>>103824581 (OP)
What happened with Solus, is it dead?

>>103824591
IIRC the dev team just lost their drive. I wouldn't expect Solus was that popular of a distro either.

>>103824609
Budgie seemed really interesting then things just seemed to slow down until nobody was talking about either

>>103824631
Budgie was hard overshadowed by MATE

>>103824591
Far from it. I think they've just been busy with Budgie:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.10-Wayland-Only

>>103824609
They lost a lot of momentum when ikey left (he's making another Linux distro now, Serpent OS). They're still going though.

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I luv KDE

At this moment, I'm using Linux Mint 21.3. If I update for 22, will I lose something? My most fear is to lose Ryujinx, which is not available anymore. I know it's easy to find it on internet, but I don't want to have all the work to setup it again.

Digital world would be a dark place without Linux. Thank you Linux for existing and saving us from tyranny of crapple and macrosuck

>>103824863
If you were so scared of losing things when updating OS versions then you should've made your /home partition separate from your root. Otherwise if you're still too worried you could just put the Ryujinx install on a USB or something.

>>103824884
Honestly. If Linux didn't exist the tech world would be even more dystopic then it already is.

How do I become cool?

>>103824917
Go sit in a fridge

I'm back after worrying about having broken my pc while installing a new nvme and failing to reinsert my gpu for like an hour.

any good test to see if the gpu is relaly ok?

>>103824917
Install Gentoo.

kevin

I remember when Solus and elementary were shilled here every day.

How do I get programs to scale correctly on wayland in 4k?

I've set the global scale to 200%, but some programs are stuck at a tiny font.

>>103825296
Now it's Cosmic (still not out of beta by the way). Fads come and go.

>>103825359
Are you sure those programs are HiDPI aware? I use a 4K monitor with 150% scaling and everything is fine but I only use Qt software (except Firefox).

>>103824884
This, BSDs are all way too autistic even if architecturally interesting, they wouldn't have got much hardware support due of the stubborness.

>>103825783
I doubt it, it's using the X icon in the taskbar. For what it's worth, I've thrown in the towel and used ****scope. It's not perfect, but at least I can read and manipulate data without moving my face closer.

>>103826159
You could run a separate rootful XWayland instance for it.

>>103826186
Bluray logo?

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>>103826186

>>103826550
Is that a nose?

>>103820896 →
>noo not the heckin reflink!
its not the end of the world to not have reflink in exchange for a more stable and well-tested filesystem like ext4

i like gahno lonix

linux cured my league of legends addiction

linux enabled and worsened my porn addiction

linux made me a millionaire

linus banned me from contributing to the kernel because of where I was born

>>103824591
In a tale as old as time, a tranny took over, almost killed it completely (to the point where the website was down for weeks, with seemingly no hope of it ever being fixed), then ikey and Josh came back to save it.

That was over a year ago though, so fuck knows what's been happening since then

>>103824884
i probably would've sworn off computers without linux and BSD

>>103826847
It's not the end of the world but performance is dogshit without it because it has to do a real copy and duplicate all of the data, even on a fast SSD this takes a while, even on RAM disk on top of ZRAM or tmpfs (obviously tmpfs isn't ext4 but the issue of needing to copy data is still prevalent, since I switched to BTRFS on top of ZRAM for my Portage tmpdir it's so nice to be able to use reflinks when I need them to e.g copy two directories, fix some error and then diff them to make a patch/diff file).

>>103826956
Send the patch to a proxy to merge it on your behalf.

>>103827225
>It's not the end of the world but performance is dogshit without it
it literally tied with xfs as the most performant filesystem without reflink

>>103827022
How did they manage to take over?

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Is there a way to add automatic detection of shared storage on the network?
Like what is being shared over SMB/NFS?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n8vmXvoVjZw&pp=ygULbGludXggZ3VpZGU%3D [Embed]

Is this a good intro video to Linux?

>>103827464
Except, we're talking about real world speed of "copying" (in quotes because reflinks doesn't actually copy and data), not toy benchmarks.

Without reflinks, if you want to duplicate a directory N GB in size then you need to copy N GB of data. With reflinks you only have to copy a small amount of metadata.

>>103824581 (OP)
i have not used tor before so i have a question

is it normal to see ads on websites with the base install? did i download the wrong package from the arch repository?

>>103828060
Yes, it's normal. The Tor Browser does not install an ad-blocker, you can add uBlock Origin yourself if you want that.

>>103828026
extremely.

>>103828074
What privacy extensions are necessary or required and trusted enough to use with tor if you wouldn't mind me asking?

>>103828125
uBlock Origin and that's about it. I would not install any other extensions besides uBlock Origin because you could weaken your privacy or security, even just me recommending uBlock Origin would probably raise some eyebrows some people that work on the Tor Browser. In general, the less extensions the better.

>>103828143
does your answer hold true also for random browser + vpn?

i have read a few of links shared on g about privacy and most of the time said guides recommend 5-10 addons which they never explore in depth, be it conflicts or overlap of function, potential bugs ...

btw is arkenfox/user.js a meme?

LINUX IS GOOD.

>Redis Streams vs RabbitMQ vs Apache Kafka vs NATS JetStream vs Apache ActiveMQ vs Apache Pulsar
So what's the difference exactly? How do I know which one I need?

>>103828384
bros.. i fucking love linux

>>103828272
>most of the time said guides recommend 5-10 addons which they never explore in depth, be it conflicts or overlap of function, potential bugs ...
Ignore "guides" like that.

