>>110015716
i like cock

>new-ish gaming laptop with a Nvidia GPU
Do I even bother with Linux?

>>110015997
install bazzite

>>110015716
I like that image. I think I will save it.

Zorin OS is nice.

>>110016019
What's different between Bazzite and Fedora?

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Recently bought an e-waste device with a passively cooled Pentium N5030 so I decided to try setting up a gentoo compilier slave.

I decided to try out binhosts too. This shits fucking magic.

>>110016093
bazzite sets up more things for you by default, like drivers and codecs

>>110016116
>>110016093
also the version upgrades are automatic. apparently fedora doesn't upgrade itself when you update the system (for example 44 to 45) while bazzite does like a normal OS would.

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can cachy surpass mint or is it already over?

>>110016207
Mint is for oldfags who know how to torrent
Cachyos is for zoomers who don't know how to torrent

The only approved distros for a straight white man are
>Void
>Slackware
>Pop
>Gentoo
That is all.

How easy/hard is it to install codes & update Nvidia drivers on Fedora?

>>110016432
>FEDora
>nVidia
Just stick with Windows where you should stay.

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Is it normal for audio to start crackling when CPU usage gets high? I didn't have this issue with pulseaudio and I'm using pipewire now, is there a fix for this or is pipewire pozzed?
Also I'm on Debain 13 btw

>>110016624
Stop using Debian and all your problems will go away. Just use Arch.

>>110016432
Very easy if you use the command line, it's like 2 commands

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>be me
>learning kubernetes
>loving it, it's like podman but with a distinct linux flavor to everything
>taints and nodeAffinity are fucking schizo shit, but the core idea makes sense
>hit IAM
>record scratch
>EVERYTHING is TLS
>Not private/public key pairs. Fucking signed certs. For every single role.
>you will sign so much of these fucking things, that you have to setup a god damn Certificate Authority on your controlplane
Which one of you graybeard Linux fucks did this? It has your mitts all over it, openssl req/x509/s_client bullshit everywhere. It's like you did one too many Apache sites_available installations and you decided every human being should have their own vhost file.

So I'm installing Cachy os, limine and I tried to use veracrypt but it seems it doesn't support Linux and there is already and encryption method for Linux. I selected the encrypt option with the root partition but because I haven't encrypted my boot partition it gives me a warning. I don't see an option to encrypt the boot partition anyways.

I don't want to leave any security measures behind, should I encrypt the boot?

>>110017278
Your boot can be encrypted but your EFI can't be encrypted . You'll also have to add extra flags / hooks to the initramfs.
Personally my concern is device theft over infiltration so the system I have with drive encryption leaves boot encrypted. Which also lets me use a keyfile for decryption

>>110017278
Where did you get the idea for VeraCrypt? Like do you want to share a VeraCrypt volume with Windows?
>boot partition
If you mean EFI system partition, it cannot be encrypted as the firmware has to be able to read it. It has to be VFAT and that's that, that's the spec.
IMO it's all schizo stuff that makes your boot process more fragile.
>>110016226
>Pop
Why?
>>110016214
I started using Linux in 1999 and I'd pick Cachy over Mint any time.

>>110015716
Ponk

>>110017278
Veracrypt is not necessary, Linux has native support for dm-crypt/LUKS which you should use instead (this is what will be used if you tick encryption in the cachy installer).
The /boot does not need to be encrypted, but if you want to be safer from evil maid attacks you need to set up secure boot and signed boot images. This is not a problem if your threat model does not assume you will have someone swap out your boot image with a malicious one while you're not looking, ie. if you just want encryption in case the device is stolen, it doesn't matter.

I personally do use a signed boot image, and even have TPM decryption set up so I don't have to insert my enormous password every boot.
While I don't use it, enabling a PIN for TPM decryption would be even smarter, and I would use it on a mobile device like a laptop. Much shorter than the usual password, but no less secure due to how TPM hardware works.

>>110015997
I hooked up a lenovo legion with arch, it works well and I've noticed modest performance boosts for gaming. So long as you find the proper drivers for integrated graphics and power settings it's a good idea.

just installed a fresh debian
im trying to set the console keymap, i reconfigured the keyboard-config package and selected my layout and ran setupcon and that worked, even after i rebooted it.
Except then i tried to reboot it again and it stopped working. My /etc/default/keyboard reflects the correct values so i actually have no idea why setupcon isn't being ran and why the fuck this issue happens on the second reboot after reconfiguring keyboard-configuration

>>110018150
are the keyboard-setup and console-setup services working? i think one of them sets the keymap on boot

>>110018234
yeah theyre both enabled and no errors in journalctl
i also consulted the allmighty LLM and it told me to delete the cached kmap and regenerate them which i did but its STILL not working

>>110018234
oddly restarting the keyboard-setup service does give me to correct layout, but it doens't persist across reboots

>>110018284
well is the service enabled?

