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waylandfags, I demand an explanation

>Kubuntu
>fsf

Kek, lmao even

>>107622975
explanation of what?

Can wayland capture the mouse in fullscreen/windowed games yet?

OP image source:
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>>107622825
old image

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Good morning, I hate AI.

>>107623190
Yup, that's the endgame

>>107623190
It's simple, we kill the jews.

>>107623077 →
Internet Exploder used to actually be a real thing.

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DAILY REMINDER that there's NO NEED to install MUH LATEST unless there is a security issue with the version you are using now and MUH LATEST has it patched. Otherwise, if the version you are using now is working just fine you can keep using it while MUH LATEST works its way through Sid and Testing by the Debian GNU PLUS LINUX devs and maintainers and Testing finally become STABLE and you upgrade to that and HOAP 4 THA BEST on that day.

Also you should know that you've been solidified into false PARADIGMS of ENTITLEMENT during your time using CORPORATE OWNED PROPERTIES where you expect any new MUH LATEST to have all of the bugs worked out of it on release day because they are MEGACORPS with MEGABUX who you have ripped off by using pirated versions of their software but still try to ACT like you are a PAYING CUSTOMER with demands and expectations and they should have had their JEET MASSES do everything right and make sure they did so before SHIPPING it out to the public but now you're in the FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PARADIGM where everything is different and you don't get to say what should or shouldn't be happening in the current year because unless you are a dev or absolutely willing TESTER then you should be using versions from 1-2 years ago anyway while letting the ADULT AUTISTS and TRANNIES do their jobs in PEACE and tell them nothing but THANK YOU for empowering (You) to be such a TURBOFUCKINGFAGGOT.

>>107623190
I'm too broke to afford a new PC, how long we estimating before manufacturers start selling micro PCs so they can build more AI data centres and keep the war going in Ukraine.

>>107623041
Why does a status bar need 48 MB of space?

I use vanilla gnome. However i do like Ubuntu's look. Did some research and does this sound about right? Yaru icons, ubuntu fonts (the compact one) and changing colours in terminal. Should be all i need yes?
t. like aubergine purple

>>107623313
based, this is why i use debian, stable as my dumb big titty highly insecure gf

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>>107623313
Wrong. You should install the latest update immediately. Don't use outdated abandonware.

>>107622738 (OP)
Arch is being too much of a nigger right now. I've seen people saying they have fedora running on this laptop. Eww.

>>107623313
Haloperidol.

>>107623381
well, what modules do you even have inside it?

I've made a system user (no home folder). I want to redirect ~/.config and ~/.local/state to /etc and /var/lib, respectively. How can I define peristent XDG_ environment variables for that user ?

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

>>107623586
>I want to redirect ~/.config and ~/.local/state to /etc and /var/lib, respectively.
but why?

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>>107622417 →
If RMS = God Emperero, then...
GNU = Imperium
Linux = Adeptus Mechanicus
Canonical = The Ecclesiarchy
RedHat = The Inquisition
BSDs = Eldar
Unix = The old ones
MacOS = Drukhari
Windows = Forces of Chaos

>>107623586
I think you misunderstand the purpose of those directories. They are local overrides. /etc is for system configuration. Any well behaved software should support both local and system configuration without you having to go the nuclear option of "redirecting" ~/.config to /etc (you don't want to do that).

I need a privacy-respecting browser that is secure for banking, but also as lightweight as possible. What are my options?

If Firefox or Chromium extensions work that'd be great, same if I could grab them from the terminal.

>>107622818 →
like what?

>>107623671
>What are my options?
Become rich, then pay people to make one for you.

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>>107622738 (OP)
So what's the "proper" way of installing a custom keyboard layout? I modified some files at /usr/share/X11/xkb (which apparently links to /usr/share/xkeyboard-config-2), and it does work, but sometimes when I update my system the files get overwritten, so surely there's an easier, simpler way of doing this, right?

>>107623671
Just use a separate Firefox profile and maybe also sandbox it if you're paranoid.

>>107623733
>but sometimes when I update my system the files get overwritten
Because you're editing a file managed by your package manager. You should copy/duplicate it instead.

>>107623671
Shouldn't this poast have been a Claude vibe coding prompt, then once you release the results and it becomes wildly popular you will >>107623710, and it will become privacy-respecting browsers that are secure for banking, but also as lightweight as possible, ALL THA WAY DOWN.

>>107623710
Or you could just say Falkon or IceCat.

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What is the best way to download and install or store software on a minimal installation? Some programs want me to use Snap or Flathub some kind of package manager, others let me use the terminal to download the software and "install" it god knows where, whereas some give me tar.xz archives which I guess are analagous to portable applications on Windows I can extract anywhere and run or create shortcuts to.

I have OCD by the way and don't want to clutter my filesystem with loose files I cannot keep track of.

>>107623824
>I cannot keep track of.
that's the job of your package manager. Use your distros package manager. Ignore Fatpacks, Snaps, and downloading some fucking tarball.

>>107623392
+Ubuntu's font rendering tweaks
+some Gnome extensions (appindicators?)
+10 years of support

>>107623889
>10 years of support
?

TLDR on what's the current FS meta in linux?
Must pool drives, must stripe, mirror & both, must at least somehow support encryption without encrypting the entire pool.
>>107623824
You should use a package manager to not end up in dependency hell.
Most sources can be compiled into an executable.
Now that you have something executable, assuming you're using deb you can always make your own deb, using checkinstall for example. Similar tools exist for other pkg managers.
Tools to make executables from languages like python for example also exist but in this case I would make a directory, with the code and a venv and a desktop file or similar that points to it and activates the venv.
That should cover almost all your needs, with the package manager simply fetching most software from it's sources.
Always think about dependencies and how you'll remove everythibng. Streamline everything and do not rely on something where you have to remmeber specifics.

>>107623757
I highly doubt even the best AI can make a privacy respecting browser from scratch. It'll just guide you through the process of forking Firefox or Chromium and changing the name and logo like everyone else.

>>107623824
I have "similar issues" and do a Debian netinst of the base system with only Standard System Utilities selected at tasksel (if you don't know WAT that is, it will make sense when you see it during the installation), then first boot into root and start apt installing each component that I need for my setup. If menu, then xorg, then wutevs WM or DE you are going to use are first then you can startx after that and be on a desktop or "desktop" to go further from there.

I only EVER install things using apt install, but I also do not play GOYMES or any of the other faggoy shit that the kids these days all insist upon, so there may be something you "need" (you don't /need/ that shit) that requires MUH SNAPFLATS, idk.

I use only Openbox WM for a "desktop" and mc for a file manager so I don't even have directories for photos, videos, "desktop", etc. in my /home. Build your system piece by piece up from base and it will be as close as you can get to satisfying your OCD. Apt will handle dependencies so all you really have to figure out is the main components, and then whenever you run up on a task you want to achieve but can't, do a search and find out how and what you need for that.

>>107623665
>>107623603
syncthing doesn't

>>107623928
You can absolutely configure Syncthing to run as a system daemon.

>>107623922
I /absolutely/ doubt it and we are in for unspeakable levels of CODE CALAMITY ahead as moar and moar of this shit is getting injected into our total global tech architectural structures.

THERE
WILL
BE
BLOOD

>>107623229
You mean the whites? White "people" are the cause of all this.

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Is archinstall script good for me? Does it sane defaults? I don't have any particular requirements

>>107623956
Show hands and nose.

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>>107623964
>Does it sane
Unlikely.

>>107623863
apt install and apt remove or bust then

>>107623924
I'm on a Ubuntu/Debian derivative so yeah, I would prefer not using all Flathub or Snap stuff when I was always taught you should only need to install things and their dependencies through apt. Does removing packages through apt also remove their dependencies though? It's been a while.

