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>What distro should I choose?
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Previous thread: >>106867269

How do i remove the "waydroid_script" folder from my /home? It can't be deleted via the trash bin and sudo rm just gives me a "can't be removed is a folder" message in terminal

>>106879229
You need to use sudo rm -r for a directory.

How can I install pirated software on linux? I have the clean steam files from cs, I put goldberg on top of that. Do I run lutris or wine now on top of those modified files? Am I overthinking it?

>>106879260
Thank for your service in teaching the retarded (me) I even did the help command and didn’t realise the relation of recursive with deleting directories

does electron based software not work on linux?
tried playing coc2 yesterday and it ran like ass
want to watch a movie on discord(vesktop) right now, its laggy as fuck and i dont have any audio

ok so mint is unironically better than bazzite "le hecking gamin' distro" only because it supports X11 and you have more options in your nvidia X settings like color vibrance and stuff. interesting

What software do you anons use for your video editing needs? I'm on an arch distro if that matters

why does this happen with one of my 2.4ghz wifi clients. it's the only device connected to my 2.4ghz wifi, its in the same room as the router, and almost always shows perfect link quality, but randomly it will drop out for short periods of time, an the tx excessive retries goes way up. (i've had tx excessive retries grow by thousands a minute before)
it's a simple camera attached to a pi zero w, streaming over wifi. the powersupply is overkill, and i've tried two different pi zero w's. i do live in a fairly congested wifi area, but wouldnt that kind of interference be constant.

Maybe my router is dying?

Well, this is it. I am unplugging my ethernet cable. I am going to the gym. I might come back and watch kino or play some games before I reboot into Linux for the first time. This is a big moment. All my subsequent posts will be from Fedora. I will self-reply to this post as evidence that I made it and successfully got Linux up and running. I will rely on this thread and Grok with any questions or issues I run into.

RIP Microsoft

>>106880161
>but wouldnt that kind of interference be constant.
No.

My terminal and tty do not emit sound?

>>106879970
The video sequence editor in Blender.
EC released a video about it recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99ZdOuJMrao

>>106879970
Kdenlive

>>106880165
>I will rely on this thread and Grok with any questions or issues I run into
be careful with this, i tried using google's ai to help me out when i migrated to linux and ended up arguing with it for an hour over a package it wanted me to install which doesn't exist

>>106880254
AIs are like Doctors, they will straight up lie to you instead of admitting they don't know.

What is your experience with immutable distros Anons?
I'm thinking about switching my desktop to one of the Fedora atomic desktops.

>>106880199
so why would the quality drop so sharply for a short amount of time? how can i troubleshoot this?

>>106879385
No that's not a thing. Sounds like driver problems.

>>106879385
electron based software doesn't work in general

>>106880394
I don't see the point desu. Like yeah, I'm sure they're great if you're a sysadmin maintaining a college computer lab and want to make sure all 200 machines are identical and don't get out of sync. Although even then you probably had config management to do that and don't need it built in to the distro.

But for an individual with one or two machines that he's both root and the sole use on, just... why?

>>106880582
>>106880591
so which one is it?
i downloaded the official discord client in the meantime and that worked without any issues so im guessing its not electron based

>>106880595
There's no disagreement. It doesn't work well but it doesn't work any worse on Linux.

>>106880510
It could be as simple as someone using a microwave.

I can't seem to run the clean files version of 9 Kings I got from cs rin ru using Bottles or Lutris. Am I doing something wrong? I can click "Play" and it sorta tries to start up, but then nothing happens.

Not strictly a Linux question but I want some advice on backups. I have my / and /home snapshots backing up on an external SSD via USB and the important stuff on my storage HDD backing up to an external HDD via USB. I'm covered if an internal disk dies but if my house burns down I'm fucked. How should I do offsite backups? I have a couple of tb of Google Drive storage, is it a bad idea to just push everything up there? Should I think about a dedicated cloud backup provider? Hide a Raspberry Pi with an SSD under my desk at work?

>>106880801
Search for Amazon Glacier. It's designed for offsite backups that are not frequently accessed so the upload price is pretty cheap, accessing the data is expensive though, and slow as well

>>106879142 (OP)
There's no /sqt/ thread so I'll ask here. For the past 2 days or so I've been having issues with videos on Firefox, I get a message saying the video can't be played (happens in twitch, invidious, twitter).
>restarted firefox in safe mode but issue persists
>booted using the 6.12 lts kernel just in case but nothing
I restored a Timeshift snapshot from last friday and the issue is gone, could it be an OS issue? I updated my Arch last saturday, and the snapshot doesn't restore my home partition, so I'm pretty sure is not a firefox issue, specially because the version installed is always the same one.

>>106880821
Thanks anon, pricing looks to be pretty good. Might go with it

>>106880845
pacman -S ffmpeg mpv

And see what happens, if it doesn't fix it then you'll still enjoy those two packages

>>106880845
Does it happen again if you immediately updoot everything after restoring the snapshot?
If so then you may want to upgrade the system incrementally (possibly using the snapshots archive: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive) until you can figure out what's causing it (assuming you don't have a general eye for troubleshooting and can't tell what it might be just by looking at the package list)

>>106880889
ffmpeg is a dependency of mpv last I checked

>>106880675
god damn jannies heating their hotpockets

>>106880595
yeah idk what the issue is
disabling hardware acceleration seems to fix it so i'll do just that

>>106879265
Pretty much yeah, add the exe to your launcher of choice. I usually create the prefix with winetricks sandbox and move everything to drive_c, it's cleaner that way

>>106880801
Hetzner Storage Boxes are another option if it's not shit that would get you arrested in the EU.

is it possible to search with KDE Filepicker? I want to tag all the files in my meme directory and use tags to search for them (currently I just have separate directories + sane filenames)

>>106881493
They don't have search for tags. I wish they did, the tags system in general is very basic and needs an overhaul. If you apply too many tags the whole system chugs and the file picker stops working.

Yet, despite this it's still better than any other desktop which doesn't even have tags properly. If GNOME were less focused on pretty smartphone UI designs they'd do something about this and design a better UX for tags because tags are genuinely the best UX to search for things. None of their designers are cut out for real work like that though, they'd probably tell you that tags are too complicated and normal people wouldn't get it yet stuff like Hydrus exists and proves them wrong (it's not integrated to file pickers though)

can someone give me a tard proof guide on upgrading from ubuntu 20.04

which build will less likely turn me into a troon?

>>106881704
Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Nobody ever got trooned for using IBM

>>106881691
$ sudo /bin/bash -l
# apt update && apt full-upgrade -y && do-release-upgrade

>>106881764
>>106881691
Also if you have any PPA's installed then disable them first with ppa-purge:
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/ppa-purge.1.html

>>106879265

theres windows
theres wine runtime system
theres the new third one like wine but i forgot project name

>>106881846
>theres the new third one like wine but i forgot project name
Winboat?
(the project Reddit won't stop shilling which is basically an electron app with a pre-configured Windows VM)

>>106880161

someone is microwaving tea and cheesetoasts

>>106881704

have a computer and drink ber
enjoy your manboobs

Gnome developers are fucking psychopaths

>>106882173
Use case for empathy?

>>106882173
When a dev team is looking for "software shamans" you know it's off the deep end.

Installed mpv in Crux Linux with prt-get depinst mpv. Something must have gone wrong because there is no video in mpv
>Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (--vo) device
How do I reinstall/build mpv (with dependencies) with prt-get? I can't find it out.

>>106880801
I bought a lifetime koofr 1TB account last year for 120€. Syncs all my important documents between my phone and PC. Native Linux client,. everything is encrypted, I like.

>>106880254
yea it's a bit concerning seeing people trying to get help from ai chatbots, i've played with it a bit and they can be pretty unreliable
they excel at giving convincing answers, but the accuracy leaves something to be desired. it will invent commands and arguments which will surely confuse new users considerably

>>106882332
God i wish this existed down here in Australia.

>>106882234
You could try using a distribution with a proper package manager instead of that minimalist crap.

>>106882413
Thanks for your input

>>106882432
Happy to help.

>>106880318
This.
But when they are right they are very right. Copilot is great at writing Ansible for me.

should i gentoo

>>106882520
If you're interested in it. If you're happy with your current distro then there's not much point.

>>106879779
>rpm-ostree install plasma-workspace-x11
you now have the x11 session of plasma

>>106880394
>What is your experience with immutable distros Anons?
the only positive experience I've had with desktop linux

>install Mint
>shitty youtube playback at fullscreen
>install Ubuntu
>good youtube playback at fullscreen
huh. is it thanks to wayland? same browser. in both cases hardware video decoding is enabled and works.

