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ff over ubuntu...
4chanX. is there a beep or window flash alert wh3n i get a reply?

I've read that linux is not so great on Nvidia GPUs. Is this still the case or is it old propaganda?

I'm on an RTX 3080 and considered doing the switch to Linux, but don't really want to if I'll just have a bunch of display issues.

>>108791256
Years ago that might've been true but these days it's not that true. NVIDIA drivers have gotten much better over the years. Just use a distro that uses KDE like Fedora KDE (enable the rpmfusion repos to get the NVIDIA driver.)

>>108791256
It works fine nowadays, but you're still going to have issues compared to AMD and Intel which just work and are supported for far longer. You're also basically downgrading your GPU by an entire generation. If you're fine with your 3080 turning into a 2080 Ti then go for it.

>>108791302
Your post is full of shit. Please stop posting.
>>108791256
It's fine especially for workstation usage. Learn to think with your own brain.

>Learn to think with your own brain.
aka "don't believe those other retards"

>>108791315
Shut the fuck up, you know it's true no matter how much you deny that 90% of all nvidia cards almost always take a performance hit on linux

Which is better for Linux gaming, AMD or Intel?

>>108791315
>Your post is full of shit
Stop baiting people into thinking nVidia works perfectly fine on Linux, it doesn't. It's verifiably true that it doesn't work in as many scenarios as Intel/AMD. It's verifiably true than Intel/AMD get supported longer. It's verifiably true that there is a 15%-40% performance loss compared to Windows when it comes to gaming.

>>108791337
For poorfags:
AMD > Intel > nVidia
For non-poorfags:
AMD > nVidia > Intel

Intel has drivers. nVidia has more powerful GPUs to compensate for the lack of good drivers.

>>108791256
>I've read that linux is not so great on Nvidia GPUs. Is this still the case or is it old propaganda?
This is relative to your workload. They are perfect for headless usage like GPGPU / AI, but not as good for desktop/3D, although they generally work fine but there are chances you might run into some issue here and there
>t. AMD desktop + NVidia AI user

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I've been running ddrescue on a failing NTFS drive to clone it to a new drive. It hit with me a 99.99% pct rescued and wouldn't budge on more passes. I've already tried mounting it and found some data is bad, for example a video might be playable for practically its entire duration except for a few seconds where it has near zero bitrate and becomes a blurry mess.
It's rather old but is it worth trying ddrutility on my clone drive to find what files have been affected? Also, is it worth trying ntfsprogs-plus's ntfsck to repair the cloned filesystem on the new drive or would that result in more data loss? My new drive is actually bigger than the previous, so should I just let ntfsck repair before I repartition the available space? Finally, despite having only read contents of the drive and not doing any explicit writing, I figure it's too late to attempt to keep trying to clone bad sectors on the old drive?

As always, thanks for any help in advance.

>>108791350
just run photorec on it

>>108791134
ohmyzsh makes my terminal startup slower. is it normal? tempted to get rid of it

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>>108791134

https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4290

I'm having an issue on fedora that when i use dwm (i know it's a weird combination) libadwaita apps use the light theme instead of the dark one.

>>108791614
lol

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just had the misfortune of discovering that btrfs doesn't support case insensitivity. i setup a game in wine and wanted to mod it and finally found out why the mods didn't work. it was because the mods had sloppy name conventions for their folders which confused the mod loader. i hoped that i could turn it on for single folder on my system but i can't since it's all formatted in btrfs. now i have a question how does valve do this bullshit via proton? do they expect everyone to use ext4? i read that wine has some magic feature for it on ext4 to make it not dogshit slow.

How can I find out which font my xterm is using? It is not defined in .Xresources or .Xdefaults. It's not in xinitrc, .bash_profile, or .bashrc.

>>108791256
i moved from an rtx 4070 to an 9070xt just because i had to many issues with the 4070 on kde and wayland (mind you xorg was also dogshit on it).
if i didn't play any video games i would just use my old rx 480 desu.

>>108791687
'xrdb -query -all' is of no help, either.

