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/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread Anonymous 04/17/2025 (Thu) 18:42:13 No. 17818 >>20540
* Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread * Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences. Before asking for help, please check our list of resources. Resources: Please spend at least a minute to check a web search engine with your question. Many free software projects have active mailing lists. $ man %command% $ info %command% $ %command% -h/--help $ help %builtin/keyword% Don't know what to look for? $ apropos %something% Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros): wiki.debian.org wiki.gentoo.org wiki.archlinux.org wiki.alpinelinux.org /g/'s Wiki on GNU/Linux: gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.en.html wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_anniversary >Which distro should I choose? nosystemd.org (SystemD is bloated malware) gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html (FSF approved) distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major (Major Distributions) >What are some cool programs? harmful.cat-v.org/software suckless.org/rocks directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page >What are some cool terminal commands and where can I learn the command line? mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide commandlinefu.com/commands/browse >Where can I learn more about Free Software? fsf.org gnu.org stallman.org >How to break out of the botnet? ryf.fsf.org/products fsf.org/resources/hw en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware [YouTube] Free software, free society: Richard Stallman at TEDxGeneva 2014 prev thread: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/105043067
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should I install Fedora 42 lads?
What's the best way to access a shared windows folder on linux? CachyOS specifically. With SMB, I can access the windows machine by its IP address, but not its hostname (which would be better since the IP keeps changing). Reading various threads and the arch wiki, I think that needs winbind, but the samba docs seem to say winbind no longer works the way the arch wiki says as of samba 4.2. I installed the samba package and don't even see a winbind service anywhere to enable, there's no winbind package either. Or is there something better than smb I could use?
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>>17917 On 42 right now, it's bretty gud. Beyond usual Fedora shenanigans, should you need proprietary software, it's been stable and enjoyable. If you don't like Fedora you won't like this release either, though.
I'm newer to programming, I've been learning for about a year or so now, and I'm getting tired of having to emulate linux on my windows machine to get things done. How much easier would things really be if I had a linux work computer?
>>17963 why do you need to emulate Linux to develop on Windows desu?
>>17965 Emulate probably isn't the right word in retrospect, but I've had to use chocolatey to download basic Linux utilities like make and a few others whose names I can't remember in order to complete assignments in some classes. I remember having this problem when I was trying to get postgreSQL working in particular because the instructions I had required me to build the program from some zip file IIRC and there were a dozen Linux utilities that were required.
>>17966 I haven't used Windows regularly in years so I may be way off base, but wouldn't WSL be useful for that?
>>17966 I agree, try WSL (Ubuntu for Windows on the MS store IIRC). Used it for development for years. Though if you're looking to have a technical career it's probably beneficial to get familiar with linux.
>>18019 >>18030 Thanks for the recommendation. I'll definitely look into WSL for now. I think I'll probably still end up getting a Linux work computer in the future.
Where are my openSUSE chads at?
In my audio settings there's Digital Stereo (HDMI 2) Output, Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI 2) Output, Digital Surround 7.1 (HDMI 2) Output, and Pro Audio. Which one should I be using? I have 2 speakers and a subwoofer connected to an AVR, which s connected to my PC via HDMI. I assumed I should be using stereo but was playing a game last night and realized it wasn't using my subwoofer unless I changed it to 5.1 or 7.1.
Greetings /fglt/ I have recently switched one of my two devices to an arch linux operating system to improve my usage of computers. I started this journey with 0 prior experience using GNU/Linux and it has been a blast. My question to you isn't of a technical nature, rather I seek a software recommendation. On Windows 10 I enjoyed using a software called PlayNite to organize and run my collection of video games. What software do you use or recommend to organize your video games? I looked at Lutris before, but I am slightly upset about the banner urging me to register on their website. Is there a good alternative?
>>18114 I used to use OpenPEPE, but it always krashed hard. It was almost certainly a KDE issue rather than a SUSE issue, but it kind of put a bad taste in my mouth.
Hey, just switched to arch. My laptop keyboard has keys like vol+/-, brightness +/-, etc. above the function keys. When I press for example, F2, the volume - key gets pressed. I need to press FN + F2 so F2 actually is the key that gets pressed. Is there a way so it's the other way around?
>>18831 nevermind, just fixed it, it was just a bios setting thing.
Planning on switching from Linux Mint Cinnamon (I want to leave the baby's first Linux pond and distrohop) and try XFCE Manjaro. Any "head's up info" I should be aware of when making the switch? What am I giving up and what am I gaining when making the switch to Manjaro?
>>20502 >Manjaro If you want an "easy" Arch try EndeavourOS, not a distro run by retards.
>>20506 I'll look into endeavourOS then. Thank you.