>btw is arkenfox/user.js a meme?
Mostly. Firefox already has good privacy out of the box. These scripts are usually applied blindly by people that don't know what they're doing and they can break things. You can just flip privacy.resist_fingerprinting like the tor browser does. Couple that with uBlock Origin and you're good. You may also want to disable WebRTC (you can do that in uBlock Origin) but that can break some sites that legitimately depend on it to function.

>>103828419
RabbitMQ is very good if you need a message queue. Say you have a bunch of servers generating some data and you want to store and forward this, possibly with delivery receipts if your app needs to know it got there okay. Then RabbitMQ works great. There are AMQP clients for pretty much any programming language you'd care about.

>>103827467
No one has ever really talked about it, but I imagine the usual. They were on the team before transitioning, then slowly pissed people off until they were left in charge. Reading between the lines (given that they became a single point of failure for basically fucking everything) they were a complete control freak who presumably used their identity and the threat of drama to force everyone to go along with them or leave.

Until they had to actually do something and completely shat the bed that is

>>103828492
Do you use anything else except for noscript and uBlock Origin?
Thanks for helping out.

>>103824581 (OP)
Before Linux Mint Cinnamon in its modern form came along, I thought BUDGIE SOLUS was going to be the end game, but man, Solus was such a buggy piece of shit. That Windows 7-taskbar didn't work and their software center always broken. I suffered with Solus for a while before abandoning it. Linux Mint has been everything I ever wanted Solus to be.

>>103828618
I do also use Firefox Multi-account containers and temporary containers but I try to keep add-on use to a minimum.

>>103828384
Controversial opinion

>>103828546
Gotta respect the hustle, bullying yourself to power

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Is there a way to stop mpv from loading files in the next directory?

Hi, I've got an xbox360 controller that I tested works on a linux box via usb, but I can't seem to get the bluetooth to work. Is it possible to use these controllers wirelessly on a computer?

Just installed debian on top of endeavorOS, but I didn't realize they use different bootloaders (grub and systemd-boot)
Now I can't boot into debian, because the system boots from systemd-boot, and my endeavorOS seems to be broken because of disk corruption?
Though this is a spare laptop I'm using, so nothing was lost. But can you even dual boot if your 2 systems use different bootloaders?

>>103829987
You can install grub on endeavorOS too

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>systemd-timesyncd randomly decides to stuck in restart loop and then kill itself
wat?

>>103829440
might need to look for each device/brand,

1 example for 8bit-do bluetooh

https://www.reddit.com/r/8bitdo/comments/t02pew/bluetooth_pairing_for_linux/

I love kde's overview mode

>>103829219
You mean a subdirectory? Depends on the script you're using for it (since it's not built in). I'm using autoload and I have an autoload.conf file in script-opts that has the line directory_mode=ignore, which sets that behavior. I also have images=no so it doesn't load photos

>>103829440
No, because the 360 controller doesn't feature bluetooth.

>>103830337
What does it use? I have the dongle thing but it apparently isn't plug and play.

>>103830301
both.
It load sub directory and the next directory.
hmm, are there different autoload?
directory_mode=recursive seems to be the default, what about lazy?

>>103830467
I forget but I think lazy didn't produce the behavior I wanted. Ignore ended up just going through videos in the same folder which is what I wanted anyway.

>>103830418
The driver for the dongle is deprecated and doesn't work on Linux anymore. It would need to be updated. I don't think anybody plans to do that.

adduser kubernetes --no-create-home --shell=/bin/null --no-login

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I am planning to upgrade my machine, add in some extra RAM, an HDD and stuff. Anything specific I need to know or steps needed to follow?

>>103830706
Use a kernel that supports your hardware. Use LTS kernels when available.

Artix or Alpine?

how do i tell fstab to auto make the mount path if it doesn't exist? i can't find a full list of fs_mntops.
Does it use mount? can i just add

m

to my fs_mntops?
i'd just try it but i don't want to restart since lol 900 second cooldown. thanks gookmoot you glownigger

>>103830773
Artix if you need Glibc

>>103830739
Could've just said
>use 6.6
>>103830706
You won't need a new kernel for a RAM upgrade, idk what the other anon is on about.
But 6.6.x is good regardless.

>>103830609
well that sucks. Does it still work on windows? Maybe I can just use a VM and make it work.

>>103831044
You have no idea what hardware he's buying.

>>103830846
>how do i tell fstab to auto make the mount path if it doesn't exist?
No such thing, this is why peepo created things like systemd.
And fstab doesn't create anything, it's a text file.
>>103830773
>all these meme distros
Do they have more than one person maintaining them?
>>103829987
>boot question
>no boot mode mentioned
And what's the goal here?
A: keep them as-is: both on their personal boot loaders
B: one manually installed bootloader for both (GRUB or rEFInd for example)
C: no bootloaders at all and no distro kernels: only a single EFI stub kernel that boots either
C requires EFI obviously so you need an EFI-PC, 1980s DOS-PC won't do here.
>But can you even dual boot if your 2 systems use different bootloaders
Yes, this (A) is the dumdum solution everyone uses. And it's DIRTY if you ask me.

>>103824654
>he's making another Linux distro now, Serpent OS
how many fucking more distros do we need holy shit

>>103831126
you're a text file, faggot

>>103831153
You don't understand, ikey stopped taking the D and is using Rust for the package manager. Rust good.

To be honest, this is how most distributions happen (those that aren't just forks of another at least):
>I've got a cool idea for a new package manager (Moss) let's build a distro to prove how good it is

>>103830846
>how do i tell fstab to auto make the mount path if it doesn't exist?
Use autofs.

