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Previous thread: >>106838706

>>106854542 (OP)
Installed guix on my laptop, works well.
What is the easiest way to check which linux-firmware my laptop actually loads/uses and what its package names are so I can include only what I actually require in my guix config?

Example from nonguix:
(firmware (cons* iwlwifi-firmware
%base-firmware))

>>106854633
How many packages on guix did you have to compile or did they all have prebuilt binaries? Been thinking about switching to guix but i didnt know how to do it in a way where i can still multiboot and not nuke my other installations.

>>106855354
Everything I tried had prebuilts.
For nonguix you have to provide a substitute server manually though because without it it will bootstrap and compile everything from there except nonfree blobs.
But I compile the nonguix packages specifically by choice. The only noteworthy compile times in my case are thus the kernel and Firefox. The latter takes forever.
> multiboot
I do that on my PC but I just give each OS its own physical drive, saves me a lot of headaches.

>>106855403
Ive gotten away with using btrfs subvols for multibooting different linux distros.

How do i replace pulseaudio with pipewire on debian 13? I know pipewire is the default for debian with gnome, but i use xfce which defaults pulseaudio.
my goal is to optimize renoise(DAW program) by using pipewire as a drop-in for jack
Reading online i found this guide: https://github.com/orgs/linuxmint/discussions/462
Its for linux mint though and about a year old, would it still be applicable for debian 13 in current times?

>>106855423
You should be able to do sudo apt install pipewire and it should drag everything needed.

Which video player is better? Haruna or Celluloid? I'm trying to find something that is as similar to mpv-net on Windows as possible.

>t. new linux user

>>106855511
Haruna is a lighter libmpv frontend

>>106855511
Both are just wrappers around mpv. So whichever GUI you prefer. Or you can just use the default mpv and it's GUI.

i was trying debian in vmware and ran out of 20gb space, now I extended the disk in vmware but can't boot after grub as it gets stuck at some docker systemd shit. How do I expand the disk from live cd without losing data?

>>106855437
>sudo apt install pipewire
Did some more reading and it seems for debian 13 i think thatll only install the basic pipewire package.
Reading on the debian wiki it looks like i gotta sudo apt install pipewire-audio metapackage which includes wirepumber, pw-alsa, pw-pulse, etc. The only thing not included is pipewire-jack, so i guess ill have to add that to the command too.

I should still stop, disable, mask and delete pulseaudio beforehand to avoid conflicts, right?

>>106855574
>>106855530
I think I like Haruna more, so I'll stick with that for now.

Also, I might as well ask:
>what is the best sharex alternative on linux?
>is there a directory opus like file manager/browser? if not, what's the best one?

Thanks anons

>>106855613
It should drag all the dependencies but if you need to manually install them then install pipewire pipewire-pulse and wireplumber and pipewire-jack as well. I think pulseaudio should get uninstalled at the same time when pipewire-pulse is installed.
You can always check the list of packages to see if apt install pipewire will drag the rest of the dependencies it needs.

>>106855582
Any livecd with gparted should do it.

>>106855698
>sharex
The default screenshot/recording tools integrated into KDE and Gnome are good enough so there really isn't a huge demand for something like sharex. I guess there is Flameshot? I'm not sure if there's anything that has a built-in option to submit a screenshot to a hosting website like sharex does. You'd normally just take a screenshot and paste it from your clipboard or directly send the file.

>>106855788
Flameshot and Greenshot are good screenshot tools, but they aren't as full-featured as ShareX is.

>>106855795
What features does sharex have? I don't think I've ever needed anything other than cropping, marking things and blurring things.

>>106855818
Check its website it has a list

>use kde plasma as a backup environment just in case
>resize my partitions and create a new one, chown it to me
>open dolphin to transfer some files
>click paste
>nothing happens
>check directory size, it keeps increasing still
>try to find something from dolphin settings, maybe i have accidentally hidden a file transfer dialogue or something
Can't find nothing.
This is why this tinker tranny shit is so fucking frustrating. If I hadn't checked the directory size I could have closed down Dolphin and logged out or even rebooted. What the FUCK? Why these tools are so fucking bad, it is 2025.

>sorry, can't write this on a Christian operating system
>sorry, can't not write this on a satanic operating system

>>106855922
عذرا، لا يمكنك كتابة هذا على نظام تشغيل إسلامي.

>>106855844
I really don't see anything relevant. 90% of features are there in Spectacle and Flameshot. Flameshot apparently also supports uploads, so I guess there's nothing special about sharex?

>sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal-1.20.3 requires >=media-video/pipewire
I fucking hate Linux

>>106856094
what does xdg portal even do anyway? I remember something wanted to pull it in as a dependency a while back, I turned off some use flag and got rid of that

experienced my first Krash today and it was all because i plugged in an iphone 3gs

>>106856134
it's for sandboxed shit, if you don't use flatpak you probably don't need it.
I don't use flatpak, and my only need is that firefox uses pcmanfm-qt as the filepicker. Gods know why the fuck it needs it to do that. I can't wait for Ladybird.

also
>You have disabled desktop-portal, which is not supported.
>An xdg-desktop-portal backend is needed for file pickers
>and other desktop components to work, e.g. when adding a
>non-Steam game or a new library folder.
I fucking hate Steam

why can't i get grub to work ever? i want to try linux but it never even gives me the option to load it after installing.

>>106846256
Breeze doesn't do the kind of transparency throughout the whole window, does it?

>>106856202
Sounds like you aren't installing it properly. I've always done it like this.
>Firstly install the grub and efibootmgr packages
>grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB
>grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
GRUB should just werk for your installed system now after a restart.

>>106856239
Any transparent Kvantum theme plus any transparent aurorae theme should do the trick. Or try Klassy https://github.com/paulmcauley/klassy

>install bazzite because I heard it's the easiest linux distro for retards like me
>can't even change the wallpaper because I have to manually mount my drives every time I log in and the pre-installed wallpaper folder is part of the read-only file system
I-I got memed guys?

>>106856202
ditch grub, use something more modern

>>106856312
I currently have Klassy+ kvantum. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but the title bar doesn't really blend in seamlessly with the window. If I move them to 90% transparent, it's close, but not quite there, plus it's barely legible against a white backdrop

>>106856355
you got meme'd on

>>106855729
Got it running! Awesome thanks for the help man.
Now just need to figure out how to configure it properly. For most songs its plays fine, but for larger projects theres a bunch of cracking and clicking sounds

>>106856249
>>106856047
Sorry, remnant from the previous thread.
As far as I can tell, immutable means there's some kind of stability thing going on.
I literally do not care that much about a lot of things in PC stuff. I do most my work online, I barely use programs beyond games and dark table, sometimes blender. I don't need bleeding edge stuff. The most complex thing I'm going to do is use the steam-in-built proton to run Windows games.

>>106856171
>Gods know why the fuck it needs it to do that. I can't wait for Ladybird.
Ladybird won't fix that. The issue is that Firefox uses GTK3 and GNOME only decided to add a file picker to GTK4. It's nothing to do with Firefox at all other than the fact that they made the foolish decision to use that toolkit. Ideally someone would bring back the Firefox Qt port but barely anyone at Mozilla works on Firefox for Linux except for some Red Hat developers and they spend most of their time chasing Wayland issues.

>>106856561
*A file picker with thumbnails I mean
(The GNOME developers could have worked on a GTK3 version too but they don't care about GTK3 anymore, nor do they care about the various ways Mozilla abuses their toolkit in ways it's not intended to be used)

>>106856134
they're basically hacks for a more secure version of certain insecure features like screencapture and webcam
it also can handle your filepicker

>>106856542
Immutable means that not much can be changed but its a nightmare to deal with when you're trying to add or change things to the base system
And they expect you to use a secondary package manager for installing stuff instead of your native package manager

>>106856620
I'm starting to believe I'll just go with vanilla fedora over bazzite.

