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$ man %command% $ info %command% $ %command% -h/--help $ help %builtin/keyword%
Don't know what to look for? $ apropos %something%
Trying ot build firefox 66.0.2 It gets a few minutes in to building and throws this error out and then crashes with no actual error 10:06.07 warning: use of deprecated item 'std::error::Error::cause': replaced by Error::source, which can support downcasting 10:06.07 --> media/audioipc/server/src/lib.rs:38:5 10:06.07 | 10:06.07 38 | / error_chain! { 10:06.07 39 | | links { 10:06.07 40 | | AudioIPC(::audioipc::errors::Error, ::audioipc::errors::ErrorKind); 10:06.08 41 | | } 10:06.08 ... | 10:06.08 46 | | } 10:06.08 47 | | } 10:06.08 | |_____^ 10:06.08 | 10:06.08 = note: this error originates in a macro outside of the current crate
What do?
Michael Wood
That's an incredibly cute boy
Wyatt Ross
Going to install gnu/linux (Fedora) and Windows 10 on the same SSD. Bios or UEFI and why?
Adrian Baker
How often should I -Syu in arch?
Gavin Hill
are there any good ricing guides? One that includes information on bitmap fonts with japanese characters?
Thomas Wright
>throws this error >with no actual error
Jaxon Roberts
First check if rust’s -Werror equivalent is enabled by the build system. If not, make sure your toolchain is up date, and if it already is then get a different version/build from rustup or your distro.
Gabriel Taylor
It posts that, then the next line it 37 compiler warnings present ccache (direct) hit rate: 0.0%; (preprocessed) hit rate: 0.0%; miss rate: 0.0%
It dosnt say anything else
Grayson Perry
UEFI is easier to manage, has a boot loader built in and has better pre-boot graphics support (faster init, higher resolutions, no switching back and forth between text mode).
Jason Sullivan
whenever you have time to fix it afterwards
Angel Perez
I'd use KDE in a heartbeat if it weren't for kwallet. Is there any way to get rid of it?
Eli King
Is it possible to use 2 different dedicated GPUs from the same vendor on linux, from different generations? I know on Windows it's not a thing that I could manage to get working.
Angel Richardson
Already have the latest rust and can build other rust projects fine with it. It's just firefox giving issues.
Ayden Jackson
How real is this meme? I never need to fix things after updating and I've been using arch for like two years almost.
Brandon Hill
Same. I've never had an issue. If something weird happens check the arch homepage for news
Ryder Rogers
Still, try a different toolchain even if it’s older. To me it smells like a bug in the specific build your using.
Jeremiah Nguyen
If your bootloader and X server are set up properly (or better yet you use wayland) then things aren’t that likely to break.
Luke Lopez
>bitmap fonts with japanese characters i use media-fonts/ipamonafont
Xavier Phillips
Is nouveau good enough if you barely play any gaymes? I wanna check out Wayland.
You can disable it in system settings. Make sure you have kwalletmanager installed.
Here is a good command to know if you are running low on disk space:
sudo du -ah 2>/dev/null | sort -hr | head -n20
this command tells you the top 20 largest files and directories on your root filesystem
substitute a different number for 20 to get more or less lines of output
Luke Russell
Here's a better command ncdu /
Grayson Perry
I need help. I’ve been trying to create a bootable Arch Linux USB, but I think I’m doing something really wrong. An user said earlier to not use Rufus, instead Universal USB Installer. When it says select your ISO, I’m not quite sure exactly what to click. When I select browse, all the folders are empty. I extracted the ZIP, and if I look at the files in the USB, they’re there, but I’m not sure what to do. Help an autistic kid out?
Chase Green
I would post a pic, but my phone is being retarded saying I don’t have any photos.....
>takes a screenshot by literally taking a picture of his screen holy shit
Thomas Cooper
I wasn’t thinking, and I’m more familiar with phone posting.
Jordan Bailey
>I wasn’t thinking retards tend not to >I’m more familiar with phone posting retards tend to be
Wyatt Perry
unironically the unixporn wiki all the gnu/linux stuff is copied from Jow Forums
Lucas Cooper
>I extracted the ZIP Are you sure it's a zip? Try enabling file extension in your explorer because I'm sure it's just an ISO file with WinRAR icon.
