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thunar >>> pcmanfmqt

I'm trying to switch to linux from windows. Really I'm trying.
I'm currently dual booting and using cachyos.

Why the fuck can't I change the order of system tray icons on KDE plasma? It's it too much to ask to have the audio icon on the far right?

Also problems with audio when it starts up from quiet. Like small sounds are all choppy.

Also audacity display issues. Maybe something to do with wayland?

Aside from that it's pretty fast and cool.

>>109364596
>cachyos
Stop reading there.

>>109364596
Is this bait?
You can or should be able to? Literally just right click the bar and you should be able to customise it.

>>109364863
It literally doesn't let you
I tried everything
You can move the entire bar just not the order of icons
So retarded

>>109365156
Weird, maybe I'm getting my wires crossed and I'm thinking of XFCE, I swear it used to be the case that you could.
Sorry I gaslit you Anon.

KDE is kind of kringe, turning every word that starts with c into k.

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fucking linux fuck FUCK

>>109365564
which one of them do you want to fuck, tyrone ?

>>109365172
I'm not sure about the rest but I keep going back to xfce for its panels
fuck gnome

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>>109365624
That lil nigga that's tucking his quarter zip in the front to show off his package.
I do it too.

PikaOS

WHY THE FUCK does the Virtual Keyboard keep re-enabling itself after a reboot on Plasma???

>>109365156
>You can move the entire bar just not the order of icons
Just tried it myself on KDE, and yes, this seems to be an entire block by itself that you can't rearrange unlike everything else in edit mode. Maybe suggest it?

>>109365719
You opened settings, searched for keyboard, and toggled "show virtual keyboard" to "never" anon?

>>109365746
Yes nigga

>>109365749
Damn, you're inherently incompatible with KDE then if you run into so many niggardly problems. This isn't a laptop you're on, is it. I had zero problems with desktops myself but headaches with laptops.

>>109365719
Its a bug. Install gnome.

>>109365763
It's a known bug, many people have complained about it.
>>109365778
I'm not a fag, sorry.

>>109365814
You are a fag since you use kde.

>>109365820
Come on now, bait has to have some basis in reality

>>109365719
Have you tried uninstalling it? Why do you have the package installed if you're not using it?

>>109365845
And by the package I mean the completely optional plasma-keyboard package, not switch to GNOME.

Don't install crap you're not using and then complain about it being enabled.

>>109365862
Because it's a default package, didn't even know it was something you could uninstall

>>109365932
Did you install the meta-package? That's probably what brought it in. It's completely optional.

>>109364609
CachyOS is the most popular distro for good reason, it’s about as perfect as Linux gets. /g/ insisted it’d be abandoned by now but of course you mongs were wrong as usual.

>>109365736
>suggesting things to the KDE devs
Good luck with that.

>>109365826
You are using the distro with the gay furry mascot, anon. The one that every gaymer distro uses by default. Be serious.

by virtual keyboard you mean those suggestions that show up when you type something?

>>109366035
That's what he means, yes. I think it's always enabled on the lock screen and login screen so you can type special characters that may be in your password. Just uninstall it if you don't want it.

>>109366043
thats a different setting
its on the on screen keyboard section
its show popup when holding a key
i couldnt type my password because of that retarded shit
there was also a bug related to it that might have been fixed on 6.7.3

>>109365172
I haven't used Xfce in a long time, but from what I remember each panel icon is a separate widget there instead of it having a unified system tray.
You could technically achieve the same on KDE Plasma if you make a separate widget for everything you want in your panel, since the tray icons cannot be re-arranged.

>>109366511
That's probably what I was thinking of. I agree with the original Anon now, it is kind of stupid that, that is case now that I think about it.
There should be an easier way to rearrange the panel icons...
>>109364596
Could always open up a bug report and be the change you want to see in the world.

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>ran out of meds
Time to install libreboot + trisquel on my stinkpad

>>109365719
Are you on Fedora? I had this issue and couldn't uninstall because it was marked as a dependency. When I looked into it the bug of the settings menu not respecting you disabling the virtual keyboard altogether has reports going back to Fedora 41. Some people assumed that when they swapped to Plasma-keyboard from the old virtual keyboard that it would solve it but it's something more fundamentally broken under the hood and may not be distro specific, and could possibly only be affecting specific hardware which is why it has existed for so long without more people complaining about it.

Is the rpm fusion version of steam better than the flatpak?

>>109366933
>Are you on Fedora?
Yes.
>reports going back to Fedora 41
I also saw this
>would solve it but it's something more fundamentally broken under
So it seems. I saw that there was a merged bug fix related to this issue 2 weeks ago. Not sure if that will actually fix our issue but should presumably come with the next frameworks update.
>which is why it has existed for so long without more people complaining
I don't remember when they added the new virtual keyboard, but it started becoming problematic for me with the update that added the hold down a key "feature".

It came with a bug that changed how highlighting text and then pressing brackets/parenthesis in Kwrite worked, normally it would just add it around the text but the bug caused it to replace the text instead. This was later fixed though.

The addition of the holding down a key feature was super annoying and I don't think you can disable it so I disabled the entire virtual keyboard to get rid of it. Prior to this it was enabled and I never had any reason to disable it.

>>109367058
you can disable it >>109366058
https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1ugvkid/how_to_remove_this_keyboard_feature_its_so/

im not on plasma but that happened to me on arch and couldnt type my password

shot in the dark but has anybody forked the gtk3 file-chooser-icons patch to make it work with gtk3-classic?
too much of a scrub to make it work myself

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>>109365564
Looks both soul and pure evil at the same time. Kind of like of old photos of Bill gates.

>>109366014
>CachyOS is the most popular distro
it isn't. cachy's users are just very vocal minority.

>>109367432
It's one of the quickest growing new distros user-wise actually, behind base Arch.

>>109366962
It's the same shit. Steam launches games in their own container environments anyway.

>>109367432
it is the most used on steam surveys

>>109367728
Steam users are not a valid representation of an average PC or even an average PC used for playing games. CachyOS being the most popular non-SteamOS distro there doesn't mean much.

