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𓀐 @iJY*-MFP: Fedora KDE: Is there a way to summon a temporary terminal that kills itself when it's no longer focused? I just went on an adventure with the bot and it spit out some bash script that will probably kill the wrong process someday. Usecase: temporary ncmpcpp instance I summon with a hotkey+

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𓀐 @*fR7PfLN: ai slop+

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𓀐 @5T83DfqF: >gay no+

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𓀐 @W+7jED*P: >picrel >But I did it only one time with you!+

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𓀐 @+qc9xJEo: Shouldn't that picture be of 2 guys?+

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𓀐 @T7XXY84=: How do I install the Hyprland operating system+ 1

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𓀐 @wGeKMhV6: It's just a window manager and you can check your package manager for it and likely swap from your desktop environment to the window manager from your login screen.+

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𓀐 @gZrn?uBJ: It uses about a gig with nothing but Konsole open so if you really had to push it then it can use less RAM. https://pastebin.com/raw/kBsT7JTX I don't know why I have some GNOME services here though. I think some of these can go. >from what I can see there is no benefit to this OS unless your hardware is extremely underpowered Pretty much. I ran Gentoo before but I don't actually use this laptop enough for Gentoo to be worthwhile. I was using my desktop as a binhost but still not really worth it. With Alpine at least I can quickly update the packages with apk the few times I use it.+

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𓀐 @5~wy22?o: >First for Alpine Linux Reject GNU and embrace the glorious Musl libc+ 4

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𓀐 @TYGChbtE: 2 GB of RAM usage? What’s the minimum amount of RAM, KDE can use on a Linux distro?+

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𓀐 @Won*_QTK: An independent systemd-free distro sounds nice, but from what I can see there is no benefit to this OS unless your hardware is extremely underpowered. And even then your browser will use all your compute anyway. Lots of manual setup compared to Fedora. There used to be a terminal (Konsole?) on KDE that opened with tilde (~) and maybe some modifier key.+ 2

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𓀐 @w6d88E8J: >There used to be a terminal (Konsole?) on KDE that opened with tilde (~) and maybe some modifier key. You're thinking of Yakuake. It has been a bit neglected since KDE switched fully to Wayland but still works even if it's a little glitchy/buggy sometimes.+ 1

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𓀐 @Hcm8fa8c: Yeah that's the one. But don't newer Konsole versions have that built in now?+

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𓀐 @~J5TLx8s: is openwrt hard to install and configure? i figure i just flash my existing router software, should be easy. but looking at configuring it it seems like linux from scratch. i am just a apu with linux mint, will this be too hard for me? i just want a sensible updatable router+

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𓀐 @hesxKPXz: I don't think that's them. It's just the default that ships with pacman I imagine and there was a new / updated one I just hadn't merged the .pacnew file. You need to do that manually, Arch will never update config files for you.+

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𓀐 @m9kgaNFb: I am worried wayland (gnome-occupied organization or goo for short) will kill window managers that just werk without getting in your way and I hope xorg wont go away soon+

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𓀐 @Av5Ry7SR: What's the best Linux equivalent of the shift+windows+s snipping too? Something running in the background that I can invoke at any time.+

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𓀐 @yTvN2Qon: >On Debian, Ubuntu, and derivative Linux distributions, an on-path attacker who can manipulate the HTTP traffic (including a malicious mirror or proxy) between an APT client and an archive server triggered by a package install can trick the client into installing an attacker-controlled unverified package and achieve remote code execution with root privileges. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-109518 Apt high vulnerability in Debian 12 onwards and Debian-based distributions. Time to change your sources URIs to HTTPS. I'm done being told HTTP is fine because APT verifies them anyway.+

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𓀐 @apQax4+M: I wonder if https can really protect you there with the apt cve. Does it redirect? Wouldn't that cause a certificate issue? What if the mirror is pozzed?+

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𓀐 @r?86KUfq: Buttons are too small. I want to make them bigger.+

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𓀐 @wLrSMovh: >always used windows >decide to try cachy becasue I'm tired of all my shit being tied to onedrive with my name >none of my peripherals are working the way I want I may end up going back to windows.+

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𓀐 @iuKMZfo5: but everyone always says "linux can do everything windows can".+

