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>>106970632 (OP)
ftfy

Does anyone have asome gtk themes that have a kvantum version?
I can find a few like Adapta Orchis Ambiance (orange) Qogir Arc etc. but I can't find any gtk equivalents easily for the other kvantum defaults and in general most gtk themes just don't have one.
I want to have matching themes for both GTK and Qt but some of my Qt applications don't work properly with the gtk3 and gtk2 theme engines for Qt.
I especially want to find some that are more skeuomorphic in their design architecture, most of the ones I find are based on material design.
Ambiance is a good one but I can't find a kvantum equivalent for the blue one

>>106970772
Trying to get GTK and Qt to look consistent is a fool's errand, friend.

In which directory am I supposed to download git repos?
The git manual uses /srv/git/ on servers and I did the same but this directory forces me to use sudo to do anything.

nrd for "I fucking love nixOS!"

Here's a cool tip:
use `nix.settings.trusted-substituters` in your nixos config, instead of `nix.settings.substituters`, so that not every flake will try the substituters for everything. Then, in flake.nix, do
nixConfig = {
extra-substituters = [...must match one in your trusted-substituters...];
};

Also someone mentioned there's now proxy sites for 4chan so I don't have to wait for the captcha countdowns. Is this legitimate info? Idc if I get datamined.

>>106970878
You could just put them in a folder within your /home

are wireguard clients pain free for running 24/7, autostart etc on shit like android phones, tvs, iphones and other random shit or will it bite me in the ass in future?

>>106970763
Fpbp

>>106970772
KDE is a clusterfuck and will never look good

Had too many issues with GNOME 49.1, so I'm back on Debian stable Gnome 48.4
Debian-sama, I'm sorry I fell for the updoot trap.

>>106971570
I never know what people who say things like this are talking about

I've got a slightly tough question (at least i think its tough). I've built my own customized fedora kinoite image using ublue's template from here https://github.com/ublue-os/image-template but with the fedora bootc image instead of theirs. I'm stuck at trying to preinstall the proprietary nvidia driver. Can anyone point me in the right direction to achieve this? I've tried looking at ublue's akmods-nvidia repo but they have so much going on in there, it's hard to parse what is specific to nvidia from what's not.

I want a sock for face. Which should I use?

>>106971614
>Dock for xfce
Fuck autocorrect

Today i’m installing Linux Mint, because one of my programs (Start11) stopped working. This had made Windows 11 pretty much intolerable for me. I primarily use my computer for games (old and new) so any pro tips are welcome. I haven’t touched a non-Windows OS in over 20 years, but can use Windows blindfolded. Here are my relevant specs :

>CPU i5 12600K
>GPU RX 7900 XT
>RAM 32 GB DDR4 3200 mhz

Thanks

>>106971647
Some of your games might not work

>>106971647
Good job making the switch! It can be a bit difficult getting used to the change. There are so many ways to go about this but if most of your games are on Steam, then it's just a simple install from the Linux Mint app store and then you're off to the races. If you play competitive games, you may have a hard time since a lot of them use Windows specific Anti Cheat software that doesn't work as well on Linux. If you use other game stores for your purchased games, you can try using Heroic Launcher.

>near-death NTFS (Seagate) drive from 2014
>try multiple "fast" ddrescue passes that managed to recover 89% before any successful scrape or trim attempt
>croaks at something like 700K non-medium errors
>sleuthkit fls manages to get the precious file list from the image
FOSSNIGGERS, I KNEEL
AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>106971591
https://thelibre.news/the-future-of-kde-styling-and-design/
Read how messy the current state is

>hmmm today I think I will install Debian barebones and then install a DE and everything afterwards to skip debloating altogether
>you have a laptop with no ethernet port and you've read dozens of horror stories of people bricking themselves like this with no way to access the internet, are you sure you want to proceed?
>Relax brain see I connected to the wifi already in the installer so it should be a breeze
4 hours

>>106971958
I can see the argument for it being overall "messy" in certain ways but it looks perfectly fine in most ways out of the box to most people as far as I can tell. But fine I'll read this textwall

>>106972115
>Looks fine ootb
>Hamburgers, drop down menus with checkmarks, nested menus all in the same DE

I'm trying out the Devuan minimal installer for the first time right now, why is it never able to connect to the repo mirrors from the installer? I've only tried it in VMWare so far, but other distros I've used in VMWare are able to install packages just fine, and besides that internet connections within VMWare are seen by the guest OS as ethernet anyway so there shouldn't be any Wi-Fi fuckery. Maybe Devuan has become abandonware since the last time I attempted to use it?

>>106971958
If you think this is messy you've never done any serious GUI programming.

>>106972608
It's uglier than GNOME, yes. The superior DE.

>>106972637
you can't even theme gnome

>>106972678
But you can?! Install user theme extension. Or Open Bar.

Red pill me on snap. Is it good or bad?

>>106971690
I only play genshin

>>106972074
I don't like Debian, I don't see the hype. But I also use Ubuntu so to a lot of people here I'm a dirty shiteater.

Is it over for Ubuntu's flavours? Canonical could've easily have taken responsibility for hosting all the flavours on their own site. This would be far better for security rather than dealing with all the different sites with different layouts. They really only want you to use Gnome+Wayland don't they?

>>106972587
I've installed it no problem in a VM not a few weeks ago. It must be your connection or the mirrors are somehow down/blocking your country.

>>106972855
It's as good as any other software delivery method.

>>106972896
Damn I visited the website yesterday when someone talked about the download links not working, glad I was already on Linux I guess.

>>106972896
No, but I imagine that many Linux flavors are gonna increase their OpSec, the hack allegedly wasn't that sophisticated or hard to do (according to the people reporting it), so they'll probably update safety protocol, maybe have to find someone who will do it for free or outsource and spend some money to secure the site more. Other flavors will most likely do the same.

>>106972959
I'm in the US and was able to install Debian in VMWare from the minimal ISO after posting my initial comment, so it's not my connection. I suppose I'll just mess around with Debian for now instead.

Obvious bug with Debian 13 + Xfce not showing the Ceratopsian theme. I installed through the installer (tasksel) so it would've included the desktop themes for current and past releases. For some reason it shows Xfce's default wallpaper instead.

>>106972855
It's not really good, but there's nothing wrong if you choose to use it over better options like flatpak and appimage.

>>106973049
Enjoy your systemd then. This shows the mirror status that Debian and other distros may use. I always check here first before proceeding in the installer in case something is down. If you select deb.debian.org it goes through a Fastly CDN but may not always pick a fast mirror.

https://mirror-master.debian.org/status/mirror-status.html

Which do you use for security updates in Debian 13?

SourcesList on Debian Wiki says use:
https://security.debian.org/debian-security

/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/debian.sources says use:
http://deb.debian.org/debian-security

Why would the wiki and the documentation give different URIs?

