/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Anyone running a diskless system?

>>55929169
Why are you asking?
It's a bit impractical, but if you want it quick and easy you can look up tails.

Are rolling release distros stable enough for personal desktop use if I update once a week and always read the devnotes before?

To those running a rolling release system, how many issues did you have, say per year, that needed fixing after the update to get back to a working system?

So let's see if I get the memes together:

Ubuntu: known for spyware, keyloggers, microsoft friendship

Mint: know to be insecure, got backdoor'd once, blocks updates

Fedora: NSA (memes?), RHEL testbed

Arch: kernel bloat, package bloat, systemd, bad community

Manjaro: known for incompetence, webdev forgot to update SSL twice, told users to turn back the system clock to fix the SSL issue

Is there something to add?
Is there any good distro out there?

File: screencapture-fun-irq-dk-funroll-loops-org-1461593506704.png (4MB, 1366x8538px) Image search: [Google]

4MB, 1366x8538px

>>55929397
>Arch: kernel bloat, package bloat, systemd, bad community
>Kernel Bloat
Compile your kernel then?
>Package bloat
False
>Systemd
Ebin meme
>Bad community
Picture related

>>55929361
If you're using Debian Sid, you can use apt-listbugs before updating. No idea if there's something simliar for other distros.

>>55929397
Debian, Arch, Fedora, OpenSUSE are all good.
Basically any well-maintained standalone distro is good. They all have their use cases, and all issues they have can be fixed.

I like Arch cause a distro is supposed to distribute software, not patch it to hell and back, which removes upstream support.

>>55929361
I can only talk about debian sid in this regard because the only other rolling release I used was arch for ~1 month so take it with a grain of salt.
I am running debian sid for a year now and the only bugs I encountered were deadbeef not starting for 3 hours before an update fixed it and a few dependency issues that I could avoid by just keeping a few packages back.
As long as you see bug notes (apt-listbugs), change notes (apt-listchanges), don't do stupid things like running multiple package managers or not reading/understanding what gets removed you will most likely be fine. Make sure to have backups and a live distro on hand in case something goes wrong.

>>55929397
I heard the spyware shit(Amazon) on Ubuntu was removed from default in Xenial

>>55929428
Arch has an RSS feed for updates that require intervention. I pull it with newsbeuter

>>55929426
>>Kernel Bloat
>Compile your kernel then?
Why even shipping the kernel with all modules enabled?

>>Package bloat
>False
Then tell me why Arch ships binaries AND sources together?

>>Systemd
>Ebin meme
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2015-July/039443.html

>>Bad community
>Picture related
I guess not?

>>55929123
As frogeater, it's fun to listing to Richard talking french with american accent

>>55929461
>Why even shipping the kernel with all modules enabled?
Because most people don't have autism

>Then tell me why Arch ships binaries AND sources together?
And your point being? What gets installed?

Show me one relevant distro that doesn't have systemd

>>55929461
>Why even shipping the kernel with all modules enabled?
You can disable modules before running mkinitcpio

0/10

>>55929480
>Show me one relevant distro that doesn't have systemd
Argumentum ad populum; "Eat shit, millions of flies can't be wrong."

>>55929479
Afaik he also talks portuguese, pretty cool, I wish'd I'd know more languages too.

>>55929497
OpenRC is not even relevant enough to focus on

>>55929514
https://stallman.org/guantanamero.ogg

http://systemd-free.org/why.php

File: Capture.png (3KB, 304x147px) Image search: [Google]

3KB, 304x147px

>>55929123
There is no Hz set. Is this not necessary anymore?
How does this work?

>>55929123
What's a good ftp client these days? I've been using FireFTP for years but it's been feeling a bit flaky lately. I've never liked Filezilla but that's the one everyone seems to recommend. Is there really nothing else that hasn't been left to rot for years? I prefer gooey, but I suppose cli is ok if it isn't a totally grotesque piece of shit.

>>55929397
If you actually care about every single one of those points you should probably install Gentoo. I wouldn't really recommend Gentoo but it's probably one of the few distros that won't trigger your autism.

You could also switch to BSD.

Using Linux Mint 18 on a Thinkpad T410. When I resume after suspend wifi card does not find any Wifi. I didn't had this problem with Mint 17.3 .
Is this a Ubuntu 16.04 issue? How can I prevent this?

guys i solved my issues with menus gVim (not having menus for plugins)
thank you all

File: 1464455189557.png (470KB, 640x480px) Image search: [Google]

470KB, 640x480px

How can I strip metadata with ffmpeg?

>>55931229
It's St IGNUcius.

sorry if I sound like a complete moron

I'm buying this laptop (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011KFQASE/) for uni use and also some minor personal use

it comes preloaded with Windows 10 but I do not want that at all. While I was originally planning just to use 7 or 8.1, I thought since this would be the first computer I have that's truly mine and not a shared computer, and a brand new computer I would be intrigued by using Linux.

I've done some research on distros and it sounds like either Mint or Ubuntu would work the best for me.

Am I completely on point or would another distro be better?

I don't need tutorials, just thoughts on those two distros or if another one would be better for me.

Is there any way to assign a directory to an mtp device, sort of like a symlink?

>>55931310
Mint and Ubuntu are bad choices (insecure, spyware), since both are forks of Debian, why not just install Debian?

>>55931541
that's the consensus that I got when I came here
that all I read before was a crock of shit lel

>>55931310
If you really don't want to try another distro, choose the lesser evil: Ubuntu. Their politcs are cancer, but at least the spyware thing was removed, so it may just werk for you. I've read bad things about mint tho, http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/11/answering-controversy-stability-vs-security-is-something-you-configure/, it also got backdorred once http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994

>>55931705
I'm more than open to trying another distro. I haven't installed anything yet and just bought said laptop (hasn't came yet). So I'm starting completely fresh and open to whatever.

I wouldn't describe myself as a tech skilled individual, but I'm not computer illiterate and can follow and understand instructions.

>>55931310
Mint is easy, handholdy, and looks nice out of the box with Cinammon. Easy to get your feet wet with, but you really don't wanna use it for long. Their security and patching policy is not good. Mint is based on Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is easy and handholdy, offers many flavors (which all come with differrent desktop environments so you can pick the one you think is prettier). Easy to get your feet wet with, but has a really shitty philosophy and company behind it. Ubuntu is based on Debian.

