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Does anyone else have Firefox 57 and also use ibus (for Japanese input or other language)? It seems to not be working in ff57 for me. It still works in other applications but not ff.
Lincoln Williams
>Downstream Arch vs >Downstream Arch
How about neither
Isaiah Johnson
>Mint has finished burning to the USB. What happens next,user?
Austin Lewis
Install it
Austin Bailey
you are now free to boot from the USB stick, you probably have to hammer the F8, F11 or F12 key at boot up to select to boot from the USB stick
Jaxon Carter
wipe it and get a gentoo iso
Brayden Wilson
Anyone here using linux on amd cpu?
Kevin Kelly
yes.
Owen Wilson
Should I switch from Ubuntu 17 to plain Debian?
Dominic Brooks
Do you have any problems with ubuntu that you think will be fixed by switching to another distro?
Jace Morales
directed to emacsfags, recommend me some shit to try out. magit is pretty neat, and starting to get the hang of org-mode
Logan Moore
people still use incel cpus?
Joseph Campbell
Nah wait for 18.04. Debian is clunky shit with ass font rendering
Lucas Watson
Bloat, too much shit running in the background that I'm not familiar with and don't want to worry about.
Landon Jackson
Install NixOS.
Julian Anderson
>Debian >Clunky
You're the clunky one my friend. Have had no issues with font rendering on any of my Debian machines
Jordan Morales
Sure why not, if you have nothing important going on at the moment it could teach you a few things. Honestly the main reason I switched years ago was the philosophical reason, not so much worries about bloat. I don't like Canonical as a company so I saw no reason to continue using their OS. I like the Debian project so I figured I'd use their OS.
Zachary Powell
I'm actually using it now. The only thing preventing me from falling in love with it is the fact that it uses shitstaind. Until they fix that I can't shill NixOS and I'm thinking of switching to GuixSD.
Matthew Rivera
The thing preventing me from switching to GuixSD is the lack of web browsers.
Gavin Roberts
1. Debian (net iso) 2. uncheck everything when it tells you to install shit 3. update your sources list 4. Apt-get dist upgrade etc etc 5. get xorg 6. get dwm thats that
Jaxon Carter
Oh and get sudo first before xorg or anything
Nathaniel Cook
How is /fglt/ feeling about the Intel scandal?
Chase Wilson
I've installed debian several times, and I don't like it because it tends to crash, especially when I install xfce/kde on it.
Luke Bailey
More like you're a retard and your shit doesn't work properly? >Several times okay
Jonathan Moore
>Debian >Crashing
that's a nice joke user, Debian Stable is rock solid. Even Unstable hasn't given me any issues in years
Benjamin Parker
Yeah, the package managers are phenomenal but the OSes using them currently aren't that great. I'd either need NixOS to adopt something like OpenRC, or for someone to make 3rd party "nonfree" guix files for things like wifi or proprietary video drivers. I don't think it's necessary for the OS developers to implement those things officially. It would be cool to have a totally free OS as the core and some nonfree shit that you need added on top of it by 3rd party maintainers.
Bentley Bailey
It doesn't come with sudo?
Julian Powell
Make a list of the shit you do and the hw you are running.
Thomas Brown
A net install comes with only the bare bones essentials for a server. Sudo is not essential, although very nice to have for desktop use.
The first things you should install are sudo and aptitude, tbqh.
Luke Lewis
Nah boi, it's THAT /MINIMAL/ but has systemd bloat so meh.
Caleb Brooks
if systemD really is a concern to you, install Void or Alpine
Evan Howard
Anyone here use screen? I want to write a cron job that starts up a named screen that in turn starts up a web server on reboot, but I can't figure this out.
Brayden Hughes
Been using debian for two years still don't know what aptitude actually is.
