>>107196526
>nosystemd.org
>Replace systemd with an alternative init system:
>Ubuntu Wiki: Permanent switch back to upstart
>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers#Permanent_switch_back_to_upstart

Huh, interesting. I'll try that.

>>107197124
I doubt that works anymore. Too much of Ubuntu depends on Systemd nowadays.

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>>107196526
what's the best program to take screensharts in Lunix? is it supported only on Xorg or you can take screensharts in Wayland too?

>>107197396
>Too much of Ubuntu depends on Systemd nowadays.
why would programs need Systemd to run? isn't it just launching init stuff, and logging?

>>107196526
Is there a software comparable to Fancontrol in Linux?

>>107198313
>Fancontrol
maybe this one, but looks like shit https://gitlab.com/coolercontrol/coolercontrol

>>107196526
when did the wiki get removed from the OP?

How do I stop the sound coming out from my ps5 controller instrad of my speakers/headphones when pluggin it into my linux laptop? Impossible to play snes roms like this

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noob here.

is there an media library manager equivalent like MediaMonkey for Windows available in the Linux world?

>>107198078
They link to Systemd libraries or in the case of things like Snaps (Canonical is heavily pushing Snaps even for things like Firefox) depend on it for core functionality. Systemd is much more than just an init system. It's a system interface.

>>107198071
https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot

>>107198550
Disable the output in Pavucontrol Qt (install it if you don't already have it)

>>107198071
windows+shift+s

>gnome fully switching to wayland
>the amazing new protocol where you can't drag and drop half the time
>fucking loathe other DEs
>cope with a self-build with x11 support that they plan to fully remove next year
It's over for the little guy

>>107198697
What are you even talking about? Drag and drop works fine. If it doesn't then you're seeing a client bug that needs to be fixed.

>>107198557
https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.musicbrainz.Picard

>>107198078
Developers just assume every distro will ship with systemd.
t. was in and around a lot of projects where the processes are just calling "systemctl" or "systemd-*" and if it doesn't work on your distro then you're irrelevant

>>107198313
LACT and CoreCtrl

>>107198697
Drag-drop should just work. Unless you're using Flatpaks and the Flatpak application you're trying to drag into doesn't have read permissions to the location you're dragging from. Which is just your specific Flatpak app settings being misconfigured and GNOME being shit for not spawning a popup window which leads you to Flatpak permission settings.

>>107198732
Welp thats a nice tagger but not quite a full media library thingus like Media Monkey.

>>107198709
>then you're seeing a client bug
It's been known for years so if that's true, my cope still stands.

>>107198816
Wayland can't really do anything about buggy clients, all it does is specify the protocols like data offers, etc.

>>107198824
Yes, and I am saying if it is client side, the GNOME people have known for years so I am still fucked kek
I really do not like the other DEs

I'm on xfce endeavoros and I keep running into a problem where moving the mouse causes a lot of slowdown. This has happens with a Razor mouse and a G502 that I just bought, but not a red dragon that I have.
Any ideas what could be causing it? I don't see anyone else having similar issues.

>>107198071
scrot
>wayland
grim
>but I want a section of the screen
scrot -s or grim -g "$(slurp)"

>>107199407
the problem doesn't happen when dragging a window

>>107199646
>>107199407
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf

Section "OutputClass"
     Identifier "AMD"
     MatchDriver "amdgpu"
     Driver "amdgpu"
     Option "SWcursor" "on"
EndSection

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>>107188638
thank you

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ex-windows user here trying to work out the best way to access my home pc from work. on windows i'd just RDP in and the remote PC would lock, I'd take over that session, then when I get home I just unlock it and continue where i left off. can i replicate this somehow on gayland? closest i've been able to find is gnome RDP which logs out my local session completely. i've gotten used to this but i want to try KDE or something instead and so far this is keeping me locked into gnome

>>107196526
I have a friend who want's to try linux but by his own words is basically tech illiterate. I've recommended him mint, pop os and ubuntu. Those alright?

optimizing c code to compile on a RPI sometime this week is a lot of fun.

>>107200439
oh good, yet another shitter we get to deal with who is gonna run random bash commands with sudo and then get mad at everyone but himself when his shit breaks.

>>107200459
He actively dislikes a lot of tech, I doubt he's using /g/, though I guess that means he'd probably fit right in.

>>107200481
Based, I wish I could hate tech as much as he does.

I installed Fedora on a new laptop the other day. Thought it would be a horrible pain in the ass because I've read horror stories about trying to put Linux on a laptop that doesn't officially support it.

Everything went flawlessly. Didn't even need to install any new drivers. The half hour I spent on Windows trying to set up a partition without signing into anything was infinitely worse than anything I experienced once I got onto the Linux partition.

Is this because it's a Lenovo? It's not even a ThinkPad…

Do you think the Gnome Foundation is a little jealous that the Steamcube will be using the KDE desktop environment instead of Gnome?

>>107200923
Maybe? KDE has always worked better for games compared to GNOME. Like back in the day the original Steam Machines that flopped used Debian+GNOME.
Now that Valve know that their Arch+KDE mix is working really well, they're sticking with it. Can't wait to see the prices for the new hardware, all of it is very tempting.

>>107200959
Yeah, it looks so good. Not even interested in Switch 2 or the other consoles but I'm really excited just to see this new Steam stuff in action.

>>107200983
It's gonna be, as well as a great general Linux PC, the ultimate emulation system, even more so then the Deck because of the increased power.

'ick on 'achine

>>107200731
Just luck of the draw. Power management is poorly standardized, and certain accessories are either hard to support on a generic basis or just have bad drivers.

>>107201016
>Custom Gabecube front plate with an ahego face looking at the 'ick

what is the /g/ approved terminal size? i've currently got mine set at 80x40

>>107198078
systemd socket services API allows it to allocate shared resources for programs before they're launched (ports, domain sockets, fifos, ...), launch the program when the resource is first used, and then with Linux kernel proprietary juju pass them to the program as if the program itself created them. As opposed to hacks like inetd which only work if you spawn a new process for every connection.

It's actually not even a systemd dependency since s6 supports the same API. Just basic requirement for anything that claims to be a serious Linux service manager.

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sup anons
say hi to the (not so) newest host in my array of loonix devices: gpu01, its purpose is to execute heavy gpu loads (duh) on demand

some background:
it originally had a 6700XT card and windows 11 (still has) that I used for gayming and windows stuff, but realized that I don't really use windows that much so I slapped in a 3090, and it will now serve a double function as AI generation/training node and also gayming, of course running loonix instead

thanks for reading my blog!

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>>107201132
the xterm default, I don't even know what it is

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what did he mean by this?

On Windows, on a website like this you could attach an image by clicking "browse," it'd open a windows explorer window, then you could paste an image URL and it'd let you upload that image here.
On Linux, using dolphin, if I try pasting an image URL nothing happens. Is there any way to return this functionality to Dolphin? It was really convenient.

>>107201132
I use 125 x 45

>>107201868
Why not just use 4chanXT? It has native URL image uploading in the quick reply.

>>107201571
>>107202325
i've set it to 160x48 and it seems comfy

>>107201132
80x24

>>107196526
Does it matter if you use Gnome or KDE when you're gaming? If so why?

>>107202742
I mean Valve prefers KDE for the Steam Deck/Machine/Frame so I'd say that tells you everything.

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I joined a cyber security course and they told us we are gonna (months from now probably) have to learn to use Kali linux, should I just get one of these prebuilt virtual machines?
Gotta say I haven't used Linux in a while, last time it was Mint and before then it was Ubuntu during the Windows Vista era.

