>>103899497
a fucking mouse

>>103899497
would it be a good, bad or pointless idea to use the guix package manager in a different distro like Debian?

>>103899791
Casual glance - seems it's "cross platform". So it *should* work.

As to if it's good/bad/pointless - I've no experience with it. It what way does it provide functionality absented with your current package manager?

>>103899791
You can use nix or guix to install programs on top of Debian to work around old packages. It's a lot better to just stop using Debian though.

This is going to sound stupid, but why can having two monitors connected hurt gaming performance on Linux Mint 22? I'm on kernel 6.12.3-061203, and for Mesa I'm on version 24.3.3, pretty recent stuff I installed in an attempt to figure out why my performance in Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth was so bad; MangoHud and Steam's FPS counter would read 50 or 60fps for example but it would display as like sub 30 FPS or worse. But with only one monitor connected it displays smoothly as it should on 1440p medium, is this known behavior with Mint/Linux?
Another thing I should mention is that I'm gaming with an Arc A770 (I know, >Arc but it was the only cheap 16GB GPU a poorfag canuck like me could find last year and the RX 7600XT wasn't out yet), is this just a problem that should be exclusive to Intel GPUs due to driver issues?

>>103900330
What makes you think that's a 'mint issue' as opposed to a 'GPU doing twice the work' issue?

>>103900336
I'm a newfag coming from Win10 and I don't remember encountering this issue. It makes me realize that I'm more computer illiterate than I thought.

>>103900348
Still got 10 on there, to be able to test?

Seems 'right' to me, you're asking more of the GPU, it'll tax it more.

It could be a 'driver thing' but from recollect, intel does them themselves. Same with winhoes.

I hear directX12 being replaced by vulkan gives a performance hit - but I've only noticed shit getting faster on *nix myself. Steam's complete bag of shit underfeatured web browser seem to eat an abnormally large amount of resources, for an underfeatured web browser...

>>103900330
turn off compositor

>>103900370
I'll definitely try repeating the process on both OS's for comparison. As far as performance goes I dont know if there's really much a difference outside of that, older games like E.Y.E feel better since they use Vulkan over DirectX 9, which even with countless patches doesn't play nice with Arc on Windows.

>>103899497
If I manually install arch and Gentoo will I finally be able to into Linux?

>>103900493
I wish I was able to into linux

>>103900493
I started on Linux with installing/using Ubuntu in a VM. I watched a bunch of install videos surrounding Arch before trying it out myself and I fell in love with it, mainly because it felt so freeing compared to Ubuntu.

>>103900370
>underfeatured web browser...
it's a chromium

>>103900607
Based on, I'll grant ye. And compared to stock chrome, it's disasterously underfeatured.

And I can open 4000+ tabs in FF and not even hit ¼ resource draw of the steam client idle. the truely laughable thing is I'm not even excagerating.

>>103900691
One day, I might even learn to spell...

>>103899497
Desperately looking for an automatic album art fetcher I can use on debian stable

All my albums have been merged into individual files using a script, and I think most programs struggle get confused by their mangled metadata or something. Each one is saved as Album - Artist.flac


Poweramp is great, but not on available linux
Clementine is great at fetching, but theres no way to write the covers to disk as embedding
Picard only works for like 20% off my albums
Juk doesnt work
Kid3 doesnt work

I'm looking to get a used laptop (or new if price is right) that's quiet for just browsing the web and such. Any recommendations?

>>103896437
So, I had to reboot to get it working.
Thunar mount it in

/run/path/to/gvfs

But yesterday even when using umount -lf didn't unlock the system

I just installed Opensuse and there's no sound. The system thinks the audio is working perfectly fine. I jump on Google and the first result directs me to the official Opensuse wiki entry which doesn't even mention the problem that I have.

Is this the average Linux OOTB experience?

can i get a qrd on selinux

>install Fedora 41
>entered encryption password using Swedish keyboard layout
>password includes å, ä and ö
>reboot
>can't decrypt disk due to Plymouth using English keyboard layout
How is this still an issue in 2025? And it's not as if Fedora is the only distro having this problem, I've experienced it on Ubuntu as well.

>>103901398
That's how it's always been for encryption software. Make sure you use something that can be typed out with a normal ass English-layout keyboard (easiest being a passphrase) but half the time I don't even know if it'll except special characters like hyphens.

Ok from last thread: >>103897161
>https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/19365
I booted Fedora, and Fedora with KDE, and didn't replicate the problem in either. Might there be some other workaround? Or is even Fedora with KDE different enough from Arch with Plasma and kwin somehow with how it handles window scaling? Where would I begin looking?

>>103901411
>That's how it's always been for encryption software.
The strange thing is that it works sometimes, but not always. I've always done a fresh install instead of upgrading an existing, and I think Ubuntu has literally been 50/50 when it comes to keymap handling. I've switched away from Ubuntu since, and Fedora 39 and 40 worked while 41 didn't. Surely, there must be some release engineers testing this?

>>103900738
Nevermind, I figured it out
You just need to change to this setting on clementine

With KeepassXC, with the same database : can I use a keyfile to unlock the DB on my computer OR a passphrase ?
In the end I want to use a keyfile on my encrypted laptop and passphrase on my phone

>>103899153
That's a very good point honestly. No, I've never installed anything outside of portage, so I have no idea why this could have happened.
>

q belongs /usr/local/include/png.h

Gives an absolutely empty output. Shit, where the fuck did this come from then

>>103900330
Mint uses X which is slow with multiple monitors. You need a desktop like GNOME or KDE with Wayland compositor.

god I hate nvidia so fucking much
this is just with 4 camwhore streams open at the same time

>>103902973
fuck forgot pic

>>103902973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF_5EKNX0Eg

>>103902984
>GPU temp 47 C
>GPU power 15 W (if I'm reading that right)
What's so bad about that?

I'd like to ask our FOSS overlords to please fix audio crackling once and for all. Pipewire doesn't work, Pulseaudio doesn't work. No matter how much I change settings, nothing works.
If I so much dare open a new tab in my browser while listening to something, the audio crackles. If start another program, it crackles. If I even move my mouse in some heavy web pages, it crackles.

>>103903011
CPU fluctuates at 70%~, GPU at ~40%
desktop performance is subpar with a lot of stuff happening at the same time, a very different experience with a similar (or less capable) AMD/Intel GPU
I actually have to disable compositing for it to be bearable

>>103903039
It could always be a hardware problem anon. Not everyone has this issue.

>>103903039
hardware issue, I never had a single audio problem with any working audio device

>>103903048
>>103903058
>>103903061
I don't want this to be true. The mobo is not even a year old.

why after I install a package and then apt-purge the exact same package I installed, less packages are deleted than initally installed?
how can I force it to delete everything? apt autoremove also doesen't get everything after uninstalling. I know I can just copy everything that was installed from apt log but what if I want to uninstall something long after I installed it. I can't check apt.log every time

>>103903039
works for me, so it's probably a hardware issue. that said it doesn't mean it's unfixable, you may just need to use non-default settings for your quirky hardware. i haven't needed to do it so i'm not sure what you should try

>>103903039
What motherboard/sound card are you using anon? And what distro/kernel version?

>>103903235
yeah, it does feel like I'm on my own
>>103903305
mobo is A320M-ITX, using its own onboard sound chip
distros is Arch, kernel was latest, but now I rolled back first 6.12 version to see if it helps (it didn't)

Are there any books for Linux similar to Charles Petzold's Windows book that goes over the low level/core stuff of the OS like a little bit of the history, memory models and API's, etc?

I am in the process of abandoning Windows for Linux, and know my way around processes/how memory hooks/injection works on Windows, and I am wondering if there is any quick study guides/books that has a similar layout to how the kernel and other services handle OS, window messaging, etc.

