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Thoughts on KDE Neon? Trying to figure out why this was necessary when Kubuntu exists.
Carter Myers
Beginner distro recommendation. Mint failed to instal last time I attempted shattering much of my faith in Linux.
My old standby mandriva is long dead.
I'm afraid I've been out of the Linux game for awhile and do not have A lot of time to relearn or deal with complications these days.
So what do? Was planning on building a system based around an fx 8350 and an rx 490...what's steam like these days? Has wine improved much? What sort of complications may I encounter?
because kubuntu wasn't bleeding edge enough, always lagged behind
Wyatt Morales
Ubuntu is the answer. It has full support for gaming, and wine is good. Look at the pasta for GNU/Linux gaming for more pastebin.com/7Xzi8e2H
Kayden Young
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Grayson Smith
How are drivers These days amd wise?
Just try in to get away from Windows and the creepy telemetry.
Is dependency he'll still a thing? Is there a copy I can buy with some customer support?
Daniel Moore
Can't tell you much about amd drivers, dependency hell is not an issue in Ubuntu and I think Canonical provides technical support.
Xavier King
Thx...guess I'll try installing that when I get my build finalized.
Dominic Martin
"Ubuntu: The leading OS for PC, tablet, phone and cloud" ubuntu.com/ Soon.
Ryder Jackson
Eww no thanks.
Cooper Torres
Ubuntu isn't a bad distro. It works well for the average joe, comes bundled with usable software and pretty much does what 90% of all users need from an OS.
And with Valve pushing Linux support more and more, gaming on Linux isn't what it used to be. Sure, my rig still runs Win7, but the support is getting better day by day.
And if you want to get a "better" distro, feel free to play around with Debian, Arch, Gentoo or one of the 1337distros you've never heard of before.
Levi Collins
>And if you want to get a "better" distro, feel free to play around with Debian, Arch, Gentoo or one of the 1337distros you've never heard of before. Like devuan, support devuan.
Noah Harris
Has anyone here ever played any of the games that are bundled with kde-full?
Luke Cooper
I'd honestly go for Ubuntu. There isn't really anything you can do wrong with the installer. In a VM, just select "Use the entire disk" and you're good to go
Eli Garcia
kek no
Easton Hughes
Go with whatever you please. I mean, that's the entire point of having like a bazillion different distros
Ryder Morgan
I don't know if Battle for Wesnoth is bundled with it, but it's a genuinely good Linux game
Bentley Barnes
I've gotta remember to check that out some time. I've been seeing the name for years but never gave it a shot.
You know how you can select a font size for XTerm by Ctrl+RMB and selecting from Tiny, Small, Medium, etc?
How do I make that setting permanent across terminal sessions? For whatever reason, Xenial upgrade made my terminal fonts MASSIVE but didn't touch ANY of the other X font settings.
Setting the font manually to "Tiny" is close to the font size I used to have before the update, but I have to do that for every session and I'd rather not do that for obvious reasons.
Dylan Walker
You should. It's a great Turn-Based strategy game, well balanced, still in active development, muliplayer playable...
Caleb Ward
Nice selection, thanks.
John Kelly
It's not. I tried out KAtomic for about three minutes and it reminds me of those dumb WildTangent games that came with my Windows XP computer. Battle for Wesnoth looks pretty interesting though.
Hudson Baker
Did you try changing the default profile's font?
Carter Nguyen
Set your .~/Xresources, mine is xterm*maximized: true xterm*background: black xterm*foreground: grey xterm*cursorColor: green xterm*cursorBlink: false xterm*faceName: Tamsyn:size=14:antialias=true xterm*faceNameDoublesize: WenQuanYi Zen Hei xterm*termName: xterm-256color xterm*locale: true xterm*utf8Title: true xterm*dynamicColors: true xterm*borderWidth: 0 then do xrdb ~/.Xresources, maybe add that to your profile.
Justin Bailey
Those games are more designed for a slow day in the office and should be compared to minesweeper instead of Battlefield.
