First for gay buttsex and tranny shit.

Is there a way to run WINE in windowed mode besides the "emulate a virtual desktop" option?
I'm trying to run Bryce3D, which doesn't have a windowed option in the program itself.
The virtual desktop option makes no difference, it still runs it in fullscreen.
I also tried "wine explorer /desktop=[resolution]", but it only runs in 800x600 regardless of what resolution is entered and Bryce still doesn't display correctly.
Is there any other way to force it to run in windowed mode?

hey tails bros i was visiting this one website and some fuckin script kiddie fuckin nigger white knight replaced all the links with his twitter

is it over

>>103932045
gamescope

Which drawing tablets work on Linux?
These hardware peripherals are always finicky, they either work flawlessly or depend on some proprietary spyware windows only driver

>>103932296
Most should work fine with OpenTabletDriver.
>>103931954
Wasn't there something about Tails being compromised or bugged somehow? I missed that story.

I think flatpak SUCKS

XFCE changed the default selection from confirm to cancel in every confirmation box and messed up my muscle memory. How do I change it back? I don't even know how to look up this problem.

What's the most normie friendly distro, still ubuntu? I'm building a younger sibling's first PC and considering swapping the default windows install, not for freedumps spreading but for the same reason I fully dropped it months ago(modern windows being unredeemable dogshit)
>>103932296
Some distros(or at least mint) auto detect wacom ones by default, huion gives linux drivers that work pretty well(saying from experience), not sure about other chink ones

>>103933882
Fedora, unfortunately. Red Hat be damned but snapshit is even worse

>>103932843
But the deb version of retroarch sucks and my distro doesn't have an appimage version

AAAAAAAAAAAA
why cant i install this shit!!!!!
it loads then reboots and then does all over again
FUCK I SPENT MY WHOLE AFTERNOON ON THIS

>>103934220
What are you trying to install?

>>103934252
i tried a ton
manjaro
arch
mint
NONE WORK

>>103934293
Try Fedora. You should be pleasantly surprised.

>>103934293
Debian
KDE

>>103934305
>>103934334
i actually JUST tried fedora. when i tried booting up it gave me a error on the media check
does this mean my usb stick is fried or what?

>>103934342
Probably, that would explain your issues

I like Linux Lite.

GIMP 3 is probably going to be added to OpenSUSE next week

>new pulseauido update lets you go tp 153% volume
god bless arch this is great

>>103934883
idk, I have pipewire and I can crank it up to over 300% before I get scared and turn it down. It probably has no limit

>>103935332
The limit is your hardware blowing out.

i just want to say i hate you all

>>103935785
Your hate makes us stronger.

>>103935785
Who peed in your morning coffee?

>>103932045
dxwnd

>>103936174
Kill yourself.

What's the best OS if you wanna disconnect it from the internet and basically never update it?

>>103937144
Debian Stable

>>103937053
Very unfriendly post

>>103937222
Fags get the rope.

>>103937229
Agreed

>>103933253
>XFCE changed the default selection from confirm to cancel in every confirmation box
is this true? fuctard.jpg.exe if so.

what does local mean in the file system hierarchy?
e.g.

/usr/lib
vs
/usr/local/lib

is this just another example of the shitshow that is the file system hierarchy?

I have a Linux server that I am hosting some sites on. I'm thinking of letting my friends also host some smaller sites on there as well, but I want to give them a file size limit of 2gb or so. Is this possible?

So when you do an in-place upgrade for debian-based distros, what happens to your software center deb packages? Do they automatically upgrade too or switch to the new version (if any)? Or just stay the same and it's up to you to figure out what to do with them?

What happens when the package manager itself has changed (for example going from Synaptic to a new package manager)? Well, I guess it shouldn't really change anything aside from maybe new commands or a new UI to get used to. It should probably only manage your packages.

>>103937791
Okay, just did a quick google search and it looks like all the packages do attempt to get updated to the latest versions and it should be relatively safe to do an upgrade as long as the version is the right upgrade path. As in, you're not gonna do an in-place upgrade between Mint 22.0 to Mint 23.1, so it 'should' be fine.

>>103937409
/usr/local is where software and data can be locally installed without messing with the system package manager. If you want to build and install something from source, it should end up there or in your $HOME. Or if it's "special" it can go into a dedicated path in /opt.

>>103937409
>The /usr Versus /usr/local Debate
https://linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/introduction/position.html

>>103938172
>or in your $HOME
The homy version of /usr/local is ~/.local

So I have a server and I SSH in as root as usual. Then I start building sources.
What's the least stupid way of compiling sources on the server? Currently doing everything as root like a retard.
Create a system user that can't log in, has no shell etc. and then as root "su"? Or do a systemd.service that does the build as DynamicUser?

anyone using borgmatic to do their borg backups might want to check if their exclude_from option is working as intended if they've updooted today.
spent some time checking why my twice a day backup was taking longer than expected, downgrading made it work as expected again.
that's what i get for being an updooter

Thinking about moving over to Linux permanently for my desktop, but am unsure about what distro to use. Only distros I've used are Ubuntu and Debian based. What's the best choice for my use case? I game and code.

Is Arch worth it even with the risk of breaking updates? Should I install it manually, will I learn more about Linux or is it just a meme/hazing ritual? If it isn't worth the trouble with stability then what should I install instead? Debian testing, unstable? Fedora?

>>103939011
Arch or Gentoo are pretty much the best desktop versions of Linux IMO because of how much power they give to you as a user.
"Arch breaks all the time" is a meme at this point, it only happens very rarely when one program may need manual intervention and that doesn't happen every often.

>>103939011
>>103939047
All distros fail equally when it comes to the boot process, the bites they take are just too big to swallow at times.
Just use unencrypted EXT4 as your root filesystem but host your $HOME and whatnots on whatever crazy setups all you like. Keep the root simple!
>>103939047
Gentoo's a snowflake as it's more like a dev platform instead of a so called normal system. But yeah, Arch is a very basic option to choose from, nothing crazy about it.

>>103923767
Fixed the issue. Had to boot into Windows, and install MSI Center. Go to live-scan and redownload the LED firmware.
Don't know if there was a way to accomplish it all on Arch Linux, even flashing a new bios update didn't work. just be careful using 3rd party RGB editors on MSI motherboards, gave me a scare thinking I bricked it.

>>103932296
Opentabletdriver is good, but lately I've been using Huion's drivers for my kamvas 22 plus and they work just as well on mint as they do on my windows partition.

>>103938390
>The homy version of /usr/local is ~/.local
Sure but it's not standard, most distros don't include ~/.local/bin in $PATH, and if you're installing shit to your home dir you can pretty much put it anywhere you like anyway.

>>103939132
>Just use unencrypted EXT4 as your root filesystem but host your $HOME and whatnots on whatever crazy setups all you like. Keep the root simple!
Unless of course your threat profile involves potential local attackers that might compromise your root and snoop your password when you unlock $HOME.

