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Previous thread: >>106534791

I cannot post from my fresh install because spyflare is confused or something.

>>106555107
If you're using an esoteric browser then maybe that's the problem

>>106555168
That too but I used the same one on my old install. Just werked. Its librewolf.

>>106554625
do other things run ok? are you actually using your gpu?
glxinfo | grep Device

>>106555182
maybe copy over your cookies if you want to side-step them trusting your browser again

>>106555192
Looks like I have to. But assuming that isn't a option, how am I expected to use the site if im new? All posts are just discarded and I always get the chapta with the dots which only used to happen on mobile as a one time thing.>>106555182

>>106555182
If I were you I would use a more mainstream browser like Firefox or, dare I say it, Chromium

I'm trying to download basedjakwiki (https://basedjakwiki.org/). I've tried with wget and httrack but it only downloads the index.html. Why this happens? How I can download the whole site?

>>106555220
if you have a throwaway email account, you could do a verify-by-email which 4chan supports. during the 15 minute timer bullshit i caved and made a proton account just for that.

>>106555222
I meant https://basedjakwiki.org/

I hate phoneposting so much. Who can type like this?

I have no thowaways and I don't want proton to ipban me or something and kill my other accounts. They do ban you nowadays for this right?

>>106555222
Because you're just saving the index.html file instead of recursively saving every resource the html file links to (css, js, images). Also, you're just saving the initial html file, but if the webpage is built client-side with JS then you won't have those DOM changes since they're not a part of the original html file.

Try using something like: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

>>106555227
>>106555238
Im old

>>106555238
getting banned on proton doesn't matter to me, since i've only used it for 4chan. i haven't needed to use it in a while either.
for what it's worth i'm using palemoon, which is probably the least mainstream browser still capable of posting on 4chan. like it was originally a fork of firefox, but it's been a hard fork for so long that it's practically a different browser.
>>106555248
i agree, i don't understand how someone can physically stand using a phone all day, unless they're seriously only watching video clips the whole time... which they probably are, the dopamine junkies

>>106555245
I downloaded it but can't figure out how to download whole website with this.

Can anyone recommend a tool or website that will let me compare which of my programs are cross compatible with Linux? Does such a thing exist? I'm getting really stressed about the Windows 10 support being shut off next month.

>>106555587
Grok
ChatGPT
Gemini
Claude
Google
Bing
Brave

>>106554941 (OP)
How to figure out if screen flickering is caused by something shorting inside my laptop or because of drivers or software?
I can't reproduce it by pressing right and left of the touchpad, where I usually rest my wrists. It just happens for a few seconds then goes away. I am scared of losing my setup.

>>106555587
https://alternativeto.net/ is a good way to check for linux support/alternatives

>>106555607
Boot other distro (or even windows) in live mode and mess around for a while to see if it happens. If it does it is hardware issue, if not software.

Aside from snap what is it with Ubuntu that annoys people? The release schedule is sane and gets you stability unlike rolling.

>>106555649
Snaps are more than enough but
>Canonical had epic chance to become a good guys but went a retard guy direction.
>inserted spyware
>Ignored users

>NVIDIA no longer makes Kepler drivers
>nouveau still supports Kepler and has support for newer Vulkan versions
Shouldn't that mean the nouvea driver is actually better for Keplers?

corrupted one of my drives
im dualbooting and i mount all drives through dolphin on startup
instead of shutting down my pc i put cachy to sleep and on next boot it refused to mount one of the drives
got it working again by running chkdsk under windows but this will probably happen again
how can i avoid this?

>>106555649
They're always trying to monetize end users because nobody pays for their enterprise shit. snaps are a symptom not the root cause.

How do I get a DNS list of all hostnames on the Internet?

I'm using Linux and want to do this somewhat simple task. Let's say I'm pretending to be a DNS server. How would I get this? Or even just some portion of it, lets say everything that starts with "p" like p.com, pp.net, ppp.org, etc. Do I download some DNS database? Maybe something from NextDNS or whatever service which isn't ISP/computer-default DNS or Google DNS or C1oudflre DNS?

>>106555649
Stability is just a byword for missing features and bug fixes.
With a rolling release you get all of the latest features and bug fixes before anyone else where as on a fixed release you have to wait for somebody to backport them.

Fixed release desktop distros are a trap. You think you want a fixed release but you don't. What you actually want is something that is always improving and getting better but with snapshots that you can rollback to when something breaks.

>>106555668
Don't dual boots windows or don't use same drives on both OS.
Use NTFS only for windows and ext or similar for Linux.
TO be clear it is a Windows issue not a Linux one.
I also have dual boot for certain games (which I haven't booted into 2 years lol) and it is on 1 SSD and does not even have access to other drives but on Linux I have access to windows one.

What's your favorite Linux distro?

>>106555708
Overall? Arch.

>>106555649
If you want similar release schedule there are many better option than Ubuntu.
Actually, Ubuntu is maybe THE worse option.

>>106555221
Librewolf is just firefox with better defaults

>>106555672
There's no public list of every domain on the Internet. The only way to know if a hostname exists is to query the DNS resolver for it.

>>106555182
Is it a new profile from scratch or did you copy over your ~/.librewolf folder?

>>106555705
>don't use same drives on both OS
yeah that kinda sucks, i dont want to reformat the drives cause there's so much shit on them and i also want to keep windows just in case
chatgpt told me to unmount the drives before suspending linux so im going to do that and hope that it doesnt corrupt again

>>106555708
Why do you think they're both paedos? I think Bill met Epstein or something, but what about Linus?

>>106555734
>There's no public list of every domain on the Internet.
Then how do trusted DNS servers around the world get the list or a large section of it? Maybe there's some outdated list which is archived. Maybe in archive.today ( donations at https://coindrop.to/archive and maybe also https://buymeacoffee.com/watersucks ).

>>106555779
Linus isn't part of the corrupt Trump elite. He's just a computer programmer.

>>106554941 (OP)
Who are these old men?

How to fix this?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/4815
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/blob/main/gtk/theme/Default/README?ref_type=heads

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>>106555712
Arch is great on so many levels but I didn't like using it due to instability

>>106555916
It's never been truly unstable for me. It's only unstable if you decide to use the testing repos.

>>106555672
I see quite a few here, but it's in an annoying format:
https://findmassleads.com/directory/websites/P

With Bash you can easily download many webpages, but that site may make it hard for someone to do that. Apparently it cost 10 USD to get a full list in CSV:
https://domainmetadata.com/pricing

>>106555920
Maybe I'll try it again soon

>>106555857
Maybe anon shouldn't have accused them both of being paedos without evidence

>>106555882
Leave

>>106555666
Pic for attention

>>106555960
well maybe, does it have reclocking?
keep in mind that even if nouveau is still adding features/maintaining a card, while nvidia isn't, doesn't mean it was competitive in the first place. not to put down nouveau of course.
on the other hand, if you literally can't use the nvidia driver because the last release is for an old kernel you don't want to use, then yes, nouveau becomes the best driver for that card

>>106555845
>Maybe there's some outdated list
yes, from more than 10 years ago:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:c89c9c891f7008e124e7382e605d04e3872e5541&dn=dnscensus2013&ws=https://archive.org/download/DNSCensus2013

>>106555845
>Then how do trusted DNS servers around the world get the list or a large section of it?
That's a misunderstanding on your part of how DNS actually works. It is pull not push. I suggest you read up on how it works but the TLDR is something like this:

>I want to know how to lookup example.com
>Query the root nameservers (dig . ANY
>Query one of these nameservers for the .com nameserver (dig com NS)
>Query the .com nameserver for the example.com nameserver (dig example.com NS)
>This name server is hosted at a.iana-servers.net. and b.iana-servers.net.
>Now we have to go lookup .net and iana-servers.net and b.iana-servers.net.
>Now we can actually ask that nameserver about example.com

And that's how DNS works.
If you have the bind-utils installed you can see this in action with dig +trace example.com

>>106555937
no u

>>106556038
I put this prompt into duck.ai:
>"There's no public list of every domain on the Internet." Then how do trusted DNS servers around the world get the list or a large section of it?
and it had an ok response.

