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Leo Moore
Install Source Mage (not even memeing). It's LFS with a package manager. It's package management system is simpler than gentoo's, but it provides the same level of customizability none the less. It doesn't use systemd. They have their own simple init scripts system implementation. Both the package management tools and the init system are simple bash and therefore their inner workings are not obscured. There's no package repos. Instead, you have grimoires (collections of spells) and each spell is a collection of scripts that tells sorcery (the package manager) how to obtain the code from directly from upstream, resolve dependencies and build and install the package (it basically operates on the same principle as the AUR). You will be forced to learn to configure your kernel, deal with init scripts, things like wpa_supplicant if you're using wifi, what xorg features you need to enable while compiling it and what they do, etc. I learned a bunch of stuff when I installed it.
Isaiah Gomez
What are some essential things to do after Linux installation?
Dominic Barnes
Watching anime.
Gavin Campbell
install gnu
Kayden Martinez
If it's a regular distro, just enjoy it, but if it's Arch Linux, tell everyone about it.
Justin Green
Non meme answers, pls...
James Davis
Why do I need to "go get" import packages instead of the go get tool doing it automatically? Doesn't it make more sense to just get everything for me instead of making me do it separately?
Brayden Diaz
I meant do i need to run some commands to update things or something? Maybe some important tweaks to do?
Jonathan Sullivan
Uninstall and install anything else if you installed arch
Robert Robinson
No..
Zachary Murphy
No.
Grayson Reed
Why not
Leo Barnes
Do you want 5 gb of libraries imported every time?
Andrew White
As long as it only downloads what I have specified in imports then what's the problem? Shouldn't be 5gb or even 0.1gb.
Gabriel Sanders
What is correct way to install software? Built in software center application? Or should i use terminal? How often are programs in software center get updated?
Easton Jackson
Your package manager, only
Carter Thompson
Is there a way to hav more desktop sessions? I'd like to be able to switch between GNOME and aome tiline window managers I want to play around with. Is this possible? If so, how?
Easton Bell
login to different tty launch de/we
Samuel White
uninstall and install source mage if you didn't install source mage
Joseph Garcia
Absolutely retarded. A window manager isn't supposed to be noticeable, yet you apparently want to notice it, because you're wasting time switching back and forth between two. Do you also eat your food with two spoons at the same time?
Charles Lopez
>Your package manager, only Its the same thing as "software center" correct? Why though? For the most compatibility?
Jace Hughes
just ditch gnome already
Blake Hughes
I WANNA FUCK FREEDOM TAN
Aaron Gonzalez
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Christopher Cox
d-dame!
Levi Lewis
Is "home" the same thing as "my documents" on Win?
Jace Phillips
*GNU+Linux
Robert Roberts
why does my linux act like the ctrl key is being pressed intermittently
Tyler Cooper
I have firejail installed and used firecfg to sylink the programs to firejail,but using firejail --list reports no programs using firejail,despite there being syslinks in /usr/local/bin. What do
Nathan Brooks
Windows doesn't really have an equivalent. Maybe my documents folder is somewhat close assuming most of your files are saved there rather than the Desktop or wherever else. But one aspect of $HOME for which there's no counterpart in Windows as far as I'm aware (I haven't used it ages) is that programs are usually owned and run under different permissions. Take Firefox for example. It gets installed as root, but allows users to run it. This way nothing you do while using Firefox can change its files. It stores personalized data for your user in $HOME but if another user then runs Firefox they are getting the completely pristine untouched version of it because nothing the other user did could change anything in the Firefox install outside his $HOME. Your new user will then get his own personalized data stored inside his $HOME.
So GNU/Linux $HOME directories are not only a great way to keep your data together, but also are very effective at isolating data/modifications/customizations of different users from each other, and it's also a really good security model since typically anything you break, or malware you somehow get piggybacking on anything in your $HOME can't effect the root owned base installation of the software or other users.
Nathaniel Reyes
Thank you! Can i also get your opinion on ?
Adam Cruz
when did these threads get so slow?
