So, if I want to install Fed 44 but just want to use X11 and my own choice of window manager, which installation media is the right choice?
Last time I went with Fed 43 Xfce4 and to be honest, Xfce4 is a piece of shit even if I don't even use it. I still use its polkit and Thunar and thunar simply crashes from time to time for no reason.
Is Fedora Everything the right choice then? Last time I checked that, it didn't allow me to actually specify individual packages but just "groups" which is sort of annoying.

>>108732313
I don't use Fedora but after looking at the site, I would go with the minimal installation and then install the packages that I wanted.

I just re-installed fedora 44, but for some reason the gnome-themes-extra package has been removed. I need a dark theme for apps like qbittorrent.

>>108732494
Found a solution, you can just edit the "~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini" file.

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>>108731906
>>108731924
>>108732014
I'll consider reinstalling Fedora 44 KDE then.
For some reason I had difficulties installing RPMfusion on the KDE but not on the Atomic version of KDE.
Makes me feel really stupid sometimes.
I did have a number of graphical resets when gaming.

When I reinstall it to give a go again, what are some things I should do to set things up before installing Steam then games?
Here's the fastfetch results.
Feel free to roast my specs, but hopefully they help in getting things working properly.

I want to say sorry if I become a recurring "character" in this general to an ad nauseam level.

If it is better for me to "take breaks" from asking for solutions here to not hog all the attention from other anons how is chatGPT for answering Linux problems?

>>108732295
How likely is it that a disk image made of the drive that I'm currently taking the image from will be broken? If the answer is "very" or "yes" then can I make the service somehow activate and take the disk image and upload it when I shut down the system so it can do it while nothing's happening?

>>108732295
scientific linux is deprecated. that map should really be update to include things like the Strait of Bab-Al Manjaro, and the the Void Sea.
Also distros like NixOS that host gay nude beaches and your mom getting blacked.

>>108728472
THAT'S IT. Helpful work, thanks

>>108732494
adwaita-qt should exist as a package
>>108732565
Personally i dont care if people keep asking questions since its better than having to deal with the same one or two retards arguing about the most dumbest flamewar shit

>>108732313
>Is Fedora Everything the right choice then? Last time I checked that, it didn't allow me to actually specify individual packages but just "groups" which is sort of annoying.
It sounds like you want the "minimal" version instead. But if I recall correctly the "groups" in Fedora Everything are just the desktop environment packages. For example, ticking Xfce4 will automatically tick Thunar, but you can technically untick packages if they're not hard dependencies (I may be wrong, it has been a while since I used it)

>>108732565
>how is chatGPT for answering Linux problems
Gemini, Grok and Claude are much better. ChatGPT behaves as if it's trained on very outdated data and it's a lot more likely to give false information and be confident about it.
Just make sure to prompt correctly. Always specify your distro, version, kernel version, if you're on atomic or not, etc. Otherwise you'll get multiple similar answers at once each for a different distro, or the AI will randomly assume which distro you use.
>what are some things I should do to set things up before installing Steam then games?
If you're lazy you can use Aurora, Bazzite or Ultramarine over regular Fedora. They set things up for you. Bazzite even installs Steam by default.
Otherwise set up RPMFusion and Flathub, then remove Fedora's Flatpak repo since Flathub is considered a much higher quality source (Fedora's Flatpak repo has the same anti-proprietary stance, so software will lack codecs and proprietary blobs which are expected by some software). Aside from that just install software you want and that's it.
>Feel free to roast my specs
Good. What the fuck am I looking at? A 900p display in 2026 but you have 64GB RAM? This is like getting the best insulation in the world and the most expensive doors and windows for a tool shed.

>>108732959
>A 900p display in 2026 but you have 64GB RAM? This is like getting the best insulation in the world and the most expensive doors and windows for a tool shed.
It is an old Dell monitor I've been using for over ten years.
And to be honest I didn't get any dead pixels. It is from a time when tech was built to last instead of break down after a certain amount of time so a new one would have to be bought.

I'm going over to the PC building general, but if you want to shill me a new display monitor I don't mind either.
Preferably something that will last a long time.

>>108732975
>It is from a time when tech was built to last instead of break down after a certain amount of time so a new one would have to be bought.
Based. I still have my old PS/2 mouse and it still works, but sadly none of my devices have the port anymore. I used it recently when I was reviving an old optiplex. Same with my old PSP. I literally recharged it a couple of days ago when I saw a PSP thread here and the fucker still works. My smartphone from 2010 also works although it's network locked so it's not usable as anything other than a music player.
>if you want to shill me a new display monitor I don't mind either
Nah, I have a very retarded taste in monitors. I haven't bought a normal one in 12 years. I buy cheap no-name Chinese 15-18 inch portable monitors from Aliexpress and I'm satisfied with those (I have multiple PCs and laptops so I find portable monitors more convenient). To be fair, none of them broke yet and none has dead pixels. The oldest one is probably 8 years old now.

Ubuntu is still slow/down. when will this ddos end?

>>108732295
HAIL XUBUNTIA!!!

