/g/ — /fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

does alsa not support audio multiplexing and mixing? after unmuting my audio w/ alsamixer i can hear yt videos on firefox but nothing on discord.

I refuse to switch from PulseAudio

I use ArchWiki by the way.

if debian why no lesbian

Planning on studying the linux kernel using LSP in vim.

gd -> go to definition
gD -> go to declaration
gi -> go to implementation

I want to learn patterns being used (OOP, handlers, C99 struct initializaters) and so on. How do study these? Overall, learning system and low level programming just by studying the almighty kernel source tree, and incorporating it into my own c projects.

hey just got cachyos, started tweaking the setup a bit. Wondering what are the best schedulers for gaming ? Also please share any other important tweaks for gaming I should know. Using the performance-mode and cachyos proton too with the BORE kernel.

If /g/ hates Poettering, shouldn't they hate Arch (and ChachyOS), for using "systemd-boot" by default via the "archinstall" script? This sets it apart from even Fedora and Debian, which still use GRUB by default. And if you people hate new things like Systemd and Wayland, does that mean you also hate PipeWire, Flatpak, and GNOME 3?
>>109057479
Apparently so. But didn't the new way win over the old on every major distro? I mean, look at https://top500.org/statistics/list/
HPE Cray OS is SUSE, CentOS is Red Hat, Ubuntu is Canonical, TOSS is glowie Red Hat used to simulate the omnigenocidal nuclear holocaust the CIA has in the works, Cray is SUSE for supercomputers, and bullx SCS is Red Hat for supercomputers. The Discord download has .deb, .rpm, and .pkg.tar.zst (for Arch). CachyOS is leading in Phoronix benchmarks based on arch.
There are only three groups of distributions that have proven themselves in the TOP500, on benchmarks and have widespread software support (I name each family for its upstream or original): Arch (inc. CachyOS), Debian (incl. Ubuntu), and the RPM/enterprise family led by Fedora (RHEL, SLES, openSUSE, CentOS). There simply is no alternative to Systemd, Wayland, Flatpak, and GNOME 3/KDE in the real world. The ultimate upstreams, Rawhide, Tumbleweed, and Sid have all switched to Wayland and Systemd. Sure, you have some weird stuff like openSUSE defaulting to KDE and Ubuntu still using Snaps in 2026, but that's the exception, not the rule. There is very clearly one way of doing Linux that one. And it just keeps winning. I'm writing this from machine booted with GRUB and OpenRC, using musl libc and a tiling window manager. I am trying alternatives. But refusing to "switch" just means you've fallen behind, like people who never upgraded from Netscape Navigator to Mozilla Firefox. You will eventually lose support, "bitrot" will accumulate. and the upstream your distro is almost certainly downstream of in some way will make your choice for you.

so why is Gentoo so hard to install?

>>109057741
I dunno X11 is still used by basically half of all users. Maybe that's finally shifted into the minority in the last year as more big distros force the switch, but it's not like people want to leave it.

>>109057831
>compile literally fucking everything
>have to configure it too
>by manually editing configuration files
there is no universe where a used ThinkPad can do that in less than an hour. Why are you /g/entlemen smoking so much crack? People want a GUI installer, or at least an optional TUI ((n)curses) installer. If they have to do everything, they at least want a default, "standard" installation procedure to be clear to make bugs easy to replicate across installations. But the entire Gentoo install process is like,
>you can do x, y, z, or w
>which is best? you decide!
>which is default? you decide!
>which is supported? everything! and also nothing if you fuck it up so no pressure!!
correct me if i am wrong

>>109057875
it doesn't matter if you want to leave. you will leave when you buy new hardware and install an up-to-date OS

nano = aryan
vim = troonslop

>>109057831
>>109057888
Just skip the optional and networking sections lmao

Is using separate Firefox profiles actually worth? I feel like Firefox containers do enough for my use cases (separating different alphabet services like Whatsaaaarpp, Amazon and Google) and for actual stupid time wasters like posting here, reading random blogs or searching shit to pipe into MPV, i am using another browser like Malepoon or Surf. Even Chromium to open broken bank websites. What useful feautures do profiles have over containers? I very rarely need more browser extensions than Ublock Origin, SingleFileZ and Violentmonkey

feels so good going through all my flatpak permissions and not a single one has "all system files" toggled anymore

>update
>xdg-desktop-portal breaks again and default to the dogshit gtk widget
Why the fuck doesn't ANYTHING respect the stupid portal system that's allegedly meant to handle this, fuck you

>>109058195
use case for updating?

