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What fonts do you guys install on a fresh Arch installation for maximum Unicode support?
Adrian Miller
Richard Stallman is a computer
Bentley Evans
Richard Stallman is a cute
Isaiah Nelson
unicode fonts
Cameron Price
>on a fresh Arch installation
Ian Johnson
Is there any reason why I shouldn't install the Whisker menu and Linux Mint software center on a non-Xfce, non-Linux Mint distro?
Joshua Nelson
Is there any reason why I should install the Whisker menu and Linux Mint software center on a non-Xfce, non-Linux Mint distro?
Aiden Peterson
yes
Aiden Jones
Imagine being at computers
Henry Watson
botnet
Nathaniel Wilson
noto
Leo Young
>third world languages
Josiah Jenkins
>he posted it, twice!
Colton Thomas
I sure did
Ayden Ward
long time debian faggot here, so i installed arch in a vm yesterday and here is my review, you can skip to the last sentence if you have adhd it sums up everything
Name: Dunno why they call it Arch Linux and not Arch GNU/Linux, dunno why they call it Arch at all cause it almost looks like and it really does sound like ASS (Arsch) in my language.
Installation: Could have taken 20 minutes (even without no install script - which is fine but this also makes it very clear that Arch does not aim to be a productive system, it's a system for learning how GNU/Linux works, and where you can not expect for something to work out of the box.)
So my complete installation took 2 hours since I decided I'd go with lvm and didn't know Arch does not configure anything by itself (it seems). I had some problems with setting up grub (arguably my fault for being rusty while setting up the boot partition and not reading up on it). Turns out I needed to configure grub and initramfs with lvm support and I didn't know I had to do it myself and I've never done it before. Fair enough, after having done it once I'll remember it, plus I think I have more of an idea how to fix a problem I've been having on an old Debian laptop running lvm since it updated to systemd.
Package manager: Pacman is super neat, super fast and has everything I wanted. Noice.
Conclusion: Would waste my time again.
Bentley Nelson
Fira mono
Brayden Moore
Asked in /dpt/, but those guys are retarded: How does Linux decide what core to bind a thread/process to? I've read a few articles on CFS, but none of them mention that. Is that handled somewhere else? I know you can manually set the CPU affinity, but what if you don't?
Kevin White
maybe the kernel cpu scheduler?
Brayden Powell
So, just trying to wrap my head around this Electron faggotry
Your app is actually a web application with a backend ran on a self contained NodeJS server and a frontend ran on some sort of specialized web browser? Am I in the ball park?
Is this the future of software development now?
Bentley Jenkins
>tfw pacman broke >on fucking Manjaro >Have lots of homework and work to do Alright I'm officially off the Arch train.
What distro do you guys actually use? Need to change.
Jonathan Howard
Install Devuan, son.
Austin King
Just use mint or fedora bro, stop it with that meme tryhard shit.
Angel Jackson
>suggesting the two literal worst distros what is wrong with you, is 9gag down?
Ayden Thomas
That's what CFS is, unless I'm utterly lost in terminology. I just want to find out how the decision is made of what CPU to use, not how it manages the time allocated to each process or any other stuff it handles.
Brandon Gutierrez
The worst distro is Arch, followed closely by Gentoo. Anything that requires you putting time in doing what your computer should be doing for you is a waste of time and is degrading for a human being.
Dominic Reyes
>Would waste my time again.
After a dozen or so installs on different machines, you'll eventually just say "Ah fuck this" and use Antergos.
Easton Turner
>meme tryhard Once you wrap your head on distros beyond entry level and try stuff like Debian, Arch, Gentoo, you will know what you were missing the whole time; actual GNU/Linux, not some Windows knockoff for the poor.
Nathan Perry
i think that decision is made by the scheduling algorithm, and to change that you probably have to write your own algorithm and recompile the kernel
Alexander Garcia
I'm pretty sure CFS also decides what core to use.
