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>qBittorrent doesn't run in OpenBSD Back to Linux I guess
Carter Gutierrez
Do people who run Windows have a mental deficiency that warrants government assistance? Most Windows users I meat in real life seem to have some form of high-functioning down syndrome. They're able to be taught to use office software and sometimes even to code basic programs, but they can only do it with an IDE that does all the work that requires intelligence for them. Put them in front of a text editor and they shit themselves, they have no idea how to write a program from scratch without a GUI holding their hand. I don't even know how you can call these people real programmers, but I guess if you get paid 25k/year to maintain visual basic programs you're technically a "programmer", even if you can't actually build a program without the IDE....
Nicholas Morales
Okay so, I've still not gotten anywhere with my installation of mint. Even Ubuntu had these issues which is why I've never been able to install Linux on my machine. I've been trying to install it via USB.
> enabled port emulation in bios > unplugged literally everything > tried rufus over universal installer > tried different usb port > tried to disable usb3 controller in bios > tried a different distro (albeit an Ubuntu one) > Google doesn't give any results, error 32 seems to be unique > tried defaults in bios
Julian Diaz
Some people just have other hobbies than tech. Doesn't generally mean that they're stupid.
Bentley Phillips
They have used Windows all their life. Were you clueless when you first encountered an operating system that you were unfamiliar with? Maybe you could help them
Bentley Cruz
also >real programmers no true scotsman fallacy - they meet the criterion for being a programmer if they can program
Owen Parker
How do i merge a subtitles file (srt) into a movie file on linux?
Adam Jenkins
Use WINE
Jack Anderson
ffmpeg wat
Ryan Robinson
Ok I have a thread made on this but I think it's dead now but i can't install ubuntu 16.04 alongside windows 10 it gets me to the "install ubuntu gnome" option and then i just get black screens and nothing happens. this is supposed to be easy...
Elijah Flores
Didn't know ffmpeg could do that, cheers.
Jayden Jenkins
Void Linux
Exherbo
Funtoo
Devuan
Debian and Gentoo are ok if you want to use systemd
Ubuntu and Manjaro are recommended distributions for beginners and for people who just want something out of the box.
Arch Linux is NOT recommended.
David Morris
Just fuck off already
Ian Myers
>Recommend Manjaro >Arch is NOT recommended
Wanna know how I know you are a clueless newfag?
Lincoln Wright
Not friendly
Manjaro is Arch++
Jason Davis
>Manjaro is Arch++ XDDD
Unless you have a proper argument against Arch get the fuck out
Elijah Cook
bump please I want freedom from Windows 10 ;_;
Easton Robinson
>Ubuntu for beginners I like your meme, newbabby. No wonder you recommended all the garbage distros first
Colton Fisher
Dumbfuck.
Nathan Gonzalez
I often ask this same question about people who use a gui on their Linux distro. Linux was never meant to be a desktop machine. Linux is for development and server functionality.
With that being said. You are a high functioning autist.
Isaiah Collins
I've been using ubuntu on and off for a few years, and recently installed it on my main computer. I'm thinking about replacing it with Arch soon.
Daniel Reed
>t. Archbabbys
Jeremiah Mitchell
This is why I don't like GUI installers, they don't give proper error reports
1. On windows 10, defrag HDD 2. Free a 2 partitions, one with 1GiB 3. Start Ubuntu GNOME live ISO 4. Chose "exactly what I want ..." for partitioning 5. Pick the smaller partition (1G) for swap 6. Pick the other one for / 7. Install
It has a GUI installer and leaves you with a nice desktop. You can try Architect as well
Jayden Powell
what this guy said, also make sure your bootloader is installing on the correct drive
the guided partitioning sometimes picks the wrong one which will fuck up your install
Camden Roberts
>the guided partitioning sometimes picks the wrong one That's why I told to use "exactly what I want" or something in the partition menu for manual mountpoints
Ayden Long
Thanks for the suggestions, but I think I will try installing Arch first. If it's too much of a hassle, I will follow your recommendations.