Mint 22.1 seems to be working good. Did the upgrade from 22.0. Wacom tablet still works. Nvidia driver is good; didn't need to update it, and the performance of the Steam games I tested that were already installed felt the same as on 22.0. WINE installation still intact, did a few tests running some Windows programs to make sure. Flatpaks work. All the deb software seem good too.

The only thing that seemed to change (Besides some of the theming) was my panel shortcut to the text editor, it got removed. Right at the very end of the upgrade installation I caught a message as it it finished saying it was uninstalling software, and that it finished (in like 2 seconds, so it must not have been a very large app), and then it said the installation was done and ready to reboot. I didn't catch what got uninstalled but since the only change I noticed was the text editor shortcut missing, so I think that's what got updated/replaced with a newer version. If I wasn't paying attention earlier I don't think I would have noticed anything. I was expecting at least my WINE setup to get messed up. So that's pretty good news. So far so good.

>>103938621
Just create another normal user (optionally without a homedir). Set up SSH keys and/or a password and directly log into it. For administrative tasks, use the root account. Make sure the keys don't overlap.

>>103939011
To throw my hat in the ring, you may enjoy NixOS. It's about as stable as it gets, but learning an entire programming language (with god-awful docs) just to configure a system may not be up your alley.

>>103939353
GIMP loads super fast now, what the heck? Like way too fast, and it's a flatpak, not a deb package. What did they do lol? It used to take several seconds just to open into a blank slate. It's barely two seconds now even when opening directly into a 5 MB png file. Krita flatpak is pretty fast too, like three seconds, with the same image. Pinta flatpak, one second, same image. I wish I tested this on 22.0 to figure out how much faster, but it was so noticeably fast in 22.1 that I had to reopen the file again and retest with other images just to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me.

>>103934038
What's wrong with the deb version? Deb versions are usually better than snaps or flatpaks

I'm trying a few different distros today to try and figure out what I like. LMDE6 and Devuan both had problems with my multi monitor setup out of the box. The laptop display is fine, meanwhile the extra monitors are recognized but the output is all just fucked up pixel vomit. Anyone know why this would happen?

I've been really enjoying MX Linux as my first daily driver distro, but it's starting to grate on me that it follows the Debian stable model so faithfully. I'm kind of tired of using software from 2022. Where should I go from here?

I'm mostly eyeing Artix, but I'm hesitant because I'm more interested in using this machine than tinkering with it. How much active maintenance does an Arch respin like that need beyond just keeping up with updates?

>>103941270
> interested in using this machine than tinkering with it.
How about fedora?

>>103941187
>LMDE6 and Devuan both had problems with my multi monitor setup out of the box
That's more to do with your desktop and display server than distribution.

With Xorg, you can write a pile of hacks in Xorg.conf and pray to the God's that it never breaks. With Wayland, you just fix it in your compositors display settings.

Hi guys, I need another POV.
Currently I'm using old laptop running linux mint as download/file server machine.
It's weak that can't even run plex server.
Should I upgrade to proper NAS os like OMV/True NAS?

>>103941346
It seems like Devuan comes with both Xorg and Wayland? What am I supposed to do with these to to make it work?

>>103941422
Depends which is being used. If it's Wayland, then open the display settings and adjust things there.

If you don't know which you're using then go to the "About" section in the settings and it'll generally tell you.

You can also install the novelty Xeyes application, if the eyes follow you about everywhere then you're using X11, if there's a Wayland window then the eyes will stop following you.

>>103941443
>>103941422
Also, if you log out, then the login screen will have a settings cog or gear icon somewhere on the screen, if you press that then it'll tell you which session you're using and also give you the option to switch to a different one (Don't use the Cinnamon Wayland session though, it's not ready yet).

>>103941443
Haven't got it running any more but I did try adjusting the display settings and it didn't work with either OS. So I take it they are both using Xorg then?
>>103941460
Noted, I'll try that next time. I didn't have to deal with login screen at all using the live USB image.

>>103941460
For X11 Cinnamon, then you do the pile of hacks I talked about earlier:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Monitor_settings

It might be worth switching desktops instead and seeing if GNOME Wayland or Plasma Wayland works better. Chances are it's the monitors fault though, and you'd have to some hacks regardless, every monitor is supposed to have an EDID with information about it and what resolutions it can support, etc.

>>103941495
I'm not committed enough to these particular distros to put in that much effort yet, maybe I'd be better off looking at distros that would be more likely to work out of the box. Any suggestions?
>Chances are it's the monitors fault though
That seems a bit unlikely considering two very different monitors were affected the same way (one is ancient using HDMI, the other is fairly new using DP).

>>103940987
It's just older. It still uses the PS3 theme, where as the flatpak version has the newer Nintendo Switch theme by default and some more convenient settings toggles not present in older versions. This is just Retroarch though. For stuff like OBS and Krita, I can use the deb versions since most of the main functionality and tools I use look/feel exactly the same as the flatpak version, so I just go for the smaller storage size.

>>103941554
Then it might be a Udev issue which is the component responsible for correctly detecting monitors by default.

>>103941673
Which to be clear, is absolutely a distribution issue. I don't know what Debian/Devuan is doing that would cause that.

>>103941673
>>103941686
I'll just keep trying other distros for now then I guess. I'm interested in the atomic fedora options, I wonder if /g/ has strong opinions about these.

>>103937144
Slackware.

I am now trying to give Aurora a go, but the hash for aurora-nvidia-stable.iso doesn't match up. I already tried to run it before checking hash and it refused to boot at all ("system doesn't have any USB boot option"). I have since realized that flashing this iso fucked up the partitioning of the USB stick I'm using.

I have tried redownloading and got the same wrong hash. Am I retarded or is the file on the website fucked up?

I tried to post the hashes but
>Error: Our system thinks your post is spam. Please reformat and try again.
Fuck you here is a ghostbin instead.
https://ghostbin.site/3r80k

>>103942182
Ok, if you guessed answer B (I'm retarded) you were right, I used the wrong hash check.

The sha256 hash checks out, but flashing the image still results in a non-bootable USB. Why? I'm using Etcher, is this the wrong tool for the job maybe?

Is there a way to prevent the announcement of smb share paths in a local network? When I look for my home server in the file explorer of a computer running Windows, the list of share paths in my smb.conf is automatically listed

Is there a way to push notification to local host when a command is done on the remote host?

is using debian unstable a good idea?

>>103942899
It's meant for Debian developers and is where all the experimental packages land first. If you don't mind dealing with any of that fallout then you can use it. Just make sure you know how to rollback packages or have filesystem snapshots, etc.

