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Previous thread: >>105830167

OP is a fag.

>>105831699 (OP)
Why do people hate arch so much?

>>105831699 (OP)
BAZZite!!!

>>105831769
>look mom i'm projecting

>>105831827
B A Z Z E D

>>105831827
>>105831849
ebin
absolutely ebin

>>105831868
What did he mean by this?

I fell for the Debian meme, what do I run now if I don't want to use a "fully updated" antique distro?

>>105832057
Arch

I haven't updated my archlinux for so long, it's completely fucked. i don't know what to do. could i reset the whole system? otherwise i would just delete the entire thing and fall back to my Windows (microsoft) installation.

i stopped updating regularly because i had a nice minimal system using awesomewm but as the time went, more and more stuff have gone mad. for example, they (archlinux) updated Lua but the library used by awesomewm addons was not updated, thus my environment got broken with no way to fix. i have lost all hope for linux on desktop.

>>105832145
>he fell for the arch meme

>>105832145
>lib32-alsa-lib
>lib32-alsa-plugins
>lib32-expat
>lib32-libcap
>lib32-libelf
>lib32-libffi
>lib32-libjpeg-turbo
>lib32-libpcap
>lib32-libtiff
>lib32-libusb
>lib32-ncurses
>lib32-nettle
>lib32-nvidia-utils
>lib32-pcre2
>lib32-util-linux
Update these first

>rest
Doesn't even exist in the repos, uninstall

>>105832145
i love (t)rolling memes

>>105832222
it can't be fixed, i have already tried. the system is fucked because arch changed their repositories architecture or something like that.

btw my firefox is completely fucked too now. the extensions don't work anymore. i either need a great reset or a great deletion. linux was fun.

okay. i am going to update firefox alone. if i don't post anymore; i have failed.

>>105832309
/etc/pacman.conf
post it

>>105832363
Godspeed

>>105832211
also >>105832094

>>105831699 (OP)
bazzsisters... we're back

>>105832363
>Firefox 125.0.3
>Released April 29, 2024
How can you fuck your entire system by not updating for a single year? I've done that before and was perfectly fine.

>>105832211
someone here asked recently why did people here hated arch, i think the biggest culprits are others who recommend using their dumb favorite system

I went wrong lmao

>>105832425
nigga...

>>105832410
I think this fucked me up
https://archlinux.org/news/cleaning-up-old-repositories/

>>105832425
>partial upgrades instead of updating the mirrorlist and sudo pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring && sudo pacman -Su
What are you doing man

>>105832425

>>105832458
Can you update pacman?

>>105832473
I already have updated the mirrors list with emacs.

>>105832512
That can be automated with reflector, what about the old repos mentioned here >>105832458 did you remove them and update the keyring and the rest of the system?

i am back, i had chromium installed! (never used).

>>105832494
i tried but got the message
user@devbox ~> sudo pacman -S pacman
[sudo] password for user:
warning: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 38: directive 'DownloadUser' in section 'options' not recognized.
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing gpgme (2.0.0-1) breaks dependency 'libgpgme.so=11-64' required by ostree


i thus updated ostree, it went fine, but now pacman refuses to run since i have updated the gpgme lib and this pacman needs the older version.

>>105832558
i copy pasted the default pacman.conf from arch repository but it did more wrong than good i think.

you guys managed to broke my system even more. thanks, i guess.

4chan just gave me a captcha i had never seen before. maybe because i am using a old chrome version. lel.

>>105832590
wow partial upgrades will really fuck your shit up

okay. how do i reset this thing? can i install arch again without deleting my home folder?
my friend told me to install Triskel, the kde version of Trisquel, a distribution approved by Richard m. Stallman (PhD).

i have a last hope, i found this: https://github.com/chaitanyarahalkar/Pacman-Static/releases/tag/v1.0.0

a binary of pacman statically linked!

>>105832633
That depends, do you have a separate /home partition? If not you'll have to do a backup

>>105831699 (OP)
Dear Gentoo,
Can you not randomly remove USE flags (brotli, http2, etc) from the Nginx ebuild?
I had to mask newer versions of it.
Package.mask
>www-servers/nginx-1.27.9

https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2025-07-05-nginx-packaging-changes.html

I don't like this change at all. At least make a meta-package that corresponds to the old USE flags and pulls in the new modules.

In windows when using another drive it gets mounted on another letter, it then acts as a "separate" thing from the main C:/ drive since the paths differs from the start.
In linux you mount a drive to any directory, like if in windows I mounted the new drive to C:\newDrive instead of D:\
Is my understanding correct?

>>105832685
yes, i have /boot, /, and /home separated.

how can i find the format of an archive?
user@devbox ~/Downloads/pacman-bins> tar -xvzf pacman-bins.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

>>105832713
>file pacman-bins.tar.gz

>>105832741
lmao it was just a tar, while this retard put .gz at the end?

my last hope just vanished.
https://paste.debian.net/hidden/6d9ac108/

... i installed this OS back in 2015... fuck this.

>>105832713
let it go man just format / and reinstall

>>105832709
Yes.
btw, under the hood Windows does it the Unix/Linux way too. Drive letters are a cosmetic thing.
>>105832424
Give me a better favorite, I keep falling back to Arch no matter what distro I try.
t. currently on Gentoo
>>105831821
They do?

>>105832830
i want to try https://cachyos.org.
yes/no?

>>105832845
I prefer the vanilla repos but I heard it's stable idk

>>105832845
Its arch. Do you like arch?

>>105832845
Wether you use cachy or regular arch don't do partial upgrades without this >>105832473 first

>>105832967
>>105833156
idk shit about CachyOS. Does it pull packages from Arch's repositories or not? If yes, then it is Arch.
>>105832830
Or live on the edge and extract a fresh rootfs tarball on top of it.

>>105831699 (OP)
when is Loonix getting games?

