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It's not the BSD thread but you retards have no arguments for why BSD is actually bad except >muh drivers >muh cuck license Ironically that's the same argument winfags use. Really makes you think.
Landon Wright
Ironic because OpenBSD is the only OS that is completely secure and free
Tyler Johnson
WTF even happened? This was the GNU/Linux page some hours ago.
Brody Martinez
angry pajeets are spamming and the fagmin is nowhere to be found.
Jackson Baker
BSD systemd anti-GNU/Linux
Is a weird coincidence how these three are spammed everywhere at the same time, or is it?
You say drivers like it's not a big problem. If it's unusable because of drivers that's a pretty big issue user
Christopher Rodriguez
most of the pajeet spam is new pages being made. nothing to revert.
Charles Ortiz
Tell me the full story. What pages are affected? What's the pattern of these spam targets?
Daniel Thompson
BSD's are not really that bad after all. Linus is an idiot. However GNU needs lot more work. I know it's already better than legacy Unix utils but I think it has a lot more polishing left
Carter Campbell
RICE stands for Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement and was originally referring to shitty cosmetic car mods used by inbred Asians a-la Fast and the Furious. So basically, those screenshots of neon-colored terminals and anime pictures in desktop threads? That is rice.
Arch is basically installed from the command line, it's easy when you have a guide. You partition your hard drive, install the system, and that's pretty much it. It is up to you to install X (the windowing system) and then a window manager or desktop environment, as well as any software you will use such as web browser, text editor, etc.
Manjaro and Antergos (I spelled it wrong initally I think) have a GUI installer and give you a desktop environment, as well as a few programs, ending in a ready-to-use system after installation. Being based off of Arch they give you the same package manager, pacman. Antegros uses Arch's repository while Manjaro uses its own. If you can do it, I say just use Arch.
Parker Price
that is the full story. someone (probably some angry autist lol) wrote a spambot and has been creating thousands of new pages with nonsense garbage. occasionally it changes normal articles into garbage, but mostly it's just hundreds and hundreds of "norton pro phone number" pages.
Nathan Reyes
Hurd 1.0 soon
David Young
Too late, have a look at Redox OS
Matthew Garcia
I hope is compatible with thinkpads, please
Lucas Reyes
4U
Christopher Collins
The bots usually are too stupid to get past the anti-bot thing which is some Sup Forums meme so they spam their own userpage 90% of the time
Parker Edwards
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
David Green
GNU veteran here. I put Fedora on a friend's spare laptop ages ago and he hasn't had much fun figuring out how to use it. What sort of things should I be teaching him later today when he comes over? I'll have to teach him about dnf probably. I haven't used Fedora, so I might install it in a VM. I may also help him setup aliases so I can just have him run 'update' in the future.
He's into music production also, so I'm hoping he'll be interested to mess around with jack and maybe teach me about it at some point.
Jayden Fisher
This. Having a shit-hits-the-fan ThinkPad with GNU/Hurd on it sounds amazing.
Jonathan Parker
Slackware with Xfce4. No lie
Ryder Torres
>music production You may want to look into a low latency kernel.
Jayden Ortiz
Lightweight and user-friendly are often opposite directions. I find i3 to be both, but it is tricky when first starting out due to how different it is from the usual. I would just install something minimal like Arch and then install i3. For the Arch install, I recommend Arch Anywhere. You may also want to watch a short video on the i3 basics so you know what you're getting into. openbox is another lightweight option if you want something floating.
David Torres
>He's into music production also And you gave him fedora? Why didn't you suggest him Ubuntu studio? It has 1. Built in production software goodness 2. Large online help
Gavin Myers
He's doing production on another machine already, also derivatives are generally pretty bad, and I had recently been hearing Fedora was easy to install and use for anyone now. Good idea. Thanks.
Bentley Evans
Well Ubuntu Studio ships low latency kernel fyi.
>Derivatives are bad Um, both fedora and debian prevent you from using non free media codecs by default. But I don't know the situation there. It's just a suggestion.
>derivatives are bad All it is is Ubuntu with Xfce and multimedia software. Don't be such a pussy.
Matthew Sanders
I know that (((mods))) are shilling this faggot communist Stallman.
We need to change this shit.
Justin Hernandez
Please go back to your thread.
Hunter Bell
They deleted it.
Julian James
Shouldn't Sup Forums be more concerned with more pressing matters? Like a zionist POTUS?
Noah Campbell
> Caring about external enemies when the enemy is within the site itself
Hunter Sullivan
good post
Angel Ross
Would be better without namefagging tho. :^)
Ayden Ramirez
>Calling Sup Forums home Even I am more "red-pilled" than you.
Ryder Carter
He may be a faggot commie but GPL protects us from being subject to his commie faggot tendencies.
Jaxson Turner
Hi /fglt/, got my T470 today and I'm trying to load a linux distro onto it (Ubuntu Budgie), everything installs fine, but my internet connections do not work. Like, I can connect to my wifi, and it's detected but I have no internet access, so, thinking it was a wireless problem, I connect to my modem via ethernet, and while it displays as detected, I still dont have access to the internet. plz help
Wyatt Carter
The enemy is propietary software.
Mason Gutierrez
How does Source Mage compare to Gentoo. I know in Gentoo having a Musl libc and Libressl is pretty easy, how easy does Source Mage make these kind of setups?