>>107624112
Well once you get on one of those derivatives you're in a whole other PARADIGM of software installation/management. Debian as I described installing it doesn't even have a "software store", much less MUH SNAPFLATS or any of that other gay NNNNNNNN shit, not even Synaptic. Synaptic is as far as I will ever personally go beyond apt in a terminal, and I do not have Synaptic installed, either.

To uninstall a package you apt purge and it will delete all of the config cruft too, then apt autoremove --purge will uninstall the dependencies and their configs.

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I just finished a minimal install of Lubuntu 24.04.3 LTS on my Lelnovo ChinkPad. My initial impressions on this system so far are pretty exciting.

As far as issues go;
>4-4.5 hours on a relatively new battery for this machine with touch screen and bluetooth out of the box
>need to figure out how to get proper synaptics drivers for the touchpad
>need to figure out how to get the fn/modifiers working so I can use the fnrow properly
>bluetooth always enabled by default on startup
>redshift does not seem to work out of the box, clicking on it causes geoclue2 fatal error just like on mint xfce
>memory consumption is amazingly low
>startup time with full disk encryption enabled during installation is comparable to diagnostics + bios boot into windows 7
>some windows do not seem to be responding such as bluetooth or redshift
>the qt terminal seems buggy, i can't see my password text when doing sudo commands or i might have to press enter a few times, neofetch bugs out and mixes with the previous commands
>interface is pure joy when it does work, similar to windows xp in terms of responsiveness with familiar flyout startmenu and minimize/maximize animations which is a creature comfrot mint xfce does not have
>installing falkon was a breeze, 4chan captcha accepts me at once with no extra wait time to post here and cloudflare loads well enough, youtube/banking sites/search engines accept it reasonably fast too despite me using a slower router for internet access, hopefully this will be the only browser I will ever need to use or install on this machine though I do already miss my Firefox extensions

Hopefully this can be a worthy daily driver for this machine,

Should I even bother with Linux if I have a gaming laptop?

>>107624272
Are you gaming on the laptop?

>>107624258
>redshift
Come home to xsct, _ "man".

xsct 3000 (or whatever temp) .7 (or whatever screen brightness you want), is all it takes.

>>107624276
Yes but I don't really bother with that many modern titles.

>>107624169
>synaptic
The only synaptics that interest me right now are the synaptics touchpad driver and whether I can install it through apt to get the same level of comfort as I did on Windows.

>>107624323
I've had that issue due to different DEs ways of handling things, but I don't use a DE at all anymoar, just Openbox, and all I have to do is install xinput, then run xinput set-prop 11 (the hardware device number for my touchpad) "libinput Tapping Enabled" 1, and it JUST WERX from there. Then I put that into autostart in .config/openbox (along with my xsct setting) and it's auto ran each session. But, I don't have any other way to adjust the touchpad, so thankfully it works better like this for my needs than it does trying to use, for example, at least the version of XFCE on Slackware 15, where it's a nightmare, but handles fine after tweaks in KDE on that exact same system.

>>107624408
>libinput tapping enabled
That seems to have done it, thanks. Also shows up in keyboard and mouse settings.

>>107624313
If it's on steam and doesn't require anti-cheat then you're likely fine

>>107623889
>Ubuntu's font rendering tweaks
?

>>107624198 →

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How do i get it so that my openbox session doesnt load apps from my xfce session? Im using fedora and decided to try openbox because of how light its supposed to be. So i installed openbox>logged in>run htop>850MB ram on idle.
I heard openbox is supposed to be between 200-400mb on idle but im getting double. Then i look at the processes running and it seems a lot of the processes that run in xfce are loaded

Is there a quick and simple way to isolate these processes so that theyre only active during xfce session, but disabled for openbox?

>>107624408
>I don't use a DE at all anymoar, just Openbox
Openbox can be both your WM and DM? Interesting. I'm on Lubuntu which obviously has LXQT and then Openbox as the WM.

>>107624775
Figure out whatever is auto-starting them and make it don't do that.

If they're DBus services then the only fix is to uninstall them. I think since you are using Systemd then you can also mask them though but that will stop them from running in XFCE too unless you unmask them.

>>107624857
Base Debian with Standard System Utilities, apt install menu xorg openbox, startx, BAM, you're on a "desktop", right click, you have a menu. For whatever reason, many years ago, I discovered that something in there "likes" for the menu package to be installed first. I suspect nanonigs or nanojews.

>>107624878
>>107624775
Also this is pointless, just let them run if they don't cause any issues. If you're chasing lowest possible RAM use then you shouldn't be using Fedora with Systemd anyway.

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I downloaded the latest spirit OS (Linux distro)

Probably going to burn it to a CD; ISO file has a size of 274 MB. I still don't know how to storagemax and put other "random" files on the same CD without messing up its bootability and Linux install disc functionality. I could put 300 MB of data on it in addition = 574 MB used. Whatever, maybe I won't do that.

I can open up "spiritOS-16.2.iso" with File Roller then it has an "Add Files" option ("+"). I could do it if I really wanted to.
- Positives: (1) zero redundancy to some redundancy for certain files
- Negatives: (1) "weird" modified ISO file (2) may have to rely more on CDs if I want some files

Screw it, I did it. In the ISO: /cde/added_2025_12_21_utc/ = 313.2 MB. Now to burn it to a CD and see if everything works. Pic related = one of the images in there. It's a tapestry that a memelord has on his wall (>>107618730 → = other post with this meme).

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>>107624890
Spirit OS info and original ISO file:
>https://spirit-os.sourceforge.io/
>https://sourceforge.net/projects/spirit-os/files/spiritOS-16.2.iso/download
>https://web.archive.org/web/20251221181713/https://netactuate.dl.sourceforge.net/project/spirit-os/spiritOS-16.2.iso?viasf=1

>>107624857
>>107624881
BTW, when I ran this same setup for many years years ago, I used tint2, which gives you a MUH BAR, but now I prefer startxing into nothing but BLACK VOID and using alt+tab to switch between windows.

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What's this shit called? Happening to me on Openbox. Probably graphics issue. I have old AMD for 16€ I thought it would work with Linux and Linux-libre, but no. What graphics card should I get

>>107624955
>Linux-libre

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>>107624955
Nice timing, I just got this issue too when I went back into the error box for Redshift-qt tonight as I tried to take a screenshot. I don't remember how I solved this problem on Mint, all I know is that Redshift isn't working and left clicking on it causes it to crash.

So the unresponsive windows and this are the two biggest issues I have on Lubuntu right now besides fnrow hotkeys.

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>>107623190
yeah fuck ai, this thing is malfunctioning:
>Me: Will a 573.2-MiB ISO file fit in a CD?
>GPT-4o mini: No, a 573.2 MiB ISO file will not fit on a standard CD.
>[...]
>A standard CD has a capacity of 700 MiB (or approximately 80 minutes of audio).
>Since the ISO file size is 573.2 MiB, it is less than the CD capacity of 700 MiB. So, it technically can fit on a CD.

Wikipedia: CD capacity is 650 to 870 MiB of data.

>>107624890
>tapestry that a memelord has on his wall
Someone is selling that thing on Amazon from what I saw in image search results. That's where I got that image from.

>ultra unnecessarily high refresh rate monitor for ultra gay mers
>nvidia GPU
>set adaptive sync to always on plasma
>brightness flicker, monitor blanking out on 360hz, have to drop it to 240hz
>upgrade to AMD GPU
>now 360hz works
>drop it to 240hz because flicker is still there, just to test it out
>now 240hz makes the monitor blank out so I have to set it to 360hz
huh

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Tak the CB++ pill

>>107624034
Every single time.

>>107625091
>Crunchbang
What year is this

Why do they pre-install screen grab with distros instead of flameshot?

