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Ohaiyo my niggas, so I installed arch and now my laptop fan is spinning a lot slower. Could this damage the cpu?
Zachary Martin
The air expelled is cold so i don't think it's a problem at the moment but it's slower than the slowest I've ever seen on Win10.
Levi Morris
pls halp, i know the fan is supposed to be controlled by the BIOS but could there be some driver issue messing it up?
Connor Wood
Check the sensors and make sure its not actually running hot If the laptop is just running cooler which is causing the fan to run slower there's obviously no problem
Is this the first time you've installed a linux distro? Bare in mind that pretty much all distros run lighter than windows and arch is very minimalist after install and uses little resources compared to it
Ayden Peterson
34 degrees currently so i think it's fine rn. it's time I've installed a linux distro on this laptop, I expected it would be a lot more lightweight than Windows but didn't expect the fan could be so quiet, usually it's audible even when idle. Battery consumption seems a little worse but the average temperature range is a lot lower compared to before. I used lm_sensors to check btw.
Ayden Jenkins
Its probably just the lower stress on the system Open a terminal and run htop to see what resources are being used, its almost guaranteed to be less than what windows would use
Unless you've specifically installed fan control software while installing arch your fans are still being controlled by the bios
Leo Wilson
Anyone got any suggestions on linux card games? Stuff like solitaire, freecell, hearts. I've been really wanting to play hearts lately.
Brayden Phillips
just installed htop and checked, both cores at around 3% and only 1 gb ram is being used while icecat, compton and a couple of terminals are running. These stats are literally fap material compared to windows which used to run at least 30% of the cpu and 4gb when doing nothing at all.
Why are printers such a fucking hassle to setup on Linux? I just want to be able to print to this Brother piece of shit without having to do it from my phone.
Gavin Sullivan
What OS do you use on your phone?
Robert Martin
Android.
Dominic Jones
See, printers aren't a fucking hassle to setup on Linux.
Parker Bailey
So it's that time of the year when I get tired of windows, what's the state of lincucks? Is it the year of linux desktop yet?
Samuel Taylor
install gentoo
Nolan Taylor
>cups preinstalled >plug in printer Literally 1 step setup.
Jose Sanchez
Good old gentoo, if I had a faster cpu I would.
Christian Ortiz
I have Wingblows installed on one disk and I want to install Arch on the other one while being able to boot both of them. Where should I install GRUB? Let's say Windows is on /dev/sda and Arch will be installed on /dev/sdb.
Landon Rogers
he's right, if you are using manjaro you are retarded and should have just sticked with windows
Adam Martinez
You're retarded.
Luis Johnson
found the manchild retard that shits up on arch asking for help. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and CentOS all are better distributions. Also I bet you are a zoomer and you've just been lurking this board for two weeks
Carson Murphy
Manjaro user here, looking to extend my knowledge to some other distros. What should I try first? I already tried Ubuntu and Fedora in VMWare alongside Manjaro (which is how I chose it as my distro of choice).
Blake Cruz
is it possible to install pure linux on a smartphone? I want to use it as a pocket desktop
Caleb Johnson
I did
Zachary Baker
There's a reason Linux breathing new life into old computers has been a meme for a long time.
Landon Cruz
Gentoo, unironically. Ubuntu and Fedora give you a good sense of the deb/rhel families and you already know Pacman. Other than Gentoo, embedded busybox type Linuxen (Android, Alpine, etc.), and the BSDs you've got the bases covered.
Dominic Long
ace of penguins Pure X only, zero bloat.
>on Linux? printing is provided by CUPS, a software made by apple.
Evan Barnes
put grub on sdb and set it as BIOS/EFI boot drive. you will have windows in the boot menu. If you fuck it up somehow or decide to nuke your arch install later you can just set the boot drive to sda in bios and start windows as is.
James Kelly
What do you fellow Jow Forumsentoomen think about QubesOS?
Genode does what Qubes is aiming for and does it better because Genode has actual GPU acceleration available (at least on Intel) in a safe way.
Cameron Jackson
What is the best Linux distribution for someone who is not skilled with Linux, but who also wants to get away from proprietary software and move to FOSS? I am thinking about using PureOS since it was listed on the FSF's website.
>not skilled with Linux Just use any *ubuntu (Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu mate, etc. but not Ubuntu becuase gnome is shit.)
Oliver Jones
Whatever it is you are going to bloat the shit out of it and cause irreparable harm. Choose whatever interests you. Do you want newish packages, lots of tutorials online and you don't care about hard drive usage, then use Ubuntu. Want older packages that are reliable but might not have the latest thing you want and want a more enterprise experience try Fedora. If you don't care about ancient packages but want to use aptitude package managment then use Debian. If you want ancient and Redhat based then use CentOS.
Want to compile everything yourself then try slackware. Want to spend hours changing compile flags, then try gentoo?
Want to have the hacker tools with no hassle, then try Kali (ubuntu basically). Want to have to read a wiki just to install the OS and then have a clean slate and a package manager that is relatively up to date, then try Arch.
There are a lot of distros. Just try something that interests you. Or choose something that you think is a good meme OS and try it.
