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can I /r/equest the 'arch the distro for lesbians' picture
Josiah Johnson
So I'm a different user, but we're supposed to take NixOS at their word that the upstreams do not support startx functionality without using a hack, when they don't even tell us or document what the hacks are? Sounds like NixOS is just a broken pos, since literally every other distro seems to make it werk.
Jordan Parker
I don't remember seeing any 1080p wallpapers, but if you want it to your phone, here you go
Bentley Ward
agriathanks gozimuch
Blake Nelson
Actually there is. Here ya go.
Adrian Perry
i want some linux lesbians to stomp on my tarballs
Nathaniel Walker
Anyone know how to get the AUR repo on fedora? or AUR apps atleast
Michael Roberts
reposting from old thread:
redpill me on ubuntu
former macboi, switched to ubuntu 16.04 as my main OS for the compatibility with nearly all linux software + I happen to like the unity desktop. however, I notice occasional crashes/freezes if I have 3 or more apps open at one time, which I basically never dealt with in the past. new machine specs are the same as my old macbook pro, only exception being a geforce gpu.
should I switch distros, like to xubuntu, for better performance/UX? should I switch to 17.04 or 14.04?
Evan Hughes
How the hell do I setup the hardware to properly passthrough my GPU to my Win10 VM?
I already have "Model" set to "host-passthrough" in the CPU section, and I've added the GPU as you can see in pic related, but I don't know what else to do. The stuff I have tried so far just breaks the VM.
remove anything that says spice on it and channel qxl set disk and cd to sata put your install disk above the disk you are installing to in the boot order click add hardware and add your graphics card, the integrated audio (right below the graphics card), the mouse you want to pass through and the keyboard you want to pass through when you shut down the vm DO NOT use the windows start menu. go to devices on the lower right corner of the taskbar and eject your graphics card, then shut down the vm from the host side and be patient.
Levi Perry
Are you absolutely sure your mainboard and cpu support VT-d?
Yes, I'm 100% sure. I've done all the steps in the guide I mentioned so far (enables VF-t in BIOS, isolated the GPU, etc.). I'm just having trouble figuring out the hardware config for the VM.
I should have probably also mentioned that I have this VM already installed and booting, but it just boots into IGx, not my GPU's graphics.
I did everything except add a new mouse and keyboard (so I can keep control of the host), but I just get this screen, and the bar eventually freezes.
Xavier Brown
ive been trying to get the displaylink drivers drivers on fedora and tried the git install but cant seem to make it work even with the make rawhide, kinda a noob.
Connor Mitchell
Hey guys. Just installed Arch for the first time yesterday, and everything just werks execpt for one thing: I can't run Xorg as any user except root. Is there some group I need to add my user to, or permissions I need to change? I'm using i3-gaps as my window manager if that makes a difference.
Logan Clark
LOL
Wyatt Foster
you have a monitor hooked up to your 1070? also post what the overview tab says
Kayden Martinez
k, I asked because I was confident *I* had the VT-d setup and kept failing only to find out it's actually VT-x
Eli Sullivan
you either need to edit the ~/.xinitrc of the normal user or edit /etc/X11/xinit/.xinitrc to make it system-wide.
Liam Gomez
No, nothing is hooked up to the 1070.
You almost gave me a heart attack, so I just doubled checked my mobo (GA-Z170XP SLI), and yes, it's VT-d, not VT-x.
Jeremiah Scott
Well I didn't mean to give a heart attack
Sebastian Bennett
How would I do that? Can you link me a guide or wiki page?
Christian Johnson
you need 2 monitors for now you could just hook up the 1070 to your current monitor and change the source if you dont have a second one
Xavier Moore
nigga seriously? Read that op
Carson Carter
>you need 2 monitors To expand on this: With GPU passthrough, the graphics card will behave like it's directly connected to the (virtual) computer. So if there's no monitor connected to it, it can't display anything. The display you showed previously is meant for plain VMs; with proper GPU passthrough set up and all the Spice stuff removed, it'd just be a blank window reading "Graphical console not configured for guest". I read a while back that it's possible to set up video streaming software on the VM and host to view both onboard and discrete graphics cards' outputs on a single monitor, but you're probably better off with a second monitor. Also a second mouse if you don't already have one, so you can do things on the host OS while the VM is running (e.g. force power off if it freezes up).
