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Previous thread: >>106301806

>>106324979 (OP)
>bitmap fonts
can anyone explain me why we switched to poor quality vectorial fonts from that?

I still remember that time I had perfectly readable bitmap fonts on the screen and then I could print with perfectly crisp vectorial fonts on my laser printer

>>106325020
Aliasing looks bad on LCDs and font scaling

>>106325045
>Aliasing
Not a problem with bitmap fonts
>scaling
Trivial problem with many solutions

>>106325020
>>106325045
probably a combination of lcd's being super sharp, making aliasing much harsher to look at, and also just because "now we can". like 1-bit bitmap fonts are just easier to draw, no rendering from vector data or blending to do the AA, just write the pixels from the bitmap font to the screen directly and you're done

>>106325020
Vectors are the correct way to represent typeface. Your display is what's poor.

>>106324979 (OP)
>this uses 5GB of ram currently
why is KDE like this?

>>106325081
>web browser
there's your problem

>>106325058
>>106325070
>Not a problem with bitmap fonts
well sure, 'aliasing' is the wrong term for what i'm talking about, and likely >>106325045 as well, that is, hard edges, stair-steps, lack of edge blending. but i'm sure you knew this anyway

do I really need ZRAM?

Gonna try to build and install xorg+xfce4 next. I bet it does not work because of some missing dependency but I want to try. Added more cpu and ram and made my root filesystem larger. In theory it should work since pkgsrc resolves dependencies and I've bootstrapped pkgsrc successfully.

>>106325136
Do I look like I know what a ZRAM is?

>>106325136
The CPU overhead is minimal, so why not? Distros that have zram preconfigured (like Fedora and CachyOS) are convenient indeed.

>>106325067
Bruh,
it was literally recommended single state wifi only with drivers in kernel from 5.8.x and it works but it shit anyway.

hi anons
how can i use my xbox360 controller on arch? (endeavouros actually)
it's not a bluetooth controller, it uses a usb wireless receiver

>>106325695
It doesn't work if you just plug it in?

What selinux policies should i enable with yast to make my computer more safe?

>>106325718
no, but lsusb shows
ID 045e:0719 Microsoft Corp. Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter
so the receiver works, but the controller doesn't pair

why you niggers continusly ddosing arch websites???

>>106325729
The ones you make yourself.

>>106325136
No. You need an OOM killer service. zram is nice to have even if you have 'enough' memory because it ends up compressing bits of things that never get used so you have more cache.

>>106325160
Doesn't work, one problem is that pkgsrc does not always like the busybox xz executable. Whatever, I can't bother to waste any more time on this, maybe I'll try it again some day.

someone was looking for some wallpapers yesterday

>>106325838
Fuck me I just can't quit but I don't want to do this anymore. I want to have a toy distro that runs xorg based desktop in qemu but it's so time consuming and boring to build all this again and again it feels like work.... aargh

>>106325100
>Only if the average person could spot those broken drivers when shopping.
These days people shop on Amazon and they have reviews. You can put "Linux" into the box and read what real humans have to say about their attempts to use it with Linux.

There are also more authoritative sources on sites like GitHub (https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi) but purely from a normal "I am not going to seek out any external sources" standpoint it should not be hard to find something in this day and age that works with Linux.

>>106325740
You would need to install drivers manually. Look up xpad-noone by medusalix on GitHub. I use their Xone driver for Xbox series controller with dongle and it works nice, hopefully xpad-noone for 360 would work well too.

i want to use hyprland in arch (or sway, I know both to an extent and this isn't about a specific wayland wm) to basically replace my current main winshit setup
i have some years of experience with arch and also ubuntu but there's a lot idk about because i haven't tried doing this with hyprland + arch
i want to not use a DE if possible

is there an application launcher where i can type a shortcut and fuzzy-find an app that i want?
(i know i can do something like this with fish but would be nice if i have a simple way to launch apps like firefox or libreoffice)

is there a good system monitor that isn't gnome system monitor that would work with hyprland? probably just a nicer htop would work (btop?? idk haven't really tried it)

i haven't tried this yet and this is maybe the main reason i'm hesitating to switch to linux, but is there a good workflow for using USB devices with hyprland/arch? especially with connecting a android over mtp. i know how to use nnn and yazi, would these do this?

is there a decent paint.net alternative? maybe krita?

>>106325740
Don't you just need to manually pair the controller with the receiver using a hardware button? I remember doing something like this when i had a 360 controller.

do anons here prefer hyprland or sway (and why)?

>>106327445
>is there an application launcher where i can type a shortcut and fuzzy-find an app that i want?
Rofi, tofi, wmenu
>>106327445
>but is there a good workflow for using USB devices with hyprland/arch?
Udisks for usb storage drives, any of the gui filemanagers should be able to mount them as well with gvfs i think. Easiest would be pcmanfm.
>is there a decent paint.net alternative? maybe krita?
GIMP, krita, inkscape
I think paint.net can run under wine?

>>106327445
>is there an application launcher where i can type a shortcut and fuzzy-find an app that i want?
probably, but you have to set it up yourself.
>is there a good system monitor
whatever a good one is. You should be able to use any system monitor you fancy, including the ones from other DEs. If btop is good or not is a question of preferences.
>good workflow for using USB devices
same as any DE, but you have to install the software that auto mounts it for you. Forgot its name though.

>>106327616
I'm using sway because i prefer using tabbed mode

>>106327616
Never tried sway, liked hyprland when I wanted to try wayland so sticking with it.

Is there any general guide on how to properly setup fonts, preferably distro agnostic?
I'm dying here, half of the sites look like shit and I can't figure out how to fix them.
Right is how it looks on loonix and left is how it was supposed to be.
>windoze suxxx breh
I don't care it's what I'm used to and those squished fonts are horrible.
>you're missing le windows fonts
I've downloaded a pack with ALL built in windows fonts already and they show up on the font manager.

>>106327835
you're in for a world of pain

>>106327849
I don't understand how can it be so shit when you interact with fonts in EVERY SINGLE MOMENT OF YOUR COMPUTER EXPERIENCE??? There's literally ZERO reason for it to be so shit.

>>106327835
put in /etc/environment , or in your ~/.profile , or anywhere you want to export an environment variable:
export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="cff:no-stem-darkening=0 autofilter:no-stem-darkening=0"

>>106325947
thx gondola fren

>>106322509
> Learning
I wish I had the time for that. I really want to learn Linux just for the sake of it.

>>106328052
>learn Linux
that's like saying you want to learn the history of the world.
the reality is that it's a broadly complex system the benefits as a whole from people who are specialized in very specific areas.

