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It looks like no one here is using Fedora. All I see is Debian, Void, Arch, Gentoo or Slackware. Is that correct? Why is that?
Camden King
cuz nobody uses it, it's just shills shilling it
Gavin Cox
probably redhat
Connor Moore
I use Fedora. It does the job but it has a lot of issues.
Bentley James
What are those issues?
Ian Lopez
Cute gnu and penguin.
James Anderson
First of all the name. Feels uncomfy. Then ofc the logo, which reminds me of Facebook.
Christopher Parker
Any bittorrent clients like btpd (no gui, minimal) that has magnet support?
Jason Wood
aria2
Juan Wood
is not me. Problems with Fedora: - Heavy reliance on third party package repos (RPMFusion) - Some packages are rarely updated or outright abandoned (chromium didn't get critical updates for months) - DNF is slow - Breaks between releases forcing you to reinstall if you want functional system - A lot of shit is running by default that most users won't bother to disable, like sssd, SSH server, etc.
Ethan Garcia
i was going to ask a question because im super new at this but all I did was open Gparted and my problems were gone. Thanks Jow Forums
yeah no seriously, thanks. Ive been fucking around with my Dell dor the last 3 days trying to figure it out and all I had to do is visit this thread which somehow lead me to my solution. You fucks are magic! Im installing Mint kek
William Roberts
Is it worth learning mutt or should I stick with Thunderbird? Just configuring it is such a pain and doesn't look secure.
Kayden Sullivan
GNU/Linux applications usually have 2 clipboards, but not every application does. urxvt only has 1 and it's the selection one. Highlight = copy (just whatever the last thing is that you highlighted is in this clipboard) Paste = middle-mouse click (some applications let you do shift+ins to paste, urxvt does)
Then of course the 2nd clipboard is just your standard ctrl+c/v/x
Luke Butler
Thank you, user.
Gavin Rodriguez
hello linux nerds I want to isntall memejaro xfce on my t530, dual GPUs. I know I need Bumblebee, but my problem is that the install itself crashes because dual GPUs. My question is: Should I disable one of the GPUs during the install process? which one? will bumblebee give me shit if I enable the second GPU after installing it? pic unrelated
I'm currently using, and have used Windows, for more than a decade now (Windows 10 PRO right now), but i no longer use Windows-only programs, so everything i'm doing can be done in Linux. Windows is obviously more convenient, and i would guess more consistent and stable, but i'm curious about the customizability, privacy, and dynamism offered by Linux based OSs. I'm not put off by some of Linux's complexity, but neither do i want to learn a whole programming language just to be able to use my computer. Do i take the last step into the master race?
Michael Brooks
>Do i take the last step into the master race? Usually the answer is yes, especially in your particular circumstances. But there are still rare cases where people have a bad experience. The only way to know for sure is to just try it out yourself. Run it in a VM or something.
>Windows is obviously more convenient, and i would guess more consistent and stable Not true. GNU/Linux servers can go VERY long times without ever restarting or running into any issues. As for consistency I'm not sure what you mean. GNU/Linux is more self-consistent as applications don't typically bundle their own versions of libraries, so all our software is sharing the same libs, thus more consistent in the codebase being run.
But if you meant "consistent" in that your environment on windows will be more consistent with some other random windows user then yeah you're right about that. GNU/Linux environments tend to be wildly varied from user to user.
Blake Parker
if you have an old laptop you don't mind wiping/replacing the HDD in try installing linux on that first. imo going straight for windows dual boot can lead to trouble especially if you rely on the windows machine for work or whatever. Even if you don't strictly need windows, just having a computer that's in a usable state is best. Aso depending on how you use your computer you might have to make comprimises moving to linux. Some applications simply have no viable alternative on linux machines. Adobe products for instance.
Carter Bell
Also forgot to mention about stability, the reason servers can go years without ever being restarted is because on GNU/Linux you usually don't have to restart your machine, even after updates.
Oliver Flores
Just install kid.
Cameron Young
Install it, fuck I should stop posting while half asleep.
Joseph Martin
How do i stop programs/daemons from raping my ram? Is there SERIOUSLY no fucking way to just makea config in some folder telling it to never go above Xgb of ram? Shits fucking oom'ing my system
Isaac Ortiz
search the web for "linux ate my RAM"
Brody Price
i hate linux
Jacob Lopez
I know about caching Caching is not my problem When a program is eating up 15 of 16gb of ram, thats the fucking problem, that isnt any caching, the program has pushed off all the disk caching out of ram
Eli Turner
There are several commands for limiting resources. You might be interested in ulimit for limiting user resources and prlimit for limiting process resources.
