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>What are some cool programs?
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Previous threads. Yep, threads, because you fuckers wanted to bake twice and shit up the catalog: >>105831699 >>105831669

Should I be using Tiny11 for my Winapps VM?

>>105872971 (OP)
Thanks for wallpaper, what's the source?

>>105873094
AI
look at the hands

>>105873094
No idea, I've had it saved on my HDD for a while. I remember coming across it after searching up "Arch OS-tan".

Is there any real downsides to adding i386 architecture to a 64 bit install? (using Mint specifically). I'd only really need it to run some old 16-bit stuff in Wine. I've read in a few places that it can cause some issues with conflicts between 32 and 64 bit versions of packages installed later on, but I have no idea if that's true at all.

>>105873116
rude!

>>105873151
On rolling, if the 64 bit library is already updated but the 32 bit library is lacking behind, you can get conflicts (which do sort themselves out quickly). On Mint there should be no problems.

I use my PC to code, game and watch movies, I hear Nobara and OpenSUSE are good, thoughts?

>>105873161
It's not good AI art I have to call it out

>>105873207
openSUSE Tumbleweed with GNOME Desktop

>>105872971 (OP)
Where did geeko come from

>>105873186
Good to know, thanks anon, appreciate the info there. Kinda amazing that Linux via Wine has better backwards compatibility for Windows applications than actual modern Windows does.

What's a good cheap mini pc I can get on amazon that will work great with linux? I wanna keep it on 24/7 for server shit

>>105873207
OpenSUSE is a meme. Just use Nobara.

>>105873331
Nobara is a shitpost, thoughever

>>105873344
Isn't Nobara just Fedora except it has the shit you need like drivers?

>>105873331
No thanks but I'm staying with suse
How about more distros make it easy to setup snapper on install, I have things to do with my busy day.

>>105873289
Minisforum has decent minipcs

>>105873344
>Nobara is a shitpost
Okay, then use Bazzite.

real thread
>>105872977
>>105872977
>>105872977

>>105873271
From my experience, DX9 and newer works well, but older titles can be hit or miss.

>>105873357
Stop shilling your shit thread when you don't even know how to copy post #'s.

soon, the whole board will just be duplicate fglt threads.

>>105873417
So nothing much would change rofl. There's like 4 Wayland threads up right now.

>>105873400
nVidia?

my distro is better than yours

Why isn't this working? It's in my sudoers file after the other commands I have for NOPASSWD. Has the line become too long? Is the regex wrong?
/run/current-system/profile/bin/nsenter -a -t ^(100[0-9]|10[1-9][0-9]|1[1-9][0-9]{2}|[2-8][0-9]{3}|9000)$ hostname

>>105873400
Yep, for sure. Perhaps better than modern Windows, but still not totally bulletproof. Between Dosbox and Wine, I managed to get most of it running, but I've been looking into a Windows 98 VM to cover the rest of my bases. I know some people do it with KVM/QEMU for Win95/98 emulation, but I wonder if it'd be easier to do it some other way, especially since performance/efficiency won't be a really big deal emulating such an old system.

>>105873431
In my case, yep, 4070ti plus nVidia's proprietary drivers. It's been almost totally problem free so far, aside from the seemingly impossible task of trying to add custom resolutions, so I've just settled for the weird pre-selection it gave me out of the box. I've been considering swapping to an AMD GPU though, and reserving the nVidia one in a separate PCIe slot and just passing it through to a Windows VM. The only hesitation so far has been use with ComfyUI, I know that nVidia/CUDA does fairly well with AI tasks, but haven't yet looked into how AMD compares in that regard.

Why isn't this working? It's in my sudoers file after the other commands I have for NOPASSWD. Has the line become too long? Is the regex wrong?
/run/current-system/profile/bin/nsenter -a -t ^(100[0-9]|10[1-9][0-9]|1[1-9][0-9]{2}|[2-8][0-9]{3}|9000)$ hostname

How fucking long do I have to wait before I can delete my duplicate post? For crying out loud...

>>105873544
>nsenter
I've never seen this before. The last line after NOPASSWD should be an @include line in all the sudoers files I've seen as they are both at the very bottom.

Is there a way to send mouse and keyboard from one machine to another over local network?
I want to control my HTPC from my laptop.

>>105873547
>comfy
midwitt trap

Is there a way to run android in a VM container just like this
https://github.com/dockur/macos

>>105873833
https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow

>>105873431
yes, that experience was mostly on nvidia

>>105873844
Thanks, both machines are on linux, one is KDE with waland the other is X11 with xfce.
There seems too many forks.
Which one the least hassle free?
I already have SSH running on one of the machines.

>>105873840
Can't you just use Waydroid?

>>105873884
This sounds like something that Wayland wouldn't allow without tinkering

>>105873840
she could gain 5-10 pounds

>>105873884
deskflow should just work with any x11 and kde wayland.
dont forget to open the firewall port for the local network.

>>105873892
waydroid isn't the same.
You can't install 3rd party applications and you're limited to AOSP applications.
I want full fledged android.

>>105873994
You can totally install and run applications from the playstore on waydroid.

>>105874007
well man I don't want my DE to be infested with android icons.
I want the same way dockurr is doing it.
container that run a vm that host android image.

>>105874053
Waydroid IS a container. Just stop the container when you're not using it.

>>105873994
>You can't install 3rd party applications and you're limited to AOSP applications.
Are you drunk? Why would you think this?

>>105873989
>flatpak
Thanks man, this worked flawlessly.
And even share the clipboard.
How to make it auto start and wait to my machine?

>>105874064
>>105874102
The icons still bloat to my DE and no I just tried and waydroid image doesn't support installing anything from the google playstore

>>105874126
you're waydroiding it wrong then. I have it running a game I installed from the play store right fucking now.
As for the bloat, it's contained to my wofi so not a big thing. May be a DE thing.

>>105874126
>doesn't support installing anything from the google playstore
It does. It's just that many android apps aren't compiled for x86 architecture.

>>105874231
arm translation layer is a thing as well.

>>105874231
>It's just that many android apps aren't compiled for x86 architecture
Which is 90% of all applications

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 ?

Anyone have a recommendation for the best/most up-to-date guide for doing a Windows 10 VM install via KVM/QEMU with hardware GPU passthrough (and likely passthrough of a few other devices)? I have found a handful of different guides all with some different instructions, so not sure if there's one considered the best among them all.

>>105874313
I want her to sit on my dick.

Also that's a known issue with wpa_supplicant, even impacts Android. Just restart NetworkManager and it won't prompt.

>>105874251
I can't see anything that would suggest that Waydroid has this feature.

>>105874298
Yes, but 90% of apps are just clones and garbageware because literally any retard can build an app. Most relevant apps either have an x86 build or have an xapk which supports multiple architectures.

>>105874373
no.
follow archlinux wiki guide and pray it works. When it doesnt, ask.

>>105874374
>Just restart NetworkManager
I'm doing just that.
Thanks.

>>105874408
Long term the move is probably to switch from wpa_supplicant to iwd but iwd is still a little rough around the edges. Just wait until your distro does it by default.