>>106856640
So far there's been like five anon in these threads who have tried bazzite only to regret it and switch to something else.

>>106856620
nixos wins ago
stay losers, lintroons.

>>106856542
>I do most my work online, I barely use programs beyond games and dark table, sometimes blender. I don't need bleeding edge stuff. The most complex thing I'm going to do is use the steam-in-built proton to run Windows games.
If that's the case then there's no difference between immutable or not. In which case going with an immutable system makes more sense since they're more stable and need less maintenance.

>>106856684
And there's also been plenty who swear by it and claim it's better than what they've used before. If it was actually unusable it wouldn't be one of the most popular distros on Steam. Gamers are the least patient and most entitled user group.

>>106856912
>7th
>most popular

I dislike Linux because everything surrounding it stinks of "poverty", everything is free and made by the community, it's too decentralized. I wanna use an OS that's made by an actual company with renowned employees developing it and not an OS developed by a bunch of hobbyists on their basements.

>>106857111
It doesn't matter if the end result is still a mess. Easy to produce and discard dumb terminals able to do 1 and only 1 thing are the best objectively because literally everyone's a retarded bald monkey. Neither hobbyists nor renowned company employees can do that.

>>106856355
Bazzite is shitty Windows repack that's memed by retards as drop-in replacement to Windows. If your IQ starts with zero and decimal point maybe it is since you won't need much from your PC. Otherwise go with Fedora or Linux Mint. Second one is kinda easier, first one is better. Just Google how to do first setup. Specifically RPMFusion and flathub what's gonna interest you.

I've been on fedora for a few months and it really doesn't feel any different than debian stable, if not for the fact that security updates last 1 year instead of 3
on both distros I have to use flatpak for 90% of the software I use
I'm thinking of either going back to debian or trying out arch since I now know more or less what software I need

Is systemd-timesyncd better or worse than chrony?

I'm gonna make the jump to linux on my main computer that I use for work/personal hobbies. I know PS and Clip Studio Paint dont work on Linux, as well as most drawing software except for GIMP. Is it useable now or is there a way to run it in a virtual environment? I also use VS for coding is there an alternative to help me integrate into linux better? Also how is gaming on Linux?

>>106857412
vscode has a linux version
You can use winapps for ps and clipstudio but they're not easy to set up and your mileage may vary
like 90% of games work fine but it really depends on the game

>>106857412
>how is gaming on Linux?
in my experience it's fine on steam if you use proton compatibility but the nvidia control panel in linux mint is so basic compared to the one in windows. you can't even use DLDSR if you game in 1080p

>can no longer ignore strange framedrops during browser playback
>all the HW magic is enabled, so suspect it's wayland forced vsync or something
>some fuckery with main monitor getting picked up as 59.951Hz
>can't just feed it a safe modeline like with win CRU and apparently even xrandr
>kernel-level shit actually
kusoland

>>106857412
>Clip Studio Paint dont work on Linux, as well as most drawing software except for GIMP
I know some CSP users scoff at Krita, but for drawing it's certainly no worse than GIMP

>>106854542 (OP)
OP is a faggot btw

>>106857412
>Also how is gaming on Linux?
Good enough to replace Windows completely

>>106857350
depends, it's worse in functionality but better in being less bloat.

thunar or pcmanfm-qt?

mint or debian kde for my moms pc? i cant decide

>desperately want to switch fully to linux but none of my important software works correctly
>still have to dual boot and end up spending all day on windows anyway

>>106857725
Kubuntu
There are literally grandmas on the Kubuntu council

>>106857412
i would be a lot more willing to believe something like clip studio paint would work but adobe products are enterprise slopware of the lowest caliber and have tons of issues
looking it up it has some issues, though it seems like it has an android app and there's ways to run android apps properly on linux with GPU accel in a container through waydroid which might also be an alternative
i think? both AMD and NVIDIA seem to be working on things (MxGPU/vGPU) that let GPUs be shared properly with VMs, which hardware is actually capable of, but both seem to be very early stages, and otherwise to get real graphical acceleration you have to do GPU passthrough which involves disabling the GPU on the host
there's krita for digital painting and from what I understand it's perfectly fine, not shit like GIMP

VSCode, MS's lightweight cross platform electron based extensible editor would probably be the most "familiar" because it uses a lot of the same design language as VS proper
probably the best option for cross platform .NET dev
some more of the jetbrains IDEs are free for community use now iirc and there's cracks out there as well
i started using qtcreator full time for C++ when i switched and i'm very happy with it

steam makes running games and managing compat braindead, you just add software games as non-steam games and you can use steam to manage proton
sometimes you have to use a third party version of proton like GE-Proton for one reason or another, usually video codec related since the valve versions can't bundle them due to copyright
there's also other options like the heroic launcher for Epic, GOG, and amazon of all things, or third party launchers like lutris and bottles

if you have an AMD gpu games and other shit will work better more stable with access to more features (like being able to run FSR4 AI upscaling on RDNA3 gpus)
NVIDIA is much better than it was but still not as good and i think installing the drivers can still be a pain

>>106857678
I've never used pacmanfm-qt before, but I've used spacemanfm so close enough. It's decent, and surprisingly good for an old file manager program. Afaik it doesn't require gvfs or other weird dependencies to function properly, and ironically it has more functionality than some modern managers like Nautilus. For example you can change your prefered terminal emulator right in the settings, while managers such as Nautilus or Nemo require you to use dconf editor just for that. Personally I only have 2 issues with it: thumbnails load one at a time, everytime you enter a directory. It's fast enough but every other file manager doesn't do this, thumbnails are always there. This also creates a ".thumbnails" directory in your home path. The other thing is it doesn't have support for "per folder" sorting preferences, so if you select "sort by latest modified (descending)" in one place, it applies globally. Regardless, it's a nice program but pacmanfm might differ a bit so ymmv.

i'm using some dell mini pc on windows 10 which is about to lose support. and this piece of crap can't do win11. all i do is: web browser and occasionally osrs and aram on league. which distro(s) are great for lifetime Windows users up until now

I got a microSD which I want to perma-plug in on my toaster. What FS?

>>106858014
tmpfs

>>106857678
pcmanfm-qt seems more portable than thunar when it comes to dependencies but thunar seems better

this machine kills rustoddlers

>>106858014
f2fs is supposed to be designed for it but you might be better off just using ext4 make sure to mount it with the noatime option2

I'm looking to hop off of arch because of the aur shenanigans lately, plus one of my recent updates nearly bricked my shit for the first time in 2 years. I don't do any hobbyist projects or anything anymore on my desktop, just gaming, torrenting a bunch, and reading. Too burnt from work to do more tech related shit.

What should I jump over to? I really don't want to tinker anymore.

>>106858008
League won't ever be supported with anti cheat on Linux, so none.

>>106858332
Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian and derivatives. Choose what you like.

>>106858118
and it runs elementary os instead of the abomination known as arch

>>106858332
Why don't you archive the whole AUR and make a local package manager? These packages are just PKGBUILD, which are essentially specialized shell instructions.

>>106856355
>can't even change the wallpaper because I have to manually mount my drives every time I log in and the pre-installed wallpaper folder is part of the read-only file system
What the fuck are you even talking about? You right click on an image and set it as a wallpaper. It doesn't have to be in the system wallpapers. You don't change the system default wallpapers on any distro. That's what your Pictures folder is for.

>>106858332
Bazzite of course.

