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Anyone used Pop_OS! yet? Only reason I ask is that it has nice power settings and sane shortcut defaults, been using it for a week and it's made gnome "tolerable" at the moment.
workstation for a better term, they fix some of the bugs that comes with gnome and retailors it to have some sane commands instead of gnomes default garbage, if you have an nvidia gpu, they have a iso that comes with the driver preinstalled. pop.system76.com/docs/keyboard-shortcuts/ Made by a bunch of hardwarefags, even though its a straight fork of ubuntu, I haven't had problems with pop that ubuntu has given me.
Jeremiah Morris
Any way to format an ntfs partition from a Linux machine? I want to split my newly bought 2 TB HDD to ext4 (for my linux pc) and NTFS (for backup purpose and for easier transfer to my windows laptop).
Joshua Morales
what is the best distro to use as startpoint when trying to abandon win10? i really like the look and feel of windows (except cortana, i use open-shell for the classic win7 experience).
William Thompson
Mint
Sebastian Thompson
may i bother you with one more pleb question? what's the difference between the different editions? the all look the same to me, except the cinnamon one, which has a dark menu
Hunter Robinson
What ide should i get between sciTe and geany ? They both seem lightweight and fast
Brayden Price
How to download a package with all its dependencies to use in an offline environment? Take note that im forced to use windows to download the packages and have no way to get internet access on the linux vm.
Eli Evans
How to i merge the empty space with my linux partition? I'm trying to go from dual boot to single boot. I'm sure that it would work if i changed the mount point to root. But i can't figure out how to do that. SEND HELP!
I realize that i was unclear. I fixed this by booting into linux on my USB stick so i could unmount the linux partition.
Justin Powell
Centos or ubuntu
William James
Because you're already in them Move the window out of the workspace and and go back in should work
Asher Ward
what is a good terminal music player to play music from youtube and spotify and maybe also soundcloud? i don't want to download everything i listen to and don't even care about grouping by artist and shit
I'm not that stupid user, I even tried rebooting but it still doesn't work
Adrian Kelly
It's a research project trying to solve the issues dealing with state in an operating system. The lore is such that: A purely functional program always produces the same output with the same inputs. It doesn't modify anything that's external to the function, and none of its outputs depend on anything that's external to the program. Compared to the imperative programming style, functional programs are easier to debug and test, and can even be proven to be entirely without faults. Even large programs and operating system kernels can be proven to be bug free.
And so, what does a functional operating system look like? Your common linux distribution holds a lot of state, and it makes it difficult to test different combinations of system and software configurations. It makes it impossible to know if there are bugs before you encounter them. Once you change something and it breaks, it's up to your memory to be able to revert it. NixOS is one of those systems where you can declare your operating system, and the resulting system is exactly the same every time you apply the configuration. You can upgrade things and roll them back without anything having unknown side-effects for the rest of the system. You don't need to babysit your system anymore.
Bentley Kelly
ok that is cool and good (already read the "About" section) but would an ubuntu pleb like me be able to function with it?
Carter Robinson
I'm seriously considering installing Arch.
Haven't used Lignux for years, have an Ubuntu partition catching dust.
Please, tell me i'm not falling for a very intrincate meme.
>it's less important than grep version for me >for me
Carson Bennett
If you're up to learning a system that requires learning to use, then sure why not. But it doesn't need you to learn too many transferable skills, and it doesn't ask for many transferable skills. It has its own set of basic skills that you'll have to learn and that are not applicaple on any other linux distribution. It's one of those systems more skilled users go to once they've had enough of the bullshit present in other systems.
It's a system that should make you familiar with reading documentation and using the command line, but it has baby wheels on it anyways.
Hudson Foster
ok? point of this post being?
Landon Moore
ok thanks, I guess I will stick with ubuntu for a while until I feel confident
Benjamin Kelly
i'm just curious why is it a big deal, why such a fancy name like it really manages display, why kde installation asks me to install it's own, why there are too many of them and so on.
John Flores
Very little of that confidence will follow over, so you might as well try it in a vm or something. Also, there's GUIXSD that has similar goals.
Noah Adams
maybe using nix package manage as a first step would be a good idea too?
Joseph Johnson
I have a lot of experience in GNU/Linux, desktop or server. But on my main desktop computer, I always come back to Windows for a single thing: GAMES. I like Overwatch for example, but I can't play it properly on Linux. Someone has an alternative? Was thinking about dualboots, but updates would break everything. Or maybe Lutris fixed problems since?
Jaxon Russell
I tried overwatch a couple of months ago on a 6600 and a 380, it worked ok for the most part but I wouldn't play ranked. Not sure if something relevant changed lately, honestly your best solution is to get a second ssd, don't waste time with dualboot
Can someone tell me if PCmanFM 3.0 or whatever the lastest version is, is broken for them?
Mine has been partially broken for months in the following ways: - Thumbnails are not cached, pcmanfm generates them when it opens a directory but they are not saved to the .thumbs directory like normal so on re-opening the same directory again all thumbs have to be regenerated - Custom desktop links are broken in the context menu i.e. I wrote an application to renumber files in Java and added a custom entry for it, though on 3.0 it doesn't work anymore
Someone must have it install and up-to-date? I've been skipping the updates for it for months now, but can't find anyone listing these problems online.
Use spacefm, it used to be called pcmanfm-mod, but guru added alot more shit to it and forked it a while ago. Its in the aur
Levi Ward
crossposting because i accidentaly posted in the wrong thread:
Ryder Williams
How do I migrate from sysvinit to openrc without borking?
