Only distros any intelligent user should consider
1. Void
2. Slackware
3. LFS
That is all

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>>108867343

>>108867343
for me? its guix, alpine and debian

i just use fedora and ubuntu

Vote:

https://poal.me/ooaubx
https://poal.me/ooaubx
https://poal.me/ooaubx

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My distro > your distro.
Shrimple as.

>>108867430
I'm not clicking that shit, nice try FBI

>>108867430
>ooaubx
kde chads keep winning

>>108867343
no one should ever consider LFS for anything but an educational experience. you people are retarded and have none done it.

>>108867922
>intelligent
>educational experience
that's what he said

Upgraded my system to B550 with two CPU connected slots, each x8.

Using Arch, KDE, Wayland, 4060Ti, 1650, I want to start lightweight games on my 1650 while doing AI-stuff on the 4060Ti. 4060Ti is the "primary" and displays are hooked up to it. Both GPUs are visible to the system.

prime offloading doesn't seem to work.
I've read some stuff about KDE being bad for this in particular, as is wayland in general.

I want to avoid having to use X11 or the 1650 as primary and have thze 4060Ti do AI stuff and switching around and rebooting when I need the 4060Ti for gaming again.

>>108867992
This is the reason why I like having a dedicated slop machine

>>108867939
Except the actually smart people realise all you're doing is fucking reading a book and you don't even get a package manager with it.

You'd be better served by Gentoo. At least you don't have to bootstrap the stage3 yourself and they have a package manager.

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>>108867430
>2026
>desktop environment
ngmi

>>108868421
this guy over here browsing 4chan from his terminal

>>108867392
this guy fucks

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>>108867430
Based fellow LXQt appreciators

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did anyone else's idle ram usage increase by like 150-200 recently

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>almost halfway through anno domini 2026
>figure it's time to try out wayland
>install labwc
>install waybar
>need a taskbar, find out that waybar ships wlr/taskbar
>no option to filter shown applications by current workspace
>look inside
>github issue open for two and a half years
>"this is currently impossible on wlroots"
What the actual fuck, this seems the most basic feature for a taskbar other than showing the currently running applications.

>>108867992
pci passthrough

>>108867099
Nice pape
>>108868719
I don't even run LXQt but I use some of their tools. It works way better with Kvantum than qt5ct/qt6ct did for me

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>>108869311
>labwc
try out quickshell? not sure if this option is from quickshell or noctalia installed in this test laptop

>>108869409
Qt5ct/6ct is just a Qt Platform configuration tool. You can actually set it to use Kvantum. It exists so you can set the platform to qt5ct/qt6ct and then just configure everything in the appropriate app.

Desktop environments don't need that because they ship their platform (e.g Breeze for KDE) and have their own tools to configure it. Qt5ct/Qt6ct is basically for DIY setups to have a tool to config Qt without having to define lots of environment variables or hand-edit config files.

>>108867099
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>Linux

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>108869417
Seems overkill to change to quickshell just for a slightly better taskbar.
I assume your screenshot comes from noctalia, since I doubt quickshell ships GUI settings

>>108869495
Uh oh, melty!

any completely useless featureless packages I can install? I just wanna bloat the fuck out of my system
like just fuck that shit up

>>108869554
install everything?

>>108869554
install wine?

>>108869489
Oh I tried that but qt6ct kept fucking up my icons, switched to lxqt and it just werks (I guess their qt plugin handles the icon mapping better, not sure)

>>108869554
xteddy

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Still working on getting qemu to work on my machine. The problems with hardware appear to have been addressed, I think the only problem left is getting kvm-amd modloaded onto the kernel. To recap:
The Arch wiki says if modprobing kvm works but kvm-amd does not, it's either an issue with hardware locks (which I was successfully able to remove) or manually modloading. When I modprobe kvm the response is picrel. Obviously I don't know how to modload since I am posting this.

