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Don't know what to look for? $ apropos %something%
Then logout and from the login manager select the new DE.
Andrew Mitchell
So it's not me being an autist it seems.
Question about that, can I rollback? Any chance of fuck up?
I'm green as fuck about linux.
Tyler Collins
>Question about that, can I rollback? You can uninstall the said metapackage then remove whatever it pulled in by running "apt-get autoremove" >Any chance of fuck up? At worst you will end up with a bunch of extra packages installed and will take up a few tens of megabytes in 2018.
Gabriel Smith
>installing random DEs don't do this
Logan Edwards
>telling people to not do completely harmless things based on a negative experience you had when messing with arch linux in 2010 as a linux beginner stop posting retard.
Anthony Powell
>have a Cubieboard from 20-fucking-12 >want to use it as pihole >last supported debian on it is wheezy >pihole needs stretch, jessie at worst >no issue, I will just update >jessies udev needs a feature not in the default kernel >n-no issue, I will just compile a new kernel from the original sources >kernel compile fails with a shitty error, cannot find solution >S-STILL NO ISSUE I will just compile the mainline kernel >compiled kernel, uploaded it to the board >new kernel requires new U-boot >ASAFGAGASHGJHADFGJH >downloaded latest u-boot source on the board whatever was shipped with jessie/wheezy probably won't be enough >*** Your GCC is older than 6.0 and is not supported Chink shit hardware: not even once
Nice to see this first post, i came to ask a similar question. I'm a linux newbie and have been using ubuntu in a VM. It's been pretty sluggish and painful, on recommendation i installed KDE Plasma and it's both faster and more comfy. I'm keen to try other DEs but i want to avoid going down a customization rabbit-hole, so im not sure.
My question is, since gnome seems so slow and un-comfy, why is it the default DE on so many distros?
Owen Phillips
>Error when reading configuration file "/home/stahl/.config/compton.conf", line 2: syntax error Another composite manager is already running
Could you guys redirect me to a decent config I could copypaste?
Thomas Gonzalez
What's the most lightweight distro to install on an old computer (Thinkpad T42) for my parents without going into neckbeard territory so that they'll understand how to use it?
Can anyone type "ps -1" in terminal? I only get one result. It's supposed to show current processes in the system if I understood the book correctly. I would assume that there should be more than one process up
Cameron Hernandez
Try
p s
a u x
(found a new filter, god dammit)
Kevin Adams
Gentlemen, I think I used up all my remaining luck for the year.
>dd-ing image to USB >mistyped sdc and wrote sdb >literal fucking panic attack, sdb is my gnu+linux system disk >noticed that I also accidentally wrote /mnt/ for /dev so I just copies some shit to /mnt/sdb, a trash file so no damage is done
I shall present burning sacrifice to Saint IGNUcius for protecting me.
Lucas Sanchez
Thanks that came out with more results.
John Taylor
$ man ps
Ryan Ramirez
any way to add rules to udisk to create symlinks to usb/cdrom devices in home, while being able to umount said devices? i am setting this up to use midnight commander btw. i have an idea how to go about the former, but the later seems impossible.
Have to develop light softwares for company in .NET but I hate windows so much, and I am physically unable to use it anymore, which distro should I choose, or where should I even begin? I have a Lenovo g505s
Lucas Watson
Inherently, nothing in my opinion.
That said, if you're a Linux beginner, chances are you're gonna make some mistakes with it. Nothing wrong with that, but they're going to happen. A lot of people that try Arch aren't prepared for the learning curve, have a bad experience with it, and then write it off as terrible because they didn't try to learn properly.
Adam Rodriguez
ubuntu 18.04 Check out the alternate desktop versions too (xubuntu, lubuntu, kubuntu, ubuntu-mate etc)
Austin Rivera
OpenSUSE might be a good option. Get Leap, it's stable, just werks.
