An actual gnu/linux thread + faq

FAQ:
> What is the best DE (desktop environment)?
KDE is the most featureful. If you want something feature complete like Windows, use it
Try Cinnamon if you want something simpler but still beautiful
Use Mate if you want a lean desktop (no Xfce)
NO lxqt or lxde, they're not really usable yet for a normal user

> How about GNOME?
Gnome is bad and run by arrogant people
It was rewritten to be used easily on touchscreen devices, crippling the desktop experience
Mate was forked from Gnome 2, thus it has a stable base and is dead simple

> XFCE?
Xfeces still uses gtk2 and it has a small developer team, you should rather use Mate

> Is systemD really that bad?
No. It actually is unifying the Linux community, it has many useful features and is not slow.
It has many useful features like systemd-nspawn (enhanced chroot (virtualization)), systemd-boot and networkd.
It is shunned by idealists that use Jolix in their moms basement, others are just bandwagoning

> GNU/Linux or Linux?
A lot of gnu tools are included in GNU/LINUX distros (less, coreutils, c library and lots more)
You should call it GNU/Linux around specialists, Linux around normal people

> Is Wine usable?
Yes. You can run most of your office programs and some of your games.

> What distro do you recommend?
Ubuntu flavor of you favorite DE, if you want it to just work
Debian, if you just want a normal, stable desktop
Arch, if you plan on customizing your system

> INSTALL GENTOO?!
No. There is no reason foryou to use it. Compiling takes long, it breaks and compiling everything is useless.
You might use less dependencies and it might run 3% faster, but it is just not worth it
Unless you have a special setup (Risc or something), then you might actual find it useful

> What tools should i learn
Learn vim (or emacs), read the coreutils manual, learn shell scripting and find some leaner alternatives for the programs you use

> WORKS IN WINDOWS, BUT NOT IN LINUX!
Use windows then

Also, GNU/LINUX GENERAL!

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Other urls found in this thread:

techrepublic.com/article/ubuntu-mate-is-having-a-bit-of-a-mutiny/
youtube.com/watch?v=F1i7jAtHcw4
userbase.kde.org/NetworkManagement
hub.docker.com/r/xeroxmalf/rtorrent-flood-freenas/
bitbucket.org/xeroxmalf/rtorrent-flood-freenas/get/fd74cf551551.zip,
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

Shit thread.

Why?

Your advice sucks.

How?
I guess it's back to plebbit for me

You don't know what you're talking about. You're just trying to seem moderate and impress wangblows useds.

I see these questions as their own threads all the time, so it's reasonable to put them all in one as a FAQ. The questions are basic but not actually 'stupid' per-say so they don't belong in /sqt/ The problem that you made is that your answers to the questions are completely reasonable and have no hint of fanaticism or contrarianism to them.

I'm glad you're here though user. I love this board, but it'd be cool if at some point, people could just pick what works best for them, stop caring what other people do with their time, and just talk about interesting shit together.

keep up the more thoughtful posts.

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Ok, thanks

>you should rather use Mate

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How can I best recreate Unity using other DEs? Specifically, I always loved the idea of a single top bar that acts as a tray, title bar and menu bar in one. Saves a lot of vertical space. Splitting off the launcher with something like Cairo dock should be trivial, right?

It may unpopular here, but I really liked Unity for its ability to get out of my way and save vertical space. Is there some way to do this with another DE?

Mate recreates Unity techrepublic.com/article/ubuntu-mate-is-having-a-bit-of-a-mutiny/ it also features a HUD clone

There's also a few KDE how-tos youtube.com/watch?v=F1i7jAtHcw4

Hey, interesting! Thank you.

>best DE
None, get a comfy WM
>systemd
Sucks, but contrary to the popularity belief not botnet
>GNU/Linux
Even among normalfags
>WINE
Propriety software belongs into a VM
>Distro
Arch, Debian, Gentoo, Parabola, GuixSD
>Gentoo
Convenient for stripping/adding stuff from/to packages automatically and learning the environment. Useless if you don't care.
>Learn
man + info
>Doesn't work
Make it work
>General

>What is the best DE (desktop environment)?
KDE and Xfce. GNOME would be great if it weren't so resource hungry and poorly optimized.
>you should rather use Mate than Xfce
No. Mate is just as shit as GNOME.
>Learn vim (or emacs)
This is the stupidest advice you gave in the post.