I'm using an old Terascale gpu for display output and a Pascal gpu for the heavy lifting. vkcube and gravitymark work fine but anything wine shits itself. Has anyone faced a problem like this? Proprietary driver installed and working as evidenced by vkcube and gravitymark.

Does Linux have no good music players? I think I have tried them all at this point but none come close to MusicBee (UI, customization, looks, feature set for library management). I'm running it through bottles now but then my media keys won't work with it.

/fglt/ellas do you have any input for people who want to not just switch to gnu/lnx but also build a new machine along with it? My rig is from 2019 and I was looking into building a completely new one with abandoning windood in mind. Now I have tried some distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint) and feel like they are all quite alright but I guess there will be some that might make more sense for certain hardware/applications. I tend to play some vidya but rarely the newest AAA dog shit so is it just irrelevant in that regard? Also a little bit of 3D rendering here and there. Do I need a distro like Nobara and Nvidia hardware? Can you get away with AMD these days? This PC currently runs with an RTX 2060S but I can see myself going back to a Radeon like back in the "old" days (like I still think of it as ATI Radeon).

>>106883917
AMD works a lot better but you miss out on easy access to AI stuff.

>>106883937
You mean like local models and stuff like that? Not really something I am into (yet). But I can see how this could become relevant. I am a turbo casual in that regard still (used some web apps for generating stuff but not really something I care about a lot yet).

>>106880394
Super pointless.

>>106883753
Euphonica, Strawberry, Lollypop, Elisa

>try to install fedora
>SSD is not recognized
>enable AHCI in bios but still doesn't work
>find a reddit post saying he had the same problem and he installed an older version of fedora (38) and it worked
>download fedora 38 iso
>werks!
>update fedora to 42
>tty says it cannot recognize my ssd
>fuck it I will install arch
>download arch iso
>archinstall
>complete install
>ssd not recognized by the system
>fuck it I will install mint
>download mint iso
>boot iso
>my ssd is recognized and I can install it fine
>play a bit in the cinnamon de
>I don't like it
>also x11 is a no no
>download debian with gnome
>my ssd is recognized and the installation runs smoothly
>I use debian now

Chat is this true? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Btrfs

>>106884178
debian always works, and you can be sure it won't randomly break over time

>>106884296
until you update to the next major version*

>>106884262
it's already been a default in Fedora and any distro based on it for the past 5 years

>>106884178
Update your firmware maybe?

>>106884262
Probably not because CPU overhead and CoW management issues will never go away.

>>106884514
I have the latest firmware but its a chink SSD

>>106884262
It's already the default in SUSE and Fedora.
>>106884542
Maybe if you have something older than an Intel Haswell I wouldn't bother with BTRFS but most "modern" (Haswell is ancient now) CPUs should cope.

>>106884779
Oh, and KDE's new Linux distro (KDE Linux) makes great use of BTRFS too.

>>106883694
I should probably plug it into my guaranteed to work Haswell system as a sanity check.

>>106884779
>Maybe if you have something older than an Intel Haswell I wouldn't bother with BTRFS but most "modern" (Haswell is ancient now) CPUs should cope
Not really because storage keeps getting faster relative to CPU. If anything it was more relevant in the Haswell era because there were still people running around with SATA drives in laptops where compression made btrfs a performance enhancement.

>>106879142 (OP)
why does distrowatch have zero mentions of omarchy?

>>106884902
The distro came out 2 days ago.

>>106884902
Now it just looks like Cachy is being botted but it's like an actual good Arch spin instead of MX Linux being a mediocre Debian spin.

>>106884902
Because distrowatch is a click counting game. Linux doesn't call home to report how many people are running whose kernel builds.

>>106884858
CPUs keep getting faster too though. It wasn't long ago that you couldn't even run a CPU stable at 5 GHz.

>>106884409
and everything still works, your point?

CPUs and storage get faster
Programs get more bloated
My OS is still exactly as fast as it was in 2007. Good job, everyone

>>106885021
AMD made modern Zen processors so amazing just so we could have an electron app with a Windows VM in it.

>>106884902
Distrowatch stats are irrelevant and nowhere near the real representation of Linux distro usage. The website is just telling you what a very small subset of newbies are looking into. And Omarchy does not appeal to newbies.

>>106885095
yeah but ctf=f omarchy = 0 results for the entire homepage. no news, no spot in the top 100

>>106885006
>CPUs keep getting faster too though
Not relative to storage they haven't. That balance has been moving backwards for 20 years.

>>106883917
> I tend to play some vidya but rarely the newest AAA dog shit so is it just irrelevant in that regard?
multiplayer games with cheat protection don't work on linux, beware, the rest pretty much are fine
>Also a little bit of 3D rendering here and there.
Linux support for proper 3D tools is nowhere near Windows (read: Adobe), nothing much to say here
>Do I need a distro like Nobara and Nvidia hardware?
Distro is pretty much irrelevant nowadays, I seriously recommend arch
>Nvidia hardware? Can you get away with AMD these days?
AMD is the way to go for the general desktop experience + casual Linux gaming. NVidia is the way to go for AI and compute as >>106883937 says. I personally have both in my workstation, the NVidia is card is solely used for AI (saving a few MB's of VRAM as it's not used for desktop)

My take: Create your new build but keep your existing one, use both with the aid with a KVM, this is what I do and it works perfectly. I daily drive Linux but power up Windows whenever I need it

>>106885204
>Omarchy (130)
It'll get to top 100 tomorrow because SomeOrdinaryGamers made a video on it. Just you wait.

What is the most Directory Opus-like file manager for Linux?

Anybody here with a 9070XT? How are the mesa drivers compared to Windows, has it reached parity? Honestly that's the only thing holding me back right now.

>>106884836
Doesn't work, worked last year. Spent enough time on this completely pointless task.

Just got a new PC with built in bluetooth on the msi motherboard, installed nobara on it
I am trying to pair a Wii U controller to it but it keeps asking for a PIN code

On my previous PC (also Nobara) I can pair the controller no problem without any prompts for a PIN
On the new PC bluez is version 5.84 and the old PC has 5.81, tried downgrading it but it still asks for a PIN

What could be the issue here

I want to go back to using Slackware so badly but I am scared that things won't work.

>>106879142 (OP)
I have ZERO coding experience, my only Linux experience is on the Steam Deck but somehow I'm considered the tech savvy guy at work/family even if in reality my main skill is being able to click next during installations/following tutorials on youtube.
I wanted to give a try to a Linux OS since I have my old t520 that I don't use anymore sitting there collecting dust but when I start researching what I should try first I immediately get choice overload and can never decide on one.
Am I just more of a retard that I previously tought or is this normal?

>>106885551
>Am I just more of a retard that I previously tought or is this normal?
You may have autism so don't worry.
Just decide on Archlinux, ignore what others say

>>106884078
Strawberry is ugly as fuck and elisa for some reason always freezes for a solid minute whenever I boot. Thankfully found Tauon in the AUR, so there's my rec.

>>106885551
It's normal but it's actually not as complicated as it seems.
>Debian = Tranny
>Fedora = Corpo
>Arch = Autist
Everything else is just a rice of the above.

>>106885683
Normies sleeping on OpenSUSE, Slackware, Exherbo, Gentoo, NixOS, Solus and PCLinuxOS.

Good

>>106885369
I don't have it myself, but from all the benchmarks 6 months ago it performed around 6%-10% worse on Linux. But 9060XT was benchmarked a couple of months ago and the difference was much smaller with some games even performing up to 5% better on Linux. So I assume the situation with the 9000 series improved since the start of the year.
Raytracing on Linux still sucks so performance with it is still around 30%-50% worse. If you rely on RT just stay on Windows for now and run the AME script to regain some privacy.

>>106885551
Well, you have only 2 decisions to make really.
1. The distribution base
This is realistically only Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora or Arch. And it will primarily determine how fast software and driver updates arrive onto your system. Debian and Ubuntu (LTS) are releasing feature updates once every 2 years. Fedora and Ubuntu (non-LTS) are updating things once every 6 months. And Arch is just continuously updating software almost as soon as it's released.
2. The desktop environment
This is mainly KDE and GNOME. KDE is the more Windows-like UI with a lot of features and customization options (it's what you have on your Steam Deck in desktop mode). GNOME is an opinionated hybrid between Android and macOS.
There's others like Xfce, Cinnamon, etc.. They're fine, but more niche and worked on by less people.

If you don't know where to start then you can just go through the most popular distros on Steam Hardware Survey one by one. Just figure out what you like, but obviously skip Arch for now. So, Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, CachyOS, Bazzite, Manjaro.
Alternatively you could just pick either Ubuntu, Fedora or CachyOS and go through their spins/flavors to figure out which desktop environment you prefer.
https://fedoraproject.org/kde/
https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Editions
https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop
https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavors
https://cachyos.org/download/

>>106885799
Not really worth mentioning, use cases too narrow.