>>17818 (OP) There's actually an unintentionally GNU free Linux distro: Chimera Linux. (not to be confused with ChimeraOS) It's using BSD coreutils and musl c library instead of the GNU stuff.
Are the Fedora Spins all treated equally or does one get the most attention out of all of them like how Linux Mint gives Cinnamon the most attention?
If I bg (Ctrl+Z) a process, change directory, and fg that process, does it change directory with it?
>>20558 The "editions" (like Workstation/Gnome and KDE as of 42) get the most attention and polish. Spins are maintained separately and don't get as much quality control and have no release blocking privileges if something breaks. I'd guess a more commonly used DE like Xfce will of course get more attention and bug reports than something like Mate+Compiz or Miracle.
>>20868 It does not
There is nothing more disappointing than finding out a program you use is written and maintained by a single furry.
>>21436 Why don't people just make their own fork when this happens, everyone complains but is it that just no one knows how to code anymore? t. someone who can't code
>>21437 People have their own lives and their own projects. It isn't a big enough deal to warrant a fork. I'd rather just use a different tool. Forking can be a burden because you have to figure out how the project works, how it's organized, what its issues are, etc, as well as committing the time to work on it. Think of it like joining a minecraft map you've never played on, but often times less fun or interesting.
>>21439 But I mean, why complain then? I don't know, for me a furry maintaining something isn't so bad, or a tranny or anything really, I value something based on what it offers me, if the feminism or troonification ruined something for me I'd stop using it, I feel like if I could code I'd fork it
>>21442 That's normal and pragmatic. My feelings are more like finding out your neighbor is a sex offender. It's disturbing for primal reasons rather than rational ones.
>>21447 Silly anon, sex isn't an offense
What wayland compositor do you guys use? Just did a fresh arch install and need to fix my second monitor saying "out of range". Looking online, it says to use either Sway or Wayfire, but isn't Sway typically used for tiling window managers?
Hello. I have a question. I am dissatisfied with windows (go figure). But games hold me back. I heard there are distros that let you use your steam account and all. Wich one would be the best there? Or generally any reccomendation.
>>22478 SteamOS is a fork of Arch that is good, but really any OS you install Steam on will run games well, you can also install the version of Wine that copies Proton
>>22484 So steamOS or arch? I have an 6900xt and dont know if the drivers work, any suggestion before i start?
>>22498 I just have a steamdeck and a server running AlmaOS but I'd assume there's good drivers for such a popular card
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>>22498 >6900XT Any active distribution will have drivers for that card that work well. I'd recommend Linux Mint. Personally wouldn't recommend Arch as a "first time" Linux experience. It's one of those things where there's not really one right answer, it's like asking someone how they like their eggs cooked or coffee made. Mint or EndeavourOS would be my top 2 for new users depending on tech savviness and what they want. >>22437 Sway allows for floating windows. Hyprland is the new hotness a lot of people are trying out. >>20506 Late response but 100% agree here. Manjaro mangles and bastardizes the Arch foundation it tries to build on, they've demonstrated several times that the devs don't have a clear idea of what they're doing. EndeavourOS stays much more in line with the vanilla Arch ecosystem, uses the standard Arch software repositories and provides reasonable and useful default programs/configurations. Endeavour is the true "easy mode" Arch.
Has anyone tried a 'pure-ish' tty/framebuffer linux setup? Recently learned of a handful of people running this sort of setup and it might genuinely be the final frontier of linux distros, alongside GNUless distros. I say this due to how much both Gnome and KDE and other salaried developers warn end users from trying this out, but I think there may genuinely be some benefits from trying this sort of setup out. Worst comes to worst, even a late 2000's computer should be performant enough to do software rendering and blitting and however on earth notcurses and jexer and kitty work. Combining this with Guix would potentially bring modern Linux the closest to Hurd, no? If not, it would potentially still be a good excuse to try out cage(break), or the Wayland rewrite of stump/exwm.
How much of a performance difference is there for gaming between the proprietary nvidia drivers and the nvidia open kernel modules? A quick look online says that the open kernel modules are recommended for xx20 series or later directly from nvidia themselves. I know the open source nouveau drivers are pointless for anything beyond simple web browsing.