>>106325020
bitmap fonts look ugly as fuck unless you're on 720p or lower resolution.

>>106325081
>Steam
>Brave
That's already at least 2GB.

>>106327835
>downloaded a pack with ALL built in windows fonts
This isn't the issue. The website is clearly using Barlow as the default font and it's 100% delivered to you when you open the website since it's a Google font. It would only fall back to Open Sans if, for some reason, your browser/extensions are blocking the font download.
Open your Firefox settings and check if your font settings are consistent between Linux and Windows. Check if your display scaling is consistent too. Then apply this >>106327963 and log out and log back in.

>>106328109
Then, can I learn Linux in a way that benefits my dive into the beginning of programming for games and/or making a program that shows image boards like this one?

>>106325078
Not when you design a typeface around a pixel grid.

Can I "do" Linux From Scratch in a VM? If so, once complete can I make an ISO that allows me to install that "distro" of LFS. (I may be missing fundamental knowledge that makes these two questions, dumb questions). Also would doing that serve any purpose or be a waste of time. (host os = m4 mac don't buy one macOS is trash)

Does anyone have experience running Linux/OpenBSD in a VM as their main os for example if it doesn't support your hardware but you still want to use it as your main os? Apart from battery health in laptops, and performance decrease are their any other downsides that would stop it from being a viable option (MacOS = iToddler garbage)

>>106325020
Because bad font rendering makes vector graphics look worse than they should.

>>106328052
The more i learn, the less I know. Building own "distro" is like constantly making choices "how to do this very specific thing" - there's no "generic" way there are just countless amounts of tools and you pick the ones you want. It's a huge amount of information, I don't expect my brain to remember all this afterwards.

why?
how do i fix this?

>>106328160
Bro it's not 1998. Your display pixels shouldn't be so big you can pick them out individually.

>>106327963
Looks better but still doesnt fix the website i was using as an example, thanks for the help though.
>>106328138
>profile
I am using the exact same profile, i symlink the same folder on both windows and linux.
>scaling
Same thing

It's a font thing, look at the image again and check the "i" in "Midnight Kids", its completely different, on top of being squished down.
Even firefox itself looks weird (check the inspect window with different looking fonts)

I've been compiling a bunch of software and GNU nano disappointed me with its dependencies and build time. It should be simple, it's called freaking nano, but nope.

>>106328446
what about vi

>>106326648
Well now I got cmake bootstrapped, had a bunch of issues, one being that I forgot I shouldn't let gcc install its libs in /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib

>>106328700
Next: xorg and icewm

>>106326648
>it feels like work
I did something like that at work

>>106328326
you're right, i should be complaining about scaling, rendering, hinting and blur instead

>>106328446
Try Pico:
git clone --depth 1 https://repo.or.cz/alpine.git
./configure --disable-mouse --without-kerberos --without-ldap --without-tcl --without-ssl
make
./pico/pico


Note: That its open source hosting is currently blocked in the United Kingdom:
https://repo.or.cz/uk-blocked.html

I find this very amusing and also disappointed that an open source organisation felt the need to do this. They are no Microsoft or Gitlab though so likely don't have the resources to police their users properly. It is said that this law is having an impact on Open Source like this.

It is of course easy to work around and I configured my custom OpenWRT routing setup to forward through New York the land of the free. Amusingly the routing now goes:
>London
>New York
>London
>Frankfurt Germany

>>106328979
Nah just have big ppi and integer scale. There's no reason to fuck with any of that. Not that it doesn't work if you tune it in correctly, but it's obsolete.

I have a 1280x720 display, setting it to 1920x1080 and scaling to 1.50x IS the right way to fix the irregularities, right?
My fonts look better now, but GTK apps refuse to scale properly and stay at 1.0x despite GDK_SCALE=1.5

>>106325081
>brave
should have just kept using windows

>>106324979 (OP)
>Finally move to stallman/linus on gaming laptop
>Microsoft pushes an update to break everyones SSD

>xprop -root | awk -F "= " '/\_NET\_CURRENT\_DESKTOP\(CARDINAL\)/ { print $2 }'
This is what I have in my lemonbar to show the current group I am in when using cwm. Is there any better way of doing this?

>>106329098
There are two scaling variables for GTK:

GDK_SCALE only scales fonts GTK_SCALE scales the UI. This is because GNOME recognises that it is fucking retarded to scale UI with fonts and the two should be controlled separately.

>>106329034
There's no reason to ever fuck with any scaling when 94ppi works perfectly. I'd have bitmap Tahoma everywhere, if it wasn't fucking impossible to get it to render properly nowadays. It's simply perfect.

Building xorg and icewm with all their dependencies takes ages from scratch....

>>106329001
Pico seems cool! Also I really hate this new china-style development. EU is trying to get chat control accepted.

uh, how am i supposed to insert media to upgrade my debian install if it's on a VPS?

>>106329193
>>106329098
GDK_SCALE I mean and I got it backwards GDK_SCALE only scales UI, GDK_DPI_SCALE scales fonts

>>106329212
>Pico seems cool!
Pico is actually what Nano was based on or inspired by.
It is the Vi to Vim.

>>106329228
I figured, I had seen both of them mentioned when trying to troubleshoot my tiny UI and fonts, but couldn't find anything past others complaining that neither variables were doing anything.
Setting Xft.dpi: 144 in .Xresources fixed it for me

>>106329202
>I'd have bitmap Tahoma everywhere
This one is close enough and you can force it everywhere
https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/issues/218#issue-1094921808

>>106327616
Sway. I don't care about shadles/blur/animations/other annoying things and some features present in i3/sway are either missing or they don't have a key bind by default, didn't bother to check.

>>106329319
The cronyx cyrillic MS Sans font does at least render correctly, but it ain't quite Tahoma...

>>106329212
Update to this: icewm actually built and installed but now that I started installing xorg-server with pkgsrc it seems to pull fucking python3 and LLVM, WHY? What the fuck. This is going to take until tomorrow if it compiles fucking python and llvm, I guess I have to look at the use flags.

>>106329469
Possibly for the Mesa graphics driver (LLVM) and Meson build system (Python). Xorg itself doesn't need Python or LLVM.

>>106329478
Fucking mesa I already forgot that shit does pull a lot of shit. Cheers I'll check that.

>>106329478
Seems like it: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/graphics/MesaLib/index.html

I guess I can disable those options and leave only x11.

>>106329511
You can but then you might not have fully functional OpenGL and Vulkan. If your goal is a fully functioning desktop system then you can expect to pull in a lot more heavy deps along the way…

>>106329533
Yeah, I just want to see a desktop at this moment. I'm not going to create a perfect setup in one try anyways.

