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Is changing from using GNOME to a DE-less setup with i3 really painful? Meaning, is it going to be a dependency mess?
Should I just reinstall the OS from scratch without a DE or is it as easy as uninstalling gnome's main packages?
Gavin Turner
What distro are you using? It will probably depend on how well the package manager handles it. Theoretically you could just remove all the packages with gnome in their name but it could cause a dependency mess.
What utility do you folks use to take care of snapshots in your system?
So you have something to fall back on if some update goes awry or something like that.
Sebastian Diaz
thanks man
Nathan Johnson
I don't break my updates.
Ayden Gonzalez
You could try btrfs. It has built in snapshotting and I think opensuse uses it before updates. btrfs isn't exactly stable yet though.
Kevin Thomas
I have two almost identical arch setups. On my desktop when I reboot/shutdown, it happens immediately, no matter what I do. On my thinkpad I often have to wait up to 2 minutes because systemd (?) is shutting down either loginmanager or the network share I mounted. Why? I use identical configurations, lightdm on both and mount the network share the same way in fstab.
Chase Lee
Welcome to the magic of systemd. This is why I switched to Gentoo.
Ethan James
Hi, everyone. >tl;dr plz read it :c
I had previously dual booted Win7 and Arch and got a new drive and I'd like to do it again. I already have windows installed with its 100MB default boot partition with /dev/sda3 full of free space that I wanted to make my arch install along with 4GB /dev/sda4 swap. I used pic related and followed it because it is almost exactly how I did it last time but used --target=x86_64-efi when I installed grub on /dev/sda entirely. My problem is, i can get a base install but after i reboot grub only shows Arch linux and no option for windows. My shit solution is that I booted an xubtunu usb and when it installed grub it lets me get back into windows. I've looked for guides but none of them seem to answer my problem
Ethan Wilson
Say I have package A, which depends on the i386 version of package B
Is there any way to switch the dependency of package A to recognize the already installed amd64 version of package B, and have it work that way? Or must I have duplicates?
Austin Harris
use os-prober then update grub Follow the arch wiki on dual booting
Sebastian James
last time i used os-prober it said it recognized a windows partition but this time i get failed lvmetad type error. how do i upgrade grub itself tho, or do i just do something like pacman -Sy
Connor Morris
Please just read the wiki, it has every question answered that you're going to post
nigga you act like i didn't read this shit a billion times
Elijah Foster
If you even read it once you would have solved your problem
David Reyes
>arch guide for retards >infinality >zsh overmeme'd
Lucas Jenkins
>infinality made me kek
Charles Hughes
>archlinuxfr >yaourt this pic should be illegal
Benjamin Wilson
Uninstall GuixSD Install Gentoo
Eli Lewis
Uninstall Gentoo Install GNU/Linux
Daniel Sullivan
>GGGGGGGNNNNNNNNNNNUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Gabriel Sanders
>tfw I discover the existence of Debian snapshot archive
Holy fuck this is so cool. Excuse my newfagness, but still. This is neat as hell. Downgrading in case of some quirk or bug in a sid upgrade is super easy with this
Not sure how it is supposed to be done but you can specify mulitple fonts in URxvt.font seperated by commas. So you can put a fallback one with lots of symbols at the end.
Eli Cooper
>REEEEEEEEEEE how dare people talk about BSD in my Linux circlejerk thread
Ian Gutierrez
Name 5 good reasons to use BSD instead of GNU/Linux.
Samuel Evans
know your place bsdscum
Ethan Hill
Best way to transfer an Arch install (with all applications & data) to another laptop? I do not want to go through the painstaking hours of customising everything again...
I tried Clonezilla on arch but it crashes during one of the option selections.
Blake Murphy
redpill me on bsd without using memes
Jacob Johnson
self hatred. penance for sins. masochism. Jackie Chan. special snowflake points.
Ethan Robinson
Format the laptop from a live disk then use rsync then update your fstab and chroot in to update initramfs and install and update grub.
Jose Taylor
any good ssh client for android or should I just go with putty ?
Joshua Cooper
>during one of the option selections. Cant reproduce, its on your end post logs if you want help
Matthew Green
You forgot less GNU/autism.
Liam Campbell
juicessh
Benjamin Phillips
What DE should I use?
Henry Adams
>using an install guide other than the wiki of the distribution >using some 2 years old outdated shit made by some autist >installing a distribution without any software to avoid bloatware and then installing any piece of crap someone told you to install
Daniel Scott
GGGGGGGGGGNNNNNNNNNNNNNNUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Adrian White
...
Zachary Barnes
don't suppose anyone knows off hand how to change the font in urxvt when loaded via cssh?