Grayson Sanchez
Just use a pagefile🙁
Samuel Edwards
Anyone familiar with this bug? I have two PCs connected to a displayport KVM. PC1 is Linux Mint Mate, and PC2 is Windows. When I switch from PC2 to PC1, Mate appears to be locked up. It shows what should be on the screen, and my mouse cursor moves, but everything on screen is just frozen. The only way I can snap it out of it is to ctrl+alt+F1 then back to F7. This never happened before. I think this must be the result of some package update. Should I report it somewhere? Would anything even show up in a log? Nothing actually crashes.
Tyler Kelly
idk if its just me but i dont see a lot of people running openbox compared to every other de/tiling wm. Why is that? Is something like xfce simple more superior?
Kevin Wood
How do you do this with forking processes?
Juan Garcia
The easiest way would probably be to just set them to a unique user and then use ulimit to limit the users total resource usage. Other than that idk, it'd probably involve editing the way the process forks to make parents limit their own children, or running some kind of wrapper.
Owen Morris
Or another thing that just occurred to me is maybe it just automatically does it. Maybe limiting the parent means all the children are also limited. I'm not sure about that.
Liam Reed
to the user wondering about ubuntu updates and how canonical deals with them, the latest late night linux episode really goes into how they do it since a couple of hosts are canonical employees
Jace Gomez
Transmission-daemon
Carter Perez
Is there a program i can give say 10 paths and it indexes all the files there in to a database, and then via cli or gui i give it a hash value and it looks in the database for the has and presents the filename and folder path?
Brody Gomez
>in to a database What kind of database. I don't see why 10 items requires you to run a full database daemon. I'd suggest sqlite but honestly why don't you just use a text file?
Leo Bennett
10 paths So hdds mounted to /media Programs using /opt/ Its probly over 5 million files total, not 10
>text file It isnt interactive and i dont have 64gb of ram required to open a multi gigabyte text time
I want to point it at the paths, have some cli or gui option to past a md5 hash and it output if it has it or not and where it is
Henry James
Kinda weird, is your meme/porn collection that out of control?
Ethan Bailey
If I had to guess: the alternatives to using openbox are becoming more attractive, plus, lxQt is something people are looking forward to / are actively working on & testing
Your fortune: Outlook good
Carter Gonzalez
It's pretty easy to horde huge data sets if you want to. Depending on what you get they don't take up as much space as you'd expect either. For instance the-eye.eu has 20TB of books and shit. The entire danbooru image collection of 3m+ images and enar on 100m tags is only a few TB.
I have about 250k files, if you use soulseek look up the user "foxbtw". I rather enjoy hoarding data.
Blake Young
I have an intel motherboard that doesn't play nicely with Linux. I'm not too familiar with the terminology but whatever bootstrapper on the motherboard itself that starts loading code seems to search for a very windows specific file. If I go into the bios and explicitly tell it to boot from a certain device, the Linux boots up fine. But automatically, it has no luck finding it, and there's nothing in the bios settings to fix this. It's an intel motherboard (as in, actually made and branded as intel, not a third party), and it seems people with intel NUCs have reported similar problems. From some light reading it seems the fix is just renaming a particular file, but perhaps you guys could help me point me in the right direction?
I want to install fedora. While fedora is listed in the url, the article doesnt' seem to mention it. Can I simply replace "debian" with "fedora" and have the fix work the same?
Jaxon Wilson
Update graphics driver in Mint. Are you switching display inputs mechanically (pulling cables) or by selector button?
Adrian Peterson
I want to get into linux, what distro would you recomment me appart from gentoo memeing me, I am splitt between mint, debian, arch, ubuntu
Dylan Lewis
I can't get it working. I'm even using ubuntu to remove as many variable as possible. mkdir /mnt/EFI/BOOT fails because no such file or directory, so my ubuntu seems to have a different folder structure than what the guide expects. Now I don't know what to do.
Brandon Carter
My ubuntu has several .efi files, but none of them are in a promising location. Is /usr/lib/system/boot/efi/system-bootx64.efi the one I want probably?
Luis Anderson
nixos.org/nix/about.html >...is a unique identifier for the package that captures all its dependencies does it mean nix installs dependency multiple times for individual packages that depends on them?
No. The identifier is based on things it depends on, not things which depend on it. Two packages which have the same dependency will cause that dependency to be built once and they both point to the same one.
The only exception of course is if one of them specifies an exact version of the dependency which differs from the latest version, then you'll end up building a 2nd one for the different version. But that would only happen if it was necessary, like the package crashes unless it has a specific version. Normally versions are unspecified which just means that everything uses the latest versions available.
Logan Williams
Nixos or G E N T O O ?
Owen Ortiz
What do I use to install Debian from a flash drive in current year? Does the universal USB installer work?
Jacob Reyes
windows: rufus, win32diskimager linux, bsd, mac etc: dd
Jose Clark
dd if="DEBIAN.ISO" of="dev/yourdevice" BS=4M
Alexander Price
Thank you
William Torres
Kubuntu or KDE neon? Which is more stable?
