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Previous thread: >>106986345

Is there a way to fix the bios/TPM on my HP laptop so I stop getting a stupid /dev/tpm0 job waiting for 1.5 minutes at startup?
I'm guessing I would have to reflash the most recent BIOS from Win10, anyone know if this would work to fix the TPM?
I think at some point I cleared the TPM because I didn't really care about it. I still don't really care that much but figure it wouldn't be bad to have it working

>>106999471
on my hp 15-fd0083wm shitop i disabled everything relating to the tpm after clearing the keys. that was the only thing that made it work with linux.

>>106999359 (OP)
why arent we linking new thread in the old one?

do any of you know of a good dark/retro theme for gtk? in the molds of raleigh for example.

>>106999856
i like making literally every element black that makes sense to make
sometimes it makes things look like they are "floating"
but also its just the least amount of light from monitor which is nice

Weekend is nigh and it's time to fix up some stuff that's broken for unknown reasons.
First off, imv doesn't work with jpeg and gif files. pacman -Qi doesn't list any dependencies I'm missing. I'm on wayland. I'm using the version on pacman, there's a git version on the AUR but the comments say one of the dependencies isn't being maintained and isn't secure. What do? I'm only trying to install imv because I want something lightweight to view gif files, like an improved version of feh. I don't really care that it has to work on the terminal, I just want to open gifs and do it real fucking quick.
Second, I can run a certain software on my mint computer via wine. The same software doesn't work on my arch notebook via wine. I think the reason is the wine packaged on pacman uses wow64 and the one on mint doesn't. If I install wine-stable or wine32 from the aur, it prints metric tons of gibberish on the terminal and does nothing. I think it can't handle having both wine and wine32/stable installed, so I'd have to uninstall wine from pacman. If I do that, will it uninstall my software as well and force me to reinstall it all on wine32 only for it to maybe or maybe not work? Is there anything else I should try first? I'm on wayland in this machine and wine defaults to xwayland, could that be causing the issue? The software in question doesn't work on wine because it can't find some dll files, but those files are present on its directories. Don't know if that helps.

I installed Linux Mint and Luanti and I don’t think I need anything more

>>107000013
neat
does this game have nether end or shit like that?

>>107000022
Lunatic has anything you want. It is an FOSS voxel engine. There are Mineclone games and several other FOSS voxel games. You can make whatever you want or play something created by others.

>>107000002
>xwayland
piece of trash, i had so many issues with xwayland back on kde + debian, try getting ride of that first.

also, lets check those digs...
>>107000000
>>106999999

what the fuck is going on
i can mount my drives manually by entering the password
but when i put

UUID=D84AA5D94AA5B4A2 /mnt/wdblue1tb ntfs defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,nofail 0 0
UUID=89f42de5-607e-42d1-a392-0a026bfd79dc /mnt/seagate1tb ext4 defaults 0 0

into the fstab i can't write shit to either of them after rebooting

>>107000049
its just if it doesnt have achievements or final boss you lose main speedrunning categories
if you dont have that you dont have an opportunity to shill this shit to big speedrunning content creators like this faggot sounding guy named feinberg so that he can make his "ive speedran this open source minecraft clone" video
and an opportunity like that is your ticket to becoming another BAR

freeorion suffers from similar issue, they dont have MoO 2 like combat (just autocombat) so its infinitely harder for them to attract the MoO crowd
>>107000102
did you use tabs to separate each field?

>>107000141
> its just if it doesnt have achievements or final boss you lose main speedrunning categories

Why would anyone over the age of 13 even care about that?

>>107000141
>did you use tabs to separate each field?
no, it's spaces
the default drives in there use spaces as well

>>106999856
Solarized, Gruvbox, Catpuccin, Nord... don't know about Raleigh.

>>106999795
find it yourself, tranny.

>>107000061
I ran
>env -u DISPLAY wine example.exe
As the wiki suggested. How do I check if it worked?

>>107000168
are you sure? im pretty certain you are supposed to use tabs in fstab
what does cat -T /etc/fstab look like?
>>107000160
these people have hundreds of thousands of subs and some of their videos made millions of views
they are the perfect gateway audience, literally tailored for this
if you want for your game to stay obscure university project you ignore these things
welcome to real life and realpolitik of it
>>107000210
i did, troon

>>106998728
I learned a lot of these lessons the hard way already, but this was an insightful read anyway. Thanks for posting it.

>>107000236
>tty certain you are supposed to use tabs in fstab
you don't need to use tabs in fstab. whitespace is whitespace, see ctype.h.

>>107000102
post entire fstab. did you chwon the mount location?

>>107000236
>are you sure? im pretty certain you are supposed to use tabs in fstab
you don't need to use tabs, spaces or tabs will work fine

>>107000227
I'm retarded.
I've read the manual and figured out how to run it without xwayland, but the software still doesn't work and complains about dlls it has already. I'm back to thinking wow64 is the issue.

>>107000248
>>107000271
>googles it
i swear you had to use tabs in it
what in the fuck is this total recall ass blade runner 2049 ass fucking bullshit

>>107000300
i've been using spaces for over a decade at this point, until i stopped writing them all together, but i'm not gonna say you can't have been right at some point, because frankly im too lazy to look into that

>>107000315
nah i dont think so
i dont think it wouldve been ever changed, that would break a lot of setups and random shit

but then again, nowadays we are automatically rewriting resolv.conf with systemd moduals and other bullshit so who knows

>>107000300
The only common formats I'm aware of where the Tab character has special significance are shell scripts and makefiles.

>>107000463
shell scripts? they are mostly whitespace indifferent besides newlines

>>107000463
>makefiles
and (((gnu))) needs to burn for this.

>>107000488
Here Documents automagically strip leading Tabs but not spaces

>>107000499
They inherited a lot of bad decisions made by boomer interns.

>>107000509
>Here Documents automagically strip leading Tabs but not spaces
this is very much an edge case applying only to <<- heredocs. in 99% of cases shell scripts don't care whether you use tabs, spaces or nothing.

>>107000540
Yeah but you're aware of it unless you type out 160 lines of echo statements like a fuckin streetshitter.

>>107000551
or just don't indent your heredocs, or read from a file. frankly i think you're fucking insane if you legitimately needed 160 lines of heredoc and i hope your insanity never makes it to production. if it does i hope you're my competitor.

>>107000586
160 lines is a lot less than you'd think.

>>107000586
fzf --help | wc -l
214
Keep getting mad at every little idiosyncrasy though. I'm sure that'll get you far.

I have tried everything to make windows relinquish control over my SSD
Disabled secure boot and hibernation, fiddled with the fstab and all the variables and nothing besides the subservient act of removing it from the fstab and manually mounting it every boot lets me write on it
This is not a cry for help, I don't need anything, I'm going to take all the data off it and slice N(igger)TFS' s neck with the Occam's razor like I should have done hours ago and replace it with an Aryan filesystem

>>107000626
just don't indent it. why would you? fzf's help is not indented.