>>103903474
Anything with just a general overlook of how the OS works underneath for programmers is fine to give me a starting point to google stuff.

>>103903084
>The mobo is not even a year old.
ALC4080 is known to have this problem. It was shit anyway. Just get $10 Apple dongle from Walmart.

>fedora silverblue/kinoite rebased to one of the minimal ublue images
Bros... I think I found the ultimate distro.

>>103903640
found a decent workaround: using the DP audio output via my monitor

>>103903408
It looks like that might actually be a genuine hardware issue. Have you ever updated the BIOS on your motherboard? Supposedly it was a semi-common issue on that chipset a few years ago.

>>103903941
>Have you ever updated the BIOS on your motherboard?
I haven't, never had an issue until a few days ago. I guess the chip just went bad or something

>>103903994
supposedly people have managed to solve it by SLIGHTLY bumping the voltages on the CPU and VDDG. It can also be caused by overclocks where the voltage is too high, so if you're running an OC try dropping it a bit, otherwise add like 10mV to those voltages ONE AT A TIME and check to see if it's better, worse, or the same.

What terminal based file explorer would you guys recommend for someone used to dolphin?

>>103904438
ranger is nice
yazi is better
LF is shit

I wanna ditch windows so I freed up another partition and installed a dualboot while I migrate away. However all of my data is on multiple NTFS disks, and it's very tempting to just keep using them (with ntfs-3g), rather than copying them all over to a proper linux partition.
Especially while I'm still keeping windows around for the moment. But even then if I had them on ext4 or something I'm pretty sure there's utilities in windows to read them if necessary, and I do intend to make linux my primary OS if at all possible. But just moving them all to a new filesystem is going to be a lot of hassle.

Are there any major downsides or risks with using NTFS as a filesystem for data in Linux long-term? Or is it just a question of missing some features like the proper unix permissions (that I don't much care about)?

>>103904438
There's also broot which seems pretty nice.

I/O error, dev sde, sector 749540608 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 18 prio class 0
btrfs_repair_io_failure: 22 callbacks suppressed
BTRFS info (device sda1): read error corrected: ino 47161 off 12517376 (dev /dev/sde1 sector 749538560)
BTRFS info (device sda1): read error corrected: ino 47161 off 12513984 (dev /dev/sde1 sector 749538688)
BTRFS info (device sda1): read error corrected: ino 47161 off 12518080 (dev /dev/sde1 sector 749538696)

thanks btrfs

>>103904486
>Yazi
Ok this app fucks

got me a t495, what distro should i slap on it?

How does hyprland stack up against i3? I used to run xfce/i3 years ago and am converting my current desktop into a linux box to run my media server and I see a lot a lot of stuff about hyprland as a wm using wayland and it looks a bit like i3 gapless.

>>103905384
>run xfce/i3
There's nothing that can beat that.

>>103905446
I mean it was the best setup I used in the 7 or so years I used linux as a daily driver but I didn't know if wayland ever really became a successor to x.org or not.

>>103905384
i use xfce with some bindings from i3 for xfwm
its so comfy

I increased my zram and I think it's helping, I can have more stuff open now

Maybe I'll increase it again

Is there a way to get dynamic/relative paths for images when using MarkDown?
I'm using Marktext, as MD editor.
Also great thanks to the anon that recommended MD for note taking this is very good work flow.

>>103904679
It's just doing its job. If that were ext4 you'd have silent corruption there.

>>103905384
>>103905483
Wayland has become an alternative moreso than a true successor. Some things support only wayland (very few, really) or use wayland by default, some things support only X and usually work on wayland though a compatibility layer (which is generally pretty good). Wayland has a few features that X doesn't and will likely never have, like HDR; but conversely wayland took a very long time to implement basic features that X had, and honestly I'm not 100% sure whether you can expect everything to always work even today.

X has major issues in its architecture - an ancient, gigantic monolithic server with a ton of cruft nobody needs and therefore a huge attack surface - but Wayland ALSO has huge issues in its architecture. Such as the fact that it decided to offload a huge chunk of the actual "display server" functionality to external libraries, so anyone who wants to write the equivalent of a "window manager" on X now instead has to reimplement a shitton of boilerplate functionality on wayland. Or the fact that a ton of functionality is specified by optional protocols rather than core wayland itself, so while a lot of things might be "supported" in the union of the ecosystem at large, each different compositor might support a different subset of features or might do them in different ways or with different standards.

Oh and if you have an nvidia GPU then wayland support may or may not be alright. Who knows.

In short the main thing it's done is fracture the Linux ecosystem even more and introduce even more variability and cross-incompatibilities between things. X is not yet deprecated and Wayland hasn't managed to replace it entirely yet, but it's also not useless or a complete failure either.

>>103906173
>if you have an nvidia GPU
Ruh-roh. Yeah I'm using an rtx 2080. I intend to jump back into Arch because I like rolling release and they always seemed to have the best version of that type of distro. I recall tumbleweed sucking dick.

>>103906471
>Ruh-roh.
I'm not saying it won't work, mind you. It might!
I use X11 anyway just because I have never yet felt a reason to switch, so I don't remember the details, only that it doesn't always work. Some other anon might give you more info on in which circumstances it will and won't.

>>103906519
No worries I'm just doing a full new build and don't want my previous hardware to collect dust. I can continue to be useful as a linux based home media server, probably running Plex just to simplify the whole thing. For <300$ I can replace a few tired components and get a new htpc case for my 2600x/2080 setup and leave it. The only reason I'd run Arch over Debian is because I'm apprehensive about their philosophy overriding the pragmatism of having the most recent sw versions of all available programs. That and I remember loving the aur for its extensibility.

>>103906619
You know you can just use X11 on Arch right

>nfs has no encryption or password authentication (without kerberos)
Sorry if this is a retarded question but is this something I need to worry about if I'm only sharing files locally? I've been using sshfs with my nas but I read that nfs is a lot faster. Samba is another option but I don't use windows anymore and it seems to fuck with file permissions. I'm still pretty retarded when it comes to networking so I currently have no intention to share any files over the internet.

>>103906790
It's been a loooong ass time since I've used linux. So all my knowledge is rusty and I know enough to set myself up and get running. But insofar as remembering what I was using as graphical backend between x11 and xorg for me is hazy at best. I just distinctly remember using xfce+i3 because I'm too stupid to learn how to effectively use awesome or dwm. Plus I have kids now so I won't have time to fuss over stuff like that even if I had the ambition to turn a hobby into a job. I fully intend to use a Win 11 preview install as my fallback, as blasphemous as it sounds. Since it seems like between wsl and ntfs support on Linux to keep my media server running if one or the other has some critical error. My goblins need their media and I'm not listening to a tantrum because pokemon or bluey aren't available.

Tldr: Nah dude, I'm pretty retarded and need to go through a period of pointless overthink before I can trust myself to use Linux properly. Part of picking Arch is its way different than the last time I used it and for the better it seems.

>>103906173
>Such as the fact that it decided to offload a huge chunk of the actual "display server" functionality to external libraries, so anyone who wants to write the equivalent of a "window manager" on X now instead has to reimplement a shitton of boilerplate functionality on wayland
That's not actually a problem because the "window managers" also decided to offload that to external libraries rather than re-implement it themselves. The MVP is tiny (686 lines, excluding comments according to cloc):

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/blob/master/tinywl/tinywl.c

>>103904663
There's no Linux native chkdsk so you have to boot into Windows to resolve any filesystem errors.

>>103904438
gnu mc

>>103906849
>I'm still pretty retarded when it comes to networking so I currently have no intention to share any files over the internet.
If you did you'd be an idiot to expose NFS or Samba over the Internet anyway. The best way to share files over the Internet is with a plain HTTP share (WebDAV if you want to get fancy).

