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How do I not be daunted by installing and learning Linux?
Sebastian Perez
Please don't post your homosexual twitter screencaps here. That's for normalfags and we are better than that.
Gabriel Brown
what's a good distro for sadboys
Kayden Evans
Don't use your only computer to do the installation and learning upon.
Ryder Hernandez
You need to be curious, really. I first installed it because I was curious, and a friend and I installed it on computers at home and would share some info too.
BTW this was back before smart phones, and we had to compile our kernel to get some devices to work.
Installing Linux through Architect and it brings up installation types. Stable, and Developer. No matter what I choose the installation says its complete only giving me the option to reboot, shutdown, and lunch a virtual environment which is just a terminal.
What could be the deal?
Brayden Morales
Virtual Machines, duh. Play around with Ubantoo for a while, maybe install it to a HD if you like it, then switch to a grown up distro like Debian or Arch.
Gavin Edwards
Got a new SSD and reinstalling Debian. The firmware is non-free and have iwlwifi packaged in the bootable drive. This method always worked for me. But ever since the new SSD it's not working.
>you could also just download the package and dependencies online and copy them over This was my usual method of getting it to work, but this time it's failing.
Caleb Scott
Because nothing has been installed.
Christian Brown
Answering you again.
You dont need an installer,the default vanilla arch install is max 10 commands.Read the installation wiki and dont rely on some shitty script,which is currently broken in your environment
Carson Diaz
so i am a fucking dumbass, i installed opensuse on a 2011 macbook, in the installer i choose to replace a devuan installation with the opensuse one, now i have the partition scheme on pic related, the macbook starts and shows the folder with the classic fucking question mark so i booted opensuse on the hdd from the live cd (using linuxefi (hd1,gpt3).... and all that jazz) which i am now using to post this. how do i tell the macbook start from this installation ? if i'm not wrong the first 200mb partition was left from a fedora installation which configured everything but i'm not really sure and i'm afraid to delete it/format it w/e >inb4 macbook >inb4 opensuse got it for free and devuan is fine and all but opensuse is like drugs, you just sit down and relax using that shit.
Sebastian Walker
You need to change the grub config to boot the new os,or tell it to pause on boot and let you manually choose which one you want each time you boot
Zachary Brown
Is there really no way to disable the annoying middle click paste feature? The following are not solutions, by the way: >deal with it >remap middle click to some other button and lose all middle click functionality
you'll have a working base system in minutes >skip last step of installer (don't select additional pkg groups) reboot and install what you want, for example: apt install i3 lxdm lxappearance pcmanfm arc-theme breeze-icon-theme
>ib4 ubanto autistic screeching / ~1gb; ram usage less than 100mb
no afaik
Sebastian Wood
That is some really bad pasta.
Austin Mitchell
oh sorry I'm afraid I may be dumb. why lumina though?
Jace Smith
is KDE on windows usable still
Christopher Davis
FUCK YOU BITCH I HATE YOU REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeee
Joseph Brooks
lol dude opensuse is shit
Luis Barnes
why
Jayden Jones
Yeah who saw Ivanka replacing Clinton or being even worse, during the elections.
Jaxon Peterson
Because it is just a whole bunch of shit thrown together in one post with no explanation. Pastas are supposed to be for people who /don't/ already know what they are talking about.
Leo Jenkins
it says what it is above the link it says what it does if you use the link
Parker Reed
wtf is this shit? Why is arc-darker not darker? Why is it white? WTF??
Adrian Hill
because arc is shit >grey font >grey thx for going blind
Liam Anderson
Tired of gnome, I installed xfce. After fucking around with it for a while, I still can't make it look like I want. Can anyone recommend a good theme, a good terminal, and a good file browser?
Samuel Cook
adwaita / arc / numix st pcmanfm
Ryan Harris
Switched from xfce to MATE, about just as light and a little more solid imo (no font issues, compositor issues)
Xavier Kelly
This is what I did. Played around in vms until I realized I would just rather be using Linux on the metal alone. Didn't take long either. After about 2 weeks of trying several distros in vms I abandoned Windows for good.
Zachary Hughes
Vertex maia. The menda-maia package in the AUR provides it or you can manually add it if you aren't using Manjaro or don't have access to the AUR.
Asher Ramirez
use the livecd it comes with watch youtube videos DON'T use virtual machines - it doesn't work well iirc
Jace Butler
It's pretty lean and functional.
Jayden Jenkins
read the arch wiki. It's pretty much the official linux documentation.
James Brooks
Linux vms work flawlessly even on modest hardware. Not heavier DEs though like plasma or gnome.
Kayden Robinson
I installed Gentoo on my T420.
When I close the lid, it won't suspend to ram.
I enabled suspend in the kernel, and the s2ram actually works, so it's not like I don't have the suspend functionality on my install, but it won't suspend automatically when close the lid.
Has anyone had this issue?
How can I fix this?
