install gentoo

>>109939113
I did.

>>109939113
I did.

>>109939113
I did.

>>109939113
we all did 10 years ago

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>>109939099
ok so been meaning to ask this, why the fuck does cachyOS open
>picrelated
when I do
>steam
>game
>installed files
>browse

>>109939551
The distro is misconfigured and uses whatever that is as the default file manager.

>>109939575
so how do I fix it? I want to use the Files file manager.

>>109939591
Settings -> Default Applications

>>109939606
thank you, i thought it was more confusing then that but i guess not.

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Are all cachy users n00bz?

>>109939766
no i just somehow fucked up the default file manager, not really sure how desu.

>>109939766
Is cachy supposed to be a noob friendly distro?
Also, they should've called themselves cachy not cachyos.

>>109940030
>Is cachy supposed to be a noob friendly distro?

Yeah. I love mine.

is there a boob friendly distro

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What the actual fuck?

>>109941163
Damn, how much space does KDE need? I have a full Slackware install just without a DE that is only 19 GB.

>>109941213
your whole hard drive no matter how big it is for animations and dolphin

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>>109941163
>https://zakk.au/posts/2025-11-25-gentoo-install-base/
your ai slop is citing an ai slop article

>updating to chromium 154 will fuck up your entire computer
Genuinely crazy how many issues there are when using Linux, never had as many crashes and problems on Windows for 15 years than I've had with Linux in 1 year. My first month of using KDE Plasma caused more crashes than 10 years with Windows 10.

Quick question bros:
Kubuntu or Ubuntu for a side laptop. The DE isn't a problem but I'd like to have the most "set n forget" experience possible.

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Thoughts on SystemRescue (formerly SystemRescueCD)?

Would you advise using their USB writer tool, or is dd sufficient?

Also, aren't writable filesystems on a live USB a risk if using them to probe potentially pozzed systems? Or am I thinking of something else?

>>109941941
Linux Mint

>>109941970
and xfce

>>109941904
I don't know how you're achieving that. I'm going out of my way to do retarded shit that you'd expect from someone who also managed to brick a Windows 10 install several times and I have no meaningful problems lol.

Sure as fuck haven't seen any crashes in about a year I think.

>>109942031
>I don't know how you're achieving that
Literally nothing, I'm mostly using the default settings. I did figure out what was causing the problem after like a month or two. KDE's preview setting was causing Plasma to crash every time I hovered over the taskbar that had a program with multiple windows/instances open. Turning that off fixed most crashes, they're fairly rare now. I'm getting like 1-2 per month now maybe.

But other than the crashes I've had a fair amount of problems with Linux that I never had with Windows. Updates fairly regularly fucking shit up was definitely a wake up call, I try to wait at least a week or two before updating things now.

>>109941944
been using sysrescd for years, has everything you'd need.
>Would you advise using their USB writer tool, or is dd sufficient?
i went straight from dvd to ventoy
>Also, aren't writable filesystems on a live USB a risk if using them to probe potentially pozzed systems? Or am I thinking of something else?
not sure if sysrescd does that, if it does i haven't used it

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>>109942098
What, like this? Can watch both videos in the taskbar at once. Pretty cool.
Or does it require a really big number of windows? I don't normally have many more than 2 unless it's Dolphin.

>>109942143
I forgot to mention that it's fixed now. I had the problem during Fedora 42, for the first month or so before I figured it out and turned it off. I turned it on again after ~6 months and it was no longer causing crashes. I had to move the mouse between 2 or more programs on the taskbar with multiple windows open and it would always crash.

>>109942211
Oh, I know that one. I saw it a really long time ago and I couldn't figure out how to trigger it reliably. I always have more than 1 window open for my browser and it didn't crash most of the time in normal use. I definitely did see it crash plasma a few times, but it came back instantly so I didn't really put extensive effort into figuring out what it was when I couldn't find a way to reliably reproduce it. I only know to put 1+1 together now because you told me about how it works.

Still, 1-2 crashes a month NOW is massive. I don't think I've gotten a single crash in the past 6 months unless you count crashes I expect... because I use certain Windows software that crashes a lot. (On Windows too)

>>109941904
Living in your own house instead of a fancy prison will be different. There is a price to the freedom.
>>109941941
>"do I want to use KDE or Gnome?"
You tell me.
>>109941163
>Gentoo
I assume they account for the compilation cache. It doesn't take all that space all the time, just when installing or updating.

>>109942098
I think its was KDE 6.4, I had all kinds of retarded problems. Biggest one was my panel couldn't be on my left monitor because it would cause an unrecoverable kwin crash

>>109939099
Is Lunduke OS good? Has anyone tried.

Uh, so, I have Linux Mint installed on my Lenovo laptop. And for very dumb reasons I don't want to get into, I yeeted /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.3 into oblivion. What I didn't realize is that apparently sudo links to libssl.so.3 (side note: WHY THE FUCK DOES SUDO NEED TO BE LINKED AGAINST A NETWORKING LIBRARY), so sudo is now nonfunctioning. Then I made the mistake of rebooting, to see if I could boot into single user mode or something and fix it, and apparently Linux Mint Xfce can't even boot to the desktop without libssl.so.3. Any suggestions?