Uh, so is there a file manager that will prompt me for sudo authentication when I am attempting privileged actions instead of telling me to go fuck myself? Or am I stuck between opening danger mode instances of my file manager and typing tedious and equally dangerous terminal commands?

>>106329812
nautilus does this

>>106329812
Ctrl+L, add admin:// to the beginning of the path.

>>106329481
I'll fucking call this a success, good night. Mouse does obviously not work.

>>106330049
good job, now that you've done it you can safely go back to gentoo and skip all that bootstrapping

>>106329481
mesa uses llvm as part of amdgpu and llvmpipe (modern software renderer) support last i checked.

I love KDE Plasma.

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?

Gonna fire up Hyper-V and start configuring a KDE Fedora VM. Is it a good choice? Basically I want everything on my computer to be put there by me. Zero pre-installed bloat. My goal is to use ComfyUI and maybe Wine for gaming. The state of my Windows 10 installation is like a massive, hopeless, rotting swamp. Every nook and cranny of my hard drive is full of .pngs and .jpgs from my slop addiction. There's images stuffed in so many random folders. Its a pig sty. This is gonna be a cleansing. I look forward to installing python from scratch so I know wtf is going on

>>106330206
>>106330049
They could actually keep bootstrapping, get to the point that they have Python and then install Portage and then convert their system to Gentoo with it and come full circle…

>>106331039
new achievement locked

>>106331039
gentoo from scratch

>>106330572
I think i3 does this in X. But you need i3-tabbed.

>>106324979 (OP)
Did people really theme old DEs into Windows 95 and 98? When did this trend start?

>>106331229
around 1995 or so. there was a point in time where windows 95 was a new look (also around 1995)

>>106331229
>>106331245
also keep in mind windows looked like that up to late 2001, and even then it remained an option up until 2012

>>106330572
You don't really want a proper tiling window manager. I feel like the gnome tiling extension kinda has what you want but your tab requirement is just too weird.

>>106325740
Hold the pair button on the receiver, then hold the pair button on the controller

Is there a tool that automates creating .desktop files for apps distributed as tarball like Anki and Palemoon? I have a couple of those.

>>106331229
>>106331229
Fluxbox (an improved fork of the already old asf Blackbox) has been a thing since early 2ks. If i could theme labwc to look somewhat similar to Win2k, i'd use it.

>>106330500
It could be better, but it's so much better than the alternatives right now.

i have achieved japanese input it only took 5 hours

do you really have to install everything and check it out yourself?

>>106331221
I originally looked at i3 a long long time ago, so I'd written it off.
I will look into this again.
>>106331277
This is true, but I really like having the option of tiling.
I would prefer to avoid Gnome, but I will look into it after I look into i3 again.

>>106331502
maybe do whatever you want to do not what some guy who shares his screen on the internet does.

>>106331391
Probably just needs a few lines of shell script to fill in a template desu

>>106329214
drive to the datacenter

>>106331453
what'd you use?

>>106331523
Just save the workspace and load it.
It will work the way you want it to.

Adjust the spaces as you wish

i3-save-tree --workspace 1 > ~/.config/i3/layouts/fancy.json

set $fancy ~/.config/i3/layouts/fancy.json
exec --no-startup-id i3-msg "append_layout $fancy"

You can modify and create for all workspaces.
With i3-tabbed it gonna work like you want


Hyprland do it too, but it´s wayland.

>>106324979 (OP)
Sup anons. After 12 years I caved and finally set up dual boot, Windows and Mint. Getting tired of Microsoft's bs and thought I'd give this a spin. Installing the NVIDIA driver bricked the OS or something, so had to do a fresh install and now things seem to be working fine. Having to manually install ethernet drivers was fun...

What do I do now? OS looks fine, but where do I get cozy old Windows themes? I thought they'd just be available in the store or whatever, but they are not

why is all this great stuff named with a z
zfs
zswap
zram
zstd
zsh
what am I missing to complete my z suite? I'm not going full edgemode with zen kernel though

>>106331771
This comes from the Unix era, when it was used to indicate compression, and later it was used to indicate something new.

>>106331823
"z" is also associated with "final", being the last letter of the alphabet. like zram/zswap are about compression, probably a reference to the old .Z compression format, but "zfs" for example sometimes is shown with the slogan "the last word in filesystems", though the z stands for "zettabyte", a reference to it's great scalability

>>106328329
>It's a font thing
I can't see how that's possible since you're using an identical font file delivered by the website, that being Barlow.
The "computed" tab won't tell you what font you're using, that's what the "fonts" tab is for. The fonts tab should be the same between your Linux and Windows. Or rather, in your case it's probably not.
Also,
>Proportional: Sans Serif
That's just a generic font style, it's not a font itself. Windows and Linux default to a completely different font for this. Windows apparently uses "Microsoft Sans Serif", while most Linux distros use Noto Sans (or in the case of this website, you'll probably first see Open Sans on Linux and Arial on Windows, since those appear before the Sans-serif fallback)


Post a link to the site so I can check how it behaves on my machine.

>>106331770
Nice, be careful with the dual boot, if they're on the same drive windows can still brick the bootloader
>where do I get cozy old Windows themes?
It depends on what version of Mint you installed, you'll probably have the best result with the Xfce spin
https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
https://github.com/matthewmx86/Redmond97
https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc
https://gitgud.io/wackyideas/aerothemeplasma/ (this one is for KDE, if you're considering it pick another distro, KDE on Mint is not great)

>>106332261
Thanks anon. I did put Linux on a separate drive thankfully. Just assumed something awful could happen kek. And all those themes look great, I'll try them out

>>106331502
I use thunar.

>>106331770
>bricked the OS or something
You can always boot up a live system such as an installer and "chroot" into the broken system to fix things.
>>106329214
>insert media
>to upgrade my debian install
What is this even? Aren't you supposed to change lines from /etc/apt/sources.list and simply
apt update
apt dist-upgrade

??

>>106331502
Holy shit does everything look so ugly on tiling wms?

>>106332673
last time I did that it broke the install so probably not

>>106332757
Pulling crap from a DVD doesn't break a system but pulling the same packages from the internet does break it?
Can you describe your process?

apparently Qtile is fucked on Wayland?
and Hyprland is literally the only working dynamic manager?

>>106332880
Qtile's Wayland support is experimental right now. The only fully working Wayland WMs are Sway and Hyprland.

>>106332774
Changing the sources and updating everything bricked it.

Actually maybe the things I've been reading are just stupid, they said they also bricked their install and that it's dangerous to upgrade in place because it happens. Then linked to a guide that does a bunch of extra steps to backup the OS and a bunch of BS like upgrading it from a live disk, and emulating the upgrade in a VM.

