The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[General Zoider]

I'm trying it now, there is a slight delay but it's definitely not a second, let alone two. It is there though, I know I've used X11 DEs in the past where terminal emulators and other simple programs launched instantly.

is your system under load or not? if its not under load then blame wayland or other shit, but if you are nearing 98 percent or such, it might lag a bit. ive had bullshit issues where if have 40 firefox tabs open and copy and paste sometimes likes to fail.

 

[Ferryman]

Well I did guix pull and added yt-dlp to my packages and it pulled 25 for some reason

yt-dlp 25? That's really weird. Have you done "guix pull" recently or after installing your system? It updates all package definitions from all of your channels. Also, I'm not 100% sure what ships with the default Guix installation, but you might want to add the new Codeberg repo into your channels if they haven't yet made it the default. Should look like:

(channel
  (name 'guix)
  (url "https://codeberg.org/guix/guix")
  (branch "master")
  (introduction
    (make-channel-introduction
      "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"
      (openpgp-fingerprint
       "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA"))))

If that's not it then I'm not really sure why it would pull 25. My guix search shows it as being up to date

name: yt-dlp
version: 2026.03.17
outputs:
+ out: everything
systems: x86_64-linux
dependencies: ffmpeg@8.0 nss-certs-for-test@3.101.4 pandoc@2.19.2 python-brotli@1.0.9 python-certifi@2025.06.15 python-hatchling@1.27.0 python-mutagen@1.47.0
+ python-pycryptodomex@3.23.0 python-pytest@9.0.2 python-requests@2.32.5 python-urllib3@2.5.0 python-websockets@13.1 zip@3.0
location: gnu/packages/video.scm:3300:2
homepage: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
license: Public Domain
synopsis: Download videos from YouTube.com and other sites 
description: yt-dlp is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and many more sites.  It is a fork of youtube-dl with a focus on adding new
+ features while keeping up-to-date with the original project.
relevance: 32

 

[acid_ra1n]

yt-dlp 25? That's really weird. Have you done "guix pull" recently or after installing your system? It updates all package definitions from all of your channels. Also, I'm not 100% sure what ships with the default Guix installation, but you might want to add the new Codeberg repo into your channels if they haven't yet made it the default. Should look like:

(channel
  (name 'guix)
  (url "https://codeberg.org/guix/guix")
  (branch "master")
  (introduction
    (make-channel-introduction
      "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"
      (openpgp-fingerprint
       "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA"))))

If that's not it then I'm not really sure why it would pull 25. My guix search shows it as being up to date

name: yt-dlp
version: 2026.03.17
outputs:
+ out: everything
systems: x86_64-linux
dependencies: ffmpeg@8.0 nss-certs-for-test@3.101.4 pandoc@2.19.2 python-brotli@1.0.9 python-certifi@2025.06.15 python-hatchling@1.27.0 python-mutagen@1.47.0
+ python-pycryptodomex@3.23.0 python-pytest@9.0.2 python-requests@2.32.5 python-urllib3@2.5.0 python-websockets@13.1 zip@3.0
location: gnu/packages/video.scm:3300:2
homepage: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
license: Public Domain
synopsis: Download videos from YouTube.com and other sites
description: yt-dlp is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and many more sites.  It is a fork of youtube-dl with a focus on adding new
+ features while keeping up-to-date with the original project.
relevance: 32

yeah i just guix pulled today did a guix search its trying to get 25.09.23
i did notice when i did guix system describe im running a commit from 9 months ago but theres a bug in stable right now thats having people downgrade to this commit with --allow-downgrades or else you cant update at all

 

[Susanna]

In what way? I've been using two clients no problem. I use this for window switching like Eve-O Preview.

https://github.com/h0lylag/EVE-Preview-Manager

How did you set up hotkeys? I've tried to use this one before, and while the previews work, and clicking them works, I can't get hotkeys to work consistently. Like it might work every once in a while, but then not again for a very long time. Both setting specific clients to a specific key, and trying to use a key like tab to switch to the next client over.

