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Considering switching from Ubuntu to Debian How much less user friendly is it?
Elijah Robinson
unsubscribed
Isaac Reed
Current ubuntu is a barely usable mess, and current debian is about 20 times more user-friendly.
Ayden Cox
Why does the sound from the music player sound like shit but sound fine with parole? Is it because of plugins? I'm using clementine and gmusicbrowser and the music doesn't sound as good as parole media player.
Jayden Lewis
I'm using Cinnamon actually
Michael Wilson
If you instal your choice of DE from the installer it can be just as user friendly
Christopher Russell
I got a headset with a microphone built in. Sound works, but the mic doesn't. I checked the arch wiki and they say
> Microphone detected but does not work (HSP profile unavailable). If the Bluetooth connection cuts, there will be a noticeable delay in audio. Work around by reinitializing the Bluetooth connection. Should I give up and use another mic or can I fix that somehow ?
Alexander Parker
You should post what hardware you're using(usb,3,5,bluetooth) and what audio driver you are using.
Jaxon Martinez
Im also considering this. Just wondering, what the major differences are and any pros/cons?
Josiah Cook
If you experience screen tearing in Cinnamon and don't feel like troubleshooting it, just install MATE
Noah Brown
When I try to watch internet videos on Midori I get this error. Also some sites tell me to upgrade my browser. What's the problem?
Noah Young
>pro-redhat threads
Daniel Bell
>shitposting
Ayden Rivera
I FUCKING HATE EVINCE. I JUST LOST HOURS WORTH OF ANNOTATIONS AND BOOKMARKS EVEN THOUGH IT CLAIMS TO HAVE SAVED
Owen Foster
drm
Cameron Cox
LINUX
Carson Gray
The only usable pdf readers are atril and okular.
Ian Ross
In the past few days I've tried to install ubuntu, debian, fedora and manjaro. Manjaro was the only one that installed flawlessly with exactly the configs I wanted. Manjaro and debian were the only ones I could remove systemd from. Manjaro was the only one I could use upower-pm-utils and have all programs make use of it instead of simply dropping power management support.
Moreover, manjaro's firmware and drivers worked even better than with ubuntu and was correctly installed during the install process, unlike in the case of ubuntu. Debian also installed the firmware, but required manual loading during install.
Overall, fedora was the worst, followed by ubuntu, then powergap, then debian, then another powergame, then manjaro.
So much for the mainstream distros.
Isaiah Gutierrez
Now enable the unstable repo
Mason Cruz
>I use GNU/Linux
Dominic Flores
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Luis Jones
Never ever. I use AUR + stable for software and only stable for updates. If I one day need a package that is available in unstable but not stable, I'll get that one package from unstable and nothing else. Failing that (e.g. too many conflicts), I'll grab it from AUR.
Matthew Bailey
You dropped your hat.
Ryan Watson
You forgot to shower
Dominic Carter
Why did you post a picture of yourself?
Oliver Lopez
This is you without your thick glasses
Nolan Moore
Hey guys, just wondering which AMD driver I should use on arch and how to install it (yaourt or whatever), planning on using wine, gallium and shit
Ian Robinson
Always use pacman first, only use yaourt for packages not available in the repos or if you need specific versions or compile-time settings.
Justin Foster
But what's the name of it, isn't there like 3 different ones?
Joseph Roberts
>you wear this >you write these things >you wear this >you look like this >no, you look like that >no, you look like that
this is /fglt/, not kindergarten
Thomas Rivera
can I change i686 ubuntu into amd64?
Alexander Lopez
No.
Landon Jones
What do I do with manually compiled binaries and their build directories before a big dist-upgrade? Can I just leave them alone?
Adam Richardson
For those guys wantin to rice. Ricing GNU/Linux is made by choosing not only the theme, but what software goes into your computer. "Display Managers" are the login screens. "Window Managers" are what the part drawing the borders, colors, etc. "File Managers" are the thing that handles how you browse your machine.
As the Cinnamon DE was created by the same geniuses who brought us Linux Mint, should I steer clear of it -- or is that overkill?
This is in the context of a Fedora 23 install.
Asher Butler
ok, so xf86-input-synaptics updated and now, soft touch isn't enabled, how do I enable it
Jack Jenkins
On second thought I don't care, Cinnamon is really slick. Already settling in.
Jordan Gray
as long as whatever was built hasn't messed with anything that the dist-upgrade will be upgrading then you should have no problems
Zachary Garcia
depends who maintains the package. if its offered by fedora then i dont see why its a bad thing.
personally i think mint is a bit of a useless distro, but if the de works for you and is packaged well for your distro who cares.
David Gonzalez
How do you guys make a "message of the day", that thing at login a user (see pic)?
I know is different for root that for a regular user so I wanted to ask the different methods you have.
Brandon Johnson
For the past few years I've had to use Windows on my laptop cause it was my online computer and I gaymed once in a while. Now I got a desktop and am looking for an OS for my laptop. I want something arch based because I have great experiences with pacman in my arch days. I don't feel like setting everything up though and was thinking of using a derivative. Should I use something more stable like Manjaro, or something else like antegros? Basically just looking for a decently non troublesome daily laptop OS that's arch based.
Mason Roberts
Reminder we have two threads on /t/.
A thread for videos on learning GNU/Linux And another for ported gaymes
Nathaniel Wood
Forgot pic.
Dominic Hernandez
man motd
Hudson Hughes
That is even more complicated than puting "cat ascii" in the bash_profile. How will you do it?
Lincoln Bailey
Why does my file explorer need an icon for every drive in my system? How the fuck do I stop this?
Joseph Gonzalez
>unimeme kek
Brandon Martinez
I like Unity
Christian Bell
goddamn rtl fucks me up every time. no matter how much mango i look at it always throws me
Justin Martin
"I know you are but what am I?"