>>22681 I had done a purely tty+framebuffer setup on arch before, which would run on virtually any hardware. It was a fun experiment to see how far I could push that setup as far as usability and there is plenty you could accomplish with it. >can browse the web easily with elinks, which supports framebuffer mode for rendering html with images, can even compile elinks with gpm for mouse/touchpad/nub pointer control and javascript support and many web protocols >links supports much less but also supports framebuffer and gpm >no shortage of feature rich text editors, take your pick of nano/vim/emacs >ranger is one of the most appealing file explorers, but others exist which can also support displaying images in a regular tty with sixels one of the text only web browsers also supports sixels, I forget which one it was out of elinks/links/lynx >cvlc/mpv/smplayer can all output to the framebuffer there's also a way to play video in text mode, which is a neat novelty >fbi/fbida is an image viewer for the framebuffer and works very well with keybinds to cycle through images and zoom >fbpdf is a pdf viewer for the framebuffer >moc is a nice music player with file explorer built-in, and will also play just the audio of video files that are selected >irssi for feature rich irc client >tmux for multitasking in a single tty session now there are some caveats, most applications that will display to the framebuffer device will NOT work if you run them from within tmux, they detect they were not run from the bare tty session and error, some of the applications will launch and grab the framebuffer device but are very buggy and can leave sections of the display unable to redraw when you exit from the application, so it is usually best to send tmux to the background if you want to use anything graphical, so you could have moc playing music in the background while browsing the web for example now if I remember correctly, any application using the framebuffer is tied to the tty it was invoked from, so you can run different graphical applications per tty which is just mildly cumbersome
Alright, forgive me for this retard-level question. I've been having a strange issue on my PC after installing Linux Mint 22.1 that is causing me to be unable to shut down from the GUI. I can only completely power off my computer by holding down the power button. If I don't do that, the fans still run and the screen stays on saying that it has powered off. I've read that it could be some issue with Nvidia, but I don't know at this point. I've tried changing the version of my drivers and kernel, with nothing really changing.
>>22837 there may be a process performing some task before shutdown or a process is unable to stop, one solution is to check system logs to see what was going on around the time of the shutdown, if something was wrong it should be logged, otherwise you can ssh into the system from another machine and watch dmesg and check processes in htop to see what is still running, assuming it didn't segfault on shutdown.
>>22837 Does shutting down from terminal have the same issue? sudo poweroff?
>>22962 Yep. REISUO stopped working after I did it once, as well. It worked the first time and never again.
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>>22974 Well, definitely not a retard-level question - First I've heard of something like this happening. Do logs show anything? journalctl -b -1 -e You may not have persistent logging enabled on your computer, meaning logs are wiped every power cycle. Do this for logs to start staying after reboots: mkdir -p /var/log/journal systemd-tmpfiles --create --prefix /var/log/journal systemctl restart systemd-journald /var/log/messages may also have some information in it. Otherwise though if you haven't already it'd be worth seeing if the Mint forums could help. Drivers and kernel would have been the first things I'd have tried swapping as well.
How do I stop mbsync marking deleted emails? I do a local backup before deleting what's on my IMAP server. Then the next backup I do, it marks the last emails as deleted, which mutt prompts me to delete. I can unmark them in mutt, but it's still terrifying. How can I stop mbsync checking what's been deleted?
>>22837 > I've read that it could be some issue with Nvidia Not saying you're definitely having the same issue, but just wanted to mention that I had the same problem on Winders 10 for a time, and indeed it was the system waiting for the GPU. All at once I updated firmware, drivers, and some other shit so I can't tell you which thing did it, but something along those lines fixed it
>>23041 `mbsync` with `--nd``
>>23055 I think that permanently deletes "Near" emails. What I want is to keep them and not have mbsync mark them as deleted once I have deleted them on the server. It's to save space but still be able to read old emails locally. Sorry for not being clear.
Ubuntu 24/Fedora 42. Why the fuck is Gnome renaming images drag/dropped to "Dropped Image" from the browser? Any other OS/DE keeps the original filename. But not fucking Gnome. There are 0 results about this on the web.
>>23242 Not trying to antagonize you, and not that it'll help, but it kind of baffles me that Gnome is still even used as frequently as it is. Dev team are pants on head retarded and obtuse, the DE is clunky and awkward without a dozen plugins that Gnome has no interest in honoring or preserving, etc. Makes a lot sense that even distros like Fedora are finally starting to consider using KDE as the default.
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>>23320 Gnome feels like pic related. Want to type into the location/address bar when saving a file from the browser? No, fuck you, use our playschool buttons. Want to search for a folder in the save as dialog? What's the use-case? You want copy/paste +1000 files from your windows filesystem to the current one? Enjoy the complete system freeze after a couple seconds. I'm surprised KDE is not the standard DE. "lol Krashes", but I experienced more crashes/freezes on Gnome that forced a system restart. KDE recovers. Sometimes I only know about it because an error reporter shows up. I tried Ubuntu because I couldn't be bothered to figure out how to install Nvidia drivers. I moved to Tumbleweed and learned how to make KDE + Wayland + Nvidia work. But still had to return to Windows because games stutter badly. I won't return to Linux until I get an AMD GPU (maybe next gen).


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