>>107625121
https://www.crunchbangplusplus.org/
The current year

>>107625074
Some monitors are just weird like that. From what I can gather it's not a GPU issue at all and is just the monitor panel not liking that.

>>107624889
Your post is useless. Please stop this. If you don't understand don't even reply, faggot.

>>107625204
You're right. I don't understand why you're trying to disable all of the desktop services and chase the lowest possible RAM use whilst still using bloated system services like Systemd.
Care to explain to the class?

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>>107624258
First major problem of using Falkon on this installation; trying to load the Linux Mint forums gives me a 403 error and comments on github do not load properly.

>>107625247
I would wager that the version of QtWebEngine it's using is very outdated and Mint are never going to update that.

>>107625004
Is Redshift even maintained at this point? Why do some distros still prepackage it? Should it be apt removed and replaced with something else?

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>>107625222
CHECKED, but looks like SOMEONE doesn't have proper AUTISM and needs to consider going back. I am not any of those Anons but I can tell you a little something about that matter from my own perspective.

I simply do not like anything running that is not carrying out a function that is actually needed, and actually being used. I DO NOT LIKE IT, SIMPLE FUCKING AS. In fact, my first preference is to not have anything at all that isn't actually needed/used, installed to begin with. I just do not like it, in principle, and any amount of it happening bothers me, SIMPLE FUCKING AS.

So now we're getting to the systemd part. systemd bothers me, I don't like it because from my reading at my RETARD levels of understanding of the matter, it seems wildly unnecessary and against the essential principle of simplicity provided by small parts doing their one thing the maximum best while working with all of the other small parts doing their one things the maximum best and all working together for the maximum best because of strict adherence to standardized protocols.

BUT
>BUT
BUT I am too RETARDED and in lack of knowledge to solve for both removal of systemd while still having literally everything else I want (which is a very complex further essay), and ultimately, all available things considered, literally everything else that I want outweighs that one particular matter (systemd) so that's my single greatest compromise.

I hate it, and I hate LENNART POOTERING, and I hate KRISTIAN HOGS(((BERG))), and I hate that FAGGOT that is planning on re-writing apt in RUST, and I hate a lot of other things besides just those.

It's UGLY out there and there's no path to pure perfection while still being able to interface and interact with the rest of humanity and call them all niggers, jews, faggots, jeets, gooks, troons, etc.

>>107625323
install gammastep instead

>>107625383
>I simply do not like anything running that is not carrying out a function that is actually needed,
Many of those functions are actually needed.

When you look at something like Openbox it is just a window manager. That is to say it does window management and that's it.

If you want a hotkey/shortcut daemon, screen locker, laptop backlight/screen brightness automatic adjustment, nightlight, Bluetooth/Network applet, thumbnail generation services (to make thumbnails for images and videos, etc), etc, (the list goes on)…

None of that is provided by Openbox.
Now you could just live without any of that and have broken or missing functionality or often you can re-use what XFCE already gives you.

Is libllvm19 an essential package for Debian-based distros right now? Running the sudo apt autoremove command gives me the option to remove it after I purged Redshift.

>>107625475
If apt let's you do it (Let's you without "Do as I say" shenanigans) it's not essential.

>>107625383
>(systemd)...my single greatest compromise
I should add something crucial to this: Just because I have had to make this /one/ compromise does not mean that I should simply resign myself to an endless flood of compromise from there instead of still keeping on doing literally every detail of everything that I /can/ do at my levels of knowledge, int, experience, ability, etc.
>>107625447
Correct, and that's exactly what I said things like:
>Build your system piece by piece up from base and it will be as close as you can get to satisfying your OCD. Apt will handle dependencies so all you really have to figure out is the main components, and then whenever you run up on a task you want to achieve but can't, do a search and find out how and what you need for that.
>>107623924
which is how I discovered feh for viewing images, xsct for handling color temp and screen brightness, etc. But, Openbox rc.xml handles all your keybindings. I have keybinding launchers for all of the apps I use every session like tty-clock and cbonsai as soon as I startx. I could set those to autostart, but for AUTISM reasons I prefer to startx into nothing but PURE BLACK VOID. I also, via Openbox's rc.xml, have a binding for Emacs to open up at exactly the geometry to fill the open work area, and stick to the top left corner.

Oh, and it's also how I discovered xscreensaver for "power management". You start bare and raw, then build piece by piece from need by need, CARE FULLY selecting each component from what all you discover to be available.

>>107625394
>sudo apt purge redshift
>y
>sudo apt install gammastep
>gammastep
Seems to give me the same problem
Error: Could not connect to wayland display, exiting.
Error: Failed to start adjustment method: wayland
Guess that acrimony was unnecessary considering that a configuration file for manual location adjustment has to be set manually

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Linux noob here

I just did a clean install of Debian. I was on Linux Mint before this because I wanted to get productive. Normally when I go on Debian, I use it for three days and then switch, but this time I am going to give it a longer amount of time to determine if this is a good distribution or not.

Does anybody have any tips or advice on Debian?

>>107625591
May it be blessed. The only tips/advice I can think of are use it until you have some kind of issue then look into solving that particular issue, just like any other, except for now you're doing it on THE UNIVERSAL OPERATING SYSTEM. Whatever issues you wind up need solving will be relatively particular to your USE CASE.

EXPERIMENT
EXPLORE
ENJOY

Worse case scenario you bork it and have to re-install, or it won't fit your USE CASE and you HOP.

>>107625580
why are you running Xorg gamma adjustment on Wayland?

>>107625591
My advice: Don't become greedy and switch between stable/testing/sid. Use backports sparingly. Also set up a backup method so if you fuck up, you can easily reinstall.

The notion that I don't need to perform a system restart after doing sudo apt remove --purge and/or sudo apt autoremove for normal programs just fucks with my mind so much as a 20 year long Windows-only user. Deep in my head I feel a rampant paranoia that something is still left behind in a non-existent registry or dll somewhere. I just have this massive impulse to restart the system afterwards.

>load up vim for the first time cause I'm exploring the programs that shipped with my distribution
>"help children in uganda!"
wtf

>>107625026
>Standard CDs have a diameter of 120 millimetres (4.7 inches) and typically hold up to 74 minutes of audio or approximately 650 MiB (681,574,400 bytes) of data. This was later regularly extended to 80 minutes or 700 MiB (734,003,200 bytes) by reducing the spacing between data tracks, with some discs unofficially reaching up to 99 minutes or 870 MiB (912,261,120 bytes) which falls outside established specifications.

So yes, the 700Mib are not wrong.

>>107624890
Committing to it:
>$ sudo wodim -tao speed=2 dev=/dev/sr0 -v -data ~/Documents/b/cd/spiritos/spiritOS-16.2-edit-613292032-bytes.iso # -eject
>[...]
>FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
>Track 01: data 584 MB
>Total size: 671 MB (66:32.81) = 299461 sectors
>Lout start: 672 MB (66:34/61) = 299461 sectors
>[...]
>Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 613292032/613292032 (299459 sectors).
>Writing time: 409.898s (00:06:49.898)
>[...]Fixating...
>Fixating time: 27.496s (00:00:27.496)[...]

The physical label/text on CD says "700 MB". 584 MB + sector size of 4 MB = 671 MB on disk, if I'm understanding correctly (under the 700 MB limit).

>>107625772
The other parts that GPT-4o mini said are incorrect and contradictory.

Falkon has a password manager within the browser, but I already have a KeePassXC database. Should I stick to having KeePassXC only or do I bite the apple?

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>>107625951
never done the browser extension thing
i still alt+tab and ctrl b + ctrl v and ctrl c + ctrl v with keepassxc
>Falkon has a password manager
wait, isn't that the saving passwords in browser like in firefox with about:logins?

holy shit this captcha

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>>107625951
Also, extremely ironic that privacy.sexy would not load on this browser on this Ubuntu-derived OS.
>>107626055
>holy shit this captcha
Yes, I am still forced to solve 3 puzzles on this browser while my phone would always get preferential treatment with only one. This shit is actually more time consuming if it doesn't like your device or user agent.