On a trusted LAN (no botnet devices), the lack of encryption won't matter. If you don't trust your LAN then it becomes a big issue since something could theoretically MiTM attack you and read your files or create new ones (this could turn into privilege escalation on the remote host if the permissions aren't right and something can create arbitrary files owned by root).

>>103900055
>>103900125
I see. I was just curious since I saw guix mentioned in some fastman pics.
>inb4 he fell for the fastman meme
Not really, but you can always get some tidbits of actual good info within schizo bable.
>>103901628
iirc the keyfile is just an additional layer of security, you cannot unlock a database with just a keyfile.
>>103904486
Could you elaborate on this? I use LF and it just works(tm) for me.
>>103907598
>The best way to share files over the Internet is with a plain HTTP share
I like to use croc
https://github.com/schollz/croc

How do I theme the filechooser? I'm not on KDE but using the portal filechooser, and it's like default qt and white, but the dolphin file manager is breeze dark.

>>103907640
>I like to use croc
>https://github.com/schollz/croc
Looks useful if you just want to fling some files from one device to another. I didn't know about this.

If you want to actually share files as in a "share", without actually transferring them and without having to use a tool to initiate the transfer then still nothing beats the simplicity of a HTTP share. Everyone has a web browser, you can stream files in media players like MPV, if you want more than a basic directory listing then every file browser on Windows, macOS and Linux supports WebDAV out-of-the-box so you can mount it like a remote share. Need authentication? Then Basic HTTP Authentication has got you covered there. Encryption? HTTPS.

>>103907640
>Could you elaborate on this? I use LF and it just works(tm) for me.
Personal opinion.

>>103907704
Install the KDE Qt Platform Theme and set QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=kde or install Qt5ct and Qt6ct and configure it that way. Or if you want to rice the crap out of it, then Kvantum.

>>103902984
Stop watching camwhores then, mister Nuñez.

>>103906916
I have no idea what you're trying to say with that entire paragraph but the entire discussion up to this point was that nvidia drivers are potentially unstable specifically on WAYLAND (the new alternative display server). You can use X11/xorg (the old display server, which used to be the only option) and it's not gonna have issues with nvidia.
Which one you use is entirely down to which one you install, and to some degree which DE you decide to install. Arch gives you the choice to install anything.

If you're talking about some other issue then sure, I'm just completely confused because you started the discussion with "what's wayland" and I mentioned potential nvidia issues and you keep harping on about trying Arch. You don't have to use wayland if you install Arch, there's no "nah dude", you can literally use X11 on Arch.

>>103907111
Yes except that those external libraries are themselves community projects and STILL can't agree on the feature set to deliver.
Not to mention embroiled in politics, leading to shit like the hyprland dev re-implementing the library he was using and creating a new competing one, in big part because he was banned from ever contributing to the original library for being "transphobic" or some shit (despite not even being in any way transphobic or based in the first place, ironically enough).

The X server just works, doesn't care about trannies, and every single WM on it will provide the same core functionality. Wayland compositors are disjoint, have petty politics, there's half a dozen competing "libraries" in various states of completeness and with different design philosophies and different supported protocols, and you can't just write a "wayland WM" without wading through a sea of shit and having to find the least worst option.

>>103907146
Understandable, but are such filesystem errors frequent? I can't remember the last time I've had to run fsck on any of my linux machines, and I've certainly never ran chkdsk manually on windows. So unless either a) windows runs it in the background regularly and I'll have to substitute that, or b) ntfs-3g is just far more likely to randomly corrupt the filesystem than just normal windows usage - unless either of those is the case then it sounds like it should be fine

>>103907640
>I like to use croc
That looks neat, looks better than wormhole even

>>103908186
>croc
>wormhole
Nice naming, fags.

>>103908080
No I never meant I was locked into wayland or couldn't use xorg or x11 because of Arch, I was just curious about how hyprland stacked up against i3. I get you can use whatever on Arch and I appreciate your help. I was just being personable and furnishing context of my usecase and that this is meant to be for fun. I'm probably going to kiss method this shit and just do xfce/i3 over just i3 with tint2 because it's remedially familiar. Hyprland just looked kind of neat.

>>103908319
Ah ok fair enough. The "nah dude" really confused me.

In my experience there's two ways to approach a linux setup: either you start with a setup in mind, and the willingness to spend effort to get that exact setup to work; or you start with a usecase in mind (one that's unrelated to the exact OS specifics) and want to be able to actually use it for that purpose asap. In the former case you can end up with a cool setup that might be even more pleasant to use than what you'd have gotten otherwise, but the downside is that it may not always work perfectly for you on the first try and then you have to be willing to spend time and effort making it work. In the latter case you pick a solution that's most likely to work, maybe fall back on an even simpler one if necessary, and the setup isn't optimal but with some luck you get one that "just works" and can get on with whatever you wanted to do.

In your case, the choice of trying wayland and hyprland would be the former, where you wanna try a cool new setup but you don't know if it'll work in the first place, but if it does - or you can get it to work - you'll have a cool new setup. Meanwhile going with the exact same setup you know is the KISS option that will let you spinup your NAS with the least hassle and get on with it. And I think you're absolutely right that this is the way to go if you want to get a specific use out of the system: if you try for something autistic and doesn't work, the temptation to just say "alright I'll just boot into windows for now so I can actually run plex and I'll fix the linux install later" is very strong, and then the "later" very easily never materialises, and now you're running a windows server full-time. I've done exactly this in the past. Not falling into the ricing trap and just getting something that works is definitely a superior pathway compared to this.

>>103901114
Anyone?

>>103908427
I mean nah dude as in I'm fucking dumb and can't remember not you can't do thing.

>>103908138
It wasn't wlroots that banned the Hyprland dev, it was Freedesktop.org, it just so happens that Wlroots is a member of F.do but it didn't come from them.

As for what it does and doesn't implement, they seem to implement most of the Wayland protocols. The only hard-stance they take is not implementing DBus in the library, but that's okay because you can do this yourself:
https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr

(The wlroots portal is kind of a joke on its own but you can use it as the basis for your own if you're developing a Wayland window manager compositor)

>>103908639
>It wasn't wlroots that banned the Hyprland dev, it was Freedesktop.org, it just so happens that Wlroots is a member of F.do
Well yes, with the same effect. "The project that that library is part of banned the dev", if you'd prefer. With the same effect that the dev can no longer either contribute to it or participate in discussions on its development.

>>103907598
Network security isn't really something I'd given much thought to until setting this stuff up. I've been trying to learn but it's a bit overwhelming. I'd generally consider mine secure, but I can't 100% deny the possibility that a device might be or become compromised.

>>103908169
They shouldn't happen at all, but here we are.

There will be a position opening at my work in a few months working with RHEL servers which I plan to apply for. I've been looking at consumer versions of RPM-based Linux to at least get the essentials down and I've narrowed it down to Fedora. Is this a good pick? I'd prefer something with a GUI to learn rather than complete command line. I believe rpm is "harder" than debian based, is this true?

>>103909773
Fedorah is a redhat product so go with that. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is just the enterprise version.

>>103909773
>working with servers
>GUI
that's not how it works.

If I copy a directory to an external drive, then the directory on my main drive gets affected by bit rot, will diff detect this if I run it between the two copies?

>>103909773
If you want to learn RHEL make a RedHat account, download actual RHEL, and do homelab stuff with it. Maybe rent a VPS or three. Fedora is very different from RHEL. It's not like Debian or Ubuntu where the fast release is just a beta for LTS.

