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Previous thread: >>106627408

im on a paranoid streak and the fact that any random fucking program can just read my ssh keys is driving me insane

>>106639029
tpm 'em

>Timeshift backup
>Personal files on external drive
>Windows dual-boot OS on a separate physical drive
>Fallback laptop if somehow everything goes south
Everything is going to be fine. Just take a deep breathe, and relax....
...Okay.

"Main computer. Begin Operation In-Place Upgrade: Linux Mint 22.2 Zara.
...and....Execute!"

>dummy plug hasn't arrived yet
>weekend has started

>>106639317
Damage Report!
>Sir, all our tests show systems are operating at full capacity! Everything is in perfect working condition!
Mission accomplished. Ensign, bring the alert status back down to green.

>switch to linux
>struggled but got it working

Can i make grub look not that ugly?

Also when i use brave, i can't use 4chanx, i tried taper monkey but it doesn't work, it works on firefox though. Also when i click the scroll key, i can't scroll like i do on windows, can i fix this?

>>106640873
1. Plymouth
2. idk why don't you just use firefox
3. you have to set it up and it probably depends on your de/wm

>>106639029
AppArmor/SELinux.

Tried upgrading a Debian Wheezy VM to Jessie, and now I'm hit with "Oh no! Something has gone wrong". Reinstalling gnome didn't help, and 3 acceleration is enabled.

The more confusing thing? I recreated this on a laptop with a much older CPU running a slightly newer version of VirtualBox, and the VM there boots just fine, but the hardware/software end shouldn't make that much of a difference...can it?

>>106641188
>the hardware/software end shouldn't make that much of a difference...can it?
yes, it can since most of what debian does is autoconfigure for your hardware.
hell, most every distro does.

>>106641188
Does Wayland work or is that still broken in VMWare?

>>106640873
Try violentmonkey. Scroll thing you just have to enable in browser setting from what I remember.

>>106641289
I wouldn't know. I'm using VirtualBox

Captcha:PAYDJ

>>106639014 (OP)
How can I create my own manpages? I've thinking about using this format for note taking, and then use a page like w3m to view them (w3m supports hyperlinks, pictures and urls). Would this be a stupid idea?
>>106641188
Unrelated but what font is this?

>>106641618
Excuse the typos, I'm a bit sleep deprived at the moment. Anyway, another option would be to keep on using markdown for notes but convert them to html afterwards. The main idea is to use the terminal for note taking and keeping things somewhat simple.

Does anyone have any experience with microOS, kalpa or aeon? Do they bring anything useful to the table?

I just got me a shiny new internal hard drive. I plan to dual boot Linux and Windows (never Mac), torrent and store videos on it. I formatted it in ExFat for "compatibility." Then I did more research. I fucked up, didn't I? A day or two of work will let me get it swapped to NTFS assuming I don't screw up, is it worth it?

>>106641720
I've heard it's more lightweight.

>>106641732
yes use a real filesystem
if you're using windows that's ntfs or nothing
also, how do you plan to boot linux from a exfat or ntfs disk for that matter?

what's the easiest way of setting a max priority/nice number for a given process?
use case: ffmpeg chews through my old potato if ran with default user priority, and there are cases when I'm not the one invoking it directly but it's called by other programs, and I forget to change their priorities from time to time

>>106641789
That was poor sentence structure on my part. I'll dual boot, but neither Windows nor Linux will be on the drive in question, I just want constant access to some media so I don't feel like I'm missing much. I think Linux can do an okay job accessing NTFS file systems now so I could let it mooch off of some Windows space, but I was going to have another click clack disk regardless. The drive is basically a commons I can yank out and use as a backup later.

Anyway, unless there's a safe way to convert in place, I'm going to have to
>Shrink the ExFat partition
>Create a new NTFS partition
>Copy my files to the NTFS partition
>Delete the ExFat partition
>Expand the NTFS partition
I just finished a backup of the important stuff so that's no concern. Fun, but at least the drive isn't past half full.