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𓀐 @9gpM9UXE: For gaming CachyOS is best? Mostly want a plug and play I keep hearing for my all AMD build it is much better. Also how is Wabbajack and modding Bethesda games these days? Is it just as convenient than windows?+ 1

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𓀐 @bB?FPTXS: If it works, it works I personally have no issues on Fedora KDE, except lately they fucked up something with the AMD drivers and had to roll back on a update, dunno if the new Fedora 45 fixed it+

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𓀐 @JR4H~Z+~: why does linux have so many?+

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𓀐 @wf4eiK57: Rocm has no official support on arch, have fun frying your system+

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𓀐 @ZAeHeU4N: So why is Fedora kde having so much AMD problems out of nowhere?+

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𓀐 @KT5*2rk~: your gpu is dying, boo+

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𓀐 @Yyff74GX: Help me Anons, I'm looking for a lightweight distribution for learning Linux. Only CLI (sadly it eliminates most live distributions), bash, awk, grep, sed, python, C, Fortran, Emacs, man. That's all. PS: Is there any spreadsheet software working in text mode?+

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𓀐 @gAyTsGFA: Which distribution is most important to the entire Linux ecosystem, like if it died over the night, which one would in that hypothetical scenario cause the most trouble and issues if it goes missing. >Debian >Ubuntu >Fedora >RHEL >openSUSE >SLE >Arch >SteamOS >Gentoo >ChromeOS >Slackware >Gnome OS >KDE Linux >Pop_OS >Alpine >Guix >Mint >Zorin >Nobara >CachyOS >PikaOS >EndeavourOS Does any distro or it's maintainers even matter all that much, is Linux simply too independant and fragmented for any distro to ever be able to matter much in the entire Linux space?+

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𓀐 @3px9y?gC: >using Fedora KDE for around a year now >longest time using a single linux distribution or linux at all >Radeon GPU >recent updates completely fucked over gaming >wine preloader and Proton are completely shafted >all online sources say Wayland is at fault >trying to launch with options or using gamescope dont work or dont work properly >even the controller gets fucked over by it >thinking about just installing a second Desktop Environment to be rid of it Will it work? Which one should I use? I hate GNOME or anything that has that ugly thin abr at the top you cant get rid of.+

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𓀐 @~c*7TeKv: Should I run Fedora or Arch? The only thing keeping me on Fedora is SELinux protections, official Google Chrome repo, and generally being a high quality, well supported OS. I don't want to run Flatpak Chrome or deal with AUR busywork and maintenance overhead. But Arch Extra repo has lots of desktop-relevant packages. To do the same on Fedora requires COPR which is untrustworthy.+ 1

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𓀐 @r?N7mr4R: arch is a diy distro, you can configure and harden it to be better than any fedora defaults if you know what you're doing. but also all the maintenance of burden and control and testing falls onto you. for most people fedora is a better option, but they're honestly really lazy too, there's no excuse for how complicated they make it to get multimedia codecs or nvidia drivers setup, especially secureboot with nvidia, it should be a one click gui thing and the user should never have to do anything in the terminal. And fedora can often be very heavy for some reason, there's a crosseyed old chud on youtube that does testing of distros in terms of ssd speeds and basic benchmarks and fedora out of the box is often times pretty heavy in terms of ram/cpu/ssd, probably because of some background auto update or filesystem or security/selinux configurations. But there's no perfect distro.+

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𓀐 @b9XxrALQ: >always laughed at people "customizing their desktop/OS" >always said that's all linux is good for >been trying out linux (cachy) >everything works >start customizing my stuff >haven't been this happy with my desktop in years How could I have been so wrong about everything.+

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𓀐 @+9DD23Rw: is any video player on linux good at playback of small loops in fullscreen without spazzing out between replays?+

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𓀐 @tLGGnSGk: >try lxqt >ram usage seems high for something that’s supposed to be lightweight >open up all of its common programs >the ram usage barely moves an inch, less than opening a single nautilus or dolphin window I get it now. Why the fuck don’t DE comparisons point this out? Lxqt is insanely tightly integrated apparently but everyone just compares ram use at boot with nothing open. Essentially it seems like you pay more upfront with lxqt (still less than a bigger DE) but way less when you actually start using the damn computer. I know KDE and GNOME do this to an extent but nothing close to how extreme it is here, literally like 10mb for a file manager window.+

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𓀐 @Bu4KnohJ: Normal people use Windows anon.+

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