Fuck just talk about Linux, in a friendly way, that's what this fucking thread is here for
Nicholas Turner
could you explain a bit better? can't you just right click the icon an detach it from the bar or you want for the drive to not be shown in nautilus?
Adrian Thomas
>hate spoiling things >open picture >instinctively start at the top left >spoil it and confuse myself as the following text doesn't make sense at the same time
Owen Foster
The problem is the second I open up my other drive the icon reappears. Using nautilus and using nautilus to browse my other drive act as two separate applications. Nautilus is ONE application and the icon should reflect this. It's such a tiny thing that pisses me off to no end.
Jordan Sanders
In UEFI startup menu, I have over 50 boot entries, most are to the same drive. How do I get rid of them?
Nathan Reyes
If by UEFI statup menu you mean the grub boot select screen then grub usually just picks up all the kernels in /boot and makes one (or two) entries per. So if that is the case for you just un-install old kernels or whatever.
Austin Watson
Is debian unstable a legitimate replacement for a rolling release distro or no? I know the other repos go into code freeze before a new stable release but I'm not sure how sid works
John Lopez
Can someone explain to me like im retarded what FLAGS are with portage in Gentoo
Jayden Gutierrez
pls respond here's a pic of my desktop with nautilus open
Camden Gomez
What's the best distro to try to get help for if the things you try out after googling still don't work?
Samuel Cook
And then I click on my other drive in the same fucking nautilus that I had open and it creates a whole new fucking icon for it. God fucking damn it I HATE IT.
Mason Carter
Nah you dont wanna do that. If you want Rolling release install Arch or Gentoo lad
Charles Baker
justunitythings.jpg
Levi Gonzalez
GOD FUCKING DAMN IT EVERY TIME I TURN ON MY COMPUTER AND LOOK AT THIS STUPID FUCKING SCREEN WITH TWO TWO 1+1=2 2!!!!!! FUCKING ICONS FOR MY FILE EXPLORER I JUST WANT TO FUCKING THROW MY COMPUTER OUT THE WINDOW SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY GUYS HOW THE FUCK DO I GET RID OF IT I WANT TO DIE SOMEONE KILL ME FUCKING HELL
David Thomas
install gentoo
Gavin Baker
holy shit guys. was able to get nextcloud up and running with a snap, in a snap.
shit, might be taking a side already. will check out the other implementations.
What's a good, simple image viewer that will let me scroll through the images in a directory with the mouse wheel? I'm currently using gThumb, which is okay but it tries to show video and audio files as well, which I don't want.
Jacob White
This should be in the OP.
Adrian Butler
Ive come to a point in my life where im so completely bored that I am reading the Gentoo handbook and installing Gentoo in a VM just to see if i have the mental capacity to do so (and also to learn a thing or to)
Colton Walker
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Bentley Jackson
trying to get steam working on arch with amdgpu drivers I'm getting the 'unable to load driver r600_dri.so' error I installed lib32-libXtst lib32-libXrandr lib32-libpulse lib32-gdk-pixbuf2 lib32-gtk3 lib32-gtk2
Jason Torres
So I have a binary file that was compiled on another system. To make the matters worse they linked it against randomly named libraries. The first obstruction was that it was used a differently named Linux loader, let's call it "a.so", I beat it by copying /lib/ld-linux.so into the directory and running it with ./a.so ./file but it further requires some randomly named libraries. How would I go about figuring out the import lists to figure out what were the original libraries and how do I make ldd work with that custom loader?
Elijah Jackson
How do I disable SystemDildo components? Say I want journald to fuck off so I can use syslog in peace, how do I go about doing that?
This is especially important since this abortion will be absorbing firewall and dns soon.
Evan King
Okay, instead of using ldd I simply used readelf utility and that worked. However the first question still remains, given exported symbols and dynamic dependencies, is there any way to see which functions are imported from dynamic libraries?
Carson Allen
what torrent clients are available through pacman?
>through pacman You mean through the Official Arch Repositories? qBittorrent Deluge rtorrent transmission ... Full list here: archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=torrent
Matthew Martinez
>tfw $ uname -r GNU/Linux
Christopher Foster
I meant $ uname -o
Logan Thomas
Does anyone here use DM-Crypt LUKS? I use it with LVM to encrypt my rootfs (passphrase protected.) I was just curious because it's something I never learned. If in the future I would like to zero and urandom out my drive how would I go about removing /dev/mapper/encryptedroot? Does gparted have that feature or?
Dylan Taylor
boot from slax: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=4M;sync;sync;sync;dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=4M;sync;sync;sync;poweroff
Ayden Long
Okay. I just wasn't sure if that would work since I have an encrypted volume. Looks like I can do that from any live medium, why do I need Slax?
Jordan Johnson
oh it'll work, any live medium just suggesting. the disk holds all data, so i wouldn't only overwrite the encrypted partitions leaving /boot and the mbr there proving it had encryption on it.
suggestions for a more recent live cd that's super good?
Jaxon Rodriguez
I would switch to Arch, it looks like a promising distro, but why are it's users so shitty? Will switching turn me into a dick also?
Jose Rodriguez
Any tips in improving virtualbox performance? My old single core jumps up to 80%, no matter what distro I'm running. Host is Arch.
Wyatt Carter
I think it's mostly stereotypes. Any arch users that isn't underage knows that installing it isn't difficult and every person having a minimum of knowledge about linux can install it and use it, so he won't brag about it.
Andrew Evans
I gotcha. I think my favorite is SystemRescueCD. My SSD wouldn't recognize the Gentoo live medium and so I tried that and realized it's based on Gentoo and also comes with a lot of great tools.
