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Previous thread: >>105795412

>>105809551
What the post said, what's their end goal?

>>105809565
Either making the final desktop distro or making yet another toy distro.

>>105809565
why do you ask us? How should we know what they want?

>>105809531 (OP)
as I said before the other thread disappeared, i daily drive my raspberry pi 4, great little machine and i have yet to find any other hardware prove to be as "just works" as this with linux. every other piece of hardware just works better with windows 10 but the rpi i find to be exclusive here

>>105809942
>every other piece of hardware just works better with windows 10
This is objectively true but windows 10 is a shit software

the ALT key on my keyboard is completely dead, replacing the switch did nothing, so I'm fucked.
is there a way make it so when I press another predetermined key, let's say the menu key, it registers as ALT?
Yes I can replace some shortcuts, but some programs are hardcoded for ALT

>>105810000
>windows 10 is a shit software
which is lamentable, but thankful microsoft is rugpulling their userbase and i wage my stake early with the rpi4, runs very well if you dont use the microSD card and boot off an actual drive

I've been using Linux on a Asus laptop for 3 months (Nobara 41) I've got used to it but small stuff kept breaking on each update. The main issue is that my laptop keeps overheating (95C°) on each application open, how can I set up a distro with something that can control the CPU usage? I've noticed that with Wayland can't change native resolution from the DE from the internal monitor, is there any way to fix this?

>>105810093
There are cpu clocking and undervolting apps for fedora out there anon. It's not hard to find, simply undervolt your cpu until you figure out the problem (probably kernel related) and ure done. Besides, Asus laptops run great on windows, consider going back

>>105810368
Probably but after using the Steam Deck I've been looking for a similar experience cause even half working the OS covers most of my activities and can throttle if I'm not updating. Also I'm opposed to the idea of using win11 if I have to hate it every second

>>105810426
What you don't like about windows 11? If it's not simply aesthetic it's very workable, winget for a package manager (kinda sucks but it's enough) powertoys for most power user tasks, etc.

Ok I've given linux a try
But I just cannot stand my steam downloads being stuck at 10-20mbps. I was getting over a gig when I was on windows.
Being able to easily run games off of ntfs hardware would also be really nice

>>105810456
I'm used to have W10 by manually brick the update service, by looking at the first boot of W11 I've noticed stuff became worse and I had to spend time again how to debloat my OS, and also heard the stuff going on with co-pilot, I've already formatted my SSD cause even at the worse state Nobara is functioning well enough and having control of the CPU frequency makes realize how powerful is this laptop that doesn't overheat on 2d indies compared to w11

Im running Methapor refantazio as a non steam game and started playing without using proton compatibility, when i turn it on the game doesnt reconigze my save file. My question is where does steam saves non steam games save files? is not in .local/share and .config

>>105810093
>cpu usage
Usually they control the clock speed. Did you really not install power management tool like tlp or some equivalent? Pretty sure workstation comes with tuneD, which I dunno what allows you to do. Not sure about the other ones but I assume the KDE version also comes with something

>>105810573
>spend time again how to debloat my OS
If you're a sane user your two options are
> spend time building a linux os
> spend time debloating a comercial one
it's up to you how you want to spend that time to get the ultimate reward (native compatibility, corporate freedom, etc)

>heard the stuff going on with co-pilot
Depends on the hardware you have, so far they've said only ARM machines will come with Recall, and it's not backwards compatible, you most x64 is safe (for now). The other problem is them shoving copilot into every single native windows app (notes, paint, photos, etc). Which sucks ass but it can be turned off (privacy use is dubious, but it's up to you if you care about that)

> that doesn't overheat on 2d indies compared to w11
I don't know if thats a windows problem, g-helper is a great tool for asus laptops that let you undervolt your gpu and cpu and control fan curves and power settings with a gui that replaces all asus services. It works by combining all the endpoints that windows leaves out for asus to control and putting them in a single program, letting you replace (and turn off or uninstall) your default asus services that bring a lot of overhead and bloat and probably overheat your pc with hardware acceleration o algo.

in bazzite my /etc/default/grub only has these 2 lines
GRUB_TIMEOUT=3
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu
is this normal? trying to disable ipv6 and instructions talk about editing a line that simply isn't there for me

>>105810825
Yes thats normal

>>105810825
>bazzite
lole, just go for fedora and reproduce bazzite from scratch

>>105810623
They're saved in their own prefix on ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/appid (check out the folders with 9 digits)

>>105810825
>>105810853
Also just go into
Settings -> Internet -> IPV6 and choose disable

>>105810869
Will Aurora or Bluefin get just as polished as Brazzite given that they have drastically less user and overall interest? I'm mostly interested in Aurora but don't want to get stuck due to no usecase testing

>>105810867
Thats is for games running under Proton, and like i said i forgot to turn it on, so i was having a significant performance drop. The save files where in

.wine/drive_c/users/youruser/AppData/Roaming/SEGA/METAPHOR/Steam/76561199790077203/* .steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/3298441113/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/SEGA/METAPHOR/Steam/76561199790077203/

all i had to do was

cp -r .wine/drive_c/users/youruser/AppData/Roaming/SEGA/METAPHOR/Steam/76561199790077203/* .steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/3298441113/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/SEGA/METAPHOR/Steam/76561199790077203/

Now i can finally play with 144+

>>105810982
oops i pasted the full command twice

>>105810982
how does the game run? and what's ur hardware? I wanna finish this game on my laptop before installing fedora beacause i'm worried aobut compatiblity and performance. is this a fitgirl install ?

>>105811001
12600k 4070 and its smooth at highest settings. im on arch, no issues installing it and yes im using fitgirl repack

>>105810934
They're literally 99% the same distro, just with a different set of pre-installed flatpak apps.

I was able to install neofetch yesterday but now its not in arch's repo lol what the fuck

>>105811269
it's old news anon, haven't you read the docs?

>>105807356
Notice how they ignored this

alias shutdown="shutdown -h now"
alias restart="shutdown -r now"
alias sleep="systemctl suspend"

is this bad practice?

>>105811515
because it was obvious bait lol

>>105811636
usecase?

>>105811636
Shutdown and restart are common aliases, often provided by the distro itself. I'd advice against using the word "sleep" though, it's a command that sleeps the current process.

>>105811728
i dont have to type more shit to do basic stuff with my pc

>>105811749
poweroff and reboot should exist.
And damn, aliasing sleep? What could possibly go wrong?

My computer is connected to my TV with HDMI and have 3.5 audio output as well.
The audio can be either set to go through the TV or through the 3.5mm audio output.
Is there a way to make it output audio through both at the same time?
Or select certain applications to go through the 3.5mm audio?