>>105874383
>I can't see anything that would suggest that Waydroid has this feature.
It's in waydroid script.

>>105874126
Use a virtual machine and install Android x86. Or install Android Studio and set up a virtual device. Both these methods also support ARM apps. At least Android Studio does, Android x86 used to support them 5 years ago but I haven't used it in a while so I'm not sure if they removed the feature.

>>105874383
>Most relevant apps
The apps I'm looking for are tiktok lite and instagram lite.
Because using a container and VM of android still uses way low resources compared to opening the website in a browser.

>>105874419
>iwd
I'm surprised arch isn't using it by default.

>>105874435
I have no idea what that is. If it's not coming natively with Waydroid then it's just not supported. I'm not fucking around with some random 3rd party scripts.

>>105874438
Does this support arm images of android?
https://github.com/qemus/qemu-arm
>Android x86
What other android clones that actually work?
Wasn't there a way to run chromeOS flex on x68?
Can it be run that way?

>>105874458
arch doesn't use anything by default, you have to set up network however you want yourself.

>>105874520
Networking is part of DE and most uses wpa supplicant.
And even arch install script choose wpa supplicant with no option for iwd unless you specify that explicitly.

>>105874558
>Networking is part of DE
Not really, the ones I use don't bother with that.

I have old T60, it can't really render social media websites without crashing.
I have better specs home server that I'm using for gaming and such.
What would be the best way to make the server render the pages and display it on T60?
>X11 forwarding?
>browser in container + VNC?

when are we getting bash 5.3?

How would I go about doing this?
>made a BASH script to archive 4chan threads
>archiving multiple threads at the same time would block my attempts
>so I have to archive on thread at a time
So what to do about this?
Is there a way to add a queue? or something?

>Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
>fresh install
>screen saver does not turn the screen off, it is just black
This will fuck my monitor up and I don't like turning it off because it flash-bangs me with a white splash screen when it turns on again, it worked fine before. Please help.

>>105874725
sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade -y
reboot

>>105874725
xscreensaver or whatever they use is probably not running.
Click on settings menu for screensaver,power option etc, most of the friendly distros will do the work for you.

>>105874725
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1543480/get-screensaver-to-turn-screen-off-not-just-black-dpms-not-installed
Some guy with the same problem as me. seems clueless

today i learned that you can open a tcp connection by just making a fd in /dev/tcp/trannyporn.com/port(hole)

i guess bash has a built in feature that handles the fake tcp device.

>>105874635
use & for background execution, or update to handle concurrency, or just feed it to grok

>>105874587
XRDP

>>105874725
>using a server distro
>expecting desktop features to work

Sometimes it's the little quality of life features that make a distro stand out. Fedora has fractional scaling enabled by default, including the log in screen, while you have to enable it on Ubuntu and install machinectl and use a series of commands to enable fractional scaling with GDM.
Also Fedora is the only distro I've come across that automatically includes the thesaurus for English-UK in libreoffice, every other distro you'll need to download an extension because it's never packaged.

Might not sound like much but it's the little things that matter to general users sometimes.

>>105875215
I also like the little things. Like not having to fuck around with rpmfusion

>>105875347
nta, but same. That's why I use Bazzite instead of vanilla Fedora

>>105873547
Yeah nVidia OpenGL blows. They went from being the best to the worst. Get a shitty $30 AMD card for wined3d and it's better than Windows.

I was going to ask you a question but then I decided to use chatgpt and it was very helpful so yeah.

How do I extract everything from an incomplete .db file? I just want all the cells split into individuals files. Like this:
table1-row1-cell1.bin
table1-row1-cell2.bin
etc.

This is so stupid, i have the first 3 GB of the .db perfectly intact - just give what whatever is in the readable portion. I don't care that the last 2 GB of the file is lost/missing:
$ sqlite3 tpb.db
SQLite version 3.45.1 2024-01-30 16:01:20
Enter ".help" for usage hints.
sqlite> .tables
cat torrentinfo torrents
sqlite> SELECT * FROM torrents LIMIT 1;
Runtime error: database disk image is malformed (11)
sqlite> .exit
$

I'm sick of database cringe, just give me the data and not useless error messages.

>>105875407
not the case for my problem

What's the release schedule for LMDE? When Debian Trixie goes stable, would it be like a month or two for the Mint team to release 7?

>>105874111
you posted this faceless image 5 times so far
https://desuarchive.org/g/search/image/liISmdGgaxkL58cY8fNpUg/

>>105875432
shows that .db is a piece of shit format. Unlike .tar and .rar (plus some other stream-friendly formats) which are better. Need some sort of linux software to get everything out of a .db with no complaints.

>>105875464
It takes them around 3 months

I just riced the fuck out of my /etc/profile thanks to chatGPT

>>105875432
>>105875476
I had some success with this:
https://gothub.projectsegfau.lt/conorarmstrong/sqlite_extract/blob/main/extract.py

Ran:
>$ head -c49111999 tpb.db > in
>$ python3 extract.py -i in -o out
>$ sqlite3 out "SELECT field2 FROM recovered_data LIMIT 99;" | tail -n6 | head -n2 > t.torrent

It extracted this "Meno - Plato.pdf" (296,459 bytes) .torrent file:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:96e798b1ca53dce28941cb08052d4efe26c8dd84&dn=Meno%20-%20Plato.pdf&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.thepiratebay.org%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.thepiratebay.org%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%2Fannounce

Any idea what package or setting I'm missing in KDE for video thumbnails in kdialogue (file picker)? Video thumbnails/previews work fine in Dolphin on desktop, but when using kdialogue as a file picker for things like posting here it won't show any thumbnail for video files.
CachyOS, ffmpegthumbnails and ffmpegthumbnailer are both installed, kio-extras, kdesdk-thumbnailers

>>105875693
tumbler? (guess)

>>105875991
I think you mean Grindr, what with the anime and all

>>105875693
>ffmpegthumbnails and ffmpegthumbnailer are both installed, kio-extras, kdesdk-thumbnailers
what about kdegraphics-thumbnailers?

>>105875644
chatgpt is pretty handy, i been getting it help me set up more advanced stuff i never bothered like my raspberry pi config.txt cmdline.txt and so on but some stuff just doesn't work or the information is undated and will brick your device, i geniunely dont recommend using chatgpt beyond just figuring out what to look for in the actual documentation

>>105876573
Gemini helped my learn nftables in about 30 min. At least enough to know what everything does in the manual. I set up my own port knocker and all 4 nic cards on my server to their own subnets.

>>105876741
>all 4 nic cards on my server to their own subnets.
That's not firewall related and achtually that's the easy way of doing networking compared to bridging them. Not that bridging is hard or anything but still.
(why don't normie routers have an option to make Wi-Fi its separate network?)
>>105875215
>automatically includes the thesaurus for English-UK in libreoffice, every other distro you'll need to download an extension because it's never packaged.
Could be considered bloat.
>>105874458
Isn't it all about KDE dependencies?
Fuck desktop environments for pushing NetworkManager, luckily Gentoo allows
USE="-networkmanager"

>>105876806
>That's not a firewall
It is when you're mangling packets. Firewalls are a lot more than just discretionary packet acceptance

>>105876995
*Nftables is more, not firewalls. I never said a firewall.

