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Previous thread: >>105588468

how do i get copy/paste to work with kitty terminal? can't fore the life of me figure it out. worst part is I have the same set up on another PC and it works but I dont know why

>>105626424 (OP)
>he uses a meme gayming distro
shiggy diggy

I’m liking cachyos so far! Bazzite was a bit too restrictive and I couldn’t be bothered to deal with ostree. I do think that immutable distros are the future for the average user however.

>>105626661
I love how that character design from Concord became a meme in Korea and beyond.

>>105626661
>he

>>105626661
>gayming distro

>>105627196
>>105626661
What's wrong with gaming distros?

>>105627357
I think the hate for Bazzite comes from the one time they said that trans people are fine actually.
It's mostly just "what if SteamOS was based on immutable Fedora, focused on the desktop mode and also came with Homebrew for binary package installing?"

>>105627379
i personally dont like bazzite because it sounds like something lame and scammy that would come out of australia.

>>105627379
>people

>>105627357
Don't let >>105627379 put words into my mouth, I just think these custom images, distro forks, etc. tend to cater to users that have no business using Linux then when something breaks gets limited support from the distro maintainers
They could've had a better experience using the base distros and following recommendations on what packages to install for gaming, etc.

>>105627408
Do you feel the same way about cachyos? It’s so close that the arch documentation more or less covers everything.

>>105626424 (OP)
why did she do it

>>105627408
They wanted to make a SteamOS alternative based on Fedora and they did, it ain't that grand.

>>105627429
I haven't really checked until now, but it seems to offer kernel optimizations too so maybe it's better than most
A lot of these meme distros only package default apps along with the base distro plus maybe their custom GUI for installing packages, things you can just install yourself as a beginner-intermediate user

Why isn't there a distro that has i3 and more-than-minimal software? The closest I can find is archinstall with i3 and it's terribly barebones plus I'd have to do all the config myself

>>105627463
Cachy is basically Arch but with its own kernel patches/scheduler and affinity for x86_64v3 and v4. Very much a pre-made Arch system for people with PCs with newer parts that can take advantage of all the changes from the default Arch kernel and such.

>>105627472
that'd be an odd combination. also if you already know what you want, just do that yourself

>>105627472
The great thing about Linux is choice. If you want it and no one else does you have to make it. Cachyos comes with an i3 desktop option.

>>105627472
Sometimes freedom requires a bit of effort

>>105627379
>and also came with Homebrew for binary package installing?"
Homebrew runs on Linux? And people actually use it?? WTF???

>>105627517
There's nothing wrong with it though? It was made to run on Macs first but it can be installed on a Linux system just fine. And all it does is act like Scoop on Windows where it installs binaries to a folder within your /home, so it makes perfect sense to use it on an immutable style system for people that don't want to just use Flatpaks for everything.

>>105627475
Now that I'm learning more about it, I don't consider CachyOS a meme gaming distro
I'm talking more like Endeavour, Bazzite, Pop_OS!, something along those lines

>>105627665
Endeavour isn't a "meme gaming distro" though? It's just Arch with a handheld GUI installer that sets things up properly.

>>105627683
Fine, it's a meme distro

>>105627357
Nothing. Retards just want to gatekeep Linux because they think it should be a difficult OS to use.

>>105627408
>They could've had a better experience using the base distros
Provably false.

>>>>>gayming distros

here is your gaming distro for you
Install Arch
Install RPM Fusion Repos
sudo dnf swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing
sudo dnf update @multimedia --setopt="install_weak_deps=False" --exclude=PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin
sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld
sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld
sudo dnf swap mesa-va-drivers.i686 mesa-va-drivers-freeworld.i686
sudo dnf swap mesa-vdpau-drivers.i686 mesa-vdpau-drivers-freeworld.i686

damn bro. Really good that the Bazzite .iso is 8GB to deliver these optimizations

>>105628176
I think you messed up the distro there, fren

>>105628183
I was malding so much that I installed Arch instead of Fedora

>>105628176
>terminal
>didn't install half the stuff Bazzite does
>didn't configure half the stuff Bazzite does
You've just lost 99% of people. Fuck off.

>>105628222
>terminal a negative
ok
otherwise convince me bro. Ive never seen any concrete advantage of Buzzi

>>105628237
What do you think an "advantage" is and isn't?
It being the most set-up and user-friendly desktop distro out of the box is a huge advantage over other distros.

>2025
>year of the Linux Desktop
>people are being pushed to use Flatpaks because of their ease of use
>every single flatpak has its own permissions that need to be tweaked
ok

>>105628324
Someone should just make a plugin which automatically enables every single permission on a Flatpak when it's installed.

where and hoe can i learn the power of linux terminal

using mint xfce

>>105628375
1. open terminal
2. ???
3. profit

i meant the commands n shiet

>>105628429
1. think of something you want to do
2. look up how to do it
3. ?
4. profit

but what does it do
any resource listing that

>>105628620
it's a really broad question, though it's worth learning about how to use bash and some of the commonly use coreutils
it's kinda like the equivalent of learning to use a gui by showing someone how to use a mouse, what windows are, what icons are, etc

alri

>he doesnt use CachyOS

>>105626424 (OP)
bazznificent

so what should i do if i want to switch distros? is it like windows where you need to back up literally everything because its going to wipe it all?

>>105628887
windows doesn't do that

>>105628222
computers went wrong when they made them for niggers like you

>>105628895
oh

>>105628912
cry more

>>105628176
heres your gaming distro
>install mint
>open package manager
>install steam
>turn on steam play
>just werks

>>105628887
have your /home directory mounted to a separate partition or drive (even better)
do not use automatic partitioning when you reinstall

Seriously, hand on heart, no cap, honest to God, what is the go to distro for retards these days? Mint or Arch? I am literally being tortured by what I am currently using (manjaro)

>>105629036
mint
t. retard

Can you guys help me fix mirrorlist for endeavor?
It was working fine few hours after install, and manged to install some packages and even update the system.
But after that it kept throwing "Connection time-out" error.
I tried reflector/reflector-simple/eos-rankmirros, and several AI solutions.
Nothing worked.
I can ping the mirrors and even curl it.
But for some reason yay/pacman isn't syncing properly.

>>105629110
7/10, the problem is either you're using ipv6 or too much parallel downloads.
>based jun poster

>>105628941
>Mint (Ubuntu LTS)
>werks
No

Thanks man, this solved it.
It was both actually

>>105629036
Fedora Atomic

I'm trying to get old school games working with bottles/wine.
How to get terminal output with bottles?
I've installed it through flatpak and used the game (Prince of persia:Sand of time) iso from the archive dump.

https://archlinux.org/news/transition-to-the-new-wow64-wine-and-wine-staging/
doesn't this break d3d? at the very least, I could have sworn it broke d3d8 for FFXI last I tried it, and there was an explanation for it. wrappers like dxvk will work but not wine's native implementations.

