My life has been much better ever since I switched from W10 (more like L10) to my boy Cachy.

Bump!
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>>109222953
An update: I'm now on 7.1.3, and updated firmware, headers, and mesa.
Dmesg now reports:

[drm] *ERROR* Set retimer failed, 3g index: 0x9, value: 0x42
[drm] *ERROR* Set retimer failed, index: 0

>>109222741
w10 is decently based, thoug
what was so bad about it?

>>109223032
Iunno bro it's gay and cringe. Doesn't have the cool and mysterious factor Linux has. Feels like you gotta do a fresh install every couple of years. It just gets sluggish and gay. Windows XP was more comfy anyways. With Arch I feel like I don't have to do fresh installs. Just get the rolling updates and it's good. I think. I hope.

>>109222953
Judging in the previous thread you got
>rcu: 8-...!: (2 GPs behind)
There was an issue with the 8th core. Maybe this was a one time issue, but if it happens again here is the documentation on such a warning:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst
If it's consistently happening, I'd try temporarily booting into a live environment and trying to cause it. If it happens there, it's probably your CPU, maybe go looking for people with similar issues with the same CPU/mobo to see it there's some incredibly specific Linux bug going on.

>>109222993
Sounds unrelated, that's a graphics error.

>>109223264
I'm running full preemption, but I'll keep reading the linked github page to see if anything else checks. Hope I don't have to dig through traces.

It seems to always be happening to the same core, the errors print one after another, 4 times in this case.

I'll see if I can find someone with the same CPU/mobo encountering this problem.

>Sounds unrelated, that's a graphics error.
I only have an iGPU, and this stuff only occurs when I'm watching movies on mpv, so I thought it might be related.

Great idea, btw, I'll try booting a liveOS to check. Run some memtest just to be safe.

I wonder if this is something I can bring up in a warranty claim? Just not sure how to explain it to customer service if so.
"Yes, Pranajesh, RCU stalls... Jitter... the traces point to... blah blah, it's definitely the CPU you sold me."

>try vanilla gnome on PC
>not a fan
>"alright, maybe it's designed for touchscreen laptop and tablet with all of this gestures stuff"
>get a 2 in 1 Thinkpad X12
>installed fedora on it
>gnome is unusable in pure tablet mode with virtual keyboard only
okay, so who the hell are the target market for gnome?

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I cannot deny that yazi is the best terminal based file manager I have ever used.

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I've tried getting into Linux but it's too confusing, even when things are working as intended and terminal stuff gets done I still have no idea what is happening.
When I try it I feel like an 11 year old trying to figure out how sexual intercourse works.

>>109224348
>even when things are working as intended and terminal stuff gets done I still have no idea what is happening.
And I thought Linux was super easy in this regard, like a car engine being transparent. (at least compared to black box closed systems)
>terminal stuff
What are some terminal stuff?
>>109224223
da joos trying to destroy desktop Linux

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>>109222577
I installed rtorrent and copied the config file from their official documentation and now the program won't open due to errors, picrel. Everytime I tried fixing one, another one appeared. What's the point of including a "starter config file" if it doesn't fucking work?
>>109224348
Could you share some examples of what you find confusing?

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>>109224424
This is all I have in my rtorrent config.

I've been questioning my loyalty to Wayland after seeing all the posts on this board, the x oldfags say there's more mouse delay but as far as i'm aware everything nowadays is shifting towards wayland and x11 is being phased out but I really do not know what the tradeoffs are with each one.

Would appreciate any insight on what to consider when choosing and are there alternate protocols that don't require years of debugging to get working?

>>109224470
the template is outdated
https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/issues/1842

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>>109224470
Thanks, it runs normally now. I've used qbittorrent for a long time, but I realized I never really used much of its features. I download movies or anime rarely, so I thought I should use a simpler program, and since I already use the terminal for a lot of things might as well use it for torrenting too.
>GNU Nano
Any tips to make it comfy?
>>109224575
https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277
Here's a tip anon: "X is the future" doesn't mean anything by itself, it's like saying "tomorrow is Thursday", but whose to say Thursday will be a good day?

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>>109224626
Enable colour and you are going to need to learn a bit of regex to get the syntax highlighting how you want.
I installed the package nano-syntax-highlighting as well.

>>109224626
What's the motive I don't get it who is trying to force this change and where it is coming from?
The design being primarily for gnome and kde throws me off...
I want to control my pc and tailor everything that runs on it after all

>>109223032
>t. zoomer

>>109224223
Gen Z who are used to iOS and Android.

>"Batocera gives new life to old computers! Turn any old pc into an emulation machine!"
>install bato on an old pc
>"sorry your gpu is too old and the latest release of bato discontinued support for legacy drivers"
what was the damn point then

>>109225513
What hardware are you trying it on? You need more specialized distros if you intend to use an old 32bit PC.

>>109225599
acer x53s
it's 64bit

>>109225993
>acer x53s
This is a device series with a variety of different hardware configurations. It means nothing.

>>109226107
it has an i7-2670QM and GTX 610M

>>109225513
>>109226123
not sure about novideo drivers, but if you're just emulating old games then the nouveau driver should be good enough. i don't think any emulators require vulkan

>>109226123
>nVidia
And there's your problem. nVidia discontinued driver support for that GPU a long time ago. You can't have a modern kernel with obsolete drivers that are built for an older kernel. You'll have to use your i7 integrated graphics instead and disable the nVidia GPU in BIOS, assuming this is possible. Or use a much older version of Batocera.
The community-made nVidia drivers are also an option, but a shit option. You'll probably have less issues on the Intel integrated GPU. The best option is either selling that laptop or throwing it away, and then buying literally any $300 laptop.

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does anyone know how to fix menus being super small when using blender in hyprland? it doesn't save manual resizing, and i'd prefer not to change it to single window

>>109224260
For some reason yazi seems to lack certain features and customization that lf has for my usecase but yazi is at least less of a hack than lf when it comes to configuring it.

>>109226313
My guess would be either a gtk scaling issue or the font size is too small.
Is that waybar you're using?

>>109224575
Just use wayland if you prefer it, and if you run into a situation where wayland is making things frustrating then you could switch back to xorg when you need to and switch back afterwards. That's why its good that kde still has its xorg session around for now

>>109225513
Batocera seems more like a console os than specifically for being targeted at old machines

>>109224575
Don't change just because of posts you see here. Stay where you are if you are comfortable. Most people here are retards that will complain about anything and everything and blow every little issue out of proportion.

