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Trying to install parabola on librebooted x200, I get error:temporary failure in name resolution trying to ping anything, and dhcpcd doesn't start on my wifi or ethernet. Installed Trisquel to test, wifi works on Trisquel but not ethernet. Anyone had a similar issue? How do I fix my wthernet port / why does my wifi card work on Trisquel and not Parabola?
Asher Rivera
Relatively new to Linux, but finally I decided to stay instead of uninstalling after a few hours. Now I need a new Music Player. I'm one of those Winamp diehards and of course I need a replacement. I already tried Rythmbox and Foobar2000 but I don't really like any of those. What does Jow Forums use?
it's probably due to whether the kernel module was included in the kernel they gave you or not deadbeef is pretty comfy
Bentley Wilson
deadbeef is about the best full GUI replacement you're gonna get. It's basically a janky foobar, with awful default behavior, so it will take some tweaking. Searching a relatively large directory also has pretty decent latency compared to foobar.
Zachary Torres
>Anyone had a similar issue? No, because I don't use dhcpcd standalone, neither should you.
Set up your network in /etc/netoworking or install networkmanager (it has a cli config tool if you don't want GUI). Meanwhile you can run dhclient to get a dhcp setup so you can install packages.
>it's probably due to whether the kernel module was included in the kernel they gave you or not I librebooted it myself - you mean the parabola kernel doesn't have the right drivers or something?
Jace Parker
libreboot isn't a kernel -- yea I mean there are probably differences between the kernel provided with trisquel and the one provided with parabola
Mason Gutierrez
Do you know any players which hav a "jump to" function, similar to Winamp? (i.e. press j, type 3 letters of the middle of a trackname and get a result)
Samuel Lee
Linux is the name of the kernel that Linus Torvalds developed starting in 1991. The operating system in which Linux is used is basically GNU with Linux added. Please call the complete system GNU/Linux, both to give the GNU Project credit and to distinguish the whole system from the kernel alone.
Parker Perry
nevermind I'm retarded. Parabola is arch based, mistook it to the debian/ubuntu based libre system.
Easton Roberts
dont remember if audacious has but probably does, the CLI player I use has "/" for searching files.
on deadbeef you can set a hotkey to "find" a track, pretty much the same thing as you talked about. it'll just open another small window with your results and then you can esc out of it.
Caleb Moore
not the poster above but yeah, I don't think anyone here needs to be reminded of that.
Austin Hill
I've been using linux for years, mostly debian for the last 10 or so. I use XFCE so I never got the GNU stuff, and don't seem to miss it. I don't do any gaming, if that matters.
Noah Robinson
you do have the GNU stuff it's all of the 'coreutils' that said, it's arguable whether GNU coreutils, systemd, or Xorg is more important to the system at large, and I think just calling it linux should suffice -- everyone knows what you're talking about. if you are specifically talking of the kernel, say linux kernel.
Dont want to enter into the topic because BSD undercover shitposters are triggered, but GNU is a set of tools and the group that made them. Consider that all the software we have today had to be created from somewhere.
Liam Mitchell
Linux is just a kernel.
Xavier Jackson
The trap thread was better.
Angel Hughes
Using a minimal ubuntu install with I3. Installed Compton for some compositing, but now I'm occasionally getting times where the screen will glitch out a bit and flash the background during normal use. It's rare, but it happens enough to be annoying. Is there something I need to configure with Compton in order to address this?
Tyler Howard
Compiled linux-ck. But when i go to boot it the keyboard and mouse dont light up and dont function. Booting back in to the stock kernel, there is no trace of the ck kernel being booted in any logs. How can i fix this?
Jayden Murphy
linux ck? never heard of that distro
Connor Watson
Assuming this is the Con Kolivas patchset, that only changes the process scheduler which doesn't affect your mouse and keyboard. Perhaps you forgot to install the modules?
Justin Ramirez
did you start the ck kernel compiling with a defconfig?
Ian Price
ssh into it while it's booted in the linux-ck and get the dmesg?
Asher Edwards
What's your CLI dlownloader? wget? curl? aria2? httpie?
Adam Bailey
wget and curl
Cameron Hernandez
wget and curl axel if I need multithreaded downloading
Brandon Bell
Its the same config that my stock kernel uses,the only changes are to enable the ck patches config settings
I dont have another device to ssh from
Aiden Torres
"ncmpcpp" does that kind of search. I have no idea how similar it is to winamp though as I've never used winamp. So all I can do is make you aware of it and you decide for yourself.
Brody Young
Hey Jow Forums, have a weird issue today that I can't seem to find an answer for through google. I'll be watching videos in firefox for a while when suddenly they'll pause and won't start again. When I pause and un-pause them it just goes forward and back a frame and this persist even after killing firefox and restarting it. Seems I need to do a full system restart before it gets going again which makes it awkward to troubleshoot.
Has anyone had this issue before or have the faintest clue of where the issue could lie? The fact that killing firefox doesn't fix it really confuses me.
Blake Russell
(replying to myself here) despite the fact I've had this problem for a few months now, the second I reach out for some advice I realise it's an issue to do with my bluetooth earphones. Thanks for the help Jow Forums... i guess
I have been using linux for a while now...I miss my MPC-HC...any replacement? Features I want is bookmark a file at the place I stopped and playing the next file in the folder.
In addition to what the other anons posted I just wanted to point out that mpv can come fairly close to what you want by default. By default it can bookmark upon closing, with Shift+Q (or by running it with --save-position-on-quit), and it can also play lists of files so you can go forward and backward between them. But if you want it to do both bookmarking a single file and then moving on to the next in the list then it doesn't do that by default and I guess you'd need some other script like the other anons posted.
Nicholas Jenkins
Best practice is to defragment ntfs before shrinking.
