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Henry Evans
What lightweight distro would you recommend? I've been using arch for almost a year, but due to lack my of experience I managed to fuck it up.
Christopher White
How do you break Arch an entire year in?
Connor Nguyen
This is my compton.conf, are there any other options that might be a good idea?
kkk, how lightweight do you want your distro anyway? Debian level or puppy level?
Nicholas Jenkins
I have an archive encoded with none utf8 character set. How can I unzip it with correct file names, not like 1 ªãàá «¥ªæ?
Wyatt Perry
I'm loving the relevant OP images lately.
Jose Morris
>glx >vsync nice bloat
Samuel Gomez
after doing a quick research, I can't decide between lubuntu or manjaro, I know manjaro is not really lightweight, but I think it would be fine, what do you think about those 2?
Nathaniel Green
I have Android Studio extracted in my home directory.
It runs fine when I execute the .sh file to run it from command line. The emulator works fine, debugging works fine, everything Java related works fine.
But when I create a link in /usr/local/bin and run it through the link, I get pic related. All three variables point to the correct directory, so I don't even fucking know why it's being retarded like this.
Why the hell is this happening?
Adam Thomas
Whatever you do, don't fall for anything Arch. Lubuntu is the obviously better choice here if you like a semi-decent system.
Nathaniel Rogers
Lubuntu is Debian/Ubuntu-based and uses LXDE, Manjaro is Arch-based and primarily uses XFCE (about as lightweight as LXDE), but it has an LXDE flavor if you want. Honestly you could flip a count between the two, but I'd probably go with Lubuntu just because it (probably) has more users and support available.
Jackson Stewart
>lubuntu LXDE is shit >manjaro shitty arch fork
Noah Morris
...
Jayden Torres
Depends if you want newer packages or are fine with Ubuntu's delayed shit.
Personally have been using Antergos(basically same as Manjaro) for a long time and am pretty happy.
Jose Hernandez
man compton
David Davis
I thought Antergos is just an installer?
Levi Morris
It stops the tearing when firefox is scrolling.
Anthony Barnes
It's rebranded Arch for n00bs. Even though arch isn't even hard to install. Gentoo isn't even hard to install, it's just all memes.
Aiden Brooks
Mostly. It also features a repo of their own. Some small packages perhaps.. Not entirely sure, actually.
There's similarly nothing wrong with using Antergos to install Arch. It's a pretty good installer. Goes entirely against the Arch way, however. Not knowing what you're installing, having a full desktop with a preconfigured theme á la Ubuntu.
In the end, it doesn't matter if people use it. Although I don't see why they don't instead use Fedora or Ubuntu if that's what they're after.
Nolan Martin
What if I want newer packages than in Ubuntu but I don't like Red Hat using me as a test beaver?
Camden Phillips
Define newer? Arch only takes the latest stables. Fedora has newer packages, Ubuntu has its devel level and development packages, along with the PPA system. If you want new new, then Gentoo might be for you? Arch could be interesting too.
But how would Antergos be more pleasant for that than Ubuntu or Fedora? Sincere question.
Dominic Thompson
Altthough to be fair, I found the Antergos installer far better than the Ubuntu one. You could choose bootloader, it had a good partitioning menu and -- as it's based on Arch -- locale can be more diverse than "You want enUS, so you must never leave the country".
Joshua Morgan
Fedora is pretty underrated, testbed or not - it's better than being a Canonical fag or a Mint toddler. (not ?)
Caleb Gray
Every distribution can be "lightweight". Stop using buzzwords whose meaning no one knows, especially not you.
Bentley Bennett
Where did you got the idea that Arch could be lightweight?
Grayson Wilson
So I just installed openSUSE, but after GRUB, I get stuck on a black screen with nothing on it but a single _
Matthew Johnson
Except it's Arch, that intentionally bloats packages and kernel to "keep it simple".
Cameron Young
>So I just installed openSUSE, Why?
Aiden Brooks
RPM
Liam Green
It's always the same. Every day. Repeat.
Thomas Mitchell
Bumpin' the question.
Juan Carter
Shower. Go outside. Get a haircut. Go to a café. Read a book.
Liam Robinson
Which archive format?
Adam Bailey
zip.
Aaron White
Immediately before the blank screen
Ian Ortiz
Try
env LANG=C 7z x file.zip
otherwise check iconv and rename the results
Jackson Hughes
Try Control-C just before (or during) the black screen.
Oliver Stewart
Try CTRL+ALT+F2 and check if you get a tty. Then you can run dmesg and check what happend.
Joshua Cook
>Try out Cinnamon >Laggy as shit >Switch to Xfce >Smooth as diarrhea
Is there even any point in using Cinnamon? If you're going to use something bloated then you might as well use Gnome since it looks good while being full of bloat
Jaxon Wright
I recently have no sound on Debian. Yesterday everything went well. Did i somehow mute the system ?
Robert Cox
Okay I thought the install went well?
Colton Sanchez
open alsamixer.
Benjamin Thompson
When I press the mute-button, it mutes pulse-audio and alsa, but when I press the mute-button again it unmutes pulse-audio but not alsa. thx
Nathan Gutierrez
How do I get a graphical environment running?
Luis Green
Install one and start it either via startx or a display manager.