>>108733329
when this happens in sand land
https://youtu.be/-gP8quhAj-U

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>>108732391
>>108732959
I'll take a look. Last time I checked, for some reason or another, minimal was only available for Arm systems.
Their website is horrible, looks absolutely massive on 1080p screen as if it was created for retards who use large text only, and the fact they shit out 20 different versions into your face is not helping either. Anyhow most of the time I need to scale almost any website outside of 4chan to 60-80% in order for them to be somewhat readable.
I think I'll install the default workstation one and then remove unnecessary stuff. I thought it would be nice idea to avoid extra bloat but whatever then.
I ain't touching Xfce4 spin, xfce is dead to me after what I have witnessed. Plus it is still bugged with Nvidia 595.48+ drivers.

>>108733647
You're right, it is for arm, I didn't notice that when I first looked. I just downloaded the Everything iso and tried it in a VM, it seems to be what you're looking for. It would have been nicer to be able to select individual packages rather than sets of packages.

what made you stop distrohopping and finally stick with what you're using?

Hi anons, I'm a Linux noob and I'm in a bit of a panic. I've been using a Debian installation (started with 12, then manually upgraded to 13) for a year with no issues whatsoever.

I ran my usual apt update/upgrade today and installed the latest version of Lutris, which is not in Debian's repo. Played around just fine and shut the computer off. When I went to turn it back on, it wouldn't boot past GRUB, just output errors related to "amd_pstate" and "no irq handler for XXX".

I always got these errors from day 1 but it still booted to desktop every time without fail, so I paid it no mind. This time however it would go unresponsive. I troubleshooted a bit and finally managed to boot by selecting an older kernel in GRUB.

I guess I can work with this but I'd like some input from more knowledgeable users. What do you think caused this catastrophe and how would YOU go about fixing it? Will removing Lutris fix it, should I keep using the older kernel, start over with a fresh OS installation, or...?

When is 0x0.st caming back?

>>108734147
Sorry that happened anon, do you happen to have timeshift or something like that installed to just roll back to a previous build?

>>108734426
I do indeed anon... but my last backup was on debian 12. I was sure I did one when I upgraded to 13, but I guess not. Do you think I'd end up breaking this install even further if I restored that backup?

On another note, I found a reddit post of a guy on Ubuntu saying his install also became unbootable after adding an external repo, but it turns out the repo he added included packages available only on a subsequent Ubuntu version. When he upgraded, he modified core OS components and ended up with a FrankenUbuntu.

Thing is, I am on the latest Debian (stable) release, so I can't see a reason why it would mess up like this. I previously added one or two repos for browsers and such and nothing broke. Only Lutris for some reason, though I even tried the same process in a VM first. Shitty situation.

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>>108733951
an inefficient process like
>use all the distros, figure out what you like/dislike about each and if there's a pattern, then pick the one that best matches what you want

i'm now on debian and have no desire to switch my main pc to anything else. secondary boxes may get void instead since it's my most familiar distro in the simple and lightweight genre.

on a pc that i actively use, i don't want the os to change under me and require me to suddenly adjust my habits unprompted. updates to desktop apps/libraries that are buggy, poorly tested or just subjectively worse are especially annoying. debian satisfies this by limiting (non-security) feature updates of packages to major os releases only.

at one point, i used gentoo with some customizations (custom compiler flags and packages) that i slowly lost the motivation to maintain and keep updated. it was fun, taught me a lot but i also learned that i'm pretty lazy in the end once the infatuation fades. debian in comparison requires fairly minimal attention from the user, so it's more suitable for someone like me.

things like that. there are more anecdotes but i'm having a hard time writing anything coherent. tl;dr i'm lazy and stupid so for me it's debian

>>108734519
>>108734426
>>108734147
Guys I fixed my shit with ONE simple command:
>sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64

Found another post on stackexchange of a guy with the same problem as me, turns out it was some Nvidia driver thing. I'd already gone back and forth with an AI which also found some Nvidia driver conflicts on my error logs, and when I booted with the oldest kernel I have installed I found out it defaulted me to the Nouveau driver. Running that command fixed it and now I can use the latest kernel again :) very happy I probably won't have to reinstall my whole system anymore.

Still I'm curious to know how Lutris (?) caused this whole thing.

>>108734605
It sounds like a problem with one or more of the dependencies from the third-party repo that you added.

>want /etc to be a subvolume (will explain why if anyone is interested, but it wlil take too long if not)
>didn't realise this during set up
Can I make a subvolume on an existing directory somehow, or am I gonna need to boot into a live USB? I know for most folders I can just move all my stuff off that directory to a temporary directory, then make the subvolume and move the stuff back, but with /etc I don't feel confident about moving all my stuff out of there, even if it's quick. I did check my most recent atimes and mtimes in that folder and nothing was actively being accessed, but I also read that the kernel has some kind of link to files in there, and I'm not sure if those times include things accessed via symlink.

>>108733951
I broke arch a few years ago for the last time and installed gentoo

>>108734715
btrfs?
i don't think anything would break if (on a running system) you just copied the contents to a new subvolume, renamed the subvolume to /etc and rebooted

>>108733951
I can't stop the hop.
Fedora, Debian, Arch, NixOS.
Send help.

What is the most stable distro for dual boot on single ssd?
I'm an advanced user, but I don't feel like fixing ntfs or grub errors. I will use qemu and firefox, mostly.

