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Previous thread: >>106280086

>>106301806 (OP)
which one, western man?

>>106301806 (OP)
>Regnum Online
I used to play the shit out of that. Still one of the best implementations of realm vs realm

>>106302136
I like the recent theme of retro desktops so I'm choosing this one.

>>106298605
>Idea is that /efi serves your EFI firmware and /boot serves your whatever Linux bootloader,
No, /boot has always been the place for the kernel. There SHOULD be a distinction between wherever the bootloader is (ESP, post-MBR gap or small partition) and kernel storage.

>>106302136
The other thread has a lower serial (>>106301797 vs >>106301806 (OP)) so the other thread is legitimate over this.
Correct thread before lower serial, but both threads have a title and a good op-text so lower serial checks out.

I tried btrfs snapshots with limine in Arch install script but it doesn't config limine.cfg at all. I was able to config it but then I have to make manual snapshots and manually delete old ones which is tedious. Is there any way to make it automatic like with grub btrfs or timeshift etc? I want to make it like CachyOs does it.

>>106302274
Who died and made you arbiter?

>nvidia GPU
>know about the dangers but try anyways
>shit font rendering on firefox wayland no matter what, have to use x11 if I use fractional scaling
>hdr does not work anywhere else but KDE
>not waking up from sleep properly
>occasional desktop artifacts
>adaptive sync breaks at the max refresh rate
>decide to briefly switch to my older AMD GPU just to see if these are actually nvidia issues
>they all fucking are
God dammit FUCK

>>106302287
I don't need anyone to die and make me arbiter, I have these three things dangling from my lower abdomen called cock and balls which give me divine rights.

Now go back to the kitchen and make us all some sandwiches.

Jokes aside, it's always been like this with general threads.

>>106302295
We warned you. If you want to bootlick Nvidia, stick to Windows. if you want a free and open source operating system, use AMD GPU's.
If you don't care about GPU performance, use Intel igpu's.

How do I delete a user directory? I created a new user with "sudo useradd -m".
I then deleted the user using "sudo userdel". The account was deleted but the home directory of that user is still there. I cannot delete that accounts home directory. Sudo rmdir does not work due to directory not emoty. I tried to enter the directory with cd and got permission denied.

>>106302295
HDR doesn't work anywhere but KDE with AMD either, except for Hyprland but it's the same with Nvidia.

>>106302295
Use X11 and eat the HDR until XLibre brings it to the table. They're already working on it as far as I know.

t. owning two HDR monitors and sitting on the feature since late 2023.

>>106301806 (OP)
Post *fetches.

>>106302365
I just tested it on GNOME with a 6600xt and I have no issues on it. I can enable it on games as well (as long as I use a fork of proton that supports it)
On the other hand on nvidia all I get is a lot of banding

>NVIDIA GPU
>Works just like it did in windows
God bless everyone

will BTRFS get native encryption in the future? Is it planned to at all? Luks on top of it feels very unproper.

>>106301806 (OP)
Do old nvidia GPU drivers (800-900 series) even exist for Linux?

>>106302348
I've tried manually removing each folder in "su -i" mode but this is an arduous task. How can i completely erad a home directory that's like missing 5% of it?

gnome 49 better switch everything to GTK4 so my autism doesn't kick in

>>106302590
Nvm, i did sudo rmdir -rd dirname

Any ideas why the latest Arch linux kernel caused softlocks on my x220?

[ 1745.637263] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x2000000.
[ 1745.637271] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Loaded firmware version: 18.168.6.1 6000g2a-6.ucode
[ 1745.637418] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Start IWL Error Log Dump:
[code/]

If this isn't my fault, then how do you think I should go about telling the archpeople?

>>106302484
yes
it's probably the 470 or 525 drivers

Any news on why the AUR keeps going down? Now that someone opened the door to malicious code are people taking that as signal to start attacking the site?

>>106302847
nixos doesn't have this problem.

>>106301806 (OP)
I miss when lincucks looked like this. I know you can still install retro-looking DE/WMs on modern systems, but that wouldn't cut when you inevitably have to use some modern QT or GTK3+ and GTK4 LibAdwaita shit.

Why do people on /g/ always complain about font rendering on Linux? For me it's bloody fantastic. On Windows I can see the pixels and everything looks super embossed, whereas on Linux the curves are perfect and the text just looks realistic.

>>106302950
The subjectivity is exactly why. You can't argue against it.

>>106302484
Maxwell is still supported, you can get the 470 and 390 drivers but it's a mess to set up

Why is the concept of a "chroot jail" hilarious to me?

>>106302847
ddos

>>106302950
scalable fonts like utter dogshit both on windows and linux (though a bit more horrible on windows, and even more so in Chrome + Windows)

bitmap fonts also look like shit if you don't tune your monitor settings correctly because monitors are tuned by default for the garbage dogshit scalable fonts

>>106302640
>x220
Are you sure it's the kernel? Have you considered maybe your laptop from 2011 might be failing? Confirm with a different OS.

>>106302997
Because chroot just sets the process' root path and is not a jail?

>>106303113
Yeah I stress tested it for machine problems (doubtless there are some!) and tried different firmware. The freezing was able to be replicated just if I used the wifi with the latest kernel. Kernel rollback fixed the problem.

>>106303206
file a bug report then.

I just started the switch from Windows to Bazzite a little over a week ago and I'm not looking back. I've had a couple hiccups here and there but community support for Linux applications is great and I've been able to find solutions for almost everything. I have been amazed at how much it just works™ for the most part. Gonna backup my data and nuke the rest of my drives to partition to Bazzite here shortly. Learning a new OS is kinda fun. I might make a hobby out of it. It's got me thinking about getting like a Raspberry Pi 500 just for testing out different distros for fun.

>>106302348
Remember check if there are files files you want to keep first.
sudo rm -rd /home/old_username

>>106303131
not even Houdini could escape from the chroot jail

>>106302983
Ah! Thanks. Also for some reason I got the Nvidia Primus GUI (that program that lets me set a "priority" GPU) work on Linux Mint, but can't get it to work on Debian 12. Any idea why?
I was able to sudo apt install with no issue, but It won't run.

>>106303286
Tyvm

>>106302279
Nevermind, Arch wiki explains this very well, I just fucked up when copy-pasting because of indentation stuff. Should have known better, especially when I work with Python. Not sure if it's worth it over grub-btrfs though.

>>106303206
Use 5.x kernel or earlier, the newest kernel has dropped a lot drivers and compatibility features, so you will just get a broken headache.

what's really the minimum you need for this shit?
got 2 GPUs and plan to use looking glass over remote view stuff

>>106303541
>looking glass
Can't you just switch inputs on your monitor?

