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So, should I use nextcloud or owncloud on my server? What is the difference between these 2? Is there any other options to use as cloud storage/media playback?
David Morris
>nvidia
Oliver Stewart
>The perk of using Antergos is, of course, the instant access to AUR, though yaourt at this point is kind of a meme to say the least. You'll find out why soon, if you dig into ArchWiki enough.
Explain this
Camden Powell
The fuck is that? Yaourt is shit compared to pacaur though
Jackson Garcia
it's in the wiki and I wanna know what it means. What's wrong with yaourt and the AUR?
How stable is openSuse tumbleweed? How stable is debian stretch? What is the most stable rolling release distro? When will stable releases of distros get 4.8 kernel?
Nathan Edwards
okay okay gentoo probably, it's as stable as you make it. pretty soon
Carter Ramirez
> come across a bug in the documentation for an OSS project >it's marked on their bug tracker > look through the source to find the answer, decide to send it as a fix >turns out it's a different answer for different hardware >maintainer starts asking me my opinion on how to deal with it
h-help
I just wanted to be nice...
John Johnson
I have this nice cowsay clock. Can someone improve it so it's in the center of the terminal?
watch -tn1 'toilet -f slant `date +%T`|cowsay -n'
Mason Bell
I'm trying to run Star Craft 2 through wine but getting shit performance. On windows I get like 120 fps on Extreme settings, but through wine I get max 40 on high.
I'm thinking it isn't using my GPU properly. It lists my 960 in the graphics settings but it only heats up a little bit while playing which is probably just heat being dumped on it from the CPU.
The way I set it up was making a 32 bit WINEPREFIX installing battlenet using the official installer. Then just copying over a working copy of Star Craft.
When I start my raspberry pi, I have it set up to go to the command line and automatically log me in. I start my program and services and just leave it go.
Every once in a while I use the startx command to load up and go into the desktop environment
After I am done playing in the desktop, is there a way I can kill it and go back to the command line without resetting? Ive just been resetting the whole thing. I cant seem to find out how to do it.
Ryan Sanders
to return to CLI I believe you'd use this: /etc/init.d/lxdm stop
Hudson Taylor
Are you running wine-staging and have csmt enabled via winecfg?
Also, run WINEDEBUG=-all wine ... to hide debug messages which clog the terminal and slow your fps
Nathan Anderson
redpill me on systemd
Parker Rodriguez
what is the best distro for programming?
Sebastian Lopez
ubuntu or one of its varients
Jordan Collins
any retard
Easton Perez
why am i a retard
Logan Lee
...
Jack Edwards
you call me a retard and wont tell me why??
Joshua Adams
emacs
Blake Allen
Alright so I gained 10 fps from that, is there anything else I can do? I really don't want to have to dual boot for this.
Dylan Cook
Give your advice user. The maintainer ask for it.
Jonathan Martin
Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. Anything stable really. If you have to tweak the damn OS then it means you're going to spend less time programming.
Hudson Davis
Any tips/quide how I make letsencrypt automatically renew on my ubuntu server?
Ethan Powell
10fps from what? And if you did both then no not really, unless you get an AMD card and run wine with gallium nine patches. Then you'll get faster than windows fps most likely.
Anthony Young
>he fell for the fedora meme
Ian Reyes
But what if I tweaked it to maximum productivity and comfort while programming?
Jackson Robinson
I use manjaro. I mainly program in Java(incl. Android), Node.js and Python. Really comfy desu
Nathaniel Adams
Also, try setting each setting to the lowest and check your framerate. Then raise a setting to its max until your fps takes a dump. Then keep that setting (or settings) on low and raise the others
Dylan Price
Who is that girl with Stallman?
Samuel Garcia
I guess thats Alix.
Anthony Bell
You can tweak stable distributions too.
Samuel Long
Use staging and enable csmt in winecfg Use this prefix WINEDEBUG=-all __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1
Cooper Cox
But with alot more work and packages to install. Not to mention the packages are probably outdated unless you run a shitton of commands and add newer repositories.
