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I installed Mint on a 2017 Macbook Pro, and the wifi wont connect. It keeps telling me I need to authenticate even though I am entering the correct password. If I enter the wrong password, it still asks to authenticate.
>>106935194
try rebooting the network and your laptop after forgetting the access point. some of my wifi keys have that issues(not just in mint, but arch, nixos). I believe it to be a driver issue with the chipset( i wish i took notes during my last troubleshooting session, but i have like 6 different keys and just throw them all in a box). starting from a fresh state usually fixes it.
>>106934715 (OP)
I've been using Linux for 9 years. I broke my windows install on my laptop during my freshman year of college and my roommate passed me his noobuntu install USB and that was it. I love linux
>>106935275 >xubuntu got hacked
snopes? >Does this mean anything to me? Should I nuke the install?
no, it was probably just the site that got hacked. but still i were you would i would not update the system for 3 weeks.
I saw in the debian plebbit that some zoomerkin had used "AI warp" to "assist" him in installing the nvidia gpu drivers. Of course, after reboot he's stuck at the tty screen. It has me thinking about how heavily people are relying on an advanced search engine to not just find the information for them, but then parse and tell them how to apply it. How do you help this person? All they had to do was read the copious documentation for the drivers and they would know what to do.
You used to have to READ to even get waist deep in something, and now morons use ai to get up to their necks and have no idea how it happened. The best response I saw was telling the OP to go ask the ai. If you want mass adoption that's the kind of retarded infantile thinking that must be contained within the DE. I mean this in the kindest way possible.
>Walled Garden OS - The walls are so high you can't fuckup!
>>106936070
Hello frens, how do i setup luks on gentoo? The dm-crypt wiki page filters me as it doesn't explain what I am to do with dracut and grub after setting up the crypt volume. I use sha512 argon2, which is unsupported by grub so I either have to use some other method or just include the kernel unencrypted.
>>106936429
Post some useful info, what you did before it broke? GRUB or Systemd-boot? If you have a pendrive with another system you can just boot from that and fix it too, usually the easiest approach.
>>106935275 >>106935578
They almost certainly only compromised the website. To do anything to your pre-existing Xubuntu install they'd have to compromise the repository and signing keys too. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it.
Thoughts on CachyOS? I keep seeing people shill it, which is a red flag on its own, but I'm still curious about this "performance first" distro since all I do with my machine is play games. I've verified with steamdb if the games I care about are playable, but I'm lost in a sea full of distros
>>106935275
The websites of the Ubuntu spins aren't the repositories, so no. Stupid security risk on Canonicals part to let their community spins have their own community managed pages.
They should just integrate them like Fedora does.
>>106936570
It's basically Arch with a handheld Calamares live environment installer including a modified kernel by the Cachy team made to take advantage of newer CPUs. It's similar to Endeavour but Endeavour is more focused on being just a quick vanilla Arch installer.
>>106936570
i've been using catchy for a month and there isnt really any speed increase in games. theres issue where my screen freezes randomly and the only thing that fixes it is just turning my monitor off and back on this happens like once a day the this is why im switching distros soon maybe to something like fedora workstation or endeavour
>>106935459 >>106936892
Although if you are using Systemd I highly recommend installing systemd-cron which is a cron frontend to Systemd timers. It's the first thing I install on any Debian system. There's no point having a traditional cron daemon when Systemd can do it and present the exact same interface (useful if you actually like the cron syntax like me)
>>106936892
so if I had the cronfile in cron.d instead of using sudo crontab -e, how would I temporarily disable it? Just move it? remove execute permission?
I installed Hyprland on a Fedora Workstation and while everything else is working flawlessly, flatpaks are just straight up not opening.
What am i being retarded about? is it the permissions thing in the config?
>>106937011
This somehow got fixed by itself in the minutes since i've posted? Any thoughts on what the fuck happened here? They weren't opening on GNOME either
If you mean Systemd Cron then it will generate corresponding timers for each crontab entry like cron-root-XXX.timer and then you can just systemctl mask/disable the timer. https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron-next
FUCKING WINDOWS. It deleted my GRUB. And now I canβt even enter a live usb environment. :(
Iβm never gonna dual-boot again. I did all this dual boot bullshit just so I can use FL Studio.
Consider that the majority of users are somewhat savvy and you have numerous individuals that aren't mindlessly clicking .exe's but at least reading what they're installing and running. Be sensible and don't take up the fear mongering in that post.
>>106936570
Multiboot. Use Kubuntu as your main. You'll get as stable as you want, windows-like interface and navigation. Get it setup and working smooth, then try out some others. You'll avoid a lot of frustration of bleeding edge, but get to experience it without any hiccups ruining a weekend. Steam has made the process of running windows games on linux so much smoother. Matter of fact, I believe the steamOS or Deck OS is a reskinned Kubuntu spin.
I am once again looking to change my Distro. I want to try out Kubuntu for Plasma. Is there any significant differences for it between the LTS and 25.10 versions?
>>106937592
My current distro already has KDE, I just don't like it because it's missing some stuff out the box that I use for my hobby projects. Spent alot of effort trying to make it to work but it still sucks.
Before that I was running Xubuntu which I guess I can switch back to but why Xubuntu+KDE over just Kubuntu and maybe some programs like mousepad?
>>106935559 >All they had to do was read the copious documentation for the drivers and they would know what to do.
They just needed to read the debian wiki page for nvidia and it would've been enough.
