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Previous thread: >>105952712

First

by posting in this thread you denounce anime

Bottles was complete dog shit so I'll guess I can try Lutris now.
What a surprise, more errors
I'm tired boss.....

>>105962137
Like I was saying on the other thread I think this has to do with sandboxing, try to create the prefix, move the repack in and run it from there (the virtual C drive)

>>105962083 (OP)
gee timmy, how come your maintainer lets you have TWO taskbars

>>105962137
turn on your brain and you'll be able to solve it

Any of you of you penguin appreciators use Sunshine to stream vidya?

Is there ANY good way to do it headless/on a virtual monitor without using a wl-roots based compositor OR using a dummy plug?

I just want stream shit to to my steam deck and be able to use my desktop at the same time for reasons

I feel like it's sort of an open issue without a good resolution on it but it's kinda mind blowing to me that it's not a working feature already

>>105962137
tried not using krashde

>>105962231
So to be clear - not truly headless. I just want to use my monitor with my DE but have an app running on some virtual monitor which sunshine is streaming from to my client

>>105962137
run the setup through steam with proton, always worked for me.

Anyone ever have their battle.net look like this? Just installed it using fargus launcher

>>105962189
That's the problem, I shouldn't have to turn my brain on to play a game.
For example >>105962317 lmao

>>105962242
Well why the FUCK didn't anyone say I could just add the setup.exe to Steam. I only ever see Bottles, Wine, Lutrus mentioned. Thanks for this anon, the setup is now running without any errors with Ge-Proton 10-10 through Steam.

>>105962137
>>105962317
linux gamers are mentally ill

>>105962330
Steam is proprietary

>>105962107
Holy based

>>105962137
>>105962317
We were supposed to be able to easily game now bros…. /fwt/ is laughing at us

Getting crashes lately on lutris only when I am picking an .exe file in the file chooser. Anybody experience this before? Not home atm so cannot recreate it right now but i suspect the fact that i run a patched gtk3 might have something to do with it... never happened once during so many years

>>105962330
no prob, enjoy. for stuff that really doesn't need bottle's aggressive sandboxing I find steam does the job quite well, it's not just for games

>>105962379
womp womp

>>105962137
I'm not a basement-dwelling incel, I have friends, I have a girlfriend, I have a social life; that is why I have no time to waste on Linux.

Just use what works for everything, Windows, and enjoy the time it makes available to enjoy life.

>>105962330
>>105962338
>>105962477
Switching from nvidia-open to the propriety driver fixed it. I hate this company

Ok, I'll say it! The archinstall script is the best, most intuitive, user-friendly ISO installer of any distro that I've tried. I've gone on a bit of distro-hopping spree and some the installers I've tried have ranged from "can't see shit tiny GUI", to "choices arranged in most confusing way possible," to "holy-shit-whoever-made-this-has-literal-autism" Debian is the worst and is guilty of all of these.
On the other hand the archinstall was fast, labeled and ordered clearly, and most important everything worked as you would expect. they took into consideration many types of user error, too.

9/10 would use again.

>>105963001
>Nvidia
lmao

>>105962993
I had trouble with bottles when I first used it, but once I figured out a few key concepts it has been the most 'turn your brain off and install' gaming solution for me, more so then Lutris.

My first mistake was not using the flatpak.

The second was not realizing bottles has a database built-in to the app full of windows dependencies. In fact I realized all my issues were coming from missing windows dependencies and no longer experienced issues. There are even several presets for certain apps that auto-install dependencies for you.

The last mistake I was making was not realizing that very new runners can cause issues. I was having issues with an old VST plugin and changing to an older version of a runner fixed it.

I have a launcher for a game that is an AppImage. Annoyingly, it does not have an option to select the download location for your game files. This means that it's only seeing the partition where the AppImage is being mounted on, namely, / (because /tmp is in /). This also means I can't download the game because there isn't enough space left in the root partition. Meanwhile I have near 1TB free space elsewhere

How do I make the AppImage mount to a custom location?

whats the use case for openmandriva? it seems to use dnf, comes with kde out of the box and uses systemd.
i mean, its community driven and based on an older distro, but is there any reason to not just use fedora?

I’m too retarded for Linux. I’d rather spend 3 hours playing a game than 3 hours trying to get the game to run.

Will SteamOS fix this? It’s my only hope.

>>105963354
>It’s my only hope.
if you want things to work and game just stay on winblows.

>>105963377
I lasted 3 days on Linux at least there’s that!

>>105962137
I haven't installed a repack in a long time in lutris, but I remember it being weird.

One thing I tried was adding the installer as a locally installed game and then running the installer as a game, then fixing the where the exe pointed. But I think weird things happened.

What I did that worked IIRC was create a folder for the game. "Add a locally installed game", do not select an executable, but select that folder I made as the wine prefix.
Then choose the option to "run .exe inside wine prefix" from the wine glass at the bottom when you have the game selected. And choose the fit-girl installer and install in that same folder. Finally, select the game .exe and it should work.

>>105963354
If you don't have the patience to futz with a game until it works, I can't imagine Windows gaming being significantly better.

>>105963354
Are you the anon trying to run Expedition 33?
It would be far easier to by the game on steam and run it. But if you want to use an installer made by a Russian packaging group pretending to be a single girl in a Linux game launcher it is going to take some finagling.

should I download from AUR or flatpak if both are available there?

>>105963904
AUR is usually either a binary install link or a build script while a flatpak of something is just the program served up to you in a sandbox environment that need to download hundreds of megabytes of to-be-shared libraries to use first time if it's either a GTK or Qt program.

>>105963824
I have tried playing cracked version of Expedition 33 and it ran just fine using Bottles. running from Steam would obviously makes thing far easier

>>105963933
If you know the process why does it take you 3 hours to get things running still? What problems are you having?

>>105963904
I prefer AUR. I would rather have small package sizes and better system integration than the sandboxing and security benefits of flatpaks.
PKGBUILDS are easy to read and you really don't even need to read the ones for the popular entries.

>>105963904
If the provider is the same person then I'll always go with the native option. If both are handled by someone who isnt the dev then I might just compile the thing or download the binary from git and toss it into /opt instead
Maybe one day i'll learn how to use my package manager for that instead

>>105963904
theoretically flatpak is better but making it actually secure is a huge pain in the ass. so do whatever floats your boat. benefit of AUR is not having to deal with two package managers

>>105963963
I'm not that anon. he probably doesn't know he need to copy the whole cracked folder into coe33's bottles directory to get the installer working properly

>>105964008
Plus if you install your AUR packages using paru or yay you can just treat AUR packages like pacman packages.

>>105963216
Extract the AppImage under /opt/<name>.
>>105963050
Installers are such an utter memes I learned to manually install any distribution. You either do it by extracting a root filesystem tarball or by bootstrapping via the package manager.

>>105963050
>archinstall
You mean the instructions on the website?

>>105964120
>Extract the AppImage under /opt/<name>
How?
Also, can I do it under an arbitrary path instead of /opt? Because this would not fix my issue, since /opt is already in root and the installer would complain about no space here too

>>105964034
>AUR
Nice try fed, AUR is a fed honeypot to trick people into installing malware

>>105964139
IIRC --appimage-extract parameter.
>can I do it under an arbitrary path instead of /opt?
Yes.
>>105964130
Heard the installation guide is kinda vague and therefore not very newbie friendly. But again: manual installations are largely similar regardless the distribution in question.

