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>Arch Linux >Arch Linux doesn't provide anything special. People often claim it's "customizable", but it's no more customizable than Ubuntu itself. The community is also very unwelcoming to people who want to customize it beyond what the devs intended.
>There's claims of it being "lightweight", but a debian netinstall is smaller than a base Arch Linux installation. This is mostly due to Arch Linux including development headers in all their packages, which is completely unneeded for a binary package distribution.
>An email from an Arch Linux dev on Arch Linux
What the fuck am I reading. strcat is also not an arch linux dev.
Brayden Jackson
Where are my Source Mage GNU/Linux brothers!
Dominic Rodriguez
Are there any GTK3 themes which won't make my GUIs look like web2.0 "flat" hipster shit?
Jacob Ward
also please no dark themes
Mason Sanders
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Ian Davis
Vertex, deepin
Samuel Smith
What distro come with a kernel with a framebuffer? I want play vids without X
Robert Hernandez
Which distros zealot fanfags is easiest to trigger and why is it arch linux?
Elijah Butler
most of them, probably your as well. run: zgrep CONFIG_FB /proc/config
to confirm.
David Watson
I'm on Ubuntu and gave nothing.
Isaac Evans
"archers" are probably the ones with the thickest skin considering all those posts and threads against arch there. I would say devuan users or generally anti-systemd users.
Andrew Williams
Must be painful having fallen for the anti-systemd meme.
Easton Morgan
No fb0 in dev.
Samuel Peterson
Second.
Noah Bailey
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Asher Jenkins
Just lost my 145 days uptime penis. Fucking hell. Is there a way to limit the max. amount of allowed processes?
Kevin Hernandez
Yes.
Robert White
look into ulimit did you fork bomb yourself?
Lincoln Edwards
Yeah, I forgot that shell functions are recursive ... >ulimit ty
Luke Smith
>muh magic numbers truly the greatest achievement of a GNU/neet
Gabriel Morgan
So kdbus was some cancerous shit. What about this BUS1 thing?
Oliver Collins
Does anyone know how to configure the nvidia drivers on a laptop with optimus running arch? I tried running nvidia-xconfig but X stopped working.
> buy 20 dollar laptop from thicc grill off LetGo > install Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, Manjaro and all hang at bootafter update > Chroot in from live usb, no real info from journalctl
Pic related is Manjaro Dev branch RC1 after applying updates. Help plz. About to killmyself.
Mason Harris
maybe try something without systemd?
Connor Russell
xf86-modesetting is some deprecated shit. The modesetting you're thinking of is included in mesa (I think). You should try that first but if it's not optimal you should try xf86-video-intel too.
Christopher Edwards
I'll give Devuan a go. Thanks.
David Bailey
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Isaac Bell
I tried both and see no difference. I was asking because multiple sources suggest to not install xf86-intel.
Isaac Foster
>Arch users
Julian Taylor
what?
Blake Gonzalez
New content on /t/
Parker Jones
>needing to be spoonfed links to articles on their own wiki
Levi Price
nvidia settings will overwrite xorg.conf. >Just so's you're not blaming pacman.
Aiden James
you will find morons unable to google or approach the simplest problem everywhere, this doesn't make all humanity retarded.
Noah Sanchez
isn't xorg.conf deprecated?
>pirating games on linux now, I'm not "gamer" so I don't really care, but considering how small the linux games market share already is, I don't think this is the brightest idea. You are going to discourage companies from supporting linux even more, and afaik that situation is already pretty bad.
Ayden White
>Arch is for advanced users they said >we are advanced users they implied
Jaxson Collins
Please avoid using the term “google” as a verb, meaning to search for something on the internet. “Google” is just the name of one particular search engine among others. We suggest to use the term “search the web” or (in some contexts) just “search”. Try to use a search engine that respects your privacy.
Alexander Sanchez
What Dell is that?
Jonathan Gutierrez
GNU/Linux+
Landon Cook
Publishers often refer to copying they don't approve of as “piracy.” In this way, they imply that it is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them. Based on such propaganda, they have procured laws in most of the world to forbid copying in most (or sometimes all) circumstances. (They are still pressuring to make these prohibitions more complete.)
If you don't believe that copying not approved by the publisher is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word “piracy” to describe it. Neutral terms such as “unauthorized copying” (or “prohibited copying” for the situation where it is illegal) are available for use instead. Some of us might even prefer to use a positive term such as “sharing information with your neighbor.”
Landon Robinson
Inspiron 1018 I think. Intel Atom single core at 1.6ghz. Anything other than i3 drags with it.
Isaac Moore
I'm pretty sure it's not a closed club. Anyone can download the iso and install it. As always you shouldn't judge something because of a smaller noisy minority of ignorant (especially if we are talking about shitposters on Sup Forums).
Isaiah Barnes
You spend 6 months not getting paid writing a book then just give it out for free.See how you'd like it
freetards BTFO
Elijah Mitchell
Free as in freedom, not beer.
Elijah Bailey
REKT!!
Easton Adams
Dosent fucking apply retard. Go write a book, publish it, then actively give it away for free to everyone. See how the real world works for a change
Michael Ramirez
Free as in freedom, not as in free beer.
Jose Turner
You arent "free" to distribute copies of it
Jack Lee
no
Jack Bennett
Welcome to he real world freetard. World dosent work that way
Carson Williams
Isn't Wayland supposed to make KeepassX etc. not work? I'm testing Wayland on Gnome and KeePassXC auto-type worked fine with Firefox..? Is it because it's XWayland?