You can use either of these if you feel like you're an absolute beginner and want to make things easy for yourself.

If you feel like you wouldn't be afraid of getting your hands a bit dirtier while learning, but still having a relatively easy experience, you're encouraged to jump right into Debian. Just know that most handholding will be gone by this point, and you'll be relying a lot on RTFM (read the fucking manual)

>>55931745
mint is based on debian now

>>55931753
Yer wrong, champ.
https://www.linuxmint.com/download_all.php

Only Betsy is based on Debian

>>55931745
Ayy, thanks for updating me.

>>55931745
>If you feel like you wouldn't be afraid of getting your hands a bit dirtier while learning, but still having a relatively easy experience, you're encouraged to jump right into Debian. Just know that most handholding will be gone by this point, and you'll be relying a lot on RTFM (read the fucking manual)
Yeah this might be what I end up doing.
I'm assuming there's fairly detailed set-up and installation guides online for Debian?

>>55929169
No. I suppose you can with most live cds but it's really impractical.

>>55929479
his french is pretty good for a burger

>>55931798
Debian has a TUI installer, you basically just boot and follow it.

>>55929361
Just use the long term releases. If there's a specific feature included in an update, go for it. Otherwise you're asking for instability.

>>55931829
Alright, sounds good. Thanks for the recommendation!

>>55929397
>Ubuntu: known for spyware, keyloggers, microsoft friendship
Where are people getting this? Yes they're working with Microsoft. The rest is bullshit.

>>55931830
LTS sucks, once the time is over, you need to reinstall your system and you basically have shitold packages all the time.
People should at least use dot-releases and update to the next dot, if rolling is too edgy.

>>55931798
Oh yeah. Debian is after all one of the big grandpas in the GNU/Linux world.

Some basic guidelines to get you started:

>There are actually three branches in Debian: Stable (which is right now at 8, codename 'Jessie'), Testing (which will become the next stable, 9, codename 'Stretch'), and Unstable (which is always codenamed 'Sid' - yeah, these are all Toy Story characters, it's a tradition - and it's the bleeding edge release).
>If you're a desktop user, what you probably want to do for ease of use is to do a netinstall of Debian Stable, and then when you're done upgrade it to Testing.
>Get the netinstall that includes non-free firmware to save yourself common beginner stumbles

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/8.5.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/

>>55931868
>keylogger, spyware
The amazon lense was intigrated into the dash and sent every keystroke to ubuntus product search, in return you got amazon ads, horribly over http.

>>55931877
As long as you upgrade your packages before doing a dist upgrade you should be fine. I had problems back in the days of Ubuntu 8.04 but that was years ago.
Source: I've upgraded my server incrementally since 12.04.

>>55931916
I'm assuming it was packaged with unity. I've always downloaded the server iso and added xfce to it.

>>55931937
Then you should be fine.

>>55931798
Also, if you want, I could share my copypasta for partitioning if you like. Just reply to this post

>>55931960
Not him, but I'd like to read it.

kek, found Shuttleworth's statement

>We are not telling Amazon what you are searching for. Your anonymity is preserved because we handle the query on your behalf. Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update. You trust Debian, and you trust a large swathe of the open source community. And most importantly, you trust us to address it when, being human, we err.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182

>>55931960
sure!

If I replace i3 with i3-gaps and set like 10px gaps, will I be able to use the entire gap as a drag area for resizing?

File: debianlogo.png (620KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

620KB, 1920x1080px

>>55931973
Sure, I'd love some critique of it as well. It's just how I do it, but always glad to make amends to it. It was originally for an SSD+HDD system where you want the system files to be on the SSD and use the HDD exclusively for storage, but it's easily adaptable to just SSD or just HDD.

--------------------
During install, choose to manually partition your drive
Clear the partition tables of any disks you want to clear by selecting and pressing enter
Make these partitions:
On your SSD
-100 MB EFI System Partition (if you're on UEFI)
-100 MB /boot partition with ext2 file system
-The rest of the free space on the SSD is assigned to an LVM physical volume (*** read below)

On your HDD
-Literally all of the free space on a single ext4 partition, which you can mount in a directory called /data or in /media/whatever, your choice

Proceed to configure LVM

-Create a volume group based on your LVM physical volume that you chose earlier. Name it myVG or whatever
-Create three logical volumes in said volume group
-30 GB volume for / (root) (name it myRoot or whatever)
-4GB or 8GB volume for swap (depends on how much RAM you have. some people prefer to not have a swap partition at all and just make it a file, that's fine too) (name it mySwap or whatever)
-the rest of free GB goes to /home (again, myHome or whatever)

Finish configuration of LVM

-When back on the partition screen, mark your myRoot Logical Volume as / (root) and ext4 file system
-mark your mySwap LV as swap
-mark your myHome LV as /home and ext4 filesystem

Continue with installation
When it's done, make "Documents", "Downloads", "Pictures", "Videos", etc folders in your /data (HDD) partition and symbolic link them to your /home ones, so stuff in those gets saved to your HDD and not your SSD.

Ta-da

(***) Oh, and if you want to encrypt your system, it just takes one extra step. Mark your free space in the SSD as crypto, not as LVM, configure LVM on LUKS, and also encrypt your HDD if you want. Done

File: 1440255693107.png (271KB, 650x488px) Image search: [Google]

271KB, 650x488px

>>55932037
>Your anonymity is preserved

>Technically, when you search for something in Dash, your computer makes a secure HTTPS connection to productsearch.ubuntu.com, sending along your search query and your IP address. If it returns Amazon products to display, your computer then insecurely loads the product images from Amazon's server over HTTP. This means that a passive eavesdropper, such as someone sharing a wireless network with you, will be able to get a good idea of what you're searching for on your own computer based on Amazon product images.

https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks

>>55932097
>>55932037
>100 years old infos

How do i add milliseconds using strftime? Following works fine, but i need to use milliseconds as well
%tY-%tm-%td-%wH:%wM:%wS

What is the quickest way to learn vim?

>>55932257
Type vimtutor into your terminal and set aside about 20 minutes of your time
Congratulations, now you know the basics of vim

>>55929397
Yep. Those are all memes.

