Part of the reason why I made the thread, was because I am having a problem with playing some Windows games from GoG on Linux. The games play fine, the problem is that when I close them, the CPU is still working as if the game was still playing. As in, it would go from the 1-5% when idle to 20% or >80% depending on game, even after the game is closed, but using Task Manager there is no process that is using that much of the CPU, it's as if the CPU is running for no reason at all. The only solutions seems to restart the computer, which I am not a fan of(also tried Logging off, but that didn't work). I am using PopOS! and for the GoG games tried both Heroic Game Engine and Lutris. Still the same problem, after I close the game, the CPU does not got back to idle. I tried searching this problem a bit on the net, but no luck. I was hoping someone else also had encountered this problem. Also not all games, seem to have this problem, the only ones that caused me this problem are Hitman Contracts and Trepang 2.

>>1661393 Does your task manager or htop/variant tell you what processes the CPU is working on?

>>1661400 The Task Manager shows me the tasks and how much of the CPU they are using, while the Gnome System Monitor shows me the processors. Here are 4 screenshots, first is about first 10 minutes of starting Trepang 2. That spike you see at the beginning, is when the game first started. The second pic, is after playing for a bit more, it seems that as time goes by the CPU is used more and more, even though there is only one process that uses 8% of the CPU, with the rest being below 1%, it is as if there is some sort of resource leak. Third pic, is after closing the game, the process CPPFPS_Win64_Sh is no longer running, but the CPU is still at almost 100% usage. Last pic is just from the Gnome System Monitor to see the CPU usage. Now unless I restart the PC, the CPU will be "stuck" like this, for at least several hours, maybe even more.

>>1661379 Isn't CachyOS better than bazzite?

>>1661527 Can you even compare both? Bazzite is an immutable distro and comes with shit pre-installed, it's quite perfect for newfags. While CachyOS is pretty neat I don't think there is much overlap in usecase...

>>1661458 that's probably not showing you all the processes if you run 'top' in a terminal it will show you all processes, there has to be a hanging process that isn't being killed

>>1661614 CachyOS comes with that shit too, although without the immutable part.

Something i have noticed with linux is that I am farm ore reliant on steam. If steam didn't exist neither would gaming on linux. GOG has a few games that have linux ports but its a fraction of their total catalog and GOG is already far smaller than steam. Kinda odd since Linux users pride themselves on being so independent and yet gaming on linux is almost entirely dependent on 1 company.

>>1662358 That is true, I won't deny it. Although I use Linux mainly because Windows and Android are shit on the desktop.

>>1662358 >I am farm ore reliant on steam >GOG has a few games that have linux ports

>>1662358 There are about 999 versions of compatibility layers that run on GOG games, or any other standalone games. Your problem.

>>1662358 you seem to forget that all steam did was throw money at proton, which is just wine with additional scripts to help automate setting up the environment for games to run linux users have been using wine to run games for a long, long time before valve ever gave a shit

>>1661637 I used the top command as you suggested. After playing Tepang 2 for some time, and closing it, I had 4 bash processes that did not close(pic 1). I used kill -9 <pid> to kill all 4 of them and it worked. I am not sure what the deal is with steamwebhelper, top says it's using almost 20% of the CPU(this is also before starting the game), but Task Manager and System Monitor say that the CPU is at less than 5% (pic 2). In this case, I am more likely to believe System Monitor and that the CPU isn't actually at 20% activity, because of steamwebhelper. Now it's much better to kill 4 processes, than having to restart the PC, though I wish I wouldn't have to do this, and I am not sure if it's because Proton or Lutris/Heroic Game Launcher or the game itself that is causing this. I can say that not all games have this issue, and while >buying the game on Steam would prove if it's the game or the launcher that is causing this, I am not a big fan of buying a game twice. With that said, thank you for your help and advice.

>>1662358 I don't even know how to run pirated game on proton.

Here's a nice tip, if the games you're running are old enough to not utilize all the cores on your system, you might want to know what the maximum number of cores the game can use and launch it with taskset -c <number of cores> <path to game>. Otherwise the system cpu scheduler will spread the game to all the cores and cause it to run with performance issues .

>>1663649 How old are we talking?

>installs linux for privacy, freedom, and security >installs Steam

>>1667395 The problem is that without (((Steam))), Loonix and gaming essentially become mutually exclusive.

>>1667395 >Posting on the internet >2025 >Privacy lol, Loonix is great because Microshaft is ass

>>1667414 .....that's supposed to be a bad thing? considering every single game is nonfree spyware

>>1663649 Defintely anything that was designed for a single core. I did this for the original Loki port of UT99 and it fixed the game from running at warp speed back to a resonable level without stuttering, still needed to cap the framerate since it can now run into the 1000's of frames on modern hardware. It's mostly to fix stuttering and network issues, since you can imagine the game's threads expecting to run at not only a fixed CPU speed, but also without the added inconsistent latency of the system trying to decide on-the-fly which CPU can best run code. For example, SupCom will desync and eventually crash around the 45-60 min mark into a game if you don't peg it to 2 to 4 cores. This is all made even worse by both Intel, with P and E-cores, and AMD with 3D Vcache on some of their cores, and a CPU scheduler that can't differentiate between core capabilities.

>>1667466 Get out of here Stallman.

>>1667616 I really ought to learn more about that stuff, I've been having pretty good luck with Lutris most of the time, but figuring out stuff from MyAbandonWare is a puzzle and a half.

>>1667414 If you're a dumb nigger who can't use Wine and its several front-ends? Yes.

>>1667623 why even use GNU/Linux if you hate freedom?

>>1667695 Because Windows is dogshit and there's no real alternative.

>>1667694 Wine was mostly dogshit before Proton, pretending otherwise is disingenuous

Sometimes games run at halfish speed till I close Steam and relaunch Steam then start the game again. Any idea what the issue is?

>>1667632 Also, older games really don't like the cpu frequency bouncing around since the introduction of p-states. If you can, set the cpu governor to a specific frequency, or one of the extremes of performance or powersave.

Copy past of another anon's instructions for installing and running GOG installer exe from the last thread because web searches refuse to show clean instructions for this. (start paste) >get lutris >top right corner: click on the [+] >"add locally installed gayme" Set up: <game info - name, runner (99.99% of the time "wine") <game options - create a prefix and ignore "executable" for now <save back to lutris main window >click tile of newly created game >next to "play" there should be a wine-glass icon >click arrow >pick "run exe inside wine prefix" >navigate to gog-installer.exe and run The installer will probably try to install within the faux-Windows folder of the wine prefix, but you can install it anywhere. >install compree >add .exe to "game options" >run That's it. Some games might complain about missing Visual C++ 20xxwhatever, try lutris' inbuilt winetricks (same icon/arrow as you used for the game installer) or just download the files from Microshart and run them inside the prefix. Done. (Under "runner options" you can, apart from the obvious selection of different wine versions, define DLL overrides for, say, mods and such.)

>>1667395 >>installs linux for privacy, freedom, and security >>installs Steam The way Steam conduct their Hardware Survey (very badly) makes me at ease they can't steal user data for shit.

Anyone has been able to use CCCaster/Concerto with Lutris? I wasn't able to get Concerto to look for a match so Im not sure if CCCaster is working.

who else gaming with dwm as your tiling window manager? just kidding, I spend more time tweaking and adding patches than actually playing games I actually had no problem playing games on dwm, but steam needs a systray for no good reason, systray patch works no problem as a gentoo user who has played way too much tf2, I haven't been able to play it since they released the 64bit update, nobody managing the source game git repos will address it, and myself and other users on different distros experiencing the issue are left holding our limp dicks in our hands I have to assume that when they updated tf2 to use the same version of VAC as cs:go (they were apparently more up to date because users reported my issue long before it appeared on tf2), that it cannot function properly when running within a chroot, which I would consider essential since source games have had so many exploits involving remote code execution, so VAC must be trying to do something that it simply can't do within a chroot, whether that be directly accessing some process or dbus session or what I have no idea I could try setting up a specific user for steam so it's not within a chroot but still isolated by less privileged account, which is much less secure but at least slightly more secure than running it as my normal user account

Can anyone tell me how improved nvidia drivers because nvidia-open? I have a laptop with intel+nvidia graphics and I want to know if I can switch to Linux.

>>1769205 >>1769205 >Can anyone tell me how improved nvidia drivers because nvidia-open? From what I read (AMD user, could be wrong), the new open kernel modules don't offer so much user-facing benefits, rather it's more for devs and such. There's a conspiracy theory that they only ever bothered making these open modules for the AI corporates and that could explain why there's virtually no difference after this change. The state of Novideo overall is as follows: Non-DX12 games perform pretty well, DX12 software sees %10-%30 less performance. They recently acknowledged the issues and said a potential fix is in the works, so the DX12 problem may be fixed soon trademark. Ray tracing continues to lag behind Windows performance as well, sounds like it's a more distant problem.

>>1768744 >can't They can do whatever they want, and the hardware survey is public facing data which is probably the only reason they ask permission. They very likely collect mountains of information for their internal analytics.

>>1771444 There's no change because the proprietary driver is the same thing as the open kernel modules except without GSP. Nvidia is probably gonna scap the "proprietary driver" completely because all their cards that are going to be supported in the future have GSP. So I don't see any reason why they'd care to keep that around. It's still the same nvidia driver it always was.

>>1769122 I remember a while back a friend and I got CCCaster working when I was on Linux Mint (wine) and him on Windows 10. I was the host player. It's also been 3 years and it just worked, so I don't know what to tell you.

>Heroic finally added native support for 32-bit applications About time.

>>1778670 Fucking finally

>>1667414 >>1667839 You're aware you an outright use proton without steam, right? There's even retard-proof options to do so like lutris.

Waydroid is amazing, bros. i've had it installed for a while now but never delved into it. This is retarded as hell but because my PS4 only friends don't have access to something like discord (ass service but thats another topic) for comms, I've been forced to instead figure out how to join their stupid PS Party thing. It doesn't have a PC app but it's available on Android, and that's where Waydroid comes in.

>>1662791 >linux users have been using wine to run games for a long, long time before valve ever gave a shit And it fucking sucked because nobody was throwing gobs of cash at it. t. ran steam on wine around 2009

>>1783197 >>1662791 The real MVP in all this is the one horny dev who single-handedly created DXVK to be able to play Nier Automata on Linux.

Is it possible to move the data one has on a Winblows machine to Linucks?

>>1784809 The short answer is yes so long as you don't format a partition during the Linux install, otherwise that data's likely gone. If you have 2 drives and nuke drive #1, anything that was on it is a memory, but drive #2 was untouched. If possible, transferring all the data you want to keep from the Windows drive to any other drive would do the trick.

How much would you anons be interested in a series of short tips on how to switch to Linux as frictionlessly as possible ? I've had the idea grow in the back of my mind while I was watching one of those youtube videos where poser youtubers pretend to know what they'd talking about, I thought, I can do way better than that if I cared myself. Another reason is I feel like I had the smoothest transition from winblows to Linux ever, and I think I know why, so I thought I could pass the knowledge so users have easier time in their own trials. Let me know if anyone cares.

>>1784958 I think it'll be a good idea as the platform grows since Distros are a bit hard for normalfags to navigate and you can gain a good amount of success from doing that.

>>1784958 Tips would definitely help newcomers, hell you could even make a short guide to distribute.

>>1784958 It would be good for someone (Me) coming back into Linux

>>1784968 >>1784977 Yeah I didn't mean make my own youtube videos. I don't have the free time nor the energy to carry out such a thing. I think I'll just write a few paragraphs here from time to time, that's the extent of what I think I'll do at the moment. >>1785033 >(Me) coming back into Linux Excellent. It'd be great to see more people who are interested in switching. Curious to see how many are thinking about it here, especially that Windows 10 is nearing its end-of-life, as I wouldn't want to write up essays when the only audience is existing Linux users.

>>1784958 Sounds like a neat idea. >poser youtubers pretend to know what they'd talking about Oh my goodness, I despise these people <Hai guise welcome to my first time Linux user guide <First you're gonna want to go to the Arch website Arch is great and all, but I would never recommend it to a tech illiterate Linux newbie who has never even used a command line before, and the reasons Arch is good are not things those people would even benefit from or care about. The only kinds of Windows users who should move straight to Arch are the ones how to use PowerShell. Despite this, those tech nerd focus distros are frequently pushed to newcomers by YTers.

>>1785553 My guy, I really doubt anyone has the ability to make arch look appealing to the lowest of low brow button clickers. Even if you use archinstall, the installation process looks vile compared to something much more appealing (to that demographic) like EndeavourOS or CachyOS. (which would be far far bigger mistake to recommend) Anyone who isn't ready for a lot of pain is gonna nope right out of the arch installer.

>>1784809 >Situation A: You take out the windows drive (drive A), install a new fresh drive drive B) with linux, then plug in drive A to get the data off. >Situation B: You partition a single drive and dual boot windows and linux off a single drive. Yes, but you would have to do a cold power off cycle to stop windows bullshittery from fucking with write permissions due to fast-boot. >Situation C: You are trying to move data from a computer that is currently turned on running windows to a linux one through either USB drives or network shit. I don't see why that wouldn't work, it will be a pain though.

>>1784958 For most people the process is fairly seamless because they only use their OS as a bootloader for jewtube and their social medias. Even their habit of collecting steam games they will never play is also seamless because I don't think steam bars you from buying stuff that wouldn't even run through proton. But yes, do that anyway, good faith discussion is always good.

>>1785553 >The only kinds of Windows users who should move straight to Arch are the ones how to use PowerShell. Speaking from personal experience, when dabbling with linux I first installed mint on a shitbox old laptop to watch jewtube on it then jumped straight into arch, and while it did take me almost 6 hours across 2 days, it was relatively painless. IMO it's just about not having troglodyte IQ, the arch install process is quite literally just a check of you being able to carefully follow basic instructions.

>>1784958 I think it's always a good idea to have technically competent people create guides or just a document of tips for new users. Shit, I've been daily driving Linux for two years now and I still check out guides that show up in my jewtube feed just for friends who are wanting to switch.

>>1786100 On paper this isn't needed or shouldn't be if stuff remained relatively stable. But honestly the nature of loonix is so unstable and everchanging that guides and tips kinda need to be updated constantly. Just look at the wayland/xorg situation for example.

>>1786100 I ended up doing this for my Mint installs and my Arch VM. The major hurdle is curating lists of programs from Windows to Linux or near equivalents to Windows exclusive programs.

>>1786194 I find it a bit ridiculous how it's always the first thing people ask, "how do I learn linux, where to start learning linux", as if it's the year 1978 and they need to learn BASIC to use the computer there really is no "learning linux", you install it which you should only have to do once, and then you update it, with if you use debian/ubuntu/mint then you've got the only functional gui for software management any other distribution you only need to learn the command for the package manager, but you don't need to be a software engineer to understand it, once all your regular software is installed it's like using any other operating system

>>1786194 >the nature of loonix is so unstable and everchanging that guides and tips kinda need to be updated constantly. A side effect of being a constantly evolving platform. I noticed this a while ago, but I always look forward for new development and updates from the Linux world, a contrast to the enshittified mess that is Windows 11 (and corporate software in general really). It's such a phenomenon how these shitty companies make you terrified of what they're going to ruin now when it's the other way around for something like Linux, where the only way is up. >>1786543 >The major hurdle is curating lists of programs from Windows to Linux or near equivalents to Windows exclusive programs. That's the first thing I'm going to cover. >>1786657 >I find it a bit ridiculous how it's always the first thing people ask, "how do I learn linux, where to start learning linux", as if it's the year 1978 and they need to learn BASIC to use the computer That's the single biggest challenge for people switching, the mentality. %90 of the difficulty of using Linux disappears the moment a person realizes other operating systems can exist. I shall write the Linux Tech Tips then, during toilet breaks then post here.