>>105811783
>poweroff and reboot should exist.
but i want to type shutdown and restart
>>105811783
>What could possibly go wrong?
idk thats why im asking yall

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

>>105811636
>is this bad practice?
it's terribad

Anyone uses this?
https://github.com/dockur/windows
I manged to set it up and got it working.
But I can't connect to RDP session.
The VNC session works fine, I can reach internet so networking is working, and even can access shared folders.
I don't mind VNC, but I wanted to get RDP working to get https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps working with it.
Mostly just for MS Office.
I'm just getting this error
[00:33:28:622] [806043:000c4c9c] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.x11] - [load_map_from_xkbfile]: : keycode: 0x08 -> no RDP scancode found
[00:33:28:623] [806043:000c4c9c] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.x11] - [load_map_from_xkbfile]: ZEHA: keycode: 0x5D -> no RDP scancode found
[00:33:29:944] [806043:000c4c9c] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_read_layer]: BIO_read returned a system error 104: Connection reset by peer
[00:33:29:944] [806043:000c4c9c] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - [transport_read_layer]: ERRCONNECT_CONNECT_TRANSPORT_FAILED [0x0002000D]
[00:33:29:149] [806043:000c4c9c] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_read_layer]: BIO_read returned a system error 104: Connection reset by peer
[00:33:29:149] [806043:000c4c9c] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - [transport_read_layer]: ERRCONNECT_CONNECT_TRANSPORT_FAILED [0x0002000D]
[00:33:29:149] [806043:000c4c9c] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - [freerdp_connect]: freerdp_post_connect failed

>>105811834
why

>>105811810
>but i want to type shutdown and restart
kinda pointles but whatever
>idk thats why im asking yall
do you also have an alias wait for when you want the system to wait for a bit?

>>105811855
>do you also have an alias wait for when you want the system to wait for a bit?

wdym?

>>105811849
you're overwriting a common command

>>105811871
usecase for common command?

How do I install custom cursors? I have a set of cursors I use from windows and want to move them over to troonix.

I had this laptop running windows and the bluetooth wasn't working.
I booted liveUSB of linux and as expected the bluetooth worked flawlessly.
The weird thing, when I booted windows back again, the bluetooth worked.
Is there any explanation?

I want to give steam a try but I don't want to deal with leftover files.
Which is the best way?
>steamOS in container?
>distrobox and steam?

>>105811958
You should use the repos but if you have to do it manually dump them in ~/.local/share/icons/
>windows to linux
win2xcur

>>105811985
Linux fixes everything, that's it

>>105812034
Flatpak

>>105811985
There are a bunch of stories about peripherals not working on windows that magically do on Linux and I can never tell the reason for this phenomenon. Now with the additional layer that it automagically started to work on windows after plugging it on Linux I'm even more confused
Not gonna complain about it though, it's neat

best gnome distro? tried fedora but it was doing some spooky shit and generating lots of network traffic at idle, even after pulling software updates, so I am getting rid of it, i need gestures since I got the fake apple trackpad on ali and it worked great on gnome

>>105809531 (OP)
My old computer with a LGA 1155 socket motherboard can't boot into linux for some reason. i thought it was just Mint, so i tried Arch, and only after i install Linux it stops recognizing the drive as something that can even be booted from and tells me to insert a bootable device. the only thing i haven't tried is another drive, but that same drive works on my other newer computer, and crystal disk shows nothing wrong with the drive. i don't have another free drive and am unwilling to buy another one just to potentially have the same problem.

My only explanation is it might be a motherboard setting that i'm forgetting. do old computers have a problem running linux?

>>105812567
>do old computers have a problem running linux?
They shouldn't, I have a couple of 775 and AM2 boards in use and they boot fine on legacy bios, I did run into some issues with an old iGPU but when I installed nouveau it worked

>>105812567
Install GRUB to MBR.

>>105812554
>it was doing some spooky shit and generating lots of network traffic at idle
do you have any logs or something? You made me feel concerned so I guess I'll end up monitoring the network later

>>105812656
i just get "error: cannot find EFI directory" when doing "grub install /dev/sdb/" (my drive path) after chrooting into the install. (using archinstall, don't know if that makes a difference)

>>105813169
RTFM
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Installation_2

>archinstall
ngmi

>>105810560
Does your network card need proprietary drivers?

>>105810560
Wi-Fi? Yes, Wi-Fi support is kinda bad on Linux.
>>105810825
Do you really need to blacklist the module?
How about just
# /etc/sysctl.d/disable-ipv6.conf
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1

Or
net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_ra = 0

>>105812722
no but i like to use gkrellm and leave it floating in case weird shit happens, sometimes thunar hangs and eats cpu while doing nothing, so I thats how I noticed, I did not bother to open netio or nettop or whatever that stuff is called.

somethings wrong with my swap file, my computer wont shut down, i don't even know why i chose that option during archinstall desu i have 32 gigs of ram anyway. if chatgpting how to remove it, but is there a way to mess it up that my systems fucks up and i have to do a clean install?

>>105814535
What happens when you try to shut down, and why do you think the swap file is causing the problem?

>>105814617
>>105807132

>>105813499
>gkrellm
I used to make themes for it

>still trying to fix my drives so that I can store and play steam games off of them
>make one of them ext4 in kde partition manager
>somehow end up mounted and loaded in my external drive as the home folder and no applications work anymore
>restart pc
>applications work again but now one of my other drives doesnt work. A drive I was intentionally never touching or changing to begin with now just fails to function for some reason
>"Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sda1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error"
I feel like crying
I can't even go into my reaction image folder to post something appropriate because thats in the drive that is now unusable.
I don't understand why.

Is gnome actually going to force libadwaita on all gtk programs in the future or is this /g/ hysteria?

I write programs in gtk4 because I like C but it I am going to be forced into using their theme I will switch to qt.

>>105814954
>/dev/sda1
what are you doing anon? use uuid or label or something

>>105814955
bruh
libadwaita layers on top of gtk
just use gtk and be happy

>>105814955
In the future, gnome will force you to use libgartenzwerg, which will include everything you might ever need, chosen by the all-knowing gnome devs.

>>105812430
It happened to me as well, But with WiFi adapter.
I think the linux just switched the state of the device to on, and this persisted to windows and now windows can actually see and initialize the correct drivers.

>>105815007
what AM I doing? I don't know.
I pulled my drive and plugged it into my laptop and can access the contents so at least its fine for now. Scared to plug it back in to my desktop though and the more I fuck around with it the more I feel like I shouldn't be trying to learn linux because I might accidentally cause an explosion

>>105815048
when tou tell your system to mount /dev/sda1, it's like you're telling it to read the first chapter from the first book on a shelf.
Now, when you add an additional drive to your system, this shelf has an additional book and now the first book might be a different one.
Hence why it's better to mount by label or uuids.