>>106303541
The minimum of what? If you're talking about the packages to install you need all of those otherwise they wouldn't be listed.
Technically you dont need swtpm because you can bypass the tpm check in the installer unless they've fixed it.

>>106303588
>witch inputs on monitor
He would have to pass through keyboard/mouse/audio as well if he was going to do that. Looking glass is easier

where were you when realized Fedora was the best upstream distro?

>>106303686
stop shilling.

>install fedora from USB stick
>installation doesn't give me a chance to set a root password or create a user
>instead, after installation, there's a wizard
>wizard asks me if i want telemetry (??)
>crashes after a certain step
>can't press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal
>can press Ctrl+Alt+F3 to switch to TTY, but root account is locked (I never got a chance to set it up)
>chroot from USB stick
>finally can change the root password

Yeah I think I'll stick with Arch thanks.

>>106303686
I did like the old fedora, had laptop with werewolf. But i guess release 21, was sign of changes in community.
The current fedora is just semi corporate mess, led by people that hate the community and user base.

Just compiled the gentoo distribution kernel myself with -march=native -O3 -pipe - probably some insignificant performance gain but whatever I guess it's better than the bin which I used until now.

>>106304289
>6.12.41
it's already outdated, try again

>>106304355
6.12.41 is what's stable on amd64 according to portage. 6.15.10 and 6.16.1 are both testing.

>>106302287
generally if two are made you use the first one until it's full then migrate to the other one. Mostly because the fail OP is too retarded to delete their fail thread that lost the race.
but if the later thread wins out then it's fine to go in reverse assuming the other thread survives long enough

>>106304270
>installation doesn't give me a chance to set a root password or create a user
Pressing next blindly isn't a good practice.

>>106304270
>>crashes after a certain step
the installer crashing is so gay ive had it happen with ubuntu's installer too, it really puts a bad taste in my mouth for what the experience will be like on the rest of the distro when they wont even bother fully testing what will be the user's first experience with it

>>106304941
Ive never had issues with the installers(ubuntu, endeavor, fedora) so I wonder how you get those.

>>106305030
I had it today while installing arch, if you choose pipewire and then Firefox in extra packages there is some dependancy conflict and you have to stop the install

I have problem with niri and waybar, I have two status bars at the top and I don't know how to fix it to where it only shows one.

>>106303251
>Raspberry Pi 500 just for testing out different distros for fun.
Pretty sure you can get a device 4x-10x more powerful for an extra $50-$100.

>>106301806 (OP)
I love Fedora but I think Wayland really dislikes my shitty 1660 super
I switched from plasma to wayland cinnamon and it's been a bit better, but I couldn't open firefox and fucking KSP without plasma crapping it's pants
Am I just retarded?

>>106305237
on arch I forgot to mention.

>>106303251
>Raspberry Pi
>for testing out different distros for fun
Sorry to spoil it for you, but there's very little choice of distros for ARM platforms, and almost all of them are Debian variants.

>>106304841
Yeah gaslight the user when your distro is dogshit, that's very redhat of you.

>>106305094
Can you tell more about this, did you install Pipewire and Firefox with pacstrap or pacman, also you should install as many packages as possible in the same command line so the dependencies get resolved, otherwise if there's a conflict run "pacman -Syuu", and if that doesn't work then maybe something in the repo is out of date (happened to me with lib32 nvidia a while ago)?

>>106302414
anyone

>>106305237
Are you running waybar twice?
ps aux | grep waybar
kill [pid of one of them]
>>106302414
They have fscrypt support in their backlog

I looked in the conf in both .conf and /etc/xdg/waybar but I am not seeing duplicates of code. I'll look at it later and report later.

Pacman sucks compared to APK and that's the only reason I would use Alpine over Artix. Would it be possible to make a fork of Alpine but give it access to the AUR? Or replace pacman with APK on Artix?

>>106305520
It was in arch install script, I chose pipewire them for additional apps (forget the name) I chose things like hur and Firefox. Then during the installation process I would get some message that dependancy for Jack 1 and 2 was conflicting and I have to choose only one, but couldn't make a choice during the install.

>>106305930
git and Firefox*

>>106305930
pretty sure firefox uses jack 2, where do you get jack 1 from

>>106305977
Pipewire I guess

>>106305996
i have pipewire and jack2 installed with no conflicts, and according to "pacman -Qi jack2", jack2 provides "jack"

if i install firefox on a new Arch system, it does give me a choice between "jack2" and "pipewire-jack", i just choose jack2 because it's the default and according to pkgstats it's the more commonly used one as well

Anyone knows (Gentoo) how to apply custom KCFLAGS and KCPPFLAGS on kernel build if installing via sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel ? I rely on installkernel
I did in fact assume at first that you can just setup package.env file stuff in /etc/portage/ for the sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel kernel.conf package and then configure environment for kernel build in the /etc/portage/env/kernel.conf file but now I'm unsure if it ever applied those env vars on compilation.... Can't find documentation on this.

>>106305340
What would I need that for? All I'd be doing is testing out different shit on a whim. Not looking to do anything very heavy duty.

>>106306591
Well I read more and I did it incorrectly. Forget about this.

>>106305442
There are plenty of ARM distros. The only one off the top of my head I'd have any interest in trying out that I wouldn't be able to run is Mint or Pop! and those aren't too big a deal to me. Cinnamon is essentially just Mint anyway. Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjoaro all work. Worst case my main desktop is x86 if I ever wanted to use those distros off a little flash drive.

>>106301806 (OP)
Just partitioned my last Windows drive over to Bazzite today. Never looking back. It already feels so much better running my shit without all the bloat and bullshit M$ forces down your throat with mandatory updates.

$ dpkg -l | grep -c '^ii'
3063

fml. Most of this was pre-installed. How do I start figuring out what's actually relevant to me?
>>106306803
welcome, enjoy.

retarded newfag here. the default gnome file picker takes too long to open my reaction images folder so i've just been posting without images. what's the best solution to this? i use arch btw

>>106306663
>There are plenty of ARM toy distros.
ftfy

I don't know about picker but I hate nautilus, yazi works for me and it's a TUI for your files.

Using endeavoros but considering swapping to fedora. Why should or shouldn't I? My only complaints are occasionally stuff doesnt work and I have to chase down packages like spellcheck not working in libreoffice and appimages not working when they run fine on mint.
I want a balance between newest packages but with everything I need and Fedora is looking like the one.

>>106307695
have you considered reading the wiki?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LibreOffice#Language_aids

>>106306046
pipewire-jack is what you want to use. only use jack2 if you know what you are doing.

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.
QTile - I had some weird rendering issues with this, and it doesn't have different desktops per monitor like Awesome.
Does anyone have any ideas of what WM I should look into?