>>108734747
edit:
>renamed the subvolume to /etc
or mounted it there, depending on where you make the subvolume

>>108734747
Oh yeah, btrfs. That's right. Forgot to mention that. My bad.
>>108734756
I think I see what you're saying. Make the new subvolume, mount it somewhere temporary, copy in everything from /etc, change fstab to mount that new subvolume at the /etc path, and then reboot. Will there be issues where it tries to mount that volume where there is already files on the root subvolume though?

Do Window managers use icons?

>>108734905
If a WM uses icons it'll most likely be nerd icons, so make sure you have a nerd font installed.

>>108734905
It depends on the window manager, I use icons with Fvwm.

>>108734911
>nerd icons
>nerd font
I don't know if this is some sort of sarcastic joke or if you are being serious.
>>108734916
Does sway use icons?

>>108734921
Not him, but nerd icons/fonts are real, I used them before on a bspwm setup.
>Does sway use icons?
I don't believe so, but I haven't used sway so I can't be sure.

>>108734934
>potentially no icons
Maybe windows managers are the way to go for me...

>>108734921
I'm being serious. Nerd fonts are font sets that include a whole bunch of icons as characters.
Certain terminal file managers expect them, and a lot of WM status bars do too.

>>108734954
I'm assuming sway comes with it on default and I guess if it doesn't it'll be obvious with some icons missing.

i cannot imagine untaking the nixos pill

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Copy dot fail

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>before systemd smartcard work trouble free

>>108734605
>sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64
What's the fedora version of this?
Or should I just go back to Ubuntu with Mint?

my hardware is older than some zoomers here

I don't need new kernel and to updoot at all. how do I go back to use version 2.6 or 3 and have xorg i3wm and some other stuff ?

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Please tell me what's going on here isn't a VirtualBox-specific thing

>>108735060
What does Systemd have to do with smart cards? Don't you just need libu2f and configure GPG and SSH, etc?

>>108733951
I finally have no random problems that pop up after some time of using the distro (Universal Blue + Bazzite)

>>108729740
to be honest I feel useless here, i seriously gotta take some guided courses cause just trying to immerse myself is only working as far as google can take me im just blindly poking at the configs until something works, i've changed some of the values for the allowed IPs as I believe the mullvad config was trying to swallow traffic designated for the wg0 config

I think i've managed to at least make the problem a little simpler, i have both interfaces up, a working route into my home network, and now only have the simple problem of transmission not connecting to trackers. I think the only thing that needs to be solved is allowedips in the mullvad conf

me@server:~$ sudo cat /etc/wireguard/mullvad.conf && echo && sudo cat /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf
[Interface]
# Device: device
PrivateKey = redacted
Address = redacted/32,redacted/128
DNS = 10.64.0.1
FwMark = 1234

[Peer]
PublicKey = redacted
AllowedIPs = 10.6.0.1/32
Endpoint = redacted:51820

# Do not alter the commented lines
# They are used by wireguard-install
# ENDPOINT redacted

[Interface]
Address = 10.7.0.1/24, fddd:2c4:2c4:2c4::1/64
PrivateKey = redacted
ListenPort = 51819

# BEGIN_PEER phone-home
[Peer]
PublicKey = redacted
PresharedKey = redacted
AllowedIPs = 10.7.0.2/24, fddd:2c4:2c4:2c4::2/128
# END_PEER phone-home
me@server:~$ ip route show
default via 192.168.0.1 dev enp2s0 proto dhcp src 192.168.0.20 metric 100
10.6.0.1 dev mullvad scope link
10.7.0.0/24 dev wg0 proto kernel scope link src 10.7.0.1
192.168.0.0/24 dev enp2s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.20 metric 100
192.168.0.1 dev enp2s0 proto dhcp scope link src 192.168.0.20 metric 100
me@server:~$ sudo cat /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json | grep \"bind
    "bind-address-ipv4": "matches mullvad.conf interface address",
    "bind-address-ipv6": "matches mullvad.conf interface address6",

is there a good video series on learning the basics of linux?

>>108736117
I like the videos by LearnLinuxTV

>>108735458
dunno, man, is your hyprland running correctly?

>>108733951
I took a long time figuring out what I wanted/needed and picked the distro based on it. Never hopped.

>>108735647
You basically have a network adapter connected to 10.7.0.0/24 with an IP of 10.7.0.1 and it's puzzling to me why would the Mullvad interface prevent that. Hence I'd like to see the routing tables when the two are active.
(assuming your 10.7.0.0/24 works when the Mullvad interface isn't there)
>>108735278
Clone yourself the latest 2.6 or 3.0 Git tree from kernel.org, compile it and boot it.

>>108735647
You would be better off setting up the vpn and everything that needs to use it inside of a vm or lxc container.

>>108736463
In the other thread I suggested he use a network namespace and linked:
https://github.com/chutz/mullvad-netns

Presumably he'd rather fight the routing table instead since he ignored that, in which case I suggest reading up on policy based routing.

>>108735647
This isn't a problem you can solve correctly by tinkering with routing tables.

>>108736835
mullniggers should just use the proxy service for bittorrent since they can't accept incoming connections anyway

https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/stable-virtio/virtio-win.iso
is this link also down for everyone else? and is the link above the only source to download virtio-win?

>>108737017
did you check archive?

