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Previous thread: >>106259204

I think Gentoo offers too much control for me, I'll probably stick with Arch until I learn more about Linux.

>>106280086 (OP)
anyway to fix this issue? i know its not theme related because switching back to breeze still has this issue. i tried different cursors as well. and its not just dolphin, its all QT based applications. drag and drop causes the cursor to get stuck with whatever last cursor icon was set, in that application.
>plasma desktop
affected
>dolphin
affected
>even brave with file browser
affected

All QT stuff is affected.

>>106280197
The thing is that the more you learn about Linux, the harder you're pulled to Ubuntu.

>>106280207
I know exactly what this is, I've seen it myself. I don't know how to fix it though. I think it's a KWin bug from something not releasing the drag properly so KWin thinks it never got dropped and stays in that dragging state still.

Alright, I hate fresh installs and Debian stable release upgrades, I want a distro for my server that has the longest LTS support, CentOS tier shit, I don't want the slightest inconvenience in updating.
So far I'm looking at Rocky and Alma but I wondered if there is something juicier.

kde has never been usable i dont get why ppl pretend otherwise

>>106280402
Slackware

>>106280459
It works fine. It has the odd issue here and there but so does every other desktop. Crucially, it is constantly improving though. There are new features and bug fixes on a constant basis.

>>106280360
>Bloat
>Snaps
>Canonical job interviews
No thanks, at least for desktop stuff. I do use it for some ardu pilot stuff on raspberry pi.

does xubuntu contain the same weird spyware stuff as normal ubuntu?

>>106280766
Yes, they're DE agnostic.

>>106280086 (OP)
I've decided to make the plunge from windows into Linux full time. i used to be familiar with Manjaro on a laptop, so my top choice at the moment is Artix. idk what the "systemd" thing is all about, but it sounds bad.

>>106280956
It just makes system administration easier.

>>106280956
I'm considering Linux too. I want to run my windows-only video games via proton/whatever though and I'm not sure which distro is preferred for best compatibility.

i love nixos.
it's perfect.

>>106281261
Distro with recent kernel/driver updates are going to have the same performance/compatibility as each other. So basically, just don't game on anything derived from Debian/Ubuntu.

>>106280086 (OP)
I wish we still had options for lightweight GUI applications like this. It seems nowadays the only choices are terminal applications or bloatware for "modern" DEs.

>>106281261
Its just going to be trial and error based on your hardware and whichever game you're trying to play. Mint, Ubuntu, Manjaro or whatever else can all work.

My 3 years long streak of no issues has been broken. For some reason xss-lock seems to be crashing on login and taking xorg with it.
>rebooting fixed it
lel

is there a retard-proof guide for QEMU-KVM?

>>106280459
Post beef.

>>106280956
systemd is a monolith that covers a lot of things just like the name implies, which makes it hard to replace once you depend on it, but overall it makes admin tasks easier so everyone has adopted it
>>106281400
?

>>106281301
Arch is the standard for gaming now old timer

>>106280766
There's zero spyware.

>>106280956
>it sounds bad
It's not, Microsoft maintains it.

>>106280402
>distro for my server that has the longest LTS support
Ubuntu Server is the only same option.

>>106281694
Arch and Fedora are no different for gaming

>>106281694
If I went for Artix, would it be functionally the same as going for Arch itself for gayming purposes?

>>106281728
Gayming is mostly affected by the kernel you're using and the drivers. Since its a derivative of arch it should be about the same as far as those things go.

>>106281521
Virt-manager

>>106281728
The only difference would be having to manually set up dbus, pipewire, runtime dir etc since you wont have systemd handling all that for you

>>106281645
Is trinity more lightweight than xfce?

>>106281775
>>106281802
Gotcha, thanks. I think I'll order a second SSD for my fun linux adventure and try to make sense of it. I want to learn it anyway for other purposes to self-host some stuff, so it won't be a waste either way.

>>106280086 (OP)
>setup new arch server
>luks encrypted root with dropbear ssh unlocking
>encrypted zfs pools
>rootless podman with quadlets, all containers and their dependencies are systemd units, even traefik works fine
>all system logs and container logs are accessible with journalctl
>container systemd units fire up when i manually mount and decrypt zfs pools

man i just love linux

>>106281400
I've used the FOX toolkit for a couple of small programs, it's comfy

>>106280207
>linux
>windows theme
you deserve this

>>106281802
Is this difficult?

>>106281902
NOOOO YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE YOUR DE VISUALLY PLEASING

>>106281979
windows xp was peak gui design

>>106281862
>arch server

Anyone familiar with PackageKit and/or DBus know how I can automatically run a script before PackageKit transactions?

>>106281802
>>106281913
Artixfag here, I use Openrc instead of Systemd. Some programs might require you to install a separate package corresponding to your init (e.g. networkmanager and networkmanager-openrc), and you add them with
# rc-update add networkmanager default

The only things I had to manually add post-installation were cronie and colord, the latter only when using Cinnamon. I start Pipewire/Wireplumber using a script because the official openrc packages never worked for me. All info is on the Artix wiki. Also, while I think Artix is good, I wouldn't recommend it to a newbie. Not because it's bad or anything, but Systemd works just fine for the average Joe. Also, please be responsible when managing your Arch/Artix system. A lot of people don't and then blame their problems on the OS.

>>106282068
>fag here, I use Openrc instead of Systemd
we get it. you already have parades and an entire month dedicated to you. can let it go please?

>>106281913
Not really

>>106282163
That'd be Arch, not Artix.

>>106282163
>>fag here, I use Openrc instead of Systemd
>we get it. you already have parades and an entire month dedicated to you. can let it go please?
>>106282230
>That'd be Arch, not Artix.

>openrc
>arch
sir it's 2pm on a saturday you're drunk go home.

where does mpv download videos with yt-dlp when you give it a youtube link? and would I have to delete them after watching?

>>106282287
do you understand what the point of yt-dlp is?

>>106282287
It gets cached into RAM i think.

>>106282230
gay performative racism

>>106281645
That's a DE. I'm talking about programs. DEs only come with the most basic shit.

>>106281705
shit.. i thought you memed but i checked ubuntu's end of life and support till 2036 sounds insane to me.
thanks! it's gonna be a good distro candidate when i setup my server, from what i read though it required a subscription in the past and now requires an account to receive those updates. that's a bit of a bummer but still pretty cool.

>>106282011
running arch server with lts kernel is quite comfy

I haven't used Windows in ages so I'm thinking about getting rid of the partition I used to install games on my "game drive". What's the best way to delete partitions 1 and 2 and expand partition 3 into the remaining space?
I don't even remember which tool I used to create these partitions initially. It doesn't show there, but I believe partition 1 is just some old Windows recovery partition.
Ideally I want to keep partition 3 intact since that's where my Linux games are installed. But it's just games, if the entire drive gets wiped, it would be annoying, but I could just re-download everything. The really annoying part would be reconfiguring certain mods. I don't have a spare drive with enough space to back up partition 3 nor can I be arsed.

What's the point of DE's like Pantheon that is just a different configuration of GNOME? Why not just use GNOME and configure it yourself? Are people really that fucking stupid/lazy?

>>106280360
No, man - last time I used it it used to bait me with 'you could have later stuff if you paid'. No thanks.

>>106283004
Most of those were made when the abomination known as GNOME 3 just started being developed and were forked or made as a way to split away from GNOME 3 for whichever reason.

>>106283198
Pantheon is literally just current GNOME with a different config. Even the site for Elementary OS is basically a copy of GNOME's website. Those fuckers have zero shame.

>mkvtoolnix-cli
>needs qt6-base
Why? Someone explain why a non-GUI program needs that.

>>106283003
Easiest way would be to just use gparted.

>>106283236
People hate the direction gnome was going in and were trying to do their own thing. Same with mate, cinnamon, budgie.

Some anon give me the way to make qt/gtk apps looking like shit on a minimal setup

>>106283308
QtGui is just one module, there are many more.
Qt is not just a UI library like GTK.

What is the best software to back up files?

What are some general steps I can take to try to improve game performance?
running mint cinnamon

>>106284008
>use a recent kernel version
>update wine and graphic drivers
>buy better hardware
Thats it, everything else is snake oil. There's no magic sauce.

>>106282604
There is no need to create an account until 2029, at which point you can decide between creating the account or running `do-release-upgrade` to upgrade to the next LTS.
There's no limit to how many times you can upgrade in place, a previous employer (managing ~£2 billion in projects annually) had their web server VM deployed with Ubuntu 10.04 and upgraded regularly in place all the way up to 22.04.

