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Any good CBZ/CBR viewers for stuff like artbooks?
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>>109251561
Never mind. Okular seems to work good.
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why are there so many fedora downloads? shouldn't one be enough?
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>>109251583
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>>109251696
To be honest it's giga confusing and the giant font used with bad layout doesn't make things easier.
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>>109251829
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I installed gnome on arch but I don't like it, how do I uninstall gnome and install another desktop?
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>>109252064
reinstall arch
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>>109252098
knew it
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>>109251696
Because each of them has a different DE by default and they want the OS to be installable offline. Having one download means having a 10GB-15GB iso file.
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All the supply chain attacks are getting to me bros. I just set up comfyui and my butthole clenched when I saw all the dependencies uv installed.
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>>109252278
they should just get rid of every spin and other project and have only one iso. fedora kde should be the only option. it would free up so much time and let them make the best linux distro there is.
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Anybody has first hand info on how's the nvidia proprietary driver situation on debian? I'm reading the documentation but I wanna know how reliable are the nvidia provided drivers through their own repo.
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>>109251696
Go to the misc page and choose the "Everything" iso
This is the net install iso that lets you choose what you want with the added bonus of your system being up to date when you boot it up for the first time. Why they tuck it away with all of the minimal/container isos I don't know. Fedora's site and docs feel like you're supposed to know what you're looking for in advance.
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Lets be honest, Linux isn't user friendly.
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What's the best linux distro if I like messing up with system files but I'm also a retard?
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>>109254115
The procedure for Windows is just as convoluted.
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Did they fix the memory leak on Cinnamon yet?
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>>109255115
Not completely. They've "fixed" it for now via letting you choose the exact amount of RAM that Cinnamon can use which if it ever passes that it'll just quickly reload the DE to refresh it.
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>>109251547
im just happy to see ubuntu share go down
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>>109253059
You would still need a "Fedora Kinoite" and "Fedora KDE Edition" since they're still in the process of moving to atomic by default.
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>>109251547
fedora is pretty alright once you enable third party repositories and replace preinstalled programs with full codec versions. the kernel and mesa updates seem to have a reasonable cadence and you can install single packages from the testing branch if you absolutely need the latest version the kernel or mesa for a fix. the real cockblocker is figuring out how to access these "non cucked" package version from rpm fusion. a normal user would install fedora and then wonder why videos don't play or why drivers are dogshit for nvidia cards
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>>109254115
this is more like an incantation. it's cool
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https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4924#issuecomment-4949367493
Native steam wayland client soon™?
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>>109255662
I think the web engine was the only thing preventing them from using wayland. I wonder if a full wayland steam would also address the issue of steam overlay not working with proton
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>>109255662
i don't care for Gayland but is it true the steam client is 64-bit now? or is that still in beta?
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>>109255705
pretty sure you still need to enable multilib. modern wine can play 32bit games thanks to wow64. maybe the reason they haven't moved to full 64 is because there are 32bit dependencies left. I don't know of any native 32bit linux games on their store that would require them to still ship 32bit libs
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>>109255209
This is just Steam gamers.

>>109255662
What happened to their plan of packaging Steam as some sort of a distro-agnostic flatpak/appimage hybrid?
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>>109251547
CachyOS is interesting but is it trustworthy? Who makes it? At least when it comes to distros like Debian and Fedora, they've been around for ages and are widely trusted.
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just found out about x2go
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>>109255928
It's run by two coder friends and a group of other rotating open source devs. The main two (ptr1337 and vnepogodin) are pretty well known in the Arch kernel optimization community, with Cachy being a project of theirs with all their Arch kernel tweaks added by default that has exploded in popularity.
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>>109255463
>You would still need a "Fedora Kinoite"
nah. i would also get rid of it.
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Any SELinux enjoyers?
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>>109254115
It's not recommended to do this anyway (by the kernel devs themselves!) as it has a higher chance of filesystem corruption, just cut the power, it's safer.
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>>109256205
It's the better version. They need to get rid of KDE Edition and Workstation instead.
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>>109256342
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is that issue with gnome not having server side decorations still a thing?
how does that work?
most software seems to be fine on gnome without them
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>>109256372
>is that issue with gnome not having server side decorations still a thing?
Yes. That's their deliberate decision when it comes to gtk and adwaita apps.
>most software seems to be fine on gnome without them
Well, it's not that big of an issue.
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Debian recently updated a package to make it "free". IP ranges being associated with countries is not "free" information and now you have an inaccurate database from six years ago. The country flags you see in your torrent client or some firewall software depend on this database.

You must hold geoip-database back if you haven't updated yet because the 2019 database is very outdated.
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>>109256238
>it has a higher chance of filesystem corruption, just cut the power, it's safer.
how would this have a higher chance of that?
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>>109257114
is that actually an issue or is that debian being freetards again?
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>>109256238
You're going to have to come up with a source for that one because I don't see how syncing filesystems and remounting read-only before pulling the plug is worse than just pulling the plug.
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>>109257140
If you want inaccurate country flags then go ahead and "upgrade". Apparently IP country information has to be licensed (this will change through the years due to allocations moving to different ISPs and companies).
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>>109251547
installed nix on a old skylake based system

in 2026 is it still worth to slap a mitigations=off or will degrade performance?
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>>109257265
and the answer is yes
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/18678680
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/18678582
100 points on a CPU burst bench is quite good, real world sys call heavy stuff should be much better
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>>109256221
Never had an selinux related issue in my life.
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I read on another post that one of the reason people don't like Ubuntu is that it has telemetry (spyware), what other distros fits that criteria?
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up 1 week, 1 day, 1 hour, 9 minutes