>>106937564
LTS isn't really for your average desktop use. Just use the 25.10. But if you want an actual good KDE experience you shouldn't use Ubuntu or Debian. Fedora handles KDE much better.
>>106937634
Don't install KDE manually. It requires being properly set up and it's the most convoluted DE.
>>106937643 >Don't install KDE manually. It requires being properly set up and it's the most convoluted DE.
Just install whatever meta package your distro would install for you. Of course, sometimes distros make those packages a bit more bloated than they otherwise ought to be but it will work out of the box that way.
>>106937643
All I really need out of KDE is Plasma's display manager. I tried Fedora but it didn't have a particular package I need. I even tried rebuilding it as an rpm but couldn't really get anywhere.
>>106934715 (OP)
The first thing I do after I've installed gentoo, is that I set -soundserver to pipewire, set global USE pulseaudio and so on. Fuck pipewire. Why is pipewire pushed so hard nowadays?
>>106935559 >nvidia gpu
I'd unironically tell them to just stay on Windows or buy an AMD GPU. Nvidia is a source of so many issues on Linux it's not even worth it. Using LLMs for troubleshooting is quite alarming too, I've seen it done quite often so I believe a significant portion of people do it nowadays. It's impossible to troubleshoot the damage done by them so it' better to just recommend a total reinstall. It is what it is Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
>>106937621
There are programs built into Desktop Envs that specifically create these default folders for you. I know that xfce4 does this, it has some library doing this I forgot what.
>>106937819 >Nvidia is a source of so many issues on Linux it's not even worth it.
It's super straightforward unless your distro does not want to to use their drivers, and in that case the distro is shit.
Any anons know how to fix my fans? After installing Windows 10, my fans kick in on Linux whenever I open up any application, and they also kick in when it boots up. It did not do this before. Iβve also nuked Windows 10 but that didnβt seem to do anything.
>>106937564
25.10 has newer packages and Plasma 6.4
If you want the latest KDE in the Debiansphere, get PikaOS. It's built on Debian Sid with extra patches. Plasma 6.5 should land there soon.
>>106937246
when did it do that?
if you install windows after any other system it just overwrites its bootloader with its own >>106937621
leave the normalfaggot folders alone anon, they did nothing to you >>106937815
because pulse is potteringware by redhat that used to work like shit (no idea if it still does, i will never use it again anyway)
i remember having countless random problems with this trash
meanwhile since ive installed pipe and pipe-wire for cringe normoid apps shit just fucking worked to the point that i even forgot i have that and writing this reply reminded me >>106937955
check your bios maybe? >>106937897
cringe criteria
you can literally download and install their drivers on any distro (with maybe exception of musl ones? never tried there)
>>106938010 >pulse is potteringware that used to work like shit
Always worked fine for me, but pipewire defaults are retarded and even after changing default conf is shittier than pulse. NEVER have I experienced crackles with pulse which is completely opposite to pipewire.
>>106935559
Noobs these days have it super easy. Can Ask AI, have working wikis full of Infos, and there's reddit and everything to hold their hands.
I remember how horrible it was in the 00s. Stupid SaX2 always breaking my xorg.conf, the shit show of KDE4 which turned me into a GNOME enjoyer, almost no info anywhere and if you had shit internet it took half a day for updoots or to hop distros.
>>106937819
LLMs get used because if I use duckduckgo or google I will get 10 AI generated articles about the subject but they still manage to avoid saying anything related. Just a waste of time.
If I feed them a compiler error message or want to find out a specific config issue, perplexity (ai search engine) or even chatpajeet can often help.
eg. search engines are polluted.
>>106938321 >>106938276
That shit show was actually distros fault. KDE released it as a beta and all of the distros unilaterally decided to ship it anyway even though it wasn't ready yet.
>>106938390
yea, i'll never understand what happened between kde3 and 4. clearly many people feel the same way since Trinity is a thing that exists.
gnome also i don't understand what happened with 3, gnome 2 was also an excellent system
>>106938405
Trinity is still using an ancient forked version of Qt 3 that doesn't even support Wayland. People just liked the Windows XP aesthetic even though they could build that on top of modern Plasma today if they really wanted to.
>>106938756
No shit you fix the bugs introduced in a new version by downgrading to the previous version. You could do the same with AMD or any GPU vendor.
>>106935194
Maybe the WiFi chip on your laptop isn't well supported by Linux. Try to find out the specific WiFi chip online, then search google to find out whether Linux supports the chip well. Maybe a distro with a newer kernel (e.g. Fedora) might work better, I dunno.
>>106938390 >They still haven't recovered almost 20 years later lmao
I don't know man, it's actually become the standard Linux DE while GNOME has fallen to the "second best" or "alternative" option.
>>106938463
Trinity has it's place among the lightweight DEs. It has a very low memory footprint, almost equivalent to IceWM from what I've seen.
>>106935275
This is exactly why I don't use random small-time distros. If I wanted Ubuntu with XFCE then I would install the official Ubuntu image from Canonical's website, then install XFCE from Ubuntu's repos. Maybe this makes me paranoid but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
>>106936636
Yeah Fedora's way is better. You can get official images of Fedora that come with different DEs. Same with Debian. I guess Canonical doesn't want the hassle of packaging several images with different DEs, so they allow random people to take care of that instead.
>>106938972 >>106938972 >This is exactly why I don't use random small-time distros. If I wanted Ubuntu with XFCE then I would install the official Ubuntu image from Canonical's website, then install XFCE from Ubuntu's repos. Maybe this makes me paranoid but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
I guess this means that the "community" generate the images, and Canonical don't? Canonical just host them I guess? It seems to me that Canonical are basically saying "we're not responsible if these 'flavors' of Ubuntu have problems". I'd rather just get the official Ubuntu image.