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>KDE devs

>>109012299 (me)
>artix with dinit, greetd, tuigreet
>greetd has a stroke and won't work properly
>"unable to start greeter: unable to deserialize message: EOF while parsing a string at line 1 column 10240"
Anyone? I haven't had much luck in solving this since posting about it.

>>109058334
needs a "I'm feeling lucky" button

>>109057875
I'm on XFCE so on X11 for the foreseeable future. I don't really care one way or the other but when Wayland arrives it's going to be a pain. I have a ton of helper scripts that do things like moving the cursor and repositioning windows. All of them are bound to keyboard shortcuts and not only are none of them are going to work on Wayland but it sounds like it will be literally impossible to reimplement any of them them for Wayland.

In other news I upgraded to Fedora 44 a week ago and gtk3 suddenly decides to start ignoring a longstanding config setting telling it not to keep track of any recent files.

>open some weird image
>path and filename immediately logged into recent files
>thumbnail generated and engraved onto my disk
expecting 45 to project my display onto the fucking moon

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I'm completely new to Linux, and coming from Windows 10, so apologies for the newfag question.

Fedore KDE Plasma is the one distro that interests me the most, since the interface is very familiar. But I'm not familiar with any other KDE Plasma distros. If I'm looking for stable support for steam games and production tools like Blender or Davinci, is Fedora one of the better KDE Plasma distros, or is there another one that works better?

>>109058824
>sounds like it will be literally impossible to reimplement any of them them for Wayland
ydotool + wlroots

>>109058835
just. fucking. install. one.

>>109058872
That's not very friendly anon!

Arch ruined my life

>>109058985
How?

>>109058865
>ydotool + wlroots
Good to know. Whether I'll remember that or not 5-10 years when XFCE gets Wayland support is another story.

>>109058835
There's loads of good KDE distros out there. You could even go as far as EndeavourOS which is basically just Arch but comes with a noob friendly installer and installs KDE out of the box.
>I'm looking for stable support
>stable
ok forget EndeavourOS then lmao
Stability in the Linux jargon means version stability and rolling release systems can't have that by definition.
>since the interface is very familiar
Stupid question but how? Because there's a "start menu" in KDE?

>>109059070
ydotool works on X as well

Would it be okay to use a Debian-based distro like Ubuntu or Mint on a laptop with a GTX 1050ti GPU? I hear Linux did not play nice with Nvidia GPUs for the longest time, but I want to move it off Windows 10, and at most I plan on using it to play PS4-era games, especially when I go on vacation. As long as the performance loss for something like MGSV, Division 2 or Monster Hunter (not Wilds) isnt too massive or non-existent then I'd be fine.

>>109059015
>>109059217
>Didn't get it
grim

>>109059243
It's fine, just use a recent version. And don't use mint.

>>109058835
Fedora is perfectly fine, ignore any other retard that might shill anything else here. Just make sure to set up RPM fusion and whatnot, there are guides for that if you look them up so it's pretty painless to do even for a newbie.
KDE is the same across any other distros anyway, so you're not missing out on anything with using it on Fedora.

>>109058115
Bump
>>109058835
There's no reason to switch Distros unless your hardware requires it or fails with what you're currently running. Nowadays you can run Distrobox to install stuff meant to different distros if is really necessary, like Packet Tracer or whatever.

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i'm petrified now
i don't even want to download flatpaks

>>109057888
>people want
guess people aren't the target audience.
stop demanding change when there are plenty of alternatives made for 'people'. the only thing demanding change does, is destroy unique and interesting things.

>>109058835
iirc davinci is shipped officially to fedora only, everything else is ported.

What's the most efficient sound server/subsystem if I only care about having a maximum of 2 simultaneous sounds?

>>109059860
Pulse for least hassle.

