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>What distro should I choose?
https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Previous thread: >>107045697

>>107052835 (OP)
kino desktop

Desktop Screenshots from developers & Unix people (2002):

https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/

>>107052929
thank you anon absolute kino

I would love to switch from Windows 11 to a Linux distro.
The only problem I have is that it might fuck up with my job, aside from that I have no other issues with Windows since I live in the EU and this grants me the right to uninstall Onedrive, Copilot and Edge.

>>107053121
You can uninstall anything on Windows no matter where you live. You just need to use the terminal to do it.

You used to be able to install Ubuntu on a ext4 partition without deleting your old files. Why the FUCK is that no longer the case?
I already deleted the old system files and prepared myself for a reinstall and bam, now I can't without deleting the old user files I set aside on a folder. So now I'm left without a bootable system and without a way forward without bringing in extra storage devices.

>>107052929
>Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda's desktop, 2002

>Tenchi Muyo!
>One row like on Win98
>KDE
Holly based

>>107053350
>Tenchi Muyo!
Been a while since I've seen that name.

>>107053202
I didn't have to use the terminal to do it, all I had to do was just right click + uninstall like with every other program.

Do you guys use OpenSnitch? I want to make my computer more secure so I installed it. The annoying thing is all the pop-ups it generates. Maybe I should make an allowlist for domains I trust, so it will only nag me about other domains.

does camabalache work on cinnamon?

>>107053445
As expected this was not hard to do at all:

>dolphin_hash_file
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

file="$1"
algo="${2:-sha256sum}"

if ! command -v "$algo" &> /dev/null
then
kdialog --error "Algorithm $algo not found"
exit 1
fi

if [[ ! -f "$file" && ! -d "$file" ]]; then
kdialog --error "File not found: $file"
exit 1
fi

set -- $(find "$1" -type f -print0 | sort -z --stable | xargs -0 -r -I{} cat {} | $algo)

hash_output="$1"

# Copy to clipboard
if [[ -n "$WAYLAND_DISPLAY" ]] && command -v wl-copy &> /dev/null
then
echo -n "$hash_output" | wl-copy
else
echo -n "$hash_output" | xclip -selection clipboard
fi

# Show dialog
kdialog --msgbox "Hash ($algo):\n$hash_output\n\nCopied to clipboard."


Install the service menu in ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/hash_file.desktop and make sure it is executable (KDE uses the executable bit as a security check of some sort even though you'd never execute .desktop files directly)

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin
MimeType=application/octet-stream;
Actions=HashMD5;HashSHA1;HashSHA256;

[Desktop Action HashMD5]
Name=Hash with MD5
Exec=bash -c 'dolphin_hash_file "%f" "md5sum"'

[Desktop Action HashSHA1]
Name=Hash with SHA1
Exec=bash -c 'dolphin_hash_file "%f" "sha1sum"'

[Desktop Action HashSHA256]
Name=Hash with SHA256
Exec=bash -c 'dolphin_hash_file "%f" "sha256sum"'

[Desktop Action HashSHA512]
Name=Hash with SHA512
Exec=bash -c 'dolphin_hash_file "%f" "sha512sum"'

[Desktop Action HashXXHSUM]
Name=Hash with XXHSUM
Exec=bash -c 'dolphin_hash_file "%f" "xxhsum"'


Open dolphin and should see the hashing options in the actions menu and now you can checksum files/folders like a GUI tard.

>>107054077
You need to include inode/directory in the MimeTypes to allow hashing a directory though:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin
MimeType=application/octet-stream;inode/directory;
Actions=HashMD5;HashSHA1;HashSHA256;HashSHA512;HashXXHSUM;

[Desktop Action HashMD5]
Name=Hash with MD5
Exec=bash -c 'dolphin_hash_file "%f" "md5sum"'

[Desktop Action HashSHA1]
Name=Hash with SHA1
Exec=bash -c 'dolphin_hash_file "%f" "sha1sum"'

[Desktop Action HashSHA256]
Name=Hash with SHA256
Exec=bash -c 'dolphin_hash_file "%f" "sha256sum"'

[Desktop Action HashSHA512]
Name=Hash with SHA512
Exec=bash -c 'dolphin_hash_file "%f" "sha512sum"'

[Desktop Action HashXXHSUM]
Name=Hash with XXHSUM
Exec=bash -c 'dolphin_hash_file "%f" "xxhsum"'

>certain image editing software named after ableist slut
those people can't be serious

i downloaded this pdf from annas archive a week ago. i downloaded it and somehow it accidentally ran despite me never clicking it and it opened itself in my pdf reader (firefox). all that i expected to be inside it was inside it, so i got a complete book, no issues there.
i did virustotal check on it and everything seems okay. im a paranoid kraut, also on linux, with selinux characteristics if that helps. so i cant let go if this pdf was a virus.
any clues?
https://annas-archive.org/slow_download/be1421b1d1d7793582b858c0a72e40c6/0/2

>>107054153
Use Krita instead.

>>107054170
shit like this is why you make sure to use a sandboxed PDF reader, remove its network permissions and give it read-only access to certain directories you keep pdf files.

>>107053350
>Ryoko
Rob has good taste.
t. Kiyonefag

>>107054207
dang. should have set my document viewer like that. it aint flatpakked though so i dunno.

>>107052929
Thanks for sharing, really cool find, the follow up post (from 2015) was also a good one. I find two things quite interesting actually: 1. Almost all of them use floating windows, I suppose it's because that's the usual workflow they are used to, but it's interesting how they are productive despite not using a tiling wm with a million keybinds. Some of them even use stock Suse or Ubuntu with a few modifications. 2. A lot of them use terminals with a light background, I always thought a dark bg has always been the standard. Maybe /g/ was right and we should just use stock Ubuntu or something.

>>107052929
>Of course the FreeBSD developer runs macOS
Lmao

Is there a way to get my Sound Blaster Z SE to have basic audio output on Linux? When I plug in my headphones through the front panel, I do not hear anything.

>>107054460
Also this one's cool but also sad that IPv6 has been around this long but still to this day not widely adopted by all ISPs and services.

Some anons were saying that windows is ok because you can just debloat it and remove the spyware. This isn't true isn't it?

>>107054478
Some people are into BDSM

>>107054478
If you need to use Windows, then this is probably your best option: https://amelabs.net/

>>107054478
There are people who think eating poop is good.

bros just witnessed Arch KDE remote desktop feature and I was blown away

Green is my pepper

is it possible to get gnome-like workspace swipes with a touchpad in xfce?

>>107054522
They still need to add headless login, not that I ever need that but Windows can do it and GNOME can do it so KDE should be able to do it too.

Hopefully they can make whatever changes need to be made in Plasma 7 for that to happen (I think this is one of the reasons they're still quietly working on their own display manager to replace SDDM).

>>107054478
If you've already put decades into learning Windows administration possibly. In practical terms it means Jeetows is just as big a pain in the ass to learn as Linux. Because all those alterations are going to cause breakage.

