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TOTAL DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT UNINSTALL

>>107986961
Yes, but this was an idea for a different and new general that focussed on corporate-backed and ‘accountable’ distros that just work for everyday and professional tasks. I had no intention of causing an imposition on or changing /fglt/. But I n reality this was basically just a hypothetical and moot idea tbph

Help me debug this shit, I'm completely lost.

Periodically when my laptop wakes up from sleep, something locks up. The first and main symptom is that for some reason all network-related services absolutely lock up. Network connection obviously doesn't work, but restarting the iwd service or running "ip addr" just hangs forever. I don't know if there are any other symptoms, but I've never noticed anything else wrong; I can take my time saving my work, making sure I remember what I had open, saving browser sessions etc. Then I reboot to restore network access.

During shutdown, the same two errors always pop up: first, "unable to stop dhcpd", followed by killing the daemon. Seems related to the total network stack death somehow.
And second, "unable to unmount root because we are using /; mount-ro failed" hangs the entire boot process. At that point I force shutdown my laptop by holding down the power button, reboot and everything is perfectly fine on the next boot.

Does anybody have any idea what this could possibly be? Where do I even begin looking to see how it could be prevented, or perhaps recovered without a reboot once I'm in that state?

>>107987098
No there're barely enough people to keep one general with meaningful discussion around why split it even further.

>>107987337
Because I need to turn this thread into a circle jerk

>>107987098
>corporate-backed and ‘accountable’ distros that just work for everyday and professional tasks
The problem is that then you'd have 2 Linux threads and constant bickering regarding which distros are "corporate-backed and ‘accountable’" and "just work for everyday and professional tasks". Ideally /fglt/ should also be able to accommodate people who are looking for these types of distros. If you feel like it doesn't you can have a trial run of these "corpo linux" threads and see if they're worth it.

>>107987098
>corporate-backed and ‘accountable’ distros that just work for everyday and professional tasks
I can do my shit with literally any distro I can get my hands on. I don't need Ubuntu or RHEL specifically for anything "professional".
There's no point in a general. Just make a normal thread or whatever if you really want to talk about those kinds of distros.

>>107987098
there's no point for this, you get to bother the corporation if you're using a corporate-backed and "accountable" distro, not 4chan

have you anons noticed a significant improvement in smoothness / speed when going from x11 to wayland?

I remember a very cool tool to visually see the diagram of the internal schematics of the system with connected buses and such, does anyone know the name?

>>107987656
Yeah mailbox vsync is good.

>>107986853
“Eat at Joe’s..., ten million flies can’t all be
wrong!“

>>107986853
Another book to hoard but never read

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it's over for this drive isn't it

>>107988191
My drives are ancient and reddit says they were supposed to have failed years ago, it actually makes me quite worried.

Any idea why the external HDD connected with USB sometimes umounts if left for some day/s plugged in?

>>107988191
>>107988225
I'm waiting to buy a new NVMe drive but the prices aren't ever coming down are they?
I'd really like to be able to buy an 8TB drive someday. The alternative is I buy 3x or 4x 4 TB drives and a bifurcation card but I really don't want to do that.

>>107988343
Dodgy USB controller maybe? I doubt it's the drive. Probably just the shoddy enclosure.

>buy basic mp3 player so I can ditch the smart phone and still listen to music
none of the mp3s I get have any tags/metadata so the player's ability to sort by artist, genre, year, etc, is crippled. Is there a way to automatically connect to imdb equivalent for music? I googled it, but it was all like mass applying tags and not automatically looking up.

>>107988225
It's really the IO count not the age. I've seen 30yo HDDs still work.

>>107988376
Use Picard

>>107988343

depending operating system might unmount before hdd spindown not sure about that

I am looking for a cli screenshot utility that let's me use the keyboard to define the region.

Currently I use slurp | grim but slurp is mouse driven.

>>107988357
I have a shitty usb enclosure from aliexpress desu
>>107988497
I use arch. I think it happens when it's not used for X hours. I disabled USB autosuspend in grub "usbcore.autosuspend=-1". Lets see.

>>107988389
FUCK YEAH it's PERFECT! Thanks!

Is there any differences between copying an already installed game from Windows and pasting it into Linux and then playing it via Lutris/Steam and installing a Windows game from Linux via Lutris/Steam and then playing it?

>>107989106
Depends on game. Some games don't need entries in the windows registry hive, those would run fine if copied over. If they do however require registry entries, they would have to be installed using the installer.

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>>107986853
I'm having a race issue with NFS due to its exported directory not being decrypted at boot time. It's a ZFS dataset for movies and shit that gets decrypted manually when I have family/friends over. Since I'm manually unlocking it anyway, could I just disable nfs-server.service and then manually enable it when I'm unlocking the dataset? That seems to me to be by far the simplest solution, but I'm wondering if it will influence any other services form starting or impact security.

>>107986853
should i hop from tumbleweed to arch?

>>107989106
Playing NTFS games works on Linux anyway, I wouldn't be arsed to copy games over.

I don't want to tinkertranny with TWMs and/or hyprland anymore.
Just tell me what you think is the best DE for linux. I want the best "just works" experience as possible, without going back to Windows.

>>107990065
KDE

>>107989699
Might as well disable it, yeah. It shouldn't break anything because nothing generally has dependencies on the NFS server.

I use Fedora Linux with GNOME DE

Tried installing CachyOS a few times now, seems to have twice (1st and 3rd) time the install went through but when I tried to install something through terminal it completely crashed and the SSD became unreadable. 2nd time this happened halfway through the installation process of Cachy itself.

First thing I've done with this fairly new SSD so there's a chance its that, pretty odd that it happened twice in the exact same terminal step (different software) though so think it's more likely something with the installation causing it. I was copying files from another SSD through dolphin without issue so I don't think it's just a matter of those steps involving reading/writing.

>>107990549
>when I tried to install something through terminal it completely crashed and the SSD became unreadable
What do mean it "became unreadable"? That isnt normal anon. It sounds like your ssd is bad or has a severe bug in its firmware. If you can update that somehow I would recommend it, otherwise replace the cursed drive. Its possible that something about linux access patterns is triggering the bug but it seems unlikely, either way the only other possibility is a kernel filesystem bug but it all hinges on what
>the SSD became unreadable
means.

>>107990581
It stopped being visible in the boot drive, lsblk and so on. Temporarily, but the OS also may have become corrupt, I only tried to open it once after (failed).

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>something doesn't work on a distro
>install a new distro to try to get it to work
i swear to god the people on this board are dumber than miggers. fucking 12 IQ morons that can't tie their shoes.

>Chrome got updated
>Arch didn't push the update yet (probably because the AUR maintainer is in European timezone)
>meanwhile Fedora got it already cause it uses Chrome's repo

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this cunt can't be serious

>>107990704
Don't be too proud about still using Chrome, anon-chan

>>107990760
Usecase for privacy?

>>107990760
I hate the guy, but he does have a point. KDE managed to add telemetry in a way that preserves privacy though so I don't know why GNOME can't muster that.

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>2026
>There's still not a clean minimal KDE linux distro with a functional software flatpak store besides bloated gaymer shit like bazzite

Kubuntu was fine I guess if you used snap but I don't want to use snap and its on plasma 6.4.5 not 6.5.5 which is actually a big difference

>>107990790
You could try KDE Linux.
https://kde.org/linux/

It's a bit experimental but should work.

>>107987337
>>107987528
>>107987549
>>107987640
Yeah, as I said, the idea is kind of a non-starter and is fraught with complications fundamentally and really worth exploring seriously. In saying that, I still stand by my views concerning the centralisation and corporatisation of Linux systems.

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>>107990786
>so I don't know why GNOME can't muster that.
Gnome can't really do anything right in 2026

>>107990806
>Yahooo~
Get back to use-cases, ebussy.