>>109057888
>distro made for advanced and knowledgable users who want to customize and configure everything to an autistic degree
>NOOOOOO IT SHOULD BE NORMIE FRIENDLY TOO WHY CANT I JUST INSTALL IT IN 15 MINUTES WHY IS IT SO HARD
Why do you want Gentoo to stop being Gentoo, you can't just use archinstall you know. This is like people wanting to turn Linux into Windows.

>>109057724
I'm pretty sure cachy has a "install everything for gaming" option in the start / welcome popup window.
I used that, it's retard-proof and works on my machine®

deep seek is SO good at creating right click scripts for me in my nautilus x)

>>109060016
There's a reason why businesses use it instead of Claude sometimes because it's just so much cheaper to run.

>>109057724
>schedulers
It doesn't fucking matter.

>>109058115
>Is using separate Firefox profiles actually worth
No. It's just a holdover from before they made tab containers.
>What useful feautures do profiles have over containers?
It's there for family computers where you, your wife, your daughter and your wife's son will want to have separate bookmarks and logins. The only alternative to this would be having entirely separate OS-level user accounts, but most people don't want to bother with that.
When it comes to Firefox I really doubt almost anyone is using profiles, so it's a completely useless feature despite being theoretically useful. Chrome users actually use profiles since a "profile" in Chrome is just their Gmail account, which feels more natural and intuitive to switch between.

>>109058835
>is there another one that works better
No.

>>109060016
Deepseek fucks. I tend to not using for coding though because whenever I need up-to-date stuff it can't search for shit and writes code from 5 years ago.

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>>109058835
The biggest learning pain with Linux is understanding Linux is nothing like Windows, full stop. Everyone that tells you x, y, or z distro is "just like Windows!!!" is disingenuous and bound to cause you inevitable pain and headaches. While the actual desktop environment, and the keyword there is the desktop *environment* may behave and act similar to that of Windows, the underlying *system* and the way it behaves is entirely different and that's where the most of tension and headaches occur with those transitioning from Windows to Linux occurs.

If you're truly willing to switch to Linux full time and as a replacement for Windows you also need to accept that you will have to learn quite a bit about how Linux and UNIX like operating systems work compared to that of Windows and DOS. If not, don't even bother. There is not a single distro that is "like Windows," banish that thought from your brain. If you can do that, the easier your transition will be and the less frustrated you will be in the future.

As for practical tips, try Debian or Fedora as they are the most forgiving for new users and are the most well documented with the largest userbase. Read both of their respective wikis and understand the who, what, when, and why behind how everything works. Each thing you learn will only make your life easier towards becoming a full time Linux user, same with troubleshooting any issues that may arise during your learning phase.

It'll be painful, and often times frustrating, but it's better to be upfront with that now over some retard on YouTube or Xitter selling you comfortable lies in the short term hiding what actually lies in store if you decide to make Linux your new OS for the foreseeable future.

>>109060016
And as a bonus, it harvests all your data for the Chinese Communist Party.

>>109059505
If a software vendor can't be bothered verifying their Flatpaks, are they really worth using? No.

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Suprisingly, even with a small issue that I haven't fixed yet, I'm enjoying linux quite alot.
A few years ago it felt alot less user friendly

>>109060691
It's definitely gotten more and more user friendly over the years. I ended up on Arch myself.

>>109060186
>There is not a single distro that is "like Windows," banish that thought from your brain.

This is what I hate. I've only been on Linux for a short time, but I'm not really understanding the people who just want it to look and act exactly like Windows.
If I'm using Linux, I figure, well, it should act like a Linux. If I want to use Windows again, well, I can always just.. install Windows. It also creates a retarded misconception that having a taskbar is something that makes a computer "Windows-like", as if literally nobody is capable of realizing that general concept has existed for decades. And now KDE too keeps playing into the Microsoft design playbook because of "gamers" which I'm not really seeing the point of. If someones goal is that, literally just run custom scripts on Windows then. That's it.

>>109060847
KDE was always windows-esque

>>109060543
>American spyware vs Chinese spyware

>>109060908
Perhaps too much these days, though I don't actually mind older style themes

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>>109060931
I'll take French spyware, I like the French.

>>109060956
Plus both Mistral and Deepseek are easy to run locally within a company so it's not even connected to their servers anyway.

can i only install packages to the root folder? i can't choose a different drive to install them to?