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>>105932867 (OP)
I love everything about this but the angle of the cursor is disgusting

>>105932894
For some reason, the angle of the cursor changes when dealing with menus on motif and older UIs. That happens with ImageMagick's display(1).

Asking again here since new thread,

Does anyone have that older comic where Gates and Jobs are sitting together, saying something about Stallman's weight, and the next panel is Stallman on the ground with the caption "curse you slight incline"?

Google is failing me.

What's a good hardware monitor for Linux? I want to make sure my new pc isn't melting itself.

Any tool to limit the laptop battery charge? Couldn't find any option in the bios to limit it

How do you compile software without shitting up your system with build dependencies? Do you just eat the cost? Use Nix in non-root mode? I want to compile this thing https://github.com/wildstar84/fauxdacious

>>105933093
OS level setting, I think on GNOME it requires an extension but once installed its like a slider or drop down. I've never had to use it so sorry about the lack of details.

>>105932980
I use glances, its more of an overview but i like that it has a little area for sensors/temps.

https://github.com/nicolargo/glances

>>105933140
I always have a clonezilla image ready to wipe my system back to a known state. That way I just do whatever the fuck I want, and when shit gets janky, I just wipe, which takes about 20 minutes from USB. If you're going to be doing it a lot, VMs are handy, as you can just restore them from a tarball in a few minutes.

how do i make this a fish alias?

### whole dir ###
5s(){
for name in * ; do mv "$name" `md5sum "$name" | awk '{print $1}'` ; done
}

>>105933231
I asked chatgpt

function 5s
for name in *
set hash (md5sum $name | awk '{print $1}')
mv "$name" "$hash"
end
end

>>105933261
i'll give that a go. thx.

>>105933194
I'm on linux mint

>>105932867 (OP)
Could someone help me run some scripts on your Linux distro?
I need a few files from ChromeOS to build a flashable zip of Houdini and Widevine and install them on a tablet. I mostly need them for Houdini, I don't give a shit about Widevine.

The instructions are here.
>https://github.com/me176c-dev/android_vendor_google_chromeos-x86
And here's the latest version of the scripts.
>https://github.com/me176c-dev/android_vendor_google_chromeos-x86/releases/tag/12499.66.0_atlas

>>105933140
distrobox / container. the main issue is making sure you have the right libraries to run the compiled software once you're outside of the container.

to be honest? i just eat the cost. i compile stuff frequently enough to not care. in fact most arch-based distros don't even bother packaging the headers separately like deb and rpm-based distros tend to.

>be me
>customizing my terminal
>changes the background color of my terminal
>restarts my terminal
>text was empty (or contained only whitespace)
>can't type shit to the terminal
>wtf.png
>restarts my pc
>opens my terminal
>issue persists
>wtf.png 2
>installs another terminal
>issue fixed
What a weird and scary experience, that terminal was ugly as fuck anyway, I guess my system forced me to use a better terminal.

>>105933093
KDE: Settings -> Power Management -> Advanced Power Settings -> Set it to 90% or something
GNOME also has it somewhere in battery settings
Seeing how you're on Mint, I assume you're on Cinnamon. It doesn't have this feature afaik. Look through TLP docs, maybe TLP has an option to do this:
https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html

>>105933140
Distrobox or virtual machines.

>>105933776
I'm on xfce

I am a registered sex offender, what distro should I use?

>>105933920
Nice try fed.

>>105933920
Windows
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n6sk33v4vgb?hl=en-US&gl=US
>published by Microsoft

>>105933952
Of course microsoft made that

>>105932980
btop

Any hyprland users here that installed the jakoolit preconfigured setup? Was curious if installing different layouts that weren't pre installed is easy to do

Okay, sorry for being too harsh, but explain me one thing. Why the fuck do I need a thin almost white disappearing scroll bar in KDE on the PC? I don't have 240x320 mobile resolution, I don't have a touchscreen, and even if I did it would be inconvenient anyway.
Who the fuck even came up with this idea?

>>105934646
Scrollbars widths and styles are defined by your theme. And apps, I guess.
Which version of Plasma are you using and which theme do you use? Scrollbars look and behave fine on my Plasma version 6.3.5. They used to "disappear" only in 5.x iirc, but now they just use the reserved scrollbar gutter instead of overlaying on top of content.

is there a way i can make a window transparent but only for one or more certain colors? like if a window has some white stuff and some blue stuff and green stuff, how could i set #ffffff (white) to be transparent while leaving everything else totally opaque?

Is there a way to start bottles in gamescope microcompositor with sunshine without starting a whole DE?

I've got a dual-monitor setup and a multi-os boot with GRUB. My Mobo logo chooses which monitor to come up on randomly, and the GRUB menu follows its lead.

There is no way in my bios to select a monitor, only video output (and both monitors are on my graphics card.) No big deal. But surely I can configure GRUB to pick a specific monitor, right?


B: Also, I just added a debian partition. It won't mount any devices that weren't part of the install, giving `udisks-error-quark, 4`. I'm sharing my home directory without any problem though. Xubuntu still mounts everything without issue.

VLC seems like a resource hog, what's a lightweight media player that can handle mkv files? I'm on arch if it matters

Why can't I open SMART data for more than 1 drive at the same time with Gnome Disks? It's greyed out and won't let me click it, I even tried launching another instance but it's greyed out there too until I close the 1 SMART window I have open.

Why is it like this?

>>105934297
it's fine. i removed a lot and the configs are nearly self explanatory. not sure what you mean with different layout, you mean different taskbars, tiling? i guess.. i have no taskbars running. there is a UserDecorations.conf where you can change the overall tiling look. Hyprland has extensive documentation on what you can do, so it should be fairly easy.

>>105935690
mpv

>>105935690
mpv, it's pretty much what almost every video player uses as it's backend. VLC always sucked.

To the guy that recommended linuxserver chromium
https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/chromium
Thank you this work like a magic including sound, and even on wifi connection it's smooth 60fps.
I have some questions if anyone knows though.
How secure/private this?
I mean on local network the connection uses self-signed SSL so there's no plain text, and I can secure the connection with authentication so no one can use the VNC, and even then I'm running the container without mounting any volumes and in ephemeral mode.

I installed debian from the liveusb, and I keep finding shit missing (no linux system headers, /etc/apt/sources.list is empty, no rules for mounting system drives, not even a polkit directory). There's more lurking probably.

Is there a better way to install debian testing than from the liveusb? I'd rather not fuck around with configuring the basics.

