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What's the best distro for females?

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>>108211356

>>108211356
>female (female)
Any normalfag distro.
>female (male)
The distro you use.

>>108211356
https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

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Sometimes when I boot up my arch+kde laptop, it hangs on a black screen after the grub bootloader screen. I can't access tty, and I usually get errors like picrel on boot. Any ideas on how to fix this?

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>>108211286 (OP)
cmd ln entry for downloading all pomf links in a page?
cytute/r/
Better-Call-Saul

tu

>>108212933
Gib example page to test with

>>108212951
cytu..............be/r/Better-Call-Saul

>>108212979
yt-dlp doesn't recognise it and I think they use some sort of Web socket. You may need some custom program to scrape the URLs.

resolvectl dns eth0 1.1.1.1

ok so this sets the DNS on eth0 to 1.1.1.1. How do I modify the "Global" setting? It got some servers via DHCP and I don't want to use those.
Also:

# /etc/systemd/network/00-internet.network
[Match]
Name=eth0
[Network]
DHCP=true
DNS=1.1.1.1
DNSOverTLS=true
[DHCPv4]
UseDNS=no
Anonymize=yes

Usecase for 2 different wallpapers? Usecase for vertical screen?

>>108213352
I believe you can use globs to match eth* or enp*, etc. I think there's also a way to target any Ethernet type at all although I'm not sure what that looks like. Ask an LLM.

>>108213523
>>108213352
Really though the best place to fix this is on the DHCP server. If you have control over it then set it once there and then everything will use it.

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>>108213538
I can't control the DHCP, it's in the ISP side. The thing is a router and eth0 is the WAN-facing interface.
>>108213523
>Ask an LLM
I'm too boomer to talk to toasters.

>>108213560
Then I don't think it matters what the router is using for DNS. Hardcode /etc/resolv.conf and write-protect it if you really want to change that. Whatever the router is using doesn't affect the LAN facing side though.

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>>108213574
>I don't think it matters what the router is using for DNS
>Whatever the router is using doesn't affect the LAN facing side though.
lol, lmao even
I specifically want the router to act as a local caching DNS server with a single parent server.
I do this with

DNSStubListenerExtra=0.0.0.0

and

[DHCPServer]
DNS=_server_address

It all works great but the DHCP offer from my ISP includes ISP's DNS servers and now my clients are using them plus the one (1.1.1.1) I configured.

>>108213617
Then Systemd is broken. If you used Dnsmasq you wouldn't have this issue.

>>108213617
>the DHCP offer from my ISP includes ISP's DNS servers
The DHCP offer comes from your router, and maybe it allows to disable the advertising of DNS servers feature.

>>108213638
It all boils down to the "Global" setting which I'm trying to figure out. Back to square one.
>>108214188
This thread is insane. No, there is no router except that particular Linux PC I'm configuring here. It has two Ethernet interfaces, one facing the Internet directly and the other one facing LAN. Yes, the internet facing interface has a real deal globally routable IP. I don't even need those "what is my IP . com" services as I can simply look at the interface's address.

>>108211286 (OP)
This thread actually links to the correct previous thread unlike the flamewar bake

>nvidia 580.095.x
>F43, bspwm
>posting all night
>suddenly mouse cursor freezes
>do alt+printsc magic reboot
I still can't understand why the fuck. I never had this issue in Windows.
My machine was idle almost.

>>108216621
When it happens in Linux, I can feel how the mouse cursor suddenly slows down.
And the whole machine just freezes.

>>108216632
I guess this is the Freedom of Linux. and if it is not Skill Issue.
It is just fucking amazing..

>>108216621
>>108216671
get a real gpu and try again

>>108216711
Oh it is a gpu problem? Thank you for your advice.

>>108216711
I'm curious to hear what sort of advice I am going to gain here.

I think it might be a capacitor issue. Power Supply or motherboard.
Windows might kept enough power so it was not a problem but 'linux' kernel is power cycling it too low states.

Installed Arch yesterday
How are people scared of it?
It literally took less than 10 mins to install it
The one singular issue I had was that the network manager wasn't on when I first launched into the desktop and it took a minute of Google searching to fix.

>>108216621
NVIDIA's Linux drivers are shite. For gaming you unfortunately gotta use the proprietary drivers, but for general desktop stability the Nouveau drivers are just better.

>>108216947
Probably because you did an auto-installer those are fairly new back in the day you had to do it manually

>>108216723
Your description is too fucking vague. I saw an opposite issue where Windows bluescreened in idle but Linux worked fine on an Intel CPU.
Turns out Windows scheduler panics and goes full throttle when it detects a user dragging a window to make it more responsive so it increases the voltage dramatically to let the clocks turbo and then vdroop happens and the system crashes because the CPU is unstable at voltage that low even if for a milisecond. Maybe you could replicate it on a BORE kernel in Linux? Either way it wasn't a fault of Windows but a hardware misconfiguration. Something like that is impossible to diagnose if you don't already know what to look for.
Maybe your CPU is unstable at idle voltages and on Windows it never idles due to bloat. Maybe you installed something wrong. Maybe something GPU related. You didn't even post specs. Maybe it's unrelated to the GPU and something on your motherboard has a really shitty driver on Linux that is causing issues. It's impossible to know from what you've given us.

>>108216947
When something breaks you won't be able to fix it because you used archinstall. The fact that you had to manually enable network manager is sus. Did you not install a DE?
Arch isn't hard to install, it's fucking trivial. It's only somewhat difficult if you're doing a nonstandard config. People are scared of it because there's no GUI installer.

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>>108216947
I had massive troubles understanding what I'm doing when I'm supposed to install boot loaders and sometimes got stuck there as things just wouldn't boot.
Then I learned to compile my own kernels and made them EFI-stubs and after that I kind of skipped all the bootloader related stuff on install guides. I even installed Ubuntu similarly to Arch, I Debootstrapped it. (such a minimal Ubuntu isn't any bigger than Arch btw)
>network manager
You are using systemd distro, use systemd-networkd instead. Although NetworkManager has a nice applet, could be relevant for a laptop user with Wi-Fi.

