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>What are some cool programs?
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Previous thread: >>106205258

>gnome2
>clearlooks
It was such a nice looking DE.

Pikaos or setup debian myself?

>>106223783
Sounds like PikaOS is just Debian Sid set up to be a gaming system from the jump.

>>106223592 (OP)
what file browser is that in the thread pic?

>>106223758
fpbp
>>106223854
I think that's Nautilus

Bazzite is built on Fedora right? I'm trying to install VLC via the command line and the commands don't seem to be working

What are the best fonts for Linux? No, not terminal fonts, but desktop ones. Seems they all look worse than what you get on Windows.

>>106223964
Segoe

>>106223964
Arch Wiki has good sets of fonts you could look into.

Why is Plasma such a CUNT? No matter what I do, I CANNOT get my changes in ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc to do anything; I HAVE to use System Settings to change shortcuts. How are you meant to make your shortcuts deployable via command line?

>>106223964
Ubuntu

>>106224046
command line is for nerds and and kde is a hip and cool DE made for hip and cool people

>>106224046
https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-6-method-to-refresh-kglobalaccel-shortcuts/17995

TLDR; You have to restart KWin (log out and log back in, the reconfigure call to KWin doesn't work) or set the shortcuts via DBus instead of hand-editing the config. Or simply open the settings and change something and hit apply.

>>106224451
>>106224046
You should also be able to script them with kreadconfig/kwriteconfig:
$ cat > ~/.local/share/applications/net.local.kde-dolphin.desktop < [Desktop Entry]
Exec=/usr/bin/dolphin
Name=
NoDisplay=true
StartupNotify=false
Type=Application
X-KDE-GlobalAccel-CommandShortcut=true
EOF
$ kwriteconfig6 --file ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc --group "services" --group "net.local.kde-dolphin.desktop" --key _launch Meta+O
$ kreadconfig6 --file ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc --group "services" --group "net.local.kde-dolphin.desktop" --key _launch
Meta +O


Except this doesn't reload the shortcuts properly either. You'll have to hit apply in the Settings still or log out and back in.

After being comfy on GNU+Linacks for a couple of years and tinkering with software occasionally, running gentoo etc etc, what actually useful things could I do? Not interested in webdev whatsoever. Also not able to afford a home server atm due to being a poor student.

What programming language should I """pick up"""? Have an okay understanding of bash, but when it comes to scripting, I've forgotten most of the syntax due to not practicing it that often.

TLDR: Everything "works on my machine", and I don't know what to work on.

>>106224556
>actually useful things
if you're not making up your own problems and calling solving them "useful", then your options are contributing to open source or getting a job.

>>106224610
It is and has been useful for me. And also brought me some enjoyment. But I'm also sure 50% of it isn't applicable anywhere else, apart from helping someone else.

The thing is that once in a while the dust settles and I'm left with a working machine and no more problems to be solved. It's rather funny to me when the actual solving of some minor (or bigger) thing is more "fun", than doing the thing sometimes.

>>106223956
It's built on Fedora Kinoite (Fedora Atomic). You're supposed to install VLC using the Bazaar app that's pre-installed on Bazzite (aka install it using Flatpak/Flathub). All your GUI software should primarily be sourced from Flathub or downloaded as Appimages.

Fedora Atomic does not use their regular package manager (dnf). It uses "rpm-ostree". So, if, for some obscure reason, you need to install VLC into the system - you can use "rpm-ostree". But it's primarily considered a bad practice, as you're pointlessly polluting your system with 3rd party user software and dependencies.

>>106224649
That's what I did when I still used my iPhone
>>106224684
They probably got fed up of maintaining something only for Apple to keep breaking it in the next version of iOS.

>>106224856
I still think the easiest choice here is to use Localsend or Pairdrop

I have Kubuntu 25.04. Does it make sense to switch to Debian 13 with KDE?

>>106224556
>I don't know what to work on
Think about the stuff you do often and try to figure out how to make it easier or faster, at least that's what I do and I got a bunch of scripts out of it

You ever get the urge to install Gentoo? like a seasonal thing?
I've installed it 5+ times in the past because every time I'm like "I can make it work now!" but I always get filtered after the install is done and I have to spend a day or more compiling the desktop itself

>>106225300
i gave into the urges of installing gentoo and arch, i enjoyed the process but quickly realised i hate rolling release so i went the opposite way and haven't looked back.

>>106225300
Literally me right now, I installed it once but ext4 which is easier. I want to install the btrfs system now. It's not that easy to install in virtual machine or old laptops since compiling takes time.

>>106225300
Yep. Been hopping from void and arch to gentoo here and there. I get it working and all, but then I get tired of recompiling the kernel after every update. I know a binary version exists, but nah.

>>106225300
I can make it work but there's always some small this and that's I can't figure.
>>106225390
I always fall back to Arch.
>enjoyed the process
The manual installation that starts with a super small base system? You can do that with any distribution and the process is mostly the same, they differ on the part where you pull the initial base system from.
And it's actually very easy if you already got kernel and bootloader part figured, there's no need to use distro-specific kernels. Like ever for any distro, they just don't care.

>>106225300
Well, not really. Arch does everything I care for about Gentoo, and the thing Gentoo does which arch doesn't is an inconvenience for me.

>>106225012
That's a reasonable approach. I've almost always settled for the method that just works, but might aswell work on things to make them easier and learn that way. Thanks.

>>106221694
I dont know. Its weird that it needs feedback from the screen to go into sleep. But I can work with this.

>>106225466
>You can do that with any distribution
Yeah I realised this recently. Currently fucking around with bootstrapping minimal RHEL installations, third party bootloaders, root on ZFS and so on.

Troon bros
We won

>>106225544
>third party bootloaders
>bootloaders
Boot up EFI-stubs lmao

>>106224993
If you switch to Debian 13 you'll be stuck with whatever the current version of all their software is.
So, do you want software updates every 6 months (Ubuntu) or every 2 years (Debian) ?

>>106225300
No, I don't like wasting my time this much.

>>106225568
That's what I'm doing, but I still need ZFSBootMenu (I know it's technically not a bootloader)

I am trying to get "|" in konsole, kde terminal. When I click on the altgr + the button that shares "<",">","|" to get it, (Not American keyboard) it just brings a much earlier inputted command. I believe this is some sort of annoying shortcut.
Does anyone know what it is, and how I can disable it?

>>106223956
>>106224730
So the recommended way to install VLC on Bazzite is to get an unofficial version from Flathub. Seems a bit lame.

>>106225830
Atomic distro=getting shit from Flathub mostly. Official or unofficial doesn't matter much, you will get a late version, updates etc. Everything will just work.

>>106225830
What do you think people are getting when they install VLC on an average distro? Almost none of FOSS apps which are being packaged and distributed by distro maintainers are official.
If you REALLY want to install their official version, you can do so using Distrobox.

>>106225830
yea, that's what you have to do when you push an immutable distro as a newbie friendly one.
if you care, you can modify the rpm-ostree build file to install vlc from source/dnf to get a non-flatpak version, but that's a deeper hole than you expect, particularly because bazzite probably puts a bunch of garbage between you and your system.

since Bcachefs is potato should I do arch-lts-kernel + zfs-dkms or just to truenas now that they moved to Debian?