love how stable fedora is
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>>109255185
I remember that bug from 8 years ago
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>>109257381
Deepin
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Which SSD should i get for Linux im upgrading
is NV3 enough
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>>109257455
An NV3 is more then fine for Linux. Hell it's more then fine for Windows.
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I had an old windows laptop that was dying so I installed Ubuntu and got years more of life out of it. I have a windows 11 laptop now that I got for free. I want to install Debian onto it to dualboot. My understanding is, I should first shrink windows partition, then potentially make another partition for all of my files, and then i guess just use rufus or whatever else and flash it to a usb and follow the installer? Am I missing any important steps here?
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>>109257493
Oh yeah forgot to mention. Does it help with Shaders and Compilers like for games and etc. Or do i just install Linux on my new Mobo?
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>>109257537
An NVMe naturally helps with the speed of that.
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any distro that
>doesn't force a DE on you
>uses Xorg
>has first-class citizen support for gay shit like steam
>doesn't need babysitting and is easy to bring up to speed even if you haven't updated in years
? mint almost ticks all the boxes but all their installers include some DE for niggers and i end up having to remove half of the shit they put in, which inevitably breaks something. last time i installed it 3 years ago, and removing shit ended up breaking all forms of suspension/hibernation. not to mention that when you try to upgrade it just tries to install all that fucking garbage back, which is annoying to say the least
from what i remember guix requires way too much fucking around with nonfree stuff, especially on newer hardware, nixos and debian have been taken over by tranny faggots, ubuntu is corporate shitware as is fedora, not to mention they use wayland. arch requires daily updates and half of the shit is delegated to AUR, which i don't like. what else is there, gentoo?
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In two years, i386/32-bit operating systems will be unsupported. I don't know any legit distros that will support it still with security fixes. What will you do with your old netbook?
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>>109257670
Nobody makes OSs for schizos. You'll have to learn to change your perspective on things.
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>>109257670
Debian or Devuan netinstall? A screen similar to this will show up in installation.
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>>109257670
>nixos and debian have been taken over by tranny faggots
why didn't you save them with your straight white male contributions
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>working for trannies
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Thunar has thumbnails but the Firefox file picker doesn't
I've been using Linux for like 1 and a half years and I still have no idea how to get the thumbnails in the file picker
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>>109257670
Fedora doesn't necessarily use Wayland, you are just ignorant and it's useless to give out any advice to you.
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I've been thinking of going back to Cachy.
Am I to understand that cachy repo packages are at least somewhat safe from this nonsense the AUR went through last month?
I don't need the AUR as long as I can trust the cachy repos, but that's the thing.
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>>109257670
Debian checks all of those boxes. Idk why would you want that though, Gentoo is simply superior even if the process of updating can be a bit complex
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>>109257763
why is the AUR so difficult for you morons to understand ARCH USER REPOSITORY
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>>109257749
i mean they took your place as maintainers of every software ever because you (the /g/ schizo template character that complains about this) didn't do it
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>>109257778
Ikr, people be like
>download file from the internet
>from a random person with no verification or validation or security audit of any kind
>file executes stuff on your computer
>be surprised
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>>109257778
>dude bro arch is so fucking great
>it can run any software via the aur
>you don't have to use flatpaks or anything
>it just works and has everything you would ever want
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>>109257763
Arch packages are safe. AUR is basically Google/Piratebay.
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>>109257795
>>109257800
are you anti arch bots or what, the AUR works as intended, if you spend 2 seconds reading the PKGBUILD diff that your AUR wrapper puts in your face every update you will have no issues. the cachyos repositories are obviously also fine. I do not understand why you have to spread this nonsense fear mongering leading morons to be scared of nothing
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>>109257778
I've been using this shit for years and years.
The AUR was practically a selling point for it for the longest fucking time. I remember countless arguments about how openSUSE or Fedora just didn't measure up.
It's the first time I've seen so many people just turn around and say "oh wait, you were using the AUR?" like you're actively installing Arch and completely ignoring one of the three main reasons to use it.
It was never "secure", but even the fucking arch news page is giving you instructions on how to deal with problems by using the AUR at this point. It's been recommended for a long time to just grab the AUR package for this, that and the other rather than "bother with building shit".
CachyOS may have changed things a little by providing its own sort of "ChaoticAUR" where people might feel less inclined to actually use the AUR, and clearly it wasn't recommended to use on distros based on Arch (specially on Manjaro, for the longest time), but it's just such a weird fucking thing to pretend like most Arch users are living happily without ever using the AUR and acting like it was always ridden with problems and never recommended or even fucking bragged about.
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>>109257814
not a bot. just an observation. i didn't want to write >>109257828
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>>109257814
What are you talking about? I'm pro Arch, but anti idiot. The AUR is fine if you know what you're doing. The problem is that people do not understand that it's not an official repositiory. People assume it "just works".
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>>109257836
(cont)

I actually fully support the kind of economy where people distribute programs in a decentralized manner. I never really liked centralized repos anyway, they're kind of a necessary evil. But you have to understand, that if you allow the possibility of malware on your computer, then there will be malware on your computer. It's like a sort of small personal responsibility to actually pay a little bit of attention. Else why not buy a Mac or something and have Steve Jobs decide everything for you?
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>>109257836
>Newbie retards installing CachyOS don't understand what yay is
As much as I want people to at least TRY to RTFM, I'm fully aware that lacking a generic name like software-installer means the flood of new users are going to poke around terminal commands and just see different names for things without understanding the inner workings. That's fine, that's expected, but 'fuck around and find out' is an effective teaching moment.

>So this thing called pacman installs software
>And these other things called yay and pip install software too
>Wow linux developers are so retarded why are there multiple installers?
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Will it work? So far I have the batteries and the charge controller and panels.

