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>>105753496 (OP)
Tumbleweeeeeeeeeeeeeed

Is the plural of Linux "Linuces"?

>>105753611
Linuxen?

Just wrote my first linux driver module, basically spidev except with double buffering, and polling for a gpio signal. Increased the speed of my software by 1x over using spidev due to reduced overhead and async! This is cool af

>>105753611

Windows.

>>105753699

Congrats anon.

>>105753699 (checked)
Based.

>>105753891
That looks way better than the one they use now

>>105754015
Agreed, there are quite a few from the logo competition that they had that look better than the one currently in use.
https://www.fvwm.org/Archive/Logos/competition/

>>105753496 (OP)
I like that’s Babbies First Linux chart but I don’t want noob stuff, I want the BEST there is
I’ve used:
Ubuntu, Mint, ElementaryOS, Zorin, Tails, and a bunch of weird shit
surely some OS out there is just the best, hands down

>>105754391
Arch

>>105754391
this >>105754547 or fedora, I prefer arch

the gnu info document for the ls command says that the -f option should imply the -1 option but it does not

>>105755236
The man page says:
-1 list one file per line
-f same as -a -U

>>105754391
Arch is the best Linux distro if you want "pure" Linux. You get a metric shitton of Linux-compatible software, all up-to-date, the way the upstream developer made it with hardly any changes, a very good package manager, and not much else.
If you want a product that works out of the box, doesn't surprise you, and takes some unnecessary hassles away, Debian is the way to go.
And if you want something like Android without botnet, but for a PC, there's Bazzite.
All other distros are basically useless unless you need them for a special use case.

>>105755644
-U do not sort directory entries
-a, --all
do not ignore entries starting with .

>>105755236
File a bug report.

>>105754391
>Tails
cute

Arch is shit. There I said it. Pacman is barely mid tier. ShitsemD too? I mean come on. Just because you installed a distro renowned for being difficult, nobody is impressed.

How come there's nothing that even comes close to Advanced Renamer on Linux? I tried all the native Linux alternatives and they're so bad compared to it. It runs perfectly fine through wine so it doesn't matter, but it's insane how hard it mogs the fuck out the Linux alternatives.

>>105755876
I've been using it since 2009 because it works

Sorry if these are stupid questions
-How do you keep track of symlink libraries?
-When installing flatpaks is it better to use --user flag or not? sine on system data is saved on /var and backed up by timeshift while on user it would be in the home directory
-Since linux firmware has split up, is it safe to delete the firmwares that I don't like amdgpu and radon?

>>105755978
>keep track of symlink libraries?
I don't, that's the maintainer's job
>flatpak
not really much of a difference on a single user system.
> is it safe to delete the firmwares that I don't like
No, but it's safe to uninstall those you don't need.

>>105755978
Keeping track of symlink libraries isn't your job, it's the job of the package maintainers.
Also installing flatpaks with --user just means that your /home also needs to be backed up with Timeshift to backup the flatpaks installed in your /home.

how do i find and install the drivers for my eMMC drive on my laptop? it won't boot and there are no emmc modules in any distro.

>>105755876
The best thing about Arch is the best thing about Ubuntu: problems are easily solved by going online and seeing someone else have the same issue as you.

>>105756130
Yes, the wiki really is very comprehensive too, I appreciate the abundance of guides on there.

>>105756012
>I don't like
sorry I was responding to some other thread,
I meant not NEED, I'm using intel iGPU so
linux-firmware 20250613.12fe085f-5
linux-firmware-amdgpu 20250613.12fe085f-5
linux-firmware-atheros 20250613.12fe085f-5
linux-firmware-broadcom 20250613.12fe085f-5
linux-firmware-intel 20250613.12fe085f-5
linux-firmware-mediatek 20250613.12fe085f-5
linux-firmware-nvidia 20250613.12fe085f-5
linux-firmware-other 20250613.12fe085f-5
linux-firmware-radeon 20250613.12fe085f-5
linux-firmware-realtek 20250613.12fe085f-5
linux-firmware-whence 20250613.12fe085f-5
I can safely delete radeon, amdgpu, nvidia.
What about the other?
>>105756012
>>105756012
>that's the maintainer's job
Well, sometimes something is poorly packaged and I need to symlink to a library to get it to work.
So How do I keep track of what I did? or it does reset with each package update?
>>105756064
>your /home also needs to be backed up with Timeshift to backup the flatpaks installed in your /home.
Which is something I don't want timeshift to do other than backing up dot files.

>>105756164
Why not just install flatpaks globally?

>>105756164
>Well, sometimes something is poorly packaged and I need to symlink to a library to get it to work.
that should never, ever happen, Do you not rebuild your AUR packages, do partial updates or even worse, download software from who knows where and try to run it?

It doesn't reset and if you want to keep track, keep a log of all such manual changes.

>What about the other?
Well, I am not sure what's in each of those packages (well, amdgpu is quite obvious, but stuff like intel could include a lot of things), and I can't tell you what you need. On the Arch forums there was a topic about it and someone posted how to find out what you need. Maybe try that.

>>105755884
Because most Linux users don't have CRUD UI brain damage and just write for loops.

I've got three laptops, one containing Windows 7 - Toshiba: Satellite C55-B5201, another, a Tumbleweed - Lenovo: Ideapad 1 15IJL7 (doubtably might remain as is), and Ubuntu - HP: 15-db0091wm. The Ubuntu one (jumping ship from) I'm thinking to change into GNU/GUIX which I need something of a 'lite' version and challenge myself of using Scheme (don't know much but I'm willing to learn as if my utility/rent bills depend on it). Went towards making a 'getAJobYouWorthlessBum' bookmark folder. Separately, I also have a Beelink Intel Mini S that is in need of any resourceful/minimal required OS. Basically, the majority of operating systems I'm searching are for productivity and simplicity sake. Notably for programming. Experienced recommendations and insights would be most helpful. Thank you in advance.

>>105755876
Theres not really many alternatives that are better than arch unless debian has all the packages you need (which it usually doesnt)

>>105755978
i use --user flag but its up to you
all the gui package managers assume you're installing system-wide with /var

>>105756065
just search for your laptop model + linux on your search engine of choice
>e.g thinkpad x230 linux

Can someone shine a light on this >>105742069
I rolled back before the last linux firmware update, and I couldn't reproduce it.
And I can't tell if this is related or not since the last update is just splitting the firmware package with nothing major in it.