>>109224646
This looks really nice but i prefer vim too much over nano.

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>>109226536
not him but the website does list a couple options for old computers, but the default one doesn't seem to mention this. the front page says "any computer", but that obviously can't be taken literally

>>109226553
I can't imagine a distro focused on emulators having any kind of good performance on anything that doesnt at least have a decently recent igpu

>>109226572
most emulators don't demand much from a gpu, it's only if you're using things like heavy crt shaders at 4k where your gpu might matter. it's only 7th gen+ games where you might want something made in the last decade

>>109226313
Perhaps run the window in fullscreen and you'll get 1:1 scaling.

>>109226572
>>109226611
like to give you an idea, there's an unofficial port of retroarch for the ps2. not emulating the ps2, but retroarch ported to run on an actual ps2. it has 57 cores (emulators) available for it

>>109226553
It's still a gaming distro. And by "gaming distro" I literally mean you're booted into an ES-DE interface by default, similar to what SteamOS does with SteamUI. I'm not even sure it has an actual desktop to switch to.

>>109226572
Emulation is primarily dependent on the CPU, not GPU. The GPU only becomes relevant once you start upscaling above 1080p or using shaders.
Anything PS1/PSP and older can be emulated on potato-level handhelds that are sold for $50-$60. And a modern ultrabudget CPU like the Intel N100/N150 can run PS2 and GC just fine, even being able to run a lot of Switch games in docked mode.
This is why the Steam Deck struggles with some Switch games while high end ARM handhelds like the RP6 and AYN Thor can play them smoothly. The CPU in the Steam Deck is weaker, so even though it has a better iGPU it's not as good for emulation.

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The Slackware installer didn't reformat my EFI partition so now I have 2 bootloaders that both try to load an orphaned compressed kernel image and crash. Somehow I also made my USB stick unbootable with eficonfig. FML

how do I tell if a application is installed as a flatpak?

on cachyos and trying to see if i installed steam as a flatpak as i have heard doing so doesn't get you the performance improvements that the cachy team implemented

>>109226964
Run "flatpak list --app" to check. If a Steam package isn't there, you're using the native binary.

>>109226964
If you go into Steam and check your PC details there, it will tell you that your distribution is "Flatpak Runtime" instead of CachyOS or Arch.

>>109226964

which steam

or whatever the binary for steam is named

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>>109226977
>>109227026
thanks. it looks like native. I believe i installed the installer from steam's website directly rather than from pacman. cannot remember.

next question i had, I installed some non-steam games so i can use steam's proton and don't have to mess with configuring my own prefixes.
in the folder with all the prefixes (steam/steamapps/compdata), there are random folders that are named as random numbers that is the prefix folder for the game i added. Is there a easy way for me to tell which numbered prefix folder is tied to which game?

>>109227103
If you make a desktop shortcut of whatever non-steam game then look at its path it'll show which random number folder is associated with that game.

Nobara vs CachyOS for someone who might want to do some audio recording eventually? Currently on Win11 IoT LTSC. The only thing that's kept me from changing is software for my guitar effects pedal/interface being windows/mac only.

>>109227291
Nobara apparently has a bunch of things pre-configured for media creation, but I hear it's a very unstable distro. As in actually unstable/buggy, not the Debian definition of "instability" which just means "it gets updates".

>>109224223
Usecase for tablet mode?

>>109224223
People who use macs and dont actually use or care about linux other than treating it as a pet project.

>>109227291
It really doesnt matter. 99% of stuff is the same between all distros.

>>109227291
You should test them out with dual boot. I'm currently greatly enjoying my boy Cachy since I'm an Arch Chad and not a fedora virgin. Allegedly any audio interface would just work with a DAW. You just wont be able to use their shitty software that most of the time does jack shit. Guitar effects idk mine are integrated into my amp. Reaper works for a DAW at the very least. You can add effects in processing after. Kinda gay but yeah.

>>109227291
any distro that has a realtime kernel offered in its repository. in this case cachyos has linux-rt and linux-cachyos-rt-bore kernels available

>>109227291
Avoid meme distros.

>>109228031
>>109227291
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Realtime_kernel
any modern distro will do as long as it has a kernel newer than 6.12

>>109223264
I followed the Gentoo wiki's troubleshooting section about freezing gen 1 Ryzen 7s and so far it seems to be working.
Now for the

amdgpu 0000:30:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* Set retimer failed, 3g index: 0x9, value: 0x42
amdgpu 0000:30:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* Set retimer failed, index: 0

I've got no idea. Either my search engine skills athrophied or they've gone to shit. Or no one else reported something similar.

>>109227342
>>109227626
>>109227839
>>109228031
>>109228499
Thanks for the info, folks. Probably gonna end up dual booting with a spare drive until I figure out the current best practice under linux with Fractal Audio's FM-Edit. Could've been avoided altogether if the company was smart enough to think 10 minutes into the future.

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Paketquellen aktualisieren und laden:
Paketquellen geladen.
Problem 1: Installation des besten Aktualisierungskandidaten nicht möglich für das Paket mesa-va-drivers-freeworld-26.1.3-1.fc44.x86_64
  - nichts stellt mesa-filesystem(x86-64) = 26.1.4 bereit, dieses wird von mesa-va-drivers-freeworld-26.1.4-1.fc44.x86_64 aus rpmfusion-free-updates benötigt
 Problem 2: Installation des besten Aktualisierungskandidaten nicht möglich für das Paket mesa-va-drivers-freeworld-26.1.3-1.fc44.i686
  - nichts stellt mesa-filesystem(x86-32) = 26.1.4 bereit, dieses wird von mesa-va-drivers-freeworld-26.1.4-1.fc44.i686 aus rpmfusion-free-updates benötigt

Paket                                           Architektur     Version                                          Paketquelle                        Größe
Pakete mit nicht auflösbaren Abhängigkeiten werden übersprungen:
 mesa-va-drivers-freeworld                      i686            26.1.4-1.fc44                                    rpmfusion-free-updates          55.7 MiB
 mesa-va-drivers-freeworld                      x86_64          26.1.4-1.fc44                                    rpmfusion-free-updates          52.1 MiB

Nichts zu tun.

the humiliation ritual has begun

>>109228779
I wonder how many of these companies provide software that works on Linux. Never really researched it. You could also just leave a small partition for winshit and just do your music there.

