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Anyone got any tips on how to speed up the kernel boot-up?
Adrian Sullivan
1. read your dmesg, with timestamps in "time since kernel started" (this is the default) 2. find the "jumps", see which makes the time "jump", blacklist it if you aren't using it. A computer at my workplace was delayraped by the lpt port and the fucking floppy driver.
Wyatt Walker
first for nice fonts thanks to infinality (may it rip) and youtube-dl to trigger user
Caleb Gomez
After testing several distros and desktop environments/windowmanagers out, I'm thinking of switching from Windows to Linux for easier developer reasons. However Linux is such a pain in the ass because of the tty-bitty details that are central to my work aren't exactly polished features in most every distro (frequent returns to the command line to do basic things or get essential things to work properly, lack of Snapshots (like Windows System Restore / OSX Time Machine), lack of integretation of installations and drag-drop between cooperating applications to make things easier)
Please convince me of the with true, provable unique arguments, because I'm failing to convince myself to switch.
easy, timeless SNAPSHOTS are a MUST btw. Because I have broken dozens of distros before quite easily when experimenting in vms, and I don't want the headaches of time-consuming repair and data loss.
Christian Gonzalez
I'm trying to print only the fourth line of lshw's output but still get these warnings after piping it into awk, sed -n '4p' doesn't work either. Any ideas? % lshw -C display WARNING: you should run this program as super-user. *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Richland [Radeon HD 8570D] % lshw -C display | awk 'FNR == 3' WARNING: you should run this program as super-user. WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user. product: Richland [Radeon HD 8570D]
Isaac Walker
did you try this? lshw -C display 2>/dev/null
Easton Lopez
>ack of Snapshots (like Windows System Restore / OSX Time Machine), lack of integretation of installations and drag-drop between cooperating applications to make things easier)
I pay you one (You) to hit the road and never come back, deal?
Samuel White
Reposting the question:
Why is plugging and unplugging headphones detected automatically on some computers, like the memepad, and on some you have to manually switch outputs after unplugging? Regardless of distro and I am talking identical installs with pulseaudio.
Levi Sanchez
define "some computers". Other laptops of desktop systems?
Jace Miller
That worked perfectly, thanks
Blake Robinson
no. answer my question dummy
Tyler Barnes
What's the Linux equivalent of System Restore/Factory Rest?
Benjamin Phillips
> mfw Sup Forums user can't into archivation and restoration of system and data Use tar or dar, or RAID 1 or whatever. There are tools to restore previous saves, I don't remember which is the best right now. I just copy data.
Aiden Evans
What DE should I install on my laptop. Going to go with Ubuntu or Mint
Aaron Fisher
If you ask again without using obnoxious phrases (memepad for example) I might answer.
Jack Gutierrez
btrfs has snapshots and you can use it on root, otherwise just make a cron job that makes images of your system every once in a while, bonus points if you rsync to a NAS.
Avoid Mint, go with debian and KDE.
Jordan Davis
I want to learn about snapshots too. I know that ZFS and some other fs can do it but I'm too afraid to leave my old relatively stable ext4. Working in a vm is not an option for my shitty laptop.
Henry Morgan
Why avoid mint?
Charles Johnson
They got hacked once distributing infected images, and while it was a few years ago it set a bad example for the whole linux community, im sure they got their shit together nowadays but still a lot of bad security practices were uncovered in the whole drama.
Xavier Rivera
Shit, I'll try debian then, is there anything special I should know, seeing as I've used nothing but CinMint until now
Mason Johnson
Any tips on how to make KDE look nice?
Jeremiah Cooper
Pick a theme.
Blake Adams
Check your hw before install, use non-free repos if necessary. Go with netinst iso and build from minimal system. Use stable if you don't need latest packages, unstable otherwise, forget about testing. If you want to go with unstable, upgrade before installing a million things. You might need to install some stuff that you would expect to be already installed (eg sudo).
James Bell
Oh, and regarding DEs; kde might not be a pleasant experience, gnome/lxde/xfce and cinnamon (at least the last time I tried) all work as expected, same with WMs like i3 and the like. If you want the latter, skip de during installation and do it from tty later.
Adam Walker
>firefox really starting to piss me off but no alterantive distros have support for the plugins I use
Parker Baker
Tried Waterfox?
Jonathan Bell
On my desktop computer it doesnt work automatically. It also didnt work on my old asus laptop. On the thinkpad it works.
Faggot
Xavier Campbell
>debian >netinst yeah. I did that. moral of the story, test in live cd first and if all works install I would recommend Lubuntu instead because it's still minimal sort of and don't have to deal with non free pitas
Brandon Johnson
I don't know if it's just a firefox and firox accessories problem though, it keeps crashing and random intervals when I stream HD video. twitch is really bad for it, but even youtube and stuff crash every now and then. The twitch interface and player is a heap of shit too. Other browsers seem to handle it fine on my computer.
Lucas Stewart
You could try Iridium or Basilisk
Ryder Morris
How do I reset my hosts file to the default state? RN it has over 9000 lines but I don't know exactly how to reset it or remove them because you can only it in the terminal.
