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I agree, however you don't take in consideration that Arch users are the worst.
Jason Martin
>I agree, however you don't take in consideration that Arch users are the worst. *script kiddies
Jack Russell
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Camden Rodriguez
People hate what they can't understand, it's human nature.
If you chose not to like something, why do you keep talking about it?
Levi Green
fuck off namefag
Liam Morris
It's my thread
Nathan Gray
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Landon Sullivan
Because even with the simple, straightforward, and concise instructions provided, I can't install it.
Christopher Hughes
why would you want to
Carson Bailey
I hate what I want, but cannot get.
Ayden Powell
Who are you to determine his preference?
Brayden Smith
The world will look up and shout -- "Stallman save Us!" And I will look down and whisper -- "GNO.."
Luke Evans
I'm on F25 and am trying to get rutorrent to work. I'm sure I compiled rtorrent right with xmlrpc support and all, and I put the config lines where they go, but ultimately rutorrent doesn't sense rtorrent's presence. I don't believe that xmlrpc is even on. What should I do?
What's the best way to find the fastest repository on Ubuntu?
I have experienced before that the thingie that finds the best one isn't that good at doing its job. It's more based on location for sure, but sometimes I will get faster speeds from repositories in a different country.
Eli Martin
to whoever was being an utter cunt to me in the other thread about fixing my mpv, i fixed it myself
Brayden Cruz
if nobody else already did that, simply write a script to test the download speed from a list of repo.
Jacob Smith
it was me. i'm extremely glad you made it buddy
Aiden Jenkins
kind of feel better for figuring it out myself i guess
Easton Harris
how does a "full system upgrade" looks like in gentoo and how much time would it takes? I mean the equivalent of a "apt-get udpdate && apt-get upgrade" or "pacman -Syu"
Gavin Morales
depends on how much needs updating, use flag changes etc. and your hardware. there is no approximation as every system is entirely different
Nicholas James
the thing about gentoo is (at least i think that's the case correct me if im wrong) when a new kernel comes out , portage will download the sources for you and you have to compile it yourself. If its a bunch of light stuff then not long. If you however have to update the kernel or god forbid chromium your in for a while
Lucas Perry
That's turned off
Sorry should have been more clear It won't let me log in, it will just show the log in screen
Possibly, don't remember DESU
Justin Cruz
so there is some command like "emerge --updateall --donotfuckthesystem -v -j4" which will download the last version of the source of any installed "package" and compile it automatically?
Grayson Nguyen
yes, you can update the entire system in a single command with portage. do expect to do some troubleshooting however, sadly the --dontfucksystem switch tends to fail, but is usually solved quickly.
Jacob Martin
yeah, btw gentoo is lightning fast, i was reading something a few days ago which discussed the advantages of compiling everything from source. Basically you get streamline optimisation for you CPU features which results in very efficient code.
Brandon Edwards
can someone with good font rendering tell me the files in their /etc/font/conf.d?
Went through all of those. I'm telling you, it's xmlrpc. I probably fucked something up when I tried to compile it before I realized I could just install it with DNF.
Are any of these files relevant to general use? They all got removed when I tried to remove xmlrpc and didn't come back when I reinstalled it. pastebin.com/yJ0x0Jvi
In fact, does Fedora have some kind of tool that will reset every program and every system config file back to how it was when I installed it? I can't find my flash drive and would rather not perform the hack I did to install the OS in the first place.
Bentley Roberts
AMD GPU, Ubuntu MATE, Compiz and Chromium.
I get tearing on Chromium. My only fix so far is to use Compton instead, but is there any fix for Compiz?
>With chromium opened, switched to Compton >no tearing, tried youtube video, fine until I watch it on full screen, then it gets the tearing >switch back to compiz >same behavior as before, try a youtube video, same thing >switch back to compton again, compiz again >chromium gets some graphic corruption, I kill the process >start chromium with compiz there >no more tearing, not even on youtube videos on full screen
...I don't know
Aaron Torres
did they remove aptitude in Debian 9?
Cameron Martin
It's gone after reboot. And it came back after i opened and closed bundled konsole panel in dolphin. Weird.
Isaiah Gomez
I bought a MacBook Pro and I hate it. Returning it tomorrow for a refund. I don't like OSX as much as I thought I would and I miss GNU/Linux.
