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>>105713841 (OP)
I feel dumb asking this, but let's say I take the GUI out of a linux installation so it looks like a Fallout 3 computer and its just the command prompt. Does that mean that windows goes with it as well? I won't be able to view multiple things at once?

Which version of Debian should I install in the event I want to game on my PC?

>>105714014
you can use tmux

Is Solus any good actually?

Is it possible to stream audio over the network from one pipewire server to another pipewire server? i remember this was possible with pulseaudio but i forgot how.

>>105714037
Just use stable or testing since testing is about to become the new stable soon
If you want bleeding edge just use arch over debian unless you really want debian
And if you dont know what you're doing, use mint. They have a debian version as well.

>>105714037
don't even bother with unstable

>>105712390
>>105712711
Well, I got it working in a way.
>Runners
Anything work I use GE-Proton just to be on the safe side.
>player.ini
1024 768 32 0 BaseCMO.cmo
This is a must to force the game to run into window mode
the problem I was having is the game actually run at 800x600 and use it's internal upscaler to go for 1024x768.
When starting the game with bottles, it doesn't start gamescope to the actual game, just the first loading window, which is the cause of the problem.
So you need to run bottles in it's own gamescope instance to apply it to all the new windows that starts or launch the game directly with gamescope and wine
>kate rode the automaton big metal train all the way to syberia
The only issue is this just me problem? Or actual bug?
Thanks btw man.

>>105714014
You can view multiple terminal sessions with something like tmux, like the other guy mentioned. Pic related.

>>105713841 (OP)
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.

>>105710692
>git clone https://github.com/gamanakis/it87.git
>cd it87
>git switch it8688E
This all works fine
>make
>sudo make install
>sudo modprobe it87 ignore_resource_conflict=true
This gives me errors
>make[1]: *** /lib/modules/6.15.3-200.fc42.x86_64/build: No such file or directory.
>Stop.
>make: *** [Makefile:71: modules] Error 2

>mkdir -p /lib/modules/6.15.3-200.fc42.x86_64/kernel/drivers/hwmon
>cp it87.ko /lib/modules/6.15.3-200.fc42.x86_64/kernel/drivers/hwmon/
>cp: cannot stat 'it87.ko': No such file or directory
>make: *** [Makefile:80: modules_install] Error 1
Any guidance?

>>105716046
>Any guidance?
Give up on this hackjob and configure the fan control curve in BIOS properly. The board is more than capable of doing it by itself. Bypassing ACPI resource conflicts can cause problems because you're giving two or more modules control over the same state. I highly recommend not giving usermode software control over your cooling in these conditions.

Is it really worth it to buy crossover?

>>105717008
crossover only exists for MS Office

Has anybody managed to build the dwl window manager on arch? I am too stupid to figure out how to install all the right dependencies. The AUR package also doesn't know how to do it. I have a nice dwm build, but wayland plays better with my hardware was want to try dwl.

>>105717364
>somewhat niche distro
>figuring build dependencies
Feels. Have red the README file?
>>105716046
>outside alien module
Shouldn't you DKMS it?
>>105714250
>Debian testing
Testing is just an alias for the next upcoming release so he could just use the actual name in sources.list.

I use xfce.
And I edited a few text file with mousepad. Turns out "Ensure new line at file end" is not on by default. Leading to some annoying errors.
I googled it and it just lead to long argument about what a new line is. https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/-/issues/53

>>105717543
So I was reading more about this. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15639511/vim-show-newline-at-the-end-of-file#15640991
So basically vi(m) is unique in the sense it doesn’t show that the file ends with a new line. Whether the file has it or not. Completely different from all of the other text editors, including emacs.
That crazy fucker romainl of course argue this is the correct way to do it.

>>105717806
[noeol] is sufficient, please contain your autism

>>105717886
Vim is the autistic one in this case. There's a new line but it refuses to show it. Even though other editors do. And the vim community chose romainl, an autistic asshole to represent them in the arguments.
Fuck this shit. I'm done.

I had ChadGPT write a python program to manage my backups on a remote server and it's pretty sweet. I had some hiccups along the way and it got to the point where I felt bad for not learning the material myself and can see how this will absolutely make people really fucking stupid.

>>105719070
This is why "vibe coders" exist now AKA people that just make code with ChatGPT-4o/Gemini Pro/DeepSeek and shove it to master. Most of the time it's "fine" but sometimes it messes things up.

>>105719092
I'm blown away at it's capabilities but wouldn't trust it outside a few QoL scripts. I only wanted to make a YAD dialog box to quickly access my dotfiles and ended up with a 4 tab application that takes all the guess work out of redundant tasks.

fuck. I was finna install Mint on one of my drives but apparently I fucked shit up by backing out of the installation process and now my fucking Live USB stick won't fucking boot even if I reflash it. I think it has something to do with secure boot but I am not turning that off.

>>105714101
>>105713841 (OP)
what does this mean

>>105719405
It's suppose to look like the character Bazz from the catastrophic failure of a live service FPS game Concord. It's suppose to be a link to the immutable gaming distro Bazzite.
Her design became a meme in Korea for how stupid she looked, so people now put the same hair/glasses etc. on other characters to look stupid or make fun of her.

font rending on firefox in mint looks so fucking shit, im kms trying to figure out how not to make it look like total shit

>>105719258
If you don't want to disable secure boot then you'll have to use Ventoy for the live USB. I'm not sure if stuff like Etcher and Rufus support it.

>>105719461
Ventoy is one of the only ones that has its own secure boot key that you can enroll in a system's MOK manager. And because Mint is Ubuntu based it uses Ubuntu's own secure boot keys.

>>105719433
Font is one of the big 3 unsolved problems of linux.

>>105719433
are you using fractional scaling by chance? text rendering in firefox should be nicer on linux than windows by default

Am I mad for using tiling wm on 12" display?

