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>>105561179 (OP)
Courage.

Don't care, still using gnome.

>>105561179 (OP)
Isn't every week in GNOME pride month? When are they not faggots?

ive been using dwm + nixos for 5 years and it just works 2bh senpai

someone needs to make a proper thread

>>105561967
>my triggers include multicolored logos and the the gays existing near me :’(
sheltered fucking sweetheart here needs a safe space so they don’t have to interact with anything that makes their precious feefees tingle lmao. you people are beyond parody

>>105562040
Yeah you suck cock, we get it.

>>105562040
Implying this thread is not the lamest of baits in a shitty board that's pretty much /pol/-lite?
iirc like 3 days ago we've a fglt with literal jay bait in the OP

>>105561955
yes

>>105561967
>>105561982

>>105561179 (OP)
Is elogind an “acceptable” compromise with systemd, or do I actually need to go full antiX?

>>105561179 (OP)
So what distro+DE combo provides the best Nvidia Wayland support as of 2025, or is it honestly better to just stick with Xfce at this point until I’m forced to move? I just want my shit to work.

Despite using mint i keep getting the urge to use ubuntu. Idk why.

>>105562172
it's fine unless you can name a problem with it

>>105562204
I actually host those <3

>>105562534

>>105562556

What some practical uses for Rocky (redhat) Linux at home? I'm hoping to one day become a sysadmin. I have a Rocky vm setup and have installed a web server which I can access via a GUI on my local network. However, this is more of me accessing and editing the front-end via my browser, and not learning linux at all. I already have a file and media server running Windows and would like to keep those if possible. Any recommendations for "fun"/practical ways to learn? If I'm just reading and entering endless commands it loses me a bit.

>>105562783
Rude!

I'm putting Lubuntu on someone's computer because it's a fucking 4gb piece of shit with an i3 from like 8 years ago

Here's my question: what's arguably the best (free, as in money) remote desktop software I can use that lets me remote onto it when said retard friend needs help?

>>105562942
ssh

>>105562942
Lmao why the fuck do you even need to get one? Does loonix not include this shit?

>>105562942
First of all, stop. Lubuntu uses LXQt, which actually uses more system resources in [current year] than Xfce, cause Qt and Plasma are now basically the same thing.
Second of all, an i3 with 4GB of RAM is enough to run any Linux DE you like smoothly.
Third, you're looking for Remmina.

>>105562942
i went to help someone just the other day only to find teamviewer requires an account to use, so i had a look around and found rustdesk, which worked well. it's foss as well

>>105563007
Teamviewer does not require an account, what the fuck are you talking about?
(I tested this last week)

>>105562139
why are gnome users persecuted like this

>>105563021
well i was in a rush being on a phone call, and it was asking to sign in. maybe i missed something because they changed the UI since i last tried it, but rustdesk did the job. i tend to prefer foss anyway so even if teamviewer does still work without an account, i'd still keep using rustdesk
i believe you can self-host the server portion as well

>>105562961
I was hoping for something that's basically 'retard, click this link, download the thing, use this code'
SSH looks like it might need them to go the settings or is that only for me when I set it up?

>>105563005
Neat, thanks for that software
I'll try Mint in that case

>>105563038
NTA but looking at this it might have been a mistake on your end and you signed in for another reason, seems like it is free
https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/free-download-with-license-options/

>>105563053
>NTA but looking at this it might have been a mistake on your end and you signed in for another reason, seems like it is free
i didn't sign in. i rarely use it. i don't use it personally and only do use it on the rare occasion like if a friends' kid wants help with something that can't wait, i get them to run teamviewer quick support, but this time when installing teamviewer i was hit with a login prompt. i didn't look into it because i was on a call so i quickly found something else to use
rustdesk works much the same as teamviewer in that it provides a session id/pass to access someone's computer
also note that i'm not bringing this up because it uses rust, i'm neutral on that front, don't care if it does or doesn't use rust

>>105562534
>>105562556
>>105562623
>you will never suck off a trans woman in the bathroom of anons bisexual lighting concert
feels bad man :(

I'm using openSUSE Leap 15.5 and after installing the graphics card drivers, the graphics card is still not detected and is probably using the default, slow drivers. How do I fix that? I uninstalled the nouveau drivers but then only got a terminal. Can you please help me fix that?

>>105563113
>>105563053
oh and, i'm aware it's still /free/, i just didn't want to make an account. never had to before

>>105561179 (OP)
Fuck off with the GAY FAGGOT shit. Here, some pills, take these and untroon.

