Looking for help with garuda linux for controllers

I need help trying to get my SN30 Pro controller to work on my Lenovo Thinkpad edge E531 running garuda linux. When I plug it in it will vibrate for a few seconds and the light for player one turns on but no input works. it's like the OS doesn't recognize it as anything is there any way I can fix this? This is Garuda Linux Gamer edition

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My experience with dual booting Linux

Hi. I gotta admit, I don't really like Windows that much anymore. It's a privacy nightmare, it cannot be customized without patches, and it's just generally very closed down.These are the reasons of why I decided to try dual-booting Linux. My distro of choice was Manjaro KDE (running on an i5-4690, GTX 1070, paired with 16GB of DDR3 RAM). I wasn't expecting everything to work out of the box but I certainly didn't expect this many problems. As some people say, for this FOSS operating system you pay with your time, not with your money.

My next week after installing Linux was nothing short of insanity. I decided to compile a list of problems I faced which were never an issue on Windows (most of them I wasn't able to resolve to this day). I don't expect any help, since I know you guys are not here to do tech support. I just want you to see what I was 'greeted by'. Either way, here I go:

General

My system time was completly broken after installing. (Fixed)
The package manager didn't work, I couldn't find any packages or install updates. (Fixed after roughly 5 hours of searching by running these commands twice from the first reply here)
ICC profiles just don't work. (Yes, I have installed the package to import them (colord-kde), and they do import just fine. The issue is that they don't work, even though they are imported.)
The colors are really weird, I cannot describe them accurately, but I'd say everything is alot darker and more vibrant.
I have used NVIDIA X Server Settings to somewhat correct the colors (nothing came close to how it is on Windows), but these changes do not save. In fact they randomly revert back while I am using the OS. If they don't, they will revert back at the next reboot. (Yes, I did run it as sudo, and I disabled that thing everyone suggested - I don't remember it anymore)
Night Light completly breaks any NVIDIA X Server and/or Gamma settings.
Sometimes when shutting down my PC while using Manjaro it turns off almost instantly, other times it might take anywhere from 2 to 10 minutes.
Scrolling is way too inefficient (like 3 times slower than Windows) and quite laggy.
Changing themes in KDE can randomly break the entire UI. Sometimes the taskbar disappears, sometimes the icons never change to what the theme wants them to be.
Sometimes KDE can randomly make everything transparent black until the next reboot.
Fonts look worse than in Windows when in web browsers, but most other places too (a place where this becomes really visible is VSCode).
CSS appears slighly off on all browsers. (I used both Edge and Firefox)
In some cases Linux completly freezes, in the traditional way of freezing. You cannot move your mouse, your inputs won't do anything. This usually doesn't last for more than a minute.
I cannot run any NodeJS apps from my NTFS drive if any directory has non-english characters in it. (this might not be the reason though, the reason I think this is the case is because the error stack trace log shows that directory with strange strings where the non-english characters should be)

Steam

Doesn't work on NTFS by default, no matter what I do. (Yes, I am aware of the fact that NTFS is owned by MS and that it's closed source.) Sometimes it wants to redownload the entire game, other times it just shader caches gigabytes of data.
After mounting it to my home directory with NTFS-3G using fstab and the correct perms, 2 games out of 15 launched. The other ones installed dependencies for 10 minutes, then just never started. (Yes, I have tried Proton GE, it doesn't work either.)
Sometimes games take a really long time to launch even if they work, apparently Steam really loves its preparing to launch dialog.
Proton creates dependency folders separately for every. single. game. It installs them again and again and again even though they are exactly the same. This wastes gigabytes of data, and takes an awfully long time.

Of course, these

problems don't make up the entire list, but the rest might be considered small and easily fixable.

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I think after seeing this list you might have guessed that I didn't have a pleasant experience at all. I spent hours and hours fixing things, and as I said, for most of them I still don't have a solution. The community was a mixed bag, but that's understandable. Sometimes I got help, sometimes I had messages sitting in Discord support channels for multiple hours without a reply.

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I wish I could keep using Linux, but in its current state it just doesn't work properly for me. There were some things I really liked but overall currently it feels like I am using some sort of unpolished buggy OS. Funnily enough, if it wasn't for these problems I wouldn't have anything against using Linux as a daily driver. The only other thing that makes me not want to use it is the lack of .NET GUI frameworks compatible with Linux (.NET is what I use for creating desktop apps).

