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Previous thread: >>105677909

Paint.NET and Foorbar2000 don't work on Linux, and the alternatives suck. Why should I use an inferior operating system?

>>105693418
Okay, I need someone to help me out, so I installed DMM games using proton (added it as non-steam game) then once installed, I ran the DMM launcher (added it as non-steam game again) and it loads, however you see it tells you to login, it will open my browser which is outside of proton so I login... (1/2)

>>105693682
Then in my browser I login and click this button, it's supposed to call back to DMM launcher but nothing happens. I assume it's unable to find it since it's running behind proton steam. The button has this link "dmmgameplayer://view/page?code=<some auth code>"

>>105693664 (OP)
What you refer to as GNU/Linux I call KDE/Linux

Wahey lads!
The old girl lives again!
>>105693559
Well I'll have a look and see hang on.

>>105693682
>it will open my browser which is outside of proton
Had the same issue a couple of years ago. There's a way to redirect these things to the web browser built into wine/proton, I'll have to check how I solved it. Although I used Bottles, but it's just a GUI for wine/proton/soda.

>>105693681
>Paint.NET
doesn't work for obvious reasons.
>Foorbar2000
this one works.
>and the alternatives suck
have you tried deadbeef or fooyin.
>why should i use-
i don't know and i don't care. go back to windows or mac. whatever works for you.

Why are people so obsessed with tiling window managers? I get that it’s super convenient for certain specific workflows but it feels like that would be maybe 1% of the user base, max. For the other 99% tabbing between apps/workspaces and/or utilising snapping would fit their needs but everyone seems to be onboard the tiling hype train. What am I missing here…?

>>105693911
You're not missing anything. Tiling wms ARE used by a tiny minority of users because of their own personal preference. It's just that simple.

>>105693911
Why are you obsessed over what other people use

>>105693922
I mean, I can understand the ricing aspect and Hyprland is really neat but it’s horrible to use for my usage and I assume most other users as well. Tiling WM have been around for quite some time but it’s not like every other post in Linux communities was centered around i3 a few years back yet suddenly everyone seems to be running Hyprland or sometimes Sway…

>>105693559
Well I've had a look but I could only use a M2 2230 SATA SSD potentially as it backs onto the fan. I've not measured and the gap is small between the slot and fan. The current HDD is under the panel on the bottom right of my pic. I suppose I would probably be best just replacing it and reinstalling Ubuntu onto it to see a speed difference?

>>105693759
>Noooooo he got the dual core instead of the quad core i7
ngmi

>>105694002
>I suppose I would probably be best just replacing it and reinstalling Ubuntu onto it to see a speed difference?
Yeah I guess so get a cheap SATA SSD and let that old baby fly

>>105693986
Well, hyprland lets you stack windows too. So it's not permanently locked into tiling. Also it has pretty good wayland support from what I hear.
Personally I also dislike tiling wms. They're just inconvenient as fuck unless you only have 2 windows open at the time, or if you use multiple monitors.

>>105693986
>worst case scenario
behaves the same as your traditional floating windows manager but now you have extra keybinds to move and resize it, or maybe you dont have to do it at all because you set it in the config file
>best case scenario
far more comfortable to use than floating windows because it fits your use case
thats all there is to it. You are allowed to dislike it or not do what others do by the way

>>105694072
I’m not saying they’re bad, they can actually be amazing, I’m just genuinely curious where this sudden boom of tiling WM users are coming from and if I might be missing something because like I said, you almost never read about people running a basic i3 setup a couple of years ago yet suddenly 30% of users seem to have switched to Hyprland, Sway, Kröhnkite etc.

Perhaps narrow-minded of me but I assume that the majority of people installing a tiling WM today are mostly using one or two applications/windows at a time and I can’t understand how it would be easier to use. Even with 50 custom keybinds it’s faster to just alt-tab between the few apps you’re actually using simultaneously instead of adjusting the size with Alt + J/K etc.

It must be godlike for the few people who actually utilize its features to the max but for most people it just seems inconvenient, that’s all (even if looks really neat).

>>105694023
The higher level shit requires more power than 37w. I would have to upgrade the cooling which I'm not entirely sure is possible in this laptop unfortunately lad?

>>105694231
>you almost never read about people running a basic i3 setup a couple of years ago
There were definitely a ton of people shilling i3 around a decade ago. The difference is that Linux is now much more popular than it was back then. There's literally 4x-5x more Linux users now than there were 10 years ago, so it's not surprising that the "new and cool" wm is being talked about a lot.

>Even with 50 custom keybinds it’s faster to just alt-tab between the few apps you’re actually using simultaneously instead of adjusting the size with Alt + J/K etc.
Well, no. First of all, people usually assign specific apps to specific workspaces instead of keeping everything in a single workspace and squishing/un-squishing windows. So, they wouldn't alt-tab between apps since that requires 2-10x more key presses compared to just switching to the correct workspace which is just 1 key combination. Alternatively, you could also just assign shortcuts to each specific app.
In most cases people who use wms have 2-5 different apps they're using 99% of the time, so they wouldn't have 50 custom shortcuts, it would most likely just be 5 that they use 99% of the time.

In your opinion what's the best cross platform scripting language that's not Python?

>>105693795
I tried doing something like this but it doesn't work

>There's a way to redirect these things to the web browser built into wine/proton

This is what I need I think

>>105694543
https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=11901
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Useful-Registry-Keys

I have unknown symbols in my terminal how do i fix it
Install a new system font?

>>105695059
Nerd fonts most likely.

Why does my package manager want to install/update nvidia gpu firmware when I don't use an Nvidia gpu? On Fedora btw.

>>105693710
GNU/KDE

Anyone know software similar to AutoKey for Wayland? I want to automate about 50 repetitions of
>ctrl-shift-right arrow
>wait a few ms
>ctrl-shift-r
>wait a few ms
and don't really care about how I trigger it

>>105693710
I just installed Plasma to try it out, it seems alright, I should probably try it more

>>105695301
>running in a VM instead of bare metal
Cringe

>>105695366
try ydotool

why is kde so ugly? not trying to start a flamewar or anything, but afaik breeze is a compiled theme in c++, meaning it's a bunch of qpainter commands for every UI element
so why is it the case? is the lack of some ux designer's stronghand the only thing hindering plasma?

>>105693664 (OP)
how many more distros do I need to hop before I settle down?

>>105695205
>dont include nvidia firmware
>user decides to use an nvidia vcard
>get greeted with a black screen 100% of the time
Compatibility.

>>105695747
Depends on how retarded you are. 1-3 if your iq is above room temp, a gorillon if its below that point

>>105695750
Don't know why I didn't think of that.

>>105693664 (OP)

I just wanted to say thank you to to everyone for the help over the last few weeks, the last couple of questions and issues i had were answered here and gave me the confidence to make the switch.

Happily running Fedora with dash to panel, Dracula theme. Memory usage down from 23 GB to 4 GB with my typical workload (browser, vscode projects). Obviously bloat from my own crap but also from Windows.

Couple of things caught me out like fan control, but digging into lm_sensors and using the excellent CoolerControl quickly got that under control.

