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okay this kinda pisses me off
after i upgraded to ubuntu 26.04 my fcitx icon changed into this
it's small but it's annoying and i always see it

I know Beryl and Compiz were kinda retarded, but my god were they amazing technology, Vista needed 2GB to even run correctly, meanwhile Linux on one core and 512mb ram be like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYgV2GlsufI

>>108965329
cute feet

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>>108965329

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Why is wireplumber ignoring my config to disable an output node? I've got a Denon AVR that has airplay which I naturally don't use with my PC, but the airplay node is shown on the list of available output devices and if anything so much as touches it to see what it is the AVR immediate flips into Airplay and I have to switch it back to the PC's input myself.
All I want is for the fucking thing to stop appearing as a possible output sink but I've put a config to disable it in both /etc/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/ and ~/.config/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/ (pic related) yet the little dickhead is STILL THERE. Am I just fucking retarded and there's another better way to do this?
Before you ask no I can't just turn off Airplay on the AVR or else I would've just done that already.

>>108965340
This probably means there's a name mismatch between the application name and the icon name
Look at its .desktop entry in '/usr/share/applications/', what does the Icon= field say? look if there are matching icons in /usr/share/icons or ~/.local/share/icons

Is tehre really, really, no way to let windows decide their placement on the screen if I'm using Wayland? Linux is quite fucked when it comes to multi monitor setups and KDE's "Window Rules" fucking suck.
I have a secondary monitor to the LEFT of the main one, but I think most fucktards making software just set "pick the leftmost monitor by default" for some stupid reason.

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>>108965359
Holy shit, seeing that browser theme made me feel really sad how soulless modern browsers are, I can't believe they took this away from us...

>>108965359
Messing with all themes and effects was fun when I used Compiz and Emerald.

>>108965329
THE STRONGEST

>>108965714
You can still do that today if you wanted, in fact you can replicate pretty much everything in that video today and you wouldn't even have to worry about the shit awful performance.
It's just that not that many people are willing to invest their times ricing their setup anymore, the defaults nowadays are more than "good enough", killing potential ricers.
If you really gave a shit about that you'd have a riced setup much better than that one already, you're just a lazy, performative, zoomer.

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>he's not using systemd

>>108965778
I already do have a custom browser theme with userChrome.css, jackass, but it was a pain to setup. I'm just lamenting the fact it's much harder to theme browsers (specifically firefox based ones) than before, I remember firefox had much more support for theming where you could download themes as addons and it would really change how your browser looked instead of just changing few colors

>>108965714
>they took it away from me!
they didn't take it away from me. i still use x11 (xlibre) and real firefox (pale moon) on linux.

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>>108965674
Okay I figured out how to disable RAOP in pipewire entirely (remove the 50-raop.conf file at /usr/share/pipewire/pipewire.conf.avail/) and that's finally got it to fuck off. I really don't understand why I couldn't just disable the node the regular way though.
I don't regret making the switch over to Fedora it's been a real breath of fresh air in so many ways. But audio device management is one of the things I think Windows just straight up handles better. Maybe one day it'll be less of a total clusterfuck.

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>>108965822

What is the best book I can read to learn about linux? I'm looking for a big book of linux/linux bible type deal.

pedo

UUUUOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH ToT ToT

any bash script to toggle mute my mic? (pipewire)

>>108965834
If you had a duplicate config file somewhere else like in /etc/ or /usr/share it was probably overriding your own files. It's One of Those Things(tm).

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Ever since picom v12 and the introduction of window rules I got this annoying issue: when the focused window changes, the desired option is applied with a lag of several seconds.
All I wanted to do was change the opacity of all unfocused windows. That's al I added to the default config. It worked flawlessly with the pre-v12 opacity rules. Is this really how it's supposed to work now?

rules: (
# default rules here...
{
  match = "!focused";
  opacity = 0.8;
})

I don't know why, but I swear there's always deal breaking issues whenever I try anything that isn't solus

>Fedora
Base iso keeps trying to format windows efi
>Fedora xfce/other spins
Forced to use 6 character password on account creation when mine is 4
>Arch/cachy
Recent updates don't let me properly mount ntfs drives
>Ubuntu/debian
No proper hyprland support
>Opensuse
Proprietary nvidia installation way too complicated and buggy

>>108966234
nvm found it

>>108966467
>Recent updates don't let me properly mount ntfs drives
what happened? I haven't used ntfs partitions in years, but isn't there a kernel driver to supplant that awful ntfs-3g/fuse garbage?

>>108966253
I checked all the possible config locations and made sure they all matched. Still didn't hide it. Probably just some weird edge case with RAOP sinks specifically.

>>108967315
Not sure, but with semi recent updates to arch it completely fucked up how ntfs drives point with gnome disks on my system. I always have to use ntfsfix -d on my secondary drive before I'm able to mount on startup, and even then it doesn't work well since I have fucked up read and write permissions whenever I try to save most files. I first thought it could've been cachyos since I had issues with it last year, but endeavouros does the same thing and it's frustrating to the point it's not usable at all for me.

I'm 75% sure the issue is on my end too, and I might need to reformat my drive, but I have several hundred gbs of files and don't feel like spending all day transferring them around just for the slim chance it fixes it

>>108965329
>>108965590
>>108965610
Why do Linux users love feet so much? Or is this a neet/weeb/tech thing?

>>108966467
>Forced to use 6 character password on account creation when mine is 4
type it twice

really hoping your password isn't itit.

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>>108967415
it's a /g/ thing

>>108965329
cirno feet rerorerorero cirno feet rerorero

>>108967381
>ntfsfix -d
This is the digital equivalent cleaning up shit with a squeegee. Make a Windows VM and fix it properly with chkdsk.

>>108967415
gen X women are too lazy to clean the floor and wear shoes inside the house

>>108967604
That doesn't work either. I tried multiple times when windows kept scanning my drives each start-up and was forced to exclude them with cmd prompts

>>108967613
Time to backup and reformat then. May be an issue with the drive or memory.

>>108965329
I am once again asking if there is a pulseaudio widget I can put on my desktop or a keybind I can use to quickly change between speaker and headphones.