Ethan Young
>Arch only takes the latest stables. in most cases, yes, but some things are included which are marked as beta upstream for example; Name : grub Version : 1:2.02.beta3-3 they have a good reason for them, for example, the latest "stable" grub is over 4 years old
Logan Williams
On gentoo, my mpv doesn't have the progress bar and pause/play/fastforward buttons. Is there a use flag to add this feature?
Connor Gray
not sure why you'd want it, but it's called "osc", that's probably its USE flag also, if i were to guess
Luis Foster
'startx'
Christian Richardson
lua USE flag
Colton Wood
And some things are really out of date ardour 4.7-1 The lua flag if I remember correctly.
Adam Brown
>And some things are really out of date i think the maintainer might be dead he has 36 packages to his name, nothing has been touched since may, one thing was flagged out of date in april
Luis Sanders
How easy it is to do PCI passthrough on ubuntu? I Don't want to do the arch one because arch fucking breaks all the time. I just want something that werks which is why I will go with xubuntu to be more precise.
Levi Cooper
>arch fucking breaks all the time nice meme also >ubuntu >just werks lol
Andrew Taylor
>arch fucking breaks all the time good luck figuring out gpu passthrough if you can't hold an arch installation together m8io
Juan Williams
>Implying it doesn't shit itself whenever there's new packages because it doesn't keep older packages in it's rep.
Installing is not the issue here, anyone can read the retarded wiki but I don't want to do everything from scratch every 4 months due to things breaking up after a system upgrade
Jose Williams
Why do you keep spouting those memes and myths? You obviously have no first-hand experience and all of your "knowledge" stems from Sup Forums posts. Are you really that naive and gullible that you believe everything you see on here? You're pathetic and also an idiot for thinking that there's a difference between setting up PCI passthrough on different distributions.
Asher Gomez
Why are you so angry at a question? Did I offend your mother because I don't want to use your favorite distro?
Why archfags like you get so angry for no reason at all? Can't you really answer the question? Move on.
Also >/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux
Chase Williams
guys, I don't know which to go for, xubuntu or lubuntu?
Dominic Powell
As a former Arch user, it's the community and their incompetence that puts me off most.
Jordan Ortiz
ubuntu or arch
Ryder Roberts
what kinda question is that? ubuntu.
Sebastian Butler
>systemd
Dominic Gonzalez
>bait
Oliver Adams
Just finished installing Debian.
Why is the default font rendering so ass? Also I really cannot see why would I use it over Ubuntu. Basically the same only slightly more inconvenient in many ways.
Mason Morgan
>Why is the default font rendering so ass Because you are welcome to configure it just like every other part of your distro.
Kayden Morgan
Anyone here set up mpdroid? I can't get it to connect and I'm not sure what settings I need to be setting and where.
Andrew Jackson
Just finished installing Arch.
Why is the default font rendering so ass? Also I really cannot see why would I use it over Manjaro. Basically the same only slightly more inconvenient in many ways.
Hunter Hernandez
Just install OpenBSD already.
Evan Ramirez
No interest in cuckolding, thanks.
Wyatt Moore
lsblk isn't showing /boot as mounted. /dev/sda1 is set as /boot in fstab..
In gentoo is /boot auto unmounted when it isn't needed or something? My system is working fine otherwise. If this is expected behavior, what is the purpose?
The true KISS way would be simply reading the fontconfig docs and edit 2 lines in his fontconfig config - but no, Archusers love bloat.
Juan Cooper
Does it have the "noauto" option in fstab?
Kayden Barnes
Also sudo systemctl enable (lightdm/gdm/sddm)
Nathan Parker
>cuckolding
Stop acting like you'd develop anything worthwhile on OpenBSD if you actually used it.
>m-m-muh cuck license!
Why don't you develop something worth shit first before you talk about licenses.
Luis Clark
>sudo why aren't you root? do you own the system or does the system own you?
Daniel Evans
Arch isn't for you. Install Manjaro.
Robert Miller
Arch is for advanced users.
Colton Brooks
Yes.
Henry Ross
Then there's your answer. If you for some reason want it automounted, remove that option.
James Martinez
Cool, dude.
Henry Gomez
GUYS what are some cool things you can do on Linux???
Jayden Richardson
Is pic real or just a meme?
Christian Adams
arch is for unemployed neckbeards who want to feel elite about their distro on the internet
Hunter Garcia
Ssh into it and do things to it wirelessly. Use it as a TV box. Make a server with it. Just off the top of my head really.
Nathan Hill
Why doesn't Arch provide an simple installer? It can't be the "lightweight" argument since kernel and packages are already bloated. What's the point other than being edgy?
Ethan Lewis
This has nothing to do with Arch. It's about you being an obnoxious idiot.
Brandon Miller
Deblobbing it.
Julian Cooper
Can you answer the question at least? I really would like some user with the knowledge to help me out.
Ian Carter
As easy as on Arch, Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE or any distribution.
Austin Perry
How many of /fglt/ards are actually using Gentoo? Is it worth installing / learning it or just a hobby? I think I'd take the time installing it if it is actually worth the time and work.
Andrew Roberts
Thanks. Performance is also similar? usually 96% of the native one? What about stability?