Cooper Torres
Both of the recommendations fail the user friendly test. Antix is the distro you are looking for user.
Brody Perry
I'd prefer to start with less and know what extra things are installed rather than use a meme distro.
John Miller
ping 8.8.8.8 This will determine if dns is the issue
Alexander Hughes
>do uname -o >it says my operating system is "GNU/Linux" eh, 計画通り(kanazied to けいかくどおり、romanized to keikakudoori, which means all according to keikaku, which means plan)
Gavin Cruz
> pinging Google > relying on proprietary IP
GNU KEKS BTFO
Adrian Brooks
I've always seen it like the old saying "I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world." Red Hat and Ubuntu are brothers, BSD is the cousin and proprietary software is everyone else. They all fight with each other but in the end focus on the real issue. Why can't we all get along?
Recommend me an interesting wm, I'm pretty bored of i3.
Henry Nguyen
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Caleb Torres
CWM, or Calm Window Manager. It's stacking, but instead of virtual desktops, you have one desktop and you assign windows to groups that you can hide and unhide. It works really well both ootb and extended with wmutils.
Sebastian Morris
lubuntu is the best distro
debate
Adam Clark
contra: bad name
Jayden Johnson
I like Ubuntu MATE out of all the Ubuntu flavors
Robert Lewis
i can fit my thumb in my anus
Isaac Sanders
> lightweight ubuntu
What's so hard to understand?
bloat
Brody Peterson
>using lxde unironically No one is that poor.
David Bell
Do you smell it when you pull it out?
Alexander Hill
Using a DE at all is bloat
Asher Long
description: Notebook product: Compaq 15 Notebook PC (K4C74EA#ABU) vendor: Hewlett-Packard
Only if you're running a server If you want get shit done DE is a must
Jayden Kelly
Keep telling yourself that.
Christian Powell
Does it get better than this? Should I stop distrohopping?
I love how everything works and the installation didn't include any bloat. I'm still curious about multiple distributions such as Geckolinux and Slackware but I doubt endless distrohopping will amount anything.
Liam Gutierrez
How does one introduce GNU\Linux to a 10 year old kid with no prior desktop computer experience?
Michael Watson
That kid is still too much of a faggot to handle linux. Let him grow up.
Jordan Moore
I am trying to prevent a directory from being deleted but allow files to be created within it. Is there any way to do this?
Thomas Long
man chmod
Isaac Wood
Why is there no Pong in Ubuntu repositories?
Aaron James
if using find empty , just add .keep file or use rm without -rf
Logan Reyes
>Budgie
Found your problem
Michael Wood
>if you want to get shit done DE is a must if you're a programmer, the only windows you'll be cycling are: 1. ure favourite shell (there's people who're too dumb to setup a powerful shell with syntax highlighting and fuzzy history search) 2. ure favourite IDE (could also run inside your terminal!!!) 3. ure favourite browser (which should be a custom build of either firefox or chromium with all the tracking disabled) 4. ure favourite email client (there's people who still use gmail in this year instead of they are own server :O :O :O ) 5. ure favourite media player for watching anime during breaks (there's people who unironically use vlc instead of mpv :O )
considering this use-scenario, why the FUCK would you need a full blown BLOATY as fuck DE to accomplish cycling between windows? >hurr configure hurr >not having your .dotfiles in a private git repo on your server ready to be pulled in wherever you are so stuff's already configured
oh wait it just came to me, you're basically a fucking milleannial pretend linux hipster user retard who uses it just for cool points instead of working. literally kill yourself
Gabriel Hall
>literally kill yourself
it's pretty fucking minimal and nice
Carter Cook
Void
Alexander James
thanks, have a ghost
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Gavin Martinez
embarassing
Zachary Wilson
How many layers of irony are you on right now?
Michael Rogers
I wanted a white one
Nicholas Turner
I don't know you tell me
Luis Rodriguez
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i fucked it up. cool trips
Xavier Murphy
spoopy
Andrew Johnson
How do I get ncmpcpp running on ubongo?
Jaxson Bell
sudo apt-get install archlinux
Zachary Stewart
You're a breathing meme. Nice tabs.
Noah Gutierrez
So I installed Linux (Manjaro) since quite a while for the KDE desktop, and the second day of use I tried to switch from non-free to nouveau Nvidia drivers with the manjaro built in tool for that, and of course it bricked the system. Hangs at startup now and doesnt even get to tty. Sigh.
I just want a good KDE 5 distro that works.
What should I go with then?
Colton Kelly
I'd like to use Void Loonix but something about small distributions stress me out. What the fuck happens when the distribution gets abandoned?
Angel Hughes
debian forcing gnome on aptitude upgrade
Ayden James
You switch to something else. Void is not going away any time soon though. They are leading the pack with stuff like getting GNOME to work without systemd.
Camden Murphy
gnome kde is bugged
Logan Watson
Their .iso files are weird and refuse to boot with UEFI even though the wiki states they should be ready for UEFI without any hassle. Oh well, guess I'll figure this out.
Also, if anyone is using Cinnamon can you check one thing for me? Mate and GNOME have the ability to edit keyboard layouts and include an option for the "key to choose 3rd level". Does Cinnamon have this?