>antivaxxer
I did get the vaxx though. I'm not an antivaxxer at all.
GPT is contradicting itself on this question, please help me a moment.
I want to setup crowdsec in a container, and put all logs from my other apps in a single folder for it to parse.
To do so I created a crowdsec user and a logger group, and I want to chown the folder to crowdsec:logger, run crowdsec with that user and add all the users running my other apps to the logger group.
I want to know if chmod 530 will work, of if log writers will need read permission to their own logs, and if crowdsec needs write permission to them too.
I've decided to go with Fedora as my first Linux distro.
Any tips or advice as a Windows refugee? Mostly using it for gaming, watching videos, maybe some light editing.
Probably going to go with XFCE unless I'd be missing out without Wayland support?
>>106939104
I don't know how crowdsec behaves under the hood, so I don't know it it wants to move or edit the logs in any way, but that's my reasoning too.
>>106939109
You're not missing out on much without Wayland, but it is becoming a standard and no X11 bugs are ever going to be addressed. But I wouldn't recommend using anything other than KDE or GNOME since those two are the standard desktop environments which combined probably account for 90%+ of overall Linux desktops.
If you're not too lazy to do a reinstall it's better to use Bazzite KDE (if you're a Steam gamer) or Aurora (if not). Fedora has some quirks which you have to handle, like enabling RPMFusion, installing codecs, knowing that there are some packages which have manually disabled proprietary codecs and you have to use Flatpak instead, etc. Alternatively you can use Nobara, but it's not as stable as Bazzite/Aurora and it's only recommended if you have to use a non-immutable distro for some niche use case.
>>106939109
Don't run random commands with sudo or root. I've seen this with a lof of Linux noobs. There's usually a way to accomplish the thing without root access.
>>106939188
There are plenty of times when /etc is the only place you can do it. Specifically system level configurations. >>106939204
This I agree with, but it isn't the rule. There can be instances where is is the right thing to do.
>>106939109
dont be a brainlet and learn terminal basics
FOSS GUI apps have limited functionality compared to CLI ones (tho that is true for literally any ecosystem, FOSS or otherwise)
and GUI is practically impossible to automate reasonably
also the rule is that every GUI program has at least one bug at all times
also lets not force devs to make retarded normie slop, we dont want them to burn out
learn to press tab and use wildcard
after you've settled into your baby's first distro you can fire up a VM and practice installing arch raw (without "helper" script)
that will teach you the very basics of how things work and basic system administration
that would be enough for you to use any FOSS operating system comfortably
look into ntfs3g driver if you want to access windows shit
judge random github memes based on their popularity (stars, forks), dont get randomly pwned by ivan cause you wanted some new gay ass utility
learn how to use dmesg and journalctl in case something breaks
x11 also has logs
also /var/log in general
dont reinstall your system 20 times in a row just because you want to try some new thing
every component (besides init) is easily replaceable
since you are using x11 check out xrandr command
check out appimage and flatpak, but if you deside to use them make sure they are official >>106939172
its situational actually
>>106939222 >There can be instances where is is the right thing to do.
These instances are usually a failure of the OS not working correctly. An OS should be fully usable with no issues without requiring root access. Using root to tinker with it is just a workaround for a flawed system, unless you're actually doing some sysadmin work.
Wow, the 5700xt GPU if left to monitor temperatures on its own has abysmal fan speeds due in part to 3D active fans. I think I use the terminal to bump fan speeds and voltage if needed.
>>106939338
that is a dumbass take
some software like to go outside of /home/ and you will have to rewrite it
and almost every second useful tool requires privilege elevation
you can complain about that being the norm and in some cases i would agree with you, but also there are plenty workarounds like namespaces and partial virtualization like docker
>>106938276
I do love how easy it is these days, all those resources are great. Even you fags are welcoming in your own 4chan way, so genuinely thank you. I'm sure it must be annoying dealing with the new wave of Windowgees.
>>106939451 >reeducation camps for winfags
Y'know, if you remove the Siberian work conditions and anal rape, that actually sounds nice. I need to see if I can get something useful out of a local Linux club or the like.
What's the best / least nerdy way to have Ubuntu Desktop completely without GNOME (or really, no pre-installed DE - I compile LXQt from git and use that). Pretty obviously that would be Ubuntu Server, but Ubuntu Server has changes to be server-oriented. Is there any solution? I can't imagine uninstalling GNOME is a clean process.
>>106939474
i like recommending people practicing arch install (did that earlier)
it unintentionally just has most of the basics that you need for using your average POSIX system and introduces most of the relevant concepts >>106939492
why not debian tho?
>>106939514
That may have been true back in the day before Arch had an installer and before they adopted Systemd but nowadays it includes a lot more than the basics (not that that's necessarily a bad thing depending on who you ask. People usually want a dynamic system that can handle everything you throw at it rather than a basic POSIX system)
>>106939342
New cards are more efficient and the fans don't really kick unless it reaches 60+ degrees celsius.
I don't think you should really worry about that at all.
