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Linux Mint 19.2, base Ubuntu 18.04, should I go with it or use any of the other distributions?
Leo Long
Probably me :^)
Jack Evans
$ alias calc='bc -l
Gabriel Ramirez
Mint is fine, go for it
Alexander Taylor
Just go straight Debian.
Asher Gutierrez
What desktop do you want? You're better off installing Ubuntu 18.04.2 and installing Cinnamon if you want that, or using an Ubuntu flavour if you want a different desktop, or regular Ubuntu if you want GNOME.
Mint is a frankenstein abomination that changes /etc/lsb-release so when you add a PPA, it looks a for non-existent "tessa" repository (should be bionic, since it's based on 18.04). forcing you to edit the ppa manually.
For this reason and others (including instability) I don't recommend Mint.
If you want KDE, install KDE neon. It's Ubuntu 18.04.2 with the latest KDE software.
Angel Cook
Which distros are not fine?
Gabriel Cooper
Ubuntu has telemetry.
Robert Rivera
anyone have insight on this?
William Moore
Ubuntu
Oliver Bennett
Is xubuntu botnet? Also between void guix and gentoo which distro should I install
Jaxon King
Then turn it off when it asks to enable it. It's not Windows, it's possible to disable it. Also, telemetry is not inherently bad, if they tell you what data they collect and only use it to enhance the operating system. You can't trust Microsoft, but Canonical is a different story.
Stuff like popularity-contest is harmless, only braindead schizos are afraid of a mere package count. Same with crash reports, but YOU CAN TURN ALL OF THIS OFF IF YOU'RE AN AUTIST.
Xubuntu is fine. void is a meme, as is gentoo. If you want your system to work without extensive amounts of tinkering (and compilation times with gentoo) just go with Xubuntu if you're after Xfce.
Blake Wood
This would seem like THE REASON not to use Linux Mint. Repository fuck ups, which you have to continously unfuck.
Noah Bailey
But you should have to jump through all the hoops to turn off the phoning home's. Just use a distro that comes without such crap, e.g. not Ubuntu.
Elijah Jones
shouldn't*
Isaac Clark
>"jump through hoops" >literally one checkbox after install >implying that Debian doesn't ask you to opt in to popularity-contest even in the netinstall, just as many hoops to opt out as Ubuntu's telemetry >implying all this is bad and Canonical is spying on you only true paranoid autists download illegal images are afraid of anonymized usage reports being sent to the distro maintainer.
Luis Williams
retard
Elijah Kelly
>MOM! MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, i mean UBUNTU IS SPYING ON ME AND REPORTING MY LOLI IMAGES TO THE POLICE
>jump through all the hoops Isn't telemetry opt-in, or is that just the case for Debian?
Isaiah Flores
>arguing that privacy is something for criminals Get the fuck out, retard. It's opt-out.
Nathaniel Collins
>implying your privacy is affected because Ubuntu knows that mpdscribble crashed because of a quirk in your setup >not telling Ubuntu so they can fix it so it gets fixed in the next update >literally your only reason being that you wear a tinfoil hat and think that any anonymized data collected about your system is automatically bad >while posting on Jow Forums and either giving your credit card information and identity to hiro or filling out a google catchpa
Josiah Martin
>literally one checkbox after install if only it would actually work you would think it simply doesn't send anything, but instead it sends "opt-out" to metrics.ubuntu.com in the sane intervals as the regular info also the telemetry checkbox doesn't turn off all the other stuff:
i think "jumping through hoops" describes the situation pretty good, don't you agree?
Parker Cooper
What is the best daily driver distro?
Levi Baker
probably arch
Ryan Nguyen
Using it right now. I really like the desktop environment but it's bugged to hell and back. What's another modern looking DE other than Plasma? I've tried Cinnamon but it doesn't even come close to Plasma tbqh.
Cooper Jones
What filesystem is it? Is it actually mounted? Did you manually mount it or use fstab? Is it in your /etc/fstab? Did you by chance set the drive to be "ro" in the fstab entry(It should be "rw") Run qbittorrent from the cli and see if anything obvious is printed
Carter Green
if im understanding you right the file system is NTFS It was mounted in my system folder so I think that may have been the problem (it works if i mount it in my home directory though i dont know if this is a good fix) I mounted and tried changing the perms in the terminal but it never worked The UUID there is not my drive.
Why did Ubuntu switch from unity to gn*me? Unity was God tier, gnome is awkward and stupid
Landon Anderson
So lads, it's that time of the year again. I think I have finally settled on a wm to use, which will be bspwm, but what about a bar Which bar can you guys reccomend And should I actually be using another window manager? I heard dwm is all the rage, but I don't know if I want to spend all that time patching and compiling and looking for basic functions that should actually be in there from the get-go... Anyways, I want to find a good tiling wm that has decent floating and mouse support and a nice bar to go with it..... please?
What do people use to automatically set monitor colour temperature based on day time? Something like flux but much more basic and lightweight?
