716564
looks like a requirement for wivrn is 6.15
damn you debian and stability
[spoiler]I know it says itll probably work without upgrading but there are reported smoothness issues and I dont feel like vomitting[/spoiler]

>>108716616
"debian" stability just means deployment environments stagnate for consistency in behavior for enterprise applications and servers not no bugs or actual stability
if anything since they do shit like hackport package security fixes back and aren't actually that deeply involved with the real projects it means potentially less real stability

either way regardless debian is like the one distro you should absolutely not be using for gaming wtf are you thinking man
valve is working on improving linux gaming at literally every level of development from standards bodies to driver and kernel dev to wine all at once
enterprise software development and support models could never compete, you should be keeping up with their iteration

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>>108714042
>Are you on Atomic or regular Fedora
I'm not on workstation fedora. I am on the KDE 44 plasma version.
Whenever I tried installing steam without flatpaks I get red text.
I've also gotten some weird glitches like pic related.

>>108716616
https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
>You are running Debian stable, because you prefer the Debian stable tree. It runs great, there is just one problem: the software is a little bit outdated compared to other distributions. This is where backports come in.

once you've added the repo, i think the incantation to install a backport kernel is
>apt install linux-image-amd64/trixie-backports

>>108716685
works on my machine

>>108715662
i686.

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I updated to Fedora 44 and now DaVinci Resolve can't see my GPU anymore? I got a 9070 XT.

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>>108715662
Gentoo. But instead of configuring and compiling it locally, use your better PC.
>>108715275
Yes, that's the meme.
>server
And it's not really about being a server or not, it's about being a production environment. I've served Goatse pics over HTTPS just fine with Arch VPS, picture relates.

Is Mint really "slow" nowadays compared to distros like CachyOS? I've been using Mint for a very long time now and the way people talk about it you would think it's a bloated corpse floating around a lazy river.

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>>108716851
nvm I just had to install rocm-opencl and now it launches. But I don't get any sound, in fact I don't get any sound system-wide while Resolve is running; it's doing some weird shit with my audio devices and is making my systray go apeshit.

>>108716916
This glitchy behaviour from Pavucontrol is really fucking annoying if something connects/disconnects rapidly like that. They really need de-bounce logic. It's not the most important thing that you update the GUI immediately like that. It's more important that the UI stays stable and that you can interact with it.

>>108716898
It's fine, people just talk shit about it because it doesn't have the bleeding edge shit everybody is obsessed about these days (which is also why Cachy is so popular right now).

>>108716898
Naah Mint isn't any more slow or bloated than other distros. In fact it even has the 6.17 that even Bazzite uses. If anything Mint is faster due to lower overhead. The only issue you might have is having to tinker with it for meme features like ntsync or dealing with X11 if you have meme setups. I play games on Mint with a 4K tv from my couch, everything works.

>>108716898
No. CachyOS performance boosts are very minimal.

>>108717647
>In fact it even has the 6.17 that even Bazzite uses
Bazzite is soon moving to the OGC kernel. Also Bazzite defaults to the latest kernel used by Fedora. Mint usually sticks to LTS kernels unless you manually switch to the regular release kernel.

>>108716898
It depends on your hardware and application. Mint uses really outdated display servers, so there are problems sometimes.

>>108715111
Config files getting overwritten (though this doesnt really happen anymore with .pacnew) and sometimes you might just have bad timing and upgrade foo and libfoo but one of its dependencies libbar didnt get rebuilt yet so foo and libfoo will break because it cant find the newer version of libbbar.
Or someone upgraded without checking arch news for manual intervention.

>>108715275
Every distro is a server distro, people just use debian because they dont want to deal with major software upgrades and possible breakage it leads to every week.
They would rather be stuck on an older version of php constantly getting backport fixes than upgrade it.

>>108715662
Antix or tinycore. But i think your cpu might be too old for linux. Debian also got rid of i386 support aside from amd64 multilib. You're probably better off just using NetBSD.

>>108716699
In my experience a lot of stuff never gets backported.

