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How do I connect to wifi on my laptop, I literally just booted from a Gentoo usb. Most of the installation process seems fine to me but I can't connect to wifi because I'm a brainlet with the terminal sometimes.
Samuel Gomez
Any of you guys use porthole? I just learned about it a few minutes ago and think it's pretty nifty looking through the package-tree (since I'm unsure how to do it through cli).
Adam King
Void will only bring them problems. I think lubuntu uses the greybird theme and the xfce-elementary icon pack.
They're too heavy though, I think manjaro refused to install on my 1GB RAM VM, was idling around 200MB~300MB if I remember correctly.
Archbang is possible, it was idling around 160MB, but I never really used it before.
Angel Diaz
Just started using Mint, its pretty pogchamp
Carter Hall
wpa_supplicant -B -i wifi_nterface -c
Carson Murphy
Sadly, I don't think I can afford gifting a new PC right now.
Ethan Allen
Switched to nouveau due to graphical glitches with nvidia I have mesa,lib32-mesa, and xf86-video-nouveau installed, yet i canot launch most gui's because "GLX IS MISSING". mesa provides glx I have rebooted since the time of uninstalling nvidia and installing nouveau,which has successfully loaded per dmesg output. How do i enable glx?
Leo Torres
Is anyone actually autistic enough to celebrate grav-mass other than stallman?
Samuel Torres
Hey linux friends, I've recently been trying ubuntu on my main computer and i have one small, but annoying issue.
My GPU's idle mode isn't initialising, i'm missing the sweet silence of my GPU fans switching off while i'm not doing anything with the computer aside from desktop browsing. GPU is an AMD RX 570 Sapphire Nitro if that makes any difference.
Jackson Rogers
Trying to see if I can get it working now, it's crashing when I try to startx.
Thanks, I will try looking for those.
William Long
Use trisquel.
Aaron Sanders
try posting in r/Linux. we don't know shit
Nolan Garcia
Are you using the proprietary or open driver?
Hudson Kelly
Thanks, trying it in a min.
Oliver Nguyen
Open thats included in the Kernel i assume, i thought AMD made all their linux drives open?
Zachary Ward
I’ve got Xubuntu (is my first distro). I was thinking of installing Arch. Is the only way to keep my files safe just to back them all up then put them back later? Also if you use Arch, why?
Evan Powell
didn't like how slstatus was jumping around so much when it things went n/a, even trying to format it didn't fix it completely. so I wrote my own status message in python, for fun.
Guys, I'm ready to switch. I'm fed up with windows 10 and want to make the change. But I have a few concerns. Does Linux require babysitting with regards to stability, updates, drivers, etc or is everything automatic like on windows?
I don't know what distro to use. I've read a bunch of articles and wikis but I still don't know what to choose. I want to use this as my daily driver so I want something stable and reliable. It also wouldn't hurt if it was good looking in terms of design. Is Ubuntu really just the best choice or should I skip it and go to something better?
>Does Linux require babysitting with regards to stability, updates, drivers, etc or is everything automatic like on windows? Depends on the distro. On stable ones it's shoot and forget. >It also wouldn't hurt if it was good looking in terms of design. Any distro can look anyway you want. >Is Ubuntu really just the best choice or should I skip it and go to something better? Run away from Gnome. I recommend OpenSuSe Leap KDE or Xubuntu LTS.
Angel Perez
i never see alpine linux run blender
Hudson Reed
how the hell do i change metadata like title or author of webms in mpv?
Benjamin Young
the variants or Ubuntu are just different appearances in the desktop. You can try Kubuntu or just install a theme on Ubuntu so it doesn't look like Halloween purple and orange. Personally I just install normal Ubuntu LTS, check third party drivers (if you don't check it probably wifi won't work), and when I boot I install adwaita and gnome tweaks, in gnome tweaks you just select the theme.
Logan Rodriguez
Is it Lin-Nix, Lie-Nux or Lee-Nux?
Austin Brown
the last one because I'm mexican
Thomas Lee
>the variants or Ubuntu are just different appearances in the desktop This is a myth. The installers are different and different teams control support and updates. Ubuntu LTS is the best supported and most stable OS with the best installer.
