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Why do amateur game developers hate linux this much?
Noah Cooper
What are some cool Linux commands?
Julian Bennett
Reposting
Anyone got an r9 290? I get tons of glitches in a lot of 3d games, some work, but most don't. Mostly no textures. I tried the radeon driver and the amdgpu driver, both glitch out the same. How do I make it work? I'm using mesa 17.0.3 and linux 4.10-19, please help.
Isaac Campbell
Not enough of their target audience uses GNU/Linux to warrant a release for it.
Josiah Morris
mkfs.reiser4 /dev/wife
James Hughes
Richard Stallman is a Communist
Joseph Brooks
Stop trying to derail the thread, shill.
Brandon Morgan
Is Gentoo just a meme? I've been thinking about trying it but I need a second opinion.
Nathaniel Sanders
no its actually good distro but requires lots of time and work.
Easton Foster
What's the best distro for my RPI?
Anthony Thompson
this: setting up (proper flags and sheet) requires effort, maintenance requires time (especially when you have to compile glib, llvm or qt).
does wayland offer unity in windows borders? its shocking that so many crappy themes get though breaking gui concurrency
Nathaniel Sanchez
I prefer Ubuntu MATE, but Raspbian is more lightweight and official
Nathan Clark
printing is managed by CUPS, not the kernel. Check if CUPS supports its.
note: start with the Gutenprint package, I needed that when I had a Canon printer.
Dylan Gomez
can anyone recommend me a quick gnu/linux distro to only do torrenting with? i would have installed fedora 25 workstation + vuze because of familiarity but i need something lighter
thinking about booting puppy linux slacko and then installing deluge, but there must be something else that fits my needs
>why not just do your torrenting from the main OS installed on the PC instead of using a live usb? It's literally no more secure in any way. there is no host OS on that device right now, but it doesn't have to be a live cd its just i was thinking of using puppy
thanks, im not sure what I'll do just yet
Juan Rodriguez
Yes, but a good meme
Lucas Green
What did they say to each other?
Daniel Martinez
>Check if CUPS supports its. How? Also the printer have WiFi capability. Doesn't this mean I can print directly without drivers hassles?
Luis Myers
Slax + qbtorrent AppImage.
Christopher Martin
Pacman question... What do I do if I want to install a package without upgrading the whole system?
Bentley Ward
pacman -S package
Lincoln Baker
Won't this force the update of dependencies?
Aiden Hughes
install sourcemage
Hunter Price
Think for a second. Will your program run if it depends on another program that has a different version dependency than you satisfy?
If you really want to ins a package without its' dependencies, there are ways, but for your own sake, don't fucking do that
Adrian Martinez
>Linux (system) Is this true?
Nolan Hall
i just installed linuxmint but i cant connect to the internet. under network it shows my ethernet as connected and says its at 1000Mb/s but firefox wont connect to anything. also it wont detect my wifi but it will occasionally show it and my neighbours wifi
What is the best rolling distro for KDE? Arch or Tumbleweed?
Aaron Wood
gentoo*
William Martinez
linux is a operating system called linux gnu is a operating system called gnu both incomplete on their own, but combined they make a nice system called gnu/linux
both of these faggots are retarded
Christopher Green
>If you really want to ins a package without its' dependencies, there are ways, but for your own sake, don't fucking do that I know that, but I've neglected my -Syu for long time now and I have few GB of updates. And I need to install a certain package but I'm afraid it will require to update dependencies which will break my older packages.
Brody Evans
the gentoo meme is stale, granpa source mage is where it's it
Oliver Turner
uname -o is just a nonstandard extension which sole purpose is to print GNU/Linux to make gnutards happy
Henry Ross
source meme*
Ryder Scott
nice meme, but fake news it prints the os name, Haiku FreeBSD, GMU/kFreeBSD, GNU/Linux, etc
Chase Rogers
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Charles Carter
My suggestion: look at the conflicts, check the comments on the pkgs/aurpkgs, make decisions based on analysis of events
>It's a nonstandard extension Where's the problem? The whole kernel is build with nonstandard GNU extensions. Be thankful that they are there or do you prefer a crippled busybox instead?
Xavier Stewart
They don't hate it, they just don't know that any other OS but windows/mac exists
Aaron Garcia
mac is a device, not an operating system
Hunter Morgan
Always buy a printer that can be operated online without having to connect to anything
Bentley Cruz
Mac ships only one OS, MacOS
Jacob Parker
there are no standard systems many systems support -o, no only GNU
Aiden Cooper
>muh GNU extensions Half of the GNU extensions don't even need to exist because they copy basic POSIX functionality
Still doesn't make it standard, POSIX says -s prints the OS name so the OS is "Linux"
Levi Bennett
That's arch only fault.
