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I always had this question, why do people always get packages from AUR rather than official websites for the applications? Btw I don't use arch i'm just wondering since I might make a distro change.
Nicholas Gonzalez
When is ubuntu 18.04.01 coming out? Is it worth switching to? I've enjoyed 16, but need to do a fresh install at some point, and am moving to another country tomorrow. I'll have a lot of free time, but the internet connection will be shit, and expensive. Will it be worth the money to download 18 when it's released? I'm gonna be charged per mb.
Jose Roberts
Is Manjaro a good beginner distro?
Wyatt Murphy
ye
Grayson Robinson
not really but it's annoying is there any way to skip the message?
Dominic Cruz
Install GuixSD
Ethan White
I've never installed over an existing LVM setup before, what should I look out for?
>charged per mb Ouch, cheapest way might be physical mail
Zachary King
>Ouch, cheapest way might be physical mail The pay is good, just a shit location. Watch the tv series 'The Terror' to get an idea of where I'm going.
Tyler Morgan
The place I am trying to get a job with uses Red Hat. Without knowing more than that, what would probably be the closest thing to tool around at home with ? Fedora ?
Juan Cox
actually after looking into it. seems what i am looking for is CentOS. Fedora is close as well but CentOS is intended to be a poor man's RHEL while Fedora does its own thing when it comes to new features and stuff.
Christian Murphy
You dont have to make the PKGBUILD your self.Some packages require complex PKGBUILDS to build everything properly,and you might not know how to do it properly. You should always read ever PKGBUILD you get from the AUR to make sure there is no malicious intent.
Ryan Bailey
I'm just getting trying to get into all of this. Recently I've ordered everything to build my first pc and am really curious about linux I kind of just want to go balls deep and get it for my new pc. I've been reading and I'm not sure if mint or manjaro would be better for a complete idiot that wants to know what to do to be competent Studies/media/light gaming is what I usually do
Thank you I was reading it's the closest to windows-like interface so that's reassuring. I'll probably do that to get into it If most of the games support linux I guess there wont be an issue. Except games that aren't supported would need wine or dual boot. I'm not sure if games on wine have lower performance than in windows
Hudson Carter
The desktop enviroment != the distro you could install ubuntu with i3, which would be really different to windows, or gentoo with cinnamon and that would be quite similar to windows. I would recommend kubuntu or xubuntu personally >I'm not sure if games on wine have lower performance than in windows they will have a lower performance. If you still want to game, dualbooting is probably the best option.
Thomas Bell
what makes linux confusing isn't the interface. it is the system design differences. for example, on windows if you want to download some software you to go to some website and download it and install it. on linux 99% of the time you wont do that. you will go to your package manager type in some commands and grab the software that way.
Jaxon Cooper
>I'm not sure if games on wine have lower performance than in windows It depends, some of the old games (10+ years old) I play on linux actually run a little better through Wine than in Windows compatibility mode. You probably will experience some performance loss on the newer games though.
Xavier Howard
My mistake. I guess there is not much else and it's just about learning by doing
Kayden Rivera
Any recommendation for video editing software? Fffmpeg is nice and all, but when you do something little more complex, it get's hard without the preview. I've used kdenlive but it crashes often during the work and had no auto save.
Is there a cloud storage service on Ubuntu that will automatically upload files from specific folders on my system? I make music between my laptop and desktop and it gets annoying having to upload it to Google drive then download it every time I leave the house.
Cooper Brooks
Blender is good, feels and works just like Sony Vegas and does a lot more.
Robert Hill
Check out Syncthing, you could make your own cloud or just sync stuff. Also no botnet
Owen Collins
I'll check it out. Bleeder seems like solid solution, thanks.
I'm fuckin confused. On the Ubuntu Flavors page it says Lubuntu switched to LXQt but on the dev blog on the official Lubuntu website it says they haven't switched yet.
Anyone know if the LTS build is using LXQt yet?????
Xavier Adams
Is xubuntu a good distro for a complete beginner? Will it run well on 2gb ram?
Evan Walker
It's pretty good and very lightweight. Will definitely run on 2gb. Didn't run into too many issues except some weird specific issue with some Steam games. Give it a shot.
Ryan Wilson
yes and yes.
Adrian Hughes
How the fuck do I make music with linux without needing a digital signal processing degree fuck me
Liam Gonzalez
question about mpd/ncmpcpp: in my pulseaudio audio_output file, with mixer_type "hardware" I'm unable to set the volume on ncmpcpp, if I try to I get the error MPD: No mixer, while if I try to switch to softare mixing I can set the volume but I still get no sound what's causing the problem?
Benjamin Scott
post your entire output section
Josiah Richardson
What are some good alternatives to dmenu in i3wm?
Tyler Cox
I'm going with this currently:
audio_output {
type "pulse" name "pulse audio" device "pulse" mixer_type "software" }
audio_output { type "fifo" name "my_fifo" path "/tmp/mpd.fifo" format "44100:16:2" }
again, having tried hardware mixing too
Noah Adams
may be unrelated but remove device line from your pulse section. I never needed to use it, neither mpd.conf.example has it.
Brayden Russell
it doesn't solve the problem but I did so, thanks as an experiment I tried to add the alsa output from the example configuration and to add from the general strange situation the sonud plays at full blast and I can't decrease the volume with ncmpcpp controls nor alsamixer I'll be damned, it was all working fine last time I used it
Luis Watson
rofi install gentoo
Chase Stewart
>yesterday >You have 2 new updates >today >You have 1748 new updates Might as well just reinstall the OS because there's no way this shit isn't going to break
Nolan Allen
which distro?
Xavier Richardson
OpenSUSE Leap Was there a new release or something?