Anyone thinking of moving my process was:

- virtual box vm under windows, distro hop to play around, chipped away over a few evenings
- settle on distro, theme it up
- install packages, break shit (looking at your btfs subvolume)
- install golden vm with what i learnt from messing around, final packages, flatpack, extensions

Last step was installing Linux on a second SSD. Unplugged my Windows install to avoid fuckups, set my BIOS to boot from the second drive with the Linux install. Had a Sunday afternoon carved out, but i was done in an hour, including NVIDIA driver install and VA-API working.

Easy enough to boot into windows if required and i can use that disk for Linux down the line.

I made a bash script that echoes random values into random files in proc and times how long it takes to kernel panic. It seems like it could make a good drinking game

>>105695715
>"why is Linux ugly?"
You have to pay people money to craft nice user interfaces and there's no money in desktop Linux.
>>105695747
Tried all the mainstream ones and then hopped between them dozens of times. Now can't decide between Gentoo (hard but customisable) and Arch (easy but binary and bloated).

>>105696273
Nice to hear it's worked for you
>looking at your btfs subvolume
Pretty curious about this. I got a new laptop and its using btrfs now, its my first experience with it and i cant see how to fuck it up

>>105695747
Have some criteria when choosing a distro. Like, "I only want a Linux distro that has out of box wayland support, secure boot support and don't cause any problem with nvidia drivers, also, it shouldn't have packages dating back to 2022, I don't want to use Firefox ESR."

Then you'll be left with like three distro choices and realize all the other distros were a mirage.

>>105696492
>out of box
irrelevant
>secure boot
irrelevant
>don't cause any problem with nvidia drivers
that would be a point if I still had nvidia
>also, it shouldn't have packages dating back to 2022
I'm not aware of any distro that kicks out anything older than 3 years, but that's not what you meant.
> I don't want to use Firefox ESR.
Who the fuck does? And which distro doesn't let you install regular firefox? Don't out of the box me here.

Yeah, if you narrow down the thing with hyper-specific criteria that might be the case, but many people will have other criteria and then it won't help them as much.

>>105696443

I had configured the deletion of snapshots incorrectly, they were getting nuked not long after creation, i looked at everything before actually coming back to the config and seeing my mistake.

snapper, grub-btrfs and BTRFS Assistant looking ok now.

>>105695715
It isn't? It's easily the most attractive UI of any mainstream OS

>>105694442
>specific workspaces
Doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose of a tiling window manager? I was under the impression that the concept of having multiple windows active simultaneously on the same workspace was the whole point, hence the tiling. What’s the point of using it if you switch between workspaces anyway…?

>>105697094
why do you have such strong assumptions about how people use their tiling WMs anyway and why do you care?

>>105696925
>> I don't want to use Firefox ESR.
>Who the fuck does
Me. I dont need any of the new "features" or sudden deprecations

>>105696273
I'm glad it worked out man

>>105697138
I’m just curious, that’s all. Perhaps I’ll realize something game changing about it and switch to it myself? ;)
But isn’t a single workspace literally the whole point of tiling? If not, why tile at all if you’re using several workspaces anyway? That just sounds like basic GNOME to me…?

My patch landed in Linus's tree.

>>105697094
>>Doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose of a tiling window manager?
No I like having multiple workspaces of separate layouts.

>>105697444
Trips, very nice

>>105697354
No, why would it be? There is no point in tiling if you have a fullscreen window, so you can put that on its own workspace. I also have a workspace for stuff like my browser. When tiling comes in handy is when I actually do things on my system, which usually requires teminals. Then I may want to have multiple windows open at the same time and see all of them.
Sure, this could also be done with a floating setup, but that would require me to manually snap the windows or something. Now, I just open 2 or even more terminals and it is automagically done for me.

>dad gets shitty hp notebook
>set it up for him
>windows runs like ass so I install linux on it
>keeps freezing within 5 minutes of boot
Not 100% sure but I think connecting to wifi is the cause. No idea how to fix it so I just reinstalled windows for now.

>>105697595
>>keeps freezing within 5 minutes of boot
update your BIOS

>>105697444
Congrats anon!

Had some trouble with Dolphin crashing every time I tried to open a smb share. I was in the process of writing a long question about Samba configs for this thread but it turns out the USB disk containing the share just had disconnected from the router.
That was few hours well spent. Going to buy a proper NAS box next.

>>105697094
>What’s the point of using it if you switch between workspaces anyway…?
Because tiling is automatic. The whole point of tiling wms is automation and consistency. Users don't want to waste time moving windows around and manually tiling them (automation).

>having multiple windows active simultaneously on the same workspace was the whole point
Yes, but tiling wms become unusable once you hit 3-7 windows open on a single workspace (depending on your layout and open software). Most people end up using multiple workspaces.
And the benefit of that is the fact that you can assign specific apps to open in a specific workspace. So you never have to waste seconds of your life finding where each window is (consistency).
It doesn't sound like a lot when you just read about it, but if you use a tiling wm you'd feel the difference. Going from a stacking wm (normal DE) to a tiling one is basically like going from a 500ms-5000ms response time/input delay to a 50ms-250ms one.

>>105697595
>keeps freezing within 5 minutes of boot
If it's an intel CPU it could be the c-state bug. I'm pretty sure Intel hasn't fixed it for some of their old CPU models.

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

- find the line with "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" and add one of the following to that line:
>intel_idle.max_cstate=0
>intel_idle.max_cstate=1
Then Ctrl+X to exit and then save the file
sudo update-grub

- reboot

This usually fixed all my issues on older Intel laptops.

can i change vkbasalt settings on the fly?

>>105693664 (OP)
The text editor micro seems to compile my programme using gcc whenever I press ^s, reporting various error messages, which is all good.
I was wondering though, whether I can supply command line options to micro's invocation of gcc,
specifically I would like to activate -fms-extensions, because I like using anonymous fields.
I can hack it by replacing the symlink /usr/bin/gcc with a bash script that invokes gcc with the supplied command line options prepended by -fms-extensions, but I'd prefer not to replace system files with my own hacky scripts.

>>105693682
>>105693699
>>105694543
Why do you not use Bottles?
Steam is not meant for this usage

should i enable secure boot on my asus motherboard? my disk is already encrypted (luks2), would secure boot improve security?

>>105698276
man 7 kernel_lockdown

>>105698141
>vkbasalt

no, vkBasalt.conf and the env's are read on creation of the vulkan context.

>>105695715
I think Plasma looks pretty good

>>105696402
>You have to pay people money to craft nice user interfaces and there's no money in desktop Linux.
I think there's some money, and that's why companies like Red Hat develop GNOME. Some companies are probably paying for desktop Linux I imagine (something like RHEL or SUSE).

>>105698262
I'm stupidly new to linux I just started working on it yesterday. Anyways it worked when I installed chrome 99 via protontricks then edit the registry similar to what anon suggested to use chrome 99 to open links

>>105698262
that's irrelevant, anon. WINE and Proton launch any http(s) URL in your native (Linux) web browser by default. It doesn't matter if you're just using a normal wine/proton prefix, Steam's proton prefix, or Bottles. The Windows apps will all behave the same regarding this.

>uberzeug is defunct now
>move to Überzug++
>KDE wayland isn't supported
What to do now?

