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FreeBSD has less autism than Gentoo and has ports Arch has less autism than Gentoo hand has ABS
No reason to run Gentoo these days
Ian Butler
My question from the previous thread
Adam Barnes
Do Ubuntu derivatives run the same under the hood?
Would there be any sort of incompatibilities with software on a derivative versus the main distro? Also, are .deb packages compatible with Ubuntu and *buntu?
Ryan Nelson
Don't select the UEFI one, does some random shit
Jose Scott
How can I spoof bittorrent upload data on Gnu/Linux?
How hard is it going full freetard? I've got no gaymen or proprietary software holding me back anymore. Thinking about taking the plunge, but I can't lose youtube and Sup Forums. What say you Sup Forumsentoomen?
Brody Sanders
Hit enter. "Default" is fine.
Carter Turner
To what extend do you require a website to be free? Do they have to publish their entire server-side source? How could you verify that that is what their server is actually running?
Henry Kelly
When I do that, a flashing cursor appears in the left corner and nothing happens.
I will check this out in the morning, thank you for the tip
Easton Martinez
Does anybody actually use Linux as their main operating system, especially on your PC and not memepad?
It was interesting to scroll through the BST thread and notice that literally nobody in them is running Linux. What gives?
Ian Cruz
what do u anons think of manjaro... seems to be a lot of arch cucks around Sup Forums so im curious to why its rarely mentioned here
mostly its all gentoo/arch/debian/ubuntu/mint
Landon Williams
Mint (cinnamon) is the only Linux distro worth using on a daily basis. When you see people pushing Gentoo or Arch it is just trolling.
Grayson Parker
battlestation threads (aka desktop threads) are for Sup Forums transplants
Easton Roberts
see/bst/ != Sup Forums
Luke Carter
People who want to show off their Linux systems do it in the desktop-threads.
Both are shit and you should have realized that on your own.
Evan Murphy
XFCE
John Price
I unironically like CDE
Oliver Bennett
MATE is objectively the best DE at the current time, it has the most active development and strongest stability compared to the alternatives
Nathaniel Cruz
>tfw not cool or clever enough to come up with a good host name
Daniel Collins
KDE.
Carter Cruz
Debian is on all my machines, windows on one. I only boot into windows every ~2 months.
Grayson Ramirez
Yes. No, except if the software was made for Unity (e.g. Unity Tweak Tool) Yes.
Chase Fisher
Default.
Levi Jackson
I do. Full time Linux only since 2011.
Mason Harris
Can everyone please stop recommending unetbootin forever? Thanks
Isaiah Russell
4 months Linux only, no Wine, no Windows. Going to reinstall Win7 just for occasional video games because I've played nothing but Mines and Supertuxkart since then.
Elijah Anderson
I don't think anyone here has ever recommended unetbootin.
Cameron Cook
>4 months Linux only, no Wine, no Windows. >Going to reinstall Win7 just for occasional video games because I've played nothing but Mines and Supertuxkart since then. There are quite a few decent GNU/Linux games on GOG.
Jason King
I know, but none of my favorites are.
Bentley Torres
Clarification: most of my favorites are on GOG, but only for Windows.
Jason Moore
Happens, you can slowly make it better by not buying games without native ports in the future.
Hudson Ward
Try to stop me. If we're lucky we'll get more games using an open API in the future so chances are ports for Linux become more common. Until then, I don't want to miss my favorites that I already bought.
James Morales
I have Manjaro installed on the testing branch, but I noticed that screenfetch never updates the OS version even though I'm updating to new release versions of Manjaro. Is it just a bug with screenfetch or what?
Logan Collins
I'm using gentoo as my main op, comfy as fuck
Nolan Garcia
I know it exists because I've heard people talk about it, but is there a specific name for a program where you serve music from your computer and stream them onto your device over your network? This isn't MPD, is it? Would MPD's documentation tell me how to do this?
Ryder Hernandez
KDE but only because >muh thumbnails Aside from that Xfce
Nolan Nguyen
the one I'm using.
Gavin Garcia
i like GNOME as an DE but prefer to use dwm
Jacob James
new here
vulkan going to happen or nah?
photoshop port ever happening in your opinion?
approx how many simple windows programs work with wine?
thanks in advance
Camden Wood
What is it about networking that makes it so exhausting? How else would I learn why I can't access my Apache server from my phone? What's your favorite Linux networking book?
Levi Sanchez
>vulkan going to happen or nah? Yes >photoshop port ever happening in your opinion? No >approx how many simple windows programs work with wine? What do you mean with how many? If they're simple then they would probably work but I've never used wine so I'm not sure.
Joshua Richardson
>vulkan going to happen or nah? already happening big time, read about how many engines already implemented it or are working on it. >photoshop port ever happening in your opinion? hopefully not >approx how many simple windows programs work with wine? a metric fuckton, but why would you use them if you have well maintained native programs?
Carter Butler
Learn generic application names and you won't need to practice brand worship. Now answer my question.
Wyatt Rodriguez
why is my virtualbox so slow?
Adrian Foster
>? bacause you use the wrong settings or a shitty virtualbox? what are you trying to do, on what, how and what do you expect?
Leo Butler
The answer to your question is the fact that you have to ask it.
Ryder Hernandez
Ok guys, I've dabbled in Linux before, I use it a work and I'm not scared at all by CLI, I own a dedicaded server\seedbox, etc.
I never installed on my home destkop though and I want to change that. The reason I stuck with Windows is basically photo editing and (not now, but possibly in the future) video editing. Now I've got a couple of days to set it all up and I want to use it at home basically to have better integration with my seedbox (for example running rsync scripts, sshfs).
