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Why's APT so slow compared to other package managers?
Nathan Baker
all the sleep .1s in the code
Ethan Howard
Pretty sure there are some that are slower. It used to be written in perl, but not anymore. Maybe you should profile it. It sure isn't cpu bound. What operations are slow for you?
Jace Campbell
if you want slow try dnf
Nicholas Lee
Unpacking on a Pi3
Ian Howard
A) its a pi3 B) overclock the sd card and/or the arm/core more
Camden Adams
Why is it that when I emerge emacs, even with gtk enabled, it looks like this?
On the top, you can see that gtk does work, but why does the rest of it still look like ncurses?
James Cook
Thats emacs
Cameron Jenkins
is there an up to date guide to installing gentoo?
Jonathan Gray
Is there an out of date guide to installing gentoo?
Brandon Moore
>still can't scan mango and full eromanga folder I'm so sad.
Jace Sanders
What exactly is outdated about the existing guide?
Aiden Martin
I don't know which one it is
Gabriel Reed
What do you mean? There's only one official handbook on the site for each architecture.
Thomas Turner
>Fakku
You deserve to suffer.
Joshua Wood
Calm down, user. It's just the Fakku rips.My porn comics collection is stupid huge compared to the available Fakku rips.
Asher Parker
Well it doesn't look like that on other distributions.
Hudson Green
What file manager is that?
Jaxson Lee
It's mcomix's Library mode. I'd love it if I could just have Thunar with cover art as thumbnails, but I'm too dumb for that.
Jace Mitchell
Why not just Calibre and then open up the files via comix?
Joseph Turner
Hi, I'd like to get some assistance. My GPU is being identified as just "intel" (pic related) while it should say "Intel HD 5500" as it did on Ubuntu. How do I fix this?
Henry Cox
I installed Debian Stretch with Xfce and Firefox does this. Those ass-ugly icons would be the "High Contrast" icon theme. Thing is, if I go to Xfce's little appearance widget and change the icon theme, these don't change. I even tried removing /usr/share/icons/HighContrast, then rebooting. (Yes, I know you're not really supposed to do that kind of thing) Nope, doesn't change.
I'm perfectly okay with the default "Tango" icons, I just can't get Firefox to use them like every other application does. Can one of the ricing crowd point me in the right direction here?
>fart fart fart why is the linux community so hostile?
Matthew Young
Because of our inspirational leader who likes being a big meanie.
Mason Adams
>implying you know linux >implying you like linux >Implying linux has any games >implying linux will go past 2% usage >implying you'll ever get a girlfriend >implying you'll ever get laid
Jackson Stewart
Because it's shit. Use pacman.
Michael Cruz
What did Notch do wrong
Luis Nelson
>not a billionaire wait, was having a ton of money bad in 2017? i missed that memo
Evan Ross
>I wake up and realise that at least I'm not a rich billionaire with no financial worries
>welp, time to go to work to make Mr Shecklestein another set of $40,000 golf clubs
Matthew Anderson
It's only bad to be rich when you get there through jewish methods, but since notch didn't do that he's an okay guy to me.
Blake Baker
Other than making autismcraft, nothing. But hey, if making minecraft made him a billlionare than good for him.
Adrian Scott
What about the Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light?
Luis Diaz
Make a game that was super successful, but attracted a crowd everyone felt was annoying. It's gotten so hyped up that there' s a convention specifically for it. It's part of the face of Microsoft's advertising. Now he feels so pressured by everything that he doesn't want to make games anymore because he know everyone will just compare it to Minecraft. Even if he feels he's improved a lot as a developer, there's no way it could surpass this monster he created.
Sebastian Brown
>feels so pressured Fuck sake, just swim in cash and do speedballs all day. Money is wasted on the rich.
Thomas Green
Notch wants to be known for more than that guy who made one of the most autistic games to exist.
William Thompson
>implying kek
>implying linux will go past 2% usage is sure hope not, so that firefox can use the other 98%
Jayden Sullivan
What does /fglt/ recommend for a DHCP server?
Ryan Cox
bump
Gabriel Brown
Depends if it has to tie in with anything else really. If you don't want to install anything I would go with udhcpd from busybox because you already have it installed. If you leik dns soo you can use dnsmasq. The isc one is alright if you are into that kind of thing i suppose.
Brandon Hill
does ubuntu come with gnome or unity by default now?
Nicholas Gutierrez
lmao this dnf is awful Zypper isn't too good either
Daniel Murphy
How is it slow? Is babby's internet connection slow and he thinks the package manager is to blame?
Chase Kelly
By reporting the error on the Screenfetch bug tracker.
Alexander Moore
The ones on the side for Home, Desktop, etc? That's normal, because those are symbollic (I think that's the name) icons and they're supposed to be monochrome and simple.
Lucas Cook
If the mirrors are a problem, install netselect-apt and run it. This will sort the mirrors from fastest to slowest.
Benjamin Garcia
I had a drive that was ext4, i needed to boot windows one time, windows decided to give it a gpt partition table, now i cant mount it back in gnu/linux. Is there a way to fix it or is it fucked? it was an encrypted disk
Cameron Long
I'm trying to get github.com/hamuko/cum >Please note that cum currently requires Python 3.3 or newer.