>>105964163
This did extract the appimage to a squashfs-root directory in-place, but it still doesn't solve the issue of actually running it where I need it to run. When I run the executables inside the squashfs dir, it still only sees the / partition, it seems

>>105963216
>a launcher for a game that is an AppImage.
why would they do such bullshit?

I'm using hyprland as my first WM. It's a really neat experience. I don't know if it's a daily driver for me, but I have it as the only GUI on this laptop and its a cool experience. I can't decide if I like the hyprpanal AUR I have with it. It's very beautiful, but also maybe defeats the point of a WM to some extent.

Going full linux again for the first time in years is the most fun I've had just using the PC without a video game in so long. Finding time for it again has been like rediscovering my hobby despite coding on linux for my 9-5 anyway. I'm really thankful that Proton is so strong these days and I don't really have to pick between two hobbies on limited adult time now. AI tools being able to give me straight answers when I'm confused about a doc has been great too. When its been wrong, its been obviously wrong so I haven't had to worry about it fucking my system up.

>>105964365
They're kinda retarded I guess

It's for a WoW private server. I normally would just use the windows launcher and call it a day, except that bullshit won't even open with lutris/umu/proton either. So both avenues block me somehow.

The hilarious part is that the game itself runs fine. It's just this webshit launcher that's giving me trouble. It handles mods/addons/tweaks, so it's kind of important sadly.

>>105955559
are you trying to install it to a non-unix filesystem? wine prefixes use symlinks so won't work on some filesystems like smb network shares or fat32/exfat drives

I think I love hyprland bros, I've been trying to go back to my old faithful xfce a few times and try to customize it, but jakoolit's hyprland has been the coziest env I've used.

Is this autism?

>>105962137
worked for me, idk what you guys are doing
never heard of this game

>>105964485
>>105962159
no need to move the installer, i installed it right off my nas network share

When gaming on Linux, due to having to use a compatibility layer such as Proton, would it be beneficial to have an 8 core over a 6 core CPU (AMD)?

>>105964640
having less cores can only be beneficial of those cares have more power.
I doubt that's the case for your 6core option.

>>105962330
>That's the problem, I shouldn't have to turn my brain on to play a game.
You're pirating it with a shitty tranny repack. That's on you. Just use heroic launcher and get protonup-qt.

>>105964640
Not really, no. If you can play it on Windows with 6 core, you can play it on Linux with 6 core. If not, well you probably can't play it on either.

>>105964741
don't go to https://wiki.installgentoo.com/

>>105962083 (OP)
How do I know if it is a hardware gayming PC problem or a Linux problem? And how do I check if it is the case?

I'm not a tech savvy guy but I did try out Linux on an AMD gayming PC I built after trying out Linux Mint (cinnamon) in virtual box and decided to make the switch.
Sometimes even when playing 10+ year old games I get freezes that causes the system to reset to login.
And other times I could just be browsing the web and suddenly my system freezes and I get a corrupt screen.
This has persisted through different Linux installations so I feel like it might be a hardware problem. If so what is likely the culprit?

>>105964741
Alright, that's what I needed to know. Thanks.

>>105964757
Same distro every install? Have you run memtest86? Have you run prime95?

>>105964748
cool site, I'm following the vape guide atm

>>105964377
>>105963216
>>105964120
Nevermind, I got the windows launcher to work. I upgraded to GE-Proton-10-10 and that did it. AppImage was just useless in the end

>>105964748
AH, YOU GOT ME! LOL! HAHAHAHAHA LOOOOOOL LOL! XDDD :D

Just migrated from Arch to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Feels very comfy

>>105964771
>same disto every install
Yep, but I'll admit I mostly use Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition. So maybe I'll try just Ubuntu and see how that goes.
>Have you run memtest6?
>Have you run prime95
Never heard of them, I said I am not a tech savvy guy.

>>105964960
I should also mention that I am open to as many ways to test if it is a hardware problem rather than a software problem. I want to rule out things and get to the root of the problem.

>>105964960
memtest86 is standard tool for memory testing used by everyone, Windows users too. It's included on the arch install ISO and also has its own standalone bootable ISO. Dunno if any other install ISOs include it. It tests memory stability and CPU stability at low load.
mprime/prime95 is typically used for CPU stability testing by overclockers under ultra high load.

And you'd be better served trying something a bit different like Fedora or Endeavour/CachyOS. Ubuntu and Mint use all the same drivers and kernel I think.

>>105963904
Flatpaks have basically become the standard nowadays.

>>105964984
>And you'd be better served trying something a bit different like Fedora
I'll give fedora a try and report back if I am experiencing the same problems.
I have a feeling that it is not a case of if but when.

You may not like it but the best of all worlds is Windows 11 + WSL

Yeah Windows has flaws but at least you can run any game you want, even ones with anti-cheat.

>>105964757
This is the age old question. Very difficult to figure out generally.
Your best option is to find some way to reproduce your issues, then to see if you can reproduce them on windows as well. If not, it's unlikely to be a hardware fault.
Dmesg logs can help you figure out whether other people have the same problems.
And as the other guys mentioned, if you get errors using memtest, you definitely have hardware issues. Keep in mind there's two versions of memtest, one propietary, one open source. I'd use the latter.
With tests like mprime/prime95 it's tricky. In my case, I got errors on linux, but none on windows. So the jury's still out on whether my hardware works properly. I just live with it.

>>105964984
>>105965032
>>105965371
Got the Fedora XFCE spin because I have seen a lot of KDE "krashes" memes.
Oddly enough it feels like the FPS on youtube videos is a bit slow not sure about that.

Anyways I'm right now searching for the timeshift function for Fedora, and the software manager for Fedora. Tried to install flatpaks through the sudo dnf terminal function but didn't get anything I'll keep looking.

>>105962137
>getting filtered.
Dude just use the soda runner.

>>105965397
>Oddly enough it feels like the FPS on youtube videos is a bit slow not sure about that.
Maybe your browser isn't using GPU hardware accelerated video decoding. Getting that set up should be straightforward on Firefox (I got it working myself). It's also apparently possible on Chromium browsers but I don't think I ever got it working.

>Tried to install flatpaks through the sudo dnf terminal function but didn't get anything I'll keep looking.
Can dnf install Flatpaks? On Debian based distros you have to use the flatpak CLI to install Flatpaks. E.g. `flatpak install org.mozilla.firefox`.

>>105965397
I typed in "sudo dnf install gnome-software" into terminal and now I have the software centre to update and hopefully get timeshift and an updater like in Linux Mint set up.

>>105965515 see >>105965534
I think enabling GPU hardware accelerating will just cause garbled text to appear on my screen when typing or reading text on webpages so maybe I'll just put up with the lower FPS of Youtube videos. I am tired I will admit.

Currently trying to update stuff on Fedora and I'm stuck on pic related.
About how long should I wait until there may be a suspected problem?

How can I set the default file picker on X? Some applications open easytag as a file picker :p

How do I setup an ancient version of Arch that predates what the archive hosts?

>>105964757
>Sometimes even when playing 10+ year old games I get freezes that causes the system to reset to login.
>And other times I could just be browsing the web and suddenly my system freezes and I get a corrupt screen.
>This has persisted through different Linux installations
probably a bad gpu

>>105965397
>I have seen a lot of KDE "krashes" memes
Those memes are being pushed by a schizo Indian upset that LXDE is the only DE that works on his OLPC. Pic related.

>>105965654
You'd probably have to clone all the arch packages' git repos and build everything yourself.

>>105965664
>probably a bad gpu
Gigabyte GPUs are bad? Hopefully not and hoping it was a mint problem. I'm trying out Fedora right now.

