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It's not ready yet. Also my thinkpad has intel wireless :(
Jace Gray
I serviced my eeepc and did some fresh linux installation but i have this problem with the resolution. It seems that most dialogs are made to fit atleast in 800x600 res. The 701 is 800x480, so most windows and dialogs need alt+click to move and insterract with them. I need to do supersampling on the driver and then render it to the native res. Any ideas?
Parker Wright
GuixSD isn't ready yet, but Guix is. And it's distro agnostic, so no excuses.
Adrian Miller
No it is not. My system is called Linux.
Evan Bennett
I already have portage to manage my packages though. Not really any good reason to use guix on my gentoo machine.
Bentley Cooper
Friendly reminder that Linux is just the kernel. Other kernels under GPL are: The Muen Separation Kernel muen.sk/ and HiStar scs.stanford.edu/histar/
Or someone wanted to play around with it... I don't hate guix or anything, I think it's probably the future of package management. I'm just saying it's not ready yet.
Cameron Wood
Fuckin on yo bitch she a thot thot
Kevin Peterson
Your system is a kernel?
Hudson Hughes
Then this is not your thread fuckwit. Pack your shit and hit the road.
Michael Lee
GNU is *not*, nor will it ever be, my userland
Hunter Nelson
Best linux base for js web dev? Debian, arch, freebsd, solus or smth else?
Evan Perry
Rude! This is a frenly thread! A frenly thread!!!
We should welcome all MacOS and BSD frens equally and give them lots of kisses and hugs!
Mason Turner
Suck my dick bitch. You and that communist Richard Stallman
Lucas Cruz
Get a Mac, best for js dev.
Brandon Nguyen
>everything I don't like is communism your brain on Sup Forums
Benjamin Perry
What countries should I IP block on my public server? China?
Gabriel Russell
Will using MacOS give me a stat buff?
Thomas Williams
Probably debian. Debian is called the universal operating system for a reason.
Caleb Stewart
Cause everyone tries it, sees how shitty it is(apt,lack of updated software,lack of required software in repo) then universally changes to better distros'
Eli Fisher
Yeah probably China, because unless you plan on going there or have chinese users all you are going to get is bots trying to ssh into your server with predefined usernames and password combos.
Carter Nguyen
Apt isn't bad. The outdated software is kinda annoying but there's sid for that. Also I'm pretty sure debian has the largest amount of software in their repos.
Cameron Scott
Thanks, i never knwe xrandr had --scale
Evan Campbell
>Also I'm pretty sure debian has the largest amount of software in their repos Because they break the software in to 3+ different packages package-dev package-docs package-common etc.
Gavin Morris
What's some neat software that you guys use? Could be something obscure and interesting, or just something to make your life easier. Just anything cool that you'd like to share.
Ryan Fisher
shut up cluck
David Turner
As opposed to Arch's bloated packages so that you can show off how minimal your system is to random strangers on a Polynesian basketweaving forum?
John Smith
Hey I've got this super secret hacker program that I'll share with you since I'm feeling generous. Here you go, kid: urxvt You didn't get that from me, you hear? See you in cyberspace ;)
Jayden Cooper
>bloated why would i want 1/3rd of a package isntead of the entire thing? Why would i want to manually memorize what parts of a package i have installed? Asinine.
>projecting this fucking hard :^)
Nathan Morris
Don't forget India.
Matthew White
What books should I read to have a good understanding about GNU/Linux
Andrew Bell
Is there something wrong with my tmux config? I can't seem to actually use the prefix key. Tried on both urxvt and xterm
# remap prefix from 'C-b' to 'C-a' unbind C-b set-option -g prefix C-a bind-key C-a send-prefix
# split panes using | and - bind | split-window -h bind - split-window -v unbind '"' unbind %
Pressing CTRL+a+| but nothing happens, for example
Nathan Collins
Why are you punctuating like that? And you're even misusing buzzwords for no reason. God, you really are the average Arch user. Or a hivemind, at least.
Hm, nevermind, the issue goes deeper than that. Even just default tmux isn't having none of my prefix key shit today. Maybe the issue is that I have to configure urxvt so that its keybinds don't clash with tmux's?
>Maybe the issue is that I have to configure urxvt so that its keybinds don't clash with tmux's?
urxvt doesn't have any/many binds that would conflict with tmux. Certainly not default urxvt: perhaps you have a plugin working.
Also, I'm not sure if >Pressing CTRL+a+| but nothing happens, for example is supposed to be taken literally, but with tmux/screen, you're supposed to press the prefix combo, release the combo, and then press whatever keys you need. So, you wouldn't do ctrl+a+|; instead, you'd do ctrl+a then |. That might be the answer to your prefix problems.
Matthew Barnes
>>>/reddit/
Jose Flores
stop using downstream distros
Dominic Morgan
>it's happening >more than an entire year old
i bet you use stable software, too, faggot
James Garcia
Ah fuck you're absolutely right. I was just hitting them all together instead of waiting after the prefix combination.