I'm using gamescope with bottles both in flatpaks
I'm not sure how or way but I had these issues, with this game (PvZ)
>native Kwin ~30-40 fps 100% CPU
>enable HW accelration, now ~50 fps 50%GPU/50%CPU
>use gamescope ~20 fps 100% CPU
>allow /dev/dri ~40 fps 50%GPU/50%CPU
>gamescope with 60 fps frame cap and 1920x1080 ~60 fps constant 50% on bpth gpu and CPU
The game is in wonky 4:3 aspect ratio too.
I tried with other games and got worse performance.
All on Open GL rendering, and on wayland.
So what am I doing wrong?

>>105698421
Why would it not be supported? Wayland is Wayland.

>>105698430
This is what I get when I run it
and
https://github.com/jstkdng/ueberzugpp/issues/208#issuecomment-2249213045
>fix coming soon TM

>>105698276
>would secure boot improve security?
Objectively so, enabling it doesn't just improve the security of the booting process either.

I'm the Windows 10 gamer from a thread ago that wanted to move to EndeavourOS while only having one SSD and not throwing his game library away.

So I managed to install EndeavourOS, everything working fine (posting this from linux now)

Thank you for the help but most of what you guys claimed was bullshit.

>Running games from NTFS
I tried this on latest AAA games (Claire Obscure Expedition 33) Just worked out of the box, straight from NTFS with only a 3% performance hit compared to windows 10. Next time gamers ask this question just tell them that everything will work outside of the box and they don't need to change file systems, just reserve some space for the linux OS, that's it.

You niggers also make it seem overly complicated and convoluted while it was easier than the equivalent which was fucking with windows registry to upgrade to Windows 10 LTSC. This should be obvious to gamers wanting to switch because if they know how easy it is to go to Linux and just continue playing their already installed games, they won't go on the 10 hour long journey of having to convert their Windows 10 janky setup to hack LTSC onto their system.

80% of your posts were harmful and discouraging. It was only because of 1-2 anons that called you out for being retards that I tried and pushed through. It took me a total of 25 minutes to switch OS and in fact it's easier than the regular windows re-install.

Stop being annoying pseuds, jesus christ.

>>105698421
Switch to a terminal with built-in sixel support? better yet switch to a terminal which supports Kitty's graphics protocol.

>>105698491
>kitty
I don't want pajeet shit, and also kitty doesn't have proper documentation on how to use it's shitty protocol
>Switch to a terminal with built-in sixel support
like alacrity and konsole?
Because both didn't work.

>>105698484
Nobody said It wouldn't work, they warned you about known corruption issues.

>>105698530
That's 100% not what was said. Most said it wouldn't work, games can't be read from NTFS only other files and things like that, which was just not true.

It's fine, whatever some anons managed to help. Just that in the future when a Windows 10 gamer wants to switch just tell them that it's ridiculously easy and just follow the installer and that all games they already have installed/pirated will "just work" out of the box.

No need to complicate things for people that are migrating to Linux. Most issues seem to have patched and the experience is very smooth for mid-technical people like me now. You can safely assume that if someone uses 4chan they are mid-level computer literacy and can manage just fine.

>>105698521
>I don't want pajeet shit, and also kitty doesn't have proper documentation on how to use it's shitty protocol
Brother If you need "proper documentation" on how to throw a bitmap down a pipe you'd never be able to implement sixel's.

>>105698631
Do teach me good SAAR

>>105698530
>>105698616
There won't be any corruption issues if you use ntfs-3g and not the kernel driver. Check by running mount and see if the NTFS partition is mounted as fuseblk

>>105698484
>I tried this on latest AAA games (Claire Obscure Expedition 33) Just worked out of the box, straight from NTFS
What method did you use to install the game?

>>105698713
I didn't install the game. I literally just pointed the wine to the pre-installed windows directory of the .exe and ran it.

>>105698616
fuck off gaymer faggot

>>105698616
>>105698726
>Most said it wouldn't work, games can't be read from NTFS only other files and things like that, which was just not true.
People said that *installing* a game using Steam on ntfs won't work for most games. Nobody was talking about pirated games which are already just sitting there to be launched directly with wine/lutris/bottles.
If anything most people told you to just try to run them and if they don't work move them to a different file system.
Using ntfs on Linux is just not recommended in general.

>>105698739
According to steam survey "gaymer faggots" are now the majority of linux desktop users though? (because of steamdeck but still)

>>105698758
Fair enough. However realize your target audience. 4chan users pirate everything.

>>105698777
Arrr, you bet we do matey.

How is KDE 6.4 on Arch btw? Stable enough?

Lads, you may have been right about snaps

I've been using the Firefox snap on my Raspberry Pi because it gets security updates much quicker than the Raspberry Pi OS repo version.

However, the snap hasn't been updated with Firefox 140, which came out yesterday. I've noticed that the flatpak has been updated to 140 though. I think the flatpak was previously only for x64, but now they list arm64 as well, so maybe I should install that.

ex windows 10 gamer guy here again.

A HUGE benefit of linux over windows is that LLMs seem to be way more proficient in linux. If I ask something technical about windows to an LLM the amount of times the .bat files were shit or just straight up false ways to do things were so prevalent the tools were basically useless.

Meanwhile the nichest of niche issues get extremely detailed answers and the LLM knows exactly what to do and what the implications of the changes are.

I think you guys should play up this advantage. Linux is easier to use in 2025 than windows. Linux could take over windows in marketshare as the "LLM desktop" since it's so proficient at it.

I can already see my normalfag sister cry into a microphone "AI please fix this shit" on windows and it craps the bed, while doing the same on linux would just make the LLM fix it. No way windows can compete with that.

>>105699402
So you mean that shit like koboldcpp and DeepSeek weight files run more efficiently on Linux then Windows?

>>105699402
Kinda, you can't really administrate Windows properly without being apart of domain; your supposed to configure everything with policies or DSC.

>>105699425
Yes, but that isn't the point I was trying to make. I mean LLMs know exactly how linux work because it's fully open source and they have been trained on the source repository of all those projects. If you have some issue or want to accomplish something but don't know exactly how, you can just tell an LLM and they will not only give you a very competent answer, they will usually write you a bash or python script for you to accomplish the task very easily.

I already find it easier to use than Windows 10 because I can just make the LLM do everything for me essentially.

Windows is a barely usable jankfest in 2025. Can't even imagine how terrible W11 must be. It's inevitable they will start losing market share because my non-tech family members are already avoiding windows by just doing everything on their smartphone, mostly because windows is too complicated.

>>105699484
LLMs like DeepSeek and Gemini Pro do seem very competent at writing working commands/code for things on Linux based environments.

>>105699399
There really isn't much difference between them honestly, they both utilise the exact same technologies under the hood, the primary difference is Snaps are primarily for deploying server stuff while Flatpak is for desktop applications.

>>105699508
>the primary difference is Snaps are primarily for deploying server stuff while Flatpak is for desktop applications.
There are GUI apps as snaps though. Firefox, Bitwarden, Spotify, and other stuff. Personally I don't have an inherent preference for either - I have both snaps and flatpaks. If either of them can provide the software I want, up-to-date, and preferably from a verified publisher, then I'll install it.

>>105699605
>There are GUI apps as snaps though
Yeah, but Snaps are primarily designed for servers. Canonical only made them somewhat compatible with desktop GUI apps because the server adoption failed and they didn't want to admit defeat. But snaps are literally non-existent outside of Ubuntu exactly. Desktop users and even developers vastly prefer Flatpaks so they will always be more supported and polished.

