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>>107113358 (OP)
Is there any difference in performance with cachy vs normal arch? Mainly interested in vidya

>>107113566
no idea, though I know that catchy is newer so it might be more "fuckier".

>>107113566
taken right from the cahcy wiki. how about you try searching before asking to be spoonfed, you stupid fuaggot

To deliver a performance-optimized distribution, CachyOS recompiles Arch Linux packages specifically for the x86-64-v3, x86-64-v4, and Zen4+ architectures.

x86-64-v3: 5%-20% performance uplift compared to x86-64.
x86-64-v4: Delivers substantial performance gains through AVX512 support, depending on the workload.
Zen 4/5: In addition to the x86-64-v4 instruction set, the following instructions are added:

>>107113566
no
games are already optimized, the ones that benefit are non optimized floating point heavy applications

>>107113772
this is a friendly thread, know your place peasant

>>107113919
it's not friendly when i'm here. you fucking faggots and gonna learn your fucking place you lazy faggots.

>>107113919
Just report as attempting to start a flamewar and move on, don't bother interacting with him.

>>107114072
how is it starting a flame war? asking to be spoonfed is the lowest form of human life. literally ukrainians are a high life form.

Reminder that v3 is literal snake oil (unless you're using a hyper-specific photo editing software or playing Xonotic).
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2510-amd64v3

>>107113904
Correct. Building everything -v3/v4 just breaks binary compatibility with older CPUs for marginal gain.

>>107113358 (OP)
These old desktop envs look cool but when you try them it's always a pain to use. Is there any oldschool desktop that's actually nice to use?

idk why this sudden autism of shilling cachy and their v3/v4 packages

my brother in christ, standard amd64v1 isa already forces SSE2 on everything, and that's a fucking lot. Back in the day we had Debian compiled just for i386, we didn't even have MMX, let alone SSE

>dualbooting win11 and manjaro
>have Steam on both
>I have the same library folders chosen in both steam installs
>proton is installed using protonupqt and set as default compatibility tool
>every few days (alternating windows and linux usage, i use linux for work mostly) proton breaks
>steam just throws "Compatibility tool failed" and refuses to launch games
>have to reinstall proton using protonupqt and then it works
What the fuck is going on with this?
>inb4 ntfs
The games are on my NTFS drive but steam itself is on my system partition, so that shouldn't be it... I'm so tired of constantly troubleshooting.

>>107114541
It's ntfs, it isn't compatible with POSIX permissions. You should do the other way around, install under ext4 and then install the driver under Windows. OR have a NAS

>>107114605
hm, but the compatibility tools are in /.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools
that's on the main drive which isn't NTFS, why would proton break there?
I do have a NAS though but there is no SSD in it for games

what's the best way to do some kind of small-scale encryption (i.e. i just want to encrypt a few folders or maybe have one large file like Truecrypt which I encrypt)?

I'm messing around with my raspberry pi that came with raspbian os. Ran into a problem today, probably after an update. Firefox seems to be busted. Some websites won't let me type at all. Like 4chan. I'm typing this on my tablet right now. Every time I try to get the captcha ì end up with the message "gah. Your tab just crashed". So I can't post at all on my raspberry pi. Anything I can do to fix this?

>>107114658
gpg or openssl

>>107114623
fair, you might want to provide additional info regarding "Compatibility tool failed", maybe look at dmesg or steam logs

>>107112927
>>107113167
Thanks to all the replies anons, Linux it is

>>107114878
Managed to find out from console_log.txt... no idea

[2025-11-05 19:32:05] GameAction [AppID 2135150, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp changed task to CheckShaderDepotManifest with ""
[2025-11-05 19:32:06] GameAction [AppID 2135150, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp changed task to RunningInstallScript with ""
[2025-11-05 19:32:06] GameAction [AppID 2135150, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp changed task to SynchronizingCloud with ""
[2025-11-05 19:32:07] GameAction [AppID 2135150, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp changed task to SynchronizingStats with ""
[2025-11-05 19:32:07] GameAction [AppID 2135150, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp changed task to ShowInterstitials with ""
....
[2025-11-05 19:32:07] GameAction [AppID 2135150, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp changed task to WaitForStreamingEncoderConfig with ""
[2025-11-05 19:32:07] GameAction [AppID 2135150, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp changed task to CreatingProcess with ""
[2025-11-05 19:32:07] GameAction [AppID 2135150, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp waiting for user response to CreatingProcess ""
[2025-11-05 19:32:07] GameAction [AppID 2135150, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp continues with user response "CreatingProcess"
[2025-11-05 19:32:07] src/clientdll/compatmanager.cpp (1286) : Assertion Failed: Tool 1628350 "Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 (sniper)" unsupported version 0.
[2025-11-05 19:32:07] GameAction [AppID 2135150, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp failed with AppError_51 with ""
[2025-11-05 19:32:07] GameAction [AppID 2135150, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp changed task to Failed with ""

I swapped from Windows 10 to Linux Mint around a year ago... I did not like the look of Windows 11 and that pushed me to make the change, as have always been keen to move away from Windows spyware. the exp has been good but lacking for streaming...

I like to think of myself as a normie and enjoy watching the sportsball. I pay each month to legally watch sports and usually do this from my console (which has an app to support the streaming provider).

but I am currently away from home so figured I would watch on my laptop... I log into my account but when loading the match I want to watch I get a vague error (as opposed to saying linux is unsupported...) I do some reading and find out the steaming service does not support Linux! no worries I figured I would boot up a VM! I think i've used vmware/ocracle before and could just build a win10 vm but on linux I had issues setting up a vm and had to download iso manually first... but had no time as I dont want to miss the game.... fuck so i loaded up the game on my android phone - happy days but the screen is small.... hmmm maybe I can plug this into my pc... do some quick bing search and find out about the tool scrcpy - great!, put my phone into developer mode and i'm in! I can see my phone screen on my laptop! but soon as I watch the sports the screen is black... I can hear the audio but cant see the sports! fuck. i so some more reading up and find out this must be due to DRM!

this sucks... not a rant against linux but i want to watch the sports... and i want to do it legally without pirating (i'm not judging people who do - even ignoring its free service/product would be better lol)... yet despite paying a large sum each month i cant watch it on my own device of choice (cant even watch it about 720p without paying extra)... for lack of a better phrase, I feel as though I've been digitally raped? any advice on this? should i take the time to setup a vm in slowtime or is any workaround to watch on linux/firefox natively?

>>107114994
something is corrupting your the compatibility tool and I doubt it is something related to windows, you might want to clear cache of steam and then reinstall again

>>107115061
>any advice on this?
yes. next time "pirate" since piracy services don't have this type of drm

>>107115061
Does your streaming service have its own client?

Hate having to rebuild nomacs after every update. What image viewer/editior is good? On Arch.

>>107115247
>rebuild nomacs after every update
why? just install the flatpak version

>>107115251
>flatpaks
no, i don't think i will.

>>107115235
Yes you are correct in that this would be much easier to do, quick google search and find a stream (and actually a better service as not capped at 720p...). However, I want to be legally compliant and am in a fortunate position where spending money on the sports package each month is not an issue. To reiterate I do not judge anyone who does pirate/stream content illegally.

>>107115240
Not for PC. They did in the past, but now its just on their website. I'm using Firefox (tried chrome which also did not work). I even tried spoofing my user agent as windows but still getting issues so I'm confident is must be a linux/DRM un supported issue... their website does say linux devices are not supported.