>>106642120
what's wrong with exfat? I'm curious what you found

what is the difference between a arch and gentoo installation? both are that you set up linux manually but with gentoo you spend time waiting for it to compile?

>>106642166
Mostly the issue is that it's not journaled and more prone to getting messed up if it's interrupted for any reason. Your data is just that much less safe. NTFS also offers some kind of symbolic linking I don't really understand and more access controls. For example, I wanted to make it so a particular large file can't be accidentally deleted in two keystrokes. NTFS has a relatively simple option for that, ExFat does not.

>>106642189
Arch is focused on already-built binaries while Gentoo is focused on compilation of binaries with additional tweaks by the user for their usecases and hardware.

>>106642206
does windows still not support ext4 in fucking 2025?

>>106642258
No it doesn't. It only currently supports btrfs through an installed driver.

>>106639029
Use passphrase. Have a secure passphrase cache like KDE wallet or GNOME keying if you don't want to type passphrase all the time.

>>106642332
The whole point of a passphrase though is that it's a ton of characters but easy to remember

>>106642258
Fuck you, fuck the horse you rode in on, and fuck ya mudda. Eat shit and die, but give me lots of money first.

T. Microsoft

>>106642343
The whole point of a passphrase is to prevent unauthorized access to your private key. Having weak password just lowers security.

>>106642392
Well duh because it's basically impossible to brute force. An even five word diceware passphrase made using random.org dice rolls is basically ironclad.

In yet another episode of the saga of the Fujitsu T726 Mousepad That Refuses to Work Properly:
>Last episode, after semi-permanently screwing up the mousepad (and introducing keyboard stutters) after installing fprint, the problem was finally resolved after reinstalling all the system packages
>In today's episode, we find that putting the system in sleep mode also causes the exact same problem
>However, unlike the last time, a full shutdown (restart does nothing) actually resolves the issue
>Now that the mousepad is working, I can finally see which module controls it
>Successfully shut off and restart mousepad with modprobe -r psmouse && modprobe psmouse (plus pressing the function key for turning mousepad off and on)
>Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.jpg
>Sleep and wake laptop, mousepad isn't working again as expected
>All according to keikaku
>Go to terminal
>Cracks knuckles
>Waggles fingers
>It's hacking time
>modprobe -r psmouse
>keyboard stops working
>mfw
Thankfully I have a touchscreen and touch keyboard installed. If I reactivate the psmouse module the keyboard starts working again, but the touchpad still remains nonfunctional and the keyboard stutter/freeze continues until the next full shutdown. It's very bizarre. I ended up "fixing" it by just disabling automatic sleep entirely and making it hibernate instead. All's well that ends well lol.

>>106639029
if you don't trust a program, you wouldn't be running them with permission or access to your own user/use files in the first place.
if you want an os that doesn't trust the user, get an iphone

lads, after recent update my void install started using more cpu power for just about anything
I realised that opening a few webms in in firefox in rapid succession, seeking through a video in mpv or launching various applications would ramp up CPU fan speed
I checked it with htop and sure, seeking through video can take up to 500% of my 12 thread CPU, it wasn't like that before
I checked what was updated and it was just firmware packages, qemu and thunderbird, I reverted firmware related packaged and it's still the case after a reboot
what can I realistically do now?

Hello anons, college is starting soon again and I've been thinking about using markdown for note taking. So far, I've been using LibreOffice and I have no complaints, but markdown seems like it could be faster to use than LibreOffice.
I know the keyboard shortcuts for LibreOffice and I use them extensively, they make the process so much easier.

Is this a good idea or should I stick to LibreOffice since I already have a reliable system for taking notes? I do plan on attempting to sell my notes to younger students once this year ends, but most people aren't too tech-savvy here, so that's another thing to take into account.

>>>/int/215052015

What do you think about this?

>>106642768
It's some guy trying to bait on /int/? Good for him.

I have a bit of a problem. I am trying to install a package on an immutable distro, namely SteamOS. Since podman is installed by default I just installed distrobox and then an arch linux environment. Everything works inside the container. I installed the package and even exported it outside of it generating a .desktop file I can launch from the start menu.

