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first for Linux For Niggers

>>106028559

>>106028420
>If you have 25% or more free I wouldn't even fuck with balance unless you start getting ENOSPC
So it's only useful for almost full drives? If it's that bad for drives with a lot of free space, how come it's by default set to weekly?

>>106028612
Probably because they inherit the balance check criteria from btrfs-maintenance, but I wouldn't assume. It used to be a much bigger deal because the filesystem would become unusable unless you knew how to do a specific balance operation.

>>106028874
So what are the risks/downsides if I disable balance on a drive with more than 25% free space?

>>106028897
not him but there could be some disc usage overhead if you have many chunks with spotty allocation
basically if you don't balance for a long time you could find you gain some space after balancing. it doesn't really matter if you aren't struggling for space however
i wouldn't worry about running it automatically unless it's set to a low-ish percentage like 50% or less, that is, you can configure the tool to only balance chunks with X percent utilisation. no need to balance ones that are reasonably full unless you're trying to max out how much you can put on the volume. if you aren't low on space then it's just a waste of writes

Flatpak apps' filesystem permissions don't work for mounts that did not exist at startup. This makes sshfs mounts fucky wucky. How do we fix it?

>>106028897
You would just run out of space when there's still space left and be unable to create new files until you do an offline balance. They've gotten to the point now that it's not something you have to think about unless your disk is inadvisably full.

>install Linux
>be a total retard
>download stuff through Flatpak to counter my retardedness
>System Update tells me there's all sorts of problems
I don't even use GNOME, so that confuses me a lot. I use KDE.
Bazzite OS, if that matters.
>https://pastebin.com/Qv2jxJW9
Anyone feel like helping my retarded ass understand?

why is updating packages in arch so slow. first few apps are downloading at 15 MiB/s, the last two right now are downloading at 100 KiB/s.

>>106029639
Have you updated your mirrors recently so they're not slow as shit

>>106029658
Well, I just have a whole bunch of USA mirrors uncommented. Should I just comment them all and choose a random 5?

>>106029697
I'd recommend using reflector instead. That's the easiest way to set up a good mirrorlist.

>>106029703
Anything similar outside of reflector? Looking at forum and apparently dev has been missing for over a year, and using reflector, I'm getting partial error on two mirrors.

best gnome distro that is not fedora? it feels like its running some gloware behind the scenes, will debian have good defaults for gnome? mint has some issues with my mobo sata controllers and ssds..

>>106029821
It's just a script that grabs mirrors from the Arch mirrors page and lists them how you command it out, it doesn't really need to be updated like other programs. Like:
>sudo reflector --country "your country and/or surrounding/near countries" --latest 10 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Is 7zip cli available on the fedora repos? I think it was ported to linux some years ago, but I can only find p7zip, that hasn't been updated in almost a decade. it still gets the job done tho

>>106029864
>mint has some issues with my mobo sata controllers and ssds..
Extra info?
>>106029639
Posted a billion times: Arch mirrors are run by literal randos.

>>106030334
Dunno if it's cli but there's a 7zip package that was updated 2 days ago. Upstream is 7-zip.org

>>106030509
meh some sort of bug i believe with amd chipsets, watching dmesg shows how the drive gets attached then throws a bunch of io errors and then it disconnects, at first I said shit its the ssds because i got em from aliexpress and so i panicked, but then I noticed the same was happening with a regular hdd that has been working forever, changed sata cables, fuck even repasted the heatsink on that chipset thinking it was overheating, then gave a final try with fedora and the stuff just worked, zero errors at all, but fedora is acting wonky and I am not liking these flatpaks

>>106029629
That's just stuff that's no longer supported by Flathub, nothing prevents you from keeping using it

>>106030334
No. Use the builds provided by 7-zip.org for now if you need them. There's a freetard fight going on about the build dependencies.

First for Guix System is the best GNU+Linux distribuition.

>>106030627
Interesting. What kernel versions were used?

has anyone tried replacing GNU coreutils with the rust uutils yet?

ok what is the most recent and 100% guaranteed to work method on installing stable diffusion with an amd GPU? Cause now I can't even use it on Linux mint since I get the externally managed environment pig when running pip3 install commands

>>106031604
Should note It doesn't only have to be Linux mint, I could also use arch if the guide is 100% confirmed to also work on arch Linux.