Although, there is a client/app for my console for the same service, which is confusing as I would have thought under the hood most smart tvs/consoles would use some sort of GNU/linux?

Is there any software to find duplicate images? I need to clean up my pictures folder but there's so many pics I don't want to do it manually...

>>107113358 (OP)
I am dual booting windows 11 with cachyos in the same ssd and I want to expand my cachyos partition. When I tried to shrink the size of my windows 11 partition, it showed an error saying that the volume was damaged and that I should use chkdsk to repair it. Will this command erase my linux partition?

>>107115355
I'm not sure why using scrcpy wouldn't work, but honestly I've never even seen a DRM video service before so I have no idea how they behave. You can just use an Android phone which supports display out through USB-C and plug it into any monitor/TV.
I assume a properly configured VM would also work.

>>107115630
>Will this command erase my linux partition?
Almost certainly. Windows doesn't support good file systems. It's limited to FAT and NTFS, so it will format your disk to one of those and erase all data.

>>107115675
Is there any other way to expand my linux partition then?

>>107115393
Geeqie works well. It's a little slow and suffers from GTK UX retardation though.

>>107115690
Yea. Boot any Linux distro from a live USB. Choose anything that has KDE or GNOME, I believe both of their disk management utils have the option to expand partitions.

>>107115630
>it showed an error saying that the volume was damaged and that I should use chkdsk to repair it. Will this command erase my linux partition?
No. chkdsk operates on filesystems not partitions. In fact Linux has no ntfsck type program worth using, so it's your only option to fix ntfs errors without quietly ruining the filesystem.

>>107115741
Fucking idiot, you still have to clear the NTFS errors, and you can't do that from Linux without a VM. No, ntfsfix is not a substitute.

I can install Anki just fine and it works but for some reason I can't import decks. It doesn't give me an error, the deck simply doesn't show up. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm on EndeavourOS.

>>107115763
By the way, there is yet another NTFS filesystem driver for Linux in development:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251020020749.5522-1-linkinjeon@kernel.org/T/#m5d04bfdd32a9a6cf406941f9bd0fa3b70fecde42

This one will have a proper fsck:
"
While ntfs-3g includes ntfsprogs as a component, it notably lacks
the fsck implementation. So we have launched a new ntfs utilitiies
project called ntfsprogs-plus by forking from ntfs-3g after removing
unnecessary ntfs fuse implementation. fsck.ntfs can be used for ntfs
testing with xfstests as well as for recovering corrupted NTFS device.
"

>>107115763
Are you retarded? You can shrink the NTFS partition within Windows.

>>107115823
>developer announces intent to
Ok get in a time machine, go forward 10 years, and let us know how that shaped up. In the mean time everyone who isn't clinically retarded can keep using chkdsk in Windows.

>>107115830
You still have to clear the error with chkdsk if you don't want the filesystem eaten. Whether you do the shrink in Windows or Linux doesn't matter.

>>107115862
There'll probably be another 10 implementations by then. It seems nobody can fix Microsoft's filesystem but people keep trying.

>>107115873
Good fsck programs take a lot of experience. Especially for something as complicated and obtuse as ntfs. It's one of those projects you'd have to devote a big portion of your life to.

What are some useful aliases? I created a few for replacing cat with bat and ls with lsd and reducing the ridiculously long onlyoffice-desktopeditors to just "office".

>>107116240
I just use the GUI like a normal person.

>>107116261
>a normal person
>on 4chan
>on /g/
>on /fglt/

>>107116240
this is everything i use. i put most of them into other scripts though so they don't bother me. e.g. ssh-agent shit that i don't want loading all my keys and asking for passwords. nixos related stuff that updates my gits.
alias l='clear'
alias cat='bat'
alias cap='bat -p'

alias grep='grep --color -n'
alias ls='ls -lAh --color=auto'
function godoc() {
go doc ${1} ${2} | less

}

>>107116286
>like a
Reading comprehension, anon.

Lifetime bash user, I just switched to zsh. Can I just expect to continue using my shell like nothing changed? I installed all the completions and that's pretty much it.

>>107115630
No, there is no danger, your Linux stuff won't be affected.
Run a checkdisk from Windows and shrink the NTFS partition from Windows, then you can expand your Linux partition from Linux.
I keep a flash drive with HBCD and Kubuntu on it so I can boot into the respective live environments whenever there's a need to do stuff like this.

>>107116240
alias ffmpeg='ffmpeg -hide_banner'
alias ffplay='ffplay -hide_banner'
alias ffprobe='ffprobe -hide_banner'

alias df='df -h -x squashfs -x fuse.encfs -x devtmpfs'
alias findmnt='findmnt --real --types nosquashfs'
alias lsblk='lsblk -e7'
alias free='free -h'

So whats up with the whole glibc vs musl war and why is it treated like a culture war flashpoint?

This is kinda arguably a windows question but
I have two internal storage drives. If I install windows on my other drive, will it cause problems or are those more from having two OS's on the same drive partitioned?
Theres just some stuff on windows that I unfortunately cannot use

What's the best way to go about backups? I know about timeshift from when I tried Mint. Ever since I moved to arch I've been living dangerously without any backups.

>>107113358 (OP)
Question about Clam-antivirus that comes with the Ubuntu ISO files.
I'm running
- "Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS"
ClamAV version "0.103.12"

when I try to do a freshclam, the program tells me my engine is outdated and no longer supported. I tried removing clamAV, then reinstalled it from the cmd line, but the version in the repository is also outdated?

Is there a way to install the latest LTS version of clamAV? And what is up with Ubuntu and a broken antivirus system?

>>107117455
i'm about to get a fresh clam from your sister.

>>107117455
Maybe ClamTk from flathub or use homebrew

I installed EndeavourOS on my laptop because that's what I use on desktop. I realized I don't use my laptop often enough to justify a rolling release. I like KDE and a lean system. Which distro should I install on it?

>>107117706
Nixos

So what causes the IP to show when you log on to, i.e. an Ubuntu server. Because it happens on one of mine and not the other.

Does anyone use NvChad? I tried installing it because I can't be arsed configuring nvim and it's great for the most part but it keeps giving me error marking for css files. They're not wrong, it just doesn't understand that those are css instead of something else. Anyone knows how to fix it?

>>107117706
>laptop
im installing debian gnome on moms new laptop, that she will only use her browser on it

For me it's linux

>>107117801
/etc/motd or something on /etc/ssh/ssh_config

>>107117714
>read up on NixOS
nigga what the fuck is this meme distro and why do you keep promoting it every fucking thread?

>>107118040
>meme distro
Nix is one of the best options for servers now.

>>107117801
>>107117857
Well after some further digging, there is something in /etc/update-motd.d/50-landscape-sysinfo, which calls "landscape-sysinfo". I guess it was relying on cache or something, because after dpkg-reconfigure and/or running landscape-sysinfo manually, both servers show the IP on login.

pacstrap grabs the packages from the mirrors right?
so if i install arch right now i should get mkinitcpio 40 that just got updated?

>>107115355
Im taking a huge chance of souding retarded, but did you checked an allow DRM content checkbox in firefox settings? I think its disabled by default, the other day i tried watching a youtube bougth movie in firefox for android and gave me the error of your browser is not supported, turns out i had that checkbox disabled

hello

i would like suggestions for software for playing audio locally on the command line. ideally i can throw whatever mess of folders i want into it and have it scan everything.

>>107118129
Yes, when you run pacstrap it installs the latest version of whatever binaries you asked for even if your Arch install USB is an older snapshot.