>>105753496 (OP)
Guys, I swear I'm going insane because of this. About a week ago or something, Nemo (the file manager from Mint) doesn't remember my sorting options anymore. I've seen some old posts online about the same issue on Linux Mint, which is weird because I never had any issues with Nemo at all. However, none of the fixes provided work. The issue itself is basically if I right-click > Arrange Items > Option, the option wont persist. If I change directory and then return, it will default to sorting by Name. Even refreshing the directory F5 causes this. I'm on Artix dwm right now, and Nemo worked just fine since installation, so I don't know what tf caused this. I do have gvfs installed btw.
>inb4 use something else
I like Nemo and as I said before, never had any issues with it. I prefer it over Thunar, which btw doesn't have the issue mentioned before.

I just love that there are 500 places to set environment variables and that they keep adding more

>>105756800
You just got to Read The 'Friendly' Manual

I'm running Fedora and have a Canon printer. Things just plain don't work unless I plug it in via USB. Apparently, I need a package called cups-bjnp to get the wireless backend to function but it doesn't seem to be in the repos. Anyone know what's up or how I could get it?

>>105757396
Every program context is another place to set environment variables. Windows works the same way.

>>105757396
you can set as many environment variables as you want. just keep opening a new terminal emulator my dude.

>>105757766
I never had problems using the proprietary drivers from Canon's web site with my multi-function laser. They provide a RHEL / Fedora compatible installer. If it's a newer printer you should be able to just use AirPrint.

>>105758228
It's unfortunately not new and it's an inkjet. It's a PIXMA MG5420 and Fedora defaults to the MG5400 series driver but it doesn't work for network printing which is some kind of proprietary USB over IP tech. The package seems to be in most distros but for some reason it's just not there in the Fedora repos.

I feel so incredibly devilish when I deliberately install packages with "pacman -Sy package" even though this is dangerous and people always warn against it

>>105757276
one chance is to look for the config subdirectory inside your home folder, idon't remember mint or nemo but it should have his .config/nemo
once you are there you could look again for something strange or messed or at the end simply delete the content logout or reboot to recreate the config to the base state, and you can config at your taste.
Good luck.

>>105758290
Connect the printer to your local wifi (check the manual) and then configure its address in CUPS (http://localhost:631/admin) with IPP Everywhere. I have a 3600 series and never had to install anything extra.

>>105758860
you devil

someone finally pushed drivers for my walmart shitfuck laptop i got for 150 bucks. it fucking works.

>>105758290
The MG5420 is on the driverless printing support listing, so your problem is either misconfiguration or the hardware.
https://openprinting.github.io/printers/

>>105758943
I derive so much pleasure from using the OS in an unsupported way

So I installed the flatpak of Spotify and used flatseal to switch x11 to wayland, this prevented me from changing the streaming and download quality (greyed out) but all other settings were able to be changed. I switched back to x11 and I was able to change it and then went back to wayland and change remained but greyed out once again

So wayland doesn't let you change those 2 settings - for some reason - but a quick switch back to x11 is an easy fix.

However my question is this, should I report this bug? I assume this would be information the devs would want to be aware of? And if I should, where would it be? The flathub github for the Spotify flatpak?

>>105759139
Never mind, this is a known issue that Spotify has to fix themselves. Ignore this.

So when I add drives to a BTRFS pool, data on them is stored as individual files, right? You can take a drive out of the machine and read the files on another machine that supports BTRFS right? So, I should be able to take all the drives in my RAID 1 pool, move them over to another machine, and make a new BTRFS RAID 1 pool, right? And I won't destroy any files, right?

Also, before I do that, because I want to keep using the old machine, I'll want to unmake the BTRFS pool on it first right? And that won't destroy any data either, right?

I do have a backup. I'd just prefer not to have to use it.

>>105759139
The flatpak is unofficial but the snap is official. So personally I would go with the snap. Or if you're on a Debian based distro, you can get a deb from Spotify's website.

>>105759437
No you're probably thinking of snapraid. btrfs is a collection of databases which act like a filesystem. If you take 1 drive out of a 2 drive RAID1 you'll be able to read the entire array in degraded mode on another machine because that's what the integrity constraints guarantee. If you take one drive out of a 3 drive RAID1 and read it you'll most likely get random hunks of shit.

>>105753611
>is
there is no plural of Linux because it's a proper noun, not a countable item
>Linux machines
>Linux distros

>>105758956
>walmart shitfuck laptop
what laptop, i been looking at the laptops at walmart but they all seem to be like $300

>>105759710
HP-15-FD0083WM
i bought it before orange retard decided to MIGA, so i dunno what that did to the price. i only really bought it because i needed something right away.
just get a thinkpad off ebay.

I'm using Linux Mint. Every time I do an update I see this flatpack thing which takes forever to update (like 5 minutes).

I've ran Linux distros in the past, I don't recall anything taking this long to update. Can I remove flatpack?

any suggestions for a good distro for a laptop? mostly using it for media consumption and some programming when I'm away from home. looking to squeeze every drop of battery life out of it.

Thinking of maybe nixos

>>105759710
Old Ryzen Thinkpads are cheap as shit and run pretty well with current drivers. I got an A485 with 16GB of RAM and a decent NVMe drive for $150 a couple months ago. Serious untapped market.

>>105759553
Huh. Well I'm reading that I should just be able to take my drives out of one machine and move it to the new one and then "mount it normally". I'm trying to figure out what "mount it normally" means because the guide I followed setting this up doesn't actually mention any steps about how to specify the mount point, and it doesn't look like I added any systemd units in /etc/systemd/system to automatically mount it AFTER all the decrypting is done, but that happens automatically whenever I turn this thing on, so I had better figure out how to not have it do that, or it might panic and not finish booting.

>>105759789
open a terminal and type
flatpak list
It'll show you what you have installed as flatpak. If there's nothing in the list you need, or what you need is also available in the distro repos, you can uninstall flatpak.

>>105755884
>Advanced Renamer
i have never heard of this before, what do you use it for? when I've had to batch rename, it's usually with media media files and for that i've used adobe bridge

I-Is he dead?... :(

>>105760055
Just systemd being a dick, use grub instead

ANONS I JUST NUKED MY FUCKING ROOT'S HOME FOLDER!!!

How much damage did I just do?

Why the fuck would this command do this? ;(((((((( I'm scared

>>105760074
The folder is just hidden because you ran ./ at the end, run ls -a to see the folder

>>105753630
die Linuxe

>>105760085
oh shit damn.
The cp command took like 3 seconds to execute and I thought I had wiped my entire system,

>>105760074
kode with klossy

>>105760133

Do I need to do something special to qbittorrent to make it stay open when I close the window?
So far everything just werks with arch/suckless stuff. But this is a desktop program that needs to be closed sometimes...

Should I install the systray patch just for this?

>>105759553
>If you take one drive out of a 3 drive RAID1 and read it you'll most likely get random hunks of shit.
btrfs doesn't n-way mirror?

>>105760055
>Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x631f8fab95b6
>Caught <SEGV> from PID -1884580384
Run memtest86(+), your RAM may be bad or unstable. Try disabling XMP if that's an option, and test again.