>>105720468
You're mad for using Manjaro in 2025

>>105714390
Thanks my patrician taste fellow /g/entleman
I've been trying to play this nostalgia for a while now.
I had the same issues as you and nothing from proton/wine db worked.
Since they were actually using a patched version, and not older version without DRM.
> it doesn't start gamescope to the actual game, just the first loading window, which is the cause of the problem.
Yeah, pretty weird which is exactly what was happening with me.
>run bottles in it's own gamescope instance
How did I not think of this?
>kate rode the automaton big metal train all the way to syberia
I'd ride oscar's big metal train any times of the day too, desu.

>>105720478
What makes Manjaro a bad operating system?

>>105720556
It's Arch but worse. You'd have a better time with pure Arch or EndeavourOS.

>>105719070
Enjoy losing your data.
>>105719092
>Most of the time it's "fine"
90% of the time is not, and the 10% is ticking bomb.
I can see it as an aid to brainstorm your way around a problem, but never should be a solution.
>>105719194
You really shouldn't do this anon.
I have a bunch of easy task for human that's impossible for AI to do.
>make a bash script, to calculate the current phase of the moon based on today's date
Or my personal favorable test
>Show a system tray icon when a command is running using YAD dialog option.
It would start hallucinating non-existing flags.

>>105720567
How is it worse? Also, I think pamac is only for Manjaro, and it's the best GUI package manager.

>>105720576
You can get pamac through the AUR.

>>105720478
ah, the parrot.
>>105720556
>>105720576
Nothing, he's just parroting what AGP tranny told him.
And you will see (s)he have no real counter arguments.
>>105720567
Endeavor is shit OS for using dracut instead of mkinticpo, and providing theme packages with no sense of style.
While trying to arch with better OOTB experience, but losing both.
For me
>Manjaro/Mabox
>Arch

>>105720584
But then you'll only get packages from the Manjaro repo, at which point you should have just installed Manjaro from the start.

Why do you expect me to be friendly when you keep making threads with niggers in them?

>>105720606
>But then you'll only get packages from the Manjaro repo,
No. Pamac is based on libalpm just like pacman. Manjaro just uses different repo but that can be changed in a config file

>>105720556
people who use mounjaro are usually fat and have diabetes

>>105720694
Even still, why not just use Manjaro?

>>105719524
>Font is one of the big 3 unsolved problems of linux.
>>105719527
>text rendering in firefox should be nicer on linux than windows by default
which is it

What's the distro most suitable for a white, cis, heterosexual, politically moderate, middle aged male?

I have a question linux sisters. I'm new to linux, I switched to Bazzite last week and I'm really enjoying it because I'm into gayming. I always read around here that Mint is better for productivity, why do you say that? I can just install libre office on Bazzite and it would work as good as Mint right?

>>105721277
Linux is all the same. None of them are better for productivity

>>105721277
>I always read around here that Mint is better for productivity
They probably just mean it doesn't gave gaming shit setup on it by default. If you want that then you'd be better off just rebasing to Aurora, but it sounds like you maybe want to keep gaming?

>>105721267
Ubuntu. It literally just works. Now allow me to address some of the criticisms of Ubuntu:
>I hate snaps!
Don't use snaps then. E.g. if you want Firefox you can get a deb package from Mozilla's website. You don't need to use the snap version.
>I hate GNOME!
Install different DEs from the repos then. Plasma, XFCE, whatever you want.
>I don't want to give my details to Canonical just to get security updates!
It's true that if you want security updates for the whole of the universe repo, you need an Ubuntu Pro account. But the account is free (for use on up to 5 computers). I think it's a fair requirement. You're getting security updates for literally thousands of packages, for free.

>>105721310
>but it sounds like you maybe want to keep gaming?
yes, I'm fine with Bazzite, I just use the PC for reading PDFs, shitposting and gaming. I have an old laptop laying around and I was considering installing Mint on it since I won't play a lot on it.

>>105721277
>I always read around here that Mint is better for productivity
This is probably compared to Debian, Ubuntu, Arch and Fedora just because Mint is more set up for your average desktop user.

>>105721353
I would just it for something more interesting. Fuck around with gentoo or arch, or use a meme window manager or something

>>105721350
>Don't use snaps then. E.g. if you want Firefox you can get a deb package from Mozilla's website. You don't need to use the snap version.
That's not something the end user should have to configure, furthermore snaps are configured by default to hijack apt, meaning you have to manually add a ppa for EVERYTHING to install normally.
>I think it's a fair requirement
Not when it's NOT a requirement on other distros. You may as well tell Anon to stay on Windows.

So I installed Solus after using Endeavor for a while, and I gotta say i like this ever so slightly more.

>>105716046

Missing kernel headers.

sudo dnf install kernel-devel kernel-headers

Another week another rpm fusion package conflict, this time vlc.

Bugzilla response
"Sorry, that's my fault. Fixing now."

Not complaining, shit is free after all. Any reasonable way to avoid this, stay away from rpm fusion? I'd really like to stay on Fedora if possible.

>>105721815
What tangible reasons are there to choose Fedora instead of Debian/Ubuntu

>>105720468
You might as well just switch to sway unless you really need Xorg for something or if sway lacks some feature you need

>>105721815

Stand-down. I installed the flatpack version.

>>105721943
Newer packages

>>105721267
Artix or Devuan

>>105722308
How much do they pay you to shill wayland?

>>105722486
If you really need a very recent version of a package you could use Flatpak or Homebrew etc

I have a acer laptop with debian 13 and it sleeps no matter what it just wants to sleep, I need it stay awake to connect, how fix?

pacman -Sy Enter UpArrow ^A sudo Enter
That is all

>>105722580
Hmm no, those are chud distros

>>105722589
It was just a suggestion, take your meds. Maybe go complain about the faggot shilling bazzite if you want to complain about shills.

>>105721815
just use flatpak for all the software

>>105722673
>Flatpak
Isn't this dead now?
>>105722963
>the faggot shilling bazzite
Isn't this you?
>>105723084
Flatpak shills?

>>105723132
How is Flatpak dead? You can get lots of software as Flatpaks and that software is still getting updated.