What would you do? Dual boot or install W7 in a virtual machine? My sistem is extremely low power (AMD A8, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB 840 PRO + a couple of HDD) so I'm not sure a virtual machine will work smoothly.
Cooper Hill
cinnamon mint current version oracle VM virtualbox i expected 80-90% speed of my current dekstop, what i got was around 30%. also firefox wouldn't open.
Adrian Wright
friendly linux thread friendly
Brayden Gutierrez
>oracle VM virtualbox try quemu-kvm, 90% in a VM is unrealistic if you have nothing to pass through.
Colton Barnes
Your hardware is shit but virtual machines are also not that great. Try dual booting.
Jaxson Rivera
Don't install Windows in a VM for photo and video editing, the performance would be too bad. Dual booting would be a better option.
Oliver Richardson
Use different programs for editing. Blender, GIMP, inkscape, krita, cinelarra. This way you can just ditch windows. There is a high chance you will adjust to them sometime anyway so why not do it now?
Whats going on? Please help me fglt, you are my only hope.
Levi Hughes
Does this happen in Windows? If so, you probably have a hardware problem in either your wifi card or the access point.
Nathaniel Powell
The access point is fine (none of my other devices disconnect)
>Windows I don't own a copy of Windows.
Oliver Butler
Can you tell us what chip that is? Maybe there is some info about it somewhere.
Matthew Bailey
lshw says it's a BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
Matthew Edwards
>It was interesting to scroll through the BST thread and notice that literally nobody in them is running Linux. What gives? Welcome to neo Sup Forums, aka Sup Forums's toilet, and because Sup Forums doesn't know anything about tech in general, they buy hardware and circlejerk about GPUs, speccy and battlestations, create nothing to hide threads and post frogs.
Dominic Diaz
/desktop thread/ actually got 99% GNU/Linux users
Nolan Campbell
What's a good music player that is similar to musicbee?
In particular I'm looking for something that can import all my playlists and also keep them in their corresponding folders.
John Hughes
I've just been using foobar in wine. Kill me.
Camden Green
toss-up whether to ask this in /sqt/ or /flgt/
I have a flash drive that I've used for years to install various Linux images as well as everyday file transfer. Every now and then it gets fucked up because I've messed with the boot record or the partitions and the easiest way to make it Windows-readable again is just to completely format it from Windows.
This time though, Windows isn't recognizing it at all - doesn't show up in explorer, or in the Disk Management graphic tool, or the diskpart command line utility. BUT Linux recognizes it, mounts it, and reads and writes it just fine - so I'm fairly sure the drive isn't dead.
What I have to work with: a little bit fucked up default install of Ubuntu 16.04 (installed it on old computer and then immediately started bootstrapping Arch from it, computer froze, force restarted, it said something about an emergency and dropped me into the Ubuntu root shell and X and the the network appear to be broken but everything else works) and Windows 10.
What I'm trying to do: get the flash drive recognizable by Windows so I can use Windows to install a Linux rescue image on it that has network connectivity so I can keep going with the arch bootstrap.
What I've tried:
$ sgdisk --zap-all /dev/sdf # destroy the GPT and MBR data structures and exit.
result: "Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format in memory... GPT data structures destroyed! You may now partition the disk using fdisk or other utilities."
$ parted /dev/sdf mklabel msdos # create a new MBR/msdos partition table for BIOS systems $ parted /dev/sdf mkpart primary fat32 1MiB 100% # create a fat32 primary partition that fills the disk
didn't result in a readable drive in windows though. I also tried again using the --zap flag for sgdisk (delete only GPT, not MBR structures) but no go. I know my windows machine boots with MBR/BIOS, not GPT/UEFI, but idk if that matters on removable media.
Any suggestions?
Anthony Sanders
Xfce
Oliver Howard
Can someone help me find a LUKS cryptsetup tutorial to encrypt my Linux install
Camden Phillips
when does the new BLAG drop? ive been waiting for awhile despite it saying "coming soon", and the forum is a ghost town. worth the wait or try something else?
Dominic Bell
bump
Chase Carter
Why i cant use ssh user@server on Arch why anons, tell me, why
Christopher Richardson
I wouldn't count on it, shit's dead
Lucas Reyes
How about actually saying what the error is
Joseph Smith
it was not installed he he he he he he
Brody Green
but you can tell me how to mount server folder on my hdd, i forgot how that was done
Lincoln Walker
haHAA! xD
Noah Walker
try checking in /dpt/ instead, because you would need to be retarded to program on windows
BST is closeted Sup Forums
Nathaniel Rodriguez
What is Sup Forums's opinion on Pepper Flash Player (PPAPI) for a Chromium based browser, and the freshplayer plugin for Firefox. Are they safe alternatives or should they be avoided altogether?
Ryder Wright
purge all traces of flash
Joseph Ortiz
So, I wanted to play some all the Pokemon games. Could you guys suggest me a good Game Boy emulator that work on Ubuntu?
Jack Edwards
What's a good Linux OS for a beginner trying to learn the OS for Linux+?
Michael Hernandez
Ubuntu.
Christian Myers
I still don't get it, why won't keepassx2 work on my system. I've literally made dummy databases with one character passwords and it always claims that I have the wrong key or that it is corrupt. Repairing them never works. I don't want to be stuck on version 0.4.
- remove chromium. realize that all current browsers are trash and install the lesser evil: firefox nightly, tweak your about:config to make it secure
- don't use flash, you don't need it since 90% of the web switched to html5 and opening security holes on your pc for 10% of retarded webdevs isn't worth the hassle
- use mpv to stream your shit, it's the most comfy way to enjoy streams without useless flash cpu cycles and related garbage