The Installations from the gnome software center are taking so long. Must be my shit internet.

>>105965667
i take offense to the comment about the age of his pc. kde plasma works just fine on my 2008 thinkpad thank you very much

>>105965397
>KDE "krashes" memes
That's because people are trying to use KDE in distros which don't properly package it or update it. KDE is only bad in Debian, Ubuntu, and other distros based on these two.
KDE on Fedora works just fine.

>>105965397
>>105965565
>FPS on youtube videos is a bit slow not sure about that.
>maybe I'll just put up with the lower FPS of Youtube videos
You could always just redirect youtube videos into mpv or vlc with an addon.
Or just copy video links and open an empty mpv window, then Ctrl+V. It'll use youtube-dl or yt-dlp to stream the video into your media player. It should be much more performant than your web browser.

>>105965679
India-kun is just an idiot then lol

>>105965677
>The Installations from the gnome software center are taking so long. Must be my shit internet.
No, GNOME Software is just slow as fuck.

>>105965683
well we already knew that

>>105965687
>working as intended
Thanks anon. I appreciate the peace of mind.

>>105965680
Alright well I'm currently messing around in Fedora XFCE because I want my DE to take up the least amount of resources. That's it.
That and I did some gaming and I plan on doing some 3D hobbyist stuff in Blender.

>>105964757
Keep a bootable Windows install and test shit there. If it works on Windows then it might be a Linux problem. If it also manifests on Windows then it's a hardware problem.

>>105965677
>Gigabyte GPU
They've historically not been particularly good, no. And then there was the whole cracking PCB issue a couple years ago.

>>105965707
>They've historically not been particularly good, no.
Shit well hopefully they'll last long enough as PC parts.
When I slowly phase out the parts what brand should I go for instead of gigabyte?

>>105965705
>I want my DE to take up the least amount of resources
Understandable, but if you have a PC with at least 4GB RAM KDE should be just fine. It's usable in computers with 2GB RAM as long as you disable a couple of animations and desktop effects.
I'd say using a more feature rich DE is better than saving ~300MB RAM. But you do you. Just keep in mind that all the relevant Linux GUI software and features are moving to Wayland and are abandoning X11, and Xfce doesn't support Wayland yet.

>>105965738
>but if you have a PC with at least 4GB RAM KDE should be just fine
My laptop has 4GB of RAM and 0GB of VRAM (yep, 0) and it races past KDE. This stuff is so much better optimised than Windows it isn't even funny.

>>105965707
>historically not been particularly good
I remember times when they were considered one of the better options.

>>105965738
>relevant Linux GUI software and features are moving to Wayland and are abandoning X11,
What's relevant and what's not is highly subjective.

>>105965789
Would you prefer it if I used the word "popular" instead?

>>105965834
While that's technically better, it's still the same problem in the end. It doesn't matter what's popular, it just matters what that anon uses.
I'm also not really aware of programs not running on X11 yet.

What's a good bar for openbox. Looking for something else than tint2.

any tips to improve font rendering? kde plasma on cachyos

>>105965397
If I was gonna use Fedora, I'd get the Gnome or KDE version and not a spin. I tried the Cosmic spin and it was awfully implemented. Very half arsed. I don't know if XFCE one is bad, but my expectations for the spins are quite low.

>>105965950
>KDE
System Settings -> Text & Fonts -> Fonts
Fuck around with sub-pixel rendering and hinting.

>>105965931
I found this mystery environment variable that improves font rendering quite a bit
https://blog.aktsbot.in/no-more-blurry-fonts.html

this >>105966044 was meant for >>105965931

>T60 can't decode 4K HEVC
>use ffmpeg to transcode and stream over TCP and play with mpv in compatible format
Based Linux to the rescue

>>105963224
zero usecase then?

>>105966104
this is great, thanks

Been using Manjaro KDE on my laptop for about two months now and it's been a lovely experience. I've no interest in distrohopping, but when I eventually move my desktop to Linux I might consider replacing Windows 10 with something other than Manjaro.

I really like pamac: I get an update notification in my system tray, click on it, and then in one click download all my program updates, library/framework/whatever updates, firmware updates, driver updates, kernel updates, etc. Does Discover offer this same functionality, or does it only update applications? And does Discover push notifications to your system tray?

>>105965950
>>105965680
>>105965534
>>105965667
Fedora XFCE seems to be working quite well on my machine. No crashes yet. I hope this doesn't jinx it if anyone remembers that saying.

>>105966639
>Does Discover offer this same functionality, or does it only update applications?
It should update everything too.
>does Discover push notifications to your system tray?
Yes. Pic related.

>>105962083 (OP)
>2004
I was a happy sex-having teenager. GNOME wasn't shit.

>>105966750
>It should update everything too
"Should" or "does"?

>>105966933
Well it updates anything that's tied to your package manager and flatpaks. Which would be your apps, system libraries, drivers, etc.
I don't use it to update my OS since I'm on Bazzite which has a single "System Update" shortcut which also updates additional stuff like distrobox environments, homebrew packages, VSCode extensions, and some other stuff which isn't handled by software centers like Discover and Pamac.

>To deliver a performance-optimized distribution, CachyOS recompiles Arch Linux packages specifically for the x86-64-v3, x86-64-v4, and Zen4+ architectures.
Does this make my boot times, app launches and my browser faster? Or is CachyOS best renamed PlacebOS?

>>105967183
>Does this make my boot times, app launches and my browser faster?
Maybe by a few milliseconds

>>105967183
Some people apparently notice the difference.

>>105966639
>>105966933
Discover and Pamac are essentially the same in every way, except Discover doesn't let you install from the AUR. But if it's not an Arch-based distro that you're considering, then that won't matter anyway.

>>105967183
If there's anything in the mess of that distro that might actually provide a performance boost is those packages but the performance difference isnt big enough to be noticeable,

>>105967183
No. Boot and app launch times are mostly IO and syscall wait limited. A distro can only make those faster by having smarter / better configured early boot and service management.

It makes certain CPU intensive applications faster for new-ish x86-64-v4 and later CPUs. v3 vs base x86-64 is difficult to catch even in benchmarks.

Thoughts on ZorinOS? Is it actual attempt to bring linux to everyone?

>>105967988
It's Ubuntu but trying really hard to "be for Windows users."
It sucks and you shouldn't use it.

>>105967988
It's literally 3 years out of date compared to almost every other popular/good distro. If you want to use an OS that's stuck in 2022, feel free to do so. But, it's not something most people would want.

Steam on Arch Linux, max download speed around 2MB/s this bug will be having its 16th birthday this year... What's the fix on Arch, don't tell me to install Ubuntu

>>105968311
Have you tried changing your download server?

>>105968311
If >>105968456 (me) doesn't work go to the link below; like always the wiki has pretty much everything you need.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/Troubleshooting#Unusually_slow_download_speed

>>105968456
I tried that when I installed it from pacman, now I changed it to the physically closest server to me and I still got Peak 2.1MB/s

>>105968497
I didn't try disabling ipv6 but when I was using steam from pacman I tried the rest except the last line since it said it could help or not help

>>105968534
>I tried the rest except the last line since it said it could help or not help
Definitely try disabling http2 in the config. I had this problem like 6 years ago and that fixed it for me.

>>105968563 (me)
Also don't forget to fully restart Steam.