If I have to reinstall, it's not that big a deal, but I have a few hours of installing and configuring software invested in this installation, so if I can avoid it, that would be just super.

>>109944397
I just realized I could boot into a LiveUSB and fix it. But if anyone has a solution that doesn't involve me having to go through that rigamarole, feel free to let me know.

>>109944397
openssl is not network library, dumbo
it's for cryptography, hash, and shit

$ printf foo | openssl sha512
SHA2-512(stdin)= f7fbba6e0636f890e56fbbf3283e524c6fa3204ae298382d624741d0dc6638326e282c41be5e4254d8820772c5518a2c5a8c0c7f7eda19594a7eb539453e1ed7

>>109944552
>openssl is not network library, dumbo
I didn't say anything about OpenSSL. I said libssl.so.3
>it's for cryptography, hash, and shit
libcrypto.so.3 is, but I'm not talking about that.

Do you have anything useful to contribute, or did you just want to out yourself as a callow faggot?

>>109944570
in that case you might be dumb for not checking the `./configure --help` of sudo

  --enable-openssl        Use OpenSSL's TLS and sha2 functions
  --enable-openssl-pkgconfig-template
                          A printf format string used to construct the OpenSSL
                          pkg-config name

and I checked the binaries of sudo package, only /usr/sbin/sudo_sendlog and /usr/sbin/sudo_logsrvd depend on libssl.so, which seems to imply sudo uses it to send the log to some remote server, ssh or someshit

>>109944397
you do know how to extract a file from a .deb, right?
in case you don't

curl -LO http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl-dev_3.0.13-0ubuntu3.16_amd64.deb
ar p libssl-dev_3.0.13-0ubuntu3.16_amd64.deb data.tar.zst | zstd -dc | sudo tar -C / -xvf - ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so

>>109944605
>sudo uses it to send the log to some remote server, ssh or someshit
Yeah, that's fucking retarded.
>>109944669
>you do know how to extract a file from a .deb, right?
Yes, the problem isn't acquiring the file, it's that libssl.so.3 is apparently required to boot into Xfce for some reason.

>>109944683
Ctrl-Alt-F2, Ctrl-Alt-F3, Ctrl-Alt-F4
enter username
enter password
?

>>109944689
Ah, that worked to get me a console. Thanks, king. But since sudo is broken without libssl.so.3, how can I acquire superuser privs? It's Mint, so there's no root pwd.

>>109944703
you could compile sudo from source with `./configure --disable-openssl` (no root access needed)
or
place libssl.so.3 into /to/some/path then `export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/to/some/path`, sudo binary now looks inside /to/some/path to search for .so libs

>>109944806
I appreciate the creative approaches, but
>you could compile sudo from source with `./configure --disable-openssl` (no root access needed)
In addition to not necessarily having all of the -dev packages necessary to compile sudo, I don't think it will work without setuid and UID being root.
>place libssl.so.3 into /to/some/path then `export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/to/some/path`, sudo binary now looks inside /to/some/path to search for .so libs
I tried this, and it didn't work. Apparently, it's not the sudo binary itself that's looking for libssl.so.3, but a sudo plugin, and it appears that the environment variable doesn't carry over to the plugin call.
Good suggestions, though.

>>109935921
won't repost but I am still interested in hearing any ideas

>>109944879
the only method left is to boot via linux cd/usb
chroot into your distro and fix the .so

>>109941941
>the most "set n forget" experience possible.
Fedora Atomic distros

>>109945691
Nah

>>109941054
No. Linux developers are seemingly incapable of releasing an image viewer that does everything Honeyview did for gooners.

>>109945928
There's no such thing as a "set n forget" distro that isn't atomic, unless you completely forgo updates.

>>109946128
What isn't set and forget about regular Fedora?

is there a truly minimal, bloat free but maintenance free distro similar to arch out there?
>inb4 fedora, ubuntu, debian
those are not minimal or bloat free

so why do i have artifacts on my desktop after waking up my computer? what is this bullshit?

>>109946247
Nvidia?

>>109946259
amd

>>109946138
It's more set and forget than Ubuntu, but still not perfect unless you avoid using dnf to install software.

>>109946387
>but still not perfect unless you avoid using dnf to install software
I just use Discover

>>109939099
I had an issue with sway not opening file picker for me, I just discovered how wayland does not set some variable in my systemd user enviroment (or something) and i had to use uwsm to manage my sway (or something) but that didnt work, because i have to manually exec uwsm finalize in my sway config (or something)

now, i am not a systems programmer, but wtf is all this shit? is there REALLY no more straightforward way to do all this stuff? i know its on me for tinkertrannying but man, shits a mess, yo

>>109939099
so i decided to skip installing windows on my new build because during the installation, i felt really dirty. They wanted my mail adress, a second mail adress, a phone number and all kind of tracking data
so i just skipped and went to install Linux
after a month or so i can't say i miss anything. i love not having to see the toolbar with the weather and ads whenever my mouse goes over it. Also Haruna(never heard of it before) feels better then VLC

>>109946864
i tried to install windows on a VM recently and the setup was infurating, very slow too. Linux for all its flaws never caused so much annoyance for me

Haruna is just mpv with KDE branding, thats why you havent heared of it probably

mpv is ment to be a modern replacement to vlc and many video players are using it under the hood

>>109946864
Could always use the autounattend xml file, but I'm with you, not much to miss. A few games maybe.

