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Any reason to have separate /var/ and /tmp/ partitions?
Colton Ward
Not really.
Jason Barnes
>Try to use a search engine that respects your privacy such as searx, ixquick or startpage. Did the memes kill ddg?
Liam Flores
is i3wm light?
Bentley Lewis
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Justin Hill
Yes. It's Linux and Linux is lightweight
Angel Cooper
It's a tiling WM so it's going to be lighter than a full DE.
Liam Brooks
So it is lighter then lxde?
Dylan Scott
Yes. A lot lighter since lxde has some GNU elements in it. i3wm is very pure Linux.
Jaxson Watson
How do I make it so that after I connect a bluetooth device, it automatically sets it as the default output device?
Michael Hughes
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Logan Sullivan
>>>/reddit/
Joseph Sanders
ill trust you user, ill try it now
Gavin Morgan
1.mega wasn't us based but they turned everything over in the face of a subpeona. 2.Was that a tracking cookie or a prefs cookie? 3.(((gabe wienberg))) I ask these questions because Sup Forums is made of shills and idiots.
Brandon Sanchez
Debian is a great distro 1. Respects your freedom first and foremost, according to a social contract. debian.org/social_contract 2. Allows you to knowingly opt-in to non-free software, if you want/need it. 3. Stable by default. 4. Allows you to knowingly opt-in to a rolling release, if you want/need it. 5. Has a constitution to give no single entity too much power over decisions. debian.org/devel/constitution 6. One of the eldest and most influential distros to this day. 7. Harbors SJWs
Justin Barnes
It's very good and lightweight. Just takes a bit of getting used to and configuring, especially if you haven't tried tiling WMs before
Nathaniel Morris
>a social contract that actually exists did I switch timelines?
Ethan Allen
>Sup Forums is made of shills and idiots.
Proof:
Hunter Perry
see
Liam Watson
>7. Harbors SJWs
Bentley Johnson
I cant start it, i'm getting error; Error: status_command not found or is missing a library dependency
Blake Scott
When i logout on arch and try to login with different DE, it never accepts my password, why anons?
Thomas Adams
Why? I thought neovim was supposed to have a better codebase than oldvim
Lucas Carter
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
Jackson Perez
...
Connor Brown
see
Lucas Campbell
>confusing code bloat (meaningful - finding and fixing bugs, improving and adding features is easier) with resource bloat (meaningless - buy a better computer)
Charles Bennett
A well configured Debian Sid netinstall.
Cameron Miller
How do I do a well configured Debian Sid install, and how is it better than Arch?
Ian Diaz
RTFM Because arch is for losers and debian sid is for handsome men with wives and six figure salaries
And sid is actually more stable than arch because debian adds their own experimental patches to software while arch just uses the latest stable release from upstream
Jason Wood
how do i fix i3status anons when i type i3status -v error while loading shared libraries: libconfuse.so.1: cannot open shared object file
Noah Campbell
Where is the fucking manual? Arch has pages on everything, that's why I find it quite comfy. But I like Debian, so I'd like to know what's out there.
Isaiah Gray
install dwm instead of bloat3
>we need more libs to parse config files because we rice our window managers so often that typing make install and restarting is too much of a pain
Isaiah Parker
i wish we could ban people for shitposting. Read the installation manual and/or administrators handbook, think about hardening and your preferred package manager frontend (apt/apt-get or aptitude), install debian stable that way minimally through the expert installer and after being done change the sources to sid and dist upgrade.
what do you mean by fallback distro? i just have debian releases on my machines and a debian nonfree netinstaller on some usb mass storage device.
Kevin Turner
All the important and fast ones are stable. You can host your own and add it to that list, just don't wonder if nobody uses it.
Landon Allen
just install arch
Thomas Evans
>Try out awesome wm >Fiddle around with it until I like the look >Notice my laptop is unusually hot >Check GPU clock >980mhz instead of 130 idle >51°C >Fan noise >Goes down to 130again after a little while >Go to floating layout >Grab window and resize >Always clocks up, sometimes going up to performance level 2 and clocking above 1000 mhz
Well, thanks. That's really awesome. Should have just used i3.
Jason Ramirez
So on a fresh install of Kubuntu, after switching from windooze I'm trying to install my company VPN.
They use Pulse Secure and the instructions tell me to create: ~/.pulse_secure/pulse/.pulse_Connections.txt
I know nothing about Linux desu. Can anyone help me here? Already looked for a folder called pulse_secure in the root folder, with show hidden files on and nothing.
Grayson Cox
>awesome Somehow i don't wonder. But really, why use anything other than xmonad, i3 and dwm in regards to tiling WMs? but you should report this bug so they can improve it.
Brayden Morales
>51°C that is nothing, like normal temperature.
Chase Lee
>xmonad How is it different from the other two? Heard of it multiple times but haven't tried it yet.
Joseph Smith
Yeah, I will file a report once I get back from my trip. Awesome looked neat with the tagged desktops and all that.
I've used cinnamon before. If I'm not doing anything that's taxing the GPU it ran at maybe 30°C and was quiet as a mouse.
Caleb Edwards
Addendun: Doing the same thing in i3 - floating window and resizing - clocks up to 150, so marginally more instead of going into overdrive.
Andrew Hughes
What is devuan? Is that a real distro or a distro created by local memesters?
Hudson Bennett
install gentoo
David Russell
do you like haskell? Because it is written and configured in haskell. dwm is in C and imo a bit easier to learn/get used to and configure. i3 is a combination of a few programs which is why some people consider it a DE. It is configured in plain text and also written in C. Imo i3s configuration is somehow harder to get into and understand than dwm. I really only checked out xmonad for like a few minutes for no reason.
