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Ubuntu vs Xubuntu vs mint Which one should I use as my first distro
Bentley Jenkins
Doesn't matter much. Mint perhaps?
Isaac Morales
No, not Mint. Mint is a showcase distro and has historically been shown to be an unreliable and unsafe distro for actual use. Use Ubuntu or some variant thereof.
Hunter Cox
I want to use xfce as my DE if that effects anything
Cooper Peterson
Then use an Ubuntu flavor.
Connor Barnes
PCLinux
Chase Mitchell
I like xubuntu
Oliver Walker
I have to say PCLinux is very newbie friendly as it comes with additional packages (like codecs) to ease non-technical people the transition without even bother on touching the terminal if you don't really want to.
Logan Cox
Who was in the wrong here?
Dylan Reyes
>GnU pLuS LiNuX
Jaxon Cooper
I DIE SUKII all of my /fglt/ frens!
Wyatt Ortiz
What are some cool terminal commands?
Jose Hall
Is there a way to make image-dired applicable to video files and animated gif's?
Landon Sanchez
when will gtk3 stop being dumb? the file dialog is far more minimalist than anything apple
Noah Russell
GTK3 will never stop being dumb. We'll just move onto the next Big Thing a` la x86-64. In this case, it would be GTK4.
Joshua Campbell
I'm trying to set up usb wifi on a raspberry pi. The tutorial I'm follwing says to edit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf as so: network={ ssid="YOUR_SSID" proto=RSN key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=CCMP TKIP group=CCMP TKIP psk="YOUR_PASSWORD"
My first question is, should there be a closing } for all that? Also, for ssid, if my network is called >bitchface Do I put it as ssid=bitchface
or ssid="bitchface"
?
Alexander Green
>should there be a closing } for all that? Yes. >Do I put it as ssid=bitchface or ssid="bitchface"? The latter.
Hudson Rogers
Then Xubuntu
Owen Kelly
c-can I be your girlfriend, user?
Jayden Ortiz
You're in the wrong place, pal.
Dylan Hernandez
i-isn't this an anime website?
Logan Murphy
show buttplug
Gavin Garcia
It's not a dating site, that much I can tell you.
Charles Anderson
blue board
can we just hold hands then?
John Campbell
>blue board >hold hands get your shit together, son.
Nathaniel Wood
You can show buttplugs on blue boards
Jaxon Robinson
>son Look the BroccoliButts profile on porn hub. Thank me later.
Chase Sanders
you know, i've noticed something kind of interesting while browsing through the archives--
it seems like a lot of people end their distro hopping with debian. it's just a particular observation, but it seems like people finally end up on debian and they're happy with it. why is that? for you debian users, why do you like it so much? what's special about it?
Chase Gray
The appeal of Debian is that it's not special. Like a rebellious teenager and their worthless ornaments v/ a normal, functioning member of society.
Benjamin Scott
Never hopped that much. When I was in the hopping part of being a novice, downloading 700MB would take one week. And would have to wake up at 01:00 to start the download, and again at 05:00 to stop it.
At the time being able to download download/buy the entire repos in CD would be a deal breaker.
Nowadays is stability and muh freedom.
Luis Morris
Sure we can hold hands user
I like a lot of the debian-based distros because of the usability. I'm not really into using Linux just so I can make a ricer. I just like it because of the security and lack of data mining from microsoft.
Sebastian Howard
>3d Ew >Pornhub Ewwwww
Chase Myers
.debs are probably *the* most common Linux install archives you might find while browsing the interwebs, besides tars themselves. You can confidently say that, if it doesn't work on Debian, it probably doesn't work anywhere.
Plus, Debian probably has the best community.
Nonetheless, it's not *the* only endgame distro. Pretty much all non-babby distros are endgame quality, due to either software availability or the way the system is arranged.
Kevin Rivera
Or you could just build from source. If it's free software, there should be a popular means of distribution beyond a Debian binary.