>>105815092
ok well I don't even know how im doing that or how I would have control over it.
I'm not running terminal commands, I'm just clicking on unmounted drives in dolphin. I'm doing whatever default operations that are tied to the GUI applications.

>>105810093
>Nobara
>Updates breaking
Try Bazzite

A while ago I posted about my playback issues that would happen randomly between reboots, having mpv stutter so much as to make a previously watchable file unwatchable, and how I had no idea how to fix it.
Read dmesg and other logs when it happened and when it didn't to try and see what changed. Tried various combinations of package versions, and so on.

I figured it out.
Hear me out, It'll sound schizophrenic, but it's not. It's 4AM.
After the X server is started I have to turn off the TV, look at its controller and wait for its LED to blink repeatedly (around 10 seconds in,) wait for it to stop and then turn on the TV again. That's it. The playback issues will be gone.

Go fuck yourself, Samsung.

>>105812300
This is one of the worst flatpaks ever packaged.

Linux Mint full native default Wayland support when? Maybe in the next one or two updates? Ubuntu has already switched over so it's only a matter of time, right?

My home directory now only contains an empty lost+found file.
Why? I have no idea. Probably something to do with the fact that I set an incorrect mount point for my external drive in the partition manager.

>>105815186
What's wrong with it?

My PC is connected to my living room TV with HDMI cable.
The audio is coming from TV speakers, I have sound system installed and connected directly to the PC.
How do I get the audio to come from both at the same time, or have certain application uses the sound system only?
I'm using KDE + pipewire.

>>105815208
Run
mount

And see if the home partition is mounted properly. Maybe you populated /home and only after that mounted the partition that was supposed to be there?
Sounds like it.

>>105815181
Gotta love esoteric bullshit. It sounds so bizarre.

>>105815233
Yeah.
You drive a subaru and I drive a benz.
Both are cars but one is superior to the other.

>>105815259
I use pavucontrol. I don't know about both at the same time, but I can do some programs via headphones, others via soundbar if I want to.
Set up your stuff on the configuration tab (pro audio should do) and then on the playback tab you'll be able to set which output a program uses.

>The file system on partition ‘/dev/sda1’ could not be unmounted.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I'm about to reinstall windows

>>105815393
learn or perish
(or install a distro that does the partitioning for you)

>>105815393
You can get a windows 10 license for 2 usd and upgrade to 11 for free

>>105815618
/fwt/ has way easier methods

Kapitano or ClamTK?
Wish Kapitano gave more information and had right-click scan support like ClamTK.

Is there a Linux version of Steam verify integrity of game files?

I just installed Linux Mint and crashed once during the installation process.
I worry that something is wrong and want to see if there is a way to fix it without having to do a full restart.

>>105816142
your package manager can handle that for you.

>>105816150
Best package manager for system integrity?

>>105816150
I should have said that I'm a complete new Linux user.
I looked at the fsck I think it was called command and got intimidated out of using it. Just a gut feeling not to do it too.
>your package manager can handle that for you.
Do I just use the update manager to check for updates? It also checks for potential broken files?

>>105816168
it's not a question of best, it's whatever you use on your distro. They all should be able to check integrity of installed files

>>105816174
that's probably a use case where you need to use a terminal. And I dunno how to do it with apt. read its manual.

>>105816150
The package manager doesn't track game files lol

>>105816202
wait, is he not talking about a system upgrade?

>Google's noto fonts as a package dependency
>a gorillion gigabyte download on every update
>have 10Mbit/s internets
/blog

I know distrobox is just a fancy wrapper for container.
I don't understand how it's a different from actual container though.

>>105816335
What's "actual container"?
Also: if I have a Linux system in a directory and I chroot in, is that a container?

>>105816288
create a dummy package that provides the one noto font package some other shit needs. install the dummy package, problem solved.

>>105814954
>somehow end up mounted and loaded in my external drive as the home folder and no applications work anymore
If I understand you correctly here, it seems like you've installed Linux onto your external drive as well. So when you rebooted your PC, you booted into that specific installation of it. You're effectively dual booting two Linux systems in that case.

What you need to do is, in GNOME Disks or KDE Partition Manager:
- find your external drive
- select all partitions and delete them all
- create new partition for the entire drive and select ext4 or btrfs (if asked, choose "anyone can access it" instead of "root access")
- click apply/format and wait

>A drive I was intentionally never touching or changing to begin with now just fails to function for some reason
Are you sure you didn't do something to it by accident?

>"Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sda1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error"
I have no idea what that means. But here's what ChatGPT spits out, maybe it'll help you.

>>105809531 (OP)
I need to learn how to use git.
I just added my email and username to git itself but I screwed up making my gitlab account.
Is there a way to change the namespace name?
Eg. gitlab.com/namespace/project
I used the wrong namespace and I don't want my gaming name to be associated with my git projects.
I don't know if I can change it or if I'll have to delete my account and wait the 7 days to remake it.
Please Help.

>>105817075
I should also say that I changed my username but that doesn't affect namespace.

>>105817075
bro, that ain't a linux question.
If you can't find anything in your settings (plausible) your only hope would be support, or just make a new account.

>>105817117
Where would you recommend I ask? Anons in dpt only care about complex projects, not beginner questions.
I imagine that users here know a bit about git.

>>105817143
gitlab forums? This isn't a question for a mongolian cartoons image board.
Knowing about git doesn't even matter, this is a gitlab account question. It has like next to nothing to do with git.

>>105817143
Linux users stopped knowing git when easy to use distros like Bazzite, Nobara and Mint became popular. There's maybe 5 people here who know how to open a terminal.

Memes aside, this is not a git question. It's a service (gitlab) question.

>>105815301
>>105815186
Isnt the only thing not working VR?
If you dont use that its irrelevant.

>>105817169
Steam through redundant files everywhere on your system, because it need to access some shit.
Steam container is a better option overall.

Is it just me or RDP'ing to windows from linux is next to impossible?

>>105817375
you mean, it's next to impossible to use the shit that is windows after experiencing linux? Yeah, that's a common problem.

>>105817402
You're right but no.

>>105817436
dunno, it just works at work. Well, as long as Microsoft, in their grace, allow me to log in.
They often don't, but that;s not a RDP problem.

