Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share experiences.*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread ***Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.1) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice on bare metal and run your previous OS in a Virtual Machine.2) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question.Many free software projects have active mailing lists.$ man %command%$ info %command%$ %command% -h/--help$ help %builtin/keyword%Don't know what to look for?$ apropos %something%Try a random distro:https://distrosea.comhttps://distro.moeCheck the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):https://wiki.archlinux.orghttps://wiki.gentoo.orghttps://wiki.debian.org/g/'s Wiki on GNU/Linux:https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Category:GNU/Linux>What distro should I choose?https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux>What are some cool programs?https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applicationshttps://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttps://suckless.org/rocks/>What are some cool terminal commands?https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browsehttps://cheat.sh/>Where can I learn the command line?https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuidehttps://www.grymoire.com/Unix/https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandithttps://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/Bash-Beginners-Guide.html>Where can I learn more about Free Software?https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html>How to break out of the botnet?https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linuxGNU/Linux Games:>>>/vg/lggPrevious thread: >>109157114
On Wayland, is it possible to designate Caps Lock as the Compose key while making Shift+Caps Lock behave as normal Caps Lock?
>>109178022You're better off binding capslock to both shifts at once
>>109178022Not natively in a wayland compositoy. Check if keyd can do it.
>>109178186strictly speaking it depends on the compositorhaving said that, its unlikely that any of them support thisanon could patch one of them (dwl would probably be easy enough) but something like keyd is probably less work
Reposting in case other poster won't check old thread>>109174454 #Appreciated, though, do you have any comparisons between them? I can not find anything more descriptive than "better" or "easier" in discussion around them, and I am probably not going to do the tests themselves or try new ones unless this one fails. Is there something that makes it significantly better as an option?Also... How do you transfer files into a vm without internet... I know this is probably a silly question but I am not seeing a way to open the directory for the vm in my normal lm file manager
>>109178429virtiofs
>>109178457Any good documentation on using it with ioracle vm?I got the package but it seems like every tutorial does something very different and combines options and things I either do not have or do not see
>>109178429NTA, but apart from VirtualBox there's also VMware Workstation, while it's proprietary, it has been made free by Broadcom though they hide the download links very well, thankfully you can find them here:https://github.com/gandli/vmware-downloadsThe main advantage of VMware Workstation over VirtualBox is that it has better virtual drivers for windows guests, specifically the 3D acceleration drivers are the best available, so if you want to utilize 3D graphics inside a windows guest then VMware Workstation is superior to VirtualBox.>do you have any comparisons between them?The way both VirtualBox and VMware do virtualization is entirely through software, Qemu/KVM on the other hand actually utilizes modern CPU instructions meant for virtualization and is capable of directly passing hardware to guests (however, this requires manual configuration), as such it has a lot less overhead if configured correctly.>How do you transfer files into a vm without internetVirtualBox and VMware both have a feature called "Shared Folders" that allows you to expose a folder from your host to the guest, however this requires you to install the Guest additions (for VirtualBox) or VMware tools (for VMware) inside the guest first. For Qemu/KVM, you need to install virtio drivers inside the guest, after you're done installing them then add a filesystem in virt-manager like picrel, the source path is the host folder you want to share, and the destination is where it is mounted inside the guest.Also some warning: the Qemu/KVM virtualized display driver (QXL) is only capable of 2D graphics, if you intend to use 3D graphics in your guest then you need to do GPU passthrough which requires you to have second GPU and is notoriously difficult.
>>109178336>>109178186I thought KWin might support it (at least by manually editing some config file) because there's already a setting that turns Caps Lock into Esc and Shift+Caps Lock into normal Caps Lock, but no Compose equivalent. That's unfortunate, but I'll look into keyd and do this >>109178056 if that doesn't work.
>>109177983Why does rsync work better than cp for copying large amounts of data to USB drives?
>>109179826it shouldn't, unless you're updating a copy of a dataset, in which cases rsync can copy just what's different instead of everything
>>109179860Well it does and here I am complaining about it. We are talking about moving movies around, not a data set.
>>109179115You might want to file a bug report for it on bugs.kde.org it's probably an easy thing for them to add.
>>109179862have you done any tests? like use time(1) with io cache clearing in between? because i haven't noticed any difference and can't imagine there would be especially just with some large files
>>109179826Yeah I’m gonna need evidence of that
>>109179826Different buffer sizes maybe?
does anyone know if the virtual keyboard issues are completely fixed on plasma 6.7.2 ?i didnt even have it enabled but apprently it was still showing up on the login screen making it really hard to enter my password
I'm trying to use minidlna and my Toshiba hard drive keeps unmounting which seems to be a hardware issue when using with Linux. It doesn't happen on Windows and I know its not my pc since my wd drive acts fine when using minidlna. Is there a way around this?
