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>first time installing arch >trying to install kde plasma >been waiting hours which feel like days for this to download >feel as if I am making a mistake Should I install antergos instead?
Benjamin Johnson
Just making sure you see the information.
You have no idea what a distribution is. You don't know anything about the distributions you mentioned. Encryption isn't distribution exclusive. Instead of asking sane questions or informing yourself, you're jumping straight into the memes. Enjoy your 10 minute experience and then going back to Windows.
tl;dr: you're an idiot who fell for memes and myths spread on here.
Sebastian Peterson
I am stupid and I keep replying in the old thread.
You are an idiot. Reasons why:
>antergos is arch for pretentious idiots, who enjoy additional useless abstraction layers which contribute more bugs >you will use the same kde plasma package on both, meaning you will have to wait the same amount of time (on the same internet connection)
Oliver Reyes
>Nice shot, son.
Luis Brown
>haven't updated arch laptop in 2 weeks >930MB of updates to download
Ubuntu server is fit for cases where you need the latest server software and backends.
CentOS and such are for cases where you need the server stable, up and running no matter what. As an example, Dolby uses CentOS for the base of their OS running on their digital cinema servers.
Chase Jenkins
>ubuntu >centos >falling for shill memes either go full RHEL retard or install Debian
Hudson Stewart
First user to post on thread here.
Managed to install KDE , It came with more bloat than you could imagine, Any advice how I find every ounce of bloatware and remove it? Pic related.
Noah Perez
>implying I use anything but debian and gentoo
Brandon Jones
What do you mean by """""bloat"""""?
Adrian Powell
>Remove KDE >Install i3, openbox, etc. >thank Sup Forums later
Ayden Turner
this is why i'm concerned about the choice of ubuntu server. it's just not as stable as centos.
Jacob Morales
How should we know which software you need and which not? And why did you install KDE in the first place if you dont want the bloat?
Ethan Gutierrez
To remove such bloatware applications such as things the shitty games it comes with, Do I simply delete it from the /usr/share/applications folder?
Jaxson Martin
How can he remove an organisation? What's wrong with Kwin and why would i3 or Openbox be better for him? Why did you only mention a window manager and not other useful programs?
No, you don't. You uninstall it with your package manager.
Christopher Howard
>/usr/share/applications
that's literally your "start menu folder". Deleting it only deletes the icons. You have to do what this man said: remove the programs themselves using your package maanger.
Zachary Morgan
>What's wrong with Kwin
not him but a year or two ago I had severe issues with kwin failing to detect monitor resolution/placement properly leading to a whole bunch of other related issues, had to disable kwin in kde and then set up a manual xorg config to resolve the issues
multi-monitor stuff on kde just does not work well in the slightest
Camden Taylor
>disable kwin I don't think you know what Kwin is. You can't disable a window manager. You can replace it with a different one. I also doubt that a window manager has anything to do with your monitor/X stuff. That is an X problem and you most likely would have it with any window manager.
Totally. I prefer PCs over Linux, because I can easier google for help when I'm photoshopping something and it has free software like iTunes that I can listen to music to.
Gabriel Thompson
yup, pretty much correct. still a fagot though
Jaxon Sanders
It's PCs with Linux, not versus.
Isaiah Nelson
> reading comprehension
William Lee
>still a fagot explain
Ryder Rogers
Cheers, Managed to uninstall most of the bloat
Brody Fisher
So to clarify...
So much unbelievable fail, I love PC's with Windows 10 that spy on me and sell my opinion down the river and I love iTunes because I love of my fag-pad and phone.
Isaac Brown
or you could just use snapper
Jose Torres
just look at him. if that's not a fagot, then i don't know what is
Mason Martinez
>Linux
Chase Clark
I tend to always get this when booting into arch, is this normal since I've not yet seen it in any other distro?
Christopher Phillips
idk he's cute
Xavier Green
He seems like a reasonable guy at the start, but >The hardware just works >You got a problem? Just let someone log in remotely! Nah, most laptops have problems and so do a lot of desktops.
>Linux has the potential to be the most powerful gaming platform, because it is free Yeah, like it has the potential to be the best networking platform, because it is free AND is used on so many servers. But it isnt. The way Linux gets high performance networking is by bypassing the linux networking stack and handling it in a simplified, custom driver.
>muh freedom Yeah it's great. But you can't pitch linux as a jack of all trades and the best at everything.
Brandon Taylor
Looking to install Ubuntu onto my system, have a Samsung NVMe drive with a 200GB or so unallocated chunk for it, is there anything I need to add or modify to the latest Ubuntu image before I try and install? To get Win7 working (Ryzen CPU) I had to add a heap of drivers into the install disc.
