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FIRST FOR THE RHEL AND SYSTEMD SUPREMACY

>>105775884
Install Gentoo.

>>105775951
l KNEEL.
How's the Dell monitor?
What is flatpak-user vs normal flatpak?

>>105776009
>How's the Dell monitor?
I like it. It's good for what I paid for it. It's not the best monitor in the world but it's competitive on price and features. 144Hz refresh rate (although I usually keep it on 120Hz unless I'm gaming). Good colours, HDR 600 is good even though it's an IPS panel (avoid anything with "HDR 10"). I can't really complain for what it is.

>>105776009
>What is flatpak-user vs normal flatpak?
Installed system-wide in /var versus your home directory

Why do some people recommend a separate / and /home partition to facilitate re-installs without data loss? I mean, I understand the reasoning but more in a practical term. Due to the nature of "everything is a file" isn’t / basically just a folder anyway and if so, why can’t you just rm it and re-install the OS to achieve the same end result as having a separate / partition?

>>105776082
You can (if you know what you're doing). This recommendation is often given for people doing dumb:
>Select the root partition (/) -> Wipe it
Installs with a GUI so you can keep your /home folder with all of your users files intact.

>>105775807 (OP)
This may be a weird question:
I began using Mint in March, in May I switched to EndeavorOS, I'm thinking of going full Arch.

Once I install Arch using archinstall what are some features that I will be missing in freshly installed Arch that I probably took for granted in more noob friendly distros such as Mint and Endeavor (and Windows, for that matter) but won't be present in Arch?

And any general recommendation for a noob.

>>105776082
Read the man page for rm ya dumb shit.

>>105776202
No one can help you. Install it in a VM manually and figure it out.

>>105776202
EndeavourOS is a pointless distro. All you need is ArchWiki.

>>105776299
It's not pointless at all. Getting an Arch install ready in less then 30 minutes without having to do anything is great if you don't feel like doing it yourself.

>>105776411
It takes about 8 minutes to do a manual install of arch. Half that if you write your own bash script.

>>105776299
It's good if you want to throw Arch on a new laptop quick. The extra scripts are nice.

>>105776202
Not really anything special. I think I wound up kinda missing their update script and the pacman restart hook so I just added back their repos and installed eos-bash-shared. Probably the biggest change is EndeavourOS using dracut instead of mkinitcpio in Arch but if you don't understand what that means then that doesn't matter.

>>105776411
Why not just use archinstall? It’s basically a GUI in CLI form, requires minimal effort and you’ve got a functioning Arch install up and running in like 10 minutes without added bloat.

>>105776478
>>105776478
>GUI in CLI form
you mean a TUI? It's still more hands-on than Calamares. Archinstall doesn't automatically install NVIDIA drivers either.
>added bloat
An EndeavourOS install is pretty base.

Does anyone know of any program that can take a list of files as command line arguments, display them as a grid of thumbnails, allow you to filter the results using a search bar, and let you bind keyboard input to custom commands/programs? For example, taking a bunch of PNG files, displaying them all in a grid, and letting you bind "enter" to "xdg-open {selected_file}" or binding ctrl+c to "echo {selected_file} | xclip", etc?

Basically, I need everything fzf does but as a GUI grid of thumbnails instead of a CLI list of text.

>>105776902
nsxiv but you need to hack on top of it a bunch to get all that functionality and I forget how I did the search bar bit before, it might've been an embedded dmenu bar rather than native.

How do i downscale a game? I want to run something at 1440p on 1080p screen
no gamescope, that shit adds so much input lag it's unplayable

>>105777575
You're doing something wrong if Gamescope is adding lag.
> It's getting game frames through Wayland by way of Xwayland, so there's no copy within X itself before it gets the frame.
> It can use DRM/KMS to directly flip game frames to the screen, even when stretching or when notifications are up, removing another copy.
> When it does need to composite with the GPU, it does so with async Vulkan compute, meaning you get to see your frame quick even if the game already has the GPU busy with the next frame.

>>105777692
wayland itself is unusable so there's your answer

>>105777708
Wayland is a protocol and is in use with multiple implementations. Clearly it is usable.

>>105777717
ok then it's just sway, dwl and gamescope that have horrid input lag

>>105777741
The input stack is the exact same as Xorg Server unless you're using a different xf86-input driver to libinput. Probably, you are seeing some kernel level driver bug or USB polling is too low, etc.

>>105777750
and output stack isn't pisshead

>>105777717
Wayland still objectively allows for a higher minimum input lag compared to X11 though. Not that it matters because I don't really notice it on KWin but it probably stinks a bit if you play rhythm games at a higher level.

>>105777782
It is actually, if you're using the modern xf86-modesetting driver (which you should be) then that's no different to what Wayland compositors are doing.

Going to try out a tiling manager in a fresh install. Trying to decide between awesome and qtile. Thoughts?

>>105777798
it actually is*
*if you use this narrow definition

>>105777817
You didn't exactly explain your stack. How is anyone supposed to know why your Xorg Server supposedly has lower input latency when you aren't detailing which drivers you're using or what configuration tweaks you've made, etc.

>>105777830
>supposedly
*by design

>>105777804
Basically comes down to if you know how to Lua code (Awesome) or Python code (Qtile) when it comes to their config files.

>>105777848
By what design?
You can have good drivers and bad drivers, you can have a driver completely lock up the Xorg Server and cause all sorts of terrible things to happen, that's clearly not good design but it can happen. Nobody knows which drivers you're using or what your configuration is though because you haven't explained yourself.

>>105777863
not only does it not pertain to the topic but you clearly are arguing in bad faith about something i completely have no reason to care about

>>105777857
Yeah I kind of figured that.
If they run essentially the same I'd prefer qtile because I have some python experience.

>>105777876
It does pertain to the topic though. You can't throw around wild accusations like Wayland offering worse input latency when you don't provide a baseline to compare it to.

Worse compared to what?
Which drivers?
What configuration?

>>105777888
Qtile is a bit more user friendly overall

>>105777895
>It does pertain to the topic though
in what way

>>105777911
Thanks anon

>>105777925
It provides a frame of reference, for example, if it turns out that you're using Nvidia then your problems are almost certainly caused by them and not Wayland.
Or if you're using a different xf86-input driver to libinput then maybe there is some issue with Libinput that needs investigating, etc.

Whatever your issue is, it's probably not Wayland that's at fault.

>>105777948
>Whatever your issue is, it's probably not Wayland that's at fault.
but i'm not using wayland so how could it be at fault
wayland is a protcool too

>>105777973
It's a protocol but the implementation of said protocol touches multiple layers of the stack and yes, I know you're not using it, you've made that abundantly clear. You did claim without evidence that it had worse input lag though.

How do I change the kde file picker

>>105778022
Depends on the application. If it supports Portals then you can configure that.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal#Configuration

>>105778041
I'm on kubuntu I think it probably does thanks for the link probably more useful than what any google search could give me

>>105777977
>You did claim without evidence that it had worse input lag though.
i unfortunately don't have a $10k camera but feel free to record it and compare it with yours

>>105778083
So you don't actually know that it's worse. You just have a feeling that it is.

>>105775807 (OP)
What's the longest anyone here has gone on Arch without it nuking itself?