>>103942538
there's nothing you can't do with netcat
>on your local pc

while read i; do
  notify-send "Remote Notification" "$i"
done < <(nc -klp 9999)

>on remote server

command && echo "Command finished" | nc -0 192.168.1.??? 9999

or if your ISP sucks cocks and you can't forward ports:
>on your local pc

while read i; do
  notify-send "Remote Notification" "$i"
done < <(nc remote-server 9999)

>on remote server

touch /tmp/notifs;tail -f /tmp/notifs|nc -klp 9999 &
command && echo "Command finished" >> /tmp/notifs

>>103942494
remove listing permission on parent folder irrc

>>103942907
Not like that.
More like when already connected to the ssh server.
>>103942921
It's on local network so it's fine
And really nice way of doing it, thanks senpai.

Is there a way to get gamepad to emulate mouse/keyboard ?
In windows there was joytokey program.

>>103932535
>Wasn't there something about Tails being compromised or bugged somehow? I missed that story.
A vulnerability was found
It was also fixed
Standard stuff

>>103932843
Agreed but sometimes ill use it when its the right usecase like running steam and wine through flatpak instead of installing a bunch of 32bit libraries

>>103937144
Anything that makes it easy to cache or keep a mirror of the package repo. Anything that also does point stable releases would work so that you have an easy path to upgrade for whenever the next time you connect it to the internet.

>>103937409
/usr/local is supposed to be for stuff you locally installed via compiling and not through your package manager.
However on the BSDs they treat the ports stuff as /usr/local due to it not being part of the base system

>>103938621
If you're just compiling package from source locally, you can just run it as a separate user. Root would only be needed when you're installing packages or installing the binaries system-wide

Is there any emulation disro that offer proper DE, like how steamOS do?

>>103931954
Is LSP really a benevolent concept for developers?
Just having a symbol tree in my DE's default code editor (Kate) now requires a server-client model not even working out-of-box. Seems like Microsoft successfully trooled us with this one if you ask me, as a client-server model for something as personal and static as code formating seems more fitting for a coding farm or have I completely missed the point of this?

>>103943937
Retropie on top of a normal Debian or Ubuntu desktop.

>>103937616
Normally you use a filesystem with working quota support (ext4, xfs) and set a quota for the total space they're allowed to use. The quota system is nice because it has user facing alerts.
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Disk_quota

SELinux can probably do individual file size limits, but I'm not sure how to even start with that, nor would it be very obvious to the user why it's not working because they just get generic IO errors.

>>103944002
>>103943937
Or you can just install emulationstation or emulationstation-de yourself but I think you'd have to configure all of the emulators yourself then.

>>103944002
>>103944030
Thanks.
I got a cheap NUC, and was thinking of using it as NAS/Emulation machine.
And realized it's more powerful than my craptop, and can play 4K HEVC.
So I was wondering should I install some OS and add emulation, or should i install Emulation distro, and install DE and configure it as nas.

Is there a way to make game controllers vibrate from CLI?
It's not a sex thing, I've got proper dildo/buttplug/fucking machine.
Sometimes I lose track of time, and I think haptic feedback would be a better way.

>>103931954
What is the best malware or antivirus to use on ubuntu?
I have seen avclam recommended... anything else?

>>103944413
Also, when I run clamav I get this message:
LibClamAV Warning: PNG: Unexpected early end-of-file.
Any idea why I am getting that?

>>103944510
>LibClamAV Warning: PNG: Unexpected early end-of-file.
>Any idea why I am getting that?
If this is coming from a scan then it's just a warning. Probably because the file doesn't look like a normal PNG file and malware can exploit flaws in PNG decoders this way. It's probably nothing to worry about, just a slightly corrupt PNG file.

>>103943621
I had it set up to emulate a mouse back in the day, but some update broke it and it wasn't interesting enough to use for me to go and try to fix it.

>>103944413
>What is the best malware or antivirus to use on ubuntu?
None
>I have seen avclam recommended
ClamAV scans files for windows malware, it's useless for your desktop. The only reason to use it is for compliance. (You have to have an AV isntalled and running, bullshit requirement), but for home use no such thing exists.

>>103944756
>no such thing exists
Is that because it is not needed? Presumably linux malware exists?

After playing around in Alpine linux in VM I want to spread a true minimalism all over my face.
I have a first Raspberry Pi with 512MB RAM, which seems like a good target.

Any good recommendations of distros modern or not? Goal is to watch youtube(with sound, ublock and sponsorblock) and have an access to teminal for python.

>>103944838
It does, but it mostly targets servers because desktop Linux is an obscure sub-niche. Antivirus is just conceptually stupid. It flies in the face of Rice's theorem. It's a band-aid you put on the network to protect it against that one idiot at the office who opens every email attachment and elderly relatives with sundowner's. A self-administrated desktop doesn't need AV.

>>103944901
Ok, but what if I'm that one idiot at the office?
If I want to scan a hard drive before copying files off it, what should I scan it with?

>>103944869
I have a RPI2 and even the shitty WM Awesome ran less than optimal on it. (to put it nicely)

>>103945128
GPU drivers on the Pi have always been shit.

>>103945141
Well, he apparently wants to watch youtube on it in a browser, that sounds like he wants to run a gui on it.

>>103945013
>Ok, but what if I'm that one idiot at the office?
Buy a Chromebook.
>If I want to scan a hard drive before copying files off it, what should I scan it with?
Nothing because you're just copying files. Maybe run clamav on it if you're just going to hand it off to clients without otherwise inspecting the contents. It takes about as long to push AV definition updates as it does to push software updates which mitigate the underlying vulnerability, so AV adds no value. It's not the DOS era where your OS only gets updates from physical media delivered by mail.

>>103944722
Damn, chatgpt is offering only nonsensical gibberish.
And I don't want to get some sort wireless keyboard/touch pad when I can just use joypad.

>>103937144
TempleOS

>>103945380
>chatgpt
What you actually should have read:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad

>>103945380
>offering only nonsensical gibberish.
So operating nominally then.

>>103944002
>>103944030
How does these compare to something like lakka or batocera?

>>103945428
I did.
And for whatever fucked up reason the game pad doesn't work, yet when doing the USB test thing in browser it does.

>>103932843
this, gimme source or fuck off

install you know what

>>103944869
so is it a 2? that's retro. you have raspian(do they even support 2 anymore). how it used to be is all compiled against the even one so it doesn't use the arm instructionsets you have in 3 and 4, so if you compile it your self with the properflags omg how fast it goes, especially video shits

>>103944869
there is gentoo for pi, but I have never tested it
I have one with raspian and one with freebsd
and no I don't use them for media

>>103944869
pls do gentoo and report back

if it's a 3 you have I know first hand that compiling shit with the flags for your arm procssor wil dramtically speed ie ffmpeg up by a gorrillion times

>>103945161
Yep, and he'll have just as bad an experience as you, if not worse. They're okay as a Kodi machine when expectations are managed and GPU video decoding is used (make sure you pay the goyim for your loicense to unlock the decoder) but as an actual desktop PC they're awful. The Pi 4 is much better if I understand correctly but still its drivers are lacking compared to desktop machines but at least it has some form of Vulkan now.

Why does KRunner render text in some blurry ugly GTK4 way? This is literally the only app I use that does this.