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>>110018296
yep

>>110018303
Is localectl overwriting your variables

>>110018316
i dont think so, im not running it manually, and the systemd service that normally reads the /etc/vconsole.conf (systemd-vconsole-setup) that localectl accesses also isn't there on debian

>>110018316
oh i figured it out i just updated my initramfs
i guess it somehow had the old cache baked in or something? and then it stopped keyboard-setup from setting up the keyboard again idk but it works now

>>110018451
not him and haven't messed with that, but considering it's keyboard-related maybe it's intending to set that up during initramfs, since that will be the earliest place you can use a keyboard, so like it was just waiting for you to rebuild the initramfs to apply those new settings to it

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>$ ss -aptu | grep 'LISTEN.*pulseaudio' | wc -l
>96

nvm solved it it's related to x2go
for some reason it leaks pulseaudio listening sockets (on 0.0.0.0 and [::])

apparently having this PS1 prompt can make your terminal fucky
PS1="\e[1;34m\u@\h \w> \e[m"

anybody have any sane PS1 defaults?

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>>110018690
>PS1="\e[1;34m\u@\h \w> \e[m"

PS1="\[\e[1;34m\]\u@\h \w> \[\e[0m\]"

Gotta close color codes in the PS1. But other wise you can do some real fuckery with bash source scripts

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>>110016226
>Pop

>>110016226
You are delusional. Trisquel GNU/Linux is the only real choice.

>>110018713
oh thank u anon, i just copied that PS1 prompt from some website
it kept breaking Konsole for me
I thought I broke my SHELL variable merely by switching from fish to bash. Why does the CachyOS team insist on fish as the default shell?

im not telling you how long takes to update @world on my dual core don't even bother asking

>>110018866
Is whoever fucking asked in the room with us right now?

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>oh is that a minor glibc update?
>time to reinstall the entire system

is wayland still a meme?

>>110018099
Tier S answer instead of calling me a flag, thanks anon.

Should I not use limine then? It doesn't support boot encryption, which one do I use then, is there any significant difference?

>>110018913
wayland is a protocol

>>110018918
im referring to any and all compositor implementations within wayland

>>110018913
Works better than X

>>110018914
Limine is fine, I'm using it right now with the mentioned setup. I used to use systemd-boot but wanted Limine's snapper integration.
Any bootloader should be able to do this, though only Grub supports an encrypted /boot (separated from the EFI partition). I see this as pointless though, since ultimately SOMETHING must be unencrypted for the firmware to boot the system, and in that particular scenario someone could just swap out your bootloader instead of your boot image.

Install the system with encryption enabled, that's the only thing that must be done at install time. If you want secure boot set up, look into sbctl post-install, the process is incredibly simple these days as long as you don't have retard hardware.
If you want TPM decryption all you have to do is cryptenroll a key into the TPM after secure boot is working, bound to PCR7 (at a minimum, I also bind to a blank PCR15, and there are other PCRs that may be useful also) to assert the legitimacy of the secure boot chain, optionally adding a PIN when you do.

What do you actually want to achieve? I can give more detailed steps or information if you want, but you need to know what you want.

>>110018926
why then, madam, is it laggy when running sway on virtualbox but i3 works fine? hmm?

>>110018914
Only grub supports boot encryption but the ESP still has to be unencrypted. One caveat is that grub can take a LONG time (like 20 seconds) to decrypt the system unless you weaken the key (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Speeding_up_LUKS_decryption_in_GRUB)

>>110018951
Because virtualbox can't into 3D acceleration. Wayland works better on real hardware than X. The desktop is so smooth with my nvidia card now while it was a choppy mess on X

>>110018965
animations for sure are a lot smoother on wayland regardless of hardware

>>110018965
ok i will take your word for it because im going to install it on real hardware now

>>110018974
To be honest, this is maybe due to nvidia fixing their driver for wayland more than anything

>>110018913
It has stopped being a meme 3-5 years ago.

>>110018950
I don't want a simple encryption only for stealing laptops junkie, I want to deal with hackers or experienced disruptors. I live in shithole country and I don't want to risk it. I don't want to go schizo mode either but I'm doing a new clean installation do I want to do things right.

The thing is that it is the first time I use Cachy os and I'm finding out knew concepts I didn't know about. I'm not tech illiterate either, I've used Linux before, but not much. I come from windows 10.

>>110019046
Nobody will be able to decrypt a stolen laptop even with an unencrypted boot partition. The danger of an unencrypted boot or esp is that an attacker could switch out the bootloader and sniff out your decryption password as you enter it. Secure boot prevents this.