>>1783197 someone WAS throwing cash at the problem, but not for benevolent reasons. Your forgetting winex/cedega from the mid 2000's. Which, because they weren't contributing back to the base Codeweavers wine branch, set linux gaming back a decade.

>>1787126 >the mentality I agree. I put Linux Mint on my mom's laptop as it came with no OS pre-installed, and even though she doesn't know English, and can only do basic computer stuff, she didn't have problems using the laptop. I should mention that her needs were mostly to open an internet browser, copy and move files on her laptop, and view pictures and movies. If there was any software to be installed, or to configure the laptop to send video and audio output to the TV, then I would do it, but otherwise she was fine with it. It also helped that I presented it as an "easy OS", and not "hardcore hax0r OS". Now as a side-note, because I am sure people have heard how you have to use the command line to install software on Linux, for a lot of programs, and a lot of distros, you have a software manager, in which you can browse for software and install it, just with the click of a mouse(pic related). No command line needed. Plus if anons, just want to install vidya, well if you >buy them from Steam then Steam will do all the heavy lifting, if you get the from GoG, then you can use Gog Galaxy, Lutrix of Heroic Game Launcher, to do the install for you, again barely any command line needed. If you pirate them, then again, Lutris or Heroic. With that said, the command line is not hard, and it's mostly copy+paste some text you find on a website like the software webpage, or stack overflow.

>>1786657 >>1787126 I think "learning Linux" ends up just learning how to use the keyboard more often and maybe even neglecting the mouse. The GUI was (and still is) a mess to understand (and develop) compared to something like a tiling (or really a lightweight) window manager + terminal, at least for experienced users and system administrators. Most people today are used to the trackpad/mouse (or worse, a touchscreen) to navigate and manage their computer via icons and buttons, so the idea of having nearly everything done on a keyboard is harder than spelling or grammar. It could've been done with both Windows and macOS (and maybe Android), except that's hidden away because only developers and professionals do that. Do not kill the mouse entirely, though; creative software done strictly on the command line is extremely rare for a reason (and Wacom tablets already work fine, too). Also, wired KB+M gaming on Linux still "just werks" with no gamepad required.

>>1788096 >I think "learning Linux" ends up just learning how to use the keyboard more often and maybe even neglecting the mouse Not necessarily, you can still have a fairly convenient experience depending on the DE you choose. I'm on KDE and I don't really bother with the terminal much. Only on very slight occasions.

>>1788612 It was a pain for me since I had to do some unnecessary troubleshooting (from high-DPI to sleep mode problems), but that might've been making the grave mistake of recommending GNOME to a close relative. https://archive.is/hDdj0 They knew nothing about stuff like Wayland or X11 or even systemd. All they knew is searching on Google and using an iPhone.

>>1788096 I really disagree, a random mint install or whatever distro with KDE is basically as good as it gets for most normalfags that just use the computer as a bootloader for jewtube and kikebook. You will only run into issues with people that rely on the microjeet equivalent of google drive docs, some very niche gaming setups (particularly multi-monitor shit, through those issues can pop up even on windows) and "coyntent creetors" that sold their soul to adobe.

>>1789048 > (particularly multi-monitor shit, It's true. I have to dual boot for triple monitor gayman. Feels bad, man :(

>>1788693 >that article TGD I HATE GNOME

>>1788693 honestly wayland is going to result in a worse experience for anyone coming from windows because x11 already has everything a windows user might expect, whereas wayland requires a bunch of fucking around to find the right additional packages to install to get close to the expected functionality granted nobody should really notice the difference between systemd and any other init system, wayland just added more confusion to new users for no good reason

>>1788096 >>I think "learning Linux" ends up just learning how to use the keyboard more often and maybe even neglecting the mouse. Mostly true. But the important thing of UNIX-like's is learning that everything is a file, and more importantly, you can route command output directly into another command and do some really neat things you can't do on Windows.

>>1789669 >because x11 already has everything a windows user might expect The amount of missing features for Wayland are getting rapidly small: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues Besides, pretty sure X11 can't do some gaming/modern video features like VRR and HDR etc

>>1791402 HDR definitely not (but hey, HDR is still a fucking mess on Windows too so whatever) but VRR works on X11. Assuming you have only one monitor. The instant you plug in another monitor VRR just doesn't work, well, that is if you are running both monitors out of the same GPU. Something with how X11 handles it, the output from one GPU is one big "screen" even with two monitors, even if they are the same model two monitors. And even if you just accept your 60Hz fate I noticed a lot of games just microstuttered. Makes playing fighting games painful. So in order to use multiple monitors and having my gaming monitor be high-refresh-rate VRR I bought a shitty $10 R7 240 for the side monitors. I would use Wayland but some games just don't fucking work and I don't want to spend the time to dive into finding out why, but they work if I use X11 and not Wayland.

>>1791402 There's x11libre in the works and seems pretty active. Dunno how fat they got with "gaming/modern video features" but you can probably ask them or give them a hand https://github.com/X11Libre

>>1791605 *how far they got

>>1791523 Thanks for the corrections, anon. >some games just don't fucking work Interested in what games are those. Never had a game flat out not work so I'm curious.

>>1791402 Depends on your definition of a feature. Wayland completely bricks entire pieces of software that simulate keypresses. Regular users that don't want to spend their afternoons figuring out how to write a bunch of ydotool scripts just end up fucked because for whatever reason no one has cared to develop GUI automation software for Linux, and the few dead projects that sort of work aren't ever going to be re-developed for wayland. These are all things that have had solutions on Windows for decades that work flawlessly.

>>1792029 >your definition of a feature. My definition is whatever my DE of choice (KDE) deems a big enough feature to have it in their list that I linked in my previous comment. I say this because I never needed to fiddle with this display server stuff at all since switching, and only hear about issues from other users online, so I don't have first hand experience to know how lacking wayland is. I think it helps my gpu is AMD.

>>1791985 Well it's less corrections and more my experience with trying to have a not-annoying VRR monitor for gaming on X11. There are many such little annoyances that I have to band-aid fix but I guess that is just Linux sometimes. As for games not running on Wayland, for me I could not get Tekken 8 to run for the life of me, nor Cities Skylines which is native Linux. But other people say they can run it fine so I am unsure really what the deal is. Also games I did run on Wayland for the short time I tried could not use Steam overlay or it's game recording feature. Again others say it works fine. But there are so many variables between different people's Linux installs that it is hard to pin it down.

Is wifi really just bad in Linux? While on wifi if I get disconnected on Limbus Company the retry connection message never appears...

>>1792811 Works on my machine. Then again, I'm using Fedora at work.

>>1792162 one thing I only recently learned of being an issue in wayland is applications having no memory of their screen position because >that's not our problem - wayland devs and also fullscreen applications not knowing what monitor to open on, again because >that's not our problem - wayland devs it seems like the major selling point of wayland, is that the wayland devs aren't responsible for implementing features and everything needs to be implemented as a "protocol" by everyone else, whether it be a way to automate/simulate input, tell any application what monitor is which so that there can be a "default monitor" in the first place, or telling an application where the hell on the monitor it was so it wont default to center if you change application size wayland devs have offloaded so much work onto other projects to reinvent things that were just built into x11 that I don't know why any of them were so quick to adopt it, is HDR really so prevalent now? >>1792811 I haven't had wireless problems for many years, at least none that weren't because of faulty hardware. The only other thing I could think of as to why wireless would have an issue is if it's a usb adapter and is affected by a power-save feature that puts usb devices to sleep after a while, it actually has caused issues with usb mice suddenly disconnecting with no apparent reason and some distros I think have disabled the feature by default because it caused more issues than it solved

>>1791523 >So in order to use multiple monitors and having my gaming monitor be high-refresh-rate VRR I bought a shitty $10 R7 240 for the side monitors. Wait, how did you get multi-GPUs to work at the same time? I thought you needed special hardware and driver config for that?

>>1792932 No you don't need anything special. I have two GPUs, one nvidia and one AMD and there's no problem having monitors on each of them. (although I use Wayland unlike that guy). Getting 3d games using Vulkan to actually work on both of them is a different story on the other hand. They work on the primary GPU, but on the other one.. not so much.

>>1792839 >>1792871 Fuck my life I guess, I can play just about anything no issue at all, deadlock gets some net jitter but runs like a dream, I have no idea why Limbus refuses to connect...

I had a setup that sounded really nice on VoiceMeeter, but that's a Windows-only software. How would I go about emulating what Voicemeeter did? My music sounds flat and distracts me from enjoying vidya otherwise.

>>1662358 valve throwing money at wine was really helpful. you're not really dependent on them anymore with stuff like umu though.

>update kde >virt-manager icon changed it some ugly nigger shit >can't find the original icon or even accurately remember what it was What the fuck is wrong with these retards? It should be illegal to randomly change software icons. This is some windows grade bullshit.

>>1796797 What's the new icon?

>>1796798 They just switched it from what I recall being something like the new VM button as a generic icon to there ugly as sin official software logo. I can probably find the original icon if I sit here sifting through them for awhile but they didn't fucking put the word virt in the file name for it so it will take me fucking forever.

>>1796803 Gotcha, no worries

>>1796805 I'm beyond worried fucker

>>1796806 I meant you finding the original file, not your opinion about the logo

>>1796803 < "old" icon in question: Anon going mental over a white circle. And ackshwally, the "new" VMM icon is the same old logo for the software. The "old" white background one is the odd one, idk where KDE got it from.

>>1796900 Ah, so barely any difference. Oh well.

>>1796803 >>1796900 I really do hate how any time developers want to update a logo or UI they decide sucking the color out of everything is better. Just between those 2 logos you have one with a vibrant V and even the grays POP because of the white background, switched to a dull red V with grays that will just blend in with any dark background reminds me of when gimp decided to make all the tool icons fucking grayscale and simple shapes that I still have a hard time figuring out which tool they are, same with krita, is it so much to ask for colorful actually recognizable icons instead of just flat gray minimalist shapes?

>>1661379 i play gothic 2 1 and many more games on linux it's buggy but werking

>>1795618 I started buying games on Steam again because Valve tremendously helped make gaming on Linux viable, so I was able to stop using Windows.

>>1797844 I continue to buy games off Steam because 1- they have great regional pricing, so games are usually half the US prices here which is a godsend. And 2- it's just a really great service to be honest, coming from the playstation store, this shit is generations ahead. Piracy is a service problem and all that. Them being so pro-open source/Linux was the icing on the cake. I was also able to stop using Windows largely due to their help.

>>1798170 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Emrs8lw6s It'll be a sad day when he goes. If he doesn't have a solid successor then we'll likely lose Linux support.

>>1798189 It's good to see him healthy. About the doomsday secneario where Steam goes to shit after he's gone, I really need to look for a place that just shares cracks and nothing else, something like that ought to exist, so I can still access my library without the inevitable bullshit from the new heads. I haven't pirated PC games in years and I remember the experience was more miserable than it really should've been back then. Good thing a lot of games I have on Steam already have zero DRM on them, including Steam's: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

>>1798208 >cracks if you want repacks then there are plenty of sites, fitgirl being the most popular one

>>1798216 Fitgirl I know of. I remember the site being reliable with the downside of the waiting time for the game to unpack and whatever. Ideally though, I would like a website that offers only the crack .exe's, and not full game files, so I can just keep using my Steam game files with the crack added and carry on playing my bought games.

It's amazing that video piracy is an almost completely solved problem with stuff like Stremio but music/games don't really have anything like it.

>>1796900 No retard, I'm not talking about their logo. I'm talking about the task tray icon it defaulted to in KDE, which was just something akin to the new machine icon in the application. And I'm "going mental" over things changing unprompted on my computer any time I update. The icon is still there, it's probably in the icon list among thousands of others. But because I don't distinctly remember exactly what it looked like and because they didn't label it intuitively, it's just forever lost and I will be too lazy to find and change it to the original. I'm not complaining about some brand logo change fucktard, the icon was never their brand logo to begin with. Blow your brains out faggot.

>>1798208 >About the doomsday secneario where Steam goes to shit after he's gone, Steam is already shit and a sheckelstein tool with a "mr moneyberg can tell us to remove anything from the platform and we will instantly do it no questions asked" clause on their ToS now. Frankly the fuck are any of you fearing? >>1798228 The generic steam "crack" is piss easy to use anon, and it's still accessible through 3 minutes of basic googling.

>>1798228 Since mister faggot over there can't be arsed to even link it one of those "steam cracks", here you go instead: https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/ An offline steam emulator that just need a little bit of reading and setting up but will transform any of those steam only DRM games into something you can use anywhere. But he is quite right in that steam has gone to shit since a while ago and is on full sheckel jewing mode. But it is convenient and reliable. Gog still mog in 99.8% of cases because of the offline installers, thoughbeit. God knows I wouldn't have spent 2k+ hours in rimworld alone otherwise.

>>1769146 For me, it's Hyprland, the best tiling window manager. I've never used dwm, was thinking of giving it a shot

>>1804941 I wish the floating stuff got more development. I'd like to have a modern, small Wayland compositor that supports everything but I really do think the mouse beats the competition in the end.

>>1804710 Thanks for actually helpful message, anon. I've known about Goldberg for as long as I've known about Steam, just know read more into it and fully grasped how it works. I also just learned about Steamless, which seems to be a complimentary tool (?) If need, from what I gathered. Lastly, I just found out about [SPOILER]gamecopyworld dot com[/SPOILER] which does exactly what I asked for in my initial comment of a website that has only the cracks for Steam game files and not whole dowbloads. I'm interested to hear why exactly Steam has gone to shit in your opinion. Hopefully it's not a nothingburger like the little "ya don't own this" message they had to add recently.

>>1805093 Here is a gift for you, newfriend.

>>1805107 Many thanks, friend.

>>1663506 Try running the games with steam https://github.com/PhilipK/BoilR Or try some other launcher like bottles, faugus, winezgui, portproton.

>>1798243 It more complex to set up, but this comes close. https://github.com/AbdelrhmanNile/UnderTaker141

>>1798243 With music you can listen to almost any song on Youtube anyway, plus there is addblocker and youtube-dll. You can even make playlists as well. Another thing, is that unlike with TV streaming, 99% of all songs are on all music streaming platforms, so it doesn't matter if you are on Spotify or Apple Music, you still have the same selection, or at least that is what I was told. Assuming it is right, it means that you don't need to subscribe to multiple platforms, so it's akin to the golden age of TV streaming when Netflix had all the shows, and a lot of normalfags didn't pirate as much as before, because Netflix was overall a better service. Even with Stremio and the correct addons, I still have cases where I want to watch a more obscure movie and even if I do find it, it barely has seeders, so either I download it the old fashioned way, or hope it's on the Criterion Channel. An alternative reality would have been one, in which there are still 20+ TV streaming services, but all shows are on all platforms, so all Disney original content is on Netflix and HBO Max, same with Netflix and HBO original content being on Disney, but the reason why that model works on Spotify, and not Netflix, is that artists make most of their money from concerts not Spotify views, whereas with movies, it's just Netflix.

>>1805794 This is awesome, lmao. Thanks for sharing, anon.

I am getting pretty fucking sick of this shit it feels like 75% work mostly okay, but the other 25% shit the bed. The biggest problem I've recently encountered is that Fallout:New Vegas refuses to recognize any mouse input. I just wanna go back to windows at this point.

>>1813874 Pretty sure that game is a mess on every OS.

>>1813874 FNV (and I think FO3) handles mouse input weirdly. Look at the Fallout_default.ini and see if the mouse inputs are set correctly, it might be looking for a controller. If you have no idea what you're looking for, go to the [Controls] section and paste fForegroundMouseAccelBase=0 fForegroundMouseAccelTop=0 fForegroundMouseBase=0 fForegroundMouseMult=0 bBackground Mouse=1 // or edit this value to 1, it exists by default unlike the others) But yeah, welcome to Linux. People who act like it's at the it just werks state are delusional or have no idea what the average user experience is actually like.