>>107118136
cmus is a popular terminal music player.

>>107118136
cmus

>>107118148
>>107118153
arigato

>>107113358 (OP)
was too late last thread thank you fellas for recommending music players, fooyin shall do me just fine
cheers

Does anyone familiar with the original release of Rome: Total War know if it's possible to get the in-game cutscenes working? I've tried Proton-GE and they still wouldn't play. Is it just broken on Linux?

>>107118327
https://www.protondb.com/app/4760
try an older proton version
its platinum on protondb so it should work

>>107118345
I've tried a bunch of different ones, the game itself runs fine but cutscenes are just broken. Looks like the video files are wmv with the vc-1 wmv3 codec, if that matters

>>107118327
Try disabling winegstreamer (WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winegstreamer=") and installing lavfilters

>>107118040
>Meme distro
It's one of the best around and the future of Linux. Memes like whatever garbage you use won't exist in 5 years.

>>107118062
Good for servers? Didn't read like that but if that's what its good for then fair enough.
>>107118484
meme response

>>107118502
I mean, we do have a schizo as you can see, but nix is legit and not a meme.

>>107118502
Okay, well you just keep trooning out on arch or mint or whatever. Make sure yve got your thigh high socks on.

>>107118547
>mint

i use debian gnome. maybe its because i had been using manjaro kde6 for a while, but i am extremely pleased, its as snappy as windows for me
i use mint on my laptop. i can't complain, not as crisp an experience overall

Snap is a perkele of astronomical proportions.
I removed Steam and I fucking lost hard drive space from the massive fucking snapshot. I'm not saying it's not a bug but that's just as bad.

I like more to install distros than actually using them. Recommend me a distro.

>>107118591
Unironically after my distro hopping days I just switched back to Ubuntu. Debian if you're a little less retarded.
The compatibility is worth more to me than any riced up features of less mainstream distros. Network effect is real.

>>107118615
Is there any reason to use Debian outside of server hosting?

>>107118591
alpine linux lxqt

>>107118560
fine i'll download soosa even tho i dont like the fat guy they hired to sing the song

efi stub or grub in current year?

imo grub sucks but efi stub is too brittle

>>107118621
Like I said, compatibility. There's a .deb for everything.

>>107118327
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Rome:_Total_War
Doesn't say anything about it but it mostly seems like a missing codec issue. Many older games used Bink video tools and such.
It's hard to believe it's just a proton/wine issue if the game is otherwise working properly.

>>107118636
Systemd boot. Never had it break and it's simple to config.

>>107118672
I saw at least one mention of it here >>107118345 though that was from 5 years ago. Seems like something that should bump it down from Platinum status if it's really still an issue.

>>107118766
Rome: Total War uses pre-rendered FMV (full motion video) files that depend on Windows-native codecs, so their failure to display is not a random bug but a known compatibility obstacle.

>>107118809
>a known compatibility obstacle
yeah they even mention it here
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1464

>>107118861
What I meant, retard, just install the goddamn codecs manually.
I'm going to prove you that this game works by installing it myself.

>>107119053
Have fun with that. The game works, but the in-game video files like the cutscenes and animated title screen won't.

Fresh Loondook The Fuehrer is gathering the stormtroopers and forming the Devuan Reich HAIL LOONDOOK HAIL OUR PEOPLES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfa_SZyltyc

>>107115061
Ahh, so the R in DRM stands for Rape.

>>107116240

alias ..='cd ..'
alias ffmpeg='ffmpeg -hide_banner'
alias gallery-dl='gallery-dl --destination $HOME/Downloads/gallery-dl'
alias rm='rm --verbose --preserve-root=all --one-file-system --interactive=always'
alias sudo='sudo '

>>107119422
>alias sudo='sudo '
What?

>>107117294
To be safe, only have one drive connected when installing Windows. Then you can just use the BIOS boot selection to select the OS and neither Windows nor Linux can break the bootloader.

>>107118591
Nyarch

>>107119449
The space after sudo makes it possible to pass aliases to sudo. Otherwise for example "sudo .." doens't work.

>>107112226 (Me)
So it turns out my shit is actually fucked.
At first it happened very infrequently so the workaround was fine but then it started happening more and more frequently until my system is almost unusable.
I can't find any instance of anyone having a similar bug on the internet so I got no idea what to do but to take the nuclear option (reinstall OS).
I'm currently transferring/backing up some files before I do that so I got time to think.

So I guess the question now is, what distro?
Even though I've been on Arch for two years, and I rarely got too many bad bugs, this is fucked, and I don't want anything like it to happen again.
My current top picks are Fedora with KDE or Debian with KDE (I like KDE, even if it might be the source of most of my problems).
My concern with Fedora is stability, since it seems to use a pretty new kernel and relatively new versions of other packages. I'm sure it's better than what I came from, but considering the reason I'm installing a new OS, stability is a big concern for me right now.
My concern with Debian is outdated packages. I don't care too much about the latest features and whatever for most packages, but I do want stuff like graphics drivers to be "new enough" that gaming works. I've got an RX 7900 XT, so almost 3 years old but not super old. Also I'd rather not use Debian unstable or something because that kind of defeats the point of using it for stability.

Any Fedora or Debian users wanna give their two cents? Or is there some other distro that might fit good for an Arch refugee looking for something more stable?

>>107113358 (OP)
I have a serious question, why would anyone run linux in 2025, linux is now a windows store app, i open my CMD on winny 11, I type WSL, and I suddenly have whole linux spun up, if I want a dedicated environment I have a docker container with all the server stuff, I even have GUI stuff, and I don't even feel that its running on a 32GB system it barely uses 12 gigs and i dedicated 25 in case load increases for my flink jobs

Been hearing about CachyOS recently. What's the big deal? Worth the distro hop?

>>107120005
Meme distro for gamers who know nothing about Linux and are fed up with Windows

>>107120005
go to windows app store, search for an app called ubuntu, then run it by typing WSL into CMD retard

I wont lie bros. If Windows gutted all the AI bullshit and unshittified their OS I would go back.

I wish I were a woman, fuck this life I swear

>>107120005
It's a meme distro that will die in a few years. A lot of people are making false claims it "performs better" when in reality the performance difference is within the margin of error (under 3%) in almost every single benchmark, including game benchmarks (distro is popular among gamers because they believe they'll get better performance).

>>107120130
>It's a meme distro that will die in a few years.
Only if someone creates a better Arch-based gaming distro

>>107119655 (Me)
>install Debian with KDE
>IT STILL HAPPENS
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
This must be a KDE bug, right? I confirmed it's not Wayland. Switching to X11 still has the same problem.
I don't see how this could be hardware related. How could windows and the shell not acknowledging the mouse be a hardware thing? Especially when librewolf/firefox still acknowledges the mouse and trying to click windows actually seems to register clicks on the desktop behind them (I can drag the box and right click to get up the context menu).
Tell me I'm not crazy.

I'll try a different DE I guess.

I started using Debian 13 Trixie a few month back after having only used windows.

Could have been a mistake. Things don't work well as it is installed?

>>107120186
what's with the insistence on Arch? Fedora runs games just heckin' fine.

>>107120222
As it is instable*

>>107120130
Where do I go to once it's confirmed EoS? I like Cachy but I need to prepare

>>107120186
Valve already did. CachyOS isn't even a gaming distro.

>>107120222
Just don't add 3rd party PPAs and limit yourself to only Flatpaks and Appimages and you'll be fine.