 

[Battlefield42]

Escape From Tarkov

just play it with spt to get your fix

 

[Dante Alighieri]

How did you set up hotkeys? I've tried to use this one before, and while the previews work, and clicking them works, I can't get hotkeys to work consistently. Like it might work every once in a while, but then not again for a very long time. Both setting specific clients to a specific key, and trying to use a key like tab to switch to the next client over.
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I'm using evdev on x11. You also have to hit the Save button frequently.

 

[sodaboard]

Something you may have wondered about when using certain software on Linux is why it refuses to use your preferred file manager when you save and load. For Audacity 3 (+ prior versions) the reason is that its built in a way that defaults any file management dialog on that software to a fugly GTK based one regardless of what you have it set as the default. This is more noticeable if you use a non-GTK FM in a Qt based environment with Dolphin like I do, but it is still a problem on GNOME (or any other GTK based DE)

The reason why is because even though this functionless fallback might look like the FM that got lobotomized due to "use case?", it is not. As such it doesn't follow certain user expectations for Nautilus like plugins or w/e. But this isn't an unsolved problem, GTK3 has had a method to respect native file choosers with GtkFileChooserNative for a very long time now. In fact its existed in GTK3 since 3.20 which was released 10 fucking years ago. So I decided to just patch this feature into the source of Audacity myself:

View attachment 9087018

Originally I was waiting for Tentacruel & Co to finish their rewrite of Audacity 3 from wxWidgets/GTK3 to Qt which will most likely fix this by default, but its taking forever and also might be shite. Because of that I also suspect if I commit this it will probably be received like any new commits to X11; that is sent straight to the trash with "use new thing instead". - For anyone who want this its probably best to just use the fork of Audacity 3 which I think(?) already does this. The last time I tried it doe there were some major stability regressions compared to default Audacity 3. But YMMV.

shouldn't this be something you can set as a system setting instead of per-application? tired of the gtk browser

 

[acid_ra1n]

@Ferryman im so dum i had to log out and in to reset my path which would allow me to upgrade, never seen that before in a distro lol

 

[SchizoDaemon]

The only time I've ever had Cinnamon crash was when I was trying to play an old pinball game on steam that had a messed up emulator. I think it was running a really old version of wine that was wrapped up and shipped as a Linux game so it was running under the Linux backwards compatibility tool

I've had a bunch of odd issues with it. It isn't anything that is a showstopper, but the annoyances build up over time.

 

[wew lad]

JFYI: ArchWiki article, and this thing was such a friggin lifesaver. The rundown is "install libbluray, libaacs, and libbdplus, download that KEYDB.cfg file and place it in the proper directory, plug in your BD drive, and be blown away at how Evangelion 1.11's Blu-ray disc plays flawlessly. Totem was my video player of choice for years, but GNOME Video deprecated disc playback (insert Emmanuele_Bassi_UHMUSECASE_Soyjak.jpg here). Celluloid worked, but I ultimately settled on VLC because it still plays discs with menus well enough. I can't speak about proper 4K UHD discs, but basic bitch 1080p blu-rays should be the least of your worries. Just don't be a fucking retard like me and key in pacman -Syu libaacs libbdplus libbluray on your Fedora console.

I got around to trying this, I had to hunt for an up to date KEYDB.cfg file but I have 1080p Blurays working swimmingly. It looks like for getting UHD playback on my LG WH14NS40, I will need to do some bootleg firmware flashing again.

EDIT:
After much LLM-whispering and fucking around with very poorly documented software, here is my advice: anyone seeking to flash a virgin Bluray drive to make it into a LibreDrive with MakeMKV on Linux should use the old 1.17.7 version which can be found here, and just compile the libraries (oss) and binary (bin) from source. Do not bother with the flatpak, and while MakeMKV 1.18.3 works with already flashed drives, performing it for the first time on Linux does not work due to a regression in versions after 1.17.7. I trust you, the reader, to look up the correct firmware and compatibility with your respective Bluray drives, but I also believe anyone comfortable with a little tinkering can do this without trying to pay $200 to some Southeast Asians trying to hock pre-flashed drives or worse, 'remote flashing' services.