>>108211286 (OP)
Anyone have a general guide for setting up Nouveau + Zink + NVK? All I've managed to find is a year old Reddit thread of people arguing about what's actually necessary for it, and news articles about how that's the default on Turing and later. I'm not Turing and I'll be doing it on a Guix system, if that matters at all

>>108216621
>My machine was idle almost.
most of weird issues like that happen exactly when system is idle and not under load, power management is hard, when hardware is expected to go to lower power states and back, a lot of things can go wrong.
For example, on a Ryzen system i had to disable C-states entirely, raising it's power consumption by a lot, because it would randomly freeze on idle (total freeze requiring reboot).
My Nvidia GPU to this day likes to drop monitor output when left idle, i have to either type in the fix blindly or through SSH to get my display back.

>>108218286
It's fedora 43 with xfce4. There's probably some fuckery within. I should install something else but I'm too lazy. I'm still somewhat suspicious it is related to nvidia. You only need one bug somewhere.
Journals don't indicate anything.

>>108217169
>Guix system
best to ask in the lisp thread.

>>108213416
>Usecase for 2 different wallpapers?
Usecase for wallpapers?
>Usecase for vertical screen?
Watching vertical videos.

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MPV has been shitting the bed on me and I have no idea how to fix this. Only thing in the conf is

profile=high-quality

Running Arch 6.18.9

>>108219616
check currently installed codecs and vidlibs against those used in the container you want to play

>>108211544
is your system up to date?

Hey lads, i did a pretty big fuckup, laptop battery died during pacman -Syu and it fucked my shit up.
I got the puter running again by chrooting and reinstalling the os, fixed -Syu not going through with --overwrite on every conflicting directory.
Now, my issue is, when i pacman -Qkk | grep warning i get errors out the ass of unrecognized archive formats, or failed to calculate SHA256 checksum
Should i bother going through every error individually and trying to fix this, or is it terminal and i should just reinstall?

>>108211286 (OP)
So, I'm attempting to host a git server from my raspberry pi. When I clone a repo from my pi, vcs info doesn't work in the shell. This is also true for repos created locally with git init. Why is this?

>>108211544
The linux kernel, most likely the i915 driver, has to parse the video bios table to find information about talking to the LSPCON chip. Unfortunately issues like the one youre having are usually the result of bad drivers. The earlier anon was right to ask about how up to date your system is. Good luck.

>>108213416
>Usecase for vertical screen?
Reading manga and novels.

Redpill me on nix/nixos. Gemini says it's the answer to my OCD.

>>108221554
If AI said so, it probably is then.

Can linux be fun again if you've already gone through the whole learning process up to bash/python scripting, ricing, i use arch btw, writing your own packages, etc? I got a new laptop and put kubuntu on it and don't really feel like messing with anything like I used to.

>>108221855
Time to put the big boy pants, learn C and start messing with the kernel.

Is desktop openrc the best option for a Gentoo install?

>>108221855
It's an operating system, it allows you to accomplish work. If you are unemployed this post is probably somewhat difficult to understand.

>>108222120
Yes. No reason to go with Systemd unless you have some specific need or use-case that can only be accomplished by it.
OpenRC is very well supported in Gentoo and a lot of the developers use it themselves.

What's the opposite of ricing when you make an OS simpler and how do you do it? I'm kinda new to ricing in general and I have no idea where to start.

Why should I simply not remap (switch gnome workspaces) to Super + 1..9 and instead install meme window managers like i3wm, dwm and hyprland for the same purpose?

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i just noticed GIMP and LibreOffice dont see my fonts in /usr/share/fonts but they see the ones in /home/.fonts is there a way to make they see the ones in share? that is the ones my package manager installs.

>>108222853
dwm and hyprland have tagged windows, so you could for instance have the same terminal shared between your browser, mail, and office views, and then have it on your dev view but smaller and off to one side, and not at all on your gaming view. That's not something you can do easily on mutter.

Idk why i3 exists frankly.

So, is linux becoming the default for lenovo now? Heard about it all the time last week, what are the chances this could result to linux finally getting functional oled driver for 1st gen x1 yoga?

what's the proper way of updating stuff from the aur

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>that random CPU stutter that only happened when librewolf was open but stopped when btop was open is gone after turning WebGL off and back on
Thanks for the freaky bug that behaves like malware. Does btop fuck with processes or the CPU at all? Why was this happening? Fuck computers

This is how you enable middle-mouse button scrolling (hold the mouse button and move by dragging the mouse. I got used to this in KDE) with Sway:

input "type:pointer" {
    scroll_method on_button_down
    scroll_button 274
}

What is this config? It all seems so opaque. This isn't documented anywhere either.

       input <identifier> scroll_button disable|button[1-3,8,9]|<event-code-or-name>
           Sets the button used for scroll_method on_button_down. The button can be given as an event name or code, which can be obtained from libinput debug-           events, or as a x11 mouse button (button[1-3,8,9]). If set to disable, it disables the scroll_method on_button_down.

Very helpful.

>>108216953
as someone building a pc soon, I do want to start gaming on Linux, so basically I should just go for a 9700XT to avoid any headaches?

Its that or a 5070ti
My only issues is that afaik I cant into AI stuff in AMD, but dunno, specially video stuff

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alright so my retarded ass needs to be able to dual boot linux and windows ltsc iot for reasons. less "because i rely on windows" and more "some work-related stuff might actually late everything linux because fuck 'em"
is the thing to do just install windows and dedicate some gb for its system files, then install whatever linux distro i plan on using and dedicate some gb for its system files, and then the rest of storage can just be accessed by both windows and linux?