>>103941270
>Artix
I'm daily driving it since 2019, once I find a stable kernel I pin it and only update everything else; this allows for getting the latest without a need for reboot. I hibernate or suspend and get hundreds of days of uptime until I get bored or a dkms module asks for newer kernel.

>>103941405
No, for such use any linux is fine.

>>103946381
Thanks.
I saw someone using arch with cockpit.
Is it worth it just for bleeding edge packages?

Hey, what happens if a Linux Mint mirror goes down/offline...? Does it notify you? How about other distros?

is there a DE/WM based on wayland that ins't as bloaty as Gnome or KDE and not made exlusively for screenshots like Hyprland?

>>103946529
I wouldn't trust something based on systemd, but if you don't care, it doesn't matter what distro cockpit runs on. Bleeding edge has both pros and cons.

>>103946529
To add to what >>103946571 said, I run arch on home server, since my home server is also my entertainment PC as well.
I needed the latest version of mpv, and switched from debian to arch.
Honestly for home user, it doesn't make much of a difference.
The only issue I had with arch in the last 3 years was KDE breaking on my laptop.
I'm running it on old desktop, running arch with awesome WM.

Is there some place beside r*ddit where I can get dotfiles for sway? I've tried setting it up myself, but all I do is ugly as sin and I don't want to spend hours fixing and removing all the bullshit those guys put on their configs.

>>103946529
linuxfags have an extremely conservative definition of "bleeding edge". arch is fine for pretty much any kind of home use, i used it on a home server and my shit never broke in years

>>103946529
well, yes, of course.

is budgie still gnome dependent

>>103941405
for that purpose is fine

>>103946615
>>103946829
>>103946837
>>103947041
Then why use OMV/TrueNAS on homelabo?
Cosplay as sysadmin?

>>103947097
>Then why use OMV/TrueNAS on homelabo?
Because it's an appliance. The same reason I run OpenWRT on my router. I still do all sorts of advanced things with it but I still like to be able to edit a simple config file in one place or to use a nice Luci web UI rather than configure absolutely everything manually.

>>103946846
No. They are using LabWC now until their own compositor is complete.

>>103947186
>>103946846
https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/state-of-the-budgie-2024

>>103947097
>Cosplay as sysadmin?
exact opposite. these products exist to be idiot proof for people who don't give a shit.

>>103947247
They exist because people who gave a shit didn't want to repeat themselves all of the time so wrote a "set it and forget it" appliance (still with advanced functionality for those that want it though. It is still Linux after all) to make things easy to install and use.

>>103931954
Posting again because last thread died right after

Linuxbros, I need help. I recently bought an x1 yoga 3 glass trackpad for my t480s after seeing some people recommend 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...

>>103947283
i'm not saying it's a bad thing, that's literally just what it's for. not every machine needs a general purpose OS

>>103931954
How does X11 forwarding work?
I saw it in my sshd_config, so I'm assuming it's sent over securely and there's no eavesdropping (besides being able to tell there's encrypted traffick happening.)
Can I view my laptop's X session on my desktop, in a normal window like any other graphical program?

>>103947891
Yes, no audio tho.

I have a keyboard shortcut to open brave (inb4 shill) but every time i do, it opens a new browser window.
i saw i could add --args --new-window to my command, but that just opens up a new window in a new tab.
How would i go about opening a new tab in an existing window?

>>103948280
>How would i go about opening a new tab in an existing window?
You can't.
You need to use the default keybind for opening a new tab.

>>103947918
Hm. Any way around that?
Maybe pulseaudio over network?

>>103948280
Focus window with script
Execute Ctrl+t

>>103948623
It would be much faster and easier to run something like sunshine/moonlight.
Because this is what I'm doing.

>>103948720
>sunshine/moonlight
First I'm hearing of it. I'll look it up, thank you.

What is the actual genuine reason why I should use one distro over the other, beyond the first hour of setup involving different included software.
What makes Debian better than Fedora better than Ubuntu better than Arch better than Slackware and so on.

>>103949110
Package manager and the package repository and how it's configured out of the box.

>>103949188
And why should I prefer one package manager over the other?
>preconfigurations
Are irrelevant as I pointed out, because an hour of tweaking on first boot erases those differences.

>>103949110
Ease of maintenance. Do you prefer to do big upgrades once every several years, continuous upgrades, or continuous small upgrades with big changes gated at regular point releases. Also package availability, which is basically another ease of maintenance issue. Because if you don't have packages you have to build them yourself or load a whole other distro's shared libraries.

>>103949256
If it's default configuration works well out-of-the-box then you don't need to do that "pre-configuring". Also, your tweaks may break on some distros after upgrades but work fine on others that handle migrations properly (e.g Debian), although these migration scripts may be prone to breakage too.

Different distros have different policies around this. On a distro like Arch or Gentoo then you'd expect these things to break on major configuration changes and the fact that they don't do any migration and you have to do it yourself is in fact a feature!

>>103946543
>not made exlusively for screenshots like Hyprland?
I've found Hyprland to be extremely usable in practice. What are you looking for from a DE/WM?
>>103946793
Just use Hyprland. The docs have pretty defaults. Not a shill but Hyprland is essentially just sway with pretty animations. For bars, there are a few prebuilt ones.
>>103949110
It's about how the system is composed, as other anons have elaborated.

>>103949110
different strokes for different folks, aside from ubuntu which is just a worse linux mint. most people hop a bit at first before settling on a distro that gels with them, it's not like windows where your options are LTSC or botnet edition

>>103949427
I run update checks in terminal every few weeks regardless, whether there's actually something new announced or not. I don't get dopamine hits when my OS updates a 3kb .bin file

>>103949502
I have never seen or used an OS that didn't need some tweaking out of the box. Sure, they RUN, but not like how I specifically want them to.

>>103949539
>how it's composed
Is marketing speak. How does that actually affect the end-user experience with the software?

>>103949545
I've fiddled around with several different distros and as far as I can tell, outside of what package manager I need to type when running sudo commands there is no difference. Maybe on some high level internal code there is, but as an end user I'll never be fucking with the core codebase of the OS anyway.

>>103949683
>How does that actually affect the end-user experience with the software?
For the most part, it doesn't. Whether you use Debian or RHEL, you're probably gonna get what you want done. Same thing whether you use Ubuntu or Fedora.
Ideologically, a lot of people dislike snap, so they might not recommend Ubuntu. Some might want SELinux, so they recommend Fedora. Things like that.
It is called a Linux "distribution" for a reason; all of them are still Linux under the hood.

>>103949697
I know. The question I was asking is what actually makes them different besides shallow cosmetics.

>>103949756
Different package manager is the technical answer. Also different design decisions. Again, the differences literally are skin-deep.

If I wanted to install stuff on a wine prefix that needs windows libraries, I could just use Virtualbox over dualbooting, right? Also, any opinions on Open Mandriva and RPM?

>>103949919
Have you tried using winetricks first? It can install most libraries that you need.