>>105723132
>flatpak
>probably the most universally loved package manager and platform
>dead
go back to fucking around with your slackware machine, grandpa

>>105723538
>>105723552
I swear all of you are bots, and feet fetishist.
Maintenance mode is just another word for no longer interested in it.

>>105716046
>Any guidance?
Yeah, stop using jeetnix.

>>105721426
it's crazy to me that people still recommended ubuntu when it now has this caveat of "first thing you need to do when installing before you get a browser is disable (you can no longer remove it) snap, add a third party ppa, and edit your apt priorities.
what cope. that's "just working" for you?
on other distros i can just go "pacman -S firefox" or "apt install firefox-esr"
hell on windows i can go "winget install firefox"

>>105723701
flatpak is finished software. there's nothing left to do.

>>105713841 (OP)
Any good linux software to go through ours or even days worth of CCTV footage and strip out the moments when tehres actually motion or somethign going on? i found a python program called DVR Scan but its very tedious as i have to select folder after folder and my securilty cam separates the footage in 5 minutes clips which are also separated by hourly folders and by day folders

>>105723936
>try to do something without having a permission to do it
>app silently fails instead of showing a pop-up which prompts you to enable the permission
not a finished product.

>>105723970
you could create a shell script to recursively move everything into a single directory

>>105723701
The GitHub repo doesn't say it's in maintenance mode, and anyway, I think the measure of whether it's "dead" is whether software is still being distributed through it. And clearly software is being distributed through it.

>>105724390
Just run it from the terminal then. Use your fucking noggin.

>>105724589
>Just run it from the terminal
that's retarded and a non-solution

>>105724669
complain to the ui fags then, the core application has no responsibility to show anything but error codes

I noticed that beside /etc/group there a file called /etc/group-. Where does it come from and can I delete it?

>>105720714
Imo the best Arch derivative is Cachy because of the package optimizations.

>>105714014
You can hit the function keys to switch between consoles that are set up with getty (most distros set up 7 or so.) Also tools like tmux and screen give you windows inside VTs if you want them (among other things.)

>>105725031
it's just a backup file made whenever user and group shit gets changed. you can delete it but it's best to leave it there. ain't hurtin' no one

>>105724669
Actually it's literally a solution and it's smarter than sitting there complaining "wahhh why doesn't it work" like a fucking idiot

>>105721295
Well some use weird libcs or replace coreutils with busybox or don't package basic utilities or things like Xorg but for the most part any GNU/Linux distro will be like any other gnu/Linux distro and you can hop between them with almost no changes.

Even ones that are super different like Alpine aren't *that* different.

>>105722486
Just run arch if that's what you want, fedora has always been braindead.

>>105724669
I think a macbook would be more your speed.

>>105725087
>software I use is so bad I have to fuck around in the terminal to make it somewhat usable
ok, retard

>>105725119
Whatever GUI shell you're using probably has a "run with sudo" command. We don't know where to find it because none of us use those.

Also the correct thing to do is to just add your user to the appropriate group and relog back in. Unless your doing eg disk partitioning there's no good reason to be running GUI apps as root.

>>105721267
Artix. It just works, no political bullshit, you can use whatever software you want.

>>105724589
>I think the measure of whether it's "dead" is whether software is still being distributed through it
Dead means no one with access to the code understands how to update or use the code.

>>105725119
I don't have to fuck around, I just run it and see what errors it spits out. You're too stupid to do this, clearly.

>>105725035
>package optimizations.
Explain. I'm not gonna hop but it sounds interesting.

>>105725260
>the end user should be responsible for compensating the inadequacy of software
Yeah, no.

yo I just wrote my first linux module

it just prints a hello world message to dmesg, but still

>>105725292
They build packages for various different CPU architectures instead of generic packages which can sometimes lead to slight performance improvements. You can add their repo to Arch if you wanted to, although do be aware that some of these changes can sometimes cause issues with core system packages so it's something to keep in mind. If you run into an issue you would have to report it to the Cachy developers first before seeking other advice (unless you know it reproduces on stock Arch packages)

>>105725494
# echo 'hello world' >/dev/kmsg

>nvidia+x11 = every desktop effect lags
>nvidia+wayland = desktop effects work but flameshot and remmina (multimonitor) don't
very cool

>>105725334
It's free software. Write your own if you're going to complain about it you stupid cunt.

>>105721794
So this definitely helped but I'm now getting new errors
>warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
>Skipping BTF generation for it87.ko due to unavailability of vmlinux
Running the sensors-detect and sensors after that still shows no fans

>>105726242
>"free" software
>asks for donations

is there any equivalent to rainmeter for linux? i wanna make my pc's desktop look like the ba ui like i have on my windows laptop.

>>105726728
conky

>>105726728
Conky?

>>105723922
>>105721426
I just installed Ubuntu on an old toaster because W11 looks unappealing and avoiding it might be better than debloating it. Why should I care about this?

>>105726979
It's superuser stuff, they have a point if you are just going to do general operating stuff like writing essays, playing games, watching movies and such it's fine.

>>105725807
>nvidia
self-inflicted

>>105726503
free as in freedom, retard

>>105726979
Some people on /g/ have a seething hatred for snaps but I don't think it's a big deal. If you'd rather have a deb instead of a snap, that's an option. On Mozilla's website it tells you how to add their deb repo, you just copy/paste some commands.

thugnificent noooooooo

>>105726979
whatever you do don't fuck with PPAs that shit will wreck your system

>>105726503
Lol that's good bait.

>>105717521
>Shouldn't you DKMS it?
I don't know, should I? I don't even know what it is. I'm just following these instructions atm

Did the amdgpu ring errors thing finally get fixed? My shit isn't spazzing out anymore when the dGPU comes out of sleep.

>>105726728
No. Conky is a pale imitation of rainmeter.

>>105719461
doesnt matter. even if I turn off secure boot, reset the keys, reflash, try a different usb stick, different port, etc... I still cant boot into a mint live usb drive.