>>106939580
no but thats why you tell them not to use installer script
also i dont think teaching new people init scripts is necessary, the arch guide is for turning you into a somewhat of a power user, not a senior sysadmin
>>106939342
i replaced my gpu fans with some 120mm casefans and i use coolercontrol to set new fancurves
my pc is whisper quiet at idle and even under full load it doesnt get loud
>>106939606 >>106939631
Maybe, I just don't know how to fix crashes during gaming. RAM passed memtest, CPU has been reseated, PSU has been replaced, etc. The only thing I figure left is the damn GPU. Nothing else explains hot temperatures or crashes during gaming. It's frustrating to be methodical yet no closer to solving the mystery.
>>106939631
when i was 12 ive replaced my GPU radiator with a big ass CPU radiator that was so big that i had to prop it up with a radiator from my am2 processor so that it wont sag and break GPU in half (i didnt know you could just put a screw in)
it had big ass fan as well
one day the am2 radiator slipped and chopped off one of the blades
thing flew across entire room and hit me in the leg
didnt hurt but i was flabbergasted
had to buy a new fan lol >>106939665
be careful with bumping voltage
also you can launch your games from terminal to see what exactly it says in stderr
>>106939813
depends
i assume you increase voltage to increase frequency? that leads to instability eventually if you keep increasing frequency
if you just increase voltage im not sure
personally i like to underclock things so that they serve me longer and are more stable
>download a video normally/through jd2 >it keeps the tagged and encoded metadata >download through yt-dlp >it removes the tagged and encoded metadata and adds some useless information about the lavf version
Why does it do that?
>>106939850 https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=yt-dlp+keep+metadata >>106939855
i forgot to write earlier it could be your PSU
connector or something similar
i think there are tools and also directories in /sys that can show you what voltage your card reports
unfortunately there is no software to test PSU's, you need 75k $ machine for that, like the one that linus cuck tips have >>106939894
i think we established that its a problem with random ass fucking python scripts from github made by redditors
your dumbass onscreen keyboard doesnt need to have its config file in /etc
why is the state of btrfs encryption such ass? why do i need to install a separate fucking utility to encrypt a drive? seems like a basic thing to have by default in a fs
zfs has it, why not btrfs
>>106939915
then just do ubuntu server
just make sure it doesnt run ssh server by default or some gay shit like that
the "server changes" are useful if anything
winshit refugee here
what are my fellow refugees using?
i'm on arch + swaywm because i wanted the smoothness of wayland plus a well-supported tiling wm. hyprland was crashy.
also gonna advise having a small stack of utils like
ghostty (terminal)
yazi (terminal file manager)
fish (shell)
helix (world class text editor, vim-like, comes with batteries)
>>106939109
fellow refugee here
consider going with a tiling WM just for the sheer novelty and usability
>>106939916 >embed-metadata
That doesn't work. Not only does it NOT add the encoded/tagged metadata, it adds a bunch of other useless shit. I just want yt-dlp to add the tagged and encoded metadata tag that is added if you just normally download the file, nothing else.
>>106940057 >Debian greybeard
debian gets routinely called out for security issues. go read grapheneos's twitter feed and search for debian. it gets shit on all the time.
plus i already have used it in the past and it's basically arch with a few gay steps.
i kinda lied btw, i'm not a full noob. i am a winshit refugee on my main machine but i've used linux on other machines quite a bit, plus i have to use WSL2 for work.
that said, i don't hate debian so don't sperg out. it's solid af but for me it's arch. arch just does everything with less bs. and tb.h other than shit like kernel security patching etc, debian and arch are not even that far off in terms of typical desktop use now. debian just forces you to cuck yourself to really old package versions which is what made me choose arch.
>>106939997
Perhaps not forever but in the mid-term at least. There's not really anything wrong with LUKS though, the only real advantage having it part of the filesystem would bring is for encrypted send/receive.
>>106939966
years ago when i was fed up with shit not working on windows i would just use whatever came with things like xfce
then over the years ive acquired certain needs and expectations
what i do is i realize i have a problem and then i find software solution for that problem
or i start doing something new and i find the most KISS but user friendly solution for that
so i dont use Reddits Choice Of The Month software, thats bad opsec and it usually comes with bugs and performance issues
for example i dont even use file managers most of the time, they dont fit into my workflow very well
I'm making a backup (Uranium is pretty cool) and I'm throwing away the windows on my main PC today. I'm done with this bullshit. Gonna have Debian on all my computers now
Is there any way to properly install a recent version of Adobe Reader on Linux? I have to use some godforsaken forms using shitty features that no other reader seems to support.
>>106940115
tbf, i think many of us winshit refugees are people who did try ubuntu about 5-10 years ago, had issues, went crying back to winshit.
i think it's different this time.
i'm willing to spend a bit of time to get arch to work how i want it + there's AI to answer most of the dumb questions about configuration i always have. in the past, i had to ask faggots here and didn't always get an answer, now i don't need faggots here so much.
plus wayland is actually fucking good/just werks/solves the biggest issue i used to have which was graphics not working/not being hardware-accelerated etc.
things *are* a lot better now, it's just obvious to anyone who tries arch or any other good distro.
I need a lightweight MS Paint replacement - I want to select an area and crop it just like in MS Paint.
I tried a selection of software via Mint software manager and all the small tools like gnome-paint etc lack this feature or if it is included it is implemented in retarded way. I didn't try Kolourpaint because it has too many dependencies. Krita is out of the question because it's not what I'm looking for.
How hard can it be to create a simple paint software with standard tools?
Just because something is 'free' doesn't mean it can forfeit industry standard practices.
