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>>109512799>unsexy girl.>made before the other op got bump limited or dropped from 10th page>not blue archive girl>not stallman meme eitherWon't use. 0/10.
>>109512752Forgot add: this is Proton 11.It's clearly way better than Cachy Proton 11-latest. CPU difference is 191 vs 220 fps.Just use vanilla proton, kids.
>start steam>another six games need their shader pre caching updates
>>109512749Closest you're going to get is KDE Plasma getting a merge request for libinput to handle it, since apparently everyone was retarded and didn't actually check if libinput could do that https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/9671#note_1567670Anyone checking this thread: github.com/gnhen/midscroll
woah a sexy woman
Is there a good LLM tool able to automatically assign some tags to links based on the URL and title? I've a huge as fuck text file filled with links (over 3k) i'd like to make them bookmarks, but they're basically dead weight without proper tags. Many might not even work anymore.
>>109513148you can probably use any old llm but you'd have to split up the file because of line limitsit's honestly amazing how i can just copy paste stuff and the ai cleans it up for me
>>109513148>Many might not even work anymore.run a script that just checks for a specific type of response from the server.
>>109512799Holy 1990s. Wtf did you find this.
What Linux distro should I use if I have high end hardware (RTX 5090 / 14900K) and mostly just use my desktop for playing video games and some light dev with python / bash?
>>109513227CachyOS
>>109513227linux mint cinnamon
>>109513242Literally the worst distro for modern hardware.
>>109513246
>>109512883Proton cachyos enables some stuff needed for compatibility with a bunch of games and automatic fsr4 upgrade for rdna4. Proton experimental only does fsr4 upgrade for rdna3 right now. There are clear reasons to use it, performance isn't one of them.
>>109513260Ancient kernels, no modern GUI server.
>>109513277sounds like a conspiracy against linux mint
>>109513296You would think so, but no. Mint really is that shit.
i've only ever used systemd, but i'm interested in trying out gentoo with openrc.please withhold your strong opinions about init systems for a moment and answer me this: is there anything systemd does that i might take for granted? stuff that i'd miss when using a non-systemd system?
>>109513261Seems like you don't understand the situation.
>>109513222>>>/w/2262657
>>109513361Do you use Systemd exclusives like Snapd? If not, you're probably not going to miss anything.
>>109513390Explain it, then, you fucking Muppet.
>>109512799I switched from Pop! to Ubuntu because Pop! took so long to release 24.04. Now I'm getting fed up with snap and daily security updates that you can't avoid because of a bug in the updater. You can't even uninstall the updater because the nvidia drivers depend on it.I'm leaning toward Artix. The only thing holding me back is which init system to choose. What are some reasons to choose one over another? I'll need to write init scripts for a Minecraft server on my HTPC.
>>109513227gentoo
>>109513361>hand pick DHCP and NTP clients and a system logger as nothing is provided out of the box>system could be slower to start as there's no parallelisation>there's no systemd service file equivalents, everything is a script of sortsSigh, I'd pick the old sysV over that thing if I wanted to neckbeard around. IMO everyone who doesn't want to neckbeard with their system should just stick with systemd.
I installed CachyOS.
>>109513173>>109513156Just run curl -fSLJ -w "HTTP Status: %{http_code}\n" -O "$URL"
curl -fSLJ -w "HTTP Status: %{http_code}\n" -O "$URL"
How hard is it to change bootloaders?
>>109514129I kinda wish I did instead of plain Arch. Seems pretty much the same without the headache.
>>109514366Near as I can tell yeah CachyOS is basically Arch with less headache and an actual GUI installer.
>>109514366You can switch package repositories and kernel.>>109514361Easy.
>>109514129On a lark, I installed nyarch, and truly, it's horrifying.
I have my snapshot subvolume in btrfs mounted as /.snapper. I want to change it to /.snapshots. Do I need to do anything specific or can I just edit fstab?
>>109512883>Just use vanilla proton, kids.Of course, Cachy themselves say that you should default to the latest stable release of Proton and ONLY use Proton-CachyOS if you either need its cutting edge features, like low_latency_layer, or niceties like the FSR3->FSR4 upgrade feature for RDNA3/RDNA4 cards (now default behavior).The cases where it actually fixes something or improves performance in a meaningful way outside of utilizing these features are going to be slim to none at this point, Valve is doing a very good job with their stable releases.
>>109514366As an Arch user since 2015, yes. It's just Arch with a bunch of sane defaults you'd have to work out how to implement yourself post-install but probably lack the expertise to do so.Those configurations are easily browsable if you're interested in what they're setting up differently from a vanilla Arch install, many are found here: https://github.com/CachyOS/CachyOS-SettingsThough some are in other packages.I wanted to be an elitist and continue to just use Arch, but the end result would just be me aping Cachy's work. If you have an existing setup that you're happy with you don't need to reinstall it, you can even use their repos on Arch, but it's hard for me to recommend Cachy over Arch on fresh desktop installs at this point. I'm positive there's at least one good reason, but the net positive leans toward Cachy at this point I think.I did end up reinstalling my Arch setup of a decade because I wanted to switch from ext4 to btrfs anyway.
