Linux

I currently have an Unraid server running at home for my personal files as well as some game servers and as a media server.

I have a second machine that I use at a different location that has VPN setup to home so I can work on my projects remotely. I would like to use the second machine to also take backups of my personal files and my docker configs etc.

the second machine is running Pop!OS currently and I have several drives installed. the Issue is I was trying to create a storage pool with ZFS but apparently Pop!OS is like the only distro that doesnt like ZFS.

should I re-image my remote machine to another OS? or should I try and create a pool with something else? I have two 6TB drives and three 2TB drives that I can use, I have some more installed on there but dont really need that much space.

I used to use windows on my second machine and would just connect my shares from unraid as smb and backup with bvckup2 to a windows storage space of all the drives combined. Now I switched to linux and would like to do something similar.

My idea was to combine the similar drives into vdevs and a big pool with ZFS then run luckybackup but that derailed when I tried and failed because of Pop!OS

I've only ever used desktop Linux and don't have server admin experience (unless you count hosting Minecraft servers on my personal machine lol). Currently using Artix and Void for my desktop computers as I've grown fond of runit.

I'm going to get a VPS for some personal projects and am at the point of deciding what distro I want to use. While I imagine that systemd is generally the best for servers due to the far more widespread support (therefore it's better for the stability needs of a server), I have a somewhat high threat model compared to most people so I was wondering if maybe I should use something like runit instead which is much smaller and less vulnerable. Security needs are also the reason why I'm leaning away from using something like Debian, because how outdated the packages are would likely leave me open to vulnerabilities. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding any of that though.

Other than that I'm not sure what considerations there are to make for my server distro. Maybe a more mainstream distro would be more likely to have the software in its repos that I need to host my various projects. On the other hand, I don't have any experience with, say, Fedora, and it'd probably be a lot easier for me to stick to something I know.

In terms of what I want to do with the VPS, it'll be more general-purpose and hosting a few different projects. Currently thinking of hosting a Matrix instance, a Mastodon instance, a NextCloud instance, an SMTP server, and a light website, but I'm sure I'll want to stick more miscellaneous stuff on there too.

So what distro do you use for your server hosting? What things should I consider when picking a distro?

I want a NAS solution to back up my PC and host media files, but prebuilt NAS solutions are incredibly expensive and underwhelming and so I'm planning to build one. Does anyone have recommendations for a NAS interface?

I'm brand new to server management and would prefer something user friendly. I have used linux mint, but currently use windows as my daily driver (planning to switch to mint soon). I'd be fine with a dedicated NAS OS or with something I could run on mint since I'm already familiar with that distro.

Hey this maybe a stupid question. I am considering on buying a GPU. I am in conflict between nvidia and AMD. I know AMD works better on linux in general but I am curious to follow the NVIDIA advancements as they go with the new open source kernel modules and stuff... I don't know if it is worth it to pick team green over team red. Also typically performance will be better with NVIDIA on compute and stuff like that.

P.S.

Yes, this is related to the previous post I made here.

I installed WireGuard on my host and set this configuration /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf:

[Interface]
Address = 10.0.0.1/24
ListenPort = 51820
PrivateKey = [REDACTED]
PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ens3 -j MASQUERADE
PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o ens3 -j MASQUERADE


[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.2/32

[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.3/32

[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.4/32

[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.5/32

[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.6/32

[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.7/32

[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.8/32

[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.9/32

[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.10/32

[Peer]
PublicKey = [REDACTED]
PresharedKey = [REDACTED]
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.11/32

Nmap scan when wg0 is down:

Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-08-16 03:26 CDT
Host is up (0.050s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (conn-refused)
PORT    STATE    SERVICE
22/tcp  open     ssh
179/tcp filtered bgp

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.93 seconds

Nmap scan when wg0 is up:

Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-08-16 03:27 CDT
All 1000 scanned ports are in ignored states.
Not shown: 1000 filtered tcp ports (no-response)

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 201.43 seconds

I also cannot connect to host via ssh. How to fix this issue?

Upd. Fixed my changing server WireGuard IP to 10.0.1.1. 10.0.0.1 was already taken

Has anyone gotten 7th Heaven to work with Linux?

I know there are instructions for the Steam Deck floating around so I'm hoping someone here might be able to point me in the direction of some instructions for Linux.

I couldn't find anything relevant from a few searches but I did get Memoria and Moguri working pretty easily for FFIX by just running the exe using protontricks-launch, tried that with the 7th Heaven installer and it crashes out with the following error and output from the terminal.

Internal error: Failed to expand shell folder constant "userpf"

[x@archlinux FFVII]$ protontricks-launch --appid 39140 7thHeaven-v3.9.9.33_Release.exe

pressure-vessel-wrap[12440]: W: Not sharing path --filesystem="/etc" with container because "/etc" is reserved by the container framework

pressure-vessel-wrap[12440]: W: Not sharing path --filesystem="/sbin" with container because "/sbin" is reserved by the container framework

wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

fsync: up and running.

wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

002c:fixme:winediag:loader_init wine-staging 9.0 is a testing version containing experimental patches.