Henry White
users shouldn't need to use the commandline for daily computer use
Jaxson Clark
t. opinion
Jack Stewart
I know jerking off is degrading but your computer shouldn't be in charge of that.
Ryder Clark
Alright kiddo, just tell us the symptoms so we can fix your fuck-up.
Brody Turner
I don't need to change it, I just need to know how it happens. I am mostly interested in the possibility of it having a preference for lower-numbered CPU's.
Parker Mitchell
Gents, mpsyt is so fucking cool. Found it a month ago and still have fun with it. Please try it. You fire it up, run //outrun, get one billion of playlists, hit *, tune in, start programming.
Logan Parker
And by "preference for lower-numbered CPUs" I mean this: Let's say we have a dual socket motherboard where each physical CPU has 4 cores and 8 threads. Is it more likely that most of the work will be done on one particular cpu? On one particular physical core?
Jordan Lee
If you want any specific modifications, I think you'll have to make your changes to the source code of the kernel itself and compile it and install your own custom kernel.
Juan Wood
Damn. Brian Fox is a hot daddy bear.
Owen Myers
>I don't need to change it >If you want any specific modifications I just want to know if there is a bias, and if there is, exploit it for my little project.
Carson Stewart
>pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Evan Walker
I would like to experiment with kernel modules. Any suggestions what to read for creating a simple hello-world module?
Adrian Martin
It doesn't have any bias, that's why it's called the Completely Fair Scheduler :^)
Not even memeing
Charles Brown
I feel its very unfair and neglects female cores
Parker Howard
Did you make any changes to your pacman.conf? Like maybe enable a testing repo?
Parker Sullivan
Nah, the only enabled repos are core, extra, community, multilib and archlinuxfr. It has bene like this since I installed Manjaro.
Adrian Perry
>package manager >makes you do all the management for it
archcucks are at it again
Joshua Powell
tfw ian is dead and deb divorced him, this is why you shouldnt name things after 3d waifus
Evan Sanders
Sup Forums seems to have eaten my post, here is what I said:
Not to overstate my welcome, but could you provide a source? Or at least a few keywords I could type into google. I couldn't find any info on the subject and my little project might, or might not be undergrad research for uni, which would require
William Johnson
To be fair Debian is the only distro with a name that doesn't sound retarded and a logo that doesn't look retarded.
Brayden Clark
[...] would require a little more proof than a post on Sup Forums.
Jaxon Bennett
if your professors were any competent they would acknowledge Sup Forums as a reliable source
aight lads I dug an old desktop out of my parents basement, i'm looking to install a distro on it to get some practice on. I have a bit of linux experience, but not much. I wanna learn the in's and out's but don't wanna jump straight into arch linux or some shit like that yet. Here are the specs: >Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 630 (3 GHz, 800 MHz FSB) >1 GB RAM >integrated graphics >250 GB HDD What can I run on it? It boots to Windows XP in like 90 seconds, to give you an idea of the speed. I was thinking maybe Lubuntu, but I dunno. I have yet to take a compiler, hardware, or operating systems class at my university yet, so I'd rather not go into compiling kernels and shit quite yet, but I'd like to get very familiar with the terminal
Leo Garcia
Ubuntu LTS. If you are a little autist, Ubuntu server and then personalize your session manager/DE/WM and common applications. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 with Xfce4 (not Xubuntu). Runs perfect.
Oliver Cox
Ubuntu is nice but why is the default DE and theme so fucking ugly? It's like they don't take pride in what they do.
Also, it has half-assed SysV backward compatibility. Is that a thing with only Ubuntu or is that from Debian?
Parker King
What the fuck are you guys doing, stop thinking about it.
James Sanders
Yeah, I'm thinking on just going Ubuntu. Everyone at the Faculty is using it and they never have stupid pacman problems.
Luke Reed
My new distro came with zsh. Should I throw it in the garbage and use bash?
