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What's the actual reason for Arch no longer having GUI installer?
It's CIA Niggers, isn't it?
Jacob Johnson
Thumbnail filepicker drives me crazy
Lincoln Gomez
this pasta suck, are you a troll?
Tyler Morris
What's the best way to install Arch Linux without fucking up/breaking anything?
Nolan Fisher
What is the name of the osmo tray icon? It stands out from the other icons. I need the icon name so I can add it to the icon theme.
Brayden Ortiz
The installer was maintained by one guy. He got mad and quit when there was a lot of major "manual intervention" changes to the filesystem and stuff. There was a nice thank you message on the archlinux.org site afterwards. Nobody stepped up to maintain it. But it never took you past the reboot and install the de/wm of your choice anyways.
Anthony Reyes
Try arch-anywhere.
John Perry
Avoid typos and improper commands.
Ian Campbell
Looks comfy, but I was thinking about installing it myself, is it really that hard?
Ryan Jenkins
just follow the beginners guide it's pretty good documented even retards can install arch good luck
Owen Baker
is slackware actually a bad distro? i hear it shittalked here a lot but no one ever seems to point out anything specific (except the manual dependency resolution stuff) i've tried ever major distro save for gentoo and slackware and i haven't like any of them enough to continue using them
Kayden Clark
Kind of hard the first time around. Nice to have a second device or computer to view the installation guide.
Josiah Scott
check in the according .desktop file
Josiah Garcia
>Nice to have a second device or computer to view the installation guide. The installation guide is always included with the live image.
Christopher Cook
Albeit a very condensed one.
Samuel Williams
It's the same one.
Asher Powell
I have used Linux in the past, and am fairly competent with it. Not scared of the command line.
I've been told that towards the end of the year I'll be responsible for an embedded Linux hardware project, keeping the kernel and drivers for it maintained.
I have no experience here, so figured it'd be a good idea to use an arduino or similar to learn about embedded Linux. Anyone have some information I can start learning from?
Matthew Rivera
I installed Ubuntu and I like it, but I installed Cinnamon and it's a far better DE than Unity. Should I just wipe Ubuntu and install Linux Mint instead?
How can I make ubuntu run a command on startup? I have a wacom tablet and I want it to turn the touch function off: xsetwacom set 10 TOUCH off
Dylan Stewart
Why?
Josiah Gomez
put it in your bashrc
Nicholas Torres
>xsetwacom Oh sorry, I suppose that depends on X. Put that command in your ~/.xinitrc
Jacob Mitchell
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
John Jones
because mint is unsecure, they mix packages from ubuntu and debian (which is never a good idea), it's unstable and there's absolutely no reason to use it because you can have cinnamon on a real distro like debian also cinnamon is garbage, I'd go for xfce if I were you, but whatever
Joshua Green
it's shite
Christian Gomez
I just like the way Cinnamon looks and can't into ricing. So then why should I switch from Ubuntu to Debian?
I should add that I'm not trolling, you seem helpful.
Aiden Torres
why would i ever want to use wayland over x
Alexander Morales
why would i ever want to use zsh over bash
Isaiah Peterson
Sweet. It used to be an optional package. Do you remember what it's called? I've forgotten.
Hunter Ward
why would I ever want to use blue over red
Henry Walker
>user-friendly When will this meme end?
Elijah Cox
Have a (You)
Logan Evans
are you serious?
Ryder Rivera
yes
Samuel Rogers
'user-friendly' as in comes with binutils preinstalled
Eli Nelson
Is Mate any good? I get worried when I heard it's based on really old gnome code.
Carson Williams
Is mpv any good? I get worried when I heard it's based on really old mplayer code.
Connor Scott
Is communism any good? I get worried when I heard it's based on really old marxist code.
Angel Myers
Save yourself some pain and use KDE, Cinnamon is a laggy, buggy piece of crapware. Install kubuntu.
No, use xfce.
Why?
Alexander Baker
Yes. Mplayer is fine too.
What are you talking about? There's a readme file in your ~
Justin Morris
Nicer to view with my web browser of choice.
Nathan Hill
Sure.
Since you can tell I don't know much: If I install the new KDE, can I uninstall Unity and not break my Ubuntu installation?
Sebastian Barnes
Why do these threads lack images? This is an imageboard.
Cameron Garcia
I haven't installed Arch for a few years. The first time It still had a graphical installer. And I installed 2 or 3 times without. I remember when the install guide was first avialable.
Camden Long
*first available as an installable package.
Jackson Jackson
b/c no thumbnails in our filepickers
Parker Bailey
you wouldn't zsh is for nu-male faggots/webdevelopers that sit in cofee shops with their apple computers and iphones it's so fucking bloated it even has tetris built in
Angel White
You can, but it might be easier to just go with kubuntu. kubuntu is built to run with KDE. You shouldn't have any problems.
Jaxon Reyes
I mean, since I'm already running Ubuntu, I might as well just purge Unity, right?