Camden Perez
Anyone got a good guide for setting up a RAID1 array with LUKS and LVM that stores my media and automounts and can be unlocked at boot with my encrypted root disk which holds boot, swap, root and home?
I'm using Fedora and I have 1x1TB NVME drive and 2x4TB drives. I can do this setup at install time through the Anaconda installer, but I want a good guide of how to do it manually so I can see what it's (and I am) doing under the hood, so to speak.
Robert Morris
archwiki
Hudson Morgan
Alright my guys I'm getting ready to flip over to linux but I need to get a few things down first before I do it.
Best plug n play compatible (no lag) bluetooth dongle? How are drivers for nvidia? I have a 1080. Should I have any issues with mouse sensitivity issues going from win7 to debian(might do a different distro)? I want it to be 1:1. Last thing is there a compatibility list that Jow Forums recommends looking at?
Camden Thompson
>How are drivers for nvidia? I have a 1080. proprietary novidya drivers are decent. I have only positive experiences with em. >Should I have any issues with mouse sensitivity issues going from win7 to debian(might do a different distro)? I want it to be 1:1. Setting sensi might be a bit ass, you need to do it using libinput from terminal. On another computer where I had to use this method I just created a shell script for it which I autorun every time I log in. >Last thing is there a compatibility list that Jow Forums recommends looking at? h-node.org/ is good to find out if a specific hardware or laptop works with pure free software or not.
Tyler Moore
>Setting sensi might be a bit ass well I had an issue with this last time. I have a zowie fk2. Is there some kind of tutorial for this at least get it as close as possible to win7 6/11 sensitivity.
Oh and I forgot ill be getting a 8bitdo wireless m30 controller. I saw that it works with resberryPi. I'm guessing that it should work fine with other distros.
>I saw that it works with resberryPi. I'm guessing that it should work fine with other distros. Depends on what did the pi run. If it ran raspbian or any other gnu/linux distro then it should work the same way
Michael Moore
Oh shit, I didn't even realize I have this font manually installed and it's no longer available? Thank you for bringing this to my attention so I can be sure to keep this font backed up.
Also, some other fonts you may be interested in with japanese bitmaps are MSGothic, Mona, Sazanami (monospace only), Konatu. Konatu would be fucking awesome if it was fully bitmapped (bitmaps go up to 22px and has perfect spacing for text art), but it looks like for whatever reason the creator just gave up a few kanji short of completing it, so every once in a while in japanese text you'll see a truetype kanji instead of a bitmap which is fucking ugly.
Jackson Morgan
anyone here tried PureOS? i'm searching for an alternative to replace [spoiler]windows[/spoiler] with for my work pc and it looks really comfy
Dominic Morales
how can you mask a dependency in gentoo and install the package that "requires" it?
Adrian Morris
WHY DOES IT TAKE 12 FUCKING HOURS TO USE HG TO DOWNLOAD FIREFOX???
Jordan Morris
>sqtloveslinux.jpg >shota cutie loves linux dot jaypeg
I highly recommend MX Linux for that. Check that one out. Also note that you can try any system out on a liveusb.
Jason Turner
They use mercurial for their vcs instead of git like non retards You cant download the sources tar balls and use a PGO build, so you gotta use their bullshit hg that is timing out my connection because they want download their entire fucking source
Gabriel Carter
What folders do you use to store things in your home directory, /fglt/?
Xavier Cox
dumb zoomer
Jayden Hill
bin, dev, doc, gam, pic I prefer non-standard directories for the main files I want to keep backed up so I know random programs aren't going to polute them
Leo Hughes
That would be a step backwards.
Aiden Martin
In what way?
Jaxon Lopez
>sysvinit yikes
Gavin Jones
Because its a gigantic project and you are downloading every change of it?
git has shit like --single-branch and --depth=1 which really means A LOT for linux for example; see if hg has the same or something similar.
Jacob Roberts
It dosent, it wants to download all 5 million items
Carson Long
When will you stop posting thumbnails, OP?
Jace Ward
Is the Deepin desktop environment itself safe to use or does it include Chinese spyware? Thinking about using Deepin on Arch.
