what are good alternatives to waybar?
must work in wayland

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Successful install of LXLE on a Lenovo g50-80 touch. Restart completed and install cleaned up with uCareSystem (very nice tool!). One more restart to reset the boot order, wireless access & look at some legacy settings to leave alone or maybe change back. The SLEEP.

>CAPTCHA: XPKROK
>too bad it wasn't MSKROK

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>>92186018
And one more for the dvd

>>92185916
my thinkpad™ no longer has a usable wifi connection on campus. it connects and i can ping, but other protocols fail.
here is a mixed log:
https://pastebin.com/DDvLG1xd
how do i debug this /g/uys?

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How do you enable the new GTK file picker with thumbnails? Supposedly you don't need to wait for GNOME 44 to do that

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Copy/paste from the previous thread:
I have a new build with:
>Ryzen 9 7950X
>ASUS X670E-HERO
>RTX 4090
and wanted to use dedicated VMs for different purposes (test unstable AI stuff, play Steam games with botnets, pirated games) isolated from my 'life admin' host OS.

I decided to go the GPU passthrough route (not possible on Windows unless it's Server), but I lost several hours and my mind yesterday trying to set up Fedora 37 and Ubuntu 22.04 to work with the proprietary Nvidia drivers.

Goal:
Screen 1 is hooked to the NVIDIA dGPU
Screen 2 is hooked to the AMD iGPU via the Mobo

Got it working on Fedora, but I was getting very poor performance on the 4090 (10 FPS on UINIGINE Valley benchmarking tool).

Ubuntu doesn't recognise all the GPUs, probably an issue with the AMD one and the kernel being too old to deal with 7xxx CPUs. I followed some guide to update the kernel with Liquorix, but I couldn't boot afterwards.

Any guidance would be appreciated

>moving a non-casefolded directory into a casefolded directory doesn't apply the flag
>moving a casefolded directory into a non-casefolded directory removes the flag
Do I really have to write back 300GB for this?

I'm trying to install a kernel module using clang and it's making a temporary folder in my root folder. The problem is that it's being permission denied and it won't finish installing. May someone please point me in the right direction to fix this? Thank you in advance.

>>92186141
just to be clear, if you're passing the nvidia card through, the drivers need to be installed on the guest VM, not the host.

>>92185972
rootbar, sfwbar, yambar

Are they "good"? I don't know I haven't tested them, but the list is short anyway so you can look yourself.
There's just not a lot of choices for some things on Wayland yet. In time.

>>92186039
Compile it yourself I guess. I've heard GTK 4.10 has it.
Normally you would compile it and then also have to re-compile the applications you want to link against those new libraries.

However, I think some people are avoiding that 2nd step by using the GTK_DESKTOP_PORTAL thing. So you keep your current browser which natively uses your older GTK version but will use the newer GTK for the filepicker only.

>>92186039
>>92187164
Also I should have menteiond this, be warned that GTK is on a short list of things that are notoriously annoying to compile.
It can take hours, and then fail right at the end. You may want to watch your temps while compiling it too, if you choose to go through with it.

>>92185916
daily reminder that you have no reason to not alias cd to pushd

What is the best Jdownloader alternative for GNU/Linux Kget maybe?

>>92187462
If you don't mind not having a GUI you could use aria2.

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>>92185916
Using Ubuntu, I tried to install BlueJ with a Deb package. It didn't work so I did sudo apt remove bluej and changed my mind and I will just build it from source.

The files are gone, which is nice. But if I type "bluej" into the terminal, it complains it can't find the directory for bluej instead of complaining it can't find the command for bluej.

How do I clean this up?

Does anybody know how to make gnome allow the use of Wayland on laptops with nvidia dGPU? It boots to wayland normally when I don't have the nvidia drivers so I know that this is the issue.

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>>92187646
Got it solved.

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Is there a compositor for Wayland that resembles classic Linux WMs like IceWM,FVWM,WindowMaker and E16?
Stuff like pic related.

gdm is freezing my computer when i set it as the display-manager.
i can boot on gnome with 'startx' after logging in but if i set gdm on 'conf.d/display-manager' everything seems to freeze and i need to reboot.

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the GOAT

>>92187646
just use intellij idea sister

>>92187950
>/var/log/gdm/greeter.log.4

(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Permission denied)
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
     at http://wiki.x.org
 for help.
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/lib/gdm/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
(EE)
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
Unable to run X server

how am i supposed to download yt-dlp on debian bookworm?
the apt version (02.17) is too old and i want to install it with pip (like i have always done) but now i get this error. "error: externally-managed-environment".
any solution?

90% of my issues come from the fact that I'm not using systemd.

>>92187021
This guide installs the drivers and does a benchmark test early on - I get 9-10 FPS with an RTX 4090 at that stage...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTWf5D092VY

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>>92185916
Shell seems to be mix and something in-between python and c.
Which syntax and logic is the preferred one?

Most of the tutorials go in the direction of python-like syntax, [[ ]]s, and without proper variable declarations.

Secondly, what is the most official and interview safe way of shebanging?

>>92188366
it's useless to go against it. red hat controls linux.

if you want a real "hacker" DIY OS try some bsd

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>>92188060
This computer probably can't run intellij. I was debating just using javac and vim, but decided try bluej. I have never actually used it, but it just finished building so I am about to. My goal is to operate small programs I wrote that generate Latex code for my book. Build took 30 minutes because it is the writing computer and the writing computer isn't very powerful since it's job is just to operate TexWorks.

I'm wanting to run a bash script as the user on startup, so not root. What is the best way to accomplish this?
Reading is suggesting crontab, but I'm getting some mixed messages on it. Is crontab the best option and will the script run as the user?

Is there a video of anyone installing the newest Devuan release on a minimal install? Trying to install it right now but it sends me to a TTY with a log in that I don't have.

Are the open source Nvidia drivers ever viable to use?

>>92188812
Never. Always use the closed source ones.

>>92188812
Depends on the GPU and your definition of viable. Maxwell chips have reasonably good support. Newer ones have power management locked out by nJudea.

>>92188363

 pip install yt-dlp 

>>92188864
Sorry, didn't read through your post. I can't be sure, but the error message sounds like you're running pip through an Anaconda environment or something. Check that you have pip installed through apt.

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How do I clean up my launch with application shortcut menu. It has a shortcut for every failed install i did on wine etc

I've been using kubuntu for 2 months now
Installed plenty of software
deleted most of it along the way

but it feels like my storage space doesn't add up
What would be better

reinstall / setup speedrun (+debloat)

different distro

learn how to unbloat it from current state

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ip inet addr show tun0 | sed -En -e 's/.*inet ([0-9.]+).*/\1/p' |  xclip -selection clipboard

Produces this on paste. Can I get rid of the blank line?

>>92189207

ip -f inet addr show tun0 | sed -En -e 's/.*inet ([0-9.]+).*/\1/p' |  xclip -selection clipboard

Mis-pasted code, forgot the -f flag.