>>103900330
what are the 2 monitors (res and refresh)

Any of you use Dolphin on Plasma? I uninstalled Kate, and i'm using Featherpad as my graphic text editor of choice instead. It works fine, except Dolphin has this annoying behavior: it doesn't switch automatically to Featherpad whenever i open a file on it AND there's already a Featherpad window open (meaning it'd just place the second file on tab). I'm using Plasma on F40 if that matters.

what's the current state of input method engines on linux? I really like fcitx's input method groups but ibus seems better supported and more stable overall

>>103909944
>>103909773
If you learn Cockpit that's GUI. Ideally you should still know how things work under the hood though.

What's htop/nvtop equivalent for hw monitor?

>>103901465
anyone?

also ublock origin's tab is getting scaled incorrectly because of the screen zoom level

how is it not standard for an operating system to just ask the screens "hey what size or DPI are you" and set the relative zoom appropriately?

>>103904663
There is risk that Windows chkdsk will rollback your files. Although they said it's hibernation related but I'm still paranoid to use NTFS fully on Linux.

>>103904663
ntfs on linux is good for temporary use, like data recovery or administrative tasks, but permanent use isn't recommended, a major reason is that there's no fsck/chkdsk
any time you have a power cut/freeze/crash, you'll have to run chkdsk from windows to keep using it safely
then there's also performance and permission concerns

converting to a linux native filesystem should be a priority, there's ways to do this fairly easily, like there's a tool that can convert ntfs to btrfs directly

>>103911934
>anyone?
Hmm... Did you use the same configs or start from scratch with Fedora?
You could maybe rebuild it on Arch using the same versions Fedora uses. If the problem persists then it's likely a configuration issue.
Either way you should probably ask for assistance on the Arch forums.

>>103910392
if the diff is based on a checksum then yes, if it's based on text maybe not

>>103899497
So I'm messing around with icon themes on Cinnamon, trying to fix some missing icons for some programs. The dot desktop file for Librewolf (I'll use this as an example) says it looks for a file called "librewolf" inside the icon theme directory, which I provide by symlinking an existing icon and renaming it to that, however the icon in the Cinnamon menu does not change. I then edit the dot desktop file itself so it looks for the original file (instead of the simlink, in this case that'd be "web-browser") and suddenly it works. Why does this happen? I tried with other programs, same thing.

>>103912154
I just do diff -r directory1 directory2
is this checksum or no

Hello friends, I recently installed hyprland and configured pretty much everything except this since I'm stuck trying to figure out the window rules. I want to have a browser window and signal autoexec on workspace 1 on boot, specifically tiled like picrel where the browser takes up more space than Signal does. I've already figured out how to autoexec both browser and signal on same workspace but I'm stuck on the auto-tiling part. I know it literally only takes a second to just manually resize the firefox window but it would be pretty cool to just boot into already perfectly tiled workspace. Please help, thanks in advance anons.

>>103913094
It'll do a binary diff, it's not simply comparing text (you have to use -a, or --text to treat all files as text). Diff is able to accurately detect differences in binary files, not that you can make much sense of the diff it gives you other than "binary file B is different to binary file A"

>>103899497
Is there a pixel perfect version of the terminus font with the extra power line symbols (for top bar and terminal decoration), because all I found was either blurry with symbols or sharp and without.
A font very close to terminus would be fine too.

i got a semi-old gayming laptop i don't use much anymore and i don't know what distro i want to put on it

>>103914506
You could just put Mint MATE on it I guess.

How is Mint 22.1?

How do you troubleshoot a program that ran yesterday but doesn't run anymore? No error messages when I run it in the console it just doesn't run.

>>103914657
I guess it might be helpful to add that I used it almost every day for a year or so, then didn't use it for a few months.
Yesterday it auto updated when i ran it but it ran fine all day. Today? Nothing. nothing at all.

how do i install vim

>>103914788
With your package manager

i just switched my media PC over to Zorin since it is what I am most comfortable with. I got Steam with Proton, Ryujinx, Cemu and some other stuff all working great.

However, this computer only has the integrated graphics from a 5600G APU. What kind of graphics card for around 200-300 USD would be good for linux? I remember hearing NVIDIA not being a very popular choice, but I haven't used linux in about 10 years so that may be outdated. I am open to trying any brand

>>103914657
>>103914672
>No error messages when I run it in the console it just doesn't run.
That's always the worst possible situation to be in when troubleshooting.
The first thing I would do is start searching online to see if anyone else had the same issue with the same program. At least if a lot of other people are experiencing the same issue that's a good sign that it'll probably get fixed at some point.
I also might try to do an "strace" on the program if you think you're knowledgeable enough to interpret the output.
Any chance you can say what the program is?

>>103914980
Thanks for the reply
I found some logs and maybe there's a hint here. There was a power failure around lunchtime. After restarting the machine and trying to run the minecraft launcher there seems to be a problem between the bootstrap and the launcher itself since the launcher isn't adding to it's log anymore.

>>103915022
What is the bootstrap? Is it a script? Can you just run the launcher directly?

>>103911934
>bug has disappeared again today
what the fuck

Should I want to use XFS?

>>103915064
Idk anything about it. When I put in minecraft at the console the only thing that happens is the bootstrap_log.txt updates.

>>103915064
>>103915093
when I ran minecraft-launcher directly, it still didn't run and the 2.4Mb launcher log has been replaced by a 1.4kb log that's probably not good. It looks very similar to the bootstrap log now

>>103915093
But what kind of file is it? Is it a binary or a script?

>>103915235
I know where to look for it or how to tell.

>>103915279
Say the command you normally use to start the program with is "minecraft", then try running "which minecraft" to see where the actual file is located. Then take that <file> and run "file <file>" to see what type of file it is.
If it's a text file then it's a script and you can open it with a text editor.

>>103915322
it's a script with only 2 lines.

#!/usr/bin/bash
/opt/minecraft-launcher/minecraft-launcher

This seems strange since "minecraft" in the console does not actually cause the log for minecraft-launcher to update. only the bootstrap log

>>103915357
aso I don't get why there are two minecraft-launcher executables.
/opt/minecraft-launcher/minecraft-launcher with a 2022 date
/home/.minecraft/launcher/minecraft-launcher with a yesterday date.

>>103914506
nixos

>>103909773
Learn what the job asks you, don't try to be a smartass by looking at something that you think is "close enough". Install RHEL/Rocky, look through the contents of RHCSA and learn how to do everything it mentions. As the other anon mentioned, the only GUI you need to concern yourself with is cockpit.

>>103915084
If BTRFS is too CPU intensive or the filesystem just holds a bunch of stuff that tracks its own integrity and does a lot of block updates, yes.

>>103907146
>>103908169
>>103909669
I've ran Windows VMs before on Linux and passed NTFS drives to it, can't you also run a chkdsk that way?

>>103916973
you can

>>103914582
Yeah I'm curious as well, running 22 and just waiting for the upgrade to come into the system updater. I've actually been running the same install via upgrade installs since like 20.something.

Is there a good way to fuzzy-search locate databases.

>low ram
>apu
>rt kernel
>zfs
fuck the stuttering holy fuck i cant take it

>>103919453
>locate
worthless

What music player do you use on GNU/Linux lads?

For me it's cmus

How is Debian Testing using Ffmpeg 7.1 but muh Gentoo is still stuck on 6.1? That surprised me. Well done Debian!

Oh, it's because of VLC as usual:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/928905

That piece of crap always bringing the rest of distributions packages down.

Arch has Ffmpeg 7 with separate ffmpeg compat lib still just for VLC:
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ffmpeg4.4/

>>103919676
foobar2000.

Can anyone recommend a linux alternative to Peace and EqualizerAPO on windows that isn't easyeffects or jamesdsp? neither work for my setup and it's pissing me off.

