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Now that Ryzen has exposed Microsofts shoddy design, which Linux distro should winbabbies flee to?
Carter Morris
Going to take the Linux+ cert test soon, I've been working with the TestOut program that maps partially to Linux+. Do you guys have any advice before going in to test?
Caleb Long
awesome pic
Anthony Martin
Ubuntu is usually recommended for beginners because of the large community and ease of use. Although keep in mind the default desktop environment is closer to MacOS than Windows. There's also Mint which is closer to Windows, but it's slow as molasses. Coming from Windows 10 you'll probably wonder why updates are so slow.
Luis Cruz
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
John Turner
I'm going to try for the linux system admin cert from linuxfoundation.org as my first cert to try and get a entry level job. Should I install centos, suse or a buntu? I'm running slackware now but I'd like to run something they endorse.
Noah Reed
>Ryzen has exposed Microsofts shoddy design tell me more
Brayden Phillips
Windows 7 gayming benchmarks are higher than Windows 10 supposedly. I'm not sure if it's been officially proven yet, it's just comm enters on forums right now.
Zachary Evans
Just installed Fedora. Is there any way to make everything less fuckhuge? I'm having a surprisingly difficult time finding any settings relating to appearance
Caleb Torres
Linux has gone full retard the last few years in the area of appearance
Nathan Young
GNU/Linux*
Brody Butler
nconfig looks pretty good tb-h
William Ortiz
I said linux distro EVERYONE CALLS IT A LINUX DISTRO
Juan Phillips
>settings relating to appearance >Fedora's fault
Those have nothing to do with the distro retard.
Christian Sullivan
I don't recall saying that it did.
Jaxon Wilson
We don't think that the popularity of an error makes it the truth.
Colton Campbell
Does the Linux distro include GNU stuff? If yes, then it's a GNU/Linux distro. You were either meaning that, or you were just ironically asking which one of the elements of an empty set should they choose.
Brayden Baker
>I just purchased a red car. The CD player doesn't work, fucking red cars REEEEEEEEEEE WHY AREN'T YOU TELLING ME HOW TO FIX IT IDIOTS? I ALREADY TOLD YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW, IT'S A RED CAR reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
And this is why you're staying a retard.
Brody Mitchell
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Adam Carter
>no --no-preserve-root Why does everyone make the same mistake?
William Rogers
>"a red car" is as specific as "current version of Fedora" ok
Elijah Cruz
$ busybox rm --help Usage: rm [-irf] FILE...
Remove (unlink) FILEs
Options: -i Always prompt before removing -f Never prompt -R,-r Recurse
Connor Bennett
Nevermind. :^)
Jack Howard
Is Richard Stallman the most narcissistic person on the planet? The whole GNU/Linux bullshit aside, which only the most autistic people would take seriously, what's even worse is renaming distros that already have names, in most cases trademarked. For example, Arch Linux is "Arch GNU/Linux," even though their website and logo says Arch Linux. Gentoo calls themselves Gentoo Linux, while GNU calls them "Gentoo GNU/Linux." GNU is a joke, if you can't name your product what you want, how is that "freedom?" If Linus Torvalds calls his product Linux, that's what it is. You can't just go around renaming products that already exist to fulfill your delusional, egotistic fantasies.
William Parker
We are not renaming anything; we have been calling this system “GNU” ever since we announced it in 1983. The people who tried to rename it to “Linux” should not have done so.
Colton Rogers
Face it Sup Forums there are no good distros. >Ubuntu Botnet >Mint Botnet with incompetent developers >Arch broken packages >Gentoo Building from source=cancer >Debian Dude misogyny lmao >(((Fedora))) Thanks for testing rhel, goy! >Any other distro Meme with no users
William Peterson
being trademarked doesn't mean that you can't call it whatever you want it just means that you're not allows to distribute something under that name
Jace Cook
nice meme collection, expect meme answers
install gentoo
Jordan Diaz
(((You)))
Grayson Roberts
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Josiah Richardson
Electrical engineer here. I switched to GNU/Linux almost a year ago and I really like it so far. However I now need to simulate some simple circuits. Can you recommend me an alternative to LTSpice? I use the terminal for a lot of my work but I'd like to do this particular type of work with a nice clicky mouse controlled GUI.
