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So after a few months of deliberating, checking requirements and using a live operating system to make sure everything was water tight I've not successfully moved to lubuntu.
I genuinely didn't realise how much simpler installing something from the terminal is, or how fucking easy everything would be, thanks guys. You're alright anons.
Carter Adams
>I've not successfully moved to lubuntu Typo? Why not?
Joshua Cox
if you read his post, it's a typo
Dylan Anderson
thoughts on fedora?
Levi Johnson
remember try more extreme autisms when you want to, because you want to, not just because the ones who've already done so say its the best. ultimately theres nothing wrong with using linux mostly like you'd use windows, without tweaking and ricing, if thats what you want, too.
Aaron Gonzalez
Doing my first ever install of a distro and I went with debian. Now I'm posed with the question of which desktop environment to pick, any suggestions?
Evan Brown
GNU/Linux*
Xavier Mitchell
>shit font rendering
Ethan Roberts
>his There is nor harm in asking.
Jack Nguyen
KDE if you want filepicker thumbnails.
Brayden Jones
CS student looking to get into linux. What distro to start with?
Elijah Howard
Thank you for your correction. I actually intended to just say gnu.
Gavin Hall
It's ok. Did you try to change it?
Asher Anderson
>thinking font rendering depends on the distro lmao
Jack Barnes
I have a really autistic question and I'm too lazy to test it myself. Can I install a distro to a usb drive, install grub there and boot it without fucking the bootloader on my pc and other random shit that could happen?
Evan Carter
I like xfce. It's easy to configure, you can change anything and it's lightweight, but the default config is kinda ugly.
Cooper Bell
GTK filepicker has a preview pane. its still shit compared to KDEs filepicker though. KDE's has thumbnails and you can resize the preview pane to see the image however big you want to. It also looks and acts more like a normal file manager.
Nicholas Scott
install ubunut
Owen Cox
Arch adn LSF are very good to learn the internals. But I suggest you use them in a VM. Debian and Fedora are entirely free-software and pretty good for desktops.
Noah Walker
Do a netinstall a test them all. Or just xfce because it's the best without going too autistic
Christian Wright
>Fedora >entirely free-software pick one
Gavin Garcia
Yes.
Julian Foster
...
Kevin Smith
it does you fucking retard different distros have different default settings
Ayden Anderson
Trying to make mpsyt + mpv look decently on i3, thoughts?
John Bailey
Thanks for the answers lads.
Tyler Baker
>choosing a distro based the default settings
Zachary Phillips
It only allows some non free firmwares but they don't even come installed by default.
Levi Harris
retard just change the fonts
Christian Morales
Redpill me on the relationships between the NSA, Red Hat, RHEL and Fedora.
Zachary Watson
NSA made SELinux(free software) and RH uses it by default. Basically memes.
Noah Hernandez
red hat is a company with ties to many gubbermints, projects like selinux are developed by red hat and the nsa
fedora is a community distribution of gnu+linux with support from red hat. it gets the newest red hat software (rawhide), which later goes into rhel, a commercial distribution (with tech support)
Camden Lopez
Anyone having trouble building mpv? It usually takes care of itself if I wait, but I might as well ask in case someone more savvy knows. ../video/decode/vd_lavc.c: In function ‘init_avctx’: ../video/decode/vd_lavc.c:595:22: error: ‘AVCodecContext {aka struct AVCodecContext}’ has no member named ‘hw_device_ctx’; did you mean ‘hw_frames_ctx’? avctx->hw_device_ctx = av_buffer_ref(ctx->hwdec_dev->av_device_ref); ^~
Waf: Leaving directory `/home/user/mpv/build' Build failed -> task in 'objects' failed (exit status 1): {task 140166340852624: c vd_lavc.c -> vd_lavc.c.14.o}
Nathaniel Cook
Is SELinux good software or should it be avoided?
James Flores
More importantly, why some videos aren't listed but work with the URLs? They're not hidden
Colton Hill
It's very very good but it's also very complex. On fedora and rhel it should just werks™
Eli Young
It's good if you can figure it out. Some tinfoil Alex Jones types who think we faked the moon landing also think SELinux is botnet.