>>109513380You should try running the games with UMU.umu-run game.exeIt has some environmental arguments for configuration but unless you want a custom prefix location I wouldn't bother with them.I'd be very surprised if it didn't literally just work, this shit (proton, which umu handles utilizing outside of steam) is bordering on magic at this point.I've been using a GPU accelerated Windows VM via PCI passthrough using libvirt/qemu and Looking Glass on my Linux setup since 2020 and I can tell you right now, don't do this in 2026 unless you have a very good or niche reason to.At this point the amount of games that will run in a Windows VM but not through Proton are very small.In regards to anti-cheat, things have flipped in that I'm now experiencing more pushback in a VM than on native Linux. For example Marvel Rivals explicitly blocks VMs, but runs on Linux just fine, and it's not the only game I've found that does this. It's kind of retarded, as anyone using a VM to cheat could absolutely do so on baremetal Linux as well but here we are.The only good reason to use a passthrough VM in 2026 is if you suffer extremely poor stability or performance on Linux for some reason (that's me, RDNA1 stability is complete dogshit under the open source Linux drivers and loves to crash my entire desktop randomly when playing games through dxvk).
umu-run game.exe
anyone else on bleeding edge nvidia 30xx drivers experience suspension being more broken than usual these past weeks?normally, suspend used to have a 80% chance of waking up properly now it's zero percent lol
>>109512799Any way I can make KDE Plasma Wayland allow Steam's virtual keyboard to work outside of Steam?This shit works fine on windows and x11, but Wayland of course makes everything difficult. I tried googling but only suggestions I found are telling me to install KDE plasma's own virtual keyboard which can go fuck itself because Steam's supports using the keyboard with the controller, which is the point.
>>109514744>Any way I can make KDE Plasma Wayland allow Steam's virtual keyboard to work outside of Steam?Last time I used it it worked outside of Steam just fine.
>>109513260It didn't see my 9070xt. It knew I'm using AMD gpu, but that's it. This was on 22.3.
>>109514749It doesn't for me. When I go to browser and press control+x it just returns me back to steam. And I can't get it to appear in games either.
>>109512808>girlThat's a man.
last time i tried cachyos on my old laptop i got audio crackling on proton gamesit never happened before, it also never happened on arch
>>109514849Odd, as cachy takes measures specifically to try and mitigate that issue (as compared to the ootb settings at least).
>>109514681nta but tried umu once, but for some reason I couldn't control anything in the game's window (mouse and keyboard were totally ignored by the game it seemed)Might try again some time in the future.
>>109514868i dont know maybe it was the BORE schedulerthey dont default to that anymorehaven tried cachy in a while
>>109514372So easy a caveman can do it?
>>109513227I'm in the same situation, just got done reading through the relevant wiki pages and I'm now leaning toward Debian, but I'd be interested in hearing what other suggestions people have here besides Gentoo
>>109514927Any global variables like forcing WINE's wayland mode? Or perhaps it was some issue since fixed. Couldn't tell you, shouldn't happen obviously.
>>109514951Cachy if you want rolling, Fedora if you want fixed. Debian belongs on servers.
>>109514952Nope, just for setting prefix directory to the umu one.I didn't try to fix it too long. It also had the annoying habit of starting the game on the other monitor, but that's probably fixable by setting the display variable somehow. Pointless though as long as controls get ignored.
>>109513978Sysvinit is even worse than OpenRC and it's not like it's hard to install a system logger or DHCP client or NTP client. Install NetworkManager, it will pull something in, don't care what, job done. Chances are you're even using that on Systemd systems since absolutely NO distro defaults to Systemd Networkd and timesyncd doesn't provide proper NTP time synchronisation and is only a dumb SNTP client (that's why distros like Ubuntu replace it with a proper NTP daemon: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-ntpd-rs-rust-time-sync)
>>109514980>Sysvinit is even worse than OpenRCWell yeah kinda but hey, isn't it neat to have everything as plain old shell scripts?>it's not like it's hard to install a system logger or DHCP client or NTP clientTrue. Just feels weird when used to systemd.>absolutely NO distro defaults to Systemd NetworkdSo I've seen. I personally use it because I think systemd-networkd is great for doing various tricks such as>get internets from an Android hotspot>be forced to use DHCP as it's recent enough Android that randomly picks its IP from 192.168.32.0/24 instead of being a static 192.168.32.1>the Android hotspot is your secondary gateway so give it a higher routing metric>but want specific routes that specifically use the Android phone's gatewayOK a bit irrelevant but just saying systemd-networkd can do a lot. Have no idea which DHCP client can do the last part, besides systemd of course.