>>107120224
>what's with the insistence on Arch?
rolling release is best for gaming, it's the distro Valve switched to for their stuff

>>107120273
>Valve already did.
Valve themselves recommend against using SteamOS on desktop

>>107120224
Fedora is not fully rolling-release, and they've recently decided to use AI-assisted coding, so people looking to escape Windows' AI-induced shittiness would be better off looking elsewhere

>>107120273
I am struggling with installing ProtonVPN. I succeeded and it worked flawlessly, but then I somehow accidentally removed it. Now when I want to reinstall it, it mentions all kinds of unsolvable (for me) dependency issues

>>107120291
I think that what I did was be overzealous with removing shit in my downloads folder and one of them was the installation file or something. Then poof the program was gone and I haven't been able to reinstall it

>>107120277
Valve's Arch isn't rolling release. It's effectively the same thing as Manjaro except much more delayed and tested before they push out updates (packages are 3-6 months behind). It's also atomic+immutable, but unlike Fedora's atomic distros SteamOS doesn't have an equivalent to rpm-ostree which can be used to install system packages or modify the OS. So it's a locked down, stripped and outdated version of Arch.
Saying "SteamOS is Arch" is the same as saying "macOS is FreeBSD". It's technically correct to a small extent, but it's completely irrelevant and incorrect in all the ways it matters. If anything Bazzite is much closer to SteamOS than Arch is, while still behaving like a normal Linux distro.

>>107120290
>they've recently decided to use AI-assisted coding, so people looking to escape Windows' AI-induced shittiness would be better off looking elsewhere
What is this legacy media propaganda bullshit sentence structuring? They've just added a policy that AI-assisted code needs to be labelled and tested/understood by the actual person trying to push the code.
Only unemployed terminally online retards think using AI assistance when coding is somehow bad. At that point you might as well argue that all coding should be done in Notepad.exe or nano without any form of snippet shortcuts, syntax highlighting or intellisense.

>>107120374
It's not real programming unless you write it by hand and mail the commits to the maintainer via carrier pigeon.

>>107120224
It's cope, they want people to suffer as much as they do.

>>107120209
>still happens on both Cinnamon and XFCE
What. It's a little different on each, but basically the same. In Cinnamon I can't click anything. XFCE I can just click the desktop shortcuts.
Someone please tell me what the fuck is happening. I beg you.
Original post describing the issue: >>107112226

Anyway next I'll try Fedora for the hell of it. If it still persists, I'll try a non-basedstemd distro.

>>107120374
>What is this legacy media propaganda bullshit sentence structuring?
the bloody benchod is an anti-AI britisher

>>107120403
It's a session issue. Something has mixed your config files. Wayland has session settings somewhere.

>>107120600
How would that persist through fresh installs though? I'm talking fully formatting root and home every time. And it happens in X11 too.

>>107120624
Related to device. I'm guessing you screen output is wrong or something. Do you use a kvm?

Can I install WINE on Devuan?

>>107120682
A kvm switch? I had to look up what that even was, so no.
Though it being related to a device would make sense. Could it be related to the monitor itself? Or could it be another device like my mouse or keyboard or something?

>>107120768
Yeah I think so. For example my Steelseries Aerox 3 shows as Steelseries Aerox 3 mouse and Steelseries Aerox 3 keyboard in xinput/libinput lists... I don't understand why. Windows obviously shows one device in device manager.

>>107120791
You might be onto something there. A while ago I had an issue playing some game using my controller (PS3 controller) because it thought my keyboard (Keychron V6) of all things was a controller and it set that as the primary controller. I don't remember exactly what I did, but I had to either create or edit some device related config file that basically disabled the "controller device" part of the keyboard.

And now I'm looking at the output of xinput list (from Mint iso where the bug still happens lol) and I'm getting a bunch of wacky entries:
>Logitech G502 Hero Gaming Mouse
>Logitech G502 Hero Gaming Mouse Keyboard
So what? My mouse is a keyboard too?
>Keychron Keychron V6
>Keychron Keychron V6 Consumer Control
>Keychron Keychron V6 System Control
>Keychron Keychron V6 Keyboard
>Keychron Keychron V6 Mouse
And my keyboard is also a mouse?

In fact, last time I was in the KDE mouse settings before I reinstalled, I may or may not have actually seen "Keychron V6 Mouse" as the device name. Maybe I didn't and I'm fabricating that memory, but I feel like I might be on the right track here.

For now, I'll reinstall Debian KDE and check the device settings, and maybe see if there's a way for my keyboard to just be a keyboard and for my mouse to just be a mouse instead of whatever the fuck's going on here.

>>107120909
Test it with a different keyboard/mouse if you have one

>>107120977
I'll have to go digging around to find them, but I will definitely do that.

>>107120986
Or unplug the keyboard and check if you can click. That way at least you know that it's the keyboard for sure

>>107120909
It registers as multiple HID devices so you can program a button on the mouse to act as ctrl+tab or move the mouse cursor with your keyboard, without requiring special drivers. Some wireless dongles also show up as multiple devices so you can have a mouse and a keyboard connected to the same dongle.

What's a good wget command to locally store a .blogspot blog? I'd like to be able to see any external URL/image displayed, without it then downloading other entire websites. What can I do also to prevent being IP blocked?

>>107120909
>So what? My mouse is a keyboard too?
Yes, it's a keyboard because it supports rebinding its buttons to keyboard keys and I guess they're implementing that by having the mouse pretend it's a regular USB keyboard.

>>107120909
>>107120977
>>107120998
Update:
Tried with a different keyboard... No change.
Tried with a different mouse... Might have actually fixed it?

I don't want to say for certain that it's fixed, but ever since switching to this mouse, it has gone a weirdly long time without that bug happening. Though when it first started happening, it would go a pretty long time between occurrences.

I guess my mouse is faulty in some way? That would make sense for why the bug started happening randomly for no reason all of a sudden, and it seems to happen more and more as time goes on as whatever faulty component continues to deteriorate, but it's such weird behavior for a hardware thing. Like the fact that it still seems to register all its inputs, but certain parts of the DE won't acknowledge them, or even acknowledge the visual position of the mouse (like icons won't light up when hovered over).
I assume there's just something weird about the way Linux handles inputs I guess.

I should try that mouse on a different computer to see if it happens there too.

>>107121234 (Me)
Yep. It's that mouse. I just plugged it into the laptop I'm posting from and it had the same bug within a few seconds. Still persisted when trying to move the cursor with the trackpad.
Then I unplugged it. Back to normal.
I guess that mouse is now cursed.
This mouse needs to be studied.

Trying to clean my +200GB var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects folder, but unused command says nothing can be uninstalled and repair just throws an error.

I finally solved my DHCP server issue (I hope). I thought Dnsmasq fixed it but I still got problems. I instead configured it to only listen on the gateway address attached to br-lan and configured my managed switch to relay to it and now DHCP is answered instantly. I really don't know why this is necessary when everything is on the exact same VLAN but maybe OpenWRT is picky about broadcast domains or something but fingers crossed that it keeps working.

>>107121726
Like this. I never want to have to troubleshoot DHCP again.

>>107121331
Jesus fuck. The largest mine got was 25 GiB after several years of use and me randomly installing and uninstalling over a hundred apps over time.

Since repair is failing what you should do is:
1. Backup your user data that's in .var/app in your home directory. Just zipping the .var folder will do. (I'm not sure if package managers clear that directory which is why I'm suggesting a backup)
2. Do a complete uninstall and purge all cache through your package manager. So, whatever the "sudo apt purge flatpak" equivalent is on your distro.
3. Reinstall flatpak, add flathub as a repo (and/or others if you're using them), then reinstall all your flatpak apps.
4. Recover your user data.
You can do a bulk reinstall by piping the output of "ls ~/.var/app" into flatpak install.