I still want a nice ultrabook but the caveat is it must support at least a modern GNU/Linux distro such as Arch or Fedora. I don't want to buy used. Is this possible or must I buy a slightly older machine to have everything work properly? I haven't had a new computer in a decade other than this shitty MBP.
Andrew Young
looking for a bit of help i just use startx instead of lightdm since i think it's ugly, but on my new install of debian after i decrypt my drive the screen goes black. i can ctrl+alt+f2 to get to a terminal and login there, so i guess it doesn't really matter, i'm just wondering why this happens
Gabriel Williams
Did you have a login manager installed before? Maybe it wasn't removed properly
Cooper Walker
i never had one
Jason Rodriguez
Did you install a DE when you installed it? That would install a DM by default too.
Blake Ward
maybe for some strange reason it's not starting getty on tty1?
Ian Davis
i got xfce during the install
Benjamin Gonzalez
Why not just buy a non-apple laptop? I don't think many people have much experience running Linux on apple products to be able to answer your question.
In my experience though the only real concern about getting hardware that's too new is with the wifi. In some cases it might take a while before it's fully supported.
Jayden Lewis
I meant an ultrabook as in a windows one. Sorry for not being specific.
Justin Barnes
XPS 13?
Josiah Gray
I think that says more about you than the distribution
Mason Clark
I think that was a shitpost to make fun of people who shitpost about arch
Josiah Gray
Will java compile faster on Linux compared to osx?
Leo Moore
It depends on your hardware, not OS. If your Thinkpad has worse hardware than your iMac, the iMac will compile faster and vice versa.
Cooper Jenkins
what do i do when i get error while updating system? i cant update ttf-dejavu and python2-setuptools
every time i add --ignore for this two, but is there any solution?
Charles Wilson
On the exact same hardware
James Martin
What error?
Luke Jones
this is for python2 гpeшкa: нeycпeлo извpшaвaњe пpeнoca (cyкoб фaјлoвa) python2-setuptools: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.pyc пocтoји y cиcтeмy фaјлoвa Дoшлo јe дo гpeшкe, пaкeти ниcy нaдoгpaђeни.
translated would be something like this
error: interrupted ~transfer~ python-||-..... .pyc exists in file system There was an error, packages are not upgraded
Wyatt Adams
So the package manager find some files he doesn't expect. For python packages this may happen for example if you install stuff with pip (or any other Python package manager). Otherwise it maybe me a bug with the package itself (like a conflict with another package) and in this case you should report this to your disto's maintainers.
Liam Nelson
I'm looking for a decent serial terminal emulator. I've used minicom in the past, but there's a lot I don't like about it, I'd love to be able to pick arbitrary baud rates and now I'm talking to devices that expect CRLF line endings, and minicom has no option for sending both CR and LF on enter. What does /fglt/ recommend?
Bentley Bell
termite or urxvt
Aiden Brown
Is slackware a meme or is it actually a usable distro with legitimate advantages? It seems like a much shittier version of Gentoo, minus the package manager, and conflict resolution/dependencies make you want to kill yourself (as well apparently being a bloated and incoherent mess of code)
William Barnes
>try to install ubuntu to get away from windows > do everything correctly wiwith formatting my usb with Rufus >Ubuntu (and elementaryos) just fucking REFUSE to install. The installation screens after start pop up but it keeps saying it fails to start show Plymouth boot screen >it worked the first time but I had to quit for something > keeps telling me to check like Plymouth-start.service Have no fucking clue what that is and found nothing online about it.
This is obnoxious as fuck, and I have no clue what to do.
Ayden Ross
Jeбo тe питoн.
Alexander Watson
this is funny to be because as an ubuntu user, anything even slightly off the beaten path I do requires consulting arch wiki.
Colton Lee
don't listen to name fields are there for a reason (to be used) you are a great poster and deserve to be recognized
Kayden Jackson
can you boot into a live enviroment and use it?
Gavin Cruz
when using dd how do you figure out what bs= is? for example
dd if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=8192k
installing to a 16gb FAT32 formatted usb.
Parker Harris
I want to set up my programming IDE but internet keeps my productivity low.
What I want to achieve is: 1. Openbox/Fluxbox or whatever WM that has mouse cursor (Must) 2. Something like a permanent dmenu panel so I can quickly open programs. (Must) 3. My favourite terminal emulator should start at startup (Optional)
Give me your recommendation.