>>105699689
>snaps are literally non-existent outside of Ubuntu exactly
I've installed snaps on Debian. Sure most snap users are on Ubuntu, but not all. Anyway yeah like I said, I don't care which is more successful, as long as I can get software.

>>105698426
this image is quite profound, but certainly not in any way she's thinking

>>105698276
Only if you enroll your own keys. Not even a Linux question desu.
>put a key into EFI
>sign an EFI-executable with it
>???
>>105699707
>I don't care which is more successful, as long as I can get software.
I wouldn't use Snaps for the lulz, only when said software is released only as a Snap.

>>105699689
Ain't OP but you've got it backwards, they didn't fail on the server, their success is in IoT/Embedded industry, all the newer digital signage boards and kiosks in hospitals runs on Ubuntu core.

>>105700107
its linux related bc i on linux, so all i have to do is put my own keys in key management? how do i do that? theres four factories keys there already.
>>105698283
>On an EFI-enabled x86 or arm64 machine, lockdown will be automatically enabled if the system boots in EFI Secure Boot mode.
under OS type theres windows uefi mode, is that related? after selecting that "Setup" changed to "user".

>>105698686
>ntfs-3g
That's slow as balls though

>>105700520
interesting, typing mokutil --sb-state returns enable on the terminal.

How do i change the JXL value to yes? Im trying to build imagemagick but even with --with-jxl=yes, the value is stuck at no

Why does my fedora kde plasma keep moving my desktop icons/shortcuts to another screen whenever i restart? Like it just piles them up in the upper left corner of the other screen. Very annoying

>>105700816
guessing but do you have the dev dependencies for jxl?
are you sure you're running your compiled version in the first place?

>>105700821
you mean the icons in the workspace? i only see winfags bloating their workspace with shortcuts.

>>105700850
No to both. Im reading the guide from their website https://imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php#linux and i cant find anything on any dependencies i may need

I compiled it with "make" and ran "./configure" again and the value for jxl was still no. Im not sure if thats how i run the compiled version

>>105700850
Thank you, i managed to fix it by installing libjxl-dev. Now i know why dev packages exist, getting slightly less retarded every day

>mostly de-trannifies GNOME
Ubuntu deserves more respect 'round these parts. Baka desu senpai.

>>105699399
>zomg 1 day!!!!!!! i must UPDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!
jesus

I'm trying to run this old game syberia
It runs on most wine versions, however I get this blackscreen on top of it.
You can do some hacking to get around it or use this
& xdotool selectwindow windowunmap
Current issue, I'm on wayland, so how to fix this?
I tried gamescope and it didn't help much
Any ideas?

is there any fucking way to get OBS's Window Capture working on Wayland? i tried searching online but there's jack shit
>just go to X11
i honestly gladly will go back if there's truly no way, it's just that somehow gayland is smoother for me than x11 from first impressions. but if it comes with a lack of basic shit like that then my hands are tied

Why does TWWH3 runs so badly on my archyos? Game is almost unplayable with how much it stutters but it runs just fine when I play on W11

>>105698430
>Wayland is Wayland.
No, it's not. Each compositor is different.

>>105702059
This is very compositor specific, Check if yours supports xdg-desktop-portal, do you have pipewire+pipewire-pulse+wireplumber properly configured/installed?

>>105702059
what are you using?
i thought this was fixed, saw a youtuber doing a video on that

>>105702088
shitty devs doing shitty dev things

>>105701687
https://www.protondb.com/app/46500

>>105702157
>shitty devs
Cachyos or TWWH3? This is my first time using linux and this is the first game that I'm having issues with

>>105702196
yeah man i tried ALL the things in that page.
That's why i'm asking here.

>>105702088
>>105702202
Are you running this through Steam/Proton? have you enabled shader caching?

>>105702223
there's next to no chance we here know better how to run that game

>>105702243
>Are you running this through Steam/Proton?
Yes, with proton experimental
>have you enabled shader caching?
Idk lol
I mean it took ages for the game to launch first time because I think steam was doing that automatically but I had no idea it was something I had to enable

>>105702268
In your steam account settings there's also a compatibility tab, might wanna see if the shit in there is enabled as well, there's also a drop down menu that lets you change the Proton version your using in the same tab might wanna fuck with that as well.

>>105702202
the game devs

>>105693681
> fb2k

DeaDBeeF is very comparable. I'm saying this as someone who's been using fb2k for two decades.

> Paint.NET

Ah, the bad Pinta clone

>>105701687
Force xwayland and check if xdotool still works
Xwayland :1 & export DISPLAY=:1
Or bind this to some key
wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,hidden
ydotool

I was gonna say I don't think there's a windowunmap equivalent on ydotool

>>105702877
>DeaDBeeF
It even has component support and bs2b. Not bad.

I want a Linux distro with these features out of the box:
1. gui installation and full disk encryption feature
2. secure boot support compatible with nvidia drivers
3. wayland support
4. up-to-date packages (not that "muh stable" thing)
5. compatible dual booting with Windows 11

I don't want to spend months customizing, configuring, wiki scrolling etc.

I just want to install it and do my own work.

>>105703330
Ubuntu

>>105703330
Here: https://bazzite.gg/#image-picker

>>105703406
Bazzite doesn't dualboot well, the bootc distros really want full control of the disk.

>>105703406
>bazzite
dead distro

>>105703468
what's the context of this

>>105703574
fedora dropping i686 support

>>105703634
Why would that matter for gayming? wine 10 supports 32-bit games, no?

>>105703663
wow64 mode is still experimental but it mostly works, it is a bit slower on old hardware

Does anyone know why Shift+Delete copies selected text and Shift+Insert pastes said text? Can I disable these hotkeys? I'm using KDE.

>>105703663
For now running 32-bit programs requires a wine 32-bit prefix which requires 32-bit support libraries.

>>105703757
>For now running 32-bit programs requires a wine 32-bit prefix which requires 32-bit support libraries.
No? Wine devs literally said you can run 32-bit software starting with Wine10. See >>105703723

>>105703752
>Does anyone know why Shift+Delete copies selected text and Shift+Insert pastes said text?
Because CUA.

>>105703788
The problem now is the 32-bit programs or winetricks fixes (like wmp9 or vcrun6) that still require a 32-bit prefix

>>105703872
well fuck. sounds like it's an arms race between wine devs fixing this and fedora dumping 32-bit support. such a shame considering it's literally the best linux distro right now.

>>105703806
>CUA
I see. It's strange that I've never noticed these hotkeys on Windows, but it says that they're used there as well.

>>105703752
>>105703927
The day those keys don't work by default I'm going on a murderous rampage.

>>105703894
If shit breaks and there's no fix in sight I'll most likely check on opensuse (and it's policy on 32bits). No point in wondering about it right now though.

>>105703927
Funnily enough they're way more useful on Unix than they were on DOS because they don't interfere with VT100 escape codes.