Krash bros we lost

hey fglt i've got a computer running xubuntu atm i'm trying to use a third party game controller for emulators but it connects via bluetooth then never appears as a controller input. xbox controller works fine.
i tested on a laptop running regular ubuntu desktop and the controller is picked up.
anyone have a clue what's going on here? is this a wayland/xorg thing? something to do with bluetooth?

>>106225810
Apparently my bad. It's working fine.
I was clicking the other alt key.

>>106225952
>yea, that's what you have to do when you push an immutable distro as a newbie friendly one.
You're saying this as if this is a bad thing and you're it saying as if this is not an issue on pretty much any other popular distro.
Clicking "Install" in your pre-installed "App Store" is easier than copy-pasting commands from a website. Ultimately that's what matters and what ease of use is.
If you want to build everything from source, then why not just go all the way and use Gentoo. If you want to install VLC "officially", then you can use Distrobox >>106225912
>you can modify the rpm-ostree build file to install vlc from source/dnf to get a non-flatpak version
The fuck are you even saying?
rpm-ostree install vlc

that was hard...

>>106225901
Unofficial means I don't trust it

>>106225912
I trust my distro developer. I don't trust random people uploading stuff on Flathub as much.

Also there is an official snap of VLC which will work on most distros, but apparently snapd doesn't work properly on Bazzite.

>>106225952
Maybe Mint is better. Although I don't know how good Mint is for gaming because I haven't tried gaming on it.

>>106226072
>copy-pasting commands from a website
Good thing you don't need to do that on any serious distro

>>106225300
Nope. I installed Linux because I wanted less headaches. I compile some stuff already and it's pretty shit when all you get is a makefile and a list of dependencies, which might be incomplete on top of it. I don't feel like playing chase the dep regularly.

>>106223592 (OP)
whats happening to the 'nstallgentoo wiki? why is it gemmed up with those 'sfw images?

>>106226072
>rpm-ostree install vlc
All the hassle of a immutable distro with all the breakage of a mutable one! congratulations!

just use fedora if you dont care about reproducibility, my argument is simply that immutable distro solves a specific problem and pushing this feature in a plug and play distro is dumb.

>>106226110
>Maybe Mint is better
it's not. as the other guy said. just use `rpm-ostree install`, as a dnf replacement and it should solve your problems going forward.

>>106226110
>I trust my distro developer.
Well ok then, you can simply run "rpm-ostree install vlc" and it will install the Fedora-provided package.
>apparently snapd doesn't work properly on Bazzite.
I'm pretty sure it can work on Bazzite considering it can work on Fedora Kinoite. But people vastly prefer flatpaks over snaps, so it's not like you'll see people actually adding snapd to their system.

>>106226116
>Good thing you don't need to do that on any serious distro
You do if you want to get the actual official package, instead of your distribution's potentially non-functional package.

>>106226110
Mint is mighty fine for gaming as long as your hardware is less older than ~2 years

>>106226208
Eh, it was shit a couple of years ago. They just get changes way too slow. Mint being unusable for gaming made all my friends move to Nobara and Bazzite of all things.

>>106226186
>if you dont care about reproducibility
No desktop cares about that.

I have what seems to be a major mess up on my hands, Linux bros.

I have a computer with Mint installed. I fat-finger deleted the SSD's boot partition and the extended partition that included all my files and the OS, but thankfully the partition that directly held the OS and data survived the blunder. In this state the machine was still able to run, so I tried to use Timeshift to restore to a point before the boot partition was gone. Upon reboot, no sign of life from the drive, so that didn't work.

I then booted from a USB key, figuring I could install grub where the boot partition had been and all would be well. But now, my disk utility is showing picrel: no partitions within the disk so I'm afraid that putting grub on there will destroy my data and render it inoperable.

So two questions--1: have I already destroyed my data, and 2-- what do?

>>106226193
>I'm pretty sure it can work on Bazzite considering it can work on Fedora Kinoite.
Does Snapd still require a mutable root filesystem to store data in /snap? The way it used to work required ugly hacks to make the filesystem read/write and Fedora closed that loop-hole.

Mint is shit for gaming, 0 HDR support.

Troon sisters lunduke is making fun of us again. Maybe we should turn on the ovens???

>>106226386
>linux is shit for gaming
that sums it up better, if you are a gaming first tard then either get a console or a dedicated gaming windows machine. no point forcing something on unsupported hardware. epic games, gog, etc don't support linux at all, while most steam games explicitly only support windows in their sys requirements, and even linux explicitly only supports steam on linux for either steamos @ steamdeck hardware, or at ubuntu lts for desktops but it's considered beta and only supports games built for linux and not proton.

>>106226341
>picrel here, whoops

>>106226401
>gog
Almost every single GOG game works fine on Linux.
>inb4 but you're using Proton
Who gives a fuck, the game works. I also don't buy consoles and just emulate, which is "even worse". Official support is irrelevant if unofficial support is good enough, which it is.

>>106223964
I just use dejavu

>>106226386
I wouldn't use Mint for other reasons, but hdr support is a nothing burger to me.

>>106226401
oh no, what would be possibly do without official support?

>>106225830
Welcome to the convoluted bloated mess known as "immutable" distros
It would be easier if they just used fedora in distrobox or whatever fedoras own version is called (toolbox?) instead of having to use multiple package managers to install anything

>>106226440
I dont want to panic you that that picture is saying there's a single 512 GB fat partition on the drive, which would indicate you _already_ deleted all your data and created a 512 GB boot partition in its place

>>106226072
>rpm-ostree install vlc
Now enjoy waiting an hour installing and then restarting

Explain Flatpak to me. Does it not install things regularly system-wide?

>>106226386
>muh hdr
overrated feature that nobody uses and that nothing aside from shitty incomplete drm games and shitty drm movies/tv shows use

>>106226544
It installs system-wide to /var/lib/flatpak unless you specify the --user flag then it'll install to ~/.local/share/flatpak

>>106225555
>hyprland
>vintage mac design
if only it had HyperCard, we could call it HyperCardLand

>>106226545
You do know that even old movies like Dracula (1931) received an HDR10 release, right?

Whats the best/fastest way to transfer large amounts of files between two linux computers? sftp, nfs, smb, or something else?

>>106226558
So then what's the difference between using flatpak and the distro's package manager?

>>106226567
oh noes, mint is now unusable because i cant watch dracula (1931) in hdr!

>>106226545
LoL holy copium, get on with the times gramps.

>>106226544
meme CIA project that tries to turn linux into a mobile phone system where things are sandboxed, but it obviously cant do that when 99% of apps on desktop are built around the expectation that they'll have access to your user files outside of their own folder so they can properly function. in return what you get is some half sandboxed frankenstein abomination that's bloated and brings about a billion packages, often unverified or unsupported or recommended against by the original devs of the program because it breaks proper secure sandboxing of programs like chrome or firefox geg

its the future or something along those lines yeah or algo

>>106226577
rsync for the best ratio of safe/fast.
smb is the fastest on the benchmarks I've seen some time ago.