>>106284008
Nothing much you can do other than upgrading your hardware.
Currently dual booting Mint Cinnamon (X11) and Arch Plasma (Wayland), and performance is practically identical between the two, even though Mint's kernel is always a bit behind in version.
On Mint, disabling the compositor helped reduce input lag drastically. But you should only do that if you have a VRR monitor, otherwise you will get tearing.
Wayland seems slightly smoother, but the input lag is also higher. And don't think there an easy way to disable compositor on Wayland because it works a bit differently.

Also, don't forget to install gamemode, Proton-GE, etc

>>106280766
>>106280809
Citation needed

I'm trying to unrar a protected archive with 7z, but when it prompts me to enter the password I can't enter anything?

Is it me or does Discord screenshare on Linux now share the audio of the whole desktop instead of just the app you selected?

>>106284707
Oh, I'm talking about the terminal.

>>106284250
Wayland input lag should be the same, if not better, than composited X.

>>106284886
Compared to X with compositor disabled, Wayland's input lag is noticeable higher. Now compared to X with compositor enabled, it's about the same or even slight lower.

>>106284938
>Compared to X with compositor disabled
Naturally, but you can't compare a desktop with tearing against one with Vsync.
You can also enable tearing on Wayland on full-screen apps and you will see the latency is lower.

>>106284982
>but you can't compare a desktop with tearing against one with Vsync
Nigga, it's not 2010 anymore, practically everyone has a monitor with adaptive sync nowadays.
X with compositor disabled and a VRR monitor has zero tearing.

>You can also enable tearing on Wayland on full-screen apps and you will see the latency is lower.
How? I remember researching this topic a while ago and every result said it was not possible due to how differently Wayland handled composition.

>>106284707
i believe p7zip just doesn't show what you are writing as ******* or something, it leaves the password field blank but it should be listening to what you're typing.

if it won't take any input at all then you can add
-p"THEPASSWORD"
in the command line as an argument

there is also a winrar binary for linux
https://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

>>106285032
>X with compositor disabled
Doesn't that disable a lot of other desktop window features, like animations and stuff?

>How?
See pic.

>>106285032
disabling vsync is not in the protocol but some compositors might implement it as a hack, it dependents on the compositor you're using

>>106285123
>See pic.
Oh that, I already use that setting. It helps a bit, but it just controls how KWin’s compositor synchronizes frame presentation when an application is running fullscreen. It doesn't disable the compositor per se.

>Doesn't that disable a lot of other desktop window features, like animations and stuff?
Literally never noticed anything abnormal with compositor off.

>>106285114
>i believe p7zip just doesn't show what you are writing
You're right, thanks!

>haskell updates
>several pages of just haskell on package search

>>106285190
>Literally never noticed anything abnormal with compositor off.
Why wonder why compositors exist then.

>>106284938
>>106284250
I hope you're doing actual lag measurements rather than "it feels like", otherwise your post has no value.

>>106248700
Nice, I posted the one liner but this is even closer to ytfzf, I'll see if I can add some stuff without fucking with the API

I've been using wayland and x for a while. At a surface level both are pretty decent.
If I had to criticize x for something, it's that it still handles multi-monitor setups awfully. It has no real concept of a "primary monitor", and some programs still keep opening on the wrong screen. And I know you're gonna recommend me a bunch of ways to fix it, believe me, I've tried them all.
My issue with Wayland isn't even input lag. It's still pretty undercooked in some aspects, and I experience more random bugs on wayland than on x.

>>106285248
to bloat your os of course
>b-but my start menu transition animation
i disable that shit regardless of compositor

>>106284712
pisscord is proprietary software, i would expect that to be the culprit, but to be fair webshit screensharing is just broken on lunix (especially with wayland)
if you want properly done screensharing, try RTMP/RTMPS, you can self host it (or run it on localhost if you really wanted to, and if you can port forward)
you need ffmpeg/obs for streaming, and mpv (or rtmpdump + mpv) for watching. i'm sure there is some way to turn it into a webshit stream too, but i don't have any idea how to deal with JS cancer.
i primarily copypasted from this https://cia.govt.hu/blog/2024-04-07_rtmp-screenshare.html
i just had to adjust some things like the nginx module path.
>>106285273
how do you even measure lag 'correctly'? i know that i can measure input lag by recording microphone audio and my desktop in sync, then hitting some key and checking how long it takes until it gets picked up by X11 (or whatever program i'm using)
my video output latency is basically just my GPU's DRM rendering, since X11 PageFlip causes fullscreened windows to bypass the X server entirely, and i use a CRT so that's pretty much zero additional latency.
>>106285307
except windows always open on whatever monitor i have focused right now, i don't need to tell it what my primary monitor is
wayland is the thing that has issues with multi monitor setups, not X.

>>106285307
I've never had an application opening in the wrong screen on i3 (and sway as well), not even the pop-up style ones. Its always on the active one unless I set it to do otherwise. I suppose its an implementation detail.

>>106285248
transparent windows, fancy rounded corners, animations, forced vsync everywhere because some NOVIDEO cuckolds don't know what TearFree is
all the things i don't want and don't need.

Is it a good idea to use Firefox Flatpak on Arch to make sure it's always updated? For instance you miss a few days of updating on Arch and Firefox is out of date for those few days. Or even with daily updates you might miss the Firefox update by a few minutes and spend the whole day with an outdated browser.

Are the dudes at KDE running out of stuff to do? Whose stupid idea was to make your cursor grow to the entire size of the screen when your move it in circles?

>>106282011
i really need to migrate my last 2 parabola servers to gentoo
>>106285032
what the fuck is adaptive sync?
my monitor is from 2002
>>106284008
get rid of background bloat you don't need if you see anything that wastes performance
also, disable your compositor if you have one, and use X11 instead of wayland if you aren't doing that already
a lightweight WM also gives you a bit more performance than a bloated DE

>>106285398
It's a feature to be able to find your mouse if you think you've lost it. You can just disable it in the mouse settings.

>>106285382
Everyone will exploit your ass as soon as its outdated by one minute. They're constantly probing you specifically and are capable of developing the tools to make the most out of those exploits within 10 minutes.
>>106285407
i find it hard to believe people can lose the cursor or struggle to find it again

>>106285414
>Everyone will exploit your ass as soon as its outdated by one minute. They're constantly probing you specifically and are capable of developing the tools to make the most out of those exploits within 10 minutes.
Exactly.

>>106280368
ugh, such an annoying ass bug.

>>106280207
On Wayland? DnD operations are still flaky on it.

what was your first distro? I'll start:

>Freebsd v8

>>106285745
One of the versions of Ubuntu that still used Unity

>>106285322
>to bloat your os of course
X is much more bloated than Wayland

>but to be fair webshit screensharing is just broken on lunix (especially with wayland)
That's outdated information. There are no problems with screensharing on Wayland. I use it on Teams, Discord, Firefox, etc.
It was working perfectly fine on Discord on Wayland.
It still is, but it is now capturing the whole desktop's audio, when before it was capturing only the selected application audio.
That's what my post is about.

>how do you even measure lag 'correctly'?
Fairly easy to do.
You grab your phone's camera and set it to slow-motion mode (many phones can do 240 or 480fps recording), and record your hand pressing a button with the monitor in the background.
Then you count how many frames there are between the button press and the change on the screen.
You can use mpv with the , and . hotkeys to count frames.

>>106285343
>wayland is the thing that has issues with multi monitor setups, not X
X can't deal with heterogeneous monitors, and VRR only works on single-monitor setups, so it's pretty much useless.

>>106285378
>>106285322
>transparent windows, fancy rounded corners, animations
Sorry buddy, if you really don't enjoy any of those, make sure to keep using X.

>>106285829
>X is more bloated than wayland
then why does a wayland system with 1/4 the amount of features have 20 times more bloat than X11 with all the features baked in?
>there are no problems with screensharing on wayland
except you need bloat like pipewire, dbus, xdg-desktop-portal, wireplumber, and whatever fucking freedesktop cancer emanuel pulled out of his bassi
>it worked but now it doesn't work
..didn't you just claim that wayland works?
>phone
i don't have a phone, let alone a slow motion camera
i figured i'd use mpv too
also what's VRR?
and yes, i hate modern "fancy" crap because it wastes performance and looks bad. i want instant workspace switching and window movement, not gay slow fading animations.

