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Why does wine insist in adding its entries to my mimeapps and ~/.local/share/applications directory?
It's really annoying when all of a sudden I get the option in PCManFM to open a simple text document with Notepad.exe through wine, alongside the ones I actually want like vim or emacs.
im trying to install linux for the first time (tried both ubuntu and mint) and getting this error every time when i boot from the usb. i have heavily searched this on google and do not really see a clear error for this problem - most of them mention changing nvidia settings but i have amd. does anyone know what may be causing this issue when booting from USB? is this a sign my computer just isnt strong enough? is it a debian problem?
how do i become a chad in scripting? i know the basics, but im pretty bad at doing filters and such
Austin Taylor
Guys, I do I install pirated gaems on Linux? It's been a long time since the last time I played a game and I don't feel like installing a VM just to play one game.
u just run it if it's a windows gaem then you just run it in wine
Charles Perry
Check the sh for malicious code added by the pirate group or general assholes. If its a windows game use proton/wine
Robert Brooks
there's not a single game that can run on my machine which doesn't work in wine
Jackson Hernandez
If you're going to use a program a friend shared with you, why would you compare yourself with a robber and murder at the high seas? This only leads to laws that criminalize sharing. Don't do this.
Because it's retarded. I lInk all the uninteresting wine entries in .local/share/applications to /dev/null and that solves the annoyances for me.
Luis Jenkins
that's actually a great simple fix. thanks.
Benjamin Miller
BIG noob fag here.
I don't fully understand the application of knowledge around linux based systems. I've seen some careers that require experience in programming in this environment but i fail to see why you cant just do the same tasks in windows or macOS. Like I said I am a huge noob and I want to learn more but IDK where to start. Many years ago I fresh installed my shitty macbook OS with ubuntu, but I didn't have any projects or goals to work on so I gave up pretty quickly.
I'm not asking for a perfect answer on a silver platter as i can understand if there are many layers to a good response. Basically I'm just wondering if anybody knew of any good resources or ideas for long term projects (literally any subject too. Anywhere from networking to shitty app programming). Just any sort of advice for somebody who wants to learn more.
upgrade your BIOS other than that there are few solution on google that are supposed to guide you throw this... never saw that shit before
Blake Richardson
Starting a VM is quick and easy. Don't compromise your system.
Andrew Cooper
The game in question came in an iso installer. I managed to unzip the thing, but when I try to install it with PlayOnLinux the setup.exe is unable to reach the gaem.bin. Sorry, Jesus. I won't repeat that mistake.
Michael Sanchez
Go from one topic to the next topic. To go full chad mode it will talks a while. Shell scrpting can be edgy. What especially do you want to learn? By filters, do you mean awkgrepsed? Regex?
Ryan Young
Which VM do you recommend?
Joshua Carter
>managed to "unzip" an iso file lol well setup.exe should work fine if you did in fact manage to "unzip" the thing it's possible that it doesn't have permission to access the file though do chmod 644 on the files and chmod 755 on directories
Jason Lee
just use virtualbox, it's easy as shit
Jackson Baker
qemu+kvm with gpu passthrough near native performance
Asher Reyes
7z x file.iso, but yeah, I get your point. I'm going the VM route, though. The other user scared me.
Jose Reed
best, but >implying a beginner can handle all this
Benjamin Barnes
>not running proprietary programs in wine under a different user
Cameron Nguyen
Tips and tricks for Kubuntu for a better experience? I've been using Kubuntu for a few weeks. KDE has quickly become my favorite DE and I like how easy it is to use anything Debian based. Is there anything I can do for a better experience though? Any options I should be changing?
Aaron Rogers
good choice
Caleb Murphy
well he won't be able to play any games in a basic virtualbox setup not sure how's the PCI passthrough on virtualbox though
Isaiah Gutierrez
>giving proprietary software filesystem and internet access
Angel Torres
it only has access to the wine home folder though >internet access >what is iptables
Henry Russell
>first i wait and look how my data gets send to somewhere, then i block the IPs, I'm safe
Ian King
how about just block networking entirely for the wine user via iptables
John Barnes
There are over 9000 ways to break out of WINE and even more to compromise at kernel level. Don't fool yourself for being too lazy to set up a VM for proprietary software.
Dominic Kelly
I'm confused, uh, what exactly are you asking? Why Linux is considered a developer os? Or you asking what to do as a developer? what language dude?
pick a language (python, nodejs, C/C#/C++) and get to work.
Evan Diaz
Linux is a kernel.