Josiah Lopez
debian without systemd. wow such an innovative distro!
Adam Ross
are you sure this is not just one of the cores instead of the average?
Cooper Perez
Is it good?
Lincoln Baker
Create it
Levi Harris
Do I create the pulse_secure folder in root?
I tried using Touch but it says the path doesn't exist
Ethan King
Well if you like debian and dislike systemd you either install debian without systemd (doable but a bit tricky) or you install devuan and hope for it to work.
Thomas Edwards
It's the graphics clock in the nvidia-settings application. In any case, instantly going to performance level 2 just when resizing shouldn't be needed.
Charles Morales
You Create It
If you dont know basic commands, you will not find anything in this thread usefull.
James Phillips
>do you like haskell? Because it is written and configured in haskell. I am somewhat of a superhuman so I think I can deal with that. But what does it do differently compared to dwm and i3?
Wyatt Young
I agree but i don't think your WM is at fault here. It could be either your compositor, your drivers or X.
Zachary Ward
Can I make it rolling like debian?
Cameron Powell
I really don't. That's why I went with a buntu.
Thanks anyway.
Adam Brooks
Thanks guys. I'll have some reading to do.
Arch is easy. But it's not got that nice Debian branding everywhere. I like the Debian logo and wallpapers.
Mason Wright
It is still similar to dwm but for example you can change the size if your master area in one and preserve it on the other workspace/tag and copy these layouts to others. It's pretty fun. Just check it out. The manual and tutorial explains it better than i could.
Aaron Sanders
mkdir!
Thanks anyway
Aaron Reed
I don't see why it just werks on i3, though. It's the same setup.
Blake Bennett
good ol debian logo at its best. Yes, but instead of sid it is called ceres and i believe it is a bit less stable.
Josiah Garcia
oh i misread that one post, sorry. Yeah just filing a bug report for the maintainer and moving on seems good. Did you already check out dwm?
Brody Moore
Nope, not yet. Will surely do in the near future, though.
Evan Nguyen
>Fetched 6988 kB in 3min 30s (33.3 kB/s) REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I ping debian mirrors well but it's slow as fuck
William Butler
Use a different mirror.
Joseph Powell
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE REE is not meant as an expression for random anger; it's a expression for anger when discovering normalfag failure
Please use the meme correctly.
Brody Foster
And that's why it's good practice to quote everything, or get into the habit of escaping spaces.
Nathan Sanchez
Who /Xubuntu/ here
Nicholas Collins
Since awesome works for many people except you, you should search for the error elsewhere.
Nolan Turner
>Sup Forums told me to install arch >install it >nothing works t-thanks
Carter Garcia
>And that's why it's good practice to quote everything, or get into the habit of escaping spaces.
Nice wiki, doesn't change the fact that the distro itself is shit. If you are new, try Ubuntu.
Angel Diaz
Yep. People install arch because ricing is fun. And I have nothing against that.
Ryder Williams
>dat pic
10/10 idea 4/10 shop
Connor Wood
Just shows how stupid people are since you can rice every distro, it's not some Arch only feature.
Cooper Sullivan
Redpill me on antergos, Sup Forumsentlemen. I've come from OpenSuse, went to Ubuntu, to crunchbang to debian to arch. All spread over more than a decade now. I was going to install arch on my second laptop again but man, I don't want the hassle of the installation anymore. Manjaro holds back packages, so I'd not use that, arch anywhere has been fucking up in the past with X for me or just failed to install a LVM. Granted, it's been a while.
So, I've been thinking about antergos. What's bad about it?
Nathan Sanchez
>Manjaro holds back packages, so I'd not use tha where did you got that meme
Sebastian Jackson
I asked this twice before over a month ago but got ignored.
I switched to Linux for full-tiume use about 5 months ago, been learning along the way by both lurking and scouring documentation. Am enjoying it quite a bit, now I am able to do everything much faster than I ever could on windows.
The one thing I have not been able to find a solution to is pic related though. I am on a thinkpad with typical 1366x768 screen, so I have no issues running this on fullscreen when I'm using it by itself in 1024x768 fullscreen. However, when I try to run Jagged Alliance 2 in windowed mode, I get this error.
How can I make a program in WINE run at 16bit color?
Logan Thompson
Not sure anymore. I've just read a whlie back that their big "security thing" is just holding back package updates for a a few days.
Lucas Perry
antergos is nothing but an arch installer which rebrands everything that says "arch" to "antergos"
if you really want to fall for the arch meme, install arch
Liam Robinson
thats a meme made up by some arch dev
Brandon Bennett
I've used arch for 3 years now, installed it on my desktop the manual way, not really looking forward to that again. The main laptop was setup by evo/lution, which doesn't exist anymore. Architect is dead as well and arch anywhere has fucked up royally in the past. Which leaves me with the antergos botnet.
Huh. Well, guess I'll have to dig myself about that then.
Samuel Fisher
Well, he "corrected" himself later.
Original claim: allanmcrae.com/2013/01/manjaro-linux-ignoring-security-for-stability/ Update: allanmcrae.com/2015/02/improvements-on-manjaro-security-updates/
Gabriel Perry
/here/
Samuel Perez
>How can I make a program in WINE run at 16bit color? ^Google this^
Adam Gomez
can someone suggest me a good book about bash/shell scripting and random sites/blogs with tutorials that guide me through examples/exercises?
Isaiah Price
manjaro has brances simliar to debian stable, testing, unstable when you use unstable, you are up to date like on vanilla arch
that said, manjaro has other, better memes pic related
Gabriel Walker
Neat.
Antergos it is, then.
Isaac Phillips
I'm trying to install XFCE4 on arch but half the servers are 404ing packages. Why does this happen?