>>1813874 It works on my Mint machine, using Lutris, I even installed mods on it.

if you're going to use proprietary spyware then why the fuck did you even switch to GNU/Linux?

>>1816266 Because it's a fundamentally better operating system that isn't actively malicious and trying to auto update with backdoors and adware 24/7.

Has anyone gotten Tropico 4 working on Wine? Apparently every Tropico game minus 6 was built on its own engine. Might explain why I couldn't run it through Wine, had to resort to installing it on Winblows instead. >>1789048 I got to agree with this Anon. I gave my desktop with Linux Mint Xfce to my dad and he uses it perfectly fine with mouse, I don't think he's ever used the terminal after 3 years of Linux.

>>1816390 >Tropico 4 working on Wine? Have you tried running it through umu/Proton ? Plain Wine isn't as good with games usually.

>>1768717 Too late to repent now >>1667395 Thank God the industry spiraled down to hell around gaymer g8, all I do is emulate consoles and play GOG releases of old games through Lutris geg

>>1667395 I can't say I know a single person who uses Linux for such asinine reasons.

>>1816390 Use Lutris or Bottles

>implying privacy must either mean living in a shack in the woods or installing a public camera inside your bedroom, and nothing in between. Every bit towards improving one's privacy counts, it's fine if one uses a certain invasive service if they absolutely have to. Improvements take time, and they accumulate. No one is expected to suddenly stop using all Google services overnight once they decide they want to have a little more privacy in their everyday lives.

I have a problem with an old VN, it's https://vndb.org/v418 , the deal with it is that it starts but a few lines into the story the game shut-downs completely. The ISO came with a NoDVD Patch, but I can't install it for some reason, but I don't think that's the problem anyway. Does anyone have any experience with old visual novels that could help me?

>>1825906 maybe it's copy protection?

>>1825906 With old VN's it's usually two things: 1. Specific versions of an old video codec and all the obscure DirectShow libraries like quartz and some version of Windows Media Player 2. Setting the locale in the wineprefix to JP and having a compatible font. Even if the game was properly ported, the .exe is still expecting some japanese to bootstrap itself.

>>1827643 >Setting the locale in the wineprefix to JP and having a compatible font If its a linux there's probably a couple of more hoops to do, both codec and locale related. Its sometimes not enough to have JP in wineprefix, you need to have JP locale in system itself, at least in a couple of bottles i knew JP fonts not always work in linux without system itself being JP.

I believe ProtonGE should deal with the missing codecs.

I'll have to give that steam emulator a shot this weekend, I wonder how it will work on Gentoo. In regards to installing Linux distros it looks like most of them automatically handle most of the work for you nowadays, and going for a 'harder' OS like Gentoo or Arch is because you want to know how that distro works and you want to see how our OS operates in detail instead of treating the OS as a 'background' for your usual tasks. Gentoo's installation is still a 'pain' in that you have to do specific steps to get it installed and configured but the instructions provided work with little issue. Hell you don't need to do the genkernel stuff and just install the whole bin, it works right out of the gate. I use KDE Plasma + dmw, dmw's desktop screens work very nicely for management but I notice that some games like Haydee don't display the graphics correctly (light shaders do not work right), but KDE doesn't have those gaming issues, and is more windows-like. Any other Gentoo users here?

>>1827643 It's probably a codec thing, because it reaches this line before it shut-downs

>>1829880 >RURUR That's a very funny thing for a Japanese studio to name a game, that's their way of mocking English. Imagine releasing a game called "CHING CHONG CHING CONG"

>>1830147 One of their largest cities is literally named a SLUR, why would China do this

Is there a practical way to selecticely block internet access to single-player games launched via Heroic? Opensnitch just cause them to hang for a long time and firejail only works when applied to whole Heroic Launcher.

>>1830879 Also technically the largest city in the world, but that gets messy depending on how you calculate it. At a certain point big cities are really several cities stuck together.

>>1831932 >By Wine standalone, I mean Wine that you install following the instructions from winehq.org or from your distribution, that is, Wine without intermediaries like Bottles or installed through Flatpak. This tip may not work for some games/programs, I'll explain why below: in a Terminal/Console (without root) run winecfg, in the window that will open go to the Libraries tab, and in New override for library select from the drop-down list wininet and click Add, then click Edit and change Load order to Disable, then click OK and then click OK again. That's it. Found this comment on leddit.

At this rate it will be Cachy or Mint for me. That Winboat thing looks promising too, as I'll be able to use CSP without too many problems.

>>1813874 >>1815410 Figured it out eventually, "360 controller" was set to 'on' by default.

>>1835256 All that work and it's the asinine controller input - Everytime I reinstall NV it does that to me too & I'm on Win10 the controller thing is hilarious I'm glad anon didn't break his game out of frustration because of that retarded feature lmao.

>>1835659 >All that work and it's the asinine controller input That's something I've been guilty of as well. The simplest problem occurs in a game and like anon here, I instantly get flustered and feel like it's Wine shenanigans and that I need to get tinkering etc. Then it ends up being the game itself is to blame, regardless of OS.

>>1667395 "Gamer" is term that serves as a testament to ones resolve to play as many fun games as possible. This is the singular best defined trait that distinguishes a gamer from a casual enjoyer. Admission that you don't use Steam at all means that you will play less games going forward. Truly, that would be a fate worse than games journalism.

>>1835882 >Admission that you don't use Steam at all means that you will play less games going forward. What are you, retarded? That's what piracy is for. Buying games =/= playing them, its been a longrunning meme (based in reality) that most users' Steam libraries are largely untouched.

how do I get wine to play midi files jesus christ

>>1836134 You need to actually have midi support on your system. It's never something that's set up for you.

>>1796797 This reminds me of all the seethe-fueled blogposts bored teen me used to read in 2005-10 on the library computer during recess, when Cannonical started systematically making the most retarded and frustrating decisions they could think of which resulted in many forks and even the creation of Linux Mint lol. Although what you describe is relatively rare in the open source world, you have to keep in mind that there is no central authority playing the role of quality control, and sometimes some egotistical niggers derail solid projects in ways more radical than a simple icon change. >>1817153 >and nothing in between I agree with you only on the condition that the inherent slippery-slope nature of all the things "in between" be kept at the center of discussion and every consideration related to digital life. The moderation meme is frequently used to deceive people. >>1817153 >No one is expected to suddenly stop using all Google services overnight I would even argue against this kind of hasty perfectionnism. It's like diets: they never work. It's all about having a healthy lifestyle, healthy habits that do not compromise one's security or privacy. Most of the time in my experience it only serves to exhaust the energy of willing improovers and fluster them with unrealistic goals.

>>1836268 I have ALSA installed and still wine can't recognize MIDI.

>>1837378 ALSA is the audio driver for sound cards. You need actual MIDI hardware for that to be adequate. Do you have hardware synthesizer, EMU10K1 for example?

>>1836134 I could be retarded here, but I think you need something like https://www.fluidsynth.org/ to do midi files.

>>1837421 You're not retarded. Fluidsynth is a software synthesizer which is what you'd need if you don't have hardware synth.

>>1836134 You need both a midi software synthesizer like fluidsynth and a MIDI sound font, depending on what kind of midi you're trying to emulate. such as "WeedsGM3.sf2". Which is what I use for my own doom midi emulation.

>>1835882 >ones resolve to play as many fun games as possible. What about people that fall into a genre or even just franchise hole. They can play a massive amount of serious non-casual games, or even just one game, but with little variety. >Admission that you don't use Steam at all means that you will play less games going forward. This is bait.

>>1838140 >What about people that fall into a genre or even just franchise hole. They can play a massive amount of serious non-casual games, or even just one game, but with little variety. Personally I think it's better to play a few hundred racing games, and rack up thousands of hours of playtime, than to have the same amount of hours on just DOTA 2 or LoL. At least with the former you will become very knowledgeable in an area of gaming, and could probably recommend some very good, obscure racing game, while with the later, you probably still won't be in Diamond league or whatever is called. >t. my friend has over 8000 hours in DOTA 2, but still played other games as well I want to believe that over half of that is just him having the game opened in the background

Going to try out the slowly growing meme of straight up using the tty/framebuffer or a ratpoison/stump-like before this year ends. Part of me would like to go full design autism of a Lisp-based multiplexing in lieu of tmux or some window managers in Guix or Alpine or Gentoo, but that's for when I actually know a shred of code.

>>1839616 it's too bad emacs is single threaded because i love exwm otherwise

>>1839616 there's enough utilities that can use the framebuffer to make that totally doable, I had done that at one point and there was not much I couldn't still get done using just the framebuffer and tmux on a tty

I just switched over to CachyOS and am trying to get all my emulators installed. Apparently, the dev of duckstation and people mainting the AUR for Arch distros have been having a slapfight and so Arch distro support is wobbly. I'm not sure which instructions I'm supposed to follow, only to stay away from the packages on AUR because the last one the dev made he did his own packaging and the way he did it isn't allowed on the AUR. I'm going to try and follow the flatpak instructions on his git and see if that works.

>>1841617 Why not use another PSX emulator?

>>1841625 I've been through them repeatedly, and last I recall, Duckstation was the best one. I think before that I used mednafen or something, something with almost no UI, and before that, I just used some random core in Retroarch, which I don't really like anymore because of all the useless overhead.

>>1841629 That makes sense, just cause the guy behind Duckstation seems to be a massive sperg.

>>1841617 >>1841629 It's unfortunate but if you want to avoid Stenzek's autistic crashouts, you have to use the RA core or just plain Mednafen if you hate RA that much. Mednafen has frontends if the minimalism bothers you, at least.

Posting this here as well since the other thread is passed the bump limit. Is this drive on the verge of being fucked, or totally normal? This is my old Windows drive I'm in the process of migrating from. I'm moving to an external SSD with CachyOS, and if I can get everything working and everything I need off of Wangblows, I planned to then just move(clone?) everything back to this m.2 drive after wiping it. I already tried looking up the bulge OwO yesterday and couldn't find much info, however I did find some conflicting bits of info, one saying don't dare boot up the drive, and one saying that this is completely normal. >>1841647 I mean, if it just works, I probably won't need to bother with updating for a long time if ever unless there's a bug with something pretty niche. I recall it already had really good compatibility with most of the PS1 library, and the installation guide says the flatpak install is only deprecated as of 2025/07, so it's still pretty recent. I'll go ahead and test it out on some games first, but I'm going to take the opportunity transfer over my entire library of emulated games which will take a fat minute.

Also, RyuJinx was available on the n00b package installer that comes with CachyOS. However, this latest version, or maybe just the Linux version, has this new rainbow icon. I don't recognize the pattern. Is it just a new colorful look, or some obscure new pozz colors?

>>1841617 Just download the .AppImage (which is basically just portable .exe for Linux: https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/download/latest/DuckStation-x64.AppImage ((direct link for download)) Do keep in mind the Duckstation dev is schizophrenic with a hate boner for Linux for some reason, so expect anything to happen in the future.

Pro tip: it is recommended you create a 'Applications' folder in your /home directory, that houses your different .AppImage programs. I forgot why exactly but just do it.

>>1841695 That's Ryubing, a fork of Ryujinx that got taken over by some tranny.

Also, I don't know where to post this, but this game is fucking sick. We need an Immersive Simulation thread.

>>1841734 Well then make one.

>>1841699 >with a hate boner for Linux for some reason I read about that, and it sounds like it's just a beef with Arch and how the AUR works. >Just download the .AppImage (which is basically just portable .exe for Linux: The instructions said something about having a certain version of Ubuntu or better, which isn't an arch based distro, right? Flatpak didn't say anything about that I chose that. It's already installed anyways, just have to rig up the launcher shortcut.

>archtard is still pissing into his own face instead of admitting arch is retarded just use mint omfg

>>1841842 It's more like the guy getting hounded on his issue tracker by a thousand retarded archbabies who created their own problems expecting him to fix it.

I got Crash Bandicoot running. Everything seems good, if a bit slower to start than it was on Wangblows. I do feel like KDE Plasma itself might be buggy. I also figured out how make a shortcut for Duckstation without it having a regular launcher or file to link to. Just make a link-to-application without any file path and paste the konsole command used to launch it into the argument field flatpak run org.duckstation.DuckStation. Bam, pseudo-launcher. Had to dig up the shortcut icon though to make it look nice. Next up is PCSX2 and RPCS3. Why is it only the Nintendoo emulators that already have easy working packages? As a bonus, I managed to de-trannify the RyuJinx shortcut and window icon with, mkdir -p ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps wget "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Arcitec/319050bf44fa3ba7c0e001f3b3a62eee/raw/7d89c3697962ff854a5a03c722fe3398dafce4d9/ryujinx.svg" -O ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/io.github.ryubing.Ryujinx.svg >>1841842 No :^)

>>1841996 >I do feel like KDE Plasma itself might be buggy. I turned off my bottom monitor and instead of just leaving me with what was on the top one, which is my main one, it moved the contents of the bottom monitor to the top one, hiding my taskbar away and everything else that was on that monitor. That's fucking stupid.

>>1842052 Jesus Christ. It lagged out so bad I accidentally ran three instances of one program on the desktop shortcuts. One instance of it finishied booting and I closed it. The other two are frozen. I even killed them via system monitor and the windows are still fucking stuck in the taskbar.

>>1841769 I think for creatintg threads I'd have to register an account, which is unfortunate as I'm not homosexual. >>1841797 >I read about that, and it sounds like it's just a beef with Arch and how the AUR works. Nah, he also had a minor episode once when he asked in the patch notes if people used the flatpak to tell him because it gets broken often, when I showed up to his discord (I know, shut up) he was like nun-uh I'm still discontinuing flatpaks, I was like well bitch why did you ask flatpak users to come and let you know then ? Then the conversation turned into why flatpak sucks and is a broken mess (used by thousands of Linux devs) and lecturing me on how to install my apps (the dev is a windows user). In short, he's a narcissist at the very least. >>1841797 >The instructions said something about having a certain version of Ubuntu or better, which isn't an arch based distro, right? Flatpak didn't say anything about that I chose that. It's already installed anyways, just have to rig up the launcher shortcut. Which instructions ? Flatpak and .AppImage are distro agnostic. >>1841996 >Next up is PCSX2 and RPCS3 Also available as .AppImage on their githubs. >>1841996 >I also figured out how make a shortcut for Duckstation without it having a regular launcher or file to link to. Just make a link-to-application without any file path and paste the konsole command used to launch it into the argument field Are you trying to make desktop shortcuts ? It shouldn't be this complex to do it. Just right click on any app from the app drawer and click Add to Desktop.

>>1841797 >I read about that, and it sounds like it's just a beef with Arch and how the AUR works. Forgot to mention, he has a beef with open source in general. The emulator is literally not FOSS anymore, which is anti-Linux.

>>1842565 >Just right click on any app from the app drawer and click Add to Desktop. For some reason Duckstation didn't show up, so I made one the "hard" way. Might be because I used flatpak. I may reinstall with appimage since you say it's distro agnostic.

>>1842052 >>1842081 So it's not Plasma that's the issue, it's fucking CachyOS that must be shitting itself. The broken duplicate programs were still frozen there when I woke my computer up this morning, and didn't go away after retarting KDE Plasma. I had to restart my computer to get rid of them. However, I've noticed it can now and then be slow as hell to load the lock screen too, often lagging out even there and then suddenly picking up my inputs all at once. It also has a habit of opening a bunch of the windows I had open befor shutdown, before loading KDE Plasma, often long before it.

>>1842565 >Are you trying to make desktop shortcuts ? It shouldn't be this complex to do it. Just right click on any app from the app drawer and click Add to Desktop. I got the AppImage instead and uninstalled the flatpak. AppImage seems faster, or maybe CachyOS decided to stop being shit? I still however have to manually make a shortcut. The AppImage does not show up in the Application Launcher. I also had to download the shortcut icon for DuckStation because I lost the one that came with the flatpak install.

