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So I have zero experience with Linux, but would like to have it as my main OS for internet browsing, writing documents, programming, whatever, as I really only need Windows for the occasional video game. I was looking at Ubuntu and ElementaryOS, are they decent choices for dual booting? Sorry if the question is retarded.
Kayden Wright
>using a kernel
Carter Allen
who else sponge-player here?
Michael Flores
I'm sorry I thought this was America.
Blake Powell
>CloudReady What meme is this?
Joseph Williams
>cross threading a cross threaded reply
Ryder Davis
It's just Chrome OS, but the Chromium version. The updates are handled by this startup called Neverware, under their product Cloudready. It's nice.
Adrian Flores
Is Gentoo a distro for me /fglt/?
I've been using Arch for a year and despite some hiccups here and there I don't have any complaints. But the thing is I don't feel like Arch is a "DYI" distro and it feels like you end up downloading a bunch of shit that you don't use. This and the fact that everytime I use something related to systemd my computer crashes.
Having said that, should I unironically install Gentoo? I want a multipurpose distro and I don't mind wasting time fiddling with config files. I have a Intel CPU/AMD GPU (dunno if this is important).
Josiah Carter
Get out of the habit of distro hopping. Do your normie tasks and learn C
Sebastian Bailey
Debian 9(stable) or Ubuntu LTS 16.04.2?MM?
Brandon Carter
What is MM? I know there is an MMA
Jordan Lewis
yeah, it's better in pretty much every way imaginable
Connor Perez
It does not matter, so that, Debian or Ubuntu?
Anthony Fisher
Ubuntu
Charles Jones
I'm using Arch Linux, if it matters.
Lucas Nguyen
Why?
Justin Russell
Debian is a piece of trash
Tyler Ramirez
Why?
Noah Mitchell
no ppa
Dominic Harris
it's sjw garbage
Wyatt White
Yes ubuntu is good and it's the most supported distro. If your system is low on hardware try xubuntu.
Colton Nguyen
I cannot run sway, i have this errors: [main.c:42] [wlc] Failed to add socket to wayland display - from running in X session [main.c:42] [wlc] Not running from X11 and no access to /dev/input/event0 or logind unavailable - error from terminal.
Isaiah Peterson
Ubuntu?
Thomas Kelly
Debian aka SJWbian
Jose Jackson
Proof.
Owen Cooper
Of?
Grayson Rogers
SJWbian.
Adrian Gray
You won't waste time with config files on Gentoo unless you do something retarded. You have 2 main config files for your package manager (portage): make.conf in which you configure your compiler and use flags (you literally write things you like) and package.use (use flags per program). And when you decide to install Gentoo try installing it from some kind lightweight live CD (like lubuntu, xubuntu) so you will have graphic interface, working browser and internet to copy/paste commands to terminal and gparted to making partitions. And you don't need swap partition, make instead swapfile. 30 GB is enough for root partition with swapfile inside. My make.conf file: pastebin.com/E40azNJC And if you break something during instalation, just chroot again on live CD.
Jaxson Davis
Why not just stop the sjw service? >/etc/init.d/sjw stop or for systemd >systemctl stop sjw Problem solved?
Robert Davis
are you using a non-desktop profile? you don't need that many use flags if you aren't.
Someone isn't reading the eselect news. Also yeah you shouldn't have most of that shit in USE.
USE="X ffmpeg -vdpau zsh-completion" Mine for comparison.
Grayson Miller
I am on normal default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop and I need so many flags.
Easton Bailey
Ignoring the community, debian is a solid distro that is used heavily in servers. You also have no right to complain if you're using arch linux.
Carter Mitchell
>/**Experimental: >*Wire chat - add @helix to get started >*/ why the fuck is this namefag from reddit allowed to create /fglt/ threads?
John King
>used heavily in servers Old ones maybe.
Nicholas Johnson
So I switched GPUs because I was moving my high end nvidia to another system and was going to leave GT520 for my linux box. I install the other card and now I can't boot into the system.
I'm stuck on "Loading initial ramdisk" and nothing happens. I've tried all the boot parameters like nomodeset and all that. Tried some rescue live CDs same shit.
After 4 hours of failing to boot up the system I went ahead to reinstall, grab my bootable USB, once I hit Install in the menu, black screen. Try two other distros, same thing. Get another USB stick, try again, nope!
I know for a fact the gpu works, I had the same problem on my other card but I fixed it by fiddling with CSM and secure boot options for hours. Now with the same settings it doesn't work. Spent my whole afternoon trying to get this load of shit to work. FUCK UEFI, FUCK SECURE BOOT, FUCK CSM WHO THE FUCK INVENTED THIS SHIT IT DOESN'T EVEN DO ANYTHING ISTEAD OF FUCKING EVERYTHING UP
I fucking give up I'll just download Windows...
/blog
Levi Ramirez
can you do bash in make.conf? i want to do: case $(tty) in *tty[0-6]*) EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=" --quiet-build=y" ;; esac
but too scared to just test
Jason Ramirez
Jessie is still used in servers. People who just want a functional server don't care about SysVinit vs systemd.
Carter Myers
alias emerge='if [[ $TTY == *"tty"* ]];then emerge --quiet-build=y;else emerge;fi'
Alexander Johnson
Consider trying out one of these nice distibutions of GNU and/or the Linux kernel > GuixSD > NixOS > Gentoo > Funtoo > Exherbo > Slackware > CRUX > Void > Devuan > Debian GNU/kFreeBSD or these fine Unices > FreeBSD > OpenBSD > NetBSD > DragonFlyBSD > MINIX 3 > illumos (a fork of OpenSolaris) and remember - keep an open mind.
