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Previous thread: >>105932867

Asking frmo the other thread -

why do people here hate on Cinnamon and Mint in general so much? Geniuenly curious.

>>105952943
>Cinnamon
Obsolete GNOME 3 fork
>Mint
Obsolete Ubuntu fork

Post Linux distros/programs with SOVL

>>105952984
https://chimera-linux.org/

>>105952943
Half the hate is sheer contrarianism due to Mint being popular and just working out of the box. The other half however is due to legitimate complaints. Cinnamon and Plasma are both meant to provide a Windows-like experience, except Plasma does a far better job while being infinitely more beautiful and using fewer system resources too. Cinnamon is just not pretty to me, even after installing Blur Cinnamon and enabling light mode. Mint itself, being based on Ubuntu and ultimately Debian, also suffers from outdated software, sometimes extremely so. I'm not somebody who needs to update to the latest version of everything immediately, but in the Debian sphere it isn't unusual to be YEARS behind in features and improvements.

>>105952943
Slipshod packaging and it kind of blows if you don't want to use Cinnamon.

>>105952943
I've got cinnamon running on Arch, I love it.

bros how do pirate games on arch, im 2 days old to linux
Is it as simple as just going to say fitgirl-repack, torrenting the file and installing it through wine? I'd like to play Expedition 33

anons.... i need a rolling release distro that doesn't use much computer resources, preferably a debian based one.

>>105953136
yea basically

How bad of an idea is it to upgrade these packages? I don't like that "multilib" seems to be missing from all the new versions.

>>105953171
Siduction is your only option, specially if you use NVidia but don't want to do the work yourself. Use at your own risk though, Sid is Sid.

>>105952943
It's a vocal minority. I wouldn't use Mint nowadays cause i need Wayland support, but on paper don't hate it, nor there's a reason to hate it as long as it does the job. In fact, the moment Cinnamon with stable Wayland support lands on LMDE (which gets updated more often than the Ubuntu based one, as it's where they test they can compile the packages) i'm giving it another shot.

>>105952943
For me it's just that I am against using any distro that is derived from another distro. That is, I'd recommend using Debian instead.
>>105953171
Just use Debian sid?

Is there a Linux distro i can put on a VM that will let me hack people? I want to hack all the pedos.

>>105953136
You can download and unpack a Fitgirl install of a game within a Bottles environment.

>>105953311
oof, please recommend me any distro that keeps everything updated, forget the low resources usage too.

>>105953446
yea, but if you can't find one you have no chance of using it

>>105953492
arch linux

>>105953492
Fedora if you don't mind some mild irkness (distro upgrades work great as long as you keep COPRs at minimun - and wait at least 3 months for everything to get ported over if you use them -) Arch if you want something truly rolling with proper community support. Debian 's community mostly cares about Stable and Testing. Sid is a wild card, a test environment mostly. Some autists decided to tame that wildness and created Siduction, but is still niche compared to Arch. Many just prefer to base their distros on Stable and run their own backports repos, like Knoppix. Many people swear by Tumbleweed but i never tried it.

Does distro affect game performance

>>105953558
to an extent, yes. this can be because of how new critical components like linux and mesa are, and/or various tweaks preconfigured

>>105953582
So would it be better to put something like nobara or Arch? What if I did something like sid Debian?

>>105953628
Of those, I would personally choose Sid.

Anyone have any experience with linux on a chromebook or chromebox? I've been looking for low power, low resource options and had been considering fanless mini pcs, but Im drawn to how cheap these are and how they are pretty easy to unlock for the most part.

>>105953447
Are cracked games safer in Bottles compared to Windows or is it basically the same risk?

>>105953747
Bottles by default is sandboxed if you use the flatpak version (which the devs say to do) so I'd say so.

why does Mint initiate get requests for ubuntu jammy updates despite having automatic package downloads and updates disabled in update manager?

>>105953765
Also Fitgirl isn't unsafe at all if you just get the installer from the real site.

>>105953747
Bottles is like docker, it acts as a container, meaning that the virus can't delete or encrypt your shit, the maximum that the virus will do is fuck up bottles but not your system

>>105953775
I think it's because it's checking for any updates for you to manually install? I don't know.

What flavor of Linux does she enjoy?
>No lewds.

>>105953828
Girls don't use linux.

>>105953779
the assumption that all the stuff you can get from a specific place is safe can bite you in the ass so treating it as unsafe by default is a safe policy

>>105953842
Quite a few, bro.

>>105949455
Yes, although package maintainers on any distro are also just random people.
>In which case should they really be trusted?
Absolutely not and this is plainly written on the AUR home page. You want to make sure the pkgbuild links to a legit link like the actual github repo of the software. I still don't install AUR packages.

After the recent malware incident they might want to make the "at your own risk" part more visible. In particular, these sections from the wiki entry should probably be on the front page.

>>105952712 (OP)
Benefits for using linux over macOS if you don’t care about the hardware prices?
>muh open source
I dont give a shit, I mean practical reasons like “gayming is clearly better supported on linux” etc

>>105953862
i think the name is big enough of a warning
>arch USER repository

>>105953881
The biggest benefit is not having to use that macos bullshit.

>>105953845
If the real Fitgirl site was compromised it would be talked about in every single piracy space.

>>105953862
many people install shit from the aur by running something like yay -S, they don't even need to know what a PKGBUILD is.

>>105953881
just go buy a mac, what you wanna buy is your own headache

>>105953881
>gayming is clearly better supported on linux
Yeah zink sucks a high hard one.

>>105953890
>not having to use that macos bullshit.
so far it seems just as annoying to my winpleb eyes as linux, except it also has photoshop and excel support. I guess not having an extra CMD modifier on linux is neat but that’s hardly anything major
look man i’m not trying to make fun of your sekrit club, I’m just looking at alternatives since w10 is eol soon and I want to check out alternatives

>>105953828
that would be IRIX, i know this. idk about a similar linux system

... apparently someone actually had done a clone of the IRIX DE, so there you go
https://docs.maxxinteractive.com/

>she’s not running red star

>>105953918
>alternative
Use Linux, my friend

>>105953898
I don't know how yay works but hopefully it displays the urls in the pkgbuild to the user and asks something like "Do you trust these sources?" so the user doesn't just install something from github.com/totallytrustworthyuser/pozzyourcomputer

>>105953881
>linux
free as in free headache
doesn’t send your everything to cloud to be analyzed for doubleplus-ungood thinking (some distros)
won’t annoy you with auto-updates
skills transfer into dealing with servers
hardware easily extensible
good enough for most usage patterns
will never be power efficient since good-all-around arm laptop never ever
makes you immune to STDs and getting somebody pregnant on accident
>mac
hardware expensive AND impossible to expand if needed
it just works, much better support for everything you’d want since there’s just one version and not 300 different flavors
you do get ms office but the performance is total ass anyway
weird issues with non-apple hardware, like external display colors being fucked by default
all your hardware gets bricked due to executive order in 2027 when trump starts a war for greenland
every single dev in existence wants to nickel and dime you for the smallest piece of software, since everybody using macs is clearly a mark
apple script and automation in general is shit
good power efficiency
iphone interoperability is neat

>>105953992
>better support for everything
>can't install old shit
<mfw
fuck off macOS shiller

>>105953918
>just as annoying to my winpleb eyes as linux,
You know all those shortcuts and other little things you learned while using windows? Well, on mac, they are just different. It's way easier to switch from windows to linux than to mac.
This is a general thing for macs, they just do everthing different, making them great to work with the apple ecosystem but shit with anything outside of it.