>>103919676
Usually use QMMP with a winamp black/blue style from the later 5.x versions skin.

>>103920369
Maybe fix your setup? They work for most people.

>trying to extract files from a Chinese .rar archive using unrar
>get error "Pathname cannot be converted from UTF-16BE to current locale"
Running echo $LANG gives me the output "en_US.UTF-8"
I don't know how all this unicode character locale shit works how do I get my files
pls help

>>103919676
audacious (pretending to be winamp)

Is it normal for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to be stuck on this screen for 2-3 minutes on startup before actually proceeding with the proper booting process? Just this little cursor point or whatever you call it
rest of the screen black.

Had Ubuntu 22.04 LTS installed on an old Macbook 2010. Worked absolutely fine. Did an in-place upgrade for the first time in my life, making the leap between LTS versions. At first everything seemed fine, but a couple of weeks later it started getting stuck on this screen for 2-3 mins before actually going ahead with booting up.

I thought maybe it was some residual problem from the in-place upgrade, so I reinstalled 24.04 from scratch.
But the exact same thing is happening. Once it boots, the rest of the OS seems fine, no other problems. Just this annoying 2-3 minute wait at the start. SSD health appears to be fine. Is anyone else having this issue? Just want to ask before I install 22.04 from scratch, to see if it's a 24.04 problem, because it would be a big annoying hassle to do so.

Awkward angles to minimize reflections.

>>103920727
another angle

>>103899497
can you guys figure out how to make gaming work on linux so I don't have to upgrade to windows 11? You have until ~2032.

>>103920892
The secret trick they don't want you knowing is to buy an AMD GPU

>>103920892
We've done that years ago, anon

>>103920892
I game just fine on Linux. Unless you play some kernel-level anti-cheat crap like LoL most things will run (as always check protondb).
>>103920904
As long as you use the prop drive nvidia is fine but if you're starting with a fresh build specifically for Linux then I'd go AMD

Is there any way I can make the KDE applications menu just the search and power buttons? I tried removing every single entry with menu editor and while it came close, there was a huge blank space.

>>103921417
Just use krunner for search and ctrl+alt+delete for power options

>>103904486
ranger hasnt been updated for awhile
yazi is too new and is missing features
there's nothing wrong with using LF, it's better than ranger aside from some features like tabs and dual pane

>>103905384
if you want i3 for wayland then just use sway
apparently the wayland version of lxqt will be able to use sway as well.

>>103920617
There is a bug that auto crashes when the audio output drops to 0 (pause in music or sound). I've tried every known solution and cannot figure it out myself.

>>103908639
The members of freedesktop.org who banned him are also wlroots devs

>>103920646
look up how to install chinese locale
you should just need to uncomment zh_CN.UTF-8 or something, and then run locale-gen
afterwards try running unrar prefixed with LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 unrar and see if that fixes it

>>103921651
What do you need updating for?
And what feature is missing in yazi?
lf is really basic.
If you want there is always based MC.

>>103921599
Ah, cool. Didn't think about it that way. Thanks!

>>103920727
You know, might be a stretch but I use Linux Mint on a 2015 Imac and one thing I had to do to get it to stop being slow at startup/shutdown was adding some text to the kernel perimeters. Dunno if it's something about the old ATI chips or something but it was: "apci=0 amdgpu.dpm=0"

Hey penguin bros, i'm trying to install lubuntu into an old laptop
When booting the usb, i get a fully blank screen, no text, no gui, no cursor, just fully blank
I've tried building the usb with rufus, etcher, but i get the same result, even with other ISOs
Secure boot is off, idk what else to do

Got suggestions?

Anyone have ideas on why using the FUSE mount of a webDAV storage keeps freezing anything related to the network mount (forcing me to gio mount -uf it), while just mounting the same network storage and accessing it via thunar is no problem? Are the FUSE mounts just such shit?

can i update arch like once a week? is it a meme that itll break if i forget to update it eventually or something, like whats a normal waiting period?

can anyone tell me why the fuck every linux distro is a fucking stutter fest if i do just a simple task as resizing a window?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTi7ptUHRGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0EbP0GfgvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmSeyCqgo2E

Every one of them are fresh installs with latest nvidia drivers each distro offered.

>>103922594
works on my machine™

>>103922594
Don't use Nvidia on Linux

>>103922594
Works on AMD

i tried to update my cachy and it fucked it up again because i forgot to manually wipe the fucking cache beforehand that always fills itself and never deletes itself, so now critical system components are corrupted again, how do it reinstall everything, i cant do it from the gui option as I cant open any programs now that i didnt already have open, not even the terminal but tty works
so fucking tired of this shit
>>103922529
for me it dies when i try to update it not from being unupdated, fucking cancer update system nearly windows 10 tier with the breakage, my bad for installing this shit

>>103922529
every day, every week, every month, every year, it doesn't reallt matter. You can update whenever you want.

>>103921695
Only Simon is and it wasn't him that made the decision.

>>103922594
regular proprietary driver or open kernel module driver? try the other

>>103899497
CachyOS will make a new drive gpt in the installer by itself or do I need to make it gpt before installation? Oh yes it converts it to gpt automatically.

>>103900493
Yes I started with arch as my first distro and now I fulltime Linux (outside of work which requires fagOS). But I may have also developed autism

Is the archinstall fixed yet?

>>103923268
regular for all 3
I think i saw that pop os also has the open kernel module one. I am gonna check in a few minute

MSI mystic light keeps disconnecting and reconnecting causing errors that slow down booting and shutting down the system.
How do I get it to stop sperging out?

>>103923718
same shit with nvidia-driver-open too
AHHHH
I am gonna check if I can enable nvidia optimus like on my laptop. My shitty laptop with intel igpu and an gtx 940M is fucking butter smooth. and my retarded pc with an rtx 4090 falls apart from just resizing a fucking window

i just installed nvm to a new arch linxu machine and for some reason the install script that im supposed to source is now setting the NVM_DIR to /usr/share/nvm instead of ~/.nvm what is going on, it didn't use to do that before

what is the difference between [ and [[ in bash?

>>103924060
might have something to do with this, located in the install script

nvm_install_dir() {
  if [ -n "$NVM_DIR" ]; then
    printf %s "${NVM_DIR}"
  else
    nvm_default_install_dir
  fi
}

>>103923767
I think installing OpenRBG bricked my motherboard's RGB controller. Thanks, FOSS sisters...
Hopefully, I can fix it by resetting my CMOS.

>>103924087
[ is POSIX and [[ is Bash
If you're writing a Bash script just use [[, it has more options. If your system has no Bash [[ won't work.

>>103924109
If it's anything like my ASUS boards then reflashing the BIOS will also re-flash the LED firmware.

CachyOS made my swap partition 64GB the same as my RAM wtf. Should I go and install this again to give something more sensible like 32GB which is still a fucking lot. Not sure if it's zram tho. I'll check it out after I install Steam.

>>103924319
Maybe it's for hibernation?
>Not sure if it's zram tho
Run swapon to see

>>103924344
ah yes its zram

best c programming book?

>>103924244
I reflashed and updated the firmware and hard reset the CMOS, but the error is still there.
OpenRGB really needs a warning on launch, RGBs I don't care about but constantly flooding my system with error messages is annoying.

>>103924013
>nvidia
found your problem

>>103924319
>made my swap partition 64GB the same as my RAM wtf
But that's the norm? Why didn't you partition manually?
Honestly I'm too scared to hit that
>"fuck my shit up - partition automatically"
-button lol

how do i make snapshots automatically with different settings in zfs without deleting snapshots that i've made by hand?