>>108791687
xterm -report-fonts

>>108791134
Why do the guys in this image give me Nazi vibes for some reason

>>108791740
i once shaved my head and got called a neo nazi at work for one month

Doing a new pc build next weekend. Currently on nobara but im switching to an AMD card. I was wondering if there's a noticeable performance difference between nobara and regular fedora, after the manual setup for "gayming" is complete?
Main reason I'm asking is because nobara's updates seem a bit buggy at times, and I feel like I'm gambling with the system every time i decide to run one.

>>108791134
Why are you posting nazis? They are German and some of them may have done something that may vagely recall something done by some actual nazi one century ago.

>>108791828
nazis are just honest liberals and leftists

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>>108791731
Try querying the running xterm itself

>printf '\e]50;?\a'

If your xterm supports font reporting, it should print the current font name back into the terminal.

More practical:

>appres XTerm xterm | grep -Ei 'font|face|render' | xclip -selection clipboard

That shows the resource values xterm is actually getting from app-defaults/X resources, not just .Xresources.

Also check the system app-defaults files:

>grep -RiE 'font|faceName|faceSize|renderFont' /etc/X11/app-defaults /usr/share/X11/app-defaults 2>/dev/null | xclip -selection clipboard

If nothing is configured, classic xterm usually falls back to the XLFD alias fixed, not a modern fontconfig name. In that case, inspect what fixed means on your system with:

>xlsfonts -ll fixed | xclip -selection clipboard

>>108791739
Thanks! It worked.

Is there a lightweight file browser for anime? I tried trackma and kawaii-player but couldn't get my library to show up in the former and the latter is bloat and has an ugly UI. I basically just want Anilist posters, series descriptions, and tags.

>>108792327
Oh, and progress tracking

>>108792327
Look into Mononoke or Aniyomi

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Why don't more people use LXQt?

WHY THE FUCK DO I HAVE TO USE -OFOLDER WHEN I WANT TO EXTRACT SOMETHING INTO A FOLDER WITH 7Z
WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT

any KDE6 themes that are >>>frutiger aero?
Rounded, "pseudo 3D", that kind of old stuff
>>108792535
it's really barebones
I'm pretty sure it still depends on goddamn openbox & xscreensaver

>>108792368
>mononoke
Dead if I'm looking at the right github page
>aniyomi
Android only?

>>108792535
not everyone is poor

>>108792535
Because it's really fucking shit. Feels like using Windows 95. There is no point in using it over KDE Plasma.
>but muh extra 200MB
Disable desktop effects, file indexing, etc.

>>108792535
can you use hdr and vrr on it? what about wayland?

>>108792667
>what about wayland?
supported since 2.1

>>108791524
Now I wish I was there

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I think I'm retarded or haven't lurked here enough.
What is the little glitch effect that this XFCE gif meme is referencing?
Is the glitch still persistent?
What causes it and fixes it?
>t. using an XFCE desktop.
I'm not sure if I noticed it after discovering the meme or the meme "gaslit" me into seeing things that aren't there or the universe is messing with me.

>>108792978
Screen tearing. Xfce is famous for it.

>>108792991
Thanks anon!
Is it generally fixed these days or does it still persist on modern beefy hardware?

>>108793010
It's fixed by wayland.

>>108793010
Maybe when Xfce finally gets its Wayland version. Most use KDE or GNOME these days instead.

>>108792535
The ux is shite. Looks like shite.

>>108791524
Baldies look the best.

>>108793010
use compositor

Hey lads I think my problem with crashes might be attached to a need to update my BIOS.
Do BIOS updates "hold" even through distrohopping?
And lastly how do I most "safely" update the BIOS to make sure I don't brick my PC?
Like what's a good checklist of things to do to prepare myself for this updating to be on the safe side?
I'm still tech illiterate or at least I consider myself as such.

>>108792535
I have LXQt on my radar I just haven't used it because it wasn't an option on Mint.
Another reason I haven't tried it yet is because it isn't that popular but also because I'm unsure if it is more stable as in less prone to crashes than XFCE.
If it really is XFCE but better even in stability then I'd love to switch and would love to know what are some good distros that use LXQt.
>t. plan to use hardware heavy software so need those numbers like CPU load as low as possible and stability numbers as high as possible

>>108793010
Pretty much any compositor fixes it. I believe Mint and Manjaro enable compositing by default, while some distros don't (or at least didn't 5-8 years ago). Which is why Xfce was known as the DE which has screen tearing.