>>106858504
Something like that would be a huge timesink to maintain and you would need to spend a lot of time on checking for possible malware every time you update the pkgbuild

>>106854542 (OP)
My previous Linux's record was 2 days before I uninstall it and go back to Windows and this time I'm going to try my best to NOT fuck it up again.
>Flashed OS ISO to my flash drives and it somehow got corrupted so 2 of my flash drives are dead atm and I have absolutely no idea why
>ESL and my native language on PopOS is absolutely hideous and really difficult to read and it took me likes the 2 days to actually make it "bearable"to read
>I use AMD GPU and I'm still surprised to see that AMD Adrenalin isn't on Linux... like, what do I do now wtf? lmao.
>Tried to play Minecraft Bedrock with my niece and nephew and it cucked me that Game Pass isn't available on Linux (I mean, obviously but I wish there is a workaround) so I have to play Minecraft Bedrock through some sort of an open source launcher that launch the game through the phone edition which run like shit

Honestly I'm tired, and right now I'm tryna learn how to customize the DE theme. I did try KDE but it pissed me off, so I reinstalled the entire OS and try again with GNOME and honestly, whoever think that it was a good idea to rename terminal to konsole should get fucking shot on the back of their head.
Is GNOME tweaks the only thing I have to customize my DE? is there a way to remove the task bar on the top and make the main taskbar similar to Windows?

>>106858332
Debian

>>106858630
Have you tried mint?

I want a screensaver on Slackware, but every time I try it seems like a crap shoot if it works or not. Sometimes it will, but other times it will lock the screen without turning it off. The mouse will still be able to move and nothing can be interacted with. No keys on the keyboard do anything either. I can't unlock the computer so I have to restart it.
Do I need to do something in the terminal to start screensavers? I see there is an option in settings, but that hasn't helped much.

>>106858630
>Doesn't know how to click 2 buttons to flash a drive
>PopOS, a distro which didn't get an update in 3 years
>Minecraft Bedrock instead of Java
>Picked GNOME over KDE
>Doesn't know what GNOME Extensions are
I don't think you will beat your record. I'll see you back in /fwt/

>>106858676
Friendly thread dumb windows retard

Are there any recommended usb bluetooth adapters to use on linux? All i want is something with large range and can connect multiple devices

>>106858778
>Threads filled with name-calling and bickering about which distribution is shit
>Responds with insults to a post which did not make any
COMMIT SUICIDE

>>106857558
Small world, isn't it?

>be recent windows refugee
>replace broken HDMI cable
>continue working on art stuff for my game
>finally get to put in new animation system + models
>why the fuck is it stuttering this much?
>spend hours trying to profile my code
>turns out my display changed to 30 Hz
>spend another few hours trying to force Wayland to use HDMI 2.0
>give up and have to accept 1080p

Of all the weird things I use in my setup, I didn't expect that a god damn cable would be the thing linux can't handle out of the box.

>>106858814
>brings up windows
>insults anon at every opportunity he can
Gastlight harder.

>>106854542 (OP)
Why I am getting filtered again and again by that batshit insanity that is nvidia optimus?
> Have a laptop (Aspire-A715G)
> Not supported on Win11 because the CPU is 7th gen, and Intel didn't give out DCH drivers to 7th gen or earlier CPUs
> However I don't want to trash the GPU
> Install linux mint
> Works perfectly on nouveau
> Install nvidia drivers for muh gaymen performance
> Box shits itself, outputs only on the internal screen
/g/, I thought nvidia was a solved issue

>>106858895
The anon brought up Windows and you can't point to a single insult. I cannot account for your mental illness when making posts.

Booted up a liveusb so I could run fsck on my boot partition:
sudo fsck /dev/sdb1
fsck from util-linux 2.39.3
fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
There are differences between boot sector and its backup.
This is mostly harmless. Differences: (offset:original/backup)
65:01/00
1) Copy original to backup
2) Copy backup to original
3) No action
[123?q]?

What should I do?

>>106858926
Unsupported legacy drivers
Find the right version and install it or stay with noveau
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

>>106858676
>fwt/
whats that

>>106858961
Genuflect.

>>106858676
>>Minecraft Bedrock instead of Java
no, I do play Java instead of Bedrock, but when you're playing with your nephew and niece, obviouls you have to play it on Bedrock when they're on iPad, use your fucking brain retard

>>106858676
please consider killing yourself, faggot.w

>>106859003
play real games with your family instead of that slop

lol peepee goes in bhole of another man lol.

>>106859003
>>106859014
>>106859025
Friendly thread dumb retards

>>106859061
You should start with yourself

>>106858940
He brought up windows because everyone used windows before switching to linux. You brought up windows as an insult towards him.
Your whole post is full of insults as other anons have pointed out.

>>106859025
slop slop slop
kys faggot

>>106859077
>Hallucinating insults
I thought mentally ill snowflakes like you were on Reddit and Bluesky

>>106858629
It's not a timesink at all to maintain, there is nothing to maintain if you can just let the script run and get changed packages, when it comes to malware, it's the same risk as on official AUR. You don't understand the problem at hand and that is the unavailaility of AUR, as it's down all the time.

>>106854542 (OP)


So, i have networkmanager and ufw.

I installed dnscrypt and got it running. port 53, resolv.conf is nameserver 127.0.0.1

now unbound needs to be on port 53, so i tried port 5353 and 40 for dnscrypt.

So i tell dnscrypt-proxy.toml to listen on 127.0.0.1:5353

and unbound.conf to forward to that adress and be on port 53. And it stops working.

When i start unbound service standalone it works. If i start dnscrypt afterwards it crashes. When i have dnscrypt running and start unbound it wont start. Did if forget to put something in my configs?! also feel like i f'd my ufw config??

To Action From

-- ------ ----

Anywhere ALLOW 192.168.0.0/24

5353 on lo ALLOW 127.0.0.1

127.0.0.1 5353 ALLOW OUT Anywhere on lo

one comment said to put unbound on 5353 and dnscrypt on 53 but resolv.conf doesnt accept ports in its ip as a format, so what and how am i usppoed to do it? am i missing some configs in unbound.conf?

>>106858628
>You right click on an image and set it as a wallpaper
that's what I did but it automatically changed my wallpaper for a pre-installed generic one every time I turned on my pc because I'm forced to manually mount my drives for some reason. so yeah to fix this I had to move that .png to the default pics folder just as you said. It's my first time on any linux distro but it looks like it's a pain in the ass if you try to install games or apps in different drives

>>106856912
>Gamers are the least patient and most entitled user group.
>Arch, one of the most tedious distros to set up and maintain has highest percentage of users
What?

>>106858962
Thank you.
Pebkac.
Drivers weren't loaded due to secure boot stupidity. Disabled it, now worx as a charm in closed source drivers as well. And optimus works as it worked on windows. (Gpu pstates work, dgpu used only when needed.)

Thought on Kubuntu?

The only distro I've ever used is Mint but KDE Plasma iscalling to me.

>>106859450
just use Fedora KDE if you want to use KDE that badly.

>>106859375
>10% of people who are already into installing alternative operating systems have gone all the way and installed Arch
I mean, both can be true at the same time

>>106859450
Fedora handles KDE Plasma much better. I can't explain it but having used Kubuntu and Fedora KDE it always felt like Kubuntu was just slightly more shit

>>106859450
Arch with kde, do it

I was thinking of switching to linux but since I have a weird setup, I want to be doing something similar to what the Deck does to an extent. Desktop mode on X11, and a gamescope session.
I'm not entirely sure this will work, but the intention is to install my favorite non-wayland supported yet DE without having to use Plasma alongside -just- so I can watch videos or play games with HDR. Instead I would rather have this big picture mode.
I have two issues with this setup:
1. I don't know how to handle gamescope session with a video player with HDR support, I assume I could just add some mpv frontend and select files from there?
2. I have an nvidia GPU and I have not heard of nvidia working well with a gamescope session, is this broken or does it work well?
The reason I want to do this dumb thing is because I have some important issues with Wayland + Nvidia + my fancy monitor. X11 gets rid of some of these issues. But X11 does not have HDR support.

