do any anons use KVM switches with GNU/Linux? how is it?

Can these troons be anymore stereotypical?

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/07/twig-258/

Reminder that you should not be telling upset Windows users to switch to Linux. Upset Windows users are tech illiterate retards that require an OS that babysits them 24/7. It's in everyone's interest to keep encouraging tech illiterate retards to switch to Apple's walled garden and pay a premium for their own stupidity. Gatekeep them away from x86. Fuck them.

How easy is it to install Bazzite from Mint or any other Distros?

My games started running terribly on steam seemingly out of nowhere via proton. I tried the latest proton version 11-1, reverted back to 10-34, tried the experimental version, and they all run terribly. Notably any real time game such as terraria both loads slow and runs in slow motion. I've tried verifying the files for my games and updating everything and nothing seems to be helping. Has any other anon ran into this kind of issue before?

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I know you people probably get this every single day, but I want to make the jump from Windows to Mint and I'm not exactly a coder. All I basically use is Steam, Firefox, Krita and Word.
>What am I in for?
>What's the worst part?
>What's the best part?
>Is it safer from viruses?
>Does it constantly break things?
>How much time am I going to have to spend trying to look for fixes?

>>109306549
Mint is the ol' reliable, on the merit of not updating as often.
Linux is not safer from viruses, and the more people migrate to Linux the more it'll be targeted by viruses, just don't be a retard and don't blindly install shit or run commands, same as with Windows.
Depending on what hardware you run, you might have to deal with extra initial setup. For example VRR/HDR monitors, Mint is still on X11 that works, but is behind on the modern display technologies, but if you don't care about it you don't need to worry about it. It comes with a dedicated Nvidia driver installer, and those are another novel issue of Linux, so that shouldn't be a huge issue either.

Mint is one of the best "just works" distros, I was able to set up gaming on it without touching the terminal. Ideally, find a spare drive, install it on that, then just boot into it from UEFI instead of dual booting on a single drive or wiping your Windows partition. Get accustomed to this completely different OS in a way where you can go back to what you were using before easily. By using a secondary drive you skip a ton of problems Windows/Linux dual booting has, like accidentally destroying your partitions or Windows overwriting the boot partition on an update.

>>109306620
thanks, anon

>>109306620
>Linux is not safer from viruses, and the more people migrate to Linux the more it'll be targeted by viruses, just don't be a retard and don't blindly install shit or run commands, same as with Windows.
What do guys on linux use to check if what they download is legit? I pirate a lot and on windows I would just run malwarebytes on the download folder followed by virustotal to check the executable.

python3 <<-'EOF' | head -n10 | \
{ \
    while IFS= read -r line; do
import signal
signal.signal(signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL)
while True:
    print('hello')
EOF
        echo "$line"
    done
}

why doesn't this work if i use a tab for the python indent? i don't want to use sp*ces

>>109306746
if you have to run untrusted code, do it in a sandbox or vm. firejail, bwrap, qemu all good

>>109306750
oh nvm, works if i put it in a file so maybe pasting it into a terminal was just stripping the tab for some reason

>>109306780
... but seems like i still can't indent it if using a tab there

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I came here to mock Wayland users who were absolute assholes to me over XLibre after hearing all the problems it has, but I just remembered this is a friendly thread and I'm a better person so all I'm going to say is I'm sorry the launch of Wayland was so rough for some of you.
>t. still on X11

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>>109307091
It's okay to shittalk Wayland, and by extent everything related to Red Hat, GNOME and Lennart Poettering thoughbeit.

>>109306549
Mint is pretty easy and the best one to use if you're just going to use your computer for general use and you aren't going to do anything cutting edge.
>>What am I in for?
A lot of cool shit, a lot of frustration, a lot of learning, it's got its highs and lows, if its not fun its at least engaging.
>>What's the worst part?
Troubleshooting something you don't understand, first you'll feel like an idiot and you'll do it all the time and sometimes it works and fixes your problem, other times it doesn't. But overtime these hurdles will become really easy for you to overcome and you'll move on to more advanced problems to then continue frustrating you. It happens slowly though, you won't really know how far you've come until you pause to look back and realize you learned all this shit without even realizing it.
>What's the best part?
Besides the learning I mentioned above, you have total control of your machine. You can absolutely customize anything and everything, don't like a program that came with the OS? Just swap it out. Don't like the DE on Mint? Swap it. Want your computer to boot and play a whole fucking movie or music video as a start up? You can do that. Want to make your own icons or replace them? Yup, you can do that.
Like I said, completely control.

[part 1/2]

>>109306549
>>109307217
>is it safer from viruses?
Kinda, not for long because the market share of Linux is grown from 1 to around 2 or 3% there have been a lot of pipeline attacks and it seems that maybe within 10 years we'll have the same virus problem.
>Does it constantly break things?
The update or the programs? Things sometimes break on updates but those are actually the easier ones to fix because in Linux you can rollback updates live without resetting anything but the program. I wouldn't worry about it too much on Mint, things rarely break unless you tinker with them.
>How much time am I going to have to spend trying to look for fixes?
a lot when you're new, not so much later on. You'll probably spend most of your time troubleshooting how to play certain games if you don't want to go through steam because you're missing a pacakge or something.

[part 2/2]

>>109305734
If you managed to install something in the first place I don't think you should worry about installers.

>>109307234
>>109307217
appreciated, anon

>>109306750
C is better.
Python is bloat.

>>109303870
what you mean spy? your in public LOL

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So my rsync version is 3.4.4 and I use Timeshift for my ext4 system, am I fucked? picrel
I want to update my system but I'm afraid if something goes wrong, I won't be able to use Timeshift if rsync is fucky

>>109308733
This has been debunked

>>109308773
that rsync has Claude commits or that it will bug out?

>>109308911
The bugs, they're fixed and many of them were old anyway

>>109308921
okie dokie anon, just double checking

>>109306549
>Is it safer from viruses?
No, absolutely not. Aside from executables/scripts not being runnable by default when you download them, Linux has pretty much no protection mechanisms from malware. There's no equivalent to Windows Defender which is your omnipresent babysitter. If you run something malicious, Linux assumes you're doing it on purpose instead of assuming you're retarded, so you're instantly fucked. As a desktop Linux constantly ranks below Windows and Mac when it comes to security. You need to really go out of your way to use something obscure like Secureblue to get at least somewhat close to the security of Windows and Mac.
>Does it constantly break things?
Depends.
>How much time am I going to have to spend trying to look for fixes?
Depends.
>What's the worst part?
The fact you'd be using Mint which is the Linux equivalent of still running Windows 7.
>What's the best part?
KDE and GNOME are both better than Windows Explorer Desktop.

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>Be Featherpad
>Absolute best GUI text editor for Trannux to check quick pump and dump READMEs or whatever irrelevant text files
>Very low footprint (for modern standards)
>Opens nearly instantly on a 2011 CPU
>Copes reasonably well even with a 2GBs CSV file
>Monkey's paw: you need to recompile it to change the colorscheme or conform with dimming the intensity of the default dark mode
Life is suffering

>>109305507
bullshit
illiterate retards can use linux its not that hard
and never underestimate a retard, they xan be determined to continue whatever they're doing despite lack of results
as a result of these two facts a retard can and will leaen linux

>>109305734
it depends. get a usb, put ventoy on it. try numerous distros easily. void is easy, debian is easy. bazzite is probably good for steam i guess but then so is every distro.

tardos itt being like
>wut?? should i mint??
install ufw (firewall) and firejails (sandbox), ask an ai about it

convince me not to switch to gnome
it just looks good to me

>>109310461
It'll make you gay

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>>109304071
>Unity was the default Ubuntu DE at the time
Kubuntu and Xubuntu existed thoughever.
>>109310461
Can't configure the taskbar -> trash.
Which is sad because Gnome apps are great. (why doesn't KDE Plasma have ROBOTS?)

