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Previous thread: >>105978337

bümp

KDE connect has been a very positive surprise since I switched to linux, i love how it stops yt videos and music when someone calls me on the phone for example
switching to linux reminds me, every single time I post on 4chan I get "please wait a while before making a post" and it takes 120 seconds
works when I switch back to windows though... weird

>>105999435
Creating a post or responding? Your browser probably isn't saving the cookie you need. Which browser are you using? Which OS are you using?

>>105999573
Well just responding in a thread.
I use Firefox on Manjaro. Also use Greasemonkey with 4chanX
I use the same combo on Windows and it seems to work there.
Strange, now I could post twice in a row without waiting... maybe it's just a 4chan thing

>>105999589
Could be that a previous cookie expired, or you cleared your browser history. Uncheck these boxes, and look around at your settings.

Repost from the last thread. I want to install the Mega desktop app on my Debian machine. I noticed they offer versions for Bookworm as well Bullseye, but not for Trixie. If I install the app right now, will it still work when I upgrade to Trixie in a couple weeks?

>>106000006
why would you debian when arch exists?

>>106000000

>>106000006
>debian
lol, how's it feel being half a decade out of date at all times?

>>106000018
>>106000119
Another question. Why does the mere mention of Debian make updooters and tinker-trannies seethe so much? What do you faggots have against a system that always works when you need it?

>>106000172
>gets made fun of
>you're a seething redditor!
lol

>>105999435
This is cookie-based. And you're usually forced to wait 120s two or three times per cookie. Once you do this, as long as your browser isn't set to "clear history on exit" you'll be able to post without waiting 120s.

>>106000172
>What do you faggots have against a system that always works when you need it?
It doesn't work as soon as you need anything released or updated in the past 3 years.

>>106000006
>I want to install the Mega desktop app
all of my why?
>If I install the app right now, will it still work when I upgrade to Trixie in a couple weeks?
try it and find out

best practices recovering from a kde plasma freeze? simultaneous operations on my ntfs drive like find or directory scan for strawberry music player can cause a freeze and my drive gets flagged as dirty if i hard reset. i tried magic srq and other hotkeys but they do nothing. in the longterm i have to get another drive to clone and change the filesystem it seems.

>>106000006
You don't want MEGA's shitty app:
https://xff.cz/megatools/

>>106000006
Is it from an apt repository or a .deb file? The latter will work on trixie but the former might not
Either way, they will probably do one for trixie when it reaches stable.

>>106000284
>It doesn't work as soon as you need anything released or updated in the past 3 years.
Such as?
Some people are just too lazy to updoot like arch and dont want to bother with shit breaking. And stuff like flatpak and distrobox exist now

>>106001196
>Such as?
Muh video games. Literally unplayable for 2 years until Debian/Ubuntu/Mint caught up with the drivers required by Proton.
And there were instances of flatpak applications not working on Debian because their version of flatpak itself was outdated.
KDE Plasma is also often unusable on Debian/Ubuntu. That's the whole reason the DE is one of few exceptions Fedora keeps constantly updated despite not being a rolling release distro.
Anything wayland related, unironically.

There's been too much action and development around Linux as a desktop OS in the past 5 years for lts distros to be viable (to me).

bros... I miss Excel so bad

>>106001196
tried to use neovim at work (ubuntu lts), but gave up on it since nonce of the colorschemes work on such an outdated version. Had to go back to vim in the end.

>>106001622
>Muh video games. Literally unplayable for 2 years until Debian/Ubuntu/Mint caught up with the drivers required by Proton.
Backports have newer drivers
>And there were instances of flatpak applications not working on Debian because their version of flatpak itself was outdated.
Such as?
>KDE Plasma is also often unusable on Debian/Ubuntu. That's the whole reason the DE is one of few exceptions Fedora keeps constantly updated despite not being a rolling release distro.
Plasma 5 has been fine for me on bookworm
>Anything wayland related, unironically.
Such as? Never had any wayland issues on stable
>5 years
Stable is every 2 years

>>106001663
look at you, expecting debian haters to have any actual experience with debian

>>106001663
>Backports have newer drivers
Mesa isn't a part of the Linux kernel.
>Such as?
I remember Brave browser not being usable at all on Ubuntu LTS (18 or 20) and the solution was to just wait for the next lts or manually upgrade to a non-lts release which has the newer flatpak version. The same issue affected Debian stable of the time.
>Plasma 5 has been fine for me on bookworm
Good for you, but in my experience there's always something wrong with KDE on Ubuntu which is supposed to be a "better Debian".
>Such as? Never had any wayland issues on stable
I doubt it.
>Stable is every 2 years
This has absolutely nothing to do with my point. Read my sentence again. Stable is not good if major improvements are coming at a monthly basis as they have been in the past 5 years.

I'm talking about the experience of lts distros in general, not just specifically Debian.

>>106001694
I don't hate Debian. I just think it's shit as a desktop OS.

>>106001763
Mesa is also in backports, anon
>I remember Brave browser not being usable at all on Ubuntu LTS
I havent had issues with brave on debian but i dont really use brave. Don't know if its an ubuntu-only issue since i dont use ubuntu.
>major improvements are coming at a monthly basis as they have been in the past 5 years.
This just sounds like updoot syndrome

>>106001849
>Mesa is also in backports, anon
Not from my experience.
>updoot syndrome
Ok, caveman.

>>106001645
you made me check
>debian
>v0.7.2 (release date: 07/22)
>ubuntu lts
>0.9.5 (release date: 12/23)
>both debian testing/sid and ubuntu quokka have v0.10.4, released 6 months ago
>latest stable version: 0.11.3, 2 weeks ago
Im never going to install debian

>>106000927
If you can switch to another TTY (ctrl-alt-f[1-12]) you could use loginctl to terminate the session and then log in again. Your system freezing like that is a serious issue though and something that could be reported to your distro maintainers.