>>109367453
It's safe to say that it attracts clueless normie retards like yourself.

>>109367601
One requires a bunch of dependencies, one doesn't.

>>109367837
What are you on about? They both require dependencies.

>>109367756
>average PC or even an average PC used for playing games
Yeah, cause these would be windows machines. But why should we care about them?
Anyway, I disagree on the later - PCs used for playing games will quite likely use steam these days.

>Steam users are not a valid representation of an average PC used for playing games
what

>>109367863
>PCs used for playing games will quite likely use steam these days.
Believe it or not, most people who play games on their PC don't even use Steam.

>>109367865
The claim was "CachyOS is the most popular distro", which is incorrect. It's the 2nd most popular distro on Steam, but it's not the most popular distro in general. Going off Steam you'd think nVidia is the most popular GPU vendor as 80% of Steam users are using an nVidia GPU. But this is totally incorrect by every single non-Steam metric. Generally speaking nVidia only makes up 15%-18% of the GPU market, similar to AMD. Intel is what more than 50% of people use.

Besides, popularity does not equal quality. Manjaro and Ubuntu were the 2 most popular distros in Steam surveys not that long ago and I would never call Manjaro a good distro at all. It's an unstable shitshow and the project has basically collapsed with half the team walking out recently.

>>109367853
The flatpak wasn't working for me; So I got rpmfusion version. So far so good.

>>109367940
steamdeck is skewing the results, without it cachy would be most popular. Do you count steam decks as a pc? I don't
Also, not sure what your point is about the GPU market. When people talk about that, they obviously talk about discrete GPUs, not integrated ones. Intel discrete GPUs do not have 50% of the market.

>>109368336
>When people talk about that, they obviously talk about discrete GPUs, not integrated ones
No

>>109368431
guess we won't find an agreement about that.

>>109364369
Ubuntu here I look like this

>>109368519
>guess we won't find an agreement about that.
Valve themselves are not making a distinction, so why do you think anyone else does? Steam hw survey is the thing being cited here for alleged CachyOS market share dominance, yet you want us to arbitrarily ignore the GPU marketshare in the same source? Nonsense.

Is it true that arch wiki removed the xlibre page for "CoC violation" and banned all the related discussions?

>>109369057
Yes, because xlibre is chud software

>>109369057
you could have just went and check yourself

>>109369138
How does a fork of a display server become political?

>>109369557
That's not the fault of the people who made the fork of the display server though.

>>109369567
I'm not saying the Arch wiki is being smart about it either.

>>109366029
A desktop environment/compositor is not a distro.

>>109369138
>>109369548
>>109369557

I refuse to believe there is anything political about display servers at all. It's not possible. The whole idea is absurd. It's like saying wearing red shoes is a political statement.

>>109369837
Everything is political Anon. When you grow up you'll understand.

>>109364596
>Why the fuck can't I change the order of system tray icons on KDE plasma?
Works on my machine
>It's it too much to ask to have the audio icon on the far right?
Why would you want that? No one needs that.
>Also problems with audio when it starts up from quiet. Like small sounds are all choppy.
That's normal, it's because the hardware support isn't there yet. If you have an issue with that you should write your own drivers
>Also audacity display issues.
Works on my machine
>Maybe something to do with wayland?
Why do you hate free software?

>>109369837
Refusing to wear red hat is a political statement.

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>>109364369
you missed NixOS.

>>109364369
>try to install xlibre on cachyos
>Can't resolve dependency "elogind" which everything else depends on
>pacman -Ss elogind
> ~
>yay -Ss elogind
>a bunch of tangentially related and years old AUR packages
What's up with that? I've tried looking up elogind and xlibre elogind and it seems no one else is having this same issue. Elogind isn't really mentioned anywhere. Am I retarded or something?

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Tired of captuccin. any muted/monochromatic theme that's available pretty much everywhere like catpuccin?

I installed CachyOS with KDE, and I'm wanting to try XFCE, but after installing the necessary packages (xfce4 group, xfce4-goodies group) whenever I try to log in to the XFCE session I just get a black screen, no mouse or anything. It doesn't matter whether I start it in X11 or Wayland. Is there something I'm missing here?

>>109371348
nvm, i got it. I just had to install xorg, I guess.

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That's it, I can't use libreoffice anymore, I quit. Using that shit makes me want start drinking again
What are the alternative these days?

>>109371558
Installing MS Office in a Windows VM and activating it with MAS.

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Very nice. It looked too 'empty' before without the logo/name. Now it looks like a respectable browser.

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>friendly linux general
>everyone seems on edge and kind of mean

sorry for being a detestable newfag but i just wanted to know what the best casual "out of the box, avoid windows but is a good windows replacement" was

the "which distro should i use" thing doesn't help at all i don't understand why it's just a list of things without something called systemd

>>109371699
Ubuntu
>Which version
LTS 26.04

So I'm about to install void but I have a couple questions since It's been a long time since I've done manual partitioning. I have a 2TB SSD. How much should I dedicate to /efi/boot and how much should I dedicate to swap if I have like 32gb of ram? I don't plan on using hibernate if I don't have to.

>>109371189
Isn't CachyOS based on Arch? elogind shouldn't be there at all. elogind is a de-systemd'd version of systemd-logind. It should only be on non-systemd distros, such as Artix or Gentoo with OpenRC, and even then, it's optional.

>>109371699
CachyOS or Bazzite

>>109371699
If you want a more windowsy gui then I would say Mint rather than Ubuntu but either should be fine

>>109371771
1GB for the EFI, either 4~8GB for the swap (use zram swap.)

>>109371699
Use Bazzite

fuck i cant decide between fedora and arch
im kinda tired of setting everything up myself and fedora will definitely offer more "stability"

>>109371846
>>109371189
I figured out the issue, for one thing I was being a speedreading retard, for another all of the links for the Arch-based distros lead to the github organization page which has the Artix readme at the top for some reason, instead of directly linking to the relevant repository/github(dot)io page specifically meant for the non-Artix Arch distros. Whatever though, it's no big deal, I just added the correct repository and it installed without issue.