>>105563053
>SSH looks like it might need them to go the settings or is that only for me when I set it up?
yes thats only when you want to set it up.
ssh will let you login as a user and then do whatever you want with it. reboot it, install software, open a graphical interface, control the mouse, open and edit files in the terminal with vi or nano, download/upload files.
you setup a key that identifies your machine and says to his machine "this machine can connect whenever it wants"

>>105563053
>>105563113
oh and for personal use i do just use SSH, but that requires a bit of setup, an open port, and without additional software like x11vnc, is just a text shell
not really equivalent to teamviewer, but makes more sense for accessing computers you own since it doesn't require input from the other computer, doesn't require a GUI, and easily facilitates things like scripting, port tunnelling, etc

>>105563115
I'm sure the artists would blow you ... away.

>>105561179 (OP)
>update debian
>python is now 3.11
>bricks my goonmaker1111 which needs python 3.10 because of a torch dependency
how do i install 3.10 alongside 3.11 without fucking everything up?

>>105563147
I know you're joking, but pimozide actually cures all faggotry.

>>105564512
distrobox

>>105564692
but that is a virtualized environment, right? I want to run AI stuff with an nvida card, that's not going to sip performance or somehow not work due to nvidia shenanigans, right?

>>105564512
Major version changes don't happen in Debian updates, only in release upgrades
>upgrade from Windows 10 to 11
>bricks my goonmaker1111 which doesn't support 11 yet
same thing

>how do i install 3.10 alongside 3.11 without fucking everything up?
distrobox, pyenv, asdf, docker, chroot, compile from source... There are literally dozens of ways.

>>105564741
>but that is a virtualized environment, right?
no.
>that's not going to sip performance or somehow not work due to nvidia shenanigans, right?
no.

>>105564746
>same thing
Feels
>Major version changes don't happen in Debian updates, only in release upgrades
I thought so too, but I used to use automatic1111 without any hiccup on the same machine, on the same install.
>There are literally dozens of ways
I know, but I wanted one that will explicitly not fuck up my shit because I have projects running that specifically need 3.11 or newer for some reason.
>>105564754
Alright, I'll give it a try, thanks.

>>105562706
>Any recommendations for "fun"/practical ways to learn?
I don't really think there are any in your case. You can always try and replicate the Windows Server configs in Linux. That would be a start.
You'll need a lot more than that to be a sysadmin though. Sysadmins don't typically do fun stuff. What you need to do if you really want to learn Linux is put up a website with a firewall, a DNS, a syslog server, an OpenVPN server, etc. Stuff that you may not use at home but that will teach you useful things.
And of course, you will need to learn Windows Server too if you actually want a job.

>>105564512
torch at least supports 3.12

>>105563394
How do they walk out in public looking this ugly? What is with the lack of self awareness? Is this what happens when you are terminally online and get hugboxed by every other ugly tranny in existence? Like Jesus fucking Christ that thing is a monstrosity.

>>105564779
Distrobox is basically a chroot.
You run your shit on the same machine, on the same kernel, no virtualization, performance hit or shared resources. Just in a separate part of the file system so it doesn't interfere with your other shit,

>>105565196
She has more friends and more sex than you do.

>>105565196
And here is how the chud copes with seeing someone who actually has the microscopic amount of confidence needed to be themselves and not give a shit about external validation/approval from others. How bitch bred must you be before you start playing fucking fashion police and get emotional over stage outfits LMFAO

I can tell you as a statement of fact, just after seeing a single picture, that they have an infinitely more fulfilling social life than you ever well. You’re welcome for letting you know.

Is there a fix yet for RDNA2 cards using the wrong vertical resolution when recording with VAAPI + h265? Last I heard it was fixed on the driver side but ffmpeg needed to be patched as well.

>>105561918
> queer using trannyware
Yeah we know

>>105565231
>>105565377
Damn how ugly are you two? That's an ugly ass dude with his beer belly and gyno. Big ass jaw with 5' o clock shadow, receding hairline, huge hands, etc. just disgusting. How can anyone look at themselves in the mirror and go yeah this looks good!

If you weren't ugly and manly nobody would care.

>>105565890
who hurt you?

>>105561964
What is the functional difference between Nix and GUIX?

>>105565890
trvth nvke

Everytime i run sudo apt update, it says i have packages configured multiple times in sources.list. Which one of these is a duplicate? They all look different to me

deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware
deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free-firmware
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free-firmware

# bookworm-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
# see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main contrib non-free-firmware
deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main contrib non-free-firmware
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free
deb https://fasttrack.debian.net/debian-fasttrack/ bookworm-fasttrack main contrib
deb https://fasttrack.debian.net/debian-fasttrack/ bookworm-backports-staging main contrib

>>105565890
>maybe getting emotional and fashion policing like a bitch will help me recover after being called out as an emotional bitch playing fashion police
Sweetheart, this site is 18+

>>105568311
>Fashion police
Tranny reading comprehension is as bad as their hairlines.