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>>107990651
>a basic feature OSX had in 2000 still doesnt work on linux in 2026
>JUST DROP YOUR ENTIRE LIFE AND BECOME A NEET AND LEARN OS PROGRAMMING AND BECOME A NEET TO FIX A FEATURE EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET FIGURED OUT DECADES AGO
i swear to god the people on this board are dumber than miggers. fucking 12 IQ morons that can't tie their shoes.

>>107990798
I'll actually try that, but if its shit I'll go back to bazzite.

I mainly like it because it has steam, mangohud and gamemode preinstalled. No real complaints with it, just want something cleaner that only uses flatpak. Currently there's none that exist beside KDE linux and maybe solus I guess.

>>107990816
GTK2 and GTK3 are dead. They're never fixing this. Not in 2026, not in 2027, not ever. There are patches for it though if you ever do decide to become a programmer.

>>107990065
Gnome. Its opinionated nature is good here: it ensures you aren’t tempted to tinker and rice everything to death. It also just works and is probably the most actively maintained DE around.

>>107990816
I don't know why firefox still defaults to that awful thing but it's easy to tell it to use xdg-desktop-portal. The file picker is quite good on kde

>>107990828
>>107990816
The patches every GTK3 user should be using in question (for if you ever do decide not to be retard):
https://github.com/lah7/gtk3-classic
https://github.com/Dudemanguy/gtk

>>107990786
Because the same autists who carry a hate boner for Miguel for 20 years would spam the system with bad information. Even if they were able to gather accurate telemetry, it probably wouldn't make GNOME any better because the business case for GNOME development is to sell training. Obvious UI doesn't help that. Really IBM needs to pay for usability surveys because those guys can't act white, but they're never going to say that.

>>107990856
The point of the telemetry though is not only people's use-cases but capturing all of the Krashes.
That has really helped the KDE devs to keep on top of things. Ebussy probably pretends GNOME doesn't crash or leak memory though when we all know that's not always true. Without telemetry you don't know though and just get to claim blissful ignorance because you don't know any better.

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>>107990226
Is it generally safe to intentionally start a service like that much later than the actual init? It seems hacky, but I don't really know what else to do. Some posts talk about making another systemd service that basically just blocks nfs-server.service until some condition, but isn't that pretty much the same thing as setting it to disabled and then manually starting it sometime after boot? Maybe it's not.

There were some posts talking about using zfs-mount-generator to get it to wait, but as far as I understand it you need to have the ZFS encryption keys loaded (which defeats the point of encryption imo).

>>107990944
>Is it generally safe to intentionally start a service like that much later than the actual init?
Yes. There's nothing wrong or unsafe with starting a service manually. The init system still processes all the needed dependencies, etc.

>>107990955
Thank you for the answers, I appreciate it. Out of curiosity, do you think if I switched over to the innate ZFS sharenfs path (ie, not using /etc/exports), would I run into the same race condition? I'm wondering if that might be the simplest, least hacky solution to this problem. Does that approach just use the system's NFS to handle everything?

I’m facing a Bluetooth audio issue.
I’m currently using Fedora KDE, but I had the same problem on Arch Linux, so I don’t think it’s distro-specific.
I use Bluetooth headphones that sometimes connect to my machine, and I’m able to listen to music using higher-quality codecs. However, the behavior is very inconsistent:
Sometimes the headphones refuse to connect
Sometimes they connect and then automatically disconnect
Other times they stay connected but only work with low-quality audio codecs, which sound bad
I have already installed the non-free codecs on my laptop, so codec support should not be the issue. Despite that, the problem keeps happening consistently.
I’ve tried searching on Google and asking different LLMs, but nothing has worked so far.

Speaking of GNOME crashing I haven't been able to use my bluetooth headphones for a week due to a hard crash back to the login screen. The gnome-shell update that fixes it just came through to my distro today so hopefully it's over.

>>107988344
>prices aren't ever coming down are they?
They'll come down in 2 years, just like RAM. Plenty of new Chinese factories are opening to increase the supply.

>>107989106
Lots of older games write into the Windows registry. You'd be unable to launch them until you copy over the registry keys.

>>107990020
Proton doesn't work with NTFS.

>>107990065
KDE

>>107990549
Faulty SSD or faulty RAM. Do a test on both.

is there any spacesniffer.exe alternative for linux? i tried baobab, but i don't like it.

>>107990790
Aurora? That's Bazzite without Steam, Lutris and Waydroid. Or just Fedora Kinoite which both Aurora and Bazzite are based on and comes with even less things out of the box. I'm pretty sure both Aurora and Kinoite allow you to layer Steam.
KDE Linux that the other anon suggested could be fine, but only if you never need to layer a system package. You'd be limited to the Flatpak version of Steam there.

>>107991656
Filelight

>>107991646
>Proton doesn't work with NTFS
Yes it does, you just have to add a symlink folder called "compatdata" in your NTFS Steam Library which points to any directory on a Unix filesystem.

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Does linux have quality free software outside of Krita, LMMS and Gimp?

>>107987098
>a general for corporate bootlicking because /fglt/ is too FOSS community driven for him
The absolute state.

>>107990790
Regular Fedora KDE works for me otherwise i would've just used arch or even maybe debian stable.

>>107990848
Last time i tried the dudemanguy gtk patchset for the filepicker it was really unstable and crashed quickly.

>>107992145
mpv?

>>107990816
The kde and lqxt filepicker has it, and supposedly gtk4 also does now. I like how you can fuzzy search for filenames with the gtk filepicker and will also recursively search but you can't do either of those with the kde filepicker.

The resolution seldom defaults to 640x480 on startup or resuming from sleep. I cannot change the resolution settings, but disconnecting and reconnecting the DP cable fixes the issue. I'm on CachyOS.
Is there any way to fix this issue? Do I need to install some sort of driver or something?

>>107992245
I have absolutely no problems whatsoever with FOSS. You missed my point and the context, which was in the prior thread.

>>107992306
>defaults to 640x480 on startup or resuming from sleep
>disconnecting and reconnecting the DP cable fixes the issue
Are you using a DP to VGA adapter? Or indeed any DP -> something else adapter? If you are then it may not be letting EDID from the display to pass through.

>>107992505
No adapter is used as it is connected directly to the GPU (GTX 3060ti). Apparently it's some issue with DP and nvidia on Linux. It's extremely obnoxious having to deal with this.

>>107992145
Blender lol

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>>107992550
>nvidia on Linux

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

Fellow loonix sissies, this can't be real right? What can I do besides turning my pc off instead of locking and sleeping or using wangblows or fagos?

>>107993032
Encrypt your drive with LUKS.

>>107990786
There has to be more alternatives to this nonsense. Linux DEs are all horrible thanks to GTK and QT.
I personally don't suffer that much as I only use a window manager but after 30 years one would think that a simple, elegant and efficient desktop environment would exist. I guess it's impossible because of these autist foss dictators.

>>107993080
It is already encrypted with LUKS, but you decrypt it when turning on. And modern hardware is made to be set into sleep instead of completely turned off. When you put it in sleep it doesn't turn on the encryption and you only have to unlock it. Which you can do by changing the password. No wonder anybody takes Troonix serious.

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tik tok XFCE users wayland is coming for you

>>107993212
Well I mean it's about time. MATE needs this soon too.

>>107992550
I literally had the exact GPU and don't didn't have this issue on CachyOS, faulty cable or scuffed monitor.

>>107993256
It only occurs on Linux because I have absolutely no issues with Windows and I've had the cable for years. It's 100% to do with Linux.

>>107993185
Wrong. To change the root password with those methods you have to reboot which will remove the decryption key from memory.

>>107993291
Then I don't know what to tell you, it doesn't happen in my 3060Ti
Also unironically stop using sleep on desktop, that shit is for laptops.

>>107993224
>>107993212
What is the deal with them creating yet another compositor? Isn't Wayland already full of existing solutions?
Why is it this hard to manage a bunch of windows and layers anyway?
No wonder why nothing ever gets finished in Linux world.