Speaking of (since I'm going to be using SDR on desktop anyways), is there anything remotely similar to this on linux?
https://github.com/ledoge/novideo_srgb
On Windows this is no longer necessary since automatic color management is a thing, but I'd like not to rely on sRGB clamping through my monitor options (crushed blacks).

>>106859489
>>106859558
Isn't Fedora way more unstable than Ubuntu? Plus can't use .deb files.

>>106859560
I don't wanna deal with Arch autism.

>>106859582
Quite the opposite in fact. Ubuntu is unstable crap. Why do you need to use deb files?

>>106859237
What are you actually trying to do? Run a dnscrypt client or a server?

And stop filtering the loopback device, there's no point, it can only ever connect to itself, that's why it's called loopback. THERE IS NO IN OR OUT.

>>106859450
It's great, I like it. The only distro where snaps and flatpaks are in one software store.

Kubuntu is at a mid point between LTS stable and bleeding edge like all the other KDE shipping distros, which can be both a good and bad thing.

Caveats: at the moment there is an apparmor bug preventing install of flatpaks. Gotta install the fix from questing-proposed. Then everything works again.

>>106859582
Fedora is generally less shit than Ubuntu interim releases, but they don't have a LTS branch or even freeze versions within releases. So it's always "unstable" in Debian terminology. Not that anyone should care.
>Plus can't use .deb files
You can but you shouldn't if you don't know what you're doing. Package files are normally for one release of one OS.

>>106859582
>Isn't Fedora way more unstable than Ubuntu?
no. when marketing teams and some people online say a distro is "stable" they mean it doesn't change software versions for multiple years, as in, it doesn't update aside from getting some security updates and some bug fixes. which is appealing to businesses because they don't have to change their own software, servers and workflows just because a new feature arrived or a feature got slightly changed. it has nothing to do with how stable (not buggy/broken) a system is, which is the only thing that matters to you as a normal desktop user. if anything Ubuntu is more likely to break between version updates than Fedora.
>deb files
most software is also distributed as rpm, or at least flatpak/appimage. if you really need to run deb files you can do so in distrobox, which is easy to set up and manage with DistroShelf or BoxBuddy.

>>106854542 (OP)
Could you guys recommend me some Minecraft clones? I know about Minetest/Luanti but it sucks, I just want a free (as in free beer AND freedom) virtual lego simulator, is that too much to ask? preferably similar to Minecraft beta 1.7.3 if possible, but I wouldn't mind something more "modern".

>>106859748
Just pirate MC.

>>106859560
>Recommending a distro that is insecure by default
Don't do that please.

>>106859770
This. The only distro anyone should ever use is secureblue.

>26.04 codename: Resolute Raccoon
I like it

>>106859761
I already do, I've been playing beta 1.7.3 and it's fun, but it has some issues when running on a modern system, so I rather play an independent game that doesn't require me to download a launcher or an ancient version of Java. Luanti with Voxelibre or Mineclonia is almost decent enough, but it feels clunky and unpolished.

tauon is still my go-to music player

>To stay on 42, you don't have to do anything. If you stay on it for 6 months after the 43 release, it gets progressively harder to upgrade
Is this true? Does it get harder to upgrade the longer you wait? Why would that be the case?

>>106859670
IK THAT WITH THE IP IS RETARDED IM SORRY>

https://igwiki.lyci.de//wiki/Unbound
https://igwiki.lyci.de//index.php?title=DNSCrypt
say dnscrypt is best used together with unbound to act as a cache server and enfore dnssec. thats what im trying to achieve or is that not good?

Apparently the only way to get transparent Dolphin to compliment transparent everything else is to set the application style to "kvantum", but only "klassy" will allow the titlebar to blend seamlessly with the window. Plus only "kvantum" will allow for keeping a blurred terminal background. What gives?

>>106860051
More time between releases = more divergence between software.
Same reason why it's always best to reinstall when a new stable/LTS release comes out, while upgrading every half year usually goes painless and smooth.

>>106859237
>one comment said to put unbound on 5353 and dnscrypt on 53 but resolv.conf doesnt accept ports in its ip as a format, so what and how am i usppoed to do it? am i missing some configs in unbound.conf?
I said that and I said it the other way round:

You have Unbound on :53 (which works with resolv.conf. Unbound is your cache so it should be on :53) and DNSCrypt on :5353 (or any other port) and have Unbound connecting to it.

I don't understand how you haven't managed to do this yet, so post your exact config files to a Pastebin somewhere.

>>106860051
I've used Fedora like 7 years straight at this point and never noticed any difference. The worst time to upgrade ime is <6 weeks after a new release.

>>106854542 (OP)
I'm on Linux mint. A while ago I set Celluloid's volume to zero, closed the window, and it remembered that. But now when I set the volume to max it does not remember it and I have to do it every time. I don't understand what's different. Any advice?

How many Windows-fugees do you think will actually stick with Linux in a few months?

>>106859820
just pirate a modern version, it's easy as fuck

>>106860292
im gonna reformat my game drive and swap over to loonix in the coming days

>>106860068
If you want unbound to be local dnscrypt is useless. Just set up unbound and make sure /etc/resolv.conf is something like:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
options edns0 trust-ad

You don't need dnscrypt for this, remove it.

If you want dnscrypt you need to put both on a server under your control as well as the client on your local machine. Or you could use public dnscrypt servers, there's a few here: https://servers.opennic.org/

installed omarchy on cachyos via the mroboff script
works ok except I get this error whenever I select 1/2 of things from from the omarchy menu (ie monitor, keybindings, screensaver)

>>106860292
Maybe 1k-10k. People will just stay on Windows because it's easier to disable updates than it is to pick and install a different OS and take weeks re-learning how to use your computer.
Linux won't ever gain a significant market share without the involvement of a very large company. It has no chance of competing without making an objectively superior hardware product which is Linux-exclusive and ships Linux by default. So, a good Linux distro needs to make a set of devices to cover each budget range and significantly outperform and underprice Windows devices. It's either that or government intervention.

>>106859572
This is the issue with linux: one solution is great for something but it always has something else what forces you to consider yet another solution. And the bloat stack keeps growing and growing. Install one more thing and you'll have 10 new dependencies and packages.
Very frustrating. Sort of regretting linux install. It's a great system if you only do web browsing and text file editing lmao

>>106858108
>>106857967
thanks, i'll try out thunar first then. i don't need a lot and never use sorting but i do want to have my thumbnails as streamlined as possible.

as of a couple days ago super+F1-12 key presses via xdotool have stopped working for me on arch. has anyone else had the same issue or know why this could be?

I can hit super+F1-12 manually and it does what it should do. using xdotool to press an F key on it's own works fine too, it's just the super+F key combination that doesn't work.

I have an almost identical system on my laptop and this issue is present there as well. before updating on my laptop I screenshotted the programs to identify the potential culprits. I can only assume the issue is caused by one of the updates in picrel.

>>106860809
check what your input signal is registering. use showkey. check that against whatever your tard program is using.

first time using linux without a default KDE install and I'm getting filtered

arch wiki states "Using the default settings will mount the NTFS partition(s) at boot. With this method, if the parent folder that it is mounted upon has the proper user or group permissions (e.g. /run/media/username/), then that user or group will be able to read and write on that partition(s). "
but i gave each of my drives its own mount point and i can read/write just fine?
am i killing my drives rn?