>>108737030
sorry, what archive? I can download it now but it's very slow

>>108737017
Here:
https://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/55/virtio-win-0.1.285.iso

>>108736835
Honestly i've never understood how to use netns and theres no proper documentation or explanation on how you're supposed to use it. Its easier to just make a vm or lxc container(which i've done before) and route all the vpn related traffic through there.
Some anon (don't know if its you) always mentions netns every thread but never mentions how you're supposed to use it or if it can be done without root.

>>108737136
The script literally does it all for you, you can read the source if you want to know how it works.

The TLDR is:
>Make veth pair in root namespace and join it in the VPN namespace
>NAT in the firewall so connectivity flows between them
>Bring up VPN with Wireguard as usual
>Run whatever you want in it with `ip netns exec <NS> <COMMAND>`

>>108737083
archive.org

>>108737136
>how you're supposed to use it
Ask Google.
>if it can be done without root
No, but any working solution other than 'just use a proxy retard' requires root.

If i want to do a backup of my stuff to another drive, but only what has changed rather than copying everything over, then what is the best command? I tried rsync -v origin folder to destination folder, but nothing happened.

>>108737317
nta, but I'm also going to piggyback off this question, is there an AI program that sorts files automatically and flags duplicates for manual review? That would make sorting my drive so much more easier.

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why does this shit constantly ask for updates?

>>108737405
Because there are updates?

>>108737405
Imagemagik has a very busy dev cycle, like ffmpeg or mpv.

>>108737405
ImageMagick relies on so many 3rd party libraries that they can't really run on their own schedule they have to run on multiple other people's schedules, which if you don't understand what that means, is that if 1 of the libraries they are using updates, they have to comb through it and make sure that their version of their program is still compatible with it to make it still work.
I can write paragraphs about this and the inefficiencies it builds and how it can potentially create versions that update with "nothing" other than a version number change to keep track of the library update but:
>tl;dr: they use multiple 3rd party libraries for their program so every time a library updates, they have to update if they want their program to still run/work.

>mp4 of a song that just shows the album cover
>mpv can play it just fine
>change it to mp3
>breaks and mpv no longer wants to play it
>mpv can still play mpas changed into mp3s
Why....?

>cleaning up archive
>come to a folder called "share"
>has a bunch of folders named after video games and saves and config files inside of it
Does Linux have a share file or is this a windows file?

I'm new to Linux (Mint) and have just been reading up on local DNS servers to block telemetry and things like that. I'd like to use https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists. Are there any programs with a GUI that would make this easier for me, instead of having to edit everything in config files and the terminal?

>>108737690
If you want to use a different DNS server (or services like DoH) then just open up NetworkManager via the applet and set it up there.

>games "work" on linux
>every update steam breaks
>no way to get consistent frametimes
>game will run at 100+fps and randomly dip to 43 for no reason at all
>every single one
this is garbage

>>108737144
>Make veth pair in root namespace and join it in the VPN namespace
Since this requires root can this part be done automatically on startup?
>NAT in the firewall so connectivity flows between them
As in a nftables rule?
>ip netns exec <NS> <COMMAND>
Can this be ran without root?

>>108737317
I thought by default rsync will only copy over a file if its changed
>>108737333
Czkawka

>>108737775
nvidia battered wife syndrome never gets old

>>108737690
Install pihole in a vm and point your dns nameserver to that

>>108737782
You need root, yes. There are things like slirp (https://github.com/rootless-containers/slirp4netns) and Wireguard itself can of course run rootless if you use the Go version instead of the kernel module but for performance it's better to just do it all in a script that runs as root.

You can make it run at startup with a Systemd unit, etc.

>>108737775
Can't really help if you don't say what your hardware is, what distro you're running and if its LTS or something more cutting edge, and what you are trying to play. Sure it takes more work to get games running on some LInux operating systems but at the rate we are going its going to be the way most people play games in the future if the selling of the Framework laptop being majority Ubuntu installs is an actual indicator or not.

>>108737813
Can the ip netns exec part be ran without root though?

>>108737836
No, it needs root privileges.

>>108737801
>>108737830
it worked fine after I restarted but I had 33 days of uptime, anyway frametimes are still shit I assume it's a shader compilation thing because non steam games aren't as bad
I just use a 13400f and a 3060 on void

>>108737986
Check drivers to see if they swapped or if they swap when the game launches in wine, generally if you launch a game through terminal with wine "wine [insert game exe here] it will show you a bunch of errors or flags you can then google to find how people resolved them.
>void
If your this new you shouldn't be using void, not only is it too new (currently a flavor of the year/month distro) it doesn't have a large enough community with a long history of people asking things for you to actually learn the basics of linux by yourself. You're taking at most a 1 hour chore and making it longer for yourself.

>>108737986
>void
found the problem

>gtk4 requires xdg-desktop-portal-gtk now
>installs
>breaks a bunch of shit
awesome lol

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Is there a Linux equivalent for picrel?
>>108737699
He wants to run a caching DNS locally with block lists, not use some rando's server.
>>108737690
Sadly no. But as the other anon said there's the Pi-Hole project but setting that up requires configs and shit too.
Wildcard option: case your router is fancy enough it could just be capable of doing blocklists on its own. (but that's not a Linux topic)
>>108737663
~/.local/share? It's a per-user equivalent of the system-wide /usr/share.