Ubuntu 17.10
Robert Long
what distro should I begin my exodus to Linux with?
I work with an Ubuntu server for my job so I am on at least first name terms with bash, never used Linux as a desktop though
gaming with Linux, I understand, is absolute cack but I dont play much these days anyway so that doesn't really matter
basically just want an internet machine capable of some programming
from my limited research debian seems as good as any distro
currently win7, suggestions?
Aiden Kelly
ubuntu is always a good start.
Camden Kelly
Mint Cinnamon Zorin OS Ubuntu
Levi Richardson
0. open a terminal, yes you have to. 1. run any simple text editor with sudo sudo gedit for example 2. open the hosts file and cut the lines you don't need. Usually the few lines at the start defining localhost, other loopback interfaces and your default hostname are the default contents.
Jeremiah Cruz
Yeah how do I cut all the lines exactly
Joseph Turner
holy shit dude, you seriously need help with a simple text editor? Select them with mouse and press backspace/delete
Carson Parker
can you please
stop this fucking annoying
way of posting? thank you.
Also, try ubuntu and variants (kubuntu, xubuntu, ubuntu mate etc). If you don't like how one looks you can switch to the another DE without reinstalling.
Logan Morales
What's an easy way of granting plex access to my folder so it can view the media in there? I have a specific directory for Plex so I don't mind if it wants to Snoop in that specific area
Hudson Sanchez
Does not work with nano. I'm a retard.
Nolan Scott
>recommending downstream distributions to anyone new don't do this. the chance that they will receive (or find) help regarding their problem on ubuntu, fedora, debian is infitely greater than some fork of a fork of a fork of a fork with 2 maintainers who live in the same appartment and 10 users.
Dylan Turner
grant generic read permissions on the folder and any up folders so plex can look inside.
Alexander Murphy
Um sweetie, you're never gonna get help with that attitude.
gnome is nice but nautilus is crap for opening large folders get some live cds and try kde neon ubuntu lubuntu fedora whatever probably something kde thou because it's closer to w7
Evan Wright
What's the main differences between all the ubuntu variants: lubuntu kubuntu etc?
Jace Bailey
the default DE and other userspace programs they ship.
kubuntu - KDE and KDE programs xubuntu - XFCE lubuntu - LXDE ubuntu mate - MATE KDE neon - Ubuntu LTS with KDE but in this the KDE is managed and shipped by the official KDE devs
Nolan Campbell
So basically kubuntu is a community support and KDE neon is official support? Any reason to use one over the other?
Levi Johnson
I'm a newbie playing around on the Debian CLI on a VM, no DE or WM. I want to try out some WMs, is there one that's easier to learn than others, or should I just load up Linux BBQ on a new VM?
Jordan King
>a few years ago It was last year.
Samuel Bailey
what's the ubuntu terminal called? in fedora, it's bash
Jeremiah James
Bash is the shell. I'm newer but you might be looking for the Terminal emutlator, which could be Terminal, xterm, GNOME-Terminal, Konsole, LXTerminal, Terminator, rxvt-unicode, etc. based on what DE you have installed or what you installed yourself
Lucas Perez
so the standard on ubuntu is "Terminal"?
Ian Hernandez
*emulator
Levi Bailey
If you have the GNOME DE it's likely GNOME-Terminal, KDE has Konsole, LXTerminal is for LXDE, and xterm is installed on a lot of distros. Search around your programs, it should be under tools and utilities, but if you need to quick-open it I believe Ubuntu has a hotkey of Ctrl-Alt-T
Blake Jones
how do i activate google authenticator? is it in common-auth or lightdm?
Wyatt Bennett
I'm new to this and most distros crash with "link training failed" when started with my display port monitor plugged in to a 1070, and if I plug it in after startup I get the same crash. ONLY Ubuntu and Xubuntu have ever worked. Does this have to do with nouveau? Online searches didn't get me any fix
Henry Sanders
Windows environments and Linux/UNIX environments are totally different.
With Windows, you are usually made to rely on shitty tools that accomplish what a linux or UNIX system can do with less time and resources.
If you want polish, get macOS. It'll have a UNIX core and polish to make working easier (for you).
Ryder Ross
>le linux is unix
nice meme
Camden Nguyen
It's a UNIX clone. I don't know what you're on about.
Jaxon Cook
no it's not, not any more
Jackson White
What do you mean, you daft lala homo man?
Leo Young
windows isn't unix but did you know it used to be based on unix before msdos? i'm not doing ur homework kid
Josiah Mitchell
You're switching the subject, answer my question. I already showed you my dick.
Joseph Ross
No you didn't
show your dick and your question shall be answered
Grayson Hughes
faggot
William Peterson
for fun just tried enabling the wayland use flag. I dont recommend it, its buggy, weird visual artifacts, and crashes when I turn on 2nd monitor.
Alexander Howard
I'm using wayland but what's so different than xorg?
Nolan Diaz
and I noticed I cant take screenshots either. It makes sense though because the difference between X and wayland is that wayland doesnt allow other programs to access other program's information, this is just one of the ways its more secure than X.