>>105778090
as coincidence would have it i'm aware of certain someone who's in the exact same position

>>105778113
My Arch never nuked itself. To only times I reinstalled were when the ssd failed

It quite literally just works

>>105778310
>major version update
>shits itself

>>105778310
*has spyware and telemetry and ads in your path*

>>105778582
Take your meds schizo

>>105778483
I haven't experienced that yet, I installed 22.04 LTS a while ago and haven't upgraded yet

>>105778582
I'm not aware of spyware or telemetry in Ubuntu

>decide to play old gamecube game
>familiar with dolphin
>look online
>all of the packages are woefully out of date if they even exist
>decide to build it
>greeted with this https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/tree/master/Externals
>have to do shallow commit and figure out how to get it to just use system deps
Give me one valid reason to have shit like curl in this repo as a submodule

>>105778818
My nigga you can install it using Flatpak, they have a Flatpak repo on their website

The repo details are here: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/
>Linux users can add the following Flatpak repository: https://flatpak.dolphin-emu.org/releases.flatpakrepo

This is different to Flathub, the main Flatpak repo. Flathub does have Dolphin emu itself, but it's unofficial. So personally I use the official Flatpak repo mentioned on the Dolphin website.

>>105778892
One of the things I read online said the flatpak was down/OOD, that's my bad.
Thanks, you just saved me from also compiling SDL2.30.9 for this

>>105778911
It looks like you can just run these two commands to install the official Dolphin flatpak:
flatpak remote-add dolphin-emu https://flatpak.dolphin-emu.org/releases.flatpakrepo
flatpak install org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu

When you run the second command, it asks which remote you want to install Dolphin from: either Flathub or 'dolphin-emu' which you just added. I would recommend the second one because it's official.

>>105778998
Yeah, this was easier than I thought. The shit I was reading was 2 years old, guess they got that sorted.
Still, to go back to my initial question, why do they have curl as a submodule?

>>105779065
check for updates? could be anything that requires an internet connection, really

>>105779135
My gut tells me it's to accommodate windows

>>105778672
>I'm not aware of spyware or telemetry in Ubuntu
Its been a while but this thing happened. if it happened once etc

>>105778310
*is the gayest retard distro in your path*

>>105779173
This was like 8 years or so ago now, anon.

>>105779474
>forget about the past "mistakes" bro
No.

>>105779474
The fundamental problem with Canonical is they don't make money, so there's a constant motivation for them to find dumb ways to monetize their user base.

RedHat and SUSE actually money on government contracts and are content to let their enthusiast offerings act as outreach to future developers and technicians. All the other big distros are user supported.

>>105776902
nsxiv might be able to do it

>>105777804
Awesome is probably more easier to install and more popular so will have more configs and modules already made for it

I installed Ubuntu Cinnamon on an old T60 (x200) recently. It works perfectly fine for shitposting and pixel games. Those are low standards but it's kind of wild that 20 year old hardware still has life in it if you treat it right.

Whats the best and/or easiest way to do backups? Rsync?
Whats the deal with stuff like borgbackup?

>>105779677
Okay then. In which case I will never use Linux Mint because they allowed their servers to get hacked some years ago.

Will changing my hostname lead to issues?

archinstaller is a miles better experience compared to others

How to create virtual display/monitor to make it work with sunshine without having to use ghost plugs?
On KDE with wayland.

>>105779993
Am I supposed to be upset at this? You can do whatever you want

>>105780205
If you're going to reject Ubuntu for past mistakes then you should also reject Mint for past mistakes

And to be honest I think a major security breach is a much bigger issue than just having a few adverts in the OS. Yet /g/ shills Mint for some reason.

>>105775807 (OP)
I have a dumb theoretical question:

Would a windowing server / system that utilizes Vulkan as its underpinnings be feasible?

>want to learn how to write man pages
>find out they use groff and tmac typically
>discover that there's a groff_tmac man page
>run man groff_tmac
>nothing
Does anyone know where I'm fucking up on this?

>>105780152
Probably not.

>>105780167
that's a man
you're gay
go do butt stuff with other dudes somewhere else.

>>105780486
And wanting your women to be indistinguishably mass is hetero?

>>105780532
don't ever reply to my posts again you queer

>>105780347
yea its like using vulkan instead of opengl, the manwork to do that would be humongous as far as I'm concerned though

>>105780347
what would you need vulkan for though

is garuda still recommended for gaming?

>>105780707
All distros are equally capable of achieving the same things with the difference of how often drivers/kernel updates happen so i dont get what makes a distro more "gaming oriented" than the others. Hell bottles is a flatpak so it doesnt even rely on the system to get wine updates.

>>105776082
>why can’t you just rm it and re-install the OS

That's what I do. Just move the main things to a external HD (qbittorrent, foobar2000, and more), re-install, move them back to home. It's very easy and fast

in bash
mkdir test
cd test
touch {1..100}
time for a in $(cat ./*);do echo $a;done > /dev/null ;time for a in ./*;do cat $a;done > /dev/null


why is the first for a in $(cat ./*); do echo $a;done so much faster

>>105780549
So not worth it for something serious.
>>105780625
>what would you need vulkan for though
Trying to find a topic for my bachelor's thesis.

>>105780780
Implement something that automatically switches GPU based on load. Extremely helpful and not yet achievable under Linux

>>105780707
It wasn't

>>105780153
It should just be the default. Manual timezone and locale configuration is a pointless humiliation ritual.

I'm pretty new to Git so please forgive a beginner question but is it possible to add a git page as a repo or similar and just get specific files and their dependencies? In this case I wanted to install zen-browser but I couldn't find any option to add a repo for it so I did git clone <zen git> but it's like 6GB just to install a browser....Also, when doing git clone <link> without cd:ing into a specific directory, is it going straight to /home...?

>>105780748
It just comes down to update frequency and ease of getting packages not in official repos for stuff like alternative kernels. So I'd always just recommend Arch or Endeavor for a noob. Other rolling releases like Gentoo work fine, but if you're someone who will enjoy Gentoo you'll discover it on your own.

>>105780970
you're trying to copy the whole tree, that's why it's so big. you only want the latest. check the man page for git.
you can also click the green button on the git page and download the source there.

>>105780970
>Also, when doing git clone <link> without cd:ing into a specific directory, is it going straight to /home...?
by default it will go into your pwd. i keep a .git_trash folder i stick all my git trash in and nuke it every once and a while. you just want the binary, unless you have a reason for the code.
are you sure there isn't a binary available somewhere? they generally aren't published on git pages.

>>105780835
You mean like a general implementation that would hand over the x server on the fly from one GPU to another?
Optimus does this for Nvidia GPUs on laptops, but I'm not sure if it can be done as a general implementation.
The first thing that comes to my mind is, that you would still drive the display from your dGPU, even if your iGPU is actually rendering which is still some load on the GPU which cannot enter lower energy saving levels.
If you go the other way and plug your monitor into the mainboard, under load the dGPU would render but there would be a small-ish latency attached from funneling the frames from the dGPU over the iGPU to the monitor.
During day to day activities, who cares, but during gaming that would be a bummer for competitive players.

I don't see a use-case besides saving a little energy with the current hardware architecture landscape. And with hardware manufacturers going ever more vertically integrated (AMDs new flagship APU just about matches my desktop 4070 in some games), I don't even see this having a future. Maybe in datacenters where you have a lot of GPUs to allow fail-safes / fallbacks on the fly like RAID, but the PCIe interface / power supply might be the problem for hot swaps without more hardware accommodations from manufacturers.