Xavier Ramirez
The trackpad on my XPS 13 Debian is fucking unusable. It will randomly stop and any movement on it will just scroll instead of move the cursor.
How can I fix this? I knew Dell was shit but Jesus Christ this is fucking dumb.
Robert Thomas
the installer for an advanced install is rather shit >This is a myth. huh, I never read anything about those ""flavors"" I thought it was like Debian, just different DEs, or Fedora spins which are just Fedora with different DEs. For my Thinkpad all red hat derived distros work well, specifically the sensitivity is pretty good try a live copy of Fedora. Ubuntu was unusable because of acceleration or something, and Debian sensitivity was somewhat too low.
Jacob Lee
whats a trackpad?
Colton Turner
Dare you to swear his name at his birthday.
Jordan Nelson
jesus was a fucking nigger
Levi Brooks
Cool guys don't use: Mint Ubuntu Fedora Manjaro
Cool guys use: Arch Debian Gentoo
Jace Phillips
#!/bin/bash
interface=$(ls /sys/class/net/ | grep 'enp0s20')
if [[ $interface == '' ]]; then echo 'Mobile network interface not found' exit fi
sudo ip netns add mumble_mobile sudo ip link set $interface netns mumble_mobile sudo ip netns exec mumble_mobile ip link set $interface up sudo ip netns exec mumble_mobile dhcpcd $interface
sudo -E ip netns exec mumble_mobile ping www.google.com -c 10 sudo -E ip netns exec mumble_mobile mumble
sudo ip netns exec mumble_mobile dhcpcd -x $interface sudo ip netns exec mumble_mobile ip link set $interface down sudo ip netns delete mumble_mobile
Ping works, mumble cannot connect to any server. Why. Also, is there a better method to run mumble then sudo -E ? su myusername resets gtk theme and other mumble settings for some reason.
Zachary Bennett
BIG BEEFY SERVERS
Isaac Rogers
Is slax usable as a main OS or just a something portable?
It uses about 150MB at idle and looks pretty damn good.
Camden Cox
What is the best distro?
James Watson
Assuming you want Linux for DESKTOP USE (as opposed to server).
Ubuntu LTS for home / SMB. RHEL for enterprise business. OpenSuSE if you prefer KDE or if you are in Europe.
Christian Gonzalez
Debian, or a first order derivative
Camden Powell
it fucking fixed itself while I was afk weird as hell, but okay
Are we able to set a background color instead of an image? Xorg
Angel Jackson
Help
Jordan Cook
Kubuntu is mailnine ubuntu, kde neon is a debianoid mutt. Both will be stable and work just fine but I'd recommend sticking with kubuntu for mainstream ubuntu support Ubuntu will have the most results when you google how to solve problems. It also has the best package support. I'd recommend trying Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and OpenSuse and pick whatever feels the most comfortable Linux The thing on laptops that controls your cursor Just use whatever works for you Whatever works the best for your use case. Servers work best with server distros, IOT with embedded distros, etc Maybe, it depends on the desktop. If not just make an image in gimp the color you want and set it as a tiled or stretched wallpaper
Henry Garcia
anytips on getting boson exam environment to run on wine? installer worked perfectly
Eli Reed
Should I use Debian or mint for a first time Linux user. I'm learning python also.
Mint kinda sucks, it's franken distro. If you want modern packages use Ubuntu, if you want stable packages use Debian
Brody Bell
what distro r u using
Robert Smith
Alright. Does it matter if I use Debian or Ubuntu. I know people say it's preference but I don't really know the differences
Charles Brown
Ubuntu is a beginner friendly distro made by a company and based on Debian, Debian is a friendly community distro.
Caleb Fisher
reposting cuz maybe you guys could help i am looking through distros to pick one. looking for something that uses a .deb package management i.e. apt-get with KDE environment out of the box. if debian and ubuntu dont work for me, what else is there? any suggestions? I liked opensuse but i'm too brainlet to learn a new package manager
this shit with debian sperging out about drivers for hardware being unfree is ridiculous and ubuntu is really fucking gay
idk feels like i gotta learn debian directly so im trying that but maybe there's a good suggestion out there. i need apt get and i like kde, but maybe i'll just go mint /xfce
Henry Collins
What is the worst distro?
Liam Lee
Install Debian. Ubuntu phones home too much.
