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how do I make Arch remember my resolution instead of defaulting to 800x600?
Christopher King
in my imo, swap is only really useful for hibernation (might be different for low-memory machines) you can also use a swap file instead of a partition, you just need an extra boot parameter if you want to hibernate into it wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap#Swap_file
nvm figured it out I tried this in the past but I had issues with .Xauthority and disabled it in the process
Andrew Martinez
It depends on the amount of RAM but typically you won't need swap for regular use. But you will need it for hibernation. RAM is compressed when you hibernate so half to 3/4rds of the amount of RAM you have is a good size for swap.
I used to recommend 2*RAM "back in the day". These days I usually go for half.
Having a swap for hibernation is really handy, specially for laptops. I use the "hybrid" suspend option when I close the laptop lid. The Hybrid Suspend will suspend to both RAM and disk. This way it instantly boots unless you run out of battery or there's a power failure in case of desktops - in which case it will still resume from suspend, just slower.
btw, not having a swap partition is really annoying if you later decide to use hybrid hibernation or just regular hibernation. It's not a question of that much space.. in most cases. If you're on a 128 GB SSD then perhaps you'll want to live without swap.
Camden Miller
you would need to use it as part of script in dmenu mode
Jack Hall
why can't I connect to my phone's hotspot? laptop wifi works fine at home and work. other devices can connect to the hotspot. using networkmanager
Connor Murphy
Unironically Arch. It will broke because you are a noob, and you'll lose time fixing it. You then will pass to Debian, just to broke it too, but this time is unfixable. You'll end to Arch again, but this time experienced enough to keep it running. Artix and Devuan if you hate systemd.
Mason Flores
this was me but with gentoo. I broke it and I love the AUR
Brody Sanders
Hey, i run arch gnu/linux without a DE.
For the past long time i have used GPG-agent to handle my ssh keys. But i don't want to type my password everytime i need a ssh-key, or even reboot.
How to SSH/GPG keyring with osX lvl easyness
Elijah Nelson
I disabled the desktop manager, made a small bash in .bash_profile and .xinitrc for the windows manager's choice but xmodmap refuse to load .Xmodmap. Putting a sleep 20 && xmodmap "${HOME}/.Xmodmap" is stupid, there must be a better way. Someone had and solved this (stupid issue). I'll try Gentoo sometime, but I'm easily bored with compiling.
Blake Ortiz
What are the most popular distros nowadays? I'm genuinely interested.
I'm trying to boot into parted magic via live CD and the parted magic boot screen appears but like a split second afterwards the monitor keeps switching to "out of range" immediately and that's pretty much it. I already tried alternating the settings (live/default as 64 and 32bit etc) but it still won't work
It's just that one PC where it won't work since i've used that live CD on other PC's before
Nevermind fellas, i had a knoppix live cd lying around and used that one which booted flawlessly
I can see and copy all the files i wanted to see, awesome stuff
Jayden Sanchez
Can someone tell me what the GNUstep directory in my home dir is for?
Wyatt Johnson
sorry for the dumb question but what's the easiest way to copy text from a file to the end of another? is there a terminal command like echo from file to file, or a text editor with a shared buffer?
Blake Green
echo 'Memes' >> file
Jeremiah Peterson
For bash : cat file1 >> file2 this will read all the text from file1 and append it to the end of file2
Benjamin Cox
>patching packages extensively so that they integrate better into the system >only patch packages when its absolutely needed which one is the better approach for linux distro, in a end user stand point?
Cooper Flores
install gentoo
Isaiah Stewart
danke
Connor Long
define integrate
Logan Gonzalez
Passt scho.
Adrian Johnson
Am I allowed here if I use GNU free toybox/linux?
Kayden Long
Is there a way for me to open a file in my current directory without having to 'ls' then manually copy and paste it? Like how 'ls' will list all files in my directory. But lets say instead i want to just automatically input the first file in the directory without having to type it out manually or copy and pasting like i said.
Angel Clark
type out the first few letters and press tab?
Daniel Walker
>echo "Hello World" | read A B >echo $A >should output "Hello" >outputs nothing Why? Why doesn't this work??
>echo "Hello World" > temp >read A B < temp >echo $A >Hello >works WHAT THE FUCK.
Variables set im a pipeline are set in a subshell; read will indeed set those variables, but when the pipeline dies, the variables die with it.
Isaiah Morgan
$ echo "Hello World" | while read -r A B; do :; done; echo "$A" $ echo "Hello World" | while read -r A B; do echo "$A"; done Hello
Joseph Richardson
Not in my /fglt/, got to pass the purity test to post here.
Jacob Evans
I'm actually also quite curious as to a) what's the most popular distribution and b) what's the most popular desktop.
However.. these things are fairly hard to measure. You can look things like user-agent but mine would be "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0" not what I'm actually using. Doing basic polls is also a bit difficult; the results would probably differ if we did one among Jow Forums users vs some other site.
If anyone's got some really big and accurate numbers then do share. And by big I mean something like 100k people counted. If we do a poll here where 5 say Arch and 5 say Gentoo that's not very meaningful...
Ahem.. *clears throat* *sneezes* *hiccups* *sweats profusely* *panics* *jumps out of a window* *imitates gnu's sounds* *runs in circles* *spontaneously combusts* INSTALL GNU GUIX SYSTEM
Running Gentoo but don't want to fiddle with kernel modules just to run fucking KVM to try out Guix. Convince me to do it.