>>107113566
>>107113904
>>107114186
>>107114234
hahah

>>107118591
just do Gentoo over and over again

>>107118591
Why not from scratch?

>>107121843
Turns out anything wine based cant be compressed.
Just uninstalled anything like that though, any useful data is in the .wine folder.
Still, can't I just nuke the objects folder then have some command to repair it?

>>107119053
>10 hours later
wonder how the crow tasted

>>107122312
Update: fat wad of memory is now free.
mintinstall wont install now.
Flatpak refuses to acknowledge the existence of the new /objects folder.

>>107122312
>Turns out anything wine based cant be compressed.
it can be if you delete the symlinks that are in your wineprefix. usually wine environments add a symlink to your whole root or your home dir, and most archive managers try to follow symlinks and get stuck in a recursive loop so they refuse to compress these paths.
>Still, can't I just nuke the objects folder then have some command to repair it?
I doubt it, you'd have to nuke everything manually since it's very possible that some other parts of flatpak are referencing parts of the currently existing objects folder. So you'd have to delete the entire var/lib/flatpak/, but I have no idea if this breaks it entirely.

>>107118621
Is there a reason to use anything else?
-It's stable,
- just works, -
gets Mesa and Kernel updates from backports if you want them to.
- Don't have to fuck around with extra codec repos,
- reasonable release schedule of new version every 2 years so you can concentrate on using your PC
- can get flatpaks or distrobox or appimages if you want newer stuff as well
- every release gets meticulously tested so it's pretty bug free

>>107122843
>Is there a reason to use anything else?
gaming

>>107122865
I play games on my laptop with Debian every day. Everything works with Lutris or Steam. Of course I'm not a Nvidiot. But if you are, just follow the wiki or use an installer that gives you Nvidia drivers automatically.

>>107122865
maybe if you're a """""gamer""""" who buys the latest Call of Duty or Battlefield game every year

>>107122843
>reasonable release schedule
>2 years
This would be fine if Mesa and the Kernel were bleeding edge and if Linux package management wasn't utter dogshit and *everything* actually moved to Flatpak/Appimage.
>gets Mesa and Kernel updates from backports if you want them to.
Not how it works and at this point you might as well use Sid, Arch or Fedora.

Debian will never be anything but a joke outside of servers.

guys im retarded I have already read the archwiki entry for swap on zram, but I still don't understand. How can I easily increase my zram swap? I currently use 4gb with 16gb real RAM. The arch wiki says to open some file, but it doesn't exist for me. I used archinstall for this system, that probably has to do with something

>>107123139
Your post is full of opinions and butthurt, but unfortunately devoid of any informational value.

>>107123207
you use zramctl for that.
it has a manual page
you can use it for managing zram devices size, compression and other things.

me, i also set my swappiness to 200.
my zram disk is 20gb, uses zstd and i have 8gb of physical. so far so good.

>>107123279
>Debian is outdated for the majority of it's release cycle is an "opinion"

>>107123342
Yes, it is.

>>107122843
>gets Mesa updates from backports if you want them to.
This is an outright lie. If Debian ever gets mesa backports it's a year after release to an 18 month old version. Not taking hardware enablement seriously is a big part of why Debian isn't a serious desktop option for people who care about open source drivers. Canonical and RedHat don't have this problem.

>>107123551
>Canonical and RedHat don't have this problem.
That's because people working at Canonical and RedHat are at least somewhat competent unlike Debian maintainers.

>git clone github.com/somefaggot/firmwareanddrivers
>16 KB download that eventually fails
>switch to my VPN
>16 KB download that eventually fails
>download master as zip
>16 KB that...
JUST LET ME TOY WITH HARDWARE JESUS CHRIST

Debian + KVM VGA passthrough

How do i install picrel on debian

If I switched from Ubuntu to Debian, would the experience be nearly the same or is there still some learning curve?

>>107123975
Ubuntu is just a polished Debian but with Snaps forced into it

>>107123890
you don't. GNOME is all you need

>>107123890
install Q4OS

Probably a bit of a stupid question. I have a disk that I had a small partition of Windows 10 on, and after installing Linux Mint a couple months ago and getting comfortable with it, I decided to free up the space from Windows. Went and formatted the partitions that looked like they belonged to it, and when I restarted my computer, the system couldn't find anything to boot into. Reinstalled Mint on the freed up space, and I can see that the original filesystem partition I had for Mint is still there, and has my files on it, but it doesn't seem to be getting used. Any pointers on what I should do to get that set up properly?

I'd say I'm reasonably tech literate, but the fact that I formatted several partitions on my disk on a hunch might say otherwise.

>>107124098
Gnome is meh, that's why i went with cinnamon
>>107124135
I did but it doesn't feel the same

>>107124157
Ok, may have figured it out on my own. Rebooted and noticed that there were 2 options for Linux Mint to boot into, one of which was /dev/sda5. Now I suppose the question is how I actually get that 209GB freed up properly.

How do i lower the volume scale if im running pw/plasma? I only use the first 20% of the slider and would like to have more control by making that 20% the new 100% but i couldn't find a way to do that. Also why does audio volume have this sorta stair stepping effect where you need to go down a couple of % for the volume to actually change and there being a big difference between silence and the minimum volume?

>>107117455
>picture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcWeE3NMeBQ

In Xubuntu or Ubuntu variants, how do I prevent Navi 10 HDMI from resetting everytime I suspend?

>>107124977
disable the device in volume config

>>107124388
Neverending stream of little issues what make absolutely no sense whatsoever. This about sums it up.
My XFCE4 volume settings keep reseting every time I log in and instead of one volume slider I have two: one for headphones and one for system sounds... Does not make any fucking sense whatsoever. Yes I know I can configure this but it still does not make any sense whatsoever.

lol

>>107124370
Create a backup of your data if you need to, and reinstall everything. Do not use automatic partitioning like you did previously. I don't remember how Mint's installation dialog is but I'm pretty sure it will give you an opportunity to manually edit your partitions.
Or if you don't want to reinstall you can resize the partitions to your liking and remount them as needed. I'd use gparted for this.

>>107125422
LXDE is abandonware, LXQt is the new version of LXDE.

>>107125437
You don't understand. I NEED GTK2 abandonware. I can't stomach GTK3 and Qt is another story.

>>107125468
why update then?

If I enable Adaptive Sync (either set to Automatic or Always on) in KDE, my refresh rate constantly oscillates between 48 and 160Hz, which makes mouse movements jittery. Is this a bug or some dumb power saving feature?

>>107125508
If you have two screens with different refresh rates that will probably mess up your adaptive vsync.

>>107125523
Nope, I only have one, XG27UCG.

Can someone please tell me what package provides the "ischroot" command on fedora? I seem to be missing this command inside my fedora chroot...
If you are running fedora please tell me the output of the command 'rpm -qf $(which ischroot)'

>>107125339
I can't because I need to use the Navi 10 HDMI 2 profile but it keeps defaulting back to Navi 10 HDMI 1 profile.

>>107125603
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/util-linux/util-linux/

>>107125482
because Arch

Is it really not possible to control a Wine program (Foobar2000 in this case) with the media keys? I want to play/pause and skip songs on F2k but since it's a wine program nothing happens when I use my media keys.
I made a shell script to send commands directly to foobar through wine but that's not ideal because at least on KDE i can't bind the media key to two things.