>>103919190
Have you ever run into any problems with your upgrades? No compatibility issues or anything? I've always happened to do fresh installs so I don't know. Going from 21.3 to 22, my biggest issue was WINE. 21.3 just worked, but 22 lost some compatibility. And it hasn't been fixed yet, so I'm worried 22.1 might be worse. I'm still tempted though. Think I'll just upgrade anyway and hope for the best.

>>103923767
>>103924109
Is it okay to leave the error repeating or is it going to flood a log file and take up all my hard drive space eventually?

>>103924849
Why would anyone partition manually? Doy you still live in 2010? Why the fugg would anyone partition manually in 2025?

>>103925148
>Doy you still live in 2010?
Nothing has changed in terms of partitioning.

>>103925078
I can't recall anything major happening, but it's a 2015 imac and there's always Timeshift to revert the changes.

There's no vi/vim thread up (I swear there used to be one?) So I figured I'd ask here as a smelly windows user learning vim: in Windows Notepad there's a cool secret feature where you can save .LOG at the start of the file, and every time it's opened again it will create a timestamp automatically and start you on a new line.

Is there anything cool like that in vi/vim/neovim? Perhaps a script which I could use to achieve the same thing? I think it's a really cool feature of Notepad but I'd like to try to use vi more.

>>103925148
Partitioning is just too simple, I see no reason to not do it manually as opposed letting some rando script do it.
>>103923376
>>103900493
You can do any distro manually, even Ubuntu. For APT-based distros there's Debootstrap and RPM/Fedora/whatever can be doned via

dnf --installroot

thing. IIRC Fedora also hands out a rootfs tarball, just like Gentoo's "Stage3". (all distros should offer a rootfs tarball IMO)

>>103899497
I'm on Ubuntu 24.10 with amdgpu installed. It's not loading. I just got a brand new GPU. Ubuntu can see it, but it refuses to actually use it. Instead it's using software rendering and LLVM to post this.

lsmod | grep amdgpu

outputs nothing

lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'
0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6650 XT / 6700S / 6800S] (rev c1)
    Subsystem: XFX Limited Device 6502
    Kernel modules: amdgpu
0a:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller

My monitor colours have gone weird. I have reposted my version of OP's image. As you can see, it's orange instead of blue and the usual blue background of /g/ is also orange. If I don't figure this out tonight I'm probably going to just reinstall Ubuntu 24.10 next week. I don't understand how I can install software and then Ubuntu just decides to not use it. It's using X and LLVM instead of Wayland and amdgpu like it's supposed to. Changing the grub configuration file didn't help so I just changed it back to the default settings.

This is unbelievably arcane and frustrating. The only reason my drivers aren't "perfectly configured" is because I changed them a bunch of times when my old GPU was dying. I thought I had a software problem, but it was actually a hardware problem. Now I have a brand new card and I can't use it because I screwed my drivers up so much by installing, uninstalling, and reinstalling different software. I'm currently just trying to get the default amdgpu packages from Ubuntu to work properly and I just can't do it.

>>103925692
My screenshot of OP's image now looks blue in my reply. Now I'm really confused.

>>103924557
C Programming: A Modern Approach

>>103899497
I haven't posted here for 3 months. "Temporary email verification"
I guess it was just a matter of time.

I am liking GNU/Linux very much now for 5 years.

>>103925837
It's either giving an email to show you're a real person or waiting for 15 minutes before you can post on new IPs. I guess it exists to fight bot spam (especially on boards like /pol/)

>>103925858
I used the email verification. I'm old and don't care what happens anymore.

Ubuntu 20.04.06lts, Gnome (daily, desktop)
Debian 11, stable, MATE (daily laptop)
bodhi Linux 6, Moksha -based on enlightenment, (hobby laptop, ancient Dell Studio 1737 C2D, DDR2)

>>103925858
/g/ has had its fair share of spam too. It did decrease after they made these changes so it's doing something.

>>103926341
It also basically kills phoneposting as IPs are constantly changing for phone data users, unless they constantly want to keep re-verifying an email.

>>103926386
Phone posting is dead without a VPN + pass anyway. CGNAT connections are always banned because of retards and 4chan still in 2025 doesn't support IPv6. Also most mobile networks will block 4chan for "adult content" via filters, etc, unless you phone up and give them all sorts of identification documents (not doing that).

>>103926386
IP changes are irrelevant as long as the cookies aren't cleared.

why aren't the themes I've downloaded showing up as an option in the appearance menu?
I've tried just dragging and dropping the folder into the menu as xfce documentation suggests and it didn't work either

hello fellas
i am trying to get into linux since it uses less resources and since i use nvidia i heard manjaro is good for that
i used rufus to install on a usb but when i load on the c i go "boot with roprietary drivers" and it does boot u but then it reboots before finishing and i cant actually install this thing
any ideas?
thanks in advance

>>103927440
Manjaro is shit. I'd suggest starting with mint if you're a newbie.

Is there an easier way to make awesomewm layouts?

>>103927871
but does it play nice with nvidia?

>>103927920
Yeah.

Just installed Linux Mint Xia and for some reason It has froze up a few times and after a few seconds will either show big screen tearing or just be frozen in a way where I have to restart the whole system.
I'm basically running a fresh Linux Mint 22.1 installation
Anything I can do or do I have to wait for patches to come out to fix this?

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900x (24)
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 7700 XT

I'm trying to dual boot Arch Linux and Windows 11 with systemd-boot, but the boot menu is not showing up. At first, bootctl install didn't even work and I had to use efibootmgr to get a Linux Boot Manager entry at UEFI boot order, the systemd-boot menu only showed Windows 11 at the time, though. When I created the arch.conf file, it booted directly into Arch, and after I created the windows.conf file, it is booting directly into Windows 11, without letting me choose Arch. What can I do to fix that?

Is there a version of awesome with tabs?
Or should I look to another wm?

>>103928392
Are you installing both on the same drive? If yes, windows can often fuck with the boot partition. I'd suggest splitting them

>>103928598
That's clearly not the case here.
>>103928392
Do you absolutely want to use systemd-boot for booting both?
You can always use the EFI boot menu, although it's not very convenient.

>>103928598
Yes. How does it fuck the boot partition?
>>103928634
I mean, I could live with changing the boot order, but I'd like to fix this if possible.

>>103928658
>How does it fuck the boot partition?
Because it's Windows and closed source, it can do anything. It can remove the boot entry and/or just delete stuff randomly from the ESP, who knows.
>I mean, I could live with changing the boot order, but I'd like to fix this if possible.
Is the end goal to specifically use systemd-boot or just get a nice menu?

>>103928714
>It can remove the boot entry and/or just delete stuff randomly from the ESP, who knows.
Couldn't I just chroot into Arch with a live USB and fix that?
>Is the end goal to specifically use systemd-boot or just get a nice menu?
Just to get a nice menu.

>>103926420
>Phone posting is dead without a VPN + pass anyway.
Just have a VPN to your house and forego the pass.
>CGNAT connections are always banned
Switch to a carrier that isn't full of fucking niggers. I was amazed how little my IP was banned when I switched from T-Mobile to Verizon. Maybe once a year while I'm traveling do I see a ban message.

>>103924013
it is fucking amazing how smooth the UI is when I use my intel gpu, but when I plug my monitor to my nvidia card anything that produces some IO or has any graphics animation then the entire GUI becomes a stutterfest until the animations are done and the IO is done too.
I am gonna setup nvidia optimus now

>>103901047
I picked up an older thinkpad 480 for like $250 bucks and it's been fine for that same usecase. threw ubuntu on it and pretty much only use it for web browsing and some occasion meme making (gimp).

Only drawback I can think of is that the matte screen take a little getting used to.

>>103924013
>>103928993
That's why most linuxers use amd.

