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Why do the OPs need so much fucking bloat in them? Who the hell reads that shit?
Aiden Perez
The last few threads didn't really have any discussion about it: why is systemd bad?
Camden Green
What is systemd?
Logan Ramirez
It's an over complicated solution to a problem that was solved by other means. It was obsolete before it even began.
Tyler Bell
An init system.
Matthew King
It's not bloat That has been addressed by OP himself. It tries to solve every problem related to Linux. There are defined goals, but new goals constantly pop up because it's a complex and changing area. This isn't your lazy bait thread or your anime desktop thread. It's a crucial general and those things evolve as common practices evolve.
Kill yourself for needing to have basic things explained to you while displaying smugness about your lack of knowledge, idiot.
Adrian Ortiz
GNU/Linux*
Jaxson Cooper
a meme
Nolan Garcia
it just werks
Brody Price
so it's a meme-it system, gotcha
Owen Barnes
systemd is the ultimative memegenerator
Chase Sanders
What distro doesn't have systemd?
Jaxon Walker
void, Gentoo and slackware Every other distro without systemd is garbage
Kevin Wilson
>An init system that let's you set locales, dates and all sorts of shit like init system do.
Anthony Price
can someone sum up the discussion from the last thread?
Camden Morgan
you could also try BSD without systemd
Alexander Gonzalez
Noone has any idea how systemd works, people talk out of their asses and parrot what they have heard in order to feel computer literate.
Alexander Reyes
What about Crux - Arch Linux for fit adults?
Adrian Torres
>bsd haha, no
Isaiah King
also devuan but as said it's hobbyist garbage ffs the download page uses an invalid security certificate
you might also be able to remote systemd from arch
Jonathan Allen
this basically sums up the whole internet
Kayden Long
remove*
why not
Charles Ortiz
if I want a cuckold system, I install windows
Brayden Hill
That's hilarious, cuck.
OpenBSD is the least cucked system that there is.
Eli Baker
keep telling yourself that
Connor Wright
>BSD license
Ian James
I'm interested in Crux, please explain it
Bentley Foster
What's wrong with systemd? Everyone talking its shit but nobdy why!
Parker Rivera
It's like Gentoo with less support and choices.
Jackson Cruz
nobody knows why
Oliver Torres
BSD: >Sure you can fuck my wife. If you get her pregnant then the child is yours. GPL: >Sure you can fuck my wife, but if you get her pregnant I get to keep the child
Ryan Mitchell
quick roundup
>write program >people like it, adopt it in their distro >more people like it, more people adopt it >tinfoil hatters cry alarm >"SOMETHING WANT TO TAKE OVER" >"ITS THE JEWS"
>Red Hat employees develop systemd >Red Hat sponsors Gnome and it's the default DE for fedora and RHEL >Gnome depends on systemd now, yet other DEs such as KDE and xfce can do the same stuff without the dependency Really fires up those neurons doesn't it
Aaron Ross
It's happening: unity8.org/ >This is a fork of canonical's unity 8 repository as of April 5, 2017. Following Mark Shuttleworth's announcement to abandon unity 8 development, we are planning to continue working with the project.
Gavin Cox
That link is broken, what does it say
Kevin Young
Don't forget that the first bigger distro to adopt systemd was Arch.because tomegun pushed it. He's an Arch dev but also works for Red Hat and is one of the original systemd devs.
Eli Richardson
But it's not broken. Do you use some shitty extension?
Hudson Diaz
the dot at the end is not part of the url
Jason Lewis
that was the problem, I feel special now
Blake Campbell
Gay. You can make GNOME almost exactly like Unity which itself is a butchered GNOME. Canonical will probably ship GNOME fixed up with a few extensions to give nearly the same experience.
Gabriel Adams
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
Brayden Gray
I honestly don't understand why dash to dock or dash to panel aren't preinstalled with gnome at this point. it's unusable without them and actually becomes decent when they're installed.
Daniel Russell
Fedora Ubuntu Solus Mint Sabayon Antergos Manjaro
+ XFCE or Mate
Roll the dice, can't go wrong with any of them.
John Adams
Half of these are utter crap, especially Mint. Why do people keep suggesting it?
Ryan Perry
>I honestly don't understand why dash to dock or dash to panel aren't preinstalled with gnome at this point. They are on several distros. I'm fine with a more vanilla gnome though. Not everyone is into that shit. Workspace panel scroll is the most important extension in my case. I open a few programs in different workspaces and switch between them with my scroll wheel over the panel.