I had been booting into the fucking thing with zero problems for a week. something is fucked up with the installer. I gave it a password at the step where it asks you to download media codecs, I wonder if thats where the problem lies? where does it make changes to my pc? my windows efi partition? my bios? wtf. nothing should have been fucking written anywhere. I clicked quit after selecting Something Else and was greeted with disk partition screen because I needed to read about what the fuck I was even looking at here

Is there a linux equivalent to Rivatuner Statistic Server and MSI Afterburner? I want to be able to do benchmarks and fiddle with the GPU like I normally would on Windows.

>>105728296
lact + corectrl is your best bet

For us unknowniggers, who aren't doing anything of consequence or illegal activity. What is the benefit of completely removing access to our data/tracking from these big tech companies such as Windows/Google and swapping over to Linux? The seemingly inconsequential personal data they acquire by me using their software as of now doesn't outweigh the ease of access and usability from the services.

Can anyone offer some insight as to why companies such as Google collecting and selling my name, preferences, search history, browsing activity, location should terrify me into going full Thinkpad + Linux mode??

>>105728378
because if you let someone make money raping you they will not only continue to rape you, they will come up with even more depraved methods of raping you, and eventually you are going to notice and there is no going back from that giant gaping asshole you now have

>>105728296
fiddling with the gpu is pretty limited compared to msi afterburner, at least on nvidia
basically you can only apply a clock offset, can't touch the voltage curve directly

>>105728378
The abundance of data harvesting is not just creepy, it's actively making society worse. Have you ever wondered how nu-Windows is so fucking bad even though Microsoft is more profitable than ever? It's not just because of DEI, they literally do not QA test their products anymore, aside from their extremely boring first party video games. They use telemetry data harvested from users instead, and it just does not work.
Also, the advertising agency is Satanic. This is considered self-evident.

>>105726979
Snaps are slower, take up more space, and open the door for Canonical to install spyware on your PC. At that point, you may as well stay on Windows.

Why can't I cut and paste images from one folder from another when using the upload/download menu on kubuntu (The default file browser in kubuntu is dolphin btw but it seems like it uses a slightly different thing for uploads and downloads that syncs settings with dolphin)

>>105728839
mods theres a furry faggot here

>>105728839

>>105728839
Idk but good taste

>want to record my entire screen with something like OBS
>full framerate and nvenc
>want to be able to run OBS/whatever in the background at all times so I can begin recording on-demand with a single hotkey
Is this possible on Wayland yet?

>>105728839
holy based
anyway this is a deliberate design choice by the KDE devs, the KDE file selection thing shares some libraries with dolphin but isn't actually dolphin.

How retarded would it be to put Linux on my MacBook Pro

What's up with OBS's implementation of FFMPEG VAAPI AV1? I've been trying it out with my new 9070 but recordings are full of jpg looking grain. HEVC with the same CQP (20) looks nearly lossless. My previous GPU was a 6700XT so this is my first time with AV1.

>>105721426
Snaps are based though.

>>105729019
ah is there a way to replace it with dolphin or some other upload that will let me transfer files while uploading and downloading

On Linux Mint when I drag/drop to move/copy files does it default using rsync?

>>105728321
>corectrl
It's in maintenance mode.

>>105729094
nta but no, and for that matter I haven't seen a file selector that also has full file management features on linux either

as a long time arch user convince me not to switch to fedora kde because i tried it for a little bit the other day and it's kinda tempting me

>>105729963
Still works though

>>105730101
You're on Arch you should not have a taste to distrohop of all things. You'll regret it in like a couple days and wanna go back.

>>105729963
Not everything needs new features.

>>105730101
Just because of the name alone, you should not want to use fedora..

>>105730139
If you get a new GPU and it's not supported then you need.

>>105730120
that's true, i should clarify i just liked the just werks aspect of fedora even though ive never had issues with my arch system

>>105730148
You'll feel the reigns on you when you go from a very freeing system like Arch to something like Fedora which tries to "protect" you me.

>>105730146
Adding support for new hardware is not adding new features. That's what "maintenance mode" means, fixing bugs and updating supported hardware over time.

>>105730101
Switching distros is a waste of time if your current distro works for you, regardless of your choice.

>>105730174
To the Corectrl devs that is exactly what maintenance mode means. No new hardware will be supported by their claim.

>>105730101
Every distro is fundamentally the same, and you're already on the most freedom-of-choice distro there is without going the Gentoo route.

>>105730166
And youre talking about what, exactly?

> -> Running build hook: [kms]
uhh bros...what did pacman mean by this?

I'm on Fedora 42 and having a "rpm transaction failed" error. A couple days ago I installed the RPM Fusion repos while setting up mpv, but now when trying to install things like dolphin or KDE I'm getting:

Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed.
- file /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/codec/libfaad_plugin.so from install of vlc-plugins-base-1:3.0.21-24.fc42.x86_64 conflicts with file from package vlc-plugins-freeworld-3.0.21-4.fc42.x86_64

not sure how to resolve this...

>>105730281
did you follow the rpm fusion guide for multimedia (codecs)?

>>105730483
Yeah, I just solved the issue. Turns out I couldn't find any answers yesterday because this is a fairly recent issue. I ended up downloading and manually upgrading the package.

>>105721267
Just use Mint
It's like Ubuntu but made for people moving to Linux from Windows

How many of you Arch users actually use reflector to update your mirrorlist, or even change the default mirror list at all?

>>105730600
Why talk of reflector like it's forbidden magic? It's just an easy way to get your mirrors updated/sorted in a couple seconds.

>>105730600
It didn't work for me a couple of times and ever since I've updated them manually just in case

>>105730600
I thought I did but the service wasn't activated.

>>105730600
Never heard of it. My country has less than 10 so it's a no brainer to pick a few and the ones I picked have worked so far.
Although a quarter of the country's total are broken so automation could make sense.
>or even change the default mirror list at all?
Aren't they all commented out by default?
>>105730101
You are going to hate the Fedora ecosystem. In fact all ecosystems suck, that's why Arch (and Gentoo) is great cause there's no such thing.
>>105728378
>who aren't doing anything of consequence or illegal activity
It's more about freedoms. Fancy prison VS own house.