>>108967677
what if you write and script and then make a .application file to launch it from your desktop?
you haven't mentioned the DE though

>>108967688
XCFE, and I actually have thought about that writing two separate bash scripts to switch audio but then at that point I'm halfway to developing my own widget, which I would honestly do as a project, if I wasn't already busy and doing a ton of overtime. So I'm reduced to researching on little off time I have and begging on here.
I mean I could just do it manually every time, but its a pain in the ass and frankly, I'm on a computer, things like this should be automated or easily fixed with a button press if you have a GUI or WM.

>>108967707
its one command dude. just add it as is to a keybind.

>>108967719
Really, what is the command? I have more than 1 audio output.

>>108967707
nta but what is command you're running to switch between outputs?

>>108967806
I'm actually using the pavucontrol gui currently to manually change.

>>108967677
On XFCE the volume widget allows you to change the output (and input) providing you have more than one. Around 4-5 years ago I needed something similar so I wrote a python script for this purpose and bound it to a keyboard shortcut. I think the original version had a bug with more than two sinks. I rewrote it as a shell script at some point but I don't remember why. I hate shell scripting beyond one liners and I'm borderline incompetent at it. I don't remember much of the details but it might be helpful:

# switches to the next audio sink

current=$(pactl get-default-sink)
target=-1
n=0

sink_count=$(pactl list short sinks | wc -l)
((sink_count-=1))

while read id name backend format channels frequency status; do
    if [[ $current == $name ]]; then
        if [[ $n == $sink_count ]]; then
            target=0
        else
            target=$n
            ((target++))
        fi
        break 2
    fi
    ((n++))
done <<< "$(pactl list short sinks)"

n=0

pactl list short sinks | while read id name backend format channels frequency status; do
    if [[ $n == $target ]]; then
        pactl set-default-sink "$name"
        echo switched to "$name"
        exit
    fi
    ((n++))
done

I'm not aware of an easier way to do this. Other audio tasks are much simpler:

pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle
pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +5%
pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -5%

>>108967415
its a gnome thing

>>108967744
check if current sink is speakers && switch to headhones || switch to speakers

>>108965329
>fwt loliposts for years
>now fglt starts loliposting
uoh

>>108965829
>(xlibre)
xlibre bots really need to all be purged

>>108965778
You're a snowflake

what is the argument against a front end for Pacman and yay in arch? I don't use one but the KDE store is always installed by default when I install plasma but never works

>>108965329
Stupid sexy Chirno

>>108967415
When you have no exposure to sexual release and naked women, feet are the lewdest thing out there.

love kid feet

>>108968826
i'll never understand what about feet could possibly be arousing

Could someone help me get my ps5 controller working on arch? if i connect it via usb or bluetooth nothing works, the lights on the controller dont even work

>>108969168
>if i conect it via usb or bluetooth nothing works
kernel module should load automatically, did you update and forgot to reboot?
what's the output of lsusb and dmesg | grep -i playstation

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>>108969158

>>108969458
i suppose i haven't sniffed a girls feet. not that haven't had the opportunity, it's just not something i've felt the urge to do.
i unfortunately don't have the opportunity to do so anymore. i have my fetishes as well but it's the sheer frequency that people bring up feet that confuses me, you can't post a picture with visible feet and not have 5 people comment on them, even if you post a pic with feet cut off the edge of the picture you'll probably get one or two people complaining about it

>>108969158
the texture is nice and soles are visually appealing

>>108969508
im one of those people

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>>108965867
When I started using Linux a decade ago people would recommend pic related and "The Unix Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike but I can't say I spent much time on books.
oh yeah the Emacs manual too, if you're into that. this one I read often

>>108969551
i can say for certain i don't find any part of feet appealing to look at
>>108969555
i'll bet you are. nice trips

>>108965867
Gemini, Claude and Deepseek.

>>108969308
I'll check in a bit, my cats asleep on me rn

>>108969608
>my cats asleep on me rn
pics or it didn't happen

>>108969595
>i can say for certain i don't find any part of feet appealing to look at
I didn't either until I got a footjob as a joke

>>108969641
sorry I must respect her privacy

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>>108969689

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>>108969650

>>108969727
>>108969308
ok it randomly started working, so idk what to say

Linux noob, doing my first serious linux machine (mint, yes i know i suck), what benchmark/loadtest do you guys use to make sure BIOS settings for CPU and RAM are actually stable?
also mfw cant run RAM at 6000

>>108969767
unigine for gpu
memtest86 for ram
prime 95 for cpu

then just benchmark by playing your fav games

>>108969741
i'm not the same person, i just wanted a picture of your cat

>>108969767
The golden standard:
https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite

>>108969816
i barely dare ask, buuuuuut.... do i have to go through build from source? use make?
somewhere else i saw people talk about getting a .deb file, which i sadly do not see (would have been too easy i guess)
also i tried OCCT linux version, but i will not even open properly on my machine.

>>108969968
Go to releases. There's a deb file

>>108966460
Update:
I have tried all the backends before and the problems persisted with all of them. However, in v.13-2, with egl the transitions are smooth. It says it's still an experimental backend, but I guess I'll have to use that now, unless I come across other issues.

>>108969977
Fuck that is a tiny button, yeah sorry i have not been on github a lot

>>108969650
not your sex blog normalfaggot

>>108969595
>>108969650
I hate to be the guy who comes in and doses you with reality but genearlly sexualization of body parts of that aren't sexual is generally seen as a decline of society, you could see the same thing in Rome with the obession with hands near the end and in Ancient China with feet binding.
Though Ancient China is a more interesting and unique case because they went into 250 years of peace and managed decline that hit them hard when they realized they were technologically far behind Europe and thought the best way to cope with that was isolationism.

best virtual keyboard for 2 in 1 touchscreen laptop? what do you guys use here?

>>108970450
Vboard for Wayland and Onboard for X11. Otherwise KDE's native one is also good.

>>108970450
Android

>>108970473
>Otherwise KDE's native one is also good.
what's the package name again?