EDIT 2:
I grabbed Total Recall as my test disc, and it was very easy to just turn testing the drive into watching Total Recall.

 

[acid_ra1n]

EDIT:
After much LLM-whispering and fucking around with very poorly documented software, here is my advice: anyone seeking to flash a virgin Bluray drive to make it into a LibreDrive with MakeMKV on

I have a libre drive compatible drive but after trying to figure out how the fuck to do it I gave up and need to ask someone how

@Ferryman so I'm going to eventually migrate from gnom to exwm once I've figured out how to use Emacs. Starting the lectures today got some very light config setup. I'm curious if you know much about linux-libre and wayland? There's a rust project for ewm and some other stuff happening in the pipe to get Emacs compositor on Wayland but Is Wayland against the gnu philosophy

 

[wew lad]

I have a libre drive compatible drive but after trying to figure out how the fuck to do it I gave up and need to ask someone how

It's not hard if you know the right path, the issue is the current documentation is just bad. I imagine Bluray rippers want to keep this hush-hush to justify selling 4K rips or hosting streaming sites that are raped by ads.

1. Check that your given Bluray drive is compatible, and find the matching firmware. Extract it, and also download sdf.bin from MakeMKV.
2. For specifically Linux users, download the makemkv-oss-1.17.7.tar.gz and makemkv-bin-1.17.7.tar.gz from this old downloads archive for MakeMKV. If you want, go ahead and also grab the latest version as well.
3. Extract both the tar files. To compile the libraries you'll need to run configure, then make, then sudo make install. For the binaries, just make and sudo make install.
   1. If you do want the latest version, you can extract and compile the oss and bin archives for the latest version, and then just extract the 1.17.7 precompiled binary from bin/amd64 to your working directory.
4. Now that you have the libraries installed and the 1.17.7 makemkvcon binary either installed or extracted to a working directory, open a terminal shell as root through sudo -i or your preferred method.
5. The command to actually start the firmware flash: 'makemkvcon f -v -d <driveID> -f [sdf.bin] rawflash <main or enc> -i [firmware.bin]'. Whether you use main or enc depends on your drive and the age of the firmware and more information can be found here. If you've compiled and installed the latest and you're using the standalone 1.17.7 just for the initial flash, make sure you're running the binary in your working directory.
6. Once you run the command, you should get a prompt for 'yes' to confirm you're ready to flash the firmware. Once you do, you'll get a progress bar. Once the progress bar is complete, the drive will be successfully flashed to the new firmware. Some drives can jump straight to a LibreDrive firmware, some have to hop through two flashes to do it.
7. An easy way to verify if the LibreDrive firmware is installed is to pop a Bluray into the drive, and then run "makemkvcon info dev:<driveID>". If you see something like "Using LibreDrive mode (v06.3 id=111111111111)" then it's working. Regular 1080p Bluray playback will still work as normal, but now you can use MakeMKV to rip 4K UHD Blurays.
8. There were some potentially unnecessary steps I also took by advisement of ChatGPT, I will include them in case it helps someone:
   1. Disable SELinux temporarily with "sudo setenforce 0", and re-enable it after the flash with "sudo setenforce 1". SELinux does try to prevent exactly the sort of shit we're doing here, but this may not have been necessary as the regression in 1.18.3 was also preventing this from working.
   2. Instead of using a high-level drive designation like /dev/sr0, you may want to try using your Bluray drive's true device number, e.g. dev_21.

This write-up is still probably somewhat incomplete, so here be dragons and so forth. And as with anything involving device firmware, this can theoretically brick your Bluray drive if you stop flashing it midway. Don't flash your LibreDrive in a thunderstorm.

 

[ckcc]

i forgot if i ever wrote about this on here but i have a particularly strange issue on artix linux where the mouse feels...off. i'll move it around but it feels like its lagging behind...

initially i believed it was the built in smoothing that most distros have ('acceleration') but turning it off did...nothing. ('off' being 'flat') - thus i've been using regular arch linux for a while now... is there a known fix for this? searching it up provided nothing.

for details:
gpu is an rx 9060xt 8gb,
cpu is an amd ryzen 5 7500f,
16gb ddr5 ram,
iso was xfce openrc stable.