>>106307479
use kde

How do you keep your browser up to date in Arch? If you forget to update for a few days you could have an outdated browser for days. Even if you update daily, you can miss the update by a few minutes and spend the whole day with an outdated browser.

I have TWO machines now with a totally basic arch + xfce installation in which NetworkManager is giving me wifi trouble. On one of them, it never remembers my WPA2 password so I always have to re-type on system boot. The other one refuses to connect at all, when I try to connect manually with nmcli I keep getting a "secrets were required but not provided" message.
I've tried and failed several times now to find what the issue is. At this point I just want to delete all the relevant config files for NetworkManager, systemd-networkd, wpa_supplicant etc and just start from scratch. Bad idea?

>>106308316
Use Firefox Nightly binaries direct from Mozilla. Can't have an outdated browser when it updates twice a day.

>>106308380
Try iWd and changing the Network manager backend to use it first.

Why does my taskbar hover up a few pixels on plasma and how do I fix it? It's triggering the fuck out of my autism

>>106305977
I doubt Firefox uses JACK at all unless Arch compiles in support for it. JACK support in Firefox is functional and I use it on my Gentoo system (via pipewire-jack) but they really, really want you to use their shit Pulse audio Rust implementation. The JACK support is basically provided on a best-effort basis.

>>106308647
Right click then click this, then change the position from floating in the menu that pops up.

>>106308668
cheers gov.

>>106302950
because it doesn't look exactly the same as windows. they're used to how it looks on windows.
even on windows i used to use "mactype", which is actually just the freetype engine (what linux uses) to make fonts on windows look better

>>106303610
>He would have to pass through keyboard/mouse
libvirt has the ability to switch kb/mouse between host and vm with a key combo. while i do typically use lookingglass, i have this configured as a fallback and if i just want to capture the keyboard fully (like alt+tab working in windows) and if i want windows-style mouse movement. i can hit lctrl+rctrl to switch between them

What are some cool/interesting/useful applications to learn and mess around with on Linux Mint??? I already have figlet and astroterm

>>106302950
article from 2018: https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/

Anons I’m on the edge of installing PikaOS and just getting rid of windows all together. I have everything backed up, I fought for awhile on dual booting I. 1 drive or using 2 separate drives. Should I just say fuck it and install it?

>>106308949
Best practice is to use two separate drives for two separate OSes.

>>106308949
If you duel boot you will never switch to Linux. You wont let go of windows. There will always be that one little thing that keeps you tethered to your Microsoft pimps.

>>106308955
I’d prefer that setup as well. But really I’m just contemplating on whether or not to keep windows at all?
>>106308957
I totally agree with you. I feel like the only thing that might not work would be some stupid game or something. But I hardly do that anymore. I don’t have or use any software that is totally limited to windows. Mostly just regular pc user.

>>106308835
Git, maybe with lazygit as tui. Enjoy your remote config backups.

>>106308975
I mean, does anything you currently do actually need Windows to work? Do you play intrusive anti-cheat multiplayer games? Do you use Photoshop or whatever?

>>106304645
not if the first one is incomplete and/or shit

>>106308984
Not that I can think of? I do have photoshop but don’t need or rely on it. I’m sure there is an alternative if I needed it? Only game I wanna play is everybody’s golf but I’m not hell bent on it or anything. I don’t play online games or anything anymore. At most I’ll play retro stuff on emulators or something. I figured PikaOS would be a good transition… but what do I know >shrug

>>106309035
just use wsl if you're gonna use windows

>>106309035
>pikaos
>debian unstable but with gaming stuff on top
I'd suggest Bazzite (immutable) or EndeavourOS (normal rolling release), Mint is okay too but if your hardware is too new you could run into issues

>>106309035
>I’m sure there is an alternative if I needed it
GIMP is awesome

>>106309216
Ubuntu started out as an Debian Unstable fork

>>106308955
Fuck this meme. Nobody even BIOS-boots any more so there goes the last point for physical drives.
>>106308949
What are the sizes and other specs?

Where do I find config files for flatpak apps?
Not app configuration itself! but configs on how flatpak opens and handles them, like which folders app has access to. Basically everything that flatseal lets you edit.

>>106309542
I was searching for where it is for 30 min and found right after asking as always.
It's in /var/lib/flatpak
Why is it here? I thought all configs on linux should be somewhere in home or .config or .local.

>>106309604
You have to specify the --user flag to get configs for a flatpak put in /.var/

how do I switch the underlying file portal used by my browser?
I use brave.

>>106309642
Ohhh, right, without --user it does things system-wide and thats why it's outside /home/, so it works for all users. Thanks.

>>106309233
GIMP sucks, I hate it. Every time I try to do something in it, I suffer.

>>106309216
I have looked into Bazzite as well. It did look like it would be pretty promising. I have seen some mixed reviews but I am open minded.
>>106309233
I will definitely check out GIMP ty anon
>>106309491
Right now I just have a 2tb m2. My cpu is ryzen 7700, gpu 6700xt.

I've been trying to read as much as I can on my own without bother you guys. There are so many to choose from, it gets overwhelming for a newcomer. Some people had recommended I try PikaOS so that's why I was mentioning that. I have booted Mint from a live usb as well and it seemed to function pretty well even there. I'm not sure how much more work it takes to maintain mint vs something like pika or bazzite that just as alot of drivers and codecs included.

ty all anons for responding to me

>>106309853
just install arch

>>106309853
>>106309870
Just partition for two coexisting Linuxes and distrohop all you like. Such a partitioning scheme makes it all very convenient although it wastes some space compared to LVM or btrfs subvolumes.

I just installed fedora gnome, and when I was doing the setup process it quit on me when connecting my network. How do I pull the menu back up?

>>106310408
Nvm, i just had to restart my pc

>>106309697
What's wrong with it?

Is there any program that just draws stuff on screen from commands for wayland? So I can call command, and it will draw a rectangle on screen from coordinates.
I know that I can do this on X relatively easily, I want to know if I can do it on wayland.

>>106310435
I don't remember already, because I edit images now, but everything felt super counterintuitive. I think last time it was something with transform and scale tool. I know it's partially because I'm used to photoshop, but I don't remember being frustrated with PS, but get annoyed with gimp basically every time I use it. photogimp didn't really help.

>>106310551
You can't do that with Wayland because of the way its backend works IE focusing more on security. You can try a tool like gromit-mpx though to draw on the desktop via XWayland though.

>>106310592
because I barely edit images now*

>>106310597
>You can't do that with Wayland
Then how are wayland programs drawing their windows?