No idea why it didn't work last time, maybe I skipped versions or something. But I see posts saying they've done that and nothing bad happened.

>>106332947
Yes, dist-upgrades are risky as the system isn't designed as a rolling release. But can you describe the process of dist-upgrading via DVD? Never heard of it.

>>106333102
not him but i've done it before, a long time ago when i was still on dial up. at least then the cd/dvd just acted like a package source/repository. that is, it's added to your sources.list same as an internet mirror

>>106333221
>it's added to your sources.list same as an internet mirror
or rather, it's already in that file, since it's used during initial install as well. install from dvd, upgrade from another dvd, it's nothing fancy really

>>106333221
And that way the dist-upgrade doesn't somehow magically never fail?
Bullshit.

>>106333261
well i can't speak for that. i moved away from debian/ubuntu in 2011, so i don't actually remember any specifics, but i went to gentoo/arch at that point and i do recall one of the reasons was the fear of dist-upgrades, so i'm certain i had trouble with it. i wasn't as experienced back then, as evidenced by the fact i can't recall specific issues i had with it. i mean i'd used debian-based distros for 7 years at that point so it can't have been that bad

>>106333292
if 7 years and inexperienced sounds off, i don't mean 7 years main desktop, but 7 years since i'd literally first heard of and tried linux, it didn't become my main os until 2009/2010. probably wasn't worth mentioning 7 years since i don't think i even did any dist-upgrades for most of that, just trying other distros

Are there really no split keyboards for touch screens like on Windows/iOS/Android?

>>106333594
GNU/Linux seriously needs this already as it's the one thing stopping me from installing Linux on my Shitdows tablet. Split keyboards are MANDATORY for typing on tablets as that way you can hold the tablet two hands and type simultaneously; typing without a split keyboard demands you hold the device with one or no hands. Let me type with my thumbs!!!!

>>106325136
Yes. Basically free RAM
>>106325819
You don't need any oomd service, kernel oomd works just fine

>>106325136
You tell me, I started needing it after installing Gentoo
>have 2GB of RAM per CPU thread
>install Gentoo
>begin compiling
>at some point the terminal in which the compilation took place, is gone
>"it got OOM'd" t. logs

>>106329001
Wonder if this uk law will end up affecting some major open source project that is getting corporate funding and that will open grounds for a lawsuit.
E.g: linus if he was living in the UK, but was denied access to kernel dev
Wild hypothetical but yeah.

>>106333594
why blank out the unused section in the middle?

>>106334305
iOS certainly does it better

>>106334314
that's more what i'd expect. i've never owned a media tablet though and don't know anyone who does, so i don't actually have an answer for the first anon.
last i checked mobile gnu/linux distros are still pretty niche, even though i'm aware of some de's and software targeted for use on touchscreens. i just don't think there's as much of an overlap between tablet users and linux users as there is with full desktops and laptops. i could be wrong though, it's not something i use so i suppose i wouldn't know

>>106331655
Not him but i use fcitx5+mozc
Though i never needed to use any aur packages for it the last time i used arch

>>106331426
labwc is basically a wayland version of openbox, so any themes and configs you have for openbox should work under labwc. The hardest part would be theming the bar/panel.

>>106332923
There's also river which is basically bspwm for wayland but it has less features than sway or hyprland

>>106332757
Did you read the debian guide for upgrading?

Is there a way to make the debian graphical installer use the dedicated gpu instead of the onboard graphics? I did set the gpu device to the dedicated card in the motherboard.

>>106334536
Can't you program River with whatever language you want? Though it seems to want shell scripts the most.

>>106334649
From my experience river loads an init file and that init file can be written in any language you want as long as its executable. It configs stuff in the same way as bspwm does

How come debian doesn't come with curl installed?

>>106334558
Have you tried booting into the old ncurses text-based installer instead of the graphical one?

>>106335196
I haven't... It latched on to the onboard graphics for some reason, even though there's nothing plugged in. I installed by using the bmc. Since then I've installed nvidia-driver (550.163.01) but I don't know how to make it use the gpu. The display settings on xfce is pretty confusing. I've never used linux before. Nvidia-smi sees my gpu, but I don't know how to make xfce use my gpu (with a monitor plugged in to it).

>>106335281
If you want everything to use the nvidia gpu you will have to make a config file for xorg
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Minimal_configuration

>>106334264
Doubt it, because someone the size of Linux has the power to apply the law correctly. It seems the fallout is mainly from smaller projects that are basically going:
>Nope! I don't want to deal with that. Let's block the UK!

>>106335338
Linux will just use onboard graphics even though there's nothing connected to it? Why??

Tangentially related, does libreoffice fuck up txt files? I tried editing a config file with it and now the program doesn't start. Had to delete the file and rewrite it with nano...

NetBSD's pkgsrc appends my CFLAGS in C++ compilation commands. Isn't this incorrect? I just run into problems bootstrapping cmake because it didn't like the CFLAGS when using C++ compiler. I don't understand why it would treat CFLAGS as CXXFLAGS?

>>106335493
might have saved it in a slightly different format than the original, like using CRLF for newlines (windows/dos style) instead of CR (unix style) or something
there isn't really such thing as "a text file", like there's no single well-defined way to make one, so there are edge-cases or unexpected results when dealing with them. i'm not specifically familiar with how libreoffice imports or exports them, but chances are it has exported it in a different way to how it was when it was imported

>>106335526
not familiar with netbsd specifically, but i have more than once seen things configured such that CFLAGS = CXXFLAGS, like it's set once and the other is just set to the first, so that might be happening somewhere

>>106335493
Did you actually save it in .txt format?

How do I make Dolphin index .cpp files so I can search for codes?

What's the best distro/DE for tablets?

>>106335728
In your KDE Plasma Settings, Workspace -> Search, add the directories you want to be indexed. By default it's just indexing the Documents and media directories.
Or you can just open KFind within Dolphin to do a search specifically against .cpp files.

>>106335743
KDE and GNOME. Nothing comes close to those two. As for which one is better, it entirely depends on your preferences.

>>106335768
My preferences are basically whichever DE has the better:
>tiling/snapping
>touch keyboard
>battery life

>>106335715
I was editing a pre-existing txt file, and used "save" instead of save as...

what screenshot tool should I use on sway/hyprland? grim+slurp has this weird black border like in picrel which I don't really know how to remove

>>106335907
slurp -w 0

>>106332225
The example is just last.fm, here's some random abandoned profile you can check for the music font:
https://www.last.fm/user/DaniBambi/library
>Sans Serif
I don't understand that option well myself, I don't know what "proportional" is but it has two options, 'Serif' and 'Sans Serif' which leads me to believe it'd pick one of the two options under it no matter what (and not the OS default), so in my case proportional fonts would be Segoe UI.