How to get fitgirl installers working, usually they get stuck.

>>106885875
Yes only one of the most popular enterprise solutions, that SUSE. https://theirstack.com/en/technology/suse-linux-enterprise-server
https://enlyft.com/tech/products/suse

>>106885905
do they get stuck launching or in the middle of unpacking

>>106885915
>Normies sleeping on
>enterprise solution

Holy fuck Valves AMD driver is so much faster than Nvidia official driver on Windows wtf

>>106885799
Aside from OpenSUSE, the others you've mentioned collectively have less % of Linux users using them than there are PC users using Linux. As in, I'm quite certain less than 3% of Linux users are using those. Ubuntu, Arch and Fedora are the only relevant distros as sad as it is. OpenSUSE is relevant, but not as much as these 3 especially outside of business use.

>>106885915
Sure, but the main discussion is around desktop distros rather than server or office usage. And even if you're talking about servers, SUSE is not as popular as you think. Most companies are not even paying Canonical or RHEL, let alone SUSE. They're mainly using regular Ubuntu, Debian or Alpine and just paying their own engineering teams to maintain them since that's cheaper overall.

>>106885937
for me they get stuck during unpacking.
Last repack i tried installing was skyrim SE and it got stuck at 1.1%.
Im on cachyos if that helps

>>106886013
cpu model?

>>106886021
ryzen 5 5600

>>106886013
don't download fitgirl releases unless your internet is VERY slow
they are compressed to hell and back and it takes ages to unpack them

>>106886026
that cpu is compatible with cachyos
I don't know what's causing your issue.

>>106886033
what other trustworthy source for pirated videogames do i use

>>106886062
check the rxddit r/piracy megathread or google fmhy
cs.rin is usually a safe bet but i dont download from people with low post numbers

>>106885322
prolly double commander

>>106885905
Stuck where? Do you see any progress?
The Fitguy repacks need to run in a virtual Wine desktop, else you won't see the second window.

>>106879779
If you're an nviditard sure. Everything else works better on Bazzite.

you can change your digital vibrance on wayland with nvibrant

>>106880889
>>106880890
I'm back. So I did some experimenting and here's what happened
>load friday's snapshot
>update ONLY mpv and ffmpeg (as well as their deps)
>problem reappears
>load friday's snapshot
>this time update everything except mpv, ffmpeg and their deps
>problem doesn't exist
So now I'm 99% sure this is an ffmpeg issue, but why? I didn't see any posts/news about it anywhere, and it seems to only affect firefox, am I the only one with this problem? also, it doesn't affect all websites, the regular youtube website works just fine, and I can play my local files obviously. Picrel is a list of the packages in question.

>>106886013
ditch fitgirl and retvrn to dodi

How do I transfer an ssh private key from one computer to another? No I have no idea where its stored.

>>106886365
In ~/.ssh, but nominally different machines should have different private keys

>>106886013
>>106885905
There was an anon in one of the previous threads, maybe a week or two ago, who got fitgirl repacks to work on Lutris. Perhaps look into archives. I think he had to tweak something or switch to ProtonGE.

I've got one room with an ethernet connected dock, and another with wifi only. The ethernet room has very poor (but non-zero) wifi reception. The wifi room has excellent wifi reception (AP inside the room) but my house also has a couple of other APs further away which have mediocre reception there.
I used to use wpa_supplicant but it would have terrible roaming, so it would pick one AP and stubbornly stay connected even as the signal degraded. I heard that iwd is supposedly better and more modern, and switched to it, and a lot of the time it works well but sometimes not (I've tried tweaking the settings to lower the roaming threshold, didn't seem to help).

But worse than any wifi roaming, is the fact that sometimes I go sit down in the room with ethernet, plug into the dock that has wired ethernet, and my internet connection is extremely slow and unreliable. I check and wifi is connected, with terrible signal. I disconnect and suddenly everything is super smooth and fast as now the ethernet connection is used.

How or what can I configure to force my network to always prefer wired if there's a wired connection? This isn't even a roaming issue, it's an issue of things being routed through wlan0 rather than eth0 for no reason whatsoever.

>>106885870
>obviously skip arch for now
Doesn't arch have an easy installer nowadays? The whole "arch is difficult" seems kind of like a meme.
I recently installed Artix on my desktop and it felt about as easy as installing ubuntu or something. Click through the installer and boot into a working system. Artix is just because I have autism, I'm pretty sure Arch with an installer would have been an equivalent experience.
I remember hearing that Manjaro was terrible, delaying updates for no reason and breaking packages etc. Of the "newbie-friendly" derivate distros, I personally don't trust most of them, except maybe Mint which I've really heard a lot of good things about. Maybe Pop!OS, but I think it's no longer relevant either.

>>106885406
Interesting. Have you tried 0000 or empty pin?

>>106886513
idk what you're using to manage your network connections, but with systemd-networkd you can use the routemetric value to indicate which interface should have priority to create routes over over another when available

>>106886394
so its just cp ~/.ssh or can I do it with the gui?

>>106884262
Actual answer: RAID5 and RAID6 (i.e. striped raid) should not be used. Anything else, i.e. mirror raid like RAID1, RAID0 etc., are completely fine and perfectly stable.
Avoid RAID5/6 and you will have no issues. The main disadvantage of btrfs is performance, especially with CoW enabled for workloads with lots of small writes. This is a good summary IMO: https://silvenga.com/posts/btrfs-and-lessons-learned/

Any disadvantages aside from no Netflix et. al I should be aware of when using icecat instead of regular Firefox?

>>106886577
>idk what you're using to manage your network connections,
Nothing that I've explicitly installed. I definitely don't have systemd. I'm open to installing something minimal that will help me achieve this, though.

>>106886561
Yea it has an installer but some shit just doesn't work right out the box with arch.

>>106886513
On Plasma you'd configure this by going to the network in settings
>Wifi & Internet > Wifi & Networking > [your connection] > General
Here you have the "Connect automatically with priority" option. All networks default to 0 so they have the same priority. Change the value of your slow Wifi to a negative number to make it a lower priority. You can also increase the priority number of the wired connection so that no other wifi ever competes with it. Or you can just un-tick the checkbox (on the wifi network) so that your device never connects to it automatically.
If you're not on Plasma, look into the network settings of your desktop environment or just manually configure this through systemd or whatever manages your network.

>>106886561
Having used Manjaro for a few years, it never broke for me. I think the "Manjaro breaks" meme is mostly related to people using the AUR. Don't get me wrong, it was definitely buggy, but it wasn't significantly more buggy than Mint at the time I used them both.
As for Arch being easy to install nowadays, that's mainly not true since the installer is still CLI/TUI which filters most people. Yes you can just follow instructions, but most people don't read manuals of any kind and just want to click buttons.

>>106886659
It's based on FF ESR so a lot of new JS/CSS features are missing, which means some websites might break. Other than that there's no real issue with it unless they still auto-block non-free JS.

>>106886671
Like what? The only issue I had was my ethernet driver, because my motherboard is very new and has a 5G intel chipset that didn't have drivers preinstalled. But wifi actually worked out of the box so I installed the ethernet driver that way, which is a very welcome change from the typical debian experience for example.

>>106886561
Yeah archinstall makes it pretty easy to install.
In my opinion, the main pain point with Arch is the same problem most rolling release distros have. You need to update it often and resolve any dependency issues you have before they get worse. If you don't stay on top of it, you're gonna have a bad time when you finally do need to update.
A newbie friendly distro will remind/force you to update it, which helps I guess.

>>106886697
I don't have a DE. What manages the network by default? Something in the kernel? Clearly something does, because most of the time things work fine, with a few exceptions like above. I do have iwd obviously but that only manages wifi as far as I'm aware (right?).
If the normal linux networking stack cannot be reconfigured without a dedicated manager being installed, do you have any recommendations for a minimal one? I don't need 99% of features shit like NetworkManager advertise, I just want this one priority setting.

>>106886574
Tried 0000, 1111, 1234, none of them worked. Another difference is that the old PC is using a USB bluetooth dongle, and when I plug that out and stick it into the new PC, the controller is able to connect just fine. Removing it and pairing with the dongle again while on the new PC brings up the PIN prompt.

>>106886668
all good, you should be able to do the same using "ip route" command(s) to more manually specify the metric for each device-specific default route

>>106886698
For me its been wifi card, high dpi screens, touchpads. Idk there is probably other stuff you just never know what everyone else uses.

