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I'm not really impressed by inxi. screenfetch is far more sexy.
Andrew Johnson
this is suprisingly proper good.
>drivers: ati,radeon >GLX Rendered: Gallum You using opensource drivers on that 290? Hows the performance?
I kind of plan to build a freetard workstation/desktop in the future.
Sebastian Morgan
run inxi -F it's far more informative than screenfetch it's actually a 390 and the performance is rather good. i can't use it for rendering in cycles though but it really doesn't make a lot of difference for the things i use it for.
Lucas Garcia
Is it me or when copying data to a flash drive loonix takes for ever?
Would I be able to do something like this with a GTX 960, i5 6500, and MSI Z170-A? Or should I just dual boot
Owen Gonzalez
Still not as sexy as screenfetch, there is no distro logo.
Lincoln Jackson
Just drag and drop.
Julian Bell
I'm convinced you can echo the logos screenfetch uses or something. get creative.
Alexander Williams
lol
Angel Hill
Screenfetch is a useless placebo written by a retard
Only inxi gives real information
Jayden Rogers
implying I care about such info. I have lshw when I really want info
Juan Flores
>placebo
How can it be a placebo? In what sense?
Jose Reed
Nope, inxi is objectively more well structured and detailed People use it for the logo
Camden Carter
Compared to lshw? No.
Christopher Hughes
Use it then
Brayden Peterson
as a borderline normie, do I have a reason to use Fedora? Is the latest version of somethingutils-conf or whatever really important?
Luke Ortiz
We're on Sup Forums and just want to have fun.
Evan Bell
what's a good, stable minimal distro? i've been using ubuntu lts for work stuff and another partition to fuck around i've come to really like openbox and i3, but ubuntu seems to break everytime >especially with i3-gaps
Henry Davis
>stable minimal distro arch
Austin White
jej, no i'd like to give another shot at bare bones debian, maybe but i need it for actual work stuff, so i can't afford it to break
Dominic Perez
Any devs here? Which distro do you use? Arch was fun but i cant afford to have it break every month or so.
Charles Moore
arch is more stable than arch I tried a lot of distro, and arch is the more stable
Christian Lewis
>arch is more stable than arch what did he mean by this?
Nathan Ward
Sory, arch is more stable than debian.
Julian Perry
can i use centos on a laptop? >we use it on the towers...
Bentley Edwards
>Sory, arch is more stable than debian.
Owen Price
Yes it is.
Noah Parker
>Yes it is.
Evan Morris
>epic arch breaking meme
How about you refrain from parroting myths you picked up from others and instead acquire your own opinions from using it?
Ryder Gray
debian stable with i3 is as stable as it gets
Ethan Garcia
older version? >how do i acquire a minimal install iso?
p. shit, desu tried it on my test partition, it took ages to install and offed itself
Gabriel Bennett
thanks, famalamalam >how about a .torrent, though
Isaac Green
i don't think there are ones for netinstall isos. their servers can handle it i guess.
Landon Rivera
It works great ATM, some bugs with the installer but it easily fixed by only enabling AUR Firewall Printer Support.
Asher Russell
will give it another shot...
how can i take an existing os's home and make it the same to all of my others?
Benjamin Bell
how do i remove the games from cinnamon?
Landon Brown
Cinnamon-core --no-install-recommends
Brayden Wright
I just installed Debian with Cinnamon. How do I edit a read only file?
Thomas Robinson
chmod
Kayden White
sudo [text editor] [file]
Jaxson Perez
Guys.
I think it's time.
I'm finally ready.
I'm going to finally fall for the meme and install Gentoo.
The semester's over and I finally have the time I've wanted.
Wish me luck.
Also, any final recommendations?
Jose Robinson
install gentoo
Cooper Russell
God speed on your quest adventurer.
Jason Baker
I tried. Spent 6 hours on it to get walled by a boot error after i compiled the kernel.
Googled it and found out that it could mean a hundred differente things. One recomendation was actually brute forcing the kernel options because no one could figure what was wrong.
I'll forever remain a loser.
Jace Walker
SSHD configured on linux host Winscp windows client connecting to linux host Valid user credientals. ERROR:"Error changing remote host"
What the fuck is this? I can dial in with the same user/pass via my phone,so i know sshd is setup properly.
Or how the fuck else do you transfer data to a fucking windows machine,without setting up the clutser fuck of samba.when its only needed once or twice a month Do i really have to make a fucking torrent like back in 2003?
Connor Robinson
Try ftp. Filezilla provide a ftp server which work.
