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Previous thread: >>105872971

>>105887863 (OP)
>that pic
They took this from us...

>>105887894
look at those icons man

>>105887894

I was watching The Secret Garden and the subtitles were wrong. I think this might have been a sign to warn you nerds to get some sunlight. Be aware of your Vitamin D levels.

https://youtu.be/1zeqqhA5Z3A

How do I connect my Cat S22 to my laptop to transfer files? I am using Void linux, and the ways it used to work for seems not to be working. Could be some package I am missing or the fact that the Android Go on the Cat S22 is kind of ancient.

>>105887863 (OP)
sudo apt install steghide

gonna make a script that extracts stegout as a password maybe dxotools idfk to punch it in for me. i need to max the usb drive out with stegfiles so it cant have room for shit else, maybe extract it to tmpfs to decrypt it then compress it again? idfk i feel like im losing my mind steghide is siiiiiiiiiiiick.

im linuxmaxxing over here!

>>105887940
KEK

>>105888070
or something like that. im trying not to ask gpt cuz it just finishes it all for me. i made a picture sniper with it ... actually works very simple tho

might hack the pentagon later idk

>>105888097
echo ' exec 3 <> /proc/tcp/pentagon.gov/80
echo 'you have been pwned' > 3

>>105888097
lol, tmpfs is a filesystem
mkdir ~/mountpoint; sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=16G tmpfs ~/mountpoint

Does Timeshift really need its own ext4 partition on some other drive or is it okay to leave its backups on the same drive as the OS? I already make backups of my personal files, so I only use timeshift to roll back to a previous version of my system if gaming performance suddenly feels worse. If I don't have access to the desktop because of a kernel update or something, I think at that point I'd probably just want to do a clean reinstall of linux. But that's never happened before anyway so I'm not too worried and I don't mind reinstalling if needed since I like distro hopping so I'm used to it.

What a difference 10 years makes.

God what the fuck is the referencing system on LibreOffice? How do I make it APA?

>>105888533

>>105888568
thats a decent upgrade

i was using a core2 duo with singlechannel ram for the longest time, had to boot bhodi linux because less resources at idle 400mb on a fresh start. core2 aint got shit on the i5 dual channel.its night and day.

How good is WayDroid? I wanna run shitty games on it. Most relevant of them would be Wild Rift, but also a couple of random Indies i got for free through Gift cards and discounts.

>>105887260
I'm starting to put 2 and 2 together.
I take it this drive is fucked? Luckily the stuff I care more about is on the external drives I passthrough.
I'm welcome to other suggestions though, since one thing that has me curious is why it seems to be fine for the first 10 minutes it's in use on a fresh boot but refuses to be read any time after that. I guess I'll play with the cables and finally go to bed.

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Silicon Motion based SSDs
Device Model: ADATA SU650
Serial Number: 2H4120005973
LU WWN Device Id: 0 000000 000000000
Firmware Version: Q0831C0
User Capacity: 240,057,409,536 bytes [240 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
TRIM Command: Available, deterministic, zeroed
Device is: In smartctl database 7.5/5706
ATA Version is: ACS-2 T13/2015-D revision 3
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sun Jul 13 05:39:00 2025 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Read SMART Data failed: Connection timed out

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status command failed: Input/output error
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: UNKNOWN!
SMART Status, Attributes and Thresholds cannot be read.

Read SMART Log Directory failed: Input/output error

Read SMART Error Log failed: Input/output error

Read SMART Self-test Log failed: Input/output error

Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported

The above only provides legacy SMART information - try 'smartctl -x' for more

>>105888745
The point I am making is they are the same distro 10 years apart, doing the same things; but one is using 128 mb's and the other is using 1,052. Hess the bloat is real.

>>105888853
i posted a picture here 10 years ago of my laptop running arch and xfce using 65M of ram, these days you'll be lucky to get to a tty with 65M of ram

>>105887894
Yep. I remember using this. Back when KDE was unbelievably based. It's a fucking shitshow now.

debian sucks
ubuntu sucks

splitting packages sucks
>software lists deps ambiguously
>repo has anus, anus-dev, anus-ass-dev, anus-std-onions
great, which one did the retard use to make his software? fucking retarded shit

>>105888868
kernel got fat

>>105888868
>these days you'll be lucky to get to a tty with 65M of ram
how about not being able to launch a terminal with that instead

puppy linux does not have this issue

What is the usecase for Linux when BSD exists?

>>105888920
according to the logic from your post packages shouldnt be split which is the same as installing all of the possibilities, so just do that

>>105889006
this is anal and aids

>>105889062
So is having a fuckhuge package. Just use an asterisk to grab them all bro

>>105889194
>1M pkg vs
>10x 1M pkgs
>debina logic
how is splitting the same package a dozen ways not redundant and yuuge waste of space?

>>105888920
>repo has anus, anus-dev
How are development packages a bad thing? Do you specifically want bloat? Or do you compile *everything* from sources?
>>105888568
Try a 5.4.x kernel, it's the oldest branch still supported.

>>105888996
Using an OS on physical hardware.

>>105888920
>>105889255
i just deleted gnome-terminal.perl gnome-terminal.py and the symlink gnome-terminal. i was staring at htop and didnt know what a dbus was gvfsd and all that im freaking the fuck out thinking im being hacked i just start deleting shit after i read its automatically mounting shit. ran sudo while viewing dbus monitor and scared the fuck out of myself lol. *deleted*. also im not entirely sure if could be exploited, said it mounts mtp and all that. nope.
>install kitty
>mount drives manually

im using ubuntu. is this the bs everyone is talking about. what system would you recommend and why?

hey guys is it possible to have this feature in Gnome ?

>>105889673
yes I should have searched

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7065/tiling-shell/

>>105888853
Did you not notice the considerably higher video resolution of the new machine? Don't expect it to use the same amount of RAM as something running at 800x480 lmao

>>105890047
that would only affect vram usage, even then only by about a dozen megs

>>105890123
That's not actually true because a lot of stuff will buffer in system memory, etc. Regardless, if you want to compare the two systems then you should really be doing so under identical conditions.