Don't judge me. You were never tested as I was.
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>>109257873
a package maintainer for an official repo could easily also push a malicious update, or a malicious git commit could get through. the AUR is no more trustworthy than anything else, at least with the AUR you can verify every update if someone say hijacked an old orphaned package and pushed malicious changes
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>>109257916
>a package maintainer for an official repo could easily also push a malicious update, or a malicious git commit could get through.
This situation is fundamentally different because then it would be on everyone's computer.
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Is anyone here an XDG portals expert? Firefox under Sway (Wayland) on Linux doesn't launch a "dark mode" file chooser, and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot where things are going awry. I can disable the portals to have it use some sort of built-in GTK-like variant, but that version of the file chooser is buggy. It does appear in dark mode though, which makes me suspect an XDG portal issue.
Changing Firefox between an explicit dark and a "system" theme has no effect. Neither does launching it with GTK_THEME=Adwaita-dark or Adwaita:dark. Firefox itself is confirmed to be running in a wayland session. Firefox has the attached portal config values (changing them all from 2 to 1 has no effect).
I'm not using a desktop environment. The portals are installed (the main package, as well as the -gtk, -gnome, and -wlr backends) and the services are running. The "prefer-dark" and "Adwaita-dark" gsettings are set (for both GTK3 and 4, I believe). WAYLAND_DISPLAY and XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway are being set into the systemd and dbus environments at session start. The `gtk` value has been set for the default and fallback handlers in a ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal/portals.conf file.
Clearly something is breaking or blocked somewhere, but I am not sure how to diagnose or interrogate issues in this stack.
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>>109257127
Sysrq can commit corrupt data if RAM isn't working properly. Cutting power makes sure that never gets to the filesystem
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>>109257155
This is the one I was thinking of: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20190903160840.56652-1-kilobyte@angband.pl/T/
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Installing Debian I'm so excited. I got a free laptop but it had windows11 installed to it. Fucking HATE windows 11 with a passion. I'm so happy to be getting free from it. I did leave windows with a 100gb partition but I don't really see myself ever using it, just leaving it just in case.
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>>109257670
Ignore my earlier posts; I hadn't read the whole question.
Arch doesn't need daily updates. That's a lie. I update after weeks, sometimes even months. If you're paranoid about breaking shit just run timeshift before Syuing. Fair enough on the AUR. Just don't install shit indiscriminately.
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>>109251547
Is openSUSE really that dead?
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>>109258137
It's not dead at all and very in-use in the European enterprise world but as a home user desktop OS it's not very popular at all. Basically a case of "why use openSUSE when you can just use Fedora?"
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If you liked sxiv but stopped using it since it's unmaintained, someone forked it.
https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/nsxiv
As far as I can see it works perfectly.
Fuck feh. Biggest piece of shit I've had to work with in a while.
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>>109252064
Install other DE
Uninstall Gnome DE.
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Thoughts on https://www.fogpanther.com/ ?
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>gnome
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>>109258604
nvm gtk but same shit
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>>109258555
>https://www.fogpanther.com/
buy an ad, faggot
in the age of ai-assisted coding, you think your photoshop knockoff that only has like 1% of the features deserves $69? fuck you, you dumb nigger. adobe is a jeet company that deserves nothing, and somehow you managed to become beneath them
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>>109258671
>post niche software in a FRIENDLY Linux thread
This is why Linux desktop marketshare is still under 5%.
You're a complete net negative. Fuck yourself you autistic turbofaggot.
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>>109258719
good
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>>109258719
nice software faggot
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>>109258740
speaks volumes that people would rather use proprietary shit that costs money versus your freetard trash.
>Why GIMP is So FrustratingUsers in design forums often point out the same major pain points:Abysmal UX: Everything is quirky, from the scattered color wheels to getting "trapped" in scaling or selection states with no easy escape.No Native "Save": To save a simple JPG or PNG, you are forced to go through an "Export" menu because "Save" is reserved only for its native XCF files.Missing Features: There is still no true native CMYK support, which is a dealbreaker for most print professionals.Better Free & Paid AlternativesIf you are tired of fighting the software, these highly regarded alternatives offer a much smoother experience:Photopea: A free, web-based alternative that essentially mirrors Photoshop's interface and supports native PSD files without needing a download.Affinity Photo: A highly popular, affordable one-time-purchase option (frequently on sale) that acts as a true professional-grade Photoshop replacement.Pixelmator Pro:
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KDE bros?????
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>>109258795
should've installed Cosmic DE, Budgie or Deepin bruv
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>>109258830
honestly i find this bug just funny. i think i will not report that one.
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>>109258783
>wordswordswords
If your time is so valuable you need proprietary software, you can use Adobe on Windows. There is zero use case for your dogshit.
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>>109258879
>Linux is for people who don't value their time and enjoy making their lives harder.
You should quit your day job to become a salesmen. You'd be great at it.
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>sell
>linux
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I just added 1 TB to my laptop by repurposing a Windows NVME from a previous laptop.
Pretty cool, btrfs.
# wipefs -a <dev>
# sgdisk --zap-all <dev>
# partprobe <dev>
# btrfs device add <dev>
# btrfs balance start -mconvert=raid1 /
# df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme1n1p2 1.9T 638G 1.3T 34% /
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>>109256238
>>109258022
>Cachy team is spreading misinformation
Interesting
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>>109258719
>This is why Linux desktop marketshare is still under 5%
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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>>109258795
use case for this?
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>>109259106
i can either fully delete it or move it to the trashcan while holding shift
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>>109258795
You're It
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>>109258167
Fedora isn't comparable to Tumbleweed at all.
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What's the best LLM for linux troubleshooting?
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>>109259450
gemini
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>>109259450
don't rely on a single one, cross-reference between multiple
and ask ITT too man
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>>109259581
>and ask ITT too man
thanks but it's mostly for simple questions. When I have a serious issue I definitely ask here.
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I finished installing Debian it's so cool. I wish I were at home messing around with my new OS instead of working
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>>109260614
Yeah people don't really talk about it but Debian is kino and comfy.
I learned that after installing it on an old computer I brought from an office nearby.
It was pleasantly surprising
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>>109255606
does it still have an issue with rpm fusion updates lagging behind the official repos?
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>>109260809
by like a day or so.
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>>109260809
>still
Just wait for it to sync up once and it's never a problem again. It only happens maybe a couple weeks a year.
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im having major vm gpu passthru problems
first my setup is a hp pavilion with a gtx 1650 and an i7 10th gen with 16gb runing what was endeavouros but somehow changed to arch
i have a seperate systemd boot entry where i try to pass the gpu to vfio driver and i build initrd with vfio and nvidia-blacklist modprobe included using dracut plus some early forced vfio drivers and i915 as per archwiki instructions
now for the major problems that i cannot explain cause they happen even when i changed nothing
first when i boot the vfio systemdboot entry theres a chance it freezes on the tty and i have to force reset, wiki mentiones this and i did place the i915 driver before the vfio ones when i build the initrd
the only solution i found was to just rebuild the initrd again even though i didnt upgrade my system
next is when i reach the plasma login screen, when i sign in it hangs there but wont if i first switch ttys, fucking explain this
then when i start libvirtmanager it sometimes wont even start the vm and im forced to force shutdown pc
after i manage to get inside win10 vm for some reason the libvirt manager poweroff functions stoped working even if i had all the virtio drivers installed, it used to fucking work whyyy
and finaly when i shudown the vm it sometimes (allot) wont properly shutoff and in a couple of minutes freezes my pc so i force shutdown
anons what tf do i do, tried my help with claude and stuff but its solutions didnt help much
it says my nvidia driver is still being loaded despite me puting modprobe in initrd and kernel cmd plus some install bin/false claude recommended
at this point its basically better to just dual boot but i want to fix this shit
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>>109260828
>>109261062
the only thing i dont like about fedora is that it has swap on zram by default
i prefer zswap which is the default on arch
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>>109261563
buy an ad zswap guy
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any way to change the default dragndrop behavior of thunar to copy instead of move?
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>>109262539
You can right click drag instead of left click to get a different context menu that asks if you want to copy/move/link the file you're dropping, or you can hold Ctrl when you drop to copy a file instead of move it.
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is there any list or wiki of tweaks/tools/hacks/plugins for KDE that garuda or nobara has used?
I installed distro with bare KDE and I remember they had some good QOL tweaks. For dolphin for example. I wanted to install them without needing to install garuda.

alternatively maybe some other github or wiki list of good plugins for kde
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>>109251561
I use mcomix. It's quite good.
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>>109261563
buy an ad zswap guy
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>>109251547
This is the most bizarre problem I ever had on linux. So I have an ISO keyboard (I'm a spic), and I normally put the following line in my startup script when starting my X session
setxkbmap -layout latam -option "caps:ctrl_shifted_capslock" &

This works fine, but I wanted something different so I created a file named "00-keyboard.conf" in my xorg.conf.d directory with these contents:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "system-keyboard"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
Option "XkbLayout" "latam"
Option "XkbOptions" "caps:ctrl_shifted_capslock"
EndSection


Once again, this worked just fine, but I reverted back to my original setup. I then noticed some of my keys behaved weird. My keyboard has a Fn key (it's a regular keyboard, not a laptop's), and for some reason some keys run their special function without the Fn key being pressed, and are even recognized differently in XEV, picrel (this one should appear as simply "F9" rather than "XF86Search"). F1 and F9-12 have this issue, but weirdly enough the rest of the keys with special functionality behave and are recognized as normal (Esc, Insert, Home, etc).

