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i use the open addon in firefox to download videos with youtube-dl (urxvt -e youtube-dl) but it opens a new session every time, what command could make it open in a new urxvt tab or just use an existing session?
Owen Baker
if urxvt doesn't have an option to just open a new tab in a currently running session then you cannot do it. Other terminal emulators can do this, but I guess you use urxvt for a reason.
Michael Sanchez
what is the most stable distro without systemd?
Camden Wilson
gentoo
Angel Gray
meme answer or real answer?
Owen Foster
Got a couple of old computers from the school I work at, whats the most lightweight distro to install on them?
Elijah Jackson
Towards?
Samuel Peterson
Devuan.
Lucas Morgan
Debian.
Lincoln Kelly
Arch
Joshua Miller
Gentoo has stable and unstable packages too, just like Debian, ubuntu, suse or any binary distro. Unstable packages are "masked". As long as you don't unmask things you get a rolling, but "considered stable" distro.
Note: gentoo takes masking quite seriously sometimes. It's not unusual that Debian stable has a newer gcc than gentoo.
Samuel Smith
Trying to mess around with Mint on Hyper V and there is a lot of input lag. Is Hyper V missing something that other free VMs have?
Brandon Gonzalez
hey guys still have trouble picking a distro. I have some experience programming in c and using bash through the terminal... even started making my own shell for a school project at some point. I was thinking arch or debian. what do you guys think?
Nathan Edwards
Debian is always a good choice. Expect some trouble if you have very new, recent hardware with requires the latest kernel/latest proprietary drivers thou.
Brody Fisher
thank you.
William Rogers
how do I fix my mouse speed/sensitivity in kubuntu 17.10?
Thomas Allen
what distro and de to run on less than 200mb of ram?
Levi James
How stable is Debian unstable? I want to use Debian but don't want to be stuck with old packages.
Justin James
Which distro looks and feels like Mac OSX and is minimalist?
I want to switch over from Mac OSX to Linux but I can't seem to find a good alternative.
Nathan Bennett
elementary OS
Colton Jones
Elementary?
Lincoln Baker
He said lightweight.
Nolan Howard
Never heard of this one before. Is it lightweight? What are the pros and cons. I normally only hear: "Gentoo, Debian, Arch and Ubuntu"
Sebastian Price
Linux Mint
Henry Reed
IF I READ """LIGHTWEIGHT""" ONE MORE TIME I DARE YOU, I DOUBLE DARE YOU FUCKING MEMES
>Is it lightweight? Not particularly, but it is designed to mimic Mac OS.
Elijah Green
Pros are that it's good for newcomers from the mac space, and its a very beautiful distro.
Gentoo and Arch are a meme. Debian is stable, but has older packages.
elementary is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS but elementary will be updated to 18.04 soon(tm) when Juno (version 5) is released. There's a quirk that you have to install a package to be able to add PPAs to apt, but thats a very simple fix.
As for lightweight, its based on GNOME iirc, so its a hit and miss when it comes to performance, but since you are on a mac, I'm sure it will be fine.
Colton Baker
How concerned should I be about SELinux on Fedora?
sane systemd setup pretty good selinux support up-to-date software without autism just works
Christopher Lewis
How do you get thumbnails for video files in Ubuntu? The old ffmpegthumbnailer method doesn’t fucking working anymore.
Aiden Perez
How is it that arandr can output 1080p on my second monitor but xfce4-display-settings breaks it and makes the screen smear?
Easton Carter
>garyshood.com/root/ Is this satire or are there poeple out there who unironically run as root?
Bentley Price
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Kayden Johnson
Where can I get void juice
Christian Howard
Just got a thinkpad and ready to take my first dive into linux, what distro should I choose?
Benjamin Reyes
>sane NSA backdoor setup >pretty good NSA backdoor support >out-of-date software >bloated lol
Dominic Smith
Either Arch or Debian.
