first for Slackware.

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>>110180014

>can't download the album link with jdownloader, yt-dlp or gallery-dl
Fucking pain

>>110180004
>https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux
Decided to actually read through this for once. Noticed some glaring omissions or mentions of outdated/abandoned software then saw:
>Updated: 2024-12-19

>>110180158
The dude that made that website is probably dead or forgot about it. Happens a lot unfortunately. People will make some privacy guide and then it never gets updated, or worse still, they update it but it becomes a huge circle jerk like Wikipedia where people actively bicker and argue about what should and shouldn't be included instead of just presenting the fucking options and leaving it up to the dear reader.

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>>110180536

>Lusk keeps prompting me for password
>wtf???
>splash screen drags for a minute and get an error saying it couldn't find the disk
>?????
>restart PC but keep getting the same error, can't boot
>HOLY SHIT LINUX IS TRASH IT BROKE MY INSTALL MY PC IS GONE FUCKKK
>suddenly realize I've been entering the wrong password this whole time

Now that the internet is nearing its destruction and WW3 is around the corner, is there something like a post-apocalypse Linux?
Something that loads its repo from ISO DVDs rather than from the internet?

>>110180495
debian

>>110180495
debian distributes relatively recent versions of all of their software on CDs or DVDs

>>110180452
My Gentoo install kept doing it.... fuck it...
Bad password
Bad password
grub rescue>
Installed Debian

>>110180495
On top of distributing software by ISOs Debian also provides instructions for how to set up your own local debian mirror if you want to do that.

https://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror

>>110180595
>>110180500
>>110180511
Thanks, mirroring Debian's repo seems like the best choice here.

>found mystery M.2 NVMe
>decided to swap root to it from SATA SSD
>accidentally nuked the root in process
>time to reinstall everything
>all good but, UEFI refuses to see bootloader
>had to fix it by hand
2 hours wasted, evening well spent

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>>110181026 >>110191056

Are any of you auido wizards over here? I downloaded this audio
https://jetta.vgmtreasurechest.com/soundtracks/minecraft-gamerip-2011/vtmkinsipq/8-12.%20Precipice.ogg
And i would like it to tweak it with Audacity or whatever to sound closer to the actual release on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEgjOyBwIaE
>inb4 Microsot Goycraft
The tune is nice, i like the work of the artist

I run sudo pacman -Syu up to 50 times a day.

>>110181009
I not just download the release from YT?

What's harder to keep maintained, a Gentoo system or an Arch system? Also, will using Gentoo genuinely teach you computer shit that other distros won't or is that just hype/marketing?

>>110181057
I would say Arch is easier to maintain. Gentoo's not difficult by any stretch of the imagination but it is harder to maintain than Arch at least in terms of knowledge required.

Where Gentoo really shines though is when you learn its system and how it works though. Want to maintain custom patches for software? This is infinitely easier on Gentoo than Arch.

>>110181057
arch is easier to mantain, both will teach you linux shit but gentoo does go above and beyond in that aspect

>>110180859
Typical linux experience every time there's an issue. Imagine how much time you've lost overall.

>>110181026
Fucked bitrate

>>110181155
nuking root was on me, i know exactly what i did wrong

>>110181155
You would do the exact same procedure with any OS

>>110181017
>mirror blacklists the ip

>>110181017
Kek
But a related question for fellow Ausfags: do you use the local servers (AARnet, etc) or the ones in the US? I only ask because sometimes -Syu and even sporadic pacman installs just stall with connection errors sometimes.

>>110181057
If you are asking about manual intervention and how often do problems arise: Gentoo is harder in that regard, at least the testing version. With Arch you can possibly go on for decade before you stumble on *anything*. (and it will be a single command fix)
I wouldn't call either hard to maintain.
>Also, will using Gentoo genuinely teach you computer shit that other distros won't
It will teach you about compile-time options as it's source code based. Gentoo abstracts those "configure options" into "USE flags", you can browse them there: https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags
>>110181503
Non australian here but in my country there's 3 mirrors and two of them are fucky at times. Arch mirrors are run by literal randos.
>>110180859
Did you have to learn the UEFI boot process while doing it? Recreating entries aren't exactly hard.

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>>110180536
>Gentoo
>password
>GRUB
Just do a plain unencrypted root and don't use an initramfs, picture relates. Shit's never been easier.
>>110180495
>>110180500
>>110180511
>>110180595
Any APT-based system can do that.
Besides, isn't Slackware good for offline use?

How can I get rid of systemd-utils from Gentoo? ( as much as I can)
I don't particularly mind udev (and i can use the USE flags to disable just tmpfiles anyway) but i want to get rid of elogind and systemd-tmpfiles. the without-systemd overlay in the eselect-repository thing assumes elogind and the tmpfiles ebuild I want (tmpfilesd) wasn't building.
What do? does Xfce even support consolekit2 still?
And what about systemd-sysctl?
Is BSD the only realistic option? why does Gentoo not even let you switch back to the old way of doing things?
Thanks

>>110183276
Is there any particular reason you want to get red of tmpfiles or did you just fall for the SyStEmD BaD meme even though tmpfiles is a very tiny binary (not a daemon) that does one thing and one thing well.

There used to be a shitty shell-script version called opentmpfiles but it was buggy and insecure. There's literally no reason not to just use Systemd's implementation. It saves so much boilerplate crap in OpenRC services.