>>105817375
It's easiest to connect to a 10/11 Windows machine over RDP that's using Pro or Enterprise, which you can easily set up with script tools.
You should just be able to enable remote desktop in the Windows settings and make sure remote desktop is allowed through the built-in firewall. Then you should be able to connect to the Windows computer via IP using whatever RDP thing you're using like Remmina+FreeRDP.

>>105817468
I don't know what to tell you.
I'm using win 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC, disabled ALL firewalls.
And can't RDP into it.
I can VNC just fine though.
>Remmina+FreeRDP
I tried that as well as xfreerdp3 and even thincast

Use an AMD GPU, they said.
They work great on GNU/Linux, they said.
Jul 6 16:11:26 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: Starting gfx ring reset
Jul 6 16:11:26 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: Ring gfx reset failure
Jul 6 16:11:26 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: GPU reset begin!
Jul 6 16:11:26 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: device lost from bus!
Jul 6 16:11:26 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: GPU reset end with ret = -19
Jul 6 16:11:26 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: GPU Recovery Failed: -19
Jul 6 16:11:31 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: Dumping IP State
Jul 6 16:11:31 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: Dumping IP State Completed
Jul 6 16:11:31 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: ring sdma0 timeout, signaled seq=5506234, emitted seq=5506238
Jul 6 16:11:31 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: GPU reset begin!
Jul 6 16:11:31 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: device lost from bus!
Jul 6 16:11:31 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: GPU reset end with ret = -19
Jul 6 16:11:31 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: GPU Recovery Failed: -19
Jul 6 16:11:36 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: Dumping IP State
Jul 6 16:11:36 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: Dumping IP State Completed
Jul 6 16:11:37 localhost kernel: amdgpu 0000:01:00.0: amdgpu: ring gfx timeout, signaled seq=22367042, emitted seq=22367044
.
I tried running a game in Wine, which worked, but then the screen turned black all of a sudden and I lost all video output.
After attempting to reboot (which didn't work) I had to hard shut off the system.
I then found this in the logs.
How do I prevent this from happening, how do I recover from this without having to turn off the power, and what even is happening?
Help.
And don't tell me my card is broken. Because it works fine in Ryujinx and other apps.

>>105817544
Then I dunno what's wrong. There must be a break in the chain somewhere cause it should be that straightforward.

>>105817578
How would i find this out?

>>105817552
shit like that made me enable sysrq

>>105817552
Update your kernel, linux-firmware and Mesa packages

As an end user, how does systemd make my daily computing worse?

>>105817893
Added complexity which makes troubleshooting much more difficult. When the Rube Goldberg machine is working well you don't even notice it.

>>105817885
Why aren't they automatically updated? I feel like they should be

>>105817893
It doesn't it's just uptight retards not wanting corporate decisions made for them, in fact, systemd much better than innit just because it just works, it's well made, and it's easy to patch and debug. initfags keep fucking losing

How is gaming on arch? I'm thinking of removing windows from dualboot but I also wanna play steam games and roms.

>>105817921
Distros sometimes lag behind or stick to older software by design (e.g LTS distros).

For example, 6.15.5 just got released today but is still in testing on Arch. Other distros will take even longer again to update.

>>105817971
Arch is -the- gaming distro pretty much these days thanks to more up to date packages/drivers and it being the basis of SteamOS so it gets a lot of funding from Valve as well. Really no other distro you should game on.

>>105817980
And before someone calls me an updooter, yes there are AMDGPU fixes and updates. There always are.

>>105817983
is there a "tune arch for gaming" wiki out there? I don't wanna install shit blindly

>>105818070
Basically all you need is just install the correct driver packages and use proton-ge-custom as your proton runner in Steam and you should be all good. The Arch Wiki has articles on what to do with NVIDIA and AMD cards.

>>105818100
Man idk the people at cachyos do a lot of shit to "tune arch for gaming" is it really just about installing drivers

>>105818121
That's also something you can do, just install CachyOS instead because it automatically tunes/installs all that shit for you.

>>105818121
Consider me a skeptic dude but I dont really see what you'd want from catchyOS other than the packages compiled for specific architectures and the cpu schedulers, which the repo itself warns that you should test them to see which one works for you.
Everything else might fall in the "it improves things in certain cases and degrades in others" category

Can you set the mount point for a drive wherever?

>>105818904
Technically you can, yes. It's your system, there's nothing stopping you. Just be mindful of the fact that if you do something like, for example, mount a network share in the root of your home directory this is a bad idea because if the share gets stuck then any piece of software that scans your home directory is going to get stuck and hang and lockup (it'll still do that if you mount it somewhere else but a lot of software is constantly scanning your home directory where as it's not constantly scanning other locations in /mnt or /media, etc)

>>105819001
So amyvplace under the hume directory is a bad idea?

Can anyone help me with my mpd config? Not sure what is going on or what I'm doing wrong. New to all of this.

I'm trying to use mpd + ncmpcpp

Here is my "mpd.conf" file inside of ~/.config/mpd

music_directory "smb://truenas.local/share/ ### / ### / ### / ### / Music"
playlist_directory "~/.config/mpd/playlists"
db_file "~/.config/mpd/database"
bind_to_address "127.0.0.1"
port "6600"
restore_paused "yes"
auto_update "yes"
audio_output {
type "pipewire"
name "PipeWire Sound Server"
}

Here is my "config" file for ncmpcpp in ~/.config/ncmpcpp

ncmpcpp_directory = ~/.config/ncmpcpp
mpd_host = 127.0.0.1
mpd_port = 6600
mpd_music_dir = smb://truenas.local/share/ ### / ### / ### / ### / Music"

Running mpd with "mpd" in the terminal gives me:

decoder: Decoder plugin 'wildmidi' is unavailable: configuration file does not exist: /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg

but the process still starts

opening up ncmpcpp shows that it has connected to 127.0.0.1 but doesn't show any files or music, anyone have an idea of whats going on? new to all this

>>105818070
You should just use Bazzite or Nobara if you want a general purpose distro which is also configured for gaming. If you're still dualbooting with Windows I assume you're not going to be patient enough to spend hours configuring Arch to be as good as the aforementioned distros.

>>105819029
Look at it in terms of owning things
>logged in user wants to access or modify data from X folder
>X folder may or may not be available at times
>therefore logged in user may or may not have access to X folder
>thus logged in user doesnt really own the data and it shouldnt be in its /home folder, which is dedicated to the data that the user owns

>>105819029
at work, we have the whole homedirs on nfs.
Sure, some DE may shit themselves in case of network problems, but whatever.