>>109229155
at least run the command prepended with "LANG=C" so it's not in german

>>109229182
They largely don't. Which is idiotic considering everyone uses Android now. Some effects units offer bluetooth connections for altering internal parameters via phone apps, but these units are often geared to less discerning customers.

>>109229262
There should be one brand that takes over the Linux market by just having software to rake in free dollars.

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>get anki on mint
>studying anki cards
>audio is quiet so I turn them up in the audio mixer
>go to study cards the next day
>audio set back to the low volume it was before
I know i can just manually adjust the volume every day before I start but its just annoying. What should I look into to fix this?

>>109229544
My mans Cachy did this and it just fixed itself somehow someway. Probably one of the hundreds of daily rolling updates.

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>>109224348
what is confusing idgi, everything is simpler than windows

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>>109229225

Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Problem 1: cannot install the best update candidate for package mesa-va-drivers-freeworld-26.1.3-1.fc44.x86_64
  - nothing provides mesa-filesystem(x86-64) = 26.1.4 needed by mesa-va-drivers-freeworld-26.1.4-1.fc44.x86_64 from rpmfusion-free-updates
 Problem 2: cannot install the best update candidate for package mesa-va-drivers-freeworld-26.1.3-1.fc44.i686
  - nothing provides mesa-filesystem(x86-32) = 26.1.4 needed by mesa-va-drivers-freeworld-26.1.4-1.fc44.i686 from rpmfusion-free-updates

Package                                          Arch        Version                                           Repository                            Size
Skipping packages with broken dependencies:
 mesa-va-drivers-freeworld                       i686        26.1.4-1.fc44                                     rpmfusion-free-updates            55.7 MiB
 mesa-va-drivers-freeworld                       x86_64      26.1.4-1.fc44                                     rpmfusion-free-updates            52.1 MiB

Nothing to do.

Dam bros even screen recording is so much better on Linux.

>>109230115
Just wait for rpmfusion to sync up with the main repos and try again.

>>109230403
I made this post while recording as a test for making a webm after, but it turns out making webms on Linux is a literal nightmare.

>>109229155
>the humiliation ritual has begun
One of the benefits of Debian. Everything worth installing is in the official repos. Not to be a total fanboy.

Package: mesa-libgallium
Version: 26.1.4-1
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Source: mesa
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 49.2 MB
Provides: libglapi-mesa, mesa-va-drivers, mesa-vdpau-drivers, va-driver
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.42), libdrm-amdgpu1 (>= 2.4.134-3~), libdrm-intel1 (>= 2.4.134-3~), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.134-3~), libelf1t64 (>= 0.142), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libllvm21 (>= 1:21.1.0), libsensors5 (>= 1:3.5.0), libstdc++6 (>= 11), libx11-xcb1, libxcb-dri3-0 (>= 1.13), libxcb-present0, libxcb-randr0, libxcb-sync1, libxcb-xfixes0, libxcb1 (>= 1.9.2), libxshmfence1, libzstd1 (>= 1.5.5), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.4)
Breaks: mesa-va-drivers (<< 25.2.8-3), mesa-vdpau-drivers (<< 25.2.8-3)
Replaces: mesa-va-drivers (<< 25.2.8-3), mesa-vdpau-drivers (<< 25.2.8-3)
Enhances: libva2
Homepage: https://mesa3d.org/
Download-Size: 11.2 MB
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: https://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
Description: shared infrastructure for Mesa drivers
 This package contains libgallium, a private library shared between
 multiple Mesa drivers. This library is an implementation detail of Mesa
 and should not be used directly by user code.

~$ apt-cache policy mesa-libgallium
mesa-libgallium:
  Installed: 26.1.4-1
  Candidate: 26.1.4-1
  Version table:
 *** 26.1.4-1 500
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
~$ 

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>>109230589
I haven't used obs in a while but I think it has webm as an option for recording. Or you can just record in whatever format you want and then convert the resulting file to webm with ffmpeg, in just a single command. And you could even automate the latter.

>>109230834
Too bad Debian's current release quality version is older than the previous Fedora.

>>109230944
Dunno, Sid has been pretty great for me on multiple machines.

>>109230910
I tried ffmpeg but the trim parameters literally don't work. Like I don't see now -ss 00:02:02 -t 00:02:026 doesn't literally just give me a 24 second webm starting from 2 minutes and 2 seconds. The maximum file size parameter -fs or whatever it was also just doesn't work. The documentation doesn't say which parameter removes the audio track. Is it -an? Is it something else? Nobody knows. The whole page is just a massive wall of spam text. Why can't we just have a GUI that handles these parameters with a click of a button?

Maybe I'm retarded idk.

>>109230962
>-t 00:02:026

:26*

>>109230957
That just means you haven't used it long enough.

>>109231109
You might be right. How long before it breaks?

>>109231123
I used to have a solid failure to boot about once every couple of years.

>notice my rudimentary rsync backup script hasn't finished yet
>think maybe it crashed or something
>open second terminal window
>du
>see absolute deluge of files from when I installed android repo a few days ago
>still going after 1 hour
>and that's probably the wrong version of android for my project
Ok next time I'm blacklisting .repo from my script, why the hell is it so large anyway? I just wanted to replace the shitty default Mediatek FM radio app.

What's a good Whatsapp client for Linux? From what I can see Whatsie and Zapzap are too heavy.

>>109231130
Just never turn it off and go for uptimemaxxing

>>109231132
>client for Linux
idk man, I just use my 2nd browser for this and trannycord

>>109222741
this but with w11 because it would take like 30 minutes to even load my wifi drivers or boot into anything else yet cachyOS does all that shit in like 10 seconds with zero issue

>>109231130
See how we go. I'm pretty confident I can fix a boot failure. What was the actual boot failure(s) that you had?

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>>109223032
>telemetry and forced copilot is like so based bro why switch

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>>109224260
>yazi sounds like nazi
erm, yikes bro, keep your cryptofash slop to yourself, /pol/fag

>>109231132
>whatsapp
how should i know i'm not a jeet

>>109231228
It was many years ago but it was usually cooked glibc updates or some other critical package you had to chroot upgrade out of.