>>108869538
>I assume your screenshot comes from noctalia, since I doubt quickshell ships GUI settings
i believe so? yes, installed it during xmas holidays, and haven't touched it since getting a new laptop.
>slightly better taskbar
i dunno, i tested out sway once years back and that had a pretty barebones bar compared to this noctalia

>>108869554
sl

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We have a winner.

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>>108867343
>Gatekeeps
This is a friendly thread. Please start a distrowar thread if you want to debate such things.

fixed my recently upgraded debian, turns out that somehow I forgot to include the efi partition entry in fstab and it wasn't properly updated when upgrading. I really don't know how it had been booting successfully tho

>>108870254
The ESP does not need to be mounted by the OS kernel in order for EFI boot to work

>>108867343
LFS isn't a distro.
>>108867922
It's just Gentoo but typed manually instead of using pre made scripts.
>>108870262
Your bootloader+kernel updooting scripts and other shenanigans wants to place new stuff to ESP.
Also bear in mind most people use ESP (/efi) as /boot. If you use GRUB and have separate /efi and /boot you could place new kernel and initramfs images to /boot for GRUB to access without having /efi mounted. Get it?
>>108869716
And what's wrong with picrel? Looks good to me.

>>108867343
nixos btw

>>108867430
>>108868719
I did vote for KDE but yeah, LXQt is comfy too
Total Qt Victory

>>108867430
I voted Gnome, just because I use it.

I liked XFCE and Mate, when I used them, but trying to use them on stock Ubuntu is really unpleasant, lots of stuff to fix, idk if you can get it all to work.

I Cinnemon what mint uses? mint always seemed nice.

>The default desktop environment for most standard versions of Puppy Linux is built around the JWM (Joe's Window Manager), often combined with the ROX-Filer file manager to create the complete desktop experience

I liked Puppy Linux and want to give it another go.

Going to jump ship, what’s the least meme systemd-free distro? I’m coming from Debian and Devuan is on my radar but is Alpine worth trying or nah

>>108870546
Gentoo is the most "serious" distro that doesn't use systemd by default while Artix gives you Arch without it.

>>108870330
>Get it?
Yes. Do you? >>108870254 said
>I really don't know how it had been booting successfully tho
And I answered it

>>108870546
>is Alpine worth trying or nah
For a desktop? Not unless you plan on getting everything that depends on glibc via Flatpak or Nix or whatever.

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Does it run Linux?

>>108871076
You can run it in a virtual machine but not natively.

>>108871076
No. Ask Apple to make a driver.

>>108871076
Not yet. Asahi doesn't have M3 or M4 support yet, never mind the M5. You might be waiting a while:
https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m4/

Best not to buy a Mac for Linux usage. Get a real computer.

>>108871900
>Get a real computer
Surely you mean an arm laptop? Imagine having 4x power draw on a battery powered device lol.

>>108871982
There are Snapdragon laptops out there and Linux can be flashed on some of them.

>>108871993
>>108871982
I think the hardware support can be a bit of a miss with some of those Snapdragon laptops, and the device tree mess of some of them means they can't always run generic ARM kernels, but yes, the support is there and way better than what you get with Apple at least which is zero support until some troons reverse engineer everything

>>108872032
>and the device tree mess of some of them means they can't always run generic ARM kernels
How long until laptops are as locked down as phones?

>>108872032
The troons have done a pretty good job reverse engineering. M1/M2 are practically feature complete minus touch id and ai cores. And I think you get much better support, just as a result of the larger userbase.

>>108872173
>m1 macbook
>no hdmi
>no usb-a
doesn't seem very feature complete to me
https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m1/

>>108872203
hdmi support is in edge kernel. and there's no usb-a entry because the devices don't have usb-a ports? lol

>>108872032
Well then just don't get a laptop. Get an Ayn Thor or Retroid Pocket 5/6, install Linux on it, attach a keyboard and pretend it's a laptop.

>>108872220
>no usb-a ports
good point.
>hdmi
so why isn't it listed as supported in the table?

>>108872226
Because it's not in the stable kernel yet

RHEL 9.8 is out. Nvidia kmod is out. Waiting for ZFS kmod.