>>109369837
It's not the software itself, it's the lead dev having the wrong politics

>>109371896
less time worry
more time use computer
just pick something

>>109371896
You literally answered your own question, why are you doing this to yourself?

>>109372163
because im an arch tard

btw do virtual machines run faster on linux than on windows?

>>109365564
how many of them would have trooned out today?

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>>109372207
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>>109372207
>>109372441

>>109372464
lol you have this saved on your pc and you post it on the internet

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>>109372473
Yes.

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>>109371699
Can vouch for Linux Mint. I've installed it on my old relatives' computers and they have no problems with it (One of them in their 70s), and they only knew windows previously. Any of the versions are fine but I try to use Linux Mint Cinnamon first if the laptop/pc can handle it. The other ones are more lightweight if you have a really old/slow system. I haven't tried the debian edition yet but the other ones are ubuntu derivatives and come with some extra QoL features out of the box from what I understand, so I just use those. All the other Linux Mint versions (besides the debian edition) are basically the same, just with a different desktop environment. Linux Mint Cinnamon is like their main flagship version.

I also use Linux Mint Cinnamon for gaming, so as long as you aren't using the latest cutting edge hardware and need the absolute bleeding edge specific drivers, you'll be fine.

Choose one:
a) Debian with Cinnamon desktop environment
b) Linux Mint Debian Edition

>>109372579
arch kde

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feetbros...

>>109372579
pikaos

>>109371699
>i just wanted to know what the best casual "out of the box, avoid windows but is a good windows replacement" was
I went with Nobara, a fedora gaming fork. Note that you will have problems if you use nvidia, all AMD systems have less problems. The biggest problem with this meme distro is the tendency of the maintainers to keep reinventing the box in regards to system updates. You thought system updates were bad on windows, well it's worse here. If you're wondering why I'm still using it, it's because it just clicked for me and I built an all AMD system at the time.

>>109372490
>>109372464
You will never look like this.
Also he doesn't pass.

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>>109364369
Guys I need support.

So in some distros I'm getting this weird glitch on startup (see picrel).
I direct your attention to that horizontal line. That's the glitch.
It happens during startup before the log in screen, and it only lasts a second or two. Overall it's pretty harmless, but it bothers me so much.

The weird thing is, it happens in some distros, it doesn't in some.

OS / Distro where it occurs
>all fedora spins
>cachyOS
>Kubuntu

It doesn't happen in
>Win 10/11
>ubuntu
>mint

I've had the best experience with CachyOS and Fedora and I want to keep using them, but it's presence is triggering me so much.

Any ideas what could cause this? Why and how it happens in some, but not in others?
Quick googling says it might be Wayland. Is that the common factor? What do you think?

>>109373530
Sorry for the glare btw

>>109373530
Wild guess but it could be initramfs related, every distro has their own magic tricks for initramfs generation.
Although that should mean Ubuntu and Kubuntu weren't different.
>>109372579
A.
>>109371699
>systemd
Consider alternatives if you ever get bugged by the systemd application suite. If you don't you shouldn't care.
>>109371771
>0.5 - 1GB for ESP, mount at /efi
>20 - 50GB for root
>optional other 20 to 50GB partition for another Linux installation
>optional swap partition
Rest of the drive for generic use, mount somewhere under /mnt such as /mnt/whatever. Then host your $HOME at /mnt/whatever/anon.
(some anons do a /home partition but IMO that's not a very good idea because there's other use cases for the big partition such as VM images or crypto ledgers or just carrying Bluetooth pairings when distrohopping)

Why do I need to learn how to SSH my PC? I always leave it off when I go outside.

>>109373750
I mean you only need SSH if you need SSH. A vast majority of people won't really need it on a daily basis or even ever really.

>>109373093
you crazy anon, that person literally looks like a girl. would bang.

>>109373799
Not with this jaw and shoulder bones, no.

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>>109364369
Hell yeah!! Gonna install Bazzite + KDE Plasma today!! Linux Mint was cool but the GTK killed the vibe for me.

if im going to give linux 170 GB of space, does it make any sense to separate / and my user files?

>>109374256
it won't hurt to have a separate root partition

>>109374267
how much should be enough for / ?
lets say maybe a want to run docker, a virtual machine from time to time, etc.

>>109374290
50gb is a safe bet

>>109374290
>how much should be enough for / ?
If you use btrfs you don't have to worry about it because everything is a dynamically sized subvolume

>>109374037
Have fun. KDE is like jumping a decade into the future compared to other desktops. The settings menu is fuckhueg so take some time to carefully go through it all.

recommendation for a linux distro for under 8 gb of rams? please question

>>109371699
Bazzite. Ignore all other suggestions.

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>>109371699
Linux Mint if you want a Windows 11 experience in a good way.
Bazzite if you like gaming on Steam also if you post alot in 4chan trust me on that.

i dont hate gnome but i think using gnome its most likely to find weird issues because it doesnt implement some wayland functionality that plasma does
am i wrong about this?

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Why does KDE Partition Manager show different available disk space than on Dolphin?

>>109374878
what's inside it?

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>>109374793
use case for functionality?

>>109374910

mostly video files

>>109374359
any distro with lightweight DE

Hey anons
I'm running Fedora 44, its installed on a 120gb SSD, I want to format my second 1TB hard drive for it to use, mainly gaming data, Ext4 or Btrfs ?

>>109374359
Basically any distro anon, Linux is very lightweight, Linux Mint Cinammon is a good option, also and I'm pretty sure anything KDE will also run fine.

>>109374878
probably space reserved for root is not shown on one of them

>>109375196
ext4 is faster and you don't need the btrfs features for game data

>>109375394
Ok, thanks, ext4 then.

>>109375394
>you don't need the btrfs features for game data
Snapper + BTRFS Assistant has already unpickled me after putting myself in a pickle multiple times.
>ext4 is faster
At... what real world scenario? And by a non-marginal value I hope?