Elijah Mitchell
christ almighty. qubes did everything perfectly, but then i can't install a proper vpn client without doing all kinds of vm fuckery
what is happening here, exactly? is this what is causing an infrequent black flicker on my screen?
Jonathan Martinez
lol
Adam Edwards
Lol I had this (with and AMD card) after doing a system update. I just gave up and reinstalled ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Colton Gutierrez
can someone give me a quick tldr of kubernetes vs docker? whats the diference. also if i were to learn one, witch one you guys think would be better for future jobs? almost finishing my degree
Michael Flores
Thank you all for the help. I suppose I'll try Ubuntu lts then and see where it goes. what do you mean by feel the most comfortable? Also, from what I've read, Ubuntu seems like a more heavyweight distro compared to others. Is this something I should be concerned about if I plan to use it for a while as a daily driver?
Matthew Clark
It might be my autism but some distros just feel better. You'll develop a taste the more you use *nix. Ubuntu does tend to be a heavier distribution, but if you have a decent CPU and more than 4 gigs of ram you'll be fine. You shouldn't have too many problems with ubuntu as a daily driver. It's a hell of a lot lighter than windows 10
Blake Smith
no, that's not true. is not heavier. By default it is. You could uninstall things you don't use or replace them by lighter ones. But doesn't matter as it's just ram usage and not CPU usage. also >the most comfortable he's just retarded ignore him, people here like to choose things over subjective things as how "comfy" distros are.
Lucas Roberts
>heavier yeah it's heavier, but chances are that after you install all your software you'd probably pull in most of the libraries and stuff Ubuntu includes anyway.
Jeremiah Morgan
Oh, I see. I'm doing cs in uni so perhaps the libraries will be used at some point.
Also, I plan to install this on a laptop. Is battery life drastically different from windows?
Henry Bailey
different as in better, I install tlp and intel-undervolt
Samuel Phillips
The one you are using.
Asher Mitchell
In general vendors offer less support for power manager on gnu/linux but the software is much better so the charge lasts more.
Lucas Cruz
I'm thinking about installing Arch, there is any downside on using it?
Owen Gutierrez
I'd expect worse battery life compared to Windows. Laptop vendors generally only write drivers for Windows, so Linux Kernel devs are left to guess and reverse-engineer any proprietary power saving functionality.
I am a first time arch user, I am trying to download sane which is a program to scan programs but after doing the command and installing it, its nowhere on my computer are their any other programs for scanning?
Ryan Watson
>Arch user >actually wants to do something useful with his PC Should have gone with Ubuntu. Seriously though, I don't think there's an alternative to Sane. Maybe WINE with TWAIN or something.
Matthew Brooks
I have it downloaded on a junker laptop, just messing with it. Ill look into wine and twain
Logan Diaz
I finally installed Lutris and tried to play games.
In League of Legends FPS was nice and high, but camera movements are sligtly stuttery - it doesn't get in the way of playing, but it just isn't comfy (in comparison with Windows).
I'm using radeon driver, so no DXVK for my GCN 1.0 card.
Is this expected or something isn't right in my system?
Anthony Miller
this guy
Jackson Powell
Just finished setting up and mounting partitions for le install gentoo but when I try to get the stage3 tarball with links I get: '-bash: /usr/bin/links: Input/output error' What the fuck do I do
what's the FSF endorsed image format? Also Merry Christmas to whoever's staying up with me
Landon Walker
I'm new to bash scripting and programming in general so my question is probably very stupid. If I was trying to find if a file is writable, executable, or both using if statements, would this be the best way to do it. If not, how can I shorten this. pastebin.com/JpGdFwbz
Nathaniel Nelson
It is on your computer if you aren't a retard and installed it using your package manager.
You are a retard, never recommend Wine again.
Ryan Mitchell
just download using wget or something why are you installing gentoo anyway?
Thomas Adams
wget gives me the same result, '/usr/bin/wget: Input/output error'
Also I'm installing gentoo because I want to, like I genuinely want to use it not just fore le memes.
Gabriel Rodriguez
I INSTALLED LINUX ON MY BOX YET ITS NOT RICED TO HELL AND BACK RIGHT OFF THE BAT WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT? DONT TELL ME I HAVE TO ACTUALLY DO STUFF?!?!?