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What we know so far is that there is a single guy shitposting about: 1. RMS, FSF and their respective contributions ans importance; 2. Nvidia; 3. He is also that guy that asks if people have licenses to post stallmans and claims it to be "piracy".
NOW THE MOST HILARIOUS PART: 4. We know for a fact that he is not being paid. He is doing it for free.
>NOW THE MOST HILARIOUS PART the most hilarious part is that people are actually feeding the troll
Oliver Nguyen
I have a directory full of subdirectories. How can I print the name of every subdirectory to a file? Is it possible to do this inside of a .zip/7z/gz file?
Levi Taylor
It's free software only, doesn't use systemd and is as autistic as Arch. There is also Hyperbola which is basically the same but is an Arch fork. So all the Arch packages and docs.
Charles Edwards
You can easily find out by reading the manuals. That's why no one replied.
Luis Moore
>It's free software only, not true. Void has a nonfree repository
Daniel King
retard here
emacs\ info.txt info.txt info.txt~
This means I have three info files?
Jordan Gomez
I meant the default install includes free software only.
Colton Brooks
I think I did fucking wrong forgetting 4kb format $ sudo nvme list Node SN Model Namespace Usage Format FW Rev ---------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- --------- -------------------------- ---------------- -------- /dev/nvme0n1 BTNH82810587512A INTEL SSDPEKNW512G8 1 512,11 GB / 512,11 GB 512 B + 0 B 001C /dev/nvme1n1 BTNH8281056E512A INTEL SSDPEKNW512G8 1 512,11 GB / 512,11 GB 512 B + 0 B 001C
Parker Jackson
"emacs info.txt" "info.txt" "info.txt~"
Those are all separate files. The "info.txt~" is basically an Emacs backup that you can delete if need be, just like foo becomes .foo.swp in Vim.
Ian Butler
Is it possible to make a swap FILE during a manual arch installation? If so, at what point?
Jason Adams
As soon as you mount it and put the file structure on it
Lincoln Lewis
>at what point you can make the file after you are done partitioning the drive and have the partition mounted. Just remember to put it into your fstab once you get to editing that
Andrew Jenkins
i have i3 without a wallpaper. do i understand it correctly that if i want a xfce-like right-click menu with some shortcuts, that means finding a program that produces said menu, and putting it as x root window?
Nathaniel Morris
>guix, gentoo, debian, parabola finally arch transcended meme status
Bentley Torres
>As soon as you mount it and put the file structure on it Thanks
>Just remember to put it into your fstab Thanks.
So probably best to do it after genfstab so I don't forget.
Leo Jackson
Does XFCE have a search option somewhere that lets me look for everything on my computer like what Gnome has with folders like pic related or something like that?
it's not part of xfce but xubuntu uses catfish for that
Joshua Diaz
Thanks
Julian Watson
Please help my emacs color theme or whatever is called just changed out of fucking nowhere. Before it was the default dark theme that it always had when I installed it. But now is all white.
I am still learning emacs and that last thing I wanted to do was to waste time ricing my editor. I was more than happy with the default dark theme (that matched my KDE Breeze dark theme). But now that the colors suddenly changed to white I want to revert things back to how they were.
The obvious solution to this is to treat China as an enemy nation and cut all the fiber cables connecting them to the Internet. If they can't play by the rules they can fuck off.
Thanks. I was looking around, figured it had to be a combination of ls piping to a cat or something. I will search around the online man pages, as I am not on a linux machine at the moment.
How do I tell if X.org uses CPU rendering or Intel HD?
Landon Russell
Why would you ever use CPU rendering? Intel drivers are included by default unless you did something very stupid.
Jordan Gray
tell that to blender
Noah Davis
If you meant in Blender you should have said in Blender. Absent mentioning an application people will think you're talking about the OS's display server, like Xorg or Wayland.
Samuel Howard
i wasn't op lol xD just sayin'
John Hernandez
I've an SSD, how safe and stable is an installation on XFS or F2FS? Gotta go fast
Sebastian Torres
reminder that no loonix distro has video acceleration in browsers, resulting in stuttering, overheating and battery wastage.