Omarchy Linux

Would a "noatime" flag in my fstab be appropriate for my btrfs HDD RAID if I'm using it for torrenting?

If not, what are the optimal flags?

My tech-illiterate elderly parents want me to install linux for them. They've been using windows 10 and 11 until now. What distro is the best choice for this? I'm thinking of plasma as DE.

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My laptop touchpad randomly either works or doesn't work when the computer boots. Linux in this case if it matters. 80% of the time it works fine, 20% it wont work till you restart again.
Any clues? Driver issue or hardware error? I might have opened the laptop a few times before, if it matters.

>>109948448
Aurora Linux
>KDE
>immutable
>atomic
>easy to use
>just works

Does anyone else get completely random audio problems on Fedora? Audio just randomly dies/gets quieter on one side and lasts for a bit before fixing itself. Happens to both my speakers and headphones at the same time and they work normally when connected to another PC so it's not a hardware issue. Has happened to me like 3-4 times over 1.5 years, so it's very rare.

Lasted more than a few minutes this time though, running a few commands to restart pipeware actually made it worse. It died completely on one side and then flipped to only working on the other side. Returned to normal after like 5-10 mins... Lmao it happened again as I wrote this, that's another first.

Anyone got any ideas?

>>109946246
dnf --installroot=/mnt install @core
and
debootstrap

>>109939099
You know what I thought it would be cool? A Buddha Linux distro. Distro speaks Buddha's sayings and Confusionism every 10 minutes by an AI non chalant voice. Buddha's wallpapers and old Eastern paintings. Arch based, WM manager no desktop. That would be cool.

>>109949598
what kinda setup do you have on your fedora?
try booting up fedora workstation iso, and test whether your audio issue persists there

>>109949598
No. I have 5 different computers each with a different Fedora fork and I've never seen this happen.

I've been having a really weird Steam in Wayland problem. Steam will crash, but it won't look like it has crashed, which is really fucking obnoxious. The chat windows stays open. You can type into it. It appears to be working, but no text is actually being sent, no statuses are updating. It's totally fucking crashed but still kind of just hanging around.
And worse, it just happens at fucking random, which makes using steam, chatting on steam extremely fucking obnoxious. But I think I actually figured out what the fuck is happening
If firefox is not open, then clicking a link in steam chat and having that open firefox will crash Steam (but not really).
Does anyone have any idea what the fuck is happening here? I guess I know what the fix to this is at least but what's even going on? Is there a log somewhere I could be reading?

>>109949598
Sounds like your soundchip is being fried

>>109949805
Steam is just shit in general. Sometimes I have to kill it from the task manager because it starts flooding ram

any recommended options for a linux VPS?

Ubuntu, Fedora, Almalinux, Debian, Arch...

>>109949896
Alpine > Ubuntu > Arch > everything else

7.3 should be a decent performance bumparoo

>>109949805
I think it could be a kwin problem. (what desktop are you using BTW?)

>>109950047
first hyprland, then it followed me into labwc

Loved my move to Zorin OS, so far it's all working well. The only thing I had to do was change my swap size from 2gb to 20gb; that took me a while to figure out.

>>109950143
zorin looks nice and all. but that's the os you install on your grandma's pc so you don't have to explain to her what kde is

>>109950292
It works well for me as a new Linux user coming from Windows 10 LTSC IoT Enterprise. I'm getting too old to tinker 24/7 with shit and I just want something that works, is nice to look at, and isn't Microshit. Zorin ticked all those boxes.
Eventually I'll distro hop and explore more options, but for now I'm content.

>>109949756
>>109949804
>>109949836
Okay, I have confirmed that the headphones are the issue and that they're presumably dying. I was able to reproduce the issue on my laptop and I tried another pair of headphones and they work fine on both the Fedora PC and laptop so it's the headphones.

Bit of a weird coincidence that they happen to go bad only a few hours after updating the motherboard bios that I hadn't done in ~2 years. But I guess I did have the same (maybe) issue like once or twice in the last year and they are 10 years old so probably just a coincidence.

Thanks for taking the time out of your day to try and help me.

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>>109945011
Verdammt. At least I didn't use LVM so I don't have to deal with that shit.
>>109948448
I installed Debian stable with LXDE for my octogenarian mom. I probably would have went with KDE if it weren't an anemic old machine, but it is. It found her Brother laser printer with no problem, and she's even able to do updates herself with Synaptic. I've barely had to touch the machine since I set it up for her. She only uses it for banking and financial stuff, though, because she (wisely, imo) doesn't trust her tablet for stuff like that.
>>109949727
Vibe code it, bruv.

>>109948448
Trisquel GNU/Linux or otherwise you are not respecting your parents enough.