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Quick question before I switch to Linux. How many times does Linux have meltdowns like Stallman?
Oliver Jenkins
I see people having "arrow" things around portions of their terminal text. Is that zsh+oh-my-zsh+powerlevel9k? Is oh-my-zsh wanted/needed even?
Landon Clark
>Is oh-my-zsh wanted/needed even? Only if you're lazy and cant do it manually
Kevin Watson
systemd is a cia nigger backdoor
Zachary Lewis
okay, I've only used bash so far and I've been wanting to try something else out. Thanks for the help!
Thomas Foster
If you're talking about powerline you don't need oh-my-zsh, you don't even need zsh it's available in bash too. It's just an over the top prompt.
Samuel Morgan
WE NEED A /gnu/ BOARD
Elijah Long
I'm talking about whatever the arrow blocks are in stuff this screenshot, in the lower right window
Hudson Cox
In 5 years of using Linux only I've had my entire system crash twice. One was due to hardware issues and the other some kind of issue in 3rd party code.
I've had my system break a couple of times after updates but most of the time it has been an easy fix.
Jeremiah Turner
is being root all the time a bad idea?
Wyatt Davis
yes. it is a horrible idea.
Blake Young
Yes
Jaxson Campbell
Can confirm. Android is pretty stable.
Mason Baker
Isn't that Emacs?
Jaxon Morris
What partition scheme in Rufus should I use to make a USB install drive for Debian? MBR Partition scheme for BIOS or UEFI MBR for UEFI or GPT for UEFI?
Dominic Torres
I'm not asking about the program itself, but about the arrow block things that are in the bottom. Here it is in neovim. The closest thing I've found based off of what the other user said and my own initial searches was either powerline github.com/powerline/powerline or powerlevel9k github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k and I'm trying to figure out what it is in general, since it's apparently in emacs, neovim, bash, zsh, etc.
It's a riced status line or prompt available in many programs.
As for what it does, have you seen a desktop with conky or rainmeter displaying a bunch of information you don't actually need on your desktop like cpu/ram/disk usage? It's kind of like that for the terminal.
Juan Bennett
but why
Elijah Torres
gotcha. I thought it was interesting but if it's just extra info I might hold off on it. Thanks again for the help!
Alexander Gonzalez
void for laptops, gentoo for desktops, alpine for routers, is this correct? what should I use for a network fileserver?
Landon Martin
Whatever the fuck you want, it makes very little difference.
Christian Diaz
>is this correct yes >what should I use for a network fileserver? free bsd
Gavin Bailey
Well, first off, you're going to need to adjust your computer's BIOS/UEFI anyway so that it'll prioritize booting from the USB drive over the hard drive. (When you first turn your computer on, it'll say something like "Press F2 to enter setup mode"; that's how you edit boot priority.) Once you know whether your computer has BIOS or UEFI, you can move forward from there. (BIOS only supports MBR, and if you have UEFI you'll probably want to use GPT.)
Owen Bennett
i've noticed that depending on the distro, vim has different settings enabled. i had to disable some settings in slackware and thought maybe there was a global vimrc that i could just delete. is it just compiled with certain options?
William Williams
What is that random image at the end of Comments? What font do I need to install to fix it?
On a fresh install of no-DE Debian, I accidentally installed i3 before xinit, will that cause any problems?
Luke Peterson
i3 should have pulled in X as a dependency
Aiden Campbell
It might be compiled with different features enabled, you can view it with vim --version.
Also yeah there is usually a system wide vimrc in /etc. Although I don't think package maintainers would do any global configuration that would break stuff. If you absolutely need to set something=..., it's probably best to do it in your personal vimrc so that /etc/vimrc has no influence on it.
Brandon Bell
Did you open it up in chrome, or in firefox?
Brody Anderson
evince
Eli Thomas
E000 in unicode is the start of the private use range. I think your website was supposed to supply a font that has glyph that maps to that.
Maybe you have browser setting/extension that blocked it.
James Nguyen
Or in the case of evince, it might not even support loading a third party font.