>>106001954
it's not that important to me (I backported the main advantages it gave me to good old regular vim), but still, that was some wasted time

>>106001980
thanks. i see how that should work. i suspect hardware issues right now.

I use the latest and greatest. Losers on LTS using the oldest are the grossest.

How do I get rid of the red area in LibreOffice?

Switched to aurora couple days ago because one of you recommended it, its quite nice. Having some issues and I dont really know where how to search properly for it apperently. I've got onedrive which I use for work stuff but the folder I'm trying to reach is 50gb and locally stored according to windows, but on aurora its only 7gb. What is happening?

>>106002478
>I've got onedrive which I use for work stuff but the folder I'm trying to reach is 50gb and locally stored according to windows, but on aurora its only 7gb. What is happening?
how many partitions does it have?

>>106000172
I break it every single time I use it; Fedora ftw

>>106000172
Debian is simply superior
>>106001954
just use vi

>>106004487
>>106000172
Used Debian from 1999 to 2010-something. It simply lost its relevance, got me distrohopping and now I'm constantly falling back to Arch.
>>106002441
"LTS" is a nonsense term and every distribution has their own definition.

>>106000172
As twg:
Sometimes a patch or fix or a new feature is needed, but in the deb based distributions you have to wait till the next release. Things in tech change more often than the 2 years for Ubuntu, and something may stop working mid-release.

i'm trying to update icecat and i don't know why the hell it won't let me use pgo + lto

>install Fedora KDE
>can't change my user profile picture, I guess this is because I am the admin or root user or whatever
It worked just fine when I was on Manjaro KDE, though. I guess I'll import my .icon from that install?

The piece of shit called linux corrupted my kwallet and all passwords and cookies gone. And now this.

>>106006499
Just restore from your backups. What's the problem?

Gentlemen, I am pleased to report that Mozilla's own Firefox repo for Debian-based distros now appears to support Arm64. Therefore if you have an Arm64 machine (e.g. a Raspberry Pi) then you can add Mozilla's repo and get the latest version of Firefox as soon as it is released, instead of using an older version from Debian's repos, or Mint's repos, or the Snap store (the Snap seems to update a little later than the deb repo).

>>106006891
Thanks, but I'm already using Flatpak

>>106006910
Yeah that's an option too. Flatpaks often have to install Flatpak dependencies though right? Like GNOME stuff and whatever. If you're on a Debian-based repo it might be better to get the deb from Mozilla which will use system libraries that you'll already have.

>>106006951
>Flatpaks often have to install Flatpak dependencies though right?
Dependencies are shared if multiple flatpaks require the same dependencies. And I'm fine with all that.
>it might be better to get the deb from Mozilla which will use system libraries that you'll already have.
Nah, I prefer flatpaks. They've consistently been a better experience than relying on distro maintainers for 3rd party apps.

>>105998709 (OP)
Hi -- I want to try out multiple distributions on my new computer.
If I set up my /home on a separate partition, will I be able to mount it and use it no matter which distro I boot into?

>>106006803
I did not backup kwallet.

>>106007006
That's how it works yes. Make a seperate /home partition in your first distro then when you install a new distro just mount the old /home partition as the new /home etc etc.

>>106007006
Don't do it. See >>105988259 and >>105993397

>>106007001
But if you use Mozilla's repo for Firefox then you're not relying on distro maintainers for Firefox. Firefox would come straight from Mozilla.

Up to you of course. On distros that aren't Debian based then yeah, the Flatpak is probably the best way to get Firefox.

>>106007021
I mean, I'm indirectly relying on the distro because I'm relying on their ability to update their dependencies in time if/when Firefox needs newer versions.
Flatpak has just been a much more reliable "distro" (target platform) than actual distributions have (this includes Debian). Since I'm already using flatpak for everything, I see no point in making the web browser an exception.

Why is it so difficult to have working games when they're pirated? If you pay for em on Steam it's really easy, but downloaded from places like Fitgirl it's really hard to get them working.
Tried adding the installer to Steam and running it with Proton, tried adding the installer on Bottles (which launches it and works) but then it either doesn't finish installing or it finishes but then I can't find the fucking .exe to add it to Bottles or Steam... And if I do, it barely ever works, either giving some DLL error or simply just nothing happening on the screen or crashing immediately after launching. Really, I don't know what else to do. Went back to Windows for piracy gaming.

>>106007044
I see. I normally go for debs if I can. But if I can get a much newer version as a Flatpak then I'll go for the Flatpak.

>>106007073
Stop stealing games.

>>106007083
>Stop stealing games.

No.

>>106007073
Just pirate GOG games.
Or use some source other than fitgirl. I think one anon said fitgirl has some obscure functionality in the installer which doesn't translate well into WINE. If that really is the case, it might be possible to install the game in a Windows virtual machine and then just copy it over to Linux. Then you should be able to launch it through Bottles or Steam Proton.

How moronic of an idea would it be to use dd as backup? I just had to reinstall. I have my home folder regularly backed up, so it was an easy fix, but it might've been more pleasant to just dd into my main drive from the backup drive.

>>106007184
You could always use pre-installs. You literally just have to run the unzipped .exe to play.

>>105998709 (OP)
Does anyone have a Razer Blade 14 (2022) running any sort of Linux? Archwiki mentions problems with sound with kernel 6.4, but that's ancient history by now, and I was wondering if it's got fixed before I will get one myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo
What's this nigga yappin' about? I like systemd but I ask because the ratings and comments are disabled so I'm wondering if he's right and triggered everyone or he's wrong and triggered everyone.