>>105935844
Idk why you wouldn't just use Stable and add backports to your sources.list

Is there any way to make certain programs stop asking for password when you open them? Like why does GSmartControl require password just to see SMART data? Gnome Disks doesn't require password to see smart data.

>>105936011
Anything that does direct hardware access will usually require a password. It's possible that GSmartControl preemptively asks you for a password because it needs it for some feature.

I think you can auto-allow sudo access by adding this:
YourUserName ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /path/to/executable

into "sudo visudo"

>>105932867 (OP)
anyone got a good app launcher for cinnamon, something like krunner

>>105936158
I mean if it's still xorg based then use rofi

How do I install Linux on a separate drive that won't fuck my Windows install & boot up?

>>105937138
>boot question
>no boot mode mentioned
I assume it's UEFI -> very unlikely anything getting fucked.
>separate drive
Irrelevant when using UEFI.

>>105937138
There might be a way to do that using the installers of some distros. I haven't tried it.

On my current machine I have Windows 10 and Linux installed on the same drive. It works fine. The GRUB bootloader shows me both options when I start the computer, so I can choose either OS.

Anyway you could google your idea if you really want to do that. Presumably GRUB will have to be on one drive, I guess maybe on the Linux drive. I guess you would boot to that drive initially and if Windows is registered with GRUB then you could select Windows and it would boot Windows.

>>105937230
Yes, UEFI because it's not 2005 anymore. I ask because I've had Windows fuck up the bootloader when dualbooting 2 different Windows installs, which is still really impressive.

>>105937248
Seems easy enough. Won't have to worry about it if I switch permanently to Linux. Really depends on how bottles/wine/whateverthefuck runs the few Windows only programs & 1 game I need.

>>105933455
https://files.catbox.moe/cck8s9.7z

>>105937304
>Yes, UEFI because it's not 2005 anymore
Can't assume that because people have god knows what BIOS settings in play. Some neckbeards swear by BIOS boot.

>I've had Windows fuck up the bootloader when dualbooting 2 different Windows installs, which is still really impressive
Windows follows god knows what logic and I assume both of them used the same human readable name
<Windows boot manager
which could've caused the fuckup.

>>105937419
>Windows follows god knows what logic
I love Windows, but goddamn does it do the most retarded ass things sometimes. I assume it's because they have a fuckton of employees working on different parts all at once, and stitch that shit together on top of the same codebase they've used for who knows how long.

>>105936158
gExec

>>105932980
powertop, intel_gpu_top, nvidia-smi, qps

>look up yotube video on something
>click video
>indian accent
>immediately close
>repeat until the fucker speaks English
I really wish there was a way to filter all Indian videos

>>105937138
Some systems have a firmware setup screen that lets you toggle specific disks on or off. I use that so each OS can only see the disk it's installed on. This makes it impossible for Windows to fuck it up.

>>105937839
Those indian-made videos usually have the answer for whatever you're looking for though?

>>105937857
Don't know, since I close them immediately. Indian accent and all their languages are extremely grating on my ears. No other accent or languages sound as bad as theirs do.

>>105937857
I highly doubt that

>>105937839
the problem is you're looking up simple stuff on youtube. you don't need a video for a simple question

Is there e a way to run commands from the host inside a container?
My use case is, certains pieces of software i'm working on need a JDK at compile time.

>>105938368
sure, but it's pointless to use a container then.

>>105938344
No, like if I want to see the installation process for an OS or how to set something up. It's easier for me to see it than read about it. Product reviews are also better in video form, and I hate when it turns out to be some Indian voice over.

>>105938519
i haven't run into an indian video by accident in a long time. they only cover things which are better done in written form

>>105938466
The separate containers helps me to keep the rest of custom C++ dependencies isolated for each project, last bit is a piece of Java to integrate with some service provider. It's just required to compile them as far as i know. It sounds stupid but i find a bit retarded to install eight JDKs.

>>105938569
I dunno what you're doing but it sounds awful.
Anyway, you can dirs into your container, so you should be able to mount the jdk there as well. Still, you probably are doing it horribly wrong.

>>105938368
I get a feeling that there is a way to achieve what you want, but "running commands from the host inside the container" is not how you do it and that sounds terrible

Either compile what you need beforehand and provide it to the container as a volume, or just do it in the Dockerfile of each container, it'll all get cached anyway.

>>105938604
>>105938613
Yeah i'm half asleep "making an executable from the host available inside the container" is closer to what i am looking for. A bind mount should suffice, long term i have to find a way to unfuck this.

Is there a good text extractor utility for Linux like what Power Toys has?

>>105939380
normcap or ocr4linux

Is podman better than docker?

>>105933213
Everything that you have below network (WiFi, TCP, etc) is missing on mine.

>>105939547
podman is a more secure substitute for docker for cases where you don't need docker's rootful features. Which is 99.9% of the time for home users.

>>105940074
Doesn't work with pi-hole

We have two Win7 POS machines at work which both had failing SSDs, but I got good images of them both with ddrescue. Awesome software.

Is there any real world difference between the Arch kernels?

>>105940249
no

>>105940249
The difference is that the arch kernels are unstable as fuck and breaks all the time, no need to thank me

>>105932867 (OP)
Has anyone had problems with waking you system from sleep? my
>Lenovo 520s
>Fedora
>KDE
laptop won't respond to any input after going to sleep and I can't find advice other than "update your system" (it is)

>>105940609
I've never used sleep, hibernation, etc. My PC just stays on 24/7.

>>105940609
I've never used sleep, hibernation, etc. I turn it off when I sleep.

nvidia?

Is there any reason why I wouldn't want to use Mint for programming and other nerdy stuff? I realized I don't like minimalist distros, since I just end up installing most things myself anyway

>>105940817
linux mint is great for literally anything. i think it supersedes ubuntu as the "do whatever you gotta do" OS even though its based on ubuntu.

>>105940609
My laptop sleeps and wakes just fine. HP laptop. Dunno if that makes a difference.

i just intalled ubuntu :D

>>105940705
>Nvidia
nah. That was the premium version back then. I got the integrated Intel graphics.
Also what's up with kde-connect? Sometimes it works beautifully and sometimes it just monumentally shits the bed.
>>105940960
Yeah I think it's hardware related. Been there throughout all times on various distros and DE's from what I can find

Is this fixable? I can't type on any tty here.

I cant install Linux on my old HP Elitebook 8760w.

Pop OS
>live iso wont even start, it starts flickering and fucking up during boot
Linux Mint
>wont boot after successful install. laptop says boot media not found check cable.

Win10 and Debian installed just fine and boot just fine but I dont want to use either.

