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I like htop, but it often is infuriating as fuck to use.
Can any anons here recommend an htop-like tool for monitoring only selected processes? I don't need to see a billion Chrome and system processes if I only want information about my two running programs.
>inb4 htop has filters I know, I still want to try other programs.
Daniel Davis
First for: Which RMS is the best RMS and why is it RMS?
Evan Ramirez
your DE built in system monitor
Carter Fisher
top
Jordan Lee
htop piped to grep
Leo Morales
>implying
>memeing
Jack Foster
While updating my crap with the yum GUI, an incomprehensible error appeared. Ignore?
Dylan Sanchez
I have arch with xfce and am now looking into hardening/security
Hi, I want to use a linux distro in my laptop (n5010 i5 w/ ati radeon sth.) I want to use Gnome3 DE I like that arch has AUR I'm noob and Ubuntu is easy to use for noobs
Should I go for Arch? Should I go for Ubuntu G?
Either way, do i have to do something extra after installing any of this distros.
I tried both btw but boot time was longer than win8.1 for both.
What should i do?
Bentley Gutierrez
Sorry but these lines were triggering my autism.
Matthew Gray
>Slaps my non-free software
Throw M$ EULA where Windows is declared as a service and watch him scream and squirm as his face melts off from the horror.
Then I forcefully upgrade his PC to Windows 10 and install Google Chrome to exorcise his Free Software demons.
Liam Perry
ignore, looks like your repo might just be lagging
Dylan Lewis
Oh shit what are you doing.
Use Yum Extender DNF.
Camden Russell
>using a gui yum front end on a dnf system it's like you want your shit fucked up.
Liam Martinez
What about grsecurity kernel? It's quite a pain to set up, but it's real security.
Luis Wright
Sorry to disturb your peace, I'll fix the image before making a thread next time.
Robert Cruz
literally
sudo dnf update --refresh -y
put it on a weekly cron
Samuel Roberts
I DON'T LIKE THE VERTICAL LINES
PLEASE MAKE IT STOP
Kevin Cox
that may be beyond noobscope
Samuel Nelson
>like GNOME 3, but it requires gnome-tweak-tool to do anything more than simple setting modification >requires non-optional bluetooth libraries >heavily depends on NetworkManager, which depends on other shit I don't need >decide to try out KDE, since it's been a while
>as soon as I log in, it completely ignores my xorg.conf and KWin crashes >slow as hell on a fast computer >font rendering is *horrible* >like Cinnamon and MATE, but neither plays nicely with Anthy/IBus
I'm all for ricing and stuff like that, but not at the expense of (too much) bloat and unnecessary but required dependencies. What desktop environment do you guys use?
Hunter Reyes
AUR is not a selling point.
Matthew Gonzalez
Calm down, OP is already on suicide watch.
David Reed
Yum is deprecated.
Update to Fedora 23. Seriously, avoid yum. It's dnf now.
Jose Brooks
mate xfce trinity enlightement, your own made from scratch
Connor Scott
Thank you for not using an anime image.
Jackson Sanchez
>>font rendering is *horrible*
That has nothign to do with your desktop environment.
Kayden Lee
AUR is the only reason Arch still exists.
Hunter Lewis
KDE Plasma works perfectly under Manjaro. I am really interested in Deepin and LXDE, testing them next. Most ricers use openbox or i3 for wm.
Brandon Martin
>grsecurity Did you see what happened when someone tweeted about a bug in it? Just fucking go with OpenBSD if you care about security, Linux is shit with security, and grsecurity devs are fucking jokes. That, and you need to be a huge fucking corporation just to get the (stable) version of grsecurity that's not bugged to hell.
Luis Young
inb4 "filtered" and 200 posts about tripfagging
Tripcodes were a mistake. The guy who invented them is the god of all trolls.
Jaxon Watson
I use XFCE, I can rice it pretty easily and it just werks.
>muh bloat If they don't run why do your care? It's not like 200 additional packages existing on your hard drive slow your system down.
Apply yourself.
Charles Rivera
why not
Luis Rogers
Nice b8 m8
Hunter Cooper
I've never used Trinity, but IIRC, isn't enlightenment just a GNOME Shell alternative?
I haven't had that issue in any other DE.
I'm using Arch.
I might just end up using XFCE.
Andrew Hall
Bad wording: AUR is the only excuse for using Arch.
Jack Foster
It seems to require a lot more than other DEs, including GNOME 3.
the package manager is pretty good.
Jason Wood
Oh god, hope I didn't break anything. I'll use the dnf from now on.
Jack Scott
>Implying creating pkgbuilds is rocket science Take your shit posting elsewhere landwhale.
Hunter Campbell
I'm the debianite that fucked up inmensely.
I tried running the Nvidia .run file. Everything seemed to go well. Told me I had to reboot in order to continue, or something, and so I did.
Then it loads the KDE splashcreen, but I can't move the mouse, type anything or switch to tt1, tt2, etc. I know it's not simply frozen because the "|" is blinking in the password field. A pop up says:
Your saved session type "kde-plasma" is not valid any more. Please select a new one, otherwise 'default' will be used.
And an OK button to click. But I can't move shit.
Any clues?
Isaac Scott
Remember to rice it with Moebuntu.
Joseph Williams
firejail
Noah Parker
Meant to quote
Jason Howard
How to spot a poser and idiot.
Chase Stewart
...
Evan Murphy
Fuck off
Hunter Morales
Is see, thread derailers in full force.
Ryan Martinez
Yeah, somebody on twitter was a complete retard. But I think even the test version of grsecurity patchset can be used on the desktop just fine, if you need it. I tried using it for a week or so. Got tired after having to jump through too many hoops to get Steam games working.
