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Because once you've played enough with a toy you grow sick of it.
Linux is just a toy OS and most people have tried it by now and already gone back to the serious stuff.
Connor Barnes
Install Source Mage GNU/Linux.
Blake Hall
Using linux on business and personal servers/desktops/laptops for 17 years now.
When will i grow out of it?
Ian Cook
>replying to obvious bait when will you grow out of it
Jayden Roberts
Save for the cat that's a pretty good sign.
James Richardson
HELP ME LADS
I'm on Linux Mint and I just switched to lightdm because I couldn't switch sessions to change desktop and window managers. I finally got booted into Gnome but now my brightness doesn't work and I can't open system settings. I have already tried Gnome on Fedora 25 (I'm not going to switch to Fedora I just want Gnome) and it worked fine.
I was also a pain in the ass to even switch to lightdm because on install it wouldn't tell me if I wanted to switch to it. I had to do sudo dpkg-reconfigure mdm or whatever. And when I booted it would sometimes go back to mdm.
All I want is a working Gnome.
Nathan Perez
When you stop LARPing online.
Hudson Baker
What's the pirate party like?
Evan Foster
>replying kek
Jonathan Cook
>All I want is a working Gnome. use fedora
James Peterson
>switch to sid from stretch >reboot >have better font rendering or something, text looks better a welcome unexpected change, thanks debian
Julian Reyes
>couldn't switch sessions to change desktop and window managers gdm allows you to switch DE's as far as I know
Jeremiah Edwards
hi, /fglt/.
What's a GTK music player that supports grouping music by Album Artist as opposed to simply Artist?
Otherwise, I don't really care what music player I use.
That functionality, though--to sort in terms of Album Artist--is pretty much the deal breaker for me.
Is it infested with SJWs? The description sounds cool, but I don't want to support open borders party.
Adrian Butler
>I'm a xenophobic racist Fuck off, you're not welcome.
Parker Perez
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Kevin Taylor
That's actually somewhat cute. I might even go so far as to say the dated-meme-kitschy-ness of the cat image makes it even more endearing.
I've talked my friends' ears off about how I think copyright and piracy are basically two sides of the same coin, but The Pirate party is basically the same as "Anonymous", if that gives you an idea.
Basically, a bunch of naive, pomo, Rand-toting ""anarcho""-capitalists with half-baked opinions pertaining to some juvenile, idyllic image of a free and diverse capitalist market with a lot of competition. E.g. vapid nonsense for sexless, friendless subhumans.
Levi Ramirez
Changed login manager becuase he couldn't figure out you click your user name to get the desktop/wm options
Aiden Morgan
What is the best graphical email client?
Nathaniel Rogers
>email Why would you use such ancient form of communication?
Jayden Bell
Thunderbird.
Jonathan Butler
Seamonkey
Jaxon Walker
What are some cool terminal commands?
Austin Garcia
fortune | cowsay
Jordan Torres
I'm still having major screentearing issues with Firefox, very noticeable when watching youtube videos. Chromium doesn't have this problem so it looks like it's isolated to Firefox.
I'm running Arch on my x220. Is anyone else having this problem? I've tried turning hardware acceleration off, but that didn't help.
upload screenshot with the video tearing, I'm on debian with firefox and have no issues.
Ethan Johnson
What part of what I said is wrong? Are you seriously the type of person that would wear a Guy Fawkes mask unironically?
The nerds over at The Pirate Party have no idea what they're talking about. It's a bunch of childish, masturbatory bullshit, and it's an embarrassment that people like you would even LIKEN The Pirate Party to free software communities.
To paraphrase RMS, hacked proprietary software is still proprietary software. Pirated intellectual property still perpetuates the concept of intellectual property.
Brayden Stewart
Do you even use a compositor
Hunter Ward
You don't even know what you are taling about. How about you research a bit about the topic?
Charles Gomez
I installed Gentoo with lvm on luks recently on my T410 and the system is booting slower than expected. This command seems to be the bottleneck. It takes about 30 seconds to finish. trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs [\code]
I build the initramfs with genkernel --firmware --luks --lvm --install initramfs
Nathan Parker
well apparently I'm too stupid to use code tags properly
Have you enabled sync to vblank in your compositor?
Benjamin Cruz
>"hacked proprietary software is still proprietary software" >I've never used a disassembler in my life: the post
Luke Baker
>need to install AIDS that is apache and other 6 gorillion dependencies to compile PHP from source why?
Isaiah Sanders
Just don't compile the Apache module and all the modules you don't want, you cuck.
Eli Edwards
lel makes sense. thanks
Adrian Edwards
Stupid Questions: I know I'm breaking some rules...
1.What windows manager does Sup Forums recommend? I'm thinking about using bspwm but, i3 doesn't seem that bad either...
2. How can I watch my VN's on Linux?
3.What torrent cilent should I use?
Parker Green
>It's the current year and he's still not an xenophobic racist
Brandon Taylor
what is the actual way of getting a 13 inch 3k laptop screen to play nice with a 22 inch 1080p monitor? I mean everything sized right, and the computer not shitting itself whenever I unplug the external screen
Matthew Price
How to make emojis work in urxvt?
Dominic Sanchez
gentoo or funtoo and why
Luis Scott
kys
Parker Jenkins
xrandr probably. But it depends on what WM/DE you're using and what you're currently trying (is it just automatic or are you actually doing something) and what exactly you mean by "shitting itself"
Austin Bell
Do you mean cool emojis like ┗┐\(*´ω`*) /┌┛ Or those gay facebook tier emojis that come in color?
Cooper Rogers
Those gay facebook tier emojis.
