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Mason Perry
Thanks for the input, from what I gather, Debian is very stable but because of that software updates are not very frequent, is that correct? I'm not about to assume direct control just yet, so I guess I'll go with openSUSE for now since the lizard is cute.
Liam Roberts
People who use Arch >baby's first computer science project >signaling college try-hards >use for half the semester to have it break on update just before finals >"look everyone, I'm using arch!" >i3 gaps / awesome wm >Arch sticker on the back of a fatass T420
People who use Debian >pragmatists who want stable software so they can get things done >people who have been there and done that with linux and have come home to superior Debian >people who want a free as in freedom distro >people who want a distro that will still easily allow them to install non-free software >adults who use linux
Debian stretch was literally just updated yesterday. There are different versions, if you want bleeding edge code Debian will actually have it first before most other distros, but if you want stability go with Debian stable.
What about "new" software is important for you? Do you program and contribute to FOSS software?
Jackson Morales
>following instructions online is hard guys
Literally installing arch is the most documented install of any distribution of Linux. It is the easiest thing you will do with Arch if you actually contribute to FOSS.
Joseph Wilson
which makes it all the more sad that you can't do it.
Gabriel Price
post .netrc
Ethan Cook
Of course I've installed Arch before, why is that impressive to anyone and why should I have to tell you that.
You have shitstains and your distro is equally vulnerable to botnet malware as ubuntu when you don't get the security updates
>prove me wong >bigger project is better
Michael Smith
Who are you quoting?
Jack Torres
I can see you're fresh off from reddit so I'll throw you a bone: While greentext can be used to directly quote people's speech, it can also be used to indirectly "quote" an entire post or something that has happened Make sure to lurk before posting so you don't reveal your new in the future!
Sebastian Hernandez
After fiddling around with openbsd for a bit in a VM, I'm thinking of dual-booting it with my current debian I have on my t430. What's the best way of going about this.
Josiah Sanchez
>What's the best way of going about this install the OS and dual boot it?
Asher Taylor
What is the best stable distribution out there?
Brayden Nelson
>What's the best way of going about this install the OS and dual boot it?
Easton Hill
>download opensuse network install iso >somehow takes almost a minute to boot >get to stare at a fancy three-colour progress bar that gets progressively slower and you can't tell if it's actually doing anything based and tested
i always liked how that loading bar looked, but unfortunately, it's the kind which makes itself appear smoother by moving in anticipation of progress, rather than moving to represent progress
So I installed deepin from ppa on mint 19.1 What the fuck is this abomination? How can anyone use it? Default configuration is literally unsuable, """fashion""" mode doesn't even have logout option, no sane control center, WHITE FONT ON WHITE BACKGROUND FUCKING EVERYWHERE, what the fuck am I supposed to edit? Holy fucking shit, I expected nothing but am still let down.
John Wood
Why am I getting a "Unable to locate package kitty" on sudo apt-get install kitty in latest Debian? packages.debian.org/buster/kitty
Brandon Wright
1. Are you sure you're running debian buster? 2. Did you update?
John Brown
Does package count really matter?
According to NEOFETCH I have like 2300 packages installed on my system, everything runs great. But in fetch threads I see Arch users having like 200 packages on their system and can't help but think that I don't need half the shit on here. But my system runs fine, so I dunno
I overwrote my primary table I think when I entered /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1 and it showed as 512 bytes overwritten. I don't mind losing the data on the ssd but I just want to get it to load an os again every time I try to start it there is no bootloader, how do I get it to work again? Gparted/fdisk/parted can make partitions but the 512 bytes in the partition table can't be restored so I can't use the drive The solutions which I found require it to have just happened, the partitioning chapter in How Linux Works doesn't help. Is there anything I can read on this specifically? Like how to restore a 512 byte partition table because every time I try to boot GRUB I get an error and I can't use the disk
Trying to prove his seniority by saying he was just pretending to be retarded
Liam Brooks
i'm not him moron
Chase Baker
afaik chink telemetry is a part of distro but not de
Elijah Mitchell
if you copy the primary disk using dd, does that include the MBR ? im assuming so since its a bit by bit copy and i copied the whole disk
Jace Long
correct
Brayden Wright
Is there a way I can store the urls that mpv plays, so I can blacklist them to ignore them. It's for not playing videos that I've already watched from a channel.
Robert Garcia
Is there a way to disable/skip the requirement check for Lubuntu? It wants 1 GB RAM but due to the IGP it only reports ~960 MB.
Ayden Butler
How do you remember all the commands you use? Do you keep a reference book/ ebook, or from the top of your head. I'm quite seasoned, but for complex stuff I have to clear the cobwebs, and that's not always optimal. Especially for shit I need to do only every now and then.
Matthew Gonzalez
>for complex stuff I have to clear the cobwebs what "complex stuff"?
Chase Campbell
I just keep a text file of commands and comment what it's for
Aaron Gutierrez
why do people package firefox extensions on the AUR? seems pretty unnecessary
Robert Mitchell
How to install lastest nvidia driver for fedora? Just switch to fedora everything seems nice, help me please
Joshua Morales
>kde still defaults to that cursor ripped from a children's flash game
Not sure if this is the right thread... i'm trying to compile IceCat from source and i keep getting this error: "File listed in UNIFIED_SOURCES does not exist: icecat-60.3.0/layout/base/nsBidi.cpp" This file indeed does not exist, but google reveals nothing What do?
John Ross
Is there any potion in fontconfig to make my fonts a bit thicker? I was using Noto Sans, but it look so thin that is hard to read. Or maybe I should just swap all the fonts for a thicker font?