>>106007610
gooktard

>>106007610
Personally at this point I really don't care, systemd as a suite works well enough for me. I don't care about the philosophical shit surrounding it anymore, all the big distros moved to it because it just werked. Arch is still the best version of systemd implementation as well.

>>106007626

I have a 500GB boot drive, and two additional internal drives for storage. Does it make sense to mount the other two inside /home? Switching from W10 to Mint.

>>106007707
You can either mount them to folders within your /home or just mount them to folders in /mnt on boot.

>>106007707
It doesn't matter where you mount them, but your OS should be responsible for this instead of you having to do it manually.

>>106007610
"Good concept, bad implementation" , he's dismissive of valid criticism whilst revelling in his lack of knowledge of prior art (proprietary Unix). Additionally Benno Rice Is a known liar who heavily uses sockpuppets to attack anybody mentioning Dillon which is very funny.

>>106007707
Depending on your hardware, should consider fedora with kde plasma. I was using mint for three years, and I switched over about a week ago. It's nice having up to date software, and you save a lot of disk space with btrfs.

>>106007732
I am having trouble changing my mental model - I have trouble thinking about internal drives being "in" any other folder since I always used them in Windows as the root of their own separate directories. The fact that people use all kinds of different mounting locations as convention isn't helping, I think.

>>106007758
>It doesn't matter where you mount them
That isn't strictly true, /mnt has a bunch of special properties, same with /run/user.

>>106007830
A majority of the time these days if you use a distro like Fedora or Ubuntu external drives and USBs etc. are automatically mounted in /media under the current user's ownership. On something like Arch you can install a program like udiskie to pretty much get the same deal of auto-mounting.

>>106007858
That's fine, I'm talking about internal drives

>>106007873
Well then you'd add the internal non-root drives to the fstab file and set them to mount where I mentioned, though like the other anon said you can technically mount them anywhere, but within a folder in /mnt or your /home is where the LFSH says to mount them.

>>106007873
Same applies to internal drives, anon. They're mounted in /run/media/

>>106007830
Funnily enough your mental model is more accurate to how it works underneath; a mounted filesystem isn't "in" anything, It's simply a illusion created for user convenience.

>>106007187
It would be slow and I'm not sure how well it would handle files that are currently being written.

>>106007187
It isn't, that's simply called "Imaging".
>>106007904
>I'm not sure how well it would handle files that are currently being written.
Very badly, it'll munge said files.

Anyone on AeroThemePlasma know how to change the glass color? It's applying some red tint to the whites.

>>105998709 (OP)
bohat ale he

>>105998709 (OP)
i used ubuntu for work (never really got into it aside from switching the theme and tweaking it myself a bit). I want to try out arch but i don't have the time to tinker too much with it. I saw manjaro which is a derivative of it and i'm wondering if it's good, especially for customization and stability. Also which DE goes well with while, again, offering good customization
>t. retard who likes"ricing" every single device i own

I switched yesterday from win11 to bazzite kde.
so far it works, but I need a on-screen keyboard where I can just click the letters and type
the maliit keyboard seems to be broken by design because Bazzite gets used on handhelds or some garbage (and the fix that gets posted from the legion-go-tricks git didn't work)

does anyone know a good on-screen keyboard?

>>106008069
Last I checked, on screen keyboards weren't great on Linux.

>>106008059
KDE is probably your best option for a DE.
Manjaro is fine, but from my experience a bit buggy compared to EndeavourOS and Garuda.

aryan log kahaan hain?

apparently i did something that fucked up blender, using arch.
suddenly symbolic links weren't working.
error while loading shared libraries.
when i updated one package, it mentioned another and so on.

luckily i had a backup from a week ago, but i still wonder why things cascaded into shit.

if i update python things with --break-system-packages or something similar, i forgot. could this be responsible?

how do i deal with packages needing different versions, or keep things tidy?

>>106008297
Sounds like you did a partial update. Don't do that. Update everything with pacman -Syu. Never use pacman -Sy <package>

>>106008309
ok, how likely would a full upgrade mess things up?

>>106008349
A full upgrade will probably fix everything

a@debian:~$ sudo hdparm -S 0 /dev/sdc

/dev/sdc:
setting standby to 0 (off)
a@debian:~$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc: HGST HUH721010ALE604: drive is sleeping

Why's the hard drive still sleeping?

>>106008377
I've got no clue but you can't expect hdparm to work properly any more, hard drives are a lot weirder now, you could try fucking around with the APM values.

>>106008297
>if i update python things with --break-system-packages or something similar, i forgot. could this be responsible?
That probably isn't responsible but it'll definitely eventually break things if it hasn't already, don't fuck with your system python, use virtualenv.

>>106008016
looks like shit

>>106008016
Personally I much prefer the default Plasma theme

Thanks for answering my mounting questions frens

>>106007187
>>106007938
>file munging
You need to involve lvm, dm, or filesystem snapshots to do proper online backups.

Question lads

I've come across a GitHub repo which I'd like to compile and run. This repo has no stars, but a couple people on a forum say they've used it and it's fine.

If I compile it and then run the binary through VirusTotal, is VirusTotal likely to tell me if the program does anything malicious? I presume VirusTotal can only identify malware that it already knows about?

>>106009474
A malicious repo can attack you during compilation

>>106009474
If you have a repo it's better to do source code analysis rather than compiling it.
In any case, a malicious file doesn't need to be "known". Many AVs scan actual executed code for malicious patterns. VT uses a bunch of AVs.