>>106335404
Linux isnt really good at handling multi-gpus

>>106333261
It's possible the copy on the CD was newer/older than the copy on the Internet, but yes, I call bullshit too. The mechanism works exactly the same.

>>106335581
That's unfortunate if such a habit is common. CMake specifically seems to treat the unsupported compiler flag warnings as errors in some edge cases.

>>106333671
Kernel 'oomd' kills random processes to free up memory as needed by the kernel. It doesn't work to prevent your GUI from freezing because it can't allocate memory.

If you know about MagicSysRq-f you can do that manually, but a dedicated OOM killer service is faster and less disruptive and works for normalfags who aren't going to twiddle sysctl.d files.

>>106336211
Wayland is better at it but only if you don't use NVIDIA, except the majority of multi-GPU systems are theirs so…

They are aware they're shit though and slowly working on not being shit but it's obviously not a priority for them.

Last night, for an hour, I tried to troubleshoot why my fedora install would hang after inputting my encryption password. Before this, it wouldn't even get past the GRUB screen. After trying shit for an hour, I unplugged a controller and wired, usb-c headset and it booted up without issue.
Holy fucking shit.

>>106336330
They are technically not wrong. Often people will do things like:
CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"

Which is fine a lot of the times but C++ is not C. There are some flags that only apply to C or only apply to C++ and a lot of the time the compiler can deal with that by just ignoring the flag in that context but blindly ignoring things can be bad so certain tooling might raise a warni instead and that warning might be promoted to an error.

>>106335794
>>106335743
I just tried Fedora GNOME and Fedora KDE, live USB's.

GNOME's touch keyboard is better...and worse. It has suggestions for typing, but it also resizes itself constantly to show said suggestions. The jittering is REALLY annoying. You also can't just double tap shift to engage caps lock; you have to hold it down instead.

KDE's keyboard doesn't jitter, but there's no word suggestions.

In neither case was I able to use the touch screen to scroll in LibreOffice. The keyboard also doesn't seem to be able to draw up by touching the document in Qt mode, but it works fine with SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3. LibreOffice also seems to be running in xwayland, which may or may not be intentional.

>>106336400
>Which is fine a lot of the times but C++ is not C
Yeah, so why would it be fine? The C++ compiler will literally throw warnings each time it compiles a file because it was given incorrect CXXFLAGS.

>boot up ubuntu one day after using it for a bit
>wifi and drivers are suddenly screwed up and can't be detected anymore
>nothing is working in the terminal either
>I try to reboot and soon find out that some background os updates probably happened that broke my system
Yeah this is just windows with a mask. Wouldn't have happened on arch.

why is openSUSE considered a meme distro? i don't get the hate.

>>106336835
it's least mainstream of the "mainstream" distros. The hipster mainstream choice.

>>106336835
Tumbleweed makes a lot of stupid choices that make no sense.

>>106336134
Ok, I just compared the two, gif related. Looks like there is some subtle difference.
To me the Windows font rendering looks significantly worse and less accurate. Whatever anti-aliasing they're using is shit and adds blue and red hues for no reason. (And judging from your screenshot, the same is happening on your Linux device)

But yeah, the title of the track actually is 2px smaller on Linux it seems. Not sure what's up with that, I'd have to investigate further by I'm too lazy to do so.

>>106336835
Because nobody uses it outside of European office drones.

>>106337010
Thanks for checking it out, I'm no font guru or that much of a bitch to wine about everything being wrong but the size issue really gets me, you mentioned it actually being smaller (unlike me who thought the font set was different) and zooming in to ~120% really does improve the situation.
Maybe it's an website specific issue...

>>106336835
It's basically not-RedHat for eurokeks, but if it works for you that's cool.

Why do so many people hold up Arch as some kind of wonder distro?
There are more customizable distros, more cutting edge distros, and certainly more stable distros...
Why does it get memed so hard as the "end stage" Linux distro?

>>106330049
No matter what I try, keyboard and mouse won't work in X. I don't know what to do anymore, I tried different qemu drivers and devices, none work but dmesg shows the kernel recognizes the devices.

>>106337558
I've been waiting for dinit to get more popular with a rolling release kernel

>>106337558
it's simply the best

>>106337558
>Why do so many people hold up Arch as some kind of wonder distro?
autism

>>106337605
I give up whatever then.

>>106337558
Because it's customizable just enough, cutting edge just enough, and stable just enough, while putting you through not enough hoops to make you say "fuck this shit I'm installing $distro".

>>106337558
Because it's good

>>106337558
It got meme'd for years as a hard to use distro thanks to its lack of an installer. It was complicated enough to get bragging rights without going into gentoo or LFS territory.
The distro itself is okay-ish and the packages are up to date. I dont think you can get more up to date packages without going into testing repos in general.

>>106337558
The installation process gets people personally invested in their OS. They 'chose' all the parts, so they're more likely to crow about how great it is when it works and less likely to bitch when it doesn't.

>>106336508
I installed Fedora KDE and fully updated it. The latest LibreOffice STILL doesn't support touchscreen scrolling! I tried OnlyOffice and while touchscreen scrolling worked, all my full stops became greater-than signs!?!?!?!? Is there a decent office suite for tablets on Linux?

>>106338330
Primary targets are servers, desktops and laptops. Tablets are horrible to do anything "productive" so the support is second class citizen at best.

>>106336508
That's a Fedora problem. GNOME OS doesn't come with annoying suggestions that screw with you all the time. You can try it live now.

>>106338413
>GNOME OS doesn't come with annoying suggestions that screw with you all the time.
I would LIKE those suggestions, IF not for the jittering keyboard size.

>>106336835
I can't speak for others, but the package manager is an overengineered mess. Fedora/rpm is simple enough to be integrated in GNOME's native software app, but OpenSussy insists on using its giant suite instead.

>>106338330
OnlyOffice supports it, but it doesn't show the on-screen keyboard unlike LibreOffice. Maybe it's just because I have one connected already.

what's a linux distro that doesn't need updates fairly often, and should an update break your shit, you can just use a tool to rewind?
i've been using garuda linux for about half a year since it does have a good rewind tool, but since it's a rolling release based on arch it's just got a shit ton of updates daily. i could use something for like, a craptop i don't touch that often

>>106338635
>doesn't need updates fairly often
Nobody is forcing you to update, anon.
>should an update break your shit, you can just use a tool to rewind
I guess you could try Aurora or Bazzite (or Fedora Kinoite/Silverblue) if you're fine with semi-immutable distros. While they never broke for me in the 2 years of using them, their atomic update system does allow rollbacks.
And they don't require you to update your system since your user software is usually separate from system updates. As in, unless you manually install stuff with rpm-ostree, your software would be primarily installed as flatpaks/appimages or isolated in distrobox.