I'm going to be dual booting Windows 10 LTSC and Arch on 2 different NVMe drives (big one for Arch, small one for Windows). Is it recommended to have different EFI partitions for each OS or can I have the EFI partition for both on 1 drive?

>>92188426
that guide is for a single GPU switching between the host and guest. if you want an AMD iGPU on the host and the dedicated Nvidia GPU on the guest, then, once again, you do not need Nvidia drivers on the host, only on the guest (the VM).

>>92189901
One EFI system partition is sufficient but nothing's stopping you from having one for each drive.

>>92189901
If you have two drives there's no reason not to have two EFI partitions. Why make both OS working depend on one drive?

>>92189901
i guess technically you could have just one, but what would be the point? also, you might wanna consider giving windows the bigger drive, since i assume you want it for vidya and james these days take up many jiggabytes (i've done the same as you and am kinda regretting it).

>>92189166
Different distro. idk about the rest of us but the thing totally broke on me while removing seemingly useless packages. It's easier to start from a bare bones system than trying to strip down something bloated.
Debian or Arch could be something you want.
Wildcard option: use a tool called debootstrap to bootstrap a minimal Ubuntu core system and start building from there.

>>92190235
I'm only going to be using it for the select few anti cheat games I play like DBD and Gaylo. I'm good with using Linux for everything else.
>>92190213
>>92190215
I'll go with 2 then since it seems like less of a hassle, thanks.

How can I set up Gnome so it allows me to use Wayland with Nvidia (laptop, dgpu). I can run wayland perfectly well when I don't install the Nvidia drivers but when I install them it switches to X11.

>>92190495
i'm pretty sure Wayland on Nvidia is still not ready for production

>>92190650
Except it works perfectly well on distros that ship with Wayland like Fedora to my use case.
I just want to enable it, if I encounter any issues related to the fact that "it's still not ready for production" I can simply open Gnome on Xorg through GDM with 2 clicks.
It's really pissing me off that they just lock you out of a feature instead of making it optional, fucking retarded.

>>92190700
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GDM#GDM_ignores_Wayland_and_uses_X.Org_by_default

>>92189035
my autism cant take this anymore

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>>92188581
I was trying to remove unneeded programs from my computer and now I have no taskbar. How do I get my task bar back? This doesn't stop me from operating the computer, but it is a big annoyance to not have it.

My book is backed up, so worst case I can reinstall the whole OS, but I am hoping something smaller can be done.

>tl;dr: Have Jammy Jellyfish. Want taskbar or at least some other convenient way to manipulate windows and minimize things and find things.

I tried SLiM and I liked it. Am I gay now? It won't cause any issues if I use a dead DM right?

so y

How do I make a USB that can boot multiple images? I want to maximize my distrohopping efficiency.

>>92191965
you would just partition it wouldnt you and install images to each partition. Older hardware might have trouble reading it though depending on how you do it

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>>92191965
For maximum distrohopping efficiency you should have two (or more) system partitions (along with shared /home or whatever) and you'd bootstrap a new system instead of using bootable installers.
This is where "root filesystem tarballs" become relevant.

what does

 getopts getopt 

do?

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Why is the dependency 'vapoursynth' not found? I'm assuming there's a name mismatch, but I don't know where to fix that if that's the case. If I try "sudo dnf install vapoursynth" it complains there's no match. I have to type the whole name "python3-vapoursynth.x86_64" if I want to install or remove it. That's why I think there's something wrong with the name.

I'm also new to this, so maybe it's something stupid.

Here's what I'm trying to compile. There's a meson.build file in the VapourSynth folder.
https://github.com/AkarinVS/L-SMASH-Works/releases/tag/vA.3j

>>92191965
Ventoy is what I very recently used to try out many different distros. Format a USB drive with Ventoy, copy ISO files directly onto it, and that's it. When you boot onto it you'll be presented with a list of images to boot and you pick one.
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

>scrolling in browser very smooth
>lock computer, come back next day
>browser scrolling very choppy
why? it's like that until i restart the computer. kde btw

Hey guys I just upgraded to Linux mint 21 from 20.1 and I got this error on the boot menu, what do I do

error: file /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-74-generic not found.
error: you need to load the kernel first.

Press any key to continue....

hello /g/sisters. i have a second monitor that i can get input in the bios but when it boots up arch, it stops giving signal. weird part is that its actually detected and i can interact with other monitor but it doesnt give any display.

>>92192246
it probably turns off your compositor. idk how to fix it but my guess is your compositor.

>>92192385
it fucked up your boot, go to grub advanced options and select a kernel that you can boot then update your system again

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how to run commands in gnome without terminal?
for example i want run some command with flags or script in PATH without terminal, how to do it?
tried pic related, not works

>>92192472
use rofi
https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

>>92192469
I have other kernel options there but they won't boot, they give me the same error message as in my first post, regardless if the kernel is another one

>>92192569
if you still have your live-usb just chroot into your linux partition and update it

>>92192104
its something smilar as case

while getopts 'nptsv:h' opt; do
    case "$opt" in
        n) song_next ;;
        p) song_prev ;;
        t) song_toggle ;;
        v) song_volume "$OPTARG" ;;
        s) song_stop;;
        h|\?|:|*) display_help ;;
    esac
done

this enables to script to have flags alone (-h, -t,-n,-s) or with parameters (-v)

Any reason not to use Zorin? So far it feels like a better version of Linux Mint Cinnamon.

>>92192589
I don't have it, but I can just take any USB, download mint on it and boot into it right? Also I don't know what you mean by chroot, I'm a noob, any tutorials on that?

>>92192655
instead of using arch-chroot you need to use chroot.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot

>>92192655

systemd-nspawn -D /media/anon/********

>>92192469
nevermind i just log out from xfce and it fixed itself???

>>92192681
https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade-to-mint-21.html

Should I try to do what it says here in the repairing boot part?

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>>92191454
It is still like this and I don't know why. I just wanted to uninstall things I don't care about like Bleach Bit and Libre Office and now I have no taskbar.

This computer needs to be able to use TexWorks comfortably, and compile and run small Computer Programs so I can paste their output into TexWorks.

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How to backup/sync list of files and folders to external storage?
so when I want to update my backup, only the modified files would be updated.
If my explanation make any sense.

>>92193080
yes.

>>92193170

rsync --delete -au /home/anon /media/anon/external_drive

>>92192609
thanks I think I get the general idea now
>it's a case with letter parameters instead of $1 $2 etc.

just did a netinstall of devuan. how do i connect it to internet? i'm on the tty right now and it doesn't have internet for whatever reason. netinstall had internet when i was installing it.

>>92193254
I ended up using timeshift and went to a backup timeshift made before updating. Thanks for the help :-)
Never updating this bullshrimp in my life again.

>>92194368
>non-systemd distro
Oh dear. Does it come with a DHCP client? If you know the network you are at, use the "ip" command to assign ip/mask plus the default route. Also edit /etc/resolv.conf for the DNS.

>>92192642
Ancient packages, no commercial or external FOSS support to speak of, tiny community.