>>106029864
ubuntu

i booted to fedora kde and when i try to actually install it on my sdd or do any updates it says i have 2.8mb out of 3.6tb. how do i fix this?

>>106031589
Yes, I'm using it on my system. It mostly just werks but there are still issues with it. It's a work-in-progress after all.

Good luck to Canonical to get it in proper shape for Ubuntu though.

>>106031589
Don't follow the ubuntu stupidity, this what container are for

>>106031908
meh i have 4 nucs just sitting doing nothing
might reinstall arch on one to just get this going and see how good or bad it is

>>106031918
It's literally the exact same thing as GNU's only with more bugs and sometimes faster performance (their yes implementation is crazy fast compared to GNU's)

>>106031873
Install a real distro, by which I mean a Debian-based distro

>>106031983 which one do u recommend?

>>106031995
the default linux distro is arch, just use that. debian is ok but more gay.

>>106031964
Also they completely broke it at the moment. lmao:
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/8381

I just had to downgrade to an older commit. I am guessing they will fix this in time but you can't even run the git master branch at the moment because of this.

is youtube actively making Firefox use more CPU vs using Chrome or Chromium?
i switched because of ublock origin and 4chanx and these fuckers are already trying to make me regret it (i don't)

>>106032129
I've heard that they might be being that petty, yes.
I haven't noticed anything too bad, but sometimes videos can randomly take longer to start then usual if I open them in a private window.

>>106032129
Maybe, but the Firefox js engine is garbage too

>>106031604
dunno about most recent, but here's what I did.
I have to update my setup though, newer rocm should finally support my gpu so I wouldn't need the gpu hack anymore.
Also, this was back when Arch bumped to python 3.13, but torch didn't support that so I had to install 3.12 from the aur.

pacman -S rocm-ml-sdk
python3.12 -m venv ./venv

. ./venv/bin/activate
pip install wheel
pip3 install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm6.2

HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=11.0.0 python rocm-test.py

ComfyUI:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

>>106029629
Programmer here. If anything ever says "Warning", it's ok. It's only a problem if you ever see "Error" at the start of a sentence, and it's only sometimes a problem.

>>106031873
Did you select the "delete all data before installing" option in the Fedora installer? Maybe it didn't take up your whole disk.
Can you open your KDE Partition Manager or GNOME Disks and do a screenshot on how your partitions are set up?

>>106031995
Don't listen to the troll. Fedora is much better than Debian. Debain is only good for servers because it takes years for it to get feature updates.

>>106032129
Google was caught sabotaging any non-Chromium engine before, by using non-standard features which were introduced to Chromium only. And I'm pretty sure they also had a bug (maybe intentional) which delayed loading of the page by a few seconds if they detected that the browser is using an adblocker or if it has certain privacy options enabled (the latter mainly affected Firefox).
I recommend just using Grayjay or any other alternative frontend.

>>106032325
>And I'm pretty sure they also had a bug (maybe intentional) which delayed loading of the page by a few seconds if they detected that the browser is using an adblocker
I got that "bug" recently

>>106032399
Really? I thought they fixed it last year.

>>106032409
The video doesn't load for a while and I get a popup at the bottom left with "Experiencing connection issues *wink* *wink*". If I click on it it says "It might be your adblocker *wink *wink**"

>>106032420
Are you using uBlock Origin or something else? I've never seen this.

>>106032446
uBlock origin. It only started happening recently and not even on every video. I tried to reproduce it but everything works at the moment

>>106032176
t. Sundar Pichai

>>106032129
It doesn't help that they are now randomly sending deliberately broken/malformed HTTP/403 requests (but not always, only some of the time) even if you are logged in and Firefox is sending them all of the tracking cookie goodness they want. This causes videos to stutter and there's nothing Firefox or Mozilla can do about it because it's their server that's doing it.

I'm trying Fedora on a VM and it is harassing me with system updates daily. And unlike pamac, Discover doesn't let me deselect packages from the batch install, so updating GIMP necessarily means updating everything else. Should I wait for Debian 13 before installing Linux? Seems like it'd mostly leave me alone for the next 2 years.

>>106032801
I'm running Debian 12 and I don't get updates daily. Maybe every couple days. And normally it's just one or two packages at a time. Sometimes it might be 5 or more.

