bye fedora :(

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@fiore @jackemled fedora is such a mess im just scared itll go wrong again so i dont wanna do it alone so i can fall back on emotional support but i cant really stream it on account of *gestures vaguely* and i dont have anyone irl that like... gets it at all

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@fiore @jackemled fiore, you and clover are probably gonna have to help me distrohop looking at docs on my laptop or like your phones so i dont have to walk across my room all the time

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@coolbean @jackemled@furry.engineer lmfao hell yea

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@fiore @jackemled also play some tunes. the fact i tend to not have audio while doing this also factors into my hesitation

also ugh why cant wine just support sndio already its available on linux its good and i wanna use it why do i have to deal with pipewire dang it

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@coolbean @fiore I like Fedora alot, but it's suffering from techbros infecting it with AI generated shit & also systemd is rotting.

I didn't convert a Fedora install to Chimera. I made a list of directories & files I needed to transplant to have the same setup after manually installing the same software, then made a .tar file using the list as input. After that I made a complete backup of my SSD with CloneZilla to be safe, then I wiped the partition table & installed Chimera. When I was done installing Chimera I read my list of software that I need to have my desktop look the same & installed everything that was available (no KDE-Rounded-Corners available for Chimera), then logged in as root & extracted the .tar file to /, then I rebooted & my desktop was there. I just had to manually edit a few settings that had been in files I missed.

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@jackemled@furry.engineer @coolbean u should package KDE-rounded-corners , jts fun!

[tisanae@brain.worm.pink]

@coolbean @fiore @jackemled what are ur issues with pipewire ?

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@fiore @coolbean Maybe when I stop having an unstable living situation & being broke I will learn how

I tried building it from source but it didn't work. I don't know the names of packages it depends on for Chimera & I tried installing literally everything mentioned for all the other operating systems it does actually have guides for just incase & that didn't work.

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@tisanae @fiore @jackemled fucking tedious to configure and just... overly complex with little reward as things like qpwgraph pipelines dont even tend to persist making it all the more annoying to let me split minecraft audio into its own device that i can still hear but can lower the volume for in obs

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@jackemled@furry.engineer @coolbean https://github.com/chimera-linux/cports is where docs and ports are , for whenever u wanna get a look at it ^^

[tisanae@brain.worm.pink]

@coolbean @fiore @jackemled yeah wireplumber is a bit limited for persistent things, but base pipewire is much easier to configure than everything else except jack, but its more stable

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@tisanae @fiore @jackemled ive found sndio to be utterly nonproblematic tbh

though tbf i havent used it on linux only openbsd mostly because i use linux systems for games and wine DOESNT FUCKING SUPPORT IT WHAT THE FUCK

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@fiore @coolbean I still don't know enough to be able to figure it out from scratch even with a list of all packages. I don't know what it is that it actually needs from its dependencies & I can't go through all of the code to figure that out because I don't know the language.

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@tisanae @fiore @jackemled neither does kde somehow

[tisanae@brain.worm.pink]

@coolbean @fiore @jackemled i like sndio but it doesn't support almost any of my audio setups

[tisanae@brain.worm.pink]

@coolbean @fiore @jackemled shocking
Isn't there even a patch on openbsd ?

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@tisanae @fiore @jackemled nope the packages just pull in pulseaudio which apparently has an openbsd/sndio port and yea it runs automatically via dbus when needed

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@tisanae @fiore @jackemled i loathe it so fucking much

[fiore@brain.worm.pink]

@jackemled@furry.engineer @coolbean arent there build instructions ?

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@fiore @coolbean Not for Chimera. The only difference should be the package names, but installing all packages that have similar names to everything mentioned for all other operating systems doesn't make it work. There's probably something specific to Chimera that's missing.