The problem is that I can't add a shortcut to .local/bin because it interferes with the ranger command inside the container. The .local/bin script runs a command inside the podman container but .local/bin is shared by both the host and the container meaning something like this happens
>host runs distrobox enter arch -- ranger
>distrobox runs ranger which now points to .local/bin instead of /usr/bin/ranger
>distrobox attempts to run a distrobox container
>distrobox fails because there's no podman installed inside the container

Where do I go from there?

>>106643226
For now I just added an alias in .bashrc

>>106643226
>running a file manager from a container
this is a clown world.

>>106643421
it just werkz

Is the Rembrandt bug still around?

Is there no fix for piece of shit bug? Linux is unusable to me with this bug

>>106643432
see >>106643226

>>106642649
Install LMDE

What are some interesting and niche DEs? I discovered IceWM and I think I will try it.

>>106643567
HerbstluftWM

>>106643567
Niche DEs are niche for a reason, but IceWM is good if you want a WM that feels like a DE.

>>106641188
You should've used virt-manager with qemu/kvm instead of shitty virtualbox

>>106642258
Why would they?

>>106639029
Why do you think you're supposed to password-protect your ssh keys?

>>106643632
>wsl
>azure linux

>>106643226
Hardcode the path to /usr/bin/ranger
distrobox enter arch -- /usr/bin/ranger

>>106643643
>wsl
Uses NTFS
>azure linux
That's not windows

>>106639014 (OP)
If I install an application via bottles or lutris how can I easily locate the folders of installed files

>>106643648
The problem here is the fact .local/bin is shared by both host and container. It's the distrobox command that causes an error because podman isn't installed inside the container

>>106643706
For Bottles they would be in
>~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/
while if using the binary AUR version if you're on Arch you'd find them in
>~/.local/share/bottles/bottles/
while config stuff is in
>~/.config/bottles/

>>106643720
Change the distrobox command script to run /usr/bin/ranger instead of ranger

thinking about getting into DWM as my first twm, not that I think it's going to happen any time soon, but what's going to happen when everything moves to wayland?

Is there a way to keep your thumbnails when using gocryptfs?

>>106642111

just read nice help or man nice
usually nice priority ffmpeg handles

>>106643948
DWL already exists but you can just switch to hyprland or sway if you want to use wayland. or you could use their xorg equivalents of hypr and i3

>>106644121
I know I can launch it with nice, and in scripts I made it's done that way... but I don't want to go through the trouble of re-compiling video editors from the source to do that, and I tend to forget to set the nice level of the editors, plus I don't think the editors themselves benefit from it. I do have other processes in mind that I would like to "clamp down" on, but I don't think listing them would be productive.

For programs like OBS, is it better to get the AUR got version or a flatpak/app image?

Is any of these really worth trying?
Even Gentoo didn’t meet the guidelines.

I have a super old Android phone, the bare minimum to be considered a smart phone. I want to use it like a linux computer, with a mouse and keyboard. Can I accomplish this? Both from an OS standpoint, and also in terms of the need to have multiple usb devices plugged in at the same time and also with power.

>>106644762
>Gentoo didn’t meet the guidelines.
obviously, Gentoo allows you to install whatever, something the fsf is allergic against.

So no, these distros you can safely ignore.

How to get good Wi-Fi on Linux? My Wi-Fi is not resonating well.

>>106644874
cable connection to an access point

>>106644762
They're good as completely free as in freedom distros. And come with the obvious drawbacks of
- Nvidia drivers won't work on them
- Only wifi cards with foss drivers will work on them
- no codecs
etc
I ran Trisquel for some time on my libre booted T400, until I upgraded to a modern Dell Latitude and threw that fire hazard away.

>>106644874
iwd is the current best way to purely connect to wireless net, though it could also just come down to your wireless card not playing nice with kernel drivers or needing separate drivers not found in the kernel.

>>106644874
Use an Ubuntu certified laptop with Ubuntu.