>>105941159
Make sure to use the correct partition scheme, if you're using the legacy bios use MBR, if you're on UEFI use GPT.

>>105941083
What did you do? Did the VM shut down mid pacman operation (judging by the recovering journal message)?

>>105940134
pihole is reddit bs. Just have a decent router.

Is it possible to disable window transparency in KDE for specific applications or even better, applications launched by specific applications (games launched through Steam)? I enjoy having the opacity set to 93% at all times under window rules but it's obviously not suitable for certain uses like gaming. Is it possible to exclude specific applications from the opacity somehow and/or also apply it "recursively" for said app?

>>105941588
I know that it's possible to apply the settings on a per-app basis using the window class settings but I cant figure out if the opposite is possible, to make exceptions for specific apps.

>>105941342
Possibly. The last things I did was remove lxqt and it's dependencies with pacman -Rns and shut down. On the next boot lightdm-gtk-greeter started, I switched to tty2, installed lxqt again and shut down.

Are there any downsides to indexing a drive?

>>105935714
As in using other dot files, like end_4's

My external hard drive wont load up on my raspberry pi. Was working fine a few minutes ago but now I get the error

Error mounting /dev/sda1 at
Unknown error when mounting /dev/sda1

I don't know if this has anything to do with the drive being in ntfs and I don't think the drive died on me or anything. Any way to fix?

So do you guys use jupyter?
It has been buggy for me since as long as I remember using it I think, even back then in Windows too.
Prone to slowing down to crawl, shitting itself in different ways. For example, when I click "Restart Kernel and Clean Outputs of All Cells" it will almost always shit itself, parts of the notebook just become all white and inaccessible, the scrolling becomes incredibly buggy, need to restart or quit the page and reload to get it to running again.
KDE + firefox but I think it was buggy in different platforms and browsers too.
Is there a lightweight, stable alternative to it? I don't use it too often and I don't need a lot of fancy features.

>>105937403
Thank you very much! You're a lifesaver anon
Also, thanks for including Widevine too. I don't know if I'll need it but it's good to have it just in case.

>>105941882
Guess it works now. I just connected it to my old windows 7 laptop, it detected something was wrong and scanned the drive. Then I decided to connect it back to the pi and now it works. If this were to happen again, how do i scan and fix the drive on linux?

I guess i can also just connect it to the old windows laptop if this happens again anyway lol.

2 days after trying linux for the first time and running arch I tried to mount a drive and fucked my entire install
during boot I would get some kind of user/1000/doc error preventing the operation
spent and hour trying to resolve it with the help of chatgptnigger to no avail
>fresh install arch again

is this the 'linux experience'?

>>105941997
ntfsfix would work most likely

>>105942223
thanks!

>>105941997
chkdsk in a VM or boot into Windows.

>>105942223
NO
WRONG
ntfsfix is a dysfunction enhancer. Read the man page.

>>105942197
>first distro that the new linux user installs is arch
This is so wrong anon, install mint instead if you're a newfag at linux or just want a stable linux experience.

>>105942197
no thats the "i was told i was good at tech and i believed them" starter pack

>>105941664
Not really.

>>105942197
Skill issue. If you can go into details of what exactly you did and full error message you might get advice instead of posting stupid snark.
>>fresh install arch again
Nah, you probably could chroot and fix whatever that is, though again if you have what it takes.
Also another advice for you. Always make a full disk image backup after you are done setting up something time consuming.

>>105941664
Index text disk space and indexing software tend to go haywire every once in a while.
But besides these the pros generally outweigh the cons.

>>105942584
*Index takes
*Indexing software tends to
It is late night at Europe.

>>105942535
>"i was told i was good at tech and i believed them" starter pack
I was able to plug in an HDMI cable for my elderly neighbour so I am basically God in her eyes

>>105942509
That's not what stable means

i've gotten into phonefaggotry recently and i've come to realise that the only thing that's preventing me from having linux on my phone is something called blobs
i'd love to install ubuntu touch on it but i fucking can't
fuck arm, x86 phones when

I recently switched to Linux and Android, but my family uses Apple. Is there a calendar application I can use on Linux then sync with Android and send and receive invitations from an iCalendar user. iCal was probably the most useful feature.

I am posting to you all from my new pc running Linux Mint. Everything seems to be just working and I was able to transfer a bunch of stuff no issue. However I'm finding the topbar on Firefox rather annoying. Is there a way to get rid of that?

>>105935844
I think what you did was download and install one of these https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/ , right? If so, use this https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.11.0-amd64-netinst.iso instead.

>>105939547
Yes. Learn quadlets if you want them as persistent services.

>>105941955
I never really had much issues with Jupyter, other than it being slower than just running a python script directly (due to the way it works, tracking variable changes, etc). You could learn emacs+python-mode, it has a REPL that allows you to select and run sections just like in Jupyter. Or ORG-Mode, that'd be even closer to it and lighter.

>>105943072
What topbar? Post a screenshot and highlight it.

>>105943093
This thingy, it's making everything smaller and I hate it.

>>105943093
>>105935844
I just realized you wrote "testing". This would be the path then: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso

Although Debian *recommends* upgrading from Stable to testing on an already installed system instead: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting#How_to_install_Debian_.28next-stable.29_Testing

>Install linux
>Everything works fine
>Now it keeps slowing down, lagging librewolf and kde crashes
>update the system
>its still same
Is this the peak linux experience ?

>>105943166
Works fine for me

>>105942769
>get into Linux
>start paying attention to hardware
Why is this? You aren't the only one.
>the only thing that's preventing me from having linux on my phone is something called blobs
Yes, you need the manufacturer to help you out. Only if they were more open AND made phones with detachable internal storage. Would be so convenient to take it out and "flash" new bootloader and operating system instead of fucking with the phone itself.
You know like what you do with Raspberry Pi and similar products.
>>105942509
Assumed a newbie got Arch to boot and connect to the internets, I see nothing wrong with that. Just slap in packages until the system looks done. Arch is just a binary distro so there's nothing new to learn really.

>>105942714
Mint pulls packages from Ubuntu's repositories and Ubuntu's packages are stable.
>>105942197
You added a bogus entry to fstab and didn't use the "nofail" option? Yes, it causes an error on boot.
>>105941664
What does that even mean?
>>105941882
That's just USB being USB. Replug the cable and hope it starts working again.

Is there a way to force the GTK4 file picker on Cinnamon and XFCE?