>>105968563
I meant I never added this line
@fDownloadRateImprovementToAddAnotherConnection 1.0

I tried disabling IPv6 by adding
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
to a new file /etc/sysctl.d/40-ipv6.conf
and sudo systemctl restart systemd-sysctl
and now download speed on steam is 0 but internet still works (if you see this post)

>>105968632
when i disabled tailscale (I use my homeserver as a DNS running adguard home, my router doesn't support setting a dns and putting local ip doesn't work FUCK ISPS) the peak got higher 2.6MB/s but it would ramp down to ? KB/s and then back up and was slower on average so I turned tailscale back on.

Why is Mate, despite being a fork of Gnome 2, actually looks worse than Gnome 2?

>>105969003
Why is Gnome 3, despite being the successor of Gnome 2, actually worse than Gnome 2?

guys i turned off mitigations. will my pc get aids??

>>105969003
I tried using mate last week. Went straight back to XFCE. That shit is so unbelievably bad. Engrampa and Caja are decent, though.

>>105969028
First of all, it didn't per se look worse than Gnome 2, the main point of contention was that it lacked a fair share of its former functionality. Second, Gnome 3 had intentionally broke up with Gnome 2, whilst Mate specifically exists to imitate and provide a Gnome 2-like feel and experience.

>>105969035
It already has

>>105969058
They're equally bad because they're married to GTK, therefore bound to one-sided and arbitrary changes made by stubborn and adversarial bunch known as "Ganoom developers".

>>105969098
>They're equally bad because they're married to GTK
I'm not switching to lxqt. XFCE is still really good despite GTK. If it becomes a problem in the future I will jump ship but that hasn't really happened. GTK2 is FINE. I don't care about Gnome's tranny agenda.

>>105969118
>XFCE is still really good despite GTK
Doesn't it uses some things from libadwaita in its default (which tend to look like ass in anything except Gnome)?

>>105969157
Theme matching and theme engines exists. This is not a real issue. I find newer gnome apps to look more out of place than anything else.

>>105969198
>Theme matching
Except most of the themes are either boring flat shit or actually worse than Luna from Windows XP.

>>105969264
Okay, sure. Enjoy your AmigaOS theme. I don't care about your assumptions and FUD.

>>105969296
Why so butthurt? I would love to ditch both KDE and Gnome in favour of Xfce, I like its simplicity and modularity very much, but I can't use it for more than a couple of weeks, after that it turns out that the gap is too apparent. I believe it is you who essentially are enjoying a proverbial AmigaOS theme, my friend.

>>105969359
You don't need anything more than XFCE or even a simple tiling window manager. The gap is your line of thinking not the software.
>I believe it is you who essentially are enjoying a proverbial AmigaOS theme, my friend.
Midwit projection at play here. I made a jab, ESLtard.

>>105969035
Not unless you manually run malware.

noob here
want to switch to start daily driving linux and keep a windows drive
my current plan is to have
>C: (windows)
>G: (linux)
>E: (media HDD)

is that a good idea? I'm gonna format my G: drive anyway but is there any other prep I should be aware of? they should both have no issue accessing stuff from my E: drive right?

>>105969509
>they should both have no issue accessing stuff from my E: drive right?
As long as E: is ntfs or fat32. Yes there should be no issue

>>105969509
It shouldn't be an issue, but if your "E" drive is using NTFS: never write into it using Linux. People have had experiences with data loss when writing into NTFS drives on Linux (placing files into it or modifying files).
If you're not going to have any files over 4GB then format it as FAT32.

>>105969540
I'm pretty sure Windows has an unofficial ext4 and btrfs driver. I haven't used Windows on a personal computer in a while, but from what I remember it worked fine.

>>105969598
>I'm pretty sure Windows has an unofficial ext4 and btrfs driver. I haven't used Windows on a personal computer in a while, but from what I remember it worked fine.
They're unusable and you generally can't write to them.

>It shouldn't be an issue, but if your "E" drive is using NTFS: never write into it using Linux. People have had experiences with data loss when writing into NTFS drives on Linux (placing files into it or modifying files).
I use to do this for 10 years straight. I don't know what on earth you're talking about.

>>105963354
My nephew is an idiot, and I gave him my old setup w/ a Bazzite install, and he can 90% figure it out.

The usual stumbling block is modding. Unless there's support for in-game modding, it's usually a very jank experience on Linux.

>>105969598
>if your "E" drive is using NTFS: never write into it using Linux
Linux users never fail to give advice from 2004.

>>105964337
You have some kind of storage connected to the computer?
chroot?

>>105969606
>I don't know what on earth you're talking about.
I forgot your experience exactly translates to the experience of everyone else on the planet. My bad. Next time anyone ever mentions they have any issue whatsoever, I'll be sure to contact you to see if it's real or not. Just remember to leave your email in the name field of your next post.

>>105963354
>Will SteamOS fix this? It’s my only hope.
No. If you want a no fuss experience for gaming then I recommend a console.

>>105969509
personally i've found the use of a shared partition rather pointless as i just ended up using a single OS for that in the end

>>105969655
>I forgot your experience exactly translates to the experience of everyone else on the planet. My bad. Next time anyone ever mentions they have any issue whatsoever, I'll be sure to contact you to see if it's real or not. Just remember to leave your email in the name field of your next post.
You're spreading FUD from 20 years ago, boomer. I you don't know then don't answer.

>>105969598
>but if your "E" drive is using NTFS: never write into it using Linux
well fuck...
>>105969659
my reasoning is just that I don't have a way to back everything up while transitioning to linux so if I could just install it and everything worked it would be fantastic

>>105969598
Bruh I'm using NTFS under Linux exclusively and I haven't seen any data loss.

>>105969716
>well fuck...
No, there is no fuck; you are speaking to a retard. NTFS works on Linux.

>>105969509
i just plugged in my NTFS drives from my old Windows machine and they just werked, i've heard running games through proton off of one is hit or miss though

>>105969670
>>105969721
>FUD from 20 years ago
>I haven't seen any data loss.
An anon literally said that he experienced data loss on ntfs on Linux in /fglt/ sometime in the past 10 days.
Just because there have been improvements in ntfs support in some of the latest kernels, doesn't mean that every distribution is using those kernels. If the new anon tries using something ancient like ZorinOS or almost any LTS distro, he won't have the latest driver improvements.

>>105965590
Hard to tell without knowing more about your setup, but try
~ $ xdg-mime query default inode/directory

Also check ~/.config/mimeapps.list.

>>105969776
Post proof, you're making the claim. I'm calling you out on your bullshit.

>>105969776
>If the new anon tries using something ancient like ZorinOS or almost any LTS distro, he won't have the latest driver improvements.
You have to be a troon. Absolute brainrot mental gymnastics mentality.

>>105969752
that's reassuring but I'll still look more into it just in case
>>105969762
I don't plan on installing programs on that drive anyway so that's fine

>>105969791
That's true though. Anything Debian is just going to perpetuate the tired Linux stereotypes another decade because they lack the features that have since made Linux objectively superior to Windows.

>>105969820
>That's true though
Newcomers to linux are interested in Mint and SteamOS. Stop living under a rock.

>>105962083 (OP)
whats the best distro for gaming and programming
arch?

>>105969791
>distros which use LTS kernels don't have the latest kernel updates
Which part of this is false, you absolute fucking retard? Debian 12 is still on Linux 6.1.x

>>105969867
See >>105969846
Newfags aren't using straight up Debian, retard.

>>105969846
>>105969880
Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS, which uses the LTS kernel instead of the latest one. That's the whole reason they had to make a HWE version of their installer once and why they have the kernel version manager as a part of their system update tool.
Or are you saying that they started shipping with the latest kernel by default now?