>>55932243
Looks like scrots syntax, use date instead, drop the whole exec and move stuff.

scrot ~/.scrots/screenshot_"$(date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%3N')".png

>>55932342
hello 9gag

>>55932353
drop the whole scrot stuff
import -window root ~/.scrots/screenshot_"$(date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%3N')".png

>>55932385
drop the whole stuff
PrtScn

File: 1470377605471.png (564KB, 1366x768px) Image search: [Google]

564KB, 1366x768px

How do you get your desktop to look like this? Is it a theme or is it from scratch?

>>55932406
>DE
dropped

>>55932426
install a tiling wm, compton, pipes.sh, mpd+ncmpcpp, pacman, a bitmap font, revers image search the wallpaper

>>55932243
try %f

>>55932426
looks like awesomewm

>>55932454
You are good, sir, you bring honor, thank

>>55932353
>>55932385
>>55932406
>>55932432
Its for screenshots using mpv.
>>55932470
All it did was add the filename to the end

>>55932499
You could add frame timings, so the filename is different for every frame. Try this:
%tY%tm%td%tH%tM%tS_%wH%wM%wS%wT_%f

How do I upgrade to testing from stable on Debian?

>>55931868
> Working with Microsoft
> not being at best strongarmed into putting spyware in

>>55932631
It is just changing a line of text in your sources.list file

>Open up your terminal
>

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

(you can use any text editor you like, even GUI-based, I just chose nano as an example
>Change every instance of 'jessie' to 'testing'
>Save (in nano, CTRL+X, confirm with yes)
>

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Note:
You only want to use apt-get for upgrading branches. For everything else, use aptitude.
If you don't have sudo configured yet, then:

>Open terminal
>su
>Enter admin password you assigned in install
>visudo
>Scroll down to where it says User Privilege Specification, and beneath root add your own username with ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>Save

File: 1469333022376.png (18KB, 530x530px) Image search: [Google]

18KB, 530x530px

>>55932243
>%P

>Similar to %p, but extended with the playback time in milliseconds. It is formatted as "HH:MM:SS.mmm", with "mmm" being the millisecond part of the playback time.

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/options.rst

is there a way to use Gnome3 with another window manager?
Infinite virtual desktops seems kinda nice to me, but those windows are ugly as hell and too bright for my taste.
Alternatively: is there another window manager/DE with infinite desktops?

>>55932631
>>55932692
Should look like this:

# OFFICIAL DEBIAN REPOS

## Debian Main Repos

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian testing-updates main contrib non-free

The lines with # are obviously commented. You can remove the CD ISO ones that appear by default on top harmlessly.
I added httpredir instead of a mirror because httpredir redirects you to the fastest and most complete mirror in your case. It's pretty handy.

>>55932707
>contrib
>non-free

>>55932717
You made yer choice and I made mine friendo. That's the beauty of Debian

>>55932707
looks alright, but nonfree isn't an official debian repo tho

>>55932741
By Official I mean "listed in their wiki and site". I know it's not 'official official'

By Unofficial I mean stuff like the multimedia repo and all that.

dd if=(linux ISO) of=/dev/(flash drive)

> boots to 'test media or just go to livecd'
> select either
> black screen with underscore in topleft corner
> leave that all night
> stays that way

I'm running dd with && sync right now. I hope that works.

File: weepman.jpg (272KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

272KB, 1024x768px

>>55932732
> choosing to not be free
> choosing

>>55932778
You keep weeping, Mr. Stallman, I'll keep being happy and having fun

>>55932762
Did you unmount the flash drive before you did that?

>>55932778
Well, luckily on Debian you can choose, unlike Arch..

>>55932762
>dd && sync
uuuhhhhh

>>55932762
It's always a good idea to check if= and of= twice before hitting return.

>>55932807
It said it wasn't mounted when I ran umount.

I formatted it to a blank GPT before running dd. I don't see how that would affect things negatively but I did.

>>55932835
I always check if and of very carefully since an incident earlier this year where I overwrote my own hard drive with zeroes and lost all my data.

Unless I'm so unbelievably retarded that if means 'thing getting written to' and of means 'thing written from' and I got it backwards.

>>55929169
I put a full install of debian on a USB stick once. It works fine, I don't know why I'd use it though.

File: 1464719131382.png (471KB, 904x1086px) Image search: [Google]

471KB, 904x1086px

Isn't Debian old? Is it really better than Ubuntu??

>>55929123
what's good media player for linux mint?
vlc sucks:
>horrible UI
>horrible navigation, jumps too much
>can't click video to pause
>doesn't play/skip all video formats, "file corrupt" when it isn't

>>55932872
Debian Stable has old packages, precisely for stability. It is mostly used in servers.

Debian Testing has pretty new packages, and a balance between stable and new

Debian Sid has extremely new packages all the time, and still stable for Debian's standards

Ubuntu is based on Debian Sid (And then they proceed to fuck it up)

>>55932879
>still stable for Debian's standards
debian sid is broken as fuck
if you update your whole system to sid, something is always broken

>>55932911
butthurt archkid detected

>>55932835
>>55932824
>>55932807

dd && sync completed. I rebooted my old laptop and it had no problem booting into the livecd.

The new laptop is still stonewalling me.

>>55932924
Do you use Sid at all or are you pulling
facts out of your ass?

>>55929169
I am using Slackware on a 16gb flash drive

Currently using filezilla. For some reason it change the charset of my files once I upload them to the server.
Any good ftp client ?

>>55932911
>Debian Sid
>Broken

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Shit's amazing.

>>55932993
>>55933054
well to be honest I only ran it once.
getting segfaults in inetd was enough to spoil it for me though.

>>55932692
>>55932707
Thank you very much. It seems that nothing has changed though.

>>55932911
>debian sid is broken as fuck
>if you update your whole system to sid, something is always broken

>>55933069
>well to be honest I only ran it once.

Why do you do this. You're killing me

>>55933082
Did the dist-upgrade finish?
Restart your computer.

>>55933097
Yeah, it didn't do a whole lot though. Was it supposed to be that quick?
I've restarted now.

>>55933135
Now that you restarted

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude full-upgrade
sudo aptitude autoclean

Type

uname -v

, post result

If it's Kernel 4.6.4-1, you're on Testing

>>55933135
>Dist-upgrade
>Quick

Sounds fishy.

Type uname -v first before you do anything else

>>55933163
>>55933176
Well, I'm certainly not on testing. It says #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 (2016-07-02).