>>107000628
remove windows and everything microshit. problem solved

Trying to enable a service with the --user flag gives me this error:
>Failed to connect to user scope bus via local transport: $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not defined (consider using --machine=<user>@.host --user to connect to bus of other user)
machinectl says there's no machines so I can't do as it suggests on the error message.
What do? I want to enable mpd but that requires the --user flag or else it won't work properly.

>>107000643
Because Go has different idioms than shell script. Why should anyone care if Unix shell indenting triggers your tism? Go make a time machine if you don't like it.

>>107000686
i didn't tell you to care, but your retarded gotcha wasn't even relevant to what i was saying. btw it took you a horrifically long time to find that code. finish school kid

>>107000685
From my notes:
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$UID"
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/bus"


Make sure those paths are correct for your system, but otherwise that should be what you need.

>>107000726
Literally that, as is, or do I change the $UID to my UID? What do I do with the path to XDG_RUNTIME_DIR?

>>107000726
where did you put that?

>>107000748
"$UID" will generally give you your actual uid, try echo "$UID"

>>107000754
Yeah, I can find it with echo, it gives me some number.
But I substitute that number on the export command or leave it as $UID and the command will interpret that? Same with the second export command.

>>107000769
in double quotes (") export will substitute that for you just the same as it did with echo. your shell does that substitution before any commands are invoked (these are most likely gonna be builtins in both cases, but the same concept applies)
if you are ever unsure about this slap echo in front of your command and you should see any variable substitutions applied the same way you would if you invoked the actual command

>>107000748
>>107000769
You can run them as-is; $UID and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR will be substituted automatically when defining the environment variables.

>>107000749
Run those commands in a shell, or you could add them somewhere like /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile if needed.

>>107000769
so what file are you putting that in? or just exporting them in an interactive shell?

>>107000692
lvl 99 loser mindset on display here

>opensuse leap entusiast since 2018
>giving a try to the new Leap 16 on my thinkpad before doing a full upgrade on my main pc running 15.6

>new installer runs over a firefox tab
>confusing disk/partition management
>wipe my W10 boot
>yast removed and replaced for Cockpit
>need to access Cockpit from a browser
>ask for my user and root password on the fucking browser
>no more options to mess with grub, bootloader and other configs

WTF have they done? They've killed my favorite distro. I'm 100% mad!

I'll give a chance to Debian again after 10 years.

>>107000931
cope harder fag

>>107000998
Yast is obsolete trash, good they got rid of it.

anyone know if i can use a mp4 as a wallpaper in sway?
only worry is it would rape the cpu

>>107000628
Windows has no control over your SSD if it's not the OS you're currently booted in.
After you mount the drive manually and confirm it's RW, see the correct mount parameters with `findmnt`.
The only possible cause for your issues is incorrect mount parameters, there is no point in blaming Windows for your mistakes.

I followed this flowchart. Now a happy Vanilla OS User.

>>107001832
>install stock xfce/mate or whatever gui on arch
>or choose among 5 obscure github.com reddit things or forks of other things (that will have inevitable compat. and lack of maintenance problems with their custom special-sauce addons) and will cease to exist within 2 years

why are you fags so afraid of Fedora?

>>107001886
I'm not though. I use Bluefin, which is based on Fedora Silver blue still. They're moving away from it with their Wolfi repo thing in the future though for faster GNOME shipping

>>107001863
Considering that most of these listed distros there have existed for over 2 years already, I see no problem. Maybe stop living under a rock?

>>107001832
Is there a reason to use VanillaOS over something like Bluefin / Aurora (or at least Silverblue)? VanillaOS seemed way too custom and clunky last time I used it, while UBlue distros are effectively Fedora Atomic plus a handful of customizations and pre-installed software on top. VanillaOS is infinitely more likely to become abandonware.
>dev
>CachyOS, Arch
I'm sorry, but a dev machine is required to be stable and require no maintenance. As a dev I can definitely say that UBlue and Fedora Atomic distros are much more usable. Not to mention that Ubuntu and Fedora are the default choice for 90% of developers. CachyOS and Arch are absolutely not "dev distros" unless you're just larping as a dev.

>>107001918
VanillaOS is pretty much the same as Bluefin but without stupid Dinosaurs plus you get a distrobox shell right from the start that pulls CLI things directly from Debian Sid. That's why I use it. https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/vanilla-system-operator

>install linux
>it doesn't work
>troubleshoot
>turns out I have to change how windows deal with time for ganoox to work
This is a piece of shit OS (I mean linux). Can't it just deal with the clocks?

>>107001951
You won't get far using Linux with this mentality.
Stick with Windows.

>>107001951
Press shift when you click on shut down in windows.

>>107001991
Didn't know I could do that, thanks.

>>107001985
I use linux everyday at my job. But the whole localtime/UTC shist is stupid.

>>107001942
>you get a distrobox shell right from the start
So it's no different? Having a distro pre-installed inside distrobox isn't really a selling feature imo.

>>107001951
Dual booting is a meme and Windows is the non-standard OS here.

>>107002013
It's standard de facto by being used by 90% of personnal computers. This kind of shit is why linux will never make it mainstream.

>>107002013

>So it's no different? Having a distro pre-installed inside distrobox isn't really a selling feature imo.
Yes it's the same. Atomic GNOME but with Debian base instead of Fedora. You can only reinvent the wheel so many times.
I like it more than Bluefin. It's comfy.

>>107001951

sudo timedatectl set-local-rtc 1

>>107002016
I don't care if Linux is mainstream or not on desktops. It's the de facto standard everywhere else and both it and macOS are the standard among developers unless you're dealing with legacy software. Windows is only a standard when it comes to end user software support, but the way it implements some things is non-standard (time, file paths, etc.). Just like the default Linux way of installing software through root package managers like apt/dnf/pacman is non-standard as every single other OS is using the equivalent of Appimage/Flatpak and not using shared libraries.

I use Debian 13 btw

>>107002138
Based, Debian just works

>>107002067
>and not using shared libraries.
that's not even true

i have read many posts about people "breaking" their installs. before i jump into linux full time, are there any tips to avoid this? can I make full image backups of my OS?

>>107002543
Breaking means their package manager stops working and user would need to manually fix this.
If you have a separate /home partition that's sufficient most of the time.
Linux is a clusterfuck don't let the freetards convince you other way. It's great when you're at work and someone else manages the system but for home user... Well it's there.

>>107002543
Learn to fix a broken install instead. Look up "tty" and "chroot".

>>107002564
>>107002560
okay thank you

>>107002543
use an immutable distribution and you'll be fine

>>107001763
Sure you can:
https://github.com/GhostNaN/mpvpaper

>>107002543
it probably wont even happen i cant even remember the last time for me

>>107002543
I've been using Ubuntu for a while now and I haven't broken it yet. I guess one thing is that you shouldn't use sudo unless you absolutely have to. I think the only thing I use sudo for is updating and upgrading (`sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade`). Some guides online will tell you to edit system config files in the /etc directory, and you need sudo to edit those files because they're in a system directory. But you can avoid editing those files directly if you copy the file you're looking at into ~/.config, which is within your home directory. You can edit files within there without sudo. And if you mess up any config files within ~/.config then you can just copy the original from /etc again.