>>105701448
I want security updates as soon as they're released, to make my computer as secure as possible

Why would you want anything less? What advantages do you get from running out-of-date software without security patches? None

Do you leave your front door wide open at night? No, of course you don't. Having at least some basic level of security is a good idea.

why the fuck arch has a super special shit to install python packages and force me to use pacman -S python-xyz instead of just pip install xyz?
what fucking piece of garbage decided this was a good idea?
god damn it i hate python and every person marginally related to it so fucking much

>>105704181
>None
They're a lot of reasons people run outdated software, stability and removed features being among them, even with web browsers they're still people that keep Firefox 3.6 and Internet Explorer 6 around.

>>105704295
Managing python shit straight from pacman is a godsend if you ask me

>>105704305
Surely that would only make sense in limited cases. E.g. let's say you're a business and you depend on a web app that only works in IE. Maybe then you use that web app in IE, on computers that aren't connected to the internet. That might make sense in some limited cases.

But for most people surely an up-to-date browser makes sense. The latest browsers usually support most features even on really old web pages.

>>105704295
It doesn't, pacman is your distributions package manager while pip is purposefully built for managing python packages, what Arch is doing is stopping you from breaking your systems python. You should be doing everything within a virtual environment, I've got no clue what Python uses for this now but back in my day it was pyenv.

>>105704326
it probably is, but I'm forced to use this stupid jupyter notebook thing like I'm a fucking child instead of proper text editor, and I cant get packages inside the notebook work

anyway I just ran jupyter inside a docker container and it seems it'll just work

>>105704376
Oh It does I'm just going full "Uhm Ackchyually".

>>105704181
What you're concerned about is just security theater.

>>105704305
>they're still people that keep Firefox 3.6 and Internet Explorer 6 around.
omg

>>105704305
>>105704507
>Firefox 3.6
Yeah, the ones using pale meme.

Fedora or Arch?

>>105704520
Arch. Fuck anything with redhat DNA on it.

>>105704516
that thing at least has updated its cas, right?

>>105704520
Arch hands down

>>105704535
>Fuck anything with redhat DNA on it
>posted from my systemd powered machine

>>105704520
fedora, it just werks. I'd suggest to avoid the gnome edition though (workstation)

I can't seem to get Fedora to detect my case/cpu fans. I installed CoolerControl and ran sensors-detect and accepted all probes. It detected 3 fans (I have more), 2 of them show 0 rpm running at 60% and 1 shows 400 rpm at 30% and if I try setting a manual fan speed it just goes back to 30%.

I have a Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro V2 motherboard and I could control the fans through software on Windows without any problems. Anyone have any guidance on what to do next?

The only thing I could find is this
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lm_sensors#Gigabyte_B250/Z370/B450M/B560M/B660M/Z690/B550_motherboards

But I'm not really sure if that's outdated or not or how to actually use that to get it to work

>>105704838
Gigabyte uses ITE chips, which might as well be black boxes as far as Linux is concerned. Better not count on it ever working.

>>105704181
whats gonna happen in one day?

>>105704181
Your user apps shouldn't be required to be updated constantly for your OS to be secure.

>>105704990
Potential hacks

>>105705055
Browsers can have vulnerabilities

>>105705070
Their vulnerabilities should be able to get escalated in a way to compromise your OS. If this happens it means your OS has a bad security model.

>>105705070
You're better off learning about security beyond the superficial things said on TV if you actually care.

>>105705085
>should be able
shouldn't be able*

what was the deal with the arch nvidia firmware update recently?

>>105705055
They shouldn't be, but browsers are designed such that they have to be, and this is intentional.

>>105697444
legend!

>>105704838
>control the fans through software
why you dont let the mobo take care of that like a sensible man? you winfags just look for the most abominable and useless way to find trouble holy shit.

I was literally planning on installing Bazzite tonight but after looking into it one last time apparently the dev is teasing just abandoning it in a year? that fucking sucks and makes installing it really unattractive desu
Should I just install it anyway and let next year's potential problem be for next year me? I really like how brainless it seems to use and I'm already used to SteamOS with my deck so I wanted something like that.

>>105693664 (OP)
I know there's probably only 2 other people using the Icecat browser, but I gotta ask: is Icecat buggy for you guys as well? it recently updated from 115 ESR to 128 ESR, and some of the options in the settings do not work for me, mostly on the "Privacy & Security" tab. Clicking on the buttons doesn't do anything at all, and some options in the Icecat specific settings section - even though checkboxed - don't work either. Aren't they supposed to fucking check everything works before releasing a new update?
>>105697094
Anon, tiling is just a way of (visually) organizing your programs, it has nothing to do with workspaces. You use workspaces to separate the tasks you're working on at different, well, spaces. Say you are coding something on your prefered $EDITOR; you could have that open as well as a browser to check Stack overflow, and a terminal for testing, all in Workspace 1. Then Workspace 2 might have en email client, a file manager and a document viewer. Workspace 3 for a music player and maybe even a 4th one for a messaging program. Sure, you could have everything in a single Workspace, but it would be a mess and you'd be switching/alt-tabbing constantly between programs. In this scenario, tiling would just organize your windows evenly in your screen, but even without it is more manageable to separate your tasks rather than putting all in one bin.

I'm going to move to hyprland on nixos any day now i promise

>>105706015
its a few commands and then you steal someones config from git. are you slow, downie, or dumb?

I've been on KDE 6 for a few months and loved it.
However, I have the itch to explore.
Are there scripts, or shells, packages, or whatever, that will install and/or configure a standalone WM like Hyprland (or others) along with status bars, fonts, themes, all that stuff?
Basically set up a desktop environment that can feel like a cohesive whole, but with individual components?

What distro and de/wm has the least tranny and fags involved?

>>105706075
what does it matter? you're never gonna get away from having cut your dick off and constantly solicit fag sex from niggers in public bathrooms. you sick fuck. try not to touch any little kids this week you piece of human detritus

>>105706075
Hyprland on Artix, both are actively hostile to troonery
Special shoutout to gentoo though. Amongst the more "neutral" distros, it gives you the most flexibility to tell troonware to fuck off.

Active troon distros (confirmed troon leads): Void, NixOS, Chimera, elementary.
Most corporate distros like RHEL, Fedora and OpenSuSE are very pro troon as a matter of corporate policy as well. Avoid.

Also special shoutout to Mint for its founder Clem being pretty openly antisemitic <3

>>105706112
Thanks for the intel habibi. This helps a bunch.

how would you partition things on a pc with a 500gb nvme and a 500gb ssd?
debian if it matters.

>>105706112
>Hyprland

>>105706211
So?

>>105706223
displaying an ad straight up in your desktop is absolutely gay, gayer than the rainbow faggots

Debian
>trash
Fedora
>trash
OpenSUSE
>trash
Arch
>trash

Is there any Linux that doesn't require hours of debugging when it inevitably shits itself?

>>105706131
consider 1tb btrfs
>>105706292
works on my machine, are you a homosexual?

>>105706269
That's not an advert. And there's nothing wrong with asking users for support once in a while.

>>105706306
no

>>105706292
hardware problem

>>105705767
Because I don't want my case fans to constantly spin up and down when the CPU gets hot if I put it on a curve. And if the fan speed is flat then I lose extra cooling when I game.

Fan speed is 30% flat when I'm not gaming and then I put them on 60% when gaming.

>>105706131
100-150gb for / on the fastest drive, the rest is whatever.

Any good videos and forums for ricing? I want to get into it but am a beginner.

>>105706459
there's plenty of gay porn on 1337x.to

Ubuntu puffy nipples... just works? What's wrong with Ubuntu?