Eli Clark
>- Thumbnails are not cached switched to pcmanfm early this year and don't think it has ever cached thumbnails in my time using it, ffmpegthumbnailer caches thumbnails for video files under ~/.thumbnails but not pcmanfm itself. I would like to know if it has some dependency to cache thumbnails for images as well, regenerating them all the time in memory seems redundant. >- Custom desktop links are broken in the context menu it had some retarded update a few months back where it would send ftp links locally to open programs, maybe that is what's breaking your script. it broke my feh script and krita, they've changed that back in the latest update.
Cooper Allen
>switched to pcmanfm early this year and don't think it has ever cached thumbnails
Yeah I was just starting to wonder if this was in fact a "feature", it is a significant downgrade though, I'm still on version 1.2 here and that caches thumbnails for jpg and png under the .thumbnails directory as you would expect, also version 1.3 if thumbnails are present in that directory it uses the cached versions but if you delete them it does not replace them it just regenerates them on the fly so when you navigate up and down a directory you have to wait for it to regen all the thumbs which is a pain rather than them loading instantaneously if they were cached. You can test this by just using another file manager that actually generates thumbnails and caches them.
I'd make a bug report if the dev branch was on github, but they use sourceforge for some reason which I can't be fucked to make an account for.
Aiden Butler
What bash script can I use in Android to limit log-in times per day per user? Got iptables to turn off internet at night, but offline usage still works and I realzed it better shouldn't...
Julian Ross
redpill me on Manjaro
Joseph Sullivan
gparted can do ntfs Oh look, a sexist bitch talking shit. What a surprise
Adam Jackson
It's arch for babbies.
Angel Long
Is there any downside to having all of my sda partition as primary? I was half-asleep when I installed this PC, but now it's already a hassle if I want to do a full-reinstall again. Or is there any way to change my non-root partitions to logical?
Carson Sullivan
There's no disadvantage I'm aware of other than you can only have so many primary partitions (4?). If you don't need more than you have, you're fine.
Easton Ward
It is not shit when you can find his LITERAL conversations about the topics at hand on his PERSONAL BLOG.
Aaron Rivera
Right, thank you for the fast response.
Grayson Rogers
Arch is already for babies though
James Parker
How can I convert PSX isos to Eboots under Linux? Most programs I've seen are for Windows and don't work very well under WINE.
ctrl + shift + e to exit 3wm and then login back it should do it
Ian Gutierrez
First time using it. Fell for the meme and installed, after dumping a 3k packages ubuntu install. Finished my manjaro install, installed everything that i need, i am using budgie and even like this, my system boots with only 615mb of ram used. On ubuntu it was almost 1.3gb. The system is lean as fuck, it seems so much faster and better overall.
And the transformation of GNU\Linux to CoC\Linux will be complete...soon.
Bentley Ramirez
That looks so SSP
Easton Hughes
after moving to a new server with raid i switched to devuan for a systemD-less server, however, after setting up ssh and transmission the way i had them set up before, then port forwarding in my router, i still can't connect via my external ip like i used to be able to connecting to it via internal ip works fine, assuming it's not my router, is there anything i have to do in devuan for it to accept connections from outside the internal network for ssh/sftp/transmission (ports 22,9091,8080)
It adds lots of completions for things like program options, etc.
Jaxson Martin
on debian-based system it comes preinstalled
Ian Scott
i already have it on kde neon
Jason Barnes
>find this gnu.org/graphics/r4sh-gnu-vaporwave.html Maybe it's time to fire up GIMP and send them some glorious /fglt/ work? I remember we had pretty neat /fglt/ threads at /wg/ back in the days.
Jose Ramirez
Okay, I have a fuckload of dependency issues in my Debian install which were caused by me deciding to use unstable for like an hour, and updaing my install. I've downgraded back to stable since then, but a lot of packages, especially those relating to the C libraries, are still in their unstable version. Every once in a while I need to install something which needs the stable version of those packages. Every time this happens, I just upgrade the necessary packages to their unstable version and rest easy until it happens again. Is there a way to safely downgrade all of these packages to their stable version. I think most of my dependency errors result from the libc6 package. But trying to downgrade it to it's stable version says that it will end up removing a lot of core packages like the coreutils. Is there a way to downgrade it safely back to stable?
Firefox with just 3 Jow Forums threads + Youtube 1 video on slows down my i7 7700 HQ processor to a complete halt.. everything lags like 0.5 seconds; when I click refresh Jow Forums/yt or click new thread it takes forever to draw.
Why does it do this every time.. have to say that same laptop with just WIndows 10 on it was *lot faster* than the Ubuntu I'm using now (latest Ubuntu).
Pin the release you want in apt preferences and do the upgrades.
Jaxon Richardson
He's using KDE, it's probably builtin.
Julian Perez
Yeah that’s weird I have the exact same processor and i can easily play YouTube have several tabs open discord and a game without any noticeable chugging. Using chrome in win10. It does eat up like 4 fucking gigs of ram at idle though
William Parker
Exactly right
John Evans
I had the same laptop, had Windows 10 on it and it could do *lot* more with lower temperatures, lower fan speeds, and was much faster.
'Upgrading' to Ubuntu slowed it down noticeably and it made the temperatures 80+ degrees of Celsius all the time, fans spinning at 90%+ most of the time even with just 2-4 Jow Forums threads up.
Periscope is the worst. 1 tab in Firefox. Periscope. It completely fucks up the CPU. 100% in use. Everything click lags by 1second or more. Ridiculous.
Cooper Taylor
Turn on hardware accel
Nathan Cook
It's already on, if you mean Firefox.
Parker Williams
get better internet
Nolan Sanders
Use a mirror near you.
Matthew Walker
I find my battery lasts longer on linux than windows without any special configuration. But I've seen people recommend powertop and Laptop Mode Tools which help automatically configure power saving stuff. There's also a big long page on the arch wiki and thinkpad wiki on how to manually configure a lot of stuff to use less power. Useful even if you don't use arch or a thinkpad.