>>107993337
Yeah, should have grabbed wlroots and build from there.

>>107992306
>>107992550
>>107993291
Anon, the problem is nvidia with their shitty drivers, not Linux. I have this fucking problem with my nvidia laptop every single fucking time, yet all my AMD devices work perfectly fine

>>107993292
Isn't that only with bash and not with the debug shell?

>>107993454
Well, the debug shell only starts if you change the kernel parameters before booting

>>107987098
It's literally a linux general. Feel free to share your thoughts on all things linux.

I would call you a fucking retard but it's a friendly thread

Something not required

>>107992145
It has tons of quality software. There's a reason probably every single website you visited today was hosted on it.
Compilers, interpreters, sql servers, web engines, system management and analysis tools, all very high quality and free software with literally no significant competitor in the non-free market.

It really should be an eye opener to everyone that the software which has the highest risk if not implemented correctly always tends to become open source. Because no single company is ever going to be better than everyone as a collective improving something together, and no test of software security will ever be more demanding than allowing attackers to see the code.
And yet the average person still thinks closed software is higher quality because you have "muh games" and some low risk media applications that a guy in a turtle neck is able to sell them.

Retard here. How do I install nvidia drivers on debian 13? It's a 1050Ti

>>107993696
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
Configure the necessary pre-requisites and then follow the instructions relevant to you

>>107993185
>And modern hardware is made to be set into sleep instead of completely turned off.
I thought that's only a Windows feature with Fast Startup. Otherwise it should fully turn off. That's why Bitlocker/LUKS/Veracrypt will ask you for a password rather than just reusing keys from RAM. Also this is why Veracrypt tells you to disable Fast Startup on Windows.

But yeah mitigating exploits after the disk is unlocked is a different thing, not sure which OS is good for that. But from my understanding, the device will always be weaker in AFU (after first unlock) than BFU, that's why GrapheneOS and iOS have an auto-reboot timer, to reset the phone to a more secure state (BFU).

>>107993964
S3 sleep also doesn't cold power cycle and causes far less wear than S5. Fast startup reduces the wear even more than S3, but S3 is closer to S0ix than S5.

>>107989106
valve STRONGLY advises against running games with proton from an ntfs partition

>>107993185
You only decrypt it when booting the system. Which then at that point would already mitigate any of those issues you're talking about.

>>107993185
There's a way to work around the suspend issue where you lock the drive and boot into a chroot outside of your luks drive before suspending but i've never tried it
https://github.com/shmalebx9/luks-suspend-portable

Its hard to guess what's going on because devs have different motivations.
I guarantee you, not all devs are working on open source projects are doing so out of the goodness of their hearts to make a better OS. Some want to improve their resume, some only really care about their own stuff, some people code as a hobby and want to do new stuff (This might be the hardest part to believe for some of you), and some want to powertrip.

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DXVK removed the framerate limiting env variable recently, it's still possible to do it just in a more convoluted way, but the reason for doing it was because there are supposedly better options available for limiting a game's framerate. Anyone know what those options might be? Not counting things like a game's built in fps limiters.

>>107994967
>Anyone know what those options might be?
Gamescope. It's a microcompositor that people use for fps limits, resolution upscaling/downscaling and FSR.

>>107994800
How does that mitigate me sleeping pc, leaving the house and a glownigger sneaking into my house accessing my computer.

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>>107990798
I'm using it. Its pretty good. Alpha software but immutable so not really any worries.

>>107995022
I know about it but it's always been messy to use for me and I only use it when I have some issue I can't resolve otherwise, I'd rather use it as a last resort.

>>107995022
Would gamescope work on steam games that use proton?

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Creating a router here using systemd/Linux.
>Type=ether,wlan
Why did I have to specify wlan separately? Isn't it Ethernet too? You know 48 bits and all.
>IPForward=true
Why didn't this have any effect and I still had to net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding=1 in sysctl.conf?
>PoolOffset=, PoolSize=
>Configures the pool of addresses to hand out.
>The pool is a contiguous sequence of IP addresses in the subnet configured for the server address, which does not include the subnet nor the broadcast address.
>PoolOffset= takes the offset of the pool from the start of subnet, or zero to use the default value.
>PoolSize= takes the number of IP addresses in the pool or zero to use the default value.
>By default, the pool starts at the first address after the subnet address and takes up the rest of the subnet, excluding the broadcast address. If the pool includes the server address (the default), this is reserved and not handed out to clients.
So. The server I'm configuring is 192.168.1.1 and it's on a 192.168.1.0/24. If I configure PoolOffset=9, will it make the pool start at 192.168.1.9 or 192.168.1.10?
t. stupid and ESL

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Evening. What's a Linux distribution I should burn onto a DVD as a backup in case all of my systems fail? Knoppix? Full Debian iso?

Why does Thunderbird suddenly create a ~/Thunderbird directory and how do I turn it off? It's fucking empty

>>107995460
nvm I found the bug report
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2007074

>>107995392
yes its mostly designed for them

>>107995065
The glowie wouldnt be able to do anything if you have some kind of lock screen application

why does Hyprland consistently crash when I'm doing something CPU intensive? I was compiling Proton and at some point it just brings me back to my login manager. I can't find any logs about it

>>107995434
SystemrescueCD

What happens when Wayland fully works with all desktop environments? I fear my old systems will not work well with Wayland. X will be dropped?

>>107995527
X is already dropped and Linux in its most modern form doesn't support old hardware in general. Support for older hardware is being removed from the kernel and a lot of software requires CPU instructions that didn't even exist in 2005.
On old systems you need old Linux.

>>107995542
Debian 13 works on my Thinkpad X60 from 2006.

>>107995499
I just tried a few methods recommended from gemini and nothing seems to work.
>Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
>Steam
>Proton experimental
>HornyVilla

>>107994967
DXVK_FRAME_RATE still works but it has been removed from the readme file. I don't understand the reasoning here.
vkd3d (dx12) still uses similar variable too, eg.
VKD3D_FRAME_RATE.
>>107995022
I don't like to use gamescope at all and it should not be something what is forced upon people. I don't NEED to use gamescope, in fact it is detrimental to me in some cases.
Besides people have complained that Gamescope is literal shit at limiting frames.

>>107995603
>listening to AI
>even worse listening to AI on niche topics

>>107995666
>Trips
>Useless post

>>107995542
>Linux in its most modern form doesn't support old hardware in general.
Wrong, most distros support the base form of the AMD64 ISA, fully backwards compatible with the first Athlon64.
>Support for older hardware is being removed from the kernel
Partially true, only hardware older enough that no one wants to maintain
>a lot of software requires CPU instructions that didn't even exist in 2005.
Proprietary software, sure, software bundled by the OS?, no, see first first point
>On old systems you need old Linux.
Wrong

>>107995527
It probably depends on your desktop and compositor but i doubt wayland will have very high system requirements and your potato pc will probably just still run fine since mine doesnt really have any issues running sway

>>107995527
You probably have more than a decade before X11 is removed from the repositories of all the major distributions. After which someone will just make a 3rd party repo for all of them and an AUR package for Arch. You're more likely to throw away your old systems before X11 is completely gone.
What should be your concern is your desktop environments. All the popular ones will probably entirely abandon X11 support, but you'll still have compatibility layers for it like xwayland. And you'll still have the option of running an X11-only DE or WM.

>picrel
why did he do a different board game in 4th edition?
woke moralists?

>>107993341
Wlroots is not a compositor, it's a library for building a compositor and this is exactly what they're doing (only they're using a Rust library called Smithy instead).
>>107993337
Existing compositors don't do what they need it to do. They want a Wayland compositor that is identical to Xfwm. They even plan to keep using the exact same settings applications, etc, to configure it.

>>107995734
You are right. Arguably, what he's saying should be true though. Distros are leaving a lot of performance on the table by focusing on generic x86_64 CPUs instead of specialised instructions.