>>109303671
Hey anon sorry for the late reply but here you go, just follow my instructions:
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/108303392/#108309892

The gtk3 filepicker seems to be a really common problem, and most people give really unhelpful solutions like "just use KDE bro" or "just switch your DE/distro bro".
gtk4 has thumbnails in the filepicker, but gtk4 is a hot garbage and wouldn't recommend it unless you're specifically running gnome.
I think the next time someone makes a thread they should put a solution to this problem in the OP since it's really common. I'll probably do that when I get the chance.

>>109310461
No system tray/notification area
No desktop icons
Too much memory usage for what it does
GTK4 themes are incompatible with GTK3 (most themes you will find are for GTK3/GTK2, very few are also for GTK4)
>inb4 you can fix all this with extensions!
Unless you're running a stable distro like Debian, then enjoy having your extensions break with every update. Also extensions can't fix the theming issues.

>>109306521
Have you updated your graphics drivers or kernel recently? if you have intel+nvidia hybrid graphics check that it's actually working
First run nvidia-smi to check that the GPU driver is recognized
Next test with glxgears:

# Run glxgears with integrated graphics, it should print 'GL_VENDOR = Intel' in the terminal
glxgears -info | grep -i vendor
# Run glxgears with discrete graphics, it should print 'GL_VENDOR = NVIDIA Corporation' in the terminal
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia glxgears -info | grep -i vendor

Next check if the game is actually using your GPU, use nvidia-smi or nvtop to monitor the GPU usage
Don't know what you have to do if you have AMD but there should be similar tools to monitor the GPU
Also check CPU usage, there might be some bottlenecks

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Every single time I decide to give gentoo a try I give up along the way because I do it from within a VM. Due to the limited amount of resources allocated even compiling of simple packages takes way too long. Portage also feel sluggish to use. I should just bite the bullet and test it on bare metal instead of doing this every time. With that said I should learn how to use portage first. Are these sync methods doing the same thing for example?

>>109311991
Do it while you're chrooted from a live GUI environment, or even from your main distro.
The steps to do this are roughly as follows:
1. Make sure you have a spare partition to install Gentoo on
2. Mount the partition to /mnt/gentoo from any distro of your choice or even a live environment
3. Unpack the gentoo tarball there
4. Mount the EFI System Partition (usually /dev/sda1) on /mnt/gentoo/efi
5. Follow the rest of the gentoo guide
Congrats, now you can compile shit from a chroot while shitposting

>>109311991
>Due to the limited amount of resources allocated even compiling of simple packages takes way too long.
uhhh why don't you allocate more? What's your CPU?
>>109312104
>even from your main distro
NTA but did exactly that while distrohopping. Had two small system partitions and one big partition for $HOME and stuff so there was always one vacant partition to install a new system to. Having a "stage3" or any sort of root filesystem tarball was the shit. Like for example installing Fedora is much easier when you can simply extract the tarball instead of trying to mess with Fedora's package manager from a non-RPM distro.
/blog

>>109312104
>>109312148
I worded what I said poorly and made it sound like I already have the hardware with me. I am planning the next OS for my new desktop build. I am documenting the installation process and what to do in order to minimize the time wasted. I tested this on a macbook. It has 14 cores but I might have made a mistake using only 6 cores and 4gb of ram. Not to mention the emulation overhead coming from an arm64 chip. I did set binary only installation but there are libraries that only come as source code and there are times the USE flags conflict with the binaries already available so I end up having to compile at least 20-30% of the total packages

There's been something that bothers the fuck out of me on Firefox on Arch. I use Violent Monkey for 4chanX and sometimes when a thread is too big, I get a lot of stutters when I scroll with Vimium and when I make a post. As I'm typing this, I get no stutters when I type. Do any anons have any tips?

do you still need the mesa freeworld package on fedora?
i need h264 hardware decoding

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>>109312480
limit the number of posts displayed at once and see if that mitigates the problem

>>109312492
I think so https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

>>109312494
that seems to help a bit
this also happens within desktop threads. maybe because of the filesizes?

>>109312569
does is happen without the vimium extension active too? maybe it tries to attach itself to too many things

>>109312586
Nah I disabled the Vimium extension and I still got major stutter when I typed. Limiting the number of posts did help like you said
this thread for reference
>>>/v/743460459

>>109312611
keep htop or btop active and see if what value spikes. also retry this on an empty firefox profile and see if it's a particular setting or combo of addons causing this

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>>109312619
I think it may just be 4chanX desu
I tried it on an empty profile and I got no stutter at all
This is what spikes on htop

>>109312658
what cpu do you have? try installing 4chanX on a default profile and use the default options. see if it's some weird setting

>>109312673
I have an AMD Ryzen 5 4600H (12) @ 4.00 GHz

>>109306521
>I tried the latest proton version 11-1, reverted back to 10-34
Reminder the dumbasses over at GE shoved an ARM version for Proton-GE 11.1 on their GUI downloaders like protonplus, you need to remove it completely if reverting to 10.34 doesn't bring you back to smooth gameplay.

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>>109312673
I'm starting to think maybe its one of my extensions. After installing 4chanX on another profile, I got no stutter at all. This is all I got.

>>109312717
possibly reading list? I don't know how it works but maybe it's scanning the page for links. enable them one by one and test in between to single out the culprit

>>109312735
I checked uBlock (ok), and then I landed on Bitwarden. Thats the culprit. But I use Arkenfox user.js so I kinda need Bitwarden in order to log into sites where I don't exempt cookies. Is there a different password manager extension I can use that syncs with Bitwarden?

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>>109312760
thats weird. try adding 4chan.org to the list of ignored domains and see if it stops. it's in the autofill area at the bottom in settings

>>109312770
yup that fixes it. thanks anon, I didn't even know you could block domains on Bitwarden like that.

>>109312770
I wonder if this could stop any other site that ends up being strangely laggy/ram leaky if you have the extension installed? Might give it a shot myself.

>>109312949
if the website has input fields that can be mistaken for login forms then yes it's a possibility

>>109305507
You fundamentally misunderstood the purpose of gatekeeping and where it does or doesn't make sense.
Where more normgroid presence empowers commercialisation and government involvement it's vital.
Where it takes power away from people who hate you it's counterproductive.
Ideally every knuckle dragging hillbilly and 70 IQ pavement ape would have the ability to run a fully disc encrypted OS with rampantly schizophrenic anti surveillance tech as easily as installing Instagram.

https://youtu.be/4pm7QpG9X7k?t=1245
I saw this video recently and was inspired to make my laptop like it.
What Linux distro allows me to customize it looks like a 90s/2000s Japanese Windows 98/XP vibes? I want a bunch of gaudy aesthetic widgits and ideally install some old windows ones, if possible.

I'm not a total Linux virgin, I run a home media server on TrueNAS and Unraid, and can navigate a command line terminal. I just want my laptop to be more functional than W11 botnet jeetery while having a cool aesthetic. Practically all I need is word processing, web browsing, and data management.