>>105760243
Maybe it's your DE/WM? Werks for me on IceWM+Arch, I close the window and it goes to the tray

I'm using anki-bin from aur and I can't type Japanese inside the application (anki) with mozc (fcitx)
I searched online to see if anyone else had the same issue and that person was instructed to export these values to their shell_profile. I've done this, I did it when I installed fcitx and mozc, but for some reason it still doesn't work and I assume the aur version of anki might have something to do with it. Should I get a different aur package for anki? I specifically use the version I am because it's the only one I've had success with.
How I wish anki was part of the official arch repository.

>>105759899
'mount it normally' to a doc writer probably means with the mount command, but it's the same syscall no matter which way. It sounds like you have an automounter picking it up. Normally you would create a fstab entry for it, and if you use systemd it would generate unit files in /var/run based on fstab at boot.

>>105757276 (me)
Ok, I managed to fix the problem. Idk how or why it worked but everything's fine now so I don't care. Turns out it had something to do with my zsh setup and maybe "ly" (display manager) as well. I had the following line in my .zprofile:
export XINITRC="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/x11/xinitrc"
This changes the location of .xinitrc to another directory, but also prevents ly from logging in using the "xinitrc" option, having to use "shell" instead. And while the latter works, it prevents Nemo from remembering my "sorting per folder" prefs. The fix was to leave .xinitrc in its usual place ($HOME) and log in using "xinitrc" on ly (which now works since the file it's in its usual path). I suppose this is on me for going for a "suckless" setup instead of a DE like a normal person.
>>105758884
I fixed the issue but thanks regardless, anon.
>>105759789
Flatpaks take quite the disk space. Either remove the programs you don't need to minimize this, or use your repo's packages. Flatpak is such a chore to deal with desu.

>>105760361
dwm doesn't come with a tray

Anons, I need your help, which desktop environment shall I use for opensuse? There's xfce, kde, and gnome my pc specs are 8gb of ram and an integrated 10th generation intel i3 cpu.

>>105760920
Hyprland

>>105760933
That's a window manager anon... not a desktop manager

>>105760920
kde

How do I fix this send help
https://files.catbox.moe/ba4gug.mkv

I thought telemetry was optional on fedora?? wtf?

>>105760933
Anon that's a window manager, not a desktop environment

selinux isn't spyware, meds, take 'em.

>>105760943
Are you using nvidia drivers by any chance?

>>105760994
yes... its memepad with a nvidia quadro m1000m

how can i make my armbian/xfce look more like win10/11

>>105761117
easiest/laziest way is kde

>>105760975
no it just sucks unless you're a suicidal alcoholic enterprise admin. just use apparmor and stop being annoying

s-so... HDR must be... really fun!... I am here on Xorg wondering...

>>105761695
it's okay luddite-kun most "HDR" monitors look like shit

I use the Nested Desktop on my Steam Deck a lot, and a couple times the KDE desktop (panels and interactive background) just disappears. I assume it's Linux's OOM killer, seems to happen when I have dozens of Youtube tabs open.

It's slightly annoying to have to close my browser to save its session and then grab a controller to kill and restart Nested Desktop. In Windows I will sometimes restart Explorer by killing it in Task Manager and doing Run "explorer" easy enough. Is there an equivalent here? I already found that Super+Esc brings up the Task Manager equivalent, which has a menu for launching Konsole.

>>105760515
I missed dwm, yeah if you don't want the patch just install stalonetray or trayer

>>105761695
HDR is pretty nice for gaming and media, linuxtard will tell you its not necessary, just use a distro that support HDR by default if you have and HDR monitor bro

>>105760275
btrfs raid1 is a bit different. btrfs allocates 1GiB chunks from physical devices in general, and raid is applied at the chunk level. for a raid1 each chunk is allocated and mirrored between any two devices (using devices with the most amount of unallocated space first)
it's not like a tradition raid1 where all/entire devices are mirrored. btrfs does also have a 3-way raid1 option
1 drive in a 3 device btrfs raid1 may not contain all the data of the volume

>>105762256
>1 drive in a 3 device btrfs raid1 may not contain all the data of the volume
... then it's not RAID1 and shouldn't be referred to as such.

>>105759656
Proper nouns may be countable
>I bought several GameCubes

>>105762308
thats just like, you're opinion, man.
i don't disagree it should have an altered name to avoid potential confusion from people who expect raid1 to act a certain way, like how zfs uses "raid-z1" instead of "raid5" (though i'm not sure what difference there is between them)
btrfs raid1 has some advantages over traditional raid1, like it can utilise more/all space of differently-sized devices and usable capacity is 1/2 regardless of the number of drives

>>105762308
Go submit a pull request then faggot.

>>105754391
Try using the non meme distros like Debian, Fedora, Arch and see which you prefer.

question for anyone with xmonad experience:
do you have it installed as a cabal/stack project as opposed to using your package manager? the xmonad docs recommend the former for arch users, and i already have the ghc/cabal/stack installed with ghcup, but to be honest i'm confused about how everything ghcup-related works regarding system updates.
like e.g. if i install xmonad as a cabal project, will i have to update it manually by some means besides the typical pacman -Syu?

wired xbox 360 controller doesnt work on linux?

>>105762752
Do you mean the ones with the wire fixed to the controller, or did you attach the USB charging adaptor to a wireless controller?

>>105762765
>USB charging adaptor to a wireless controller
i think, im not very familiar with these kind of shit

>>105762798
Uhh, do you think getting the dogs out will make people answer you faster...?

>>105762807
im a guy, who the fuck is interested in guy feet?

>>105762798
Yeah those "Play and Charge" cables sadly aren't data cables, and I don't think the port on the controller is even a data port; only current goes through there. In other words, there's no way to use wireless 360 controllers wired.

>>105762798
that cord only recharges i think. you gotta goy up for a special receiver that works with the controller's special snowflake protocol or just buy a wired 360 controller. also take a shower you ape

>>105762832
ps4 works, right?
>>105762838
>wired 360 controller
is this the only one controller or did it came with a wireless and wired?
>also take a shower you ape
i did, yesterday

>>105762865
>is this the only one controller or did it came with a wireless and wired?
you can buy actual wired 360 controllers, yes. the 360 had USB ports for them so you don't need some gay adapter, it should just werk when you plug it in. though if you just like the form factor something like 8bitdo is a much better value.

If I connect two laptops together with a ethernet cable will I be able to rsync faster than wifi without messing around with configs?

>>105753496 (OP)
I installed linux cause pewdiepie told me to. Now what?

>>105763056
Hack the planet

>>105763086
What sudo command is that?