Brody Johnson
>implying the output of a program can decide what's right and wrong
Luke Long
>Always buy a printer that can be operated online without having to connect to anything I'm open to any suggestion.
James Foster
It says sourcemage is a meme distro
Ayden King
If it makes you happy to shill for the nonfree software team, go ahead and call it Linux; this is the whole purpose of marketing "Open Source" instead of Free Software and shilling "Linux".
Chase Ross
What distro that's not a bleeding edge but always on the latest stable?
Elijah Martinez
Look for terms like cloud printing, email printing/scanning etc. I think HP got you covered
Gavin Price
Free Software is a meme, Open Source actually cares about quality.
Justin Murphy
gentoo without touching package.mask so portage only installs packages marked as stable.
Zachary Bell
>HP I want a laser printer. My current HP printer is inkjet, the price of cartridges have become twice the price of a new printer with ink.
Oliver Martin
Is it a fault, or is it a lack of streamline? The inclusion of automated decisions for the user in such a circumstance could be catastrophic. This is why choices are given. If not, you'd be whining that Arch made the wrong choice and - once more, complain as the system to fault you.
Laziness is no excuse to apply for others, only yourself.
Juan Walker
Solus or Fedora.
Jaxon Thomas
Solus is a meme distro
Ian Harris
Fedora is a meme distro
Sebastian Kelly
>fedora >stable
Christopher Jenkins
>t. Kevin
Angel Jones
...
Luis Sanchez
"wife" is not a block device though
Tyler Hernandez
>asking about printers in a Linux thread
Sebastian Williams
Cool got a real argument?
Zachary Hall
I bought refillable ink for it though.
Kayden Garcia
Install Solus
Cameron Miller
>using printers in 2017
Jaxson Scott
brb pewdiepie
Zachary Reyes
I have a HP Laser Jet P1102. Works definitely with Linux/Xubuntu
Bentley Clark
I've used Ubuntu 16.04 on my laptop for about a year now and I've really enjoyed using it. Just recently I became interested in cryptocurrencies and since I've been adamant about security and such. I've also have become annoyed with how restrictive Ubuntu is when it comes to accessing root files. I would happily switch to Debian but I honestly just fucking love the way Ubuntu looks. What's my next step, Sup Forums?
Mason Nelson
Install Gentoo
Tyler Campbell
install slackware
Jacob Richardson
see
Zachary Bailey
>implying sourcemage wasn't always a meme
Bentley Williams
>not void install void
John Lewis
>Windows main laptop can't access the Internet >This linux shitbox I set up 3 days ago can God Bless Free Software GBFS
Owen Harris
so, if you are a gamer, you shall avoid linux
Jackson Bell
>muh games
Jason Moore
yes, muh games. i like to play video games, especially the ones from the amateur scene which has never been as active as now.
Levi Davis
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.
Caleb Jenkins
Fuck off Stallman
Cooper Nguyen
>"A Neutral Look at Operating Systems" >SourceMage is derived from Sorcerer, is probably a meme distro. It uses Sorcery, a poor package manager with bad dependency resolution and featuring a lot of copied features, completely written in bash. >Perhaps the main difference between Gentoo and SourceMage is the ease of use and installation, which is faster because of the project's emphasis on speed >It's mainly targeted at Linux From Scratch users bored from the process of maintaining their systems manually, and will look somewhat familiar for Debian users, as its package manager shares some concepts with Apt, but is far more flexible. Also, SourceMage has a Social Contract similar to the Debian Social Contract. I approve
Sadly, a kernel by itself gets you nowhere. To get a working system you need a shell, compilers, a library etc. These are separate parts and may be under a stricter (or even looser) copyright. Most of the tools used with linux are GNU software and are under the GNU copyleft. These tools aren't in the distribution - ask me (or GNU) for more info.
Ian Reyes
>implying the OS as a whole isn't still just Linux
Gavin Robinson
>173.233.171.194 (you)
Cooper Morales
Go ahead pajeet
David Torres
Linux is the kernel developed by Linus Torvalds. It's nothing else. It's not a box, a machine, a desktop or a partition, further there is no linux font rendering, linux filepicker, linux terminal or linux shell. There is just Linux, the kernel.
Luke Morris
>no Linux terminal >doesn't know the framebuffer is part of the kernel Ignored
Christopher Morales
REKT!
Andrew Thompson
Stallman on suicide watch
Carson Hill
>Tags: Mobile edit, Mobile web edit
Another days goes without any reason why phoneposters shouldn't be gassed.
Andrew Hill
So is there an actually nice file browser for Firefox and Gnome that shows multiple thumbnails at the same time yet?