>>109313058
My laptop is a modern T14 Thinkpad. It's not retro like the video, I just want that aesthetic and ideally the retro Japanese Windows 98/XP widgets for soul. A facsimile of the style is acceptable if there's no way to get old windows widget programs like that running on a modern linux distro

does linux mint update shit in the background without telling you? I have auto updates disabled but today my nvidia driver had like, a kernel mismatch or some shit and wouldnt work until i manually updated everything

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is there a good easy to use alternative to wallpaper engine for linux? i have two OLED monitors and if i make the swap over i don't want to have static wallpapers

>>109313171
mpvpapers for wayland

>>109313154
Linux isn't for people like you. Install Windows.

>>109313171
dont you still have static assets like the topbar?

>>109311453
>Kubuntu and Xubuntu existed thoughever.
That's irrelevant. "Ubuntu" is THE marketing term and THE thing people look for. Kubuntu and Xubuntu are entirely separate projects that are barely visible in a somewhat difficult to find sub-section of the Ubuntu website. It's not like Fedora which at least tells you "pick between Workstation, KDE or see these other editions". Ubuntu LTS is 5x more popular than the non-LTS version for the same reason, it's the first download the user is directed to.
The user flow for most people who are switching to Linux is: learn about linux > everyone is talking about ubuntu (at least back then) > go to the ubuntu website > click the big download button > download the iso and follow instructions. The concept of a desktop environment is something people learn about after the fact, similar to how people learn that there isn't just "Android" and there's over a dozen different skins and OEM ROMs to it.

>>109313171
KDE supports video and GIF wallpapers.

Pro-tip for Firefox/Librewolf users:
>about:config, widget.disable-workspace-management true
I didn't notice this issue earlier, but after switching over to Fvwm, I thought I had lost my mind because every time I launched Librewolf my current virtual desktop would switch for no apparent reason. I went through my config files to see if I had typos or something and that took a long time...
Who the fuck thinks this is something what a web browser should do on its own? Jesus Christ the audacity and incompetence of these "developers". This behaviour doesn't always happen, for example I think this doesn't affect Bspwm as far as I know.

>>109305734
Installing any Deb-based distro is done with Debootstrap. The following command would bootstrap Debian Trixie into $TARGET using their standard mirror

debootstrap trixie $TARGET http://ftp.debian.org/debian

Or any RPM-based distro:

dnf --installroot $TARGET ...

Can't remember the entire command.
Or if the distribution happens to provide a root filesystem tarball, use that instead.

>>109307658
>>109310002
>>109314071
I have old PC i got Mint here now.
I'm just asking can i flash bio my Mint USB or do i need new flashed USB for Bazzite?
Oh yeah i'm buildign new PC in 2-3 months so i just wanna test a few distros before settle down which one is for me.

Oh and i have Steam and porn on my SSD do i need to purge those when changing distros? I guess uninstalling Steam is good it's not like it takes long to re-install anyway... But what wat about my video files and images?

>>109314145
Perhaps go to a library and read Computers 101 and then come back to ask more questions.

>>109313820
Isn't it nice that X11 basically lets applications do whatever the fuck they want to even if their behaviour is anti-user?
This could never happen under Wayland

>>109305734
Just get the Bazzite .iso file and flash it to a USB drive with Fedora Image Writer or Etcher (or whatever Mint has)

>>109310002
Ventoy doesn't support Fedora's atomic distros (Bazzite) unless they recently added support for it.

seriously without memes
is kde plasma "better" for gaming than gnome?

>>109314278
Yes it is.

>>109314232
I don't think you understood my post at all, and your inflammatory platform warring doesn't help either.
Kys, faggot.

>>109314232
This has nothing to do with X11, and if you wanted you could do the same shit on wayland surely.

bazzite or kde plasma

>>109314593
Your question makes no sense. One is a distribution, the other is a desktop (which Bazzite offers as an option).

>>109312686
>>109311943
updating my system caused it to change my driver to a shitty version so I just had to switch it to a proprietary driver. Idk why the default to update to is the open-dkms which sucks.

>>109314432
There are no commonly available protocols for a client to do workspace management, that's left to the compositor. An app would have to hack something for every specific compositor.
Safe to say the scenario they described doesn't happen.

>>109314659
Nope, but sending a signal to whoever is willing to listen should be possible.

Guys, Im really trying to use Linux (Ok, calm down, this is not a Nvida, Adobe or Gaming related problem), so I bought a second SSD and Installed Fedora 44 KDE.
As a programer I had no problem using it and installing what I needed and so on, but, one thing for me is a huge deal breaker, and idk if its a Fedora problem, it stutters randomly, and sometimes not so randomly, which pisses me off so much, I dont care if Dolphin takes a second to open, but freezing my cursor, damn, thats fucked up, really doesn't feel like I'm using a powerfull PC (R55600, 16gb ram, RX6600, sure, not "GAMING" crazy but man, it can absolutelly run a DE for God sake), also, not gaming related (because the few games I tested ran "fine") but downloading anything on steam causes a full system lockup for like 15 seconds sometimes, can anybody help me ? Should I install another distro ?

>>109315149
check ssd health, maybe run a benchmark on it. what is your partitioning looks like? do you have enough free space in the root directory?

>>109314278
Some performance benchmarks do show a difference, but you should generally run games through gamescope where your underlying DE won't matter.

>>109314593
>laptop or a keyboard
>car or a driver's seat

>>109315149
Have btop running on a 2nd monitor and take a look at your resource usage during the times when your PC "locks up". It could literally be anything.
>memory running out (in which case increase the size of your swap file and slightly increase threshold when your OOM manager kills or swaps processes)
>internal storage issue (this would normally only happen if running an OS off a USB drive or a slower HDD, or if your SSD is failing)
>high temperatures (least likely, but the CPU can fully stop itself if you reach 100C+)
I would also check all the possible logs your system makes. I don't have a list with me right now, but Linux has a handful of places where useful logs are kept.
>Should I install another distro
This sounds more like a hardware issue if anything, so a new distro won't help aside from maybe temporarily masking the issue. Unless it really is the lack of memory in which case it's faster to just fix it on Fedora rather than moving to a different distro and hoping it has better memory management defaults.

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>>109303509
Meanwhile, in Gentoo…

>>109315281
I have /boot, /efi and / partition, I don't know about the rest but the / partition is on btrfs, I have ~60gb free space.
It's a new cheap aliexpress ssd, but my windows install is also on a cheap NVME and I have no such problem on 3+ years of usage.
Also, SMART shows no errors.

>>109315314
Besides my SSD I cant think of anything else really, my Windows install is absolutelly fine, no such problems.

The thing for me is why the whole system locks up when IO is high, It's not ram usage or cpu, cause on windows even when the IO is high it never locks up, it gets slow, sure, but locking up, that never happened

>>109315416
when the stutter happens, type
sudo dmesg | tail -n 20

>>109315416
only time i've seen stalls on i/o is when i was using a failing hdd. dmesg was spewing sata/ahci errors

>fuck up my setup (pc crashed during driver update)
>start looking at options to fix it
>turns out you can ctrl+alt+f3 after booting into linux to pull up the console
>remove the failed driver update
>reinstall
>its fixed
pretty neat shit you linuxfags can do to fix your setup. I assumed I would have needed to boot back into windows, retrieve my personal files, and then do a clean reinstall. But nah it only took like 10 minutes to fix.