>>105943311
Stable meaning the core packages don't change within the major version, it wouldn't have stopped that poster from bricking his fs with terminal commands

>>105943532
True, but arch isn't for newfags anyway since it breaks all the time

>>105943532
>core packages don't change within the major version
Wait what there are point release distributions that do?
>>105943666
Stupid meme.

What kind of cursor do you guys use? I'm not the biggest fan of the ones shipped with Mint.

Changing cursors is kinda a wild feeling. I remember we had all sorts of fun cursors on our WIndows xp computer when I was a kid. But I'm sure the software that let us do that was some sort of virus.

>>105943776
I'm using the cursor that comes preinstalled on the xfce version of mint.

>>105943820
The black triangle? Ew.

What should I expect?

>>105943852
Autism
Massive amount of computer resources and electricity wasted for little gain
Less stability
Cool learning experience to set it up, though

>>105943848
What do you mean? The cursor is beatiful

Why does text look slightly off on Linux Mint? Even the text on here looks different, it's such a little difference but it's driving me nuts becasue I don't know what's causing it. Don't websites set their own fonts? Why would my OS effect that?

>>105943886
NOOOO IT COSTS $5 MORE A MONTH TO RUN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>105943896
Not sure mate, you sure you aren't just crazy?

>>105943943
no

>>105933140
your package manager should have an option to install things as dependencies, i.e. not record them as explicit/world packages. this allows for removing them all later in a single command

>>105943896
Did you check your font rendering settings? Maybe Mint is using a different antialiasing.

>>105943982
Changing the anti aliasing does nothing. It's almost like all the text is shorter than it should be.

>>105943437
I think you only need to install the right xdg-desktop-portal packages and configure it.

>>105943852
Ability to install modern desktop environments without NetworkManager. Fuck I hate NetworkManager (as a dependency).
And loads of compilations, hope you got a nice CPU.

Should I turn on automatic updates on Mint? It says something about making sure my system snapshots are properly configured before turning that on.

>>105944181
No auto updates are retarded, you don't want the computer to fuck itself up without your supervision. Just don't be a lazy fuck and diy regularly.

>>105943896
Are you talking about your browser or in general?

>>105944181
no sane person uses automatic updates for anything

>>105944215
How will me clicking the update all button stop fuckups compared to auto update?
>>105944218
Browser.

I will say I prefer the Windows file manager and task manager compared to Mint. I think I could see myself getting used to the file explorer, but system monitor is just worse. Task manager showed me every process and what resources they were using.

>>105944310
*file explorer

>>105944299
It won't. But you will be there to see error messages and act accordingly (backing up/reverting, rolling back packages, googling error, etc.) rather than the system fail in some way unbeknownst to you, all the way to being potentially unbootable and needing chroot/reinstall.

>>105944299
NTA but if something does fuck up you'll probably have a better idea of where the problem came from.

>>105944352
>>105944355
Now I'm scared. How often do fuckups happen? I never backed up my files on windows. Fuck.

The main thing I'm worried about losing is passwords, other than that my data is unimportant or replaceable. Should I just get a notebook and hide it somewhere?

>>105944385
>How often do fuckups happen?
Not super common, especially for a distro like Mint. It is still bad practice to auto-update the whole OS in principle.
> I never backed up my files on windows.
You still should have. Even if Windows was 100% stable (it isn't), you can always suffer disk failure or accidentally nuke shit.
>Should I just get a notebook and hide it somewhere?
Make sure it doesn't get stolen.

>>105944408
I guess I should look into how to back up data.

>>105944310
>task manager
i dont know what comes with mint but i think btop shows something windows users might understand to some degree (and then probably misunderstand memory usage)
all i use is htop to filter and kill misbehaving wine processes though
>>105944385
>How often do fuckups happen?
Depends on your distro since they are the ones who handle the packages. I havent had issues since i moved to linux 3 years ago, other than fucking up some config files which is user error and easy to recover from.
I really wouldnt recommend running without a backup of your passwords though, for a variety of reasons.

>>105944408
Every single ubuntu over the last, what 15 years I’ve used and recommended to others has eventually wiped the disk and/or rendered it unbootable on upgrade. Every single one.
Last one I can still get to my old files as /meda/<long hexidecimal number> only after I click on the gnome dock/taskbar thing on this little IC/chip icon that “mounts” the old partition as data.

>>105944444
>I really wouldnt recommend running without a backup of your passwords though, for a variety of reasons.

Tips on how to do that? Technically they're all still on my old pc, but I might make new ones and I'd rather never wait the 45 minutes it takes that pc to boot up ever again.

>>105944444
Also nice quits.

>>105944310
Yes, Mint doesn't use the superior DE (KDE Plasma), so it's default utilities suck.

>>105944385
>How often do fuckups happen?
It usually only happens if you add random PPAs. But Ubuntu (the distro Mint is based on) often does fuck things up when doing a major upgrade (like going from Ubuntu 24 LTS to 26 LTS) even without adding PPAs.
I've used Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu all the way from 15 to 22, and it always managed to fuck something up after a version upgrade and basically required me to do a clean install. Every single fucking time. As for Mint, I never really had it long enough to require a full version upgrade (ie 17->18) so I'm not sure if it also breaks.

>worried
Using something like Fedora Atomic (Bazzite, Aurora, Kinoite, Silverblue, etc.) would be better as a first time user. These use an "atomic" update model where it's almost impossible for an upgrade to break your system. And the OS is immutable, so it's hard to break it even if you try.
I'm not saying Mint is bad, but I wouldn't give it to my grandma over something like Aurora/Bazzite, if you know what I mean.

>Should I just get a notebook and hide it somewhere?
You should use KeePass on a separate device and keep your KeePass file backed up in two places (or synced via Syncthing). Or just use something like Bitwarden which stores everything online.

>>105944626
>it always managed to fuck something up after a version upgrade and basically required me to do a clean install.
Not like I haven't seen it before, but this is excessive and probably means you fuck up your system regularly.

>>105944684
>probably means you fuck up your system regularly.
If regular/normal use is equivalent to "fucking up", then the system is just unusable.

>>105944626
>fuck something up after a version upgrade
>version upgrade
Could just use a rolling release distribution.

>>105944181
i'd recommend setting up automatic snapshots either way. it'll save you from all kinds of accidents

>wifi randomly stops working on bazzite
>restarting computer does nothing
>works fine in windows 10, so not a hardware issue
What the fuck do I do to further diagnose why bazzite is throwing a shitfit?

>>105943776
i made my custom set.
it's unique and glorious.

>>105932867 (OP)
I need to know how to implement USB from scratch without libraries or shit. Any sample code or tutorial that I want to learn?