Joseph Smith
can someone share their Debian netinstall bash script?
Jason Sullivan
I see, thanks for the clarification. I'll work on getting a second screen then. Thanks for all the help.
Robert Rogers
>installs arch >doesn't know how to edit ~/.xinitrc How tf. Did you just copy the instructions from the Arch wiki without understanding anything?
Kevin Carter
bump
Cooper Bailey
Is gentoo a good distro or just a meme? Should i choose it over other non-systemd distros?
Lucas Clark
I know how to edit .xinitrc, I don't know what to put in it.
Luke Ortiz
It's explained in multiple sources online, including your distribution's Wiki page.
Adam Diaz
What are some cool terminal commands?
Justin Rogers
where? I can't find anything about it in the xinit archwiki page, nor through googling
>Gentoo install >lvm luks full encryption on two SSDs
getting to the grub config >GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES-lvm >GRUP_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y >GRUB_DEVICE=/dev/ram0 >GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crypt_root=sda4 real_root=/dev/mapper/lv-root rootfstype=ext4 dolvm quiet splash"
How do I add the other SSD partition into the config? Do I need to add a new GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line?
David Baker
install gentoo
Dylan Lewis
After... I'm honestly not sure what, think I installed Font Awesome or something on my new thinkpad running arch, and now the font rendering for firefox or any gtk application is fucking garbage. It's as bad as the memes make it out to be but I've literally never had this problem before. Even on my second Arch machine it's totally fine. Did I forget to install/tweak something? I did move my config files from the other install to this one but there shouldn't be many differences between this machine and that one.
Landon Hughes
How do I run a live version of Linux Mint from a cd or usb drive?
Anthony Powell
pls this is serious business
Jaxson Morales
what exactly do you mean by add the other ssd to the config?
Except I am using two SSDs in the setup and they are in separate physical volumes and logical volumes. I'm not sure if I should have linked them earlier or if I can just add another GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX for the other second SSD.
Jose Rodriguez
define linked do you mean raid or do you want one encryption passphrase to unlock both?
Adam Davis
linked as in grouping them together in formatting logical volumes step (not even sure that is possible)
Charles Reyes
as a raid you might be able to. i dont think it's possible with 2 physically separated disks.
Jace Gomez
bump
Jaxon Harris
yeah fuck it I'm just do it with one
Bentley Richardson
Installing Ubuntu right now and it gives an option to "install third-party software for graphics, wi-fi, mp3 and other media". I checked what it actually installs and it includes stuff like Flash and ffmpeg. Do I need it?
Christopher Stewart
I have my drive set to automount in fstab. Problem is its an ntfs drive that I use as a shared drive bewteen linux and windows and it constantly (((breaks))) and is listed as a read only drive. Which is always fixed by running ntfsfix on it. Is there any way I could have ntfsfix /dev/sda1 run as root before the drive is mounted during startup?
Oliver Hall
It's a good distro if you need the customization it provides, otherwise compiling everything is a waste of time. I recommend void for a good systemd free distro.
Bentley Wright
What's the big deal with systemd? I don't really understand what it is in general besides the fact that apparently a lot of things use it in some distros.
William Brooks
The problem is that newer versions of windows use hybrid shutdown which basically hibernates drivers and shit by writing it to the drive so when you mount it in GNU/Linux the hibernate data causes problems. You can fix it by disabling hybrid shutdown/startup in windows.
this seems like a big girly slapfest between nerds
Parker Sanchez
Just use the shutdown option which doesn't allow hibernation.
Jacob Russell
Considering buying TALOS II. Will Debian just werk?
Nathaniel Jones
From what I'm seeing/reading the big hullabaloo is that systemd is aiming to be a sysvinit replacement, and it's overextending its scope by appropriating control of non-PID 1 functions, and bundling them very close to PID 1, bringing in a higher probability of system failure as is wont for a more centralized system. The main argument I'm seeing for it is that its an improvement over sysvinit in the current Linux in certain functions, and it provides a minor speed boost compared to normal *nit functions. Did I get that right? Also that link from the second user? Sorry m8 that's a blog from Poettering himself, that's biased as fuck. From everything I've seen from him he believes that there's nothing wrong with systemd ever.
Oliver Ortiz
It's shitware, but unfortunately it's unavoidable because all the usable distros rely on it. It's like ALSA or glibc unfortunately: bad with, worse without.
