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How do i fix my third mouse button (scroll wheel click) so that when i click it i get free scroll or whatever its called.
Colton Kelly
how do i add my windows install to the initial choices in grub. Do i need to edit the actual install drive because it needs to be able to work without grub i think.
Current set up for clarification 1 HDD with Debian 1 SSD with windows 8
Jordan Roberts
GIMP sucks for tablet input jesus, I'd be better off using WinE with photoshop cs3
Jonathan Hall
Friendly reminder that GNU/Linux on desktop is trash and will remain trash forever.
>Posting that meme website You're like the guy who posts that anti-BSD troll website in every BSD general.
Kevin Gutierrez
...
Jonathan Perez
Cool
Lincoln Bennett
thanks, but what about in the system? is it possible for the file explorer
Isaiah Gray
@@60580960 i hate to give you a you so i wont, but wow gnnu linux has over 9000 games??
Dominic Wright
wtf I hate the GNU operating system with Linux added as its kernel now
David Long
what's the address of that website?
Evan Taylor
kek
James Cox
My ISP blocked an IP that I connect to often. How do I add a system-wide proxy for it?
I have a SOCKS 5 proxy running, I guess I want to redirect all the traffic through that.
Isaiah Campbell
Yes but it still does miss a lot of great games. Many games are not available despite these being made with a cross-platform engine. The devs just don't care about gnu+linux.
Evan Lopez
And your point is...
Benjamin Rogers
Is there no choice but Unity if I want a decent HiDPI support? Literally every other DE is crap in that regard, MATE and XFCE only scale text and not UI elements, GNOME and Cinnamon can only be scaled by integer numbers (ie. 2, I need like 1.4-1.6). KDE is somewhat decent in terms of scaling, but KDE is too buggy for me.
Isaiah Robinson
Modern western games are trash and eastern games work fine in wine or in a VM.
Gabriel Peterson
probably because they end up using dx11 or something like that? Ive used cry unreal and unity for developement so i know they all run fine on linux. Its a sad thing that only indies give a shit. Its all indie games making up that 9500 anyway, isnt it?
Joshua Hughes
Here's a quick tutorial on how to make game devs care about GNU/Linux:
ยท Stop using Windows.
Adam Torres
A quick and dirty method:
1. go to /etc/grub.d 2. rename the os-proper script link so it will be above the linux one
examples: before 10-header 20-debian-header 30-linux 40-os-proper
after 10-header 20-debian-header 25-os-prober 30-linux
Angel Miller
reminds me at the tutorial on how to make hardware manufracters deliver free drivers
So it has more granular control now? It didn't last time I checked.
Oliver Lee
That... linux has failed? Do you guys still believe in the "year of linux desktop"?
Please, don't say that, we had great game these last years. Even the amateur game development scene is avoiding linux like plague.
Yes, mostly amateurs.
I am not using windows but i enrage to not be able to play great games like GTA5
The last thing that saddened me: cemu is windows only (and closed source).
John Stewart
nier?
slow but slow, you can see even valve wanted a push away from windows, but the issue still remains compatability with windows programs that dont run under wine and the general lack of drm on gnu/linux
your description of quick and dirty worries me, but is it fine with no reprocussions?
Elijah Morgan
>linux has failed >has this bait is to fucking thick
Josiah Hall
I believe in the year of the wayland desktop.
Brayden Moore
(((Linux))) and (((free software))) is just (((communist))) trash that wants everyone to work for free.
Samuel Stewart
>slow but slow, you can see even valve wanted a push away from windows, but the issue still remains compatability with windows programs that dont run under wine and the general lack of drm on gnu/linux
>your description of quick and dirty worries me, but is it fine with no reprocussions?
Yes. I consider this dirty because 1. there is a grub-setdefault command which is however not convenient to use 2. updating grub/os-prober/base OS layout packages might either revert the order or duplicate entries.
You can revert the naming order back to the original, run update-grub2 (or grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg) and everything is back as it was before.
Chase Diaz
How has installing Linux changed your work flow? Has it improved it? I am considering to install Arch since i have before just to test it out, however this time i am considering to go balls deep.
Aiden Stewart
Wow, (((free software))) works so well valve is dropping it.
Alexander Torres
install gentoo, don't be a pussy
James Wood
You are using the meme incorrectly. Software can't be jewish.
Cooper Gonzalez
It's jewish when promoted by a jew and comes with a jewish ideology.
Hunter Thompson
>Software can't be jewish ...yet. Give it a couple more decades of AI research.
Alexander Cruz
In 2012, Zed Shaw predicated that the all the big corporations like Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Oracle, ... will corrupt the free software movement by embracing it widely as a way to enslave programmers. For them, free software does mean free pulling requests where the programmer is paid only with gratifications, victories in ego wars, and some other kinds of shit. Time proven him right.
Dylan Johnson
Bump for please help me
James Clark
>That... linux has failed? Do you guys still believe in the "year of linux desktop"? i was with you on most of your other points but linux hasnt failed. only the linux desktop has, and even then its "failure" has about 60 million + users over its distros. The issue is most arent gamers, and office penetration is low
Aaron Cruz
Every day we stray further from god
Ethan Price
what's the point of this "failed" discussion?
