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On a scale of 1 to 10 how big a pain in the dick is it to use Gentoo as your main OS? (Mint being about a 2)
Used Mint for the past year and want something that'll allow me to learn more about Linux.
What should I go for? Gentoo or something else?
Xavier Foster
>Mint >2
Gentoo would be 8
James Sanders
Only correct answer
My distro >>> every other distro
Gabriel Mitchell
USE VOID .....VOID -VOID VOID
Jayden James
Linux from scratch would be a 20.
Dylan Perez
Start using the terminal for everything and learn shell scripting. The more you learn about what program does what and how, the more you learn what your system actually does.
Alexander Watson
Shit, fucked that up Note, use void if you want but I dont It seems neat but im just memeing because its 'obscure', apparantly
Ryder Morris
Gentoo isn't that hard, but it's tedious to update. You could go for something like Arch, but you'll get meme'd on.
Kevin Turner
TempleOS
Levi Phillips
So what would be like 5 or 6?
I can use bash well, about 50% of my job involves using the terminal, so all good on that front, but I don't get much of what goes on under the hood (i.e. how the OS actually works, what makes what function, etc)
Austin Miller
In that case, you could really try Linux From Scratch. It's like a toy that guides you to build your own kernel.
Isaiah Garcia
I installed funtoo today. It wasn't that hard to install but it took a lot of time to compile xorg, like really.
How often do I need to emerge world?
Zachary Smith
>Void Why is Sup Forums filled with the new kind of hipsters? >Wake up in the morning >Go back to the terminal you left open last night for increased uptime and powerlevel
>It's Void Linux with no Xorg
>Runit instead of Systemd >LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL >Clang instead of GCC >Musl instead of glibc or >Uclibc instead of libc >Busybox instead of coreutils >ZSH instead of bash >rEFIt instead of grub >Patrician ed instead of nano >Screeny instead of screenfetch >Wicd instead of Network Manager >Organic water instead of tap water
>Compile herbslutwm and install vivaldi >Go to Sup Forums, browse /soc/
>Manages to chat with a "fem"user >"What do you do in leisure?" >My choices of entertainment are somewhat recherché >"Tell me more" >Euphoric.gif >Eat no proteins, only dead, organic vegetables >I prefer Ballad to what you call "mainstream songs" >I don't like smokers, I prefer vaping, guilty charged >I own a Penny-farthing vélocipède for transportation >femanon freaks out and stops responding
>Fuck systemd botnet >Fuck bash, noob >Fuck GNU >lol are you still using gcc in $currentyear? >I personally use BSD for my primary operating system >Muh Unix >Muh philosophy
ISHYGDDT
Liam Evans
That'd be Arch or debian
Friendly advice: LFS would be 12-14
Jeremiah Bailey
Beautiful, the memers arrived.
R.I.P. thread
Mason Adams
Oh that's cool, I never saw this exact same post before.
Evan Reyes
This picture is misleading. Only Archkids are acting toxic here, Debian users are usually calm.
Adam Martinez
Debian users get pretty mad pretty easily.
Xavier Howard
>Debian users are usually calm. lmao
Ian Cooper
Are there good password managers on Linux?
Justin Brown
just use a text editor
Aaron Anderson
It needs a third Gentoo guy, standing in the background, with smug face.
gpg
Robert Green
is wayland useable, Sup Forums?
Connor Gray
KeePassX. >being a nonexistent gentoo guy
Jace Morales
Debian
David Rivera
>Void of packages* [obligatory post]
Jonathan Davis
What about a Fedora guy?
Luis Sanders
if Sup Forums wouldn't make fun of you would you just use ubuntu (or xubuntu if you have taste)?
Ryan Clark
Nobody is using Fedora. I dislike Canonicals philosophy, but I'd suggest Ubuntu over Mint.
Mason Cook
Is KeepassDroid also good? Or should I use something else if I want it on my phone?
Ryan Jenkins
Fedora ppl don't normally get into the retard distrophelia flame wars. The Fedora guy was off doing something else when this picture was taken.
Charles Reyes
Seriously. Use a text file and encrypt it with gpg. Text files don't have security holes.
Ryan Thomas
For netbook use, sure. (no video demanding software) It still performs worse in everything, though.
Xavier Thompson
yup
Hunter Martin
I hate canonical and I prefer gentoo anyway. eselect is awesome. Can't live without it.
Jack Nelson
Anything to generate passwords then?
Chase Ramirez
< /dev/urandom tr -dc "a-zA-Z0-9" | head -c 10
Kayden Baker
What is causing these glitches in video in chromium? I haven't noticed it in youtube it seems to only happen with webm or gifv
what did canonical ever do to you? note that muh freedoms is not a valid argument you all have and use google or apple phones
Jace Moore
What are some ways of reducing battery drain of my x230? I already installed and configured tlp. What else can I do?
Christian Cox
Being Microsoft partners, being the first in the Linux world who put spyware on a distro, destroying everything by porting Ubuntu to Windows 10, everything for market share.
Adam Rivera
They proved they care more about revenue than privacy. Besides ubuntu is a steaming pile of garbage. 16.04 is the worst yet, so many issues flooding this board. The only comparable thing is debian, which is also a steaming pile of garbage. You can argue that it's because they're popular, but I really think they're just shit. And I was a debian user for 10 years.
