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Should you? Maybe. If you want a semi-rolling release debian sid or testing both work. Can you? Absolutely, I did it for a few months without many issues.
from stretch i was previously on jessie and it took me a while to get used to it because it was such a huge change and many of my configs broke
Angel Nguyen
This looks hacky as fuck so I skipped it. Guess I should give it a go.
Yeah I saw that one but I'm on the same boat of the OP there. Having to relearn to type in yet another layout is too much of a hassle, I already have to deal with 3 different layouts daily
Brody Stewart
anyone know what they did for good font rendering on Manjaro?
Landon Thomas
Might be your only option, unless you want to try converting the package to Arch as user suggested. I'll bump it down to trap picture since you've already seen that post
Jordan Jackson
Well my wifi broke once and I had to edit a config file to fix it... can't remember everything but it wasn't bad overall.
Matthew Morales
Look up infinality,then look up and to reflect infinality settings with the updated fontconfig,unless you're on old packages then just use infinialityt
Aaron Powell
I'm installing fedora as my first ever linux distro, did I make the right choice?
John Myers
Fedora is great if you can stick to the official repos.
Cameron Cruz
Ubuntu and Suse is the most popular "first distro" but there inst anything like "bad choice" here.
Adrian White
How to fix “deauthentication by local choice”?
Its just on Ubuntu 16.10+ on 16.04 it works fine..
Robert Hill
People generally aren't using infinality on Arch anymore since the harbuzz update broke it for everyone (January I think) and last I knew the maintainer has abandoned it and nobody is interested in continuing it anymore. There is a copypasta guide for getting similar fonts without infinality though. I can post it if there is demand for it. The default interpreter is pretty good now. Some decent fonts installed and a good fonts.conf is really all you need.
James Brown
Blacklist harfbuzz and go on your way. The new fontconfig looks NOTHING like infinality,even with all the configs and patched fonts.
Hudson Martin
>Blacklist harfbuzz and go on your way. Well this is dumb. It broke months ago and nobody is maintaining infinality for arch.
>The new fontconfig What is "the new font config".
>even with all the configs and patched fonts We aren't talking about the same thing.
Retards won't realize that you need to zoom in proper and not look at the smaller embeds to see how it really looks.
Austin Kelly
>harfbuzz No one needs to maintain it,blacklist it and problems solved. >new fontconfig fontconfig version 2.12
We are talking about the same things.The configs for fontconfig dont mimic infinality at all,it looks nothing alike its shit
Eli Gomez
I have a GTX 970 and can't boot into any Arch variant without getting a blank screen. If I use nomodeset then Xorg won't start. What can I do, apart from getting a proper video card?
Luke Scott
>No one needs to maintain it,blacklist it and problems solved. Why would you blacklist something being actively maintained to use something that abandoned? Simply blacklisting it won't work anyways because the current version breaks infinality.
>We are talking about the same things No we aren't. I'm talking about this:
-Creating an Infinality-like font configuration for Arch-
From a clean slate on Arch we can now create a similar font configuration to the infinality-bundle's without having to use the patched packages. It is now possible to easily get great-looking results with the default interpreter.
1. Create the following symlinks to instruct freetype2 to use good-looking rendering defaults sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d
2. Modify (or create) /etc/fonts/local.conf to contain these contents: pastebin.com/rnDtdzt5
3. At this point your fonts should look pretty good and you may wish to stop here but you can improve them more by making sure that you have all fonts on the system that were defined as substitutions earlier. To do this you need to install the packages fonts-meta-extended-lt and fonts-meta-base from the AUR which will build the rest of the fonts required.
After having done all this, restarting the X-server by logging out and back in should apply all changes.
>The configs for fontconfig dont mimic infinality at all,it looks nothing alike its shit The above was created explicitly to mimic infinality
David Brooks
#ArchProbs
Mason Perry
This picture is genuinely funny. And more than a little arousing. Right like what if the pizza dispatcher really just didnt give a fuck Looked over at the cutest boy and said: "Well? Get your twinky ass over there!"
BP wasnt very well liked or accepted at his job. People sniggered behind his back calling him gay for being handsome. He wasnt confident or mature enough to defend himself. He was just trying to earn some money to help out his impoverished family.
Pizza boy arrives at anons house and is greeted at the door by a large shut in 4-chaner. Anons pants are down, penis exposed. PB makes the above face. user says groughly: "Well? Bring it inside so I can inspect the pizza." PB suspected from the way user was looking at him that inspecting the pizza was the last thing on this customers mind. Maybe it was the words "Box Cutter" written in sharpie down user's raging boner. PB freezes up. He could run sure, but he knows how seriously Dominos takes it if a delivery boy doesn't come back with the money. They don't care if you bring back the pizza, only the money. He'd never seen or heard of anyone making it past 3 unpaid pie's without getting fired and he was up to 2 already. Some thugs had jumped him on his way home.
Carter Parker
Holy fuck nigger,if i black list get this harfbuzz,are you still with me? if i blacklist harfbuzz then it wont update. HOLY FUCKING CRACKERS. Infiniality works flawlessly
I did exactly your post verbaitem and they look like shit.