>>107202963
why not just make your own VM from an installation ISO?

>>107202963
Assuming you're on Windows then get the Hyper-V or Virtualbox image. I imagine the course will give you more information about what you're going to be doing eventually anyway though. They'll probably give you advice on the best thing to use when it comes to that.

>>107202977
I figured it might make things easier
>>107203009
Thanks, I'll try it out for now.

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Anyone here have any experience with modifying libreboot?

I'm testing how lbmk works by trying to build a rom for qemu with just GRUB (and then later inserting a splash image and messing with the rest of the available configurations), but I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I already built a rom as-is by running

./mk -b coreboot qemu...

, but that yields roms with both seabios and GRUB. Per the documentation: https://libreboot.org/docs/maintain/porting.html#coreboot-config, (if I understood it right), then first I run

./mk -m coreboot qemu...

, make my configurations in the curses menu, save it, and then run

./mk -b coreboot qemu...

.

>https://libreboot.org/docs/maintain/#scripts-in-root-directory-of-lbmk
Since I already have roms built for that coreboot tree, am I supposed to run

./mk -c (or -x) coreboot qemu...

first and then do the aforementioned commands, or is that just for when moving onto working on a different board?

>>107203117
>>107203009
Also you can run Kali in WSL if you hate having to interact with the VM:
https://www.kali.org/docs/wsl/wsl-preparations/

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>get a free M1 from work because its display is giving up
>excited to install asahi linux on it and use it as a home server
>asahi doesn't support external monitors over usb-c

>>107203561
>home server
>Needs a display
Ngmi.

>>107203561
>home server
>display
Also feel free to help them develop Thunderbolt for Asahi.

>>107203561
>external monitors over usb-c
What are you, some kind of animal?

>>107203561
It's an important feature that they assigned to some guy who "almost had it" for over a year now. And I guess no on else wants to step on his toes and just make it work. And don't you DARE ask about when it will be ready or someone else will quit the project.

Does it make sense to dual boot arch and cachyos? (on different drives)
I don't feel comfortable playing pirated games on my daily arch install so I thought about dual booting cachy and using that any time I'm pirating/playing games
Would a different distro fit better? My first idea was using bazzite but I've read its grub version is incompatible with non immutable distros and would get in the way after updates

>>107204112
Just use a sandbox.

>>107204112
If you're so scared about that shit just put all the pirated game files in a Bottles environment that can't reach into the actual system

Really enjoying my time with linux. Why does the text look so much better than text in Windows? at every zoom level too.

>>107204237
Idk, but I want to say "Fractional Scaling"

>>107204237
windows font rendering has never been very good. it's distinctive so people become comfortable with it, but that doesn't make it good
a common fix if you care is to use something like mactype, which despite its' name, is actually a port of freetype for windows... the font renderer linux uses

>>107196526
can i recreate your workflow for linux desktop without having an internet connection just like windows?

>>107205250
My workflow? Sure.
>sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade -y
>Open firefox, watch porn or youtube.

>>107196526
bottom guys seem the most fun

>>107205250

sudo mount /dev/disk/by-label/usb-full-of-distfiles -o subvol=@repos /var/db/repos
sudo mount /dev/disk/by-label/usb-full-of-distfiles -o subvol=@distfiles /var/cache/distfiles
sudo emerge -avuDN --tree --with-bdeps=y --keep-going @world

>>107205627
sudo mount /dev/me

>>107205643
ok and then after that

umount me

is battery life on linux better than older version of windows on laptop with tweaks and optimization?

>>107205715
alias bet='yes"

>>107205739
I would say yes. I have a ThinkpadT430 that needed to be attached to an outlet when I was using Windows 7 but just last night I forgot I didn't have the charger plugged into the wall and I was surprised how long it lasted (running Mint); it didn't even suspend, I noticed the battery level. I'd say it just about doubled the battery life but it's still pretty irrelevent because it still needs to be plugged in and charging.

>>107196526
I know this is friendly but i still think that wayland is piece of shit... X might tear from time to time but wayland is like cancer.

Anyone able to get switchable graphics working between AMD and Nvidia? Picked up a Lenovo Legion 5 2025 edition and just got done putting Tumbleweed on it.

My bios allows me to choose integrated, discrete, or hybrid graphics. Integrated works great, and so does discrete.

My issue is hybrid drops me to a black screen, I can force my way in by swapping back and forth between the terminal. When I try to run anything it seems to give drm errors on the Nvidia GPU. I've tried to use nvidia_drm.modeset=1, but no dice.

Also is the new Grub2-BLS, that OpenSUSE recently switched to also a little glitchy looking for anyone else?

>>107205921
Is Wayland and the like just for Ui customisation or something? I'm completely new to the Linux ecosystem and have no clue what's going on. I want to learn more but there's so much stuff and distros that it's quite a lot to wrap my head around.

>>107205782
git log --reset hard origin main:

;)

>>107205957
It's display protocol server there are two main display protocol servers and those are X and Wayland.

To make it understandable it simply makes your apps to communicate... or to even more simpler It takes what apps want to show and puts it on your monitor.

X is the original old one it started in 1980
Wayland started 2008 but it's not flashed out at all and it causes problems. While some apps might be better on it it's still piece of shit.

>>107205739
No.
GPU drivers do their energy management better on Windows and it will completely wreck your battery life if the discrete GPU is always on, which can be the case on Linux.
You can tinker and fix this, of course, or you can be lucky and it works straight away... but the expectation is a worse battery life.

If you are ready to tinker, you can undervolt your CPU, use tlp to set limits and energy saving features and do all sorts of things and it will surpass Windows batter life. But without that, expect worse.

>>107203576
>>107203593
>>107203668
>>107204079
no problem, i'll just use macOS, it works there

>>107205996
So if I don't care about aesthetics or displaying applications on the desktop or monitor, should I just ignore it entirely?

>>107206227
if you want headless linux meaning you want to run everything in terminal then you don't need display protocol server.

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>switch to kde for a bit from hyprland
>Launch wow
>immediately notice that I have much better frame pacing and the game is noticeably smoother
I am kwin pilled

>>107206240
Only recently started using Mint and I have not had a need to use the terminal. I must be using Linux wrong, I guess but I'm really enjoying my time with it.

>>107206266
Don't worry about if everything works you don't have to tinker with it if you want to learn make an virtual machine and play with it there or watch some tutorial videos about Linux... like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avg65oY7sj4

>>107206308
I did tinker with quite a few settings (all through the UI) and there's a satisfying amount of options to configure; it actually feels like I'm in control compared to Windows where I have to fight with the OS to do what I want/need it to, and at that point it's way easier to just learn Linux.
>if you want to learn make an virtual machine
I didn't really consider it but that sounds like a great idea to play around with the different distros to see what I like or at least deepen my understanding of Linux. Thanks anon!

>>107206349
no problem im glad that people are learning something new...

>>107205739
yes
i get 5 hours out of a laptop batteries that are originally 4.5 hours and the battery is 10+ years old with 70% capacity

but you need to do some "tinkering", in my case changing governor to powersafe, adjusting brightness to reasonable (not even for battery's sake, just so that my eyes dont bleed) and using CLI/lightweight software with interface that doesnt update often
i also hove some other devices where this method extends battery life way beyond what is originally possible even tho the battery is half dead

>>107202963
>prebuild virtual machines for kali linux
and they complain about employment...

>>107205996
Have been using wayland for years without issue. Have you looked into using a macbook?

>>107206208
Gay animal, then.