>>105728979
Nope. Wayland is not a serious piece of kit.

>>105715933
i hope u didnt go the windows route yet anon look up piper in your software manager. Amazing what a little googling will get ya.

>>105730146
I don't plan on getting a new GPU for a few years, so that's fine.

>>105728979
Nope

According to a Mental Outlaw video, you cannot truly wipe an SSD. Is this true?

>>105732080
Does he use LfN?

>>105725292
https://wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_basic/why_cachyos/

>>105732120
Isn't everything made for x86 already though?

>>105732080
Just wipe the LUKS header

>>105732080
Throwing it into a black hole would be a pretty sure way of wiping it, though it's still not guaranteed if quantum information is still retained and recoverable from inside black holes, which is an open question in physics.

>>105732120
All big words that describe the same things that arch does.
Honestly arch clones like (Endeavor/Garuda/Cachy) are redundant.
Artrix is at least have some original idea
Arco was good way to get you into arch
Archcraft is paid rice
Manjaro/Mabox at least have something of an idea going on about it.

>>105732080
yes. Now, what will you do with that information?

Hi anons, I'm retarded and brand new to Linux!
Decided I'd give it a shot because of how fucking annoying Windows is. I realized if I did plan on swapping I'd need a USB drive to boot the installation from and figured I'd grab a cheap one off Amazon. Only issue is I don't know what size I'd need, would 64gb work?

>>105732282
8 GB should be enough

>>105732282
Get any size you want ideally bigger than 8 GB and install ventoy, and enjoy hassle free distro hopping.

>>105732297
May as well get a bigger drive since flash memory is so cheap these days. You can get 8x the storage of an 8 gig stick for 2x the cost.

What's the best way to play a game on linux for games that have console versions?
>Play the PC version with wine
>Play the console version with retroarch
>play the console version with specific emulator

>>105732297
Fucking hell that's surprisingly low, you'd think an OS would need more.
>>105732310
I was reading about Ventoy earlier, handy you don't need to format each time.
>>105732312
The price difference between 8gb-128gb is only a few dollars as well, I was just being a jew

>>105732323
Depends on the game, depends on how you want to experience it. Modding I'd say is pretty mandatory for San Andreas and is best played on PC. For something like Sonic Heroes, a PC version does exist, but it takes less setup to just run the Gamecube version through Retroarch + add a CRT shader
>>105732346
>you'd think an OS would need more
Isn't it rare for a distro to need more than a 4GB stick?

>>105732130
There are additional CPU instructions for newer processors (v3 supports Intel Haswell/AMD Excavator and newer, v4 supports Skylake/Zen 4 and newer).
>>105732203
Arch builds its packages for x86-64-v2, for v3 or v4 you need a third party repo... like the CachyOS repo.

>>105732355
>Isn't it rare for a distro to need more than a 4GB stick?
Meme distros need 8 GB now

>>105732323
Almost always easier to play it on Wine/Proton.

>>105732282
>>105732346
it wasn't long ago that you could fit a mainstream distro on a CD

>>105732369
>>105732355
>Isn't it rare for a distro to need more than a 4GB stick?
Even Ubuntu won't fit on a 4GB stick anymore thanks to Snaps bloat.

>>105732431
Not even Arch fits on a CD anymore. Bloat everywhere

Is there any kiosk distro /application?
Got some SBCs for free and I want to put them to good use.

>>105732440
As I said meme distros.

>>105732451
They're arguably one of the most recognisable mainstream Linux distributions. I wouldn't run it myself anymore but certainly a lot of people still do.

>Games are now 100gb+
>Photos are now 25mb+
>Videos are now 1gb+
>Distros are now 8gb+
We used to be a proper country, what happened? Why is every digital media drastically increasing in size with barely any benefit?

>>105732473
Games balooning in size is easily explained by the high resolution textures. No matter how good your compression is there's only so much you can compress a texture before it looks like ass.

>>105732473
To make you buy new hardware

>>105732167
No.
>>105732208
Shit.

>>105732486
It's too bad new hardware hasn't exactly caught up yet. Only now we are getting 8 TB NVMe drives of decent quality and most of them are priced like you're buying a new GPU. It's a fucking storage device for Christ's sake.

>>105732467
Ubuntu's brand recognition is essentially gone now. It's not popular on Distrowatch nor the Steam hardware surveys.

>>105732473
>with barely any benefit
no one would want to watch videos in 640x480 these days. This would have been cosidered huge back then.

>>105732524
Distrowatch is a hit count / page count tracker that shouldn't be used for any meaningful purpose other than to discover random Linux distros.
The Steam hardware survey is only representative of gamers.
Ubuntu is still really popular among developers for some reason.

>>105732548
>Steam hardware survey is only representative of gamers
Your everyman likes to play games, though.

>>105732556
Not really. PC Gamers are a tiny subset of the total user-base.

>>105730281
It’s a known issue, I’ll on bugzilla etc. I went the flat pack route, tired of these conflicts and want one less to worry about.

>>105732556
I haven't gotten a hardware survey on steam in a decade.

>>105732548
>Ubuntu is still really popular among developers for some reason.
Of all the developers where I know their preferences, only a single one likes Ubuntu.
Everyone else dislikes or even hates it.

>>105732572
Sorry, ignore this. Didn’t see your update in the follow up messages.

>Arch first on the steam survey

>>105732585
To be fair, you do see Arch with a greater proportion for personal use than pro use, where as Ubuntu is split 50/50 work/personal use. Perhaps more developers would like to use Arch but can't because of their job.

It's also interesting how more people use Windows for personal use than professional use. You would think that would be the other way round but apparently not, there really are people that choose to personally run Windows for some reason?

>>105732548
>>105732585
>>105732606
Ubuntu is the Windows NT of Linux. People use it at work because it's employer mandated, which is why it seems popular.

>>105732606
>there really are people that choose to personally run Windows for some reason?
People use it to play games.

>>105732080
Where the hell did he get that? Secure Erase exists for a reason.