>>105762865
>ps4 works, right?
Yep, DualShock drivers come with Linux

>>105763130
sudo rm -fr --no-preserve-root /

I have been ignoring the pinned thread on the front page for years. I finally clicked the /g/ wiki link because I unironically want to install gentoo. But I found there's another wiki named installgentoo with double the articles! Which should I be reading? Also what's the story there, why are there two /g/ wikis?

Is there a way to add hidden watermark to webm/mp4?
I want to track the webm I make and post here.
I used to add metadata but 4chin strip those.
It doesn't need to be really hidden just something inconspicuous

>>105763864
Use the "Image md5" unless you're concerned about people posting your video elsewhere or re-encoding it in which case you would probably need some sort of solution utilising Video Steganography but then how are you going to track it? Do you already have a plan for that? You'd need to be bulk scraping the Internet and analysing every video you come across.

>>105760393
Works on my machine. Maybe the variables aren't set correctly. Try launching anki in the terminal with QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx anki and see if it works

>>105764012
>Use the "Image md5"
4chin alter the md5 hash.
This mp4 have this
a38be4a5
669248cf5
dc893dfffd
32014
md5 hash
But it's not the same when you download it, same for jpg/webm/png/gif
So it's not really valid anymore
>re-encoding it
Most people are phone posters that don't even know what encoding is, so an advanced video steganography isn't really needed unless I get my video on meta related website since I know it uses AV1 for all the videos now.
>how are you going to track it
Sorry I meant when I see the video on 4chin I'd check to see if this was my own encoding or someone else.

>>105764063
That's because of their CDN but if you upload the same video twice they should still detect that and if you search for videos on the archives with the md5 that 4chan provides then it should still find other posts containing it.

Dual-booting still safe? Heard some anons recently getting screwed over by Windows Update. Anyone else experience that or are those special cases? The safe way is still to have a separate drive for Windows and a separate drive for Linux, right? (Besides separate PCs of course)

>>105764088
>>105764063
For example:
$ curl -s -L --alt-svc /tmp/alt-svc.cache --http3 --fail "https://a.4cdn.org/g/thread/105753496.json" | jq -r ".posts[] | select(.ext)"
{
"no": 105764063,
"now": "07/01/25(Tue)05:22:22",
"name": "Anonymous",
"com": "<a href=\"#p105764012\" class=\"quotelink\">&gt;&gt;105764012</a><br><span class=\"quote\">&gt;Use the &quot;Image md5&quot;</span><br>4chin alter the md5 hash.<br>This mp4 have this<br>a38be4a5<br>669248cf5<br>dc893dfffd<br>32014<br>md5 hash<br>But it&#039;s not the same when you download it, same for jpg/webm/png/gif<br>So it&#039;s not really valid anymore<br><span class=\"quote\">&gt;re-encoding it</span><br>Most people are phone posters that don&#039;t even know what encoding is, so an advanced video steganography isn&#039;t really needed unless I get my video on meta related website since I know it uses AV1 for all the videos now.<br><span class=\"quote\">&gt;how are you going to track it</span><br>Sorry I meant when I see the video on 4chin I&#039;d check to see if this was my own encoding or someone else.",
"filename": "1747120442561844",
"ext": ".mp4",
"w": 480,
"h": 852,
"tn_w": 70,
"tn_h": 125,
"tim": 1751361742824972,
"time": 1751361742,
"md5": "/XWx3WhZh6mAx8nlHM9PLg==",
"fsize": 483746,
"resto": 105753496
}


This Md5 should be stable no matter how many times you post the same video. It's an md5 calculated by 4chan. The actual md5 will be different.
$ md5sum Downloads/1747120442561844.mp4
fd75b1dd685987a980c7c9e51ccf4f2e Downloads/1747120442561844.mp4


I don't know how they calculate these md5s but they are stable enough (although md5 theoretically has collision possibilities. I wonder why they haven't switched to something else? It could theoretically be possible to post two duplicate videos with the same colliding hash)

>>105764113
>I wonder why they haven't switched to something else?
Because they don't give a fuck

>>105764094
You should be installing Linux to a separate drive because Microsoft maliciously breaks the Linux bootloader whenever you install CU's.

>>105764062
I'm doing that and it doesn't work.
Is your bash_profile the exact same as mine? Are you also using the -bin version of the aur package?

>>105764113
>--alt-svc /tmp/alt-svc.cache --http3 --fail
lol, you can't even do proper curl request.

>>105764113
>I wonder why they haven't switched to something else?
Because of the shadow b& files list.

>>105760476
>Flatpak is such a chore to deal with desu.
I turned into a big Flatpak enjoyer over the last month. It is not as userfriendly as they make it out to be though. Once you need to change anything about the default permissions it gets annoying.
All of them do come so out of the box that they work as intended.

I swapped most of my programs over to flatpak completely and haven't had any issues anymore.
Its the mix and matching of flatpaks and apt/dnf/pacman etc repos thats fucking hell on earth.

>>105764179
What's wrong with that? Do you even know what that does?

>>105764174
I'm using the -bin version
Which DE are you running? Depending on that different files get sourced. I set them in my hyprland.conf for example.
Try adding them to /etc/environment (without the export) that should always work. Don't forget to log out and back in

>the requested url returned error: 404
>failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
How can I prevent this from EVER happening in the future. It's literally the MOST annoying thing about being on linux since it's the one thing that's supposed to just fucking work.
I lost my other computer because of a pacman system update gone wrong and I really really don't want something like that to happen on this brand new pc.

>>105764258
You can't. Read the arch news before updating or subscribe to the announcement mailing list.

Should I keep Android on a tablet or install a desktop ARM distro?

>>105764258
1. read the news to find out how to upgrade linux-firmware properly
https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmware-2025061312fe085f-5-upgrade-requires-manual-intervention/

2. use the reflector service to keep your mirrors up to date
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Reflector

>>105764258
Did you really choose arch when you want a "it just werks" experience

>>105764258
Install Fedora

>>105764239
>Which DE are you running?
xfwm4
>I set them in my hyprland.conf for example.
I set them in my bash_profile and frankly I'm not sure that's actually correct at this point. Maybe It's not the right file.
Pic rel was taken before I manually set the variables and you can see that they do list when running printenv.
>Try adding them to /etc/environment (without the export) that should always work. Don't forget to log out and back in
Done.

>>105764301
I did as it instructed and I'm kinda shocked you can just delete your linux-firmware package like that.
However I got a ton of warnings and when I'm honestly extremely scared of rebooting my pc as some things aren't working the way they're meant to. Like my chinese IME tells me that it's "under maintenance". This is exactly what happened with my previous computer. It failed to commit the transaction properly and then image thumbnails in my file manager randomly wouldn't load and then I couldn't turn it on afterwards.
Do you think I'm gonna be fine.
>>105764490
No. I wanted to git gud at computers. I didn't know that was a problem everyone was having, I thought it was just me because I'd done something wrong (as I often do things wrong).