Owen Wilson
Best way to install packages is the CLI. Ubuntu and some other distros have graphical applications, "Software Center" being the worst of them. It's slow, shit and the fact that it labels proprietary software as "free" doesn't make it any better. Meanwhile on the CLI you get what you want, instantly. "aptitude" is here pretty beginner friendly because when you fuck up, it holds your hand. rundown: # update the list of avaiable programs (the sources) aptitude update # now search for something aptitude search browser # install a program aptitude install w3m # use program w3m Sup Forums.org # get rid of program aptitude remove w3m # upgrade all programs aptitude safe-upgrade
If you really want a graphical interface, "synaptic" is a very good choice.
Blake Reed
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Camden Martinez
what the fuck
Jace Moore
Where can I download CloverOS?
Caleb Edwards
CloverOS is for the common folk. Use Source Mage if you want to join the noble elite.
Nicholas Hernandez
Sell me on it.
Noah Powell
See
Jayden Howard
Suck at finding stuff from the command line. How does one search for files/folders in Linux?
What is a good Linux OS to start off with? I've heard mint is really nice
Luke Morgan
>mint no
Liam Rogers
I'm also trying to live boot Linux with persistence on a MacBook. Anyone have any luck with that? I've tried with ubuntu but he persistence wasn't set up for some odd reason
I'd suggest an Ubuntu variant. Pick a DE (Desktop Environment) you like and install the one with that DE.
Cooper Watson
Why not just dual boot?
Carson Williams
Ah alright, thanks
Leo Scott
Would that be an easier option? I assume you can do it through parallels or something like that right?
Leo Miller
It would be the better option. And I don't see how that can be difficult either. Shrink your OS X partition and install GNU/Linux next to it. is your friend.
Jason Rivera
Ah ok, thanks for the help
Landon Watson
Did CloverOS die?
Matthew King
didn't it die already years ago?
James Harris
The new one.
Justin Cox
why doesn't Sup Forums develop a script which installs gentoo?
Chase Smith
gentoo already has an installer
Noah Anderson
Installed arch, any suggestions to make my desktop more comfy?
CloverOS is another meaningless, pointless, purposeless derivative distro that's no different from the one it was derived from. There is nothing that sets CloverOS apart from Gentoo and defines it as a separate distro. CloverOS is nothing. It's not a thing.
Adam Parker
What finally killed it?
Jackson Perez
It was dead from the start.
Sebastian Carter
I mean why did the threads stop?
Liam Harris
They didn't.
Julian Lopez
There hasn't been one for 6+ hours.
Robert Bennett
Who cares.
John Evans
I'm saying they stopped.
Lincoln Wilson
Good.
Grayson Morales
trading comfy vending machine picture for help with my stupid question
Matthew Miller
Is I3 really good for use with a laptop that's constantly on the move? Being able to quickly use the keyboard seems better than the touchpad.
Thomas Cooper
I've noticed screen tearing on my laptop when using i3 and switching between workspaces and resizing windows, as well as static (buffer garbage). My laptop isn't old, I got it a few years ago. Is this an issue with all i3 instances? Is there a way to avoid it? Should I use the little NVIDIA GPU my laptop came with instead of the Intel graphics for running my window manager?
Aaron Diaz
would you say this is a: >girl or >girl(male) type of thread
Carter Rogers
i'd say your post was fake(gay)
Eli Fisher
all /fglt/ is faggots next thread will be /flt/
Carson Reed
I would strongly recommend looking into CWM instead
Yeah I can look that up I was wondering why you strongly prefer it over i3.
Josiah Perez
install gentoo
Ethan Reed
yes
Evan Russell
it is very, very simple. I feel like it is way less complicated, cleaner, extremely lightweight. It has robust features, very good documentation, it is easy and the default setup and keybinds are great.
I feel like tiled window managers such as I3 were an absolute nightmare of complications compared to CWM. desu
Isaiah Reyes
iptables question here: What hapens if I omit the "-m state" in iptables rules? Do any of you specify your state as NEW,ESTABLISHED etc?
What is the difference between: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT and iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
Also, I have seen that some people use "-p tcp -m tcp" notation and some just put "-p tcp". What "-m tcp" even does?
I couldn't find a better thread for this kind of questions and man pages didn't answer them, so sorry if it is offtopic.
Zachary James
>tfw cheap HP laptop >arch linux causes a huge amount of issues on that machine >KDE crashes on startup Consumershit, not even once
Luke Barnes
Can I access the windows partition of my harddrive from a linux os? Too lazy to move stuff onto a separate harddrive, only to move it back onto the same one. Also, I want to stash my anime girls on there