>>92194368
is devuan openrc? just check the network session on gentoo's wiki
protip: if you're not a tinkertranny stick with systemd, and judging by the fact that you're so useless that you can't even figure out how to make your internet connection work i can safely assume you just got baited into it

>>92189948
I’m really lost. Is there a good guide that walks through what I’m trying to achieve?

Which is a host OS with an AMD iGPU followed by a production VM, gaming VM etc. with an Nvidia dGPU.

I’m agnostic to what the ‘life admin’ OS is.

>>92193392
What about multiple locations?

>>92189166
What exactly doesn't add up? How much space is in use?

>>92193392
>-u
Not him but why? Isn't this bad if you want a mirror backup? Say you accidentally modified a file on your backup, wouldn't it get skipped?

i want something that alerts whenever new hardware is plugged in, of any sort (USB, ethernet, display, you name it) and describes what exactly was plugged in
does this exist already?

>>92191313
kek, look for .desktop files under ~/.local/share

>>92191454
`sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop` should sort you out.

Why do people think that FOSS is Communism?

>>92196375
Sane people don't think like that.

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lol

>>92195531
the same guy you were watching has a tutorial for multiple GPUs.

https://youtu.be/3OdlPmPbLII

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>>92196332
Thank you for telling me. I ended up using Kubuntu and it looks nice now.

>>92195611
doesn't matter I probably did something stupid also whilst first installing apps

I will probably choose debian
and install stuff on top of it
or look for something between debloated win and gentoo
but not fedora and probably not arch

>>92197493
debian is king, it can be as thin or bloated as you want it to be

I am trying to emerge app-containers/docker on Gentoo and am failing to emerge dev-lang/go-bootstrap-1.19::gentoo with 404 errors

Is there a different mirror I should use? I am using:
>gentoo.osuosl.orrg
>mirrors.rit.edu
>mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
>dev.gentoo.org

How do I deal with package name changes on arch? I'm trying to install python-pytorch-opt-rocm and it needs hipmagma, but the name of that package is now magma-hip from what I understand, so I'm cucked out of luck here.

>>92197964
Doesn't Gentoo just point to the actual source? I think you might just need a new ebuild with the right source code repo?

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>>92198211
ROCm only supports Ubuntu and two other distros you're unlikely to see on a desktop.
Start with a supported OS and go from there.

>>92198211
The PKBGUILD file when you build a package lists dependencies. You can try to change it and rebuild your package. If you aren't building the package then you need your maintainer of the rocm package to update their repo. This is why 3rd party repos suck. You're better off doing it yourself.

>>92198315
I'll try checking how to rebuild the rocm one, they're not even AUR packages, these are community ones.

>>92198382
the rocm packages are new to community. I would probably kick them out if they can't keep up

>>92198304
If those 3 are officially supported, it's fairly safe to assume that it also works on Fedora, OpenSuSE and Debian.

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>>92198472
You're fairly wrong, this is AMD we're talking about.

>>92198315
I'm struggling with this right now.
Tried installing vapoursynth from source to try and fix the dependency since it's newer than the Fedora repository, did make install, and now I have no idea what happened. I don't know where it is or if it even worked.
And I type "which vapoursynth" and THERE'S NOTHING.

What the fuck. Is it this program? Is it Fedora?

>>92187222
>GTK is on a short list of things that are notoriously annoying to compile.
wtf are you talking about

>>92198930
is that image supposed to be proving something?

>>92199176
Well you aren't making a package your manager knows about with make install. That's why arch uses pkgbuilds. It makes a package for your package manager.
With make you need to configure and then install, so your configure step should specify the prefix to install to (ie /usr/bin/)

>>92199609
That AMD are incompetent

>>92199690
ok, what's that to do with the possibility of ROCm working on distros other than officially supported?

>>92199834
It does work but it's obviously unsupported. The biggest problem with amd rocm is poor support from amd in general. The source code is available and anybody can build and use on whatever they want, but AMD isn't going to listen to you complain about and submit bugs on it if you're not using a supported distro.

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i'm ditching openbox. should i go with spectrwm or awesomewm?

>>92186541
what module? are you using dkms?
>>92187394
there is also no reason to do that
>>92188366
such as?
>>92188534
you're gonna have to clarify that
>what is the most official and interview safe way of shebanging?
on most linux systems there is either a /bin directory or a /bin -> /usr/bin symlink, so #!/bin/whatever should be fine.
alternatively, #!/usr/bin/env whatever also works but you can't pass arguments that way:

#!/bin/bash -e <-- works
#!/usr/bin/env bash -e <-- doesn't work

not that you'd usually want to pass arguments this way, but i'm just saying.
>>92188696
do you absolutely have to run it on system startup, or is this something you can run through .xinitrc or your DE/WM's autostart?
>>92195697
don't DEs do that? i'd start by finding out how
>>92199176
the output from make install tells you where the files go. and did you run "make install" or "sudo make install"? some programs might target your home directory if you don't install as root. building as a regular user is fine though.

>>92199879
in other words, what you're saying has nothing to do with what i was saying, and i wasn't "fairly wrong" about anything. great chat, retard.

>>92200008
I'm not the anon posting retarded pics but I explained what my experience with them was. Sorry you feel so hurt.

>>92185916
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y-hfG-6OFA&ab_channel=AuroraBorealisful

>>92199624
I found it from reading the output. I was in /usr/local/bin/ but I uninstalled it.
I did the configure part, too, I should've mentioned that.

Anyway, it seems you need the -devel part of a program installed if you want to compile anything looking for a dependecy. My mistake was I thought everything I saw in the Package Manager GUI was what was installed, but it was actually just a list of things in that repository in general.

So, slowly making progress...I just got frustrated. Now I need to find liblsmash. Somewhere. Unless that's in ffmpeg and I need to install THAT from source to get it.

>>92199923
I did sudo make install. It wouldn't let me not use sudo. I still forget to use it from time to time.

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do you guys like my AI penguin eating a chocolate bar

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>>92200203
Put it in a maid dress

>>92200201
https://github.com/l-smash/l-smash

>>92199923
>do you absolutely have to run it on system startup, or is this something you can run through .xinitrc or your DE/WM's autostart?
I wasn't using the term as specifically as you are. No, it doesn't need to load before anything in particular.
It's just a simple bash script that will check every few seconds to make sure the laptop's power cord is plugged in and give an audio alert if it's running on battery (battery is cactus and will quickly die).

So something I want running all the time but not time sensitive for when exactly it starts.
>xinitrc or your DE/WM's autostart
Will start reading.

>>92195109
>Ancient packages
when does this actually matter in the real world, as long as it's supported?
>no commercial or external FOSS support to speak of
it's literally ubuntu you fucking retard

>>92200308
I compiled this fine, but this leads me to two questions, one of which was touched on earlier by >>92199624

1. The dependency wasn't resolved. It can't seem to find it in the usr/local folder.
2. If I delete the source files, aren't I left with no way to easily uninstall this at a later date? Things I install through the repository don't seem to be in this folder area. In fact, I already did this with one program.
I found this ,so I'll be reading it:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/87111/if-i-build-a-package-from-source-how-can-i-uninstall-or-remove-completely

ZorinOS or Kubuntu LTS? I need a couple Snap packages for work and can't really choose between the two since I don't really have a GTK/Qt preference. Both look awesome.