>>106644762
>Even Gentoo didn’t meet the guidelines.
it can, there's options to easily achieve a fully-free installation, one example being setting ACCEPT_LICENSE to the license group @FSF-APPROVED explicitly.
the only reason gentoo isn't on that list, along with some others, is that gentoo provides the option to use things the fsf doesn't approve of, and just making that an official option is enough for them, since to the fsf, this isn't /just/ a technical issue.

>>106644933
More like if Ubuntu has your OEM brand as something that works with it properly then wifi should work fine.

>>106644874
PCIe wifi > USB wifi

>>106641016
>>106639029
This helps greatly: https://apparmor.pujol.io/
Also using Snap/Flatpak as much as possible since those don't get access to dotfiles.

>>106641236
As in, the actual host hardware?

I know the name of the CPU is passed over, but I didn't think it actually did anything hardware-specific beyond that. If anything, I assumed that VMs had their own "hardware" that OSs would configure themselves around

>>106644762
kek
https://stallman.org/to-4chan.html

Is Nouveau nowadays the only option for old Nvidia Tesla microarchitecture GPUs (8/9/200 series)?

>>106643642
How does this prevent others from logging into your computer?

>>106645064
lmao rent free

>>106643626
>qemu
I did try qemu for a different thing in the past, but couldn't get it working

>>106641188
>>106641236
>>106645038
FWIW, my main PC has a 7th gen Ryzen, whereas my laptop has, I think, a 3rd gen i7.

So now the question is, what do I even do about this?

archlinux is so stable
https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1nm0da0/do_not_update_today_it_breaks_pipewire/
https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1nlg0wf/latest_update_break_dns_for_anyone_else/
https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1nljsau/psa_systemd_update_to_2582_breaks_name_resolution/
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1nldfk8/psa_gaming_with_a_controller_on_latest_systemd/

>>106645529
You don't understand, it doesn't break from updates and if it did it would be in the news so it's your fault for not reading them, but if it isn't in the news then it's your fault for not testing earlier and not finding the issue and not updating the news.
Arch is very reliable and it works on my machine that is set up just the way I like it, if it doesn't work on your vanilla install then it's your fault for not customizing it the way I did, but I'm not going to bother doing a fresh install in a VM to see the issues for myself I will just continue parroting that Arch works.

>>106645529
I'm still on 257.9
Thank Geeko for making OpenSUSE Tumbleweed so stable.

>>106645819
If only patterns wouldn't reinstall dozens of unneeded packages with every zypper dup.

i spent hours upon hours upon hours and i finally got cs2 working (still not as good as widnows) on my arch with wayland and nvidia gpu. why is linux so gay? CS2 runs better even on my arm mac, which has no native support for cs2.

>>106645881
Use a newer Photoshop version

>>106645529
>https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1nm0da0/do_not_update_today_it_breaks_pipewire/
I use PulseAudio and it Just Works(TM).

>https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1nlg0wf/latest_update_break_dns_for_anyone_else/
>https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1nljsau/psa_systemd_update_to_2582_breaks_name_resolution/
Anyone actually using systemd-resolved is a moron, it's one of the worst parts of systemd and DNSSEC validation has long been a problem. Use unbound and point /etc/resolv.conf to it.

The input thing I don't know, haven't used my xbox360 controller in years.

>>106645783
Works on my machine.

>>106645956
>DNSSEC validation has long been a problem.
that's not really a problem though

my chromium fonts look weird, any ideas on what to do about it?
>deleted .config/chromium
>deleted .config/fontconfig and /etc/fonts/conf.d
firefox and other gtk applications look just fine

>>106646011
why would you delete /etc/fonts/conf.d?

>>106646004
Last time I tried systemd-resolved it would randomly stop resolving names when validation was enabled (servfail) and I had to restart the service to get it to work properly again for a while. Complete trash. I've been using unbound with root hints since then and I'm not going back.

>>106646061
I reinstalled fontconfig right after, just wanted to make sure there were no custom symlinks there

What's the best lazy man's distro?

>>106646122
does a lazy man want to customize appearances?

