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I want to do gpu passthrough on a vm. I got so far with ubuntu as setting the vm up and then trying to install the gpu. I got passed posting but the os would lockup when trying to boot up. It occurs to me that I couldnt switch gpus without reinstalling or doing some surgury. So it just occured to me that maybe I need to have both gpus installed at the time of installing the os.
Is that true?
Also in gnome/ubuntu 15.10 I was able to install windows 10 on a drive and install ubuntu after on another drive and the intaller took care of everything in order to dual boot. Even grub was set up nice so I could choose the os when booting up. Can I assume that will still work in 16.04?
Elijah Brooks
Linux is getting waaaay too mainstream
Which BSD flavor should I use?
Isaac Stewart
...
Sebastian Sanchez
How much of a pain in the ass actually is it to maintain Arch? I don't mind spending a few hours setting it up but people make it sound like a major timesink in general.
Carter Scott
>BSD >use
lol, you can't ``use'' BSD.
Daniel Martinez
just walked into the wrong neighborhood nigga
Hudson Gutierrez
>GNU Bash >Linux penguin dropped
Isaiah Bennett
I work for a company making a more or less poorly managed Linux branch of their software and I want to start testing the shit out of it. What distros do you guys think a software should be tested on?
Benjamin Fisher
any of you guys use lili usb creator? on the final step there is an "options" button but nothing happens when i click it is it the same for everybody?
Adam Hughes
Nice more like this.
Also help.
Nolan Hall
How many other OS's uses GNU Bash, Stallman?
Leo Gray
Depends on the software. If its for a desktop or laptop Ubuntu and maybe mint.
Most things that come to linux aim for ubuntu and its flavors.
If its server you need to step up to wider array of distros.
If its desktop software no one would blink at coming out ubuntu only. You can add more later if you want. Ubuntu standard gnome/ubuntu kde which is ubuntu plassma mint as well.
Anthony Scott
Linux doesn't use Bash. If you weren't a tech illiterate, you'd know why.
Juan Brown
I'm not Stallman! I would never post on Sup Forums!
Matthew Sullivan
What do you mean? bash is the default shell on most Linux distros, and when it isn't it's still preloaded.
Angel Williams
I use busybox with zsh
Adam Phillips
Please... not again.
Jaxon Martin
everyone talks about pacman fucking up your xorg.conf, wtf does this mean, what happens when it "breaks"? i've enver had a problem running pacman -Syu where it breaks something
Brody Bell
I want to create a .zip of each folder in a directory with just the folder's files in each .zip. this is so I can import them into calibre as CBZ's how do I do this on windows? I'd post in /sqt/, but /fglt/ seems more apt to this problem.
Nathan Morgan
>friendly The penguin is the mascot of the linux kernel. The kernel doesn't have an interface. Since bash is a GNU tool, it should be the GNU logo.
Charles King
I was told it was mostly used on CentOS and Redhat. It has both server and front-end GUI applications. I read somewhere that Fedora is close to Redhat, so that's on my list along with CentOS, Ubuntu because it's widely used and Arch to see how it works on a more barebone OS.
What is Mint? How does it compare to other distros?
Parker Cruz
>how do I do this on windows? No idea, but on GNU/Linux you just: for i in *; do zip -r "$i" "$i".zip; done Come home buddy, windows is evil. :^)
Jaxson Hill
>how do I do this on windows? see
Evan Lewis
>>for i in *; do zip -r "$i" "$i".zip; done Actually for i in *; do zip -r "$i".zip "$i"; done
Isaac Jones
Mint is a slightly more distant flavor of ubuntu. Just known as linux mint pretty sure there is not much different between the two behind the scenes.
Might as well fire up some vms and try them all. Especially if the software does not require a gpu to be passthrough like photoshop of games.
Carson Collins
>arch installation got really fucked after a few months after I fucked with some configs I don't remember >installed windows just because I needed something that just werks
Levi Baker
Ok boys, I'm finally going back to Linux. After my Windows 7 installation fucking up yet again, and my lack of desire to use Windows 8 and not wanting to use 10 (muh privacy). I'm going to try and go back to Linux. I used it years ago when I was like 17, mainly Ubuntu/Mint and then Debian. Is there any real reason not to use Ubuntu. I haven't been following Linux since I left, but I know back then there wasn't but this was before the whole Amazon spyware thing a while back.
(Also if anyone plays WoW/League on Linux and can say how well it works that'd be helpful too. But I doubt anyone here does)
Xavier Carter
But the penguin is cooler. Has way more personality as well.
Might as well let that thing labor in the field.
Justin Phillips
Ubuntu is just fine, but recently desktop versions have suffered since canonical is focusing on mobile development more WoW and League are pretty high on WINE's compatibility list appdb.winehq.org/
Colton Perez
Thanks for the advice broseph. If you think there's any other distro I should include, please advise. Otherwise I'll stick to the list I made.
Tyler Bailey
>try to install Debian >A step has FAILED: Select and Install software (it did this like 5 times)
>Try to install Funtoo >X11 doesn't work, at all
>Install Arch >Everything just works out of the box
So where does all the hate for Arch come from?
Kayden Green
What is the best text editor for GNU/Linux?
Oliver Hill
You fucked up if you didn't get X11 working on funtoo, it's really simple. Most people just get tired of fan boys like you spreading crap about other distros.
Evan Watson
gedit
Carter Gonzalez
>focusing on mobile development more EVERYTHING IS TURNING TO SHIT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO MAKE IT "mobile-friendly"
Daniel Parker
Sup Forums hates Arch because tripfagging desktop thread weebs run it. They pretty much ruined the distros reputation.