TLDR: try to only edit files that are within your home directory (~). Only edit files outside of that if you really really have to and you know what you're doing. And only use sudo if you absolutely have to.

>>107002067
I guess .PKG files don't exist on macOS and Windows doesn't use DLL files.

I've taken a couple of HDDs from my old server and put them in my media PC (running Mint), but I don't have permission to do anything like create folders. How do I gain 'ownership' of these drives?
Also is there a fairly straightforward software way of making these HDDs mirror each other for backup purposes? I want redundancy in case one fails but I can't be fucked trying to get RAID working in by BIOS.

Once you leave comfy Gnome it's not so shrimple anymore.

I'm just trying to setup i3 with polybar but now the fonts don't match. I already installed the fonts, there must be some retarded mismatch.
Also my setup doesn't look as good as some others I've seen. I'm sure I will get it to work eventually, just takes more time than expected. Any tips to make the process more efficient?

>>107002616
>dll
These are almost always bundled with software installers. Having shared libraries is something that's only used for specific libraries that are widely available. The standard way of distributing software (even on Linux in most cases) avoids using shared system libraries. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm saying that on Linux it historically tried to be the norm which ultimately lead to the failure of Linux desktop.
Exclusively relying on shared libraries a complete pipe dream and doesn't work in the real world. Your 5 desktop Electron apps all ship with their own entire Chromium browser/runtime and your 10 video games all have their own Unity runtime even if they're all using the same runtime versions. You cannot avoid code duplication and library duplication unless you go full autism mode and never use 99.9% of software.

>>107002645
>How do I gain 'ownership' of these drives?
sudo blkid # to check your drive UUID
sudo nano /etc/fstab # edit this
UUID=DRIVE_UUID /path/to/mountpoint ext4 defaults,uid=yourusername,gid=yourgroupname 0 2 # replace ext4 with your FS,

I think this should work. Normally your disk formatting utility would ask you to set up the storage without ever requiring root.
>Also is there a fairly straightforward software way of making these HDDs mirror each other for backup purposes
It's not very straightforward, but borg backup can be used for this. You'll have to use the docs or ask a random AI to help you set it up. Alternatively you can use Syncthing if you want an easy GUI option, but I'm not sure if it allows you to create a backup on the same machine as the data source.

>>107002732
>nano
>those # comments
You are posting chatgpt created advice.

>>107002698
Polybar probably has some missing font dependecy. At least waybar needs this one magic font with glyphs or otherwise it's fucked up. Just hard to find concise information...

>>107002613
that's not gonna help you setting up your network or something, it only works for user configs where the standard from /etc is taken if there is none in the homedir.

>>107002732
>These are almost always bundled with software installers.
Because windows devs assume (rightfully) that their windows users are too stupid to install libraries on their own.

>>107002900
>setting up your network
Surely you can do this with nmcli or using GUI apps. I don't think I've had to edit system files for network stuff, apart from /etc/hosts

posted this in /sqt/ aswell but also trying my luck here.
I recently installed debian 13 with KDE on my computer and after some tinkering I managed to sucessfully install nvidia drivers. I usually use brave as my default browser, but I struggle to get it to work properly. It seems that wayland and Brave really does not want to work with hardware acceleration. Is there anyone that has solved this? Do I have to use Xorg, or Xwayland Brave? Or should I just switch browser? Idealy I want to use Brave with Wayland. My GPU is a nvidia 1060 if that is of any relevance

Is there a way to compile a minimal kernel without wasting time sifting through menuconfig? Ideally, it would detect all used features with allyesconfig and convert uninitilised features into [ ], and it should obviously detect even [*]. Is this wonderful magic of automation is even possible?

>>107003176
i remember skipping menuconfig by extracting arch kernels config file and using it for gentoo kernel instead by just adding a few gentoo specific lines at the end (tho dont remember what file that was unfortunately)
you can probably write a script that parses these files and does what you want

>>106999856
Adwaita-dark has been good enough for me. You could maybe try blackbird or greybird? Or Arc

>>107000002
You have to add multilib on arch to get 32bit wine and to also make sure you have all the 32bit dependencies you need.

>>107003153
Are you sure your drivers are working? Web browser should just work unless you are missing some dependecies or if it's a config issue.

>>107003204
Arch kernel use allyesconfig if I remember well, I'm not asking how to copy third-party configs. I'm asking how to compile a perfectly optimized minimal kernel without human.

How do I encrypt my disk post install? Fedora 42

>>107000141
What happens if you add rw to the mount options?
You can check the mount options you get when manually mounting them from /proc/mounts or using the mount command with no args
>>107000236
You don't need to use tabs
>.t uses spaces in his /etc/fstab

>>107000726
$UID should be changed to $(id -u)
But both of those variables should be set by your login manager through logind unless you're not using systemd.

>>107003235
other than watching logs
would this help?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Modprobed-db
>>107003268
yer clicked the wrong post number here me thinks

>>107002732
>Normally your disk formatting utility would ask you to set up the storage without ever requiring root.
Glad you mentioned this, I was actually able to use the disk format utility to take ownership. Borg looks interesting, I'll do some further research, thanks anon.

>>107002645
>Also is there a fairly straightforward software way of making these HDDs mirror each other for backup purposes?
why not software raid?

>>107003309
I guess that's what I'm asking, is it easy enough to set up? My PC is basically
>SSD boot drive
>12GB SATA HDD #1
>12GB SATA HDD #2
I only want to mirror the two HDDs, not the boot drive.

>>107002967
well, you can't do it by copying some file from /etc to homedir.

My cousin is going to send me a 2060 that she never opened. I have a 5700G and run Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS. What sort of problems or benefits can I expect? Is the OS going to detect the card and recommend drivers, or am I going to have to go get some manually? Are apt drivers fine, or should I look on the manufacturer site? First time having a graphics card ngl

>>107003286
I know about modprobed and (i think?) it doesn't work with kernel-compiled features, a monolithic kernel without initrd is detrimental to minimalism. Are there really no tools to automate creating configs from scratch? In 34 years of kernel development by millions of people, no one has ever made such a tool?

>>107001886
rpmfusion and random forced removal and depreciation of packages like wget

>>107003337
youll probably have install them manually the drivers from apt will be the one you want i have a 1660 super and generally my experience is fine some visual glitches under wayland i have read about issues with nvidia and sleeping your computer but i have always tried to prevent sleep

>>107002645
ZFS? BTRFS? Software RAID? Rsync? Ctrl+c -> Ctrl+v?

>>107003321
>is it easy enough to set up? My PC is basically
done this with gentoo installation media for the server at work

you are basically putting partitions instead of disks in raid
just make sure to make your partitions some MB short of maximum so that you dont run into any manufacturing related "margins of error" or shit like that
>>107003348
there probably are but im just a random retard on the internet man
and if there arent that is an amazing project to make and put on your resume
>>107003337
>What sort of problems
novideo drivers
>or benefits
none, tensor cores start at 30xx if i remember correctly
>Is the OS going to detect the card and recommend drivers
os already has basic nvidia drivers
and if they wont work there is a framebuffer driver that is enough for basic output while you are installing appropriate drivers

Being Anti-AI is the being anti-systemd of the current year.