 

[Pluciferous]

i forgot if i ever wrote about this on here but i have a particularly strange issue on artix linux where the mouse feels...off. i'll move it around but it feels like its lagging behind...

initially i believed it was the built in smoothing that most distros have ('acceleration') but turning it off did...nothing. ('off' being 'flat') - thus i've been using regular arch linux for a while now... is there a known fix for this? searching it up provided nothing.

Stop using fentanyl.

 

[acid_ra1n]

For whatever reason Louis is constantly subjected to the horrors of licensed paid proprietary software and his conclusion is never "maybe we should look for ethical free software alternatives"

 

[Betonhaus]

i forgot if i ever wrote about this on here but i have a particularly strange issue on artix linux where the mouse feels...off. i'll move it around but it feels like its lagging behind...

initially i believed it was the built in smoothing that most distros have ('acceleration') but turning it off did...nothing. ('off' being 'flat') - thus i've been using regular arch linux for a while now... is there a known fix for this? searching it up provided nothing.

for details:
gpu is an rx 9060xt 8gb,
cpu is an amd ryzen 5 7500f,
16gb ddr5 ram,
iso was xfce openrc stable.

Is this an older wireless mouse? You're not using wayland experimental right? maybe change your mouse curser icon to a different one?

 

[Ferryman]

I have a libre drive compatible drive but after trying to figure out how the fuck to do it I gave up and need to ask someone how

@Ferryman so I'm going to eventually migrate from gnom to exwm once I've figured out how to use Emacs. Starting the lectures today got some very light config setup. I'm curious if you know much about linux-libre and wayland? There's a rust project for ewm and some other stuff happening in the pipe to get Emacs compositor on Wayland but Is Wayland against the gnu philosophy

As far as the GNU project is concerned, Wayland is A-OK since it is 100% free software. Some of the most prolific Guix devs like Hilton Chain or Franz Gefke both use Wayland compositors (Niri & Sway respectively). I've used Hyprland, Sway and DWL, all of which run great. The whole X11 vs Wayland thing is played out. Both suck dick, just pick what flavor of dick you prefer: keylogger monolith or tranny redhatware. As far as XLibre is concerned, there's a third party Guix channel for it and it just werks as a drop in replacement for X11. I only messed around with it for like a week before jumping back cause xnamespace is still broken. If you wanna use X, XLibre is probably the way to go since it still gets commits pretty much daily (the Guix verison is updated with every major release).

 

[acid_ra1n]

As far as the GNU project is concerned, Wayland is A-OK since it is 100% free software. Some of the most prolific Guix devs like Hilton Chain or Franz Gefke both use Wayland compositors (Niri & Sway respectively). I've used Hyprland, Sway and DWL, all of which run great. The whole X11 vs Wayland thing is played out. Both suck dick, just pick what flavor of dick you prefer: keylogger monolith or tranny redhatware. As far as XLibre is concerned, there's a third party Guix channel for it and it just werks as a drop in replacement for X11. I only messed around with it for like a week before jumping back cause xnamespace is still broken. If you wanna use X, XLibre is probably the way to go since it still gets commits pretty much daily (the Guix verison is updated with every major release).

Yeah I've got xlibre on my slave drive on my main desktop but I mostly just use Wayland because that's where all the action that pertains to me and my projects I'm working on is
But for thinkpad I'm trying to go all in on Emacs and wasn't sure if I should bother with exwm autism if I'm going down the systemcrafters rabbit hole or if I should branch off into other compositors

 

[Dread First]

But for thinkpad I'm trying to go all in on Emacs and wasn't sure if I should bother with exwm autism if I'm going down the systemcrafters rabbit hole or if I should branch off into other compositors

Make Dr. Emerald McS et al PhD at the University of Texas Instruments proud, @acid_ra1n. If you can't do it in Emacs, it's not worth doing. C'mon man, go the whole nine yards!