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define well. debian can run a simple system well on machines from 2005.
Christopher Sanders
would I be able to do programming and play minecraft
Jack Sullivan
yes
Ayden Phillips
thanks
Jace Mitchell
Are you implying that i should make it a dumb device that can only do one thing?
I still want to be able to do other stuff but its going to be my replacement for a cell phone since itll have anji (flashcard program) and pdfs and other creative stuff.
Smartphones just take too much time and my thinkpads based.
Jaxson Gutierrez
fuck linux and fuck Sup Forums why did you meme me into this
Christian Perry
>muh games
Landon Scott
damn, i haven't played this shit in YEARS, if some /fglt/ user starts a server, count me in. does the original still work okay on newish hardware or are there some new builds that people use? just want to play the old quakeworld maps again, those were the shit.
Gabriel Allen
go away, faglet. don't hate people who want to play games on linux, dumbfuck, that's literally the #1 reason people own a computer these days. winshit would not be a thing if not for games.
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Jackson Evans
>that's literally the #1 reason people own a computer these days pretty sure it's social media
Samuel Lee
no that's why people have phones user.
Colton Hill
nope, iphones are the hardware of social media
Nathaniel Johnson
nvm, nquake uses ezquake apparently. anyway who the fuck plays qw nowadays
do you also play broodwar?
Robert Robinson
Iphones are dead.
Leo Hill
ask these guys, i'm checking it out myself. are you playing quakeworld maps?
Lucas Allen
no I haven't really played quake before, except for episode 1 of quake 1 on my windows install
oh wait I just looked it up and brood war is a starcraft thing yeah I haven't played much of that either but I've tried out the free one before
Carter Carter
lmao I actually did post it there as well. I really wanna play some quake >are you playing quakeworld maps I don't know, I just have the default nquake install
Caleb Roberts
Is Debian ok for desktops? I am a bit concerned because i heard that Debian is mostly for servers.
Carson Foster
testing is basically ubuntu without the cancer
Jose Brown
I heard the earth is flat.
Juan Jenkins
I heard you're not a faggot
Thomas Gonzalez
Weird, I heard the same thing about you, too. We should all meet up somewhere to discuss this newfound revelation.
Josiah Foster
It's okay but needs to be configured and maybe (probably) you'll have to install some drivers manualy
Jack Diaz
Guys. someone gave me this laptop Easynote B3309 And I want to turn it into a youtube machine for my mom.
is there any good lightweight distro out there?
Amd semprom 3100+ 1.8ghz 512 ram 40gb HDD
Zachary Diaz
Someone respond ._.
Ayden Campbell
I finally figured it out, I was installing it in the /opt/ directory rather than my home directory which does work. must've been a permissions problem or something
James Robinson
So how do you guys sync your files?
Yeah, yeah, with rsync and all, but how do you lay it out? Do you have one script you run on your main machine that pushes changes to your laptop, to your backups, etc, or do you run something on those machines to pull in changes? How do you do it, NFS mounts, SFTP, Samba, etc?
Jaxson Hall
wait I got another quake-related question actually.
wiki.quakeworld .nu/Smooth_Quake_in_Linux this guide says to optimize the mouse polling rate, I have to edit the /etc/modules file, but I don't have that file. what do
David Wright
nvm it's a systemd thing, I have to use /etc/modules-load.d/
Camden Barnes
Am I a noob for using nano and cfdisk? Should anyone care?
Kevin Lewis
If I were you, i'd learn vi, just because it's pretty much guaranteed to be everywhere. As far as partitioning tools, nobody gives a fuck >inb4 somebody gives a fuck
James Nguyen
>Am I a noob for using nano and cfdisk? yes Should anyone care? no
Caleb Gomez
Nano is cool enough for a non programmer.
Carter Cruz
>nano you're a lazy weirdo. a noob would use a GUI text editor.
>cfdisk Nothing wrong with it at all, tbqh. Partitioning is a weird thing because unless you're a literal sysadmin, almost everyone will be a noob at it, since you'll (hopefully) be partitioning things rarely.
Carson Evans
convince me to use tmux or screen, /fglt/
Sebastian Ward
no
Jordan Bell
Literally how? I use Nano because it's stock on fucking everything and I know my way around it when I need to do quick cli editing shit, it's easier to just nano to it for conf files.
Isaiah Morris
>most features >most
Juan Powell
They're both pretty much the same. I think tmux is a bit more easy to configure.
Jaxon Baker
started with screen but all the cool kids use tmux so switched over
Xavier Cooper
why do two programs exist for the same thing?
Thomas Lopez
Freedom.
Jordan Morgan
GNU screen BSD cuck license tmux.
Noah Bailey
So here is this. >lern grep >cool, learn that sed is more powerful >learn sed >cool, learn that awk is more powerful >learn awk >cool, learn that perl is more powerful >learn perl Whats next?