>>92200862
doesn't apt have some sort of apt-build functionality to create package files from source?
>>92200317
if you are using a DE then you can just add it to the autostart list in the settings (assuming the script is in your PATH). if you use a window manager/use startx to start the X server, you can put it in your .xinitrc file, which is just a normal shell script.

>>92201276
>doesn't apt have some sort of apt-build functionality to create package files from source?
I'm using dnf.

>>92200862
>If I delete the source files, aren't I left with no way to easily uninstall this at a later date?
if you install it as a package, you should be able to remove it along with any unused dependencies, like any other package

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What is kernel dynamic memory?

I noticed stuttering in csgo in ksp. Turns out they were both out of memory and using 3gbs of swap. 8gb ram should be enough for these games so I check my usage and it turns out half my memory is reserved by the kernel for unknown reasons. Wtf is up?

My wish is that one day I would be able to regularly post here as someone who can help anons. Thank you guys, you’re really cool :3

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drinking cheap wine blasting hardstyle and reinstalling gentoo in the dark alone

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>>92200286
sorry can only put it in a top hat im afraid

>>92202089
>Not schranz

>>92201874
Turns out I'd reserved the memory as hugpages in grub while high for xmr mining

>>92200857
>Ancient packages
>when does this actually matter in the real world, as long as it's supported?
Until you need new versions of things and figure out making 6 different core systems in containers play together is a pain in the balls.
>no commercial or external FOSS support to speak of
>it's literally ubuntu you fucking retard
It's quite literally not. I just saved you from making a Frankendebian. Thank me for my service ya dumb cunt.

>>92201276
Thanks much.

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Currently using live boot USB to attempt repair on desktop linux.

Every guide I find for troubleshooting my problem involves the terminal, but the only terminal I know how to access is the one for the liveboot distro itself, which doesn't seem like the one to use. (no access to sudo, for example)

Posting from slow computer, anything helps.

https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian

>>92203074
Install Gentoo

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>>92201790
>if you install it as a package,
I don't know how to do that.
CheckInstall won't work. Keeps failing that a file exists, but there's nothing in that folder. Still can't get liblsmash dependency resolved even without it.

I'm going to sleep. See you in a week.

Linux is so trash, dude.
I'm so tilted with it right now. Why is it that this piece of garbage can't even manage it's memory properly without shitting itself?
I forgot Garry's Mod open on the menu, not even in a server, and a Librewolf Twitch tab open, not even playing a stream or anything, and somehow that filled up all my 8gb of RAM + all the swap while I was away. Can't even trust it not to shit itself while I'm away.
And of course, Linux being Linux, after that, the system grinded to a halt, couldn't even move the cursor and the login screen wouldn't even display anymore.
It wouldn't be such big of a problem if it hadn't also lost connection along the way. I keep a little process running all the time to archive live streams and thanks to this retardness, I've permanently lost one of them.
It's my fault, right? I should've know Linux is suicidal, should've set up a bigger swap and should've have limited process memory usage or something. I bet Windows would've created a big ass 30 gb swap on a spare drive on it's own, and wouldn't have randomly eaten all my RAM in the first place.

>>92203171
My 64GB of RAM on my swapless Gentoo T480 doesn't have this issue.

>>92203074
You could use something like an Arch live ISO which gives you a root shell to do whatever you want with, like chrooting into your broken install with arch-chroot to fix it from the inside.

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>>92203171
>not dropping into tty and killing the offenders
skill issue
ps heres my penguin using the 'Kenshi' model

>>92203171
For me the grinding halt happens the second RAM gets filled no matter the amount of swap available.

>>92203224
That's exactly what I did after looking it up, but by then I had already lost a big chunk of the live stream I'll never get back.

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>>92203203
Looking into it now. Thank you

>>92185916
How do I change LC_ALL='' to LC_ALL='C' just for sort?
Can I make a function or something?

>Live in a place where ethernet is a pain to get working, only got wifi for now
>Make a home server
>Try FreeBSD first
>Couldn't recognize wifi
>Ok
>Try to install Debian
>It says wifi has non-free firmware
>Ok, I can get the firmware
>Do so
>Keep trying to do installation
>It gets past the screen about wifi but will only recognize the ethernet port
>Fuck
>Eventually just made an Arch install since I've done it so much I can do it in my sleep
>Just works
I will seriously need to think about getting in ethernet because I don't like the idea of my home server being Arch.

>>92203900
I mean you could always just use Ubuntu Server.

>>92203784
It's a variable, so you can change it in your profile or specify it at the beginning of your command.

LC_ALL="C" sort /whatever/you/do

>>92203900
My info could be outdated but IIRC at some point you have to pick installer components, I'd figure there was wireless-tools or something in there.
The Arch installer environment comes with all that out of the box.

>>92203962
Protip: use the pxe netboot and drop it in your efi system partition as a rescue option in the bootloader

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>>92204047
>pxe netboot
That shit's black magic. Tried to setup a PXE server as a hobby but never got past picrel. The boot image itself got downloaded by the client machine but I have no idea what's supposed to happen from that on. How is GRUB supposed to know what to do next?

>>92203074
most live usb images have either a root terminal or su access
anythig mainstream will do, ubuntu, debian even

>>92203784
You know LC_ALL is like an alias for a bunch of separate things right? Just type "locale" and you can see them all.
There's no need to change all of them, the one that affects sort is LC_COLLATE.

So you can change it like the other anon suggested if you really only want to change it for 1 script or something. But if you want all sorting on your system (regardless of whether it's a script, a list of files, whatever) to be sorted the way 'C' does then why don't you just export LC_COLLATE='C' system wide? All the other items from LC_ALL can remain blank.

>>92204087
BIOS implementations are often shit, unfortunately, but you were doing pxe which relies on a specific tftp and DHCP settings.
iPXE just works and downloads the current release of arch from remote server.

>>92203925
>>92204177
Thanks anons. I created an alias in my .bashrc.
alias 'sort'='LC_COLLATE="C" sort' ;

Seperate question:
In my .bashrc, what order should everything be in?
Like set, shopt, exports, sources, aliases, functions, bindings & etc.
I'm sure there's more but those are the general sections of my .bashrc.

>>92204254
That's a tricky question, it depends on your needs, and how your shell init files are setup.
.bashrc is often sourced from .profile anyway, so then your exports in .bashrc are already getting picked up system-wide (which is a good idea) but then they get re-run every time you open a new shell it's kind of redundant.
And can sometimes lead to variables that have the same thing listed twice like PATH="/dir1:/dir1"

The purpose of .bashrc is to be run every time you open a new (non-login) shell. So ideally it's not the place to put things you want to be system-wide or things you only want to run 1 time like exports (usually). Again, it depends on your needs.
But if you ask me my rule of thumb is that all exports go in .profile instead.
Then everything else that's shell-specific and doesn't effect the entire system like aliases, functions, or shopt then can go in .bashrc.