You can also:

mount --make-dirs

but there's no option in the fstab to do that.

>>103831298
Actually, it's mount --mkdir and I think it's specific to the util-linux version of mount:
-m, --mkdir[=<mode>] alias to '-o X-mount.mkdir[=<mode>]'

>>103830846
Does

defaults,X-mount.mkdir

work?

god i have the nvidia proprietary driver so fucking much for linux desktops, it's amazing how it shits itself on my lenovo laptop and using the onboard amdis painfully slow because of framebuffer copy with nouveau

aaaa i've been trying for years to get this laptop to work fine with linux and i'm never able to, guess this is meant for windows

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>>103831768
Another happy customer.

>>103826919
Based and same. Linux cured my 10+ year league addiction, longer than all of my other drug addictions

>>103832157
Ever since that anti-cheat was added I haven't wanted to play again. Now I also here they're making those chests you use to get all the time not free anymore, so it seems like the game is just full on garbo now.

>>103831104
You would have to have a non-standard kit of RAM and drive with some proprietary interface (think: Apple) in order for it to not just work.

If it supports SATA or SCSI or NVME, etc, then all of that is just going to work.

>>103832273
No, retard, you do not know what hardware he is buying. You just keep saying RAM over and over again.

>>103824591
It has been resurrected. Ikey is doing whole new distro SerpentOS; the plan is for Solus to be based on it and use it's tooling.

>>103832305
Are you aware of any memory kits that fail to work with Linux? Memory is highly standardises, chances are it'd fail at the BIOS if something were wrong with it before it even gets to Linux.

>>103832384
Bot post.

>>103832399
Just answer the question. Are you aware of any standard kit of memory (normal, JDEC speeds and timings) that fails to work with Linux?

More exotic kits may have issues but that's not Linux fault, it's usually a hardware issue and Windows would suffer in the same way (i.e the system probably won't POST properly and if it does you may get instability, but again these are hardware issues, not a problem with your OS)

What format do I use for my pendrive for it work on both linux and windows?

>>103832428
Yup, bot post.

>>103830706
anons fail to suggest the obvious
>RAM
doesn't matter, everything works
>HDD
do not use cheap PCI-e -> SATA adapters, always use onboard OR get a HBA card
>GPU
for desktop: avoid NVidia, prefer AMD/Intel
for AI/compute: NVidia but with headless driver
>LAN
everything works but avoid Realtek
>WLAN
avoid Realtek at all costs, prefer Intel/Atheros/MediaTek

>>103832438
So that's a no then.

>>103832433
fat32 safe bet but limited to max 4gb file size limit per Single file

>>103824581 (OP)
is linux finally good?

>>103832510
What are the other options? Linux works with exFat, right?

>>103832520
exFat is the standard choice for that, yes.

>>103832520
Yes Linux has had an exFAT framework for a good amount of years now, ever since MS finally decided to open source it. You just need to install "exfatprogs" or "exfat-utils" and any distro can read/make exFAT devices fine, which most corpo/corpo-derived distros have by default.

openSUSE Aeon or Fedora Silverblue for a PC that just needs to work with little to no maintenance? Use case:
>web browsing
>videos
>libreoffice documents
>light gaming (steam)

>>103832546
Fedora Kinoite

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>>103832520
>>103832433
Remember to use MBR table though, had a toaster that didn't support it.
>take USB drive
>make partition table and one partition
>format the partition as exFAT
>save some toasting data
>put into smart toaster
>"unformated!" t. toaster
First thought it didn't support exFAT but it was the GPT table -> switched to MBR and it worked.

>>103832572
>smart toaster
What the fuck?

>>103832516
it is better in every way unless you use Adobe products or games with invasive anticheats

>>103832591
What does a smart toaster even do (besides Chinese botnet)? Send you a push notification when the shits done because you're too lazy to stand around waiting?

>>103832433
ntfs. Only use exfat if that's the only format your target device supports. It's a very fragile filesystem and not perfomant on big boy computers with async writes.

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>>103832591
Obviously rye bread requires different toasting program than white bread, are you stupid?

>>103832626
Uses """AI""" to figure out your preferred toast doneness (which is then sent to Chinese data companies)

>>103832626
Are you actually blind or can you not tell that the picture is obviously AI?

Hey anon my amdgpu driver keeps freezing/glitching the desktop and crashing every few days and spamming the logs.
Updating and downgrading doesn't change this behavior. I'm pretty sure the GPU isn't at fault.

>>103832658
I know that. I was talking in general, smart toasters probably do exist (smart everything exists) and yes, you probably shouldn't buy one.

>>103832546
either Silverblue or Kinoite then rebase to their respective ublue variants

>>103832670
I once had a R9 380 with similar problems and it turned out it was GPU's fault + troonix not handling GPU resets very well. Raise the idle voltage a little and it was fine.

Have you tried searching the log messages though? Usually other people are having the same issue.

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Installed OpenSuse Leap .... what do I do now?

>>103832745
Looks like you need to install ublock still.

>>103832745
Why does the default panel resemble pajeetOS?

>>103832783
Because OpenSUSE chose to configure it that way. Default KDE actually uses a floating panel now, that's more like a dock.

>container
>root filesystem "base"
>Stage3
Is there an actual name for it? You know when you are installing Linux manually and you got kernel and bootloader and everything done and all you need is the actual Linux userland.
>>103832745
How'd I install Leap in the way I described above?

>>103832802
>Is there an actual name for it?
Bootstrapping?