>>106940179
as in windows version?
i always recommend bottles to people, shit just always works for me >>106940191 >there's AI to answer most of the dumb questions about configuration i always have
dunno so far AI was only useful to me once
it tends to give these india tier answers that proprietary software hep forum jeets give and nothing that is actually accurate and specific >>106940217
you got the resources just like readme says you should?
get yourself some wine based app like bottles or playonlinux (if its still alive) or proton or use steam (it uses proton) or just configure wine itself and launch it
also ive found this: https://lutris.net/games/3d-pinball-space-cadet/
>>106940268
did you try mypaint?
its not what i would call lightweight, its a python slop but its pretty simple >industry standard practices
there is nothing industry standard about microsoft products
unless they bought something that uses industry standarts
faggots cant even make a tar archive properly, its actually pathetic
>>106940303
I'm not talking about Microsoft products you freetard. I am talking about industry standard in image editing and painting since 1980s. Eg. Photoshop and Macpaint invented these.
eg. Simple selection + operation is one of these.
Just common sense practices.
>>106940271 >dunno so far AI was only useful to me once >it tends to give these india tier answers that proprietary software hep forum jeets give and nothing that is actually accurate and specific
my experience has been massively different. just learn to ask questions effectively ig.
it's helped me with literally every single aspect of the move away from winshit. i'd be fucked w/o it. imagine having to rely on the people here.
>>106937815
It's the one sound system meant to replace all alternatives for all usecases (e.g. pulseaudio, jack etc) and against all odds it has succeeded. I've switched to pipewire 4+ years ago back then it was still kinda janky and it has improved so much to the point distros are outright dropping pulseaudio.
>>106940392
it gives you keywords to look up, sure
but other than that its useless
if you ask it very specific questions it will give you useless generic answers
>>106939109
Fedora seems alright to me. I've tried it out before but not for very long. If you like XFCE then sure go for it. Otherwise, KDE Plasma is a good option.
>>106939172
I think the only thing I use sudo for is installing stuff with apt.
>>106940407
What's your point? Linux is almost exclusively developed, maintained and funded by big corpos. And there's a lot of Microsoft and Apple employees working on Linux and open source in their free time.
>>106940271
"Place compiled executable into a folder containing original game resources (not included)." .. well no I don't have the resources they want me to have I guess. >>106940296
You have to compile every programs before you can install them on Linux? The .EXE way of installing programs doesn't exist? >>106940361
Is Flatpak safe? Wasn't there some virus thing going on months ago with that? Do I need to install Flatpak? >>106940362
Do I really need a third party installer wizard to install a program?
I originally found this https://snapcraft.io/space-cadet-pinball
By the way , I just started using the Raspberry Pi 500, using the original OS coming with it, I haven't changed/added/removed anything.
>>106940532
it's not useless, retard. it does give detailed answers. it doesn't give generic answers at all (maybe it did in the initial iterations like 3 years ago). you might be mentally retarded if you haven't figured out how to leverage this shit after 3 years. you're literally behind shitjeets at this point. pathetic display.
>>106940577
It wasn't because that very wrapper broke my audio and I had to manually grab that thing by its neck and throw in the trash and add -soundserver to pipewire use flags.
>>106940559 >Is Flatpak safe? Wasn't there some virus thing going on months ago with that? Do I need to install Flatpak?
It's as safe as installing software from a random github repo. The pinball game has 400k installs and so far nobody has complained so it's probably safe
>>106940606
2 months ago. I couldn't get anything working, no matter what I did audio was just silent. I tried to fix pipewire configs and delved deep into pipewire docs but literally nothing did anything sound-wise, it just didn't work. So whatever, I ditched it then.
>>106940559 >You have to compile every programs before you can install them on Linux?
No. It's just that desktop ARM devices are a small minority so almost nobody is compiling binaries for you. You're generally limited to whatever your distro provides you with in their repositories. So if it's a niche/unpopular application you'll have to compile it yourself. >Is Flatpak safe?
Yes. A lot of people are primarily using Flatpaks to install software nowadays. >Wasn't there some virus thing going on months ago with that?
You're thinking of Snaps.
Windows has PC Health Check, which lets you see *specifically* what is or isn't missing as far as meeting Windows 11 requirements are concerned within Windows.
>>106940629
To add to this: It was working for an unknown amount of time for me, then without me doing anything, it broke because one morning I booted my PC and audio was gone. So I don't know, I just don't care about tinkering so I use pulse because it has never let me down.
Have a 4TB HDD for storage. One partition is 500 GB [ext4], the other partition is 3.5 TB [NTSC].
Dual-booting linux and windows, but each have their own separate SSD installation.
Most of the shared files are on the NTSC partition, the ext4 partition is mostly just for steam/timeshift for the linux OS.
I want to back up the 4TB storage drive onto an external 4TB (NTSC) drive, then format the storage drive to give more space to linux (3TB) and make it the main storage space, then set aside 1 TB for Windows games/storage, and put everything back.
Will it be safer to do the act of backing up files through Linux, or Windows? The backup external drive is NTSC so I assume it's more efficient to do the transfers through Windows? But for some reason I still feel like linux would be safer, especially during an unexpected blackout/loss of power, not to mention I wouldn't have to share my data/activity with Microsoft.