>>105706459
The docs are your best friend. Yes you'll have to read the docs of all the shit you might want to use so you can tell what they can do. If you cant do that then all you're gonna do is break your system.

>>105700520
Something like this: https://commandmasters.com/commands/sbctl-linux/
>theres four factories keys there already
Those are Microsoft keys, assumed they were there from the beginning.
>>105706131
NVMe:
>1GB EFI system (assumed an EFI system)
>20GB for Debian
>20GB left vacant for some other distro
>rest of drive for /mnt/anime (encrypted)
HDD:
>the entire drive - without partition tables or anything - for /mnt/hdd (encrypted)
And then I'd symlink or bind mount SOME STUFF under there. I'd for example host my $HOME at /mnt/anime/anon. And place all my bittorrents under /mnt/hdd/torrent. Bind mount /var/lib/bluetooth to /mnt/anime/bluetooth, /usr/src to /mnt/anime/src. Or /mnt/hdd/src case the slow HDD is fine for compiling stuff. You figure it out.

Compiling is fun now

>>105706459
start searching for stuff you want to do and you will end up finding forums and shit
if you just want to post screenshots just copy someone's config, pretty easy to find on github

>>105706542
Are you me? Just two days back I upgraded my ayymd processor to a 32-thread one.
Was the guy at /pcbg/ asking why my OS only shows 16 CPUs but it was my custom kernel which I forgot to update, picture relates.

Anything other than Ubuntu feels like a humiliation ritual

How easy is it to switch from Ubuntu 6-monthly to Ubuntu LTS?
>wanna switch to Linux, decide on Ubuntu
>laptop
>wanna limit charge to 80% (win 11 does this)
>apparently Ubuntu does this
>but it requires latest GNOME
>so current interim release (25.04) has it but not current LTS
>current LTS (24.04) is on old GNOME
>26.04 LTS is almost a year away
>so i thought get on 25.04, then upgrade it to 25.10, then 26.04 but then convert it to LTS?
Possible?

>>105706292
when did you find out you were retarded? you sound like a yid blaming everyone but yourself for being kicked out of 110 countries over the years.

>>105706503
Do you mean docs about my operating system or whatever I download?

>>105706663
just press Upgrade when the next release is out? it's not some complicated thing

>>105702877
>DeaDBeeF

Distorts heavily if you even touch the equalizer, unironically unusable, the exact same equalizer present from FB2K distorts heavily on DB.

>Pinta
Stutters and skips inputs the more you zoom in lol. This one would actually be decent if it worked.

Can I get a QRD of why I would use Wine instead of Bottles, or why Lutris over Bottles?

getting error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
when updating with sudo pacman -syu
i remember i could do something last time to fix it but any anon know what it was?

>>105706765
but how do i change lanes?
how do i convert 26.04 6-monthly to 26.04 LTS?

>>105706930
there are no lanes, it's just 26.04 lts

>>105706927
https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmware-2025061312fe085f-5-upgrade-requires-manual-intervention/

>>105706927
Right here
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#%22Failed_to_commit_transaction_(conflicting_files)%22_error

>>105707004
removed linux-firmware but when i tried pacman -Syu linux-firmware, i'm getting "error: failed to commit transaction (failed to run transaction hooks)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded."

>>105707014
nvm finally got it to work. forgot informant stops updates and was messing with my install.

>>105706753
>Do you mean docs about my operating system or whatever I download?
The stuff you'll use to "rice" your system. You'll have to read some of the docs from your distro as well to know where they store things.
>>105706918
>Can I get a QRD of why I would use Wine instead of Wine, or why Wine over Wine?
Everything is just wine and wine frontends. There are no real wine alternatives. You can achieve all the same stuff regardless of your choice. That said
>bottles
meant to be installed as a flatpak, it'll be isolated from your system thanks to flatpak
>lutris
convenient if you want to dodge flatpaks, it can manage more than wine applications
personally i had issues with bottles, trying to cut off the internet access on some games so I use lutris + firejail. Firejail is meant to isolate things from your system as well
Firejail and Flatpaks(bwrap) cannot be combined as they both accomplish the same task and its kind of like having 2 antivirus interfering with each other
>plain wine
you'll be dealing with the command line, which isnt bad but some people think its some alien shit. I dont think its necessary as the frontneds will provide sane default configs

What distro is closest to Irix 6.5?

>>105707205
>trying to cut off the internet access on some games
-made them crash

Is there a way to install Fedora KDE without all the preinstalled bloat? I just want fedora with wayland and a DE, none of the other bullshit

>>105707253
Fedora Everything

>>105706663
It's possible, but it's Ubuntu so your OS will shit itself after the version upgrade.

how do I update an outdated Manjaro install? I keep getting failures because "it will break dependencies"

>>105707205
Great rundown, thank you for clearing that up

>>105707361
just take a back up and then wipe your disk and then reinstall the new version. That's the Linux way! I'm trans btw

>>105707361
I had that with an outdated kernel version, the settings manager wouldn't update because nvidia settings would've broken some dependency
so I installed the kernel manually, ran pacman to update everything, copied it to refind's partition, rebooted, had no screen after boot because the GPU driver was missing and then installed the driver from tty and now it works fine
(I'm not on LTS since if I do that then I get motherboard code 30 on startup 8 out of 10 times, fun)
there was probably some easier method for that but meh

>>105708365
everything I've read has made it sound easier and quicker to just do a fresh install.

Any waybar users here? I can't seem to set background color or transparency in tooltip. Someone please help.

tooltip {
background: alpha(@background, 0.75 );
color: @color14;
padding: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
margin-top: 5px;
}

Can someone please help me out with this problem? I'm dual booting Linux and Windows, the first on an SSD, the second on HDD. After firstly installing the Linux and encrypting it then I installed the Windows. There was a problem with the drive so I changed it. The thing is that before doing that, I started the computer with only the SSD on which has an encrypted Linux but for some reason the startup menu of Windows with a choice to start the previously removed system is still there. Of course, if you try to enter it you get only a black screen or an error but where is that information saved on, the SSD, RAM or? Is my Linux SSD now ruined given that I don't want Windows to interfere with it and thus the two different drives?

>>105702262
Anon, you're underestimating the autism level of /g/
Someone wrote a whole program just because someone kept posting that this functionality isn't available on linux.

>>105702911
I'm using bottles.
Can't I just add these to the launch options?
like & wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -b add,hidden

>>105703634
Its just a proposal and not such a bad one.
Its for Fedora 44.

Is there any alternative to Directory Opus available for Linux?

I'm in the process of TRANSitioning to Linux from windows and I just can't find an acceptable music player like of couple of the other anons in this thread.
I'm thinking of sperging out and just setting up mpd + ncmpcpp
Only issue I would have is that it seems it isn't possible to get an equalizer plugin or equivalent for that setup? Literally the only thing holding me back. Does anyone know if you can/how it works?

>>105709475
>acceptable music player
Audacious? VLC?

>>105709475
i just use strawberry
and for equalizer i use easyeffects

>>105707361
Pamac should issue the latest firmware to you

I upgraded from bookworm to testing and im getting this error when i run apt --fix-broken install
dpkg: error processing package libc6:amd64 (--configure):
package libc6:amd64 2.41-9 cannot be configured because libc6:i386 is at a different version (2.36-9+deb12u10)

Is there any way to remove libc6 forcefully?