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>>108736294
I assume so? If I take out the config and, well, obviously I still don't get a wallpaper, just something about no target, so no wallpaper is being set, but at least I don't get an "ASSERTION FAILED!"

>>108738080
A Linux equivalent of Bomberman? Why not just emulate whatever version you want.

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>>108738080
Yes...

>>108738085
looks similar enough to my config.
Probably can't detect monitor on its own inside your VM or something.

>>108732295
Is it reasonable to be afraid of putting stuff in home because your afraid that you'll leave something behind or forget something when or if you migrate to another distribution?

>>108738088
But muh native binaries.
>>108738098
Damn, got to check those out.
>>108738165
Why not back up your home? Or keep your home directory hosted on some other partition?

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>opensuse tumbleweed
>ryzen 7 7700x CPU
>rx 9070 GPU
>32 GB memory

this computer is brand new, I haven't even owned it 6 months yet, but it's somehow incredibly slow. Windows are constantly going white and giving me "not responding" notifications, a lot of the time the icons on the tray (why is it called the "task manager" in linux by the way? I'm too used to calling it the tray) are completely unresponsive and will only pull up windows after like 30 seconds.
there's no way I have a virus because I'm too careful about my online habits and my downloads, and I'm not running a million programs at once. This is what my CPU, GPU, and memory usage is like right now.
what could be causing this? I'll give any other information necessary that might help me. I'm pretty annoyed that I spent this much money on a computer and it's this slow.

>>108738165
typically, you're afraid of losing stuff not in home

Does anyone know a better MacOS theme than WhiteSur on KDE?

>>108738198
check your ram sticks
why is it swapping

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>>108738132
I also tried setting

monitor = Virtual-1

and same deal (though with the wl_display error). I put it on verbose and got all this. Does that mean anything?

>>108738274
>why is it swapping
4MB? sounds normal to me.

>>108738277
sorry bro, got no experience with hyprland in a vm

>>108738305
slow

>>108738318
what do you mean, slow? A bit of swap is seen commonly and not a sign of a problem.

>>108738341
turn that shit off

>>108738344
turn what off? I don't use swap. But that 4 MB is definitely not causing that other anons slowdowns. The kernel is not that stupid.

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>>108732295
I don't like to be that close to commies.

>>108738198
Hard to say without details in which situations exactly your stuff becomes unresponsive.
Do you have network mounts? Those tend to freeze up certain applications for a bit, especially if they become unresponsive.

>>108738198
I don't know a ton about the topic but the only thing that I personally know that can cause shit performance like that is laptop power management settings (aka power-saving vs performance mode or whatever you want to call it),
You haven't described having a laptop but this is the only thing I can fathom that makes performance that bad, you should check if there is the chance that you have something similar despite having a proper desktop PC.

>>108734905
I have AwesomeWM somehow spawning the systray applet of pasystray and nm-tray working properly by just by opening them up in the WM autoexec files.
I got no fucking clue how it all works but yeah, it's possible.
and if you mean icons "overall" then yeah, of course, X gets booted up by my display manager and then it opens up my WM like what you'd expect in any normal DE and then programs running on it request icons as they please, icons that I was able to select with LXappearance and qt5ct so uhh... yeah this works I guess?

>>108734755
Probably Debian LTS, but let it be known that Windows will rape your bootloader at any opportunity available.

>>108733951
The fact that I only have 1 computer and it's not the fastest really. So fucking around with new distros involves a really annoying downtime.
Or in other words there is a consequence for me fucking around. So I stuck with the first thing that really worked (debian sid) then when I found something noticeably better I stuck with it (fedora).

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>>108738309
Welp, even with a fresh install of hyprland and everything I still get the same error

>>108738198
Flatpak apps take longer to load if that might be relevant.
The only other thing might be that your compression is too high if you're using btrfs, but i don't think that could be the reason.
check dmesg for any errors

sudo dmesg | grep -i error

>>108738198
"Not responding" could mean anything. This could be a CPU bottleneck, storage bottleneck, a ton of swapping, application bugs, driver issues, etc.

What would help you the most is:
1. Install "btop" if you don't have it. Keep it always open and monitor your system resources and temperatures while you're experiencing issues.
2. Check all your logs. There's like 3-4 different places in Linux where you can pull logs from, look at everything to see if you're getting some errors or timeouts.
3. Run applications in your terminal. They will usually print out warnings and errors if there are any. Warnings are often benign so focus on errors first.
We can't really tell you much without btop screenshots, logs and maybe screen recordings.

>>108738274
I've used up almost all of my ram before without problem during certain tasks.

>>108738431
I do not.

>>108738570
Thanks for the advice, but yeah I'm not using a laptop, I'm on a desktop PC.

>>108738589
The only error I found was regulatory.db which I don't think would cause anything, right?

>>108738766
Regulatory.db is just wifi related stuff

>>108738372
Don't worry, they're communists with Canonical characteristics.

Why are the sound drivers for Linux notorious bad?

is there an android emulator for linux that works like the windows emulators? basically a VM that loads android
I know waydroid works and it's fine, but I need multiple instances of android to play an mmo and waydroid doesn't work like that

>>108739138
I don't think the way waydroid works with the kernel allows you to run multiple waydroid instances but you could try setting up multiple rootful distrobox containers with waydroid and see if it allows you to run multiple instances or if it will cause some weird conflict crash.
Otherwise your only two other choices are to run waydroid in multiple vms or to run something like bliss os in multiple vms
GPU accel might be too slow in a vm though but i think that's the only other two choices you have.