>>106940559 >You have to compile every programs before you can install them on Linux? The .EXE way of installing programs doesn't exist?
ofc it exists
but binaries need to be compiled for your CPU architecture
and if they arent then you have to do it yourself
raspberry uses arm64 so you need to coompile for arm 64 >Is Flatpak safe?
depends on who made the packages
devs or randos >I originally found this
not familiar with snaps, sorry >Do I really need a third party installer wizard to install a program?
depends
i think you have unfortunately picked the one thing that requires compiling
there is a section on that github page for compiling on linux, it seems pretty straightforward
so you might want to try and git clone it from github and try to compile it yourself on your raspberry >>106940626
you can try
you can also test voltage with multimeter but i doubt you know how to do it and be willing >>106940597
ive asked 4o model on the duckduckgo website what is an exact timer for maintenance window in the battery save mode and it gave me bullshit
but it gave me keeywords i needed
that was the only time ive seen LLM actually answer something remotely useful
every time you google shit there is a little LLM output on top, you know that right?
every time i glance over it its just generic indian help desk nonsense
>>106940749
what's the usecase for this?
i dont think anyone wants to swap from linux to w11 and those that are technically inclined enough should be able to google the system requirements
if i'm using swaywm, what should i use to manage brightness? one thing that pisses me off about the arch wiki is how they don't just present like 2 or 3, they give you about 10 choices and half are shit.
>>106940698
based boomer
i have a 20 yo machine and artix worked pretty well on it >>106940730 >>106940740
sorry i couldnt be fucked to log into one of your gay ass ai slop websites
it takes me less effort to go over manpages and documentation than figuring out which one of your sex roleplay chat bots i going to be least useless
and the info is 100% correct
did you know that there is actually no such thing as AI hallucination?
your beloved AI ALWAYS hallucinates
there is no neural network that checks if output is logically consistent and factual
the reason why you see something that is factually true in the output is because most of the data its trained on is factually correct
this is why increasing training data gives you worse results
and this is why as AI inbreeding becomes more and more a thing AI will be less and less useful for niche topis, after all you need to manually orate data for it and these companies dont have infinite manpower
not to mention if the bubble ends up bursting they will have NO manpower
so im not really keen on using doomed and unreliable tech, sorry
>>106940842 >sorry i couldnt be fucked to log into one of your gay ass ai slop websites
kek, i got that much from your retarded whining and the retarded shit about generic answers. you cucked yourself out of the best new tech in years. kill yourself faggot. imagine being so fucking retarded that you think you are superior for being the luddite here. fucking nigger.
>>106940842
curate*
ill get carpal tunnel soon with you faggots >>106940860
they say overusing AI decreases your reading comprehension
thank you for a clear example of that
I've been using "maim" for taking screenshots, it just works. Looking at its git page shows a command to take a screenshot, upload it to imgur (thanks to a script) and copy the resulting url to the clipboard. Is it possible to do just that but with another hosting site, like catbox or pomf?
>>106940929
flatpak itself gets updated with your regular system updates. The apps you installed via flatpak get updated by flatpak either via GUI or by running "flatpak update" in a terminal once in a while. It says >Note: graphical installation of Flatpak apps may not be possible with Raspberry Pi OS.
So you'll probably have to run flatpak update manually
>>106940929
not him but if you planning on updating apps inside of it then yes
now what im curious about, since you need arm64 is if that thing going to work for you at all
i dont know how flatpaks fork exactly but i know that flatpaks dont care about C library, but whether or not they care about architecture is another question entirely
looking at some reddit threads they dont seem to be architecture agnostic so unless your pinball got compiled for arm it wont work
>>106934715 (OP)
I'm playing a very low end wine game on mint and performance hitches now and then and I would like to know why. This program has only recently started to hitch and I want to see how much ram its using.
>>106940985 >>106940992
I installed the game and it works... but how can I make a shortcut on the desktop for this? There is no way for me to do so, I have to run the command in prompt >>106940361 each time I want to play? How to make a shortcut to launch the game instead of going through the prompt each time?
>>106941259
It should add a shortcut automatically. Did you reboot since installing flatpak? Maybe some stuff has to be restarted so the shortcut can be found
fonts on gtk programs (firefox being an exception) look like total ass
how would go about finding what's wrong? it's not the default font but it works fine with everything else
>>106941310 >>106941370
It did have a shortcut in the games folder, I can put a shortcut on the taskbar and on the desktop, but:
On the taskbar shortcut and the games folder shortcut, when I click on it, the game starts running;
On the shortcut created of the desktop, when I click on it , it always asks me if I want to run this program with the terminal prompt, open as, etc... how come?
>>106937026
I just installed NsCDE from sbopkg to make sure that it works, and yes, it does for me. Check to see if you have /usr/bin in your PATH or maybe it could be a group that you need to add yourself to.
>>106941533
dunno, there is probably something in that taskbar shortcut that tels DE that this is a graphical application
the reason why it asks you the prompt tho is because you cant run CLI apps just straight up like that, you need to run terminal emulator first and then run CLI app INSIDE the terminal emulator
so like instead of running >appcommand
you do >terminal -flagforrunningcommands appcommand
>>106941533 >>106941586
not to say that your thing is CLI app tho
as you understand it runs as graphical application just fine
tho you can launch literally any app form console and it will give you both stdout output and if its a GUI app it will spawn a window as well
its just CLI apps only run in terminal and launching them directly does nothing cause you didnt launch them in terminal
also i guess it asks you "open as" in case you are retarded enough to "launch" a file
>>106941554
Thanks.
I tried earlier making a new user with access to all groups currently available, wouldnt load there either.
>check to see if you have/usr/bin in your PATH
can you elaborate slightly on this?
Also I realized I could just install regular CDE from sbopkg too so I ended up going with that, but slightly limited.