>>105876806
NetworkManager is actually really nice if you want hotpluggable support for things like mobile modems, tethering, etc. Also it has life-cycle hooks which are useful for scripting stuff to an interface or routing. Systemd proponents will say you should be doing all of that with Systemd though but I'm glad nobody has attempted to replace it with that yet. No doubt GNOME will try at some point but I actually enjoy using NetworkManager on my Gentoo OpenRC system. It makes doing some of the more advanced things I do much easier. For example, I have 4 different NICs in this one machine and I have a NetworkManager hook to setup nexthop routes to load-balance traffic across all of them with equal cost nexthop routing. It works really well and I have no idea why such a thing isn't the default on most systems with more than one interface.

If you don't need fancy networking then you can bin it for static routing with Netifrc though:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Netifrc

>>105874635

are you allowed to build scrapers maybe use limit connections option to limit 1

>>105875476
>>shows that .db is a piece of shit format.
It's actually doing a good job of surfacing data integrity errors instead of silently pretending everything is okay. Perhaps you could make an argument that it should have some PRAGMAS of some sort to turn that off though but it's good that it throws the error straight in your face so you know it's fucked.

>>105874635
Rewrite the script to only scrape the most recent thread posted in. Then just update your existing database the with new post

>>105872971 (OP)
what's a good distro if i don't want to support pedophiles/groomers?

>>105874635
man flock
Take a lock and block the script until it can acquire the lock.

>>105877172
>should have some PRAGMAS of some sort to turn that off
Something(s) in the source code to compile it differently? Not sure what pragmas are. Either that, or even better, an argument to sqlite3 to ignore data errors. Both would have the same result: actually getting data from the .db without error messages. So, "sqlite3 --force file.db" or "IGNORE_ERROR=true sqlite3 file.db".

And you are right, sqlite3's processing of .db (or .db's structure itself) has some checks on data integrity which makes it similar to something like ZFS. The format that's worse than .db is .mp4 (WebM is better than MP4 in the regard I'm thinking of). You could have a 50-GB MP4 file and if the header or important metadata part at the start or end becomes lost or corrupted or unavailable, then all of that data is basically useless. A 1K piece of data dictates the usefulness of a 200-GB MP4 file. (Yes some video files are that big.)

You have to have either that header/metadata section of bytes directly or a similar-enough header to use MP4 flawlessly or do any semi-useful data recovery thing. (I tested this one maybe popular open source data recovery thing from GitHub and it couldn't recover all the audio on a simulated-corruption .mp4; the recovered video was a bit glitchy but ok.)

>>105872971 (OP)
Is there anything special I need to do to make Arch work with UEFI?

I'm not trying to enable secure boot. I have two hard drives on my computer and I want to install Windows on one, Linux on the other without having to enable legacy mode in BIOS settings.

how can i recreate this?

>>105877453
That's actually how I started going down Linux path. I wanted to recreate something I saw on a desktop thread on my Linux machine.

Usually, this type of rice is basically a tiling WM that is configured to tile with empty spaces in between and with some transparency and without any window decorations. Literally, just ask the person what he/she is using, they may share. Otherwise it's hard to say exactly how to recreate.

>>105876425
Yep, got that one installed as well.

>>105877412
>Not sure what pragmas are
They're SQL statements the modify the behaviour of the engine:
https://system.data.sqlite.org/home/doc/dc206da59f/Doc/Extra/pragma.html

For example they could have a:
PRAGMA ignore_data_integrity = 1;
Definitely shouldn't be the default though.

>>105877473
it is macOS Tahoe Developer Beta

>>105877512
Interestingly there is:
PRAGMA integrity_check;

The command does an integrity check of the entire database. It looks for out-of-order records, missing pages, malformed records, and corrupt indices. If any problems are found, then a single string is returned which is a description of all problems. If everything is in order, "ok" is returned.


That may at least tell you what is wrong with the database. It won't ignore the corruption though.

>>105877433
I installed Arch on a Dell laptop without any fuss, but I did overwrite my Windows partition.

>>105877504
Try this on ~/.config/kdeglobals (copy the Plugins line from dolphinrc since it's working there)
[PreviewSettings]
MaximumRemoteSize=0
Plugins=audiothumbs,exrthumbnail,imagethumbnail,jpegthumbnail,kraorathumbnail,rawthumbnail,svgthumbnail,ffmpegthumbs
MaximumSize=3145728

anyone knows how to remove this swap partition? chatgpturd is giving me conflicting answers

>>105877800
The zram? It's not a partition. Consult your distro on how it initiates zram, it seems to vary somewhat.
/etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf is one. And/or disable the relevant service.

>>105877868
Is zram even helpful if you have 32GB of RAM?

>>105877892
I mean it's not bad to not have it, but you might as well have it.
I use zramd to set up mine.

>>105877892
You tell me. Compiling some software for example with 16 threads could eat all your 32 gigabytes of RAM.
Having ZRAM for swap and not using it doesn't hurt you either, it's a good thing to have. Also:
>4GB
Could just keep it. People usually do half their RAM
# /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf
[zram0]
zram-size=ram/2
compression-algorithm=zstd

Helped me on my Gentoo setup.

>>105877892
Yes, it's helpful because not all applications are written very well so you can still benefit from pages being swapped out even if the backing store is still in RAM itself. Some RAM compresses really well which will give you more free space to be better utilised by something else.

Can/should you use a hacked Switch as a Linux tablet for uni?

>>105877892
I went oom with 64GB of RAM a few times already

>>105878084
can: probably, should: probably not unless you really need a computer and literally have nothing else

Use Fedora.

>>105877281
None of them

>>105878084
>tablet for uni
Tablets are not devices for productivity. Get a laptop.

>open vi in a terminal
>keep 'a' pressed
>if the terminal is in my main monitor, sway uses basically no CPU
>if the terminal is in my secondary monitor, sway takes 25-50% of a core by itself
is this some sort of wayland magic?

>>105878557
why is that your first conclusion?

Is there a distro that just has all the gayming shit preinstalled, I can't figure it out, the wiki doesn't help, just directs you to the various tools.

On two separate occasions I installed wine, right clicked a game and clicked open with wine or whatever and it worked.
Then when I did it again it didn't work.
My retarded naivety aside, why the fuck did that happen?

>>105878714
You can ask ChatGPT any Linux question and it'll give you the answer. But generally, I think people play Windows games through Lutris or adding them as non-Steam games in Steam.

>>105878714
Nobara and Bazzite are like this.

>>105878714
Bazzite

>>105878714
https://garudalinux.org/editions

ctrl+f gamer

>>105878723
I followed a guide that included lutris that worked for a while but stopped after an update.
The guide was out of date at this point but I figured just installing wine and lutris should be good enough, but I guess it wasn't because nothing worked and those Proton options were missing.

>>105878724
>>105878749
>>105878750
Thanks

>>105878829
If you're manually installing games then Bottles might be easier to use than Lutris. The main advantage of Lutris is finding the community built install scripts for games that are more complicated to get working.