>>109373530
Nvidia? Sounds like something wayland related, but you said all fedora spins so i'm unsure.
What are your specs?

>>109374256
If you use btrfs, usually you want to keep it all in one partition and take advantage of subvols instead. For ext4 it might be better to just keep everything in one partition if you only have 170gb to work with but usually you would separate / and /home since it makes re-instaling easier and your / never really goes beyond somewhere around 30-50gb
>>109374290
Docker, vms and stuff are usually by default stored in /var/lib systemwide or in your home folder for users, so you can always re-mount /var/lib in a folder in /home if you're worried about that.

>>109375581
They probably mean COW makes btrfs/zfs/xfs slower than ext4, but thats more of an issue with vms and torrents not games i think.

>>109375677
Games do a lot of blockwise file changes for updates. It's usually not as extreme as torrents or VM images, but it's still enough to be a noticeable problem given you're sitting there locked in waiting for the HDD to do its thing. Also if btrfs decides to compress something and it starts getting changed, hoo boy.

xfs doesn't engage CoW unless an extent is actually reflinked. Being able to do zero cost cp -a backups is actually pretty great for game patches, and xfs_fsr actually works unlike btrfs defrag. It also has several GB less format overhead than btrfs.

One big thing ext4 has going for it is native case folding covers recurring wine case folding bugs.

anyone here use navidrome for music hosting? looking for the best tui client

>>109374256
>if im going to give linux 170 GB of space, does it make any sense to separate / and my user files?
In that situation, it absolutely makes sense to put /home on a separate partition if you're going to download Steam games or other fuckhuge bloat.

>>109374290
If you have already separated /home then I don't see why 50GB or maybe 100GB wouldn't be enough.

>>109375807
Does xfs still have issues recovering from power loss?

>still on linux 6.12.x
>decide to finally update to 7.1.x
>picture freezes permanently soon after running anything heavy on my gpu
what gives?

>>109375936
Run journalctl -rb -1 (replace 1 with hovewer many boots ago it froze), if you see ring buffer timeout there, welcome to amdgpu, downgrade your kernel.

>>109364369
Mint here (Ubuntu). I look like that, but I grow a full beard.
Stop making fun of me.

>>109375936
7x isn’t stable yet. wait for a lts

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Reporting in from fresh Bazzite. Damm this distro just feels fucking good bros. Sorry Linux Mint bros but this is just good.

>>109376105
Bazzite is specifically made to just werk, so enjoy.

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Feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I got Skyrim SE with SKSE working. Then I used Amethyst to install a few mods and now this. THis has been my whole Sunday and I'm not in a good mood.

>>109364369
>>Which distro should I choose?
>https://nosystemd.org
Is this a ragebait?

>>109376154
most /g/ generals don’t need OP text. nobody reads them and they are not useful. trolls will abuse this

>>109375880
That was 15 years ago.

>>109376170
Thanks for information.

>>109375959
>>109376058
i see. i was hoping to move to zen as well but they don't appear to maintain any lts kernels, as soon as the next kernel.org stable comes out they move to it

>>109374783
If you want a Windows 11 experience in a good way, you use LTSC 2024 and/or WinUtil. Cinnamon is more Windows 7 than it is Windows 11.
Also the whole "the perfect distro for Windows newcomers is the one that ships with this DE" mentality needs to fucking die. Mint is a good choice not only because it ships with Cinnamon and has a sane installer, but also because of what it's based on, how it's maintained, how well it works with various hardware configurations, and how good the GUI sandbox is constructed. In the same vein you could recommend Arch since you can use archinstall and choose Cinnamon, but then you'll have Arch, and Arch is a dogshit distro maintained by complete retards. Similarly Fedora would be a great choice since you have a Cinnamon spin and an official KDE spin, and it's Fedora which is as close to "just werks" of Windows as you can get in the Linux ecosystem.

Also Bazzite is a dogshit distro made by faggots that want to get attention from all the SteamOS-like clones that started showing up. They'll ban you from their Discord if you don't do nothing but praise their dogshit distro, they refuse to do the work to make it "just werk" on Nvidia hardware, even though that's what they advertise as, and when that tool DankPods used Bazzite designed to "just werk" on 10 series GPU's, only for it to default to software rendering, then everyone was telling him he was the retard for expecting a distro meant to "just werk" do what it says, that should tell you everything you need to do about the seriousness of that toy project.

>>109376208
unless you need some specific hardware support, the benefits of running bleeding edge are minimal. I’m not saying everyone should run lts, but it’s way better for me personally.

>>109376264
that's the thing, i can't use zen and lts at the same time since zen doesn't as far as i can tell maintain patches for lts kernels. what do other people use? i've used zen in the past and liked it, never had issues any time i've used stable kernels before either
do i just go with 6.18.12-zen for now? it's actually still newer than the kernel i'm currently running by a couple months anyway (6.12.63)

>>109375936
>>109375976
>>109376264
Is this some Arch induced neurosis? Switching kernels should be trivial.

>>109376324
i'm only the first one you quoted. i'm using gentoo

>>109376314
you’re asking the wrong guy, zen benefits are minimal and wouldn’t care
>>109376324
lol, arch is fine if you want easy bleeding edge packages. you don’t have to run the latest kernel, and I’m simply not bothering to beta test the new ones either.

>>109376341
I hope you also updated linux-firmware, nvidia-drivers, and other packages that install modules into the kernel, as they will stop working if they go out of sync. But since you're a Gentoo user, you already knew that?

>>109376345
>you’re asking the wrong guy, zen benefits are minimal and wouldn’t care
eh, i ran some very cpu heavy software and got some stuttering playing video at the same time which went away all else equal when using the zen kernel
>>109376352
yes, i know that. i'm using an amd card. only out-of-tree module i have installed is vhba but that's not relevant since i wasn't using it at the time

>>109376368
you could probably fix that in gentoo by just compiling the normal kernel with a config to use realtime/preempt settings. that’s mostly what zen is, preempt max kernel.