Joseph Scott
This shit is breaking my heart man. Want to use Linux so bad but my computer is t even letting me..:
Parker Anderson
well I'm willing to take the off chance that my shitty windows games from 10 years ago don't contain malicious CIA code that can break out of wine and exploit unpatched zero day vulnerabilities in latest linux kernels if the CIA wanted to pwn me that badly, I'm pretty sure they'd use the intel ME rather than risk their amazing top secret malware falling into hands of russian hackers
this is a dumb question, but if i'm doing gpu pass through, do the slave and master gpus have to go to different monitors?
Bentley Edwards
>implying AMD's PSP isn't an equivalent of intel's ME
Dylan Phillips
this is what you get when you release something under the bsd license think about it for a while, tannebaum
Camden Gomez
Or go to different inputs of a single monitor
Parker Davis
What’s the fastest, most stable distro that has nothing to do with debian
Colton Gray
pimp my gnu
Levi Jackson
>Why does wine insist in adding its entries to my mimeapps and ~/.local/share/applications directory? Because WINE was originally for productivity applications. It's still beyond gay they try to put their notepad and IE in there.
Jace Gutierrez
seriously wtf is this??? seems like no one else has this issue. fuck me
hm, I see there is an update available. do you think once I update it, I have to do anything else? like change settings? I notice my BIOS is listed as type UEFI, is that significant? I guess ill try updating the BIOS and see what happens
Try updating your BIOS, many people say the newest ones work. Some also say there's some settings in the BIOS you can set which will help the situation like "typical current idle" and disabling C6 states or something.
Jonathan Peterson
yeah but only if you want to install windows UEFI works for Linux Try libreboot if it's compatible with your hardware, because your bios is probably proprietary
Ayden Gomez
Is there any reason my i3bar isn't showing my battery or internet connection anymore? Everything else still works; mailbox, memory, CPU temp, volume, date/time I just cannot get battery and internet to show up. It broke after updating last week, and I haven't changed anything in my config file.
Colton Fisher
The numbers used to identify the battery and network probably changed. It needs to be bat0 or bat1 or whatever is the right number. For network type "ifconfig" and see what the interface name is
Josiah Nguyen
drop your hardware details i respond to you yesterday than go to sleep most chances upgrading your BIOS/UEFI will resolve it no other modification needed
Brayden Allen
>libreboot He has AMD so no.
Hunter Cook
thank you for the help. will try installing Linux again and see what happens. my laptop processor only has around 2.0ghz so not sure if that may be an issue
Liam Sanchez
Im trying to use rakarrack on manjaro but i get an error that jackd isnt running trying to start jackd outputs
JACK is running in realtime mode, but you are not allowed to use realtime scheduling. Please check your /etc/security/limits.conf for the following line and correct/add it if necessary:
@audio - rtprio 99
After applying these changes, please re-login in order for them to take effect.
You don't appear to have a sane system configuration. It is very likely that you encounter xruns. Please apply all the above mentioned changes and start jack again!
I dont mind changing it, but is there a reason its not a default? some sort of safety thing?
Jayden Gray
>I dont mind changing it, but is there a reason its not a default? some sort of safety thing? More of a general purpose thing. Linux is tuned for throughput rather than latency control by default.
Asher Young
>Linux is tuned for throughput rather than latency control by default I'm wondering what the reasoning is. From what I've read jack seems better that pulse in every way. Both still just output to alsa though.
Hudson Jenkins
Why reinstall? I mean, it's fine if you want to do it to be on the safe side but just to be clear here: that isn't going to update your BIOS.
Lucas Lee
to be clear, I just updated my BIOS. Wasn't able to install Linux at all before, so making another attempt. I still have windows only
Jordan Nguyen
JACK is basically a pain in the balls to configure. Someday Soon(tm) both JACK and Pulseaudio will be replaced by PipeWire which has good performance and good autoconfig. IIRC the big push for pipewire is better media handling in flatpakked sandboxes.
Easton Howard
Is there a way to figure out what the name of the battery would've changed to? I've never had it not be BAT0 so I've never needed to know how to find it.
Carter Peterson
>Someday Soon(tm) both JACK and Pulseaudio will be replaced by PipeWire i tried uninstalling jack and the amount of programs that are hard dependent on jack is pretty crazy. blender, kde, the list goes on. wayland and pipewire is the dream system. see you in 37 years
Grayson James
I always just looked in some directory, can't remember which at the moment. /proc/acpi something. There's probably a better way
Lincoln Evans
Wayland is on by default in Debian 10. Pipewire and flatpak are the laggards now.
Juan James
ugh pipewire. Another rug like pulseaudio to sweep everything under, instead of actually solving the real fucking problems at a lower level. Since when did GNU/Linux become about pretending our problems don't exist
Gabriel Mitchell
What problems? I'm genuinely curious here. Pulseaudio ended up net reducing the bugs in the ALSA stack because it exposed almost all of them at once.