>>108716898
Its really just one anon that aggressively pushes the mint is outdated meme even though it still finds a way to have a better user experience than 99% of linux distros for the average user.

>>108717921
to be fair, this isn't the place where I'd look for the average user

>>108717867
Yep, I use Arch personally, but handling things like PostgreSQL update migrations would be incredibly annoying on non personal systems.

>>108717850
>one of its dependencies libbar didnt get rebuilt yet so foo and libfoo will break
that shouldn't happen unless your mirror is out of sync.

>>108718085
>PostgreSQL update migrations
You wouldn't need those on non-personal systems.

>>108713292
I have a blue yeti microphone and a headset plugged into the microphone's audio port. The audio from the microphone is being played in the headset. In alsamixer, I can mute the playback, it's under the second soundcard and designated is "mic." Is there a way to write a script to automatically mute the microphone so I can add it to my bashrc? or can I somehow permanently disable the playback in alsamixer?

I'm SO FUCKING TIRED of 4chan saying "Corrupt file" when I try to send libx264 encoded mp4 with -an flag set via ffmpeg. Sometimes it works, other times it just does not fucking work. So I'll now recompile ffmpeg with the vpx (vp8, vp9) USE flag just to be able to post WEBM's on this fucking website.

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What do yall think of OpenSUSE? Specifically tumbleweed?

I've been a Fedora user for years and tried tumbleweed a few weeks ago on my laptop and ran into a bunch of issues, but it could just be me. I did really like their snapper functionality though, pretty neat.

>>108718282
>ran into a bunch of issues
I hear that a lot when it comes to openSUSE

>had some kind of nvidia driver update in Mint update manager
>absentmindedly hit update
>games don't start up anymore afterwards
>some programs don't start up
>get all sorts of gtk and package errors when troubleshooting
>ah fuck so this is the fabled nvidia driver fuckery huh...
>literally 5 minutes later get another update notification
>NEW new nvidia driver thing
>hit update
>everything works again
god bless these nerds

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I am using alpine linux and transmission-gtk. Transmission worked for a while, but all of a sudden transmission-gtk started to crash after a download finished. Anybody experience this before? It has only ever happened on alpine linux, and it did happen last time I tried out alpine also.

>>108717814
>Bazzite is soon moving to the OGC kernel.
aka more snake oil.
>Mint usually sticks to LTS kernels
Yes, and thanks to HWE from Ubuntu it isn't that far behind. When Ubuntu 24.04 gets the 7.0 Kernel from Ubuntu 26.04, Mint will get it too.

how can i improve linux gaming performance on a laptop with iris xe integrated graphics? im pretty tight on resources, i want to squeeze every frame i can, my CPU is plenty for the game i target but the IGPU is too weak

Any Qt-based simple image viewers with cropping/format conversion built-in? Perhaps annotations too. Gwenview has a dogshit UI and it's the only Qt program that refuses to follow my Stylix theme, so I get flashbanged every time I open it. Half the labels aren't even visible because the theme is so fucked. I really like lximage-qt but it lacks cropping and format conversion. The developer is insistent on not adding cropping unfortunately.

>>108718346
As much as I can't help myself, I agree with the whole "only update once a week" thing to help avoid situations like this.

>>108713599
So it's because of BTRFS?
Shit
I think I'll use xfs for now on...

>>108719027
yeah I just got a stupid adhd ass brain that sees the update notification and HAS to click update

>>108716105
No, I want to remember it as it was, not as it is now... It's... It's too painful...

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>>108715275
its advantage is the lts and not rewriting gigs of packages every week, server people appreciate that, little to no change. i run it fine as my desktop and ive used fedora before, not a lot of difference.

>>108713884
Why would you want that? I wouldn't mess around a piece of software that hooks so low-level.

I'm having trouble running Wukong in a bottle.
I installed the vcredist2022 and d3dcompiler dependencies. The problem is that it throws an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION error when reading address 0xffffffffffffffff.
I've read that this often happens with UE5 games (which is the case here).
Does anyone know how to fix this? Am I missing dependencies or something in the prefix?

anyone got secure boot set up with their own keys (db,kek,pk) on linux?