>>107054566
It's wayland feature IIRC

>>107054478
You can make it tolerable, but that's it. Imagine your keyboard gets covered in shit each morning by a poop ghost, but it's okay because you can clean it afterwards, personally I rather get no shit at all to begin with. For some reason I see some windows users say Linux ones claim Linux is perfect and so on, but I've never seen a single anon (or anyone else in the internet) say that, despite what some shitposters might tell you, Linux is more than competent for daily-driving in 2020+5, so unless you are forced to use software not available easily on Linux (like Adobe stuff) you should be fine.

>>107054958
>>107054663
>>107054494
What about windows 10 2021 ltsc?

does anyone know what happened to lightdm-webkit-greeter
i cannot locate the package anymore

Any good alternatives for Wallpaper Engine?
Using CachyOS.

>>107055315
If you're using KDE then there's a Wallpaper Engine plugin

>>107055312
Probably deprecated for being out-of-date and insecure would be my guess. Using a web engine for your lockscreen is the stupidest idea ever.

>>107054664
It's integrated better on Wayland (because of architectural reasons) but you can still hack it into X11:
>>107054566
https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures

Whats the difference between proton and protonUP-QT?

>>107052835 (OP)
Apt has been fucking about for a week now, finally refusing to update anything today. I've seemingly got two problems, one with OBS and one with syncthing, I've also asked Gemini but no dice.

OBS:
$ sudo apt-get update gives me this:
Hit:15 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_12 ./ InRelease
Err:15 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_12 ./ InRelease
The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 2F7F0DA5FD5B64B9 home:strycore OBS Project <home:strycore@build.opensuse.org>
Fetched 27,8 kB in 1s (21,8 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_12 ./ InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 2F7F0DA5FD5B64B9 home:strycore OBS Project <home:strycore@build.opensuse.org>
W: Failed to fetch https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_12/./InRelease The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 2F7F0DA5FD5B64B9 home:strycore OBS Project <home:strycore@build.opensuse.org>
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
I assume this is because Suse haven't updated their repo?
Last entry is from June 17th when I follow the link, but I guess I can pound sand on this one?

Syncthing (actually upgrade breaking):
$ sudo apt-get upgrade gives me pic rel. The syncthing entries at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/syncthing point at the .net address so I assume something in the background is changing that to .dev, but .dev is unreachable now.

Adding --fix-missing to apt-get update did nothing.

Wat do?

>>107055315
What de? KDE as a plugin for this.

Just installed CachyOS, wtf do I do now

>>107055411
Proton-up-QT is a program for updating and installing Proton-GE. (I mean I'm sure it can do other stuff too, but that's what you'd use it for. To install proton-GE to steam)

>>107055416
It is literally telling you the reason why:
>The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 2F7F0DA5FD5B64B9 home:strycore OBS Project <home:strycore@build.opensuse.org>

Go and check if the repository has rotated its signing key and if it has you'll have to import it into apt again.

>>107055437
So then how do I use a proton-GE with a game once I've installed it?

>>107055439
>>107055416
Also if this is for a desktop then I can recommend using the Syncthing GTK flatpak.

The official Docker container works great too if its for a server. Screw APT.

>>107055382
I agree, but are there any alternatives? I also heard about SDDM

>>107055476
They're building one:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager

It is not ready yet though.

>>107055454 (Me)
Ohhhh, I need to use Lutris or Steam as an inbetween. How do I hook it up to Mini Galaxy?

>>107053412
99.99% of the time it's retards abusing bpf for snakeoil security. The only way it's worth using is if you operate on a whitelist only basis, which very few people have the patience for.

>>107055481
>>107055476
Use SDDM for now though, or lightdm without the stupid Webkit greeter, or GDM if you don't mind pulling in all of GNOME just for a display manager (not recommended, it's really only for GNOME)

>>107055439
I know, I have checked every day for a week now, nothing has changed:
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/strycore/Debian_12/
Quote from my own post:
>but I guess I can pound sand on this one?

>>107055471
I'm in the middle of a semester, I don't really have the time to dick around with new software and configurations right now. I haven't even upgraded to Debian 13 yet.

I just want to be able to update again.

>>107055489 (Me)
Oh... It has to be Lutris for some reason... Okay...

>>107055500
Well there's your problem:
$ gpg --show-key Release.key
pub rsa2048/0x2F7F0DA5FD5B64B9 2014-11-04 [SC] [expired: 2025-10-23]
A338F71A89CD06FD5F9718582F7F0DA5FD5B64B9
uid home:strycore OBS Project <home:strycore@build.opensuse.org>


I guess you will have to configure APT to ignore the fact that the key is outdated.

>>107055523
>>107055500
Apparently you can also extend the keys validity locally if you still trust it. ChatGPT is saying to do:
# Import the expired key if not already present
gpg --import expired-key.asc

# Open the key for editing
gpg --edit-key KEYID

>Inside the GPG shell
gpg> expire
# Choose new expiration (e.g. 1y, 2y, 0 for never)
gpg> save

>This updates the local trust database. You can then re-export it for APT:
gpg --export --armor KEYID | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/legacy-key.gpg

>>107055494
Only took an interest at lightdm because I'm trying to get this theme to work, though supposedly there is a sddm workaround somewhere but it has no instruction
https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/tree/master/Lightdm/Chicago95

>>107055171
I haven't used windows in forever, unless you count that time earlier this year where I launched the 2021 ltsc version in a VM for some testing and found it extremely frustating. It doesn't work ootb as regular windows, so I had to do some tinkering, so much for "windows just works!!" kek. Honestly if you NEED to use windows then just use it, is not like Linus or Stallman are going to come to your house to beat you up for no using Linux, just use whatever tool is fit for the job. But if you ever plan on moving to Linux do some research before hand, and always take what /g/ says with a grain of salt, some anons like to shitpost.
>>107055423
Whatever you do on a daily basis. Here's a guide on how to do some maintenance to Arch-based distros (is not as difficult as you think)
https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/a-complete-idiots-guide-to-endeavour-os-maintenance-update-upgrade/25184/1

>>107055547
I don't know, can I keep trusting the expired key?
Why is there no new key or am I too stupid to find it?

which custom wine executable to I choose for Proton in Lutris?

>>107055598
There is no new key because whoever manages this repo hasn't rotated or refreshed the key yet. I would suggest contacting them or filing an issue/bug-report somewhere. More than likely they don't even realise that this is an issue.

>>107055396
>>107054664
>https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures
using qubesos kek so this is not an option but thanks anyway

>>107055606
Would be my first time doing so, do I email strycore@build.opensuse.org or open a forum issue on openSuse?

Sorry, I'm in completely out of my field here.

>boot Linux
>want to copy some code
>opens Vim inside Kitty
>CTRL + SHIFT + C doesn't work
>CTRL + C doesn't work
>yank doesn't work
>added unnamedplus in the vimrc
>xclip and clipQ are installed
>nothing works, even Gemini can't figure out how to make it work
How come Linux still hasn't mastered copy pasting?

