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This is Sup Forums so you are on team Arch or team Debian, anyone else is trolling. Good luck newfriend.
James Brooks
What's a good distro for an ARM Chromebook?
Leo Gonzalez
Debian Jessie
Ryan Harris
When will the >gnome 3 is bad [spoiler][/spoiler]meme end lads?
Anthony Roberts
When Gnome 3 stops being so bad.
Mason Jenkins
Wew lad.
Jordan Hill
It's not bad, per se. But Nautilus isn't my idea of a good package manager. It seems locked down for ui tweaks. There are good things about it but not enough for me to use it as a daily driver.
Adrian Jones
>Package Meant file.
Dominic Ross
Is there a graphical fan controler? Jesus, i just want to control my fans.
Ethan Lee
What are some noob things to do to set up/improve your system after a fresh linux install?
Camden Davis
>set up/improve your system after a fresh linux install Nothing at all. I use Ubuntu and it's great out of the box.
Dominic Green
Replace it with Linux-libre.
Logan Ward
I've been reading a lot about fonts and font rendering being a pretty common complaint, do you feel that's a non-ubuntu issue? Just installed Manjaro, btw.
Evan Howard
Yes, non-Ubuntu fonts are garbage until tweaked.
Carson Thomas
Freetard pls go.
Noah Morgan
fuck off pajeet
Adrian Collins
Stallmanists will never win.
Christopher Nelson
What do you want to do with it? What are you working with? Your question is open ended to the point of being too broad.
Leo Flores
If Arch is meant to be simple, why doesn't is come with a simple installer?
Ayden Sullivan
>If Arch is meant to be simple [Citation needed]
Hudson Gray
Because it's a troll distro. Install Debian.
Luis Morgan
this, they are tricking their users with buzzwords like "simple" and "lightweight", but it actually isn't, packages are bloated, kernel is bloated, complicated install for normalfags
Jose Long
wtf is that pic OP?
Nolan Brown
Just using it as a shitposting device, really. But what I meant was, what are some of the things YOU would do after a fresh install of your favorite distro? Is there any go to software you immediately would install? Configuring the de/wm? Idk, I'm a noob like I said. Just looking for recommendations on how to dig into the system a bit, I guess.
Elijah Cook
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Jack Anderson
i got a refurbished thinkpad coming in the mail and i'm going to install debian on it. i'm going to be using it for programming away from home base. what editor should i use, vi, gedit, or emacs? strawpoll.me/11184492
Ian Anderson
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Asher Wood
Ok maybe I wasn't concise. What distro are you running/planning to run? What de/wm do you plan to/use?
Cooper Long
Simple in this case means "without features" or "the least amount of work for the developers".
Luis Thomas
Fuck off troll.
Matthew Garcia
ed is the standard text editor
Christopher Russell
Manjaro w/ xfce and whatever the default wm is, Xfwm4 I believe. Definitely open to trying other wm's, though. Tiling looks cool in screen shots, at least.
Aiden Garcia
Good to see the Arch memes are alive and strong.
Easton Stewart
>thinking gentoo is as meme and is not actually the best distro around
Sebastian Morgan
Can you change text size depending on what keyword it is and use a monospace font in vim? Can it be done in emacs. Disregarding carpal tunnel syndrome is emacs better suited for software development than vim?
Cooper Barnes
Here are some advice to get you going:
To edit a file, type "ed " End all commands with an To view the contents, type ",p" To view a few lines around your current location, type "--,++p" To go to the next line, type "+" (or simply press Enter without typing anything) To go to the previous line, type "-" To insert text, type "a". Give the text to be inserted. End with a "." (dot) alone on a line. To append something to the end of file, use "$a". To edit text on a line, type "s/oldtext/newtext/" If you get lost, type a "." (dot). If inserting, it will take you into command mode; if in command mode, it shows the current line. ed reports errors by "?". Type "h" to get an error message (does not work with all vi's). To delete a line, type "d". To search for some text, type "/text/". When done editing, give the command "w", then "q".
Nathaniel Taylor
Do any Linux distros even distribute ed anymore?