IDK, the idea is nice, but I have to justify the future of it in front of 3 professors.

>>105781046
>Optimus does this for Nvidia GPUs on laptops
To my knowledge it switches based on used vram. The trigger point varies but its between 200 and 300MB or so by default.

>>105781022
>>105781042
Yeah exactly, that’s basically my question. I understand that I copied the whole repo and its entire contents and I can see why you’d sometimes want to do that but how do you just add it as a "repo" without getting every single file? Or are you supposed to go into a specific subfolder within the git page to only add the git page which contains the certain files that you want? In this case I added the desktop git and assumed it would function as a form of repo but couldn’t install it anyway (dnf install zen-browser) so I guess I'm still misunderstanding how software gits work…are you only able to utilise install scripts and/or build software yourself when using Git…?

https://github.com/zen-browser

I love Arch Linux

>>105781068
>want to fetch the hostname of a running process (guix container) for fastfetch
>can use "nsenter -a -t PID hostname"
>requires sudo, so I could do NOPASSWD in sudoers file
>this is probably retarded (security risk)
Wat do? I don't suppose it's possible to specify any number between 10k and 90k for the PID in the command I mentioned here and also only allow "hostname" to be run without password in the process?

>>105781398
git is for source.
there's a flatpack release halfway down the page.
use the flatpack.
google arch wiki flatpack if you don't know how to use it.

you can also get the official beta right on their webpage. it's archived and compressed so you'll need to extract/untar it.

>want to fetch the hostname of a running process (guix container) for fastfetch
>can use "nsenter -a -t PID hostname"
>requires sudo, so I could do NOPASSWD in sudoers file
>this is probably retarded (security risk)
Wat do? I don't suppose it's possible to specify any number between 10k and 90k for the PID in the command I mentioned here and also only allow "hostname" to be run without password in the process?

>tlp requires sudo to switch between ac mode and bat mode
this is gay

has anyone had issues accepting android licenses when setting up flutter? flutter doctor --android-licenses doesn't work at all

>>105781046
Yes, you got it. This is exactly how laptops work and yes, there is latency and that's expected but for graphical intensive loads one have to go and go prime-run or something. If there was an automatic toggle based on heuristic or idk that tells the system to make certain process run on certain GPUs that'd be amazing

>>105780937
let the user pick at boot, classic install has its own advantages cause the distro jannies can't possibly cover every use case in archinstall. also i like being able to arch-chroot into a fucked up install really fast

>be lifelong debian user
>install slackware on laptop
>slackpkg can't find anything to install
>cat the package list
>it's populated
>common stuff like i3, cowsay, etc aren't found in it

What am I doing wrong here? I can't install anything, lol

>>105781398
>how do you just add it as a "repo" without getting every single file?
you do not understand what a repo is. It's not a thing. You can do a shallow copy, bit that's still all files, but without the history of all of them.
>subfolder within the git page to only add the git page
the git page is just fluff, the repo doesn't need it and works independant from it.
>are you only able to utilise install scripts and/or build software yourself when using Git…?
that's what git is for.

what do you use to see what's taking up ram?
htop is fucking useless if it's not a single process

>>105781694
use the arrow keys or f6 to get to the MEM% column, then press enter and it'll sort by usage

>>105781713
Only useful for single processes, it's impossible to tell if something with a lot of subprocess is misbehaving or how much memory it's using.
Tree view doesn't even sort it properly

>>105781713
sorry, i'm retarded, press f6 and select the memory option, i think it's percentage_memory or something, then hit enter and it'll sort by memory usage

>>105781673
me again.. this is my first time using slackware.. where can i read about how one installs software, do i need to be using "slackbuilds" or something?

>>105781768
so, how much ram is firefox using?
This ain't helping, bro.

>>105781459
Did a cursory search and realized that the sudoers file actually supports regex, will this work?
user ALL=NOPASSWD: /run/current-system/profile/bin/nsenter -a -t ^(100[0-9]|10[1-9][0-9]|1[1-9][0-9]{2}|[2-8][0-9]{3}|9000)$ hostname

Never thought I'd use regex in the sudoers file...

>>105781853
if you do that on a system at work you're fired.

>>105781847
lmao

>>105781878
only a pussy uses *nix at home like he's working with a company server

>>105781847
85mb

>>105781673
nevermind. i did not understand what slackware was. i'm going back to debian. fuck that shit, i dont have enough time to fiddle with slackware and compile my own packages and all that jazz.

>>105775807 (OP)
After switching from a desktop environment to a tiling wm I noticed clipboard content gets erased whenever I close a gtk program. Apparently this is an old "bug", but I never encountered it in the past, so what gives? It's quite tedious, specially when copying stuff from Firefox. Copying from anywhere else works fine. I'm using xclip and Arch btw.
>>105779944
Why not Linux Mint?

>>105781847
plasma-systemmonitor gives reasonable totals for stuff like that. Why you care how much memory firefox in total is using is another question.

>>105781764
>it's impossible to tell if something with a lot of subprocess is misbehaving
No it's not. Just identify the misbehaving subprocess and switch to tree view to see which group it belongs to.

>>105781878
The things I do for fastfetch...
{
"type": "command",
"text": "mapfile -t containers <<< \"$(ps aux | grep \"[s]hepherd.conf\" | awk -F ' ' 'NR>1 {print \"\"$2\"\";}')\" ; echo \"Monero: \"$(ps -o rss -p ${containers[0]} --ppid ${containers[0]} | awk -F ' ' 'NR>1 {print \"\"$1\"\";}' | awk '{printf \"%s+\",$0} END {print \"0\"}' | bc)\" KB memory usage - PID ${containers[0]}\"",
"key": "  ",
"keyColor": "blue"
},
Where it says "Monero" it'll instead use the nsenter command. After that I'll have to figure out how to automatically add these sections based on how many containers are running, but at that point I'll probably have some shell script monstrosity which edits the fastfetch config file before fastfetch is run. Heck, I should have done that already to avoid duplication in the config...

>>105782019
>Why not Linux Mint?
Familiarity. Ubuntu was what I used years ago (I think Hardy was the last version I used) when I last seriously looked into switching to Linux so I came back to it. It sounds like Mint or just straight Debian might be better for me in [current year], but right now I'm just seeing if I can leave Windows comfortably; I'll tool around with other distros later.

guys i love arch so much

>>105781068
>>105781493
If you tell me a proper concrete use case I'll seriously consider spending 3 months of my time looking at it.

I'm also considering looking into SSI.

>>105782094
If it works for you then id argue there's no reason to change it. Im not into the whole distro hopping fad looking for the "perfect" config though, often you'll waste less time fixing the small quirks instead.

>>105782180
I'm with you and don't imagine I'll change often once I've settled on something. I don't actually expect many major differences but I have hardware I can carelessly play around with and a few threads ago some folks pointed out an issue with Canonical's package manager I should consider even if they were being autists. At worst I waste a bit of time.

Lol

>>105782044
Checking for memory, why care how much a program is using? amazing

>>105782390
don't sperg please

What's the state of HDR, Dolby Atmos and Gsync on gnu plus linux nowadays?

