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i installed the final i686 version from february when it still supported i686
Michael Brooks
Find a different os then
Andrew Rodriguez
what is best to try a distro, dual boot or virtual machine?
Jacob Ramirez
virtual machine, when dual booting there's always a risk you might screw up your grub shit.
Adrian Nelson
I have a SoaC which will be running linux. It has one ethernet port and a usb 3.0 port.
I need two network interfaces on it for use with iptables.
I also have a usb to ethernet adapter.
How should I go about configuring this in such a way that the device recognizes the usb port with the attached usb-ethernet adapter as a network interface?
Jose Rivera
I feel the best option is booting into a live version of linux and then clicking 'install' and installing it onto a usb device.
This way you have a full version of linux that can save files etc, it doesnt mess up your bootloading, and it doesnt feel shitty running it as a vm
Elijah James
Hey guys, I want a Linux Distro that hasn't been compiled with GCC, do you know any?
Alexander Hughes
download the kernel yourself and compile with something thats not gcc
Running Manjaro as my main distro. Also have Wangblows installed for dual booting. If I remove Windows do I have to update grub? If so, what do?
Liam White
Why not use GCC?
David Lopez
You dont have too, it will just have an invalid boot option.
Logan Wright
well, most likely not, but you should anyways otherwise there will be a dead entry to boot windows every time you power up.
also, good choice, friend, its been about 4 years since I dumped microshit and havent looked back since
Jason Richardson
not needed, but a good idea >If so, what do? wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB pretty much this. Make sure you have a live boot linux available, you may or may not screw up the bootloader the first try or two and you just need to make sure you have a way to recover (if you mess up just boot into the live environment, mount the installed operating system, chroot into it, and then reinstall grub)
Liam Martin
Thanks guys!
Charles Fisher
Went balls deep and replaced everything with Linux.
Only thing I'm having an issue with is running some exes with wine.
I tried starting them with the command Wine and wine start and it ain't working.
Any ideas?
Jack Peterson
Install winetricks, much friendlier.
Ian Flores
It doesn't have any sort of option to run an exe.
>TFW should have dualbooted
Christopher Sullivan
PlayOnLinux + their user created shell scripts. Chances are somebody has a fix for it.
Liam Fisher
Hello friendly linux thread my windows laptop's battery drains too fast, what's the best distro for saving battery? I still need wifi for git and email though
Xavier Collins
So I made a Void Linux (Mate) live CD for my MacBook Pro, and while it boots, the trackpad is completely fucked. Moving my finger up and down does nothing, while moving my finger left and right moves the cursor up and down. Is there anything I can do to fix this? I'm currently trapped on the desktop and can't find a keyboard shortcut to get into the terminal.
Adrian Martin
How would I go about learning how to manually monitor the network connections to my computer? Maybe a program to see individual network requests and and processes they're attached to, and learn how to interpret it. I dunno.
Ayden Ross
Tried to dual boot Manjaro Linux and windows 7 on my thinkpad with 1 hard drive. Changed it from EFI to legacy and everything, finally booted into my 40 gb Manjaro partition, now I'm stuck there. Try to boot back into my windows partition with GRUB and I get an error that says something about my windows boot loader being broken. I may be able to get a windows disc to repair it, but will it delete all my files? Will I be able to boot back into my Manjaro partition? Am I fucked, Sup Forums? Wat do?
Joshua Wood
You want tcpdump for raw data, wireshark for more power. Note you will not be able to read anything going over SSL without installing a MITM certificate on your machine.
Jace Scott
>not an answer
William Howard
Hey dudes, I did the opposite method and installed Win 10 AFTER Arch. My partition table is as follows:
No matter what I do, I can't get Windows to show up in GRUB. If I select the drive in my bios boot menu (they're both on the same drive), it will get me to windows, otherwise it'll take me to GRUB and I can only boot into Arch.
Any way to get it figured?
Bentley Reed
You are so advanced that you need to use Void Linux. Surely you can solve such a simple problem.
