The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Max Weber]

Yeah, but I think it's more of a network stack issue. Technically I can have both tunnels active as I can see that my laptop is still connected with my router via WG, but the WG LAN route becomes inaccessible once Mullvad gets switched on, as if it's virtual NIC took priority. Hard to say if this is a Windows network stack issue or it's just how VPN tunnels are.

Isn't Mullvad also using WireGuard? I'm going to guess both your tunnels (try to) listen to 0.0.0.0/0 and use the 10.0.0.0/8 as their addresses. I'd try to look into making your LAN 172.16.0.0/12 and maybe only routing specific addresses through it.

 

[El Goblina]

Puttering around with an old laptop. Finally figured out why Lakka wouldn't boot. It expects special kernel parameters to be passed that configure it. But these look like boot= and disk=. Enter dumb Linux guy, me, used to seeing root=. So boot= became root= and I was frustrated as all get out when it wouldn't work. Now it runs flawlessly. Go figger.

 

[Slav Power]

Isn't Mullvad also using WireGuard? I'm going to guess both your tunnels (try to) listen to 0.0.0.0/0 and use the 10.0.0.0/8 as their addresses. I'd try to look into making your LAN 172.16.0.0/12 and maybe only routing specific addresses through it.

My home LAN is all on 192.168.0.0/24, with the actual LAN and the WireGuard LAN being on separate subnets. I also disabled the kill switch in WireGuard so that it wouldn't lock Mullvad out, but it still results in Mullvad's LAN taking complete precedence over WG and cutting me out of that back-to-home connection. Best part is trying to look up this problem online since Mullvad also uses WireGuard, and search engines don't differentiate if you're asking about the standalone client or the direct WG configuration from Mullvad.

Ideally I want Mullvad to always be on to act as an online condom with WG kicking in whenever I'm not connected to home WiFi, so that at home it's not doing any unnecessary routing and AFH it's giving me access to my home network, including the home DNS server with local domain names for my home lab.

 

[The Saltening]

are there any mesa driver pros in here? I tried updating mesa to 25.1.0 and it appears to have installed 2 extra gpu entries into my system while my actual gpu is still 25.0.5.

i think i am going to nuke my os and start over. IDK what i did but i dont like it. just wait for this shit to roll out officially and stop fucking with it

I'm getting way too ahead of myself and trying to do things way out of my league. This stuff will be added through normal channels eventually I am just impatient.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

Like, it's always the same, I am the weirdo for using some "odd" tech or whatever at first for decades and then suddenly whatever that "odd" thing was becomes mainstream and okay.

Sounds like you should be a stock investor.

Why is Linux so full of troons anyways?

Same reason they mutilate/modify their bodies. Customization.

Has anyone tried OpenMandriva?

 

[YoRHa No. 2 Type B]

Has anyone tried OpenMandriva?

I tried it for a month or so when Lunduke shilled it.
Its a really good just works distro. A really easy way to try out KDE and its applications, which isn't too common in Just Works distros for some reason. KDE is the most Windows like desktop environment after all.
It uses dnf/rpm like Fedora but it is different enough that you can't really install Fedora packages unfortunately.
I managed to install simple programs like Syncthing fine manually using rpm but anything with dependencies will give you pain.
I only ended up moving away due to the small package repos. But if you mainly use KDE stuff you may find it suits your needs really well. I would try it out and see if you like it.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Has anyone tried OpenMandriva?

I tried it when it was still mandrake and had kde 2. It was ok then. Probably better now.

 

[The Saltening]

So I did some googling. The thing I want is on the extra-testing repo. I could have just done that but instead I spent 5 hours fucking with meson

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

If you mainly use KDE stuff you may find it suits your needs really well. I would try it out and see if you like it.

If it's short on convenient, reliable implementations of stuff like Blender, OpenShot, Telegram, GIMP etc. I'll just stick with Mint.

I'm mostly a wallflower in this thread because unlike you guys, I have zero interest in playing with computers or tweaking them beyond getting rid of nuisances or increasing my privacy. (But, I don't want to miss something truly neat that may be mentioned here, either.) I just got sick of constantly opting out of and disabling fresh bullshit from Windows. Especially when I'd discover the processes were merely hidden, still calling home, not ended. The last straw was waking up for a glass of water and finding my computer had summoned itself back from a complete shutdown to update Windows.