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Is MediaTek MT7921 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth support good now that Linux 7.1 is released? Would like to hear from people running this chip.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MediaTek-MT76-Linux-7.1

i am enjoying niri on my old zen2 laptop with 8GB RAM =^)

>>109231232
things work on w10 and those things can be disabled

Do I just have the worst hardware for running linux? I have a 5080 so if I use wayland I get lots of fun de crashes but I have three monitors in an atypical layout and wayland's multimonitor support is just nicer

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>>109231403
cachyos has been perfect for me out of the box
5090 and quad monitors

>>109231403
>>109231423
>nvidia
i hope you suffer endlessly

>>109231437
jealous? nvidia runs fine on linux

>>109231437
werks 4 me on artix

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>>109231423
I've just installed fedora since you people told me I should stop using meme gaming distros and after finally getting nauveau to fuck off and changing settings to hopefully stop plasmashell crashing I still got a split lock detection error whatever that means which also apparently is because of nvidia

>>109231469
my ignorant guess is most linux users are using ancient hardware, so the only thing cachy means is it's gaymer bandwagon hypetrain arch

..but since we're using modern hardware,
cachy is literally built for our use case

jump on the bandwagon

>>109231512
I stopped using cachy because the newest update to kde caused the system to crash, I then downgraded kwin which fixed the issue but then I found that a specific partical effect in a game I was playing was causing gpu hang which froze the system and didn't have the courtesy to leave any logs so that I could figure out the problem, at least none that I could find

>>109231546
sounds like you’re really good at finding problems. maybe an immutable distro is for you

>>109222439
This is happening again, I can disable it in my user settings and I think even hitting "apply plasma settings" to the login screen helped with that but either didn't fix it or unfixes itself.
I really really don't want to do a reinstall but this is personally offensive to me, typing a password with a letter followed by a number always fails because it thinks I want to use some glup shitto alternate character. What's weirder is I'm apparently the only person having this problem.

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I'm trying to play a pirated copy of Atelier Resleriana Red White. Installing goes fine. When launching it instantly crashes so all I get is pic related. Does anyone know how to fix this? I've tried installing and running using plain Wine and with Bottles and both do the same thing. Tried various Proton versions to and again its all the same.

>>109230962
Use Boram. Its a graphical WebM converter

>>109231560
the hell are you talking about

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>>109228546
>Or no one else reported something similar.
Feels. I built a Linux Wi-Fi router using random junk and damn those hostapd error messages.
People say Wi-Fi works great on Linux but Wi-Fi access points sure don't lmao
("works" but works only as Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n))
>>109230957
Any point in using Debian Sid over Arch? Does the "Debian ecosystem" even work with Sid?
>>109231244
>WhatsApp
>jeet
not sure if memeing

>>109231587
On KDE after the update
>turn on computer
>try to type password
>"hunter2"
>alternate character, activated!
>it types "hunteŗ" because typing "r" and "2" makes "ŗ"
>I can't even tell because it's a login screen
>can disable it in settings but it still happens after I turn the computer on

>>109231399
things also work on linux and those things don't even exist on linux in the first place

>>109231603
>things also work on linux
Not the dev patches for certain steam games

Really? I can't even run xscreensavers fullscreen manually?

/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/demon

windowed.

um.

so like why. which turbo autist Wayland neuron retarded for this?

cage doesn't work. etc etc nothing works.

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>ubuntu
>install Azahar emulator
>works, no problem
>last use it in the morning
>turn off
>turn back on in the evening
>doesn't even open anymore
I'm beyond confused how shit like this even happens.
Tried uninstalling, reinstalling, tried thorugh AppImage, flatpak but nothing works.

>>109231608
which steam games? you do know proton is a thing, right?

>>109231599
seems like a language problem. are you a jeet?

>>109231663
No, I said I *don't* use glup shitto letters. I want this "feature" disabled on the start screen.

>>109231603
things work on windows
things work* on linux

there's almost always an issue when installing/using something new

>>109231656
Some developers to bypass steams rules will release a gimped version of the game but host a free patcher on their website. That patcher is an .exe and it checks your steam game files and installs the patch there. The ones I tried did not patch game files through a translation layer.

>>109231676
werks on my machine also install gentoo

>also install gentoo
lol

>>109231678
idk what games you're playing but i have never had that issue ever

>>109231671
try selecting english or use the virtual keyboard

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>>109231690

>>109231676
you must not read much winblows news do ya

>>109231692
Try reading english instead of half assed clanker responses.

>>109231698
sounds like a you problem kek

>>109231701
you are on your own now. in fact go back to windows.

>>109231701
Learn to edit a .conf file

>sounds like a you problem
this kind of shit is so retarded

>it just works on linux :)
>n-no, not that game
>n-no, not that app
this literally means that no, it does not 'just work'
linux IS a hassle to use

>>109231707
I was on my own the whole time, bud.
>>109231714
I could do that but it's wild if that's what has to be done to make sure that the password I type is the password I get.

>>109231722
>it's wild if that's what has to be done
Why did you leave windows if you wanted a system where you didn't have to touch the terminal?

>>109224223
why not just use kde

Wait am I the only one who thinks screensavers are a basic computer feature?

What special situation of tism is this? autists don't like animation?

>>109231774
I don't use oled

>>109231735
I am right now. I was just looking for every good DE out there for pure x86 tablet experience. I genuinely would like to hear /fglt/ opinion for this use case.

>>109231808
Maybe try a window manager, might at least be interesting.

>>109231821
using WM without physical keyboard? yeah good luck

>>109231808
>>109231821
though they are shortcut heavy so maybe not

>>109231791
I have a tn panel. I solved this using cmatrix. I just alt tab to it. well and F11'd it. And had to install gnome-terminal and set it to not have a scrollbar and to have true black.

but yeah, now it's ok, enough, I guess.

>>109230589
You can record it in a webm format by default in most screen recorders.

>>109231774
>Wait am I the only one who thinks screensavers are a basic computer feature?
Screen savers have stopped being a thing for most people ever since Win XP stopped being the most popular OS. Nobody considers it a basic feature anymore since almost nobody uses it.

>>109231733
Many Linux distros will never require you to use the terminal. Unless you're doing something that would require terminal use on any other OS anyway.