Michael Perry
>s this normal since I've not yet seen it in any other distro? It's a "just another day with systemd" problem. search for "a start job is running for dev-disk", I encountered it a few times with debian and ubuntu. You should find plenty of people complaining, especially because it's long and cannot be cancelled.
Jose Gonzalez
For me it's only 1 Minute and 30 Second, It'll take that over using winblows.
Xavier Ortiz
>For me it's only 1 Minute and 30 Second It's a fixed amount for everyone. Guess memed is waiting for something? Nonexistent device in fstab or similar.
James Smith
Depends on your hardware but chances are you don't. Make sure you connect the computer to the internet, that lets you download / update stuff early on but it's not necessary.
Aiden Murphy
>not looking into the problem and why it's happening Hint: it's not for without a reason.
Landon Walker
Hence why I came here to see if people had had the same issue.
Austin Morales
Fixed the issue. Apparently I must have missread the "z" for a "2" on the end.
Hunter Ortiz
Why would you ask here for such a common problem and not on the Arch forums? You don't even have to ask there, there are already threads about similar symptoms. Took me 30 seconds to get first pointers. It's obviously waiting for a device that's either not there or specified wrongly.
Kevin Peterson
What are some cool terminal commands?
Lucas Long
sudo poweroff
Jaxson Cruz
that's what normies do
John Garcia
>not writing a script that also stops mpd for you and sends emails to all your clients that the server will go offline now.
Luis Wood
Legit question from a Linux newbie: I have a Gnome installed as my DE
Is it possible to somehow implement a large list of hotkeys to open all kinds of different programs?
Ryder Martin
Wouldn't know about Gnome but KDE comes with a shortcut manager to set shortcuts for different applications , Also if you right click on the open application you can open up the options menu.
Noah Brooks
if you want to do this, why not just use a tiling window manager? e.g. i3
Connor Cruz
Took me 15 seconds to find out how to do it using my search engine of choice.
Landon King
Trips of truth.
Nathan Davis
What does the fact that he wants to start certain programs with a keyboard shortcut to do with a window manager's mode of operation? Nothing, that's what. You're just another idiot who thinks that i3 is for l33t people who use keyboards, disregarding its core premise, which is the ability to use a tiling layout (together with also a floating and tabbed).
Xavier Morris
You're a pretty smart guy tb h.
Christopher Rodriguez
Thanks. I learned how to use internet web search engines at a young age and solve my problems faster than it took me to ask stupid and easily searchable questions.
that might be the case, but putting it in my i3config is the easiest
Aiden Nelson
Use your package manager and figure out how to tie a file back to the package it came from (with rpm, it would just be `rpm -qf $filename`). Then remove that package.
Be careful, since if that package is tied to other dependencies you will likely remove a lot with the bloat, say if it came from a package group/meta-package and you tried to install the entire thing.
In the future, look for minimal meta packages or package groupings, and always look carefully at everything that is about to be installed to see if you made the right decision.
< ur a faget > ------------ \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
Cooper King
xxd -p -r
Caleb Reed
God damn it.
Cooper Brown
Should i use jeos or lxqt for my raspberry pi 3b? gonna install opensuse tumbleweed, not sure about speed differences
Ryan Morris
Have a rare pepe for your troubles. wget -qO- 0x0.st/GVj.txt
Benjamin Murphy
Hotkey faggot again.
So, when i make a hotkey a bash command executes. But where does it execute? Can it use like cd?
Things like "~/foo/bar.sh" or "cd ~/foo && ./bar.sh" doesn't seem to work
Austin Phillips
>try KDE on OpenSUSE >shitloads of bloatware I won't ever use >try removing a single inconsequential program >Are you sure you want to uninstall your entire current operating system, the operating systems installed on your other devices, divorce your wife, and set fire to your pets bed? (y/n) Never again.
Josiah Cox
Post your command
Alexander Ward
That depends on the program that handles those keys. Try absolute paths, i.e. substitute ~ for /home/username.
Jeremiah Collins
sh -c 'notify-send benis'
Matthew Cox
>manjaro and antergos are more popular than arch who knew that you could make a distribution more popular by taking a few hours to develop a gui installer
Andrew Morales
This!
One of the Sup Forums memes that I actually liked is openbox/I3.
Openbox is a great minimal transition for floating that I use at home and I3 is great for productivity at work.
I can never go back to a full blown DE now.(not like that's a bad thing) lol
Thanks guys! :)
Ayden Thomas
hence the options
Benjamin Sanders
Nothing special, just trying everything
Not everything works this way for some reason. Like opening a nautilus in a targeted folder