>>105709765
definitely do not remove libc6:amd64, or you won't have much of an OS left
try reinstalling latest libc6:i386? I switched to aptitude decades ago and no longer suffer broken packages.

Why is there so much distro flamewarring when x86 Linux does the exact same things no matter the distro? The only edge cases I can think of are Ubuntu because of forced Snaps, and Gentoo because it's Gentoo.

Finally thinking about finally ditching the shitbox that is windows 11 and swapping it out for mint

I wanted to ask before making the dive should I make a backup of everything on HDD or SSD? Looking at around 2TB of stuff that possibly needs to be saved

>>105710036
NTFS works fine on Mint, but if you aren't going back to Windows anytime soon you can backup everything and then convert the drive to ext4 or btrfs and move everything back.

>>105710036
My intuition would be to just make a new partition on your drive and install Linux to that, that way you don't have to move or back up anything. I'd reserve 128-256GB to your Linux partition.

>>105710024
>Why is there so much distro flamewarring
because human beings are inherently tribalistic
>Linux does the exact same things no matter the distro
in most cases yes, but the out of the box experience is extremely important

>>105710036
>should I make a backup of everything on HDD or SSD?
If you're asking if you should buy an HDD or SSD for backups, then just go with HDD because it's cheaper.
When you install an OS onto an internal drive it will usually wipe everything on that drive. Although most Linux distros can be installed on an already used HDD/SSD. For example, you could shrink your "backup data" partition down to 2TB, then install Mint onto the rest of the disk. I believe the Mint installer lets you do this before you commit to installing anything.

>>105710036
NTFS works fine on Linux, so you don't need to back up or move anything.

>>105710024
distro flamewar is inseparable from the distros themselves, because it's all about distribution and defaults
>systemd vs non
>apt vs rpm vs pacman etc.
>btrfs vs openzfs vs eternal ext4
>kde vs xfce vs foot

>>105710036
Which drive do you intend to install Linux onto?

>>105710070
>>105710103
Oh I know that, just heard it was safe practice just in case anything goes wrong

>>105710117
The one with windows installed, my other drive is the one I want to back up just in case, has all my vidya and art stuff on there

Chuddalicious

>>105710198
Yeah you can dual boot easily...as long as you never use Windows Update ever again. Microsoft has been cracking down on Windows refugees by maliciously breaking the Linux bootloader via Windows updates. So, just make sure you don't install any updates if you ever need to boot into Windows. Otherwise, create a new partition on the same drive (I'd say 128-256 gigs is fine) and install Linux to it.

Uh, also make sure you're happy with your choice of distro BEFORE you install it. Test a few out with a Live USB before you commit, because you don't want to become a distrohopping schizo.

>>105710248
what about windows automatically updating though, had the bastard do it to me multiple times without giving me an option to say no

Also I'm happy with mint, I've used a couple of distros on virtual machines, Arch is too hard for me right now and I just wanna know the basics, I've heard ubuntu is shit now and mint seems to have a rather chill beginner friendly community to it

>>105710248
oh also forgot to mention I want to fully convert to linux too, so duel booting isn't really something I want to bother with, even if that comes with it's own handful of issues like never using certain programs or having multiplayer games shit themselves

>>105710296
Mint is just an un-shittified Ubuntu. It's only issue is being slightly outdated (usually by 1-3 years) and not having an image with KDE Plasma (the only serious DE).
But it's perfectly fine for a lot of people.

>>105710329
I can always install KDE on it later right?

>>105710355
Yeah but it's not going to be as neatly set-up as it is in distros like Aurora and Bazzite.

I'm trying to copy over windows fonts to linux mint. I copied over the contents of the systems font folder in windows over to my network share, rebooted, hopped into mint and connect my network share. I created a folder in /usrt/share/fonts, and when I try to copy over the files from my network share to my fonts folder as root I get

"Cannot retrieve attribute standard::type"

Anyone know what this is and how to fix it?

>>105695747

Could someone help me out:

I use a soundbar on my pc, no place for speakers.
It is very loud by default though. At 50% volume it is already more than enough.

I want to apply -db to the entire thing, so I can regulate the audio in smaller steps.
I tried it with EasyEffects, but that eats a ton of CPU Power. Is there any easier way?

>>105710296
Arch is definitely too much, but there are also Arch-based distributions that get you into a neatly preconfigured OS with KDE.

>>105710485
I know, like endeavourOS
I still think it's still a bit more complicated than learning a debian based distro though so for now I think for a complete beginner like myself I think mint is just the easiest and best fitting option right now

>>105710414
never mind i tried using windows fonts and it looked like total shit, worse than stock, idk what im going to need to do to make firefox fonts look good but its kind of fucking annoying how bad it is

>>105710005
I honestly wouldnt have minded if it nuked my entire system, it couldnt have been that hard to just reinstall everything. I managed to fix it by downloading the libc6 from the debian website and manually installing it so alls well that ends well

>>105704838

The archwiki is good, you will need to mess with modprobe but i shouldn't break anything.

4chan keeps flagging any links to github as spam, but checkout the lm-sensors github, issue 154, scroll down, you should find everything you need to compile the code you need and get the ITE chip detected for your board.

>>105710580
Don't understand yourself, because the idea of a "beginner distro" is really outdated. Mint, Endeavour, etc aren't "beginner distros"; they're just bloody good operating systems that you can and SHOULD use long-term regardless of skill level. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to dissuade you from using Mint; I just want you to temper your expectations about the Linux learning curve, because "newcomers a specific distribution" has been bad advice for a really long time.

>>105710580
Don't underestimate yourself, because the idea of a "beginner distro" is really outdated. Mint, Endeavour, etc aren't "beginner distros"; they're just bloody good operating systems that you can and SHOULD use long-term regardless of skill level. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to dissuade you from using Mint; I just want you to temper your expectations about the Linux learning curve, because "newcomers need a specific distribution" has been bad advice for a really long time.

>>105710485
How does endeavourOS handle the occasional manual intervention on updates?

>>105710784
It's basically still just Arch at the end of the day. Either use an AUR helper like yay or paru's front page news scraper or check the site yourself.

>>105710672
I'm not sure if Cinnamon has something like this, but in KDE Plasma you have the option to change the sub-pixel rendering and hinting under "Text & Fonts -> Fonts". Depending on your monitor some of these settings might help.

>>105710784
nta but Manjaro updates through pamac and I assume Endeavor does the same

>>105710811
No you update through pacman by default, though you could always install pamac or octopi through the AUR.

>>105710827
>No you update through pacman by default
I'm not opening a terminal to install updates. Besides, that's wrong. Manjaro by default gives you notifications in the system tray about new updates, and clicking on the notif opens up pamac. At least that's how it works on the KDE version.

>>105710748
The problem with Mint is that its harder to customize than a clean install of arch/debian. I still remember when i installed KDE plasma on mint and the package manager broke

>>105710841
>I'm not opening a terminal to install updates
How did you do the recent linux-firmware update?

>>105710827
That's definitely incorrect. I've used Manjaro for 2 years (half a decade ago) and I have never opened the terminal in my life. I didn't even know what the "sudo apt update" equivalent on it was. Installing and updating is all done in pamac.