File: Screenshot from 2016-08-05 11-32-16.png (468KB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

468KB, 1920x1080px

Hello /fglt/, just wanted to swing by and say: If you're using GNOME, go ahead and check out the OSX-Arc-White theme using the San Francisco font, and Moka icons.

Based anon recommended it to me a few threads ago

Jesus Christ it's beautiful.

>>55933226
I want that wallpaper.

>>55933213
Open your sources.list again. Maybe you didn't save the changes you made, so the source is still on Jessie.

>>55933246
Right here >>55932087

>>55932243
In strftime it's usually %L or %3N (%tL or %t3N) which doesn't seem to work with mpv. Just tried it.

>>55933226
Something is wrong with your taste bro.

>>55933287
What is wrong with it bro.

>>55933264
Thanks for the wallpaper.
Also, I did save it last time. Or at least I remember saving it. I'll try it again.

>>55933275
It's not mpv, UNIX strftime doesn't support miliseconds, except it's extended.

holy shit I just reinstalled archlinux and for soe reason firefox is unresponsive as fuck. Even as I'm' typing this theres a delay. It's like i'm using it on the raspberry pi. Anybody have this issue?

>>55933453
I have the cpu usage monitor up and there's no unusual spike or anything. Doesn't happen in chromium

>>55933264
Okay, here's how it looks.

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates main


deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

Is that right?

>>55933464
Why do you have it doubled?

Either use the US mirror or the DE mirror, or just use httpredir

It should only have 6 lines for what you want to do.
And why do you have contrib non-free only on one? You either don't use contrib non-free everywhere or not at all

>>55932707

And make sure you save it with sudo privileges, otherwise it's not going to let you save changes

Is there a way to completely remove firefox? So it don't show up in my left-side hotbar?
I use chrome like the faggot i am.

hey all
I'm trying to play flash games I have saved, but I can't find a working standalone player. Gnash wouldn't install and swfdec did nothing once installed.

I don't have flash on any of my browsers (palemoon and IceCat) because I don't need it, but I couldn't find a way to get flash on them either.

I also tried lightspark, it installed and recognized .swf files but didn't play them. I suspect because it relies of gnash.

So, how can I play my flash games?

>>55933464
Just copy this exactly >>55932707

Exclude 'contrib' and 'non-free' if you want. Leave them be if you don't care

>>55933511
*You either use contrib and non-free everywhere or you don't at all

>>55933511
I'm not really sure. I'm very new to all of this.
To do that do I just make myself root before I open the sources list or?

>>55933527
I'll do that, then.

>>55933573
>do I just make myself root before opening
Yes. Either by typing su, your admin password, and then editing it from this root terminal, or by simply typing 'sudo' before your command, which gives your user terminal temporal admin privileges, asking you for your user password. If you try to edit sources.list as an average user, it won't let you save it.

If you don't have sudo configured, then follow the steps here
>>55932692
>Open terminal
>su
>Enter admin password you assigned in install
>visudo
>Scroll down to where it says User Privilege Specification, and beneath root add your own username with ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
>Save

>>55933453
firefox on arch here.
nope, no problems.

Have you checked if you are, in fact, not running it on a Raspberry Pi?

>>55933600
Alright. I got the sources list changed to what was in that example earlier. Now things are actually happening. About how long should this take?

>>55933613
>Have you checked if you are, in fact, not running it on a Raspberry Pi?
yes. I guess it's time to reinstall again

>>55933512
Just uninstall it.
What OS are you on?

>>55933632
That...doesn't sound like a good solution.
Install htop and see if some process is hogginf your resources. Nuking everything is the Windows way to fix things.

>>55933625
GIve it half an hour maybe?

Also, you used apt-get, right? That's what you're supposed to use for upgrading between branches

And then, use aptitude for literally everything else

>>55933684
Okay, thank you!

I need a recommendation for which Linux distribution I should install, my computer is a toaster with a Pentium 1.6ghz and 2gb ram. I want to do watch my 720p chinkfilms and play rogue likes.

>>55933636
I tired purging it, but still there.
On Debian

>>55933660
>That...doesn't sound like a good solution.
reinstalled and now it's responsive. GG linux

>>55933709
Debian netinstall with LXDE

>>55933972
okay I know what it is now. I just installed xf86-video-intel and now firefox is shit again

>>55933709
Lubuntu. It comes shipped with all the codecs you need.

Does Intel not like Linux? I know Nvidia doesn't but I've got an intel graphics card on my laptop and when I try to boot to a Linux LiveUSB (no optical drive) it hangs after I selelct 'start live'.

It boots into the menu, but hangs. Is this just Windows 10 preinstalled on my system running damage control?

>>55934049
shit does anybody know how to display the messages archlinux gives you when you install certain programs? They had a message about thhe intel driver that I would like to read again.

>>55934083
Windows isn't even running when you run a live cd.
Never had any problems with Intel and Linux, and I'm on my third Intel laptop and ~5th distro.

>>55934089
nevermind i found it

>>55934082
Newfriends should post recommendations.

>>55934089
/var/log/pacman.log

>>55933724
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove firefox

>>55934222
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove firefox-esr

>>55933724
There's still a .desktop file somewhere which was created by your DE. Search for firefox.desktop and delete it. Better yet, search for *firefox* and *iceweasel* and delete everything you find.

>>55929523
well that was delightful

>>55931745
full agreement

>>55932257
vimtutor once a day for a few days, also check out Derek Wyatt's vimcasts, vimcasts.org, and the book Practical Vim (google all of it). You'll be a wizard in no time.

For those who have used Honeyview3 on Windows, what do you use on Linux that has about the same functionality and speed?

File: 1449500568731.jpg (37KB, 370x654px) Image search: [Google]

37KB, 370x654px

So every day I'm starting to get a little more tired of W7. It looks like shit and is basically unriceable.

I run arch on my x220 and I dig it, but I don't think it's something I wanna run on my gay man desktop due to drivers and the likes.

What are my options? Debian testing? Manjaro? Kubuntu?

I'm hesitant towards Kubuntu because I hated the "installing a major update breaks everything" meme I experienced from Xubuntu.

>>55932879
>Ubuntu is based on Debian Sid

What the fuck? That's crazy. I was kind of concerned about using Testing or Sid, but after hearing that I mind as well run Sid...