>>106970763
GNU/fpbp

>disabled my network bridge for KVM QEMU
>completely forgot how to enable it again

You can't erase files not because they don't trust their archive and due process but because they need to spam child porn from your device

>>106972857
Well then you're in luck. Install an anime game launcher and there will be fun times ahead in teyvat. I'm using their sleepy launcher to play ZZZ so I can guarantee it works.
Link: https://github.com/an-anime-team/an-anime-game-launcher?tab=readme-ov-file#-third-party-support

>>106971614
It shouldn't matter as long as the sock is big enough. jk, plank is the best dock program, I think there's a more up to date version called plank reloaded, so check that out as well.
>>106972587
I always had issues installing Devuan in the past, also during the mirrors part. No idea why, the installer always shits itself specifically during that part.

>>106972857
It works completely fine in Bottles. I'm playing it on my Steam Deck.

>>106970763
Debian sucks. Worst DE I've ever used.

>>106972896
But they do host them on their own site..? https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/

What solutions exist for fan controls on Linux? In switching from Windows what I lost was the ability to use AMD Adrenaline which let me tune my fans. I don't like my GPU sitting at 60+ degrees Celsius just idling.

>>106973779
I think LACT is the new CoreCtrl. Or if your GPU is a bit older you can just use CoreCtrl but it's no longer maintained.

>>106973394
Right, my xubuntu virtual machine still doesn't work despite I've gotten a new bridge working, and tried basically every option I can think of.
But oddly enough, my win XP virtual machine works fine no questions asked.

I fucking hate k8s

I'm stuck between Ubuntu/Gnome versions.

22 doesn't have working thumbnail pickers

24 and 25 removed a folder's Open with... VS Code option, and takes 3 more clicks. I do this enough for it to be annoying.

25.10 doesn't work with tiling shell and the default tiling is frustrating to use.

25.10 doesn't work well with wine (because of no x11?)

I might actually return to 22. It's the most comfy, requiring little to no tweaks.

I don't want to touch a different DEs because I know I'll find a bunch of other devils that are worse time sinks.

>>106972696
and then live in fear of upgrades

>>106970878
I didn’t even know there was a recommended place, I’ve just been putting everything in a git folder in /home.

>>106971647
The first thing is provisioning your drives to ext4 or whatever filesystem you want. mint might do this for you already, idk. Good luck! You can liveboot (boot from usb in bootloader/bios/uefi, it’ll indicate whether you want to try or install) to test that everything is working (sound, networking, graphics) before you commit to a specific distro

Is there a list of applications on KDE that most users don't need and can be easily defined as bloat for me to remove? I want to clean my processes and drive a little, and frankly I fear removing things I don't understand fully.
For example Kmix doesn't even to work, it's that other audio interface that I can't seem to find the name for that's handling all the audio controls. Unless the system is running two instances of Kmix for some reason I reckon I'm better off uninstalling Kmix.

give me full Office 365 support and good font rendering and my life is yours

>>106970632 (OP)
Debian derivatives work. I'm on Ubuntu and it just works

>>106970763
Based

>>106973746
Debian provides installation images with a variety of DEs. Go here and then choose either folder - "bt" means BitTorrent, and the other folder is direct download:

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/

As you can see there are images with these DEs:
>Cinnamon
>GNOME
>KDE Plasma
>LXDE
>LXQt
>MATE
>XFCE

>>106972896
>>106973761
Yeah Ubuntu does host the images for the different flavours, but it says this on Ubuntu's website:
>Ubuntu flavors are owned and developed by members of our global community
https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavors

I assume this basically means "we're not legally responsible if the flavours contain malware or anything bad - use at your own risk".

how well do the jakoolit scripts work on a naked arch install? i have been told they are meant for endevourOS but ALVR does not work on that anymore apparently

>>106974375
I'll update when Debian 14.1 is out

>>106970763
>universal operating system
>keeps removing architectures

>>106974640
>noooooo my outdated garbage!!!!
just get a 64 bit CPU already jesus

>>106972587
at least you went that far into the installation, ive tried installing devuan so many times now, their iso are always fucked up, never boot or work on my hardware, its amazing since its father works everywhere and everyday, maybe their team is just incopetent or small, unable to make a proper working distro, a shame since i really like their site, ill stick to debian.

>>106974481
>Office 365 support
https://www.openoffice.org/

>>106974434
delete everything and install gentoo

>>106975065
No, I need the real deal, both for work and myself. Non-negotiable. Every other aspect of Microsoft can suck my dick but that's a necessity.

>>106972074
i don't get why these fucking retards make it ultra painful in 2025 to just get the fucking network going
arch does something similarly retarded
you would think it would be straightforward to recognize what network devices your machine has and to simply fucking enable them for connecting
but noooooOOOOoooo it has to be niggerish

>>106974481
>give me full office 365 support
you say this like the ball is in the linux court on that any support they have will be hacky at best cause Microsoft wont port 365 to linux cause they know it will cause another mass migration

use nixos

>>106975132
>>106972074
nm-applet was helpful.
>>106970632 (OP)
I've been out the linux ricing game for three years, what are recent developments? I heard wayland is making rounds, is it still buggy or not?
>>106974481
Microsoft office online can work. Otherwise if you really want to use linux, I would get an VM/wine.
One thing that urks me about .doc is that it's never consistent. Each program has it's strange quirks on how it interprets a file. I wonder how intentional it was.

>>106974481
>good font rendering
sorry, but we dont do that here at ...*krashes* >>106974434

>>106975132
What do you mean? Arch is easymode when it comes to networking. I installed it on 2 different computers and it instantly worked on both, including WiFi.

>>106975233
yes, using the abomination that is network manager usually does that, on any system.

>>106975349
>why?!?! why is networking so hard?
>i dont know i dont have any problems with it
>bu-but you must use this program i have decided i dont like that just happens to work perfectly
do you have any idea how stupid you just made yourself sound?

>>106975349
>It works perfectly
>It's an abomination
Hmm?

>>106974252
Just use the latest one. Staying on old versions is a Windows-ism

>>106975176
nm is decent. but this should all be integrated into the installer. it's too fucking siloed. MUH UNUCHS PILOSOPY.

>>106975233
i mean archinstall won't automatically copy over a working network connection to the system you're installing.

>>106974481
>Office 365
*bam*

>>106975138
>trooNix OS
no thanks, I use a real distro

fedora 43 is releasing in a few days, should I wait or install 42 now and give it a few weeks before upgrading?

>>106970632 (OP)

I'll preface by saying I'm an absolute noobtard trying to make a raspberry pi streambox.

Trying to use Jellyfin and I have an external formatted in exFat to store files. I can't get Jellyfin to find or accept the filepath. The filepath is media/"uid"/funfiles.

I've tried chmod, I've tried mounting and unmounting,. For the life of me, I can't figure out what the problem is. Any ideas?