>>109315416
>It's a new cheap aliexpress ssd
Well that's potentially the problem. Most SSDs sold on Ali are total dogshit and completely unreliable. The one you're using on your Windows machine is the outlier. Most SSDs from Ali start failing within a year of use. Legitimate businesses with decent products are a tiny minority on Aliexpress.

>>109315769
Yeah, I think its indeed the SSD, I have an old instalation of MX Linux on HARD DRIVE ! that is slow, but no stutters.
I'll return this piece of shit.

>>109305507
friendly thread

>>109309758
Doesnt featherpad just use whatever qt theme your system uses?

>>109315750
If you want to be really fancy or if you really break shit, you can get a Linux live USB, boot it and mount the drive that your installed Linux root partition is on, and use chroot in a terminal to switch to running commands as your installed Linux system

>>109316425
I saw that as an option too but the way I went looked less painless.
What is the deal with mounting anyways? Why would you need to mount it to work on it from another system?

>>109316458
You need to mount a disk to read the filesystem on it, chroot is switching what the terminal session thinks is the root directory to wherever you're setting the target, so then if you run sudo apt update it runs the version that's on the selected root filesystem, not the one your liveUSB uses. It's like if you could arbitrarily tell Windows that the C:\ root directory is actually Z:\Windows Portable Cracked Legit Not Dolphin Porn\C:\ and then it would start running commands and programs in that session from that directory instead of the real C:\ drive.

>>109312686
Can you expand on this? I used protonup qt to grab my proton versions and I think after trying to use 11.1 on another game everything has been running slow as shit.

>>109312686
Why would this matter? It's not like one version of Proton affects the other.

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Why do people insist that they're cool and different for using Arch when it's one of the most popular distros?

>>109316784
Gamers who use Steam are maybe 5%-10% of the overall desktop users and Steam is a very biased source of information. Just look at the nVidia market share there, it's almost at 90% when in reality it's less than 15% because most people use an Intel integrated GPU. What makes you think distro usage rates aren't heavily skewed there?

>>109316784
Why does that bother you? Could it be that you're jealous?

>>109305507
i'm using cachyos, kde plasma wayland. My laptop has a intel igpu and a really shitty display. On windows i used to crank up the saturation from intel's command center but there's no such thing on linux. I remember using a tool on mint years ago but i think that was x11 only. I looked everywhere and couldn't find shit for wayland to increase saturation. Any help would be appreciated

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Artix Linux stopped working for like 10 minutes. It just stopped working while I was using it, so I shutdown, and when I start it again, I don't even get the message to insert the encryption passphrase, just get sent to the boot menu, and nothing I select works. And now, out of a sudden, things work just fine again.

>>109317199
As far as I'm aware Wayland doesn't support this. You'd have to use the X11 version of KDE Plasma, which is only going to be supported for a few more months as far as I know. Go to the KDE bug tracker and complain about it I guess.

>>109317268
>>109317268
this is me talking out of my ass but since there's this option to desaturate unresponsive apps, would it be possible to write a kwin script of something that adds a saturation slider (i'm ready to waste a few hours trying to do it with an AI only if it's possible). If it's not possible are there any other workarounds that could make the colors less washed out. It's genuinely so ass to look at to the point where i have to switch to windows whenever i want to watch something like anime or a movie

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>>109317312
forgot to attach pic

>>109317199
>>109317268
You have to create an ICC profile for the display and load it under Color Profile in the monitor settings.

>>109317331
i tried doing that but my dumbass could not figure it out. How do i make the ICC profile. From what i gather i need some hardware (i think) or make a synthetic one (i tried but it would not load in display config)

>>109317331
That's a million times more annoying than what you have to do in plasma-x11. There you simply have R, G, B, gamma and saturation sliders in your system settings.

>>109317243
The bootloader does a little trollin'

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how do i fix this

>>109317359
Yeah I'm not making a value judgment, I'm just telling you the procedure.

>>109317312
what distro and DE are you currently on?

>>109317453
cachyos, plasma (wayland)

I think timeshift ran out of space and it fucked up my whole laptop

>>109317268
>>109317331
found this tool and it works pretty well, dunno how it took me so long to find
https://github.com/ABu33/vibrance

>>109317461
Yeah Timeshift ate all the space in my c drive when i wasnt looking and now my computer is too fucking slow and wont let me remove any of it

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>games running terribly out of nowhere
>new to linux so assume I fucked something up
>go on troubleshooting rabbithole for 2 days
>reinstall all packages, verify drivers, looking at CPU vs GPU usage
>nothing works
>losing my mind
>search engine AI randomly suggests checking if I have my computer set to powersaving mode
>wtf that's retarded
>check
>it is set to powersaving mode
>set it to performance
>everything is fixed
I'm just a stupid little chud and my existence is to suffer as a form of entertainment for god.

Why does Dolphin cause high CPU usage when opening a folder with a lot of videos sorted by duration? I used to have this problem but it eventually went away and now it's back.

If I sort a lot of videos by duration and have that window open it has a constant 10% CPU load even if I'm not scrolling (that causes even more load), so why is this happening? It did go away at some point and I wasn't getting this CPU load when opening a folder with a lot of files (same amount). On Windows I never had this problem with Everything sorting videos on ALL drives by duration, it took a bit of time to process just like on Linux but after it was sorted it had no excess CPU usage.

Why does Dolphin put a huge load on the CPU just to display a folder with videos sorted by duration?

>>109317718
Is it generating thumbnails? That'd make the CPU spin while it's doing that at least.

>>109317415
Stop uptimemaxxing

>>109317616
After updating to kernel 7.x my gpu began to run few degrees Celsius hotter.
I refuse to believe it's just dust related.

>>109317798
They've already had their thumbnails generated if that's what you mean. Just having a folder with more than 500 videos sorted by video duration puts a strain on the CPU. If it's like 2000 or so I'm getting 10% load just by having it open.

It's actually funny I was going to ask about this a few months ago but when I sorted all videos on a drive by duration I didn't get load on the CPU so I didn't post anything. Just to clarify, it's the same videos, nothing has changed in the folder.

>>109318002
kde plasma is just a buggy mess unfortunely
and the developers clearly dont know to fix it because they just kept adding more and more features
it is still considered the best linux DE supposedly

>>109318693
>it is still considered the best linux DE supposedly
There's basically nothing else out there if you want something that both supports modern hardware and also has a familiar Windows look and feel with a traditional taskbar and system tray, etc.

They do fix the bugs though. KDE is constantly getting updates all of the time. Just look at the "This week in Plasma" series.

https://blogs.kde.org/categories/this-week-in-plasma/
https://blogs.kde.org/categories/this-week-in-kde-apps/

>>109318748
im not saying they dont fix bugs
i said they dont know how to fix the mess it is
becuase they just kept building on top of it over and over adding more features just because
nobody cares about the level of customization plasma offers besides an extremelly small minority of turbo autists
i just wish they would stop adding stuff to it for like a year and just fix everything

>>109318787
It's not either / or. You're assuming that time spent working on features is time not spent fixing bugs but that's not the case at all.

If you be like GNOME and say "No new features. What's the use-case?" that doesn't instantly transfer to everyone working on bug fixes.

>>109304363
>KVM switches with GNU/Linux?
My employer did, although they recently upgraded to virtualization.
It was Fedora and Debian. I only had to touch it once a day and never had problems with the KVM.
It connected with VGA and PS/2.