Nathan Allen
Cheers I'll try this out, I really have no idea why this shit is so hard when it shouldn't be
Henry Taylor
UEFI secure boot prevents you from installing unsigned softwares
Aiden Fisher
no systemd
Xavier Cox
fuck off dumb tripfag
Easton Johnson
Again
I am using systemd. Give me one down-to-earth practical reason why should delete systemd from my install.
How are these debunked? Did you even click the link? 0pointer is speaking about different things than suckless.
Andrew Young
No YOU read the article.
And give me why I should remove systemd
Nope, mostly the same. Basically suckless is moaning because systemd doesn't cater to their preference.
Ian Watson
>No counter argument. anti-systemd fags BTFO
Xavier Edwards
tell*
Owen Davis
I have fastboot and secure boot disabled
Lincoln Phillips
Are you a clown? Post anonymously or fuck off.
Jesus christ, they never learn.
Xavier Morgan
Does the problem persist?
This Vegans stop moaning the moment you ask them what systemd can't do that their init can
Thomas Hernandez
runit is faster
Owen Diaz
you should both go back to plebbit
Landon Wood
yup, although I already partitioned my drive before trying to install ubuntu which i think might be a problem so I unpartitioned it so now Windows is allocated to 100% of my drivespace like before (minus a few recovery partitions that windows automatically creates) but This spatry guy in the video says to defragment your drive before you do this all, should I do that if I have an SSD or do I ignore that step?
Charles Harris
No it isn't.
Xavier Perry
> LE REDDIT IS BAD GUYZZ XDDDDDD TOPKEK TOPKEK Come back when you are 18
Jackson Gomez
read Tripfags not welcome.
Oliver Gonzalez
give up, he's one of the oldest and most annoying tripfags, just filter him like everyone
Benjamin Rogers
Yes it is.
Matthew Kelly
Just passing by to thank you for your effort.
Also fuck systemd. I won't argue with trolls.
Camden Campbell
>just filter him That's exactly the reason why we have so many tripfags.
Daniel Wright
Prove it.
David Moore
Runit is objectively faster than systemd.
Parker Perez
...
Cooper Flores
sorry my brutha frum anutha mutha
Jaxon Gonzalez
What is your favorite DE? I really like openbox along with fbpanel.
Mason Gutierrez
Except its not and your wrong, post any activity runit does and I'll show you systemd doing it faster.
I would do the reverse but runit can't do what systemd does so it wouldn't be fair.
Asher Myers
openbox is a wm
Carson Perez
Where do you want to install your Linux? I recommend you install it in you hard disk.
I'd remove those recovery partitions, and follow the video.
Keep your C:\\ in SSD, have a media partition in D:\\ (Hard drive).
The rest of the partitions can be used for swap and /.
If you are still having problems, just run windows in a VM like me, not too bad if you are just running MS Word or Excel
>Can't argue where I'll get rekt
James White
>Gpl licensed, free and open source >"Just werks" >Faster boot process >Eliminates bloat/meme packages
There is NO reason why one should delete systemd from his system. There is nothing systemd can't do what other init systems can.
>Botnet Source is open, show where
>Not Unix Neither is linux
>pottering So what packages did YOU make yesterday?
Xavier Rogers
Nice pasta
Carson Miller
People who like systemd don't understand what an init system actually should do. Systemd isn't an init system, it's bloat, eating up multiple programs which aren't even remotly related to init. Because of this, programmers need to rewrite their programs to target systemd instead of usual init systems, which results in a new standard: GNU/SystemD/Linux.