>>103832810
Yeah that's the process. But what the hell you call *it*?

>>103832822
I don't think there's an actual name for it. "Bootstrap" or "bring up", etc, is the closest way to describe that. Debian, for example has a tool called Debootstrap, the Deb is obviously Debian and the strap from "bootstrap". Also, Pacstrap, Febootstrap, etc.

>>103832749
yeah that's already done as well as privacy badger.

>>103832951
Certain UBO lists do what Privacy Badger does already.

looking to setup a primary-backup 8tb HDD pair , would btrfs send/receive be the way to go for backups? or lvm snapshots? also want to add a fast SSD cache at the front, would bcache or lvm-cache be better?

>>103832546
Silverblue because Aeon is still experimental

anyone here really fell for Linux trap because free?

>>103833884
Windows is stupid easy to get for free but Linux is truly free in every sense of the word.

>>103833884
I learned how to download cracked windows versions when I was 10 and I think it's morally justified to pirate anything from MS and/or Adobe, so the free thing never really applied. I just like to break, fix and make new things, and I started using Linux because of that.

>>103833884
>>103834119
I even remember installing this trap on windows 7 https://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean/
and fucking up everything, good times

>>103832181
Riot games just gave up on Linux compatibility for league entirely because they couldn't get their kernel level spyware anticheat to work on it. I'll taking this chance and am never going back. 5 years clean now. Maybe it still works with vfio but I never got that working correctly.

>>103834398
Take*

>>103832745
>>103832951
Well I never thought I would say this but a fresh install of OpenSuse KDE Leap feels objectively slower than a fresh win10 install. Downloads crawl and unzipping a 5gig zip file has crashed Ark and Dolphin 2-3 times already. I had to stop and go to work so I wasn't able to look into it anymore.
Any suggestions, people?

When running showmount -d, I get all sub-directories.
Is this normal?

>>103834398
The anti-cheat really was like a big ol' escape door for me after playing LoL on and off since about mid Season 3.
I still keep up with it and watch some leaguetubers for like new champs and shit but it seems like enshitification has totally taken it over. I mean Mel looks fun, I'd probably enjoy her.

I'm considering swapping to Fedora on my laptop, but I have a lot of stuff on it I'd rather not lose. Is there a way I could copy a whole snapshot of my W11 install onto a flash drive/external hard drive, so if I decide I don't like using Linux on my daily driver I can quickly swap back without having to start over?

>>103835381
https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/back-up-and-restore-with-windows-backup-87a81f8a-78fa-456e-b521-ac0560e32338

If you're buying a laptop, how likely is it that everything will just work on Linux?

Should you research whether a particular laptop is going to work?

>>103835540
According to the Ubuntu website, Dell, Lenovo and HP laptops should have no issue installing Linux to them.

>>103835491
I don't have a windows or onedrive account (I made my account locally so it wouldn't phone home), and I don't think that backs up the core Windows install, either. I don't have a Windows key so even if I save the files, I'd have no way of reinstalling Windows using a onedrive backup.

>>103835381
You can save your install as a .wim image via DISM. You can also turn your install into a vhd(x) file with disk2vhd.

>>103835590
Thank you, I'll look into that.

>>103835540
Fingerprint scanners are the main thing that fucks up often

>>103835615
Latter day thinkpads actually take Linux into account for their scanners. That being said, why would you ever use a fingerprint scanner?

>>103835609
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/capture-and-apply-windows-using-a-single-wim?view=windows-11
This might be useful

>>103833884
I was living Windows98 days and you had to pirate and crack every single basic tool so Linux made a whole lot of sense: you just type a command and there's your tools and utilities installed for you.
It was a trouble getting flash player and Nvidia drivers working with Debian in 1999 but it was overall OK experience. (IMO computers are always hard)

>>103833884
I just went for linux because windows after 7 was pure dogshit
When raw on mint after 7 was on end of life and didnt look back

Normal or Zen kernel for a desktop?

>>103835666
Reading it, it seems like you can't just snapshot a specific windows install. Instead it snapshots a 'base' windows install with no computer-specific files (think: downloaded programs) I guess so each use of that image would be functionally a fresh install. So it looks like I would make an image of Windows, and then save all my programs and internet bookmarks on a different flash drive. Hundreds of gigs to have to transfer around multiple times.

>>103835828
Doesn't really matter

>>103835828
I remember running into an issue that was resolved with the zen kernel with some program but I forget which one it was.

>>103835691
How do I get flash player working on Linux? I want to play some old games but the last linux version doesn't work (super outdated dependency issues) and ruffle is a piece of shit.

Fuck RedHat.

>>103835905
>Flash
That shit finally killed by Apple, one of the few good things they did?
Probably best choice it to get some old flash projector (or what it was called) for windows and run that with wine.

>>103835905
Works on my machine.
I got the Flash projector on the AUR and it just works.

>>103835918
Yes fellow (((anon))) destroying the last bastion of creative expression on the uncapitalized internet was indeed a good move by Apple™.

Upgrading my motherboard and CPU, will my install be fine?

>>103835994
hopefully

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>>103835905
works on my machine
>>103835994
sure

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>>103835994
>motherboard
You lose your UEFI entries, prepare your anus for recreating them.

>>103835540
Watch out for HP wifi card, some arent natively supported

>>103835540
NVIDIA driver will be the end of you rather than everything else.

>>103836162
Why does Linux hate Nvidia so much in particular? 20 years to figure out their GPUs, still don't work.