>>106886745
not him but yes, basic networking is done in the kernel. you can do a lot using just basic tools which should ship with any distro like "ip" and "iptables". tools like NetworkManager are higher level frontends that automate using those tools and are optional if you want to do it yourself, like you don't /have/ to use a "network daemon" if you don't want to.

>>106886745
In that case maybe you can use networkmanager
nmcli connection show

find your network and do
nmcli connection modify "ShittyWifi" connection.autoconnect-priority -1
nmcli connection modify "WiredNetwork" connection.autoconnect-priority 1


This is pre-installed on almost all distros and it's exactly what KDE runs under the hood.

>>106879142 (OP)
How do I properly configure my audio devices?
I have an Focusrite Scarlett Solo Gen4 that I use to record audio (microphone for teamspeak) but I also use the audio output for my headphones because it's more powerful than the aux port on my 'puter.
Anyways, the issue I face is pic rel. The blue connections are a direct feedback, meaning that every audio that plays on my desktop (source) is piped directly to my microphone input (sink) on teamspeak. On every reboot.

How do I permanently disable this? I don't want to open qpwgraph on every boot to remove the connections manually.

Linux:
OS:= Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64
Kernel:= Linux 6.1.0-40-amd64

Pipwire:
$ pipewire --version
pipewire
Compiled with libpipewire 0.3.65
Linked with libpipewire 0.3.65

>>106886779
>>106886840
>you should be able to do the same using ip route
Perfect, this gives me enough info to figure this out, thanks anons.

>>106886845
Forgot to mention, "ShittyWifi" and "WiredNetwork" are whatever is in the "NAME" column of your "nmcli connection show" output.

>>106886845
not him either but NM is hardly what i'd call minimal. yea it's common but i don't use it either and i'm not really /that/ concerned about bloat. i doubt you could convince him to use it if there was any other options (which there are)

>>106886821
Ok fair, I might have gotten lucky.

>>106886869
Alright, maybe I'm retarded then. I thought it was pre-installed almost everywhere, but after looking into it it doesn't seem to be the case.

>>106886863
all good, just remember that "ip" isn't a daemon, it just reads and writes stuff, if you want it to persist, you'll need to write a script for that. same with iptables. it's the automation/persistence that is the point of a network daemon. they run those commands for you

>>106886958
it's pretty universal on distros where things are set up for you, but if you go diy it becomes optional/a choice

>>106886959
I'll just put it in my xinitrc or something

>>106886958
>>106886974
-- well, not completely universal, some "just works" distros don't use it either, like openwrt, a distro that is all about networking, doesn't use networkmanager
_______ ________ __
| |.-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_
| - || _ | -__| || | | || _|| _|
|_______|| __|_____|__|__||________||__| |____|
|__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M
-----------------------------------------------------
OpenWrt 24.10.0, r28427-6df0e3d02a
-----------------------------------------------------
root@router-t520:~# nmcli
-ash: nmcli: not found

>>106886990
I wouldn't call openwrt a "just works" distro, but yeah I remember it using something different when I was setting it up.

>>106887016
>I wouldn't call openwrt a "just works" distro
i would. like if you're installing it on a supported device you just flash it and use the webui just like you would a store-bought router. don't even need to touch a command line for typical use.
i say that while using an unsupported thin client for a router... but that's beside the point

>>106886659
I've been using IceCat for a while and I haven't run into any real problems that I couldn't work around. I don't watch Netflix or any other streaming site except for the occasional video on invidious, the biggest problem that I found was that found was that pixiv wouldn't let me sign in unless I set network.http.referer.spoofSource to false in about:config, after signing in I set it back to true and everything works.

>>106886745
you must have /something/ set up, since even a wired connection won't set itself up. even if it's just dhcpcd or a a couple lines of "ip" to set a static ip. linux entirely by itself won't configure network interfaces for you at all

>>106886990
Polling vs event driven interface. UCI would be a really inefficient back-end for an always on desktop GUI monitor.

I use Garuda btw

>>106887198
I installed the Mokka or Dr460nized and it was the most unusable shit I've ever tried. Even the browser was shit. Garuda is too opinionated and it's opinions are all wrong. From the looks of it the Cinnamon, Xfce and KDE Lite versions seem much better.

>>106887198
Good morning, sir.

>>106887387
The only Indian dev has quit, now it's all Germans and Austrians running Garuda.

>>106885588
>>106885683
>>106885870
Thanks

>>106879142 (OP)
It is pretty often I have this directory structure
dir1
`-- dir2
|-- file1
|-- file2
`-- thousands_of_files

and I want to swallow dir2 (move everything to dir1). What's the best approach to do this?

>>106887528
also note that dir2 can have hidden files like .git so
mv dir2/* -t .
rmdir dir2

probably won't work

>>106887108
dhcpd is running indeed, I'm not sure what the definition of "network manager" is at some point

>>106887555
The dumb solution is doing it in two tries, first your command and then mv dir2/.* .

>>106885905
same anon here
i got it working by running the installer trough steam and using latest GE proton

anybody using riverwm or have pointers on how to (((correctly))) launch dbus dependent programs?

im thinking about moving over to the rat, im tired of kde. should i stay on fedora or move back to old debian? i like debian and apt, you just set it and forget about, the only thing i dont like on fed is the short cycle of updoots (1 year - but at least theres new software), what do i do?

>>106887894
try cachyos with cosmic desktop

>>106887894 (me)
also sometimes you find bugs on old software in debian, thats annoying and shortcome on debians side

Is Fedora KDE a good distro for if my main programs that aren't just my browser are Silksong, Cave Story, and Krita?

>>106887938
Aurora is a better version of Fedora KDE since you don't have to tinker with drivers and codecs.

>>106887921
>>106887894
MX Linux 25 beta

>>106887938
Sure.

>>106887963
In my experience the one time pain of setting up rpmfusion is vastly less than forever being at the mercy of downstream tinkertroons.

What do I need to do in Bottles to enable DLSS? Got Escape from Tarkov working (SPT, Linux Mint) and it runs really well. In any case, do I just drop in the dll files from the latest windows driver package into bottle.../drive_c/windows/system32? I'll try that first.

>>106888010
Aurora isn't downstream. It's just Fedora with configurations applied to it and a few pre-installed apps.

>>106888040
>with configurations applied to it and a few pre-installed apps
That's what makes it downstream. Furthermore it's an awful reason to make a separate distro.

>>106887555
>>106887645
mv dir1/dir2/{,.}* dir1

to combine the two

I have wasted my entire afternoon trying to get secure boot to work with refind (on manjaro)
I have created the keys, signed everything, got shim, got shim working, refind starts up and shows secure boot is enabled via shim, and yet when I try to boot into the kernel it just says "invalid loader file", not found while loading vmlinuz.. and so on
i've given up at this point but I was wondering if anyone else suffered through this. I did it based on the secure boot guide on the refind site.

>>106888144
Are you sure you didn't forget to enable secure boot via the bios?

>>106888144
You shouldn't need a shim if you're enrolling your own keys; shims are usually programs whose entire purpose is to apply to get signed with a Microsoft key, and then to chain whatever other bootloader you want, thus letting you secure boot with Microsoft's keys.
>invalid loader file
Completely wild guess in the dark but what's your bootloader - is it the kernel itself (i.e. no grub/systemd-boot/etc.)? If so maybe your kernel isn't configured for self-booting? It's called CONFIG_EFI_STUB in the kernel config - you'd have to compile your own kernel if it's disabled. Most distros tend to have it enabled these days so I'd be surprised if it wasn't but the error message sounds like it could be this.
zgrep "CONFIG_EFI_STUB" /proc/config.gz to check - provided your kernel exposes its config in /proc.

Am I gonna have to reinstall my drivers for stuff like my hdmi splitter upon switching to Fedora?

>>106888084
>distro
It's not a distro
>convenience is an awful reason to make a distro
By this logic it makes no sense to use anything other than LFS

>>106879779
Bazzite is a meme forced by one tech illiterate schizo

>>106888570
>It's not a distro
fraid so
>convenience is an awful reason to make a distro
Let me break this down for you:
>system changes which take more than a day and require ongoing maintenance
good reason to make a distro
>nvidia drivers and reddit console theme h4x
awful reason to make a distro

>>106888677
So we're in an agreement that there's a good reason for it to exist.

>>106888709
False. What changes are in Aurora that an experienced Kinoite user couldn't whack out in a couple of hours?

I finally decided on a distro and then rufus gives me this lip.
What do I do? I downloaded this from the official fedora website (fedoraproject dot org)

>>106888876
>aarch64
Unless you have a UEFI-capable ARM64 board I don't think that's what you want.

>>106888876
If you're on an Intel or AMD CPU you want x64 instead of aarch. As for the message, it's irrelevant.