I made an ebuild for Curl impersonate if any Gentoo users care. Next up is figuring how to get yt-dlp to use curl-cffi.

# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

EAPI=8

inherit autotools edo flag-o-matic

DESCRIPTION="A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome & Firefox"
HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate"

if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
inherit git-r3
EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate.git"
fi

# Keep in sync with Makefile
SRC_URI+="
https://github.com/google/brotli/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.9.tar.gz -> brotli-1.0.9.tar.gz
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_92_RTM/src/nss-3.92-with-nspr-4.35.tar.gz -> nss-3.92.tar.gz
https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases/download/v1.56.0/nghttp2-1.56.0.tar.bz2 -> nghttp2-1.56.0.tar.bz2
https://curl.se/download/curl-8.1.1.tar.xz -> curl-8.1.1.tar.xz
https://github.com/google/boringssl/archive/1b7fdbd9101dedc3e0aa3fcf4ff74eacddb34ecc.zip -> boringssl-1b7fdbd9101dedc3e0aa3fcf4ff74eacddb34ecc.zip
"

LICENSE="BSD curl ISC"
SLOT="0"

REQUIRED_USE=""

PATCHES=()

src_prepare() {
default

eautoreconf

strip-flags
unset MAKEOPTS
}

src_configure() {
edo ./configure --prefix="${WORKDIR}/staging/usr"
}

src_compile() {
ln -sv "${DISTDIR}"/*.* .
mv -v boringssl-*.zip boringssl.zip || die
# Workaround CMake complaining about lack of minimum version specified
sed -i 's/=Release/=Release -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5/g' Makefile
emake firefox-build || die
emake firefox-checkbuild || die
emake firefox-install || die
emake chrome-build || die
emake chrome-checkbuild || die
emake chrome-install || die
}

src_install() {
mv "${WORKDIR}"/staging/usr "${ED}" || die
local libdir="$(get_libdir)"
if [[ "$libdir" != "lib" ]]
then
mv "${ED}/usr/lib" "${ED}/usr/$libdir" || die
fi
}

>>106285890
isn't that already in 3 layman overlays?

>>106285904
Probably. I don't have any of those overlays added to my system though so I did it myself.

Ideally it would go in GURU but they have a policy of not adding packages that already exist in ::gentoo (Curl does, obviously) so it can't go in there.

>>106285890
replace the version numbers with ${PV} and the package name with ${PN}, also what the fuck is up with that ugly boringssl filename?
if you fix those i'll put your up to date version into my own overlay, but take a look at the ones in miezhiko/tatsh-overlay first
>curl exists
but does curl-impersonate?
i dont think so, or does it apply to soft forks too?

>>106285956
>what the fuck is up with that ugly boringssl filename?
There are no proper versions of Boringssl so that's the git commit they use in Chrome.

>>106285829
>X is much more bloated than Wayland
Im not sure about how much "lighter" wayland can be since the features have to be implemented by something and someone anyway, and the guys that have to make the compositors get the short end of the stick this time.

I use Nobara because I'm not smart enough to use anything else and I don't like Windows

I got a new laptop maybe two years ago, a Thinkpad E16. It's not the Real Business Experience™, but I wanted the 2560x1600 screen & my T420 was pretty tired.
Installed Arch, no issues.

There are little brightness up/down glyphs on the F5 & F6 keys, but I never set anything up. I've just been sending values to /sys/class/backlight/amdgpu_bl1/brightness... pretty lazy.
I've been using 0 for most-dim (dark room, laying in bed), and 100 for most-bright.

~ $ cat /sys/class/backlight/amdgpu_bl1/max_brightness
64764

Well well well.
I didn't even know I was retarded.

How can I get split tunneling working right? I want a Wireguard connection for certain applications, but not the rest of the machine. I thought using network namespaces would work, with the Wireguard connection being the only interface in its namespace, but it's been quite messy. While I've mostly got it working, DNS leaks, presumably (though I'm not sure) because systemd-resolved is accessible across namespaces due to D-Bus or NSS or something. Is there a simple solution I'm overlooking? I don't think I can easily stop programs from making DNS requests to systemd-resolved that bypass the typical IP stack. It works well for my main system, so I'm not really excited for the prospects of replacing systemd-resolved with some other resolver that also isn't guaranteed to cleanly work within network namespace boundaries.
>>106283935
That's a really vague question; "back up" covers a wide scope of activities and interfaces. I like restic.
>>106286252
How could you even see it in normal situations?

>>106285959
google code quality... holy shit, i can smell the cow dung from here

>>106286395
>How could you even see it in normal situations
Well, I work late nights/keep nighttime hours.
This isn't a work computer though. I mostly just use it in bed, on the couch, etc. I might have a low lamp on, but that's it.

>Fedora Gnome is more popular than KDE on Steam
what the fuck

>>106286582
GNOME is the default variant of Fedora

>>106286587
Not since 42, chud :^)

>>106286597
True? Didn't know that.

>>106286606
Yeah, KDE is no longer a spin but an edition and on the front page next to Workstation.

>>106286613
Well that's great. I always liked KDE better.

>>106286623
Yeah, I assumed gamers would prefer a more Windows styled OS so they would have chosen KDE over Gnome. But it's 2.21% vs 1.79% on Steam

>>106286640
I guess there's always the people that still have the older "default" GNOME version of Fedora. Maybe it could also be Bazzite or Aurora users?

>>106286652
I suppose if you're a gamer and don't really use your pc for other stuff then you might just go with Bazzite.

>>106286673
Bazzite's whole deal is being SteamOS but usable on a desktop before Valve made their own desktop installable SteamOS. You can use it just like a normal PC via installing everything through Flatpak or Homebrew, same with how Aurora works (which is closer to being a normal general computer setup built on atomic Fedora.)

is ricing waybar supposed to be a really painful experience? it's buggy as fuck

>want to update openfoam
>go to dl.openfoam.com
>it redirects
>https://dl.openfoam.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi

No wonder apt was throwing an error. Guess I'll be using the one in the debian repos since the originals fucked up?!

>>106285572
>On Wayland? DnD operations are still flaky on it.
kek what a joke

brothers, Ext4 or Btrfs?
>Desktop(laptop) install
>single 2TB NVMe disk
>no database fuckery, LLMs or other specific usecases

>>106287934
I've heard btrfs can shit the bed. I'm using ext4 and it just works.

>>106287951
yeah but muh snapshots
(I'm gonna use Arch btw)

>>106287974
If you want to use native snapshots then use btrfs. You can use snapshots with ext4 if you use a program like Timeshift.

>>106287981
>>106287974
>>106287951
ext4 snapshots are just not efficient, they're Windows-tier at best.
>>106287934
Use Btrfs if your CPU was made in the last 20 years.

>>106288014
Let's say I want to nuke a file from ever having existed on my system, how do I do this when Copy-on-write and snapshots are being used?

>>106288076
>Let's say I want to nuke a file from ever having existed on my system
Please report yourself to the FBI

>>106288081
>anything someone wants to delete secure must be cheese pizza
cringe & sad

>>106288076
- set all snapshots to read-write
- delete "live" file and any instances of it in every snapshot
- set snapshots back to read-only
- run a whole-volume trim

>>106288093
Criminals like you should be locked away forever

BTRFS or EXT4 for main drive? I am told that BTRFS fucks itself up if you experience a power loss while EXT4 is robust and doesn't brek.
what do? also ext4 has noice speed, however BTRFS has snapshots which is noice.

>>106288247
btrfs is OK on single drive, but prone to shitting itself with arrays. ext4 is just Linux's NTFS.
>ext4 has noice speed
Not particularly. If you want that go with XFS.

Ideally you'd want XFS or btrfs for / depending on whether you want snapshots, and ZFS for /home and everything else (and don't fall for the "ZFS requires a gazillion ECC RAM" meme, it can operate just fine with a few gigs and no ECC).

>>106288263
I use brtfs and my system didn't break once.

>>106288247
I live in a shithole and am also concerned about sudden power outs, even when not writing anything

>>106288155
Seems like you can disable CoW for certain partitions or folders/files, so I'll just snapshot my system for easy restore and backup my personal files manually

>>106288308
Brazil?