>>103836186
other way around dipshit

>>103829987
you can switch grub for systemd-boot on debian as well
debian should automatically update systemd-boot entries i think

>Open an HDD formatted with GPT using GParted
>Click on manage partition flags
>Way too many (weird) options
>After 20 minutes I figure out those are in fact not partition attributes, but partition type GUIDs that it is showing
Well, that was confusing. Can they not use official terminology?

>>103836186
Linux actually has very good support for Nvidia via the Nouveau driver and Red Hat and others are currently busy re-writing it to use Rust.

The problem here (in case it wasn't obvious enough) is that Nvidia wants nothing to do with it. Instead of supporting Nouveau and making the Linux driver better they push their shitty proprietary driver and user-space on you instead. The kernel driver is open now but the crucial user-space portion is still closed.

>>103836558
>proprietary driver
NTA, but I never understood this
How are the drivers "proprietary"? I'm assuming you need to know their source code to properly implement them?
Otherwise I don't see how the fact that they are proprietary affects the ability for them to be used outside of corpo operating systems
Does that mean that Microsoft has to either pay Nvidia or they have some kind of agreement? The same with MacOS
Also, are drivers not low-level enough that reverse-engineering them wouldn't be as difficult? Or do they change often enough to make that not a viable method?

>>103836601
>How are the drivers "proprietary"? I'm assuming you need to know their source code to properly implement them?
It's just that, yes. Nvidia, doesn't provide any source code so Red Hat and others have to reverse-engineer it. The Linux driver would be much better if they didn't have to do that. The kernel driver being open helps a lot but it's not a panache.

>>103836621
>>103836601
Also, the problem is not that they aren't low-level, it's that they're too low-level. The people writing the drivers need hardware documentation but Nvidia has historically been hesitant to provide that. The open driver has essentially become a reference.

>>103836601
Laptop uses iGPU(usually Intel) and dGPU(NVIDIA) and switch between them using NVIDIA Optimus.
From my experience it's a buggy piece of garbage.

>>103836693
I cannot agree enough

ya'll niggas don't remember motherfucking fglrx those drivers fucking SUCKED ASS god i get ptsd just by remembering

Is it possible that using the resize partition option (to shrink a partition) that is provided when installing Debian got my data in that partition corrupted?
The reported minimum size was 20GB, I went well above that at 100GB

>>103836762
Then we got AMDGPU (made by a bunch of hobbyists at first, but now backed by AMD themselves) and things are so much better. It's nice when you don't have to fight the whole stack anymore. Drivers just work, you don't even have to install them, they're already included.

Since desktop Linux doesn't have a ctrl alt del screen, if I run into issues with my desktop, is the method to drop to shell and kill processes that way?

>>103836813
Look into the Magic SysRq key

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What notification daemon do you use?
I've never thought about changing mine, but I feel like it would be nice to be able to add pictures and flair to notifications.

>>103836813
switch to tty, open htop, and delete the process
There's probably a better way but I'm too lazy to look it up

>>103836853
The one that KDE uses. I used Mako when I ran Sway and Dunst in the past. I think some people use XFCE's daemon too.

>>103836813
>if I run into issues with my desktop, is the method to drop to shell and kill processes that way?
I'd usually start with opening a terminal window. If my gpu fucks itself it recovers pretty quickly, but I still restart my gui in such cases. I don't see why I'd need to "drop to shell" unless the gui itself is causing the problems.

>>103836853
currently none, I kinda want to install one some day though.

>>103836883
I've had it were my desktop is completely unresponsive, but my machine hasn't completely hung

>>103836909
sounds like bad oom behavior.

>>103835555
Well certain models are certified and other ones aren't. I wish I knew what the problems were with the uncertified ones. Maybe the WiFi doesn't work, or Bluetooth, or some random thing.

>>103835615
I see. I guess that's not massively important to me.

>>103836070
I wasn't planning on HP anyway because I've heard bad things about them, like them requiring first-party ink for their printers

I was looking at Dell, maybe they're slightly less shit

>>103836162
I probably wouldn't have a discrete GPU to be honest

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It takes genuine talent to make user interfaces this confusing and unappealing. Just taking a single look at picrel is probably enough to forever scare an average normie away from Linux for life. And yet it's gnome that's trying to destroy Linux from within

>>103836989
>I probably wouldn't have a discrete GPU to be honest
This. For a laptop, there's no point. Save yourself some money and get an iGPU or APU from Intel/AMD.
>In b4: But I need a GPU for AI
Rent a GPU in the cloud.

>>103836995
You think KDE6 is "confusing and unappealing?" Are you dim?

>>103836995
Do you treat your desktop like a video game? It's a compliment that it's unassuming.

>>103837014
Is it not? A bajillion different buttons and inconsistent design across the board is your idea of usability and design?
>>103837028
Lrn2read

>>103837089
I read perfectly fine, you're complaining like a little baby retard that it's too confusing and not appealing enough for you.

It's a desktop environment, what more do you need from them other than a bunch of rectangles for a panel and windows?

>>103837209
I do understand though, it might be more visually appealing if they made the windows circle or star shaped, or maybe a pear. It's a good thing KDE is more focused on functionality than visual aesthetics.

>>103836995
>It takes genuine talent to make user interfaces this confusing and unappealing.
How much talent does it take to make a gui like win11?

>>103836995
The only issue here is l*ght mode

thoughts on gnome? good for an old laptop that needs a fresh start?

>>103837400
I would not run GNOME on any old laptop. Pretty much anything else will run better.

