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I'm not really user do distro hopping. Whenever I do, I usually start from scratch. This time I love it how I have my XFCE configured. How do I switch from Manjaro XFCE desktop to Debian but keeping my XFCE to look the same? Do I just put /home in a separate partition and then use that for Debian?
Wyatt Powell
You can get the manjaro themes from github, just save your configs.
James Gomez
Hey dude, the OP from the other thread here.
You are confusing me with someone else and you seem to think I am in some sort of race to create a thread first.
I recognize there was people trolling and creating troll fglt threads but not me. I am cool with someone else making the threads, but can you take the best from the other OP? Like the formatting and the links. People appreciate a less cluttered OP.
And again, I am not that shitty apps guy.
William White
>muh ganoo linux >mfw I converted to a toybox system a week ago
Nathaniel Ramirez
fuck off
Blake Jones
I think you mean GANOO/fuck off
Carter Nelson
Anyone use Linux on a MacBook pro?
Oliver Brown
> """Friendly GNU/Linux Thread''''''
> Starts off with rude picture
David Taylor
(You)
Austin Nelson
Although "GNU/Linux" /ɡəˈnuː slæʃ ˈlJnəks/ is often pronounced without the slash, Stallman recommends explicitly saying the word "slash" or "plus" in order to avoid the mistaken suggestion that the Linux kernel itself is a GNU package,[49] as is the case with GNU Linux-libre.
49. Jeremy Andrews, Interview: Richard Stallman, KernelTrap.org (2 January. 2005)
Xavier Gray
I wouldn't know since I use a BSD/Linux operating system.
James Hill
Is that image real?
Luke Cooper
Is that pronounced BSD Linux or BSD slash Linux?
Blake Adams
Thanks
Lincoln Diaz
Is there a way to have virtualbox run a virtualized linux os that stores it with files visible to windows? Instead of all of the OS stored as one file.
Angel Barnes
which distro? inb4 gentoo
Ethan Roberts
LFS. I'm trying to make an initramfs-only system, so I'm bundling everything in the initramfs and using a custom init script to start a terminal/X/whatever without switching the root FS.
Gavin Smith
>watching Stallman speak right now
W-what should I ask him?
John Ortiz
You are a wizard with the patience of a mountain.
Landon Hall
Is there a reason why Firefox always has some black screen flashes on Linux? This doesn't happen on Windows.
Gabriel Green
Probably driver related
Wyatt Young
Tested with a NVIDIA card (proprietary drivers) and AMD (open source drivers), no difference.
Blake Cook
GNU/Linux*
Tyler Jenkins
>This doesn't happen on Windows. Nobody cares.
Christian Lopez
I now use GNOME MPV as the player, and here is my profile: vo=opengl-hq:scale=ewa_lanczossharp-antiring=1:cscale=ewa_lanczossharp-antiring=1:interpolation:tscale=oversample opengl-shaders="~~/shaders/SSimSuperRes.glsl" video-sync=display-resample Should I change opengl-hq to opengl-cb?
Ryder Mitchell
maybe? better read the manpage
Ayden Howard
How do I fix this? Every time I close a popup/firefox tab this flickering happens.
I'm using i3.
Brandon Turner
tried compton?
Grayson Perry
happens with compton too why is it so hard to have a decent video experience on linux
Isaiah Green
You know.. out of sheer curiousity, search for cyberfox, download their linux version for your cpu. Let me know if the issue continues
Connor Thomas
same shit
Michael Kelly
Your drivers are fucked setup them up correctly
Zachary Rodriguez
h-how?
Austin Rodriguez
>you drivers are fucked
>sudo pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu mesa-libgl
yeah probably I fucked something up during this step
Cooper Cooper
This isn't meant to prove a point or anything, but is Linux used in industry outside of servers? Reason I ask is because I've been using Linux for only about 5 months, because I was under the impression Linux was used for embedded systems development (it's what I want to do when I graduate). However, I'm starting to get the idea that Linux is used for RTOS/the embedded system itself, and not for actual development. I got an FPGA development board from Altera, and the little setup program that maps the pins and does the top level design is only Windows compatible, despite the PLD IDE-thing being Linux compatible. And the FPGA board itself can run Ubuntu desktop, so I was pretty surprised that the setup was only windows compatible. I emailed them about this, and they just told me use Windows computer, bastards.
TL;DR, see first sentence of post.
Adam Jones
what
Ayden Brown
>amd >xorg >/etc/X11/10-monitor.conf
Michael Foster
Depends on the company, we do our development on Ubuntu/Debian
Thomas Cooper
who is we
Wyatt White
The company I do my summer work in is mostly Linux. We built medical software+hardware, where the hardware runs an x86 based board and FPGA, and runs linux. The developers for that all use linux because it frankly just makes sense to target linux from linux. The apps team uses windows because they need to write apps targeting windows machines in hospitals, but they're smaller and their tasks are far less interesting.
Most web development shops are the same - all the tools target linux servers, so they use linux development machines (or macs, if they're on the creative side, which are posix as well)
Lucas Wilson
(((Kali shit here))) i got it, going to start with Debian or Mint.
Thanks dude!
So, i guess im gonna start with Debian then try Mint. Hope can do it with Kali. . . . another question: it was a mistake to post that screencaptures with my mac address right? i'm fukd? what should i do?