>>107125669
I already have this package installed. Also:
>https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/util-linux/util-linux/fedora-42.html#files
>ctrl+f "ischroot"
nope
maybe "ischroot" is a symlink? can you please check?

>>107115247
Xnview for viewing images
KolourPaint and Krita for editing

>>107125796
Stop bothering people retard a simple search would have shown you it's not part of Fedora but Debian.

>>107125791
I got it working a couple of years ago but I forgot how, I'll check out my old config files

>>107125849
I already did do my search and I'm running fedora chroot inside debian and it's complaining about this command not being found, is there a fedora equivalent of it or do i have to port it to my chroot myself?

>>107113358 (OP)
some shitty website crashed chrome in such a way, my whole system stopped responding and had to hard reset.

i'm impressed, never happened on windows or macos.

>>107125791
You should be able to bind these commands to the media keys (pointing to the correct prefix and executable)
https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Commandline_Guide

>>107125895
>stopped responding and had to hard reset.
Sounds like you ran out of RAM

Is it worth it to jump into Nix?
I have a laptop running Arch which is my daily driver, and 3 general purpose Debian servers that need to stay in sync (NFS mounts, user / group IDs)
I do admit it is a pain to make one configuration change on a server and have it cascade into a litany of issues. For instance, user permissions that I create on one system, and the other doesn't recognize because of a GUID mismatch, so I discover my cron job has been failing for 4 months because I never look at it.
I'm wondering if it's feasible to have a "root" Nix configuration, which contains general service and user configs, then "import" the root in each server's config file where they have their own unique settings / services, THEN (perhaps) set things up so all servers rebuild their config when the root changes and builds successfully.
All the hype aside, Nix does seem like an exciting prospect. Is it a pain in the ass to do all this?

>>107125907
nah, i think an nvidia issue.
was at 15/32gb ram.

>>107125886
>>107125905
Yes, that's how I do it, I made a shell script that if I run with stuff like --next it calls the /command with wine. But I can't bind both the script and the normal media keys to a single key, at least not on KDE.

>>107125916
use ansible instead of going the nix route
at least you'll get some knowledge for a potential sysadmin job

>>107125928
Why not just bind them directly and skip the script? That's how I used to do it with winamp

>>107125791
there's this thing idk if it works or is safe tho
https://git.sr.ht/~dropbear/foobard

>>107125949
What difference does it make when I can't bind two things in the same key? I prefer the script because I always forget the goddamn commands, with the script I can just open it and refresh my memory. It's not necessary or anything but it's outside the point.
>>107125957
Now that's something interesting, I knew it was called something weird but it's MPRIS, KDE doesn't give me the player controls like in native applications because it lacks MPRIS support or something I think.
Thanks anon I'll try it.

>>107125957
Wait it needs a fucking Windows VM to compile part of it.
Why doesn't he just release the fucking thing compiled already?
So fucking annoying.

>>107119696
i didn't switch to linux so i could have linux
i switched to linux to get away from windows

>>107125973
oooh I see what you're saying, you could add playerctl commands to your script, then you'd get both media keys and foobar controls on the same key

>>107125929
I don't have any aspirations of sysadmin work. Just want the best tool for the job that will scale effortlessly, be up to date, and not shit itself if I look at it wrong.
Ansible seems interesting, though it is still reliant on (mutable) system state and it seems I have to add a virtualization layer to my services which are all currently bare metal. Is that a fair assessment?

>>107125763
Build GTK2 and your abandonware from source then.

>>107126200
>though it is still reliant on (mutable) system state
yes, it's made for automating changes in an infrastructure
> it seems I have to add a virtualization layer to my services
not aware of this, unlikely though as I did some minor experiments with on baremetal

I installed Cachy and everything is great except when it boots. It goes to GRUB command prompt and I have to type Exit and then it opens Cachy... Any Ideas how to fix ?

>>107126217
Install Ubuntu, it's more your pace.

Is there any Linux kernel contributor?

If so, what's your story? How long did it take to get good understanding of kernel before contributing?

>>107126217
>meme distro
>meme issues

>>107126247
>>107126263
This is why market share so low. Thanks for tips though.

>>107126139
Something that goes like if foobar is up send it to it but if not to playerctl? Yeah that's a good idea I think, thanks anon.
Maybe eventually I'll compile that fucking foobard plugin since it's exactly what I want, piece of shit doesn't share the fucking dlls I'll never understand those people.

>>107126214
>yes, it's made for automating changes in an infrastructure
Well, yes. But what about when something on the system outside of ansible's scope is changed?

i bought this mouse and the first thing i did was map its ring button to open a kando menu

>>107126296
>sub 70iq mongrel
>ermmm ubungu is sooo mainstream id rather user MEME DISTRO #2967 instead
>why am i getting retarded errors that wouldnt ever happen had i just clicked next on the installer of the distribution half the people using linux run?
>better cry on /g/ waaahwaaah
what did she mean by this?

>>107126217
I installed it also using grub but I clicked off the "Plymouth" box to disable it during install, I had issues with it, but not grub itself

>>107126360
>she
Bold assumption

>>107125603
I thought Fedora suggested cnf when a command is not found.

>>107126403
LMAO not really though 99% Linux users are troons

>>107126217
have you tried any of the following commands?
sudo update-grub
sudo grub-install
sudo stop-being-a-retard
?

>>107126498
Thanks pal. Sorry I don't have all day to read manuals. got tortas

>>107126260
Most people who are proficient programmers have been doing it since they were kids. Kernel programming is not an exception. This applies to anywhere.

>>107126217
just never turn off your Pc

>>107126533
To add: if you take a look at Torvald's 0.1 kernel source code here, contains a lot of c wrapped assembly
>https://github.com/LambdaCalculus37/linux-0.01
>https://github.com/LambdaCalculus37/linux-0.01/blob/main/kernel/system_call.s
He was a junior or whatever in the CS department. He did not learn this in the university.

>>107126260
It depends on what you're contributing. If you're going to write a device driver for some obscure but well documented network adapter, you could pick up everything you need to know over a weekend. If you're writing a high performance filesystem you're talking about a decade minimum commitment.

>>107126533
This is true statistically for current year, but it's not an indicator of hard limits like STEM saleswhores like to imply.

Fresh Loondook our Fuhrer sounds the alarm on Rust troons, be vigilant comrades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJQ3XGkGrgc

>>107126296
>This is why market share so low.
maybe, but it still doesn't deny the fact that you fell for snake oil
idk how one does it with cachy, but you could take arch installer, chroot and mount the partitions, and then fix the bootloader

>>107126755
I don't even understand what your post tries to say. Some people are gifted, some are not. Just because I might have been dabbling in programming for years doesn't mean I'm gifted. Some people have the brain chemistry some don't.

what are the key features why one uses kitty, ghostty, or alacritty? any other newer terminal emulators I should test out?

Is there a definitive answer as to whether using Flatpak for you internet browser is better or worse for your security?

>systemd kills itself so you can't sudo anything until you reset
how the fuck does this happen

>>107127070
In what cases would it be worse? At worst it would be neutral if you give the flatpak version all permissions

>>107127070
It's not any better because most nu-browsers already isolate their own memory anyway.
Flatpak restricts the access more and I find that some people recommend running flatpak Steam for example just fucking stupid.
Flatpak is something what you're going to use if there are no other options left.
If someone is going to run some malicious code, it's going to be malicious anyway and that's because you clicked a suspicious link without even using ublock.