>>107201868
>>107202394
That'd be nice, but the thing is I want to be able to do this anywhere.

best distro for gooning?

>>107207076
sabily

>>107205739
It really depends on your hardware and what you're using it for. But in general, as long as you're not on nVidia hardware, you should see around 3%-8% better battery life on Linux compared to Windows assuming both are properly configured.

>>107205936
Spelled it wrong, finally booting in when I choose nvidia-drm.modset=1. It looks like it's now using the AMD igpu by default.
__glx_vendor_library_name=nvidia seems to be working when I want to use the dgpu.

I'm a newb @ 46 days of Linux. I love using RMPC and used to carry all my music locally, but it was a hassle. As of last weekend I host all my music on a Jellyfin server, but have no local music to play. I really I wish to use RMPC because it's beautiful. Any alternative apps u guys recommend, or methods to connect RMPC to my media server?

I've been using linux on an off for a while, I'm comfortable with the cli and all that and I want to finally switch my main pc away from windows. How is bazzite for a daily driver? I thought about debian or mint but having all the gaming stuff pre installed sounds nice.

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OH MY GOD WHY DOES THE BROWSER FILE PICKER BASED ON LINUX NOT HAVE A SEARCH FUNCTION AND HOW DO I CHANGE IT?
WHO THOUGHT OF THIS?

>>107207879
just click on 1 file and start typing? it just works in my browser and i'm not even running a desktop, just Xorg with fluxbox

>>107207775
>How is bazzite for a daily driver?
It's pretty easy to use, convenient, stable. Probably as close as it gets to having a "just works" desktop OS.

>>107208072
How does that help with searching multiple folders?

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is libsixel's img2sixel command working for anyone? it wont convert any image even with a sixel supported terminal (im using xterm & artix) or with the -o option which i would expect to work as normal independently of the terminal, i wanted to write some software using sixel images

>>107200731
fedora is generally one of the better and highly regarded distros for a reason. the only potential downside is that we are technically beta testing for redhat's server distros but i think its worth the trade off personally.

Just how much of a headache is Nvidia these days? Any horror stories that don't just boil down to user issue, or is it basically fine?
Currently in a tossup between 9070XT and 5070Ti for my next build, upgrading from a 6800. Gayming performance seems approximately equivalent (with maybe some caveats around DX12 support under Proton?), I don't use Wayland so don't really care about Nvidia's issues there, AMD is cheaper but I've been dabbling in Blender and Nvidia seems overwhelmingly better for that.

>>107208568
all cope about nvidia being good is sunk cost fallacy
the real answer is to buy a 9060xt and hang onto that until udna which will unfuck productivity shit, buy that and sell the 9060xt

>>107208568
>with maybe some caveats around DX12 support under Proton?
Yes, there's around 20% to 35% performance hit. nVidia has known about this bug for at least 2-3 years now but they haven't fixed it yet.
>I don't use Wayland
Then you won't be affected by other issues, but you will be affected by the fact that x11 is abandonware.

is it pronounced soo-doo or soo-dough?

>>107208826
its either way. i pronounce it as pseudo because it sounds less retarded

>>107208826
ess you do

>>107208826
Super-user do

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>>107208826
"pseudo"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pseudo

>>107208891
>Super
substitute*

>>107208826
sue do (as in doing)

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Hello there!
Last time I was here I had some questions and you gave me lot of good advice. I'm planning on dual-booting Win10 and Mint on physically separate drives. I already have Win10 on the drive1 and I had just acquired new drive2. With your advice, reading stuff on internet, watching YT and talking to ChatGPT I've come with this final plan:
0. Make a Windows back up in the case of fuck up.
1. Add new drive2 to the system and unplug drive1 (Win10 drive).
2. Install Mint normally on it from the USB (standard install, select the "Erase disk and install Linux Mint" option).
3. Shutdown, plug drive1 back, turn on. If the Mint isn't the default boot, make it in the UEFI BIOS.
4. In the Mint run sudo update-grub so it now detects Win10.
5. Edit default/grub so whichever I have chosen last becomes the default.
Do you see any install problem or future-problem with my plan? Apart from the installation itself, a few thing I've read is to disable fast startup in Win10 and configure both systems to threat hardware clock the same way (both UTC or both local time).

>>107209845
The last step (step 5.) isn't necessary at all, I just think I'd prefer it that way. If not, I can revert the changes.

I have a T430 with Debian testing that hadn't been updated in awhile. Ran a full dist-upgrade and now my keyboard inputs are being eaten by something. I have to click onto my desktop for anything to start accepting keyboard inputs. Even if nothing is open and I login or unlock the computer, keyboard inputs won't go through until I click the desktop.

I don't really know where to start looking to fix this. Any ideas?

I'm brand new to Linux, I've been using Windows computers since... Christ, 2000?
The initial setup was kind of scary and stressful. Stuff kept breaking, I didn't know how to do command line stuff by myself, I had to figure out how to get fuckin hardware acceleration to work in Firefox, stuff like that.
But after that initial setup period concluded and I'm at a point where I'm just doing regular day to day stuff on my computer like it was my Windows desktop, it feels just great. Everything's so much smoother and more convenient than it was on Windows, options in Windows all feel fucking buried under a million different windows you had to open, but here everything is just where you'd expect it to be because it's not designed by a schizophrenic retard.
Do others have similar experiences to this? The initial setup being confusing and stressful then everything being smooth sailing after?

>>107210056
it only gets worse. if you can't write your own kernel by now you're hopeless. just give up and take up golf.

>>107209845
Backup is a good plan.

Note that if you have secure boot fuckery enabled, Windows may freak out if you change the boot order. If you have encrypted the Windows boot disk you'll need your recovery key (in general you should have that handy somewhere if you use BitLocker).

On my system I use the hardware (BIOS) boot selection hotkey to select which disk to boot from e.g. you probably don't have to mess with GRUB at all.

And yes, the UTC/local time issue, kek

so wivrn is perfect except for one thing there is still no way to interact with my desktop from within the headset

>>107208981
Make it, bitch.

>>107210089
>And yes, the UTC/local time issue, kek
Not really an issue if you have NTP update at boot from a local machine (like a router).

Installing Arch and the first package downloads are all in KILOBYTES per second. What the F is going on?

>>107210480
pacman is retarded and uses a static mirror list.

>>107210496
Hard to say if it's that. I'm using Reflector to "rate" mirrors and it looks like every single one is timing out, at least the ones that have "extra.db" in them.

>>107210209
Your logs timestamps will be off until that runs though. Better to just configure Windows to be sane and use UTC as a reference time instead of local time.

>>107210480
>>107210496
>>107210598
Looking at it more, this is with archinstall, one of the steps apparently involves its own invocation of reflector.

I ran reflector myself and saw that the topmost output looks to be some rsync mirror from China.

Could that be the cause of my woes? I don't know how to tell what mirror is being used through this method.

>>107210937
You should always run reflector with your own flags that match your situation. Archinstall's must be quite general.

fucking AI won't help me modify my syscall table. what a crock of shit. let me fuck with my own system you piece of pajeet trash.

Okay, this time I ran archinstall without touching the "Mirrors and repositories" section and now I'm getting about 2-3 MiB/s. Probably could be better, but still a big improvement over before.

So does that section affect the mirror list archinstall draws from? I was under the impression that that would be the mirror list that would get loaded into the installed OS.

>>107210937
>>107211037
>archinstall
Pussy. In the time it took you fucking around with mirrors you could have done a manual install.