>>109303870
How do I get rid of phantom ports? Or is this an old X11 thing where the (unplugged) and (Unavailable) HDMI ports just slowly multiply over time? Could this all be solved by using a DAC? I don't think Pulseaudio can really comprehend or handle the fucked up 3rd world audio set up I've cobbled together from over the years.

>>109318816
it would if the developers wanted to
but of course everyone wants to spend their time devlopíng those "exciting" new features instead of spending hours and hours debugging code

>>109303870
Should I bother installing mint? I did once before but I mainly play games and some games had issues on it. But my windows 11 is slow now.

>>109318928
Same but DVI. Some laptop video BIOS seem to shit the bed with KVMs, but it's not a Linux thing as far as I can tell.

>>109316784
I use arch btw

>>109318954
>some games had issues
Like what?
>Should I bother installing mint?
Depends how long ago you used it last, but from a privacy standpoint you should, pretty sure the current Win11 policy is that everything you have on your computer is no longer considered yours but there's.

does anyone know how to force dolphin to stay sorted by type? each time i restart kde and open a folder with media it keeps sorting by name, even when it shows as sorted by type

>>109319154
Switch to Nemo and stop posting BBW vs BBC porn

>>109319087
I was getting a lot of light artiricats in Hunt showdown and the game slider couldn't be used in the options menu.

>>109319194
>was getting a lot of light artiricats
artifacts* Or artefacts if you speak bingbong.
That sounds most like a vulkan thing that may have been fixed since then.
>the game slider couldn't be used in the options menu.
If you launch via wine you can see all the "fixme"s you get and then you can sift through them to see which one that fixme is, because not all fixmes actually need to be fixed. Or you could have a live debugging window open and just and try to interact with the bar to see if an error message pops up to then google.

serious question. Does anyone think Jordan Petridis and the few guys left in the mastodon-gnome-pro coc community get tons of bussy? They are surrounded by so many trannies, but does their dick get covered in fudge

>>109319214
I have no idea what wine is or how to use it so I sure as hell ain't doing all that when windows just works.

>>109319291
Stick to Windows then, If you have Windows 10 laying around and you're brave enough to use the internet with it or okay with going offline for a while until something better comes along then you can use that. Last time I heard there was some sort of leak that Windows was going to make an official Linux branch of Windows based off of Fedora but I don't now how true that is.

>>109319170
nemo's very slow whenever i use it on anything that isn't linux mint cinnamon.

>>109319321
Huh, weird it isn't for me. What are you using?

>>109319325
cachyos, but it's mainly slow whenever i'm in folders with alot of files/media

>>109319334
Sounds like a you problem, have you thought about maybe just using a terminal instead?

>>109314145
>I'm just asking can i flash bio my Mint USB or do i need new flashed USB for Bazzite?
I don't get it. You don't think USB drives are rewritable or what? They are, simply flash it over.
>>109319334
Had the same regardless the distro.
>>109316784
I've honestly never seen a post where an Arch user insist they are cool and different. But I've seen plenty of your kind posting.

My time with Xubuntu is almost up and frankly I found it kinda frustrating at first, more so than Mint, but I eventually eased into it. I'm going to move distro's in October, I'm kinda split on if I should try Debian or Devuan, maybe I should dual boot Debian and Devuan and spend a month on both before deciding which one to switch over too but that also means I need to organize the fuck out of all the files I have asap.

>>109318002
I don't think video thumbnails are cached anywhere. By this I don't mean the regular thumbnail, but the ones that are displayed when you hover over the video (Dolphin parses through videos to generate dynamic thumbnails by taking a screenshot of the video in specific intervals). Just disable this in Dolphin settings.

>>109318954
No.

>>109319348
terminal file browsing sounds like a nightmare, especially since i doubt it has thumbnail support

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>>109304872
>full of troons
>make app named "Transition"

>>109317616
If you used gnome this wouldn't have happen.

>>109320438
Terminal is always a problem for people like you, but Yazi for example, is pretty fantastic.
>https://yazi-rs.github.io/features

>>109317415
Install gnome.

>>109307091
Shit talk about what? We mog you.

i know people complain about appimages and flatpaks not sharing dependencies with the rest of the system making them use more ram
but isnt that how software works on windows?
software comes with their dependencies

>>109320258
>I'm kinda split on if I should try Debian or Devuan
Install Debian. It is much higher quality. If you do not like systemd, Debian supports a bunch of alternate init systems that you can switch to.

>>109320710
>but isnt that how software works on windows?
It's how software works on every single OS out there and even on Linux too. Electron apps don't share their Chromium runtimes, video games don't share game engine runtimes and dependencies, websites don't share libraries between each other, and a lot of software bakes dependencies into it's own binaries. Appimage/Flatpak is almost exactly how software should be distributed as on Linux.
>with the rest of the system making them use more ram
Technically correct, but realistically irrelevant. A Flatpak app only uses 4-20 extra MB of memory. It would only become a problem if you're trying to multitask with 50+ apps open at once.

>>109320433
>but the ones that are displayed when you hover over the video
im not that guy but i never thought about this, i should probably turn that off next time i use plasma

>>109320781
so people just bitch about them because they are idiots? besides them taking a little longer to open than "native" packages

>>109320815
>so people just bitch about them because they are idiots?
Correct. They're doing the good old "old thing good, new thing bad", despite the fact that the "new thing" is one of the sole reasons why Linux got more popular in the past decade. Even Linus Torvalds himself once mentioned that the traditional way of delivering packages is one of the biggest reasons why Linux is failing to capture an audience as a desktop OS.

I unironically wouldn't use Linux (or would be totally miserable on it) if Flatpak or at least Appimage didn't exist.

>>109320894
AppImage is nice and simple. Flatpak is a bad design, though - theme consistency issues, GUI apps only, bad for things like IDEs that need a high level of system integration, overly broad permissions on untrusted apps. But Linux is fine without Flatpak if your distro is popular enough and provides a good native repo.

>>109320438
There are terminals that have thumbnail support, there are now terminals that can render 3d images as well.

>>109320930
The only real issue here is system integration, which is possible but only if the app is built around the fact it'll be run in a Flatpak container.
>theming
Seems like a solved issue from my experience.
>overly broad permissions
Non-issue since native packages and appimages already have ALL permissions anyway.
>GUI apps only
Another non-issue since people generally primarily or exclusively care about GUI apps.
We already have brew for CLI apps, and it's not like you'd get an Appimage to run a CLI app. You're probably just getting the binary, .sh file or a py/js file, or you're spinning up a docker or distrobox container.

>AppImage is nice and simple.
True, I like it. The main problem I have with Appimage is the lack of a real software center and update manager for it, and the fact that fuse2 is abandonware yet many Appimages require it.

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okay this is driving me nuts
is there a way to get all fonts to respect my system fonts? I have to scale Firefox to 110% just to read anything. I'm using Arch if that helps

>>109321131
I meant to say font scaling

>>109321131
>>109321138
scale the display, not font.

>>109321151
but anything past 100% scaling looks off and blurry and even then the font on Brave is painfully hard to read. Am I supposed to be exactly 1 foot away from my screen to read anything?

do you use virtual desktops on plasma?
i want to see if they work well enough
thats one of the things i like about gnome

>>109321161
are you running in wayland? is brave running in wayland?

>>109321167
I do >>109321131
but at that point I may as well just use a tiling window manager or even GNOME
>>109321170
yessir

>>109321131
Websites set their own fonts, anon. The only way to change that is to go into browser settings and block this, but you'll break some websites.