>>105710841
>At least that's how it works on the KDE version.
Manjaro Xfce too.

>>105710869
Manjaro is suppose to be "easy Arch" so they get you to update shit through Pamac, its own GUI pacman frontend.

>>105710863
You know, I took a screenshot of this just in case I had to prove a point.

>>105710910
I thought you were talking about Endeavour. I know that Manjaro does some extra stuff

>>105710959
I said I assume it's the same because they're both Arch. You can just run pamac on Endeavour, can't you?

>>105710967
Endeavour *is* Arch while Manjaro is a fork of Arch.
Why this topic appears on every thread? Just look at the repo sources.
t. NTA
>>105710863
>he doesn't hand pick blobs from kernel.org

>>105710296
>Arch
>hard
Because you got to start from a bare minimum and know some package names? Slapping in crap is the easy part desu. In the end Arch is a simple binary distribution, packages work the same as with Mint.
Also remember all mainstream distributions offer you the "bare minimum" option so it's not exactly exotic, I've even installed Ubuntu like that.
>boot up a live USB
>partition drive, create filesystems etc
>Debootstrap an Ubuntu system to one
>chroot in, configure the basics
>make shit bootable
>????
>start with a system as minimal as Arch (but get bloated afterwards)
>>105710036
Whatever you do, copy with --archive flag to preserve timestamps.

>read cryptsetup changelog
>>4096 sector size is recommended for encryption performance
>>use "nvme id-ns -H <device>" to check
>check
>all 4 of my nvme drives are using 512
>mfw

>suddenly have a lot of space on my games SSD
>ohno.png
>check steam
>half my library is gone
I guess the NTFS thing wasn't a meme, huh
cool

>>105711324
ntfs: never the file same

>>105711324
And that's why you use ntfs-3g even though it's slower

>>105711389
I've been using that one by default.
I'm not sure though... only my steam games were nuked. no fucking way that whatever happened only affected the steam games
that had to be a steam bug or something

>>105711401
Just to double check, there's ntfs3 and ntfs-3g. They're different

>>105711493
Yeah I used ntfs-3g, right after installing linux I added my mounts to fstab based on a guide and it had ntfs-3g in it so I was using that one.

>>105708826
I don't think so, the xdotool command lets you select the black screen, wmctrl just hides the active one (if it even works, I'm not on Wayland so I can't test), you'd have to wait for the black screen to show up and then run it with a keybind

>>105708826
If you check the title of the black screen with wmctrl -l you could add this
& sleep 5; wmctrl -r 'black_screen' -b add,hidden

>>105711859
>wmctrl -l
When I run it.

>>105711324
Is that a secondary drive? as in, a drive which *doesn't* contain your OS? If so, you have to actually mount it before opening Steam.
If you open Steam before mounting the drive (which happens by default because Steam auto-runs on startup but other drives are not mounted on startup on almost any of the Linux distros) then Steam will fail to find your game library on that drive. So, just go into your file manager, mount your drive, force quit steam, re-open steam.

>>105711979
Yep it 's not my OS drive.
And yes, I auto mount on boot so that's not an issue this time.
Entire games disappeared, but some only partially, I can't see the files even in Windows.
I just remembered that a few days ago like 20 uninstall popups appeared on Steam when i was tweaking steamVR, and I just killed the process. So I think it might have actually uninstalled my games when that happened... there is a forum post about this on the steam forums as well so I guess this is a thing, but not sure if this actually uninstalled shit...
probably though because only steam games were affected

>>105712043
Self-inflicted.

>>105711976
When the black screen shows up, you open up a terminal and run that to get the name to use in the launch options

>>105712043
Are you the anon who was crying how people were warning you not to use ntfs and you chose to still use it and said "everything just works"?

milhouse

>>105712123
Actually no, I do remember his posts though, that's why i said this:
>>105711324
>I guess the NTFS thing wasn't a meme, huh

funny how it decided to happen right now, lol
still weird that it only happened to my steam games... i'd think that it would just corrupt shit randomly if ntfs was the problem, but who knows

>>105712065
I tried that anon, and I get 'Syberia'.
even when I tried to run this command with a keybind it didn't work.
I'm pretty sure it's a WM thing, since, for example if I run task manger inside wine and I use the switch to button i can get the game even though there are graphical glitches.
Or if i use the method one in this
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2549
>* Before starting the game, open Winecfg and place the Winecfg window on the right side of the screen
>* In Winecfg > Graphics > Window Settings, uncheck "Allow the window manager to control the windows" and click "Apply" (do not close the Winecfg window)
>* Start the game, then return to desktop using Alt+Tab (do not close the game)
>* In Winecfg, check "Allow the window manager to control windows" again and click "OK"
>* The game should automatically return to full screen and the screen should no longer be black.
But even this method make the game run in weird position.

>>105701687
>>105712325
I just installed and started it with GE-Proton.
Works perfectly? Gets fucked if you alt tab but fixes itself if you switch screens.

>>105712390
What?
What version of the game?
I'm using GOG DRM free version.
And even with GE proton I get issues.
What's have been written to your player.ini?

>>105712390
>GE-Proton
I just updated to the last GE-Proton on bottles and it actually throw an error about 3D engine to being able to initialize.

>>105712390
Nice
>+## Proton-6.19-GE-1 released
>++-Added protonfix for Syberia black screen (runs in a window, you will want to use gamescope to upscale)

>>105712417
I just used the Steam version I had.
Tried GE-Proton and just normal Proton 9 always works for me.
I have been following your Syberia xdotool memes for a week now and wanted to try it out myself. Can't shake the feeling you overcomplicated something a bit here my friend

>>105705794
I just checked and I'm getting the same behavior from IceCat.

>>105712711
Well, I'm glad it works for you man.
Syberia 2 work for me flawlessly.
It's the first game that do give me the trouble, along with other games (e.g. Generals zero hour)
I tried adding this 1024 768 32 0 BaseCMO.cmo
to a player.ini in the game directory and the game do work, though it run in 800x600 and can't be upscaled, the videos play nice and the black screen is no longer there too.
Using ANY runner.
The key varible is "0" since it forces the window mode for the game.
Your game is probably patched.

>>105693664 (OP)
I've noticed when songs don't have an album cover on Rhythmbox the previous song's album cover shows on the tray's drop down menu, is there anyway to change it to show a default image or to remove it? I pawed through the preferences and I couldn't find anything.

>>105713546
I dunno because I use cmus for music. Nice and lightweight.

>>105710672
>>105710414
>I created a folder in /usrt/share/fonts
Unless you have a very good reason to touch the system dirs don't do it. The proper place for fonts is your home (~/.local/share/fonts)
>never mind i tried using windows fonts and it looked like total shit
Windows fonts are meant to be used with subpixel rendering and forced hinting, make sure those are on.

>>105713576
What is cmus?

>>105713679
A command line music player. You can navigate it with a mouse though, and it has a library view. I like it personally.

New thread:
>>105713841

>>105713738
Oh that's kinda neat, I guess. I'll look into it, I'm always into lightweight programs.

I just got a xm2we mouse and I need to adjust the DPI.
It seems I probably need to VM into windows to run this dogshit.

Whats the best windows ISO for simple usage like this? Obviously I'm not buying a key.