>>106310647
It's a bit complicated but it's mostly because of Wayland having everything drawn by the compositor instead of how X11 uses a server/root window system. Wayland windows are all their own private buffers, so you can't just tell Wayland to draw a rectangle over everything via a terminal command.

>moved a folder with 5000 (8gb) images from one hdd to another hdd
>baloo goes crazy again with high CPU usage and starts writing non-stop to the OS drive
>it wrote more than 80gb and kept going until I manually stopped it
Why the actual fuck is this happening, I had a similar problem where it wrote 10gb when I moved a folder with 500 images (60mb). How do I troubleshoot this? Surely this isn't normal?

>>106309697
You are just cuckslave, forced to learn shit complicated proprietary cuckware that you pirated and now all the quality user respecting logical software makes no sense to you because you are low iq cuckslave that can't learn to click "heal selection" because you clicked some other thing like your master forced you to. You always just insult like now. You never have actual arguments and you are just butthurt cuck. Get a job and stfu, slavecuck.

Just recreated CachyOS in my Arch, it was fun. Not sure if I feel confident enough to try out Gentoo or Nix next.

my raid1 drives
I keep research data on them

>>106310689
I use bunch of free software that is far from being user-friendly, so it's not proprietary/complicated issue. GIMP is objectively worse than photoshop, depending on the difficulty of the task, it may be okay or absolutely terrible. Didn't they added non-destructible layer editing less than a year ago? Super important and useful functionality that existed in photoshop for at least 10 years, maybe even 20.
Also blender exists, it is FOSS and absolutely amazing and doesn't feel like shit at all. I like blender. And people actually starting to use it in production.
GIMP is not good. It's better paint, not photoshop alternative.

>>106309853
for the most part distro choice boils down to basically 3 things. package manager/repositories (what software is available, release schedule, etc), interface defaults (what DE it uses, what software comes preinstalled, etc), and ethos/goal (what userbase they intend to attract, what uses they intend the distro to be for, what kinds of hardware they target, etc)
most distros really only differ in the interface department, and are just minor modifications of one of a handful of "major" distros. you can also customise any of them, so there's no need to worry about if one is absolutely perfect out of the box for you and your use cases

>>106310680
cant you just make a single zip out of the folder?

I'm a Linux noob, jumped on mint a few months ago. I installed i3 as alternative to cinnamon, but recently I can't switch to it - login screen sends me back into cinnamon if I try i3. I can only get into i3 on boot/restart. What do?

>>106311195
Don't use Mint lol

>>106308658
>pactree -r jack2

jack2
─ffmpeg
─firefox

>>106311253
oh 4chan messed up the formatting
firefox depends on ffmpeg, which depends on jack2

>>106310680
>>106311136
I did some troubleshooting and experimenting and it seems that the baloo indexer (with content) causes the problem. With it paused there are no writes to the OS drive. I tested to move the same folder with it enabled and with it paused and then re-enabled after I finished moving, the difference was 4.2gb vs 2.7gb writes to the OS drive. I couldn't replicate the insane 80gb+ write though.

So it does seem having baloo content indexing on was the cause for all my headaches with the excessive writes to my OS drive when downloading stuff to a non-OS drive.

The solution seems to either be to disable the indexing of content (which isn't an option because I need to be able to see and sort by video duration) or to pause the indexer every time I boot the computer after it has read the index and only unpausing temporary whenever needed.


On a side note it's fucking crazy having to put up with all this shit just to get something as basic as being able to display and sort by video duration on Linux. I never thought something as simple as sorting my drives would be the major problem with Linux which works flawlessly on Windows. I thought losing Voidtools' Everything would be the worst of it but basic functionality it was instead....

>>106311242
It's the most normie distro and easiest to setup for office work. I have a second laptop I'll try other shit on.

Well?

>>106311454
left is qt

I'm going to try KDE bros, it better not be so buggy I go running back to cinnamon

>>106311531
Plasma 6 is -the- Linux desktop to me these days

Not sure if I should dual boot Windows or something like Debian next to my Arch. I want something simple for my gf when she uses my PC, which won't be often, but she does some work in Da Vinci Resolve. I don't like Mint.

>>106311567
try ask your gf if she likes better mint or dumbian, it's for her after all.

>>106311567
I'd install IoT LTSC 2024 next to your Arch IMO

>>106311531
you will

>>106307235
an easy place to start would be searching for all the -dev packages since most of them you probably dont need aside from anything related to dkms

>>106311454
Both are shit, obviously. But Xfce is significantly better and more popular than LXDE/LXQt.

>>106311454
xfce unironically

>>106311435
>most normie distro
>uses WM
You shouldnt try those until you have 2-3years Linux experience

>>106311755
By the time you have 3 years of Linux experience you grow out of ricing and just use KDE or GNOME.

>>106311592
Enjoy windoos absolutely cracking your bootloader
Captha: PRAYX

Can windows still fuck up things if it's installed (first) on a separate SSD?

>>106311755
>>106311784
I don't even wanna rice it. I like i3 as it is, the idea of a wm appeals to me, as it gets out of my way. That is, if I can even get it to start

>>106308760
>libvirt has the ability to switch kb/mouse between host and vm with a key combo
Are you talking about the spice client?

>>106310791
>I keep research data on them
I hope you also keep backups and use a self-healing filesystem.

>pausing automatic updates now limited to a 5-week duration
lmao

>>106312137
wrong thread

>>106312137
laughing on my Arch Linux rn

>>106312137
even mobile OSes aren't this zogged...

>>106308998
Yes, but in this case both were complete and non-shit.

>>106308647
It's impressive how many people take it for a bug when it's just the latest design trend.

>>106308835
fzf

holy kek plain dm-crypt sounds sick but RAID0-tier risky

>>106311567
Why don't you make another user for her?

>>106311567
>Da Vinci Resolve
Fedora + DaVinci Helper.

Can I install an ARM distro on some AliExpress Android tablet?

Hey. When I first installed linux lite, i created an account during installation call "linuxlitetest". Within tht erminal, this account has a blue bar over its name with a ~ at the end.
I created a new account called "test", appended the account to belong to the sudo users group. Yet when i log into "test", this account does not have a blue bar over its name in the terminal and it only has a $.
What are the account differences between the two?

I see now

>>106312735
Also, in the "test" account, when I do hostname, it returns as linuxlitetest-thinkpad-x390

>>106311264
>firefox depends on ffmpeg, which depends on jack2
So it's an indirect dependency (not that pactree does a good job of showing that)

>>106312796
Never mind:
>oh 4chan messed up the formatting

>>106312137
Just netblock Microsoft's update servers at this point.

>>106312514
As long as you don't do stupid shit like detatched header then it's fine.