I don't know if this was useful or interesting to anyone, but thanks for reading anyway.

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My Linux Programs

These are my main programs. Open to Suggestions.

Also the reason why I don't play many games on linux is that, if I have some games on linux I will play them instead of restarting to my windows os (duel boot) and end up not playing the games I like that are only windows. I've tried but its too buggy and doesn't have enough support yet (mainly anti cheat software).

List of programs to Add

~~gnu image manipulation~~
~~more kde utilites~~
~~libreoffice or simliar programs~~
~~draw.io~~

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UPDATED CHART:

Made in draw.io desktop version

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snap's node distribution is unusable/broken

Not the typical snap hate—or maybe it is, however, I actually like snap, it gives you latest versions + auto-updating—but I just installed node via snap and coc.vim struggles with that install, eg coc.vim is not able to check node`s version.

I found some issues and threads[1\], If anyone from the snap team is reading this, is this intended and if yes, pls ELI5 why. I don't need any svpport, just want to understand snap's intentions.

[1\]
my issue: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim/issues/2870
related issue: https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/issues/843
related deep snap convo, I'd need an ELI5: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snapd-2-32-breaks-live-server-installer/4597/9

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Will League of Legends on Windows be able to access my Linux filesystem?

I have windows and Ubuntu dual booted on my computer in separate hard drives, and I want to download LoL on windows however I am not thrilled about their invasive client-side anticheat. My question is will it be able to read my Linux files? Linux can read the windows file system and I often use this to move files between hard drives but windows cannot do the reverse; I have private files on Ubuntu that I would like to keep private. Can Rito's anticheat access those files?

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Should I learn the Go programming language?

Hello, sorry if this is not really the place to put this question I am fairly new to this Reddit community.

I am not a professional software developer but I like to make my own tools and have been doing so since I was in my teens. I am a huge fan of Python programming and have been using it for my projects for Engineering School all the time and for personal projects. But I have recently discovered the limitations of Python's speed and the GIL which makes Python unable to take advantage of multiple core processor. Otherwise, I absolutely love the Python syntax and have become very comfortable with the language.

I have an algorithm that calculates some stock market indicators and then helps me make decisions on positions for buying and selling. I wrote this all in Python and depending on the number of stocks that I am looking at in a particular day, can take an hour to run on my i7-7700HQ. I have been running it everyday since August 2020 and have decided I want to speed this up and deploy it on a server that I have put together.

Is it worth learning the GO programming language if I am already comfortable with Python? What advantages/disadvantages can I expect? Is Google watching me if I use Go (kind of a joke, but also not)? Suggested alternatives?

TL;DR: I want to speed my Python program up. Should I learn Go? Or something else?

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Personal success.

I have bean working for this company for 6 years now as Chief systems/network/dba administrator and when I started I was a newcomer technician and at my previous job I was an assistant in the IT department.

After 5 months at the new place the chief sysadmin quid and as there was no one to do his job everyone started to fill in some how. A month later I got a promotion offer (for the same salary). Of course I accepted it. At this time I new that much that Linux is better than Windows 2003 or even Win 2k (our mail server at the time) so I started lerning Linux despite of the fact that all the infrastructure was built on Windows and it seamed like our IT manager was strongly against Linux.

Now 6 years later we have a 2 to 3 linux to Windows server ratio, mail, storage, VPN, webservers, docker, ect... (Windows runs AD and some old medical servers that don't run on Linux)

I'm a little proud that I could show the path of FOSS to the company and even save some money.

P.S. Did not get the FOSS saved money as a bonus. Actually....I think I didn't get some of the promised bonuses....

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Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal
https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/

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Linux in biological sciences and instrumentation

I find it very disconcerting to find Windows XP (and 95 in one case) on computers which are coupled with an instrument like a spectrophotometer.

One of the reasons my laboratory insists on using Windows is because of the software support for equipment. Even new equipment come with software which is exclusively compatible with Windows. Like how drivers are made available to Linux, is there something for scientific equipment? This is one of the reasons why this OS is not being accepted in biological sciences. Every university wants to save money. Unfortunately, the lack of software support locks us in.