>>107003348
also here is this whole thing
https://codeberg.org/ranguli/gentoo-popcorn-kernel
>>107003414
how so

>>107003337
Ubugnu has its own driver manager to install Novideo drivers.
Benefits:
- Your video games will now run way faster
- You can generate 2D waifus with Cuda
- You have the clear conscience of giving money to Novideo yourself

>>107003321
and by running into any manufacturing related "margins of error" i mean when you are replacing dead disks
the tool wont create bigger partitions than possible
these HDD's arent always 1 to 1 apparently

My SSD gets up to 60 degrees Celsius while idle on Arch, with basically zero disk IO usage. It's the one Arch is installed on. When I boot into Windows (from another SSD) and run a stress test on an NTFS partition that's on the same SSD that Arch is installed on, it only gets up to 50 degress. I have no clue why this is happening.

>>107003544
does it have LED's?

>>107003584
No, it's in a laptop. Both SSDs are internal

Hello sirs.

Useless Preamble:
I am an HDR artist. To create my HDR art, I use a tool called Monogrid's Gain Map Converter. This tool takes an image file known as an EXR (which essentially has unlimited brightness), and uses it to make an "Ultra HDR" JPEG file using a SDR base image and a Gainmap, thus allowing for backwards compatibility with any image decoders not aware of UHDR gainmaps or image viewers not capable of HDR display. This tool however, has a flawed implementation for creating the gain map. it takes the ENTIRE luminosity range of the EXR, and squeezes the HDR levels into the gainmap, which has a limit of about 1000 nits. The result is destroyed contrast.
I have attempted to experiment with ImageMagick, but the pre-built AppImage does not have UHDR support packaged in with it. It is possible to build ImageMagic from source with the `libultrahdr` library packaged with it.

The problem:
I have built `libultrahdr` from source, seemingly successfully, but when I went to Configure ImageMagick for building, it seemed like it was unable to detect the libraries. I have practically zero experience building things from source, and tend to avoid doing so in favor of prepackaged programs like Flatpaks or AppImages. In this case, I'm trying to do some rather obscure, niche objectives.
To complicate things, I'm on an Immutable distro in the form of Bazzite.

>>107003449
Will it make ffmpeg encoding any faster? Or would I have to make a custom build?

>>107003627
Dunno if those hardware encoders will be faster than what you already got in that 5700G. Most likely not by much.

>>107003421
Lots of virtue signaling and sperging out over it now that Fedora allows AI code submissions

>>107003627
I would also keep the integrated graphics enabled for the better VAAPI support.

So if you are not gayming or do Cuda the 2060 is pretty much worthless to you.

>>107003733
well thats fine as long as they are properly reviewed
tho something tells me they will learn really quick why some people fucking hate indians

I need some help with file system stuff.

I have 3 extra drives I want to appear as one big one with btrfs. Now I have a mnt/drives to mount them.

I have the first drive sda listed in fstab to mount there and am putting data on it (its the only btrfs drive so far, had to do data juggling).

What happens when I >btrfs add sdb/sdc? Do I need to list it in fstab now? does the mounting work after that point? Do I need to unmount the first or change fstab?

>>107002869
>nano
Yes, nano. What else am I supposed to assume people will use? inb4 vim which only autismos like/use.
>being this tilted that I added comments
I don't just assume people understand what commands do. Not everyone is a tinkertranny.

>>107003759
Could I use integrated for OBS recording and GPU for everything else?

>kde started displaying thumbnails of dds textures after the update
Is this specific to KDE or GIMP? I can't quite remember the update content this time. Either way based update lmao.

>>107003773
>inb4 vim which only autismos like/use
terminal based modal text editors are the only usable editors on mobile devices anon

im not hauling a 3 kg box with keyboard and screen and x86 with me to the grocery store trip
nor am i suffering through software buttons barely fitting on the screen
nor am i using useless featureless trash from various appstores that doesnt have integration with command line, encryption,plugins (including for development), a quadrillion useful keybindings that can save you hours of work and effort
nor am i suffering from laggy electron shit that somehow drains my battery as fast as your average compilation process
nor am i using remote desktop

if i open a terminal inside a folder will yt-dlp shit out its downloads inside that folder or do i have to specify the path?

deluge-gtk can't download like 4 torrents at once without severigly slowing down the entire system, is it really that bad? what am I doing wrong here?

>>107003887
it downloads in your current path, yes
you use -P to tell it a different one tho

>>107003773
go vim or go home

>>107003888
fwiw I'm using qbitorrent in an arch linux vm on my server with 94 torrents seeding, and it seemingly has zero issues maybe its an issue with deluge

>>107003888
Deluge has always been shit. Haven't used it in forever though, because there's no bind to interface.

>>107003780
Yes but it will not benefit you as the encoding is done on a part of the hardware that is not used for gayming anyway. And the fact that now your image data has to be sent from dgpu to igpu will offset the little performance impact that using only the dgpu will have.

>>107003780
>>107003963
By better VAAPI support i meant you get browser acceleration for h264 and h265.

>>107003176
Check out:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Modprobed-db

>>107000168
not him but i've used tabs and spaces in fstab before without issue. probably even both by mistake i'm sure. i've never once fixed an fstab issue by changing the whitespace characters

>>107003348
Why not? Compiled in modules are still modules? They still display info via modinfo and appear in /sys/module, etc.

>>107004009
not him but i assume compiled in modules are loaded with the kernel regardless, just not used so you cant use logs or shit like that to count them

>>107004034
The opposite, monolithic modules use more resources. They're ALWAYS loaded.

>>107004038
oh im mixing shit up, mb gang

>>107004038
Basically they appear as any other normal module but the only difference is they're compiled in. Why this matters, all those drivers for loop and isofs, etc, that you might want to compile in but not have loaded all of the time well they're always loaded when they're monolithic. Still they appear as any other module though, there's nothing special about them.

>>107002645
just create a folder in the drive as root and give ownership of that folder to your user. ignore the fstab stuff

>>107003766
You only need to mount one drive in the array, doesn't matter which one and Btrfs will add any other drive that's part of it.

>>107003861
I think that's KDE, noticed it a few months ago

>>107003240
Just spitballing here. Backup, reformat, restore backup to luks volume, create a crypttab entry for it, manually set rd.luks.uuid=<luks-volume-uuid> in /etc/default/grub. See man crypttab, man dracut.cmdline. Then chroot to your luks volume and
# systemctl daemon-reload
# grub2-mkmenuconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
# dracut --regenerate-all --force

Try it in a VM first.

>>106999359 (OP)
unironically this is the first video of hers that helped me out. gnome software center fucking sucks

>>107001951
wrong, you can set linux to local time if you prefer.
>>107001985
this, the biggest problem i see people have with windows is that it doesn't act like windows, and/or they're confused why it doesn't try to act like windows. if you can't break free of that mindset, you'll never be able to enjoy linux

Thoughts about vanilla os?