>>105627408
You have no idea what Bazzite is. What you said is true of something like Nobara which is just one guy's tweaked version of Fedora but Universal Blue (which Bazzite is the must widely known example of) is something entirely different.

This is SMART report for my drive.
https://pastebin.com/HqZ8jmK7
How bad is it?
I'm just using it for storing media.

I'm thinking really hard how to bootstrap my custom distro which I've been experimenting with for a few days now. It's like everything in software depends on everything, chicken vs the egg, which one was first, oh wait.... And yeah I know if you want to bootstrap something, just start from binary CPU instructions and then build an assembler and then a tiny c compiler and so on do fucking 200 passes until you get modern GCC, but my problem is I don't understand where a modern distro draws the line.

How do I have this in zsh terminal?
>When pressing space, I get the faded previous command, and pressing right direction would get it typed in terminal
I don't recall how to have it it's pretty nefty and save a lot of time.
>when installing something with pacman/yay, I need restart terminal to have it available.
How to source .zshrc after each install? I guess?

How do I change the xfce4-panel icons? they seem to use their own custom icon names and so far only papirus and elementary-xfce icons work with them
Could I perhaps symlink them somehow to the corresponding icons with the gnome naming scheme so they show up on xfce4-panel? If so how? I'm not very adept at these things.
Thanks.

>>105629549
Like this? That's zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting for the colors

>>105626424 (OP)
is bazzite /our/ distro?

>>105629549
>>when installing something with pacman/yay, I need restart terminal to have it available.
>How to source .zshrc after each install? I guess?
have you considered running "source ~/.zshrc"

>>105629582
yeah
I followed this
https://gist.github.com/dogrocker/1efb8fd9427779c827058f873b94df95
And it didn't work.

>>105629595
>source ~/.zshrc
Yeah, that sure fix it.
But it's not the way I want it.
I mean
>How to source .zshrc after each install? I guess?

I don't use oh my zsh. I installed the arch package and added source /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh to my zshrc

>>105629741
Meant for >>105629675

Have you update to Plasma 6.4?

>>105629036
Mint
>>105629299
>Fedora Atomic
Also this, but there's over half a dozen different atomic Fedora variants at this point. Bluefin or Bazzite are the most retard friendly.

>>105629834
I run KDE from git sources so I get all the new features (and Krashes; although that's exceedingly rare) immediately.

Thinking about updating my Qt to 6.10 beta 1 too now that's out but will probably wait for a few more betas first because there's always some issues that need fixing in the first couple of betas.

>>105629590
I was anti Bazzite until I actually installed it.
Works tremendously well out of the box. Maybe the best right now out of the box.

I fucking hate Flatpaks though. That shit is ass, so its probably not a distro for me

>downloaded mediainfo on linux
>the UI looks much uglier than windows and there's these 2 huge useless buttons "go to website for this codec/player" with no option to disable them
Why is it like this?

>>105630572
What's your issue with flatpak?

>switch to Linux
>only ever purchase games from Steam
Getting any Launcher to run on Linux isnt hard anymore, but them running in wine already takes 20% cpu.
Kinda insane how none of the other populer game launchers in windows even support a Linux installation. You would at least GOG be trying to get into that game

Also chose the distro I am putting on my moms toaster laptop. Currently runs Win10. Probably going to put Fedora or Mint on there.

>>105630671
I mean they work in 99% of the time, but its annoying if the flatpak has to communicate with any other on the system.
1password for example usually unlocks the extension in the browser as well, if you unlock the main programm. Not with flatpak though.

>>105630646
Nobody actually uses the mediainfo UI on Linux. We all use it from the command line for scripting, etc.

>>105628324
Except most don't need to be tweaked and permissions are like a huge thing with normies advocating for better privacy and such. People gas Apple for strengthening their permission system and cracking down on app devs to disclose stuff.

And I mean they're right, permissions are good. Easy control over permissions on Linux with a flatpak GUI is also good.

>>105630929
Why would I open up the terminal and locate a video file and then use a command to see the info about a video file rather than to just right click mediainfo on the video file?

>>105629590
I want to breed this creature.

Probably stupid question.
But how does wine/bottles/lutris handle gamepad?
I'm on arch + KDE, the gamepad (while chink)
Is being recognized inside KDE and each key is working.
Running games inside bottles however, is not the same, some old games works just fine, other games have the inputs all wrong, and other the input is just not recognized.
What to do?
I have the same gamepad in this link
https://github.com/alessandroasm/generic-usb-gamepad-vibration-driver

I am currently building my first arch running machine. I'm following a guide that isn't making a swap partition because I already have enough RAM and didn't want the complication, but reading the wiki I discovered I will never be able to hibernate the machine. Will sleeping with "systemctl suspend" be good enough?

>>105631158
Suspend drains my battery too fast (100% a me problem, this battery is more than dead and should have been replaced a couple years ago but still...)
Also, I'm this anon from last thread >>105625432 >>105625982 and I still can't figure out how to fix the resume hook. Can anyone help me?

>>105628620
>>105628429
>>105628375
I'd start by learning how to install/uninstall software and how to change user account settings.
Basic stuff that comes in handy.

The individual commands can be slightly different between Linux distros though.
Other than that, Google is your friend.
If you really really wanna play with terminal, try arch Linux or it's variants like endeavorOS or cachyOS.(you don't need to leave mint or uninstall to try arch)
Pacman is so good I don't think I could leave arch ever again.
Arch also has the best wiki for everything you could want to know and every command.
-Syu update everything while installing whater you typed after -Syu
-Sy thing to download
-Ss thing you're searching for
Are all common commands for finding and installing software.

Look into testing another distro on a flash drive or "virtual machine" to test the water before diving in.
Lastly, learn to backup your system before getting to carried away so you can go back to before you fucked something, if you do.
Good luck.

>>105631149
>other games have the inputs all wrong
A lot of PC games, mostly older ones, just assume which controller keys do what. As in, they don't even try to detect which controller you're using. So, your layout might be fucked up.
You just have to go into the game settings and re-map the keys there. And to be fair, the same issue would happen on Windows from my experience.
>the input is just not recognized
I'm not sure why this would happen desu.

>>105630714
I seriously doubt most people who buy games on GOG even use the launcher. I don't even know what it looks like, I just download all the games and manually install them in Bottles.
>them running in wine already takes 20% cpu.
I don't use anything other than Steam so I might not be informed here, but I thought that there are 3rd party launchers for other "stores/launchers"? Like Heroic or something like that? Also, isn't there a unified single launcher which has access to all stores/launchers within itself? I'm pretty sure I saw a video of it a year or two ago.

>>105631149
for pads that don't act like a 360 controller, the easiest thing to do it to run xboxdrv to emulate a 360 controller. you can map the buttons using xboxdrv to make any control look like a 360 controller
i do the same thing with a ps2 controller plugged into a chink usb adapter
older games that predate the 360 controller becoming a standard gave you options to map joystick buttons as there wasn't a standard prior to that regarding what buttons do what

>>105628887
Depends on how you are installing and what you wanna keep.
I have windows on a 2nd hard drive.
Linux can still access all the files there no problem.
I didn't even have to re download it install my steam games.