>>109376385
perhaps that'd be enough. i haven't researched kernel customisation in years so i've pretty much forgotten most of it

>>109376399
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distribution_Kernel#Using_.2Fetc.2Fkernel.2Fconfig.d
just put your preempt overrides in a drop in configuration using the dist-kernel
they will likely not change between major releases. This is how I configure my kernel on gentoo and when a new lts releases I go through and check my overrides are still correct.

>>109365736
>>109365156
but you can change the icon order, i literally just tried it. what is the point of such blatant misinfo? am i going to have to record a video of me doing it?

>>109376432
thanks, i'm probably just over-thinking this and a few desktop-oriented configuration options with the regular lts kernel is probably good enough. stability is more important and zen doesn't seem interested in that

>>109376105
This post reads like a psyop. Why would anyone try to force a flamewar between two distros?

>>109376208
>as soon as the next kernel.org stable comes out they move to it
Unless you have something mission critical that has to run for months at a time without reboots then this is honestly fine. If you have a problem due to a kernel regression then you just reboot into the previous older kernel where all is fine.

>>109376341
are you using vanila kernel?

What is the best way do to data encryption on linux? i don't want whole hdd or patition encryption, just a simple encrypted folder or container, luks sparse file can shit the bed if you run out of physical disc space of id the header gets corrupted, cryfs looks good but it also pretty fragile to running out of space or index file corruptions, others like gocryptfs are complete trash because doesn't encrypt the dir structue and file metadata, so i'm not sure what to go with...
prolly gona have to go with the old shitty fixed size luks container and expand it manually when i run out of space, since it's the most robust option to hedge against data loss...

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I've been having some AMD GPU timeout issues with Cybercock 2077 on debian forky. I think the colonel might be too old. Do people generally recommend liquorix?
It's my first time using linux pls no bully.

>>109365564
What should I call my band?

>>109376597
I use 7z with password lol

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>>109365156
>>109364596
Works just fine

>>109376640
Try Cachy or Fedora KDE.

>>109376597
ZFS and ext4 have native encryption on a per-folder basis, but i think zfs encryption does not encrypt the directory listing itself only the contents within each file.
Otherwise you could do something retarded like making a qcow2 or raw disk image and then using luks on that.

>>109376680
I would prefer not to have to switch distro but thanks for the suggestion.

>>109376640
Liquorix is similar to zen kernel so its possible to get a performance boost with it, but you can always install a newer kernel from backports.
>forky
Wait, you're on debian testing? Just use sid instead.

>>109376597
I would go with cryfs BUT make sure you have proper backups.
The big disadvantage of luks is that if you have a 1TB container and change even a single byte inside you have to backup the whole 1TB again

>>109376677
He's talking about the systray.

>>109364369
Do we have an OS-tan version of this image? This is fucking gay otherwise.

>>109376720
oh ok, then im just retarded and i blame it on my lack of sleep

>>109376712
why backup the container itself? just have a separate backup container and rsync between them

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>>109376734
yeah sure just rawdog your unecrypted files over the internet for every glowie to see
>b-but SSL and shit
pic related

>>109376761
That's what restic is for dumbfuck. Your cloud provider should never see unencrypted data.

>>109376761
i don't recall saying anything about transmitting unencrypted data over the internet

>>109376787
let's say you are doing daily backups but only access the encrypted files once every 2 months, you are then needlessly unlocking the encrypted container 60 times more often than needed, so if some malicious actor gained access to your server for a week or two before you notices, he would have access to your files every time the luks gets mounted for backups

your encrypted data should never be decrypted unless you actually need to access them to use them

>>109376597
ext4 native fscrypt is the most performant and straightforward. Hides file names and no risk of single sector loss losing files. Though you can also just make a backup of your LUKS header.

>>109376811
don't decrypt them on the server. mount the image locally and only ever send encrypted data to an encrypted image on the server. the server never has to be given the key

>>109376707
I'll try sid, thanks.

>>109376811
that’s not how encrypted cloud backups work

>>109376881
for cloud you would use something like cryfs which encrypts per-file instead of a single container

>>109376833
>fscrypt
Only a smoothbrain would use that one because it doesn't encrypt directory tree and file sizes, so your cloud provider can easily find out that you have gayfurryhorsecockbukake.mp4 in your cloud storage simply by comparing the file size to their database of gayfurry porn file metadata

>>109376958
>>109376779

Got an A485 with 32 GB RAM and enough storage space. I'm down to Debian, Fedora, or nix. I'm drawing with krita, light gaming or gacha, and videos like anime or YouTube.

>>109377197
My reflex would be Fedora because AMD stinkpads sometimes need pretty recent drivers. Debian is probably fine.

I'm installing CachyOS and there's an option for "Use the same password for the administrator account." It's automatically checked so I figure it's good to enable.
I've been trying to google this and I guess I get the logic that a different admin account wouldn't increase security since they would need the admin password regardless, no matter if it's your daily driver or not. But it feels weird to have 1 password when given the option. Is it safe?

>>109367453
>thing that is actively shilled gains users
gee anon i wonder

>>109377502
I always do that because I can't remember two passwords. It's fine for a personal computer. If your system is unencrypted and someone has physical access it's game over anyway

>>109377502
the fuck is an admin account? Did they mean root? Why didn't they call it that?

>>109377594
most distros that force a user on you lock the root account entirely.

>>109377740
I'm the one asking so I'm definitely not the authority, but I think they mean they'll create another user account that has sudo privileges, which you'll then have to use the different password for. I guess root login is disabled regardless.

>>109377502
I don't know about CachyOS specifically, but it's common on Linux to have a normal account for using your desktop that has sudo privileges so it can switch to root as necessary. As root and your less privileged user account are both accounts, they have their own passwords. However, when using sudo (rather than logging directly as root), you would be using the sudoer's password, and NOT root's password. Since most of the time you will be using sudo anyway, it is sort of clean to have the root's password be same as the sudoers', if you are the only user on the system.