I will own something, and I will be happy.

 

[YoRHa No. 2 Type B]

If it's short on convenient, reliable implementations of stuff like Blender, OpenShot, Telegram, GIMP etc. I'll just stick with Mint.

It has all those really popular FOSS apps.
Its the slightly more obscure programs like Syncthing and Jellyfin Media Player that I noticed were missing.
Considering I'm pretty sure there's only 5 or so people maintaining the distro, they do a really good job of it.
I would still try it out and see if you like it. There is always Flatpak if something is missing, not ideal but better then nothing.

 

[The Saltening]

Is typing "reboot" into the terminal the same as clicking reboot from the menu?

 

[Retarded Weeb]

Is typing "reboot" into the terminal the same as clicking reboot from the menu?

Probably depends on your desktop environment. On my system the menu option is technically lxqt-leave --reboot. Try right clicking on the menu option and seeing if you can make a .desktop entry that you can open and see what exactly it's doing.

 

[Betonhaus]

The last straw was waking up for a glass of water and finding my computer had summoned itself back from a complete shutdown to update Windows

Oh I hate that. I still have trauma from a Furby, technology that was turned off must stay off.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

update:

It still does the endless writing with uBlock off. Maybe it's a "virtual memory" thing?

 

[The Saltening]

is there a way to "uninstall" and reinstall my mouse on linux? i installed piper and did some stuff but i dont like it. uninstalling it the profiles are still active. I just need to reset my mouse to default.

along with this why is it not possible for any program to remap my dpi buttons except piper?

 

[Betonhaus]

is there a way to "uninstall" and reinstall my mouse on linux? i installed piper and did some stuff but i dont like it. uninstalling it the profiles are still active. I just need to reset my mouse to default.

along with this why is it not possible for any program to remap my dpi buttons except piper?

I'm not familiar with piper but I'm betting it's just a user friendly way of editing the esoteric configuration files that control things like mouse behaviour, and removing piper doesn't revert the changes.

 

[The Saltening]

I'm not familiar with piper but I'm betting it's just a user friendly way of editing the esoteric configuration files that control things like mouse behaviour, and removing piper doesn't revert the changes.

so how might i revert them? I booted into a game and it acted like my mouse was at 6million dpi.

 

[Betonhaus]

so how might i revert them? I booted into a game and it acted like my mouse was at 6million dpi.

fuck if I know. I'd probably start with googling "how to change mouse speed in x" with x being your distro and/or desktop environment.

Maybe you can reinstall piper, use it to change settings back to what it was before, then uninstall piper. that may or may not be easier.

 

[Demonslayer1776]

My home LAN is all on 192.168.0.0/24, with the actual LAN and the WireGuard LAN being on separate subnets. I also disabled the kill switch in WireGuard so that it wouldn't lock Mullvad out, but it still results in Mullvad's LAN taking complete precedence over WG and cutting me out of that back-to-home connection. Best part is trying to look up this problem online since Mullvad also uses WireGuard, and search engines don't differentiate if you're asking about the standalone client or the direct WG configuration from Mullvad.

Ideally I want Mullvad to always be on to act as an online condom with WG kicking in whenever I'm not connected to home WiFi, so that at home it's not doing any unnecessary routing and AFH it's giving me access to my home network, including the home DNS server with local domain names for my home lab.

I'm going to guess its an issue caused by both VPN's using wireguard and conflicting. Windows can use 2 NICS on different subnets and route successfully - I've done it recently, albeit physically. Have you considered configuring Mullvad as an outbound VPN for your home traffic holistically, and then just wireguarding into the home network? This will come with its own complications but could probably solve this problem cleanly.

 

[The Saltening]

fuck if I know. I'd probably start with googling "how to change mouse speed in x" with x being your distro and/or desktop environment.

Maybe you can reinstall piper, use it to change settings back to what it was before, then uninstall piper. that may or may not be easier.

my mouse speed is fine though. its only when i enter a game and control the player camera it has issues. everything else is fine.

i wonder if it has to do with polling rate. I changed polling rare right before it happened.

I have been fucking with linux for like 10 hours now