>still waiting for linux-hardened 7.0

>copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431
Oh look another major root exploit that's been in the wild for the last 10 years. You guys told me Linux was safe and vetted!

>>108719559
try adding -dx11 to the launch options

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I am using alpine linux and after a reboot I have no internet....no ethernet and no wireless, and ifconfig shows only lo...
I have not fiddled with any configs besides locales, fonts and keyboard settings as far as I know.
I have installed packages, but no packages that would brick my system like this....
What the heck is going on?

>>108719645
How does Copy Fail work, I'm retarded

>>108719664
average non-systemd experience

Just got a graphics reset on my gayming rig running Fedora KDE 44. Wasn't even playing any games.
Is this what the "krashes" meme is referencing?
Is the Atomic KDE more stable?
This has started happening a month ago for me along with graphics artifacts.
I've gotten a bit used to KDE.
How's GNOME in terms of stability?

I'm hoping this is the fault of the kernel or something else.
And not my AMD hardware messing up.

>>108719827
Average systemd cuck reply

>>108719827
You don't like cli?

>>108719664

maybe network device got new pci address might want to fix that

Whats a good distro for old hardware? 2008 PC with DDR2 RAM, 2012 graphics card , IDE drives, CRT monitor...

I feel that wayland is way worse for CRT monitors than xorg/xlibre, it doesnt seem to automatically detect the resolutions from the EDID data and stuff
should i be using an older kernel too or is latest fine?

>>108719827
>systemdfags really don't have the freedom to have a broken system

>>108720076
feels good kek

guys, wireless peripherals working oob in linux yet? If not, do they at least work with some tweaking?

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>>108719893
Bumping for more attention.
I want to say that this isn't the first time I've had issues with Feddy.
Since I upgraded my PC's graphics card I got screen tearing and small graphical glitches in Mint and after some distro hopping they went away in Ubuntu and then after curiosity made me try Fedora KDE I found I liked it.
A month later I think little graphical glitches started happening then straight up graphics resets started happening.
I held off on posting glitches I captured as Fedora 44 was around the corner at the time.

So I may be posting more as I distro hop.
I don't want to be an annoying burden on this general. Generally I need names of what the problems are so I can look them up and find solutions.
Sorry in advance for any future autism.

>>108720054

anon all crt vga might not have data

I gave Nobara a go for a few days and like it, coming from Fedora, except the software I need to control my laptop (Acer Predator Helios Neo) hardware doesn't work with it. Maybe it could if I spent time dicking around with it, but I just want to play games and not let Microsoft know I jork it to fat anime tits. It's time for CachyOS, which everyone else uses with this laptop model. Haven't touched Arch in over a decade, hope it's a mostly smooth transition.

>>108719982
>new pci adress
Decided to reinstall, but if this was the case, what would cause such a thing to happen, and how would I fix it?

>>108713292
Whats the current meta for running adobe apps on linux?

>>108720286
If you're using Nvidia, regressions can (will) happen so it's often up to the driver version you're using. You might want to check that, and maybe which one Ubuntu was using at the time you used it. Distro hopping is unlikely to solve anything, particularly if you've had issues with a couple of them. If you're using something else then you might want to test an older kernel version
You can also try gnome or some other wayland compositor, there's a chance it might be handled in a better way. If the issue is a game Gamescope often helps, it's a microcompositor so it doesn't care which DE you're running. If you're already using it, disable it. Maybe force the game to use xwayland if gamescope makes no difference

WAYLAND_DISPLAY= mygamepath/mygame

It's being assigned an empty value on purpose, but you can use any as long as it doesn't exist. Wayland compositors will use xwayland as fallback if said env variable doesn't exist. Doing this has fixed strange issues in GPU accelerated programs as well, for me at least.
Also, fuck these captchas holy shit.