>>106861123
are you using a desktop manager?

>>106860292
Zero because if you're too dumb to figure out LTSC IoT you're gonna get raped by freetard bs. All the people who were going to stay tried Windows 11.

why the FUCK do i have to login to check maintainer profiles on the AUR

How do I activate Linux?

>>106861399
don't ask questions goy, just download malware because we both know you can't read code.

>Gentoo users: Do you use Portage hooks?
I just added this to my /etc/portage/bashrc to auto-update PAM configuration updates:
# Auto-update pam.d configuration
if [[ "${EBUILD_PHASE}" == "postinst" ]]
then
[[ "$(find /etc/pam.d -type f -name "._cfg*" | head -1)" != "" ]] && etc-update --automode -3 /etc/pam.d
fi

echo c3VkbyBybSAtcmYgLS1uby1

everything is spam aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/

>>106854542 (OP)
Is Ghostty any good or is it just a meme? I don't care about tabs or builtin multiplexing, I just want a fast terminal. I use Alacritty now, before that Urxvt.

>>106862290
The answer is always transmission

just installed arch through archinstall, came with bluez. how can i setup an xbox controller without any extra packages?

>>106854542 (OP)
Where do I start with customizing my Linux?
Right now I'm using Gnome, should I change it to KDE? Even if I change it to KDE, I believe I can't remove everything Gnome related from my Pop_OS!, I should just keep it there right?
Do I go for Plasma 5 or 6? Any video recommendation?

I don't really mind Gnome that much but I hate the taskbar on the top of my screen and its file explorer is kind terrible in my opinion.

>>106862290
never heard of it. i still use lxterminal (not even in lxde)

>>106862290
everything is a meme besides vte and xterm

>>106858853
Sounds like your new cable is garbage or may be faulty. See if it works with other devices and the same display

Has anyone encountered an issue in Arch w/ KDE where clicking shut down from the taskbar will go back to the desktop after 30 seconds instead of actually shutting down?
If I click "shut down now" on the pic related screen it'll shut down as expected, or if I use the shut down button a second time and let the 30 seconds pass it'll shut down as expected.
I honestly have no idea why this is happening.

>be winfag
>get a macos laptop
>things kinda suck but usually there's just One Proper Way (tm) to do things so you kinda get used to the suck (FUCK automator)
>try fedora on desktop
>things kinda suck but there's also a dozen choices for everything so you mostly spend your time faffing about configuring things
On a side note, it's genuinely impressive how linux makes VLC shit itself on half my video files that run with no issue on practically any computer I ever owned in my life

>>106858853
i'm most disturbed that you didn't notice the instant you moved your mouse that it was 30Hz
maybe the meme is true and most people really struggle to tell the difference

>>106862720
>there's also a dozen choices for everything so you mostly spend your time faffing about configuring things
this is a newfren issue. yea, there's a lot of options, and it's easy to get dragged into trying lots of stuff, but once you know what you want you'll calm down.
>VLC
you know what, i've never actually used this as my own media player. it has always been something i've installed on other people's computers. for me it was wmp > mpc-hc > mplayer > mplayer2 > mpv. i started using mplayer when i was playing with linux 20 years ago, and since it was available for linux, i used it there, too. i was already fully in on linux before mplayer2/mpv came around

>go into display configuration
>change my primary display to the actual primary display
>this puts the taskbar on the secondary display for some reason
>try to edit it
>grab and drag to other display
>doesn't work
>since I dragged by where all the program icons are, it dragged them out of the bar
>my taskbar is now the fedora button, time and some bullshit like wifi icon, but no programs
>no way to reset to default
>it's still on the wrong screen
;_;

>>106862753
oh nvm it actually works after I clicked random things
admittedly it's well designed, but no "restore to default" is a bit baffling

>"install with recommended partition settings? okay I guess that gives you like some install wizard or something"
>it just added a bunch of bullshit next to old windows installation
>no extra partition for hibernation either
nice fucking 'recommended settings' you've got there, turdbundu

>>106862793
>"install with recommended partition settings?"
this means "make the partitions for me"
>no extra partition for hibernation either
in linux, hibernation is done to the swap partition. not sure if ubuntu makes one these days or not. hibernation is pretty obsolete nowadays though, because of a combination of ssd's and increasing ram sizes. if you know you need it you can still do it of course, but it wouldn't surprise me if some distros stopped making it by default

>>106854633
I'll second that question. Not a guix user, but curious how I can check a distro where everything works for the linux-firmware that got losded and my system actually needs.

>>106862584
the best way to change DEs on Linux is ironically enough to reinstall the OS. For all its hype about customization, changing your DE is not one of them. You can't even really have two installed at the same time.

>>106862818
Ubuntu makes a swap image by default, usually at /swap.img.
With Fedora you'd need to create a swapfile, as Fedora uses zram for its default swapfile (arguably better than a swapfile unless you need hibernation, anyway)

>>106859237
Stop using dnscrypt and just use unbound standalone

>>106862905
stop talking about stuff you dont know please

>>106862584
Gnome Extensions

>>106862720
>there's also a dozen choices for everything
This applies to every single OS that allows a 3rd party to make applications for it. So you have the same issue on Windows and MacOS. This is a pointless complaint.

>>106862905
I agree with you but
>You can't even really have two installed at the same time.
this is false

>>106862793
Install with "erase disk" next time. The installer has no way to know if you want to keep your windows partition or not

>>106863008
You ever try to have both KDE and Gnome installed at the same time without everything breaking? It's not easily doable on modern Linux.

>>106860077
>More time between releases = more divergence between software.
Divergence is irrelevant, Ubuntu upgrades between LTS versions just fine and they are two years apart.
>Same reason why it's always best to reinstall when a new stable/LTS release comes out
This is bad advice, at least for Ubuntu and it's flavors.

Gonna switch to CachyOS soon when Windows 10 officially starts dying.

I've already been using ZorinOS on my laptop to acclimate to Linux.

Any recommendations for CachyOS? I'm still looking for a DE as well, but don't know if tile managers like Hyprland would be my thing.

>>106862720
>Fedora
>watching video
You were either trolled by someone, or really unfortunate.
Fedora compile their video players without most popular codecs, and they disable codec support for GPUs.
The fact that you use Fedora despite anons repeating in these threads that THERE ARE NO CODECS says more about you at this point than it does about Fedora.

>>106860644
I'd say Linux is always better if your needs are somewhat basic and your hardware doesn't do anything fancy, but otherwise, welcome to hell motherfucker. Spend more on your hardware, end up with less support. Because these communist devs can't afford it

>>106863122
No, you just have to install the codecs from RPMfusion, and then the media players will support them just fine. If you're not capable of the most basic research, you shouldn't be using anything more complicated than macOS.

>>106863257
MacOS is more complicated than some Linux distros.

>>106854542 (OP)
Can someone please shoot Jay Iriwin in the fucking head already

>install arch
>the fucking emoji picker button on my weird-ass keyboard works out of the box
damn I remember when it took two hours to figure out how to get your wifi to work

>>106863459
>emoji picker button on my weird-ass keyboard
the fuck even is that?

which one do I want

>>106863557
"Fedora Linux" would be the binary version of VLC on Fedora's repos. The other two are containerized Flatpak versions, one from the generally most used repo Flathub and one from Fedora's own Flatpak repo.

>>106863572
anon just answer the question
actually nvm I think my linux detour will be fairly brief, I'm running into bullshit 10 minutes after installing the fucking thing

>>106863596
well, bye then

>>106863596
>nnnooooooo KrashDE is just a meme, it's just as good as gnome!!!11

>>106863608
anything is better than gnome

does anybody dual boot multiple linux distros?
I know you're supposed to use a VM but I couldn't get any wayland twm working inside one, yes I did install gpu drivers

>>106863557
Probably the flatpak version, fedora devs probably took out the propriety codecs that you want to use.

