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Colton Hernandez
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Anthony King
PCLinuxOS is objectively the best distro.
Jacob Diaz
install gentoo
Carson Evans
>sudo is a must anytime you make install >not installing inside $HOME >giving root to unverified repos KYS yourself
Camden Thompson
0. re-consider your life if you use i368 ubuntu in year of the lord, 2017 1. open github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/releases 2. search for the section for ubuntu binaries 3. download the .deb packages. 4. install the deb packages with dpkg: dpkg -i file1.deb You can supply more than one .deb files or you can put all the files in one directory and inside run dpkg -i *.deb 5. run apt-get install -f to install any necessary dependencies 6. chromium is now should be in your.... "start menu" or whatever it is called in kde
Since you're on Ubuntu you can also use a PPA or deb file. Try searching for them.
Jackson Baker
Wow you're dumb
Owen Collins
>KYS yourself kill yourself yourself
Easton Torres
is it worth it to install Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 or should I just stick with Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS and then wait to upgrade when 18.04 comes out? The newer version of GNOME is appealing with a few of it's features but I don't know if the compatibility will be there.
Brayden Scott
>i just googled a random repo and made make run some scripts from it as root >but the user that calls on me for it is dumb, not me That's the joke
Julian Brown
>be newfag >follow compilation guide minus part that says sudo is important >instructions say make install >do it >it doesn't work correctly >needed sudo >the devs assumed I knew this
Joseph Johnson
>compilation guide says sudo is important >compilation guide doesn't warn against unverified sources and to fucking check your trust web twice before sudoing anything new
That's how you turn curious noobs into rooted ms shills... or are you one yourself?
Levi Adams
>i just googled a random repo and made make run some scripts from it as rootesn't even include make install. The last instruction is make. No. That repo doesn't even include make install. The last instruction is make.
>>compilation guide doesn't warn against unverified sources and to fucking check your trust web twice before sudoing anything new This is common sense homefry.
One infographic can't be everything, it's a good explanation of what compiling is.
Nolan Hernandez
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Caleb Robinson
>That repo doesn't even include make install Refer to your own disgusting guide >This is common sense homefry. Not for newfags who need infographics
Joseph Anderson
Hello friends, I just built a new rig, I'm running ubuntu on a fresh ssd and have my old hdd with my windows partitions inside, the windows drivers are all broken as fuck though and without at least the network adapter drivers I can't go in and fix it from there
I have access to the file system, are there ways I can use this working linux install to go in and fix it? I'll post screenshots if you want specifics but I'd just like to know what direction to look to fix it myself
Jackson Gomez
nth for reversing audio
Levi Cruz
>Refer to your own disgusting guide Look at it again.
>>This is common sense homefry. >Not for newfags who need infographics >Installing something you don't trust >ever Whatever dude. Fuck off. You don't even understand what you're looking at.
I'm sorry I thought English was your first language and you seem to have trouble comprehending images. The image clearly shows the instructions from github and it clearly ends at make.
James King
What's the difference between Fedora and OpenSUSE? Aside from release cycles they seem very similar.
Xavier Sanchez
Installed Xubuntu 16.04 64bit on a ThinkPad X230 (Intel HD Graphics 4000) and I just stumbled upon a problem where the screen seems to glitch when playing video or scrolling on Firefox.
Just activated the proprietary graphics drivers on the Additional Drivers program/tool but the problem seems to persist. Didn't have this problem when I tested vanilla Ubuntu 16.04 a while ago.
Can anyone give me a heads up on what I should do to fix this? I'd greatly appreciate it.
Evan King
I-Is this real? By installing gentoo have I become a desirable male commodity?
Bentley Brown
compton
Ethan Martin
Now that devuan is 1.0 RC, next will be the final release?
Luke James
Should I be worried if my /efi/boot/ entry is called antergos_grub_h7sy instead of antergos_grub?
Austin Brooks
I'm using linux mint 18.1 cinammon on my laptop (gf gt630m/intel). I bought a monitor and I want to use dualscreen. The problem is that I cannot rotate external screen. I've already added "Option "RandRRotation" "true"" to xorg, but it doesn't help. any ideas?
Easton Richardson
Is installing compton from the official ubuntu repos the way to go or should I look for a ppa?
Juan Mitchell
Why does almost every single linux distro have screen tearing when multiple open windows overlap? For example, having a video player or a windowed game open in front, and a file manager or a web browser window either fully or partially behind will cause screen tearing in the part where the 2 (or more) windows overlap.
Alexander Miller
I've been using Xfce for a long time and just switched to the compositor to compton. It was one package and dropping some stuff in two files and it insanely smooth now. Why isn't this default?