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>a stop job is running for user manager for uid 1000
been trying for ages to fix this. is there a way to see what is happening live, what it is trying to shut down so i can fix it? journalctl has been useless for finding info specifically about what is having trouble being shut down

>>108869554
Install every DE but don't use them

>>108873132
Before you shut down start the debug-shell

systemctl start debug-shell.service

This will start a debug shell on tty9. You can switch to it during the shutdown process with ctrl+alt+f9.
Maybe you can see what's stuck with

systemctl list-jobs

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4 tabs open and one kitty session displaying vim to edit a text file and for some reason my ram is nearly gone. Any idea why? Is this some ai feature in firefox thats eating all my ram and not getting listed?

>>108869554
sudo dnf install *

>>108873920
i did it once by accident and didn't notice.

>>108873512
Will try that when i get home from werk desu.

>>108873512
Hmm, NTA but sometimes I have this issue as well. Thanks for the tip

>>108873896
it slowly went down to 2gb after closing firefox within 10min. What the fuck.

>>108873920
when will it stop?

>>108874103
Possible GPU driver leak. Kernel / nVidia driver version mismatch is a common cause.

>so addicted he views cigarettes as a good thing
enjoy your everything smelling like shit

>>108874405
This is a GNU/Linux thread, not a tobacco thread. The OP pic doesn't give you an excuse to talk about tobacco.

>>108874431
quit smoking

I smoke GNU/Tobacco, you smoke cock.
We are not the same.

>>108874576
you are so upset someone had the nerve to say tobacco is bad you cant stop replying
quit smoking you are a slave

What is the Gentoo of smokes?

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>>108874615

>>108874576
Cock won’t give me lung cancer

>>108874652
Based rollie smoker

>update cachyOS(hyprland)
>asks me to restart
>monitor starts flickering a lot
I changed the refresh rate to 240.00hz and now it is normal. 'hyprctl monitors' shows the same refreshrates and the one I used before (@280.00Hz) is the exact number I had put in the config. what could be causing this?

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What's the best way to get encrypted dns working on Linux? Currently using systemd-resolved with Wikimedia DNS and DoT security. I don't want to rely on web browsers offering secure dns.

>>108874965
router?

p7zip is deprecated to the point Debian 12 had to interrupt my point release upgrade telling me so.

>>108874989
I am not the owner of the router sadly. It's a shitty isp one so doesn't give you much in the way of options.

>>108874965
resolved should be sufficient if you just want to not use the router's default DNS. dnscrypt-proxy Anonymized DNS is sort of the gold standard for privacy, but it's a bit more involved.

Strictly speaking there's nothing stopping your browser from using whatever DNS it wants unless you get pretty invasive, so maybe avoid clown browser.

>realize I should have selected the desktop profile even if I won't use a DE
Oh well, here we go compiling again

>>108869753
being barebones is the point. Noctalia seems more like "build your own DE"

>>108874965
Resolved mostly works but can get fucky sometimes and it prevents tools like dig from working properly (because technically your dns server is the localhost).

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>>108874965
Oh hey! I happen to have set up DoT multiple times using unbound so I'm very familiar with this kind of setup, my setup is like this:
1. Install unbound using your package manager
2. Write the following in /etc/unbound/unbound.conf (on debian-based distros you should instead create a file in /etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d/, e.g. /etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d/dns-over-tls.conf):

server:
  interface: 127.0.0.1
  tls-cert-bundle: "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"

forward-zone:
  name: "."
  forward-tls-upstream: yes
  forward-first: no

#### Uncomment the DNS servers you want to use ####

#### AdGuard
#  forward-addr: 94.140.14.14@853#dns.adguard.com
#  forward-addr: 94.140.15.15@853#dns.adguard.com

#### Quad 9
#  forward-addr: 9.9.9.9@853#dns.quad9.net
#  forward-addr: 149.112.112.112@853#dns.quad9.net

#### Google
#  forward-addr: 8.8.8.8@853#dns.google
#  forward-addr: 8.8.4.4@853#dns.google

#### Cloudfare
#  forward-addr: 1.1.1.1@853#cloudflare-dns.com
#  forward-addr: 1.0.0.1@853#cloudflare-dns.com

3. Check the configuration by running /sbin/unbound-checkconf
4. Change the DNS server in your network manager to 127.0.0.1 (if you're using ConnMan instead of NetworkManager then you need to run it with --nodnsproxy to prevent it from using its own DNS server)
5. Check that /etc/resolv.conf indeed has nameserver 127.0.0.1
6. Congrats, you should have DoT now.