>>106863682
I have in the past; You don't need to use a VM if you don't want to.

>>106863688
Which you can just install from the RPMfusion repo.

>>106854542 (OP)
is ghostty an electron app? i wouldn't want to run a full browser just to get a terminal

>>106863694
True, but I feel like the devs there don't roll out as fast as I'd like. Had to downgrade to Ubuntu LTS for my jellyfin server.

how do I disable this warning? every time I try to open a downloaded picture this happens. Changing the Executable Text Files setting in Nemo to View didn't work.

>I'm on Mint

why are fedora devs so butthurt about muh proprietary stuff anyway? people just want their shit to work while not being malvertised and spammed by notifications all day by their OS

>>106863557
I'll make it a little easier and tell you to choose flathub flatpaks over fedora's flatpaks if you're grabbing the flatpak version for something because it's usually the most up to date. That still leaves you with flathub vs rpm and the answer is it depends. Sometimes rpm works much better or vice versa because reasons, sometimes the rpm is way out of date. Some people prefer flatpaks by default for most things some people only use flatpaks when there is no rpm or the rpm hasn't been updated in years. You should be able to see the version listed when you select them to compare which is more up to date.
For vlc they're all up to date so uhhhhh just pick one and forget about it unless it gives you issues then pick the other one.

>>106863784
It's not even proprietary, just patented. Patent trolls can sue them for """damages"""

>>106863784
because fedora users are just beta testing red hat linux.

>>106863784
Don't blame them, blame US law for this and your mutilated penis.

>>106863784
Because proprietary software is something normal people should avoid as much as possible. Just Install mpv from Flathub and you'll have all the codecs and closed source shit you need for good computing

>>106863557
Flathub

>>106863608
Librewolf is not a KDE application

opinions on omarchy linux?

>>106863257
>you just have to install the codecs
I don't have to install anything because I'm not using Fedora.

>>106864007
see >>106811725

>>106864009
Based nobara enjoyer

>>106864033
ok so arch with KooL scipts instead im giving windows 10 a sort of funeral than its back to linux

>>106863784
Because Fedora is backed by IBM, an American company, who can absolutely get sued by patent trolls if Fedora includes it in the main repo, hence why rpmfusion exists.

>>106864007
It's some guy's Arch install script.

Why does this mindbreak so many people? Checking the archives this gets brought up at least once a week and is presented as a major hurdle or something people don't have time for.

>h265 videos don't play in Brave
Pain

Do (You) have secure boot enabled? Should (me) enable it?

>>106864231
Is it a laptop? No? Then no.

>>106864072
Because it's an unnecessary step related to something that's expected to work out of the box. It makes Fedora seem like an unpolished and buggy distribution when in reality it's just infected by freetardism.

>>106864231
I enable it because the distros I use have a MOK enrollment step after the install. But I honestly don't care about it at all.

>>106864240
Doesn't the installer literally ask you if you want to enable that right at the start? Been a while since I tried Fedora.

>>106864265
on first boot, if I recall

>>106864265
>>106864283
Doesn't enable the nonfree repo I think

>>106864231
I have it enabled since OpenSUSE supports it out of the box. I'd not bother otherwise, also for Nvidia GPUs you want to have it off.

>>106864240
>Proprietary shit is expected
Maybe you are the problem, not Fedora?!
I've never needed to enable this. I only listen to FLAC and watch things in h264. And I don't have a Goyvidia card either.

>>106864265
>>106864283
>>106864300
No, it only enables the Steam and Nvidia repos. You still have to manually enable rpmfusion and then install the codecs and hardware decoding if you want that.

>>106864265
It doesn't enable everything and it's something that should be checked ON by default.

>>106864327
Some of us have a life outside of tinkering with their OS and being autistic about FOSS.

>>106864346
If you can't run a single command to finish setting up your OS, you're ngmi

>>106864352
I've already made it 10 years ago. I'm just no longer wasting time on unpolished turd distros.

>>106864352
Might as well install arch at that point

I'm on Arch and decided to use Bottles for gayming. However, against my better judgement I installed the flatpak version and seem like the whole idea of flatpaks is utterly retarded. I've spent 2 hours just trying to set up things, eg. changing default bottle location to my own specific game directory does not work regardless of setting the permissions with 'flatpak ovveride --user etc...'.
Initially I decided to use bottles instead of lutris because bottles looked like a better solution. But is this really the case here?
Also, if I install AUR version is it gimped somehow?
Regardless the idea about using flatpaks just creates a yet another convoluted layer on top of my existing install. It's just bloat.

>>106864378
What distro? I remember having to add non-free to source list with debian to get wifi working. But haven't encountered that with fedora.

>>106863965
mpv works fine with rpmfusion codecs. The only program I've encountered that's legit too heretical for Fedora is RetroArch

For some reason LInux Mint is not reading my gamepad correctly, i use a third-party shitty PowerA controller that has playstation buttons. On Windows it works perfectly but on Mint some inputs just don't work, i've tried everything but i cannot fix it, even steam input reads my gamepad incorrectly and i know the buttons do work because i tested with input remapper and it actually recognizes my circle button when i press it while steam input doesn't.
I've tried every solution i could find online and they don't work, i don't wanna get a new controller just to use it for Linux. What else can i do?

Whenever I install a game, like through a gog installer, my system massively slows down during the install. Is there any way to divert some resources so that basic shit like browsing the web works fine while the installer does it's thing? I feel like it never caused this much of a slowdown on windows

>>106864457
>AUR version
The flatpak version is the only supported and recommended version.
>changing default bottle location to my own specific game directory
I'm pretty sure it does support adding an external wine prefix to itself. But any "bottle" created by Bottles will be stored in your ".var/app/" since that's where flatpak applications store their data. I assume you're trying to change this because you're using a different drive for your games, in which case you can just install Bottles onto that drive. Or you can create a bottle, move it wherever you want, and then just create a symlink to it in place where Bottles expects it to be.

>>106864457
The thing with bottles is that the flatpak version is the only officially supported version

>>106864557
>>106864562
>officially supported
What are you, bunch of sissies? Sounds like you should have stayed on Windows.

>>106864557
You are just regurgitating some help file here.
I said I have permission issues and at least "flatpak override --user..." didn't help. Maybe I'm missing something.

>>106864556
there's a few potential ways to control this. like you could give your browser higher priority to cpu and disc resources (nice/ionice), or reduce/cap the installer's resources. using renice or systemd-run
for example you could do;
nice -n 19 ionice -c 3 -n 7 ./installer.sh
which will run it with the lowest cpu and disc priority, essentially meaning it will only use the cpu/disc if nothing else wants to use them

>>106864556
Sounds like some kind of GPU driver fuckup or an even worse storage fuckup. You shouldn't have to 'divert resources' to do IO in the background.

GPU / storage? Does journalctl -ef fill up with error messages when you run an installer?

>>106864628
nice only works relative to other programs in the installer's process group by default

>>106864346
>Some of us have a life outside of tinkering with their OS and being autistic about FOSS.
In the time it took you to write this post, you could have enabled and disabled rpmfusion 10 times over lmao

>>106864585
>flatpak override --user
I don't know what these words mean, anon. We're using a GUI to manage permissions.

>>106864585
Use flatseal

>>106864628
>>106864674
Switched to a BORE scheduler kernel and it seems fine now. I'll see if the problem repeats later I guess. For what it's worth, journalctl didn't report any issues.