>>107211052
In my defense, I don't recall getting kilobytes (or kibibytes I guess) per second in package downloads, let alone having to even touch the mirrors in the first place, last time

>>107211052
when i used archinstall, i was greeted with a black screen after reboot, had to do the manual install afterwards

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>>107203416

>Gnome works best and has by far the best apps
>can't move the taskbar around
>Cinnamon would be fine but it doesn't support Wayland
What are some Gnome tweaks/addons for getting that usual Start Menu and stuff for my desktop experience?
>>107211037
>>107211061
Arch mirrors are extremely random and ran by randos.

>>107198813
no, he's talking about drag from qt app not working to xwayland app. have experienced this. i just copy paste.
>>107200418
ssh in, then startx or whatever wayland compositor. you could add another user or you could lock the local session using loginctl. you can write a script that does all that with one command. use tailscale so you don't have to expose your ssh to internet.

>>107207879
actually you can change the file picker, it's part of your xdg-desktop-*

It seems like for any given window or element on KDE, the blur only kicks in when the object is fully "faded in", and goes away immediately while it's "fading out". This is most apparent with the reboot interface.

Question is, why?

>>107196526
>THE CIA GLOWIES ARE IN MY WALLS
This but unironically

>>107211308
>doesn't arch-chroot to save the system
ngmi

>>107212451
The CIA glowies are in my balls

>>107211567
>Gnome works best and has by far the best apps
I mostly agree, but Dolphin is definitely the superior file manager. And KDE Connect works a lot better than GSConnect from my experience.
>What are some Gnome tweaks/addons for getting that usual Start Menu
I guess you can start with "Dash to Panel". But I think it's only for the panel (taskbar), not the application menu. I personally vastly prefer full screen app menus so I never bothered customizing it on Gnome. Even on KDE I always enable the Application Dashboard.

>>107212245
I just checked by reducing the global animation speed to a minimum. The blur definitely starts applying just like other effects. It's just following a different animation curve where it only starts applying around the middle of the transition.
My only guess is that they either misconfigured the animation curve for blur specifically, or that they intentionally did this to minimize the duration of the blur since it's one of the most resource demanding visual effects. Or maybe they just like the way it looks when transitioning, who knows. You can always just ask on their forum.

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There is a 4 byte discrepancy between my backups.
I use rsync, how fucked am I?

>>107213687
Compare each file to see which differs

>>107196526
I have been using Debian for a few months after having used windows for 25 years. Have not modded anything, not even the wallpaper it came with, it just works out of the box for me. I don't see myself as that picture you posted at all

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>>107213694
none of them.
My bits are rotting aren't they?

>>107213739
No, compare them properly. Rsync does some smart comparison to speed up transfers it doesn't actually checksum the files and will compare based on mtime, etc.

>>107213761
>>107213739
I think you can add -c or --checksum which will do a checksum properly.
https://man.archlinux.org/man/rsync.1.en#checksum

>>107213761
>>107213779
Just said the same thing.

>>107213913
Then maybe it's just an error in the way du is summarising things that can be ignored.

If you run du on each individual file do the sizes all match up?

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I found where the problem is but diff shows nothing. I will just delete the folder.

Redpill me on Arcan.

I don't really like Wayland, especially because X was nuked in such a violent manner. It feels like RedHat is trying to force Wayland down Linux users' throats, so I'm sticking to X for the time being. I know X won't last forever like this, so I want to know is Arcan any good.

jesus christ why did i just have to hunt down the right config to make fish stop starting with fastfetch? makes me wonder if cachy is really worth it
fastfetch is for faggots and trannies BTW

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>>107213687
du shows disk usage, not the size of (a group of) files.

I swear people should be locked out of system-level tools until they pass a certification and use some physical token to unlock said tools. Disk, CPU, memory usage – everything under lock. If you want to read those you'd call a certified engineer to read them and interpret them for you.
/rant

>>107214227
Assuming they used the same filesystem for both then the disk usage should still be the same. It doesn't really make sense for there to be discrepancy unless you're using something like compression, etc, which could legitimately result in less space usage on one.

>>107214143
If the file data is actually identical then it's probably just filesystem wastage, don't worry about it too much. Small files in particular always waste a significant but ultimately irrelevant proportion of space.

>>107214279
not necessarily and using du to check the integrity of backups is so damn stupid to begin with I assume he's trolling anyway.

>>107214452
I know things like sparse files can fuck with that but yes, they should just checksum the files properly if they want to do an integrity check.

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>>107214279
>Assuming they used the same filesystem for both then the disk usage should still be the same
That's an incorrect assumption because filesystems are configurable, and even the defaults evolve over time.

Your certificate has been revoked.

>>107214504
Defaults are specified in the mount options unless you mean things like block size, etc, then yeah, you have a point.

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KDE keeps winning.

>>107214634
Cool

>>107213687
>>107213739
>>107214143
Stop using rsync like a caveman and use borg for backups.

What's the easiest way to make my browser show the Japanese alphabet? Do I need to download the entire Japanese language for my operating system, or is there something smaller I can download with dnf or yum?

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I just learned about "sudo -v"

>>107214910
You need a font with japanese characters. I'm using noto-fonts-cjk

>>107214934
Thank you. That seems like it doesn't exist for me, but I'm doing

dnf install google-noto-fonts-all

because that exists, and it says it has every font. I only wanted Japanese, but Japanese isn't available on its own, unless it's in the same place that noto-fonts-cjk is.

>>107213373
In my case, even with animations at the slowest, the blur only kicks in at the end of the animation.

>>107215014
cjk => Chinese Japanese Korean

>>107215014
Try google-noto-sans-cjk-fonts and google-noto-serif-cjk-fonts

>>107215058
Now that's useful! Thank you!

>>107215083
I'm afraid not:

dnf install noto-fonts-cjk
Updating and loading repositories:
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 43 - Nonfree     100% |   7.4 KiB/s |   9.2 KiB |  00m01s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 43 - Free        100% |  10.9 KiB/s |   9.0 KiB |  00m01s
 Fedora 43 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_ 100% |   2.2 KiB/s | 986.0   B |  00m00s
 Fedora 43 - x86_64 - Updates           100% |  64.0 KiB/s |   7.4 KiB |  00m00s
Repositories loaded.
Failed to resolve the transaction:
No match for argument: noto-fonts-cjk
You can try to add to command line:
  --skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages

dnf list *noto-fonts*
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Installed packages
google-noto-fonts-common.noarch     20251001-1.fc43 updates

Available packages
google-noto-fonts-all.noarch        20251101-2.fc43 updates
google-noto-fonts-all-static.noarch 20251101-2.fc43 updates
google-noto-fonts-all-vf.noarch     20251101-2.fc43 updates
google-noto-fonts-common.noarch     20251101-2.fc43 updates

I don't know where it is, but I didn't have it so I had no choice but to install over 100MB of fonts just for weebism ;_;. I will have to start visiting lots of websites with weird alphabets now just to get my money's worth. Anyone know any Georgian or Ethiopian TV worth watching?

so not only do i have VR working on linux but i now greatly prefer VR on linux to VR on windows wivrn and wlx-overlay work like VR should work by default quick easy and using minimal resources that should go towards running your game

>>107215152
>Not only do I have X working on linux but I now greatly prefer X on linux to X on windows
Many such cases

