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Probably not. SSHFS is still SFTP and thus has no concept of thumbnails, only file transfers.
Brody Rodriguez
How can I set up "Libraries" under GNU/Linux like on Windows 7? They're basically an Explorer shortcut that lists the contents of multiple folders in one view. For example I have a documents library that shows the contents three different folders in one view.
Luis Wilson
Words have no inherent meaning, but mean whatever people most commonly think that they mean. Context matters and it's not a problem for words to mean different things in different contexts. To suggest otherwise is childish PC nonsense.
Wyatt Fisher
Kernel.
Eli Thompson
Would it work if i installed ranger + w3mimg on the remote computer and using ranger through ssh instead or do you know of another alternative i can use instead?
Daniel Kelly
you replied to baite
Easton Mitchell
I don't care what that particular user's intentions were. There are people here who legitimately believe that nonsense.
Noah Peterson
Linux is a kernel. That's a fact.
Jack Gutierrez
debian/ turd
Daniel Campbell
As there are people who have next to zero experience with anything yet actively avoid Debian because a couple of zoomers on this board say bad things about systemd. This is a place of shitposting and disinformation, most things aren't even worth replying to.
Carter Bennett
Help please I'm just trying to edit my i3 config file with "nitrogen --restore" to keep my wallpaper but its giving me errors.
>ERROR:CONFIG: Expected one of these tokens: , '#", 'set',...... does it need to be in a specific part of the config file?
Cameron Nelson
You can't do anything interesting with your systemd-based OS that i can't do with my systemd-free one, nor do anything more easily. Meanwhile, your system is bigger and more complicated than mine. That makes it bloat.
Jason Bennett
Not disagreeing, just pointing out that beginners shouldn't blindly follow advice on Jow Forums and develop a purist mentality just because.
Parker Gonzalez
I agree both posts here.
Mason Parker
It's not just because if you explain why you're right, that's the point.
Easton Green
Never mind I figured it out
Michael Sullivan
But the thing is - not everyone is going to made anything with OS at all. Its just a tool to start another tools. If it works why would you want to do "anything interesting"? In the real world nobody cares about "bloat" except a few autists.
James Bennett
>glt/ >*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread *** >glt/
>installed Linux Mint 19 on Surface Pro 4 >setup browser, zfs file system, d/l a good kernel for peripherals >cam won't work >sleep/hibernate won't work >how do i install MSoffice? >use some dark mode theme >except it's not dark mode >when in library, pull out this cool-retro-term and pretend to be awesome >cannot reach same levels of comfyness as in W10
I'm thinking about switching back.
Alexander Edwards
>In the real world nobody cares about "bloat" except a few autists. Referring to people who know more about something than you as "autists" is a lazy way of excusing yourself for your own ignorance.
B-But that's clearly Ubuntu with the Arch icon hacked in.
Michael Foster
>Arch >riced >as Ubuntu And how low have you fallen
James Thomas
Is Shepherd the best init system? Solves all the real problems systemd also "solved" like dependencies and service restarting on crashes, and it's literally hackable with Guile.
Heard that the project doesn't even get a lot of updates because it's so hackable it's often easier just to add a feature on your own than it is to add it to the init system itself. That's the kind of shit I love to hear about my software.
James Lewis
>from red hat. >too big to be audited >having actually looked at the changelogs from systemd updates for awhile, I'd estimate about 75% of it is written by ubuntu and debian devs by now. >systemd 400,000 lines of code >linux kernel 10 million lines of code. >OK kid.
Gabriel James
Linux Kernel is a kernel. Linux typically refers to a Linux Kernel distribution for desktop or server use.
You're pretty much saying "No it's not an apple, it's a granny smith apple."
Dont wanna let noobuntufags get mad so hiding ur power level. Brilliant
Alexander Ross
So I just installed my Nvidia Drivers from the Debian Backports Repo, which was 390.87-2. I'm on Linux MX, which wanted to install 384 by default, but I chose the Debian backport because it gave me the option and it was a more recent update.