Just set it to permissive and you'll be fine.
Brandon Peterson
try an older commit?
Angel Foster
Is it worth installing arch on my laptop or should I just go the lazy way with a ubuntu flavor?
Adam Evans
If you have the time Arch can be very instructive. If not I recommend Debian or Fedora because free-software.
If you choose Arch, consider Parabola, ita an Arch remix that contain only free software.
Luke Martin
What are some cool terminal commands?
Jace Cox
nice try
Bentley Hughes
Why do people say arch helps you learn?
Alexander Reed
because it holds your hand when installing something thanks to the aur
Dominic Green
Because it's easy to install and requires little human interaction to be maintained, and it's also systemd™ certified.
Daniel Perry
The "find"command, my man. It can do some wicked stuff. Study its man page, and be enlightened.
Robert Brown
Because you have to read the wiki to do anything which is very well written and broad. I never used Arch btw, just the wiki.
Tyler Howard
Search for 'memes' in all files in the current directory.
find . -type f -exec grep -nH -e "memes" {} +
Aiden Perry
When you need a short beep. (seq 99 | aplay -q &) Stuffing stuff into aplay is always fun and the possibilities are endless.
Listen to yor ram: sudo cat /dev/mem | aplay -q
Ryder Foster
grep -r memes *
Colton Cruz
Honestly, I got a boner when I managed to connect to a wireless network on a terminal during the installation
Oliver White
...
Joshua Hernandez
When out of arguments. curl -s randominsults.net | sed -n '//{s;^.*\(.*\).*$;\1;p}'
Owen Green
You are down to earth, but not quite far down enough.
Daniel Anderson
Go ahead, tell them everything you know. It'll only take 10 seconds.
Ian Evans
You should learn from your parents mistakes - try using some birth control.
Robert Powell
For NixOS
are the hashes used to basically say: "If you don't produce this exact hash from your current runtime environment then you won't even be able to locate this program" Basically meaning that it's a way to guarantee you're using the same environment every time you run something or it fails?
Or do you just execute a program and the hashes somehow allow the program to locate exact versions of every dependency it needs?
Evan Hernandez
>tfw to intelligent to successfully install archlinux
Juan Hernandez
Thats no different than any other distro. If you do things yourself, you'll need to read the documentation. The archwiki is good for that but you dont need arch for it. But thats the same as any other distro you install manually.
Jason Perry
what are some lesser known but interesting wms?
Samuel Rivera
try arch-anywhere
Jason Wright
Is there a distro that has package management like Slackware but where I don't have to install literally the entire innernette on my computer?
Alexander Rodriguez
The Arch wiki is made specifically for arch and arch is made specifically to be build like that.
The learning curve will be much smoother if you are not trying to adapt the arch wiki to, say, debian.
> you'll need to read the documentation There is no other distro with documentation as good as arch's. The second bests are ubuntu/rhel and they don't even come close.
Owen Garcia
>package management like Slackware none?
Did you try to not select everything in the installer?
FreeBSD would probably be what you want but it's not gnu linux.
Justin Adams
It now works.
Daniel Ortiz
I installed debian xfce, it's working fine but there's a problem with the resolution. I can't change either the aspect ratio or the resolution, and the display is showing up as "unknown display" for some reason. Any of you guys know what I should do from here? Still new to this whole linux thing.
I'm using a laptop by the way.
Jonathan Hughes
what is the best frontend for mpv? >inb4 just use mpv i would but I'm that guy who loves to change lots of settings while watching
Gavin Bennett
I just wanna say that Gnome finally has built in redshift/f.lux
Parker Myers
Post output of lspci.
Tip: Check the whiskers-menu, the murrine-gtk-themes and the faenza icon set.
Elijah Gonzalez
What is this and is this good?
Tyler Walker
It tints your screen orange at night so you aren't kept awake by the screen as much or something
Grayson Morris
I don't have a computer. I have a Macintosh.
Hunter Reed
DELET
Justin Hill
ohh sounds useful
Brody Rodriguez
>arch is made specifically to be build like that. no, thats complete bullshit and you know it. Unless you're talking out your ass because you've never installed any distro like that except arch. Debian is the same shit if you use a netinst, for example. You also know arch's docs are mostly applicable to any other distro, too. You're also ignoring the gentoo wiki, which is where alot of archwiki was taken from.