Your response was helpful. I didn't know about "dig +trace example.com". I also ran this:
>dig . ANY
>;; communications error to 127.0.0.53#53: timed out
and
>dig com NS
>...com. ... b.gtld-servers.net.
>...com. ... f.gtld-servers.net.
>...com. ... g.gtld-servers.net.
and
>dig example.com NS
>...example.com. ... b.iana-servers.net.
>example.com. ... a.iana-servers.net.
>\ ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>a.iana-servers.net. ... A 199.43.135.53
>a.iana-servers.net. ... AAAA 2001:500:8f::53
>b.iana-servers.net. ... A 199.43.133.53
>b.iana-servers.net. ... AAAA 2001:500:8d::53

Interesting. Also here's some of what chatgpt said:
>When a domain is registered, the registrar updates the authoritative DNS servers with the domain's information, including its DNS records. This information is publicly accessible through WHOIS databases, which provide details about registered domains, including the domain name, registrar, registration dates, and contact information.
>Zone transfers (AXFR) allow DNS servers to replicate the DNS records of a domain from an authoritative server. typically used for backup and redundancy but can also be used by secondary DNS servers to obtain the latest records for a domain.
>However, zone transfers are usually restricted to authorized servers to prevent unauthorized access
>Recursive DNS resolvers (like those provided by ISPs or public DNS services) perform queries on behalf of clients. They start from the root servers and work their way down the hierarchy, caching results along the way. means they can build a substantial cache of domain names and their corresponding IP addresses over time
>Some public DNS services [=caching]
>Data Aggregation Services...
>no single DNS server or organization has a complete and up-to-date list of all domains

>>106556109
This is correct.

Hopefully you can see by this example why there is no single list of every possible hostname that could ever possibly exist on the Internet. DNS is hierarchical so the root nameservers know about TLDs like .com and .net, .com knows about domains registered with it like example.com but it only knows the nameserver that was registered with it, you then have to go and ask that nameserver (which is authoritative) about hostnames like www.example.com or shop.example.com, etc.

hello i am sending this from a linux mint bootable usb drive :)

Ok now i can finally post. Sup guys.

>>106556137
Make it a Fedora or CachyOS bootable drive instead

>>106556116
Running "dig +trace example.com" did show this as the first hop/node
>. ... a.root-servers.net.
>. ... d.root-servers.net.
>. ... g.root-servers.net.

And as you said, those root DNS servers know about all the top-level domains' DNS servers. The TLD DNSs know about the hostnames which are actual websites, like archive.is, ppp.org, nevergoon.shop, etc. Subdomains are up to the websites, so no DNS there, I think. Subdomains like logs.ppp.org and so on. So at each level the DNS only stores what's in its purview. Also, I think there's a bunch of DNS servers for .com, .net, and other TLDs. Some .com DNS servers know about example.com and others don't. The ones that don't tell you about other .com DNSs which may know about example.com's IP address.

>>106555649
>gets you stability
Not in the way it matters.
It's "stable" as in "the software APIs don't change", which is great of servers and many developers because you have to refactor and redeploy only once every 2-7 years, compared to having to do it at an unknown interval. Maintenance of your own software is cheaper on LTS systems, at least in short term.
BUT, it's not "stable" as in "there will be less bugs/crashes compared to rolling or semi-rolling release". Most bug fixes aren't backported unless it's some critical system utility causing crashes or regressions. Imagine you're using some desktop environment (or anything else), and the version that Ubuntu decided to freeze it at has some annoying bug. You're going to have to live with that bug for the next 2 years, compared to 0-6 months like you would on a non-LTS distro. Almost no developers out there are maintaining an arbitrary old version of their software. If you want bug fixes (actual stability), you're supposed to use the latest version. And if you prefer using an older version of something, you're supposed to manually pin that package or never update your appimage/flatpak or whatever else you use.

As for what annoys people, there's plenty of things Canonical did in the past which people disliked. For example, their application menu's search displayed Amazon ads (based on what you type, iirc) around 2012-2014.
Also, many people just hate GNOME and most people prefer either rolling release or 6-month release distros.

>>106556213
>So at each level the DNS only stores what's in its purview.
The genius thing about this is you can have different nameservers for different hostnames and effectively rent out part of your domain to someone else and allow them to manage it independently, so say you own example.com and you want to give your friend Bob his own domain at www.bobswebsite.co.example.com you can have your own .co.example.com nameserver and Bob can run his own authoritative DNS resolver to manage it.

This is how TLDs like .co.uk, etc, might conceivably work with .UK having a completely different nameserver to .CO.UK.

>>106555222
Go back, please zoom zoom.

>>106556353
I was never there to begin with.

>>106556305
So DNS servers do have records of hostnames/subdomains. Therefore, one nameserver (NS) would have
>www.bobswebsite.co.example.com
and another NS would have
>www.your-own.co.example.com
They would point to different IP addresses (Bob's and your own). Only the owner of example.com can register subdomains to DNS like that. So that's a case of giving out a site for free and you can run whatever service in there like Apache, nginx, etc. (Still gotta enable port forwarding though.) I wish there was some clearweb site that would allow me to do that for free: total control over the subdomain as if it was my own localhost:8080. I am running a .onion site (was running multiple ones). And you can reach me on IPFS at k51qz[...].ipns.dweb.link (or replace dweb.link with whatever gateway site), but neither of those are ideal. I have enough ETH to buy some .eth domain and as I understand you can point that to ipfs://, ipns://, or .onion (all of those don't require port forwarding), so that 5 USD/year is worth trying that to see if it works I guess.

>This is how TLDs like .co.uk, etc, might conceivably work with .UK having a completely different nameserver to .CO.UK.
Those TLDs which are /\.[a-z][a-z]\.[a-z][a-z]/ (regex). Not sure exactly what you mean here. Isn't there already [non-co].uk? Or if [non-co].uk could be registered by any one?

>>106556518
>>This is how TLDs like .co.uk, etc, might conceivably work with .UK having a completely different nameserver to .CO.UK.
>Those TLDs which are /\.[a-z][a-z]\.[a-z][a-z]/ (regex). Not sure exactly what you mean here. Isn't there already [non-co].uk? Or if [non-co].uk could be registered by any one?
I meant they could be run/managed by different people. It just so happens in this case it's the same people running it though.