In linux, how can I make it so that quitting a certain programs run a script to kill another one? I'm trying to close the jackd audio server when I close my audio program
Jeremiah Nelson
Maybe make a script to launch it with your_audio_program && kill -2 `pgrep jackd`
why is it every time i come here someone recommends this garbage to me? are you the project dev shilling?
Jayden Scott
i have a windows phone
Elijah Sanders
I just came back to Jow Forums. I genuinely believe it is the best. Sounds like a shill but I don't care. I tried DWM, DWM, i3, i3-gaps, and a lot of other wm and bspwm gives me gaps, outside border and a lot of other control that other wm do not.
that's a clumsy way to write #!/bin/bash your_audio_program kill -2 `pgrep jackd` you didn't background your_audio_program so $! is empty and it has already exited when that line is reached
Julian Hill
Other user suggested that his your_audio_program
forked and returned before the program was really exited.
Am I just being nostalgic for nostalgias sake if I almost miss burning ISOs to an actual, physical CD to install Linux? Even a fucking Lubuntu ISO is 1.5 GB nowadays. I know that it's strictly worse compared to using a USB drive since the CD will just be laying around and have no use after installing, but there's something about the process I miss.
Anthony Miller
What distro has the most technology? Something that is not ready yet, but you believe is going to be the future
A little tip for the kiddos. I was running at 800mhz until I found out about cpupower and #cpupower frequency-set -g performance. Now I am running at boosted speeds (almost 2ghz from 800mhz) and my laptop is running much better.
How is Wayland when it comes to vidya? I just recently replaced x with Wayland, and it seems like some games have much lower fps and some won't even start.
I'm just wondering if that's something I should blame on Wayland or if I just need to tweak something. Does anyone have a similiar experience or any insight?
Camden Morales
One thing everyone should be aware of before trying it is that the repositories contain no proprietary software. The reason it's really important to know that before hand is because it uses Linux-Libre kernel and that means if you need wifi it almost definitely won't work.
I'd just hate for someone to try it out and get annoyed that their wifi isn't working and end up hating the whole distro. You can still have your wifi working though, because it's easy to customize guix to install anything even if it's not in the repos, so you just need to tell your config to get the full Linux kernel instead of Linux-Libre. A config for that was posted by a GuixSD dev.
What's the easiest way to replace a Linux distro? I've installed Debian by splitting the Home and Root partitions and want to replace it with something else.
Colton Rivera
You could potentially try to save your home partition, but better off just saving your important things to github, another machine, or another drive.
Lucas Carter
I don't care about any of that, just what the easiest process is of replacing a Linux distro. i.e. by installing another over it or deleting the partitions first etc.
Austin Allen
nuke it all.
Jackson Nguyen
No.
Tyler Wood
this appears on my desktop sometimes when I start up from off/suspend. no idea what it is though, everything works fine and it doesn't give me any more info?
it's probably just because arch isn't doing shit you didn't tell it to, unlike windows 10
Eli Perez
Sad picture. I was literally installing Debian for the first time to try it out when it was happening. I went to troubleshoot a problem and saw his tweetstorm live. Still running that instance of Debian in his memory
Mason Hill
I'll pray for you, but do portage and then gcc on their own first just to be safe.
Robert White
Already did that. Before trying -uUD which failed repeatedly.
Elijah Taylor
WHAT TERMINAL EMULATOR BEST FOR GNU?
David Cruz
xterm
Jack Jones
Great, thanks.
Austin Nelson
>gnu Most of gnu is shit. Also, most terminal emulators are shit in one way or another, depends entirely on your priorities.
Owen Morgan
how do I run shell script whenever my desktop is not in use?
Grayson Jones
Periodically check cursor position and cpu usage.
Carson Jenkins
>Periodically check cursor position hmm that seems resource-hungry any other way?
Lucas Brooks
Why? Just check whether it differs from position recorded N seconds/minutes ago. If someone is watching video, the cpu check will catch that.
Jayden Jackson
loop: sleep 60 check goto loop
okay, sleep 60 doesn't look that bad thanks
Daniel Young
Is there any way to add multiline scrolling and middle click to scroll features in Chrome under Kubuntu?
Wendell has almost convinced me to try Fedora. Coming from Mintbuntu, is it still a massive pain in the ass to install non-free packages?
Justin Walker
Love Fedora. Need something like it but stable for 1-2 years for a work computer, but Fedora has a dumb release schedule of 6 months with only 13 month support.
Is *buntu LTS really my only option? It's kinda limited. Will try OpenSUSE Leap but not sure its much different to Fedora.
debian stable opensuse as far as I know is similar to fedora, like rpm-tier or someshit
Jace Bailey
Get out
Isaac Russell
I have Debian with sddm configured that it automatically logs me in at boot. Today after startup I just saw the sddm login screen and whenever I entered my password for my account the screen flashed black and it went back to the login screen. I simply restarted and it correctly and automatically logged me in now. Any idea what that was?
Nicholas Parker
NO U Have you SEEN the code? Maybe excepting some projects that get more attention, it's often a sparsely maintained autistic mess that rivals openssl. Also, if you're so smart, name a perfect terminal emulator.