>bald brown man steals content from phoronix
>profits

>>105833777
good, fuck moronix

>>105832967
what i liked about arch is how you just install what you want without the bloat. for example, if i install ubuntu, i would have all kind of things i don't care about like libre office. i would like to try wayland. i was interested in KDE Neon but it is not recommended for nvidia users (i have a 3070)

>>105833903
What do you guys in Israel think about Linux Mint?

>>105833731
5 years ago

I want to fuck the "Bazzite" woman.

>>105833936
they wanted to do everything by themselves but when i look at the code repositories, it's barely maintained (a few commits every X months).

I'm trying out wayland compositor niri and posting this from chromium running in i3 via xwayland because touch pad scrolling in gayland is anal.

>>105833731
always had them (only old games matter)

>>105833903
you can just grab the net install version if you want to do your own thing in other distros

After a lot of struggle, I managed to get KDE's file picker to work on Cinnamon properly, dark theme and everything.
Holy fuck, it's so good to use a file picker that isn't completely dogshit like the Gnome's GTK one that Cinnamon uses. I have no idea how in 2025, Cinnamon is still using such a barebones file picker.

>>105834882
Cinnamon really needs to fork the GNOME/GTK XDG Desktop Portal to add a picker inspired by Nemo. They're off doing random crap like working on fingerprint support and forking libAdwaita while stuff as core as the file picker is ignored.

>>105834882
>I have no idea how in 2025, Cinnamon is still using such a barebones file picker.
The GNOME devs prefer it that way. Unironically. Sometimes they still claim otherwise but it's purely arbitrary.

>>105834930
are you implying this isnt a great experience when you want to upload an image

>>105835011
Grim.
At bare minimum you should be able to rename and delete files through the file picker, and also change the size of the thumbnail previews.

>>105835046
Being absolutely pedantic, you shouldnt be able to change or move the files since those are entirely different operations from selecting a file to upload it. Not being able to properly display things is completely inexcusable though.
Another funny one: typing anything starts a recursive search, checking every folder inside of your current folder. Ctrl+F searches only the current directory. Exactly the opposite behavior of thunar, for example. It definitely doesnt help slower devices either if you happen to fatfinger while you're on your home directory.
Why? Who the fuck knows.

>>105835169
Oh yeah
>let's make the practical user experience a nightmare because of some arbitrary pedantic rules that I made up
Fuck that shit. If I want to rename a file while uploading it, I will. I'm not gonna open a separated file explorer instance for that.

>>105835247
just open the file explorer and drag and drop your files then.

>>105835011
use tags

>>105835274
how would tags help there?

>>105835272
No.

I guess I'm too old to not just name my files when I save them

>>105835280
how would you find a single thumbnail in a folder with thousands of memes?

Just successfully updated my bios for the first time (with Q-Flash), but to do it I formatted and wrote the files to the USB stick through my Windows 11 VM. Since it worked and I was able to boot back into Linux, I guess I made the right decision.

But would this also have worked if I formatted/wrote the files to the drive in linux instead? I tried looking it up and it seems the preference is to do it on a Windows machine, but no hard answers. I didn't feel like risking it, so that's why I did it through the VM. The manual for the motherboard only said to copy the bios update file to a usb drive and then just run Q-Flash on boot, it didn't have any other special instructions aside from the drive being FAT/FAT32. No mention of OS either.

>>105835731
All a Q-Flash USB needs is to be formatted in FAT32 to work properly, which Linux and Windows can both create easily.

>>105835750
Good to know, thanks.

>>105835731
>>105835750
You can use your EFI System Partition to store the BIOS update file as long as you made it large enough.

>>105836258
Although, this won't work if you don't yet have a partition on there (e.g you're trying to update the BIOS of a brand new system, possibly to support a brand new CPU)

>>105835731
>But would this also have worked if I formatted/wrote the files to the drive in linux instead?
Of course. In fact you could probably have just dumped the BIOS files in the ESP and updated from that.

Should I delete this unallocated drive, this drive has a windows boot and I want to get rid of that windows boot

Due to a small fucky-wucky, I have 30TB of files (Documents/Music/Videos/Pictures etc) all shoved inside a "Backup" folder on my mount point. So basically when I go to /mnt/Files instead of it just showing me all my Documents/Music etc folders, it goes /mnt/Files/Backup/ (Documents/Music etc). I need to move everything up a directory basically.
Normally I'd just do something like mv -r /mnt/Files/Backup/Files /mnt/Files, but wanted to check here that this was still the best way to process this considering the large amount of data. BTRFS filesystem.
I don't really care about processing time to move the files, just a simple/safe method.

>>105835731
>>105835750
>BIOS update question on an OS related thread
Why?
>>105837288
>Should I delete this unallocated drive
>drive
The 1 megabyte partition you mean? I'd just leave it, can't really make any use of it (other than storing an encryption key maybe)

>>105832512
use case for emacs in 2025?

>>105831699 (OP)
Bitch needs a menthol

Thinking about moving to Linux. Does MouseInjector work? Through Wine or something, that is. I imagine it'd inherently have issues with Wayland.

>>105838562
MouseInjector also needs Duckstation v0.1-5943, Windows version: https://github.com/duckstation/old-releases/releases/tag/v0.1-5943

>>105835395
which file picker supports these tags you're talking about? If you go all the way to tag each image, why can't you give the file a proper name?

somebody talk me out of installing bazzite otherwise I'm gonna do it RIGHT NOW

>>105839586
idk i just use fedora and its fine, but if you want atomic then its prolly ok too

>>105839395
tags is faster to find
tmsu shows on the side next to other fav folders
still u have to tag manually which is why i don't do it
wouldn't be an issue if gtk window asked for tags instead of file name when u save image

>>105839610
You could always go tag1_tag2_tag3.jpg

>>105839586
i dont think atomic distros offer any advantage to me so they're ass from my point of view but do you do

>>105839629
it's slow and cumbersome to find that's the whole point

>>105839736
I dunno how your tag system would work so can't say much about it. Seems annoying to set up though.