This. He seems like a newfag Linux user who has absolutely 0 experience.

First of all, a newbie can't use a wm.

Just take a look at Xfce, the last update was 3 years ago. Mate is regularly updated.

>a newbie can't use a wm
echo "exec dbus-launch nameofwmhere" > .xinitrc
startx

Sure they can you fucking tool.

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rocking ubuntu MATE 17.10 , I only changed the icons, did a little customization on the panel and its almost perfect. Still not sure about 'apt full-upgrade' to get to 18.04

but kde can't into scanning the network for available shares. you can only access shares you have the specific address for. interoperability is a deal breaker

And how does a newb know that?
I don't know how about you, but i was not born with years worth of knowledge

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There's surely a NetworkManager plasmoid for that

>And how does a newb know that?
Xorg configuration is in the Gentoo Handbook.

can't find one, and even if there is, it's something the file manager should do automagically

Did you just go from Windows to LFS?

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userbase.kde.org/NetworkManagement
or you can just use nmtui

google?

you're using the internet right now, years of knowledge have been posted online all over the place
im a newbie using i3 right now, thanks to google

I'm talking about scanning for shares, not networks

>thanks to the internet there is no learning curve for anything
nah, you're just a turbonerd

Oh, sorry.
KDE is really missing features where it needs them.

Sure you went from Windows to i3

I'll take that compliment

used a little ubuntu for a bit
then installed arch and got going
it was a process that took a long time, and I had to take physical notes of several things, but now Arch with i3 is my main driver

That's why i wrote the stuff about desktop environments

idk man, i3 isn't hard after its been configured to your liking
the key combinations are the hardest part afterwards, and that takes like, minutes to remember

Yeah. But you don't have any tools like system manager. You don't know what to do, how to do that and you need to search the web because it's uninituitive

this is true, but I found the experience helpful, and now linux is more comfortable to me than windows

I still don't know how to deal with most problems in windows

Exactly.
Windows gives you the tools to do your job.
GNU/Linux gives you the tools to do the tools to do your job

How do I make video driver's (AMDGPU) dpm (already set to performance) to not underperform with mpv? The only way right now is to force performance state to high.

>"GNU/" Linux

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>Just take a look at Xfce, the last update was 3 years ago.
There's no need to constantly update something that has reached its goals unless there are some critical security problems.

It is not a commercial project that needs to keep adding more and more pointless shit just to stay on top. Gnome for example has fallen for this shit and now look at opinions of it.

I don't know where to ask, but could someone teach me how to install this on FreeNAS? I know that FreeNAS is based off of FreeBSD, but there doesn't seem to be a *BSD thread

hub.docker.com/r/xeroxmalf/rtorrent-flood-freenas/

What's the problem? If it works, don't fix it.
Use an alias like - do setDpm && mpv && unsetDpm (replace with the actual command)

>What's the problem? If it works, don't fix it.
It is too slow.
>Use an alias like - do setDpm && mpv && unsetDpm (replace with the actual command)
How do I use that? I'm new to Linux.

What do you do now, to set it?

You would want to use ; not &&

Open the terminal, wget bitbucket.org/xeroxmalf/rtorrent-flood-freenas/get/fd74cf551551.zip, unzip it, go to the dir and run ./run.sh

how do I use it in a jail

If docker is set up, you run "docker pull xeroxmalf/rtorrent-flood" and run the script from there. I don't know docker very much, sorry

sudo echo force performance high

>You should call it GNU/Linux around specialists, Linux around normal people
I will call it Linux around anyone, if someone tries to interject on me I then know who to avoid talking to.

echo 'alias mpv="sudo echo force perfomance high; mpv; sudo echo force perfomance "' >> .bashrc (or whatever shell you use)

Thank you user!

systemd-boot is shit
I have 2 efi partitions on two different drives and it edits my efivars and adds a new entry each boot to my Uefi, eventually filling up the entries and breaking shit.
Grub doesn't have this problem.

>You should call it GNU/Linux around specialists, Linux around normal people
The point is informing people about the GNU system and the roots of the free software community. Therefore, especially around normal people you should say GNU/Linux; experts already know what's up, care or don't.

Yeah, but it is dead simple and works as a fallback option thats always there

Now go Arch with Sway and enjoy wonderful Wayland