>>109321193
maybe try scaling to 125% exactly. also boot up ubuntu and try if gnome is also blurry, maybe it's kde.

>>109321193
also, go to brave setting content or brave://settings/fonts

and change size there.

>>109321193
i cant decide between plasma and gnome
i know i will get annoyed at gnome not having configuration options for certain things or having to use an extension for tray icons support, etc.

>>109321214
only issue with extensions is that they may break on updates. I just don't use that many extensions and they rarely break, I also try to not jump to the new fedora version immediately.
if you are on ubuntu or something slow like that you don't have to worry about it.

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>>109321198
I specifically do this on Firefox thanks to the advice of an anon but its not just my browsers, its also some applications that have small fonts sprinkled here and there (like VLC right here)
>>109321213
I feel dumb for not trying this or even looking this up but that helped. But like I said, there's some small fonts that I can't ignore. The font for Brave looks legible but the search bar is still rather small

>>109321232
kde likely has a setting for increases font size too, even if it's hidden.
I still think scaling the whole thing is the most elegant solution.

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>>109321249
>scaling the whole thing is the most elegant solution
I wish that were the case for me...but I appreciate the help anon(s)
Windows VLC for reference (this shit takes forever to open) the little floating time stamp is not small!

>>109321278
try MPC-qt

>>109321286
interesting little video player, though I do prefer vanilla mpv

>>109321232
you'll only have a handful of apps.
so though tedious, it's limited. go into the .desktop file of said app, and in the exec location add/play with 'env QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.5 GDK_SCALE=1.5'
for instance
Exec=env QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.5 GDK_SCALE=1.5 firefox

>>109321227
my distro of choice is arch so
i just want to choose gnome because i know it is more stable than plasma

I keep disabling timeshift and it keeps fucking activating this is worse than malware

>>109321333
Thank u anon
You guys truly are the friendly gnu/linux thread

>>109321432
Remove it?

>>109316315
That changes the windowing and buttons, the actual text area can't be truly ustomized unless you go to the code and recompile it. The author added a dark theme after popular demand, it's hidden on the "Text" section on the preferences dialog, and you can change the intensity of the dark backround, 0 is fully black and 50 a darkish shade of pastel gray.

>>109320433
>ones that are displayed when you hover over the video
You mean the animated preview when you hover over a video?
>Just disable this in Dolphin settings.
I don't think you can? Googling shows nothing and I can't find an option to turn it off. You can only turn off thumbnails completely.

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it just works

>>109324646
>gleaks memory

>>109303870
For a first time linux user trying to learn what would make more sense to put on mu 128gb usb 2.0 flash drive mint or catchyos?

>>109324936
if you want to learn, install arch and use its wiki

>>109324936
Seconding >>109324964
Just keep in mind that it won't be your standard Linux experience, but you will be learning a lot.

>>109324936
Neither are perfect, but between those two you're better off with CachyOS due to the better DE and the fact it's Arch-based. It will info-dump you as soon as you start using the OS and there's an active community of Cachy and Arch tinkerers. The Arch Wiki itself is basically a Linux encyclopedia and while it's not 100% Arch-specific, there are some places where it's assumed you're on an Arch-based distro.

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Just wanted to say few things.
My main pc is windows 10. This toaster is laying around for so long so i installed Mint on it.
Threw a mac theme on it, ULauncher and Plank too and it works flawlessly.
The system is really smoooth and it's not comparable to windows at all.
I will not use any prog on here bc all i need is on my main Pc.
Just installed Ghostwriter and Helium browser so far and will probably use it to write things down.
It's too smooth it's unbelievable lol, thats it.

>>109326402
you should use plank-reloaded as plank is no longer maintained now

>>109324057
im not that guy but according to google gemini you can disabled that and keep video thumbnails
>Open Dolphin. Go to Settings > Configure Dolphin. Select the General category and click the Behavior tab .Under the Previews section, uncheck Play media files on hover. Click Apply and OK.

im not on plasma so i dont know if those settings actually exist

>>109320479
>>109320985
yazi is interesting, but it's definitely more difficult to get used to than dolphin, along with being more fitting for hyprland. i spent a good hour trying to get drag and drop to work until i found out it's only supported with certain terminals and only in nightly

also a bit of a chore navigating to other drives, though i'm sure there's probably something i can enable to make bookmarks, or a places menu like traditional managers.

whats the best way to get a minimal fedora install with kde or gnome?

>>109317415
doesn't matter. i use zram btw.

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>>109317899
You can do that but…
>>109317415
At least reboot when you get a kernel update. The current 7.0 kernel is:
>7.0.14 [EOL]
It's time to reboot.

>>109319282
more booty than toilet paper

>>109327387
have you tried looking for a file manager that is slimmed down explicitly for large file drives?

>>109327425
>7.0
>EOL
Huh, seemed like such a round number, expected it to become a longterm kernel. 7.1 being an odd number should also EOL soon, right? Should I wait for 7.2 or what?
I'm compiling my own kernels and still using 6.18.x. Do I even need never than that?
>>109317415
You ignore it, unused RAM is wasted RAM.

>>109328101
>Huh, seemed like such a round number, expected it to become a longterm kernel.
LTS kernel is pretty arbitrary. It still could, or something else could. It's basically whenever Greg and the rest of the stable kernel team decides "Well, it's time for another LTS. It's this one!"

is it retarded to move from arch to fedora?

>>109328143
yeah

>>109328143
Depends how much you like sucking Microsoft cock, but ultimately its up to you.

>>109328181
is microsoft involved in fedora?

>>109328143
i like fedora with kde. it's basically how i would have run arch anyway.

>>109328196
>Embrace
>--> You are here
>Extend
>Extinguish
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MS-Azure-Linux-Fedora-Based

>>109328196
Yes, heavily which is ironically what makes it very solid. There's also leaked email of the MS Devs talking to the MS-Fedora devs about making a legit corporate distro of Linux for Windows.

>>109328292
They said the same thing about WSL and Azure is even less relevant for desktop users than that. EEE hasn't worked in decades at this point. Seems like the only things that really kill technology these days are jeetification and harebrained monetization schemes.

>>109328388
WSL was an attempt to court linux users back and to honestly make translation between DBs on Linux or Servers running Linux easier to set-up for Windows if you were on the Linux side of the equation but now its pretty useless outside of everything but early day AI, but now thats even got pretty good support on Windows now.

>>109328055
the only file manager i've had the least issues with is thunar, but one thing i hate about it is i can't just keep typing a letter/number to find files and i have to deal with the whole search+scrollwheel thing that doesn't work well.

>>109328505
How big are these files coomer?

>>109328767
300gb+ last i checked. probably up to 350 with the stuff i have in my downloads folder

>>109328818
Yeah, you're best bet is yazi, ranger, midnight commander or double commander, welcome to linux time to learn a new way to use your file manager!
Obviously the most light weight being terminal, you can even download programs that you can launch in terminal that give you an ASCII menu

>>109328505
Thunar is great.
I recommend fsearch for searching files.

>>109328143
No it means you're growing up, the next step is going to be Debian when you realize you don't need constant updates.

>>109328950
>sudo dnf check-update
wow so many. i am going to install them in two weeks i think.

i keep running out of ram and end up freezing i didnt change the swap or whatever you call it in linux

>>109328959
just switch to zram.