>>55934569
Choosing the right distro is an endless war. Good luck with that. At the end of the day, you want a base system, not a fork, so choose your evil between Arch, Debian, Fedora, or Gentoo.

>>55934569
Distros have nothing to do with game support.
If your hardware allows it, install Windows in a VM with GPA passthrough set up. If not, dual boot.

File: 2016-08-05-131551_1920x1080_scrot.png (1MB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1920x1080px

just started with my arch install, fiddle with openbox till i fucked the root menus.
Now im in cinnamon.

What id like to know is what text editor i should use? i want to get into c and i would like a decent text editor or ide to do my stuff on.

>>55934608
Ubuntu has shit practices. They grab the perfectly good Sid and then fuck it up and teach people to add all these garbage PPAs and then the system is a clusterfuck

That said, don't upgrade to Sid if you really don't need it. If you're not a developer you will be fine on Testing.

That said, if you really wanna be bleeding edge but have a bit more responsibility on your shoulders (like bug reporting sometimes, and not breaking your system by responsible updating) then go for Sid

>>55934652
>GPA passthrough
You meant GTA passthrough

>>55934608
Debian, Arch, openSUSE, Slackware and Fedora are all based on completely untested packages from thousands of hobbyist developers upstream.

That doesn't mean anything.

What separates "serious" distributions from "toy" distributions like Arch? I've seen the phrase "toy distribution" being used more than once for Arch. Why is this?

File: 1458887186904.jpg (986KB, 2048x1536px) Image search: [Google]

986KB, 2048x1536px

>>55934612
Alright, I'll probably go Debian Sid then. Seems like the best place to start due to muh drivers, but I don't have to be as worried about driver fuckups as I woudl be on arch.

>>55934652
I know that - I'm more concerned about how drivers + libraries play into it.

People always say "just use GPU passthrough" and I'd totally love to do that, but as near as I can tell, you need a second graphics card to keep using your linux system on a second monitor. Seems like a pain in the ass, desu senpai.

I've never legitimately found a person in this thread who did it.

>>55934679
Debian stable/testing aren't untested...

>>55934673
No, I meant IPA passthrough.

What are some guides for making xfce look better on gentoo?

>Inb4 le gentoo meme XD XD XD

>>55934720
No, but the packages they get from upstream are.

>>55934719
If support for games isn't to your liking on Arch, it won't be better anywhere else.

Just the way it is. Linux isn't made for top-end games, and top-end games aren't made for Linux.

>>55934744
https://www.xfce-look.org/browse/cat/138/ord/latest/

>>55934744
A gentoo user wouldn't ask such a stupid question.

>>55934781
Just started using it senpai, been searching forever for the distro right for me, Gentoo appeals to me the most
>>55934777
thank you

>>55934719
If you only have one graphics card and one monitor, it seems to me that GPU passthrough is more trouble than it is worth.

>>55934745
>Receive upstream packages
>They are reviewed and tested by maintainers of official repos of the distributions
>They receive patches accordingly
>Now they are tested

>>55934719
Honestly, this is what I do:
Have a small Windows 10 partition for certain new games, like Rainbow Six Siege or the Witcher 3. This only has a few games.

Have a much larger main partition for Debian Testing with which I do literally everything else (work, study, general use, and any other vidya that is natively compatible on Linux or works with Wine)

This setup works fine for me

>>55929397
Void Linux

>>55934694
Because Arch forces you to constantly stay on top of updates, read the newsfeed, and fix minor issues once in a while.

Whereas on Debian, you get a handful updated packages (with no new features) per month, which means there's very little maintenance and you can focus completely on working with it, not on it.

>>55929123
how do i make the title bar for windows on gnome smaller? and black? i hate it is bigger than the taskbar

>>55934811
>Receive upstream packages
>They are reviewed and tested by maintainers of official repos of the distributions
>They receive patches accordingly
>Now they are tested

Exactly my point, senpai. I was replying to someone who thought it's scary that Ubuntu is based on Sid, where it works exactly the same way.

>>55934719
Just remember that whichever branch of Debian you choose, you must first begin from a Debian Stable install and then upgrade to whatever.

>>55934694
Because people who don't know shit come in and talk about how taking time to set up your OS Is autistic and a toy hobby. The reality is that if you're comfortable in a terminal, you'll spend around an hour or so installing it and making sure you have everything, and then you're done. Any issue you have from that point on will more than likely be minor, and something you can just google, do an install/repair, and be done.

The only issues comes if you use special drivers for some hardware, things like standalone GPU's, weird ass USB shit, or outdated programs that rely on a depreciated library. But even that's pushing it.

>>55934744
Might I recommend arc theme + numix circle icon? That's what I use for my Xfce, and I honestly can't fathom using anything else.

I use MATE now though, I find it more stable.

>>55934774
I suppose that's fair. Although I can attest that fedora cannot into games compared to arch, debian, and whatever else exists.

>>55934811
I'll probably dual boot. I might dick with GPU passthrough though since I have a spare AMD 7750 laying around I could toss in for my spare monitor. I just hate the whole "rebooting every time your bro wants to game!" meme, which is why I'm still stuck on 7.

Fuck Microsoft, how do you fuck up your initial design philosophy so hard?

>>55934817
> Void Linux has replaced OpenSSL with LibreSSL, one of the first distributions to do so.
noice

>>55934877
>The reality is that if you're comfortable in a terminal, you'll spend around an hour or so installing it and making sure you have everything
the beginner install is literally like 5 steps or something. I just reinstalled and it took like 10 min

>>55934902
whats the point

>>55934915
actually here it is:
connect to network
partition
pacstrap
chroot
locale
timezone
bootloader

>>55934921
You get to be an even specialer snowflake.

>>55934877
Thanks for the Numix recommendation

>>55934921
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed
>>55934953
see >>55929497

>>55934915
Well I think it depends on what you consider to be a finished install.

Of course arch is pretty much done by the bootloader, but you're not really "done" unless that's legitimately how you want to use your PC. So I would say an hour max unless you run into a major fuckup (I did.)

>>55934969
no problem. I hate the numix theme, but I dig the icons.

tmux or screen and why?
(plese be serious, no gnu memes)

Is it possible to make gnome put the menu bar into the top bar? There are some applications like the min browser that would be slick if it didn't have two 12 pixel stacks sitting on top of it...