>>107055638
Try importing the key from:
https://build.opensuse.org/projects/home:strycore/signing_keys

Looks like that has the same fingerprint but has been updated.

>>107055656
I had this issue when I tried Plasma, Hyprland on Arch. It's probably related to incompatible software - I suspect the QT base.
Now in Mint I have gotten back the basic functionality of any unix-like system - copy pasting works between any software.
I had huge issues with Vim even but now it's just a middle click.

>>107053221
Please be more specific. What files exactly, directory and such?

You can partition with a live usb, move the files to a separate partition and then install.

>>107053221
You can open Gparted from the live image and re-size the ext4 partition as small as possible and move it all the way over to the right. Then install on the bigger ext4 partition to the left of it.

>>107055707
eg. I could have probably fixed this if I had more time in Arch but I thought installing Plasma in the first place would allow me to do this. It never happened.
Just use X and go from there.

>>107053121
You need windows for your job?

>>107055601
Lutris is just a launcher and badly implemented at that as it is convoluted. People like to use this because there is a repository of automated scripts for setting up different games.
All in all you only need one unified fake windows environment directory + custom launcher for any game.

>>107053121
This is why God invented the work laptop. Nothing stopping you from having Linux to play with on your own personal machine.

>>107053121
If you don't know what your job requires it is better to keep your current installation. I mean your post does not make any sense.

>>107055493
I'm basically creating an allowlist by allowing whole domains when I get a pop up. E.g. I allowed all connections to *.microsoft.com (I have a couple deb repos from them). I also allowed all connections for Firefox because Firefox should hopefully be safe. But it still means if some random program on my system tries to connect to an unfamiliar domain or IP address then I'll get a pop up.

>>107055656
vim is autistic so you have to configure it to actually copy to the system clipboard

>>107055756
I think he's saying his work is scamming him by making him use his own personal computer rather than paying for a machine for him to use. He should do >>107055748 and get a dedicated work PC/laptop running Windows and then have a separate computer for personal use.

Or just dual-boot if it's really not possible to have more than one computer.

>>107054471
Front I/O panels are typically plugged directly into motherboard headers. You're talking about a PCI card with outputs out the back of the case and onboard motherboard audio out the front.

Why is idling in Mint 22.2 Xfce a death sentence? If I get kicked back to the logon screen and log back in, I am greeted with a black screen and my cursor.

>>107055745
I think I'm too low IQ for this...

>>107055786
Or maybe he has a requirement for Teams and Outlook.

>>107055804
take a look at this >>107055707
i expect similar issue, it's not configured for xfce

>>107055815
Please explain what do you want to run and what is the situation?

>>107055823
Yeah because following Arch Wiki and expecting that when you install Plasma or Plasma-meta means that you will get a full configured desktop enviornment is not necessarily true.
Especially when they are at least partially Wayland based.
I thought I was an experienced geezer but the copy pasting issue got me enraged. Mint fixed that for me. Not that I'm advocating anything over anything, it's just a software configuration.

>>107055830
Pajama Sam 4, I have the game downloaded already on the computer, but I'm wrestling with Lutris, I have proton downloaded on Lutris but when I launch the game nothing happens and Lutris seems to think the game is constantly "launching"

>>107055857
You didn't create the prefix.

>>107055857
I haven't followed up on all of these threads but wasn't there a post similar to this 2 threads ago?

>>107055865
Time to look up what that is
>>107055873
Yes but I had to step away and attend to a family member and I went to bed after that, I am now trying to implement it lol

>>107055881
You got your advices...

>>107055857
Click on one of those arrows next to "Launching">wine configuration>drives>add>D: and set it as a CD drive

>>107055500
What are you missing out on by not updating?

>>107055893
I didn't realize there was a ration line, comrade... :^)
>>107055927
How bad is it when I click wine config that Lutris doesn't do anything?

>>107055955
You did try this after stopping the game, right? Maybe wine didn't shut down, check on htop. This should pop up

>>107055955
Imagine being chobitsu. Imagine spending a decade loitering around a board about robots and lacking the pattern recognition to see the correlation between that and late stage capitalism.

>>107055955
go into game configuration and put something in the Prefix field
can be an empty directory
for example /home/YOUR_USERNAME/lutrisprefix

>>107055955
Yes we are rationed here. You got served and come back next week! We are out of bottles.

>>107055955
Joking aside use Bottles. It's easier to visualize what you are actually doing.
> bottles, create an environment
> install dependencies if needed
> launch the game
Should be as simple as that. If you need a wrapper you can manually insert dgVoodoo or whatever the fuck that game needs.

>>107053221
They disabled it on purpose because they were too lazy to fix a bug, fuck them I'm gonna search for a distro made by people who don't remove features because it's easier than fixing a bug.
This is exactly the kind of Ebussian cancer I hate about Nu-linux.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-desktop-provision/+bug/2058638/

>>107055728
And risk data loss if the power goes out. And then have to move the entire new partition again if I ever want to reclaim that space. Fuck that noise.

>>107055710
Mean to quote this post

>>107055680
That worked, thanks.

Now I need to fix the Hash Sum mismatch for syncthing ...

>>107055941
Security updates, and Signal won't start if I don't keep it up to date as well, pic rel

>>107055372
>>107055416
I did try it, and since I have a large subscribed playlist I can't modify easily from the KDE manager, I would randomly crash the wallpaper to a black screen or outright crash the Plasma shell.

Guess I'll try Hidamari and Komorebi out.

>>107056015
It should be doable but even with linux Mint, it's not clear because the partition manager thing is not that user friendly. Implementing couple of check boxes is not a big deal.

how do you configure mpv on bazzite? i installed mpv as flatpak but it ignores the config in ~/.config/mpv

>>107056042
Config file is probably inside .var/app/
Or maybe you can feed mpv an external location via a parameter.

>>107056060
are all flatpaks configured via var/app?

>>107056031
No, you don't seem to understand. This was a feature of the Ubiquity installer for years already (according to the comments for ~2 decades). This is what me and many other people used to do when we wanted to reinstall the OS. They only made the "format partition?" checkbox non clickable it in 2024.

>>107056063
Yeah they live in there.

>>107056071
k thanks

>>107056078
It's better to setup your own aliases for flatpak things in this case you will not lose them.
If they support external parameters like --config file ./some_path do it.
Flatpaks are so fucking stupid idea in the first place.

>>107052835 (OP)
Help! I accidentally dd'd my main SSD with an iso. I didn't pick any partition, just "of=/dev/sdd", and it completed very quickly, saying it copied 821MB in 0.5 seconds. Right now my OS is still running, typing this on it now, like nothing happened. I'm terrified it won't boot again after restarting. What can I do?

I have my data backed up when you switch Linux OSes do you get the option to take everything on your computer and port it over to the now OS or nah?

>>107056089
how big is your uefi (ESP) partition

>>107056089
>What can I do?
Lay down and lube up. Honestly I don't know, but I can sure say you're fucked beyond grief.