>>105953968
lol nope. You'd have to use an extra switch for it to print you the PKGBUILD before running it but no one uses that.

>>105953171
frankendevuan testing X experimental
it's my daily driver ROFLOL!

>>105954020
>I want to do X but don’t know how
>search how to do X
>do X successfully by following the monkey see monkey do tutorial
Macs are unquestionably better in this regard and that will never change due to how fragmented linux is

>>105952943
People on /g/ seem to like Mint though, it gets recommended a lot

>>105953171
Why does it need to be rolling release? You could just install a stable release of a distro and then if you need newer software you can get it from Flathub/Homebrew/etc

>>105953436
>For me it's just that I am against using any distro that is derived from another distro
I think Ubuntu/Mint have more recent packages than Debian stable though
>Just use Debian sid
I've never tried using that but I assume it would have more stability problems compared to using a stable release of Ubuntu or Mint.

Debian is ancient shit unfit for anything but servers
Need new stuff? Suffer on arch. Otherwise go for mint. Everything else is a meme or very specialized like kali n shot

>>105953992
based
>>105954020
cringe

>>105953665
One more question, what about init systems? Does this too play an effect on games?

>>105954219
>Everything else is a meme
heh

>>105954183
>Why does it need to be rolling release? You could just install a stable release of a distro and then if you need newer software you can get it from Flathub/Homebrew/etc
Maybe you're right, I'll do that

>>105952943
>hate
I wouldn't say I hate Mint, but it's not rolling release like Arch/Fedora so to me it's not a suitable OS for your average desktop user.
I'm fine with Cinnamon, but it's objectively just worse than KDE Plasma and the 2nd biggest resource hog when it comes to DEs (the first apparently being Deepin DE).

>>105952943
Mint is just green ubuntu, and no one likes ubuntu. As for cinnamon, we don't give a fuck.

Arch.
Is the .mozilla folder the only place firefox saves my sensitive info like passwords? Is anyone sure of this? I am trying to make a blacklist profile for an app that I do not fully trust. Just trying to limit the damage against the worst.
>Just whitelist what you need
It has a lot of dependencies I would rather not micromanage. Blacklisting Documents and other sensitive folders is much easier.

>>105954316
Linux Mint is ubuntu but better, no snaps (bloat)

>>105954361
Yes, it will not write to any other directories (with the exception of things like ~/Downloads). Firefox, historically does not support storing data properly in platform specific directories (XDG) and this is an ongoing effort so for now everything is contained within ~/.mozilla

>>105954396
>>105954361
What I would suggest doing though is making a tmp/private home dir. If you do not trust this app then why take any chances? Use some overlayed/private home directory and never let it see the real thing.

>>105954396
I keep my firefox profile in a separate folder though.

>>105954361
you'll be better off using firejail/bwrap

>>105954388
wow, took them how many years to actually offer something a value?
And snaps is only one of the many problems of ubuntu.

I want to use Linux, but I play Fortnite, how can I use Linux and play Fortnite with my frens without using Windows?

>>105954483
You can't anon, Bribe epic games into making Fortnite native to Linux

>>105954498
:-( thanks for info

>>105953881
2 things for me.
customization of interface
spy ai from microsoft and apple was the final drop.

>>105954402
I am not stupid I know whitelist or private would be better but it is running off of a virtual environment with a lot dependencies. I am not gonna trial and error what symlink from where is needed nor reinstall gigabytes of shit from scratch. Thanks for the response though >>105954396
>>105954408
I am already doing this with firejail, actually.

>>105954483
Many Windows games do run on Linux, but Windows games that use anti-cheat often don't work on Linux, and I think Fortnite is one of those.

So maybe your best bet is to stay on Windows. If you're curious about Linux you could install Linux on Windows with WSL. You can even run GUI Linux apps with WSL:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps

>>105954519
Firejail is bloat, use SElinux instead

>>105954533
Do you know the performance hit I would take in Windows if I ran a Linux distribution in a Hyper-V virtual machine? Would it drastically slow down Windows?

why do they claim it's user friendly? have you watched windows/macos/android/ios users use a linux based desktop? how was it? did they get stumped after picking which language to use for the install process?

>>105954483
You can't play Fortnite on Linux because of the kernel anti-cheat it uses.

>>105954361
i run palemoon with bwrap and it's equivalent ".moonchild productions" folder is all it needs to function, i doubt 'mainline' firefox is any different.
oh unless you want to keep your internet cache between sessions. i have it use an empty tmpfs home $HOME with the above config folder bind mounted in (along with a few other things like Downloads, gtkrc and ~/.fonts, etc to follow my theme and access personal fonts). you can also add ~/.cache/<firefox's cache folder> if you want to have that on-disc

>>105954483
that's one of the handful of kernel anti cheat games. you *might* be able to run it in a windows vm, but the easiest and least-likely-to-get-banned method is to just dual boot and run windows when you want to play that. blame epic, there's little that linux devs can do about such anti-cheats, they're literally designed to prevent the kind of freedom linux provides

does xfce support opening apps on login and place them in exact locations and workspaces? if so, how?

>>105954568
I don't think I've used Hyper-V. You could try it out. If you have a decent PC then running Linux in a VM is pretty straightforward.

extended dynamic range with Wayland works how and does what?

>>105954483
Buy a games console and play Fortnite on that

>>105954661
There should be an option in session settings that says "Automatically save session on logout."
So if you set things up in each workspace how you like they should always stay the same after logout/login.

>>105954693
Are you talking about HDR? You're not going to see much benefit in the vast majority of cases unless you're viewing HDR video or playing video games that support HDR, although I have a cheap portable monitor that looks much better with HDR on than off so your mileage may vary if you similarly have cheap panels with poor calibration but supports HDR.

