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What is apt and aur exactly. Can arch install apt and have access to all the"Ubuntu" software?
Eli Green
No.
John Stewart
apt is debian/ubuntu's package manager. aur is arch's user repository. you can't install ubuntu packages directly on arch, but pretty much every ubuntu package is also available in arch's package manager, so it doesn't really matter
Asher Lee
Technically you could do that but it would break everything and this
I know, but what distro is on his leemote or whatever it is
Ayden Morris
I'm about to install Gentoo for the first time. I'm scared, Sup Forums.
I'm somewhat tech-savvy but I'm a normie who's only ever used Windows and the extent of my coding is Second Life. But I'm going balls deep on this. The install CD is currently DLing.
Alexander Morales
Trisquel Linux
Jackson Thomas
>I use a Thinkpad X60 computer, in which the FSF installed a free initialization program (libreboot) and a free operating system (Trisquel GNU/Linux.)
Parker Richardson
user no, you are getting memed, install an Ubuntu flavor as your first distro instead.
Angel Martinez
When a developer makes software, can he make it general to Linux or does he have to remake it for all the distros?
Logan Green
I was told Ubuntu is a meme for babies
besides Gentoo is almost done downloading
Hudson Moore
>>I was told Ubuntu is a meme for babies You know what, yea I think Gentoo is perfect for you, user.
Zachary Jones
Your logic is flawless, I am now downloading Ubuntu.
Christian Thompson
Dont be memed, install a more usable linux distro first. (like debian)
Connor Perry
Use systemrescuecd instead. That way you can read along to the guide on the live cd while you do it. It's better. it has tons of tools too.
Lincoln Cox
disregard idiots like there's literally nothing hard or "pro" about it. and this one isn't just an idiot, judging by his use of debian he has something more serious possible severe and irreversible brain damage like what? everything you could possibly need is on the livecd. could be wrong though since that's the only way i've ever done it.
Levi Thomas
cool buzzwords it it perhaps more lightweight and enterprise friendly as well?
Carter Long
I'm not really picky
I'm just trying to Frankenstein a garbage broken -hard-drive PC into a working one.
Leo Cruz
Oh, I guess that would work too. I thought he was downloading the minimal install cd with just a console.
Dylan Baker
honestly if you let yourself get memed by gentoo you deserve your fate
Julian Price
well, gentoo doesn't really care it'll work for you just avoid debian if you don't want to lose your humanity choose something like ubuntu instead if that's what you need. debian is literally the shittiest of shit
i would suggest gentoo though as its literally the best. explain in what way gentoo is a meme. you have 30 seconds. im waiting! inb4 long compile times im sorry if your a 3rd worlder and you don't have a good cpu """"""""argument"""""""" discarded
David Myers
Gentoo is actually one of the best distros, though.
Nathaniel Cooper
what this guy is saying is true. just cross-referenced it with my data and i can verify with 100% certainty that what is said in this post is true
James Davis
I know nothing of Linux, but I'm not too much of a normie.
Really, anything is a step up from the usual. I have to use an electron microscope with fucking DOS.
Dominic Ortiz
just use one of the best distros (gentoo) right away then. following the gentoo handbook shouldn't be hard at all if you aren't literally mentally disabled as most debian users seem to be.
avoid shite like debian at all costs. use something like ubuntu if you just want most things to work out of the box.
that's pretty much all you need to know for now. the rest you will have to learn on your own
Benjamin Kelly
>debian >usable
Angel Smith
>tfw distro hopped everywhere >every linux distro is buggy, broken, or has zero google results for problems. Every DE is fugly out of the box >>FreeBSD >MacOS is a buggy, bloated mess that requires expensive shit hardware, but it is decent to look at every day >haven't tried Ubuntu Unity Is it the only decent *nix OS with decent support, software, and flexibility? all I really need to do is use the internet, and occasionally play OpenMW and minecraft
Michael Martinez
have you used gentoo?
Brody Cox
Do I have to spend an hour recompilling my kernel every time I have to upgrade ffmpeg?
Bentley Murphy
How do I make Katawa Shoujo accessible from my Applications menu? I don't want to have to dig through the file explorer whenever I want to play it. Using Cinnamon.
