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>newbie friendly, beginner distros, first timers -Debian and its derivatives
>Professionals with intermediate Linux related skills -Fedora, Source Mage, Slackware
>Expert hacking, top tier server usage, serious programming stuff Arch, Gentoo
Logan Myers
>Arch >expert
Benjamin Edwards
stop shilling the fedora meme if fedora would disappear, nobody would miss it prove me wrong "professionals" lel
Nolan Kelly
bait fish
David Cox
Uh no? Here are the distros that doesn't make any difference and might as well disappear
>Slackware >Debian >Solus >Gentoo >Arch >Void >Alpine >Bunsenlabs >Hundred more distros that are not *buntu, SUSE or Fedora based
Hunter Young
this meme is bad and you know it why keep posting it, it's just illiterate cringe
Justin Ortiz
>illiterate cringe as opposed to what? literate cringe? LMFAO
Hudson Russell
>why keep posting it Because I like your trears
Christopher Sanders
Why is Debian a SJW distro again? They don't announce that shit like it's their selling point. it looks more like they made a page as a containment board to solve the problem. I wouldn't switch for such a petty reason, I've been running it for almost 10 years now.
Carson Morgan
SJWs have invaded debian a long time ago
Blake Garcia
>debian women project >diversity statement on their introduction to debian page
Camden Thompson
they have invaded every single distro but they have started showing signs of their presence in debian which means it is an sjw distro (since they liked it very much)
Jack Anderson
FUCKING SCREENCAPPED
Ayden Powell
>they have invaded every single distro And left pretty soon as well whereas Debian is now an SJW hugbox
Parker Walker
this
debian is actively pushing "diversity" and shit
Gabriel Walker
Just wondering, what's your goal with forcing that "debian is sjw" meme?
Cameron Watson
i think they still have sleepers in most major distros but they aren't planning an offensive as of yet, well, according to my sources at least but yeah, debian has already fallen and can never recover
I was trying out manjaro with xfce in a VM today to see if I could get it to my liking; as I was considering putting it on a laptop. However this battery icon refuses to match the theme, everything else on the task bar seems to change except the network monitor and battery icon. How can I fix this?
Kevin Hill
if anyone can take debian seriously after reading this, you have some hard thinking to do if that fails then a bullet to the head is the only solution
Nolan Reed
Xfce should have different power applets
Jeremiah Watson
It is, the whole community is full of mentally ill people, not only Debian. There are Fedora women, Arch women, Ubuntu women, whatever. Name a free software project and I show you sick people. It's just stupid to claim that only Debian is SJW. It's a small part of our community as a whole.
Justin Hill
it has two; neither will change with any theme/icon package. Even the default ones that come preinstalled
Aaron Hughes
install solus
Jason Moore
Not even the one included in the indicator plugin? It must be a bug then.
holy shit I just installed solus and it's the best GNU plus Linux experience I've ever had incredible boot times, polished and smooth desktop experience
Brody Lopez
to with your collectivist mindset i am neither friendly nor a thread
Jackson Gonzalez
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Brandon Rogers
I Solus tried last year before you started shilling last week.
It's still slow AND glitchy as fuck.
David Scott
This. I don't get why Solus is hated here. It's the best distro for sure.
Jeremiah Gutierrez
>holy shit I just installed solus and it's the best GNU plus Linux sdasjqwjel I've ever had >incredible boot times, rqwerqweerqw and 43123fdse desktop sdasjqwjel
what?
Sebastian Foster
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Hunter Barnes
>early signs LOL it's already terminal here buddy and you are probably autistic as well if you felt the need to point out shit this obvious
Ryan Bell
what's even the point in spotting autism early does it help?
Juan Wood
probably putting you on some kind of meds early on to make you subservient to the [CENSORED]
James Thompson
yeah you can treat it if you start early
Sebastian Baker
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Jason Wilson
Can someone explain the difference between linux and GNU?
I understand that the GNU software uses the linux kernal to run and is known as the 'user space'.