>>110183303
Personal taste really. I kind of just want my system to be more old school. I mean they work fine and they have for ages now but I like to play around with stuff and I want to see how they would work too and if I like it more
Systemd isn't even bad, I just like the traditional unix setup that openRC and all the pre-systemd programs provide.

>>110180004

>>110180004
I'm actually enjoying the new Ubuntu 26.10 bros. Feels fast, smooth and everything works. Maybe I finally found my distro hopping end.

>>110183319
There's literally no advantage to having to mkdir and chown/chmod a bunch of directories by hand though when you can put all those rules in a single file and have a processor automatically do the right thing

do u guys use any specific fonts for the terminal? if so, which ones?

>>110183525
I like bitmap Terminus. Fira Code is also nice.

How do I make it so my pc boots in a previous kernel and I dont need to hold the shift key to select it
Fedora KDE btw

I had a serious crash problem with 9070xt just crashing the entire system, when under load, rolling back fixed it, ill hold on updating anything for some weeks,

>>110183639
You need to do some terminal kung fu to set previous kernel as the default. Ask chatgpt for commands. It will reset with a new kernel update though. So save the commands in a text file.

t. Also having issues with new vibeslopped kernels on 9060xt on fedora

Fucking linus

>>110183525
IBM Plex Mono

>>110183659
while looking for the fix, ended up seeing a bunch of cachy os and others with similar issues, might be amd driver fuckery

>>110183813
>>110183659
you guys can't block kernel branches and receive patches for a more suitable one? I stuck with 6.x using 6.12 on my desktop and 6.18 on my laptop.

>>110183813
Yeah while searching for a fix there were talks about reverting to older AMD firmware. I don't buy that its AMDs fault though. New firmware landed recently and the issue still persists. It's definitely linus shitting out bugged kernels with no quality controls. Nigga can't even order around his codemonkeys to fix it for some reason when 99% of the kernel is drivers that he has no oversight over.

>>110184093
I want latest tech for AI workload improvements though. My slopping is insatiable and Red Hat are the only ones with offical rocm support. The rest of linux variants are hackslops in that regard.

>>110183717
Adwaita Mono, the default on Fedora Workstation.

>>110184136
i have seen other people complain about the latest amd firmware being buggy on those cards
who knows when the update that fixes it will land on the distros

>>110183525
luxi mono, go mono, iosevka/berkeley mono, or anything with hollow/slashed 0.

>>110183470
Don't forget to sign in for proper security updates.

>>110184142
Thats some of the purest refined larp i've ever see.
All the AI development projects and toolings are Debian based.

wayland and mpv.
issues with video freezing on resume, after it's been paused for a while. so quick pause/resume switches work fine.
sometimes the resume, after being paused for a while, continues after 1 minute of freeze.

adding this,#gpu-api=opengl, works. but i get 20w more energy consumption and frame pacing seems 'off'.

any idea why it would cause the freezes? it is not data related, i can browse the files just fine in the file manager while it's frozen.

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>>110184177
What you mean? Rocm is in default fedora repos

Is it ok to have Secure Boot disabled?

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>>110184293

why is he winking at me like that?

>>110184233
Yes. It means that only major distros or the user can sign the kernel.

>>110184255
Homestuck-ass emerge

What is the best way to undervolt GPU in Debian?

>>110184711
i use lact, not in debian specifically but i doubt it matters

>>110184776
thanks!

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I tried to draw a path with the vibecoded photoshop and it's really janky and bad. Back to gimp

>>110184233
Depends, do you care for the protection secure boot offers?

>>110184203
ROCm is in Ubuntu too. It's in a lot of distros repositories, like Arch, since it's FOSS and somewhat easy for them to package (their LLVM fork can be a bitch sometimes but nothing distros can't deal with)

>>110185138
Does every kernel update work with it though like in fedora?

I was under the impression you were forced to go with archaic versions that probly doesn't support my rigs hardware to alight kernel, driver and rocm.

>>110185204
Every kernel includes the needed AMDKFD driver upstream in the kernel for ages now.

ROCm is just user-space. Red Hat probably has some special backported driver because their kernel versions are ancient (at least in RHEL) but it just works everywhere else.

>>110185213
Yeah I went with rocky as my first go. But shit's unusable as a daily driver. Didn't find any info about debian side from my research and landed on fedora cuz all that shit's baked in from the get go. The only downside is that they're a version of rocm behind for stability reasons. But 45 is landing in a couple of days and I don't want to burn through my GPU due to faulty config.

>>110183525
SGI Screen.

>>110184284
You are talking about Shim + Microsoft keys. If you dare, you can enroll your own keys to your motherboard and sign your whatever EFI loader accordingly.

>>110183659
>>110183639
this seems like a fedora problem, the 9070xt isn't crashing under load for me under arch

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>>110185995

Bros, I think I've angered a demon.
I entered the optimize for architecture tab in the sorcery options text GUI and I'm trying to exit with ESC but it won't leave, and it starts compiling out of nowhere???
My Faustian spirit has betrayed me, and I'm now stuck in purgatory forever for it
HOW DO I LEAVE THIS PLACE I SHOULD'VE KNOWN I WASN'T FIT TO BE A WIZARD

>>110185965
Oh, I just had to select cancel
Also, any experienced hermit could help me set Dependency Following? I don't understand this shit at all and the archives have been burned to the ground (the source mage documentation is ass)

>>110185949
Fedora 45 is coming out in a couple of days, I'll upgrade and see it it helps.