Jeremiah Price
>color they're black/white on my machine what proprietary fonts are you guys using
Brayden Peterson
They're black and white for me too because I want it that way. But I'm guessing anyone asking how to make them work wants them in color.
You just gotta install a font that uses them. If they show up in other places, like in your browser but not in the terminal then you should specify the fallback font. Not sure what it is in other terminals, but in urxvt you'd put it in ~/.Xdefaults: >URxvt*font: xft:YourMainFont:pixelsize=YourFontSize,xft:GayFacebookTierEmojiFont
Thanks. Any idea which fallback font I need to use for black and white emojis?
Thomas Wilson
I guess at this point a search engine should just work.
Zachary Perez
I think "noto-fonts-emoji" comes with both colored and black and white variants. There's also one called "emojione" I think.
Parker Hughes
Thank you for your help.
Jaxon Lee
>What windows manager does Sup Forums recommend? I think the majority of people here who don't use DEs use i3(-gaps)
>muh VNs I dunno. What format are these things?
> muh torrents The three most recommended ones are qbittorrent, deluge and transimission. Flip a coin or somtheing.
Liam Lee
This is actually a good thing in my opinion.
I'm honestly getting fucking sick of all the newfags online who think they can actually trust shit they read on the internet.
Maybe more stuff like this happening, more spam, more bots, more trolls and eventually one day we might go back to the good ol' days were we actually used to see reminders and even commercials on TV reminding us never to trust anything you read on the internet.
Austin Torres
>What windows manager does Sup Forums recommend? most people i3, I recommend bspwm
>How can I watch my VN's on Linux? what are VN's?
>What torrent cilent should I use? transmission, aria2
Jonathan Taylor
Transmission is great. Transmission is simple and does the torrents. Transmission did nothing wrong. Use transmission. :)
Robert Thompson
VNs are visual novels. To put it simply they are Vietnamese animated novella.
Also thanks for the recommendations.
Ryder Thompson
I wished rtorrent would work for me. When I let it run for some hours and come back, the TUI is frozen and I need to kill it.
Daniel Robinson
>How can I watch my VN's on Linux? In WINE. If you get garbled text just add LANG=ja_JP to the start. If that doesn't work then you'll need to look up a list of variants on ja_JP to try, eventually one will work.
Juan Gonzalez
So chinese cartoon porn? mpv
Cooper Davis
>comes to Sup Forums >has no idea about moe ???
Christopher Fisher
So I'm messing around with installing gentoo. Pretty new at this, but I successfully got my machine booting on its own with most devices working, except my ethernet.
I have a realtek gigabit ethernet, and the liveCD successfully uses the r8169 driver to set up the connection, yet I can't manage to even get the module loaded on my own. Googling around, it seems most have resorted to using the r8168 driver, which seems like a hassle.
I don't quite understand why the liveCD can successfully load the driver yet I can't. Do I really have to use the r8168 driver? Is there not a way to load the r8169 one in the same way the LiveCD does?
Tyler Allen
Feel free to redpill me, user-kun.
Jordan Scott
Thanks for the recommendations
VNs (animated novel games) come in big files such as iso, and bdf (and more.)
Gavin Russell
Watch and love Lain.
Joshua Price
Love lain every day, she is the daughteru of Sup Forums
Justin Johnson
i thought maki is the Sup Forums mascott
Leo Harris
No, she's the whore of Sup Forums
Aaron Cruz
>he fell for the 64GiB of RAM meme That's a forced meme, son.
Michael Robinson
foreced memes are still memes
David Foster
Forced memes have no right to be called memes.
Jackson Parker
Richard Stallman is Sup Forums's maskot.
Dylan Morgan
Did you configure your own kernel or use genkernel?
You should probably try building ethernet directly into the kernel instead of making it a module. Ethernet should "just work"
Mason Ortiz
>not posting the full version
Isaac Kelly
inane
Luke Lewis
does gcc have a future? or are we /llvm/ now
Michael Lee
gcc will live on forever as long as it's required for the linux kernel.
Landon Stewart
>Falling for the apple jew No thanks.
Joseph Young
It doesn't show up on screenshots
I do not..
Sorry, I have no idea what that is.
Henry Martin
What DE or WM are you using?
Oliver Taylor
configured it myself. I tried building it into the kernel already, but that didn't fix the issue. I suspect the genkernel would help fix my issue, but I'd rather stick to manual configuration if I can. Currently seeing if it is a firmware related issue and reinstalling firmware. Don't quite recall if I did that step or not when I installed in the first place.
Matthew Wilson
It depends on your DE, but look in the displays menu for a "vsync" or "sync to vblank" option.
here's the compositor screen from kde
Gavin Sanders
>>I do not.. Welcome to tearing. Install compton.
Jayden Rogers
I'm using Gnome
Hudson Jones
How about a good FAQ with all these standard questions newfriend of GNU/Linux have? Anyone up for maininging one or any suggestions what to include? >how can I copy paste from vim >how to enable middle click scrolling in firefox etc
Leo Green
...
Adam Bailey
We already have such a FAQ, it's called Arch Wiki.
Hudson Gonzalez
firmware didn't help anything. I can't even tell if the kernel startup even attempts to load the driver. Using >dmesg | grep "8169" doesn't come up with anything, yet it pulls stuff up for the liveCD. I figure it must be some kernel build settings I need to mess with, but I can't figure out exactly what.
Josiah Sanders
no bully
Ryan Sanders
Is she even over 18?
Carson Richardson
What are some /fglt/ approved chinese cartoons?
Tyler Williams
Serial experiments lain
Charles Roberts
>falling for the monolithic unmaintainable codebase & monopolization meme when linux isn't even a part of GNU plus llvm's code analysis / passes implementation is almost orgasmic. I wish it had better optimization passes.