Why does my microphone sound way worse on Linux than it does on Windows? People have recommended using Easy Effects, and I've looked up tutorials online, but my friends hardly perceive any difference in the quality of my sound. Disabling fast boot/hibernation hasn't helped, either.
>>109180265>>109180265not sure, has been werking for me. Have to choose it as source. Changes should be noticeable immediately if you're input monitoring and messing with it.
Assuming I just want to run applications and do a bit of vidya modding/tinkering, how much am I going to be limited on Bazzite's immutable system?>t. Windows-tard
>>109180558None because the immutability is done in userspace for system packages only.
>>109180558what actually appeals to you about bazzite over say something like fedora?
>>109180433I’ve used two of those three plugins, and more, yet the quality is no where near as crisp as on Windows according to my friends. For reference, I’m using an AT2020 USB.
>>109180566Low level gaming optimizations and somewhat on the bleeding edge.I got filtered pretty bad by CachyOS because it was too lightweight and I ended up installing every fucking dependency on Earth to do basic shit with the AUR.I was considering ZorinOS but they don't support HDR yet.>>109180564Oh okay. Why's the immutability such a big deal for power users then? Seems like you can still rice the fuck out of your DE.
>>109180581>Why's the immutability such a big deal for power users then?It's mostly of interest to phone-brained zoomers and docker kool-aid drinkers.
>>109178429One use case for VirtualBox is using it for Windows 7 guests as there's supposedly VirtualBox drivers for Windows 7.Otherwise you should always pick Virt-manager (as in Qemu (as in KVM)) over anything else.>>109180581>immutability>power usersI thought "immutability" was for retards for retard-proofing their system as the whole thing boots up and acts sort of like an Android system.t. stupid
>>109180658>I thought "immutability" was for retards for retard-proofing their system as the whole thing boots up and acts sort of like an Android system.Same.That's the thing though. If it's just a complete net positive, why isn't everyone doing it?
>>109180664Because it makes changing the base system a huge pain in the ass. Just have backups.
>>109180750Why are you changing the base system?
>>109180813Want to install a different version of nVidia drivers than the distro comes with? That's changing the base system. WiFi needs a blob driver? Base system. Want to mount a CD image with audio tracks? Base system change.
>>109180658Immutability give you a (theoretically) zero maintenance system, and it's honestly quite close to truth. Bluefin just works, I never have to think about any system maintenance. Only immutable Linux distros have achieved this in the OS world. The only problem is the drivers, so it's the image maker's job to make sure the image has as many drivers as possible. As long as your hardware is supported there's no problem.
>>109180927It's almost as good as not being insanely poor and having backups.
I've been hitting a roadblock, i need to access several parts of my file system at times (i.e. working on a project and i wanna glance at my notes spread across different directories) but is profoundly annoying for me; having Dolphin open just to copy and paste paths feels like the caveman way, but from within the context of other applications, i.e. text editors/ides, searching from within them always has the same two outcomes:>search is laser focused on the current directory/the directory from within the application was launched (in the case of say, vim)>it sits on my $HOME directory and i either have to manually navigate where i want it to search (defeating the whole fucking point) or the search also grabs many useless .cache/ or .local/share trash files i don't care aboutThe problem is the same for me, the search's root is "hardcoded" basically, and that default is useful like 40% of the time. I ried to integrate fzf into my workflow to fix this somehow, but i can't seem to figure out how to make it work. Maybe what i need is to write my own CLI file picker. Or maybe there's something that already does what i want. Basically, a search dialog (CLI, i want to chain it to other tools if possible) that lets me choose between a default list of search roots before starting to crawl, maybe appending $CWD at the top for convenience. I also have heard about file indexers like baloo, but not sure how reliable are these.
is this bad?
>>109181091Yes, it's bad. You should probably restart to clear it all out as it seems to be memory leaking.
>>109181091this is basically my system after a week of running
>>109181091Depends. Swap is there to be used. Could be normal, but may also be a sign that something is leaking memory or not managing its memory very well.
When I switch from balanced to performance power management profile in KDE all of my CPU cores heat up 20 degrees.Why? I'm not doing anything that I wasn't before.
>>109181162Because that's literally what the performance profile does. It ups the power limit so the CPU draws more power. More power == More heat. It doesn't matter that you haven't put a load on the CPU, it's still running with an increased power budget and it will use that budget even if it appears to be lightly loaded or idle.