>>106288247
>I am told that BTRFS fucks itself up if you experience a power loss while EXT4 is robust and doesn't brek.
the only way it's more likely to give errors is because it detects more kinds of errors compared to ext4. if anything btrfs handles power loss better than ext4, for example it doesn't need to run an fsck after a power loss at all.
by default, even on a single-disc volume, all metadata is duplicated/mirrored, and it's copy-on-write nature means that partial writes don't result in corruption/truncated files

>>106288263
>but prone to shitting itself with arrays.
only specifically raid5/6 modes have historically had a few reasons to avoid them, the other modes have been stable for ages. today even raid5/6 is quite usable, it's just not perfect

>>106288276
I've used BTRFS since 2014. i wouldn't have recommended it then, but I haven't had an issue with it in a very long time and I use it on all my computers, even my 17yo laptop.
people bring up things like "raid is broken", "unmountable filesystem after power loss", and "unusable filesystem when running out of space/can't delete anything" like they still happen today even though they haven't in ages.

>>106285382
You should only use flatpak on arch if you want the sandboxing features which can be done with bubblewrap anyway

>>106285882
Not the anon you're replying to but VRR is basically a way for the monitor and gpu to prevent screentearing while also allowing fps over 60

>>106288456
>the other modes have been stable for ages
raid1 has usability issues that can cause surprise data loss if you don't RTFM very carefully.

>>106286395
If the application supports it you can try running it through a local proxy and have the proxy point to the wireguard interface
The easiest way to do this would be in a vm or container, you would set up full wireguard killswitch with a proxy and then point all your stuff you want tunneled through the vpn to that proxy.

>>106288456
>today even raid5/6 is quite usable
Uh-huh.

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-man5.html#raid56-status-and-recommended-practices
>The RAID56 feature provides striping and parity over several devices, same as the traditional RAID5/6. There are some implementation and design deficiencies that make it unreliable for some corner cases and the feature should not be used in production, only for evaluation or testing. The power failure safety for metadata with RAID56 is not 100%.
From the proverbial horse's mouth.

>>106288554
i'm aware. in btrfs you can set different profiles for metadata and data, and the recommendation is to use raid1 metadata with raid5 data, and raid1c3 metadata with raid6, as the write hole is more likely to be hit with metadata, and metadata corruption is more critical than data corruption. the write hole also requires specific conditions. you're probably going to lose more data using ext4 normally after a power loss than you would from a btrfs write hole loss. if you can't afford to lose the most recent writes then you'd have a UPS regardless of filesystem

What is currently recommended with root user and user accounts?
>having to elevate to root is unsafe behaviour
>you should make your user account part of sudo group
But that means the same password I use to log in, can be used to unlock & install undesirable packages on a unattended machine

>>106288625
>metadata corruption is more critical than data corruption
From a data recovery point of view, this is absolutely bonkers to read.

>>106288970
I mean it all comes down to threat levels I guess. Make the root and your user have different passwords. Make it that there isn't a root user at all and the user does everything elevated with sudo.

>>106288991
why does elevating to root with sudo su require my user password, I would have expected the root password instead.

>>106288625
Or you could pick a better filesystem that also has better usability.

>When RAID56 is on the same filesystem with different raid profiles, the space reporting is inaccurate, e.g. df, btrfs filesystem df or btrfs filesystem usage. When there’s only a one profile per block group type (e.g. RAID5 for data) the reporting is accurate.

>When scrub is started on a RAID56 filesystem, it’s started on all devices that degrade the performance. The workaround is to start it on each device separately. Due to that the device stats may not match the actual state and some errors might get reported multiple times.

how big an SSD do you really need for Linux and most programs? (not mass storage)

>>106289024
Zorin Pro (I can't imagine a more bloated/turnkey OS, depending who you ask) needs 40GB so 64GB SSD should be sufficient

>>106289024
frankly not much more than as above said 64. but these days ssds have gotten so cheap i'd say go for 500 and you'll have enough for whatever happens the next 20 years in terms of a OS and programs drive.

>>106280086 (OP)
name ONE app with a gui that lets me adjust display color temperature however and whenever I want in this gay ass ecosystem

>>106289078
>implying an SSD will last that long

>>106288990
would you rather the risk of losing what you wrote immediate before power loss, or lose the filesystem?
>When RAID56 is on the same filesystem with different raid profiles, the space reporting is inaccurate, e.g. df, btrfs filesystem df or btrfs filesystem usage. When there’s only a one profile per block group type (e.g. RAID5 for data) the reporting is accurate.
this isn't related to what i mentioned, this is if you use a mix of raid5/6 with another profile type on your data, like if the data is partly raid5/6 and partly something else. most people won't be using multiple data profiles at once.
also, you're pointing out a minor inconvenience with a feature no other filesystem can even do in the first place.
>When scrub is started on a RAID56 filesystem, it’s started on all devices that degrade the performance. The workaround is to start it on each device separately. Due to that the device stats may not match the actual state and some errors might get reported multiple times.
raid5/6 scrubbing is well-known to be slow, so i certainly wouldn't recommend someone use it if their power is unreliable. not that i'd recommend btrfs raid5/6 at all. all i'm saying is that you /can/ use it, like it's not so bad it can't be used, just that it's not as good as it should be

>>106289160
If you don't constantly write 100s of GBs to it it can indeed last a very long time.

>>106289024
can you even buy ssd's smaller than 128G anymore?

>>106288991
You're not really supposed to do sudo su , its also redundant since you can just do sudo bash -l
The reason why it requires your user password is because you invoked sudo. Running su as root does not require a password

Reposting because quoted wrong post
>>106289007
You're not really supposed to do sudo su , its also redundant since you can just do sudo bash -l
The reason why it requires your user password is because you invoked sudo. Running su as root does not require a password

>>106289024
my pretty chunky main desktop (gentoo linux) root which has some pretty big things like ROCm installed and with little effort spent to keep it small is currently sitting at 24GiB
how much you need specifically depends a lot on what you install on it. i don't think you can buy ssd's too small for a linux root these days

>>106289289
i've always done "sudo -s"
-s, --shell
Run the shell specified by the SHELL environment variable if it
is set or the shell specified by the invoking user’s password
database entry. ...

>>106289315
Really the largest things these days would be certain games like CoD or video files if you're a video editor of some description.

>>106289344
sure, but he's just talking about a system drive, i.e. root, not /home. of course, if you're including /home then it varies even more

>>106289344
>>106289355
-- to be clear, on linux you don't typically install games as native packages, things like GOG and Steam both install games into your /home. some larger foss games can be installed as native packages however, such as 0AD or Xonotic

>>106288991
>Make it that there isn't a root user at all and the user does everything elevated with sudo.
How do I go about doing extended system maintenance or reconfiguration, and I don't want to put sudo in front of every command, or put in my password for every command?

>>106289289
>>106289324
Thank you for taking the time to answer guys, and reposting even.
So the options are
sudo su or sudo bash -l or sudo -s
>asks for user password
>you're not supposed to do that btw

okay

su root
>askings for root password, receives root password, gibs root shell
based, but do I have to, or should I block the alternatives above, which need the user pass?
I wanna keep my user account in the sudo group so that I can do Pacman -Syu without having to elevate, but as written above I'm curious how to do all this shit safely when I also don't wanna have to do every command with sudo [command] and then type my user password

>>106289546
>How do I go about doing extended system maintenance or reconfiguration, and I don't want to put sudo in front of every command, or put in my password for every command?
If you're talking about a script, you would run the script as root
>So the options are
I would just use sudo -s as the other anon said
>su root
it should just be su -
If you dont want to run sudo for everything you can just have sudo only allow users in the wheel group to run pacman as sudo and all other commands would have to be ran as the root user. Though it might be better to have a separate user with full sudo access than to do su all the time.

>>106289546
>>you're not supposed to do that btw
not him, but to try to clear it up a bit, there's nothing technically wrong about "sudo su", it just looks funny if you know what the programs do. like that's literally "switch user; do switch user", like one switches user (by default to root) as a normal user and runs a program, and the other switches user (by default to root) but doesn't have any authentication logic for normal users, i.e. it's intended to be run while you're already root to switch to a non-root user. there is a difference in their default behaviour however, "sudo" by itself simply prints help information, while "su" by itself launches a shell.
this is why he said "sudo su" is redundant, you're only using the "launches a shell" part of su here, and sudo has this function available already

I've been using AwesomeWM for a while but there's some functionality that I have been wanting the whole time ever since I switched from windows.
Back when I used windows I used to use a thing in PowerToys called FancyZones to do all my window management.
Basically, you'd set up areas that you would drag a window to and it'd snap to immediately and resize.
In Awesome I spent some time making a new layout that matched the previous layout I did but couldn't figure out what to do when the amount of windows went over the amount allocated in that layout.
So what I ended up doing was just swapping the workspace back to floating mode after each time.
Honestly its pretty clunky and I don't like it.
What I was wanting the whole time though when using windows was a way for each of the zones to have tabs, so I could:
Define a zone that I want windows to go.
Drag a window into that zone to resize it.
Drag other windows into those zones so I could tab through them.
I looked through older configurations of Awesome and nothing quite worked.
I tried, albeit for not a long time.
Herbstluftwm - didn't like the multi monitor weirdness.
Xmonad - Neat, but I think I want a tiling window manager second, and the inability to drag windows is not my style.
Notion - Probably the closest to what I wanted but still you can't drag windows between monitors.
Does anyone have any ideas of what WM I should look into?