>>1842933 Pro tip: Meta (Windows key) + Ctrl + Esc. And send whatever stubborn 'not respnding' window straight to hell. It does sound like your KDE is unnaturally slow, can't tell what's wrong with it. If you don't want windows to persist across shutdowns, you can disable that from Settings > scroll all the way down to Session.

Also, fyi but most Linux users don't populate their desktops with icons and instead leave it clean and appreciate the wallpaper. That's mostly because compared to windows, it's blazing fast to just get to a specific file or open an app through the few different options to do so.

>>1843038 I'll try that next time, thanks. It didn't persist across a shutdown, just across a sleep mode. >>1843049 Nah, I prefer not to do any navigation for things I use regularly+things I want to constnantly be reminded exist. I also have multiple screens if I really want to see an unobstructed wallpaper.

>>1843049 Exactly how would it be blazing fast compared to windows? In my experience most GUI workflow is pretty similar. (Except OSX which is retarded)

I want to install Linux but my issue is that I have an nvidia gpu and intel cpu. Hardware bashing aside (I'm sure some will do so), is there any Linux distro that plays nicely with these components these days? I hear nothing but conflicting accounts. Some say it's fine, some say don't try it. >Just buy another PC with AMD you fucking monkey! Not an option at the moment. It's either install Linux with these components or install microwin/LTSC and deal with it until Microsoft does something truly heinous and breaks those options.

>>1843081 For example, on KDE, I can just type out any app name or certain file, and a search box will show up automatically and give results immediately. And no ads or AI results as well. Another neat fact is KDE indexes some of your user folders like ~./Documents , so if I want to pull up a certain document, but I don't remember its filename or where it's located, I can just type any word that I remember is inside the document, and it'll show up, also instantly. Example video below, I hit the recording shortcut, started typing out the app name then hit enter with no delay in between. You can argue Windows can do the same but theres less bullshit in Linux especially around the Search function. >>1843181 Intel has always been fine. Nvidia is also doing better these days. You hear conflicting accounts because until a few months ago it wasn't as good as it is now.

>>1843204 I didn't make it clear that I typed out the app name while on desktop without prompting out the search bar that appears on top, by default KDE just picks up whatever keys you hit when you're on desktop and have nothing launched.

>>1841682 I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be seeing until I opened the image and saw it literally cracked, what the fuck? how the fuck does that happen? >>1842572 speaking as someone who autistically screeches about free and open software, I would argue that software not being foss does not make it anti-linux since linux is just a kernel, it may be antithetical to the movement that led to linux becoming a thing and while I don't support proprietary software nothing outright says a developer can't make proprietary software for the linux kernel, they probably don't just want to give anyone the right to modify their project but that's why the gpl exists to ensure developers don't get fucked in the ass by anyone who would take their project and make it closed source and charge for it as happens with the MIT license that corporate entities keep promoting as "the most free license" because it gives them permission to do exactly that >>1843181 the only thing you really have to worry about with nvidia is that you cannot run the wayland display server, at least not last time I checked, so you would have to use a distribution that hasn't already dropped x11 support (many of which still have it because it's fucking retarded to discontinue the most featureful display server just because wayland is the "new hotness" with HDR support)

>>1843289 >the only thing you really have to worry about with nvidia is that you cannot run the wayland display server, at least not last time I checked This is what I mean, outdated info.People have been gaming with Nvidia in Wayland for months now. If the Cachyos anon here was to use a distro that defaulted to X11, his multi-monitor setup wouldve shat itself.

>>1843289 I'm literally using nvidia on wayland, in fact I don't even have x11 installed.

On Linux/CachyOS with KDE Plasma, browsing with Ungoogled Chromium and the fucking UI for shit just keeps freezing in weird ways. I wake my computer up from sleep, all my tabs with threads update just fine, including this one, and I can begin typing out a reply to someone in the quick reply box. As soon as I try to click the second post number, the tab stops working. My cursor inconsistently changes to the hand when hover over the page, I can't click anything, type into any reply window, or highlight text, but I can still scroll. Reloading the page changes nothing. All other tabs work just fine. I have to go into another tab and reopen this page from there for the fucking page to work again, and also lose everything in the post I was just typing before. This is the third or fourth time this has happened, and I think it might have happened once in the default Firefox browser as well. What the fuck is this gay shit?

>>1843746 Opening a bookmark and then going back one webpage in the history also restores functionality.

>>1843204 >For example, on KDE, I can just type out any app name or certain file, and a search box will show up automatically and give results immediately. This is fucking cool. I thought I had to Alt+Space to get that search box. >>1843289 >saw it literally cracked, what the fuck? how the fuck does that happen? You see a crack? I just saw the plastic cover has deformed and raised up in the middle from heat when I took the drive out.

>>1843757 >This is fucking cool. I thought I had to Alt+Space to get that search box. On my laptop, I got so used to using KRunner I rebound it to launch just with the Meta key, it's so versatile I replaced the taskbar/app menu hotkey.

Reminder that end4 has the best dotfiles for hyprland https://github.com/end-4/dots-hyprland

>>1843746 >>1843749 This also happened on a startpage search just now. Going forward to a new page and then back didn't fix it this time. had to close the tab and open a new tab.

>>1842565 >Also available as .AppImage on their githubs. Grabbed the PCSX2 Appimage directly from their site. Nothing happens when I try to run it. It has permission to be an executable. Running chmod +x pcsx2-v2.4.0-linux-appimage-x64-Qt.appimage and chmod a+x pcsx2-v2.4.0-linux-appimage-x64-Qt.appimage with a terminal opened form the directory and they both returned nothing. I decided to install the pkgbuild instead, but it couldn't install all the dependencies, and now I'm still missing -> kddockwidgets-qt6 -> plutosvg -> plutovg

>>1843967 So, all the necessary dependencies could be found on the AUR and installed easily, just had to make sure to install plutovg before plutosvg because the latter is dependant on the former. Tried installing PCSX2 again and it still failed. [803/864] Building CXX object pcsx2-qt/CMakeFiles/pcsx2-qt.dir/pcsx2-qt_autogen/mocs_compilation.cpp.o ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting...

>>1843341 >use a distro that defaulted to X11, his multi-monitor setup wouldve shat itself How? I've used multi-monitor setups on x11 since before wayland was in development without issue. >>1843757 it looked like right after the crucial brand mark it snapped in half

>>1843994 I heard it can be cause by not have Qt-6.9+. I'm at Qt-5.15, and I find it odd that the default installed isn't the latest whole number build. Their site offers and online installer, but it requires login, so I grabbed their 6.10 source version instead, but it's feeling like a real pain trying to install it. >>1844032 >it looked like right after the crucial brand mark it snapped in half It's not snapped, that's just the edge of a reflection because it's warped there. The plastic cover is raised in the shape of a rectangle, and it's all shiny because this pressed against that soft material between the drive and the heatsink, which squeezed out some non-conductive oil.

>>1843204 The last time I tried KDE was back when SuSE was relevant. I guess I'll check out how it's going. Gnome always seems to suck balls though.

>>1844237 GNOME feels like sabotage.

>>1844237 >>1844352 GNOME sucks complete and total ass

Ungoogled Chromium froze while qt6 was building, and wouldn't unfreeze once it was done, so I had to kill it. I continued to follow an install video, and it skips the step where he actually opens the program after it's built. I have no clue how to run the thing that was just built. [qmake --version] still says I'm using 5.15, so I assume I'm not done and need to to do this next step. This is a long fucking headache just to install an emulator, let alone trouble shoot it for running games, and I'm still not even sure if I'm going in the right direction. Lots of other shit relies on Qt, doesn't it? Will updating to Qt6 break a bunch of shit? Dragging and dropping files to the browser is a total crapshoot. Decides to work at complete random. The only consistent thing about it is that dragging a file to my tab bar will open two tabs with the file instead of one, for some fucking reason, if it works at all. It also feels like everything is hanging more and more often despite low CPU/GPU/Memory usage.

>>1844495 you really shouldn't be building qt6 on your own, is qt6 not available in the repo? it sounds like there's a lot more wrong with how applications keep freezing up, you may want to check the display server logs in /var/logs, the only time i ever had gui applications run sluggishly and freeze was because the video driver wasn't loaded and it fell back on the framebuffer which was woefully inadequate

>>1844672 >you really shouldn't be building qt6 on your own I don't even know if it's the correct solution to my problem, but it's the only lead I have. >is qt6 not available in the repo? There's a ton of things related to it in the AUR, but I not sure anything there is Qt6 itself. There's even more in the CachyOS Hello Package Installer. Is pic related it, or is it just a utility for configuring it after you have it installed?

>>1844691 I just checked the cachyOS repo and it does have qt6-base listed which is what you want https://packages.cachyos.org/package/cachyos-extra-v4/x86_64_v4/qt6-base

>>1844697 >-base Thanks for this. I was able to find it in the Installer Repo. It claims it's already installed. I may want to uninstall it and reinstall it in case my shenanigans fucked it up. Will this break anything critical as I do so? qmake -v still returns QMake version 3.1 Using Qt version 5.15.17 in /usr/lib Was this the wrong way to find out my version? Is QMake 3.1 for some reason using Qt5 even though I have Qt6? >>1844672 >it sounds like there's a lot more wrong with how applications keep freezing up, you may want to check the display server logs in /var/logs, the only time i ever had gui applications run sluggishly and freeze was because the video driver wasn't loaded and it fell back on the framebuffer which was woefully inadequate There's a bunch of things in that folder. No idea what's what. The readme said to run journalctl because the old style of log for something isn't there anymore. I ran it, and neither driver nor framebuffer were in the any of the lines it returned.

>>1844730 >journalctl I may have needed to run this longer. It warned me it was still active when I tried to close the command konsole.

>>1844731 Ah, I see now. It stops generating lines unless I manually hold down the arrow key. Scrolling will not generate new lines. I generated 1000+ lines. No framebuffers. Some mentions of drivers, but nothing that looked like an error or cancellation of anything. I can also hold Enter to generate more lines. Not sure how long I want to do this though.

>>1844739 you can filter results from journalctl with '-g=searchterm' where searchterm can be something like "driver' or 'failed'

>>1844739 It started cutting off the old lines at some point. Don't know when. Somehwere over 1000 though they all became actions related to me moving the Qt source I downloaded from one folder to another, so there was little useful info.

>>1844750 Danke. Zero results for framebuffer or failed. Honestly, zero results for failed doesn't sound right. I'm sure some things ought to have failed somewhere. 4 results for driver, Oct 13 04:40:12 cachyos-x8664-external wpa_supplicant[950]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=DRIVER type=COUNTRY alpha2=US Oct 13 04:40:12 cachyos-x8664-external wpa_supplicant[950]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=DRIVER type=COUNTRY alpha2=US Oct 13 12:28:04 cachyos-x8664-external wpa_supplicant[950]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=DRIVER type=COUNTRY alpha2=US Oct 13 12:28:04 cachyos-x8664-external wpa_supplicant[950]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=DRIVER type=COUNTRY alpha2=US

>>1844758 you could also try launching chromium from a terminal so that you can see any error that might be occuring before it locks up

>>1844766 I'll give this a try, but I'm running out of time today.

>>1843967 >>1843994 >>1844036 >>1844672 >>1844691 >>1844697 >>1844730 I got it working. Thanks for all the advice, but I finally ended up seeing a post somewhere that says "just use lutris". I ran Lutris, which I initially assumed wouldn't contain emulators, but rather be a gui/interface to run individual games in WINE or something. Nothing about PCSX2 came up, but looking up "Lutris PCSX2" brought up the Lutris site which had a direct link to a flatpak install of PCSX2 2.4.0. Runs DMC3 with minor graphical glitches at the borders of some 2D objects. Switching to Vulkan got rid of 99% of it. I still have one question though. Have I seriously fucked something up by building Qt6 and stopping before configuring it?

>>1844766 I have long built habit of using ctrl+C to copy things. I accidenlty tried using ctrl+C thinking I had something else selected, when actually, the console was in focus, and closed out of Chromium twice this way before figuring out ctrl+C closes the running program from the konsole. Chromium ran for about 3h20m before crashing on it's own. I did not encounter the previous issues this time. I put the computer to sleep and woke it up several times during this time. It crashed while I was trying to look up how to run flashplayer in linux. Here are the logs from the konsole. copied using highlight and middle click for my sanity. I've lost this post a couple times already. [133754:133765:1013/210246.081656:ERROR:net/cert/ev_root_ca_metadata.cc:160] Failed to decode OID: 0 [133754:133817:1013/210259.812832:ERROR:content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc:287] GLib: g_main_context_pop_thread_default: assertion 'stack != NULL' failed [133754:133818:1013/210259.812855:ERROR:content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc:287] GLib: g_main_context_pop_thread_default: assertion 'stack != NULL' failed [133754:133816:1013/210259.812899:ERROR:content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc:287] GLib: g_main_context_pop_thread_default: assertion 'stack != NULL' failed [133791:134068:1013/210419.084173:ERROR:components/viz/service/display/display.cc:277] Frame latency is negative: -0.293 ms [133754:133754:1013/211510.061438:ERROR:ui/compositor/compositor_animation_observer.cc:65] CompositorAnimationObserver is active for too long (586.615s) location=Button@ui/views/controls/button/button.cc:668 [133754:133754:1013/212246.197790:ERROR:ui/compositor/compositor_animation_observer.cc:65] CompositorAnimationObserver is active for too long (301.306s) location=Button@ui/views/controls/button/button.cc:668 Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null) Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null) [133754:133754:1014/052811.105808:ERROR:components/dbus/xdg/request.cc:165] Request cancelled by user. [133754:133754:1014/054052.771648:ERROR:ui/compositor/compositor_animation_observer.cc:65] CompositorAnimationObserver is active for too long (104.231s) location=Button@ui/views/controls/button/button.cc:668 [133754:133754:1014/060334.465415:ERROR:ui/compositor/compositor_animation_observer.cc:65] CompositorAnimationObserver is active for too long (1343.18s) location=Button@ui/views/controls/button/button.cc:668 [133754:133754:1014/063449.319986:ERROR:ui/compositor/compositor_animation_observer.cc:65] CompositorAnimationObserver is active for too long (116.24s) location=Button@ui/views/controls/button/button.cc:668 Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null) [133754:133754:1014/145509.068650:ERROR:ui/compositor/compositor_animation_observer.cc:65] CompositorAnimationObserver is active for too long (339.73s) location=Button@ui/views/controls/button/button.cc:668 Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null) Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null) Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null) [133754:133754:1014/152018.544085:ERROR:chrome/browser/ui/views/user_education/impl/browser_user_education_interface_impl.cc:154] Attempting to show IPH IPH_ExtensionsZeroStatePromo before browser initialization complete; IPH will not be shown. [133754:133754:1014/152520.701684:ERROR:ui/compositor/compositor_animation_observer.cc:65] CompositorAnimationObserver is active for too long (84.9749s) location=Button@ui/views/controls/button/button.cc:668 [133754:133754:1014/153427.936266:ERROR:ui/compositor/compositor_animation_observer.cc:65] CompositorAnimationObserver is active for too long (163.235s) location=Button@ui/views/controls/button/button.cc:668 [133754:133754:1014/155237.061073:ERROR:ui/compositor/compositor_animation_observer.cc:65] CompositorAnimationObserver is active for too long (524.075s) location=Button@ui/views/controls/button/button.cc:668 [133754:133754:1014/161250.983051:ERROR:ui/compositor/compositor_animation_observer.cc:65] CompositorAnimationObserver is active for too long (1175.87s) location=Button@ui/views/controls/button/button.cc:668 [133754:133754:1014/161259.118943:ERROR:chrome/browser/ui/views/user_education/impl/browser_user_education_interface_impl.cc:154] Attempting to show IPH IPH_ExtensionsZeroStatePromo before browser initialization complete; IPH will not be shown. Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null) [133754:152980:1014/161329.125468:ERROR:content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc:287] GLib: g_main_context_pop_thread_default: assertion 'stack != NULL' failed [133754:152978:1014/161329.125538:ERROR:content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc:287] GLib: g_main_context_pop_thread_default: assertion 'stack != NULL' failed [133754:152979:1014/161329.125647:ERROR:content/browser/browser_main_loop.cc:287] GLib: g_main_context_pop_thread_default: assertion 'stack != NULL' failed fish: Job 1, 'chromium' terminated by signal SIGTRAP (Trace or breakpoint trap) Since nothing was broken this time until the crash, probably only the last line is of any use.