Jacob Brown
If you're going to be all stupid, at least be entertaining or funny. >the lol at the end almost saved this one.
Jaxon Lopez
What's the best distro for a retarded newfaggot that will work on a 8 years old laptop OOTB?
Joseph Davis
Debian.
Wyatt Parker
xubuntu
Chase Lee
Do any of you peeps use a Chromebook with Linux on it? I'm looking for a cheapo laptop that I can use to learn programming on and cheap Chromebooks usually have better build quality and screen than cheap Windows laptops.
And no, don't tell me to get a used Thinkpad, I have an X230 and it has the worst screen I've ever seen on any device.
David Hernandez
Just change the screen.
Matthew Harris
It's not worth the hassle, and I want a 15 inch laptop
Elijah Harris
Gentoo. Seriously
Cameron Reed
>Touchpad right click doesn't work >Attach mouse, right click works. Is it something in my settings? This is touchpad menu in Ubuntu/gnome settings menu.
After doing this.. holding fingers at bottom of touchpad so a website would scroll down doesn't work.
I'll look into that.
Hunter Carter
Like 2 finger scroll? I thought that was either anywhere on the pad or on the edges only
Jordan Jenkins
Is there a way to mkdir in two different existing directories at once?
Dylan Sanchez
Why does my service fail at start, but when I start it manually (systemctl start myservice) it works just fine? I don't have any experience with systemd
help i keep getting the same error in linux mint mate basically sound doesn't exist and I'm not going to go into it because if you don't experience it first hand all you'll ask is if anything is muted and are headphones plugged in. It's not that simple. My "fix" has been restarting lightdm but now this has failed me I'm considering a new OS. What's a good alternative?
Noah Morales
who?
Nolan Reed
Is linux mint still an insecure and broken piece of frankenstein shit like it used to be?
Wyatt Carter
Start fixing problems instead of switching distros. >Mint Ignore what I said and install Ubuntu.
Nathan Turner
When will the acpi bug be resolved. I think it has to do with the kernel .
First, does systemd try to start it and fail or does it not try to start it? Check logs immediately after boot to confirm. If your service was not tried, you probably forgot to enable it. `systemctl enable $service`
If it was tried and failed, likely a required dependency is not up yet.
Have you listed dependencies correctly in the unit file?
Put Requires: multi-user.target After: multi-user.target
in your unit file to start your service after all other system services. You don't and shouldn't need to wait for the whole system to be up, but that is the easy way to confirm it's a dependency problem.
Adam Diaz
Which kernel?
Michael Nelson
The kernel in linux, whatever it's called .
Julian Ross
they don't speak swedish all that well either which is linus mother tongue, it's almost like foreigners offspring tend to be more fluent in the language of their adopted country
Lucas Barnes
The Linux kernels name is GNU. Hence "GNU/Linux".
Jacob Mitchell
>Start fixing problems instead of switching distros. I did fix it, but it keeps happening.
The Linux kernel, or as I've recently taken to calling it: Linux, the kernel.
Normally an operating system is developed as a single unified project, and the developers choose a name for the system as a whole. The kernel usually does not have a name of its own—instead, people say “the kernel of such-and-such” or “the such-and-such kernel”.
Because those two constructions are used synonymously, the expression “the Linux kernel” can easily be misunderstood as meaning “the kernel of Linux” and implying that Linux must be more than a kernel. You can avoid the possibility of this misunderstanding by saying or writing “the kernel, Linux” or “Linux, the kernel.”
So, now my machine is running calculate, and just found that my hardware supports kvm now, so i installed qemu and virt-manager, but i never used this. I been researching but not finding a way to boot from iso with the gui. I know i should use the cli but nevermind. Any suggestion?
Grayson Murphy
Source Mage is like Gentoo; it uses what you tell it to use.
I need a distro which is: 1) Not a project that is 100% developed and supported "entirely by volunteers" 2) Less bloat 3) No systemd 4) Suggests flavors of different DEs 5) Not GNU