>>106338635
Debian is one of the favorites for sysadmins (requirement being "I don't have to touch it at all and if I do update then I get the bare min until the next point release") but I don't think it has rollback features by default. I don't think you need them either.

>>106337558
https://archlinux.org/about/
>To summarize: Arch Linux is a versatile, and simple distribution designed to fit the needs of the competent Linux® user.

>>106338635
Anything with point releases doesn't need to update to keep working.
>just use a tool to rewind
You mean like backups? They all have backups. Or make btrfs snapshots of root and swap them around. Atomic distros have a tool for managing state, but the learning curve isn't worth it for a single PC imo.

>>106337558
Simple, it's capital L Linux. You are not getting some curated take on a user space for Linus' kernel, but instead getting every upstream package served as they are for you to customize.

>>106338635
Just use debian with btrfs snapshots
Unless you want something easier, then idk maybe mint since it comes with timeshift?

>>106337811
I can't give up... I'll setup a simple debian vm and try to install pkgsrc and xorg using pkgsrc in it to see if the problem is pkgsrc or my "distro". I suspect the problem is that I chose musl and busybox instead of glibc and coreutils, though I did add quite a bit of GNU utils on top of the busybox install such as gawk and bash.

>>106337558
It's more stable than most of the customizable and cutting edge distros, more customizable than most of the cutting edge and stable distros, more cutting edge than most of the customizable and stable distros.

is ubuntu mate kill?

Are there any books on beginner's/getting-started-with Linux that /fglt/ recommends?

>>106340123
don't bother with books as commands usually have a --help or -h option. also grok and/or duck.ai are good resources. the rest is pretty much clicking or double clicking on icons

>>106338635
maybe opensuse has that

>>106340196
I guess I would like to know more about the structure and operation of the OS itself rather that details about an assortment of software installed on or a part of the OS

I haven't linuxed all month.

>>106340327
you better get linuxin

>>106340370
I got nothin to linux!

>>106340384
ah. well, could be worse.

don't mcdonald's self order kiosks run on linux?

>>106340310
This video is pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0

>>106337010
>To me the Windows font rendering looks significantly worse
So, you prefer to read "Le clel" in a blurry soup of squiggles instead of actual text with reasonable clarity?
This explains so many shit takes I see around here...ksxd2

>>106340024
mate ubuntu is kill

>>106340508
>blurry soup of squiggles
If we're talking about that gif, on my shitty phone the windows version looks better but on my laptop(2160x1600) the Linux version is sharper and more uniform. Things get a bit weird on a 24" 1080p screen, it has built in sharpening (probably some manufacturer tricks are at play because at 0 everything looks somewhat blurry compared to the other screen at the same res, set by default at 5 out of 10). At 2 the Linux version looks better but at 0 the windows version wins.
The weird i and the fact that it's smaller is annoying though.

>>106340310
Linux from scratch. Get to work anon lots of bootstrapping ahead of you

Are there tools to break Steam drm on linux? I use Greenluma on Windows.

>>106340423
>>106341166
Thank you for your input.

>>106340310
check out the linux programming interface

>>106337558
It's the version of Linux that's always just werked for me. Doesn't hold your hand, doesn't try to curate, just lets you use the PC as you want.

Ever since I started using Gentoo I feel like I haven't had as many issues
the LxQt file picker finally works, I don't know why it kept disappearing on Arch

is there a substantial difference between sticking your new user into sudoers, or sticking your new user into wheel then uncommenting wheel in sudoers?
I remember there was a difference if you wanted to run VMs and passthrough

>>106340024
If not yet, Canonical is working on it thanks to snaps...

>>106342108
All I know is, whenever I reinstall Debian, I have to remember to switch to root and give myself sudo privileges then log back in, whereas in Mint my initial user is sudoer by default.

I'm trying to reformat my usb drive but it doesn't show up when I run fdisk -l. It does show up in lsblk. I know the drive is good because I installed linux with it only a few days ago. When I plug it into my old mac I can reformat it easily with the disk utility software. What is the problem here?

snap-firefox-6626.mount is stopped.
Removing snap firefox and revision 6626
rm: cannot remove '/var/snap/firefox/common/host-hunspell/en_US.aff': Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove '/var/snap/firefox/common/host-hunspell/en_US.dic': Read-only file system


god why is snap so fucking retarded

>>106342866
>Snaps
Abandon Ubuntu and Canonical, they're trying to go full corp.

Btrfs
rpm-ostree
Arch Hurd
openrc

am i ready?

>>106343258
>btrfs
ngmi

Is changing your DE normally a simple and easy process or can it lead to headaches with things like the kernel and updates checking for the former DE that isnt there?

>>106342931
But do stick with Mint. You get the best of both worlds:

- Removal of corp crap.
- But you get all the professionally maintained security updates.

It's a very easy choice.

>>106343258

is openrc in winning?

>>106343701
>can it lead to headaches with things like the kernel and updates checking for the former DE that isnt there?
Unless you uninstall the old one it's still there anyway. Also, the kernel does not give a single care about DEs. Updates shouldn't either beyond them being normal packages. You might have put it in some configurations though.

>>106343258
>Arch Hurd

>>106343701
>can it lead to headaches with things like the kernel and updates checking for the former DE that isnt there?
No but a slight mess as having multiple text editors and calculators in your menus and stuff like that until you clean it up. Your DE in itself is "just a program", it's not crucial for booting and hardware and stuff.
It was a bit harder on Gentoo though as there's an extra dimension to consider but it went quite smoothly anyway. Switching from KDE to something GTK-based specifically.

>>106340508
If you actually saw what it looks like irl on my screen and not just on the gif on your screen, you'd see that the Linux version is indeed superior and more accurate. Especially color accurate.
Font rendering depends on your display tech, screen size, resolution, scaling and settings.

>blurry soup of squiggles
If anything I've only ever had issues with Windows being blurry. Linux always looked good on all displays I've ever had.

>>106338635
Mint with Timeshift

dumb question by computer illiterate but where do i get decent quality movies? most direct download links on teh internets rarely exist for the movies i want. these aren't any rare or obscure movies, mostly just classics from the 50's and up to the 90's.
is torrenting safe? i did it once as a kid in the 2000's and got a virus. any risk for viruses on my mint machine?
t. unsure where else to ask

>>106344574
Unironically /r/piracy has links to pirate movies.
I wouldn't worry about viruses as they'll be targeting wangblows users most likely, just don't open a file that ends in .sh and you'll be fine

>>106344609
ty desu. i'll give it a look.