>>106032801
change your mindset

>>106032801
You can turn off update checks and notifications. Installing a single app shouldn't pull everything.
But, I'm using their Atomic distros instead of regular ones. So maybe it works differently on Kinoite/Silverblue/UniversalBlue.

>>106032811
Sounds beautiful. I wanna wait for Debian 13 though since it's got a new installer and a whole new version of Plasma; I don't want to tweak an ancient version of Plasma just for everything to get nuked in 2 weeks from now.

>>106032846
Try siduction or kubuntu, you will probably just get frustrated with how debian stable works.

>>106032892
>kubuntu
fuck snaps

>>106032801
>>106032828
this, updates are actually good in linux in basically all cases. i can understand deferring them for technical or practical reasons, like if you have internet access limitations, or if you're working on something and just want to be left alone for a bit, but otherwise, just let it update. more often than not, foss tends to improve over time, unlike many proprietary programs.
i do understand that even beneficial updated can cause interruptions, so i get it, you can defer them, though in many distros you do have to update multiple things at a time just because of how things are packaged together as a system rather than independently. it's something you're just going to have to get used to (or use one of the few distros that do this in a less traditional way if it's really a big issue for you)

>>106032899
remove snapd
>>106032956
gnome bot

>>106033148
>gnome bot
gnome is one of the reasons i have to now say "basically" all cases

>>106033148
>remove snapd
You still have to manually set up ppa's for each package that gets hijacked with snaps.

>>106028463 (OP)
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/1971434
I'm not very proficient in linux. What is a backport? This shit is going to ruin my monitor.

>>106033387
A backport is a patch that exists on the most current version that is ported as a fix to an older version.
Only really relevant for you if you use point-release distros.

>>106033405
With that bug, can I do it myself or do I need to wait for someone do it? Is there a guide?

>>106033575
I'm currently in ubuntu 24 lts.

Can anyone offer any pointers in tracking down why resuming after hibernation results in a black screen? This is the error i see, seems to only be when the machine has been hibernated for a few hours.

> Jul 26 19:06:05 fedora kernel: ACPI: PM: Hardware changed while hibernated, success doubtful!


Desktop, Intel CPU, AMD GPU, bluetooth mouse, not dual booting, Fedora 42 all updates applied, no pending firmware etc.

>>106033575
I'm unfamiliar with the patching process for mutter, sorry. In theory you should be able to do it and then you'd have to build it from source and replace the version from your package manager with the one you built yourself. But that's janky as fuck.
I think your best bet is turning your monitor off when not using it for now, until it is back-ported or you switch to a newer version.
Stuff like this is why I only use rolling-release personally.

>>106032214
Just use the Docker containers AMD publishes. It's the only sane way to use ROCm.

>>106033719
I have no idea what mutter is, I like gnome and xfce but I really don't want to change now. I'll try to update to 24.10 and then 25.04 since it is fixed there according to that thread. Thanks man.

>>106032325
>Did you select the "delete all data before installing" option in the Fedora installer?
im not sure i dont remember honestly but i feel like i missed a important step during setup.
im banned from posting images so heres a link https://files.catbox.moe/jpi18z.png

Which Linux distro will let you Feed and Seed but NOT Fuck and Suck?

>>106033762
Looks like one of your NTFS partitions is taking up almost 3TB of space, but it's mostly empty. Your OS wasn't installed there because that would require wiping all the data from it. I'll assume you have some stuff on it because you're migrating from Windows and I assume you don't want it all deleted. (Or perhaps you're dual booting)

When you're installing Fedora, under the "Storage configuration" you'll see a checkbox at the bottom which says "Free up space" or "Reclaim space". Tick that and press "Continue" or "Next". When you do that, it will show you a dialog screen with all those partitions. So, just select ones you don't need and click on the "Delete" button to flag them for deletion. Then the most important step is to select your NTFS partition (it will be the largest one with 2.6TB) and click "Shrink". This option will let you reduce the size of the partition and leave the disk space to your Fedora install, while keeping all your files in the NTFS partition. Just make sure that it's flagged as "Preserve" instead of "Delete" before you continue.
At the end of everything you should have a smaller NTFS partition with all your shit, and (I assume) 1 giant "Free space" option where you should install Fedora.

>>106035345
fuck off migakike

>>106035353
I'm way more racist and antisemitic than you are.