>>107214634
That's pretty neat

>>107215149

$ dnf provides \*NotoSansCJK\*
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
google-noto-sans-cjk-fonts-1:2.004-10.fc43.noarch : Google Noto Sans CJK Fonts
Repo         : fedora
Matched From :
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-sans-cjk-fonts/NotoSansCJK-Black.ttc
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-sans-cjk-fonts/NotoSansCJK-Bold.ttc
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-sans-cjk-fonts/NotoSansCJK-DemiLight.ttc
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-sans-cjk-fonts/NotoSansCJK-Light.ttc
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-sans-cjk-fonts/NotoSansCJK-Medium.ttc
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-sans-cjk-fonts/NotoSansCJK-Regular.ttc
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-sans-cjk-fonts/NotoSansCJK-Thin.ttc

google-noto-sans-cjk-vf-fonts-1:2.004-10.fc43.noarch : Google Noto Sans CJK Variable Fonts
Repo         : fedora
Matched From :
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-sans-cjk-vf-fonts/NotoSansCJK-VF.ttc

mathgl-fonts-8.0.3-5.fc43.x86_64 : Compiled fonts for the mathgl
Repo         : fedora
Matched From :
Filename     : /usr/share/mathgl/fonts/NotoSansCJK.vfmb

supertux-0.6.3-16.fc43.x86_64 : Jump'n run like game
Repo         : fedora
Matched From :
Filename     : /usr/share/supertux2/fonts/NotoSansCJKjp-Medium.otf

warzone2100-4.5.5-3.fc43.x86_64 : Innovative 3D real-time strategy
Repo         : fedora
Matched From :
Filename     : /usr/share/warzone2100/fonts/NotoSansCJK-VF.otf.ttc

>>107215202
There's also a Serif version:

$ dnf provides \*Noto\*Serif\*CJK\*
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
google-noto-serif-cjk-fonts-1:2.003-3.fc43.noarch : Google Noto Serif CJK Fonts
Repo         : fedora
Matched From :
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-serif-cjk-fonts/NotoSerifCJK-Black.ttc
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-serif-cjk-fonts/NotoSerifCJK-Bold.ttc
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-serif-cjk-fonts/NotoSerifCJK-ExtraLight.ttc
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-serif-cjk-fonts/NotoSerifCJK-Light.ttc
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-serif-cjk-fonts/NotoSerifCJK-Medium.ttc
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-serif-cjk-fonts/NotoSerifCJK-Regular.ttc
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-serif-cjk-fonts/NotoSerifCJK-SemiBold.ttc

google-noto-serif-cjk-vf-fonts-1:2.003-3.fc43.noarch : Google Noto Serif CJK Variable Fonts
Repo         : fedora
Matched From :
Filename     : /usr/share/fonts/google-noto-serif-cjk-vf-fonts/NotoSerifCJK-VF.ttc

$ dnf search google-noto\*cjk\*
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Matched fields: name
 google-noto-sans-cjk-fonts.noarch      Google Noto Sans CJK Fonts
 google-noto-sans-cjk-vf-fonts.noarch   Google Noto Sans CJK Variable Fonts
 google-noto-sans-mono-cjk-vf-fonts.noarch      Google Noto Sans Mono CJK Variable Fonts
 google-noto-serif-cjk-fonts.noarch     Google Noto Serif CJK Fonts
 google-noto-serif-cjk-vf-fonts.noarch  Google Noto Serif CJK Variable Fonts

>>107215183
im not sure you realize the amount of shit you have to setup just to get VR qworkiong on windows i dont even have steamVR right now just the games

>>107215202
>>107215220
I've never used "dnf provides". It's a new one to me. Thank you for that.

>>107215230
No I don't, and I'd never want to bother with it. I wasn't being sarcastic, I'm happy for you

>>107206899
>Have been using wayland for years without issue. Have you looked into using a macbook?
Blackie blackie.
Yes papa.
Did you sucked troon cock ?
No papa.
Telling lies.
No papa.

what distro do i throw on old dumpster pc now? xubuntu dropped 32bit.

>>107215328
Older versions of Debian work for now. Gentoo or Slackware are probably your best longterm bets if you can't throw that computer in the trash and use something with a modern processor.

>>107215251
i am too this means i never even need to think about windows again

Trying to make the jump to full Linux use. Anyone know how I could get https://github.com/Maetrim/DDOBuilderV2 to run on Linux?

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>>107211567
>Start Menu
>picrel
got no experience with it, but that seems what came preinstalled in some
>and stuff
tasks in panel and ubuntuappindicators are what i always had on a debian nuc

>>107215495
don't you build the DDO characters inside of the game?

>>107215328
crungbang++

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>>107215495
idk what this is, but it looks like it works in wine

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>>107196526
Two KDE questions:
1. How do I change the filepicker when using Firefox? it seems like it uses the old gtk one.
2. Making the panel hide when using maximized windows adds a short delay when moving the cursor towards the bottom edge of the screen. I get why it works like that, but I find it extremely annoying, is there any way to disable it? I want it to be instant.

I'm trying to install this so I can ssh into an Android 6 smartphone:
https://tabssh.github.io/
https://github.com/TabSSH/android

But I can't build it with docker because of this:
>$ docker pull openjdk:18-jdk-slim
>Error response from daemon: manifest for openjdk:18-jdk-slim not found: manifest unknown: manifest unknown

Whoever runs https://hub.docker.com/_/openjdk probably just fucking deleted that docker image. What am I supposed to do now? Is there an archive of it or something that I can pull from?

>>107215047
could be some distro-specific config or weaker hardware. what version of plasma are you on?

>>107215832
>1. How do I change the filepicker when using Firefox? it seems like it uses the old gtk one.
in "about:config" set "widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker" to "2". Or use the Flatpak version which is correctly preconfigured compared to most distros which enshittify it.

>>107215871
>ssh into an Android 6 smartphone
can't you just install Termux on your Android device and do "pkg install ssh"? Termux still has Android 5/6 builds: https://github.com/termux/termux-app/releases

>>107215909
I installed a Termux APK from
>https://dn721600.ca.archive.org/0/items/termux-v-0.79-offline-bootstrape-package/
However, apt and pkg can't update or install anything due to
- 404 not found on the dl.bintray.com host of the packages
- public key not available
- updating from a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default
- GPG error: NO_PUBKEY
- repository termux.net stable InRelease is not signed

I just wanted a standalone ssh apk and not have to build the .apk myself or deal with package manager stuff.

>>107200439
Have him install arch (he doesn't have to use it, just install it). Following the instructions on the wiki is of great help in understanding how the system works.
>He's tech illiterate
There really is no excuse for being tech illiterate in 2025, especially if you're less than 50 years old. The world runs on technology, it's a major part of every component of daily life, so even if you hate computers you should sit down for a bit to learn how they work; it's like driving at this point.
The other path is >>107200459 and learning by fixing whatever you fuck up.

>>107215909
>>107215947
Thanks. I didn't check the releases section, but after going to that link you posted to their official github, it worked
>https://github.com/termux/termux-app/releases/download/v0.119.0-beta.3/termux-app_v0.119.0-beta.3+apt-android-5-github-debug_universal.apk
and I used "pkg install wget" to obtain Wget. (Don't know why "Termux v0.79 by clouddownload.apk" didn't work.)

>>107216009
>Don't know why "Termux v0.79 by clouddownload.apk" didn't work
It's probably an ancient version of Termux linking to repositories which no longer exist. I believe Termux changed their repo host a couple of years ago.

On windows I used Adobe DC to fill in PDF forms. What to use on Debian ?

Installed Arch using archinstall on an older laptop. After rebooting BIOS no longer detects SSD, the usual "reboot or insert proper blabla". Can't see it directly in BIOS either. Went into Uefi shell, and it sees the ssd (fs0 and 1), but can't invoke EFI\BOOT\grubx64.efi on any of them. Any tips or back to fedora for me (since that worked, but wanted to try arch)?

