If you want it to still be steam OS and compatible with games then you couldn’t use kernel.org kernels that’s the point.

If a person stands to make a lot of money figuring out how to use a regular, non-anticheat kernel then they will do it. It would be a lot less difficult to do when the kernel code is open source.

For anti-cheats, it isn’t the case, as with Windows, where you can semi-trust that the kernel isn’t lying. If an anti-cheat runs and wants to see what DMA devices are connected it uses the kernel to do that and it trusts that the kernel isn’t lying. You could trivially modify the Linux kernel’s source code to not list a specific card when asked by a kernel module.

He’s just being pedantic.

Technically ‘ls’ has kernel access because it depends on system calls in order to produce its output.

System calls are the mechanisms through which programs request services from the Linux kernel, allowing them to perform tasks like file management, process control, and device management. Any program that’s running on your machine has the access required to make syscalls and so you could say they have access to the kernel. They won’t have kernel-level privileges, so they can’t act as the kernel, but they do have access. Obviously the original user was referring to kernel anti-cheat modules which act as the kernel with all of the same privileges.

Oh yeah, that’s way better. Thanks!

I’m using zsh and trying the emacs mode, that alt operates on words is the secret sauce I was looking for.

root@desktop:/# chown -R user:user / home/user
root@desktop:/# 

e: sidenote. if you’re using markdown for codeblocks you can add the language name after the first three backticks to change the syntax highlighting in the codeblock. TIL

Is there an emacs key to ‘delete this entire word’?

like if I’m using ls to look for a file, then I want to cat a file, I press up to get the previous command, ctrl+a to go to the beginning of the line and then spam d to delete letters. It’s be much better if there was a ‘delete until whitespace’ button.

Duel boot

That’s probably the best way to describe it.

Google is constantly making changes that break it, the developers fix them quickly… but if your distro doesn’t keep the newest version in their repo then you’d have to install it from their git repo.

Generally they have a patch for any breaking changes within the day.

How does Newpipe work?

Miracles

I see you’re channeling the spirits of Social Media

reboot: machine restart

This makes me think it’s a motherboard issue.

The system is done with its shutdown process and issued the reboot command, but the motherboard didn’t restart.

There could be some electronics components which get wedged over time. My sound card will occasionally not boot unless it has been completely powered off for 30 seconds or so.

fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).

(u r not rite)

If you’re not familiar with reading mailing lists or don’t follow what is happening, Brodie Robertson on YT did a good video on this: https://youtu.be/GhfhzTDQdUU

TL;DR: Some tooling script caused the problem, but it initially seemed like a malicious pull request from kernel developer. It wasn’t and the issue was resolved. The tooling script will be updated with better error messages so this kind of problem should be obvious when it occurs.

I have Arch running on a RaspberryPi 4, using XFCE as the desktop environment. You can configure your system to run on incredibly minimal hardware.

If you have a someone, that you personally know, who knows Linux and can help you navigate things… go with Arch.

It’ll take you a bit longer initially, but you’re going to be putting together and configuring every component from partitioning drives to installing a bootloader. In exchange for your labors you get to have access to the bleeding edge of nearly all software packages. This isn’t always a boon, since there are occasionally bugs. For example, currently Firefox likes to forget that you should be able to select the address bar or close tabs by clicking the x on the tab (middle mouse click still works though).

If not, use EndevourOS. It’s Arch, but it uses a graphical installer and chooses sane defaults for making a desktop PC. It’s significantly faster to install but it is still Arch (you use the Arch repos and the AUR). If you just want to use Arch but are worried about being able to install from scratch via the terminal, use Endevour.

Alternatively, install Qubes so you can be on a different distro and look down on other distros for their lack of virtualization.

I couldn’t tell you, I’m a terminal dweller.

I mean sudo I couldn’t tell you, I’m a terminal dweller.

Some people just like having a UI built out of javascript and the contents of their entire computer sent to a Microsoft datacenter.

I’m on Arch and I’m hallucinating, btw

I have the same problem on 139.0.1, restarting the whole browser session will fix it but it is very annoying.