>>110019046
If you want a very robust solution, install cachy using encryption, then setup secure boot with sbctl.
Install systemd-ukify, make sure that `ENABLE_VERIFICATION=yes`, `ENABLE_ENROLL_LIMINE_CONFIG=yes`, and `ENABLE_UKI=yes` are enabled in the /etc/default/limine config (make sure to look this all up).
This should result in the limine-mkinitcpio-hook auto signing the limine boot image as well as the UKI, and the limine config including hashes of all the files it references (you need to manually add the b2sum for the splash image one time, find info on the secure boot page on the cachyos wiki).

If you want to simplify decryption, use cryptenroll WITH a PIN, make sure to bind to appropriate PCRs as I stated before.

If you have a real threat and want to be hyper autistic, you can separate the LUKS header from the partition and store it on a USB device or something, meaning you'd require that to be able to decrypt the system. Note that if the header is ever lost or damaged, NOTHING will ever decrypt that system. You could also store the /boot partition itself separately if you really wanted.
I would consider this far too autistic to be worth the trouble, however. Just setup secure boot, and if you ever think your device has been compromised, move the disk into a new device, wipe the /boot, decrypt the main partition in the cachy installer using cachy-chroot, then rewrite the bootloader.

Eventually you will realize you are not special enough to care about more than a regular system with a TPM PIN though.

Gonna try that vibecoded photoshop later. Lmao get fucked adobe. MS Office is next

>>110019146
It's a different recompiled Photoshop compared to the one that's part of the recompiled Creative Cloud suite that was Claude'd, yes?

>>110019146
Software companies are in big trouble. The plan to lock down all personal computers has to be accelerated

>>110019170
Let the companies be scared by the gen-AI they love so much recompiling their own programs into open source code to be used by everyone for free. They did this to themselves with their hubris.

>>110019146
Someone already figured how to run photoshop on wine way before that slopped version came out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaTvRDsdy0s

>>110019309
Yeah but reverse engineering it and making it a native linux app is much funnier

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Okay it starts very fast. Too bad I don't know how to use Photoshop

>>110019333
What's this one called? I remember the other being called ArtCraft IIRC.

>>110019353
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/
I downloaded the appimage and it just werks

>>110019360
Ahh okay it is the Photoshop clone module of ArtCraft. They're working on making one of these for the whole Creative Cloud suite but naturally they're working on Photoshop's clone the hardest first.

>>110015716
I built a gaming PC with AMD CPU+GPU because I read that AMD stuff just works with Linux I think a year ago. I understand that Nvidia stuff is better hardware, but the discounts were too good to pass up and I didn't want more hassle with Nvidia when I was getting into Linux.
So what's the general 'reality' of using AMD GPUs on Linux vs Nvidia GPUs?

>>110019333
>>110019353
>>110019360
>>110019371
There are so many "vibecoded" photoshop clones now. Was GIMP really that terrible as the FOSS Linux compatible alternative to Photoshop?
I don't even know which alternative to go to if I'm being honest. Too many choices makes my head spin and so I can't settle on one.

>>110019389
I mean gimp is good enough for my shitposting edits but it has its pain points

>>110019389
GIMP isn't for serious work. The closest before these current Claude reverse engineered versions was Photopea.
Though it seems right now that Photocraft is the one most are looking at even if there's a bunch of them; like it's the one that actually works/feels like Photoshop the most so far.

>>110019389
>what's the general 'reality' of using AMD GPUs on Linux vs Nvidia GPUs
nVidia is not terrible, but it's still far worse than AMD. Even Intel integrated GPUs have less issues.

>>110018909
old derivations from previous nixpkgs revision would still refer to old glibc
but generally when you bump the nixpkgs revision, then everything will be recompiled

>>110019397
>>110019402
>GIMP isn't for serious work.
>for shitposting edits
That's what I did with it. I've been a bit of a fa/tg/uy and wanted to try and use GIMP to make "degraded war photos" of sci-fi miniatures. But unfortunately it seems that is when I learned that GIMP wasn't the best. The filters didn't look convincing or aesthetically pleasing to me. Even after I tried g'mic.
>Though it seems right now that Photocraft is the one most are looking at even if there's a bunch of them; like it's the one that actually works/feels like Photoshop the most so far.
Is it? It seems astroturfed here a lot. Or is it like CachyOS where it rockets up out of nowhere and is worth getting? I use CachyOS. Blown away at it.

Sometimes I wonder how probably it is that chatGPT can give me the instructions to wrangle GIMP to give the effects I want though.

>>110019458
I mean if you turn on the web search always feature then it could probably help you do that way better then otherwise.

>>110019463
>I mean if you turn on the web search always feature then it could probably help you do that way better then otherwise.
Thanks m8.
How is /gd/ compared to here and /ic/?
Should I just stay here? I generally ponder how useful AI is answering questions or even delivering working instructions on how to achieve certain things when learning software.
My reasoning is that I have found even simple tutorials are being "enshittified" for youtube ad revenue.
I have looked at Affinity. Hopefully it is good and there is a "just works" way of getting it working on CachyOS.