>>55935061
I've tried, and ended up with tmux.
It felt simpler but I literally can't tell you why.
Either try them both and decide for yourself, or choose one randomly and stick with it. They're both good.

>>55935141
*tried both

>>55935141
Pretty much this.
Most people prefer tmux, just "because"

>>55935141
>trying both
guess thats the best idea if there arent much differences

>>55929123
anyone else had the problem that the webms here on 4chan and other

 <video>

elements always start at 0% volume ?

what did you do to fix it ?

also first for glances it seems

>>55931229
use mat (metadata anonymising tool)

Was no one fazed by the internal issues at Debian and the switch to systemd?

>>55931229
# Remove metadata (video):
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map_metadata -1 -c:v copy -c:a copy output.mp4

# Remove metadata (audio incl. coverart):
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -map_metadata -1 -vn -c:a copy output.mp3

>>55934877
>I just hate the whole "rebooting every time your bro wants to game!" meme
M8, half of my steam library can run natively on Linux. And out of the half that can't, half can run on Wine with no crazy configs. Just a few with some tweaks.

Most of the time I play videogames I stay comfy on Linux. If I really want to play Siege ro whatever, I'll reboot. But I don't do it often. I just like having it as an option for those pesky games that just will never get Linux ports and don't play nice with Wine

File: zdnet-linux.jpg (133KB, 980x550px) Image search: [Google]

133KB, 980x550px

How does this make you feel ?

>>55935316
Not really.

At this point, you'd think competitor devs would try to make something to rival systemd - you know, keep its ease of use but also not make it an invasion of the body snatchers. You'd think that'd be a hit with everyone.

>>55935395
makes me remember not to fall for the bait

>>55935395
thank mr canonical

>>55935420
doot doot KERNEL PANIC

>>55935395
>tech illiterate normalfag "Linux" blogs
makes me throw up in my mouth, everytime

Honestly, Void Linux seems insanely good. Are there any major downsides to making such a young and unkown distro your main distro?

>>55935444
Well, they're not all bad. At LEAST it gets their foot in the door.

>>55935465
The obvious: lacking documentation and support

>>55935476
>The obvious: lacking documentation and support
stop visiting distrowatch and check the actual website, retard

>>55935487
I've never used Void Linux: I'm mentioning an obvious downside to using a young and unknown distro as your main distro in general, like anon asked. Don't feel so personally attacked.

>>55935061
>>55935141
>>55935181
>>55935188
retard here, when and why does one actually need a multiplexer?

Are there distros that are better/more stable at virtualization than others?

Also, which WM is best on a laptop with limited screenspacee? I have a 1600x900 Thinkpad T550. I want the ability to have many terminals/VM instances open at once but at other times be comfy with browsing the internet.

Okay. I'm on Testing now. For some reason I had to use recovery mode to actually get the desktop to load. Kinda weird, but whatever.

Also now I have the option to turn wifi on but when I check the box, nothing happens.

what encryption does /fglt/ use on there os?

using lubuntu on a usb drive and i would like to make it hard to access by dumbass friends i have.

I will install Arch on my laptop
a short question

LUKS on LVM
or
LVM on LUKS

>>55929123
>freenode
anyway, I have only had good experience with long release cycle distros, e.g. ubuntu is or Two that I tried and were pretty good in my experience (as in, it didn't fucking break xorg or programs misteriously stopping working):

Debian
CentOS

Anything else just as stable that is fit for desktop usage?

>>55936201
>>freenode
It's a link to #sqt channel anyway. Why is the link even there.

>>55935565
- it's useful to have multiple terminal programs running alongside eachother
- entirely keyboard controlled and configurable
- tiling saves space
- can help you organize your workflow

Probably other benefits, but I don't use a multiplexer because alt-tabbing is good enough for me, and I don't have to run many things simultaneously.

>>55936290
thanks

>>55936201
Slackware

Why would you ever install arch?
Manjaro Linux is extremely easy to install and is basically arch in the end.

>>55936644
Because it's not

hope that clears things up for you man

>>55936572
Thank you. <3

asking those who've installed Tails on ubuntu or other distros and have had a similar issue

trying to install tails on a usb

tails-installer says
It is impossible to upgrade the device hp v165w (16.0 GB) - /dev/sdb1 because it was not created using Tails Installer. You should instead use "Install from ISO" to upgrade Tails on this device.

i think i did the previous parts of their installation guide correctly
i use lubuntu, which is 15.10 ubuntu

>>55936644
architect or antergos is actually arch, but manjaro is going it's own way

>>55936644
It's actually better than Arch, looks nice out of the box, provides additional repo with some nice patched packages, precriced tiling wms, update without breakage panic, doesn't force you systemd up your mouth, etc.

File: tearfulness.jpg (33KB, 250x156px) Image search: [Google]

33KB, 250x156px

> he doesn't run Fedora Rawhide

What are you doing with your life?

>>55937108
fuck off with your lq bait memes

>>55937108
>Fedora
>Fedora rawhide
LMAO

>>55937147
see >>55937123

>>55935465
> .eu

Into the trash it goes

Anyone tried Debians GNU Hurd port? Seems like there's still active development.

>>55934569
Im currently using Manjaro KDE on my T420 I haven't tried a ton of distros but Manjaro is currently the only one that has had bumblebee set up out of the box

>>55937192
>m-muh NSA

>>55937099

>looks nice out of the box
I can install a theme I like myself.

>provides additional repo with some nice patched packages
What do they provide? They piggy-back off Arch's repositories for 95% of their packages. What do they patch? Why do they patch it?

>precriced tiling wms
You already made this point. A normal person can install and change the options himself.

>update without breakage panic
Yes, because delaying packages for an arbitrary amount of time surely makes everything better. You should also stop posting "epic memes" and build your own opinion about things (Arch in this case). If this was real life you'd be embarrassing yourself and I don't know how you can tolerate parroting wrong information without feeling like an idiot or feeling shame.

>doesn't force you systemd up your mouth
Plenty of other distributions do that too. I am willing to bet money that the vast majority of the systemd haters don't even know what systemd is or what it does. They just want to have a bold technical opinion about something, so they can feel superior and knowledgable about something.