>>107127250
Attached image is from Brave themselves. I think Firefox have said something similar re: Flatpak.
The reason I'm asking is because there's some people who say that giving the browser "deeper access" is a security risk in and of itself.

Here's what someone recently said here on /g/ about this (from desuarchive): "The non-Flatpak versions of web browsers directly access your kernel to spawn processes, which itself can be dangerous. So with a non-Flatpak browser you're just replacing one 'sandbox' workaround with another, while having an inherently less isolated and secure application overall."

>>107127358
It's not any better. Just consumer talk for goys.

Retro rices won't add inches to your cock

>>107127358
>The non-Flatpak versions of web browsers directly access your kernel to spawn processes
as do the flatpak versions. Flatpaks are not vms running their own kernel.

Just tried CachyOS from my debloated W11 install to give Linux a try. The performance with games was shit having lots of stutters, lower framerate and graphical glitches, system keep freezing barely minutes after installing and updating it, any browser that I used was significantly slower.
How the fuck do you guys daily drive this shit?

>>107127445
nvidia?

>>107127445
>How the fuck do you guys daily drive this shit?
by not using meme distros

>>107127453
Yes, using a 4080 Super.
>>107127465
I doubt my performance issues with games would change that much with other distros.

>>107119696
I have a serious question, why would anyone run windows in 2025, windows is now a virtual machine, i open my virt manager on debian loony, I hit run, and I suddenly have whole windows spun up

>>107127489
woops forgot pic

>>107127486
you have your answer then
nvidia are still a bunch of niggers about linux because they can't just give up control
all the cope about it working well on linux comes from sunk cost fallacy and jumping through hoops

>>107127507
I saw a bunch of videos on Youtube praising how Nvidia got so much better on Linux to the point of being actually usable now. But I guess that they are a bunch of faggots.
And obviously before anyone says it, I'm not going to swap videocards, a 7900XTX was more expensive at the time than a 4080 Super in my country, and a 9070 XT does not have better performance and consumes more power still than my 4080S.
Besides, I couldn't get the fans to work, I installed CoolerControl, detected all the sensors and still no matter how much I changed the curves and applied the settings it did absolutely nothing on my MSI motherboard, not to mention that my peripherals didn't work through the web driver version.
I really fucking hate Microsoft, but Linux desktop is not ready yet at all.

>>107127552
it is ready, you just have nvidia, they're at fault for all your problems here
they haven't given up all control to the open source community like amd did

>>107127070
>>107127358
Flatpak blocks apps from spawning their own processes as custom users, which browsers historically needed as a way to isolate tabs from each other. Browsers do this to mitigate the risk of one malicious tab stealing info from another tab or extension. However, both Chromium and Firefox already fixed 99% of their security features to no longer require this hacky workaround. Almost the entirety of the browser sandbox/security features are there even in the Flatpak version.
Even Chromium devs themselves have already claimed that browser sandboxing fully works under Flatpak, so if it doesn't work in Brave then Brave is doing something custom on top.

If you want to minimize the risk of you getting fucked by a malicious website then, in order of importance:
>use 2FA everywhere
>don't store your passwords in a web browser or a browser addon
>have uBlock Origin
>keep Safe Browsing enabled
>check for browser updates daily
Bonus points for stronger protection:
>disable JavaScript JIT and any other optimizations
>use a DNS or VPN which filters malicious domains
>disable WebGL
>use multiple browsers. One browser for your personal, private or financial browsing. Another for visiting anything else.
Bonus points for maximum protection:
>outright disable JS by default, then manually enable it on trusted websites

Flatpak is better for your security overall.
A tab-to-tab sandbox is a much smaller impact security issue compared to a browser exploit which leads to a user/system exploit. With Flatpak, even if your entire browser gets infected, the rest of your system is safe assuming bubblewrap itself doesn't have an exploit. While the tab sandbox Brave is crying about is only protecting your PornHub account from being breached by some 0-day exploit on Facebook.

>>107127404
Flatpak actually does block this. But I wouldn't put much trust in Brave when it comes to security considering how many privacy and security concessions they've made in their product.

>>107127594
Thank you for this thorough answer. I appreciate it very much!

Now I feel safe switching to Fedora Silverblue and using Flatpak for everything (including browser).
Very convenient.

>>107120711
Yes.

>>107126314
Exactly, something like if pgrep -fi foobar then foobar_command else playerctl_command fi

>>107123890
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Debian_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Instructions

What's the new hip/popular desktop environment?

I'm planing on fucking with Debian once more.

>>107127961
arch / cachy
but you go with debian

>>107127445
What games? Some games work better in Steam and some games work in Bottles.
Eg. Bloodlines 2 (I only downloaded it to test because it was 25gb) was shit via Bottles and proton whatever. With Steam it was smoother.
I still deleted it.
Installed Europa Universalis 5 and proton experimental in Steam was stuttery. Then tried via Bottle proton-ge latest and it's smoother.
I think Steam client tries to force shader compilation and if it's not happening it'll try to do it again.
eg. It takes a month or two to find out what you can do and can't.
There's no 'gaming distro' that is bullshit.

>>107127974
Are you sure you're in the right thread bucko?

>>107127982
my bad im currently high on caffeine doing multiple linux shit
the popular de is cinnamon and plasma

>>107127974
Bruh, not asking about distros.

>>107127977
And Bottles: wine environment.
Not 'bottles' the app. That's just a front end.

>>107127992
Oh ok. Nice nice. Danke, anon.

>>107127961
i don't get why you'd deviate from kde but spergs have been shilling hyprland recently

>>107127445
>>107127486
I have a +5-10% uplift in my games with my 9070, sucks to be you

>>107128076
What games do you play? I am curious about it.
Most 2d games just work I guess.
Do you play anything obscure like single player Tarkov? That's always heavy on my end.

>>107128122
You're putting me on the spot here man, the most graphically demanding game I play is Palworld, but that's mostly on unreal being an unoptimized mess, that definitely feels better on Cachy. Other slop I play include the hit MMO black desert, zzz, wuwa. I generally stick to one or two games per year, not a fan of fps games, I'm surprised my slop runs considering it has anticheat, ZZZ frame consistency was night and day compared to windows

finally got my pci passthrough perfectly setup, no reset bug, full speed virtual machines with audio included ahh im so happy how i love my loonix

>>107120374
>all coding should be done in Notepad.exe or nano
..yes

>>107127961
im gonna meme maxx this weekend and try out pikaos with niri wm

KDE Connect worked flawlessly on Mint for but some reason doesn't work or even give errors on Ubuntu, what gives?

>>107113358 (OP)
What's the fastest cold boot setup, assuming no gui? Like basically I turn it on and now I'm typing the Great American Novel.

>>107128385
>file.png

How do I use pacman? It seems much more finicky than apt.

>>107128874
pacman -Syu to full update
pacman -S to install something
pacman -Rns to fully uninstall something
Those will be what you mainly use. Just read the pacman manpage and you'll be fine.

>>107128894
Thanks. I was trying to use pacman to install pip but that wasn't working. I then manually installed pip and my terminal wouldn't let me use it for some reason. Arch just seems more complicated than Mint for no reason.

>just realized I can use gitlab to build AUR packages so that I don't have to litter my own computer with gigabytes of development tools

anyone knows if the CXX/CFLAGS that are set in /etc/makepkg.conf are automatically used in cmake?
PKGBUILD doesn't mention them
>https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ppsspp-git

>>107128912
>couldn't install pip
pacman -Syu python-pip, check the wiki man

>>107123890
apt install task-kde-desktop

>>107128921
Just build it and grep the logs?