>>108874965
>>108875310
Oh and I forgot to mention, you need to restart unbound for changes to take effect, obviously

>>108875310
Ever tried doing AdGuard over QUIC?

>>108875367
I don't know what QUIC is, I only know enough networking to get my basic setup with DoT running

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>Have Orange Pi 5B
>Install Armbian since the distro is meant for ARM and the OP5B is ARM
>Everything installed fine and installed what I need, updated everything using ethernet
>After installing and restarting, connect to Wi-Fi and it connected perfectly after putting in the password
>Month later distro falls apart where browsers stop working, certain settings no longer work, distro freeezes when you close a tab in a browser, etc.

>Install later version of Armbian on another micro SD card
>Installs fine and updated everything with ethernet
>Connect to Wi-Fi
>Enter Wi-Fi password
>Says password is incorrect even though it is the correct password.

Armbian is such a piece of shit especially for SBCs. Devs can't even keep the fucking thing in one piece. Distro crumbling a month later after installing, Giving you incorrect Wi-Fi password despite it being correct. They can fuck off with this shit.

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any Mint users?
Clem says that the screensaver bug was fixed in Linux Mint 22.3 but after upgrading from 22.2, I still get the bug. Is there a setting I missed? Also I don't like how window management behaves after upgrading from 22.2. It retains the window size after I tiled it to any part of my screen instead of going back to the original size the window opens up to initially.

>>108876360
Sadly enough, that's standard for OS's for SBC's. They are great while they are being worked on and have a lot of interest, and then as people drift away and interest dies off, the devs stop caring and trying, and often leave the final available OS image in a completely broken state with a message they'll fix it later. They never do. And you never seem to be able to download the older versions that still worked. When you first get your SBC and get it all setup, save a copy of the OS image to burn to an SD card in the future. If nothing else, you'll have that working image to use.
I've got an Odroid XU4, and if I was to try to update the OS to a more recent revision it would not function. All the 3rd party images for Kodi boxes and the like are broken, including the semi-official GameStation image they created a unique case for.

>>108876463
Lol, no way. First thing I did when setting up acpi events is make sure the graphical session is locked before sleeping. Who still uses these slop DEs?

>>108875806
Essentially encrypted UDP. Relatively new, but I believe Unbound and OpenSSL supports it fully now.

>>108876360
armenian distros, not even once

>>108870330
this anon:
>>198869716
I'll tell you what's wrong with it; it's dead, that's what's wrong with it.
Running lsmod on kvm-amd does not work, and since I fixed the BIOS problem that probably means I don't know how to modload it. Only kvm returns text while kvm-amd does not.

>>108876882
this anon
>>108869716
shoulda just clicked it instead of typing it out and failing like a newfag.

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What's the best and cleanest way to replace gnome with kde plasma on fedora?

>>108877057
Is ChatGPT broken?

>>108877069
The last time I tried it didn't give a good answer.

>>108876584
hey man I only started using Linux in September go easy on me. I only just started using Arch

>>108877057
Not sure how clean it is, but RPM has groups. You can maybe remove the GNOME group and add the KDE group.

>>108877083
>September
>Win10 died the next month
I'm noticing a pattern here, fellow vir/g/ins.

>>108877100
I was using Windows 11 before though

>>108877133
Well, fuck; please tell me you didn't upgrade on the same drive. That spyware goes deep.

>>108877141
what does that matter when the hardware (AMD PSP) is backdoored?