>>108970509
nta but i think its installed by default

input > virtual keyboard > plasma keyboard

i'm trying to get my tv to work at 3840x2160@60 but hyprland only shows availableModes up to 3840x2160@29.97Hz
im using nvidia rtx 5050 on laptop.
https://pastebin.com/U0Y6jJvu for hyprctl monitors output. i've enabled everything nvidia related from hyprland wiki

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I love discussing Linux

>>108971213
fuck off, reddit

how come my waterfox only reopens whatever window was focused when i reboot instead of reopening everything?

>>108971274
waterfox is still a thing? i thought it was made as a "64bit version for windows before there was a 64bit version for windows"

>download a file using firefox
>file picker no longer has focus by default
this is so fucking annoying. Is it because of firefox, or mate? I'm on mint mate 22.3

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>>108965329
is this the thread

Update fedora 43 to 44 or not yet?

>>108971296
Waterfox's main deal was originally being a 64-bit Firefox before that existed, yeah.
These days it pivoted into being like Librewolf in a sense IE telemetry disabled on first boot etc.

Didn't Waterfox sell out to some adware company that started collecting data?

>>108971397
no, firefox did that

>>108971347
I updated from Fedora 42 to 43 and then directly to 44 like 1 week before 42 went EOL and have had 0 problems.

>>108971403
What do you mean no, they literally did that. That's why I stopped using it back in like 2016 or something

>>108971397
They broke off from them in 2023.

>>108971429
Why would you ever use a browser that literally sold itself to an adware company and started collecting data? What if they do it again? Surely there are better options?

>>108971274
>>108971359
Waterfox was originally what LibreWolf is now. A "more private by default" build of Firefox. But they were acquired by an advertising company which made most users jump ship to LibreWolf. So I'm very shocked to see someone still using Waterfox.

>>108971397
Yes. Waterfox was owned by an advertising company between 2019 and 2023. That's why I'm shocked to see people using it considering it was a browser that was only relevant a decade ago. Someone using it back then would've switched to Librewolf or Firefox + a custom config file, while a new user wouldn't even hear about Waterfox considering nobody is talking about it anymore.
I feel like it's one of those browsers you'd only use if you saw it when you googled "best privacy web browsers" and saw some outdated article mentioning it.

>>108971359
what does waterfox on linux even do? i didn't know there was a linux version of waterfox.
firefox got official 64bit releases on linux at the same time waterfox became a thing (2011). i wasn't aware of any difference besides it being "64bit firefox for windows" before it had an official 64bit version a few years later in 2015.
naturally given the thread, i haven't used windows in this time.

sheeeeeesh okay fine i'll switch to librewolf, but if i have the same issue, what's the fix?

>>108969586
Do you think reading the guix manual would be good?

>>108970801
Didn't work on my archlinux system, cachyos live iso,fedora workstation live iso. Windows 11 worked ootb

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>Some of you are alright, don’t turn on your windows computers tomorrow.
Right now you could make a bait thread like this with pic related and MSRC would shit themselves, lol.

>>108971347
>>108971415
>distro upgrade every year
Why not use a rolling release like Arch?
>>108969774
What if I wanted to RAM stress from Linux?

>>108971780
>Why not use a rolling release like Arch
I'm not mentally ill

>>108971504
bruh i didn't even know there was a linux release of waterfox, you might be the only one who used it

>>108971706
LMFAO

Why does my voice on discord sound worse on arch than it does on windows?

>>108971934
Most likely you have some software for your mic while on Linux you just get the raw output.

>Arch
>Audio issues
Why does this keeps happening?

>Why not use a rolling release like Arch?

>>108971359
I remember waterfox still had a lot of its own telemetry builtin and it had to re-brand itself from being "privacy focused" to being an ethical browser or something of the sorts. No idea what's happening with it nowdays.

>>108971780
>arch
No secure boot

>>108971934
https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.wwmm.easyeffects

>>108973234
Good. Secure boot is treacherous computing

>>108973234
>secure boot
snakeoil

>>108967415
it's a man thing
you wouldn't understand

I do not understand what the difference between GNOME and KDE is but I wish to try Bazzite and leave behind the great windows menace, which is better the average retard? I like customizing my desktop and am willing to give up most multiplayer games with anticheat at this point aside from like Nightreign

>>108973309
>GNOME and KDE
It's just personal preference, use whatever you want. Gnome looks like shit and resembles macs. KDE looks good and resembles Windows.

>>108973309
gnome is macos but shit
kde is windows but good

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>>108971328

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Am Windowsfag but w/e one struggle with this cunt
How else do I speed up the loading of this fat bitch? I already ditched the useless Darktable extension that would waste seconds on doing nothing but I want it to load snappier still. Like Paint.NET snappy, not instant but less than a second.

>>108973309
Both have their advantages, but most people generally prefer KDE.
>which is better the average retard
Depends on what kind of a retard you are. KDE is Windows UI while GNOME is Android desktop UI. If you're under 25 years old or if you're a tech illiterate normie, then GNOME is the better option.
>I like customizing my desktop
Both are customizable. The main difference is how you customize them.
KDE has customization settings built in, but they're all over the place and extremely fucking convoluted in some cases.
GNOME is not very customizable by default. In order to customize it you need to use GNOME Extensions and you should also use the GNOME Tweak Tools app.

>>108965329
Blue loli was claimed by microshill thread, you can’t use it for linux
>but this isn’t—
shut up nerd, them’s the rules

>>108973769
I have used Photoshop for years but after switching over to linux @ home ages ago I've been stuck with Gimp and I absolutely hate it. Your best option is to change unless you are lazy like me.
I don't need Photoshop anymore that often but whenever I do, I want to kms because I only got Gimp.

>>108965329
can I has speech today plox slant eyed moot

>>108973769
>not instant but less than a second
GIMP is obviously more bloated than Paint.NET so it's impossible to make it load that fast, mine loads in about 2 seconds and I'm using an SSD (though I have it on btrfs, so that may slow it down).
If you really REALLY want to get it to load fast then the only thing i could think of is to get an older version of GIMP or preload the thing to memory

>>108973769
I forgot, if you are used to paint.net I think you should just use wine to run it.

>>108973854
>I've been stuck with Gimp and I absolutely hate it
Why not use Photopea? It's a literal Photoshop clone that is satisfactory to most people.