>>105819301
I'd rather spend the time building it than using some grifters attempt at a starup

>>105819271
Looks like samba support has been broken for 10 years
https://mpd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins.html#smbclient

>>105819029
I have ~/mnt directory where I mount some things but mounting directly in the root e.g ~/SOME-NETWORK-SHARE is an especially bad idea.
>>105819381
That's true, some people even boot entire operating systems off of NFS, but at work you probably don't care if there's a hiccup like you do on your personal desktop where you wouldn't want the entire thing to lockup.
The same applies to flaky storage / hard drives too, the mount point might lockup which will cause anything reading it to also lockup so don't put it somewhere where a program might accidentally read it (like the root of your home directory).

>the Linux experience

>>105819481
i thought linux just worked?

>>105819744
Not if you use something with an unknown usecase like mpd

>>105819757
the most commonly reccomended music player on troonix is an unknown usecase, crazy

why are my other drives no longer displaying in kde partition manager unless I specifically tell the system to do so?
Beforehand it was just displaying every connected drive

>>105817893
It doesn't. If anything it probably makes it easier.

>>105819426
>I don't value my time
k

>>105819629
Buy low sell high, anon

>>105819773
>the most commonly reccomended music player
>mpd
Nigger nobody knows what the fuck mpd is. The most commonly recommended music player is either going to be "whatever your distro ships out of the box", Audacious, Strawberry or "just use VLC bro".

>>105819795
>Nigger nobody knows what the fuck mpd is.
telling on yourself more than anything desu,

>>105819773
There's only one good music player

>>105819803
>he thinks this is some kind of an epic own
You'll grow out of your ricing and minimalism phase eventually.

>>105819481
>>105819757
>>105819795

I figured it out you pseuds, it only works if the smb share is permanently mounted on /mnt, i had to fuck around with fstab

>>105819841
based bussy

>>105819878
nothing to do with ricing tranny, no other meme music player that you reccomend can use adjustable equalizer settings like mpd with ffmpeg from my research

>>105819925
>nothing to do with ricing
>use adjustable equalizer settings
equalizers are the music playback equivalent to ricing

>>105819962
ive been owned

enjoy gnome bro

What does this boot flag I can set on my drives in the partition manager actually do?

>>105809531 (OP)
Dont really want to ask this in /hsg/ so ill ask this here instead:
Should i use ZFS or BTRFS for a DIY raid NAS? Or is there any thing else better to use instead?
Which OS should i use or will regular debian be fine?

>>105819744
mpd is not linux

>>105820030
Not sure which program this is, but I assume it's either "this is a boot drive" or "this drive will be automatically mounted when you boot the system".

>>105820090
I prefer btrfs because it's less annoying to use, but zfs is apparently slightly safer.

>>105820090
I've used ZFS and it just works fine. Debian works fine if that's all you're using it for.

>>105820030
Hopefully nothing since it's microsoft bullshit.
And hopefully you don't use MBR

This scares the GNOME

Does btrfs read/write slower than ext4?

>>105820400
tbqhimho i don't like how they space between things

>>105820400
kek

>>105820407
yes.
>>105820090
As in setting up RAID manually?
Go for zfs.
>>105820030
It flag the partition as bootable by your boot loader.
>>105819786
Permessions.

>>105820090
Btrfs if you're gonna do mixed disk size raid

I fell for it and its good

>>105820407
In most cases, yes. See: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-5.14-File-Systems

But the benefits of btrfs are just too good to pass up imo.

Where does Fedora KDE store the console history/scrollback? I assume there must be a log file with the history, no? I've tried googling but I couldn't find anything.

Whats the /fglt/approved settings for this

>>105820662
Isn't it in your .bash_history or .zsh_history? Hidden file in your home directory.

>>105820677
what is this bullshit?

>>105820677
Keep everything disabled. The most based way to live your digital life is to not assign value to anything, never keep or hoard any data, never have backups.

>>105820616
>benefits of btrfs
What does it do for me as an end user?

>>105820723
More efficient storage in terms of your overall disk capacity used. Duplicated files don't consume extra storage in copy-on-write file systems.
Built-in protection against bit rot. Protects you from corruption.
Built-in snapshot support. (>>105820677) It makes it easy to recover files or recover your system if something goes wrong.

>>105820723
it has butter in it, which is good for you, also this >>105820756
>>105820677
one per week

I can watch hevc on c2d from 2007

>>105820686
Yeah, I found it, thanks. Crazy that googling doesn't give you the info for something that basic. The entry in the KDE manual pdf or whatever it's called doesn't tell you either.

I've noticed it more than a few times since moving to Linux. Finding basic info I'm looking for is sometimes very difficult. I suppose that's the problem with a much smaller userbase

>>105820793
no you can't

>>105820797
This is something that's just common knowledge among Linux users, MacOS users, devs and sysadmins. I find it very hard to believe that you couldn't find an answer to it.
I haven't used Google in a while, but it's clearly completely useless if it couldn't lead you to an answer to something this trivial and well known. I suggest switching to Brave Search or just using any random AI (ChatGPT, Grok, Deepseek) to ask simple questions.

Pic related is Brave Search with what I assume was your search term.

>>105820797
>Crazy that googling doesn't give you the info for something that basic
because pajeets killed google.
they're pushing their ai gimmick and de-indexing web pages with actual advice.

>>105820756
Is copy-on-write bad for SSDs?

>>105820800
cope

>>105820756
>More efficient storage in terms of your overall disk capacity used
You lose at least 10% tho, unlike ext4 that can be filled up

>>105820977
It's the opposite. It's good. Because you're not wasting write cycles each time you copy a file.

>>105820677
disabled because the distro just werks

>>105820677
I use a pre-update pacman hook and keep 5 snapshots max

Is there a reason why my terminal displays the name of my Windows install instead of the one for Linux after dualbooting between the two?

>>105817552
>amdgpu: device lost from bus!
>After attempting to reboot (which didn't work) I had to hard shut off the system.
>And don't tell me my card is broken.
Did updating fix it? Because this looks more like a platform issue, possibly the motherboard. Make sure the card is seated properly, consumer boards don't deal well with poor PCIe connections.

>>105821163
Which distro?

>>105820999
Half true. It's extremely rare to copy a file to the same device (duplicate).

>>105820977
deduplication often offsets it to some degree on normal usage and it can be disabled selectively for certain directories or mount points (like /var/log or your vidya folder) if you deem it necessary
there's also the transparent compression which means you write less on your disk to begin with but you might not want this on a toaster

>>105820879
I tried
>Terminal logs kde
>Konsole logs
>Konsole scrollback (after finding out that it was the name for it)
>Where is scrollback saved
Kde documentation, reddit and kde discuss showed nothing

I tried searching exactly what you wrote and again I can't see shit. Using Brave search I get the AI summary which does answer the question but if it's ignored I can't find any non-AI post about it. I went through the links the AI used to find the reddit post where the AI gets its information from
>Clear konsole history/keep it from recording command history
That did actually show in the google search (title only) so I did ignore it because it didn't seem like it would contain my answer.