Is grep, cp and other basic terminal commands part of the user space or is that linux? What is NOT the user space?
Liam Lee
What's the original image? It looks like fun.
Christopher Turner
>Anal insertion looks like fun
Bentley Cruz
Yes, and it's got a timer. That means it's doing something? Is it medicine, what is it?
Jason Reyes
Anybody used puppy linux or slax? I need to use something that runs from USB in a live-session with persistence.
What would happen if I used too much RAM? will it create a swap file on the USB?
I just need it to compile some android games made in ren'py.
Hunter Torres
I tested Solus out today. The repos are absolutely barren, and the DE is depressingly uncustomizable. But it was lightning-fast, so if it weren't for those problems, I'd seriously consider using it.
how do I safely email rms? I assume that if I use my gmail account he will track me down and beat me up until I value my freedom and join the fsf which I do not want to do :(
Ayden Taylor
1. email from a trowaway 2. license your email under gpl 3. pray
Austin Cox
just killyourself now if you are even remotely serious
Jack Gonzalez
Was it deleted because it's manjaro?
John Roberts
Log out, log back in.
Ayden Williams
What is the linux alternative to eMule?
Daniel Ramirez
>keep trying to copy/paste text from browser into vim for minutes, trying everything >close vim >look at hostname in prompt >i was trying to copy to a remote computer over ssh
Joseph Ross
Is it just me or his finger is really going somewhere inside of the girl?
Jaxson Ramirez
Correct me if I'm wrong here:
The major differences between workstation distros are primarily desktop environment, package manager, what additional third-party software comes with it, and what versions of the linux kernel that the different releases run. Some especially autistic distros are generally more up-to-date and configurable. Some specialized distros have additional security features and what not.
That's it? You autists literally make a hobby out of arguing about desktop environments and package managers?
Is there any reason a professional not actively developing the linux kernel should ever use anything other than ubuntu/xubuntu/fedora? And even when picking between those, shouldn't this be a relatively unimportant, 30-minute decision that only marginally affects how you will actually use your system?
Jayden Gutierrez
First of all, only retards argue about distributions.
The core principles for choosing a distribution are: release schedule, package manager and package philosophy (patching and licensing practices). According to that, there is only a handful of distributions to choose from. Steering a away from those is idiotic, because you're getting your water downstream, when it's already polluted and pissed in.
Also, don't use buzzphrases like "workstation" or "professional" in this case. No one will take you seriously.
Connor Cooper
amule
Cooper Smith
I read that's where the human vagina is.
Logan Perry
Also, don't use buzzphrases like "buzzphrases " or "buzzwords" in this case. No one will take you seriously.
Andrew Lee
Epic reply right there
Thomas Moore
But should it be open like that?
Connor Reyes
>buzzword >: an important-sounding usually technical word or phrase often of little meaning used chiefly to impress laymen merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buzzword
Workstation means nothing. Is it a station (computer) on which I do work? Basically, every computer ever. Professional? Look up what professional means and find a way to apply it to a distribution. If you bend the definition and shoehorn it into this context: how is Fedora "professional", when it's community ran?
top kek Ian should have taken down entire company with him
Austin Richardson
how would i see if i have xcomposite installed?
Eli Butler
Then why is that all you people talk about?
Also workstation and professional are not buzzwords. In this case by workstation I mean non-server and non-niche (e.g. tails), which is an obvious and important distinction. And by professional I mean someone using linux for their job (e.g. developing software).
Not buzzwords, use cases.
Wyatt Jenkins
install solus
Sebastian Morales
So it has occurred to me that using Linux is basically like being a member of the communist party. Should I be seriously considering moving to BSD?
Dominic Mitchell
If you started equalizing software with political movements BSD should be a perfect OS for you.
Jacob Young
Is there an Arch like BSD that is actually active (unlike PacBSD).
Nathaniel Lee
openbsd
Christian Edwards
Is this a ruse.