>>105878853
I dunno, in the guide it said to select a wine version that was proton something, but there were no proton versions available at all.
I don't know what I don't know so it could have been any basic thing that I got wrong as a newfag.

>>105878945
Have a look for protonup in your repo.

>>105874982
xrdp on linux never works.

>>105874953
please.
none of these answers actually do anything.
elon shill

>>105878498
>Tablets are not devices for productivity
Why not?

>>105875476
>you posted this faceless image 5 times so far
NTA but I have that image saved as well and post it frequently.
I'm this >>100923055
What happened to FRIENDLY gnu/linux thread?
/fwt/ is more friendly now.
Is this the degrade and end of linux?

Professional retard here, got W11 on my nvme, I'm installing a new drive and want Linux on that one WITHOUT grub messing with the windows partition. All I have to do is manually partition everything within the new drive during the install and set the bios to start on that drive, right? Then if I don't like that I can just format the new drive from Windows?

systemd-xisters, is zram actually any good? how to properly set it up?
like, if i install distro and create swap partition during install process, and only then install zram and enable zramswap.service - does it actually work?
because i did so, i see that /swap partition is being used and also if i check status of zramswap.service it says it is active - but isn't it supposed to not use /swap partition when zram is active?

>>105879095
Tablets are for Netflix, YouTube and shit posting on 4chan. You're not good to be able to do anything serious on them unless you use them as thin clients but that requires your university to have good WiFi.

>>105874587
Waypipe

>fuck some config up
>log in into a black screen
>get into tty and fix the config
>reboot
>all good again
bless the TTY

>>105877170
It's bash script.
So it doesn't have the same functionality like you'd think.
>>105877243
What?
>>105877287
Thanks man.
This works flawlessly, and even can block specific snippet too.
This is way AI slop would never be as good as human answers.

>>105877453
>kumani
>israeal bombing
>weeb music

>>105879139
>Waypipe
Isn't this just X11 forwarding?

>>105879130
>attach keyboard
>is now basically a laptop
What's the problem yet?

>>105879208
It Wayland. It works a lot better than X11 Forwarding. You can actually run Firefox smoothly via it.

>>105879128
It still can use swap if you run out of ram. Also, i remember zram was displayed as swap in tools like htop if you're using that.
Use swapon --show

>>105879253
Don't I need both machines to be running wayland?

>>105879209
It's not powerful enough and software support is crap. Just get an actual laptop with a proper mobile CPU and dGPU.

>>105879264
Yes, the server needs Wayland client/server libraries too but that's also the case with X11 Forwarding (the server needs the X11 libs)

>>105879209
the problem is you're still using a tablet and trying to get real work done in an OS designed for youtube and porn

>>105879209
I dunno what kind of "productivity" you plan to have with just that. Maybe if all you want to use is libreoffice and vi it can be enough

>>105879269
Then it won't work since my T60 is still on xorg.
I tried wayland in live USB and it was nothing but issues on this old hardware.
I guess it's mostly bad optimization.
Unless I just need the library and not actually running it.?
Does it support audio as well?

>>105879272
>OS designed for youtube and porn
Linux is designed for youtube and porn?

>>105879020
Neat, thanks. I guess I might not have to switch to an entirely different distro.

>>105879320
For wine related stuff usually you dont have to go for another distro.

I asked Gemini for linux optimizations
It came back with these
Are they bad?

Enable Parallel Booting: Run sudo systemctl edit --full systemd-boot.service and add:

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemctl default


Disable Unnecessary Services: List running services with:

systemctl list-units --type=service --state=running
Then disable unnecessary ones:

sudo systemctl disable service-name


Enable TRIM for SSDs:


sudo systemctl enable fstrim.timer


Use Noatime Mount Option:
Edit /etc/fstab and add noatime:


UUID=your-drive-uuid / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1

>>105879363
If you use Gemini ever you should only be using its Pro version. Otherwise yeah this looks fine.

>>105879382
>paying jewgle
um nah lol
unless you meant switching to the 2.5 pro model which is now on by default anyway

>>105879390
Yeah that's what I mean. Gemini 2.5 Pro is considered by leaderboard sites to pretty much be the best online LLM overall.

>>105879095
Their only input device is a touch screen, which is only useful for scrolling through content. It's a very, very inefficient input device for work. It's literally only good for watching videos and reading books.

>>105879209
>What's the problem yet?
You've eliminated the biggest problem, but there's still two issues:
1. Screen size (assuming we're still talking about the Nintendo Switch).
2. You need a mouse, since most desktop software is not designed to work well with a touch device. Some things will just be annoying to do with a touch screen.
At that point it's better to just use a laptop which has a touch screen if you really want to tap the screen to navigate. Because at least you won't have to worry about carrying a mouse and a keyboard separately.

>>105879121
Yes I think so but your mobo should load efi stubs from its nvram. If you are having trouble booting you'll need to look at the boot order of your mobo. Windows likes to fuck around with linux boot partitions.

After you've installed linux use efibootmgr to check the boot order, you can rearrange them. First reboot and see what happens and go from there.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Efibootmgr#Usage

>>105879416
There are countless tablet keyboards with touchpads. The mouse problem is equally applicable to laptops, too, and you can resolve that with a Bluetooth mouse. Unless your solution is to bring an ATX tower into every classroom, I'm not sure what your issue still is.

>>105879449
>>105879121

If you can't boot after installing linux, plug a usb in with a linux live environment and you can just install efibootmgr there and move them around that way. Don't give up if you get a black screen, live environments are great for unfucking your system like grub configs, etc.

>>105873207
Just use mint

>>105873544
The order of your sudoers stuff is important
I forgot if you need to do the nopasswd stuff at the front or back, but make sure that all the stuff in your sudoers.d start with numbers in their filenames

>>105873833
synergy/barrier/whatever the new fork is called
or just use something like vnc if you're able to

>>105879363
>Enable Parallel Booting
seriously? Doesn't systemd do shit inparallel anyway?
>Disable Unnecessary Services
No shit sherlock
>Enable TRIM for SSDs
ok
>Use Noatime Mount Option
but I want my atime

>>105873207
Haven't tried it yet, but CatchyOS is looking pretty good. Hear good things about Bazzite also. I've been using Mint for quite a while myself.

>>105879774
>I want my atime
Yeah buddy, that's the way to do it, I write it in my fstab in my / e t c

>>105879798
made me kek, even though the metric isn't quite right

>>105873840
Waydroid, or running bliss OS in a vm since all that shit does is run macos in a vm with a pre-configured docker container because EVERYTHING AND THEIR FUCKING DOG must run in a docker container now fuck native packages

>>105874373
You would be better off pointing out which part of the guide instructions are conflicting or confusing and someone can clarify for you

>>105874587
XRDP or x2go
>>105879077
What exactly never works? I've used xrdp on debian with xfce before without any issue

>>105879766
I used >>105873844
It works perfectly, support multiple monitors and even share clipboard, and OS agnostic.
>VNC
That's just retarded.

>>105879453
You're still carrying 2-3 devices for no reason compared to just carrying a laptop.

>>105879816
>waydroid
Again not what I want since I'm not running wayland
>bliss OS
Will give it a try.
What about chrome OS?