Jackson Sanders
Tiling is fine if you don't mind a setup that looks like it came from the distant past/like ricing the shit out of your setup to make it look like a cohesive ui. I'm speaking from experience.
Can't say with Manjaro, I use vanilla Arch. usually I just reinstall any programs I would normally use, copy any configs from my backup and go. I usually install
>Smplayer Ui for Mplayer >Pcmanfm A file manager I like >Mpd + Mpc + Ncmpcpp A cli music player >Urxvt A terminal emulator I like >Compton For compositing
That and I usually download icons I like, and a gtk theme that I enjoy.
But I must stress that you should experiment with different things and find out what makes you happy. There's plenty of choices for any of the things I listed. Pick for yourself.
Xfce is really straightforward and easy to use. It can be configured and all that, and you can always install something else if you like. The only thing about linux is that every ui has its strengths and drawbacks.
Isaac Bennett
mint seems to have it, just checked
Chase Ward
Just use evil-mode or viper-mode in emacs if you want vi-like bindings.
Levi Price
>thinking anything besides Ubuntu, which works out of the box without tweaks, is worth the time wasted setting up
Camden Adams
I installed gentoo on my my new machine. How do I play vidya games?
Brandon King
Any Icons or themes you guys would suggest. Using mint with MATE right now
William Peterson
What web browser doesn't suck?
Michael Cruz
>mint I think themes are a minor problem here.
Cameron King
I like modifier key schemes better personally because they feel more logical but sometimes emacs really go retarded. Just wondering if emacs has that little extra making it a better faux IDE than vim for developing. I know it's probably futile to ask since it fits under editor war but I'll make a try.
Windows viruses are not so likely to affect you. They won't be able to propagate.
Owen Reed
I needed to custom compile a kernel for graphics support. What can I do to make it run faster or more efficiently? Anything I can omit? This is a Dell Latitude D620 (Core 2 Duo, 64-bit).
Angel White
I like the slight transparency
Brayden Gray
GNU IceCat as previously mentioned. Secure defaults, approval by the most privacy and freedom friendly organization.
Cameron Ross
>Good to see the Arch memes are alive and strong. it should be Good to see the Arch meme is alive and strong. go back to school, your grammar sucks
Nathaniel Campbell
I'm on Gentoo and IceCat isn't supported by Portage anymore. What did they fuck up?
Jose Nelson
This is a meme thread, stop spreading good information.
Nathaniel Ortiz
Reminder we have new content on the two threads over /t/ - Torrents
Training videos for GNU/Linux (NEW CONTENT) Ported videogames (NEW CONTENT)
Sebastian Ramirez
>I dislike the manner in which he pluralized something I consider singular >This means his grammar is poor Is that where you got your false sense of superiority?
Isaac Morris
If you need to check a USB for malware, how do you go about it without compromising your GNU/Linux system?
Assuming it's not just Windows malware, assuming it's one of those random USB's dropped at a hacker convention that is obviously ready to exploit something.
It's just curiosity, I don't actually have a random USB dropped at a hacker convention.
William Roberts
mount it with noexec. Even then, nothing is going to run unless you open it like an idiot.
Noah Jenkins
give it back tyrone
Adam Rogers
how is it going to do any harm without knowing your su password?
I'd make an offline copy of everything. Plugin the USB device and then do an offline compare of files with the offline copy to ensure no exploit executed.
It may use an exploit that gives zero fucks about your noexec or you mounting anything.
Privilege escalation exploit
Aiden Carter
>It may use an exploit that gives zero fucks about your noexec or you mounting anything. Do you understand how operating systems work?
I used to use vim, but recently started using emacs.
Emacs is more of a IDE than text editor (I think, I haven't used a IDE). I find it easier to manage a lot of buffers at once. You can run a shell, a scheme, python and haskell interpretor, find and grep files, image previews, display pdf files etc. I can now just have emacs maximised and it has everything I need.
It has a lot of features. But vim is more popular. People would argue that vim 'does one thing and does it right'.