Noah Russell
is there a realistic way to change the noise texture and screensaver on gdm3 on ubuntu?
i know it aint rm fm /
Christopher Brown
you can always mount your windows partition from manjaro and use your files, also backup them, for the windows disc you dont need one, just download a windows 7 iso (preferably the same version you had installed) and install it onto a usb with something like win usb or unebootin and use it as a windows disc
Lincoln Taylor
Gentoo is not very good for ricing
Julian White
>decide its time to upgrade from debian 8 >install debian 9 >wont even get past login screen >install arch >cant even get 2 firefox processes open without dying >install alpine >firefox gui doesnt even open >install puppylinux >no repos >install rasbian >cant even sustain one firefox browser >install centos >cant even get 3 firefox tabs open without it crawling on the floor
just went back to debian 8, maybe i should just install gentoo and kill myself
Brody Bennett
lol ubuntu gnome on a 9 years old laptop runningn 14 chromium tabs and atom editor at the same time
Liam Green
Help pls
Brody Wright
Delete ~/.config/i3/config. Log out. Log in again. You will be greeted by "no config" dialog.
Or just stop being a noob and read the fucking manual.
Dominic Sullivan
>Linux users >/fit/
Carter Stewart
There is an Arch wiki page specifically for dual booting wangblows with it.
There are Arch newbie forums.
There is a fuckin IRC channel for newbies.
Why on the Earth did you thing asking for help on Sup Forums was a good idea?
Nathan Collins
Because dipshit, I have literally tried every possible suggestion on the Dual Booting page to no avail. I thought this was FRIENDLY linux, asshole.
I cannot for the life of me get it to boot. I can create an entry in GRUB, but it boots to nothing.
Matthew Lopez
>can't run firefox >wants to compile all of his software I implore you reconsider
Ethan Gomez
>tried every possible suggestion on the Dual Booting page to no avail That is not true. If it were true, then Sup Forums wouldn't be able to help you and asking here would be redundant. In fact, nobody here can help you with anthing ever, so asking here is redundant regardless.
Landon Kelly
Lol y r u using arch
Kayden Young
I think your problem is that you have hybrid boot (i.e. boots both UEFI and legacy) and you booted Windows installation in legacy (BIOS) mode and so it installed Windows in legacy mode. GRUB running from UEFI can't boot a system using the legacy boot method, which is also referenced in the Archwiki page on dualbooting with Windows.
Anthony Diaz
what is wrong with arch ? is it because it is harder to install than ubuntu but easier tthan gentoo ??
Josiah Evans
Arch uses GNU software,get a real distro like Alpine
Aiden Davis
>If it were true, then Sup Forums wouldn't be able to help you and asking here would be redundant. If I knew that were the case, then true, i would have avoided it.
Hunter Baker
Possibly but it wouldn't even let me do any formatting if I started the win 10 install media in uefi mode.
Oliver Cooper
>newbie >antergos >gnome >i3 Checks out. i3 is garbage, use awesome.
Robert Gomez
why doe linux use the communist gpl license? why doesn't linux switch it to bsd?
Samuel Gutierrez
will it be ok running exes if i use wine with an ordinary account that has nothing but wine? so even if game.exe turns out to be virus.exe it wouldn't matter because it's an empty /home/winetest/ user dir right?
Owen Cook
...
Owen Bailey
stop playing games
Christopher Williams
You can try reinstalling GRUB for BIOS boot and run configuration again and then it should be able to boot Windows.
Mason Turner
I have troubles enabling hardware video acceleration in mpv in arch. I have radeon 380, i've installed amdgpu and xf86-video-amdgpu, but it seems there are basically no supported profiles. Basically every file i try to play with vaapi dropping into sofware mode. It seems vdpau works, but isn't it for nvidia cards? Also, pretty sure, last year, when i tried linux(also) arch for first time, i used vappi and it worked fine, but i used radeon instead of amdgpu, i think. So, should i just stick with vdpau?