>>105890130
>because a lot of stuff will buffer in system memory
such as?

>>105890141
Anything that's doing any sort of image or video operations not directly on the GPU or buffering frames in system memory before copying it to the GPU, etc.

>>105888868
>65M of ram
rookie numbers

>>105890194
that's not xfce and possibly not arch either. i'm not claiming it was or even is the smallest gui linux you can do, i'm saying you can't do arch with xfce now in 65M of ram

>>105890206
I just wanted to post my ancient low ram screenshot

>>105890194
May I ask what DE/WM this is

>>105887863 (OP)
I find these nostalgic oldschool desktop screenshots ironic because the truth is that none of these were usable. They were all dogshit usability-wise.

any distro that comes with hyprland preinstalled?

>>105888853
>doing the same things
Then use the old version instead of whining.

>>105888868
I did a linux from scratch build (except I didn't follow their retarded manual build processes but automated the entire thing) and my ram usage was like 30mb in term

>>105890248
Fluxbox if I remember correctly

i tried hyprland to check if its compositor plays better with nvidia(it didnt) and i feel like it tried to infect me with the gay
why is everything rounded, animated and why does the config file have emojis jesus christ

>>105890256
There are tutorials on installing preconfigured hyprland setups on arch/endeavouros

I particularly use this one
https://github.com/JaKooLit/Arch-Hyprland/issues

Just gotta install endeavour with no desktop environment ticked, login to your account, sudo pacman -S hyprland, and then type in the auto clone script in the link then it'll go to an installer where you choose your preferences.

I cannot get DLSS working in games I launch through Bottles. I've made sure I have all the relevant DLLs in the right folders and it still won't work.
right now the only lead I have is this line in the logs when I launch a game:
>info: DXGI: Hiding actual GPU, reporting vendor ID 0x1002
that vendor ID is AMD. so I believe the games are being told I have an AMD GPU instead of Nvidia, and that's why I'm not shown the option to enable DLSS. so how do I make it report an Nvidia card?
also DLSS works fine in games I launch through Steam.

>>105890274
Cool thanks. Maybe I should try it.

>>105890417
i presume that line is coming from DXVK, it has various options with regards to hiding and faking gpu id's which you can configure
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/blob/master/dxvk.conf

What's a good file sharing site? Or should I do the hosting myself. Just something that would work with my friends who don't want to do any of the work :p

>>105890866
You could try catbox/litterbox. Or Send, which is an open sourced self hosted version of Mozilla's file share service.

>>105890533
it worked thanks
I did try that earlier and it didn't work but I manually set the config file path as a launch option and that did it

How do I clean space?
I have installed a bunch of stuff for comfyui, the install folder is on another drive though.

.cache is 13gb, miniconda 8 gb, .local 6gb.

I have installed Bazzite on a 58gb ssd

I believe I've selected the efi file system to be 500mb, is this the issue? I believe this might be under /home/username

In the disk usage it says that:
bazzite
/
33.5gb available

For fucks sake, can't install a screenshot app because no space

>>105890885
Have heard of catbox. Just "concerned" regarding if it's safe etc.

>>105890995
>33.5 GB Available
>33.5 GB Total
so it's empty?

>>105891000
Catbox is fine. I know it's used a lot by Stable Diffusion threads to share gens with included prompts/parameters without 4chan wiping the metadata.

>>105891015
I'm confused...
maybe it's related to the fact that when I boot I see 2 instances of Fedora, one for Windows(dual boot)

>>105891044
aight, thanks.

>>105890995
Judging by the picture by the picture / and /home are on different partitions.

If gnome removed trash ui
open up the terminal
cd /home/io/.cache
rm --help ## read the helpful flags

>>105887863 (OP)
why the fuck doesn't KDE Plasma have an option to use KDE2 icons? I'd settle for KDE3 icons, too.

I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE a few days ago and ever since then I have an audio issue with Firefox.
When I play music on YouTube it sets the audio level much lower in the Audio Volume widget than it's supposed to for this one tab. I can raise the volume in the widget just fine but if I touch the player it automatically resets it to the lowered volume. The lowered volume level is consistent when it resets for one music video after I touch the player but inconsistent per video. Most normal YouTube videos don't seem to have this problem. As far as I can tell this problem is exclusive to Firefox. Librewolf, Brave, and VLC work just fine.

>>105891141
Well chatgpt told me this, I thought Linux worked similarly to Windows...

Why You See "Two Instances" (But Actually Don’t)
From your boot screen and commands, you're not running two systems. You’re seeing:

One Bazzite install (immutable base system via OSTree).

With:

/ 30MB composefs (read-only system image).

/var/home 54GB BTRFS partition where all your actual data and apps go.

This is by design in Fedora Silverblue/Bazzite.

Why You Can't "Combine" the Two
You can't merge / and /home (or /var/home) because:

/ is not a normal partition — it's a read-only image mounted by OSTree (composefs).

/home (actually /var/home) is a writable BTRFS subvolume — your persistent storage.

So:

They're not two "real" partitions that you can merge.

This setup exists to give you a stable, immutable OS (OSTree) and a separate, writable space for your files.

>>105891534
>I thought Linux worked similarly to Windows...
It does if you're not using an immutable distro

Setting up Linux for the first time on a laptop
After I install Linux, do I need to take any other steps to make sure I am secure for basic web browsing and or downloading ROMs/emulators?
Is there a security/firewall GUI?
Also, when making an account for the first time, did I create an admin or user account?
Ty in advance

>>105891784
depends on what distro you installed

>>105891788
Checked.
Ubtunu.
I'm not really a dev or a computer guy, and idek why I'm installing this. Just seemed fun ig.

Also, how do I keep my OS updated?