>>107624984
I've been getting into Guix and really like it so far. Problem is there's no "substitute"(binary package) for the linux kernel in the nonguix repo so I'll have to compile it every kernel update(takes around an hour or so)

What do I use Vim for exactly as a mobile office user and internet browser? I'm not coding anything on this laptop and I intend to go by the philosopy of purging any programs that I do not need or intend to use this time to minimize distractions.

>>107624955
I mean it works but I've had alot of problems including random disconnects and GTK4 apps graphics software gore after I enabled iGPU. I just wanted a simple setup that has internal and external graphics for passthrough on virtual machines.

>>107622738 (OP)
>>Which distro should I choose?
>Kubuntu
>Fedora KDE
>Debian
These seem like good recommendations although if someone has an old and underpowered computer then I think LXQt is probably a better DE than Plasma. I tried Plasma on my shitty computer and it ran a bit slower than LXQt.

>>107625709
>zoomer moment

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>>107623197 →
>>news
>>about Lord of the Rings
>How?
The New Republic has an eepsite; this article:
>The Rings of Power Is a Saga for a War-Hungry Nation
>https://archive.is/ozBFx
>http://pmjdbcyyfakr7gpc7xek5mo5cfckqjcntfs4jbhf2vtpbzuyir6q.b32.i2p/article/167665/rings-power-saga-war-hungry-nation-amazon-lord-rings-review
It says:
>What Amazon has done, in effect, is purchase the 3,441 years that comprise the Second Age. For $250 million, the Tolkien estate has granted Amazon the right to tell stories in the Second Age, as long as these don’t violate the primary thrust of Arda’s history. Time, it turns out, can be bought.

>>107624890
>>107624907
>>107625860
I learned the hard way that, as tempting as it may be, you can't just use File Roller to add files to an ISO file. The resulting CD wasn't bootable in my case. I redownloaded it
>https://sourceforge.net/projects/spirit-os/
and the untouched (by me) ISO booted up after I burned it to a CD. The dream isn't dead though; there's surely some way to add files to it and not mess up the .iso

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>>107626176
LXQt seems really really cool so far on my first impressions on Lubuntu, it looks and feels much more aesthetically pleasing than XFCE but I suspect that it is not as stable as Mint XFCE is due to bugs with the Bluetooth window for example.

>>107625709
>help children in uganda so they can end up replacing you
no thanks

>>107626212
As I said, the untouched ISO was burned to a CD, then that CD did boot up in a physical computer. The ISO for Spirit OS that was modified by me also didn't boot up in VirtualBox; this version of it
>./VirtualBox-KVM_7.2.0-archimage5.0-x86_64.AppImage
said "No bootable medium found!" in regards to "spiritOS-16.2-edit-613292032-bytes.iso"

Does running sudo systemctl disable bluetooth.service break anything on Ubuntu by default?
>/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
>Executing: /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable bluetooth
>Removed "/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.bluez.service".
>Removed"/etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.target.wants/bluetooth.service"
I was scared by this output thinking it removed files and would break something so I checked status and promptly ran the same command but with enable instead and it seems to have created two symlinks by the same name for reasons I do not understand.

>Executing: /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable bluetooth
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.bluez.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.target.wants/bluetooth.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service.

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>>107622738 (OP)
>ponysay

>>107626276
I've been using LXQt for about a year now and I've never seen a problem like your pic, although I don't use Bluetooth so I've never opened that program.

I'm using Openbox as the window manager, are you using XFWM? Also I'm still on X, i haven't tried Wayland yet, which LXQt has only recently added support for

Would it be worth it to dualboot into two different distros that aren't radically different? I was thinking of moving from Arch to something that requires less maintenance and was thinking of doing Debian for regular work and CachyOS for gaming, but it seems like kind of a stupid idea.

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>>107626359
>I'm using Openbox as the window manager, are you using XFWM?
I'm also on OpenBox, though whatever Lubuntu ships with has a copyright date of 2014-2015 so I don't know if that says anything about the version it uses. The LXQt version I'm on is not the latest however, it's 1.40

For some reason the error boxes on Ubuntu remind me heavily of Windows 3.1 and I kind of like that.

>>107626390
>worth it
The only and only way to answer that for sure is to try it yourself and see. WORST CASE SCENARIO, you don't like it and have to revert, or try other things until you find what works best for (You). Personally, I've always just wanted my one OS to do all the shit I need/want to do.

>>107626397
The last stable release of Openbox was 2015. It is FEATURE COMPLETE, and BUG FREE. There is NO NEED to rustle its jimmies any further.

>>107626416
I'd be annoyed with having to deal with repartitioning since it would be on one disk. I'm not particularly adept with lvm. Maybe it's time I just sit down and actually learn how to use the distro I've been working on for two years.

I hate Linux I have fucking decision paralysis when trying to do literally anything fuck this bullshit

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I understand now why Lubuntu feels so familiar besides the superficial resemblances to older versions of Windows and OS/X in the programs and desktop. The whole Breeze theme makes it look like something straight out of Mirror's Edge during the later levels with all the blue and Adobe flash style icons.
>>107626610
It helps if you have a computer to use as a test subject so you don't feel like there's any sunken cost, Linux is actually way faster to setup than Windows in some ways so you don't need to feel much in the way of attachment at first. As for what happens later though in the event you break something, god help you if you are new.

>>107626535
I just let Debian use the whole disk with LVM and it does it all for me like I told it # hey boy, do _ on a NIGGIX command line.

EZ
PZ
>>107626610
There are many kinds of AUTIST, and this is one of us. No harm, no foul.

>>107623921
Bump

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>>107625091
I will. Debian December passing by too fast.

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>>107627119

arch is asking me
>:: Replace nvidia with extra/nvidia-open? [Y/n]
https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/
what does it mean, i don't get it

>>107627119
Why are the icons enormous? Looks like an OS for retarded children.

>>107627863
If your card is new enough you can switch over to that other package. It's probably asking because you can.

>>107627863
nm I asked chatgptkun
>Check your GPU generation (if you’re not sure):
>lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D" and look up the model.
>If it’s Turing or newer:
>It’s generally fine (and expected) to allow the nvidia nvidia-open replacement.
I>f it’s Pascal or older:
>Don’t switch to nvidia-open.
>Move to nvidia-580xx-dkms from AUR following the Arch news instructions.

Is there actually a difference between distros besides what comes packaged with it? If I start with debian can't I just install pacman and then get whatever arch packages I want?
Can't you install ubuntu then uninstall things and install different things until you're left with puppy?
Where does one distro end and another begin?

>>107628195
>Where does one distro end and another begin?
That's all determined in the nanonig and nanojew layers, unique to each distro.

>>107627878
that's because any file explorer ever made has zoom functionality
>you are the retarded child

>>107628195
>If I start with debian can't I just install pacman and then get whatever arch packages I want?
oh you reminded me i still need to test out bedrock linux

>>107627881
>It's probably asking because you can.
pacman is not smart enough to check hardware compatibility.

>>107628195
Check out Distrobox. You can't just use pacman unless it's configured to only install into a chroot otherwise it will fuck with your system's packages.

>>107628403
Which is why he said "If your card is new enough". The reason pacman is asking is because it's basically asking you to make a decision.

Is there any way to have Baldur's Gate EE on Wine to work without buying the native linux version? The native linux version on 1337x has no seeders

Done with Nobara after half a year of using it. Is Cachy a more sensible meme distro or am I just postponing my eventual move to vanilla fedora/arch?

>>107628666
What are you planning to accomplish by changing distro? It's still linux after all...

