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>I hate GNU because that's all the cool kids do today
fuck off
Blake Rodriguez
>sending people to an off topic board >not sending them to so they can enjoy the outdoors and exercise a little. Dissappoint.
Logan Gutierrez
Do 'we' like Source Mage?
Joseph Price
I dont believe in your false prophet stallman. I dont agree with his communist views on the tech industry. I dont agree with pedophiles I dont agree with people who partake in beastiatliy I dont agree with someone who has poor hygeine and eats his dirty foot skin I dont agree with this all or nothing political nonsense freetards spout out like acid I dont support,supporting a clearly mentally ill persons poor personality and social actions(pic related)
William Wright
Free Pasta: >YouTube without pulseaudio ix.io/xoM >Better fonts thanks to bohoomil ix.io/w6A >Arch without systemd ix.io/yqr
Aaron Perez
>bohoomi He has been MIA for over a year and all the patches have been absorbed in to font config upstream.
Carson Watson
>we Did you post this from a mac?
James Anderson
>not agreeing with any of that >browsing Sup Forums
Henry Bailey
You neo gfags can get the fuck out
William Miller
and here i thought all you linux fags were pedos
Jack Campbell
did you even read the pasta?
Aiden Cruz
I don't support, superfluous punctuation.
Jacob Sanders
Ok guys, which are the best KDE distros? OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is out of question, I've ran Arch for the longest time and am currently using KDE Neon. Anyone here has any experience of Fedora KDE or Mageia?
Hunter Torres
KDE Neon is probably the KDE'st KDE experience. Also based on ubuntu LTS which is a solid foundation for desktop OS'.
Kevin Richardson
I tried Fedora KDE and I'd rather OpenSUSE. It crashed quite a bit. Had less trouble with Kubuntu
Joseph Butler
One day when Open Source won, when GNU/Linux is yet another macOS, when DRM deleted your files, when the botnet rapes your ass everyday, when the agency records the act, when the company sells the recording to the highest bidder and you're in jail for sharing something with a friend, you'll taste the bitter taste on the tongue which says "Stallman was right."
Carter Martinez
Is Ubuntu a good OS for privacy as well for new users? If not is there a to get rid of the spying?
Dominic Morris
yes it is, no there is nothing to get rid of or need to there was a thing with amazon but only in unity so use ubantu gnome or whatever else you want
Ryder Johnson
or he'll be like "Fuck GNU!"
Cameron Butler
why not just install a distro which doesnt have spyware in the first place?
that said, the amazon thing is still in ubuntu, but it's now disabled
Owen Perry
install xubuntu
Anthony Ross
I'm using manjaro and I have several hundred fonts (yes) from a windows machine that I want to install.
the arch wiki suggests that one should take the time to package each font/font set for management purposes. however, given the number of fonts I have, this seems absurd. is there any strong reason I shouldn't just dump them all in /usr/share/fonts?
Lincoln Watson
or just .local/share/fonts/ ? anyway why do you need those, the bohomils settings with liberation work fine
Jose Fisher
>seems absurd Have you even looked up how to do it? You would literally copy paste the command and then bring in an ls of the fonts
Justin Parker
So I want to install openSUSE alongside windows on a 128gb drive.
I noticed the default setup leaves only 22gb for the root volume and 33gb for /home. Think that's an ok setup ir maybe I should not use a separate /home partition? Also how worse off am I with this btrfs+xfs setup than the ext4 setup other distros do?
Landon Rivera
I actually dump my fonts in a special directory (makes more sense since I copy paste them from OS to OS anyway and most of them aren't from the repos). That said, I wouldn't dump them in /usr/, but in ~. You can add any directory you with with xset +fp directory xset fp rehash Or just use the standard font directory in home.
Kevin Reed
>btrfs Underage filesystem that still randomly corrupts without notice >xfs Xfs is more suited for larger files,such as a media server. Use ext4 for everything but /boot,which you should use ext2.
Michael Roberts
So it's only in unity. Good Because I heard it's easy to use.
Lucas Johnson
Aight, ext4 it is. It's just that I don't understand why this os there by default
Dylan Gonzalez
What is the best distro to keep around in an USB for fixing fuckups?
Xavier Price
Is dns supposed to connect to a remote server or can it be done entirely in the router before leaving or both?
Ryder Evans
Just some installation medium for a distro, that's enough for fixing things
Justin Murphy
I've been already doing that, but I should have been more specific.
Something that will have the right tools without relying on an internet connection, or that has propietary wireless drivers.
I've been stuck in the past while trying to scavenge data from the hdd of a laptop with broadcom wireless, and it was a pita, and had to use tethering in the end to finally download testdisk/photorec
Eli Butler
XFCE or KDE? Can't decide which one I'd rather use.