Brody Reed
Nope, Funtoo fucked up.
I ran startx and it didn't do shit. It said it couldn't connect to my display even though I specified intel in my make.conf
Ian Brooks
arch users are notorious elitists
no one likes those types of people
Leo Jackson
>all people who %s are bad
Gabriel Reyes
I see, thanks. Is the Amazon thing still on by default or have they gotten rid of it due to the backlash?
Also, with the new expansion for WoW coming up. I'm assuming I'd have to wait for it to be supported via WINE before I could play it?
Also >focusing on mobile development more W H Y
Nathaniel Scott
Ok son, sure.
Two extremely popular distros failed on very basic steps yet for you yet apparently the magical arch works fine. Whatever you say.
Austin Martinez
And what about the Arch users that don't give a fuck about any of that stuff?
Hudson Hall
>I see, thanks. Is the Amazon thing still on by default or have they gotten rid of it due to the backlash? I don't know, it's easily removeable though >Also, with the new expansion for WoW coming up. I'm assuming I'd have to wait for it to be supported via WINE before I could play it? no idea
Brody Moore
those are the cool ones. nothing bad to say about those.
Jose Jones
>emerge xorg-server >emerge x11 package Hmmm they installed fine, so not sure why startx wouldn't have worked.
James Howard
>>I see, thanks. Is the Amazon thing still on by default or have they gotten rid of it due to the backlash? It's still there, but not enabled by default anymore.
arch is so great you have to use a 3rd party installer written in spaghetti bash
Nicholas Long
No, you just use your eyes.
Anthony Ross
every time i set up a new linux box i get better at it loving this this time i had the bright idea to copy my .vimrc and .bashrc still had to install git and clone vundle though... i should automate that
Michael Wright
I recently did an upgrade to dist-upgrade and this shit happened. I have no idea what's going on, maybe a reinstall to the arc theme will fix it?
Liam Bell
If you can't install Arch, you don't need Arch. Choose a beginner distro.
Juan Martin
I last used Ubuntu in 2012, and I quit using it because it was a memory hog and very bloated. I was getting better performance on win7.
Has it gotten any better since then? If not is there an alternative linux distro that is accessible to a beginner?
Jacob Russell
Kids these days need everything spoon fed to them. I swear next generation everyone will be illiterate.
Mason Nelson
it is a great feeling that.
Blake Davis
arch is a beginner distro, good for learning the shell and nothing else
Joseph Ramirez
It did, all's good.
Ethan Ward
fuck off busyboxfag
Julian Jackson
Who is the other guy?
Adrian Wright
>still buthurt
Grayson Rivera
I tried typing install arch and install arch please and it started making fun of me. This is not a very professional development platform.
Isaiah Anderson
Have you tried to turning it off and on again?
Wyatt Perry
You can still run them but they're unprivledged verions and systemd wont acknowledge their existance,causing further problems
Easton Parker
NO PAJEET THAT'S AN INTERESTING IDEA
John Carter
If you are going to have to support it then ubuntu because you will get most support requests from ubuntu cucks who can't rtfm
Aaron Watson
Ubuntu is great, just pick a lighter DE depending on the specs of your computer. I'm running Unity on a Thinkpad X220 now and it's running great, though I have an i5 and 8gb of RAM.
If you want a lighter experience, go for Ubuntu MATE. Ubuntu is still the best all around linux distro, but fedora is also quite easy to use if you're willing to do some config/enabling 3rd party repositories at first.
Jordan Perez
ed is the standard editor
Xavier Campbell
How to use GNU/Linux but stay /fit/ at the same time?
Daniel Collins
Thats gtk3 3.20 for you.
I cant even get the darker version to work,it just loads the whtie version
Dominic Stewart
/fit/ is depricated. Virtual reality is the future.
Caleb Sanchez
you don't, now go away
Jaxson Robinson
I think you mean linux.
Eli Rivera
start by not calling it gnu/linux
William Watson
nope. only unix users can
Adrian Bailey
I am still installing Arch. This is the longest-ass fucking Linux installation ever. It's downloading literally everything it installs off reps, which doesn't make sense because a normal installation takes about 800 mb and the disc is about 700 mb. What is all that shit on the disc for?
Jack Smith
>the kernel is downloading at 40 kb/s
why isn't the fucking kernel on the installation disc
Ethan Nguyen
It is
Luke Cook
u wot m8
Evan Ward
>40 kb/s i was dreaming of such speeds back in 56k days
Justin Perez
I -Syu once a week and nothing has broken, without user error on new configs migration
Camden Taylor
Unless the distro changes your shell, its /bin/sh
Jace Stewart
I dont have an xorg.conf If you have an xorg.conf,your system is old and misconfigured.
Cameron Harris
Limewire low res picture porn.
People these days have no idea what they have.
Jaxson Peterson
When following the instructions on the Arch Linux website, it download the kernel off the repositories. The disc only serves as a shell Live CD to partition my disc, do some premilinary config then literally install the entire distro through fucking pacman.
Ryan Roberts
It hasnt seriously broken for a couple years. I however know people who keep a vm copy of their shit and update that before their actual machine just to make sure. Also they got familiar with how to undo a update just in case and keep copies of the old packages for about three updates back.
Isaiah Morgan
Alright guys,
So I just finished an Arch install and have Xfce installed with GDM as a display manager. What are some other must have software?
Joseph Ramirez
whatever you need
Carter Turner
Total Linux newbie here. I'm building a new PC at the end of the month once I get my paycheck. I've never used linux before because I'm worried about running games with it. Am I just a moron? Is it easy as shit to get games made for windows to run on linux? Enlighten me please.