When i get a fresh debian install (net iso) I first update the sources list so i don't have old fucking packages wiki.debian.org/SourcesList
Then i update the entire system - apt-get update - apt-get upgrade - apt-get dist-upgrade Reboot after that Then i get SUDO edit the sudoers file
After that i install xorg dwm firefox alsa firefox etc etc suckless.org/rocks
Easton Hernandez
I'm back Lads. Mint booted/works successfully, however It assumes I'm missing ethernet, and doesn't appear to want to accept Wifi...What do I do?
Liam Bailey
Meant to quote
Aiden Williams
>I'm back Lads. Mint booted/works successfull
no faggot, we don't call each other "lads" here. Also fuck mint, use fucking xubuntu you retarded nigger
Jordan Price
>FRIENDLY
Go to your network manager, connect to ethernet Install your wifi drivers
Tyler Fisher
Nah, people are just too retarded to read. Debian comes with sudo as long as you don't set a root account up. Same goes for Fedora.
Jaxson Garcia
make an executable bash script with something like #!/bin/sh screen -dmS gayname gaycommand_to_start_server
then in your crontab, do @reboot /path/to/gay_script
should work, but someone will correct me if not. never have used that reboot thing in any of my crontabs
Lincoln Adams
Use tmux
Charles Myers
no, if you are comfortable with Ubuntu stay with it. You should try to focus more in how linux works and you can do that with a books about linux management and Virtual box (so you don't fuck up your OS while learning). You DO NOT NEED Arch to learn how linux works. I have to admit though, that the arch community has the most extensive, well documented wiki about linux you can find.
Anthony Gomez
Mint is literally the worst distro......... Did this guy actually looked at the distro watch rankings and went with it...?
Anyways user, you dun goofed, get xubuntu
Jose Ross
Anyone have experience with setting up ZFS fileservers with redundancy?
Suppose I have 6 2TB drives and I want to set up a zfs raid array. Should I use raidz1, raidz2, or raidz3, and why? What is the acceptable level of parity to minimize the chances of encountering a URE during a rebuild?
Noah Lewis
What are its advantages over screen?
Leo Wood
guis are a ploy by the demiurge to tempt us to abandon the divine intellect of the command line and corrupt us with the superficial world of appearances debate me
Oliver Butler
if wired ethernet is not working either, do ip link and look if it does display any network interfaces at all Maybe look into System Settings>Driver manager and see if there is a driver for your network card installed
Colton Moore
why not write a systemd unit? then you just have to enable it and it will always start on boot
Daniel Thompson
So, how do I make sure I'm safe once the patches come out for the Intel thing? On Debian do I just sudo apt update and sudo apt dist-upgrade or do I have to do something special?
Wyatt Sanchez
Pretty green bar
Thomas Roberts
Arch Linux or Gentoo, which is well more well supported? It will be my first Linux but I'm looking for distros for advanced users since I need to force myself to learn Linux for my job as well.
>debian has bad font rendering people still dont know how to set hinting to light and subpixel rendering to RGB nowdays?
Oliver Bell
>purge debian confirmed racist
William Edwards
Debian Upgrade it to Debian Sid once installed, it's the rolling version.
Aaron Jackson
tbqh I never use remove, I always purge. In real world scenarios I don't find myself wanting to keep config files for software that is not even in my system anymore
Nicholas Johnson
Can you browse the internet, entirely, without a gui?
Dominic Lopez
I doubt your job requires you to compile every single package in your system (Gentoo) and configure it for specific hardware, at little to no performance gain.
I also doubt your job requires you to learn how to use AUR specifically
You will be fine on literally any distribution to learn "advanced user" things. There's nothing inherently "advanced" about either of those
Luke Barnes
can you tell me how i do that i had problems with font rendering as well thank you
Jaxson Phillips
Is CAELinux any good? Seems like it's not updated very often. Is it just xubuntu with some neat programs or is there more to it?
Sebastian Lee
Been playing around with some networking services recently to find a comfy CLI tool for connecting to WLANs and APs, and fucked up somewhere. I can ping IPs just fine, but my name lookup is failing. Tried everything I found on the net - anyone have any ideas on what I could do short of a complete reinstall?