This is why people use distros like CachyOS and hell, even Red Hat has started to phase out old CPU support in RHEL. They're ahead of Fedora here!

>>107987294
dmesg my brotha
or journalctl
>>107988088
its a light read actually
>>107988499
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Screen_capture
>>107990065
literally any popular redditslop besides gnome
lxde, xfce, cinnamon
they are all windows like
>>107990651
most of the posts here are trolls
>>107991080
does that happen on other systems/devices?
i have a pair shitty chink headphones that i dont use anymore and they sometimes just go into the battery saving mode and just stop producing sound mid track if decibels arent high enough
you might be having connection issues or you just got chinked

>>107996458
Fair enough, but the performance delta is negligible for most int-based workloads.
I (my autism) really appreciate the commitment of sticking to the standard AMD64 ISA. I like to be able to use my older boxes for rescue or any other shit

>>107991656
du command into sort command
look up there is a bunch of posts on stackexchange
>>107992145
literally every infrastructure and development related software is quality software
modal cli text editors are fire (NOT normie friendly)
other than that, here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications
find for yourself
>>107993032
whats the issue exactly?
>>107995434
why not a thumb drive? that way you can update it
or even install it ON a thumb drive
like puppy linux type shit

>>107995434
>Debian Linux
Absolute disgrace, Debian never called itself that, Debian always calls itself "Debian GNU/Linux" only faggot distros like Arch attach "Linux" to their name while leaving out the GNU part

>>107995603
>gemini
Dummy. What did you actually try? It's typically as straightforward as adding

gamescope [OPTIONS HERE] %command%

to the launch options

>>107995633
>DXVK_FRAME_RATE still works but it has been removed from the readme file
Apparently it's been removed entirely.
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/5336
You can apparently still do it by putting in

DXVK_CONFIG="dxgi.maxFrameRate = 60; d3d9.maxFrameRate = 60"

and shit like that but it's just really convoluted

>>107996650
It says gnu/linux in that pic, just not for the color names

>>107996877
I did, but I guess it's offensive to call you a fucking retard with my eyes closed while I type this. Off topic, but I've considered killing myself for like 20 years. What are you doing Maybe we can both procrastinate. Prick. And also., Fuck you.

>>107994967
>Anyone know what those options might be?
Mangohud. I wouldn't recommend Gamescope as it's a lot more complicated and you might not want to run everything in a separate compositor. A dxvk.conf file next to the game exe isn't that convoluted though...

>>107996898
Oh okay, I think I confused this with an older version.
Good to know it still works, I need to update my launcher scripts.
I was scouring some posts on github and they recommended using Mangohud to limit fps but that's a yet another layer which I don't want to use. I already use vkBasalt (for bit of sharpening and adding contrast/exposure with a LUT - replacing a basic reshade I always had when I used Windows..).

>>107986853
anyone has experience with winboat? tried to run its appimage and though i got everything it needed, the fucking shit doesnt detect docker service running.

my guess it's looking for systemd and i run void that uses runit

I want a menu key. My keyboard doesn't have one but I do have a very conveniently located printscreen key.
I'm on hyprland and it lets me use a setting called kb_options to modify some keys, but the options I have are from /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst, grepping for "menu" it gives these lines:
>grp:menu_switch Menu (while pressed), Shift+Menu for Menu
>grp:win_menu_select Left Win to first layout; Right Win/Menu to second layout
>grp:menu_toggle Menu
>grp:lctrl_lwin_rctrl_menu Ctrl+Left Win to first layout; Ctrl+Menu to second layout
>lv3:menu_switch Menu
>ctrl:menu_rctrl Menu as Right Ctrl
>caps:menu Make Caps Lock an additional Menu key
>altwin:menu Add the standard behavior to Menu key
>altwin:menu_win Menu is mapped to Win
>compose:menu Menu
>compose:menu-altgr 3rd level of Menu
>lv5:menu_switch Menu chooses 5th level
None of them does what I want I think (not sure what the grp options are for), but I'll like to get this working via this method or some other native option to avoid installing some package just for this. I've seen some posts recommending keyd but that's an entire deamon just for one key...
Is there anything I can do to add rules to base.lst? Or maybe another way to remap this key without adding bloat?

>>107997118
launch it through terminal and look for errors

>>107997233
What's a terminal?

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>>107997246
>oh baby dont segfault me
>dont segfault me, no more
you really dont know? your terminal emulator

Does anyone here know how to make a GTK3 theme? How the hell am I supposed to find the CSS name of some random UI element? Isn't there a tool like firefox UI inspector that can do the same but for GTK3 elements?

>>107997502
https://github.com/themix-project/themix-gui

>>107997502
It's a nightmare and I'm still wondering how any of the themes on internet got made. gtk.css has 10,000 lines of bullshit.

>>107997502
https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/tools/inspector.html

>>107997502
In my experience I found it easier to start with an existing theme and edit it to my liking, but that is still very tedious work.
>>107997587
That looks cool, I've never seen it before.

What filesystem would be best for a Windows accessible network share?

>>107997781
Doesn't matter. samba handles Windows metadata.

>>107997587
I will look into this
>>107997600
I think I'm starting to understand why GTK2 fanatics exist...
>>107997643
Man I've already read this documentation and it's horrible, GTK inspector doesn't launch for all apps, and it doesn't mention that you need to install libgtk-3-dev for it to work. Also how do you inspect stuff like the Alt+Tab menu, is this even possible with GTK inspector?

>>107997825
oh sick

>>107997833
>Also how do you inspect stuff like the Alt+Tab menu, is this even possible with GTK inspector?
No, that's gnome-shell. That has a separate css theme lol

getting into building my own flatpak anons, wish me luck

>>107997960
I'm on MATE though...

>>107997963
Just do an appimage, they are so much more versatile.
>install pcsx2,pcsx2-v2.7.58-linux-appimage-x64-Qt.AppImage
if you create pcsx2-v2.7.58-linux-appimage-x64-Qt.AppImage.home next to the appimage, it'll act as a portable settings directory...
Flatpaks are cancer compared to this.

Xfce is joining the wokeness desktop club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRP8RKRoZyQ

>>107997997
>open video
>lundukenstein
>close video

>>107998013
>he needs to open the video for that

I'm looking for a very basic hyprland installation guide, does anyone have any decent guide? I've found this one so far
https://www.rui-xavier.com/blog/posts/How-to-Properly-Configure-Hyprland-on-Arch-Linux

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>Get Mint sometime in 2022 or so
>Learn I need to occasionally restart Cinnamon because it has a memory leak
>Thought that outdated software wasn't gonna be a problem
>Behold, Wine was on version 6.0.4 back when the official version was on 7.0.something
>Behold, Firefox didn't support image thumbnails on filepicker (Someone made a post in 2025 and STILL had this issue)
>Firefox didn't support twitch
>Firefox didn't support quite a few addons
Unrelated since this applies to all Linux versions but knowing Flatseal exists is needed to use flatpack apps, specially Firefox

Can someone explain to me why people recommend Mint? Before you say "It was better back then", wouldn't their reputation be worse because its closer to 2016 which is when this happened?
>On 20 February 2016, Mint's website was compromised and backdoors were planted in the downloads, the database for Linux Mint forums were also compromised., some have raised concerns for this, warning people not to use Linux Mint.

>>107998217
>https://wiki.hypr.land/
Why not get it straight from the source? Hyprland doesn't have gui for configuring everything, there's no dropdown menu with nice options for you to pick from. You're gonna have to learn a bit about it's config files so might as well read on it.
If you want the short version you can just install it, generate default dot files and take a read at them, they have comments for most stuff (you're still gonna need their wiki, but just for reference).

>>107998294
alright, I just wanted a doc that would tell me all the things I would normally need and the options I have for each of them, like, a task bar (options a,b,c), notifications (options a,b,c), etc

>>107998315
That's exactly what their wiki is for.
And if you go with waybar their wiki (it's on github) is even better written.