>>106644874
I use wpa_supplicant with a basic config and it seems to just work for me
Sometimes it might just be your access point being shit

>>106646122
Fedora Workstation.

>>106645075
What do you mean? You don't have a password on your account?

>>106646011
Install dejavu fonts and see if that fixes anything
>>106646185
>rpmfusion

>>106645956
Systemd-resolved is used with systemd-networkd when setting up dhcp because systemd-resolved is responsible for asking your dhcp server for the dns nameservers

>>106646222
You mean the DNS servers from your ISP that you shouldn't use either way? Yeah, don't care.

>>106646210
Most used parts of the repo (like Nvidia drivers) can be enabled in Gnome Software, it even prompts you to do when you do the first launch.

>>106645143
Install virt-manager, add your user to the libvirt group and it should just work

>>106646238
No the DNS servers from your router that you would have pointing towards your pihole server

>>106646263
Just put it in /etc/resolv.conf and disable resolved? Holy fuck.

>>106646274
Or you can just get your router to do it instead of having to manually set it in every system or every time you do a reinstall.

>>106646111
>when validation was enabled (servfail)
You know, it's well know that it doesn't work well with it. The simple solution is to disable it.
DNSSEC, despite its name, doesn't really do much to secure your dns anyway. You'd use one of the more modern options if you cared about that.

When did you realize that Arch doesn't respect your time?

>>106646319
What's the modern option to DNSSEC? DoH?

>>106646485
DoH or DoT, yeah.

>>106646468
>When did you realize that Arch doesn't respect your time?
Actually Arch is the distro that respects my time. On Debian I was always wasting my time compiling my packages because the ones that Debian ship are outdated as fuck.

>>106646485
>DNSSEC
irrelevant for home users
>DoH
helps ad companies exfiltrate data
>DoT
rational choice if you use 3rd party dns
>dnscrypt-proxy Anonymized DNS
the gold standard

>>106646468
yeah, all I needed was a minimal amount of time bootstrapping lfs and compiling, configuring, and maintaining all my own software. arch doesn't do any of that for you fucking waste of time.

I think I'll use the git version of OBS from AUR

>>106646506
Those aren't designed to replace dnssec.

>>106646506
DoT and DoH are suppose to complimen DNSSEC

I am using Firefox installed from Flathub and it has troubles decoding some mp4 files posted on 4chan. I get these warnings in console. Downloading the file and playing it in mpv works as expected. Considering the tricky situation of codec licensing on free software, what's the best approach here? Using a version of firefox from somewhere else? It's probably worth mentioning that I am using flatpak because I am using an immutable disro

>>106646567
>dnscrypt-proxy Anonymized DNS
Whats the difference between using this and using Unbound with both DoT 3rd party dns and with DNSSEC?

>>106646717
use a decent distro and not a toybox.

>>106646717
>immutable disro
Do the fedora immutables also come with their own crappy 3rd party flatpak repo?
You could try setting up distrobox and installing firefox through an archlinux container or something

>>106646759
I did that for several other programs that aren't available on flathub. I was just naively hoping for an alternative solution

>>106646716
for what purpose? You get integrity protection via tls, you don't need an extra signature. Obviously, this stands and falls with the dns server you query.

>>106646319
>DNSSEC, despite its name, doesn't really do much to secure your dns anyway.
Dumb take. DNSSEC provides DNS record authentication, nothing more.

>>106646485
>>106646506
Completely different purposes. Data authentication vs privacy.

>>106646567
>>DNSSEC
>irrelevant for home users
Stupid take. DNSSEC is a way to prove a DNS record was not tampered with, it's relevant for EVERYONE in the same way TLS (SSL) is.

>>106646737
If you're using unbound you should be using the root hints file and only talking to authoritative servers in the first place. Along with DNSSEC, you will be immune to DNS censorship, but your traffic will be visible, so OPTIONALLY you could run unbound on a trusted VPS or other unmonitored machine, and have that serve DoH/DoT for you.