^5 USD/year is how much a .eth domain cost

>>106555222
Ask in the IRC of https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/WikiTeam and someone may already have a full XML+images dump of that wiki in late 2025. Or, use ArchiveTeam's grab-site. Also ArchiveTeam's IRCs are Reddit-coded so screw them.

>>106555649
There's nothing wrong with snaps nowadays.
Ubuntu and variants are very good and all software you can think of is always tested and packaged for Ubuntu.

Valve forked Arch for their SteamOS but the Steam build used there is still the one for Ubuntu. Nobody is crazy enough to target the meme distros.

>>106556748
>Valve forked Arch for their SteamOS but the Steam build used there is still the one for Ubuntu. Nobody is crazy enough to target the meme distros.
You're being very y disingenuous here. That is done very deliberately to preserve the decades of backwards compatibility targeting that very specific old version of Ubuntu that native games used. You literally break games in some cases if you use steam-native instead of that very specific old version of Ubuntu runtime.

Bill has a small head.

>>106556748
Most projects are moving away from targeting distros and target flatpak runtime or appimage instead, or have a custom install script.

>>106556137
That's the first step, now you should install Linux on your boot drive

>>106556353
stupid frog

Any major changes or selling points to GNOME 49 coming out in 2 days?

>>106557148
I can't believe we're reaching GNOME 5 soon

>>106552223
Switch to x11 and use xrandr gamma option, for example: xrandr --output DP-1 --gamma 0.0:1.0:1.0 the gamma values are values for how much red:green:blue there should be

>>106557366
I meant: xrandr --output DP-1 --gamma 0.5:1.0:1.0

>>106556109
You dont need to dump the wall of text you got from aislop

RIP bcachefs

>>106557451
It's not going anywhere. Development won't stop just because it's getting the boot from the kernel.

>>106557466
Less people will care about it, use it and test it if it's outside the kernel.

Is zipping files with zip supposed to take an extremely long (30+ minutes) time for large multigig files? I wanna compress a file thats about 7 gigs but it feels like its going so slow

>>106557512
No. Sounds like write buffer overrun on cheap storage maybe.

>>106557512
That's pretty normal. You're compressing all those files. I think zip's compression method also isnt really efficient.

>>106557512
Higher compression rates require more time. If you have a file that's 4GB you'd usually have a compression time of 1-30 minutes, depending on your CPU, which compression rate you've selected and the speed of your internal storage.

>>106557578 forgot to add, considering your file is 7GB it's possible that it would take up to an hour, depending on your machine and compression ratio.

>>106557512
What kind of file do you have that's that large and worth compressing?

>>106557483
I'm not sure anyone cared about it, used it or tested it in the first place. Only recently the experimental label even came off of it. This is still a filesystem that won't eat your data but might have glaring bugs and issues. It's something only brave adventurous users should use and no distro has made it default yet like they have with other filesystems and outside of niche distros I'm not sure that'll ever change anytime soon.

>>106557512
if you didn't take it yourself and it's not an ISO it's probably already compressed or not compressable.

>>106557512
if you didn't tar it yourself and it's not an ISO it's probably already compressed or not compressable.

What cloud software (or just a tool to sync data) do you use? I'm using rclone with Google Drive, but I'm looking for more secure alternatives.

>>106557971
look into gocryptfs for encrypted cloud storage. you encrypt it and store it on their servers

>>106555649
Having security patches but not distributing them to all users is just fucking vile. Not even Microsoft does that.

>>106557571
Just for giggles I zipped 6.6G of videos on my phone and it completed in under 24 minutes. A PC with real storage should be better than twice as fast.

>>106557976
thanks

.bash_history-04278.tmp
.bash_history-15742.tmp
.bash_history-17027.tmp

What causes this? I get these files regulary since half a year or so

>>106558105
videos don't compress, they are already compressed through the codec they use

Do you have a plumbing command mapped to invoke actions based on current selection?
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=RlMxbQmMz_4
Seems very useful I'm looking for more examples for inspiration

>>106558400
do I have a what?

>>106558306
I wish I knew

>>106557971
Syncthing

>>106558306
What's your bash version and which terminal do you use?

Do you guys know how to debug launching steam games with proton? The debug log says a lot of processes are starting, then one process has the wrong pid, then all the game stop and doesnt work.

>>106558467
bash 5.2.15(1)-release
xfce4-terminal 1.0.4

>>106558498
launch the game from terminal
it will open up in steam and you click "launch" button and you see everything happening through the remote terminal. launch steam through it too.
#!/bin/bash

# Proton-GE path
PROTONDIR="$HOME/.steam/root/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton21-16"

# Force Proton-GE
export STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="$HOME/.steam/steamapps/compatdata/107410"
export STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="$HOME/.steam/root"
export PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1
export PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1

# Launch Arma 3 with direct server connect
steam -applaunch 107410 -connect= -port=

>>106558570
also if you are going this route youll need to basically delete everything else the game has downloaded to run, and from a fresh run, launch this to let it do its thing and setup.

>>106558622
dding process 17443 for gameID 1422450
Adding process 17444 for gameID 1422450
Adding process 17447 for gameID 1422450
Adding process 17449 for gameID 1422450
Adding process 17452 for gameID 1422450
Adding process 17461 for gameID 1422450
Adding process 17466 for gameID 1422450
Adding process 17473 for gameID 1422450
Adding process 17495 for gameID 1422450
Adding process 17518 for gameID 1422450
pid 17445 != 17444, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1422450]
Removing process 17518 for gameID 1422450
Removing process 17495 for gameID 1422450
Removing process 17473 for gameID 1422450
Removing process 17466 for gameID 1422450
Removing process 17461 for gameID 1422450

is all it says.

>>106556831
>Most projects are moving away from targeting distros
Sure, let me know where I can download the Oracle or Bitdefender flatpak or appimage.

>>106558570
best game ever by the way
unfortunately not popular anymore, if its cheap though snag it

>>106558042
But they do distribute them to all users for free, are you retarded?
Also, I'd be curious to know which set of 30k packages do YOU maintain for free for everyone for 12 years after release.

>>106558672
You need a pro account for that. It's not even free for everyone, and besides that some people just might not want yet another account they didn't ask for.

>>106558531
It's possible that your shell is crashing before cleaning up the tmp files. Normally these would be either in memory or in your /tmp for this reason, so whoever decided to store them in /home by default is retarded. I assume you're on Debian/Ubuntu since those are the only distros I've seen do this (at least a few years ago).
In any case, try checking out the Bash documentation and see if there's something you should change/remove from your default .bash_profile or .bashrc, since that's where this would be configured. Mine were completely empty by default and I'm not getting these tmp files at all. So I assume there must be some variable set on your distro's .bash_profile or .bashrc which controls this.

>>106558742
nta but I got these files since I built a new pc, and I copied my bash configs from the old system that doesn't have that problem.
I dunno what causes it, or how to get rid of the problem.
And no, this isn't Debian/Ubuntu.