Isaac Wright
I use searx. I don't own a phone. Freedom makes you free.
Blame dict/words. ;_; Btw, there are subdirectories if you need non amerifat words.
Joseph Hill
I own a phone because I was bullied by my family that I "needed" one. It bricked itself and now I'm fighting off bullying to get it fixed. I just don't care about it, and barley ever used it. Might just get a dumbphone replacement to shut them up. I was not impressed by android and it's spying features. Kind of glad it's dead.
Leo Taylor
I'm on 16.04. Literally zero problems yet. Xubuntu though.
Aaron Kelly
>There's more people shitposting about Arch kiddies than actual Arch kiddies
Really makes u think...
Liam Cruz
Don't start it again faggot.
Grayson Rogers
> set up grub on external flash drive > it works > reboot computer > stick flash drive in after power down > power up > no bootable device
... why? I set it all up right and it worked on multiple reboots when I started out. Why did it shit the bed now? Why does my computer hate me this much?
Arch Linux BTW.
Isaiah Johnson
What's a flash drive?
Jace Richardson
Did you just call me fat?
Charles Collins
I have little personal experience with it, so I'm going off of that. My mouse died the minute I installed 16.04, though. It's probably a coincidence, but it made me mad just the same. Debian though, it gets worse and worse. it used to be good but now everytime I use it I run into so much shit with apt (all fixable, but still) that I just decided to stop. Haven't had many issues with portage. Sometimes you have to fuck around with use flags but that's just how portage works. None of that "lol, is it okay if I remove your whole fucking system on an upgrade?" shit that apt has. Keep in mind this is debian sid I'm talking about, stable debian is still good.
Benjamin Ross
A USB stick.
An external storage device that one plugs into the computer via a USB port.
Like if you need to move files from one computer to another or just want a quick, easy backup.
In the interests of full disclosure, I will tell you it's partitioned like
> sdx1: big ext4 partition > sdx2: ext2 partition mounted on /boot > sdx3: fat32 partition mounted on /boot/efi
I reiterate, this was working fine yesterday and I changed NOTHING. It just shat the bed for no reason at all.
wayland offers nothing to end users. It's existence is only because people are getting too lazy to maintain X code.
Luis Roberts
"x package has broken x, lol sorry" "REmove: xorg, systemd, etc?" after "apt-get dist upgrade, (now apt full-upgrade). CANT REMOVE PACKAGES WITH DEPENDENCIES EVEN WITH AUTOREMOVE.
Ian Brooks
I was watching a video about the xserver and wayland, and accidentally said x instead of apt in the first line.
Evan Cook
Thoughts on Alpine?
Caleb Reyes
Meme. There's nothing wrong with gnu.
Eli Jones
Never encountered such problems. And when those problems happen, it was usually the users fault for broking something beforehand.
Regarding upgrading the system, it's usually the above thing all over again. Dumb user accidentaly removes a needed file, etc etc
Justin James
I decided to give debian another chance yesterday. I installed stable, changed my sources.list (after updating to latest stable first) and ran apt full-upgrade.
Apt broke itself. System became unuseable completely, and had to reinstall stable (in order to install a different distro).
Tyler Gray
Why did you change sources.list?
Benjamin Baker
>lying on the internet to make debian look bad Is this the next step? Jesus christ.
Xavier Fisher
To install sid instead of stable, sherlock. It happened faggot.
Parker Williams
How much RAM can one expect a VPN server to use up?
Blake Baker
dumb facebook frog poster
Parker Peterson
>IRC channel on Freenode
Why aren't you on Rizon?
Zachary Miller
What's a fun thing to do with a ricebox that's console heavy?
Colton Miller
I read 2 threads ago that the channel has nothing to do with the thread or something like that.
Elijah Nguyen
How do I compile a terminal application to install on a bsd machine?
Lucas James
huh
They should be on Rizon because that's where all of the other Sup Forums and Sup Forums-related channels are. That way you get crossovers.
Oliver Cooper
Yes. I wouldn't have been able to install Linux at all if I didn't.
I can boot into liveUSBs with no problem. I could just reinstall grub from the liveUSB (something I did last time I tried this method, two years ago) but I do not want to have to go to that trouble. This should just werk.
I need this computer for school. I no longer have the time to fuck around with my bootloader and waste whole days troubleshooting.
Ryan Lopez
1. I seriously have more problems with Windows 7 than Gentoo. Although setting Gentoo up does take a bit of time.
While I have had problems, in comparison to any other operating systems there are less, and easier to fix.
Nathan Evans
is there a way to remove this bar in firefox? I hate it, it makes the firefox bar too thick.
Hudson Jackson
The flt channel gets redirected to the sqt channel.
Parker Bailey
That's your window manager.
Nathaniel King
Get a new theme
Austin Howard
chrome doesn't have an extra bar to manage the window.
Nolan Wood
There's an official add-on to fix this, I just can't remember the name.
Ryder Reed
Because chrome is bloated. Use Openbox, it lets you remove it.
Andrew Watson
thank you user =)
Joshua Adams
Try beyond australis
Jose Martinez
>Initial Installation and Setup 8 >Maintaining It 5 >Uh oh, I messed something up 10