>>106226577
I used SMB and it has worked great. Works great for my Windows computer too.

>>106226582
Different packages and repositories. Flatpak also has bult-in sandboxing and puts all its data and config under ~/.var/app

>>106226591
Just don't use HDR, it's s-shit, it just is OK! Whole g-gaming sucks, hehehe

>>106226577
just plug in an external drive.

>>106226597
Rsync with ssh im guessing?

>>106226612
i can game perfectly fine without hdr. the problem exists on your end.

>>106226535
>an hour
>then restart
I really hope nobody is gullible enough to believe the shit you spew.

>>106226544
Not in the way you're thinking. It's similar to what Wine/Proton is for games. It installs software into the Flatpak "system" (runtime), similar to how Steam installs games into a Proton prefix (which is a simulated Windows environment).
Flatpak runtime is basically a self-contained tiny OS with it's own core libraries and shared libraries. The purpose of it is to have a single environment developers can build their software for, rather than targeting a million different distros and dependency version combinations. Also, it adds the option of permission management (like blocking internet access or access to specific directories/files). And obviously it doesn't require installing dependencies for packages onto your actual system, keeping your system more "clean" in a way.
It solves all the problems of traditional package management, but requires a few extra GBs of storage.

>>106226696
I can game perfectly without a monitor and while blindfolded, it's soooooo gooooooood, mint 10/10 hehehe

linux distro that helps me lose weight and prevents my stretch marks in fat loafs from getting infected with puss from popped acnes and zits

>>106226698
>it doesn't require installing dependencies for packages onto your actual system
Wouldn't it be the same thing since they're all still getting installed someplace on the system?

>>106226151
Gentoo's compilation is done through a package manager which manages dependencies and what parts of the source code do what, it's way less manual than Slackware, the only downside is it takes hours for packages to install

>>106226637
That would be slower than doing it over network.

>>106226529
It's odd that that would be the case simply from trying to restore a configuration with Timeshift, and I'm not sure what else could be the cause. I may have had that volume in FAT already, not certain though.

>>106226749
not really helping your argument when you start falseflagging like a low iq retard

>>106226816
Not falseflagging, just showing how stupid your logic is.

>>106226762
Just fast bro. Its easy to lose weight.

>>106226832
But HDR is worthless, no one has it as a hard requirement

>>106226839
im a schizoid who's superstitious, if i dont start my weight loss with the perfect distro i wont succeed

>>106226840
Except it's clearly not worthless. Everyone who cares about gaming wants it.

>>106226832
stupid logic? people played games perfectly fine without hdr for years, it did not suddenly become some hardcore mandatory requirement
your logic of no monitor and blindfolded is no where close to the same thing

>>106226904
People played games perfectly before monitors

>>106223964
Inter is very good, boring, and ubiquitous
https://rsms.me/inter/
>>106224556
Whatever language your friends like
Also you can just wait until a project comes around that depends on you knowing a language, like say you want to customize a HomeKit bridge written in Node+JavaScript
Then you have an obvious choice

>>106226963
>falseflagging again
games were perfectly playable before the hdr scam, and are still playable now without hdr

>>106223964
I just use Segoe UI.

>>106227013
Playable yes, just not nearly as good as with HDR that good distros and DEs can do, and Mint can not and never will be able to.

Am I wrong in saying that the shell has its own sort of colorscheme it obeys? In this case bash. Trying to change suckless's terminal colorscheme, but it won't change like I expect it to, only slightly.

>>106224451
God what the fuck
Why is refreshing your keyboard shortcuts so overengineered? Whatever happened to "everything is a file"?

>>106226784
It doesn't conflict with your system packages. Trying to install an outdated or too recent end-user application using a regular package manager will often lead you into dependency hell. flatpak is just one solution to it.
The other solution would be appimage, which just solves bundling the dependencies into a single ".exe" file. And another solution would be distrobox, which lets you use any Linux distro within a container and install packages into it "natively". Snaps work like flatpaks if you really squint, except they use Ubuntu Core as the "mini OS" which runs your software.

>>106226884
>Everyone who cares about gaming wants it.
Translation:
>Me and a handful of my online friends and e-celebs that I religiously follow want HDR

>>106227026
Now, if only good games would support it. Any day now.

>>106227060
>Translation
'I am poor and today I learnt about HDR technology for the first time"
>>106227111
Kind of true, I enjoyed RDR2 and Witcher 3 even if both are overrated.

>>106226884
>Everyone who cares about gaming wants it.
How does HDR benefit Parasite Eve 2 (a game with no bugs, emotes, or AI slop)?

>>106227168
I said everyone who cares about gaming for a reason anon

>>106227185
No one cares about gaming, according to your definition

>>106227185
Why do you exclude Parasite Eve 2?

>>106227136
>'I am poor and today I learnt about HDR technology for the first time"
You can get HDR displays for $200.

Is this HDR like this Raytracing thing I don't even activate?

>>106227228
Yeah

>>106225671
>So, do you want software updates every 6 months (Ubuntu) or every 2 years (Debian)?
It's worth pointing out if you use the non-lts versions of ubuntu some external software like jellyfin doesn't officially support anything but debian stable and ubuntu lts.
I can't think of any examples where this means you absolutely can't get something working. But it's worth noting, non-lts ubuntu is less targeted.
My media server runs debian instead of ubuntu server for that reason that's why jellyfin is my example. 2 year cycle for debian is faster than the 4 year lts cycle.
But that's all specific usecase stuff.

>>106227228
i tried this raytracing thing and it just made doom ugly?
whats the point

>>106227272
ubuntu lts cycle is 2 years

>>106227283
>doom with raytracing
madness

Does dualbooting linux with windows put a significant strain on the PC? I'm in the planning stage of transitioning and found out that Autocad doesn't work on linux and i need it for work so i thought i might just leave windown on my pc for it

is systemd that much worse performance wise compared to something like runit?

On Windows, I used to keep track of the films I watch with .odt files on LibreOffice where I'd write my thoughts and insert pics of shots I liked. I've never really liked how busy LibreOffice was and, since I've made the jump to linux, I think it's time to look for an alternative. Any suggestions?

>>106227501
The only "strain" will be the fact that you have 2 operating systems and their data stored in your internal storage. So, you're only losing available disk space. There's no other "strain".
Just keep in mind that Windows 10/11 sometimes nuke the boot loader of other operating systems after they apply system updates. This used to happen a lot on Windows 10, but apparently the latest update of Windows 11 fixed this issue.

>>106227568
The only real alternative would be OnlyOffice.

>>106227026
hdr doesnt do anything than add a color filter, it does not make a game unplayable without it
>gnome
>good de
good joke

>debian dropped i386 support
Also, whats systemd-cryptsetup and why did it replace cryptsetup? If i was systemd and trying to be a backdoor, cryptsetup would be the exact type of thing i would adopt.

>>106227609
Lololol, screencapped.

>>106227621
if only it was open source and you could read it.

>>106227674
i dont expect anyone who unironically believes the same de made by devs who are unable to understand font sharpness as a metric to be a good de to have any legitimate opinion

>>106227724
I don't care, I am here only for this giant copium. I'll literally pay you to asspull more reasons why HDR I suddenly bad when Mint can't handle it.