Grayson Bennett
Are you short on resources
Grayson Phillips
Fluxbox
Parker Butler
low spec hardware/concerned about battery life in a laptop -> xfeces
better resources and more functions out of the box -> kde
Jaxon Cox
Using a thinkpad t420, so not particularly no. That being said, I'd like to use something efficient or easy on battery life as I use this machine for school.
Asher Murphy
Something minimal like Arch would work
Dylan Cox
What functions out of the box does KDE offer over XFCE? I thought the biggest difference was that one was lighter on resources than the other. Don't really have an interest to rice out my system, just want something that looks nice and lets me get to work.
Leo Flores
I won't mention no gui.
The desktop that will suck the least battery would be a basic window manager, either a stacking (openbox, fluxbox, etc) that are closer to what you are used to in windows, gnome, kde, xfce, mate, etc; or a tiling wm (the beloved i3, dwm, and others).
But these requiere extensive manual configurations. So, the desktop environments that strike a good balance between out of the box functionality and performance are mainly xfce, and maybe mate and lxde/lxqt (these two if you are very low on specs).
So, tl;dr: you can run kde fine but it'll suck more battery
Ryan Morgan
>lets me get to work. Fluxbox does this. You dont have to rice anything,its fully functional with the default install.
Parker Lee
go see a youtube video
Lucas Barnes
i3 requires zero configuration
Julian Hall
>be using linux >use firefox >"innocent" chat using flash >get owned by reptilian hackers mfw forgot to firejail, even then it's not enough half of the time
Cooper Ward
Search engine, best graphical file explorer ever made, partial wayland support, good high dpi support, and other shit.
But mainly, goodies. XFCE is very nice and feature packed, but is slightly lacking behind gnome and kde. Not that you will miss those programs, and if you really want some functionality there are tons of third party options.
Jace Johnson
I keep hearing that x distro (I'm thinking of debian right now, but it could apply to others) could have shipped with a newer version of the kernel, because it won't support ryzen threadripper, cannonlake or whatever the new processor is.
I'm kinda confused. I guess the graphics drivers for the igpu might not be released yet, and it may have to fall back on generic vesa drivers. But to the extent it won't run??
Easton Kelly
I hadn't honestly considered gnome due to Sup Forums memes telling me it was bad.
I've got a 9-cell in right now which used to last like a day on full charge with windows. I can't imagine KDE is that much more bloated than windows when it comes to battery life. R-right?
Julian Long
KDE is a full suite of software that runs in the background and most likely you wont use 90% of said services.Wasting resources
Jason Collins
>got a new laptop >immediately installed GNU on it >boot up Windows 10 for the second time since I got it because I needed to run a software for university >it's already as slow to load and unresponsive as a 14 years old XP install
What the fuck Sup Forums. Can dual booting actually slow down your Windows install?
>KDE is a full suite of software Yes >that runs in the background Only the basic utilities like the Plasma shell, KWin etc run in the background all the time.
Jonathan Price
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Nathan Stewart
No, Windows is just slow but if you use Windows daily you will be used to it. After being used to GNU, Windows will feel slow.
Noah Wilson
After being used to GNU, Windows feels like a bicycle with training wheels, or even better like one of those small battery powered plastic cars they make for children they can hop into and putter around the neighborhood
Thomas Ortiz
All of the major distributions have KDE Plasma in their repositories.
Bentley Morales
All of your fonts can be part of one package, idiot.
Isaac Diaz
You can install any software you want on your USB flash drive distribution while you have an internet connection.
Juan Allen
I don't like gnome but everyone has their preferences. I don't like it because it is kinda tablet-y, but you might like it, but beware that it isn't a traditional looking desktop.
Nothing is more bloated than Windows.
I'd say try out the different de's in a virtual machine or on a live usb. If you happen to like multiple of them, why not install them side by side and switch your desktop on your sesion manager every now and then until you find the one you like the most.
If you'd like to hear my biased opinion, kde is great and I run it on everything except on very old hardware like my t60, where I run xfce. But on my dankpad I run kde
Carson Gray
KDE Neon and openSUSe are the ones that ship with the prettiest implementation and best tailored out of the box. But you can achieve that with any other distro, and it's not a tiresome tinkering, anyone could do that with ease
Oliver Hill
Is Leap any good? Everyone seems to be talking about Tumbleweed these days.