Logan Bailey
I just had a dream about tiling window managers. What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Wyatt Ramirez
Literally can't understand the appeal of suse. CentOS/nsahat is a better enterprise OS.
Dylan Russell
it does that sometimes. However since its openpepe it might not break
Dylan Foster
How can I seek backwards 10 seconds in Rhythmbox? I couldn't find a button or hotkey.
Using latest Ubuntu 18.04 and it'd be amazing feature because I'm listening to a class recording
Is anyone running Arch with root on encrypted (LUKS) ZFS?
I'm currently running Debian Stretch on such a setup, but my USB subsystem is having issues and I'd like to switch distros.
Current contenders are Ubuntu (because Debian derivative) and Arch but only if ZFS is properly supported.
Dominic Baker
Another question about 18.04.
Is there a way to replace the Ubuntu program menu (the massive thing that covers entire screen) with Windows-like taskbar+programs menu? - And to do the above in a manner that would combine the two bars (the programs/favorites bar + Activities bar)
I know I can do this in KDE but installing KDE (plasma+kubuntu desktop) breaks my Ubuntu installation for reasons and I can't do that.
Brody Anderson
>windows update broke grub on my dual boot >again looks like I get to waste my second ssd on an OS like I didn't want. I can just format the partition I had linux installed on and extend the windows partition with gparted without breaking windows, can't I? reinstalling windows is not something I really want to waste 3 or 4 hours on
Liam Cruz
>Is this distro going to be worth it? Absolutely. Declarative package management is growing. They are even primed to take over the territory of snaps/flatpaks and even Docker if you can believe it. It's beginning to catch the eye of people who work in DevOps because the solutions they give are easily 10x more elegant and easier to maintain than Docker.
In fact they can even do the job of snaps/flatpaks BETTER than snap and flatpak because not only can they essentially mirror their functionality, but you can also create packages that can be run by people who don't even have Guix. You can create completely self contained tarballs.
But as a more immediate benefit, having GuixSD means you'll never have to worry about your machine picking up junk and needing to re-install. 10yrs from now it should be just as clean as if you did a brand new install.
Jason Bailey
>I can just format the partition I had linux installed on and extend the windows partition with gparted without breaking windows, can't I? gparted can expand and shrink ntfs filesystems fine
you'll have zero (0) problems if the linux partition is to the right of the windows partition, otherwise the windows partition will have to be moved to the left which is a bit more involved
windows' disk manager might get stuck for a few minutes the first time you open it after messing with partitions but your files will be fine
Justin Walker
oo-boon-too or oo-bun-too ?
Samuel Powell
>linux partition What is this?
Landon Sanchez
the partition you have linux installed on
Nathaniel Young
ubu-nut
Jose Taylor
linux?
Ryder Myers
with or without gnu
Caleb Wright
you boon, too
Ethan Price
Y u acting like linux is a system that has gnu or not gnu?
Dylan Young
it's just how things are
Parker Cook
You don't need mixer type. I only have "type" as pulse and "name" and it works flawlessly.
Ayden Morgan
How and where do i need to configure polybar or bspwm to change polybar margins from top, right, left bottom?
Does anyone use Calibre? Well, here goes anyways. That's a new feature of Calibre, OK. Too bad it's 'always on' when I open Calibre with 18.04 Ubuntu and I can't disable it; meaning every time I open Calibre and try to click anywhere in book list I select multiple books and it wants to merge them.
Fresh install of Arch today, what font should I go for?
William Price
should i use snapcraft since it's being included By default in distros? will it mess up package manager stuff or is it well integrated with, for example, apt? why did they feel the need to add yet another package manager?
Evan Gutierrez
runit = based openrc = cringe
Adrian Wilson
kill yourselves back to the sucksmore (((minimalism))) thread
Parker Fisher
you shouldn't use snaps no matter if they in by default or not.
Gavin Fisher
Why not?
Daniel Sanders
I'm putting archlinux 32bit on an old samsung n130 notebook.
question Jow Forums is this hardware botnet built in?
Jose Murphy
Lok just install the arch font, simple and lightweight m8. Noob fonts are for loosers.
Can someone post the mint Redpill? Some people didnt got the messenge yet.
Juan James
This.Don't install any font that restricts what you want to post because of political views like on debian.
Cooper Smith
Do people actually seriously unironically for real still use Mint?
Colton Moore
Can confirm. I recently wanted to post basedboy on debian but it was converted to basedboy. Fuck that shit.
Dylan Jones
Me.
Michael Evans
Newbs who search the web for the best beginner distro end up at Mint due to the endless blogs.
Oliver Moore
Fedora is easily the best beginner distro.
Ayden Murphy
t. too euphoric for noobuntu
Charles Howard
Retard shill fuck off
Brody Hughes
Name one good reason to install fedora instead of any other distro.
Benjamin Ortiz
Really, what's not to like about Fedora as a beginner distro, especially compared to Ubuntu and Mint?
Blake Butler
Linux Torvalds uses fedora
Tyler Perry
who?
Aaron Rogers
just works up to date yet reliable packages (see the thread about ubuntu users crying that they don't have firefox 61 yet) good selection of packages (although this distinguishes it from distros like void, rather than from distros like ubuntu) systemd was designed for fedora so it actually works well with it selinux
One of snaps selling points is that it is seperate from your distros main package manager.
You can snap install nginx (for example) and apt install nginx and there's no conflict.
The snap nginx is also preconfigured by the nginx devs to be the most secure by default so you don't screw anything up setting up a server. (the majority of ways someone gets compromsied)
I have my email server on a snap. (there's even a package for openwrt too!) Snaps can also rollback versions and update seperately.