>>106289546
>>106289646
>sudo su or sudo bash -l or sudo -s
for a simple explanation;
sudo su = launches a program as root which by default launches the root users' shell
sudo bash -l = launch bash specifically as root in a mode as if you've logged in
sudo -s = launch your users' shell as root
note that i specifically mentioned "root users' shell" and "your shell", as these can be different shells

>>106289627
>>106289646
Thanks guys again. I'm retarded and this stuff can be so ambiguous at times how its described elsewhere. I just realised however that I'm trying to decide on a best practice when I don't even a good vision on the threat actor that would be relevant for my situation. I appreciate any insight you guys can give me

>>106289825
you shouldn't just run anything with sudo (not "as" sudo, sudo isn't a user), in many cases running something with sudo that doesn't need it can cause problems, like if you run many normal user programs using sudo, they'll probably work (some programs will explicitly refuse to run as root, but only in specific cases), but as they're running as root, they may create new files in your own home folder that are owned by root... which means now you can't run them properly as your user.
basically, don't use sudo at all unless you /know/ you need to. many programs will tell you to run them as root, others may just go ahead and bomb out with permission errors. i would strongly recommend against getting into a habit of "if it doesn't work, run it with sudo", that's NOT a good idea

is there a good (ideally lightweight) CLI music player that you can recommend?

>>106290225
cmus

>>106290225
The fuck do you want a CLI music player for? Are you going to read the sheet music in bash?

Don't ask me how, but I wiped my fstab. Expectantly, it bricked my boot. From a live media I was able to restore the UUIDs of my root and EFI partitions and fix the mess. But now my swap partition is completely gone, I can't find it anywhere.
I don't know if I should continue using Linux without swap or create a new partition for it.

>>106290289
Create a new partition

>>106290225
mpv --no-vid --shuffle ~/Music

>>106290289
lsblk -o NAME,UUID,FSTYPE
if need be as >>106290293 says you can just format it again, not necessary, but it's swap, you don't lose anything by just formatting it again

>>106288469
The other day my btrfs root partition ran out of space during an update (I noticed "upgrading linux" was taking way too long), I deleted some snapshots, the update failed, ran -Syu linux, rebooted and it's fine. I've also had a couple of power outages while doing stuff and didn't have any issues with the partitions

>>106290371
You're proving his point here. It doesn't shit itself when it runs out of space anymore. You can free up space and then continue what you were doing. Obviously, it's much better to not run out of space in the first place but that is hard when 8 TB drives are still so expensive (maybe I'll build a RAID array with 4 TB NVMe drives someday because the 8 TB drives aren't coming down in price anytime soon…)

>>106290225
>>106290229
>>106290263
I use cmus and I like it. It's like iTunes in your terminal. You can navigate it with the mouse if you want. Because it's terminal-based it's very lightweight. If you want to add your entire Music folder to cmus's library then you just type:

:add ~/Music

>>106290225
I use mpd with ncmpcpp

>>106290263
modern guis suck ass

>>106289024
128GB should be enough even if you exclusively use appimages

what is trustedboot in opensuse? worth it?

>set up firewall
>Update mirrors
>Yay/paru
>Set up Bluetooth
>Snapshots
Then I also download stuff for gaming, hyprland. I am going back to Arch, do I need to do anything else after installing it to help with security or maintenance?

>>106290633
Probably Secure Boot / Measured Boot. For most people it's irrelevant. If you fantasise about being attacked with complex firmware rootkits (most of which require direct access to your machine or the ability to run remote code as root in order to even implant it) then maybe it's worth it.

>>106289985
Thanks. I’m aware of many of the arguments you made, which are all valid and I’ve ran into problems caused by these things in the past. I’ve run a bunch of linux on raspbian and debian as a server for one purpose or the other over the course of a couple of years, so I’ve cared about this stuff to a certain degree, but mainly to get it to werk or keep it werking. Now I’m looking to make linux my daily and I wanna get it /right/, from a security point of view. Main threat would be myself, malware and evil maid/janny coming across a unattended, hibernating or powered but locked machine, possibly in possession of shouldersurfed user password

>>106290681
Secure Boot & Unified Kernel Image

>>106290698
> complex firmware rootkits
False, just gotta slip a kernel level keylogger into the initramdisk which is on an otherwise unprotected, unencrypted boot partition

I'm gonna learn Linux with Mint :D

>>106290771
How do you do that without physical access to the machine or the existing ability to execute code as root remotely on the machine?
There is no just about it. If you are in either of these two situations then you are already highly likely fucked.

>>106290771
not him but it wouldn't make sense to use secure boot with an initramdisk

>>106290794
Ebin.
>>106289184
64GB models exists but mostly as mSATA.
>>106289007
You are sudoing as the user, not logging in as root.
And why would you have root password along with a sudoer?
>>106288970
You can use picrels for sudoing btw

>>106290841
>physical access required
Why are you so quick to throw the possibility of that vector away? It’s within the realm of any script kiddie, used to be a ready to usw exploit on github. Now theres even AI. Could be a room mate, or unironically an evil maid being paid by crypto-oriented criminals. The physical vector is becoming more and more relevant for the average joe I’d say than becoming less.
>>106290861
You want to use a Unified Kernel Image which can be measured.

I have an Iosevka fatigue.

>>106290861
initrd can be embedded in the kernel image itself
>>106290960
>Unified Kernel Image
Is that what the cool kids call it when initrd is embedded in one?
Thought that jargon was related to ARMshits with their device tree blobs.

>>106290633
Trusted boot is just secure boot for legacy bios users.

Between Bazzite, Fedora and Nobara, what should I put on my gaming PC?

>>106291130
Bazzite

>decide to install arch after all the shilling
>but read somewhere that it's best to create a separated partitions for your root and home folder respectively because arch is prone to shitting itself
>arch wiki recommends the root partition to be at least 24~32GB in size
>make a 30GB partition for root because I don't plan o installing a lot of stuff
>one week of use, the root partition went from 30% full to 70%
breh, I thought arch was "lightweight", wtf is taking so much space? I barely installed anything

>>106291107
>Is that what the cool kids call it when initrd is embedded in one?
not him but no, a UKI is a bit more than that, and wraps things up in an EFI executable, a single file that doesn't need a bootloader either

>>106291153
Btrfs? Snapshots?

>>106291170
ext4, no snaps

>>106291153
Clean your pacman cache and set up the paccache timer that cleans it automatically

>>106291148
Why Bazzite above vanilla Fedora or Nobara?

>>106291226
Because its for gayming, and you want to gayme don’t you?
Never heard anyone complain about Bazzite when it comes to purely gayming.

>>106291187
the cache folder is only 3GB, the nasty bloat is coming from somewhere else

>>106291296
sudo ncdu -x /

>>106291226
Not him but Bazzite is immutable so safer than the other 2. Nobara has a small team and it had some problems in the past. Fedora is great but you have to manually install codecs and all the gaming stuff. Bazzite offers out of the box gaming setup and you probably won't ever have to repair anything. It's like using SteamOS on your PC.

>>106291442
Aren't there tradeoffs to immutable systems though? I heard you pretty much can only use Flatpacks on them.

I'm using lvm. I have a 1TB ssd.
How many different disk partitions should I have?
If I create one massive disk partition, won't it be difficult to shrink it?
I can shrink the physical volume, but then how do I shrink the partition without affecting the physical volume on it if the pv is active?
Wouldn't it be good to have multiple partitions / physical volumes instead of one so that I can remove them if I needed more space?

>>106291476
There are tradeoffs, but you can get apps through distrobox if you don't want a flatpak. Gaming distros don't offer anything other than out of the box experience for gaming. You won't have more FPS on Bazzite compared to Fedora or Nobara or Arch.