>>105732282
IMO you should buy a 128GB Sandisk and then flash Ventoy onto it so you can put as many live Linux ISOs as you'd like.

>>105732589
Well SteamOS is just a forked immutable Arch

>>105732649
Probably. Linux is exceptionally good at handling games nowadays thanks to Valve's investment in the platform with Proton and their work on Mesa and the Steam Deck, etc, but there's always going to be that one multiplayer game somebody wants to play that requires invasive malware embedded in the kernel to play and that's just not going to ever work on Linux.

Are there distros with a nice GUI for installing kernel/OS updates? I don't want to use a terminal or have to reinstall the whole operating system.

>>105733105
Most of them? Both KDE and GNOME software centers can update your system.

>>105733105
>Wanting to use Linux
>ewww terminal scary
Grow some balls, illiterate.

>>105733124
>Wanting to use Windows
>ewww cmd scary
Grows some balls, illiterate.

>>105733130
I mean yeah it works both ways it's not the own you think it is, pretty boy.

>>105733142
Why is typing in something I'm reading off a forum better than one mouseclick to install something?

Any way to just click on an exe and run it straight away?

>>105733130
people actually used cmd back in the day when they wanted to play games.

>>105733182
Use AppImages

>>105733153
Makes me feel smarter then GUi using plebs

>>105733105
Mint
also terminal isnt hard, just use the internet and LLMs to help you out

>>105733188
Not only did we have to use cmd, but we also had to run a series of commands to just get the sound to work. Some of those old sound cards didn't initialize on startup, and you had to remember to, and how to initialize and enable the sound. Otherwise you were playing Shadow Warrior without Lo Wang cracking titty jokes.

So why is the distro of choice for so many faggots, Arch specifically?

>>105733306
>Doesn't hold your hand
>Can mold it into whatever you need
>Does what you say without complaining
It's what you graduate to after you get sick of Ubuntu-based shit or Fedora.

>>105733322
that did not answer my question.

>>105733105
Bazzite has a single button to update literally everything on your system. And since it's an atomic distro it's very unlikely to break after a major upgrade like most LTS distros.

>>105733130
Microsoft literally made a CLI package manager for Windows.

Will I hate this little bitch?

>>105733368
And I literally don't have to use it.

So what do I do here exactly? Im a bit hesitant to rip those files out even though I'm on an amd machine.
On endeavor os.

>>105733381
check arch news. it tells you how

>>105733386
Ah thanks. I figured it might have been an error on their end but I also figured I could just wait it out.

>>105733375
It's Fedora but way more european

>>105733375
You wont love it. If enjoy YaST then it might be a keeper.

I've never been able to workout who or what the target market is for suse, perhaps its just Germans

>>105733396
it's not an error

>>105733402
I have no clue why I'd want it either,

>>105733404
Conflict would be a better word I guess.

>>105733306
1. It's not an lts distro, so it actually gets feature and app updates almost immediately instead of every 2-4 years like Debian/Ubuntu/Mint.
2. It's not a fully corporate distro like Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, OpenSUSE etc.
3. It's popular because of the "I use Arch btw" meme which was initially parroted by Linux elitists (read: autists)
4. It's popular among ricers/tinkerers because of the AUR
5. ArchWiki is possibly the best Linux resource for more technical people

>>105733422
Why would ricers care about the AUR?

>>105733422
>It's not a fully corporate distro
Don't they kind of work for valve now?

>>105733481
Valve puts a lot of money into Arch and KDE now, yes. But they don't tell the teams what to do.

>>105733490
They probably tell them to fast track things like hdr support and whatever else.

I keep going back and forth about nixos
I like the idea of reproducible builds, but does reproducibility really matter on a personal (ie non-server) install?
the things that I actually care about are config files that arent managed by nix anyway
thinking about this because my arch update failed and I'm dealing with the manual intervention bullshit

>>105733496
I mean that's not -bad- encouragement.

>>105733496
Amen to that.

Valve are the best thing to happen to Linux in years.

>>105733510
They really are honestly.

>>105733505
Its interesting, i did the same. I ended up actually making sure my install was easy enough to reproduce if something exploded or i fucked something up.

I use Ansible in my day job and gravitated towards building out a simple playbook, install packages, copy configs etc. Might be overkill but i think its made me feel better about being able to reproduce my system.

>>105733496
Who? Arch? They aren't the one to address this

>>105733560
Well if its not arch then who else could that anon have meant? Guess we'll never know.

>>105733422
Manjaro is better

I turned off resizeable bar in bios but LACT says it is enabled. I assume LACT is wrong? On Fedora KDE Plasma. 9070 XT. Turning off resizeable bar is my last ditch effort to get RDR2 working. There is a VRAM leak that has been there for a long time on Vulkan at least.

>>105733496
I mean, most likely. But who cares? Are you implying that open source devs shouldn't be paid for their work?

>>105733662
This threads getting a little heated. Should slow it down.

>>105733556
are you saying you're using nixos with ansible or something else?

>>105733606
/g/ hates Manjaro because it works.
>Just use EndeavourOS! Or Archinstall!
Doesn't come with pamac, and the Manjaro repo is also vetted so that you don't get buggy software. Archinstall also doesn't look pretty.
>Just use Fedora
Packages are out of date compared to any Arch-based distro, and Fedora is also planning to drop X11 entirely.
>Just use Mint
There's no Plasma edition, and the packages are even more out of date than Fedora's because Debian.
>...But the Manjaro website's SSL certificates!
That's not the actual operating system. The SSL certs have never expired on the actual Manjaro repositories, mind you. OpenSUSE let the SSL certs expire on their repositories, but no one gives them shit for this.

>>105733695
>Manjaro repo is also vetted so that you don't get buggy software

>>105733683
No just Ansible on a regular distro, i should have added that a bash script would do the same.