>>92204254
>>92204536
Oh, and as for the order, I don't know that it really matters aside from where you put sourcing.
Generally sourcing goes at the top of the files.

>>92204536
Sounds right, I'm gonna have to change a lot.
Should I try to move my non-shell-specific binds into ~/.inputrc or is that not related to ~/.profile? (POSIX sh, I assume.)
Also, I don't care about POSIX but wouldn't putting aliases and functions in bashrc make it so that the POSIX sh wouldn't have any aliases or functions available?
I'm just thinking "what harm could it do to put them in .profile as well?"

>>92204590
Perfect, already had it set up that way.

>>92185916
>What's keeping you from using Linux
Half assed 10 bit monitor support in X11. Resulting in stuff like steam showing up as pink and shit. 10 bit works great in Wayland BUT now you are using Wayland and it's negatives outweighs it's benefits.
No freesync support at all in Wayland. Have to rely on each DE/WM to make their own freesync support. Resulting in different implementations, bugs, quirks, and level of support. Freesync works amazing in X11 but absolutely no tools for it. No easy way to enable or disable. Doesn't work in window mode at all.
Wayland has terrible mouse lag and overall latency because of forced compositor.
No standard way of dealing with Bluetooth and it's systemd service actually uses a lot of cpu cycles. Even when not in use and Bluetooth is adapter power down.
And if I wasn't tired I could go on and on with my blog post. Linux in 2005 had the perfect desktop. Today, it's all kind of broken mess.

>>92203171
How do faggots like you manage to encounter issues i haven't in over half a decade?

>>92189221
tr -d '\n'

>>92204711
I think you misunderstand what gets inherited and what doesn't.

Environment variables are actually not just a shell thing. Every program has an "environment" which is literally a special location in the programs memory that gets copied from parent to child any time a new process is spawned (I'm not sure if it's literally copied or just shared, but you can think of it as copied for now).

When you make a shell variable like "foo=bar" it's not an environment variable, but just a local shell variable. When you do "export foo=var" then it actually moves the variable into the shells "environment" so that all children will inherit it.

So this inheriting process doesn't work for things like aliases, or functions. Therefore if you put aliases in your .profile they'll only be available in your login shell, but then any time you start a new (non-login) shell they won't be available.
That's why you have to put those things in .bashrc.

It also means that aliases and functions don't work in scripts, because those are not only non-login but also non-interactive so they don't even run .bashrc.

So the bottom line is then things like aliases and functions are only there for your convenience when manually working in a shell. So you only need to set them up for whichever shell you actually work in.
If you only _manually_ work in a BASH shell then there's no need to worry about another POSIX shell (like dash) having access to those things because they won't be used anyway.

Dolphin krashed and corrupted my flash drive, does this happen less on MATE or XFCE?

>>92203166
rpmbuild. if another rpm distro already has a package that you need, you can try to rebuild it by downloading its source rpm (srpm) through something like rpmfind. i don't know if it works with a source dpkg equivalent.

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>>92206955
I don't know anon... Dolphin killed my cat but the Stockholm syndrome prevents me from dumping it.

>>92207716
r.i.p. /usr/bin/cat

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Why am I being told this? Is Mint turning into Windows?

I found that in Debian 11 there is no VirtualBox in the default repos.
Started looking at alternatives and found Gnome Box.

It confuses me that it shared clipboard, transferring files to a virtual machine, etc is enabled by default.

I run any unsafe software in virtual machines where there can be a virus, and I would like the virtual machine to be as isolated from the host as possible (speed is much less of a concern).

I also heard about VMware Player. If I instalingl not from the native repository, then I think you can choose the best option (in terms of security and isolation). Before I using VirtualBox (without guest addons).

Which software allows you to better isolate the guest system and provide better security? Virtual Box (w/o guest addons) vs Gnome Boxes vs VMware Player vs another?

>>92208149
That's just Ubuntu and things based on it's way. You can always just disable all update notifications in mintUpdate if you want. It's not like Mint will force you to update to the next version, just do it when you're ready.

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>>92204176
Thank you
all good now

My grandma has a celeron n400 laptop with 4GB ram with Windows.

Thinking about installing a SSD and openSUSE MicroOS(or Silverblue). She just uses e-mail, facebook, pinterest to find some tricot ideas, youtube and netflix.

MicroOS is preffered because it is immutable and rolling-release (based on Tumbleweed), but I want to install all important apps with Flatpak.

Good idea?

>>92208253
Well yeah if you want her OS to be immutable and everything to be done with containers like Flatpak then microOS would be good for her.

>>92208297
4GB is too little, and her laptop doesn't accept more ram.

What do you think it is better? Using a better SSD with dram and using swap (8GB) or just using Zram?

>>92208334
ZRAM swap is the way of the future.

>>92208253
Yep, MicroOS aims to be set and forget and will automatically update. It's still "beta" software but seems to work well enough. I'm not sure if Flatpaks will automatically update by default, there's a systemd service that does it but I think it only works for system flatpaks, not user flatpaks.

so how do you actually manage github programs in debian stable? never update?

>>92208334
Zram, or Zswap if the distro sets up a swap partition. Zram doesn't work well with normal swap as it's idea is to not have any swap at all.

Would you still use XFCE even if you know that every future GTK version will probably be worse than the last, meaning that XFCE will also sadly get worse in the future?
Do you have any hopes of XFCE finding a new toolkit and deciding to port their DE to it?

>>92208952
XFCE has been not great out of the box for a long time now. You gotta tweak the hell out of it before you actually use it because the base theming it a frankenstein GNOME worship thing that's just ugly. If I use XFCE I usually change it with Chicago95.

>>92208982
>XFCE has been not great out of the box for a long time now
I don't know I like it even in its default state and I wish I could switch to it again but I'm just too wary of the future because Gnome's influence over GTK grows stronger every day.
If GTK wasn't such a potential issue I would use XFCE.
I'd wish someone could just convince me that GTK is not a problem at all.

>>92208952
XFCE is probably one of the most understaffed projects there is and that's just the way it is unless somebody heavily invests in it.
They stand on the shoulders of GNOME.

>>92208952
>>92209060
Given how slow Xfce historically has been with porting their shit to newer toolkits, I don't think the toolkit itself is much of a problem. GNOME does most of the beta testing for it. The future I'm worried about, is having to one day upgrade from GNOME 3. I trust Xfce's conservative but focused approach more than I trust GNOME at this point, which is why I'm looking to make the switch.

>>92209287
In my hot opinion, Cinnamon and maybe even MATE devs should just abandon their projects and work on Xfce instead.

How does one start troubleshooting and solving a screen issues on Linux? I'm running lubuntu on my lenovo yoga 500 and am experiencing screen tearing and the screen goes black when not on battery power (adjusting screen brightness does nothing). Not sure where to even begin solving this.