>>108791256
I'm on a 3080 RTX as well and honestly I've had zero issues.but then again my linux arc has been quite easygoing so far

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FUCK YOU POETTERLING

root@pi03:~# ip link set eth0 mtu 1496
RTNETLINK answers: Device or resource busy
#### FUUUU ALERT ####
root@pi03:~# ps aux|grep -i "network"
root       580  0.0  2.3  54908 11696 ?        Ssl  18:45   0:00 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
root@pi03:~# ls /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
'Wired connection 1.nmconnection'    # <= eth0.conf was way too complicated
root@pi03:~# vi /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Wired\ connection\ 1.nmconnection 
root@pi03:~# grep -E '^\[|mtu' /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/*
[connection]
[ethernet]
mtu=1496
[ipv4]
[ipv6]
[proxy]
root@pi03:~# nmcli connection reload
root@pi03:~# nmcli device reapply eth0
Connection successfully reapplied to device 'eth0'.
root@pi03:~# ip -br link show eth0
eth0             UP             02:81:74:bb:c7:d1 <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP>
root@pi03:~# nmcli device show eth0 | grep MTU
GENERAL.MTU:                            1500
root@pi03:~# cat > /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99-force-mtu-eth0
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" = "eth0" ] && [ "$2" = "up" ]; then
    ip link set eth0 mtu 1496
fi
^C
root@pi03:~# chmod /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99-force-mtu-eth0
root@pi03:~# systemctl restart NetworkManager
root@pi03:~# ifconfig|grep mtu
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
root@pi03:~# reboot
...
root@pi03:~# ifconfig|grep mtu
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
root@pi03:~# grep -i pretty /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 22.11.1 Bullseye"


# ~~~~~~

root@u3o1:~# ip link set eth0 mtu 1496
root@u3o1:~# grep -i pretty  /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
root@u3o1:~# ps aux|grep -iE "network"
root      1706 33.3  0.0   6980  1788 pts/1    S+   17:15   0:00 grep --color=auto -i network

When you use wine uninstaller does it uninstall on the prefix level or the global wine folder level?

>>108793636
which distro

>>108793726
it uninstalls in the current prefix. for each one. the "global" prefix is just the default prefix. you can check what prefix is currently selected via "echo $WINEPREFIX" and select another one via export WINEPREFIX=<absolute path to prefix>.

>>108792535
It feels incomplete compared to xfce, mainly the panel and start menu just feels like a worse version of xfce.
It's also dependent on a compositor like openbox to handle window management since it doesn't do it itself.

>>108792978
It's just screentearing, was mostly an intel issue. As long as you have a compositor running it usually doesnt happen anymore.

>>108793722
NetworkManager has nothing to do with poettering or systemd

>>108793745
So wine uninstaller isn't global?

>>108793913
Why would it be? When you run an uninstaller on your Windows PC does it uninstall all instances of the program on your entire network? Each Wine prefix is essentially a separate Windows device.

>>108794006
Cool, thanks for clearing that up.

I added a gog installer as a non steam game and the install ran successfully or so it seemed. Then I changed the exe target from the installer to the actual game exe and it doesn't launch.

>>108794118
What's the game you are trying to launch, include pictures if you can.

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>>108794178

>>108794192
And you're trying to run it through steam because.... you want the overlay or you are using Proton? If you bought Song of Syx off of GoG or "found" the GoG version there is a native Linux version you can run.

>>108794202
Proton. I'm waiting for a steam sale so I wanted to play the GoG verson for now.

>>108794212
If you bought it why don't you just play the Linux version? If you buy a game on GoG they give you all versions.

>>108791134
Them coddling unironic nazi chuds really turned me off from suckless

>>108794229
Well that's the thing. I didn't.

>>108794240
That's what I meant by "found" you can then go "find" the Linux version fi the download for the windows version isn't too long.

>>108791256
Nvidia drivers are closed source so you're at Nvidias mercy. They can and will make your expensive GPU a paperweight on Linux, plus Nvidia has random problems on Wayland, DX12 and VRAM allocation

Fedora keeps dropping my BD drive and won't see it again until I power off the computer and turn it back on again, a soft reboot alone doesn't get it back even though it shows in the BIOS and windows just fine. Is there a way I can tell WHY it's dropping in the first place and is there a command I can run to try and re-detect it without having to power off?