>>107128540
pkill kdeconnectd && kdeconnectd

>>107128921
I don't get it. Don't you need compilers and stuff regardless?
>cflags
Set it in your environment.

dosbox's keymapper is completely busted.

Try setting up an alternative keyboard layout.

How am I the first person to notice it's busted?

I also just got qemu to hard lock on me, just running -i386, and a dosbox app. qemu is garbage, because you can't get out of a lock.

It's looking like I'll need an actual dos machine to run dos apps competently. Insane.

>>107129363
I run a minimum arch install on my old laptop,
also on slow internet, and don't use many aur packages.
>>107129157
yeah will probably need to build again with -v or something

>>107129363
Strictly speaking you only really need libs from the compiler, i.e /usr/lib/gcc and that's because certain things link to libgcc.so for plugins, etc.

>Download bazzite on my ROG Ally X
>Actually like it
>Seemingly play way more games
>Considering switching from Windows to Bazzite on main PC
I don't play anything that doesn't work on Linux and I have an All AMD setup so it does make some resemblance of sense.

>>107130074
Bazzite's whole reason for existence is being a SteamOS that you can install on a desktop properly, so go ahead if you like the OS already.

>wireless m+kb combo, uses a single USB connection
>only the mouse is recognized in both xorg and wayland
>using different USB ports yields no results
Any pointers? The keyboard was working in a different device so it isn't dead.

>>107130074
my friend switched from windows to bazzite 5 months ago without previously being exposed to linux. he's not into tech at all yet he likes it and will likely stay on it.

Is it me or do a lot of games perform significantly better on linux nowadays?
I have a Ryzen 7 7700X / 32GB RAM / RTX4070 and just switched from Windows 10 to Fedora and have been comparing a couple of games I played recently on this hardware.
Just installed the nvidia drivers from rpm fusion and using proton-ge instead of the stock steam proton.
Fallout 4 (with some tweaks), The Witcher 3 and Elden Ring all perform much better.
Especially the latter, where I could previously play on max settings at 1080p and would get 40-50 fps I can now run it at max settings at 1440p and get a nearly solid 60 fps.
How did they do it?

>>107130792
There's lots of video comparisons on jewtube about that. A handful of games perform better on windows and another few hit higher max FPS on it, but in general linux is never far behind on max FPS while also having much higher 1% lowest and a much tighter gap between the two.
>How did they do it?
You always win when you're competing against jeets.

Has anyone tried to use Mod Organizer 2 in different distros? It has a virtual filesystem logic to load mods to games and takes seconds to load everything, but in my experience Mint (on ext4) halved its speed while Cachy (on btrfs) loaded in an acceptable speed. I wonder how the kernel or disk formats would impact the load speed of these methods.

Is there any solution to X11 fucking up on multi-monitor setups? I like xfce as a DE but I also like to game and x11 DEs make the game stutter unless i turn off the compositor, but if I do that then there's serious screen tearing.

I tried matching refresh rates of monitors and limiting game's fps all to 60, but the issue persists.

>>107131173
I tried it on Mint and Arch but haven't really paid attention to the loading times.

>>107130104
>>107130672
Maybe when I am done with Modded Cyberpunk on my Win11 install I'll do the switch to Bazzite.

I've been using Bazzite/Fedora for a while now. Nobara before that, Mint before that and Windows before that. Obviously I use my PC for gaming. If I were to hop on to CachyOS now, how different would the setup and maintenance process be compared to what I have already experienced? Bazzite and Nobara do of course need almost no manual maintenance whatsoever, but in Mint I feel like I had to fix and tinker all the time to get games to run how I wanted.

>>107131267
They're kind of the same thing as they're both Arch Linux. But CachyOS would need more tinkering.

>>107131267
If you don't use meme distros (just use Arch or Fedora), you'll do less tinkering.

installed GNOME for the first time on my laptop's Debian. Liking it so far, its much better on a laptop. What are some mandatory & good extensions to get?

>t. KDE user

>>107117455
Why are you using 5 years old Ubuntu ISO to run anti-virus scan?

I remember all the tech from the original days of youtube. One that that always gave me chills was this weird-looking, clearly non grifter that I would avoid like the plague. I'd avoided tech grifter on youtube and most of its content because it's clearly corrupted and useless now. But, found it funny that the guy who looks like the meme is now Linus Tech Tips-tier shilling against Linux constantly. While I agree that Linux is full of coders who are now mostly trannies and anti-White themselves, his grift is just beyond the pale.

>>107131233
You will always have screen tearing if you disable v-sync/compositors.
>x11 DEs make the game stutter unless i turn off the compositor
Try using gamescope to launch your games instead of using your DE's compositor.

>>107131267
>If I were to hop on to CachyOS now, how different would the setup and maintenance process be compared to what I have already experienced?
It's a distro designed around maintenance and tinkering. It will require more maintenance compared to Mint. Obviously Bazzite doesn't require maintenance and Nobara requires minimal maintenance. If you prefer low-maintenance distros then there's no reason to go to CachyOS.
People parrot about CachyOS being "super performant", but according to pretty much all benchmarks it's all just a margin of error (2%<). There are a few areas where it outperforms Nobara/Bazzite by maybe 5%, but then there are areas where it performs worse. The only reason to ever switch to CachyOS is if you really want the Arch/Arch-like ecosystem.

>>107131298
I only use dash-to-dock and tray icons

>>107131298
>What are some mandatory & good extensions to get?
Mandatory:
>Clipboard Indicator
>AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support
>GSConnect
Good:
>Dash to Panel (with your preferred customization)
>Night Theme Switcher (dark mode is a meme if you're in a well lit environment)
>Blur my Shell (I hate transparent panels)

>>107113566
Arch is better

>>107131619
>>107131619
>>107131619

>>107129814
>>107129561
Still not getting it. You need a compiler for compiling, right?
And what does it matter where the sources come from: AUR or some website?

>>107131274
>>107131277
>>107131444
Thank you guys for replying. I think I will just stick with Bazzite.

>>107131722
If you don't have a need to compile anything then you don't need a compiler. Arch isn't Gentoo.

>>107131958
>"installing <program> from AUR makes it compile the whole thing and I don't want to install compilers so I'd just download the sources from GitHub"
Still not getting it. How do you compile sources without a compiler? Like doing the exact same thing without AUR but manually somehow makes it different.

>>107131995
He's building binary packages on other machine to install locally or from a repository. You can also use something like Chaotic AUR if you want to and don't want to do it yourself:
https://aur.chaotic.cx/

What's the closest music player to musicbee on linux?

>>107132321
https://alternativeto.net/software/musicbee/?platform=linux

>>107131722
no, you don't get it.
I use a minimal arch install, on a small ssd
I don't want to bloat the thing with development tools.

like the other anon said, arch isn't gentoo,
I use the pre-built packages from the repo.

and having another computer to build whatever you want is a huge convenience, and gitlab does it for free

>>107123975
It would be very close. Different installer, fewer drivers, more vanilla GNOME.
System administration commands are the same.

>>107126217
Maybe you have another GRUB installed alongside the one you need. Check the contents of your ESP.
When you exit the (default) GRUB, the firmware boots the next GRUB.

>>107127358
Flatpak has limitations in this area, but Snap doesn't. It is strictly more secure tu run your browser as a snap than natively.