>>106291476
Interoperability issues between flatpaks and other containers will be constant. Much like they are on a phone but worse. If you need to change anything about the system config you have to learn how to do it through the management system rather than just edit the config file.

I'm going to Archlice

>>106291558
>>106291601
Yeaaaah...I think I'm either just gonna go with Fedora or suck it up and go with Mint.

>>106291153
Should've just created a single partition, put btrfs on it and created subvolumes for root and home

>>106291785
Wouldn't recommend Mint for gaming if your hardware is less than 2 years old or you if you care about HDR

>>106291226
Because it's already set up for you so you don't have to tinker with it at all. It's the same answer as "why Mint or Ubuntu instead of Debian" or "why over LFS".

>>106291476
It's not a fully immutable distro since it lets you install stuff with rpm-ostree. So, you're not really locked out of modifying the system if you're an advanced user.
>I heard you pretty much can only use Flatpacks on them.
You can also use appimages, but yes. This is the typical newbie experience and that's by design. There's nothing really wrong with it unless your piece of software is unavailable as neither flatpak or appimage, which is rare. And in this case, you can either use rpm-ostree (literally the equivalent of apt/dnf, just better), or preferably use distrobox (Bazzite ships with a GUI for it).

>>106290960
>The physical vector is becoming more and more relevant for the average joe I’d say than becoming less.
Just don't plug random things into your machine, even years ago way before Secure Boot was a thing that existed people were warned not to plug random USB sticks into their machine, etc.

I guess people forgot about that vector and feel invulnerable.

>>106288276
I use btrfs and it stopped me from booting the last time I updated the kernel (regression). Only time in 5-6 years it's ever caused me a problem though. I only use ext4 for specialized purposes at this point.
>>106288522
Thanks, that's an interesting idea that I'll hold onto. I want to be able to just launch any given process, regardless of what it is or if it's built proxy-aware, within a killswitch-like environment. I don't have a lot of experience with lightweight containers, but that might work if I can't get the namespacing to work. For now I will see about tweaking or replacing my resolver with something "dumber", so that it doesn't offer features that break namespace containment.

>>106291944
I have an RTX 3060 so I think I'm going to be fine. The bigger problem is probably gonna be Drivers + Proton compatibility.

Anyone know what might be causing this? It "corrupts" again every couple days, but I'm not sure where to find out what the cause is.

>>106292502
What happens if you switch to another mirror? sounds like whichever mirror you're using keeps failing.

>>106292502
Switch mirror and reboot.

>>106292630
>>106292604
I'm pretty sure I did this and it persisted. But this time I've definitely switched the mirror, and the base mirror, and we'll see if it happens again I guess. Thanks.

>>106280086 (OP)
>install Ubuntu Budgie on usb flash drive because why not
>try to install NVidia drivers from the additional drivers applet
>get a pk-client-error-quark error like wtf is even that
>reboot
>not only do I not have gpu drivers anymore, not even nouveau, it also nuked my wifi drivers
>reboot to windows
Yeah, bitch and moan, moan and bitch. I got tired of googling shit on my phone and gave up.
What should I have done differently, other than lose the race back when I was a spermatozoon so I'd spare myself all the trouble?
Noticed iwlwifi was blacklisted so I unblacklisted it, but after another reboot "sudo modprobe iwlwifi" said it couldn't find the driver.
Anything to do with apt-get and even ubuntu-drivers autoinstall was useless because they want internet.
Think I'm going to try Mate next and see if I can't break that one too, but I'd like some ideas to try before I format again.

>>106292709
You should've probably looked into what that pk-client-error-quark was about. Since i'm guessing the "pk" part stands for polkit
Might've been better off just installing the drivers the regular way with apt instead of whatever ubuntu applet thing

>>106291337
Found the issue, it was "/var/lib/systemd/coredump". I disabled core dumps now.
Thanks for the tip.

Eh, my fresh Gentoo install is pretty perfect otherwise, but for some fucking reason I have both pipewire and pulseaudio installed. I noticed this when I had audio crackling, then went to xfce session/autostart manager and both pulse and pipewire are enabled. Why? What? I missed some USE flag? I did install pulseaudio deliberately.

>>106293115
Oh and audio issue resolved by just disabling pipewire, but I'm left wondering why it's there. I guess I have to figure out how to see what package pulled it as dependency?

Some keys on my keyboard only work on wayland, wev detects them and I can use them in hyprland, but they don't work on x in awesomewm. How do I fix it?
I found about acpi_listen thing online, but it doesn't seem to detect keys I need.

>>106291226
Nobara sucks so many cocks that I would rather go back to Windows

Any of you use Dolphin's file manager outside Plasma? I'm ready to jump ship to labwc, but i would miss that little fella a lot. I just wanna know what kind of services you need to run in order to get most of its functionality i.e. mounting devices from the UI, connecting to sft/ssh remotr hosts, custom right click actions.

>>106293115
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire#USE_flags
Read the wiki next time.

bcachefs has been excluded from the kernel

>>106293309
Okhay, I'll read that when I have time, but are you seriously saying I should've read the pipewire page even though I meant to use pulseaudio from the beginning and nothing else? I did read pulseaudio page while I installed and configured it. My assumption was that gentoo wouldn't install or select a sound server for me, I should do it myself, so I did.

Trying to upgrade from Debian Woody to Sarge (old as shit, I know), but when I reboot afterwards it seems to be stuck on "LI"

FWIW, I have the boot folder in the root partition, which is the last partition. I did have a dedicated boot partition early on, but I forgot to actually do the proper things to actually designate the first partition as the boot partition, so it's pretty much empty. Could that have had anything to do with it, even though it worked just fine until now?

>>106293414
Oh i thought you were trying to use pipewire instead of pulseaudio
you might need to put -pipewire in your USE flags to stop pipewire from being pulled in.

've got basically everything mint running like it was on bazzite so I'm almost free from immutable distro jail but the one thing I don't like is that cinnamon sometimes has problems trying to access my external drives when I want to upload something. To 4chan for example. Thumbnails also load too small and I can't tell what im uploading unless I hover over it for a preview.
At least, I think this is all the fault of cinnamon. Any type of general desktop GUI stuff is based on your desktop environment right? Stuff like GNOME, kde, etc. all handle this differently?

I tried to play a .webm from my browser cache but for some reason it didn't work at all.
Tried 4 different players vlc, celluloid, mpc, videos.
Also tried to reencode it with handbrake but it says no video stream found.

But the same file works in my win10 vm just perfectly.
What could be the reason for that?

>>106294245
Distro? is it Fedora?

>>106294286
Mint

>>106294222
Cinnamon uses GNOME's GTK portal as file picker, which is really ass.
You can install other file pickers like KDE's while retaining Cinnamon if you really want.

>install debian with full disk encryption
>replace cpu
>bios now fails to find boot option

>>106294352
Have you installed multimedia codecs? Thats the only thing i can think of.
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/codecs.html

>>106294541
Somehow replacing your cpu caused your efi nvram to get wiped unless you also replaced the motherboard.

>>106294590
interesting but i don't know what those words mean
the good news is a booted with a live usb and managed to decrypt the disk, now trying to repair the boot

>>106290289
Did you have an actual swap partition? Swap is usually just a file (/swapfile) nowadays.

>>106290225
`nvlc`, you probably have it installed already.

>>106293769
I see, well now that I added -pipewire to make.conf global USE flags and afterwards did "emerge --update --deep --newuse @world" - Nothing to merge! So that didn't work at least in removing it.

Hello lads
I'm currently using Kubuntu 24 and apparently fell into that infamous dependency hell. Trying to install Steam, at first through this 'Discover' software center (which simply gave a vague warning about failed dependency resolution), then through standard command-line apt.
From what I can understand, Steam is complaining about a lot of packages, apparently all already installed.
steam-libs:i386 -> curl:i386 -> coreutils -> libgmp10
libgmp10 is already the newest version (2:6.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu6.1).

And so forth, that's just a single chain that I managed to track from a lot, lot more.
I'm probably missing something really simple, but as a newcomer, may just have passed over it. And yes, I already included the i386 architecture and multiverse repository.
Any insight is appreciated!

>>106285882
Sorry buddy, now I understand you're clearly not the audience for Wayland, I would even risk saying you're not the audience for X either.
With your mindset, I don't understand why you use a GUI at all.

>..didn't you just claim that wayland works?
It doesn't work on X either.
I never said it was a Wayland problem.