>>110019458
>Is it? It seems astroturfed here a lot. Or is it like CachyOS where it rockets up out of nowhere and is worth getting? I use CachyOS. Blown away at it.
I just wanted to see if it actually starts. My computer is probably part of the AI botnet now...

>>110019477
Affinity is also considered a premier free option for things that CC can also do, but because it's set up slightly differently it's hard to move.

>>110016093
bazzite is a meme fedora isnt

>>110017278
To get /boot encrypted you would have to select grub as the bootloader.

>>110020006
One can only guess what he even means by boot partition, /fglt/ habitually mixes up /boot and ESP. But it's kind of understandable as many seem to use ESP for the same functionality as /boot.

>>110018950
Leaving /boot encrypted on your main / partition helps with booting btrfs snapshots.
It's also harder to swap out a bootloader than a kernel but its really just more of a convenience thing.

>>110020024
I guess you're right that's why i said /boot but some people mount /boot as their ESP (though i personally don't think that's a good idea, /efi is a better choice even systemd-boot supports it)

>>110018965
Xorg also doesn't have any compositor by default so the overhead on the gpu isnt as much.

>>110019996
>works better than Fedora
>Fedora copying some of it's stuff
>more popular than all official and unofficial Fedora atomic distros combined
It cannot be described as a "meme".

Ok I just installed Cachy os, encrypted with plasma and FAT32 boot uncrypted, looks good, any tips now for the new installation?

>>110015997
gaming with linux is better than ever and is actually tolerable at this point for me. But there are still rough patches here and there.

>>110020345
First thing I did in my clean install was to put fuse2 because an app image wasn't launching

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I want to benchmark some drives from linux, what's the linux equivalent of CrystalDiskMark?

>>110020466
KDiskMark

>>110020466
GNOME Disks
KDiskMark

>>110020507
thanks

>>110015716
Do you have that pape in a higher res? Looks like shit compressed.

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So, how is this going?

I've heard years ago you could pirate Photoshop and use a fixed version without updates but I'm not sure if this was real

>>110020239
Under Apps/Tweaks in CachyOS Hello click the install gaming packages button.

so im running linux mint and dont know why it black screens if i prime select from amd to nvidia back to amd and then to nvidia a 2nd time, this is confusing
amd>nvidia>amd>nvidia>black screen
anyone got any possible solutions i could try?

>>110020681
You can still use Photoshop CS versions, which were not live service software. CS5 or CS6 is the latest one.

>>110020732
Yeah but they don't support current day plugins. Pretty sure shit like premier and after effects will choke and crash dealing with 4k footage.

>>110020750
There's no need for video or photos above 1080p.

>>110020701
Optimus laptops setups are just generally really shit in linux

>>110020765
Even midrange chinkphones can do 4k now anon

>>110020775
idk, it seems like my problem might just be an edge case cause its fine if i reboot, but i wanted to see if theres a siolution that lets me continue to log out like normal to have it switch on mmy laptop

>>110020783
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

>>110020788
Nah it's known issue. Mint is kinda archaic for newish hardware anyway. The whole thinkpad meme exists because linux is well supported there.

How do you check file integrity in cachy os? Ion windows I just used 7zip sha256 and compared the numbers after copying.

Is there no option by default in the GUI?

>>110020813
You right click on the file and go into properties.

>>110020810
im only using mint since it kinda handles nvidia shit for me at least unless you have a recommendation for another distro for this

>>110020798
I mean you can still get basic bitch work done but without the whole ass adobe ecosystem you won't be doing anything fansy

>>110020819
And you compare file size? What if it's corrupted?

>>110020838
Are you being dense on purpose? You go into the Checksums tab and view the hashes there.

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>>110020838

>>110020582
No, Igot it from >>>/w/2270914, you could try asking there.

>>110020849
>>110020848
Am I retarded? I see no checksum tab.

I'm using plasma on cahyos?

>>110020863
Default KDE plasma experience shows me this when I right click a file and hit properties inside Dolphin.

>>110020848
>>110020849
>>110020867
Wait, you can only check checksum on a single file?

The moment you select a folder it doesn't show. It doesn't do a sum?

>>110020876
Are you saying you want a list of checksums for all the files or something? Because you can't hash a group of files as one hash, unless it's an archive (one file).
If you want a list, right click in the folder, click open terminal here and type `sha256sum *`

>>110020824
Doesn't hurt to try out bazzite I guess if you're allergic to the command line. I hear it's based on fedora and has all the 5 minutes of setup baked in. I'm a fedoratard myself though so I'm biased. The whole ass debian line never worked for me.

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Hello, is there a way to normalize virtual NICs' naming in PrOXmox ?