Juan Jones
Yeah, the contents of both .Xresources and .Xdefaults are the same with regards to font settings: XTerm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono xterm*faceSize: 8 xterm*locale:true
In fact, it's the same across all of my machines. It's just the laptop with Xenial on it that's having this issue.
Straightforward debian installation with gnome (default selection) - no login prompt, just a grayish screen
switching to another tty, login in and running startx goes past the gray screen but just show a debian wallpaper, nothing else, no mouse, no key works.
Is this a problem with gnome?
Caleb Miller
Whats causing these?
Evan Gray
Best pdf/documents viewer?
Nicholas Rogers
The one I'm using.
Kayden Gonzalez
Chromium/Chrome. Just select them as default PDF viewer
Cooper Taylor
quality shitpost
I used mupdf
Wyatt Collins
Do they occur regularly/always? If so, have you tried booting to a live distro?
If they persist, it might either be a.) a buggy driver, or b.) a hardware problem
Just realised, the laptop screen is broken so I'm using an external screen. Dumbo.
Just saying your post was useless compared to the list you just did. Would love that kind of list for other things.
>math pdf
Michael Jenkins
Remember: Anything more than a shell, an editor and gcc is just bloatware in a distro
Jeremiah Lopez
I guess the winner is mupdf because the epub support.
Michael Roberts
Is there a way to use less for epubs too?
Owen Stewart
Why does using any sort of Live CD make your heatsink fan and exhaust fan sound like they're going to fly away
Brayden Jones
Maybe you should try running a live image entirely from RAM.
This is probably one of the better ways to use a gorillion gigabytes of memory.
Aiden Stewart
vim
au BufReadCmd *.epub call zip#Browse(expand(""))
Carter Lewis
I don't think they would show images though, or do they?
Nicholas Anderson
Will people laugh at my screenfetch if I have two screens with different resolutions?
Cameron Morgan
No.
Alexander Martinez
To be honest I'd laugh if you WEREN'T using assorted $10 monitors from thrift shops.
Gamers with matching $900 monitors would be running windows anyways.
Landon Cooper
(debian gnome) Just spent two hours or so trying to switch on which monitor should the login appear. What the fuck xorg.
Xorg -configure returns "number of created screens does not match number of detected devices"
xrandr never displayed anything else than "can't open display"
I'm switching the monitor, setting the primary option on xorg.conf but nothing changes! The only change is when there's an error in the file...
Starting to think gnome don't give a fuck about xorg.conf?
Camden Reed
arch linux user here I'm trying to figure out how to patch my terminus font but for the life of me i can't seem to do it i'm an xterm user, and this is for the vim powerline symbols (vim-devicons or something like that) how do i go about doing this?
Luis Lewis
This. People seem to hate on Ubuntu for it being easy yet they complain about not enough people using Linux... hypocrisy at it's finest...
Hudson Bell
Those are different people saying those things.
Camden Perez
xrandr --output ${name_of_display} --primary
Kevin Turner
what is the pacman version of apt-listchanges?
Hunter Allen
Pacman/Rosetta in your search engine.
Kayden Bennett
stop posting
Henry Clark
How do I stop posting?
Jack Howard
Now do one set nice/ionice/trickle for debian daemons? Is manualy editing init.d scripts good practice?
Henry Cruz
>xrandr never displayed anything else than "can't open display"
Already tried that command : can't open display The name of the display are LVDS1 and VGA1. I'm pretty sure it's just gnome fucking up something at this point.
Andrew Scott
And it says can't open display because I'm in a tty, I can't run a shell while on X, because I only have access to one of those screens.
Ian Cooper
I just installed debian 8.5 Cinammon on my laptop. I'm trying to install the nvidia driver I downloaded with sh ./ driver.run from ctrl+alt+f1 but it still says i need to stop the xserver. How do I do it?
Alexander Johnson
>I'm trying to install the nvidia driver I downloaded Stop using the Windows mindset and installing things outside of your package manager. Either use the free driver bundled with Debian or use some of those extra repositories to install the proprietary one.