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>>108973818
Is Patchouli then the definitive GNU/linuxhu?

>>108973887
Like I said, I'm already on Windows but this is a GIMP issue that's OS agnostic. I also tend to use GIMP more often than Photoshop now lol, recently did a CC wipe, torrented the latest m0nkrus Photoshop with it's useless local AI models and Premiere Pro, and only installed the latter. Once I found the Resynthesizer plugin for GIMP 3 I've been really getting used to it for technical edits and being able to autofill shit based on existing content really bridged the gap between GIMP and PS. I'll probably install PS whenever Paint.NET and GIMP won't be enough, but for now it's good enough.
>uses Windows as daily
>likes using GIMP over PS
Yeah, I know, I'm fucked in the head
>>108973894
NTA, I abso-fucking-lutely detest any and all software that depends on an Internet connection. I lose Internet connection to my PC, as long as it has steady AC supply, it will turn on, I will be able to open up every bit of utility software I have on it, as well as run the AI slop toy to goon to.

Fuck the whole FOSS vs proprietary debacle, cloud-only vs on-prem is the real modern issue.

>>108973260
>>108973261
>t. Wokelings

>>108973365
Do yoh live ij Australia, because literally the opposite is the caee.

>>108973924
Photopea can be used offline. Internet connection is only needed the first time you open the app to download chunks of the UI. I'm using the Photocrea flatpak with internet permission disabled.

>>108974001
Yeah, unless you can run all of that shit from a local server that you can migrate to any device by merely copying the files without having to count on your browser's cache, it's not truly offline.

For example there is an offline version of Regex101 that pulled an entire dump of the site to run offline. No need for an initial online connection, you could dump it on a machine that was never online and it would work. To me that's the minimum expectation from software. I can copy it to whatever I want and run it whenever and however I want. The rest of Stallman's free software postulates can wait when more often than not even the freedom to run software is violated by proprietary freeware nowadays.

>>108973858
>mine loads in about 2 seconds
That sounds… odd. I have a midrange desktop from 2024 (both win10 and cachy) and macbook m5 with the pro chip and gimp takes at least 5 seconds on either
it’s a slow, clunky piece of shit but outside of drawing circles it does what I need, mostly because I only need it infrequently

>>108974036
Flatpaks keep the user data in a single folder in your home directory. Copying that folder is enough to migrate all data and cache to a different device, so Photopea can remain fully offline.
Flatpaks are just that nice. I still have the Yuzu and Duckstation emulators which were pulled from Flathub and I move them between my devices just fine.

>>108973309
If you're used to Windows then go with KDE

>>108974071
Meh, I like AppImages better. It's like taking a PortableApps program and bundling it into a single executable. Elegant and extremely portable.

>>108974111
Not him but do AppImages update themselves? With flatpaks I can just run `flatpak update -y` to update them all.

>>108974147
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I keep a good chunk of my software as static portable setups on a secondary drive. Ones that don't have a built-in autoupdater don't need updating, they just work.

>>108974066
Okay, I tried to measure it more accurately this time, I ran

time gimp

in terminal and closed the GIMP window as soon as it finished loading, I did this a bunch of times and it's consistently around 3.7 seconds, idk if that's considered fast enough for you or not, that delay doesn't bother me much, if it's fast then it's probably because it's being cached to RAM

>Have all AMD gaming PC with 9070XT+9700X
>Try to use KDE on CachyOS
>Desktop krashes and drag box disspears along with UI and plasmashell crash on the first day


>try to use bazzite
>even worse not only does KDE have graphical bugs and lag in the UI before when it was smooth when minimizing, but now has the same problems as KDE on cachyOS with plasma crashing

>Try to use gnome with zorinOS
>Games completely break when alt tabbing to a browser, like its frozen and its broken, compositor breaks
>also software store is completely broken, app icons dont load, dont even know what category I'm in

>Try to use linux mint
>the most stable out of all of them
>the UI feels dated and nemo is slower than windows but its alright

>try to use steamOS from valve officially
>has the least amount of bugs I've tested but doesnt launch in desktop mode


So this has been my experience with linux. KDE is basically still broken even on AMD, zorinOS is not serious about polish, linux mint is still old and steamOS seems to be the most pragmatic KDE stable desktop.

>>108973309
KDE is better for gaming

>>108974147
They have a standard update API and several update managers you can use, but individual packagers aren't required to support it.

I just installed Linux Mint on my new Acer Aspire Go 15 and wifi isn't working. It was working on Windows. I connected my phone by tethering, and the driver manager says i have no updates needed. What gives? Also Endeavour OS and Artix don't even boot on live USB

Christ fedora is such a shitty distro. How do you have 2 releases fuck up so badly they're unusable without doing bs workarounds?

Nvidia drivers are damn near impossible to install without rolling back to outdated ones

Does anyone have a good guide on cron jobs?

How often do (You) clear your terminal history?

>>108974873
Have email set up and be aware that environment variables will be different. Ie don't count on PATH being the same as your user session.

Actually just stop being a retrograde degenerate and use systemd timers or snooze with any other decent service manager. cron fucking sucks.

>>108973309
Just go with KDE. I personally like GNOME, but there is a high chance you will prefer KDE Plasma.
>willing to give up most multiplayer games with anticheat at this point aside from like Nightreign
Trust me, there are A LOT of anti cheat games working on Linux. I bet most of your shit is working, as long as it's not Riot Games and Fortnite.
>List with all anti cheat games + their status on Linux
https://areweanticheatyet.com/

>>108971808
Is distro upgrading yearly somehow less mentally ill than using a rolling release system?
And isn't Arch the only relevant rolling release distribution? Are there others to consider?
>>108973234
"No secure boot"? You mean secure booting with Microsoft keys? AFAIK you can use Shim with any Linux out there.

>>108974873
>cron
Systemd timers exist.
>>108974722
Check firmware related errors.

dmesg | grep -i firmware

Or could just read the whole thing thru.
>>108974111
AppImages are even more elegant without the AppImage part lmao: extract the whole thing under /opt for example.
>>108973951
Not using secure boot is woke?