>>1847086 I just got Ruffle. Works just fine, which suprised me, because I've been pretty used to be being a janky program 8moe uses to run flash in the browser and only working half the time.

>>1846924 I'm assuming you didn't actually install qt6 after it was built, if I remember the AUR correctly you have to run the makepkg script and then tell pacman to install the local package that was built, so no changes should have been made to the system. >>1847086 hm, only the frame latency would tell me there's an issue with rendering, but the compositor animation observer error I would assume first is related to the issue of the browser freezing up try the solution mentioned here: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/issues/1740#issuecomment-1172393369 >>1847113 ruffle can be hit and miss depending on the flash file, flash movies and simple games I would expect to work fine but really complex games might be a different story

>>1847551 actually after checking the arch forum it looks like this has been an ongonig issue for a long while with no solution

Windows 10 is dead, gay and I always hated it and the fact that I had to downgrade from 7 to it. I no longer need WangBlows for college related bullshit. Time for me to move to Linux, going to start with Mint, Year of the Linux Desktop Nao. Should I install KDE over the default Cinnamon shell? Any tips for a beginner?

>>1847906 No. Don't do this. Mint's KDE is not maintained. Ideally you'd start with a KDE distro instead.

>>1847705 I might have to change my defualt browser. Ungoogled Chromium has been my go-to for a very long time though. >>1847906 Mint is supposed to be EZmodo, but I've heard it doesn't play well with Nvidia cards and that CachyOS which popped up in the last few years is the best for vidja gaems and uses KDE by default,. I'm still working on fully converting over myself, but it seems decent. If you want to try it out too, and avoid a bunch of the mistakes I made along the way, you can read this thread and also the Windows 10 death thread starting from this post >>1834926

>>1848261 Thanks anon, good shit!

is there a good method of running repack installers on linux? its been awhile since i actually bothered to sail the seven seas but from my past experience wine/proton really didn't like repack/crack wares. my only method in the past was installing into a vm and copying the uncompressed files back to my linux host.. i vaguely remember some linux piracy sites popping up that used flatpak+bottles but i cant find them anymore (if they still exist)

>>1848373 I've successfully installed a repack for testing through Lutris using the default Wine-GE, nothing to it, it Just Worked. Oh, one thing is after installation, Lutris will most likely not know where the game's executable is, so you might have to point to it in the game's preference menu yourself.

>>1848373 GOG installers just werk when run through Lutris, but for fatguy repacks I have to add the setup.exe to steam, set a proton-version and use PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=0 as a launch option. Otherwise the installer shits the bed with an unarc error regardless of the repack size/compression intensity.

Big development for Novideo bros: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/nvidia-dlss-support-in-progress-for-nvk-the-open-source-vulkan-driver-for-nvidia-gpus/

>>1848637 >DLSS NVidia, you can keep it.

>>1848261 I was under the impression that Mint had a decent driver manager that will pull the nvidia drivers in for you.

>>1848992 I had problems with another system on MATE, that also had NVIDIA download installer. 1. When i installed first time it installed 560 that died (whole system stopped operating GPU on first boot setting) the moment i restarted computer 2. When i installed it again it installed 470 and that crashed mid installation 3. Third time i downloaded from fucking nvidia website 570 (now 580), and it worked flawlessly from nvidia's own installer. Something fucky with inbuilt nvidia installers at times.

>>1847906 Mint, cinnamon, choose recommended driver in driver manager for nvidia drivers. It just werks. Don't fuck with it until you know more.

>>1848992 You're right, it does have fully featured driver manager. I guess the reason why some people still don't recommend is perhaps Mint's update release schedule, I would assume that driver updates take time to release on Mint like everything else there.

Got the PS3 emulator running, and Demon's Souls seemed fine through open cutscene. There was screen tearing, but that was an issue in Windows too that required tinkering. However, once the game started, everything bu the UI was solid black. Not sure if I can fix this with emulator settings or it just doesn't work right on Linux. Anyone else get Demon's Souls running on Linux/CachyOS?

>>1849937 Tried to wakeup my computer and it refused to do so. Monitors showed black screens and television refused to see anything connected to that HDMI port. Had to restart my PC, which also seemed to take much longer than usual. Took longer than usual for the desktop enviroment to load in too.

>>1849937 >>1850066 Can you give any more info? it sounds like something went very wrong with your DE, maybe a package conflict?

>>1849937 Adjust the game-specific emulator settings: https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Demon%27s_Souls

>>1850656 Thanks for the reminder. Totally forgot about all that. Fixed everything but the screen tearing. Not worried about it though. I figured it out before and I'll figure it out again if I want to run Demon's Souls for more than testing. >GPU configuration >Resolution scale threshold 640 x 640 What the fuck is up with this setting? It's a slider that doesn't snap to clean numbers, and doesn't allow manually entering numbers. With the window maximized and my mouse speed set as low as possible, it would skip from 639 to 641. I had to extend the window until it was more than three times the width of my monitor before I could get this damn thing to let me set it to 640. >>1850243 Unfortunately, I don't really have any more info to give.

>>1850950 >What the fuck is up with this setting? Anon I managed to easily set it to 640x640 with the mouse cursor, and also arrow keys change the value by 1 so that works too.

>>1851129 >and also arrow keys change the value by 1 so that works too. I thought of this, but only after doing it the hard way. I don't know why it skipped 640 for me.

I'm having issues with my Flydigi Vader 3 Pro randomly disconnecting and reconnecting. I moved the wireless USB transmitter to the front of my PC to shorten the range, since I sit a bit away from the computer when using the television, and that might have stopped the issue, at least for now, but I didn't have this issue in Wangblows. Could CachyOS need some setting to be toggled to allow the USB transmitter to send out a stronger signal and remain connected? Also, can't seem to use the extra buttons. On Wanglblows, to use them, I had to get that gayass chinky Flydigi SpaceStation controller configuring manager. I don't think it would work on Linux, and it's probably spyware anyways. I've found https://github.com/ahungry/vader3, but it says it's for making the buttons work in dinput mode, which I believe xinput is the default anyways and I've no clue how to change it. Regardless, I tried to install it and it failed with the first command I put in, warning: the compiler differs from the one used to build the kernel The kernel was built by: clang version 20.1.8 You are using: gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20250813 CC [M] vader3.o gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-mretpoline-external-thunk’ gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-fsplit-lto-unit’ gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-fdebug-info-for-profiling’ gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-mllvm’ gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-mllvm’ gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-improved-fs-discriminator=true’ gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-fbasic-block-address-map’ make[4]: *** [/usr/lib/modules/6.17.1-2-cachyos/build/scripts/Makefile.build:287: vader3.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** [/usr/lib/modules/6.17.1-2-cachyos/build/Makefile:2016: .] Error 2 make[2]: *** [/usr/lib/modules/6.17.1-2-cachyos/build/Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory 'FILEPATH/vader3/hid-vader3/src' make[1]: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/6.17.1-2-cachyos/build' make: *** [Makefile:12: modules] Error 2 rm ../VERSION make: Leaving directory 'FILEPATH/vader3/hid-vader3'

>>1852267 >Flydigi Vader 3 Pro Where did you even hear of this no-name Chaiwanese controller ? No judging I'm just impressed. The companion app most definitely won't work, yes. Don't bother with it.

>>1852358 It was the best bang for my buck if I wanted 6 extra buttons to bind hotkeys to. I don't recall the prices now, but other controllers with just two or four extra buttons seemed ludicrously priced. This one was somewhere around $70-$80.

>>1848261 >but I've heard it doesn't play well with Nvidia cards Linux in general does not play well with nvidia cards. At some point, you will run into an issue and have to solve it, but the best course is usually to not update immediately and wait for other suckers to deal with it first. On Nobara (based on Fedora) old Nvidia cards aren't officially supported. Nobara is "da gayming OS", and is maintained by GloriousEggroll who works on Proton, so I figured it was a good pick. Steam Deck is based on Arch, and from reading so is CachyOS. Both Fedora and Arch are MASSIVE, so either one or something based on it and you'll probably be fine. Don't mind the formatting, just testing it. Also, avoid GNOME at all costs or you'll go back to Windows.

>>1852541 >At some point How much time are we talking? I've been using Linux for 3 years and have encountered zero issues related to drivers. I guess you're talking about AAA shit but I don't touch those.

>>1852267 it's probably a feature for usb auto-sleep, it causes usb mice to do the same thing and while it makes sense for a laptop to sleep devices but it's a pain in the dick for an actual desktop and occasionally leads to usb devices just not working randomly you can tell if it's enabled by running this command: cat /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/autosuspend if it's anything but -1 then it's enabled, the numerical value is the seconds it waits before sleeping a usb device, not all usb devices support this and is probably why it breaks shit, you can test disabling it by running modprobe usbcore autosuspend=-1 if it works then you want to add this to the kernel paramters so it's persistent across reboots

>>1852590 There was an issue just a month or 2 ago, it was fixed recently. Filelight had no visualization. Currently there's an issue where MPV will crash with vulkan renderer and I think interpolation has to be enabled. Before that there was an issue with memory, I think, that caused games to be unable to launch. Different people had different symptoms, though. For me I was able to launch on second try, someone I talked to was unable to until restart. There was also an issue where you were unable to run games in gamescope, it'd just crash. That was fixed in 580 driver I believe.

>>1852629 It's set to 2. >modprobe usbcore autosuspend=-1 I tried this, and then checked it again. It's still set to 2. Thanks for the tip though.

>>1853511 afaik, once you execute that modprobe command, it'll only work for the current boot. The file you checked that still says 2 is the persistent one that will keep the value from being changed the next time you boot your computer. So you should carry on with testing, then if it does work you change the parameter so it becomes persistent as the anon said.

>the most active place to talk about linux is /v/ sad that /t/ is so dead, but at least now I know where to ask for advice once I finally decide to move to linux

>>1853586 I think it's only really active now because I started pestering everyone with questions as I try to move over. Though It's still more active than /t/ even when I wasn't posting.

Asking here, as well as the Hydrus thread, since it may not be an issue with just Hydrus, but something to with Wayland/XWayland/X11/KDE Plasma/etc. Drag and dropping files to my browser was iffy until I changed a setting to stop it from requiring me to hold shift while dragging and instead move files by default. However, it's still buggy when dragging files from Hydrus to my browser. Most of the time it doesn't work. When it occasionally does, if I decided to drag the file to my tabs, it'll open two tabs with the file instead of one for some reason. Currently to post things I find with hydrus, I have to first export them to a folder which I can then drag and drop them from. Strangely, opening the file browser to the files location in the Hydrus database also fails to properly drag and drop. I have to create a copy of the file in a new folder for it to work consistently.

>>1853609 >Strangely, opening the file browser to the files location in the Hydrus database also fails to properly drag and drop. I have to create a copy of the file in a new folder for it to work consistently. Actually, all drag and drop to browser attempts seemed to have stopped working right. I had consistent behavior with files dragged directly from the Dolphin file browser yesterday, but that seems to have ceased functioning now. I'll have to settle for now for exporting to a temporary posting folder and than opening the file browser by clicking the file upload box and then selecting them, for now.

>>1853609 might be a wayland issue because of the way applications are isolated from each other

>>1853757 Seems to be the case, and has been known for over a year and a half. Looks like it's fucked and I should just give up on drag and drop if I want to use this setup. https://archive.is/55mQX https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484018

>>1847942 >>1849058 Thanks lads, I'll be suing Mint before the year is over.

>>1854523 >Suing FOSS

>>1854552 He probably meant using. Phoneposters amirite.

Ryujinx installed just fine, but I neglected to test it. I got Catherine running, and am experiencing some of the same issues I did when I ran it on Windows before configuring the emulator for it, and some I'm not sure I had before. Is there no list of per game settings like there is for RPCS3 and PCSX2? I could have sworn there was. Addendum:I restarted the game and magically most of the real issues disappeared. I could never get it to work perfectly before, and the compatibility list says it has an issue with GPU video decoding, so no amount of tinkering may ever fix it. It's playable, and that's good enough. Also, anon lied. It's not just the Linux version of Ryujinx that got pozzed. Their official website uses the super rainbow flag too.

>>1853609 Drag and drops works fine for me from Dolphin to Firefox. I can drag an image and drop it into this reply box, or drag it into the tabs section and it opens the file in a new tab.

>>1854916 You in CachyOS with Wayland and KDE Plasma?

>>1854922 Fedora KDE and Wayland.

>>1854916 It works pretty inconsistently for me on the Wayland session. I noticed I have to wait like one second before I let it go.

Trying to run Cuphead through Lutris. It installs fine, and will launch fine the first time when I launch it through the installer as it's done. However after I close the game, Lutris keeps doing things with it for a minute. Not sure if that's normal, but when I try to launch it through lutris afterwards, it can't find the .exe. >The file /home/user1/Games/gog/cuphead/drive_c/game/Cuphead.exe could not be found The exe is there in the install folder, but two directories up. The /game folder under /drive_c doesn't even exist. Curious, I tried launching the .exe directly and it automatically throws it to WINE and just werks. So I guess I only need Lutris for some initial installs? Also, where the fuck is the Linux/CachyOS version of /User1/AppData/Roaming/Cuphead so I can transfer my damned saves. Found it. Had to show hidden files, then go to /home/user1/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/user1/AppData/Roaming/Cuphead/. Ran Cuphead and my old save works just fine. I'm, guessing if I just copy over the entire AppData folder then 90% of my stuff with saves will just work when I run old .exes, granted WINE can handle those games, but there's also a lot of junk in there I definitely don't need. It should be safe to just grab every folder with a game title in it and copy it over, right?

>>1834777 <it seems like the top recommended anti-virus for any linux system is "Lmao, just don't use one and don't download virus GG EZ ; )" >The top recommended anti virus is that nobody is going to bother and make malware for 2% of the market and forget about the billions of windows computers around the world. This just sounds like it's common place for Linux users to bareback the net under the assumption nothing is going to attack them, but wouldn't that make it incredibly easy for anyone actually going out of their way to make a Linux virus since they can assume most of those users aren't even going to be trying to stop viruses? For instance, while looking up how to run Cuphead, I ran into a site called freelinuxpcgames, which provides Cuphead natively in Linux despite there being no official native Linux version. The site is a piracy site, it's full of broken English, but comments under some of the games suggest people are actually downloading and running games from this sketchy site. I've also heard tell of some unofficial Linux version of Minecraft that was fine for years until one day someone looked into it and found there had been malware buried inside it after a certain version number.

>>1859980 >people are actually downloading and running games from this sketchy site Yes. There is unofficial cuphead: https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6403781 Games on "unity engine" can be transferred to become "native". >So I guess I only need Lutris for some initial installs? Lutris is only one of many ways. People with enough time on their hands can make better executable. Like taking portable wine installation and restructuring it for another game.

>>1859980 it's not like there doesn't exist malware that can take advantage of linux, and bundled shit in flatpaks and appimages are a security nightmare it was I think a few years ago a popular application was being distributed with a crypto miner in it, of course I can't find the fucking article any more with every search result being "how to install crypto mine on linux" this is, however, the reason why security on linux operates on the basis of "least privilege given" to everything, privilege escalation is not easy for malware to accomplish on linux and most exploits rely on very specific conditions that cannot be guaranteed to exist on every distribution, and systems can be hardened by simply have different configurations like using musl instead of gcc, using runit instead of systemd, using apparmor, limiting applications to only specific accounts with no other privileges or going as far as using chroot to further jail applications from the host system most linux users are safer just by virtue of not all using the same distro, but like with anything if a user is going to download malware and run it manually with "sudo" that's on the user for doing something genuinely stupid there's clam-av for virus scanning which was originally intended for scanning email attachments and would break when attempting to scan a large file, maybe it's been updated to handle large files in the last 20 years.