Ryan Nelson
I like to think that most of us are here because we all like gnu/linux. Really though, I'm in denial. Most people are here to shill their own distros.
Dominic Miller
why would it be a ruse? what qualifiies a distribution to be "arch like"? Poor packaging standards? Having to manually install the fucking thing?
With BSD you have the latter for granted. But BSD maintainers don't like "poor quality" in anything they do, so don't expect the full "arch like" experience.
Gavin Adams
>what qualifiies a distribution to be "arch like"? Rolling release with something similar to the AUR available to expand the package pool. Obviously the more packages officially in the repo the better but you're never going to get them all.
>Poor packaging standards? lel
Lincoln Jackson
The closest thing to rolling release on mainstream BSD is FreeBSD.
>Obviously the more packages officially in the repo the better but you're never going to get them all. BSD = no software, unless you port it yourself.
If you seriously consider switching from Communist Linux to BSD you should accept this at this point.
Colton Taylor
>The closest thing to rolling release on mainstream BSD is FreeBSD. So FreeBSD isn't similar to Debian in its ancient tier software then?
>BSD = no software, unless you port it yourself. >If you seriously consider switching from Communist Linux to BSD you should accept this at this point. That's fine, I don't know much about BSD yet except their license, I'm willing to learn. Does BSD use Xorg? Like how smoothly can you move to BSD or does comfort go out the window.
Jonathan Turner
>Does BSD use Xorg? Yes. Graphical environments like XFCE and KDE are supported on BSD.
>Like how smoothly can you move to BSD or does comfort go out the window. Out of the window. First and foremost you should check whether it will work on your machine at all. The hardware support for BSD platforms is extremely poor.
Kayden Perry
>Graphical environments like XFCE and KDE are supported on BSD. i3?
>The hardware support for BSD platforms is extremely poor. That's quite strange.
Easton Myers
i3 should work.
>That's quite strange. It's a niche platform from the family of niche platforms. What's strange about that? The only vendor of BSD-based computers (Apple) deals with only a handful of hardware components.
Gavin Evans
How come? Have I become a member of the communist party without even knowing it? Please open my eyes.
Brayden Perry
Then everything is a professional distro. A baker, is a professional. If a baker contributes anything to a distribution, it's a professional distribution.
Easton Robinson
None of those workstation definitions apply to only certain distributions. They apply to all.
Parker Wright
You should read the GPL.
Hunter Moore
>non-server A server is any computer which is serving other computers things. If I install an FTP server on Tails, Tails is a server. You can install the same packages on a "server" distribution and "workstation" distributions.
Christopher White
He's meming about GPL not adhering to his own personal definition of "freedom", which is closer to the anarchist definiton of freedom rather than a libertarian one.
Hunter Wood
>Seconded. >Thanks for bringing this up Let me second this real quick with a compliment lol! Maybe she likes me in my daydream now! :) >As the person responsible for this bug, sorry, and: >Seconded. Shame on you. You will not be forgiven.
One person offered a timid "I don't really see the point but I'm not a native speaker" objection.
One person said no. He was put in his place by Sam: >Did something change since 12 years ago, when you agreed to join a project that advocated gender-neutral language in its best practices and had a Debian Women initiative? and Neil: >Personally, I hope that it passes with a 100:1 margin, and encourage all voters to approve this GR with an overwhelming majority.
That one guy really violated their safe space
Brandon Bennett
Pretty much. It wouldn't be wrong to say this. If you want to be more specific just add something else to professional to change the context. Or if you aren't a social retard just infer the context from where you heard it. Chances are if it's being discussed on Sup Forums it has something to do with technology. Then narrow it down by thread, like if it's being discussed in /fglt/ it probably has something to do with the subject matter of the thread. These are just some general rules to follow though so don't expect 100% accuracy
Charles Sullivan
>not using the best GTK theme ever What's your excuse?
There are three versions of it if I'm not mistaken. Which one should I read and why should I even read it? >rather than a libertarian one There is no other definition which is logically consistent. Positivist "freedom" is bullshit.