I would run KDE if it can handle it, otherwise LXQt.

>>103837400
Do you prefer Mac or Windows? If Mac slap Gnome 4, if Windows KDE 6 it is. Both aren't that super heavy. It will work but I think Gnome is heavier. It doesn't really matter because the browser is what's going to kill the old laptop RAM, not the desktop environment.

>>103837463
>>103837424
KDE it is then. ty!

>>103837463
>If Mac slap Gnome 4,
where does this Mac <-> Gnome thing even come from?

>>103837527
It ain't elementary OS but you have to admit it looks a lot like the macOS UI.

>>103836239
As in use systemd-boot for Debian? I'll either do that or change my EndeavorOS to boot with GRUB2 instead
Also, I fixed my EndeavorOS not booting issue. When installing Debian, it planned on using the same swap partition as EndeavorOS, but instead of keeping it as is, it changed its UUID. But when EndeavorOS was booting, it was expecting to find the original UUID and it was stuck searching for it, so I had to change it back with

swaplabel

. I'll be reinstalling Debian later, with more knowledge hopefully
Honestly, I've only been using Linux for a month, but figuring out issues like this on your own feels amazing

>>103836995
That UI looks fine and it should be very familiar to Windows users

If you don't like it, use a different DE

>probably enough to forever scare an average normie away from Linux for life
I don't care what normies think

>>103837572
>it was expecting to find the original UUID
how did you figure that out? did you find the reference to the UUID somewhere? good work man.

>>103837569
Not really, no. Unless they fucked it up recently, haven't touched Macs in a long time.

>>103837597
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Sequoia

>>103837527
Gnome 4 has the identical look, feel, and shortcuts as Mac. Gnome 3 used to be a vertical, but 4 is horizontal by default, making it even more similar. I'm talking about vanilla Gnome 4, not variations, like Ubuntu version. You can find it in Arch and Fedora. KDE is a much more Windows like experience.

>>103837588
After starting initrd, one of the first lines printed in the tty (I think the environment before gui while booting is called that) was
>Expecting device /dev/disk/by-uuid/{UUID}
That UUID was also in the fstab for the swap partition
And the line the boot process got stuck on was
>A start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid/{UUID}
I first tried changing the UUID entry in fstab to the one generated by the Debian installer, but when booting, it was still trying to find the old UUID, meaning there must've been more references to it somewhere
So I just changed the rewritten UUID to the old one instead

>>103837282
>win11
definitely not much

https://reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1hxpeux/comment/m6bff61/
https://reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1hxpeux/comment/m6bjyw0/
How?

>>103837858
I don't know but it's well known that Wayland does this. I don't know how he thinks they'll be able to optimise that. X11 has a mechanism to share fonts among multiple running applications but Wayland has no such thing (client side rendering / Vs server side rendering X11 or client side rendering but with shared resources).

It sounds like he's saying it's loading more fonts than it needs to?

>>103837572
yes uninstall the grub package on debian and install the systemd-boot package and systemd-boot should do the rest on every kernel update

>>103838047
Wayland is just a library that helps implement the protocol correctly. It's the compositor responsibility to handle fonts. Cosmic devs can do whatever they want with fonts, including cache fonts. The easiest way is loading fonts again but they can easily have a cache.

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How to troubleshoot linux system freeze?
It's not very often that it happens.
Like once or twice a year.
It start with graphical glitches in web browser/system UI, and then just freeze.
I think it's running out of memory because I'm usually doing browsing while trying to run LLM.
How to check for this?

>>103838197
linux has horrdenous OOM handling it happens all the time for me
what distro are you using

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i cant fucking make up my mind whether i should install nixos on my zfs pool on big disk or just install it on my sata drive on ext4 or some shit like that

>>103836995
this post really ruffled some feathers
https://youtu.be/k0qmkQGqpM8 [Embed]

>>103838197
Whenever you have a crash or freeze problem you should first check journalctl. It will tell all problems that occured. If you suspect it's lack of RAM use btop, htop or top.

It could be that your swap is not properly configured. If that's the case here's documentation from arch:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap

All distros use the same swap system but of course you should read your distro manual first. This is not a newbie friendly configuration so some patience is required.

Like the other anon said Linux used to be terrible in out of memory problems, but that was improved with recent updates. You do need to configure it though. Usually that happened with older swap methods.

>>103838264
If you have a spare disk it's always better to install it separately. You're only going to have problems if you put everything in the same disk.

>>103838237
I was using debian sid, and thought it was causing by something on my part.
So I switched to arch about 4months, and I had the same issue.>>103838308
>journalctl
>may
This took me back to the day I insttaled the system
>>103838308
>It could be that your swap is not properly configured. If that's the case here's documentation from arch:
It's set by default according to that wiki.
>Usually that happened with older swap methods
Maybe.
How to troubleshoot this?

>>103838322
it's not really spare i'm kind of using it right now and i'd have to move shit to do a clean install or hack shit together
also what problems? ive never had any problems
>>103838334
install 3rd party oom killer

>>103838334
You troubleshoot by having one of the top application running and seeing what kind of memory is being used. When Linux freezes it's usually because you ran out of RAM and swap. When that happens it will try to not crash applications, and then freezes.

What you can do is first check if you have enough swap, and if not increase it. You can also enable compression.

One problem is if you have a swap partition. That makes it a lot more difficult to manage swap while with a file you can just increase the size.

>>103838322
can you answer me
i was about to pull the trigger and now i'm hesitant

>>103838129
>It's the compositor responsibility to handle fonts.
The compositor explicitly doesn't handle fonts. Wayland is client side rendering.