LabWC is fucking amazing
>custom <regions> to snap/move/tile-to are readily definable (in % display)
>shared set of <actions> and <context> lets you do almost whatever the fuck through M/KB
>in particular, the ShowMenu action can stick customizable menus on everything (desktop/root, client/frame)
>dedicated per-(program-)window rules, can also just toggle decorations or "rollup" windows through menus/binds
>conditionals seem to allow setting automatic actions, with optional confirm prompts (haven't tried)
>can in fact tile to defined regions by pressing mod/super (again) while dragging windows (from Openbox or undocumented?)
the only real downsides is that Openbox-like stepped/modal/nested keybinds are in discussion but officially "out-of-scope", there is no pretty all-windows explode like Wayfire's "Scope"/GNOME's "Overview", and you can't burn resources on making windows (even just terminals) semi-transparent
also tried Wayfire, but you'd be at editing source to get the same level of custom [grid] and tiling on [move] plugins

>>106558742
I never have any crashing shells afaik and i believe non-interactive bashes don't create these files. Yes i'm on devuan (debian fork) btw.

>>106558672
$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled:
vlc-plugin-qt libvlc5 libzvbi-common vlc-data libvlccore9 libheif1 vlc
imagemagick python3-virtualenv vlc-bin vlc-l10n libopenexr-dev libavdevice58
fish ffmpeg libopenexr25 libpostproc55 libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra
vlc-plugin-samba libswscale-dev libavcodec58 libheif-examples
libmagickwand-6.q16-6 vlc-plugin-notify libavutil56 imagemagick-6.q16
libswscale5 libmagickcore-6.q16-6 vlc-plugin-access-extra libavutil-dev
vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-splitter libswresample3
imagemagick-6-common vlc-plugin-video-output libavformat58 libzvbi0
fish-common libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libde265-0 libvlc-bin
libswresample-dev vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-visualization libavfilter7
Learn more about Ubuntu Pro at https://ubuntu.com/pro

They have security patches that they are witholding from users unless you pay for Pro.
Ubuntu is a popular distro for servers and containers, so they are making the whole Internet less secure and holding it hostage.
Not even Microsoft does this, they still provide security updates even if you pirated Windows.

I'm thinking of buying a laptop with either no OS on it or some Linux disto and converting it to Arch. I want a GPU though and a cursory search didn't turn up something like that. Does anyone have any recommendations?
I know I could buy a windows machine and just uninstall windows but I don't want to indirectly pay for a windows license just to wipe it.

Is it possible to force APT to use https while on Mint distro? I had set sources to https but its still using http for some packages.
>>106555649
>Aside from snap what is it with Ubuntu that annoys people?
This aligns with my question. Don't understand why the devs would still be using http for something as critical as repositories.

>>106559053
What's wrong with http? You are using it to pull cryptographically signed packages

>>106558908
>ubuntu pro security updates
isn't this only if you're using the LTS version beyond it's intended support date?

>>106559013
>I don't want to indirectly pay for a windows license
Well, you'd be paying for it directly. All laptops that I've seen which come with Windows cost $80-$100 more compared to the same laptop without an OS or with Linux.
>any recommendations
Just pick whatever has an AMD GPU and CPU. Everything else like the screen, keyboard, battery size, etc. is completely up to your preferences.

Is there a commonly used simple way to benchmark a computer?
I don't care if it's not very scientific, this is just for fun. I don't want to autize with 100 different benchmarks like with geekbench. I just want a dead simple tool that gives a number (or two numbers, single thread and multithreaded)

>>106559092
>sn't this only if you're using the LTS version beyond it's intended support date?
No

>Brave crashes every time I open a folder with more than 20 bookmarks after the last update
It's fine if the folder only has 17 or fewer bookmarks. Going through the "bookmarks and lists" from the settings drop down menu and accessing the folder works without crashing. Only trying to open a folder with a lot of bookmarks directly from the bookmark bar causes crashes. Restarting the computer didn't help. Anything I can do about this?

>>106559122
journalctl -g BogoMIPS
May need sudo

>>106559122
Time to compile the Linux kernel in seconds using the default defconfig is a fun benchmark, albeit not a very scientific one.

You can compare building with all cores and a single core.

I gave up trying to find every missing .dll for fedora media writer to work

so Im using Rufus, do I want gpt or mbr option? the rest is a obvious default

>>106559206
there is no reason to use mbr these days anymore.

>>106559122
the ultimate benchmark, playing dwarf fortress

>>106558392
Yeah that makes the CPU and IO load worst case. zip doesn't check for incompressible data.

>>106559122
No. Very smart people sit around all day inventing new ways to troll simple benchmarks.

>>106559489
rar does. 7z kinda does.

>>106558702
So you want someone to work for free, for 12 years, but you won't bother with creating one free account which takes 2 minutes?
I'm curious which other company gives you the same benefits.

Also, you haven't answered the important part of my reply: what have you contributed to the community?

>>106558908
Which other distro provides 12 years of support for VLC, dumbass?

>>106559092
>isn't this only if you're using the LTS version beyond it's intended support date?
For packages in Main, yes. But packages in Universe were never covered by Ubuntu support, those are at the discretion of their maintainers and upstream to provide support.
So the retard is complaining that VLC, which is in Universe, doesn't get additional security patches for free from Canonical beyond what the upstream developers are willing to offer.

>>106559718
>Which other distro provides 12 years of support for VLC
like, any distro that existed for 12 years. Most just do regular updates to achieve this. Ubuntu protecting their users from evil version upgrades is their own damn stupid choice.

>>106559587
That wasn't the point of the experiment though.

>>106559090
>What's wrong with http? You are using it to pull cryptographically signed packages
Data sent through http is in plaintext, right? Was just asking if it is possible to enforce APT to use https for all data transfers or if it's not possible.

>>106559810
Sure but the data itself (deb packages) is encrypted and signed

i just wrote my own network mapper in c. i gave it a SYN flood option. i'm gonna add in a visual component

>>106558908
>Not even Microsoft does this
Yes they do retard. People running Home don't get IoT updates, and they have all kinds of bizarre extended support hoops the vast majority of people still using 10 don't know about.

Here's another mystic secret: You can just install the latest version from upstream. You don't have a vendor support agreement. You're only bound by your own stupidity.

>>106559718
>Which other distro provides 12 years of support for VLC, dumbass?
A distro shouldn't be in charge of distributing their own versions of 3rd party software. VLC themselves recommend to use Snap on Ubuntu, which I assume is being kept updated constantly unlike whatever Canonical has in their apt repo. While anyone else should use Flatpak.

>>106559893
>A distro shouldn't be in charge of distributing their own versions of 3rd party software.
Spicy take. Which distribution would you recommend that doesn't distribute their own versions of 3rd party software?

>>106559956
Literally any distro if all you use are Snaps, Flatpaks and Appimages. Clearly I'm talking about software that's unrelated to the underlying system and whatever DE a distro ships with. A media player has absolutely no reason to be maintained by a distro unless the actual distro is behind it. And last time I checked, Canonical aren't the ones making VLC despite both their logos being orange.

>>106559956
ios is the only thing that explicitly does.