Xfs and ext4 are fine. We had this discussion some threads ago. The conclusion was that there is no evidence for the superiority of F2FS over recent versions of Xfs and ext4.
Camden Perez
You didnt read all of the thread then. F2FS outperforms ext4 and btrfs
Also what good cflags are there to use? Is -O3 still not recommended even though a lot of high end desktops can benefit from the optimizations from -O3
Not on SATA or NVMe SSDs. The real point of F2FS is for raw flash devices like eMMC, SD cards, or soldered NAND. On fancier disks, ext4 and XFS are fine.
Wyatt White
The thing is mpv tells me this: libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate [vo/opengl] Suspecte software renderer or indirect context. [vo/opengl] Suspecte software renderer or indirect context. [vo/xv] No Xvideo support found. [vo/x11] Warning: this legacy VO has bad performance. Consider fixing your graphics drivers, or not forcing the x11 VO. but glxgears works well at 500 fps in fullscreen, so I want to make sure IntelHD works.
Nathaniel Peterson
I did. It wasn't.
I just realized that I know who you are. You are the autistic user that posted a phoronix benchmark without reading it firs and kept saying "there is evidence, there is evidence" without actually showing it. Much like what you are doing here.
Now, if you had used this ~2 days to actually read the tiny amount of text in those three pages, you would have noticed a few things: 1. We were not talking about btrfs in the other thread; 2. Those benchmarks are for disks in raid; 3. Btrfs actually outperforms F2FS in two out of three tests.
I'm going to be nice and not report you for posting extremely low quality content.
Gavin Morales
>indirect context Are you fucking running this in a VM? What exact GPU do you have?
Please read the links you're discussing more closely. F2FS was designed to ease write strain on RAW FLASH DEVICES. Benchmarking it on spinning SATA HDDs like Phoronix did there is worse than useless. Spinning rust should use ext4, XFS, ZFS, or (when it's ready) bcachefs.
It's an i7 3520M. lspci -v gives this. 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 24 Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 6000 [size=64] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: i915
And I set this for modesetting. Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "modesetting" Option "AccelMethod" "glamor" Option "DRI" "3" EndSection
xf86-video-intel is installed.
Jackson Martinez
Why are you manually using Xorg.conf at all? It should autodetect at runtime. This really looks like a self inflicted problem.
Owen Wright
Fine, let's remove the config and let this beautifully-written piece of software that is X.org work out of the box. libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: i965 libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: i965 libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open i965 (search paths /usr/lib64/dri) libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open i965 (search paths /usr/lib64/dri) [vo/opengl] Suspected software renderer or indirect context. libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: i965 libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: i965 [vo/opengl] Suspected software renderer or indirect context. [vo/xv] Warning: this legacy VO has bad quality and performance, and will in particular result in blurry OSD and subtitles. You should fix your graphics drivers, or not force the xv VO.
Carter Cook
You don't have your Mesa (OpenGL) driver installed. That's separate from xf86-video-intel which only does basic modesetting, etc.
Lucas Jackson
>additional details may be available in /var/log/syslog or on virtual console 4 post additional details
Dominic Parker
>You don't have your Mesa (OpenGL) driver installed. Of course I have. glxgears works fine with modesetting, but without it does like mpv and tries to load the wrong driver and spews errors.
Gabriel Lee
That doesn't mean shit on a modern CPU, fampai. Your driver is in fact missing. Humor me and run find /usr -name i965_dri.so and see if it returns anything.
Ayden Garcia
*i965_dri.so
No space.
Josiah Perry
>a modern CPU Yeah, like a 3rd gen i7 that's supposed to run on i915?
Leo Lee
Should I make the switch from Windows to Linux Mint Cinnamon? I'm scared it might not have all the apps I need. I'm an engineering major in college and I'm worried I'll be tempted to come back to Windows? Does linux even have an advantage for me, or should I not fall for the meme?
Kayden Lewis
Right. Your driver is missing. Go install it.
Parker Lopez
OK my bad. I mistook graphics chipset generation for CPU generation. It was supposed to be i965.
Brayden Kelly
Don't do it. Unless you have plenty of free time don't throw it away when you've got important shit to do.