>>105944979
check the logs
journalctl

>>105940609
Disable session restore.

>>105941426
>pihole is reddit bs. Just have a decent router.
What router offer DNS block and custom local hostname dns?

>>105945065
I they added that in KDE 42 right? Do they auto enable that? I didn't check

>>105945073
OpenWRT

>>105945256
that's firmware dipshit

I'm a webshitter and right now I use a mix of
>native Windows desktop
>WSL within Windows so I can use Docker
>macbook
Switching between them is getting annoying and the WSL Docker experience is inferior to actually running it on Linux. So I'm tempted to buy a new machine (maybe an intel NUC), install Linux, and remote into it from my other machines.

Two questions.
1. What's the state of remote desktop on Linux in general?
2. One of my monitors needs fractional scaling (125%). Will that work OK? I heard Gnome doesn't really support it but KDE6 does.

>>105945277
It runs on hardware

>>105945288
>1. What's the state of remote desktop on Linux in general?
For Docker?
OpenSSH works great, Cockpit if you want a webshitter GUI or something like Portainer if you want a nice webui for Docker exists too.

>>105945277
a router is software, and you asked for software features, and he gave a software answer that is a router and does those things. not sure why you're angry

>>105945335
I've considered that but if possible I really think I'd prefer "real" remote desktop (RDP or similar). That way I can have everything work-related, including browsers and such, in one place.

endeavorOS is dead.
Their website is down.
Fucking casuals.

>>105945368
Do you really need that though? Webapps will likely run better than any remote desktop experience. You can use XRDP or VNC if you really wanted to though.

>>105945288
>What's the state of remote desktop on Linux in general?
I've used TigerVNC on a Linux host and a Linux client and it worked alright.

You could test it out by dual booting your desktop with Linux, before you buy a whole new machine. Install TigerVNC server on your Linux install and then install the client on another machine (apparently the client runs on Windows and MacOS as well as Linux). Just an idea.

>>105945368
Can't you like uh test your websites from your Windows/Mac?
Assuming that's what Docker is for, running webservers.

>>105944871
That's exactly what I've been doing since 2023 and why I shit on Ubuntu and Mint whenever possible.

>>105945288
>fractional scaling
Yes, it works on KDE.
>What's the state of remote desktop on Linux in general?
VNC works fine.

>>105945470
>vnc
Why?
It doesn't even carry audio.
>>105945288
What's your use case? Really.
I'm using this
https://github.com/hectorm/docker-xubuntu
Also try looking into linuxserver.io, they have several ready images as well.
I also suggest looking into distrobox.
>1. What's the state of remote desktop on Linux in general?
It depends on what you mean by remote into it.
RDP? very hit and miss
VNC is OK~ish
Your best option is to try something docker based and remote from browser.
>2. One of my monitors needs fractional scaling (125%). Will that work OK? I heard Gnome doesn't really support it but KDE6 does.
This would be based on your client you're using to remote into it.
I have thinkcenter with arch that I'm running docker qemu to host windows VM for office suite.
Smooth experience so far.

>>105945514
>It doesn't even carry audio.
Out of scope. Use PulseAudio if you want that.

>>105945517
Why? you should be using pipewire
And no it's not out of scope.
Remote desktop SHOULD also include audio, otherwise you can do all from SSH.

>>105945532
PipeWire provides a functioning PulseAudio server.

>>105945288
I also forgot to mention this.
But try sunshine/moonlight, On wifi 4 with 720p I get near zero latency.

>>105945541
>source: my skittites pills

>>105945555
Is it really so hard for you to Google?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Sharing_audio_devices_with_computers_on_the_network

>>105945563
Is it really hard to comprehend english for you?
>Sharing =/= streaming

>>105945578
Did you even read it? Yes, you can setup a network audio stream with PipeWire.

>>105945470
>>105945512
>>105945546
Thanks anons, will give these a try.

>>105945514
I know there are lots of options for using SSH and local browsers. But I want to give the "just use remote desktop for everything" approach a try.
I sometimes use MS's remote desktop app on my macbook to connect to my Windows rig, and it works flawlessly so I'm hoping a similar experience is possible with a Linux host.
>This would be based on your client you're using to remote into it.
Well, yes and no. Regardless of client, the linux DE/WM/whatever has to be able to render everything at the right scale, right? If it wouldn't work with a local monitor set to 125% then it definitely won't work remotely.

>>105945619
>I sometimes use MS's remote desktop app on my macbook to connect to my Windows rig, and it works flawlessly so I'm hoping a similar experience is possible with a Linux host.
I had nothing but issues with anything that's not linux to linux.
>the linux DE/WM/whatever has to be able to render everything at the right scale, right? If it wouldn't work with a local monitor set to 125% then it definitely won't work remotely.
Honestly I don't know.
I've remoted to my KDE arch and it worked, but this is not rule.
Xrdp is a mess of and not really something linux could use, since there's waypipe and x11forwarding.
But please do report back.
Would like to hear your experience.

>>105945512
>why I shit on Ubuntu and Mint whenever possible.
based, ubuntu broke on upgrades like three times for me, it's what made me switch to arch

Do you trust German Linux contributors?

>>105943997

On Cinnamon, I tried xdg-desktop-portal-gtk4. It works but on X11 it has this weird behavior where the file picker pop ups as its own window (appears in the taskbar) and its always behind the window that called it. However on Wayland it works as it should, always in front and doesn't show up in the taskbar as a new window but I don't like using Wayland on Cinnamon yet.

>>105932867 (OP)
How can I bypass DPI on Linux? My goal is to post on 4chan in Turkey where it is blocked. I've tried SpoofDPI on Void Linux and Artix but it doesn't work. I've even manually edited the DNS server but to no avail. It works for a few seconds and then stops working (both methods), by that I mean that I see no results in browsers and only see the "Blocked" page.

>>105935567
>Sinon
Full pics or gtfo

>>105932867 (OP)
has anyone had any experience with adding games from a windows partition, it won't fuck up the install if you then decide to play said games back on the windows install and vice versa.

Do I need to bother with bash zsh fish vim etc etc if I only use my pc for normie usecase? I feel like a retard for not being able to comprehend what my friends discussed when talking about linux

>>105947672
no

>>105947325
Just mount the NTFS partition and run them with a launcher and not through Steam
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows
You should still get another drive and format it correctly to avoid issues

>>105937857
i made the mistake of listening to one of these once, they basically just regurgitate beginner level guides, but incredibly slowly and with a shit accent, and with additional pointless explanation for simple principles.

indians are actually retarded from breathing in so much shit fumes.