Liam Bennett
depends. do you prefer portability and intuitiveness, or do you prefer being a special snowflake hipster?
John Peterson
Both sound pretty good
Camden Baker
Anything with xfce or lxde. I like debian.
Adrian Ross
>I have autism! >Stop deciding what is worth your time and what isn't!
Cameron Robinson
>doing a partial upgrade you deserve this
Ian Butler
Archbang, Star, or Void
Caleb Watson
is there a wm for wayland like openbox yet?
Jeremiah Allen
sway
Nolan Moore
> Be me > Winblows 10 yes > I could try out dis Linux meme once on vm > Install Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Kali > I liked Ubuntu the most > I only game now on winblows
Austin Phillips
Hey, y'all. I just downloaded I seem to be unable to open the zip in Archive Manager. Help?
Isaac Walker
Why the fuck does apt take so long to finish after not having found a package to install
Matthew Williams
arch comes with zsh and I like the way it is configured, when I installed it on my distro it was shit
Noah Russell
Devuan or Fedora Xfce.
Elijah Carter
um how is that similar to openbox when it's tiling?
Wyatt Parker
Anyone know if there will be a Devuan Stretch?
Asher Moore
Jesus cock sucking mother fucking Christ how long do I have to fucking wait for those morons over at NVidia to release a driver that I can use in Wayland.
How many years has it been now? If I ever meet an NVidia employee on the street I'd just sock him right in the mouth. Fuck this shit, next video card I buy is going to be AMD.
Jayden Kelly
why is it so fucking hard to find a decent linux laptop? I'm going to have to just buy a used chromebook that can run seabios at this point. WTF
Kevin Murphy
...
Cooper Taylor
New Ubuntu user here. Why is it such an insufferable pain in the ass to install anything by hand? Fuck me, this is confusing as all hell.
Gabriel Stewart
@anarchist
The Arch forums are always hilarious.
Grayson Murphy
>have intel hardware >it just works >try wayland >it's the smoothest thing i've ever seen
Holy shit I can't wait until there is finally a decent floating compositor (window manager in Xorg times) and until the protocol gets more extensions to offer all the features one expects currently from a desktop. Shit's gonna be rad.
Eli Young
>archlinux.fr
WHat a retard, but it was clear since you couldn't be bothered with checking forums where the problem has been described.
Parker Perry
What do you need to install by hand?
Caleb Campbell
I would like to buy a machine to use as a server. Basically I'm gonna put a linux distribution, use it to backup my stuff with a FTP server so I can access my files when I want. I also wanted to be able to stream music to my Android. There are high chances that it's gonna be used for more things, so just on case I don't want something too slow. What kind of hardware should I look at ?
Leo Campbell
I'm getting a PC with no OS installed so I'm going to use Ubuntu on it, so I've been fiddling around with it on Live USB so that I have some idea how to use it when the PC arrives. I started with something simple, getting Doom to run on Ubuntu. I installed Zandronum rather easily (all I had to do was copypaste some script that downloaded & installed it for me automagically), but then I tried to download a mod manager/wad launcher for it and install it by hand and I'm completely lost.
It's called the SSG Launcher, and as you can see in the included screenshot, there is the tar.gz file and the files that I extracted from it, none of which I know what to do with. Am I missing something really simple here?
Sebastian Baker
It's explained on the website where you downloaded it. Ubuntu isn't Windows, so you can't expect to use it like it's Windows.
Samuel Nelson
Why do you think you need special hardware for that? The only reasonable thing to consider is power consumption, because it will be on all the time.
Asher Ramirez
>have 970 >nouveau doesn't work because it has no fucking clue what to do with the fake 4gb
Alexander Smith
anyone named "anarchist" is bound to be a faggot
Jace Lopez
My main concern is to not spend too much. While having something decent/good
Daniel Sanders
I realize that, user. That's why I'm trying to learn how to use it.