>>107625591
>Does anybody have any tips or advice on Debian?
Install nala

>>107629285
I wish to be free of the Nobara package manager.
Had it kill KDE for me a few weeks ago, while troubleshooting I found out on their subreddit that they'd upgraded to a Fedora 43 base, which they still haven't announced on their website.

>>107622738 (OP)
>which distro should I choose
Aurora or anything Universal Blue

>>107629520
I'd go for Fedora 43. At least it's stable and established. If you want to gaym, there's CacheOS stuff is available too
>https://github.com/CachyOS/copr-linux-cachyos

>>107629952
Huh, didn't consider I could get the CachyOS kernel for Fedora. Thanks for letting me know.
Back to Fedora (KDE) it is then.

Is there a way to force Linux to prioritize responsiveness and the GUI/user interactive environment over any torture I try to run on it like filling as big LLM models as possible into memory or anything else intensive?

>>107623921
Bump

How do I get doukutsu to play sound? Sdl via opening via the console says it's playing the org files, but no sfx nor bg comes through from the start.

>>107623921
>TLDR on what's the current FS meta in linux?
>Must pool drives, must stripe, mirror & both, must at least somehow support encryption without encrypting the entire pool.
TL;DR: ZFS striped pool synced locally (striped+mirrored) or over the local area network (no mirror pool).

I can somewhat answer to all of your points, except encryption. If I get hit by a bus, my stuff isn't encrypted, so there's a chance someone will enjoy or keep storing my data. Weird situation if that happened, but whatever.

If I had more than 2000 USD to burn:
- computer 1: ZFS striped pool of two ~28-TB HDDs (internal or external) = ~50-TB logical volume
- computer 2: ZFS striped pool of two ~28-TB HDDs (internal or external) = ~50-TB logical volume
- computer 1 and computer 2 are both on the LAN. One is a network mount via sshfs (or something which does what sshfs does).
- MUST be done everyday or all the time: use syncthing or rsync (maybe borg) to keep them in sync. "You can absolutely configure Syncthing to run as a system daemon." = said in this post: >>107623938 . Probably use Syncthing and not rsync; there may be some NAS software for this too.
- PROBLEM: replacement cost is 1000 USD if one of the zpools fails. ZFS mirror pool replacement cost is only like 500 USD if one fails (20 something TB + 20 something TB = 20 something TB mirrored).

Alternatively, instead of
- 2 x HDD in computer 1 and 2 x HDD in computer 2 with the above setup
you could do
- 4 x HDD in computer 1 with the above setup
OR
- NAS box/container which can hold ~20 HDDs: can go into hundreds of terabytes in one logical volume with that setup if you have the money; such as: mirrored 280 TB from 10+10 HDDs

My desktop computer only supports like two internal HDDs.

Do you use the rmdir command? I've used it multiple times this month. Info:
https://everything.explained.today/Rmdir/

I think it's helpful for preventing accidental mass deletions. It only removes empty folders. Say you have an empty folder at "/mnt/drive1/images/im in the screenshot epic" and you want to delete it. If you somehow ran "rm -r /mnt/drive1/images /im in\ the\ screenshot\ epic", not meaning to put a space after "images", then rm will delete all of you images. If you ran that same command with rmdir instead then it wouldn't delete it, seeing it's not an empty directory. The correct command would be "rmdir /mnt/drive1/images/im in\ the\ screenshot\ epic"

In short, use "rmdir" to remove an empty folder, not "rm -r".

I was thinking of trying out CachyOs but when I boot from usb notifications go crazy with my gamesir controller constantly connecting and disconecting. I googled it but only found similar issue happening when the controller is connected over bluetooth, but my controller is wireless.

>>107630306
>doukutsu
I think that's a video game. Maybe someone in GNU/Linux Games >>>/vg/lgg has an answer.

>>107630864
*correct command would be "rmdir /mnt/drive1/images/im\ in\ the\ screenshot\ epic"

I've been reading up on gpg subkeys and I'm considering whether it's worth the hassle or not. Is it more of a
>I'm a well-known FOSS maintainer and there's a very real threat of someone trying to steal my likeness so I need to be able to revoke my subkeys and still maintain trust in my central identity (<-- I don't know what this means)
case? I'm a literally who with like 10 github followers.

>>107628195
They usually differ in how you configure them. Sometimes the differences are relatively minor (debian/fedora), sometimes they take >100 hours to learn how to configure (NixOS)

>>107622738 (OP)
I've been using xorg with i3 for a solid 7 years on my arch machine
is there a reason to switch to something new or no?
I mean it works fine for now, but I'd hate to be the guy that's running on legacy software, which has his pc explode on a random wednesday afternoon

>>107631217
sometimes it's cool to try something new. When I built my current pc I wanted to try this wayland thing so I had to switch from AwesomeWM . And I really prefer my new setup.
Other than that, you don't have to change if it works for you.

>>107631217
I can happily recommend wayland without any ideological "if you use xorg you're a luddite & nazi" nonsense. I tried out wayland on my nvidia gaming laptop and it felt much smoother, as opposed to my previous dwm xorg installation [but your mileage may vary and if xorg still works for you then use it]. I can strongly recommending riverwm. I was a die-hard i3-head before but river does master-slave windowing really well.

As a bonus, most wayland programs are slightly better designed than their xorg counterparts, with fewer weird gotchas and footguns.

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blueman-applet does not work for me, it crashes whenever I open it

>>107630864
Or you could just use a file manager, in which mistakes like that are impossible.

>>107630876
Gamesirs have something wrong with wake/sleep on Linux even when wired.
https://github.com/dlundqvist/xone
This made it usable for me.

>>107631487
unless you misclick

>>107631513
Misclicking across directories? And if you disable confirmation dialogs or don't read them that's entirely on you.

>>107630864
You can just alias rm to rm -i so it prompts you for each deletion.

>>107631536
especially cool if you delete a directory with thousands of files

>>107631547
To be clear, it does let you say "Yes, to all" for when you need it to.

>>107631558
that defeats the prompt for each deletion though, and hence the protection from unwanted deletions. You could just not use the -i flag then.

>>107631536
>>107631547
Use rm -I instead.

>>107631569
Look up the info page (

info rm

) there are multiple different options. I just have it set for always and then will instead cancel out of it and run it again with a backslash (e.g \rm) to cancel the alias for when I mean it.

>>107631536
alias?
t. no clue what it means

>>107625004
>>107625323
I think I had that Redshift problem in the past, and I believe the problem is not due to Redshift, but instead due to geoclue2 (look at the pic in >>107625004 - the error says "Trying location provider `geoclue2`)

Geoclue is used to find your location, so that Redshift knows when sunrise/sunset are in your timezone. The problem is that Geoclue relies on Mozilla's location API, which was deprecated last year. So Geoclue fails to find your location.

You can instead manually specify your location for Redshift, and then Redshift should work just fine (I did this, and it works fine). Instructions here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/778464

>>107631588
In your Bashrc you can define aliases for commands that alter how they run so you can make "rm" always be "rm -i" to always run with interactive mode.

Look up your shells documentation

>>107625591
My first tip is that if you want to use Firefox, you will probably have the best experience if you install Firefox from Mozilla's own deb repo. See here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux

Sure you can install Debian's version of Firefox but it won't get security updates quite as quickly. Also you could install the Firefox flatpak or snap, which are both official, but Mozilla's deb is probably more efficient I would guess, because I assume it's going to depend on packages you already have. The flatpak and snap would probably install their own flatpak/snap dependencies I assume (this often happens for many flatpak/snap packages).