>>106227716
Chromium is also open source and readable.
What would be faster to finish? reading a novel or reading through the source code of chromium or systemd.

>>106227739
hdr isnt suddenly bad gnomeshitter its always been overrated crap
>copium
where?

>>106227763
You are the first person to mention gnome, nobody else did schizo.
>Copium
Read the thread

>>106227774
>You are the first person to mention gnome
nice try retard
>>106227026
>good distros and DEs
there are only two de's that fit under that umbrella, gnome and kde

>>106227791
You had a 50/50 and still fucked up. Take a break schizo.

>>106227808
>gets embarrassed this hard and doubles down
lol
lmao

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
echo "This script must be run as root. Use sudo or run as root."
exit 1
fi

# List of unnecessary services to disable
# Each line: "service_name" "description"
declare -a SERVICES=(
"bluetooth.service" "Bluetooth daemon"
"bluetooth.target" "Bluetooth target"
"cups.service" "Print service (CUPS)"
"cups-browsed.service" "CUPS network printer discovery"
"avahi-daemon.service" "Zeroconf/Bonjour network discovery"\
"rsync.service" "Rsync daemon"
"rsyslog.service" "System logging (unless you need logs)"
"cronie.service" "Cron daemon (only if you disable cron jobs)" # Be careful
"org.cups.cupsd.path" "CUPS path monitor"
"org.cups.cupsd.socket" "CUPS socket"
"lvm2-monitor.service" "LVM monitoring (disable only if no LVM in use)"
"snapd.socket" "Snap socket"
"docker.service" "Docker daemon (if not using containers)"
"containerd.service" "Container runtime"
"multipathd.service" "Multipath daemon (for SAN storage)"
"pppd-dns.service" "PPP DNS service"
"exim4.service" "Mail transfer agent (if not sending mail)"
"postfix.service" "Postfix mail server"
"sendmail.service" "Sendmail MTA"
)

# Disable each service
for service in "${SERVICES[@]}"; do
# Extract service name and description
SERVICE_NAME=$(echo "$service" | awk '{print $1}')
DESCRIPTION=$(echo "$service" | sed 's/[^ ]* \(.*\)/\1/')

# Check if the unit exists
if systemctl list-unit-files | grep -q "^$SERVICE_NAME"; then
echo " Disabling: $SERVICE_NAME"
echo " ($DESCRIPTION)"
systemctl stop "$SERVICE_NAME" 2>/dev/null || true
systemctl disable "$SERVICE_NAME"
echo " Disabled and stopped."
else
echo " Skipping $SERVICE_NAME: service not found."
fi
echo ""
done

# Reload systemd to apply changes
echo " Reloading systemd daemon..."
systemctl daemon-reexec
systemctl daemon-reload

>>106227593
>OnlyOffice
I was looking to get away from office suites, really. I've been recommended emacs with org-mode, but it doesn't seem too friendly when dealing with images.

>>106227874
Systemctl stop can be replaced with systemctl disable --now
Not sure if what you're doing is necessary.

>>106227568
Abiword is like a lite version of openoffice
Maybe what you're looking for is writing markdown files?

>>106226762
ubuntu so that all your physical fat bloat gets transferred to digital fat bloat in snaps and you spend less time on your pc having to troubleshoot issues

>>106227501
it can put strain on your drives for writing data that's about it

>>106227915
i told qwen to write me a pointless bash script.

Does anyone know if you can use Vortex on Linux for installing Nexus collections? I have Vortex installed through Bottles.
Want to mod Skyrim, FO3, NV and don't want to fuck with trying to install hundreds of mods manually. Didn't want to pay for a Nexus Premium account or whatever only to find you can't install collection sets on Linux.

>>106228023
i asked AI and it told me in 2 seconds.

>>106228051
so what?

>>106228076
i'm calling you an idiot. try to keep up

>>106228083
I was calling you an idiot for even suggesting that what an ai tells you has any credibility.

>>106228095
i am calling you an idiot for being an idiot.

>>106227941
>markdown files
Yeah, that seems to be a perfect fit. I'll look up an editor, thanks anon

>>106227823
>doesn't know what HDR is
>Starts sperging about gnome out of nowhere
Kek, give more copium

Newfag here, been using Linux on the terminal for years but I'm currently trying linux with a GUI on my Windows home PC for the first time since like 2008.
So far so good but one thing I haven't been able to figure out is remote access to the desktop from work. On Windows I'd simply RDP in, the protocol itself would handle resizing my 8720x2560 desktop down to 1440x900 to make it actually useable on my 1080p screen.
I don't know the right way to handle this on a modern Arch + KDE Plasma + Wayland system. Could I get some pointers?

>>106228163
Stop making your system accesible from the internet.

>>106228185
Even with a vpn?

>>106228163
do you want jeets ping spamming your network? because this is how you get jeets ping spamming your network

sex with penguins is based.

Lads how the FUCK do I move these partitions around? I wanna make sda2 bigger

>>106228023
If anyone actually knows let me know.
The current responses are just from one/two trolls, neither myself. Seems pretty obvious people are just using this thread to shit in now.
Just want to know if you can install Nexus collections on Linux.

>>106228207
They're already spam pinging every device on the planet and I've got no open ports for them to jeet into

>>106223592 (OP)
Downloaded mesa 25.2.0 and now i can't play ratclick :<

Stupid question, but when searching for a program on the Arch Packages website, what does it mean when it has (make) next to a dependency?

>>106228303
/k/opers are so delusional

>>106228201
at least better than the way it sounded before

>>106228428
I thought using a vpn for remote access was so obvious I didn't need to mention it

>>106228282
Fuck it I'm nuking it tomorrow and starting over. Recommend me a distro bros

>>106228462
nixos. it will help with your gender transition

>>106228468
thanks sis

how do i save my vcr tape on inux ?

>>106223592 (OP)
MATE desktop is totally still usable btw. Daily driving for ~2 months now on a work computer. Using Thunar for the file manager.

>>106227531
I recall someone said it makes a difference on slow systems ie HDD instead of SSDs when it comes to boot times. Personally id stick to potteringware because it's convenient since it covers a lot of things, boot times are a bit of a meme unless we're talking about minutes of difference.

Why do desktop environments still bundle a disc burner package in? It's 2025, not 2005.

I wanna use ableton because thats what I have an actual license for.
Does anyone have experience with getting VST plugins to work if you're using ableton through wine?

>>106228887
Physical media is making a comeback.

>>106226341

1 yes data is gone
2 runs hot check cooling fan flow directions maybe reinstall after disk runs <70 celsius

>>106225555
>probably bends over backwards to be politically correct
>calls customization ricing anyway
Every time, also nice quads

>>106228925
Most people aren't burning cd+r, though.

>>106228813
thunar is great, it's never let me down

Is Manjaro XFCE a good distro to use if someone wants to baby step his way into eventually using Arch Linux?

How's Debian XFCE instead of Arch XFCE?

>>106229106
Is Manjaro XFCE a good distro to use if someone wants to baby step his way into eventually using Arch Linux?
Not really, no. If you want to be a baby with Arch Linux just use Archinstall.