>>108877153
>Not running Arch on 2000s hardware
NGMI

feels like installing "critical system updates" breaks more shit then it fixes, I've narrowed it down to me having a recenteish gfx card (9060xt)

>>108877315
>9060xt
I saw a box at Sam's Club with one of those. Do you like it otherwise?

>>108877403
yup, until a month or 2 ago it was working flawlessly on fedora, but ever since installing 43 ive been having weird issues with flatpak apps, none of them gaming related. I run anything I want at 1440p no problem, granted I play mostly oldish games. The most recent release I tried was arc raiders and it runs fine at 1440p just had to lower from utlra to high or medium cant remember

linux bros why dont we have avx512 chromium builds?
https://github.com/RobRich999/Chromium_Clang/releases/tag/v149.0.7785.0-r1613160-win64-avx512

>>108870546
Gentoo, alpine linux is a joke.

>750ti
Suddenly, few weeks ago, browser stops showing 3d google maps, youtube uses cpu.
I'm still on 580. I use both ubuntu and fedora and did test on backup windows installation.

Is there a fix for that or is it planned obsolescence?

>>108877816, here

>>108877315
I think we have a similar issue. I didn't notice your post.

>>108876882
>Running lsmod on kvm-amd does not work
How do you lsmod "on" modules? lsmod lists modules, simple as.
t. ESL

>>108877938
Yeah, that was where troubleshooting led me. lsmod is how I check if virtmanager is going to work or not.

>>108877464
irrelevant, browser workload benefits from integer single threaded performance instead of simd (which the gpu already does and better actually)

Installing mint back

>>108878213
Congrats, you're entering the end-game.

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# apk fix kernel-hooks
(1/1) Reinstalling kernel-hooks (0.3-r1)
Executing kernel-hooks-0.3-r1.trigger
* kernel-hooks: executing hook 20-akms.hook (lts, 6.18.32-1, )
* akms: ERROR: Failed to evaluate /usr/src/hid_xpadneo/AKMBUILD
* kernel-hooks: ERROR: hook 20-akms.hook failed
OK: 8528.7 MiB in 1523 packages

akms hangs when invoked directly to build the module with

# akms install -vr hid_xpadneo

No output in terminal.
Installing new unrelated modules from the official repositories doesn't work either. The install process doesn't even get off the ground; it hangs at 0% completion.
This AKMBUILD file has worked for me up 'til now:

modname=hid_xpadneo
modver=v0.11-pre-42-gb514bd4
built_modules='hid-xpadneo.ko'
makedepends='bluez openssl-dev mokutil'

have i buggered my system
why isn't akms working
what do i even do

>>108878341
That tells you fuck all. The install script/hook is obviously failing somehow but that ain't telling you why.

I'm having these errors while trying to install mint

>error: invalid magic number
>error: you need to load the kernel first

What might be wrong?

>>108877057
A clean install. Nobody sane recommends swapping between the two DEs manually since in most scenarios you'll end up with something broken.

>>108874103
my firefox is eating 18GB right now

>>108878404
>>error: you need to load the kernel first
Shiggy... I hope you're not installing it from inside a chroot.
Assuming you are using the live installer from a USB, the only thing I could think of is that the ISO image might be corrupted, verify the checksum of the ISO image and try again

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there's a local webapp i want to run, but firefox is so laggy and takes up too much memory. what's the closest thing to a specialized "webview" runner so i can run the webapp as its own program without fully featured browser overhead? the only thing i can think of is to just use a minimal browser like suckless surf

I like Mageia ; I think that it is a very good OS and that more people should use it.

>>108879123
TauriJS (lightweight) or Electron (heavy) if you actually want to port it into a desktop app.
>suckless surf
Surf just uses WebKit, so it's the equivalent of running a shittier Safari on Linux. Meaning it's a regular browser like any other. I mean, it will be lighter since it doesn't have a UI and there's a chance it will perform better since the WebKit JS engine is supposedly the best one when it comes to performance and resource use (although the same can't be said for rendering performance which is worse in WebKit than both Firefox and Chrome, which may or may not matter more than pure JS logic in your web app)
>Firefox
You're better off with a Chromium browser. Firefox has a roughly 20%-30% worse performance in almost every metric compared to Chromium. Especially when it comes to rendering heavy pages.