>>106001905
https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=bookworm-backports&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=mesa

>>106009495
>>106009515
I see. It's just a fork of an emulator with some changes to make it work better on a Raspberry Pi. Hopefully it's trustworthy but who knows. I tried looking at the diff for this fork but there's lots of new code in the diff. Trying to understand all the differences would take ages.

I have a spare SD card for my Pi with Ubuntu on it. Maybe I could run the program on that, with the internet disconnected. Just to see if it does anything bad.

i have a giga retarded question. my situation is the following:
i am dualbooting windows & manjaro, i use majaro for 99% of the things i do, one of my ssd's is only used for games but its still formated as ntfs because i also need it in windows
now when i boot up manjaro the drive doesn't get automatically mounted, its showing up in dolphin but i have to click it and enter my password for it to actually be connected. is there a way to have it automatically connect? i already tried to add it to fstab but after doing that i cant boot into manjaro because the mounting process doesnt work.

>>106009584
>25.0
Literally 2 years old. Backports don't include new features.

https://github.com/Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine

is this thing even supposed to work? I think i just wasted 2 hours of my life

>>106009853
No idea. The KDE Plasma one works.
https://github.com/catsout/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin

I'm not using it right now but I did in the past when I wanted a video wallpaper.

>>106009853
Works fine on Bazzite KDE out of the box.

>people actually use a gaming OS for their desktop
are they retarded?

>>106010009
Bazzite is more of a general purpose desktop OS to be honest, they just market it towards gamers because they pre-install a bunch of gamer crap. It's immutable Fedora but with all of the crap you'd manually configure yourself (like drivers and codecs) done for you.

>>106010024
So the answer is yes. Thanks.

>>106010046
Well that's definitely the audience they're going for, yeah. Normies that don't want to spend time installing and configuring RPMFusion and dnf swapping Mesa and Ffmpeg with the freeworld version you actually want to use, etc.

Fedora is a decent distribution but they make it prohibitively difficult to configure properly for desktop usage.

Ok so I don't understand something. I have 16 gigs of ram on my thinkpad. Why would I need any swap partition? Arch is supposedly lightweight, as is Linux in general. And the general advice is to get 1.5x the ram for swap so I would have to spend 24 gigs on swap partition. For what purpose?

>>106010075
So you don't reach OOM and freeze or crash. Windows does the same thing with pagefiles.

>>106010075
Just use zram

>>106009942
>>106009974
averave gnome issue I guess, but I'm not switching DE just for animated wallpapers. Thanks for replying tho

>>106010075
So you can swap out unused/wasted RAM to allow for more RAM that is actually being used.
https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html

>>106010009
>Windows XP ships with Space Pinball
>Windows 7 ships with Hearts
>Windows 10/11 ship with Xbox app
why the fuck do retards use these GAMING operating systems instead of arch liGNUx ???

>>106010139
Yeah, Pinball and Solitaire are definitely the equivalent of a operating system that that completely caters towards gamers. I agree with Windows 11, though. Why are retards using that?

>>106010094
my recommended win10 pagefile is only 3gigs but it's set on automatic
should it be better set on manual with like 24gigs? though i'm not experiencing any system issues so why tinker with it

>>106010075
Enable zram swap

>>106010160
No probably not like the other guy said you might just wanna use ZRAM. It's the same idea but you don't need a partition for it.
If you don't want to then don't but don't cry when your browser crashes.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram

>>106010095
Is zram even helpful over 8GB? Over 16GB?

>>106010075
1. Hibernation (suspend to disk)
2. Prevents your OS from freezing when OOM

The first scenario requires your swap to be at least on par with your RAM. I assume the extra space is just for regular swapping under OOM scenarios.

>>106010203
Yes, because it can compress unused/wasted pages of RAM so that they take up less space in RAM. There is a smell overhead to this but ZRAM runs on a toaster.

>>106002936
it shows up as one in dolphin and filelight, however its "only" half its size

What are your thoughts on hibernation? On either windows or linux. Should it be used or do you just power your shit off at night?

>>106010436
I only use suspend

>>106010436
>just power your shit off at night?
Always done that, will continue to do it

>>106010473
That's fucked up, anon. You wouldn't power down Data, would you?

>>106010436
I disable hibernation on my Windows machines so the shut down actually shuts down. Never cared for other states, I want my shit off.

>>106010209
>Prevents your OS from freezing when OOM
Runaway allocation will still result in freezes. You need an OOM killer service to prevent this. Swap is helpful for retiring unused parts of memory and batch processing, esp media work.

>>106010479
He deserves to get some rest as well.

>>106010209
>Prevents your OS from freezing when OOM
It doesn't, it only allows you to push back the spot when it goes oom. And recovering from a near oom state is harder when you have (slow) swap.

>>106010436
I power off my pc at night. Whats the benefit of keeping it on? Save 10 seconds, which I'll use to fetch a cup of tea anyway?
Hibernation implies increased SDD usage since all of your ram has to go into swap, and it also implies a security risk since all your ram is stored in disk for anyone to see

>>106010594
what's the benefit of turning it off? complete waste of time. i have lots of stuff open, a lot of it is in memory

>>106010436
Used to use it years ago, now I just never power down. On laptop I use suspend. I don't really see any use for hibernation now as it's slower.

>>106010708
You can do whatever you want anon, you dont need my seal of approval.

>>106010780
I need validation of anonymous and potentially non-real strangers online.

I'm compiling an emulator lads, wish me luck

>>106011182
no one cares tranny.

>>106011182
Is that the one which might contain malware? Good luck. Can't wait to see all your personal data online.

>>106011222
I'm trying a different fork which seems to be more popular. This fork might not work as well but more people have used it.

