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>KDE It's available on like 95% of Linux distros. You should just rice XFCE and use that if your laptop is shit.
>32GB flashdrive If you plan to use the flash drive as the main disk for Linux then you're in for a slow as fuck experience. Just partition or wipe the internal hard drive. If it doesn't have one, replacements are dirt cheap.
Nathan Johnson
ZFS and XFS aren't even remotely the same. You have blatantly know idea about any of what you're talking about. You don't even have the slightest intimation of what his use case is, so your assumptions are completely worthless not to mention unwarranted.
Charles Anderson
I never said they were the same, you stupid hipster. I simply recommended XFS because it's good. Why don't you go fuck yourself?
Christian Sanchez
Between the choice of a CoW filesystem and XFS, the latter isn't viable for desktop. It doesn't have any significant perfomance boost (in some areas it's even slower than EXT4) but is more fragile + you can't shrink it. You're an idiot. You don't know what you're talking about. You're the one who's being contrarian here, and at the expense of someone who doesn't know enough to contradict your ignorance.
Joshua Price
XFS is good for large amounts of storage (1TB+) and I've found it to be faster than EXT3/4 when writing to an SSD. ZFS is just a hipster meme unless you're running Solaris. XFS also isn't fragile like retards say it is. My servers with XFS have survived several power outages during bad weather.
Kill yourself, brainlet.
Hunter Rogers
Do you even know what you're trying to prove? ZFS and XFS are two completely different filesystems. To try and shill one or the other without any justification to a desktop user who clearly doesn't know what he's asking about is just ridiculous. If you knew anything about ZFS, you would know that I'm not saying ZFS is better than XFS. How pathetic do you have to be to get defensive about a fucking filesystem? You wouldn't be so antagonistic if you weren't so delusional that you would actually think you have something to prove.
Dylan Perez
Your argument makes no sense. Those two filesystems are made with two different ends in mind.
Grayson Gutierrez
You seem to be assuming a lot about me. Could this be a case of projection? It sure seems like it. XFS is good file system and it was developed for high end workstations and servers by SGI. It's completely fine for desktop use.
I never said they weren't, nigger. Looks like I'm gonna be shilling XFS in very thread to milk the lolcows.
Josiah Turner
You're the one resorting to hook shit just to win an argument on an Indochinese clay sculpting forum.
Easton Morris
F R I E N D L Y
Juan King
What a rude post, spamming a thread at the expense of others just to make your opinion heard. Need I remind you that this is a friendly thread?
Landon Clark
>hurr durr dey were nod da saem ting! You could've just not responded.
I don't give a GNU.
Anthony Roberts
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Carter Martinez
You're absolutely right. I'm sorry for contradicting you. You are clearly significantly more knowledgeable about these things than I am. Your argument is incredibly persuasive.
Noah King
Your apology isn't real. Stop making fun of me.
Logan Torres
I'm not. Your totally right, XFS is a good filesystem for desktop. I'm sure it's a lot less fragile than I made it out to be. I exaggerated its flaws because I was being petty and I wanted to win an argument.
Blake Richardson
While trying to get some oldish games on Wine running, I keep getting this error
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 10 (X_UnmapWindow) Resource id in failed request: 0x2200001 Serial number of failed request: 200 Current serial number in output stream: 203
Always a similar BadWindow type of thing. I've tried both in 32 and 64 prefixes, and also wine and wine-development. It almost always goes like this >Execute program >Screen goes black for a second >Resolution changes to a lower one, program crashes, get that output in the log
And I've even checked WineHQ and these programs ought to run just fine without tweaks. So what gives?
Easton Green
Aren't both ZFS/XFS meant for servers? Don't they eat up a lot of RAM? They're not supposed to.be used on desktop.
Owen Barnes
>Between the choice of a CoW filesystem and XFS, the latter isn't viable for desktop Haven't used XFS, but I just wanted to mention that apparently Suse trusts it enough to make it default for /home, and I have more faith in their expertise than in two GNU/friends who bitch at each other anonymously on the internet. If I were to reinstall tomorrow, I'd pick XFS over EXT4, just to try it out.
Jordan Clark
Suse also used Reiserfs by default for a period of time.
Aaron Nelson
Yo guys, my elitist schoolmate is wondering if it's acceptable to use SwayWM?