So, I'm running a 13th gen laptop cpu on a chink motherboard. In windows, I use the intel utility to set my PL1, PL2, IccMax, multiplier, etc. Am I able to do the same thing in linux (cachyos)?

The chink bios is a nightmare and I can't figure out how to change some settings or get some settings to save. Maybe because it's a B760 motherboard that isn't meant to overclock so the BIOS settings are acting weird. I'm hoping I'll be able to set things from the OS.

>>108974891
Never. If I don't want something recorded I just start the command with a space.

>>108974891
Every time Zsh corrupts it. It happens sometimes.

I asked before, but does anyone know how I can auto mount an ntfs drive on recent arch installations? Using gnome disks only gives me permissions in the base folder, and all subsequent sub folders are ready only, even after booting into windows. Arch distros are the only ones I have this issue with

>>108976233
>sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g
And just use gnome disks and edit mount options for your user rw. Just read the Archwiki or as AI.

>>108976491
I managed to probably fix it by changing auto to ntfs-3g defaults, before nosuid.

>>108965822
>I remember firefox had much more support for theming where you could download themes as addons and it would really change how your browser looked instead of just changing few colors
I miss Firefox 3.6's UI.

I think I found a really silly bug, plasmas lock screen sets the screen to a very dark grey if you set its background to solid black (setting, not sure about using a solid black bacground)

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Kwin is the only window manager that has the option to raise window on mouse release, right? I tried several on distrosea and all of them seem to raise the window immediately upon mouse click

>>108976582
Gnome just grab and press the super key. Or ctrl + c / crtl + x and then v? Or drag the file to the task bar down there. Or enable split view in Dolphin/Cinnamon.

>>108976599
I know all the workarounds. I just want to know if kwin is the only one with the specific behavior I'm looking for

>>108965329
>linix thread
>OP posts 9front mascot

>>108976653
The 9grid was fun.

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>>108973919
All 2hus are GNUhus.

>>108967415
theyre just fans of gnus not gnome or something like that

>>108975750
>extract the whole thing under /opt for example
Yeah I never played with manually "installing" software on Linux that way. You just unpack in /opt, symlink the executable to /bin and call it a day? ofc remembering to give it the x flag cuz Unix way.

Are there any gimp plugins that make font mangaement less suicide inducing?

>>108973234
If you want secure boot on Arch you just need to use sbctl

So if any of you have noticed programs no longer detecting fonts, it's because fontconfig 2.18 and 2.18.1 broke font matching. It was supposed to be fixed in 2.18.1 but I can't get foot terminal to load Berkeley Mono's TX-02 font no matter what combination of escaping or quoting I do now. To workaround it, I had to add a conf that renames TX02 family to TX-02 and just use TX02 when configuring apps.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match target="pattern">
    <test name="family">
      <string>TX02</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign">
      <string>TX-02</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>

99-tx02-alias.conf

I don't know what distro to use, Ubuntu/Debain/Mint is too old and I'm adding a bunch of repos to get newer versions, and Arch based distros are too new and buggy, I need new but also stable.

>>108977054
>Ubuntu
Try https://pacstall.dev/
>Debian
Learn to run Sid
>Mint
Straight in the bin

There's also Fedora + RPMFusion + Terra.

>>108976582
Probably, they made a big deal of having this feature

>>108977054
Universal Blue. They encourage containers and have it all setup out of the box along with brew. You can export applications so they'll act like regular desktop programs. You can get anything in the standard Fedora repos as well. That gets you pretty much any package on any big distro.
Atomic is very stable too you can always roll back an update that breaks something, and there's no such thing as an update failing and leaving you with a borked system. If you like Ubuntu then try Bluefin.

If i want to share my music over the network and have it show up as a local looking drive, is samba the best solution on linux?

>>108977371
Yeah stick with Samba.

>>108974111
The problem with Appimages is they place files wherever they want. They are not truly portable. Meanwhile each Flatpak app has it's own "home" folder where it stores everything, so you can actually transfer all data between different computers. Ideally there would be a format that is a mix of the two, where it's a single file like Appimage is while also being single-folder like Flatpak is.

>>108977054
Aurora, Bluefin or Bazzite.

The final destination of Emacs.
https://github.com/nyxkrage/emacs-os
Eat your heart out Lennart.

>>108977577
Now it's only missing a good text editor

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>>108977590
Eh, just slap Evil mode on it and it'll be fine.

>>108977054
For me Debian just works. If I want some newer software then I can add new repos, or I can use snaps, or flatpaks, or Homebrew.

anon@nona password:

>asdf
>asdfzxcv
>12qwaszx
>10qoakzm
>wqsaxz
Yeahh computering

The most annoying thing about snaps is that the update on their own schedule and store themselves in their own folder apart from the rest of the programs you installed. A lot of people keep saying:
>"Yeah but it comes with all the packaged dependencies needed to run the program so its convenient!"
Which is true, and yeah it is, but the problem is that flatpaks also do this, they are containerized (I mean so are snaps to be fair), they store themselves in the correct folder, and they update when I ask them too with the rest of my machine, not when someone sitting at Cannoncial's server farm decides to do their job.

As a Windows user, I respect the principle.
https://youtu.be/kyvGWMjIhco

I think im too retarded to set up samba
i tried following a few guides and on the device im trying to log in to i get either no permissions or doesnt exist

>>108977954
You can stop all snaps auto-updating by running this:
>sudo snap refresh --hold=forever
Or for a single snap just add the name of the snap:
>sudo snap refresh --hold=forever chromium
And to remove the hold you can just use `unhold`:
>sudo snap refresh --unhold
As for flatpaks vs snaps, I use both. If everything I wanted was on Flathub then maybe I would just use that, but there are a couple of snaps I wanted too. I don't really care about FOSS vs proprietary back-ends to be honest, as long as it works.

>>108971837
thanks, that doesn't answer my question though. apparently it's a plasma issue not restoring browser sessions properly, has nothing to do with what the browser is

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>>108977626
>If I want some newer software then I can add new repos
Creating a "frankendebian"?
>>108976909
The thing is AppImages are "standalone trees" stuffed into a single file so anyone wishing to extract one should extract it under /opt/whatever. I'm not sure what's the preferred way of doing desktop menu entries or adding them to $PATH.
>ofc remembering to give it the x flag cuz Unix way.
The AppImage' contents already have that.
>manually "installing" software on Linux
There's so many different manual installs. Usually when speaking of manual installs people get source codes (tar.xz, tar.gz or whatever), compile them and install all the junk under /usr/local.