>>106554081
im back

>made new partition
>spent hours dealing with fedora reader and the missing .dll
>gave up
>went back to rufus
>made the USB again, made it check for errors before and took a lot of time
>also do this
>>106559206
>>106559216
>choose gpt, since, I assume I left it as mbr before
>run the live os
>install in partition
>it fucking works now

ok so now in theory, I should be
OK by installing again from the live OS and again select everything to wip/relcaim space right?
or is there anything I should left untouched, maybe the recovery partition, dunno if that's windows or an actual HP thing that the latop NEEDS, maybe, Idont want to go trhough another 4-6 hours of reinstalling to factorydefault
but I want that whole HDD space since im stuck wth 600~gb for now and no point in keeping that windows 8.1 installed

>>106560125
>fedora media writer
>rufus
Bro, in future just use Etcher like everyone else. It just works.
>maybe the recovery partition
A recovery partition is related to your Windows install, I believe. If you're planning on completely removing Windows from your drive then there's no point in keeping it.

>>106560193
So I can safely just select delete everything,again?

i broke VR on my system by installing a bunch of random vr shit to get a porn game to run
what is the best course of action now? uninstall all vr related shit and reinstall it? killing myself?

Stupid question, how do I run games from DL site that I get from Nyaa on Linux? or stuff like Koikatu, Artificial Academy etc
Wine?
basically non Steam stuff

>>106560233
Yes

>>106560265
https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.usebottles.bottles

>>106560286
thanks bro, I appreciate, ill test that

>>106560300
>>106560286
and now I assume I need to figure out JP locale kek, ill do that later, need some food first

>>106560429
Pretty sure you can install Asian fonts in the "dependencies" section of your bottle.

>>106560286
>flathub.org/en/apps/com.usebottles.bottles
I think I just got AIDS from that URL.

>>106559893
The VLC flatpak is unofficial though.

>>106560936
The same technically applies to the repos of all distros, since it's not managed by VLC devs.

Gentoo with systemd doesn't do DHCP, IPv4 nor IPv6.
Failed to configure DHCPv6 client: No such file or directory
I swear a Gentoo setup did this last time I tried it but got it fixed SOMEHOW. What do?

>>106561343
>Gentoo
Why do you do this to yourself?

>>106561383
Got billion CPU cores and RAMs and messing with it for the lulz.

>>106557445
>You dont need to dump the wall of text you got from aislop
I could have spent more effort on better quality info, but I *think* that text is true and without falsehoods. It helped me understand it or refreshed my memory.

>>106557451
I watched the first 13 minutes of this video; bcachefs dev was in disharmony with the other kernel devs, somewhat interesting:
https://looptube.io/?videoId=5UTjPgScOO0

>>106557712
>[bcachefs is] something only brave adventurous users should use and no distro has made it default yet
Thinking of use cases. If someone's interested, they could use it as an excuse to make their data redundant. Like "I have this data in one HDD of whatever usual fs and I have that same data also in this other HDD which uses bcachefs".

>>106561343
Gentoo is a meme distro anon...

Anything on Linux that can emulate DOS games, has reasonable UI and features like save states?

>>106561674
Tried DOSBox?

>>106561810
Does it have save states?

>>106561843
DOSBox-X has save states:
https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.dosbox_x.DOSBox-X

Ignore the fact that flathub lists it as unverified, the official website literally lists the flatpak as the primary Linux package:
https://dosbox-x.com/

>>106561065
Yeah, but who is managing the Flatpak?

>>106561892
I am. And I added 20 different backdoors to it. Most of them trigger only when you use the save state function because saving games where it's unintended to do so is cheating.

>>106561343
it doesn't install network manager for you why don't you install arch first they will walk you through actually setting the OS up for yourself.

>>106561887
I tried dosbox-staging before but apparently it didn't have save states.
This one does, thanks

how does QEMU/KVM handle multiple drives?
say I'm intending to passthrough an existing Win10 drive for the first time plus 3 SATA and 2 SAS on a HBA, will Windows sort them out if I just present them all to the VM, or will I have to manually assign letters/IDs before firing it up?

So I've been installing stuff on Linux and testing stuff I couldn't being stuck on windows 8.1
Any reccomended player for watching animu?
tried VLC and
>LMAO CANT PLAY HEVC
for fucks sake Codec Community Pack MPC carried me for 15 years until now lol, so dunno about other options

>>106562452
mpv

>>106562452
SMPlayer with mpv backend.
i.e. actually usable mpv with sane defaults.

>>106562266
If you pass through the entire controller it will work like on bare metal. If you pass whole individual drives as virtual drives then some functionality (like SMART or TRIM) may not be available in the VM.

>>106562266
just fucking do it faggot

>>106562465
and now I have sound but no video
>>106562474
ill check that

>>106562452
mpv is pretty much the standard video player

>>106562506
>and now I have sound but no video
Try installing the flatpak version. It's possible that your distro fucked up packaging it.

>>106562528
>Try installing the flatpak version.
uh, where/how do I do that

i need to install linux again but don't know which distro to pick. i had archlinux. i am interested in debian but it seems very political which is not my thing.

>>106562506
>and now I have sound but no video
interesting, you might need to install something for that (but dunno what, it just works for me)

>>106562550
https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.mpv.Mpv

>>106562597
What are you looking for in a distro?

>>106562490
https://youtu.be/tAb7OID5lt8

>>106562597
>it seems very political which is not my thing.
seems to be totally your thing if you'd choose your distro based on it.

>>106562713
GOTTEM

>>106562642
no bloat like office pre installed so no distributions like ubuntu or opensuse that are full stuffed out of the box. i need a skeleton to build upon. debian would have done well i think.

how tf do you remap a key im retarded
im on debian 12 (stable), kde, wayland
I wan't to press [ ` ] to output [ d ]

seems simple but im stumped

>>106562754
The only real options you have are Arch, Debian and Fedora. Everything else is sadly a meme or probably too bloated for you. Other relevant bare bones distros are just based on one of these three. The only other thing you can decide on is if you'll pick whatever their immutable/semi-immutable option is, since immutable distros are getting a lot of attention lately. In which case Ubuntu Core is also an option if you really love snaps for some reason.

export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="cff:no-stem-darkening=0.0 autofitter:no-stem-darkening=0.0"
Yes or no?

>>106562754
debian should be fine. Arch or Gentoo can be fine too. Just what those bloated distros are based on are your best bet.

>>106562826
>>106562842
what about nixos?

>>106562824
I'm not using debian but i believe evremap should work ?

>>106562845
never used it, but i guess it can be good too if you like the package manager

>>106562851
Unable to locate package evremap
surely theres got to be at least one remapping tool in the stable repos fml

>>106562872
I only know evremap from arch. You probably can get it from the git. And there are a bunch of similar programs, look at the input mapping utility arch wiki page, if you're lucky enough one of them will be in the debian stable repo

>>106562824
For actual key re-mapping on KDE you're supposed to create your own keyboard layout from what I remember.
>I&O > Keyboard > Add > A user-defined custom layout
But it's been a few years since I've last done this so maybe it changed. From the looks of it it's similar, I just can't find a way to edit the layout on my machine. But I'm on a pretty minimal KDE install so maybe I'm missing a package.