>>109319334
Hello, please look very carefully at the icons in Nemo, do they have shadows? if yes then there's your problem, I was theming GTK3 and discovered that icon shadows are laggy as hell in file managers.
To confirm this, do the following:
run

GTK_DEBUG=interactive nemo

This should open Nemo along with GTK Inspector, go to the CSS tab in GTK Inspector and add the following CSS

* {
    -gtk-icon-shadow: none;
}

This should get rid of the icon shadows, now try browsing with Nemo and see if there's any difference, if there is then you found your problem, and it's caused by your GTK theme.

>>109328955
Make sure you don't install the new 32-bit update that is inevitably pushed by a hacker to install keyloggers onto your system cause Debian decided that system32 was no longer "universal" enough.

>>109328990
>using GayTrannyKonsole for anything

>>109328959
Setup zram swap with systemd-zram-generator (or just zram-generator on Arch) for much better swap performance.
Also install the tool earlyoom so if a program starts to memory leak or something then it'll be hibernated or killed.

>>109328999
Nemo is a GTK3 application and anon was complaining about it being slow so I provided a potential solution, what's your problem?
Also Konsole is a Qt app not GTK you retard

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>>109329012
>Also Konsole is a Qt app not GTK you retard
I know that's the joke, I wasn't being serious. Also this is very unfriendly anon...

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>>109328993

>>109328388
>EEE hasn't worked in decades at this point
Wayland is a textbook example of EEE
>make a new standard and shill it everywhere
>but also make it an unusable piece of shit without bazillion extensions
>non-corporate players can't keep up with developing extensions, you win

>>109327389
Neither. You're looking for one of these:
https://fedoraproject.org/misc/
>Fedora Minimal
>Fedora Everything
>Fedora Container Base
>Fedora Container Minimal Base

>>109329216
how many installation isos does one distro need?

>>109329224
Distros that are targeting multiple groups of users will always have a ton of isos because each is specialized for a different niche out of the box. Otherwise you'd have a couple of 20GB+ isos and you'd force everyone to download the entire thing even though they don't even need half of it. Or you'd have a single minimal iso like Arch does, which most people wouldn't want to set up manually.

>>109329250
why not just tell them to make their own distro if they don't like it?

>>109329216
i think im just gonna install fedora kde

SELinux

>>109330336
i don't understand the hate. i just couldn't run an script via /home/user/script.sh because it blocked it. that is all. i don't get it. what gives?

>>109330342
It's just much more difficult to wrangle if you're installing it fresh unlike AppArmor which is why if you want it you might as well just install/use Fedora where it works properly by default.

>>109330363
so it's just another fuck i fucked up my own system issue? i just run what comes by default unless it doesn't work but is easy to replace. i heard nobara doesn't use it too despite being based on fedora. (i just run normal fedora). i fucked up my system by fire jailing all my applications once on fedora (because i ran the command without extra options i think). it created all sorts of shortcuts and links which made a few applications misbehave so i just reinstalled. nah i am not cleaning that up.

>>109329042
He's the resident unfriendly anon determined to ruin the thread for everyone else.

>>109326402
That icon theme looks really nice... might switch to it myself though not a fan of pink.

>>109329095
That's called nobody wants to maintain your old shit grandpa.

I usually have top running on a second monitor and I've noticed that rm pops up now and then at the top of the list, what's up with that?

>>109330840
To add to this, it would be EEE if nVidia or Microsoft made a proprietary X12 to keep old shit working while also adding cross-monitor sync or whatever. Making a completely different open standard which every display server voluntarily adopts is the opposite.

>>109328370
With how Microsoft is now mostly a cloud-based company, I do genuinely wonder if they'll give up on Windows in the semi-distant future. It would be better to everyone if they did and just poured resources into making Windows apps compatible with Linux.
A man can dream.

>>109330878
Probably a script calling it for cache/log cleanup

How do I deal with being accused of theft at work because my boss is looking for loopholes not to pay me?

>>109331306
"prove it"

>>109331306
Linux?

>>109331306
kill him

>>109331326
I said that but I already received a letter to show up to the police station tomorrow morning for more questioning.

>>109331343
Well great. Show up, tell them you've done nothing, there's no evidence against you and your boss is making shit up to fire you without pay. I mean, bring a lawyer if you have to.
Anyone can report you for anything and cause you to have to go to police for questioning. All that a person needs is to know your name and recognize your face, that's it. It's not an immediate cause for concern.

Whenever I update my CachyOS it asks me if I want to remove orphan packages, I pressed yes once and it broke my system.
How do people go about this? Remove them 1 by 1? Can I just somehow disable this question? Why is it standard?

>>109331343
Lawyer up.

>>109331407
Yeah it's a bit overzealous of Cachy to do that because it could remove something "orphaned" which is actually still used by something. Just disable the shell variable in your bashrc that makes it run the orphan cleanup after full updating.

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Finally found a Foobar fork, Fooyin. I love it so much its unreal. I was using Tauon but its kinda heavy.

>>109306549
Welcome anon, Windows refuge here. You'll be fine with Mint. Fedora & Ubuntu are also good choices for beginners, the learning curve is not that steep.
Good luck!

>>109303870
i

>>109309065
I respectfully disagree in a friendly gnu/linux manner regarding that Linux Mint is the Linux equivalent to Windows 7.
Perhaps you mean that the interface is very similar and familiar to anyone who used Windows OSes before Windows 8. That is true, and I would go so far as to say the XFCE edition of Linux Mint (with Chicago95 theme lmao) is the best edition. But the technology in Linux Mint is top notch and up to date.

>>109331978
nice wayland session queer

>>109331996
I don't understand what you mean but I don't want Wayland. I don't want compositing at all.

WARNING, POST COMES WITH STORY TIME
Why is gentoo so good? I used it like 20 years ago and it was okay, but really it was more trouble than it was worth even on the dual Xeon 5160 pedestal server that was my desktop at the time. (Each cpu had 2c, 2t, 3.0GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 80W TDP, 4x4GB ECC DDR2 667MHz RAM, 1.5GB GDDR3 Quadro FX 5600 GPU)

Stuff compiled plenty fast for the time, I mean my machine was a fucking powerhouse that I picked up at a government auction of stuff seized from some company that did something illegal, dunno what, and it was mislabeled as NO CPU so I decided if I could get it for a decent enough price all I needed to do was pick up some HDDs (they remove all HDDs when they auction off stuff like that) and track down a pair of LGA771 CPUs, and I'd be set. No one else bid on it, so I got it for the reserve if $80 +govt fee so about $95 all told. I get it home, crack it open, and both CPUs are there! Turns out they meant no PSU. I happened to have one from another server that was nearing death anyway, so I pulled its PSU and HDDs (and even a VERY early 32GB SSD) and set up the server. It fired right up, and didn't even have a BIOS password! I went with gentoo because I figured with that kind of raw power, it had to turn compiling packages into a trivial thing in terms of time. And it did. But gentoo just didn't "do it" for me. I used it for about 2 months before I got tired of it and switched to Arch and that's what it ran for the servers lifetime until 2018 when it finally went no POST, no boot. RIP in Peace.

About a week ago I was bored and decided to install gentoo on the second NVMe SSD in my LG Gram 17 ultrabook (i7 1065G7 4c 8t 3.9GHz 15W TDP, 16GB 3200MHz DDR4, shit igpu) and the results are.. strange. I'm happier than I've ever been with any distro. Programs open so fast that it feels like things happen BEFORE I press enter. I am in love with gentoo. But I can't quantify what makes it so amazing. It just FEELS better then anything else.