>>105733731
yea that makes sense, I think I'll end up doing something like that too

With the split of linx firmware do I need all these?
linux-firmware-20250627-1
linux-firmware-amdgpu-20250627-1 linux-firmware-atheros-20250627-1
linux-firmware-broadcom-20250627-1 linux-firmware-cirrus-20250627-1
linux-firmware-intel-20250627-1 linux-firmware-marvell-20250627-1
linux-firmware-mediatek-20250627-1 linux-firmware-nvidia-20250627-1
linux-firmware-other-20250627-1 linux-firmware-radeon-20250627-1
linux-firmware-realtek-20250627-1 linux-firmware-whence-20250627-1
linux-headers-6.15.4.arch2-1 mobile-broadband-provider-info-20250613-1

>>105733819
>split of linux firmware
qrd?

>>105733840
They split the linux firmware package.

>>105733861
based. having to install 300MB of useless firmware was stupid. now you just install 25MB of the firmware you need

and if your computer isn't shit, you don't need firmware at all

>>105733695
I personally don't hate it, but wouldn't recommend. Back between 2018 and 2021 it was buggy as fuck. Usable, but very fucking buggy.

I want to be a woman
Is that too much to ask for

>>105733925
If you're murican, you should probably move to NY at this point

>>105733925
Do it now. Don't wait.

>>105733953
>If you're murican
No
>move to NY
Why?

>>105733964
I really want to be a cis woman :(

>>105733896
I installed it last month and haven't had any issues.

>>105733976
yeah well, too bad.

>>105728612
Did some quick research and I'm guessing this snippet is the issue:
>Some APT packages in the Ubuntu repositories not only install snap as a dependency but also run snap commands as root without your knowledge or consent and connect your computer to the remote proprietary store operated by Canonical
Am I right? If so, that is kinda scary but Canonical doesn't seem to be abusing it (yet) I think I'll just mark it down as a reason to look at other distros later. I assume Mint does the same.

>>105734117
Mint doesn't do that, and if you're still worried about Mint's Ubuntu roots, there is also Linux Mint Debian Edition that it completely de-Ubuntufied and seems like it's just going to become the standard edition of Mint.

>>105728612
>and open the door for Canonical to install spyware on your PC
that has nothing to do with snaps, they obviously can do that with native packages as well if they want to.

>>105734199
>Mint doesn't do that
Good to know.
>Linux Mint Debian Edition... seems like it's just going to become the standard edition of Mint.
I saw that presented as kind of a fallback option maintained in case Ubuntu ever shat itself. Does it outperform the regular version somehow?

>>105734251
native packages can be reviewed by anyone; snaps can't

>>105734291
you wanna decompile them?

>>105734042
Why bother living then, nothing I'll do bring me any closer to what I actually desire in life

>>105733888
so I can remove amdgpu, radeon and nvidia?

>>105734329
Cheeseburgers?

>>105734002
>last month
The difference is I used it for 2 years. Both KDE and Xfce versions. Both had issues.
And, to be fair, they even had issues on a clean install (after applying updates) and not just after a year of use. There was just something majorly fucked related to audio playback in the Manjaro versions back then.

>>105733634
I continued looking and found this:
[ 4.000081] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=16304M, BAR=16384M
Apparently it is still active. Is there any way to disable it? Disabling it in BIOS seems not to work. I have been looking for answers but can't find any.

How do I tune kernel parameters for good QUIC performance?

>>105734369
Linux is always changing, such that advice from 2018-2021 is no longer relevant. e.g I still see people claiming all the time that KDE is somehow bloated and slow because they had a bad experience when Obama was president.

>>105734458
KDE Plasma 6.4 amazing

>>105734472
One wouldn't know that from reading Linux threads; I genuinely believe that longtime Linux users are less knowledgeable about Linux than curious Windows users doing basic research about Linux ahead of Win10's EOL.

>>105733422
I would use Arch if it were possible to build custom immutable images.

>>105734571
I'm not really sure what the point of an immutable Linux is unless you're liable to write sudo rm -rf / into the terminal.

I had problems with thumbnails being generated in the file browser for the longest time and finally figured out what was going on. For some reason, Nemo was using a dogshit xplayer video thumbnailer for creating thumbnailer that had very poor performance (would take forever to generate a whole folder of thumbnails) and would straight up not work with/ignore several video formats. I uninstalled that shit and Nemo fellback on using the ffmpeg thumbnailer and now everything is perfect. Fast thumbnails and thumbnails in every format I've seen so far.

>>105734626
he... solved linux filepicker?

>>105734597
I have a bit of an ocd issue where I feel the system gets "dirty" after a while and feel compelled to format and reinstall.

>>105734568
True sadly. I've been on Plasma for 2 years now, and it's kinda like going back to early days of computing, where upgrades actually improve your day to day. I use Kubuntu for my work laptop and Arch with KDE at home. And honestly, the Arch install has been so stable and get bug fixes far faster than ubuntu, so I'm tempted to go arch-kde at work too.

>>105734348
If you have and use an intel iGPU, sure.

ext4 or btrfs?

>>105734824
Yes. It's mini PC

>>105734923
I don't think I can go back to EXT4 having used Btrfs for a couple of years now. The perceptual speed of a CoW filesystem is way higher (copies are basically instant) and I can detect bit rot or failing hardware earlier now.

>>105734923
btrfs has some extra features like zstd compression, deduplication and grub snapshots, I've been using it for a couple of months and it's stable

>>105734923
Do you want snapshots? Do you want filesystem-level RAID? Do you want checksums? And are willing to lose some performance for it all? btrfs.
Otherwise just go ext4.

Personally I wish there was a Linux filesystem with something more like NTFS's volume shadow copies.

>>105735034
>couple of months
>it's stable
come on bro that's way too early to tell if it's stable.

>>105735011
>>105735035
Which is faster? I'm getting mixed messages

>>105735083
What is your use case? Do you want actual speed or "speed" while "copying"?