002c:fixme:winediag:loader_init Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.

wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

0070:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005 0070:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005 0070:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005 0070:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005 0090:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005

wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

0090:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented! 0090:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented! 0090:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented! 0090:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented! wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

002c:fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (000000000021FEA0 0000000000000000): stub

wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

0024:fixme:thread:GetThreadUILanguage : stub, returning default language. 0024:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000038, 005DD99C, 00000000 005DD9C4 0024:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x38 0x409 005DD99C 00000000 005DD9C4) returning a dummy value (current locale)

0024:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000038, 005DD99C, 016CA680 005DD9C4 0024:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x38 0x409 005DD99C 016CA680 005DD9C4) returning a dummy value (current locale)

0114:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 0114:fixme:uiautomation:uia_get_providers_for_hwnd Override provider callback currently unimplemented. 0114:fixme:uiautomation:default_uia_provider_callback Default ProviderType_NonClientArea provider unimplemented.

0114:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 0114:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_fragment_get_FragmentRoot 0000000000817EE8, 000000000021F9D0: stub!

0114:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_fragment_GetEmbeddedFragmentRoots 0000000000817EE8, 000000000021F9E0: stub!

wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. 012c:fixme:thread:GetThreadUILanguage : stub, returning default language. 012c:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000038, 00A0D9E8, 00000000 00A0DA10 012c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x38 0x409 00A0D9E8 00000000 00A0DA10) returning a dummy value (current locale)

012c:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000038, 00A0D9E8, 019FA680 00A0DA10 012c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x38 0x409 00A0D9E8 019FA680 00A0DA10) returning a dummy value (current locale)

012c:fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 000100A8 0x00000000 012c:fixme:uxtheme:BufferedPaintInit Stub () 012c:fixme:win:DisableProcessWindowsGhosting : stub 012c:fixme:graphics:ShutdownBlockReasonDestroy (000100A8): stub 012c:fixme:graphics:ShutdownBlockReasonCreate (000100A8, L"Installing"): stub 012c:fixme:rstrtmgr:RmStartSession 006BFB40, 0, 006BFB44 stub! 012c:fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100 wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. 0138:fixme:kernelbase:AppPolicyGetProcessTerminationMethod FFFFFFFA, 007CFEB8 012c:fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100 wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. 0148:fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (000000000021FEA0 0000000000000000): stub wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. 0154:fixme:kernelbase:AppPolicyGetProcessTerminationMethod FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFA, 000000000019FE80 012c:fixme:graphics:ShutdownBlockReasonDestroy (000100A8): stub 012c:fixme:graphics:ShutdownBlockReasonCreate (000100A8, L"Installing 7th Heaven."): stub 012c:fixme:msg:ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx 000300D6 c051 1 00000000 012c:fixme:msg:ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx 000400D6 c051 1 00000000 012c:fixme:msg:ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx 000200DC c051 1 00000000 0164:fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (000000000021FEA0 0000000000000000): stub 012c:fixme:msg:ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx 000300DC c051 1 00000000 012c:fixme:shell:SHAutoComplete stub 0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"Button" 0120:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 0120:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083D0F0, 10002, 000000000181F8A0: stub

0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"Button" 0120:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 0120:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 0000000000827610, 10002, 000000000181F8A0: stub

0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32770" 0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 0120:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 0120:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083D0F0, 10002, 000000000181F8A0: stub

0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 0120:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 0120:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 0000000000827610, 10002, 000000000181F8A0: stub

0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"Button" 0120:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 0120:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083C320, 10002, 000000000181F8A0: stub

0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"Button" 0120:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 0120:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083D0F0, 10002, 000000000181F8A0: stub

012c:fixme:rstrtmgr:RmEndSession 3735928559 stub! 012c:fixme:graphics:ShutdownBlockReasonDestroy (000100A8): stub 012c:fixme:wtsapi:WTSUnRegisterSessionNotification Stub 000100A8 012c:fixme:uxtheme:BufferedPaintUnInit Stub ()

It is against the rules but but what is it exactly?

Wild isn't it

Edit:

Ok I misread the data but I am leaving this post. I compared Linux desktop share to Firefox all platform share

Hello, basically the title. It is one of the newer cards and it is fedora 40 the distro.

The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on 1993-08-16. The Debian Community celebrates its birthday, Debian Day, on this day each year. (It has also been called Debian Appreciation Day.)

Debian Day is celebrated each year on August 16th.

Switching away from Ubuntu, again, to try Archcraft. Here's what I think!

Archcraft is for Linux users who want a pre-configured window manager with a unique look out of the box. You get a pretty theme setup, but you can choose from a couple of pre-installed options (10 free themes) as well.

You can pick other window managers like Sway, Wayland desktop session, and unlock access to extra themes on Ko-fi by supporting the developer. So, some can call it a freemium model, and I do not mind that, considering you are paying the dev to give you a refined pre-configured experience, saving all the time to set it up yourself.