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>>108713292
Have an entertainment external SSD on NTFS and it's been giving me a hard time since I had a crash a month ago (after nearly 5 years of no issues). I do a lot of torrenting with it. I've lost some data and am slowly getting it back fingers crossed, but what really gets to me is how slow reading is. I usually just use ranger to traverse the directories to what I need, but after some repairs on both a Windows VM and using ntfsck from the new plus utils, I've had to do a lot of buffering for both watching videos and just loading file and directory information in ranger. Typically once something is fully loaded I can use it at normal speeds, things like seeking works without buffering, but it's like I need to do this for half the files. Is this just my drive building its cache again or what? Is there a faster way to scan every directory and file and make sure everything knows where it's supposed to be? Again, I've already allowed both chkdsk and ntfsck to run repairs.

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I've got an old capture card from the Windows XP era, I stopped using it a long time ago since the drivers didn't work on Windows 7. Anyone know if these things will work on modern Linux?

>>108721094

hauppauge product look very much same

>>108721094
The actual tuner part works! But the RCA capture doesn't.

>>108719029
xfs is severely underrated

>>108720595
Windows VM with GPU passthrough

>>108719645
>local
Every kernel has a million of these. You can't securely let other people run arbitrary machine code.

>>108718282
Its a good distro in a sense of a familiarity to control panel on windows. Setting users, file permissions, AppArmor, or SELinux, and such using mouse and a GUI. Its very easy for someone new to linux to get into. However like windows, there are two "different" control panel type deals. One is the actual control panel, the other is YaST, which doesnt exist anymore and is now Agama or Cockpit whatever its called.
Its good in a sense you get GCC, some text editors, assemblers, media players, libreoffice, alot of stuff from the .iso. You can get more programs from YasT or the Discover center if you're on KDE. And speaking of YaST, its good for new comers because they can get new programs and it auto resolves dependency issues. But its god awful slow.
I honestly would recommend opensuse for beginners, but once you learn basics, commands, file system, it might be time to move on to something better.

>>108718291
I remember years back the only way to install nvidia drivers that worked for me was to drop into text mode and manually invoke installing the RPM file. Wifi was a pain in the ass to get working.

>>108721342
>I honestly would recommend opensuse for beginners
The codec desyncs are annoying from what I hear

I'd like a login TUI instead of a GUI greeter. Like a retro-future terminal type interface. Is this even a thing that exists?

>>108721354
Before opensuse became opensuse, media players would come with the .iso but no codecs because they thought that some formats (like MP3 at the time) were proprietary and didnt get included in the base install. You could still get it, but it was part of another .iso. It also threw bitch fits when you tried to play .wmv files. The one time I was screwing around with nvidia (2007) installing their drivers was not the friendliest, but also I could have been doing it retarded. Also there was an issue for a little bit where you would click an icon to start it, but it wouldnt start. The icon would bounce up and down like a jack russel terrier.
Now im still on a card from 2012, but no nvidia driver. Maybe nouveau but I didnt check. But ya video on youtube for example is not great, and I do notice a slight audio mismatch.

I have at least tried other distros. Honestly nothing else has ever clicked for me. All I do is screw around making programs, and dicking around existing stuff and I compile from source anyway. Which can be done on any distro. Stockholm syndrome I guess?

>>108721424
Look into Ly or greetd+tuigreeter

>>108720632
Thanks anon!
I'll admit I've never been much of a tinkerer for distros.
>You can also try gnome
I'll give that a shot.
I'll report back if I see weird text glitches or anything like that.
By the way is dash to dock or dash to panel worth it on GNOME or is it better to just get used to the new GNOME DE?

>>108721489
Very cool, thanks!

>>108719827
systemd would wait for the network to get up eternally.

I just had a crash on Fedora GNOME.
I was listening to music and browsing this forum while downloading a game off Steam.
Is this annoyance really the experience of an average joe trying to use Linux?

>>108721684
Yes, of course.
Don't like it?
Skill issue.
Go back to Winslop.

>>108717647
>meme features like ntsync
Ntsync is not a "meme" feature. I suggest you research what it is and why it was needed in the first place. It is the only synchronisation primitive that accurately emulates what Windows actually does. Another words, this solves real problems for certain games and applications that use those synchronisation primitives and need it to be accurate in order to work without dogshit performance or incorrect emulation.