>>108794244
To be honest I'm using this particular game as an example. My question is more general.
A friend told me I can run anything through proton basically when I installed Linux.

>>108791256
It's still the case and its on purpose NVIDIA is going all in on AI and has no reason to give open source or Linux an inch until they are either forced by law to do so, forced by economics if Linux ever gains enough marketshare and Windows never gets its shit together, or the AI bubble bursts.

>>108794259
Does it gvie you an error code when you load or does it just do nothing?

>>108794270
Nothing. The button flashes green for a while and then goes back to normal.

>>108794280
Open up the local file to SoS, I'm assuming you have wine installed, try to launch it. What distro are you on? Also check to make sure you have "run as executable" checked in the permissions before you try.
>right click>permissions>click around in the tabs until you find that prompt or a similar prompt and tick the box if it isn't.

>>108794298
>I'm assuming you have wine installed
I don't. I thought Proton is "Wine But Better".
>distro
Fedora

Is st with tmux a thing? Or is it stupid?

>>108794315
Check what proton you are using.

What's the preferred cron implementation for Arch Linux? cronie?

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>>108794334

>>108794343
Change which proton you are using, but before that show me the permissions on the SoS exe

>>108794280
NTA but add PROTON_LOG=1 to the launch options before %command%, then upload it to pastebin or catbox and post it
>>108794343
Try proton experimental

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>>108794351
>>108794354
Didn't work on Proton 10. No log has been created (searched the whole system for a .log file that starts with steam-)

>>108794341
I didn't know there are other implementations
i just use:

nano /var/spool/cron/root
chmod 600 /var/spool/cron/root
systemctl enable cronie

(it must have 600 permissions or it will not work)

>>108794467
>no log
That's odd, how did you install steam? It should show up on your home dir but the snap or flatpak version will drop it somewhere else

>>108794118
Is there a reason why you're fucking around with Steam instead of just using Bottles to install GOG games? It's much easier to manage games there. You can add ProtonGE to Bottles using ProtonPlus if you really need Proton over regular WINE.

>>108794315
>I thought Proton is "Wine But Better".
It's Valve's build of WINE primarily made for Steam games. It has some improvements over regular WINE but nothing too important now that WINE added ntsync. Before ntsync you needed to manually enable esync or fsync in WINE while Proton had those built-in so it was less stuttery by default.

>>108794528
Got it.
https://pastebin.com/4jRi7gb2

>>108794541
I figured that I already have something that works then I won't install another redundant thing that does the same.

>>108794561
Proton can't find the executable, you forgot to double quote these >>108794192

>>108794561
Installing external games into Steam is a hacky workaround to a solution which is already solved by Bottles, Lutris, etc.

>>108794631
Thank you, anon.
Strange that they weren't quoted by default. I picked that path from the file picker rather than manually typing it in.

>>108794694
No problem, does it work now?

>>108794791
Yeah, it does. GoG installer and the pre-game settings panel are tiny on my monitor but the actual game itself seems to work and look good.

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>>108794794
That's great man

when i format a usb to ext4 and it goes read-only, what's the correct way to resolve this?
asking AI gives all sorts of weird shit answers for this

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>>108793084
Bumping and pic for more attention.

Also after I update my BIOS after advice on how to get a techlet to get it right I want to give Debian XFCE a try.

Usecase is gaming and 3D stuff involving modifying STLs and 3D printing.
It might branch out to other stuff like HD renders so I need advice what to install on an XFCE Debian build to optimize it for the tasks.

>>108794883
chown it. whatever you're using to format the USB makes it only writable to root users.

>>108794885
If your BIOS is pausing its most likely a setting on you BIOS because your BIOS boots before the OS does, which is why you always see the graphic or the booter for it first.
Find out what your MoBo is and give it a google or look in the manual to see if there is a pause setting you turned on accidentally.

>>108794885
>>108794942 (Me)
I misread your first post, but yes if you update your BIOS it gets stored on your MOBO not on the OS itself so if you put a new distro on there you won't need to update it again, you might need to update or change drivers but that should happen automatically on install.

