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first for "first for"

>page 3
>going 1 page an hour
>OH I KNOW ILL MAKE A NEW THREAD
retard

yo, wheres the upvote feature? i want everyone to be able to see this comment

why does every thread have to start with shitposting kill yourselves, you make linux look like the league of legends general on /vg/

just tell me where the feature is.

why is the linux community so toxic?

why wont you tell me?
also this general have been on a strong decline. i cant even the remember the last time someone came with a valid question

Many wintoddlers frequent ITT, it's no wonder edgy ones would kill to post their dankest baits first

And the thread just reflects the kind of people shitposts here

Stop namefagging.

don't agree with me i dislike you too namefag

Oh boy here we go again

see: this isn't reddit

maybe a new rule to the website should finally be implemented if it derails discussion so much. oh wait i know, how about "using names/trips when it is irrelevant to the discussion" being a bannable offense

Does my name tickle your autism?

This is a friendly thread.
Please be friendly.

are you guys the 'neo'-neo-Sup Forums? get used to it already.

Literally the main reason I use Unity (Ubuntu) is because it's hardware-accelerated/composited out of the box

Are those WMs like Awesome or i3 also hardware accelerated/composited or can they be? I didn't like how Xfeces was clunky to set up for compositing even though I got it working okay with Compton.

(didn't get a clear answer to this in the last thread)

>chrome
>whatsapp
heh

fuck off back to R[spoiler][/spoiler]eddit.

Does it bother you?

Toxic? Never seen it. We are fuwafuwa and kirakira.

>using spoilers
i take that as an extremely loud 'yes'

>hurr durr reddit iz bad XDDDDDDD
Time to go back to Sup Forums, little faggot

He uses spoilers because he's used to Sup Forums

cry more, people will always continue to complain nothing you can do to stop it

>cry more, people will always continue to complain nothing you can do to stop it
nice reversal! i almost thought i was crying.

I can always start tripfagging on that case.

I LOVE angering autistic toddlers

>/fglt/

It's hard to not take the fucking b8.

>I didn't like how Xfeces was clunky to set up for compositing

>clicking one checkbox is "clunky to set up"

typical braindead xfce hater

If you don't use systemd you're just a hipster luddite afraid of progress.

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>wasting your first post of the thread on this

I don't care if you are too hip for systemd. But just don't even try to shove your sophisticated UNIX philosophy in others' way

You need to install compton and start it in .xinitrc to use compositing with i3 and awesome.

This will be the real Donald again after 2020.

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:^)

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That SJW friendly bot made me leave that board permanently

>t. KDE women

I used xfeces for about 2 full years, I'm hardly a random hater, I hate it because I used it and it was clunky shit.
Thanks, didn't realize it would just be compton across all WMs but that makes sense I guess. I don't rice much which is why I don't know all this cool stuff, which is also why I was glad Ubongo just did it out of the box.

People who shit on Ubuntu really don't get why millions flock to it, it's the reasonably good default setup, pure and simple.

>he's using a DE
Are people really too retarded to choose their own applications? I understand that a DE with tandom terminal, random browser, text editor etc is useful for newcomers, but why would a poweruser brack baout "my DE is better than yours"? Grow up and choose your own software faggets.

I'm on Arch btw

read this you arch niglet >which is also why I was glad Ubongo just did it out of the box.
>People who shit on Ubuntu really don't get why millions flock to it, it's the reasonably good default setup, pure and simple.
Then triple-kill yourself

Why would a power user brag about being able to choose his own software?

I'm looking to buy a laptop when I go abroad to work. Which would be a good one, to allow me to do some programming while also serve as a work laptop for ubuntu?

What kind of laptop that runs Ubuntu wouldn't allow you to do some programming?

Thinkpads have good linux support. Stay away from surface pro, it has poor linux support. Hope that helps.

Wait sorry, what I meant was, if you can recommend me one that will run good in the ~1k range.

Vim question, don't know where else to ask. Does anyone know if I can map a key to a command but make it not actually run until I hit enter? I want to basically be able to bring up :tabe in normal mode when I hit a key instead of actually typing :tabe.

what the hell is debian's excuse for staying on such old kernels?

>muh stability

Does anyone else here use livestreamer? It keeps suddenly close the stream on me and I can't figure out why.

youtube-dl

>league of legends is in the AUR
That's pretty cool.

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i use arch, if that matters

There is none

4/10

Stop namefagging.

Holy fuck lol
Thanks based AUR

I'm using a browser called surf from suckless.org. How do I make it my default browser?

install gentoo

Does it trigger you?

Older does not mean bad.

4.8 is old?

Yeah it is bad. For people that don't use poorfag hardware from the past decade.

debian ships with 3.16

If you honestly must use a newer kernel and you cannot upgrade it yourself. I simply do not know what to say other than you belong on Sup Forums.

They are older, buts its not like they aren't maintained. They get security fixes and select backports from newer kernels. If you want new packages, you should use debian sid, although you are giving up some stability.

Stable maybe. But why would you use it for the desktop? Sid is recommended for desktop use.

What's the point of an up to date kernel when y your mesa is from the stoneage?

I'd rather use the latest software packages with the latest kernel instead of poorly put together ancient piece of shit distro in a superficial delusion of ""((stability))""

>I'm a shitposting namefag who has no idea what I'm doing so I need my hand held the entire time.

>it's another scene of debian-is-outdated memes
So boring.

Whats the point of mesa when you are running thousands of debian servers?

Also compiling mesa isn't that hard.

>poorly put together ancient piece of shit distro
yep, goverments, the nasa, etc all run arch because le fresh packages :^)

>top new Linux

I don't get it.

The NASA actually lvld up to Ubuntu.

Oh look who we got here, NASA himself Lel

Enjoying your 2.16 kernel?

You've clearly never run anything at scale if you think brand spanking new kernels are stable.

Yeah it may only suffer 1 crash every 2 years, but if you are running data centers worth of servers, that means you'll spend all day, every day, putting out fires instead of building new things.

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Does a good alternative for livestreamer exist? It keeps interrupting videos.

Data servers use older kernel because they don't update and the older kernels do not have hot patching

which is basically debian with added shuttlecock

youtube-dl

It keeps closing mpv on me even if I say player-no-close. I have no idea what it's doing this because it shouldn't.

Could you please explain why you're acting like Debian Sid doesn't exist, which is up-to-date like Arch Linux?

mpv+chatty

Debian Sid has no security advisories/patches. It's even in their website.

He's a troll who enjoys triggering people.
Just don't reply and enjoy your day.

This. Namefags are subhuman and you really shouldn't reply to them in the first place.

pls respond

Yeah , I got the exact same problem sa you.

wtf I hate debian now

I want to stream videos not to download them.

mpv uses youtube-dl to stream.

Then stream them. Use youtube-dl and a player.

>i don't know how things work in enterprise
It doesn't really matter what your desktop runs but I want stable over all the servers, it's also easy as hell to patch stuff yourself but I guess you are far away from that.