>>105891534
most of them do work like windows does in this regard, this is unusual and i'm personally not at all familiar with "ostree"

>>105891784
I'm a pleb so I might be wrong but if you're using domestic WiFi, I think most routers will block incoming connections by default, so maybe you don't need a firewall. Maybe others in this thread might disagree.

Surely the best way to stay secure for basic web browsing is to make sure your system is up to date, and install a reputable browser from a reputable source. E.g. Firefox from Flathub, or Firefox using Mozilla's official deb repo, or Chrome's official deb package, or whatever you prefer.

>>105891804
>how do I keep my OS updated?
Ubuntu does have a graphical program for getting updates, I think it's called Software Updater. So you can use that. Or if you want to use the terminal, run this: `sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y`

>>105891804
>"how do i keep my os updated"
open terminal
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

>>105891534
it's amusing how someone can claim a immutable distro "makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler" with a straight face

>>105891855
I mean it doesn't affect gaming at all from what I can imagine, so having an unbrickable OS will theoretically make it simpler.

>>105891881
until you need a particular version of wine or whatever and then you're messing with temporary shells, overlays and all that crap.

>>105891840
>>105891851
Interesting. I have it set up on my home WiFi yeah. Using it right now to post.

Also, what's this red thing on my keyboard? Is it a mouse? Can it click?

Also what is the app center? How is it different from getting apps via apt-get command or just downloading programs?

>>105891926
Lutris does that job. I use it despite being able to modify my system wine all I want. It's just far easier to switch Lutris to GE-Proton and running your game through that.

>>105891965
>Also, what's this red thing on my keyboard? Is it a mouse? Can it click?
I assume that's the red trackpoint on a Thinkpad. It's a mouse and I think it can click if you enable tap to click.

>Also what is the app center? How is it different from getting apps via apt-get command or just downloading programs?
It's just a graphical way of installing stuff, but you can use the command line if you prefer.

Also you mentioned emulators earlier. Ubuntu's Software app might not always be the best source for emulators. E.g. when I search for Dolphin in there (Gamecube/Wii emulator) it comes up with the Snap store version of Dolphin, which is an old release, and unofficial also. You can get the latest version of Dolphin by setting up their official Flatpak repo. Info is here: https://dolphin-emu.org/download/

But if setting up Flatpak is too much effort, you could try the Snap version if you want. I wouldn't use it myself, but it's an option. Or there might be dolphin-emu in Ubuntu's repos on your system, but it depends on which version of Ubuntu you're running.

>>105887863 (OP)
>>105887894
https://libranext.com/
https://q4os.org/index.html

>>105890251
They were infinitely more usable than the garbage we have now. Why are you defending modern UI/UX bullshit when it's actively preventing me from getting real work done? Sometimes I can't even tell the difference between a button and a label until I hover over it with the mouse cursor because some minimalist faggot thought it would be cool and trendy to remove all the borders and background color. Random web monkeys won't stop breaking Ctrl+C/V for copy/paste and are replacing right click context menus with JavaShit nobody asked for.

User interfaces have never been this bad. Even the Xerox Alto would run circles around the designs these retards keep shitting out.

>>105892486
I agree that the web is shit, but speaking of operating system desktop envs I find no issues with Xfce4, which is what I've used for years. Those oldschool desktops are decent, but as I said, unusable nowadays because they lack quality of life features such as snapping, tiling, dual monitor support, etc.

>>105892500
>snapping, tiling
To me these are unusable garbage features that make life more difficult. The last thing I want is to be working with multiple spreadsheets and accidentally trigger some hot corner bullshit that resizes the window and steals pointer focus. It's one of the most annoying things about MS Windows.
>dual monitor support
This was mainly a hardware limitation.

Just installed Artix with s6. Any tips how to setup services? Trying to launch pipewire on start rn, official s6 docs require too much time to read

>>105893105
perhaps you should read your distros documentation since you chose to go with a non standard init.
asking questions without doing a hint of research just makes people want to call you a nigger.

>>105890417
List of nVidia exclusive features NOT available on Linux:
>PhysX, HairWorks
Unsupported on Linux. These cause some games to tank in performance or even have Linux-exclusive bugs.
>DLSS, DLAA, Frame Generation, Ray Tracing, Reflex, G-Sync, VRS
Unfinished, unpolished, or doesn't work on Wine/Proton
>Game Ready Drivers
Does not exist on Linux.

>>105891467
Youtube might load different codecs on video.

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_codecs_from_Packman_repositories

>>105892486
Libranext midi looks nice, is stable enough for general use?

>>105892500
I'm guessing snapping and tiling doesn't refer to a proper tiling wm. Xrandr can be used for dual monitor..
Modern DE aren't as good as many users think.

New install of Fedora, and I cannot run any .mkv video no matter the player. mpv shows a black screen but still has audio for example. Is there some codec that needs installing?

>>105893732
>Libranext midi looks nice, is stable enough for general use?
I'm not sure. I just found the project this month and there are no official releases yet. If you look at the links on the main page there's a community forum where you might be able to ask the dev.

To the anon on the mint thread yesterday that recommended https://github.com/mahkoh/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk4 to get the GTK4 file picker on Cinnamon or XFCE. Do you add the "org.freedesktop.impl.portal.FileChooser=gtk4" to all these 3 config files?

>>105893868
yeah they're in rpm fusion, just read their wiki and copy paste from there

>>105893897
Neat thanks. For some reason I missed it in there.

>>105893312
Asking questions without doing much of a research is, in fact, a part of doing a research and a way to make it faster and more productive. Call me whatever u want, but it won't change the fact

Installed Cachy OS
Been using Brave browser for many years.

Has Firefox redeemed itself? Which extensions should I use with it?
Don't want ads on my youtube.

>>105894098
>Which extensions should I use with it?
ublock origin

>>105887863 (OP)
What's a good font I can use for fedora gnome?

>>105894127
Did you use Brave before? Is Firefox faster and less of a resource hog now?

>>105894143
Any non bitmap font works

>>105887863 (OP)
>the pic
Looks like peak design to me. How do I get such beauty on my pc?