>>106344574
>any risk for viruses on my mint machine?
Yes, if you run any executable or script. Stick to mp4, avi, mov, wmv, webm, flv, mkv. These are generally the most common video file types. Linux shows file extensions by default, so if you see anything else (especially if it's under 100MB) assume it's a virus. Don't install any "downloaders" or anything like that, just torrent files using a torrent client like qBitTorrent.

I personally get all my movies from yts.lt, but I watch movies maybe once or twice a year so I'm not really invested enough to know what the "best" source would be.

cool pic from 2017

what selinux policies do you recommend to activate for a regular casual user?

>>106344609
That subreddit's list of sites is curated to not include malicious ones. It's honestly a really neato resource.

dun a dumb and installed a python script without conda, now I get "FILE STRUCTURE/uv/env: No such file or directory" on bootup and every time I start terminal.
Its not crippling, just annoying, anything to refresh python to get rid of the warning?

>>106345637
Check your shell config, for example ~/.bashrc for anything related to python and remove it

>>106345674
Nail on head.
Googling sent me around a wild goose chase wanting me to reinstall python and whatnot.

>>106343709
Mint also gets you outdated/nonexistent drivers and shitty DE options

>>106344574
1. Install deluge or transmission
2. Open your tracker of choice (eg. Piratebay, 1337x, etc..)
3. Search for, and choose the movie you want. Make sure there are seeders.
4. Click magnet link and choose to open with deluge or transmission
5. Wait for the download to finish and right click the title in the downloader to open file location.
6. If you want to make sure its safe you right click and check properties. It should tell you it's a video file like mp4 or wav

>look up comparisons on single-disk ZFS vs single-disk BTRFS
>someone said that both BTRFS and ZFS save 2 copies of metadata, but only ever read evidence of it being a thing on ZFS
>look through the 'copies=2' examples of ZFS, leading to discovering the of equivalent as DUP mode on BTRFS
>DUP just specifies 2 data blocks and 2 metadata blocks
>the default settings on BTRFS was in fact 1 data 2 meta

>>106345714
My king name would be Elver Galarga

>>106345881
>Piratebay
lol

>>106345908
DUP on a single device doesn't really make much sense from a storage utilisation standpoint. You are having your usable disk space all for the slightest chance that the filesystem may be able to recover from an error. If the drive shits the bed you also still lose everything anyway, but that's stating the obvious.

>>106344574
Yea just use torrents. Its hard to find direct downloads since most people would rather just stream and thats pretty cheap now. You don't have to worry about viruses or anything only download video files and play them in your player of choice. If you download a program or some script just don't run it and delete it then find a new torrent.

>>106345032
>curated to not include malicious ones
kinda debatable

Anyone here daily-drive Arch with Hyprland for shit like web browsing and mpv and other basic shit?
I'm thinking about going over to it on my main laptop.
There are probably some vidya/piracy related homebrew applications that won't work in Wine but idc that much

If I'm using Arch + Hyprland, do I need to do anything to use my webcam in Microsoft Teams? I don't want to use it but every fucking hiring manager insists on it

>>106344574
You can also just use illegal streaming sites like 456movie, just make sure you have ublock origin.

>>106347488
>do I need to do anything to use my webcam
You could start by testing it.

>>106347604
you don't know how much of an asspain it is to move all my shit to a backup, install arch and test webcam, and then if it's not working, to reinstall winshit again and then all my programs
i used to also get mad at anons asking similar questions and now i get why they do some due diligence

>>106347996
I would also be interested in knowing if something works without ever trying it.

>>106348014
I guess it's a generic enough webcam that it will just werk and if it doesn't it probably means linux is still too shit at desktop and i'll just go back to winshit after a few hours of redoing my install

>>106347996
Why would you do something that retarded.

>>106347996
Then test using EndeavourOS live. It's a decent approximation of what Arch is like.

>>106348048
Well what else should I do

>>106324979 (OP)
>1
Best OSS alternative to ms office from your experience, anons? My needs are docx compaibility + WYSIWYG pdf export, and stable powerpoint (does not corrupt my files). I don't need fancy excel equations, just the basics AVERAGE, COUNT, etc.
Debian btw. No, libreoffice is no good.
>2
I tried connecting to HDMI projector at work, but got a black screen. Is there something I need to setup (kde/wayland)?

Why the fuck do my fonts stop being jagged and ugly when my computer enters suspend and turns off the monitor
I'm using a television for a display so I expect some issues but what the fuck

>>106347996
You could try running it in a vm and passing through the webcam to the vm to see if it'll work.

>>106347488
I've used my webcam on Arch before and it worked fine, though that was on GNOME Wayland, and it was using Google Meet instead of Microsoft Teams

>>106348723
reading into it on chatgpt, the webcam working is a feature of the kernel itself so i guess i'm wondering if it really does just work within any given distro, obviously arch is pretty vanilla
i guess i am worried that distros may inject their own gay shit in, like they sometimes do with fonts and other quirky shit

>>106348084
Live USB of literally any Linux distro. Pretty much all drivers are in the Linux kernel. And pretty much all webcams work fine.

>>106348280
OnlyOffice is the best open source office suite, but WPS (proprietary) is probably the most compatible with Microsoft's proprietary formats.

>>106348879
>OnlyOffice is the best open source office suite
OnlyOffice is dog shit that by design takes forever to load and save documents. Call me when it has a live word counter kek

>>106348879
WPS is CCP spyware
>>106348280
If you insist on not using LibreOffice (even though compatibility is great these days), then OnlyOffice is your only real open source alternative. There's also FreeOffice which isn't FOSS, as well as the Google Docs and MS Office Online

>>106347996
Give your ass to ubuntu, their live image will snap the pain away.
Bonus Microsoft and Canonical are working together, in such WSL comes with ubuntu for your everyday winblows job.

am I doing something wrong? I'm trying to subscribe to some Debian mailing lists and neither the web form nor sending a subscribe email to the request emails works

>>106349145
>even though compatibility is great these days
I still get documents that are distorted at best and totally broken at worst.
MS office is just such a shitshow.

I have an AMD GPU. During some recent updates (Fedora), I've noticed that there's some mentions of NVIDIA. Is that normal?

>>106348879
>>106349145
>OnlyOffice
Just tried it. It's a bit slow and has some quirks, but overall it is good and feels familiar so far. Thanks.
Any help with screen projection and Debian/KDE/Wayland? I initially thought it should be plug-n-play, but I get a black screen with no projector being detected in the display configuration.
I just want to know how to know what the problem is.