Leo Turner
>it's GNU/Linux! >Linux is just a kernel!
Thomas Rivera
What is "building a clean chroot"? I did it to install something but I don't understand what is happening.
trying to use unclutter and it just hangs in the terminal,
>unclutter -idle 5 -root
am i doing something wrong if i want the cursor to disappear after 5 seconds?
Jack Flores
nvm im an idiot and it was working the whole time.
I didnt know it was running when i thought it was hanging
Cooper Nguyen
wow thanks i didnt think of looking in the wiki kys
Angel Cruz
Ffmpeg yes, flash no.
Dominic Cruz
It literally tells you what it is in the wiki, learn to read you dumb fuck. Chroot is temporarily changing the root directory in order to have a clean environment to install or build, as then whatever programs run in that chroot cannot affect files outside of that temp root directory. In the Arch install case, it changes root into the temp mount point directory /mnt and its subdirectories.
Austin Flores
Comfiest distro ever.
Bentley Murphy
hey friendlies, i'm currently running kde mint (the first real long-term gnu/linux system i've had - 6 months now) and i kinda wanna switch to something else. what's the next step?
i know it's a meme but i'm considering ubuntu just because it's incredibly well supported. thoughts/other suggestions?
Connor Jackson
>i know it's a meme but i'm considering ubuntu just because it's incredibly well supported. thoughts/other suggestions?
Ubuntu is not a "meme". Your Mint is, in fact, Ubuntu with one or two extra apps, and that's it.
Also Mint is more limited, so you'd feel more free on Ubuntu.
Connor Hill
i know what chroot is retard. I am asking what is building in a clean root because I dont understand the exact process. But neithet do you because like every arch faggot you just copy paste commands from the wiki to everyone what a big brain you have
Is btrfs worth it as a root fs, or not? Or would it be better to just use it as a /home fs?
Jaxson Gutierrez
It's literally building a package... inside a chroot. The dev page I linked said exactly that. You go through the normal process to do so, but instead of doing the normal makepkg, it would be makechrootpkg -c -r $CHROOT from the directory your PKGBUILD file is in. So basically as I understand it: Download the source tarball of the software you want to package. Try compiling the package and installing it into an arbitrary directory in the chroot. Copy over the prototype /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD.proto and rename it to PKGBUILD in a temporary working directory in the chroot. Edit the PKGBUILD according to the needs of your package. Run makechrootpkg and see whether the resulting package is built correctly. If not, repeat the last two steps.
Ian Clark
Also might as well point out, this is /fglt/, I only called you a dumb fuck because you told me to kms. Back your ass up, get the fuck over yourself, and have a Merry Christmas. Cunt.
Brandon Green
I am trying to suspend my computer but I get this error: "systemctl: error while loading shared libraries: libcryptsetup.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" how do I fix this?
Jacob Ward
Let me guess, you use Arch and install things from the AUR and you do "pacman -Sy" when installing packages?
Matthew Jenkins
anyone else compiling gentoo rn like I am? :^)
Samuel Torres
Gentoo is a distribution, you fucking idiot. You cannot compile a distribution, you compile certain software.
Henry Lopez
really? didn't even know! teehee so glad you, this beacon of knowledge, has crossed my path
Josiah Morris
I've recently compiled a lot of Gentoo because of PIE in the profile 17 update, sure. Also, ThinLTO. Didn't compile that long since many years. But my machine might be more of a potato than yours.
Benjamin Reyes
>systemctl stop using systemd >missing .so install cryptsetup/libcryptsetup
Austin Peterson
Actually I rarely install AUR things and only do "pacman -S". Now it works, but what do I use instead if it's impossible to replace systemd on Arch?
Nathaniel Ortiz
Cryptsetup is in the base group. If that was missing on your install it means you fucked something up.
Cameron Cox
It wasn't missing I just needed to upgrade it.
Jayden Rogers
So you were doing partial upgrades as mentioned here . Why are you lying on the internet?
Ian Bailey
I'm not lying though, I never did partial upgrades until a few minutes ago for cryptsetup.
Joshua Richardson
Why is systemd frowned upon when it just werks?
Gavin Reyes
Because 2 things annoy the Linux community more than anything else:
1) things that work 2) things that aren't fractured into 50 competing shitty 'alternatives' none of which work properly.