>>106975404
shut up retard. go back to your dbus goyslop

>>106975559
dont complain about a program while also complaining about having to do the job of said program you either use it or set it up manually

>>106975507
There are distros that will copy network settings from installer to OS, like Fedora for example. Arch really isn't meant for clueless newbies. Not that you can't use it as one, it's just not made to appeal to that demographic.

>>106975582
i'm not whoever your jew ass was arguing with. i'm the guy calling you a tranny.

>>106975603
you are bizarrely hostile

>>106973951
Now tried an openSUSE VM, worked perfectly too.
Guess xubuntu is just fucked.

>>106975607
you seem bizarrely missing your original genitals.

>>106975620
ya that's great except im not

>>106975591
They just miss some very obvious wins. I use arch btw because I'm not really a noob and know how to handle it's gay quirks but I know there are noobs out there just struggling with dumb shit for no actual reason.
I hope some faggot zoomoid vibe codes all these useful-but-missing things into archinstall.

>>106975635
I wasn't trying to imply you're the newbie. Just that you could use Arch as a newbie. It's my first Linux distro after all.

>>106975508
>WinBoat is an Electron app which allows you to run Windows apps on Linux using a containerized approach. Windows runs as a VM inside a Docker container, we communicate with it using the WinBoat Guest Server to retrieve data we need from Windows. For compositing applications as native OS-level windows, we use FreeRDP together with Windows's RemoteApp protocol.

>>106975635
>I hope some faggot zoomoid vibe codes all these useful-but-missing things into archinstall.
I hope so as well, as an arch disliker

>>106975645
I know you weren't saying that. I'm just pissed at how bad archinstall is. It's been around for like a fucking decade and this is the biggest Linux distro among non-noobs. It's pathetic really.

>>106975535
Can you access the files with other programs?
What are the mount options? Use mount | grep /media/"uid"

>>106975673
I like it, it did a good job cutting off a lot of effort from installing Arch. I manually installed Arch on my main PC but used Archinstall for my old PC which I upgraded from.
I'm quite satisfied with the defaults they've chosen, it's all very reasonable... But also very minimal, so I still had a lot of stuff to do myself. I think there already exist distributions that cater to people that want "Arch, but with an installer a baby could use". For example: EndeavourOS. It's very close to vanilla Arch and the installer is on par with most distros.

Although I really don't like some of the changes they made, like using dracut.

How's gayming on linux nowadays? I've read that there's been a lot of work done and that things improved a lot. I'm mostly talking about offline games, no interest in online sloppa.

>>106975652
what the fuck why does it need to be inside multiple containers? why the hell does everything nowadays likes to run through multiple layers of abstraction?? are winfags really that desperate to run their slop they resort to this mumbo jumbo? and are we linuxfags supposed to be the tinkertrannies? just use libreoffice nigga jfc

I have this problem on Discord specifically where the audio played on youtube, some video game, etc can be heard via my microphone and I've yet to solve this issue, I have a splitter that I plug in the front port, no clue if that's the cause of, any help is appreciated

what gaymers and discordtroons are doing on my gnoo/loonix general. GO BACK

Hey fags, how do I change the desktop environment on Ubuntu 25.10? Those fuckers have removed the option from the login screen. Im trying to change to i3wm.

>>106975930
they're exodus-ing from winshit. fuck off, they belong here. they're more welcome than a faggot like you.

>>106976004
kys faggot, normal niggers OUT

>>106976046
i'm an archnigger who has been using linux actively since ubuntu 5.04 with the free cds canonical used to send out. *you're* the normal nigger here, gtfo.

>>106975762
It's good, I play gog stuff with Lutris quite a lot.

uuuuuuuuuuuu i need help i did a fuckywucky
windows wrote into my efi partition on linux and i had to remove the /boot fstab entry in order to be able to mount it in chroot so that i could delete the windows boot manager and regenerate systemd
but now when i try to launch with /boot in fstab it boots into emergency mode
what am i doing wrong

sure you are negro.

>>106975930
Because I don't want Microjeets spying on me 24/7 and collecting every possible bit of data about me and being forced to update against my will, I'd rather fuck around on my distro for hours than switch to Windows ever again, and I do agree that Linux should be gatekept but it already filter normalfags by design alone

>>106975534
>Installing unstable shit
Ugh...

>>106975930
They get sent to noob distros like Mint, Bazzite and Cachy, while we Debian Stable Chads keep our stability.

>>106976077
Copy out your home folder and whatever settings you had for things, nuke the drive, install whatever distro you were using fresh, and stop installing windows

>>106975762
It's so good publishers need to block Linux nowadays.

>yt-dlp gives me a 403 forbidden error
>update it with `yt-dlp -U`
>now it works again
Very based, very redpilled

>>106976103
fuck no
there has to be a way to fix this aside from reinstalling the os

>>106976199
i found the issue lul

>government implented new law that will go into effect in January
>they can demand your passwords and take your disk if they find you suspicious
Now I have to reinstall Fedora and encrypt the disk, is there really no way to encrypt it post install?

>>106975930
You can blame micro$oft for that mate
Natural consequence of a product being shat on is that it's users flock to the next best thing
I don't mind them, more linux users = linux more accepted and better support for applications on linux natively.

>>106976407
Obviously thought if they're gonna shit up linux too then that's a bad thing but i think most stupid people are going to be filtered by the terminal anyway

no one actually needs a DE. DHH is a massive faggot and dipshit but i'm glad he's pushing this important message. not saying you need hyprland, any tiling WM will do the job.

>>106976420
>but i think most stupid people are going to be filtered by the terminal anyway
Yes, exactly

>>106976420
they can't shit up linux, retard. they would have to be given positions of authority to be able to do that, which no one is going to do. the control of the ecosystem is still very much in the hands of competent people and if that ever goes bad, then people will just go to bsd. bsd is our nuclear option so that no one will actually fuck with linux.

>>106976433
arch was ruined by ricetards. anyone who uses it is a child

What's a good distro for unlovable incel chud freaks like me?

>>106976470
you're retarded. arch is fine and just werks.
>>106976528
arch. it's the default distro and also the distro for men.

>>106976534
spotted the omarchy user that thinks he's based and owning the libtards

>>106975104
I understand. A shame, but work be like that

>>106976528
i use fedora

arch for troons, debi for men.

>>106976548
i fucking hate DHH, not using omarchy you nigger. plain arch + sway here. this was me >>106976433

>>106976548
also i basically *am* the libtard. i disagree with all miga politics, biggest group of useful idiots i've ever seen in my life.

>>106976640
No one actually even needs a computer. Or a phone. Go inna woods, reject modernity. Live off the land. DEs are bloat. Window managers are bloat. Linux is bloat. Circuits are bloat. Embrace tradition, escape the system. Ted was right.