>>106229106
>Is Manjaro a good distro to use
No. Apparently it breaks more often than arch thanks to shit they do in their own repos.
>if someone wants to baby step his way into eventually using Arch Linux
Either you do it or you dont. Baby mode is using the install script that now comes with it. That said I dont get exactly what people expect from arch when I see posts like this one.
>How's Debian XFCE instead of Arch XFCE?
This is just debian vs arch, see the differences between their update models.

>>106229369
>>106229349
Fair enough then.
Linux mint XFCE or Fedora XFCE?
I really like XFCE but I don't know what distro to utilize with it.
It is okay if you shill your favorite distro that uses XFCE.

>something breaks on Windows
I get insanely anxious, check everything, look up any cause or solution to the problem, cast ten thousand curses upon Microsoft..
>on Linux:my Desktop environment crashes five times in a row when clicking the Wi-fi button.
Lol just another day on Linux! It'll just fix itself (it did)

geniuenly why the fuck do I react like that? Why am I less anxious when I use Linux?

>>106223592 (OP)
What makes udev special?

Say I need access to a USB device for QEMU, but its permissions are as follows:
crw-rw-r-- 1 root usb 189, 9 Aug 11 21:18 /dev/bus/usb/001/010

What does a udev rule accomplish that simply chown'ning the file's group to my user's group doesn't?

>>106229880
I dunno about you, but in my experience if something is fucked on Linux you can either update what is fucked to fix it or you fix it yourself pretty easily if it's not a bug but something configuration related.
On Windows, any problem that isn't explicitly caused by your actions and immediately linkable to those actions is very difficult to diagnose, let alone fix. Windows troubleshooting is miserable as fuck.

>>106229920
It just feels to me like even minor bugs on Windows are symptoms of some higher fucked up problem in the system, while the same kind of problems on Linux feel less symptomatic of something that will make my computer unusable.

>>106229739
I like fedora and its what I use but it requires a bit of post install stuff to grab the non free codecs to get hardware acceleration and nvidia drivers, if applicable. See their rpm fusion wiki, its just copy-paste.
Apparently getting btrfs snapshots to work is annoying as well (i dont use them)
Mint is supposed to work as well but it uses somewhat older kernels and packages by default, which might or might not be a concern depending on how new your hardware is. If its older than 2 years old then it probably isnt a concern.
I havent used this one so i cant say anything beyond that.

So I installed Bazzite because Jay said Linux gaming was good now. I think Bazzite wont let me installed stable diffusion because it needs a certain version of python which wont install because bazzite is immutable. Which is cool because I was addicted to generating 1girls. Which is even better because now my GF is talking about getting married. So not being addicted to genning 1girls is a plus for a marriage.
Plus I just wont move over to W11, W10 was already too intrusive.

>>106229993
>Jay said Linux gaming was good now
i didnt know jet planes were into linux gaming

>>106229993
Bazzite is not worth using, it's a "gaming" distro but it does nothing special other than being preinstalled with lutris and steam.
>>106230015
its fine, i play games on mine. Proton is kind of insane.

>>106229739
For me it's Fedora (semi-rolling, update every six months) or Endeavour/archinstall (rolling, update two or three times a month, you're always on the latest kernel and drivers), I hear Bazzite is okay but personally I don't like immutable distros. In any case you should look into snapshots (grub-btrfs + timeshift or snapper werks for me) just in case

>>106224993
Stay on 25.04, in two months you can upgrade to 25.10.

>>106225300
>You ever get the urge to install Gentoo?
Never.

>>106230074
Yeah but when the 1 hurtle stopping you from using Linux is the gaming question, thats what sells it.

>>106227272
>the 4 year lts cycle
Two years. A new Ubuntu LTS is released every two years. You also get a new kernel and graphics stack every 6 months.

>>106228282
With LVM this would be trivial. You don't have to use LVM, but it adds a lot of convenience.

>>106228462
Kubuntu.

>>106228282
>>106228462
Unmount the relevant partitions, resize the filesystem of the partition you want to shrink to accommodate the other, shrink the partition, extend the other partition, extend the filesystem, ???, profit. Do it within a live environment.

You should really try to fix something rather than just reinstall the entire system. You'll probably fuck something up--so make backups of anything important--and end up throwing in the towel and reinstalling anyway, but at least after having to do something multiple times, you'll learn a thing or two; as opposed to simply reinstalling distros over and over again and eventually just getting fed up with Linux entirely.

>>106223592 (OP)
I’m glad foundries can spend more time on making more weights instead of adding pixel-perfect hinting instructions, but if you’re OK with the weights and letter thicknesses available for Tahoma and Verdana in the pixel-hinted versions (I sometimes wasn’t), the late 90s had some peak font technologies that we’ve gone away from. Shame some of the hinting algorithms were patent-encumbered at the time so you couldn’t just have nice-looking pixel-hinted Tahoma outside of Windows unless you went and changed stuff at the source level with, like, a compilation flag or something.

>>106226440
what did it look like before? what's on the disc? a nearly full half-terabyte fat32 volume is unusual but also doesn't indicate this may have been a linux os drive unless you were doing something very strange

>>106228023
why not just try it?

>>106223592 (OP)
One of the best looking desktops ever. Timeless classic.

>>106223592 (OP)
what are some decent setup + distro for a Samsung N150 plus? it has 2GB DDR3 ram and swapped it with a 120GB SSD

i just want something portable to browse and read

>>106230853
You'll barely even be able to use a modern web browser with RAM that low. You could try using something like Crunchbang++ to get the most out of the system as possible I guess.

For the 3 of you using UWSM on Arch, do not update to 0.23.1 because you (probably) won't be able to login. If you already did, revert back to the previous one with:
wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/u/uwsm/uwsm-0.23.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
wget https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/u/uwsm/uwsm-0.23.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst.sig
pacman -U uwsm-0.23.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

Issues:
https://github.com/Vladimir-csp/uwsm/issues/151
https://github.com/Vladimir-csp/uwsm/issues/152

>>106230853
>>106230874
ubuntu mate

So W10 is dying soon, and I'm scared of W11.


What's the Linux version that's easiest to use when I primarily care about old and new video games (and modding them) and don't know anything about programming?

>>106231574
Bazzite. But you could go with Fedora which is the base for bazzite. Either way its a good place to start and heal.

>>106230853
The classic i3 environment is pretty neat for these things if you're fine with tiling window managers. I think the whole system takes less than 500mb. There's antix which might get you lower by default and provides a more traditional UI with iceWM, but i've never installed it.
There's also LXDE and its successor LXQt as well which are meant for low end devices, however I'm not sure about how much ram they use
The distro doesnt make much of a difference so go with whatever you want, do avoid immutable memes though

>>106231574
Also when you do start getting into linux gaymen. Steam is your friend. Steam can launch non-steam games by adding them and forcing proton experimental. Its some good shit.

my gnome is completely fucked somehow. gnome-session allows me to login but as soon as it does, it freezes

sway works though. no idea how to even start diagnosing

>>106231887
journalctl

>>106230874
>>106231244
>>106231615
thanks anons, i'll try them out
i'm currently using mx linux fluxbox, so far it's smooth but im not feeling it

>>106230853
I have almost the same setup (no SSD) and Arch+IceWM runs great but browsing is painfully slow, 720p video lags too but you can force 480p in mpv.conf and use yt-dlp to search and pipe the videos through mpv

>>106231902
i checked and nothing really stands out.