>>106562845
I personally don't like the idea of overly strict immutability defined by config files. And having to edit config files just to install software sounds extremely inconvenient to me. Mainly because I'm an actual dev and the last thing I want to do with my PC is turn it into another job.
That being said, my opinions on it are primarily based on what I've seen other users and their developers say about it. I haven't used it. I guess if their package manager handles all the config file bullshit I might give it a try.

can I get sway to look as nice as hyprland? kinda getting tired of hyprland because of the constant lockups when I'm trying to watch a video in mpv. happened to me multiple times now and never seems to happen when I watch mpv in sway.

>>106562940
check fluix-dev/dotfiles on GitHub, I think he's got some nice stuff going on

>>106562964
thank

>>106562839
desu I can't tell any difference with this on, even when pixel peeping

Is there any possible future for something like desktop mate/mate engine in any DE? I don't care that it's bloat I just want Migu hanging out in my screen and it's the only thing I miss after switching from windows.

>>106563089
There is wayland-vpets, that should work with most wayland compositors. There probably are others tho

>>106562452
>Just had to reinstall Fedora, again, because it now refused to boot
dunno what I did, but now I just decided to download all the updates and reboot first,and it actually showed a instaling updates % bar, so I assume I fucked up by not doing that first, at least I only had installed browsers and Proton VPN, and did not touch any of my back up files on my external yet, now im scared of it fucking up again to move anything here lel

>>106563089
we had that back in 2010 or so, I remember having chiby Ritsu hanging on my screen, dunno why that died out quickly back then

>>106561970
>NetworkManager
ick
Using systemd-networkd and afaik it is enabled and running.
[Match]
Name=enp2s0
[Network]
DHCP=ipv4

>>106554941 (OP)
Tried to install flatpack it nuked my pacman after fixing it and downloading libraries back it nuked my flatpack. Why is Arch like this ?

>>106564116
Post logs. That shouldn't even be possible.

>>106563233
>>106563832
Yeah that's definitely the 2010s style chibi desktop pet. I think along the line of shimeji(?), I forgot the name exactly but custom sprites of those chibis are popular in deviantart back then.
https://github.com/shinyflvre/Mate-Engine desktop mate/mate engine/other variants are a more modern take that can use 3D model, importing custom VRM models and all that. With some effort you can get closer to an AI assistant waifu connecting it to a LM API key etc so it can speak and react to music and whatever else.
I guess there's nothing yet for unix that gets close to that which is unfortunate. I'll try and use the vpet for some rice though it still looks cute if I can gen some custom sprites. Thanks bros.

How do I configure bash to always auto complete filenames? Some configurations don't do it if bash thinks that a command doesn't expect a filename (which works badly and is bullshit).
Also, in some configurations, bash won't always show auto-complete configurations. The same machine with different user accounts will not show auto completion hints for something like "ls *foo*<tab>" even if files with "foo" in it exist in the current directory, while others do. I can't find the difference in configuration.

>>106564134
Switch to Zsh, it's practically identical to Bash (except for some missing features) but has way better tab completion.

>>106564147
>it's practically identical to Bash
Is it really? Is there a zsh guide for users who really want bash-but-better?

>>106561343
works for me, are you using systemd-networkd or something else?

>>106564158
Just install it and use it. I like using https://grml.org/zsh/ for a sane default config.

You can go down the plugin manager rabbit hole if you want to.

The Arch Wiki also has a page on it:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zsh

For most part things like aliases, environment variables, functions, etc, are not that much different to Bash. You can also load and use bash-completions within Zsh for anything that doesn't have a Zsh specific completion.

>>106562597
>i need to install linux again
why?

>>106564186
I just tried zsh with default configuration. When I do "*foo*<tab>" it inserts all expansions of "*foo*" on the command line. This is even less of what I want.

>>106562597
>it seems very political
Examples of political things that affect debian systems? I haven't noticed any yet.

>>106564206
It expands globs, yes. You can turn that off.
https://superuser.com/questions/669643/prevent-zsh-from-trying-to-expand-everything

It's a lot smarter with completing filenames though. Try something like:
mpv --no-vid ./.mp3<Tab>


You should get a very nice list to tab complete mp3 files in the current directory.

>>106564134
apt purge bash-completion is the first thing i do after an install. I hate it so much that i don't even try to configure it

>>106564233
>>106564206
If you were typing foo* for files like that, in most cases you just type foo<Tab> instead.

>>106564257
There may be multiple globs like foo*bar??*cocks.

>>106564298
At that point you should probably use something like Fzf to fuzzy complete your gay porn collection.

>>106563089
You can run Desktop Goose in WINE and it will walk around your DE, spawn windows and interact with your cursor. There's no reason why this wouldn't be possible to do natively.

Well, to be fair, it doesn't really work well on Wayland now that I've tried it. It completely hijacks the screen by spawning an invisible overlay window and the goose flickers constantly.
However, on X11 it works pretty much flawlessly. So it looks like these things will never be possible if Wayland is the future of Linux, unless Wayland devs work this feature into the protocol (they won't see a reason to).

Link related
https://samperson.itch.io/desktop-goose

>>106564394
We already have layer-shell which everything except GNOME supports and >>106563233 mentioned wayland-vpets.

This stuff is possible it just has to read keyboard and mouse information directly and has no information about window placement, etc (some of these pets applications would sit on top of titlebars, etc, and that sort of thing will probably be difficult to achieve in a Wayland environment).

>>106564464
>wayland-vpets
I'm sorry, anon. But if it's not on GNOME and doesn't have a Flatpak or Appimage it doesn't exist to me.

>>106564509
Well maybe you should bug the GNOME Mutter developers to add support for it.
https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1

>>106564520
There's no way people who don't want to implement a system tray will ever care about this.
>Weston doesn't support it
The fuck? I thought it was supposed to be the "Wayland standard"? Is KWin now a reference implementation or did wms just stop giving a shit about Wayland/Weston and start implementing features in spite of Wayland?

>>106564563
Weston was basically meant to be a reference as in for the core Wayland protocol. It largely still is. There's a lot of extensions they don't implement for other stuff though.

You could call KWin a reference desktop compositor, as in it supports all of the things a real world desktop would want or need, yes.

Weston was never something that was meant to be actually used for real. It's a sanity check for people writing Wayland clients or compositor to check against since Weston's behaviour is usually correct.

>>106564584
>>106564563
Also Weston itself has even stopped referring to itself as a reference now which is humorous:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/-/merge_requests/1014

Is there a reason Vulkan is disabled on Sway on Arch?
Like there's a warning after you exit Sway
warning(gtk): setting GDK_DISABLE=gles-api,vulkan

>>106564158
Skip zsh and go straight to fish, it's like what zsh was to bash. A real evolution.

>>106564659
This looks like it's coming from a GTK app, not Sway. I think OpenGL is still the default backend so this is normal, that or the app knows that Vulkan is problematic so it disabled it itself?

>>106564673
I'd only do that if you don't want a POSIX / Bash-like shell. Fish is too radically different whereas you can come from Bash to Zsh relatively easily.

>>106564693
POSIX and Bash isn't important anymore.
No one fucking uses scripts post-sysd

>>106564716
You don't actually use your shell if you don't script.

>>106564563
>>106564584
>>106564608
Wayland is such a joke, holy shit.

What happened to /fag/?

>>106564673
>fish
What that the one which requires a demon to run?