>>108223219
Generally, nvidia works on linux and ai works on amd. How well is a different question. Depending on how important that ai stuff is for you you might want to go with nvidia. The rest works well with amd, and price is probably in favor of amd as well. Tough decision.

>'nother flg
>no one responding to anything

Does linux feel less bs, or at least more logical and systematic in it's bs, than windows? I really hate windows.........

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>>108211286 (OP)
Did KDE 6.6 break alt tabbing out of fullscreen applications? I can't alt-tab into windows behind fullscreen ones. I remember I had this problem with just Firefox before and I had to change its config but now it's for all fullscreen apps.

how can i enable thumbnail preview in gtk filepicker?

>>108222788
Technically you're just aiming for minimalism. Grab a minimal install and set everything up yourself. Arch was known for this and it's guide before the implementation of the install script, but it can be done with most distros to different degrees. Alternatively there's gentoo but it might not be the most practical experience.
You'd normally ignore DEs and install Window Managers instead, then pick and choose what you want to handle different aspects, be it cli or gui. Most people just grab a distro that offers a spin which uses a wm though to keep it simple. Some(most?) only offer the bare minimum and more often than not you don't even have a gui tool to modify the sensitivity of your input devices, it's up to you how to do it.

>>108216953
i got a new gaming laptop, just for fun, and it was having loads of errors with nvidia's proprietary drivers.
i installed nouveau drivers just to try, but since i only play quake 3/openarena all day i can still get 200+ fps on my games. now sleep works, my system doesnt crash, why was i avoiding these for so long? all the linux tards told me proprietary is better, but nouveau is 1000x better.

>>108223573
What kind of bs are we talking about? to me the first thing that pops to mind is the file system hierarchy, on windows you have all the OS shit lumped into the system32 directory that only God and Microsoft know how it works (and I'm not sure about the latter because they vibecode windows nowadays), and then you have the windows registry which is such massive bs.
On linux on the other hand, everything is very transparent, all your binaries live in /bin, all your devices in /dev, all temporary files in /tmp, all libraries in /lib, etc... As the saying goes, "Everything is a file" on Linux, that means there is no hidden configurations like the windows registry, because everything is stored in files, the hierarchy is very logical which makes finding files very easy once you get used to it.

>>108223796
It depends on your DE, are you on GNOME, KDE or another DE?

>>108224022
Depends on your device I think. My laptop has an Nvidia dgpu and it'd randomly crash the whole session until I installed the proprietary drivers. Sleep didn't work properly either if I recall correctly.
When I installed the proprietary drivers the power management was fucked though, had to fiddle with it but it works now.

>>108223227
The general plan is basically:
1. Install windows
3. Make a bootable USB stick with your distro on it
4. Boot from the linux USB
5. Resize your partitions and make room for Linux (This can be either done manually or the installer will give you some options, some Linux installers are smart enough to detect windows and partition accordingly)
6. Make sure to not format the ESP partition
7. Format the new partitions for Linux and install
8. Congrats, you should be able to dual-boot now
If you can't boot then it's probably because GRUB failed to install, but that's very rare, in any case reinstalling GRUB should fix that.

>>108222144
that's boring. boring answer.

>>108222788
Define "simpler".
You mean graphically simpler? Or you mean reducing the complexity of the core packages and reducing bloat to the bare minimum?
If you mean graphically simpler then start moving from a fully featured floating DE into getting yourself a tiling WM, then start using Tmux and stop relying on your WM that much.
If you mean the bloat thing then that's where you gotta start investigating what stuff is considered bloated in GNU/Linux. I'll be transparent on the fact that I don't know a ton about the subject but what I can say is:
Arch can be a gateway drug into Gentoo, which on it's own is quite educational but it also (apparently) lets you use compile flags to lean down whatever you intend to install.
Also, check out https://suckless.org/sucks/ and http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/
In general, GNU stuff can sometimes be considered bloated, SystemD is absurdly bloated and Canonical is the antichrist.

>>108223573
It's like starting to drive your own car after you lived with a chauffeur your entire life.
It gives you a fuckton of freedoms which can be interpreted as less bullshit but the second you sidetrack outside the thing that devs expected you to do on the daily then it starts getting esoteric as hell. Which is kind of a part of the experience, Linux isn't meant to be measured with the same ruler that is used for measuring Windows.

>>108221855
idk man. Install gentoo and try to pull what >>108222788 wanted to do into the extreme. Or disregard Gentoo entirely and get into the LFS magic or maybe try just different stuff, try openBSD, maybe plan9 or GNU/Hurd.
Get into networking, containers and/or virtualizations. Maybe master your knowledge on sed, ed and RegEx.
Shit, get into wargames if you want as well.

>>108223966
I have a minimal distro it was just a clusterfuck starting off cause it didn't have anything on it and I didn't know of any lightweight program alternatives.
>Arch, Gentoo
Pass for now, I'm still on a Debian base and I've yet to try Debian yet.
>window managers
I know next to nothing about different window managers unless you are talking about tiling?
I feel like I've bitten off more than I can chew, is there a retard's guide to ricing for Ubuntu?
>>108224455
I've heard of a tiling WM but what is a floating DE? I've also used Tmux, mainly just to launch AI shit, it can do more than that?

>>108224600
You have to be a big boy and perform the web searches yourself instead of attempting to rely on a most likely outdated guide. Arch wiki has most of the programs you might want to check.

>>108224748
I was already doing that and found that there are floating/stacking WMs... Why...? Couldn't you just use a DE for that?