>>110020466
smartmontools
gsmartcontrol (gui frontend)

>>110020824
It's probably going to be the same for every distro since they all use the same driver.

>>110021057
Just use libvirt and lxc directly instead of with proxmox

>>110021122
would envy control help?

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>>110016226
>Void

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Something interesting from today was two disks I'd been using on Mint are unpartitioned - just ext4 filesystems on the raw block device. Mounts fine as /dev/sdx but initially confusing outputs from lsblk fdisk etc. blkid was useful to see the volume tags - one to know about.

>>110021186
Void is very based in defending the innocent

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Tonight I'm installing my own distro to my thinkpad. I have the basics down, even optional support for nouveau / amdgpu / radeonsi / mesa. No fancy GPU support yet though such as vulkan because I've avoided LLVM as a dependency for my own sanity, I can always add that later if this thing is proven usable.

>>110021446
What model?

>>110020813
sha256sum $FILE

>>110021156
ok so i got envycontrol working but i get a black screen

>>110020813
i normally just use the command line

sha256sum /path/to/file

or

md5sum /path/to/file

>>110021106
How exactly do I do that from smartctl?

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>>110021548
E480. It's installing now, I'll go to sauna in the meanwhile. Only thing that could botch this is if my Wi-Fi hiccups for some reason because I forgot to add connection retry functionality to my package manager...

>>110021446
What is your distro based on? Gentoo?

>>110021846
It's not based on anything, I'm building it from scratch. But I am borrowing ideas from FreeBSD, Gentoo, Alpine and Void. My package manager (pkg) is simple and installs packages from source.
My goal for now is to get XLibre (or Xorg, both are supported) IceWM desktop running on my thinkpad with ZFS root and ZFSBootMenu with rollback-able root snapshots.

Are mkv thumbnails on nautilus broken?
Man thumbnails must be some sort of alien technology for gnome devs

>>110022005
i think xorg and xlibre depend on llvm, so you have to get llvm at some point

>>110021446
Is it just a personal project or something you plan on releasing?

>>110020876
There's no such thing as a "folder checksum". It's a thing made up by 7zip devs.
You can do a checksum on all files in a folder if you want, then derive a new checksum from the combination of all those. That's basically what 7zip does under the hood.
There's a few tools like 7zz, rhash and hashdeep that do something similar. But everyone just does "sha256sum *" since sha256sum is built into every distro.

>>110022125
They don't require LLVM, but Mesa does depending on your compilation flags. Maybe you were thinking about mesa?
>>110022190
It's just for my personal use for now, so I don't know yet. I would like to release it though, for sure, if it seems like it could succeed and be stable enough.
Still compiling stuff...

>>110019146
>MS Office is next
Kek they already made one

>>110022110
You probably need to install ffmpegthumbnailer.

>>110022393
I have ffmpegthumbnailer. All other thumbnails work

>>110022292
>They don't require LLVM, but Mesa does depending on your compilation flags. Maybe you were thinking about mesa?
Oh yeah i remember waiting for llvm to compile for hours when i emerged xorg on gentoo, i think that might be it

>>110022393
nvm I'm on ffmpegthumbnailer 2.3.0 and it's probably https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=314153

>>110022483
Did it work? I was about to post that link.

>>110022497
Updating to 2.3.1 should fix it but I'm not in the mood to update now

>>110021826
Using gsmartcontrol or gnome disks which are both just gui frontends to smartctl

>>110019146
you know libreoffice exists right?

>>110016624

does crackling disappear while volume control open

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>>110023138
Usecase?

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>>110021836
Installing and compiling took over 2 hours in total but it's actually working now. :D

>>110020466

perhaps look for blog post explainin dd method testing memory card performance

>>110020681
Not within my L'usecase, but
I do enjoy this because its like screaming "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" and shaking the shit out of linux-filtered babies that used adobe products as their excuse for why they won't """use linux"""

>>110023510
Why are you taking pride in a program not working on an operating system?

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Which one won't steal my account?

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In what year do you think Linux will have a sound system that doesn't pop and crack above 1% CPU usage ?

What are some of your must-use applications that you always install? I'm usually fine just using the typical KDE bundled shit and don't have that much else I bother installing aside from a media player and stuff like Steam but I'm wondering if I'm missing out on anything.

>>110023792
PolyMC and the Prism fork can be used without an account.

>>110023868
KolourPaint (it doesn't come with almost any KDE distro)

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>>110023834
Buy yourself an interface stingy.

>>110023834
Maybe CachyOS desktop optimisations fix this?

>>110023792
java -jar

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On artix. I installed libratbag, and it's implementation of udev actually picked it up (ratbagd is running despite me not doing anything). However, I can't get it to actually hook up. Piper just says no devices detected. What gives?
Only suggestions I saw were to add yourself to games and plugdev groups. plugdev didn't even exist on my system, so I made the group and joined it, as well as joined games, but no luck.