>>107998432
thanks

>>107987294
stop using systemd

>>107998259
Mint is good for grannies and people who recommend it probably assume most users are literal grannies mentally. To be fair it's not hard to see why that thought surfaces given how Windows users always portray themselves as completely worthless computer illiterate morons who'd need help sending an e-mail.

What's the difference between using .zshenv and just sourcing files from .zshrc? I have this specific use case where I want to share my config among both my PC and a Debian proot on Termux. 90% of the differences can be trimmed down to a batch of environment variables that have different values on each platform, but I don't know where's the "cleanest" way to load them. This is how my .zshrc looks:

# Used to solve issues or set up puntual workarounds required by the other steps
if [ -d "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/env.d/" ]; then
  for f in "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/env.d/"*.zsh; do
    . "$f";
  done
fi

# Load all settings from pre.d/ directory, will be mostly configuration
if [ -d "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/pre.d/" ]; then
  for f in "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/pre.d/"*.zsh; do
    . "$f";
  done
fi

# Source all executable files from rc.d/ directory, will be mostly scripts or func
if [ -d "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/rc.d/" ]; then
  for f in "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/rc.d/"*.zsh; do
    . "$f";
  done
fi

Can I acmplish what I want sourcing a script from env.d inside this loop?

I think Cosmic is kinda neat.

>>107999211
whats good about it? elaborate

>>107995434

MXlinux 32-bit

>>107999211
How is the memory usage?
Oh wait, you said 'think'. This means you haven't even used it locally.

>>107999535
>Oh wait, you said 'think'. This means you haven't even used it locally.
ESL?

>>107999554
Speculative opinion vs actual experience.

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Pic related is actually quite troublesome on Debian. I never use those 'official' kernels and bootloaders for long, remove them the second I get my own kernels booted.

>>107995526
Is it as good as the name says? IMO Gentoo's live GUI installer is fine, comes with SSH server and everything. Beats any regular distro installer like Ubuntu.
>>107998259
>"It was better back then"
"Back then" Ubuntu itself was fine which meant it didn't make any sense to install Mint instead.
>>107997997
Xfce on Wayland officially works now? It was buggy and kept crashing the last time I tried it.

>>107995423
I got no clue what that config is for.

>>107994302
That's a wine thing desu

>>107999564
Are you trying to find something to shitpost about, or are you ESL? Be honest, that interpretation is not natural.

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Anyone here used Cockpit for server management before? If so, how shit is it?

>>107999582
It's quite obvious that you don't have Cosmic installed.

>>107999591
I have, it's mostly okay, I give it 4.5/10.
The only redeeming part is the virtual machine management. Network management sucks since it requires NetworkManager and hate it for servers. Containers is mostly okay-ish but there are better alternatives.

I'm going to ditch it in my next server rebuild, I'll be sticking to plain terminal and vm-curator

>>107999646
>I give it 4.5/10.
Honestly higher than I was expecting. I guess I'll pass on it then

>>107999662
you really won't find anything else that integrated worthwhile, except Proxmox, it's the best

>>107998259
>Can someone explain to me why people recommend Mint?
Because it works...?

>>107999743
Good news, there's a entire post about how Mint doesn't work out of the box, see >>107998259

>>107999750
>since this applies to all Linux versions

>>107999779
Read again.

I'm always blown away by how good GNU/Linux filters low-iq fags

>>107999812
>pacman breaks
>get a stiffy thinking about how many people this must have filtered
>spend 1 hour reinstalling arch

>>107999827
>MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

>>107999812
You mean openBSD?
Linux has been retard-friendly for so long

>>107999835
>You mean openBSD?
I wish
>Linux has been retard-friendly for so long
I agree, yet it filters retards. That truly tells you something

>>107999835
Anon its just a cope, it makes no sense
If anything Linux breaks and lacks tutorials often when you're trying to do actual hobbyist shit on it, the entire reason Mint gets recommended to people is because if you just open the computer to shitpost on facebook then it works perfectly

>>107999848
Most people also only use Linux for gaming because you just use Steam and 99% of games work

>>107999681
Webmin's no good either?

>>108000034
it's not bad but cucked behind paywall and not built for virtualization from scratch

>>108000096
>cucked behind paywall
oh fuck I didn't even notice that
sasuga

>>107986853
Hi all, I currently have a W530 that used to daily drive windows 7, got a bit bored of that and I want to give it the linux treatment, what distro would you recommend for it? it's a pretty old machine and I'm not sure if any fancy distro would work. I'm pretty experienced with installing linux, used to daily drive arch and cachyos so I know what I'm doing. also any tips on making it look nicer would be appreciated, i really struggle making linux look nice which is really annoying. Thanks so much!

>>108000034
>>108000116
This is a good Webmin alternative:
https://github.com/ajenti/ajenti

I don't use Webshitter GUIs nowadays but in my early days of learning Linux I used this.

>>107992145
KiCad is pretty good for what it's worth. CERN put in a fuckload of money and time into it. I've even heard some circuit design companies switched from using Altium to KiCad simply because of how reliable and non-invasive it is.

>>107993615
>the average person still thinks closed software is higher quality
Not necessarily. It's more like if the boss wants you to use the same shitty-ass program they've been using since 1991, then you simply use it because you know it's easier to either use it and get paid or quit and look for a job elsewhere than to try to convince your early Generation X (can't say Boomer anymore, since practically all literal Baby Boomers are retired now) boss to use a different program.
A lot of accountants, a lot of people who do odd note-taking and people who do administrative work inside of small and medium-sized companies use stuff like Microsoft Excel simply because it's the only program they ever learned to use. Large companies have enterprise resource mananagement software that is OS-agnostic and can run on anything from iPhone to a Linux computer, but most small carpentry shops, plumbers, electricians, ethnic supermarkets, etc. will never be able to hire anybody to write a nice program to run their business and make nice-looking invoice customers, so Excel it is for them.

>>108000649
I agree with this 100%. Microsoft Excel has AI in it now. Let that sink in for 5 minutes. Do you think the average person thinks that's good? Does it benefit them in any way? Do they even know that it's there since they're just typing into fields and doing the same shit they always did?

Excel simply serves a purpose for those people. They use it not because it's good but because it does what they want. They could easily switch to something else if they wanted to it's just that they never do because why would they switch? These are not computer people. As long as Excel keeps working they don't care.

>>107998259
Things being outdated is somewhat irrelevant when you're meant to use Flatpaks and Appimages for your user applications. Installing stuff from a distro repo makes no sense unless you're building a server or maybe if you're on Arch.
>Firefox didn't support twitch
>Firefox didn't support quite a few addons
I mean, this isn't really a Mint issue. Many people switch the default browser.

The only reason you'd ever want to install Mint is if you absolutely HATE snaps, if you want the "flagship Cinnamon experience" or if you want a better looking Xfce implementation compared to Xubuntu.

>>107993615
>>107992145
>the average person still thinks closed software is higher quality
Some of the most popular software out there is open source and thus available on Linux.
>mpv, the best media player and all it's GUIs
>VLC
>ffmpeg, the industry standard media editor and all it's GUIs
>imagemagick and it's GUIs
>OBS, the thing every streamer and youtuber uses for screen recording and streaming
>Audacity is pretty popular
>Blender
>7zip and PeaZip
>All web browser engines and most addons/extensions are open source
>All popular video game emulators are open source and available on Linux
>Visual Studio Code, a code editor used by the majority of developers
>Most developer tools and libraries
>Data tools like Borg, Syncthing, Cryptomator

>>107990790
>download EndeavourOS
>download Discover
done.

I hear a lot of shit about systemd and Wayland. I use Arch but I'm a noob I install with the script and I sort of just stumble through things and learn as I go.

Why are these things considered bad?

Will not using them make a difference to me?

I have been looking at things like Artix and I saw this thing from a dude called Luke Smith that can run a script that sets up the os for you.