>linux has X issue because this one outdated distro nobody uses on a desktop has this issue
>instead of recommending to avoid the problem distro I recommend you treat your functioning up to date distro like the outdated one
very smart

>>105969846
Mint is shilled less and less because all the conveniences it pioneered are just standard in most distros now. SteamOS is also Arch-based.
>>105969856
>gaming
Anything that isn't Debian-based really. If you have an NVIDIA GPU, make sure to get a distro that will install third party/proprietary drivers.
>programming
They're all the same. You could program with LfN

>>105969856
Nobara and Bazzite

>>105969924
>Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS
Ubuntu LTS is on Linux 6.8. Is that too outdated for you? You act like it's using Linux 2.6. Good grief just stop it with all this mental gymnastics coping mechanism bullshit that you're doing. You were wrong so eat shit. Nobody is losing their data by copying files to a NTFS drive and if they are it's because their drive is failing and has nothing to do with Linux. Give it the fuck up or post proof of your claim.

should i use systemd or fstab for setting up a ramdisk?

>>105969980
>Is that too outdated for you?
Yes

>>105962083 (OP)
lets not sugarcoat it:
gnome shell was a fucking disaster.
not just a bad UI but a full on cataclysm that nuked the linux desktop from orbit.
2011 was the year gnome devs collectively lost their minds and dropped gnome 3 on us like a flaming dumpster.
your stable, productive setup? nuked from orbit.
your panel? gone.
your minimize button? gnone.
instead, we got a fisher-price touchscreen interface for small laptops.

>muh Activities overview
>no taskbar
>extensions break every update
>crashes when you sneeze too hard
>if linux desktops had a dark age, this was it.
>The Wayland PTSD that has been ongoing for a decade
>still waiting for the devs to apologize, but nah, they doubled down.
>“Working as intended, WONTFIX”

fuck you gnome devs. fuck you all.

>>105970076
Hot take: I didn't mind Gnome 3. It was an interesting departure that clearly needed more work, though. The interface works really well if you don't mind controlling everything via hotkeys. However they also keep making decisions to further ruin the usability of the desktop. I don't know what the hell their end game is but Gnome got better then it got worse and it doesn't appear they like listening to user feedback. With that said, I don't use Gnome anymore because the devs are indeed faggots. I tried to help update rhythm box and they essentially told me to fuck off because they weren't going to update it anymore. Why even bundle it if you're going to leave it dormant. I hate those fags so much.

>>105962330
You're using Linux, a completely different system. Maybe you should be using Windows.

>>105970076
KDE 3 and Gnome 2 were both at their peak in 2007 so Microsoft had to do something.
Their agents convinced the KDE devs that they should rewrite everything and turn it into a buggy mess for the next 20 years to come. They convinced the Gnome devs that turning the desktop into a featureless tablet UI written in javascript is a great idea.
Well, played.

>>105963050
>>105963050
When it works

>>105963050
it really is underrated and underappreciated and unknown

>>105965667
How do i know all those posts are related and arent just a bunch of random posts out of context stitched together?

>>105966171
post the script

>>105966743
>update
No crashes to speak of when playing my old games.
I was kind of hoping it was a hardware compatibility issue problem with my AMD gayming PC and yet things are for the most part running smoothly.
I can only guess as to what the problem with Mint (cinnamon) was, but I think I'll stick with Fedora for now.

Anyways if I encounter problems with Fedora I might distro hop to another XFCE distro preferably with rolling releases.
Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks everyone.

>>105970504
You can use jellyfin if you want for more UI friendly experience.
mpv --really-quiet "tcp://<YOUR IP:PORT>?listen" & ssh end "ffmpeg -hwaccel vaapi -hwaccel_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -hwaccel_output_format vaapi -hide_banner -v quiet -stats -i 'PATH_TO_FILE_ON REMOTE_MACHINE' -vf 'format=nv12|vaapi,hwupload,scale_vaapi=w=-1:h=in_h/2:format=nv12' -c:v h264_vaapi -preset ultrafast -tune zerolatency -crf 23 -maxrate 8M -bufsize 4M -pix_fmt yuv420p -x264-params 'keyint=30:min-keyint=30:no-scenecut=1:threads=auto:bframes=0' -c:a aac -b:a 128k -f mpegts tcp://<YOUR IP:PORT>"
Feel free to roast me.

I'm thoroughly testing Zorin live, but I can't open any AppImage or native Linux executable.

Is fedora workstation the same as fedora KDE plasma, with a different DE? I'm guessing workstation is using gnome?

>>105970733
That's a PRO only feature, you gotta cough up that money, brokie.

>>105970762
Ow! Here I go searching for another beginner-friendly distro that's not MINT.

>>105970870
Try manjaro, it's basically arch for retards

>>105970870
He's just fucking with you. Try dragging the .appimage into your terminal and hitting enter. When it fails to run it should spit out an error to at least tell you what's wrong.
Also, I think Ubuntu (the distro Zorin is based on) broke Appimage support at one point. Try looking into that, iirc you just need to install one package to get it working.

>>105970742
Yes.

how do i make gnome extensions? specifically one that will center the active window via a keyboard shortcut. there's an extension on the gnome extension site but i feel it's a glowie besmirching the slavic people.

>>105970870
How do you feel about meme hats. Jokes aside, I can't tell what distro isnt beginner friendly outside of arch with it's manual install(the script doesn't count) and the AUR footgun or fucking gentoo.

>>105970935
>(the script doesn't count)
>because I said so!

>>105970870
>beginner-friendly distro that's not MINT.
Bazzite Linux

>>105970733
Probably just the system libraries are so out of date they won't work with binaries built on Arch or half-ass appimage jobs.

If I encrypt my main desktop drive, Does it perform slower when running mah games / general use?

>>105970870
OpenSUSE Is pretty beginner friendly

>>105965722
EVGA For Nvidia cards

>>105971115
rip evga

>>105971037
No, the new encryption algorithms take precisely zero overhead

>>105971136
Why RIP EVGA?

>>105971157
They stopped making video cards.

>>105971037
Check how the encryption is applied.

>>105971172
I just used it w/e was on OpenSUSE install default

What's a good cli tool to see GPU and CPU temperatures?

Also something to manage fan curves etc, I'm on amd.

>>105971196
>check temperatures with CLI
sensors
>manage fan curves, etc., on AMD
CoreCtrl

>>105971168
No way I had no idea! , I'm still rocking the 1070TI By EVGA. They were my favourit make of video cards. I wonder why they stopped

>>105971215
Thanks!

>>105960305
>In what way?
No AMD VA API support

>>105970916
What a relief... Thanks to you, I found the classic "PERMISSION DENIED" issue. That said, I have no choice but to go balls deep and install on my laptop, but I'm afraid of it breaking, just like when I used Mint. So, mind sharing me your experience with Zorin before I go? I play emulated games from classic systems up to NDS and when I tried to do so in Mint Cinnamon it literally froze sometime after I started, Ctrl+Alt+F2 didn't work, REISUB method either... Only hard-resetting "solved", and even so, when I did other things it froze at random. Tried XFCE and it was slightly better, only freezing when playing. I researched a little more and found out Mint allows playing emu-games up to classic SNES vs Genesis era w/o freezing. That's when I contracted the "distrohopping" disease.

>>105971172
Full disk encryption?

Don't know if this is the right place to ask, but where can I learn more about these settings? Trying to cool my shit down, because the ambient temperature is hot af right now.