Adrian Bell
But Deb's aren't exclusively packaged for Debian. Often time, you'll find Deb's that are packaged with specific Ubuntu packages in mind and won't work as-is on Debian. The same way Slackware, OpenSuse, Fedora are all RPM distros (which are supposed to be the standard, by the way) or Slackware and PC(GNU)Linux and tarballs, Gentoo and Exherbo with ebuilds...
Evan Howard
Back then you could buy home-burned distro discs for like $2 at the local computer shops along with all those txt file collections of hacker shit. Good time to learn before windows really hit its stride.
Jace Wright
Windows hit its stride far before that. Just ask Gary.
Landon Stewart
I downloaded mine at school (those in the pica are mine). I spent a lot of time pretending to make comic sans power point presentations.
Ryder Fisher
Windows wasn't good til like 2004.
Thomas Ortiz
Or you could ask Mark Shuttleworth for a copy of Ubuntu. Or get a copy from your local library.
Justin Perez
>implying it has ever been good
Isaac Fisher
Windows was never good.
Grayson Martinez
I actually still have some of the free discs they sent in the mail. Back when everything was all brown and orange and earth toned. Came with free stickers!
Levi Howard
Thanks for recounting what was already common knowledge.
Alexander Green
rude Nice feels.
Parker Ward
I never shared my discs with anyone. Ever.
Well as bad as windows is currently, it was much worse. It really soundly beat X11 by the time XP got some service packs. Hardware was still pretty non-linuxy til maybe late 2000s, too.
Carter White
You don't need a good product to have a monopoly, you stupid Microsoft apologist.
Carson Anderson
Windows isn't even better now, it was then. Windows was still practically unusable in the 90s. I don't have a single windows machine, or mac. Linux is a great desktop OS, just needs to get rid of X11 still.
Ian Wilson
I shared mine with all my friends in College and got them to pass it on when they were done, because we lived in a poor neighbourhood, no one could really download them. kinda wish I had kept them now
Juan Rogers
What is the most optimal and simple way of running software vpn router and services like sonarr/torrents/plex/smb on an old core2duo era laptop with 1core and 2gb ram? Ubuntu server with 128mb LEDE virtuabox VM?
Tyler Murphy
I'm not really sure running LEDE in a VM (pick qemu / kvm if you can) will simplify anything for you vs just running Ubuntu server for all of this.
Adrian Johnson
I'm a newfag to Sup Forums. How much of a meme is gentoo, and is it suitable as a first linux OS?
Lucas Ward
It isn't a meme at all. Its objectively one of the most customizable and powerful Gnu/Linux systems available.
However, for a first linux OS, I wouldn't recommend it unless I hated that person.
Tyler Turner
>However, for a first linux OS, I wouldn't recommend it unless I hated that person. Why is that?
Jordan Lewis
Is this really as friendly a thread as it seems? I need a friendly place to make friends.
Lucas Turner
It's an actually serious distribution. Has a very powerful package manager and the distro maintainers are doing a good job.
> is it suitable as a first linux OS It's documented well enough that you can install it as a beginner - it's not really going to be easier later on either.
But you probably *don't need it*.
If you just want to install a Linux so you can continue posting on this site while you watch Japanese lesbian porn in mpv, you'll be at that point much faster if you pick a binary desktop distro like mint, ubuntu, fedora, opensuse, sabayon, whatever.
Jack Phillips
Have you tried reading the OP? Also, it's GNU/Linux.
Elijah Cook
Mostly because of the installation process being extremely long and tedious, due to having to compile everything. Portage handles it for you, but it's still pretty time consuming.
Jacob King
There's a very steep learning curve. The Gentoo handbook can walk you through an installation, but there's not a lot of "if something goes wrong" information. You're left to Google's mercy for searching your error messages.
I wouldn't recommend Gentoo unless you have at least a couple of years of working with linux as a daily driver, or you have all the time and patience in the world for googling your issues.
If you aren't afraid to brick your shit from time to time, or having to constantly rebuild your kernel because of a missed feature, or generally getting your hands dirty, you can make Gentoo sing like nothing else. You'll feel like a goddamn wizard when you're done.