>>105940817
nope. send it

i gave an old laptop with linux mint to my female friend who knows nothing about computers and she has been using it daily for a year with no problems.

she even installed a printer.

winning

>>105946901
As long as they don't have anime profile pictures then yes

>>105948193
She does update the software right? I think a problem with normies is that they never update their software, so I completely understand why Windows handles updates automatically. They know their audience.

>>105932867 (OP)
I'm planning on reinstalling when Debian Trixie comes around and wonder if I should go Devuan for the occasion

>>105948246
>pressed Enter before finishing my post
fuck
anyway I was wondering how good Devuan is at mirroring Debian repos. Can anyone share experience with this systemD-free distro?

I've been having issues with my laptop. It has an igpu and a dgpu, uses exclusively nvidia for the secondary display.
Everything works fine with the proprietary drivers if I use only one screen and games correctly use the nvidia card without issues but the secondary one suffers from horrible flicker when anything is moving on that screen, the background gets partially drawn over the active window and the CPU usage goes up if i do something as simple as moving mouse on that screen.
>nouveau
>the whole session randomly crashes when switching windows
>tried some flags like using the vulkan renderer and what not for the WM
>still have issues
>last resort
>install the good old xorg and i3
>not a single problem in sight
Im not falling for the wayland meme ever again. The main screen is locked to the refresh rate of the secondary screen but who cares, I dont have fucking seizures anymore looking at the screen now
Now I gotta figure out the scaling/dpi settings

>>105948230

>>105948348
Most users of Linux are techies though, so they know that security updates are important. Normies might not realise how important security updates are. Maybe Mint displays a pop up window when updates are available, prompting you to install? I think Ubuntu does by default.

Gonna flash a Debian live ISO to a USB drive. I've tried Ubuntu and Fedora live ISOs but never Debian before.

dual booter here
>1 NTFS drive with windows (and boot partition) that mint can read
>1 ext4 drive with linux mint including it's boot partition that windows cannot read
>1 empty NTFS drive that could only be read by windows if windows itself formatted it to NTFS, windows couldn't read it if mint formatted it to NTFS
I tried running a linux game that was installed on the NTFS drive with windows on it. It ran for a bit but then gave me incredibly bizarre issues such as KBM inputs not always registering, the entire desktop shrinking itself to a picture in picture miniplayer size and moving itself around the black void like gif related while simultaneously gradually increasing and decreasing it's size in equal intervals.
/g/ told me that's because while linux CAN read the windows drive it's mostly to allow users to view pictures and shit, not run complex tasks such as games.
I know for a fact it's not an issue with the installation or torrent because it ran fine on the EXT4 drive but it no longer has space for the program

my stupid question is whether my issues were becasue I tried installing it on the drive shared by windows or is it because the drive itself was formatted in NTFS which is developed by microsoft therefore it's what's giving me trouble

tldr should I keep the new drive formatted as NTFS or bite the bullet and go EXT4 even tho windows wont be able to access it?

What are your thoughts on installing linux via that WSL microsoft store app? I did not even know it was a thing, even arch can be used that way

What are some good arch and linux in general channels without much fluff?

So far I got this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFxWuYui2LI

and there was that really ugly girl that seems to want to be a life coach or something so i dropped her

>>105948664
I know steam games really don't like being read from external drives (formatted to exfat in my case) first hand but I am not sure if ntfs is that much of a problem. I know there are some limitations with reg'd ntfs support linux has, but I don't know if it is really your issue here.
Are you sure the game runs normally in Linux? Have you checked protondb? Can you try installing and running it on your linux partition? And/or try booting a different game from windows ntfs?
Also you should be able to share exfat drive fine between windows and linux (shouldn't be too much of an issue for games I think if it isn't external)

>>105948664
>>105948941
Btw, are you sure windows dismounted that drive on shot down correctly? Can you create files on it? (Asking to see if it is locked)
Disable fast boot, or whatever on windows to make sure it isn't locking the disk with pseudo-hibernation.

>>105948664
>whether my issues were becasue I tried installing it on the drive shared by windows or is it because the drive itself was formatted in NTFS
I ran a couple of games I had on an NTFS drive but it was used for storage I never installed windows on it so maybe that's the issue
>should I keep the new drive formatted as NTFS or bite the bullet and go EXT4 even tho windows wont be able to access it
I'd format it to ext4 and set up virtualization if you really need it

Someone give me the info on Linux file systems, which are good, bad, etc. Mainly referring to EXT4 and BTRFS, but also F2FS and XFS or whatever else there is.

>>105949020
If you plan to have pet filesystems like most Win/Mac users are accustomed to, use ext4. If you have backups, use btrfs or xfs+lvm depending on your tolerance for CPU overhead. Everything else is meme status / highly situational.

>>105949020
btrfs on PC for features (snapshots etc)
ext4 on PC for max performance and RAID
xfs on servers
reiserfs on wife

>>105949020
>EXT4 and BTRFS,
that's the 2 choices

Archbros...
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/7EZTJXLIAQLARQNTMEW2HBWZYE626IFJ/

>>105949139
Wouldn't disagree with this except for
>If you have backups
You should ALWAYS have backups no matter what filesystem you use.

>>105949020
btrfs is a must for root snapshots (grub-btrfs), for the rest of the drive ext4 or btrfs if you care about extra features like compression or deduplication

>>105949251
Yeah but 80% of PC users are niggers who don't have backups and expect to indefinitely paper over hardware errors with fsck. Most Linux filesystems don't enable that kind of behavior.

I game on a 1440p monitor which uses 100% scaling and I have a secondary monitor which is 4K and uses 150% scaling.

In KDE, games show resolution options all the way up to 2160p even though I'm gaming on the 1440p monitor. When I set the in-game resolution to 1440p, the game looks blurry and when I set it to 2160p I take a big performance hit.

Anyone know why KDE does this whilst Gnome handles it perfectly? I can get around it by running gamescope but I would rather not have to do it for every game in my library

>>105949245
KEEEEEEEEK

So all of the packages on the AUR are compiled by random people right? In which case should they really be trusted?

I only just posted this:
>>105949455
And now i just read this:
>>105949245
So I guess the answer is no, the AUR should not be trusted.

>>105949455
No, you should check the source and read the packagebuild.

>>105949455
That's why I avoid -bin packages and always check the PKGBUILD

I'm going to switch from mint to opensuse tumbleweed in a few hours, hopefully nothing goes wrong, I'll use the iso burner that comes preinstalled on mint, wish me luck anons.