Angel Rogers
cool, thanks!
Hudson Hill
>wire chat
Adam Nelson
just join as 'guest####', faggot
Nathan Cox
Try using --quiet-build and --verbose at the same time as well.
Chances are you probably don't want the full verbose output.
Wyatt Bell
How much of a dysfunctional lonely fuck are you that you have to troll for dregs on Sup Forums to join your shitty yahoo chat?
Jose Anderson
what's wrong?
Juan Gutierrez
my whole life
Jeremiah Smith
>not using his name 'kde shill' >as if he thinks no one will figure it out neck yourself
Noah Ramirez
if i kill myself and it turns out im not, will you come to my funeral? --if my parents have one?
Hudson Baker
I didn't even mention init systems you are weird don't talk to me.
What's the best way to copy files discreetly with cp command? cp -r /source /destination & The files are on the HDD and want to copy over to USB flash drive. And might need to remove the USB flash drive at anytime. Are there better ways?
Ayden Martin
stop stealing nudes from your sis macbook
Brandon Russell
1. leave Sup Forums never to return 2. >>>/reddit/
Levi Murphy
you should properly eject flash drives to prevent data corruption
Benjamin Howard
h e h e h
Angel Cruz
It's actually my friend's exgfs nudes. Yes, about that does data corruption means all the data that was transfered? or only the data that's being transfered?
Elijah Howard
was middle supposed to be VLC or something?
Isaac Lewis
the fact that spongebob doesn't have any player atached to him is bithering me too much
Cameron White
What's the point of gentoo when you can install any other distro in 30 minutes or less?
Bentley Nelson
I can install Arch in under 15 minutes
Isaiah Harris
what's the point of any distro you don't use if the distro you're currently using works for you?
Isaac Perry
sometimes files that were moved a few minutes prior can be effected
Jonathan Hall
Even when moved to USB flash drive? I thought this only affected HDD.
Also is there an alternative command to use other than cp? something that might give better speeds, like rsync ?
Samuel Martin
>le installing gentoo takes a long time meme cfdisk mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda2 mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/gentoo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot cd /mnt/gentoo scp omg@foundabackup:/stage4.tar.gz >(tar -x)
Depending on how slow your network is this shouldn't take more than 5 minutes.
Nolan Clark
whoops I made a stupid post and accidentally deleted it
sometimes files that were moved a few minutes prior can be effected
Nathan Gomez
lulz, what about kernel config and compile time? le fast gentoo meme
Tyler Peterson
Gentoo takes long because it compiles everything from source code, that's the main reason to use Gentoo so makes no sense to complain about it if you're going to use it.
Ian Nelson
Shits already configured, src in /usr/src/linux and kernel in /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi that includes initramfs and points to /dev/sda2 for root.
Jonathan Harris
But you can't use a backup for another machine. And genkernel is bad af
Jayden Roberts
$ systemd Trying to run as user instance, but $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set.
What to do?
Logan Reyes
>But you can't use a backup for another machine. >And genkernel is bad af Yes, you can. Don't use processor specific optimization with GCC, if you don't optimize with instruction sets that your machines don't have, there is no compatibility issues. My server with the backups also acts like a binhost so I don't have to compile shit. Genkernel is easy and there are no downsides.
Jaxon Walker
looks smart to me
Cameron Diaz
Hurry up and kys!
No, hes a total retard.
Robert Walker
How viable is dual booting Windows 8.1 and some Linux distro if I only have ~13GB left on one SSD?
Leo Robinson
nope nupe nope nope
Nathaniel Campbell
>$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set. >is not set. >not set
James Stewart
So if I were to set make.conf to x86 or AMD64 only, it would speed up compile time significantly?
Brayden Perez
I'm trying to get LUKS on LVM to work, any kind soul can tell me what kernel parameters I have to put to get it to boot?
My encrypted root partition is /dev/mapper/vg0-lvroot So far what I got from various guides is "rd.lvm.vg=vg0 cryptdevice=/dev/mapper/vg0-lvroot:root root=/dev/mapper/root", but it goes straight into kernel panic.
Noah Richardson
Yeah sure.
James Wood
You dont need kernel parameters, you need to set yout crypto in your bootloader. Also use UUID Check the arch wiki.
Justin Thompson
The initramfs sets up the lvm groups not the bootloader.
Jesus christ fuck off retard.
Logan Wright
You dont need kernel parameters, you need to set yout crypto in your bootloader. Also use UUID Check the arch wiki.
Brayden Martin
Who are you quoting
Justin Martin
i wasn't using meme arrows though.
Sebastian Phillips
If I don't set any cflags in make.conf, it will try to compile for any possible processor including my own?
Jordan Anderson
Man I dunno just use -march=generic if you can't be fucked to find out which optimizations to use.
I use -march=core-avx-i because nothing I have is older than ivybridge.
Jonathan Ramirez
>-march=generic Don't you mean -march=native?
Robert King
shhh hes retarded
Aaron Phillips
Not if the goal is to produce compatible binaries for installation on multiple computers without knowing which processors are being used.
Owen Walker
Fuck, my graphics card is heating much under linux, but with wayland it's heating even more.