Levi Torres
Why settle for a chinked GNOME when you can just use the real thing
Nathaniel Turner
Because Gnome is awful
Brandon Morris
Attempting to install NordVPN in Arch. wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NordVPN#Installation I've gotten from the AUR and made the package, but the commands $ sudo systemctl enable nordvpnd.service $ sudo systemctl start nordvpnd.service do not work, the give me: Failed to enable unit: nordvpnd.service does not exist. Am I supposed to add the service name to some config file or something?
screenshots are a cianigger creation to make it easier to doctor images
Ethan Scott
eat a dick
Austin Price
Just installed arch. Desktop environment or a window manager which is best and what do you recommend.
Jaxson Allen
Hey guys I was going to install Gentoo but I decided to go with Debian instead. Anything I should know before using it? So far it seems pretty comfy and it's pretty fast too which is nice. I plan on customizing the panels to my liking (probably make it more Windows-like by moving the top to the bottom and seeing if you can make launchers double as launchers and window list) and also will probably get a nice conky for the side of the screen. Anything special about Debian I should worry about though?
Finally set up Borg to backup my files to borgbase :3 It's a pretty fantastic piece of software, now all I have to do is schedule it to run hourly and I've got myself a nice robust backup.
Ryder Thomas
VPN is scam. Install Tor.
Ryan Carter
Hey folks. I have a FreeNAS box running Debian on a Bhyve VM inside. Basically I want to setup a samba share that's within Debian so all the machines on my network can access the share. What's the best way of going about this, just setup a smb server within Debian or somehow create a share from FreeNAS that I can mount into the Debian VM?
How does one go about turning off the fn key LED on a Thinkpad W541 on Arch?
Thomas Gomez
>arch >mouthbreathers using it as their main distro name a more classic duo.
Jackson Butler
How decent is GNU/Linux gaming these days? I'm building a new desktop-console and I'd rather not put windows on the bare metal if I could avoid it. I suspect I'm going to have to, and just keep anything non-gaming on a different machine..
Julian White
I've been using Arch for 2 months and it broke on me today. All I had to do was -Suu and startx, is this a meme?
Landon Rivera
fluxbox
Tyler Cruz
>people that dont use arch >people that cant read more then a paragraph per 10 minutes >people that cant update their configs when syntax change All these people that dont use arch but are the most vocal about it :)
Ryan Roberts
always do pacman -Syu, theres never a need to do these separately.
Gavin Russell
Have used it as my main for a few years before, now just have the arm version on my pi. I'm not saying every arch user is a mouthbreather, it is just that it is the choice gnu/linux distro for them.
Jonathan Russell
More people use debian, there for statistically, it has a higher percentage of "mouthbeathers"
Evan King
I'm guessing it's people who do not know what they are doing it's breaking for. For some common examples >using a custom xorg.conf instead of doing their tweaks in xorg.conf.d >installing drivers manually instead of using the package manager >manually installing hardware dependencies that requires kernel modules Typically it's people with Windows mentality of installing something manually once and telemetry will take care of the rest, when it doesn't really work like that in Linux.
Brayden Hernandez
Delete that faggot browser and get a decent icon theme jesus fucking christ.
Jordan Thomas
1. Google Chrome is the best web browser 2. Okay I'll get an new icon theme
Chase Stewart
I’m phone posting, just chill, I know it’s stupid, but help me out here guys. This is the ZIP file for Arch, I need to know exactly what I need out of here for the selected ISO in Universal USB.
Depends on what you want. Retrogaming is 10/10 thanks to retroarch and there is Wine for Windows games. Steam supports lots of GNU/Linux games these days and it's growing. Steam also released a Wine fork called proton to make Windows gaming easier - but I wouldn't recommend any of this. While it works, the botnet does too. Best: Keep your system clean and put nonfree softtware in a Vorfall machine whee it can't do harm. Read on GPU pass through solutions if you need hardware support for your games.
Angel Kelly
why tho? do you want bleeding edge source code that bad?
Brody Young
virtual*
Joseph Adams
I do want so much.
Lucas Evans
I dont want nightly, i want 66.0.2. It has webrender support and better gpu rendering for my gpu. But i want to build it with a custom toolchain(LTO,LLD,PGO,RUST-SIM) for better performance.