Was I supposed to go with the default? Should I reinstall the driver?
Logan Kelly
Every time I exit/restart X, pulseaudio maxes out 1 core at 100% until I kill and restart it. Why the fuck is it doing this? The Googles do nothing. :'(
Benjamin Morgan
>Nvidia Don't use that word here. GFY, you're a plague.
Blake Phillips
It it works keep it, 384 is really old desu
Dominic Adams
Sell your GPU and buy an AMD one.
Daniel Rogers
>using inferior 2 generation old hardware Nah
Colton Jackson
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Andrew Rodriguez
You go back to /v/, you're clearly a gen z bandwagon meme'r You'd know from 1990-20XX nvidia was the only option due to ATI's shit drivers and even worse hardware. If nvidia didnt exist the video stack on linux would be archaic and stuck at 320x240p
AMD couldnt fix the ATI drivers and even gave up on their own drivers cause they are so shit. The open source lack performance compared to nvida
Angel Roberts
I installed the latest Debian Repo version (390.82-2), but I get that slight screen tearing when scrolling up and down a page on browser. It was the same on Windows 10 before I upgraded to the latest drivers for my 1060 GPU.
Is this a case of Nvidia not playing well with Linux? Is there anything else I could be doing to optimize?
David Williams
why is partition resizing available only on unmounted ones? how to resize without using liveusb environment
Jaxon Roberts
Nvidia drivers are absolutely shit in that camp. I used to run a 3.5 with proprietary drivers and it still teared from time to time. Using the nvidia setting for the composition pipeline worked, but it eventually always broke. I've had 0 problems with a 580, sold that 970 and never looked back.
Juan Powell
bla bla bla GFY you're not welcome on this thread.
>why is partition resizing available only on unmounted ones? Because dev are more interested in providing useless features instead of doing what must be done for 30 years.
Julian Ward
Because it would be extremely difficult and error prone to try and write a way to do that on an online partition, so people don't even try. It's just not worth the monumental amount of effort.
Austin Morris
>Is this a case of Nvidia not playing well with Linux? Yes >Is there anything else I could be doing to optimize? Yes, there is an option in nvidia-settings, in your screen options, click on "advanced" and select "force full composition pipeline", if it's present for this driver
Alexander Sullivan
>bla bla bla >i cant refute the claims made cause im a underage b& gen-z retard Its ok ,nvidia wont go anywhere and will always be there when your shitty ati card dies from heat exhaustion at 10% load. Meanwhile nvidia will INNOVATE while ayyyyyymd follows in its footsteps
History dosent lie
Nathaniel Gomez
gparted wont let me unmount home to resize, fiddling with fdisk seems a little bit too spooky
Julian Cook
>Because dev are more interested in providing useless features instead of doing what must be done for 30 years. You cant dynamicly change the partition layout you dumbfuck. How the fuck are you going to resize it when the os is using the drive?
Colton Phillips
>gparted wont let me unmount home to resize Cause you're fucking using /home right now as you are logged in to the user and using its files holy shit how the fuck did retards like you get access to a linux iso?
Brody Sanchez
>You cant dynamicly change the partition layout you dumbfuck. If I wrote the OS that the kind of things that would be possible. >How the fuck are you going to resize it when the os is using the drive? And do you mean that if I rewrite some sectors the kernel and my computer will explode? Ridiculous.
Tyler Rogers
Use gparted from the liveUSB... friendly thread
Isaiah Bell
I don't know the answer to your question, but I think that you should be asking yourself whether or not you need pulseaudio. Some people do. Most people don't.
That behavior sounds like the result of a bug. If you can't just get rid of pulsaudio, try rolling it back to an older version.
Luis Wilson
Linux is released as tar.xz.
Jayden Wilson
>If I wrote the OS that the kind of things that would be possible. Go fucking do it. You cant and it would be so buggy no oen would fucking bother with it, like they haven't FOR SIXTY FUCKING YEARS.