Ubuntu just hilariously breaks when it has no disk space

>>108978395
And it keeps wasting it by not automatically deleting older kernels on updates like Mint?

>>108978399
I don't know, I only ever used ubuntu. I didn't want to make generalizing statements

Why are Macs so fast as Speedometer compared to Linux?

>>108978413
Modern Mac computers are so fast because of their Apple Silicon M chips bringing ARM speed while being highly compatible with most things.

>>108978404
I encountered this on Mint on my uncle's PC. I couldn't do shit because of the lack of disk space, and as it turned out there were a ton of older unused kernels taking up space. He and his family daily drives that thing so it's an instance that sees actual use.
I was just hooking up his daughter/my niece with pirated Minecraft when I encountered that lol, I may be a Windows first type of guy but I can deal with other OS', guess tard wrangling NT teaches you how clusterfucked computing can be

>>108978413
Apple makes extremely fast CPUs.

>>108978425
I'm a windowsfag too but I need a linux partition because it's handy to have.
I've only ever tried ubuntu and kubuntu and both were pretty miserable. I don't know what else to use, I'm willing to give Mint a shot.

>>108978465
>but I need a linux partition because it's handy to have
Depending on what you need, you could probably get away with keeping a Linux instance in a Hyper-V container.

>>108978424
>>108978450
Yeah but why are ARM CPUs getting higher Speedometer 3.1 score than RTX 5090s paired with 9800X3Ds and shit?

>>108978601
Because the OS and the hardware are made by the same company (plus the CPU and GPU sharing the same RAM pool) it's very highly efficient because they know exactly how to bring out the best performance. Just a shame they're stupid expensive.

>>108978619
>Because the OS and the hardware are made by the same company (plus the CPU and GPU sharing the same RAM pool) it's very highly efficient because they know exactly how to bring out the best performance
So does AMD APU

still doesn't answer question. Why is ARM CPU and double digit watt GPU beating triple digit wattage x86 CPU and dedicated PCIE GEN5 GPU?

>>108978601
Web browser rendering is not done by the GPU. That's why client-side rendered websites are slow as fuck. Most of the layout work is done by the CPU and only the final "image" is displayed by the GPU. So you having the RTX 5090 doesn't matter. You'd have the same Speedometer performance on a 1050 assuming you use the same CPU. Speedometer only tests how fast website layouts render, mostly using the popular client-side JS frameworks.

As for why an M5 has better Speedometer results than the 9800X3D, that's because it's a much faster CPU. It has more raw compute power even though it has a lower TDP. See:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/6344vs7231vs6981vs7229vs7230/AMD-Ryzen-7-9800X3D-vs-Apple-M5-Max-18-Core-vs-Apple-M5-10-Core-vs-Apple-M5-Pro-18-Core-vs-Apple-M5-Pro-15-Core

9800X3D has a 25% worse single-core performance which is what matters the most here. So an identical web browser should have a 25% worse Speedometer result on 9800X3D compared to an Apple M5.

whats the easiest way to convert windows custom cursors to linux

>>108978860
unless somethings changed recently, i remember it being a nightmare when i looked into it

>>108977607
Damn I miss bram... I hope vim remains usable even with AI slop being hammered into it

>>108977577
Should've used Hurd, going GNU all the way

>>108979239
Whatever happened to not updating software that works? Though personally I use Neovim like stock Vim, I haven't delved deep enough for the differences between standard Vim and Nvim to cause me problems. Even my config is VimScript.

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>>108969158
Only cute girls have cute feet. Moot said it.

>>108965590
cold feet

>>108969158
Part of it is that body parts that are usually being covered end up becoming more arousing in society.
There's a hunter gatherer tribe somewhere in Africa where the women are all topless, however they cover their ankles and as a result that became more arousing than boobs

>>108978860
converting them is the easy part: use win2xcur
actually getting your DE to use them is another story. what I did was copy a default KDE cursor set and manually replace every cursor image with the ones I wanted. there's like 200 files in there but they're all symlinks to the same 10 cursor files so just replace those and you'll be fine. good luck!

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Huh, guess the whole DeepWiki thing that gets astroturfed by SEO isn't so useless after all. Though it did hallucinate the whole "Dummy, Virtual" part, that's not how that works.

if linux is so great then why can't i get bluetooth to work
i need to send a bit of copied text from android to pc but it's impossible
on pc, i just get notifications about the phone connecting and disconnecting, and on the phone it says failed to connect
yes, i've connected and disconnected and paired and trusted the devices but none of that seems to help
the only related functionality that works is sending files from pc to phone - same thing other way around doesn't work, neither does "send note" to phone
i am about to smash my penis with a hammer if i can't get this to work in the next 10 seconds

>>108979580
For pc to phone we use kde connect.

>>108979580
bluetooth might be the biggest security flaw ever invented and they're doing a favour by forcing you to read the Arch (btw) wiki to troubleshoot before you can do anything

i'm going to transfer a bunch of documents, games, videos etc from my pc to a friends pc running also running linux. should i format the usb that will hold everything to ext4? if i plug that into his computer will i be able to transfer the files even though we have different usernames/groups and i might get 'permission denied' or am i overthinking this?

>>108979580
nvm solved it, i used a qr code and zbarcam-gtk to transmit the text

WiFi to Linux is what printers are to Windows.

>>108979793
wifi in linux in 2005 was like printers are to windows today

>>108979793
It's actually fine if you stay the hell away from two bad vendors who are really popular because their shit's cheap. It's not like Windows printers where you need to be aware of driver minutiae and mfgs shifting politics.

>>108965834
Enjoy the file reappearing next time the package that contained it is updated

>>108980374
this llm sure speaks in cryptic language

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>>108973234

>>108980408
Not them but the next time you update PipeWire it will come back because /usr is for files managed by your distribution. It won't see that you deleted it and leave it alone, it'll just replace it with the new version.