>>105821254
>can't find any non-AI post about it
embrace the AI and directly ask it your questions instead of relying on Google's shitty search index

Why is there sometimes a delay when moving a file to the trash (Fedora KDE)? Sometimes it appears instantly and sometimes I either need to refresh the trash or do some operation like open a folder for the trash to update. On Windows I never had this problem, always instant.

Is there a simple tool for burning a windows iso to my usb drive?
I can't hang anymore

>>105821904
woeusb-ng

>>105821357
>Fedora
lol

[deleted]

>>105822275
Thanks that worked!

>>105821904
Ventoy or WoeUSB-ng work best

I wrote this maintenance script and I am really not sure about config_backup, I asked Gemini to write that part and it took 3 iterations to get something that expanded correctly so I am terrified it's going to sudo rm -fr --no-preserve-root / my whole computer.

Have I done this right?

>>105822796
Use a github repo and simlink all of those to a common directory. That just looks needlessly complicated

>>105822801
damn yeah that is way smarter than this abortion.

>>105821904
>burning a iso
Damn it's 2005 all over again.

lsblk to see your usb partitions

dd if=/path-to-your-iso of=/dev/your-device-partition bs=2M status=progress

>>105821092
>my terminal displays
Post a pic

>>105819271
https://gist.github.com/lirenlin/f92c8e849530ebf66604
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Music_Player_Daemon

Try this? I made notes once
sudo systemctl start mpd.service
mpc update
mpd ~/.config/mpd/mpd.conf
sudo mkdir /run/mpd
sudo touch /run/mpd/{mpd.log mpd.db mpd.state}
chown -R you:you /run/mpd/

>>105823006
You can't use dd to flash a Windows ISO because they aren't hybrid like Linux ISOs are. You'll get a "driver missing" error no matter what during setup.

I'm mentally disabled and need to debug something. I'm playing Minecraft through a cracked Prism fork
https://github.com/Diegiwg/PrismLauncher-Cracked
However i can't download none of the assests from Mojang's servers. Even fter using a VPN and taking forever, it fails and complains about a couple of nismatched hashes. For some reason, this other bootleg TLauncher clone allows me to do it, however is extremely basic launcher, doesn't even support having instances in 2025.
https://llaun.ch/en
I need to debug why. What's this one doing that the other doesn't?

>>105822796
>rsync for backup
Use borg/Vorta. rsync is purely for synchronizing two directories, all you're getting with rsync is a copy with no way to verify consistency. Don't find out the hard way when you eventually have to restore from a backup, use the proper tool to begin with.

i'm trying to set up a very minimal proxmox VM to run a headless factorio server and i'm stuck trying to figure out which distro would be best. as far as i can tell in terms of packages i only really need a firewall like ufw and wget to grab the server tarball. other than that i'd really like to not have to fiddle with system updates. debian stable seems like a good fit for that reason, but having never used debian before i have no clue which version to use. any suggestions?

>>105823424
>i only really need a firewall like ufw
>ufw
Don't use those silly front ends, use plain nftables instead. And every distro has those.
>firewall
You are likely in a regular household net anyway, you don't even need a firewall. Only routers need it.
>debian
>have no clue which version to use
The current one obviously: Trixie.
>debian
Could consider CentOS Stream.
>>105821904
cdrecord

>>105815181
I wonder aloud if it's trying to connect your computer as a upnp device. You can probably turn that off within the tv settings

>>105823148
What will happen?
rsync is all I have ever known.

>>105817544
Did you enable rdp in Windows settings, lol. There's a checkbox there to only allow connections with network level security that you should turn off at least while you're troubleshooting

>>105809531 (OP)
my boot time is slowed down by mounting of my internal non root hard drives/ssds, is there a way to auto mount them without fstab so I can speed up my boot to login screen?

>use linux, have problems
>install windows, never have problems

>>105824236
>use Linux
>have problems
>I'M GOING TO WINDOWS IMMEDIATELY

>use Windows
>have problems
>I'll just live with this

>>105824255
>use linux, have problems
>I'll just live with this.

>use windows
>never have problems.

>>105824274
>use windows
>pretend to never have problems.
ftfy

>use computer
>have problems

>no computer
>no problems

>>105824287
>use linux
>do anything

>>105822796
Always the best path forward is the simplest.

whats the best way to game on linux outside of steam?

>>105824568
>steam
wine
>bottles
wine
>lutris
wine
all your choices are wine

>>105824568
Bottles

>>105824568
There is only one.

>>105823614
I tried that as well.

>>105824568
Emulators

How come VMs can output video signal, while a container/bare metal can't unless there is a monitor connected?
I've been trying to make sunshine work and unless I have dummy plug or connect a real monitor, this seems impossible to do.

>>105820902
i thought this was full on ai slop, but the more i look at it i think it's just filtered to shit to the point where it looks ai made

AI slop is giving me nonsense answers.
How to run a script on a remote machine with SSH, and have it open the graphical UI on the remote machine?

LMDE vs openSUSE Tumbleweed? for basic desktop use like internet, coding, office, no gaming

is there a difference between distros when it comes to steam/proton performance and gpu drivers performance? so, should i fall for those gayman-distro memes, or i can just go my fav debian testing and get exact same result?
i think abt building a gayman pc, so the gpu choice will be amd since they have better drivers

>>105819271
did you update the database? open ncmpcpp and hit 'u'

>>105824236
>>105824255
>>105824274
More like:
>use Linux
>have problems
>ask /fglt/
>figure it out myself right after posting, feel embarrassed

>use Windows
>have problems
>ask /fwt/
>figure it out myself right after posting, feel embarrassed

It's like...as a man, the physical act of asking for help leaves me with a sense of overwhelming shame, which instantly overpowers and corrects my laziness.

>>105825720
None, they're all the same

>>105825720
If you're using AMD, most distros ship with RADV as the default Vulkan driver which is already the best. Some don't and still use AMDVLK so make sure you double check.

>>105825720
Debian stable has nvidia drivers v523, testing has 535, the current most up to date driver availible on windows is 576. other distros ship with the latest drivers, so even if you can install them on debian there is a difference for users

>>105819271
I dunno about any of that shit because I use cmus. Great terminal-based audio player. Has a library interface just like iTunes back in the day. You can click things with the mouse, or use the keyboard.

I read in an older thread that curl was better than wget. What's the curl equivalent of
wget --convert-links --content-disposition
?

