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Fedora is a perfectly fine, respectable distro. I approve.
Samuel Johnson
Are these paid posts?
Carson Russell
I wish. Most of my pro-Fedora posting comes on the form of bashing apt for being shit, and people ask fewer stupid questions when I tell them to use Fedora instead of telling them to use e.g opensuse or slackware.
Josiah Bell
What makes you think that apt is bad? In my experience apt only got its bad reputation because mostly beginners use apt systems - and beginners usually fuck things up (adding random repos, ppas, don't read manuals, etc). IMHO apt is a fine package manager.
Kayden Green
Seventh for Minty freshness
Kevin Reed
It never gave me anything but trouble when trying to upgrade between versions of Ubuntu, to the point where I just quit using it. If your package management is obnoxious to the point where fresh reinstalls are easier than in-place upgrades, it's super flawed. It's fine for simple use, but totally falls flat on the larger scale stuff in my experience.
Granted, it may be better now than it was 3-4 years ago, but I haven't heard anything suggesting it is.
Nolan Butler
>and people ask fewer stupid questions when I tell them to use Fedora thats because they dismiss your advice immediately and move on
Josiah Collins
based
Brody Jenkins
found the troll
Wyatt Barnes
It's okay if you wan't to do fucky workarounds to watch live streams since it doesn't ship with the capability. Even the chromium binary is compiled without support.
Andrew Walker
>install game in vanilla wine instance >it just works WINE is really good nowadays
Alright, I got it to work. I ran into trouble when passing in a file with exclamation marks in it. Using single quotes causes it to work, but qBittorrent only works if I pass the file in with double-quotes. Are exclamation marks something I only have to worry about in interactive mode or will I have trouble with oddly named files (ones with '@' and '!' in the name)?
Jeremiah Phillips
>What reason would they even have to exclude h264 support? Because it isn't in line with their philosophy. Something about being proprietary which is why chromium is compiled without support at all. You can get firefox to work with poorly performing open implementations of h264 codecs but it sucks.
Just clicking a link in browser on one my designated video monitor is infinitely more convenient.
Jaxon Ortiz
>How so? More comfortable and better performance than using the browser. Dead easy to invoke from terminal with 'mpv "www.mystream.com/mystream"'.
Sure instead of just clicking this link let me copy the video url, bring up my terminal, type mpv ctrl+shift+v, enter, then adjust where I want it and if I want to use a browser on two monitors I have to switch programs instead of just switching the tab.
i do this because firefox won't play sound without pulseaudio
Isaiah Reyes
If you do this regularly, it's trivial to key it to a hotkey using e.g xclip (to read your keyboard) and xbindkeys, and you should have your WM configured to show mpv on the proper monitor without having to manually move it.
Nicholas Gomez
So how are you passing the stuff? "!" and "@" are special characters you need to either escape a la "\!" or write in single quotes when you're typing them manually. Inside scripts they should cause no problems.
Connor Martin
qBittorrent 3.3.1 using the "Run external program on torrent completion" option.
Zachary Mitchell
You're gonna have to be more specific
David Anderson
Using this screen in qBittorrent. It'll automatically run after the download is finished. Link to script: pastebin.com/TsApyKKH
It's Ubuntu for fans of mint chocolate flavored ice cream.
Carter Baker
Isn't Ubuntu just Debian, pissed and shat on and painted orange? What's the benefit over Debian?
Dylan Brown
Is Gentoo friendly enough for this thread?
Brayden Brooks
Ah, you see I don't have qbittorrent installed and didn't get how you were passing the arg
Bash escaping is living hell, so names with special characters could cause problems there. It looks like qbittorrent is taking your command as a string, bluntly replacing %F with the filename and executing it. But what if the filename contains quotes? Or special characters? Since the command is passed around as a string the characters of the file names won't get properly escaped and will get confused with special characters. At least that's my take on it. Maybe there's a way to get the name elsewhere, or some cool bash way to escape absolutely everything
Oliver Johnson
It's actually comfy as fuck >copy url >hit hotkey >watch stream while shitposting
Asher Cruz
Redpilled and based
Blake Diaz
Hey guys. I run Debian Sid, and I'm attempting to install OBS through a snap package, since I was told it bundles in support for Hardware Encoding (NVENC) for Nvidia cards, so you don't have to custom compile ffmpeg for it.
However, after doing snap run obs-studio
I get hit with
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast X Error: GLXBadContext Request Major code 151 (GLX) Request Minor code 6 () Error Serial #54 Current Serial #53
From my initial searching, it seems to be an issue with the snap's OpenGL being linked to the wrong library, since I'm using propietary NVIDIA Drivers from Debian Sid, and those may be different from the ones on Ubuntu (?)
Been trying to fix it through a LD_LIBRARY_PATH declaration before the snap run command, didn't work.
And yes, I know there's a package for obs-studio on Debian Sid already, but that one doesn't support hardware encoding. I also already tried doing the whole compiling ffmpeg with the nvenc flag but there's some issue with CUDA upstream right now apparently.
Sure, but we seem to be having less problems overall.
Andrew Garcia
It was my last choice, like I mention in my post. I first tried the native package from the Sid repos. I then tried to custom compile ffmpeg to support NVENC, but CUDA has an issue upstream. So I'm left with having to deal with snap, at least as a temporary measure
Dylan Diaz
If you want to use canonical's poorly-run shit, do it in canonical's distro. If it still doesn't work there, bitch at upstream. If it does work, bitch at upstream to complain that their supposedly self-contained solution isn't self-contained at all.
Jonathan Lee
But you haven't exhausted appimages, guix, nix and flatpak yet, plus I guess you could run another distro in a vm or container.
Juan Sullivan
Just tested it out and it worked. Guessing special characters work differently in non-interactive mode. Haven't tried it on anything that has a '@' in it yet.