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Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS is out now
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/20.04.2

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Apple M1 SoC platform bring-up
https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/2/4/1177

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Geninuely curious, why are there no preinstalled fun music installed by major distributions ?

Hi everyone,

I’m sure some of us remember playing those three songs on Windows 7 that came preinstalled and some of us might remember some older songs that I didn’t even know existed or some I vaguely remember but finally found it after so long. However that got me thinking, why haven’t we seen any major distros out there that preinstalled some dope unknown music from copyright free distributions ? Is it the risk that the artists themselves would make it profitable or something else ?

Honestly I could just download some vaporwave j-pop and call it the Anthem of Fedora but that doesn’t come near close to the classic Kalimba song

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Have you noticed how much better audio sounds on Linux?

I have two computers and dual boot on both of them with Windows, which I only need to use from time to time for Visual Studio and such. I always listen to music when I code or write, and no matter what I do I cannot make Windows' audio quality be as good as on Linux on each of the machines (which use default ALSA configs). While the difference is not huge, on Windows audio sounds somewhat "dull", not as clear as with ALSA, both with Spotify and local music players, and since I'm used to how things sound on Linux it becomes rather bothersome.

This is something I noticed long ago, and I've tried switching music players / outputs / configs thinking that, since the hardware is the same in each case, they should sound identical, but nope.

What do you think?

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I'm a gamer and looking to go to Linux

I'm a gamer and looking to go to Linux as it looks the best one for games but I do not know what one to get can you help so this is a very new and unique experience for me as I have bin on windows 10 but find it to be a bit hight Requirements and performance

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Total War: WARHAMMER III will be coming to Linux
https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-warhammer-iii-faq/

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Best way to encrypt disk or home folder without additional password (small office setup)

Hi folks,
I manage a small network of 15 linux workstation/laptops. They all run Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on fresh Dell hardware. I would like to increase the security by enforcing at-rest encryption on all machines, but without the hassle of an additional password.

The scenario I am trying to address is basically preventing a thief to access the data of a stolen workstation/laptop.

I have few questions:

* Is it possibile to setup data encryption without the need for the user to enter a dedicated password?
* Can I add a "master" key so that me, as a sysadmin, can recover the data if the original key is lost?
* Do you think Full disk encryption in mandatory or Home folder encryption is enough?

Thanks for any idea!

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LibreOffice project + community activities, January 2021
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/05/libreoffice-monthly-recap-january-2021/

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How to schedule cron to run image with docker-compose?

Hi,
I have a dockerised noscript that I need to run once daily (at 8am local time). The image is pushed onto my repo and I have a docker-compose.yml file with the image tag and settings that I need for it to work.

How can I get cron to run docker-compose up in the directory with the docker-compose.yml file in it and log the output of the image to a file?

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I have already tried:

0 8 * * * cd ~/directory/with/yml && /usr/local/bin/docker-compose up -d > ~/directory/with/log.log 2>&1

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FSF founder Richard Stallman shares his views on 35 years of FSF
https://peertube.qtg.fr/videos/watch/d4aab174-50ca-4455-bb32-ed463982e943

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Worth the effort for performance?

I'm about to purchase a ThinkPad x250 i5 with 8gb ram. I always see that Linux is recommended for older machines as it's lightweight etc.

The only experience I've had with it is on a Chromebook (which just died) so that I could install calibre. Other than that I have no idea.

I'm not going to be doing anything really too taxing on the ThinkPad, some light music production being the hardest it will work. Other than that it will be pretty basic word processing, ebook management, music management etc.

Researching the things I would install, it seems that quite a few have little problems or are difficult to get up and running with the latest versions etc (difficult for somebody with my level of experience that is). For instance, I use Google drive and docs quite a lot, and need things synced with my phone.

Just unsure if it's worth the effort for the performance increase to switch from Windows?

A list of some of the apps I'd want/like to run if possible :

Musicbee,
YouTube music,
Audacity,
Renoise,
Reaper,
Anki,
Google drive,
Google docs,
Google sheets,
Google keep,
Simple note,
Scrivener,

I was looking at mint, kubuntu, and manjaro.

Any advice or guidance would be appreciated.

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