>>105826159
"wget --content-disposition" can be done with "curl -J -O" though "--convert-links" doesn't have an equivalent.

Does anyone use the Cosmic DE?
I want to make the switch to GNU+Linux but im waiting for the first beta release

>>105826258
wrong place to ask everyone heres hate wayland but it's still in alpha and not stable, wait for the release or accept the risks of some things not working

>>105826258
>Does anyone use the Cosmic DE?
I do not
>I want to make the switch to GNU+Linux but im waiting for the first beta release
There are already quite a few mature Linux DEs, why not just try one of those? If you install one and you don't like it you can install something different. Easy.

>>105826258
It's an experimental DE. Definitely not recommended unless you're a developer or a tester. If you want something similar to it you should just use Budgie or GNOME.

>>105824236
I have to say, I don't get the point of disingenuous posts like this. Is the assumption being made that anyone who uses Linux has never touched Windows before?

>>105817885
I did that, though I was already using the newest kernel at the time.
>>105821163
My motherboard is old, so you might be right on that. But everything else just works, it's just running a dxvk application through Wine that did it. It can't be a hardware issue if it's only one specific software triggering the issue, can it?

>>105826291
Changing operating systems is a waste of time if you treat your computer is a tool and not a toy

>>105826538
I said you can change DEs. I didn't say you should change operating systems. You don't have to reinstall your OS in order to change your DE.

I'm on Ubuntu and I have a few DEs installed. I have SDDM which shows a login screen when booting, and there's a drop down box so I can choose between different DEs.

>>105826289
This is what im planing to do. Just thought i could ask here to get some feedback from ppl already using it.

>>105826291
i have a laptop with EndeavourOS and KDE on it, im not a complete linux beginner. I also tried different DEs but none really "clicked". Also im not this anon >>105826538

>>105826334
I tried Budgie when Ike was still developing Solus, but it is in a weird state for a couple of years.

>>105826203
Thanks
Is there any extra flags i should add to curl? I've seen -f -L and -S used in some scripts

Is 60 MB/sec transfer speed over USB 3.0 bad?
Or I have shitty controller in the USB flash drive?

>>105826720
Yes that is bad. It's slightly above USB2 speed (480mbps).

>>105826760
How to troubleshoot that and find out what causing it?

my external monitor is going blank for like a half a sec every now and then, its connected over usb-c to my hp elitebook that is an ex corporate laptop, im on fedora 42. the issue is on both usb-c pc to screen as well as dp to usb-c dongle. hdmi to hdmi works fine except for being capped at 30hz since this is a 4k screen. what are my options?

>>105826765
Actually nevermind math says that's exactly USB2 speed.
Why don't you look at lsusb -tv and see what that says?

>>105826685
-L is something you should always use because it just makes curl go through redirects if there is one. -f makes it fail silently on server errors while -s shows errors even in silent operation.

>>105826807
>5000M
That should be USB 3.0 no?
I have another USB 2 device connected though, does this lower the whole hub to the USB 2 speed?

>>105826159
curl isn't better than wget

>>105826860
Yeah, that is USB3. So at least the port and device are reporting the correct speed. You should probably try some other device to see if it does any better.

Linus is being mean on the mailing list again

>>105827008
Hasn`t written anything the last month what are you talking about anon

>>105826892
I tried different things.
I'm considering getting a 2.5 GpbE to USB 3 to just test speed

>>105827058
I tried some devices in my USB3 hub too, an USB stick (which should be pretty high quality) only managed 90MB/s while an SSD in an USB enclosure easily went over 300MB/s.
So depending on what you're putting in there, it might just be slow as fuck.

>>105826720
>>105826760
>>105826765
>>105826807
>>105826860
All my USB sticks do like 5MB/s no matter what USB version or brand. And same goes for SDcards.

>>105827092
Sorry, I should've cleared this.
By hub I meant the whole USB ports on the back of my mini pC.
I think it's all on the same controller so when one of those are running a USB 2 device all of them are in USb 2 mode.
>>105827111
>5MB/s
That's shitty controller.

>>105827114
>That's shitty controller.
But aren't all USB sticks generally shit?
Picrel is my only not-slow USB storage device.

>>105827114
What do you mean you think, lsusb actually shows you which hub each device is under.
If a device is on bus 001 port 001 dev 001 it's a different controller from bus 007 port 001 dev 001.

>>105827130
That's SSD, it has better controller and dram
>But aren't all USB sticks generally shit?
Sandisk and kinsgton are the best with that regards but there are counterfeits everywhere.

>>105827273
You should pretty much only ever use Sandisk or Kingston USBs desu. Samsung ones are also fine but they're pricey for what they are.

>>105826791
> what are my options?
Could literally be anything.
1. Check if your laptop supports a refresh rate which you're setting (I assume 4k@60Hz). Even if your CPU supports it, maybe your laptop's port doesn't.
2. Check if your USB C cable supports speeds required for 4k@60Hz. Most cheap USB C cables don't support it, or barely support it and can't keep up.
3. Check if your other USB C devices are behaving the same. If they are, maybe your port or cable are damaged.
4. Try using a USB C dock. Most of them have an HDMI port so you could go USB C (laptop) to HDMI (screen).
5. Check a different distro. This could just be a Fedora thing.
6. Check if this is also happening on X11 instead of Wayland.

>being capped at 30hz since this is a 4k screen
HDMI 2.0 should support 4k@60Hz. If your laptop only supports HDMI 1.4, maybe it really isn't powerful enough for a higher refresh rate. Your options in that case are either replace the screen for a smaller res but higher refresh rate, or replace your laptop. (So, there's no solution in that case)
Alternatively, it's possible that your HDMI cable isn't made for HDMI 2.0 and is just capable of delivering HDMI 1.4 bandwidth.

>My UEFI deleted its stub boot entries again
ASUS fix your shit

>>105827704
huh? how?

>>105827720
Who knows. They're gone apart from two boot entries. I have to add them again.

What do I change in my gtk theme to affect this (and other) element's color in firefox?
I have overridden the raster assets in /usr/share/themes/my_theme/gtk-assets/ with custom ones in ~/.local/share/themes/ and they work for most gtk applications, but not for Firefox, it keeps using the theme's default accent color. How can I override it too?

>>105816288
Just don't update it, add an exception in the package manager's configs or however it is done in your PM.
It's just a font, it's not like it's gonna break the program that has it as a dependency.

btw I just found out recently that vncserver 1.11 and above is completely different from the old stuff
what the fuck were they inhaling when they decided to pretty much brick it for old users and make us feel stupid?

