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Is there some place on this website where a name serves a purpose and you forget to remove it or are you just annoying?
Carter Parker
Name field exists for purpose.
Aaron Taylor
Has anyone here tried Sparkylinux? It's a rolling release distro based on Debian testing. I'm not a distro expert, so what are your thoughts on it, if you have used it?
Hudson Ross
Can I do GPU pass through on a windows VM on an optimus laptop?
Leo Wood
>Intel and Red Hat are now the largest contributors to the kernel >red hat is pushing for Wayland, gnome, gtk and systemd to become standard, as more and more software starts to depend on them GNU+Linux is a lost cause.
Jack Stewart
Hey there, I'm sort of new to Linux (using Ubuntu 16.04) and had a quick question. I've read that the upstart init process was replaced with systemd a while back. Does that mean that /etc/init.d & rc#.d (systemv) and /etc/init (upstart) are no longer used and could in theory, be deleted? Just trying to understand the init process better.
Oliver Richardson
all gtk themes look like shit
Brayden Lee
GNU/Linux
Matthew Garcia
Just what I came here to ask about. What is the point of Wayland? What does it do better than other display server DE things?
Brandon Martinez
Systemd doesn't use them but supports them for compatibility. Ubuntu may still use them if they haven't fully migrated to systemd services yet.
Samuel White
Watched a talk about this topic and it seems like that X11 is like a pyramid of horrible workarounds which actually work. Wayland want to make things better. As a user you wount feel any difference but it can make things easier for a programmer.
Austin Allen
Oh. Are KDE, Gnome, and all those all based on X11? So Wayland is something new for things like KDE to base on? Hm okay. But despite Wayland showing up ages ago, it's still very much in its infancy?
>Are KDE, Gnome, and all those all based on X11? Gnome can run solely on wayland already. KDE is working on it.
>But despite Wayland showing up ages ago, it's still very much in its infancy?
First of all. X11 and wayland are protocols, weston and xorg are implementations.
Depends on how you look at it. Merely in age terms, yes. X11 is more than 30 years old. In terms of usability, no. Wayland is basically ready. And it's main implementations weston and mutter are mostly fixing bugs at the moment.
>another shitty downstream distribution which contributes nothing Best distribution ever, be sure to review it on Distrowatch.
Christopher Allen
Ask yourself how you can be so pathetic to install an operating system that you obviously don't need because you don't know what to do with it.
Nathan Gray
harakiri
Lincoln Cox
install screenfetch, take screenshot, post on the internet
Daniel Brown
>Gnome and KDE both have Wayland support So why would you use KDE with X instead of Wayland, then?
Ian Allen
1. Wipe partitions. 2. Download Gentoo. 3. Put it on your installation medium. 4. Boot into the installer. 5. Install Gentoo.
Aaron Hughes
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Alexander Garcia
Got a fresh Antergos install, everything works kinda ok, but Firefox menus, messages, bars and tabs show absolutely no text.
I can read the websites, just the interface is fucked up
Any help?
Levi Johnson
Link python to python2.
Owen Carter
Seems like you forgot how to comprehend context and now you don't even know how to use your epic pictures any more. Perhaps it's time you kill yourself.
Bentley Diaz
Pure wayland attentionwhore here.
Ian Hernandez
Some software may not work perfectly on wayland yet. Namely, some virtualbox shortcuts still don't work perfectly.
Some distros may not easily support it yet because it's considered less stable.
Josiah Cruz
Ask on the Antergos forums what they did to the Firefox package and other dependencies of it.
Matthew Perez
Elaborate pls. I'm not the origial poster.
Levi Bennett
idk i dont use KDE but its probably because KDE uses X by default
Tyler James
Sometimes, when I drag a picture around in my browser or file manager, my screen starts to fill with black rectangles starting in the upper left corner of the screen. What could be causing this? journalctl does not seem to log whatever is doing this.
Nathan Butler
Darn. Thanks. I hear all these complaints X, windowing on Linux, blah blah. But I guess I'll just be using KDE with X anyway.
Leo Roberts
Is there a distro without flaws? I must know.
Carson Rodriguez
>idiot installs operating system he doesn't need >gets mocked for it >another butthurt idiot thinks the mocking comments are defending arch, because he's a retard who can't read and as soon as he sees a response to some post mentioning arch he has to post his pictures that mock arch
Chase Reed
A R C H R C H
Connor Myers
systemd
Jayden Johnson
Not to mention NVidia's proprietary drivers are still fucked on Wayland
Luke Nguyen
>another butthurt idiot thinks the mocking comments are defending arch, because he's a retard who can't read and as soon as he sees a response to some post mentioning arch he has to post his pictures that mock arch
This doesn't make any sense. I have no idea of how you came up with this. You are retarded.
Nathaniel Nguyen
Good thing I've never seriously considered buying an Nvidia graphics card again for almost a decade.