>>107004219
I think it's fine even if it's a bit slow. But mint's is much better for sure. On which distro did you install it?

>>107004219
>when you think the boomer-zoomer tech pipeline is a meme

>>107004219
>meanwhile average /v/ faggot has cant edit a fucking config file

>>107004240
>have with linux*
pretty drunk atm

>>107003924
>it downloads in your current path, yes
nice thanks
back on windows i used to move the .exe files around to each folder in my archive like a retard

>>107002543
in my experience that happens when someone who doesn't know what they're doing messes with things they don't understand
this is a pretty broad answer, but the take-away is that, if you want something to "just work", don't mess with it, and if you want to mess with it, be prepared for it to break.
just about anything is fixable, usually quite easily, /if you know what you're doing/. many, many a time i see people reinstall over something i can fix in a minute. if you're determined to keep an installation going rather than reinstalling it, it pays. these days i can't imagine reinstalling an os for any reason.

making backups is of course the most basic option, something you should do regardless of what os you're using or your expertise level. there's no replacing a backup plan. this is separate from fixing a broken installation, a backup ideally should only be used in the worst case, like physical drive failure (or multiple consecutive in the case of raid)

>>107004273
You can add a PATH environment variable in Windows and then you wouldn't need to do that. Or you could put the exe in a folder that already has a PATH. Like C:\Windows

Not that it helps you any, nor is manually adding environment variables convenient... but there you go, you can actually get the same behaviour on Windows.

>>107004243
>Thoughts about vanilla os?
No reason to use it over Silverblue or Bluefin since they're more mainstream.

>>107004009
Because modprobed doesn't acconut for delicate configuration options, such as the number of cores, amount of kb to memory map and etc. It didn't detect some core features, as symmetric multi-processing and everything else. I don't remember details and I don't have a spare linux machine at the moment to open makeconfig and correct myself.

>>107004273
yea pretty much every CLI tool you'll use is going to work in the current directory

>back on windows i used to move the .exe files around to each folder in my archive like a retard
we all done some retarded shit at one point
ive used to install random shit from torrents and whatnot on windows
once even gotten a cryptominer from that
that i couldnt get rid of no matter what antivirus i would use (the only one that detected most stuff was malwarebytes and even then it didnt detect everything lmao)
"cured" it by removing windows and installing ubuntu
that was like a decade ago

>>107003321
mkfs.btrfs -d raid1 -m raid1 /dev/sdy1 /dev/sdz1
adjust device names to suit

>>107004335
That GUI apx tool seems grewt

Holy fuck Linux it's a fucking cancer, I'm just trying to install wineHQ because some programs aren't working, why the fuck isn't there a simple executable file what the fuck

>>107004383
Just use Lutris, retard

>>107004383
as i was saying here >>107004249

>>107004388
>Just use [unknown resource]
>Just use [unknown resource]
And then you wonder why no one uses Linux.

I'm trying to install a simple fucking game and I have to do a gorillion operations and command lines to make it work.

>>107004383
wineHQ is not something you "install", it's just an outdated website which incorrectly reports software/game compatibility in WINE.

>>107004405
You're supposed to use "Bottles" or "Lutris" to make things easier for yourself. They are very well known.

>>107004405
I have a clean Linux mint installation. I'm trying to install wineHQ because it seems Linux by default is incompatible with many programs, so I assume this is some kind of library. Why the fuck does it ask for a million command lines instead of a single executable or command line is beyond me. Its like you guys have no respect for time at all.

>>107004418
What the fuck are you talking about? Nigga I installed Linux mint. I then install a game (Linux version) but it has problems and now I have to dig through many forums because nothing works here.

>>107004405
Lutris is very well known by everyone other than you.
There's also Bottles, if you're not adverse to Flatpaks.

>>107004383
you're installing a website?

>>107000726
I've run that and checked to make sure, those values are both correct but I still get the same error even after rebooting.

>>107004434
I don't know what the fuck is wineHQ, I read here that I need it for some games. Everything else is beyond me.

>>107004419
>Why the fuck does it ask for a million command lines instead of a single executable or command line is beyond me
Wine is a command line application. You need a frontend like Lutris or Bottles if you want some GUI for this.

There's also things like Crossover (who directly supports Wine development) if you want something commercially supported.

>>107004437
wine anon, you're thinking of wine. winehq is wine's website, "wine headquarters".
these days most people will recommend proton instead, valve's modified version of wine with tweaks for games, and even then, not usually by itself, but via an easy-to-use front end like lutris... or steam

>>107004383
I'd be willing to help you if you didn't come barging in here like an asshole.
Learn how to set up a wine prefix. You only have to do that one time if you do it properly. There are also GUIs for this but fuck you.

>>107004437
Just install Steam and play games. You don't have to make it harder for yourself.

If the game is on Steam then things like Lutris, Heroic or Bottles, etc, are your friend.

>>107004405
linux is a kernel
every person on the planet uses linux directly or indirectly
>>107004419
wine is a compatibility layer that simulates parts of windows
its setup requires not being a retarded faggot and knowing how to read

if these requirements arent achievable then you should use frontends for wine such as:
proton, bottles,playonlinux, lutris, etc.

>>107004462
*if it isn't on Steam

>>107004432
Well you clearly have no idea what you're talking about nor what you're doing.
>Linux version
Download the Windows version, then download Bottles, then use Bottles to create a "new bottle", then use that to run the installer and just play the Windows version.

>>107004458
Fuck you too, I'm already tired of the shitty feedback loop I get from linuxtardos, you just are incapable of dealing with new people, this is why everyone uses windows instead of Linux because you have to do 1000 things to make it work and when people ask questions you start masturbating.

I'm sorry I don't know by heart the 100 obscure command lines you need to play fucking tetris.

>>107004479
>come into a thread shitting on everything and everyone and acting like an entitled asshole
>calls others "incapable of dealing with people"
kill yourself please

I'll be switching from Windows to Linux.
Do I have to convert my drive from NTFS to ext4 before installing the distro (in my case Ubuntu) or will it do that for me?
And what's up with the nonsense on the wiki about installing the "Windows Subsystem for Linux"? Surely I don't have to do that.

>>107004492
No, learn how to make an OS that works.

>>107004479
>and when people ask questions you start masturbating
people gave you enough answers
its fine if you are chimping out while asking questions but for the love of god learn how to fucking read
>I'm sorry I don't know by heart the 100 obscure command lines you need to play fucking tetris.
literally all the frontends for wine are GUI my negro

>>107004506
yeah you have to format your drive
linux doesnt do well with ntfs

>>107004479
>you just are incapable of dealing with new people
"we" are not a company. no, we do not deal with offensive complainers like a company would.
i genuinely enjoy helping new people. just today i showed someone who was lamenting about web hosting costs about vps's, and it was great, i can't wait to help him set one up.
despite the memes, shitting on something for responses will really only get you responses (count), not good or enjoyable ones.