The right way to do it so to copy the file to /etc/pipewire, I think even if it's empty it will override the version in /usr.

>removes GTK theming
>removes subpixel antialiasing
>looks worse than KDE Plasma or GTK3 font-rendering
>breaks extensions
why is GTK4 absolute dogshit?

>>108979580
Linux Bluetooth is maintained by a bunch of mobile vendors who are OK breaking one adapter if it gets their pet adapter for their new device working. Linux has by far the broadest Bluetooth adapter support, dramatically better than Windows, but also the most unreliable. Change kernel versions and try again.

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>>108981649
Use case for better font rendering and extensions?

https://blogs.gnome.org/gtk/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1943794
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/whatss-with-the-new-poor-font-rendering-in-gtk4/72643
https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/gtk4-apps-have-poor-text-quality-on-plasma/63163
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/work_items/3768
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/work_items/3787
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/work_items/4926
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30796841
they even nerfed hinting to not actually hint. the settings are still in gnome tweaks, they just no longer do anything. it makes gtk apps look like garbage on kde, too, pushing everyone further towards qt

>>108981710
This but unironically. Get a real display.

getting rid of subpixel antialiasing makes fonts less crisp. forcing subpixel rendering even when hinting is on also increases blurriness. GNOME loves making fonts blurrier and taking away customization options, just like their new terminal app (which they call console) won't even let you change the color scheme to white on black (for when you want high contrast instead of grey on grey)

>>108981733
most people still use 1080p. framerate matters more than res for gaming. 1080p has been the standard for years. if it looks like garbage at 1080p, then it is garbage. it's also retarded they designed gnome increasingly for mobile/touch convergence when most mobile phones aren't 4k. so do they want everyone to have a 4k desktop to use gnome, or are they taking away customization and making everything mobile UI because they want mobile convergence? pick one

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>>108981738
pango update that killed bitmap fonts and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

oh, and there was the ability to scroll up in the linux TTY for years. they removed it a while back and never added it back.
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20200915140701.071583717@linuxfoundation.org/
>nobody actually _uses_ it any more
>I'll just aggressively remove it, and see if anybody even notices.

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>>108981649
Reminder
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787

>>108981789
They removed that after a rather nasty security vulnerability was found in it. These days the direction things are moving is it to replace the kernel's VT handling in user-space:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UseKmsconVTConsole

The benefits speak for itself:
>Uses xkbcommon for keyboard layout, so it supports multiple layout, and switching between them with configurable shortcut.
>Has better unicode support.
>Can use pango for font rendering, and has better compatibility with double-width character https://github.com/Aetf/kmscon/pull/135.
>Scrolling.
>Better security, as it's a userspace program, compared to fbcon running in the kernel.
>A crash in kmscon will make the systemd service to restart it. A crash in fbcon triggers a kernel panic.

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>>108981757
>2 posts for Xue
>both are not porn
>she's a background character in both
Xfcechads just can't keep winning

somehow my default fonts changed to noto after Arch update? why isn't it respecting my config anymore?

 fc-match monospace
NotoSansMono-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans Mono" "Regular"
~ 
 fc-match sans
NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular"
~ 
 cat .config/fontconfig/fonts.conf 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <!-- DEFAULT RENDER SETTINGS -->
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="embeddedbitmap"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
    <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
    <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
    <edit name="lcdfilter" mode="assign"><const>lcddefault</const></edit>
  </match>

  <!-- Set preferred serif, sans serif, and monospace fonts. -->
  <alias>
    <family>serif</family>
    <prefer><family>Inter</family></prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>sans-serif</family>
    <prefer><family>Inter</family></prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>monospace</family>
    <prefer><family>Iosevka Fixed</family></prefer>
  </alias>
</fontconfig>
~ 

also current post count for "konqi" is 107 lmfao

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>>108922764
Still awaiting a response. I was able to get virtio drivers installed but the VM still refuses to connect to the internet.

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>>108982056
Here's what it says on the VM. I looked at every possible guide to change this to a home connection even though I selected that in the Wizard to no avail.

>>108982022
ok found it it's upstream fontconfig bug, have to wait for fix

>>108965329
redpill me on the systemd hate, I dont get it.
>>108973309
Nightreign does work in Linux tho, I played it a few days ago

>>108982155
systemd hate is largely overhyped and irrational. RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, SLES, Arch, Debian, and Ubuntu all use systemd by default. If you don't like it, then switch to BSD. Much like FSF-approved distros, systemd-free ones are largely derivative clones with compromised usability and functionality as a result.

>>108982155
systemd breaks the unix philosophy. do one thing and do it well. it wants to control everything now - dns, network time, home folder, networking. It also creates logs in non-text files so you can't just easily pull up a log from the file...you have to go through journalctl and learn all the options.

What if a script you run decides to check your bashrc/aliases and check the ones with sudo, then replace it with their own commands? So you'll run your alias and it will run without warning (if sudo was used recently then there will be no password required...it only shows the command about to be run if you have to input the password). How do I prevent this hypothetical situation?

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I just got an US QWERTY keyboard.
How am I supposed to write n's with tilde (~) and vocals with tilde (`)
This layout isn't really helping
>you're latinx why did you get that
I wanted to try a southpaw keyboard, but the best one i found had this layout.

>>108982234
There should be a "US International" Keyboard option that lets you add accents by typing "~" before or after you type "n".

>>108982179
>What Linux need is less choices and more homogeny
This is the most disingenuous argument I've ever seen.

>>108982234
If you had KDE Plasma with the Plasma Keyboard you wouldn't have this issue. Just saying.

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>>108982520
>>108982234
By that, I mean Pic. Not sure if your distro has it or not but you can just hold down the letter, for example 'n' and then select which accent you want like ñ

how are drivers for nvidia cards these days? considering flipping to linux since there are good alternatives for most workplace things and i dont give a shit about valorant style anticheat games.

>>108982558
Much better then years ago. Not much friction anymore.

>>108979580
Bluetooth works ootb. Never had an issue with my tp link bluetooth dongle on any distro, connecting 2 dualsense controllers or fucking earbugs, no issues.
Fedora, Ubuntu, openSUSE.