>>105894170
It's still slower than Chromium browsers. If you want speed, use Brave. But do note that uBlock Origin has apparently stopped working on it, so you're stuck with their shittier built-in adblocker.

>>105894217
>If you want speed, use Brave
Just get Ungoogled lol

>>105894249
>just get a shittier browser
no

>>105894261
Nothing shittier than Brave. Well, maybe Edge and Opera are, but who uses 'em

>>105892423
I see.
Now, why do people not like Snap/Linux store?

>>105893527
Yeah I installed the codecs via the opi before I noticed this behavior.

>>105894383
snap in particular might suffer from performance issues, ctrl+f snap a couple of threads back and you'll find a guy getting fucked by the snap version of a browser

>>105894383
I think snaps can sometimes have issues because firstly they're sandboxed, which can sometimes cause problems. And secondly snaps are compressed, which saves a bit of space, but it means that when you run a snap program, it has to be decompressed, which can make the program a bit slower to open.

Personally I think snaps aren't that bad (although I usually only download snaps that have a tick to show they're from a trusted source, because I don't want to end up installing something malicious). /g/ doesn't like snaps, but /g/ also takes the attitude that anything less than Arch Linux is for plebs.

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hello how do i convert my mbr drive to gpt?????????? its encrypted linux

>>105895989
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=128

if you run that command enough times, you will eventually probably get a gpt partition that works

>>105895989
If you want to use gpt you should probably ask chatgpt

>>105896012
retard

>>105895989
this kill the linux

hai guyz what do u think of my sleepy-scripty??? its my first time programming!!! ^o^
for i in $(seq $((60 * 60 * 4)));
do
echo 'zzz...';
sleep 1;
done

>>105896425
kys

How do i mount an external hard drive thats been encypted using true crypt?

I've got an old, hand-me-down A1458 iPad. At some point, it got factory reset. Don't know what the Apple ID is. How do I bypass the activation and install Linux on it? This is a 12 year old device. I refuse to believe it can't be cracked. The tools I found, ipwndfu and checkra1n, somehow don't work on older ios versions like 10.3.4 The other one, sliver only works on MacOS.

Everything else I've found about this has been scam bullshit.

Gods I love ShellCheck.

>>105887863 (OP)
Man KDE always has the best artwork but the actual software is unusable.

>>105888691
Just do everything in pandoc and use a stylesheet for APA.

>>105890047
I always use xrandr to set the display to something sane. HiDPI is retarded.

>>105896832
what would you do make it usable?

>>105891015
Is this bait?

>>105896853
>just [do something completely different and less practical despite the desired solution actually existing on linux]
Why is this the best advice in every linux thread? Fucking Zotero exists and adds APA referencing to LibreOffice. Go fuck yourself, you little cunt.

>>105896884
Use a sane environment like FVWM or Fluxbox and just run Dolphin or Konquerer and whatever else you want from KDE in that.

>>105896902
I was completely unaware of Zotero. DESU I prefer editing in vim to the Liberoffice editor so I always start from a place like that. That's probably the answer to your "why does this always happen" question.

I got a SSD and a HDD. I got my OSs on the SSD, one Windows partition and now a Mint partition (previously a different Windows) and various non-fundamental programs and files on the HDD.
Mint can see the HDD and its contents when I open a file manager (it's named "New Vol"), but not when I try to install something new, it gives me a list of drives (from C\ with Win through H\ which are empty then Z\ with Mint). What do?

>>105897053
Okay, but Anon didn't ask about editing in a vim (which isn't even a complete office suite). Your advice is completely irrelevant to someone asking about LibreOffice. The fact you've never even heard of Zotero shows you've never done serious work on Linux beyond posting screenshots in rice threads.

What is the modern equivalent of Rhythmbox these days. I remember it being pretty /comfy/ back in the day.

>>105897189
>when I try to install something new, it gives me a list of drives (from C\ with Win through H\ which are empty then Z\ with Mint)
>it
>from C\ with Win through H\ which are empty then Z\ with Mint
Are you talking about Wine or something?
>>105896707
OPEN
open --type tcrypt <device> <name>
tcryptOpen_ <device> <name> (old syntax)

Opens the TCRYPT (a TrueCrypt-compatible) <device> and sets up a mapping <name>.
See cryptsetup-open(8).

You set it up just like any encrypted volume, consult your distribution on the correct method. Assuming you want to automate the process on boot.

>>105896707
Veracrypt?

how do i get firefox to show me thumbnails in the file picker? I did something when switching from plasma to a compositor-only desktop and now the file picker got fucked up and useless

>>105899160
>compositor-only desktop
You don't.

>>105899160
Add GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 to the Firefox environment variables and see if that changes anything

>>105899233
makes the picker just not open at all
>>105899225
fuck

I installed Fedora on VMware for the first time, do I gotta delete the optical drive like I usually do for Virtualbox?

>>105896808
Give it back anon

>>105899160
You have to configure xdg-desktop-portal like this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal#Configuration
You probably want org.freedesktop.impl.portal.FileChooser=kde

>>105900137
>>105899160
Forgot to mention. If it still doesn't open you can try forcibly launching it with /usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal-kde
It's a pain in the ass but I somehow got it working on hyprland with the gnome filepicker

I came across this spare laptop and thought Id have fun with it and did my first gentoo install since college. It was pretty fun. Everything is working except the webcam mic at this point. Trying to download steam to see if a game can run without it shitting.

Dont think I have the patience for all the compiling long term, so probably gonna go with something else. Fun weekend regardless!

>>105900189
Decent specs for a spare laptop. My laptop only has 8 gigs of RAM. Damn I need a new computer.

>>105900249
They shipped us one with a swollen battery. HP, Amazon, and the 3rd party guy who shoved in extra RAM all told us to pound salt about it so I eventually just got my money back and got a 2nd one.

Worth the trouble I suppose.

>>105900387
I fixed the swollen battery to be clear. So not 100% free, but better than just taking it to a recycling place.