>>92209409
People don't just abandon their projects though. The reason there's so much fragmentation in Linux is because so many people decided "I don't want to do it that way" and went off and did their own thing because they could.
The MATE Devs aren't just going to stop working on MATE in order to work on XFCE. Ditto for Cinnamon.

>>92209509
What graphics driver? You might have to alter your Xorg.conf or if it's Nvidia try enabling something like ForceFullComposition

>>92209545
I'll have to check when I get home. Thanks for tips.

>>92209518
I'm well aware of the difference between dreams and reality. Also, I do often hear about devs leaving projects to join other projects for all kinds of reasons. But yes, it kinda sucks that DEs would rather reinvent the wheel for the nth time, and in general sooner tell you to fuck off and use another DE than implement potentially useful features that other DEs have.

Why are people against systemd but ignore everything else that is poetteringware? What's the point of being "systemd free" when you still use dbus, elogind, udev, networkmanager etc.?

>>92210126
autism

>>92210180
>autism
That's just the reason for anything that happens in the GNU/Linux world.

>>92204248
>BIOS implementations are often shit
Didn't occur to me, it was in fact an integrated device on AsRock board.
Maybe I'll try with my old Intel card.

>>92210126
>>92210180
*retarded autism
They never figured out that systemd can be chopped to smaller pieces because distributions package it all into one package called "systemd".

>>92210299
Systems can't be chopped up like that in many cases without additional patches and code changes to make it do that. Systemd is monolithic in nature, it's not meant to be chopped up like that and that fact that they develop everything in a single mono repo shows that.

If the Systemd developers meant for it to be used piecemeal they would maintain separate git sources for each component.

The only thing that's re-usable independent of Systemd init are its bootloader, udev, utilities (e.g systemd-tmpfiles) and that's it. You can't even use Journald as a standalone syslogger without patching it (ChromeOS has patches for that)

>>92208334
4GB zram with writeback partition, and of course an OOM killer service if SUSE doesn't give you that.

>>92208704
zram writeback partition is basically a zswap integrated with zram, with the added advantage that it can optionally dump things that never get used or don't compress well to disk before you run out of zram.

how do I create a webm file that 4chan accepts on linux?
what are the magic ffmpeg parameters?

>>92210685

ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -c:v libvpx -an out.webm

>>92210685
I like to use the webm script for mpv.

>>92210504
That's just ignorant. Distros regularly patch and part up source tarballs into many separate packages. Like the Transmission Bittorrent client has 5 different packages on Fedora for cli, gtk, qt, daemon, and 'common'. These are all created from one source tarball. There's no reason they couldn't also part up systemd into homed, localed, oomd, resolved, ... The service manager, doesn't need any of those to run.

I'm trying to manipulate the default audio sink of pipewire during boot, but for some reason it can't find the device at login time.

I've tried:
- Setting it inside the context.exec
- Setting it inside a systemd script during boot
The only way I could get it to work is to add a retry loop inside the systemd script. Any idea how to make pipewire find the audio sink earlier?

>>92210685
open kdenlive, google whatever settings you need for webm conversion.
Get a clip of what you want, start cutting it down to what you really want, then run the conversion.
Over 6mb? drop the quality, resolution or shorten it.
wash/rinse/repeat.

>>92211036
>The service manager, doesn't need any of those to run.
The service manager doesn't need them but they need the service manager.

Systemd isn't designed to be used like a kit. It's a whole system. If you've tried to get something like Journald working without Systemd init you'd know that (just because you can patch it, doesn't mean the upstream supports you doing that. Often maintainers lambast distros for patching their software in unorthodox ways and then having users coming to them reporting bugs they have no idea how to deal with)

>>92211039
>Any idea how to make pipewire find the audio sink earlier?
Go the opposite direction and delay pipewire to a point after the hardware is available.

>>92210884
works great, thanks anon

Is there a single soul itt that uses Gnome without any extensions? If so, how and why?
I simply cannot understand the design behind the retard tab switcher that requires you waste 2x the time to select a window, it also only switches when you press alt+tab+tab since doing only 1 tab displays the CURRENT WINDOW instead of the next one (the first issue can be solved without extensions but why the FUCK is it not the default?)
Then there's the dock, why is it only shown on the fucking overview page? Another waste of time for no good reason.
Then you have a perfectly good (and empty) top bar that doesn't display programs that prefer to minimize to it like synching, chat apps (telegram, discord), torrent clients....
I really don't feel like those are "personal" problems I have since they all can be fixed through extensions but WHY IS IT NOT THE DEFAULT? It's not something so absurd that only a few people would prefer, it's the fucking default on EVERY OTHER DE.
I was thinking of muh baby duck syndrome but I really don't think that applies here, it's not just a different way to reach the same result, it's an objectively slower and morw cumbersome way to sometimes reach the same result.
And it still speaks volumes that I would rather fix these issues instead of changing DEs... but that's not what I want to discuss. I just wish I could drop some dotfiles and be done with it instead of slogging through the extensions website with a picture I saved of my extension list.

>>92211260
Everyone that actually uses GNOME full time uses it with extensions (that will break when the next major version comes out.)

>>92211260
I've used it without extensions for a while, then I moved to RHEL and realised GNOME 3 needed an extension to make app folders lmao.

>I simply cannot understand the design behind the retard tab switcher that requires you waste 2x the time to select a window, it also only switches when you press alt+tab+tab since doing only 1 tab displays the CURRENT WINDOW instead of the next one (the first issue can be solved without extensions but why the FUCK is it not the default?)
Must be a new thing. GNOME 3.32 works as you'd expect.

None of the other stuff you mentioned bothers me, so I'm still using it, for now.

>>92211099
>The service manager doesn't need them but they need the service manager.
Then the systemd-oomd package requires systemd. Duh.
>Systemd isn't designed to be used like a kit.
It quite literally is. Just disable the parts you don't want at build time and do multiple builds with different parts enabled if necessary. This is how Linux software packaging has worked for the last 30 years.
>doesn't mean the upstream supports you doing that
lol, oh noes

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>>92211260
GNOME developers are a special kind of backwards.
Truly unfortunate that so many DE's ship with GNOME or some variation of it as the default.

>>92211626
It's not designed to be used as a kit though. You're whole argument is based on the fact that because you can patch some of Systemd to function without the service manager it's designed to do that when in reality if the developers meant for it to be used that way they'd have built it in from the beginning.

The majority of Systemd is not designed to be used without their init system. Dependencies are interwoven between each other and no distro untangles this mess even though it's theoretically possible to do, nobody wants the maintenance burdon of doing so (that should be the Systemd developers job)

>>92211260
I don't use any extensions, but I do know how to use gnome-tweaks and the dconf editor.
>retard tab switcher
Enable normal alt-tab behavior in dconf
>Then there's the dock
Not in stock GNOME there isn't.
>top bar that doesn't display programs
This is a good use case for extensions if you have programs which need AppIndicators, but the extension for that is maintained by Canonical and I wouldn't worry about it disappearing or going out of date any time soon.
>WHY IS IT NOT THE DEFAULT?
Because GNOME exists to sell RedHat training courses. Is it really that much harder to figure out than a window manager though? They've got the docs built into the config GUI.
>I just wish I could drop some dotfiles and be done
Once again, dconf

>>92206955
That's just something that can happen it's not really the fault of Dolphin the chance for corruption is always the same that's why backups are important.