>>105879847
I'm telling you man.
RDP is windows protocol, slapping x before it doesn't make it working magically.
I've had several issues before this error for example
[14:29:57:110] [70406:00011307] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.x11] - [load_map_from_xkbfile]: : keycode: 0x08 -> no RDP scancode found
[14:29:57:110] [70406:00011307] [WARN][com.freerdp.client.x11] - [load_map_from_xkbfile]: ZEHA: keycode: 0x5D -> no RDP scancode found
[14:29:57:463] [70406:00011307] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_read_layer]: BIO_read returned a system error 104: Connection reset by peer
[14:29:57:464] [70406:00011307] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - [transport_read_layer]: ERRCONNECT_CONNECT_TRANSPORT_FAILED [0x0002000D]
[14:29:58:684] [70406:00011307] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] - [transport_read_layer]: BIO_read returned a system error 104: Connection reset by peer
[14:29:58:684] [70406:00011307] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - [transport_read_layer]: ERRCONNECT_CONNECT_TRANSPORT_FAILED [0x0002000D]
[14:29:58:684] [70406:00011307] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core] - [freerdp_connect]: freerdp_post_connect failed

>>105880026
>doesn't make it working magically
Saar please don't insult our Windows software

Just gave myself a crash course in PulseAudio and PipeWire to figure out an audio problem I was having

Think I've fixed it now

>>105880141
What was the problem? How did you fix it? I never really interacted with the audio system beyond setting timer based polling on puiseaudio to false and switching some outputs in qpwgraph.

>>105880179
I normally use LXQt and my audio was working fine. Then I installed KDE Plasma just to try it out (while keeping LXQt installed). Plasma worked fine, but then the next time I used LXQt, I wasn't getting any sound.

I think there was some conflict between PulseAudio and PipeWire perhaps. Anyway I fixed it by just disabling PulseAudio and enabling PipeWire, pipewire-pulse, and wireplumber. Audio seems to work now.

>>105877287
>>105879195
why in fuck would u do this, what kind of horrific spaghetti have u written

>>105880344
SAAR, your serpentine language doesn't concern me

>>105880311
Oh, you had both installed? That's unusual. Pipewire can emulate a pulseaudio server, after all.

>>105880379
Why doesn't davinci resolve work with pipewire then

>>105880379
Maybe when I installed LXQt it installed PulseAudio, then when I installed Plasma it installed PipeWire. I dunno. Anyway I'm now using PipeWire and audio seems to work properly.

>>105879847
>XRDP
I found this
https://hub.docker.com/r/danielguerra/alpine-xfce4-xrdp
and this
https://github.com/hectorm/docker-xubuntu
which does what I want.
How do I only start a specific application?
And to be honest? the refresh rate isn't great compared to X11forwarding.

What init system just werks on artix?

>>105879936
They have tablet keyboards that double as a tablet case. You can turn any tablet into a foldable laptop this way.

>>105881206
OpenRC. It was the original init it was shipped with before adding more.

Bros help, I just had a power outage and this came up when I turned my PC back on, using CachyOS and btrfs on my root drive.

>>105881562
Forgot to add that I'm using systemd-boot

>>105881562
darn it man, I was going to hack your computer, but now that you blurred the partition UUID I am powerless!

anyway, does the drive show up on blkid or lsblk?

>>105881206
What's so bad about systemd?
>it's large so it has a big attack surface!
If this was such an issue then how come big companies are using systemd? Valve, Canonical, Red Hat. If systemd really was such a security problem then these companies wouldn't use it. They have paying customers who expect a secure system.

>>105881562
>btrfs
it's dead, Jim

>>105881605
Huh, I've had power outages and the partitions (btrfs and ext4) were fine
>systemd-boot
A guy on a previous thread had a power outage during an update and he had to mount and chroot into the system to fix it, installing grub-btrfs would be way more simple and avoid all of that

>>105881562
why did you censor your drive UUID? nigger are you serious?

Dual-booting Mint and Windows, with a GeForce GTX 1070 GPU.
Normally there's no issues, but in certain games I get really bad performance on Mint even after lowering the settings all the way, while on Windows those same games great performance while playing on higher settings. If I get an RX Vega 56 (equivalent-ish GPU) to be used with Mint exclusively, can I turn off/deactivate the GTX 1070, and only use it on Windows? Could I also use the 1070 as a GPU in a Windows VM while the Vega is still being used for the native OS? That's what 'Passthrough' is?

>>105881611 >>105881803
>glowies mad and seethe
Nothing personnel, agents. You ain't no hacking this one today!

>>105881611
>does the drive show up on blkid or lsblk?
All my drives including the boot partition and root drive show up

>>105881941
manually mount it.

>>105881963
I'm using CachyOS, because I'm retard, how do I mount it?

>>105881889
sudo apt install linux-headers-oem-24.04c linux-image-oem-24.04c nvidia-driver-570

>>105873151

opensuse might cover you like i386 layer and amd64 on virtual machine i have not looked that close

Is there a way to launch bottles in gamescope when using sunshine?
I tried this
setsid gamescope -H com.usebottles.bottles
But this still launch full desktop.

>>105874313

gypsy man next door microwaves delikacies with door open again?

>>105882179
No.
It's not interfering at least.

>>105879118
I'm not being unfriendly by pointing this out. Being unfriendly is directly insulting someone and they read said negative comment. Being unfriendly is not paying attention to someone and shrugging them off, not taking them seriously enough, and calling them an idiot or something.

Noticing a pattern and pointing it out isn't that unfriendly. Also I dislike porn where you don't see the girl's face. It feels like more manipulation from women. Like "I'll show you my body so I can extract money from using onlyfans but I'm worried about my privacy so I won't show you my face." At least with real pornstars you can see their faces, which is more respectable.

I'm tired of having email tabs open in my browser all the time.
My email provider mostly is gmail and yahoo.
How can I get notified whenever I get a message? I want the notification to appear somewhere or pop up and stay there till it's read.

Using Bazzite.

>>105882279
install a proper email client lol. evolution, thunderbird, whatever you like

>>105881562
Oh hey, i had a similar situation with BTRFS boot failure after having to cut power and it putting me in the emergency shell. It needed one command to fix for me:
btrfs rescue zero-log /dev/nvme0n1p3
You will have to replace that last part with your device name.
more info here: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-rescue.html
Maybe your error is different, i don't know, but have a look there.

I feel paranoid using a email client with my desktop is there anyway for google to rape me for data if I connect my gmail account?
Also are how can I be sure all I'm doing is pulling my inbox with no risk from google raping me up my ass?

>>105882269
>I dislike porn
This is serious mental illness.
Virgin?