Jason Rogers
not ubuntu afaik it was in some of their release notes or something overall its pointless when you can just use the live session from a usb
Aiden Wood
Why say something like this? It's not going to happen, and you couldn't just stay silent and save face?
Carter Morris
Where were you when you realized only bad guys use Linux, Sup Forums?
Aiden Scott
For me that is managed by stuff in /etc/acpi/events/lidbtn from the acpi-support package so you might want to check on what acpi events are being seen with acpi_listen.
Jaxon Baker
A C P I D C P I D
Blake Smith
What's a good indie underground distribution?
Alexander Ortiz
I also have this problem. Still looking it up
Hunter Peterson
choose a base and build your own with one of the small handful of "system building" programs
Sebastian Moore
Whats a reasonably secure operating system I can switch to? I currently use QubesOS on my desktop, but its not working well with my GT730. Should I swap out my graphics card, or switch to something like Debian?
Aaron Phillips
/etc/acpid/rules
install ubuntu
Andrew Morris
GNU/Linux*
Liam Williams
architect is broken, but on the bright side? manjaro picked up the project and it's called manjaro architect and it's what they now use for their net install image
Ethan Sullivan
Still looking into how to do it on my specific computer. As well as the brightness resetting only on the login screen.
Easton Ortiz
I think this means I should give up
Evan Myers
Don't do that. Satan loves you!
Levi Cooper
Literally just had a teacher that was really good at making stuff fun.
Just install a minimal install in a VM, like CentOS or Debian. Learn some basic shell scripting and how to use vim.
Parker Peterson
brotip/word of caution, if you don't know what you're doing then you might want to avoid a minimal install unless you use/have access to a wired connection as wireless often is not included in minimal iso
Juan Mitchell
Ready to ditch pajeet 10, has shitnux fixed any of these issues yet?
Liam Cook
How is that relevant to a VM?
Julian Green
no
Brody Torres
oh shit, I didn't see that part of the post, sometimes I can be a dumbass
Carter Hill
here let me spoon feed you ix.io/yBv seriously use ubuntu gnome or something dont waste your time
Asher Morgan
>pajeet 10 >shitnux
just get a mac and fuck off
Jordan Wood
Alpine Linux?
Jason Evans
Finally finally finally got Mesa drivers and Nvidia shitware to work properly and vanilla WoW to run smoothly in Wine.
Anyone got any tips for automounting USBs for ranger? Whats a good keyboard for touch typing?
Mason Smith
>GNU/Linux i can run Linux without GNU
Elijah Gray
I can run Linux without Linux. Get on my level, fag.
Isaac Brooks
Is there better book organizer/reader than calibre which doesn't use qt? I don't really want to pull all qt dependencies with calibre. >inb4 gnome-books It sucks.
p.s. OP pic is racist.
Gavin Powell
Systemd's logind handles that without problems.
Luke Moore
linux is deprecated
Dominic Murphy
T-thanks canonical.
Nolan Sullivan
>logind >handling lid states mmmkay
Caleb Murphy
>implying a bad clone deprecates the original botnet brainlets
Easton Ward
No luck but thanks for the help
Christian Richardson
I lied, sleep works but waking up results in the screen to stay turned off while the computer is running.
Jayden Peterson
> Get ahold of old Acer Aspire One netbook > Single core 1.6GHz Atom, 1GB RAM, 160GB mechanical hard disk > Install Lubuntu
So uhhh, now what?
I guess my first task is going to be to figure out why my battery isn't showing up, I added a battery monitor to the panel but I'm getting "No battery found" when I hover.
Jason Gonzalez
Can you recommend me a wifi usb dongle that respects muh freedumbs aka doesn't require propietary drivers or firmware blobs
Brody Peterson
do most games that arent developed for linux at least have a port? feel like ill have to switch when windows 8 stops receiving support.
Carson Thompson
Must of the ones with atheros chipsets don't require firmware, IIRC.
Jacob Russell
# This file is part of systemd. # # systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # Entries in this file show the compile time defaults. # You can change settings by editing this file. # Defaults can be restored by simply deleting this file. # # See logind.conf(5) for details.
>increase of female, black & latino wtf i hate trump now
Zachary Richardson
Good luck compiling it.
Carter Gray
oh yeah if you use systemd you should NOT use acpid
if it's a laptop you should have tlp
Ryder Barnes
>latinx oh fuck it's spreading!
Xavier Morales
whats the point of writing portable scripts?
Nathaniel Peterson
I've just realised I've been using void for nearly a year and today is the first time something has "broken' from an update. It was just the taskbar volume controller being deleted. i hope this distro continues to get support I don't think I ever need to use anything else again.
Ayden Jones
How do I install Timeshift on Debian? When I try to add the PPA, apt spergs out about no GPG key and tells me the package is broken when I try to install it, and the binary file is 404 on the official site...
Noah Price
you shouldn't use ubuntus PPAs for debian. grab the source from github.com/teejee2008/timeshift then read the INSTALL file on how to install it.