>>105782591
Apparently the latest version of KDE Plasma is supposed to offer greatly enhanced HDR support based on what I’ve read in other Linux/gaming communities.

>>105776902
nsxiv but you'll need to add a patch for file searching with dmenu
https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/nsxiv-extra/src/branch/master/patches/dmenu-search

does chromium force grayscale on its tabs text rendering? literally everything else from the menus to the ui to the web pages have rgb subpixel rendering but the tabs are still grayscale. i hate it.

>>105780764
First one is fast because it does literally nothing.
Second one is slow because it does 100 real things.

>>105782390
1 process = 1 program
You're asking for high level phb stats that don't actually matter 99.99% of the time. Just pipe smem into awk nigger.

>>105782936
No it matters most of the time because those are the memory hogs and you can't tell which dogshit program with 100 processes it is.
If you could tell at a glance, it wouldn't even be a question.

>>105782094
I see. I'm an Artixfag myself but I used Cinnamon for a long time and it's still my favorite desktop, it's pretty good. Ubuntu MATE is also nice.

>>105782999
It's a good thing KDE provides high level stats at a glance for officious retards like you then. I haven't thought about how much memory a program uses in several years. If it gets whacked by oomd it's using too much and I'll drop into htop to file a bug report. Otherwise stop being poor. RAM is cheap as shit.

>>105777575
xrandr --output <output> --scale-from 2560x1440

>>105783618
>>105782429

>>105777863
not him but it is by design, mouse movement has been consistently higher latency in wayland for me since i first tried it in 2013 to now, on countless hardware configurations. It can only be by design
If it isn't, then please tell me how you get cursor latency as good as x11 in wayland. Because i'm not using it until that's fixed

remember to type sync in the terminal before unplugging your usb drive. rotate your ram when you get the opportunity.

>>105783956
There is no "by design" reason why it has to be worse than X11. Many just had shit design where they processed input events on a single thread and with a shallow queue depth that could overflow with ease if using high resolution mice.
These issues have long since been fixed and are not Wayland issues, they are issues with whatever compositor implementation you were using. Nowadays you cannot even tell the difference between X11 and Wayland unless you're micro-benching and if you are then Wayland is either on par or better at least according to Phoronix, not to mention the fact that many X11 environments are unmaintained nowadays compared to their actively maintained Wayland counterparts.

>>105783961
>rotate your ram when you get the opportunity.
Why?

>>105784499
>Wayland is either on par or better at least according to Phoronix
LibreOffice is laggy as fuck when I switch to Wayland. Works just fine on X11.

>>105784564
that's a libreoffice issue
NOT a wayland issue
wayland is perfect.
maybe switch to an IBM supported product.

>>105784610
It may actually be a Red Hat issue if they're using the GTK backend.
>>105784564
Libreoffice has a fuck-ton of different front-ends. Try using the Qt one.

>>105784499
i've tried weston, sway, labwc, and kde. Mouse feels the same in all of them
it's pretty subtle and i'm sure many people wouldn't notice, but i do

>>105784616
I was already using Qt. Still lags on Wayland.
>>105784610
WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE

>>105784669
Which version of Qt? It works fine for me, not that I use it much. You're probably better off using XWayland instead because contrary to popular belief, Wayland did not break all of the X11 applications. You can still use the X11 backend.

>>105784677
Doesn't xwayland introduce overhead? I may as well just use X11

>>105784703
No. It's working directly with Wayland surfaces. It's an implementation of Xorg that runs on Wayland, there's no extra/additional copies or other unnecessary stuff going on.

>>105784711
>It's an implementation of Xorg that runs on Wayland
That's what people call overhead.

>>105784718
Then your definition of overhead is incorrect. It's like saying Xorg runs on top of KMS/DRM, this is overhead. It makes no sense.

In real terms if you compare the performance of the two then XWayland is on-par or better. Phoronix has benchmarked this many times now.

>>105784718
There's no draw overhead. It's all the X IPC bullshit that they didn't want in Wayland emulated by something not the display server.

It's almost like the people who designed Wayland knew X programming really well.

>>105784830
i like how any time cursor latency is mentioned the conversation quickly turns into surface drawing latency and the cursor is never addressed

>>105784912
and yes i know it's because some retard mentioned libreoffice, bit still, there's always something that distracts away from cursor latency

>>105784921
Still nobody has mentioned any proof that cursor latency is actually an issue.
There were problems in the past (are you running RHEL or some ancient Ubuntu LTS?) but these were addressed.

>>105784925
all it takes it running x11 in one tty and wayland in another. move the mouse in one, switch to the other and do the same thing
it has always been this way for me so i'm not sure what other issue you're talking about is. this has prevented me using wayland for more than a moment however, so there may have been more issues i never used it enough to see

>>105784990
You're talking about different vsync strategies, or lack thereof, not an input latency issue.

>>105785021
a hardware cursor shouldn't be affected by such things

>>105785032
Compositing does, yes. Wayland or X.

Any suggestions on how to actually fix suspect/hibernate under

My machine (Fedora 42, NVIDIA 3080, closed source drivers) often comes out of suspend/hibernate to a black screen, Its intermittent, but if i use the following it becomes every time.

NVreg_EnableS0ixPowerManagement=1
NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1

Before i go into a rabbit hole any suggestions of what to try?

>>105785058
Composited xorg isn't nearly as input laggy as wayland is, even with a heavyweight WM like kwin.

>>105784990
>all it takes it running x11 in one tty and wayland
you aren't running just x11 and wayland, you're running x11 with some DE or WM on top and a wayland compositor (whichever one)

>>105785115
i know, but it doesn't matter in this case. as a side note, you can run x11 (to be pedantic, an implementation of such as xorg) and have a cursor literally by itself, as unlike wayland, it's independent of any wm/de

>>105785058
if it's a compositing issue, can you turn off compositing for the cursor?
I don't use compositing in X, almost never have

>>105785137
I guess you're comparing apples with oranges.

>>105785292
i guess wayland isn't a replacement for x

>>105781847
Add the PRIV column so you can see actual per-process memory usage.

>>105785354
I suspect we'll still be arguing about X vs Wayland by 2035, kek.

>>105785075
>hibernation
I dont think hibernation works ootb in fedora because of security concerns. It copies the contents of the ram into the swap partition(disk) and thus they can be read by third parties if they get access to it
You probably just gotta set up a swap file/partition and add it to fstab.
>sleep
this should actually work ootb. I think i had strange behavior when i tried
NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1
but its hard to tell because i've got a laptop and the nvidia card works as secondary
>https://pastebin.com/RbL6QwnD
this is what i use in case you want to look at it, the spam filter is gay and doesnt let me paste it directly
the power saving features work just fine and i can suspend with a game running that is using the dgpu. I dont have swap so i havent tried to hibernate though

Any Linux email clients that allow me to route through Tor? (assuming that is even possible).
Don't want to use webmail for the obvious potential security issues.

>>105785406
Tor does absolutely nothing for security.

>>105785372
>PRIV column
That's just RES - SHR, it doesn't help.

>>105785472
>That's just RES - SHR,
Correct. PSS, PRIV, SHR is all you need. VIRT if you're a low level developer and care about address space issues.

>it doesn't help.
For overall memory usage, yeah, no. I think you can do something with cgroups though.