>>106312032
Okay, in favor of your first question, iirc you have to restart the whole session, cant remember much Mord but its something

>>106312735
Your description isn't really that great but ~ means home folder.
If I had to guess what the difference means, most likely different prompt configuration or different default shell.

>>106312826
Apologies, here is the blue bar I was describing

>>106312853
Yeah that's a custom prompt. Starship can look like that, but I dunno if that's what it is using.

>>106312826
You're right. My account created during installation is using bash, yet the account created using the terminal is using bourne shell.

CachyOS vs Fedora for battery life?

>>106312876
I don't think anyone has measured that but I would guess Fedora might be better. CachyOS is aggressively focused towards performance (i.e not power/energy savings)

>>106312868
I mean the one you picture here >>106312853
isn't what bash looks like normally.
My prompt for bash is [username@computer ~]$ and I think that's the default since I don't remember changing it since I am not using bash most of the time.

>>106312853
~ is your /home/user/~
$ shows you are root

>>106312905
>$ shows you are root
Nevermind i'm stupid

>>106312820
Thanks anon. Restarting lightdm seems to work

>>106307488
I'm not a dev, so for the most part OS's are toys to me. The whole point of me doing it is just checking them out and seeing what features they have in real time. I could end up liking one more than the one I'm using.

>>106309853
Bazzite comes with AMD, Intel and NVIDIA drivers pre installed and a bunch of emulators have been curated for it like Dolphin, Duckstation, RPCSX2 & 3, etc. They all work flawlessly for me so far.

>>106312905
Both the linuxlitetest and test account yeah

>>106305731
>fscrypt
neato

>>106313046
Yeah i'm stoopid, ~ just shows you're home, $ is your regular user shell, root shell should be #, my bad

Hi, i am using linuxlite and i uninstalled gimp and gnome-paint using apt-get remove filename. Lite is using the whisker menu for xfce4. Since i uninstalled gnome-paint and gimp, i can still see paint (gnome-paint) under "accessories". Running gnome paint does not work because i uninstalled it (no such file or directory), but how do i remove it from whisker? Right clicking it allows me to edit application and hide it. Editing wont let me delete it either. I dont want to hide it because its hiding it.

>>106312999
When you remove all the things that are already present or work normally in vanilla Fedora, you're left with
>NVIDIA drivers pre installed
The kind of mouth breather Bazzite caters to.

>>106313744
Root is still ~ btw in linuxlite

>>106313746
Resolved, ignore me.

>>106313798
Now i get what you want, try "id -G user"
cant test it now though, am supposed to "work"

How do I change the default program that opens when I want to upload a file somewhere?
Mint's default program doesn't show full sized thumbnails and theres no option to change view type.

What about Budgie? I'll probably regret it, right? Since it's been on version 10.9.9.9.9 since 2015.

>>106311454
isnt lxde depreciated for lxqt ?

>>106311195
does this happen if you disable lightddm and start i3 from a tty?

>>106312853
The blue bar is from something called powerline

>>106314245
Look into xdg-desktop-portal

Are there any decent mirrors for busybox .tar.bz2 source code releases? The official busybox website is under heavy load 24/7 and it's very slow.

My headphones on Ubuntu aren't being detected and I can't play sound through them. Normally it works fine. The fuck should I do? I asked Copilot and it said maybe I should try booting with an earlier kernel. I might try that.

I'm trying out Ubuntu and am mostly liking it, but the middle button on my mouse doesnt do anything for scrolling. Like when you're on a web page, then middle click, and then that can be used to scroll more quickly than the wheel.

Any idea for how to fix it? I'm on Ubuntu 24.04 lts, with Cinnamon as my environment

>>106315309
Middle click pastes the last textual selection, it's been like this on Linux since forever.
Shift+scroll should amplify scrolling.

>>106315309
Are you talking about this? Enable autoscroll in the Firefox settings. Chrome has a flag for this but I don't remember what it's called

I'm building my own MUSL based distro out of curiosity, currently trying to get GCC compiled with c++ support and seems like libsanitizer does not work with MUSL. I guess I have to keep just doing --disable-some-lib until the gcc libstdc++ build passes...

>>106315504
shift+scroll just stopped scrolling, but that middle click pasting is pretty cool, I'm gonna use it from now on
>>106315630
yeah. just enabled on firefox and its working

thanks anons

>>106309853
>Bazzite
>mixed reviews
Looks to me like people really like it:
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=ratings&distro=bazzite&distribution=bazzite&sortby=votes
>inb4 there's very few reviews and votes
Sure, but it's a distro that's barely 2 years old and it's main target audience doesn't even know what the hell distrowatch is.
People who dislike it are primarily tinkerers and minimalists.

>>106315309
Middle click is "paste selected text" on Linux, which is why browsers disable auto-scrolling. If you want Firefox to do autoscrolling you have to go to settings. Open the following url:
>about:preferences#general
And scroll all the way down and tick the "use auto scrolling" checkbox.

Anyone know how to enable fractional scaling for slick-greeter?
Mint has the option for Cinnamon but it doesn't affect the login screen. The gui settings have an option for 2x scaling but I'd like it to match the 1.25 scaling of the DE.

>>106315679
>People who dislike it expect programs to not have constant interoperability issues
ftfy

>>106315858
>interoperability issues
Name 1 thing that an average normie would have issues with.

>>106315657
Well it passed while I typed that post. Now I'm struggling to build pkg-src, it'll be cool if I get it working then I can install pre-built packages and pray they work.

What's the most powerful laptop I can get that has high linux compatability? I am ready to switch for good and my previous laptop is kill.

>>106315052
https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/busybox
Does this help?

>>106315985
All laptops have Linux compatibility

>>106315985
Anything should work, just avoid laptops with an nvidia GPU.

>>106315934
LibreOffice x literally anything else, including other LibreOffice components

>>106315939
It does since it has the -orig package which I assume to be original without modifications, thanks!

>>106316050
What exactly doesn't work?

>>106316006 I meant to reply to you...
regards >>106316054

>>106316057
I'm not going to reinstall your controoner OS to help write test cases. Figure it out.

>>106316082
>Figure it out.
Everything works fine on my end.

>>106315985
I have one with an Nvidia dgpu and an amd igpu and it's been causing some issues with an external display on both x11 and wayland (the external display is handled by the Nvidia card). If I use just the built in display it works fine regardless of the card I choose, including the few games I've bothered to check

>>106315679
Bazzite sub filled with issues

Distro hopped to Vanilla OS recently. Feels pretty comfy, I like it.

>>106313759
He didn't ask what was unique to it, retard. He was asking what was good about it.

>>106316082
Works on my machine.