>>109377502
>>109377794
By the way if you want to increase security, as other anons mentioned, you can lock the root account so nobody can log in as root and the only way to do so is using sudo. That way you don't have to worry about the root password at all.

>>109377828
and how is this increasing security?

>>109377879
In the same way that having a different password for root and the sudoer "increases security".
The original anon (you?) said:
>But it feels weird to have 1 password when given the option. Is it safe?

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>>109364400
Xfe >>>>>> thunar > pcmanfm-qt > nautilus
>>109364596
>Why the fuck can't I change the order of system tray icons on KDE plasma? It's it too much to ask to have the audio icon on the far right?
I haven't used KDE in a while but you should be able to reorder tray icons with the tray applet configuration window. (looks like picrel on Trinity)
Yes, it's retarded. Most desktops do it this way so it's probably something to do with an FDO standard, so you can blame Red Hat for that.
>Also problems with audio when it starts up from quiet. Like small sounds are all choppy.
Never had this issue, must be a problem with Cachy OS's default config. If it really bothers you try tracking down their github issues and see if there's already a discussion about it. If you still have an issue on another distro try explicitly installing Pulseaudio.
>Also audacity display issues. Maybe something to do with wayland?
Probably, we warned you about Wayland.

>>109377879
>>109377918
If we want to split hairs about this, for all intents and purposes the sudoer *is* root. That's you. You are root. The root password can be different from that of the sudoer. This can be done if so inclined, but isn't strictly necessary. The root account can even be locked for that Winnie the Pooh in a tuxedo feeling. The sudoer uses his or her own password when logging in as root via sudo, rather than root's password. That is the function of sudo. If you don't like it, uninstall sudo or remove yourself from the sudoers file.

Now you may be asking "if I am root, why am I not always logged in as root?" The answer is that eventually you would do something stupid like delete libc.so.6 by accident and break your system, and then you would complain about how CachyOS sucks and is terrible and flame the distro maintainers. However, if you delete libc.so.6 as root (via sudo or logged in as root), you would be doing that deliberately and purposefully, and that changes everything.

Also if you set root's password to an empty password or something like "root" or "123456", this has the potential to *decrease* security quite radically. Although that depends entirely on what you intend to use your computer for.

>>109371558

have oracle openoffice 2014 at windows

>>109376105
based and redpilled

What is the best office suite for Linux ? I tried LibreOffice, it's dog shit.

>>109378645
Just tried OnlyOffice, looks 50x more polished.

All of this root vs sudo discussion is pointless. Linux has zero idea of user vs admin essentially.

Windows has granual ACL's where a user account could install and run programs in the user scope, but can only run proframs from the machine scope, and to act on the machine scope administrator access is needed.

On Linux there are only two scopes: non-root and root. If you're root, you can wipe your UEFI. But since desktop Linux is such a mess due to how it tries to be like Windows but is tethered to the Unix ways, the same privileges that can erase the UEFI are needed to install any software whatsoever, the user scope doesn't exist. Whether you use sudo or su, you will still be giving root privileges to whichever binary you'll be running, the only difference is that sudo applies to a singular command and su puts you into a persistent root shell.

So there are no security benefits between the two as the real security "issue" so to speak is how you have to use root privileges to do anything on Linux. It's either read only or all security protocols off.

>>109378849
>wut is posix

>>109378645
OnlyOffice and WPS

>>109378849
I'm sorry but the lack of a "sudo" or "doas" CLI equivalent on Windows is fucking retarded and actively makes me less efficient at my job.

>>109378925
Win11 has one natively now btw

>>109378972
>requires 24H2
Sounds good but I'm not updating my dev environment since I can't (and don't want to) waste time on Windows updates fucking shit up. Actually, last time I tried updating I couldn't so I guess I'll just have to live without sudo.

>>109378685
it looks like its as bloated as MS Office
"now driven by AI-powered virtual assistants and smart agents"

dropped

>>109379065
>filtered by AI features
lmao

>>109379067
go on then, why do i need it embedded into my documents?

uhh linux bros what's good to install on a dogshit laptop? its some crappy toshiba satellite that can't handle windows10. Windows 7 with no service packs was perfect and the then when you update it with service packs it sucks again.

Is there a better desktop environments than kde plasma?

I am coming from windows and want to customize my desktop but the themes on kde suck and are all the same.

>>109379114
Puppy Linux, MX Linux, maybe Lubuntu
>>109379157
Make your own theme that doesn't suck then.

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I really want to switch to Linux for desktop gaming but I'm on Nvidia and AFAIK there's still a significant DX12 performance loss. What's the status on that?

I would really like to switch, but I might not be able to until I get AMD's UDNA graphics cards coming out Q4 2027

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>>109379157
I like Cosmic DE but it doesn't have HDR support and isn't roadmapped until Epoch 3 in 2027.
https://youtu.be/r7JWiNlFHhE

>>109379157
If customization is your goal, then unironically GNOME. KDE Plasma is great for usability, but it's a fucking mess if you want to theme it or make your own theme. GNOME on the other hand has a bunch of popular extensions that let you swap layouts and themes very easily, and making your own extension or theme is trivial in comparison to KDE Plasma.

>>109379175
>What's the status on that?
It's still the same. nVidia does appear to be working with Valve, but it's unknown if they're just working on getting gamescope to work or if they're actually tackling the performance issues. So there's a chance things will improve, but probably not until next year.
Realistically DX12 games are such a small minority that you probably won't feel it unless you have a very, very specific game library. Just grab some distro that works well out of the box like Bazzite and you'll be fine on Linux while you wait for nVidia to get their shit together.

>>109379181
The great thing about cosmic is that its development is going along steadily enough that by the time KDE shits the bed, we will already have a suitable replacement.

>>109379067
>bro just let us upload everything you open to india
>why is this a problem

>>109379304
Unfortunately almost every game I play is DX12. Darktide is disgusting on my hardware. Didn't pay this much to lose such a large percentage. By the time Nvidia gets their shit together I'll likely be on AMD's flagship UDNA card next year.