Leo Rodriguez
Has anyone managed to build Nomacs 3.2 on Arch? I'm getting an error during compilation. Could it be related to the GCC 6.0 version?
Colton Powell
Weeaboos are always derailing. It's OK when they do it.
Cameron Gonzalez
Aur is an excuse for the arch devs to be lazy and maintain less packages. Most of what you find on the AUR is available in official repos of other distros. It's insecure by nature and unless you are reading every pkgbuild and editing them as needed should not be used at all. Most arch users just blindly install everything.
Benjamin Cooper
Not yet.
We're still missing the "rms is a shit eating paedophile and gpl hurts my feefees" guy
Adrian King
Gimme a minute, I'll try it.
Hudson Reed
see >the package manager is pretty good.
Matthew Smith
Did you set the nvidia kernel modules to be loaded at boot, or does the .run script do that?
Henry Lopez
How about the graphics card circle jerk?
Landon Martin
Try doing the same thing through dnf and post results.
Michael Peterson
Or you can pay the devs so they can quit their day jobs and devote more time to maintaining packages? Quit acting like an entitled cunt.
Brayden Sanders
>Most of what you find on the AUR is available in official repos of other distros. Between the core, extra, community, and multilib repos, it has a pretty good selection. > It's insecure by nature and unless you are reading every pkgbuild and editing them as needed should not be used at all. Most arch users just blindly install everything. Do...do you mean to say that you actually need to pay attention, good forbid when you install things?
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Nope, got errors during build.
Lucas Peterson
I was listening to Lucky Star OP when I saw your post.
Eli Stewart
Guys, I currently have a broken Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 install that won't boot no matter what I do. I cannot boot in GUI or in The only way to get a terminal is through recovery mode or chroot, but I didn't manage to get X and systemd to work again.
What happen is: as soon as the system tries to boot into Ubuntu, the screen goes all black and starts flickering from time to time. I cannot change tty (I can by spamming alt + f3 but it gets back to the black screen after a few seconds). Booting with nvidia drivers disabled doesn't work. The system does nothing from there and the only way out is rebooting. I tried reinstalling both Xorg and systemd, no success. I've ran fsck. I accidentally replaced the upstart boot option in grub with systemd while trying to fix it.
If someone can help, I would appreciate.
Aaron Mitchell
>Being a weeaboo Fag
Justin Evans
Why would I do that? I don't use arch.
Austin Flores
>Aur is an excuse for the arch devs to be lazy and maintain less packages. Hardly. AUR is a solution to the problem of running unstable/customized/patched software and stuff so obscure "noone wants to take care of"
Other distros face the same problem as well but Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE have the infrastructure to solve this problem properly which is an automated buildsystem. So Ubuntu has PPA's, Fedora has COPRs and opensuse has Open Build Service.
But that's because all of them are backed by a company which makes actual money.
Arch (similar to Debian) is a community run distro and they can't afford to dedicate, run and maintain a machine powerful enough to work as a buildsystem for thousands of people and another one to host them all.
Julian Gutierrez
You're a good movie.
Isaiah Morales
In recovery mode, run journalctl and look for anything interesting.
Owen Moore
To the arch circlejerkers AUR is litterly github download scripts.
After seeing that I booted on recovery mode, logged as root and tried to install the .run again. With the following results.
Installer asks if I want DKMS. I say yes, but it returns an error. >Error: Bad return status for module build on kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64(x86_64)
After that I retry without DKMS, so it advances until a point when it says that the I'm "compiling the Nvidia kernel module with a different compiler than the one that was used to compile the running kernel".
"The compiler used to compile the kernel was gcc 4.8: the current compiler is gcc 5.3" Options are: Ignore CC version check Abort installation. I aborted
I'm not the one with the problem, a simple yes or no would suffice.
According to that other user, it does. In recovery mode, try journalctl --since today
Leo Torres
I guess.
Jack Lewis
Then you should be good. Just don't use yum in the future.
Camden Lopez
"No journal files were found."
Hudson Hernandez
I dunno. It's a bit beyond my C++ skills to fix such errors. This is the error I got: /home/user/GIT/clone/nomacs/ImageLounge/src/DkGui/DkPong.cpp:658:19: error: call of overloaded ‘abs(double&)’ is ambiguous angle = abs(angle); Doesn't look too complicated to solve, if that's the only error.
But I tried compiling master branch and it compiled successfully. Why won't you go with that?
Noah Hall
...what? Dumb question, but is the recovery mode installed on a separate partition? post output of lsblk.
Gavin Sullivan
ignore the cc version check
you may have to pass it as a flag to the install script unless there's an option during the install (like --no-check or something similar)
Easton Clark
As soon as someone mentions Arch all of these circlejerking namefags come out of the woodwork to stroke each other's over inflated ego about their hipster choice in a hobbyist OS while derailing the thread with their bullshit. This is proof that Sup Forums is fucking dead. I bet you fags think you're all so cool because you figured out how to hack Sup Forums and change your names.
Isaac Rogers
Do you think getting assblasted about it solves anything? Try rerailing the conversation.
SDA 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk sda1 8:1 0 110.7G 0 part / sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part sda5 8:5 0 92M 0 part [SWAP]
Levi Taylor
Im attempting to use a puppy live usb to rename some files in windows but it keeps saying it cannot be moved.
Im trying to change a password on windows 10 and im truing to change sethc to cmd and cmd to cmd0.
Brody Ward
>According to that other user, it does. Could you put this sentence in context?
So I just ignore it and continue the install? De we all agree on that?
John Bell
How to set mouse speed more than 1.00 in Gnome 3.20? When I was at 3.16, I used to set the mouse acceleration value by dconf editor, but now all is different. Also, I can't control mouse speed by using xset.