>>106035508
you may be more racist, but i am the most antisemitic man on this planet. i make hitler look like the director of the hebrew aid society. i make martin luther look like an judeo christian.
henry ford still makes cars for me for free.
respect your elders, kid

>>106035819
>you may be more racist
How mixed are you?

>>106035973
mixed with what? your mom? plenty. bitch loves a good buttfucking from a BWC

/fglt/ is glowing a lot today.

Why does every fucking distro have to replace discover with some bullshit app that doesn't work nearly as well? I understand you can probably bring it back but if they consciosly purged it it would probably be a hassle to integrate it fully into everything.
Back to Fedora it is.

>>106035346
thanks anon it worked but now when i try to install it i get the media check is complete, the result is: FAIL. ill just try installing it again tomorrow

>laptop with amd igpu and nvidia dgpu, proprietary drivers
>connect a secondary screen through hdmi (nvidia manages this one)
>wayland
>moving the cursor on that screen is enough to make the cpu usage go up
>some applications also drive it up
>disabling the vsync partially fixes this
>there's a strange display corruption where the background is partially shown on top of the applications when anything is moving, rendering it unusable
>disabling swaybg so there's no background does nothing but change the color of the corruption from whatever the wallpaper was to black
>x11
>works fine for regular desktop usage but even using mpv in full screen might randomly result in external screen freezing up
>a 3d game is sure to freeze it up
>logs claim that the execution timed out and then disconnects, leaving the monitor frozen with the last image it could display
>x11 also segfaults if i dare to attempt to scale the secondary screen
I hate this. Oddly enough everything works fine with a single screen, even if the nvidia card is used to handle games.

>>106033737
Well that didn't work. Still fucked.
I'm switching to xfce.

>switched from Win10 to Mint
>overall Mint wasn't too bad, just had stability issues with multiple games
>switch over to Bazzite after month
>stability issues are gone and things run great
>miss the extended customization due to Bazzite being immutable

Is Nobara a good alternative? Seems to be the closest to Bazzite, while not being immutable. Will probably give Bazzite a month, before making a potential switch.

Is it common for x applications running on xwayland to freeze the system for a second when mouse hovers over menu items etc? I suspect nvidia is the problem and added nvidia.NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 kernel arg but it did nothing.
Kernel 6.15, NV 575.64, KDE 6.4

>>106037193
yeah that's nvidia

>>106036705
Is red hat paying extra this month? or why all fedora bussyte posts

>>106037358
It's just bazzite schizo. RH doesn't make money off any of that.

>>106036705
Nobara isn't as stable as Bazzite when it comes to system updates. Nothing comes close to Fedora's atomic distros.
What customization are you lacking on Bazzite exactly?

I have learnt an easy technique that can allow a drive to unmount when it doesn't want to unmount

Run `lsof /media/user/MY-DRIVE` then just kill whatever process is still using the drive. Then you'll be able to unmount the drive.

Kind of annoying that I have to do this though. It seems Dolphin emulator isn't closing its access of an external drive properly when I quit the program.

>>106037680
that's not the right way to unmount a drive. you have other problems. please stop that. also please use engrish

you guys can make fun out of bazzite shills but it makes me interested when someone is that obsessive about spamming
it's like when i ignored the hyprland shills who were obsessively spamming that here for ages and it turned out to be actually fucking good
probably gonna give bazzite a try

>>106037680
Safely remove, will probably wait until whatever process is done. If keeps running, kill it.
For more tricks man umount

What are the chances of win10 update fucking up my Arch bootloader if dual boot the on the same ssd?

>>106031589
>>106031964
>>106032034
reminder that the uutils devs faked benchmarks so you cannot trust their benchmarks ever. for example, the GNU implementation of sort is up to 25% faster in common use cases yet their public benchmarks claim a 6x increase.

>>106032214
Unfortunately it still results in a "runtime error:found no Nvidia driver on your system" error whenever I try to run comfy with python main.py, even when I use venv.

>>106038475
did you install pytorch into the venv?
What does rocm-test.py say?

>>106038528
I did install It in venv, and the rocm-test.py file doesnt exist. It just says 'python: can't open file /home/<my username>/rocm-test.py' [errno 2] no such file or directory

>>106038561
sorry, that might have been a file I created myself (I mean copied from somewhere)

import torch

if torch.cuda.is_available() and torch.version.hip:
d = torch.device('cuda')
a = torch.rand(1,2).to(d)

print(torch.cuda.current_device())
print(torch.cuda.get_device_name(d))
print(a)
print("Passed!")
else:
print("ROCm not supported with Pytorch installation")

>>106038603
Am I supposed to type this in a terminal?