>>105882426
they are already reading through all your emails and training their llms on your data, so you cannot go any worse than that

>>105875432
>>105875692
That database file is this - it's The Pirate Bay's index back in like 2010:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:95b4cadb2dd8df1f6b70ce5685e4e56f047b42e8&dn=tpb&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.thepiratebay.org%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.thepiratebay.org%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%2Fannounce

Once you have ALL OF the file, you can run this:
>$ sqlite3 tpb.db "SELECT file FROM torrents LIMIT 1 OFFSET 4;"
>$ sqlite3 tpb.db "SELECT file FROM torrents LIMIT 1 OFFSET 19;"
you can put it in a loop and extract all of the .torrent files (file blobs) out of the .db

>>105882440
Troll/bait post, but I'll bite. To elaborate on what I said, which you didn't seem to read all of, I'll say this. Looking at porn where you can't see the girl's face does not have the emotional element of seeing a face. Therefore, the fantasy is more like meat creatures fucking each other; it's degrading or dehumanizing. It's only on a sexual level that some dumb 15-year-old boy would appreciate. Seeing their face makes it sexual plus romantic/whatever. Seeing someone's face is more intimate as you see "all" of them. Or going along with sex=power, you have more power/control over them as they aren't hiding anything. I suppose everyone can agree with this and it's not just me being weird.

How do I clean space?
I have installed a bunch of stuff for comfyui.
.cache is 13gb, miniconda 8 gb, .local 6gb.

I have installed Bazzite on a 58gb ssd

>>105882724
rm -rf .cache

>>105883015
should I just make chatgpt create a script whenever I shutdown to erase the cache?

>>105882404
It worked!
I booted into a live USB of CachyOS and executed the command from there, thank you very much bro.

>>105883126
Probably not. If the cache was meant to be erased at shutdown, its contents would be in /run or /tmp.
Just look at what is taking the most space and decide whether you think it's worth keeping.

>>105883126
I'd check what is creating the big caches instead, they'll be recreated otherwise and you'll just wear down your drive instead for no benefit. Avoid deleting the .local contents. If anything needs to store things because it works with plugins its likely to do so on .local so i dont recommend deleting that.

>>105882035
Thanks. Feels like an improvement, maybe 10-15 fps more and less stutter after playing for a bit, but this is still on the lower settings of the two games I tried, Windows still has much higher fps at higher settings with those games. And one of the Windows apps I use through WINE feels laggier than before updating. Will keep testing. I might skip getting an AMD card and just keep the heavier games installed on Windows.

>>105883304
some games, especially older ones, can have piss poor performance with wine since they do weird things with the windows api.

>>105880026
I've used xrdp with remmina before and it just worked without any real issue. maybe try remmina instead of freerdp

>>105881639
Valve uses it because debian/ubuntu uses it
Ubuntu had their own init system but then gave up and followed debian which had a controversial change to systemd.
Red hat are the ones that control systemd which is why they use it.
And theres been enough arguments for why systemd is shit, if you dont care then just use it and move on. Something about systemd might screw you over in the future or maybe systemd will never give you any trouble.

>>105882115
What happens if you try without setsid?
Or try to run it through a terminal so you can see some output
Replace (terminal) with the name of whichever terminal you're using
(terminal) -e gamescope -H com.usebottles.bottles

>>105882724
Bazzite is a meme and all those billion package manager bazzite uses because of muh atomic distro is the reason why you don't have any space.

>>105882426
Google is already reading your emails so whatever else you're worried about no longer matters.
You might want to go look up how imap, pop3 and smtp works since all those protocols do is just send and recieve data

>>105882426
Your mail provider already reads your emails. But connecting your mail account to your desktop should not allow the provider to know anything about your system, I think.

>>105881354
Unfortunately those keyboards are usually dogshit

>>105880664
I wouldnt use docker images for this, too much overhead.
x2go might work better than xrdp if its too slow but you can also try turning off compositing effects first.

>>105874725

you dont like it but usually monitor power off when away from screen

>>105883684
>Valve uses it because debian/ubuntu uses it
I was referring to Arch which Valve uses on the Steam Deck
>Something about systemd might screw you over in the future or maybe systemd will never give you any trouble.
The same could be said for any software

Why is this thread comprised of so many lust provoking images of women and anime girls? I haven't checked this general in years, but I don't remember it being coomer-central.

>>105883849
>I was referring to Arch which Valve uses on the Steam Deck
It would've been the same reason anyway just replace debian/ubuntu with arch.
>The same could be said for any software
Except other software isnt as critical to the system as systemd, isnt as controversial as systemd, wasnt as forced adoption as systemd was.

>>105883895
I see. Well it works on my machine anyway.

>>105883895
cant tell how they'd force its adoption on ubuntu if they had its own thing already
the posts just read as "systemd bad" without stating why, which is basically schizo babble and worthless for anyone reading them

>>105882712
>Troll/bait post, but I'll bite
No.
But I ain't gonna quote your whole mental illness post.
And you didn't disapprove my point so thank you for proving my hypothesis.
Get help, stop being incel

>>105883661
>maybe try remmina instead of freerdp
I tried that anon.
Same error

>>105884000
Ubuntu had its own init called upstart but just like many other ubuntu projects such as unity and mir they got abandoned and ended up copying what every other distro was doing instead.
I'm not going to spoonfeed you on why systemd is bad, theres billions of posts, articles, pages you can look up using your favorite search provider or AI.

A while ago I made a neat realization for re-encoding videos with ffmpeg. I have computer A and computer B. Computer A, running Ubuntu, is less powerful and has way more storage. Computer B, running Arch, is significantly more powerful (CPU) and has less storage. FFmpeg takes hours in computer A, per file. It takes minutes (like 5 to 10 minutes) in computer B, per file. The solution is to use sshfs:
>$ sudo echo -n; echo $n; n=$(expr $n + 1); sudo ffmpeg -hide_banner -i /mnt/sshfs/path/to/video.$n.mkv -map 0:0 -map 0:a:m:language:eng -c:a aac -vf "scale=-1:720" -profile:v main -level 3.1 -pix_fmt yuv420p /mnt/sshfs/path/to/video.$n.mp4; echo $n

SSHFS is software for UNIX-like OSs. The devs are or were Nikolaus Rath and Miklos Szeredi. So thanks.

>>105882712
Got that site working locally. Using PHP and Apache in Ubuntu. Took like 3 hours of semi-angrily messing with stuff and rewriting .php to get this filthy disgusting server software to work. Funny mock-up site: the logo was changed. Picrel is
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3220835
https://tpb.party/torrent/3220835

>>105883701
I'm not running from terminal?
Sorry I'm not understanding what you mean
Do you mean I add a terminal to sunshine launch option?

>>105883814
>I wouldnt use docker images for this, too much overhead.
Isn't container overhead is pretty much minimal?
I mean with distrobox you can run full application with next to no lag.
And changing applications doesn't change protocol.

>>105884025
>But I ain't gonna quote your whole mental illness post.
Explain how preference in porn is mental illness.

>stop being incel
I don't desire bitches. I desire money, if anything.

>>105883701
tried that didn't work.

>>105884000
>force its adoption on ubuntu
be being better. Crazy, isn't it?

>>105872971 (OP)

>>105883140
Nice! Glad it worked out. I fixed it in the emergency shell. An error like can be a complete showstopper. What made the experience worse is that the emergency shell apparently assumes that the user has an us keyboard layout. Shit like this is why i don't recommend linux to my friends or relatives.

>>105884070
Homepage. I bet The Pirate Bay ran on GNU/Linux back in the 2000s. Not sure, but it probably did.

