The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Vesperus]

This might be a dumb question but is it possible to boot my linux drive into a windows vm so I can mess with both at the same time?

It *should* be perfectly possible if you create a VM, then redirect the virtual drive to your nvme: Linux will be more forgiving than windows here.

But, Here be Dragons. Back yo' shit up.

 

[dec05eba]

It's wonderful once you're comfortable with that kind of configuration and going to remove most of the default software from a desktop environment out-of-box distro anyway, but there's absolutely no shame in continuing to use Linux Mint or any other "beginner" version.
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The arch guy digging is correct. Once you install arch (which takes ~10-15 minutes) you end up saving time when you use your computer everyday dealing with BS like this on other distros

 

[Miller]

I would switch back to arch if it actually supported GUI package managers. (INB4 hurrdurr linux elitist just use terminal saar, dont care, didnt ask.)

There are GUI package managers for Arch. One of them is called Octopi or something.

If anything, CoC's have been abused to where power-hungry fuckwits can just tack on more draconian things to make the plebs suffer with.

That's the entire point of the CoC in Linux and free software. It's a foot in the door that allows outside elements to slowly take over the place and get rid of the people in charge.
I think the first place that got destroyed was GitHub, it used to be all about meritocracy, they even had a big rug with the logo and "meritocracy". Then "Coraline" got his tech journo friends to write hit pieces about the toxicity of meritocracy, got in, forced them to accept the CoC and then they removed all mention of meritocracy including the rug. Later the CEO stepped down and they got acquired by Microsoft.

 

[The Saltening]

What's really funny is I booted into windows and updated my GPU drivers and now my games are stuttering ...

Oh I love windows

edit: so I did some googling and my issue with element is related to xdg-open. Basically the same as this: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/2606 just not with this program

 

[Betonhaus]

So I tried installing endeavorOS in a vm, followed all of the instructions and used the defaults such as KDE, it boots and launches the greeter fine, but when i login I just get a black screen until I power off the VM

 

[Sugriva]

So I tried installing endeavorOS in a vm, followed all of the instructions and used the defaults such as KDE, it boots and launches the greeter fine, but when i login I just get a black screen until I power off the VM

go to the bottom left of the login screen and try switching the session from wayland to x11

 

[Betonhaus]

go to the bottom left of the login screen and try switching the session from wayland to x11

Oh, come to think about it when I tried KDE neon it said something about a wayland to X11 bridge, is the VM's X11 communicating with the host X11 and wayland can't do that?

god it feels like driving a car with an aftermarket stereo and half the wires are exposed

 

[DavidS877]

Today's reminder that Linux is perfect and always works correctly.

I just upgraded to a 5060 Ti in one system and upgraded the drivers and all was well but the system RAM was running slow as I had upgraded to 4 slots occupied, so I saw there was a MB BIOS. I installed it and now after grub all I got was a blank screen. Apparently the 5060 Ti and maybe all 50xx get rather angry on Linux (at least for my kernel and motherboard) when you forget to re-enable either above 4GB Decoding or Resize BAR, not sure which, but reenabling both fixed the issue. Maybe tomorrow I'll try some ram stress tests and see if the BIOS helped.

 

[Autistic Gunspergings]

>be me
>Trying to re-do the default bookmarks in Linux mint cause it keeps dumping shit into my OS drive
>Change directories
>All the icons but downloads disappear
>Wtf
>Can't find way to get it back
>Look online for solutions
>Find an Issue filed under the nemo repo
>check it out
>"Request locked as too heated and limited conversation with collaborators"
>Literally zero reason given to why it's not fixed
Is this baby's first Linux community experience? Quite fascinating I must say

And I might as well ask if anyone here knows a fix/workaround-i-guess to the issue I'm talking about. (The bookmarks work fine, I just wish I could change their icons )

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

>be me
>Trying to re-do the default bookmarks in Linux mint cause it keeps dumping shit into my OS drive
>Change directories
>All the icons but downloads disappear
>Wtf
>Can't find way to get it back
>Look online for solutions
>Find an Issue filed under the nemo repo
>check it out
>"Request locked as too heated and limited conversation with collaborators"
>Literally zero reason given to why it's not fixed
Is this baby's first Linux community experience? Quite fascinating I must say

And I might as well ask if anyone here knows a fix/workaround-i-guess to the issue I'm talking about. (The bookmarks work fine, I just wish I could change their icons )

Install another icon pack. Install another file manager. Use the terminal instead. Whatever you want to do.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Distro hopping retardation needs to be cured before anyone begs a windows user to take the jump to a better OS.

What do you mean?

Because some people do actually see all the different distros existing as confusing, and I've heard people give it as a reason to not use linux

In part because there's so many choices, and most don't have a linux expert on hand to guide them.

Distros are confusing because of the contradition. "Distro doesn't matter." "X, Y, and Z sucks. You should've used A, B, or C instead!"

This whole stigma around """beginner""" distros is just retarded elitism

I was thinking about why so many linux users online as passive aggressive. And I came to the conclusion that they don't mean to be. To reuse an example I posted earlier.
"How do I install GoG?"
"Use Steam."
"But Steam isn't GoG."
"You have Steam. Why would you want to use GoG."
"GoG has games Steam doesn't."
"You shouldn't want to play those games."

From the linux user point of view, they have no interest in those games and see no value in them.