>>106888876
On general principle you either trust the source or you don't. Does their sha256 match? Yes? Then it came from Fedora. You don't need Secure Boot to hold your hand. You don't need Secure Boot at all actually.

Also aarch64 like other Anons said.

>>106888968
Ive got an MSI B550-A PRO and a Rzyen 7 5800X
My BIOS Mode says UEFI
What do I want?

>>106888607
see >>>/v/723259746

>>106889034
you gotta calm down and get used to reading documentation if you want to use linux
like the other anon said, get the x64 version

>>106889071
in the linux world it's called x86_64 or amd64
don't just assume noobs will know what you mean

>>106889020
To be fair, if an image DID have secure boot and now has been revoked, that is a red flag. A distro that just doesn't use secure boot won't trip this warning (I assume). This sounds like Fedora got Microsoft to sign the bootloader on this ISO and then it expired or got pulled. I have no idea why or how; in this case it's very likely some false positive due to being aarch64, but in the general case a warning like this would definitely raise my eyebrows. If you're already bootlicking microsoft, what would then make it show up as invalid?

Again, I agree with all the other anons saying aarch, I'm just saying that IF this warning was for an actual ISO, I'd think twice about it.
And probably instead go for a distro that doesn't even try to use MS signing keys in the first place, but still.

I'm trying to create my own custom runlevels for OpenRC but there seems to be no documentation on this?
I'm simply trying to create a runlevel that runs after 'default', the closes thing I could find is this link
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/OpenRC
>Enable the async runlevel by adding the line ::once:/sbin/openrc async to /etc/inittab file as follows
However, I'm using openrc-init which does not use /etc/inittab (at least according to the gentoo wiki https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC/openrc-init)
So I'm kinda stuck now, how can I do this, is it even possible?

>>106889100
not too long ago, microsoft revoked a cert, making a lot of live isos non trusted and there is nothing they could do about it besides making new isos.

what's the current state of things with USB drives on a tiling WM in 2025?
lot of progress has happened as a result of Hyprland/Wayland so I was thinking of switching over entirely, what do people need to do to access a USB drive?

Would a terminal file explorer like nnn or yazi be okay to handle this?
Does a USB drive automount now?

I am talking specifically about tiling WMs. I know DEs usually support USBs pretty well but I want to use a tiling WM because I like the low overhead thing.

>>106889100
If the cert was revoked with cause it would be from something not hosted on the official site. This is IBM not 3 troons and a discord.

>>106888178
Yeah it's enabled. Booting into kernel fails when I enable it.
>>106888262
I'm not sure. I used the mokutils or something like that to store an enrollment of my keyswhile still in linux, i signed the kernels and refind itself, restarted, the blue screen appeared where I could enroll my key, I did that and it doesn't seem to work.
> what's your bootloader - is it the kernel itself
I'm not sure about the question, manjaro comes with grub by default but I've been using refind for a while now, it's on a separate ESP than the windows bootloader.
Your command returned `CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y`

So right now I
enable secure boot, boot into shim, that loads refind, refind finds the 6.12 and 6.16 signed kernels, i select them to boot and it just gives that error

>>106889160
Yeah, which would cause this warning for an ISO that someone had downloaded and then waited a while to install. A fresh ISO that anon had just downloaded would not have had this issue (unless he had hit the most unlucky timing between microsoft revoking the cert and Fedora realising and updating their ISOs).

This is assuming the ISOs got promptly updated, of course, but that's my point, if you're asslicking microsoft then you should be on top of it. If you're pretending to comply with microsoft's schemes, it's your problem when they revoke a cert.

>>106889258
Even big companies get hacked, it's rare but possible. HSTS is pretty good in browsers nowadays but maybe anon had never visited fedora's website before and if it's not in the pre-distributed pins he might have gotten MITMed.
Or much more mundane, maybe it's an outdated ISO, and the cert is expired. Somehow, somewhere, maybe anon is a retard and clicked on a historical archive of old downloads by mistake. That's as good a reason as any to take a step back and make sure you're downloading the correct, and latest ISO.

>>106889202
I use tiling WM but I graphical file explorer, pcmanfm. For auto mounting USB devices I use udiskie/udisks.

>>106889202
I'm curious anon what's your workflow that makes USB drives a dealbreaker?
I don't automount anything myself, so I can't give a good answer, I'm just curious because why USB drives of all things. (Also automounting has been handled by udev for over a decade afaik, the only difference is you need to set it up yourself.)

>file explorer
For this you use the same thing as for any other files. Personally I have some kind of autism where I just use cd/ls always, I've had file managers installed and never ended up using them. But nnn or ranger or yazi will work, as will dolphin or thunar or anything else you can install standalone. A standalone WM is not text mode, it just doesn't come preinstalled and preconfigured with everything is all. And a tiling WM is not special except in how it arranges windows (and the vast majority of tiling WMs support floating mode, for the occasional popup windows or dialogs which really don't work well with tiling).

>>106889303
>pcmanfm
yeah i notice quite a few people in the /desktop/ thread do something like this.
i'm okay with a terminal file explorer at this point except i haven't found a good gallery type thing.

I like GNOME
I like Ubuntu
I like Snaps (and flatpaks)
I don't need stupid tinker tranny rice
I need things that are officially supported and just work.

>>106889345
>I'm curious anon what's your workflow that makes USB drives a dealbreaker?
I use them a lot to move games around
I pirate my switch games and I tend to copy the NSP file over by MTP so that's another thing I would hope works okay on Linux by now. Last time I tried (back on like Ubuntu 16.04 or something) it was truly ass (MTP specifically).
I know I could use LAN but I would prefer USB tb.h. LAN is kinda shit and I do this with various consoles, not just Switch. I just find it easier to install my pirated shit with USB.

>>106879142 (OP)
Alright, this is a bit of a strange problem, and it could potentially me being very ignorant, full disclosure I am still a newbie and I am completely confused on this issue and why it's even happening.
But basically, since I installed TDE months ago, each time I access the menu, it keeps freezing up when I access the Wine subfolder. I don't know why, but at first I dismissed it as being an issue with probably a lot of shit stored in that submenu that causes it to freak out and freeze, but today I went to change my TDE application icons in the TDE Control Manager, it freezes up when it scans all the applications at 64% and then minutes later the computer freezes and crashes. Even if I close the Control Manager before it freezes, the computer ends up freezing and crashing by itself like 10 minutes later.
I am convinced there's some kind of borked piece of software that I installed before that is fucking everything up, or didn't fully integrate itself when I transitioned from KDE to TDE
Is there any way I can diagnose or solve this problem that doesn't involve reinstalling my entire OS? (which would be an insane pain in the ass for me)

>>106889044
Go back.

>>106883694
Works in Mint.

>>106889394
>WINE
>TDE
You're talking about Trinity DE? I remember KDE having a memory leak if you have an .exe file that's currently being torrented. It constantly tries to regenerate the icon, which spawns infinite processes since the .exe hash constantly changes. And this caused filling up RAM to the point of the system freezing. I assume TDE didn't backport the fix for this. It could have something to do with icon generation of windows executables so try disabling that somehow.

>>106880165
OK so I managed to install Fedora KDE on a new drive but now I can't boot into Linux because the drive won't even appear in UEFI boot order. Just lmao. So here I am back on Win10. I'm sure it's an easy fix but I have a lot of .safetensors files on the NTFS drive. Can I run ComfyUI and access them seamlessly to make gens? Or will it be slow as hell and I'll have to redownload them onto the ext4 drive? I don't realy understand file systems

>>106889733
Yep. Trinity DE.
>I remember KDE having a memory leak if you have an .exe file that's currently being torrented.
I don't think it's that, I doubt it's an exe and I haven't torrented anything, it's a Linux application that seems to be connected to Wine in some way, it's basically all the ones that are stored in the start menu bar that you access, and as I said, it's located in the Wine submenu, and trying to even go to the Wine submenu causes it to freeze immediately (I actually was typing up a response and tried to take a screenshot but ended up accidentally highlighting the Wine submenu which triggered a crash lol)
>t constantly tries to regenerate the icon, which spawns infinite processes since the .exe hash constantly changes. And this caused filling up RAM to the point of the system freezing.
But despite that, I think it might still be something like this, so I think it's probably related to what you said?
>It could have something to do with icon generation of windows executables so try disabling that somehow.
Maybe I can switch DEs and see what the offending application is. Problem is, even then, doing a process of elimination to see which one IS the offending applicaiton will be tricky if not outright impossible with my current knowledge of using Linux. Still thanks for the help either way, since at least I have a lead on what the problem is.