I want to get good but there is so much to learn. Also I'm a gamer so that's a priority, not a hardcore gamer but I like playing games with my mates it's the only way I socialise.

>>108001123
If you don't know it's because you don't have enough information yet to form your own opinions.

Systemd is a huge topic so you can't really say why it's good/bad in a single 4chan post.

Wayland on the other hand is much easier to say why it's bad. It's mostly very, very good, but it's not X11. Some people have very specific workflows that only work with X11 and they can't properly replicate that in Wayland compositors. It's less about being good or bad and more about it not working for them. It works fine for me and plenty of others but it's not a proper replacement for people that have very specific workflows based around X11.

You can do a lot with XWayland (X11 compatibility layer for Wayland) but for some people they really need an Xorg Server and X11 window manager for what they're doing.

>>108001123
>Why are these things considered bad?
Can't speak for wayland because I've never used it, but for systemd... well it's one big and long shitshow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui_LhqMVPXU
And this is just the tip of the iceberg, systemd's history is full of lies and gaslighting.

To give you some idea, in 2014 the Debian community had a big debate about what init system to use:
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem
The result? they abandoned all other systems in favor of systemd, despite a very large number of people opposing such move, it was so bad that a big part of the community split off and forked Debian and called it Devuan, and so begins the birth of the first anti-systemd distro.

Also read this:
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=570410

>>108001123
>Why are these things considered bad?
They're not. This is like saying "why is it considered bad to think the Earth isn't flat". There's just a handful of loud mentally ill freaks who hate anything.

Originally systemd was hated because it was "doing too much but it's meant to just be an init system!" and "this is not UNIX philosophy!". But this drama concluded a decade ago.
Now it's an industry standard on Linux, every serious distro uses it and nobody sane can say it's "bad". People who still hate it today are just basement dwellers who are barely using their PC outside of a CLI.

Wayland was hated because it was pushed before it was ready, because it was originally associated with GNOME, and because it's core developers seem to be slow and hostile to improvements/criticism.
It was enabled by both Fedora and Ubuntu for all GPUs, despite it barely working on nVidia until 2024/2025. And nVidia wasn't the only issue, the issue was also the fact it barely had half the required protocols working when it was pushed out as a default, especially on Fedora which did it back in 2016 or so.
Since GNOME was the first to use it, and GNOME/Adwaita itself is a somewhat hated project, some people just hated it for that reason.
And Wayland devs are in general very slow to add necessary features and tend to overthink things or outright dismiss useful feature requests. I'm pretty sure things like HDR support wouldn't have happened if Valve didn't step in and started directly shitting on them. It's gotten so bad that the KDE team added custom features to their own Wayland compositor because they just couldn't wait for Wayland devs to get their shit together.

Does any of this mean systemd or wayland are bad and shouldn't be used? No, they're what you should be using on a desktop unless you fall into some niche scenario.
Systemd is more "set in stone" since lots of Linux software now expects it. But X11 still has some niche use cases and existing scripts/apps.

>>108001381
>I'm pretty sure things like HDR support wouldn't have happened if Valve didn't step in and started directly shitting on them. It's gotten so bad that the KDE team added custom features to their own Wayland compositor because they just couldn't wait for Wayland devs to get their shit together.
It would have happened, perhaps just not as quickly. The Wayland devs like to do things right first time if they can because it's difficult to change an already established protocol (see the whole text input mess).

Valve helped tremendously here, as did KDE by working with them. They proved it could work and then from that basis they could make the official protocols instead of some hacky froggy protocol. Now HDR and colour management is an official and well supported protocol.

Best way to watch YouTube on a low spec Lubuntu laptop? Firefox extensions to make the site lighter or a client? What are my options?

>>108001542
Mpv

>>108001542
invidious if you want to use your browser, mpv through yt-dl if you don't want to use the browser.

>>108001542
Thirding watching the videos through mpv via yt-dlp.

>>108001196
>>108001361
>>108001381
Okay ty for info.

>>107986853
Need Linux for gaming and coding since I'm a CS student

Best one to download?

>>108001609
If you don't want a just werks experience use Bazzite.

>>108001622
I'm new to Linux, looking for a soft landing

>>108001627
Bazzite would be that for you, until you start wanting to actually learn about Linux guts.

>>108001641
Okay so I'll install bazzite ty

>>108001609
Linux Mint

>>108001641
Kde or gnome?

What's the difference?

>>108001657
KDE is closer to how current Windows UI feels/acts. GNOME is more out there, closer to macOS kinda. I prefer KDE.

>>108001664
I never used Mac, just an iphone and airpods

>>108001381
SystemD is hated because its a corporate takeover of linux by red hat.
Wayland is hated because its a corporate takeover of linux by red hat. And before you say it isnt, look at what happened to the hyprland dev after he wouldn't kneel to the freedesktop mafia.

>>108001657
KDE is what you probably want. Much more mature and feature rich. Better file manager.
GNOME is like a hybrid between Android and macOS. It's fine, but way too lacking in some areas. It mainly relies on you using Extensions to re-implement features which are already there on other desktops, like a system tray or a clipboard history applet or a "minimize window" functionality.

>>108001685
The only reason Linux is even usable as a desktop is because of RedHat, Canonical and Valve. If a corporate takeover is necessary to make Linux less shit then I'm all for it.

>>108001687
Got the kde but said no to the steam thingy

Also ty for the explanation

Nixos bros. We won
At everything

>>107998259
This post smells like FUD especially the firefox didn't support twitch/addons part.

>>107997997
Why is writing a wayland compositor in rust supposed to be woke or politically related?

>>108001711
Because Loonduke says so. Watch his video and subscribe to his website.

>>108001691
>corporate bootlicking
Linux desktop would stagnate forever if red hat had their way with killing every desktop and only having the pile of shit gnome remaining its only because of KDE and other projects outside of gnome that the linux desktop is usable. They can barely manage include features in wayland that people expect from X11 because the red hat funded gnome devs keep throwing a shitfit every time.
Cannonical never achieved anything other than a failed DE (unity) a failed compositor (mir) and a failed package manager (snap).
Half the reason why linux gaming improved is because of the creator of dxvk (doitsujin) trying to find a way to run nier:automata on linux, later on valve ended up employing him. Wine was already chugging along before valve forked it and integrated it into steam with proton, and 99% of the effort to make steam games working under proton is community driven by sites like protondb not valve.
So no, we don't need a corporate takeover, bootlicker-kun.

>>107999591
I didn't like it.
Libvirt management sucks. It doesn't really handle spice display properly unless you're running cockpit locally on the same pc you're running libvirt from. I know spice is supposed to be depreciated but nobody has offered a proper alternative since vnc is shit even proxmox still supports spice.
Podman management also sucks.

>>108001711
That isn't really the problem, if it was KDE or GNOME doing it I wouldn't bat an eye
The problem that it is XFCE doing it. XFCE was supposed to be the X11 desktop environment, and it's quite literally in its name "X Forms Common Environment". XFCE moving to wayland is almost like a stab in the back for all its user base.

>>107999565
>s it as good as the name says?
Its just an arch livecd with some desktop utils and its easy to install missing packages you might need to use since they use the snapshotted archive repos from arch. Idk how hard it is to install extra packages on a gentoo livecd.

>>108001784
They will have to move to wayland eventually it would be better if they could have full control of their own compositor to have the features they need instead of being dependent on other compositor projects like lxqt does.

>>108001784
If there's so much demand for X11 then someone will fork it. Hell, all X11 fans can come together and create the perfect X11 DE running on XLibre. Of course that's harder than just recording your malding session and upload it to youtube.

In a non-retarded timeline everyone including Gnome would use the same compositor libraries...

>>108001823
That doesn't work when you realise that everyone wants control over the compositing themselves and has their own opinion over how it should be done.

Even in the X11 world not everyone used the same libraries. Some would use xlib, some would use xcb, some would use OpenGL and more recently some are using Vulkan.