Cameron Richardson
After years of 'your post contains spam', it's finally possible to link parabola.nu Celebrate.
btw why did they call processes "parent" and "child"? Kind of weird reading "In order for parent to terminate it's child..."
Justin Hernandez
thank for the info. Found some shit called "Armbian", it's based on Ubuntu Xenial so I hope it will be enough for pihole. If it won't work, I'm going to try Debian again. >all that u-boot fuckery thou How many virgins do I have to sacrifice to the blood god so we can have ARM chips/dev boards with a BIOS/similar so they can.... just boot from whatever? Like what x86 PCs can do since the 80s?
Dominic Price
It didn't matter back then, and now SJWs won't complain about it because it's about parents and children not.... other things.
Aiden Wright
just installed this and pretty happy about it everything is so fast it's better minimal than arch but i couldn't make opengl to work for mpv
How to properly setup ncmpcpp? I'm a retard but I wanna learn. It doesn't find my music files (flacs) that I have in ~/Music/ (and looks weird too). I think the mpd deamon is running and I used the guide in computingforgeeks.com/how-to-configure-mpd-and-ncmpcpp-on-linux/
-if you compiled it you need to compile it with flac support -if you files are not technically in ~/Music but in directories symlinked in ~/Music then you need to enable follow outside symlinks in mpd.conf
Austin Peterson
Puppy?
Jaxson Murphy
your config is fudged because it would just point to ~/Music. make sure both mpd and ncmpcpp configs point to the same directory
I thought I did before. Tried to do it again but, $ mpd --kill fatal_error: Unable to open pid file "/home/tau/.mpd/mpd.pid": No such file or directory
Christian Hughes
killall mpd
William Parker
Oh thanks, now I'm learning something. Still, restarting mpd did nothing.
>Hi, Friendly gay-lesbian-transgender thread. i thought freebsd was the lgbt operating system
i tried installing openbsd and dragonfly bsd once but couldn't get either to boot
or one of them did boot but wouldn't display anything (my graphics card is radeon hd 7800 series)
Noah Bell
MX
Anthony Johnson
Arch is a stepping stone.
Jaxson Torres
>read tech news yesterday >Intels own VGA card to hit the market next year Will shilltel save the graphics scene for free operating systems? Putting all of their shit aside for a minute, their GPU drivers are top notch. If the same will go for their dedicated cards, we finally won't have to death with shitty firmwares and proprietary drivers breaking on every new major kernel release. Same goes for BSDfags too I guess.
Aaron White
Thoughts on systemd?
Tyler Thompson
>proprietary drivers breaking on every new major kernel release This has never happened to me and i run arch also. Keep the meme alive !!!!
Kevin Jackson
>le works on my computer xDDDD
It happened to me, multiple times. Both for nvidia and AMD, usually the DKMS part of the driver failed to compile because of some kernel ABI/API changes. I don't expect an arrogant archfag to understand thou.
Jaxson Davis
And yet i can make my hardware work, and you cant :^)
Ryan Jenkins
I'm not like a die-hard "fuck-the-systemd" guy but I think about it
Joshua Hernandez
so how can i be safe? if i want to store anything digitally. is there a way?
Looking for a bit of advice. I have a Sony VAIO VPCSA. I've had it for around 7 years. It's still a fairly decent laptop. Installed Linux Mint 18.3 KDE on it recently and found the sound worked for the first hour or so before it stopped. Turns out the audio output continues to change to HDMI output whenever it sleeps or hibernates and the option to select the normal output just disappears from the audio settings. Spent a lot of time trying fixes from just about every Linux forum you can find. I have now spent the past few days distro and desktop hopping but still the same thing happens. Starting to think the problem is the hardware is not compatible. Would you say this is correct and I just install Windows 10 LTSB or is anyone aware of a fix for this issue? I know I'm not the only one with this problem but no one seems to have an actual fix. I have been using Linux for the past year or so on my desktop but still a novice and would appreciate any help or advice.
Luke Young
You're never going to be 100% safe. All computers are "hackable" unless you never connect to the internet for anything.