>>105954717
I mean what i said. I have not seen any source say that my screen supports HDR but there is still this option in the settings.
I found nothing in the docs and you just get results for apple screen stuff when you search for this.

>>105954778
Interesting, I didn't even know KWin had that. Sounds like a hack that's probably not going to work right.

>>105954795
Its also selective. Both of my thinkpads have this option with one definitely not having a fancy screen but my desktop for example doesn't show this option. It checks for something but i don't know what criteria must be met for support.

>>105954808
I guess if it knows the screen backlight level in nits and the screen can tolerate rapid brightness level adjustments then it can map that to a curve somehow and adjust it dynamically. I don't know if that's how it works though.

>>105954483
Video game streaming services, like GeForce Now. Many of them have Fortnite.

>>105954834
I also just plugged my desktop monitor into my EDR supported laptop and it did not have the option. So i don't think that its the different GPU and drivers between the systems but actually the screen.
I tried playing a HDR video with MPV and turning the option on and off while it was playing but i did not notice a difference. Weird how hidden this function is.

>>105954893
Would you really want to play competitive shooters via a streaming service? I bet even if you had 10 gigabit Internet the latency would still be too bad.

>>105954974
I used GFN for 3 months and played quite a few shooters (Apex, Destiny 2, Siege, CoD). If you're close enough to one of their data centers the latency actually isn't bad at all and I could play fine, great for casual or low/mid tier ranked.
But if being in the top 500 of any competitive shooter is your goal then I'd definitely avoid the cloud.

>>105954316
I'm using Ubuntu and I like it.

>>105955028
Cool image despite it being AI. The Ferrari F40 was a good looking car.
>Apex, Destiny 2, Siege, CoD
I want to play those games so I'm thinking for my next computer I will just run Windows, and then I can install WSL for Linux needs. It would be nice if everything would work on Linux but oh well.

>>105955039
Ubuntu is bloat, use mint instead

>>105955076
How secure is Mint compared to Ubuntu?
I need you to understand that I am very tech illiterate and I just want something that can more or less guarantee I won't get malware as long as I stick to the distro's designated app manager or whatever.

>>105955060
>The Ferrari F40 was a good looking car.
based, it's my absolute favourite
>It would be nice if everything would work on Linux but oh well.
After SteamOS is officially released for PCs you'd think devs would enable the anticheats to function on it but that might be wishful thinking.

>>105955097
Grab whatever immutable distro (because tech retarded)
install Bitdefender GravityZone
Never have to worry about malware again

>>105953918
I installed Debian on my 10 machine that couldn’t be upgraded to 11
It doesn’t do anything my Mac already does, and my Mac does more, like Microsoft desktop apps
That said, if you do get a Mac I’d recommend distrohopping on your former Windows machine anyway and finding a distribution that suits you
Personally I get annoyed with Linux because it doesn’t have an extra key for shortcuts in apps so I can’t use C-a to go to the beginning of a line in every app
This really shows up in apps with a gazillion shortcuts like Visual Studio Code
On Linux I can’t easily nuke a line with command-shift-k

>>105954256
I’m a Mac guy and using Homebrew on Debian Stable is weird but underrated
I’m a big fan

If MacOS was an option on non Apple desktops, to be honest I'd probably use that over Windows & Linux.

>>105954974
If it means I can avoid infesting my PC with kernel level anti-cheat, yes. I would.

>>105955130
>go to the beginning of a line
home
>can’t easily nuke a line with command-shift-k
why would you? Just use D

>>105954483
If it’s literally just Fortnite, have you considered getting a phone that can play it well and hooking it up to a monitor that does USB-C input?

>>105955170
…D?

>>105955176
yes. D. You know, like shift + d

>>105955176
yes, the D

>>105955186
I like VS Code more than Helix and I like Helix more than vim
Pressing d won’t help me much in my favorite editor

>>105955107
>After SteamOS is officially released for PCs you'd think devs would enable the anticheats to function on it but that might be wishful thinking.
Yeah maybe Valve is working on that, I have no idea, but it would be cool if they did.

>>105955097
I'm in the same boat as you, I use Ubuntu because I want my computer to just work without malware. Mint meanwhile had their servers hacked a few years ago. Mint these days is probably fine and secure, but I'm paranoid so I use Ubuntu. Also if you really want to you can customise Ubuntu to make it more similar to Mint (e.g. install Cinnamon from the repos).

Also if you want extra security on Ubuntu then you can enable Ubuntu Pro which gives you security patches for software from the universe repo. Also, if you install snaps, personally I only install snaps that come from trustworthy verified publishers (the publisher will have a tick next to the name). E.g. the Spotify snap has a verified publisher, and so does the Ruby snap, and the Chromium snap, etc.

>>105955270
That Ubuntu dares to hold back security patches to promote their pro bullshit is a reason to not use them.
>I'm paranoid so I use Ubuntu
If I'd be paranoid Ubuntu would still be on the no-go list.

>>105955396
>That Ubuntu dares to hold back security patches to promote their pro bullshit is a reason to not use them.
I'm fine with it to be honest. It's free so whatever. I could use Debian to avoid the Ubuntu Pro account but I'm not bothered either way. Debian would have older packages anyway.

>>105955453
Only free as in free beer, and also limited:
>Ubuntu Pro is free for personal users on up to 5 machines

how long does this shit take? fucking Wine is slow

>>105955559
like, 5-10 seconds the first time you make a prefix

>>105955396
>That Ubuntu dares to hold back security patches to promote their pro bullshit is a reason to not use them.
It depends purely on how big a deal it is for you to get on that free Ubuntu/RHEL subscription. While that's a dealbreaker to many, I personally think they're the only distros worth using.

>>105955559
it could take up to a minute or two

>>105955573
>>105955637
It was taking a while because it failed and aborted. Couldn't find the ge-proton runner even though I supposedly have the latest 8-26 version and a whole bunch of other shit wine & winetricks needs.
Fuck man why can't linux just be 'click install' 'click play'.
This is so ass.

>>105955589
No-go here. And I wouldn't care about it if they wouldn't shove it in my face every time I update the system.

>>105955663
Piracy has rarely been click and play. It's amazing that this shit runs at all.

>>105955682
>No-go here.
Wdym? You in Iran or something?

>I wouldn't care about it if they wouldn't shove it in my face every time I update
If Canonical is fine with doing this kind of thing when you're not subscribed then there's no guarantee they'll stop when you sign up for Pro. I'm on RHEL and I've never seen ads in the terminal.

I've got a meh laptop and launching games through Proton takes like a minute or two. Is this going to happen when I install Linux on my actual main PC?

>>105955777
No, much easier. It's not my personal computer, it belongs to the company.

> I've never seen ads in the terminal.
As it should be, and fuck canonical for doing that shit.