>>105900189
>Gentoo
Cringe and blue pilled

>>105900514
she's right though

>>105896425
No need for seq:
for i in {1..$((60 * 60 * 4))}
do
echo 'zzz...';
sleep 1;
done

>>105900387
>>105900397
Nice. Worked out alright.

>>105896425
>^o^
kill yourself

>>105900904
emoticons are soulful you witless, joyless cunt

>>105896425
cute! :3

>>105900678
i had no idea bash had pascal ranges like that!! OoO
>>105900910
>>105900977
thanks bros!!! >v<

>>105900660
>she
You're delusional

>>105900910
true :)

>>105900904
:^)

>>105901116
You know that's just a regular load-balancing reverse proxy they were describing there? Almost all of them do TLS termination so the upstream trusted "application" servers don't need to waste CPU time on encryption that's only used for authenticating server endpoints anyway.

>>105901150
i know it's a normal setup, but the sly smiley drawn by the nsa is still funny to see

Moving from xubuntu to debian. Do I use testing or stable? I like having packages be pretty recent, and am capable of debugging, but hate spending time on it.

>>105901855
Stable, then add backports to repositories

>>105901855
If it was me and I wanted recent packages then I'd use the most recent version of Ubuntu (not the LTS one). It has more recent packages than Debian stable. And personally I wouldn't use Debian testing because it will probably break fairly often. That's just my preferences though.

Or another option is to use Debian Stable, or Ubuntu LTS or whatever, and then if you need some more recent software, you can get it from Flatpak/Homebrew/etc

Will Linux shit itself if I use a 50 series Nvidia GPU?

>>105902225
>Will Linux shit itself
yes

>Try to install AeroThemePlasma
>Paste the commands that were on the fucking installation guide
>Fuck up my whole VM, nothing works anymore
Am I ngmi if I broke it by just trying to install a theme?

>>105902334
There is a script to install it for you: https://gitgud.io/trev/Aero-Vista-ThemePlasma-Installer

There's also a video tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9EM1VbbXLY

>>105898438
>Are you talking about Wine or something?
Bottles to be precise but yes. If it's relevant, \H has the icon of a folder with a disk on it while all others are just a folder.

wtf is this?

wow
raped his sisters.

>>105902618
why does jewtube keep shilling this guy to me out of nowhere? It started like 2 months ago, I don't even look that much about linux stuff on YT outside of the few mental outlaw videos...

>>105900189
>Everything is working except the webcam mic at this point.
And it worked with other distributions?
>6.12.34-gentoo-dist
>gentoo-dist
Not sure what that means but I assume a custom kernel. Case you want to neckbeard a machine-specific custom kernel you could cut some corners using a full blown distro kernel first and write down what modules actually got loaded.
>>105901855
Not sure what's currently "stable" or "testing" but use Trixie. Testing is just an alias for the next upcoming release.

>>105902793
he must be connected to mental outlaw in some way.

>>105896425
>>105900678 is right if you're writing in bash with certainty but be duly aware {x..y} is not available in core shell, so your original $(seq n) solution has its merits too

>>105902334
>Paste the commands that were on the fucking installation guide
You're doing it wrong. KDE Plasma has a built-in theme downloader and manager.

>>105903101
AeroThemePlasma isn't on the KDE store.

>>105903124
Maybe that's because it's a broken piece of shit.

Linuxbros, I need your help, I was trying to create a bootable opensuse tumbleweed usb using rufus. The problem is that every time I choose the iso rufus warns me something about hybridiso.
>what's the problem with that?
It's forcing me to use the mbr partition scheme, but my computer uses uefi, making the usb completely useless because I can't boot it
>use the legacy bios!!!
Unsecure as fuck and I hate it
so anons, what happens now?

do i install the electron file manager

>>105903130
Wat.

>>105903336
if it's not in the KDE store then it's just not supported, anon. there's probably a reason it's not added.

What is the most featureful dual pane GUI file manager on Linux, akin to Directory Opus?
I use Thunar or just the terminal for quick tasks but I also have to work with very large image libraries often where those just don't cut it, and I want a big bloated beautiful dual pane filemanager with shit like Flat View (recursively flattens all subdirectories so every file is shown in a single lister), persisted per-directory sort/grouping/thumbnail size/column layout rules, bulk rename tools, the ability to sync both panes' trees, and so forth.
DOpus is basically a huge, heavy, scriptable swiss army knife to do anything you'd ever need to do with files on Windows, which I suppose is not very Unix paradigm-y, but it's the literally the only piece of software I miss since switching...

OS that's somewhere between cutting edge and stable?

>>105903671
Fedora

>>105903671
fedora maybe? arch has been stable for me so far

>>105903671
>stable
As in has to be a point release?
Fedora, maybe. It's a point release with quick release cycle.

>>105903702
>>105903707
>>105903710
I hate the name but I figured that would be the one. Thanks, I hope something nice happens to you all today.

>>105903309
I guess I'll just find another distro.

>>105903671
Bazzite is both. If you're not a gaymer go for Aurora.

>>105903735
>le immutable distro meme
i'd rather use nix

>>105903765
>nix
literally unusable

>>105903775
just copy configs from github bro

>>105903309
>>105903733
try ventoy?

>>105903792
no thanks, I want an OS that works and stays out of my way

> start looking into picking a first linux distro
> check out elementary OS
> pro-LGBTHIV+ propaganda in an update log written by a toilet on the front page
> literally on the FIRST distro page I check out

Anyone using sunshine/moonlight?
How can I get an application to run in it's own instance of gamescope?

>>105903973
use manjaro

>>105903799
The opensuse wiki advices to not use ventoy to boot their isos, I'll just install linux mint, rufus went flawlessly on burning mint to my usb.

>>105903973
every single linux distro, and in fact every operating system, has this.
the same autism that makes one well-suited to working on operating systems also makes one more likely to troon out, sorry bro

>>105903973
Get off the computer and go outside.