But it fails and when I check I see I apparently have python 3.5. I also try upgrading pip because pic related seems to suggest that it's a) using python 2.7 and b) the website says there's a newer version. I get pic related since it seems to thin it's up to date as per my repositories (?). I checked my package manager and I see that there's a pip specifically for python 3 that's not installed.
Before I install that I wanted to ask if my system, assuming they are both installed as well as the relevant version of python, will automatically choose which to use based on what I enter. In this specific case will having both "python-pip" and "python3-pip" installed mean that when I type pip install cum (which depends on python 3) my computer will simply use the correct python3-pip without any further input needed from me?
Christian Cooper
Just use emacs -nw
Carson Bailey
Oh god, what did i do? Please help me. I had a NTFS partition on my disk where i had ubuntu and used that partition to store data. But i wanted to make it nice and properly linuxy, so i went to the disk utility in ubuntu and deleted that nfs partition after unmounting it with "sudo umount -l ~/Storage" (that was where it was mounted by fstab), after removing it i clicked format partition s ext4, but it gave me some error, so i rebooted so to check if it will work then.. after reboot it said something like checking disk sectors or something and then it failed to boot and i ended up with a terminal, and shit like startx isn't working. What the fuck? All i did was remove one ntfs partition.
Thomas Diaz
>NTFS Stop reading there. Slaves are slaves and they shouldn't post of the free, fglt, thread.
Henry Garcia
Usually, testdisk should be able to find your partition and write the correct partition table again or let you image it somewhere else. With an encrypted disk, I'm not so sure. My current version's manpage does not mention being able to detect LUKS volumes. Go check their latest documentation, and give it a try.
Carson Brown
how you gonna have multiplat w/o ntfs?
Hunter Nguyen
is mbr and gpt oss?
Dominic Harris
>symbolic icons once you told me the magic word to google for it took me under five minutes to find some CSS to stick in a config file to turn them off. Thanks, I'd been banging my head on this (and some other theming problems, all with Firefox) for about three hours.
John Jenkins
>it gave me some error >some error You know, that was the important information. Errors aren't just autistic screeching.
Anyway, you've probably been dropped into a recovery shell so you can fix your system. Of course shit like startx won't work, you're not supposed to use the system as if nothing were wrong.
Here's an idea on what may be wrong: you said the ntfs volume had an fstab entry, and you deleted that partition and rebooted without editing fstab. Don't you think fstab is probably quite flustered about this partition that it's supposed to mount on ~/Storage but which doesn't exist aymore? Unless you had it set not to mount automatically, this is your #1 suspect.
Kevin Hughes
>ntfs Please, the f in fglt is fro friendly. So why do you come here and say such dirty word?
Caleb Morales
stop saying the n-word
Aiden James
im not the original guy but i have to make files available to people over a network. Sure the host runs debian but the users wont be able to access an ext drive unless theyre also running linux (which isnt the case)
Juan Taylor
Don't worry, boys. He clearly made a mistake and was talking about NFS
Julian Thomas
If my /home is on another partition, how big should the system partition be for a htpc server which will have samba and web server on it?
Owen Ward
i decided to just format since there was only a few gbs on data. I cant remember though, did it always take this long to reformat? I enabled write over data with zeros but theres only 50gb of data
Thomas Jackson
No. You share files over NFS, or SMB if you like problems, and the underlying filesystem is irrelevant.
Ryan Nelson
>what is Samba
Daniel Myers
>my computer will simply use the correct python3-pip without any further input needed from me nope it wont ;( You need to use pip3 or whatever it has installed itself as
Angel Lee
Can vim function as a text editor for, you know, text? Like as a replacement for Word for writing papers? What plugins would I need?
John Perry
Possible to install package with dependencies from new Ubuntu on old Ubuntu without fucking everything up? How?
Daniel Flores
End xenophobia. Let Muslims into the U.S!!
Dylan Cooper
So if i install linux normally i usually just create a 4gb swap partition and rest of the hdd is ext4 for the / partition. But i would like to try out the LVM stuff, i just don't understand what partitions to create in the partition manager..? I don't want to use the automatic tool because i would like to know how to do it by hand.
Adam Thomas
I can't seem to mount my usb. It's visible when I use the *ls /dev/ | grep sd* command but when I try *mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt* it returns *mount: mount point /mnt does not exist*, so how do I create a mount point? I didn't have this problem before I could just insert the usb and it would instantly pop up on my desktop, bet when I update/upgraded it doesn't show up anymore. How can I revert it back to showing up on the screen after insertion?
Adam Davis
Word is not a text editor and what you want to produce is in fact not text.
I know nothing of vim and its plugins, but if you fail to find any plugins to produce rich text output, it might be because all vim wizards that wish to do so are using LaTeX instead - that sounds like something they'd do.
Owen Wilson
how do I create a mount point in this case `sudo mkdir /mnt`. A mountpoint is just a directory that a dev gets mounted over. It is weird that you don't have /mnt already though. Sounds like something is screwed. As to how to get things to automount, making /mnt might fix it otherwise you should search the web for how to automount removable devices with systemd or whatver OS/DE you have.