Why isn't DoT or even DoH built in to NetworkManager yet? systemd resolved is terrible.

>>110183717
plex mono my beloved

tho i prefer YZY plex mono (slightly modified version)

>>110181057
From personal experience of myself compared to a friend who uses Arch: Gentoo
If there are problematic changes, there will be a news item about it outlining exactly what you need to do.
Other than that, I very seldomly run into problems, and they solve themselves in most cases by just waiting

>KMag (KDE Magnifier) does not work on Wayland.
Wayland and KDE are fucking pathetic

>>110186484
doesn't kde come with a built in zoom feature, you don't need an external program for it

>>110186484
"win" + "+"

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>>110186484

Good QT based music players for KDE?

>>110186532
Fooyin is my current favorite because of the foobar like interface, there is also Audacious if you want something simpler.

>>110186501
>10 years ago
>install linux
>go with xfce
>have a mouse that served me well but is falling apart
>mouse wheel scrolls up but not down
>with autoscrolling it's not a big deal
>will try to pick up a replacement at some point
>doing some keyboard shortcuts
>accidentally hit alt while scrolling up
>screen zooms in
>realise alt+scroll_up zooms in and alt+scroll_down probably zooms out
>spend a while trying to figure out if there is a non-mouse way to fix this without rebooting
>keep having to move the mouse to read the text
>end up restarting the service and disabling the feature
>had it disabled ever since

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>>110186872 >>110186876

CachyOS bros...we lost.

>>110186745
And so the -mtrune meme dies for another generation. Crazy part is he's testing Fedora with btrfs and SELinux and it still won.

>>110186745
Probably a kernel regression somewhere. CachyOS always ships the latest kernels pretty much immediately

>>110186876
That is true, they ship them faster than Arch which normally waits for the x.1 release.

>>110180004
how can I diagnose why I cannot open my steam client? I am on tumbleweed every time I open my steam client it gets stuck on the installing step of the update. I reinstalled it because I think it was stuck on the 32bit version and not migrating to the new 64 bit client, thats what it seemed like because there was no ubuntu64x or whatever directory. Before reinstalling it keep crashing not finding that directory but now it just fails to apply updates and just doesnt crash it just doesnt do anything at all. I am on tumbleweed on x64 and am up to date on packages.

>>110186904
Open the terminal, write "steam" and press enter.

>>110186889
One thing I wish Michael would test sometimes is running his own compiled kernel as a baseline on all of the distros he uses. That way you can know the kernel is controlled and you're only comparing the user-space.

Of course sometimes you want to compare the kernel too though.

>>110186917
I did this, thats how I know it was stuck on installing the update. also I am braindead and didnt realize I hadnt restarted after the update alr so it was probably some issues with library mismatch srry

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>>110181057
>will using Gentoo genuinely teach you computer shit
Nah, with Gentoo you won't be forced to learn much. You can go beyond the necessities, but you could do that on any System. Once its configured it just works.
With all the memes about Arch breaking it'd probably teach more.

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>>110187494

I asked in the cyberpunk general here and figured I should ask here as well:

With AI vibe coding in full swing, how long until malware is being made that can easily infect Linux systems? A big break in hasn't happened yet but I think it is a case of not "if" but "when."
Have countermeasures been made yet?

On a different note. I think someone who shares my IP is fucking around on this site and copping bans. Is there anything I can do to counter this bullshit? What gave it away was that the username was not anonymous but just a period.

>>110187424
The main entry point is through the package manager.

>>110186532
fooyin

>>110187494
>The main entry point is through the package manager
This means that there is mostly nothing the common user can realistically do? What can the common user do? By common user I mean someone who "freeloads" off Linux by just using it because he can't code at all.

>>110187531
Nothing, realistically. If another Xz utils happens what can you do?
Not update your system? That's not an option. If you're a big bank or business you probably have people that actively audit the components you use but even they might miss things.

I think the flip side of AI malware attacks is that the AI is just as good at finding the malware and playing the green team (or is it blue team, I don't infosec) as it is at playing the read team.

>>110187531
You'd probably get screwed by a chromium web app or extension first.
IIRC the Linux Mint hack distributed compromised ISOs. I don't know much Arch's AUR thing ( I legit don't care).

>>110184168
I never understood why the fuss about ubuntu pro was so overblown. Aside from the obvious privacy issues.
You don't really need it for anything. I've been using Ubuntu for more than a decade now and never used pro. Not a single issue by not updating those repos.

>>110187642
the aur thing only compromised orphaned packages cause the adoption system is retarded

>>110186876
Nope. 7.3.0 for Cachy and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is advantaged because they default to ext4.

>>110186951
He ran the default install for all 3. Fedora may have been slightly advantaged with kernel 7.2.11.

>>110187531
Police your network exposure as much as possible. Use ssh tunnels to access webslop apps instead of leaving them open to FAGMAN controlled devices on your LAN. Use separate browser sandboxes for separate concerns.

LLMs really suck at computer security in both directions. People find a lot of bugs with them because there's infinite bad software and infinite people looking to put AI skills on their resume. AI cybersec is just another layer of bullshit excuses for letting the boss do criminally negligent stuff with the computer.