Thomas Powell
fact: mint is the most powerful distro in the world
Colton Green
GuixSD
Henry Bell
lie*
Isaiah Nelson
Kubuntu. KDE neon has newer kde packages but it's less stable.
Thomas Harris
If i download media i want to make sure i dont have a copy of it somwhere. I just want to search by hash.
rmlint/fsdupes/findedupimages dont work on large data sets
Ethan Turner
I'm browsing Jow Forums on Firefox without any site-specific helper addons. When I expand images and then close them back to thumbnails, the page shifts up sometimes so the thumbnail is now at the bottom of the screen. How do I correct this behavior?
If you're asking if I have that addon the answer's no. Also I highly doubt this is GNU/Linux-specific as you said. It's the same codebase. More likely it's something you changed, something you have non-vanilla on your windows version of FF, or a recent change to Jow Forums's javascript is causing it. I've been using FF on GNU/Linux for around a decade and I've never experienced what you described. I only get the page shifting down when I collapse images so the thumbnail is at the top of the screen.
Elijah Perry
Oh, I guess you linked that addon because you weren't sure what I meant by hover? It's just a Jow Forums setting. If you haven't messed with your Jow Forums settings I suggest you go do that, maybe there's something about the default settings that's fucked up.
Ayden Phillips
>It's just a Jow Forums setting. Got it, thanks. I don't save cookies so I've never used the site's customization options. >More likely it's something you changed I have the >layout.css.devPixelsPerPx cranked up a bit for fractional scaling but the site was also doing it back when I was squinting.
I'll see if I can find how to repeat the behavior regularly. It seems to have a relationship with where the thumbnail is on-screen when I expand it.
Chase Jones
Any distros with an i3 flavor? I know Manjaro has one but I hear there's an Ubuntu one
Blake Diaz
does anyone know where I can find documentation about the tracepoints in linux? in particular I'm looking for the names of the arguments to the syscalls:sys_enter_write tracepoint
Austin Sanders
I made a Devuan USB, the grub boot menu shows up normally but as soon as devuan itself loads the screen is warped as if there was a problem with the display resolution or the display drivers, I tried nomodeset but it didn't do anything, help pls
Ryder Cooper
just install i3 with apt you fool
Jaxson Barnes
If I expand a thumbnail and the image height is larger than my available viewport (fullscreen atm, ~900p available) and then I scroll down a bit to see the rest of the image, then close the image, the thumbnail then jumps to the bottom of the screen.
I used /wg/ to test because 4channel is a good Christian website that doesn't have sukebe boards like /hr/.
Weird, intel drivers are supposed to be top notch. Do you have recent hardware? Maybe the old kernel of devuan has problems with it.
Anyway you can try in addition to nomodeset: 1. remove silent and add verbose 2. before the "linux" line add "set GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text" to force text mode 3. if you get int your system and can log in enable backports, install the almost latest kernel from backports and reboot. If that works, you're set.
Luke Campbell
Why is Manjaro #1 on Distrowatch right now?
Ian Hill
Hello friends I have my waterfox profile pointing to the same folder on both windows and xubuntu as suggested by an user on the last thread It works well, the only issue is that I have to reenable extensions every single time I start the browser Is there any way of fixing this? I was thinking of setting up on rsync job that synchronizes profile folders on both OSes every startup, but thinking about it, it would probably lead to the same issue.
Cooper Ross
i++;
Ethan Parker
Ok guys I love linux, it has been my only OS on my laptop since i bought it, and i'm really happy with it. But the thing is that i can't use it on desktop: everything i have tried isn't as smooth as botnet 10, I have tried a lot of distros but i'm an arch fag with a gtx 1080ti with proprietary drivers, is that holding me back? On my laptop with 60hz i don't feel the same *need for speed TM* as i do on my 144hz monitor. I have tried DEs, WMs ... I usually feel this difference when dragging windows. Please Jow Forums help me become a true linux user, that's my only complaint
Ayden Gomez
How do I find and uninstall a program in ubuntu preferably through the terminal? I installed the latest version of libreoffice through snap and now I have an older copy alongside this new one
Justin King
"dpkg -l" will list all of your installed packages. you can grep what you need as in dpkg -l |grep libreoffice
In addition apt accepts wildcards apt remove libreoffice*
You can also use aptitude for a ncurses interface for apt/dpkg.
Gabriel Nelson
GNU/Linux*
Colton Carter
Does Mate DE have the Firefox Thumbnail issue or is it only Gnome and Xfce? Not too fond of KDE and LXQT yet.
Hi I delete all my timestamps in my bash_history with this command: sed -i -E '/^\s*(#.*)?$/d' $HISTFILE I check ad all timestamps are have been deleted. But when I enter history in my terminal it displays all commands next to their dates. How is this possible? Where does the history command get the data from?