>>108794932
>chown it. whatever you're using to format the USB makes it only writable to root users.
i just sudo mkfs ext4'd it

I want a dell xps laptop or is thinkpad better for Linux?

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How does one determine what Linux distribution is going to have good longevity when it comes to being supported before it loses momentum and eventually becomes depreciated?
I've been distrohopping for a while and I need to stop this and just settle down on one Linux distro.

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Asked in a different thread and figured I'd ask here as well.

Has anybody gotten Affinity Photo to work? I just remembered it and it is free, and I figured I'd give it a shot. But getting it to work on Linux doesn't seem that easy.
If any of you got it working just fine then what tutorial did you follow to get it to work and how hard was it to get it to work or were the instructions as easily able to be followed like a Lego instruction booklet?

>>108795126
Uhhhhhh, most distros have been running for a long time, wtf are you talking about? Slow or low update schedules? You're afraid the project will be abandoned? You say "depreciated" but generally when something is depreciated it means its no longer used on that OS so when you use a program that references it and doesn't find it and errors out that program is "depreciated" because it is no longer maintained. Is that what you are worried about? Distros being abandoned? Have you seen the Linux Family Tree? Some of these projects have been running since the 80s to early 90s.
>>108795340
Never heard of it and nothing comes up on the package search, got a link or the package name?

>>108795126
stick with the proven base distros that have been active for decades and avoid FoTM "gamer" gimmick distros?

Half the time when I try to install a package on my Debian system it asks me to insert the installation DVD. I need to do one of the following:
A. How do I install all of the DVD packages at once?
-OR-
B. If option A is a bad idea, what setting do I change so that it always downloads packages off the network instead?

>>108795708
go for B
open /etc/apt/source.list and comment the line with CD/DVDROM stuff
you'll need root for that

>>108794329
Generally it's dumb because tmux adds a lot of latency. Makes mode switching in vim kinda painful among other things. Can be useful if you're doing something you know is likely to crash your display server.

>>108793913
it's all about separation in wine

>>108792535

I'm suprised to see Cinnamon using more resources than KDE, which always touted as resource hog.

Also,

>Gnome

Lol, lmao

>>108794248
>you're at Nvidias mercy. They can and will make your expensive GPU a paperweight on Linux
Source?

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I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, systemd/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, systemd plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd‑based system made useful by the systemd init system, service manager, logging facilities, and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by modern Linux distributions.

Many computer users run a modified version of the systemd system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of systemd which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the systemd system, developed by the systemd project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete system. Linux is normally used in combination with the systemd operating environment: the whole system is basically systemd with Linux added, or systemd/Linux. All the so‑called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of systemd/Linux.

>>108792535
Was really buggy last time I used it and built on an outdated version of kwin. Better to use KDE instead. DE resource consumption isn't an issue for most people, but outdated display server can be.

>>108795126
Just stick with Debian for servers and Ubuntu or Arch for desktop. That's all you needed 10 years ago and it's all you need now.

If you mean hypothetically, if we were to gamble on which forks will become the next Linux Mint then check 3 main things:
1) does it have a real usecase
2) do the devs seem passionate about the project and are emotionally stable
3) do normal people (ie not people who like to spam and easily swayed retards) talk about using it

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>>108796098

>>108796185
non systemd users get no bitches and stack no paper

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is picrel new?

>>108796185
>2boys

>>108796268
Heterosexuality is decadency pretending to be moral.

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I'm brown, turd worlder, obese and bald. Would I be welcome in this group?

>>108796748
I don't see why not.

>>108796127
What's wrong with Arch server? Had one serving Wi-Fi access point and doing NAT routing until I eventually switched it to Gentoo.
>>108794883
What do you mean by read only? Is it mounted read only or are you simply missing write privileges as a normal user?

>>108796833
>What's wrong with Arch server?
NTA but I don't want any arbitrary update breaking any ABI on my server, I concur with that anon, Debian for servers and Arch for desktops.

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I installed something that pulled polkit/elogind and xdg shit by accident, I realized this after I saw them running and removed them and now seatd and turnstile aren't working properly. everything's fucked it's literally over

When did 4chan become bluesky wtf?