Owen Howard
bs means block size, which is how much data dd will read and write at a time. It copies bs bytes from the input file into memory, then writes them to the output file. Too small a block size means a lot of reads and writes, which can be slow. Too large a block size uses more memory. Some devices have an intrinsic block size, like tape drives, and require that block size. But for flash drives and hard drives, I don't think it matters too much. I usually pick something like 16M. The default block size is only 512, so you really should always specify one.
Lucas Cox
1 and 3 are a piece of cake, if I understand correctly. I'm not aware of any WM's that don't have a mouse cursor. For 3 it depends on what WM/DE you use but they all come with ways to specify start scripts/programs when they start up.
As for 2, I know there are panels that have dropdown menus, but not sure of anything that looks like an always active dmenu
William Williams
So as long as the device being written too doesn't require a specific bs it doesn't have a huge effect? With the bs=8192 I write all my iso's in only a few seconds anyway I suppose it doesn't matter.
Angel Cox
test
Daniel Smith
test
Dylan Rogers
>lightning fast >optimisation
Yeah, gotta love that 0,5% performance increase for most everyday tasks. Kill yourself for spreading false enthusiasm, myths and exaggerating things.
Jacob Hernandez
>installing things without using the package manager >possibly using the AUR >not posting English error messages
Ubij se.
Hudson Moore
>debian cinnamon minty-y I'm using a dark theme and it's affecting my web browser Does anyone know a good work around to force another gtk theme for my browser?
Owen Cox
I have Mint set to the 2nd level of updates but apt update gives me a bunch more upgrades. Are those two synced in some way or should I ignore apt and let everything go through the GUI updater?
which browser? If Chromium, there is a setting to ignore the global gtk theme
Xavier Anderson
My [ and ] got toggled with { and } in firefox wat do?
Julian Gomez
I might give chromium a try It's firefox, but a different version you get shipped with debian
Parker Powell
>mfw happened to check my Xorg.0.log and found out that radeon was using EXA instead of glamor >put Option "AccelMethod" "glamor" and Option "TearFree" "on" to radeon.conf >restart Xfce >it's way smoother with less visual artifacts I hope this shit doesn't sperg out. My card is quite old HD 6850
Jack Taylor
btw, Xfce's compositor is disabled. In fact, I haven't installed any. Radeon's Vsync/whatever seems to work magics
Caleb Morris
Is Mints security and back end as bad as I've heard?
Adrian Scott
Chromium works perfectly, thanks! Now I have a new issue, how do I fix the horrible font rendering I am experiencing in chromium?
Jonathan Edwards
all I know is, there are font settings under Web Content
if that doesn't work maybe hunt around for some extensions
Leo Rogers
I have a .txt file with a whole bunch of words prefixed with a +. What's an easy way to quickly change all the + signs to -?
William Wilson
Nevermind I was looking at some overcomplicated scripts you can do it with
sed -ie 's/oldcharacter/newcharacter/g' output.txt
Daniel Ortiz
WhatFont says under Font Family: Helvetica, Arial, "Bitstream Vera Sans", Verdana, sans-serif at 13px.
it's also my chromium/firefox GUI font. any webpage that uses Helvetica and Arial look wrong. the screenshot might not show it but it's too thin, small, spaced out, feint and just renders badly. everything else looks how it should. do you know what the issue is and what i can do to fix it?
Lincoln Baker
what are the things running in the terminals here? i.imgur.com/BVH7ytp.gif?1 I recognise hack-exe, but I cant remember the name of the matrix and pipe things.
Xavier Hall
Sometimes I feel like it's like a drug.
Gavin Adams
I am going to install linux mint in my desktop, i have been working with it in my laptop for over a year and i am wondering if there is a way i can easily transfer all my programs without compability issues.(Desktop is amd, and my laptop has a combo intel/nvidia)
what do you mean transfer your programs? just run the commands on the desktop to install the ones you need. it's the same OS, there will not be compatibility issues with it.
Jaxson Rodriguez
Keep a list of your favorite packages, then just apt-get them on your other systems.
Desktop: xargs -a "packages.list.save" sudo apt-get install
Josiah Lee
hi /lgbt/
Is there any player on linux that behaves similarly to iTunes?
Let me explain. If you drag files to the program (or to a specific folder) music gets added and organized into a library. You can then change how it's tagged and it will automagically reorganize it depending on those settings. Anything like that on linux?