>>106890005
Go to ~/.local/share/applications and delete the wine shortcuts. Maybe that fixes it

Is there any reason to use BTRFS instead of XFS for root on desktop PC? XFS has better performance but BTRFS has snapshots and subvolumes.... Do I really want to sacrifice that sweet performance?

>>106883753
audacious is pretty nice, it lets you use winamp skins too if you're into that

>>106890149
Also does this subvolume setup look sensible? I've never used BTRFS before.

>>106890128
Nope, didn't work weirdly enough.

Does anyone still use ReiserFS?

im rarted
wine = windows emulator right? so winetricks is a program to fix shit like missing dll's and other stuff for wine? and protontricks makes that available to proton?
am i getting that right?
so if a game isnt running right with just proton, i make a wineprefix and launch that with protontricks?

>set up Bottles, everything works perfectly
>remount my work drive under a different path
>can't get Bottles and certain game to work regardless of setting up new permissions, chown, flatseal whatever
Jesus this is pure cancer.
I just played that game for few hours before this.

>>106879142 (OP)
OP, i see you failed to link a critical website to learn how to use bash/linux terminal

https://linuxcommand.org/

it is easy to follow and establishes a good foundation for using the terminal

>>106890270
Check protondb, often people leave useful tips in the comments

Preliminary testing on this workstation yielded unsatisfactory results.

>>106890334
However, with some optimizations I was able to significantly increase performance to a satisfactory and playable level. This workstation is now ready for gaming.

>>106890320
https://www.protondb.com/app/35140
yeah i have
im trying to play arkham asylum through proton experimental but the brightness is completely blown out
so i was thinking about trying it with protontricks but i dont understand how that shit works

>>106890128
>>106890193
Okay, I did find a band-aid solution for the Menu problem by going to Kmenu and just deleting the Wine submenu. Which seemed to work, but the problem of trying to actually change the system icons still persists and I am 80% sure it's still related to the original problem.
So that's still the last hurdle left to solve.

>>106890357
Unfortunately it's better to use either Bottles or Lutris (awful name btw). You can set up environment variables and missing dependencies easier - and download runners (eg. proton and such) automatially. But that being said it's not an easy ride always.

>>106890270
>so winetricks is a program to fix shit like missing dll's and other stuff for wine?
Yeah, it's the easiest way to install dependencies that a game might need
>and protontricks makes that available to proton?
Kinda, protontricks is just a wrapper for winetricks
>so if a game isnt running right with just proton, i make a wineprefix and launch that with protontricks?
Not necessarily, you can use winetricks on that proton prefix directly, I do it all the time

>>106890334
>>106890354
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh6lpOOr4aw

>>106890379
so how do i get bottles to pick up steam games?
afaik i have to move whatever i want to run inside the bottle directory?

>>106890357
I've seen people complain about that but I'm not sure there's anything winetricks can do here, maybe try fucking around with the settings here
https://neatodev.github.io/AsylumLauncher/

>>106890357
Try proton 9.0

>>106890439
Bottles is just the fake windows environment with fake c:\ drive. Game data can be outside of that for better safe keeping. If it explicitly needs to be inside the fake c drive you can use a link for example.
I don't have any idea about steam because I haven't installed it.
I do have problems of my own so maybe I'm not the best advisor though... (eg. just played 5 hours of Escape from Tarkov and now I can't get it to launch).

>>106889139
Sigh, sometimes /g/ is really useless...
Anyway I figured out a way, but it's really hacky:
I went to /etc/runlevels and renamed the default runlevel to predefault, then create an empty default directory that will serve as the next runlevel.
# cd /etc/runlevels
# mv default predefault
# mkdir default
# rc-update add -s predefault default

Now I just added all the slow services to the new default runlevel and now my system boots really fast since only the bare minimum of services to start the session are loaded in the predefault runlevel while the rest of services can load after I have already logged in. This is hacky, however it's even better than what I originally wanted since new services added by installing packages from apt will now be added to the default runlevel and hence won't affect boot time in the future.

>>106890440
trying to use it but wine tells me i have to log into steam
this shit is beyond frustrating

>>106890633
just curious, are you playing a cracked version

>>106890633
I'm considering reinstalling Windows. My time isn't free. I've been having so many problems during the last few days that I really do think that Linux is great if you browse internet and listen to music and everything else is better done somewhere else.
>>106890760
NTA cracked version would be easier because of Goldberg emulator.

>>106890270
WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator
It's a compatibility layer, so from what I understand it just translates instructions so there is less overhead than an actual emulator. Like you're not running actual Windows like you would on, say, VirtualBox, for example. In VirtualBox you have to install Windows and run it as if it was real Windows (You have to download windows updates and stuff for it too).

Proton is also a compatibility layer but it uses parts of WINE. So you should be fine using just that unless you need a specific version of WINE for a really niche game, but Proton should generally work for the most part. But if it's not working, then try other versions of Proton. You should be able to change the version when you right clcik the game in steam > Properties > Compatibility, then check Force the use of a specfici Steam Play compatibility tool, then select the dropdown menu below it, and just go down through the list of different proton versions and try them out one by one until it works.

There's also ProtonGE (Glorious Eggroll) made by the guy who originally got Nier Automata working on Linux and he works with Valve to update Proton but he releases more up to date versions than what Valve releases. Valve's releases are a little slower.
>https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
Scroll down to the 'Installation' section and follow the instructions for 'Native'. I screencapped it for convenience(pic-related). He also has different versions, so I'd start with the latest version and then work your way through older versions one at a time and test the game.

If somehow even ProtonGE doesn't work, then that's when I would start trying out Bottles or Lutris. But I would hold off until you've exhausted your Proton options unless you really feel like tinkering.

>>106890633
>right click the game on steam
>properties>local files>browse
>extract the zip there
>launch directly from steam

>>106890770
thats why I asked, I know the emulator runs a local steam check and I wonder if those version work on Linux. I was gonna switch today and try to get things running on Linux but I'm stilll on Win10 for the time being lmao

On Windows, you have BetterJoyForCemu, which makes a Pro Controller gamepad behave like an Xbox 360 gamepad instead. Is there something similar on Linux?

>>106890784
btw for instruction step 3. you can just right-click the .tar and 'extract here' inside ~/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/, you can ignore the next line which is just if you were going to extract it using the terminal

>>106890784
And to enable ProtonGE, just go into that dropdown list of other Proton versions and you should see it at the bottom of the list after the official steam versions of proton

I'm downloading Arkham Asylum to see what the deal is. It shouldn't be that hard to run since it's listed as Gold on ProtonDB. I have an nvidia card too, so if I get the same brightness issue I'll try to troubleshoot.

even with proton-ge it looks like shit

lol that's weird. And it only happens in certain spots. Other areas look normal. Arkham City didn't have this issue.

>>106891016
And here's the same area but a couple of steps away from that spot

>>106891026
just give up on this linear moviegame kek

>>106891003
Okay, I tried a few different Proton and ProtonGE versions, and changed the graphics settings a few times, and still got the same result. But that washed out bug doesn't appear to be permanent. It might be only under certain lighting conditions/volumes. If you can stomach it, maybe power through those parts and keep playing until it stops happening or lower the brightness in-game since it's only in certain situations (I think it's due to the type of lighting). I'd try to troubleshoot more, but I got to run a couple errands. Sorry.

I'd also recommend Arkham City which doesn't have this issue and you feel more like Batman. Arkham Asylum felt too much like a Zelda game to me and you can't really fly everywhere like you can in City/Knight. But I still want to see if this issue can be fixed in Asylum. That's really weird. I don't have any lighting problems like that with City or Knight.

>>106886229
What does ldd /usr/bin/ffmpeg show?

I had an issue recently with ffmpeg because I had shaderc-git installed which linked against glslang.so.15 but glslang.so.16 got updated recently in the Arch repo. It took me a while to track that down.

Your issue could be something else completely different though.

>>106891359
UE games should work perfectly. At least UE4 does. Asylum is pretty old though and it's most certainly UE3. If you can't find any specific information about the game you could try searching (or using perplexity.ai to search for you) with shading issues in UE3 games with wine/proton.

>>106891375
Here's the output.
https://pastebin.com/JW0ztTvE
>glslang.so
When I loaded friday's snapshot and then went and updated everything but those packages, I noticed that while the main issue wasn't present, mpv wouldn't open at all, it would complain about glslang.so not being found. Then after redoing the previous process but excluding glslang as well, mpv would still refuse to open. What the hell man Arch never gave me problems until now.
>>106886659
It's currently based on ESR 140, so you're not missing much. It's just libre Firefox, with some extensions pre-installed.
>>106890770
>Linux is shit because I can't play this specific game

>>106891539
You are implying bit too much, retard.

if anything, most linux hobbyist faggots are insufferable
this is one of the biggest reasons to avoid linux outside of work altogether

>>106891788
You could literally say the exact same thing about Windows users, always shitposting about stupid (sometimes non-existent) issues with Linux. And always bragging about Windows being better for work and vidya, even though you can do most of that on Linux as well. Applefags at least stay on their lane most of the time.