>Can a virus in a Windows program run through WINE infect a Linux computer <Yes, though unlikely viruses can detect they're running in WINE and start making Linux calls instead <To prevent this, you can sandbox WINE or Bottles, or run such programs in a Virtual Machine >Can a virus escape a sandbox or VM? <Yes, though unlikely viruses can escape a sandbox or VM I think I'm just going to live with my computer AIDS if my security through obscurity fails. The only way I'd get a virus would be either pirated games and eroge. >>1860104 >but like with anything if a user is going to download malware and run it manually with "sudo" that's on the user for doing something genuinely stupid I'd never sudo something pirated, and that's where I'd most likely pick up malware, especially from my old collection of shitty eroge. I'm mostly concerned about running stuff like that with WINE. An anon last thread mentioned bottles, but I've seen conflicting things online about whether it's sandboxed by default. If I installed Bottles, would it be any different from just using Lutris or Heroic Games Launcher? What if I used one of the launchers for only for official version and apply that firejail thing I've heard of to another other one for all pirated exes?

>>1860182 >but I've seen conflicting things online about whether it's sandboxed by default. If I installed Bottles, would it be any different from just using Lutris or Heroic Games Launcher? Ah nevermind. They explain sandboxing on their website. I just have to use the flatpak version.

>>1860189 Bottles does not like my system. (WARNING) No vkd3d found. (INFO) Installing component: [vkd3d-proton-2.14.1]. (WARNING) Failed to download [https://github.com/bottlesdevs/components/releases/download/vkd3d-proton-2.14.1/vkd3d-proton-2.14.1.tar.gz] with code: 404 != 200 (WARNING) No nvapi found. (INFO) Installing component: [dxvk-nvapi-v0.9.0]. (WARNING) Failed to download [https://github.com/bottlesdevs/components/releases/download/dxvk-nvapi-v0.9.0/dxvk-nvapi-v0.9.0.tar.gz] with code: 404 != 200 ** Gtk:ERROR:../gtk/gtkwidget.c:4024:gtk_widget_ensure_allocate_on_children: assertion failed: (!priv->resize_needed) Bail out! Gtk:ERROR:../gtk/gtkwidget.c:4024:gtk_widget_ensure_allocate_on_children: assertion failed: (!priv->resize_needed) It appears multiple things that it's dependent on are 404ing when it tries to find and install them. Am I correct in assuming that if I install, >https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vkd3d-proton-bin And one of these >https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=nd&K=nvapi&outdated=&SB=p&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go that it will then work, or is the Gtk:ERROR unrelated? Or are these necessary for it work properly and I need to install them via the AUR, and the Gtk:ERROR is unrelated to them, needing it's own solution?

>>1859606 >lutris afterwards, it can't find the .exe. It is common for pirated games to not install seamlessly on Lutris and Co. I touched on that here: >>1848516 >>1859606 >I tried launching the .exe directly and it automatically throws it to WINE and just werks. So I guess I only need Lutris for some initial installs? No. For a reason I forgot, it is recommended you keep games from running on the same wine prefix. Launchers like Lutris and Heroic etc do that for you, running .exe's from your regular installed wine doesn't. Keep using Lutris/Heroic for your games, Bottles for other windows programs. >>1859980 In my initial message I just touched on one aspect of Liunx's security, there's a lot more but it's pretty redundant really when it comes to talking about needing anti-viruses. You shouldn't even need an AV even on windows, other than the built-in windows Defender, and even that can be discarded, though that's getting to a yellow zone of danger. Other than what anon said above, another aspect of the security of Linux is the fact the kernel and relevant packages run the internet. Trillions of dollars are at stake here, and unlike Windows, everyone from individuals to multi-trillion corporations can chip in and contribute to improving the kernel's security. Here's a funny story of how definitely-not-israel attempted and failed to infect Linux systems around the world with a backdoor: https://daily.dev/blog/xz-backdoor-the-full-story-in-one-place In short, yes, being secure on Linux (as is the case on Windows, but even easier to accomplish) boils down to not being a massive idiot running unknown code one found on the internet. You'll be fine. >>1860272 If you installed Bottles as a flatpak, it would've neatly installed these alongside during its own installation, one of the many benefits of flatpak. Never installed it as a system package so I can't help you with that.

>>1860286 >It is common for pirated games to not install seamlessly on Lutris and Co. This was installed via Lutris using the install file from GOG that I had already downloaded. After I encountered the issue, I uninstalled it and reinstalled it via the GOG login within Lutris, but that didn't fix it. >No. For a reason I forgot, it is recommended you keep games from running on the same wine prefix. Launchers like Lutris and Heroic etc do that for you, running .exe's from your regular installed wine doesn't. I found a way to point Lutris to the exe properly and it works now, however, as you said, it's some different isolated wine prefix now, and suspect this is why launching through Lutris, I no longer have my saves. Does each wine prefix create it's own set of directories mimicking Windows with its own c:/users/user1/AppData/ ? Do have to move saves from my Windows AppData to a separate AppData directory for every game I want to retain save data from? And have to wait until I've launched the game once for Lutris to create these directories? >>1860286 >If you installed Bottles as a flatpak, it would've neatly installed these alongside during its own installation, one of the many benefits of flatpak. Never installed it as a system package so I can't help you with that. Yes, this was it failing to install them alongside it as seen in the code I posted. This, flatpak install flathub com.usebottles.bottles is installing as a flatpak, isn't it?

>>1860323 >however, as you said, it's some different isolated wine prefix now, and I* suspect this is why launching through Lutris, I no longer have my saves. Does each wine prefix create it's own set of directories mimicking Windows with its own c:/users/user1/AppData/ ? Do I* have to move saves from my Windows AppData to a separate AppData directory for every game I want to retain save data from? And have to wait until I've launched the game once for Lutris to create these directories? I noticed the other folder Lutris was trying to find the .exe in was another c: drive folder it created right beside the .exe. Found the AppData folder there, copied my saves over again, and they work through Lutris now. Getting saves back from old games is going to be incredibly tedious this way, but I won't have to do it often. I'll just copy over every game folder from AppData on the Windows drive into /oldsaves folder and manually pull from it as needed. Something else to note. Every time I close Cuphead in Lutris I get a tiny error window, >Fatal error in gc >GetThreadContext failed It causes no issue besides dismissing it being an extra step to close the game.

>>1860323 >This was installed via Lutris using the install file from GOG that I had already downloaded. After I encountered the issue, I uninstalled it and reinstalled it via the GOG login within Lutris, but that didn't fix it. I see, supposedly is tailored to run GOG games more seamlessly, can't tell why it doesn't work for you. Because it's more visually pleasing, I use Heroic launcher for GOG (and Epic, and soon EA) games, it installs and works if you install the game through the library page that shows all your games when you login. I suspect offline installing your GOG games would yield the same result encountered on Lutris. Heroic is cool, and endorsed by GOG themselves, give it a shot. >>1860323 >Does each wine prefix create it's own set of directories mimicking Windows with its own c:/users/user1/AppData/ ? Yes, that's what a Wine prefix is, creating essentially a mini windows directory tree for windows programs to find their AppData folders etc to use them. >>1860323 >Do have to move saves from my Windows AppData to a separate AppData directory for every game I want to retain save data from? And have to wait until I've launched the game once for Lutris to create these directories? No. You install the game through Lutris, fix the issue of Lutris not knowing where the game's executable is, then that's it. No manual intervention required. Lutris will handle creating the prefix etc. >>1860335 Oh you mean copying game saves from your windows install, in that case then yes. It won't be as short as just dragging one AppData folder from windows to Linux, but it's not too bad either, you can quickly access the wine prefix for every game in your Lutris library from the gui by right clicking the game, so that at least eliminates having to dive through the countless folders manually. >>1860323 >Yes, this was it failing to install them alongside it as seen in the code I posted. This, >flatpak install flathub com.usebottles.bottles >is installing as a flatpak, isn't it? You are using the flatpak, I just launched Bottles on my system and I can easily download the components from Preference > DLL Components. It could be that it was a server/network error, just try downloading Soda or whatever Bottles calls their Wine again.

>You are using the flatpak, I just launched Bottles on my system and I can easily download the components from Preference > DLL Components. >It could be that it was a server/network error, just try downloading Soda or whatever Bottles calls their Wine again. Sorry, I miscommunicated, This flatpak install flathub com.usebottles.bottles ran fine. This flatpak run com.usebottles.bottles gave me a setup wizard for Bottles that failed with stuff I described above. >>1860335 >Yes, that's what a Wine prefix is, creating essentially a mini windows directory tree for windows programs to find their AppData folders etc to use them. I've noticed the one for Cuphead is half a gig. Is this because Cuphead is a large game, or will this quickly eat a lot of space if I launch a bunch of different games? I was going to test this, but upon right clicking an .exe I noticed there was an option to run in Bottles, I clicked it and put me through the setup wizard again, however when I reached the step it failed at last time and waited on it, it worked instead of aborting. Not sure what went wrong or where where. I decide to try creating a bottle to run an eroge. After a while a KDE Plasma notification popped up saying it was created successfully, but the Bottles window is still stuck on >Creating Bottle... >This could take a while. I might have to kill it.

>>1854927 >Fedora

>>1860388 I killed Bottles and when I launched it again, it had successfully created the bottle. However, it can't run jack shit without configuring because it's looking for files where they don't exist, >Cannot locate basic info data >D:\run/user/1000/doc/b43f77e5/Data/BasicData/Game.dat /Data/BasicData/Game.dat exists directly beside the .exe I'm trying to run, and normally that's where it would look. But I'm guessing Bottles only looks inside wherever the bottle was created, so in order to run something in bottles, I have to first find where the bottle is and move the entire game directory there? I finally found the directory the .exe was looking for, fucking buried even after I opened a folder directly to the bottle from within the Bottles window. It made it's own copy of the .exe, part of the containment process I assume, but I'm not allowed to paste all the other game files there, which I also assume is part of the containment process. >Could not make folder /long file path the ui shortens anyways/Data/BasicData/ pops up. I also tried changing the "working directory" for the bottle and for the launch options for the .exe to zero effect. What the hell is supposed to be the process for running games that don't normally require installation?

I think I've finally copied over everything I might need from my Windows drive. Having cut out Windows' default bloatware by now using Linux along with a ton of things I decided I would no longer need and probably should have deleted ages ago anyways, I saved about 120.7GiB. >Windows Drive: 1203GiB >Linux Drive: 1082.3GiB I can probably purge a lot more by going over old games that I don't think are worth keeping, as well as replacing old games with Linux versions. I'm going to keep the Windows Drive, but remove it from my computer at some point, and hopefully replace it with something that doesn't have a meltable plastic cover like this one, >>1844036 >>1841682 Asking again, beause I never got a clear answer. This is not normal and I shouldn't be using this drive, right? I've heard you can remove the cover and replace it with a metal one, so if that's feasible I'd prefer to do that and save the drive. At this point, I think i'm practically done moving over. The only issues I have left with CachyOS are praying drag and drop is fixed, and getting Bottles working for extra safety when running pirated games. It took over a week, but I think I can finally get back to playing my games instead of tinkering for the most part.

>>1862800 >as well as replacing old games with Linux versions Most of the time the "Linux" version of an old game is actually a very old version of WINE, and you'd be better off using the Windows version with modern Proton. New season in April. :)

For the second time CachyOS refused to wake from sleep mode. No clue what causes it. I didn't have much more running than usual, and it's woken up from sleeping for a short while to sleeping overnight without issue. This sleep was a little under an hour. Happens like, 1 in 20 times and it forces me to reboot.

https://pst.moe/paste/zudjhg So I've had to nuke-n-boot this laptop about 3 times now trying to put this together, But I did a rough install, post-install tweak guide for archlinux. The only stuff it doesn't touch on is gayman and WINE. It's, well, it's a mess, and I ultimately settled on sticking to KDE because the DE was snappier. XFCE4, despite having a lower memory footprint, was also more sluggish. My XFCE4 notes are still in because, well, I wrote them, no point in deleting them just yet. The intended audience isn't really clear either, since I was originally compiling notes like this as cheat sheets and quick reference for my own use.

>>1863291 I experienced a similar issue for years, which I don't remember if it was because I had too small of a swap partition or not. It was a sporadic issue like yours where it would randomly happen one out of so many times, only thing I can remember is checking dmesg and syslogs a lot.

>>1863471 I only need as much swap as memory, don't I? I couldn't have been using more than 10GiB of RAM at the very most when putting my PC to sleep.

>>1863515 Half. So 32 GB RAM / 16 GB Swap.

>>1860388 >Is this because Cuphead is a large game, or will this quickly eat a lot of space if I launch a bunch of different games? It's a non-issue. I just checked my Steam library now and apparently, 24 or so games and software installed from Steam amounts to 10gb of Wine prefixes. Not a big deal, I don't think.

>>1863653 >24 or so games and software installed from Steam amounts to 10gb of Wine prefixes That sounds about right for nearly an extra 500MB per game. I suppose it is negligible, and if I get Bottles working, I can just delete any bottles for games I tried but didn't like so the extra prefixes aren't just sitting there wasting space, right? Just feels like bloat, but necessary for security I guess.

So I installed cachyos, and I picked UKUI as my desktop environment. Once you all get done telling me I'm retarded for picking the commie desktop environment, what desktop environments are decent for gaming but are decently customizable? I just want to be able to add a windows 7 style taskbar on the bottom which doesn't collapse all my browser windows into a single one.

>>1863834 >which doesn't collapse all my browser windows into a single one. What do you mean? Like when all windows under a single program are under one icon on the taskbar, and you have to hover over the icon to see the list of windows?

>>1863846 >Like when all windows under a single program are under one icon on the taskbar, and you have to hover over the icon to see the list of windows? Yeah, that annoys the hell out of me.

>>1863834 Probably KDE. Most feature complete Wayland implementation too.

>>1863868 I was leaning towards that. Now I just need to figure out how to switch desktop environments without going through the hassle of reinstalling cachyos entirely.

>>1863872 And yes, you can ungroup windows in the taskbar in KDE.

So the LLM I asked said I can just change it by installing KDE with Pacman and switching on the login screen. Is that bullshit? I don't want to try it and end up with shit even more fucked up than it already is.

>>1863900 Just follow the instructions for installing KDE on the Arch Wiki and you should be fine, I think. One thing you can do is create a new test user just to see if it works at all without clobbering your configs.

>>1863952 I'm not worried about fucking up my ukui configs, since I can't really change them at all. Every time I reboot I have to punch in a command in the terminal to change the primary monitor. So unless you're talking about other configs I wouldn't think were related to my desktop environment, I guess I'll just go ahead with those instructions from the arch wiki.

>>1863900 You can install multiple desktop environments, though sometimes it can break some things if you're installing two heavy DE's like Gnome + KDE.

>>1863872 window grouping is just a panel setting that can be disabled on every DE (or should be) the login manager lets you switch between desktop environments, there's no need to constantly reinstall

>>1864512 UKUI's options are extremely limited and more than half of them don't actually work or reset after ~a minute of being changed. The audio settings menu crashes the settings app when clicked. All the text is machine translated into English and frequently there isn't enough space for all the english text since the Chinese was much shorter. I'm not going to bother trying to fix this, I'm just going to replace it with something that works.

>>1864540 Some other issues I have are that there is a screensaver that displays really kitschy engrlish motivational phrases that switches itself back on after reboots, qt5 programs don't work with dark mode, which is absolute hell on my eyes at night, it plays annoying jingles on startup and for some other stuff, and I can't figure out how to change those at all. UKUI has that authentic Made in China quality.

