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im trying to go back to linux now, i used to play around with ubuntu, fedora, and archlinux about 7 years ago. im currently doing devops with a ubuntu cloud server so Im not looking for a beginner linux. any recommendation?
what could be the problem, what when im in fullscreen mode in a firefox with bspwm, i can't put my cursor up top for tabs bar to go down? Screen flickers a bit and cursor immediately goes to the middle of the screen.
also is there a way to make firefox go fullscreen but not like fullscreen as in take whole laptop screen space, but become fullscreen and take up all of the tiled window space?
James Peterson
She's hot.
Parker Morales
Pls help. I cant use startx as it says "failed to load session cinnamon" and the only option i get is logout which i cant click so i have to restart". Ive regenerating my x config but that did nothing.
This is what i get when i try to reinstall cinnamon
I feel so fucking stupid to expecting a non-mentally challenged one to take this position.
Easton Morris
Ok great. So i plugged in a usb hdd because my powered one wasnt showing up with fdisk -l and now i get usb usb6 port4 cannot disable err 32
Lincoln White
There are no normal persons in tech.
Luke Turner
So I have this laptop that I struggle installing GNU slash Linux on. Originally it came with windows, then it had a dual boot with fedora for a few months, which worked well. Then I removed all the partitions on the HDD and installed openSUSE. At that point it would systematically freeze on boot. I figured hardware wasn't supported, I wiped the HDD again, installed fedora, and same thing, it freezes completely upon displaying the grub screen. I removed everything, installed windows, and it works fine. Then I made a dual boot with fedora again, since that worked initially, and I get the same behavior, it systematically freezes on the grub screen. I boot in legacy mode, no UEFI. The only error message I have is "error: TPM error 2: disabling TPM" before reaching grub and freezing. I guess it's directly related because the message isn't displayed when only windows is installed, only when it starts booting from the /boot partition (dual boot or linux only). Any idea where I can go from here?
Jason Sullivan
Do you have another computer? Can you just plug your HDD in that one and mount it?
Joshua Parker
Nah, the drive i need to get the data off is nvme... Ill probs just boot into a fedora live os, mount the nvme drive and copy everything to a external drive. God damn i didnt think changing a graphics tablet driver could totally deatroy my system. Im just hoping i can recover my deluge settings for the reinstall because theres no way in hell im manually re adding 400 torrents (plus some were still downloading)
Owen Evans
>try manjaro >dependencies for libtas not there >try mint >same thing >fuck it ill try ubuntu >ubuntu just sucks wtf do i do I'm not smart enough to do arch or gentoo
Leo Garcia
>ubuntu just sucks What's wrong? Too mainstream?
William Davis
no I just have problems with it
Landon Walker
I suggest you try fixing them first. Nothing guarantees other distros will miraculously be free of those "problems".
Xavier Bell
Not sure it would help but at this point what the hell, have you tried installing another DE? Your problem may be cinnamon specific.
Jonathan Evans
I dont think it was related to cinnamon as it worked fine on fedora 26 cinnamon (g tab that is). Honestly i might just go back to fedora at this point, but giving up apt and actual support probs arent worth it. Idk maybe ill try lubuntu or something, i just like the osx darker theme for cinnamon
Carson Hill
do i need to make 2 partition for home and root or i only need root
Nicholas Moore
I meant installing another DE in case it was able to start and would allow you to retrieve your torrents and copy files more easily, not as a long term solution.
Elijah Roberts
/boot - 100mb per kernel / - 10gb(20gb if using lib32) /home - rest
Logan Hall
Does the rc shell have a startup file?
Jaxson Smith
sounds like an issue with having deleted and never recreated an efi partition
Benjamin Robinson
list out the dependencies and install them manually, then install your desired package?
Colton Turner
just launched genkernel --menuconfig all then quit without doing anything cuz I thought it wouldn't do anything automatically. Apparently I was wrong? Can I ctrl-c out without damages?
Brody Jones
Sounds reasonable, I got rid of all the partitions in the opensuse installer without really thinking. Could you point me to a guide of sorts? I'm honestly clueless about this.
Mason Lee
why so little space for root isnt it where my software are going to?
