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I have to use windows for playing my PC games, but I would like to move from Windows to Linux for everything else.
Any tips for this? I was thinking of making a partition on my main drive for Ubuntu and dual boot with win10. How much space does that partition need, just the specified space for the installation or more?
Easton Cooper
Is BFQ a meme?
Jason Reyes
I haven't installed Ubuntu in ages, so I can't remember how much space it gives to your partitions, but when I dual booted, I gave root 40gb but I could've probably use just 30), and the rest was the predetermined spacing.
If you have relatively new hardware and want to use linux as your main OS you could take a look at gpu passthrough via qemu/kvm. It's not hard, but you'll need some basic knowledge about udev rules, loading/removing kernel modules, and maybe changing kernels.
Isaac Phillips
I am trying to play Dwarf Fortress with sound in gentoo, but it says data/sound/filename.ogg not found, sound not loaded
for several files even though i know they are in that folder. What can i do to fix this? I installed all the dependencies that it asked for.
Jonathan Wright
So it seems that urxvt has larger spacing between lines than some other terminals because it adds a space for underlines? Is there no way to disable underlining altogether, or to tell it to just let the underline overlap with any characters?
Because I'd much rather have 1 less pixel of spacing per line than to have underlines which I pretty much never use or see.
Dylan Thompson
You can try running it under strace to check it is actually getting an ENOENT and not just printing that error message for some other reason. Eg strace -fefile -s99 -o /tmp/dorf.trace dorf.exe (it'll run slower than normal) then search /tmp/dorf.out for mention of one of the problematic files.
Bentley Harris
Basically what this guy said here I just want to add though that gpu passthrough requires you to have 2 GPUs. One of them can be an iGPU like the ones included in Intel CPUs, but amd CPUs do not have iGPUs.
Grayson Sanders
I would like that too if you find out but it looks to me like the underline is higher than the low point of letters with dangly bits, like the y and p in pic related. So not sure that is the reason.
Dominic Perez
show severals open attempts at files but i think they are symlinks because next line it opens at the real location. But the specific /data/sound files return 0. That means it's okay right?
Michael Cruz
I think there's different levels though. Because the cursor underline is blow everything.
Enter this in a terminal to temporarily set your cursor to an underline: echo -e '\e[3 q' You can then see that it shows up below the other underline. Whereas if I do this on other terminals the underline cursor shows up higher
Caleb Parker
sorry. i mean they open attempt returns with 10 and 12
William Long
Why does CSGO stutter like a motherfucker in Manjaro KDE (RX 470)?
Graphics settings on high/low/multicore rendering enabled/disabled, resolution...doesn't make a difference, on the title screen Steam's FPS counter will show ~150fps but ingame, it jumps between 25-30fps to 100ish intermittently and is stuttery as hell.
I already tried deleting those libs in ~/.steam/root.
Jaxson Stewart
Forgot to add, on the open-source amdgpu mesa drivers since the proprietary ones aren't supported by manjaro yet.
Jonathan Cruz
Yeah, those are the new file descriptors. It is probably getting an error from openal and catching all just reporting all errors from that block with the same message.
Liam Morris
is there a way to read the error directly from openal?
Anthony Williams
I think some people get that as a problem with some cpu governors that dynamically adjust performance too rapidly Try running: cpufreq-set -c 0 -g performance cpufreq-set -c 1 -g performance cpufreq-set -c 2 -g performance ... for each core on your machine (you can check how many you have with "cat /proc/cpuinfo" for example with 8 cores you'd see cores 0-7 listed)
This will turn off any automatic scaling of cpu performance and just set it to the max. To go back to normal replace "performance" with "ondemand" and do it again.
If this fixes your issue you could script it to turn performance up right before you launch csgo and then go back to ondemand when you're done.
Daniel Perez
wait so I can just run windows in a VM and use my GPU?
nice, time to move to gentoo I only use this POS OS for games
Jeremiah Lee
Maybe it is just your font that makes it look like that.
Jeremiah Roberts
why is slackware such a great distro?
Nathaniel Jones
Hi I just made the switch from Windows to Arch and I'm browsing this site now with Konqueror. It sucks.
What is the browser /fglt/ usus?
Asher Baker
Firefox nightly is pretty great.
Andrew Barnes
Is it worth it to learn to use expect?
Lucas Gutierrez
Icecat, chromium if you don't mind the botnet, firefox was okay until version 53, now it's utter shit, don't even bother with it.
What happened to Firefox? I heard it got invaded by SJW's but I don't know if that's true.
I DO mind the botnet, but Chrome is pretty awesome. On windows I used ungoogled chromium and it worked great with plugins like vimium, but sadly I'm too retarded to compile it myself.
Are there any non-botnet chromium based brothers?
Jacob Jackson
so this method sf_open(filename.c_str(), SFM_READ, &sfinfo) is returning a null pointer.
Henry Johnson
i mean function
Gavin Perez
Yes, but as said, you'll need 2 gpus (or one gpu and one igpu), that's because you'll need to unloas the gpu you'll use to passthrough from the kernel on boot.