>>109231774
The last time I heard anyone mention screensavers outside of talking about malware was in the late 90s. If I don't count 4chan. Seen screensavers mentioned a couple of times here over the years.

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>>109231584
What the fuck does this even mean?

>>109231584
Have you tried running it with umu-launcher/Faugus Launcher using GE-Proton? Umu is best for running pirated games.

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>>109230589
>it turns out making webms on Linux is a literal nightmare.
how so? ffmpeg supports it

for pass in {1..2}; do ffmpeg -i clip-2026-07-09_17.15.47.mkv -g 1200 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -crf 25 -pass $pass -an -y out.webm; done

>>109230589
If you're trying to make it fit into the right size for 4chans shitty outdated legacy formats and size constraints then the webm.py script is good:
https://github.com/Kagami/webm.py

webm -i <INPUT> -an -l4

is enough in most cases.

It's just a wrapper for ffmpeg which you could use directly, but calculating the required bitrate bu hand to achieve the shitty file size limits 4chan requires is a mess.

>>109231367
i've been using an MT7922 for a while without any problems, both as a station and an ap. i'm still on linux 6.12.x (i'm getting around to it)

>>109232550
i'd only use "fit to size" when necessary. not every webm needs to be 4MiB.
my go-to's are crf 25 for high quality, stuff that will be small, like >>109232539. crf 35 otherwise, if it still doesn't fit then fit to size

>>109232539
I can't understand this spaghetti string because the parameters on the documentation page look different.
>>109232550
>alculating the required bitrate bu hand to achieve the shitty file size limits 4chan requires is a mess
Yeah I'm not about to fucking math for a shitpost. Why can't webm for retards exist on Linux? Isn't it just a GUI for ffmpeg commands either way?

>>109232603

for pass in {1..2}; <command>; done

this runs the command twice, with the $pass variable set to 1 then 2, for two-pass encoding in one command

-i clip-2026-07-09_17.15.47.mkv

input filename

-g 1200

GOP size of 1200, this improves efficiency at the cost of slower seek times (which isn't an issue here since videos are short)

-c:v libvpx-vp9

use the VP9 codec

-crf 25

this sets the "quality", lower numbers is higher quality, up to i believe 63

-pass $pass

how many passes to encode, one pass often results in intraframe refresh artifacts with VPx codecs
-an
disable audio tracks
-y
overwrite the output file if it exists

out.webm

output filename

>>109232626
>how many passes to encode,
or rather, which pass to encode, you can't put 2 in there without having already run pass 1, pass 1 creates a "ffmpeg2pass-0.log" analysis file which is used by subsequent passes for better bitrate distribution. you can delete this file when you're finished

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>>109230834
if fedora ever breaks for me i might try debian sid then

>>109232556
Nice. What Wi-Fi protocol version? How is Bluetooth? Any issues after suspend/resume?

>>109233393
Best to run Stable for a while if you are new. Unless you know how to rescue a system. Not that I have ever had to. But that is what the oldheads say.

>>109233678
802.11ax, i don't use bluetooth so haven't tested that. i use suspend sometimes and haven't noticed any issues there.

> iwctl station wlan0 show
                                 Station: wlan0                                
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Settable  Property              Value                                          
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Scanning              no                                               
            State                 connected                                        
            Connected network     <muh ssid>                                      
            IPv4 address          192.168.1.230                                    
            ConnectedBss          60:22:32:17:e2:df                                
            Frequency             5220                                             
            Channel               44                                               
            Security              WPA2-Personal                                    
            RSSI                  -56 dBm                                          
            AverageRSSI           -57 dBm                                          
            RxMode                802.11ax                                         
            RxMCS                 9                                                
            TxMode                802.11ax                                         
            TxMCS                 10                                               
            TxBitrate             516000 Kbit/s                                    
            RxBitrate             458800 Kbit/s            

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>>109233696
what about back ports on a stable system (mesa, kernel and firmware etc.) ? is it more or less stable than just running sid?

i installed xfce for my minipc,
and i want to type 'steam' to run steam, or 'settings' to see settings related stuff, etc
application menu doesn't seem to have this at all
application finder works for seeing /usr/bin/steam, but won't show anything for 'settings'

i think i'm just gonna install kde plasma, even though it's a shitbox..

>>109233925
There's practically no difference in resource usage between desktop environments unless you're on a PC with less than 4 GB RAM in which case even Xfce is too heavy.

>>109232626
>>109232640
the number of webms made without two pass is really high. two pass is simply too hard for retards.
and it’s really noticeable when only a single pass was done. it’s very obvious how much worse it is

>>109234005
true, but just because most webm's posted are shit doesn't mean yours have to be

>fedora kde
>open external hdd formatted as ntfs
>delete a file
>dolphin crashes
I GUESS THERE IS NO USE CASE OF DELETING FUCKING FILES

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>>109234088
>hdd formatted as ntfs
first mistake

>An error occurred while accessing 'LUNA', the system responded: The requested operation has failed: Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /run/media/meow/LUNA: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error

interesting error, how do i go about troubleshooting it?

>>109234088
works on my machine

>>109234093

sudo dmesg

usually has a more detailed error message when mounting fails

>>109232556
Which Wi-Fi standards and frequencies does it support in AP mode?
Currently hosting a 5GHz Wi-Fi 4 AP like a retard because my Wi-Fi 5 USB dongle doesn't support access points beyond that. (specifically want 5GHz)

>>109234149
ah thanks, i think its that stupid windows thing
>volume is dirty and "force" flag is not set!
i guess i just have to boot into windows to fix it

>>109234090
What other choice is there? exfat is ancient shit and btrfs doesbt work on macos
ntfs is a turd but its least bad for cross compatibility

>>109234197
unironically exfat or an nas. filesystems are just an disaster.

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>>109222577
Alright so i'm a Windows pleb currently using W10, but I recently upgraded to an all AMD system and i'm looking to try dual booting Linux. What is the best distro for both gaming and having a retard proof desktop experience?

>>109234243
Bazzite

>>109234243
fedora

>>109234243
where are her pantsu

>>109234188
i'm not sure how to check, i've only done it once to test something else, so i'm not hugely familiar with hostapd

>>109234291
never seen a swimsuit before?