>>108224600
WM =/= DE.
Desktop Environment is mostly a suite of basic programs which among other stuff has the WM, a FM and some other tools. A Window Manager is just the thing handling the layout of your windows and it also does the graphics handling needed to go from a terminal screen all the way to a fully loaded graphical desktop (of course it doesn't does the work itself it relies on X11 to actually make graphical stuff).
Also a floating WM is just the format of a window manager that you'd use in windows, because your windows "float" on the desktop. The idea of swapping it to a tiling WM is that they tend to be leaner and faster, also they tend to rely a little bit more on keyboard use (depends precisely on the WM if it's a little bit more or if it's entirely reliant on it).
By saying that you should go from a floating DE to a tiling WM I meant that you should just ditch DEs as a whole and try to pick a tiling WM and then build up the system with whatever stuff you need instead of relying on the stuff that came with the DE.
If you use Debian you could reinstall debian with the netinst .iso next and literally disable every single option of additional software, it should leave you with a blank terminal login screen, you could just install a WM, set it up and go from there.

Also yeah if you disregard graphics altogether Tmux could be the closest thing to a WM.
Personally I'm trying to become a sysadmin so I do my hardest to live on the terminal, and I tend to open up the term, open up Tmux, create 3 windows and I tend to run vim on the first one, I leave the second one to run commands on bash and I run Ranger on the third one to have it as a FM to yank out paths to dirs so I can quickly paste them into the second tmux window.

>>108224600
Go watch some of luke smith's linux videos and you shall understand my gay

>>108222896
Are these Flatpak versions of the apps

I was watching a video of a pajeet or mystery meat poverty third worlder on Shorts making his own tools or something out of melting PVC pipe and I realized this could be a million dollar idea. What if we make our own electronics out of plastic

>>108224969
The Jews hate this one simple trick!

>>108224902
Ohh I see, so I currently have float/stacking but I could switch to tiling, I've never tired tiling before so I'm gonna try that out.
>>108224935
I have a Chris Titus video open, not that there is much of a difference if you ask me lol

>>108225140 (Me)
>Niri
>infinite horizontal strip
>mfw people are creating scrollable WMs for the phone-brained zoomers

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>>108224959
i got things confused; my system's fonts apper fine in gimp and libreoffice, is that it seems i had less on libre because it doesnt show mono or bold as separate fonts the system shows it as separate so i thought i had less on libreoffice.

to be sure i did run: fc-cache -f -v
and installed font-recommended for more fonts

>>108225204 (Me)
>Hyprland is not meant to be a full and user-friendly DE
Uh... Should I use i3wm, Qtile or bspwm if this is my first tiling manger?

Everyone here says they hate gnome but I'm constantly seeing people on youtube or linux searches bring it up, is it actually popular everywhere but here?

>>108225290
i3

Linux but for third worlders

>>108225388
Ubuntu

>>108225388
antiX, PUppy Linux, Bodhi, nanolinux
specifically look for "least resource intensive" or "linux for old computers"

>>108225306
GNOME haters are a vocal minority on pretty much every Linux venue. They're either ricers who found out the hard way that GNOME punishes you for changing the UI more than absolutely necessary, or double digit IQ nerds who get cognitive dissonance when they discover they can't use the computer if the UI isn't basically like Windows.

>>108225523
>vocal minority
YEAH DUDE ONLY A MINORITY OF PEOPLE WANT A SYSTRAY OR A MINIMIZE BUTTON LOL
>they can't use the computer if the UI isn't basically like Windows
Why have seemingly all GNOMEfags latched onto this one cope? Do you retards think that Bill Gates invented minimize buttons, or that Windows is particularly unique in having them?

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>>108225306
You have to deliberately opt into something else on most distros and the vast majority never stray from defaults which are usually either GNOME or GNOME derivatives. When you're forced to choose for yourself the stats look very different.

>>108225732
Is based xfce4 chads come in 3rd

>>108225732
I thought Plasma was resource intensive?

>>108225754
Plasma 6 is heavier than Plasma 5 but it's still lighter than GNOME and even Shittamon.

>>108225348
i3 or sway?

Do i need to do something if i have secure boot enabled in linux? I heard windows secure keys expire soon

>>108225754
for resource intensive DE, plasma 6 sure works well on my shitty T450

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>>108225306
It's basically the default Linux desktop.
>>108225732
People who pick tweaker distros typically also pick tweaker DEs. Not surprising.
>>108225761
Weird - GNOME feels snappier to me. Also, Plasma 6 leaks RAM.

>>108225767
obviously sway if you wanna use wayland

>>108225725
Yeah that's pretty much the room temp IQ take.

>>108225830
I don't know if I want to use wayland, isn't wayland merging intos something or is that xorg?

>>108225852
They both pretty much are what they are. Try both and see what works better with your video drivers. They're not very different.

>>108225852
just go with xorg + i3-gaps
it was kinda the default beginner twm setup until wayland came along
you sound like you'll need the larger amount of documentation available desu

>>108225861
Oh right, I also use AMD so its gonna be a pain in the ass

>>108225868 (Me)
Well Sway can use AMD so I guess I'll go for sway and see how it goes

What's the difference between vim and tmux? I googled it and the google definitions use all sorts of technical jargon when I just want a quick run down on what they are and why they are different?

>>108225895
tmux is a terminal multiplexer. just like you can open multiple instances of eg. VLC, it allows you to run multiple terminals at once
vim is a piece of software that runs inside of a terminal (emulator)
two totally different things

>>108225913
I never understood the difference between the terminal or terminal emulator or are all terminals terminal emulators?

>>108225917
The little blinking underscore you see when starting up your computer is a 'real' terminal. It's what's used before you start up a graphical (read: non text based) user interface to your computer. Usually this happens automatically at startup and you see the login screen as your entry point for interaction.
Now inside of your desktop, you can also start a terminal, but this is technically a terminal emulator because it emulates the default terminal on your pc and usually has lots more features like pretty prompt messages, more colours, advanced highlighting etc.