If you don't have another drive
>>105628946
Is kinda on the money.
Which basically means installing the new distro on a different part of the hard drive while leaving the stuff you want intact.
You can even set your /home to lead to the same /home from your old installation.
If all you want to keep is some pictures or porn or media, backup and full wipe install is probably better practice though and simpler.

>>105628895
>>105628932
Windows does potentially do that if you tell it to/let it.

Is there any way I can monitor keyboard or mouse inputs, and when a certain input is detected, have that input sent to a window that's out of focus instead of my currently selected window?

>>105630714
Void linux

>>105631376
>Windows does potentially do that if you tell it to/let it.
my point is that you aren't required to format an ntfs volume to install windows to it, and in fact that is the default behaviour, no special tricks needed. if you select an ntfs volume with enough free space, you can hit next without hitting format and it won't format it.

same goes for linux, too. you can install to a volume that has files on it without formatting it (the method depends on the installer in question, if any)

>>105631273
Heroic offers support for Epic and GOG.
Lutris tries to be an aio solution, but kinda sucks ass.

Doing it by hand in Faugus Launcher might just be the best.

>>105631515
>need to have 3 different linux launchers to launch 6 different windows launchers
now this is peak gaming

>>105631525
I'm making my own launcher to launch those 3 different Linux launchers to launch the 6 Windows launchers.

>>105629415
>Nobara which is just one guy's tweaked version
this isn't true, it has a whole team behind it you retard.

>>105631599
It literally does not.

>>105631573
Holy fucking based

>>105631158
you could still make a swapfile, though it's not that easy to set up, instructions might vary depending on what distribution/bootloader you're using, might need extra steps if it's an encrypted system. here's arch for example, though i never used hibernation, will try if i can get it working later.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Hibernation
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Swap_encryption#With_suspend-to-disk_support

>>105631174
anon did you really use a 6 years old script from some random github? please do things manually next time and try to understand what you're doing before running a command

>>105631623
stop being a retard, universal blue images are just as retarded as you.

>>105631666
Yes, I really did use a 6 year old script from some random github.
I tried reading the wiki and asking questions here first. The wiki tells me what has to be done but doesn't tell me how to do it. I got no answer from here.

>>105631623
https://github.com/Nobara-Project/rpm-sources/graphs/contributors
Yes, the "team" is just 2 people. But maintaining a distro doesn't really need more.

What's a good distro for a complete practically tech illiterate beginner?
I checked the wiki in the past and decided to get arch because it said the documentation was aplenty. It took too much effort and time to install, never managed to make my peripherals' extra functions actually work and after taking a break from using it for a few months, the accumulated updates broke it and I lost everything on it.
tl;dr I think a seasoned opinion would be better

>>105631906
Fedora
I am pretty sure that once you boot up Fedora everything already works. If you want a completely hassle free experience Bazzite. Its marketed as "gaming", but works great for every Desktop

>>105631906
https://bazzite.gg/#image-picker

>>105631667
See: >>105631773
There is no team. It's a one man project with the odd community contribution.

>>105631947
Fedora has some bad quirks that Bazzite fixes. I'd go with Bazzite as a beginner.

>>105632064
>>105631773
it's like im talking to science based lifters who don't even understand the study theyre reading
picrel, post by the creator

>>105632183
As if I'm going to join some random reddit just to see who the contributors are. The website doesn't list any, nor does it even link to the project's git repository. All I can do is open GE's github, find something nobara-related and see if there's anyone contributing anything besides him.

>>105627379
i personally dont like bazzite purely becuase they replaced konsole with gnomes terminal

>>105632379
Apparently that's because only GNOME Terminal supports something related to distrobox. Since distrobox is one of the features available across Aurora, Bazzite and Bluefin, they wanted to keep the UX related to distrobox consistent no matter which DE/distro you use.

>>105631264
Thanks anon

>>105631681
well it's a short script, maybe it didn't do any harm. look for arch install guides, a lot of them set up hibernate in their instructions, or just hibernation guides.
here i found one for a btrfs system with systemd-boot without encryption https://gist.github.com/MazeW/4852f88edcfa5c8bc9286ed188b2a4c6
heres another with grub and full disk encryption https://gist.github.com/krisraich/b69d9771b5c72e81aeebb3ce5071ce2e

check what kind of system you have
are you using btrfs, xfs, ext4?
do you have full system encryption with luks?
what bootloader: grub, systemd-boot, efimgr?
if the script made the swapfile just fine maybe it just needs to be pointed in the bootloader config and add the resume in mkinitcpio on the line that says HOOKS

i need to make a new install as well so i'll try this out myself this afternoon

>>105632553
ext4.
I don't remember setting disk encryption way way back when installing arch, I think I didn't use it.
Grub.
The script said it made the swapfile but I don't know how to check for it. The text I get when trying systemctl hibernate says it lacks the resume method.
When I installed arch I made a swap partition with 4GB, the script doesn't seem to have touched that.

>>105627379
Uh wasn't this the distro that made their official mascot some anime kid with a nonexistent gender while putting itself as a distro for gamers implying that anyone who plays games on Linux is like that to a lot of people? That goes beyond that (also trannies aren't fine).

>>105632603
Nobody is forcing you to participate in some retarded online communities just to use an OS.
>download Bazzite
>install it
>use it
None of these require you to ever be in contact with anyone related to neither the actual project nor the marketing team. Just like using Windows doesn't require you to shit on the streets and worship cows.

Also, all the major web browsers and websites are, at least partially, made by degenerates too. Yet we're here.

>>105632183
He's saying that he used to work on it exclusively by himself but now there's community contribution. That's so far detached from anything resembling a team. Look at the actual git and see where 99% of the commits are coming from you gay retard

>tfw fell for the arch meme

How do I know what packages do I need?

I've wasted two days trying to figure out how to get ranger show images.
AI didn't help, redditors kept suggesting this pajeet shit called kitty.
After digging through comments on github, it turned out I don't have ffmpegthumbnail and imlib2 installed.

>>105632603
If for reason you cannot stand to use a distro that doesn't have trannies, faggots or libtards involved in the development you're shit out of luck. Just get over it.

How do I see what ctrl + z will do in Dolphin/KDE? Is there a history for like moved files?

>>105632941
The "Undo" action should be in the first view of Dolphin's Menu (F10):
>Create new
>Select files
>Actions
>Undo ---- this is what you're looking for, it will tell you what it'll do
>Filter

>>105632980
I see, thanks. There's no redo in Dolphin, right, like on windows?

>>105627454
To be honest I'm for something close to SteamOS without having to be beholden to Valve is something I support. Problem with these gaming distros is they are basically just fan projects that are unsustainable for long term development, because lets face it every viable major Linux OS has a business side that pays for the development and maintenance.