>>103949930
There's that, but just in case, I'd like something that can manage windows-specific shit, that takes little space. I want to, when I build a new linux PC, ditch having a second or third NTFS hard drive, and use windows as little as possible.

>>103950025
Then sure, set up a VM. I would use libvirt and virt-manager, which uses QEMU and KVM under the hood (much better support than VirtualBox). Also you should probably install LTSC since it takes up less space.

>>103949764
I redirect to >>103949256

>>103950038
Alright. I haven't used Lutris much, but I would like to use something to help manage my GOG library. I'd probably be using Galaxy on the VM, but it wouldn't hurt to have other opinions and tips for either Lutris, Heroic, or even Minigalaxy, for that matter. I was already using LTSC, so I'm comfortable on that end.

>>103950121
You don't need to. I don't understand why you're acting like a distro HAS to have these complex differences, when I'm telling you they don't really differ that much.

>>103949256
>I've fiddled around with several different distros and as far as I can tell, outside of what package manager I need to type when running sudo commands there is no difference. Maybe on some high level internal code there is, but as an end user I'll never be fucking with the core codebase of the OS anyway.
there is a reason they are called distributions, how they distribute software is the main difference between them. they simply exist to fill different use cases and personal preferences.
basically do not overthink it

>>103949683
>I run update checks in terminal every few weeks regardless, whether there's actually something new announced or not. I don't get dopamine hits when my OS updates a 3kb .bin file
So you have time to just blindly upgrade to a new KDE release of it happens to drop in 2 weeks? What do you do if something breaks?

>>103949756
What packages they use for things. Like systemd for example, you could convert a systemd distro into one using alternatives and vice versa, but it'd be a massive pain in the ass with most of them (I think gentoo makes it the simplest). Or gnu system utilities, the vast majority of distros use them but there are some that don't, like void.
Ultimately a distro is a prepackaged bundle of software of varying levels, from low end system utilities and libraries to more user side applications and desktop environments and whatnot. You could probably change every component on basically any distro if you knew what you were doing, but at that point you might as well go with linux from scratch

Have any anons using opensuse notice how bad the drivers have become lately?
I can't do a single nvidia update without a crippling issue that renders functionality completely fucked. What's worse is that they are stuck on a older fucking driver version that was garbage from the start. I think I'm done with opensuse and I'm considering Fedora any other distros I should consider?
I absolutely loved opensuse but I can't deal with this slopppy shit anymore and the cope to why they are the way they are despite the age and team behind the distro is unacceptable

>>103950598
Is there not a third-party repo with updates somewhere? I guess you could always get the installer from Nvidia directly, although make sure you know what you're doing because installing it manually like that can fuck with things if you don't know what you're doing.

What's the best way to get a nice tiling window setup across multiple monitors with different resolutions? I'm trying to get away from Windows but it's going to be hard if I can't shift apps around with the keyboard.

>>103951498
Why would it be hard when Windows doesn't have it either?
And if you mean the Windows version of "tiling", KDE has something equivalent.

>>103951522
What Windows has is just adequate, but always felt clunky. I'm really hoping Linux can do it better. For example I really liked Pop's Cosmic desktop, but it's very early days for that one, and it seems like compatibility is an issue. Hoping for a more mature alternative with similar functionality.

>>103951566
There is window managers like GlazeWM and Komorebi on Windows

>>103951579
But I don't want to use Windows.

>>103931954
how do i convert my mbr linux install to uefi????? please halp

>>103951498
If you don't want to use Windows, I recommend Hyprland or i3 for Linux (depending on whether you prefer Wayland or X11 - if you're unsure, pick Wayland). There's some obscure software for macOS as well but it's generally a hack.

>>103952091
You can't, not easily. Most likely you have a single partition for root (/), which is right at the start of your disk.
UEFI requires a separate boot partition at the start of the disk, so you'd have to shift the root partition out by 128MB. The only way to do that is to effectively copy it over (and you'd have to shrink the filesystem first). It'd just be easier to back up your data and reinstall.
On the other hand, it's not difficult to add MBR support to a UEFI system. Consider that when you install in the future.

>fglt
>tails.jpg
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Glowies seething

>>103952162
is there some app that can do that automatically???

>>103952208
Not sure what distro you're on, but feel free to type "linux backup gui" into your favorite search engine.
When you reinstall, the distro installer should just do a UEFI install if you booted the live USB with UEFI as well. An easy way to make sure this happens is to temporarily disable legacy boot (sometimes called CSM boot) in your BIOS settings.

>>103943621
qjoypad

>>103952135
Thanks, I'll check em out.

>>103952091
If you are using a dos partition table that takes up the whole disk you'll have to shrink the filesystem on your last partition a bit (a few meg will do) because you are going to replace it with gpt and that puts the table at "both ends of the disk". If it's a solid state drive this will be pretty quick, is it's spinning rust then go bake a soufflé while it shrinks. If it's an FS that doesn't support shrink (like xfs for example) you're shit out of luck.

Anyway, once there is a bit of spare space at the end fire up a portable USB (ideally through UEFI) and start fdisk, use p to print the current partition table.
Copy this output, use g to change it to a gpt disk. Recreate the partitions using the exact same sectors as were printed by the p command, it will notice the filesystem markers at the start of each "new" partition and ask if you want to delete them, don't let it. The last partition will be a bit smaller than before because of the gpt table.
Set the types on the partitions using t (1 for /boot that will be turned into /efi, 23 for /, 19 for swap, 20 for everything else). Save the changes and exit.

Mount the freshly "re-partitioned" root filesystem somewhere (I'll use /mnt/linux in this example) and create a /mnt/linux/oldboot directory. Mount your /boot to /mnt/linux/oldboot, copy it's entire contents to the /mnt/linux/boot directory. Umount /mnt/linux/oldboot and remove the directory. Create a /mnt/linux/efi directory, Format the boot partition "mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sdXY", mount it at /mnt/linux/efi.
Mount a proc filesystem in /proc and /mnt/linux/proc and mount --bind /{dev,sys,run} to /mnt/linux/{dev,sys,run}. Chroot to /mnt/linux. issue the grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/efi command, if it bitches out add --removable to the end (shouldn't if you booted from a UEFI USB stick). Then run grub-mkconfig >/boot/grub/grub.cfg. Use blkid to get the FS uuid's to update fstab.
Reboot & done in under 2000 characters.

>>103952593
that's too complicated
is there an app for this?

Post more memes.
>>103952091
>recreate table
>sacrifice something for a new EFI system partition
>????
Read up on Gentoo or Arch installation guides.
>>103952208
No.

Just updated to linux mint 22.1 less than 5 mins cou ting the timeshift.

>>103952370
Thank you, this should be in arch wiki.

>>103952603
lmao no

but it's also not that hard, I had to do exactly that since I installed arch on my laptop while booting in legacy mode because of reasons.
The arch wiki also has a whole page on it, it really ain't that deep. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB

There aren't any pictures though, so it might be a little out of your depth.