Ryder Rogers
first what is this comfy cli tool
Ryan Lewis
Manjaro has its own repos, antergos uses arch repos. Remove any trace of antergos after install and you're more or less left with arch
Isaac Gonzalez
I am using Fedora right now but I want to use Debian. It lacks a newer version of mesa tho, what should I do?
Brandon Diaz
install gentoo
Adam Gutierrez
What is your favorite lightweight desktop environment?
Jaxon Moore
I remember seeing a way of installing certain packages from the sid repo (the rolling release one) while preserving the rest of your system. BRB, having a search
Mason Torres
as far as i am concerned, the *only* reason to use ubuntu is if you have a video card you plan to use proprietary drivers with and dont feel like going through the convoluted process of getting it to work (ubuntu makes this easy with a couple mouse clicks).
I already parted out by Nvidia/Lubuntu build and plan on building a Radeon/Debian machine to replace it
Dominic Rogers
>Debian is clunky no
Ryder Ortiz
does arch linux have a default login manager, if so what is it?
>2. uncheck everything when it tells you to install shit
I wouldnt uncheck *everything*. off the top of my head, standard system utilities absolutely should stay checked, and i think its a good idea to have ssh server checked
Noah Powell
XFCE is my go to for newbies that still need a desktop environment.
Otherwise, none. Just i3-gaps as window manager
Nathan Jackson
your power supply is dying
Connor Brooks
what's the best distro for defeating christians in internet debates?
Joshua Young
when it asks you if you want to set a root password, say no, and it will set it up to use sudo
how do you not know this?
Joshua Ross
hannah montana linux
Dylan Davis
Satanic Ubuntu
Gabriel Jones
no, you login through a tty
Angel Nguyen
why not just install sudo during the install? all you do is not put a root password
aptitude is just an alternative to apt-get and synaptic. my advice is to never use it
Nathan Thompson
So I only use KDE because of kio-gdrive
Is there any good alternative for it on linux? Gnome integration is absolute garbage that takes a year to open a fucking folder.
Jaxon Howard
>standard system utilities absolutely should stay checked, and i think its a good idea to have ssh server checked no Why? I have never used ssh in my life. No reason to have it when i don't need it. I don't even have a server lmao
learn something new everyday I guess, never not made a root account
Wyatt Turner
just wait for a kernel patch update/backport
i dunno about debian, but on fedora the 4.14.11 that came out today contains the fix.
Brayden Cooper
if it *has* to be a DE, I go with the lightest one that I am aware of; LXDE
My laptop uses icewm-lite for its GUI
Connor Russell
I like being able to switch to a screen and view the web server's log in real time
Justin Moore
HERBSTLUFTWM its the superior wm for superior people
Isaiah Campbell
Youre saying no to standard system utilities too? I find that hard to believe
If youve never used ssh, then basically you are a noob
Ian Thompson
There's no easily available backports, but backporting it myself should be safe, right?
Sebastian Young
Manjaro over Artegos? Are you crazy? Manjaro suck balls. Ugly as fuck.
Jaxson Gomez
Hey guys, I'm trying to install lubuntu 17.10 on a old PC I have and I can't get the WiFi working. The adapter I have is a TP-Link TL-WN725N. It can detect my wireless network but it can't actually connect to it. Any help is much appreciated.
Joseph Thompson
>The adapter I have is a TP-Link TL-WN725N doesn't help for linux kernel drivers. Use lspci to determine which chip your wlan hardware has.
Alternatively dmesg|grep wlan for errors.
Levi Smith
>It can detect my wireless network but it can't actually connect to it. did you put the password in?
Leo Foster
Yeah
Carter Nelson
Which is your favorite distro with KDE?
Liam Taylor
are you connected through ethernet? if so try disconnecting it
Luke Thompson
Nope, not connecting through ethernet
Christopher Watson
Does the email client mutt really send the password in plaintext? Is it secure?