Merging in ,Xresources changes them for normal urxvt, but not when loaded via cssh for some reason.
had the powerline variant already, but i guess you needed to type in the fonts in lowercase? did end up setting up a fallback font too. so werks now. thanks. been bugging me for a couple weeks, but was too lazy to fix it.
Gavin Jenkins
Is there a nice bitmap font for japanese? I'm using wqy-bitmapfont - Bitmapped Song Ti for chinese, but thats only half of the fun.
David Garcia
Hi, /fglt/. I want to install btrfs in a luks container on Gentoo. Reading the documentation, a lot of it revolves around adding a keyfile to a second medium. I'd rather just have Gentoo prompt me for a password when I'm booting up my computer, since I'm only encrypting one partition and will have a separate EFI boot partition. What do I have to do to make this happen? Is it as simple as adding dm-crypt to the runlevel? Does anyone have any experience with this?
Christopher Martinez
Because GPL zealots won't stop redefining words and imposing their own ideology onto everyone else. There is nothing wrong with proprietary software, and everyone should have the FREEDOM to use proprietary software if they would like to.
How the fuck I install this software on a linux that is not ubuntu? I can't download any package and the site just tell me to use ubuntu software manager to install it. Never saw anything like that.
I'm using mint, by the way. Isn't possible to use synaptic for this?
Nathaniel Nelson
Mint is Ubuntu, you dolt.
Charles James
Tripfag.
Christian Torres
Yes just use synaptic or gdebi.
Carter Wilson
You should be able to follow the procedure outlined for ubuntu on mint too, did you miss the link to the sil-repository.deb package? Anyway, here is the script from that deb: paste.debian.net/989539/
David Ortiz
sorry, didn't realised I'd left it on
Adam Torres
Thanks for your consideration, user.
Jacob Cruz
what the heck is that software for? don't really understand
I'm just plain dumb then. The instruction of the site is a long text explaining "open the ubuntu software center and click on install hurrr". Tried using synaptic and failed, tried to install the ubuntu software-center and it can't find "fieldworks" nor "wesay". How can I do it using that .deb package?
>How can I do it using that .deb package? Download on it and double click. Or use dpkg -i path/to/the/sil-repository.deb That should register their repo with software center etc so do and update to refresh the list of packages then search for the package you want again.
Alexander Anderson
i renamed my home dir on ubuntu cus i wanted to change my username now my computer is rip, how2fix?
Adam Green
login as root, make a new user account and move the content of /home/oldusername to the new /home/newuser.
Joshua White
thank you :*
Josiah Wood
There's no helping someone this stupid. The best you can do is just pray that they learn how to read the documentation.
Ayden Morales
I have ubuntu. I installed a bunch of desktop environments to mess around with and decided to stick with gnome
How do I uninstall all the other ones that I don't want anymore and all the crap that came with them?
Gabriel Foster
What's the cheapest webcam with linux drivers? Want one for my beaglebone for computer vision.
Noah Lopez
Installed i3-gaps on Debian went into /etc/i3/config to add #GAPS gaps inner 10 gaps outer 0 smart_gaps on
Refreshed it and nothing happens Am I doing something wrong?
I'm not sure how to "purge, I mean it" completely other than pacman -Rdd pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa.
Then, there's apparently no /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file.
Was I not supposed to delete pulseaudio-alsa?
Daniel Flores
>Am I doing something wrong? ricing?
Charles Sanchez
:(
Austin Bailey
are you testing in a workspace with more than one window open?
Grayson Robinson
>/etc/i3/config copy to ~/.config/i3/config
Colton Thompson
Update, I haven't restarted yet, but my audio still works just the same. So guess I didn't actually remove pulseaudio.
Caleb Brown
which browser on ubuntu?
Carter Perry
When you upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu after originally doing a minimal install, does all the bloatware that comes with a regular install get included with the upgrade?
Jose Hughes
>after originally doing a minimal install no, it should just upgrade to newer versions of the current packages. The thing to watch for is when new stuff gets added to metapagackages like gnome-desktop. But for a minimal install that shouldn't be an issue.
Adam Watson
It shouldn't.
Zachary Perez
Whats a good license for a simple shell script? Should I use GPL?
Zachary Jones
It is not worth the trouble to use copyleft for most small programs. We use 300 lines as our benchmark: when a software package's source code is shorter than that, the benefits provided by copyleft are usually too small to justify the inconvenience of making sure a copy of the license always accompanies the software.
For those programs, we recommend the Apache License 2.0. This is a pushover (non-copyleft) software license that has terms to prevent contributors and distributors from suing for patent infringement. This doesn't make the software immune to threats from patents (a software license can't do that), but it does prevent patent holders from setting up a “bait and switch” where they release the software under free terms then require recipients to agree to nonfree terms in a patent license.
Among the lax pushover licenses, Apache 2.0 is best; so if you are going to use a lax pushover license, whatever the reason, we recommend using that one.