Josiah Williams
lmao says he "distro hopped """"everywhere""""" and hasn't used literally the best distro aka gentoo nope, that's not how it actually works. if your cpu is from this century it shouldn't take you an hour to recompile your kernel. and no, ffmpeg updates can't possibly trigger the need to recompile your kernel as far as i know idk mate, try not playing crap first. that should solve every single problem you have
Thomas Edwards
any GNOME 3 or KDE distro is actually very nice to look at.
Cooper Peterson
>GNOME 3 >nice to X if X != not use/uninstall pick 1 (one)
Carson Price
intended for five7926257 >reddit >dota >hackernews >opens up his css code to look like a cool "programmer" lmfao you are living meme also
Aaron Gray
>falling for the gentoo meme
Jayden Cook
Why did you even feel the need to post this shitty screenshot?
Carson Gutierrez
it is the css for the start page you are looking at
Sebastian Edwards
>falling for the "falling for the meme" meme copied from a previous post: "explain in what way gentoo is a meme. you have 30 seconds. im waiting! inb4 long compile times im sorry if your a 3rd worlder and you don't have a good cpu """"""""argument"""""""" discarded" yeah, that looked so fucking cool. you must be a programmer or something. did you learn programming at /r/programming too?
Charles Price
to show how nice looking gnome 3 is
Luke Phillips
but you just did the exact opposite. you also discredited yourself by trying to look cool with all that mysterious code and a literal link to reddit on your homepage. you guys don't even try to hide it anymore. fuck off back to your home website reddit.com
Eli Diaz
why are you so upset?
John Collins
for that you would have to show a screenshot of KDE and lie
Alexander Collins
how can you hear my voice? i don't even have a microphone you still failed to explain in what way exactly is gentoo a meme please don't use words you don't even understand, that's not appreciated on this site.
Blake Campbell
i am the desktop poster not the gentoo is a meme poster
Liam Clark
Need some help Sup Forums, bigtime! I need to undo the 'systemctl disable foo' commands that I typed in, I don't know if there is a command to delete those entries. I made the mistake of following a guide written by an Indian and my system is tucked netctl and dhcpcd were disabled
Jason Reed
because your salty enough about it >muh use flags >muh optimuzation cancer please go
Joshua Phillips
It's not that hard. I've found the Gentoo Wiki to be much clearer and beginner-friendly compared to the Arch Wiki (despite what most people say).
Gentoo is pretty comfy too, good luck and don't forget to configure the kernel manually.
Jordan Ross
Create a .desktop file for it and put it on your /usr/share/applications folder or ~/.local/share/applications if you prefer to have it there for your user only.
Xavier Bell
I got my mom and girlfriend to use Linux. My crusade continues.
Christian Scott
gnu linux
Jeremiah Perez
Go away attentionwhore
Jack Davis
im upset because your kind feels the need to come here and shit this place up please stay on your shitty "website" im not even against immigrants, but please leave your shitty "culture" behind when you decide to post here. just close that website and never visit it again. if you feel the need to do so then you have a choice before you. use it or use this site. there is no third option. i hope i've made myself clear enough. i wish you'll become a better poster, either way, just fuck off if you wanna visit that site. >using reddit meems like "m-" and "s-" literally kill yourself mate nice "arguments" though prepare something better next time you decide to make a shitpost that's what i found as well. genkernel is fine though for his first time. i think manually configuring it from an already working system is better.
Luis Torres
how does he even know the in and outs if he has never installed it? does he know what a swap is?
Juan Kelly
systemctl enable example.service
symlinks should get remapped
Mason Sanders
Not attentionwhoring, I just think it's funny that my mom asked and wants Linux.
Jayden Campbell
Do you mean from the start menu? Right click the menu button, hit configure, then go here.
Aaron Martin
>is here for two months >decides to shit this board up >>>>>>>reddit.com/irc/
Sebastian Morales
I have been using Sup Forums since 2009
reddit is a good news aggregator, and it's free software. I will continue to read reddit and use Sup Forums unless happily reddit refuses to comply with the FSF's requests to free their javascript.
Noah Wood
His main day to day stuff is writing for magazines, co-ordinating FSF business over email, and writing speeches. He probably has some drafts of GPLv4 or something he is working on as well.