>install Mint
>colors look like shit, very washed out
>okay I'll just mess with saturation/color sliders
>can't find such options anywhere
>ask around discord
>"uuuuuuuhhhhhhhh no such thing in Linux my dude"
>can't fucking believe it
>waste almost 3 hours looking for solutions, trying different DEs, checking google, plebbit, distro forums, everything, I'm so shocked by it that I start to believe it must be a mistake
>"if you need to do something like that, you gotta do it through your monitor options, sorry"

Holy shit. How can something so basic, found in every single driver or OS out there just not exist at all in Linux?

>>105840009
Just change your monitor settings?

>>105840137
Sure.
What pisses me off is how you can do pretty much anything in Linux but something so simple and common was completely ignored.

>>105840184
How is it simple?
When you look at an image and the pixel is the color #AA00FF, then you send to your monitor to render #AA00FF.
How your monitor decices to display the pixel is up to the monitor settings.
What do you want Linux to do? Change #AA00FF to something else? Then how do you expect to get any color work done?

>>105840213
> #AA00FF, then you send to your monitor to render #AA00FF.
now, it is converted between the frame-buffer format to the monitor format and before that the gpu do some processing on the main frame buffer to modify the digital vibrance, sharpening, etc. also, monitors now handle 10 bits colors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YCbCr

>>105837444
Just checking back out of paranoia.
Would just a recursive move work here, or is there something else to consider?

>>105840184
displaycal

how to fix high cpu usage gnome

>>105840009
The compositor has to implement it. The driver supports it:
https://lwn.net/Articles/929935/

Valve was ahead of the curve with their Steam Deck but KDE has HDR calibration built into it too now. Your issue is that Mint has elected not to offer any sort of calibration. You may be able to use Colord or tweak Xorg.conf somehow though.

>>105837444
>mv -r
chuckle

anyway,
mv /mnt/Files/Backup/Files /mnt/Files

will result in
/mnt/Files/Files

I don't think you want that

>>105840482
click the processes tab, find out what process is hogging your CPU, kill it.

>>105841845
I'm also using gnome btw

>>105840482
you have to recompile gnome without the bitcoin miner.

>>105840482
Use case for free CPU time?

>kde discover just disappeared

>>105841997
Time to rediscover it.

>Archlinux
>KDE
Obs making me go insane. I spent entire day for audio capture in specific window yesterday and now its not capturing when I run the project in godot for testing. I fucking hate this POS

does wev just works like xorg `xev -event keyboard`?
of course fucking not!
does the man page says anything useful? haha good joke!

someone posted this on hacker news
https://distrosea.com/

>>105841845
>>105841863
>>105841873
>>105841963
thanks bros turned out i was compiling electron in the background

>some minor thing in KDE is annoying me
>dig into the source code, find the issue and patch it
>I can't fucking build the damn thing because there's a trillion build dependency errors
Sometimes Linux tests my patience.

So Jayztwocents tried Bazzite. This ought to be interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa8nMiEoti0

>>105843241
this summer is going to get rough

>>105843241
KDE devs will be pleased with this demo:
https://youtu.be/Sa8nMiEoti0?t=952

So is xdg mime designed to just not work? Is the codebase anything more than some empty functions that output a bunch of errors to null?

>>105843573
A lot of desktops don't work properly with it because they take over launching responsibilities themselves. I have xdg-open aliased for that reason:
$ alias xdg-open
xdg-open: aliased to env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP="X-Generic" xdg-open

Is musl libc gentoo any good? Is it usable? I have AMD gpu.

>>105843906
No, it's targeted for size, not performance, and it has compatibility issues with GNU libc. Your GPU is irrelevant.

>>105843906
>Your GPU is irrelevant
How so? IIRC nvidia proprietary drivers are a problem for musl because they depend on glibc.

>>105844288
It's not a hinderance in your case, but musl is just bad.

>>105843241
surprisingly decent video
>the movies
installing wmp9 or ffdshow would probably fix it

Has anyone packaged yt-dlp on Gentoo (or Arch, etc, so I can see how it's done) with curl-impersonate support?

I'm getting errors downloading but it works with their Github release binaries so I know the issue is that it's detected as a bot when downloading.

>>105844667
Doesn't look like the AUR package is doing anything special. I guess I just have to package python-curl-cffi and yt-dlp will start using it automatically?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-curl-cffi

>>105842388 (checked)
>i was compiling electron in the background
What the fuck, why?

>>105844906
i yayed today
some reason i have an electron package in aur installed

>>105831699 (OP)
Anyone here use nsxiv? I'm trying it out and so far just having one issue with it, after switching to the next image under zoom, the zoom persists but not position of the image. Is it my fault? Tried running it under X11 to see if it's caused by xwayland to no avail.

This is what happens to the position on the next image

>>105843241
>>105843355
>jumping on the Pewdiepie bandwagon
desperate and sad.
That said Bazzite KDE is a trap.

All universalblue images use Gnome apps. Using KDE just gives you the classic LInux mishmash on window design. Nigga probably feels right at home coming from windows

I'm trying to set up my own desktop environment by putting compiz, cairo-dock, pcmanfm-desktop etc in my xsession. Except for some reason if I don't have a program like xterm that opens a window I get an empty desktop. All my searches show up with nothing. What's going on?

GNOME chads, I have been so wrong.
Your DE is far better than KDE
With extension I can create what I wanted without the fucking Windows 8 app menu. I have consistent design throughout the DE

I FUCKING KNEEL

From what I gather EndeavorOS is the best way to learn Arch because it immediately shows you a wide variety of common programs and environments rather than leaving you to be fully dependant on Wiki?

>>105845640
and how are you supposed to learn that way?