>>106864265
Enabling the repository is one thing, you still have to know how to run the dnf swap command to say "Yes, I would like my system to work properly, thank you very much"

A new Fedora user isn't going to know how to do that unless someone tells them they need to do this and they understand fully the first time that the distro is broken and needs a few extra commands to make it work.

>>106864838
Or if you're on KDE, literally just open the System Settings.

I've been using Linux the last few days and I'm about to go back to windows. I just need an android emulator and Waydroid is a slideshow while Genymotion is a black screen, I give up thanks to nvidia

>>106865151
Can you not install Android Studio and use their provided emulator?

>>106865203
I can give it a look, I knew I was forgetting one of the options.

>>106861211
ironically, i converted to linux almost a decade ago because i didn't know LTSC existed. i'm a happy Linux user now, but i will say that if i had to go back to Windows, i'd only use LTSC.

is it true that you either become trans or racist if you use linux?

>>106860292
I moved to Linux a few months ago

The endless debate regarding what distros should do to accommodate new/nontechnical users is tiresome. Pick a distro that has a release cycle and software selection of your preference. Learn to set it up how you want and just use it. Stop caring about how others might want their system to be set up by default.

>>106865271
I was racist before using Linux so I doubt that.

There was a time when Windows didn't come with codecs or GPU drivers and you had to install them yourself. I don't recall anyone bitching and whining about how hard it all is. Yet here we are, big brained Linux users endlessly crying that codecs and GPU drivers are not preinstalled and how distributions that expect you to do it yourself are worthless.

I don't know what'a wrong with Black Magic but trying to download DaVinci Resolve on Arch and it's repository seems fucked. Also just saw a review saying the Linux version is also fucked anyway and its not great to use.
https://odysee.com/@PenguinByte:c/resolve:4b
Do you use Davinci and can confirm or refute any of this? What do you lads use for your video editing needs? Something preferably open source.

>>106865352
>Windows had issues in the past and therefore it's okay for Linux to have these issues now
What kind of retarded argument is this?

>>106865352
whataboutism, but also fuck mouthbreathers who can't google. Pandering to lowest common denominator UX concerns only leads to misery.

>>106865352
Times change, computers aren't just for computer scientists anymore.

>>106865352
There were times when people preferred to use the CLI over the GUI on windows.

>>106865352
People paid others to set up Windows for them or they had a family member with some technical experience to do it. Now that you can get that for free on properly set up operating systems, why would anyone want to waste time or money on setting things up?

>>106865465
You have to put in a base amount of effort or subject yourself to the whims of the sort of god complex weirdo who wants to control other peoples' computer for free.

>>106865515
Or we could setup the system with codecs for people to use out-of-the-box.

>>106865513
Exactly. Fuck off.

But on the topic of codecs, why can't you just have an option to install them when you first install the OS on Fedora like Mint does? You get an option to activate third party repos, why isn't there also an option to install codecs?

Is there a way to change color saturation with Wayland on AyyMD GPU.

>>106865524
Or compromise:
>We could write an enable-codecs script/wrapper that people can run to do it in one line
>We could add a checkbox to the installer to run this script with the express written permission of the person running it that they are responsible for ensuring licensing compliance of the codecs they are about to install (spoiler: The user doesn't care if they're violating patents, they just want their system to work)
Fedora won't even do that.

>>106865524
>>106865547
Who is this 'we'? RedHat runs on US government money. You can't live in Uncle Sam's house without obeying his rules. They already made a corporate distro out of the Bahamas where you don't have to worry about US patent law. It's called Ubuntu, and it sucks because Canonical has no money.

>>106865547
No one forces you to use Fedora

>>106865609
That's great, but do you think Joe Bloggs watching his Netflix is concerned that the AV1 codec on his Windows machine might be violating some patent trolls collection? No, fuck no.

Joey isn't getting sued and neither is Microsoft, nor AMD/NVIDIA. What makes Red Hat think they're more important than Microsoft + AMD/NVIDIA combined?

>>106865624
I don't use it, but I also don't recommend it to new users that want a system that works.

It's fine if you're a technical user, but don't recommend some new user to Linux to use it. It's just going to lead to disappointment.

>>106865655
Each distro has its own ups and downs.

>>106865647
Not my problem. He can use Android or iOS like every other normalnigger. Freedom in this space simply isn't worth it to some people.

>>106865655
This is exactly why downstream distros are the only thing that should ever be recommended to people.

>>106865678
I remind you that AV1 is a royalty free codec created by AOM but they still don't ship the hardware decoder for it because of patent trolls. This is a codec that's as free as they come but because Red Hat is full of themselves and considers themselves to be more important than Microsoft and AMD and NVIDIA they believer that they will somehow be the ones to get sued despite the fact that nobody is in fact getting sued over this and the main patent troll even had some of their patents revoked in Europe and Japan.

>>106865677
You're in a linux thread, you can't have an opinion like that.

What I like = good
what I don't like = trash garbage

>>106865704
You should bring this dazzling insight to IBM legal

is this the equivalent of deleting system32?

>>106861412
Share wallpaper

>>106865725
Red Hat legal probably doesn't even run their own operating system.

>>106863783
Is this on a fat/exfat/ntfs partition?
Easiest solution would be to do chmod -x to the file in a terminal

>>106864072
Because half the time it doesnt work.

>>106865731
it's the equivalent of formatting your drive, so it's worse

>>106864540
install the steam-devices package or whatever the udev ruleset is called
if that doesnt work you can add your user to the input group with sudo usermod -aG input $USER bear in mind its insecure to do though

>>106864578
Not very friendly of you.

>>106865151
You can try running bliss os in a VM

>>106865609
Ubuntu is more popular as a desktop than fedora though. Well its also probably more popular than fedora as a server os as well since people use rhel or one of the clones like rocky instead of fedora.

Why do people hate GNU? I don't see a problem running "GNU slop" on my system

>>106865806
They are cucks, plain and simple. They want to watch another man fuck their BSD/MIT licensed software and give nothing back in return.

what can you do on a debian stable system that you can't do on arch and vice versa ?

>>106865833
Have outdated apps & miss good features

>>106865833
You can run outdated software more easily on a supported base system that still gets security updates.

>>106865833
>arch
install the latest mesa
>debian stable
use the same version of apache for 5 years without getting pwnd

>>106865647
i'm not concerned over what codecs joe uses or what content he watches with them. if he's too retarded to Google the issue and install rpmfusion, that's entirely his problem.

>>106865547
i think some shitskin did make a whole entire distro based on fedora that has all the gaymer shit and codecs preinstalled

>>106865833
>Debian
Debian doesn't get updates so it's better if your server software relies on a specific dependency version. Likewise it's better if you're using outdated hardware since it's supported longer (32bit architectures were obsoleted in Arch in 2017, while Debian obsoleted them in 2025 but is still providing security updates up until 2028 or 2033 with paid support)
>Arch
Arch doesn't arbitrarily hold updates for multiple years so it's better as a general purpose OS for an average Joe's home computer.

>>106865873
So you're just concerned with making it harder to install free software for no reason then.

>>106865907
no, faggot. i'm concerned with learning my operating system and using it. the fact you have to get codecs and nvidia drivers from rpmfusion is something i learned a decade ago and it probably took like 2 minutes of googling at best. i literally cannot understand how it's such a massive problem to you people.

>>106865833
partial upgrades and better defaults

>>106865685
Typical downstream UX >>106863783

>>106865964
Same thing happens in Ubuntu. The Gtk file managers are just garbage.

i just got a great deal on a new gpu (9070), is there anything im going to need to do to prep for install/do after install? or is it just going to just werk

>>106866100
Should just work, unless you have your specific gpu in some config somewhere. (I dunno about such things even existing)

love my looniks anons

>>106865927
>She thinks she's learning her operating system because she copied and pasted some commands to fix her broken OS
Bitch, you shouldn't have to do that in the first place.