David Richardson
QBittorrent might be smart enough to be escaping those special chars already
Carson Hall
Nigger I dare you, don't put guix and nix into the same pot as appsnappackcrap.
Jaxson Sullivan
I don't want to, user. It just seems like the only way I'll get OBS with Hardware encoding running, so that's what I'm going for
Found none of these that actually have hardware encoding support with NVENC built into them - and running another distro in a vm/container just for OBS seems like an overkill measure
Has anyone gotten OBS with NVENC to run on their system? And what did you do to get it running? I'm just wondering if there's still hope I can stream with good framerates and low CPU usage.
I didn't put it in the same category as snap. Appimages got few flaws, and flatpak might be salvageable and useful enough for a workaround.
Camden Lee
>I don't want to take the step that can help me determine where the problem actually lies
Ok. Sucks to be you.
Joshua Ward
I don't think you understood me. I meant "I don't want to use Snap, but it seems like I have no other practical choice". And going off to install Ubuntu just to check if one program runs well (which it does, because some Ubuntu users confirmed it worked for them to me) doesn't seem like the course of action here
Cooper Young
Helpful: telling whats better Not helpful: insults
Jonathan Diaz
> what did you do to get it running? Have drivers configured. Set USE nvenc. Emerge obs-studio.
Not gonna help much unless you are on Gentoo.
Brayden Morris
You are indeed correct, this does not help, but thank you for your intentions
Easton Smith
I did list some options in .
You might also want to use proprietary nvidia drivers or something in case this happens to be an OpenGL issue rather than some issue with libGL or such.
Gavin Ward
I nothing else helps, you could still try other distros or use the Gentoo ebuilds as supplementary reference on how to compile OBS from source on your distro.
Parker Morales
If you're not willing to go deal with the maintainer of the package or switch distros to the only one where snaps actually get attention, then there's nothing you can do except wait for whatever's blocking your own compilation efforts from being resolved.
"I don't want to" in response to "you should try X, and contact the people with the actual power to fix it" is similarly unhelpful.
John Rodriguez
>recommending appimages and proprietary drivers Urgh
Isaiah Johnson
After installing fedora, my laptop starts and automatically shuts down after the “Acer” logo. When this first happened, it would start again, redirect me to BIOS, and I would exit and saving changes, and the next boot it would magically work; except it would redirect me to the grub menu and the default option the Grub menu had picked was “System setup,” so id have to select fedora instead. At first I suspected the default setting was the issue, so I installed grub customized and selected the fedora boot entry as the default. However, after this change, every boot fails after the Acer screen. I used a USB to change it back and it still won’t boot! System setup: LUKS encryptes BTRFS home folder UEFI Secure Boot was enabled when installed Acer Laptop Never had issues this bad with Linux before.
Asher Sanchez
I am using propietary nvidia drivers, like I mentioned in the original post. Like I mentioned, I tried using LD_LIBRARY_PATH and syslinks to get it to recognize the openGL library I guess the snap is expecting, but isn't finding.
From the error message, it just seems like an issue of libGL not finding the proper library
I did not say "I don't want to" to your suggestion of contacting maintainers, I said "I don't want to" use snap.
I already tried this, again as I mention, ffmpeg can't be compiled with nvenc support (I already tried) because of a problem upstream with CUDA 10.
Easton Brown
How can I remap CapsLock+WASD to behave like arrow keys?
Learn the standard shell (bash) and if you need special fetishes after that, look around.
John Taylor
Try both? Zsh typically with oh my zsh or zprezto.
Michael Hughes
I favor fish for normal interactive use because of the comfortable defaults and best autocompletion I've seen, but I still keep bash around for scripting purposes since fish isn't posix-compliant and 99% of scripts are written for either bash specifically or generic posix compliant sh generally.
Mason Butler
Cool, didn't know about that feature of KDE. Is it possible to use Caps both for this little trick with arrows and as compose key?
Thomas Rodriguez
Possibly, but I can't tell. If the settings panel doesn't recognize caps+a as a key combo then you'll need to either use alt+a for example or dive into xbindkeys.
Julian Scott
i dont wanna use wine i just wanna use steam for my games thats enough but my games dont work even with proton forced on them wat do
James Moore
Only retards use stupid frameworks > loads of MacOS shit > aliases you don't use > functions you don't understand > but luckily you get a colored PS1 ootb
Jaxson Brown
Isn't bash just the "old stuff" fetish? I get it's a quasi-standard if you write shell scripts (arguably some also prefer to just write them against sh so it works on csh, mksh, dash, ...).
But there's no particular advantage in not using fish or zsh with extensions for interactive use from the start.
Jacob Wright
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Colton Mitchell
based and mintpilled
Jason Taylor
Please help
Charles Reyes
Bash is the standard shell.
Jayden Mitchell
Dont trust these people! >Germany >Italy literally the axis of evil!
> aliases you don't use > functions you don't understand Well yea, but then you'd not just not use BASH, fish or zsh.
You'd probably use mksh or dash or such if you were really worried about these. This doesn't really bother many though.
> but luckily you get a colored PS1 ootb I just actually use the distro themeing on zprezto. It has a lot of other features like the better completions for paths or commands, automatic conditional running of tmux, syntax highlighting and so on.
Some of this stuff also can be done on bash, but you'll probably actually be doing more configuration.
> loads of MacOS shit Nah, not loaded.
Zachary Richardson
>Reich
Dominic Diaz
Bookerly
Camden Brooks
Thanks, will try.
Nicholas Fisher
I would disable secure boot and any BIOS related settings ("CSM" or "Legacy"). Make sure it's a pure EFI boot.
Also disable things like quick boot, boot logos etc so you can actually see what's going on at boot time.