>install nix on my new server
>git configs from my repo
>it just works with zero setup other than some small config modifications
>lol >docker
linux is solved

good ol' disk destroyer

>>107056089
Oof. Realistically the only thing you can do is to save everything you can to external storage and reinstall.

>>107056102
I think it's the 513M one there?

>>107056070
They re-wrote their installer since then.

>>107056123
What about df?

>>107056123
back up everything you need to a separate drive is the first thing to do.
then boot another linux install or livecd and inspect the damage?

>>107056123
It definitely would plowed through that and wiped something from your main partition. Who knows what though.

>>107056089
sudo fdisk <your_ssd>
hit p
take a picture or mail that to yourself
That information is gone next time you reload the partition table. Like other Anon said it probably just wiped your efi / boot partitions unless you keep them minimautismally small. Those can be restored in a chroot with relatively little pain. If it got into your /home filesystem you need to copy out everything you can right now.

>>107056105
Docker is also zero setup if you deploy your images to a private registry and orchestrate the server with something like Ansible and you didn't have to learn a whole new domain specific language to do it either, just normal Linux / sysadmin stuff.

>>107056165
>lmao docker can do this, but you also need ansible, kubernetism, and a bunch of devops bs. btw pls buy my course that teaches you how to buy all these products.

What are symbolic links and why does linux always stop copying over data to tell me it can't copy them over?

>>107056189
This is all free software, you don't have to buy or learn anything. It's just normal Linux stuff, not some abstraction over an abstraction over an abstraction configured by its own language in a text file

>>107056127
Yes. Well, anyway, Mint is still using the old installer so I'm a Mint user now (possibly until 2 years from now when I have to reinstall and they updated the installer and I have to go try Manjaro or something).

Linux is great unless you're sleep deprived, I've learnt a number of times.
>>107056145
Pic attached, don't know what options might help.
>>107056149
So long as I have most of /home (last backup was over a month ago), things should be OK. It wouldn't have touched anything in /mnt since they're other devices, right?
>>107056146
Too scared to just yet, and don't know really how to check. In the past I've just started over, but I've been in too deep with this install (few years).

>>107056206
literally all of those are an abstraction with an attached paid service.

>>107056192
What are you doing? You can't write through a symbolic link, it's a thing that points to another thing. It's like a shortcut icon for your filesystem.

>>107056213
Seems like you are missing /boot/ and efi partitions. Maybe they are not mounted.

>>107056216
Copying my home to an external before transitioning (heh) to a new OS, why?

>>107056214
None of them are paid, you can download them all from your distros Linux repos and start using them for free today. All without having to learn anything new either, you can use all of your existing Linux knowledge without having to fight a domain specific language into doing what you want it to do.

>>107056225
Just use Rsync:
rsync -avP --links --progress /home/USER /path/to/external/drive

>>107056224
I'm currently running the OS on sdd, if that makes a difference. Or are you saying dd's trashed it?

>>107056235
I'm not proficient in advicing you. Wait until someone else gives you feedback.
I personally just wipe out and restore from a backup if there's something bad.
I even have my important personal data on usb sticks just in case - like passwords and suchs plus documents.

>>107056233
I don't know what that is and I'm already 20 gbs into the transfer, does rsync store it as an iso or zip or something?

>>107056248
It might be that it's not being updated or mounted but what do I know.

>>107056227
spin me up a docker without knowing how to configure it.
do it. i'll wait.
also do that in an enterprise environment with exposed and distributed network services. i'll wait.

>3 days from now
still waiting.

>>107056268
As a directory? You can use dd if you want an image of a partition. Or use tar + zstd if you want an archive:
tar --numeric-owner -cf - /home/USER | zstd -T0 -19 -o /path/to/backups/user_$(date +%F_%H-%M-%S).tar.zst

Even Linux mint has the same issue:
Saving a file, when typing without touching anything else will invoke file search.
I would personally like to find this person and strangle him.
When saving a file, search is not necessary. What the fuck.

>>107056213
The partitions you are seeing in fdisk are the ones from the .iso file. Look at the size: 783M
The problem is that the iso was big enough to write into your root partition. Do you have important data on that disk? Otherwise trying to recover it might not be worth the headache

>>107056293
How do you just know all this shit?

>>107056394
Because I had to automate backups for a machine this week and literally copied and pasted the exact snippet I used. I don't just know that but I can reference what I did.

yay -Syu
yay -Syu
yay -Syu

>>107056453
I was in a school when they teached us
>finger
>ls
etc. It's not that its obscure.

>>107056213
What's the update? This is probably a troll.

>>107056363
Thanks. Yeah, I think I'll just do as >>107056115
says and copy what I can, starting over. Do you know if other block devices that were mounted in /mnt would be affected?

love my loonix anons
happy that im able to use my laptop on its full potential now

>>107056475
>>107056235 and >>107056477 is me.

>>107056291
Docker is just normal Linux stuff. I don't know why people get so tripped up over it.

Now show me how to make a LEMP stack on top of Busybox and Musl libc using only Nix.

>>107056540
Maybe it's because it is so hard to find any real knowledge. Try searching 'how to use docker for x' and you'll get 10 ai generated articles what does not actually tell anything.

I'M SCARED, DEVASTATED, BOTHERED

>>107056632
What kind of a schizo uses Gnome and X11? That's just weird.

>>107056089
Me again. Once I restart this machine, booting into another distro, will I be able to mount the dd'd drive at all, or will it be corrupted/ask to reformat?

>>107056641
NVIDIA users with Stockholm Syndrome.

>>107056632
Something about thinking hyperland is full of nazis or something, I don't want to get political, also there was a joke commit to systemd called "detect-fash" that scans your system and phones home for... Some reason... and there's a lot of people who think its a good idea to start a witchhunt so be careful about what you download and wait a while before using new software.
Oh and systemd rejected to commit if you care.

>>107056641
I installa de Fedora, and I wanna play my games and use my 3D software. As simple as that, what's schizo about it?

>>107056646
1) The partition layout may be different after you did the dd and this could cause issues
2) Even if it didn't if the superblock is damaged then that will also cause issues of the filesystem can't read and use the backup superblock
3) parts of the filesystem may be damaged beyond repair anyway
4) You're probably fucked either way

>>107056658
What does this have to do with my post schizo

>>107056668
Well X11 isn't gonna help you play games.

>>107056680
Just that I've noticed that scene has been crashing out and the temperature has been rising and its kinda worrying if you are a normal person who cares about the ecosystem.

>>107056681
But it has drivers for my graphics card THOUGH

>>107056694
Graphics drivers are independent of X11. Unless you're talking about Intel or some really really old nvidia proprietary crap. I dunno about Intel and I do know really old nvidia proprietary crap that hasn't been updated in 10 years supports X11.

