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Do I honestly need a swap partition with 8 GB of RAM?
Brandon Hill
OpenSUSE Leap: is there any way I can change my laptop fan activity to something the equivalent of the "passive" setting found in windows power management?
Logan Price
swap = ram size *1,5
Jack Martin
Thanks, I'll go with 12 GB swap partition. Thank you.
William Green
i dont have wifi icon in my tray, i instaleld nm-applet but it is not running. Arch Linux, Gnome what do i do anons?
David Lopez
Isn't that only if you suspend? Otherwise, isn't it, in general, like .25 to 1.5 depending on whether or not you suspend your computer?
Nolan Foster
Asking too since I just switched to fish since I'm a huge faggot
Caleb Ortiz
is the service running/enabled?
Angel Reed
> meme shell zsh and bash are both pretty similar. They use the same sets of commands, it's just aesthetics and speed.
As for wms, I'm sure I don't know. I use Cinnamon DE.
ye, wifi is working just, if i want to connect i need to go sudo wifi-menu
Juan Stewart
I'll just give it swap partition incase I happen to run out of the 8 GB of RAM.
Liam Lee
OpenSUSE.
Not even once.
Jose Russell
Install Ubuntu.
Kayden Murphy
i have 4 gigs of ram and 6 of swap
Jonathan Harris
set up bash once and now i just scp/rsync the stuff to new machines.
could do the same with zsh, but eh. there is also bash-it/oh-my-zsh
Luis Fisher
Is there any reason I shouldn't install debian testing from an iso?
Dylan Jones
You dont need any
Connor Cook
Yes.
Christian Roberts
Why?
Am I going to get something out of installing stable then updating the source list?
Daniel Gomez
It will take a minimal amount of time so you may as well try. I'd like to know why Windows isn't responding once you've loaded the install media, but that's out of the scope of this thread desu
Asking again; How do I manage my library in Sonata? I have it configured to a folder with music in it but when I press update library nothing happens.
Ryder Evans
i had it for 2 years, it is time for changes
Ryan Williams
I have to disagree. In multiple distros I have experienced complete system lock ups from using 4gb ram with no swap. Only while using chrome, but all of the distros crashed once I tried to use more ram than was available by accident.
Mason King
>change for change's sake
Michael Phillips
V
Josiah Anderson
>tfw no gnu/boyfriend because not homo
does a gnu/girlfriend exist?
Cooper Davis
nope
I could see someone changing from Ubuntu because there is a better distro to suit their needs, but changing just to change is retarded tbqh family
Caleb Stewart
underrated
maybe
Kevin Gomez
ugh, might as well go the bf route.
Christian Bailey
>not homo >current year I thought everyone in tech is a trap/crossdresser anyway
Jose Baker
fucking SINNERS!
Kevin Nguyen
Why is this the only copy of this image on the internet? Source?
is the thinkpad with lainchan sticker shopped in? elbow looks weird
Tyler Price
kys
Dominic Reed
because friendly thread
David Clark
she ugly af
Henry Sanders
>she
Nathaniel Jackson
What's wrong with openSUSE?
Owen Ward
Do you speak english?
Owen Wilson
chek priblig
Jeremiah Rogers
Is there any reliable confirmation thats a man?
Joshua Baker
the logo
Samuel Wilson
please more
if i saw her with that shirt and laptop in one of my classes i would be way too nervous to say hi
Jaxon Peterson
>lowercase english
Jacob Roberts
What's the worst meme you can fall for? I fell pretty hard for the "WM are more productive" shit. You just spend hours configuring, when a DE just werks and gets the job done.
Ian Nelson
>What's the worst meme you can fall for? Arch Linux, being simple and lightweight
Austin Price
I fell for this meme. I have salvaged the situation by deciding simply to never update my system again as then nothing will ever break.
