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Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.

*** Please be civil — notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread. ***

Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.

>Which distro should I choose?
https://nosystemd.org
>What are some cool programs?
https://suckless.org
>What are some cool terminal commands?
https://cheat.sh
>Where can I learn the command line?
RTFM
>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
https://stallman.org
>How to break out of the botnet?
Use free software & open source hardware

GNU/Linux Games:
>>>/vg/lgg

Previous thread: >>109687821
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THAT'S A PICTURE OF ADOLF HITLER
THAT'S ADOLF HITLER.
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HAT'S OFF TO ALT DOLFLER
THIS IS IT ADOLF HATLER
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>>109707793
Reposting - Anyone know anything about yt-dlp output syntax when using the --split-chapter modifier? This is in Bash.
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>>109707925
>You killed the man
>Not the idea
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AnduinOS
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Thinking about trying out CachyOS on a spare SSD, I think I've got everything ready, except one thing that I've been wondering about.
All of my data is on NTFS drives (including games), and I heard that NTFS support on Linux wasn't that great and could cause data corruption. Is this still accurate, and if it is, what kind of setup would you guys recommend for a dual booting setup without having to copy games over to the btrfs partition?
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Any weird bullshit workarounds you guys have done.

sound driver issues for this laptop means I piped the audio out to an ancient much shittier box with consistently working sound then run the headphones from there.
all because I got bored of trying to figure out why the sound failed.
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I'm currently daily drive testing ZorinOS and NobaraOS. They're both excellent for a casual user like myself, so hopefully I'll come to a decision before the weekend as to which I like better.
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>>109707846
>>109707880
Jesus it sounds super complicated. What about shim-signed? Is it any better? AI slop says it is a simpler way but i don't trust ai
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>>109707925
I miss Hitler.
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Made this script to quickly toggle displays on and off on KDE as it seems there's no easy way to do it out of the box for desktops.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Made to easily toggle displays on KDE
# To make a system tray icon:
# - Create a desktop file for this script with KDE menu editor
# - Add the "Quicklaunch" widget to your panel and add the desktop file there

set -euo pipefail

[[ "${1-}" == "--help" ]] && echo "Usage: ${0##*/}" && exit

declare -A outputs

while read -r name enabled; do
outputs+=([$name]="$enabled")
done < <(kscreen-doctor --json | jq -r '.outputs[] | [.name, .enabled] | join(" ")')

unset "outputs[DP-1]" # Unset the main monitor connector, we don't want to toggle that one

for key in "${!outputs[@]}"; do
options+=("$key" "$key")
done

choice=$(kdialog --title 'Display Toggle' --menu 'Outputs' "${options[@]}")

if [[ "${outputs[$choice]}" == true ]]; then
kscreen-doctor output."$choice".disable
else
kscreen-doctor output."$choice".enable
fi
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>>109708780
>>109708804
Fucking imbeciles. Using niche OS doesn't make you cooler.

By gatekeeping you shooting yourself in the foot.
The more people use linux the better software support.

If linux would be mainstream then we would have the following already:
good ngreedia drivers with native ngreedia app
native adobe products
native cad software
anti-cheat support for multiplayer slop
more maintainers for drivers for niche hardware like arm notebooks

>b-but more normies means linux will be dumbed down
No you stupid moron. It doesn't works this way. This isn't windows.
You can still use Arch/Gentoo and rice it to hell.

There is literally 0 (null) reason to gatekeep. Normie adoption benefits you directly.
If valve didn't intervene we would still had shitty amd drivers and no hdr support. Only because of their normie power we have better software now
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CachyOS
https://wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_basic/why_cachyos/
>>109709162
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>>109709256
convert them to fat32 if possible, or just exfat.
ntfs support is complete ass on linux, even the newer kernel modules. i always got some badblocks shit fucking my day up. never touching ntfs again.
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>>109709256
Linux has the ntfs-3g driver which is slow but very reliable, and the new ntfs3 driver which is fast but very unreliable. Linux has no ntfs-fsck program worth using, so you have to boot Windows if the filesystem needs repair. Either reboot or spin up a VM.
>copy games over to the btrfs partition?
Some kind of native partition.

>>109710306
>convert them to fat32 if possible, or just exfat
This is how you go back to 1996 with strict synchronous IO or filesystems that progressively eat themselves. Just learn to use ntfs-3g.
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>>109710466
>Just learn to use ntfs-3g.
i tried. i couldn't mount a fucking ntfs usb drive unless i went back to winshit and did a disk check there because it had flipped some stupid badblocks thing on and wouldn't let me turn it off.
fat32 just works. exfat largely just works. they don't "eat themselves" at all, that's some retarded fud.
"very reliable" my ass
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>>109710509
You either weren't doing safe eject or there's something wrong with the drive / filesystem. Getting marked dirty all the time is a warning sign.
> they don't "eat themselves" at all
They do whenever you catch a hard reset. Filesystem journaling is important. Ask anyone old enough to remember when it wasn't a standard feature.
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Does Linux have support for the Intel Arc CPUs?
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>>109710543
yeah ofc i wasn't, why do i have to babysit a fucking usb drive like that and if i get it wrong once the stupid cunt needs me to run a whole separate OS to fix?
there's nothing wrong with the drive, it works perfectly now on exfat.
funny you mention journaling, as long as you actually safe-dismount that's never a problem either.
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>>109710560
>why do i have to babysit a fucking usb drive
Because you have a write buffer. Windows has the same problem. You're probably losing pieces of stuff all the time.
>as long as you actually safe-dismount that's never a problem either
As long as you never have a crash or power cut.
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>>109710638
i was more pissed off that i had to keep windows around just to fix a fucking usb. i no longer have to do that. ironically i later had to install windows because my work won't let me VPN unless they identify my connection as a windows one.
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>>109710655
>i was more pissed off that i had to keep windows around just to fix a fucking usb. i no longer have to do that. ironically i later had to install windows because my work won't let me VPN unless they identify my connection as a windows one.
Just run your work in VM?
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>>109710662
i couldn't be bothered, plus i had a spare nuc just sitting around. at least it was producing money somehow and not just being used to fix a fucked ntfs.
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I like alma
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>>109708684
to be fair I can't read let alone write his blog posts on the topic
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I want to try linux but I only have one ssd. Is it possible to split it to make one partition without formatting it?
So I don't have to go through tedious process of uninstalling windows -> formatting and splitting disk in two in linux installer live usb -> install windows -> install linux.
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>>109710894
just run wsl2 until you're sure you no longer need windows
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>>109710894
try puppy you don't have to partition to install it
it's just a folder you link the boot loader to
you don't have to install it btw
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>>109710912
>until you're sure you no longer need windows
I have Nvidia card. Most of the games for me have worse performance on linux. It will be at least 2-3 years before faggot Huang shits out good drivers for linux
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>>109710962
just stick with wsl2 then. what do you actually want linux for?
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>>109710965
I'm just bored. Want something different
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>>109710999
then live without good gpu drivers.
seriously anon, you'll probably be alright with the nvidia drivers, i've heard steam/proton basically makes all windows games just werk now. just go full retard and back up your important shit and switch to cachyos.
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>>109710962
>It will be at least 2-3 years before faggot Huang shits out good drivers for linux
Optimistic



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