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I posted this in the other thread. Can anyone help?
Andrew Myers
Reminder we have two threads on /t/ - Torrents
Training videos for GNU/Linux (torrents) Ported videogames (torrents) We need a thread on /vg/ for gaymers because year of the GNU/Linux desktop motherfuckers, here is the pasta pastebin.com/7Xzi8e2H
Nolan Parker
rare stallman incoming
Isaiah Wilson
Fuck off with this shit
Asher Taylor
>Broken CrunchBang login. What do? Can you login via the virtual terminal, or some form of recovery? Hopefully there's some way to access your files, if your #! is irreversibly broken.
I'm sure you saw the big goodbye post the #! author made where he recommended Debian as an appropriate alternative. It's pretty simple to do a minimal install and then use a WM similar to #!.
Carson Flores
i think i have breast cancer
Hunter Ross
Friendly thread.
Matthew Jenkins
I'm not that guy, but I like that he posts them. There isn't enough Linux gaming info/sources out there. Also what said.
Grayson Hill
When someone posts a reminder to links which are 2 posts above his own I stop being friendly.
People who play games and want to talk about that do so in the threads for the games, the Linux gaming thread would only be useful as a tech-support thread, and as such has no place on /vg/ or Sup Forums
Colton Brooks
>implying people can't be updated when new content appears >implying /fglt/ doesn't help each other too
Nathan Hill
threadly reminder to support a libre, crowd sourced computer.
I'm looking for a new distro currently but am having trouble choosing. I want something that isn't completely advanced like Arch but can still be customized to be very secure. I would choose Debian but here most of the packages on there are incredibly outdated so it's making me rethink my decision. Any other recommendations?
Connor Nelson
just use the more up to date repos on debian, and you'll be fine.
Gabriel Ward
>completely advanced like Arch Arch isn't more advanced than others
>can still be customized to be very secure. Any distro should be able to do that.
>most of the packages on there are incredibly outdated Don't use stable
Grayson Butler
How would I go about doing that? Sorry, I'm a complete fucking noob.
Jason Howard
Use Debian, edit one text file, have fresh packages just like Arch.
Michael Clark
openSUSE Tumbleweed is very up-to-date (more bleeding edge than Arch in some cases) while being retard proof and out of the box.
I don't use it because of the bloat but it gives you a lot of options.
(basically you replace ALL instances of "jessie" with "testing" in the /etc/apt/sources.list and then 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade', but there are other things to be aware of, so you should still read that page)
Kayden Powell
Manjaro?
Jacob Martin
If someone could answer this it would be awesome. It's such an annoying issue.
Isaiah Roberts
This is the kind of think I ask to be reminded often.
I am serious when I say you should post this on every thread.
Asher Nguyen
whats that
William Foster
>CortexA7 dual-core What were they thinking?
Charles Perry
I think everyone here has seen your post, bro. I don't think it's a very common issue, so no one has a solution for you. It's probably related to a package that got updated, or a driver issue, or your hardware. But who knows? I'm just guessing.
Does it still happen when you reboot? Is it only the terminal that leaves this trailing effect? When did it start happening?
Aiden Cox
How do I use an autism font with urxvt?
Downloaded the tewi font from lucy-overlay in gentoo and want to use it with urxvt
What lines do I add to ~/.Xresources?
Tyler Price
It's happened since I decided to use OpenBox instead of Plasma as a window manager. It was happening the moment I installed Arch which was a week ago. It happens to every window; they just leave a trail behind for a very short amount of time. Rebooting does not fix it. It also sometimes fixes itself where it doesn't happen at all, and then there are moments where it just won't stop leaving trails.
Cooper Young
Hello friends. What's your preferred way of backing up your system?
I'm running Debian Testing, and I'd like to be able to reinstall the entire system exactly as it is via a USB or single file in case something goes wrong. Is this possible?
>use OpenBox instead of Plasma as a window manager. That might be the problem
Kevin Ward
Perfect, thanks. So just to clarify, in order to restore my system, I would do as minimal of an install as possible, and then tar -xvpf /fullbackup.tar to put all my files back?
Brody Torres
>tar >works with more than debian who woulda thunk it.