If you are seriously worried about RSI, I assume you already use the caps locks key as control?
Oliver Gutierrez
>having to type keybinds when you open the TEXT EDITOR, to even be able to edit text
Yeahno
Zachary Robinson
are editor wars not allowed here? darn. I can say that switching caps lock and ctrl does help a lot, and just taking periodic brakes from programming can also do wonders (there is a package for emacs that reminds you to take periodic brakes, apparently scientific).
I think it has more to do with proper typing posture than anything Emacs related
Asher White
Installing Debian alongside Windows 10. What's the minimum size I should make the partition/swap? Have 32GB of memory. Installing it onto a 512GB NVMe drive that's around half full. Planning on using several other NTFS drives as shared.
Juan Scott
Aight senpai
Levi Reyes
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Camden Morris
Do you? You haven't stated that you prevent the device from showing up as a block device. At that point code has executed with input from the USB device. This means the USB device could be designed in a such way it exploits the code interrogating it.
Landon Brooks
>having to change to INSERT MODE to even be able to edit text Yeahno
also, you can just use emacs -nw file.txt
David Rivera
>having to memorize switches to be able to open a text file to edit
William Carter
>emacs -nw file.txt my nigga, that is in my ratpoison kebinds
Eli Cruz
Ok cool, thanks for the input on tiling wm's and software recommendations user.
Jason Ross
debian can fit on 10GB.
Jose Flores
Maybe we should make recommendations directed to normies too. There is a lot more new users coming that are not programmers or sysadmins, and they use gui music players and office suites.
Angel Howard
I don't really use vim or emacs for developing. I used emacs over 2 decades ago at school on some sun workstations and though it was OK. Since then I've been stuck with visual studio and more recently QT creator for C++. I don't really like qt creator because it has poor and slow auto completion for C++ and it's too infested with QT.
And the experience I have with vim is editing config files. I find that it's clunky and not having intuitive shortcuts. All dev environments nowadays run a GUI so I don't see the appeal in deving in a console because people had to 40 years ago. Emacs appears to be better than vim when it comes to turning it into a faux IDE.
Hudson Moore
There's more to it than that to be sure. Tiling wms aren't bad though don't misunderstand me. It's just that some require a certain amount of knowledge for you to edit. >awesome >dwm >xmonad while others are editable in plain text. >i3 >spectrwm They're lightweight but aren't as feature friendly as a de. But keep in mind a de is just a set of programs that use common theming and are created to function in tandem. There are plenty of programs that use gtk/qt theming so you aren't bound to using any given one. You can even mix and match like having xfce with xmonad as a wm instead of xfwm4. Just don't go too far down the rabbit hole ricing. It's a time waster, and teaches you next to nothing but how to appreciate trial and error.
Juan Edwards
What's your preferred music player? I'm using RhythmBox and it gets the job done. I was used to foobar2000 on Windows and was a big fan of that.
Gabriel Hernandez
So, I bought a new Nvidia card and I installed the drivers from Nvidia's site and now when I resume the computer from sleep, everything's messed up and I need to go into console and type reboot to actually quit the damn thing because everything's so unresponsive.
Anyone know how to fix this? :(
Jaxson Sanders
I use Audacious with the winamp skin for a gui player. You get to see the playlist like you want and more. Comfy.
William Howard
can you even dual boot windows 10? i thought it didn't allow it
Daniel Jenkins
I heard DeaDBeeF is the preferred music player for foobar former users.
Connor Jenkins
Use mocp. Don't be a GUIcuck.
I used to be a huge foobar before going free-as-in-freedom. mocp has everything I liked about foobar and more.
Luis Thomas
In order to dual-boot with win10 the only criteria is that win10 be installed first. Efi boot is irritating that way.
Joshua Scott
>Maybe we should make recommendations directed to normies too no. Last time someone made a recommendation picture it was shit and they couldn't stop recommending bloated / buggy / shit tier stuff.
Just tell them to install fedora or opensuse, those distro should come with everything they need.
Jaxson Butler
will making an alias "logout" for gnome-session-quit mess up anything? i'm new to linux