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>>108225917
Terminals were dedicated user IO devices which took non-Turing complete commands for displaying text. Terminal emulators use the same basic commands, but modern emulators do things real ones never did, and real ones haven't been in common use for like 30 years. So 'emulator' is no longer a helpful distinction. It's just a programming interface based on what old hardware did.

>>108225945
That's still an emulator or some kind of BIOS / bootloader hosted console.

>>108225306
GNOME is the 2nd most popular DE for a reason. There is nothing other than KDE and GNOME that matters.

>>108226139
>2nd most popular DE
I know no one who likes it.

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>>108225811
>Plasma 6 leaks RAM.
The uptime on my laptop running Plasma 6 was almost 50 days until I powered it off to update a day ago. If Plasma leaked RAM it would already start shitting itself by day 7 instead of being able to run forever.

>>108225811
Plasma is not a "tweaker" DE since the defaults are sane. If anything GNOME is closer to that considering you need to manually install multiple extensions to make it usable. There's a reason why distros like Ubuntu and Zorin pre-install half a dozen extensions to it. Very few people like the default GNOME UX.
The actual "tweaker" desktops are window managers. Pic related.

>>108226150
It doesn't matter if anyone explicitly likes it. With a handful of extensions it's good enough for a lot of people. If you never use anything better then you'll never know what you're missing and most people are fine living obliviously.

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>>108226150
i do.
>>108226194
>If you never use anything better then you'll never know what you're missing and most people are fine living obliviously.
qt and ssds can suck my balls.

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>>108211372
Fake news
Propaganda
Fallacies

>>108226233
Finally lossless lesbians...

>>108226245
On GOD

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>>108226233
>>108226255

>>108226229
>hating SSD
If GNOME didn't enforce CSD I'd consider using it. CSD are a cancer.

>>108226313
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ":"
you're welcome.

>>108225784

maybe change to distro that does not support nvme and secureboot that would keep you busy

>>108226584
wtf are you even saying nigga am on arch

Just removed snapd from my Ubuntu machine

Maybe in the future I will reinstall with Debian but I can't be bothered with that right now

>KDE broke the trash on btrfs subvolumes that aren't home

The other day, I attempted to upgrade my Gentoo server from the 17.0 profile to 23.0 by following the instructions in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_Gentoo . I ran these commands from the guide:

mkdir -p /mnt/build
tar -xf /path/to/stage3-somearch-somedate.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/build
mount --rbind /dev /mnt/build/dev
mount --rbind /proc /mnt/build/proc
mount --rbind /sys /mnt/build/sys
mkdir -p /mnt/build/mnt/host
mount --rbind / /mnt/build/mnt/host

Once I finished emerging, I figured I no longer needed the files I had extracted from the tarball, so I ran rm -rf /mnt/build to clean up. After that, I couldn't ssh into the server, and upon power cycling it failed to boot. I think I was supposed to unmount everything before running rm. I didn't make any backups before starting the upgrade, so it looks like the server is a goner.

>>108226902
yeah you had your root filesystem mounted in /mnt/build still, that's why it won't boot anymore. Next time, undo the rbind mounts first.

GNU Screen is all you need.

>>108226902
kek

>>108225767
Sway if you want modern display support for VRR on multiple displays and HDR support.

Distros for people who want to get things done
>Debian
>Ubuntu
Distros for people who want to tinker and never get anything done
>Arch
Distros for people who want to beta test for Red Hat
>Fedora

>>108227079
Distros for people who want to test in production for Red Hat
>Every one of them

>>108227079
Distros for people who don't want to use their computer
>Debian and Debian-based distros
Distros for people who are employed
>Ubuntu
Distros for people who are poor and use 10 year old hardware
>Mint
Distros for people who want to tinker
>Arch
Distros for people who like to gamble
>Arch-based distros
Distros for people who are too poor for nVidia
>Fedora
Distros for people who want to user their computer
>Fedora-based distros which come with proprietary drivers and codecs
Distros for Germans
>OpenSUSE

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>>108226233
BTFO'd & check'd

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What fonts should I install on my fresh system?

Also, where can I download them?

>>108227371
>where do I download fonts
There's hundreds of websites.
https://fonts.google.com/
https://www.1001freefonts.com/
https://www.dafont.com/
https://www.fontspace.com/
>What fonts should I install on my fresh system?
None of them. Your distro should look good enough by default.

Is power-profiles-daemon better than tuned-ppd? Tlp isn't a good option cause i have a amd cpu.

>>108227411
Just use cpupower to set the power governance mode during startup. You don't need any daemons or bullshit.

>>108227419
How do i use cpupower?

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It's funny how in real life chameleons have active camouflage and can flawlessly adapt to their environment on-demand yet OpenSUSE fucking shits itself whenever there's an update because Packman will desync.

>>108227497
I'm not your personal google assistant, faggot.

>>108227685
Be friendly.

>>108227697
That was friendly

>>108226902
Next time use rmdir instead of rm -rf to remove empty directories

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>>108226194
>the defaults are sane
Nested submenus inside of a hamburger menu is sane for the insane.

>>108226139
The reason why gnome is "2nd most popular"(which it isn't). Is because fedora, ubuntu, and a bunch of other distros use gnome as their default.

>>108228032
>features = bad
Buy an iPhone

How the fuck do I install mpv 0.39 on Fedora, I've been trying to figure this out door like an hour even though I thought it would take a minute. Dnf downgrade not available, flatpak versions are all too new and I can't find any binaries.

>>108228147
Why do you specifically need the 0.39? It doesn't look like any distro is packaging that version. All of them skip from 0.37 to 0.40 or 0.41. Your only option would be compiling it yourself using their 0.39 source code:
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/archive/refs/tags/v0.39.0.zip

>>108228083
Who are you quoting? We're talking about sane defaults here.

>>108228171
Because on newest dragging the edge of the window to resize it is extremely laggy and slow for me for some reason. On Windows I fixed it simply by installing an older version. I did some searches and found other people with this issue in 0.40 and newer too.