Kevin Phillips
You love asking questions. You won't use any of those distributions. You just like to feel cool about showing off your "knowledge" about something "technical". Because if you actually were in a position to use it or needed it, you'd know how to find out your answers and you'd try it. You wouldn't be asking these ridiculous, meaningless and subjective questions
Tyler Nguyen
>I hadn't honestly considered gnome due to Sup Forums memes telling me it was bad. well it does not crash (im using wayland) its polished it just works and has excellent workflow >tablet it can work for tablets but is not a tablet de the only tablet looking part of it is the applicatios list but you can have a classic menu instead imo its the best de because kde is funky atm
Chase Perez
Leap is like Debian Stable.
Slightly outdated but it just werks™
Tumbleweed is rolling release distro but way easier to install than the other popular rolling distros
Oliver Johnson
Gnome 1gb or more KDE 500mb
Cameron Young
gnome uses 500mb can work normal with 2g ram but can use moar maybe if you have more
Jackson Wright
For a 100 gb hdd, just using 2 partitions, one for / and another for /home, which ratio do I use to distribute the space between the 2?
Cooper Gomez
I probably will use it, why else would I ask? Why would I want to feel "cool" on an anonymous board are you retarded or something? OpenSUSE has an awful documentation and everything I find seems to be about Tumbleweed, rarely anyone ever mentions Leap. However, I can't use Tumbleweed so I'm curious about Leap. Fuck you.
Thanks, sounds good as I'm looking for something that "just werks". Last time I tried Tumbleweed, my experience was the opposite of that though.
Kayden Hall
Why do you need two partitions?
Jaxson Powell
That depends but usually /home will have to be much bigger if you put all your pics, music, videos etc on there. Programs don't take up that much storage, especially if you fall for the TUI / CLI meme.
Leo Anderson
>OpenSUSE has an awful documentation You have your man page for a package manager. Everything else has the same documentation as on any distribution.
What do you expect people to tell you? Memes and anecdotal evidence? You're an idiot if you believe those things or even consider them.
Aiden James
maybe he want to set noexec bit on /home to prevent clickbaits.? maybe he want to use diffren file systems?
Landon Hernandez
im not user, but I tend to agree.
I dont mean it's man pages are awful, I mean the the documentation for the OpenSUSE distro itself is awful when compared with some other distros such as Fedora or Archlinux
Ayden Bennett
imho its dumb not to use multiple partitions.
If you ever want to rebuild the machine its very convenient having your home folder on its own partition.
Christopher Edwards
Why? What does it change?
Adam Butler
Yes, and all the cache files in .cache, potentially useless files in .local and leftover files in .config for programs you don't use or old/new versions of config files that don't work or cause problems with a different version of the software.
Tyler Bell
why does what change? if you reinstall linux as part of the install likely the filing table will be rewritten on the partition you choose to install the OS on.
when the filing table is rewritten the references to your files will be rewritten as well.
when you use a separate partition for /home the filing tables are untouched during a reinstall
Jaxson Ward
Filing table?
John Cruz
>when you use a separate partition for /home the filing tables are untouched during a reinstall excuse me, when you use a separate partition for /home the filing tables on that /home partition are untouched during a reinstall
Do you really need it to be untouched? What does it change?
Ryder Clark
If I minimal install Ubuntu without install Unity does this mean I'm out of Amazons telemetry?
Henry Thompson
I'm trade ng to get conky to work, but it doesn't even display. On obvious errors in terminal either as far as I know. Anything I can do to troubleshoot or something?
Leo Smith
*trying *no fuck autocorrect
Lucas Hughes
yes, but Canonical have to fell some pain after putting spyware into GNU/Linux, there are many other distros
Aiden Sullivan
Dual booting here. I have a secondary drive that I'll use for pretty much everything that is not the OS and programs.
Should I just format as NTFS and use it with both Linux and Windows or make 2 partitions?
Dominic Bailey
They'd feel more pain from you using Ubuntu (and with that theier servers) than from you not using Ubuntu.
Tyler Lewis
You are welcome, man.
Also, openSUSE in both of its branches uses by default btrfs. I think they are the only distro among the most popular to use it by default. People have mixed opinions about btrfs, since it isn't finished yet, but I never encountered a problem when I have used it.
Andrew Rogers
I don't think the ntfs driver handles permissions well other than that everything should be fine
Carter Foster
This is really cute
Owen Adams
What do you mean by pain?
Brayden Morgan
it was only present in unity and I think it's gone now anyways
Austin Adams
Well, experience tells me that I never deal with that anyways with my secondary hard drive, so no problems there.
Thomas Collins
I'm searching for a way to pick a random item in POSIX sh, like I can do with shuf: $ printf 'foo\nbar\nbaz\n' | shuf -n 1 foo
Any ideas?
Connor Gutierrez
what file managers do you use?
Jacob Thomas
Still, it feels weird for what's basically a fresh install to behave like that. I only installed Firefox, 7zip and this software for uni on Windows and it already lags like a tortoise on startup, wtf.