>>105568005
Did you check /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

>>105568895
Thanks, i removed debian-backports.sources from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and that seems to have fixed it

>>105561179 (OP)
>an inclusive OS
dare i say it, based

>>105565231
>>105565377
But why dress like that when you look awful in it? If you're going to be unconventional and break the rules, why not wear something actually cool, like an armor set or costume or a funny t-shirt like pic rel? That person doesn't need confidence to wear that because all his friends agree with him politically and tell him what he wants to hear anyway. If he wore something truly unconventional that would be a different story, but dressing like a faggot is something that loads of people do, meaning you can confide in your carefully selected group of friends who also dress like you. Imagine if he went around dressed up like a medieval peasant. He would be the only person in a 10000 km radius to do so and not only would it be interesting and cool as fuck, but none of his friends would be doing it.

Can I use the print screen key as a keybind with sxhkd?

Why do we have gay thread and non-gay thread?

>>105569406
One is for the mentally ill, one is for the really mentally ill

>>105569427
which one is this?

>>105569406
Chud got triggered over pretty colors so bad that he literally needed to retreat into a safe space where he can larp and make believe that us terrifying queer folk don’t exist.

>>105569468
Got it.
Now, DILATE.

>>105569538
le EPIC 2012 maymay my fellow bacon narwhal redditorino. be sure to post this on r/KiA for all the le HECKIN upkeanus and essjaydubble(You) pwnage xDDD

>>105569644
SEETHE

>>105569538
chud is going to be forever shook by the alt girls who rejected and didn’t want anything to do with them in high school, huh? did you want to be emo or scene or something but just didn’t have the confidence or…?

anyone use wireguard? i was wondering if there is any kind of simple peer discovery system available for it, like how in syncthing you don't need to know/specify the ip's of other peers

>>105561179 (OP)
It is interesting how the corpos folded immediately when Trump came into office, but FOSS keeps going with the pride thing
I fear though that many proprietaryfags will now come to FOSS because of this and shit things up and constantly whine

>Why is this not like in MAC OS
>You do this, but we do not do this in MAC OS
>In MAC OS ...

>>105562706
What I'm currently doing is building an all-in-one server/NAS/router/hypervisor thing using RHEL as a base. You can make it as simple or complex as you want, but in my case I'm looking to deal with:
>baking custom RHEL ISOs
>bootstrapping the OS from minimal sets of packages using dnf --installroot
>root on ZFS
>managing ZFS volumes via cli, setting up weekly cron scrubs, snapshots and remote backups
>PPPoE broadband connection, NAT via firewalld/iptables
>DHCP server, recursive DNS server
>chat server
>media streaming server

tl;dr - start lurking >>>/g/hsg if you're looking for some ideas. Additionally I'd recommend using it as a desktop if you can, it'll give you basic familiarity with the basic commands and packages and whatnot.

>>105569867
if you don't know specific IPs you can use subnets. or is that too broad for you?

>>105570209
well the idea is just to have it between machines that don't have fixed ips
like with syncthing it doesn't matter if machines are on a dynamic ip, static ip, behind a nat, ethernet or wifi, friends' place, public wifi, phone hotspot, whatever. it uses a public peer discovery services (optionally self-hostable) which all peers can query to find out the current ip of other peers. the result being that once you've paired computers using pubkeys you just don't need to think about ips at all, it always just works

>>105570344
>>105570209
also i don't mind if one machine acts as a server. i do have a vps

Every time (all two of them over six years lol) someone's disagreed with me when I referred to Linux as a kernel instead of an operating system I've responded with 'Go install "The Linux Operating System" and tell me how that goes' and it's worked so far. I'm scared that one day someone's going to ask me what a kernel is and I'll have to reveal that I have no fucking idea.

At least one conservative you know is secretly gay.

>>105570519
well you can install the linux operating system. it just doesn't do much without linux software to go with it

Hi, I'm trying to use Pinta but it seems there's some weird shit going on with the themes, how do I make it fully dark?

>>105570574
Nevermind, I was on the GTK 2 version. Installed the 3.0 flatpak and it's fine now.

>>105561179 (OP)
Use case of pride month?

>omv server shut down during power outage
>normal boot stuck at journal recovery
>recovery mode boots
>USB liveboot fsck fixes superblocks
>boot still stuck

am I retarded
will I have to reinstall omv fresh?

Anyone got good ressources on learning how to use rawtherapee, or processing raws in general ?

>>105570344
i don't know what kind of setup you require, but for me to access my dynamic IP home network from any other network i used DDNS and just put the URL as my endpoint. not sure what you'd do if you need access in the other direction too.

>>105567229
nix is 10x more dogshit and guix has 10x less packages
also when i tried guix i managed to break it like 3 times in a row just installing packages but it was a on a livecd

>>105569894
meds

>>105572062
retard take

>>105572959
ok but that's just retarded screeching not an argument

>>105565890
>How can anyone look at themselves in the mirror and go yeah this looks good!
Be honest, when was the last time someone told you you look good?

