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Jacob Bell
>all those pasta Can't we just use a pastebin as everyone ? And if there is a specific pasta, someone can ask it and we will post it. And use the wiki to save those pasta or link to the pastebin.
Is there a way to add a bunch of torrents as magnet links to a text file then some torrent client just opens the file and starts downloading the magnets it finds? Some user intervention would be okay
Mason Gray
Import/Export like? Or do you already have a list?
Kevin Garcia
I just set up an Internet connection in my grandparents house; have an old PC here running Win XP, gonna refresh it now.
Which OS does /biz/ recommend that will be extremely simplistic and limited for communication (skype/viber), reading news, checking the weather, possibly listen to some radio channels or watching videos etc. They are 73 y/o and don't speak English or have ever used a mouse before (they regularly use a tablet though).
I was thinking of Xubuntu or something? Recommendations?
William Torres
I like this pasta.
Austin Allen
100% serious.
Also, Sup Forums**
Daniel Gutierrez
Xubuntu is alright. Alternativly Ubuntu Mate or Cinnamon. Canonicals philosophy is shit, but it's retard friendly.
Lincoln Martin
Well, either would work for me
Xavier Adams
>that table >those clothes >Windows XP Definitely an old person's PC.
Try LXDE (like Xubuntu, but with a nicer configuration and set of preinstalled apps out of the box), Korora (user-friendly Fedora), or possibly ElementaryOS (a Mac OS-like)
Liam Allen
Ahem, I meant "cloths"*
Benjamin Morales
LXDE is a desktop environment. Xubuntu is a distribution based on Ubuntu with Xfce. You cannot compare those, LXDE cannot be "like" Xubuntu.
Stop recommending shitty, niche, spin-off distributions like Korora. Fedora is already "user-friendly". There is nothing Korora can do to make it "friendlier". The same applies to Elementary Os. It's an immature distribution, with a relatively new desktop environment which offers nothing other environments or self-assembled ones don't. THe only thing it offers are more bugs due to its immaturity.
It's like you heard someone mention those things and are now recommending them without actually looking into it yourself. What kind of person does that? You're not helping anyone when you perpetuate some "memes" or latest myths.
Cameron Kelly
this
Adam Morales
screen or tmux?
Austin Williams
this
Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch are the only distributions. The others might work well, but the more united we are, the stronger we'll get. Stop with forks and meme distros, please. (inb4 Ubuntu)
Brody Sullivan
One Gentoo to rule them all.
Jordan Long
Fuck, I wish more people started saying this. The others are just those base distros with minor package variations, hardly/no fucking development takes place with the minor ones gentoo is invited in the fellowship, but it can't be a sauron or morgoth
Brayden Collins
Just add OpenSuse to the list, and I'll agree with you.
William Butler
suse is basically fedora, so no
Dominic Peterson
okay so im the guy who fucked up last thread. i got the mint iso from linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=218 put it in a flash drive put it in the computer restarted
then i got pic related.
Blake Davis
pressing a key says "no bootable devices —— insert boot disk ant press any key"
Hunter Lewis
Using the same package format doesn't mean the distros are the same. Ubuntu and Debian are much, much more alike than Fedora and OpenSuse.
Evan Adams
tmux
It looks sexier and GNU software is generally bloated.
Brayden Morgan
>leaving out gentoo Are you ok?
Lucas Garcia
>LXDE is a desktop environment Sorry, I meant LXLE. My bad for not noticing a typo. I didn't mean to spread misinformation. >There is nothing Korora can do to make it "friendlier". The same applies to Elementary Os. Besides coming with pre-configured settings, drivers, and applications for everyday users (or something familiar in ElementaryOS's case). Korora is to Fedora what Ubuntu is to Debian. >It's like you heard someone mention those things and are now recommending them without actually looking into it yourself. I have tried LXLE, Korora, and ElementaryOS; as well as Debian, the various versions of Ubuntu, and Fedora. I recommended them based on personal experience and the context of the question. I think these distros are perfect for people who aren't very technology literate. They maximize simplicity and intuitiveness while minimizing configuration and advanced/complex features. I run Debian, myself, because it works for me.
Different distros for different purposes.