>>106010075
make a swapfile instead of partition.
i have neither tho, 32gb and i'm fine.

>>106011217
I care

>>106011782
Based. My compilation is nearly done. I fixed some issues along the way. Hopefully (touch wood) it finishes successfully.

FINALLY i got VR working
that was a lot of troubleshooting

>>106011826
>touch wood
pervert

I was wondering about luks encryption, if I were to, say, encrypt my drive, boot into the system and put in the unencryption password to gain access. No I have access to the unencrypted files.
If a malicious person accessed my system while it's runnig would the files as is (unencrypted)? Or would he also require the encryption passwordto be able to make sense of the data?

Again this is during normal operation of the device with the encrypted drive mounted and accessed

Compilation appeared to succeed but the binary just segfaults. Fuck.

>>106009853
>>106010101
found the issue. linux-wallpaperengine requires wlr-layer-shell, and gnome seems to be the only wayland desktop environment that, for some reason, refuses to support it. lol

>>106012246
yes, as long as the system runs (and you don't close the crypto device) it stays open (that means unencrypted) and can be read just like an unencrypted device (ownership and stuff still applies)

>>106012282
>for some reason,
because it's GNOME

>>106012309
so it wouldn't make sense to luks encrypt a drive used to store cctv footage since the cams would be on, ideally, 24/7 and the drive will remain operational writing that data 24/7.
Right?

>>106012330
Drive encryption mainly protects you in case of theft of the hardware. It like doesn't hurt to use it though, so why not?

>>106012282
you've been gnome'd

>echo a long string containing multi-byte unicode characters
>pipe into various tools to cut the string at ${COLUMNS}
>each tool outputs different lengths, none of which align with terminal width

>>106012359
thanks anon

>>106007073
I've been doing it for years on linux, fitgirl stuff is hit or miss so I don't even bother with it, if I need a repack I use dodi but prefer gog or cs rin ru
>can't find the exe
The games you install (either through steam or a launcher) are stored in their own prefixes and you should always point to the C drive during installation

>fedora kde
>ok time for some gaming
>oh bluetooth connection failed
>ok the settings menu is frozen let me just close it
>oh its not closing, well let me just nuke it in the system monitor
>oh its not closing, well I have an update ready anyway I'll just update and reset
>oh its not shutting down because I have unsaved settings

At least I had time to save my projects, few times a week I have a complete freeze, followed by two staggered login screens and a second complete freeze. Is this what you Kdeheads have been dealing with? I like the multi monitor support and panel customization but otherwise it doesn't seem worth the effort.

>>106013176
>Is this what you Kdeheads have been dealing with?
Never experienced anything like this. All the critical KDE bugs I ever had were between versions 5.0 and 5.20. The worst thing that happens to me nowadays is the panel becoming unresponsive for a few seconds every other month.

is aurora essentially fedora kde or am i seeing this wrong?

>>106013358
>Aurora takes a greenfield approach to Linux applications by defaulting to Flathub and brew by default
how horrifying

>>106013412
I feel kind of bad for zoomers because containers are the only new thing they get to play with, but also fuck zoomers pathologically containerizing everything.

>>106013412
i take that as a no?

>>106013658
smells like immutable fedora with a kde desktop, yes
hint being the rpm-ostree mention

>>106012330
>so it wouldn't make sense to luks encrypt a drive used to store cctv footage since the cams would be on
You could lock the camera PC obviously.
>>106011578
partition > file
>>106010436
Hibernation is a power off state.

>>105998709 (OP)
I'm looking for an alternative for Everything Search + PowerToys Run from Windows.

With those 2 combined (using a plugin) I can quickly search my entire smb network share on a spotlight-like UI with an option to open up Everything for deeper file search.
I just want to search up filenames in particular, but metadata would also be nice.
The smb share is a zfs pool running on truenas community/scale.
On that setup, it searches instantly without fail even running on a Windows VM on my mac.
I am looking for an alternative as I am planning to replace my Windows instance on my truenas for something lighter, as well as my windows vm on my mac.
I will probably use Ubuntu as I have already used it before.

>>106013939
would locking it affect the operation of writing video footage.

>>106013984
Locking as in don't leave the terminal/desktop open to anyone. Or a passwordless telnet service or anything dumb like that.

I use linux for years and holy fucking shit mv ignoring dotfiles will always pisses me off jesus christ

>>106013679
Should i stop using it then? I don’t know what any of this means

>>106014074
That's the shell not mv. In bash shopt -s dotglob to include dotfiles in * expressions. Or use find or move the parent directory instead.

>>106014183
I know about the magic words, but saying that bash is to blame instead of mv is pointless, when I drop in a new terminal i want things to work and not try the thing and the go "wait where's the .env? oh yea i forgot to say the magic words!"

>>106014128
You'll have to decide for yourself. Its more about preferences, kinda. They're easy to roll back if something goes wrong, whereas you need a specific filesystem roll back on a regular distro. You technically shouldnt access anything outside of your home folder in these.
I find them unnecessary, but that could be just me. You'll be better off checking what an immutable distro is if you're curious. I think steamOS is immutable if that serves as reference.

>>106014394
That's what bashrc is for retard.

>>106014408
>need to tinker with your fucking terminal so it doesn't ignore files
Also, is there any good reason why rm is anal about whether it's a file or a folder? Or why rmdir is anal about whether a folder is empty?

>>106014422
Works as an explicit confirmation about what you want to do as far as im concerned. Possibly helps scripts ie delete all empty folders recursively

>>106014422
People want to remove files or prune empty directories without worrying about whether they're going to nuke the entire directory tree.