>>106564563
Weston is a RedHat product. It won't implement anything GNOME doesn't want. Wayland is settled enough now that new protocol extensions will just show up in the compositor that wants to use them, like GPU API extensions.

>>106564197
stayed too long without updating.

>>106564716
systemd calls shell scripts all the time. Distros are still glued together with them.

There's no reason you can't have your own user shell, but learning them is a waste of time because none of them do anything bash can't, and bash is the standard.

>>106564970
i've updated a 2 year old arch install, and a 3 year old gentoo install. how much older was yours?

>>106564801
i didn't notice it was gone, maybe you should ask sqt

daily reminder that linux is shovelware.

>>106564801
>>106565136
gets flooded with scat every time or copy pasta spam from apple support forums

>>106565140
and you iNiggers deserve it >>106565176

>>106564931
Wayland was supposed to be making everything extensions instead of the core. But the thing is, extensions are not officially merged unless Red Hat wants them. Everything else gets discussed to death using the most stupid and most theoretical arguments they can come up with. Trying to get a protocol extension merged is like fighting bureaucracy where the bureaucrats are power tripping. And even if it gets merged, Gnome sees no reason to support it.

>>106565262
They get merged now but under an ext- label instead of xdg- which has a high bar to entry. So all the sensible desktops like KDE and the various other compositors can get their stuff merged while GNOME argues about whether external panels and shell components is even something they want to support (they don't).

>>106565285
Did explicit window placement get merged yet, or are they still discussing about hypothetical VR wayland servers?

>>106565303
I think they decided against it because it's not in keeping with spirit of the Wayland protocol and gives clients too much control. They came up with ext- zones instead which should meet the needs of things like scientific applications.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/264

KWin has an implementation in progress here:
https://invent.kde.org/automotive/kwin-zones

Trying to install Linux
I created my bootable USB using Rufus, but when I get to my UEFI firmware settings, it doesn't show up.

Tried I wiped my USB, tried adding partitions, but nothing is fucking working.

There's an option in UEFI that says "File Browser add boot option" do I use this? If so which file would I choose?

>>106565764
Have you turned off fast boot and secure boot? I helped someone recently who had a secure boot option for "other OS" and changing to that setting seemed to have fixed it. I also prefer and recommend ventoy over rufus

>>106565262
So exactly like GPU APIs then.

I got another monitor that has a usb-c and audio output. I have it connected to my pc via hdmi, but I'm not getting anything with the usb-c nor audio.
Is there something I can do to get them to work? On endeavorOS

>>106566101
The fuck is an usb output on a monitor? Sure it's not an input?

>>106566122
yeah thats what I meant.
Audio wasn't working because I had HDMI output disabled

>>106566101
Try reading the manual. USB-C output almost certainly doesn't work without DisplayPort. Audio might be a GPU driver issue. Consult the Arch wiki.

>>106558849
what openbox theme is that? (the titlebar)

>>106562597
There's no real escape, Arch also does the rainbow logo thing during that month. You can use their no-systemd forks that dont do that stuff but you'll still be dependent on upstream

Can i get a virus on flathub?

>>106564213
they want you to keep your debian "pure". how long before they add xlibre, for example?

https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

>>106566513
is this page supposed to be examples of politics in debian?

>>106566608
answer my question first.

>>106564673
Fish isnt posix compliant

>>106566513
>added 2014
Whatever you're trying to say, you're retarded.

Windows 10 wont boot my linux mint
>create bootable usb
>go to UEFI menu's boot option
>Linux ain't there
>redo/reformatmy usb twice
>even redownload Linux mint 22.2 iso at a different source
>check shasums
>try booting grubx64 directly and disabling secure boot
>it gets to the linux menu but it still won't boot
>try compatability mode
>wait 1 hour
>the boot messages go on a loop
genuinely, wtf am I doing wrong? Is it because I debloated my windows?

>>106567302
windows has nothing to do with it
what are you making the stick with? try using rufus

>>106567326
I'm using Rufus.
I tried adding 5GB of partition but it still won't work.
I got a "Invalid Signature" when I tried booting.(with Secure boot enabled). I did check the shasums.

>>106566437
Theoretically, yes, you can get a virus from anywhere. Don't install software if you're that paranoid. In theory the sandboxing of Flatpak would at least help mitigate the impact of any potential virus.

What do you guys use to manage comics now? Used to do YACReader Library but it's been acting up on me and doesn't cut it anymore.

>>106567302
I FIXED IT
>remove quiet and splash from command line

i wrote my own network tool to spam syn flags to everything on open ports in c.

>>106567894
>retarded frog poster discovers raw sockets

>>106567910
that's the next step, i went to register random dhcp ip's with the local network and spam them randomnly

>>106567928
>DoSing DHCP
fascinating. truly something I might have done when I was 13.

>>106568014
im having fun though.

>>106567928
That'll teach them to have such a long lease time! Now go and join an IPv6 network and spam router announcements to pretend to be a router and break everything. I did that by accident once by mis-configuring Radvd.

>>106567302
Nvidia?

I'll have to use proteus this semester but running it on wine is too sluggish adding components or zooming have a annoying delay.
Any experienced anon know how to make it faster? the console just throw a bunch of 2d2 errors so maybe just skill issue

ive created a small program in C to automate recoding with gpu-screen-recorder and I don't know why but it creates monstrous fucking files like 200mb+ for 20seconds of recording
when i run the same command from shell it creates small files
when i run the same command using system as first line after main it creates small files
what the hell

what is 'swap' in this case when i have zram? Just total memory handed to it or actual memory savings caused by compression?
Btop only reports the 'Used Physical memory' also.

>>106569069
And here is what zramctl reports.

>>106569058
Uncompressed, probably.

why does my cursor stutter in 1 second intervals on startup
it goes away after 10-15 minutes

>>106569119
Using zram for swapfiles is dumb, it's a generic ramdisk with compression.

>>106569177
How is compressing data that would otherwise fill up the RAM and not be really used often a stupid idea? I think that even windows does this by default.

>>106569195
Really? Swap is for shit that isn't in active use, putting it on a zram ramdisk means it stays in memory.
Stop reinventing zswap and just use fucking zswap.

>>cat /etc/vconsole.conf
>FONT=ter-132n
i can see the larger font size on the flashing "_" when i hit reboot. I can also see the larger font size when I run setfont ter-132n or ter132b after login. But when i land on the actual login in the tty, it has the defualt, small font. On arch, please help me bros...... how can i get a comfy tty login font size

>>106569257
>putting it on a zram ramdisk means it stays in memory.
yeah but it takes still a lot less space and the SSD remains untouched. If it works well enough why change it? What benefit would i have from more traditional swap?

What's the current best way to get Firefox on Debian? It's the generic tar binary from their site self updating? I have heard their APT repo lags behind sometimes. No, I don't want ESR, it's even more broken on modern sites. If I wanted something lightweight I'd use Dillo, or Male poon for video support. I considered the Flatpak as an option, but I need some extensions with Native Host integration like VideoDownloadHelper.

>>106555238
>>106555268
I dont get it, WHY would Proton ban you?
VPN abuse?