And 'nano' is currently having highlighting problems with it so i have to use -Ynone so it doesnt black out html
>>106941640 >can you elaborate slightly on this?
not him but PATH one of the environment variables in POSIX that is responsible for where your shell is supposed to look for programs
every time you type something in console it looks in directories that are in $PATH for whatever you typed
you can check it by doing echo $PATH in your terminal
there is also a bunch of other variables like that, you can type env to see all of them on your system
>>106941774
directories are separated by :
/usr/bin is third one
it would be really weird if it wasnt in PATH tho, its literally in default PATH variable in bash
no idea why the other guy needed that information but here you go
>>106941817 >no idea why the other guy needed that information
I just wanted to make sure nothing weird was going on, I installed it on my machine and it worked perfectly.
>>106941877
Just to make sure did add NsCDE to your .xinitrc or did you try startx /usr/bin/nscde when you first tried it? If not try running startx /usr/bin/nscde.
>>106939919
Most Linux filesystems don't have encryption support because it's seen as a niche feature. All 99.9% of people want to do is encrypt their whole drive so they don't have to worry about it if their device is stolen or sent back for service.
>>106939997
They're adding a 4th table to the disk format for zoned IO, which is supposed to be usable for encryption and parity RAID. btrfs tries to be over honest about your data loss / down time risk. Lots of features they have marked as unstable are actually very reliable if you understand their limitations.
Weird problem installing Linux on a laptop
In the live boot mode, keyboard buttons for brightness and volume work fine, plus audio works. Once I'm installed, can't adjust brightness and no volume, and audio output is disabled ("Dummy Output")
Wtf is happening in the live boot that I can't get to work once installed?
Recently installed linux mint on my decade old T540p thinkpad.
How the FUCK do I get pic related over onto linux? Libinput is mega-ass compared to synaptics. What pisses me off the most is that the touchpad was one of my favourite features on this laptop. Being poor I used to play Insurgency (2014) on this thing and I would shoot by thumbing ALT and aiming by pushing down the touchpad, aka clicking. I would also toggle aim by pushing it down or tapping with two fingers - rightclicking. With libinput it recognizes, rather shitly, that multiple fingers are on the pad, but it doesn't register a click with more than one finger.
For I am a faggot, I tried getting help from chatgpt, but failed to map the touchpad to work the way I want. Name your price. I want synaptics on my mint.
regards
Cunt
>>106942174
Ugh fuck, im afraid a friend said something similar to me, but I didn't take him seriously. Guess Im hopping a distro. >only GNOME
why is this? please be patient yada yada >>106942136
its a gimmic
>>106940710
I think I might have found the problem, could a power plan on Linux set to balance be tripping a crash. I ticked performance instead of balance and it hasn't crashed with games yet.
>>106942258
well as i said might be PSU
but good luck diagnosing that
at maximum you can check your outlet
you can also theoretically check your pins voltages but for that youd need to disconnect everything and short your ground pin and your "on" pin with a paperclip so i doubt that is happening
>>106942302
well you can also try and downgrade your drivers i guess in case of a random regression
for that you might need to downgrade some random shit as well
when i had to downgrade mesa ive also had to downgrade llvm since mesa depends on it
it fixed my lack of hardware accel tho, until they fixed a bug so i dont have to do that anymore
on a bright side it was fairly trivial
When hibernating to disk, the notebok uses zero battery, right? What happens if I remove the battery, let it fully discharge and then turn on the computer later?
>>106942343
The only other thing I can think of is faulty electrical wiring from an outlet. Maybe I need to invest in a uninterrupted power box or something
Running win 10 iot ltsc in virt-manager qemu/kvm virtual machine. I stopped it, deleted SPICE and re-added it and now sound doesn't work. Anyone else had similar issue? Seems like sound works inside VM but it's not audible to linux, I can't even find the virtual machine application in pulseaudio mixer anymore.
>>106941976
When I hover the mouse over the audio button in the taskbar. >>106942077
Many distros exhibit this same behavior. Fine in live mode, but not once installed. MX Linux 23.6, Fedora 42 KDE and Budgie, and Ultramarine are some specific examples.
The only one that 'just works' OOTB once installed is Fedora 42 GNOME, but I really don't like the current GNOME.
So I have both cinnamon and hyprland installed. Cinnamon was here cause this is my first time on hyprland and I wanted a little safety net. Now, I've pretty much never use it and and am thinking of getting rid of it. Removing it plus its dependencies would mean getting rid of all of these packages. Is there an easy way to check if any of them are used by anything else to make sure nothing will break? Should I remove it like so (pacman -Rs) or first remove just cinnamon itself and then remove orphaned packages for extra safety? Would it even make a difference? >inb4
Me lazy.
>>106942576 >Is there an easy way to check if any of them are used by anything else to make sure nothing will break?
No, only the hard way of knowing what you use on your system. >first remove just cinnamon itself and then remove orphaned packages for extra safety?
that's not extra safety, it doesn't help you either.
If you use any of these in hyprland (despite not being dependencies of it) things will break for you. Like, desktop portals and polkit daemons are good contenders for such things. If you need them, you need to explicitly install them first. Then you can remove cinnamon with its dependencies. But you'll have to know which of these packages you actually use.
>>106942452
well you should check it with multimeter first
if you replaced PSU and you have the same problem it might still be hardware
something isnt seated correctly
or simply just malfunctioning >>106942563
what do you see when you type "alsamixer"? >>106942576
if you try to remove something that is a dependency pacman will complain
unless you use flags that force it to remove shit anyway
in screenshot it tries to remove colord
i dont know if its a must have thing desu but sounds important
polkit-something is annoying to not have sometimes
polkit-gnome is a thing that pops up every time you need to enter your password
its a graphical tool for asking for your sudo password
but its not the end of the world, if you need it for something you can just reinstall and run it later (or similar polkit from other DE if you feel like it)
other than that just a bunch of python shit and cinnamon shit i guess?