Cooper Gray
You can't just copy the iso onto the flash drive's filesystem, you have to write it directly using dd or unetbootin or a similar tool.
Joseph Roberts
Yeah but Ubuntu is never going to be stopped from this point on, might as well back the winning horse (inb4 whinging about the 2015 spyware)
SUSE have taken far more than the package management from Fedora/RHL btw
Ryan Evans
so what do? the only computer i have access to is a win 7 with no admin permissions.
Wyatt Cruz
Has anyone here tried Source Mage? I'm thinking of trying it out and seeing if it's better than Gentoo.
Eli Lewis
How can I remove all the Antergos branding from Antergos so nobody can ever tell that it's Antergos?
Is there a brain-dead Arch Linux installer that isn't Antergos?
Logan Gutierrez
>Is there a brain-dead Arch Linux installer that isn't Antergos?
Architect, but srsly, the point of installing Arch is installing Arch.
Xavier Brown
>no admin permissions
use a computer that has admin permissions and use a program called win32diskimager to write the ISO properly
also don't use linux mint you dumb shit, use ubuntu or debian, or follow our new rules about the 5 distros here
Ryan Richardson
>the point of installing Arch is installing Arch. You people need to be careful with your memes; too many kids come here and see INSTALL GENTOO and ARCH IS IMPOSSIBLE TO INSTALL and internalize it.
The point of installing Arch is to have a small base system and pacman+AUR's sexiness.
Easton Rogers
okay. do you know if theres a place i can go to get help in person? i just want to stop worrying.
Kayden Phillips
This. Arch if you want a minimal system without bloat.
Easton Watson
>SUSE have taken far more than the package management from Fedora/RHL btw Like? From what I know, Suse descends from Slackware.
>packman sexiness packages come with binaries and sources, no able to distinguish free and nonfree packages
>aur literally a git wrapper for retards
William Martinez
I'll give arch a chance if you tell me how to have an arch system without pulseaudio. I want it completely purged. I don't even want it on the so called "base system"
Zachary Gonzalez
see A Debian netinstall would be actually lightweight.
Cameron Mitchell
What's your problem with pulse? It's useful.
Juan Watson
What are you talking about? Arch has no traces of pulse unless you explicitly install it.
Bentley Walker
I started the Debian bug reporter on xfce for the first time yesterday and during setup it asked me to confirm a mail address that looked like username-hostname.home, only with a very old username I changed years ago. Where could that name still be stored? I thought I erased it from my account completely.
Chase Stewart
nearly lost all programs after executing sudo apt-get remove libssl1.0.0 libssl-dev on terminal any way to revert?
Bentley Cooper
I have a better question for you. Why should I tell you my reasons? Either way you don't actually care. do you?
Gavin Barnes
>Besides coming with pre-configured settings So do other distributions. I seriously doubt Korora patches every package to change the defaults.
>drivers So does Fedora and every other distribution which doesn't restrict itself to free software only.
>and applications for everyday users So do other distributions. Windows doesn't do that and it's "user friendly".
>Korora is to Fedora what Ubuntu is to Debian. No, it's not. All Korora does is install software from Fedora's repositories and apply a different theme and wallpaper.
>I think these distros are perfect for people who aren't very technology literate. If you think that you need to be more technology literate to use Ubuntu than Korora then you're an idiot.
>They maximize simplicity and intuitiveness while minimizing configuration and advanced/complex features. So do most of the handful of core distributions.
>Different distros for different themes/wallpapers ftfy
Blake Bailey
You sure?
Jaxson Evans
You're advanced enough not to need Pulseaudio, but you don't know how to not-install it? You need someone to spoonfeed you an answer, but you're such an advanced computer user who can't do some simple research for himself? How to spot a pretentious, try-hard idiot: the post.
Charles Johnson
Correct way to remove package pkg with pacman pacman -D --asdeps pkg pacman -Rncs $(pacman -Qdqt)
Isaiah Cook
hmm no idea what you're talking about. i am on xubuntu.
Xavier Thomas
Sorry, use a true package manager next time. apt-get is a joke.
Joshua Bell
how do I setup compton in i3?
Ethan Hernandez
Not sure it'll do exactly what you want, but you could try using tasksel.