They should cut a deal with GOG or something, I dunno.

Is there a single fucking non-KDE tray icon that properly shows when relevant?

>>105632732
Look up the optional dependencies. In this case ranger has w3m as an optional dep for image previews and w3m has imlib2 as an optional dep

>>105632710
>>105632710
>That's so far detached from anything resembling a team.
holy retard lmao, he still doesn't get it
>Look at the actual git and see where 99% of the commits
this is false, faggot

>>105633131
Dependable distros with no corpo involvement whatsoever are hard to find. Infrastructure ain't free.
Arch is arguably the lesser of evils here since all Valve is doing is giving them money to maintain their shit, though whether it's a boon to end users is debatable. It still has minor issues and the wiki is calcifying because the kind of user Valve brings to Linux (gaymers) is incapable of contributing anything other than lore dumps for Fromsoft games.

>>105633364
I did that finally.
But you'd think some important package should be added by default.
desu, arch isn't what's used to be.
The community was more live and helpful.
Now it's toxic and stall.
The devs are still cool though, they need to update the wiki more often now.
Endeavor and Manjaro are poison to the arch philosophy.

>>105633114
Yeah I'm pretty sure there isn't a redo

>>105633131
>Problem with these gaming distros is they are basically just fan projects that are unsustainable for long term development
The way Universal Blue project is structured, it's actually quite sustainable.

Why does GCC take over 4 hours to test?


>>105633270
What bothers me on plasma, is that they're all grey/white. A tray full of clashing icons really is much better for quickly finding what you want.

>>105633131
>Problem with these gaming distros is they are basically just fan projects
Nobara, yes. Bazzite, no.

>>105633790
>A tray full of clashing icons really is much better for quickly finding what you want.
Fuck yes. Bring back inconsistent icons and skeuomorphic icons and interactive elements.

>>105632582
well the swapfile is just that, a file. if it exists you should be able to find it from the root directory / searching for it's name.

if you have a swap partition already the process should be easy. get the UUID of the swap partition, follow from step 6 and 8 of the second link i gave you (except the offset part, and the RESUME_OFFSET= part in grub since it's a partition, and maybe "mkinitcpio -p" without specifying the kernel version) and it might work on your next boot.

>debian sid has kernel 6.12.x
>need 6.14.11 because rx 9070 xt
>wget kernel.org && tar xaf linux-*.tar.xz && cd linux-* && make mrproper && cp /boot/config-* ./ && make oldconfig && make -j10
>receive 30GB of intermediary build files
So this is how these generic kernels are, they ship with literally everything...

Is there anything like the win10 bandwidth usage meter thing on linux? I like to see my bandwidth usage sometimes (idk autism)

>>105635700
https://github.com/raboof/nethogs

>>105632089
>Fedora has some bad quirks that Bazzite fixes
like what?

What's the best distro if I want to use RDP for remote? VNC kind of sucks. I hear mixed messages between different distros on this but it sounds like a X11 vs Wayland issue.

Is there a hacky way to get metacity to work with cinnamon? I believe you used to be able to use metacity on Cinnamon (or at least customise the window borders seperately from gtk) but it was removed a few years ago and I am forced to use Muffin
On arch it still has metacity as an optional dependency though for "fallback mode"

Also, Is there a way to remove folders from dconf? My dconf is a complete mess and there's no way to clean it up I can only reset settings to default values even though it's stuff I don't use anymore

>>105634080
It still doesn't work.
The swapfile is a just a file called "swapfile", it's on the root directory. If that's how it should be then that part is fine I guess.
mkinitcpio -p requires an argument. I used -P instead.
blkid works, that part is fine and I put the UUID on the grub file.
Terminal says update-grub doesn't exist. Ran grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg instead.
Hibernation still doesn't work. Same issue as before:
>Call to Hibernate failed: Not running on EFI and resume= is not set, or noresume is set. No available method to resume from hibernation

>>105635109
>they ship with literally everything
Yeah? And I assume your compilation took a whole day?
If you want to get serious about it, browse the configuration for a couple of hours at least while unticking unneeded support. Not just *hardware* support but things like netfilter and various filesystems. It all adds up.
>need 6.14
I've been sticking to 6.12, interesting to see someone actually needs newer ones.
>>105632732
First time building from scratch huh?
It's not an Arch thing, I've been doing my Debian installations like that since forever.

>>105636198
They broke that a while ago
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/4895
>fallback mode
You could try to pkill muffin and start metacity but I don't think that'll work

>>105636218
You need to add it to the kernel command line.

>>105636614
What do you mean by "it" and how do I do that?

>>105636702
Why are you on Arch when you can't fucking read and follow instructions?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Hibernation

>>105633434
>It still has minor issues and the wiki is calcifying because the kind of user Valve brings to Linux (gaymers) is incapable of contributing anything other than lore dumps for Fromsoft games.
I don't see how that's an issue. Most of those folks weren't going to contribute to the wiki technical experience or not.

The only contribution they'll make is a backlog of bug reports, maybe. But that has nothing to do with the wiki where you have to make an account to edit it.

my win10 efi partition is only 100mb and i want to dual boot
which program is the best to increase it?

>>105637155
gparted. Comes with all distros that aren't Arch, nearly.

Why do some distros have one command to update (eg. pacman -Syu) and others require two to update (eg. apt-get update && apt-get upgrade)?
Is there an advantage to splitting up the updating and upgrading process?

>>105637355
in some distros it can be useful to sync db's (update) without doing a full system upgrade (upgrade). arch is an example of a distro where installing software after doing an update without doing a full upgrade is unsupported, so there's very little if any reason to update without upgrading at the same time

Is there an easy way to check my ram speed and timings? Just need to confirm what I set in BIOS.

>>105637410
# dmidecode -t memory

>>105637355
Upgrade is like -Syu.

Arch (and thus: pacman) does not offer in-place application updates, which is what apt(-get) update does.

Also FWIW, the Arch wiki lists "pacman -Sy/-Syuw" but does not recommend that (because again: Arch does not support that style): https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Partial_upgrades_are_unsupported

Essentially though, it's because Arch (pacman) is rolling-release, so it'll get updates ASAP (when the maintainers get around to it) to where constantly updating with the full "upgrade"/-syu is recommended whereas Debian (and others on apt[-get]) generally will stay 1-2 years behind on software and slowly do updates. The only time you want to "update" is if you NEED a latest package and know the package is in apt's repos.

Otherwise the "upgrade" option is used for when you update the ENTIRE operating system.

i want to make my next distrohop openbsd esque

i like managing my network connections through /etc or card's drivers

it made me realize how unnecessary networkmanager is

eiwd > iwd
https://github.com/illiliti/eiwd

>>105637716
yea i just use systemd-networkd these days

okay lads I fucked up and I need some help, I was following the gentoo install guide and everything worked fine, I was able to restart and login and everything but I had some weird issues and errors saying my file system wasn’t synchronized or some shit, after some digging I found out that I accidentally wrote the wrong UUID for file system in fstab, trying to edit it with vim says it’s a read only file system even with :wq!, no idea wat 2 do

>>105627472
fedora sway atomic, i guess? it has pretty sane defaults.