Ethan Gomez
user raises his voice some more and barks out: "I'm not paying for a wrong pizza, now get your ass in here, I'm hungry." There it was again, that look, user was looking right through the pizza box and undressing PB with his eyes. PB Thought of his familys unfurnished concrete apartment, they moved so often and abruptly they couldnt keep any furniture. The paint was pealing and some nights there was hunger for the children in the house. PB told himself he could just put this pizza down on the suspiciously short table in front of him, collect his money and leave. As he walked past user he thought he saw user's mouth open, some drool hanging off those large lips. PB gulped, he was sure he'd made a mistake. user was holding the door still, making PB walk past him and into the house. "Well? Show me the pie!" PB knew throwing the pizza down on the table wouldn't go well, so he bent over, the short table forcing him to bend past his waist. He was so nervous he stumbled forward dropping to his hands on the table, his knees scraping against its edge, his back arched by the awkward pose. The pizza box clattered slightly after falling the last 7 inches to the table. user took the opportunity and said "Hey watch it! You probably fucked it up, Now we have to do a more thorough inspection" Anons hand left the door as he gently pushed it, and the door closed on Pizza Boys's innocence that early spring afternoon.
Ethan Ramirez
>>harfbuzz >No one needs to maintain it,blacklist it and problems solved. harfbuzz isn't what's not being maintained you stupid fuck it's the infinality bundle . Go sniff a floppy dick faggot
>Infiniality works flawlessly Holy shit you're fucking stupid.
Matthew Long
Holy shit you're fucking blind.I bet you use serif fonts too dont you faggot
Colton Murphy
Fuck off retard
Jose Morgan
Wtf delete this filth
Elijah Johnson
SPOTTED THE SERIF USER
Jason Perry
You have no idea what you're talking about. Go back to the woodshed punk.
Jaxon Ross
you mean gug shed
Ryder Barnes
i'm trying to install google chrome and mint won't let me because i have application managers running, but i'm not installing anything.
nothing comes up in task manager either.
Logan Scott
>nothing comes up in task manager either. look under all users instead of just yourself
Austin Ramirez
there shouldn't be any other users though i'm the only account
>i dont spend money on shit i dont have to so i can spend it on stuff i have to
sounds pretty capitalist to me senpai
William Ortiz
xsauc is that you?
Julian Taylor
how do i do that sorry googling stuff for linux sucks and nothing good ever comes up
Andrew Foster
(((Linux))) is a (((communist))) piece of shit.
Bentley Harris
fuck off roleplaying shill, we all know that Sup Forums uses GNU/Linux or BSDs
Adrian Murphy
make a file called google-chrome.list in the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and put in it.
This will let you install google-chrome directly from google's repos.
Liam Thompson
>the only operating system that avoids the ((windows)) or ((apple)) botnet is ((communist))
then what the fuck do i use faggot
Anthony Robinson
Why are you helping people install chrome, let alone nonfree software?
James Edwards
Boot up with Manjaro with non free drivers
Brandon Anderson
No they don't you stupid (((GPL))) advocating kike
Blake Peterson
because chromium sucks ass
Samuel Bailey
What risks am I accepting by running a Windows VM on a Gnu/Linux host?
Jordan Perez
God bless
Joseph Hall
(((Linux))) sucks donkey balls
John Taylor
what kind of file? do i modify official-package-repositories.list or make a text file with that name
Ayden Jackson
I would make another file just so you can keep your affairs separate and they won't be affected by future updates.
Then run apt-get update and then apt-get install google-chrome-stable
Joshua Thompson
i agree but windows is an nsa plant and macos is garbage
Mason Hall
Warning: This section is outdated, the original Infinality Bundle is no longer maintained.
Maybe it's running under another user like root. In your system monitor there is probably a setting to change it from showing 'my processes' to 'all processes'
This doesn't address his problem
>(((Linux))) is a (((communist))) piece of shit. No it's not. Isn't it ironic that the proprietary software developers call us communists? We are the ones who have provided for a free market, where they allow only monopoly. If we are to judge views by their resemblance to Russian Communism, it is the software owners who are the Communists. Even Stallman advocates for capitalism, fuck off dude.
Don't listen to Bill here. Libre software isn't communism, Microsoft bears a close resemblance to it though. Communism as was practiced in the Soviet Union was a system of central control where all activity was regimented, supposedly for the common good, but actually for the sake of the members of the Communist party. And where copying equipment was closely guarded to prevent illegal copying.
Elijah Moore
thanks for the help, but even under root, i dont see any of the programs that it mentioned running
Sebastian Peterson
brobritary?? u giddings me???? I tried manjaro-openrc and it didn't work, but star linux (devuan) worked fine.
Nolan Barnes
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Robert Lopez
nice meme, and yes multiple times
Hudson Ortiz
Kill yourself kike lover
Xavier Johnson
permission denied
Dylan Nguyen
Oh no.... He's back...
Ryan Gutierrez
you need to be root to touch /etc, do you know how to become the root user?
Leo Robinson
if you hate linux why are you even here also you have no argument.
Connor Martinez
Stop giving him attention, he's just a troll.
Lucas Rogers
how do I set a drive to mount as read and write automatically?
Leo Nguyen
no i just installed linux for the first time today, but why does say that this wouldn't work
(((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.
Fuck off dude. Look around you, Bill Gates and the other proprietary software makers are the globalist kikes. Think of it this way, Microsoft is like a communist state, a place of central control where all activity was regimented. We are working to build a system where people are free to decide their own actions; in particular, free to help their neighbors, and free to alter and improve the tools which they use in their daily lives. A system based on voluntary cooperation NOT forcing something that actually resembles communism a la Apple or Microsoft.
Joshua Gray
They come that way
Ayden Bailey
Alright, you have a lot to learn, for starters: you need administrative permission to make systemwide changes. using sudo or su will make you the "root" user, which is the admin account, you should have designated a password for this account when you installed linux.