Carson Long
I accidentally toe'd my power strip, shutting down my computer. After I turned it back on I had no sound, when I opened Pulseaudio Volume Control I was met with this. I tried both start-pulseaudio-x11 which game me Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused and pulseaudio --start which game me E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
Is there anything I can do besides uninstalling/reinstalling pulseaudio and/or alsa
Oliver Collins
what does pulseaudio --start -v say?
Jackson Torres
Arch?
Adrian Sanders
>some bugs with the installer Antergos is an installer and they can't even get that right.
Only things in there are client.conf daemon.conf default.conf and system.pa
Isaiah Ward
Back those up if you changed them,if not just delete them and reinstall pulse
Jayden Flores
filezila bitching about some locale shit. sshd provides an sftp socket aswell Attempting to connect via sftp,results in the shit shit
Jaxson Davis
Install a ftp server, don't use sftp.
Justin Hughes
R E K T
Charles Thomas
I'm having tearing problems with Linux Mint KDE and Nvidia drivers. Any ideas? Tried a lot of things already with no luck.
Jaxson Lee
which kernel version is the one with no restart patching?
how about the one with amdgpu?
Ethan Hall
there's only one kernel and it's forks like linux-libre
Carson Brown
meant like what dot release is the one with either of those things.
fedora is just on 4.4.9
Blake Morgan
amdgpu since 4.8
Oliver Reyes
No restart patching is irrelevant for users. It won't work between kernel releases, it's literally only designed for applying critical security fixes for production machines that people would rather not experience downtime with.
Angel Edwards
>no restart patching? I believe you fell for a meme.
Restarting is advised for applying updates because it's the most foolproof and reliable way to ensure every service was restarted properly.
Restartless patching is a chore (or at least back when i was using rh) since you have to restart every service manually.
How long does it take to restart? 5 seconds for a shutdown and 25 seconds for cold boot?
Lincoln Stewart
That worked, thanks friend.
Christopher Perry
>muh uptime
This is correct though. It's a little annoying that GNOME currently makes you restart for every update, but ultimately it's race-free and the Right Thing. When sandboxed apps appear you'll be able to update those live though.
William Green
You only need to reboot if you updated your kernel or changed libc
Jose Sanders
>it's the most foolproof and reliable way to ensure every service was restarted properly. Not now that we have systemd, which unlike initscripts can actually guarantee services get killed.
Angel Nelson
Does anyone use schedtool? I dont get what each time of switch does,or why i would want certain programs to be differnt
Ayden Morgan
I have an ssd with my / on it on its own partition. Suddenly when trying to access /,it just times out any program that is trying to use it. I've kept it trimed with a weekly timer,and just checked it now with fstrim. There are no errors in smart,its only been up 5600 hours. Ran a fsck on it manually and nothing wrong with it. I put a new sata cable on it. What else is there to check?
Anthony Nguyen
How do I enable dht on ktorrent on Kubuntu 16.04?
Benjamin Lee
It's a good distro, you don't HAVE to update every day if you don't want to
Daniel Anderson
Reminder not to use Debian because it's a SJW OS.
Levi Campbell
...
Easton White
Is there any way to get a reasonably fast mouse wheel scrolling speed in Linux without using fucking imswitch?
Have you done any troubleshooting? Are you going to tell us what distro/hardware/kernel revision you're running, or is this some kind of sadistic game?
Xavier Allen
I'm too new to Linux to know how to get Kernel revision, didn't think of the rest of that stuff because of the same reason. Either way, another user told me to just reinstall and it worked
Wyatt Ward
>openSuSe is great You're god damned right it is
Daniel Foster
Nah,got the good shit Samung 850 Pro 256gb
Henry Jones
What about every other library on your system that may be loaded into memory?
Jayden Collins
do we have some news from wayland and vulkan ? Is their a filesystem that will replace ext4 ? Is their benchmarks comparing games performances running on linux ? (not something outdated). Related question, did the drivers both proprietary and open source of AMD and NVidia evolved ? Do we have some news about the linux scheduler ?
Christian Barnes
This
Arch was my first distro and I've been using for 5 years now and never had any problems
Ethan Anderson
Missing comma. How autistic if him.
Nathaniel Rogers
Arch Linux is for siempre solo losers. Just install Fedora Core or Debian and use a far more stable system. Arch users are fucking retarded.
Luis Lee
>Is their a filesystem that will replace ext4 ? There are many filesystems you can use instead of ext4, no one is forcing you to do anything. Your question makes no sense because ext4 is one of many filesystems. >Do we have some news about the linux scheduler ? Which one? Your questions could be better...