>>107216063
Firefox

>>107216083
you are really a stupid mother fucker do you know that?

>>107216103
What are you sperging over? Firefox lets you type text into pdfs files and attach signatures. What else do you need?

devuan or cachyos?

>>107216113
I don't mean pdf's with modifiable fields, I mean the type of dumb pdfs where you need to find a way to edit them

I am having so many stupid problems with arch / artix that I have been using for years, seriously considering switching to another distro altogether probably fedora
your opinions gentlemen?

>>107196526
Is there any merit in installing steamOS on custom built hardware compared to just arch?

>>107216063
Libreoffice

>notebook keyboard randomly dies on freshly installed gentoo
fuck that im back to normal people's distros

>>107216174
ahhhh, great this actually works and is already installed apparently

thanks brosef

>>107216161
As in modifying the PDF rather than writing on top of it? Try PDF4QT or LibreOffice.

>>107216167
Arch is an OS you build and maintain yourself. You don't have a choice of not being a system administrator.
SteamOS is built and maintained for you just like Android or iOS would be. But it's hardware support is apparently not that great. Look into Bazzite instead.

>>107216174
>>107216184


but it's vastly inferior to Adobe DC apparently. Fuck this shit, let's fire up the old windows pc. Linux is a failed OS

>>107216191
>But it's hardware support is apparently not that great. Look into Bazzite instead.
yeah hardware support is my main concern actually

>>107216167
Just plain Arch or Fedora and have backups. Atomic shit like SteamOS or Bazzite on self-administrated systems is a total waste of time.

>>107216344
>a total waste of time
do you have any anecdote to share?

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Newfag here
My pc is kinda old and it'll be a while since I have the money to get a new one in my third world country
I was thinking it'd be good to switch to Linux since all things I play can be emulated or supported there, and I assume it'd run better without all the windows bloat, but I'm a retard and it all looks complicated
Are there any windows user friendly distros out there? Or if there aren't any similar enough, one easy to learn for a room temp iq monkey?

>>107215792
How? Like, what program are you using and what did you do to set it up? Because whenever I try something in Lutris or Bottles or PlayOnLinux, it never works for this.

>>107216382
just a system copy of wine 10 with proton patches.
-- my apologies, i should have used a blank prefix, this needs vcrun2015 installed to work. for your reference i found out by running it in a terminal and seeing it complaining about mfc140.dll, which if you search for that you can see it belongs to vcrun2015. you can install that using winetricks

Running "sshd" starts the ssh daemon, but how do I stop it without multiple steps like "ps aux | grep sshd; kill $pid"? There's no "sshd start" and "sshd stop"

>>107216009
Wanted to ssh in as part of a thing to setup a web server running from Android. However that may be redundant as I can using rsync over ssh. BTW, if you run
>$ rsync -a --info=progress2 user1@10.0.0.130:/hdd1/example1/ user2@10.0.0.132:/hdd2/example2/
Then you'll get this error:
>The source and destination cannot both be remote.
However, if you mount one of them via sshfs, then both source and destination CAN be remote. So "user1@10.0.0.130:/example1/" could be replaced with "/mnt/sshfs/user1/hdd1/".

Anyways, I was looking at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/host-a-web-server-on-android and that guide is incomplete because ssh will ask you for a password when trying to ssh into Android (but there is no password so you'll be stuck). Steps for Android <7: (1) install Termux APK and give it storage permissions (2) Update repo and install software: "pkg update; pkg install openssh nmap wget curl" (3) Make a public key, "ssh-keygen -t ed25519", and copy it to a newline in desktop computer at ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (4) Copy ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub (created by ssh-keygen a while ago) from desktop computer to authorized_keys in Android. May need to turn off password-auth and enable key-auth in desktop computer. (5) In Android, startup ssh and get info: "sshd; whoami; ifconfig; nmap -sV 127.0.0.1" (6) In desktop computer running Linux: ssh -p $portFromNmap $userFromWhoami@$ipFromIfconfig

>>107216419
Thanks, with that information I was able to get it running,

>>107216375
Most windows look-alike is probably Linux Mint. But I recommend Manjaro with the KDE desktop environment for a gaming PC. Arch-Linux is just better for that. I run manjaro on my main PC and mint on my laptops

Having some KDE Plasma issues with system sounds not playing on Guix System, unless I have some audio playing app open that makes them work again.
Anyone else run into this?

>>107207346
Update. Borked again. Trying out Bazzite. So far so good. I guess you just gotta rely on dedicated gaming distros for some hardware. Will probably put Tumbleweed in a distro box if I need it.

I did a fresh install of Arch Linux on my new SSD. Last night when I was installing 2 games at once my whole system started breaking down which gave me the impression my SSD got corrupted. My KDE went black, Steam was saying "Disk failed", all console commands weren't working, and when I got back to the TTY login screen that stopped working too. Strangely when I rebooted my machine everything was working perfectly fine again, even my downloads were fine. I wondered if I had done something wrong with partitioning my SSD--on my Western Digital Blue 4TB SN5000 I opted for 4096 byte sectors and I partitioned everything starting from sector 256 which should be good for alignment. For the partitions I just followed the 1GB boot/4GB swap/rest scheme. Is this concerning or was it just bad luck? I do recall the wiki warning about 4096 size sectors, would that be the case?

>>107216653
If I see correctly this is an nvme. It might be a similar issue to the Samsung 990 Pro. That one sometimes shits itself unless you disable power saving.
I did that by adding nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 to my linux start parameters in grub.
Maybe try out whether that helps.

>>107215589
Thanks, using it now.
>>107215909
>pkg install ssh
Use dropbear instead.
>>107216152
Neither.
>>107216426
You don't have systemd or some other service management?

>>107216834
so then what distro should i use?

>>107198071
I have Spectacle on Fedora Plasma. It can be configured to function the same way as I use Greenshot: I press PrtScn, it instantly takes a screenshot of my entire display, and saves to the desktop without any pop-up editing shit.

>>107216368
Last time I checked if you want to manually install a specific version of the nVidia driver you practically have to build the OS image yourself.
But other than that, the complete opposite of what he said is true. The whole point of atomic distros is to not waste your time building an OS yourself like you would do on "traditional" distros like Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, etc.
Saying Atomic distros are a waste of time is like saying Android or iOS are a waste of time compared to UBPorts or Plasma Mobile. It's a take made by out of touch morons who haven't touched grass in months.

>>107216375
Bazzite with KDE Plasma interface or Aurora Linux. Anything else with KDE is also an option, but unless you're really into system maintenance or have a very specific use case you should avoid non-atomic/non-immutable distros.

>>107216653
SSDs can and do fail, it may not have been anything you did. Run diagnostics and RMA if there's errors. There's an "nvme" command line utility to manage these drives.

>I wondered if I had done something wrong with partitioning my SSD--on my Western Digital Blue 4TB SN5000 I opted for 4096 byte sectors
Partition block size has nothing to do with hardware sectors. It's nice if they match and are both 4KB along with the system page size, but it's not an issue otherwise.

>>107216777
>nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0
You don't need to be that aggressive, just prevent the deeper modes, which you can find with smartctl -c /dev/nvme0.

>>107216368
If you ever want to modify the base system you have to write it out as a recipe and then rebuild the image. And you have to reboot every time you change the image. The nVidia driver problem Bazzite tranny is talking about is basically any system change more complicated than editing a couple files.