>>105884025
>>105884095
Reply, unfriendly coward. Trying to understand you perspective: I said I dislike faceless porn because it reminds me of how I sometimes dislike cumdumpsters (AKA women). I also dislike such porn for other stated reasons. Then you view my antisocial or negative viewpoints as me having a mental illness.

>>105880344
The same reason you'd use mutexes in C or any other program. It makes sure they're only ever running a single instance at time which will (hopefully) prevent them from getting blocked.

>>105884964
The alternative, is probably to get a pool of proxy servers and alternate between them, which is probably how the annoying AI scrapers are working nowadays in order to bypass bot protections.

>>105874374
>Her
That's a man.

Anyway that cocksucker of a package also partially blocks my wifi from working - which is a network card that is apparently also in a lot of MacBooks. I say partially because the MacBooks with this adapter seem to be resolved by downgrading wpa_supplicant however the desktop pcie version I have is seemingly unfixable (on Fedora at least. Ubuntu has some magic driver which worked) - can't get my fucking card to even be detected or show up as an option in the settings (gnome)

Piece of shit broadcom. Fortunately I can hardwire to my router but it would be nice if I had more flexibility to relocate my desktop or router.

>>105885074
>Piece of shit broadcom. Fortunately I can hardwire to my router but it would be nice if I had more flexibility to relocate my desktop or router.
Broadcom is by far the worst vendor for wireless hardware. When I ran Linux on a Macbook before I was using a custom kernel for Macbooks that fixed the shitty power management and wireless, etc.

Both of my high refresh rate monitors are stuck at 60Hz, and I can't tell what changed.
They used to display at the proper rate, but then at some point, they just got stuck at 60.
I tried editing the xorg conf. I even tried deleting it. Nothing worked.

>>105885534
>xorg
It's over.

Translator's note: Over = fucked

>>105879077
I've run real multiuser deployments of XRDP. Maybe you should get good.

If you got spoiled by VSCode's indentation-aware softwrap for things like Markdown lists you can turn the same thing on with two lines in your vimrc:

set breakindentopt=list:-1
set breakindent


This also works with "setlocal" as you'd expect for per-file.

>>105885534
Can you change it back with xrandr?

>>105885750
no, it doesn't work.

Is there a workaround to make mpv always start in a specific monitor in wayland?

>>105873763
>>105879756
Figured it out with some help from Brave search's AI. It'll work with just the nsenter command, but as soon as I added the command line options and stuff it wouldn't work, so I had to put that in a wrapper script whose path you put in the sudoers file followed by a simple ^[0-9]{4}$ regex (and "hostname") after. Then you execute it directly with 'sudo /path/to/script.sh 6969 hostname'. The nice thing about this is that I can for example check the 4 digit number against a list of expected PIDs as well, although that seems unnecessary. Should be safe as is now. Strangely enough you can't execute the script with #!/bin/bash, but #!/bin/sh and what I ended up using: #!/home/user/.guix-home/profile/bin/bash, works. Slightly interesting/weird.

I wonder if this is nsenter specific or if the sudoers file hates command line options in general.

>>105883738
That's what I wanted to know, I don't want to get molested by this shit

>>105886025
it is possible if you're using a tiling window manager, dunno about the alternatives

>>105886025

How many of these commands from rpmfusion should I run on a fresh Fedora install?
(Which are considered essential?)

In windows you can hold the shift key then let go of the left click button to add onto the playlist on mpv. How do I add to the playlist on linux? Holding the shift key doesn't work. It just makes a new playlist instead of adding more to it.

Is Zorin good for Linux noobs? I don't want to use Windows 11, but I've only used Windows my entire life and I need something that just works.

Also how is it for gaming? I don't play the newest games but I do play Elden Ring which has Easy Anticheat, will that be an issue?

What are some interesting Linux lectures to watch? I'm in bed stuck on my phone

How do I make sure my daughter grows up liking linux

>>105886541
pedophilia
That's what we're supposed to say, right?
Are you laughing yet?

>>105886486
>Is Zorin good for Linux noobs?
>>105076684

mother fucker fucking faggots jesus christ i hate linux people and their incessant need to keep making up "features" and bloating shit and making up more and more and more configuration and more and more and more bloat
fucking hell

>fortunes-mod offensive removed from debian
>Offensive fortunes have been removed in English. This package has no place in Debian
has caused the Debian Bug report #1109165

My efi win10 partition is only 100mb

As far as I understand, as depicted here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFI_system_partition#Replace_the_partition_with_a_larger_one

I can boot into arch linux installation usb and before installing it replace the efi with a larger one? Anyone here done this?

>>105886696
Windows has its own boot partition. They're always 100mb, even from Windows 7 days, probably earlier.

>>105886269
All of them, or at least the ones germane to your hardware.

>>105886605
?

>>105886486
No. It's probably going to run like shit unless you specifically picked hardware for Linux, and even if you did normal community distros are less of a pain in the ass to self-administrate.

>>105886701
For dual boot with arch it is too small. From what I know they need to share it and it needs to be larger, at least 1gb up to 4 recommended.

Recommended swap file size for Arch? I have 16GB ram.

>>105886712
I'm using a AMD laptop currently.
Should I install the "i686 compat librararies (for steam or alikes) if I already have installed the "hardware codecs with AMD (mesa)"?

Thanks for answering btw.

>>105886731
What should I use instead? Is mint good?

>>105886772
Just installing the steam package should bring in everything you need for Steam.

>>105886802
I'm sorry, I missed a quotation mark
I meant to say:
Should I install the "i686 compat librararies (for steam or alikes)" if I already have installed the "hardware codecs with AMD (mesa)"?

The mention of Steam is from the rpmfusion website
I'm curious about the command in general, not specifically when it comes to Steam

>>105886782
Distros with recent packages are going to give you the best odds of success wrt hardware support. Like Arch, Fedora, or SUSE Tumbleweed.

>>105886828
va and vdpau are just hardware video decoding, and your CPU should be able to grunt through any video file in a 32-bit game. Probably not worth the remote chance of breakage.

>>105886846
Aren't those more difficult to set up and use?

>>105886903
Just use cachyos. Easy install and new packages

>>105877433
>>105877741
Just to answer my own question, I installed last night, you need to add some UEFI/secure boot related options to grub-install command (that is if you're using grub, I was) and that's pretty much it. If you don't, it may fail to boot but it will go into grub rescue mode.

>>105886735
I usually refer people to the Youtube video about how to dual boot linux mint with Windows, it's quite informative. I don't know about Arch, sorry.

>>105886828
They're 32 bit drivers, your system is very likely to install a brand new package instead of swapping it. It wont hurt to have it, they'll be called whenever they're needed after all.

>>105886744
Its always the same rule. Wanna hibernate your pc? It has to be at least bigger than your current ram. Dont want to do that? Whatever you feel like you'll need depending on your usage.

>>105886744
Then do a 16GB swap partition or file.