Ian Walker
Yes, yes. SystemD™ is a great distribution. Thanks Leonnart™, RedHat™ and the Gnome™ developers.
I'm a very experienced system administrator and my RedHat™ license was totally worth it. I recommend everyone here gets one too.
Luke Powell
Gentoo /no systemd /no X11 /no ads /community.
Christian Phillips
gentoo is a bad meme
Robert Morgan
It's impossible to be completely flawless. Because eventually you'll hit a point where a feature to some people is a flaw to others.
I'd say that probably the closest thing we have to a project working on a "flawless linux distro" would be NixOS or GuixSD I say that because they more or less eliminate unpredictable flaws in user setups (and also eliminate unpredictable flaws snowballing over time)
If nixos contains flaws (and your nix config file doesn't contain flaws) then those flaws are completely reproducible and the problem is not with your machine. It will be with the software itself or nixos, and the developers should work on fixing it.
Julian Wood
It's OS.
Noah Hill
Also for the record, NixOS and GuixSD are still not really considered to be ready for daily use (especially guixsd).
Adam Adams
Hey guys, I've pretty much decided on Void Linux. Now just to wait for my hardware to finish arriving. :(
Noah Kelly
I'd just like to ... [rms is having connectivity problems] ... are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Luis Reed
when will gtk finally get thumbnail preview??
Nathan Sullivan
It already has. Dumb frog poster.
Joseph Watson
no
Brayden Myers
In 2050, where they will finally consider computers are fast enough to display thumbnails.
Lincoln Ross
...
Henry Robinson
no thumbnails
Jose Campbell
retard
Gabriel Jackson
no u
Adrian Russell
not an argument
Adam Barnes
...
Landon Jenkins
works on my machine™
Owen Edwards
>leee website war maymay retard
Lincoln Adams
>le you need to go back
Ethan Cruz
>text comprehension retard
Matthew Allen
no u
Parker Parker
Only after you bent over backwards to download patch files from some random weebs github to manually compile and ball fondle gtk.
"jest wuhrks" indeed.
Connor Morris
u
Isaiah Turner
@59920542 please take your low quality content back to the website reddit
Justin Ramirez
>moving the goalposts whatever lets you sleep at night friend
Michael Lopez
no idea what you're talking about
Matthew Reyes
...
Ryder Turner
Their architecture page makes it sound so much more efficient.
So what's up with this?
Charles Miller
Is there any web browser that provide an AppImage? Normie sites no longer support the old versions of Firefox, and youtube doesn't play 360 videos.
Logan Allen
why do you need it as an appimage?
Joseph Hernandez
I don't want to install it? Because installing a web brwoser would force the update of certain packages which will prevent other applications from running unless I updates those applications.
help, my wifi is blocked and I don't know why - the bios hasn't blocked it, nor has the keyboard button. It was working previously, so I have no idea what stopped it.
rfkill list all
0: acer-Bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes 2: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no
"rfkill unblock all" does nothing. All the answers on google seem to revolve around a competing wifi interface, which does not exist in my case.
Henry Kelly
>Going passthrough >Laptop Nope stop trying to force your laptop to be a gaming machine
Thanks user. I know running outdated application is bad, but I don't want to run the latest FF because the webkit approch, which would stops several important addon that I need.
Haha or just have it configured right. Using normal packages no weird patches or forks.
Thomas Ortiz
afaik old addons still work on ff52
Logan Sullivan
Thanks. While I admire GNU/Linux way of sharing the libraries. Sometimes when you want to have multiple instants of different versions of the same application, it would become very difficult. I've asked in FF thread a few days ago and some user told the addon didn't work.
I like AppImage approach though, even if it's more windows way of handling things.
It can come handy for low end devices where the latest version of the package is not available in the official repos, or when the package doesn't exist and you would need to build it from source.
Though I've lately started to use it to populate my 32GB flash drive that have puppy linux, with various applications. I forgot to ask, where does the configuration/profile get saved? The AppImage itself?
Nathan Adams
Friendly advice: Don't try to run pkill -9 ""
Christopher Price
>tfw stupid nigger Linus has not completed his compiler
Jackson Parker
>FF or Chromium At least recommend WaterFox, Valvadi, FF Dev edition. All have appimages and better than those you mentioned.
Jeremiah White
>I forgot to ask, where does the configuration/profile get saved? >The AppImage itself? no idea i dont use appimage >At least recommend WaterFox, Valvadi, FF Dev edition. >All have appimages and better than those you mentioned. didn't know that. i just searched for the 2 biggest browsers (-chrome)
Luke Wright
OP you filthy faggot. Why didn't you add a title? Shit like this is making me angery.
Juan Torres
What is the best freetard browser?
Alexander Young
FF Nightly with manually tweaked config. Lazy mode: Icecat, which is basically debotnetted FF.