>>105764564
Some more warnings. Is this going to be okay? Is there anything in here I should take very seriously?

>>105764572
Sorry bro, it's making mustard gas.

borrowed by brothers ps5 controller but....
>fedora systemd[1]: bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth).

is bluetooth on linux this problematic?

>>105764710
probably fedora being anal about proprietary drivers

>>105764525
Hmm. And fcitx5-qt is installed too?
Are you even using fcitx5? I'm asking because there's a fcitx package without the 5. Pic related are the packages I have installed

>>105764718
wifi & bluetooth same driver? because wifi works fine

>>105764564
>>105764572
is this bait? have you never updated the kernel before? as long as it doesn't say ERROR then there's no issue.

>>105764835
It's not bait, I just want to be extra careful since I've never explicitly gone and deleted the linux firmware package before.

>>105760920
If you want to save RAM then you could use a lightweight DE like LXQt (sure there's XFCE as well - personally I prefer LXQt)

If you don't mind expending a bit of RAM, you could use KDE Plasma, which is pretty good

Since you only have 8 gigs of RAM I would recommend enabling zram. It compresses stuff in RAM so you can have more stuff open at once. Your CPU is relatively recent so it should be able to handle the compression/decompression of zram quite well.

>>105764754
>Are you even using fcitx5?
No, just regular fcitx. Are there benefits to using fcitx5?

>>105764864
Dunno, the wiki says that fcitx5 is recommended

>>105764872
I just don't know how much of a pain switching over will be.
I'll try fcitx-qt5 or 6 and if that doesn't work then I'll get fcitx5

>>105764928
anki-bin is qt6 so you need the fcitx-qt6 package

>>105764972
hmmm, it worked when i booted the program with mozc enabled, but if I close fcitx and turn it back on again it no longer works. Maybe I just need a reboot.

>>105764972
Or was there something else I needed to do as well with the qt6 package installed?

baka jannies lock this thread, you just need to install gentoo

This thing is so obnoxious, how do I get rid of it?
It appears while I'm playing games and moving my cursor to the bottom of the screen.

>>105765055
I'm running Ubuntu and there's nothing you can do about it

>>105765071
GNOME? Look in the settings. But really the answer to your question is "fucking google it"

>>105765169
>"fucking google it"
But I don't know what to google. I don't know what the thing is called. I found this, but I'm afraid that might delete the one above me and mess with the other one I have on top that displays my windows.

>>105765201
I think it's called a dock, that's what it's called on MacOS, and I think on GNOME as well, so you could google "disable xfce dock"

>>105765169
Looks like Xfce not GNOME

>>105764572
It's fine, and you can blacklist all of those so you stop seeing the warnings.

>>105765251
I found a solution on chaddit and it worked.

>>105765071
>>105765201
That's an xfce panel. You can remove it in the panel preferences

>>105764113
Also the change of an actual collision is stupidly large.

>>105765358
I mean small. Man i really fucked that one.

>>105753496 (OP)
im about to install gentoo in a vm on apple silicon mac. what am i in for?

>>105766050
a gentoo install. why are you shitting up this thread? how many fucking frog posts are you responsible for?

>>105766068
you guys always tell me to install gentoo. what's wrong now?

>>105766050
>>105766090
I've never tried Gentoo but doesn't it have to compile all the packages? So if you install Gentoo, even in a VM, I assume it will take ages compiling packages before you can actually use the system?

Why not try a distro which doesn't require all that shit. Try Debian, it just works.

>>105766159
These days plenty of Gentoo packages can just be installed in a binary fashion.

>>105766159
i tried debian/fedora/suse/arch before. i want to try gentoo to see what is so special about it. unironically. like, what is actually special about it? is it just the compilation and waiting time?

>>105766175
You basically compile binaries in such a way that they work perfectly to your hardware

>>105766185
well, that actually sounds kinda interesting. is it better then to try it on some physical machine rather than vm? and, are there actual notable differences in performance with regards to hardware-specific optimizations for generic daily use?

>>105766208
Everything should just feel overall snappier if you config everything properly. It's a bit of work during the initial install but afterwards is a work as you go thing. If you want to try installing it in a VM then use the binary packages that Gentoo now offers.

>>105766235
'aight, thanks fren. will legit try to get into ti

So is TUXEDO OS the best Debian-based distro for Plasma?

>>105766419
A rolling release like Arch, Gentoo, or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and it's not even close.
Honourary mentions to Fedora KDE and Bazzite, etc, which try to stay close to KDE but are not rolling themselves.

>>105766440
Those aren't Debian-based. I'd easily recommend an Arch-based distro over any Debian-based one, but is TUXEDO nevertheless the best Debian-based Plasma option?

>>105766419
Personally I would just install Debian or Ubuntu then install Plasma from the repos. If you want the most recent packages then I think the latest version of Ubuntu (non-LTS) will have more recent packages than the stable version of Debian.

>>105766453
Not sure. I'd probably just use Debian Sid but Debian packaging of KDE is notoriously shit and they take their time to update it. Maybe TUXEDO is better in that regards but Debian is in an awkward place for desktop usage in my opinion.

It's lacking more up-to-date packages. Some of that can be made up by Flatpaks, etc, but it's harder if you need newer system packages for your hardware like the kernel and Mesa.

anyone using nvim .11? how does the new lsp thing work?

Question: which golden era thinkpads have the most support/patches for Linux mint?

My friend said to avoid anything with nvidia

>>105766419
Isn't that meant for Tuxedo computers specifically? And I assume it's just Ubuntu with tweaks.
>>105766175
You can tweak compile-time features so there's that.
>>105766159
>ages
There's some specific software that takes a lot of computing to compile.
>VM
Try a minimal base system, it isn't that heavy.
>Try Debian, it just works.
Arch if you want a binary system.

>>105763056
Which distro? And what do you plan to do with it?

>>105763190
Not very nice lad

I just swapped PCs, from an Intel/AMD to Intel/NVidia, but I'm still running the same SSD.
It seems to work just fine, but it freezes for half a second every so often.
Is this a driver issue? I got debian stable, how do I install drivers for a 4060 ti?

>>105767998
You should probably reinstall the firmware

Bros I'm trying to install a new archlinux from my preexisting arch install.
I think pacman/pacstrap keeps fucking up the file permissions.
How do I get it to set the right file permissions?

>>105767998
Could be power saving features not working as intended, be it the processor or the vcard. Disable them/set to max performance to discard that as the cause.

>>105768169
Oh shit, that was it, I think.
It's working fine now, as as soon as I set it back to balanced it did a massive freeze.
Thanks!