Nice meme.
Josiah Ward
I haven't use arch, last time i check arch was being compiled to use pulseaudio by default. and it required extra-steps to remove it I didn't even bother trying it because of this
Also. I can't believe you got triggered by that if arch people are like you then i really should not bother
>pacman >not a joke next time use a true package manager, pacman is a joke
Luke Hughes
>arch was being compiled
pacman -Si arch Repository : community Name : arch Version : 1.3.5-11 Description : A modern and remarkable revision control system. Architecture : x86_64 URL : gnu.org/software/gnu-arch Licenses : GPL Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : zlib expat krb5 Optional Deps : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Download Size : 327,50 KiB Installed Size : 1014,00 KiB Packager : Evangelos Foutras Build Date : Pon 08 Feb 2016 01:27:08 Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature
I don't see Pulseaudio as a dependency.
>if arch people are like you then i really should not bother You're using a distribution, not people. YOu just proved again that you're an idiot.
Alexander Rodriguez
>"""correct way""" >not a single, basic default command tell me again why pacman is so great
Brody Long
By reinstalling. Also read what apt prints out BEFORE you confirm.
Sebastian Mitchell
>You're using a distribution, not people >Yes the arch community are a bunch or faggots but you shouldn't care. Thanks. I'll just keep using what i have.
Cameron Long
I want to install Linux but there are so many different Linuxes, what is the BEST? Please help.
Gavin Rodriguez
lubuntu, is a good one for people coming from windows. Not not the best, best depends on application.
Elijah Clark
AND THERES STILL A SHIT TON OF TEARING
fucking linux
James Cooper
Show me how you do it with your packet manager. I wanna laugh.
Ian Thompson
Not that guy, but Works on My Machine(tm).
>fucking linux It's no the kernel's fault that you're experiencing screen tearing.
Daniel Davis
iirc that is a problem with i3 not working well with compositors
Isaiah Collins
No.
On a more helpful note, my personal experience with every piece of software I have ever found worthwhile was: "It's is shit at the beginning. Configuring it to your liking as you go makes it not shit over time, sometimes even good." So asking which default distro/software/anything is "the best" is like asking "Which collection of shit of which I will throw out 30-90% anyway is the one true solution to all my problems?"
Juan Wilson
If you never tried Linux before, go with one of the big pre-configured distro such as Ubuntu, Mint, or Fedora.
Take a quick look at them and pick the one you like most.
Gavin Turner
>being this new
The one I'm using.
Christopher Rodriguez
>my shit is shit but your shit is shitier nice argument arch faggot
sure. I open a plain text file containing nothing but the ascii characters ^G^O ^F^U^C^K ^Y^O^U^R^S^E^L^F using cat -v. If that doesn't work I use dnf remove.
Now go ahead and tell me in excruciating detail how I am wrong. I am legitimately curious.
Brandon Ross
There is a reason why literally nobody start with a distro using that kernel Then again, there is a reason why people call your kind freeTARDs
Hudson Morris
>implying I have to be new ahahaha, joke's on you, I'm actually retarded!
Nicholas Rivera
install gentoo
Ryder Hill
Trisquel is quiet popular.
Jacob Garcia
quick, free or open source ?
Elijah Cruz
Both
Tyler Bailey
I'll go with quick
Andrew Williams
You didn't need to say anything about trisquel. I already knew you where from there
go back and stay there
Luke Wilson
>Freedom is bad You're trying too hard, user.
Ryan Edwards
I basically said that people won't nor shouldn't start with linux-libre and that trisquel is shit. not freedom
now go back to your safe place
Juan Ward
Any good music/media players? Just downloaded Ubuntu
Lincoln Myers
Are there emacs like hotkeys for sxhkd?
For example C-x f: firefox, and C-x Ret: urxvt
Ethan Brooks
smplayer
Camden Martinez
You could make C-x to write a "enabled" file somewhere and then, for the f key use a script like [ -f /tmp/enabled ] && { rm /tmp/enabled; firefox & } || xdotool key f.
Jose Thompson
hello neo Sup Forums
Luke Jones
Thanks, mates.
Grayson Thomas
>you are new if you don't subscribe to my extremist ideology