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

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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?
https://kycnot.me

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

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install fedora
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i use omarchy because i'm a chud
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>>109859625
Wait a second, is what Torvalds says really part of the advert, because that's soooo not kosher for corporate.
>GNOME
Big fucking NOPE
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Is it really necessary to take care of .pacnew and .pacsave files after a system upgrade?
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>>109859601
i wish i had a stack of raspberry pi
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>>109859775
most useless thing in the whole world
>>109859710
>doesn't know about the spins and minimal version
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>>109859715
Install Gentoo and there's a command called dispatch-conf that will go through the config files for you.
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https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2101425894309167327

https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2101425894309167327
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>>109859704
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>>109859835
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Zorin OS just works well for me, and yes I know it's an older Ubuntu version, but I simply don't care. I hope everyone is enjoying whatever distro they're on.
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>>109859601
Need some help frens. I was looking into tmux alternatives and found dvtm, which works great, except that colors are fucked up and don't display properly in some places. Picrel is Vim having no colors at all, just black and white, same thing for fzf. This doesn't happen on Tmux, where both display properly. On top of that, Lf (tui file manager) takes a while to open for some strange reason. Both the colors and Lf problems occur in both a regular X session and even the TTY.

I tried commenting out the $COLORTERM env var in my zprofile file but that didn't change anything. The $DVTM_TERN env var is set to "dvtm". I understand colors are a "difficult" thing to do for a terminal, but what's with Lf having a delay? Anyway, I also tried mtm (micro terminal multiplexer) where Lf opens immediately, but the same color issue exists.

>just use tmux bro
No, I want to be a hipster.
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>>109859800
>>109859715
Every distro sucks with configs. I've tried Debian, Ubuntu, Arch and Gentoo and they all do this exact same shenanigans:
>package has config file
>config file has been altered to suit your needs
>update package
>package manager offers you a "new configuration file"
>new configuration file is the exact same default as it was originally
So. The configuration file didn't actually even update from the previous default, no new options or syntax or anything.
Sure, Gentoo's dispatch-conf is handy as I can simply say fuck it to all updates.
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Fonts looked fine on Fedora KDE but I'm having a lot of issues on Debian KDE. Calibri here for instance just loses anti-aliasing at certain sizes.
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>>109860613
I fixed the aliasing by putting this in ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/25-no-bitmap.conf:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<test name="scalable" compare="eq">
<bool>true</bool>
</test>
<edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>


Another issue I guess is that some web pages are using fonts they never used on Fedora or Windows. The IPA transcriptions on Debian are using Gentium, which is technically Debian actually rendering them correctly since Debian ships the Gentium font requested by Wiktionary; Fedora and Windows don't.
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wincuck here (I promise this pertains to linux)
a program I'd really like to find an alternative to is the windows alarm application that I use for timers, specifically the part where it ducks the volume in other programs to make sure I don't miss it ringing
Even if I had to use a script that fires in terminal I don't mind something like that, but has anyone heard of something like this already so I don't reinvent the wheel?
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>>109861125
KClock and KAlarm are probably what you're looking for. KClock even has the ability to wake your computer up from sleep which is insane to me
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>>109861125
I use xfce4-timer-plugin on my panel and set a command to play a sound upon timer finish. Obviously only Xfce desktop only.



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