>>107056677
Right now, I'm still in the dd'd drive's OS. Is copying everything right now while it's still on the only chance I have? To be honest, I wanted to start over at some point, but not like this…

>>107056477
>Do you know if other block devices that were mounted in /mnt would be affected?
The other devices are fine

>>107056718
I have an old Nvidia card and no, I won't get a new one and, most importantly, you will never ever be a woman, sorry

>>107056677
Picrel answers that question.
>>107056763
This is the most important thing, thank you. That's a relief.

>>107056755
I think so, yes. You should try to save as much as you can right now while you still can. You can try to recreate the partition layout by fucking with fdisk but there's no guarantees it works.

>>107056658
Nazis like myself use FreeBSD, retard. Hailing Hitler should be safe.

>>107056769
Why are you trying to get me to engage with your fetish out of nowhere? If you have an old nvidia card you can't run anything anyway so you might as well use nouveau.

>>107056782
>>107056771
If you really want to try and save anything though then I recommend Test disk.

>>107056804
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

>>107056771
>>107056782
Is saving /home with its .cache and .mozilla enough to keep all my bookmarks and tabs? I can't access anything in root now, just /home weirdly.

>>107056826
Should do. .Mozilla is your browsers profile directory. Cache you don't need.

>>107056826
All your personal shit is always going to be in /home unless you did some fucked up shit and put it outside deliberately.

>>107056794
Ironic coming from someone who really wants everyone else to engage with and validate his fetish

>>107056755
The partition table is gone, but if it's GPT there's a backup table at the end of the disk that can be restored

>>107056845
I thought we were discussing Linux and drivers, you're the one who suddenly started talking about your sexual preferences completely unprompted. There's no irony here, you're just a fucked up pervert.

>>107056804
Oh yes, TestDisk I forgot about that. It's saved me in the past, thanks.
I do have a backup from a few months ago. Will that help me at all in getting more recent data back, like getting the partition table from it somehow?
>>107056837
>>107056839
>>107056849
Thanks, I'll check. And that's the thing, I don't think I have done anything crazy outside home, but I might've for some esoteric config a year ago. I've no idea, it's been so long!

>>107056871
Testdisk can often discover previous partition tables and write them back, yes. Sometimes it can't do anything though but it's great data recovery software when it works.

>>107056826
>>107056837
>>107056839
That's not correct in Ubuntu at least. Firefox stuff gets stored in a snap specific folder outside /home

>>107055799
My sound card has a header for front panel audio. It just seems weird to me that even though the system does recognize the device, I can't even get basic audio out of it.

Guessing it might have something to do with how in Windows it needs to use the proprietary Sound Blaster Command to choose between headphones and speaker output somehow.

>>107056646
I just remembered, I think I had Timeshift enabled, saving to another drive. Is that a matter of booting to Mint live and running Timeshift on it?

>>107056948
That's fucked. No wonder nobody likes Ubuntu. Why would you ever save user data outside of /home? I actually don't even believe you, there's no way.

>>107056860
Ah, the old no u defense. I accept your concession, mister

>>107054471
Sound card autistic here, the Z has a DSP and is not compliant with HDA standard therefore it requires specialized drivers to work properly and Creative is known to not give a fuck for Linux support.

That's why I have an ASUS card

>>107057003
There's no "no u" here. We were clearly discussing X11 and graphics drivers, and you suddenly started talking about how I'll never be a woman which has no relation to that. Since I'm not a woman nor have I ever claimed to be a woman nor have I ever wanted to be a woman, the only conclusion I can draw is that you're trying to tell the world about your sexual preferences and gender ideology neither of which is interesting to me.

You can't refute this. You don't need to concede, I know you're too busy thinking about chicks with dicks to manage that.

>>107056980
I think I will bite the bullet, restart and try Timeshift on a live Mint, and try not to then erase my important work drive. Or otherwise try and sleep since that's what's caused this retardedness in the first place.

>>107057059
Uh oh melty

>>107057071
lmao at least try.

So I was cutting some files and it froze at 25%, disconnected the drive and now one of the big folders is empty.

>>107057080
The sad thing is that he is.

>>107057168
I wish I didn't believe that.

>>107057143
Please help, if a cut operation gets interrupted the entire cutted folder gets deleted?

>>107057230
Theoretically yes. You should never do any cut operations unless it's moving files from 1 place to another on the same drive.

>>107057242
... Why????????????
On windows nothing gets deleted until the operation is completed.

>>107057242
I was copying 4 folders, can I at least be sure only one was deleted and the others don't have missing data?

>>107057271
Yeah I wouldn't trust that statement one bit, I started with this behaviour where I never ever move a file from one drive to another under Windows. I'm sure I wasn't doing it without a reason.

>>107057279
If you were copying them, nothing was deleted. It's moving that's a dangerous thing.

>>107057307
I meant cut

>>107057318
Then you'll have to use data recovery software to get the files that are now missing and on neither device back. Knowing whether any files are missing or aren't is up to you knowing the whole of what you moved in the first place.

>>107057349
Linux is absolute dogshit, this doesn't happen in windows wtf.

I was checking and it seems there is also a big with the cut operation where the time increases with time making the operation infinite

>>107057307
>Yeah I wouldn't trust that statement one bit, I started with this behaviour where I never ever move a file from one drive to another under Windows.
Same here. I lost a file that I cut and pasted to a usb drive but canceled the transfer because it took too long. Since then I always copy and delete afterwards.

Ran into some issues with upgrading Fedora to Fedora 43 so I uninstalled Wine, but after I reinstalled it and tried to run PlayOnLinux again, this showed up.
Anyone knows how to fix this?

>>107056571
>LEMP stack
but that's what i run on my nix server. it's all in my nix config.

>mr. president, a second ddos has hit arch
im losing my fucking mind

>>107057465
Is pol still a thing? I haven't heard from it in years

>>107057551
It gets used or recommended now and then.

Just hopped to my first Arch-based distro. Pacman is a little different than Apt. What's the exact difference between -S, -Sy and -Syu?

>>107057551
AFAIK, it hasn't been updated in a while, but I am pretty much using it because the only good guide on installing the older Windows era Touhou games uses PlayOnLinux. I've tried with Lutris, but couldn't get any good results, and Proton is equally as iffy because Proton-sarek (I am using older intel hardware on a 2012 era Thinkpad for it) doesn't seem to play nice with those games.
I'd be glad to hear if there was a simpler way. But I'd still like to know if there's a way to fix this issue, since I am worried this may be an issue with how Fedora 43 fucked up some stuff on my machine

>>107057450
>Same here
Another one here. I wonder what happened to anon though as I thought mv (rename) is atomic. Does caching count as completing the operation?

>>107057604
-S installs packages
-Sy syncs package index and installs package if specified
-Syu syncs package index, updates all packages and installs package if specified

Anyway to stop from nvidia from pushing random updates and fucking my shit up? Like every month I have to reinstall those shitty drivers on Ubuntu.

>>107057642
remove ubuntu and use something better like debian

>>107057646
>>107057642
or drop nvidia and use intel or amd

>>107057617
It does unders windows so I don't see why it wouldn't.