Henry Hall
I got an old server for pretty cheap, and I want to use it as a file server with my two 4TB drives in RAID 1, but the machine has zero chance at running ZFS (32 Bit \w 1GB Memory). Is BTRFS a possible option, or should I just buy a RAID card and use Ext4?
Leo Evans
btrfs shits all over zfs
upgrade the memory to 16gb at least
Brayden White
Try adding nomodeset to the kernel command line on those distros.
Julian Reyes
Unfortunately, to upgrade the RAM above 2GB I would have to gut the entire system, which is not something I feel would be worth the investment over buying a newer system.
Logan Martin
1gb is too little for 8tb
Aiden Cooper
Figures. RAID card it is then.
Isaac Gonzalez
Is there a decent ricing guide/faq left anywhere? The ones the wiki links to are all long since 404'd.
William Cox
> old server > 32bit > 1GB ram It's called medieval, not old. At least among servers. I think you can find cheapo second hand ram for that. If you cannot put more into it, just use btrfs. I don't remember btrfs using a lot of ram on my machine. Also: I have an old server for which I bought 32 GB ram for 50-60$. Cheapo means you can get > 2 GB for dirt.
Even my freaking athlon 64 x2 desktop machine is faster and it's >10 years old. You can probably get a faster computer by begging for unused parts.
Aiden Allen
How easy does Debian Break when going from Testing to Unstable? my desktop have been running testing for a while but I'm slowly been getting small but really annoying things about it. my laptop that runs unstable doesn't have any of it. So I'm considering upgrading but I don't want my system to break anymore.
Christian Powell
I got this for 50 cents, broken as in Windows wouldn't boot (running Devuan fine now), at a yard sale, so I wasn't expecting much. I'll probably just trash it and buy a larger one soon, but until then btrfs seems like the best option. Thanks.
Joshua Young
kubuntu if you don't care or need non-ESR ubuntu KDE neon if you want "KDE as it was intended" or bleeding edge KDE experience.
Julian Roberts
At father's workplace they still use a 486 ( don't know which ) machine for email server. The one you got surely cannot be used as fileserver, but you might find something it can be used for. Some guy nearby overclocks old machines and writes articles on his adventures. He used a dual pentium 3 machine to play crysis 1. That was awesome.
Oliver Moore
here again. Stick a fifty cent poster on the case and put the pic on CSG
My personal guide is to install xfce with the greybird theme then be done with it. You can set some cute anime girls as your wallpaper as a bonus.
Charles Baker
Good for the purism folks. I won't ever use it because systemd and gnome are nasty but it's cool to see a laptop manufacturer with a FSF approved distro.
Brayden Hernandez
it pretty much makes PureOS the most up to date freetard distribution and so far the only one backed by a commercial entity. That's a step in the right direction
Angel Nelson
i need(am basically forced and virtual machine wont do) windows for school and want to dual boot i have a linux installed, is it at all feasible to install windows second or should i just back up my files and install windows over my linux and then install linux
in other words what type of dual boot linux 1st then windows or windows then linux
i already backed up my files so ill probably do the second but if anyone here has experience with this, any tips?
James White
Backup, windows first, GNU/linux second.
GNU/Linux installers accomodate the possibility of multiple installations of different operating systems on a single machine. Windows accomodates only other installations of windows.
Zachary Kelly
enabled for what? afaik only gnome and weston werk and maybe enlightenment but haven't tried it >weston.ini rbt.asia/g/thread/63482943/#63497667
>I'm using wayland with gnome? for users nothing much except no tearing but no hw video dec for now either it's for the people who work on X really, making their lives easier or something to this end
gnome screenshots thing works weston has it's own thing
Henry Miller
This is actually solid advice. macOS has most of the benefits that come with developing on Linux, but it just works
Christopher Ward
you guys are funny!
Ryan Powell
currently using linux mint with Cinnamon. I'd like to try ricing and a tiling window manager if I sudo apt-get purge cinnamon is that enough to delete everything that is Cinnamon?
Ayden Bennett
many desktop environments have other programs. Like Nemo is the default file manager, you're gonna have to remove that too (unless you like nemo). There is probably more things you're gonna have to look up what programs cinnamon includes. It's the worse thing about installing and uninstalling desktop environments, you end up with a bunch of shit between them.
Austin Williams
>windows >b4 msdos that's some solid shitpost user
Luis James
Fedora doesn’t have this problem
Lincoln Harris
I have a gaming mouse with extra buttons that I want to bind to things in i3, but right now X detects them as just normal keys (for example the 2 button on the number row), and since i3 doesn't have any way of determining which device a keypress came from, what do I do?
Christopher Nelson
Automatic switching works perfectly for me on Debian(testing), all I did was install pulseaudio to get sound up and running (started wth a minimal install). I haven't touched any configs for pulse or alsa.
Brandon Collins
why is gpg so autistic?
Carson Davis
I still can't decide on whether I should install Devuan, Debian and remove Systemd, or just Debian with Systemd. I don't really know if it's worth using a fork just to remove it and I don't know if it's even that big of an issue for me to bother with removing it at all. Someone pls help all of this systemd stuff is so confusing.