Eli Torres
xft:Tewi:pixelsize=11:antialias=false
Gavin Moore
Make sure you have enabled bitmap fonts. Check the copypasta in the OP for how to enable them.
Chase Long
>can install gentoo >can't install a font wut
Logan Peterson
with gentoo I just delete everything except the folders excluded and untar it with a livecd tbqh
it's as full of a backup as possible, exclude home if you want to keep that in a different backup or don't want to delete
I know, right?
Thanks family
Jordan Smith
How is Manjaro in current year? Is it more comfy than Arch? I don't want to have to "maintain" my system as I have actual work to do, but I would like to stay relatively up-to-date and have a lot of packages available to me.
Caleb Russell
Even retards can install Gentoo
Anthony Carter
>I just delete everything except the folders excluded and untar it with a livecd tbqh Will do. I love that everything is a file in Lunix.
Samuel Johnson
>Lunix what did she mean by this??
Gabriel Turner
>I don't want to have to "maintain" my system I can't follow you, what do you mean?
Christian Watson
check Arch news every time I want to update my system
deal with breakage
Parker Garcia
I just misspelled it on purpose, it doesn't mean anything, but apparently it's a real thing already: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUnix
Christian Ward
how do i figure out which login manager im using?
Jackson Parker
Get an external drive and set something up to clone your main one at the end of each day or whatever.
I freely admit I don't know how to do that. Something about shell scripts and polkit rules.
Jaxon Phillips
Post a screenshot of it, and we can tell you?
Connor Mitchell
does anyone know if it's possible to enable gallium nine on a per-executable basis?
Hudson Gonzalez
Running pacman -Syu once a week is considered maintainence?
Gavin Roberts
I can do that in Manjaro as well.
Benjamin Martin
So what's the issue? Either try arch or fuck off.
Carter Phillips
What is the most stable linux distro? And what is the cleanest windowmanager, that has the taskbar etc. on bottom?
Nathaniel Williams
depends on your distribution for debian based look in /etc/X11/default-display-manager for RHEL / fedore /etc/sysconfig/desktop for suse /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager
Grayson Allen
> a just werks distribution Can't speak to Manjaro, but any of the *buntus and Fedora are good in that capacity. Or Debian, but you have to use Testing or Sid if you want to have anything resembling a current year system.
Bentley Wood
>the Arch community
Another reason not to use Arch.
Ian Flores
> most stable
Probably Debian Stable, but it's boring and outdated.
Cameron Thomas
I'll bite. What should I have said?
Adam Lewis
Agreed. I was honestly shocked at how terrible the Arch community is.
Bentley Gray
I simply asked how Manjaro was and alluded to the well-known fact that Arch isn't the most stable distribution out there. It's not my fault that you got triggered and upset.
Jayden Harris
default kde is pretty ugly. what themes does Sup Forums use?
Colton Cook
My downloads are slower on linux any ideas on why?
Luis Phillips
we don't use kde so we don't have that problem
John Adams
systemctl | grep .service
will list all services including your login managers service
Elijah Hughes
More stable than Manjaro.
Asher Wilson
you on wifi? linux might not have the best available drivers for your wifi card
Andrew Brown
Is that a documented case or is that guy just making it up? That seems like it would be a major error.
Ian Morgan
Nah on ethernet
Ryan Wilson
I want to give Arch Linux a shot, do I go with the regular one or try Manjaro or Antergos?
Adam Hernandez
If you have some experience with Arch Linux, then I'd say go balls deep and try straight up Arch Linux.
If you're trying Arch for the first time. My recommendation would be Antergos, it's basically an Arch Linux installer, so you get the feel of arch without having to go through the trouble of installing it for the first time. Once you're more experienced, then you can install plain Arch.
John Butler
If you want to try Arch you should start with installing Arch. You're not gonna try out Debian by installing Ubuntu either.
Jeremiah Evans
Should I use XFCE? I am going to put ubuntu on my laptop, and would like a nice, customizable, clean windowmanager.
Ryan Martinez
XFCE is a DE, not a WM.
