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what should be the first things i do and download and install ty :3
Dylan Barnes
Install gentoo
Evan Anderson
First for gentoo
Oliver Myers
Where are the MILFs
Brandon Evans
How can I install the latest version of nvidia drivers with apt and make it so I get the new version when it is updated? I have installed nvidia-367 but didn't get a notice that nvidia-375 was available. I tried nvidia-current but that seems to install nvidia-304.
Evan Stewart
downtown
Cameron Peterson
about to install Gentoo
already have Ubuntu on my computer; i'm going to dual-boot in case Gentoo doesn't work out for me.
just wondering if I need to install grub during the gentoo installation or if ubuntu's grub will be able to detect gentoo if I don't install grub during the gentoo install
Logan Harris
if it's not holding your hand yeah you'll want to modify your grub entry to point to the new option
Grayson Diaz
Got ya. Yeah I assumed I would at least have to log into Ubuntu and run OS-prober to detect Gentoo. Was just wondering if Gentoo needed its own boot loader in order for Ubuntu's grub to detect it.
Joshua Watson
why is kde so cool?
Hunter Bell
But it isn't
Nathaniel Nguyen
how is it not cool if it is?
Tyler Ramirez
It is.
Levi Jenkins
I dunno. The window manager looks cool but it comes with too much other shit. I know what browser I like (firefox) why the hell do I want it to install konquerer. I know what file browser I want (thunar) why do I want it to install dolphin? etc...
Jack Roberts
installed 375 today and Mint keeps freezing
Carter Cooper
Just rebooted but things seem ok for me so far with neon.
Levi Allen
Looks like you're using a shit distro/package manager. on gentoo it doesn't install any of that even with the plasma-meta package.
Carter Price
for some reason i do not get a shadow on my tint2 when i enable false for non shadow with compton
Jose Robinson
I am using Gentoo. Quit making assumptions. I just didn't know it would be any different since I never tried it.
Gavin Walker
don't make assumptions yourself then if you don't want people to make assumptions. portage usually doesn't pull in a lot of shit unless you explicitly request it and you should know this.
Jace Moore
Sorry senpai
Isaac Green
You don't have to install konquerer, it's not 2012 anymore. Dolphin is far better than thunar but I don't think you have to have it installed if you don't want it. Plasma 5 is pretty good at separating the packages now. That said, kde applications are general a lot better than the alternatives.
Carson Clark
>Dolphin is far better than thunar this. is there even any reason to pick thunar over dolphin if you aren't running on ancient hardware?
Juan Foster
installed Mint today and can't seem to install nVidia drivers for GTX 1060, system keeps freezing
Nathan Turner
fedora 25
Josiah Lopez
Is arch anywhere still an avid option?
Brayden Garcia
provide more details.
Daniel White
Will using the same directory as my downloads folder fuck something up when torrenting if I'm dualbooting?
Ethan Bailey
installed nvidia drivers today, tried 367, 370 and 375, even the open source x.org and system keeps freezing to the point that my only option is restarting. I don't know what to do... my first distro
Lucas Hughes
How did you install them?
Angel Smith
Driver Manager
Andrew Martin
Is your card overheating?
John Jenkins
yes, just noticed it half an hour ago, 60-65 degrees
Samuel Kelly
Live usb session worked?
Nolan Brown
Make sure it's properly ventilated then try it again.
Liam Adams
had some problems with not recognizing monitors but fixed it with nomodeset, checked the video card and it's fine ...
Kayden Johnson
Timestamp : Thu Nov 24 21:24:27 2016 Driver Version : 370.28
Attached GPUs : 1 GPU 0000:01:00.0 Temperature GPU Current Temp : 63 C GPU Shutdown Temp : 102 C GPU Slowdown Temp : 99 C
Andrew Cruz
how to disable video from downloading (and playing) from about:config
Julian Flores
no 1 grub should do er.
a lazier method is to use a separate disk altogether and use your bios disk select
meh. lol. strokes/folks
others would say just virt it but that's not as to the limit
Daniel Brown
disallow the file types
turn off scripts
Kayden Garcia
How's the stability of openSUSE compared to debian? I'm about to try out the chameleon as my main distro
Kevin Russell
suse on servers is very nice i don't see why desktop distro would be any less staple
zypper is nice and repos are well maintained. (not gushing out though) don't see a reason why note
Kevin Russell
Who is this productus succubus?