Aaron Collins
>reddit is a good news aggregator, and it's free software different user here, but i'd say reddit's aggregation quality has gone downhill since it started getting infested with your average chucklefuck new.ycombinator is nice, and slashdot is good enough for rossman
Chase Thompson
fuck off if you've been here only for 2 months lurk for at least 1 year before posting, that should be enough for your retarded mind if you decide to post before that then it sure as fuck shouldn't be a post of your screen with epic css code in it to show everyone how cool you are. by the way, here's the link for you to fuck off to reddit.com/r/gaming/ lmao, sure. i've been using it since the 20s right after the war
you're "memes" aren't lifted straight from reddit and your definitely the first immigrant i've seen here using the exact same tactics. you should use every single website that is free software then if that's your only criteria. there are other news aggregators which aren't complete shit. if you still continue to use reddit then read my other post.
Josiah Young
>can't read greentext >clearly frightened and confused you poor thing
Jackson Clark
is that what you call it on reddit? interesting... how can you possibly claim to know my state of mind just via text? seems like an absurd proposition to me im not a "thing" though since i don't visit reddit
Adam Bennett
Don't listen to and I love gnome3 and they're just babies who whine about "muh resources" and "itz different!!!1"
Parker Edwards
@@57926536 (You)
Matthew Ortiz
>i love Gnome 3 therefore it isn't shit >muh >itz >!1 I wonder which website this guy came from.
Lucas Jenkins
this isn't how we actually link on this website. I guess it's different on reddit On this site you prefix the post number with two symbols in quotes right here ">>" (leave out the quotation marks)
Hudson Gray
>GNOME 3 no thanks, I don't like tablet design elements >KDE the only KDE distro I know of is OpenSUSE, which nobody seems to care about, unfortunately I would probably like arch if pacman was a bit more user friendly But from everything i've seen, Unity seems like a decent looking choice, and ubuntu has all the developers
Jonathan Kelly
Come up with valid criticism of gnome3 that doesn't revolve around it being heavy on system resources (which doesn't fucking matter on a practical level as everyone's got more than enough ram for it) or about it not being similar enough to a traditional desktop metaphor.
Whatever you say, I'm sure it applies to multiple DEs or that the ones you think are superior have issues as well. None of them are perfect. It's nothing more than personal taste, and I'm ready to see you try to make a retarded "objective" argument.
Chase Flores
I mean, there's Kubuntu, which is technically a distro.
Justin Bailey
I don't like that it's touch screen oriented. Because of this design it has giant icons in its menus and it's pretty ugly. But, I do love how it looks on the desktop, the curved edge does look nice and the animations are good. I just feel like I can be more efficient with other de's that have a generic approach that are similar to Windows ui.
Blake Perry
it's just total shite from every single perspective imaginable. nah, not every de uses the buggy and retarded piece of shit that is gtk3 a buggy, retarded, "tablet", "touch screen" piece of dogshite can't even be called a de as far as im concerned nope, kde doesn't use gtk3 therefore it doesn't have more than 90% of the issues gnome has.
i don't fucking care about resources since i have 16gb of ram but i wouldn't imagine someone with 8gb would care either. >unity even shittier than gnome, and that is pretty hard to achieve. do whatever you want, just avoid unity and gnome. you could try them for testing purposes but you'll just waste your time since they are both very retarded "DEs"
Nicholas Gonzalez
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Blake Hernandez
>heavy on resources When have you ever fucking seen this "argument" mentioned? It must be a common one on your home website. I suggest you fuck right back off to it.
Daniel Hernandez
>ubuntu has all the developers not really, it has a lot but not much more than Debian or Fedora
I used unity for a year and a half and it's just fine, the HUD is really neat. The problem that I had with it was that the dash isnt really as nice as any other DE's launcher, and it was kind of ugly.
For KDE you can choose Kubuntu, OpenSuSE, Debian, Mageia, Linux Mint(semi insecure), Gentoo, Arch or Slackware if you want a difficult to maintain system.