>>107004506
Most every installer should give you the option of formatting the drive while installing. Usually you don't have to do anything beforehand.

WSL is a windows thing, dunno why in what context it would be there on the wiki.

>>107004506
The disk will be formatted to btrfs or ext4 automatically during the installation.
WSL is a Windows tool. It's similar to what WINE is on Linux. You don't need to think about it since you would not be using Windows.

>>107004506
>Do I have to convert my drive from NTFS to ext4 before installing the distro (in my case Ubuntu) or will it do that for me?
what usually happens is your disk (or partition, depending on if you are doing things manually or just clickig on auto option) will get reformatted with linux compatible file systems
that implies that you will lose all your data so back it up
>And what's up with the nonsense on the wiki about installing the "Windows Subsystem for Linux"? Surely I don't have to do that.
what wiki are we talking about?
WSL is essentially windows subsystem that allows you to run programs compiled for linux on windows
it is yet another EEE faggotry and personally it can go fuck itself

>>107004520
>>107004530
>>107004537
>>107004566
Alright, thanks.

This is where I got the WSL thing from: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/GNU/Linux#Installation
I'll be ignoring it.

>>107003222
Multilib repo is enabled and up to date.
In the meanwhile I've tried removing wine-mono and installing all the dotnet stuff via winetricks, that didn't change anything either.

>>107004506
The disk will have to be formatted during installation. If you wanna keep some stuff on your drive for some reason you can shrink the ntfs partition and then just format the remainder as a new partition, but I don't know why you'd do that honestly.

>>107002543
Just use time shift (or rsync + crontab) to create scheduled backups. You can restore your root partition if something ever goes wrong

Windows programs work on linux because some autist loved his waifu too much.
Linux programs work on windows because microjeet can't make good alternatives so they had to come up with WSL.

>>107003153
What is the output of nvidia-smi?

>>107004677
Blessed man.

>>107004435
So I've hibernated the system and booted back up. It works now.
Linux works in mysterious ways.

>>107004677
as they say; thick thighs save lives

>>106999359 (OP)
Don't touch Ubuntu never ever they rewrite another thing into Rust.

>>107004677
>>107005163
seriously though, 2b's ass and upper thighs were explicitly high resolution, doitsujin was doing god's work, we absolutely had to have 2B ass on linux

>>107004350
this is horrible advice. don't use btrfs raid. ideally don't use btrfs. use mdadm and ext4.

>>107005220
I'm not joking on the guy, he's proof linux users have their priorities set straight.

>>107005227
btrfs raid is fine outside of raid5/6, which has notable caveats. for raid 1/10, it's perfectly fine

>>107005228
the way 2B reacts when you try to upskirt her with the camera is just peak japan

>>107005237
btrfs is unreliable before you ask it to do raid. it's raid code is barely functional and good luck recovering from any issues. if you're doing software raid use something reliable like mdraid stuff.

>>107005220
>>107005228
ps. i've actually personally seen this with renderdoc/specialk, 2B's ass as seen in that pic is actually a separate, high resolution model. despite not being a focus in normal gameplay, the people who made it knew what they were doing, it's an ass worth developing a d3d11>vulkan translation layer over

>>107005220
spend resources where they matter... based.

imagine bloating your computer with sudo lol

>>107004587
that's just if you want to use the dd method, you don't have to.

>>107005422
imagine being so poor you care about 70k of "bloat"

>>107003153
chromium --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

>>107005661
Seems like you don't really understand. We are not talking about tiktok flex here.

>>107005661
Storage and memory are cheap, but CVEs are priceless.

>>107005422
shhhh
dont let red hat/faggots know there are other alternatives, they will replace them as well

What is the most minimal file manager that has thumbnail view?
I've been searching for a minimal and desktop-agnostic file manager that has thumbnails, right now my eyes are on XFE, it seems to have everything I need without shit like GVFS.
Is there anything more minimal than XFE or is this as good as it gets?

>>107005718
if you care about cves you wouldn't dare to use the linux kernel.

>>107005661
> 70 000 isn't a lot
we're almost talking about the whole population of Boulder CO here geese
kids these days

Last night my machine suddenly froze up and I need to power cycle the unit.
I have absolutely no idea what that was about. I suspect it has something to do with cpu voltage but can't say for sure.
Where do I find some logs? Dmesg?

does the concept of hardware-accelerated image galleries exist in wayland?
i ask because i used to use imageglass on winshit which had some kind of hw-based accel.
when i tried to use yazi to click through images, it loaded fucking slow.

>>107005800
>Dmesg
That won't work after a power circle. You could get the kernel log from the last boot with journalctl -b -1 -k, but you most likely won't have anything there since it wasn't written to disk before you power circled.

>>107005807
>hardware-accelerated image galleries
I have no clue what that is even supposed to be.
The "problem" with image galleries is usually disk i/o

>>107005807
>does the concept of hardware-accelerated image galleries exist in wayland?
how does one "hardware accelerate" an image anon?

>>107005807
What you want is preloading

>>107005800
Recent kernel versions have a bluetooth regression that has given me similar crashes. journalctl would show related errors before the power cycle but it's not always obvious.

>>107005893
Thing is I don't use bluetooth and don't have any devices but maybe the module is still on or something.
>>107005829
One thing what I noticed is that my cpu undervolt from Windows was too much in Linux. Eg. -110Mv resulted in a freeze but in Windows this was never an issue. I changed it to -100Mv but even then might adjust it. I have a hunch it is related to this but can't be sure of course.

>>107005270
Retard end users blame the tool.
>recovering from any issues
You don't. You backup and reformat. Filesystem integrity errors are a sign of serious problems. If you care about data integrity you don't just guess how the filesystem is supposed to look and coerce it into that so you can keep working.

>>107005770
I actually need the Linux kernel to do work. I don't need sudo for anything.

>>107006028
>Retard end users blame the tool
Story of my life when doing any kind of tech support

>>107005727
RedHat made pkexec to replace sudo and nobody uses it because hurr systemd bad. sudo is boomer bloatware designed to sell consultancy.

>>107006064
sure, anon, so you either use one of the other tools that allow you to do what sudo does (which have the same problems) or you use root directly, which is even worse.

>>107006105
>sudo is boomer bloatware designed to sell consultancy
what
you put it in front of a command
you enter password
it works
whats the issue?

Ok, so I have a program that I developed for Windows and I wanna use it on Linux. The program itself works fine under Wine, but the way I structured the whole thing is a bit weird and "unconventional", and I wanted to know if I can replicate this on Linux.

I don't know how to explain it, but there's how the whole thing works:
First, I have a 'main' program folder, for example "C:\MyProgramMaster". Inside this folder is the main executable and all the DLLs it need to function, that's all. I don't actually run the program from this folder directly. This folder is also in the global environment variable, so all DLLs inside it are accessible to every program in the system.
Second, I have multiple folders from which I actually run my program, example of one such folder "C:\MyProgramInstance1". Initially this folder is empty, but then I create a shortcut where the 'Target' is "C:\MyProgramMaster\MyProgram.exe" and the 'Start in' is C:\MyProgramInstance1. When I run my program through this shortcut, it will start writing the data, config and other disposable files to "C:\MyProgramInstance1" instead of "C:\MyProgramMaster".