>>109233393
if you want stability use arch, it never breaks unlike your dogshit 'stable' distros

>>109234291
>>109234301
this 20 year old ad popped up in my head, thanks.
https://youtu.be/4gtugR_ii4o

>>109234301
im on /g/ what do you think

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>>109234312
idk. i've been running fedora since their 40th release. i just wanted to make a post about rpm fusion being a bit slow from time to time. it's not a big deal. takes like a day or so for them to catch up. it surprised me tho that the debian guys get normal mesa drivers that aren't split up. didn't those guys used to have special isos with non free firmware. what happened?

>had 3 (three) different HDDs corrupted when used with linux
Quality software

>>109234090

>>109234332
fair

>>109234338
What you are experiencing with Fedora is due to a grey zone with video codecs. They are being extra careful legally because they are a for profit entity. It's not that big of a deal for Debian since they would just get a cease and desist and stop shipping the codec while Fedora (or any of the corpo distros) might face damage claims.

>>109234293
>i'm not sure how to check
First you list the adapter's capabilities, set those in hostapd config and start hostapd only to see it fail. Then one by one you try to turn some of those fancy wireless features off to see which one is it. But it's no luck as the whole combination has to be just right as the chip is buggy as hell.
>i've only done it once to test something else
Right, you were likely running it as Wi-Fi 3 on 2.4GHz lmao

>>109234243
Bazzite

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I started using the Oxygen theme on KDE and the weather widget is just perfect now.

Look at the SVOUL it has compared to the Breeze one.

>>109234798
The icons are much better but the background gradient is retarded and makes text less legible. Text should never be on top of gradients/blurs or transparent elements.

>>109234798
>Oxygen theme
too bad the rest of the theme sucks ass. can't wait for the complete rework of the kde theming. maybe we are going to see some non broken themes for once.

>>109234822
You get used to it but I'm inclined to agree, it could be better. I really hope they take some cues from it with the new theme they're working on.

Some of it looks a bit like a time capsule but there's still potential there somewhere.

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>>109234798
>SVOUL
cope

>>109234842
>You get used to it
I know, I used Windows 7 for a very long time and it did the same thing. That doesn't mean it's not shit. I'd rather have solid backgrounds whenever text is involved, even if it looks less Oxygen/Aero-like.
Still, it's great to finally see someone working on a 1st party skeuomorphic theme.

Wow, had to install Waterfox. Got rid of Brave I have absolutely no idea why they wouldn't just maintain V2 or at least offer an option to install "unsafe" extensions. I can't imagine their browser will survive that considering the user base.

>>109235081
Brave was always a grift.

>>109234355
Power supply issue. Software can't make drives corrupt themselves.

>>109235081
Brave is mainly used because it comes with it's own ad blocker. Most people who use extensions only use an adblocker and nothing else.

>>109234222
exFAT has no journaling or metadata redundancy, which makes it very bad for HDD. It was never made for anything but disposable flash, and even on that it's not especially good.

>>109235293
>Brave is mainly used because it comes with it's own ad blocker
I disabled their adblocker in favor of AdNaueseum.
I used it because it was the least cucked version of Chrome. Chrome is simply a faster browser than Firefox especially in the day and age where every website is so poorly optimized. The entire web is built for chrome in mind. Whatever it doesn't matter anymore; I guess I'm stuck with firefox based browsers for now. I will be praying for Ladybird.

>>109235304
yeah. that is why i just use a simple smb share for accessing files across multiple machines. filesystems are dogshit. ntfs is dogshit between windows and linux and also between linux and macos. there is not a single good file system with good cross comparability in 2026.

>>109235337
>Chrome is simply a faster browser than Firefox
No shit, which is why people use Brave.

>>109235385
Wow thanks for your wonderful insight by repeating what I said. I thought I was on xitter for a moment.

>>109235402
And you think saying "chrome is faster than firefox" is "insight"?

>>109235414
Read what I was replying to you xitter tranny
>Brave is mainly used because it comes with it's own ad blocker
>Brave is mainly used because it comes with it's own ad blocker
>Brave is mainly used because it comes with it's own ad blocker

>>109235426
>Brave is mainly used because it comes with it's own ad blocker
>Brave is used because it's fast
You're right. I forgot two things cannot be true at the same time. Good to have you here larping as a smartass redditor.

>>109235460
You're an illiterate retard. May the good lord have mercy on you.

>>109235364
ntfs-3g is very reliable ime. It's performance limiting but not meaningfully so on HDD. Network filesystems are their own bag of issues. I prefer not to use them unless I'm actually remote.

>>109235476
>uses AdNaueseum
>thinks ladybird will ever be relevant
>calls other people retards
4chan is such a zoo

>>109235477
i tried it a few times and it sucked ass. i'd rather configure a simple smb share on my server than have to use an external hard drive/ share a drive between linux and windows on ntfs. two 2tb nvme ssds. one for linux and one for windows games/ software that don't run on linux. smb share for both.

I use firefox because I like how the fox spins around the globe

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>>109237269

>>109232457
Forget all that and just grab the flatpak. I didn't do any of that shit. Flatpak is made for dummies like me and you.

>>109232470
Never heard of it before. I'll give it a shot.

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What's the best way to change the value of an environment variable and update a shell script to read the new value?
>use case
I want to create a Fzf wrapper, that allows me to change the root directory from where the search starts (defaulting to $PWD). Basically a rustic file picker.

>>109238445
??? you just set the variable in your script to whatever you want before it’s used

>>109238178
Faggot launcher did not work. Game still crashes instantly after launching and mocks me with the Unity Crash Handler splashscreen.

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the X12 tablet guy here >>109231808
has anyone tried using both modern Gnome and Plasma on a single distro? anything should I be worry about? conflicting configs and such

>>109231599
they still didnt fix this?
i had this issue when typing numbers on the password field and i never enabled the virtual keyboard
everytime i typed a number, suggestions would appear below the password field, then if i typed another number one of those suggestions would be selected

>>109238445
>>109238562
Sounds like my question some threads ago.
>have script
>script does X, Y and Z
>occasionally want it to skip Z
>???
I ended up sourcing a file which sets a variable.
>>109235304
How's not having journaling bad for HDDs specifically? IMO it's completely fine for storing anime. (use case was never mentioned)

>>109238983
>How's not having journaling bad for HDDs specifically?
Because they suffer more from synchronous IO than flash.
>IMO it's completely fine for storing anime
If you see no problem with losing directories over a single bit error I guess.