>>105629036
Linux mint buts its only because it's the least shit.

Don't be fooled there's many things about it that's still shit like the file picker GTK 3 and the desktop being GTK garbage shit but at the very least its the most comprehensive linux distro with its own homemade vanilla desktop thats minimal and tastefully bloated. It's bloated but at least it works well even if it is GTK shit.

Linux as in the kernel is good but my god the linux desktop environments and display servers are an absolute shitshow.

Wayland is a garbage, X11 is still better and now is being forked, again. KDE completely is going full bloatmaxx with a million and one features with zero testing instead of being pragmatic. It feels more laggy than windows. KDE Plasma 6 crackles in games by far the most out of any distro, the audio server is fucked. It's like they don't even test their own desktop.

>>105627517
most of the big ublue variants come with homebrew because the devs were huge macfags but you don't have to use it.

>>105626424 (OP)
>bazzposting
BASED BASED BASED
Free my nigga Bazz.

>>105637932
I had to
mount -o remount rw /
and then I could edit it

thank you india man
I love india

>>105627379
Some anon keeps forcing bazzite even though its a bloated as fuck distro that nobody uses

>>105635109
if you're impatient you could try pulling from experimental unless their version is also too old

>>105635109
>rolling release distro
>uses an lts kernel
What the fuck kind of retardation is this?

>>105638179
>distro that nobody uses
It has almost twice as many users as Silverblue and Kinoite combined.

>>105638390
because it's a staging ground for debian testing which is a testing ground for debian stable
it would make no sense for them to be testing with non-lts kernels

>>105638390
None of Debian's branches are rolling release.

>>105638179
It's by far the most popular immutable Fedora variant

>>105636396
>And I assume your compilation took a whole day?
Nah, it took 15mins. It's fine, I have a custom very minimal config in the works but it's still missing docker container and audio support so I can't use it yet. And I'm too lazy to work on it, for now.

>>105629538
you don't have to bootstrap a linux distro what are you talking about, if your objects have the same architecture and were compiled for the same kernel they will just work

>>105628176
>damn bro. Really good that the Bazzite .iso is 8GB to deliver these optimizations
Bro I use arch too but this is wildly autistic, an 8GB iso is a few minutes difference download time at most unless you're in a third world country

>>105638680
>if your objects have the same architecture and were compiled for the same kernel they will just work
Yeah, if they were statically linked with their dependencies. And I kinda want to do the bootstrap so I could later add support for different archs.

>>105638726
>add support for different archs
a distro isn't an os, the kernel already can be compiled for different archs and gcc and clang have already been ported to any arch you can imagine.
if you were doing your own os you'd have to bootstrap but different distros don't need their own ports of apps.

>>105638763
Yeah but as far as I'm concerned, a distro has to choose the level of dependency at first. I used bootstrap loosely here, I'm not intending to bootstrap "from nothing", but I'm wondering what's a sensible level of dependency for a distro. Chicken vs the egg.

>>105638789
And to add to this: I guess one could build a distro starting from pre-built binaries and wonder about the dependency hell later, if they ever want to get rid of some of the initial dependencies. ??

is Chicago95 good enough or is there a better fork?

Question for knowledgeable Linux people.
I am trying to update my bios on an old laptop. I've managed to get the latest update file from 2015 I believe, however it's a .bat file.
The readme says to run it under pure dose, from doing a little research I can only run this kind of file using wine in Ubuntu (the laptops OS).
Anyone got any experience with this and I'm guessing I need to get wine and run this file to upgrade the bios?
Looking for answers before I brick my mobo haha

>>105631282
Can you share your config?

>>105638815
Chicago95 is the best you can get for a 9x-style XFCE theme

>>105636007
sunshine is the best honestly.
xrdp isn't made for linux.

Is there any cli applications that play music from youtube?

>>105639022
yes

>>105638821
>guessing I need to get wine and run this file to upgrade the bios?
Do not do that. You can't update BIOS through WINE since most BIOS updaters rely on accessing the Windows kernel, similar to kernel-level anti-cheats in some video games. This is not something WINE supports at all.
While I don't think anything would break (WINE would probably just fail/crash), better not risk it.

The easiest option is just creating a small partition (~20-40 GB) and installing Windows on it, then running the batch file there.
You might not even have to install Windows. Iirc the Windows installer allows you to find and run batch files and executables before you commit to installing Windows at all. So, just use WoeUSB and flash Windows onto a USB drive, copy your batch file there (or have it on a separate USB) and run it during the install process (I think it's somewhere in the step before you wipe partitions and install Windows). You'll need internet access since the .bat probably just downloads the BIOS ROM file.

If you don't want to use Windows at all, you could also just download the BIOS ROM and flash it within your BIOS.
A .bat file is the equivalent of a shell script on Linux. BIOS .bat updaters are scripts which (usually) just download BIOS ROM files and tell Windows to flash them. So, you can open the .bat with a text editor, find the download URL for the .bin file (or whatever the format is), download it, copy it onto a USB drive, reboot into your BIOS and flash it there.

Anyone knows a good place to get conky configs?
I have set up HTPC with KDE and want something visually nice instead of plain desktop.

>>105639036
like?

Which filesystem is more tolerating for hard disk failure?

How bad is it?
https://pastebin.com/HqZ8jmK7
Can it be saved with badblocks?
Cause I'm not hearing any death clicks.
I'm not sure how it could fail this fast too.
My theory it's because of an aborted process on the drive like zeroing it or something.

>>105639063
ZFS and Btrfs

>>105639123
Why so?
I though ext4 has the best since it doesn't cause de-fragmentation.

>>105639048
Thanks for the info.
I shan't be partitioning or getting windows.
I will try the method of opening the file with a text editor to try and get the download URL for the ROM file and doing it that way.
When I was in the bios I couldn't see any obvious method of updating the bios, unless I need to change the boot order to usb first perhaps? When I saw the file could be run from the terminal I was a little relieved. Would this be possible to do with the ROM file or does it have to be done from within the bios?

Did you join the BTRFS Giga-Chad Club yet?

>made fun of Bazzite posters and their meme gaming distro
>finally cave and give in
>try it out on my desktop pc
>literally perfect out of the box
The fuck, I am actually mad

>>105639308
Encrypted BTRFS on Arch btw CHAD reporting in. The rollbacks are pretty cool

whats so archy about arch?

also, debian vs arch

>>105639317
How is this better than just running a reasonably up to date distro and installing a few gaming apps?

>>105639336
Debian and Arch are the only two distros that should exist

>>105639392
They're pretty much the most important ones for sure, besides I GUESS Red Hat and Fedora.

>>105639392
There is a tonne of funding and code that is contributed directly and indirectly because of Red Hat, SUSE and Canonical.