Nolan Rodriguez
I have 1 drive which is a 500gb ssd and whenever I try to boot from my usb (used unetbootin to create a bootable drive) I get to a screen that asks if I want to try without installing, install, and a few other options...I pick any one of those and I am created with a black screen
Jaxon Lee
>t. guy, not knowing what he's taling about
Jace Gray
>Systemd isn't an init system
Tyler Walker
So how exactly is systemd performing a function like dhcp far more quickly AND EASILY than any dhcp client and operc or runit or whatever bullshit you use bad exactly?
Is it harming the rich ecology of your fucking 30 year old stale utility? Oh god nooooooo!
Wyatt Long
That's not how it works, it's GNU/Linux because people are using the Linux version of a fully functioning GNU OS project
Ayden Murphy
Systemd user here.
What does RMS say about systemd? Any source?
Jaxson Rodriguez
>People who like systemd don't understand what an init system actually should do. I think some of them do, but are too lazy or don't know how to set up an alternative init system, because of this, they defend it.
Ayden Green
He only cares about freedom. Since systemd is free software, he's ok with it.
Robert Rivera
Not dropped then
Leo Jackson
>Linux distributions
Joshua Phillips
It's a software suite that includes an init system.
I just want an init system. I don't want a software suite.
Charles Anderson
What does the software suit contain?
Jackson Clark
A bunch of functionality that he has to add with utilities anyway.
Logan Wilson
Hmm. It's like saying >VLC isn't a video player, it's a software suite with utilities such as screenshooter Yup I'm fine with that
Henry Hernandez
Would you be fine with it if the video files you downloaded required VLC to view?
Jack Howard
I want to bring a portable toaster from 2009 back to life. >2GB ram. >AMD Athlon TF-20 1.60GHz (32-bit) >Running vista I need something light and quick, but clean looking. Any ideas? Overall I'm only planning to use this as a Shit-posting-box and Office Suite. Know of a beginner distro that can get the job done?
Elementary looks nice, but I remember you anons shitting on them over some controversial stuff. Deepin is also very clean, but that too got lots of flack over being Chinese botnet or something? Lubuntoo and LXLE seem to have what I'm looking for, but I really have little idea what the difference is between them. LXLE is a lighter fork of Lubuntoo but has more features?
As long as it's light, clean, ubuntoo/debian based I don't mind trying it. I'm still new to Gnu/Linux, and Ubuntoo and simplicity is still my comfort zone.
Lincoln Perry
Hey VLC is free and open source. If mpv has a wrapper that allows .vlc files it's okay. However, I'd blame the video producer for choosing the most common media player format
Ethan Turner
Not a good comparison at all. It would be like if you were bitching that ffmpeg was encoding mpeg layer 3 instead of lame.
Ayden Clark
/fglt/ - systemd general
Kayden Morgan
>tfw using systemd on gentoo pretty good
Isaiah Wilson
...
Gabriel Thomas
this meme is forced and shit
Ayden Nguyen
Gentoo has better systemd support than any other distro including Fedora.
Parker Jones
Gentoo uses OpenRC you fucking newfag
Blake Barnes
Just use OpenRC
Austin Taylor
go away
Jaxson Taylor
Why in gods name would I want to back to rc script hell??
Nathan Baker
Are you talking about LXDE? Because Lubuntu is a distro, LXDE is a desktop environment.
I personally don't see the point in using Lubuntu, since Ubuntu is kind of a heavy distro, but if you don't want to venture beyond your comfort zone just yet then it's fine.
Landon Nguyen
see
Nathan Wilson
anti-systemd fags BTFO
Joseph Powell
>Are you talking about LXDE? No. LXLE is a distro, based on Lubuntu , that also uses the LXDE desktop environment. It also had me confused when I discovered it.
>I personally don't see the point in using Lubuntu, since Ubuntu is kind of a heavy distro If you have any suggestions I'm willing to listen. I just wanted anyone reading to know my current Linux level, and what I was comfortable with. But feel free to suggest something else.
Juan Lopez
I threw LXLE on my dad's shitty 10 year old computer last year and it's been wonderful for him.