I swear I didn't have this issue before, and the only tinkering I've done recently is the one I mentioned in the beginning of this post, did I mess up something? this doesn't make any sense to me. I'm runnning artix (dinit), x11, dwm. I also confirmed this happens in the tty as well, so it's not relegated to the X session I think.
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is cosmic good yet?
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>>109264356
You should use hwdb rules instead. This way your stuff is permanent. Arch wiki had a link but I seem to have lost it. I I needed to switch esc and capslock, but other methods would not work if something reads your device directly (eg. gamescope doesn't give a shit about your xmodmap or any other rules).
# identify your device event
sudo libinput list-devices
# find out keycodes for event 5 (in this example that's my keyboard)
evtest /dev/input/event5
# find out modalias, eg. the long string: input:b0003v17EFp6099*
cat /sys/class/input/event5/device/modalias
# create a new hwdb rule
sudo nano /etc/udev/hwdb.d/90-keyboard-remap.hwdb
----
#
# match the one space identation exactly.
#
# map capslock -> esc
# map esc -> capslock
#
evdev:input:b0003v17EFp6099*
KEYBOARD_KEY_70039=esc
KEYBOARD_KEY_70029=capslock
----
# rebuild hardware database index
sudo systemd-hwdb update
sudo udevadm trigger /sys/class/input/event5

This way it's always there.
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>>109264356
I own a chinese keyboard with horrible firmware that only has 2 modes Windows and non-windows, but the unfortunate thing is that non-windows mode just means macOS mode, and so when under linux it would check the box non-windows and behave like a macOS keyboard which included what you're describing about special Fn keys.
If that seems to you it could lead to somewhere look around the internet and see if others with your same keyboard have found similar issues.
In my case (Varmilo VA88M) the solution was using a horrible chinese software provided by the keyboard makers in windows to flash the Windows only version of the firmware, so it wouldn't get detected as an apple keyboard when using it under linux.
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>>109257140
It's an issue if you want a truly free system and i'm glad Debian cares.
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>>109265199
I don't know what the actual issue here is supposed to be and I don't care enough to look it up.
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>>109265435
> i have no opinion on the matter, one way or another, but feel compelled to post a reply
I see.
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>>109261563
Sell me Zswap. Am I supposed to have a plain old swap partition/file along with it or what? Is there any math in configuring Zswap or the ideal back end swap file/partition size?
Currently using zram of the same size as my entire RAM.
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>>109251547
does this carry any risk? I just bought it used on ebay for a good deal and don't want to fry it.
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>>109251561
I selfhost komga in truenas. links in with tachiyomi and web page for desktop use.
>>109251696
if you wanted to make it brainlet friendly then it should be:
>rename workstation to GNOME
>put KDE and GNOME versions side by side, with brief explanation of the major philosophical differences between the DEs
>new heading for immutable
>brief explanation of immutable distros
>kinoite and silverblue side by side, explaining which one is KDE and which is GNOME.
>all the weird ones they offer in a big list underneath
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>>109265493
zswap is usually better if you need nonvolatile backed swap (>2x physical memory) because it adds a 3rd tier to the Linux VM system for compressed memory. It does require an actual swap device. If you barely touch swap like the vast majority of desktop users, zram is sufficient.
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>>109265493
Consider swapping to zswap when they implement support for not having a swap file, it's coming at some point.
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Is the new ntfs driver good?
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>>109267096
which one is that
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how do you even get out of downgrading glibc? I did it for fun and ended up reinstalling gentoo because it became such a clusterfuck
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>>109252064

you do not uninstall gnome but install another desktop
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>>109254268

debian might have the documentation
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>>109257455

sata ssd is easy
i could not get wd green to boot linux do not remember flavour likely a bios setting
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I have a windows installation encrypted with bitLocker which is automatically decrypted on boot using the key stored in the TPM. If I encrypt my linux install and try to use the TPM to store and decrypt in the same fashion, can both systems coexist peacefully? I’m guessing no but I’m having trouble finding a concrete answer.
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>>109267721
>I have a windows installation
Stopped reading there
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>>109267096
wait 5 years and ask again
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>>109267372
By using a container if you need an older version if you're trying to run a program, or have filesystem snapshots if you're trying to back out an upgrade that turned out to be bad. I think Gentoo has a universal git thing you can pull the old version from.
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Greetings Linuxfags, hey I have a question, is it possible to run Photoshop on Linux the same way on Windows? And by that I mean is it possible to run Photoshop without crashing or being buggy?
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I have never used linux before, why do I have the sudden urge to use RHEL? What autism did you fucks implant in me.
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>>109268332
It's kind of shit as a desktop. Fedora is the same thing but less work. Unless you need noVidio support maybe, but at that point Arch would unironically be less work.

If you want to make a mail server or something it's great.
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so you know how you can navigate an image with Ctrl+Arrow keys with feh? How do I change the way it scrolls? Its incredibly choppy and I wish for it to scroll more than it does
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>>109268363
So for the homelab it's good, but on my thinkpad use fedora. Thank ya anon.
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>>109258555
This IS gpl3 licensed right?
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>>109258795
This is ww2 all over again.
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>>109259450
The various linux related forums across the web. Faggot.
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I just started using linux for a daily driver and I can't imagine using it without AI to walk me through stuff. Was there a manual you learned from or just google?
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>>109268586
You're here.
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>>109268586
You would ask questions on stackexchange and hope they didn't delete them for being dupes even though they're not. Or I guess before that you'd ask questions on usenet and Scott McNealy would personally stop to call you a faggot for using the wrong editor.