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>>110023834
Start small by using this on your cables frenchfag. As France is jammed by dirty electricity, you should take care of your electrical devices.

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What's the best distro for hacking?

>>110024530
Update: my mouse (ASUS ROG Keris Wireless AimPoint) has a device match ID of usb:0b05:1a66, and libratbag's file expects 68 instead of 66. I tried changing it to 66 and it now segfaults on trying to start the daemon.

>>110023834
Go buy a real DAC from Walmart maybe.

>>110023834
>diagnosing system hardware or software problem
>service crashes after ~2 minutes
>hardware disappears from lspci
>dmesg loses its shit but no hard crash because pciehp module
>move system to a table on other side of room
>problem is gone
>badly tied ground in wall receptacle was the problem

>>110023834
youre gonna have to use headphones buddy

>got a crappy old Windows 10 laptop at my parents place that I use to watch YouTube on whenever I visit
>recently started thinking about remote computing
>Linux Mint machine at home with a 4080 in there
>never done any remote stuff before
>was half expecting nothing to work
>set up Sunshine + Moonlight
>it just works
>can use my Mint PC when I visit my parents now
>can even play games on it and it works surprisingly well
this is some black magic shit, feels like I'm living in the future

>>110024771
>Sunshine + Moonlight
i wish that was real software that existed but unfortunately it's not in debian repos and anything else is a virus
i'm in a similar situation, i've been using x2go for remote desktop but wasn't able to get steam remote play to work, it just freezes when i start a game

What are the odds my Fedora will die if I will try to upgrade from 31 to 44.

>>110024982
Just do a clean wipe and reinstall at that point, why even use fedora of all things if you don't want new tech? I'd reccomend rocky if you want enterprise stability TM but it's dogshit for desktop, the UI constanly lags and there's mouse delay

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>install Linux for gaming
>Snap crackle pop in all games especially ones with multiple sounds
>Stutters and artifacts
>Sleep doesn't work properly, compositor artifacts on wake
>Worse ease of use and anxiety, can't just click play on a pirated game and expect it to work

>>110024982
Officially they support jumping up to two versions. The one time I tried that it wrecked my install so it's been single increments for me since then. IIRC it was 30 to 32 but I can't really remember.

I've heard of a guy upgrading in single steps from Fedora 8 to 40 without issues so it should work in theory. One thing to watch is that a lot of mirrors don't host old software versions any more so you could get paired to some slow mirror that takes forever.

>>110025257
Audio system defaults have retarded low latency. It's incredible why they haven't changed the defaults after all these years.
EndeavourOS forum has a great thread about the settings you can find it via googling "EndeavourOS pipewire guide".

>>110025257
https://files.catbox.moe/6zp2rm.mp4
>tfw gentoo
>raytracing @ 60 fps on last-last gen hardware
>5.2 Surround Sound
I guess this is similar to how some millenials and zoomers are screaming about not being able to afford to live.

>>110025257
Linux is a server OS. What do you expect?

Good evening my friendly faggots.
I've backed up my Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC IoT install and I'm preparing to install CachyOS. Is KDE the better of the choices out there?

>>110024530
Try using the git version of libratbag, a few newer mice are not present in the latest official release. It's the case for my new model of G502.

>>110025626
the only distro i ever experienced audio crackling was cachyos
i fixed by lowering the pipewire default quantum, whatever that is
i remember seeing that endeavouros forum post but i dont think you need to change a lot of settings to fix it, just the default quantum

>>110026252
As far as Desktop Environments go It has a lot of great features
t. Kuser

>>110026252
>Is KDE the better of the choices out there?
Realistically, yes. There isn't a more complete and featured desktop than KDE.
If you want something specific though, like wiling management, maybe not.

A big advantage of KDE right now is it's assumed default status. Similar to how webshitters only test websites on chrome, many people developing tools for the Linux desktop make sure it works on KDE first and foremost.

>>110026297
now why would you lie like that? Gnome's the default.

>>110026220
>Linux is
a kernel

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>>110026326
Not anymore. And especially not from the perspective of the big boys like Valve.

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Was there any update on libinput/wayland/KDE Plasma accepting Windows style autoscrolling after somebody bothered to look in Libinput and discovered it can do that, or am I still stuck using a Wayland-compatible tool to enable the function that I found on Github

>>110026278
>>110026297
Thanks lads.

>>110026326
If and only if Gnome had a god damn start menu. Gnome apps are great though.
>>110026252
I guess. And if you hesitate about the distro choice, partition your drive for easy distrohopping.

>>110026326
Gnome's only popular because of Fedora WS and Ubuntu, but since valve chose KDE for SteamOS it's become more popular in the mainstream. Especially gamers. So yeah I think most devs are putting a lot of attention to KDE. And even more now than Gnome seems to be killing itself.