Lincoln Wilson
Is setting OpenGL to 3.1 and changing vsync to full screen repaints enough to get rid of screen tearing in KDE? What have I missed? I'm running the non-nouveau drivers for GTX 970. It happens everywhere except full screen MPV (still happens when not full screen).
Aiden Foster
I was wrong, it happens in full screen as well. It's just a lot less noticeable.
Anthony Cook
I accidentally deleted Music/Videos/Downloads folders from the /Home directory.
How do I populate it back? Not interested in the content of those folders since it were empty, creating folders with the same name isn't right since the OS regards it as just another folder in the /Home directory and not a folder for Music/Downloads/Videos.
Isaac Perry
So I was dual-booting windows 8 and Ubuntu 16.04, haven't used the Ubuntu partition for a few weeks.
Tired to login today and something wired happened, when I try to login the screen flickers and outputs the line:
before returning to the login screen, What is going on? How I fix it? I think it could be the fact that I share some of the things on my HDD between the 2 os's? not really sure.
I thought Ubuntu was the easy version of Linux...
Cooper Morris
That's corruption. Did you move something from the Windows partition to the linux partition?
Oliver Foster
delete ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs run xdg-user-dirs-update
Jack Cox
I don't think so, I may have copied something from the 2tb HDD that I share between both?
Is everything on the Linux Partion fucked for good or can I recover some of it?
Jason Rodriguez
how many FLOSS projects has she contributed to?
Jonathan Moore
Based user. Check "The wizard's birthday" for the source on the pic.
Chase Allen
>Is everything on the Linux Partion fucked for good or can I recover some of it? Nothing is lost, probably windows have corrupted something run fsck on the linux partition and ONLY the linux partition.
Noah Watson
I got like 80gb allocated for Arch on my SSD. What ratio would you recommend for root and home, if you have an entire HDD dedicated for downloading shit.
Noah Cox
You don't even need a partition then. Just keep your /home on the root parition
Cameron Roberts
Just set the whole root for the SSD, and set the /Home on the HDD.
Ryder Murphy
Thousands of commits have been committed after a masturbatory sessions
Angel Sanders
session* to her picture. Accidentally, prematurely sent the message.
Justin Powell
Forgive my ignorance, but during install, would I mount said big partition to /mnt, create boot & home folders, and then simply not mount anything to home?
I use the HDD also on Windows, so it's NTFS. Also, I'd rather have it on the SSD as well, or aren't all the configs and shit in there?
Cooper Jenkins
gonna commit something right now myself then.
Nathan Moore
If that's the case then, yes. You should have everything on the SSD, 50GB for the root, and 30GB for the home. But sharing HDD with NTFS between linux and windows is bad idea.
Connor White
>But sharing HDD with NTFS between linux and windows is bad idea. How so? I already did that once without running into issues. It's basically just for storage, i.e. I have movies and Chinese cartoons on it.
Yeah. Just make a directory called /home in your / and that's it. There's really no need for a separate partition with just 80GB. Especially on arch with its bloated packages. Why would you need a home on it? Just mount the windows drive and watch everything from there. Literally no need for it to be on your /home
David Nelson
>Why would you need a home on it? Yeah my point exactly, that's why I said I want it on the SSD.
Kevin James
>arch with its bloated packages
Jayden Torres
Oh. I thought you wanted your home on a separate drive. That's fine then. I wouldn't even make a home partition if I were you though. 80GB really isn't a lot. @57676247 good post
Henry Williams
@57676268 >@57676247 I like your way of not increasing (You)
Dylan Thompson
Arch install fag again. Does anyone know if the official grub package supports NVMe devices, or do I have to use grub-git?
Jonathan Ramirez
>Nothing is lost, probably windows have corrupted something run fsck on the linux partition and ONLY the linux partition.
I'm pretty sure I did that correctly? Now it says clean before hand at the # are different
Thanks BTW
Anthony Allen
Is cantata the best Qt player?
Alexander Wilson
I updated my Debian with Moto updates, then corrected the ssources.list and updated with Sana updates. How can I find the Moto updates and remove them?
Dominic Cox
nope qmmp
Jason Lopez
Is there anything you can do while being root, that you can't do with sudo? Isn't sudo doubling your chances of someone getting root access to your system?
Jaxson Adams
(All network addresses made up)
So I can ssh into my pc from the phone when they're in the same LAN (top sketch) with the command $ ssh [email protected]:22.