>>103928971
Most mobile providers do not give you proper public address space (except IPv6) because there's just not enough of it to go around for every phone on the planet. There could be hundreds or thousands of people behind one singular address.

>>103922303
Try another stick, make sure to use dd mode in Rufus

What's the difference between dkms and just being able to insert modules with mod probe on demand?

>>103926341
>>103926386
for a couple weeks I didn't even have to do any verification besides the cloudflare checkbox. now it's back to waiting, but just trigger the wait time when you first get here and you can post whenever you want without having to explicitly wait
t. phoneposter using ddg browser to burn cookies after every use

>>103929118
How do you tell if you have a public IP. With Nat doesn't that theoretically open the entire IP range? How could you ever know?

>>103925692
show us dmesg of amdgpu also make sure to uninstall any existing amdgpu drivers installed

further, try booting a live ubuntu, if the issue persist then it might be a hardware issue

>>103929315
dkms = bloat

>>103929357
-> /sqt/
You can see it from the WAN-interface of your router. Usually people log into their http://192.168.1.1 or whatever and browse to the right page.
Or if your router is picrel you SSH in and do

ip address

>>103926420
>CGNAT connections are always banned
You are misunderstanding something, you can't tell whether CGNAT is happening somewhere or not.
I assume you mean "mobile ISPs" in general as they are super easy to abuse as you can renew an IP on a whim.

>>103929474
Yeah but with Nat the carrier could assign multiple people that address and use layer 2 forwarding, no?

>>103929493
>you can't tell whether CGNAT is happening somewhere or not.
You can. If your device does not have a public IP address assigned to it then you are behind a NAT. If you were banned this morning for posting something on 4chan which you did not do then you are probably in all likelihood behind a CGNAT.

>>103929315
different things, dkms allows your system to automatically recompile/build kernel modules ondemand, the most common usage is when the kernel is updated and the nvidia proprietary driver is installed, dkms recompiles the module everytime without you noticing it

it is possible to have dkms build a module automatically and this module never gets installed/used

Dudes come one.
>>103929521
>You can
You can't from outside. He was implying 4chins somehow magically knows CGNAT is happening somewhere else on the planet.
>>103929500
When you look at your Internet-facing IP from your router you can instantly see if it's a real global one or not. Have you not heard of "private networks"?

>>103929547
>He was implying 4chins somehow magically knows CGNAT is happening somewhere else on the planet.
Ah, that's true, yes. That's why we need IPv6 so 4chan can uniquely identify users by the /64 prefix assigned to them.

>>103929550
You are partly right, there's still guessing whether a customer got /64 or /58 or whatever.
Not that assuming a /64 per customer wouldn't suffice as a default value.

>>103929610
Depends how paranoid you are I guess. With a /64 you are banning the individual user, with /56 you are also banning adjacent users e.g :1234::/56 and :1235::/56 the /64 targets just one of them, but the /56 would take out both.

>>103929639
>With a /64 you are banning the individual user, with /56 you are also banning adjacent users
No. Some ISPs hand you a /56. Didn't know that huh?
(actually that's necessary for proper IPv6 routing, /64 is a hack)

>>103929668
Yeah, /64 is the minimum viable without things breaking.

Some ISPs will give you a /48 too but usually that's reserved for businesses.

Is there standalone executable to run FTP server for linux?
Or really anything that's easy to set a system wide share.
I have this old laptop, that have some really important stuff, USB ports are dead, there's no WiFi.
Just Ethernet and CD-ROM, the only thing that got working is old version of puppy.
I just need to transfer those files over.

>>103929705
Use rsync

>>103929547
>ot. Have you not heard of "private networks"?
Yes, that's effectively what cgnat is.

>>103929710
How?

Mint is a meme

Real niggas use Ubuntu

>>103929844
Enable SSH server (

sudo systemctl enable --now sshd.service

) on the remote host

On the sending machine:

rsync -av --links --progress /path/to/src user@host:/path/to/dest

That will send the contents of the folder src to /path/to/dest/src on the remote machine.

>>103929869
Also shit. If you're going to use an Ubuntu based distribution that's not Mint then use the latest version of Kubuntu with Plasma 6

Linuxbros, I need help. I recently bought an x1 yoga 3 glass trackpad for my t480s after seeing some people reccomend it- and its a great replacement! It feels much better than the mylar one (wow, who would have thought right?) but it came with a whole host of issues on my fedora install.

My pointer would randomly stop in place for random intervals ranging from 3+ seconds and frequently enough that its basically unusable. I've checked the connector twice and its in normally, and I know its not a hardware defect because it works fine on windows. So then I dumped the libinput logs and it turns out every so often theres a log that my trackpad loses sync. e.g "[ 1941.984527] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1" (example log since Im typing this from windows).

I've scoured the wikis and forum pages (and tried installing other distros) but havent been able to fix the issue or even really tell what the cause of it is. From what I understand is its libinput specific because if I disable libinput and use Xinput it works fine, its just that Xinput doesnt seem to have the same functionality (at least by default) as before.

Does anyone know what to do? My current two options are keep the touchpad in and suffer with windows, or put the mylar one back in so I can use linux again. unless theres some sort of fix which Im hoping there is...

Hello, i would like to add a raylib syntax to vim. So when i type "CloseWindow();" it get a color

>>103929876
Can't I just use sftp this way?
still this require installing rsync.

>>103930305
nta but strongly suggestion to use rsync instead of plain sftp

>>103930325
strong suggestion **
fuck me

I wish I could install arch again for the first time...

>>103929690
>Yeah, /64 is the minimum viable without things breaking.
/64 *does* break things and requires a hack around it.

>>103930436
It shouldn't. With a /64 you still have enough bits for router advertisement or DHCPv6 to function properly. It's not ideal though because it's nice to have more than one subnet available (for example, Docker has its own /80 prefix on my server and desktop)

>>103930325
Yeah, but this doesn't solve the issue of having to install rsync, puppy doesn't ship with rsync by default and as I said, I need something like FTP server, because of the limitation of getting application installed.

KDE.
How can I stop Dolphin from creating "large" thumbnails? (Inside /.cache/thumbnails/ folder)
I am okay with thumbnails, they are useful, but are these larger thumbnails really necessary? My large folder has half the files normal folder has, yet it is twice the size of the smaller folder because those images with double vertical and horizontal resolutions take circa 4 times more disk space.
Is it possible to only have the normal one? I can delete, but it will re-create them.
Maybe making it read only can help but is there a more graceful solution?

>>103930591
You can use the sftp command but it's interface is a bit shit compared to Rsync. If you have Internet then I'd just install it.

>>103930601
They should really use JPEGXL or AVIF or WEBP for thumbnails. Any of these are better than PNG.

>>103930635
>If you have Internet then I'd just install it.
Sure, but the version of puppy doesn't connect to their repo anymore, and I need something to get it offline, burn it to cd

after 4 years seems I'm finally at peace with my gayming laptop and loonix
thanks to whoever fixed the usb-c display bug with nvidia

Why the fuck does distro devs rely on automated building when they don't even bother to test the fucking builds? Armbian, I'm looking directly at you.
>running old version of OpenMediaVault(4.x)
>wanna upgrade to something that can actually be updated
>download the Armbian+OMV image from the official Armbian website
>flash it to boot drive
>fire it up
>gets halfway through boot and turns itself off
>can't figure out what's wrong
>check the forums
>"Oh yeah, the builds are done automatically, guess that image is broken"
>"Since it's automatic, we have no idea WHEN the image broke, or what change caused the break"
>"No, we won't be trying to fix it, we don't own that specific piece of hardware"
>"Last image specifically for that hardware that is known to work? We have no idea, we don't know when it broke"
>"We still have that download offered and marked as fully working because it did work at one point"
>"No, we aren't pulling the download or marking it as not working, because it did work before"
Also:
>decide to try and upgrade the 4.x OMV image through APT
>"dude, just use armbian-upgrade!"
>it's not already installed
>can't connect to the Armbian Stretch repo to install it
>check around
>they literally deleted the entire Stretch repo for Armbian
>"Our build tool re-builds the entire repo every time we update, and it takes longer each time, so we deleted out some of the older versions to save time"
>"Can't install new version? Just boot off of the CD image!"
>for an OS designed for SBC's with no CD drive
>system can't boot off of USB, emmc only
For fucks sake, is it really that hard to either test your shit or freeze older repo's?