>>106891854
>Applefags at least stay on their lane most of the time.
For desktops yeah. They are the most unhinged of all when it comes to mobile, though.

Anyone using gpu-screen-recrder-ui on hyprland? Just noticed the key bind to open the overlay isn't working unless I manually add it to my key binds config file as "exec gsr-ui" and half of the time the overlay is the incorrect resolution

I'm gonna install bazzite to a NTFS drive, does the installer reformat the entire disk or do i have to download a gay ass tool on Windows to do it?

Are the optimizations in the cachyos kernel significant compared to something like bazzite? I kind of want to try the retard-proof distro but not sure.

>>106891883
I don't really visit phone threads so I don't know. I just hate shitposting and flamewars in general, be it from Windowfags or Linuxfags, unfortunately that's the majority of threads in this board nowadays.
>dude the cursor in KDE is a pixel off!
>dude Windows doesn't have tabs on its file manager!
>dude just buy a mac!

>>106891945
you can wipe the drive from within the bazzite installer

https://github.com/maximilionus/lucidglyph
Has anyone ever tried this? I realized the font on linux looks like shit so I've been looking for a way to make it look better

>>106891978
Kernel optimizations are a meme and have next to no real world impact. There are benchmarks to back this up. However they might carry some fix for specific problems or features not yet available upstream.

>>106891003
I don't have a fix yet, but maybe a workaround:
Try using SweetFX, ReShade, or ENB at one of the washed out bright areas in-game and adjust the brightness/contrast/gamma until it looks normal, then set a shortcut key to turn the post process effect off when the game goes back to normal and becomes too dark. Then just turn it back on with that shortcut key when the overbright areas show up again. It's gotta be a problem with the game's lighting.

If all else fails and you still can't stand it, dual-booting is also an option. If I was trying to play Arkham Asylum for the first time, that's what I would have done since I'd want the best experience on my first playthrough and not deal with this extra hassle. I still need Photoshop too and it's nice to have full compatibility with my games library. You don't have to quit Windows cold turkey and Linux will still be here, so I wouldn't sweat it. Definitely recommend dual-booting though if you want to try and ween yourself off of Windows eventually.

I am currently in the process of downloading Linux Mint to run it on a virtual machine. The host system is Windows 11. I have no experience with a linux distro, with the closest I've ever come to it was when i played a bunch of those Tux games on windows back when I was five or something.
Any advice on how to not brick my computer?

>>106892246
Installing mint in a VM is not going to brick your computer my dude.

>>106892194
its not even the brightness alone i also have the piss yellow tone to the game

>>106892274
thank you, good to know

>>106891379
Yeah, not sure what the deal is. The Borderlands 2 and Presequel, the other Arkham games, ArcSys's games (Dragonball Fighters Z, Granblue Fantasy Versus) all work pretty well on linux, and they use Unreal 3 I think (Arkham Knight is using a modified version of Unreal 3 if I remember correctly, it's really impressive). Not sure what Arkham Asylum's problem is. But it does run pretty good. It's just a weird issue with some of the lighting. It seems so fixable, but I guess the issue isn't common enough to be fixed.

>>106892276
Does it happen in game too? For me the yellow filter only happens on the main menu. But that hallway section in >>106891026 and >>106891359 looked like the colors were normal.

>>106892312
yeah for me it was like that aswell
supposedly disabling bloom and depth of field fixes it but i cant run the advanced launcher
i turned it off in the .ini files now
just waiting on shaders to compile

>>106892276
And btw ReShade would also help with fixing the yellow filter. You can add different post process effects like color correction or different types of anti-aliasing that aren't built into the game

>>106892335
>just waiting on shaders to compile
If it takes too long, you can skip this step. The game will compile shaders automatically as it needs them. Sometimes even when you compile them beforehand you still get the compilation stutters anyway, it's weird. But if you don't experience any stutters then just ignore this, maybe it does work.

>>106892335
found an option for changing the gamma in the ini files and adjusted the range
i think this is the fix? idk if its supposed to be this dark or not

>>106892402
That's way too dark. But the lights go out in that scene a few times so maybe it's working. There should be bright spotlights on the Joker here.

>>106892454
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=149&v=vvCLqEhZP3U&feature=youtu.be

>>106892402
This game does look better dark though.
>>106892466 looks too bright, maybe get it a little darker than that and you should be good to go.

>>106892402
this is getting offtopic now but there's settings for saturation and other shit in the defaultengine.ini aswell, i feel like it looks okay now

>>106892564
Nice. Looks better than I remember.

You can continue in linux gaming general (lgg) on /vg/ if you want:
>>>/vg/542670027

Can post some screenshots/webms there.

>>106879142 (OP)
using gentoo.
installed firejail, did firecfg so it sandboxes everything. i restart, check, and it only sandboxes firefox. not dnscrypt, not X nothing else how do i fix thatt

What's the best way to migrate my arch linux install? I have a 1tb nvme ssd as my boot drive, but just bought a 4tb I'd like to migrate my installation to, and keep using the 1tb as just storage. I understand if I just copy partitions it'll only be 1tb so I need to expand the root partition to fill the rest right?

>>106892806
just boot a live cd and fire up clonezilla, it'll do everything for you, then you can format the 1tb drive

I installed Arch because I thought it was a meme distro but the more I learn the more I start feeling like it's actually a good choice. Should I wipe and install Gentoo instead?

>>106892824
It's not a meme distro at all. Personally I find it the most just werks distro out of every single one I've tried.

>>106892824
>Should I wipe and install Gentoo instead?
no, arch is the sanest choice

>>106890193
That was final one I tried before finding Tauon, my issue with it is that it would crash whenever I tried loading my library. Apparently it's not good for tens of thousands of songs. But thanks anon.

>>106892824
Stay. I only switched to CachyOS because of the installer in case I brick something but they are essentially the same.

>>106892824
Gentoo is fine if you want to learn about Linux, but it isn't really practical for basically anyone.
I've been running Gentoo on my daily driver for over a year but I'm just going to wipe it soon for some "just works" distro like bazzite.

>>106890270
>wine = windows emulator right?
yea, but you have to be careful about how you think about that. it's not a virtual machine or otherwise requires windows code to run, it's an emulator in the dictionary sense that it acts like windows
>so winetricks is a program to fix shit like missing dll's and other stuff for wine? and protontricks makes that available to proton?
yea, it's mostly about bringing in some real windows dll's where wine's are either incomplete or missing, among some registry tweaks
>so if a game isnt running right with just proton, i make a wineprefix and launch that with protontricks?
you start with a wineprefix either way. a prefix defines that "windows installation", with the "C:" and registry and stuff in it.

>>106890622
>pic
clippitfags btfo

>>106893150
>a prefix defines that "windows installation", with the "C:" and registry and stuff in it.
not the guy you're replying to but i don't get this stuff either. does that mean the prefixes are arbitrary or do they need to come from somewhere and match the software? could you tell a game and say cheat engine to use the same prefix to make them work together?

>>106893198
prefixes are folders, whose contents are generated by wine upon first use.
you don't have to use a prefix per-program, it's common practice to run a game in it's own prefix since any changes you might need to make to it will only affect that prefix/game, but you can install/run multiple programs to/from a single prefix, which you'll have to do if you want programs to interact with each other like your example, a cheating program that needs to attach to another running process would need to be run from the same prefix, as they also share a process list. same with other similar things like modding tools
in fact, without using anything else, wine ootb just runs everything with one prefix, ~/.wine it's all the launchers which separate things like steam and lutris into their own prefixes

"Open up!"

>>106893150
Wine is not an emulator, it translates Windows exe slop so that your linux machine can understand & run the slop

I use windows for gaming and browsing
I use my phone for gaming and browsing
I dont know what to do with my laptop now, which linux should I install?

>>106893541
it is an emulator, it provides an emulated "windows" environment in which the software can operate as if it was running on windows

>>106893554
If you're a newbie, ubuntu or debian, mint is completely ass.
For gaming, any distro that uses the newest kernel.

Are Nvidia drivers useless on Fedora KDE? So far I can't gen anything, if Linux isn't gonna work for AI I'm done. The VRAM optimization is dogshit

>>106893554
Can't beat Mint, the QoL is out of this world. It's just the latest Ubuntu LTS with most of the bad parts removed.