>>105845640
In general you wont learn anything until you have to troubleshoot or set up something beyond
>package manager, install this thing for me
This isnt limited to arch.

>>105845640
The best way to lear is to JUST DO IT.
You wont learn if everything is preconfigured.

Posted from my Bazzite OS where everything is already setup

>>105845615
gnome update, half of your extensions break, you'll kneel for different reasons.

>>105845678
I will be waiting, pretty sure GNOME CHADS are always up to date

>>105845640
Endeavour installs Arch for you without needing to do anything in the terminal first time, so you aren't really learning much at all.
It's great for people already in tune with the install process if they just want to bang out an Arch install in like 20 minutes.

Arch is only free if you don't value your time

Real niggas use Ubuntu

>>105846147
archinstall

>>105846147
Doesn't Ubuntu crash and burn on every release upgrade?

>>105846147
Not installing your shit ever again, Shuttleworth.

Steam is wigging the fuck out I've got this bizzarre situation where no version of proton can update.
If I attempt to update any version of proton it hangs at 61%, that is the progress halts but the network speed stays maxxed out. It's downloading nothing?? It downloaded 500gb but proton remained at 61% updated.
Any ideas?

>>105846147
using ubuntu is like de-facto wasting 10% of your cpu cycles.

>>105846952
Unused CPU is wasted CPU. :^)

>>105846198
Dunno. I'm on 22 LTS and haven't tried upgrading to 24 LTS yet. My OS has been stable so far though, without crashing.

>>105846952
How? Which part of Ubuntu uses too much CPU?

What's the plan now that there's two concurrent /fglt/s? Whoever hits bump limit first has the right to bake, and the other thread will migrate to that one once THEY hit their own bump limit?

>>105847706
If there's two /fglt/'s for whatever reason the anons can just move to the other when the other hits bump limit. That's what usually happens.
I hate when that happens, the first one made should be the one that stays around while the other OP should just delete it, but some just leave them up.

>>105845615
I've used GNOME and Plasma and I think I prefer Plasma to be honest

>>105848825
these things are for beginners; you don't need them. more expert you are, more minimalist and tailored your desktop should be.

for X:

floating:
https://www.fvwm.org/
actively developed, well documented, the father of many window managers.

tiling:
https://github.com/uint23/sxwm
https://uint23.xyz/sxwm.html
minimalist, actively developed, code is easy to understand.

>>105849108
I use LXQt which is pretty lightweight. If i had a more powerful computer though i'd probably use Plasma.

I'm aware there are keyboard centric DE/WM.
But would it be possible to navigate KDE with keyboard only -excluding web browsing-?
Do I need any specific add-ons?
Or just need to go over each keyboard shortcut?

>>105849265
>LXQt
the dependencies this thing needs is horrific (qt6-base, polkit, kwindowsystem, ...). fvwm and sxwm don't need more than the xorg libs. keep it simple.

Does anyone have like a guide or anything to fucking install an os on a 4 disk raid-z1
I have four nvme drives and I simply want to fucking use them all as a zfs pool and install the os on it.
I got pretty far installing just ubuntu before grub absolutely refused to fucking recognise zfs as a valid format type.
I'm doing 1x efi partition per drive and the rest of it is used for the pool. Root on zfs.
I'm going to shotgun myself if this doesn't start working

>>105849314
It works for me. I just want my computer to work.

What does "bloat" mean?

>>105849458
Software which uses up system resources (CPU, RAM) without being very useful.

>>105849458
Badly coded software made by street shitters i.e. indians i.e. british.

>>105849458
when you get stuff you don't want/need. for example, Ubuntu has a lot of apps pre-installed that you probably don't need and will never use.
or when an app relies on huge libraries for little things (eg: using Qt for a systray clock app). or packaging a whole web browser for your app (electron).

If Ubuntu is good enough for scientists developing surgeon robots, then it's good enough for me

>>105849779
Ubuntu is just the easiest default Linux install for a majority of people even if other distros have surpassed it.

>>105850026
Not any more. It's still the distro with the cheapest vendor certified hardware.

>>105849779
Just not a fan of snap packages on older machines myself, but it's a nice looking distro overall

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

>>105811836
Anyone can help me?

>>105850130
Doesn't work with Wine?

>>105850241
Office 365?
Not the last time I checked which was 3 days ago.

>update to fedora 42
>kernel panic
it's always something

Currently using arch for a bit over a year now, and thinking about switching to nixos. How user-friendly has it become? Is it still riddled with bugs as if you're a beta tester?

>>105849304
I think it's possible, using warpd in X11. There's a Wayland version but it has apparently not reached feature parity yet.

>>105850448
Isn't this just fancy and stupid way of just controlling mouse with keyboard?
I meant more like how tiling window managers handle most of the actions with keybinds instead of mouse by simply providing faster and discouraging the use of pointer.

>>105845146
>>105845159
Nevermind, I just came upon swayimg and it does exactly what I need. Still if someone knows a solution it'd be cool to try.

>>105850490
>navigate KDE with keyboard only -excluding web browsing-?
>keyboard only
That's the only way I see
If what you need instead is to manipulate your windows there's krohnkite

What's the point of breaking VLC into several smaller packages?

>>105850581
>krohnkite
NTA but that is kill

>>105850631
https://github.com/anametologin/krohnkite
last commit: yesterday

>>105850639
A poor imitation of DMW.
But honestly, that's not the point of the question.
krohnkite, just tile the windows and not provide the core keybinds most keyboard centeric wm use.
Take for example XFCE, there's a xfwm config for keyboard driven navigation.
I don't know if there's something like that for kwin though.