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>>108739071
3 different audio systems and shitty OEM audio firmware that was only tested on Windows. Just come off $10 and get a real DAC from Walmart if you have problems.

>>108739138
https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid/pull/1990
You can technically pull this branch and build Waydroid from source. I'm too lazy to read through the comments, but the PR screenshot makes it seem like it should work.
While you're at it, if you really want this feature log into your github account and leave a like or comment on the PR.

>>108739210
I use DAC which is why I'm asking.

Is there any reason to have old Iso's of out of date distros saved?

Apparently user dirs have a "Projects" folder now, but apparently Ubuntu doesn't have that?

>>108739319
If you want to resurrect old hardware then sure. Sometimes people prefer having an OS that doesn't get system updates over throwing away their PC and buying a new one. Especially for offline devices.

>>108739426
INTO THE BIN IT GOES THEN!!! Especially when there are now a couple of solid options to run older hardware WITH the internet nowadays.

I found an old Backtrace.txt of when I was trying to Play Alan Wake a couple of years back on Linux, is there any reason to hang onto this?

What do you guys use/would recommend for general note taking and organization purposes? I've been thinking about taking something like Joplin or Obsidian for a spin. Lately I've been using the default text editor to write shit to an md file, but I've been missing the extra organization I had back when I used OneNote and other stuff like that. I didn't use all the bells and whistles when I used something heavier, but I'd probably benefit from having something a little more structured than a random file sitting around.

>>108739319
Sometimes you might need to run a program thats more compatible with an older version than a newer one. Or for whatever reason you want to run an older version of a program.

>>108739491
Write stuff to md files with a text editor and sync it across your stuff using nextcloud since the nextcloud notes webapp uses .md files

>>108739491
unironically pen and a small notebook, typing thoughts doesn't feel natural

>>108739491
I actually still use notebook and paper
>>108739567
This, some things were just meant to stay analog

>>108737986
I'd avoid Void if you're wanting a pain free gaming experience. It's a niche distro for BSD autists not a just werks distro for everything and your mother. I like Void, but the maintainers are lazy and it needs to get a revamp to really be viable as a daily driver for non-enthusiasts. Either stick with Ubuntu (always the safest option) or pick a gaming focused distro people are happy with.

>>108739608
cont. I assume you've already done the whole 'check your drivers/update your drivers/make sure you're using your drivers' thing. If not then do that and see if it's easily resolved.

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I hopped again

keepassxc or keepass? been using xc for a while but I dont use the extension or sync it, I open it to get a password, might aswell use keepass, I feel like it's more secure

>>108739491
I use Iotas and just treat it as a notepad that handles files in the background and easily lets you set up categories. It supports writing in markdown and syncing with nextcloud but I don't use any of those features.

I'm on ubuntu 24.04. I just updated my system and now most hotkeys in i3 don't work anymore.
Any of you have this issue before? wtf could be wrong?

>>108739824
I don't know why you would think the original version is more secure.
Assuming both are equally as secure (and I don't know why we would not), XC runs natively on Linux and has some nice features the original (that must be run through mono...) does not.

>>108739824
I switched from xc to the original because xc was kicked out from the Gentoo repos. So far, I see no relevant difference, except for the whole mono thing, which is not a big deal for me

>>108736423
Sorry I thought the IP route show command was the routing table, I've got to read up a bit when I get out of work cause I'm at like script kiddie level when it comes to most of this

>>108736463
I was thinking of doing this as my next step, said something up in a VM, get it to work and then mirror that config on my hardware.

>>108736835
I kind of got spooked by random script on GitHub, I'm going to try that in my VM tester later

Ya doing any linuxing this weekend son?

>>108740485
gpu passthrough with a polaris gpu

I have a custom cursor that switches back to a black mouse when in a browser, what causes that?

date +%s

>>108740220
nvm it was actually my keyboard itself

Whats the best distro if i want the reliability of a server alongside functionality of a workstation

>>108740791
there's a lot of good software for server reliability mainly being the big 3: debian, fedora, ubuntu; with ubuntu being the smallest % and debian being the largest.

>>108740791
ubantoo

>>108740804
I never got the autism about pronouncing the distro's names correctly until I saw people say "Deebian" for Debian and "ExUbntu" for Xubuntu.

>>108740855
>Xubuntu
Ex eww boon too

>>108740954
Zooboontwo

I think it's pretty crazy it's 2026 and linux still cant play high quality audio when a microphone is enabled over bluetooth
this sounds like a hardware issue people would have in the 90s like when you couldnt make a phonecall and access the internet

>>108732295
Hey, bros, I'm looking to start making the switch from jeetdows to Linux. My plan is to start slow and dual boot using separate drives on my PC.
My question is: If I have an Nvidia card (RTX 4070) which distro would be better to start off?
I'd like to stick to mainline distros like Fedora and Ubuntu.
I know Debian/Arch work great but require some setup and I'm looking for the simplest way to start. If you have any other recs I'm all ears.
Thanks in advance!