What is it about Mint users and thinking everything they don't understand or use is a meme?

>>108721720
You know what's funny? ntsync is even available by default if you use Proton-GE 10+ on Linux Mint. So even there Mint is not losing anything compared to other "more modern" distros.

>>108721701
Sorry if my post was seeing as shit stirring.
What's the best advice for someone to learn to more efficiently look for solutions to Linux related problems to solve them?
>Go back to Winslop.
I don't want to.

How reliable are the big AI assistants advice on solving Linux problems?

>>108721684
Driver issue. Check journalctl -b-1 -e

I can count on one hand the number of display crashes I have most years, and pretty much only while playing games.

>>108721733
>How reliable are the big AI assistants advice on solving Linux problems?
Depends on how straightforward the problem is. If you're starting off with a stupid assumption it's going to be a major stupidity enhancer.

>>108721733
Unironically a good place to start is using some LLM. Gemini, Brave search, chatgpt, etc. Be specific about your hardware and what were you doing. AIslop might be shit for most things but searching for weird bugs on Linux is not one of them.

>>108720595
Web browser.

>>108721342
>I honestly would recommend opensuse for beginners, but once you learn basics, commands, file system
Most beginners these days don't want or need to learn commands or filesystems. OpenSUSE is not a good beginner distro mainly because it is unpopular. Sticking to the big 3 (Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu) or anything based on them is better for beginners.

>>108719530
To play my pirated games? I don't think it would hook low level on linux, it would just fake the calls.

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>>108721735
Pic related is what I got. Just saw what time it was properly and I gotta sleep.
I'll check back on responses and possible solutions and perhaps even the bad news if it is there.
>>108721741
>>108721743
Thanks lads.

>>108721763
>this is your computer on opensnitch

>>108721733
make sure you understand what the ai tells you before following its advice.

>>108721729
You still need the kernel module for it to be used. I don't know if the Mint kernel includes it or not (I've not checked)

>>108721072
Shit, I'm realizing it's probably dying and glancing at drive prices it's not gonna be fun to replace. I'm not having luck running smartctl on it, any suggestions? I just want to see if it's self-reporting its destruction.

>>108721848
Got it. Needed to disable UAS. https://mcgarrah.org/usb-drive-smart/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===             SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!                                                 Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.                                              Failed Attributes:                                   ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE            5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   015   015   036    Pre-fail  Always   FAILING_NOW 55920

Fun times.

>>108721806
It does afaik. And even if it isn't, it's just a command line away.

I often hear that Linux is good at gaming now.
I'm curious, can it do this yet? My requirements:
- I leave HDR always on
- My games use the "RTX HDR" Game Filter from the Nvidia Overlay, which automatically translates non-HDR games to fake HDR (it's good enough and often better than the default HDR)
- Also use Shadowplay from the Nvidia Overlay
- Latest DLSS with framegen
- I pirate games sometimes and would expect this to keep working

Those are just the basics, if it can do those then I might switch from Windows 11.

>>108722351
I mean have you not noticed how popular/successful the Steam Deck is?

>>108722368
I have noticed, that's why I'm asking.
However I don't think the steam deck (device) has HDR or uses an nvidia graphics card or is made for pirating.
It could be that it just works well on non-HDR, doesn't support the "advanced" Nvidia stuff, and it's made for buying games on Steam, not for pirating.

>>108722383
Basically use an Arch-based distro like CachyOS, use the DE called KDE, and to play your loose pirated games download and use umu-launcher.

>>108722351
Imma keep it real with you, m8, nvidia and linux still aren't a great time. Especially if you want all of nvidia features and HDR (wayland).
You're gonna go back to windows anyway.

>>108722383
If pirating is one main concern then fret not, there's lots of ways to pirate games on Linux. Even using steam itself for "non-steam games" works great.

>>108722351
HDR on nVidia still sucks ass and so does nVidia in general. Linux is an OS exclusive to AMD and Intel unless you do AI work or video editing.