>>105849399
OK I got as far as what should be a fully booting setup but it begins loading the kernel and just hangs.
I need to turn off quiet boot and see why but what the fuck it was so close.
No idea what it could be, I even went back and regenerated the initramfs and made sure it was loaded into efi.
Idk, I guess it's just fucked and I'll have to hide two more drives on the older sas and raid1 them

Closing multiple tabs (close to the right/left or close others) in firefox makes the browser freeze for a good 2-3 seconds. I'm on kubuntu with a decent pc. This doesn't happen on windows. Is it because of snap? If I move to .deb will this help?

idk if this is the right thread to ask this, i wanna switch to linux but that implies switching from excel to libreoffice since i dont wanna pay another cent to microsoft, i somehow downloaded a free version of excel many years ago but i guess it wont preserve when i delete windows.

point is, since i use excel a lot for personal projects i'm trying to see how libreoffice calc works but its version of the non-linear solver fucking sucks and it's an essential tool for me.
anyone had the same problem? any advice?

>>105850615
So you can save space if you want. Those libraries will be needed to play back media files, but presumably those same libraries will work with other media players, so if you install a couple media players and they share libraries, you've saved space, compared to each media player having its own set of libraries. Anyway, some of those packages you could choose to not install probably. It might limit the functionality of VLC but you'd be able to save some disk space, if that matters to you.

If you try to install VLC with the --no-install-recommends option then it should install fewer packages.

>>105850795
That doesn't happen to me, I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu, on a crappy computer. I'm using the deb from Mozilla, not the snap. So yeah you could try the deb. Go on Mozilla's website, they have instructions for adding their own repo which has a Firefox deb package.

Any ARM tablets that can run Linux?

>>105851122
Save how much? 30 MB?

>>105851154
I imagine all of them if you unlock the bootloader

>>105851165
With some software you might save a significant amount of space if the software you're installing is going to use libraries that you already have installed.

>>105850026
also canonical offers support

>>105851239
oh, wow. How useful.

>>105851154
check postmarketos i guess, no full support forever, arm is trash

>>105850857
>I need Excel
If WPS and OnlyOffice don't work for you, then try this:
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

>>105851608
I can confirm this solution works great

>>105850672
>and not provide the core keybinds most keyboard centeric wm use
Krohnkite adds more keybind presets to the shortcuts section of Plasma settings than what's on the github. There's a chance what you're trying to do is in there.

>>105851608
>>105851622
That's cool. I'm not the guy who asked initially about Excel but could you run it using Wine instead of in a VM like that WinApps thing does? I'm guessing the VM probably is more stable and less bug-prone but the cost would be performance because it's having to run a whole VM.

>>105851901
wine doesn't really run modern office very well i don't think (if at all)
running a VM isn't really a big deal. It's 2025 not 2005.

>>105852129
Fair enough. I will bear that in mind if I ever need to run Adobe software or something like that.

>having issues with OBS refusing to capture footage of a certain vulkan application
>ask ChatGPT because I assume it's something obscure with nothing on google about it
>it wastes 30 minutes of my life by hallucinating things and going in circles
>get tired and decide to google it
>first result is of a forum with a dude recommending using a plugin called obs-vkcapture
>build it from source and install it
>it actually works
Serves me fucking right for using AI. How the fuck do these things still hallucinate so hard in 2025? For coding is even worse, they constantly make shit up. How do people "vibe code" when AI is still this incompetent?

>>105852677
>How the fuck do these things still hallucinate so hard in 2025
Because it's $(CURRENT_YEAR) and not $(CURRENT_YEAR) +1

>>105852677
If you're gonna ask a chatbot how to do something, just use Gemini Pro.

>sudo apt install nvidia-driver
>errors on boot
t-thanks
turns out it was secure boot from all things???

>>105854122
How does that even work? Thought Secure Boot only checks for the EFI-executable, GRUB stub in most cases.

I like flatpacks

>>105854278
no idea, I just saw modprobe nvidia failed with key rejected, disabled secure boot, and it worked

How do I lock my i7-11700F to 4.4GHz on all cores in CachyOS? In Windows it is as simple as turning on the Ultimate Performance power profile. Setting Linux to Performance mode just makes my frequency range 2.5GHz to 4.9GHz instead of the default 800MHz to 4.9GHz. 4.4GHz is my all-core Turboboost limit and I like to keep the CPU locked to that.
Ive asked this question various times on various imageboards over the past few years and never got an answer. ChatGPT gave me wrong info. Arch Wiki just tells me about the Performance profile that I already tried

>>105851239
If you mean Ubuntu Pro, then yeah that's top notch support for business use on a Linux distro end.

How much more performance would I actually see if I switch from Mint to Arch for gaming, and what additional steps would be necessary to get that performance?

>>105850114
https://discuss.kde.org/t/how-to-create-a-virtual-monitor-display/2725/5

>>105854706
You wouldn't see any performance difference unless you're on an AMD/Intel GPU and there were performance improvements in the latest drivers or Mesa.
The only difference you'd see would be better software compatibility and more up-to-date software/libraries. Mint is basically "Linux, if it were 2-3 years ago - the distro", simply because it's an LTS distro.

Steam finally added a UI scale setting so I you don't need environment variable workarounds anymore. About time. I've been using STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING=1.50 for ages now.

>>105854452
modifying /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq as suggested by tlp works for me apparently

>>105846198
No? That's how you're supposed to get from one version to the next, everyone does it at some point.

>>105852677
I find ChatGPT helpful sometimes but for me it's normally a last resort. I search google first (like I've always done) and then if I can't find an answer there, I try ChatGPT.

>>105851311
It is useful.
My mail server runs on Ubuntu 18.04 and still gets updates with Ubuntu Pro. I'll upgrade it to a newer Ubuntu release once I'm done testing the migration to the latest Zimbra. In the meantime, the OS support is extremely valuable to me.

>>105854396
>>105854278
Secure Boot uses a platform key as the root of trust, and every link in the chain firmware>shim>grub>kernel>applications can choose to enforce this trust (or not).
The kernel verifies driver signatures, and the Nvidia drivers are unsigned so they fail to load.
You need to enroll a MOK and sign proprietary drivers with it. Ubuntu has all of this automated so you never have to think about it.