>>107216899
>Saying Atomic distros are a waste of time is like saying Android or iOS are a waste of time compared to UBPorts or Plasma Mobile
Android and iOS only save you time because a team at the mfg spent thousands of hours creating an image for that device. A gaming PC is a device which exists in a quantity of one and has one user. LARPing like you're building something for thousands of people to use is retarded.

>>107217245
>If you ever want to modify the base system
almost nobody does this

>>107217391
Because it's a pain. You switch to a different distro instead.

>>107217391
cool, can i see your study?

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>>107196526
Thoughts on Manjaro?

>>107216610
Do you like Manjaro? Currently I am on Ubuntu and it just works I guess, but I'm wondering if I should try a distro which might be more lightweight, and which would have newer packages.

>>107217411
>I need a study from a figure of authority to tell me something that any intelligent person can intuit themselves
alright. just look at the market share of operating systems whose system cannot be modified without voiding warranty or bypassing some scary security feature. hint, it's 98%.

>>107217528
Ok but we're talking about Linux gaming PCs not phones for SEA dirt farmers.

>>107217570
>we're talking about Linux gaming PCs
well in that case according to steam hw survey immutable distros are used by at least 30% of linux gamers. and it would be crazy to assume that most of the other 70% modify their system in a way which is unsupported on fedora atomic. you don't need to build a new image to just edit your config files in /etc or to install a system package. you or whoever >>107217245 is is just fearmongering.
>inb4 steam os is not a PC so it doesn't count
but it shows what an average gamer wants. and that is a distro that works and doesn't even need it's system changed. apparently 20% of them are mostly used docked so I would count it as a PC in that case.

>>107216375
Ublue distros outsource system administration

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Has anyone got experience with Btop++. I installed it on Mint but cannot find a way to display my GPU (9070XT). I first used snap but turns out that method doesn't allow Btop to access a specific folder with the GPU data necessary for it to work. I then uninstalled it, downloaded the latest release and used make to install it, with no success either. I am probably too retarded to notice some important step I missed.
rocm and proper rivers are installed too.

>>107217723
>in a way which is unsupported on fedora atomic
Any way is supported by Fedora Atomic, but nobody in their right mind would waste that kind of time.

I'm on cachyos and when I sleep my system or it goes into sleep I am unable to wake it up with mouse or keyboard. Even if it's on the lock screen for a bit it'll freeze up.
9800x3d and rx 9070 I haven't found a fix for this yet.

How can I get URXVT on i3 to start out with the text in the middle?

>>107217930
>customizing linux is a waste of time
then we're in an agreement and there's nothing wrong with atomic distros

>>107217981
Is your power profile on balanced? Try putting it in performance.
powerprofilesctl set performance

You don't mean atomic. You mean immutable

>>107218063
Bazzite troons think you shouldn't call it immutable just because you can edit config files still and the $HOME directory is read-write. Yes, this is the most retarded pedantry ever. The base-system is still immutable.

So is Falkon a good browser for obscure shit like 4chan? I already use Firefox for those kind of stuff but having another alternative would be nice.

>>107214852
I do not need any of the features offered by borg. It would be a pointless and unnecessary risk to change the utility I am using.

Also it's written in Python wtf?

>>107218063
fedora atomic distros are not immutable in any way that matters

>>107218082
I'm still not seeing anything that a user would need to change in the places which are read only. and I'm not seeing any concrete examples of things that are apparently inconvenient on atomic distros aside from the nvidia thing that was mentioned. anything a normal person would want to do is the same as it is in other distros. including almost all system modifications.
these complaints about immutable distros always boil down to "immutable bad... just because!" with nothing to back this up.

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>>107214852
Is this you?

>>107218041
>having working drivers is now 'customization'

>>107218217
would

>>107218171
Suit yourself, just remember rsync is not a backup solution, making a copy of a directory, locally or otherwise, is not all there is to having a reliable backup. Better pray you don't find out the hard way when you have to restore something. What you should be rsyncing is your backups, not the original files.

And yes it's Python, what's the issue? It can't go faster than your storage anyway.

>>107218370
Hit with a steel bat? Yes, me too.

>>107218370
,am im not even not into trans women but come on dude at least say that about f1nn or vicky

>>107218358
your distro should provide working drivers by default. any OS which forces you to manage drivers is shit.

>>107218407
so windows must be a steaming pile of putrid bullshit then

>>107218195
>I'm not seeing any concrete examples of things that are apparently inconvenient on atomic distros aside from the nvidia thing that was mentioned
Got a complex security device like a Trezor? Full rebuild. Weird combo printer with special drivers and you don't want to buy a new one? Full rebuild. cdemu for old games? Full rebuild.

For a gaming distro the nVidia driver problem should be an instant disqualifier by itself. A lot of other gaming hardware has weird ass drivers that you can't count on the Bazzite diversity squad to set up for you.

>>107218387
Are you talking about incremental backups? I do a dry run first check whats going to change and then run it. This is in case my nvme drive explodes.

They say the same thing about dnf and it's an absolute piece of shit.

>>107218459
Incrementals are part of it. You don't want to find out you backed up bad data after the fact and you have only one copy and no "go back" ability.

>>107218424
>Trezor
>weird printers
these seem more like edge cases rather than a commonplace issue
>cdemu
is this even needed when dolphin can mount iso files? also I thought powerISO was the standard for this kind of stuff.
thanks for at least providing some real examples.
>the nVidia driver problem
nvidia will always be a problem on linux. at least bazzite has an nvidia version unlike the official fedora distros.

>>107218532
Some game images from semi-legal sources have proprietary formats that can only be mounted with cdemu

>>107218057
I tried your rec as well as changed the suspend mode to deep instead of s2idle
I am not sure which exatly fixed the problem but I think Im good now

>>107218708
Nice! Im' glad your issue got resolved anon

>>107218532
>is this even needed when dolphin can mount iso files?
Yes because loop mounts don't work for mixed images or ones with copy protection data. Most games that shipped on CD are at least one of these.
>bazzite has an nvidia version unlike the official fedora distros
Thus saving you 30 seconds and 3 mouse clicks on your Fedora installation.

>>107218632
If the file format was the issue you wouldn't need to install a special kernel module for it.

>>107216375
I think Mint is the easiest OS to use, even easier than Windows. It was my first dive into Linux and it's ridiculously easy to install. I still have a laptop running it and it has never given me issues after like 6 years.

>>107218632
fair enough

>>107218738
>Thus saving you 30 seconds and 3 mouse clicks on your Fedora installation.
I thought silverblue and kinoite don't support this, but alright.

Gentlemen, I am shitposting to you now from my Linux desktop for the very first time.
Just finished installing bazzite.
Thanks for the recommendations.

Anyone here use a DE that is Windows-adjacent? Something that has all the buttons and other stuff where they would be on Windows without copying Windows exactly (I know there are DEs that do that. Whether that's a good idea is a separate conversation)?

>>107218738
>If the file format was the issue you wouldn't need to install a special kernel module for it.
It probably needs that in order to pretend to be an actual CD drive

>>107214159
>Arcan

I've experience with the C API for writing clients and the Lua API for hacking on my own WM. it's super clean and well thought out. So far it is miles better than Xlib/libwayland and can't really think of something I would want that it can't do.

Dev only really writes about it in a dense detailed way like a devlog so if you don't already have a strong background it impenetrable. He'd need people to decipher it and preset/package for mere mortals and that is very unlikely to ever happen.

It will end up like "oh we could have had a better world if people gave a shit" stories with a bunch of die hard nutjob fans like Plan9. Too bad.

>>107218765
>I thought silverblue and kinoite don't support this
I didn't say Fedora for troons.