> Can vim function as a text editor That's what it is >as a replacement for Word For editing .docx files? no. It mostly handles text based formats, like latex or markdown.
Kevin Nelson
Is Gentoo actually worth trying? How heavy/bloat ridden is it compared to debian?
Evan Ramirez
I've never mixed repos in ubuntu but I suppose it's not much different from debian.
In order to grab some packages from a newer release without upgrading your whole system to it, you need to set the Default-Release apt option to your current release. I usually do this by creating a new file under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ - for the syntax, better do a search on that than trust me to produce a valid sample for ubuntu. If you use synaptic, do mind that it does not obey that option and you must also set your preferred release under preferences -> distribution.
If the particular package you want to install has lots of dependencies on newer versions of other packages, however, it may end up dragging along most of the new release with it. Nothing you can do about this, provided they are hard dependencies and not recmmended/suggested packages.
Joseph Cook
>when I update/upgraded As in a kernel update? Have you rebooted since?
Henry Gomez
Ok its been an hour and a half and gnome disk is still setting up the new ext4 luks encrypted drive. I know it said "slow" when it asked to write over data with 0's but this is a bit crazy. how long should this take?
Jacob Sanders
Well, how fast can you write zeroes to disk? I ran a q&d test writing to a file and I got below 90MiB/s with luck. In this time I wouldn't have written 500GB yet.
I think you got the impression it would only overwrite existing files, but it has no way to know where those are (more accurately, there are none since your partition table was borked), it's zeroing the whole disk or partition.
Ryan Martin
thats fine then and actually makes sense, i think my write speed is about that. Ill just wait longer. I think they should include a status bar or something to say how much is done
Christian Harris
You could edit .docx files with vim if you really, really wante to. No one does that, though.
Andrew Clark
Linuxfags gtfo
Nathan Gonzalez
What composition manager to use with AwesomeWM? Or can I have true transparency (not just copypasting the background image in windows) without a composition manager?
I've been using xcompmgr and didn't have any problems except when switching between workspaces I can see underlying windows for a fraction of second. I tried compton but can't get rid of those fading effects and cairo has all the shitty effects I don't need and doesn't seem stable. There's also unagi but it's in "early development" and the wiki doesn't even tell where config files are. They all seem archaic and unmaintained though.
Compton's fade effect could be nice for opening/closing windows but I definitely don't want to see it when switching windows and workspaces.
Ayden Turner
If you lament the lack of a progress bar and verbose output of a GUI tool, on Sup Forums, while pv and dd status=progress exist, you'll just get told to stop using the GUI tool. It's a valid point, since those are really great tools for this kind of task, but I'm also a fan of gnome-disks myself so I won't give you any of that.
Oliver Thomas
anyone know where i can get this hat in germany?
Elijah Barnes
>debian merch
Jordan Richardson
i just need a hat and a blank black hat is too bland and i dont want a fuckhuge adidas or nike logo in that spot either, so id prefer a non profit organizations logo debian one is inconspicious enough for normies to not think much about it
Jose Martinez
I've been using xubuntu as a daily driver for about a year now, and I really like it - I'm not really a power user or anything, mainly use it for web stuff and word processing, multimedia etc so don't tend to get involved in the terminal or the depths of linux. However, I want to try a tiling WM to see if I prefer it to XFCE. I'm looking at i3 or i3gaps, as they seem to be a good intro to tiling managers and there is lots of support. However, I've also seen sway, which is a replacement for i3 but for wayland as opposed to X.org afaik. Would I notice a difference between the two, and what advantages does wayland have - I understand that it's meant to be the sort of replacement after X.org, but have no idea how many people use it, or if it's still relatively new?
Tyler Gonzalez
>normies who the fuck cares?
If you actually went to the debian page youd find the sellers that sell it, do some reasearch. black is the worst choice for a hat too, since its gonna get hotter
Jack Cruz
So what are the git verisons of programs? Experimental ones?
Daniel Allen
I just tested by killing compton and my transparency went away so I think you need a compositer. Although the background wasn't shown through, just other windows.
You can set client.opacity in rc.lua so eg non focused windows have some transparency. I have some hacked up thin to do it but presumably there are libs to do it these days.
Gabriel Walker
Really depends on the context but yeah. Ideally the devs make releases and then those releases are packaged for distros. The git versions are usually just grabbed from git (and hopefully checked that they even build) either between realeases, or because they project doesn't offer realeases or because the project only merges to master when it is stable.
Nicholas Brown
How do I disable the fading animation in compton?
Connor Turner
Thanks for the answer.
Easton Rodriguez
Most of the time it implies "version newer than what's in the repository"
Jacob Howard
Is this a meme? I never felt apt being slow comparted to others. Maybe you should set up faster mirrors?
Liam Kelly
He's memeing. apt is easily one of the quickest out there. yum, dnf zypper are molasses compared to it.
William Price
Is kernel development a sausagefest? I want to meet qt C programmers.
Landon Taylor
There is at least one grill that contributes to the kernel. So yeah. Sausages.