>>106976767
i know you're memeing but i believe in balance and happy mediums aka pragmatism.

Whats some basic hardening steps i should implement to secure my machine that doesnt sacrifice performance on a 5 year old midtier laptop running debian 13? Im using this machine mainly to make music in renoise, but also basic desktop use(browsing, youtube, etc)
I tried making an encrypted LVM but then renoise started shitting the bed for big projects, so that option is out the window, what else could/should i do?

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/

>6.2GB iso for a tiling wm distro
>Prompts for email address
>Comes with tons of bloatware like: The bundled “apps” are: 1Password, Alacritty, Basecamp, Bluetooth, Calculator, ChatGPT, Chromium, Discord, Disk Usage, Docker, Document Viewer, Electron 37, Figma, Files, GitHub, Google Contacts, Google Messages, Google Photos, HEY, Image Viewer, Kdenlive, LibreOffice, LibreOffice Base, LibreOffice Calc, LibreOffice Draw, LibreOffice Impress, LibreOffice Math, LibreOffice Writer, Limine-snapper-restore, LocalSend, Media Player, Neovim, OBS Studio, Obsidian, OpenJDK Java 25 Console, OpenJDK Java 25 Shell, Pinta, Print Settings, Signal, Spotify, Typora, WhatsApp, X, Xournal++, YouTube, Zoom;
Whew...

>>106976856
delete debian
install arch
i'm fully serious. debian isn't secure by default, that's not their focus. arch is fine for desktop use.

>>106976865
not sure if you meant that at me (the arch + sway guy who was shitting on DHH) but omarchy is another vanity project by that shitcunt.
ofc he would shit it up with garbage like he did with rails.

>>106976905
>Arch
>Secure
Doesn't even have secure boot ootb lmao

>>106976928
no one serious actually thinks that secure boot is important. you probably are too stupid to realize the purpose.

>>106976905
man i tried using arch for a few months but i have to admit it took too much of my time to manage updates from aur packages. its just too unwieldy for me.

idk why, maybe it's autism, but it's very satisfying updating my system and watching the text fly by on the terminal

>>106976950
How many AUR packages were you running? I've been on arch for 3 months now and have only had one situation where I had to manually deal with dependency bullshit

>>106970632 (OP)
If a sever recommends running off a second account rather than root, would a VM in root achieve the same thing?

>>106976947
*Gets UEFI rootkits from the aur*
Oh wait I don't lmao

>>106976905
I tried fedora jam, av linux and ubuntu studio before settling on debian. Debian gave me the best performance for my audio needs. Im linux newb so arch is out of the question, plus i want something stable and reliable which im not linux savvy enough to achieve with arch

Omarchy - developed with AI

What are the disadvantages and advanges of tarballs? The general consensus?
I personally like them and wish more software would ship this way, its a bit inconvenient to manage it yourself but in distros like debian they fill an excellent gap, its good to self manage your browser too, for example, icecat & palemoon, both are available as tarballs.

>>106977283
Shitty overused format. 99.99% of the time you could do the same job with zip/7z external attributes and not lose the ability to extract individual archive members.

>>106977373
he's talking about loose file software distribution, not the tar format itself. don't just read the first line

>In vim, `:s/pattern/\n/` inserts a null character whlist `:s/pattern/\r/` inserts an os-compatible newline.
>But `:s/\n/.../` matches newlines and `:s/\r/..../` matches carriage returns
wtf I thought vim would have less of these weird things

>>106970632 (OP)
>try to install ChachyOS
>literally gets errors on install.
god linux why are you so utterly fucked? How even.

Naturally I have no idea what the error even means. Posting it below:
.. Running QList("sync")
2025-10-23 - 01:51:41 [1]: void Calamares::ViewManager::onInstallationFailed(const QString&, const QString&)
2025-10-23 - 01:51:41 [1]: ERROR: Installation failed: "Boost.Python error in job \"bootloader\""
2025-10-23 - 01:51:41 [6]: .. - message: "Boost.Python error in job \"bootloader\""
2025-10-23 - 01:51:41 [6]: .. - details: <div><strong><class 'FileNotFoundError'></strong></div><div>[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sys/block//dev/nvme0n1/diskseq'</div><div><br/>Traceback:</div><div><pre>File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py", line 1111, in run
prepare_bootloader(fw_type, install_hybrid_grub)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py", line 1073, in prepare_bootloader
install_limine(efi_directory, fw_type)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py", line 810, in install_limine
add_additional_entries_limine(efi_directory, installation_root_path, fw_type)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py", line 731, in add_additional_entries_limine
with open(f"/sys/block/{drive}/diskseq") as f:
~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</pre></div>
2025-10-23 - 01:51:41 [6]: void Calamares::ViewManager::onInstallationFailed(const QString&, const QString&)
2025-10-23 - 01:51:41 [6]: Calamares will quit when the dialog closes.

>>106977810
I mean you are trying to install CachyOS? What did you expect, for it to be Arch?

>>106977024
its been a while so i don't remember exactly what they were

Is there any reason I shouldn't be moving lines like "exec-once = swaync" out of my hyprland autostart and into a systemd service? I already use uwsm

>>106977283
Oh please tarballs?
Really? YOU USE TARBALLS?
nothing screams “modern" like MANUALLY JUGGLING DEPENDENCIES and a prayer that make install doesn’t torch your /usr.
Package managers EXIST FOR A REASON!
Debian’s not begging you to go full archaeologist every update cycle.
You’re cosplaying as your own sysadmin while EVERYONE ELSE ON /G/ MOVED ON! YEARS AGO!
if you like masochism then, whatever floats your boat i guess

>>106977852
everybody says shits easy, just click the installer and boom everything is done for you, like windows.
Except linux mint corrupted my drive and CachyOS which I am using to install over it is.... failing to install LMAO
send help.

>>106977881
>why yes i use musl libc

>>106977888
Try redownloading the ISO. The only time I've ever had issues installing a linux distro was when somehow the installation iso was fucked in some way

>>106977917
I validated the hash and everything

>>106977938
No clue, an alternative easy to install arch-based distro is endeavourOS and it's not much effort to install the cachyos kernel and repos once you're set up

>>106977888
It is easy, if it works. There's no guarantee it will work, though. Since it's CachyOS. They might have broken the installer. Again.
I don't know if that's actually the problem because the error you're posting looks kinda sus.

Anyway, if it isn't CachyOS being broken, then one thing you could do (and I needed to do this once) is wipe the hard drive you're trying to install shit on manually. Delete all the partitions and whatever is on it. I had one SSD that wouldn't let anything be installed on it at all, had to manually wipe it with fdisk if I remember correctly before it started working.

>>106977960
>I had one SSD that wouldn't let anything be installed on it at all, had to manually wipe it with fdisk if I remember correctly before it started working.
Oh no, it showed me this error at the very very end of the installer. It did installing fine for 98% of the process.