>>110188641
>Nope. 7.3.0 for Cachy and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is advantaged because they default to ext4.
Ubuntu is still slower than Fedora though and both are using 7.3 whilst Fedora is still on 7.2

>>110188750
Ubuntu is always slower than Fedora though.

>>110188760
Not necessarily always. There are cases where Ubuntu wins out if you look through the indidivudal tests.

One thing I'd be curious to know is how CachyOS and Ubuntu's x86_64-v3 repos change things. Michael is just testing with generic binaries here.

Neophyte here. Linux users always hype up the package system as being superior to just downloading 'random .exes' on wangblowz. So I tried Mint, and the much vaunted package manager, 'Sofware Manager' seems to mostly feature woefully outdated versions of software. Am I missing something? It seems if you actually want up to date software, you have to just *drumroll* download 'random .debs'. So what's the fucking point of the package manager / repositories if they don't even feature up to date software?

>>110188863
The only thing you're missing is the fact that you're using granny distro and complaining that the software is outdated. That's the point. Grandma doesn't want her software to be the latest and greatest.

>>110188863
You're not missing anything, this is just how Mint works.

There are three different types of Linux distros:

>Rolling release: Typically always up-to-date and there is no such thing as an operating system upgrade from one major version to the next, you just always update with the package manager. Distros like Archlinux/CachyOS or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed are examples here.
>Fixed release: Typically some software is frozen, some software may be up-to-date and the distribution has major version upgrades on a regular release cadence like every six months. Fedora is an example of a fixed release distribution.
>Long Term Support (LTS): These distributions typically freeze more packages and update on a much larger time frame like every 5 or 10 years. There may be new LTS versions released every year or so but you're not obliged to upgrade to them as long as the old version is in support still. Select versions of Debian, Ubuntu and Mint, etc, fall here.

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>>110189092 >>110189104 >>110189218

k den, i got debian kde for my new thinkpad.
howd i do? what do i install?

>>110189023
install an actual DE and not a toy

>>110188847
On average it's a long running trend that Ubuntu underperforms Fedora. Like decades probably. They can't not bloatmaxx.

>>110189023
install the amazon app faggot

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>>110189092
and what might that be?

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>>110189218

>>110189104
trvke, your moms toys wont order themselves

>avatarfag
>vlc

>>110189100
>On average
Yeah, that's what the geometric mean is. I just mean if you look at the individual tests it does beat Fedora sometimes.

Although, that's probably more down to Fedora stagnating over the years than Ubuntu actually improving anything but the gap is closer between them these days.

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>>110189218

maybe i should get fedora after all. its supported for red hat gangsters like lain (lilerally me) after all...
but will i be able to download ig scraper and yt-dlp? i need my OS to match my lifestyle - finding jack material online and archiving it

>>110189023
>>110189179
>>110189181
>>110189208
install gentoo
trust me i know things

>>110189199
>I just mean if you look at the individual tests it does beat Fedora sometimes
Because Fedora is running btrfs and SELinux. you have to leave a ton of performance on the table to lose to them ever.

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>>110189218
i know im lain, but more like lain in her beginner, tech/bi-curious arc.

>>110189229
>to lose to them ever
what does this even mean

>>110189296
In individual benchmarks or by geometric mean because Fedora is adding unnecessary fixed costs to filesystem IO and system calls.

>>110187619
>>110187642
>>110188749
Thanks guys. I guess I don't have to blame myself if I get hacked, but it still sucks.

What's the best Linux compatible and safest torrenting software I can use? What are some things to check before opening something when torrenting stuff on Linux?

Is there anything I can do in Linux to make sure that some asshole won't stop affecting my IP and getting everyone (mostly me) under it banned? Assuming it isn't me and I wasn't "sleepposting" where it is sleepwalking but posting.
I've had several times my ip being "temporarily blocked" due to "abuse" so there must be a deranged shitposter in my area.

I think that cachyos is actually giving me a more significant boost in gaming than commonly reported because I have an older cpu and am practically always cpu bound. My prior arch install would stall out at much lower loads. I take back what I said about this distro

>Hyprland has controversy
>Look it up
>Lead dev hates trannies
I will now use Hyprland.

>caring about culture war slop
Not a single goyim deserves to live

>>110181057
If you have OCD, gentoo. You can tweak everything to your heart's content whereas you are stuck with whatever options on arch. It's a user friendly Linux-from-Scratch. bin-packages are a welcome addition. I have modified some use flags to take advantage of them for some of the larger packages.

>>110190470
It's more than the lead dev too, which makes it better.

>>110181503
US mirrors can be flaky too. DNS has been fucked for a while. Updating devuan with a local DNS servers can take a bit with all the SERVFAILs.

>>110183276
The problem is some large projects are developed against systemd. You are going to need at least some systemd stubs for them. I ran into this with wayland too because some packages check for it first and then roll onto X mode.

>>110190470
Imagine if troons discovered Artix

>>110183319
artix works fine if you are looking for a rolling-release binary update system. devuan is fine as debian clone too. slackware 15 is still getting security updates.

>>110181009
>>110181026
>>110181183
Nevermind, i downloaded it from Nicotine+ don't need it anymore.
>>110183470
I've been updating the same horriblly laid out Fedora 38 install for years and haven't had any issue besides kernel regressions (that would've hit me the same on Arch anyways)

>use Gentoo
>have no swap
>compile some stuff
>crashes due to RAM limitations
>set up ZRAM
>works but lots of swapping happens
>switch to ZSWAP
>swapping no longer happens
So. Does this mean ZSWAP is smarter?

