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doesn't support my laptops' internal cards, but works fine with all the external USB ones i have.
Aiden Baker
I think i should think again before jumping to the BSD train
Hunter Sanders
Has pinging google ever been a good idea? Last time I tried, a good half of their servers didn't answer to ping at all, so it was unreliable as fuck. I've been using gnu.org for years myself.
Matthew Stewart
Ok, So I just downloaded ElementaryOs. This is first Linux I am using. What are the things that I have to download first. What is the best browser? Can I install Microsoft Office, if not can I use some alternative and open microsoft office documents? I newfag to linux, go easy on me please.
Jonathan Wood
you can live boot the BSDs. just make a boot drive, boot your PC with it and try things out.
libreoffice is similar to MS Office, and can save and read MS Office formats
Julian Brown
you can use libreoffice. just use firefox or chrome, whtvr you prefer. also the online version of microsoft office is ok.
Connor Turner
just don't reply, he's here everyday
Jackson Morales
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.
Levi Nguyen
Install Firefox, Libreoffice and then Gentoo.
Bentley Hall
why does he like birbs so much
Henry Lee
Whats a nice 1337 terminal torrent client?
Ryan Ross
rtorrent. Pair it with GNU screen for maximum usability.
screen -D -R -S rtorrentd rtorrent It opens a screen session called rtorrentd, and if the session already exist it reconnects to the existing one.
Elijah Martin
Thanks.
Grayson Nelson
emerge dick --keep-going
Samuel Scott
you exit the session by Ctrl-A followed by "d"
Brody Smith
are you a clown irl too?
Jaxson Gonzalez
Just noticed some strange behaviour when scrolling with the mouse in vim (vimx actually). Sometimes it takes a second to render each line in the correct place so you may get a block of code popping in or jumping up a few lines into it's correct place. I haven't noticed this before and can only attribute it to upgrading to Fedora 25 recently. Nothing to do with Wayland as I use i3 and it doesn't seem to be present outside of vim. Anyone had this before?
Austin Turner
What's a tiling manager and why should I take one over whatever window manager Ubuntu has (Nautilus?)? Or can you have both?
The copypasta collection in the OP (p.teknik.io/wJ9Zy) recommends pytyle3, but I've went through all the links and nowhere does it even say what it is.
I've also been told Nautilus sucks and want to replace it, but with what? One of the links in the OP (github.com/aleksandar-todorovic/awesome-linux#x-windows-managers) has a list of "X Windows Managers". Are those special windows managers or, hence the "X", or are those normal ones I can use?
Landon Hill
Keep using whatever you're using now.
Robert Moore
You how it really sucks to position your windows manually? A tiling VM automates it and lets you organize everything using keyboard shortcuts. Personally i'd reccomend i3 (i3gaps if you want it to look pretty).
>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 the users chooses this proprietary software package, he then falls into this monopoly for support. The only way to escape from monopoly is to escape from proprietary software, and that is what the free software movement is all about. We want you to escape and our work is to help you escape. We hope you will escape to the free world. The free world is the new continent in cyberspace that we have built so we can live here in freedom. It's impossible to live in freedom in the old world of cyberspace, where every program has its feudal lord that bullies and mistreats the users. So, to live in freedom we have to build a new continent. Because this is a virtual continent, it has room for everyone, and there are no immigration restrictions. And because there were never indigenous peoples in cyberspace, there is also no issue of taking away their land. So everyone is welcome in the free world, come to the free world, live with us in freedom. The free software movement aims for the liberation of cyberspace and everyone in it.
Cooper Ortiz
Are there any text VIEWERS? I want an application that doesn't edit text files just opens up a new window and displays it
Adam Foster
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Jordan Barnes
Was Ubuntu Mate a good choice as my first (non-virtual) distro?
Jace White
it's a concatenating tool.
I also forgot to write "graphical"
Charles Ross
Why do you seek approval for your own decisions? Use it and see for yourself, don't sheep yourself.
Ryder Barnes
vim doesn't edit by default.
Jacob Williams
will linux stay or disappear?
Nathan Davis
A little advice friend, if you have nothing to say, why waste time on typing a post?
Levi King
What do you need graphical for if you want to view plaintext? cat is a tool to view plaintext. You could run nano (or any other text editor) in read-only mode or revoke write permissions to the file for the duration of your looking at it.
Ryder White
it is likely that in the future it will be replaced by a microkernel architecture similar to Hurd.
Benjamin Morgan
microkernels are a fraud.
Dominic Phillips
wut I ALWAYS just ping google.
Thomas Reed
>using GNU screen lol
Adam Rodriguez
They are superior in every way to monolithic and the only reason they weren't chosen as the go-to kernel type is because performance of the old hardware was massively limited and swiitching modes added a lot of overhead.
The concept of Hurd is absolutely fucking flawless.
Benjamin Allen
lol so funneh he uses software he needs LOL XDDDD
Cooper Peterson
>he felt for the modern hardware is too fast meme.
Aiden Adams
>less
Henry Ortiz
Were you dropped as a child? >opens up a new window
Henry Long
Experience has proven otherwise. Hurd is only even bootable because of a sympathy project.
Nolan Gonzalez
What the fuck are you even saying? Less is literally made for viewing files you piece of shit.
Bentley James
Learn to read friend.
Justin Miller
>experience That's why I said concept. It's obvious that Hurd was deemed to be failure the second everyone jumped on Linux.
Christ it's like you people actually don't understand what you're reading.
Wyatt Watson
Learn to think dipshit. Multiple people have given you multiple options but you're clinically retarded and can't comprehend how to open something in a new window.
Yeah, that's obviously what I said. God you're so fucking stupid.
I asked for a VERY specific thing but as usual all you can do is ask "why". I don't want a bunch of manchildren explaining me that any old text editor does it. I fucking know it. I want a text viewer.
>What a shitty thread. Thanks you to most probably.
Jayden Rodriguez
ok, i just opened my laptop and looked it up, i have a atheros qca9377 does freebsd support it?
Hunter Phillips
So you want to view some text. People told you the correct answer inclusive alternatives. Case closed, you can leave now.
Aiden Carter
Concepts are useless if they don't prove to be true in reality, mongoloid. Microkernels were a CS wet dream, but the reality is they're horseshit and not a single one has been successful without implementing monolithic characteristics. Take your shitty kernel design dream and fuck off.
Hudson Harris
>People told you the correct answer inclusive alternatives. Not a single one so far.