I know this all looks a bit weird, but there are reasons why I'm doing things this way, which I don't wanna get into here to not derail the conversation.
Is this setup replicable with Wine on Linux? I'm not sure how to do this 'current directory override' with Wine so that it can access the necessary DLLs from a different working folder. I also don't wanna have to place these DLLs inside the Wine prefix folder e.g. "~/.wine".

In future I pretend to properly port this program to Linux, but right now I don' have the time. Technically, I managed to port it to C++/GTK, but there are a lot of bugs, mostly UI ones, that I don't have the time right now to fix.

>>107006112
Most sudo replacements aren't complicated enough to have sudo's problems. polkit is, but polkit provides useful services for DEs. Having polkit and dysfunctional boomer polkit installed on the same system is straight mental illness. Just use pkexec.

>>107006146
>you enter password
parses 6 different bespoke config file formats and checks the network for a kerberos server
>it works

Best android web browsers for tinfoil freetards?

>>107006201
>and checks the network for a kerberos server
could you elaborate? im curious about this tidbit of trivia

>>107006028
or you choose the proper tool that is reliable and don't waste your time on btrfs.

>>107003286
Yeah i misclicked i meant to quote the post above yours >>107000102 to reply with >>107003268

>>107006233
he's bullshitting

>>107003888
>>107003946
And here i was considering to switch from transmission to deluge...

>>107006232
curl inside termux and then literally reading the html (you can run x11 in that thing btw so all your paranoid schizophrenia desktop browsers can be ran here as well)

>>107006233
It actually punts to pam and nss. sudo has network exposure though.

>>107006276
you can expect to see more kinds of errors in btrfs because it can detect more kinds of errors. ext4 sure won't complain if your data gets corrupted, it doesn't have a mechanism to even tell if that has happened

LMDE just works

>>107005163
>>107005220
I played the whole game and i barely saw her ass

how do i troubleshoot my controllers not working anymore since the last KDE update?
cachy pushed 6.5 overnight, i updooted and now nothing works anymore

>>107005761
pcmanfm or maybe rox

>>107006174
There's probably a way to achieve that, but it would be a clusterfuck.
A sensible way would be to just copy the DLLs from the master folder to each "instance" folder but you said you have your reasons for not doing that, in that case idk bro.

>>107004405
Linux is easy if your IQ is above 100. If it's below 100 then you should just accept whatever slop Microsoft gives you.

>>107006642
Roll back to previous snapshot and stop updating until KDE 6.5.1 is out.

>>107006676
>Roll back
dont have any
>stop updating until KDE 6.5.1
it's a rolling distro im going to die if i dont updoot twice a day

>>106999359 (OP)
What is the cut off text in the image supposed to say?

>>107006683
What do you mean you don't have any backup or snapshots set up in your rolling release distribution??? Are you a bit silly or something?

Does the kde filepicker really not have a way to search for files with something like ctrl + f?

>>107006174
Use Bottles to set up a virtual environment.
You can define custom paths and map them as virtual drives, eg. D:\Myfiles\ and so on.
I'm pretty sure you are able to set it up in a way what works for you.

>>107006694
nighttime

>>107006733
Just start typing the file name. There's a quick filter thing you can enable from the settings button in the top right.

>>107006761
>Just start typing the file name.
Doesn't do any search mode like the shitty gtk one. You're not confusing the kde filepicker dialog with dolphin are you?

>>107006642
ok i figured it out with chatgpt
it was a power issue because i put the bluetooth adapter from my controller into an unpowered usb3 hub so it throw a shitload of errors and crashed KDE's controller settings thingy
>>107006696
i just installed cachy and nothing else
idk if it comes with snapshots or not

>>107006733
It can only search/filter the current directory IIRC

>>107006831
I can't do any kind of search or filtering at all

I wish I could just write a script to tile my windows on wayland.

>>107006938
?
just use sway or whatever?

>>107006806
Nah it brings up an autocomplete thing.

>>107006920
Your install is fucked.

>>107006962
Maybe I will try sway or Hyprland, I tried i3 today (of course that's x11 but it was recommended as a start) and it was a bit buggy.
But even so, I think I will never have as much control as with just a python script. Also I did miss some gnome stuff on i3, but maybe a tiling wm is still the way to go.

>>107006174
>>107006652
It's actually way simpler than it seems:

1. Create a script inside your "instance" folder. Example "MyProgramInstance.sh"
2. Inside this file past the following and adjust the contents accordingly:

#!/bin/bash

wine "/home/youruser/MyProgramMaster/MyProgram.exe"

3. Make the script executable: chmod +x MyProgramInstance.sh

Double clicking on the script should execute the program in your master folder while using the proper local DLLs, but the actual working folder will be the folder from which the script is executed.

>>107006920
>>107007031
The textbox that says file type is the filter. You can type anything, not just file type. KDE moment

>>107007036
>and it was a bit buggy
how so?
>but even so, I think I will never have as much control as with just a python script
sorta
these things essentially have weirdly extensive build in scripting
>Also I did miss some gnome stuff on i3
there are probably some plugins for that

>>107007054
>>107007031
Thats not a proper find/search function like you would see in the shitty gtk filepicker or your standard file manager

>>107007054
They have literal file name, glob, and regex fields. Not having subdirectory search is weird now that you bring it up.

>>107007105
>Not having subdirectory search is weird now that you bring it up.
It's because a file picker is not for searching. Searching all sub directories like GNOME does is a very intensive operation, it's definitely not something you want to do by default. It will bring your disk to a crawl while its busy searching umpteen directories deep for no reason.

>>107007059
The only clear bug in i3 itself is that the tray randomly spawns language selection popups on the second monitor and they can't be closed. But then back on gnome one of my qt apps no longer scales properly.
But then there are also some things that might work with workarounds but just the normal config doesn't, e.g. I can't center polybar, which is a known issue, the setting is just not recognized and the workaround didn't work so far, it doesn't show at all in that case. I thought it would look cooler centered at 90% width.
I mostly want to declutter my workflow, but it would be nice if it also looks good.

>>107007121
That thing used... for picking files... a file picker... is not for searching which file to pick...?
> Searching all sub directories like GNOME does is a very intensive operation
The gtk one seems to do it without any issues.

>>107001797
i realised that all i had to do was to run the drive as an admin, right click it, hit permissions and give them to anyone
woops
well microsoft can get fucked, i was able to boot into my windows ssd and it had no issues running steam off brtfs and it's not like i'll be using it that much

>>107007043
HOLY FUCK THIS ACTUALLY WORKED! I was going crazy reading resources and overthinking the whole thing. Thank you, anon.

>>107007192
It's for picking not for searching, and no I can assure you GNOME does not do a good job of recursively searching for files in 20tb+ network share.