This is a strength, not a weakness. Why would you want to force everyone to use the same thing when everyone can do what they want and you can just use whichever is the best for you.

>>108001833
>Why would you want to force everyone to use the same thing
Because I'd rather have one working thing than 20 broken ones

>>107997997
Rust is good. It's too bad the rest of the DE is written in a memory unsafe language. But that goes for every DE/WM except Cosmic at this point.

>>108001833
>everyone wants control over the compositing themselves and has their own opinion over how it should be done.
That's still happening even without everyone using the same compositor libraries.

>>108001844
But forcing everyone to use the same library doesn't guarantee you'll end up with one working one. All it does is reduce the number of competing ideas such that you end up with a worse end-product in the end. Having a healthy competition between multiple competing compositors is a good thing.

>>108001845
Doesn't cosmic have a bunch of memory leaks?

>>108001851
I know, it's why you will never get everyone to use the same thing. It's a stupid nonstarter of an idea.

Not to mention the fact that different people want to use different libraries by choice. The idea that you'd somehow get KDE to give up their C++ and adopt a C library for example is never going to happen. Some people prefer writing code in Rust as well, they're also not going to use your favourite C library instead because you think nobody should use any other libraries.

>>108001862
It did, I'm not sure if it still does. Rust does not prevent memory leaks.

>>108001749
>Linux desktop would stagnate forever if red hat had their way with killing every desktop
Like it or not KDE and Gnome are the only DEs people use. Everything else is a niche. And it's not like Gnome is that bad. Sure it's worse than KDE, but it's still years ahead of every other DE.
>Cannonical never achieved anything
They're responsible for the initial mass adoption of Linux. At least 60% of all Linux users are either using Ubuntu, or an Ubuntu flavor, or a distro based on Ubuntu like Mint.
Without Ubuntu there's no early adopters, there's far fewer devs and Linux wouldn't have half the users it currently does.
>Wine was already chugging along before valve forked it
Sure, but it's development was extremely slow compared to what it is today. Valve noticeably accelerated it to the point where 95%+ games are playable now. It would've taken twice as long for us to get here without Valve.
Also, the fact a native Steam client exist itself is due to Valve. Do you really think most Linux gamers would fuck around trying to run Steam through Wine? That's delusional.
>linux gaming improved because of the creator of dxvk (doitsujin) trying to find a way to run nier:automata on linux, later on valve ended up employing him.
You do realize what this actually means? It means in an alternate timeline where the guy wasn't employed by Valve, only nier and a couple dozen other games would be playable. Working for free is not maintainable and very few open source projects get any funding outside of corporate funding or direct corporate employment.
>community driven by sites like protondb not valve
These communities largely exist because of Valve. And Valve also pushed projects and corporations to improve Linux from their side. AMD, nVidia, Wayland, even KDE itself. Valve is literally employing a group of devs who work on KDE which you've yourself said is the reason "linux is usable".

Like it or not without corpos Linux would be unusable. Who would write your drivers?

I hab a new C library for unit testing C code.

I call it “Cunit”. Is ib a good name? I cunt see any problem wit it.

>>108002120
It's very similar to 'cunt' but since there are no female programmers I don't think anyone will be offended.

anyone else use dovecot/postfix? trying to upgrade to dovecot 2.4 but i haven't touched the mail setup in 12 years since i first set it up, and i just can't get past a particular error.
i'm using just local unix users, and lmtp for communication between the two daemons, and currently i can send email, but any time something comes in postfix receives from dovecot that the user doesn't exist, specifically as "username@domain.tld", since i'm using unix users the userdb doesn't include the whole email address, and i've tried everything i can find, which is not really a whole lot since dovecot 2.4 is quite new
>Jan 29 12:19:20 domainname.com postfix/lmtp[48663]: D553C15F535E: to=, relay=domainname.com[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=0.22, delays=0.12/0/0.03/0.06, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (host domainname.com[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 550 5.1.1 User doesn't exist: username@domainname.com (in reply to RCPT TO command))

What's the general opinion on openSUSE slowroll? Was interested in using Debian + KDE but KDE doesn't recommend using Debian with it because of the slow release cycle. I don't need bleeding edge, but I would like at least some patches for my DE.

Also, haven't posted on 4chan for some time, how did they manage to make the captcha even worse.

How do you people customize your setups? I installed arch™ (because gaming) with kde and its standard themes were meh, windows 7 aero style is better but buggy and does not correctly display some tools

>>108002344
>how do you guys rice
autism tier question, just lurk the desktop threads to find something you like.
I personally don't rice besides moving taskbar, adjusting some keyboard shortcuts and window placement.
I find KDE visually pleasing and I don't need anything more

>>107998259
From the looks of it this is still a /g/ thread which means its elitist. Just look up in the archives, you can ask what's wrong with manjaro after several posts shat on it and people will just tell you to get fucked and install it you want instead of just summarizing why.

>>108002039
>Like it or not KDE and Gnome are the only DEs people use.
People still use XFCE and Cinnamon.
>gnome
>still years ahead of every other DE.
Like how they don't have a systray? Very ahead of every other DE.
>but it's development was extremely slow compared to what it is today
No it wasn't. Wine was doing fine before proton it was DXVK and esync/fsync which i think also predates proton but i dont remember.
>You do realize what this actually means?
That DXVK which was started by one person was the reason for linux gaming improving not valve.
>It means in an alternate timeline where the guy wasn't employed by Valve, only nier and a couple dozen other games would be playable.
No, because he was working on supporting other games before he was employed by valve.
>These communities largely exist because of Valve.
WineHQ predates valve and did basically the same thing protondb does but with an outdated system.
>Valve is literally employing a group of devs who work on KDE which you've yourself said is the reason.
KDE was being worked on long before valve was involved.
Linux wouldnt be the end of the world without corpos, bootlicker-kun. Now take the corpo boot out of your mouth.

>>108001790
>Idk how hard it is to install extra packages on a gentoo livecd.
idk either lol, it happened to have everything I needed such as SSH server and mkfs.f2fs
But that's a good point.
>>108001685
>systemd bad
Assume I'm a distro dev. Give me something I can compile and package that does parallel service booting and has service management. And supports various services out of the box.
Dinit looks nice but it's not really a finished project IMO.

>>108002265
Alpine with KDE if you don't need glibc or don't use nvidia. Alpine is very niche though but it does have around a 6month release cycle. Otherwise maybe just use fedora KDE? or one of those meme immutable distros.

Is there a way to completely disable a monitor on mint without physically removing the connector? What I mean is that I have two monitors, the other plugged in hdmi port and the other in dp. I'm not always using the dp one and don't want to keep it on because it's distracting. I have to unplug the dp connector as I hate that windows etc. keep opening on that display even when it's powered off.

>>108002674

xrandr DP-1 --off

Replace DP-1 with whatever's the name of your display output which you can find with the xrandr command.

>>108002657
It's a laptop with an rtx a2000.
I also looked at Fedora, but read about Fedora pushing new technologies like systemd and wayland before they were ready. Is it just people overstating that?

>>108002695
it says "unrecognised option dp-0" even though xrandr says its name is dp-0

>>108002757
did you try DP-0?

>>108002779
You mean like capital letters, then yes.

>>108002757
>>108002779
*xrandr --output DP-1 --off

>>108002794
Haha, that worked thanks, but now I need to turn it on

>>108002243
i always figure something out once i've given in to asking someone about it.

solution for me was;

userdb passwd-file {
  auth_username_format = %{user|username}
  passwd_file_path = /etc/passwd
}

i'd tried all kinds of combinations of auth_username_format, but it seemed to ignore it all, the change was to try "passwd-file" instead of "passwd", why it makes a difference idk

>>108002719
The only good options for KDE are either Fedora or Arch, or any of the distros based on them.
>Fedora pushing new technologies like systemd and wayland before they were ready.
The only time this was a real issue was with Wayland, but it only affected GNOME and could be toggled off.