>>106313759
>KDE Wallet
>works normally on any distro other than universal blue ones
Fuck no. No other distro sets it up by default.

>>106315939
Jesus christ it all worked out in the end. Now I have my custom linux "distro" with busybox, musl, gcc (+libstdc++), bash and pkgsrc (NetBSD's cross-platform package manager that builds packages you install from source) - But it's a mess, I have the build generally automated but I need to refactor it quite a bit. There's a small problem though - pkgsrc does not detect my ncurses or really any tools I've compiled manually before actually bootstrapping pkgsrc so when I install a package that has some dependency that's already on the system, pkgsrc will compile and install it to its own location again. Idk if that can even be fixed or if this is how pkgsrc is meant to work.
It's running just in a chroot in this screenshot but I have tested it in qemu beforehand (when I was still lacking pkgsrc and other stuff), so running in vm should be no problem.

>>106315309
Use case for Ubuntu Cinnamon over Mint?

>>106301806 (OP)
so the ntsync update is a big nothingburger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU2mFqCOh5A

>>106302295
i literally have NONE (okay, idle is behaving lazy af so i disabled it but that's only it) of these problems on 4070 ti using arch with hyprland

I don't like blue distros

>>106316895
Not watching your video fag.

>>106316412
So you're saying I should've shortened the list to nothing and gone straight to calling him a mouth breather?

>>106317802
There's plenty good about Bazzite. It's fine if it doesn't suit your use case but you're not the arbiter of human experience.

>>106311690
that's like maybe a hundred of them and I actually do need a lot of those because I build multiple versions of python from source

>>106308835
ncdu is an amazing TUI for disk usage monitoring.

>>106309687
Honestly I wish --user were the default for Flatpak but eh

>>106310592
You aren't just imagining it. Gimp is weird. It doesn't just have unfamiliar key bindings, it has unusual standard ways of doing common things that aren't like how other graphics editors work. Like drawing circles by making circular selections first.

>>106318217
It really should be the default when UID != 0, I don't know why they don't do that at least.

>>106311567
If the system is already set up (and you really should pre-install whatever software it is she's looking for) then the distro isn't going to matter worth shit to her. What matters is the WM/DE. Just make her a separate account and set up Cinnamon or something.

>>106315104
>Normally it works fine.
As in it used to work? Since how long ago? Any ideas what changed recently? If you've done a kernel update since then, then yeah rolling that back is a strong candidate

>>106316792
Nice work anon
>>106316811
For people who just really like Snap I guess.

Today's Firefox update on Arch came out several hours after the Flatpak version. Is it advisable to switch to Flatpak Firefox?

>>106318651
Compile it from the source instead whenever you see a new commit. You'll be amongst the first ones to updoot that way.

>>106318651
Mozilla has always distributed updates faster than Linux distros. Where do you think distros get their source from in the first place?
Unless they have advance notice of a CVE (in which case they can usually have time to put out a build quicker) then Mozilla is always going to beat them to the punch.

>>106318847
So, non-Flatpak users are sitting ducks while they wait for the update from their distro.

installed linux (manjaro w/ kde) for the first time last week, on an alt laptop, then as a dualboot onto my main thinkpad. my environment for game dev (godot, git) is really nice now, and this has changed how i work with computers. i love this shit, to be frank, and i shouldve tried a long time ago.

>>106318867
Yes. Always have been.
Until they can get their hands on the source code and release an update then they are always going to lag behind Mozilla.
In theory a package maintainer could camp the git/mercurial change log and notice something that looks like a security fix and then backport it early but Mozilla likes to stealthily drop security fixes with little to no info about them until the official release.

>>106318883
It seems that's what Gentoo does? 29 hours ago, while Mozilla only released the official update earlier today I think.

>>106318867
Yes. Nobody cares because it isn't an issue unless you're into pizza or browse other untrusted websites. Use common sense and you'll be able to get by without updooting for a year or two without issues, or until your browser version gets deprecated.
Even if you're fully updooted you still have your gaping ass ready to be punded by a clever person so just avoid the issue altogether by not browsing sketchy websites.

>>106318921
Gentoo probably had access no quicker it's just Arch was slower to build it and push it to their repo. Gentoo being a source based distro probably helps here because they don't have to build anything themselves.

>>106318952
It seems they released it before Mozilla officially did even.

>>106318975
The source tarball still comes from Mozilla though. If you go to ftp.mozilla.org you will find the same 142 source tarball. So yes, but no.

>>106318978
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/142.0/source/
This matches with the Manifest.

>>106318999
I see, so Mozilla released the source a day before releasing official build. So to be maximally updooted you must camp the Firefox source releases and build from source like Gentoo does. I guess distros would rather not push an update before Mozilla officially does even if the source is available.

>>106319035
This is something that's easy to automate if a distro wants to, it's just Arch is shit at infrastructure. I know Valve is trying to change that by pumping money into them.

Even Fedora has a release tracker for upstream projects:
https://release-monitoring.org/project/5506/

Gentoo has monitoring too (they use repology which is pretty good although not always perfect)

>>106319063
Although, to be fair Arch does have that crowd-sourced "out of date" button to flag a package but they could be automating that instead of relying on users to flag it.

>>106318867
You should be using Chrome if you buy into the updoot fallacy. If you have any sense you know that browsers are unsecurable by design.

>>106301806 (OP)
Hey /g/ I'm a tourist can I ask UNIX questions here or will you ban me

>>106319408
i haven't seen people complain about the occasional bsd question, assuming you aren't referring to macos

>>106319408
You can but unless there's enough Linux overlap people won't know the answer.

Well after 2 weeks of using Linux, I like it. Its the first PC that I have ever had where sleep actually works and doesnt fuck shit up when ti comes out of sleep. Its more work to do anything simple but I find that I do not need as many things to keep the system running as I did in windows. I also don't have the constant feeling of dread that Linux is just going to randomly shit itsself and stop working.

bümp

>>106319928
It probably will, just learn to fix it. It's not that big of a deal. It's not actually difficult to fix unlike Windows where you have to pray that sfc and dism do the trick and fix a problem you don't even know the source of.

>>106318651
I got 144 yesterday

>>106321252
hello, time traveler

>>106318651
>>106321271
in fact i got 2 days ago

>>106321278
wow, I didn't know this was a hot spot for time treavelers

>>106316811
You're not stuck with LTS

>>106321513
A what? LTS kernel? Mint and Ubuntu don't share the same kernel package?
>>106318952
They need to write and test the build recipe. Compiling isn't always as simple as ./configure && make

>>106321707
>They need to write and test the build recipe. Compiling isn't always as simple as ./configure && make
I'll let you into a dirty secret, they don't always test a minor version bump and will copy and paste the old ebuild.