Good idea to format half a 4TB HDD to NTFS and leave the other half ext4 for storage use?
No operating systems would be installed on this drive, it would just be used as shared internal storage for a dual-boot pc (Which would have a separate SSD for linux and a separate SSD for Windows)

>>105785490
Nothing wrong with it. You could just have a single NTFS partition, or use the ext/btrfs drivers for Windows.

>>105785406
All of them. Tor is a SOCKS5 proxy. Worst case the client doesn't support using proxies and have to make a virtual adapter with tun2proxy.

>>105785487
>you can do something with cgroups though.
Well, that would work, but it's a pain to set up.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/19benkx/operation_liberty_lane_le_running_gaurd_and/?sort=new

>>105785401

Thanks, with those settings things are looking much better. Hopefully this is all i needed.

>>105785746
Also make sure that the nvidia-suspend, nvidia-hibernate and nvidia-resume services are enabled

>>105776478
EndeavourOS doesn't really have much bloat either. I installed that on my old computer while I have Arch on my main computer and the first boot package count was pretty much the same between them.
It's actually seems very similar to Arch, except it was easier to install and I like Arch configuration (or lack thereof) better.

>>105778310
Literally doesn't. Tried to use it just yesterday. Didn't detect my WiFi card. Not a single Arch based distro has this problem. You shouldn't be forced to use wired Internet when it's not practical.

>>105785777

All look to be enabled by default, thanks for the tip.

Also just noticed my install defaulted to a 8GB swap, my machine has 64GB of ram so if its suspending to swap I guess that could cause issues if ram if above the swap size. Another cause of my issues perhaps?

Why does my computer act so surprised when I try to print $DISPLAY?

>>105785862
Ah that made me laugh, thank you. I've had a shitty day, thanks for that.

>>105785862
>

I want to install Arch on an empty SSD but have roughly half the drive partitioned for NTFS so I can use that extra space to store data from a Windows dual boot. My actual Windows install will be on a different drive.
- Should I partition and format the NTFS half before booting my Arch iso and using fdisk, or would it be better to leave the entire drive unformatted and unpartitioned then make the new NFTS partition after installing Arch?
- Any potential issues I should be aware of when having two EFI partitions on two separate drives?

>>105786031
It's probably better if you just partition it with Arch while installing and mkntfs. Windows makes bullshit partitions.

>>105783901
works pretty well, i've done --scale 1.33
it used to crash so i thought it's bugged but it works now, didn't know about --scale-from
even at 4k the fucking grass in dark souls 2 looks like ass at MSAA x8

>>105785802
Works on my machine

>>105780167
Anyone please?

>>105786031
>- Any potential issues I should be aware of when having two EFI partitions on two separate drives?
no, i have 2 1 GB efi paritions on one SSD each, one where i destroyed wangblows and one where i only have Arch. The only "issue" is that one of them is simply redundant.

I have 2 SSDs, one that has only Arch and one that has some experimental Arch installations and a windows NTFS partition that had (still has) data i stored there where i still used windows. The NTFS partition works just fine in Arch. I deleted all other partitions that Windows created (as the other anon said, Windows makes BS partitions that only Windows will ever use and it is fine to nuke them).

why am i seeing this shit and what do i do with it
the file is in place

>>105786954
nvm wineboot -u fixed it (why do i have to do this?)

Where can I learn how the fuck audio on linux works? ALSA, jack, pulseaudio, pipewire, I know all this shit exists but I don't know how it fits together

>>105787854
https://blog.rtrace.io/posts/the-linux-audio-stack-demystified/#The-Linux-Audio-Stack
Could've made fun of you for not being able to google it but this is a friendly thread and I actually love computer audio.
The TLDR is:
>ALSA are audio drivers that talk directly to the device
>Jack, Pulse, Pipewire are sound servers that talk to ALSA

>>105776082
"recommendations" are merely suggestions to those who know better
most people don't know you can reinstall windows without formatting the c: either. it doesn't hurt to recommend the safest option, because anyone who knows better isn't reading recommendations anyway

>>105787882
Thank you

>>105780347
sure, i imagine the only reason there aren't any that i know of is because opengl is older, so targeting opengl means more devices can run it, and i can't think of any advantage something simple like that could get from using vulkan
i am a layman on the topic practically, but from what i understand vulkan is a lower level api, so there's more potential for performance compared to opengl, but for something like a windowing system where performance isn't a concern, there's little reason to use it. that said, i also like performance gains in general, but idk, i'm not sure if you'd get any measurable performance difference doing something like a vulkan wayland compositor or something, since by the time you run any benchmarks, the compositor has already gotten well out of the way anyway. you'd need a really slow computer for performance enhancements in the windowing system to matter, and anything that slow won't support vulkan.. see the problem?

>>105780532
>>105780167
i'm genuinely not sure which i'd take if i were forced to choose. neither is an appealing option

>>105780764
the first part effectively prints a directory listing
the second part opens each file
the second part should take longer as there's more filesystem operations involved

>>105787854
ALSA is the audio subsystem of linux (the kernel). linux itself only supports ALSA (advanced linux sound architecture). back in the day it also supported OSS (open sound system), but it went proprietary, which is why ALSA was made to replace it.
jack, pulseaudio, pipewire (and older ones like esound, arts, etc) are userspace sound mixers/daemons which add additional features on top of alsa, like mixing, routing, effects, etc.

>>105788156
-- this is why you can find (really) old linux programs that want OSS
also linux audio drivers are made for alsa. there's no such thing as a device driver for "pulseaudio" for example, as pulse and the like do not speak to devices, it speaks to alsa

>>105788188
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture
>The Linux API is composed out of the System Call Interface of the Linux kernel, the GNU C Library (by GNU), libdrm, libalsa and libevdev (by freedesktop.org).
>the GNU C Library (by GNU),

Thank you Stallman

>>105787854
>>105788156
fun side note, BSD's still use OSS. OSS went free again a bit later, and since ALSA was only made for Linux, they stuck with OSS

Thankfully nowadays Linux audio just fucking werks, even smoother than Windows when it comes to standard, non-professional use cases

>>105788258
On FreeBSD I had to install something called pavucontrol to fix mine

>>105788258
i've honestly never had an issue with linux audio, even since i first tried linux in 2004. about the only common "newbie trap" i can recall is alsa muting devices by default

>>105788258 (me)
Ah I remember back in the day when there was no standard audio server I had to use my trusty SoundBlaster Live! for getting more than 1 application to output audio
>>105788268
>FreeBSD
Not Linux

I'm migrating over to Linux. Natron seems to be the best composting tool on Linux, and it supports OFX, but I can't get Boris Continuum Complete to work. Looking through the BCC files, they don't actually take the .ofx extension but rather .bsp, though opening them up in Notepad reveals them to essentially be xml documents.

Any way to get these to work on Natron?

>>105788284
>Ah I remember back in the day when there was no standard audio server I had to use my trusty SoundBlaster Live! for getting more than 1 application to output audio
that's not a lack of an audio server, that's a lack of an audio mixer.
audio mixing is a long-forgotten issue, but back in the day audio mixing was done in hardware, on your sound card. back when sound cards actually did something. alsa originally did not support audio mixing. you needed a sound card that had hardware mixing to have multiple applications output sound at the same time. the alsa plugin dmix provided software mixing, i believe in 2005, a year or so after alsa came out.

software vs. hardware mixing is a historical issue at this point. cpus are so fast that there's no reason to do it in hardware anymore. i don't know if current soundcards even support hardware mixing

>>105788333

I work in VFX so your question peaked me interest. Can't really help but throwing it into ChatGPT seemed to provide some clarity, give it a go.