Colton Hughes
>engineering major You'll probably need a bunch of Windows applications based on my experience with engineering students. Stick with it on your school machine unless a professor in your department suggests switching. What you can do is get a cheap little Linux machine like a Raspberry Pi and use that to learn Linux stuff.
Leo Taylor
How do I get thumbnails in the filepicker without using openpepe?
Robert Richardson
Use KDE and a Qt browser or Chromium.
Camden Cooper
Install gtk2 and gtk3 filechooser iconview patch.Its available in the arch aur
>or chromium Chromium uses gtk, which does not have filechooser icon view by default
Grayson Morgan
Chromium still uses kdialog if you have it installed.
Parker Russell
hows clover os? is it safe and noob friendly? can i really trust it?
William Lopez
It's made by a single mentally ill person. It includes ecchi anime wallpapers but not PulseAudio, so no sound on Firefox.
Alexander Cox
I have two drives. if I install linux on the windows drive will I be able to still use the other drive that just has my pictures/music etc without formatting it? when I downgraded from 10 to 8.1 I for example had to take ownership of the other drive but thats about it
Liam Garcia
Yeah, Linux can read and write NTFS just fine. It will just be a bit slower than using native ext4. You shouldn't have to do anything but mount the disk.
Dominic Lewis
>so no sound on Firefox. You can use alsa or apulse
Wyatt Gomez
Firefox purged their ALSA backend a while ago.
Jayden Cook
I literally compile out pulse support and use alsa on my firefox 68
Julian Myers
So, Linux Mint Cinnamon, LMDE 3, Ubuntu on point releases with Cinnamon installed, or Debian testing with Cinnamon. I decided I like the Cinnamon experience a lot, but Mint seems to release kind of infrequently (based on Ubuntu LTS) and I tend to like having stuff up to date.
Why the fuck does KDE develop and maintain two different personal finance applications? Is their a meaningful deference between them? Only KMyMoney is directly packaged by Suse.
Leo Sanders
Arch+Cinnamon
Nathan Rodriguez
>Nvidia I get the feeling in the future we're going to see a lot more AMD fanboys for Linux than Nvidia.
Due to Vulkan being faster and more efficient than D3d, being faster on Linux than Windows, and being faster on AMD than Nvidia we're definitely going to see more AMD people.
Plus with recent kernels/mesa AMD is literally plug and play on any distro that allows redistributing GPU firmware. Nvidia can't touch that. >better FPS >better compute >better system integration >no gimped colorspaces I'm currently on an old GTX 750Ti but my next upgrade will be 7nm AMD.
Aaron Bell
Tomorrow I'm going to test out KVM/libvirt performance on my 64 bit ARM system. I can't wait to be able to try something like multi node Kubernetes without Intel stink all over my systems.
Levi Anderson
How feasible is Linux gaming nowadays? If I wanted to go that route, what's the best hardware to go?
Hello friends, a few questions about licencing. As I understand, the author/ copyright holder of a program can distribute it however they like. Is the author obligated to provide the source code if they distribute their program licensed under the GPL? And if they don't, wouldn't that disallow anyone from distributing it?
Julian Walker
Some vids lags with VLC in 18.04 kubuntu and the picture completely freezes for a second everyfew minutes even in mpv too. I have tried to play around the compositor or the backend, but no luck. Any tips? The kwin also prone to crash, but that's probably cannot be fixed that easily.
I have an old 10yo pc and wanted to dual boot linux . I'm thinking about lubuntu or xubuntu more leaning towards xubuntu. Should I install the x32 or x64 version? Wouldn't x64 eat more ram?
This question doesn't type-check. The GPL is a mechanism to allow an author to distribute their source on the condition that anyone who distributes software based on that code must provide the modified source to their users.
Robert Johnson
lxde uses less ram than xfce
Blake Collins
I tried it but either spotify or volume control panel kept crashing. Xubuntu worked without issues.
Chase Harris
>spotify just stick to windows, m8
Samuel Thompson
>muh secret programmers club I'm not your mate, pal.
Levi Kelly
>paying money to stream DRM content to your computer