>>110026661
Gaymer logic doesn't count bro. Valve put a heavy overlay on it anyway. By that logic cinnamon, deepin, and all the other spinoffs of gnome3 apply too

>>110026252
GNOME is better on laptops.

>>110015716
I want to change functionality of the useless windows key on my keyboard. Any suggestions?

>>110023209
And now the loop is complete somewhat... I can now:
>push changes to my distro's repo
>upgrade my pkg manager on a running system
>update pkg index
>install the new packages I added pkgdefs for

>>110027068
Gnome's just goes into spotlight mode which is pretty useful, what shit DE are you running?

does anyone use yakuake on KDE Plasma? It used to open up on all virtual desktops whenever I evoked it, but now it only shows up on the first desktop I evoke it from. I'm on Plasma 6.7.5

Hello anons
I recently bought a second hand T420 to use for my utilities and work. I've been meaning to switch to Linux for a while and thought this would be a great way to start it
I have no clue on what distributor to go with and since the topic has been discussed in this thread with certain distos, I wanted to ask if anyone might have a more weighted idea on this specific laptop.

I use this device for classes, movies, drawing (I use krita mainly) and writing - I occassionally game with Dwarf Fortess and Morrowind as light weight "just in case" games in case I'm away from home for a while or my desktop is unavailable. Thank you for those who are interested in helping me

>>110027724
Yeah make your larp more believable

>>110027761
It was the only one I could afford anon...

>>110024982
This would be much safer in atomic variants. Either way doing a clean install would be faster and safer since otherwise you'd have to increment the version one by one, assuming they still host repos for older versions.

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I wanted a hybrid taskbar that allows for both icons only & full window names with a per program toggle in the context menu, so here's a vibe coded proof of concept.

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>>110015716
How do you get hardware acceleration to work on this piece of shit? I normally use mpv but I need it for chromecasting.

>>110028273
You should just be able to choose which hardware decoding method VLC uses in its settings. Is it just ignoring it even when its enabled?

>>110028296
Acording to claude vdpau doesn't jive well with 10 bit x265 files so I tried a x264 files and it worked.

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Kubuntu 26.04 krashes into full freeze as soon as I run any dgpu based program.
p53 with rtx 4000. I did try to ubuntu-drivers install nvidia-driver-595.
It's a full freeze - not even caps lock diode works.

Is there any known solution?

>>110028562

sudo apt -U --fix-broken install

>>110028852
Nothing broken.
nvidia-settings says it's off, but as soon as I run anything that should run on the GPU, the machine freezes

I'm on Cachy. I switched to a prior instance or whatever after that recent hiccup with the update that made your OS not boot. Now it won't update because of some desync issue. Do I just "sudo pacman -Syuu" or what?

>>110028989
What's the error?

>>110029028
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed to synchronize all databases (unable to lock database)

==> ERROR: An error has occurred during the update process
The update has been aborted

>>110029044
Remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck if it exists. That happens after rolling back to a previous snapshot because pacman was running when the snapshot was created so it includes the lockfile

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>>110029044
This probably means something left an uncleaned lock file. If you're certain nothing is interacting with the pacman database you can probably safely remove it with the remove db lock file found in trouble shooting in CachyOS Hello.

Noctalia is too good to be human-made in such a short amount of time. It's vibecoded, right?

>>110029094
I mean fucking all open source projects have probably some amount of Claude Code help these days because it's so decent when it comes to its latest versions. It's like why all of a sudden there's so, so many reverse-engineered/decomp versions of programs and games popping up all over github currently.

>>110029128
Noctalia was quickshell before and they rewrote it all to c++ without qt dependencies in a few months and made a compositor on the side too. Fishy

>>110029051
>>110029055
Thanks! Removing db lock in troubleshooting resolved it. Updated fine.

>>110023900
That looks pretty nice, I'll give it a shot. God knows there are times I want to just shit out some quick image and don't need to go full blown gimp or whatever for it.

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how to get hardware video decoding with firefox on nvidia? tried forcing it enabled but it breaks many videos

>>110029178
That's exactly the problem I had when I moved from Windows to Linux. I really do need a simple Paint-like experience a lot of the time.

>>110029413
https://paintz.app/

>>110029304
I don't know but it says in your image it's not supported

>>110029413
>>110029178
Kolourpaint was what I landed on for this. Basically the same workflow as regular paint where you can paste in images and not have to fuck with layers. You can even drag and drop images in. It was pretty much a seamless transition from making quick edits on Windows.

Why the current situation of nosystemd on desktop is so desperate ?

>Devuan
Not a rolling release

>Artix
Leaks your IP on 4chan

>Void
Trannyware

>Gentoo
Takes 3 years to compile the kernel, burns your CPU in the process

Just take systemdpill.