You can modprobe and use it on your host after you boot, but you can't boot with that gpu as your main host gpu AND pass it through to your VM.
Joshua Hernandez
Some games falsely detect my sound card as 5.1 even though there's only 1 analog stereo connected to it How do I force ALSA to only allow stereo?
For example, Civilization VI and all Source engine games
Cameron Perry
yeah I can use my IGPU and GPU but there'd be times where I'd need to use the GPU (I do some ML work in Tensor) as well
Luis Murphy
Ye. Looks like your libsndfile wasn't compiled with ogg support. Try installing sndfile-programs and running sndfile-play on the ogg files to check. Maybe just convert them into wav or something.
Samuel Torres
Just make a new PCM in your asoundrc with your hw device as slave and specify channels 2 in the slave description.
Luis Flores
i think you are right. I already had it installed. It gives me File contains data in an unimplemented format How do i emerge it with ogg support?
Sebastian Brown
tfw I found out today that you can check your variables in bash scripts with if; then, else, fi. Why is GNUlix so great?
Benjamin Rogers
if only checks exit status. test (aka [) is rather more versatile.
Robert Gutierrez
Thanks for the suggestion, my terminal didn't find that command though.
you obviously never had the joy the script with windows batch files
Jason Gutierrez
Sup Forums I've used Linux last year, but because of work/colege, I came back to Windows, now I'm going for the dual boot, since things calmed a little. I used mostly antergos (8~months) and ubuntu for few weeks, i liked antergos a lot, but the eventual maintenances were painful, I'm kinda newbie. So here I'm, since I've done my research I got stuck between Manjaro and Mint, both seem friendly enough to manage. Ah, going with GNOME ofc. So.. thoughts?
Elijah Wright
my script only contains if [ -d $DIRECTORY ]; then %action else echo "error" fi for now, so I guess I'm already using test? much appreciated no I haven't, are you saying it's more difficult?
Thomas Morales
>Manjaro and Mint I thought they were both jokes?
Nolan Taylor
Manjaro is okay, but I'd rather use just Arch. Check Artix and devuan too. Easy to use and you avoid any systemd inconvenience
Leo King
Mint is.
Cameron Wilson
I am also noob, used Ubuntu briefly in the past and was not a fan, I installed Manjaro KDE and have been loving it. Definitely recommend.
Also, previous to that I tried Mint, but thought it was also too simplistic a la Ubuntu. Love that AUR.
Joshua Miller
Why isn't pic related a default thing for a fresh Xubuntu installation on an Intel HD graphics machine? It removes the infamous tearing of Xubuntu with what seems to be no drawbacks.
Justin Gomez
Is void as free as parabola or trisquel? I want to install a free distro without systemd
Colton Hughes
Does the Ubiquity installer normally hang when using one of the normie "recommended" partition schemes, or does it only happen when a competent user has a particular use case in mind? Either way how do I unfuck myself if I have a hard drive without an operating system and an installer that won't install?
Julian Myers
I think it was the minimal flag. Now without it it works. Thanks for the help. Now i need to know why TEXT mode doesn't work. Something with not finding any flavour libncursesw/libncurses
Zachary Rogers
rec me a non systemd distro to use from debian
Henry Fisher
Do you lot even know why you don't want to use systemd?
Daniel Murphy
I swear to god I'm going to smash this piece of shit. So, I have some problems with my homeserver. Runs Debian: 1) The disk block device names keep changing, rendering the system unbootable. No, I can't use UUID because it's a fucking SPARC system and SILO is a steaming piece of turd. How the fuck can I stop this bullshit? 2) I had a bonded network interface with a static IP and everything was working hunky-dory until I decided I wanted to install pi-hole. Now every time I start the system up every single physical interface gets its own address for absolutely no fucking reason whatsoever, and the bond iface gets the static IP I had configured. Why the fuck is this happening? It's not in the goddamn /etc/network/interfaces file.
Dylan Nguyen
The package which contains it should be something like "cpufrequtils"
Eli Kelly
i'm reading the unix programming environment, and i see now that i'm not really using something with the soul of unix
Caleb Lewis
I can't wait until we have a mainstream nix-like or guix-like distro
and when new users ask what to install we just link them to a pastebin with an awesome /fglt/ tricked out complete config file
David Watson
You weren't using Linux in the first place. Install OpenBSD or Plan9 or whatever they're calling the open Solaris fork these days.
Ethan Diaz
> The disk block device names keep changing Not sure it it'll work (especially in the ramdisk) but on my machine there is /dev/block/by-{id,label,partlabel,partuuid,path,uuid} folders that are presumably created by udev.
I dunno about that network shit. Are you using dhcp? NetworkManager?
Colton Rodriguez
>Plan9 lol
Nicholas Ortiz
Hey Sup Forumsuys I'm installing Gentoo on a new hd with the "~amd64" keyword set and it keeps failing to emerge dev-python/cryptography no matter what use flags I've tried. Is this common with the unstable branch? Should I just stick with the stable for now? I'd prefer up to date packages.