Don't know why but my Windows VM I've used for almost a decade has shit the bed. I updated my packages for the first time in a few months a couple days ago and apparently my VM was so old QEMU told me the architecture was no longer going to be supported. I updated the config and got it to run again, but now I can't use it for longer than 10 minutes without it freezing. When I go to run it afterwards, it tells me that it can't access the ISO file.
Error starting domain: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2025-07-13T00:53:34.756281Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/dev/windoze/W10.img","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":false}: Could not open '/dev/windoze/W10.img': Read-only file system

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 71, in cb_wrapper
callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 107, in tmpcb
callback(*args, **kwargs)
~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/libvirtobject.py", line 57, in newfn
ret = fn(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/object/domain.py", line 1384, in startup
self._backend.create()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 1390, in create
raise libvirtError('virDomainCreate() failed')
libvirt.libvirtError: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2025-07-13T00:53:34.756281Z qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev {"driver":"file","filename":"/dev/windoze/W10.img","node-name":"libvirt-1-storage","read-only":false}: Could not open '/dev/windoze/W10.img': Read-only file system


Downgrading is tempting, but as I'm not seeing others report similar I feel I need to bite the bullet. Hard to troubleshoot since I must cold boot to "unlock" the image file every time.

>>105883126
maybe better to make a script that deleted old/not-recently-accessed (if atimes are enabled) files from cache
you can safely delete ~/.cache whenever you like, but keep in mind it exists to speed things up by avoiding repetitive work, like for example generating thumbnails, generating shaders, downloading reusable packages like from winetricks or pip, etc.
considering you have little space, you may benefit more from keeping it small versus the time spent regenerating the stuff in the cache, however. on my system my ~/.cache is currently at 6.4G, with the biggest user being 2.6G of winetricks packages. it means i can install something using winetricks and not need to download it again each time

it seems youtube downloading has become a lot harder

any programs for it that still work on linux?

>there are 20 DEs for Linux
>they all suck
>there are 200 WMs for Linux
>they all suck

>>105887345
gnome and kde are fine
far from perfect but fine

>>105887345
WMs work just fine

>>105887344
yt-dlp is still the best way. If it's having issues then just wait for an update on the program.

>>105887345
>Everything sucks according to me
Jeez you sound like a yid complaining about being kicked out of 109 countries.
>Everyone else is the problem

>>105887260
>he updooted
lol
lmao even

>>105887345
macOS doesnt have this problem

So I've still got a weird issue.
Randomly a month or two ago, both of my monitors stopped displaying higher than 60Hz.
I was trying everything to get it working again. Making a new xorg config, running xrandr scripts, fucking with my monitor settings. None of it worked. The monitors said they were in 60Hz mode, and I had no way to get them out.

Out of desperation, I installed KDE. (and apparently Wayland) And now one of my monitors is in 170Hz mode. (supposed to be 165, but whatever.) And even when going back to my old window manager, it's still working at 170.
The other one is still in 60 when it should be 144.
I'm on Arch, AMD GPU, and BSPWM.

Is there any reason why this is happening, and how to stop it?
I'm about to just reinstall my whole OS (probably going to do that anyway.)

>>105887439
wlr-randr --json
does it show your screen can use 144?

I want to fuck a penguin

Guys, how do I set a FPS limit across all 3D applications? nvidia drivers on windows used to have this option but I can't find a solution anywhere.
googling it some people recommended using an option on mangohud but it isn't a good solution since a few games can't seem to work with it for some reason.

>>105886903
Yes, but if that's a serious obstacle you were always going to wash out anyway.

>>105872971 (OP)
finally started getting comfortable with the terminal. soo i tried to make an irc server.... what in the actual fuck is this? no documentation, no discord (irdc is a discord basically) soo if you didnt grow up with an amiga youre fucked. fair enough, we have matrix and clients. havent used arch because it didnt have shit i wanted- installed ubuntu and didnt look back.

why do people get upset when i tell them i use ubuntu and nano? why would i want to use keypress combinations to move a cursor in vim, shit retarded just like irc? im just gonna say it.
if i really hated my self i would rather install debian net install. yea arch has the latest version with github support n all that but apt repository ALWAYS has what i want. i dont need bleeding edge support my system is kind of basic anyways.

what are some cool things i can do with this system? idk any programming language yet still learning bash.

bas\hed and blessed

>>105886903
if you're brand brand new to linux i say use mint. it's good. it just works (mostly. for most use cases). it's mostly gui stuff and then a little bit of terminal
then you get comfortable and you can consider going the arch way where you're sliding the dial from a little terminal use a lot of gui use to a lot of terminal use a little gui

>>105887683
Mint is ugly. Any distro with Plasma will be better for a Windows user

>>105886568
wtf anon
>>105886541
well you could just start her on linux computer. you can't really force what someone likes though, you can only expose her to it.

>>105874126
if you got the ram; mount a tmpfs and save your ssd/hdd some trouble

>>105874922
bas\hed

>>105886744
need to hibernate? same as ram
never use more than half of your ram? none
use most of it, but rarely go over it? ram/2 or zram
need to build webkit-gtk? 64G

>>105875215
true! when i first tried linux distros i tried to install at least 6 different distros and got fucked by grub and sysinit using old computers with bios. raged soo hard- installed bhodi linux and it just fckin worked *shrug* soo i used that for the longest time until i got brave enough to open the terminal(which is actually easier proving you have a manual to read.

bhodi idles at 400mb and i kinda miss it but ubuntu with the gtk windows and dark theme look really nice. and the animations for the windows also nice. i dont mind the 1gb ram idle of ubuntu as much now i have 16gb.

but yea, there was alot of software that did not get work on bhodi or needed to be compiled from source, having no idea how to do that at the time i simply just missed out. installed ubuntu and never looked back. huge sigh of relief when obs steam nvidia drivers, wifi drivers, everything worked out of the box and i could just GAME and not be bothered.

i strongly believe linux(kernel) is the future of not only gaming but computing as a whole. it is currently the biggest threat to big tech and jew software, also gamergate bs(jewsoftware). new games run at 20fps with state of the art billy rigs.

>>105877741
good riddance!

New thread >>105887863

>>105878714
if yo uhave steam right click it>propertie>compatibility>click force use of steamplay> then hit the newest version of proton.

you should now be able to start the game with driectx to vulkan api calls. if your card has vulkanapi support. no wine no lutris (probably?less bloat?) should precompile shaders n shit too. check it out

>>105880141
check out easyeffects, its basically a DSP in software mode. very powerful and loads of effects like limiter equalizer highpass low pass auto leveling for in/out and by far the best one, the level meter. its a pipewire plugin... or a plugin for a plugin i forget. pulseeffects is outdated and gives of small skips in the music, its unbearable. plus easyeffects has oversamplingx8 and 24bit dithering. it makes this 60watt rms stereo sound decent, actually.

>>105878714
>right clicked a game and clicked open with wine or whatever and it worked
They worked on the same prefix at ~/.wine
>Then when I did it again it didn't work
Some games need a fix like installing something with winetricks, setting compatibility to some specific win version or proton-ge (for wmv/mpg playback)

>>105882724
use tmpfs; doesnt cache because ram is volatile unless you want it cached then copy it to a block device with non volatile memory so its not lost on startup

>>105883126
bro do tmpfs thats what all the cool kids are doing