>>106569401
proton mail would get put on some tempmail list so services don't have to deal with spam accounts. So to prevent this its against their TOS to make accounts just for authentication codes/logins and i have heard about accounts being immediately banned if that is the first thing they do after being made.

>>106569447
oh I see, just use 10 min mail services then, if that's not possible then fuck that website
I made my proton just for free VPN, I do plan to move my e-hentai account there, just to not have it on my main mail account anymore, I did lose the 10 word pdf thing in a Linux crash I had to reinstall everything from scratch so dunno,

>>106562636
Hey bro, thanks, it now works fine, and hopefully it stays that way
I can now catch up with my animu

>>106569058
By default it records in constant quality, so if there is little motion, such as static desktop (easily compressible) then the video is small. If there is a lot motion (such as first person 3d games) (not easily compressible) then the video is large. If you want to guarantee a small file size at the cost of quality in motion then use the -bm cbr -q 5000 option for constant file size instead. -bm cbr means bitrate mode = constant bitrate and -q 5000 is the quality (bitrate) in kbps.

>>106569523
>oh I see, just use 10 min mail services then, if that's not possible then fuck that website
Fuck 4chan I guess

>>106569738
not once have I ever used a mail in here, even deleting everything or ona private windows its a 120 seconds wait the first time,

>>106569328
>yeah but it takes still a lot less space and the SSD remains untouched.
Irrelevant, you can disable zswap writeback. And still use it with a swap device if you want hibernation.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Disable_zswap_writeback_to_use_the_swap_space_only_for_hibernation

>>106569603
>and it just crashed now
kek, spoke too soon, dunno if its because, amybe its using my CPU and not my GPU, dunno where to check, any help? its a old laptop, but I know it can deal with it just fine

back to using Linux (Arch, btw) after a couple years on Windows :3 pretty smooth setup so far, only had issues with my printer but finally got that to work.

what did I miss in the linux world in the last couple years?

>>106569864
Probably some DE upgrades, using proton instead of dxvk to play games, local AI models perhaps

>>106569362
Might as well use flatpak or snapd, and doesn't yt-dlp do the same thing as that extension?

I have a 2014 macbook stuck in big sur that will lose support for chromium-based apps soon. Is there a distro that offers the following out of the box (or that at least can be installed and configured woth ease)?
>wifi drivers (I heard linux has issues with broadcom)
>multitouch support (for gestures with 3-4 fingers)
>spotlight-like features (searching through the content of files, applying filters, quick calculator and unit converter, https://support.apple.com/guide/macbook-air/spotlight-apd10f8d1038/mac)
>preview alternative (it can open pdf images and do basic edition, convert files, merge/split pdf pages, https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/welcome/mac)
>quick look alternative (it can preview images, audio, video, pdf, word/pp/excel, text, html pages and other formats by simply pressing the space bar, https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/preview-a-file-mh14119/mac)
>a wineskin/sikarugir alternative (a GUI to make wine wrappers, https://github.com/Sikarugir-App)

>swap my gpu for a nvidia card that a friend asked to check if it even works
>install nvidia drivers
>chromium and electron stuff like steam locks rendering to 60hz on a 144hz monitor
how hard it is to get their shit together? aren't they swimming in cash right now

>>106569776
>This allows to use zswap just like zram with the added benefit of supporting hibernation
zramlets on notice

can anyone point me to a guide on how to make a read-only Linux install? I tried following this article to make union filesystem with tmpfs for writes and upon booting I was dropped into the initramfs shell which is obviously not expected behavior.

article: https://www.onlogic.com/blog/how-to-build-a-read-only-linux-system/

Help?
trying to make MPV to use my GPU to play video gives me this

>>106569967
https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
but the end for x86_64 macs is near

Why does Kent O act and type completely normal on the Phoronix forums then go apeshit in the Linux kernel mailing list? Jesus man get it together

>>106570210
install Flatseal and give mpv permissions until it works

>>106569916
There're some sites yt-dlp can't work around but this extension can. Don't ask me why cause I have no idea.

>>106570308
>give mpv permissions until it works

Ok I have no idea what to ask, where to ask this or where to find this but: when I scroll now using my touch pad its like playing with a toy car or something. I scroll then the page moves like up or down with inertia until it slows down, due to air resistance or whatever. It used to be that when I stopped scrolling with my fingers it would just STOP SCROLLING. Wtf is this feature called and where do I find it? because its not scroll acceleration and its not scroll speed and there is nothing else to change. I'm using kde plasma.

>>106566205
it's just #E05050 active and #F0B0B0 inactive in the order of [icon,menu:shade,max,close]
wanted to copy the contrast of this but I'm too lazy

>>106570308
it aint working cap

>>106570302
Because Moronix sucks his dick constantly. Completely inverted priorities. Guys like that never make anything good.

>>106570680
damn bro idk. use mpv from your package manager's repo why you gotta use flatpak

>>106570797
because it wont play any video,only audio, if I download the fedora one

>>106558849
>>dedicated per-(program-)window rules, can also just toggle decorations or "rollup" windows through menus/binds
>conditionals seem to allow setting automatic actions, with optional confirm prompts (haven't tried)
>mfw
Stop I beg you, i need to justify myself from sticking with this install...
I like Dolphin and it already pulls half of Plasma as dependencies NOOOOO MY WEEKEND

I have a bit of a problem with bluetooth on my system journalctl shows:
Sep 12 20:43:40 jyuware dbus-broker[1296]: A security policy denied :1.5 t
o send method call /midi/profile:org.bluez.GattProfile1.Release to
:1.31.
Sep 12 20:43:40 jyuware systemd[1]: Stopped target Bluetooth Support.
Sep 12 20:43:40 jyuware waybar[2113]: [2025-09-12 20:43:40.329] [warning] no bluetooth c
ontroller found
Sep 12 20:43:40 jyuware waybar[2113]: [2025-09-12 20:43:40.362] [warning] no bluetooth c
ontroller found
Sep 12 20:43:40 jyuware waybar[2113]: [2025-09-12 20:43:40.375] [warning] no bluetooth c
ontroller found

I don't know what else to do with this as searching for similar cases brings up red hat threads locked behind a paywall

>>106570302
Phoronix is a dumb circlejerk site.

has anyone installed arch linux like this?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_from_existing_Linux#Creating_a_chroot

>unresponsive program
>go to system monitor and kill like 1000 times
>nothing happens
wow great design dweebs

>>106570998
System monitor is just some program some regular user is running, it can't do wonders.
Kill the program as root.

>>106571022
I tried that. Pkill, killall sudo with both, the process name, the pid, everything.

>>106570797
>>106570814
nvm I now see it's working I was trying to move options on the mpv app, while the flatseal apparently is already working

>Years of being blackmailed about Linux looking like shit
>Look inside
>Windows 11's dark mode looks worse than a colorscheme generated by the rather buggy Kvantum
Only objectively weaker point are the fonts, but that's easily tweaked.
Anyways, where does Plasma stores its colorschemes?

>>106571129
>fonts
Get a UHD screen already, makes the whole thing a non issue. Rendering fonts nicely on a low resolution screen was always a weak point of Linux.

>>106571212
It works fine on low end screens, too, thanks to Gayland.

>>106572060
>>106572060
>>106572060
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