>>106977881
b-but anon, i dont install anything, you see, it comes with everything it needs and an executable, i-i just link it to my custom $PATH directory

>>106978076
Do it anyway, and try again. Maybe second time's the charm. Also I only ever tried installing CachyOS with Systemd boot. That log you posted is referencing limine and GRUB and I haven't tried those. On Cachy anyway.

Though maybe the installer is broken. AGAIN. It wouldn't be the first time.

>>106978116
>Also I only ever tried installing CachyOS with Systemd boot.
they don't even give me that option, only grub and lime

>>106978126
wtf? That is new. Have you tried installing something else? Like EndeavourOS? It uses the same installer as CachyOS.

>>106978150
>Have you tried installing something else? Like EndeavourOS?
no, cachy was my first choice and boy linux is really raping my expectations here.
I guess I should try eneavour, but fuck I'm never manually installing all those gaming optimizations.

>>106978166
its really just the kernel and scheduler

>>106978166
>gaming optimizations
this is a meme, right?

>>106978166
I don't think those are necessarily good for you. I had issues with artifacting on CachyOS which didn't happen on either Arch or EndeavourOS. (didn't try anything other than those for a baseline). They made changes to the Wine there and I suspect some of those changes aren't exactly tested in every possible use case.
The only thing I took from CachyOS over to Arch is profile-sync-daemon. They have a button you can click to set that up instantly and before CachyOS I didn't even know that software existed, and that happens to be really good software if you're using an SSD. I am kinda averse to the kernel after having tried the OS itself and not finding it very pleasant.

>>106978179
>>106978203
>>106978219
god I just want to play videogames aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
why is shit breaking and not working aaaaaaaaaaaaa!
fuck, leave me your suggestions I'm going to take a nap and power through this another time.

>>106978203
lmaooo i tried to warm you fags, der gaymer brainroot is real

>>106978245
You can pick any distro - as long as your graphics drivers are installed and work you play games on it. You don't need some special gaymer bullshit sauce.
On Arch based shit it's just sudo pacman -Syu steam and then get ProtonUp-QT (it's a flatpak) once your Steam is up and running. Then you can use that to add a version of ProtonGE to your Steam.

I haven't found a Steam game that didn't work yet, and the toughest thing I had to do was select ProtonGE as the compatibility tool for 1 game. Stuff like Lutris for non-Steam games is more complicated, but.. I mean you're still just using ProtonGE ideally.

>>106978166
If you can't install Arch you shouldn't install Arch derivatives

>>106978362
Arch isn't exactly harder to install than CachyOS or any other derivatives. It just has a more hostile installer UI.

>>106977810
>Naturally I have no idea what the error even means.
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sys/block//dev/nvme0n1/diskseq'

That's the meat of it. Looks like a bug in their installer:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cachyos/comments/1nola18/comment/niwe8su/

>>106978415
CachyOS moment.

is there any good video editor on GTK? i like how simple openshot is but it is QT, kdenlive is bloated

>>106976856
Bumping this Q

>>106978570
Uh... use Lynis to have it give you some recommendations? I guess? You're kinda doing something pointless.

>>106975507
>>106975591
NTA, but I could've sworn that archinstall has an option for copying current settings to the install

>>106975729

I haven't tried any programs only apps like VLC. The return for that is /dev/sda2 on /media/"uid"/funfiles type exfat (rw,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,iocharset=utf8,errors=remount-ro)

Looking for a KDE theme that is transparent, and also allows the title bar to blend in with the rest of the window.

>>106978570
what's your threat model? what do you wish to achieve, security wise?

>>106978630
Isnt that for servers though? Im just using this as a desktop. Or does the same security measures taken for hardening a server the same for desktops too?

Are the optimized packages and kernel actually noticeably better with CachyOS vs regular Arch? Does it make a big difference for applications that would benefit from heavy SIMD? It feels like a meme OS and like I could achieve the same (or better) with Gentoo and -march=native, but if it isn't a giant leap I'll just stick with Arch.

>>106978943
Lynis scans your system and generates a reüprt on what kind of hardening you already have and what you can do to go further. It's up to you to do something with that information. Whether to implement it, or ignore all of it.

The report is generated based on what software is installed on your system, not based on what software could be installed on your system. Be it server software or anything else. Obviously it's going to recommend shit that is going to be completely unworkable for your use case too. It doesn't mindread what level of security or use case you're looking for.

Anyone know of any Neofetch alternatives that can read and display an HTML file as an ASCII logo?

>>106979019
I literally don't notice the difference, I low-key think it's placebo

>>106979041
Fastfetch is what everyone moved to

what's a nice font for loonix?
default was some noto font but it's really hard on my eyes
installed times new roman because that's what im used to but it looks weird as hell

>>106979227
I just use segoe ui because it's what I'm used to.

>>106979227
Windows 11 fonts. The fonts on Linux are kinda ass. Noto fonts aren't even made for desktop use, but for smartphones.

>>106979276
times new roman is a w11 font
>>106979264
yeah segoe looks okay i guess

>>106979288
>>times new roman is a w11 font
It's also a Windows 98 font, which you probably have if you didn't extract it from a Windows 11 install yourself.

>>106979291
i got it from a windows 10 iso

>>106979296
Okay, then you should force hinting as MS fonts are made to rely on that, some other fonts might looks weird with it though. Also enable subpixel RGB rendering to mimic cleartype.

Yes yes, Lunduke, but will OpenMandriva be worth my time to install or is it feature-poor?

>>106979343
yo thanks that looks A LOT better

I’m having an issue with mediainfo-gui only showing a blank page when opening files with certain letters in the filename (non-English letters, emojis, upside down question marks etc) but works fine if the file is renamed. Somehow it works if I launch it through the console mediainfo-gui "filename¿.mp4"

Is there any way to get mediainfo-gui to work normally with those filenames? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

>>106979587
Sounds like a file manager bug, which one are you using?

>>106979075
>Fastfetch
doesn't seem to support html files.
>>106979227
Rotunda Pommerania
turn everything on your PC into a Commodore 64 Fantasy RPG

>>106979607
Dolphin (Fedora KDE)

>>106979607
>>106979587
To add additional context using the mediainfo-qt version works with all filenames and launching mediainfo from the start menu first and then dragging and dropping a file with that type of filename does NOT work.

>>106979612
>Commodore 64
Amiga
I don't know why I wrote Commodore 64

>>106979024
Ok thank you for the info. It looks like i will have to be learning some things

does BSD count as linux?

>>106979836
no, although its the same kind of autistic people use it.

>>106979841
I use both, I'm having trouble with BSD on a linux server

>>106979836
It's a UNIX fork like Linux is. A separate tree, most famously used as the base for macOS.

>>106979867
It's the saving grace of macOS
I can fix shit because the term is similar

>>106979867
>UNIX fork like Linux
No.