>>105852677
Gemini pro 2.5 is the only one I ever get useful info out of

>>105857533
I agree it's pretty much one of the only truly good free online LLMs but it still confidently makes shit up sometimes, usually if what's being talked about is a bit more niche. Most of the time though it's pretty good, way better then ChatGPT.

>>105831699 (OP)
I've been trying to set up pipewire rtp streaming following their official guide
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/Guide-Network-RTP
However after following the steps it doesnt appear to be working properly. The sender doesnt appear to be able to connect to the reciever.
Has anyone tried this before? Any help or advice would be appreciated

i remember an anon posting about a simple way to take notes in the terminal to a file with echo and pressing ctrl-d or something to end it, does anyone know that command?

>>105855564
>kmsgrab comes with a bunch of problems, the most important one for you is that it can only record physical monitors.
So even if you could create a virtual monitor without the screen share portal, it wouldn't work

Could some linux wizard explain this to me

When I do dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=2GiB count=1 then the file size will be 2GiB with du -sh. Yet if you do dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1GiB count=2 then the file size will be 2.1GiB with du -sh.

WTF? Why is it different?

Semi related to this question. When I partitioned my system I gave root 100GiB, but when I do df -h on my system it only shows 98, this triggered me so bad I wanted a clean 100, what gives with all this?

is ventoy malware?
also is there open source alternatives to ventoy?

>>105844276
>>105844288
GPU is relevant if you're on nvidia because all the userspace tools for nvidia are proprietary and pre-compiled for glibc

>>105858396
idk, but wtf are you doing even?
use head --bytes= instead for truncated copying. if you're making an empty file, use truncate

>>105858457
rufus

>>105858457
>is ventoy malware?
no

>>105858457
Nobody has been ever able to point to where the malware is or prove how a bunch of pre-compiled binaries that most people wouldnt ever use are supposed to be able to cause the same type of malware as xz did
Or which part of ventoy is supposed to be able to inject itself into the iso during boot and be able to copy itself onto the installed distro

>>105858457
Ventoy is not malware.
This was just some snowflake tranny that was kicked from multiboot iso project

>>105858457
No it isn't malware. People just got others in a tizzy about it because there was binary blobs in the build that weren't reproducible so they ran a hate train on the dev (probably inspired by the xz shit because he was also chinese.)
Hasn't been found anywhere that Ventoy was ever malicious.

Does anyone have experience with dual GPU laptops on Gentoo? Is it easy for you to run desktop applications on integrated and games/3D/AI on the GPU? How does it compare to Arch and other distros? My laptop has NVIDIA Quadro + Intel specifically.

>>105858726
In my dual-gpu experience (not specifically laptop dual-gpu), the archwiki article does a good job of explaining everything
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME
tldr: run whatever application you want through the gpu by using the prime-run script for nvidia or export the env variables manually
e.g
prime-run glxgears

>>105857271
>can choose to enforce this trust (or not)
Cool, makes sense to me now.
>The kernel verifies driver signatures, and the Nvidia drivers are unsigned so they fail to load.
Isn't the usual configuration set to allow unsigned modules while checking all the signed ones? Idea being you don't by mistake load modules signed for another kernel while allowing things like Nvidia drivers.
Have no idea what distributions usually do about this.

I've got this really annoying issue with my laptop wifi.
When the AP loses power, or turn off/ reboot.
Sometimes, the authentication fails and I get asked to re-insert the password, I don't need to do that I can just re-connect and it work.
I'm not sure what causing it or how to solve it.
I'm using KDE+arch so this should be Networkmangaer /wpa_supplicant I think ?

>>105858215
cat maybe? I've seen people do something like that was well

cat >> notes.txt allows you to do that, note that if you only put one '>' it will overwrite the file

>>105858215
>take notes in the termina
vim

>>105857178
updates are not what people call support

>>105858457
If security is a concern you shouldnt trust random with what basically could grant it unlimited access to your device. Personally I just flash the whole pendrive, no middle men are required.

>>105859747
thanks this was the one

I’m planning to trade my GPU with someone online. We’ll be mailing our graphics cards to each other, which means I won’t have a GPU while waiting for theirs to arrive. My CPU doesn’t have integrated graphics, but I’ve used LLVMpipe before. Is there a way to force LLVMpipe to activate before I ship my GPU? I’d like to ensure I can still use my system (for basic tasks) while the GPU is gone. Any tips??

>>105860462
>Any tips??
start checking gpu prices

f3 is neat

>>105860462
I dunno take out your gpu and test it before sending it

>>105860519
i dont see why thats relevant, im trading, i just want my pc to sort of work while im waiting

dont care
still using gnome

>>105860682
that was an elaborated joke about you needing to buy one soon since you're going to get scammed.

>>105860723
oh im stupid

I have a Gentoo installation that has been compiled for an intel CPU.
If I want to upgrade my motherboard to a new one, I first need to set my CPU architecture to a generic x86_64 inside my make.conf and recompile, right?
I can then put that drive into the new computer, boot it without problems, change the CPU architecture back to native and recompile the world set, correct?

sup bros
i'm trying out openmandriva and they ship kde, so I thought yeah lets use that
unfortunately though, when I have to upload something here in 4chinz, i have to search for it manually
in pcmanfm, it has a recents in it's quick location but that isn't the case in dolphin
recents appear on normal launches of dolphin just not in when uploading stuff to the browser
you guys know what to do?

>>105860952
that's safe, but you probably don't even need to do that.

>>105861108
I've had KDE Plasma not start because I upgraded the BIOS on my motherboard, I'm sure that if I change the CPU and motherboard, nothing's gonna work unless I recompile to a generic target first.

>>105861145
Unless intel are being faggots again, newer cpus tend to support the same instructions than older ones (+ more), so code optimized for an older cpu should still work (but yes, reoptimizing for the newer one should still be done).
Though that's theoretical from me, never bothered with it.