>Enable kernel headers through /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz
So. If I enable that, I don't need headers from the kernel source package?

Help me rip the Band-Aid off.

I want to migrate to Linux full-time but I've been in Windows for my entire life, so I'm more comfortable in that environment, but I've been trying out some distros and Linux as a whole just feels better. I just have no idea what I'm doing in terms of troubleshooting, and while I know there's guides, I know my way around Windows far better due to exposure.

>>103954546
yea, it'll be like that for a while. this will change as you familiarise yourself with linux more
at first it felt like windows was easier, because i already knew how to use it and deal with issues. but nowadays i find linux easier to use

>>103954571
That's what I figured. In all honesty, the only things I really do on my PC are video games, some editing, browsing and my taxes

on linux mint how do I manage packages that aren't in the software manager? I don't want to use flatpack for some things

>>103954546
>I just have no idea what I'm doing in terms of troubleshooting,
Pretty much the same as on windows, googling it and reading the logs. You just may habe to add linux to your search queries. That's it. Note that logs on linux tend to be way better than on windows, that helps actually solving the problem.

>I've been in Windows for my entire life, so I'm more comfortable in that environment,
Interesting, as I've been on windows for a very long time, I felt that it got worse over time. Modern windows is so alien to me I have to google the simplest things and feel like a retard.
Switching to linux made me feel cozy.

>>103954770
>I don't want to use the Flatpak
Then:
>Manually download the build and runtime dependencies from your distribution
>Build and install the actual build and runtime dependencies
>Pull hair out while you solve bugs related to old GCC and Glibc
>Now you can build and install the actual program to /usr/local

>>103954546
Tried that a couple days ago. Installed Linux and
>after a while, slows down, not operable anymore, need restart
>ethernet port doesn't work, WiFi doesn't work, only tethering through phone
>maybe if I install drivers for my motherboard
>drivers don't exist for linux
>find out it's all in the kernel
>wipe Mint, reinstall CachyOS
>everything works instantly

And that's just the start of it, but no other way to familiarize yourself than to start getting into it. I am now dual booting, and when I have time, I just fuck around a bit more in Linux

>>103954899
>ethernet port doesn't work, WiFi doesn't work, only tethering through phone
>maybe if I install drivers for my motherboard
>drivers don't exist for linux
Drivers themselves come with the kernel but occasionally/often they require so called blobs which are freeware-licenced firmware files. Yeah, kinda silly but has its logic behind it.

apt install linux-firmware

>only tethering through phone
Yes, CDC Ethernet is an open standard on top of USB.
Welcome to Linux.

ubuntuniggers update your kernel, my sound stopped working, fucking dumb black jewish niggers

Can someone check if the ssh config is correct for fast local network ssh'ing?

Compression yes
    ForwardX11 yes
    ForwardX11Trusted yes

This should be the same as ssh -Y -C, right?

>>103955532
You shouldn't need compression on a LAN. It's not doing anything for you.

>>103955621
>LAN
It's over WiFi.

>>103955659
That's still a LAN, you just have slightly more latency (5ms Vs 0.1ms). Compression isn't going to do anything about that, especially not SSH's compression algorithm which is really shitty. The only thing it does is slow down throughput and make things take longer.

>>103955701
>slightly more latency (5ms Vs 0.1ms).
Ok, what about X11 forwarding? won't help a little when using compression?

>>103955701
>>103955757
For running X11 session on WiFi?
You gonna need to enable compression
I don't know why that anon thing ssh compression is shitty, but even old hardware do this just fine.
I'm using ssh to run proper desktop firefox with all extensions on my android tablet.

>>103955788
X11 is a dog shit protocol it doesn't compress well at all. It's amazing they ever got network transparency to work at all on those old UNIX workstations, although back then they weren't trying to do shit like run bloated web browsers over it and the apps were optimised to minimise repaints/redraws. VNC and RDP are much more efficient for this sort of thing.

>>103955835
It's so shit in fact, that you are literally better off encoding your desktop as h.264 and playing that back (this is what RDP with video extensions does)

>>103955835
>>103955864
VNC doesn't offer the same security and it's just glorified video playback.
X11 actually redraw the UI elements.
RDP is the best option, but microsoft has fucked it so bad, it doesn't even work on their own OS.

>>103955883
>VNC doesn't offer the same security
That's why you use it over SSH forwarding
I promise you that will work better.

>>103955894
>I promise you that will work better.
And if it didn't are you ready to offer collaterals?

>>103955835
X over a network was made for a very different time, when X programs looked more like pic related. where window contents were drawn by X rather than just being a full-window pixmap

>>103955934
It will work better. If it doesn't then your VNC server is shit or configured wrongly.

>>103954770
put them in ~/bin

Does Xfce4 have a restart when it hits a certain memory threshold? I know Cinnamon has an option to disable it on that end, and was wondering if it has that as well
I'm a newfag running Endeavour

>>103956001
If you're having to do that in the first place then something is wrong with your system.

>>103955965
You obviously aren't using linux.
Because xrdp is broken

>>103956001
>Does Xfce4 have a restart when it hits a certain memory threshold?
No.

>>103932097
>>103931954
https://heads.dyne.org/about.html

>>103956007
I've had it crash once or twice streaming some vidya to a friend, and was trying to narrow it down to it being either the game or the DE itself
I'll check any logs I can find for it
>>103956026
well shit
thanks bros

>>103956014
Xrdp isn't VNC, although I thought most people were using FreeRDP by now?

>>103933882
mint mate

>>103934220
are you using some weird multiboot iso shit. cuz thatd be why

>>103956039
>FreeRDP by now
https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/discussions/10018

>>103956111
Kek.

Don't use Arch, I guess. I bet it works on Fedora.

AHHHH blue archive jp doesn't work on wayland in gnome for some god forsaken reason but it does in plasma. finally going to have to use your shitty windows clone

>>103956129
>Fedora
Doesn't work on fedora

>>103951235
I guess I'll follow the hardway guide
It's just annoying for them to stick to the production branch nobody uses and still fuck it up
Wayland compatibility is fucked off the recommended branch and it's been that way despite every distro moving on

>>103956149
Fedora still has /usr/bin/xfreerdp and freerdp-proxy and freerdp-shadow-cli from a quick glance, I've not tested it though. In general, they don't version the latest version of packages. So freerdp2 is versioned (just the libs though, there's no utilities I can see) but freerdp (the latest version) is not.

I'm not sure if it works though, most people use FreeRDP as a library in their compositor / window manager (e.g GNOME and KDE uses it)

>>103956252
To be clear, I mean versioning of the binaries. The libs still use .soname versioning (e.g .so.3.XX.X, instead of .so.0)

>>103956252
Still it's useless if the server doesn't want to work.

>>103956305
Agreed. It sounds like RDP on Linux is still in just as bad of a situation as it is on Windows, not to mention the client situation whereby different clients support different featuresets and not every client will work with every server.
Just stick to VNC, the protocols not as good but it's robust.