Why does everything I can find on implementing transparency in i3 point to something that isn't even a standard anymore?

is there a relatively user friendly way (gui based?) to mirror drives on linux? I want to stop using windows but I have a drive mirror set up in Microsoft storage spaces

How hard is it to change Desktop environment? Im not really liking KDE, CachyOS btw

>>106970632 (OP)
>>106970632 (OP)
Hello
I'm using Mint and transferring between my boot m.2 and a larger m.2 and I get < 100 mb a second?
This is how it has always been and I have been just living with it, but (hopefully) no more.
I am here to see if any of you knowledgeable fucks can tell me wtf is going on here, it's even slower than transferring from my sata HDD.

Ryzen 7 5700X3D asus prime b550 if that helps

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_z_w0m4A3E
Not good.

is there like a list of modern desktop environments that are still supported? I like the look of KDE but it feels a little clunky to use

>>106980796
Define "supported"

>>106980736
check your PCIe settings in bios, 'cause it could be switching to the lowest gen on "Auto"
usually somewhere in the mobo manual should also say what it can do electronically, since lanes are limited across everything, like even the bottom half of all SATA ports

>>106980803
still in use by a few distros that are up to date i guess

>>106979587
>>106979631
Looks like a locale issue. I can reproduce it on my machine as follows: with LANG set to "en_US.UTF-8", (my default), dragging and dropping "/tmp/¿test?.webm" works. With LANG set to "en_US", it doesn't.

Look up how to set your locale on your distro; you probably need something that specifies UTF-8. Here are the instructions for Fedora:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f40/system-administrators-guide/basic-system-configuration/System_Locale_and_Keyboard_Configuration/

>>106980856
If it's a Fedora Spin, I'd say that's good enough. So check their list: https://www.fedoraproject.org/spins

anons
xubuntu, amd graphics
my monitor only works in recovery mode, if i boot normal it's black screen, no signal detected.

i've tried some grub options to force lower res and refresh rate, but still black.
i really dont know how to proceed with this, any ideas?

So I know its not really needed unless youa re retarded or you are running a server

But what's a good antivirus and antiwalware? Fedora btw, I do download stuff here and there because doujin games, I use trusted websites but the chances are never 0% also just moved to linux and well, its one thing I always did biweekly, a full scan

where the FUCK is the thumbnail view in the file picker

>>106981442
welcome to gtk

>>106981367
I honestly don't even know of that many Linux viruses to begin with. At least none intended for end users.

>>106981477
i thought they added this? I swear I read somewhere they added this after like 18 fucking years

>>106981512
Only on GTK4's file picker.
So basically you can't use it if you're not on modern GNOME which uses the GTK4 file picker.

>>106977810
Calamares is such a piece of shit... I can't get over Kubuntu switching to it. It's not even functional enough to be considered for a serious distro.

>>106978310
>You can pick any distro - as long as your graphics drivers are installed and work you play games on it. You don't need some special gaymer bullshit sauce.
I do if some games have shit performance and stutter like hell on linux.
>On Arch based shit it's just sudo pacman -Syu steam and then get ProtonUp-QT (it's a flatpak) once your Steam is up and running. Then you can use that to add a version of ProtonGE to your Steam.

I haven't found a Steam game that didn't work yet, and the toughest thing I had to do was select ProtonGE as the compatibility tool for 1 game. Stuff like Lutris for non-Steam games is more complicated,
90% of games I play are off steam, and through lutris or some other thing like that.

>>106978362
frankly it sounds like I should stick to windows.
because even retard proof mint failed me.

>>106978373
again supposedly installing cahcyos was supposed to be simple

>>106978415
>>106978430
I looked into it.
Supposedly the fix is:
>After you've selected Limine as the boot loader, edit the following file as root: /usr/lib/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py Make the change made in this commit. Save the change and continue on with the install.
> elif fw_type != "efi" and len(partition) == 1:

(devname,) = partition

drive, partition_number = get_partition_drive(devname)


drive = drive.replace("/dev/", "")

with open(f"/sys/block/{drive}/diskseq") as f:

diskseq = f.readline().strip()


But why hasn't this been intigrated into the install iso? Why do I have to do this manually?

>>106979019
>Are the optimized packages and kernel actually noticeably better with CachyOS vs regular Arch?
better than linux mint for example, how it compares to other arch distros I don't know

>>106981289
I would like to know which graphics card you have and which version of Xubuntu
I may be able to help

its over chatGPT can generate an entire theme based off of a wallpaper ricers are dead

>>106981862
Theme generators have existed long before chatGPT (for example things like Pywal, etc). What's really interesting is the extent to which things like chatGPT can do generative AI. You could have it make a Qt theme or window decorations for you, etc, things that were previously unthinkable with the existing generators.

>>106981512
They did, in GTK4. You are using a GTK3 or GTK2 app.

>>106981791
>Calamares is such a piece of shit...
That's not even a Calamares issue, it's a problem with CachyOS's fork which incorrectly added support for Limine.
>>106981793
>But why hasn't this been intigrated into the install iso? Why do I have to do this manually?
Presumably they haven't released a new iso image with the fix yet.

>>106981862
Gemini Pro and Claude are better then ChatGPT anyway

>>106981862
It can't even generate a .screenrc hardstatus string...

>>106981941
is there a way to update the file chooser in mint? or any other distro? thumbnail view is literally the only thing keeping me from using linux full time since I work with a lot of photos

>>106974614
nta, but just to be clear the hack removed the original iso of Xubuntu and replaced it with an .exe named "Xubuntu OS [insert current version here].exe"

>>106970632 (OP)
I'm playing a 2d pixel platformer that is pretty sparse on after-effects (read: it can be played on extremely low spec computers) via wine and I'm getting lag spikes I didn't use to get while playing the game. What in wine could be causing it?

>>106981862
I just use Open Bar and Accent icons

>>106982005
Not really. You can use the portals hack but it is a debugging hack. The real fix is for Firefox to port to GTK4 but the two people in the office that work on Firefox for Linux don't want to do that yet (even though somebody already did most of the work for them).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#XDG_Desktop_Portal_integration

>>106981974
>not even a Calamares issue
I was not even talking about that issue, which isn't relevant to Kubuntu.
Calamares is an incomplete piece of shit *before* taking issues into account.

>>106982136
It's meant to be a toolkit, it's not meant to be complete. Distros, like CachyOS, for example, are meant to take it and implement the bits and pieces they want from an installer (Cachy added Limine support, for example, they introduced a bug in the process but that can't be helped).

If you just do what Kubuntu did and take it with minimal integration and testing done then yes, you get something that is an incomplete crock of shit.

It's a distro-agnostic installer framework not a standalone installer.

>>106982148
This explains it, then. Thanks.

>>106982054
>ever using gnome

>>106982250
The superior DE, yes.