Juan Adams
Friendly reminder that plaintext BSD style init is literally the best init ever made.
Nathaniel Jones
is it possible to have my linux installed on my computers harddrive, and then I "take" my linux with me and use it as a boot drive on another computer?
Christopher Cook
...
Jonathan Stewart
you can install linux with your package manager on all distros
I guess RMS is the wrong person to ask about the system issue since it's not an ethical one. He only cares about software freedom, so he should be fine with it.
Jackson Phillips
It's GPL software, so yes. I doubt he uses it though.
Angel Morris
It's free software, that's all that matters to him. He doesn't use it and doesn't care about it.
Jaxson Thomas
systemd*
Ryan Cooper
do killer wireless cards (1535 specifically) require proprietary blobs?
Bentley Myers
What are killer wireless cards and what makes them different from regular wireless cards?
Logan Edwards
Is there any special linux way of recalibrating my laptop battery?
I'm just going to do the standard leave BIOS running until it shuts off, power it on and do it again and keep going until it refuses to power on. Then plug it in for a good 8 hours and power it on at the end.
Dominic Garcia
What's all the fuzz about systemd latly? I'm using it, should I worry?
Landon Martinez
every time you boot with systemd a Unix guru loses his beard
Mason Garcia
kek
Brandon Roberts
Stop keeping systemd on topic. I know what's going on in here. You can't troll me.
Adam Parker
I want to play an alarm audio file when I remove my usb stick from my laptop. How could I script that?
Brayden Allen
systemd is quite possibly an nsa botnet in all seriousness, it's entirely possible that red hat put a backdoor in for the nsa. it's a complex, critical system component that they aggressively pushed so it became the standard for linux. youtu.be/fwcl17Q0bpk?t=22m57s starting at 23 minutes, it becomes obvious that systemd is probably an attempt at this
Xavier Barnes
Fresh oc, /fglt/ gets to see it first.
Isaac Evans
Yes there are distros that you can install to a USB drive and use it from there. Search around for live USB distros.
Jaxon Richardson
But that doesn't look like Emacs output at all
Hunter Long
>use VOID >ignore systemd discussion >transcend
Cooper Gonzalez
I never tried but saw a guy taking the hardrive from his laptop and put it on another computer and it worked. I guess it might cause some issues by doing that, like if the GPU aren't using the same drivers, wireless card etc.
if you need something lightweight, try something that comes with xfce. Maybe xubutnu
mir was a mistake they didn't had to create this shit. I wonder if unity would have survived if they were using wayland from the start and dedicating more resources on unity. Anyway, compiz and unity were two unstable piece of shit
Why people ask the same questions about systemd 5 times per thread ?
Joseph Rodriguez
They still would have to create a compositor. Weston a shit
Kevin Edwards
>using literal autism, the distro
Oliver Moore
All I need to be happy now are thumbnails in my filepicker. Please help.
Jaxon Ward
install KDE
Daniel Cox
It's simple to use and is well maintained. What's autistic about it?
Jose Carter
But I want to keep my rice and don't want install a 1,5 gigabyte huge filepicker.
Isn't there a patch for GTK? Can someone help me compiling it?
Luis Robinson
Gentoo is the only truly aryan distro for whites to use.
Dominic Powell
fuck off Sup Forumsack
Colton Morgan
>package manager written in Python >whites
Nathan Anderson
He uses lynx or a graphical web browser. Sup Forums looks the same in either. Depending on your terminal color scheme. It is basically the same thing.
Gentoo is cancer like Ubuntu and Mint; it invites users to install nonfree software.
Juan Lopez
You're right, it should have been made in rust or java instead :^)
Isaiah Watson
>posts link to website >doesn't read website
He clearly says that he's using Icecat with Tor.
Jace Hernandez
Should I try qutebrowser? Anyone itt using itt?
Is something like userstyles and userscripts possible?
Dominic Anderson
>void has no packages and is unusable I wish this fucking meme would die >void with nonfree and multilib enabled 11000 packages >arch with multilib enabled 9000 packages
Evan Jackson
Qt webkit is outdated and their webengine backend is still experimental
Justin Gomez
Fuck off, you didn't read the fucking site or your reading comprehension is lacking. Eat shit and die.
"I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with."
"I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me."
"Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation)."