>>55936644

People who need Arch install it. People who want to brag online install Manjaro or use one of those useless abstraction layer/installers for a 10 minute long process. Then they praise the AUR as if it's the best thing ever, without realizing that they're basically praising the random EXE downloading/installing of the Linux world.

>>55937230
>dat extreme archbabby butthurt
priceless

File: 1439231905026.jpg (661KB, 2000x2000px) Image search: [Google]

661KB, 2000x2000px

>>55937244
Man I didn't know the Manjaro devs posted on 4chan.

Hey if you guys get the memo, could you start displaying more competence? Maybe more people would use it.

File: screenFetch-2016-08-05_15-51-54.png (2MB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1920x1080px

>>55937230
But this isn't real life. We are all brothers here.

I do agree with you on everything though. Just calm down a bit, anon.

pic related is my archtism

>>55937230
Not him, but some of their patched packages are actually useful (urxvt with patched away bugs, dmenu w/ sane patches), just to name some (check their git). I actually saved some of them for my Arch install.

>>55937302
>The first rule of the Arch Club: Tell everyone about the Arch Club

>>55937294
Well I guess this post confirmed you for meming.

>>55937230
>Plenty of other distributions do that too
Plenty of people also use Windows 10, where's your point?

>>55937331
When you spend the time to make your Arch install into something really special that works perfectly for you, you want to share it.

>Does anyone have experience with customizing the colors in gtk themes?

>>55937354
I'm not even that guy you know
>presents logical valid arguments
>lol u mad

babby's first troll. Or you're just manjaro devs.

>>55929123
I run Arch with Cinnamon and compton on a low spec PC. First gen i3 mobile/4gb ddr3/5400rpm drive and chromium consumes most of my system's resources. I need a lite flac/mp3 player with a GUI and library feature. Any suggestions? Preferably using GTK libs.

File: 1438760151592.jpg (25KB, 500x381px) Image search: [Google]

25KB, 500x381px

>>55937380
>something really special
>the 1000000th Arch desktop with i3 and an anime wallpaper

>>55937230
>Yes, because delaying packages for an arbitrary amount of time surely makes everything better.
You have no idea what you're talking about, how about researching about the topic before posting?

File: 1446741292811.jpg (75KB, 800x600px) Image search: [Google]

75KB, 800x600px

>>55937390
Where do you get your FLACs?

>>55937402
This is my desktop.
There are many like it,
but this one is mine.

Admit it looks sexy.
Ricing i3 is like buying a really nice watch.
>Everytime you use it as a tool you also stop and think to yourself: damn that looks good.

Hopefully one day you can feel these feels.

>>55937390
mpd+sonata

File: 4L_fR4SC8kw.jpg (135KB, 600x800px) Image search: [Google]

135KB, 600x800px

So yesterday I got around to installing arch Linux and dual booting it with Windows. In the tutorial that I was watching, the person used pacman -S to install programs and used yaourt once to install a different program. Since I have used Ubuntu MATE before, I was wondering if pacman -S is the equivalent of apt-get install?

>>55937230
Manjaro has 3 branches; Stable, Testing and Unstable. The Manjaro unstable branch syncs with the Arch stable branch at least once a day.

>>55937455
I get the majority of my music from rutracker. I download 320's when I'm at home and FLAC when I'm studying at the computer lab because they have a 500/500 line. 64gb microsd card in my moto e so I have enough room to bring my favorite albums around easily.
>>55937474
THank you will install and test.

>>55937496
yes
I don't even use arch tbqh

File: 1451558276179.jpg (143KB, 675x450px) Image search: [Google]

143KB, 675x450px

>>55937496
Yeah basically. I'm glad it worked out for you anon!

>>55937529
ty for the info

>>55937496
Yes but you will find that there are not a ton of packages available in the standard repos that you access with pacman. Yaourt accesses the Arch User Repo which has a ton of shit but not all of it is up to date.

Also as a new arch user(few months) I generally regret updating as my MTP support/tethering always fucking breaks so just be a bit weary updating your system all the time.

ps i like ur 2d

>>55937564
what the fuck would a hot dog like that even taste like

What do I do with partitions when I'm installing a different distro? Do I have to redo everything? Do I have to nuke each partition?

I'm retarded. I partitioned my disk for another distribution but now want to try a different one.

>>55937564
I don't know if you're being sarcastic because I blogged or what but rutracker is indexed by google so it's really awesome. I just search "rutracker $BAND" and the first group of results tends to be lossy while the second grouping is FLAC. They have almost everything and it's all seeded.

>>55937598
Hows your partition setup?
Most likely you just need to nuke the partition with just the linux distro on it
If you have a swap partition you don't need to remove that

>>55937637
I have one swap partition and everything else is on a different one.

What's the best way to nuke it?

>>55937598
You can most probably just keep it that way completely.

>>55937595
Its actually a metaphor for the linux community.

We're just a hotdog trying to be delicious but the freetards have to come and fuck it up with their toothpaste instead of ketchup bullshit.

>>55937620
No I'm not being sarcastic. I used to use TPB for everything but then I picked up spotify a few years back. I'm interested in DLing some of my favorite bands for archival purposes now.

>>55937661
Well if you don't want to nuke it just yet and have free space you can make another partition and install it on that

And if you want to nuke it, you can just use the livecd of the other distro you want, or just use something like system rescue cd, or Gparted cd for partitioning

>>55937687
Thanks, friendly guy. I just started the installation on the big partition.

Also, does anyone else have issues with UEFI on the Thinkpad T550? UEFI installations don't seem to work at all.

>>55937690
But you can freely choose between toothpaste, mouthwash, aftershave, shampoo, conditioner, dish soap, bleach and lye on your hot dog.

>>55937732
And then people like me say:
>FUCK THIS I'LL EAT IT PLAIN

And that's why we have distros like arch.

File: 1440804953883.png (1MB, 1024x1024px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1024x1024px

So how do I go about dual monitors in loonix?

I'm going to be hopping to either Debian testing or arch here I think, and really don't know how dual monitor support works on these systems.

>>55937690
I've heard some people say rutracker rivals what.cd(best music tracker ever) in some aspects.
>>55937474
I have it and mpd installed and it seems perfect but I can't get my library to update. I went to prefrences and set my music dir to my downloads folder where there are a few albums and hit Update -> Entire library yet nothing happens. I tried a different folder as well as restarting the application. What am I doing wrong?