>>106014394
go to ~/.bashrc or /etc/profile(if you want it global)
enter all your bullshit it
never worry it again.

>>106014500
>never
i work with a bunch of vms and yes, also with container faggotry
defaults that just work is the most important feature a software can have for me

>>106013948
would ulauncher + this plugin do the job?
https://ext.ulauncher.io/-/github-hillaryychan-ulauncher-fzf

>>106008069
try xvkbd

Would using hyprland and ricing be possible on a 100% free distro such as parabola as opposed to arch?

>>106014963
Well everything used in the process is open source so?

I used tune2fs to run fsck on my root drive during boot. How do I check the results?

I just read about the recovery menu, is that the better way to run fsck on my root drive?

>>106014528
>whaaaah i have to learn new behaviors to deal with legacy nonsense
Welcome to doing anything of consequence with computers ever. Deal or fuck off.

>>106014963
>100% free
That's a synonym for not having Nvidia drivers, firmware blobs and proprietary unRAR. So yeah, everything works the same regarding your ricing software.

So apparently updating KDE and the kernel during a live session comes with risk and you're encouraged to do offline updates on Fedora, but are there any reasons not to apply the updates immediately for anything else right before turning off the computer? I know that updating programs without restarting can cause problems but if I'm just shutting the computer after the update is done then this shouldn't matter.

>>106015518
on Ubuntu, for that matter

nevermind, found the info that I had trouble finding about fsck

>>106015991
I've always been very carefree about the updates, usually updating in the background while im doing something else. The only annoyance has been firefox, which will tell you "this tab has crashed" when you open a new tab after updating while its still open. Closing and opening it again obviously fixes it. Usually I dont reboot unless I want to test nothing has gone wrong (ie nvidia proprietary drivers shitting themselves, it has yet to happen though)
Havent experienced any other issues related to updates and I've had driver updates in the background. Maybe I'm just dancing in a minefield, who knows.

>>106016405
>usually updating in the background
What's the point of this unless you never turn off your computer? I generally only update when I'm done for the day and going to shut off my computer.
>Maybe I'm just dancing in a minefield, who knows.
So I read that if you update KDE/Plasma and something goes wrong/crashes during the update it can be difficult to recover and you may soft brick it. I presume you can recover from snapshots but it'll be more annoying to do if you can't get into your computer. This is why they recommend offline updates for Plasma.

>>106015991
Generally linux distros will not switch kernel until next boot, for KDE simply restart it and services.

>>106016472
>What's the point of this unless you never turn off your computer?
Not having to wait for the update transactions to be completed after im done for the day, sometimes with the bonus of having less issues with stuff like yt-dlp before the day ends. Most of the time im just fishing for updates of specific applications and I just press y because might as well since i havent had issues before. At first I upgraded with stuff running on purpose to test if it could be done, fully prepared to deal with the consequences. Eventually I just stopped worrying about it because my attempts to see it breaking failed. I do wonder what the update process looks like under the hood.
>KDE/Plasma
I suppose it makes sense, kind of. The original post seemed to ask if something could go wrong applying updates immediately for anything that is not specifically Plasma, which I assume is referring to its package, my experience is that it hasnt caused any issues other than having to restart firefox if it gets updated.

>>106016472
Lol, must be a retard from reddit, why would DE act different when being offline..
> Just halt KDE (all of it)
> Do your KDE update
> Start KDE and related services

I just switched to openSUSE today, very comfy distribution! I did an update after installing it, and it changed the kde boot logo to its own logo and the wallpaper to a black one after booting from the update, weird, but I just changed the wallpaper with my own one, other than that I'm loving this distro so far!!

>>106016904
Forgot to mention that I'm on tumbleweed, I've noticed a small screen tearing, probably because I'm using Wayland, also encountered a bug where I couldn't close Firefox, the borders of Firefox was black and couldn't see shit, had to close it using the task bar, will take a photo if this happens again.

>>106017046
Wayland based DEs have vsync on by default, as far as I know. Nvidia?

>>106017185
I'm using intel, this is so weird but at least the screen tearing is small

>>106017046
>the borders of Firefox was black and couldn't see shit
I think this happened to me once in some specific version of KDE (or maybe just firefox) after I updated to it, but it was fixed after a reboot.
>screen tearing
This shouldn't happen. I assume you're either on X11 still or maybe there's a GPU driver issue or performance issue of some sort? Try running the following in your terminal to confirm if you're actually on Wayland
loginctl session-status

>>106017225
Here's the output of the command anon.

>>106017236
Fucking hell, if you want me to fix it tell me.

>>106017236
>type: x11
kinda curious about how you came to the conclusion that you were using wayland

>>106017236
nevermind anons, forgive my retardness, I thought opensuse uses wayland by default, turns out it was x11

>>106017236
OK, so it's pretty much what I thought. You're using X11 instead of Wayland. X11 has screen tearing by default and your compositor needs to be configured to fix it.
Or you can just switch to the Wayland session. I'm not sure how OpenSUSE handles this, but most distros have separate packages for the X11 and Wayland sessions.

>>106017261
He probably thought it's the default, since it is in many distros with KDE 6.

>>106017265
Photo is fucked up again

>>106017279
Alright, no more screen tearing now, I will say it again, sorry for being retarded anons.

>>106017265
>upside down photo
>random IceWM session
Based boomer

>>106017279
When you take a photo with your phone, it writes metadata to the image telling it your phone orientation. Many image viewers and thumbnail providers rotate your photo based on it's metadata.
4chan strips out metadata from photos (for privacy reasons), so your photo won't adjust it's orientation here.

>>106017265
>>106017289
Its fine dude, personally I just found your situation amusing.