Doesn't change the fact that everything is moving to it.
Nolan Reed
non-GNU/Linux*
Luis White
>it isn't real
Adrian Gray
>doesn't get the point
Nicholas Ramirez
No. I get it.
Gavin Hughes
GNU
Mason Nelson
Shit*
Nathaniel Watson
Linux*
Daniel Howard
How much of the software you run uses the GNU Public License? Fuck off.
John Parker
GNU/Faggot*
Ian Torres
top kek
Eli Butler
RMS disapproves of the GPL v2, faggot.
Angel Fisher
hue
Caleb Sullivan
GNU operating system with Linux added as its kernel*
Lincoln Gutierrez
Oh so you use Hurd? Oh wait...
Gabriel Peterson
how to comile git mpv from source
Hudson Clark
>trying t figure out how to restart compton >wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compton >CTRL + F restart >no results This happens all of the time on the Arch Wiki. Even people on the Arch forums link to wiki pages where the answer is absent. Fuck you. It's not as great as you people say. It's an elitist meme. Honestly the Manjaro wiki is turning out to be superior.
see to get a better idea of what compiling is and follow the instructions at the link.
James Cruz
kill -KILL compton; compton
Wyatt Campbell
what laptop is that?
Wyatt Anderson
What phone should a freetard get?
Ryder Nelson
Just use kr. $ kr() { ( p="${1:?}"; pkill "${p}" && "${p}" & ); } $ kr compton
Evan Scott
Had the same problem a year ago and I was to dumb to install+configure Compton properly so I went back to Ubuntu. I hope this gets an OOTB fix before 18.04.
Jose Davis
Fresh Debian+Xfce install on a laptop, not much more experience with Linux than just knowing a tiny bit of the terminology and some basic core stuff(cron, screen, ssh, etc). My main computer is a well running Win7 install that I'm familiar with hotkeys on, have a workflow, have fixed any little flaws on(thumbnails for webms, etc), and play games on. Where do I start on making this work for me? I've heard Xfce is terrible for screen tearing, so that needs fixing, I need to get the latest Firefox and my add-ons(ESR is preinstalled), I want to remove some of the bloat that was preinstalled, gotta get the usual laptop bits setup(what to do on screen close, show battery percentage and how long I have left, if it should behave differently on battery vs plugged in), Steam, gotta either learn what the hotkeys are, or configure them to match my old ones, gotta get the layout right on my DE(taskbar on the side, system tray on the bottom, quick launch and start button on top), probably some other stuff. Can you guys point me in the right direction on anything and I can go from there?
Gabriel Brooks
Well, shit, just when I needed the Sup Forums archives the most they're down. Doing a search on Google for this is a mess.
Evan Baker
Why don't all programs come with a configure script and you just do make install instead if it doesn't?? I thought ./configure was standard?
Sebastian Evans
The world is full of code monkeys.
Josiah Brown
So this is a problem in general for all the distros that use xfce? What the fuck, how come this hasn't been fixed yet?
James Hill
Is there a way to decrease the title bar size of programs on gnome?
Luis Cook
Mmaybe declaring another dpi to Xorg
Joshua Ross
./configure make make install is the most common in my experience. I have seen ./autogen.sh quite a bit though which automates it. It's just up to the developer.
Jordan Cook
Xfce devs don't give a shit about your modern use case. It works for them.
Evan Hill
idk it's weird especially since it's such an easy fix and it's not like enabling compton adds bloat. It pulled no dependencies when I installed it, just the one package.
Bentley Gutierrez
there's no reason to say linux
Jonathan Hernandez
>>59861248 there's no reason for you to live
John Wilson
>Xfce >devs
Cooper Perez
Prepare for building ./configure
Build make
Install make install
If any of the configure options are pointing to out of home (like /usr /usr/local) you need to add sude to make install and 99% of the time you need to. Some devs use scripts to do everything or you can even get away with ./configure && make && make install also. Personally I like to do it one step at a time. It really doesn't matter though.
Jack Ortiz
I could swear I had code brackets around make oh well you know what I mean
Eli Campbell
I'm planning on building a PC soon. I'd like to use it as a way to teach myself a variety of Sup Forums related subjects: programming, networking, and GNU/Linux.
When shopping for hardware components, what is the best way to find out if an item will taint my freedom with proprietary firmware?
Also, is Debian a good distro choice for and inexperienced learner such as myself?
Jacob Perry
My experience is that code brackets are remove when one word only.
Here a test in code test does it work?
Jace Allen
For what can I use SSH? I am messing with some new things but I can't gasp how I configure it.