Oh well. Looking forward to it. Thanks anon.

>>109379067
Why is the concept of not wanting AI so hard? Shit like a word processor doesn't need to connect to the internet to be scanned.

>>109379157
if you want crazy themese like back in windows 7 then yea thats going to be a mess
most linux fanboys that talk about plasma customization are refering to plasma itsef, you can change everything about it
but the themes are all the same shit, some dark theme that looks the same, using an icon pack and thats it

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>doing some LFS experiments
>have amazing revelations
>realize the GNU toolchain works on all OSes
>it's not a Linux thing at all
>finally understand what Stallman means by "The GNU Operating System"

>>109379611
Linus needed GCC to build Linux in the first place. I don't recall what OS he was using (probably something UNIX?) but without GNU there would be no Linux in the first place.

>>109379611
linux just has the correct license.

Why does Antix use my controller as a cursor

>>109379632
>but without GNU there would be no Linux in the first place.

wow. Stallman is a god....

>>109379985
Stallman certainly did an impressive feat but it's not only about him. It's about the fact that GNU is a completely free operating system!

>>109380037
Yeah no shit.
Why do you think stallman.org is in the OP, stupid underage fuck.

>>109379632
Minix. Linux was originally a GPL Minix clone. Which is btw why all these rustroons rewriting GNU programs under the MIT license are not welcome. Not because rust bad or tranny bad, but because they're actively trying to undermine the OS for corporate gain.

>>109371699
go here.
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
BasedstemD should be avoided, but they shouldn't remove the entire wiki that helps newbs without an adequate replacement.

Also, check the old formate Linux General Thread
>>109280873

>>109380200
Don't click that virus link.

Just use nosystemd.org

Only trannies use that wiki that chop their dicks and vaginas off.

>another shitty novidya driver update rekt my ubuntu
Jensen please. Why do you hate me so much? It's the third time already

>>109380219
Get a better explanation before dropping the wiki, retard.
People new to linux cannot expand into linux if they aren't given the proper steps. Your without systemd options are good for someone that understands init systems. It, however, does not help someone trying to escape the plantation for the first time.

>>109380232
>not using arch

After running "sudo pacman -Syu --refresh" I get 14 messages saying this about multiple packages
>error: libvpl: signature from "Daniel Bermond <dbermond@archlinux.org>" is marginal trust
>:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libvpl-2.17.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
>Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] y

Then it says:
>error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)
>Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

WTF. I deleted them all and tried different mirror links, but none worked.

>>109380328
I gave ultimate trust to that by running "sudo pacman-key --edit-key [ key ID from pacman-key --list-keys "Daniel Bermond" here ]". Then running "trust" in the interactive mode.

Same for "[marginal] Jonathan Grotelüschen <tippfehlr@archlinux.org>". Now set tippfehlr to [ultimate].

It now works: moved to the next step. Just hope it isn't INSTALLING MALWARE now.

>>109380418
Just use Artix instead.

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Pussy faggot

>>109379353
Why is the concept of optional features so hard?

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>>109364400
quick, gimme custom actions scripts

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>>109379181
Is there any way to make KDE look similar to this? The clear frosted glass look I mean, I like that kde is beginner friendly but man I think it looks like shit.

Niri + noctalia looks cool too but I'm not sure how hard to use that will be

>>109374783
>>109374037
>>109376105
Gooning!!!!

>>109381142
>I like that kde is beginner friendly but man I think it looks like shit.
It fucking does. You'd think they would at least try to make it look decent and cool after 20 years

>>109380882
Does it
>Do One Thing Well
to have all the 'optional features'?

>>109381335
>Do One Thing Well
That's a cute concept that just doesn't work in the real world and only works with some CLI tools. 99% of end users don't want a "does one thing" app.

>>109381363
It seemed to work fine until line needs to go up in the corporate world. The corporate world just tries to play highlander.

>>109381378
>It seemed to work fine
it worked fine for certain things, not an entire browser or a fucking video game.
imagine if a video game was comprised of 10000 little programs that did one thing

>>109381378
>It seemed to work fine
It never did. You're delusional. As I said, it only works for some specific CLI tools and libraries. But a real program used by the end user (or developer) will in 99.99999% cases be something that does more than just a single thing.

You're effectively arguing that an abacus is better than a calculator, which just isn't the case. "Do one thing well" is something that could only be a majority of tools/software in caveman times or before transistors were invented.

What desktop environment do I fucking use?

>>109381463
https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

>>109381463
The default these days is KDE

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>>109381463

>>109381431
>Abacus doesn't do think as well as electricity.
Not my argument. A program that constantly bloats to add more things is in a constant state of inefficiency. This is the concept where the modern design goal is to monopolize as much as possible.
>>109381387
If it's a videogame then does being a video game well. Adding AI to play the videogame, or adding an in-game browser does not make it better. That is the current state of bloat, especially with trying to ram AI in everything.

>>109376650
GNU Order

>>109381474
it sucks, I want more than it's limited features. I want cool and interesting windows effects

>>109381463
I still use xfce but it might not work for you if you need the new and shiny technologies
it's too bad your only options on wayland is gnome or kde if you don't care for either of them

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>>109381604
>GNU

>>109381667
damn bro I was just replying to anon, not trying to delve into the FiLOSSiphy of GNU or Linux or Hurd
I just know kernel developers like this guy hate any type of GPL and prefer MIT licences

>>109381628
What effects do you need?
There's the Burn my Windows project that adds a bunch:
https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows

>>109381667
>>109381716
That "Guy" is Linus Torvalds the creator of Linux. Yes, he really doesn't like the fact that Stallman wants to take credit.

The naming controversy is really stupid because both of them are 100% right in their views they just talk past each other.

Linus likes the GPL and prefers it over something like MIT. He doesn't like the additional restrictions added to GPLv3 though and in particular didn't like the way certain people tried to strong arm and force the kernel into adopting it at the time. For him the GPLv2 is already perfect.