Reading the manual helps too ofc.
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>>109268586
literally gentoo and arch wiki
also irc
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>>109268586
>Was there a manual
It was the fucking manual. And you had to read it.
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>>109266032
>>109266988
Should've mentioned the use case too. Thing is I use Gentoo on a 32 thread 64GB RAM setup and sometimes, just sometimes, compiling some software hogs slightly too much RAM so I needed some sort of swap. (weirdly 16 threads and 32GB survived without swap)
I have no need for swap file or partition as I never hibernate the system. That's the only use case for swap file/partition, right?
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>>109269037
If zram is all you need it's all you need.
>weirdly 16 threads and 32GB survived without swap
4GB per hardware thread has been a good rule of thumb for me for a while now.
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>>109268586
Youtube tutorials can be good if the creator is good. I learned a lot when I was just starting through Learn Linux TV. Stay a million miles away from Christ Titus.
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is there any way to check if a fedora copr repo plans to fuck my computer? like what you can do in the aur, checking something like the pkgbuild or whatever is the equivalent here
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>>109251547
Trying to find excuses to not switch back to Linux.
Don't like Windows much besides the non-hassle of vidya.
Don't even use Adobe anymore, use Photopea over GIMP
Not like I'm a novice either. I just don't like doing full OS switches when I don't have to.
GDID is fucking with me though even though I'm a law abiding nigger, why let Microsoft's jeet fingers finger you
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>>109269255
You can extract the SRPM and verify the source against whatever git it came from and look at the patchset. It's a little more complicated than ebuilds. There are only a handful of general interest repos and most of them have been maintained by the same people for years.
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can someone recommend very small linux distro like antix but can also play old games easily for these specs
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>>109269366
Literally just Arch with XFCE or KDE should work fine.
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>>109268586
arch wiki and asking here taught me enough to be able to troubleshoot most issues
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>>109269366
You certainly don't need antix with a cpu like that.
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>>109269373
will it crash while gaming on 6gb of ram? it happens in antix frequently especially when i use steam which hovers 800mb on idle in small picture mode

>>109269387
sorry what are you saying?
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>>109269402
Depends on the game size, my old T440p used maybe 400mb of RAM idle, on my i5-4200 you could probably run STS just fine on a 6100u
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>>109269402
Try not disabling swap. This isn't Windows. The VM works different.
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>>109269402
KDE can even run on 4GB and still let you play light games with Steam in background. You're probably getting crashes because you disabled swap.
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is gnome fine for gaming on gnu linux?
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>>109254115
how do you safely reboot a frozen windows system?
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>>109254316
that's not the same thing. one of the sysrq keys can deloberately trigger a kernel panic for similar purposes, but REISUB is not that
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>>109270230
you don't game in your DE
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>>109270230
Yes. Especially if you don't need hdr, because that shit is still experimental.
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>>109269366
Antix is a stupid meme. Just install a normal distro like fedora, distro itself doesn't matter that much. Fedora also comes with zram, which might help.
Use lxqt, it's the most lightweight DE
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>>109269366
Batocera
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>>109264469
No.
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>>109257455
this is a 14 year old girl
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>>109270598
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Ubuntu Server, Debian or something else?

I need a stable low resource usage distro, without going too autistic with tinkering.
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>>109270950
alpine
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>>109251547
>Flatpak
Flatpak has an operating system?
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>>109251829
>implying a chud would date a jew, black, or tranny
Well its nice that you guys are finally admitting that you're the racists and the intolerant ones for a change.
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Is there a way to rename windows in sway? I tried title <new title name here> and it asked me to install xtitle.
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>>109270598
That's a man.
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>>109270964
Flatpak Runtime is an operating system, basically.
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I'm having an issue with my arch linux laptop. When im on battery power and listening to music in the background the audio starts crakling. I think it has something to do with power-profiles-daemon, but I'm not sure.
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>>109269718
>because you disabled swap.
yeah i did that
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>>109251547
Some mad lads been working on reviving Qt support in Firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2054387

I really hope the few Red Hat employees that work on Firefox don't block this. It'd be great to ditch GTK.
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>>109271111
Yeah set up systemd-oomd and have it configured to start reaping at 90%, then add...I'm going to say zswap because you probably want 16GB total.
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>>109271111
If you run out of RAM then the OS has 2 options. Either totally freeze, or kill a random process with something like earlyoom or systemd-oomd (which would be a "crash").

Just set up a 4GB swap file and make your oom daemon kill your less relevant processes first (like the steam client).
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>>109271196
Qtroons deserve that garbage browser.
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>>109271371
Chromium browsers already have Qt support. It's just Firefox's architecture is too shit to support multiple GUI toolkits in a scalable way which might be why this won't go anywhere and they'll stick to forcing GTK4 down people's throats at some point instead.
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>firefox just sucks because...it does!
>won't someone think of the ad revenue
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>>109271415
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>>109271463
Just use profile sync daemon like a normal person.
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>>109271468
>>109271463
Just don't be a nigger and use Korean drives instead of Chink ones.

It should come as no surprise that a browser is writing cache and history to disk.
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>>109271479
There's no reason to burn your drive on Linux no matter whether it's Korean or Chinese because PSD exists.
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Upgrades (available for reinstall, available for upgrade)
fastfetch.x86_64 2.66.0-1.fc44 updates

idk man. i think this might break my system.
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How do I fix the inconsistent clipboard issues on linux? I've literally always had this problem
windows
>screenshot part of the screen (win + shift + s)
>open paint, censor certain things
>select rectangle on paint, ctrl + c
>paste on steam chat
>pastes the censored
linux
>screenshot part of the screen with spectacle
>open kolourpaint, censor certain things
>select rectangle on kolourpaint, ctrl + c/right-click copy
>paste on steam chat
>pastes the original crop
I always need to watch out with shit like this, it sucks and happens for text as well
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>>109271526
>Loses all your data in a power outage
>Bbbutt you should have a UPS
Be realistic. Just buy good quality drives that don't kill themselves just because of a couple of writes to a SQlite database.
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>>109271468
>>109271479
Here we go. You people are mentally ill. I'm going to use a browser that doesn't require babysitting.
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>>109270972
>you guys
who?
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>>109271463
>>109271526
Back in reality this is what happens when you run Firefox 24/7. I have a SATA drive in another machine that's been doing the same for 5 years and it's all of about 20% used.
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>>109271596
That's what Sync is for, but really just stop feeding your mental illness and use the computer normally.
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>>109272056
It's not going to sync if your power cuts out though, is it?
Maybe if it's immediately syncing every single write to disk but at that point why bother with your hack at all?
Just don't buy Chink drives and it'll run forever anyway.
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>>109271586
Stop using vim, that's the first solution to most of your problems but I don't think you were using vim.
Use xclip and go case by case basis, enable middle click paste everywhere. Xclip is for xorg. I don't know about wayland.