>>105971278
From my experience Zorin was an improvement over Ubuntu, but I used Zorin 9, 10 and 11. So I'm not really up to date with it.
The only thing I know currently is that it's still based on Ubuntu 22 LTS, which is quite outdated by now.
>froze at random
There could be a few reasons behind this. If switching to Xfce made the issue less frequent, it's possible that your RAM gets filled up and you don't have a swap file for memory to unload to. Basically any OS will freeze if it runs out of RAM. You could install earlyoom to kill your processes when you're running out of RAM (prevents freezing), or just set up a swap file if it's not set up during the install process for some reason (perhaps it wasn't enabled in the Mint installer).
REISUB usually works when you're out of memory, but most distros have it disabled by default I think. I assume that's why it didn't work.

I've finally solved the issue I was having >>105956748
It was the fucking HDMI cable.
I realized it was the issue when I got "Frozen" screen, I was about to reboot, but I unpluged a USB and I heard a sound, and I realized the PC was still working.
I switched the cable and it was working as normal.
Switching back I got the "SAME FROZEN SCREEN" despite the pointer location being changed when I switched the cables
Pretty weird right?
I finally disconnected the cable from both the monitor and the PC let it sit for few seconds, re-connected and it worked.
Any explanation?
Is there a chip inside that overheat?
I thought only active cables have chips inside?

>>105963050
I do like archinstall over the Debian installer because it just gives you an options menu up front rather than downloading and installing each component, then asking you for input on the next. I found it pretty straightforward but I didn't like having to babysit the thing.

>freckle disappeared when using av1 but h265 keeps it
I guess av1 isn't quite there yet

What’s the general rule of thumb when t trying to get a windows program to work with wine+bottles?
I’m trying to get clip studio paint and affinity photo to work on Linux.

>>105971437
So I came back after hard-resetting my poor laptop. Zorin grashed after browsing on Brave with 3 tabs open, guess I'm no good with Ubuntu-based distros after all. So sad, because my 1st PC from my childhood had Ubuntu preinstalled, and I wanted a beginner-friendly distro because I'm a wannabe-gamedev and I wanted to switch to Linux without tinkering too much to fit my workflow. :'(

>9 months in
>Didn't realize most official Plasma apps support setting custom color schemes
Fuck yeah, Konsole's UI looks horrible with tty's dark backround.

>>105970870
Why didn't you like Mint? maybe give the Debian Edition a go? (name is misleading, more often than not they patch Cinnamon sooner there than in the main releases cause LMDE is basically their test ground).
If not give EndeavourOS a go.

Able to buy the laptop from work pretty soon, but I'm completely 50/50 unsure if I want to go for Arch or Fedora.

Pro for arch would be that I've used Manjaro for a while and then Arch on WSL forever, but then again I've never installed it from scratch myself.

Fedora would probably be more stable but I'd have to get used to the different package manager. I'd use KDE no matter which distro I choose though.

Help me, friends. I can't decide.

>>105971928
I prefer arch/pacman but maybe you'll get used to dnf, check them out
>I've never installed it from scratch myself
It's really not a big deal, hardest part is probably partitioning and when you do it once or twice you get over it, there's always archinstall in case you fuck something up or forget a step like setting up the bootloader

>>105971928
Both are good. Are there any benefits to using Fedora over Debian in a desktop environment?

Also the arch install is the same as any other distro now, the install wizard is just CLI based. All you do is boot into your arch .iso, if you're using Ethernet just run the command: archinstall , follow the prompts. Reboot, if you selected something like KDE as your desktop environment in the install then you're pretty much done, congrats.

If using wifi, follow the command to run the WiFi wizard first. (This is shown at the top of the terminal screen)

I honestly don't know how or why all these arch based distros exist anymore, they are pretty much just bloat scripts at this point.

Just go arch man.

>>105971928
In the end you'll end up with a similar experience 90% of the time and you probably know your way around arch at this point anyway so tweaking shouldnt be an issue, regardless of your choice
>i'll have to get used to the package manager
dnf is braindead to use, it'll pull weak dependencies by default if you care about that though
>>105972136
>I honestly don't know how or why all these arch based distros exist anymore
i wonder the same

How cooked am I if this is my summed up smartctrl?

https://bpa.st/Q7BQ

>>105972382
*ctl

>>105971761
i dont know what people do, i just read the logs checking for missing dependencies or other causes if it doesnt work. I dont use bottles but im almost sure you gotta drop stuff inside the wine prefix you're gonna use to avoid issues with the flatpak sandboxing
>crashes without useful info
switch the runner and/or turn off dxvk to isolate the cause
>keeps crashing
use a 32 bits prefix, with the same dependencies
>still no dice
time for verbose logs, if i'm interested enough

>>105971761
What does your process look like? I usually add the program to lutris and go on from there.

But first I try to search it online if it works.

After formatting my 1tb, 4tb and 8tb drives with ext4, it seems like ext4 eats up 15gb per tb compared to NTFS and Btrfs.

>>105963354
>Will SteamOS fix this? It’s my only hope.
Probably?
I switched from Windows to Ubuntu a couple of weeks ago and it has been a nearly flawless experience. Out of 20+ games I have tried only 2 didn't run perfectly: Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising and Atelier Ryza
In Granblue the frame rate goes to shit after a couple of minutes, which is a pretty big deal because it doesn't affect just me, it affects my opponent, so this game is not playable. In Atelier Ryza the intro cinematic doesn't play (it just shows one of those color screen tests like when a TV has no signal) but the game itself runs fine.
Literally everything else works as easily as it does on Windows: open steam, download game, click on "play" - that's it.

>>105971854
>Why didn't you like Mint?
OOMs, OOMs every now and then. If I ever tried Mint again, I'd rather try LMDE, because I discovered today that OOMs aren't limited to Mint, but to any distro based on Ubuntu (Mint and Zorin), since I've tried Debian (MX and itself), Arch (Endeavor and Manjaro), Fedora (KDE and LXQT Spins), OpenSUSE (Tumbleweed-KDE-Minimal and Base system) and even went as far as to BSD (GhostBSD) and never had a OOM. Now I'm using Win11 but since I started to get bothered by crashes I wanted to give Linux a try again.

>>105972833
The only reason to use ext4 in current year is if you insist on doing really inadvisable shit with storage and expect fsck to pick up after your broken hardware and act like nothing's wrong.

>>105972382
>raw read error rate: 52
>reallocated sector count: 77
Stop writing to that disk and backup your shit. Now.

>>105972382
I had my first failing drive just a few days ago. The Read Errors were slowly going up for 2 ish weeks and then I ran a SMART self test a few days ago and I started getting Write Errors. I've now retired the drive after 7 years. My first 11 year old drive is still going strong tho

>>105973023

>>105972382
>194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 142 142 000 Old_age Always - 42 (Min/Max 15/48)
>42 (Min/Max 15/48)
>42
>Min/Max 15/48
>Max 48
>Current: 42
I think I know why its failing.

>>105973603
>I think I know why its failing.
Outside manufacturer defects, heat and vibrations kill spinning rust. Your drive being 42c, with 48c being considered its max (base on what was reported), it seems like it was running near or even at its max temp for awhile.

>>105973023
sounds like a hardware issue lol

>>105970870
Pretty much all Linuxes are beginner friendly nowadays

Why is snap so contreversial

>>105973998
Use it and find out.

>>105973998
>inefficient for your drive
>inefficient for your RAM
>locked down by Canonical so you don't know what's going on
>opens the door for spyware
Snaps basically turn your machine into an iPhone.

