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Jose Sanders
Distrowatch isn't reliable anyway. "How many people are accessing a page of the distro" leaves out the large amount of users quite happy with their distro for many years, or you know, just about anyone who doesn't care about Distrowatch.
tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdz1 to do it after volume creation (any time, not destructive) where '0' is reserved percent, and sdz1 is the volume in question mkfs.ext4 -m 0 ... /dev/sdz1 to do it at volume creation time instead
Juan Wright
How do i change the bookmark menu/history/scroll bar/browse on Jow Forums to dark or black. I used to have it like that on my old machine and don't remember how I did it.
Josiah Turner
I can't believe none of the tutorials i used to set up my system and HDDs even mentioned this.. this is incredibly important information
Ayden Perry
it's possible the authors of those tutorials weren't aware of it either, volumes being a bit smaller than the raw disk is normal for any filesystem, so it's easy to miss on smaller disks tell me, would you have noticed had you not immediately tried to fill the disk completely?
Samuel Jenkins
I would not and the though of having all that waste storage on my NAS never to be used is downright terrifying with HDDs being so fucking expensive. Ok it said reserved blocks 24418932 and now it says 0. Imma gonna try to copy again now
Adrian Brown
Excellent I went from needing 100GB to needing to free up only 70MB So I will be loosing only about the 20G on the ntfs > ext4 switch which is acceptable
Colton Gomez
it's not 'wasted', it serves a purpose namely, it reduces fragmentation and improves performance on very full disks, and it allows for more graceful failure when you 'run out of space' (makes it possible, for example, to have a service that notifies or archives things when the disk reaches 100% usage, which may not be possible without some free space)
Nicholas Watson
Sorry, in Firefox.
Matthew Carter
another major difference between ntfs and ext4, is that ext4 reserves inodes ahead of time as well, while ntfs creates them as needed this sounds like a negative, but really this just means ntfs can and will fragment basic metadata, since it ends up all over the place
Jonathan Anderson
>inodes ReiserFS' don't have this problem.
Nathaniel Bennett
ext4 is like the exFAT of linux, built on old and basic technology, it's not really the best at anything, but it's good enough, it also doesn't really suck at anything in particular either
instead it has a fuckload of other problem that will never ever get addressed because Reiser3 is legacy and Reiser4 never got merged
Ian Peterson
What is the height of the tab and status bars in qutebrowser? Looks like 20px, right?
Benjamin Lopez
I'm running fedora + i3. Firefox keeps on using GTK as a file viewer, and GTK is really bad. I'm using ranger as my default file explorer. How do I get firefox to use ranger to save/open files?
Juan Wilson
Anyone know how to fix this? It's a laptop screen running on an Intel GPU.
Is there any distro with the stability and minimalism of debian, but >no systemd >install option that doesn't use a DE (e.g. ships with some wm like i3 or openbox, mpv for media player, feh for image viewer, etc) I know I can make my own, but that seems excessively roundabout.
Manjaro has openrc spins and community editions with I3, bspwm
Carson Kelly
Anyone have any experience with the new Ubuntu Mate 18.04? I'm installing linux on a second hard drive and going with Ubuntu because most projects i'm contributing to support it.
Carter Wood
I tried it for a little bit, it's great if you're ok with Ubuntu. Would recommend
Alexander Murphy
I only had it for a day but it works well. The only thing that bothered me was that I couldn't "easily" set the volume increments.
Daniel Martin
I've fucked up my packages with backports, I can't install a package since my version of a dependency is too recent. What do I do?
Connor Hernandez
Downgrade the package in question.
Levi Lee
Can you be more specific?
Landon Robinson
>tfw 4 hours searching why my script with select didn't gave me errors when running it in sh
Any alternatives? Chromium is choppy af for some reason even though I have the latest Nvidia drivers.
Asher James
is it cuz needs to be run in bash?
Chase Young
There are many such packages. If I downgrade all of them, it probably fucks up something else. sudo apt-get install libegl1-mesa-drivers Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: libegl1-mesa-drivers : Depends: libegl1-mesa (= 10.3.2-1+deb8u1) but 13.0.6-1~bpo8+1 is to be installed Depends: libglapi-mesa (= 10.3.2-1+deb8u1) but 13.0.6-1~bpo8+1 is to be installed Depends: libwayland-egl1-mesa (= 10.3.2-1+deb8u1) but 13.0.6-1~bpo8+1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Should I ignore the dependencies, since there is a later version available? Or install the new version that works with 13.0.6-1~bpo8+1 from backports?
Adrian Powell
I would research how to get chromium running better. firefox is just not that great for me either
Do you even need that package rich@debian:~$ apt show libegl1-mesa-drivers Package: libegl1-mesa-drivers Version: 13.0.6-1+b2 Priority: optional Section: libs Source: mesa (13.0.6-1) Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force Installed-Size: 56.3 kB Homepage: mesa3d.org/ Tag: role::shared-lib Download-Size: 40.8 kB APT-Sources: debian.cs.binghamton.edu/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages Description: transitional dummy package This is a transitional dummy package, it can be safely removed.
>This is a transitional dummy package, it can be safely removed.
There's no version of it in backports because it's a virtual package. You're probably looking for something else.