The control and customization you have on linux is great but the incompatibility with everything sure blows. I know there are “workarounds” but they aren’t simple enough for retards like me.

Windows is annoying invasive and Linux is a tedious pain in the ass. I think my only option is transitioning to MacOS bros…

What a fucked up world.

If I have a PC connected to TV with HDMI.
Can I use CEC to control the PC with the remote control with CEC?

>>105955823
just go over to >>>/g/fwt and get on that LTSC IoT 2021, faggot

>>105955823
>incompatibility with everything
?

is the endeavourOS website down?

>>105955871
NTA but the only thing keeping me from using linux exclusively are adobe (obviously pirated, and unfortunately nothing comes close), hardware and vr support for sim games i play as well as kernel level anti cheats. so yeah its incompatibile with a lot of stuff unfortunately because it is superior

>>105955871
The multitude of applications that don’t natively support Linux and need compatibility layers or sandbox environments to run.

>>105955823
>I think my only option is transitioning to MacOS bros…
To get the worst of both worlds?

>>105955852
You need an adapter like this
https://www.amazon.com/CY-Adapter-Controlled-Function-Compliant/dp/B0CLDMCV6B?th=1

>>105955910
>its incompatibile with a lot of stuff
It is highly compatible with a lot of stuff (Stuff you don't care about mostly). That it is not compatible with some things you need/want is unfortunate of course.

>>105955931
That list shrinks together fast if you don't care about certain software, like ms office, photoshop and a few more.

is there an easy way to suppress the newline in the output of bc similar to echo -n? need to generate a file with lines and columns containing numbers and literals?
I could store results in variables and format them with echo but this seems rather inefficent with millions of repetitions.

>>105955972
How does this work?
My TV already support CEC

>>105955975
tr -d '\n'

>Lutris vs Bottles vs Heroic
Which one should you use?

>>105956123
None of the above

>CoolerControl brutally mogs Fan Control
Is this the first time in history where Linux has a better and easier to use piece of software with a much more beautiful UI?

>>105956123
Heroic for ease of use.
Lutris for historical reliability.
Bottles if nothing else works (but probably won't work if you can't get it to work with the first two), or if you want a separate .wine instance (Good for messing around/tinkering if you don't want to mess with you main .wine folder or don't want to make other instances manually)

Good even goood sirs, what possibly would the best Linuxes be to use?

>>105956285
Debian for stability.
Arch Linux for cutting edge.
Red Hat for corpo.
Ubuntu for compatibility.
Linux Mint for ease of use.
Fedora for reliability.
Kali Linux for hacking.
Bazzite for gaming.
Gentoo for street cred.
Temple OS for the soul.

Good GUI for ClamAV in 2025?
ClamTK is not supported anymore and has weird graphical bugs. There was an interesting pirate-themed one (DistroTube covered it in a video but I can't find it), and I can't remember the name of it. The dialogue/text was written in silly 'ahoy ye maties'-style pirate language. It's open source and available as a flatpak. Anyone happen to know the name of it?

We talk about the Distros we like too much.

What about (modern) Distros that nobody should EVER FUCKING USE?

I'll go first:
Gentoo

>>105956473
whichever distro you like most

>>105956086
thanks . this works fine. however, I encountered a different problem so I moved on, first using expr, now I settled for arithmetic expansions

>>105956473
What's your issue with gentoo? I like it for its large choice of packages and the option to switch between stable and unstable on a per-package base.
I also like use flags for use in metapackages.

>>105954483
you cant, get a 2nd disk just for windows, install and update it through qemu so it doesnt mess the bootloader up

>>105956666
>get a 2nd disk just for Windows
Why not dual-boot?

>1TB drive is missing 15gb
>4TB drive is missing 30gb
Why is Linux stealing my gigabytes?

>>105956683
ext4?

Would it be safe to resize partitions after installing and booting, from the live usb? Apparently, GB and GiB are two different things, and it flares the auts having less than what I want.

>>105956683
If it's ext4 it may be the space that's reserved for root.

>>105956418
>reliability
What does that even mean?

>>105956693
yes. i too like nicely rounded MiB/GiB partitions

>>105956464
Ah, found it. It's called Kapitano.
It's a front end for ClamAV. And it's on codeburg, not github. Weird, it doesn't show up when I try to search ClamAV Front-end or Virus Scanner or anything similar on various search engines. I had to figure out the name on my own, and even with 'Kapitano front end' or 'Kapitano scanner', it's not even the first link that shows up, it's like the 5th or 6th link down. If I didn't hear about it from DistroTube I wouldnt' have known about its existence. There's only one article that talks about it too. Haven't seen any discussion about it either, but have seen a ton of discussion about ClamTK no longer being supported. Guess most people just use ClamAV through the terminal or don't use it all.
Codeburg:
>https://codeberg.org/zynequ/Kapitano
Flathub page:
>https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.zynequ.Kapitano
Wish it provided more info on stuff during and after the scan. It just scans whatever and tells you it's good. Barely any info at all, the log doesn't say much or even what was scanned. And there's no toggle to see it actively scan stuff, you just have to wait for it to finish. You don't get to watch it work.

>>105956691
>>105956695
It's ext4 but I have disabled the reserved space by putting it to 0. The missing space is compared to how much was available on Windows.

>>105956693
GiB is the old GB, renamed by a bunch of bureaucrats because the monkeys they herd couldn't handle multiples of 1024.

>>105956712
Windows counts the space wrong because >>105956713

>>105956693
Resizing is generally fine if your FS supports it.
But if you are shrinking it, you need to make sure you resize the FS before the partition.

>>105956704
It just werks.

I've got problems with some programs not finding binaries despite having them on my path. Apparently they use a different path variable?
But according to the Arch wiki SDDM (I'm using KDE on Arch) executes .bash_profile, and all my .bash_profile does is execute .bashrc, which is where I've added stuff to my path.
One of the programs I've had an issue with was 'ols' — the odin language server. I added it to my path, in any shell I can execute it directly by name, but both Kate and Emacs claim to be unable to find the binary. I've restarted since adding it to my path too, so it's not that I only sourced the .bashrc in a single terminal or anything.
How to remedy this situation?

Can someone check this for me becuase O've tested 3 distros with3 DE and it all the same
When there's no monitor connected keyboard and mouse don't work
Is this normal?

>>105956726
Windows or NTFS? My 4TB NTFS drive had 386gb available when connected to Linux and after formatting it to ext4 and copying the files back it only has 327.6gb

>>105956748
how are you checking for keyboard and mouse input?

>>105956752
that could be for many reasons, including several that would happen even if you did ntfs to ntfs, such as compression, sparse files, unlinked files, etc

>>105956726
it doesn't count it wrong, it just defines GB as multiples of 1024.

