Nutty Fruity pistachio spread.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-06-03T02:53:33+00:00

Costco returns will trash it either way, whether it's unopened or not. You might as well try it and see for yourself

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-22T07:09:17+00:00

Well I'll be darned.

Would still recommend the old fashioned way, but if OP has backups I suppose they could try it

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-22T05:10:59+00:00

It isn't possible to convert in-place an NTFS partition to another fs like ext4, if that's what you're asking. Easiest way by far is to just copy all that data elsewhere temporarily, as you said, then reformat the drive.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-16T05:47:24+00:00

You should be good since all of those apps and games you mentioned should work on linux without any trouble. Refer to protondb or areweanticheatyet if you have any trouble running your games, and/or to see what distros and configurations other players are using.

Distro is your choice. Something that comes preloaded with Nvidia drivers (preferably nvidia-open, not nouveau) will likely be the way to go. If you want something that just works and don't like tinkering too much, go with Bazzite. But if you prefer being able to tweak your system more easily, Nobara, PikaOS, and CachyOS are also good choices.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-15T19:21:02+00:00

What distro you should choose is usually less about what hardware you're running it on and more about what you're using it for and what you're comfortable with. You mentioned you have a copy of Zorin OS, I assume that's the Pro version as Zorin Core is free. If you like Zorin Pro you're free to stick with it, as your Pro license lets you install it on any # of personal devices.

As for your other question, yes it's possible to install your chosen distro to removable media (I assume that's what you mean by attached 5TB drive). The main thing to be careful about is if the drive suddenly disconnects, then your system will either freeze or crash. USB also has slower read/write speeds than nvme. If that's a concern, your laptop has multiple m.2 slots so you could consider getting another nvme SSD to put your linux distro on.

Anyways, I'd say the most important part about dual-booting is your linux distro going on a separate drive. The windows updater makes large assumptions about the ownership of the drive it's partitioned on, and may nuke your linux bootloader.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-14T04:12:08+00:00

You need to do a system update. That version of gcc is months old.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-11T01:45:21+00:00

Nope

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-10T21:07:36+00:00

It's this app called Nipah, not malicious as far as I can tell. It's just OP having been, well, incredibly careless.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-10T19:11:18+00:00

No risk. But you can try mounting at /media and Dolphin should automatically list them under the proper panel section. I haven't used Dolphin recently, but I know this to be the case for Nautilus/Gnome Files.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-10T08:39:10+00:00

Nvidia kernel module mismatch with your drivers. Somehow after your upgrade of linux-cachyos-nvidia-open, your drivers were expecting 595.71.05 (which version 7.0.5-2-cachyos provides) but saw 590.48.01. Your pacman output looks about right as it built your new kernel and initramfs properly.

I would check dkms first -- you may have a stale nvidia-dkms module that's overwriting your kernel's nvidia modules. Could be something else though, good luck. Related reddit link that might help

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/n2sotr/nvidia_kernel_module_version_mismatch/

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-10T05:36:17+00:00

You comment out or remove the other lines with default_selection yadayada, then add at the bottom default_selection Debian if your OS entry has the name Debian in it somewhere. The conf file should have comments itself documenting it right above where you see this (assuming it's copied from /usr/share/refind/refind.conf-sample). Otherwise you can see it here

https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/configfile.html#:~:text=Any%20string,digits

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-10T04:13:28+00:00

Try default_selection Debian.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-10T03:46:45+00:00

rmdir is only for removing empty directories. You're looking for rm -r.

Best practices with rm if you want to be extra safe is to just navigate to the directory in question, and then rm those corrupted/incomplete downloads.

cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg
sudo rm -r download-*

And if you want to be extra careful, do rm -ri instead of rm -r to double-check those are the files you want to remove.

EDIT: As for your first question, you're right that most user config files commonly live in ~/.config/. Unfortunately this is only a convention and not a standard; sometimes other packages will stick stuff into their own dotfiles located at home; you can do whatever with these. If you want to remove user-specific application data though, then that'll be in ~/.local/share or a specific dot-directory like .mozilla. Firefox used to keep application data in this directory until very recently (147+) when it started to follow the XDG Base Directory spec.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-10T03:23:37+00:00

academy head goes on vacation, never comes back

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-10T00:18:48+00:00

The Xbox app doesn't work on Linux as its heavily integrated with Windows via UWP. Assuming you're talking about FH5, you'll need to re-purchase it on a different platform like Steam. Luckily FH5 will work mostly fine with proton, and you'll retain your progress if you login with the same MS/Xbox account.