>>105573073
retard take again

>>105573472
your mother "took" nigger dick and later drugs while pregnant and that's how youre here you fucking ape

>>105573078
For me, yesterday.
If you mean a random person on the street, not since I was like 19.

Should I care if UEFI db is invalid?
I just updated my motherboard and I'm seeing this message after enabling secure boot. It's on and working but I'm unable to update my DB I think there's a bug that was reported by fwupd

>>105573497
mutt's law
>>105539610

>>105562040
I'm gay and I hope you people die painfully

>>105565231
>>105565377
How are you fucking losers even real?

>>105569468
>queer folk
I'm gay and I want people who say things like this to drown.

>>105569663
You are an incel and nobody wants to fuck ugly subhuman trannies

>>105573683
probably not

>>105573941
meds

>>105573899
same

>>105562040
>everyone has to acknowledge gay shit all the time or else they are weird. gay is just normal people being normal talking about being gay all the time.

im not straight IRL and this shit is so cringe. people like you give other non-st8s a bad look. fuck off back to tumblr.

>>105574936
As long as there's an organized and active group of people seeking to marginalize queer people and force them back into the closet, there will always be Pride as a response. Funny how you always intentionally ignore that part :)

>>105576509
As long as fags breathe, there will always be rooftops to throw them off of. Alhamdulilah.

>>105573078
Just a few days ago. Tranny on discord who wants to fuck. She's hot so I don't care. Anyway I have like 200 matches or something on tinder right now too. Trannies are only fine when they're hot and not ugly and manly like that pic. Also I make sure they aren't freaks who go to pride and weird shit.

I tried Linux for the first time today, I chose OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, KDE Wayland based on my research of what I wanted, used it live from a external ssd to test things first. Couple of issues I had:

>Xbox one S controller wouldn't work, not even wired. Spent most of my time trying to fix this. Would probably have better luck with bluetooth but I don't have a dongle right now.
>Audio crackling when changing the volume to fast, like when I use my keyboard's volume knob.
>Fucked up font size and spacing on some websites (Firefox, probably an easy fix so I didn't bother atm)

Which of these issues do you anons think comes from me running from a live external ssd instead of installing? Which comes from the distro and which comes from something else?
Other than that, everything else worked right away which kinda surprised me. Now I didn't finish installing everything, I still needed to set up OBS and CoreCrtl but I haven't settled on OpenSUSE yet, maybe these problems come from it so I going to try another.

bros, is the key repeat rate in x11 configured differently depending on DE?
and where would you look for it on an absolutely ancient debian if you were stuck on a deserted island with just that and no intention to call for help or upgrade?

>>105576965
so you're using a proprietary dongle for your xbox controller? afaik that dongle is proprietary and it only works through some reverse engineered driver, unlike later xbone bluetooth gamepads or the ones from the 360
I've actually briefly owned one, but there was no driver at all back then

not a fan of opensuse but I don't think you will have any issues booting from usb regardless, it's going to be a bit slower ofc but usb3 onward should be fine

>>105576509
>As long as there's an organized and active group of people seeking to marginalize queer people and force them back into the closet
So why are you doing the parade in a queer infested cosmopolitan shithole where nobody cares? Shouldn't you be taking this to Missouri?
>there will always be Pride
Why are you so proud of sucking dicks though? Fucking another guy is a non-accomplishment. To normals it reads like you're somehow mad at them because you're different. Maybe you're venting at an internalized representation of your parents or something; idk. Pride does nothing to improve relations.

So I need access to the historical EAX registers of some removed int 80h system calls(I'm currently writing an assembly program for Linux.) I'm also a complete noob at Linux programming in general.
Where can I find the calls locations(unistd.h keeps coming up but I've looked it over and didn't see anything of use, but maybe I'm blind) and where can I get a copy from Linux 2.0?

>>105577197
Yeah I'm using the official wireless adapter. But it didn't work even wired with a USB cable.
>Not a fan of OpenSuse
What do you recommend? I wanted a distro with good VRR support and researching online, I'm apparently limited to KDE Wayland. I'm thinking of trying Fedora next.

>>105577239
Anon, try to stop huffing glue for five fucking seconds and regain your literacy. Your concern-troll questions were already answered lol
>To normals it reads like
Terminally online incel triggered by rainbows is gonna try to speak for the “normals” huh.

>>105577692
attitude like this is why you belong in the closet

Whats a good retard-proof linux video editor i can use? i used sony vegas many years ago so if theres something similar it would be great

>>105579015
The most popular ones are Kdenlive and Shotcut. There's also Davinci Resolve Free.

If I can't get steam big image mode
Is there a way to get something similar to playnite?
I have several games that's running in wine and some games that are linux native.
I want a way to navigate and launch those games with gamepad, without having to use mouse/keyboard.