>>105956752
could be padding, could be block size alignment, could be reserved partitions, could be GiB/GB fuckery. compare either the ntfs or the ext4 between both OSes, then you'll know if it's that or something else.

>>105956760
With mpv, I press "p" to pause the playback same with mouse.

>>105956752
Accounting disparity. ext4 has more overhead than ntfs but not that much more.

>>105956752
You can show the space how Windows would show it with df --si

>>105956775
what i mean is, you have no monitor attached, so by what means are you observing these effects?, because the keyboard and mouse typically only affect the local console, which is typically only viewed with a local monitor. you /can/ use a locally-attached kb/mouse to affect other things, but you usually have to do something for that to happen

>>105956772
There's just videos on the drive
>>105956774
For my 1TB NTFS drive on Windows and Linux it shows 186gb free space. Formatting to ext4 and copying the exact same video files results in 171 free space. So it seems to be the case on all my drives that Linux eats up some of the space?
>>105956779
Seems like a decent amount more, no?

>>105956793
You mean on the filesystem? Because Linux shows the exact same free space on the NTFS drive when it's connected to Linux.

If my laptop has a 256gb SSD, should I bother dual-booting Windows and Linux?

>>105956804
>observing these effects?
From the sound of audio, when i reconnect the monitor the effect isn't applied.
What do you mean?

Guhnoo button

>>105952712 (OP)
linux sucks

>>105956825
>Formatting to ext4 and copying the exact same video files results in 171 free space. So it seems to be the case on all my drives that Linux eats up some of the space?
Then it's not Linux, it's ext4. Or the way it's been partitioned.

>>105956825
>There's just videos on the drive
hm, could be just things like how ext4 preallocates inodes for performance reasons while ntfs expands its' MFT on demand. there's a lot of differences between the filesystems

>>105955663
With umu-launcher I run this, it takes seconds to create/update the prefix and it's always using the latest version of proton-ge
WINEPREFIX=$HOME/games/pfx/game PROTONPATH=GE-Proton GAMEID=0 umu-run game.exe

I bought a mac mini and i dont really like mac os. i probably wont like linux either, right?

>>105956825
>>105956884
ps. inode count is configurable at format time.
also, i don't know how much space this typically uses.
also, ext4 is basically the fat32 of linux, we use btrfs now

>>105956871
>>105956923
>>105956884
Yeah, it's definitely related to ext4. The total available space on my 1TB with ext4 is 915 vs 932 with NTFS. However my nvme SSD shows both 930gb available with BTRFS and NTFS.

So why is ext4 eating so much more space? I only used the default Gnome Disk settings when partitioning it.

>>105956923
>>105956825
by this i mean ext4 is the 'ol reliable' standard filesystem, but lacks modern features. it's an extended version of ext3, which is ext2 with a journal
in terms of actual functionality, ext2 is more like the fat32 of linux, so i suppose it's more apt to call ext4 the exfat of linux in terms of being an enhanced version of an old standard (though still not in terms of features, since even exfat doesn't have a journal)

>>105953881
Better gaming support
Better privacy
Better hardware/software compatibility (You can get photoshop to work with some versions of WINE, and most hardware just works when you plug it in)
Better customization/personalization
More variety in available software/hardware

Performance might be same, better or worse, depends. Multi-monitor support is also a bit jank sometimes but should work for the most part. Mac absolutely sucks for gaming though, don't get a mac for gaming unless you know the game you want to play is already supported.

>>105956913
What don't you like about it?

>>105956981
The 2 main reasons I didn't want to use btrfs was because of horror stories of it killing data (I do backups) but also that you have to reserve 10% of the drive for it to work properly which I don't want to do on my HDDs for mass storage.

>>105956933
it was made in a different time. remember all the memes about how much better ext4 was at avoiding fragmentation than ntfs? one of the reasons was because ext4 preallocated inodes ahead of time, it uses more space initially, and can even waste space if it creates way more inodes than needed (hence the format time options to configure this). filesystems are a complicated field and even ext4 was still made for hdd's

>>105957015
>horror stories of it killing data
10 years ago, sure
>you have to reserve 10% of the drive for it to work properly
also 10 years ago, sure

and i would know, because i first started using it in 2014, i know exactly what you're talking about, but it is actually very solid these days, even when running out of space entirely, it's been a long time since i've had to boot a livecd to do a balance because i fucked up and got it down to 0 bytes left

>>105956709
Wait, I was wrong, the log doesn't say anything if nothing was detected, in fact it doesn't even create a log. There is no log. How do I even know the scan took place lol? I don't know what it's actually doing. It could just be playing an animation while it 'scans', for all I know. I'd have to check the source code myself to find out what it's actually doing. There's no reviews for it yet, either.

>>105950927
>baloo extract went crazy again
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH LINUX. My SSD read 1tb and wrote 200gb before I caught it and turned off the indexer.

>>105957064
It's doing exactly what you allowed it to do.

>>105957015
>>105957044
and yes, i do mean i've lost data to btrfs (very early on) and also had unbootable systems due to running entirely out of space (a little less early on). and even i still recommend btrfs now. the features it provides were just too good so i persisted. i have backups as well, but i haven't had to use them in ages. it sucks btrfs still carries this stigma, and i do get it, it's a filesystem, reliability is crucial, but it's good now, really.

>>105953326
>i need Wayland support
for what? hdr?

Any of you run Windows on a VM? Iwant to run Excel with VBA macros, what's the tiniest/leanest ISO/version available that's compatible with Office 2019 at minimum? I don't plan to grant it more than 4GBs and two cores to that PoS
>>105957158
That and some annoying wake up on suspend bug that turned off my second monitor but never figured out, happened with two different monitors. Shit works on Plasma's Wayland session. I miss XFCE and Cinnamon though, something about Plasma puts me off but can't pin point what.

Speaking of Plasma, what's the use case of Dolphin's file search? Is completely useless, can barely fetch the contents of the current directory sometimes. I ended adding a shortcut to launch KFind instead (works hundreds of times better).

>>105957388
Plasma is pretentious and works too hard to be 'modern', Cinnamon is unpretentious. I like how blocky default cinnamon is, makes it easy to adjust.

>>105957064
>WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH LINUX
It does exactly what the user tells it to do. Unfortunately the users are prone to not knowing what they're asking for.

about to switch from windows on my gaming pc now that proton has improved so much. Thinking of going Debian, any other suggestions on what I should run full time?

>>105957438
Man if you're going to use Debian you might as well go to Mint.

>>105957447
I've never used mint, what is better about mint over debian?

>>105957458
Better out of the box experience, slightly more frequent updates, just overall a better package IMHO.