>>107057633

Thanks anon, so basically if you install something, the -Syu command is gonna be the default right? And the same goes for Yay right?

The difference between native packages and the ones from AUR isn't entirely clear to me yet, but I'll figure it out.

>>107057685
It depends. If you have a relatively up to date system and you're installing something insignificant which probably hasn't been updated you can use -S, that way you don't waste time updating everything.
But otherwise you would use syu, specially if -S fails.

Aur is creepy user repository. Avoid it if you can. Careful if you use it.

>>107057685
So -Syu essentially does everything, normally you would want to update all packages separated from installing single packages, the usual form is to go "pacman -Sy <packages>" and then just "pacman -Syu".

>And the same goes for Yay right?
Correct

Think of the AUR as packages built by users instead of official archlinux maintainers, that's pretty much it. You can also build your own.

>>107057633
>>107057685
>-Sy syncs package index and installs package if specified
Don't do that. It will fuck shit up

>>107057739
what? no it doesn't
the -S is superfluous if you're just syncing the package db with -y and you're not providing an actual package/group to sync
all it's doing is refreshing the package db to the latest so your local db points to the most up-to-date package versions

>>107057522
Like what even can they do? Turnstile the AUR?

>>107057845
If you're installing a package from the updated db it will be compiled against newer library versions that are in the updated db but not on your system. In the worst case it might pull a new library that breaks your entire system and you'll have to chroot from a live usb to fix it.
That's why partial updates are not supported on Arch.

>>107057845
No, he's right. Sy creates an unsupported environment, a partial upgrade. You're not supposed to do partial upgrades on arch unless you're the most advanced arch user on the planet looking to brick his shit.
It'll probably be fine most of the time, but there is no help 4 you if you do this.

It's either -S or -Syu

>>107057845
pacman -Sy something refreshes the package db and installs something, which is a partial upgrade and can royally fuck you up

>>107057876
>In the worst case it might pull a new library that breaks your entire system
A library like that would already be installed and hence not be pulled in by this.

>>107057906
It will update existing packages if they are a dep, it won't ignore those. A single lib is not limited to being a dep for 1 package. Not that guy, though, so I'm not 100 sure if pacman will let you do this if there is another package that requires different version of the dep.

>>107057930
Arch doesn't have versioned dependencies

>>107057941
They exist, specially if you use aur. Nvidia utils and kernel module mismatch is instant brick for example. It's retarded to do something you know is unsupported just because "it'll probably be fine". Sure, hope you're handy with arch-chroot at least.

>>107057847
>>107057876
>>107057882
>>107057906
i get that fwiw
i should have probably been clearer
-Sy with no package is just -y with extra keystrokes, which is fine *assuming you're not installing an individual package from the new db later and potentially breaking unrelated system deps before doing a full -u
in hindsight, OP of the replies did say
>-Sy syncs package index and installs package if specified
and i shouldn't have been pedantic with saying "if you don't provide a package, it's perfectly fine" without giving context as to how doing so could cause partials and why partials are dangerous and potentially insidious if you refresh db, forget to do a full upgrade, and days later sync some random package with a deep deps tree

>>107056948
But then wouldn't have a .mozilla directory. Flatpak does the same thing as Snap and stores them elsewhere. If you have a .mozilla directory though then it's safe to assume that's what the browser is using unless it's an old one.

>>107057977
That is correct, but after you do -Sy you can't use anything other than -Syu so it's overall a pointless command you're best not thinking about, essentially. I mean I've used it for upgrading discord but that's a really retarded use case which I wouldn't recommend to anyone.

reply op here
never had an issue with -Sy package
anyways, I learned something new today, thank you bros

>>107058023
same, as well as yt-dlp, but i haven't either outside of a full upgrade in a long time
"my tolerance for pain and my willingness to take this needless personal risk, as well the lack of consequences i suffered in this instance, does not override this very specific warning that should be taken as 'mandatory advice'"
eg do as i say, not as i do

>>107058161
Right.. I've done it for that one too. I guess if you have 140 pkgs waiting to be upgraded and you just want to DL that youtube video right now it's a risk you gotta take.

>>107052835 (OP)
Recommended ways to learn linux outside of "passively"?

>>107058219
Use distros like arch or Gentoo and do stuff you don't need to do. Like using btrfs subvolumes, secure boot, etc.

>>107058256
Hmm, I'm thinking more study from video/book stuff. I'm not really good with real-time problem solving because I get frustrated easily.

>>107052835 (OP)
Regular release or LTS? If I'm on LTS, and my OS is no longer supported am I at all notified by the OS? Do I get a kernel update? Or do I have to install?

>>107058267
nta but that way you won't learn anything

>>107058317
I mean I'm going to have to be hands-on, its unavoidable on Linux, I'm just trying to find a less messy workflow where I actually learn more.

>>107058334
just spin up a virtual machine and learn your shit there

>>107054170
Have you reported the file to Anna's Archive? They're generally good about this sort of shit since they don't want to be associated with viruses.

That said, it's probably just your distro auto-opening it if you have "open when downloaded" in your browser enabled.

>>107058379
This. Anna's is pretty much the most legit of those download places.

>>107052835 (OP)
Ok, dumb question and I'm sure I'm going to be roundly mocked but: Is there a tutorial for compilation? Arch Wiki does not give a basic rundown for compiling from source and I want to read up on this just to understand it in the future.

From my dabbling with C in the past (haven't kept up) it'd be like:

cd <yoursourcefolder>
sudo make(?) && makeinstall(?)
/. program

But that's for your own C files. I'm trying to compile (though it's in the AUR so I can just yay this IIRC): https://github.com/jsnli/Samira?tab=readme-ov-file

And while that uses npm (and provides instructions for it), which would be different from C's compilation (obviously, duh, retard, etc.) I'm wanting to understand the "process" and steps just to learn/knowledge.

>>107058334
Use a VM, break it and that's when you can learn it. Take a snap-shot before you break it and then learn shit, rewind to snapshot if entirely fucked and break it again.

Obviously this isn't Windows, you don't want to do what >>107056089 did on your non-VM and fuck shit up purposely on it.

>>107052835 (OP)
I'm trying out Plasma, so far so good except for a few annoyances and weird bugs. I can see the appeal.
>>107058267
>I'm not really good with real-time problem solving because I get frustrated easily.
That's literally how you learn anything. In theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.

>>107058428
honestly its about what compiler you are using. it will be in the programming man pages. look into how to use GCC. if you want to figure out make then read the Makefile. write something shit in C and use gcc and then write a Makefile or some shit and you will get the gist and can fake your way though packages you care about.

https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel
>stable gentoo still stuck on 6.12 kernel
Is this usual? Does gentoo come this far behind other distros in terms of kernel versions? I feel like we've been on 6.12 for ages.

I'm trying to copy files to an external Toshiba hhd disk and it's extremely slow. Nothing gets copied, I copy less than 1 gb and it says multiple hours to copy. I'm using Linux mint cinnamon.

Incant get my files out, they are hostages in my computer.