How do I update all of this without it making my computer blackscreen on startup? (it happened the last two times i let my updater pile up like this)

>>105768394
Update everything except grub and graphical packages such i.e. wayland or X11. Then update those after your system is stable to try and narrow down any problems.

>>105768416
I don't know what does and doesn't fit that description for sure

>>105768468
Select a bunch of packages that don't have "X" at the start of their name and update them. Anything that says "grub", don't update until most of your packages are updated. Leave those until last.

What’s the proper way to alias commands that require sudo?

>>105768557
alias something='sudo -- something'
Or with a function:
something() {
sudo -- something "$@"
}

>>105768557
:(){:|:};:

>>105768702
Not working

>>105768557
use sudo to install doas then do this:
alias sudo='doas'

i havent upgraded arch in like a month, help

>>105768750
Then use an incompatible option and watch it barf.

>>105768781
Try not being a retard. I figured this out without even reading the news article.
pacman -R linux-firmware
pacman -Syu


Or read the news article which I didn't read and likely contains a better solution.

>>105768781
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

>>105768829
what happened what news article?

>>105768781
idk try this


sudo rm -r /etc/pacman.d/gnupg

sudo pacman -Sy gnupg archlinux-keyring

sudo pacman-key --init

sudo pacman-key --populate archlinux

sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys

sudo pacman -Sc

>>105768832
They split the firmware packages up into separate little packages

>>105768781
yeah, the first manual intervention i had 2 do since switching
https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmware-2025061312fe085f-5-upgrade-requires-manual-intervention/

>>105768843
The conflict by the way is because pacman is a retarded package manager that doesn't know how to migrate owned files from one package to another so you have to help it out a little. Think of it like your disabled kid.

>>105766159
Gentoo doesn't take ages on modern hardware. There are some usual suspects that take a whole day on an old 4 core CPU (looking at you, QtWebengine), but most packages take longer to configure the build than compiling the sources.

>>105768832
do people really not read their pacman logs?

>>105767484
>Which distro? And what do you plan to do with it?
CachyOS. Just games and web browse like I did on windows.

>>105768950
browse the web and play games.
cachyos is one of the best arch distros.

>>105768949
reading is for fags

>>105764113
>although md5 theoretically has collision possibilities. I wonder why they haven't switched to something else?
4chins only uses md5 to prevent people from posting the same shit over and over. For that it's good enough, if there's a collision, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why aren't there any desktop environmentd built around tiling window managers?
I really like sway and hyprland, but I can't be arsed to set up basic functionality that a computer should have out of the box by editing obscure config files and installing a shitload of additional tools that each have to be configured as well.
Is there a distro with a preconfigured hyprland that has Xfce-like functionality out of the box?

>>105769506
Because floating is superior.

>>105769506
Manjaro do come with tiling WM

>>105768950
Fair. I'm not really familiar with that distro, I just looked it up. Whatever works for you is good though.

Anyone know a script or software that will take a video and cut out all parts of it where there are no words spoken? Even if its between words when someone pauses?

>>105769790
Manually cut out silent segments using audacity

>>105769506
Go to the Garuda linux website now and look through all their flavors, hyprland comes pre-configured.

>>105769506
Also https://archcraft.io/premium.html

There is a free XFCE version, the tiling WM versions are premium and cost a few dollars.

>>105769874
>free software
>have to pay

Is MxLinux the best choice for a daily driver on an older PC if I like XFCE and Debian Stable?

>>105769938
it's free as in freedom, not free as in free beer
you can do it yourself if you don't want to pay

>>105769938
You're only paying for the work that went into ricing it. Actually I'm not a fan of Xorg but their XFCE spin is pretty nice. The only reason I'm not going to stick with it is because of shitstemd. The other reason was screen tearing but I read you can fix that with a vsync variable.

>>105769951
>>105769982
>t, archcraft dev

>>105770022
>i'm not going to stick with it because <reason>
>you must be a shill of it

>>105760052
Well, I'm a coomer so I mainly use it for porn I download from Coomer. I primarily use it to remove the time stamp from the filename and to apply the date from the video's encoded/tagged instead of having the date it was uploaded to onlyfans/fansly. I also change the file extension from m4v to mp4 because it looks nicer.

>>105769790
https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#silencedetect

>>105770086
thanks

any software to visualize my disk usage? like WinDirTree on windows

>>105770539
QDirStat

>>105770539
df -h
you can even write a bash script to warn you when you reach certain thresholds, and what partitions/files need to be cleaned up.

>>105770539
dysk

>>105770539
ncdu

I'm a regular user of Linux, but I got an interview coming up where I'll be grilled on my linux technical knowledge. I dont know yet if I'll be doing live stuff on a server.

What can I do to prepare? It's one thing if they ask me basic commands which I use already, but what curveballs may they throw?

>>105770605
thinking blindly here, they may ask about systemd so you might want to remember how to modify and create unit files, basically everything systemd so get autistic about it

Is it possible to apply opacity in KDE on an application basis (or rather, is it possible to exempt certain applications) ? Perhaps it's possible to somehow create a keyboard shortcut to activate/deactivate the opacity...? I love having opacity so I've set a forced opacity of 75% but it's awful in certain apps and on certain websites (like YT).

>>105770553
>you can even write a bash script to warn you when you reach certain thresholds, and what partitions/files need to be cleaned up.
can a program with an UI do that
>>105770548
>>105770583
>>105770599
thank you guys

>>105770627
create a window rule matching your application and change opacity

>>105770644
yeah, whatever your flavor of terminal emu is :^)

>>105769942
imo cut out the middleman and install debian with xfce

How big can something like arch get after installation?
I installed endeavor OS, and while I do have some flatpaks installed, I ended up using like 75GB?
This is normal?

>>105770720
no, using fatpacks is not normal

>>105770720
No, you should check what's taking all that space

>>105770720
Base Linux distros with DE usually come in under 20GB. If you're going to use a lot of containershit you end up adding multiples of <20GB for every different runtime.

>>105769506
Tiling window managers do usually come with their own panels and such. But the paradigm is inherently hostile to real usable applications.

>>105769506
I just use the i3/sway flavors offered by the distros. I can't even tell what functionality is missing according to you, vanilla does the job just fine for me.

our guy laurei posted a new video about grep.
you do play regex puzzles in your free time, right anon?

>>105770720
I love her large breasts.

>>105770539
>like WinDirTree
I use QDirStat

>>105769506
Not really built around tiling but KDE with Kröhnkite is pretty neat and offers a sane default that doesn't require any tinkering at all.

God Damn, programs on Linux use a lot more RAM than on Windows. I almost never got close to 16gb RAM outside of gaming but I'm currently sitting on 14gb on Linux. I have 32gb so it doesn't matter but it's using a noticeable amount of extra RAM.