Does anyone know how to solve the issue of the computer not displaying anything if the display is turned off at boot on Arch/Cachy with KDE wayland? This is very annoying.

>>108879200
Normally I'd say this is a Wayland issue, but I'm 100% sure I experienced this with X11 too. It's probably just some Linuxism since it's predominantly a server OS and thinks that if you don't connect a display during the boot process it should skip graphics initialization.

is cachy a gimmick or no? been using archlinux for more than a decade but see people speaking highly of it which have got me thinking, are the developers competent do you think? Part of the reason i've stayed with archlinux is that I trust in that they know what they are doing, and that the developers won't vanish off of the face of the earth ala void linux

>>108879228
Ok but why doesn't it launch the graphics processes after I turn on the monitor, isn't it a software hotplug issue?

>>108879266
It's basically EndeavourOS with some kernel tweaks similar to the Zen kernel for desktop/program responsiveness.

>>108879266
There is almost no difference between the 2 unless you're very autistic about performance, its gimmick is making newcomers feel safer

>>108879280
>>108879284
i see thanks

>>108879275
It's not an issue since you can change this behavior. It's just the default behavior on a lot of distros.
>how to change
I don't know, but if you don't want to wait a whole day for someone else to find your post here then just use an AI to help you.

>>108879266
It's Arch with a GUI installer like EndeavourOS, but it gives you more GUI tools for tinkering and compiles some software in a way where it can take advantage of modern CPUs (AVX2, etc.) to boost performance.

>>108879195
thanks. are you sure that webkit is the fastest at executing javascript? i heard v8 is the best. i am hesitant on using chrome since they seem to be on the forefront for banning extensions

>>108879266
Troubleshooting on a derivative distro is more complicated that troubleshooting on an independent distro, because you have an additional upstream to consider.

>>108879371
yeah that thought entered my head. Still, I might check it out I'd like to have a go at these 'performance boosts' to make up my mind

>>108879324
>are you sure that webkit is the fastest at executing javascript?
The developers of Bun.js ran a bunch of benchmarks and ultimately determined that the WebKit JS engine is the best when it comes to latency, performance and memory use. It's the one they deemed the best for servers and services, where even a 1% performance difference can cost thousands of $ per day.
>i am hesitant on using chrome since they seem to be on the forefront for banning extensions
Sure, but you can just use a Chromium browser only for that single web app. Also, it's not like WebKit browsers like surf have a good extension support. They're much worse than Chromium in that regard.

>>108879408
chrome is quite big compared to surf, so i would have to start using it as my daily driver because i want to run firefox at the same time as this web app. i think firefox caches too much stuff and causes everything to slow down. so i'll try running surf for it instead and use firefox for everything else

I want to keep a linux on a stick and run it from a stick when I need linux. For example if I fuck something up in my windows or just don't want to launch it, I want to plug the stick and boot from it.
Is there a point to it, or is it a dumb idea?
What linux would be the best for it? I heard about Tails but what I want isn't for privacy reasons.

>>108879645
Good idea. But use an actual SSD, not a flash drive.

>>108879645
The usual set of general-purpose distros: Debian, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu.

>>108879648
like, an usb SSD?

>>108879657
Yeah, like an NVMe in a USB enclosure.

>>108877806
Alpine is the best server distro

>>108879645
It's fine but most Linux distros aren't (out of the box) designed to run off a USB flash drive. You'd have to disable all forms of disk cache and make sure you don't have swap enabled because otherwise you risk heavy wear on the USB drive. An average web browser tends to write gigabytes of data to disk on a daily basis, for example.

>>108879975
Gemini is a Debian fan! (because a Reddit post it ate told it to be!)

Gemini (i.e., Google) is American, of course it would promote other American garbage.