>>106288502
He knows what VRR is. He said he doesn't use pipewire, dbus, xdg-desktop-portal or a phone, so he's just larping fishing for (you)s.

>>106285996
Yes, but it doesn't have to carry around 41 years of code cruft from a time when it was only supposed to pass characters back and forth to a physical terminal.

>>106287934
>>106287951
>>106287981
>>106288014
>>106288076

I'm starting to understand Gentoo's portage system now that I read a bit of sets from the wiki and I think it's cool. You simply select packages into the sysadmin world set or deselect them, you don't necessarily even compile and install it at that time if you don't want to. Then for example if you've --deselected a package you just do --depclean later if you want it uninstalled. And --oneshot emerges do not add the package to the sysadmin world set, so --depclean will remove those which you should be aware of.

>>106291130
None. Go with CashyOS and don't look at the glownigger distro

/g/entoomen we take a moment to laugh at the niggers over at winblows
https://wccftech.com/windows-11-latest-update-is-reportedly-causing-widespread-ssd-failures/

>>106281521
On Fedora is painfully easy to do, i'll link the article i read:
https://fedoramagazine.org/full-virtualization-system-on-fedora-workstation-30/
You should look up the equivalent of this package in your distribution and expand from there. The instructions are all the same on a SystemD distribution.

>>106293226
Bump
>>106294541
>>106294590
>>106294729
Wish i wasn't too retarded for encryption (beyond just using archives).

>>106295294
This is braindead af, why isn't EU raping Nvidia/TSMC into fully supporting VirtIO so we can finally run hardware accelerated VMs without bugs and get over running Windows on bare metal? Literally any ass DRM videogame with their +10Gbs per character assets can corrupt your drive just because? Isn't the point of this shit OS to be tuned as a Manchild central? If only i didn't need Premiere, dear god... Every day i consider if should get a forklift certification to leave this cancer industry.

>>106295598
>forklift certification
Robots.

>>106295613
>industry is so gay not even mexicans are safe from its tentacles

>>106295613
Robots will take over forklifts a week before they take over geriatric asswiping. Ie not in your lifetime.

>>106294541
>>106294590
>>106294729
it took me 3 hours of back and forth with chatgpt because that lil nigga had me mount the encrypted partition under a temporary name which screwed up update-initramfs or update-grub

>>106281705
>There's zero spyware.
>t. Unity-lens-shopping
And more recently that one crypto miner thing
Man I'm glad I left Ubuntu and it's ilk behind

>>106296090
That was 15 years ago old man

>>106294991
Have you followed the instructions in the description of that package?
dpkg --add-architecture i386; apt update
Also, if you search for Steam in Discover and scroll a bit, there's pic related which has no dependencies.

>>106296090
How's the latest Mandrake working for you, anon?

>>106294901
if nothing is configured to depend on it but it's still installed, run "emerge -av --depclean"

>update nvidia driver on mint
>it shits itself again
Booted up on recovery mode, i'll pack my stuff and go to Debian 13. I`m not ungrateful tho, mint served me well for the last 3 months.

>>106295294
>Windows just wer--

I want to play 640x480 games on my computer with a perfect 2x integer scale. I used to do this in windows by having a temporary zoom set up over the game in question but id much rather have it per-program. Either way how can i do this?

>>106296893
Mint is a shit distribution anyways

>>106296929
there's a few ways to do this, for example you could 2x scale your desktop. i assume you're using 1080p given you're asking for a 2x scale
xrandr --output

--scale-from 960x540 --filter nearest
this will set your framebuffer to 960x540 with nearest/point filtering without changing the actual display mode (no custom mode needed)
another option is gamescope, which has settings to do exactly this, especially useful if you want it "full screen" (i.e. centered and surrounded by black) and also not changing how other programs look
gamescope --nested-width 640 --nested-heigh 480 --scaler integer --max-scale 2 --filter pixel --

will files in my .var folder and its subfolders be hidden by default if I'm trying to access them from a different OS?

>>106297233
The only way to know is by trying it yourself anon...

>>106286395
I fixed my tunneling issue. The trick was to change NSS configuration within the namespace, so that systemd-resolved wasn't visible as a resolver.
>>106294245
You might have to find logs or post more informative error messages

>>106296128
>Have you followed the instructions in the description of that package?
Yeah, I already repeated those two commands of your post at least a dozen of times by now.
>there's pic related which has no dependencies
Do you use that one? From what I could gather while trying to fix my installation, Flatpak and Snap versions have additional issues with several games and modding, while having a performance overhead.

I really like that my mac has OCR for searching in images when I'm looking for a specific greentext post, is it possible to replicate this in Gnome's file manager?

>>106296929
sway window manager running in a window configured to scale 2x

has anyone notice a performance hit in games when using plasma wayland instead of x11?

>>106295294
Windows 11 is buckbreaking ritual: the operating system.

>>106297470
It really is. My brother came over earlier and wanted to play some Elden Ring and I don't boot into it often so every program on the system wants to do the usual update ritual.

Task Manager itself stops responding for no reason and I can't launch anything but eventually the system stops stalling and comes to its sense after what seems like an eternity and finally we can play. The game of course runs flawlessly on my 9070 XT so I spend some time tweaking the graphics settings since I last played this ages ago with my 6700 XT. Despite the much better GPU it will still randomly hitch and drop frames every now and again for no reason (that's probably Windows fault handling something badly in the background, although it could be the game).

I would normally game on Linux but I deleted this game to save disk space but still had it on the Windows partition.

>>106295294
This reminds me that I need to put the metal plate on my system drive.

>>106297246
let me rephase, I have a bad habit of asking rhetorical questions I already know the answer to sometimes.
I know that IS the case, because I've tested it.
How would I see and interact with these hidden files? I'm assuming its something to do with permissions and ownership

>>106297233
>>106297733
it depends on the other os, if you mean another installation of linux, then yea, since what makes a file hidden is simply being named beginning with a period. same with other unix-likes like bsd and maybe macos i'm not sure
on windows though it won't appear hidden. windows does hidden files not by filename but other file metadata
>How would I see and interact with these hidden files? I'm assuming its something to do with permissions and ownership
same way you do on your own os, there'll be an option in any file manager to show or hide hidden files. it's purely a visual thing and has nothing at all to do with permissions or ownership

>>106297733
>>106297246
There is no such thing as a hidden file/folder. It is a myth and something Rob Pike wishes was never even invented as a concept:
https://notatether.com/latest-blog-posts/unix-hidden-files-were-a-mistake-rob-pike/

Whether they are visible or not depends on the program in question. There is nothing special about these files/folders, they are not "hidden", it is an artefact of the graphical user interface that you can't always see them.

>debian 13
>install package A
>package A depends on package B version 0.18
>repos only contain package B version 0.17
literally what do you do in this scenario. this is my first time using debian.

Why do I need the apparmor enabled for Firefox? What does it do exactly?

>>106294568
codecs are installed
>>106297356
>You might have to find logs or post more informative error messages
this is from handbrake
[05:51:44] hb_scan: path=/home/user/test.webm, title_index=0
[matroska,webm @ 0x7decac0015c0] EBML header parsing failed
[05:51:44] hb_stream_open: open /home/user/test.webm failed
[05:51:44] scan: unrecognized file type
[05:51:44] libhb: scan thread found 0 valid title(s)

i installed endeavor as my first distro last week and my computer is basically set up how i want now with all my applications running and configs good enough. im currently on swayfx as my window manager but was wondering if there are "better" alternatives before i really dive into ricing and min maxing my configs. ive seen mixed things about hyprland but only from 3 year old forum posts and redditors. whats yalls thoughts, stick with sway or try something else. i have an embarrassing gamer pc so performance isnt a big issue, i just care about stability and customizability.

hey frens, need to
1. reinstall windows to increase efi size
2. install arch
3. make them share the efi
im a noob, how should the boot partition be annotated? /boot, /boot/efi/ /efi /whateverthefuckelse? does it even matter? goal is to run refind after boot then choose the OS

>>106293524
On a similar note, even trying to update the kernel while staying on Woody gets me `VFS: Cannot open root device "303"`

I am able to boot with kernel 2.2 just fine though

>>106298249
On Arch, I just did like the wiki told to me and named my EFI partition "/boot". No issues here.

