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i could help but it depends on your answer to this question: are you a socialist?
Christopher Clark
No, socialism sucks
Samuel Jackson
This is a friendly thread.
Easton Campbell
arch-anywhere Not anymore. It won't be friendly until every last one of them is dead.
Jonathan Foster
Are you able to help me now?
Jacob Richardson
look at one post above you
Aiden Lee
That wasn't his question.
Julian King
means
Blake Barnes
But he said he wasn't a socialist. Which means he isn't mentally retarded and doesn't need help with basic geometry
Liam Martinez
Arch install script? It so easy, you just need to partition, pacstrap and installing boot loader.
Alexander Myers
>geometry u need help bruh
Mason Baker
I`ve got problem on Arch. I`m using .xinitrc to start some applications ( cbatticon, volwheel, wicd, variety) but it seems that this config is ignored at startup :/ what am I doing wrong?
Adrian Gomez
see
Jackson White
yeah i understand that the concept of an axiom is hard for your people to grasp but he isn't a socialist so he should be fine just use your wm config for that.
Leo Baker
>I`ve got problem on Arch. That's normal.
Logan Johnson
Post more Stallmans.
Henry Bailey
he responded to you
Carson Gray
got these
Justin Johnson
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Charles Cruz
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Lincoln Cook
Love it.
Lincoln Wilson
How do I go mouseless, senpais?
Kevin Morgan
Do people really pay 1200$ for a jacket?
Thomas Barnes
install a tiling wm anything besides awesome should be fine
Charles Rodriguez
You can not use the mouse with a floating window manager. A tiling window manager, like every other, only affects your window use. It doesn't affect other programs at all. Get a brain and stop repeating misinformation and spreading it, idiot.
Connor Lewis
Using mpv as music player. Is there a way to get the current title in a shell script so I can add it to my panel?
David Myers
Not last time I checked I don't use a mouse with a tiling wm Seems like you are the idiot here
Ryder Brooks
get: - xbindkeys - xdotool - wmctrl - dmenu2 - a tiling wm - a ff addon to get vi-keys
awesome is fine
Jackson Hughes
I don't use the mouse and use a floating window manager. What now?
Aaron Gutierrez
What's the best skype replacement? Ring? Tox? Anything else? Not sure which to try. What do people use.
Alexander Cruz
sure if "fine" and "piece of shit" are the same in your opinion
Andrew Robinson
Got a Core M laptop i'm not using. Thinking of Install Linux on it just for fun. Always been a Windows baby. My googling seems to show Ubuntu is really easy to use and get running. That sound right?
A simple window manager will do. I prefer cwm from openbsd project.
Asher Turner
KDE
Noah Diaz
for
Easton Brooks
Welcome to the club.
Cameron Ross
not toaster: GNOME or Plasma toaster: Openbox other DEs: don't even bother, it's shit
Aiden Stewart
>he fell for the arch meme
Hunter Reyes
hmm k cwm, minimalistic?
why KDE?
thanks m8 o7
Easton Powell
its shit
Anthony Bell
non-graphical tty
Robert Cook
>why KDE? its the best
Samuel Robinson
Source-based distributions are highly portable, giving the advantage of controlling and compiling the entire OS and applications for a particular machine architecture and usage scheme, with the disadvantage of the time-consuming nature of source compilation. The Arch base and all packages are compiled for i686 and x86_64 architectures, offering a potential performance boost over i486/i586 binary distributions, with the added advantage of expedient installation.
Jace Powell
>why KDE? No GTK fuckery.
Jace Cook
arch isn't source based
Charles Sanchez
i3 wm
Joseph Perry
This.
Nicholas Gray
>so got arch running kek
Connor Wilson
KDE does look enticing
Thomas Hughes
>not liking anime
Parker Russell
yeah it is simply the best de out there
Austin Morris
its set mates, going with the KDE. \o/
Alexander Murphy
Vanilla ubuntu idle ram consumption?
I'm sick of trying "light" stuff and get shit broken I want the shit that just werks
Charles Stewart
ok, so i got arch installed... shit man how autistic are you?
Hunter Cook
why using a lightweight distro ans slapping the most bloated de on it?
Joseph Baker
also don't forget to install firefox-kde-opensuse to get the based kde filepicker i think chromium has it too by default but I'm not sure. >kde >bloated pick one >arch >lightweight pick one
Wyatt Flores
>Arch >lightweight Pick one.
Nicholas Myers
i want shit that i dont have to install every damn thing under the sun just to be able to do shit.
Brayden Sanchez
>implying the only way to get a barebones distro is using arch >what are netinstalls
Angel Morgan
see
Michael Myers
seems like you're describing gentoo tried it yet?
Levi Miller
im liking this
The looks of Plasma Desktop not only provide beauty, they are also used to support and improve your computer activities effectively, without being distracting.
Josiah Bennett
yeah maybe, but arch is suppose to be a power house as security goes.
from the wiki itslef, it sates, be carefull how secure you make it becuase you can lock yourself out. now thats secure
Kevin Wright
nope it's a binary distro which means it has worse security compared to anything source based
Jackson Hernandez
>gentoo >fix ethernet >fuck up usb ports
I want to shit in stallman chest
Evan Sullivan
eh, thats not what this states
Jeremiah Parker
never had anything of the sort, seems like you did something wrong and you now for some reason think it's the distro's fault. that retard doesn't have anything to with gentoo since it goes against his idiotic """"""""""philosophy""""""""""
Bentley Gomez
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
Oliver Gutierrez
arch comes with repos that have precompiled binaries in them how the fuck can this be described as source based?
Jace Lee
arch lxde
Alexander Peterson
he said lightweight
Ryder Garcia
maybe ask these people
Aaron Ross
Xubuntu
Christian Sanchez
Gentoo Linux minus GNU
Angel Murphy
>>Arch >>Lightweight >Pick one is this a new meme? Or are prople really that stupid? Have fun with your USE flag clusterfuck
Liam Rogers
>ubuntu-16.10-desktop-amd64.iso
Lets try this shit
Dominic Jones
stop
Brandon Adams
>Or are prople really that stupid? eh proble are stupid i guess
Matthew Reyes
i don't need to ask anyone arch isn't a source based distro that's all there is to it. >including documentation and headers in your packages is lightweight >not doing package splitting is lightweight what did he mean by this? >Have fun with your USE flag clusterfuck yeah... editing config files is so hard
Xavier Diaz
I think you forgot something else after your post. "stop" what exactly?
Asher Turner
>is this a new meme? Is there anything related to arch that ISN'T a meme?
Justin Morris
while arch is just stupid, gentoo is a whole new level of stupidy, why the hell would any sane man in the world want to compile every single program of his distro?
Nathaniel Rivera
>whole new level It's the same reason why people use Arch: To look cool on the internet.
Oliver Morales
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William Lewis
yes, arch itself arch is a pretty good distro for what it's worth it just isn't lightweight by any means. to achieve levels of customization which are simply impossible on binary distros why the hell would any sane person want shit he never uses or doesn't even have the capabilities to use sitting in his packages? it doesn't take long either if you aren't a poorfag with a shitty processor.
Adam Bailey
i use arch because of the aur, tbqh, i wouldn't mind switching if another distro had aur access
William Sanders
i use arch because, security, community, stability, and chicks digit kek
Jackson Davis
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Jackson Mitchell
You can compile your packages on literally every other distro, retard. The only average on Gentoo are retard friendly flags when installing a package, a feature you pay for with wasting your lifetime.