Wyatt Allen
Any recommendation for a decent todo-list terminal application? It has to support hierarchical tasks (=> taskwarrior is a no go)
Tyler Brown
Org mode.
Eli Foster
-any FS you want and is in mainline -no forced systemdick -do KDE even work without systemd?
Jaxon Jenkins
I'd like this too, but with caldav support. hate having to use thunderbird for this
Josiah Scott
It's too bad they doubled down on Reiser right before he killed his wife. But, yeah, sure, Suse's judgment is perfect. And I'm sure their investment in BTRFS will totally pay off! I'm sure RHEL agrees!
Ayden Jenkins
I use vim, cannot make such a paradigm shift.
Adam Carter
You can use Vim inside of Emacs.
Charles Collins
I've been trying to install fedora through the netinstall image for a while now but it keeps on failing. I added both fusion repositories and livna and whenever it starts the install, it freezes on "Preparing transactions from installation source" and then, eventually, it spits out an error. I looked at the logs and for some fucking reason, it's trying to install both x86_64 and i686 versions of the same packages, all of which are related to gstreamer. Any way to resolve this? I don't want to waste my time testing out numerous configurations just to make it work, I have slow internet and it takes hours to download this shit. Also, I don't have a bugzilla account. If any of you can replicate this, please report this bug.
Luke Ross
Forgot to mention that I was using kde as a basis when choosing the configuration.
Ian Jackson
hint: home belongs to it's own partition.
Jaxson Parker
Install Gentoo.
Justin Adams
So to use Wine, you basically always want to have the Virtual Desktop option turned on right?
Otherwise everything keeps crashing as soon as it gets opened because of resolution shenanigans. I don't know if it's i3's fault not wanting to play nice with normal Wine, but switching to Virtual Desktop with my monitor's (1080p) resolution has worked great
Noah Morris
Look into EVIL mode, friend. It's vim in emacs. It's great.
Jack Sanders
>GNU/Linux It's just GNU.
Alexander Morris
What's the Fedora rain date for?
Liam Anderson
Why Linux?
Joseph Cooper
Never had an issue with that on i3, but most of the WINE programs I use end up as floating windows so i3 doesn't tile them.
Chase Russell
Well I'm boned. I have zero experience with this Where do I look for help?
Mason Howard
Boot into a live CD and see if your system and home partitions are actually there. If they are, chroot into it and reinstall and update-grub.
Jace Campbell
Thanks so far Two OS on the same harddrive: Win10 and Ubuntu 16.04 What kind of live-CD? Don't have a Win10 CD, will an Ubuntu-Stivk of any Version do or do I need 16.04? How do I chroot?
Luke Baker
>I'm sure RHEL agrees! Oh yes, RHEL, the golden standard of decision making. Gnome, systemd, NetworkManager, et al. All great pieces of software.
Seems Ubuntu has a built in boot recovery for you so no need to chroot ect. And don't worry about it, Windows loves to fuck with the boot partition on install.
Elijah Wilson
That's why I always install Windows first and then set up a bootloader forgot that then appears as "Windows10 recovery" in GRUB. Haven't booted up Windows in a while, but GRUB has been acting up a lot lately. It started with the border around the partition-slection-windows disappearing. Didn't think anything of it at the time.
Hudson Smith
You should never install Windows.
Juan Young
FreeBSD 12-current with drm-next-kmod
Noah Thompson
When already using a twm: tmux, screen, or just your wm?
Henry Lee
If I update my system with a cron job, is there a way to store the update terminal log?
Alternatively is there another program that does?
Brandon Gonzalez
Worked, thanks user
Daniel Diaz
Anyone use OpenSUSE here? Leap or Tumbleweed and why?
Evan Nelson
Use rEFIt to boot on your GNU/Linux Then reinstall grub using the instructions for your distro and the CORRECT disk drive On Debian GNU/Linux ASSUMING your boot disk is /dev/sda it's something like grub-install /dev/sda update-grub
I use Opensuse Tumbleweed because after using Fedora since 2011 I wanted to try out something new. Tumbleweed because I wanted to try rolling release. Very nice so far
Dominic Davis
Does it break much/at all?
Thomas Harris
What I was hoping to find out was how old the Leap packages are? Are they really old and outdated like Debian sometimes is? If the rolling release doesn't flake out then I will most likely go with that, I just want something stable to program on and also watch films. KDE being a major part of OpenSUSE is what attracted me to it.