>>110029579
I have never understood the kernel compiling meme. It only takes a long time if you're compiling it on a 15 year old thinkpad, in which case yeah don't fucking use the from-source distro, or do I guess since they have an official binhost now, just don't do it from source.
On any sort of normal computer it taked 5-10 minutes nowadays.
The real problem is if you want to compile chromium or LLVM. But in reality you just do updates overnight and it doesn't really matter in practice. At least bringing up chromium compilation makes more sense than the kernel though.

Anyway, Void actually works fine despite being trannyware, Gentoo is fine and you can use the binhost if you want, Artix is literally fine if you're not brigading their forums (for fuck's sake how hard is it to just use linux as an OS rather than as social media), and Guix is fine too if you're autistic and use nonguix.

>>110029094
>>110029140
IMO there's three ways to write software right now, in order of speed
>fully handcrafted artisanal
>AI assisted as tooling, human reviewed
>fully vibeslopped in a few prompts
Used to be only the first one could really be of any quality, but if you're using an AI from 2026 then the top two are both acceptable really IMO.

The main thing to watch out for is when someone just suddenly makes an entire piece of software (or a bunch of features) out of nowhere in 1-2 days. That definitely means it's pure AI code with no human quality control. If they took several months to write all that shit, it definitely means there was a bunch of human effort to make sure it was nice and clean and worked, and the LLM was used as a tool rather than given free reign to slop out whatever.

>>110029579
>Artix
>Leaks your IP on 4chan
Wait, what?
How, and why is it exclusively Artix?

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>>110015716
just created my own live usb image archive page will be updated soon
https://archive.org/details/deadsec_202609
anybody can read about it on its archive

>>110026274
>lowering the pipewire default quantum
Is there any way to do this in KDE menu or is this command only? I consider myself still inexperienced with Linux.

>>110030167
>>109671584
just never use their forum

>>110027124
Welp... I updated all the packages in my package index and now when I tried to upgrade my actual installation on my laptop, I stumbled upon some musl header issues. I guess I have to work more on my package manager, I suspect the "make clean" isn't enough so I'm better off creating a fresh directory always for every compiled package.

>>110029579
because there is nothing wrong with systemd and contrarians are always a minority of misguided and inept people

I'm going to the /nix/store, anyone need anything?

>>110028562
>>110028852
Bump.

>>110030829
can you find me a pam_usb.so library?

Should I install guix, why or why not

>>110031085
>Main character syndrome (MCS)
a popular culture term—not a formal medical or psychiatric diagnosis—that describes a mindset where a person views themselves as the central protagonist of a movie or story, while treating everyone else as minor supporting characters, villains, or background extras

>>110031160
I think that describes ubuntu more, or everything freedesktop in fact

>>110023190
no, but it does momentarily go away when I switch from "Analog Stereo Output" to "Pro Audio" or vice versa

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>>110023209
very nice remimi

>>110029579
None of these are valid reasons to not use the distros you mentioned, you're just inventing excuses
>Not a rolling release
Use the unstable repositories (ceres)
>Leaks your IP on 4chan
Forum issue, not a distro issue
>Trannyware
Nobody cares, I'd prefer trannyware to poetteringware
>Takes 3 years to compile the kernel
Then just use a binary kernel? The handbook even recommends to start with a binary kernel and only compile your own if you need or want to

>>110019389
>Was GIMP really that terrible as the FOSS Linux compatible alternative to Photoshop?
yes, yes it is
no scrubby zoom, smart select tool is shit and the UI is horrendous just to name a few

>>110032167
Honestly when people regurgitate shit that hasn't been relevant nearly a decade its safe to assume they are attempting to shitpost
nta btw

What is the distro for the white man? What distro has the least (((GNU)))?

>>110032450
Prove your whiteness first.

>>110032468
I renounce the Talmud and (((Stallman)))

>>110032485
post your 12 axes 60Q results first.

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so i installed sway and then purged it later & autoremoved to cleanup all the dependencies, but one of its dependencies (the "foot" terminal package) wont go away for some reason?

When i check its rdepdends its empty, and its also not marked manual install, so i have no idea why autoremove doesn't catch it.

>>110032587
Looks like a circular dependency. Just purge it and see what it tries to autoremove

>>110032587
>>110032622
ohh i figured it out it wasn't a circular dependency it that foot provides a virtual package <x-terinal-emulator> that other packages on my system optionally suggests and my APT was setup to not autoremove provide-suggest relationships

>>110032734
although now that i think about it... disabling RecmmendsImportant and SuggestsImportant in APT and then autopurging might not be a good idea. I mean i may break unrelated packages suggest/provides relationships...

why isn't there a scoped autopurge / autoremove option on APT?