Jason Gonzalez
Yeah I'm gonna install it using the text/shell mode, fuck the GUI. So gimme them tips.
Parker Collins
1) it's not yet another meme Linux distro 2) it doesn't have a marketing team so most people still don't realize all its implications and possibilities 3) GNU and Linux are just the surface level of GNU Guix, its real highlight is Guile programming language and entirely Guile-defined system management, which in the future can include different kernels/userlands
Julian Carter
Help me anons. Every time I open a terminal emulator (st/kitty) from my home directory some of the glyphs are not rendered properly. When I cd into a different directory and open a terminal from there it has no issues rendering all the fonts.
What could be the problem? I'm sorry if it's a brainlet question, but I've tried googling but nothing comes up.
I'm using Antergos btw with zsh
Lucas Hernandez
>1) it's not yet another meme Linux distro Good. >2) it doesn't have a marketing team so most people still don't realize all its implications and possibilities And I still don't. >3) GNU and Linux are just the surface level of GNU Guix, its real highlight is Guile programming language and entirely Guile-defined system management, which in the future can include different kernels/userlands Well at least someone has ported CL's loop macro so I think I can cope.
Charles Hughes
I need to have Windows on my T430, so what Linux to go for (complexity doesn't matter), either for dual boot or live usb distro?
Don't want to poo on your parade or nothing but Guix is horrible for average people. Yes, yes, it's got reproducible builds and Guile and guess what, that means exactly jack shit to my sister who wants to turn on her computer and browse Instagram. For professionals and scientist and people like me who's got computers as hobby it's a different story. But for average people.. it's just not user-friendly. At all.
I just installed slackware. Is slapt-get for slackbuilds? Or should I stick with stuff like sbopkg for that?
Easton Perez
>Yes, yes, it's got reproducible builds and Guile and guess what, that means exactly jack shit to my sister who wants to turn on her computer and browse Instagram Your sister is a spoiled consumerist brat, this is not 'average' this is simply disgusting, and you're a lame brother if you can't help your sister become a bit more intelligent and show her how to partake in common knowledge of humanity (including some fairly elementary primitive skills which are required for guix) to save her from rotting away as a couch potato.
Jonathan Williams
Don't lie pajeet, nothing would make you happier
Xavier Ross
as far as I know slapt-get is simply replacement for slackpkg
Austin Russell
I need a fairly modern distro with support for an ATI rage pro 16mb GPU, a 450mhz PPC CPU and 512mb of RAM
Jayden Campbell
I just browsed its packages: - apparently no non-free kernels (or modules) at all - pretty old KDE - pretty old Evolution - very old version of (a free) Firefox (clone) - no q4wine
I think I just won't bother after all. Even if I install it in a VM and like the system configuration part of it, it'd be completely and utterly worthless to install as my desktop system.
Ok, it's your PC, buddy. By the way I also use opensuse, when I feel like playing a game or using more varied repositories with stuff like wine guis, newest multimedia tools etc.
Eli Morris
>3) GNU and Linux are just the surface level of GNU Guix, its real highlight is Guile programming language and entirely Guile-defined system management, which in the future can include different kernels/userlands The highlight is the Guix package manager, which uses the guile programming language for it's configuration.
Levi Rogers
yup that would mean >entirely Guile-defined system management
Joshua Flores
kys pajeet go poo on your sister. stop role playing as a Jow Forumsentooman, we all know you don't use it because you couldn't learn lisp. loser.
Guys, does anyone know which flags are responsible for the audio post processing in Firefox like gain control and echo cancellation? I want to turn them off for clean audio but I cant find those particular flags in about:config. Any pointers would be appreciated.
>its real highlight is Guile programming language There is nothing special about Guile. Guile is not the highlight of the system. It was used for the guix package manager simply because it already was the default embedded-able programming language of the gnu project.
>entirely Guile-defined system management Guile is not a magical language, you could create a scripting interface for APT in guile and build debian systems from guile configurations. It wouldn't be the same as guix, it would be just plain debian. Because on guix the star is the package manager and it's so because it's purely functional.
So the real highlight of the guix system is the guix package manager, which is a purely functional package manager that happens to use the guile programming language as it's interface.
>There is nothing special about Guile how many other distros use a full-fledged programming language?
Parker Hall
Running KVM. Can I assign the entire resource of a host to a VM if I plan on running only that one VM?
Angel Taylor
So you are the "full-fledged programming language" guy. What you mean is turing-complete. The answer is idk and i don't care. You could use a turing complete language to configure an ordinary package manager and it still would not be the same as guix, because having it's configuration written in a turing complete language wouldn't make an ordinary package manager purely functional. Put more effort on your shitposting and stop being so smug about stuff you don't know, it's a fucking anime forum.
I'm using ncdu for analysing file usage and deleting cruft. I'm thrilled with it. However, is there any way to open files directly? I know I can switch to the shell with "b" and then use xdg-open, but I would like to skip that extra step if possible.
Joseph Miller
Why don't you set a AccelerationNumerator and a AccelerationThreshold to 1?
Josiah White
Hmm is this mic on. Test. Test. Ahem. FUCK MP3 FUCK MPEG-2 Thanks for your attention.