>>105904207
I use Restore Disk Image... to burn isos to usb.

>>105887863 (OP)
You can post this every time somebody talks made up shit. Anons spam fake false butthurt meme images thinking Linux isn't the force that runs the whole world. Their cuckslave toy OS (macOS/Windows) will never be anything else than useless toy for low iq retards. Those false meme images don't change the facts. They will be mad cuckslave forever.

Global OS Market Share (All Devices Combined)
>Linux 47.84%
>Windows 24.57%
>macOS 20.77%
Btw supercomputers and servers are 100% Linux (margin of error has things like BSDs)

>>105887940
Why is ebussy there?

>>105888568
Was your previous system an Asus EeePC 900?

>>105888845
The previous virt-manager error from last thread was saying that it cant access the .img file you're using for vm storage because the drive got mounted read-only
So either your drive is fucked or something went wrong with mounting it

>>105904922
Apparently the desktop Linux market share in Finland is almost 25%.

which distro will help me pick up girls?

>>105904136
Does opening any other application work with sunshine like a terminal?
Have you tried running gamescope through a terminal to see if it comes up with whatever the error is?

>>105905293
Girls or "girls"? This is important.

>>105905350
the kind that likes anime and pastels

>>105905332
You mean locally?
It works fine, no errors
I've used several solutions, and all of it just launch instance of current desktop.

>>105905384
>likes anime and pastels
Void.

any application running under your own user can access your private ssh keys
aint that crazy?

>>105905293
If you're looking to get laid with real women - Android or iOS. Women don't care about computers.
If you're looking for girls with a feminine penis - Bazzite, Arch or Gentoo.
If you're looking for a specific age group - Tails.
If you're ready to settle down - Aurora or Bazzite. Any other distro will waste your time on fixing random shit and getting things to work. You shouldn't pointlessly waste your life maintaining your computer when you're married or when you have kids.

>>105905453
What kind of girls would ubuntu get me?

>>105905430
Your keys should be encrypted with a 18-24 character passphrase to begin with.

>>105905413
I meant if you try running another app through sunshine instead of having to open the desktop first

>>105905430
any application running under your own user can access everything under your own user
stop running untrusted applications

>>105905425
>Void.

>>105905453
Nobody uses aurora or bazzite

>>105905574
none

>>105905803
>Nobody uses aurora or bazzite
Bazzite is literally in the top 10 most used distros on Steam.

>>105905733
>I meant if you try running another app through sunshine instead of having to open the desktop first
Not sure what you mean.
But if you mean something like this
terminal -e gamescope <Bottles>
I did and it just start desktop session.

>>105906079
The desktop has to open but the program should also be loading unless sunshine is somehow being sandboxed

>>105906124
>sunshine is somehow being sandboxed
It's not.

>>105905856
That doesnt mean anything.

Running Fedora 42 KDE, and rebooting always hangs - anyone experience this?

Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.16.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.5-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (60.4 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7E59
System Version: 2.0

Motherboard is an MSI MAG X870E tomahawk wifi

>>105906530
The logs nigga, check them. Journalctl this is gonna be your friend, maybe start with the kernel logs
journalctl -k
If its hanging then its very likely to be close to the end. If you dont see anything there then proceed with the rest, use --help as usual to see the possibilities

>>105906530
what does basedstemd say anon?

>>105906530
disable session restore.

>>105906530
Does it work if you log out and reboot from the login screen?

>>105887863 (OP)
>Have to stop using Debian
Alright, recommend me a distro that has no diddlers in its executive ranks.
Here's my specs:
>5800X3D
>Asus Board
>128BG RAM
>RTX 4070
>2x HDR 240Hz Screens
Use cases:
>Programming in VSC
>Gaming with Steam (proton)
What I want:
>Should just work
>No tinkering
>Native bcache support

I'm considering mint because it might be the closest thing to Debian that is not ubuntu, but I'm pretty much open to anything.

>>105906974
LFS

>>105907010
>Linux from Scratch
I'm not that bold man. I need something that just works and something that I don't need to tinker on too much.

I checked the flow chart, which gave me Debian or Arch, but I'm not sure what DE I should install. I've used Ubuntu before but it feels like a tablet OS and the functionality isn't all there or locked away from the GUI for some reason (ie. taskbar sizes), or shit like file transfers or unpacking happening in the background with no visible window.

I've tried Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon and KDE for DEs, but they either come with glaring security issues (such as middle mouse paste, where you end up auto posting your bank details and screenshots to 4chan when you accidentally miss the link) or it doesn't really support drag & drop operations and other stuff well enough, like Gnome doesn't even have proper thumbnail support for the open file dialog.

I don't need the DE to look modern out of the box, but I do want maximum quality of life when it comes to mouse operations on the GUI

bash makes me so angry sometimes. just work you piece of shit

>>105907050
>but they either come with glaring security issues (such as middle mouse paste, where you end up auto posting your bank details and screenshots to 4chan when you accidentally miss the link)
Rather than security issue this is a skill issue and can be disabled just like anything, at worst you'll have to add some line in a text file somewhere.
Anything sensible shouldnt be copied to the clipboard to begin with which is why people use password managers, bypassing the clipboard, or a written paper locked in a safe.

>>105907209
password managers don't bypass the clipboard FYI, but the most common managers will quickly purge it off the clipboard after some time or once it has been fetched, which they do as a way to pipe data even if you use the typing function. it's also not really a skill issue because you can clickjack the middle mouse button ie. show the user a link he wants to open in a new tab, but then it actually is not a real link and you end up pasting files or text into a hidden field which gets uploaded, at which point it opens the link as a new tab to distract you from it happening. you can make this more insidious, for example having a game on itch.io that uses the unity player or is just a basic html5 game, where the user is coaxed into emptying the clipboard of files or text

>>105906974
linux mint

>>105906974
Just use Bazzite.
>inb4 Lunduke says they're groomers
use Aurora then.

>>105907084
Sounds like a skill issue to me.