>>103838350
The problem with using the same disk is that you're going to have two OS managing the same disk. That can lead to poor disk optimization and mistakes. Disks run best if they're not full. It's not a big deal but if you have a spare disk it's better to install it separately. If not than same disk is okay.

>>103838525
>The problem with using the same disk is that you're going to have two OS managing the same disk
what?

>>103838237
OOM is not the kernel's problem. There's no reason to ever let memory run out.

>>103838559
then why is it built into the kernel smartass

>>103838501
I know but it's not magic. The compositor is the one that decides what and how to render windows, the applications themselves.

I wasn't precise enought though. The framework manages fonts, not Wayland or the compositor. When an application renders fonts it asks the GTK, Qt or whatever for the font, which can then be cached. I'm not sure if system wide fonts are cached by the OS itself but I think they are.

>>103838543
If you have multiple OS in the same disk you're going to have a fuller and more active disk and SSD and HDD deteriorate faster with move more the fuller it is.

>>103838617
can you speak english and why would i have more than 1 OS installed
you're fucking stupid

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hi fglt

is there really no officially supported flavour of ubuntu/mint that comes with plasma? I loved it on debian but i dont want to switch to linux and have dinosaur packages only when i inevitably find some niche thing i need to be able to do

>>103838632
of course there is retard why dont you google it dumbass

>>103838568
So the kernel can kill random processes !=0 when it needs more memory. The kernel OOM killer isn't there to keep userspace running.

>>103838629
Why did you ask that question if you only have one OS? Why would you ask where to install NixOS? Calling others stupid can only really backfire, there's no gain. You only make yourself look stupid.

>>103838661
fair
>>103838671
are you indian

>>103838683
Ok. Good luck figuring out problems that have obvious answers. You won't.

>>103838692
sar are you india

Why doesn't arch distros come with secure boot support like proper, professional distros (Opensuse, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc)?

>>103838650
i went to the linux mint website>download>all versions and they only list mate, cinnamon and xfce

i guess kubuntu is my only choice for something that just werks and looks good

>>103838862
Kubuntu 24.10 is alright, but not as up to date as other KDE distros.

>>103838872
do you mean the version of plasma isn't as up to date? I think it's okay as long as it is as good as the one that comes with debian 12 which i really liked. I just want to switch to linux and be able to access the enormous support resources behind ubuntu

>>103838941
yes currently on Kubuntu it's 6.1.5. Other distros have 6.2.4 already. I haven't noticed many drawbacks however, except that installing global themes from the settings menu fails with an API error, so I had to install them by gathering the components one by one using Pling Store.

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What did people use for interactive filtering before fzf existed?

>>103838862
or you could, you know, just install kde on any distro.

>>103838999
I don't know what you mean or what that is

>>103838862
Kubuntu and Mint use the same Ubuntu base anyway.

>>103839112
Fuzzy finding is when you can search for something with inexact words and phrases, slight spelling mistakes, etc, and it'll still find results. It's "fuzzy".

I don't think people did that much before the popularity of Fzf.

>>103832688
Whats the benefit of rebasing to ublue? Feel free to link me to a lengthy document, I've been searching online but haven't found anything.

>>103839177
>>103839139
it's more bloated, comes with drivers and codecs and everything pre installed. Also brew instead of toolbox for easier installation of CLI apps.

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>>103839190
>brew instead of toolbox for easier installation of CLI apps
I thought brew was macshit. Might give it a try anyway. Thanks.

>>103839133
>popularity of Fzf.
never heard of it before, but checking it out now it might be a cool thing.

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>>103824581 (OP)
What the FUCK is an immutable distro?

Specifically can anyone explain to me what Fedora SilverBlue and the Universal Blue distros (Bluefin, Bazzite etc) actually are and what are their pros and cons?

>>103839297
It's a godsend for adding interactivity to your scripts.

>>103839323
Basically: a read only /usr with two root filesystems, one mounted (read only) and one unmounted which can be modified. It protects you from ever screwing up updates and allows you to do safe background updates. Cons are that installing packages to the base OS is pretty slow, but I believe Ublue distros have made it faster somehow. Anyway, you're not supposed to do that at all unless there's no other option and use flatpak/appimages/containers/brew instead. IMO this is a much more sensible way to manage a desktop as there's clear separation between system and user software, but many view this as a con.

>tfw buck broken by SMB3.X server with Kerberos and DFS
>zero useful debug
>unhelpful Operation not supported (95) message
>NTLM sec works but all DFS paths fail with "remote object" errno
>Made sure my /etc/request-key.conf is correct and I have cifs-util and keyutils installed
>smbclient can't use Linux keyring stored krb5 credentials cache and only supports FILE:

I give up. Kerberos is so fucking ass. Windows is gayer than AIDS. How much better is NFS4?

>>103836995
All those look fine, not perfect but a hell of a lot better than the digital diarrhea that was the win10 visual design. 11 is arguably a bit better but also shits the bed in lots of places.

>>103838999
Seems like it could be neat. Anyone got any other useful but slightly obscure cli programs? Personally I really like fdupes for removing duplicate files.

>>103839491
NFS = No Fucking Security.

Plasma 5.17.12 came out a few days ago, will Kubuntu get it or no?

>>103839491
>Check kernel config
># CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL is not set
going to fucking kill myself.