>>107625621
Based Debian enjoyer

>>107631588
An alias is a command defined by you, and it will run whatever you have defined. E.g. if you're using Bash then in your `~/.bash_aliases` file you could add this which creates the alias `temp`, which will show you the temperatures of your CPU cores:

alias temp='cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp'

>>107631623
Firefox tends to bundle all of its own dependencies anyway in most cases. There are some flags to use system libs instead though which some distros may enable (the downside being Firefox will break when you update say libicu and sometimes Firefox is slower/faster to update their code so you can't always use system libs).

Pretty much the main libraries Firefox depends on are things like GTK, NSS (Firefox's cryptography library) and Ffmpeg. In Flatpak these are usually provided by the runtime image instead of bundled with each application (it'd be a bit stupid for every app to include its own GTK).

>>107631487
If you have dotfiles hidden then you may think a folder is empty. When you go to delete it, the file explorer GUI may not tell you that it isn't empty.

>>107631582
I didn't know until reading your post that you can cancel aliases like that. I have "ws" aliased to "wget --spider":
>$ ws https://antiarchive.org/
>Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
>[...]
>Resolving antiarchive.org (antiarchive.org)... 76.223.105.230, 13.248.243.5
>[...]HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>Length: unspecified [text/html]
>[...]
>$ \ws https://antiarchive.org/
>bash: ws: command not found
>$ # neat

>>107631640
>/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*
>the temperatures of your CPU cores
But that's wrong.

>>107631703
I think that's what it shows on my machine. On other machines maybe it shows temp sensors in other places too.

>>107631699
Being empty is irrelevant in a GUI. If you request deletion of an object it doesn't matter what it contains.

>>107631708
The situation I'm talking about is
1. You have file "./folder1/.important"
2. You look in "folder1" and think it's empty: dotfiles are hidden
3. You use the file manager GUI to delete "folder1"
4. You regret doing that because you realize you deleted file ".important"

>>107631728
Except you won't because you understand hierarchies and there is no important under the shit you're trying to delete.

Take your meds.

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>>107631733
You're assuming a level of understand that isn't always there
- time passes and people forget
- many files, forget what's where
- hiding stuff, forgetting that you hid it somewhere
- new inexperienced users

>>107630864
If I just want to get rid of empty dirs I do rmdir *
I don't use rm often anyway, but a trash command

>>107631487
you could also just not delete something you're not meant to delete

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>>107624878
Cant i make it so that the autostart scripts only initiate depending on the xsession its logged into?
And isnt there a way to create like a custom systemd profile where i have a list of of services running for openbox and then another for xfce?
that way i dont get this overlapping thing happening

>>107626350
That program, "ponysay 3.0.4", has a basic bug at upstream:
https://github.com/erkin/ponysay

Also in Arch Linux repo ("sudo pacman -S ponysay"), maybe from:
https://os-builder.com/arch/ponysay-3.0.3-5-any.pkg.tar.zst
https://mirrors.urbanwave.co.za/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/ponysay-3.0.3-6-any.pkg.tar.zst

Bug text, screenshot:
https://daemongate.io/raw/WE1qwjx1-oWg1h5Wivi7XIzbpL4MbLTI3xXacva3KJE

$ ponysay --quote
/usr/bin/ponysay/balloon.py:46: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\-'
/usr/bin/ponysay/balloon.py:46: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\-'
 ______________
< I love them! >
 --------------

Bug fix:

$ diff ponysay/src/balloon.py ponysay-edit/src/balloon.py
46,48c46,48
<         @param  link:str        The \-directional balloon line character
<         @param  linkmirror:str  The /-directional balloon line character
<         @param  linkcross:str   The /-directional balloon crossing a \-directional ballonon line character
---
>         @param  link:str        The \\ -directional balloon line character
>         @param  linkmirror:str  The / -directional balloon line character
>         @param  linkcross:str   The / -directional balloon crossing a \\ -directional ballonon line character
$ # time now = 2025-12-22T11:05:30.461670236Z

Or instead of "\" and "/", I think the meaning is
- "upwards-to-the-left-diagonal-directional balloon line character" and
- "upwards-to-the-right-diagonal-directional balloon line character" and

Also "ballonon" is a typo; I didn't fix that. Install ponysay:
$ sudo ./setup.py --freedom=partial install

>>107631994
Kinda a waste of time for me to do that. Afterwards I saw that people already caught that:
https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/pull/324
https://github.com/erkin/ponysay/issues/321

LOL @ "doubly mared" Pinkie Pie quote:

$ ponysay --quote
 ____________________________________________________ 
/ And into her own reflection she stared,            \
| eeh, yearning for one whose reflection she shared, |
| and... solemnly sweared not to be scared,          |
\ at the prospect of being doubly mared!             /
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>>107623921
>must at least somehow support encryption without encrypting the entire pool
How do you envsion this / use case? If you don't want to encrypt entire disk/pool/partition, then you'd just encrypt individual files, would you not?

>>107630533
Based ZFS autist.

>>107631931
Not unless you re-write all of the service files to use a wrapper that checks the environment variable to see what session its in and exits if its not XFCE.

XFCE makes generic tools that work just fine in Openbox and other environments so they don't do that themselves. They expect people that don't want their software to auto-start to just uninstall it.

>>107626610
Toss a coin between Fedora and Ubuntu. Go with the most default setup possible. If something you need doesn't work, make it work.

>>107632039
Keep in mind, you don't even need all of those services in XFCE, just as you don't need them in Openbox. So if you don't want that functionality in Openbox then I'd question why you want it in XFCE.

Uninstalling whatever you don't want/need is the best solution, really.

>>107625383
Oh hey
it's the Slackware gramps
look at him go

Upgrading two laptops (3-4 years old) from Debian 12 stable to 13 stable should generally be safe now I guess. Reading the upgrade notes it looks like a bit more effort than before, is this correct?

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/upgrading.html

>>107631994
>--freedom=partial
freedom shall not be comprimised

>>107632080
sometimes, a different environment just might bring its own tool to do the same job.

>>107632115
Yeah, but in the case of Openbox it brings nothing. It is literally just a window manager. Those generic tools from XFCE (like a notification daemon, and whatever else it's starting) are actually helping you here.

The only real issue is if you want to use something else which conflicts with the DBus bus name, etc, (e.g if you wanted to use Dunst instead of whatever XFCE uses) and yes, those conflicts are annoying but there's no real fix for it. You're not supposed to have multiple things providing the same service and if you do then whichever is started first wins so you best make sure the thing you want to use grabs that bus name as early as possible.

>>107632128
That's what I was thinking of, AwesomeWM brings its own hardcoded notification daemon so you can't use dunst or whatever comes with Xfce.

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So I've been using arch for the last few years, without really memorizing anything about it, and just using the wiki when I need too.
But now I want to do fresh install, but I don't know how to backup my important configs and list of installed apps.
I looked in the wiki and there's nothing about this.
Any idea?
What I need the most is the custom zsh shell prompt and the list of all the apps I ahve.
How would I do that?

>>107632244
I'd tell you but you posted a nasty off topic tranny webm so I'm going to ignore your post instead
sorry!

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>>107632104
>>--freedom=partial
>freedom shall not be comprimised
It's about the licensing associated with the multicolored ASCII art". See:
>$ # grep -liar "FREE: yes" /home/user/Software/ponysay/ponies/
>$ # grep -liar "FREE: no" /home/user/Software/ponysay/ponies/

In "ponysay/manuals/ponysay.texinfo":
>.gz: https://ario-gateway.nethermind.dev/raw/d8hh-Xfn6pvmC39JIgu2gQ5f40BpQxHfk82AHY8Xw4s
>Is the image fully free? (For example Linux-libre is fully free, but not
>regular Linux.)
>The value @emph{must} either be @code{yes}. @code{sharable} or @code{no},
>or the tag must be omitted.
>@itemize @bullet
>@item @code{yes} mean free like Linux-libre
>@item @code{no} mean non free for @code{libre} distro
>@item @code{sharable} mean that you need permission from the author of the original
>image (or consept art like @file{aurora}) for inclusion with free ponies.
>@end itemize
>
>@b{This is the most important tag} as it helps us build a fully free version
>that can be officially distributed on FSF endorsed GNU/Linux distributions
>(GNU/Linux-libre) without problems.