But Debian and Arch are indeed the only two distros that matter from a community perspective.

>>105639392
Debian, Arch and Fedora
If they combined their autism we would be living in the future

>>105639364
it's difficult to explain because there's multiple small improvements which combined result in the best out of the box experience.

Tried Kubuntu, but now I'm back on Ubuntu, because I don't like Dolphin, Nautilus won btw. (I tried installing it on KDE but then it downloaded all of GNOME so might as well just use GNOME).

Here is my post-install "guide", what am I missing?

sudo apt install qbittorrent && sudo snap install keepassxc code anki-desktop obsidian mpv tailscale && sudo snap remove firefox

Librewolf:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install extrepo -y && sudo extrepo enable librewolf && sudo apt update && sudo apt install librewolf -y

sudo tailscale up --exit-node=name --exit-node-allow-lan-access

I know this is where NixOS would shine, but home-manager and flakes filtered me.
I'm going to try use things as default as possible without tinkering basically.

>>105637716
>eiwd
last release was from last year
i still use wpa_supplicant with no issue

>>105638469
>>105638529
That doesnt mean much. Immutable distros arent that popular yet and come with their own issues.

>>105639470
Impossible. They all have different organizational goals/values/structure.

I'm using firefox with xfce.
Is there a way to get videos (mp4/webm) to show thumbnails/preview when trying to pick one?

>>105639481
>there are people who use snaps outside of servers/IoT

>>105639548
>come with their own issues.
Such as?

>>105639554
Explain why I shouldn't

>>105626424 (OP)
Install CachyOS

>>105639554
Yes.

>>105639554
>tormenting little iot devices with snaps
all of my why
>putting snaps instead of something better on your server
again, just why

>>105639594
Canonical made Snaps for servers primarily, then later on pivoted them into IoT. Desktop use is an afterthought.
I wouldn't torment any device with Snaps.

>>105639615
Ubuntu server isn't as keen at throwing snaps at you as the desktop is.

>>105639615
I get the feeling that snaps used to suck but they're good now. The only problem I have ever had with them is the GUI updater couldn't update itself while it was open, but this seems to be fixed on 25.04.

I've disabled systemd-resolved service entirely and just use dnscrypt-proxy. I have a global DoH and when changing networks it doesn't default to whatever DNS the network wants to use but uses the one I've specified in dnscrypt-proxy config file. It works perfectly fine and when I drill cloudflare it shows that I'm using doh.
Any reason why this would be a bad thing to do?

>>105639707
you can't resolve local names inside your network. Maybe you don't need that anyway, then there is no problem.

which version of the linux kernel does linux mint 22.1 xia use?

>>105639760
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint
>6.8
But Mint allows you to update to whatever the latest LTS is iirc.

>>105626694
No, they aren't. Immutable is only good for security, now Atomic whole another question and atomic without immutable like AerynOS are the future.

>>105639802
90%+ of users don't need anything that's not already provided by Atomic Immutable distros.
>Immutable is only good for security
Sounds like a good thing.
>atomic without immutable like AerynOS are the future.
What does this allow an average user to do that isn't provided by Fedora Atomic or Universal Blue?

>>105639725
I don't know much about networking, what would be the implications of that? mDNS works and I can discover peers on my local network.

>>105639866
then I did not understand your setup well enough.

Linux and Flatpaks have grown so much that Immutable Distors are at all possible is honestly crazy.
Everything can be done via GUI nowadays.

The year of the Linux desktop is truly and slowly coming.

>>105639894
SteamOS is basically the most well known immutable Linux system at the minute, installing all other non-Steam parts through Flatpak. Though you could probably install Homebrew yourself if you wanted.

>>105639839
Immutability creates problems, you have to restart on update, the updates are bloated.

>>105639894
Flatpaks are still far from being fully usable.
>try to open a file
>app silently fails instead of the system showing you a pop-up to enable the flatpak access to the file directory
Android and iOS handled this a decade ago.

>>105639920
These aren't real problems.

I'm currently trail running my future Fedora install in a vm and everything was going well until i ran a dnf update today, bunch of gstream1 crap has conflicts.

A quick google around and i ended up in the flatpack debate.

Looking at my setup (done with ansible), i'm setting up rpmfusion then installing my packages that way, should i be looking to do certain things with flatpacks to avoid drama? Do i just need to dive into dependency hell every few weeks/months?

>>105639920
Exact same as Android which is the most popular consumer OS in the world.

>>105639781
thanks.

>>105639568
Looks like at least 50k-100k people did

>>105639945
Sounds like you added the wrong repos or something. Maybe remove all 3rd party repos and try again? Fedora isn't known to conflict with itself.

>>105639877
I've disabled systemd-resolved and masked systemd-networkd.
In resolv.conf I've added 127.0.0.1 and options edns0 because I want the system to use a local DNS.
My local DNS is dnscrypt-proxy which listens on 127.0.0.1 and then resolves the domains using the proper DNS (in this case cloudflare via DNS over HTTPS).
I can see mDNS traffic on my network.
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't avahi handle multicast DNS? Meaning I don't need systemd-resolved?

>>105640131
>dnscrypt-proxy
If that handles mDNS (and you need/want mDNS) then it's fine.
In my network, local dns is handled by the router, which then needs to be the dns server.

>>105639945
staying a release behind latest will let you avoid most repo sync issues (most issues in general, in fact).

>>105640165
Thanks. I think i'll do that, as a newbie i'd rather not deal with sync issues until i get my head around the basics.

>>105640154
I've tested it and with dnscrypt-proxy.service stopped I can still discover peers by hostnames (but I can't connect to any site since it cannot resolve any domain).
So it seems avahi is handling mdns and systemd-resolved is indeed unnecessary for anything on my setup.

>Due to build- and license restrictions and/or traffic limitations, deb packages for Debian, Ubuntu/*buntu, Linux Mint, Elementary, etc. and rpm packages for Fedora, OpenSuse, etc. can't be created at the moment. An experiment with custom package repositories was done in late 2016, but unfortunately it didn't work out properly.
>If you want to help with the creation of a package for your distro, or even better, a Flatpak, Snap or AppImage package, then please open a new thread on the issue tracker. Thank you very much!
So you just straight up can't install this on anything other than an Arch distro?

How safe/bad updating an old arch install with just yay?

>>105632735
There's a difference between getting involved and making the whole thing all about "your people" (who are morally superior to everyone else).

>>105641128
Firstly you should update your mirrors how you like with reflector.
Then afterwards run
>yay -Sy archlinux-keyring && yay -Su
Should install the keyring first after updating the repos then update everything else properly, then update your AUR programs if you have any.