>>110190037
>What's the best Linux compatible and safest torrenting software I can use? What are some things to check before opening something when torrenting stuff on Linux?
Any of them. QBittorrent is good for me.

Torrenting shit is probably the least likely way you'd ever get infected unless you're a tard downloading and running random cracked executables from sketchy sources (if you stick to FOSS software in your distros repositories and aren't pirating games and software then that's literally not an issue)

>>110191380
Lots of swapping with ZRAM is in fact _good_
That's exactly what you want when the swapping is in memory and basically free.

Having said that there's been a lot of improvements to ZSWAP lately including virtual swap which should make ZSWAP function more like ZRAM and allow for its use without a backing device. I'm not sure how that all works though. If anyone knows how to configure that properly I'd love to know.

>>110191432
>Lots of swapping with ZRAM is in fact _good_
And how's that exactly?
>when the swapping is in memory and basically free.
What do you think ZSWAP is?
>allow for its use without a backing device
In my case the "backing device" never got used. But yes, I have to have one regardless.

>>110190723
How am I supposed to install Slackware 15 on new hardware when its kernel is from early 2022?

>>110191442
>And how's that exactly?
The idea that swapping is bad comes from disk thrashing / slow storage. But compressed memory in RAM is very fast. It doesn't suffer from that except under extremely high memory pressure.
>>110191442
>What do you think ZSWAP is?
Compressed swap on disk instead of memory except the new virtual swap stuff makes it work a little more like ZRAM did.
>>110191442
>In my case the "backing device" never got used. But yes, I have to have one regardless.
Me too. I use a lot a tmpfs and that sometimes spills over into Swap.

One thing I'd be curious to test is if the new virtual swap stuff will work better there as you're not supposed to mix ZRAM with swap on disk (although I do it anyway).

>>110191380
It is but using it is dumber unless you need to use nonvolatile storage for swap. zswap adds a 3rd layer to the swap system between memory and swap file where compressed data goes. It doesn't count as swap, but it's doing the same basic thing as zram using a ramdisk as the swap partition.

And yeah swapping to zram occasionally isn't a big deal like other Anon said because it just frees up memory by compressing things that get loaded but never used. Which you always have with shared libraries.

>>110184142
if that's true how come you're using rocm 7.2 while my gentoo is using 10.1?

>>110191462
You could try Slackware current if 15 won't work with your hardware.

>>110191380
or you forgot to set priority on zram so it's used first

>>110191502
I use ROCm 10.1 on Fedora. Just download the shared libraries from AMD and write a wrapper script to set the appropriate envars.

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>>110191421
is it safe to torrent anime grills? asking for a fren..

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>>110191693

I can't believe they named a penguin after the distro

>>110191579
I mean yeah if you just get them from nyaa and you aren't in a country that actively has ISPs that slap you on the wrist if your IP is caught doing it. Otherwise you'd just use something like Proton VPN and bind it to qBittorrent so your ISP has no idea you're torrenting anything.

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>>110190037
You can tunnel torrent traffic with openvpn to obfuscate traffic from you ISP , though it costs money and you've just traded who can snoop on you.

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>>110191696 >>110198990

>>110191598
>Proton VPN and bind it to qBittorrent
and how might someone else do that?

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>>110191585
They even made a movie out of it.

>>110191646
There's guides. Should be as simple as just going to the advanced settings and choosing your VPN connection as the main network (called binding) which means that if the VPN isn't on or working properly, the torrent stops until it's back.

>dual boot arch
>systemd boot
>winblows 11 shits itself and doesn't boot now with secure boot on/off, just gives me autorepair menus that need wifi (as in no ethernet support because fuck me I guess) and it's not accepting my wifi password because double fuck you

Yes I followed the guide to a t and didn't delete my boot loader /efi thing. I don't know what to do, I fucking hate computers so much. All this because I need to ping pong around a garbage 100 year perpetual soup version of something I've seen grow only more shit by the year and some esoteric tinker third world hacked together shit I need to not have all my shit taken by corpos or spyware, what a bunch of baloney this world is

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>>110191696
now thats based

am i weird for liking that the fedora team does stuff like this
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Second-NO-GO
makes me feel a lot better about "just install it" when i see the release

>>110191849
Yes. Debian does this, too. Not sure about Ubuntu - every time I try a fresh Ubuntu release there are always issues for a few weeks until it gets patched up.

>>110191849
I mean no, lol. Not weird.

>>110191849
Don't they HAVE to if its not rolling release? Otherwise they could just push out a release whenever they feel like it or go full reddit mode and throw out releases on socially landmarked days like may 4th, april 20th or june 19th (I still have no idea what holiday this is, but blacks love it so it can't be good)

>>110191421
>Any of them. QBittorrent is good for me.
Thank you.
>unless you're a tard downloading and running random cracked executables from sketchy sources
What's the best tutorial for a tard like me to get the basics understood?
I want to pirate stuff like /tg/ related books as PDFs that have gone out of print.

Is there any Chrome based browser that has something remotely as good as Sidebery? i've been running Firefox with the Lepton CSS + some personal overrides, but some sites are wonky to work on it.