In "ponysay/setup.py":
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> opts.add_argumented (help = 'Install all ponies or only the completely free ponies\nThis option is manditory, use strict, full, true or yes ' +
> 'for only free ponies,\n and partial, sloppy, false or no for all ponies',
> alternatives = ['--freedom'], arg='FREEDOM')
>[...]
>if opts.opts['--freedom'][0].lower() in ('strict', 'full', 'true', 'yes'):
> self.free = True
>elif opts.opts['--freedom'][0].lower() in ('partial', 'sloppy', 'false', 'no'):
> self.free = False
("manditory" is misspelled. It should be "mandatory" instead. Same with "consept"->"concept".)

If you're gonna schizo in /fglt/, could you schizo about more important things, like SHA-256 getting closer to being broken?
https://osf.io/rncgf/files/3gvbq

Extra sketchy bits (heh):

SHA-256(M1): 692207e28eb8dd3eb4f8fab938ea5103faa1060c3bbed204f564e10c65d06b33
SHA-256(M2): 006347a21f7c9b3eb4fa52b75d0e5a03dbe556b579d6d2867d44c38c06546f6f
------------------^-^------^^^^^---^-----^-^^-----^------^^-----^---^----^

If you use SHA-256 for any kind of authentication, start migrating away from it.

>>107632039
what if i want to disable all networking related services. Such as wifi, bluetooth, printer services and etcetera. Is there like a systemd profile for that?

>>107632665
just disable whatever brings up your network. Note that systemd won't like that.

>>107632637
>SHA-256 getting closer to being broken?
sue thing kiddo

>>107632687
I just want to disable the network related services when im in openbox, but switch to the default inside xfce. There isnt a systemd command for this or something?

>>107632665
If xfce has its own system unit, you can do that. Just set Binds-to or Requires in the systemd units for the ones you want. You could also create a system unit for xfce if it doesn't exist.

>>107632720
are you talking about disabling systemd services or something entirely different? It's possible, but a lot of work now and in the future since you'd have to overwrite a lot of basic system configuration for it. What's your actual purpose for that? It most likely can be solved in a better way.

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>>107625591
Thanks to everybody for the great advice. It is now the second day of being on Debian; so far it is great besides these few games:

1. Debian is very stable, which I love, but then you also can't really play games. I'm fine with that, though, since I don't play games that much.

2. No shortcuts to increase volume by default; this is a very minor problem.

A few things I love is:

1. Minimal. This distribution is currently only taking up 1% of my disk. I have 451.95 GiB
2. Stable. I love this about Debian.
3. Performance. I haven't done performance in terms of testing the FPS I get in games, but for browsing and regular things, it is very smooth.

Is it better than Linux Mint? Yes, I keep coming back to Debian. However, most times I always find some way to leave because I cannot get the package I need or something, but this time I am going to stick to it.

It is almost as if, for me, I have this thing where all distribution roads lead back to Debian because I cannot seem to escape it.

>so far it is great besides these few games
Holy I need to learn how to spell

>>107632637
CRC32 and MD5 are all broken or fairly useless. SHA1 is also shattered. Technological implications of SHA256 being broken, video from 7 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjp6kWmFm0 [Embed]
https://inv7.nadeko.net/watch?v=2cjp6kWmFm0

>more important things
I thought that the aCropalypse vulnerability was funny and interesting:
>aCropalypse (CVE-2023-21036) was a vulnerability in Markup, a screenshot editing tool introduced in Google Pixel phones with the release of Android Pie. The vulnerability, discovered in 2023 by security researchers Simon Aarons and David Buchanan, allows an attacker to view an uncropped and unaltered version of a screenshot. Following aCropalypse's discovery, a similar zero-day[1] vulnerability was also discovered, affecting Snip & Sketch for Windows 10 and Snipping Tool for Windows 11. --Wikipedia
Another reason that Linux rules and Windows drools

>>107632030
"doubly mared" or "doubly mirrored"?
https://looptube.io/?videoId=fmey5rXdZLU&start=330

(wtf, I'm seeing dominoes captchas now)

>>107632832
>>aCropalypse (CVE-2023-21036) was a vulnerability in Markup, a screenshot editing tool introduced in Google Pixel phones with the release of Android Pie. The vulnerability, discovered in 2023 by security researchers Simon Aarons and David Buchanan, allows an attacker to view an uncropped and unaltered version of a screenshot
How is that even possible? They must have been doing something seriously fucked.

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Sometimes Linux blows my mind with how elegant it is. Sometimes I'm scratching my head as to why it's so clunky.

I can configure git to use my GPG key for signing with

user.signingKey

. Great. But even if it has a key UID with a full name and email, git still needs my

user.name

and

user.email

which it's unable to infer (I don't want to provide it manually due to 2 divergent sources of truth). Okay, annoying, but I'll just make my own helper script to call

git config

with parsed output from gpg. So I look up how to parse gpg's key listing output and I find out about

--with-colons

which turns it into some weird csv hell but still not "parsed", so I further find out that awk can parse this stable output by doing

gpg --with-colons -k <key> | awk -F: '$1=="uid" {print $10; exit}'

but that STILL only yields

John Doe (work-key) <johndoe@corpo.com>

meaning that I need to provide ANOTHER command to parse the name and email out of THAT output. Just fuck my shit up.

>>107632983
Awk can actually do that in one go because it's its own full scripting language. I do not know awk well enough to know how to do that though.

>>107632699
>>107632637
It's probably fine, but the way I look at it, if you have the option of using sha512 instead then why not? Some day it will get broken and at least you already moved on to the more secure variant when that happens.

>>107633000
I guess so. It'd be so fucking easy to do this shit with jq, it'd take me 2 seconds. Why isn't there a JSON output? It's infuriating.

>>107632798
Mine plays games just fine. I use it every day to play xboard chess, xmahjongg, and ace-of-penguins freecell, without the slightest issue. I think the volume "shortcut" or whatever is a matter of XFCE's defaults but I only use AlsaMixer which is part of alsa-utils and you can just type alsamixer into a terminal, but I make an Openbox keybinding and press SUPER+A to open it.

>>107633044
You can just do this in Bash:

#!/bin/bash
key_id="$1"
set -- $(gpg --with-colons -k "$key_id" | awk -F: '$1=="uid" {print $10; exit}')

git_user_name="${@:1:$#-1}"
git_user_email="${@: -1}"


echo git config user.name="$git_user_name"
echo git config user.email="$git_user_email"

I had to look up the negative indexing stuff because that's really annoying to do in Bash though. You're right that JSON would be way easier to deal with from a parsing perspective.

>>107633042
both sha256 and sha512 are sha-2, if one is broken the other is as well. sha512 is just a bit more resistant to collissions.

>>107633200
And without the angle brackets which git config may not accept:

#!/bin/bash
key_id="$1"
set -- $(gpg --with-colons -k "$key_id" | awk -F: '$1=="uid" {print $10; exit}')

git_user_name="${@:1:$#-1}"
git_user_email="${@: -1}"
git_user_email="${git_user_email:1:-1}"

echo git config user.name="$git_user_name"
echo git config user.email="$git_user_email"

Run it like:

bash key.sh <KEY_ID>

>>107633200
>>107633232
I'll be annoying and mention that that breaks on a variable amount of words in the name. My own name has 3 words (John FirstSurname SecondSurname), "normal" names have 2 and internet pseudonyms most often have 1. One of my keys has my legal name, while my other one is internet persona with a one-word name.