>>108796915
an ai chatbot made this post I just verified it

>>108796858
How's ABI relevant for someone who just runs software and is not a programmer?

>>108796268
That just makes it better

>>108791256
The difference between then and now with nvidia is the difference between a father who went to go get milk and never came back, and a father who is “there” but negligent to the extreme and he kind of hates the friends you hang out with (linux).
That father is your nvidia driver.

>>108796833
It's not a terrible idea, just not the tried and true path. I guess in theory you could just pin it to a specific version and be good to go. My concern would be downtime due restarting after an update (maybe less of an issue for some usecases) and running into issues from not updating. Theoretically, if you just update it one a month as scheduled downtime then you get up-to-date software without much hassle. Arch's instability is highly overstated.

>>108796268
SystemDoubleD

>>108796748
Maybe fork suckless and make a obese brown version called suckmoar.

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>>108791350
>>108791356
I was able to use gdisk to create a new partition for most of the remainder of the space.
First thing I tried was anon's suggestion to run Photorec which took half a day and gave me way too much to sort through while not really helping me recover what I'm interested in. For example, some videos that were otherwise fine on the clone are in worse shape in the Photorec folders while things like simple .flac, .mp3 and .ogg files (that were again fine on the clone AFAIK) are completely bloated in size and unusable. The stuff that recovered well were, again, fine on the clone but I can't doublecheck as I have the clone partition unmounted since I saw there is an option for Photorec to only recover certain filetypes and I'm running it again for videos in case it helps.
Finally, I tried running ddrutility's ddru_ntfsfindbad with the verbose results of:

ddru_ntfsfindbad 1.5 20150109
Reading the logfile into memory...
processed 1 lines out of 9 with 0 errors
Reading partition boot sector...
Reading mft inode...
total mft fragments=2
total mft size=240648192 bytes
total inodes=235008
processing inode 235008 of 235008
MFT hard errors=182

ddru_ntfsfindbad took 12.704234 seconds to complete

and producing a ntfsfindbad.log with empty contents.
To be sure, I followed the instructions available on https://sourceforge.net/p/ddrutility/wiki/Home/#ddru_005fntfsfindbad to find the offset when supplying the clone drive although it didn't seem to be any different than supplying the clone partition by itself. I can't help but wonder if I made a potentially unrecoverable mistake somewhere along the lines? From what I gather MFT hard errors=182 means there are 182 lost files and could be accurate AFAIK.

Appreciate anyone's thoughts.

>>108797071
I guess I should mention ntfsfindbad's nonempty output is probably what I'm most after if Photorec doesn't come through. Just having an organized damage report would give me solace since I'm definitely not keen to verify everything by hand at this point, almost a week and a half since I started the cloning process.

>>108791256
I have a 3080 and use Bazzite installed on it's own ssd. Haven't had any major issues with the GPU aside from HDR being wonky to get started and looking like shit when it does work. But I haven't tested games extensively.

Helldivers 2 works well but HDR looks shitty enough that I leave it off (and HD2 looks amazing with HDR on in Windows, on an OLED monitor).

Cyberpunk runs well but there are some minute graphical issues that are apparent if you look closely

Other than that the few games I've tried have been identical to Windows but none of them are graphically demanding.

I have a valve index also which I haven't even attempted to try in Linux

>Installed CachyOS KDE as that seems to be the thing to do
>need to read manga stored on NAS
>Try Ncomix
>>It's a buggy piece of shit. Can't use space for next page navigation even though I've added it as a shortcut.
>>There's a line in the middle for double page spread when the monitor is set to 125% scaling.
>Go through the flatpak, bottles, flatseal song and dance to run Honeyview
>>browsing host system file is ok, but once it hits my CIFS mount, it freezes or is super slow
>Try YACReader
>>The cursor fucking disappears when monitor scaling is on
>>At least the default keybinds are sane

Well, I guess I need to gitgud at reading tiny text and icons.

my laptop keeps draining battery faster on linux than windows, so i had to install auto-cpufreq
and the battery draining problems seems to be gone.

Be honest. How many of you people have a BMI above 35?

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I see why people are scared of the terminal now. Holy shit.