>>105999435
Use a browser that has cookies enabled you mong.

>>106014404
Its kind of my gateway into this world probably for the best if i keep my training wheels on for a while. Im not very tech savvy compared to many here

>>106017827
I'm very tech savvy and even I opted to just use the Universal Blue distros because I don't want to waste time configuring and maintaining my desktops systems.
Just don't let people meme you into randomly distro hopping for no reason. Stick to whatever you prefer.

family member gifted me old X61 Thinkpad, it had Windows XP previously, nothing is upgraded on it (no ram upgrades, no SSD installed)
don't want to just toss it, what's lightweight distro that can run on it with GUI(not Gentoo fuck off)

>>106018149
If anything at least put a SATA SSD in it, something from Crucial or the like.
Then put like CrunchBang++ on it.

>>106018149
If it was me then I'd probably try Debian with a lightweight DE like LXQt. Upgrade the RAM to 8 gigs (old RAM is cheap on eBay, I got some recently). Throw in an SSD. If you need more recent software than what Debian provides, you can get it from Flathub and/or Homebrew. Also if you want to go the extra mile you could repaste the CPU for better thermals, but I'm too lazy myself to do that kind of thing.

>>106018149
The distro doesnt really matter, you want a lightweight DE or a WM instead.

>>106018149
Q4OS with Trinity DE
MX Linux 32-bit is also an option.

>>106018149
Antix use old kernel or simply Devuan (chimaera) and do a manual install.

6.x kernel broke some compatibility drivers and stuff. It can still run, but performance is better with 5.x (or even older, but that can be a bit of a tinker hassle).

Now that I finally migrated to Linux, my productivity is so much higher at important work tasks, like expanding my collection of anime girl-themed Linux distro wallpapers.

>>105998709 (OP)
I am viewing Fedora as more and more of a joke.
I tried installing it on a VM, and failed about 5 times.
>live fedora is janky and requires a lot of vCPU as opposed to live kubuntu
>CAN'T touch anything or open "install on hardware" more than once or anaconda (installer) WILL shit the bed
>baseline mem use after installing is 2GB
>have to install external repos to make it usable
>have to do some multimedia fixes to reduce mem use back to 1.4GB typical of baseline KDE
After that, the KDE experience feels solid so far and the packages I need are easy to install.
Will continue to use for a while and see if silverblue or kinoite are more my thing.

>>106018510
Using regular Fedora is like using Debian or Arch. It's not really made to work out of the box, you're supposed to know how to manage it and configure it.
If you want a usable Fedora system use Nobara or Aurora.

>>106018510
>Launching Spectacle (failed) Remote peer disconnected
>random SE Linux notification pops up and dissapppears every 0.2 seconds when starting waydroid
>black screen on logout
>>106018557
I believe you.
>Aurora
>Nobara
Their websites are shit, especially for nobara. How difficult is it to enable rootless containers on Aurora?

>>106018649
>How difficult is it to enable rootless containers on Aurora?
Should be very easy since podman is preinstalled on Bluefin, which is just Aurora GNOME for devs.

>>106017265
>>106017236
Based zoomer fighting against Prt Scr tricknology

>>106018510
Haha you will get spammed by the redhat bots

>>106014879
yeah that was chatgpt's last recommendation.
I think I spent ~three hours with it and tried multiple different solutions (florence, onboard, and lastly xvkbd)
now it works

why does hardware cursor not work properly with modern amdgpus when using x11? i had no problems with nvidia. between this and not being able to use hdmi 2.1 i genuinely regret buying amd

>>106018819
Why are you using X11 my nigga. We live in a Wayland world now.

>>106018892
Does MouseInjector work on Wayland

I'm getting a T480 today and plan putting Debian on it. Tell me what I'm in for /tpg/

>>106018917
This thing?

https://github.com/garungorp/MouseInjectorDolphinDuck

Dunno. Can't you just use a keyboard or a gamepad for playing emulators? That's what I do. These games were designed for gamepads in the first place.

>>106018934
Okay, ebassi.

>>106018510
Check out the spins; Maybe grab lxde or xcfe if you have an older computer.
https://fedoraproject.org/spins/lxde

>>106018917
Depends how it works. If it's using X11 hacks then maybe not (although KDE tries to maintain compatibility with legacy X11 crap if you turn this on in their settings app).
If it registers a proper virtual mouse/gamepad/whatever then it should do.

>>106018978
I'm not saying you have to use GNOME. Plasma uses Wayland too now right?

>>106018923
>Debian
Misery

Not sure if this is the right thread, but here goes.

Accidentally wiped my phone by trying to downgrade to a previous month's update for LineageOS. Seems this tripped some sort of security mechanism.

Anyway, I'd like to recover the data that's there. Rooted the device and managed to DD parts of the user partition. Forensic tools like sleuthkit or photorec fail, it seems the data is encrypted. Here's the thing, I never actually set a password on the phone. So is there a way to decrypt the default level encryption so I can get my photos? Year's worth of data since backup. FML

>>106019120
>Doesn't like Debian
Why?

>>106019130
It's a pain in the ass.
>Select best mirror
>Mirror isn't verified
>Can't do shit
>All the latest software is on backports
>Doesn't use backports by default
>Doesn't offer a rolling release .iso file
Basically, they don't hold your hand at all. There's a lot of documentation and configuration involved.

>>106018510
i dont get what you mean by "multimedia fixes"

>>106019122
The encryption key is probably in the tpm of the phone and there's no way of getting it out if you don't have an electron microscope to read the data directly from the chip

>>106002452
Customize> Toolbars > Target = Notebookbar Shortcuts > uncheck all

>>106019159
>https://www.debian.org/distrib/
>https://www.debian.org/intro/index#software
??