>>1863872 >Now I just need to figure out how to switch desktop environments without going through the hassle of reinstalling cachyos entirely. Ii's generally recommended you go through the hassle than install multiple DEs post-install and pollute your system. Will thank yourself in the future if you just start over.

>>1864741 Then I guess I'll look into creating a separate partition for my home directory. I'll be damned if I restore everything from backup again.

>>1865570 That is a Good Plan. In tinkering, I had to reinstall archlinux 3 times because I broke shit with sudo pacman -Rnsc. Your app and DE settings get stored under /home, so once you get reinstalled, you're really just picking up from where you left off.

>>1865581 >Your app and DE settings get stored under /home Shit, it's a DE problem I'm trying to fix. I thought UKUI sounded neat because I'm a retard. I just had to use the power button to reboot because I literally could not tear the focus away from a text box, I could move my mouse around and type in the text box, but nothing else.

>>1865581 Is gparted a good tool for the home directory partition thing?

>>1865613 Ctrl + Alt + F3 puts you in the TTY. Once you log in to it, you can treat it like the terminal. You don't have to (and it's probably not save) to shut down with the power button. You can type shutdown now. If it's the DE itself that you want to do a clean slate on, you can uninstall it with (arch based) sudo pacman -Rsn. -n takes the settings out with it. >>1865624 Yes.

>>1865628 >>1865613 LLM gave me this when I asked about resetting UKUI settings. # Create backup and reset all UKUI settings cd ~ && mkdir ukui-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d) && \ mv ~/.config/ukui* ~/.local/share/ukui* ~/.cache/ukui* ukui-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d)/ 2>/dev/null I have not tested this myself.

>>1865628 >Ctrl + Alt + F3 puts you in the TTY. Once you log in to it, you can treat it like the terminal. holy fuck that's good to know. I just tested it. Do you think that'll work when I open too many tabs on firefox and my whole system freezes? I am guessing not, since I think that might be a hardware issue, it happened back on windows too, this laptop is a rickety old thing from 2016 that I'm using to get used to linux before switching my desktop over from windows 7. >You don't have to (and it's probably not save) to shut down with the power button. I've been doing that a lot since I switched to linux, like probably about 50 times over the last few months. How much damage do you think I did? >If it's the DE itself that you want to do a clean slate on, you can uninstall it with (arch based) sudo pacman -Rsn. -n takes the settings out with it. I still might want to create a partition, but do you think it's fine to just switch desktop environments without a complete reinstall? I haven't seen anyone say it's recommended aside from: >>1864741

>>1865668 > Do you think that'll work when I open too many tabs on firefox and my whole system freezes? I am guessing not. Actually, it will. Ctrl + Alt + F2 puts you back in the DE. Ctrl + Alt + F1 puts you in, uh, something, but you can see under the hood basically. > How much damage do you think I did? Does it still boot? Probably not much. But there might've been data loss, since the system is still working behind the GUI even when it freezes. >I still might want to create a partition, but do you think it's fine to just switch desktop environments without a complete reinstall? No, you really do want a fresh install with a fresh DE. It really is a hassle to have to troubleshoot something breaking because you had multiple DE's that you've since pulled. This is why you want to install-proof your /home directory with partitions in the first place. So not only can you keep your files and settings, it makes it easier to test new DE's or distro-hop on hardware. Speaking of partitions, it should look something like: /dev/sda1 - /boot /dev/sda2 - / /dev/sda3 - /home

>>1865653 I'm not gonna stick with UKUI, UKUI was a mistake. I just want to replace it with KDE. I've learned my lesson about being a snowflake and trying to pick an obscure DE. UKUI is Made in China to the core, it's like tofu dreg software. If you read some of my other posts I've detailed some of the weird ass problems I've had with this shit. Check this out, the MTL text doesn't fit in the text boxes because they don't resize to fit the text. >>1865688 >Actually, it will. Ctrl + Alt + F2 puts you back in the DE. Ctrl + Alt + F1 puts you in, uh, something, but you can see under the hood basically. I'll definitely give it a shot next time it happens. Like I said I think it's a hardware issue. Does ctrl + alt + f2 bring you back to the DE from the TTY or is there some command I could enter to relaunch the DE? I don't think everything I've hit the power button for would require a reboot. >since the system is still working behind the GUI even when it freezes. So the thing is that when it's happened before I've searched and tried to find some combination of buttons to do what you just told be about, and I think I've tried ctrl + alt + f3 before. >No, you really do want a fresh install with a fresh DE. damn, I guess it won't be so bad if I partition things. >It really is a hassle to have to troubleshoot something breaking because you had multiple DE's that you've since pulled. No way to just install the new one then totally scrub the old one then? I figured it wouldn't be so easy. >This is why you want to install-proof your /home directory with partitions in the first place. I shoulda done that at install, I was thinking about it but I didn't know how much space to leave outside of home. While I'm at it I should probably figure out what a swap partition is.

>>1865723 >No way to just install the new one then totally scrub the old one then? I figured it wouldn't be so easy. They're probably is, but I'm not the guy to ask. I'm a, it fucked up, start over guy. >what a swap partition is. Basically, it's flexible RAM. If you're reinstalling catch EOS, check and see if it sets you up with a ZRAM swap. If it does, you don't need to worry about a swap partition, especially if you're on older hardware.

>>1865756 >catch EOS cachyOS, can you tell I'm out phonefagging right now?

>>1865756 >They're probably is, but I'm not the guy to ask. I'm a, it fucked up, start over guy. I think I will make the partition, try switching to KDE by just installing plasma and uninstalling UKUI, and then if shit gets kinda fucky I'll just reinstall. I think that'll leave me safer than if I just reinstall anyway since you mentioned there are DE files stored in home. >check and see if it sets you up with a ZRAM swap I'm pretty sure it does. I did a bit of looking and it sounds like swap files have mostly replaced swap partitions in modern arch based distros. >>1865758 Shiet mang, don't do that to yourself.

>>1865668 >How much damage do you think I did? You can scan your ssd with smartctl -a command.>>1865723 >Does ctrl + alt + f2 bring you back to the DE from the TTY or is there some command I could enter to relaunch the DE? Yes that should take you back. Also, the TTY can freeze too in some cases, of course, happens to me sometimes too.

>>1865814 >You can scan your ssd with smartctl -a command. This laptop doesn't have an ssd. Does that work with hdds? Also was it a bad idea to use btrfs with an hdd?

>>1865900 >This laptop doesn't have an ssd. Does that work with hdds? That's not gonna matter. Think of it like Windows chkdsk. If it finds problems, it offers to issue data corrections and warns you if it can't. > Also was it a bad idea to use btrfs with an hdd? In Linux, using anything other than ext4 for the OS HDD/SSD is not a great plan. The boot partition has to be fat32 to, well boot. But ext4 is designed for Linux file systems, because The way the ext4 writes data never fragments the the data, so it improves read speed and drive life. >hdds If it's possible, see about swapping that for an SSD, just for quality of life. I did that with this 2013 laptop I'm running arch on.

>>1865900 >Also was it a bad idea to use btrfs with an hdd? I'm not an expert so I'm gonna leave it to the anon who apparently is one to prove his claim above. Many mainstream distros use btrfs by default. You're all good.

>>1866152 Sure, I'll take a knee on that one. The earliest Mint installs I used (2016) didn't offer brtfs in their installers, they offered (and encouraged) ext4. ext4 Just Werks,so in terms of "file system formats on linux," ext4 is what I know is stable and has served me for about a decade of using linux on side machines. brtfs does have support for snapshots, think Windows System Restore points, which would probably be nice for CachyOSanon's problem. It also has subvolumes, for whatever reason you would need that.

>>1866198 >2016 You do realise that's 9 years ago and so a lot has probably changed since then ? Btrfs on Mint might not be fully supported, but it is on Arch.

>>1866239 Sure. But I'll advise what I know from experience and works.

>>1866152 BTRFS is a bad idea. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc19-jaffer.pdf >We observe in Table 5 that Btrfs is the only file system that consistently detects all I/O errors as well as corruption events, including those affecting data (rather than only metadata). It achieves this through the extensive use of checksums. However, we find that Btrfs is much less successful in recovering from any issues than the other two file systems. It is the only file system where four of the six error modes can lead to a kernel crash or panic and subsequently a file system that cannot be mounted even after running btrfsck. It also has the largest number of scenarios that result in an unmountable file system after btrfsck (even if not preceded by a kernel crash). Furthermore, we find that node level checksums, although good for detecting block corruption, they remove an entire node even if a single byte becomes corrupted. As a result, large chunks of data are removed, causing data loss. Anecdotally, the one time I tried a BTRFS install it instantly fucked itself somehow, so I moved back to ext4.

>>1866444 >Furthermore, we find that node level checksums, although good for detecting block corruption, they remove an entire node even if a single byte becomes corrupted. As a result, large chunks of data are removed, causing data loss. So BTRFS is a meme that causes data loss when attempting to prevent it?

For some reason, running Cuphead through Lutris, every time I close the game, it loses my button mappings to my controller. This didn't happen on windows. I just want to make dash the right trigger instead of Y, but I have to set it every time I load up the game.

>>1865723 The only thing that's hard about switching DEs on the same install is, as I said earlier, config files from earlier DEs clobbering each other.

>>1865931 >If it's possible, see about swapping that for an SSD, just for quality of life. I did that with this 2013 laptop I'm running arch on. This is an old laptop I've been using to get used to Linux before I switch my desktop over. This thing is physically falling apart and any upgrades just aren't worth the investment. >The way the ext4 writes data never fragments the the data, so it improves read speed and drive life. I wish I'd gone with that then. I just saw something about compression with btrfs and figured that compressed files would be smaller and require less read calls and thus be better. >>1866444 Well damn, glad I asked about it. I guess I'll have to just reinstall and restore from a backup anyway, since I need to change pretty much everything. >>1866562 I'm just gonna reinstall. I'm gonna need to reformat my hard drive anyway.

>>1866469 everything archtards do is a meme. You don't do archtard shit when you want reliability.

>>1866689 But BTRFS prevents bitrot from being copied to backups?

>>1866444 this is something that honestly most users should just stick with standard filesystems like ext because they're not going to see an appreciable performance difference, like using JFS for a small boot partition used to be a performance gain on slow hard drives, but on an ssd I think the performance gain is negligable for just how fast i/o is for solid state

>>1866268 >Sure. But I'll advise what I know from experience and works. That's fair. I was doing the same as on Fedora btrfs is the default, no filesystem issues for 2 years now that i started using linux across a gaming rig and a work laptop. >>1866469 >So BTRFS is a meme that causes data loss when attempting to prevent it? It's not a meme, it's the default in distros like Fedora and opensuse. I think it's that if you don't use snapshots, then half the benefits of btrfs are thrown out, at which point you might as well just do ext4 etc.

>>1866689 What does btrfs have to do with Arch? >>1867660 The biggest selling point (over ext4) is actually compression. My SSD has over 280GB of stuff on it but it's under 200GB of actual data on the drive. Literally 100GB of space for free. ZFS can do that too, but I think that's harder to set up.

>>1868015 >What does btrfs have to do with Arch? Nothing that I know, I think that anon made that up and thought none the wiser since the joke is arch users.

>>1867660 >it's the default in distros like Fedora and opensuse I found this. https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/btrfs-as-default-filesystem-was-a-bad-idea/161431/3?replies_to_post_number=2 >BTRFS has been in development for more than a decade and has never been seen as a stable filesystem. The majority of users didn’t even need all the advanced features of btrfs. An ext4 provisioned on LVM was good enough. I really don’t understand why an average user or even a professional would want to use the bloated feature-creep filesystem that no one considered stream release ready. >Btrfs was unstable even back when they decided to push it by making it the default fs. Both the kernel and userland tools had too many bugs in them that I just had to drop the idea of trying out btrfs altogether at the time. I was hoping for the better, but the reality is that not much has changed since then. >I can see that it started off with the good intention. Linux needed a competitor to ZFS. Cut out the middle man(LVM), take the load off the blockdev. Subvolumes, snapshots, quota … they are all wonderful ideas, but sadly for devs who work on the fs, the bug happened. It was too good to be true. They lost credibility. They gave Fedora a bad name. >Btrfs should have never been the default filesystem of choice, regardless of the edition(workstation, server, cloud or whatnot). They should roll it back and leave the choice up to the heavy users to decide. Do the right thing. We want sane defaults.

>>1868387 I don't know why you quoted a long rant by some random user who's complaints are invalid because it was a kernel bug, which got fixed. It's all in the thread if you read it through. In other news, Plasma 6.5 is out: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/kde-plasma-6-5-is-out-now-with-a-number-of-highly-requested-features

>>1866689 >>1868306 Local archtard here. I'm insulated from my retarded peers, what's our problem exactly?

>>1868848 >Another evolution is the Flatpak Permission page, which has been upgraded into a proper general desktop Application Permissions page. Here you'll be able to configure everything properly across all your apps. Any chance this will help with drag and drop issues, or is that waiting on a fix in Wayland instead?

>>1869770 The latter.

>>1868848 >you may have lost all your data but your complaint is invalid because we patched it after the fact anon...

>using flatpak instead of appimage ngmi

>>1868848 >by some random user You're some random user too. So am I. Or should I only be quoting your favorite internet celebrities? >who's complaints are invalid because it was a kernel bug, which got fixed. He brings up general complaints besides his personal bug, which is pretty much the bulk of what is quoted

>>1869947 >>1869953 It's clear to me you anons have not read what's in the fedora thread beyond the OP. I already encouraged further reading before, it doesn't make sense to converse with you on something you're not filled in yet. More importantly, I genuinely have zero interest arguing about retarded Linux topics like fighting over what's the best option in the sea of available options for a particular component of the OS, I'd much rather my time on this thread be spent on helping anons and sharing news.

can you play old games without 32bit libs?

>>1869953 suse uses btrfs in their enterprise versions. it's highly doubtful they'd do that only to constantly have to deal with support requests and outright lose customers packaging a default that eats data. don't let the disk run full, don't run it in a raid5/6, everything else should be fine or edge cases every fs has issues with. ffs some people have been using reiserfs for over a decade. besides all that, it's fucking linux, use exfat or whatever makes your panties moist, no one is forced to use it. TLDR: don't be retarded.

>>1866444 >BTRFS is a bad idea True, but it's also the only filesystem that supports dual booting games with winbtrfs. I'm hoping the ntfsplus driver fixes the issue though.

I just had a thought. Running games that have native Linux versions is great and all, but won't I be fucked trying to playing any mods because they're going to be 99% made for Windows and I'd end up installing the windows version in a WINE prefix anyways?

>>1873226 Yes. I guess it depends on the game and mod as always, but if a mod works on Linux that's more of a happy coincidence. I hate to say this, but usually the best way to play a game is to play the Windows version in Wine. That's not really because of Linux, it's just that developers will prioritize the Windows version when it comes to patches, bug fixes and general support. Games are develop closed-source, of when a Linux binary fails down the road no one will be able to fix it. With Windows programs there is generally enough interest to make Wine run the outdated executable. If we just had the source code it could be patched an recomiled, but that's not the world we live in. Sad but true. I originally learned that lesson while I was still a Mac user, Mac versions are generally just as badly supported as Linux versions.

>>1873220 >you just know >>1873333 gaming industry is too gay these days to go the id route releasing their binaries as open source

>>1873139 >it's the default filesystem for arch and derivatives >archtards push arch on newfags >cachyos (shit) is currently #1 on distrowatch Says here you're archtarded and your shit's all fucked up.