But, of course, nothing is ever perfect. Everything has flaws. It is you who pick what flaws you can live with, and what you can't.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19143537

Last Wednesday was the review embargo for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Zen 5 desktop processors that proved to be very exciting for Linux workloads from developers to creators to AVX-512 embracing AI and HPC workloads. Today the review embargo lifts on the Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X and as expected given the prior 6-core/8-core tests: these new chips are wild! The Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X are fabulous processors for those engaging in heavy real-world Linux workloads with excellent performance uplift and stunning power efficiency.

I have been very much enjoying my time testing out AMD's Zen 5 wares from the Ryzen AI 300 series to the Ryzen 9000 series. The Ryzen 5 9600X / Ryzen 7 9700X were great for whetting my appetite while awaiting the Ryzen 9 9900 series. I had been very much enjoying them to the extent I was rather surprised myself last week when hearing of some reviewers not finding much excitement out of these new Zen 5 processors but typically those just looking at Windows gaming performance or running only a few canned/synthetic benchmarks. Following the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Linux testing when the Ryzen 9 9900X/9950X arrived, they were put immediately to my gauntlet of hundreds of Linux benchmarks and indeed living up to expectations.

Gentoo Linux was one of the last few Linux distributions continuing to maintain Itanium (IA-64) architecture builds but that is now being phased out for those discontinued Intel processors.

Coming over from windows again. I've got pretty much everything figured out. I even got a VM going with my CAD software so I don't need to switch between Windows! I was super proud of myself on that one. The last thing I'm having trouble with....

I use pdfxchange for my PDF editor. It works great in wine but they don't have a specific Linux release. (If there is a good PDF editor that is Linux native let me know, I need good Mark up and dimensioning tools that can scale off of the drawings). I'm trying to set it to open PDFs by default but can't figure it out. Does someone have a good (easy) way to do it?

I've tried to switch multiple times and always found or encountered some issue that got me back to Windows (on desktop PC).

Last year it was after 2 months on Fedora 38 KDE when I had enough with the KDE Window Manager acting weird and broken unusable VRR on desktop and some other smaller but daily issues that I went back to W11 on my PC.

I like GNOME over KDE and back then there was no VRR support on GNOME so I only had to stick with KDE, now it's a different story.

I still have some minor annoyance which are probably solvable but I don't know how as I didn't put enough effort in finding solution.

Namely:

1.) Sometimes my 2nd monitor after boot remains blank and I have to unplug and plug back in the DP cable from the graphics card. Typically happens after a kernel update or restart but rarely on cold boot. I've seen others having this issue on Fedora40 but I haven't seen any solution mentioned.

2.) Steam UI hangs up sometimes for several seconds when trying to navigate fast trough it and especially if it needs to pop a different window.

3.) GPU VRAM OC is completely busted and even doing +-1MHz will result in massive artifacting even on desktop, not a big deal but I would take the extra 5% boost I can have from VRAM OC on Windows :)

4.) After every Kernel update I have to run two commands to get my GPU overclock to work again. I haven't figured out yet how to make a scrip that can read output from 1st command and copy it into 2nd command so I just do it manually every time which is roughly once a week.

5.) Free scrolling does not work in Chromium based browsers :( Luckily Vivaldi has some nice workaround with mouse gestures but I would still like free scrolling like on Windows.

And these are about the only annoyance I found worthwhile to mention.

Gaming works fine.

The apps I use typically work fine on Linux as well. Mangohud is amazing. No issues with audio unlike my last experience. Heck even Discord has no issues streaming video and audio now despite just using the web app. VRR despite being experimental works flawlessly on GNOME for me. I'm happy.

Aside from Linux running on NASA hardware, phones and consoles. Does it run on ATM machines, PDAs and point of sale monitors?

I ask this because I've seen Windows being used in airport terminals and really old versions being used for cash machines as well. The crowdstrike problem made this more prevalent by seeing "non end user computers" using the OS.

Does Linux fill this niche as well do you know? I don't recall hearing any big name embedded distro used for those sorts of machines. Maybe Alpine Linux or NetBSD?

Thank you in advance for your input!

I recently made a post about my FreeSync certified monitor not supporting VRR over HDMI. I thought that there was VRR support over HDMI even for versions below 2.1 spec. Am I mistaken in my assumption¿? Has the HDMI forum prevented the implementation of FreeSync in the open source drivers¿?

Obligatory fuck the HDMI forum and the HDMI spec.

Hello all, In a previous installation I was able to successfully use PlayOnLinux to run a few Windows apps. My most recent system, though, is not liking it. Currently on Kubuntu 24.04

WINE is present and up to date. However, when I tried to install PON from either Discover, or using APT, the app crashes immediately. I never even get to the GUI. I read on the page for the app in Discover, numerous others complain about this exact problem.

Anyone know about this and how to resolve it?

I included the link to the app's website because there are numerous versions and it states you need to use the correct one. I don't know what those different variables mean, so could someone please advise? (deb files, Cosmic, Trusty, Bionic, Xenial.... etc. I don't understand these).

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html

Thank you to anyone who can assist.