I want to grab a small cheap graphics tablet for multiple purposes other than drawing shit but I'm concerned about compatibility with linux (and more concerned about wayland, which as I undestand on KDE does support tablets, but I'm not sure how that shit would work). The ones I've been checking out for being really cheap and just enough for what I want (GAOMON S620, UGEE S640) at least do have opentabletdriver support, but are there any other cheap ones that are also guaranteed to have no issues?

what is the best linux laptop if money isnt a problem? mostly used for software dev and word processing.

>dell xps
>oryx pro
>lenovo (with pre-installed ubuntu)
or others

How do I prevent my mouse from waking up my computer? Every time I try to suspend my computer it instantly wakes up again. I tried unplugging my wireless mouse and it went to sleep without any problems.

>>92212976
HP Dev One

Anyone know what the best option for AI video upscaling is on Linux with an AMD GPU? It'd be for upscaling live music performances.

>>92213287
nvm fixed it

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>>92185916
Dunno if I should ask this here or somewhere else, but I have a raspberry pi that needs to shutdown dirty with the plug being pulled (rather breaker being pulled, but whatever), over and over again, for years on end and not fuck up booting ever.

I don't know how, but some fuck-ass russians did this once at work and it just fucking works. I cannot replicate it, I get kernel panics out the pisshole when I pull the plug from my raspberry pi.

Pic related.

>>92214027
It shows the problem at the very top (it's hard to see though)
The filesystem is corrupt you need to run fsck on the filesystem to repair it

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I was temporarily missing a mount point containing /var/cache/pacman, tried do an upgrade and pacman removed itself. I restored the mount point and can see all the packages, along with pacman-6.0.2-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.
Any way to install it manually? This is hilarious.

>>92214120
Unpack the package with tar.

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>>92214102
Already did, fsck returned pic related.
I've made peace with the thought of reflashing the SD Card, that's not the issue.
I just want it to not corrupt when it shuts down. It's not like it needs to save files, it just needs to play audio and send some char over serial when it receives a signal over LAN and not fkin corrupt the fs when it loses power.

>>92214187
>I just want it to not corrupt when it suits down
Run sync and re-mount the filesystem read-only before shutting it down.

>>92214211
>>92214187
Also if it doesn't need to write any data in the first place then don't mount the filesystem read-write. Keep the root filesystem read-only.

>>92214211
After booting up the first time and then it's set forever?
Can I un-readonly the fs I need to change something down the line?

The Pi is going to sit inisde a cabinet between an arduino and a server, power will be lost after the work day without any warnings whatsoever.

(Also checked).

>>92214253
You can:

mount -o remount,rw /

Or:

mount -o remount,ro /

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>>92214246
>>92214280
Thanks Anons! Will try after flashing!

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Will putting LUKS on an SSD give it the lifespan of a hamster?

>>92214718
If it has poor read/write endurance? Maybe.
Don't buy shit chink SSDs and that won't happen

>>92214718
No, encrypting your drive doesn't break it.

I've had an issue with my wired headphones where the volume was much lower than I had remembered. I spent the past few weeks messing with alsa and pulse settings, thinking that an update had broke something, but nothing had worked. Today, however, I had found this post https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27720, and after waking from sleep, the volume was back to normal. Any idea what is causing this and how to make the change permanent, as the volume reverts to quiet after rebooting.

No one told me that KDE has a VSCode clone that seems pretty decent

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My font rendering is making my eyes bleed and I don't know how to fix it.

>>92215184
Kate is pretty good, yes

>>92215184
damn nigga...

>>92215192
looks pretty normal to me

>>92215203
Ya, I learned that after installing VSCodium

>>92215237
funny that flameshot distorting the picture so it looks decent, but i can see the fonts' blue, green and red borders in some cases

Is BTRFS stable to use in 2023 or should I stick with ext4?

>>92215516
Yes, it's stable. I've used it for years with no major issues

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>Mount a disk on kodi using fstab
>No longer appears as a samba share
Do I need to add something to fstab to make the disk shared too?

>>92215981
How do you take advantage of any bug fixes if a new BTRFS version releases? Do you have to reformat your entire drive?

>started using easyeffects with pipewire to get equalizer for headphones
>noticed sample rate no longer automatically switches to the source sample rate
>after some testing, find that it's caused by easyeffects not letting go of alsa unless I pause the music, so sampling rate can go up automatically but not down
So close to having audio just werk. Also idk if this is because of some tweak I made somewhere along the line but now it seems that my audio stops working altogether if I don't have anything playing for a while.

>>92216236
Bug fixes are automatic when you update your kernel. They haven't changed the on-disk format in a long long time

I've already said this in this very thread but god, it feels so good to switch to opensuse/KDE/wayland after 5 or 6 years on arch/gnome/X11

everything looks better, everything works better

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>>92209545
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: HD Graphics 5500
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
logical name: /dev/fb0
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
configuration: depth=32 driver=i915 latency=0 resolution=1920,1080
resources: irq:48 memory:c0000000-c0ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:4000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff

Is this it? I ran sudo lshw -c video

>>92216679
That's it.
It's using Intel Graphics so you should try adding the TearFree option to your Xorg.conf and then rebooting. That might fix your screen tearing.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics#Disabling_TearFree,_TripleBuffer,_SwapbuffersWait

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>>92214718
It makes no difference

>>92215192
>st
>rob
>zsh

>>92216856
>>92216679
Right link:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics#Tearing

>>92185916
>type shutdown now
>close laptop
>laptop shuts down

>choose the kde shutdown option
>close laptop
>closing the laptop interrupts the shutdown
Any way to fix this or am I just going to have to keep using the terminal to turn my laptop off?
>inb4 just wait a few seconds before closing the lid
No.

>accidentally hadn't updated my gentoo packages for 112 days
How fucked am I?
The youtube tutorial didn't tell me I also had to use emaint to sync the repos. I found it on the website earlier wtf!

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What is the proper way to archive and encrypt a directory?
dir > tar > gpg > gzip
or
dir > tar > gzip > gpg
or is there a better method I'm not thinking of?

:: There are 2 providers available for netcat:
:: Repository extra
   1) gnu-netcat
:: Repository community
   2) openbsd-netcat

which one bros?

Is there an Arch Linux equivalent of "Prepare for end user" like the Debian family has? Where it boots to an OOBE setup and ideally wipes anything pertaining to the current/last user?

>>92217630
Compress first and then encrypt it afterwards.
Doing tar > gpg > gzip doesn't make much sense

>>92217684
Search for Systemd factory reset. I think it can do that.