In manjaro I've set my complete dev environment including customization and tweaking in less than 1 day
Hunter Wilson
Her name is Acid.
Jeremiah Turner
But I don't know shit about the codebase
John Lee
you have 10 seconds to explain why you aren't using the superior shell called zsh
Jackson Murphy
or fish (not as default shell though, only as -e fish)
Sebastian Hill
i'm not gay
Kayden Gomez
because bash does the job
Ethan Phillips
Doe anyone else have problems posting latly?
Daniel Reed
i'm not a macfag
Gabriel Baker
I'm using OpenBSD ksh instead.
Brandon Long
I do, slightly faster than bash even though not the fastest.
Andrew Morales
I prefer GNU software.
Jackson Morgan
Is that a cable around his neck?
Xavier Gomez
because I can configure my PS1 myself
Ian Watson
the real reason why zsh > bash is that it can actually adhere to xdg
I'm trying to bind my backlight script to i3. Here's what I've got in my .i3/config >bindsym $mod+m --no-startup-id sudo brightnessup However, pressing mod + m does nothing. I believe it is interpreting it as a binding though - when I use mod and an unbound letter in terminal, it writes the letter. However, mod + m does not write m. Writing >sudo brightnessup In the terminal changes the backlight without prompting me for the password. P.S. how do I write stuff as code on Sup Forums
Jaxson Reed
[ code]your code[ /code]
John Nelson
Just switched from yaourt to pacaur. I used to do yaourt -Syua to update all system packages and AUR packages. Do I now just do pacaur -Syu or is this not doing quite the same thing? I see that pacaur -u updates aur packages, that many of the pacman flags carry over, but then I don't know if pacaur -Syu is then only updating AUR stuff or not.
Mason Jackson
use light, it works flawlessy
Isaiah Edwards
:start code: stuff :stop code:
Lincoln Gonzalez
pacaur -u directly updates the aur only pacuar -Syu updates system pacakges + aur
Joshua Sanchez
Guys help what do I do. I was fucking with grub and I must have fucked something up real bad because now when I boot my computer grub doesn't show at all and instead it jumps right into loading the kernel, except after it loads the initial ramdisk, it tries to load the kernel again, and then hangs.
I managed to get to the grub menu somehow by going into the firmware settings and then exiting them. When I do that, the kernel loads, the initrd loads, the kernel loads again, the initrd loads again, the kernel loads again, and then I get the grub menu. However, every option I choose hangs my system. I've tried the command line, but no commands work because all the modules fail to load.
Easton Jones
Nice. Thank you.
Robert Cox
I don't think i3 is capable of running stuff through sudo.
Is "brightnessup" a script you wrote yourself? Is there a problem with your backlight that you have to resort to janky hacks?
Jeremiah Sullivan
What's better: irssi or weechat?
What even the fuck
Jonathan Rodriguez
>messed up install of Ubuntu Budgie 16.04 LTS >install Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 over it (fresh install) >everything all jacked up >hangs >reboot >no desktop background, default icons, large icons in filebrowser >terminal alerts me of some .sh thats now found
idk what happened but I am definitely not going to use 17.10 anymore. I either need to go back to LTS or I need to switch to Solus.
What I need is GCC, VLC, Firefox, Office Programs of any kind, Steam, Openshot, Gimp, Pinta, Kdenlive, Audacity, DaVinci Resolve (which is a .sh file), etc.
Should I just go back to the LTS version, or should I try Solus out?
Kayden Butler
also try to replace sudo with gksu
Evan Perry
Microsoft shills are now with google
Remind them of our hate for their dubious marketing practices whenever they shill their new troyan horse
Easton Young
That's the downside to not using rolling release. Try something like Arch or maybe Debian Unstable. Smooth updates over time instead of big ones that come with breakage.
Jack Price
Install grub again using the installer
Jaxson Peterson
>What's better: irssi or weechat? irssi. weechat is more modern and is getting some popularity, but irssi is still the better of the two for sure.
Asher Miller
...
Nathaniel Edwards
So I should go ahead and try Solus?
The reason why I haven't is because i'm not sure how to install steam on it.