>>105944061
just disable the service

>>105943072
Yes, use Gnome or Plasma instead of Cinnamon.

>>105949245
>AUR
Not my problem.

>>105949515
>openSUSE
Why do you want to use a meme distro?

Gamers, linux or linux-zen?

>>105949488
this isn't a -bin package problem

>>105949863
irrelevant

>>105949881
Check out which packages were infected

>>105949245
Well never used any of these.
But all of my other AUR packages are safe, right?
>>105949863
Linux.
Meme kernels don't offer anything but less stability.

>>105950125
>But all of my other AUR packages are safe, right?
Probably. The malware packages were uploaded only a few days ago

>>105950080
so what? It doesn't matter in which file format the malware came, it matters where you get your software from, and if that place is under control of the attacker, he can put there whatever he wants.
-bin was probably chosen since those are more popular and easier to build.
They deleted the aur packages already so we can't just go and check how obviously bad they were.

I'm buying a new laptop as a side-computer for emergencies and I wanna put Linux on it.

Which Linux Distro should I put on it, and why? I'll mostly be using it for documents, possibly light gaming (it's not a gaming laptop), so I just want something reliable and easy to use.

>>105950282
Bazzite or Aurora
>why
because they're reliable and easy to use.
>inb4 how exactly
1. they're set up to be ready to use out of the box, while almost all other distros require some tinkering.
2. they're based on Fedora Atomic, which is one of few distros which has a stable and working update system
Basically, a perfect blend of ease of use and stability. You won't have to worry about "maintaining" them, compared to something like Ubuntu, Mint, Nobara, Arch, etc.

>>105949692
>Why do you want to use a meme distro?
It's not a meme distro anon, at least in my perspective, I'm going to install it because I prefer newer kernels & stuff.

>>105950398
I've heard bad things about Bazzite, like it having very broken updates and the unchanging OS causing issues. Have never heard about Aurora.

>>105950282
Make sure to buy one that works well with Linux

>>105950437
It's a fairly cheap HP laptop with AMD CPUs and GPU, I assume I'm good to go?

The os picker is giving me an aneurysm whats the most workhorse stable distro i should be looking at? Searching online I should get most stuff I use daily to work one way or another. I don't care for ricing (yet), I'm used to both windows and macos. Either 'experience' is fine. I don't play videogames apart from osrs

>>105950450
it's not that easy with laptops

>>105950421
>having very broken updates
I'm using it since version 40 and never had issues. If an update is broken it won't even get applied until they fix it. Even if it somehow gets applied, you literally have a GUI for rolling back to the previous system version.
>never heard about Aurora
It's basically a non-gaming version of Bazzite. It's created by the same team (Universal Blue).
>the unchanging OS causing issues
It's doing the exact opposite, preventing issues from happening.
And besides, you can install packages system-wide like on any "standard" OS if you ever need to. Considering this is a device for "documents and maybe light gaming", you won't have any "issues" some people are talking about.

>>105950484
How does one figure this shit out

>>105932867 (OP)
FUUUUUCKKK, guix pull TAKES AGES TO COMPLETE FUUUCK

>>105950510
dunno, I don't use laptops, hence never had to bother. Anything that officially ships with linux should be fine I guess.

>>105950473
The OS picker is made by a retard. If you're looking for an easy to use and stable distro, go for Aurora
https://getaurora.dev/en
Or Bazzite, if you don't mind Steam being pre-installed. These two are literally the best desktop Linux experience for an average desktop user, despite the flatpak permissions fuckery.

For IMEs is there any difference between ibus and fcitx? Which one will work in games through proton?

>>105950521
NIGGER, THIS SHIT IS INDEXING AND COOMPILING THE WHOLE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE, FIX IT STALLMAN, YOU FAT FUCK!

>>105950484
I asked ChatGPT and it tells me that apperently it mostly works fine, but it can have system hangups after reboots and the Wifi adapter not working well.

>>105950541
use whatever works best with your de.

Trying to get Typing of the Dead working on Wine on Ubuntu 24.04 on a Surface Pro 7+.
Anyone know how to deal with the fucking high DPI with games in Wine?
What's the correct setting to modify to make it look normal?
Bearing in mind its a game from like 2000.

Be honest, anons:

You like troubleshooting random Linux issues, don't you? You're a filthy software masochist, aren't you?

>>105950530
Thanks

should a gaymer bother with CachyOS? also got a 50 series Nvidia

>>105937839
fragile honky cunt. indians usually get the job done, they're pragmatic people. idgaf about their accent as long as they explain 90% of what I need.

>>105950670
I don't trust anyone that eats cow shit and refuses to use a toilet

What the fuck is the purpose of a swap partition/file in 2025 when you have 32GB of RAM?

I have no question. Fedora is GREAT. Have a nice day.

>>105950739
The kernel needs some, won't elaborate (((THOUGH)))

>>105950739
hibernation, which some people prefer over suspend (sleep) because it's usable in cases of a power outage (PC) or battery depletion (laptop).

>>105950757
And if hibernation is never used, then what?

>>105950769
I guess you don't need it if you either have earlyoom installed or you're certain you'll never reach max RAM usage.

>>105950726
i'm sure most of the tech indians don't eat cow shit and use a toilet. stop living in pol memes, retard. you honkies are so mindbroken its unreal. and so easy to mindbreak.

>>105950739
What's the purpose of 32GB RAM when you have a swap partition/file?

>>105950739
I've run into oom killer thrice on this machine. With 64GB RAM.

>>105950866
What the fuck are you doing

>>105950866
Doing what? Even on Windows the only time I hit 80%+ of RAM used is with Avisynth filters.

>>105950866
same here
the oom killer doesn't fuck around

>>105950882
>>105950888
>Doing what ?
Doing a Firefox memory leak

>>105950882
>>105950888
stable diffusion

>>105950895
yeah, but better than if you run out despite swap. Recovering from that is a pain.

>baloo extract went crazy and the SSD was non-stop writing at full speed
>couldn't forcibly shut down the process and shutting down the computer wouldn't work either as it would continue after restart
>root drive fucked and showing a size of 134 tb
>restoring a previous snapshot still shows the incorrect file size
I managed to solve it by disabling and re-enabling file indexing, drive is still fucked and shows the wrong size when specifically using Dolphin's properties but otherwise everything is back to normal

>>105950473
just fucking use arch

I STILL DONT TRUST NTP DAEMONS

>>105950919
how does windows do it ? never had this problem in 25+ years

>>105950510
You google your options. Realistically your options are very limited without factoring in the OS so it isn't hard to narrow them down to something that works.
Main issues with laptops seem to be the wifi adapter(fuck you realtek) and getting the power saving features to work.
Ubuntu has a section for certified (tm) laptops that work with it but I think they just make sure the OS boots and don't check that every feature works correctly.