>>108228194
You can build from source and try to bisect it with

git bisect

and then submit a bug report.

>>108228194
Can't say I've noticed but I use a twm so it might react in a different way. Never built it but check fedora's package, it has a dependencies list which might help if you choose to build it.

Firefox 148 is out

>>108228032
Ctrl + M
Hamburger menus are communism

>>108228194
does setting --profile=fast in mpv fix it?

>>108228228
What did they fuck up this time?

didn't update arch for so long that it's complaining about certs being out of date and corrupt packages because they're not signed correctly or something, how do i fix?
just did -Syu, no AUR shit installed

>>108228228
>not in the arch repositories
i sleep.

>>108228260
Didn't test yet (I use gpu-hq since my GPU is good) but I was testing each specific option I had set and looks like setting downscale to anything other than ewa_lanczos gets rid of the sluggishness. Weird since I can use it for upscaling as well as chroma scaling without issue, just not for downscaling. Also CPU and GPU are barely used at all when it's struggling. Ah well, setting it to regular lanczos will do for now.

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>Try installing DMS in openSUSE TW with hyperland
>Hyprland constantly crashing even though the config files seem all actually fine
>Hey maybe hyprland is broken as shit on openSUSE
>Try installing DMS in CachyOS
>Pic related
Ok

>>108228721
It tells you exactly what to do but idk why quickshell-git wouldnt have that package as part of the build dependencies

>>108228848
I know, it's an easy fix, just install vulkan-headers. It's in the extra repo even. Kinda dumb

>>108228861
You can go and complain to whoever "maintains" the AUR package. They're clearly not doing a very good job of it if they didn't even attempt to build it even once in a clean chroot.

How do you find the biggest user folder in ubuntu?

>>108229840
Ncdu is a great disk usage analyzer

>>108229854
I asked before I checked and I saw I had one already downloaded, but thanks for the rec lol

>>108228437
-S archlinux-keyring followed by -Syy and then -Syu

Sorry -Syy then -S archlinux-keyring and then -Syu, hasn't happened to me in a while lol

Upgrading my gentoo install and it run out of RAM during gtk build, jesus. 32GB isn't enough, I had to reduce make core count via MAKEOPTS

>>108230439
10 years ago I built gtk on my stinkpad with 4GB of ram

>>108230439
Use zswap. Literally nothing wrong with swapping out linking jobs.

I'm on Mint right now. What day-to-day changes should I expect from switching to LMDE, Debian Cinnamon, or Devuan Cinnamon, respectively? I'm wondering whether the change would be worth it.

>>108227112
>Fedora-based distros which come with proprietary drivers and codecs

Too brown and got filtered by rpmfusion I guess?

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Dude, I spent an entire day trying to figure out how to use Firefox' profiles in an ergonomic way, tried custom scripts and Keybinds, even autostart jobs. Then I realized, I can create custom actions im the .desktop file. It's just a glorified launcher for the underlying CLI so I can write down anything I want to do as soon as is properly registered. And it's picked by default by 90% of launchers and right click context menues. I can easily launch profiles by typing the first few letters of their names on a search box and pressing enter. Amazing. It's something extremely obvious on retrospective, but it blows my mind.

>>108230935
did you write a different .desktop file for each profile?

>gee i feel like doing that gentoo install on my thinkpad now
>*attempt like 3 times, fail*
>whatever, I'll try again tomorrow
>try to unplug ethernet cable -> stuck in the port
Today is not my day.

>>108231006
No, i appended them at the end of Firefox's default .desktop profile (the one inside the user's $HOME at least) i really doubt that one gets overwritten by updates instead of /usr/share's.

>>108231105
Yeah the the local desktop entries override the ones in /usr/share/applications

What the hell, I've been using linux for over a decade but I've never used rsync before. This shit is so useful, how did I miss out on it? I've just been using usb drives and scp like a dumbass

>>108231010
Have faith anon. If a retard like me can install gentoo, you can too. Also do you even need the ethernet cable? If you run net-setup on the live install it can auto setup wifi. Works on my lenovo thinkpad just fine.

>>108225864
>>108225852
Don't look for i3-gaps, it's obsolete, now i3 maintainers have worked out the differences and merged all its features on the main project. By now even Debian Bookworm should have a recent enough version of i3 that was released after this merge.

>>108231309
You'll orgasm once you find out how powerful is pairing rsync with rclone. Synchronized backups of all your shit to whoever you want, deduplicated so you don't merge redundant trash.

>>108231105
not sure how you get multiple profiles with that.
I must be missing somehthing

>>108231309
I can install gentoo just fine, I simply had some tangential problems I can't bother explaining here. In my case I need the cable, it is what it is.

>>108231393
Sounds obscure but is fairly simple

# Find and open $HOME/.local/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop with whatever text editor you want, but if it doesn't exist you can copy it from /usr/share/applications to that exact location
# Find and edit this line, append the name of custom actions in this-gay-hyphen-format
Actions=new-window;new-private-window;profile-manager-window;launch-regular-browsing-profile;launch-whatsapp-profile;launch-nsfw-profile,etc...
# Define your custom actions right at the bottom of this file
[Desktop Action launch-regular-browsing-profile]
Name="Regular Browsing" Profile
Exec=env MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 firefox -P 'regular_browsing' %u

You can even pass environment variables to the commandif you need them, i did it as a workaround for this outdated 2014 laptop. The Wayland backend shutters for some reason.

>>108231578
Seems like these Actions are a .desktop thing I was not aware of.

>>108231690
It's a fancy wrapper to define custom args passed to a specific binary (99% of the time one for a desktop GUI application) as "Actions" that show up on the vast mayority of righ click context menues or as independient launchers, they all follow the XDG specification that mandate supporting this shit: right clicking on your panel or desktop's icons, Whisker Menu, Plasma's App Launcher, Gnome's Overview, whatever custom shit Window Managers like Openbox use to generate their menues, global runners like Rofi/Alfred/Krunner.