>>105907084
>using bash
Just use JavaScript or Python.

>>105905430
False. It would be incredibly retarded to allow a web browser to have access to .ssh/ or .aws/ or .whatnot/.
Any serious distro sandboxes dangerous applications so they can't access sensitive files. Only retards run their web browser outside snap or flatpak.

>>105907762
i already know python, i want to learn bash. debugging is fucking retarded though.
>hey here's ia generic error that doesn't tell you anything, oh btw here's a line number that has nothing to do with the issue. good luck asshole

I have a file where I want to remove every word with a dash (-) in it. How do I do that?

>>105908176
open notepad++ and do search and replace

is there a /g/ approved video (in english) on fish shell?

>>105903309
I'm too late, but you could have tried Raspberry Pi Imager to create a bootable USB. I unironically do this all the time.

>>105907891
>Only retards run their web browser outside snap or flatpak.
Hey, that's me.

>>105908176
sed -E 's/\S*-\S*//g' input.txt | tr -s ' ' > output.txt

>bro buys a used PC to use as a retro gaming PC for his TV in the living room
>installed ... ChimeraOS ?
anyone even heard of this? and should I just tell him to get something else as he was having GPU problems

>>105907895
Use Shellcheck

>>105905574
Your 7-9 year old sisters apparently

>>105903493
It's not in the KDE store because it's full of Microsoft's copyrighted material.

Does it matter if the SWAP partition is created before or after the home partition during installation? Or does the order not really matter?

>>105909093
unless you have less than 8gb of ram a swap really isn't needed.

>>105908373
I don't have a raspberry pi, i just ditched to mint

>>105903516
I still use filerunner but i'm looking for a good dual pane too.

>>105909093
I use the following order
EFI
Swap
Root
Home

>>105909205
>Unless you use hibernation/sleep mode swap doesn't matter
FTFY

>>105909205
funny you say this, i've seen my swap partition being used with 16gb of ram
fucking browsers

After watching a few videos on Linux, I noticed a concerning amount of the men in them were transgender. Either heterosexuals don't bother creating videos/guides or there is an unusual amount of trannys using Linux...
This was off-putting and I paused my possible OS switch.
Can someone explain the amount of trannys to me?

>>105909598
Your search results are influenced by your searching habits. Google thinks you're a faggot

>>105909598
most troons are hetero males with an AGP fetish

>>105909628
Possible but I was on a vpn while not signed in, so the algorithm on youtube was uninvolved and yet, it still had a unusually high amount of tranny linux videos?

>>105907891
>Only retards run their web browser outside snap or flatpak.
there's more ways to sandbox than those, i sandbox mine by means of a shell script placed in /usr/local/bin which runs it using bubblewrap.
it's the same sandbox tool flatpak uses, only i'm using it for regularly installed programs

>>105907293
>password managers don't bypass the clipboard FYI
well keepassxc doesn't use it when doing auto-type

Any Aurora users here? Thinking of switching to it because the name sounds cool compared to every other distro

>>105909963
never heard of it

>>105909963
>aurora
sounds like a tranny distro.

You guys ever tried bunsenlabs or crunchbang? Are there any other distros you know of that ships with openbox? I like openbox.

Anybody here do 3dcg?
What Linux distro will be most friendly with programs like blender or at least less prone to crashing during the rendering stage?

>>105910004
What is the least tranny distro?

Which Linux distro is least likely to crash on me when running heavier software?

>>105910238
cachyos

>>105910279
Have any of the CachyOS devs posted about their heterosexual anti tranny sentiments before?

>>105910291
one is polish, another might be greek or cypriot and another is a cat.

>Bluefin
>Dinosaur pictures
>Not a single jeet on the dev team
I like this

>>105909093
You can monkey around with partitions in any order.
>home partition
Guys please don't do /home mounts, make it an arbitrary mount point under /mnt instead. You thank me later.
Reason: later on you'll figure more use cases for the partition and at that point it looks stupid as hell having it at /home.
Another reason: you one user anyway so makes no sense to follow the /home practice, your $HOME can exist anywhere.
>>105906974
Define tinkering.

>>105910310

>xfce desktop on tty1
>switch to a seperate tty to test xmonad config
>spawning app windows like firefox spawns them in the xfce desktop session, not the xmonad session
is there something i'm missing here? if i reboot my pc to forego the xfce session entirely, then app windows spawn normally in xmonad. but i'd rather not have to reboot every time i want to swap between xfce and xmonad just to test things

>>105887863 (OP)
>picrel
I wish my computer looked this comfy cozy

>>105888691
just use LaTeX

>>105902643
"bicha" in portuguese means "fag"

>>105910350
at least it's not a dragonkin

>>105910360
you need to change your DISPLAY environment variable to the one xmonad is using. like xfce might be running on :1 while xmonad :2, if DISPLAY is set to :1, X programs will spawn on display :1

Ive had enough of KDE can someone recommend me something a little lighter and snappier?

>>105910957
MATE

>>105910830
that makes sense, so if im starting xmonad with startx using ~/.xinitrc i should be able to just set the relevant env variables in that file?

>>105910957
Bluefin

Has a distro poll ever been posted here? be neat to see which one leads on /g/

>>105911039
>>105911087
I will try both and see which one I like, thanks

>>105911059
you can do
SOME_VAR=VALUE application
in the terminal/tty

>>105911201
If lighter and snappier is all you require, isn't anything built on GNOME the way to go? KDE is more resource hungry

>>105911201
ubuntu mate is a good start.

Does anyone know how close Lineage OS is for One Plus 13? On this repo https://github.com/LineageOS/android_hardware_oplus I can see support being added last week but there's still no rom release on the main page.

