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Yeah. Typically you install the equivalent of a DE when you use one but you could use a WM alone with something like rofi just fine.
Anthony Hall
No, thats a photoshopped old pic from like 2015 where a black guy stole his moms phone and kept facetiming him saying he was his dad now. They eventually found the phone later after the black guy tried to pawn it and the pawn guy called the cops cause they reported it stolen and locked the phone down
Brayden Bailey
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Click this link or your motherboard will die in your sleep tonight.
So I'm back on Arch again. I feel like this is the ultimate comfy distro for me.
It's so much more satisfying coming back to arch after learning more about linux.
Owen Taylor
Wow you must work for KnowYourMeme. EPIC.
Ryder Smith
Hi everyone, newfag here I'm on an Ubuntu machine pretending to install Devuan in an asus c201 chromebook laptop, for that, I was advised to use a script called devsus script:notabug.org/dimkr/devsus Im trying to run the script with sudo ./devsus.sh but no downloads start and get the picture related in the terminal. Do i need to run the script on a Devuan machine? What can I do to install Devuan easily (graphic)?
>68332888 Okay so if it's GNOME, KDE, &, XFCE tat are the guts of the system and the distro like "Arch" is the shell that does the shell do if the desktop environment does everything? Or do I have that wrong?
Jace Sanders
That*
Wyatt Walker
is wife feminine penis
Evan Robinson
What the fuck are you talking about? Desktop Environments are the guts of an OS? They are your facial features, size of your hands, the clothes you wear, your friends, your family, etc. Not your guts.
Brandon Green
So I had it backwards then, so the DE is like how it looks like Windows vs Mac setups?
Should I switch to debian as a scrub? Performance wise xubuntu is perfect but I hate that fucking mouse symbol and hate that ubuntu logo pops up when I hit screenfetch. That's all the reasons I want to switch. Is debian any more difficult to use?
David Hill
Debian shows the autism swirl though. Just lern 2 edit screenfetch, breh.
Andrew Green
Wrong way around. DE is the (somewhat) superficial abstraction of the shell.
Mason Baker
How do I get rid of the shadow around my conky? Left is my compton config and right is conky I tried everything and it refuses to work xwininfo gives me xwininfo: Window id: 0x1800001 (has no name)
what i was thinking is to burn the arm Devuan image in an usb from the ubuntu machine with the dd command then install Devuan in a separate asus c201 arm chromebook laptop. I found this idea in the irc of libreboot, they advised me to do that.
Jacob Hernandez
Oh and I'm using the tryone compton fork for blurring
Wyatt Wood
Core of the system is the type of booster, disc fomat and motherboard. Then the OS, then file system and then finally the graphical appearances you just listed
Oliver Scott
So I just got a new NVMe SSD for my Desktop PC, and I was planning on installing a distro on it. I already have Windows 10 running on my older SSD inside the PC now, and I'm planning on using the NVMe as a secondary boot option.
I'm just pondering whether or not to instead clone Windows 10 onto the newer 970 EVO I just bought, and put the distro on my old SSD, because I'm assuming Windows 10 benefits a fair bit more from SSD performance than GNU/Linux. I can't abandon Windows either because I need access to certain proprietary software for work-related purposes (mainly Photoshop) but I plan on keeping my internet browsing on GNU/Linus. Any suggestions?
Lincoln Young
while we are on the topic who has the most aesthetic logo in gnu+linux?
Jaxson Clark
Will it not boot from USB?
Logan Murphy
Of the common ones, I would say Fedora.
Parker Hughes
ubuntu systemd
Jonathan King
To all people looking for a music player on the console, consider using MOC. Is easy af and can play music even when you close it. Also, it looks damn cool.
the problem is that there is no image for the chromebookc201 in the official mirrors and the devsus script is the only way for my device. I was searching and i found an older image available for my device it boots and only give me the terminal with root access and no nice installation menu
I've been trying to install Fedora 29 or Manjaro 18 and all I get after booting off the usb is a blinking cursor on black screen after a bunch of [OK] scroll by. Any idea what's going on? google isn't any help. I've tried 2 different usb drives and I checksum the iso's before burning to ensure the data was not corrupted.
Mason Hernandez
What program are you using to make them?
Justin Rodriguez
GNU/Linux newfag here, I installed Mint on my Thinkpad over Windows 10, and it seems to take a fair bit longer to boot. Is this normal, or am I meant to take further steps to optimize the system for SSD?
Matthew Sullivan
Windows 10 wasn't actually shutting down, it was hibernating. Compare resume from hibernate times.
Jeremiah Reyes
I used fedora media writer for fedora and I used rufus 3.3 for manjaro
thanks, I will try this out and report back, hopefully from Linux
Justin Torres
is there a easy way to make a netboot image running linux that does things instead of just for installing? could just use usb sticks but this seems like a better option
Ian Cook
What do you guys use to split flacs using cue files?
Jackson Parker
Didn't work. I got a new piece of info though. Have no idea what it means
Most PXE infra other than installer bootmenus just loads a kernel which then mounts root over NFS, because up until recently anything with a gig of RAM was a workstation in its own right. That how LTSP works. There's this one github project that actually does what you want:
I wrote a shell script for this a couple of years ago.