>>105641128
it's fine. i'm posting from a system which i installed arch to in 2018, and has on more than one occasion gone years without updates. the second /4 years/
the second did require a bit of intervention, but nothing requiring looking up news or anything

[2018-12-02 14:46] [ALPM] running 'systemd-update.hook'...
[2020-01-16 04:34] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S -y -u --config /etc/pacman.conf --'
[2020-06-12T00:17:19+1000] [ALPM] running 'xorg-mkfontscale.hook'...
[2024-05-19T22:33:42+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S -y -u --config /etc/pacman.conf --'

>>105639563
not that guy but one issue that's really retarded was when I was trying to install envision for VR in bazzite but you literally can't install it because there are conflicting packages between them. and you can't remove them from the base distro without anything breaking. there's only a hacky way to do it that lets you do it one at a time but it's retarded. you have no freedom to install anything without breaking.

>>105641128
>>105641255
-- while i wouldn't recommend not updating a system you actively use for years at a time, it should at least demonstrate that you don't need to really worry about updating more often than is convenient for you
this isn't my main computer, naturally, though i've been using it a lot lately
i actually expected more issues updating a system 4 years out of date, it's surely not intended for this

>>105629538
I now have my own custom root filesystem with busybox, musl, binutils and gcc, but it's only a docker image so far. Next I'll have to turn it into a bootable system, which I have a skeleton for but it needs some work. :-) Tomorrow...

>>105638610
>compiles every device driver and OS feature imaginable
>"took 15 minutes"
How many CPU cores you have? I have 16 thread CPU and it takes ~12 minutes to compile my super minimal kernel. Would take a literal day to compile the so called usual distro kernel, I think.

>>105641356
12 cores, 24 threads and a fast m.2 nvme disk. I compiled whatever is selected in the default debian unstable kernel config file, which resulted in 30GB of intermediary build files as I said. The resulting DEB package file was 1GB.

Finally giving up windows, what's distro is the closest windows experience and will work with the programs I use:

-some outlook like mail client
-blender
-substance painter
-godot
-steam VR
-gimp
-krita
etc.

>>105641378
Something's not adding up here. Just doesn't make sense.

What's
The
Fastest
And
Bestest
FF
Fork

I'm tired

>>105641406
mkdir ~/Kernels
cd ./Kernels
wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.14.11.tar.xz
tar xaf linux-6.14.11.tar.xz
cd linux-6.14.11
export ARCH=x86_64
export KCFLAGS="-march=znver2"
export KCPPFLAGS="-march=znver2"
make mrproper
make oldconfig
*answer default to all*
make nconfig
*unselect other supported CPU's, leave only AMD*
make -j10 bindeb-pkg
sudo dpkg -i ../*.deb

>>105641442
Forgot this before make oldconfig:
cp /boot/config-6.12.32-amd64 ./.config

>>105641400
Mint xfce. Look no further

>>105641454
Also forgot to mention that I disabled module signing which is enabled in the debian config.

>>105641255
>>105641224
What about python versions and pip and such?

>>105641703
well it's been a year since that 4 year update, so the exact details i don't remember. don't recall anything specific to python
i don't use pip outside of some ai shit on my main computer (not this computer), and that happened after that upgrade anyway

One thing I didn't expect when switching to Linux was how many times a day I would have to enter my password
Any reason not to set it to qwerty?

>>105641400
>-some outlook like mail client
not really sure what outlook is like nowadays, but have a look at thunderbird or evolution
>-blender
native
>-substance painter
never heard of it
>-godot
native
>-steam VR
native apparently, hadn't heard of specific vr features
>-gimp
native
>-krita
native

>>105641438
linux
thread
faggot

Ok
Tell me how do I browse internet from terminal

>>105636218
well if you both added:
the "resume" to the HOOKS like the pic and ran mkinitcpio -P
and the resume=UUID=uuidnumberoftheswappartition inside GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="here" and updated grub

then i have no clue, sorry anon. for a last check see what "cat /proc/cmdline" outputs

what you're writing in grub is a kernel parameter telling it where to resume from hibernation. if upon reboot it you see the "resume=UUID=uuidnumber" that you wrote in grub then it should work unless it's some bug i know nothing about.

is there no decent dictionary app which would let me use stardict files?

>>105641455
>xfce

disgusting

How do I password lock a folder

>>105627435
That cop had it coming.

>>105629363
Anyone?

>>105641224
>yay -Sy archlinux-keyring && yay -Su
Shouldn't this be default for pacman?

>>105641925
KDE has vaults built in, otherwise there's probably some other app for it, or you can just compress it with a password

What is a good hex edit tool for linux?

Right I'm home from work and looked into what that anon said earlier about checking the .bat file for the ROM download link for the bios update.
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a download link, it's just the name of one of the other files (.exe) in the unzipped folder.
I'll try post some pics.
Any help in figuring out how I can install this bios update would be greatly appreciated.

>>105642172
2/3

>>105642205
3/3
Phones turning my shit sideways

>>105642172
copy the files into a thumb drive and boot into the bios, click on update bios

>>105642172
without a link to previous posts it's hard for someone else like myself to help with this

in my experience though, it's usually pretty easy to find a raw firmware image you can use with the firmware's own flashing utility, or you can extract the .exe with 7z
absolute worst case and it truly demands you run it from windows, you can just boot up something like HBCD (hiren's boot cd) and run it from there.
>>105642205
oh dos? how old is this computer?
well that throws a spanner in the works, if it's old enough for a dos-based flasher, it might also be old enough not to do flashing by picking a file from the firmware's ui
for a dos-based flasher, just run it from dos, freedos will probably do as well
>>105642223
>Phones turning my shit sideways
kinda not really, the problem there is that the photo is stored how it came off the camera, with a tag that records how the phones' orientation sensor was positioned (i.e. the phones' jpeg has rotation metadata to say if it needs to be rotated on viewing). but 4chan for some years now removes said metadata because people used to leave thing like gps coordinates in there. so as a consequence soft-rotated images aren't displayed correctly, you have to actually save them rotated correctly

>>105639552
Anyone?

>>105642018
I may be wrong but I think updating the keyring first is only necessary when a long time has passed

>>105641270
eventually, I managed to fix it somewhat by running envision in a distrobox that runs arch, built my profile there, exited and then ran envision normally without the distrobox. apparently it works that way but the problem still stands. it can take a while for devs to fix broken packages in bazzite.

>>105642243
I have this all in a folder on a fat 32 usb.
Problem is I don't see any option like flash bios or update bios. I was wondering if I had to change the boot order and boot the usb first?
>>105642266
Yeah it was earlier today in this thread I think sorry.
The extract the .exe using 7z sounds interesting. I would rather not install windows I just got rid of my drive partitions not long ago, never had windows anyway.
I bought this computer probably nearly 10 years ago when I was in uni. It's pretty old. The motherboard is a clevo from pc specialist and I barely managed to find the bios update for this as I'm not sure they still operate. This is the final update from 2015, it's one version higher than that currently on the mobo.
So I could potentially open the .bat file with freedos and follow the instructions and it would work the way intended?
Haha so I need to take my pics sideways to get them to upload proper, every days a school day

Would people appriciate a no frills normie guide on how to setup streaming on linux including properly supported software for people that like mixing audio ect?