David King
I have had terrible results using intel GFX rather than my trusty HD5450 or HD6450 cards on openbsd
Angel Anderson
It's pretty ingenious but I'll tell you the secret.
I'm revealing it in this thread and this thread only.
Use paper or an offline computer for potential novels you are writing that you don't want the CIA/NSA/FBI to know about before they're published.
There, I said it. I fucking said it.
Oliver Moore
So, i want to set up my rpi 3 with an external 1tb hdd and nextcloud. Should i use ext4 or btrfs for the hdd??
Cameron Lopez
Kek
Joseph Brooks
alsa? pulse? jack?
Adam King
delete /system32
Ian Perry
ext4. Weks, stable and time tested.
Daniel Campbell
Make sure you use a dot matrix printer on that offline computer.Otherwise they can trace the paper back to your printer cause since the 00's printers add hidden data to the paper that show info about you.
Levi Nguyen
just use ext4 unless you actually need some of the features in btrfs
John Watson
BTRFS if you want to play around with checksummed filesystems, like ZFS or hammer, but in the real world, can you handle one file being corrupted by one bit every hundred years (and not knowing)? I think you can.
Gavin Clark
Yeah, alot of the fixes mention reinstalling, upgrading or changing the settings with these and it works initially but the sound disappears again when the laptop sleeps or hibernates.
Colton Perry
affirmative, trips
Carter Lee
>yeah Which one nigga...
Charles Ortiz
it is still there user
Joseph Gray
i got greasemonkey then i try to install 4chanX it says this
User script failed to install
undefined
Lincoln Williams
greasemonkey sucks now, use violentmonkey instead
Juan Rodriguez
>use violentmonkey instead would that work?
Jack Foster
so i have a completely dead vertical section of my screen how can i ignore it
basically i need some sort of software to reorder the pixels on my screen, for good
where do i start with this
Juan Ross
yes, i use it on my other computer with firefox and Jow Forums-x works fine
Henry Clark
What am i doing wrong:
DATA=$(/mnt/data/usr/xmeasure/xmeasure | awk '{ print $2}') ; read X Y W H
Jaxson Ortiz
alsa and pulseaudio have been upgraded and work initially. alsa and pulseaudio have been reinstalled and again work initially. pulseaudio config file has been deleted and again works initially. Settings in alsa have been changed so many times and again the fixes work initially.
What is Arch Linux's equivalent to Debian's update-alternatives?
Eli Clark
The first one looks pretty specific to my problem, I'll give it a go. Much appreciated. I'll report back.
Andrew Wood
Try ${X} instead of $X. Anyway, cut your script in parts and check each command til you find the problem.
Levi Morales
Holy shit 4chanX is something, it's very different to normal Jow Forums. Anyways, some icons are not displaying, what should i install?
Jackson Rodriguez
>cut your script in parts and check each command I kept the non ffmpeg part for context, because i sit in IT long enough to know, that things that _seem_ to work sometimes behave weirdly and it somehow makes a difference. As far as i was able to tell it worked as expected upon the ffmpeg part.
tl;dr: changing to ${X} helped, thank you kind user
Isaac Barnes
>Anyways, some icons are not displaying, what should i install? Allow remote fonts in your umatrix/ublock
Hudson Davis
Sorry, typo, I meant /etc/system32
Jeremiah White
Fucked around with 4chanX for a bit, it's too overkill. I don't like it.
Austin Miller
Just use default actions till something dosent work the way you want it then go in to the settings and change the settings.
Nicholas Rogers
Nah, i removed violent monkey and 4chanX. I'm just good with ublock and umatrix.
Julian Ramirez
4chanx isnt on a level that is the same as ublock or umatrix. 4chanx is only Jow Forums. Just use it.
Samuel Jackson
>4chanx isnt on a level that is the same as ublock or umatrix.
All i need is to block ads and some scripts? Also i hate having to scroll all the way up to complete NOJScaptcha.