>>105957478
I'll try it out. I run AMD graphics I'm assuming AMD cards run well in mint?

>>105957490
Yeah you're good. Even if you had Nvidia you could just open the built-in Driver Updater and downloaded the official Nvidia drivers there.

>>105957505
Perfect. I'm excited to finally ditch windows. My gaming pc is the last windows device in my house always held out due to games. But fuck windows

>>105957529
Glad for you, just make sure you understand what you're going into, the basics of Linux (like basic terminal commands, what Sudo is, etc.), the different ways you can install the same program compared to Windows, and that some games just will not run due to anti-cheat issues

>>105957550
Yeah I know, I do run fedora in my living room (it's user friendly for my fiancee) and a laptop I've distro hopped a bit on but mainly run debian. I also am autistic and play like three games total so those according to protondb run well enough so they say. That was the final push for me

What is this update in kubuntu?
>nvidia-575-64-03 org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-575-64-03

nvidia-smi says my driver is 575.64.03 already and in "software sources" the additional nvidia driver is the top one (open kernel, proprietary, tested). Will the formerly mentioned update fuck everything up and install the dogshit nouveau driver or what?

>>105957764
Looks like it's for Snap or Flatpak. If you updated your NVIDIA driver recently then you have to update the corresponding runtime because unlike Mesa, NVIDIA shits itself if your host system has a different GPU driver to the driver running inside of a container.

>>105957784
I haven't updated any nvidia driver stuff since I installed kubuntu about a month ago. I just selected the current driver I have (after learning the nouveau one is a meme) and used every since because it was the latested one available.

what is the /g/ approved distro of choice?

>>105957804
Then "installed it for the first time" (for all intents and purposes that's the same as if you'd had an update).

>>105957849
BingusOS

Arch sisters...
We got too cocky...

>>105957849
hannah montana linux

>>105953171
>debian
you haven't heard have you?
is diddlian now

install.... gento

see here follow this guys recipe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_50MJv4Dc40

>>105957849

>>105952943
you can install cinnamon in something else than mint you know...

though I praise these irish faggots for it.. I think is going out the window

>>105957388
I have one for civilization 2 I think, which I bought waiting for civ 7.. which is anus aids and I didn'te ven bother

I usually got one of these from ms with visual studio that lasts 3 months or so.. sigh I used to live in visual studio...

>>105957158
>i need Wayland support
not him, but I like how smooth stuff moves/animates on the desktop in Ubuntu/Fedora, and both of those use Wayland. Mint looks/feels a bit choppy and sluggish in comparison. It's not the biggest issue, everything else still works fine (better even, that's why I went back to it), but man it would be nice if the desktop felt more sleek and modern. It feels so good to click, open, and move stuff in Ubuntu and Fedora.

>>105958094
nta. Is there any truth to this? I tried mint then went to kubuntu for unrelated reasons but the mouse feels much better than it did on mint.

>>105958032
What did you use to setup the VM? Just stock W10Pro ISO?

Is it true most Steam games are borked if you use Wayland?

is distrotube a chud? i'm getting big chud vibes.

>>105958301
Why would they?

only a single program which is an appimage not sure if its relevant is using a different output audio stream (through my monitor's speakers rather than my headphones) with pulseaudio how can i fix this? it does not appear in pavucontrol

I'm confused now, Debian Sid and Arch are both rolling, but Arch has everything set to the latest version even the kernel. Does it matter that much if Debian Sid is a few versions behind Arch in terms of programs and applications?

>>105955663
I have no idea what you're trying to do. Use Bottles or Lutris like everyone else.

Hey all newbie here. I got a old gaming laptop (dell inspiron 7577 with gtx 1060) and put Nobara on it, but wanted to something different as people said its more for higher end hardware. Any recommendations?

>>105958518
I mean, does Nobara work fine? If yes, why switch?

>>105955792
It should launch games in 1-10 seconds, depending on your hardware. If it's taking a full minute (or more) I assume you have a very slow HDD or an *extremely* underpowered PC. Even my 4GB RAM dual core laptop could open WINE games in just a few seconds.
There might just be something wrong with your software.

>>105956123
I use Bottles because it's the easiest to use. Lutris is only easy if you're using the 1-click install scripts, but from my experience they either don't exist for some of my games (or the specific versions of my games) or they just don't work. So at that point it's pointless to use it. (Although I haven't tried it in a little over a year, so it's possible it got better)
I don't use Heroic because I don't use game launchers (Epic, GOG). I just assumed it was a launcher for launchers.

>>105956285
Bazzite if you play video games at all, Aurora if you don't.

>>105957438
>Debian
>now that proton has improved so much
Debian is an LTS distro. It's not made for desktops, it's for servers. It doesn't have any new features added to Linux in the past 2-3 years. It's not going to be a good desktop or gaming experience unless you're a very specific type of user.
Just use Bazzite if you're a gamer. There's literally no better option and the only thing close to it is Nobara.

>>105958406
>Does it matter that much if Debian Sid is a few versions behind Arch in terms of programs and applications?
Not really, but if you're picking between the 3 popular rolling release "base" distros (Arch, Fedora, Debian), Debian is literally the worst option.

>>105958518
It's fine for your hardware.

>>105957849
BlendOS
CloverOS
Sourcemage

>>105958228
everything is composited on wayland by default, which often means smooth stuff, shadows, blur, vsync, etc
x11 environments might opt not to use a compositor or keep it at the minimum (for example just vsync to avoid tearing)
compositors are required for wayland to display anything but are optional for x11, which mostly work as eye candy

>>105958406
The more "up to date" you are, the higher the risks of instability and having to wait for a patch instead of simply getting a patched, functional version. This applies to everything.
If they were completely stable nobody would bother to maintain old versions and everyone would jump to the latest releases

Anyone know a good decent budget laptop that's compatible with Linux?

My only requirements other than compatibility is for it to have at least 8gigabytes of ram, a decent processor and graphics card, 512 gigabyes SSD, and a decent battery, all for under 500$

>>105958924
>The more "up to date" you are, the higher the risks of instability
This isn't really true, you know. Just because some distros pin software versions, doesn't mean that the software is stable at all.
>If they were completely stable nobody would bother to maintain old versions and everyone would jump to the latest releases
You have no idea what people mean when they say "stable". Stability in LTS distros explicitly and exclusively means "the APIs don't change - there's no new features added and no features removed". It's just a thing developers and sysadmins care about because they don't want to have to constantly update and maintain server software and servers. It has nothing to do with desktop stability or usability.

>>105958949
Can't you just add all those parameters to the search filters of a few of your local stores? Anything that doesn't have nVidia in it should work fine.