>And do you mean that if I rewrite some sectors the kernel and my computer will explode? Ridiculous. You're asking to change the tires and the frame of a car while you're going 200 mph down a curvy road. You're changing the bounds of the partition its self, how the fuck are you going to do that while its being used ans you constantly write data too it?
>Go fucking do it. You cant and it would be so buggy no oen would fucking bother with it, like they haven't FOR SIXTY FUCKING YEARS. So I don't have the right to criticize because I'm not doing it? (That's exactly your argument, but you won't probably understand that). >You're asking to change the tires and the frame of a car while you're going 200 mph down a curvy road. Ridiculous. VM (virtual memory) can handle the few pages that need to be remapped during the process. I'm not talking about changing the memory, but only the HD. >You're changing the bounds of the partition its self, how the fuck are you going to do that while its being used ans you constantly write data too it? Ho my gosh, it's too hard to rewrite routing tables during running. How could the internet work in that case?
Seriously, you're an ignorant, and, if you're a coder, a shitty code monkey
>Seriously, you're an ignorant, and, if you're a coder, a shitty code monkey Do it right now. What ever language you want.Post it in fewer then 100 lines.
>Do it right now. What ever language you want.Post it in fewer then 100 lines. Here we are. When people can't stand criticism they always rely on that fallacious argument of doing thing. Pathetic.
Angel Ross
That is not a linux iso Words can have multiple meanings you gen z trash
Ryan Russell
Kinda need Nvidia/CUDA for 3D productivity purposes though. Ok thanks.
Ayden Mitchell
What else is it? NT? Hurd?
William Wilson
>4.19 So that's it we will finally get rid of the 4.18 ? >4.18.16 I just want to see it change now, just because...you see...
A "Linux ISO" refers to a Linux Distribution, a userland(such as LLVM) and Linux packaged together in a variety.
Camden Hernandez
This, I have no problems using ALSA
Connor Garcia
Linux is a kernel.
Henry Rivera
llvm isn't a userland you glorious faggot
Dylan Howard
Usually that's a bug in your card's ALSA driver, or maybe something stupid your distro did with Pulse. You might be able to avoid that that by setting exit-idle-time = -1 in your daemon.conf, which is in /etc/pulse or ~/.config/pulse.
William Watson
Where did i infer it wasnt?
John Reed
>blaming ALSA for an obvious Pulseaudio bug Yeah, that will fix it
I assume you have a bug report to go with this obvious Pulse bug?
Ethan Morgan
I was surprised to hear that the 4.18 kernel addressed sound issues with the spectre x360 which is the laptop that I sadly use. The only reason I found out about that is because my audio started to mess up after upgrading to that version. Thank the dudes for fixing whats not broken
Ayden Jenkins
Should be called MX GNU/Linux.
Liam Thompson
>NOTABUG >WONTFIX Typical attitude of Pulsecrap (yes, the same developers of THAT one too)
Logan Gomez
It's good for what it is, but I'd rather just use Debian.
They have a ton of backports. They're focused on producing a ready to use distribution with GUI interfaces for as much as possible. The forum is pretty decent. They cater a little too much to retards, but the intention is good. XFCE itself is (imo) inherently bunk at this point in Debian because it runs the old release with bugs that have been fixed upstream for years, so that's unfortunate. It's a pretty good distro over all though, definitely about as good as it can be. In my experience though, Debian itself runs better since every little deviation the devs make from Debian, they have to keep track of and maintain (backports, apt preferences, systemd shit, system configurations)
It reminds me a bit of #! back in the day.
I would recommend it to anyone looking for a debian based preconfigured desktop.
> sound no work > grog blame yellow stickman Lennart is a dick, but you're a fucking idiot. If you lose 5 hard drives in the same computer, do you blame Western Digital or your power supply?
Bad example. Drives all fail eventually. That's why RAID exists.
Connor Gomez
>why is the thing we didnt correctly address for X years suddenly functioning properly the wya we want it. >why are my outdated configuration files no longer working after my driver was updated in the kernel?