There are still moments when you paste the wrong buffer accidentally and your work chat will see your LLM erotic roleplaying prompt but let's hope this doesn't happen to you.
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>>109272243
If power cuts you have no guarantees about data in flight no matter where it's going.
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YOTLD
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>>109272344
Which is why you write it to fucking disk in an atomic operation rather than a fucking RAM disk.
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I've been running cachyos for 2 months now as my daily driver playing a variety of games.
Literally nothing has gone wrong in the last month. It's been great.
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>>109271596
What the fuck are you doing with your browser where you write new data that you can't afford to lose every microsecond? I literally can't even imagine a scenario where my browser profile getting rolled back even a couple of days would cause me much grief.

>>109272020
67 TB of writes in 31000 hours is not even that much.
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>>109273001
Saved passwords? Cookies? History? Bookmarks?
None of that you want to lose even for a millisecond.
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>>109273136
Nigger all that gets uploaded to Sync within a minute. If you just made an account literally 45 seconds ago there can't be anything irrecoverable on it.
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>>109273136
Idk man, I don't save new passwords to my browser every few seconds. I can't relate.
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>>109270238

see power management options set power button to shutdown it will go down
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>>109270950
CentOS.
>>109269193
>If zram is all you need it's all you need
But from purely autistic perspective: isn't zswap *better*? Assumed I don't mind having a swap file/partition along with zswap.
>4GB per hardware thread has been a good rule of thumb for me for a while now.
What use case would require that much?
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>>109273227
>isn't zswap *better*?
If you don't plan to use a physical swap device they're the same. Except one arbitrarily requires you to allocate some swap space.
>What use case would require that much?
rustc, cjxl, various other media production workloads
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>>109251547
>Mint is most consistently popular for 7 years
Why?
t. never used linux before
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>>109273524
it's ubuntu that doesn't suck
no snaps
no "experimental" features from ubuntu
easy to install media codecs
easy to install nvidia drivers
easy to install full stop
secure boot support
normal desktop
can use ppas to install latest mesa
i ran it when i had an nvidia gpu and only one monitor. now i run fedora kde with an amd gpu. hope they get rid of cinnamon and gtk and switch to kde tho.
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>>109261563
If you install Arch with archinstall, I'm pretty sure it also uses zram, at least it used to in the past. You only get zswap by default if you don't use archinstall.
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>>109273524
it literally just werks
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>>109273524
>>109273551
+ they have been consistent at what they are doing. nothing has basically changed.
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>>109273524
Ubuntu was the only functional, normie-friendly distro in the previous 2 decades. But the problem is it used GNOME (and briefly Unity) so the UI was unfamiliar to people coming to Linux from Windows. Mint took Ubuntu as a base and created the Cinnamon DE, which kind of felt like XP/7.
So Mint was THE distro to recommend to former Windows users. The UI was familiar and it was binary compatible with the most popular Linux distro in the world (Ubuntu LTS).

Are you a total boomer and you don't care about the UI being shit and the lack of some modern features? Then Mint is just fine.
Are you a baby duck user who got mad at Windows for moving the position of the start menu button? Then Mint is great since Cinnamon doesn't make drastic changes over time.
Are you pissed at Microsoft and want to switch to Linux, but you don't want immediate confusion when it comes to the UI? Then Mint is an okay option.

It's just a decent distro. Not the best in any way outside of consistency, but sometimes that's what matters the most and it's good enough for people to either stick with it or at least give it a shot as their first distro.
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>>109273586
I'm pretty sure zswap advocacy is just Arch boomers trying to retroactively justify telling everyone to have a swap partition 10 years after it stopped making sense. It's great if you actually need it, but it's very niche and mostly legacy enterprise interest.
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>>109273868
I don't see any specific reason to avoid having a swap partition/file outside of security, but you can encrypt it if that's important.
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>>109273892
If they're otherwise equal that's a sufficient reason by itself.
>is this a potential information leak? yes
>can this accidentally burn metered io? yes
>is it different from the other one for our use case? no
Ok, we won't use that then.
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Is there any difference installing Linux on mobo or SSD?
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>>109274270
How do you install Linux on mobo?
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>>109274303
he probably means nvme vs sata
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>>109274307
C: driver please friend
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>>109274310
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Should I ditch nobara for cachy? It’s been pretty good to me so far.
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Why does watching youtube videos use so much of the CPU? I have a 5800X3D and it can use like 5% of the CPU. Shouldn't it be using the GPU as hardware acceleration and hardware deciding is enabled? I have the same issue on Firefox and Brave.

Running videos in MPV uses the same amount of CPU if hardware decoding isn't enabled but if it then basically nothing on the CPU.
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>>109251547
Im looking for a file system that delivers easy snapshot functionalities and im stuck between btrfs and zfs, on one hand i really like the features of zfs but i think it would be overkill for a desktop use case, wdythink ?
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>>109275070
Yeah there's no reason to use zfs on a basic single drive or RAID01. It's just more work. Both in terms of the tooling and which kernels you can use. If you're not worried about write order hazards in your situation you could even have xfs and 'snapshot' by cp -a
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>>109275132
xfs doesnt allow reformatting from what ive heard right ?
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>>109275070
btrfs on desktop
zfs on server
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>>109275162
It doesn't allow shrinking, nor does zfs.
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>>109270598
zamn
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nixOS is looking really nice, at least in concept, anybody here that has some experience with it and do you recommend it?
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>>109271415
is there a fork of firefox that removes all the bloat? i open a single tab of youtube and my ram usage goes around 1.9gb
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>>109258795
it's a feature
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>>109251547
Walk me through this.

Say I want to switch to Linux, lets say I pick Kubuntu because I like how KDE looks, and I need stability of Ubuntu since my computer makes money.

Say I want to play CS2 or WatchDogs2. Give me a list of steps to where I just click on the game icon and game starts. Assume I just installed my OS/browser/nvidia studio drivers.
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On the off chance anyone is having the same bizarre issue installing CSP 5.0 as me and is searching the archives for help, here's what worked for me

The only thing way I could find to get around the webview2 logins freezing up was to run the CSPenguin installer from github. This worked fine on my desktop, but failed on my laptop. Everytime it tried launching the csp installer exe (step 5 I think) it would launch a bugged window 1 pixel wide that couldn't be interacted with. After screwing around with it and trying every other method under the sun, it seems it was due to my laptop having a 1920x1200 display.. Setting the display to 1080p allowed me to complete the installation. It also worked fine on my 4k desktop monitor, so I wonder if its an aspect ratio issue. In either case I was able to change back to the native resolution and run the actual program just fine, so it seems to only be the installer that has this issue.
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I don't care about snapshots. I have an old laptop with an hdd. Which filesystem should I use for speed?
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>>109275767
I think it removes more of the ads than any reasonable alternative.
>muh goytube
>muh extreme poverty
sucks to suck
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>>109271887
You and your guys
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>>109274879
hardware video decoding stopped working on firefox for me some time ago
i dont even know why
firefox is supposed to use vaapi for decoding but it doesnt work anymore
you can check check if hardware decoding is working with amdgpu_top if you are on arch
on chromioum based browsers i never got it to work
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>>109275828
Buy another computer and figure your shit out.
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>>109275828
dual boot or get another pc or notebook and test it out. that switch is not going to be painless or fast.
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>>109275767
You could try freetube
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>>109275828
i'd not recommend full on switching to linux since there's still games that are outright blocked on linux. although i think cs2 has native support for linux, being a valve game.