Brandon Lewis
Thoroughly btfo archfag detected
Brayden Miller
I'm not saying it's illegal, just that the people behind GNU are delusional. Arch Linux is Arch Linux, not Arch GNU/Linux. And so on for every distro that specifically calls themselves "X Linux."
SYSTEMD BTFO POETTERING BTFO RED HAT SHILLS ON SUICIDE WATCH
Tyler Taylor
see
Nathan Johnson
hehe you really showed that ledditor lol
Daniel Myers
>implying that the appearance settings are in any way related to a distro or version of a distro
Go back to Windows kid.
Samuel Bell
how do I install the arc theme for firefox on icecat? also, why is icecat so far behind modern firefox?
Lincoln Ward
Fairly new to Linux and installed Arch as first distros because F R E E D O M and A E S T H E T I C. Now I regularly have small issues which due to my lack of Linux knowledge and (imo) complicated solutions, take up a lot of time on occasions I don't have it.
Is Manjaro a good alternative for less issues and a little more GUI over CLI without giving up the earlier mentioned motivation?
Jeremiah Gonzalez
Welcome to Linux, always good to have new users. Manjaro is literally arch, but it has a graphical installer that installs a DE of your choice. That's it. It has its own repos, but the packages are 99% the same with about the same time until you get an updated version of a package. Any settings in manjaro are purely DE settings, and the exact same setup can be achieved with arch. If you don't want to get updates that cause problems, try a different (non rolling) distro. Any version of Ubuntu with a desktop you like is good, as are fedora and openSUSE.
IMO: -In the end any distro can look and function like any other. Basically, pick between rolling and fixed release, and what package manager you like. Beyond that, any desktop environment works on any distro. -most problems setting up Linux are going to exist on every distro. Some like Ubuntu have easier setup than arch.
Nathan Howard
>Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 >being proud of posting old shit >meming about systemd Just stop posting
Gabriel Gutierrez
Thank you.
Carson Howard
>arch >freedom >aesthetic literally what
Parker Jenkins
GNU/Linux*
Juan Hill
I'm having issues installing amdgpu-pro on ubuntu-gnome, haven't tried other distros. Basically once I install drivers and restart, I get flashing color screens and gradients. this is on 16.04 with 16.04 drivers. Is it just an issue with ubuntu-gnome or will the same thing happen with all the ubuntu flavors? What would be an equivalent replacement with proprietary amd driver support for linux (basically what do you guys use?)
Christopher Gray
fuck off you autistic faggot. nobody thinks your fucking ebin meme is funny, it hasn't been amusing since 2009.
Logan Flores
install gentoo XD
Juan Rodriguez
rude
David Long
well-memed friend.
Jaxson Foster
My computer's RAM has a faulty range. I remedy that with a kernel option which specifies to skip it and it seems to work fine.
Now I want to reinstall the distribution and I want to pass the parameter to the installation ISO at boot to prevent file corruption during installation. How would I go to do that? I checked online and haven't found anything yet. I want to pass it as early as possible during the boot process.
Ian Thompson
Well, I hit TAB on the syslinux bootloader to edit it before booting the installation, I hope that's early enough to prevent corruption.
Alexander Stewart
>[profession] here. Why do you narcissists always include that line? No one cares and it's not relevant to your question. You already specified the program's name and what it does while asking for suggestions.
Nathaniel Peterson
What's a good guide for hardening my system? Any protips?
Austin Perez
Heat it up to 1200°C then dip it in ice-cold water.
Ryder Sanchez
see
Colton Roberts
Lost power during a storm the other night but wasn't doing anything on my home file server running debian at the time. When power did return, I tried to boot up the machine but was presented with a prompt that told me /sbin/init wasn't found and it just dumped me into a console. My data is still intact, and this is on a pair of drives running in software raid 1 that the system still mounts properly. /sbin/init doesn't look like it's there but some places I've read say that I need to create a symlink to a file elsewhere or load an init from a live CD. I'm honestly confused as to what to do at this point, but more concerned as to what caused this problem in the first place. Any ideas?