>>106349178
I've considered just going to Ubuntu. I have a lot of experience with Ubuntu/gnome and even if I didn't it's super fucking noob-tier.
I just want to see if I can get away with using a tiling wm. I'm experienced enough with linux at this point to just go for it and learn the papercuts along the way. I think I'll be okay.

[RPM] failed to open dir lib of /lib/: cpio: Unsafe symlink
can't install kernel updates on fedora because of 'unsafe symlinks' wtf who put those there

>>106349601
Me again. OnlyOffice feels very.. web-ish? There is also nothing advanced about those "advanced settings" lmao

>Power surge the other day
>Extreme packet loss today
>Fuck. Did it zap the WiFi adapter?
>Test linux-lts, same issue. Fuck.
>Windows Works. Windows Works?
>Downgrade kernel to 6.15.8
>Works
Fucking kernel maintainers, I swear to god. Every fucking time they backport their broken commits to LTS. Why do I bother keeping LTS around?

For any anons on 6.16.2 or any of the other points releases from the 20th (6.15 EOL release ayylmao) with an Intel adapter such as the AX210, downgrade if you're seeing connection issues.
https://packetlosstest.com/
Use the Apex profile and test for at least 20 seconds. If you get any significant actual *loss* and not just late packets, you've been hit by this.

>>106350321
Why did they break so much shit in the first place? I swear 10 years ago the kernel didn't break this often

>>106349905
Should've used the atomic version instead of regular fedora

>>106348280
>2
Traditionally you have to tell your system that it should use a display that you've just connected and whether it should extend, clone or whatever. Connecting is not enough to enable them by default, though it might get picked up automatically if it's connected when you turn on your pc. DE/distros might change this behavior or offer tools that do the job.
I can't tell you how it's done through KDE because I don't use it but I assume it works similarly, though you must have some gui that does the job
>>106349905
If you mean v6.15.10 from the updates repo I had no issues installing it, it does sound strange.

dunno how but that bloated as fuck notepadnext in the AUR blew up my install
bemenu was cool though

is there a stacking WM to try out that acts more like Explorer with corners and edges?

>>106350699
>dunno how but the AUR blew up my install
A classic.

me again:
>>106349905
>Installing a package that ships a file in a directory symlink that's owned by a non-root user results in a cpio unpacking error.
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/3100
So how on earth do I find which package I installed that has done such a thing? This whole installation only lasted about a month lmao
>>106350511
I even considered it

>>106349597
They bundle the open source drivers just in case anyone decides to plug in an Nvidia card so they aren't greeted by a black screen.

>>106350643
>whether it should extend, clone or whatever.
Yeah thanks. I found the meta+p KDE shortcut for display options (extend, unify, switch) and hopefully this'll work so I can remove windows entirely.

>>106350746
Alright, cool, makes sense.

>>106350699
Should've used the flatpak man
>corners and edges
AwesomeWM and WindowMaker support it, I've seen it on IceWM and Openbox but with scripts

>>106345973
kys

Now that Clear is down, Cachy is king, but why did it change its default (and therefore most effectively supported) FS from XFS to Btrfs? People use Cachy because it puts up good benchmarks—and XFS does exactly the same. Wouldn't the target demographic of both software projects overlap heavily?

>>106351154
Probably because Cachy breaks and BTRFS has simple to use snapshots.

t. person who refuses to ever use BTRFS again

My PC suddenly started to have these crashes. Often times I get visual lag and some audio crackling before it just locks up and then crashes. PC stays on, but all the leds of my pheripherals turn off.

Dmesg gives me nothing when it comes to the actual crash, how can I troubleshoot this? I'm on arch and this happens both on dwm and on openbox. On some days I can go without a crash.

>>106351335
Similar thing happened to me recently, GPU died a couple of days later

>>106351363
The exact same "symptoms"? Is there a way to know when it's coming, or atleast make assumptions. Like with harddrives (S.M.A.R.T)?

>>106325020
1. A wider selection of monitor resolutions/sizes became available, necessitating dynamic font size
2. UI design changed, requiring different font sizes, necessitating dynamic font size
3. Unicode support, which requires a lot of disk space and memory to support a large amount of characters. Truetype vector font compresses this data by having common shapes stored separately. Vector fonts also only store shapes, not pixels so they use far less disk space.
It might not seem as much data, but noto sans cjk font (chinese, japanese and korean) alone is 300mb of truetype vector data.

>>106351374
Visual lag, random freezes and crashes yeah but the PC would turn off completely and I didn't notice any audio stuff
>Is there a way to know when it's coming
Not really, you can check journalctl and dmesg after a crash or stress test with memtester or s-tui and check the temps

>>106351578
I was under the assumption that if my GPU was at fault, it would only drop me to a tty, or that would've made it make more sense to me? And journalctl, dmesg etc unfortunately show nothing after the crash :( I guess I should stress test it then.

>>106351505
GUI text editors able to change font size existed before 2000..

True unicode requires a bit more than ASCII.
But a shit implementation that uses vectors from "active" cache down to new meme file format, is the real pig.

>noto sans cjk font (chinese, japanese and korean) alone is 300mb of truetype vector data
Insanity

Why does Gnome like wasting screen real estate? They could put something useful there like a stock ticker, news, weather etc...but no...everything has to be under a hamburger menu somewhere. Why would you use it?

>>106352767
Just GNOME things.

Has anybody here managed to get Vegas Pro (any version) working? Inb4 set up a windows VM

>>106345714
Also, look up which script it was trying to run and check its shebang.

>ctrl+f
>qubes
>0 matches

New thread:
>>106354125

>>106347488
>Microsoft teams

Why are corps that would theoretically sell their own employees organs to save a few bucks still using Microsoft things, they could save thousands, possibly millions per year in licence and software fees by using FOSS alternatives.

>>106347996
Anon do...
Do you know what a Virtual Machine is...?

>>106348027
Forgive me anon, but you REALLY do not sound like an Arch user.
Between not just running a VM for Windows, or running an Arch VM on your windows machine to test it...
To kind of just "Giving up on Linux because it's too shit at desktop" when there are entire Arch forums, let alone linux/unix forums dedicated to desktop customization...

This just kinda screams new to Linux as a whole. And I am not saying this to be insulting, I'm saying all of this to suggest, then, that you try a beginner friendly distro like Mint that has almost every tool needed for beginners (including, very likely, common webcam drivers or easy ways to get them if not).

>>106348280
>1.
Oh! Libre Office--
>Sees you say it's no good
...why?

>>106348748
>chatgpt
Don't use that for advice.