>>110192000
For books you generally don't pirate them with torrents. Look up zlibrary on wikipedia.

>>110192180
there was also a huge darkweb library in TOR network iirc, but dunno if it is still there

does this look right for creating a transcoding bash script?

for f in *.mp4; do
ffmpeg -i "$f" -c:v dnxhd -profile:v dnxhr_hqx -c:a pcm_s24le "${f%.*}_transcoded.mov"
done

>>110191606
>openvpn
Can it leak?

Are there really no alternatives to the Plasma system tray? I thought I could come up with a solution to this myself by using other launchers in a clever way but I can't find anything that uses the system tray icons. If anyone has any ideas please help.

>>110191910
Nope. I looked it up - Ubuntu releases no matter what on a hard deadline.

>>110180004
anons, what do we think about nix allowing so many packages to bundle their own redeemed certificate trust stores?
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/576544

how can nixfags recover?

>>110192420
This is literally how Nix has always worked. Packages bundle all sorts of crap because they hash everything in their own directory in the /nix store.

There are pros to that (it always runs! it always compiles properly! it's reproducible!) but also huge cons since you never know what versions a package is actually using unless you look closely at it.

>>110192420
>>110192477
The only serious distros are Debian and Fedora. Arch is fine for an enthusiast system, but that's about it. Linux users can't seem to comprehend this.

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>>110192491
Nix was always just a research tool. It succeeded at what it set out to be and even has some industry adoption nowadays but it's not a serious distro.

>>110192491
This but remove Fedora

>>110192491
Debian is sus though, they're playing around with open solaris, bsd and herd kernels. Idunno what they do anymore these days besides git clone fedora.

>>110192529
>they're playing around with open solaris, bsd and herd kernels
Because they believe other kernels should have a GNU system available too.
GNU is great and when I used FreeBSD for a while when I was first experimenting with ZFS the first thing I did was install all the GNU utilities. BSD utils are trash. They may have cleaner code, I don't know, but as a user I couldn't care less. They have crap features compared to everything GNU does. GNU has been influential in POSIX even with many POSIX features being adopted because of the work GNU did.

BSD utils is just "Let's strip every down so it has no fucking features and license it so Sony can put it in the PlayStation"

>>110192491
What makes OpenSUSE not serious?

>>110192549
The point is it's not a purely linux distro. All the big boy development for cutting edge linux tech is being funneled to fedora with Red Hat funding. For better or worse. Freedards have been screching about sytemD and pulsaudio and gnome3 , but fuck that shit desu, I'm glad they're actually engineering out all the legacy freetard hackslop code.

>>110192512
>>110192564
fedora atomic and related projects are the most exciting innovation for desktop linux since slackware.
it btfo's nix and finally gave me a reason to not hate systemd.

>>110192555
they dropped 32bit support sooner than everyone else

>>110192555
It's some corpoware office thing geared for the german market and gobberment. Kinda like Red Star OS for Best Korea.

>Kinda like Red Star OS for Best Korea
you could almost call it a leap

>>110192588
Ok, but eventually so did Debian, and so did Fedora.
I don't understand how that stands when arguing against the seriousness of its technical merit compared to Debian or Fedora.
>>110192619
I don't see how the equivalence of OpenSUSE as a German Red Star OS doesn't also set a standard that judges Fedora the same way. What Red Star OS-like features does OpenSUSE even have that Fedora doesn't?
I don't see why OpenSUSE Leap's stability isn't to be treated as favorably as Debian's and how its efforts in security implementations don't compare to those of Fedora. It also has atomic stable distributions with KDE and GNOME.

if you do development stuff
do you care if the distro has "official" support for a lot of dev software or no

>>110192741
OpenSass is just a repackaged clone of fedora bro, they just slap their logo on it and market support to nazis

>>110192743
I mean if the distro's repo has the latest binaries to create proper development environments then it doesn't really matter if they're considered "official" or not by whoever.

>>110192743
What kind of development? OS dev or your own vibesslop?

>>110192741
>but eventually so did Debian, and so did Fedora.
??? both still have 32bit libraries available

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>>110192773 >>110197746

>opensuse installer has an option for tpm auto unlock with luks

>>110192555
openSUSE is serious, but it has way less support than Debian and Fedora so there's not much point talking about it. For example Packman (like RPM Fusion) is retiring with nothing to replace it except Flatpak or DIY.
>>110192741
>Fedora
Because Fedora is where upstream development happens. Fedora is what drives the state of the art forward. For example, openSUSE recently drop AppArmor for Fedora's SELinux. Leap is fine, but you're just making life harder for yourself compared to just running Debian or Fedora.

>>110192757
Only openSUSE has a full 32-bit ISO. Fedora and Debian dropped it. Libraries are a different matter.
>>110192762
You can easily set that up on other distros. The problem with openSUSE's implementation is it uses firmware unlock for the bootloader which on some systems is very slow.

>>110192773
who cares about some fucking 32bit cpu in 2026. i want to run 32bit applications on a 64 bit system. the whole reason why amd 64 bit is even a thing unlike titanium.

>>110192804
itanium

>>110192804
German sperglords, apparently

>>110192804
Surely there's better modern solutions out today than whatever ancient archaic corpoware you're trying to run.