Isaiah Rodriguez
I've been playing around with iptables and fail2ban a lot, and find them extremely flexible and customizable. That combination will harden your system right up.
Aside from not running shitty code that can be exploited easily or SSH on port 22, that's the biggest one I recommend. From one noob to another.
So I see you're using bash. I'm more a zsh guy myself.
Colton Jenkins
What's the difference between the two KDE Neon User Editions? User Edition vs. User LTS Edition?
Oliver Hernandez
Because an electrical engineer might look for different things in a program than a physicist would. Why do you autosts always have to whine about the way people ask their questions instead of giving helpful advice?
Chase Richardson
>calls people retarded and freaks out about the fact that I didn't specify my desktop environment, computer hardware, blood type and date of birth >somehow I'm the one who's overreacting lmao 2bh
Evan Kelly
Systemd//GNU/Linux, please.
Connor Anderson
Neverball is funky as fuck. WHY DIDN'T I FIND OUT ABOUT THIS GAME BEFORE?!
Jason Rogers
Neverputt is even better!
Ian Robinson
I got a fucking annoying problem I cannot solve. So how do I install another distro but keep my personal folders?
Nicholas King
Are the folders you mean in /home? If so, any decent distro will let you reuse /home. If the files are in root you may be able to chroot with something like arch, to keep your existing files (check arch wiki)
Dylan Peterson
A different distribution will not solve your problem. Backup your HOME directory and copy it over. Alternatively, keep your home directory on a separate partition, so you don't have to delete it upon reinstalls.
Christian King
Archfag here. Finally upgraded my 2010 shitbox of a laptop so compiling won't be slow as fuck now. Should I try Gentoo?
Brayden Davis
>claims to be an arch linux user >implies some sort of familiarity >still doesn't know what constitutes a distribution >still doesn't know what he'll "get" by building packages himself from source
and the worst of all:
>uses the cringe-worthy -fag suffix to describe himself
Caleb Cox
>Actually believing that arch is a sekrit club exclusively for experienced Linux users Anyone who isn't a retard can install it, you're not special
Julian Cruz
Learn to read, no one implied that ARch is a secret club for the chosen ones.
Daniel Rogers
Hedgewars is nice, but it feels dirty compared to Worms. Why can't Armageddon or World Party get a native Linux version? :(
Brandon Wilson
Fedora or Elementary? I have had experience with Xubuntu and Debian + KDE.
Share your fedora update stories people. Do I bother with 25? Is it feasible to jump from 24 to 26?
I'm in the middle of development but I'm thinking of upgrading after I'm done.
Wyatt Cruz
Ubuntu/Unity
What is this white border? Can I disable it?
Cooper Gomez
don't know what you're doing wrong dude... i've installed the latest amdgpu-pro drivers from the website onto clean installs of ubuntu lts 16.04 about six or seven times this year. works like a charm.
what gpu are you using? what version of amdgpu-pro are you installing? is your ubuntu up to date?
Carter Wood
>at work >everyone is supposed to use auto-updating Windows PCs >it's slow as shit >it's nasty >it's annoying >sysadmin gives out USB sticks with Ubuntu >deletes BIOS password so I can install and boot it without network boot nuking the HDD and reinstalling Windows >set up pc >can install and uninstall whatever I want >make everything comfy >shit just werks Fast forward a year. >time to renew contract >get email from HR with PDF form I'm supposed to fill out >open PDF in evince >plain text, says to install fucking "Adobe Reader for Windows®, Mac, or Linux®" REEEEEEEE >go to coworker's PC who is still using Windows >boot >literally takes 5 minutes to connect to update server etc before even booting into Windows >booting Windows takes another minute >logging in takes 30 seconds >autostarts a dozen virus scanners, malware scanners, background processes >updates, updates everywhere >can't install Thunderbird because admin account required >log into Microsoft® Outlook™ to open the email >try to open PDF >Adobe Reader is not installed >can't install it because admin account cuckery All this because they want fancy fucking PDF forms WITH FUCKING UPLOAD BUTTONS FOR ADDITIONAL FILES. I cannot fathom how people can live like this. Just give me a fucking plain PDF form that I can print out, fill out by hand and slap down on your fucking desk REEEEEE How hard can it be to create a PDF that I can open with a normal fucking PDF reader? Good job, you managed to make a document in a """portable""" document format that is LESS portable than fucking docx and other Microshit cuckery. Yes, I am fucking mad.