Matthew Baker
yes of course
What I couldn't believe was in the australian military they still use windows XP for the defence network. Even the top secret secure field computers are windows XP. One time my boss lost a top secret HDD, that was a fun week.
Luke White
You're welcome. Best of luck. As I said, I wouldn't worry about the mac addresses.
Evan Wilson
Ok.
Also i think i fucked my USB (used it for install Kali). it was 8GB, now it is 2,75Gb.
lol
Isaiah Flores
MAC addresses aren't internet related; they just identify your machines inside your local network (router - pc -laptop - phone - etc)
Carson Harris
thanks
Joseph Richardson
Chances are whatever you're reading is just reporting the partition size that Kali is installed on. The USB still has all that space, just wipe it and reinitialise a filesystem to get it back to where it was
Adam Clark
Stop installing GNU/Linux.
Jonathan Mitchell
debian 8 + xface, and neither in firefox (allowed pages to display in their fonts) nor in the filemanager (tried different fonts, atm usingFreeSerif) can display certain UTF-8 symbols, e.g. korean ones. 1) Is FreeSerif lacking korean symbols? 2) Why is that happening in FF? 3) Anybody a suggestion which font to use - I'd prefere Sans ones but they look very weird and wide, but not monospace wide...
Liam Young
I sit down when I pee, there ain't nothin that crazy bout me
Joshua Taylor
Some come here to sit and think, you came to shit and stink.
John Anderson
...
Jacob Sullivan
Good thing I'm on Windows 7.
Ethan Myers
Windows is phoning home since XP.
Austin Evans
Why? IIS is incomparably bad for serving non-trivial web applications. The Microsoft C compilers don't even target the embedded systems I need to target on a day to day basis. I like being able to deploy and manage systems and services from whatever tools I want, and not have to contort powershell into what I need.
Windows is fine if you're a normie writing Word documents in an office environment, but just about anything more serious in tech requires you to start looking at alternatives, unless you're writing C#/Java line of business applications - and I think at that point I'd euthanise myself.
Jaxon Reed
>Windows is fine No, Windows is malware. Even normies deserve better than that.
Liam Jones
I blocked the connections in my hosts file.
Joshua Ortiz
I came to shit but only farted, now I sit here broken hearted
Justin Williams
Sierra runs like shit for me, so I am putting Mint Serena 18.1 XFCE on my MBPro as we speak. Seems to be running much, much faster and nicer so far.
Jeremiah Harris
When I say fine, I mean acceptably operational. I'm trying to be objective here. I agree that everyone deserves better, but that's generally held to be a matter of opinion.
It's undeniable fact that Windows is, however, wholly inadequate in much of the technology space. I suspect if you drew a line between the two populations on Sup Forums - windows users and other users, you'd see that mostly windows users are also the ones driving nvidiot vs ayymd shitthreads, and mostly other users are driving sqt/dpt/etc.
Sup Forums would do well to be split into /gc/ - consumer technology and /gd/ - technology development, approximately. I'm not sure those names explain the difference quite as I intend it to be.
Owen Richardson
came to piss but sharted too, so I left my underpants in the loo
Any ideas on what I did wrong here? Is it easier or harder to put together a rtorrent + rutorrent setup on gentoo than it is fedora? Should I even bother? Is there a standalone RSS downloader that I can use with rtorrent?
Luke King
rtorrent is old outdated garbage. use deluge
Aaron Rodriguez
>stalled
Robert Perez
If it ain't broke, don't fix it If it ain't fixed, don't use it
Ethan Lewis
Any improperly configured client will stall
Caleb Mitchell
Is deluge the Arch Leenux of torrent clients?
Lucas Reyes
how do you solve this?
Nicholas Harris
Configure your client properly for your connection
Nathaniel Clark
>Is there a standalone RSS downloader that I can use with rtorrent? flexget works golden with transmission-daemon
Dominic Long
stalls on stock config bruh, also nothing wrong with transmission.
Henry Long
how? I have transmission for example
Oliver Young
stock config is better then your shitty connection bruh
Ethan Carter
Dont have 5000 connections open if you have a 5mbit connection
Joshua Watson
I..you..wha, that doesn't even make any sense
Dylan Sanchez
I guess learning a new program would be easier than trying to get ah patchy to do anything you want it to do. But what about gentoo?
Austin Ramirez
he probably cant persuade his parents to buy a gigabit router and use a modem not from 2008
Nolan Watson
The way I unstalled connections was to limit upload, not sure how it works thou
Ryder Russell
yaas
Jayden Cruz
>Friendly Linux Thread
What do you mean friendly linux thread? [it becomes quiet] Friendly how? What's friendly about it? You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but friendly how, I mean friendly like It amuse you? It makes you laugh, It's here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean friendly, friendly how? How is linux friendly? You said It's friendly. How the fuck is linux friendly, what the fuck is so friendly about linux? Tell me, tell me what's friendly!
Adrian Jones
dem damage control
Ian Gutierrez
Whats a milk drinker like you doing here!? Go back to you mama.
Nathaniel Rodriguez
[everyone laughs] Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him. Ya stuttering prick ya. user, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, user. You may fold under blue screening.