It was my first foray into shell scripting, git, and the various digital audio stuff involved, so pls no bully. I use it occasionally and it seems to work as intended, but I'm not sure that anyone else has ever noticed it.
What's the longest sequence of repeating bytes you can get from /dev/urandon or getrandom()? I've ran some loops in Python and 4 is the longest sequence of consecutive bytes I've found. I guess every byte you add decreases the odds by some number (haven't done the math), but could you in theory get nothing but hundreds of null bytes?
Camden Smith
Good when I didn't know the real differences between distros and thought looks were all there is. Better when you learn to use the search engine with the options.
Camden Phillips
I once got a grammatically correct sentence of Russian in UTF-8 out of it. Scared the piss out of a Russian guy in the IRC channel I was dumping to.
Cooper Martinez
hey Jow Forums, i have question about TRIM on SSD, i have dual booted with Windows 7 and my partition look like this:
/dev/sda1 => windows 7 bootloder /dev/sda2 => C: partition windows 7 /dev/sda3 => D: partition /dev/sda4 => Manjaro linux
so the question is should i enable trim on windows 7 and manjaro together or enable trim only on manjaro and simply mounted all partition from manjaro and then run fstrim --all for trimming all partition once a week?
Matthew Roberts
IIRC the TRIM command just sends the drive a list of known free blocks. Windows should handle its own partitions and TRIM.
It's not bad, but you gotta tinker around for a bit to get the whole QOL parts sorted out. Make sure Synaptic package manager is already installed and use that to help find the stuff you need.
Hunter Ortiz
If you're asking what software you can use to display info on your desktop like has been done in your image, the answer is conky. If that's not your question, you should clarify your question.
Jackson Taylor
I want a linux distro that is 1)Lightweight 2)[spoiler]Doesn’t have either a stupid made up name of a stupid name[/spoiler] I believe this is impossible
Jonathan Sanders
all names are made up
Kayden Rodriguez
void
Joseph Price
Which do you prefer, Devuan or MX?
James Wilson
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Leo Young
Thanks, I’ll install it tomorrow
Nolan Jones
I have X220 and Void Linux 4.18.16_2 x86_64. Sometimes trackpoint and trackpoint buttons don't work, they don't appear in xinput. They work after reboot. What should I do?
Brayden Turner
Just did a systemd-analyze blame for seeing what's delaying boot and it happens I have
ntpdate.service 18s
The time sync service at boot is taking 18s to start. Any reason for that?
Ryder Mitchell
left side: -march=native right side: -march=haswell
my CPU is i5-4460 what makes for these differences and which options should I choose? I need to set the flags explicitly because of distcc
>no matter if -march=native or -march=haswell is set. No. march=generic is set if nothing is specified. mtune is also not implied and set to generic.
Anthony Green
I just posted the output of gcc -march=native -Q --help=target and it spits out -march=haswell -mtune=haswell, but a few other flags change compared to gcc -march=haswell -Q --help=target
Jackson Torres
why does gparted show different value for size of a partition than space checker or steam? first shows 3.06 GiB while two latter say its 2.4GiB
Wyatt Long
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg#Building_optimized_binaries >Note: If you specify different value than -march=native, then -Q --help=target will not work as expected.[5] You need to go through a compilation phase to find out which options are really enabled. See Find CPU-specific options on Gentoo wiki for instructions. huh
Jace Cook
This is still a problem I experience..
Calibre *ALWAYS* triggers it. And it spreads to - Telegram - Megasync
and doesn't affect any other program. It always goes away with reboot UNTIL Calibre triggers it again
I need something that may look like Conky. I spawn it when I need the information that is displayed in the picture. It goes above all the other windows.
All the alternatives that I'm aware of are some type of a bar, which is not optimal for my set up.
Grayson Smith
i want to install ungoogled chromium but I's not listed in the repository for me and the downloadable bins and appimage dont work. pls help
Benjamin Watson
How in the FUCK do you configure mice in this stupid as fuck OS, and how has nobody fixed it by now?
Using KDE, mouse acceleration profile None, mouse is still moving way too fast.
xinput profile for my mouse doesn't have Device Accel Constant Deceleration, gives "property 'Device Accel Constant Deceleration' doesn't exist, you need to specify its type and format" if I try to set it.
Doing it with the coordinate transformation apparently also doesn't work, when I input 'xinput set-prop "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" 0.333, 0, 0, 0, 0.333, 0, 0, 0, 1' it throws "X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)"
I want to fucking throw my computer at a wall. How the shit do I change my mouse speed and/or deceleration?
Connor Foster
Have you restarted your system after making the changes? Usually works for me.
James Perry
Type "mouse acceleration" into the Arch wiki.
Christian Jackson
Lists exactly the things I'm doing. As an addition, xset appears to have no effect.
The changes aren't happening, they're throwing errors.
Isaac Myers
Oh shit. user with the laptop from hell here. I woke up my laptop just yet, and the screen was artifacting for a second before it went back to normal.
Tip of the day: Don't buy Samsung laptops.
Mason Jenkins
AFAIK ntfs-3g doesn't even support discard, so fstrim won't touch it either way.
I agree that the mouse shit is annoying, I honestly suggest you buy a G502, configure it in windows to have lot's of different DPIs, set it to save settings to the mouses on board memory. That way you never have to worry about sensitivity in any OS ever again.