>>107058658
Now I can't safely remove the drive because it says an operation is already pending.

>>107058511
That's what I was afraid of. I guess I'll look at the npm steps (or just bite the bullet and yay the package since it's apparently in the AUR) and start to get back on the programming horse until I'm comfortable enough to start compiling through 50+ languages.

>>107058667
>>107058658
I'm waiting for an hour now and I can't eject the external hardrive neither I can't copy anything because it freezes. If I remove the drive, the data becomes corrupted and I have to format it again. Cristal disk says the external hhd is fine. I literally can't get my files out of my main pc.

>>107058683
You are overthinking it. Just break shit until you figure it out. Not incredibly hard. You just gotta think a little bit, you can't just coast and install mindlessly.

>>107057847
>Turnstile the AUR?
Not feasible, good luck getting git to clone through that and if you don't protect the git endpoint then there's still something to DDOS.

Just get a bigger machine, it's the only thing they can do.

>>107058618
Yes, this is normal. They only stabilise LTS kernels. Just add unstable keywords for the stable kernel.
printf "%s\n" "sys-kernel/gentoo ~*" | sudo tee /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/gentoo-kernel

>>107058766
>>107058618
You will see the same pattern with Firefox (ESR is the only one that goes stable), etc, too.

When something has an LTS version then usually the pragmatic Gentoo maintainers choose to only stabilise that version.

Posted on /sqg/, might as well post here too.
So I want some file syncing and I don't want to be part of the botnet. My anime girls are way too cute for jewgle.
Options I've been looking at include Syncthing, rsync or stop being lazy and make a home server. I don't really want to stop being lazy now and would rather do that later.
Syncthing and rsync seem to do what I want but I'm worried about setting them up on the internet. By default Syncthing would be LAN only for what I understood and rsync depends on my ssh, which is local only. Both also require the both devices I'm syncing to be on at the same time. I can learn to live with that.
Which option would be the easier and safer to set up over the internet? Is there any other option I should take a look at?

>>107058806
>By default Syncthing would be LAN only for what I understood
Incorrect, there are public relay servers that bust through NAT with hole-punching, etc. Also your machine is never directly exposed unless it sits directly on the Internet with no firewall. All communication is encrypted and goes through the relays. You can also set a password for additional protection of shares if you want.

>>107058819
>>107058806
On your LAN then all connection is local though, if that's what you meant. If you leave your LAN though then it will still sync via the relays.

>>107058819
>>107058827
I do have a firewall (default configs on ufw, is that fine?), can I trust the public relays? On a LAN, it will prefer doing it via LAN, then? That's already much nicer and easier than rsync.

>>107058865
As long as you can trust the cryptography Syncthing uses then are safe:
https://docs.syncthing.net/specs/relay-v1.html#how-syncthing-uses-relays-and-general-security

You can disable all of the relays if you really wanted to though. They're only really relevant if you want syncing outside of your LAN (e.g you install Syncthing on your laptop or Android phone and leave your home but still want the files to sync)

>>107058897
I do want that feature. Seems safe enough.

>>107052835 (OP)
Be sure to add this to the top:
Most ai (LLM) are useful at helping to diagnose basic Linux problems. This makes Linux more friendly than ever.

why does arch suggest mounting the efi partition on /boot ?

>>107059002
Because you can store the kernels in your ESP and boot them directly via your UEFI firmware. There's no need for Grub or Systemd Boot then.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFI_boot_stub

>>107059002
Where do you want to mount it?

>>107059012
most distros mount it on /boot/efi
arch suggests either /boot or /efi

>>107059010
i see
i guess also because of systemd-boot compatibility so you dont have to create an XBOOTLDR partition or whatever its called

>plug in LUKS encrypted drive
>disconnect it
>block device shows at /dev/mapper/luks-whatever-whatever
>can't remount drive
What do? web search is useless. I also have the problem
>plug in encrypted drive I formatted
>YOU DON'T HAVE PERMISSIONS FOR THIS LOL
Any way to permanently fix these issues?

Lately I've seen many developers favoring appimages over flatpaks.

Linux is healing.

>>107058219
Do projects. Like set up a network service you'll actually use or something. Installing distros is just an 80 IQ check. You don't learn anything.

>>107058219
administer a linux system in a mainframe style via commandline only. read a RHCSA book. It's masochistic.

Systemd timers is the most niggerlicious thing I've ever seen.
What was wrong with crontab?
Why did Lennart "big fucking retarded nigger" Poettering decide to make this shit?
You could open your crontab and see exactly what you had timed, and what the period for each of them was.
Now you have to go fishing around to see which fucking systemd service file it is thats being stupid.
Fucking niggerlicious.
An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity.

>>107053412
>allowlist
Faggot.

Am I stupid or is there no clear character button on the calculator bundled with fedora? Seems kinda like an important thing to not have

6.14 or 6.8?

>>107059697
top left c

>>107059713
that clears the whole thing I mean just a singular character delete

>>107059719
Backspace doesn't work?

>>107059810
it works but whats the point of calculator app if you're just typing things, I was with one hand on my phone and one hand on the mouse it breaks flow to go to the keyboard

>>107059719
oh yea, got too gunho with testing the record screen and posting. whats weird is that the conversion calculator does have it, inconsistent.

Is a rolling release distro really the best option for gaming? Or is it realistically fine to use something like Mint or OpenSUSE Leap to avoid the downsides of rolling release?

>>107059887
Desktop PCs are made to run rolling distros. Stable ones are for servers.

>>107059828
IDK, dude. I don't goon with the phone and just hit backspace when I'm using the calculator. Even Windows doesn't have a numpad one-character-erase that isn't Backspace. *shrug*

>>107059887
Either is fine. But I wouldn't necessarily use Debian unless it was "Sid" (testing) for gaming since a lot of "stable" is VERY behind (because it's a server OS).

If you really want rock-solid stability, you kind of want to be between the two, so anything that isn't Arch (bleeding/update every day/night) or Debian (stable/rolling release but is like 6 months to a year behind everything else). Which should generally be any other distro bar like... Gentoo and Slackware.

>>107059887
Depends on how old your hardware is and what you play. The vast majority of games that are supported have been supported for a long time.

>How to break out of the botnet?
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux

how closely do you anons follow most of this? I spent a while reading all the options and reasons and thought most of it was worth considering at least. I've been meaning to swap from kikemail anyways for instance, i hate normalfags knowing my main email as is

xorg crashed again because amdgpu is a fucking NIGGER

>>107060116
don't say the n word, I find it very offensive

>New Fedora dropped
newfag here, would be a first for me, do I update or do I wait some days/weeks?
what are the chances of fucking up so I better back up all my media

>>107060410
im still waiting >2 more weeks

>>107060089
Lots of placebo shit there

For me it's OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

About to install Fedora 43.
Got Windows (and its boot partition) on one drive and will install Fedora on a different drive, which has an NTFS partition holding games and some 250GB unallocated space. Keeping the windows drive untouched and swapping the boot order in the bios so I boot into grub instead of windows boot manager.

