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>motherboard manual:
>Due to USB 3.0 controller limitation, USB 3.0 devices can only be used under Windows OS environment and after the USB 3.0 driver installation.
Should I really trust this information? I can't believe that GNU/Linux don't have a solution for this problem!

Won't know for sure until you try it.

it will most likely just werk, in glorious amd64 and not some shoddy old 32bit bullshit.

I want to compile something and need libsdl for it. My repository has libsdl1.2-dev and libsdl2-dev, which one should I use? As far as I can tell they are just two versions of the same package, but why do they keep the old version?

>but why do they keep the old version?

because version 2.0 probably breaks compatibility with stuff built expecting 1.2

SDL2 breaks a lot of compatibility with SDL1.X. Unless you need SDL1.2 to compile something that requires it, you should probably develop using SDL2

I'm installing fedora, how should i set up my file system?

pastebin.com/Cr4XfwdS

Check that out. it's written for debian but it should work for any distro that supports setting up LVM from the installer. it's meant to be for an SSD+HDD setup but it's easily adaptable to only one HDD etc

Okay so, still new to Ubuntu still got issues, it seems opening a new google chrome tab is enough to crash this OS, no idea why... (Fx 6300 (Fuck me i fell for the amd meme) 8gb of ram etc etc)) and i doubt its hardware related, my options were - Try gentoo but now im thinking that was a meme since this looks too difficult for a total noob who doesnt want to spend forever configuring shit and just wants to jump into an OS that isnt windows - Reinstall Ubuntu and see if that fixes any problems (Using the same USB though... idk if its worth it) - Or just going back to Botnet7.. Can anyone help.. please

I installed Elementary OS 4.0

How come when I click on a file it only requires 1 click to open the file, not a double click like everything else?

Also whats a good music player since the one here gets embedded into the sound settings and causes a lot of problems.

How can I remove this hamburger icon in plasma 5? I see screenshots where people don't have it but I can't see any way to remove it.

Best distri for a new user?

>chrome
i am pretty sure that was the problem in your case desu.

>best
we need a bot to post "the one i am using" every time a question like this comes up.

Lock the widgets on the desktop.

actually that guide needs a good update, please do not follow it.

well, id have considered that too but litterally anything seems to be able to trigger a crash, even looking inside folders can crash this system...

I got arch. Installed firefox package and cant run it.
typing firefox in cmd gives nothing. I got wm installed.

Ah cool, thanks

I got a flash drive and want to format it to ext4 so I can install linux on it. It's possible, yes?

Sounds weird, got any error messages?
Same as above, did you report a bug?

How do I stop wasting time uninstalling and reinstalling entire systems, distro hopping and so on. My OCD is driving me nuts.

Nice cont.
Merged it with OP pasta.
p.teknik.io/5cGhy

If i understand correctly you want to install gnu/linux on the flash drive? That is entirely possible and will be an option during installation, there you can also select which file system to use.

I'm doing a LFS install and want to put my first install on a flash drive.

pretty sure you can change that in the file manager's setting. i actually prefer single click. how is the new elementary OS? considering trying it out.

By settling on something that you like ideologically and from an everyday usage view. For me that is debian sid with dwm because if debians free software guidelines and suckless approach to software.

Nope, no error messages the whole system seems to crash and the only thing i can do is move the mouse, cant click anywhere or use the keyboard.

Realize that all distros are the same GNU/Linux, just in a different color. Settle to one distro and rice it to your likings till the logo doesn't even matter anymore.

The only differences between distros are philosophy, releace cycle, package management. Everything else is riceable.

it's meh

another thing, what memepv settings should i use so it doesnt come out looking stupid like this

can you still switch ttys by ctrl+alt+f1 to f7?

Describe stupid.

Im new to arch and im not sure if firefox needs anything more to run. If not why would i report a bug.

black borders on the sides for no apparent reason. maybe removing the top bar as well

Specify --no-border
Well usually launching it through dmenu or anything should work, did you update your system prior to this happening? I don't use arch but that should be sudo pacman -Syu

If the borders go away when you resize the window, check out --geometry and --autofit and shrink the initial window, otherwise there's a cropdetect flag, if I remember right.

You can get rid of window decorations completly with the --no-border flag.

ttys? I havent tried them key combos i read online to try alt+f2 to open terminal or some shit then to type xkill to manually kill the program

Sup Forums i have a problem

> Installed debian three days ago
> I have chosen the default debian desktop environment during installation
> I think that is gnome
> Fuck theres a hot spot on the top left corner whenever I get in there all windows shrink and its kind of behavour ALT + TAB on windows
> I have dual monitor and my primary monitor os on the right so i have to pass from that spot often and its so trolling me
> searched google theres just one solution to that with installin an extension but i couldnt make it work

should i change my desktop environment? if so what are you suggestions?

I don't think but do you think i should install another distro?

Yes i did it and few packages were reinstalled. I saw few threads on forums about similar issue but stuff like deleting .mozilla from home directory, reinstalling or calling any firefox command does not help.
Maybe its time to look change web browser...

Coming from Windows.

What's the closest thing to "WebM for Retards" available on Linux? Ideally with a GUI that makes it easy to crop, resize, add a file size limit, etc etc.

If you switch the distro because of a single problem you woun't be happy with GNU/Linux afterall. Man up and try again bro. There's always a solution.

That's why I am asking here?

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
-> options
-> hot corner
-> disable
-> get comfy and watch some trap porn.

Learn to use ffmpeg, you woun't reget it.

I suspect this might have something related to x and display. Not sure though. Just something i read on web.

theres no default option in tweak tool to disable that however the extension i installed yesterday somehow now works thanks anyway

...