>>107633420
It should work no matter what because the email is always listed last and the user_name takes up the remaining but yes, you'd have to code that "Only use the pseudonym" or "Only use the first name" or "Only use the first and last name" logic yourself.

Best to just configure git config manually to be honest.

>>107633476

echo ${@:1:$#-1}

gives me one word too many, John FirstSurname SecondSurname (comment), which requires to change the negative index to -2 in order to get John FirstSurname SecondSurname.
>Best to just configure git config manually to be honest.
yes, it's just that I want this to be super stable for obvious reasons. I don't want my signing key which I use for my work to be seen signing a commit in https://github.com/ebussy/niggerhitler-loli-downloader.py because I accidentally <TAB>'d the wrong key ID or the wrong user.name or whatever.

>>107633543
Oh, you mean the comment. You could get rid of that by doing something like:

case "$git_user_name" in
  *\(*\))
        # correct it here
        ;;
   *)
       # default (do nothing)
        :;;
esac

But yeah, probably not worth the effort.

>>107632798
Based Debian and Need for Speed enjoyer

>>107632798
>>107633051
Regarding volume, on my machine the volume up/down shortcuts on the keyboard work. But an alternative is defining your own keyboard shortcuts for volume up/down, and yeah I've done that with Openbox before. Anon is using XFCE/XFWM though. I think there might be a GUI menu in XFCE for setting keyboard shortcuts so maybe that would work.

>>107633571
Fair enough. I guess I could just write one script per key/identity and hard-code the values. I'll probably just do that, maybe with

 gpg -k '<email>'

in order to yoink the key ID so that dead already-rotated key IDs don't stay in the script.

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>>107630533
Thank you for your advice.
The current situation is as such:
I have one device and I want to keep it like that, also regarding NAS. Also money issue.
1 M2 SSD 1TB, system.
4 HDD, 4TB each.
4 HDD are currently pooled in one BTRFS, where Data is RAID10 and Metadata is RAID1C4.
There exists a pile of small, old ancient external HDDs filled with misc.
I'm unhappy with this box. I set it up in 2016, later updated to 20.04 and everything is a mess.
So I plan to purge the OS and fresh just works Distro.
I also plan to fix directory structure and the general file clutter. If my box got nuked I'd probably not ever miss most of the data or realize I had it.
This is why I need to decide on a FS for the 16TB HDDs. I then plan to unfuck it all and migrate the ancient non-backed-up external drives. I also need a strategy to do that, unless I want to spend money. I imagine I can safely remove devices from the pool, and if the new FS pools can grow I can probably move half of the devices, move data and then move the remaining devices.
Is BtrFs a dead end? Why ZFS?
>>107632032
I envision a virtual volume on the pool than can be mounted only using key or cert. Like with a LUKS partition or something.
You unlock it, store things that must not get stolen and unmount it.
Sorry I haven't followed many of those developments in a long time so my concepts and knowledge may be outdated.

i need your help anons
which classic DE has the least bloat MATE,Trinity, Maxx,CDE ?

>>107634384
CDE

>>107634420
>>107634384
Although, I would use MATE anyway because it's a nicer desktop than the others even if its what you'd call "complete" (which is a good thing).

>>107634428
yeah i think that's what i am going to choose, at first i thought about using kde and make it win 7 themed but looking at the steps and the amount shit i need to install to do that and the fact that kde is already very bloated according what i read, so yeah i think the classic look of 2000s linux and MATE is the best option for me Thanks anon

>>107634384
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Openbox

Yo, I installed Mint on an old Acer.
The WiFi appears to work, but all of a sudden it stops seeing any networks and just turns to "unavailable".
A restart fixes it for 10-20 minutes and it breaks again (or it breaks just a few minutes later).

>>107634754
This has nanonigs written all over it.

>>107634653
too l33t for me and the fact that i am going to use devuan is enough i want to minimize the work i need to do to get things to work

>>107634777
What do you mean? (I am just a casual who wants to show the finger to MS and Nutella.)

I see that its some Ralink adapter with Foxconn drivers. It works, until it doesn't.

>>107634861
Nanonigs randomly attack systems and services that are relaxing. Hopefully one of our specialists will be able to get to you soon. Hold tight, and DO NOT RELAX.

Is there a way to set pipewire to exclusive mode output? Like Windows WASAPI? For some reason my dac/amp is reporting 48K when the song is 44.1K, on Windows it changes automatically between songs when using WASAPI exclusive output on Foobar2K, is there a way to do that on Linux?

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>>107635376
Forgot pic
Maybe with a different music player? I tried with fooyin too but there is nothing about exclusive mode in the settings.

hi anons
windows 10 user here
since windows 10 is (or already has i dont know) ending support, and windows 11 is just too bad for me to put up with, i am thinking about switching to linux, particularly mint

the switch seems pretty intimidating though, ive been using this system for years and years, and im worried about losing my files

any advice on how to safely transfer the files and apps from my os to a new one?
thanks

>>107634843
Well then, my own next "step up" from there would be XFCE, but I'm faaaaaaaaaaar from "l33t". Openbox is well worth the little bit of time/trouble it takes to learn it.

>>107635420
BACK THEM (FILES) UP, OFF YOUR MACHINE.

>>107635423
I've been avoiding any additional DEs on my Fedora 43 Xfce4 installation. Not that I would need one but in the past I always used i3 or openbox but that was years ago.
If I install something else it would need to be a clean slate so to speak.

>>107634861
shove the finger into the nutella and then proceed to lick it.

>>107634970
>>107635517
I think I solved my problem, but I am not telling you how, because you are making fun of my anti-Microsoft racism.

>>107635539
Windows customers all have the battered woman syndrome.

>>107635568
>"If I ride this one out it will surely get better"
>...

Is there a Linux music player capable of fetching the "Album Artist" instead of the normal one on last.fm? This was standard in foobar2000 and MusicBee, but it seems to be impossible to do this in both RhythmBox and Lollypop.

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>>107626138
>Guix and really like it so far
i like it too. testing out packages on a debian box before installing it on a personal laptop.
>have to compile it every kernel update(takes around an hour or so)
oh didn't know that. The only issue I'm encountering is that everything regarding pulling packages seems slooow, no idea if it's user error or is that kinda normal.

>>107635590
Back when I did things like "listen to music", I used Quod Libet.

>>107623921
>meta
ext4 on LVM.
Encrypt directories with fscrypt.

>>107635568
>>107635576
This does not make sense.

>>107635408
>2nd song
Good taste

>>107635754
Not for you because you are the battered wife.

is there a command to change the default first boot option in the grub boot menu? I've tried changing

grub_default

but it keeps booting the wrong drive during boot up. tried changing the default on both drives and still it boots to a secondary drive first and by defualt

Does anyone know how to troubleshoot Suspend not working on Debian 13 with Gnome?

>>107635962
what hardware and disk partioning layout are you on?

>>107635962
Read journalctl and dmesg first.
There's lots of surprising stuff and warning messages regardless of distro.

Okay, it's probably time to stop booting into Windows as a crutch. Would someone direct me to a good quickstart guide for using a virtual machine or anything else useful of that nature? Maybe WINE or Proton as well? I'm unfamiliar but looking for help getting started without making common mistakes or digging into an actual manual.

>>107636032
If you want to do gayming in a VM or anything that requires 3D acceleration you'll want to look into setting up VFIO, which, in most regular setups, requires having 2 video cards. Maybe check protondb and see if the games you want to play run on Linux.

>>107635717
thanks for the input I'll have a look and compare

>>107636032
What games are you planning to run? If you are a paypig you can just use Steam and be fine - install gamemoderun and perhaps gamescope (but to me gamescope is shit, it adds to latency, only use it if you have to..)
If you aren't you could look into Bottles.
I prefer to use my own scripts, it's really simple in the end and preferable to using launchers.

>>107636113
>Helium OS
Literally who?