>>106223592 (OP)
AUR is down

>>106231574
I'm afraid all Linux systems are going to be weird on some level.
And how is programming relevant?
>>106228462
What were you doing in the first place?
Assuming a drive is for nothing but Linux use I'd partition it for two systems plus one shared partition. Such as
>EFI system partition (if an EFI PC)
>20GB for distro A
>20GB for distro B
>rest of the drive for shared use
>>106230255
>LVM
This. Although there's a minus: can't boot plain EFI-stub kernels as you need an initramfs. Although a proper neckbeard would've embedded that in their kernels but just saying. But still, it adds complexity to the boot process.

>>106231934
thanks, not really familiar with arch yet but i did use archinstall before on an old chromebook
will try it soon
also i've heard 360p and 480p works well with these netbooks, doing 720p above is just torture

>>106231939
Are you really sure about that? i find it hard to believe there's no trace of whatever went wrong with gnome. You could try taking note of the time, attempting to log in then check the logs starting at the specified time to narrow it down.

>>106232024
480p is mostly smooth but yeah don't even bother with 720p it just can't handle it, here's mpv.conf
ytdl-format=bestvideo[vcodec~='^avc1'][height<=?480]+bestaudio/best
and here's the script that I use to search for stuff
#!/bin/bash
SEARCH_QUERY="$*"
yt-dlp "ytsearch10:$SEARCH_QUERY" --flat-playlist --skip-download --ignore-errors --print "%(title)s || %(webpage_url)s" | fzf --delimiter=" || " | awk -F' *\\|\\| *' '{print $2}' | grep '^https://' | tr -d '\n' | xargs -r mpv --vo=gpu

Newfag here, am I supposed to use proton ge or experimental?

>>106232090
nice
cheers, anon

>>106232170
You should always use proton-ge-custom

>>106232170
Depends on what you're trying to do. Proton-GE is useful for running games that use video codecs that aren't in Proton. Proton Experimental is useful for running games that don't work when you try to run them in whatever proton it defaults to.

>>106232170
the one that works for your case, some games might run with one and not with the other under some circumstances

>>106232170
experimental globally, use ge for games that have codec issues.

Guys the AUR is down.....

>>106227050
It is a file. It doesn't live-reload updates to them though. If you want to apply them at runtime then I think the only way to do it is with the addShortcut DBus API, except this is very poorly documented as noted in that post.

>>106230853
Antix linux is pretty good for older devices


>>106231934
Use 5.x kernel(or prior), they messed up and dropped a lot of video support for old computers in newer kernels.
>>106232090
Don't use bestvideo flag, it might skip lower fps when available.

>>106232396
You sure about that?

KDE + Wayland + Nvidia: I changed my monitor refresh rate but it doesn't work (black screen, no signal). How do I reset or set the refresh rate manually? I have console access.

>>106232485
Wipe out or edit:
~/.config/kwinoutputconfig.json

>>106232457
git is (or was) down, who cares about the website?

>>106229993
You should be able to install it in Bazzite using distrobox. Just use distrobox to install a Linux version which is supported by stable diffusion and that's pretty much it.

>>106230074
>it does nothing special other than being preinstalled with lutris and steam.
It does many small things which accumulate into the best user experience for newbies and people who don't want to fuck around and just want an OS to work ootb.
For example, it's literally the only distro which sets up KDE Wallet for you. Not even Kubuntu does this. It might sound retarded, but kwallet is a huge filter and pain point for a lot of people. There's absolutely no reason why it shouldn't be set up by default on other distros, unless we're admitting that they're not meant to be used by people who aren't tech savvy.

>>106231574
>distro
Bazzite
>modding
Modding on Linux usually isn't a thing outside of Steam workshop. You'd have to use Bottles or Lutris to install Windows versions of games and then mod those from within Bottles/Lutris. It's not going to be difficult or different than Windows modding, but it is an extra layer you have to think about.
Just keep in mind that you should always use Proton (Windows) versions of games in Steam, or even outside of Steam. Many Linux games are bad ports or are no longer supported because they were targeting dependencies which no longer exist in modern Linux distros.

>>106223964
Inter or IBM Plex

>>106232496
Thank you very much! Had to create another user to init the settings and copy that over.

>>106230921
Wait... Didn't Arch never break™?
I thought reading the news is all that's needed to prevent Arch from ever breaking, at least according to these very anons!

>>106232419
It's not just about applying at runtime; my changes don't even persist after reboots.

>>106232870
Always do the opposite of what anons say unless it goes against your common sense™

>>106232875
That's odd. That would imply that it's not even reading the file which doesn't make much sense. Have you checked the file by hand to check that it looks as it should.

>>106232942
Yeah, I've checked the file. My changes get undone after reboots, so I think there's some Plasma service controlling the configs.

>>106232438
i heard antix is similar to MX linux?
also will try your suggested configs too when i have the time

>>106233004
That's odd, I don't think there's any other database, etc, used for shortcuts as far as I know so I'm not sure why it should be overwritten. Have you tried setting the immutability bit so nothing can overwrite it? I'm not sure what's touching your files but that might help workaround it.
sudo chattr +i ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc

>>106233078
Thinking about it, it could be Plasma writing out its configuration again when you logout/reboot which might overwrite your shortcuts since you didn't register them at runtime with the DBus API so it wasn't made aware of them. This would be really stupid to overwrite the file each time you logout or reboot but I wouldn't be surprised if that's done to maintain consistency.

Setting the immutability bit would stop that at least temporarily and then you can remove it again later once it's aware of your shortcuts.

>>106228127
copium? where?
>gnome out of nowhere
you mentioned both gnome and kde as being good DEs as they're the only ones with hdr snakeoil support

>>106233033
The projects collaborate and share repositories.
The distributions are a bit different.

>>106223592 (OP)
What would be the best minimal distributions with a fairly large and fresh package repository that's the easiest to make FSF-compliant? All of the already free ones are shit
>Dragora
Nobody uses it, install script doesn't work, most likely barely maintained
>GuixSD
I like the idea of it and the fresh packages are nice but I'm not willing to re-learn everything about the way Linux works just to use it, I also participate in hackathons occasionally and since you can't just compile them via a make so it's something that I definitely can't use
>Hyperbola
They go way to hardcore on everything and compiling everything from scratch manually seems very tiresome and electricity wasting
>Parabola
Couldn't set it up with rootfs encryption since the packages are way too outdated
>PureOS
They follow the DFSG on top of the FSDG which blocks emacs among many other packages out of the repository, I'm mostly concerned about emacs but I'm sure I'll come across many other packages that I can't use because of the aforementioned guidelines
>trisquel
By far the best FSDG compliant distribution and quite minimal if you do the netinst but they miss essential packages from their repos like dhcpcd and torbrowser-launcher
>Ututo S
Nobody has ever used this, the homepage is also in what looks like Spanish so even if I wanted to I couldn't give it a try

I'm just looking for a distribution that lets me use the prebuilt linux-libre kernel with no hassle, filter out software with licenses that aren't approved by the FSF, and one who keeps it reasonably minimal i.e doesn't install a DE automatically
Any tips?