>>108797437
you forgot the scary red text that dnf shows when rpm fusion version of the mesa drivers lacks behind again or when a mirror used for updating isn't in sync yet.

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>>108797451
That warning text could be improved but imperfect highlighting and formatting is still better than none.

At least you're not getting the "you're not getting these security updates unless you subscribe to unbuntu pro" scare.

>>108797502
you can get them for free tho

>>108797509
No, because the computer at work wouldn't be covered by that

>>108797637
>computer at work
who gives as shit then? that's their problem.

>>108792535
I've been using LXQt for quite a while, I like it.

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Must-Ship-Reproducible

>The Debian release team has decided the time has come to announce that Debian must ship reproducible packages. Debian has made much progress the past few years via the Reproducible Builds effort for ensuring independent users can reproduce the same package builds / binaries bit-for-bit. Independently-verifiable path from source to binary has become increasingly important for security concerns and validating the authenticity of packages.

>Moving forward, Debian must ship reproducible packages and thus Debian 14.0 will be the first major release coming up via this new mandate. As of yesterday, Debian's migration software will now block the migration of new packages that can't be reproduced or existing packages that regress reproducibility.

stopped using debian earlier last week, guess I'm going back

>>108798563
I don't really get what that means outside of better security. Like, how do reproducible packages work? It just scans and matches it to a known safe version of the same package version?

>>108798616
You can compare the checksums and instantly see if the package has been altered

>>108794231
why?

>>108791395
>zsh
>slow
that's normal

>>108791837
>refuses to admit they're into degeneracy
not that honest

>>108798616
>libz installed on your machine
>compile app
>app now depends on libz
...
>libz not installed on your machine
>compile app
>app doesn't depend on libz
that's why archlinux uses chroot to compile its packages

>>108798663
but was it really compiled from the same source?
that's the question

Has anyone tried moving Firefox/Librewolf profiles to ram? I have already disabled caching but profile writes are still doing about 1GB in about two hours. Even more if I'm using some heavy websites. I don't even have that many websites open currently. I think that's bit too much when I'm thinking about it.

CachyOS status:
Started out good, but the entire OS seems to be getting slower and shittier with each update.

Oddly though now that I see the above post I've started thinking it might be because of Firefox.

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>>108798783
Just stop torturing yourself and install brave(origin).

>>108798746
If you have a good hash function then there's a very high probability that the content is identical which is the only thing that matters

>>108798704
what do normal people use? I kinda liked the git addon showing me the current repo in a directory but I would rather have a snappy startup

>>108791134
they look like a group of Neo vim nazis

>>108798857
>Firefox updating databases for history
Well I've disabled history in Firefox.

>>108798884
Most just stick with default bash

>>108798704
>>108798884
zsh isn't slow if you don't use bloated plugin managers

>>108798857
So Brave doesn't write the cache and history to disk? Use you brain man

>>108798933
>Use your brain man
Perfect. This has to be bait.

Firefox is becoming incredibly bloated and making write/reads for no reason. So yes, switching to Brave would help it.

>>108798865
>same source compiled on machine A
>produces different hash
>same source compiled on machine B
>produces different hash
okay?

>>108798783
Does Librewolf even use disk caching by default? I'm pretty sure it's disabled in about:config. That's why when you open an image in a new tab then save it, it will re-download it instead of getting it from your cache. So it's already only using RAM aside from browser settings and extension data, unless you've changed something.

>>108798933
It only doesn't if you're always using private browsing.

>>108798942
That's why you want a reproducible build process that always produces the exact same output on every machine. That's the point

>>108798963
exactly, hash checking is not enough to guarantee reproducibility
you need to do more

>>108798970
What do you need to do?

>>108798953
Both disk and memory caches are off for me. I think some of them was off by default.
Profile writes are different from website caches or anything else.
Jesus christ.
Just like I expected: useless, inane replies.
I just throw my profiles into ram and see how it goes then.