>>103956322
>Just stick to VNC,
It's shit.
Better to use sunshine/moonlight since you get audio as well.

>>103956486
You can get audio by forwarding PulseAudio if you really want that.

>>103956493
>>103956486
Sunshine/Moonlight is the best for low-latency gaming though. I don't know how it works out for regular desktop use, like, e.g, Firefox, or LibreOffice, etc.

>>103956493
I'm not schizo enough to mess with PA

>>103956503
Very good.
I'm running it on my Win10 VM, running pirated MS office, just to use word.

>>103956506
"Mess with" being "Forward the socket". Networking is a built-in feature of PulseAudio, even if it isn't listening on an inet address you can still forward it via SSH or socat ,etc and it will work (there's no cookie authentication, etc, access to the socket gives you everything)

>>103946615
if your only reason for using a bleeding edge distro is because you need the latest version of mpv (which i dont really understand why you would need to updoot it), you could just install the flatpak version while keeping debian or whatever instead.

>>103946793
github, codeberg, etc
you can also copy paste someone's i3 config and itll be like 90% compatible with sway
there's not really much you need to customize in the first place

>>103947097
Most of the people who use OMV/TrueNAS/Proxmox etc are tech illiterate retards who are allergic to the command line and NEED to do everything through a web ui

>>103957363
>flatpak
It make more problems than it solves, and I need the latest version for the vapoursynth.
It's not updooting.

>>103957395
kek, this.
I use arch as my server and do everything with SSH as god intended.

>>103956503
It works fine for regular desktop use.

>>103957397
>It make more problems than it solves
Then you could try distrobox instead, or a regular chroot.

>>103957466
Why are you shilling debian?

>>103957484
He's not shilling it, he's saying it's retarded to switch distros for a single application when you could just run it in a container or chroot.

If you had some overarching reason rooted in distro philosophy or not liking the system then it'd make more sense to switch.

>>103957539
>overarching reason rooted in distro philosophy
Like not getting the latest version of the software he wants? That's totally a reason to not use a distro like debian.

>>103957687
That's not a valid reason. Backports or Debian Sid may have it, or you can build it yourself or use a container/chroot.

Now if you had lots of apps where you needed the latest version (instead of just one single thing) you may have a point.

>>103957720
It always starts with just one thing. You either fight your distro to get it to run anyway, or you use a distro that just gives you what you want. The later is the better choice in the long run.

>>103957484
Not shilling it retard, i said use debian or whatever.

>>103957774
That's fair. Switch when it gets painful. With things like distrobox you might find you never have to.

I was fiddling around with various DEs and installed both LXQT and GNOME. I didn't care too much for LXQT and so uninstalled it and gave GNOME a try. For some reason, I cannot use the control center, tells me it's only available under GNOME. Running

echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

tells me i'm in an LXQT session. Google isn't helping, what do I need to remove to stop this?

>>103958105
>For some reason,
Gnome is shit. That's the reason. No, sorry, I can't help you.

>>103958105
restart your computer

>>103958105
what is your current session manager? should be GDM for Gnome I think

Has anyone installed the SteamOS yet, on hardware other than the Steam Deck, I mean.

>>103958120
Understandable
>>103958144
No dice, still says LXQT
>>103958150
SDDM,

>>103958168
No, and won't. Why would I even consider that?

>>103958206
try to switch to GDM and see if that helps any.

>systemctl disable sddm
>systemctl enable gdm

>>103957539
Why adding overhead for something that shouldn't be an overhead?
Why do you use VM when docker exist? same thing.
And getting the latest version of application is valid.
Because while it was mpv at thee start, it soon started to add up with newer versions, and yes I do use flatpak for some stuff.

>>103958251
Still nothing after using GDM and rebooting. Fastfetch tellls me my DE is LxQT.

>>103958361
sorry anon

>>103931954
hi I'm new why does not a single thing work on archlinux?
I try to do every step I see with tutorials, yet, EVERYTIME there's one step that ruin it all and stops me from moving on
it's also full of bugs, coming from a farted windows10, but this this linux distribution really wants to be as bad if not worse

>>103958434
If you're a beginner and can't into CLI, I don't suggest using Arch.
Mindlessly following tutorials will not get you far, you need to learn to read the wiki and piece things together yourself.
Maybe Fedora would be better for you.

>>103958451
on wiki there are many strange words that are taken for granted, I can't go back can I? that would be a defeat

>>103958483
What are you having trouble with specifically? If you want to learn I can help you understand the wiki.

>>103958382
>>103958251
>>103958150
>>103958144
I'm legitimately fucking stupid. My environment variable was set to LXQT. Deleting and removing it fixed the problem. Thank you all for your help regardless

>>103958496
normal people just want to install things, why on this os in order to do this you either have to choose between -S, cloning, making packages searching, wget git gud etc.?

anyone got any idea tf is happening? suddenly this started to happen(the curser isnt where the mouse is)

>>103958580
nnnnghn rebooting brave solved it...
who tf know what is hapenin

>>103958533
Fuck are you talking about, they're just commands. If you don't want to use them why did you install a distro that's heavily CLI centric?

>>103958533
>>103958616 Yeah anon. Again, if you can't into CLI, just use Fedora or something.

>>103958533
>you either have to choose between -S, cloning, making packages searching, wget git gud etc.?
the fuck are you even talking about?

>>103958434
>>103958483
>>103958533
look, anon, I want to shit on you along with everyone else, because stuff like
>why does nothing work
>the wiki has lots of confusing words
>why do you have to choose between -S, cloning, making packages searching (????)
does not help. stop with the x/y problem and explain what you're trying to do if you want help, otherwise your vague complaints could be about dozens of things that are only relevant to you.
if you want to install a package and it's in the main repos you `pacman -S package` and that's it.
I don't know why you brought up cloning, you're either talking about the aur or you're trying to install some random package from github. in either case the experience is going to be dogshit because it's not packaged by the distro. look up aur helpers on the wiki but probably just install paru and then `paru -S package` and be done with it. just be aware that aur packages are generally dogshit and should be considered untrusted. the experience is going to be bad because at some point you're installing software written by one person with a package maintained by one person. if you're instead talking about random software on github then good luck, just know that the experience is far worse on windows.
as for why linux is like this, if you understand and can appreciate the terminal you'll generally get out more than you put in. if you don't understand or appreciate the terminal you'll be relegated to a strictly worse experience than windows. 'normal people' end up in the second category by default

>>103958533
Normal people use GNOME Software or KDE Discover and get on with their lives.

>>103957397
use homebrew

Are AMD Dell laptops generally compatible with Linux?

An Intel version of the laptop I'm looking at is "certified" to use Ubuntu, but the AMD version is not. However the AMD version has better performance for less money.