Jaxson Foster
The problem is occuring for me in Firefox. In everything else it loads properly. I reported the problem to mozilla.
Brody Thompson
on the subject of pdf viewers. Evince vs Okular?
Nathan Reyes
mupdf
Dylan Rodriguez
newer used okular but i like evince
Ethan Adams
qpdfview. Literally great-tier, fairly featured, yet not as heavy in dependencies or size.
Caleb Jones
Principle of least privilege.
Programs take your permission, so if you're root, they can do anything/everything they want.
Consider, at the most minimal, a problem with vim: unless you do some configuring, the moment you do "sudo vim" successfully, you can run any program you want through vim.
Jace Davis
How do I deGNUify my GNU/Linux?
Chase Campbell
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /$GNU Then install busybox and you're fine.
Caleb Allen
I just fresh installed emacs with aptitude, and attempted to open the i3 config file with it. Upon doing so, I got an error that stated (emacs:1291): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-Bus daemon: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message that repeated 6 times. Did I miss something in the install? This is my first time using emacs.
Angel Hernandez
>tabbed pdfs Nice, installed. I like it too. It has a nice clean aesthetic Not for me.
Ryan Bennett
never it just werks until it melts that's why servers run it
powerline but it's slow
because root has rw to all
i thought the same for ubuntu and it did in vbox but on the real thing it didn't
Juan Garcia
>page 7 GNU/Bump
Liam Hughes
I prefer okukar. I really like that it can open most documents. I started to use it with LaTeX. Running pdflatex means the file gets updated and okular just show the new version in the same position as you were before. Sometimes I store images in a program and using okular, they all get updated without me having to do anything.
Gavin Baker
whats the state of playing games via a windows VM? i want to switch to linux but still want to be able to play games occasionally (single player stuff 99% of the time)
also i have a 2600k, apparently vt-d is disabled for k processors, does this fuck me?
Brody Ortiz
*GNU/Linux
You can run games without big graphic deps (most notably ancient non-unicode games) inside windows VMs. For more demanding games you need a native port, good wine support or PCI-e passthrou which your computer doesn't support. Basic Intel-V already makes your virtual machines run at almost native speeds, the only problem is graphics. Virutalbox offers 3D acceleration for certain windows guests.
Adrian Watson
Install Buster directly from netinstall or use the stable netinstall and upgrade after?
Justin Taylor
buster directly from its netinstall, it should work without problems for testing.
Grayson Long
why is arch not regarded as just werks? You can install easily using user scripts, then you download whatever you want from the AUR. In Ubuntu, I found myself needing to add the PPA keys to certain programs.
Lucas Clark
Can I get an You for testing purposes?
Christopher Gonzalez
...
Adam Morris
@63970007 no
Charles Sanchez
What are THE ultimate flags?
So far I have have these C(XX)flags for performance >-Ofast -march=native -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-plt -fomit-frame-pointer -fgcse-sm -fgcse-las -fgcse-after-reload -fsched-pressure -fsched-spec-load -fmodulo-sched -fmodulo-sched-allow-regmoves -fgraphite-identity -floop-nest-optimize -ftree-loop-distribution -fivopts -ftree-parallelize-loops=12 -fopenmp -D_GLIBCXX_PARALLEL -flto=12
For hardening I add >-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-all -fstack-check to C(XX)FLAGS and >-z,noexecstack to LDFLAGS
And yeah obviously if something doesn't work I downgrade or remove it.
Have I reached max autism already or is there more to be done?
Aaron Bennett
>tfw not using anything besides "-O2 -pipe -march=native"
Am I missing out?
Jose Campbell
No idea. I should probably learn how to use some profiling tool so I can measure the performance impact.
Justin Nguyen
I know right. I wish I didn't wipe my 32bit install. If I only knew what a deb/untu shit show I was in for. >never use netiso never >always test in live cd
Aiden Sullivan
Discord is using way too much CPU time. Apparently it keeps polling for pulseaudio or something. How do I keep it in line, ideally without installing anything new? I was hoping there would already be tools on this machine for the task. Adjusting nice values won't work, as the machine doesn't have any other running processes that will reserve the CPU time. I am using a fairly new gentoo install.