>>105788284
>>105788335
also, i'm still sad i had to stop using my soundblaster live! 24bit pci when i got motherboard that had no pci slots on it :(

>>105788335
>that's not a lack of an audio server, that's a lack of an audio mixer.
you're totally right, I forgot about that
>the alsa plugin dmix provided software mixing, i believe in 2005, a year or so after alsa came out.
Right, but it was a pain to setup whereas hwmix sound cards just werked
>i don't know if current soundcards even support hardware mixing
One of the newest that do support is Audigy Rx or Audigy 5. I managed to get it new for ~20$. It's still pointless at least under Linux because software mixing is still enabled, and won't be disabled. It's still useful for oldschool gaming under Windows though

>>105788372
There are plenty of cheap PCI-e compatible SoundBlasters out there, like Audigy Fx

>>105788393
>you're totally right, I forgot about that
it's something nobody has had to think about for 20 years. feel old yet?
>Right, but it was a pain to setup whereas hwmix sound cards just werked
it's true setting up dmix is an extra step you didn't have to do if you had a supported hardware-mixing sound card
>There are plenty of cheap PCI-e compatible SoundBlasters out there, like Audigy Fx
apparently you can get pci to pci-e adapters, but i'm not quite that cut up about it. still might try that though just out of the curiosity of running pci cards on non-pci mobos

>>105788368
Apparently BCC is compiled for specific editors. Oh well, at least Sapphire still works, which is what I mainly use.

>>105788393
>It's still pointless at least under Linux because software mixing is still enabled
yea, if you're using something on top of alsa like pulseaudio then that's also doing software mixing
>It's still useful for oldschool gaming under Windows though
remember when games had an option for how many sounds could be play at once? playing many sounds at a time was a real performance concern once upon a time

>>105788468
>feel old yet?
I certainly do
>apparently you can get pci to pci-e adapters
It's hit or miss, some cards won't just work while others do. My current soundcard, Essence STX is a PCI card with a built-in PCI to PCI-e adapter
>>105788526
>playing many sounds at a time was a real performance concern once upon a time
fun times, and come to think we had specialized devices that added sound effects to games. Is it just me or audio isn't as immersive as it was back in the day?

>>105788548
>Is it just me or audio isn't as immersive as it was back in the day?
as much as i love my sb live! 24bit pci, i'll never forgive creative for killing Aureal 3D. yes, some sound cards did have various effects built into hardware as well, like the aforementioned A3D, or creatives' EAX. you can emulate at least some of them nowadays in software, but it's funny to think there's probably many people now trying old games using only the fallback basic sound output without any of the effects the game was made for
https://youtu.be/7Yc2pODiZgU
https://www.indirectsound.com/

Can any anons point me in the right direction
I have a debian machine running on an i5-3570k and a Asus p8z77-v pro motherboard, plus a 1070. I was only able to successfully install the distro via the kernel parameter "nolapic". I have the latest bios, and I have tried a bunch of other parameters as well. The system works, but I basically have a 1 core cpu. From what I am gathering I have to go in and manually fix the DSDT? Please tell me there is a better fix

>>105788648
This is why I still own an old PC with WinXP and a SB Audigy 2 ZS

anybody want to help me troubleshoot?
>tty1 runs a session (it literally doesnt matter what, kde, gnome, xfce, labwc, wayland, xorg, anything)
>tty2 runs gamescope + steam + 3d application in game (as opposed to in a menu, its fine if i switch tty while in a menu)
>switch to tty1
>the mouse cursor on tty1 moves as if through molasses
iv tried multiple switches when starting gamescope + steam but its always the same.

>>105788705
you shouldn't have multiple sessions open, at least run them under a different activity or virtual desktop

>>105788728
dont speak on things you undertand.

good piece of info for somebody that actually knows anything substantial. its fine if i run another instance of [session], open steam the normal way, and run a game on tty2 in an entire new session.
it defeats the purpose of running the game in a minimal environment THO.

>>105788782
don't understand*

This is new! The context menu in Firefox is way slimmer now. I'm not sure if it's a new thing in Firefox or the fact that I recently upgraded Linux Mint from 21.1 to 21.3.

>>105788848
It's a new firefox thing

>>105788704
everyone knows that the software 3D graphics renderer isn't the ideal choice, and find some kind of wrapper to run old games with newer api's, but who ever checks if the games' /sound/ is "how it was meant to be heard"? windows since vista doesn't even support hardware sound so you're totally dependent on software emulation for that. this is getting tangential to the topic of this thread, but said software emulation is relevant with regards to running old games in wine
hardware-accelerated sound is basically forgotten these days

>>105788873
it's nice. it feels like all Firefox does anymore is make small tiny cosmetic changes and I don't mind that at all.

>>105787885
So it’s perfectly fine to just re-install without formatting and have a fresh OS without issues (and preserved /home) ?

>>105789469
yea, as long as you clean up the drive you're installing to and know what the installer (if you use one) is doing
simply put you can reuse a /home, but precisely how depends on the specific installer you use (and if you aren't using an installer, why even ask this?)
it also begs the question, why reinstall? if it's a different distro, that can bring it's own issues with regards to reusing a /home, like does the new distro have software at least as new as the configs in you /home expect? will your /home configs override defaults in the new distro and give you an altered ootb experience with said distro?
if you understand what resuing a /home means, this should not be unexpected.

ok i installed and configured hyprpaper does this stop the anime girl wallpapers from appearing behind my wallpapers? if not how do i turn that off i dont want no fucking anime girls on my shit

>>105790026
lmao what linux program gives anime girls by default?

>>105788014
Thing is, performance increase also means more efficiency. And if such a windowing server could be, let's say 30% more efficient, that wouldn't be negligible gains for battery powered devices like laptops. My T540p Craptop runs ~50 minutes with wayland and ~120 minutes with X11.

Also Vulkan is technically OpenGL5, but they renamed it due to the break from the API and to make people exited for it
>Oh hurr durr new openGL
vs
>OH DAMN, NEW RENDERING API NAMED VULKAN, IT'S GONNA BE THE FUTURE
Also Vulkan is 9 years (fml I'm getting old) old. It's also not going to be replaced by something fundamentally new any time soon.

Other than that, I agree with you.

>>105788654
Have you tried other distros?

>>105790061
hyprland

>>105790026
anime girls are in your computer. stop worrying about your monitor. it's so much worse than you know.

Should installation of ubuntu be taking so long?
I'm installing proprietary software and it feels like its taken over an hour but I can't tell if im actually making any progress

>>105790026
Let them live in peace!

>>105782881
>>105788102
No, they both print the contents of the files.
you can do something like
for i in ./*;do echo hi > $i;done
in the test directory to fill each file with "hi". then remove the /dev/null from my orignal comment and watch how both for loops print the contents of the files,

using arch, my microphone doesnt work on the latest kernel
i installed and booted linux-lts and it works there.
What's the protocol here? do i just wait or should I file a bug report?

Does archinstall auto partitioning have an option for luks+lvm?