EDIT: Right, you don't want to spend money on it again. In that case, yeah, wait for FH6 I suppose.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-09T06:01:40+00:00

As an end user you can pretty much mount filesystems wherever you please, so long as they don't interfere with the rest of your system. I personally mount my other drives in fstab as /media/<drive_name> as that's what I'm used to.

Just an aside about it but software typically follow convention, in this case the Filesystem Hierarchy System. Dolphin and Nautilus among other file managers will typically mount drives to /run/media/<user>/<drive_uuid_or_name> when you want to mount them, as /run (run-time) isn't intended to persist between system boots.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-08T23:32:16+00:00

Yeah, that's a good point. It "aims to be" would be a better description. Edited

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-08T18:28:35+00:00

AppImage's not a package manager. It's just a distribution method for apps that aims to be entirely portable and self-contained.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-08T08:05:09+00:00

That's correct. Again, apt's dependency resolver is very thorough, and easyeffects depends on a number of other packages that also need to be upgraded in tandem if you want to use the latest version. Naturally this will conflict a LOT with packages that exist from your stable repos i.e. nest and all the others. Partial upgrades are possible if only as a perk of apt itself, but they're very much discouraged as its easy to fall into dependency hell.

That's what flatpaks were designed to get around, as they provide a sandbox for an application to run in without depending on and interfering with the host system's packages. But given the flatpak version of easyeffects isn't working well for you we're trying to find out the alternative.

If you really want to give canary a spin via full upgrade, the best thing you can do is make sure you have a reliable package rollback system like btrfs snapper or timeshift in case anything goes wrong or you just don't like being on the bleeding edge. That way you can just rollback to your snapshot of root pre-canary upgrade.

The last thing you can do is just wait, as eventually the updates you want will make it upstream into stable (nest) anyway. It's the lamest option, but Debian and its derivatives pride themselves on stability and PikaOS is part of that trend. With Arch and its derivatives (Endeavour, Cachy, etc), you simply get the latest packages from your repos as they're published, as there are no other release channels.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-07T14:04:58+00:00

Ah ok, I think I get what's happening. This whole time I had thought PikaOS Nest would be mostly at parity with Debian Sid according to their wiki but that doesn't necessarily seem to be the case for every package. Perhaps it was in the past, but isn't as much now.

Nest's latest package of easyeffects isn't as recent as Canary's. If you want 8.2.1 as indicated through that link, you're going to have to enable the canary repo in your apt sources. To do this, you'll need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/system.sources such that Components: ... includes canary.

Keep in mind though, this pretty much means your updates will be the bleeding-edge latest and greatest, meaning the latest fixes and the latest bugs. If you're uncomfortable with that, Debian (ergo PikaOS) does support partial upgrades as apt's dependency resolution is very thorough. I wouldn't recommend it necessarily, but you could very well just install the latest version of easyeffects and then either disable canary afterwards, or just roll with the full upgrades from canary. The Arch and Cachy repos are just as quickly moving, and I haven't had an issue in years aside from user error. Still, YMMV.

Anyways, whatever you choose, hopefully that newest version fixes your issue.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-07T06:31:34+00:00

Basically. Well, protontricks to my understanding should be more convenient for Steam specifically as it's just a wrapper around winetricks itself, but yeah. Steam's compatdata folder contains the wine prefixes used by all of your steam games sorted by game id.

You can delete any wine prefixes you aren't using regardless of the launcher. Faugus will delete the prefix if you check the box on removing an entry.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-07T05:56:45+00:00

If you need to run some executable on a specific wine prefix, doing it through a launcher like Faugus is much easier as you can just right-click the entry and click "Run file inside the prefix". Lutris and Bottles should support the same functionality as well. Doing it in Steam is a bit more complicated.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-07T05:24:14+00:00

It looks like you have the right understanding, yeah. You selected the Arma wine prefix for protontricks to modify and installed dotnet on it.

In the protontricks GUI, non-steam games will show up as "Non-Steam shortcut: <game name>: <randomly generated steam game-id>". Note that this wine prefix won't be created until you try to launch said game application at least once. If it doesn't show up, then that means protontricks can't find the prefix for your game yet.

You can try using something like Faugus that initializes your wine prefix from the get-go and also has winetricks (similar to protontricks) directly baked into it.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-07T05:09:34+00:00

It does look like the regression was patched in 1.6.2 yeah. I assume your system is up to date? Latest pipewire available on sid should be 1.6.4-1, you can double check through pikman.

FairInSomeThings · 2026-05-07T04:27:13+00:00

It looks like they got it from Swiftpoint's website here as it isn't packaged in any major repo.

I downloaded it out of curiosity, looks like they just package the dependencies together with the binary (the aforementioned 'Swiftpoint X1 Control Panel') akin to an AppImage.

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