 

[The Saltening]

I was thinking about why so many linux users online as passive aggressive. And I came to the conclusion that they don't mean to be. To reuse an example I posted earlier.
"How do I install GoG?"
"Use Steam."
"But Steam isn't GoG."
"You have Steam. Why would you want to use GoG."
"GoG has games Steam doesn't."
"You shouldn't want to play those games."

From the linux user point of view, they have no interest in those games and see no value in them.

gaben literally keeps the entire gaming industry in check. i gladly give all my money to him if i need games.

 

[Miller]

I was thinking about why so many linux users online as passive aggressive. And I came to the conclusion that they don't mean to be. To reuse an example I posted earlier.
"How do I install GoG?"
"Use Steam."
"But Steam isn't GoG."
"You have Steam. Why would you want to use GoG."
"GoG has games Steam doesn't."
"You shouldn't want to play those games."

From the linux user point of view, they have no interest in those games and see no value in them.

I think I read somewhere that they are planning to make a Linux version of GOG but for now it's via either Heroic Launcher or Lutris.

 

[Billow Riley]

>be me
>Trying to re-do the default bookmarks in Linux mint cause it keeps dumping shit into my OS drive
>Change directories
>All the icons but downloads disappear
>Wtf
>Can't find way to get it back
>Look online for solutions
>Find an Issue filed under the nemo repo
>check it out
>"Request locked as too heated and limited conversation with collaborators"
>Literally zero reason given to why it's not fixed
Is this baby's first Linux community experience? Quite fascinating I must say

And I might as well ask if anyone here knows a fix/workaround-i-guess to the issue I'm talking about. (The bookmarks work fine, I just wish I could change their icons )

Can you give us some screenshots? I think I know what you're talking about.

 

[Susanna]

What do you mean?


In part because there's so many choices, and most don't have a linux expert on hand to guide them.

Distros are confusing because of the contradition. "Distro doesn't matter." "X, Y, and Z sucks. You should've used A, B, or C instead!"


I was thinking about why so many linux users online as passive aggressive. And I came to the conclusion that they don't mean to be. To reuse an example I posted earlier.
"How do I install GoG?"
"Use Steam."
"But Steam isn't GoG."
"You have Steam. Why would you want to use GoG."
"GoG has games Steam doesn't."
"You shouldn't want to play those games."

From the linux user point of view, they have no interest in those games and see no value in them.

It’s not so much that you shouldn’t get games from GoG, it’s just that the easiest way to run them is through Steam. You add the GoG game as a Non-Steam game, then set it to launch with Proton.

 

[Akerman]

"How do I install GoG?"
"Use Steam."
"But Steam isn't GoG."
"You have Steam. Why would you want to use GoG."
"GoG has games Steam doesn't."
"You shouldn't want to play those games."

That's sounds more like a "Linux expert" who doesn't know what they are talking about. Sometimes you get older users who still operate with a mindset decades out of date regarding stuff that they don't do regularly themselves.

But you can use minigalaxy for GoG, according to the Arch Wiki. I ended up using Lutris for this myself which also works on GoG with the added bonus of custom launchers that applies community made scripts that further fixes things. That helped me fix many issues in certain games, it fixed a mouse acceleration bug in Metro 2033 for example. If I was on Windows I would probably still check Lutris for games to see if community patches exist.

 

[Betonhaus]

>be me
>Trying to re-do the default bookmarks in Linux mint cause it keeps dumping shit into my OS drive
>Change directories
>All the icons but downloads disappear
>Wtf
>Can't find way to get it back
>Look online for solutions
>Find an Issue filed under the nemo repo
>check it out
>"Request locked as too heated and limited conversation with collaborators"
>Literally zero reason given to why it's not fixed
Is this baby's first Linux community experience? Quite fascinating I must say

And I might as well ask if anyone here knows a fix/workaround-i-guess to the issue I'm talking about. (The bookmarks work fine, I just wish I could change their icons )

I have no idea what you're trying to do, assuming we disregard the thing where the obvious solution is to right click.

Are you trying to change where these icons point to?

If so I feel like you have bigger problems with your configuration then you have let on. And if you have a problem with your OS drive being too small just move /home to a bigger drive.

 

[Autistic Gunspergings]

I have no idea what you're trying to do, assuming we disregard the thing where the obvious solution is to right click.

Are you trying to change where these icons point to?
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If so I feel like you have bigger problems with your configuration then you have let on.

no, i've got the directories working fine, I've set them up to be symbolic links to my storage drive. I just want to change the icon of them...

...but I cant.

Unless Im looking in the wrong places all the information i've got online is "this feature is basically unsupported and wont be, good luck"
if thats the case then oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, its not the end of the world.
Okay while writing this I decided to search online again and lo and behold, you need to edit a .dir file to point to the new directories

WE ARE SO BACK.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

"How do I install GoG?"
"Use Steam."

AFAIK Proton can run GOG games via its "add non steam games feature", but its even easier these days to run GoG games with wine+staging (or any of its custom version really) with winetricks -q to install dependencies such as dxvk or vkd3d. WOW64 also reduces dependencies by removing the need to have 32bit packages. The installer and games work flawlessly.

 

[Taser Confetti]

Running Aurora Linux (Fedora Silverblue based) and VLC (flatpak) will play an mp4 with sound but no video. If you load it into Chrome it works perfectly. How is this corrected?