>>105791019
If you feel like reporting it: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.19/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.html

Something like dmesg may have more information on why it's failing on the newer kernel.


Question from me - Is there any benefit to using the xpadneo driver these days, versus the default xpad driver that's in the 6.15 kernel? CachyOS, my Xbone controller seems to work fine with the default kernel driver minus the fact I needed to use Steam to remap the buttons correctly and use Steam input (so I'm kind of assuming if I use the controller in a non-Steam game that the mapping will be messed up again).

>>105788705
Submit a bug to gameacope

>>105791111
Pretty sure xpadneo is for xbone controllers using bluetooth, normally xbone with bluetooth won't show the controller's battery life unless you have xpadneo installed.

>>105791198
i cant do that dude. i have no idea what the problem even is let alone if its a gamescope specific thing.

>>105791227
Yeah that seems to be the case, currently I don't have a battery %. Not sure if there's any difference besides that.

>>105790026
force_default_wallpaper = 0 # Set to 0 to disable the anime mascot wallpapers

>>105790061
the best ones

>>105791255
thank you the stupid sad face in the config made it even easier

>>105780707
Good morning, sir.

For me it's pic related

>>105791719
I preferred the other one

What's the name of this info "widget" in KDE and how do I alter its appearance?

>>105791994
looks more like a notification daemon like dunst or mako

>installing ubuntu 24.04
>takes 5 minutes to load just after I choose my system language
Theres no way this is normal right?

>>105791719
>Hyprland
>Not Hypr
dropped

>>105792341
is Hypr some sort of a fork or something?

>>105792401
https://github.com/hyprwm/Hypr
You tell me

>>105792341
i don't care
i don't want rice
i want keybinds and smart window managing
i have shit to do
i don't want tranime bullshit.

>>105792468
Hypr is hyprland without the gayland.
Literally made by the hyprland team.

>install Manjaro ARM on Raspberry Pi
>stable branch is so unmaintained that pamac doesn't even work
>switch to unstable branch
>cannot connect to audio server
>try fedora arm instead
>can't boot

>>105792485
i use wayland because it works for me. i don't want to tinker tranny with xinit to get my dual monitors to work.

>>105792287
Doesnt sound normal to me but i recall some distros generate a locale file, dunno if its related since the one i use comes with that precompiled. Shouldnt take too long though

>>105792438
>xorg
sorry dont use outdated shit

>>105792539
how much do you make at IBM?

>>105792599
i dont work at IBM i work at a commercial laundry

>>105791994
The notification daemon is probably Mako
The widget is Netspeed widget:
https://store.kde.org/p/998895/
https://github.com/dfaust/plasma-applet-netspeed-widget

You don't actually need a fancy widget though. KDE has built-in widgets for bandwidth usage already. You just have to add it.
(I use a panel height of 20 but increased it to 40 for the screenshot)

>>105792624
>I don't work at a money launderer
>I work at a money launderer

>>105792657
if it was a money launderer it wouldn't have a heart attack over missing a day of work due to power outage

>>105792084
Yeah, it's mako. Thanks. Any idea why it's applied instead of the default KDE notifications? It's a fresh Fedora install and I've basically just changed theme and icons and I can't make any changes under system settings -> Notifications. Is this some lame Fedora default setting and if so, why isn't it possible to change...?

>>105792624
>>105792669
You're too poor for an attitude such as this >>105792539

>>105792671
It's because of DBus auto-starting Mako before Plasma Shell starts.

There is a fix for this in the .desktop file you would have something like:
OnlyIn=Sway or something like that (not sure what the actual syntax is) but it's generic on purpose because it can work anywhere. Your best bet is to simply uninstall it.

>>105792669
so you make meth underneath an unused laundry unit? i got my degree in chemistry thinking i could make E and be rich but ended up burning trash and looking at analytical reports.

>>105792685
>he thinks its possible to be too poor to use wayland

time to touch grass

>>105775807 (OP)
Does anyone have a guide on how to make one's Linux "modular"? In a sense that I want all my settings, userspace, extensions, bashrc, environment, etc to be available to me so that I can just install a new version of debian and then have everything right there where I need it?

>>105792694
>its possible to be too poor to use wayland
That's not what I said, don't twist my words.
I said you're too poor to have such a bad attitude towards things that might be old but are definitely perfectly fine to use.

>>105792724
Use a github repository to store all your customized files and write a script to import them so you can set up a minimal install and pull your files down quickly.

>>105792724
put /home on a separate partition

>>105792738
>xorg
>fine to use
maybe in 2011 but now is buggy garbage

>>105792689
Thank you very much for your help! :) Still weird that it defaults to mako instead of KDE notifications though, you'd think that KDE's own tool would be the standard alternative on the KDE desktop...

>>105792747
It is. The issue is DBus, it's unrelated to KDE. There is a race-condition where Mako starts up before Plasma Shell acquires the notification bus.

>>105792739
What if I don't want microsoft to know all my preferences?
>>105792740
Can I just load that in without any issues? What if some Version mismatch with some program happens?

>>105792760
Your grindr app already told them about your preferences.

>>105792767
What's grindr?

>>105792504
I tried Fedora ARM on my Pi before, and I think it wouldn't boot if any USB devices were plugged in, so I had to unplug the mouse and keyboard to get it to boot, then reattach them once it was booted

Then I realised I don't care about Fedora so now my Pi runs Raspberry Pi OS (which is just Debian with some Pi-specific tweaks). It boots very fast. It's probably the best option for the Pi.

>>105792760
i mean you might need to update some configs for some programs but it should just drop in

why would you use archinstall instead of endeavouros?

"Just use Linux anon, it's way better than Windows and linux gaming is amazing now, it's just like Windows if not better!"

Hm, okay

>people tell me to "just use arch, and read guides as you go"
>every damn thing needs to be done pretty much manually
>I just realize that I'm reading guides for 2 hours and I barely got anything done

"LOL! yeah yeah Arch is a DIY distro, try Linux Mint it's way more user friendly"

Sure
>Mint is indeed easier, but I'm still struggling to get things going

"Oooooh so you want to play games on Linux? Use Bazzite instead"

Sigh
>Installs Bazzite
>Okay, yeah I can see this is better, Lutris looks great, I'll finally get things going now
>Battle.net refuses to install
>After tinkering with it for 1h and 5 people telling me that I'm a dumbass because things "just works" or to "read the guide again" I finally check out a youtube video with a workaround
>I'm supposed to use Steam to add the Battle.net installation file as a game
>then make sure to use the 10.0 beta version of proton
>then do the same process again but with the battlenetlauncher.exe
>None of the above was said in any guide, of course


Linuxbros, what am I missing here? I have no problem with figuring things out but I keep being told linux is amazing and very user friendly nowadays but I can't help but feel that everything requires 5 more steps than what I would do using Windows.
I still wanna learn so feel free to recommend another distro or any other tip.

>>105792827
Dude, either you're solving a problem you have and then being on linux makes the problem easier to solve or you can just fuck off to windows.
Gaming on linux will never be easier than windows. If that's what you're going for, just give up

>>105792827
>first half
You have a severe case of falling for every meme you see.