>>105642278
I don't know if it works with the xfce xdg desktop portal but you can enable the portal file picker. Just put this in about:config

widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker

>>105642331
>So I could potentially open the .bat file with freedos and follow the instructions and it would work the way intended?
most likely
>Haha so I need to take my pics sideways to get them to upload proper
that is one way to do it, if your photos are consistently off by -90deg then rotating the phone 90deg will result in normal looking photos

>>105642506
Bigger fish to fry than the photos so nevermind that, though useful as it is.
I'm looking at the free dos site, I thought it was a program or app, not an os.
I'm not entirely certain about how to go around this.
Do I need to install or can I open the live cd and run the programme that way?
If I install will it make a partition on my hard drive and essentially have another os on my HDD?

>>105642578
a live environment is fine for flashing a bios. that is how it was intended to be used as well

>>105641788
Lynx, w3m, and Browsh,

>>105642308
Manjaro has this enabled by default.

what is considered the best-in-class for Wayland gpu-accelerated WMs? currently using hyprland. I don't hate it, just wondering if there's anything better out there.

>>105642382
>widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker
I have this set to 2

>>105642891
Sway if you want something more minimal

>>105642935
I did consider using sway tb.h. Not sure why I went with hyprland. Maybe the cunny wallpaper that came packaged with it.

Right, opening freedos site on the laptop doesn't give the option to run live cd (like my phone does) it only offers a download. I'm assuming I have to download this, will it create a new partition meaning I have to get into it after rebooting to boot into the new partition/os?

I still cannot comprehend why gnome doesn't support touchpad scroll speed put of the box. What's the reasoning, I don't get it.

>>105643025
This was meant for you sorry >>105642633
I'm going through some shit right now and have had a couple whiskies so apologies if I am asking too many questions but you seem to know what you're talking about.

>>105643143
No usecase. Just adjust your finger speed

Ok fellas, here is the thing, I'm moving countries, so I wondered if I better get my torrent list cleaned up

here is the funny thing though, checking up Iknowwhatyoudownload
I get a bunch of "interesting" stuff in there, that I haven't downloaded, and neither did anyone in the house (the only other PC is my boomer father and literally doesn't the capabilities to torrent shit)

anyway, besides that, I wonder what torrents should I get rid off before going to Japan...

>>105643336
You have a dynamic IP or even worse, you are behind a CGNAT

>>105641323
Success!

>>105643390
And btw this is a musl toolchain, there is no GNU glibc it's all musl. :-)

>>105641400
Those are Linux apps other than outlook and adobe. For outlook you can just install thunderbird and you'll be used to it within a day. For substance painter (I'm assuming that's that adobe texture making thing) I have no idea. For Windows familiarity you'll just want a mainstream middle of the road distro (i.e. doesn't need to be bleeding edge like Arch or as dated and stable as Debian), with a good KDE experience. So something like Fedora or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

anyone using a 9070XT, how is it running on your non windows system?
will be upgrading to one soon and swapping from Win10
was looking at Zorin and PopOS but seems their kernels are not up to date so might be a problem so will probably go with Mint unless the card is working on those two
or any other distros you guys recommend that are about the same

>>105643521
>anyone using a 9070XT, how is it running on your non windows system?
I am, it's running nicely but you need the latest 6.14 kernel and latest mesa3d preferably.

>>105643531
Well, I'll take this back: it works even on 6.12 kernel but latest is the best at the moment because the card is so new.

>>105643521
>was looking at Zorin and PopOS
Stop with the meme distros, use Arch or Fedora, or CachyOS if Arch is too difficulty.

Is there any equivalent in Linux to the app permissions in macOS?

In macOS I can go to my settings, select an application and turn off basically any every permission it wants to ask for, turn off access manually to camera, microphone, photos, GPS, WiFi, Cellular, BlueTooth, contacts, etc

>>105643581
>loonix
lol
lmao even

>>105643549
I'm going to keep using meme distros. The fuck you gon do about it bitch boy?

>>105643403
ok boomer

>>105643336
>he fell for the japan meme
everyone there already hates you, you uncivilized dirty gaijin

>>105643592
what retard?

>>105643630
Rude.

>>105643549
was looking at Fedora as well but zorin and pop just felt simple and ran everything out the box on current hardware

New thread:
>>105643590

>>105643581
https://flathub.org/setup

>>105643581
most apps on linux run unconfined (as much as the kernel/apparmor/selinux/firewall allows), but linux app stores have been developed for this purpose (and for compatibility between different types of linux). flatpaks and flathub.org is probably the one that's closest to what you're looking for like this anon points >>105643689

with this you can have confined applications with permissions, and installing flatseal you can have a gui for managing permissions for each app installed this way. does come with compromises like some apps not interacting that well with each other but that can be a feature depending on the app.

>>105643935
>installing flatseal
Flatseal isn't needed if you're on KDE Plasma or GNOME.

>>105643980
oh that's nice. are these built into discover now? i religiously uninstall it since i don't like packagekit and just use the command line

>>105644013
Not discover, but system settings.
In KDE it's under "Application Permissions" -> "Flatpak Permissions"

>>105643935
>90% of the applications won't work when run in sandbox

>>105644190
Name 3

>>105644070
well this is handy, thanks anon

>>105644190
well if the OP needed a permission menu it's because you don't want something to work desu

>>105644201
Bottles
Telegram
MarkText

>>105644251
These work perfectly fine

>>105644251
>names three that work

>>105644251
isn't bottles meant to be used with flatpak? always worked for me with it's default settings, don't even need a full filesystem permission unless i missed something

android studio might be a better example shit just runs completely unconfined just cluttering my home folder or it doesn't run properly at all

>>105644358
>isn't bottles meant to be used with flatpak?
It is. Anon is just retarded.

>>105644358
In way, try launching the terminal output.
It fails because it doesn't have access to it.
Same with things like gamescope, you need to install the flatpak version.

>>105644500
hey ur right this doesn't work anymore. but i know it once did, it launched a little window. did find a bug report and the devs seem aware of the issue at least, looks like a recent problem https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/issues/3843

>>105639552
good old gtk file picker. yeah, there's a way to force it to use the KDE/Qt one instead.

>>105643361
neither actually, the IP changes on occasion but its mostly fixed, specially given we keep it online for weeks on end

>>105644688
How to do so?
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=17327
Without installing malware

>>105644963
>"kuserfeedback"
>collect user activity data, even when it's supposedly disabled, and send it to some servers whenever it got the chance (e.g. accidentally enabled for a moment, or due to update re-configuration, whatever).

the fuck, so it has "whoops" moments. can't have shit in desktop linux.
you can uninstall it telling your package manager to break dependencies and just remove it, how depends on your distro. just did that now. maybe disable network while it's installing.

>>105645112
>pic
I know this one. Absolute connoisseur.

>>105645696
it got me b& several times, because plebs kept reporting it as JB

>>105645706
Lmao. Few years ago there was a thread about her on /t/ that stayed up for months.