>>105771734
eh it happens on windows, too.

>>105771734
Probably video drivers.

>>105771734
This is because Windows makes more use of swap space than Linux

>>105771734
Which programs? Also, obligatory:
https://www.linuxatemyram.com/

I know the day is approaching when Windows 10 will become obsolete, similar to what happened with Windows 7, pushing everyone toward Windows 11. When that happens, I'd prefer switching entirely to Linux instead.

I've been using Ubuntu at work and I don't really like it so it's not my primary option. Also for personal use, I'm looking for a distribution that's more oriented for gaming, though not exclusively, since I'll occasionally need to handle some work stuff at home from time to time.

What Linux distro would you recommend based on my needs?

>>105772029
>similar to what happened with Windows 7,
12 years and counting, fag

>>105772029
dual boot for win only apps or have 2 systems, one linux the other win11

>>105772044
shit OS, used to break every now and then, at least modern win10/11 are stable

>>105772065
>break

No it doesn't. If it broke, it was your fault. I've had far more problems on my W10 machine, and W11 at work. God W11 sucks so much.

>>105772085
>No it doesn't.
It does you retarded nigger. Try moving your drive to another computer with a different chipset or ATA controller. It'll shit the bed, this doesn't happen on modern Windows

Stop shilling your outdated piece of shit

>>105772099
>Try moving your drive to another computer
This is literally something that doesn't happen for most people. Also, my drive with W7 is running on my newly built mini ATX machine that has all the latest shit. So again, sounds like a you issue.

>>105772250
enjoy your piece of shit

>>105772287
I will

>>105772029
For vidya I'd recommend Arch/Endeavour/Cachy or Nobara. Look into setting up root snapshots with snapper/timeshift and grub-btrfs just in case something goes wrong, generally it never does but since you mention work stuff if a bug is introduced you could roll everything back and update when it's fixed

Any help really appreciated, I've been down all day and really just want to get booted again.

PC (Arch) had a hard crash in the middle of a system update, had to force shutdown. On reboot systemd-boot only option is "reboot to firmware device" and goes to BIOS.

Trying to restore a root btrfs snapshot right now, then plan is to run mkinitcpio and update systemd-boot again from liveusb. I have the main btrfs partition mounted, moved @ to @-old, and then mounted one of the snapshot subvolumes to @.

My main confusion is how to correctly set the snapshot as the new btrfs default, and have it set correctly as read/write. Then I don't know if there's a way to update either the BTRFS ID of that subvolume, or if I should just update my fstab afterwards to reflect the new ID.

sudo mount -o subvolid=3950 /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt/Arch/@

ls /mnt/arch
@ @home @log @-Old @pkg

root fstab
UUID=6eda83ea-e2da-4766-979a-fa8ec4bda6df / btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache=v2,subvolid=256,subvol=/@ 0 0

>>105772664
>how to correctly set the snapshot as the new btrfs default
sudo btrfs subvolume set-default 3950 /mnt/Arch
>read/write
It should already be read/write
>update either the BTRFS ID of that subvolume, or if I should just update my fstab
I'd update the fstab, just remove subvolid=256 and it'll default to 3950, mount everything else, chroot and continue with the plan

>>105772029
>can't decide a distribution
Partition your drive so it can host two Linux systems.
>>105771734
Post the actual numbers. I figure there's drive cache counted in that 14GB.
>>105770720
Do you count your $HOME into the grand total? I don't think I've ever exceeded 20 gigabytes, for the actual system I mean.

>>105772763
I have it mounted now but it's in readonly mode, this is after just running "sudo mount /dev/nvme /mnt/Arch"

sudo btrfs subvolume show /mnt/Arch
@/.snapshots/3687/snapshot
Name: snapshot
UUID: 43ac04c7-81b6-3643-af31-a4f73b373965
Parent UUID: bd7ce7da-b989-8f46-8ca9-4d7f79f4eaa0
Received UUID: -
Creation time: 2025-06-30 05:00:06 +0000
Subvolume ID: 3950
Generation: 2715565
Gen at creation: 2715564
Parent ID: 263
Top level ID: 263
Flags: readonly
Send transid: 0
Send time: 2025-06-30 05:00:06 +0000
Receive transid: 0
Receive time: -
Snapshot(s):
Quota group: n/a

>>105772029
Just fucking pick one and boot it. If you don't like it then move to another. Holy fuck you retards are unsalvageable and retarded.

>>105772901
Oh, you could do sudo btrfs property set /mnt/Arch/@/.snapshots/3687/snapshot ro false, unmount and remount but you should probably create e new read/write subvolume, replace the old one and set it as default to keep the backup intact

>>105772981
Thanks - I did that property set shortly after posting. Chroot in, reinstall kernel which autoran mkinit, updated systemd-boot, and I'm able to get back into the OS.
Something is definitely still clobbered though. /boot failes to mount and I get dropped into emergency mode, trying to run "mount -a" says that vfat is an unknown filetype...

So my fstab for /boot is correct but somehow Arch doesn't know what vfat is anymore.

>>105773127
Based on the error I assumed something was wrong with the kernel. Rebooted into liveUSB again, arch-chroot (making sure my boot partition was mounted) and reinstalled linux-zen and also installed just the standard Linux kernel that I didnt have before.

I noticed after rebooting that systemd-boot still only shows "linux-zen" as an option, so it's like something isn't updating right.

I'll probably need to go to bed soon but will be working on this in the morning.

>>105771800
Nah, I used to regularly check the task manager and I remember making a mental note of it hitting 16gb for the first time after more than 5 years of checking. And it was only due to some memory leak shit from dupeguru
>>105771805
Don't think so, definitely contributed but I only have a few video files open.
>>105771810
This would make sense
>>105771834
>>105772795
>Background services 2gb
>Brave 3gb
>Firefox 2gb
>mpv 1.2gb
>Spotify 1g
>Dolphin 1gb
>3 programs I ran on Windows 2.5gb
Running more or less the exact same shit on Windows 10 would never use more than 10-12gb. Yes, I know I can close shit and I don't need all of it up but it's weird that it uses that much for more or less an identical setup to Windows. Maybe, as the other anon suggested, Windows dumps some of it to the swap? Linux currently only has 50mb on the swap.

>>105773394
>Firefox 2gb
my firefox eats 23. Wow, that's a lot less than last time I checked.

>>105773425
How in the goddamn hell is your Firefox using 23GB? Do you have like 100+ tabs open?

>>105773538
too many to count so maybe that's the case. And it was 32GB before, I'm surprised it's down. But that's probably because I haven't loaded many tabs yet.