>>105792786
Thanks
>>105792827
When people say Linux is user friendly now, they mean that you can start your browser just like that without having to compile and install it and its dependencies from a CLI first.
Anything that has nothing to do with windows works better than on windows.
If you though, for any reason, need to run a windows application on Linux, there might be some tinkering steps. But the wildest thing you'll have to do is really to just import the file into Steam and run it. Valve could make a killing here by extending their Software shop and bringing a lot more software to steam.

You're 98% there, don't give up, Linux has a steep learning curve and can feel intimidating, but it's worth it. If you want to see what Linux felt like 10 years ago, try some BSD.

>>105792827
your missing that nobody here actually uses linux. everytime iv asked a question here im met with either silence or similar to what you describe. even to things that are extremely simple. i asked once if i could build a kernel with only the modules i need... silence.

>>105792890
FYI mid means mediocre

>>105792911
I know, I'm a zoomer.
>senpai = familiar
>bussin = great
>no cap = fr = honestly

>>105775807 (OP)
Look at that fat CUNT of a penguin, absolute lad.

>>105792873
You're not wrong.

>>105792865
I'm not doing this because I hate myself and rather do everything with extra steps. I'm a bit of an OCD freak and I can't stand how things are so limited while using Windows. It's amazing until something is wrong, then you're either met with a "deal with it" or tear the entire system apart to achieve what you want.
Not with linux. You're in control of everything and that's quite appaling to me.
Also, some of the games I play actually run better with linux so overall, the struggle is not pointless.

>>105792890
Thanks man. Yeah there's a learning curve, I think I just need some time and things will click soon enough.

>>105792760
>What if I don't want microsoft to know all my preferences?
Just use another Git hosting service (Codeberg, Gitea, GitGud, GitLab, NotABug, etc.).

>>105788062
I would take the fatty. You can tell her to turn around and if you're not staring at that massive belly/fatrolls, you can fool yourself into thinking you're just fucking a girl with a huge ass.

The muscular chick? It would really feel like you're just fucking a man, and their pussy is not great. Speaking from experience, woman like that end up with a more defined pelvic floor muscles and can involuntarily squeeze your dick during sex.
>sounds hot
It's not. Imagine the pussy closing for a split second during thrust. Feels like hitting your dick on a concrete wall.

>>105792827
You could also force proton 10 on lutris, no need to use steam. Also in general avoid the lutris install scripts, they're mostly outdated, protondb or even the umu database are more useful
https://umu.openwinecomponents.org/

>>105775807 (OP)
I have no idea why some times my mpv films play back buttery smooth and other times I get the "Audio/Video desynchronisation detected!"
It always changes between reboots. I'm using the same fucking file every time!!! It's so bad when playing back 4K HDR remuxes, some times it works just fine, sometimes it lags so much you can't watch it at all (it's a "seconds per frame" situation...)
I've taken to rebooting
How on Earth do I even begin troubleshooting this?
I've even fixed the dangling HDMI cable by making the GPU port a bit tighter with a pair of pliers.

mesa 25.0.7
linux 6.15.3
mpv 0.40.0-r2
ffmpeg 7.1.1-r2
AMDGPU loaded as a kernel module
xorg/dwm
AMD RX 550
Blue underwear
Brushed my teeth twice today
TV's HDMI UHD Color mode on (I know X doesn't do HDR, but I get better colors this way and it works)

>>105793820
>it changes between reboots
Id ask you if it really is mpv to begin with and not your power settings or some other external cause.
>Blue underwear
You retard, everyone knows you gotta use red when you want performance

>>105793914
This kernel version defaults to setting the power profile to high, thankfully, but I've also tried
echo "manual" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level
echo "3" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/pp_power_profile_mode #video
echo "5 6 7" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/pp_dpm_sclk
echo "2" > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/pp_dpm_mclk
#all cranked to the highest it can go

I have the kernel parameters setup, all of that... Same result.
I'm almost folding and buying an rx 6400 to be done with this shit, and also for blender (don't get me started on the ROCm clusterfuck!!!)

>You retard, everyone knows you gotta use red when you want performance
Oh, fuck off, I even forgot I'm running an all AMD build. BRB
[SOLVED]

How can I install this thing?
https://github.com/kristiankoskimaki/vidupe

I am not good with computer and I'm only 6 months into Mint.

>>105794215
I can't find build instructions but it looks like ancient, unmaintained shitware
Try this:
https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
Compile from source of go to the releases tab and get a build

>>105794241
How can I use this for 1:1 video comparisons? I've used this an is only for size and filenames.

>>105793820
First try with a live cd to rule out any possible hardware issues, monitor dmesg constantly when it happens, try with another storage as well

Does an arch distro with an ezmode GUI installer exist yet?

I've installed arch plenty of times before so it's not like I can't. But I installed AnduinOS yesterday because I guess the yt algo is pushing it and I already ran into a gripe because ubuntu.

So can someone explain why the search on KDE (Fedora) is stupid? So if I search "about" then "about this system" shows up first but if I press enter 1 second too late then the search has been updated so now "Welcome Centre" is the top result and gets opened. I've noticed this happens with other searches too. My keyword initially finds what I'm looking for but the search updates and if I'm not quick enough then it opens something else.

>>105794857
Endeavour or Cachy, archinstall for TUI

>>105794496
Got it, I'll try that.
Sorry to bother, but could you recommend some live ISOs? I've not used anything other than my distro's installer for the last 5 or so years. No idea the state of other distributions.

>>105794857
>Does an arch distro with an ezmode GUI installer exist yet?
Yes, EndeavourOS.
>>105792819
I want a manual installation for every distro I try, I wanna use my own kernels and boot processes so I like having stuff as rootfs tarball or other type of bootstrap'able thing.
>archinstall
gibs rootfs tarball plz lmao
>>105792827
>Arch is a DIY distro
Does the minimal starting point count as a DIY distro? You just slap in packages until stuff looks ready.
>Mint is indeed easier
They lied to you, they are both binary distributions with the exact same package management logic.
>>105792760
Been dragging along my $HOME since forever without problems.
>What if some Version mismatch with some program happens?
Are you talking about downgrades specifically? Yeah well that's one hazard: going from Arch to Debian let's say.
>/home
Don't do /home, do an arbitrary mount point under /mnt instead. And then place your $HOME at /mnt/whatever/anon. And then bind mount or symlink or whatever else, such as /usr/src, /usr/local, /var/lib/bluetooth etc. Yes, you can drag along Bluetooth binds between installations.

>>105790390
Yeah, and that's the crazy part is that I have Debian installed on the system before with out a problem.The main issue I have noticed trying out the other flavors was having to put a parameter to even get the installer to work. I am going to keep slamming parameters till I get bored or something works. If not, DSDT for me

>>105775807 (OP)
How do I change the UI colors on KolourPaint?
Getting tired of having no contrast on the tool bar.

>>105780347
nvidia did a talk for that

https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/6/contributions/288/attachments/211/289/Vulkan%20for%20Wayland%20Compositors_%20the%20new%20best%20choice_.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDsksRBLXPk&t=31601s

New thread:
>>105795412

>>105776082 i have 3 different home dirs sync their docs pics music vids etc dirs to a central home dir on a separate disc with a script using rsync set on a systemd timer.

>>105785490
You might run into permissions issues but most of the time np. you need ntfs-ng or whatever the file name is. Make the whole thing ntfs. Or make it it all extR and get a tool for windows to read and write to that fs. never done that tho.