>>55937780
>the photoshopping in this pic

glorious

>>55937780
I have both Mint and Arch on my machine. Mint running XFCE(don't ask) and cinnamon under arch, both with LightDM. They have 0 issue with both of my monitors in either desktop env. Seems to just werk. I remember Gnome 3 bugging out with my monitors but I resolved it by shuffling the cables around or something.

>>55937814
I could just check but I enjoy talking to you guys:

>Is there much anime on rutracker?

Also how do you torrent safely off of a public tracker?

>>55937780
last time I checked debian was a just werks distro
Arch will take more time to werk, so I would suggest you test the waters with a vm or something
You could also try Antergos or Architech for Arch instead of the minimal install

>>55937846
I have never used it for non-music shit. You can get anime from nyaa.se and fan sub sites like horriblesubs. As a pleb YIFY is fine for me so I just go to their site for movies. ETTV is good for television and I believe they have their own website as well. If you like rock/metal metaltracker is a semi-public tracker with a good selection, the shit that I can't find on rutracker is always there.

I have never used any kind of "protection" while torrenting. Current I use a tmobile unlimited LTE plan via tether for my home internet and have 0 issues with torrents. For a seedbox I just use free digitalocean VPS which is fine as long as you don't get a copyright notice. So far I have only received one from torrenting GoT. There are a ton of companies that specialize in seedboxes and there are also a fuck load of VPNs you can use in linux with openvpn to torrent with if you want. Even the ISPs that do send you letters generally don't do shit about them.

>>55937840
So I could probably expect it to work then? I figured it would have required a little setup. Guess I'll see! Was probably gonna give KDE a shot.

Thanks, anon.

>>55937860
Can VM's be configured to use dual monitors? That's a dumb question I'm sure, but it's never been something that crossed my mind.

I use arch on my laptop, but the arch wiki seems to provide a few methods so I wasn't sure if there was an agreed upon method or not

>>55937915
Thanks for the info, I'll look into this.

Gonna take a nap now.

>>55937780
Dual monitor support now works on any distro.
Install one of the major DE's (Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon, MATE) to make it retard easy.

>visudo as root
>uncomment one line by deleting one character
>try to write file
>syntax error

What???

>>55937942
Yes, I would just expect it to work. My two monitors are hooked up to the ports on my laptop to further complicate things, and still no issues. I have years of linux experience but was in gaming mode for the last few years so I was rusty. I installed Mint(debain based distro) for a while then shrunk the partition and installed arch FROM mint which simplified shit for me. Now I have the mint partition on like 30 gigs as a fail safe system in case I fuck up my arch install. It's a nice set up. Only 1 issue thus far with arch and it resulted in the only reboot since I installed it 4 weeks ago. A system update broke MTP support.

> acer bios 1.2.5 has a bug preventing it from loading Linux livecds
> update needs to be downloaded via the preinstalled windows 10
> windows 10 refuses to let me so much as select a language for setup
> basically sitting next to a 600 dollar paperweight because no operating systems will load

My fucking god, time to kill myself.

>>55938022
Pull out the HDD, write the linux installation to it from a desktop or whatever, then put it back in?
Or do the same with windows 10? I have switched an HDD with win 8 on it between PCs and it worked.

>>55938002
Neato. That's a load off my mind. Can things like monitor position be calculated? (IE virtual desktop window location?)

>>55938010
Cool, good to know. I kind of figured it was another one of those "do it yourself" types of deals. It's nothing I can't handle, but it can certainly get old.

>>55937780
You dont need to configure anything.
Start x and you're good.
I have 3 monitors, i dont have an xorg.conf
It boots and it works flawlessly.
On arch

>>55937860
>Arch will take more time to werk
[citation needed]
If you mean installing packages is "hard", then ok, but everything else is flat out

File: linux-rekted.jpg (46KB, 660x371px) Image search: [Google]

46KB, 660x371px

Linux fungays, how does it makes you feel when you hear that Mayhem found about 10k exploits for linux distro's?

>>55938133
No senpai, I mean it will take longer for a beginner

Use gentoo unironically and I don't find it particularly hard to install now, but first install is always hard if you don't know what the fuck you're doing

Arch is far easier to install than gentoo, however it will be difficult if you're new

best distro for gaming?

What's a good IDE for linux?

>>55938288
Windows in a VM
:^)

>>55938160
(You)
now go back to memecenter

>>55938333
thats not a distro

>>55938189
>senpai
>>>/a/

>>55938382
>not knowing f.a.m. filters to senpai
wew meme

>>55938382
meanwhile on /a/
>>a/thread/145243953

>>55938365
Windows is a distrobution

>>55938406
>being this new
git gud senpai

My antergos started freezing randomly today after updating, anyone having the same problem? I can't find anything in the logs.. Is manjaro more stable?

>>55938472
nope, 10/7/8/8.1/vista are distros

>>55938566
That's like saying Ubuntu isn't a distro, but 16.04 is

>>55938649
nope
ubuntu phone =distro as well

>>55938406
Really?

t b h f a m

>>55938860
are you using an invisible meme character?
senpai
senpai

When I use a second screen on GNOME, the one on the right is about five pixels too far to the right, is there any way to fix that?

>>55938905
>everything is a meme
>>55938963
xrandr

tab completion is literally the best thing ever.

even end up using it outside the terminal to my chagrin.

>>55938969
>implying everything isn't a meme

>>55939017
>implying implications

>>55939028
>implying

>>55939005
bash?

>>55939102
zsh was neat, but have yet to try fish or some other esoteric shells

If I use a meme shell does that mean I'll be fucked when working on a different machine? I don't want to develop any -isms that will fuck my ability to work on other setups.

Also, what's the comfiest WM out there? I have limited screen space.

>>55938070
I might end up doing that.

My concern here is that it won't even load the linux distro after I've installed it to the hard drive.

Do I honestly need a swap partition with 8 GB of RAM?

>>55939134
I like bash's completition, less spammy, but you can have zsh-like autocomplete on bash too:
bind 'tab: menu-complete'; # to cycle through completitions
bind 'set show-all-if-ambiguous on' # to print possible completitions

New/Thread: >>55939283

>>55939230
no

>>55939265
yeah had a few settings already on, will check out the first one you gave me