>>109332119
cool story bro. I'll go check out gentoo

>>109332119
You don't really specify anything on technical level. Truly an useless post. My "programs" open up really quickly too, what the fuck is your point, retard?

>>109332143Do you want a cupcake anon maybe you should go outside but not in a mean way. Just because of the way you're posting

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I have upgraded kubuntu...
What is this? Are secure updates paid now? What did they do to fonts and the mouse cursor?

>>109332155
Ubuntu pro is free, unless you're a business. You can register up to 5 computers with your free ubuntu pro license.

>>109332174
> register
kys

>>109332181
Just use one of the Fedora Spins instead of you want.

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speaking of gentoo, fucking polybar has nodejs in dependencies which takes 3 hours to compile. thank you, very cool.

>>109332119
gentoo is one of those things that annoys you for a while, but if you let yourself get used to it... anything else becomes more annoying.

switching to gentoo is like switching to linux, again.

>>109332244
if node.js takes 3 hours, I fear how long will it take for chromium to compile.

>>109332244
just use the binary package for shit you don't care about

>>109332270
full night
>>109332276
i guess i should

>>109332174
why anyone still uses nigbuntu at this point is beyond me

>>109332334
Intel gpu and AI. Otherwise I would continue using mxlinux.

installed mint xfce on an old laptop i have, i used arch for a month years ago but other than that im a complete linux noob. anything i should know?

>>109332591
For Mint you don't need that much true knowledge because it tries to do a lot of shit for you anyway. I guess remember how apt works? Plus remember how to add PPAs for things that aren't in the Ubuntu repos?

>>109303870
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST
I HATE WAYLAND
I HATE QT

>>109331978
>But the technology in Linux Mint is top notch and up to date.
No it isn't.
The desktop environments Mint offers are years behind KDE and GNOME. You know, the two most popular DEs that are used by at least 80% of Linux users.
The (((native))) packages Mint offers are, on average, at least a year behind Arch and at least 9 months behind Fedora. And that's just the average. The longer you get into the release cycle of your version of Mint the older they get and at some point you'll be 2 years behind every Arch/Fedora user.

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>>109331978
>Debian derivative (derogatory) derivative (nonderogatory)
>up to date

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>>109332244
anon... what the fuck? I just checked and polybar doesn't have dependency on nodejs in Debian, I think the fact that any package has a nodejs dependency should raise some serious red flags, your portage might be pwnd, might wanna double check that

>>109333580
oh nevermind i'm stupid, those are probably build dependencies, but still a cause of concern nonetheless

Ubuntu LTS is my primary OS; Grub doesn't seem to want to detect Fedora. Is my only option to boot to fedora, format the UFI boot partition, and reinstall grub2 to the UFI boot partition to be able to get back and forth without having to hit f11 every time I want to boot into fedora?

>>109333637
Use your BIOS bootloader menu instead, or use efibootmgr to boot Fedora next or alter the boot order, etc.

>>109333637
No you can do it from a chroot, however, the easiest option is to actually install rEFInd
run

sudo apt install refind

rEFInd can detect OSes on the fly, make your computer boot to rEFInd by default and you don't have to worry about this again.

>>109333580
>>109333584
i thought it was a build a dependency, but i checked now and it's not. im really not sure why emerge was pulling it. maybe for the qtwebengine but i wasn't compiling it. i'll look into it next time i update

>>109333769
Use equery:

$ equery g polybar
 * Searching for polybar ...

 * dependency graph for x11-misc/polybar-3.7.2
 `--  x11-misc/polybar-3.7.2  amd64 
   `--  dev-lang/python-3.12.13_p1  (dev-lang/python) amd64 
   `--  dev-lang/python-3.13.14  (dev-lang/python) amd64 
   `--  dev-lang/python-3.14.6_p1  (dev-lang/python) ~amd64 
   `--  x11-base/xcb-proto-1.17.0  (x11-base/xcb-proto) amd64  [python_targets_python3_12(-)]
   `--  dev-libs/libuv-1.52.1  (dev-libs/libuv) ~amd64 
   `--  media-libs/fontconfig-2.18.2  (media-libs/fontconfig) ~amd64 
   `--  media-libs/freetype-2.14.3  (media-libs/freetype) amd64 
   `--  x11-base/xorg-proto-2025.1  (x11-base/xorg-proto) amd64 
   `--  x11-libs/cairo-1.18.4-r1  (x11-libs/cairo) amd64  [X xcb(+)]
   `--  x11-libs/libxcb-1.17.0  (x11-libs/libxcb) amd64 
   `--  x11-libs/xcb-util-0.4.1  (x11-libs/xcb-util) amd64 
   `--  x11-libs/xcb-util-cursor-0.1.6  (x11-libs/xcb-util-cursor) amd64 
   `--  x11-libs/xcb-util-image-0.4.1  (x11-libs/xcb-util-image) amd64 
   `--  x11-libs/xcb-util-wm-0.4.2  (x11-libs/xcb-util-wm) amd64 
   `--  x11-libs/xcb-util-xrm-1.3-r2  (x11-libs/xcb-util-xrm) amd64 
   `--  media-libs/alsa-lib-1.2.16.1  (media-libs/alsa-lib) ~amd64 
   `--  net-misc/curl-8.21.0  (net-misc/curl) ~amd64 
   `--  dev-python/sphinx-9.1.0-r1  (dev-python/sphinx) ~amd64 
   `--  dev-libs/jsoncpp-1.9.8  (dev-libs/jsoncpp) amd64 
   `--  x11-wm/i3-4.25.1  (x11-wm/i3) amd64 
   `--  media-libs/libmpdclient-2.23-r1  (media-libs/libmpdclient) amd64 
   `--  dev-libs/libnl-3.12.0  (dev-libs/libnl) amd64 
   `--  media-libs/libpulse-17.0  (media-libs/libpulse) amd64 
   `--  app-alternatives/ninja-1  (app-alternatives/ninja) amd64 
   `--  dev-build/cmake-4.3.4  (>=dev-build/cmake-3.28.5) amd64 
[ x11-misc/polybar-3.7.2 stats: packages (26), max depth (1) ]

It doesn't depend on it directly which means something else is indirectly pulling it in for you.

equery g --depth=0 polybar

will list all deps

>>109333637
You can create a grub entry that will source the grub.cfg file the fedora partition uses or just chainload it.
Or you can install os-prober, and enable that in /etc/default/grub , that might work without getting too complicated.

>>109333442
Gnome is dogshit and is only popular because ubuntu and fedora ship it as their default. Xfce is way better than gnome and is only really held back by no wayland and whatever gtk shittery they inherited from gnome.
Maybe one day xfce will switch all their stuff to qt like lxqt did.

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>>109333830
it is indeed a dependency, thank you

>>109333897
GNOME is objectively better than Xfce in almost every single way. Your personal opinions don't matter and don't change the fact that GNOME is one of the two standard Linux desktops.

>>109333929
You can also do

equery d nodejs

which directly answers the question of "Which package has an explicit dependency on it" (You were right, QtWebengine needs it):

 * These packages depend on nodejs:
dev-lang/nim-2.2.8 (test-js ? net-libs/nodejs)
dev-python/cloudscraper-1.2.69-r1 (test ? net-libs/nodejs)
dev-qt/qtwebengine-6.11.9999 (net-libs/nodejs[icu,ssl])
www-client/firefox-99999999 (net-libs/nodejs)

>>109333968
i was trying to use emerge to look up what packages depend on it, didn't know about equery.