Samuel Peterson
Double checked that CONFIG_USB_HID=y
was compiled in and rebooted in to it and the keyboard/mouse are still not functioning
Evan Carter
Should I be an arch fag or void fag
Jose Adams
Try that inner monologue thingy.
Benjamin Sullivan
Literally what
Isaac Smith
install debian testing
Jack Rogers
How do you get those uber minimal borders I see around here and /w/ all the time?
Jackson Walker
need more context what wm/de
Julian Brooks
everyone eventually comes to arch, so why not skip some steps and save time.
Juan Turner
Install Debian Sid.
Nicholas Lee
Install i3-gaps, bspwm or dwm.
Daniel Martinez
>everyone eventually comes to arch and then they move on to more minimal/more sane distros
Cameron Allen
>more minimal than arch >sane Gentoo isn't sane. How isn't Arch sane? You don't still believe the "every update breaks your system" shitposting do you?
Andrew Martinez
Debian is more minimal and sane than arch why does your repo combine the *-dev packages? Gentoo is sane as well, by the way
Chase Torres
just bee urself
this
not this
Zachary Collins
I've already got i3-gaps, here's a random example post from some weeb in the current thread on /w/
You dont have to install meme tiling bullshit. Most wm's support this setting in the config or right click menu options
Luke Bailey
>Debian is more minimal and sane than arch literally untrue considering debian comes with software and packages you don't specify. >why does your repo combine the *-dev packages? why is this a bad thing? But why does your package manager still false-positive orphans?
Nathan Garcia
>literally untrue considering debian comes with software and packages you don't specify. have you ever used the netinst and/or read the manpage for apt? >But why does your package manager still false-positive orphans? [citation needed]
>[citation needed] apt autoremove is a giant piece of shit that will sometimes label over half your system's core packages as orphans. Thus leading new people to blindly fuck up their installs. t. almost did it multiple times myself also netinstall is still not more minimal than a vanilla arch install.
Benjamin White
Arch isn't sane because pacman is fast but inefficient and unstable. You should prioritize the latter two. Also, it's binary and not source based. Arch isn't minimal because of systemd, a kernel that equates to 'make allyesconfig', and pacman lies about package count.
Gentoo is sane because it is the flagship distro of portage, which is arguably the most stable, most user friendly, most efficient source-based package manager. Gentoo hardened is also a fortress. Manual Kernel compilation literally actually unironically speeds things up. You basically can't break Gentoo except during install. USE flags are god-tier and so is Gentoo's community. Layers are comfy as fuck, and it's incredibly easy to be bleeding edge on gentoo. I'd even say it's easier to be bleeding edge on Gentoo simply because it's infinitely more stable than arch, and you can have multiple versions of the same package on your computer at the same time. It's great.
Cameron Murphy
>and unstable. never had any problems with it. >source based >sane
>Arch isn't minimal because of systemd artix, or you know take the 5 seconds to swap out sysd yourself.
Gentoo is a great distro if you have too much time and no other hobbies. But I would never call it a "sane" distro, for this reason.
Logan Stewart
>apt autoremove is a giant piece of shit that will sometimes label over half your system's core packages as orphans. Thus leading new people to blindly fuck up their installs. >t. almost did it multiple times myself this is completely untrue and I'm sure it was related to you configuring your system wrong. >also netinstall is still not more minimal than a vanilla arch install. I'm going to install both in VM right now to prove you wrong.
Thomas Morris
>configuring fucking debian wrong when it has a GUI installer that does everything for you wwwwwwwwwww >I'm going to install both in VM right now to prove you wrong. make sure to record both full installs.
Oliver Foster
start reading manuals nigger, everything is documented
Owen Lopez
>>configuring fucking debian wrong when it has a GUI installer that does everything for you ???
Nolan Green
trying to instal linux mint on my spare hdd i spend few hours on that shit and ended up with frozen window when i was choosing time zones everything else worked it's just instalator window that wasn't responding why is linux so shitty ? i mean i know the memes but seriously ?
Source based distros are objectively more sane, and unless you're using a ten year old processor, compilation time is nothing. Literally -j36 my guy. But, I understand you don't want a minimal system or a package manager that is efficient. I understand you don't want a system tailored to your specific needs or software compiled in a hardened way, or a minimal kernel, or the latest and the greatest software that is compiled minimally and according to your specific needs. I understand you would give up all of this because you can't wait thirty minutes for XFCE to compile. It is unfortunate and I will pray for your repentance.
i'm pretty sure that's not aqua you spastic retard
Jacob Torres
>Source based distros are objectively more sane, and unless you're using a ten year old processor, compilation time is nothing. This. The end system is well worth the compiling.
Colton Ramirez
Do people install Mint because Mr Robot? Why don't they use Ubuntu anymore?
Eli Ross
>compilation time is nothing. >you can't wait thirty minutes for XFCE to compile. fuck right off, compiling GCC/clang on my 4790k still takes ages.
Jeremiah Flores
no you fuck off
Connor Rodriguez
why ? am i really so retarded or is this just shit ? i read manual and did a step by step install process even consulted instal gentoo wiki
Juan Gonzalez
no u
Jace Gonzalez
both with only neofetch installed on top of base install you may notice that arch has less packages installed but used twice the disk space
What is the most trustworthy source to download a gcc binary?
Joshua Diaz
They're not really interested in a system that is efficient, stable, or secure. They are interested in what looks good on r/unixporn. And if there usecase is just to look cool, I'm happy to let them stay on arch. GCC is a 'beast' of a package, yes. That's unfortunate. There aren't that many 'beasts', but the most notorious offenders are GCC and qtwebkit. The problem is: GCC is shit, but we couldn't live without it. Basado i rojopillo.