>>108798999
you need to do this
https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/

>>108799017
>Packages should build reproducibly, which for the purposes of this document 18 means that given
> * a version of a source package unpacked at a given path;
> * a set of versions of installed build dependencies;
> * a set of environment variable values;
> * a build architecture; and
> * a host architecture,
>repeatedly building the source package for the build architecture on any machine of the host architecture with those versions of the build dependencies installed and exactly those environment variable values set will produce bit-for-bit identical binary packages.
How is that different from my post where I said
>That's why you want a reproducible build process that always produces the exact same output on every machine. That's the point
What are you even talking about?

>>108799045
like I said, you need to also check other things besides hash checking

>>108799073
No you don't as long as the secure hash algorithms haven't been cracked

>>108799006
>>108798953
Joking aside, this seems to work really well
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Profile_on_RAM
Pages load instantly and I'm getting zero disk writes.
Of course I'm not sure about the security implications of /dev/shm which is in ram. Would be funny if all of my saved passwords would leak...

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Dumb question but what screen brightness is best for long term work on your PC? What's a good thumbline?

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>>108797287
>kde
You get what you fucking deserve.

>>108798857
I wish Brave still had the minimum tab size option

>>108799290
https://helium.computer/

>>108799298
I thought Helium had also pulled in the same Chromium update that removed that option but I'll look again. If it has it, I'll just move to Helium.

>>108799306
I already forgot, but i tried it a week ago and it has some extra options.

>>108799229
As low as you can but it's always relative to your surrounding environment and to your own eye sensitivity.
I go as low as I can without messing up the black and white contrast, use some calibration image to do that. It's also detrimental if the contrast suffers and the screen becomes too dim, that'll cause headaches too.
My current screen is at 50% brightness afaik, don't remember if I have gamma settings or not.
Used to have lot lower.
If you work at a bright office you can easily use really dim screen unless you are doing graphical work.

>>108799119
you have to ensure there are only installed dependencies that are listed in debian/control
any dependencies that are not listed should be uninstalled
did you not read the page I gave you?

>>108799324
Mine was 50. I'll try 30 and see if i feel any difference.

>>108799298
I don't hear much about Helium but looking it up more it's basically ungoogled-chromium made more easily daily drivable with uBO built into it as a major component. Seems cool and an actual alternative to Brave.

>>108799382
Ubo sucks though, brave blocker is better.

>>108799388
That's certainly an opinion, but Brave's built-in blocker is indeed very good if it's set to Aggressive.

>>108799388
uBO is exceptionally good FOSS software, while Brave is some crypto scam nonsense

>>108799397
>>108799399
It's an extension, therefore it sucks. It less secure less performant than brave's built in blocker.

>>108799318
Apparently Brave did re-add the minimum tab width that base Chromium stripped out, so I'm going to switch over to Brave Origin for a little while

>>108799410
Why do you think uBO is less secure than Brave's blocker? Please give specific reasons for this

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>>108799417
Welcome home, cub.

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>>108799434
>Why do you think uBO is less secu... ACk

>>108791134
looks pretty slow, weak and inoffensive in addition to being pozzed to me

>>108799435
This post reminds me of someone. You don't post in the 40k General on /tg/ by any chance do you?

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>>108799492
No.

>>108799439
I accept your concession

>>108797437
I don't get it.
>>108797332
I'm at 30 or 31. Which is visibly obese.
>>108796995
>maybe less of an issue for some usecases
Yes, it's a non-issue for me.
>Arch's instability is highly overstated
All rolling release distributions are "unstable" by nature. Right?

is it good enough to run wayland desktop sessions with nvidia-470 drivers?
i have nvidia geforce 920m in my separate laptop.

>>108799684
Nope, too old.

can i just try desktop wayland sessions with proprietary nvidia driver?

>>108799388
>doesn't even block 4chan ads by default

>>108799229
Whichever strains your eyes the least. It depends on how lit up your room is. If your lights are on or if your windows are open and it's bright outside, then probably 60%-100%. If you're in a darker room then probably anywhere from 5% to 50% depending on how dark it is and how bright your monitor gets.

>>108799388
Nope, uBO blocks way more stuff and breaks less websites (or at least Firefox breaks less websites when blocking ads).

>>108799747
Yes

>>108791315
try being a little less culty loonixer

I installed Void and after I ran xbps-reconfigure and restarted, I get stuck at loading initramfs.
Anybody know how to unfuck this? Do I have to load into GRUB tools and fix something?