>>103959703
I feel like we got that same question a few nights ago

>>103958856
I'm slowly understanding its behavior, so here now I'm trying to install proton for steam compatibility, the dependencies are MISSING even if it's all up to date, tried the YAY method and the AUR one, but nothing, all those lib32 are target not found

>>103959787
>lib32
You need to enable multilib for that. That's generally the case for wine/proton.
Steam though should come with its own shit. (and require multilib to begin with). So, what are you doing?

Is there any reason for using grub to dual boot instead of just selecting the boot device from the bios boot? I use windows so rarely I want to just skip grub.

>>103959907
and of course when the console is retrieving lib32 files it FAILS

there's not a single installation process done right on archlinux, okay maybe one , or two

>>103960202
works on my machine™

why is nvidia stable still stuck on 550?

>>103960007
how do you even go about doing this? I keep hearing about skipping GRUB but every fucking distro uses it

>>103960263
there are a few different ways, a lot of distros will skip the grub menu automatically if linux is the only OS installed, you can reduce the grub timer to 0 which will skip it and there's a variable you change to "hide" grub completely, haven't looked up how to change that yet though

>>103960248
Ask Nvidia.

>>103960223
it's actually installing Proton, the console went crazy for several minutes and it still going
hopefully I'll be able to play some cod on steam

>>103960546
you don't need to install proton on your system if you want to play shit on steam, steam will install it's own proton anyway.

>>103960567
I have other windows based programs that I want to run, so.
I barely know what I'm doing, but that's not my fault.
this is archlinux's fault for being too complex

whats the absolute lightest desktop environment. the *only* feature i want is mounting thumbdrives and phones automatically

>>103960667
and to expand. can i just omit a DE and have something like PCManFM do it for me

>>103960667
>>103960717
oh and id appreciate if it worked without systemd

>>103960667
Depends. Probably something like LXQT or XFCE is what you want. Otherwise, just use a WM instead of a DE.

>>103960726
You can just use udiskctl if you're okay with doing it semi-automatically (Udisks is what the file managers use anyway). If it's something permanent then you should really make an /etc/fstab entry for it to mount on boot instead.

>>103960667
>the *only* feature i want is mounting thumbdrives and phones automatically
you don't need a DE or even a gui for that.

>>103960726
Is the dell wyse 3040 really that bad?

>>103960829
Not them, but it's very bad according to cursory search. 2GB RAM and 16 GB flash storage and an Intel Atom (at least it's Quad-Core though)! These things were only really meant as thin clients by the sounds of things, where all the real work would be done on a server somewhere and streamed back to these devices over remote desktop, etc.

>>103961039
On the bright side, these are in plentiful supply on eBay. You can buy them in big lots. I wonder if you could run Kubernetes on these? It wouldn't be very practical but just for fun/learning.

>>103960829
great backup pc
can play movies
no complaints

>>103960772
i dont wanna edit any more configs

>>103961039
>thin clients
Even bad to run simple NAS+SSH?
I just want something as download machine.
How bad is the atom compared to 2nd gen intel core i5?
>>103961080
Decode h265/vp8/vp9

archlinux is SO, SO bad that even resizing an app windows doesn't work properly

this is beyond dysfunctional

>>103961147
>app
ok zoomy

>>103961108
>Even bad to run simple NAS+SSH?
>I just want something as download machine.
Should be fine for that. NAS can be CPU intensive sometimes but it'll probably manage.

my terminal compiling proton for 3 hours straight has my pc's cpu at 100%

>>103961318
Literally why are you compiling it just get the binary

>>103952162
>UEFI requires a separate boot partition at the start of the disk,
False, it can be anywhere on a drive as long as the GPT type of the partition is set to the UUID reserved for EFI system partitions. An MBR disk might also be usable, the partition would need to have the type code 0xEF.

why would anyone, ANYONE, upload a tutorial without, WITHOUT specify, SPECIFY things instead of taking for granted anything, ANYTHING

>tutorial for beginners!
>btw these instructions are made for already experts ;)

how can anyone take the linux community seriously?

>>103961348
Oh, good to know. I thought it could only be in the first 1GB or so.

>>103958580
>the curser isnt where the mouse is
The only time I've experienced this was when I had the old xf86 drivers installed instead of just using mesa.

>>103961377
It can be anywhere but most distro installers put it at the beginning because logically that's what makes the most sense.

>>103961377
You also only need one no matter how many drives or OSes you have, which is sometimes a bad thing because the rest become unbootable when the drive with the ESP is removed (or fails). Some OS installers actively avoid creating new ESPs, others might insist on it, it's something to watch out for for anyone with multiple drives and operating systems.

>>103961433
I know this.
>>103961396
Is it specified anywhere that it can be anywhere on the disk?

>>103961439
In the UEFI specification I think, but I don't have a reference at hand. The only thing that matters is the type and boot flag.

>>103961377
>I thought it could only be in the first 1GB or so.
You're thinking of MBR which reads from the first however many kilobytes (I forget which) to load its first stage bootloader, which then loads the real thing because the first stage bootloader is too small to do anything useful, which then eventually boots your system.

On UEFI we don't actually need Grub, but most distros use it anyway. You could have a vmlinuz EFISTUB kernel on your ESP and your UEFI firmware can boot it directly. Grub or Systemd Boot, etc, are simply used to display a menu.

>>103959703
For laptops it's best to assume it doesn't work if it isn't certified because power management is important and very fiddly.

New thread:
>>103961690

>>103961439
GPT uses 64-bit LBAs. The silly limits of yore are gone for the foreseeable future.
UEFI boot services and the board-specific bundled drivers take care of the rest.

UEFI is a mini OS.

>>103961463
>the first however many kilobytes (I forget which)
512 bytes. The first logical sector.

>>103952162
>UEFI requires a separate boot partition at the start of the disk
Where do you guise get these thoughts from?
And stop calling everything a "boot partition", EFI system partition is EFI system partition. /boot is something only Linux/Unix understands.

>>103962362
A /boot partition can also be an EFI System Partition (It's not a common setup with distributions but I do this myself since I made it large enough to do so with a 1GB partition. You can mount your ESP directly at /boot and store kernels and initramfs there if you have the space to do so)

>>103962388
>A /boot partition can also be an EFI System Partition
Translated: you can mount ESP at /boot on a Linux system without breaking anything. But idk why anyone would recommend doing this, can't be good.
My reasoning is they have a very different role.

>>103962417
I do it because it means you don't have to have filesystem drivers in your bootloader, or a bootloader at all, all of the files are readily available on the ESP which the EFI can read directly (since it has a driver for FAT32) so you can boot the kernel and initramfs without needing anything else.

No need for Grub or Systemd boot, or anything else. Just Linux.

>>103960667
the line between DE and WM starts to blur when asking about "lightest DE"
do you even need a DE? you can have automounting without one

>>103961377
i also put the ESP at the end of the disc, since it makes it much easier to resize both the main partition and the esp later if need be

>>103962625
If you size the ESP appropriately in the first place then it will never need re-sizing.