>>105831699 (OP)
does Linux have Nvidia control panel? how do I set up this stuff for my GPU?

>>105861220
System Settings -> Display & Monitor

>>105851150
Yeah I did just that, it's like night and day now. Fuck snap and fuck canonical for forcing it.

>>105861382
Funny how everyone comes to the same conclusion when it comes to snaps

>>105861422
Why is there such a massive performance hit? Is it the containerisation? I don't have the best PC, a 5700x, 32GiB @ 3600MTs and a 4070 super, but the browser would literally freeze if i closed more than 5 tabs simultaneously. If I did that with a twitch stream open, the stream would freeze whilst the tabs were getting closed. It's unreal. How canonical can think this is acceptable is wild.

>>105861382
I'm still on ubuntu but I run appimages. Agreed. Fuck snaps.

>>105851150
>they have instructions for adding their own repo which has a Firefox deb packa
you also have to tell ubuntu to use that repo at higher priority or they still will shove their stupid snap down your throat.

>update kde
>hdr is now available, never tried but everyone seems to like it
>click the checkbox
>everything is blown out and looks like a deep fried edge enhanced meme
i don't understand the appeal.

What's going on with arch? Now they broke vlc. Who the fuck wants to manually pull the plugin for playing ANY file? And no I am not just going to install plugins-all. Shit should just be part of the package. Fucking hell.

>>105861873
you need to have a good monitor

Is there a way to make sunshine start gamescope for bottles?
I tried
setsid gamescope bottles
In the config and it didn't work.

>>105862040
It's not an arch thing >>105850615

>>105861220
nvidia-settings

>>105860462
>no igpu
I don't think that'll work

>>105862145
Why would you need setsid?
Maybe if you run it in a terminal or pipe the verbose output somewhere you'll be able to find out the issue
I guess the other question would be, why do you need to run bottles itself through gamescope?

>>105831699 (OP)
Anyone still use artix?
Whats the recommended init system to use?

>>105862191
Well that makes me feel better about it. Still just going to downgrade until it breaks. Kind of silly to take vlc's biggest strength and chop it into pieces.

>>105862259
>artix
toy distribution.

>>105862272
just use mpv like a normal person

>>105862223
llvmpipe can be used without igpu and gpu, my pc has used it before, now im just wondering how to activate it before shipping my gpu

>>105862289
just like every linux distro

>>105862381
what are you doing in this thread then

>>105862272
Because trannies and pajeets don't know how to collaborate.
So sane devs need to break everything

>>105862381
redhat, suse (super computers), ubuntu pro, AlmaLinux

>>105862243
>Why would you need setsid?
It was in the examples
setsid steam
>I guess the other question would be, why do you need to run bottles itself through gamescope?
Because of the way some games are launched.
I know bottles has gamescope support, however some games don't launch in sane way.
It start a launcher and then the game, but gamescope applies to the launcher only, and not the actual game.
Launching bottles with gamescope would make ALL windows that open from it have gamescope applied
I checked with mangohud

>>105858326
Keep reading. You can install an EDID from an actual monitor and make it work even if nothing is plugged in.

>>105856821
I had to modify /etc/default/cpupower, uninstall power-profiles-daemon, and run "sudo systemctl enable --now cpupower.service"
Now it works. Thanks for your attention

>>105862652
I did anon.

So is there a free vpn better than the paid ones?(I have nordvpn) One with static ip perhaps?

>>105862293
normies dont use mpv

>>105862745
>So is there a free vpn better than the paid ones?
Depends on use case, probably. Are you just pirating?

>>105862752
Normies aren't normal

>>105862759
Want good vpn so I can create google account for USA and then use veo3 and create shitty content on tiktok, youtube etc.
Yes shameless pirate.

>Realtek is stable they said
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198931

I bought pic-related from Amazon Prime day.
>No 5-Gigabit support in the Linux kernel's r8152 driver so I have to use Realtek's out-of-tree driver: https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=585
>Adapter is physically scorching
>Still only 1 single hardware tx/rx queue as is standard on cheap Realtek hardware
>USB disconnects after a while (I wonder why. Is the one single queue stalling and then the USB failing to reset? Probably…)

I would not pay full price for this adapter.

>>105862745
>free vpn better than the paid
No and never will be, stupid to think otherwise. If you want a good cheap vpn just spin up your own on a VPS somewhere. If you cant afford that then you shouldnt be using one in the first place.

>>105863246
Complete crap.

>>105863273
ethtool enp4s0u1
Settings for enp4s0u1:
Supported ports: [ MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
2500baseT/Full
5000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
2500baseT/Full
5000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: No
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Link partner advertised link modes: 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
10000baseT/Full
2500baseT/Full
5000baseT/Full
Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 5000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Auto-negotiation: on
Port: MII
PHYAD: 32
Transceiver: internal
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x00007fff (32767)
drv probe link timer ifdown ifup rx_err tx_err tx_queued intr tx_done rx_status pktdata hw wol
Link detected: yes


Not sure if there's some power-saving thing or offload I should turn off with ethool. I set usbcore.quirks=0bda:8157:k as a kernel command-line for now. We'll see if that helps or not.

Honestly, I'm surprised how little changed when I swapped from Debian to Devuan. After some teething pains with different package versions and getting all the pieces of PipeWire to start reliably, it just chooches along like Debian did. Hell, I switched over without reinstalling! On the sid branch! Last time I did that, I ended up with something unusable, and somehow my machine just works as it did when it was still using Debian. Only issue is that every other line in the startup log is
/usr/lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh: 17: [: unexpected operator
Seems to be due to $RC_SVCDIR being unset, but I'm not sure how to set it or what it should be set to. Doesn't seem like anything breaks, either, so I guess it doesn't matter.

why does the PATH 'resets' when using sudo? like none of the binaries i set through the path in zshrc work

>>105861422
I actually like snaps, and most of the snaps that I use aren't even available as flatpaks and will never be available.