>>108880019
Debian is good though, it just works
>>108880035
Not all Americans are bad: Linus lives in America but he's a seemingly decent person

>>108868417
I wrote a bash package manager for my mlfs install. I didn't follow their book letter to letter either. Besides, the cross-compile toolchain is the only tricky bit. rest is just ./configure && make && make install. I did write build scripts for over 1200 packages, thoughbeit (over 8 years) ;-;

I just discovered that Ctrl+Shift+T will flip the text direction inside GTK entry boxes, why does GTK not do this automatically when I switch between LTR and RTL keyboard layouts

>>108880210
You're not running LFS at that point. That's your own Linux distribution.

My mate undervolts his GPU he says it is better because it stops it getting hot uses less power and won't effect performance he says it can actually perform better for longer because it won't get hot.

My question is: using an Nvidia card on cachyos is this a wise thing to do or is Nvidia to shit on Linux? I did a quick search for some apps but all of them had a big "if factor". Has anyone here successfully done this on Linux?

>>108881057
Honestly, Nvidia just works if you use X11 and your GPU isn't too old (even legacy GPUs have driver packages for them but you have to know which one to get)
If you use Wayland though then good luck getting that shit working, I have never tried using Nvidia with Wayland but I hear it's buggy as hell

>>108881115
On x11 it won't stop tearing and obs videos are all torn off on the top the force pipeline thing doesn't seem to work for my 4060. So it's the opposite for me buggy af on x11 and works on Wayland but controlling the GPU under Wayland is another story as there isn't even a real settings app. So I'll probably just leave it desu I just thought I'd seen if anyone has been successful with messing with an Nvidia card before.

Can anyone please recommend a DE that has good scaling options? I use Mint Cinnamon and its scaling is great, but I want to move to different DEs. I have a 4k and a 1440p monitor and I've experimented with stuff like I3WM but getting scaling correct is absolutely miserable.
Should I just take the leap to Wayland? Would that fix my issues? I tried Sway but it did not play nicely with me on Mint.

>>108881264
Most use KDE Plasma these days, try that out.

>>108881264
>I use Mint Cinnamon and its scaling is great
Huh? It doesn't even have fractional scaling.

opensuse, KDE plasma
I have a microphone plugged into the rear I/O and when I use it the audio volume will jump around wildly. I opened the audio volume thing on the taskbar on the bottom right and watched as the volume for my microphone went everywhere between 10% and 30% when I wanted it to remain at 30% the entire time. Everyone I was on a voice call with told me repeatedly that I was too quiet, so I dragged the slider back to 30% and then after a few seconds of talking it'd jump back down to anything like 10%, 14%, 22%, 17%, etc.
What could be causing this and what can I do to fix it?

After gifting pages to the kernel with vmsplice() is it safe to just mmap over their address range with MAP_FIXED, or do I need to explicitly unmap them first?

>>108881439
Yeah it's safe.

>>108881575
Thought so. Thanks.

Anyone ever run into the wireplumber + youtube (Firefox) issue where your mixer levels just forcibly reset to random values no matter what, every time you stop and start a stream? I made a little hack fix for it yesterday:

pactl subscribe | while read -r line; do
    if [[ "$line" == *"new"* && "$line" == *"sink-input"* ]]; then
        pactl list sink-inputs | awk '
        BEGIN { RS="Sink Input #"; FS="\n" }

        $0 ~ /node.name = "Firefox"/ &&
        $0 ~ /media.name = ".*Youtube"/
        {
            split($1, a, "\n")
            print a[1]
        }' | while read -r id; do
            pactl set-sink-input-volume "$id" 100%
        done
    fi
done

If you make this into a systemd service, it'll poll audio stream changes and find the newly created ones, then bump 'em to 100%. The issue is actually wireplumber setting channelVolumes, which is why this is so stupid. Unfixed on Bugzilla for like 5+ years. Spent all day yesterday trying to come up with a more elegant solution, but pw-cli set-param or pactl set-sink-input-volume were about the only working solutions; WP/PW/PW-pulse scripting didn't work and the table for these values isn't exposed (shown under ~/.local/state/wireplumber/stream-properties. Just thought I'd post this somewhere in case it'll help someone.