>>106893564
It even says on their main site that wine isn't an emulator, wall of texts incoming btw.
>Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

>>106892806
dd your 1tb drive to the 4tb drive
expand the partition on the 4tb drive
expand the filesystem in that partition on the 4tb drive
you may need to change some uuids since the kernel can get its panties in a bunch if it sees two copies of what it thinks are the same filesystem
or just leave the old 1tb out as a backup, then once the 4tb is set up and expanded, reinstall it and blow away the filesystem on the 1tb and recreate it

How on Earth can I make it so that a key being held on auto-repeat does not get interrupted by another key being pressed?

>>106893576
>>106893583
I used these already
And before you ask I also installed arch and gentoo

>>106893582
linux is better for ai, the fuck are you talking about?

>>106893618
Then you should know which package manager you prefer.

>>106893630
Then its the drivers or Fedora KDE configuration. It crashes out of memory on VAEdecode when I use Qwen. This wasn't happening on WIn10

>>106893582
What do you mean by "VRAM optimisation" exactly? Because VRAM usage is dictated by the tasks you're performing. Don't run a GUI and run the system headless and ssh into it (or remote via web browser on another device, etc) if you want to maximise available VRAM.

>>106893660
I know but I would multitask like crazy on Windows 10, for example I would watch movies on VLC while waiting for qwen to generate an image with my slow 10 GB vram. I don't know if this is a problem with the driver or if I need to fiddle with Fedora KDE to make this work. I switched to X11 and I'm trying it again now but I'm sure it will crash

>>106891978
No. According to most publicly available benchmarks the difference between these two distros is within the margin of error at best. There are some edge cases where one is better than the other, but in 99% cases they should perform the same.

>>106893585
It's just pointless semantics. The reason they advertise themselves as "not an emulator" is because historically software emulators were primarily running an entire virtual machine to run software from other systems, by not only simulating the software environment but also the hardware environment. But as the other guy said, in a purely "dictionary" sense (casual talk) it is an emulator because it is running a simulated Windows environment. When you abstract regular emulators enough they are no different than what WINE does. Making a distinction between "emulator" and "adapter / compatibility layer" doesn't make sense when talking casually.

>>106893657
Are you on nVidia? I'm pretty sure Fedora doesn't ship with proprietary drivers (or anything proprietary really). Apparently they're afraid of patent trolls. You'll have to do more setup compared to some other Linux distros. That's why Fedora-based distros exist, Fedora is a good base but a bad default.

>>106893691
Try running your browser, etc, with software rendering.

For example I have this script called sw-run:
!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/env LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=true "$@"


I can use it like sw-run firefox and it will run the application with software rendering instead of using the GPU.

>>106893729
I am using the proprietary drivers. So it seems Wayland has an auto-shutoff that closes the program if the system is low on memory. So I tried X11 and it slowed down all my browser tabs upon decode, it successfully generated an image but then locked up the system and I had to cut the power and restart. It's clear my Win10 setup was more optimized for this but on Fedora KDE the vram isnt as well managed, I'll have to configure it a certain way or limp back to Windows

>>106893799
now that i think about it, i think fedora has an actually pretty strictly configured OOM killer daemon. look into tuning that?

>>106893799
>So it seems Wayland has an auto-shutoff that closes the program if the system is low on memory.
No, it doesn't.

So i changed the desktop settings to 1080p//60hz and now ComfyUI more or less works. Good God Linux sucks. I thought it was gonna be leaner

>>106893799
It's not a wayland feature. Fedora just has an OOM handler that's very slightly more aggressive than other distros.
The "lock up" you experienced probably happened because you ran out of RAM. That's expected behavior if you don't have an OOM killer and you don't have a swap file.
If X11 allowed you to proceed further with your task then it's probably just using less memory than your Wayland session.

>>106893916
Try running something like Dwm if you want "lightweight", although I still don't think it's best to run a desktop at all if you want to maximise VRAM utilisation.

If you had an AMD or Intel card then you could use the Dmem CGroup controller to set strict limits for your desktops VRAM usage but you're using proprietary NVIDIA so can't have nice things.
https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#dmem

personally, on a combo of arch+systems-oomd+kde wayland, i have to make sure i'm not running too many tabs or electron apps in the background when i use comfyui because that's a guaranteed OOM and i have to REISUB or even reboot. sometimes i get lucky and it's just REI.

>>106893937
So I ended up offloading VAE decode to the CPU and it completely solved the problem. Why didn't I try that first

can any of you troonix fags give me a guide on how to install minecraft on this shit?

>>106894190
flatpak install flathub org.polymc.PolyMC

I did it
the main problem is having to run an old driver that doesn't work on newer kernels without patches

>>106894190
if you actually paid for it, Minecraft literally has the links on their website: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download

>>106885231
Thanks for the insight.
>general desktop experience + casual Linux gaming
That pretty much sums it up for me I guess. Gaming should be fine with this in mind and 3D rendering is mostly FreeCAD+Slicing software (for 3D printing) so no "proper 3D tools". I didn't even think of using two dedicated GPU which is of course not a bad idea if they weren't so expensive.
>Distro is pretty much irrelevant nowadays, I seriously recommend arch
Is it really? I'm a turbo casual babby so I am of course scared to death by Arch. Can you just slap on something like KDE Plasma with Arch and "never open the console™"? Not that I do have a problem with that in theory but I would like to reduce fidling with the OS to a minimum. My experiences with GNU/LNX have been between "you need to know some basic shit"-Ubuntu a decade ago for Uni and more recently "it just werks I guess?"-Fedora on an old laptop.

>>106894739
>$29.99
Jesus fuck. Last time I checked the price of this game it jumped from $10 to $15, while being $5 before that due to some limited time discount. Microsoft tax is huge.

>>106894761
>Can you just slap on something like KDE Plasma with Arch and "never open the console™"?
No. Arch is exclusively installed using the console and it sometimes (1-2 times per year) requires manual intervention when updating. If you want an OS where fiddling is reduced to a minimum your best option is some atomic/immutable distro like Bazzite. Or Mint if you don't mind constantly being a year behind in updates. But if you already have experience with Ubuntu or Fedora then just use one of those two. Just keep in mind that Fedora requires a couple of minutes of tinkering to get your nVidia GPU working properly on it.

>>106894808
How can Mint be so popular while lagging behind with its updates? Feels like it gets shilled hard when you first look into distros for casual users.

>>106894862
If you don't have modern hardware then Mint is fine. Cinnamon is not good for modern hardware because it's always lagging behind the upstream version of GNOME's Mutter.

>>106894862
It gained popularity somewhere between 2011-2014. First because GNOME 3 was a major change from GNOME 2 and a lot of babyducks were unhappy about it. Then again because Ubuntu started enshittifying shortly after that, first with Amazon ads then with forcing Snaps (which many people hate).
Years later people are still parroting that it's the most user friendly distro simply because it effectively was for a few years and for that generation of users. Firstly, the users migrating from WinXP and Win7 who liked Cinnamon due to how familiar it was. And secondly, existing Linux users who hated GNOME 3 and wanted to stick to GNOME 2 which the MATE DE is.
The main appeal of Mint nowadays is the fact neither it nor it's DEs change much over the years. So it always feels familiar if you've used it before. If you install Linux Mint 17 and Linux Mint 22 side-by-side they won't really be much different other than some improvements to the overall polish and some colors being changed.
The fact it lags behind in updates is rendered almost entirely irrelevant due to the existence of Flatpaks and Appimages. Mint's own software center displays flatpak versions of software and it is set up as the primary source of installation (I could be misremembering). You'll only have issues on it if you want a different DE, or if you are using hardware released in the past 2 years, or if you rely on the latest kernel+mesa for gaming using Proton (an issue that can be almost entirely bypassed with the kernel manager and with a 3rd party mesa repository). For a lot of people Mint is just good enough, especially if you're just using it on some 5-10 year old device you're trying to "revive" by moving from the currently bloated version of Windows to Linux. There are distros that are much better, but it's just good enough for a lot of people.

>>106891359
Might be a DXVK regression. You can run it without DXVK but performance might be worse.

>tried to install Fedora
>ran it from the USB stick prior just to test it.
>every 10 seconds, the screen goes black for 5 seconds
>bakcgroundr emains responsive to button presses
Is it just that the pre-installed ISO has some issues or lack of drivers or will it persist when it is installed?
I am running an Ryzen 7 5800 X and an RTX 3070Ti.

>>106895346
Fedora doesn't ship the proprietary nvidia drivers by default. You have to install them via rpmfusion. See https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration and https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

>>106895346
Welcome to the Linux Experience - nothing makes sense whatsoever.

>>106895451
Made sense when I tried Ubuntu and shit.
>>106895449
Thanks, that makes sense.

>>106895485
>>106895485
>>106895485