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Systemd you had one job

>>109239404
The d in sysd stands for defect :^)

>>109224396

anon if nasa astronauts drove corvette who drove corvette with paxton blower

>>109225599

no you dont 32-bit is common

>>109231700
Why would you read clickbait headlines?

>>109226926

whats in intel nic boot agent anon

>want to do a last backup (rescuezilla + snapper) of fedora 43 before upgrading to 44
>have a single 1TB folder with photos and videos on my desktop that I don't want to add to the backup
is it possible to do it without offloading to an external drive / subvolume? it's fedora so btrfs

>>109239689
>is it possible to exclude something from a snapshot without using the feature expressly intended to exclude something from a snapshot
yes but it would be a lot less of a pain in the ass if you just use it correctly

>>109239500
Every distro dropped 32bit support, anon.

is gnome as bad as people on the internet make it out to be?
is xfce + xorg still viable if i dont care about any of the new features wayland has?

>>109240093
gnome SUCKS
it works okay but it's a worse macos
>is xfce + xorg still viable
assuming your hardware isn't particularly modern, yea

>>109240093
>is gnome as bad as people on the internet make it out to be?
No. The defaults are shit but you can install 2-3 extensions and it becomes the best DE, right behind KDE.

>>109239404

sudo systemctl status mysql

sudo systemctl status mariadb

sudo systemctl restart mysql

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I got Asus gaming laptop from an relative. Never actually used Garuda but it was installed on it so I give a spin.
>system has ~2 weeks
>i created new admin account
>doesn't seem to be much fiddled with the system itself but I can't be sure
>AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics
>AMD Radeon RX 7600S

I opened brave with roll20 on it it spiked to 90-95% usage of GPU. opened easyeffects - same. I look inside system monitor and it seem to only use APU (phoenix1). CPU seem to be on 2-15%.
Grabbed nvtop and it seems that it's reversed. In nvtop head Im using CPU as crazy but GPU is on 10%

overall, pc want to fly of with its fans as I open just stupid roll20 with easyeffects and discord to play games with friends, and it seems like its sweating on it. I tried using DRI_PRIME=1 on brave but it doesn't help either. radeon seem docile, while it still use shit ton of CPU/APU

now I'm downloading Steam Linux Runtime 4.0
first time I have full AMD laptop/pc, is it normal for linux to have such high usage on just downloading? or is the laptop fucked up, or maybe garuda?

>>109240237
>garuda
Stop using distros made by a single pajeet that literally nobody uses.

>>109240237
just install fedora, configure rpm fusion and install media codecs + freeworld mesa drivers.

>>109240248
I thought that it was somewhat big project. with forum and all. not like nobara that has actually one person doing hobby project.

>>109240237
>now I'm downloading Steam Linux Runtime 4.0
>first time I have full AMD laptop/pc, is it normal for linux to have such high usage on just downloading?
Yes. At least in the context of Steam. It is not just "downloading", it is decompressing a highly compressed zip file at the same time.

>>109240275
>with forum and all
Anyone can make a forum in less than an hour.
>not like nobara that has actually one person doing hobby project.
They're both shit-tier hobby projects. Nobara at least has the advantage of being more popular.

>>109240320
>Nobara at least has the advantage of being more popular
huh, I thought it was other way around
I've read that nobara have some of his tweaks specially for gaming bacause guy that taking care of the OS know how Proton very well

1-2 years back I was using endevorOS, and I didn't want to setup everything once again, and since it has already installed garuda I thought of trying it out.

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>>109240359
Nah, almost nobody uses Garuda. Meanwhile Nobara is popular enough to appear in the top 10 most popular distros on Steam/ProtonDB.

>>109240377
love to see manjaro down there. i hope it goes away.

>>109240442
It's effectively gone considering the project collapsed a few months back as half the people walked out.

>>109240377
well look at that.
good for nobara.
first time hearing about cachyOS but it seems to get proton by storm.

>>109240461
>first time hearing about cachyOS
shocked to hear this since you'd have to live under a rock considering every single popular tech youtuber was constantly making videos on it, while garuda is a niche project you'd only hear about if your only source of linux news are AI generated blog posts

I have xubuntu 24. Is it normal that when I drag a window to the edge of the screen it doesn't resize and snap to the side? I have to manually drag the 1-pixel wide edges to resize it.

>>109240553
>I have to manually drag the 1-pixel wide edges to resize it.
use alt+rmb, it's a standard on every sane DE

>>109240553
I'm on Xubuntu 24 and no that is not normal.

>>109240558
>alt
(or menu)

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>>109240559
well it doesn't work

>>109240670
1. do you have a second monitor on the right?
2. awful theme
3. are you trying to do the windows thing where there's two windows that share a top and a bottom rather than left and right? Because mine only does left and right.

>>109240540
dont really watch techtubers, and garuda was already installed. I heard about garuda years back and assumed that since it it still developed it might be good.
My daily driver for a while was kubuntu lts

>>109240377
is cachy actually good or is it a meme

>>109240833
It's always been good.

>>109240833
"Good" is a subjective qualifier. Clearly most people on Steam consider it better than having to install and set up Arch manually. If it weren't good then it wouldn't be popular.
>inb4 but Windows is popular
Linux is an OS you opt into, and so are Linux distributions. So when a distro is popular it's probably good. I wouldn't call any of the 5%+ usage rate distros in that list memes.

>>109240377
I feel like if SteamOS was included here it would basically make it completely Arch dominate. Also cool that Cachy has just become the new Linux darling.

>>109240938
SteamOS being Arch-based is as irrelevant as ChromeOS being Gentoo-based.

>>109240833
Well it's constantly getting more and more users so?

>>109240833
If you think that distro is a separate operating system you should just keep on using Windows.

>>109240963
>distro is a separate operating system
that is correct

>>109240953
SteamOS use to be Debian-based and no one gave a shit.

>>109240670
Stuff like this are controlled by the window manager, look for some window manager setting related to snapping.
Also
Tip: you can use Alt+LeftMouseButton to move a window from anywhere inside the window, Alt+RightMouseButton works the same for resizing.