>>103930715
I wonder, could you install a userland package manager like nix or guix or homebrew or whatever?

>>103930601
I don't think you can do that.
>Maybe making it read only can help but is there a more graceful solution?
Symlinking to /dev/null too, maybe

>>103930683
PNG is the Freedesktop standard and KDE has decided to follow it.

>>103930715
Then just use the sftp command. It won't be as reliable as Rsync but should get the job done.

>>103930715
out of curiosity: how old is that laptop? and what kind of drive?
if it's a SATA one you could just plug it in any puter and transfer the files over
doubt it's IDE as that's too old

>>103930732
>PNG is the Freedesktop standard
That's what I guessed. We really need a better standard that doesn't mandate the image format. Something like a "libthumbnail" with plugins for different formats and a consistent API for anything that wants to deal with thumbnail creation or reading them.

>>103930753
Hell, you could even make this a FUSE filesystem. Thumbnails are stored in whatever format but transparently converted on-demand if some shitty app can only read PNGs.

>>103930730
I don't think so.
>>103930734
yeah.
I was hoping to get FTP server on it, and browse the files from other machine, and send it to my NAS.
>>103930742
It's dad's old laptop, from 2005? so 20 years at least.
It's IDE, I thought about doing what you suggested.
Getting IDE adapter would be a solution too, but this isn't what I want.

>>103930925
does its cd rom drive works? if so you could boot up a more recent light distro to install what you need

>>103930950
>does its cd rom drive works?
Yes, this is why I'm using puppy, because it was the only thing I found that could be booted to ram so I can use the CD drive to copy a program or something.
>more recent light distro
I tried mint and ubuntu, didn't work.
Debian with xfce did better, but couldn't connect to the repo.
The laptop is really old, like 512 MB ram old.

>>103931039
Did you try the Arch (might need Arch32 if the laptop is that old) or Gentoo CDs? I'd be surprised if they couldn't boot. They should have ssh and Rsync and some other useful tools too. Not sure why Puppy doesn't come with that.

>>103931065
By the Gentoo CD, I mean their Admin CD, not the one with a live desktop.

>>103931039
fair, you might want to try old ubuntu isos from around 2007-9, these should boot with 512MB of mem and hopefully they have rsync installed

I'm running NFS share on my laptop, but sometimes when the network changes the IP change as well.
So how to handle this in /etc/exports

/path/to/shared_directory client_ip(rw,sync,no_subtree_check)

to automatically adjust for new client IP?

In thunar, is there a way to make shared folders appear in the network tab?
I've mounted it manually and through fstab, and it didn't work.
Unless I mount it from thunar itself.

>>103931065
>Did you try the Arch (might need Arch32
No, but arch32 is dead, and the iso don't have ssh/rsync
>>103931098
I tested, no it didn't
Weirdly I did try debian from that time, the Ethernet didn't work

>>103931145
Make sure the IP doesn't change. Use a global IPv6 address if you can.

NFS does not have any logic to handle this even if you use a hostname when mounting it.

>>103931177
>>103931145
Or if it's changing on your LAN than reserve the IP address in the DHCP server so it stops doing that

>>103929879
fuck interim versions

>>103931199
It doesn't make sense to run an LTS on the desktop. You want up-to-date drivers and hardware support. Plasma 5 is basically frozen in time. You're not seeing any of the bug fixes or new features KDE is working on.

>>103931177
>Make sure the IP doesn't change.
What?
You can use something like 192.168.0.0/24, and it would work.
Issue come when the LAN IP change to 192.168.1.0
Like from using different wifi network.

>>103931223
That's your DHCP server. Disable it if you have two different networks. Or at least separate them properly with VLANs and routing at the gateway.

>>103931230
>>103931223
By disable it, I mean the WiFi access point should be in bridged mode so DHCP is provided by your gateway or managed switch, etc.

>>103930732
Damn this sucks.
Wouldn't symlinking to /dev/null create a situation where it is constantly recreating the thumbnails though? Shouldn't be that intensive for a modern CPU, but I would rather not waste power on that.
I am hoping that it is coded to stop trying to recreate thumbnails if it can't (as in disk being full for example), so hopefully I can get rid of them gracefully if I mess with permissions.
Reading these kinda gave me cold feet though, maybe I will just take the L on disk usage.
>>103930796
It's really fucking dumb. Just give me the choice on how to handle this shit ffs.

>>103931316
You could make a weekly cronjob that rm's the dir, it shouldn't grow too much in that time.

>>103931230
>>103931236
Sorry, I mean like when changing from router to router.
The NFS share isn't on a NAS, it's on a laptop.
I share files on it to different people when I'm over at their house.

>>103931406
Both routers should be on the same subnet or you need routing between them

>>103931417
>Both routers should be on the same subnet or you need routing between them
OK?
Thanks reading comprehension-kun

>>103931438
???

How do you expect them to be able to talk to eachother if they're on different networks? If the problem is just that you don't want to deal with IP addresses then use Zeroconf networking with Avahi and mdns.

>>103931445
You could also use IPv6 link-local networking assuming the link address doesn't change (sometimes NetworkManager will randomise this)

>>103930491
>It shouldn't.
But it does. Ideally you'd have one /64 for the routing part:
>ISP router <-> your router
and another /64 - at least 64 - for your personal use.

>>103931445
>if they're on different networks
I'll try to explain in your brain rot language
>Bro, like, my WiFi slaps at home, right? Got my NFS vibes locked in . But the moment I dip to a new spot and vibe with a different router? Boom, NFS is big mad unless I manually tweak the IPs. Like, why you gatekeeping, bro?

>>103931553
You can't do shit about that. It's not your fault somebody else's network is broken. If the traffic isn't routed or switched right then you can't do fuck all about that.

Try IPv6 link-local networking, that should work for you as long as NetworkManager isn't randomising the link address (you can disable that if it is).

>>103931588
>It's not your fault somebody else's network is broken
It's not?
Some routers assign 192.168.0.0/24 while others assign 192.168.1.0/24 as IP both are valid.

>>103931608
And it shouldn't make any difference to your NFS server unless you have multiple active network connections (e.g a VPN) at once, some of which might collide. This is why IPv6 is great, it can't collide, use link-local networking or assign your own ULA and use that

>>103931631
No I don't have.

Choose one.

>>103931821
What's the issue then? Is it just that you want a stable network address? Because IPv6 link-local networking will get you that regardless of what network you're connected to since (ignoring any randomisation that can happen if configured to do so) it's based on the NICs MAC address, or you can manually set it to something static like fe80::1/64 (although then you risk colliding with something else).

>>103931900
NTA but stop shilling IPv6, it's not gonna happen.

>>103931926
It literally addresses the exact problem he has.

New thread:
>>103931954

>>103931934
By the way, link local networking isn't limited to IPv6 either, IPv4 has it too but it's less useful because it only comes into play when an an interface doesn't have an address configured by DHCP.

>>103931926
>stop shilling IPv6, it's not gonna happen.
Oh you're one of those.