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What's the best desktop environment that doesn't require 3D acceleration at all? I'm setting up an xrdp thin client infrastructure and want to give my users nice clicky buttans rather than just a tiling WM or whatever. Does KDE work well with compositing disabled?
David Scott
>ubuntu or kubuntu >I need ubuntu What are you looking for?
Joseph Cooper
what's wrong with XFCE? You could try budgie though, but goodluck.
Carson Fisher
lxde master race
Lincoln Martinez
>what's wrong with XFCE? Xfce would be fine for me, but it's been a decade since I was a newbie, so I'm not really sure what the new hotness is with plebs.
Those mikos use debian. I love debian. I want to fug miko. Be my miko, use debian.
Aaron Barnes
How do I start using FOSS exclusively without alienating myself from friends and family?
Carson Powell
Is that Hiro on the right?
Brayden Perry
Force friends and family to use FOSS too
Luis Perez
how do i make MPV usable? Shit's so inconvenient compared to mpc. I just want to finish a season of one show and start the other seamlessly. In MPC i can just drag episodes and then folders and sort by label in MPV it wipes the playlist on the second drag. terminal or GUI, i don't care.
Jonathan Price
isn't that the old way? (i.e. before systemd)
Luke Nelson
I want to ravish her and fill her with my seed, then install Debian on her laptop, where I will show her the beauty if Emacs before going in and fucking her tight cooch for one more round of coitus. Afterwards, we'll live a happy traditional married life with 4 kids and GNU/Linux (and Emacs).
Grayson Cox
>Used Linux as my daily driver for ten years >Haven't used it in the last two because I started playing games on my computer more often
Man, I really miss Linux.
Nathaniel Russell
Why is it so fucking hard to change the login background image in Elementary?
Alexander Morris
>in MPV it wipes the playlist on the second drag. Hold shift for focused movement.
Michael Moore
What is the best FSF approved distro? I am looking to try one.
so I hacked together bspwm with xfce and that's ended up causing so many problems that it needs to be changed. I don't know where my bspwm gets launched/executed from. Currently I have purged xfce however bspwm continues to run fine.
how can I stop bspwm from running and go back to stock xfce. If I reinstall xfce I'll still be running bspwm as the wm. I don't know where bspwm even gets launched from. If I were to just remove bspwm and then install xfce, what would happen? I'm pretty sure there's a line in some file telling sxhkd and bspwm to launch so what would happen if those lines remained there but bspwm and sxhkd removed? is there anyway I can find where those lines are located? I know I can search for it but where exactly should I start the search if I don't want to waste time searching the entire computer there is no bspwm line in my xinitrc (the x11 file and the one in my home directory)
Landon Adams
i hope you suffer in hell for typing this
Ayden Richardson
which bspwm will show the location
Jackson Clark
What software should I install?
Owen Richardson
gentoo
Eli Gutierrez
lmao
Kayden Gutierrez
I'm that dude above with the fucked xfce I don't have internet on my shit anymore, I'm pretty sure uninstalling xfce got rid of the network manager or something similar. I have plugged in ethernet and that does not work either. ip a shows 1.lo 2.enp0s25 3.wlp3s0
Mason Anderson
>thinking systemd is the "new" way >doesn't know there have been plenty of things before systemd
Luke Johnson
>the best Every distribution that has that version in its repository "supports" it the same.
Levi Rogers
should I stop my docker containers before rebooting? If I just reboot will it shut them down gracefully? I use a rutorrent container and I have heard that rtorrent doesn't handle being killed very well if its writing something to disk.
Thomas Jones
how are fonts and freetype in fedora 28 ?
Parker Green
how fucked does your system need to be before you just start over and reinstall your distro?
Jacob Clark
Manjaro would kernel panic because it had some sort of furry yiff special grub2 settings, that if grub2 was updated by any other distro on the same machine, it would corrupt that one entry (why exactly does a bootloader need to regenerate operating system entries on update, anyway?)
Jaxon Hernandez
rm -rf / levels of fucked.
Charles Thomas
Any font suggestions where I can just turn off AA and they would still look fine?
Liam Foster
whats more comfy KDE or gnome?
Adrian Carter
Roboto Sans Droid Sans Fira Sans
For terminal inconsolata
Angel Bailey
GRUB regenerates entries often because it is most commonly used to dual boot with Windows, which has been known to overwrite boot sectors without user permission. It's a defensive mechanism.
Tyler Garcia
Been out of the GNU/Linux game for a bit, but I gotta come back. For a minimal & comfy desktop is Debian netinstall with i3 (or some other tiling wm) still a good choice?
Gabriel Garcia
i recognised the OP image on the catalog, here is another if anyone wants it
Chuwi guy here again. Dolphin Vulkan on linux performs worse than DX11 on Windows 10 for some reason. Need to try Ishiiruka though.
Eli Reed
One of the best friend. If you aren't using testing I suggest looking into apt pinning for newer packages like mpv or firefox for example while maintaining a stable core set of packages like your desktop and kernel.
Gavin Perez
Meanwhile at Google >It was officially decided to *not* allow Android devices to use Speck encryption lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/6/857
Eli Jenkins
>wanting to allow a cipher the nsa created
Jaxon Jackson
dhcpcd enp0s25 when you're plugged into ethernet.