>>105735112
I want a good computer man

with microsoft being SHIT and pulling the most recent SHIT that are pulling why the fuck shouldn't i switch to arch? telling people they HAVE to use edge has to be the last straw right? i mean i cant think of a single thing that doesnt work in Linux now even VR works

That's it. I have finally quit all competitive PvP games (for real this time) (forever) so I can finally dump Windows.
I already have an Ubuntu Server ML homelab/media server and an Ubuntu 22 VM for cooding, which has sufficiently turned me off of GNOME and Snap.
I prefer not being on absolutely ancient releases and have a moderate tolerance for tinkering. Configuring a WM, improving a workflow, or setting something up for the first time, sure. But I have limited patience for recurrent troubleshooting when shit breaks after kernel/driver updates, especially for things relating to video/audio. Dunno how often this actually happens, but kernel updates have mysteriously trashed my CUDA setup on the homelab twice and it is very annoying.
Given the above, and occasional single-player gayming, should I be looking at something Fedora KDE or Endeavor? Will my mother laugh at me if I don't install Arch?

>>105735116
Just use the default offered by the installer or whatever the program is then, you're not intelligent enough to discern either way.

>>105735152
arch has a built in installer script that makes it super easy to install now

What's the distro of choice for the non updooter?

>>105735112
Why is "speed" in quotes?

>>105735189
arch

>>105735159
Sure, but it's not super pretty, and you still need to type shit. Meanwhile, you can download an Arch-based distro and get an attractive GUI to install with a mouse and be done with it.

>>105735200
it takes like 10 minutes to do the entire thing and starts you with a nice base system to build your GUI ontop of

>>105735152
Arch or Arch-based distros are the best. Since you're using CUDA, forget about Fedora since it's not going to support X11 anymore.

>>105735190
Because an operation isn't fast if it's not being done at all.

>>105735214
FUCK X11

How do I pass a variable to gamescope inside flatpak when it runs with bottles? also in flatpak?

>>105735210
>nice base to build your GUI ontop of
The Endeavour/Manjaro installer already does exactly what I want. I don't need to build a GUI atop anything when I can just install a distro that already has the GUI I want.

>>105735231
oh so you like KDE garbage

>>105735226
Yeah X11 sucks, but you know what sucks harder? Not being able to do fucking anything because Wayland won't let you.
>>105735240
Let me guess: It looks too much like Windows? KDE is slow (haven't used it since 2013)?

>>105735159
I don't even really need a GUI installer script or care much about first-time setup effort, it's more recurrent maintenance or random shit breaking after updates that is of greater concern to me.
Assuming I don't let it sit for six months in between updates, on these rolling release distros how often will I need to reconfigure something/reinstall drivers/fix some issue in a component that was previously working just fine? Because that's what I find far more annoying.
>>105735214
FWIW the CUDA setup is on the homelab machine, which I'm leaving (for now) on Ubuntu Server. I'm looking to switch my day-to-day productivity/gaming machine, where I don't use CUDA (but do games, ideally with single-monitor G-SYNC).

Please use a prettier image for the next bake

Has anyone run into this issue where an AMD GPU will periodically spin up to 100% on an empty Firefox tab and then stop after a while? I can't see any pattern to it. I'm running an up-to-date Gentoo system on Linux 6.15.0

>>105734923
I'd pick xfs over ext4 just for cp --reflink

What page number do we usually bake at?

>>105735342
On /vg/ we usually bake on Pg8

>>105735256
>how often will I need to reconfigure something
whenever upstream breaks something. Depends on what software you use. More active things like let's say hyprland require it more often.
>reinstall drivers
Those are in the kernel unless it's nvidia, but that's still part of regular updates and shouldn't give you problems.
>fix some issue in a component that was previously working just fine?
doesn't happen too often.

>Assuming I don't let it sit for six months in between updates,
I do shit like that and never had a problem with it.

>>105735256
arch with the archinstall command with KDE, has been rock solid, i love it.

>>105735519
I just wanna elaborate a little more. The release cycle of Ubuntu just hasn't been able to keep up with daily personal computing. Games, Blender, Unity, Video editing etc etc etc. I feel that, to be on par with software upgrades like Windows, Arch is the way to go. I might be wrong, but that has been my experience.

Software does get updates on Ubuntu, but they might get stopped by dependencies at times.

>>105733105
Solus does. I rarely have to touch the terminal if I don't feel like it.

>>105735255
no KDE has too many annoyances for me too much shit that pops up in the way of what i am doing i prefer simple things like hyprland

is it an inevitability that all FOSS software maintainers troon out?

New thread:
>>105735633

>>105735631
Only if they're autistic.

>>105733505
A decent bunch of people just use btrfs and snapshots instead but there's this asterisk related to it given it's beta nature and some edge cases where some had issues with it. Reproducible builds are more of a server or tester concern, 99% of the regular users are fine without that just as you've noticed.

>>105735189
You can use literally any distro without ever updating anything.
But I'd recommend
>LMDE - basically Debian for normies, so it almost doesn't get updates
>Aurora - atomic updates basically ensure you don't get fucked after updating your whole system for the first time in a year.

>>105731276
I did look at piper but it only supports specific models.
But I just left it at the default DPI and changed all my sensitivities on the software level.

>>105735322
>I'd pick xfs
no file creation timestamp kills it for me

>>105735970
What cons are there for an atomic OS? I remember trying it out when they called it Kinoite but didn't get much of a feel before that computer had a drive fail on it.

>>105735684
Not all autists troon out but a lot of autists are susceptible to that. I blame their upbringing, somebody told them a man can be a woman and they fell for it hook, line and sinker.

>>105736828
>cons
You're recommended to exclusively use Flatpak or Appimage.
If you want to install a native package you can still do it via rpm-ostree (on Fedora Atomic), but it's not recommended since you'd be diverging from the base system image. Similar to how forking a project is diverging from the base project. (you can always revert whatever you do with rpm-ostree if you feel like you broke something, but I never had issues so I never reverted anything)

Personally I haven't found a real con after using them exclusively for 2.5 years. There are the general cons of flatpak and appimages, but you can always just use rpm-ostree for problematic packages.
Although I'm currently using Aurora and Bazzite which are much better ootb than Fedora Kinoite from my experience.

>>105736537
It has that now.