>>106298249
>/boot
Most people treat EFI system partition as /boot anyway and don't have /boot/efi (or just /efi) as a mount point to begin with.
Idea is that /efi serves your EFI firmware and /boot serves your whatever Linux bootloader, GRUB usually. GRUB is huge and most of the software exist as modules and the idea of /boot is to host those modules.
>refind
Refind doesn't do that, all of it sits in the EFI system partition so you don't really need /boot. But you could end up mounting your EFI system partition under /boot anyway.
>goal is to run refind after boot then choose the OS
Decide this first: boot the Linux kernel directly using refind or boot GRUB using refind. You could skip using GRUB case refind had a proper boot entry with arguments.
>>106298589
It's super weird that's the "official way" now. Guess it works though but fundamentally it's all wrong.

>>106298605
I thought it was weird too, but I'm not gonna question the official install guide.

>aur is dead
What the fuck is going on?

>>106298733
Works for me

>>106298249
I wouldn't mess with windows efi system partition. I have used a separate efi system partition for linux with a chain loader for windows efi
windows doesn't play well with others so you basically just let it do its own thing on its own efi partition.

>>106298733
Denial of service, supposedly.

>>106298172
>endeavor as my first distro
See you back on Windows in a few weeks/months when Arch shits itself

>>106298957
save us, anubis-sama

>>106298172
Does sway exatcly do what you want? If not, maybe try something else. Reading forum posts won't help you much.

>>106299114
>In before they add 2FA to git
>To clone repos you will have to visit a web page to perform an attestation

Anubis works great for websites, not so well when you need a command line application to interface with your service.

>arch install script has limine and btrfs snapshots setup now
Literally calamares installer level of easy now.

>>106299092
Then you just restore a snapshot

>>106280086 (OP)
I noticed in some distros bash doesn't tab complete after a sudo command.
Noticed this in void and openmandriva. Both do have autocomplete for commands typed by the user not preceded by sudo.
What's the cause of this? Is it something I have to edit in the .bashrc file?

>>106299249
calamares is better 'cause it allows you to install arch without mounting a boot partition. archinstall errors out if no boot partition is mounted. Should just be a warning instead of a straight up exiting of the script.

Some cigs, 2 grams of mushrooms and booze. Time to go to debian.

Bye Mint, and thank you

>>106299276
some distros had the great idea to put binaries that need root into /sbin of some sort and restrict read access to the directory, breaking autocomplete for normal users (as they have no read access before sudo is actually executed)

>>106285241
What programs are you using that require haskell? I only know of pandas.

>>106299354
Two guesses:
>Pandoc
>Shellcheck
Those two programs alone count for most people's reason for having Haskell shit installed.

>>106299350
I did notice systemd complaining that my bin directories aren't merged

>>106299365
Oh, you're right, it's pandoc, not pandas. that's python.

>>106299381
bachrc or shit won't help you in that case. The solution is to use a better distro.

>>106299350
The rationale for that is that you can't use those binaries without root access anyway. I can understand where they're coming from. You can fix the PATH completion by adding it to your PATH manually in your own bashrc.

>>106299396
It will help you just have to add /sbin and /usr/sbin to PATH and Bash will complete them again.

>>106299421
how does bash compelte things inside a directory it can't read?

>>106290225
been using mpd + ncmpcpp for a while now. added mpd-notification and mpd-scribble (for scrobbling) and i dont need anything else. you can display cover arts in kitty (or any other term that supports images) if you want.

>>106290476
based

>>106299431
It can read them, they're mistaken. It wouldn't make any sense to restrict the binaries to root only. It's not the lack of permission that causes it, it's because they don't include them in the PATH.

>>106298605
As far as i know GRUB is the only bootloader that lets you have the kernel on a separate /boot partition (or on the / partition itself) while all the other bootloaders basically require you to put your kernel on the efi fat32 partition as they're unable to read ext4, btrfs, etc partitions.

>>106299350
This not a restriction to read as in the flag.

Broken conventions.
/sbin was standard, until some standardizing bastard(SystemD fan) removed it from environment for users, then they added XDG with copies the environment variables of the user.

Giving users a "broken" default.
As the distros did not abandon /sbin standard, yet applied the SystemD concept..

A work around using $PATH in bashrc, but you can fix the settings in /etc.

>>106299276
You might not have bash-completion installed or its not being properly sourced by the systems bashrc
>>106299350
That wouldnt make sense for void since everything is symlinked to /usr/bin including /usr/sbin
>>106299418
I think there should be some separation of binaries instead of everything cluttering one directory

>>106296876
I did figure it out, steam depends on it, for some reason. Whatever, I'll keep it but I keep it disabled.

>>106299882
Also equery is extremely useful. "equery depends media-video/pipewire" shows also reverse dependencies.

>>106299144
i dont really know what i want is the issue, there are some things that annoy me on sway. like applications opening in the current window instead of the window they were launched in and how shuffeling windows between two monitors is handled. although i think these can be solved even if i dont yet know how
but i have never used a tiling window manager before so i have no idea what other options can even offer, i have no idea if i love sway or if i just love tiled windows
i will probably stick to sway for a few weeks i guess, even if hyprland looks really pretty
>>106299092
i know what im getting myself into, ive been taking snapshots and i have duel boot set up incase something goes terribly wrong when i need work done. but i dont see much going catastrophicaly wrong, ive been doing things by the book and actually reading the man pages and the wiki.
ive only gotten locked out of booting into the os once so far :)

>>106297358
>already repeated those two commands
Did they succeed? I ran them both with sudo and then clicked Install on the "Steam (launcher)" in Discover and it installed the launcher successfully.
Then I ran the launcher and it downloaded Steam.
On a clean install of Kubuntu 24.04.03.
>>106297358
>Do you use that one?
I did, before I got the Steam Deck. Now I reboot into it's SteamOS when gaming, but I daily drive Kubuntu on it.

>>106299882
Do you have -sound-server set as a package useflag for pipewire?

>>106299312
Debian 13 rocking Cinnamon.
We're back.

>>106300141
I tried to mask pipewire yesterday and it did nothing when I did depclean or update world. I assume the result would be the same? Steam package has an USE flag that pulls pipewire if it's not set and I don't want to set that specific use flag.

>>106298115
Prevents it from reading shit like your SSH key, or calling random binaries on your system.
In a word – security.

>>106299350
Jesus Christ, how retarded :-o

>>106300158
Setting -sound-server on pipewire might stop wireplumber being built and the autostart stuff being created

Please help.
Linux Mint cinnamon
I just want a good functional file picker to show up whenever I upload something to the browser (firefox) or save something from the browser. Like Windows.

AI gives made-up bullshit answers that don't work and doesn't understand the problem
Everything I find on Google is linuxtards being like "yeah you can't do that, you have to compile GTK from source" or "yeah i just drag and drop into the browser" (i'm NOT doing that)

Is this really an unsolvable problem?

>>106300187
Well I checked docs and it seems like it makes sense to set -sound-server, so I did but nothing changes system-wide. I'll keep it that way, though.

>>106300303
You'll have to switch to a kde-based distro as they're the only ones that have a functional file picker.
You can also try installing xdg-desktop-portal-kde and setting kde as your default filepicker
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal#Configuration

>>106300400
i tried kde before and when uploading/downloading files in the browser, instead of file manager it was some castrated version of filepicker that also didn't have thumbnails, settings, options, or search (Ctrl+F didn't work).

can i use just the KDE filepicker but keep everything else as it is? is it gonna search?

Terminal not opening on jakoolit's hyprland in virtual box, I guess it's due to virtual box stuff. Otherwise it looks great, but default sddm theme is shit.

>>106300303
>"yeah i just drag and drop into the browser"
This has always been the dumbest cope. And a funny one too when wayland is in the mix.

Why do fdisk and certain other applications on Linux show memory in GiB and MiB?

>>106300874
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

new bread?

>>106300874
ik this is a 'friendly' thread but for the love of your life please search it up atleast once anon

>>106299660
GRUB, LILO and rEFInd can pick up kernels from various filesystems. What else are there even?

>>106300874
>>106300966
ps. binary prefix reflects how computers work more accurately. in fact, it's windows that gets it wrong. windows will say "MB" while actually giving you a binary prefix value. linux programs almost always follow the more recent and accurate binary prefix conventions, that is, "1MB = 1,000,000 bytes", "1MiB = 1,048,576 bytes", and often you will also see linux programs simply using "M", which always (in my experience) refers to MiB

>>106300984
sorry! i'm just retarded, have searched it up so many times and it just won't stick. not really a maths person.

>>106301173
but there is no need whatsoever to denote numbers of bytes in 1,000,000
why invent MB when MiB can just be always used and also referred to as MB?