look into dual booting.
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>>109275828
>install ubuntu
>install steamos or Steam+Linux or w/e the Linux client for steam is
>launch steam
>download CS2
>play game
I'm unsure if WatchDogs2 can even run on Linux but if it doesn't you can easily just do this:
>Assume you have ubuntu installed
>download wine
>install windows version of Steam
>launch steam
>download WatchDogs2
>probably troubleshoot a million things only to find out you don't have dxvk
>download dxvk
>everything potentially magically works
>more likely you're just going to troubleshoot less
And a word of advice, Linux is still in the stage where if you don't treat it like "edu-tainment" or a "learning adventure" you are going to have a very, very, very, very rough and frustrating time. I'd strongly suggest you install a VM and tinker with it that way if your computer can handle it, if it can't, see what the minimum requirements are for Kubuntu are and buy a dirty cheap pc to try it on before switching over full time, that way if things get frustrating you can just go back to windows and do the shit you need to do while learning Linux.
Who knows, maybe you'll hate it and go back to windows, maybe you'll love it and daily drive it, just don't expect it to be as friendly or as easy to learn as Apple but if know how a computer runs (as in paths, file structure, registries, permissions, and such) you'll have a far more easier than than someone like me who went in raw and lived a frustrating year of two where I just had to deal with it or beg on here to get it fixed. Now its fairly smooth sailings.
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the constant shader downloading and compiling is getting annoying
i basically have to do it every day
what gives? it wasn't always like that.
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>>109276426
For your games or literally for your gui?
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>>109276459
goyms on stem
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Hello guys. I've been thinking about making the switch but I am not fully convinced yet because I use FL studio a lot and also microsoft office and the mendeley plugin that comes with it for college stuff. Will both of these still work?
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>>109273182
magic sysrq keys are for when things like that aren't working
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>>109275828
Really just install Ubuntu, then steam, install Watchdogs, maybe right click properties and compatibility and maybe fixes here - https://www.protondb.com/app/447040
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>>109276472
Sounds like your proton settings are wonky, do you know how to bug trace to see the errors it spits out when you boot steam? Have you tried googling the problem?
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>>109276859
nah it happens only in cs2 and war thunder which both run native. problem is that those are the games i play 99% of the time. i stop the game and there is a giant shader download and after that on the next day when i launch either game i have to "compile" shaders again.
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>>109275070
btrfs is much more flexible and easier to use if you don't need things zfs is better at such as raid-z/z2, l2arc, etc (both multi-disc features). for single drives btrfs is just as good and has useful things like built-in kernel support, shrinking, etc.
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>>109276921
>built-in kernel support
only good thing, great for beginners.
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>>109275767
that's like saying you've opened 1 program and are using 1.9G ram, it depends on the program. different websites use different amounts of memory
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>>109276111
xfs
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>>109276928
Online shrink is a neat trick, and 'raid1' with odd numbers of drives. Doesn't fragment as aggressively as zfs either. btrfs is great for home NAS.
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>>109276111
>>109276934
actually since you're using a hdd, you might want ext4. you can use e4rat on ext4 for greatly improved hdd boot speeds. if you use standby most of the time this might not be a concern for you.
ideally you really should be looking for some form of ssd, even a decent sd card or slim form-factor usb drive will be better for the os than a hdd. but you can still get away with a hdd if you set it up appropriately (such as making a small partition for the os at the start for short-stroking, use a ramdisc for /tmp, use zram instead of disc swap, etc)
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>>109251547
this seems like a bug
 % machinectl list 
No machines.
% machinectl start machine
// requires elevated privileges
% sudo machinectl start machine
% machinectl list
// requires elevated privileges

seems like whether or not a machine is running an unprivileged user shouldn't know if you're going to hide the fact any machines are running.
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>upgrade from proton ge 10-34 to 11-1
>fsr 4.1 upgrade doesn'T work anymore
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>>109277171
Sometimes steam is more compatible than umu-run with the same ge-proton version. I often add my pirated games to steam if I have special issues sonewhere else.
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>>109276472
Depends on game, Unreal Engine 4/5 devs are so retarded that they haven't changed the default behaviour but always force shader compilation during boot. Stalker 2 was like this for example. You can edit engine.ini to fix that in most cases.
Changing compatibility tool/runner (eg. proton version) will initiate shader compilation regardless and I think that steam runtime updates when it's downloading little things on its own can do the same if steam updates the prefixes.
Steam is a shitty bloated thing and managing games and proton this way is bad
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honestly after using so many distros throughout the years, even the current fad (cachy, which is good ngl). I've come to settle down with mint, it's just so comfy. I hope they get enough funds/manpower to fix everything that has been troubling cinnamon.
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>>109277268
Arch is still my go-to. I find Mint too stifling like other Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based distros.
Cachy is just another way for less technical people to install Arch quickly while also having a bunch of desktop-focused smoothness tweaks done to the kernel.
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>>109277268
Aren't they doing a wayland cinnamon or am I just fucking retarded?
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>>109277320
They are but it's way behind.
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>>109276381
thanks for advice

i am 100% switching, I have been using WSL2 for several years now, work has priority so it should all be fine, gaming is secondary i havent gamed in months, but if CS2 can run natively thats a huge win

i am playing with kubuntu in VM trying to mirror my setup and see how to live with it, i wish i had a cheap laptop to test it on ugh
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What is causing this?
Running Cachyos and running the game Pragmata on steam
Warning for flashing lights
https://files.catbox.moe/75lris.mp4
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since red hat and debian are now woke, what distro should i use that is not woke?
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>>109277842
ubuntu pro max
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>>109275828
>install Steam
>go to the game properties - compatibility
>force the use of a compatibility tool - proton 11
>click install
>click play
CS2 has a native version which might be required for competitive multiplayer, but in general you would be using Windows versions of games and running them through Proton since almost all Linux native versions suck ass.
In case of games which require proprietary codecs for stuff like cut scenes:
>install ProtonPlus
>use it to install protonGE in Steam
>instead of proton 11 use ge-proton11

>>109276472
You can disable shader pre-compiling in Steam settings, but that might cause in-game stutters are your shaders have to be compiled as you encounter them in game.
There's a few reasons why your shaders would need to re-compile often. Either the game is getting updates, or your GPU drivers are.