I just realized my wired controller works better on Linux than it does Windows. On Windows when I turned my computer on my controller would always vibrate on my desk which was retarded, but on Linux it sleeps until I press one of the buttons to wake it up. Neat!

>>108232023
generic drivers are a god send, its the same with my epson printer, worked like actual shit on windows, moved over to Linux with a generic print manager and generic drivers and it works like a dream. It surprised the hell out of me because I was having a hard time setting anything up at the beginning.

gaming on gentoo

im gonna be installing a fresh os, i have 2 questions
does anyone have experience with mint while using a 9070 XT or any recent card that requires mesa 25 drivers? im already aware that mesa 24 just does not work with my card at all and id rather avoid that nassle
second question, should i bother doing drive encryption this time

>>108232557
>gayming
Don't know, don't care.
>encryption
Is it a laptop? Yes.
Is it a desktop? Does it stay in your home? No.

>>108232557
>should i bother doing drive encryption this time
You know this better than us. Do you have anything of value that could be stolen?

>>108232621
i dont know, is porn valuable?

>>108232624
I've seen porn folders and apparently everyone has shit taste so no

>bug a bunch of people about ricing
>have the programs I need to get down
>mfw sitting like a retard cause I never decided a theme and color palette for my rice
sigh... Any good places to go for inspiration or should I just kinda copy someone and hope an idea I'm passionate about hits? Being creative is hard...

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>>108232922
Just copy the SX-Window for the X68000

>>108230679
>LMDE/Debian
It'll be worse, basically. Older packages, less features, less polish. But hey you won't have to update as much (security patches and bugs deemed "not important" won't be fixed).
>Devuan
It is for init system autism.

>>108232958
X68000 was so peak

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>>108211286 (OP)
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/t2pyty/firefox_creates_multiple_instances_on_pulseaudio/
Why is Firefox like this. I can't properly mix the audio because every audio source in it makes a new PulseAudio entry. Chromium doesn't have this problem but I don't want to go back to Google. What do? Should I switch to GNU IceCat?

>>108233431
GNU IceCat is basically demozilla-ized Firefox ESR, if you want demozilla-ized Firefox then look up Trisquel's Abrowser

>>108233431
>>108233456
If it's based on Firefox it will likely have the same issue. Try a Chromium based browser like Brave or Vivaldi perhaps, or if on KDE you can try Falkon or Qutebrowser maybe but I had issues with Falkon and their userscripts extension. GNOME has Epiphany but it is quite barebones.

Until now I was booting to the command line and then starting LXQt from the command line. It meant I could run apt update / apt full-upgrade and then reboot before starting LXQt if I needed to, saving me from unnecessarily starting LXQt

However I just realised that a display manager is a good idea. A program was refusing to run due to some dbus issue, which display managers apparently take care of

So now I am booting straight to LightDM, and my formerly problematic program is working properly

>>108232557
you might have issues using any x11 based window manager like cinammon with a 9070 xt where your your cursor movement will desync as you move it. happens to me and a lot of other people (i suspect everyone but some people are too retarded to notice their mouse movement being wonky). its been like this since its release, there was a fix that was meant to come out soon but the guy went quiet
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3709

are there any rustdesk alternatives on linux?
the smoothness is fine, but i need the client window on the host to be borderless.

tigervnc/remmina can work, but is just too fucking slow.

parsec needs an account, so fuck that.
heard something about sunshine moonlight, but haven't looked into that one.

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Do you attend your local Linux Users Group, /fglt/?

Usecase for being friendly?

>>108233431
Use librewolf or zen

>>108211356
tranny

>>108232922
https://lospec.com/palette-list

>>108234985
Obsessed trasnphobe

Why does Linux HATE NTFS?

>>108235058
Why would anybody use Macroshaft Wangblows bullshit

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Is there a file manager for linux that isn't shit? Something that would let me search for say, any text file with a modification date between 2013 and 2014?

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>>108235234
>niche feature requirement
nautilus can do it.

>>108235253
Why the fuck is it a niche feature? Being able to see any file like image*.jpg within a certain date range should be a basic feature. Iirc older version of windows could do it but now it's a "niche feature"? fuck this gay earth.

>>108235253
I don't understand their line of thinking
this is a feature, but custom views per folder is too much? "too confusing for the masses"?

>>108235272
>basic feature
lmao. anything beyond folder navigation and opening files is niche for a file manager.

>>108235281
I find removal of functions that existed in older software alarming and you should too.

>>108235291
It's not removal anon, it's that these people have to put a bit of effort on these things whenever they want to cook up something new.
So they grab the old thing, they strip the features out because they find a lot of bugs, and try to reinvent the wheel without those features. And if you ask and beg, they're volunteers, they don't get paid. You have to explain in detail how it is a necessary, core element of a file manager, or else you can go fuck yourself because they don't want to invest extra time on it. And if it's not theirs, and you contribute, it has to work perfectly or else.

>>108235303
>just maintain my feature for me
feel free to become an open source maintainer. enjoy the 0 pay, the community entitlement, and the extra responsabilities.

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>>108235234
plasma comes with kfind, which you can open with a keyboard shortcut within dolphin

>>108235334
Kind of useless if the name fields and date fields can't be combined into a single search. Am I really living in a world where file managers peaked in the 1990s with norton commander?

>>108235352
this is linux buddy, file managers are for basic stuff and for everything else there's the command line.
learn to use find.

Dolphin the powerful manager that has file tagging but you can't use negation making it half useless

>>108235360
the command line isn't much help when you're looking for a specific image

>>108235352
>if the name fields and date fields can't be combined
any of those options can be combined

>>108235375
>>108235334
ok this looks like it might work, though in typical linux fashion there is no image preview for some fucking reason.