>>107007151
damn im glad i dont have that strain of 'tism
i mostly just remove stuff, change fg text color and make every bg pitch black so that my retina can chill
and this is why i like CLI, you literally change 2 settings and you are done with "ricing" for 90% of programs out there

VanillaOS if it doesn't depend on dependancy then it's bloated in file size right?

What DE is good for straight person such as myself? Gnome and KDE are both filled with rainbows.

>>107008122
xfce4 dont try anything else its what my super-straight girlfriend uses.
shes not a linux autist like me enough to use dwm

Can someone explain to me like i'm retarded why 9 out of 10 games launch with Heroic just fine, but every once in a while one just refuses to launch no matter what proton or wine I use?

>>107008138
how along ago did she transition tho?

>>107008085
are you talking about statically linked binaries?

yes if you statically link your shit then you put everything into executable
>>107008138
>girlfriend
hm...
>>107008158
is this why women love apple products

>>107003385
what are you on about? wget is part of Fedora.

>>107008138
>girlfriend
>last updated 2024
Bro, I got bad news for you. Don't think "she's" getting pregnant.

>>107008122
TDE

I've been thinking about this, with setting up linux for my parents who share a PC, and a shared drive for Steam.
Is there a way to have a drive mount within every users home directory? Because the way most people deal with it just has a single user chown the mounted directory, and that clearly won't work for multiple users

>>107008326
Make a group, add all users to the group, make the group own the directory.

>>107008122
>What DE is good for straight person such as myself? Gnome and KDE are both filled with rainbows.
Who cares mate just use what fits your workflow not the politics of random troons you'll never meet
You can try cinnamon or xfce maybe though

>>107008122
i3

>Lutris dev migrated to Playtron and it's basically dead project
>Bottle decided to rewrite everything and got burnt out/gave up

Maybe it's easier to just vibecode something in python to launch games/call prefixes, why these retards always do this? No idea why linux devs are so obsessed with rewrites.

>>107008452
I switched to heroic a while back and I'm happy.

>>107008516
heroic is nice

>>107008599
One thing I wish they'd add is a list view that features the icon of the selected executable (or one set by the user). Currently your options are either the very big thumbnails or a bland list where it's hard to find what you're looking for at a glance.
But the fact that that's one of my biggest issues with it is not a bad thing.

>>107008516
>>107008633
>>107008599
I wish it worked here. I think it's trying to do something in the background I can't figure out and games just do not launch

Manually launching the game with wine under the prefix works fine, it also works as it should on Lutris, but on Heroic it becomes stuck on launching because it's trying to do something else(like adding extra compatibility or applying fixes).

>>107008849
Are you using ge-proton or wine-ge? It used to default to wine-ge but I've always found proton to be more reliable.

>>107008849
>>107008879
Also I downloaded the gog installer just now and it works fine for me.

bazaar is the second best fucking thing that has happened to linux in years, first being proton
this shit should be forced into every distro automatically because it solves the retarded issue linux has of needing to be prescient and knowing exactly what you're looking for
this single damn thing is the difference between normies being lost and being able to find whatever the fuck they want

How can I find out which files got currupted on a BTRFS filesystem?
Scrub is showing some uncorrectable errors. Every article/thread I read tells me to look at the dmesg output which should give me the path, but my output looks like this:

BTRFS error (device dm-7): bdev /dev/mapper/device errs: wr 0, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0, gen 54
BTRFS error (device dm-7): scrub: unable to fixup (regular) error at logical 18439820804096 on dev /dev/mapper/device physical 578041217024


How on Earth do I get a file path from these logical/physical block numbers?

>>107009034
>wr 0, rd 0, flush 0, corrupt 0
Looks like a metadata problem.

>>107009255
How can I solve it?

>>107009290
I don't think there's anything to solve there. Diff against your backup.

>>107009337
It's a few weeks old, but I'll do it. Surely there will be tons of diffs because the files just changed over time.
What a load of work it will be.
Fuck, man, storage is always the biggest headache that keeps on giving.

>>107009255
>metadata problem
That's kinda sus, I thought Btrfs defaults to DUP for metadata so you can always correct it. So, is it set to DUP >>107009034 (btrfs fi usage /mountpoint)

>>107009375
It should be something obvious like a whole directory missing. If anything even is missing.

>>107009389
Nothing is off the table when you're talking about software or processing fuckups.

>>107009389
I made sure to set it to DUP at the time of creation
>>107009397
Well, it's showing 176 uncorrectable errors (I'm assuming that's not a lot), so let's hope it's something small but obvious

>>107008879
>>107008916
both, I tried it with proton-ge and wine-ge. I don't think it's a problem with the wine runners, but how heroic launches the game. Maybe there's some configuration/option issue I can't figure out.

>>107009409
>>107009034
When you run scrub it should show the inode number of the corrupt file, which in turn can be fed into find. Had to go through this when a 10 year old HDD finally gave up on me. Not an expert on this so I can't say why it's not showing any for you.

>>107009425
Yeah, every post I read had it right the in the dmesg output. Maybe it's one of the one-too-many hardening measures that's not letting something get accessed. Some sysctl rule or kernel config.

>>107009034
Currently running btrfsck --readonly
ref mismatch on [16667014987776 16384] extent item 1, found 0
tree extent[16667014987776, 16384] root 7 has no tree block found
data extent[18262034825216, 524288] referencer count mismatch (root 5 owner 61278078 offset 141557760) wanted 0 have 1

ERROR: errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation

>thread has reached bump limit half an hour ago
>nobody bothers to make a new
holy fucking dead board

i was thinking about getting a chromebook to try out omarchy. Are the newer chromebooks locked down? will it run? also i think they lack a super key on the keyboard so do you guys think it's even a good idea?

I haven't been keeping up with Fedora and I'm getting mixed information about this. Have they finished rewriting their package manager in C++ or whatever and rolled it out in their recent releases?

what programming books should i read for fun? i need light reading before sleep

>>107009770
dnf5 is out yeah. The only downside compared to dnf 4 is the output of dnf5-automatic is extremely terse. It just says "dnf5-automatic: 4 new updates installed." when it emits to your motd, instead of a transaction summary.

>>107009798
go the suckless route and just shut your eyes

New thread >>>>107009810

New thread >>107009810

>>107009802
Damn. And I assume there is no verbose option?

>>107009840
Not that I can see, no

>>107006694
nightstalkers

>>106999359 (OP)
Chat I am on Ubuntu and trying to set it up as a living room PC.

Main issue, getting my controller to work as a mouse. I have input-remapper working, buy it only works after I log in. I got it to run at startup, but I think because it uses user-profiles, I might be naynay'd.

Is there anyone who has gotten a controller to work as their mouse during the login screen?

What solution is there?

Can I make a hidden root account and have this autolog into a user account with no password?

>>107002543
inevitable if you tinker. i broke windows several times as a kid and older. thats how you learn what not to do.

>>107002543
Just backup your important data. The only important data I actually have is my code, everything else doesn't matter or I can restore it in a day.

When you turn off the pc and hyprland prints all that stuff on the screen quickly then disappears, how do you read that stuff? where is it located