Jonathan Powell
Does anyone know how to blacklist modules in Solus linux? I usually have to blacklist radeon in Arch but it seems to be completely different in Solus and I can't find a wiki or anything.
Sebastian Howard
I've had trouble connecting my external drive to my tower, but I found out I could switch it to another USB port and it works fine. I noticed it doesn't mount in USB 3.0 ports, but does in USB 2.0. Is there some Linux-based reason why that happens, and maybe how to fix it to mount on the 3.0?
Evan Reed
use this universal epic troll. in /etc/modprobe.d/ a file called meme.conf which includes: install meme /bin/true
Evan Martin
Screen is excellent, I know some fall for the meme that is tmux but if you want some eyecandy then install byobu with screen.
Wyatt Nelson
i want to let a script running after i close ssh nohup and disown are not on the machine because its busybox screen fails: Cannot find termcap entry for 'xterm'.
no termcaps are installed on this machine i tried scp /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-256color destinationserver:/usr/share/terminfo/x
tmux is not installed. im not sure if i can install aditional software, its a NAS from qnap
try changing TERM to linux or somthing. Also try dtach.
Jack Richardson
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Grayson Foster
Can someone please correct all of the instances of "based off" in the installgentoo wiki links? I thought Linux tards were supposed to be le autism geniuses.
Dominic Ward
I am running Linux Mint, and was formerly running Windows. In Windows, my sound profiles distinguished between my front headphone port, in which I have a single pair of headphones connected, and the rear ports, in which I have a 5.1 sound system connected. Moreover, I could choose the headphones, or the speakers whenever I liked.
As things stand in Mint right now, I can't have both connected and switch between them; moreover, my speakers don't sound right when audio comes though them in Mint.
Any ideas on how to fix this? I am fairly new to Linux, and am in no sense an advanced user.
Aiden Hughes
What are you even referring to
Michael Foster
GNU/Linux tards*
Levi Lewis
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Isaac Lewis
Oh my god, what is this GUI? How have things change, I feel old.
Ian Cox
alright ive been working all fucking day on different distros. it turns out, i fucking hate gentoo. i fucking hate void. i want a GNU distro without systemd that isnt fully retarded. i am about to go back to openbsd and say fuck linux
Xavier Gray
Slackware? Give that a try
Nolan Russell
Try using pavucontrol, I think that is the pulseaudio GUI. pulseaudio is the backend that that mint dialog is configuring, but the proper tool might have more options. Sounds ilke you just want to switch between different sound cards/devices.
Ethan Hill
This
Carson Campbell
>le
Jose Miller
is there a way to install gentoo with uefi and an encrypted disk, that doesnt take 200 hours and 10 different writeups ? or is everyone running gentoo just doing the gentoo handbook install with no encryption?
Lincoln Jackson
Alright, I installed Pavucontrol. It shows my headphones as being plugged in and as being the primary audio device, which they are. However, it states that my line out, which I would suspect is my speakers, is unplugged. However, they are currently plugged in, and if I unplug my headphones, they start working (although the sound is weird compared to normal).
Jaxson Ramirez
im going to install ubuntu on my new (refurbished) thinkpad for the first time..
Wish me luck lovers ._.
John Mitchell
its the easiest thing you'll every do no luck needed
Jackson Baker
is there a way to make ls not print the full path when I do ls /path/to/some/other/dir/ ?
Brody Hall
got connection error when adding the -l to ls
Jaxon Perry
is there any way to increase the size of the ASCII field in hexdump
Luis Cruz
What DE should I try next? So far I've tried XFCE and KDE plasma. Plasma 5 seemed needlessly complex and easy to fuck up by changing simple things and XFCE feels ancient and unintuitive and most changes you want to effect need to be done in a needlessly complicated, roundabout way
I like ubuntu unity but everyone told me unity was shit
Benjamin Gonzalez
is there a way to have octal permission values in ls?
Dylan Powell
STOP USING DE ALL DE ARE SHIT DE IS FOR NORMIES
Kayden James
I'm unironically down for that. I think it would be better to learn linux with nothing but a wallpaper and terminal. What are some good distros for that?
Adrian Torres
this
why do we have de's? because people are too lazy to learn a new system, so we need de's which make the system look familiar
de's are a stepping stone
Lucas Long
your question betrays your ignorance
it doesn't matter what distro you're on, you can do that with any distro
Jordan Howard
fluxbox
Oliver Turner
You could just don't use your DE. >install a wm like openbox or if you like tiling, i3 >use the terminal to change system settings instead of DE interfaces
Julian Collins
no, fuck those jews
Nolan Stewart
why tf do you need wallpaper without x? stop foolin
Hudson Diaz
_donald
Julian Garcia
yeah but stock DEs look like shit so just leaving them there are only using the terminal would trigger my need for a e s t h e t i x memedistro what is X
Robert Fisher
your response, again, shows how much you don't know
you can install any window manager, any desktop environment, any terminal, on any linux distro
Brayden Myers
>memedistro Fluxbox isnt a distro, its a window manager