Luke Butler
Should I try the jessie-backports one then?
John Watson
update: cinammon is now on fallback mode and won't start. I guess I'll reinstall and stop trying to use steam
Samuel Jackson
You know, I like linux. But this kind of shit is so annoying.
It was indeed gnome reconfiguring the x server on its own and you can't do anything about it, it's fucking sad.
Hours of searching and the issue isn't solved, I guess I'll go straight to minimal.
Evan Roberts
I'm using Debian stable on a ARM device (Novena IMX.6). I want to move to testing but the 2D acceleration vivante/armada driver is provided by the makers themselves and doesn't support the latest xorg-server. I tried the regular modesetting driver and it wasn't worth it.
How can I move to testing while keeping my current xorg-server and not ruining everything?
Andrew Wright
KDE Neon should be more stable
Nicholas Allen
maybe it should be but it's not, it's buggy as fuck
Daniel Bennett
How can I blacklist a package from updating (Debian)?
Jace Hernandez
I'm just wondering, for a storage only disk, is partitioning actually necessary? Is there any reason not to just format the entire block device as a single filesystem? I do that for disk images the whole time, why not with externals? Partitioning may be necessary on boot disks so a bios can read the boot sector, but why bother on one purely for storage? Is there anyone here who just doesn't?
Jaxson Young
you have to have at least one partition even if it's the whole drive for an os to read data/write data, but yeah for a storage drive not only is there no need for multiple partitions, it's pants on head retarded, it's also pohr to have multiple partitions on a system disk unless you're considering the boot sector a partition. the only time it's not retarded is in the case of multiple oses on the same disk
Dominic Hughes
nevermind, found it sudo apt-mark hold sudo apt-mark unhold
Elijah Thomas
Hi Sup Forums, I'm new to linux, and I got stuck at installing xfce4. I installed arch but I think that the xfce is trying to install on my usb drive because it says that I don't have enough free disk space (the usb drive is full). How do I change the install location of xfce4?
Jonathan Brown
If ATI/AMD is the enemy of freedom and so is Nvidia, what graphics card should I buy?
Wyatt Diaz
You find out into which directory the package's files are installed and then mount that directory on a different storage device.
Kevin Murphy
Do you guys use sudo often? Can you make a command always run as root (like apt-get) without needing a password? (And is it good practice? for apt-get?)
Hudson Parker
Wait, if I make a empty 500gb file, then format it with mkfs, would you call that partitioned? It doesn't have a partition table, but it is still one chunk. I'd argue it's not. It's a formatted block.
Owen Martin
>Can you make a command always run as root (like apt-get) without needing a password? Not really, that I know of at least. But you can still install software by either using apt-get source to get the source code and compile it yourself or just install every package with dpkg -i --force-not-root --root= if it's dependent on other packages. Also, include the specified to your $PATH.
Cooper Myers
post your $lsblk
Bentley Butler
I forgot to mention, read through dpkg's man page BEFORE doing what I wrote. It's important to know what it does exactly.
Andrew Thompson
If I compile it myself, will apt-get be able to remove it? If not this counts as manually installing stuff, which I've seen people advise against.
Well I'll just install sudo, I'm used to it anyway.
Connor Barnes
>If I compile it myself, will apt-get be able to remove it? No, it doesn't.
>Well I'll just install sudo, I'm used to it anyway. What distro did you install that you don't have sudo pre-installed?
Asher Hall
Debian minimal
Tyler Perry
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Carter Perez
Hey /fglt/, I need an imageviewer that can scroll, zoom, pan, go to the next image, with one hand, preferably the left hand
Jackson Hall
viewnior, feh if you don't use a tiling WM.
Parker Bailey
really makes you think
Owen Thompson
Is KeePassX the best password manager for linux? I don't like the idea of having all my passwords in one place, but it's a better option than only having 2-3 passwords that aren't as secure for all my accounts...