>tell chatgpt it's wrong about something
>it apologizes
>tell google gemini it's wrong about something
>it defies me and try to gaslight me into thinking I'm the one who is wrong

>>105953842
I use arch and i happen to be a girl haha

>>105959155
trans "women" don't count

>>105959195
yeah that's true they need help, what's your point?

>>105956729
How is that different from Debian?

i've been on stock ubuntu for a few months now, gonna have to reinstall linux on a newer ssd, should i go for cachyos? i just came back to the linux world and i already fell for the manjaro meme 10 years ago and it made me quit

>>105959255
Install arch its the best

>>105959268
already did 10 years ago and didnt like the tinkertranny hole it put you in, also it broke once when i updated the kernel

>>105959292
>it broke once when i updated the kernel
the el classico
Updates bricking your installation is part of the Arch experience.

>>105959292
I can only open your eyes if you are willing to see, otherwise you will see nothing but eternal darkness.

>>105959214
real women don't browse 4chan, stop roleplaying

>>105959255
>>105959292
CachyOS isn't really known as an easy or stable OS. If you're disliking Arch and Manjaro this much, better stay away from Cachy imo. It's also an OS for tinkerers.
If you're happy with Ubuntu just stay on it. If you want a distro which doesn't break when you update it, then look into immutable ones like Silverblue, Kinoite, Aurora, Bazzite, etc.

>>105959366
if im being honest i am actually into feet, it turns me on more than tits or ass but i dont really like gnome, that's why i was eyeing cachyos, also thought about mint but that's not wayland and i heard you have to be a moron not to be on wayland now

Is it possible to disable window rules in KDE for specific applications? I enjoy having the opacity set to 93% at all times but it's obviously not suitable for certain uses like gaming or video players. Is it possible to exclude specific applications from the opacity somehow?

I know that it’s possible to apply on a per-app basis through window rules but I can’t figure out if the opposite is possible, to exclude certain applications. It should apply to window rules in general so the question isn’t really specific to opacity either.

>>105958949
Used business class laptops. Don't fixate on the handful of popular Thinkpad models.

>>105959404
Yes. You can apply window rules to all windows by just using a catch all regular expression. Then, you can do one of the following:
- make individual window rules which override your global, catch all rule
- modify the regex in your global rule to exclude the window types you want excluded (I think this is what you want)
If you don't know regex you can ask a random AI bot "Help me create a regular expression that matches everything except for specific words"
I believe that should do it, unless I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to do.

>>105959490
Ah, so you mean that I could create two conflicting window rules and that the specific one always overrides the general rule? I never thought about that, didn’t realise it was possible but that’s a great idea if it works as intended!

Semi-related question: how does it define an application? Let’s say I want to launch a game using Steam which is essentially just a store/launcher. If I apply a window rule to Steam for example, will it automatically apply to any applications which are in turn launched by the launcher or will you need to create a new rule for every game/application launched by it?

>>105952943
use whatever works, im not sure what DE /g/ doesn't hate at this point

I've looked everywhere for this, but most answers online already assume I've run Windows already.
I have a Vivobook that I intend to tinker around with. I haven't used it yet, but it obviously has Windows pre-installed. Is there a way for me to install Linux on it without having to resort to using Windows long enough to have to interact with its AI slop that tracks me?

>>105959536
>If I apply a window rule to Steam for example, will it automatically apply to any applications which are in turn launched by the launcher
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure games are launched as separate windows with their own properties/rules.
But, if you're mainly playing games using Proton, I think you can target them with the "steam_proton" Window class. So, you'd only need a single rule for all proton games. Not sure how native games behave, perhaps they also have a shared Window class like steam_runtime or something. You'll have to check that, I'm currently not on my gaming PC so I can't look it up.

>I could create two conflicting window rules and that the specific one always overrides the general rule?
Yes, I believe you can order your rules and whichever comes in last would override the first. It should work for transparency, I think.
If it doesn't work, you could always just use a single rule where you just exclude specific windows through regex. For example:
>^(?!.*steam_proton).*
That should match all windows as long as they don't have "steam_proton" in their Window class. (My regex is a bit rusty, so maybe it's wrong)

>>105959666
Sure, you can just create a live USB installer using a different PC (https://etcher.balena.io/) or using your Android device (https://etchdroid.app/). Then just plug in that USB and boot directly into Linux, without ever going into Windows.

>handbrake is worse on Linux than Windows
The fuck

>>105959705
Thank you so much! I didn't think it'd be so easy to install it through a live USB, but this seems doable :)

Anons, how good is cachyOS? i'm planning to switch from mint to cachyOS

>>105959808
Are you fine with tinkering and maintaining your OS? Are you fine with Arch sometimes being broken after an update?
If the answer is "no", then CachyOS isn't for you.

>>105959882
>Are you fine with Arch sometimes being broken after an update?
Using it since 2023, hasn't broken once. Just don't use the AUR, the AUR is how you break Arch.

>>105959808
But why cachy? why not just use arch?

just installed kubuntu-desktop and did a bit of tinkering, looks better than gnome, what am i missing?

>>105959926
>why not just use arch?
Convenience, I assume. The same reason you'd use Arch instead of Linux From Scratch. Not everyone wants to turn installing and managing their OS into a second job.

Anybody with an rx9070(xt) here that can help me figure out whether I have a hardware defect?
When having the 9070xt plugged in, I get errors when running mprime or, for example, the CPU/memory test in OCCT.
But ONLY when in a graphical session, and only when maxing out all threads on my CPU. If I turn off my e-cores, then maxing out the remaining cores causes the same issues, so it's not a defect of individual cores.
I could not manage to make this happen in windows, and it happens much more seldomly using the cachyOS kernel. I presume this is because of the different scheduler.
Now I'm not sure whether this is some freak race condition in the driver or a hardware issue. I do not have this problem when using a different GPU though, and I have the issue with two different rx9070's.
Can someone here check how the behavior on his PC is?

um... is it me or did they improve gaymen performance in kernel 6.15.6?
I'm replaying Jedi Survivor and it seems A LOT smoother, but the frame rate is about the same.

I'm having a bit of an issue with i3
gaps inner 4px
smart_borders on

Currently a single window triggers the gaps anyway which pretty annoying. Anyone knows how to solve this?
I recall using i3 in a different pc but i dont remember having this issue

>>105960026
im a retard and forgot to add smart_gaps for some reason

>>105959926
It's easier to install and made for gaming, i'm planning to switch because of that

>>105960129
>cachy
>made for gaming
It's not really a gaming distro

>>105960129
>It's easier to install
That's true
>made for gaming
That's not it man, there's no distro 'made for gaming' they just pre-installed shits for you and that's it

>>105959882
>>105959904
Arch never broke for me as long as you read the announcement page before randomly doing pacman -Syu

>>105960158
>>105960168
cachy uses the newest kernel and optimizes it for gaming.