Now comes the question which one of you would call me out on here
Lucas Torres
How's Debian for the Raspberry Pi 3b? Only planning to do some light browsing/calibre with it.
[spoiler]I can't unbuy something I bought for Retropie 3 years ago[/spoiler]
Jose Richardson
Yes. you should be able to "embolden" fonts with that.
Jaxon Martin
You can try.
But unbuying it and getting a faster SBC like a Rock64Pro or some x86_64 sounds like the more appealing plan to me rather than struggling with the increasingly bloated web & browsers.
Ryan Hernandez
Noto comes with several different varieties of font thickness. I know NotoSansCJKjp has 7 different weights. It would be much better to use a thicker variant than to artificially thicken a thinner variant.
Jeremiah Nguyen
>kyoAnus
Asher James
Yea, I've been thinking about a buying a NUC. But an extra SD for my pi only sets me back €9 or so.
Matthew Jenkins
Any ideas on why void refuses to keep a proper time? I can change it correctly but it will reset upon rebooting. Timezone is correct and the time changes properly it is just always 5 hours behind. bios on laptop keeps time correctly and windows plus alpine linux installs always keep the correct time. I can edit all other settings but the use network time option. DE cinnamon 4.0.9
Angel Walker
>mfw void >no scalapack/blas/science meme package in xbps >check out debian, has them all pre compiled >thatfeel.jpg i am getting there user, slowly
Nolan Cruz
Fighting over distros is childish. No exceptions.
I actually have more respect for Arch users because I see them constantly belittled in these threads and rarely do I see them bother to fight back. From what I've heard apparently the reason some faggots in /fglt/ are so butthurt about arch users is because they're "toxic" or whatever on the arch _forum_, but this is not the arch forum. This is /fglt/. So the cancer _here_ is people like you.
Carter Edwards
how do i copy someone's rice from github?
I see all these nice looks rices for i3 but I don't really care much for making my own outside of functionality but when I move their dot files to mine everything goes to shit
Luke Parker
What's the best distribution for playing video games on?
Logan Morgan
Arch
Jace Morris
Probably Ubuntu, because it's the one Valve officially supports.
It's pretty easily doable on any distro though.
Michael Perez
Yo, is it possible to have the braille font on tty? I've been stuck on this and tried so many things to get those braille art to work upon login, but they all fail. Only works if you ssh in.
Jonathan Anderson
>have java application >it has it's own .exe file >can't run it for some reason, just offers with which software to open it What to do.
Benjamin Miller
I have an old Dell laptop and I wanted to replace the operating system with a dpkg based distro. Would this machine be able to run something like Debian or Lubuntu?
can someone maybe point me in the right direction as to why my fonts are rendering like this? I'm using le bald man's st build, so it should be grabbing the fonts from my Xresources. It looks like this with any font I've tried
>ubuntu >not latest nvidia driver stack >not latest proton >not latest wine No >officially supports They only support ubuntu's packaging, literally everything else is the same
Jordan Torres
Not an archtard, but I imagine for doing quicker, clean installs with absolutely everything they want all from the aur.
I've had a surprising number of games where shit won't launch correctly because of a library in a specific Debain/derivative location, mostly with GOG games. It's fixable creating symbolic links to other versions of that library, or putting it in the path of what you are executing, but for someone who isn't going to know how to troubleshoot that packaging (which we might consider bad, but hey they do explicitly say they only support ubuntu), deb based distros are much safer.
Joseph Brooks
Yes, you might want to try out Lubuntu like you mentioned, or xubuntu or ubuntu MATE. You will get people fighting to tell you which of those is the lightest (probably Lubuntu in my experience). I don't think it will run any worse than XP. Any of those with a XFCE whisker like menu to make start/menu searching aren't so bad to me.
Hudson Campbell
>debian Not much better YBQHFL
I'm on Arch.I make a new WINEPREFIX for every game. I've yet to ever have problems with what you are stating. Are you altering STEAM_RUNTIME via a env variable somewhere? Steam it self uses packaged libs, which is fine in most cases. Check the arch wiki for situations where using a more updated library is better then the packaged ones. If you're just using flat wine you should know to use appdb for any issues any games have when using wine. >deb based distro's are much safer Horse shit lol. Linux is Linux is LInux. Its the same core systems and subsystems that run on every distro using the Linux kernel. No distro is more inherently "safer" then any others. They use the same software. Th e differences come down to compiler flags. If something is exploited in the kernel. Everyone is vulnerable If something is exploited in the toolchain Everyone is vulnerable If something is exploited in the init Everyone is vulnerable
Hudson Campbell
Thanks for the answer. I'll try and experiment with a few distros starting with Lubuntu.
Julian Reed
Have a problem with pulseaudio, with no sound after suspension.
The link I posted contains exactly the same steps as yours
Brody Hall
Then follow them and solve your problem :)
Jason Taylor
Enable unlimited history in bashrc: HISTSIZE="-1" HISTFILESIZE="-1"
Prevent overwriting of bash history with set revert-all-at-newline on in inputrc.
Enable history searching with pageup and pagedown keys; enabled in some distros but disabled in Debian by default. In inputrc: "\e[5~": history-search-backward "\e[6~": history-search-forward
Then save any complex command I may want to remember as a script under ~/bin, which has been added to my $PATH
Xavier Reyes
Do I need to restart my computer if I'm upgrading from Debian Stretch (9, stable) to Debian Buster (10, testing)