>>106233202
Some spelling mistakes are to be expected as I haven't slept today, my apologies.

Backing up my /home/anon/ to multiple media devices currently and then installing some distro that's bleeding edge. I'm tired of debian I've been using this for 3 years straight.

>>106228163
Please respond

>>106230352
>Do it within a live environment
This was on a live usb stick. I was hoping I could move sda3 to the right so that I could resize sda2 and make it larger but nope
>>106232019
I don't get how people survive with 20GB root partitions. Mine is at 46GB right now and every time I update my system it starts screaming at me (almost out of space) which started this whole thing kek

Does Debian 13 feel faster or am I schizo?

I'm on arch and I'm slowly running out of space on my root partition. My $HOME is in the same partition.

How do you go about freeing up space except clearing pacman cache (if you're on arch)? Just 'du -sh | sort -h' everything?

>>106233442
So many variables that could make your linux experience "faster", difficult to say.

is cloudflare / 4chan captcha discriminating against my x11 user string or something?
I keep waiting.
firefox / mint btw

>>106233442
both can be true

>>106233412
Feels good man

>>106233523
Are you using 4chan x? It bugs out in the quick reply sometimes.

>>106232438
>Antix linux is pretty good for older devices
Any distribution is good for older devices as long as you boot it with an older kernel.
>>106233473
Clear system logs and whatever your ~/.cache holds.
>>106233242
Next time partition for a separate /home. Or use LVM.
>>106232870
All rolling release systems require some manual tinkering at some point.

>>106233412
>I don't get how people survive with 20GB root partitions
I don't know who's doing that but if I had to live with such restrictions I'd just make a custom bootable squashfs image instead.

>>106223592 (OP)
Add
"sudo apt install tldr"

I can't literally live without it now

>>106233546
>Next time partition for a separate /home. Or use LVM.
I have a separate /home, but why wouldn't I create a backup????

>>106229892
???
Udev itself is just HAL for Linux
>What does a udev rule accomplish that simply chown'ning the file's group to my user's group doesn't?
Because it's not persistent?

>>106233560
Because device management is more than simply setting device ownership. Udev rules allow you to act upon a device being plugged in / unplugged (hotplugging), they can set/override device attributes/settings, they can run custom scripts, etc.

>>106233588
>>106233560
For passthrough to a VM though, you're right. You don't necessarily need Udev there. You could use a custom script instead to bind/unbind the device.

>>106233547
Plenty of "guides" and people recommend it when you google it

>>106233539
no I don't.
I've even allowed tracking for 4chan in firefox.

>>106233605
Are these people dual-booting? I don't know why you wouldn't just allocate all of the space.

>>106233622
Unless it's for a VM in which case if you're not going to install any software and are just doing it to test out the distro then 20 GB is probably fine but I wouldn't recommend someone do that for a normal install.

>>106233412
How much and what sort of packages you got installed? My stupid shitposting desktop systems are always at 5 to 15GBs. I actually have to bloatmaxx everything imaginable to get to 15.
>>106233622
Idea is to have a system partition and a shared partition. My case was I distrohopped like crazy, the shared partition had my $HOME plus Bluetooth pairings, /usr/src and /usr/local

>>106233412
The nice thing about btrfs is that you allocate the whole partition and then root and home simply share the space, which gets rid of those concerns.

>>106233691
Why not use a modern filesystem like BTRFS? It will use the entire pool of storage and you can put each "install" in a dedicated subvolume and share your home folder by mounting the @home subvolume.

You can do something similar with LVM too (it pools the storage and you can make separate volumes), although I don't like LVM. It's too overcomplicated.

>>106233202
I wouldve suggested parabola but i guess its too outdated despite being arch but libre
Guix might be your best bet. Or gentoo since it lets you easily filter out software licenses.
Otherwise maybe debian but without contrib, non-free, and non-free-firmware added to your sources?

When I install a program with wine using a specific wineprefix, 99% of the time most of the stuff goes only into the wineprefix right? Not counting the fact that it may prompt me for an install location.

Using that logic if the program has an uninstaller, on linux there may not be any use for it since you can just manually delete the wineprefix accompanied by the actual installation?

Which tool(s) do you guys use to backup your dotfiles, ssh keys, cat pics etc?

>>106233442
A newer kernel and newer packages are likely to do that
>>106232438
>>106233546
Antix linux is going to run into issues now that debian has officially dropped i386 and only supports it when used as multiarch with amd64

>>106233770
Rsync

>>106233773
>i386
In that case one should use Gentoo or some other platform to fabricate a 32-bit system.
And no, I don't mean compiling on the old device but use a new and fast system and then transfer it to the old device.

>>106233412
>>106233547
>>106233691
I never really ever end up going past 20-25gb on my root partition with a separate /home partition
The only way you can go beyond that is if you end up running containers and installing flatpaks, both which can be avoided by installing flatpaks with the --user flag and using something like rootless podman
I regularly make vms with an allocated 10-15gb of disk space and never run into issues as well.

>>106230874
Its still possible to use a browser with 1-2gb of ram as long as you dont overdo it with tabs. In my experience the cpu is more of an issue than low ram when it comes to older hardware.

>>106233827
>containers
>VMs
Obviously you do that sort of stuff using your extra volume(s) as neither are essential regarding the functionality of the system.
>/home
Don't make it /home, make it /mnt/$whatever instead.

I just checked and saw my boot ssd has bad sectors. What's the easiest way to migrate the system to a new one? Will time shift backups alone be enough?

Are the open source drivers better for old NVIDIA cards? The legacy proprietary drivers definitely don't support Wayland.

>>106233870
Rsync

>>106233865
>/mnt/$whatever
I actually did that recently and bind mounted all the other mountpoints since it was for a headless mini server but for most people that wouldnt matter

>>106233765
Yes. But double check if your wineprefix is linking back to your home directory. They often do by default, or at least they used to a few years ago. So even after deleting it you'd still have random config files in your user's home directory.

>>106233770
I open Dolphin and manually grab those files and move them to/from a USB drive.

>>106233878
I don't think open source drivers are anywhere near the performance of official ones. You're better off staying on X11.

>>106233854
>tfw LibreWolf taking up 6GB of RAM
Modern browsers are shit. I'm sure there's some super lightweight one, but then you'll lose compatibility on a lot of sites.

>>106233788
>Rsync
>>106233903
>I open Dolphin and manually grab those files and move them to/from a USB drive.
Alright do we have any non-boomers frequently backing up their stuff?

>>106233770
>dotfiles
Git.
>ssh keys
Nope. If I had to do it, it'd be an usb drive. That shit is not gonna touch the internet.

>>106233903
>They often do by default, or at least they used to a few years ago.
Keeping that in mind, thanks. And do you mean actual symlinks or just config files/directories that are (most likely) named after the program?

Is it secure enough if your ssh keys are in .ssh, and you have a passphrase or whatever the term is for it? Also the partition they are on is ext4.