Parker Phillips
GPU? That one MS shill BTFO
Michael Green
>bought a used thinkpad >came with unlicensed windows 10 pro >mfw
btw can you libreboot gma+radeon dual graphics thinkpads? with the radeon chip being usable.
one year after i bought a t420, i installed windows on it and the computrace activated and an employee probably saw me jerking off before he shut it down, some nigger from washington dc stole it and it eventually made its way to me
Jayden Reed
Is Manjaro down with SPECK? They use their own repositories for reference.
Jackson Peterson
speck is being intergrated into the kernel, if what i read was correct, so i think all distros are getting it with 4.17 Just blacklist it. add blacklist CONFIG_CRYPTO_SPECK
to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Ryan Hernandez
>so i think all distros are getting it with 4.17 Nope it's not in the default config but arch does compile everything --with-kitchen-sink so arch will probably get it and most other distros won't
Ryan Wood
I-is that a boy?
Aiden Brown
Which kernel?
David Murphy
Oh ok, my bad. Thanks
Linux 4.17
Charles Gutierrez
arch community is discussing blacklisting it by default
Brayden Smith
>implying arch devs listen to the community
William Anderson
Intel HD 500 and my CPU is a Celeron N3450, which is almost as powerful as the N4200 but its intentionally blocked. In windows I can change the TDP profile to max performance (so it goes up to 12w instead of 9w. i can also set it to minimum which is usually 6w) I can set a low custom resolution and also set the cpu to always be boosted to 2.2ghz. Dunno how to accomplish all of that in linux but in Windows Mario Sunshine runs at 25-30fps on ishiiruka.
Isaac Wright
you can have cpu profiles google it plus arch wiki
Matthew Myers
I have my cpu profile set to performance and it doesnt seem to help. youtube.com/watch?v=pzHwt8CNrF4# This youtube link is what I followed to get it working in Windows 10 (though I use throttlestop to achieve the same effect since I can toggle it on and off easier for a temp boost). Thermals shouldnt be an issue since this chip has a copper shield but also a metal body so even at full pelt it feels mildly warm in one spot. When I get back from work I'll have to experiment more. But only in the file select menu of Mario Sunshine running on Dolphin in Vulkan Im only getting a very smooth stable, but slow 17fps. Custom low resolution might help but last time it didnt save what I set. I need to figure that out at least.
A long time ago I saw a video on youtube where a guy was running Ubuntu, and on his second monitor he was running win10 through virtualization. He used the integrated graphics for the Ubuntu and dedicated his gfx card to the virtual win10, also had a software kvm so moving the mouse to the edge of the screen would switch between the operating systems.
My only virtualization experience is using virtualbox (it's shit, right?). What software should I use to achieve something like this?
Jonathan Morris
install vm player follow the arch wiki for gpu passthrough and pray it works.
Chase Moore
thanks mate, I'll try it
Wyatt Thomas
fuck that shit, use QEMU
Brody Ward
the answer will change depending on whether somebody who uses either gnome or kde answers.
Jacob Watson
yea been googling around, QEMU does seem to be more performant then vm player. Thanks for contributing to my question
Caleb Clark
there recent benchmarks? vm player is a bit more convenient, but if qemu is better i'll switch.
Jose Murphy
Sipping coffee and configuring my home computer at work via ssh on a rainy day is so comfy
I have a pi working as torrent server for me. it also shares files via samba and it works headless via ssh. I noticed that sometime it gets unresponsive both for files shared via samba and ssh. after a reboot everything starts being responsive again. the previous uptime before the reboot was 2 weeks. to prevent unresponsiveness I scheduled a weekly reboot in crontab. is this going to help me? why is this happening?
Tyler Edwards
So Manjaro is Arch Linux built up for you already. Is there a distro that does that but for Gentoo?
Sebastian Martin
>Try linux mint >Whenever a program uses a microphone input my voice AND sound becomes crackly and shitty as fuck >Steam games that are "native" to linux are halfassed at best >Won't load all the thumbnails in my 3000 unsorted menes folder >Very limited mouse settings
Basically anything. Try Ubuntu if you're scared of the command line for now, it holds your hand like Mint but isn't bad. Or Debian if you've shaken off the fear of the CLI.
Joseph Jenkins
Thank you. Now I demand more.
Dylan Adams
I've already used the terminal a bit to edit pulseaudio in an attempt to fix the crackling sounds but it didn't work. I tried ubuntu, it looked like something my mom or a girl would use on their laptops.
Christopher Clark
for entry level? Elementary, Solus, Debian If you want games though, you should use a rolling release distro. Which is one that's a one-time install and you update forever as soon as the update is pushed. Your packages are much newer and bleeding edge than non rolling-release. OpenSuse tumbleweed, Antergos/Manjaro, Alpine, siduction, etc
Carson Brown
You can make any distro look however you want Ubuntu "looking like something your mom would use" is not true. What you mean is "the default desktop environment of Ubuntu looks like something my mom would use"
There are gorillions of different DE's available to pick from. There are also Ubuntu flavors that come with different DE's pre-installed. For example: Xubuntu (XFCE), Kubuntu (KDE), Ubuntu GNOME (GNOME), etc.