>>107218773
KDE Plasma has a really good and Windows-like UI. You can also customize almost everything about it. If you're too lazy to manually customize it it does have a built-in theme store. There's even Windows XP, 7, 10 and 11 themes in it.

GNOME, despite looking like an aborted Android clone by default, has several extensions which can make it look and feel like Windows. ZorinOS is a good showcase of this since it ships with those extensions by default and it's passable as a Windows 10/11 clone.

Cinnamon is similar to what Windows 7 would be, that's why Mint is often recommended to Windows users. It's kind of ugly by default but it has a built-in theme manager just like KDE.

I would say these 3 are your best picks if you're looking for a Windows-adjecent DE.
I've used all 3 and that's pretty much the order I'd rate them in. KDE > GNOME > Cinnamon > other DEs.
That said, I'm not sure which is the most faithful to being "windows-like" since I'm not really looking for a Windows UI in my DEs.

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anybody knows why kde day-night cycle waits so much to change between light and dark themes?

>>107218765
Nobody should be using an Atomic desktop.

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>>107215885
Seems like the correct number was "1", but it works now, thanks.
>>107216630
No idea, what are you using? Pipewire? Openrc? I'm not familiar with Guix.
>>107216375
Mint is fine, but the packages aren't super up to date so keep that in mind (unless you use nothing but Flatpaks). Think of it as the Linux version of Windows 7, it feels slightly "old" but just works, Cinnamon is comfy and easy to use. If you want something Arch-based, you could try Endeavour or Cachy, they're basically Arch but you get an easier, graphical installation as well as some goodies, and also more up to date stuff by default (compared to Debian based distributions), depending on your luck you may need to fix stuff here and there (because Linux isn't perfect), but the Arch wiki has really good info not only for Arch but Linux in general. Finally, ignore what shills say, you can get backups and snapshots of your system regardless of which distribution you choose (look into btrfs and Timeshift), just don't run random shell scripts from github and you should be fine, use whatever you find convenient, it's your computer.

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>>107219185
I think by default the transition time is 30 mins, you can change it by using a custom timer, picrel.

Is there a solid substitute for After Effects for Linux?

Kdenlive is very limited.

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>>107196526
>The glowies are in my walls.
Correct, the glowies are always in your walls with Palantir. The glowies pic related.

>>107216777
>>107216994
I ran a short test with nvme-cli and my SSD crapped out again during. I heeded the words on the Arch wiki saying 4096 byte sectors aren't well supported and went back to 512. Couldn't find anywhere that my SSD supports it anyways. I ran the extended nvme test and got no errors. Hopefully that's the end of that.

>>107219491
>and went back to 512
Do you mean you reformatted the NVMe namespace to have 512e sectors instead of 4K or do you mean you mkfs.whatever with 512 byte blocks? Because the latter should never ever give you trouble and if you had any issues it's probably still a hardware problem.

now that arch is the default retard/shitter distro, what's the cool kid distro?

>>107219643
Kylin

>>107219643
DebianTesting

>>107219629
Reformatted the NVMe, hopefully it's not a hardware problem. This SSD already went up 40 dollars after I bought it because of AI slop.

>>107219643
nixos/guix is the great filter.

I'm getting into distrobox and it's so goddamn great, why aren't people ditching flatpaks and snaps already?
Also I have been looking around for a comprehensive list of images for distrobox, I found one here but it is not exhaustive https://github.com/toolbx-images/images

Where can I find more images for distrobox or where can i find a more exhaustive list?

>>107220285
i straight up refuse to use flatpaks just the bizarre command naming alone is enough for me

I'm building a new pee cee when my case arrives. Why should/shouldn't I go with loonix as my operating system?

I'm thinking void

>>107220568
Are you proficient at programming? Answer: No. Okay, are you willing to read manuals upon manuals for 10 hours? Yes? Okay. Linux is for you.

>>107217470
Manjaro was the first distro I ever tried, I remember that I was getting updates almost every single week, sometimes even more frequently, it made me realize that rolling release distros are definitely not for me and I never tried any arch based distro again since I don't want to be updating my system every single day.
Also Manjaro uses pamac instead of pacman which really threw me off, I'm not sure if it's a just a wrapper/front-end to pacman or something more, either way it didn't help when I was looking for ways to install packages with arch-based distros since most assume you're using pacman.

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>>107220605
that doesn't answer the question thougheverbeit
and I'm a professional codemonkey

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>>107213687
Something must have been different with the folder itself that rsync and diff did not see as different.
I deleted the folder on both and ran rsync again and now they match perfectly.

>>107220646
Then you should know your answer already.

>>107220568
What are you building your PC for?
>Gaming
Bazzite, PopOS, SteamOS or Fedora
(Bazzite is basically Fedora but with extra stuff)
Also you did get an AMD and not an Nvidia card, right anon?
>Anything other than gaming
Fedora or Debian (or Linux Mint if you're a noob)
>But I really need Adobe, MS Office, [insert other proprietary garbage here], etc...
Then you're better off staying on windows
>I'm thinking void
Good option if you know what you're doing, don't have an Nvidia card (since proprietary Nvidia drivers can't work with musl) and all the software you want is in the void repos (check their repos so you know what's there and what's not), otherwise you're setting yourself for some pain.

I want to write a bash script for some administration tasks but I hate the syntax. Is writing it in C or python using system() bad?

>>107220880
only use python if you're über based

Is gtk actually becoming fucked or is it a /g/ meme?
Well I be forced to use CSD and the adwata theme and lose all my use cases in the future?

>>107220880
Kind of if you're not very good with shell scripting because you still have to be aware of magical shell bullshit changing the meaning of the strings you insert. My advice is just deal with it and use shellcheck.

>>107220880
I made this little thing in the past, and while I think it's fine, and you could even use TCC and its -run flag to automatically run it like a bash script, it's probably a good idea to gain a base level of familiarity with shell scripting, even though I haven't. Python is cancer.
https://pastebin.com/j5Tqi2rZ

>>107220945
Pretty much everything outside GNOME is abandoning GTK. I think EasyEffects was the last app I was using other than Firefox. Which links it but has no UI buy-in.

>want to install battle.net
should I use Lutris, Bottles, or do it through Steam?

>>107221189
>>107221189

>>107221473
>>107221473

>>107216025
yeah, https://bintray.com/ now redirects to https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/

>>107216834
>>pkg install ssh
>Use dropbear instead.
Why use the dropbear package manager? I never heard of it before now.

>>Running "sshd" starts the ssh daemon, but how do I stop it without multiple steps like "ps aux | grep sshd; kill $pid"? There's no "sshd start" and "sshd stop"
>You don't have systemd or some other service management?
Not sure if Android uses systemd. Don't think I can run "sudo" in Termux anyways.

>>107221533
>dropbear package manager
Dropbear is a SSH server, not package manager. Makes more sense in such a single user environment.

>>107203416
>Anyone here have any experience with modifying libreboot?
I don't as I've always been a Windows Pro chad.

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>>107218773
while there's nothing wrong to start with something a bit familiar, you will need to be open to changes, or needing to configure things to be closer to what you're used to
the only foss i know of that copies windows exactly is reactos, but that's not a linux de
there are many linux de's that are windows-esque, like they have a start button, a tray windows are minimised to, etc, but don't expect the smaller things to all be in the same places or with the same names

that said, there are a couple things which try to some degree if you really want that, like ice2k and aerothemeplasma

>>107221481
There was a thread already, dumbass

>>107220285
Distrobox has a bigger performance hit than Flatpaks.