>>108741071
Fedora KDE if you don't want to use Arch yet.

>>108741071
FEDora was the only distro that i could use long term without having to mess with it as a windows user once i setup codecs and drivers and stuff. they also have an image writer that downloads the iso for you and flashes it on to the usb stick which is neat. fedora kde edition is what you want and official documentation on codecs and driver installs for nvidia gpus. fedora 44 also came out recently but i am still on fedora 43.

>>108741071
People are really liking Fedora 44 to the point they are saying its replacing Ubuntu, you could also try Ubuntu or Mint if you'd like.

>>108741071
>simplest way to start
fedora kde, forget the other big two for now. youll get an easy start since you plan on keeping windows for now.

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I moved my installation to a new drive with raid.
Did grub2-install onto it, and updated everything then update-initramfs.

Now ntfs module is gone and system started using the fuse ntfs.

Why and how to fix that?

>>108741076
>>108741082
>>108741157
>>108741181
Thanks for all the replys, bros.
So Fedora KDE seems to be the general consensus. I'll try that then. I read Fedora doesn't work great with nvidia cards but I guess it's nothing a quick search can't fix.

>>108741547
>I read Fedora doesn't work great with nvidia cards but I guess it's nothing a quick search can't fix.
If you're new it never, ever, ever hurts to look up hardware compatibility for the distro you'd like to use. Believe me you'll save much more time taking time to look it up and read a bit than you would going in blindly and not understanding why it runs like shit or doesn't work.

is there any particular reason spotify-launcher sometimes just doesnt update with new changes i've made elsewhere?
just got back from a couple months in japan and my liked songs are for some reason stuck where they were before i left, not sure how to make it update with the latest changes

>>108739388
honestly a more useful default than either Templates or Public

>flatpak using a sandbox cursor instead of my custom cusor
>easy flatpak --user override command fixes this
>snappack using the sandbox cursor instead of my custom cusor
I have to do a 20 step process that involves fucking around with folders and copy pasting
It's unbelievable that people are just okay with this.

>>108741715
snaps are for people who don't really care about computer customization or control, its more for people that are fed up with windows and just wants something to work and that's as deep as they care.
Not saying those people are wrong, but they are more on the apple/gnome side of the Linux than the arch/foss side and I'd argue that having both audiences in Linux is important, not because "le diversity good" but it gives dimensionality to the ecosystem and ultimately good for it.

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happy 1777777777

>>108741811
check'em

>>108741499
Don't because the kernel ntfs drivers have always been a shitshow. Re-evaluate in 5 years.

>>108732866
>Personally i dont care if people keep asking questions since its better than having to deal with the same one or two retards arguing about the most dumbest flamewar shit
Fair enough.

I've decided to switch to Linux Mint XFCE edition.
I'm not sure if I will still encounter regular crashes.
Fastfetch has been posted over at >>108732565

My phone has a way of checking the battery health.
Is there a Linux application that will allow me to examine various hardware health?
I'm getting scared of having to come to terms that maybe some hardware is busted.
I fear a professional computer repair shop may not work in my area because the case most likely will be that they're just focused on Windows and maybe Apple computers.

>>108741828
Sol much this. I got so excited when ntfs3 got upstreamed, but that shit requires a chkdsk to be run any time you have an improper shutdown, the permissions are all fucked, and it doesn't support windows only naming enforcement. ntfs-3g is still king (sadly).

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cmon...
release the stable build, already...

>>108740719

# (Works in Bash only. I wish Zsh would add this too)
echo $EPOCHSECONDS

>>108738217
For a typical desktop user there's nothing of value OUTSIDE your $HOME.
>>108741071
Partition your drive for easy distrohopping and distrohop all you like.

>>108742143
>For a typical desktop user there's nothing of value OUTSIDE your $HOME.
Pretty much. You might have some configs you modified but nothing that can't be replaced.

I'm away from home at the moment so have a shitty Glinet Slate 7 travel router (it's actually pretty decent, only way it could be better is if it had a 6Ghz radio but my shit travel speeds won't benefit from that anyway) and already bricked it once and had to reset it. Lost all my configs but it was easy enough to replace. Things like VPN configs are the most annoying to lose because I had to update the configuration in two places because of the way Wireguard works (update public key on my server with the new one the router generated).

This is on an actual appliance though. On a laptop/desktop there's not much that couldn't be replaced.

>>108741026
Ksubuntu

>>108741049
>bluetooth
what's crazy is that people expect this heap of shit to magically be fine one day when all i read is people having issues with it

>>108742127
>zsh
couldn't be me

>>108742274
It's a much better interactive shell. It's worse at scripting compared to Bash though.

>>108742333
COULDN'T BE ME

>>108742143
besides some system configs, I think I've seen a flatpak dump its shit under /var/

>>108742362
Flatpaks store in /var if you install them with --system (default if you don't specify --user). That's nothing you can't re-install though.

>>108742381
That was the only flatpak I ever tried and my /var was limited in size so I had to reroute it somewhere else.
Still, the flatpak itself stored stuff I wouldn't want to lose.