>>106038613
you're supposed to put that into a file

What does everyone think of Cutefish? I'm thinking of installing the DE on Arch

>>106038631
Not sure which onr though

>>106038646
it's just a python script, you can name it however yo want.

>>106036613
Xfce works flawlessly. How can gnome can fuck up "making the screen save turn off the screen" is beyond me. Real shame because I find gnome quite ergonomic.

>>106038655
I'm... Just gonna see if easy diffusion can be good enough.

Thanks anyways

>>106038410
The majority of rust is marketing. kinda shame they can't let live like a normal programing language after all this years..

>>106037650
I hate the default terminal. Well not the software, but text displayed when you run it first.
Honestly I may just be retarded, but I couldn't figure out how to change it.

>>106038746
oh fuck me I just realized there is a toggle command lmao

>>106037193
there's a flag to disable the hardware cursor in case you wanna try it
WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1
but given the prefix it might be wlroots specific

>>106038085
>hyprland
>it turned out to be actually fucking good
i cant tell what it offers that i3/sway doesnt, other than gay rounded edges by default

>>106038410
why does your common use case include LC_ALL=C ?

>>106038845
cute anime wallpaper

>>106038333
It's happened to me a couple of times. Usually all I have to do is manually load the EFI file and reinstall Grub.

>>106038890
GNU sort is locale-aware, so sorting may be different based on locale (most obvious one is how capitalization is treated).

uutils' sort is not locale aware and uses naive C style sorting, which is faster but produces different output.

The uutils benchmark didn't consider this difference and so their benchmark results are invalid.

>>106038939
so basically uutils sort is fucked? Interesting.

>>106038964
basically, yes. pic rel shows the checksums of the resulting files.

afaik none of their programs are locale-aware (not so important for some programs like yes, but very important for programs like sort and wc). and they still haven't corrected their public statements

>>106037806
>>106038122
I was trying to unmount my drive but it wouldn't unmount because it said the drive was busy. So I just ran lsof to find out what's still using the drive. I killed the process using the drive. Then I was able to unmount the drive. Easy.
>engrish
No, I'll use English instead.

>>106039016
but then they are kinda useless. Sorting is such a complicated thing, there even are different ways to sort correctly in my locale depending on context.

>>106038638
I'm also looking at Trinity. Thoughts on either of these, anyone?

>>106039164
Trinity looks a bit old fashioned but runs well. Cutefish is very Mac-like

>>106038638
Cutefish hasn't been updated in years, I wouldn't.

how the hell do you configure custom DNS nameservers on arch

What's your music player of choice?
I'm using rhythmbox but it kind of sucks

>>106040413
I've always used Audacious

is there such a thing as an ssh keyring? my ssh folder is littered with keys that i use for personal stuff and i just want 1 simple way to manage it.

>>106040464
seahorse(gnome-keyring) picks up my ssh keys

>>106040413
I also want to know this. I'm coming from Foobar, I'm trying out Audacious, Elisa and Clementine/Strawberry

>>106040525
>>106040413
i use cmus but it's tui. it works great.

Haven't been using Linux in years and want to make the switch back.
I've recently stumbled on NixOS and I like the sound of having your whole system declared in a file (or set of files) that is completely reproducible if I'll ever want to move my setup to a different machine or something like that for example.
Looking into it a little bit more I'm starting to get the feeling that NixOS might be a bit overkill for the type of casual day to day PC use I usually engage in. Should I maybe just go for some more "traditional" distro?

>>106040464
'Keychain' might be what you're looking for

>>106040572
i dont think anyone needs such a setup save for sysadmins, and even then they just use debian/ubuntu/RHEL and some scripts instead
heard it doesnt have proper documentation/its incomplete so fiddling with it is a headache, personally i havent used it

>>106040413
Audacious

Is Nobara a decent distro? anyone here use it ?

>>106040803
Think of it like Fedora's Mint, built by the guy behind Lutris and proton-ge-custom.

>>106040803
Nobara is Fedora but not stupid. I say it is objectively the best distro for anyone not trying to manually install Arch.