>>106942677
I know how to fix it, and have in the past. I'm curious about the specific issue that it all seems to work on live boot but not once installed.
>>106942704
I don't really use anything that'd ask for auth graphically but I'd like to have that.
I should be on hyprpolkitagent but checking it with systemctl status hyprpolkit says there's no service with that name. It also says there's no service with the gnome.
Systemctl status polkit returns a polkit.service that's on systemd fodler in /usr/lib. How can I check which polkit is supposed to be in use? Opening gparted via wofi asks for auth, so some polkit must be in use, I just need to figure out which one.
btop says both polkitd and hyprpolkitagent are working, if that matters. I'm pretty sure it's hypr, but I'd like to be certain.
>>106942678
Nope, like said before, you need to know what you use. Though you could check your hyprland config since you'd have to start things like desktop portals or polkit daemons there. Doesn't work for all kind of packages though.
>>106943032
that doesn't work because hyprland has no dependencies on notification daemons, plokit daemons etc. so if he used those pacman won't know he still needs them.
>>106943058 >>106943071
oh and nothing related to cinnamon would be running anyway
if he isnt starting cinnamon anymore >>106943077
he seems to be doing fine so far
>>106943084
I'm back after rebooting, stuff seems to work fine. I didn't notice it was gonna uninstall nemo as well. Installing it back would mean getting cinnamon installed as well, defeating the purpose of removing it. I've never bothered to explore gui file explorers much because of cli tools and not being able to uninstall nemo without breaking cinnamon but since I can do that now, what are some file explorers I should check out? Thinking of nautilus because it's what nemo is based on. Anything else I should try?
I'm also the anon who setup hibernate the other day, and while rebooting I got these errors. Had to turn it off on the power button and turn it on again in order to boot. I don't know what's the issue here or how to fix it.
I've got a ridiculously underused miniPC gateway I'm running OpenWRT on as an internet gateway, looking for some ideas of docker images I can run on it. I used to run debian but I prefer OpenWRT's webUI as the machine is headless and I can manage it from my phone etc.
>>106943306
the errors need to be looked in dmesg
there is an error and warning flags, you can look up the command on the internet
you know funny you mentioned that
i have a "manager" (more like coworker but he essentially acts as our manager) at work and this boomer motherfucker is fairly tech illiterate to the point of where you try toask him to do ANYTHING technical at all he will throw a tantrum and tell you its not his job to do that
and an interesting thing for how tech illiterate he is he actually really likes dolphin and only works in dolphin
he just really likes split view and i think a few other features that i dont remember
and it was pretty funny when my coworker decided to install his shitty ass pirated win 8 everywhere and the "manager" guy just straight up told him that windows file manager fucking sucks ass and told him to install dolphin on his computer
which to my surprise he did, he found that dolphin has windows port and installed that
other than that thunar is neat
its a default xfce file manager and it just werks
ive used it a lot at work and on my personal devices before i went full terminal guru >>106943337 >kiwifarms head guy is tech savvy
lmao
didnt these autists get pwned because they fucked up some rust code somewhere? >>106943384
remote desktop perhaps?
some netflix and chill media shit?
nfs share?
just dont forget to firewall it from the internet >>106943414
weird it should prevent issues >WHAT THE FUCK IS AN IOMMU?!
as i understand it just poor mans ECC
>>106943384
How tf can anyone answer 'what should I run on this computer?' but you? It just depends what you want to accomplish. Look in /hsg/ for suggestions, but there are a million things people can suggest that aren't relevant to your needs.
>>106943414 >>106943439
oh reading about it a little bit it also used for virtualization and shit like that >>106943476
yea i assume these are memory addressees? they look like it
you can try and turn off IOMMU in BIOS and see what happens
>>106943306 >what are some file explorers I should check out? Thinking of nautilus because it's what nemo is based on. Anything else I should try?
I like pcmanfm, thunar is also another option.
>>106943518
I looked it up apparently, the individual CPU cores are getting the incorrect amount of voltage and must be manually configured to accept a certain amount of voltage. In other words, it's akin to the WHEA 18 cache error on Windows. It says use core cycler, but I don't have time for that. So I think my best bet it to configure until the crashes stop
>>106943637
who needs more than two really
one thread for shitty youtube sloop, one for terminal with some geek ass editor, one for terminal with ssh connection that you forgot to close and one for some gay as window manager
>>106941586 >>106941636
I've looked at the properties and no differences except the lack of destination for the exe, and even when I copy it from the ones that don't ask me how to launch when I launch it, it doesn't change anything.
Btw, are there any risks to run the machine and its original nvme at pcie 3.0 speed via a command line ? https://youtu.be/_LYU-I1LzcI?t=870
Will it damage/overheat/provoke bad sectors the chips and or the Nvme in the long run?
>>106943476
One of your CPU, RAM or motherboard is failing. Run memtest86+ and prime95 to check the RAM and CPU. Motherboards are much harder to test without replacing hardware.
>>106943439 >as i understand it just poor mans ECC
Absolutely not.
>>106944023
You can use prime95, some of its modes stress RAM more while others stress CPU and its power delivery more. If memtest passes but prime95 does not it may be the CPU or motherboard.