>>109240963
Well they kind of are but not really, most Linux distros use the same kernel but with different userspace (with some exceptions like kFreeBSD, netBSD and GNU/Hurd variants of Debian)
But you could make the same argument for windows, for example: Windows 7 and Vista use the same kernel, yet they are regarded as different operating systems. Would you consider 7 and Vista to be distros of Windows?

>>109239297
>Because they suffer more from synchronous IO than flash.
>synchronous IO
How's synchronous IO related to the filesystem? I know stupid question but I thought it was a mount option.
>If you see no problem with losing directories over a single bit error I guess.
Exaggeration. But there is a possibility for a lengthy filesystem recovery on unclean shutdowns.
>>109239500
No it's not.

>>109240981
steamos also used to suck ass in 2013 or when it came out. there is nothing they use from arch that makes it special.

>>109241363
>How's synchronous IO related to the filesystem? I know stupid question but I thought it was a mount option.
You can't have asynchronous IO without journaling or some other metadata safety option. exFAT has none. Unless you want to go back to Win9x style filesystem gradually eating itself with every unclean shutdown behavior.
>Exaggeration
Nope. There is no redundancy. There's nothing to recover. If your HDD throws a sector a directory record is stored on, it's gone. exFAT was never intended to be used on spinning media.

>>109240377
Mint is so fucking based honestly

>>109240713
I don't have a second monitor, it's just a laptop. In the video I tried to have the mousepad window snap to the right and resize to take half the screen, and up for fullscreen, both don't work.
>>109240983
Thanks for the tip

stty olcuc

iwd = based or cringe?

>>109242616
It's wpa_supplicant but modern and works better. You should use it if you can.

>>109241538
>You can't have asynchronous IO without journaling
Still not getting it. Isn't synchronous or asynchronous a mount option?

>>109242690
Why do you think it's a mount option?

>>109240377
Is this self-reported protondb users or stats from Valve?

>>109240451
well i don't want to hear them ever getting mentioned. their whole existence was a disgrace.

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>>109243132
These are stats from all the active users on ProtonDB, so it's skewed towards gamers who are actively engaging with the community. But it's not that far off from Valve's official stats. Pic related. Cachy, Arch, Mint, Bazzite and Ubuntu are still the most popular distros by far.

The reason people prefer ProtonDB statistics is because Valve doesn't group distro versions (Ubuntu is listed 3 times) and half the shit isn't shown (not all Ubuntu versions are shown). So it makes it seem like Ubuntu is completely irrelevant when in reality it's still more popular than Arch. I mean, technically both sources make it seem that way but one at least shows data better and shows more of it.

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>>109243391
>Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 64 bit
>+0.02%

why do online guides typically refer to the flatpak version of protontricks when, on a distro like arch, it's available in the official repos? is there any difference? is it simply the case that other distro repos don't include protontricks but commonly come with flatpak?

>>109243405
Well yea it was only recently released. You can see the loss in 24.04 and Core (snaps), and while you can't see the loss in other versions like 25.10, it's definitely happening. People are just upgrading to 26.04.

>>109243421
Because Flatpak is what you should use unless you're building a custom OS with protontricks baked-in as a core part of the OS.

>>109222577
is there a good guide on setting up a pi 5 with i3 from raspberry pi os lite?
All of the ones I can find seem to omit steps or assume I am using an older pi

>>109243532
it's literally the same process no matter which pi you use

>>109242616
connman+iwd was designed for embedded devices by intel, it's less bloat so it's more based than RedHat's NetworkManager+wpa_supplicant stack

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linux is so fucking fragmented. 13.82% are basically running something unknown and probably complaining and shitting up the bug reports because of it. ruining everything for the rest of us. baka.

>>109244551
This has been irrelevant for over half a decade now. Linux gaming is done inside containers, not on your raw OS. You're either playing games in a Proton or WINE container, or using Steam Linux Runtime which is just a Debian container. Your underlying distro is completely irrelevant aside from providing you drivers and vulkan support, which is why most people prefer the up-to-date arch and fedora distros over the server-focused distros like the entire ubuntu/debian ecosystem.

>>109244551
Freedom isn't free.

>>109244608
wine isn't a container. You can see the actual flatpak share in the table. It always reports as the same OS.

>>109245224
ur mum is free (to use)

>>109245224
>wine isn't a container
By the strict technical definition of what a container is, sure. But by the general idea of what a container is, a wine prefix counts as one and it's effectively a container.
>a wine prefix is a self contained windows-like environment used for running a specific game, similar to what a Flatpak runtime is
>the software running in wine doesn't directly access your OS/libraries, instead it does so through translation
>the software running in a wine prefix thinks it's on a raw Windows OS, just like containerized software does
>each wine prefix usually has it's own wineserver which manages processes in isolation (from the viewpoint of applications running in that prefix)
>your distro and packages installed in it generally have no effect on the software running in a wine prefix and vice-versa. so an app.exe will run the same no matter which distro you're on, as long as your wine prefix is consistent since that is the environment the app is launching in

If you want it to be more accurate we can call it a virtual environment or an isolated app directory, but saying container is much more convenient. Most people don't even think about process/kernel isolation, so to most people the above features are enough to call something a container.

>>109226513
bit late but yeah, it's waybar. don't know if it's gtk scaling issue, but most other apps look normal, and my display settings for both of my monitors are 2560x1440 with 1.0 scaling
>>109226631
doesn't work

>>109245576
None of those are like a container at all unless you're an illiterate who thinks container = chroot
>If you want it to be more accurate we can call it a virtual environment or an isolated app directory
It's neither virtual nor isolated.

Containers are built with cgroups and pivot_root. The kernel creates virtual namespaces for users, processes, network, VFS, ... which exist independent of the host OS. A container principally only talks to the host kernel. No host libraries should be necessary. wine aspires to be a dumb mapping layer for host libraries. It doesn't always manage to be that simple, but that's the goal.

how do i get the pip window in firefox to always stay above other windows on kde?

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>>109245762
Right click on PiP -> Special Window Settings

I need help understanding the difference between a compositor and a WM. Does a compositor control the window decorations and effects such as fading when you close a window whereas a WM controls the placement of windows on screen? Is there any more to it than that?

>>109224260
archfag here. should I switch to a terminal based file explorer? what are the advantages exactly?

>>109245798
compositor is just the graphics, WM is th entire package (placement, tiling, graphics).

>>109245792
is it possible to have it do it for fullscreen applications too?