That said, there's a challenge there. Its definitely doing linux "the hard way", and it isn't for everyone.
The installation process is also full of pitfalls for someone who isn't accustomed to tools like parted or fdisk or terminal text editors.
I'd dare say Portage is the best thing going in the GNU/Linux universe right now. Between overlays, the masking system, and USE flags, I don't know of anything that gives you quite as much power and flexibility.
Bentley Morris
what is the linux equivalent of c:\program files?
Also what is the diffdrece between /usr/lib ans /usr/share ? Sometimes I find libraries for a program in one and sometimes in other
Lucas Martinez
> I need a friendly place to make friends. Figures you want to watch this for the placebo effect.
Well, it takes more than the usual simple installs on distros with an installer and binary packages. If that's what you want.
But extremely long or extremely tedious is an overstatement. There are much, much harder and lengthier and more annoying things than installing Gentoo. And today's computers can crunch sauce code pretty damn fast.
Ultimately if you customize certain things or even just want software in specific versions, it can be faster.
Liam Gutierrez
Try a local gay bar, gay boy, I bet you use downstream distributions and cat | grep, fucking idiots.
Dominic Brooks
> what is the linux equivalent of c:\program files? There is no such thing, unless you're on like, GoboLinux or other distros that do arrange programs into individual folders.
>install open suse >pick lvm encryption >only 50 gib available on my folder >50gib more in the root folder >ssd has 256 gib why, I picked the whole ssd for the OS. Did I mark something wrong when I installed it?
Andrew Foster
Check "lvdisplay -C" and "df -h" for starters.
Nathan Cooper
great post
Charles Adams
Will do when I get home again. Currently can't access my laptop.
Isaac Peterson
With Ubuntu 17.10 is it possible to get rid of the task bar altogether? If so, how?
Christian Flores
Why is the Windows Subsystem for Linux not a Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD instead??
Luis Ramirez
Because the targeted audience uses gnu+linux, not freebsd. Tbh nobody uses freebsd, not even freebsd devs.
Leo Stewart
FANTASTIC post.
Connor Myers
Does the laptop have two Ethernet ports? Surely you will need two NIC's for this to work
Adam Nelson
install Gentoo
Nathan King
I'm pretty sure they use it on servers
Carson Jones
Okay, try again when you get home again and get access to your laptop
Kevin Cruz
Why the fuck are you asking questions when you aren't even at your computer? No one even needed to know that. You aren't a Southern grandma wasting some poor IT nerd's time with problems that you vaguely remember in your car running errands.
Angel Foster
I'm about to install arch, first itme linux, I red there are some desktop environments to choose from, do I install gnome or wich one? Does it even matter?
I want linux for my laptop when I'm outside and the only things I do is reading PDF documents, write code and browse the internet and I hate using my touchpad so much, I would love to be able to do most of the things with just the keyboard I saw people doing everything in the console, that looks comfy
oh and I also want to "rice" it a little bit, thats what you call it right? to make it look minimalistic and comfy
Eli Scott
Is it hard to install Ubuntu on a regular SD-card? Want to boot from it since my Laptop has a port for this.
Jack Ward
GNU/Linux
Nathan Long
install Gentoo. Look up debootstrap.
Oliver White
No, it's as trivial as doing a normal install.
Expect terrible "disk" performance thou.
Brody Kelly
> Triggered
Lucas Brown
> He just asked a question friend, this is a friendly thread, we're all inexperienced here.
Austin Wright
I'm going to use chink RTL8153 dongle for wan interface.
Ryder Myers
>page 10
systemctl bump thread
Liam Miller
The differences between them?
Caleb Garcia
xubuntu and plain ubuntu with the xfce metapackage installed slightly differ in terms of preinstalled software. Installing the xubuntu-desktop metapackage on a plain ubuntu system gives you a full xubuntu experience
If you want to use xfce, try xubuntu or debian with xfce desktop.