Josiah Nelson
If you're going for XFCE, just install Xubuntu
For what you're looking for. XFCE does sound like a good choice for you. Another decent option to look into would be Cinnamon.
Jacob Nguyen
i just installed did a fresh install of xubuntu on my laptop xfce is very fast and customizable. Would recommend
Jace Gomez
Just using anecdotal evidence like you.
Robert Rodriguez
Manjaro's reputation was murdered for the expired SSL certificate fiasco. If they were responsible for what that guy is claiming nobody would be using it anymore.
Nicholas Foster
And if Arch is as unstable as you make it out to be no one would be using it, yet it is one of the most popular distros on Sup Forums. I goes as far to argue it's even more stable than Debian testing.
To be fair Sup Forums is far from a collection of average computer users. It's a collection of tech enthusiasts, so it's to be expected that some unstable software would be supported by enthusiasts. Sup Forums isn't the pulse of the Linux community.
Jaxson Jones
Sup Forums is a collection of frogposting windows users, maybe 10% is using linux overall
Jose Clark
>buy thinkpad >buy SSD >install ubuntu >get used to it >install audacious around 5 minutes ago >discover it has winamp theme compatibility
How can I finally be free from microsoft? The only reason I don't use thi machine all the time is because I occasionally go back to type out an essay on my old windows machine with Word.
Can usb devices be accessed from within a virtual machine? If so, I think I'll be able to switch for good.
Daniel Bennett
>Can usb devices be accessed from within a virtual machine? Yes.
John Martinez
>yet it is one of the most popular distros on Sup Forums monkeys following the herd The lack of a graphical installer doesn't make a distro magically better than others, but it makes you cool.
Juan Jenkins
WTF I hate Arch now!
James Morris
If I map my network drive by using the system's IP address then won't that fuck up as soon as DHCP refreshes?
have been using Ubuntu quite a lot about 5..10 years ago, then they switched GUIs (from Gnome to Unity I guess - excuse inexact terms, I'm not up to date on terminology) I didn't like that, so I switched to using Ubuntu+Gnome shell
used that for some more time tried installing plain Ubuntu, then Ubuntu+Gnome just now (16.04 both), didn't like both
any recommendations - should I try Ubuntu MATE? Seems they stick to old ways I considered Xubuntu/Lubuntu as well
inexperienced to mid-level user
Isaiah Johnson
>word 1. you could use playonlinux, it works almost perfectly (some of the extra copy paste functionality doesn't work because nothing on linux uses that) 2. you could use something else. kile is a much better alternative IMO.
Dualbooting is a waste of time and virtual machines uses too much resources.
Angel Torres
>any distributive that doesn't use any newfangled layouts, just some good old desktop/panels/dropdown start menu? for the last time DE != distribution
Oliver Ross
Isn't the Linux community a collection of tech enthusiasts?
Jeremiah Collins
What's with all this Linux Mint cancer? If you want an Ubuntu derived distro, go wit Bodhi or Trisquel.
Bodhi doesn't come with anything but a web browser, file manager, terminal emulator, and an image viewer if I remember correctly. It's based on stable Ubuntu LTS. It has it's own DE which I don't like, but the point of Bodhi is you generally get to build your distro from the waist up, instead of the ground up, ideally for newcomers that don't want a lot of bloat that "noob" distros add. It's community is also full of older people who have decades of experience with linux, not some underage frog poster on Sup Forums that uses Arch with anime wallpapers and i3.
Trisquel comes with more bloat, but it's a fully free distrobution.
Carson Kelly
Are all Arch kiddies this sensitive?
I'm not claiming that Arch is flat out unstable, but Manjaro lags a week or two behind Arch for testing. It should theoretically be more stable. That's why I'm asking this thread about their experiences with Manjaro.
Jonathan White
I thought about going the wine route, but I don't know if I want to. Doesn't enabling usage of windows programs pose a security risk?
Would I be okay on my t430 with 8gb of ram for a vm, or should I get 16gb of ram?
Zachary Cox
>Are all Arch kiddies this sensitive? No, just me. I'm a special snowflake.
Adrian Foster
People go to distrowatch and pick a distro on rank 1-5. The mint hack basically made Mint even more popular, kek.