>>105773425
Are you running multiple
Tabs of YouTube? I had a problem where it would leak memory till it crashed if I had YouTube tabs open. Solved with a violent monkey script. Limiting local cache seemed to do nothing. Let me know if you want me to find it.

>>105773627
kinda but they shouldn't even be loaded yet I think.

>>105773538
wait, something can't be right here - free says I use 17GB in total, but btop claims firefox to use 23GB. That can't be right.

>>105773662
Sure. I'll post them in a few hours. 23 GB is a leak or you're cacheing is abserdly high.

>>105773676
Free and available are not the same thing if you're confusing the two.

>>105773245
Nice, at least it booted
>I noticed after rebooting that systemd-boot still only shows "linux-zen" as an option
I don't use systemd-boot so I don't know much about it but from what I'm reading I think you have to manually create the boot entry or use a pacman hook for kernel-install

Why can't you choose which updates you want to install through Discover? Why is it all or nothing? They're all grouped together and you can't check/uncheck updates. I know you can exclude updates through the terminal but why is there no checkbox in Discover?

>>105772029
Manjaro KDE is for you. The GUI is basically Windows 7, and you get the latest updates way before Ubuntu or Fedora users.

>>105773698
I'm comparing used here. btop maybe includes memory shared by tabs and adds it up or something.

Has btrfs reached the point where manual management is not necessary?

>>105773716
I have that option on Opensuse. Might be a distro specific thing as partial updates are not always supported

What's the best RDP client?

linux newfag here
why is everyone saying to use catchyos now
1-2 years ago the "baby's first arch distro" of choice was endeavour, and years before that it was manjaro
what happened

>>105774530
A lot of us use arch based distros and recommend what just seems to work. Pick whatever you want. Asking to be spoonfed insignificant details just makes people hate you and recommend something you will struggle with.
Therefore I recommend Gentoo or slackware.

>>105774530
CachyOS is just a very desktop-focused Arch variant that has a highly tweaked kernel and affinity for x86_64-v3 and v4. For people with modern computers using it is an easy way to get a high performance Arch install set up in less then 30 minutes.

>>105774148
xfreerdp3

>>105773965
years ago my dude

I'm normally using fedora on my laptop. However, I have a gaymen PC that I boot up every few months. It's running windows 10 and won't run 11. I don't want to install fedora on it because I'll have to do a system update every other time I start it. Rolling release is probably cancer with my usage pattern as well. What would you recommend? Currently looking at Ubuntu LTS or AlmaLinux.

>>105768702
What does this do?

>>105774670
It's a fork bomb. Probably won't do much on a modern system but it killed older ones.

>>105774662
you can literally install win10 iot ltsc and be good until 2032

>>105768800
such as?

>>105774685
win10 iot ltsc cant be downloaded from microsofts website directly and downloading a random iso uploaded by a third party will always be risky

>>105774148
Remmina or FreeRDP

>>105774704
The links in /fwt/ are legit

>>105774662
Whats your linux experience and which DE you want to use?
If you like fedora just use fedora.
>I'll have to do a system update every other time I start it.
You dont "have" to do a system update if you dont want to unless fedora does some automatic update thing

>>105774713
legit from who though?

>>105774728
A group of hobbyists/hackers from MDL. Basically the highest level of trust you could have for Windows shit.

>>105774814
putting your trust in a bunch of random people doesnt sound like a great idea

>>105774718
I've been daily driving GNU+Linux for ~10 years, used it at work a lot, manage 2 servers. So I'd say medium to advanced experience. I'm not a kernel developer or anything though.
I don't "have to", and IIRC, Fedora allows to skip a version, so at least yearly I should to avoid problems. However, I don't want to tinker, I want to play video games for a few hours every few months. I like Fedora but I don't think it is the best option here.
As for DE, I don't really care, I won't be seeing the desktop much. Gnome is ok, but anything would work.
>>105774685
I don't want to though.

>>105774834
>What's open source?

>>105774847
a windows iso is not open source

>>105774843
Maybe try debian first before ubuntu?

>>105774866
Not against it, but why?

Hey there fa/g/s.

Dropping a situation report here after attempting to swap main partition to Linux for the last 2 months.

I tried CachyOS, but the default driver that loaded my keyboard would repeatedly create this insane tab spam for nearly all applications. I attempted to interact with drivers, but by and large the process went nowhere.

Attempt #2 was bazzite. I was encouraged by the fact that there was a questionnaire about what kind of machine I was running. I was effectively able to use most steam games and really only had a problem with lutris for getting Windows applications running however the KDE plasma login screen repeatedly hung on the secondary user and configuration was a big pain from a permission standpoint. (Installing games across users, etc) required a lot of research and while I am patient when dealing with these issues, it wasn't immediately wiki-able as many of these issues didn't come with an error code.

For example, VLC media player couldn't seem to bridge the gap onto a Chromecast, and the peak problem I had was that there wasn't any effective error handling that solved this problem. Same thing with regular Google chrome, couldn't cast.

I can handle or ignore some of these problems, but a lot of platforms have hard gated me from using them. Most competitive multiplayer games I frequented became unplayable.

I believe that gaming on Linux has definitely come far, but it's driven the other members of my household up a wall and I can't play tech support while I'm at work when things break (and they did, a lot.)

I'll probably just use arch on a laptop and work on refining the process before trying to push it on the rest of the house.

>>105774913
Debian is more barebones and less hassle than ubuntu to maintain as long as you know what you're doing

>>105774942
There's a reason why nobody actually uses cachyos or bazzite

>>105774947
They seem to have a similar release cycle (5 years LTS), so it probably won't matter.

>>105774947
Yeah I'm still waiting for the day where I can have an enterprise level deployment of Linux without having to jerk off over a wiki but protondb is very impressive. I expect steam will only continue to iterate on their setup until they catch up to windows. The only functionality windows has seen since 7 is layering telemetry and spyware off of the initial shell.

The only reason I pulled the trigger was because an update turned on BitLocker and then the BitLocker key got corrupted. There was nothing saved on my windows account so I said "bet" and decided to try this little social experiment again.

Hyprland was a head rush for sure, but for a "tiling wm" I still feel like resizing with the mouse would be something to keep. There's definitely something missing in terms of "installers" since on first run I had to Ctrl alt F5 into a terminal to figure out why Hyprland had no hotkey or clickable button to start working. I ended up moving to KDE but it still has its host of issues.

>>105775070
Hyprland and other tiling wms usually expect you to modify the default config to suit your needs first or to use someone elses config instead of jumping straight away into using them
I usually just use XFCE if i dont want to set up a tiling wm
>muh wayland
Dont care.

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>>105774148
my fav is krdc

>>105772795
>Do you count your $HOME into the grand total?
No.
Most of the data is in /var

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>>105773538
This is what I mean: post the actual numbers. There isn't just "memory".