>>105863970
PATH is part of environment, and that doesn't get passed to the new user via sudo unless you use the option to do so.

>>105861025
>that isn't the case in dolphin
The filepicker is NOT dolphin, it is a separate program.

>>105859776
Security updates for old programs are precisely what people call support.

>>105863246
Realtek shat the bed. I wouldn't use anything from them except maybe a PCIe Ethernet adapter, and even then with great reluctance.

>>105864462
I'm of the same mindset. I bought this adapter out of curiosity because it's cheap. Maybe it's okay on Windows I don't know. Maybe it works for simple laptops or phones/tablets/consoles/etc but not for any serious usage. My Gigabit onboard Intel NIC is more reliable than this.

I want to write a flake that compiles a binary to be used in a nix-shell I cant find a single guide or tutorial on how to do that, and the docs do absolutely nothing but give a completely abstract file format specification.
very nice

>>105864927
welcome to nix, the coolest thing that no one will ever use

>>105865142
Because there is no use case.

>>105850114
thats a man.

>>105865321
there is a great use case when you're using a dogshit language without a competent package management system so you can produce perfect reproducible builds every time, but the one use case where nix would actually be good is already mostly solved with docker because not everybody needs a byte for byte reproducible binary
its also an actual pain in the ass to figure out how to set up a reproducible build like this anyway

>>105862259
OpenRC. It was the original init it started with and has the most support.
Just think of it as Arch via Gentoo.

>>105865490
I'm exploring nix because the idea of nix-shell is really good, but holy shit there's so much fucking guessing.

I can make do with docker (distrobox in particular solves nearly all the "program at specific version" issues), but nix-shell can do it without all the docker baggage, and that seems good

Once this hits bump limit do we just move to >>105831669?

>>105863246
>Realtek is stable they said
Context was drivers. And sounds like your driver is stable.
>>105862289
Toy distribution = no maintainers?
>>105862040
>Shit should just be part of the package.
But Arch's packages are super bloaty and contain everything the upstream put in them.
What are plugins in this context btw?

>>105864091
that's security maintenance though
https://ubuntu.com/blog/security-maintenance-vs-support-whats-the-difference

I'm hoping to replace BSPWM with something else similar.
Currently I'm thinking Herbstluftwm, but there's one major issue I have with it. You can't change the active window by clicking on the background of whatever desktop you want. You can only do it by clicking the window, or activating a setting that makes it change on mouse-over.
Is there actually a way to force this behavior somehow?
Or is there a similar sort of binary space partitioning window manager (that isn't called that) with tabbed windows.

>>105866909
>You can't change the active window by clicking on the background of whatever desktop you want.
Well, which of the windows on the new desktop is supposed to become active? You only have one window per desktop or something?

The drive I'm trying to connect to is formatted as ext4.
Virtual Machine Platform, Windows Hypervisor Platform, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (in Windows Features) are turned on (and rebooted).
Installed WSL (which auto-installed Ubuntu) through the terminal as Windows Administrator.
Currently in the terminal as an adminstrator.

Have tried installing Ubuntu as an app through the Microsoft Store (which also installs WSL) and tried connecting to the drive the same way, but get the same results. Every time I made sure to fully uninstall any distros, WSL, and even unchecked the Windows Features above and redid the process from scratch, rebooting as needed, before attempting a new installation.

On a fresh Windows 11 installation (only a few days old), 24H2, all Windows Updates installed. But my 6th gen Intel CPU is officially unsupported so I had to do the command prompt workarounds during installation. I couldn't find any specific virtualization options in my BIOS like 'Intel Virtualization Technology' or 'Vt-X' even after updating the BIOS to the latest version, but anything that looked like it could affect virtualization I made sure to turn on. If it helps, I have Linux Mint installed on a separate SSD from the Windows installation, and I can run Windows 11 24H2 in Virtual Box without any issues. So I think I have virtualization support.

In my original setup, I had Windows 11 as the main OS and the HDD formatted as NTFS, which the Linux Mint install could read and share files with. But now I have Linux Mint as my main OS and I want the bigger storage drive to be formatted in ext4 primarily for Linux, and have Windows 11 as the backup OS that would be able to read/pull files from the storage drive if needed. I guess I could go back to the old setup if all else fails, but it would be nice if I could get this to work. I've seen other options like paid third party software and some open source alternatives, but I'm trying to do it through WSL first.

>>105867070
File not found means file not found. I dunno how to make your weird wsl thing find it, it's out of scope here anyway.

>>105867164
>your weird wsl thing
It's the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Basically Windows has built-in support for linux, and can install a linux kernel directly into windows. There's no need for emulation or a compatibility layer, from what I understand. You can access linux files/applications/tools directly in windows using the file explorer or through the terminal. It even adds a dedicated Linux folder with the penguin to the sidebar, which is cute. Seems like a neat feature, and it's been there for a while, I didn't even know about it until maybe a month ago. And apparently you can attach Linux-formatted drives and read them, which is what I'm trying to get to work.

But yeah, maybe it's more of a Windows problem.

>>105863970
Because it's a user variable, not a system variable. Your user and the root user can have different values for it.

>>105867239
It's a Windows feature. You don't really see people asking about WINE in Windows threads.
Considering you're trying to connect to an ext4 drive, it might just be the fact that Windows itself doesn't support anything other than NTFS and FAT. Last time I used Windows I needed to manually install drivers for ext4 and btrfs.

What distro is a mix between newest packages and stability? Like a happy medium?

>>105867444
Arch

>>105867444
Aurora/Bazzite

>>105867444
>>105867476
Nothing wrong with Arch but a rolling release distribution can't be stable. Assuming "stability" means package stability.
>>105863970
Shell aliases gets wiped too.