Luis Green
Maybe this is the best place to ask:
I have a Windows PC and an Arch Linux laptop. Is there anyway for me to use my laptop as monitor/keyboard/mouse/etc. for my PC? I'm envisioning something similar to how the Wii U game pad would be used to render and control a separate view from the TV.
James Long
idk guys, so many distro, so many averages and flaws, which is the best to sattle on? all i want is: - no breakage - fresh packages - good security
Jaxson Lee
Red Hat Enterprise
Hunter Perez
Thinking of installing a distro on my wife's laptop. What would be a good option? Also what would be the best methods for adjusting power and heat options? I noticed Ubuntu on my desktop and mint on my old laptop had bad habits of heating my shit up and killing my power on the laptop.
Ryan Edwards
Ubuntu
John Morgan
anyone ever pirated RHEL? i'm curious how it looks like is there a gratis test version?
Justin Sanders
You might.
Levi Sanchez
>pirating how about you just pay for the things you want instead of spoiling yourself you damned millennial
Matthew Edwards
using rhel is like buying helvetica instead of just using arial only retarded businesses do this
Henry Phillips
well, (very) long story short: X.org it's a mess of a display server, originally released somewhere in the 80s, and kept "updated" by trowing more code over the previous mess resulting in a bad functioning, outdated and incredibly unsafe, pile of legacy bullshit to the point where the only way to get basic thing working (like vsync just to cite one) is to implement them in a separate software built over it to work around its shortages or just directly in the driver.
Wayland is the effort to solve this situation.
Leo Torres
>it's so fucking bloated it even has tetris built in
Grayson Long
>pirated You mean sharing informations with friends?
Thomas Reed
what is a distro besides arch that comes with less than 1000 fucking packages on install
>it's so fucking bloated it even has tetris built in fucking this.
I don't need another tetris installed on my machine. My text editor already features one
Kevin Edwards
what is a distro besides arch that comes with less than 1000 fucking packages on install that a braindead monkey such as myself can install without hours of configuration
James Gomez
zshills will defend this
Thomas Brown
that's what you get for not using vim
Matthew Walker
vim mustard race
Christian Thompson
what's wrong with xorg?
Christopher Hernandez
that would be a downgrade honestly
Charles Cruz
>but i need an operating system for my operating system! daily reminder that real powerusers seek to reduce their software redundancy
Ian Morris
straight up why isn't emacs it's own fsf-supported distro at this point
Isaac Perry
nothing
Jaxson Moore
>daily reminder that real powerusers seek to reduce their software redundancy Yeah my workflow doesn't require anything BUT emacs. Who's redundant now?
Daily reminder that vimfags will never, ever be granted tramp mode and the ability to edit remote files on every network-capable machine on the planet.
Ethan Jones
>daily reminder that real powerusers seek to reduce their software redundancy
>his work requires him to edit remote files on every network-capable machine on the planet yeah, sure buddy. tell Jesus i said, "hi"
Daniel Kelly
that's a different icon from the tray.
Aiden Perry
You're just jealous.
Vimfags are all about muhhhhhhhh simplicity but then stack shitpiles of plugins over a shitpile of plugins just to get half the features of Emacs.
>Remote editing? Sorry can't do, minimalism >Server/client architecture? Sorry can't do, minimalism >A proper package manager so you don't have to fiddle with plugins all day? Sorry can't do, minimalism :) >Sup Forums browser? sorry can't do
Liam Sanders
A desktop environment without any graphical environment can be replied with some applications like GNU Screen for window management, Byoubu for information bar, slmenu for application launcher, and some scripts for things like screenshots and screen recording.
Some applications like web browsers are hard, but I trust NetSurf can be enough to let me post on Sup Forums and fbpdf to view ebooks.
Remember that mpv has a framebuffer option, so video too is solved.
Anyone else making a GUI-less setup?
Dominic Ross
No, but make sure to document your setup throoughly, I would like to see how it looks and functions
Cameron King
Will do.
Thanks to Screen we have options for key binding too, and I am working on some framebuffer scripts for screenshots and screen recording. You can help:
I'm not trolling with this question, but how does one become a hacker? Should I learn C/C++ and web security of some sort? I know this is very unrelated to the topic at hand but since it's the friendliest general I thought I could get something out of it. Would being a sysadmin help? Anyways, thanks for any help.
i'm going to edit your post so future viewers don't have to try and digest the nonsense you just vomitted up for context, this is all in response to a post about reducing software redundancy
>Vimfags are [insert mischaracterization of vimfags] but then [add the things they want as they need them instead of downloading them and extra, redundant stuff from the get-go] just to get half the features of Emacs.
>Remote editing? [SSH allows it but Emacs has it too] >Server/client architecture? [unnecessary but Emacs has it] >A proper package manager so you don't have to fiddle with plugins all day? [implies everyone wants plugins, and ignores the presence of p gud vim plugin manager plugins] >Sup Forums browser? [you have a browser already but Emacs has it too]