>>106019159
Just use the deb.debian.org mirror. No need to select a different one. These days that mirror is distributed amongst multiple other mirrors anyway, there is no single centralised mirror anymore.

How to mount a flash drive from cli and have it appear in the default file manger?

>>106019779
Mount the /dev/ block device associated with the USB to a folder in /mnt/

>>106019779
Use udisksctl if you really want the same mechanism that the file manager uses. You can just mount it manually with the mount command though and browse to the path you mounted it at e.g:
# insert USB
$ dmesg | tail
[22136.124817] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[22136.124820] initcall init_module+0x0/0xff0 [uas] returned 0 after 180 usecs
[22137.150365] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Ultra 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[22137.155276] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] 240353280 512-byte logical blocks: (123 GB/115 GiB)
[22137.156311] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[22137.156315] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[22137.156596] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[22137.195051] sdd: sdd1 sdd2
[22137.195571] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[22137.195614] probe of 5:0:0:0 returned 0 after 45054 usecs
$ sudo mount /dev/sddX /mnt
$ xdg-open /mnt

>>106019790
>Mount the /dev/ block device associated with the USB to a folder in /mnt/
This is such an AI answer
>>106019802
I know I can do so with mount, but I really need it to show on file manger as removable media.
I thought gio was the way to do it but no.

>>106019870
>I really need it to show on file manger as removable media.
Then use Udiskctl

>>106019870
Why not just install udiskie and have that mount your USBs for you? Why do you need to mount them via terminal?

I dualboot windows and debian, why is it that windows at 30% volume is as loud as debian at 70% volume?
I don't underestand

>>106019937
>I don't underestand
Yes, you do.

>>106019883
Thanks man.
I have that installed already, but why does it need sudo when it's on user space?
>>106019887
>Why do you need to mount them via terminal?
Well, I want to plug external HDD to my HTPC that I control over SSH.
But my gf doesn't know linux, and doesn't understand that you need to mount drives and auto mounting is disabled.
So if it show in the file manger it would be simple enough for her to use.

>>106019975
>why does it need sudo when it's on user space?
It uses Polkit and the default is to need to be root or to have to supply your password. You can make a rule to loosen this so that any user can mount drives though.

Is Linux Mint seamlessly compatible with NTFS file systems? Like if I have a bunch of external drives formatted in NTFS will I have any trouble copying to/from them?

>>106020623
No. No.
You're mapping between two different permission systems. It can never be seamless. The ntfs-3g driver is very reliable though.

>>106019937
Because Linux audio goes from 0% to 150% instead of 0% to 100%

I can't install Tumbleweed in my PC with Rufus... BalenaEtcher even less. I could only burn Zorin in my usb because it was a live cd, but now I wanted to go back from W11 to it. I even wanted to see how good GNOME is, despite my PC being humble:
>CPU Intel Celeron N4020 1,1GHz
>4GB RAM
>128GB SSD

>>106019171
https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

>>106020845
>i can't install tumbleweed
How so? Any errors out there? Maybe I can help you, press Esc when booting tumbleweed for the first time, it will show all errors + what tumbleweed is doing
>BalenaEtcher
Etcher is spyware, I wouldn't trust any booting device burned by etcher.

>>106020952
The error lies in installation process: I downloaded both offline and network images and tried to burn via Rufus, but then it showed me an error saying something about ISO-Hybrid model and then when I burn it into the USB, it goes from having 16GB to having only 5MB of size.

>>106020845
Use ventoy and drop the iso in the drive

On arch sshd fails to start, how do I ensure it always starts? I had to start it manually
systemd[1]: Starting OpenSSH Daemon...
sshd[1770]: error: Bind to port 22 on [address] failed: Cannot assign requested address.
sshd[1770]: fatal: Cannot bind any address.
systemd[1]: sshd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
systemd[1]: sshd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenSSH Daemon.
systemd[1]: sshd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
systemd[1]: sshd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
systemd[1]: sshd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.


# /usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd.service
[Unit]
Description=OpenSSH Daemon
Wants=sshdgenkeys.service
After=sshdgenkeys.service
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=notify-reload
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sshd -D
KillMode=process
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

The config is the default except root and password disabled and public key enabled.

>>106020988
Oh i see, iso hybrid isn't an error, it just shows that the boot device will be made using DD (won't change anything though)

>>106021014
>sshd[1770]: error: Bind to port 22 on [address] failed: Cannot assign requested address.
sshd[1770]: fatal: Cannot bind any address.
That implies you already have some other service listening on port 22?

$ sudo ss -tunlp | grep -F :22
tcp LISTEN 0 128 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* users:(("sshd",pid=4605,fd=6))
tcp LISTEN 0 128 [::]:22 [::]:* users:(("sshd",pid=4605,fd=7))

>>106021002
Opensuse doesn't support booting from ventoy for some reason.

>>106021034
There's nothing there except sshd

>>106021118
That's the point, if sshd is already running because something started it independent of sshd.service then sshd.service will fail to start properly.

I guess you could try using Socket Activation instead but Arch disabled that because Systemd is so shit that it refuses connections to the socket if someone tries to brute force your server.

>>106021174
Checking journalctl, sshd.service stops trying before NetworkManager has even connected to the network

>>106021247
Maybe something is wrong with network.target. I think it could theoretically fail to bind if the network isn't up properly yet. You could try making it depend on NetworkManager or write a NetworkManager hook to restart it. I think the etworkManager-wait-online.service
is supposed to fix this though but that's a bit of a nuclear option.

>>106021324
Should be:
>NetworkManager-wait-online.service