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I'm a little worried that since an Arch install is so minimal that it leaks security features that other distros have.
So far I've enabled uncomplicated firewall, made a non-root user and use sudo as little as possible. What do I need to do next for good desktop security?
Owen Hall
*lacks security
Jack Scott
How do I set my mouse to 1600 DPI?
Christian Gutierrez
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Jackson Sanchez
It depends how deep you want to go. What you're doing should be "good enough" for a desktop use case. You could go balls deep with SELinux and a bunch of security patches applied to Linux, but I really doubt you need that much.
Adrian Johnson
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Jason Mitchell
Tried to boot my Antergos with gnome today morning and boot stops at this I'm pretty fucking clueless about that is going on. Plox help I don't want to lose all of my shit.
Jackson Hall
>antergos serves you right.
ctrl+alt+f2 and backup files from tty in the meantime.
Not sure what happened there. Maybe you should try selecting an older kernel in Grub?
Jaxon Sanchez
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Ryan Rogers
see
Owen Cox
Learn to read first.
Evan Williams
Is the following doable?
I have a very old powermac, PPC architecture. Wanna compile gentoo for it, but on another computer so it doesn't melt.
Just want to extract the PPC stage3 on my regular desktop, chroot into it, and do all the normal installation stuff except for actually installing a bootloader.
Then I want to somehow put that entire installation in a tarball and extract it inside the PPC computer. Is this possible?
Which application is the fancy digital lm-sensor front end that I've seen? I'm using psensor but I'd like to be able to see the temps at a glance at the system tray.
Elijah Nelson
Consider dev-1.org, fight for the cause.
Joshua Edwards
I wanna switch to linux, what's a decent distro that's not entirely shit?
Alexander Bailey
Most of the good distros are not that user friendly these days. So at the moment if you want an easy time just trying stuff out without much headache then you're going to have to settle
I'm hopeful that soon we'll get some good distros that are favorites of both advanced users and noobs as well again.
So anyways. It depends on whether you want "just werks" or if you're the type who doesn't mind trial and error learning on a more advanced distro.
Juan Garcia
Trisquel
Brody Kelly
gentoo is the most beginner friendly distro
Mason Baker
install ubunut
Adrian Watson
xfce has both a taskbar sensors plugin and a sensors app.
Brody Howard
xubuntu minimal + linux-libre kernel
Sebastian Gomez
Source Mage GNU/Linux
Jose Watson
what about systemd?
Easton Reed
Firejail, MAC of some sort (SELinux, Apparmor), create a separate user for certain vulnerable applications (Firefox, PDF reader) and run each application as it's own user.
Lucas Rodriguez
Don't let these guys meme you into using Ubuntu or Fedora, complete garbage and impossibly hard to set up and configure. Gentoo is fantastic for beginners because if it's detailed and user friendly guide, It literally holds your hand through every step
Jonathan Torres
what about it
Christian Howard
Why is tar.gz better than .zip?
Jordan Robinson
im putting debian jessieon a machine for a friend because lel stabilaty i guess. ive never used debian before. is there a list of main repos somewhere? i cannot fucking find where audacity is
Julian Taylor
lel
Cooper Barnes
different tools for different purposes.
Somtimes zip is more conveninent, sometimes tar.gz can compress the same data to a smaller archive. Also gz is fully libre while zip allows proprietary extensions, which zip software makers utilized in the past without proper documentation so other zip packers could not handle their archives.
anyone ever use dynebolic or musix? id like to be free software guy for my music projects, but they look like total clusterfucks compared to just using gayrageband or ableton. i primarily record live instruments, midi shit is absolutely minimal.
Angel Robinson
b-but most of time werks (for me™)
Nathan Bell
is it even possible to change systemd to other init on *ubuntu?
David Wilson
Why wouldn't it?
Isaac Rogers
I think ubuntu still has some minimal support for upstart. Besides that, you are out of luck.
Joseph Nelson
At the risk of starting an argument, has anybody tried Wayland? Is it nice? Is it faster? Are there any compatibility issues?
I ask because I'm playing around with gentoo again on an old laptop (RAM
Luis Hall
Not gonna bother with it as long as my WM won' either.
Asher Adams
why would a flamewar happen over wayland
Nathan Stewart
Wayland is shit and you still have to use an xorg compatibility layer to use any modern software.
Give wayland another 20 years and it MAY be up to standard
Benjamin Ramirez
running ubuntu 16.04, internet is running insanely slow, and desktop keeps freezing and the only way to use it is it to force shutdown then turn on the system again, help?
Bentley Sanders
How can I enable tap to click on Arch-Gnome DE?
Lincoln Fisher
which linux distro should I install on windows 10?
Leo Walker
GuixSD
Colton Gray
You can't install Linux on Windows you fucking retard. >thumbnail frog
Andrew Richardson
FreeBSD Linux
William Cox
>you can't install linux on Windows you fucking retard. Lurk moar, newfag.
Jeremiah Price
I installed Kubuntu on my HP Elitebook 840, and when I boot there is a 10 second delay between the hp logo and the kubuntu logo.
Anybody know what this is about?
Easton Ortiz
try gentoo
Matthew Reed
nice meme
Bentley Scott
I can't, I'm a newfag
In dmesg I see the following error: >efi requested map not found
Is this causing the delay?
Lucas Richardson
>latest kernel giving panics with nouveau >forced to use the proprietary driver
Feels dirty as fuck. Also, this:
[ 19.257015] NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console [ 19.257019] NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver [ 19.257021] NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console [ 19.257023] NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in [ 19.257025] NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
Ian Butler
linux?
Liam Morris
You can't, you install GNU on Windows.
Matthew Reed
yeah linux
Cameron Rodriguez
Yes, the Linux kernel.
Charles Miller
NVIDIA Linux
Henry Ramirez
But I kind of do want to bother, on paper wayland sounds like such a great idea, especially when compared to X11. It would just be nice to hear from somebody who's crawled down the rabbit hole before. I don't want to wait 20 years, I want the future now. What is wrong with wayland anyway? It's been like 10 years and we're still all running X servers. I don't know, there just seem to be few things as inflammatory as text editors, init systems, display servers and arch.
Nicholas Nelson
what kernel is the linux kernel?
Jaxon Martinez
the operating system that linus tech tips invented in 2006
Jordan Moore
How do I create a persistent GNU/Linux live pen drive on Mac OS?
Daniel Diaz
The Linux kernel is speacial; it's a set of small servers, called GNU Hurd with its core, GNU Mach.
>We can have a much more great footage if we change the way we look for UFO's. The UFO Detector program allows anyone to monitor the skies day and night for unidentifiable objects. All you need is a computer with a USB camera. ufoid.net/