>>106321707
lts distro, mint is based on ubuntu lts. Dunno why that was a point though, who uses non-lts ubuntu anyway? That's just a testbed for the next lts after all.

>>106321726
Although they will test that their patchset applies correctly but there's no way they have time to test every single platform they support. That's why they have the stabilisation system and how only ESR builds of Firefox go through it.

>>106321707
LTS release schedule. Mint is strictly based on Ubuntu LTS which only gets feature updates every 2 years, while Ubuntu has a semi-annual release schedule and thus has more up to date software.

>>106321727
>who uses non-lts ubuntu anyway
Nobody who wants a functional desktop uses LTS distros. LTS is for servers.

How do i make my fonts not blurry on Gnome? I want it to be like on Ubuntu.
t. using fedora gnome
t. retarded

Are there ANY on-screen keyboards for GNU/Linux that you can split in half like on iOS/Windows/Android?

>>106322294
Consider this:

>>106318382
Thanks anon.

I build my entire "distro" in docker (podman), I think this is a nice way to do it because a Dockerfile acts as an instant well-enough isolated chroot environment. Do anons know if it should be possible to build filesystem images (with bootloaders) inside a container environment? I can't get any filesystem tools to work inside podman, even if I run the container as root. It would be nice if I could do it all in docker so the dockerfile would literally just output an .img file that you can boot with qemu.

>>106322436
Oh and this issue is because mounting does not seem to work well inside podman. It's like all these filesystem tools, such as grub, assume that something where they're being installed is mounted. It's like these tools lack features to simply output data into some file that contains a filesystem? The only bootloader that I can install within a container env seems to be syslinux, which works but I'd prefer something modern.

>>106322436
What's the end goal? Having something you can transfer over to another PC and make it boot? I'm afraid you got to do an installer of sorts, be it a script or manual process or whatever.
I'm currently hosting a Gentoo system inside a chroot'able directory with modules and crap but I still need to copy the EFI-stub kernel over to the destination EFI system partition and efibootmgr a boot entry for it.

>>106322436
>Qemu
It can load kernel and initramfs images from the host so you can make the whole thing a super simple filesystem image.

>>106322476
>What's the end goal?
Learning. Other than that, I don't have a goal, but it would be cool to have my own "distro", that I built by connecting pieces of FOSS together, that could boot into a desktop environment just for fun. I haven't yet solved the installer part, but whatever this is that I'm building is some sort of live image that boots the kernel into the / partition via initramfs using an /init script which calls busybox's switch_root in the end after mounting and unmounting stuff.
Ah, I'm not supporting EFI at all yet, this is a BIOS bootable thing for now, which is fine for testing in qemu.

>>106322492
Yes, I already have scripted this thing so that it builds a .img file that contains syslinux, kernel, initramfs and the actual root partition. My initramfs contains only busybox at the moment, root contains compiler toolchain (musl) and a package manager etc. The only problem is that I have is that I can't get this .img build script working in container.

>>106322492
And yeah I know what you mean that maybe I could build these things separately in docker so that it would output 3 files but I want to create an actual disk image.

>>106322091
Install gnome-tweaks, there's some font variables in there
Also see if it's the Ubuntu Font you want, Fedora uses one called Adwaita Sans

>>106322803
Right. Will try that desu.
That being said why does no other distro use ubuntu sans? It's pretty sleek for what it is.

so... turns out that disabling the nvme with debian and booting to windows fucks the security boot settings. mint could deal with this without issues.
ideas?

>>106301806 (OP)
Notice I can get old commands by pressing up
Is it possible to find a list of all previous terminal inputs?

>>106318651
If you're that paranoid then you shouldnt be connecting to the internet at all. And you should also be switching to chrome-based because unfortunately chrome does have better security than firefox.

>>106322974
it's saved in your ".bash_history" or ".zsh_history", depending on which shell you use. These are hidden files in your home directory. You can just display hidden files in your file manager and open the history file in a regular text editor. Or, if you want to stay in the cli do something like

less ~/.bash_history

to scroll through these in the terminal.

Do note that there's a default limit of the number of command lines stored in the file. If you want to preserve your whole history be sure to increase the limit and set up deduplication.

>>106322294
Maybe I'm misremembering, but doesn't the one used on SteamOS support this?

>>106322974
You can just type history in your shell

>update to debian 13 on old thinkpad
>wayland runs horribly and lags
>X runs great and is snappy
why?

>>106309853
steamdeck uses arch, you should too if you want to gaym

>>106311454
The rat

>>106312735
>>106312853
~ means home directory
the difference is .bashrc, go to your
/home/linuxlitetest/.bashrc
and compare that file to
/home/test/.bashrc

It's most likely PS1= line, change that to something else and you will see it's different you can also color it any way you want. Here is mine:

export PS1='\e[0;32m\]$(pwd) >\[\e[0m\] '

>>106302136
Well the left one has the content you came for, while the right does label you to the feds that made that thread in the first place.

>>106302295
What gpu you got? I had 1050, 1060, RTX A4000, Quadro P2000, never had an issue, it displays perfectly on my ultrawide, from 2017 not a single issue.

>>106302847
It's DDOS, use the source repos for now.

>>106307479
If it's for firefox, you can go to about:config and change
widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker

>>106308647
hey that's called fashion

I wanna give plasma-keyboard a try, but these instructions aren't helping me...
I've cloned the repo, so what do I do next?
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-keyboard

>>106323967
you need the build tools like gcc to use make, and it will probably tell you that it failed and you need more build tools
just find a repository for it and grab the binary someone built already.

>>106323992
>just find a repository for it and grab the binary someone built already.
How do I do that? Isn't that link the repository?

>>106324016
you found the source code. if the binary isn't in your distro's packages as a compiled binary, then you might try adding a kde specific repository for your distribution to your package management system.
if that's over your head then you could say what distribution you're using and someone else might tell you where you can find it.

>>106324044
plasma-keyboard is pre-alpha software that I don't believe is packaged as part of any distribution, not even Neon. That's why I'm trying to build it from source. I was hoping the PKGBUILD from the AUR might give some clues, but the AUR seems to be getting DDoS'd again.

>>106323967
>I've cloned the repo, so what do I do next?
cd into the clone and use those commands. As you can tell by those commands you'll need at least (gnu) make and cmake, and whatever the project has as dependencies. They aren't listed so you might have to handle the errors as they show up.

>>106323518
Which DE and what model?