>>109277341
If you have 2 USB drives you can install Linux on a USB drive and just boot from it. Aside from shit read/write speeds it will give you a better approximation of how things work on real hardware. When you're done setting it up you can even flash it back to an internal drive with all your changes intact.
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>>109277342
Fucked graphics drivers or some other shit in the rendering pipeline.
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>>109257114
>>109257164
I don't get it
which country flags have changed since 2019?
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>>109278589
Country flags (probably) haven't changed, but their associated IP blocks have. That's what this is.
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should i use firewalld or ufw, or does it even matter
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>>109278690
whatever fedora doesn't ship with by default.
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>>109278690
ufw is simpler to use while firewalld is more technical.
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>>109278697
>>109278707
ufw it is then
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>>109251547
I'm trying to use my Gigashit Aorus 5060 Ti eGPU with my laptop over thunderbolt 4 connected to an external monitor, and the moment after I login through SDDM into KDE Wayland, the entire system freezes up. This happens under X11/XLibre, too. Has anyone gotten eGPUs to work in Linux, specifically Gentoo?
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>>109278750
Why don't you read your logs first before asking questions?
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>>109278760
ChatGPT it is. Thanks, anony!
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>>109278769
>ChatGPT
God anon, use Gemini or Claude instead. Hell even Deepseek.
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>>109278777
GPT helped me troubleshoot everything else to date, but I just wanted to see if anyone encountered any similar issues with eGPUs here. I forgot how useless these threads were.
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>>109278769
Gemini is unusable unless you log in. It only lets you ask one thing and doesn't let you keep chatting. ChatGPT can be used without an account, so it's more convenient.
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>>109278677
>but their associated IP blocks have
why?
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>>109267721
iirc bitlocker is whole-disk encryption, isn't it? I'd be surprised if you can even dual boot any other OS from that drive without going through the WBM to unlock it.
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>>109278769
LLMs are dangerous to retards. If you don't know how to read your system logs you can't diagnose anything. You should just keep on using Windows or Mac.
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>>109278843
I can read logs. I installed Gentoo so I'm not a retard, tyvm.
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>>109278805
What? You can use Gemini without logging in just fine though, it doesn't even stop you.
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>>109278874
Doesn't work on ANY of my machines and it only worked once, I assume by accident. It lets me send one message, get a response, then no further messages can be sent and it just throws an error if I try.
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>>109278786
nta and a linux noob, no one wants to help someone who's not trying to help themselves.
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>>109278898
And what makes you think I didn't try to help myself initially?
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>>109278769
cute
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>>109257164
>Apparently IP country information has to be licensed
No wonder, it involves hard detective work to compose such a database as IP itself doesn't say anything about itself (or its usage when trying to figure if it's a VPN for example).
>>109278589
>>109278677
>>109278829
Maybe the existing database entries didn't change but new ones got added.
Or if some IP block changed countries it means some ISP was doing infrastructural changes.
>>109278690
Why not plain NFtables? Ain't those things just front ends anyway?
>>109278851
I'm using Gentoo and I'm a retard. The crude basics are simple but trying to figure fine details is not.
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>>109279456
>I'm a retard
I'm sorry for your loss of brain cells.
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>>109267721
Yes you can use LUKS and clevis to unlock from TPM in early boot it the distro supports it, but why you would want to do that is beyond me.
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>>109276972
>use zram instead of disc swap,
Wouldn't zram be slower than normal swap since its compressed?
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>>109279618
No. You can do a lot of decompression in the time it takes a HDD spindle to seek. Compressed virtual memory was good even back in the mid 90s with CPUs way slower than anyone uses today.
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>>109279618
the idea is to minimise disc i/o when using slow storage
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>>109278851
Installing gentoo isn't hard anymore.
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>>109279738
Cool, throw it in front of your average Joe and have them install it.
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>>109279572
Loss?
>>109279738
It has an automated installer now or what?
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>>109279757
No
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>>109279757
Yes
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>>109279751
Anyone with an IQ above 80 has always been able to install Gentoo. The fact that Joe Avg would look at the instructions and go 'fuck that' doesn't mean he couldn't figure it out given an incentive.
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>>109279782
You overestimate the average Joe.
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>>109279788
You are overestimating yourself.
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>>109279757
>It has an automated installer now or what?
For x86_64 yeah. 32 bit installations have to be done the old way still though.
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>>109279824
I know what I'm capable of but you have an unrealistic gauge on what people are capable of. I actually ran this experiment when I was in college. I offered $300 to my friend to install Gentoo and showed him bin packages to expedite some of the compilation time. Spoiler alert, he gave up.
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>>109279839
Link it?
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>>109279850
Buddy if you can't find the gentoo website then I think you're a lost cause.
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>>109279842
>bro get a load of this nerd
>brb gotta get some fuk
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>>109279879
Speak English.
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>>109279866
It's not there
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>>109279906
ask chatgpt
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>>109279910
It also said its not there
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>>109279934
ask claude
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>>109279941
Same thing
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>>109279983
gemini should have the real answer
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>>109280017
Same thing
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>>109279839
>>109279866
The bootable GUI environment isn't an installer.
>>109279842
IMO the tricky part is all the hardware related booting voodoo. I just so happen to have my own kernel at hand so all I really had to do was to extract the "Stage3" package which is actually just a root filesystem tarball. Then tell the kernel to
>root=PARTUUID=blah
and there it goes.
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>>109280049
Weird. Try deepseek.
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>>109280198
Same thing and you lied
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>>109280217
Hold on you haven't even tried grok yet.
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>>109251547
>even gaymers are dropping ubuntu
lol
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>>109280228
You're a liar
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>>109280121
>The bootable GUI environment isn't an installer.
>flash iso image to my hard drive
checkmate
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>>109280456
retard
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>>109280264
Fire up grok with better thinking. That should do the trick.
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>>109280693
retard
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>Friendly GNU/Linux Thread
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>>109280702
Not if you have better thinking enabled.
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>>109280912
retard
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>>109280940
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So far I've been self-hosting my shit on Arch and I am about to sell myself proxmox. This way I can host my bullshit in a separate slim vm, pass various hardware (primarily gpus) to linux or windows desktop on demand and have luxury of fucking up desktop vms in every way imaginable, all while having 100% uptime on the things I actually need to just work. Try to talk me out of it, anons.
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Why is this thread and /g/ filled with retarded summerfags?
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>>109280992
woah scary
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>>109280977
Because it's flooded by the turd-world just like Europe.
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>>109281005
What's scary is that underageb&fags like yourself can post here
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>>109281039
see you next thread :^)



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