Jackson Collins
>Pulseaudio ended up net reducing the bugs in the ALSA stack because it exposed almost all of them at once Sounds like you're already aware of some, so why ask me?
I called it a "rug", I didn't say it didn't do the job of a "rug" well. Point being it sits on top of shit that has problems and "reduces" them as you yourself put it. It's hiding the problems. It's not actually solving them. I just think the whole audio system needs to be rethought from the ground up.
Noah White
Almost all audio hardware sucks in silicon. Every driver stack on every OS is like 80% quirks and workarounds and errata. You're never going to get zero bugs with that setup.
>Since when did GNU/Linux become about pretending our problems don't exist It's always been like that, see the eternal man vs GNU info war.
Lucas Rogers
>Almost all audio hardware sucks in silicon. Every driver stack on every OS is like 80% quirks and workarounds and errata. You're never going to get zero bugs with that setup. i thought that was literally the one thing apple did well
Evan Brooks
The i3 developers quietly made it so that you have to insert a newline after printing the output for it to show in your bar. If you’re using LARBS, Luke merged in some of my fixes today so an update should fix most of the issues.
Jonathan Gomez
No, the Intel HD Audio spec is worthlessly vague and squishy. I think literally every implementation has bugs. There's a project to make sound devices with open source firmware that has potential to replace HDA someday but it's not ready yet.
Really though this is what we get for moving away from nicely behaved standard hardware like SB16+OPL3. Drivers for THOSE just work on everything from Linux to 9front to MS-DOS. >yes, there's still a midi driver for the opl3 in ALSA
It worked! After I updated the BIOS, it let me install. Thanks for the help guys.
Angel Adams
Hmm well i got jack working but now i only get sound out of rakarrack, everything else wont even play (mpv, youtube just pause). fucking annoying shit man, anyone got any idea>
Gabriel Ramirez
JACK and Pulseaudio conflict - they both want exclusive control of ALSA devices. You need to set up JACK as a sink for PulseAudio and restart PulseAudio.
Also mpv --ao jack should work.
James James
\n worked to get my network icon back, but it's still not giving me my battery. Changed the line exactly as pictured, so no clue what's going on there.
Dylan Garcia
>GIMP for no reason is crashing when opening anything >persisting through a total purge of the install and all configs >look up big tracker for people with similar issues in the last few years >"we can't find any new information on this bug so we are closing it"
where should i go after the basics of installing mint and using it basically as a cooler looking windows? how do i get to the point of actual competency, of understanding what my machine is doing and how to find and fix issues without just googling the problem and copypasting from a forum?
Joseph Thompson
I'm getting a little confused trying to setup JACK. I've gotten it up and running over pulse and now my issue is getting it to pick up my guitar.
It seems the only input that is available for me to control from catia is my microphone input, but other devices, where as if i looked into pavucontrols I'd find my webcam, microphone, and guitar adapter listed. From what I've gathered I'm supposed to use alsa_in which seems a bit weird to me both because I can't just see all my devices by default, as well as the fact that I cannot figure out how to actually use alsa_in. Any idea what I should do from here?
Just use it like you'd use a normal computer user. You learn by using it, the same way you learned windows. Just go about your day, and if something happens look it up. To avoid being a copypaster just look up what the commands do, more often than not you can either google the command name, or go into a terminal and type "man " which will give you detailed information about the command. Either that or " --help" or "command -h". Most programs have at least one of those. Also the arch wikl, it's not the same distro but it's still Linux and it explains stuff pretty damn well.
Samuel Davis
weird, did you do this because of the other poster (me) or is it just a coincidence? shouldnt it be done in qjackctl?
Benjamin Bennett
How do I make it so debian actually resizes in my virtualbox window
oh lmao I didn't even read your question. I just got on here and posted. Maybe yours will give me info tho, thanks for pointing it out. but yeah no I've been working on this for a bit now.
Adam Murphy
I suggest reading the advanced bash guide on tldp.org, it is very good starting point. Basically Unix was a system for processing text and you need to understand the philosophy behind that and how to use that.
Thomas Rivera
Doesn't let me
Austin Robinson
install the vbox linux addons.
Isaac Morris
So, the only way to get rid of audio bugs is to buy a Sound Blaster PCI card at a retrocomputing price, and use one of those slot conversion cards to get no headaches with audio?
Sebastian Morales
A command requires Y to be pressed, so that it continues. I am thinking of using the output of echo Y to make it run in a script, without using a temporary file. How can I do that?