Hopefully someone can help me out here. I'm having an issue with a game on steam (dead by daylight specifically) the game itself runs fine but for some reason it no longer seems to be able to connect with steam when it launches. Anytime I try to launch it the game says that Steam is offline and thus the game is unable to be played, but that's not true. I've tried tinkering with different versions of proton, launch options, tried reinstalling and got nothing. Tried googling and find one reddit thread where someone mentioned running it as/not as admin on Windows and someone else saying about setting it to windows 8 compatibility mode in steam deck but none of those are options for me.
This is the only game I have this issue with, any ideas /g/?

>>105809531 (OP)
I'm having trouble with rsync.
Can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong here:
https://pastebin.com/raw/wx652qbx

>>105809942
any nuc i've tried with linux works fine
as long as you have hardware that is supported by good open source drivers, you'll be ok

are snaps cancer? i want clion but the AUR version looks like a mess

>>105825636
>LMDE
Why?

how much bloatware to expect with tumbleweed? i haven't used suse for quite some time, but i remember them having way too many things pre-installed

>>105828554
Personally I think snaps are okay but it looks like you can download a binary from their website

https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/download/?section=linux

>>105828908
yeah found that shortly after posting, which i should have been before. works fine.

any okay lightweight http server for a very simple web portal?

I have an Arch Linux laptop I was using at university. Now that I'm have finished university, I no longer need all those python packages on it. What's the best way to uninstall a lot of packages? I'm using pacman and yay.

>>105829310
Reinstall arch.

>>105829310
pacman -Rs package

How do I tell which one of these actually effects my audio?

>>105828554
Take the flatpak pill

>>105829424
took it once and hated it

>>105829334
Just using "sudo pacman -Rsc python311" did most of the work. Thank you.

>>105829474
Uh oh, I might have removed a bit too much.

>>105829515
you fucked up. lots of things depend on python.

>>105829515
Yeah... I'm pretty sure you should never ever use the c switch. Cuz that removes everything that depends on it too.

>>105829310
>>105829515
If you're doing dev work you should use distrobox to containerize your temporary dependencies.

>>105829707
>>105829736
Yeah, I'm trying to input my password after restarting, but pressing enter does nothing. I guess I am reinstalling Arch, lmao. I guess I could also try NixOS, that looks interesting.

>>105829758
No, nothing really important has ever been done on that laptop.

>>105829758
python comes with its own virtual environment
>>105829795
>nixos
prepare for a world of hurt. LLM's will be your friend.

>>105829804
>prepare for a world of hurt
Why? All I know about it is that is has some configuration that you can apply onto another system. I want to move to Linux on my main PC as well someday, so that's appealing to me.

>>105827130
Newer controllers are less bad. Even on B-tier vendors you can expect strong double digit MiB sequential writes nowadays.

kicked Win10 to the curve and installed CachyOS which has been working well (9070xt)
just one thing bugging me when saving pictures from 4chan with Firefox is that when saving images cant see thumbnails of files already in folder only a list
is there a way to set it so when saving pictures the files show up as thumbnails that way can see if im saving a duplicate with another name

>>105829804
>python comes with its own virtual environment
So? It's easier to clean things up if you don't install shit system wide with your native package manager.

>>105829932
hence why you install that shit in the python venv.

>>105829932
Arch didn't let me use pip. This was very inconvenient.

>>105829977
use penv. you can use pip. when you're done you can just delete the project.

Why is there such an irrational hatred for flatpaks?

>>105830019
>irrational
just because it differs from your opinion doesn't mean it's irrational.

>>105830019
Brainlets don't have the attention span required to follow the instructions.

>>105830019
Is there?
I think they are very neat and basically the default packages shipped out in modern distros.

Only meme distros like cachy ship without a store and flatpak.

>>105829977
>>105830017
> university
> doesn't contain python projects
op are u studying data science? and are you perhaps nonwhite or southern european?

>>105830081
maybe his uni actually teaches something beyond using someone else's library

>>105830074
most distros ship without flatpak, you have to install it yourself if you want it.

>>105826528
>But everything else just works, it's just running a dxvk application through Wine that did it.
If it's consistently one application it's probably a driver bug, but there may be other programs that do it you just haven't tried yet.
You haven't mentioned which AMD card you got. The more recent the buggier the experience will be.

>It can't be a hardware issue if it's only one specific software triggering the issue, can it?
Unlikely but not impossible.

>>105830081
I didn't want to install all those packages all over again for the next project. Especially on the shitty university internet and with laptop compilation speed.
>and are you perhaps nonwhite or southern european?
I'm white and eastern European.

>>105830094
Lol. Lmao.

>>105830112
It's an RX580 Polaris 10 card.
What a nasty driver bug though, completely crashing video output to the point of requiring a hardware reset should not be a thing.
This is why Linux isn't mass marketable.

>>105830111
I can't imagine that will continue to be the case

>>105830094
and? if you're making your own libraries theres no reason they should contaminate ur python installation, and if they are, you should find a way to contain them so that they don't pollute your arch installation, op is clearly not a programmer and most likely not white

>>105830111
ok, correction:
all good distros ship with flatpak

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>>105830167

>>105830144
>shitty university internet
you what?
>laptop compilation speed
>for python packages
you what again?

>>105830176
It's what I experienced, no reason in trying to explain. Thankfully, it's all behind me now.

>>105830148
>RX580
I have one too, on Arch, having no such problems. The most I get are ring errors as a result of the card state not always being reset properly when it comes out of power saving mode. But that never stops the card from working, amdgpu just spams the kernel log with useless crap.

Given the aging motherboard and GPU you shouldn't discount the possibility of hardware failure. It could just be that said application(s) stress the proverbial weakest link.

>>105829421
The top 2, one is a config file, the other is a running process (in /run).

>>105830381
so only change config then on restart the running one will change

>>105830848
I think so

>>105830158
This is why he's in University but clearly it's a shit one because the first thing they should have done after introducing pip is to discuss virtual envs. His professors are probably winging their job and don't know shit or expect you to figure this stuff out on your own (self-learning is important).

>>105830148
That's 100% a BIOS bug. I've seen the same hardware lockup issue happen with both GPUs and sound cards on AMD systems under Linux going back like ten years, I think there's some bit of legacy code they keep using that needs to get patched over and over again.

Does xdg-desktop-portal hack for thumbnails in file picker work on Linux Mint? I tried putting portals.conf in .config and /usr/share xdg subdirectory and changing about:config in Firefox but it still had the gtk file picker with one thumbnail at a time

New thread:
>>105831699
OP image fixed.

>>105831727
KYS

>>105831727
Why in the name of fuck are you obsessed with this purple haired thing?

>>105831727
based