Joseph Ortiz
*Linux/GNU
Zachary Ramirez
Rule of thumb for maximum stability with Fedora releases : when a new release comes out, hold out for 1 to 2 months before upgrading to the latest-1 version. So in your case you should go 25 in July the earliest
Benjamin Price
Guys I recently installed Gentoo on my Asus laptop and I can't get the touchpad to work. I tried both synaptics and libinput. what do?
Evan Gomez
I've just put a Debian minimal install on my XPS 15. I've installed wifi drivers and the interface is picked up, but I don't have any network managers to actually connect to wifi. The laptop doesn't have ethernet and I don't have a type c > ethernet adapter.
What do?
Easton Lewis
>there are no good distros. How 'bout OpenPEPE?
Ayden Adams
>Building from source=cancer lol wut? Something isn't cancer just because it scares you user
Also you forgot Source Mage. Install Source Mage. nomeme
Eli Phillips
Looks like something a compositor would do
Zachary Rogers
Is ricing notifications worth it? The default i3 notifications look ugly as sin. Is there something I can replace it with without spending too much time configuring?
Carson Hernandez
>default i3 notifications i3 is a window manager and has nothing to do with notifications. You're most likely talking about dunst, which is a freedesktop notification spec compliant program and which people for some reason use with i3. Install xfce4-notifyd and enjoy normal and decent looking notifications.
Adam Carter
5 years later and Faenza is still one of the most neutral and complete icon themes out there. Why is there no somewhat normal icon theme that's still being updated (with latest standard changes and programs that come out)?
I'd use GNOME's icons, but some of the taskbar stuff looks straight out of 1998.
Brandon Carter
Try Paper icons.
Isaac Cox
Hello, I installed xubuntu and am so far very enjoying it. It was defiantly the right choice for me. However, I have a few questions.
1. How do I move the little bar at the top with time, volume, and all that stuff to my other monitor? I am using a laptop with a secondary display and want it on my large monitor rather than on the laptop.
2. When I was just scrolling through the catalog, I just noticed some weird scrolling, with this line type of thing across the screen, but it is not ehre in this thread. Is this something that I will have troubles with in the future? If so, is there an easy way to fix it?
3. The windows button on my keyboard no longer does anything. Is there an easy way to bind this to do something?
Camden Bennett
You should be able to bind it to do anything just like any other key. It's usually called "super" in key bindings
Owen Phillips
Protip: he's actually a first year student trying to look cool with Linux and fucking everything up instead of using Windows like all his classmates
Isaiah King
GNU/Linux*
Jose Perry
GNU/Linux*
Easton Sanders
Does this mean my battery is dead ? ~ » upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1 native-path: BAT1 model: MS-16F2 power supply: yes updated: lun. 06 mars 2017 19:57:40 CET (73 seconds ago) has history: yes has statistics: yes battery present: yes rechargeable: yes state: fully-charged warning-level: none energy: 1,5762 Wh energy-empty: 0 Wh energy-full: 1,5762 Wh energy-full-design: 86,58 Wh energy-rate: 2,1867 W voltage: 12,542 V percentage: 100% capacity: 1,82051% icon-name: 'battery-full-charged-symbolic' History (charge): 1488826660 100,000 fully-charged 1488826620 67,000 charging History (rate): 1488826660 2,187 fully-charged 1488826660 10,220 fully-charged 1488826620 2,187 charging
Luis Jackson
So here's something pretty fucking weird I don't know how qutebrowser handles fonts, but when the page is still loading it looks like the left, and afterward it looks like the clusterfuck on the right. Any ideas?