I like tiling window managers, but I love the coziness of DE's.

What do I heckin' do!?!?

>>105974059
Set up tiling on whatever DE/WM you like, I have a tiling script for IceWM but I rarely use it, tried it for a while but I can't get over how stuff moves around and resizes without my input

>>105973998
BC it and flatpaks suck yet is shilled by brainlets. Also snap is canonical which a lot of people don't like

>>105973998
It's a naked vendor lock-in scheme. Also not as good as flatpak if you understand what both are doing.

Basically Canonical invented the idea but RedHat instantly came along and flopped their dick in the punchbowl by coming out with a better, more inclusive standard. Rather than admit defeat, Canonical throws a 90s Microsoft shitfit, paying ISVs to use snap and forcing it on users. Except unlike Bill Gates they're not juiced up with the west side Fed gang, so it just comes off as pathetic and a bunch of people stopped using Ubuntu.

>>105972833
It defaults to huge amount if inodes.
>>105973048
What if I absolutely have no use cases for let's say btrfs features?

>>105974073
thank you for answering.

Anons, is updating the kernel worth it? Any instability? I use linux mint btw

>>105974117
but zstd compression is cool

>>105974059
heard that gnome has a tiling extension but then again
>gnome
>I love the coziness of DE's.
im not sure what this even means, if anything at all
>>105974117
>What if I absolutely have no use cases for let's say btrfs features?
i find it hard to believe someone has no use for compression and deduplication

>>105974117
You'll say you have no use case until you do. Any halfway modern distro is going to automate all the btrfs niceties for you, and that way you'll get less write amplification and keep your drive healthy for longer.

>>105974117
>What if I absolutely have no use cases for let's say btrfs features?
XFS. Less overhead than ext4 and you get reflink whether you want it or not.

How long does it take to configure Fedora to have feature parity with Nobara? Nobara seems attractive, but I hear it doesn't work with DaVinci Resolve.

>>105974059
There are Kwin plugins that enable you to have a similar experience to i3.

>>105965667
another self hating Indian

Is there any way to edit a config file or use the terminal to set "show additional information" values for the display style?

I have some weird bug with KDE/Dolphin where there's a blank gap between size and video duration. If I disable duration and re-enable the blank space goes away and works normally for that folder. However every new folder will have the exact same blank gap. I know that Dolphin has a built in feature to apply the options to all subfolders, the problem however is that you can't just choose duration but you also have to choose a sorting option. This is problematic as I have different sorting options applied for different folders, this would reset it and therefore not an option.

I just want to be able to remove duration and then re-apply it again without touching the sorting. Surely there's a config or console command for this?

>>105969509
i can't tell from your post if "G:" is a partition or an independent drive. windows uses letters to denote both drives (such as floppy/cd-rom drives) as well as mounted volumes
if it's an independent drive that's really easy, if it's a partition alongside C: that it also doable, look up dual booting for the distro you plan to try
yes, linux can access ntfs just fine nowadays. the only catch is that there's no "chkdsk" for ntfs in linux, so if it fails to mount, you will need to check it in windows. also you will want to disable "fast boot" in windows when dual booting, as windows shut down with that enabled is actually hibernation, and will leave ntfs volumes in a technically-mounted state, so another os won't be able to write to those

>>105965667
I started using Fedora KDE almost a month ago and I had more Plasma crashes during the first week than I had with Windows 10 over 7 years.

I did find the main culprit for the crashes though, display tooltip on mouse hover. This causes crashes if I move the mouse over the taskbar. Disabling it stops those crashes. I've had other plasma crashes unrelated to that, but they're less common.

>>105969655
let me guess, you believe ntfsfix is a chkdsk replacement

>>105969716
>my reasoning is just that I don't have a way to back everything up while transitioning to linux so if I could just install it and everything worked it would be fantastic
there's actually a tool to convert ntfs to btrfs in-place. i haven't used it myself however since i moved to linux well before that existed so i don't have any ntfs drives to try it on

>>105972833
ext4 preallocates inodes for performance and fragmentation purposes. this means that if you use a significant portion of those inodes (i.e. if you have almost as many files as there are inodes) then that space is not actually wasted
if you have an idea of how many files you plan on putting on it, you can specify how many inodes to make when formatting the volume

>>105974117
>>105974506
>inodes
Is that shown as space used or subtracted from the total drive size? As it's the latter in my case. 1TB drive that should show 930GB total shows 915GB total.

>>105974549
it's taken from the total. because they're statically allocated, there's no need for them to appear as used space. in filesystems where metadata is allocated dynamically, they do appear as "used space", you just don't typically notice because individual inodes are small, like who's going to tell after writing something that the used space went up a little more than the data you actually wrote to it? ext4 doesn't do that because the inodes are already allocated, so the space loss is simply more noticeable with ext4 since it's all done in one shot ahead of time

>>105974300
My choice of DE is MATE , but thank you for the answer.

>>105974549
>>105974620
oh but that's not to say there's no difference in used space at the end of the day, like if you have a large ext4 volume with default inode count/ratio settings, which i believe is 1 inode per 16k of space, and you only put large files on it (i.e. significantly larger than 16k), then you will run out of space well before you run out of inodes, and any unused inodes is wasted space
the default is quite low nowadays (it's basically assuming an average file size of 16k)
and before you ask, yes, if you run out of inodes, you will not be able to make new files, even if there's space left, so be mindful when adjusting this

>>105974136
A coworker of mine daily drives ubuntu, which is also a point release distro, on one of those Samsung laptops that has issues connecting to hardware on Linux. I helped him set up the latest kernel on it and it solved his problem with his speakers, camera, and microphone not working.

So if ur machine is working fine you don't really have to worry about it, you won't really see performance increases unless you use one of those custom kernels and even then it will be minimal. But it doesn't hurt to install the latest kernel if you are just curious or are having hardware issues with Linux.

I typically just follow the LTS kernel though

>>105971928
You can always have a youtube tutorial on your phone or something as you're installing it in case you get stuck.

>>105973643
>having limited RAM is a hardware issue
Well, no shit if you put it like that. But handling OOM scenarios is ultimately a software issue, not a hardware one.

>>105974204
>Nobara seems attractive, but I hear it doesn't work with DaVinci Resolve.
Isn't it literally the opposite? They have some dependencies and patches to make it work.
https://wiki.nobaraproject.org/general-usage/additional-software/davinci-resolve

I've made a simple flask app that make profiles for small business.
With possibility to store photo as well as profile image.
I saw this project
https://github.com/cowtoolz/webcamize
And was thinking is there a way to make the source of image a webcam?
I tested my DSLR and it work fine with this.

Have any of you guys gotten both Nvidia video drivers and CUDA drivers to work at the same time on a distro that's not Ubuntu?

>>105973603
>>105973431
>>105973289
Thanks for the replies, I won't write to it anymore. And yeah no wonder it's dying because I've had multiple times where 'ls' would give no output due to the drive doing work at the same time.

My question is that how do I parse those results, so I could learn?

>>105975883
Yes, basically anything that isn't Fedora will install them for you

>>105975928
I know most distros auto-install video drivers, asking about both video drivers and CUDA. With most distros I've tried, either Blender won't detect my GPU for rendering, or I'll get weird video glitches half the time during regular use. Ubuntu is the only one where both work (And even then, I had to manually install CUDA drivers), but I hate dealing with Snaps

>>105975883
Works fine in Nobara

>>105974450
yes, they're all independent drives, thanks anon
>>105974471
that sounds a bit scary but I'll look into it

>>105976465
>that sounds a bit scary but I'll look into it
i'd always recommend backing up, but then you'd naturally think, if it's backed up, why convert it? well it's probably still much faster than copying everything back
https://github.com/maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs
note that this is made by the same guy who makes the btrfs windows driver, a custom windows bootloader capable of booting windows from a btrfs volume (not production ready, but still insane), etc. so he clearly knows his shit.