Brayden Perry
google as verb means to use google to search something over the internet. People use this term because google is simply the best and most diffuse search engine. This term is also an accepted neologism (i.e. not considered a grammar error): en.wiktionary.org/wiki/google en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_(verb)
Brandon Cook
can is change ubuntu repos to debian repos without complete breakage?
Brayden Rivera
Wayland is meme, and causes an entirely new set of problems, just use X11
Robert Walker
>shilling as spying search engine >doing it for free
Liam Nelson
>Is it because it's XWayland? yes, both keepass and firefox can't run natively on wayland
Jonathan Torres
hi newfriend, let me bring you up to speed Arch users are usually arrogant pricks that like to boast how they're better than everybody if you've been here for the past couple of years, you'd know how fucking annoying they can get most of them pretend to be superior while in reality they're just as incomptent as the rest us Sup Forums's had it with their bullshit because they think they're so much better than everyone, Arch users get no mercy for their mistakes a vocal and very obnoxious part of their community brought this upon all of them
Jason Myers
He is asking to avoid the word as verb, he doesn't claim that it's technically wrong, retard.
Grayson Lewis
was just explaining that "to google something" is not an error. Aside that, I can have on option without being a "shill". Also note you are currently using a website that make use of different google services.
What is your favorite search engine anyway?
Camden Parker
try searx
Aaron Long
>google as a verb "I'll just run a search algorithm on that" sounds much more techie.
Noah Richardson
see searx.me
Christopher James
>tldr: fuckin' run a search algorithm on it
Adam Cruz
kek ddg
James Sanchez
Let me run a search algorithm on that for you.
Eli Moore
You mean the debtards that have arch in a vm and their uptime is always less then 10 minutes? Those guys?
Jason Bell
nah, that was mostly random shitposting and/or trolling, not necessarily from actual arch users, akin to those anons posting about black guys fucking white girls or general "white shaming" on Sup Forums. About Sup Forums, you could say the same about anyone, from "wintards" to gentoo users or anti- or pro- systemd fags or linux users in general.
The reality is just that there are a lot obnoxious, trolls or just ignorant people on Sup Forums. Not realizing that is an error because you risk falling in the same ignorance and becoming a shitposter/troll yourself. Try to make this place a little better instead of lowering yourself to their level.
Brody Clark
install source mage
Robert Jones
I already read that page but it didn't help. I have gone back to windows for the time being but I will try to reinstall tomorrow.
Jonathan Cox
I will as soon as I finish eating my dinner
Logan Reed
that's kind of strange since you tried to run the nvidia autoconfiguration utility.
Julian Brown
I have a small laptop with a 128gb SSD and Win10 on it. I'm looking for a small/lightweight linux distro to put on it for some linux-specific development. Any suggestions?
Ethan Cox
I have an ultrabook that I'm currently using for work, however having to travel a lot I constantly find Windows burning through my battery even with power settings setup correctly, eco mode enabled, you name it I've tried it. I get a solid six hours but I need more for international travel and times when I simply do not have access to an outlet.
Is there a distro that I can install a very basic set of utilities on such as a browser, a basic TeX setup/document editor suite with maximising battery life in mind? For anything more intensive I would boot into my Windows partition.
I was considering getting Remix, but I'm unsure if this is the right place to ask questions about that considering it's android. Perhaps Haiku or Puppy? I know very little about *nix outside of Lubuntu/AWS so forgive my ignorance.
Robert Stewart
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Wyatt Nguyen
any of them
Nathaniel Cook
All of them
Jacob Allen
people who say 'to google' basically mean 'searching the web', I'm using seax and I acciently say 'I googled' myself sometimes when I actually used a different engine
'piracy' is actually a pretty evil smear word and should never be used, same with 'intellectual property'. those words exist for the sole purpose of brainwashing and bending laws torwads greedy companies
Austin Cooper
good blog install gentoo
Blake Bell
Unless there is some specific problem with your window system that drain your battery, you won't generally get better battery duration on linux compared to windows. Chances are that it is going go be worse since power management on linux in not always the best.
Robert Stewart
GNU/Linux*
Kevin Stewart
>Obscure package manager which most likely will lack what I need
Useful comments, thanks.
Can someone please give me a good suggestion.
Adrian Lewis
ubuntu or lubuntu.
Connor Martinez
You already got all informations related to your question.
Leo Lewis
Install the one I'm using. It's literally the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use.
Christopher Clark
Might as well go with the tried solution. Hopefully TDP will give me some more battery life since ubuntu is not very small.
I do?
I'm still in the thread so if anyone wants to share some neat small distro, I'm here.
Zachary Roberts
>neat small distro tinycore
Parker Rodriguez
Oh damn, I figured a really minimal install with only the absolute bare essentials and a few programs would get longer life. That's a shame I guess, I suppose I'll either get a portable power bank or a lightweight tablet I can flash and root then.
Jeremiah Robinson
And what would that be?
That's actually not half bad.
Isaiah Foster
well trying won't harm, boot a live system for one day just to test battery usage.
Julian Anderson
First of all you should remove that microsoft malware.
Indeed, I'm going to try out Puppy/Tinycore/Arch individually and see when I have some free time. It would be good to get more hands on experience with *nix anyway.