Even as a dev (non mobile) I have no idea how to even read these repos and what they contain to follow the progress of Lineage OS for new devices

Could anyone TLDR this? Seems pretty complicated stuff

/spg/ doesn't help

>>105911087
WTF is bluefin it isn't a desktop environment it's like fedora but with flatpaks. I will try MATE only I guess

>>105911235
Idk I felt like saying bluefin.
“ITS THE LINUX OF THE FUTURE” supposedly

>>105911242
You led me on a wild goose chase and I will never forgive you. And for the record I hate flatpaks and if flatpaks are the future then lord strike me down.

>>105911210
i type echo $DISPLAY on xfce/tty1 i get :0.0
i type the same in xmonad/tty2 i get :0.1
i type DISPLAY=:0 firefox in xmonad/tty2 it opens in tty1
i type DISPLAY=:1 firefox in xmonad/tty2 it still opens in tty1 lmao

>>105911298
nevermind, it's definitely just a firefox thing. librewolf opens just fine in tty2 with no env shenanagins.

>>105907084
Use shellcheck to help unfuck your scripts.

What is this thing called?
And how do I move it to the top of the screen?

>>105908890
There's multiple Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 10/11 themes and icon packs in the store.

>>105909598
Trannies have infested pretty much any hobby. Ricing Linux is a hobby, and it's also one where you can creatively express yourself. So trannies like it because they can add gay and pastel colors to the UI.

>>105909963
I use it. It's the only usable Linux distro aside from Bazzite.

>>105911257
Flatpaks are, in fact, the future of desktop Linux. Better get used to them.

>>105911535
It's called a panel or dock, depending on which DE you use. Usually you can just right click on it and edit it somehow, unless you're on GNOME in which case you can't (maybe Gnome Tweak Tools or some Gnome extension lets you change it's position)

>>105911535
right-click or go into control centre and look for taskbar

>>105911556
>>105911558
Thanks guys I’ll try it out again. Using fedora xfce on a live boot.

>>105887863 (OP)
Is there a script I can use to download music from youtube music with all metadata, organized into files properly etc.

>>105911538
>only usable distro aside from bazzite
How so anon? Have you tried the 3rd universal blue option, bluefin?

>>105911844
>Have you tried the 3rd universal blue option, bluefin?
I did, but I prefer KDE over GNOME.
Also, Bluefin isn't really set up the way I prefer for dev work, so it's not different than what Bazzite with GNOME would be.

I guess if I was a company distributing dev machines I'd go for Bluefin and just educate my devs on how to use it's features. But for my personal use, it doesn't really make sense to change my workflow (at least currently).

>>105887863 (OP)
I have a question, /g/. Why when I create a Mint VM I can watch multimedia without any issue, but when I create a Fedora VM it's all stuttery?
Is it because of Plasma (Mint was Cinnamon)? Codecs? PulseAudio/PipeWire?
I'm talking fresh out-of-the-box VMs.

>>105912121
Fedora doesn't come with proprietary codecs or drivers. Similar to how Debian also doesn't (or at least didn't in the past). You're supposed to install codecs and drivers manually using RPM Fusion.
That's the reason why many people used Ubuntu/Mint over Debian and that's the reason why many people prefer Nobara/UniversalBlue over Fedora.

How i fix these lines in the middle of Kate? I'm using Kvantum.

>>105912143
Thanks for the reply! I also thought it was related to codecs, so I installed RPM Fusion and some FFmpeg codecs, but I think it has to be something else cause I'm realizing that the startup sound also sounds stuttery. I made a couple of test and any system sounds sounds the same.

Have they brought GeForce NOW onto any other distros aside from Ubuntu/Debian yet?
I have fucking stellar internet so cloud gaming is virtually identical as if I was running it locally.

>>105912390
have you checked your region's servers with mtr?

>>105912390
Can't you just run it inside a chromium web browser? From my experience it was fine.
I guess they might limit the maximum display size and framerate in a web browser? I think it was running 1080p@60Hz for me back when I used it. But I was also using the free version which probably has limitations.

And to answer your question, yes. They officially brought it to SteamOS. And it's literally just a flatpak which you can apparently install almost anywhere (was confirmed to work in Bazzite)
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists GeForceNOW https://international.download.nvidia.com/GFNLinux/flatpak/geforcenow.flatpakrepo
flatpak install -y --user GeForceNOW com.nvidia.geforcenow

>>105912213
Did you actually follow the rpm fusion wiki? Besides that wayland comes to mind, i dont know how it interacts with VMs.

>>105912409
>>105912415
Sweet, thanks. I can tell Windows to suck a cock and join the Finnish terrorist Linus' platform now.

>Looking at arch based distros
>Find Archcraft
>Seems interesting, enjoy the lightweight requirements
>Look up the dev
>Aditya Shakya
I was told Windows was the jeet machine, Linux bros I don't feel so good...

New thread:
>>105912653

>>105912642
cachyos

>>105912447
I did, yeah. I enabled both Free and Non-Free repositories.
Doing some test, I uninstall PipeWire and added PulseAudio, and that did the trick. Does that make any sense? Does PipeWire have problems with VMs?
I also should add that I'm using VMWare. I ditch VirtualBox when I saw that the performance was even worse.

>>105911535
>>105911574
in xfce it's just a panel configured to look like a dock, you can move panels around, just right click in a few places until you're right clicking on the panel itself and not anything in the panel. i think there's a "panels" section in xfce's control panel as well

>>105909425
Neither do I.

Why does Firefox send notifications on the same main thread as the entire browser?

If the DBus notification daemon stalls then the entire browser locks up, even tabs unrelated to the site that's sending the notification.

>>105913666
Probably a cross platform sticking point. On Windows there's no need to do it manually in another thread, the API takes care of that.

>>105913778
I think they use libnotify I'm not sure. C libraries aren't exactly well known for being thread safe. Literally everything locks up if the notification daemon stops working though, it's very stupid. You can easily simulate this by killing Plasma Shell and watch as the browser completely hangs. It does have a fallback path to send its own internal notification in a pop-up window but the entire browser is stuck locked up until this kicks in.

>>105913790
>Literally everything locks up if the notification daemon stops working though, it's very stupid.
Yep, that's the DBus experience alright.