>>105959730
In what way? Also you could just use ffmpeg. If you need to know which flags to use you can google it.

>>105960301
special snowflake kernels aren't going to make your gaymes any faster than arch's normal kernel

>>105960198
>as long as you read the announcement page
Yeah, no. That's fucking retarded. An "announcement" of a potentially breaking update should happen within the OS or the updater itself, not on a shitty website which will only be visited by maybe 1%-5% of the users.

>>105960301
>uses the newest kernel
So does literally any other Arch-based or Fedora-based distro.
>optimizes it for gaming
It's not necessarily optimized for gaming. And you won't have any performance benefits over most other distros.
I don't think getting a non-guaranteed 1%-3% better performance is worth the headache of using a potentially unstable distro.
>inb4 where's the source that it doesn't perform better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Giois6VtLPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYf3EijSoNY
It's clearly equal to Bazzite and Nobara. And at that point it's better to just use Bazzite as it's the most reliable of the bunch.
The creators of these distros are all in the same Discord groups and they constantly cooperate and share improvements.

>>105960415
>An "announcement" of a potentially breaking update should happen within the OS or the updater itself
You're kidding right?
This what -Pww do

>>105960415
Fine, i guess i'll use bazzite

>>105960464
>-Pww
I have no idea what this even means, anon. If it's not in a GUI then it doesn't exist to over 90% of people.
Simply put, when you click on "Install updates" or whatever the GUI equivalent is on your DE, the "announcement" pop-up warning should show. If it doesn't, then Arch is just a badly configured distro.
Some people have jobs outside of fucking around with their OS.

>>105960539
>GUI
Why are you even using linux then?

>>105960550
>Nooo! You can't just use an OS which just works! You have to waste your life away fucking around with CLI and manually setting up every single thing in all the software you use! If you don't do this you're not using Linux correctly!

>>105960568
>waste your life away fucking around with CLI
You're baiting at this point.
And there is GUI option I just didn't know about it.
So what's you excuse now?

>>105960550
if you want a non-troll answer:
- I find it a lot easier to use than Windows and MacOS
- Every popular Linux DE is much better than whatever the fuck Windows is doing
- It doesn't bake in spyware
- It doesn't have DRM and it's free as in beer
- It's much faster than Windows in day-to-day use
I'm just using the least shit option.

>>105957123
>>105957431
No, it's some weird bug. If I index a drive individually it works fine. However some weird bug where if I'm running freefilesync to transfer files from 2 different drives and then start indexing a third drive then baloo spergs out. It starts writing and reading at full speed for hundreds of gigs, while indexing the same drive while not running freefilesync it didn't put the ssd on full blast and only wrote like 2-3 gigs before finishing up normally.

>>105960593
>You're baiting at this point.
I'm just responding to your bait:
>using a GUI makes it questionable why you're using Linux at all
This was probably the dumbest thing I've read in this thread.

>>105954261
Fedora is not rolling you illiterate asshole

>>105960677
>gets kernel, driver and (K)DE updates immediately
>gets app updates immediately via flatpak/appimage
>not rolling release
Just because it has a version number doesn't mean it's not rolling release.

>>105960539
>Simply put, when you click on "Install updates" or whatever the GUI equivalent is on your DE
Using packagekit bloat on Arch is unsupported. They even disabled support for gnome-software

>>105952712 (OP)
Am I going to be in for a bad time taking my nvme which contains Arch Linux from my 6700k mobo and putting it in an AM5 mobo? I figure the most I need to do is update my fstab. For my windows dual boot, I think that is going to have more problems

>>105958416
I tried bottles and lutris, both failed.

>>105958582
Fedora isn't rolling release you putrid nigger

>>105960710
You are the most retarded gorilla nigger on /g/

>>105960710
They allow major changes for select stuff (kernels, drivers including nvidia, DE stuff), but non critical software doesnt get the same privileges. Wine, for example, has been stuck at 10.4 (staging) which is what was available at the time they released the new fedora version i think, meanwhile 10.8 (also staging) is available through wine frontends.
In this particular case it doesnt matter thanks to flatpaks/frontends, but you get the picture.

>>105960994
>>105961095
It's an unstable rolling release distro that breaks all the time

>Arch
>install Bottles & Lutris
>Torrent CO: Expedition 33
Now what the fuck do I need to do to get this game to run?

>>105961130
some google magic, probably

>>105960994
What is it then smart nigger?

>>105961130
I bought it on Steam and it works fine out of the box albeit

>>105961130
1. run the installer exe through bottles
2. run the resulting game exe through bottles (same prefix)
3. ???
4. profit

>>105961172
It's better to install pre-installed games, not a game that comes embedded into a setup

>>105961170
I will not give my money to the french

>>105961172
do I need to install different runners?

>>105961697
I would use the latest proton-ge-custom as your bottle's runner.

>>105959982
>rx9070
AMDGPU is unreliable as fuck. Better off making an issue on the drm/amd https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues tracker.

>>105961705
run the setup.exe, little notifcation says launching and then nothing happens.

>>105958582
>3 popular rolling release "base" distros (Arch, Fedora, Debian)
Tumbleweed not popular enough to make it in that list?

>>105961908
Not particularly. It's pretty underground compared.

>>105960710
i think you'll find that's exactly what it means.

>>105961705
>>105961886
deleted the bottle and made a new one, got further now but what the fuck are these drives, mine are called sda1 and sdb2

>>105959941
Nothing. KDE is more like Windows than Gnome is so Windows users are more likely to feel at home with it.

>>105961926
These are the wine prefix Windows folders.

>>105961940
Am I supposed to pick a specific one? it was set to the Z drive but that is root.

>>105961946
I guess find where your home is located and install it within a "games" folder?

>>105961962
only option of those drives was :C and it gave me this error. Fuck this is annoying.

>>105961908
it isnt popular for a reason or another but i've heard it werks pretty alright
maybe one day i'll test it if my current install shits itself somehow

New thread >>105962083

>>105961985
Create the bottle, move the repack inside of it (on drive_c) and the run it

>>105961946
just change the "Z:" to a "C:" in fitgirl repacks. for some reason it seems to like to pick the highest letter. it's not a wine issue either because even in my windows VM it likes to default to "T:", which is my small %TEMP% ramdisc

>>105961123
>Wine, for example, has been stuck at 10.4
Sure, but Wine is managed by Lutris, Bottles or Steam. There's no reason to use Wine versions provided by your distro.

>>105961908
No. openSUSE is obscure as fuck outside of some businesses.