Is there any alternative to Waydroid on Android Emulation that works well?
I just can't fucking set it up correctly, LXC seems to be the issue but I just can't fix it by myself.

Is there a way to setup a BTRFS RAID0 Gentoo LVM inside LUKS between two SSD's with one having a Windows partition?

>>92217741
I would think maybe the encrypted data generated when using the --armor flag would be easier to compress

>>92217879
The encrypted data is basically random. You want to compress the easily compressible unencrypted data first and then encrypt that so that the encryption is on the outer most layer

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>>92217975
That makes sense, thanks.

>>92217349
There should be a bug report about this. If there isn't, please report it.
https://bugs.kde.org/query.cgi

>>92217349
>>92218144
Not a KDE bug. This is probably Systemd inhibiting the shutdown process somehow

question about cron jobs:

let's say I schedule a command to run hourly, then I leave my computer turned off for 8 hours. what will happen when I turn it on? my command will run 8 times cumulatively? run only once for the lost time? run again only on the next scheduled interval?

I want to delete all the files in a certain folder daily, or whenever I turn my computer on

>>92218165
It won't run. There are other Cron daemons that can do that though. Systemd timers can also do this

>>92216943
I've managed to locate the xorg.config.d file, the site says to configure /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf , but I don't have that file. Do I need xf86-video-intel? I've downloaded a zip of it, but at a loss how to install it. I've tried sudo apt install, but it can't find the package.

>>92218156
KDE can influence the ordering of operations.
If it couldn't for any reason, then what's the point of KDE?

>>92217349
are you on sddm and wayland? that's a known bug and thankfully KDE maintainers finally took over sddm so they can fix it.

>>92218506
sddm yes, wayland no.

>>92218364
Systemd decides what to do when you close your laptop lid. That's got nothing to do with KDE

>>92218306
You should have that driver already on a functioning install. It's normal for the Xorg file to not exist. You can create it yourself.

gnomeGODS keeps' on winnin'

>>92218641
Nigga it's literally a KDE setting, are you dumb?

>>92218687
it's actually deprecated, xf86-video-modesetting is what you should be using for intel graphics

>>92217349
The logind.conf file in the /etc/systemd/ directory controls the behavior when the laptop lid is closed. Set HandleLidSwitch to ignore to do nothing when the lid is closed. Use the power button settings to set HandlePowerKey to suspend or poweroff.

>>92217640
just go with the default if you don't care, if you do then go learn about each one.

>>92218934
Alright. To be honest, I still struggle to make sense of most of this. But I managed to fix the screen tearing, so I'll call it a night for fixing my computer problems. Thanks for the help!

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>>92199923
>should i go with spectrwm or awesomewm?
well?

>>92218306

sudo touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Here's an example /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf file that includes additional options for configuring the Intel graphics

Section "Device"
    Identifier "Intel Graphics"
    Driver "intel"

    # Uncomment the following line to enable tear-free rendering:
    # Option "TearFree" "true"

    # Uncomment the following line to set the maximum amount of memory that can be allocated to the graphics device:
    # Option "VideoRAM" "2048"

    # Uncomment the following line to enable hardware acceleration for video decoding:
    # Option "AccelMethod" "sna"

    # Uncomment the following line to disable page flipping for improved performance:
    # Option "PageFlip" "false"
EndSection

check the options here and adjust for what you need.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/intel_graphics

>>92218894
then there is a conflict, you have to use either. just fucking check what you have in this file>>92219103
or just fuck off wasting my time.

>>92219285
Cheers!

>>92216679
If you're experiencing screen tearing on your Intel GPU, you might want to consider using picom to fix the issue. To do this, you can edit the picom configuration file located at /home/user/picom/picom.conf and change the backend from the default "xrender" to "glx" by setting the backend parameter to "glx". For example:

backend = "glx";

This should help eliminate tearing on your display. Additionally, there are other settings in the configuration file that you can try.

See this here.
https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/626

>>92219103
Yeah but then closing the lid doesn't make it sleep.

>>92219572
I'll try that tomorrow. Thanks for the tip!

>>92219621
but pushing the power button will, that is what i do. I set it up to suspend when i press the power button.

I shutdown using terminal
poweroff now

of

shutdown +15

in 15 minutes

>>92219621
>>92219674
but i use i3, i'm sure you could still click some buttons in kde and tell it to power off. I don't know why you're making this so complicated anon.

>>92219674
Yeah I get that, I was hoping that I was just missing some fix to make it function the way I wanted to though. I'm probably going to keep shutting it down via the terminal, it's a bit more fiddly but still pretty quick and I do enjoy typing "shutdown now".
>>92219732
Because it's a clearly unintended behavior. I found it kinda annoying, but mainly I brought it up because it breaks things if you do it which means that either kde or systemd need to patch something. I just wanted to check if there was already some fix for it that I'm not aware of. It's not like telling your pc to shut down and closing the lid is some obscure action that is almost never going to be done in practice.

>>92219572
>>92219628
bloatware, do not install

>>92219621
I see what you mean now. To address the issue of the laptop lid, you could configure it to ignore the lid state and map the power button to suspend instead. This way, it won't matter if the lid is open or closed, and you can use the KDE shutdown function without interruption from closing the lid. Additionally, if your laptop has a function button and a key that puts it into sleep mode, you can also control its behaviour with systemd.

>>92219283
I've never tried spectrwm, so I'd say awesome.

>>92219837
I would agree, i just cannot be arsed to setup this shit manually myself yet. I took the easy option when first using arch linux years ago with compton, then i used the fork picom and have been using it ever since.

>>92219837
prove it

>>92219931
i agree ur a faget

>>92219837
works on my machine

>>92219937
it has unnecessary features like window shadows and effects
>but i want to get rid of the screen tearing
it's just an option you set in config file
>>92219977
bloatware doesn't mean it doesn't work, it means it's bloat
>>92219922
problem is i don't really care for lua, otherwise i'd start using awesome immediately

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>>92219356
>is proven wrong
>"hurr durr wasting my time"
Dumbass

>>92219837
It just works.

>>92220058
>is proven wrong
prove it

>>92215192
hmm, try terminus font size 9, its a xft font and i think you have to install those fonts which probably get installed by default with X11

I've been dailying Ubuntu for a decade now but have been wanting to wean myself off it for ages in case Shuttleworth pulls another Amazon move. I remember trying Debian stable circa 2012 but I recall wifi not just werking out of the box unlike Ubuntu which came with drivers and that the packages in the repo being ancient.

How is Debian these days? Would I go stable or testing if I'm used to Ubuntu?

>>92220058
that is because systemd which uses a system wide config file at /etc/systemd/logind.conf

does not fucking care or respect your
~/.config/powermanagementprofilesrc

right back at you faggot

New thread: >>92219930

>>92220154
probably because ubuntu uses this
https://ubuntu.com/core/docs/networkmanager
which you will have to install on other distro if that is what you want.

test

>>92220642
Didn't work :(