>>106982258
>pain in the ass to customize
>superior

>>106982264
As a tinker tranny you seem to know a lot about ass pain.

>>106982270
>i want my computer to look like "my computer"
>nooooo you are a tranny!!!!!

>>106982258
>>106982250
Calm down: every linux DE is still shit 25 years later and most have actually regressed. Let that sink in for a little bit (reference to your asshole).

>>106981805
22.04
amd radeon 6800 xt

i figured out that if i regress to previous kernel version, it works
but i dont know what changed really

>>106982278
Go get a job, stop tinker trannying around. Nobody cares about the color of your bike shed.

>>106982286
they are all bad cause you are supposed to make linux your own not just use whatever default

>>106982286
Debian GNOME just works. Go back to using windows if you dislike GNU/Linux user interfaces that much.

>>106982307
Says who?

>>106982294
Mesa and Kernel version incompatibility
Why are you still using such an old version? you can update without reinstalling

>>106982314
>>106982307
Seems like you are butt hurt.

>>106982325
i cant update, it fails

>>106982376
Then back up your important files and install 24.04 or whatever.

>>106982481
That's a rather radical solution. You should ask them for the error message first to see if it can be solved.

>>106982488
A new install is always better than endless mucking about. Hard lesson to be learned when you're dealing with tech illiterate boomers clicking on every ad despite you installing them ublock and ending up with a gazillion of adware.

>>106982264
Almost nobody gives a fuck about customization. GNOME Extensions are more than enough for the overwhelming majority of desktop users.

>>106982573
The problem with gnome is that it looks like a knock off chinese tablet instead of an actual pc.

>>106982581
4 u

>>106982488
It's the only solution which works. Ubuntu is not meant to be upgraded between versions. It clearly never works and has never worked correctly in the past 12 years of me using Linux. It's a shit distro for long term use on desktops unless you actually stick to the LTS that you've initially installed.

>>106976433
>no one actually needs a DE
But you need a clusterfuck pseudo DE held together by string and duct tape?

>>106982581
It looks fine. The only problem is it genuinely requires at least 2 extensions for it to become usable.

>>106982626
And a touchscreen and half your brain missing.

>>106982637
This is an opinion held by people who only see the screenshots of the DE and never use it at all or never use it for more than 15 minutes.

I liek cinnamon

>>106981793
okay I got CrashyOS installed.
Now just need to fiddle with it to get shit set up and see how good the performance is, and how quickly it shits itself.

Can't be worse than linux mint, where taking a screenshot and looking at it in a folder would crash the entire system because the file system corrupted itself somehow.


Speaking of which, is there some kind of program I can run as manintence to detect any filesystem corruption or something?

>>106983218
>how quickly it shits itself
it wont

>>106983258
He's using CachyOS, it probably will. They broke nvidia driver not that long ago. Or more precisely they had a discrepancy between nvidia driver and kernel so it didn't work.

>>106983283
>They broke nvidia driver not that long ago
uh oh
how long ago? ive been using it for a few weeks

>>106983218
>is there some kind of program I can run as manintence to detect any filesystem corruption or something?
use btrfs
>how quickly it shits itself
I haven't used it, but according to a lot of comments online it's a smooth experience. But I'm sure this all depends on how much you fuck around with it.

>>106983298
Like maybe a month? Anyway, you can completely avoid ever having the issue I'm talking about by installing your nvidia driver using dkms. (provided they release header files together with their kernel)

It probably got fixed within a day at most, but some guy couldn't install CachyOS because of it lol

>>106970632 (OP)
Is there a way to toggle search/find in the kde filepicker dialog? ctrl + f doesnt work

Retard here, I'm using Windows 10 LTSC. What's the current state of MATE? Will it even be supported in 2032? Just wondering because once this shit dies I'm probably gonna do Debian + MATE.

>>106983706
come home white man

>>106982097
Oh, so this is a Firefox issue, not necessarily a distro issue? I've been trying different distos looking for one that fixed it lol

>https://igwiki.lyci.de/images/1/12/Ospicker.png
fixed your dumb flowchart.
no need to thank me.

>>106980909
>"en_US.UTF-8"
mine is already set to this and as I mentioned before mediainfo-qt works fine, it's just mediainfo-gui that doesn't work.
>you probably need something that specifies UTF-8
I read through the page but I already have my locale.conf set to LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

Any idea what else I could do to troubleshoot/fix this?

>>106978640
it does, what i'm arguing is that this should just happen so noobs don't complain why their network isn't networking

>>106977032
i don't even use the aur, retard

>>106983706
Whats special about MATE that you can't find in any of the other distros?

>>106984298
m8 don't be a nigger

>>106984298
Do not soil the 406s name by equating it with Poopbuntu

>you still can't autoscroll by middle clicking in Firefox on linux
what year is it again?

fellas, im on xubuntu for like 15 years
i wanna change
anything that just works like this distro

>>106984383
arch + lxqt

I think I'm going with openSUSE for my first distro. Mostly using it for gaming. Good choice?

>>106984298
And the guys I know who have Zhigulis in their collections are the only people I could wholeheartedly trust to wrench on my own cars.
So try again kiddo. You've never owned a car have you?

>>106984432
opensuse is a gay-ass distro all round
it's
german
gay
leap is basically debian with extra steps
tumbleweed is basically arch with extra steps
shit sometimes just won't work and the package maintainers are too busy being gay to fix it

>>106984458
What would you suggest? I've been told to avoid distros like Cachyos and Bazzite because they are just versions of already existing Distros that can be configured to basically do the same stuff.
I'm also considering Fedora or maybe Kubuntu.

>>106984495
Since you've been on Debian for 15 years pick between Arch and Fedora if you want to try something else.

>>106979404
what font is this again? I kinda like it, could you share the fonts?
>>106980346
dunno but here's an old picom config file I used in the past, still works so you can use it as reference
https://pastebin.com/FNEH19K3
>>106981442
https://github.com/dvhar/pikeru

>>106984432
As good as any up to date mainstream distro. Their quirk is that you have to learn how their package manager works to unfuck the codecs.

>>106984563
>what font is this again? I kinda like it, could you share the fonts?
picrel is what you see
not sharing because i wouldnt trust some random anon myself
you can just get a windows 10 iso from microsoft and run $ 7z e windows10.iso sources/install.wim
$ 7z e install.wim 1/Windows/{Fonts/"*".{ttf,ttc},System32/Licenses/neutral/"*"/"*"/license.rtf} -ofonts/

>>106984495
whoever told you to avoid forks or spins of distros is a smart person.
definitely consider Fedora, it's not the worst distro by any stretch.
the only real distros imo are Arch, Debian, Fedora (in order of quality).

If I want to change DEs on Fedora how can I do it without leaving a bunch of trash behind? Let's say from Gnome to KDE, how would the process go? Wouldn't it leave all Gnome applications behind?