I toyed around with tmux a long time ago (hence the custom settings) and just booted it up again, was perplexed as to why it wasn't working. Turns out I just have bad memory on how to use it
Christian Perry
So using kexec. I just enable it then execute the command and it reloads the kernel? Does the existing xsession persist or do you have to do it from a plain tty
Eli Bailey
When is Ubuntu 17.10 coming out?
Jordan Ortiz
Is it even possible to have a Makefile with a pattern rule such that for any number n, `make n' builds n.cpp?
Carson Clark
Not my userland, bitch
Not my philosophy
Jackson King
Looking to upgrade from my 8 year old 480 gtx fermi card, that idles at 80C peaking at ~110C thats hard locking my system up when its being used and melting everything around it with heat
I play a few games, kerbal and source games only at 1080p. Would a 1050 be basic enough/cost effective?
Blake Lewis
From what I understand, gpg protects your private key files by wrapping them in symmetric encryption with passphrase. What's the algorithm it uses and how strong is it?
Also: what's the point of using gpg for local file encryption by programs like pass? In order to use pass, you need private keys present on your machine, but if the machine gets compromised, pass data are only as safe as the symmetric encryption protecting the key files, so it could as well use that in the first place.
Eli Diaz
Does Ryzen/Threadripper still not work well with Linux?
Wyatt Lee
>trying to get msoffice to work in wine
Charles Howard
Anyone know what's going on here? I've been setting up an arch install and all has been going well but when trying to do things like configure polybar I'm seeing odd characters in the config file and upon opening fonts I'm seeing a mixture of fonts that are displaying properly and ones that aren't.
Anyone know how I can fix this?
Benjamin White
>What's the algorithm it uses and how strong is it You specify this upon creation
Aaron Gonzalez
Set your locale to UTF-8
Dominic Martinez
You're missing the charactersets those fonts depend on.
Nicholas Watson
My locale is already UTF-8
How would I go about finding which charsets specifically are missing so I could install them?
John Evans
Try selecting one of the fonts that do show up properly in the font selection list.
I'm wondering if you actually have some fonts installed that don't contain english characters. Like those Noto fonts. Noto comes in so many different variants and I think some of them are literally contained to very specific locales, so you might have one of those set. Because if you think about it, in your screenshot the only way I can see characters not rendering there is if those fonts are actually missing simple english glyphs
Logan Miller
shit man gtk is a clusterfuck what the hell
Ian Hughes
Tried selecting one of the fonts that displayed weird and bizzarely it seems to show up fine in the document but you can still see little boxes with numbers in em where characters should be. The problem is I can't get those boxes to display the proper characters no matter what font I pick.
Jace Gomez
Begone thot
Matthew Jenkins
GNU/Linux is beautiful :)
Wyatt Jackson
Any ideas? Still trying to figure out this font thing
Justin Reed
why are you using GNOME software? what wm is that anyway?
Luke Morales
Install Gentoo.
Joseph Diaz
i3wm is the window manager. Only reason I'm using gnome software in that screenshot is it let me show off the fact that the fonts are broken like that easier. I have tried and it does the same thing in Nano though.
Carson Cruz
Did you GEN your locale?
Gabriel Sanchez
Install a non shit distro
Brayden Nguyen
by Gen my locale I'm assuming you mean did I run locale-gen to which the answer is yes I did.
Chase Williams
Quick question
I'm noticing my chosen font in terminal vim displays fine and crisp, but the same font and size on gvim displays blurry in comparison.
How can I fix this?
Nathaniel Davis
remove the gnome stuff use lxappearance for gtk themes, fonts and icons for editing learn vim or emacs or just use mousepad until you do use pcmanfm for file management don't be a cuck
Christian Cooper
uninstall gvim
James Williams
That doesn't solve the problem I came here to get help with though user. At least try and help me fix that first.
Joseph Rodriguez
>using gvim
Christian Kelly
What is the best terminal font?
Jack Harris
I was under the impression this was the 'friendly' gnu/linux general
Jonathan Williams
I like Monospace
Zachary Torres
...
Nolan Cooper
The one I'm using.
Also, google "paradox of choice"
Jayden Lewis
seconding this. Monospace works quite well.
Chase Diaz
I can only tell you what I like. I like Inconsolata-g (fork of Inconsolata) and Terminus
Nicholas Cook
I'd just like to interject for a moment. Please avoid using the term “google” as a verb, meaning to search for something on the internet. “Google” is just the name of one particular search engine among others. We suggest to use the term “search the web” or (in some contexts) just “search”. Try to use a search engine that respects your privacy.
Christopher Morris
What are Sup Forums's thoughts on solus budgie?
Anthony Morgan
Where is the terminal?
Ryder Hill
for web dev? no. solus is a desktop distro, it does have web dev tools on their repo but don't expect everything to work ootb
Liam Murphy
That's just a random image I pulled off Google image search. It has one, of course.