>>108742396
>Still, the flatpak itself stored stuff I wouldn't want to lose.
That's all in ~/.var/app in your home directory so as long as you make sure not to lose that then you're fine. You can even transplant it between systems this way (just copy the relevant app folder)

>>108741828
They worked and were faster.
Also ntfs3g introduced some weirdness that broke wine and bottles for me. All folders are owned by ntfs group. 7.0 improved these drivers ever further but I don't have it yet

>>108742420
dunno, I just remember I changed the default location dur to running out of space on /var.
Didn't really get into the flatpak system back then.

did Linux ever help you get any girls?

>>108743042
ctfu

>>108742482
Flatpak stuff can only get stored in either /var/lib/flatpak for system-wide or ~/.local/share/flatpak for --user installed stuff

I just ran Fallout New Vegas on my Artix machine I use Proton GE globally on Steam and it worked right off the bat.

I had been putting it off because I wasn't sure how I was going to go about installing all the mods you usually have to install to make it even playable on modern Windows but under Proton GE it is like it is already fully modded and desu is running better than I have ever seen.

Is this because of Proton GE? Either way very pleasant surprise saves me a lot of fucking around.

>>108743455
Proton-GE is incredibly good, yes. It's a fork of beta Proton that has a whole bunch of additional patches, one kind of game it works great with is games that use third party codecs for cutscene videos.
Also recently a Wine fork was created called umu-launcher which basically allows you to use the Proton runners outside of a Steam environment like you're running them in a normal Wine prefix IE using GE-Proton outside of it. It's actually so good if you play pirated pre-install games.

>>108743468
Yes it is pretty impressive it usually requires multiple mods for FNV to run at a satisfactory standard and on Linux it is running at the refresh rate of my monitor (which I have never seen it do before) with 0 mods.

>>108743455
Pretty sure proton or steam itself has a way to tell wine which dependencies and tweaks need to be done for each game.

All this immutable stuff would be more suited for running off a usb or external storage since its just a single image being updated and wouldnt have as many writes being regularly done to the filesystem.

>>108743583
Protonfixes, yeah. umu-launcher can use protonfixes if you put the game's Steam ID in its prefix.

>>108743448
I'm pretty sure I changed the system-wide path to somewhere else in some config.

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Is there anything for Linux that shows WEBM/MP4 thumbnails on when you choose file to send in to 4chan?

It works for images and GIFs for default, but what about video formats?

>>108744040
It's called "not using a shit desktop environment". The KDE/Qt file picker shows video thumbnails.

anons why do i lose audio after hibernation? i'm using fedora workstation. i thought it just didn't detect my headphones, but apparently laptop speakers don't work either. this fixes itself if i reboot but i can't find a way to fix this without rebooting

>>108744092
I had this problem on Mint, check to see if fedora is rechecking for audio, chances are when it comes out of hibernation it doesn't but also forgets the speakers are there. If you come out of hibernation, run the manual terminal command to reset audio or to re-detect audio devices and it works then you know what the problem is.

>>108742333
I used to use zsh and I remember it being better for scripts

doesn't matter though, I use fish now

>>108744127
i ran
systemctl --user restart pipewire
and
systemctl --user restart wireplumber pipewire pipewire-pulse
but none seem to work.. am i doing the wrong commands?

>>108744172
Looks good to me, have you looked in your mixer section to see if the speakers appear there? There might be a virtual or digital audio output its defaulting too for some reason.

Recently installed Devuan a couple of days ago, and I'm trying to get automatic updates set up with unattended-upgrades. I'm coming off from Mint, and I did play with Debian Bookworm for a while. I only found out about unattended-upgrades late into my foray with Debian, but I don't believe I had it configured properly. I do have experience with Gnome package updater, but I'm more used to Mint's update manager, more convenient. Also, I'm trying to get Gnome software manager to work, but the explore tab is blank, and using the search function yields nothing at all. Synaptic works, but I like to see some preview images.

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>>108744186
it only has this. i can adjust the volume but it doesn't produce any sound

>>108744208
When you run a test does it produce the test sounds?

>>108744172
Try

systemctl --user restart pipewire.service

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>>108744212
it does seem to produce it at least with the setting audio bar thing (idk what it's called), but it doesn't actually make a sound

>>108744218
doesn't work either..

>>108744241
Go into alsamixer and make sure automatic mute is disabled, just follow along with the video below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTeBYuoat58
>This is for Debian and Mint
It also works for Fedora pipewire runs on everything and all the commands are the same

>>108741811
can't believe i missed this

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>>108744245
i don't see it

>>108744291
That's because you have the internal mice boost selected, you want to select speaker.

>>108743455
I find that Proton GE mostly helps with codecs, so videos and music plays.

>>108744344
i can't do even change volume when selecting speaker. also there doesn't seem to be any auto-mute available

>>108744383
Did you press f6?

>>108744414
yes, i tried each one. only that one had more than one option available to tweak

>>108744430
Have you tried increasing the volume of the speaker? Cause its set to mute or at to the lowest sound setting in the mixer.

>>108744448
i can't actually. it's apparently capped at 0? i can mute and unmute but it's just 0 ultimately

>>108744068
Like the Mozilla file uploader one

>>108744478
Huh, well I'm actually at the limit of my knowledge of pulseaudio at this point, sorry I couldn't help you fix it but you at least have some more knowledge of what is going on to tailor your google searches with.

>>108744486
Yes. It works fine on KDE + Flatpak.