Benjamin Sanchez
why I can't just install anything on any distro? why I can't do it? why? why?
>Unless you're talking out your ass because you've never installed any distro like that except arch. I'm not an Arch user.
>Debian is the same shit if you use a netinst, for example. It's not. Netinst is not made to build a complex system upon. It's made for people that only need a basic set of software. Such as most servers.
>You also know arch's docs are mostly applicable to any other distro, too. As long as the other distro has somewhat the same packages, versions of the packages and the same package structure/nomenclature.
>You're also ignoring the gentoo wiki, which is where alot of archwiki was taken from. Gentoo wiki is pretty good and I did forget about it. But it's not even close to Arch's.
Camden Fisher
You can.
Chase Watson
Antergos
Ryder Miller
Again, bullshit None of these things being "specifically made for x" matter. Make an actual argument about the practical reality of whatever you're talking about if you're going to say its better for something. Don't appeal to some vague notion of it 'being specifically designed to work with [whatever]' with no further explanation. Debians normal install is a complex system. Debian stable is literally the same fucking system, just with only the barebones. Debian netinst is exactly the fucking same as arch, gentoo, void, etc in regards to the DIY start with a minimal syystem and set up your own enviornment shit. In my experience with all of those afformentioned distros, at least. As well, I've only ever rarely had problems with archwikis documentation using void or debian. Most of the time its just as applicable. The hypothetical notion that there could potentially end up being incompatability if it used a different software version or shipped a different configuration never fucking manifested.
Asher Clark
ok buddy
Henry Nelson
Are there any tablets that can run linux? All the ones I've seen have several important features that don't work, also need it to have a sim card slot/3g
Hudson James
>debian stable debian netinst*
I dont hate arch by the way. Ive used and liked it too. But literally nothing about it makes it "good for learning" compared to any other 'diy' distro, and when people constantly say 'arch helps you learn' it seems like they think those are features of arch, not just features of minimal distributions/minimal installations. Its like fucking calling Ubuntu "Linux," as though there were no other distros and you didnt need to be any more specific.
Parker Taylor
Not an argument. My ugee tablet works well with the latest kernel. Though on debian or arch I had to install the digimend kernel drivers. Just werks on void though.
Anthony Johnson
I meant portable tablet not drawing tablet, sorry user
guys, how do you deal with firefox now dopping gtk2?
the fucking filechooser is even more shit than the one in gtk2. there are black flashes whenever any dialog opens bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771708 and those fucking piece of shit cocksuckers refuse to fix this. gnome is such a pile of dogshit, i just with i had qt5 firefox. anyone else having problems with gtk3 firefox here?
Caleb Wilson
time to find a different browser?
Brayden Price
Do any anons know what alsa-plugins-ffmpeg and gst-libav(gstreamer-libav) are needed for?
Colton Campbell
>anyone else having problems with gtk3 firefox here? I was until I downgraded just to get gtk2 back. The filepicker is unbelievable shit. I couldn't stand the fact that it automatically initiates an actual search instead of just jumping down the first file beginning with the letter you typed
This sort of shit easily falls into the category of development decisions that really make me question whether the people developing the software even use their own shit or not. I bet these fags are all running macs or something
Mason Lewis
weeb pls go
Caleb Hernandez
is this leterally it? switch to chrome or stay on firefox 52(that STILL doesn't even have video acceleration on linux). jesus fuck some open source is just such fucking garbage. literal dog shit. i would literally castrate every gtk faggot myself. this shit is giving me an aneurysm.
why the fuck are linux such trash in desktop department? i don't want any of the gnome shit, i just want a gui kit and acceleration. why is the fucking xorg still having tearing? can't i just have a desktop without tearing? it wasn't an issule back in windows 2000 for fuck's sake. why do they need wayland(that STILL DOESN'T WORK properly) to fix this simple fucking issue of vsync?
i have my programs that i use on linux, but desktop infrastructure that supports them is pure shit.
Carson Garcia
>chrome enjoy your botnet
Ryder Rivera
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.