~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf

where the fuck is that

$ echo ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf

exactly where i specified, if it is not there sudo cp /etc/mpv/mpv.conf ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf

~ means your home directory.

So that's:

/home/yourname/.config/mpv/mpv.conf

Why didn't you click the "Show Details" message? It would have told you what's wrong: the file permissions.
I pity the idiot who's spoonfeeding you.

That option won't even help in your case. You've already been told why there's a black bar on the sides.

And just so you know, directories or files that start with a dot mean they are hidden by default. You can easily show them in your file manager of choice by turning on "Show Hidden Folders"

>want to try linux
>Tried ubuntu, debian testing, opensuse and antergos
>My external GPU setup doesn't work on any of them
Well shit

it does help though.

also its not spoonfeeding since you have to create a hidden folder .. also why do you assume everyone knows that ~/ means home?

>want to try linux
>pick the shittiest ones
>doesn't work
Well shit

Where do I place .desktop files?

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_entries

(You)

An external GPU? I've never heard of that kinda setup. What is it connected with? USB's or what?

/dev/null
freedesktop shit belongs in the trash

When trying to run safe mode it hangs up.

Chromium runs without any problem.But i dont like it.

Is there a icon browser?

Laptop + desktop GPU connected via ExpressCard which is pci express x1.

Worked fine on Windows 7, there is a post on the arch forums about a similar setup that I'm going to try later.

I got a thinkpad x220, what distro should i get

It takes a normal person 6 seconds to search online what "~" means in this context.

the one I'm using
Why do you think it matters that you're using a thinkpad. I use one too but I don't see the need to specify when asking questions.

That's like this guy saying he has a DELL GAMING MOUSE.

Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of a sane standard which is accepted by virtually everyone.
You should come up with your own and improved standard and only use it yourself.

If you have GTK3 installed, run gtk3-icon-browser.

Specs

>page 1 of 34

Your comparison is kind of stupid but I am glad you posted that screenshot. My fucking sides

>intel quadra processor
>12 meg pipes of RAM power

Real neat-o.

I got arch and im missing a sound. What should i get? I remember pulseaudio from ubuntu but there is probably something else recommended, isnt it?

Where are the icons for programs

unmute with alsamixer

Inside your icon theme's directory.

How do i enable tearfree options for my videodriver in nixOS?

The same way you would on any other distribution.

you could just mention your processor and RAM and that's that

not found

See if it's still unsurprisingly broken try compton

I was wondering if there was a way to do it through the configuration.nix file

I don't know anything about NixOS' package manager, but I seriously doubt that it has any effect on your personal configuration files. How would a package manager influence how you edit your configuration files or how software is using those files? That would mean they're needlessly abstracting a huge amount of needless things.

Literally everything does not work on my fresh arch installation. I used mint and i did not care about lots of stuff. I wanted to change to something that would force me to learn more about linux but to actually install and get everything to work after arch installation i need knowledge that i do not have. I got problems with sound, video, web browser is not working well. Where am i supposed to know what stuff i am missing?

Anything that you can learn on Arch can be learned on every other distribution (except for how to work their package manager). You fell for the oldest misconception.

you type those words on to the wiki, and find a page relevant to your situation and you hardware
Quite simply the easiest thing you could do

Sensible point.

I just have a feeling system wide configuration files may not necessarily be preserved when i nixos-rebuild

On mint everything work out of the box on my laptop and i can work. With arch i spent some time to read, learn about package manager, window manager but then when i got all i needed i started to find out some little things that dont work and piss me off. And i searched, did something i was supposed to do to fix that and its still not working. I liked the idea of small system, kept up to date which would make me learn more about linux but i cant work.

Are musl systems really viable for normal use? Seeing segfaults every time I try to make install something is getting old.

And i do what they say but its not solving the problem because i dont have something that i probably should install.Before arch i got whole system running in few minutes. I dont know what components i need to get to finally have everything. I spent whole day on google and i still cant work comfortable.

drivers
problems

You didnt spend any time on google, nor the wiki, or you would have had your problems solved.

It
Is
That
Fucking
Simple

Make the slightest attempt, you still have yet to ask for any help here, you're just ranting about your incompetency

Exchanges like these are precisely the reason Arch gets meme'd on.

Peoples incompetency will bring the same issues.
He has the same oppurtunity to just ask for help, instead he would rather say he did nothing wrong, and that no people on the earth with ant part of his hardware can run linux on them, because he did googl'd and no answers

How bout we talk about those 20+ posts a day about apt dep hell?

>With arch i spent some time to read, learn about package manager
You can also read and learn about Mint's package manager. Mint is based on Ubuntu which is in turn based on Debian and they use dpkg/apt/apt-* as their package manager.

> window manager
You can "learn" about your window manager on Mint too or any other distribution. Configuring various options doesn't mean you're learning about it. Looking at its source code and modifying it would count as learning. Again, that's not distribution specific.

>I liked the idea of small system
A "small" system can be achieved on all of the core distributions.

>debian sid with dwm because if debians free software guidelines and suckless approach to software
Same, but I'm considering switching to awesome, as dwm is a little too minimal and lacking in features (I know it can be extended with patches, but still). I think learning dwm first is probably a good idea, because it's so simple and intuitive.

>Mint
Fuck off meme distro merchant. Mint is literally insecure Ubuntu. If someone wants a Windows-like Ubuntu they should use install Ubuntu Mate.

I wish there was just one version of Linux. Too many choices creates unnecessary shitposting

Is VMware better than VirtualBox?

> I use a debian based distribution

>How bout we talk about those 20+ posts a day about apt dep hell?
You mean the one retard who refuses to listen to anyone about his gnome "problem"?