>>108235279
this feature is actually hidden in a 3 clicks depth. 99% of people will never interact with it.
>>108235396
why would there be? it's just a find frontend.

>>108235413
In 2026 why wouldn't there be? An image search is effectively useless if you can't see the fucking images.

>>108235422
>just add images to the filepicker
shit ain't as easy as you seem to think.

>>108235437
>HURR DURR features that existed in windows 3.11 30 years aren't easy to implement bro
Maybe this world really is another worlds hell.

>>108235453
this is niche software. if you think it's worth adding image loading to it, submit a pull request. i'm sure the maintainer will be thrilled at the extra dependencies and maintenance burden for the 3 users of the app.

>>108235470
A search function that can actually find the fucking file you're searching for should not be niche software you fucking cretin.

>>108235489
well then put your time where your mouth is, fork the project and add image loading yourself.

>>108235503
Even if I could do that. Any community that doesn't see this obvious problem and didn't solve it 20 years ago isn't worth participating in. I'll pursue this problem on the windows side of things.

>>108235279
They probably forgot to remove it

>>108235575
We should notify them. What an oversight, what a distracting thing that keeps me unproductive.

>>108235575
it's actually from last year, but hey don't let me stop you from circle jerking about gnome having no features.

>>108235422
Kfind is a general search tool. It's not meant to search for images in particular. I think there's Gwenview (default Plasma's image viewer) and it has a search function but i don't know if it can search for date ranges; i never had this issue, 99% of my pictures either have categorized filenames or are wallpapers whom i don't care too much about.

>>108230679
>>108232961
LMDE tends to be slightly "ahead" of regular Mint in virtue of Debian's release cycle sometimes being ahead of latest Ubuntu's LTS, like. i.e. right now, Debian 14 has newer packages than the 24.04 LTS the main edition of Linux Mint is based on. Once Ubuntu 26.04 shows up then regular LM will be newer again, until Debian 15 superseeds it a couple of months after. Frankly i see no reason to not run LMDE if you like the APT ecosystem and Cinnamon. It just works as long as your hardware does. Just use Distrobox or Flatpak to avoid shitting up your system with random repositories.

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Do Linux enthusiasts and power users actually switch distros regularly? For what purpose if so?

>>108234856
Sunshine is the host, moonlight is the client. Sunshine is basically trying to be a foss replacement for nvidia gamestream and should have gpu acceleration since its main purpose is streaming games.
What are you trying to do though?

I need to 3d model something on my Celeron N2940 shitpad, but the version of Blender I can apt install from the Ubuntu repositories crashes on startup.

Is there a way I can install older versions through the terminal in case there are any dependencies I need to purge? Though it seems like they are only available in tar.xz archives.

>>108234954
is that supposed to be linus and rms?

>>108236041
Not necessary anymore, Distrobox gives you packages from most distributions and integrates in your $HOME. You pay for it with some runtime bloat, but the convience is good.

>>108236041
It's the newbies who do this until they settle on what they like best or give up and go back to Windows. Although after enough time passes you might get curious about what another distro is like these days and give it a try.

>>108236041
Generally they don't because they know the lay of the land in a cultural / technical sense and know what works for them. That's something new users do.

>>108236211
there's also a non-zero amount of users that will distro hop to whatever is fotm right now like cachyos.

>>108236042
Tried sunshine but only get 'forbidden' when trying to access the https://webui. Appimage, flatpak, build, nothing seems to work.

Get my macbook screen as a borderless window in hyprland.

>>108236217
I would like to hear the thought process behind that name. It sounds like a mod for Stardew Valley, not something that should be touching bare metal.

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Dear God I want a browser that looks like pic related. But.. that's.. a pipe dream. Naturally good things just don't happen..

Not in this realm.

I mean, how would I even learn how to achieve this?

>>108235234
The root cause is that people skilled enough to write an advanced file search tool have no need to, they would just use the command line and move on. Even if they did write a patch for dolphin that would be 1000x more work and still wouldn't cover 1% of what the cli could do

>>108235422
images are a good point where the cli falls down but even then you can spew symlinks into a folder in /run and use that to view the search results in a file browser. I recall an anon in this thread doing that recently.

>>108236041
There are situations in which the general direction or goal of the distribution itself changes and you can see some older users have their grievances. Or something they thought solid and stable enough becomes not so solid anymore. These people also get used to a level of "just fucking be like this forever" that some manual interventions may annoy them as much as the new user.
People will tell you endlessly that distros don't matter. In fact it's not really wrong. You can run any linux program on any current distro. It's misleading to say that you cannot run the same version of a program on fucking kinoite, debian and arch, or that you cannot actually just set up your system in the same way.
However the update distribution method/schedule is different between these. You do not want to fight your own fucking OS. There's a misconception that linux is for tinkering. No. The linux desktop should try as hard as it can to be a fucking thing in the background o do your work or entertainment on, just like any other desktop OS. And this is one of the biggest things that can get in the way when you switch between the major distros. Not so much with derivatives (or maybe, if they're far removed from the base distro). But you don't want to spend a lot more time reaching the same fucking place and you don't want the people in charge making your life miserable because of how specifically they decide to provide you things like updates.

>>108236041
No. Newfags think of each distro as whole new OS so they eagerly switch. The rest just stick to their choice unless something causes big headaches. It just isn't worth the time.

>>108231578
Any reason why you're running Firefox through XWayland?
Its Wayland support is no longer that unstable anymore in my experience. I only get hangs now if I enable HDR support which is still experimental.

Last time I tried, screen sharing on discord was an awful experience both with xorg and wayland. Choppy video, audio issues, etc. Is this still the case?

>>108237113
(By that I mean if I enable HDR in about:config, its fine for the monitor to have it on but Firefox will hang and deadlock itself sometimes)