Also, gnome does not really have tablet design elements. GTK header bar takes less vertical space than KDE's window decoration and toolbar. The only thing really tablety is the gtk3 tabs are full width
Brody Sanders
>even shittier than gnome finally a response that's a shame, i guess i'll stick with Xfce for now >inb4 some weeb tells me to rice openbox
Joshua Wood
I wonder which website this image came from. Xfce is pretty good. Also try out MATE, you might like it even more. >gentoo or arch >difficult to maintan lmao
Nathaniel Robinson
name one gtk+3 bug
Mason Fisher
Titlebars are fixable by a small edit to a .css file in the config folder, except for the in-house gnome ones which rely on having those over sized buttons. It's my only criticism of gnome3, and one that doesn't matter that much on higher resolution displays, but under 1600x900 you feel how much wasted space that is.
okay lol, terrible argument but you tired. Also, unity while not as good as gnome3 is literally also fine. It's one of the least buggy DE's I've ever used. The only thing wrong with it is how fucking intent they are on making you NOT able to customize it.
In fact, them removing the ability to move the titlebar buttons is what started my switch from unity to gnome3.
Literally all the time here on Sup Forums. Any time you mention KDE, Unity, or Gnome3, people bitch about system resources. Sup Forums is my only home. I have no place else to go but here.
Austin Rodriguez
Uhh.... Uhhh.....
Isaac Clark
"New Item" isn't doing anything.
Jackson Brown
>I'm using a DE reccomended by a redditor It came from Know Your Meme, faggot
Gavin Torres
this thread is not very friendly at all
James Bell
gtk3 > Also, unity while not as good as gnome3 is literally also fine yeah, wouldn't expect less from a gnome fag anything you write after this point is literally worthless > It's one of the least buggy DE's I've ever used yess.... the objective quality of software and its bugginess is negated by your feelings i get it. didn't even fucking read the rest of it. don't even bother writing a "response" if you feel like being this retarded and please don't try to fool anyone here that you aren't just off the boat
Jose Reyes
>okay lol I wonder which website this poster comes from. But I'm not even using a DE.
Asher Nguyen
It's the reason why linux hasn't taken off some salty retard says Gentoo or GTFO and everyone gets scared away
Julian Russell
>salty Stopped reading right there.
Jaxson Murphy
I don't know why people get angry over this shit. It's pretty retarded.
Lucas Russell
Accusations of being from reddit are one of the more obnoxious things people on Sup Forums try to do to make themselves feel more superior.
There's literally no way to prove someone is other than them making a reference from reddit which would require YOU to also frequent reddit, or through finding it open in their browser.
Andrew Reed
>some retard says Gentoo or GTFO post the exact quote of this i'll wait.
Nolan Jackson
Its always something along the lines of someone asking what should he install and everyone suggesting something different while engaging in an endless loop of insulting the other choices
Bentley Long
but i don't need to feel superior to anything. i am by definition superior to ANYONE who visits or has at any point in time visited the website reddit.com since i don't do it myself. here's an example - you don't need to feel superior to a dog since you by definition are. >There's literally no way to prove someone is other than them making a reference from reddit which would require YOU to also frequent reddit, or through finding it open in their browser. there's another way, interacting with hundreds of fucking immigrants and knowing how they talk you can literally tell if someone is from reddit merely by the "memes" they use or how incorrectly they use memes which have become popular elsewhere but were originally from here. a good example would be "REEEEEEEEE" i've seen it used incorrectly here in this very thread dozens of times.
i just hope you overlooked this point and you aren't actually so retarded as to think that you can only obtain information on a certain "people" by actually going and living in their culture.
Mason Garcia
Really? Nothing pops up when you click New Item? Right click your panel, restart Cinnamon, and try it again.
If that still doesn't work then I recommend doing what this user suggested:
Caleb White
Culture doesn't exist in a bubble. There's a reason why aspects that would have once been considered foreign in American culture become domestic. Get enough redditors on the website, and even non-redditors will start to pick up on how they speak.
To assume that anyone who uses a certain "word" ignores that fact, as well as ignoring that very few websites have lingo that is entirely unique and not shared with other sites.
Hudson Edwards
No, it's because someone recommends the distro that takes hours to install and then proceeds to shit up the thread >The only thing wrong with it is how fucking intent they are on making you NOT able to customize it. well, that sucks