>>105976465
>>105976488
oh and if you're wondering if E: would be better as btrfs also along with the btrfs for windows driver to access it in both... i'm also curious about that. i don't really use windows anymore so i haven't tested the windows btrfs driver, i'm curious to know if anyone else has experience with it

latest arch kernel update fixed so many of my memory issues
i love linux!!!!!

>>105976755
Linux loves you :D

I remember there was a way to have the wine system tray place it's icons in my waybar's tray. Anyone know what it is?

I need to use x264 encoding (preferably ffmpeg), and the build that came with Fedora 42 doesn't have it enabled. So I tried using h264, which uses libopenh264, but it doesn't support crf. I encoded a video using libopenh264, and the thumbnail works, but dragonplayer doesn't display video. It does however display video on my previous encodes that were using x264 using crf. So.. what would be route I take without having to build/configure from source?

>>105977224
Don't you have to set up rpmfusion for this?

>>105977288
That's what I was reading; I need to figure out a timeshift alternative before I start tinkering though, just in case.

>>105977224
Can't you just use Nobara or Aurora instead of vanilla Fedora?

>>105977453
>Aurora
Immutable is gay

>>105977578
immutable is the only sane option for over 90% of users

>>105977315
>I need to figure out a timeshift alternative before I start tinkering though
you dont really need it if you follow their wiki

>>105977587
If Windows users can get by without deleting system 32, then they can get by on non-immutable Linuxes.

>>105977622
Sorry anon, but almost any non-immutable Linux distro is significantly less stable than Windows when updating/upgrading it. The long term experience on desktops is unacceptable on most Linux distros.
It has nothing to do with users manually deleting system files and everything to do with the superiority of atomic updates, in Fedora's case.

>>105977644
>almost any non-immutable Linux distro is significantly less stable than Windows when updating/upgrading it
Never had any issues with updates. And any decent distro will automatically do snapshots before installing system updates anyway.
>superiority of atomic updates
What's superior about all your configs getting nuked every time there's a new update?

>>105977672
>all your configs getting nuked
Are you retarded? All configs you should fuck around with are in your /home.

>>105977644
ive been updooting twice a week and upgrading to the newest point release 2-4 weeks after its release for years without issues, no atomic shit
either im a living anomaly or you just choose meme distros

>>105977587
Immutable is fucking miserable to use. Unless you have a really good reason to be using that, you shouldn't.

>>105977814
Android user moment. I'm a Windows noob using Linux and there are tons of configs outside of /home that I've edited.

>>105977888
>Ubuntu
>Mint
>Fedora
>Arch
>Manjaro
>meme distros
Nigger, they're the most popular ones.

>>105977947
On that list Arch is most certainly a meme distro. Literally. The very reason it's popular is because it's a meme.

>>105977987
Cope: The Post.

>>105977987
Damn, I've been using a meme distro for 20 years. Das crazy mane

>>105978052
That's right. I'm also using the meme distro.

>>105977947
>Ubuntu
meme
>Mint
2017 meme. Extremely outdated OS today
>Fedora
Fedora is notorious for updates not fucking breaking everything
>Arch
Arch is a distribution literally INTENDED to be a meme distro. You cannot live on the bleeding edge and act surprised when you bleed.
>Manjaro
It is like Fedora in that the latest updates and whatnot are actually vetted before being deployed. These are cutting edge distros, not bleeding edge distros. Which is to say: they fucking work. Never mind that Manjaro creates a snapshot before every system update, even on ext4.

>>105978059
>Fedora is notorious for updates not fucking breaking everything
Except when they push a broken mutter package to the repos again kek

>>105978059
>everything is a meme
>my life revolves around memes
>I... am... the meme.

>>105977987
>>105978059
>everything is a meme

>>105978072
Arch isn't everything. There are other distros that exist.

>>105978077
I used them. I don't like them. Simple as. My desktop is not a server.

>>105977947
>fucked up all these distros
maybe you're right, some people shouldnt have sudo access at all

>>105978092
That's not the point. "Arch is meme" is not the same as "Everything is meme" semantically these are completely different statements.

>>105978077
SteamOS is Arch-based. It's clearly not a meme.

>>105978111
Your life is a meme. Everyone makes fun of you. Prove me wrong, you can't.

>>105978115
Steam is popular, it's a meme. You gotta use Hannah Montana linux for a REAL linux distro. Remember, if it's popular and widely used that means it's a meme!

>run a game and obs on kde
>everything else besides those two programs becomes slow and laggy

why?

Is there something better than cp/mv command?
That's not rsync?

>>105978152
kde is bloated poo made by jeets, that's why. jeets have taken over gnome and kde. it's over bro. it's so over. there's probably even AI code in kde and gnome now.

>>105978172
>Is there something better than cp/mv command?
Yeah, rsync
>That's not rsync?
no

>>105978172
What features are you looking for?

>>105962083 (OP)
What's (You)r take on the 24/7 anti-linux and firefox spam?

>>105978115
It's not actually arch, though. SteamOS is an immutable distro.

>>105978125
Well, you're not making fun of me. You're just incoherently seething here for some reason. So I have proven the statement wrong. It's clearly not "everyone".

>>105978234
>It's clearly not "everyone".
Can you prove that? How can you prove there's not someone out your window right now pointing at you and saying "ha! ha!"? That's what I thought meme man.

>>105978152
weak GPU

>>105978249
First of all there is nobody outside the window, but even if we were to assume for the sake of an argument that there was and that someone was also there just laughing at me, "someone" doesn't constitute "everyone". We already established that there is one person who isn't making fun of me.
This guy specifically >>105978125

>>105978232
Firefox is the last truly independent browser left that's not associated with big tech. Anyone hating on it is a Google plant.

>>105978152
NVIDIA.
>>105978173
Werks on my machine.

>>105978269
Didn't read, looks very meme-like.

>>105978270
I use librewolf. Probably infested by trannies but I do NOT care; it's better than whatever Google is doing.

New thread:
>>105978337

>>105978204
Progress bar
Sane globing
Better IO handling

>>105978270
I don't get the people that shit on Firefox these days. You can't even use UBO in Chromium browsers anymore.

>>105978751
>You can't even use UBO in Chromium browsers anymore.
I use librefox but when did this happen? This isn't just a "they removed it from the chrome store", is it? Last time I used Chrome I could still manually install Ad Nauseam.

>>105978811
IIRC they finally pulled the trigger on MV2 extensions which includes UBO.
If you want to keep using a Chromium browser with content block (that isn't Brave) you gotta use UBO Lite now.

>>105978832
uBlock Origin has always worked better in Firefox even before this though. There is a massive conflict of interest in having an advertisement company in charge of your browsers development.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox

>>105979134
I mean yeah, I would say they did the MV3 shit because they wanted adblockers to stop working in Chrome first, everything else second.
IMO the only Chromium based browser you should use these days is Brave because its own adblocker is very good.

>>105976755
Kino

>>105979155
Brave is mad fuckin scummy even compared to current year Trannyfox. Their build process is literally "download a bunch of unaudited shit from the internet and hit go". It's a complete joke. Not open source in any meaningful capacity.