Nolan Taylor
>so little space Thats a fuck ton of space for binaries and config files. Non source based distros can fit in to 10gb easily and is easily expanded
John Foster
taken from superuser forums Creating an EFI partition
If you are manually partitioning your disk in the Ubuntu installer, you need to make sure you have an EFI partition set up.
If your disk already contains an EFI partition (eg if your computer had Windows8 preinstalled), it can be used for Ubuntu too. Do not format it. It is strongly recommended to have only 1 EFI partition per disk.
An EFI partition can be created via a recent version of GParted (the Gparted version included in the 12.04 disk is OK), and must have the following attributes:
Mount point: /boot/efi (remark: no need to set this mount point when using the manual partitioning, the Ubuntu installer will detect it automatically)
Size: minimum 100Mib. 200MiB recommended.
Type: FAT32
Other: needs a "boot" flag.
Angel Flores
are (you) actually retarded?
there's no good reason for a single user system to have more than one partition
Logan Reed
yes there is, you keep /home separate that way if the system borks itself you're feeling lazy all you gotta do is reinstall and not have to worry with backing up and restoring data. yeah yeah, I know everyone should have backups, but not everyone does
Jayden Scott
>>are (you) actually retarded? That one guy who chooses to be rude on the friendly GNU/linux thread
Blake Perry
just read the errors man >sudo apt install cinnamon-common there 1 down
Daniel Cox
How big is the performance increase from a 3570K to a Ryzen 7? I use Gentoo.
i'm trying out st but I keep getting fails when trying to patch it, what am I doing wrong? $git clone... $make clean install $mkdir patches $wget xxx.diff $patch < patches/xxx.diff
Hudson Watson
Carrot is the wrong way.
Levi Brown
Debian
Nolan Foster
use git to apply patches
cd st/ git apply /your/patch
I find the suckless patching to be a mess but I still love dwm/st
Carter Foster
yes. Portage is made of six gorillion small files, it will tax your HDD, especially if its your first run of anything portage related since last restart.
Aiden Brown
patch usually needs a -p# parameter, -p1 works for most patch files patch -p1 < whatever.diff
Caleb Gray
will try with git and see whats happens, thanks
I tried with -p1 and -p0 too but the same happened
Samuel Williams
Their carrot is the wrong way use >
Logan Parker
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Oliver Sanders
i mean it's pretty much any time i emerge anything, it just goes crazy i guess that explains it though
David Bailey
Richard Stallman is so cringey in every interview he appears in.
Carson Cooper
Anyone know why urxvt keeps highlighting shit in eix like this? like sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.. just a peeve, but it gets kind of annoying after a while
You mean a speech in general, or a Stallman speech?
Brayden Howard
All modern unix-like os I've encountered will not even let you set the suid flag on interpreted scipts.
Why don't you just configure sudo so that one specific command requires no password? sudo is insanely general in the rules you can make.
Jonathan Johnson
I dunno, do you set TERM to something useful? I think you're supposed to use TERM=xterm-256color
Im using TERM=screen-256color in my ~/.tmux.conf
Andrew Murphy
it already is 256, it's like pywal is setting the foreground color as the background in the results for some reason
Jaxon Jackson
Why doesn't Torvalds sit down and fix the linux filepicker already?
John Martin
he's fat with a standing desk, he can't stand up for too long
Aaron Gomez
First off, GNU/Linux isn't an OS developed by one person. Many people run many projects for for system. The filepicker is part of GTK, run by the Gnome project. The Gnome project is already trying to fix the issue for GTK3. Meanwhile KDE does not have this problem.
tl;dr linux is a kernel, linus is a kernel developer
Alexander Young
Quality bait
Asher Anderson
He's too busy shilling overpriced tech that you can never have on YouTube.
Browse dotshare.it and github for some dots to get ideas. A nice way to spend some evenings full of win.
Angel Allen
pkill
Kevin Allen
I found it, I'm just wondering why it's not in the base install and I had it install it myself.
Bentley King
Please don't tell me this is just a VM.
Anthony Wood
If less lets you read a text document, what's the point of cat?
John Carter
Ah, thx. Didn't know that one.
Lucas Rodriguez
cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output
Using cat to print file content is basically abusing it. Since ever peole have been used 'more' to display file contents until 'less' showed up with more features.