>>105951065
I don't know why ntp even exists, couldn't we just sync the time using our bios?

>>105951182
If you don't mind your time drifting from the real time, sure.

>>105951067
Does what? Recovering from oom? Dunno, does it even do that?

>>105950739
The shit Fedora uses, zram or something, doesn't use any space on the drive until you actually need to dump some from the RAM into it. No reason not to have it as it doesn't take up space, no?

>>105951182
because computers are not exempt from the laws of physics
unironically systemd had the right idea here, every box with a network connection should have an ntp client on it but not necessarily a server

>>105951221
I've had it crashing and burning from oom unless I closed the process in time. Some programs were left in invalid states after that so I don't think it really recovers from oom.

>>105951067
>>105951221

On Windows, apps just crash on their own if you're OOM.

Anyone else love putting old Windows-styled Themes on their Linux machine?

I particularly love the Windows 98 ones, just maximum comfy.

Thoughts on the Audacious music player?

>>105951306
it really kicks the llama's ass

>>105951306
It's all I use, love the old winamp skins

>>105951306
It's simple and allows me to remove all the unnecessary parts of the UI (anything that's not the play/pause button, the playlist itself with just file names, and the playback timeline). So, it's the only thing I use and nothing comes close to it.

>>105950612
It runs fine for me via Lutris. I don't know what fixes it applies if any, I was quite surprised it worked out of the box with it.

So I removed the 5% reserved file space for my storage HDDs but I'm wondering where that information is saved, is it within the drive's own filesystem? Or is it tied to the OS and would require to be re-applied if I install another OS? I presume it's the former but just want to double check.

>>105932867 (OP)
hi :)
any idea why my shit doesn't work?

i can open files on SMB shares via the terminal e.g. vlc 'path-to-file' and it'll open fine but doing it from nautilus or thunar it seems to randomly not work for some files.
mpv doesn't open at all for any files.
both work fine if i copy file to desktop.

debian 13 testing because stable is too old for this N150 system.

>>105951718
It's a property of the filesystem.

>installed fresh artix with plasma
>video works fine out of the box
>installed vulkan-radeon for games, everything works
>stuck at 1024x768 after first restart
Not sure how to even diagnose this anons. Did I mess something up by installing the vulkan-radeon package?

Here's the dmesg.
[ 7.997332] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: Direct firmware load for amdgpu/beige_goby_sos.bin failed with error -2
[ 7.997335] [drm:amdgpu_device_init.cold [amdgpu]] *ERROR* early_init of IP block <psp> failed -19
[ 7.997546] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: Direct firmware load for amdgpu/beige_goby_smc.bin failed with error -2
[ 7.997548] [drm:amdgpu_device_init.cold [amdgpu]] *ERROR* early_init of IP block <smu> failed -19
[ 7.997752] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: Direct firmware load for amdgpu/beige_goby_dmcub.bin failed with error -2
[ 7.997754] [drm:amdgpu_device_init.cold [amdgpu]] *ERROR* early_init of IP block <dm> failed -19
[ 7.997955] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: Direct firmware load for amdgpu/beige_goby_pfp.bin failed with error -2
[ 7.997956] [drm:amdgpu_device_init.cold [amdgpu]] *ERROR* early_init of IP block <gfx_v10_0> failed -19
[ 7.998155] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: Direct firmware load for amdgpu/beige_goby_sdma.bin failed with error -2
[ 7.998157] [drm:amdgpu_device_init.cold [amdgpu]] *ERROR* early_init of IP block <sdma_v5_2> failed -19
[ 7.998358] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: Direct firmware load for amdgpu/beige_goby_vcn.bin failed with error -2
[ 7.998360] [drm:amdgpu_device_init.cold [amdgpu]] *ERROR* early_init of IP block <vcn_v3_0> failed -19
[ 7.998537] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: Fatal error during GPU init
[ 7.998539] amdgpu 0000:07:00.0: amdgpu: amdgpu: finishing device.

>>105951828
This smells like a driver issue but shit you can try:
Does the issue persist in both wayland and x11 plasma?
Can you install another DE like xfce and check if shit loads correctly there?
Can you try enabling/disabling early KMS kernel param to see if it helps loading the driver.
My last guess would be that some artix maintainer fucked up. Look up dependencies here and see if anything is missing on your system? https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/vulkan-radeon/ Maybe try reinstalling it and related packages tomorrow?
Lastly are you on 9070xt by any chance?

>>105951740
I'd mount the share so programs wouldn't even need to know what SMB is.
>>105950888
Compiling software. Sometimes it exceeds 2GB per thread so I actually needed to setup ZRAM.
t. 64GB of RAM and 32-thread CPU
>>105950473
Do you need stability? Are you setting up a production environment?

>>105951306
This fork is promising but i haven't been able to build it for Fedora yet
https://github.com/wildstar84/fauxdacious

>>105952428
Thanks anon, turns out I had installed xf86-video-amdgpu and uninstalling it did the trick, neither X11 nor Wayland worked. Still no idea why it happened but having only steam and its dependencies makes everything work.

>>105952549
That tracks.
Not an expert but skimming through random google results xf86 seems not even barely maintained and essentially deprecated in favor of regular xorg instance. Probably there is still some very old hardware/driver version combo it works better for but yes you shouldn't use that.

Why do people here hate Mint and Cinnamon? It has the best functionaltiy out of the gate.

I think Wayland SUCKS!

>>105950927
I think the TB stuff in Dolphin is a general thing, it shows every partition as 128 TB for me on multiple PCs and multiple file systems

Wait what Cinnamon is officially available on Gentoo now? Wiki doesn't mention an overlay any more.

>>105952674
>hate Cinnamon
They do?

>>105952509
I just hope someone ports kjofol or even "modern" winamp skins to audacious at some point

New thread >>105952712

>>105942223
>>105942322
ntfsfix -bd
Fixes most stuff that
chkdsk /ic will.

The "warnings" in the ntfsfix manpage are basically arse covering.

>>105954103
no, ntfsfix -bd simply zeroes the dirty bit and zeroes the bad sector list. it literally says this using --help. that's all it does. it doesn't check anything at all. all those do is makes the mounter /assume/ there's nothing wrong with the filesystem.
you're rolling the dice if you use that a few times, no end user should be touching ntfsfix