>>108722383
There's nothing stopping you from pirating games on Linux. You pirate the Windows version of a game and run it through Bottles, Faugus, Lutris or the Steam Client, whichever you prefer. Or you pirate a Linux version if it exists. And pirating console games is identical.

>>108722388
>>108722390
>>108722399
>>108722425
Alright, thanks guys, I appreciate it.
Looks like it's great for most casual gamers already.
But in my case I use an rtx 5090 and a 5120x1440 240 Hz screen with amazing HDR, so I'd lose a lot of value if these "advanced nvidia features" aren't working well yet. I'll check again in a few months, maybe then my hardware is supported better.

>>108722442
>>108722351
The best way to find out is to just try it. You don't have to nuke your Windows install, go and install a modern distro (something like CachyOS, that keeps up with bleeding edge NVIDIA) to a separate drive or partition and just try it for a bit.

I'd recommend the KDE desktop for good HDR, but GNOME should be alright too (albeit slightly less mature than KDE).

>>108722442
Unfortunately, NVIDIA support is completely dependent on NVIDIA and there's nothing anyone doing Linux development can do about it.

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what program do i use to get actual useful information about which directories are taking up most space?
shit like pic related is useless and I dont understand why it exists

>>108722838
Ncdu is good

>>108722841
>>108722838
Also if you just want to know about the actual disk usage, taking into account compression, etc, then use the compsize utility but that doesn't really tell you where your disk space has gone, rather how much disk space is actually used for a particular file/directory.

>Ncdu for identifying big directories
>Compsize if you want to know the real disk usage

Use:

btrfs fi usage /

If you want a general high-level overview (tells you how much space the filesystem is using but not what's using it)

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I've been using various distros for the better part of a decade now but my relationship to Linux is choppy at best. I go through a cycle where I use linux, get frustrated with it, give up, switch to windows, realize I hate it even more, go back to linux, and repeat the cycle.

I think part of the reason I get so frustrated with Linux is because it costs me so much time to fix basic issues. Yes, theoretically you can just read the wiki, or look up online how other people fixed and solved the issue, but in reality this just didn't work for me so many times, or it was such a headache, and feels shitty anyway when you have no idea what you're doing (always trusting other people that all the stuff you're typing into the terminal is safe etc).And sometimes I couldn't fix things at all, like the time I tried to print something important and couldn't get it to print from 3 separate Linux devices, so I borrowed a friend's windows machine and it worked instantly. Or how I have literally never got Debian working on any machine with an AMD card (the resolution is set to some absurdly low number and can't be changed) want to avoid things like this in the future, so I want to learn more about Linux, or rather improve my linux literacy, in a way that distrohopping and using LInux for years hasn't done at all.

i've really tried my best to absorb as much info as possible over the years by reading wikis and explanations of how things work, but it feels like every sentence contains several words of jargon I don't understand, and looking each of these words up, I'm met with definitions that contain yet more jargon, acronyms and so forth that I don't know, so it feels like an endless pit of searching for what stuff means. I also find it frustrating to ask for help, waiting days sometimes to fix critical issues.

So how can I improve my understanding of Linux in a way that gives me more agency and understanding, where daily usage over several years has not helped me learn?

are these Valve VRAM kernel patches going to end up in the main kernel?
is there an easy way for arch users to have these patches in the kernel?

Is there a way to check if a snap package is a dependency without looking at the snapcraft.yaml? Preferably via the terminal?

>>108722893
compile and build your own kernel to replace the old one, that's usually how patches work in Linux. Though you should look at if the community is talking about it or if a commit or proposal has been filed to add it, because if they are you might as well wait for them to implement it. Especially because if Steam ever does just release their SteamOS for download as a standalone distro it might be a waste of time to build it yourself.

>>108722907
I guess you try to remove it and see if anything complains. I know Canonical is retarded but surely not so retarded as to not check the dependency chain when you remove something?