I'm on jessie, using jessie-backports. I'm trying to install libsdl2-dev. I installed the dummy package for good measure. Now, Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: libegl1-mesa-dev : Depends: libegl1-mesa (= 10.3.2-1+deb8u1) but 13.0.6-1~bpo8+1 is to be installed Depends: libegl1-mesa-drivers (= 10.3.2-1+deb8u1) but 13.0.6-1~bpo8+1 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Can I go ahead and ignore these dependencies?
Benjamin Stewart
I wouldn't ignore the dependencies, no, I'd purge the dummy package and try again
Blake Morgan
If i have a battery with 3V and 2A and a battery with 2V and 3A, are they the same thing?
No. 3V battery gives higher voltage, can make or break things. However 2V/3A and 2V/30000A are virtually interchangeable.
Nolan Parker
they have the same current so yes
Christian James
Ok gotcha. Maybe try getting libegl1-mesa-dev from jessie backports then so they're on the same level?
Charles Butler
Then it needs a lot of dependencies, although not large in size. sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install libegl1-mesa-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libwayland-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-sync-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxdamage-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxshmfence-dev libxxf86vm-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-dri2-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-gl-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev Suggested packages: libxext-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: libegl1-mesa-dev libwayland-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-sync-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxdamage-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxshmfence-dev libxxf86vm-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-dri2-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-gl-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev 0 upgraded, 23 newly installed, 0 to remove and 39 not upgraded. Need to get 955 kB of archives. After this operation, 4,502 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
That doesn't look good, and feels like it would cause further problems down the line. Are the development headers specific for each version/build of the library?
Connor Clark
How do i check if all my software is floss? Is there a command? Absolutely proprietary doesnt work as im on fedora
Levi Roberts
Adding margins and switching workspaces when you touch the edges is kinda interesting. Does anyone actually work like this?
If libsdl2-dev depends on libegl1-mesa-dev, it's going to grab those dependencies either way whether you grab it from jessie or from jessie backports. They are specific, yes, but chances are most of those dependencies listed are going to come from jessie, not backports. I would go for it. Backports aren't going to break your system if you know how to work your way around them. You can always undo it.
Adrian Harris
rms
Liam Collins
there's vrms on debian
Charles Barnes
I did that, and it seems to work. Thanks!
Gabriel Sanders
Yep!
Benjamin Adams
I hope not, those are terrible distasteful options.
I want the best battery life, what distro and de do i install (now dumb wms).
Jack Edwards
do you have gentoo version
Noah Morgan
I just tested this meme distro -> pureos.net/ cuz it was recommended by FSF. Surprisingly, despite using gnome it runs very smooth in my desktop and looks like it have really sane defaults. I'm considering install it, but there's something that really bothers me: It can play my chink cartoons... I mean wtf? It's recommended by FSF and can play shitty h264 encodes? How is that possible? Anyway it's funny that I was expecting my media collection be totally broken and bother me that it is not kek
>It's recommended by FSF and can play shitty h264 encodes? How is that possible? The h264 patent permits certain uses of the technology without requiring a license (usually playing the media for yourself is an example of this).
Carson Long
If I log out i3, then log in LXDE session, will my i3 config be gone once I log in i3 again?
Kevin Williams
Hey ya'll,
I'm currently running Debian 9.4 Stretch. I'm trying to be able to hook my laptop up to my TV so I can watch hockey games. I can get it to work, but I want to know if there is a way to:
>plug in HDMI cable and be able to use both laptop screen and TV at the same time showing the same things
>Get TV to not "cut off" or display the right resolution, it's a 4k tv...
I don't know too much about tv's and am still sort of new to Linux. Hope I can find some answers.
Thanks.
Bentley Nelson
Really? How is it that practically none of the free gnu+linux distros can't play them?
Christopher Gutierrez
thanks
Ryder Brown
How do I enable spellchecking in qutebrowser? It says "expected value of type list but got str" if I just specify "english".
Camden Kelly
What desktop environment
Ryan Price
/usr/share/qutebrowser/scripts/dictcli.py --help
Carter Gray
Is their any resources out to make the ALSA 0-100 master volume have a higher range without audio distortion? It feels a bit limited in that senses by default and amplifying fucks up the sound pretty quick
Nicholas Hill
Finally got the fiber at home. Went from ~2-3 Mbits to 193Mbits. I had to share it somewhere.
Brayden Nelson
["en-US"]
Charles Torres
>how do i make things louder then physically possible without distortion No.
Nathaniel Ross
Alsaequal, although the much better way is to use pulseaudio and github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects . It is much superior in capabilities.
Aaron Diaz
I'm trying not to but I'm having a hard time deciding what to choose.
Landon Scott
Well, you probably are right, but of course there are ways to deal with most effects that annoy you.
Sure, and there are limits to what bandwidths servers or torrents or whatever will actually provide, too. OTOH there is a lot more BW possible on 4 fiber strands [the minimum per house]. It'll get faster.
Thomas Moore
>It'll get faster. They even advertise it as less then 1000mbit if you check the fine print.Run a speed test to your first external hop, you wont get 1000/1000
Zachary Morris
Install arandr. It should do what you want, if I understand correctly, and is easy to use.
Brody Torres
Moving from mint 17.3, which distro is the most friendly with a kaveri a8 7600?