Jordan Moore
>/dev/block/by-{id,label,partlabel,partuuid,path,uuid} Thank you so much. Passing the root= bootarg with the disk id worked.
>Are you using dhcp? NetworkManager? Nope, all static. This config was working until I installed pi-hole and rebooted. My interfaces file looks like this: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback
>is it actually a good idea to install gentoo... for?
Nathaniel Rogers
personal computing and work
Caleb Mitchell
install gentoo
Dominic Hill
>install openSuse >notice that all videos can only play at 240-280p >because MP4 codecs are not installed out of the box >have to go to some weird website offering extra packages not shown in the normal package manager What the actual fuck.
All these extra hoops for basic functionalities This is why Linux will never be popular.
I just want to complain that the linux client for private internet access uses the deprecated net-tools package and it screwing with my laptop's suspend function
Lucas Lee
What key is ^[[6~^?
Aiden Johnson
^~^
Isaac Cruz
>Alacritty - Another promising looking lightweight terminal >without any scrollback What the fuck is with this trend?
I don't understand. Having a terminal without scrollback is one of the most retarded concepts of development on GNU/Linux I've ever heard >B-But it's not the job of a terminal to do multiplexing, use tmux This also makes no sense at all. Under what definition of "multiplexing" does scrolling fall under?
and even if it was considered multiplexing I can't help but point out that these terminals already fucking have scrolling. When the screen is filled it scroll up, that means they already have the code in their terminal for shifting lines. Saying you can't just increase the buffer size and let it go the other way too is bullshit.
Robert Reed
Didn't mean to link that post
Brayden Garcia
Jeez user I just posted an emoticon. I didn't know you would get so mad Can you forgive me?
Tyler Moore
Nevermind, got it working. Had to select the correct profile.
what the fuck is up with audio visualizers >cava looks like shit, but at least syncs correctly >ncmpcpp is amazing but it's fifo-based so it unsyncs every ten seconds fucking why
It isn't a trend. It is a "I want to do a opengl backed terminal in rust" project. Basically personal development shit. Just ignore it.
Ian Clark
qmmp supports projectm (milkdrop from winamp2) as a plugin. Opengl backed and smooth as butter.
Julian Jenkins
>opengl backed terminal in rust Isn't that all good though? Maybe experimental, sure. But wouldn't that actually make a pretty efficient, fast, lightweight terminal application?
Jordan Reed
Actually on github they say they got so much pushback for not having scrollback that they're adding it now
Easton Fisher
Daily reminder that it's OK to keep a snack between your toes for later consumption
Owen Torres
>xxx@xxx:/usr/bin$ sudo apt-get install openvpn >Reading package lists... Done >Building dependency tree >Reading state information... Done >Suggested packages: > resolvconf >The following NEW packages will be installed: > openvpn >0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. >Need to get 0 B/477 kB of archives. >After this operation, 1,116 kB of additional disk space will be used. >Preconfiguring packages ... >Selecting previously unselected package openvpn. >(Reading database ... 46247 files and directories currently installed.) >Preparing to unpack .../openvpn_2.3.4-5+deb8u2_amd64.deb ... >Unpacking openvpn (2.3.4-5+deb8u2) ... >Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u7) ... >Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ... >Setting up openvpn (2.3.4-5+deb8u2) ... >Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u10) ... >xxx@xxx:/usr/bin$ openvpn >-bash: openvpn: command not found > >xxx@xxx:/usr/bin$ dpkg-query -l | grep openvpn >ii openvpn 2.3.4-5+deb8u2 amd64 virtual private network daemon >xxx@xxx:/usr/bin$ openvpn >-bash: openvpn: command not found
what the fuck
Adam Edwards
nevermind I had to run as sudo wtf
Kayden Evans
It's not Xfce exclusive first of all.
Because it gives a slight performance toll (according to some sources). The Intel DDX driver is also very old (unless you distribution packages development builds) and some people have no problems just using the modesetting driver and that one doesn't support that option. Also it's not hard for users to enable it themselves.
Luke Nguyen
>apparently is a power user who doesn't need systemd >doesn't know how to look up online some basics facts
Go here
Matthew Anderson
Then you better replace 90% of other software too, you retard.
Aaron Butler
Wooooow, you installed software other people wrote and applied a wallpaper and theme other people made. wooooow you are a god, that is impressive, your... whatever is impressive you are so cool it totally represents your soul everyone approves of you well done nice cool i like it
Stop posting you imbecile.
Evan Richardson
how can void be so good. I'll be using this distro for the rest of my life as long as the head behind it doesn't run out of pesos or whatever the fuck money spaniards use.
Alexander Murphy
What's so good about it?
Austin Foster
It's simple, regularly updated, has all the packages I want and I've been using it for the last 8 months with no breakages from updates. What more can you want from a distro.