>>108722838
filelight

>>108722841
yea that's very nice, thanks

>>108722890
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrB13utjYV4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42iQKuQodW4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKCVKw9CzFo
You don't understand something foundational which means you need to start at the beginning, even though you have been using Linux for several years, you need to go back and fill those holes you have. It's now your job to work backwards, don't understand something? Go back until you understand something then go from there.
>Couldn't print from Linux
I had the opposite problem, the Win10 software for my printer was fucking ass and would always break, switched to Linux, downloaded Cups and it literally just worked, that's when my jaw dropped and I was like "So this is the power of generic drivers..." Haven't looked back since.

>>108722930
I guess I need to check the .yaml then... Sad....

>>108722890
literally just use Mint

>>108722890
>So how can I improve my understanding of Linux in a way that gives me more agency and understanding, where daily usage over several years has not helped me learn?
Whenever you have some problem, ask Gemini to explain it to you and help you fix it.

>>108722890
>go to library
>search linux for beginners
>check out book
and if you like spending money but hate reading your local university should have classes or a certification course on using linux.
AND if you hate the idea of going back to school check the OP for the "Where can I learn the command line?". There's also a game in there called "bandit" which is a terminal wargame where you can learn linux in an edutainment fashion. The same website bandit is on also has other edutainment linux games you can play that teach you to Linux as you play.

>>108722982
>book
What is this, 2005? Who the fuck reads books? And who the fuck uses books instead of online documentation which is always up-to-date instead of being more outdated than Debian?

>>108722984
>books are bad and outdated
You're right about the outdated part my Library that has "Ubuntu for Dumbies" is for Ubuntu 21.something which is hilariously out of date but there are perenial linux books that teach the kernel that basically are still valid even though they teach using an older kernel version because the kernel rarely changes, you just gotta know what you are looking for in beginner books. Any "Learn [specific linux distro here]" book is going to be out of date or ass and eventually get outdated.
Also, if you are looking for a book to teach you a specific distro and you don't know the version your running or didn't think to write it down before looking for a book, well... You've got more problems elsewhere that learning Linux won't help.

>>108713292
Opinions on XLibre? Not on the allegations or politics behind it but the actual fork itself, do you think there's space with the hype around Wayland or do you think its not going to live up to the anti-screen tear and improved multi monitor detection and handling its promising?

>>108723178
IMO XLibre is going to stay niche overall, and most likely be more popular in BSD distros then Linux, which is all-in on Wayland ie: KDE/GNOME.
Also doesn't help that many distros aren't stocking its packages in official repos.

>>108723178
>protestware
never had a good experience with them, if you need x11 just use xorg I think

>>108718652
Wouldnt be surprised if its an issue with musl the only way to check is to try it on another distro.

>>108713599
CPU might be related to compression.

>>108719029
Just use ext4
>>108719664
The firmware for your ethernet card either was not installed or did not get loaded.

sudo dmesg |grep -i error

Is the easiest way to check

>>108723351
How is forking a project to add your own changes because upstream is hostile supposed to be protestware?

>>108721308
>But the RCA capture doesn't.
Just curious, how do you know? I'd think it would get detected as a video device in /dev

>>108720129
What do you mean? It either has a driver or firmware supported by the kernel or it doesn't.

>>108722890
>the resolution is set to some absurdly low number and can't be changed
Off the top of my head I can say that your example is an issue with the monitor or cable. Linux can't read the EDID. There's no solution here. You have to understand this, that sometimes hardware just doesn't support Linux or there are bugs. No amount of time spent learning Linux will help this.

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>>108723178
I'm using it for about 6 months now and never had an issue. They have enabled the anti screen tearing thing by default so you don't need to setup anything and you don't need a compositor. I see updates coming very often when I'm updating my system so yeah... that's my experience with it. It's solid.

>>108723178
I'll wait until they have a working HDR implementation before I form an opinion. Right now I use KDE Plasma which is dropping X11 support entirely in Plasma 6.8. I honestly don't see myself using Xorg again in the near future but if they can implement modern technologies properly like Wayland is doing then I'll give it a fair shot.

>>108723509
How can that be a Linux issue if it didn't happen with any other distros, including other Debian based ones?