Kevin Robinson
I tried to install xorg.conf with recovery mode by I couldnt figure it out.And now I cant change back to proprietary drivers in additional drivers.How can I delete xorg and install proprietary drivers ?I am using elementary 0.3 64 bit and my gpu is a ATI 7870xt
Kevin Brown
Arch is quite comfy actually. I also like pacman. It's a shame that it has no LTS repo. But their philosophy of vanilla packages makes sense
Ethan Jackson
"LTS" and "stable". Pretty much all newfriends fall for it and end up with outdated packages.
Brayden Nguyen
user, really
i'm assuming you have network manager installed so just follow the wiki since it will show you how to do it
brain.exe, not even trolling, some years ago a human was able to remember up to 25 phone numbers.
Christian Watson
>tfw my memory place is a roadside shack
That's basically pass pham.
Zachary Jenkins
Knowing what packages you are attempting to install will help. But no, i dont get that message installing anything from aur.
Your fakeroot is fucked
Bentley Davis
trying to install chromium-pepper-flash. Also happened when installing cower
Dylan Sullivan
I should note it installs fine, just with those messages.
Logan Watson
I-I'm really liking Ubuntu lads
David Johnson
What's wrong with bread crusts?
Angel Davis
Get this degenerate shit out of here
Luke Hall
Unity never ceases to be horrendously ugly.
Daniel Myers
Google's servers are probably more secure than my laptop. I know next to knowthing about iptables etc. and keeping my laptop secure.
Adam Allen
She's very shy user
Joseph Hill
And what does that have to do with bread crusts?
Jacob Cooper
Is that supposed to be Trudeau? Kek
Luke Brooks
> update bios > get fedora KDE spin to boot liveusb > install > process goes swimmingly > reboot > no bootable device
I guess I'm trying another distro or at least another spin.
Once I'm done crying.
Leo Reyes
Why do people even try that garbage?
Luke Johnson
Literally nothing wrong with using it
Austin Williams
Is that a lord of the rings reference perhaps?? Nerds unite! xD
Jason Perez
Nothing
Andrew King
> been using it with no problem for three years
Because it just werked until now.
Liam Ross
>Google's servers are probably more secure than my laptop. Google spies its users. Your laptop spies you?
Grayson Jackson
> weebshit
Stop triggering me.
Dominic Foster
Okay then answer the question, what's wrong with bread crusts?
Elijah Ward
I'm talking about some hacker getting hold of my database and fucking with my accounts.
Aaron Brooks
>does a gnu/girlfriend exist? yes and that's funny.
Jordan Smith
Why worry about hackers? Have you already been hacked?
What I know is that you're a target for unlimited vigilance if you don't care about Google/NSA/every advertiser on the world checking your data.
Kayden Rivera
the question isn't with fedora, but with you
Ian Miller
>Not just using the bread crusts for fries Git gud
Connor Martin
Learn safe practices and you'll be fine.
Your chinese comics wont go anywhere.
Noah Hughes
wtf is this only attractive people are allowed to be gay
Elijah Long
>Btrfs RAID 5/6 Code Found To Be Very Unsafe & Will Likely Require A Rewrite >The wrong parity and unrecoverable errors has been confirmed by multiple parties. The Btrfs RAID 5/6 code has been called as much as fatally flawed -- "more or less fatally flawed, and a full scrap and rewrite to an entirely different raid56 mode on-disk format may be necessary to fix it. And what's even clearer is that people /really/ shouldn't be using raid56 mode for anything but testing with throw-away data, at this point. Anything else is simply irresponsible." phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Btrfs-RAID-56-Is-Bad
well I guess I get to buy a few more drives and use ZFS on Linux like you people told me to in the first place.
Cooper Williams
I would fuck her up for being an attention whore.
Lincoln Cox
Too bad you dont have a secure password to your database of random garbage text. If only you were able to have a strong password you could remember
Josiah Watson
>btrfs still being this cucked >ext4 smooth sailing
Andrew Gonzalez
I choose to take that as an empowering statement.
Gavin Thomas
Your shitty installer didnt set a boot device or a bootloader
Dylan Hill
>tfw linux bf
Caleb Carter
That's what I figured. Trying the netinstall.
Otherwise I'm just installing Kubuntu. I'll force myself to like it.