>>106983970
Needs another box coming off of it like:
>Are you a gamer?
>No: (no changes)
>Yes:
>Do you have modern display hardware (HDR/OLED monitors?)
>Yes:
>Do you want your OS to look like Windows?
>Yes:
>Kubuntu
>No:
>Ubuntu
>No (I don't use modern display hardware):
>(Same as before, no changes)

>>106984651
Most people don't use a touchscreen to interact with a desktop computer.

>>106984622
The problem I'm having right now is that I can't figure out how to verify the Fedora iso.
I try to follow the instructions but it seems like it only works on Linux.

>october 2025
>try to install cachyos with refind
>comes upon this issue from fucking march
Why do people hype up CachyOS again?

>>106984563
>pikeru
fuck gnome for sitting on their asses for so long making this necessary

>>106984681
use grub

>>106984666
I wouldn't mention touchscreens but Cinnamon is absolutely unsuitable for people with HDR monitors. Until they rebase on a modern version of Mutter (they always lag behind upstream GNOME) they have zero support for HDR so you have to use KDE or GNOME.

>>106983283
Is this another W for nvidia-open-dkms?

>>106984689
grub sucks I don't want to

>>106984681
Just install Arch and switch the repos to CachyOS.

>>106984700
well then youre stuck with systemd

>>106984690
Sway and Wayfire both have HDR so you can use Xfce and don't have to resort to crap like kde or gnome

>>106984681
Like the other anon said, the move is to install arch or a minimal arch based distro like endeavour, and just use the cachy kernel, scheduler, and repos

>>106984710
Or just going for other distro that doesn't ship broken isos and left it unfixed for a whole year. Probably just gonna do what >>106984721 and >>106984703 said.

>>106984636
you could pipe the packages from dnf install to a file to keep track, then remove them after you've used. you probably want to remove some config files the new DE creates as well.

>>106983706
I used MATE for a while before, I liked it but moved to a tiling wm because autism. It works fine, but keep in mind MATE is basically a desktop environment from the 2000s, so expect things to be laid out like they were back in the day. Depending on what kind of desktop user you are this is either a good or a bad thing. There's no Wayland support iirc (so if you need it for vrr or hdr forget about it kek), it might lack some "modern" features other DE have (gestures, overview mode, program permissions, etc.), and there aren't a lot of themes specifically made for it. But if you like the old Gnome 2 then it's quite decent. Personally I had a few annoyances like not being able to have a PiP window when another program is in fullscreen, or the lack of a "center window on screen" keybind, but these are minor quirks. I like that everything is where you expect it to be, and it's simple to use.

>>106984719
Sway and Wayfire don't even have proper window capture for screen recording still.

>>106984738
>screen recording with hdr on

>>106984735
That looks really good anon woah.

>>106983706
buggy on my system, so i went with gnome

So now that I can confidently call myself a Linux midwit am I correct in assuming most people break Arch by either

A. Fucking around with shit that they frankly have no business or the knowledge to fuck around with

B. Installing like 3 million AUR packages and getting put in the dependency genjutsu

C. Ignoring when manual intervention news goes out

D. Using Windows on the same drive and having a Windows update take your bootloader out to pasture

>>106984744
It doesn't have it with HDR off either. This is a long-standing issue with the Wlroots XDG desktop portal that still none of them care to fix. Hyprland had to add extensions for this and by now they've forked the entirety of Wlroots.

I like Sway and use it myself sometimes but it's not a proper base for a desktop environment.

>>106984773
>D. Using Windows on the same drive and having a Windows update take your bootloader out to pasture
this one
corrupted my drives 3 times because of windows fastboot and killed systemd because i reinstalled windows without unplugging my linux drive

make a new bread
>>106984687
Usecase for sitting on your ass? memes aside, I agree.
>>106984599
Thanks
>>106984773
Correct, but most people wont admit it. Arch can be as stable and straightforward as other distros but people don't know how to use it properly and blame the OS instad. I literally only do a pacman -Syuu a few times per month and it's been good so far.

>>106984913
I update 3-4 times a year I just google the error to find the forum post that links the manual intervention announcement in a passive aggressive way

>>106984679
don't worry that much about it, it's not that deep bro, just download the iso

>>106985057
>xubuntu pwnd few days ago
don't worry

anyone experienced with running mathematica on arch linux? going to need it for school in a week or two and don't want to run windows on my laptop

i can't find a desktop environment that speaks to my autism correctly

why don't we just all switch to web apps so compatibility is solved. im very intelligent

>>106984773
Nah, you forgot the most common cause - partial updates (though that relates with AUR abuse)

>what should be flatpack is spelled "flatpak"
what the fuck is wrong with people? its as bad as calling hyperland hyprland

is this supposed to take ages to install
using lutris btw

>>106985330
why lutris over heroic games launcher?

>>106984383
Debian stable

>>106985222
My backlight is handled by a package called brightnessctl which was preinstalled, and I only discovered that after half an hour of trying other solutions because it's not named brightnessctrl and I did not have fuzzy search.

>>106985330
It gets stuck because no VC++ in your prefix
Install it first and then install again
Happened to me too

>>106985350
idk
>>106985394
it's not stuck it installed just fine
launched fine aswell

>>106985160
Moksha

I have realized that the window manager isn't tied to a distro. I guess I'm currently using gnome on ubuntu, I just thought that's what ubuntu always looks like.
Where can I learn more about this stuff? Also what's the difference between xorg and wayland and what do they do?

>>106985160
now im horny

>>106982258
Superior at being shit

>>106985489
xorg/x11 is decades old garbage that oldfags desperately cling to
wayland is already replacing it and soon xorgtrannies will be gone for good

Hey linux bros, I'm using KDE at the moment because I wanted something full featured since I didn't have the strength of will to autistically bosh out my own code to suit some plan9-styled WM to my needs until I have it just perfect.

But here's the deal, KDE's search is atrocious. I haven't looked into it too deeply I admit, but the default search flat out just doesn't work and I have to use kfind externally. What's a good DE (that isn't Gnome, it's never Gnome for me anymore) that has a sane system tray, at least some ability to tile w/ e.g. keyboard shortcuts and has a working file browser with FUNCTIONAL search out of the box?

woo hoo ALVR works wired

Is it worth using an EFI stub for boot?

>>106982602
>Ubuntu
>not being able to upgrade
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you have to go out of your way to break the system to such an extent that upgrades fail.
It's pretty much impossible to accomplish this for a typical user.

do sapphire motherboards work on linux ?

what happened to compiz-fusion? it was all the rage in 2007

>>106985821
wayland can do everything it could do but natively

>>106985841
>t. never used Compiz

>>106985934
i have used it a lot wayland is capable of everything it was used for

>>106985934
do a beryl roll

>>106986345
>>106986345
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