>>108002805
--auto instead of --off

>>108002808
ya the changes were a massive fuck you. I went through this pain with Fedora 43.

>>108002833
12 years of not having to touch it and oops we changed everything and your old config is completely unusable and no we won't migrate it for you :)

>>108002808
this is what I did if it helps.

passdb passwd-file {
  passdb_driver = passwd-file
  passwd_file_path = /etc/dovecot/%{user|domain}/passwd
}

userdb static {
  fields {
    uid = vmail
    gid = vmail
    home = /var/lib/mail/%{user|domain}/%{user|username}
  }
}

service auth {
  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth {
    mode = 0660
    user = postfix
    group = dovecot
  }
}

the thing that fucked me the most was the %{} syntax because I thought the | syntax was a logical "OR" not some weird filter thing like a jinja template language.

>>108002815
Thanks. I feel like a retard asking these fairly simple things but I'm new with linux and you gotta start somewhere I think. One last question, that "auto" worked but then the displays were showing same image. Is there a similar command for extended display (or whatewer it was called)?

>>108001123
>Why are these things considered bad?
>I saw this thing from a dude called Luke Smith that can run a script that sets up the os for you.
Holy shit anon you're getting hardcore memed on. Linux is getting "to easy" to use and some people just can't let go so you gotta use prehistoric or obscure distros like Mint or Void. No, you can't use the easy ones meant for everyone like Fedora.

>>108002867
example;
xrandr --output --left-of

>>108002866
doesn't seem like many people use just plain ol' unix users for mail accounts. this is just a personal vps with a handful of users so i didn't feel the need for virtual users, that wouldn't have the same issue, and most of what i did find assumed vmail users where the full email for said users would be recorded, or they're using ldap/sql/etc which also records the full email for users. unix passwd files of course don't store this
yea, the %{} format is a bit weird but i saw enough examples to realise it's like an object|value kind of deal

>>108002813
That was the thing putting me off Fedora, but I'll probably go with that then. Thanks.

Now the second question, anyone has a good guide on how to organize and setup btrfs?

>>108002903
Thank you!

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Got an issue where ASCII art is not displayed properly at all on my PC. Anybody care to lend a hand?
I'm assuming my issue is at least partially related to Linux since I'm on Linux Mint, have another computer Linux computer with the same issue, and have heard another guy I know who uses Linux complain about the same issue.
I've been messing around trying to get it to work while glancing at this site aa.yaruyomi.com/ , which I know has no issues on its side and normally Just Works.
So far I've tried installing the MS PGothic and MS Gothic fonts, changing all my system and browser fonts to them, changing my system to Japanese locale, and messing around with the fonts available for the ASCII art on the site above. Nothing worked.
Picrel is what the stuff is supposed to look like. It's here on the site. /た行/と/東方project/花映塚/射命丸文/射命丸文03(基本右向き).mlt

>>108002945
np, another basic command to know is;
xrandr --output

--mode 1920x1080 --rate 144
for setting resolution and/or refresh rate (you can specify just one of them if you like). you can also do it all in one line, setting the mode directly supersedes "auto", as auto just picks the highest mode available for you. you can set the modes and layout in one line, including different modes for different outputs by putting them after each respective output

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>>108002979
...And here's what it looks like on my machine.

>>108002652
Runit can handle parallel but has a really hacky way of service management, maybe s6? never tried s6.

>>108002719
>but read about Fedora pushing new technologies like systemd and wayland before they were ready.
Technically true. They did it for btrfs and pipewire as well but pipewire was more justified and less of a risk than the other three

>>108002979
which website?

>>108002992
most likely just a difference in the font used

>>108002979
Does the font show up in your fonts list in something like libreoffice?
When installing windows fonts you have to accept a EULA, should be prompted when you install it via CLI. You could also try sudo fc-cache -f -v to rebuild your font information cache files.

>>108003073
>When installing windows fonts you have to accept a EULA
Lmao what? You can just drag their fonts into your .fonts directory or double click the font file to install it.

>>108003083
My bad, that's for True-type core fonts. But you could still try to run the fc-cache command.

>>108003083
he's talking about installing the mscorefonts from your package manager. you can also ignore the license and just copy-paste any fonts into ~/.fonts

>>108001823
In a non-retarded timeline there would be a single wayland server, but that was not Diverse(TM) enough, so welcome to Babel.

>>107986853
Just installed debian with no proprietary software, amazed how well it works, works better than xubuntu 25.10 with proprietary drivers, the wifi and bluetooth on it was so bad

I also installed nixos kde, amazed by how pretty it looks, can't wait to use hyprland (after I spend an hour debugging it),

>>108003059
https://aa.yaruyomi.com/
>>108003067
Isn't that odd though? In the first place the site should be providing the fonts by itself, and my browser allows that, so there shouldn't be anything like the font being used being wrong. Setting the whole site to MS PGothic through inspect doesn't solve anything either.
>>108003073
Yeah.
I dl'd the fonts from some random site and lobbed them into the fonts directory as the other guy said. Tried the command you suggested but nothing changed.

>>108003164
Gnome ruined it. I'm still convinced that they're funded by people who want to make the Linux desktop unusable

>>108003228
They're funded by RedHat

>>107999104
Bump

>>108002979
consider trying a font designed for ascii art

>>108003551
I don't understand your post. What is 'Debian proot on Termux'?

>>108003581
Not him, but proot is unprivileged chroot via LD_PRELOAD hack (needed because you can't get real root on Android without actually rooting your device of course). It's actually very clever how it works. I don't know why they feel the need for Debian on there though. The termux repos are pretty big as it is. Is there something not packaged for it I wonder?

>>108003595
I see. If it's phone stuff I don't have anything else to say.
Why use .zshrc to source everything when the android session begins? Or better yet use ssh like normal persons.

>>108003624
fucking typo, fuck phones, not going to correct anything.

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>>108003595
Also if you do want a Debian environment then the new Terminal available in Android 15 may be worth a look. It comes with Debian 13 from the looks of it.

I have no idea if it's any good or not though or how it compares to Termux.

>>107986853
just wondering on any tips to learn how to rice???? I'm basically a beginner at ricing, i can install linux and do all that stuff, but the second it gets to customization i become a retard... any good videos to watch that can teach me some basics or anything?

>>108004019
Just copy other peoples configs and if you don't know what a specific option is supposed to mean or how it's supposed to be configured then search for it on either the online documentation or manpage

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>>107986853
My Njudea card shat the bed and purchased an ayymd card like the good goy I am (just a low end 9060xt, I don't play gaymen).
Everyone on here has been saying that Wayland is only bad because I use a Nvidia card but surprise surprise those cunt are liars. The moment I installed Fedora on my system I was getting green graphical artifacts, one of my 3 screens would randomly turn off and back on again and after waking from sleep all 3 monitors would need turning on and off again because there were scan-lines displayed on each screen making it unreadable. I thought the graphics card was a dud but I thought I might as well try out Mint before returning it and 2 days later there has not been a single error or graphical glitch, even after running bench-marking software for a few hours didn't yield any glitches.

Wayland is a pile of fucking shit no matter the platform and it is not even close to X11 in terms of reliability. Anyone who shills this shit is obviously a corporate shill (enslaved Indian on 5c an hour) pushing the agenda of some entity which seeks to harm free software or in the best case is some poor fag who can only afford a thinkpad from the early 2000's and whose use-case for their computer is taking screenshots of their latest arch rice.

>>108004134
Did you ever think maybe you caught a driver regression in Fedora, having a brand new video card?

>>108004155
you really think that anon thinks?

>>108004155
This is such a reach of an excuse

>>108004183
>nooo it can't be the most obvious explanation
>there must be a vast conspiracy

>>108004183
The original claim provided no evidence, so an excuse doesn't need to be sufficient either. I'm using Fedora+Wayland on multiple AMD devices right now and none of them have issues.