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Retarded question, but what do you use for username + password management? Is there a good option that uses local storage and no cloud crap? I use FDE if that matters.
I never used a password manager but I'm up to like 20 different accounts for stupid shit and it's just too much now, I have to constantly reset my passwords

Is Linux Mint cinnamon a good version for a first time Linux user

How do I launch applications from the terminal without committing that terminal to only that application only? I want to launch shit but still have the terminal.
>>103839797
I dig it. Give it a whirl on a live environment to test it out. Don't be afraid to try a couple distros before committing. I'd also recommend checking out Zorin OS, it's quite similar to windows as well.

>>103839783
KeePass has a Linux port
you can use pass if you really want a terminal-only thing

>>103839783
Keepassxc

>>103839783
keepassxc

>>103839848
>>103839854
>>103839856
Thanks, checked the archives and this was also the consensus.

>>103824581 (OP)
just found an old ssd and plugged it into my PC. Which distro should I use? I used Mint first a while ago then I tried out Arch-based distros but to little success

>>103839783
I use gopass since it's like the old pass, but less bad. you can slap fzf in front of it to make the UX a little better, unless you're a fish chad, then gopass show partialTAB just works.

>>103839827
Adding & after an executable runs it in the background, allowing you to keep using the shell. The program is still tied to the shell, but you can use the disown command to cut it loose. Just running disown on its own disowns the last launched process, so you could go

firefox & disown

to launch firefox in the background and disown it.

>>103839887
Only thing I'll mention is that browser integration with non-standard browsers can sometimes require some extra steps to set up. I know I had to do it with librewolf.

>>103839848
>>103839854
>>103839856
>>103839887
>>103839972
Thoughts on pass? I use it for some stuff (e.g. forum passwords where I don't mind so much if they get compromised)

It uses gpg for encryption I think

What is this UEFI boot entry? I can't find a format like this anywhere on the internet
Output from efibootmgr
>Boot0001* {the name of my HDD} PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x13,0x0)/Sata(0,0,0)/HD(1,GPT,{the unique partition GUID of the ESP partition},0x1000,0x200000)RC
This is apparently my current boot, I'm running endeavorOS. How do I know which file this uses to boot?

>>103839988
Okay. I think I will probably skip browser integration, I just need a vault to locally store passwords I use 5 times a year.

>>103839997
pass uses gpg, it's very simple, and you can make it as safe as you want. The only reason to not like pass is that it's very simple. You can only name your passwords by folder and file, no website or group or whatever like keypass. Also sharing with mobile is a bit of a pain, or at least it was when I started using. No browser integration either but I don't trust that shit to begin with.

>>103839988
you can use it without browser integration

>>103839975
What does disowning it mean? Can I still do other commands related to that app after disowning it? Also how to close apps with the terminal without killing it (like pressing the X on to top of the window, but without the mouse)?

>>103840187
Disown allows you to close the terminal without killing the application you launched. If you launch firefox & disown closing the terminal won't kill it.

Kill doesn't do what you think it does, it sends a signal. The default signal is SIGTERM which is graceful termination. When you close a window it sends a SIGTERM to the application, meaning kill <pid> does what you want.

>>103838492
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I run out of memory.
>8GB RAM
>8GB SWAP
>Uptime 21 days
>57 open pinned tab/4 are youtube
>5 videos loaded into cache
>telegram/viber/whatsapp/messenger running
yeah I'm out of memory.
I was hoping there is a way to prevent doing that, like closing firefox instead of freezing.

>>103839561
>fdupes
Isn't it obsolete now?

>>103839997
only shit deal with (go)pass is it doesn't hide metadata such as your account names + symmetric encrypted blocks with metadata + if you git sync it, write history, can let someone theoretically recover your secret.

the TL;DR is, don't store gopass db in a place a CIA nigger can trivially snoop on changes to it and you're fine.

Physical access = pwned, but not in this case!?

I own a computer on my LAN (I'm not doing anything malicious). I can't SSH in to it and I can't log in due to vlock being weird. I can't switch to a different TTY because I ran "vlock -a". How do I access that computer's files which are in a ramdisk? I can't reboot the computer as that would delete everything in the running liveboot. The computer doesn't show up at the usual or any IP address in the LAN. I can't access any terminal to use that computer.

I connected an Ethernet cable directly from the problem computer to a non-problem computer. Seems like that didn't help. Still cannot SSH in.

Still cannot SSH in.

How do I do something sneaky like reading the fan speed to read all the files? Is there an easier or more sane solution? I was thinking of those hacking tool USB flash drives ("Rubber Ducky"), but I'm locked out so that wouldn't work. BTW, Rubber Duckies are interesting; if the system is unlocked, then plugging that "flash drive" in can wreak havoc. That's because it's more akin to a keyboard which, after being plugged in, automatically sends out keystrokes to do whatever.

>>103840380
there is, but you have to configure it

>>103840380
You can set strict mode:

systemctl vm.overcommit_memory=2

But then it will kill if you don't have ram or swap. I think that's the command, not sure. It's something like that.

You should also increase swap. Double that swap, or maybe put 20GB just to be safe.

>>103840057
I think it might not lead to anywhere
Using "sudo bootctl status", It says the current boot loader is /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI, i.e. the fallback
So it seems my UEFI boot entry is broken (?)

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>>103840142
I see

Thoughts on Bitwarden, which stores your passwords in the cloud? It's open source so it's probably fine

>>103840461
from my experience, having a big swap will crawl the system to a halt in a oom situation.
Having no swap will kill processes much faster.

>>103840491
>Azure
Hard pass.

>>103840491
>stores your passwords in the cloud?
I can't vomit enough due to how disgusting that idea is.