Jose Jenkins
I meant that isn't it's intended purpose to be used as a server operating system?
Jack Williams
refit is ancient. use refind.
Isaac Howard
Yes but the same goes for Linux. Why do you want to use a server OS so badly? Go use Winshit.
Aaron Taylor
Thanks, I got confused and mixed them up
Jacob Martinez
so far it hasn't but I'm using it for only two weeks now, so I really can't say. I did a minimal install with only xorg preconfigured (because I couldn't get it to work by myself), and that probably helps with stability - the fewer packages, the less chance something breaks. software.opensuse.org/search should help finding available packages, then just compare version numbers with Debian stable. I don't use Leap, so i have no clue. For programming and watching things Tumbleweed should be good enough.
Tyler King
Ok, so say I release something under WTFPL. Someone else takes my software and re-releases it verbatim under either GPL, or a proprietary license, or basically something else that has a bunch of restrictions.
Now if some random Bob wants to use my software in a way that would conflict with that relicensing, he can still do it, right?
Jonathan Adams
Time for my first GNU/Linux install. I'm planning on getting Ubuntu as my first like many others before me.
Should I go with the LTS 16.04.3 version or the newer 17.10 version?
Samuel Gutierrez
Yes.
Levi Cruz
Doesn't matter. if you like it you'll switch to the 18.04 soon anyway. But if I had to guess go for 17.10 because Unity is dead and it comes with standard GNOME. but you are free to experiment with DEs as you wish.
Jace Sanders
What does /fglt/ think of Guile and/or Scheme in general?
Landon Sanders
>Scheme meme >Guile GNU+meme
Lincoln Ross
Can someone make a Sup Forums android app?
Julian Lewis
Only when bob gets your copy which is under wtfpl Ebin
Charles Wright
Sure, I'll get right on it. Do me a favour and wait patiently.. shouldn't take longer than a week. If you don't hear from me, just ask again in this thread, I'm always around. Send feature requests to my email at [email protected]
Andrew Cook
But they're so much fun. It's like programming with a puzzle game thrown on top of it. What about common LISP?
Levi Gomez
clover,
Joshua Mitchell
What's so great about ZFS unless your using it in an enterprise environment server?
Christopher Clark
I'm trying to make chemtex (a LaTeX package) work on Ubuntu, but TeXlive doesn't find chemtex.sty.
I already installed TeXlive full. How can I make chemtex work without having to install each package individually?
I just want to have a shitload of LaTeX packages installed so that I never have to think about it again.
Nolan Parker
Sure, plenty of people can
Julian White
Explain the output of ldd libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f0b56710000)
Is there a link to a file called "libc.so.6" that is magically resolved into /lib/yaddayadda or is there a link to a hardcoded path "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6"?
Kubuntu or Debian with KDE / cinnamon? Is there actually any differences
Jackson Rogers
I've used debian(testing)+kde on my desktop for the past 4yrs and have no complaints.
Kevin Perry
I tried making them floating windows in i3's config by default, but that didn't give me the results I was hoping for. Games would still open and then close right after a black screen and resolution change. What did work was assigning Wine windows to one workspace, which was nice.
How do you force all applications to open windowed?
So far the Virtual Desktop solution is working well, but it is a bit annoying that I have to do that
James Torres
Thanks
Angel Lewis
Hi, Sup Forumsuys
I would like to Libreboot my shit to make Debian boot a little faster and get all the good stuff on my X200. The problem is I haven't found any concise tutorial on how to do it. I have a BananaPro, I know where to get an IC clip for quite cheap, but I still don't have any idea on how to actually go ahead. Since Luke Smith is busy busting 3D printed laptops, is there anyone else I might learn from?
Thanks, bois
Xavier Harris
I feel really really stupid. I can't get into GRUB, searched the web and everyone says "hold Shift", but it doesn't work, so I must do something wrong. When I enbale a timeout, it shows up as expected. What am I doing wrong?
Thomas Rivera
What is the OS?
Ethan Allen
Noobuntu LTS.
Jason Thompson
try holding the *right* shift key when the bios disappears
Brayden Lee
>Buy a dirt cheap Lenovo IdeaPad S12 >Via Nano U2250 processor >Can't find a distro that works with the processor