>>106324332
Yeah I installed a bunch of dependencies but failed to build:
CMake Warning at /usr/share/ECM/modules/ECMQmlModule6.cmake:9 (find_package):
Found package configuration file:

/usr/lib64/cmake/Qt6/Qt6Config.cmake

but it set Qt6_FOUND to FALSE so package "Qt6" is considered to be NOT
FOUND. Reason given by package:

Failed to find required Qt component "Qml".

Expected Config file at "/usr/lib64/cmake/Qt6Qml/Qt6QmlConfig.cmake" does
NOT exist


Configuring with --debug-find-pkg=Qt6Qml might reveal details why the
package was not found.

Configuring with -DQT_DEBUG_FIND_PACKAGE=ON will print the values of some
of the path variables that find_package uses to try and find the package.

Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/share/ECM/modules/ECMQmlModule.cmake:249 (include)
CMakeLists.txt:18 (include)


CMake Warning at /usr/share/ECM/modules/ECMQmlModule6.cmake:13 (message):
Target Qt6::Qml was not found. ECMQmlModule requires the QML module when
building with Qt 6
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/share/ECM/modules/ECMQmlModule.cmake:249 (include)
CMakeLists.txt:18 (include)


-- Could NOT find Qt6VirtualKeyboard (missing: Qt6VirtualKeyboard_DIR)
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:23 (find_package):
Found package configuration file:

/usr/lib64/cmake/Qt6/Qt6Config.cmake

but it set Qt6_FOUND to FALSE so package "Qt6" is considered to be NOT
FOUND. Reason given by package:

Failed to find required Qt component "VirtualKeyboard".

Expected Config file at
"/usr/lib64/cmake/Qt6VirtualKeyboard/Qt6VirtualKeyboardConfig.cmake" does
NOT exist


Configuring with --debug-find-pkg=Qt6VirtualKeyboard might reveal details
why the package was not found.

Configuring with -DQT_DEBUG_FIND_PACKAGE=ON will print the values of some
of the path variables that find_package uses to try and find the package.

Why are USB wifi drivers still so shit?
My "supported by drivers in Kernel" wifi adapter is working only on 1 USB port with 1/4 download speed comapred to windows, trying to change network hangs whole desktop for minute or two, all of it on fresh installs. Tried intalling drivers from git nothing changed.

>>106324365
Yes, Wi-Fi support on Linux is random.
>Tried intalling drivers from git nothing changed
What's the exact module name? You may want to use the newest of the new kernel branch which is 6.16.x at the moment.

>>106324060
>Arch
Here's a tip for you:
$ pkgfile -s Qt6VirtualKeyboardConfig.cmake
extra/qt6-virtualkeyboard


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

>>106324358
really better off finding a binary, if they aren't packaging binaries then I doubt it would work well even if you got it to build and install. it's not even in their nightly flatpaks from kde from what I can tell, and if you are going to build from source be sure to follow how your distro handles that. The AUR would probably be the easiest way to build from source so if you are using arch then that's your best bet.

>it runs on anything!
you can't run it on a 64 bit processor
>it is so hecking customizable!
but lots of apps don't support your theme
>you can do so much in the CLI!
but you can't browse 99% of the interwebz

>>106323585
>steamdeck uses arch
It uses an immutable Arch. The closest thing to it on desktops is Bazzite. Or even the new KDE Linux distro, but that one would be limited to the Flatpak version of Steam.

>>106324518
What doesn't support 64-bit processors in this day and age?
Just about the only app I can think of is Steam and that's because Valve are fucking retards. Steam is literally the only reason I have a 32-bit chroot lying around.

>>106324536
>it'll make your laptop new again
that's what i was referring to

>>106322974
You can search through the history with ctrl+r

>>106324546
Linux often does in the context of Windows being a pile of shit. If you have 4 GB of RAM and shit spinning rust drive then it won't be amazing (best to upgrade the RAM and put in an SSD if you can) but it'll definitely feel "like new again" compared to Windows.

What is the best distro for my toshiba satellite A60-106

>>106324536
even PCSX2 got a 64bit version before Steam
even Wine is working on a way to magically run 32bit windows programs on a pure-64bit linux before Steam
Steam will be the last 32bit program

>>106324611
Antix, or use NetBSD

Can't get networking working in qemu/kvm vm with user networking configured. This is my own "distro" that has busybox, which should have the basic networking functionalities. If I try to do ip addr add and ip route add it just says network is down. Any anons knowledgeable with busybox/qemu networking?

>>106324611
gentoo

>>106324692
ip link set dev eth0 up?

>>106324708
Did try that before, no effect. Now I got network running using ifconfig instead of ip addr add.... I don't know what's the difference. Next thing that does not work is DNS, but I guess I can figure that out.

>>106324729
>Now I got network running using ifconfig instead of ip addr add.... I don't know what's the difference
They are functionally the same, both work with NETLINK it's just the interface is different. ifconfig is old-school config, iproute2 is new style.

>>106324750
>>106324729
For DNS:
printf "nameserver %s\n" 1.1.1.1 8.8.8.8 > /etc/resolv.conf

etc. If you ever get DHCP working then you can run DNSmasq on the host to provide ip addressing and DNS for the guests.

>>106324750
I see, weird. Anyways, here's what worked and DNS works now too. Now I can use pkgsrc to fetch, build and install NetBSD packages, like I did for neofetch in this screenshot.

ifconfig eth0 10.0.2.15
route add default gw 10.0.2.2
echo nameserver 10.0.2.3 > /etc/resolv.conf

>>106324809
I bet most of that RAM is just Htop. lmao

>>106324422
It was rtw88 from morrownr for RTL8812BU, i also instaled drivers from manufacturer website and then it worked on front USB for 5 min every restart, i expected more from Linux supported on Kernel anyway ill just use ethernet.

New thread >>106324979

>>106324365
Because Realtek is hot garbage. Get a mt7921u.

>>106324422
It's actually very predictable when you don't buy shit with broken drivers.

>>106325067
Only if the average person could spot those broken drivers when shopping.

>>106324692
Busybox should have a built-in dhcp client called udhcp i think

Yes, windows is vile. So buy a computer that runs actual UNIX, not some basement hack. Buy an Apple. You know you want to. You know you always have.

You can just use an Apple without becoming a cult member, if you want; but there is no way to be a Linux user without at least making a serious hobby of it. Installing drivers? Forget it. Hardware fuckery? Forget it. Bash command line? If you want.

Get an Apple, you broke fuck. A mac mini costs less than Your Mom (lol, jk). You can steal a mouse, keyboard, and monitor from work.

>>106325100
Stop being a normgroid and you won't have probelms.

>>106325253
Just buy an ad already.

>>106324354
kde and t440p
sorry for the late response

>>106325253
macOS doesn't even have a functional FUSE driver anymore.
https://github.com/gerard/ext4fuse/issues/81