Now I want to be able to ssh into the pc from the phone when I'm NOT on the same network. Would the bottom sketch work? In short: > forward router port 22 (inward-facing) to 222 (outward-facing) > set up VPN on router; router now has an IP address which is visible inside the VPN (192.168.1.201 in the sketch) > connect phone to VPN server > ssh connection to (router's VPN IP address) port 222 is forwarded inside the LAN to pc port 22 (ssh server)
Parker Cox
I installed Manjaro (with GNOME) alongside my Ubuntu GNOME installation on my test laptop, as per one user's suggestion in the previous /fglt/. And it didn't feel terribly different at all. The only differences I've noticed so far are
>different set of pre-installed programs >different set of default customizations of GNOME >pacman instead of apt >no "software center," just a package manager >different versions of packages
Is it just me, or are Linux distros not nearly as different from each other as people make them out to be?
Colton Mitchell
>VPN That's needlessly complicated. Just port forward on your router, then connect directly to that. Also, please post your images in the correct orientation. I'm not going to turn my head, or save that image and do it myself in order to read that.
Jacob James
>Is it just me, or are Linux distros not nearly as different from each other as people make them out to be? Yes. Fundamentally, they are all the same. The only real differences usually are just package managers, and maybe init systems.
Jace Johnson
The router doesn't have a static public IP as far as I know so I'd have to look that up every morning. Sorry, phone and at uni.
Aiden Gutierrez
CYGWIN/VIM QUESTION: I have my .vim and .vimrc etc they work on linux but when I put them in home to use with cygwin vim doesn't change and spits out errors
Error detected while processing VimEnter Auto commands for "*": E492: Not an editor command: NERDTree
also none of my other plugins work, I've used :version to determine everythings in the correct directories
Joshua Cook
Hey guys, I have a quick question. I'm planning to pick up a new external drive to move all of my media to (newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16822235121). I'll be swapping it between a Windows PC and a laptop running Manjaro. I haven't had the experience of using any kind of removable media with Linux yet (I'm still very new to it), but is there any particular file system I have to use? Also, if I want to secure the data, is there anything that will decrypt it on both operating systems? Asking mainly because I have a trip home from college coming up and I won't have access to anything but the laptop.
Isaac Sullivan
the fuck why is there no support for a fucking netgear wireless usb adapter?
Alexander Green
NTFS, LUKs
Camden Murphy
Sudo is an abstraction which enables fine-tuned control about who can use the root account. When you use sudo, you're doing things as root. Sudo serves as a convenience for most users, so they don't have to first log in as root, execute their command and exit the root shell.
Carter Allen
no idiot, using sudo just runs a certain parameter as root. using sudo does not all of the sudden execute whole instructions as full root access.
Angel Mitchell
>is there any particular file system I have to use If you want to be able to use it with Windows as well, you pretty much have to use NTFS. Linux can read and write NTFS just fine. >if I want to secure the data, is there anything that will decrypt it on both operating systems The go to encryption scheme for Linux is dmcrypt+LUKS. Apparently there are windows programs capable of opening them. Also, Truecrypt (which you shouldn't be using) was capable of being used on both. Whatever the successor to Truecrypt is should be another possible solution.
Evan Rogers
pacman is slow as fuck, but everything else seems to work at proper speeds, picture related. What could the issue be? Am I missing something obvious?
I properly ranked the mirrors and saved it in the mirrorlist. Tried both on-board network cards, same issue.
Ian Turner
Thank you, anons. You guys rock.
Nicholas Lopez
Wait, why is TrueCrypt bad now? I thought the security audit came up clean.
Isaac Thompson
>why is TrueCrypt bad now It's unmaintained.
Caleb Turner
...
Elijah Wright
Does anyone else get disgusted whenever they see someone using Yaourt like here ? Not just Yaourt, basically any AUR helper. It just screams: "I don't know what I'm doing, but I will then complain how this sucks once I mess things up." It also has some sort of pretentious aura.
Jordan Mitchell
>Yaourt That's clearly pacman.
Eli Smith
It's the same with either one.
Daniel Walker
How is it pretentious to use your package manager?
Ryan Sullivan
The issue is the same with either one. I don't give a fuck about the pretentious part.
Lucas Baker
You get disgusted when someone uses their package manager normally? What the hell is wrong with you?
Caleb Cruz
I think you got lost in the reply chain. He's most likely referring here that he's getting the issue with both.