>>106233949
>That shit is not gonna touch the internet.
got something to hide?

Is hyprland secretly based? I've been hearing from faggots around here that it's a trannyware, but my friend told me the dev actually don't give a fuck about troons

>>106233980
>trannyware
quite the opposite. trannies despise the dev

>>106233980
I just think the animations and rounded borders are gay therefore hyprland is gay

>>106233957
I mean actual symlinks. For example, your "wineprefix/dosdevices" would have a symlink to your entire "/" and it would link it as a "Z:\" drive. I'm pretty sure this is still done by default.
But there used to be a lot more symlinks which were magically there, linking your Documents, Downloads, etc. with the ones in the wineprefix, same with your actual /home. So you'd often have a bunch of config files sitting in your home dir for no reason.

>>106233980
Wasn't there some drama where the hyprland dev renamed a Discord user's role or something from "she/her" to "who/cares".

i use hyprland installed on endeavor OS whats wrong with that?

>>106234014
>I mean actual symlinks
Interesting.

>im looking for linux distro that support nvidia 740m with KDE
I was gaslighted to install mint, but its constantly having problems.

>>106233941
>Rsync is boomer software
Go back to macos then

>>106234078
good morning saar!!

>>106233941
https://restic.net/
https://github.com/restic/restic

>>106234112
if thats some kind of inside joke, i dont get it.

>>106234124
sarr!!!! DO NOT REDEEM!!!!

>>106234124
He's calling you a poor Indian for using a GPU that's almost old enough to get married in most countries.

I have a work laptop so shitty it doesnt run W11, what should I switch it to? I don't program so its gonna end up a libreoffice + browser + meeting applications machine

How do I use alt codes on Linux? I use Alt+0151 all the time on Windows, but it doesn't do anything on Linux.

>>106234204
only a loser uses alt codes

>>106234178
I'd say linux mint. Worked for me at the very least.

>>106234217
Fuck off ebassi

>>106234104
>Initial release June 19, 1996; 29 years ago[

>>106234160
I was hoping for something funny, at least, but in the end I was disappointed.
As for my gpu: I use this laptop only to write, browse net, and play ttrpg online. Don't need more for it. And I will not boot my rtx pc for roll20.

>>106234178
What are your specs? RAM, CPU, disk space? You can probably run any Linux distro, so just stick to whatever is the easiest.
For your usecase I'd recommend Aurora or Fedora Kinoite.

>>106234204
Linux uses Unicodes for this:
>press and hold Ctrl+Shift+U, release the keys, type the hexadecimal code point of the desired Unicode character, and then press the Spacebar or Enter to insert the symbol.

>>106234235
>press and hold Ctrl+Shift+U, release the keys, type the hexadecimal code point of the desired Unicode character, and then press the Spacebar or Enter to insert the symbol

Any Gentoo mages around?
I need some static libraries to drop into a system that has no other way to get them.
What's the way to compile them without fucking with my local system's libs?

how to properly issue proton-ge logs? im kinda noob. i have this game that runs on 9.27 but not on any of the 10.x versions. i mean, it launches, but there's a black screen and i can only see a cursor moving, whereas on 9.27 i can see the full picrel

>>106234224
And?

>>106234014
Damn you are actually correct. Didn't expect there to be symlinks at all.

But by nuking the whole wine prefix that gets rid of the symlinks right? It's not something I would have to do with the help of the uninstaller. Am I right?

>>106234286
>boomer shit

>>106234224
That's a good thing

>>106234272
Are you using Lutris to launch it? If so, you can get the logs there.

>>106234224
95% of the shit you use is at least 2 decades old.

>>106234307
Dont use linux then since thats also boomer shit.

>>106234248
What's the problem?

>>106234384
Ctrl+Shift+U requires two hands, for one.

>>106234178
Just use mint
Probably the easiest solution

>>106234321
im using heroic, but nvm, i think im seeing it right now - EXCEPTION handling: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Invalid window handle.
tried some of the game's global.cfg tweaks, no success

>>106234545
Had a look at protondb briefly, although I'm aware you're using heroic. Doesn't look too promising.

I always have a look at various terminal file browser but in the end I always forget that they exist on my system. Is there actually something compelling that makes people use them instead of just manually typing cd,ls,mv,cp etc?

>>106234650
how do you move the latest downloaded file in your downloads folder to your current directory?
say it's a backup file with a timestamp or something with special characters.

>>106234676
If I don't want to change the name of it I just match it with regex and move it that way. Or if the name doesn't matter anymore, I change the name to something easier to type out and then move.

>>106234594
yeah, that's because people are trying to run the modern version, which relies on online anticheat launcher. but im using a super old, pirated version from 2010, locally. guess i could report this on github, but i think i would get a weird response, like it's the game's fault and there's nothing to fix

>>106234676
mv "$(ls -t ~/Downloads | head -n 1)" ./

>>106234728
Scratch that I'm retarded

>>106234725
Ah, didn't notice the timestamped version in the bottom left corner.

>>106234433
So does alt + hitting numbers, anon.

>>106234749
Alt + Numpad doesn't demand that you move your right hand across your keyboard.

New thread >>106234789

>>106234713
instead of fumbling with regex that I suck at, I open lf, press G to go to latest file, press d, jump to pwd and press p.
I do it in like 2 seconds.

also file previews.

>>106234771
>Numpad
ok boomer

>>106234859
What?

>>106234728
You shouldnt be using ls
Forgot the reason why. There was some article about it. Find is supposed to be the correct alternative to use

>>106234287 (me)
Been scratching my head at this even though I've been just doing the manual way for quite some time. If I do 'rm -rf ~/Documents/Wineprefix1/' Will it also follow the symlinks, to the point of basically 'rm -rf /' ?

So the correct way is to do rm -rf ~/Documents/Wineprefix1' right?

>>106234957
rm wont follow symlinks as far as i know
might want to omit the -f flag though
if you're really worried you could find or write a script that finds all symlinks and removes them with the unlink command before doing rm

>>106234883
Let me explain the joke here. You see, most people nowadays don't use the numpad at all. It's just "a thing that wastes space on your desk and keyboard", to most modern computer users. In fact, many people opt to buy keyboards without it at all!
Meanwhile, the numpad was and is heavily used by people born over 30 years ago. In the ol' days of Windows 2000 and before it! And it was primarily a section of the keyboard used by cashiers (hah!).
For this reason, the phrase "ok boomer" is used to mock, in a sly way, the Anonymous user for suggesting that he (or, unlikely, she) uses the numpad at all.

>>106228945
yes, people who drive Honda civics with fart cans and big wings are a protected class.

>>106235029
maybe they should try getting a job

>>106235472
As a cashier? Why?

>>106235502
there's plenty of jobs that involve entering numbers frequently

>>106235536
I'm a developer and I never use the numpad. The only time I used it in my life was when I was playing a couch co-op PC game with my cousin 20 years ago.

>>106235590
i do CAD and use it a lot.

>>106233912
Ive used librewolf and firefox on 1-2gb ram pcs before and they're usually good about killing tabs to save up ram the only issue seems to be if the cpu can keep up or not

>>106233770
Kinda gross