>>108982560
performance wise it's not terrible either?

>>108982579
Thanks to Proton is works just fine pretty much.

>>108978110
I think the most unforgivable is the stub redirect on apt to install snaps instead without notifying the user.

>>108968826
>When you have no exposure to sexual release and naked women, feet are the lewdest thing out there.
Could also be the reverse. The modern human has too much exposure to porn, so pussies and tits aren't enough anymore. Even as a kid on normie social media like youtube, xitter, tiktok and ig, you see asses and boobies all day.

porn addiction, gooning to feet and armpits.

>>108982201
>networking
Besides NetworkManager, systemd-networkd is the only networking setup thing that actually has any substantial features. sysV and OpenRC were like all retarded in that regard and I eventually just ended up doing a plain old shell script to setup the whole network.

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are there any photoshop alternatives on Linux that are actually good to use and don't feel like eating a frozen breakfast burrito

>>108982859
I've heard that Photopea is pretty much as Photoshop as it can get, but it's browser-based.

>>108982874
Gimp makes me wanna jump off the roof so i'll try that

>>108982859
Krita is kute

>>108982859
The big two are Krita or Photopea.

>>108982234
compose key or alternative character key might work.

>>108982201
UNIX philosophy is completely fucking useless. Almost no real user wants that. It's something that can only be applicable to CLI tools, not a fully featured OS made in the 21st century.

>>108982314
Nobody is removing choices, but yes there should be standardization when it comes to your average desktop distro. Having no well defined standards and ABI compatibility is exactly what made Linux unusable all these years until distroless package formats were made.

>>108983867
>Nobody is removing choices,
yes, they are when they start to depend on it.
Standards are good, but not if they are in the hands of a single project that keeps adding shit that nobody asked for to it.

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>installing on new computer
>usually use netinstall images and it's not too bad
>only spare flash drive i have is usb 2.0
>need gparted before I install so go with a live distro
>this shit is going to take 35 minutes
I know USB 2.0 is slow but it's at least supposed to be 40MB/s

>>108984183
if it's a cheap and/or old usb drive then you should expect low speeds, while usb2.0 can do about 40MiB/s, that doesn't mean the device can.
my usb sata enclosure with an old ssd in it can do 40MiB/s (enclosure is usb2.0 but the ssd in it can do better), but my 20 year old 512M usb drive can only do like 2-4MiB/s (i don't remember exactly as it's been a while since i've used it)

>>108983954
>dependencies are a removal of choice
Autism.
>not if they are in the hands of a single project that keeps adding shit that nobody asked for to it
Ah yes, and 100% of the Linux kernel itself is totally useful and exactly what I asked for. The truth is, no good alternative to systemd exists.

This is like complaining Linux is monolithic instead of a microkernel or that Debian doesn't support BSD and Hurd as alternative kernels. No one has o work for free to provide alternatives and modularity for everything.

>>108984302
>or that Debian doesn't support BSD and Hurd as alternative kernels.
https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ (admittedly discontinued)
https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ (surprisingly renewed interest and kinda useful)

>>108984337
The point is that nobody owes you anything. You're not entitled to the existence of software or alternatives to software.

>>108984357
i'm someone else (not that you replied to anyone), i just think it's funny you picked examples that actually happened

>>108982234
ñ, à
works as expected on eurkey

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>>108984206
it's a pretty old drive. luckily i found another one for a devuan install i'm doing.

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>fired up FTP server i haven't used in years
>forgot settings
>

Error: Authentication failed.

hmm...
>Profile: cute
hmmmm...
>Username: cute
>Password: *****
>

Status: Directory listing of "/" successful

>mfw

>>108983867
>Nobody is removing choices
Then why are you so threatened by people who dislike systemd? Why are you so upset that people who don't know about alternatives to systemd are asking about it? Why are you so quick to dismiss everyone with any sort of mild question about it as "autistic"?
>but yes there should be standardization when it comes to your average desktop distro.
And there is your actual opinion, hence your ingeniousness.

has anyone tested KDE RAM usage against COSMIC's RAM usage?
wondering if COSMIC is better than KDE now

>>108984848
In tests COSMIC uses about 500~700MB or so less RAM on idle then KDE uses.

>>108984633
>ingeniousness.
disingenuousness*

>>108984858
wtf
if you're not shitposting/outright-lying i'm switching over right now
i guess it's fine to install it and just uninstall if you're bullshitting
but if you're not lying that's crazy

>>108984867
COSMIC is also in beta and broken so it makes sense a not even half-done DE would use less resources than a fully developed DE if the people coding it know how to code efficiecntly.

>>108984867
These are tests done on the EndeavourOS forums. Rust is just efficient.

>>108984633
>disingenuousness
My view on this is consistent. Having standards is better than not having them. That's a fact. I'd rather have standards and 80%+ adoption rates than have 20 different tools that do the same job but have different APIs to do so, each having a 5% adoption rate. One is a consistent platform you can actually make software for and use, and one is a disjointed mess and a failure.

When it comes to FOSS, standards pretty much never remove choices. systemd, pipewire, wayland, udev, d-bus, XDG, flatpak, appimage, KDE/Qt, GNOME/Gtk, etc. haven't removed your ability to run distros without these. Having agreed upon standards that are there for the majority of users and developers doesn't make it impossible for specialized side-projects to exist.

Again, if you don't like systemd and projects that depend on it, then make your own alternatives or pay someone to do it for you. Otherwise you're just being an entitled crybaby bitch. Nobody owes you software.

Is full disk encryption a meme if I don't worry about someone kicking my door down and abducting my PC? Do you always use it by default or only when it makes sense like laptops, or never?

Question about hyprland : does it fuck well with games? Do things like borderless fullscreen and other graphical configruations break or do they work as fine as with classic window managers? I kinda want to try it but if it makes gaming a pain again I'd rather not

>>108985230
>if I don't worry about someone kicking my door down and abducting my PC
Yeah? The point is that they can't access anything in your pc when it's offline and you're not around, otherwise it's useless

>>108985230
If there's a chance you might return the drive under warranty or sell it, you probably still want to encrypt it.