>we made a whole iso for 32 bit system
>no we will not ship 32bit libraries on your 64 bit one
>everyone else does it but we won't

>>110192635
I installed that last weekend in a disconnected VM for the keks while shitfaced
I didn't get very far

>>110192756
just my own stuff

>>110192741
>It also has atomic stable distributions with KDE and GNOME
These are still in alpha/release candidate stage.

>>110192853
>These are still in alpha/release candidate stage.
Ok, that's fair
>>110192757
>both still have 32bit libraries available
>>>110192773 #
>>110192804
>want to run 32bit applications on a 64 bit system.
Also fair. I thought you meant the ISO itself when you said 32bit support.
I see your points, that's fair. I concede OpenSUSE has ways to go
I would still like to bring up the MicroOS distribution of OpenSUSE, which is an atomic rolling release. It seems like those are very rare, with all Fedora atomics being stable release, and therefore worth some attention.
But software repository problems and comparable releases still being experimental are fair points. I concede that Fedora is more serious than OpenSUSE.

>>110192893
Believe me I wanted to love openSUSE. Packman aside, try running Tumbleweed. You can't even get accurate help from LLMs on it because it churns so fast and is basically unknown to the Internet outside of its own forums.

i tried OpenSUSE and it's just a scuffed version of fedora with a better installer

>>110192977
Not really. openSUSE started as a fork of Slackware and some long-dead distro I can never remember the name of (Jurix). You only think it's Fedora because openSUSE adopted RPM.

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>>110193010 >>110193022 >>110193038

>>110192833
If people are talking about 32-bit libraries it almost always means one thing

I say "sudo pacman -S", you say.....?

>>110192991
Yeah well things change, so does the underlying technology

>>110193006
yeah. shit.

>>110193007

sudo pacman -Syu

>>110193006
>just let me not run the software i payed for

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>>110193006
ironically, you can run 32bit windows games on linux with a pure 64bit system... except steam itself is 32-bit only for fuck knows what reason.
linux games have been 64bit native for 20 years, longer than windows has even had a 64bit consumer edition

>>110193007

alias pacwoman="pacman"
sudo pacwoman -S

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>>110193214 >>110193431 >>110194007

my conclusion is that they all suck.

>>110193172
Deal with it.

>>110193214
i do. i just picked the one i am the most familiar with that sucks.

>>110193172
>t. redditor who wanted to participate in the circlejerk

>>110193239
Are you tipping your fedora?

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>>110193007

New user. Mint.
When do I use Flatpaks and when normal packages?
As I understand it, Flatpaks:
1. Come with their own dependencies
2. Are "isolated" from the system
So flatpaks are larger because they don't use system libraries, about which I do not care very much. The size.
I don't know know the relevancy of point 2.
Any reason not to Flatpak everything that's available?

>>110193643
Flatpaks are good if you want a program that doesn't appear in the Mint/Ubuntu repos or you want a newer version that Mint doesn't offer yet, mainly.

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>>110192564
what is "cutting edge linux tech" on fedora?

What games can I play with a pentium silver j5005?

>>110193714
At max probably games from around the early 2010s. Would work okay with older emulation suites too.

>>110193714
well it's new enough support vulkan so basically anything you could in windows assuming that's what you meant

>>110193172
Should have just installed NixOS.

redpill me on nix

>>110193482
nah i am on kubuntu.

I was planning on switching over to Linux Mint from my old as fuck windows 10 install, and I've got a question about how it'll handle the installation since I've got multiple SSDs. Basically, I've got a 240gb SSD with my windows files and a bunch of random stuff I've already backed up and don't mind losing, and a separate 1tb SSD with a bunch of important files that I DO mind losing. When I install Mint, will it let me choose to only format the small SSD and leave the other untouched, or will it just format both?

>>110194335
It should let you choose which disk to use.

>>110194335
Just get it on pendrive and see for yourself. Just don't click "ok format everything install linux" button.

>>110193643
flatpak jails your program, so accessing outside of its environment is tricky. programs like DAWs suddenly become harder to use.

>>110194412
Though this is why something like Flatseal exists.

>>110193007
sudo xbps-install -Syu

Also, >>110193015 how do I do that?

How shit is NTFS support on Linux?
I can blow away my main OS drive but I don't have enough spare storage to move and migrate my other drives to a new file system at the moment.

>>110194455
It is pretty good.

>>110194462
sick, thanks

is it ok to download programs through discover in debian?

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>>110194455
I used for several years without any issues, you are losing few functionalities from other file systems that are native to Linux, but if you aren't using any of these, and the small r/w hit doesn't impact you - it literally doesn't matter, ntfs drivers are decent enough.

should i use konqueror or firefox

>>110194455
ntfs-3g is very reliable and has been for a long time. The ntfs3 kernel driver not so much. You still need a Windows VM or boot media to run chkdsk. Do not use ntfsfix for this.

>>110194579
you're information is outdated
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-NTFSPLUS-NTFS-Driver

>>110194570
Waterfox

>>110194607
Cool story. Check back with us if you haven't found any more problems by 2030.

>>110192333
If you're a retard.

so i just installed debian, and it hit me with "you have 91 updates saar". how do i respond?

>>110194724
Its a good package, chawalla, what more could you want?

>>110194808
am i supposed to just update everything?
>>110194624
i dont have curl to install that. i guess i could get curl, should i? should i delete firefox msr if i get waterfox?

>>110194855
inshallah those are just security and bugfix updates and sheeit, those are fine

>>110194855
Debian 13? I just ran it on one of my systems its good.