What's the proper way to partition and format the unallocated space?
If I'm not mistaken I need:
- /boot/efi (fat32, 100-500MB?)
- /boot (ext4, 2GB)
- / (btrfs, 50GB?)
- /home (btrfs, rest of the available space)

Do I need both /boot/efi and /boot?
Should / and /home be separate partitions or is a single btrfs partition with separate btrfs subvolumes better? The point would be to be able to easily upgrade or even change OS while keeping /home intact.

>>107060701
The elites don't want you to know this but you don't need /boot if / isn't btrfs

>>107060743
I want btrfs though

>>107060410
wait until they fix the upgrade path if you have wine.i686 installed. It's uhhh... a bit busted.

>>107056089
>>107057063
For anyone wondering, I'm pretty much back where I was. While still running the lobotomized system, I rsync'd what I could in /home to an external drive. (Restarting, sure enough, it booted to the Debian installer image I nuked it with). I restored a Clonezilla image backup from 6 months ago to the SSD, then Timeshift restored system settings/root stuff from yesterday. Then rsync'd back over the /home stuff (which Timeshift doesn't backup by default). I suppose I'll just find out what /home stuff is borked in time, but this could've turned out a lot worse for not having done a backup in ages. Got all my Firefox tabs, configs, and programs. This was entirely self-inflicted and stupid, for mistyping a single letter, but that's the way it goes. I wouldn't have expected the root drive to be the last in lsblk.

>>107060772
There's no reason to have butterfingers fs outside of /home. If there's an issue big enough to need to rollback your root fs (and not just /home) you should be reinstalling Linux to begin with.

>>107054170
Firefox automatically opens every PDF you download inside itself no matter what you have to open it, and I don't recall option to disable that outside about:config. So don't worry, it's just you being retarded.

>>107060701
Windows already made /boot/efi. It's small (like 100MiB) but it's there. I'd use btrfs subvolumes but Idk if you can format them separately. Probably not in usual way. Well, you can always mount from live usb and rm -rf root before installing something else.
>>107060743
You don't need boot at all. Grub and systemd-boot support btrfs.

>>107060939
Rollbacks aren't the only use though. Having both / and /home subvolumes on a single btrfs partition gives more usable disk space since you don't need to dedicate a chunk of space to either.

>>107060980
Great in theory until you need to nuke a Linux install but want to keep all your config files that are in your /home

>>107059320
Surely Flatpaks are better because they share dependencies, meaning less space is taken up on your disk. Also you can easily update all flatpaks with `flatpak update`. I think some AppImages have self-updaters within them but some don't.

>>107061016
Just delete the root subvolume and make a new one. ez

>>107060089
I don't really care if glowies have my data. If some government agent somewhere is reading my boring emails, fine. What I do worry about is criminals trying to steal my personal info and especially my bank details or anything like that.

>install node on winblows
>takes like 4 GB
>install node on linux
>takes 215 MB
huh?

>>107061085
>using macroshit wangblows
>ever

So I tried both 6.14 and 6.8 kernel. 6.8 never really gave me issues, but when I tried 6.14 it felt like the performance was the same, but now I could hear audio pop/cracking sometimes. Then I went back to try 6.8 and noticed there was also pop/cracking. I think maybe because I was concentrating extra hard to notice a difference so that may be why I was noticing the pop-in whenever playing audio. In games, it would happen during stutters. But this happens in 6.8 too now that I listened for it.

So if I have the same performance for both kernels, and neither of them seem to give me any trouble, should I just stay on the newer kernel or go back to the older one? I guess the older one is more 'stable' but the newer one feels good to have, like I'm making more progress to getting better performance even if I can't really tell.

>>107061167
Stable doesn't exist in Linux. Stable just means it crashes the same way every time.

>>107056957
Ignore the >>107056948 monkey, all user data is kept inside your home directory, whether you're using snap or flatpak.
And in general, when you see someone criticising Ubuntu, keep in mind that sour grapes is a thing and the retard has probably disabled SecureBoot to get his tranny distro-du-jour to even boot on his computer.

>>107061158
Dis

>>107060685
Disgusting

>>107061279
Remember kids it's just sour grapes when Ubuntu knowingly ships with flatpaks broken

>>107061279
Give me a good reason to even have secure boot enabled on a desktop.

>>107061377
>>107061377

>>107060685
I liked the idea of this because you get up-to-date packages. But the downside of getting updates as soon as they're released is that updates could contain malware:
>the xz / liblzma library had been backdoored.
>This backdoor was introduced in the upstream github xz project with release 5.6.0 in February 2024.
>Our rolling release distribution openSUSE Tumbleweed and openSUSE MicroOS included this version between March 7 and March 28.
https://news.opensuse.org/2024/03/29/xz-backdoor/

>>107058766
>>107058796
I guess I'll just stay on 6.12 then but I can't help but feel like Gentoo is stuck on old packages. I feel like the speed of upgrades has slowed down, I upgraded my system yesterday after a month and the upgrade didn't contain too many packages.

>>107061334
Ubuntu does not ship with Flatpak.
Like I said, sour grapes.

>>107061337
kek, I hope this is irony

>>107061397
Non issue for me. Backdoors like this happen rarely.

>>107061397
That's like a once a decade occurrence, and only the Chinese government knew about it. Not my problem.

>>107059838
GNOME is so consistent with their UX though, this cannot be. You must be wrong. Conversion doesn't have a backspace.

>>107057685
-Syu would be the correct regular way to update (by themselves) or install something (adding package name(s) after)
you can use "-S <packages>" instead if you've updated recently, but if you get 404 errors then you will need to update first (as that means the package version you have in your local listing is no longer on the mirror(s))
don't do "-Sy <packages>", this is unsupported and even for experienced users has nearly no value

>>107061548
You are using the stable system, no shit you're going to get older packages. If you use the testing keywords then it will be just as up-to-date as something like Arch, sometimes newer.

Gentoo is kind of like two distributions in one when you have keywords like this. If you want newer packages then just set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf like:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"


Note: That testing is not the same as unstable. Things might break but unstable/no-keyword packages also exist for shit that is truly broken, untested, or a development release.

>>107063074
accidentally posted in the dead thread...

>>107060089
The problem with many of these "privacy guides" online is that they target normalfags, so you only see surface level recommendations
>use firefox instead of google chrome
>use keepass instead of your browser's built-in password manager
>use ubuntu instead of windows 12
Is not that these are necessarily bad, but there are better options out there. Most of these guides also don't even explain why or how to use such programs.
>>107061397
That shit didn't make it anywhere (though correct me if I'm wrong), or at least didn't cause any problems precisely because it was discovered before that. There was a lot of shitpost around the time it happened saying Linux wasn't secure and yada yada, but personally I think it's great that it was discovered thanks to being open source.

>>107061397
Isn't that why OpenSUSE has Slowroll? You can get the best of both worlds, rolling whilst lagging behind just enough to dodge shit like that.