>>1869978 btrfs has problems. The default filesystem for any linux install should still be ext4 until those problems are solved. A newfag will get his whole install hosed because of an "edge case" then get told to fuck off or "git gud" by archtards, and just move back to windows. Zoomers are starting to adopt linux because windows is shit and discord can run in a browser anyway, and steam just werks, but they are all funneled into archtarded distros by the tranny groomers instead of debian based with sensible choices for reliability. Between rolling distributions, pacman keyring fuckups and a dipshit filesystem choice, archtards are truly embarrassing for the community.

>>1873458 >cachyos (shit) You really think so, anti-Archtard? I was able to install it and get things mostly working despite being a total N00b.

>>1872330 Outside Steam client itself being 32bit, Wine can run 32bit games without the corresponding packages by running them through WOW64, which is enabled by default as of late.

>>1868981 We're retarded

>>1873226 This is actually a problem with HL1 and 2 DLL mods, unfortunately, due to how these games are built. Thankfully both games run well in Proton.

>>1873543 fallout 2 doesn't work

>>1873458 >pointing out how btrfs is used on an enterprise level in official capacity completely unrelated to arch <MUH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARCH I get it, you're retarded. I'd say stick to windows but you sound like someone who deleted system32 because you are literally too dumb to evaluate information. >>1873486 retardo, newfags won't even be able to install arch, nor use their filesystem where btrfs would be an issue. we're talking fucking desktops here dipshit. imagine still getting hung up about getting assfucked in some alley by a dude with an arch shirt, to the point recommending fucking debian of all things for vidya normalfags.

>>1874041 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=27466 Always check Wine and Proton database websites to quickly fix your issue. Looks like Fallout 2 is one of the few games that don't work immediately in WOW64.. You might need to install a Wine build that includes 32bit. Follow the steps in the link above. What's your setup here ? If you play the game through Lutris or Heroic as flatpak, those still have 32bit Wine (Proton) and would be the easiest way to run the game.

>>1874405 >seething archtard Every post you make here means you have less time to read the arch wiki so you can fix your broken shit (again), and that's funny! >can't parse debian based because he doesn't understand versioning, only understands what his tranny groomers on discord feed him in their mix of dilator fluids Sad, many such cases! You sound like you have some trauma to work through. Maybe ubuntu would be more your speed while you deal with your issues?

>>1874041 Playing older games will be a bitch in general, but especially on Linux. Setting up a Win98 virtual machine isn't a bad idea regardless if you're a Windows or Linux user. >>1874405 Why are you so absolutely fuming with anger

>>1873226 if games provide a modding api, it shouldn't, like rimworld, binding of isaac, anything that uses a lua modding api are fine this is more a question of how the games are modded in the first place and I don't know of any examples of a game with a windows and linux binary that people modify

>>1874948 Old Win98 supporting wine on Mint fucking 18 already could do the trick of running old windows games. What are you talking about?

>>1874948 >Playing older games will be a bitch in general, but especially on Linux. Wine has a very high success rate running ancient Windows games. I wouldn't immediately give up on it for a VM.

>>1874948 Wasn't one of its selling points that you didn't need to mess with compatibility too much in order to play old games?

>>1875527 Hell, I've seen games run on wine that actually fail to run with Windows 10.

I got OpenJK working but when I try to create a link so I can just open my games folder in my desktop and run it, it errors out because it can't find the files it depends on (as though it were actually in the directory the shortcut is in). Any way around this?

>>1873226 Only if they mod the EXE/DLL. Stuff like OpenMW runs just fine.

>>1875388 >I don't know of any examples of a game with a windows and linux binary that people modify Hollow Knight and Hollow Knight: Silksong both have heavy modding communities and both have official Windows and Linux versions. I know I would like to play Silksong with different movesets from the start, rather than unlocking them later.

>>1841617 yay -S <anyone of these> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=nd&K=duckstation&outdated=&SB=p&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go >>1841695 Yeah sorry about that, but trannies have infested Linux and push their shit every opportunity they get so we have to deal with that for now. >>1844352 >>1844383 shameless trannyware bloat

>>1876136 >yay -S <anyone of these> I've already since installed it with the flatpak and tested it with Crash Bandicoot. You also are suggesting the AUR packages without any explanation as to the concerns I raised in that post about the AUR packages. >Yeah sorry about that, but trannies have infested Linux and push their shit every opportunity they get so we have to deal with that for now. It's not just Linux. Ryujinx is tranny from the top down now.

>>1876181 Sorry about that bro it's a bit late here I should've already been asleep but kinda stalling. So anyways, on goyhub, gitlab and all these things people publish their programs in the form of source code. On rare occasions, they compile the code and give you the executables for convenience but most of the time you get the source code and compile it on your machine by typing a couple commands. The AUR is an attempt to automate that and make it easier especially when using an AUR helper (yay, paru, etc) which work similarly to [/code]pacman[/code]. In fact, they "wrap" PacMan so I personally stopped even calling [/code]pacman[/code] I just ask [/code]yay[/code] to (un)install and it will lookup Arch packages and if it finds none it will look in the AUR and install them. Same with updates. Hhope that was clear I'm off to bed

>Redowload GIMP for Linux, now on the latest version again >They fucking changed the layout again >80% of the draw tools are no longer on the left by default >Layer management is now squished under another menu >History is now a submenu underneath tools >Going to have to find and replace all the draw tools at some point Why do they keep doing this shit? Granted, this is only half as bad as when they turned everything fucking grey and I had to start squinting to figure which damned tool was which. Who's retarded fucking idea was that?

>>1877774 Didn't they move to QT awhile ago? I absolutely hate how everything in QT looks the same. I still running an ancient version of GIMP. You can probably find archives of older versions

>>1877774 I have to agree with you on that. I couldn't stand how suddenly all the icons changed to flat gray, which I still think was done to directly mirror adobe products. To this day I still have trouble figuring out which icon is which tool and which tools are hidden in a fucking drop down of ANOTHER icon. It's completely un-intuitive to use compared to when all the tools were visible with a colored icon that actually resembled the tool. I have the same gripe with krita, I just want to have an icon theme with vivid color and easy to recognize design, not this dark corporate inspired minimalist design that doesn't resemble anything.

>>1877822 I'm pretty sure you can change all of that relatively easily in GIMP.

>>1877791 close, it's the adawaita theme. Gnome ruins everything. QT is actually pretty cool

>>1877774 The last time you used GIMP must be at least a year ago, the draw tools have been that way for a while now from what I remember. People always complain about GIMP's UI, it's not surprising they'd be making changes and improving it across updates.

>>1878174 >improving

>>1874041 I've played Fallout 2 on NobaraOS just fine, and that was with the Fallout Nevada ruski mod.

>>1880152 lib32 or wow64?

>>1880205 I threw it in Lutris with Proton using the GOG version, patched with SFALL and UPU, and my own personal notes configuring two setting files and Lutris to make it work and run in a window at a reasonable zoom. I actually JUST reinstalled Fallout 2 right now, and it booted. ddraw.ini ;Set to 0 for 8 bit fullscreen ;Set to 4 for DX9 fullscreen ;Set to 5 for DX9 windowed ;Set to 6 for DX9 fullscreen windowed (the resolution in f2_res.ini should be set to the same aspect ratio as your desktop resolution) ;A DX9 mode is required for any graphics related script extender functions to work (i.e. fullscreen shaders) ;Modes 1, 2 and 3 are no longer supported Mode=5 ;If using a DX9 mode, this changes the resolution ;The graphics are simply stretched to fit the new window; this does _not_ let you see more of the map ;If set to 0, use Fallout's native resolution GraphicsWidth=1920 GraphicsHeight=1440 ;Set these to 1 if you want Fallout to access the keyboard or mouse in background mode ;Try these if you get the 'Failure initializing input devices' error BackgroundKeyboard=1 BackgroundMouse=1 ;Set to 1 if using the hero appearance mod ;Set to 2 for backward compatibility with scripts that manually fix obj_art_fid/art_change_fid_num script functions for dude_obj ;You can add AppChCrt.frm and AppChEdt.frm files to art\intrface\ to set a custom background for the character screen EnableHeroAppearanceMod=1 f2_res.ini ; Set GRAPHICS_MODE=0 to enable Basic mode which supports resolution change only(required for sfalls Graphic modes). ; Set GRAPHICS_MODE=1 to enable Direct Draw 7 mode. ; Set GRAPHICS_MODE=2 to enable DirectX9 mode. GRAPHICS_MODE=2 ; Set the Fullscreen resolution here. SCR_WIDTH=960 SCR_HEIGHT=720 ; Set WINDOWED=1 to enable windowed mode. WINDOWED=1

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Lutris Runner options DLL overrides key: ddraw value: n,b

>>1880769 >>1880700 I use vanilla wine. no Lutris, no Steam, no Proton

>>1881398 All on the same wine prefix?

>>1881460 99% of games will run fine all in one prefix.

>>1881517 >>1881460 I found that to be dangerous in the long run. some old installs may stop working if a new one overwrites something. I use lutris to manage these. every install has his own private prefix and config

>>1881548 If it's a generic GoG installer for a typical game then they get slapped all into the same prefix. If it's some weird shit like booting a game from a third party launcher or it's something ancient and niche then I give it a dedicated prefix.

>>1881398 Are you going to elaborate on why you don't use Proton etc ?

What're the options for real-time application profile switching on multi-button mouses? I know you can use Piper to set up profiles in the mouse's oboard memory. I was brainstorming some hacky solutions earlier about forcing the system to watch what application is active and then switch the mouse profile for it.

>>1883440 does piper have ipc you could use? ik that in some wm/compositors you can do execute a command on window focus events. if piper lets you change profilea through cmdline i think it'd be more than possible.

>>1883440 meantime i found this by quickly searching https://github.com/Eli112358/piper-switcher no clue to the quality but this will probably work for you unless your using Wayland

>CachyOS >Put system to sleep with KoboldCPP still open >Mouse and keyboard take a very long time to stop glowing >Not the first time for either of the above, but they didn't cause a problem before >Wake up computer in the morning >Incredibly slow, takes several minutes for each small part of the UI to load >Finally logged in, 2 out of 3 monitors won't render anything >Last one has all my windows on it for some reason >System Monitor is on top, glitching out with other windows showing through it semi-randomly, and nothing from the system monitor itself ever being display >Firefox (being used as a UI for KoboldCPP) has crashed >Try closing it, closing the console with Kobold, closing the system monitor >Extremely slow to do anything, even to move the mouse >All those windows now gone, everything is still half-frozen >Fuck it, reboot >Takes a minute >UI gone, console appears >[FAILED] Failed to display Plymouth shutdown page >System is struggling to even shutdown >After a few minutes, it's finally ready to shutdown >Except the very last thing it's trying to do is still attempting to close KoboldCPP several times >Start PC back up >Still slightly slow to start, but not as bad as before, probably because of improper shutdown diagnostics or something >Open System Monitor <llen back to software rendering because hardware acceleration is not available, and visual glitches may appear. Please check your >The text is cut off, but I can double click to highlight and copy it all <System Monitor has fallen back to software rendering because hardware acceleration is not available, and visual glitches may appear. Please check your graphics drivers. >The graphs for system usage aren't rendering, but it still says I'm using some amounts of GPU now and then >Restarting System Monitor does not return it to normal Kobold along with everything else was pushing me to 16GiB out of 32GiB of memory. It wasn't generating anything when I put the system to sleep. Does CachyOS just shit itself if you put it to sleep with moderate to heavy RAM usage? Is my GPU fucked now somehow? I'm going to try rebooting again real quick to see if that fixes it.

>>1884985 Rebooting has not fixed System Monitor, and KDE was still very slow to load in, with some windows showing up 20-30 seconds before my wallpaper and taskbar.

>>1885004 Changed Plasma Renderer backend from software to automatic, and the issue was resolved. I'm guess the setting was changed automatically as a precaution during the other fuckery, and had nothing to do with drivers like the warning suggested.

>>1884655 I am on Wayland. I'm using Plasma, I should have clarified. What I was looking at doing was using a bash script that uses kwin_wayland to watch the active window and switch on the active window change. The alternative-alternative would be to set a set of generic bindings, then run autoit or something to make per application mouse buttons.

>>1873758 That's right, Scott Bakula

>>1881932 Not that anon but Valve is actually pretty good at pushing changes back upstream so Wine Staging is pretty much enough to run almost anything without grabbing a Proton version.

>>1841695 I fixed this problem by downloading a new icon set to drop into /share/icons/

Why did brown hands insist on changing the term "disconnected" to something autistic like this? (It's KDE) Don't answer that It's a rhetorical QUESTION

>>1885843 Linux is biggest in India and China, I assume "went away" makes more sense than "disconnected" to an ESL.

>>1885843 Check your ESL settings.

>>1885876 >>1886212 >>1885871 >>1885843

>>1881686 I'd agree. I mostly ran from random sources.

>>1885843 It says "removed" here. I'm running the en_CA locale.

>>1877822 You can disable the grouping and change the icons back to the colored ones Honestly I hate the grouping and flat icons I don't know why they did that

I guess this is the correct thread to ask for this perplexing issue I have been having with pic related. I am running Fightcade on Memejaro and only some buttons are being read. I know it's not an issue with the controller since Steam reads the input fine as a controller and it works the normally on a wangblows machine. It's throwing me out of a loop because usually the controller isn't being registered at all or it's working normally and I haven't found any answer on this in-between state online. Also anyone know how to get controller inputs to work through Lutris like a Joy2key/AntiMicroX? I tried doing that for Touhou 6 and it's not being registered at all,

>>1885553 well shit. I don't think this is something a simple bash script could do. wayland is special, when it comes to this right now, theres no standard protocal or method of getting the active window as a client. And history has shown that every time someone has proposed a protocal it's always shot down by the regular concerned trolls in the protocal discussions (gnomefags) So right now the only methods available are heavily fragmented and compositor dependant, and some are better than others. under hyprland/sway theres pretty decent ipc that can be used. For plasma think theres this thing called kwin scripts (?) which, i think can maybe get window ids.. it's js garbage though so that looks like a headache and a half. You'd have to look up how their extension api works. Theres also this https://wayland.app/protocols/kde-plasma-window-management Which looks on the surface to be a bit easier atleast from what i know than JS garbage of kwin but also would require building your own wayland client from scratch.. so if you know how to do that i suppose you could try. although it does say "regular clients shouldn't use this" which makes me think if you tried to use that interface you'd be fighting with the desktop shell. ratbagd(piper) related stuffs https://github.com/libratbag/piper/issues/569 https://github.com/libratbag/piper/issues/343 This is just another thing that makes wayland unusable for most average users. sucks to suck. tl;dr: Probably best to just switch to using KDE's Xsession or switch to a wayland compositor which supports commandline IPC.

>>1887730 You ain't kidding. And I just got KDE set how I like it, too. I was looking at KWin scripts as well, but I'm back to the wage cage this week, so I'm not going to want to fuck with it when I get home. It's funny, because Plasma runs perfectly decent on my 2013 laptop. I also don't have much that I need to customize on it anyway. I was seeing Wayland mentioned for problems with gayman, so it may be for the best to cut my losses early and decide about plucking KDE off to put Cinnamon on it or going in with a fresh install on arch to clean it up.

>>1881932 because I don't use Steam because it's a piece of shit and also because https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/steam I like to keep my device as FOSS as possible even though I can't run linux-libre

>>1887730 >>1887794 TOTAL FOOTFAG DEATH I hate GNOME so much and the faggots that run the foundation. Worthless fucking morons, every single one of them.

>>1887923 >because I don't use Steam because it's a piece of shit and also because https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/steam >I like to keep my device as FOSS as possible even though I can't run linux-libre Proton is FOSS you dingus.

>>1887923 >muh FOSS

>>1888408 >Pic >It's been 8.5 years since I did that Do you know the context?

>>1887730 >>1888014 Speaking of GNOME... https://gitlab.nironwolf.com/nironwolf/mouse-profile-switcher

>>1880769 >using Wine to play Fallout 2 on Linux Disgusting https://github.com/alexbatalov/fallout2-ce.git