>>110194892
yea linux-image6.12.113+debi13-amd64 is a security update. but its libre office, firefox, vlc, gimp crap too. ill be getting a better player than vlc for my based japanime and wont use firefox but waterfox

"can't disable aspm os doesn't have aspm control"
shoud i adjust it in the bios

should i update my t14 system firmware from 0.1.61 to 0.1.64?
notice: the bios cant be downgraded to previous BIOS version after upgrade to 1.64.
and enhancement to address security vulnerability.
should i do it? thx

>>110192762

systemd-cryptenroll --wipe-slot=tpm2 --tpm2-device=auto --tpm2-pcrs=7+15:sha256=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 /dev/nvme0n1p2

Woah, crazy difficult.

>>110197746
and nobody has a button for it except ubuntu with their snap implementation and opensuse lol

>>110195984
I tried to update mine and secure boot blocked it

>dnscrypt-proxy
which one do i get for debian13
https://github.com/dnscrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/releases/tag/2.1.20

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Thank you anons for helping my old self with stupid questions about Arch Linux over the last few weeks. I'm loving my time in the distro.

>>110197991
The one that matches your systems processor architecture?

Probably:
>dnscrypt-proxy-linux_x86_64-2.1.20.tar.gz

Unless you're running ARM or something else exotic.

>>110198644
>>110197991
If ever you are unsure you can check with uname though:

$ uname -m              
x86_64

>>110194549
Yes.
>>110194855
Update everything. You don't need to update when something tells you to, you can do it whenever you want, but you should be doing it regularly. One of the benefits (or drawbacks) of Debian is that all of your packages will basically remain exactly the same for the entire release cycle. Only certain things like your browser will actually bump up versions and get new features. So if your media player works today it will work exactly the same way a year from now. Whenever your media player or any random program shows up in an update it almost always means a security hole is getting patched somewhere.

Is there something like virtualbox for qemu/kvm that isn't virt-manager (i.e. something that isn't designed for enterprise use)

>>110198870
Yes, Virtualbox:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-kvm

>>110198870
I remember hearing about some thing that was supposed to replace virt-manager but that's also aimed at enterprise users
There's a virtualbox-kvm project that is just virtualbox with a KVM backend but is not qemu and its also kinda buggy
Virt-manager is fine when u get it up and running anyway imo

Kinda glad that I am not the only one who believes SUSE is just reskinned Fedora. It was my first ever distro but looking back on it I kinda see no reason to use it over Fedora desu.

>>110191646
I run all my torrents on qbitorrent thru my mullvad daemon and it just werks

>>110198963
it has a cool lizard as its logo

>>110198927
I've got it up and running.
It isn't designed for laptops or devices where you're regularly dropping your internet connection, changing IPs/VPNs etc...
Internet passthrough is done through virtual devices and it will break if you drop your connection while using it.
I'm looking at quickemu which should do the optimal configuration automatically. Virt-manager is the only one to support passthrough AFAIK but that's not relevant for me at the moment

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>>110198998
That's a pretty big reason as to why I chose it, I love the green color and the lizard logo.

Animal mascot distros are always nice.

I can't believe i've been using modern Firefox without Lepton for years, many little tweaks that build up over time. Actually why tf Firefox looks so ugly OOB?

>>110199708
Lepton's whole deal is just making it look like old Firefox. And very recently Mozilla overhauled the browser's whole UI to a more round corner focused experience. IIRC some people are still on the fence about it.

>>110198963
It's good to have some redundancy in case stuff goes wrong

>>110199724
>And very recently Mozilla overhauled the browser's whole UI to a more round corner focused experience.
Nova is such terrible dogshit. You can disable it in about:config, for now, but they're taking that away. The new look is just awful.

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>>110200234
It looks fine with vertical tabs in my opinion. The screenshots I've seen with the horizontal tabs don't necessarily look the best in my opinion but I like the vertical tabs and don't see myself going back so it's whatever. I don't really care.

>>110200272
Oh so the tabs look ok if you can't see them, that makes sense I guess.

>>110200275
Lmao. Pretty much, yeah. I don't want them in the way. Less design is more.

>>110200234
I didn't like it at first but then I found the compact mode and honestly I'm use to it now. Also they finally added a way to close out that big "please make a sync profile" picture in the main menu.

>>110200326
>Also they finally added a way to close out that big "please make a sync profile" picture in the main menu.
I use Librewolf so I never see any of this shit anyway. I do get gay purple tabs with Nova though, which sucks. The old tab design was legitimately perfect, idk why they changed it.

>>110200326
That wouldn't bother me because I actually use Firefox Sync. It works pretty well in my experience and it's granular enough that you don't have to sync everything and can choose what to sync.

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not a big fan of the shadow behind the labels of desktop icons on KDE. is there an easy way to remove them besides having a dark wallpaper?

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>>110201539

Well played Mozilla, this is the perfect advertisement to bring people back to Firefox.

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>>110201427 >>110201583 >>110201595 >>110201620 >>110201654 >>110201692 >>110202859

FUCK THE OOM KILLER
Never in 25+ years has Windows killed an app for lack of memory. On Linux this happens EVERY FUCKING WEEK.

I HAVE 12 GIGS OF RAM, IT SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO RUN A BROWSER AND A MUSIC PLAYER, NIGGER