>>109381783
Oh I thought the author was Laurent Pichart, I thought it was some random dude complaining about free software my bad. I don't really follow kernel mailing lists

>>109381628
Well unfortunately for you KDE Plasma is the most feature-rich Linux DE. If you want more and the things you want aren't provided by 3rd party KDE extensions, then you need to start extending it yourself.

can you get transparency on kde without third party tools?

>>109381577
>A program that constantly bloats to add more things is in a constant state of inefficiency.
"bloat" is a meme term that means nothing. It's an entirely subjective epithet. Clearly people don't find AI bloat when it comes to assistance in editing documents.

>>109381957
Install a theme that has transparency baked-in. Some of the most popular global themes have transparency. Apparently the official Oxygen theme will be released to KDE soon. Or clone the default theme and modify it to have transparency yourself. There's no other way.

>>109381739
i dunno man, I just want more options for how the window looks, there are only a few themes you can really pick from, and when you scroll down the user created themes, they are just variant of the only 3 themes that exist.

>>109381951
>then you need to start extending it yourself.
millions of people using linux and making software for it and display environment are still shitty
no wonder the linux desktop never took off

>>109381957
see, this shit right here.
how the fuck is there no liquid glass effect on kde?

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>>109364369
Help. Connecting my eGPU freezes the system then crashes.

>>109381991
>how the fuck is there no liquid glass effect on kde?
Because it's a meme. And as was already stated, the Oxygen theme is an official theme available to KDE.

do you run the zen kernel on arch?

>>109378849
You can trivially insert a privileged user who can only install software. Just because you don't know how to do it doesn't mean it's a limitation of the system. Even sudo can allow people on a certain machine to run things as a user other than root for the purpose of installing software. The kernel has MAC rules and ACLs for this. Linux can do pretty much anything Windows does wrt complex permissions.

>>109378849
even on windows the typical situation is that you're either a limited/unprivileged user, or you're an administrator. there's no difference in that regard.
linux, as well as windows, absolutely support more granular user privileges, more than just a binary "you can do nothing" or "you can do anything".

the very nature of permissions makes it very much a "pebkac" kind of issue, like there's no way to do this generically, anything you do that is done well is custom to the user in question. linux and windows does permissions differently, but not differently enough that one could argue one system does basic segregation of authority better than another.

anyone still serving their music with MPD?
been using navidrome but thinking of going back since mpd have clients that actually look at home on xfce

what is the current recommendation for a Firefox based web browser on arch that isn't pozzed by Mozilla and has reasonable privacy features?

>>109382910
If you don't want to debloat a default Firefox install yourself then you can just use Librewolf or the arkenfox user.js

>>109382910
librewolf

>>109382335
nobody here will help you so just ask gemini

>>109382922
https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox
Betterfox also has decent settings.

>>109383685
Yeah, Betterfox is a good user.js as well.

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I'm looking at the 2015 man page of MPlayer:
https://archive.is/2026.07.27-153944/https://ar1.stilucky.xyz/raw/4JgSQCCpLrhqb7bWtfsMyBH-73b1DjarqVtEK9AMyVU

It can play a bunch of standardized(?) protocols that I didn't know about:
br:// is BluRay, dvd:// is DVD, dvdnav:// is IDK, vcd:// is Video CD, tv://, radio://, dvb:// is IDK, tivo://, mf:// is IDK, ftp://, etc.

I assume that mpv can also play all of those.

>>109381577
>>109381960
AI is controversial and introduces privacy concerns. Therefore, there should be a non-AI fork of the program you can download instead. Like how there's package-name and package-name-devel (devel = development branch or fork).

>>109384337
mpv is a fork of mplayer/mplayer2 so it can naturally play all these too.

>>109384364
>mpv is a fork of mplayer/mplayer2
OK. I think I remembered reading something about that.

I see that it also plays the ipfs:// protocol:
$ IPFS_GATEWAY=http://127.0.0.1:8081 mpv ipfs://[CID here]/[filename here].mp4

It probably defaults to http://127.0.0.1:8080 for GW so I set an env variable to my nonstandard port.

>>109376499
i had issues with 7.1.2 and 7.1.4 but tried it again with 7.1.5 and it's been fine so far. i'll see how it goes

>>109384337
dadnav i believe is dvd but with dvd menu/navigation support, i know mpv doesn't support this.
tv will be for tv tuners i presume, dvb is a digital radio standard, tivo was a tv recording device.
not everything mplayer/2 supported is supported by mpv, mpv (and mplayer2) trimmed out a lot of lesser-used functionality from mplayer, especially older stuff and the encoder (mencoder)

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Whats a theme for KDE that can make it look not shitty?

>>109382980
More like nobody here knows how to help him

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I'm using fedora workshop. Is there a way to mound my nvme ssd so that it's not recognized as a removable device? This is causing poblems because steam doesn't detect the device on start, so i have to manually select it for my games to appear every time.

>>109384805
Open disks; Go to drive, edit mount options, uncheck user session defaults.

hi so I've got this old machine I've been trying to breath some life into. Running on double core i3 with a gtx 1050ti, old motherboard.
I managed to get arch kde running on it quite fine except for 1 big issue...
Moving the cursor spikes the CPU usage to around 30%.
I've tried Wayland plasma, X11 plasma, COSMIC desktop initially which just wayland so idk if that matters.
When I'm idle the cpu usage goes down to 1-3%
I've followed a bunch of tips from some clanker models but nothing helped so far.
I had to get the legacy nvidia proprietary drivers that have the xx suffix or smth like that idk if that might be the issue.

>>109385948
Toss fedora on it if you value both stability and new software.

>>109385948
nvidia doesn't have modern support for that gpu so yeah you have to use older drivers
try mint, or what that other anon said, fedora

>>109379038
If you can install software, gsudo is also an option

>>109384641
Depends on what you want. Frankly I find changing the color schemes more important than the theme, especially if the theme follows your color changes. The font is next. But here's the question anon, do you even know what it is you want? Can you visualize what you want your desktop to look like?