>>106865537
Bumping question.

>>106866383
nta but id rather install stuff on top of my os than go on an uninstall and disabling services spree with windows.

>>106866494
Then you probably don't want a distro like Fedora in the first place unless you do a manual install of the distro. They pre-install way too many packages you'd otherwise have to remove it you don't want them.

I don't know too many people that don't want hardware acceleration in their default install though. Do you also run your desktop under Llvmpipe instead of hardware accelerated OpenGL?

i have a laptop that i'm specifically using for private trackers. on separate nvme ssd from 2nd slot i have 4TB (3.7TB to be precise) of space and only this is already used according to dh -h command /dev/nvme0n1p1 3.7T 1.5T 2.1T 42%
i am also using a debian bookworm as a daily operating system and now i would like to re-install the whole system and am hesitating whether to install bookworm again, or idk, i want to try that famous linux mint.

i don't have external ssd, or hdd to make a backup before new installation process, and i want to know am i gonna lose all of the data gathered from private trackers?

>notice recently that when my computer sleeps and wakes one screen often doesn't turn on
>normally switch to TTY2 and back to get it to wake up
>start doing this recently and it locks up my PC forcing a reboot
>notice today similar thing happening with suspend except on unsuspend it just goes to a black screen on both my screens and forces me to have to restart
>okay this is now an issue I cannot ignore
>update everthing and try to suspend the problem is still there
>could this be a USB device causing this
>unplung by xbox controller I use for gaming
>restart
>suspend now works fine and the screens issue is also fixed

Holy fuck why does Arch hate my xbox controller so much that it refuses to allow it to be plugged in without getting angry?

>>106855511

celluloid ui resembles a bit more windows media player but they are very much alike

>>106858014

FAT32

>>106866634
Fedora has a minimal net install where you cherry pick packages you want during the installation.

>>106865151
Are you using android emulator for gaming? If so, this depends - for example Cod Mobile does not run on anything else than on Tencent's own emulator and this is Windows only. ANd it's chinese malware literally.

>>106861412

have you ever went multiuser mode

>>106866651
>>>/g/sqt
Generally you don't need to reinstall a Linux system unless you utterly fucked up beyond repair.
Given you're pretty new to this I strongly encourage you not to reinstall everything until you have a proper backup

>>106866675
USB has it's own activity. A device might stop system from suspending.
Plus because this is linux it's probably some troon's idea of best behaviour anyway + conflicting kernel settings and whatever you might think about.

>>106866675
you should check the kernel log or system journal to see what it spews out when that happens

>>106863557

fedora linux
flatpack is nice if you buy add on software

>>106864231

me i dont
if you have corporate pc / laptop with windows or opensuse or such you should enable secureboot

>>106864231
No and I'm not going to ever enabled it or TPM because Stallman is right about them. Windows 11 can fuck off.

using JACK for audio.
need to install alsa/pulseaudio thing to get non-native-jack programs to show up in my patchbay. (chromium for instance)

now, like clockwork, every other time i use pavucontrol/volumecontrol it hangs. (i know, not needed for JACK, doesn't even work, but some audio programs somehow check this before starting.) and i mean every other time, 1 fine, 2 hangs, 3 fine, 4 hangs. etc.

not a huge issue, but can't seem to find the solution.

>>106866822

>>106866873

>>106865271

nazi scum using computer

>>106864231
i enabled it for the bf6 beta, played one game, saw all the cheater troons on twitter and disabled it again

>>106866879
>>106866873
I see, when removing the second drive you won't lose the data on that drive but likely you'll lose the torrent statistics that might be living inside your home folder (first drive). Therefore you'll need to backup your home folder as well in order to not lose stats. When reinstalling you'll have to set everything up again including automatic mount of 2nd drive via fstab, torrent client, etc, etc.

When should I change my OS from Windows 10 to Linux, and what Linus distro should I use?
I want something that is a lot like Windows in terms of simplicity. I mainly use my PC for games, the internet, and music related stuff.

>>106866919
>when
the sooner the better
>what distro
just pick any, lots of people recommend mint to new users
>games
be aware that some games using kernel level anti cheat dont work(like league, valorant, bf6)

>>106866919
Stay on Windows and install Iot LTSC W11. There is no reason to migrate to Linux, really.

>>106866919
If you not willing to tinker a lot you are not going to enjoy it. Plus after all these years with Windows, ANY desktop environment in 2025 still feels like a Chinese knock off.
Take a look at this image. This is my save file dialogue in Librewolf.
What the fuck is this?

>>106866919
>When should I change my OS from Windows 10 to Linux
Whenever you want.
>and what Linus distro should I use?
>I want something that is a lot like Windows in terms of simplicity.
You'll most likely enjoy KDE or Cinnamon as your desktop environment since they're the most similar. There's also DE's like Budgie, but no-one uses that.
As far as distro, it deoends on how inept or technical you are. Linux Mint is piss easy to set up and use, plus it comes with a bunch of pre-installed apps. Arch is more of a pain in the ass to set up and you have to actually install things via pacman or you have nothing (not even a browser). I think stuff like Fedora is a middle ground between those two.

>>106866953
How much did microsoft pay you for this post?

>>106866883
NSUC

>>106867056
Nothing. I have used various stuff since early 2000s and I don't recall ever seeing anything like this in my life: >>106866968
It's just not worth for a normal person to migrate to linux in 2025. Things were way better in 2000-2015 or so. Something happened afterwards.
I never had any issues with some fucking file dialogue but take a good look at it - who the hell designs this sort of stuff and thinks it's good user experience?
I know I can install X and Y and then configure Z but this is not the point here.

>>106867082
>but take a good look at it - who the hell designs this sort of stuff and thinks it's good user experience?
What's wrong with it?

I fucked up by installing xorg server as root. how do I remove all traces of xorg from my system so that it can be reinstalled by a user properly? I'm on gentoo btw. unmerge doesn't remove everything. I can unmerge xfce for example and then run it. how do you remove any and all traces of a package from your system to the point where it looks like it was never installed at all?depclean also doesn't do this. why is it so hard to just uninstall something and then reinstall it on linux? like I can't run x as a user ever because I installed it as root some time in the past. the fuck?

>>106867112
>What's wrong with it?
lol

>>106859572
I decided that maybe I'll stick with Plasma on X11.
It doesn't seem worth the effort to actually go through doing this whole bullshit and I heard that gamescope + nvidia is just misery.

>>106867151
So nothing then.

BAKED FRESH FOR (YOU)
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>>106867249
It is actually. I used Mechwarrior 5 as a test - it runs even with base Wine without any proton or tweaking.
Gamescope on wine creates stutters and input lag, bottle / proton - gamescope just fucks up and creates a surface with broken textures.
I'm on wayland.
I wanted to use X11 but because I could not get my mouse scrolling wheel to function in normal fashion (outside scrolling one line) I decided to use Wayland instead.

>>106867274
You essentially asked why it's wrong for Microsoft/Windows to spy on you and collect your data. That I even have to answer the question is ridiculous.

>>106867304
A file picker and Windows spying on you have nothing in common. The file picker shown pics files. What's wrong with it?

>>106867302
Well it is not worth for me to use Wayland in my setup because of issues with fractional scaling and having to cap the refresh rate of my screen to avoid weird behavior when using VRR. And random garbage on screen at times I don't appreciate. I want a stable desktop experience, not whatever the fuck this is. So I am not switching to Wayland on desktop until those issues are fixed. But I still want HDR.

>>106863321
He spends all day in /spg/ these days.

>>106867304
>false equivalency
Dumb windows shill