>>106646786
>for what purpose? You get integrity protection via tls, you don't need an extra signature.
TLS only authenticates the server providing DoH, not that the records it provides you weren't tampered. If you use a DoH server and someone spoofed DNS to it, you're getting the spoofed records. With DNSSEC the DoH server can validate the records before sending them to you, otherwise there's no way to tell.

>>106646759
Good news, it worked as expected. I just had to launch the containerized firefox once and then overwrite the profile with my flatpak version profile. The mp4 videos are playing without problems now

>>106646781
You can install the firefox tarball directly from their site or the appimage if firefox has one, i know librewolf has an appimage. You could also see if the librewolf flatpak fixes your issue.

>>106646809
>If you're using unbound you should be using the root hints file and only talking to authoritative servers in the first place.
Pretty sure i already have this set up since i more or less followed the pi-hole guide but used different dns providers for DoT
>but your traffic will be visible, so OPTIONALLY you could run unbound on a trusted VPS or other unmonitored machine, and have that serve DoH/DoT for you.
Wouldnt your traffic will still be visible even if your dns requests wont?

>>106646832
Yes, hence it stands and falls with the server you query. If you can;t trust the server, why are you asking it?

>>106646981
If you trust person A and he's been fooled by person B and gives you misinformation, do you just eat shit or do you verify what A tells you?

>>106647012
by asking person C?
when does it end?

>>106647048
With DNSSEC all the way from the root servers.

>>106647012
If person A has the correct zone signing key and sings the misinformation with it, you will still get it despite dnssec.

why is tmux allowed to spam the system journal every time a pane is split?

>>106647108
If that happens then A isn't trustworthy and you're made a fool.

>>106647120
see >>106646981
it's the same shit in the end, you either trust the dns server or not. The point of dnssec was preventing 3rd parties from intercepting and changing the dns answers. You don't have that problem with DoH or DoT.

>>106647147
It's not that you don't have the problem, you are assuming you don't. Unless you control the DoH server, you just don't know.

>>106647172
anon, a 3rd party can't just intercept tls and modify it. If they can force the server to modify anything, they can also do it in a dnssec scenario. It's the same shit in the end, besides that dnssec will let your ISP and potentially others read your queries.

>>106647207
>besides that dnssec will let your ISP and potentially others read your queries.
Now you're just got diarrhea of the brain.

>>106647232
dnssec is just dns with a signature, it is not encrypted, anon.

>With 64K page size (aarch64 with 64K page size config) and 4K btrfs block size, the following workload can easily lead to a corrupted read:
Kent was right and they despised him for it.

>>106646536
Use debian unstable or backports?

https://systemd.io/CONVERTING_TO_HOMED/
has anyone actually done this

How much less RAM do tiling window managers use than a fully fledged desktop environment like Xfce?

>>106647735
what's the benefit of doing this?

>>106647735
Absolutely not.

>>106646122
Slackware.

>>106646737
You're routing requests through a proxy which can't read your DNS queries to a DNS server which can only see the proxy's address. It's equivalent to running all your clearnet DNS queries through a VPN.

>>106646809
Nobody cares glowie.

>>106647804
>glowie
facepalm.

>>106647741
>XFCE
Somewhere between 1gig to 500mb
>kde, gnome, etc
Probably more closer to 2 or 3 gb

>>106647804
>You're routing requests through a proxy which can't read your DNS queries to a DNS server which can only see the proxy's address
Thats the same thing as DoT and DoH
Your isp or vpn will still know what sites you're connecting to.

>>106647954
yeah but how much RAM does an average tiling WM consume?

>>106647975
>Thats the same thing as DoT and DoH
No, it hides your address from the DoT server by means of a proxy. Where the proxy can't read your requests.
>Your isp or vpn will still know what sites you're connecting to.
Not really because most of the 'internet' is 14 Cloudflare IPs, and most of the rest is Google, Microsoft, Amazon, or Faceberg.