Julian Miller
>they create a jewish AI >they let is loose on the internet to learn >2 days later it goes 14/88
Ian Hughes
Crossposting from because two threads is better than one:
Which package/plugin should I install? I've searched "video/x-ms-asf" in package manager in both description and names, found nothing
Hudson Taylor
Having problems with LXDE. When I boot up my machine, the lxpanel is running but it's showing up. I have manually restart it to make it work. Lxpanel is the quite windows like bar in the bottom on the screen.
Is there any experts or experienced senpaitachi with LXDE and it's DE soft who knows about this issue.
Nicholas Powell
>tfw virt-manager lags back to aqemu I go.. and still no way to make networking work, help
Asher Williams
Do you have all the codecs installed? Like gst-plugins-good, gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-ugly (prefixes may differ in your distro)
Ian Ross
You need to set up network bridging.
Use your search engine of choice to search for "qemu network bridge" for a good selection of tutorials/howtos.
Oliver Davis
I thought you WEREN'T supposed to install all of the gstreamer packages since they conflict with each other and break shit
Cooper Lewis
will try, thanks a lot
Isaac Sanchez
No idea where you heard that. I've always installed all of them and never had a codec problem. Try it, what's the worst that could happen?
Jaxson Hernandez
>no decent video editors for linux
none that I have tried so far look or run like pic related
Angel Hernandez
GNU/Linux*
Oliver Phillips
There are like 10 nice editors, theres also Blender. Use your search engine.
Jayden Martin
im more worried about image editors, gimp is gimped desu
Austin Watson
Not that user, but there really aren't 10, especially if user wants an Avid replacement. Most are way too basic. There's really only Blender, but it's a different paradigm so nobody even considers it.
Charles Cooper
psh, nothin personnel kid
there are nice editors but there are none that really work like avid does
are sjw's still trying to change the name because they think a bdsm term is homophobic?
Thomas Baker
GIMP is great. Learn to use it.
Jonathan Johnson
there's davinci resolve but i've never had any success in installing it on any linux OS, and i've heard that the linux version requires a PCI card from blackmagic in order to get sound
Jose Wright
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.
Nolan Williams
Why is it called GIMP? Because you're gimping yourself by using it.
Zachary Jenkins
try SourceMage
Chase Walker
why does he wear a hat
Samuel Brooks
aqemu generates a line of text at the bottom, that is the qemu command it passes, you may want to check what it says
Jace Stewart
that depends on the hardware/os involved need specs
Chase Gomez
because he is a wizard
Luis Jackson
wtf
Ryder Anderson
nice try nsa
Joshua Mitchell
no that's from harry potter
Matthew Cooper
poetter
Caleb Russell
Because he's a big guy
Oliver Martin
so he can tip
Jackson Perez
Freedom
Leo Richardson
Took 20 minutes to iron out the minor kinks, but it installed successfully through AUR. Arch is the real masterrace.
Daniel Bell
What now?
Jonathan Allen
Can I meme with the rest of them now?
Zachary Thompson
congrats, now install sourcemage
Lincoln Howard
I want to but I don't have the patience for source based distros.
Ayden Gray
fair enough
Noah Lopez
Is there a greasemonkey script to give me more (you)s for replies?
>Mesa is an open-source implementation of the OpenGL, Vulkan and other specifications
K
Samuel Walker
Lightworks Shotcut Avid (yes, avid)
You're welcome.
Angel Moore
What is good music creation studio software for GNU/Linux that's like garageband?
Jose Murphy
lwks
get the fuck out
Andrew Foster
LOTS 'O LOYELTY FOR A HIRED BURGLAR
Julian Davis
I always used the integrated Radeon graphics and never had a problem with radeon driver. I gonna to buy a dedicated GPU because I have todo some medium editing and light Blender stuff. My question is, which between Nvidia and AMD has the best closed drivers for Linux? Considering performance and stability.
Also what do you prefer, the RX 560 or the GTX 1050?
Austin Allen
It's generally accepted that nVidia has the better closed source drivers, and AMD has the best open source drivers. AMD open source is catching up to their proprietary. nVidia open source is barely usable for anything other than 2D, and even then it is generally not recommended.
Xavier Morgan
fedora with a razer cybort R.A.T 777 quickshot csgo edition
Juan Nelson
And how stable are the closed drivers? I mean what are the chances that xorg and mesa versions breaks the drivers? And how is the Wayland behavior with open and closed drivers on both GPU's?
I am using ArchLinux.
Joshua Johnson
>Wayland You can literally forget about Wayland for a few years
Reasking, but how do i fix this? the drive boots fine under windows and doing error checks on it shows its fine. Ive tried several of the fixes listed but they havent worked. When i use fdisk -l i get
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 63 1953523119 1953523057 931.5G 42 SFS
so we can see that the thing at the beginning is fucked, because im pretty sure its meant to be "boot start 2048" right? and clearly the file type is wrong. So even after i fix it im also wondering why windows even boots it if its stuffed, and why windows doesnt recognise the signature or whatever is stuffed.