Isaiah Nguyen
>arch there's your problem,get a distro that works
Jackson Taylor
Which do you recommend?
Easton Campbell
Alpine Linux,Sabotage Linux
Parker Powell
>Z:\
Julian Martinez
Trust me, nobody here has a clue about nothing. It's all just memes and bullshit.
I wouldn't be here if I knew anything either. And I'm running Arch as well.
My advice? Don't dual-boot. I dual booted Windows 7 with Ubuntu and I had problems with wifi card every day of the week. Deleted windows, and everything works perfectly.
Windows simply plays dirty with a lot of hardware.
Ryan Perry
wtf is chkconfig?
if you do systemctl disable ... do you also need to chkconfig ... off ?
Jonathan Watson
are there any serious problems with manjaro that make arch a significantly better choice?
Dominic Brooks
Get in the basemend/attic, catch a mice and plug it in your mac. Chant: dalamhanasah three times to activate
Asher Cox
Check the man page.
Jack Perez
Is this thread meant to be satire?
Gavin Clark
>Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on mediocre PC >no sound, shit graphic, shit WiFi Computer diversity is mistake, after all. It makes Linux complicated.
Jordan Roberts
Are you suggesting that we remove modularity from personal computing? Is that what you're actually saying? Because there's an OS for that.
Isaiah Brooks
Linux is a kernel.
Nolan Carter
I'm a brainlet, I hope systemctl disable is enough on a systemd distro.
Bentley Carter
Blame the hardware companies for not having open free hardware documentation/drivers. Also, use ethernet. It's way faster than wifi anyway.
Lucas Rivera
how can I remove all gnu off my linux?
Easton Cooper
I'm hoping that 99% of people use only a few kinds of computer and buy the same new ones at the same year.
Cooper Cooper
Install Busybox, uninstall coreutils Install musl c, uninstall glibc Install clang, uninstall gcc or just get Alpine like a sane person
Carter Bennett
>install, uninstall That will pretty much break the whole system. You can't simply replace vital parts of a system like that. The whole system must be build around those replacements, libs and utils. >Alpine like a sane person No sane person would install Alpine on the desktop. install gentoo
William Foster
you mean i can't use rootless X? what if i use weston?
Brayden Butler
lol 9 years old laptop with ubuntu gnome 16.04.3 LTS working well here, smooth ps1 emulation with nice graphics (doubt the hardware can handle more than that)
Adrian Price
No. This thread is for those that run Linux without gn u. "Linux" has evolved to be more then just a kernel. But this thread is for those that run Linux but do not partake in the religious ideology of gn u users.
Kayden Bell
>"Linux" has evolved to be more then just a kernel what else do you think linux is? a beer? a car? a swimming pool? just brainlets
Brody Baker
"Linux" is an environment of software together with Linux but free from the restrictions and nuance of gn u users
Mason Robinson
You know what? Fuck this. Let's just move back to /fglt/ but if some people ask us to install Gentoo tell them to die. These threads honestly go nowhere now.
Lucas Moore
brand new to linux. trying to follow g's linux mint install wiki. when I boot for the first time it does the countdown then i get this error. google failed me.
Parker Powell
lol, install alpine
Isaiah Mitchell
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Asher Price
>notaresponse
Xavier Morris
is this the new installgentoo meme?
Brody Bailey
We recommend Alpine Linux, because it is a professional and security oriented Linux distribution without any GNU components.
Lincoln Long
what emulator are you using and what are you playing on it?
Gavin Powell
WHY THE FUCK WON'T FISH USE RVM RUBY INSTEAD OF SHITTY SYSTEM RUBY HOLY FUCK
Camden Walker
forgot pic
Christopher Turner
how is this linux related you fucking retard?
Angel Ward
So what do you consider "linux" related fucking twat.
Lucas Nguyen
how isn't it linux-related you dumb cunt? anything related to linux. also it's a friendly thread, you unfriendly little fuck.