Jacob Rogers
distcc can't into -march=native so expanding it out is required, other than that i.e funroll-loops sillyness makes no sense globally and on a case to case basis (can be set up via package.env) you really need to decide is the time benchmarking and tweaking the CFLAGS worth the possible performance increase.
next step: profile-guided optimization
Noah Morris
Mhmmmm.
Michael Cooper
How i can make backup of my gnome config?
David Thompson
I'm having trouble launching some programs because my locale is set to Japanese. It says I require a UTF-8 locale, yet I get this $env | grep "^LANG=" LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
Does this mean I cannot use anything other than English as my language?
Bentley Peterson
add en us utf-8 too?
Why aren't you using the web version, wasn't the client spyware?
A gsettings command?
Robert Ortiz
Installing Debian in a dual boot with Windows on two separate drives, they're both currently using NTFS. Do I need to format the Debian drive with ext4 before starting the installation or will it do that automatically?
Nathaniel Edwards
>add en us utf-8 too? How? I was under the impression you could only have one language
Gabriel Jackson
Why not O3?
Lucas Carter
Should be able to format as ext4 in the installer.
Mason Perry
how long does ext4lazyinit take to setup a 3TB LUKS drive
IS it ok to start writing huge amounts of data to it before it finishes?
Justin Foster
>ext4lazyinit The fuck is this?
Tyler Barnes
Aight thanks
Jack Hill
it's a 'lazy' initilization of an ext4 partition because it slowly initilizes something (can be seen on iotop at maybe up to 12 or 16mb/sec) instead of making you wait until it finishes to use it
Xavier Hill
This might sound stupid, but is there a resource to learn IRC?
Jaxon Richardson
Optimus on Linux when?
Julian Sullivan
>tfw trying to do a minimalistic xfce4 debian install and failing horribly I don't know if I'm autistic enough for this, I just don't understand all this xorg shit. Though at the same time I'm autistic enough to care about not having GPU drivers of every possibly vendor installed when I just have a radeon card in my system, or installing a bunch of default applications I will never use.
Henry Cox
lmao just install xubongo minimal
Adrian Smith
Probably will, though that will only get rid of a lot of default applications.
Lincoln Nelson
I heard even barely noticeable/borderline meme.
Brody Gonzalez
yes, bash "how to irc" in any search engine and check the first few links.
Carter Garcia
nvidia? is is
Jordan Walker
What's the best graphic card for linux when using open source drivers?
Gavin White
Just switched to Linux because I've had enough of Windows 10's shit.
keepassx or keepassxc?
Landon Cruz
...
Brandon Morris
What does the C stand for in KeePassXC? Cuck?
Aiden Reyes
amd has the best open source drivers and the best card they have right now is the vega 56 64 is only marginally better for $100 more. 56 can reach 64 performance if you overclock it.
Samuel Morris
Keepassx is not maintained anymore I think, which in turn spawned KeepassXC. I'd use the latter.
Connor Young
Just use pass
Austin Davis
If you have a file on tmpfs, say on /run/shm/, will calling $ mv /run/shm/file file copy it to disk, or will it remain in tmpfs?
Jonathan Price
Thanks, does it use any binary-blobs?
Asher Johnson
>man mv
Kayden Adams
move moves the file for real.
Alexander Johnson
Community, ya Sup Forumsboy.
Robert Baker
Not if it's the same filesystem. $ mv file1 file2 won't copy anything, just rename file1 in the filesystem while still pointing to the same data on disk. I don't know how tmpfs is viewed though which is why I'm asking
Robert Price
Why do you think it would be any different?
Cooper Sanchez
Is there any distro that doesn't run like trash on a Pentium D? Windows 7 runs just fine at 5% CPU usage on idle even with Aero enabled.
Zachary Brown
I don't know, just paranoia. I guess it's not possible to point a hardlink to another filesystem, so it should copy