>>106648024
how are you supposed to guarantee the proxy cant read your requests?
>most of the 'internet' is 14 Cloudflare IPs, and most of the rest is Google, Microsoft, Amazon, or Faceberg.
that's not how it works

>>106648024
isn't the "T" and "H" here TLS/HTTPS?
pretty sure the whole point of that is to wrap it with encryption so your ISP doesn't see you're requesting the IP address of pornhub
but once you connect to the IP address of pornhub they still know what you're doing. They know that with DNSSEC and DNS over encryption.

hello friends, i'm new to linux. have been daily driving cinnamon on my main pc for a week now and it's been fun. however i tried to install it on my dusty old laptop, an acer aspire e1-531- and found that the keyboard/touchpad only work in the live USB environment, but not after i install the operating system. i switched to arch/manjaro because i heard that it could help because of the drivers or something but i'm still having the same issue. i need help and i'm blocked from asking questions in the discord for whatever reason.

>>106645859
Just blacklist them with Myrlyn or via command line.

>>106648013
Less than 1gb

>>106647741
My bspwm install is currently using ~2.5 GB while running a browser, file manager, gimp, mpv, and multiple terminal instances.

>>106639014 (OP)
Is it a good idea to use this if I plan on using KDE with x11?
https://github.com/josephcrowell/kwin-x11-improved
I know they're planning on dropping x11 support with KDE 7, so could this be an "alternative"? if so, how would I install it?
>>106643948
Is not like x11 is going to suddenly disappear one day, dwm will be fine. Also, check out "dwm flexipatcher".
>>106644762
If you're interested in a libre OS, sure I guess. I only tried Parabola once, it was tedious to install and I couldn't daily drive it due to a video drivers issue. It's basically just libre Arch.
>>106648635
Try to install the package "xorg-drivers", maybe that's the issue.

>>106648200
>how are you supposed to guarantee the proxy cant read your requests?
Public key crypto. Read the protocol description.
>that's not how it works
By traffic volume it is.

>>106639014 (OP)
greetings gentlemen, so a few weeks ago I decided to install linux again because i have shitty performance on windows despite having a pretty decent machine. anyway i used to be an arch user but i decided to take an easy option and went with opensuse tumbleweed. so i backed everything up and downloaded the installation media and threw it on a flash drive and installed it. went into bios, changed it to boot from the m2 device with linux on it and
>unable to mount root partition
okay so maybe i have a bad install so lets go ahead and redownload it and install it again and reformat everything and this time lets use ext4 and not encrypt the disk because i really don't need all that
>unable to mount root partition
okay so lets now try to install the version that i currently have running on my laptop which is a few months old but we can update it
>unable to mount root partion
any ideas gentlemen?

>>106649511
same error every time, checked the UUID on the device and it was right, checked secure boot vs regular boot, kinda at a loss and thinking i might just build a new computer since this one is 8 years old anyway.

>>106649511
Which filesystem type do you use for root, and is it encrypted?

>>106649614
ext4, no

im new to linux, i wanted to use the programs ikachan and ikatube but im not sure how to configure them. is there a manual or guide of some kind?

>>106649492
>>106649511
idk how to troubleshoot suse, but I would turn off secure boot, run a live environment and check the bootloader's kernel parameter vs my disk's UUID

How many of you use a WM on a desktop? Always felt they were only necessary on laptops and touchpads but I'm interested in trying them out. Just seems not as useful when I have a mouse and full keyboard

>>106649826
>only necessary on
Never necessary.

Are there any laptops on which Linux has equal or better battery life and power efficiency compared to Windows/macos?

>>106649898
Any of the laptops that Canonical has said work with Ubuntu

>>106649908
Does Ubuntu have some magical firmware for them or are they still good with any distro?

>>106649917
It usually means that any Linux will work good on them.

>>106649908
>only Alienware, Dell, HP, Lenovo
Interesting that no meme products like Framework are on this list

>>106649946
Alienware's been owned by Dell for years now

>>106649790
>install wine
>create a prefix with default settings by running "winecfg" in a terminal
>disable filetype associations while you're at it(trust me.jpg, it's in the desktop integration tab)
>unzip and run the exe
it should be about it really. there is some annoyance with japanese text, I think you need a japanese locale on your host system and maybe pass an environment variable for wine to pick up