Landon Garcia
bspwm is cool. I personally use lemonbar for its simplicity. You basically just pipe a shell script into it. If you're not a shell wizard, or just want it more featured, try polybar. If you just want a taskbar, try tint2. We're trying to figure this out since 1993.
Charles Butler
redshift will do what you want and unlike f.lux it's free software.
Xavier Young
>try polybar Well, it is kinda cool too, but it uses so much memory, I just have 1980MiB on the target system, and an intlel AtomN270 in addition to that limitation. Will tint2 be able to handle showing the workspaces I am about to give up and go the the i3 suite of things. But I really want something that just has tiling, good floating and decent mouse support, I guess BSPWM fits the bill, but the binary space partitioning is needlessly autistic... Is there something like i3 expect it is not i3 and instead just a standalone window manager?
Ayden Perry
That which you know the best.
Brody Morgan
What bit(s) of KDE makes the qt file picker the kde one? I don't want to use KDE but I want its file picker because I'm sick of a fucking foot.
Why does my Linux shit completely freeze. >muh video drivers
Ryder Phillips
Will that fix it for native qt applications, or just firefox hacked into using the qt file picker?
Jaxson Murphy
Cuz linux is shit
Austin Hughes
lincucks btfo
Zachary Wright
Any good resources to learn LAMP stack/apache2 and how it works with linux? I can find good info on each individually, but I'm confused with how it all works together on the system, if that makes sense, especially how it spreads out over the system.
ok so imma trying to netinstall debian 6 and no network mirror works, any help pls? >why debian 6 and not 10? cause this debian is magically supported in my pre-sse3 pentium and latest one isnt
Jeremiah Long
not sure if it's the right place to ask this but is it possible to play all types of modern video games on linux or will there be some OS dependent incompatibilities?
“LAMP” stands for “Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP”—a common combination of software to use on a web server, except that “Linux” in this context really refers to the GNU/Linux system. So instead of “LAMP” it should be “GLAMP”: “GNU, Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.”
You can't run Windows programs on GNU/Linux, but you can emulate them using WINE. While endless games run smoothly, other endless games run buggy. There are native GNU/Linux games, but not too many, nor "AAA".
Xavier Barnes
>but you can emulate them using WINE yeah that was my point, i was wondering if wine could emulate windows 1:1 so i can play vidya without having to partition my drives i mainly use debian on my current rig and only boot window for games
Adrian Watson
KDE connect stopped working partially a few days ago It works with my debian 9 server but not with my debian 10 desktop or laptop What did they fuck up?
>Apache Use nginx, dont deal with that out date peice of bloated insecure shit
Carson Davis
with my android phone that is my debian 10 pcs can pair with my server
Cameron Brooks
Stop using systemd. Stop using SELinux. Stop using Linux. Stop using Firefox.
Jack Gutierrez
>when you don't shower
Dominic Scott
>when you don't have any sexual life, or even friends
Zachary Reyes
Take a shower, it's good for you.
Charles Johnson
I'm about to reinstall Gentoo, lads. I miss it terribly, but I'm so tired and I need some motivation. Should I even bother with FDE? My laptop never even leaves the house, so ... What about hardened? Is it even worth it? I always tune my kernel with enough security for networking and such, so I don't know. I can only imagine it causing more issues than it's worth. Definitely going the Suckless route this time, dwm, st, etc. I just want a small quick system functional enough to watch my ahnimays and InvidiousTube videos and browse Mongolian finger puppet crafting forums...
Point out the insult in the observation of RMS not showering, please.
Consider the following: I suspect RMS is insulting the noses of the other people pictured there.
Dominic Roberts
Not Stallman, the spastic that got irritated about the GNU/LINUX naming
Owen Clark
How do I figure out which of the 7000+ NixOS services to enable
Hunter Ross
Does anyone here use debian unstable? How is it? Also , what is the sources list supposed to look like?
Benjamin Morris
If you have a IOMMU capable CPU, you could try running Windows in a virtual machine and passing through the GPU.
Caleb Cook
i remember that happening once. something to do with the ssh host key. a force reinstall cleared it up since they were regenerated. not sure how it happened, since i never touched them.
Isaac Phillips
Tried reinstalling on my phone and desktop and the problem persists
Nathan Cook
the openssh-server package was what had to be reinstalled on the computer. but it might be something else entirely.
Jeremiah Reyes
If I am paranoid something has infiltrated my linux distro (kde neon) and is spying on me what should I check? Also in general what should I check to see if I disabled all phoning home, telemetry, and other shit like that? Does KDE Neon even have telemetry and phone home?
Thomas Brooks
still nothing restarted phone and desktop confirmed sshd service is running
Thomas Murphy
...
Mason Ross
this is literally false, and ubuntu asks for donations in a clear way. Mint has changed packages so buttons donates to Mint instead of the original package maintainer. Ubuntu at most has optional bug reporter, which you can turn off before installing, and an amazon.com shortcut. If you're talking about Unity that's another story, it had built in ads. >jump hoops It's literally a fucking checkbox when you're installing it, and is just crash reports. Fucking subhuman.
Jeremiah Price
do i really need all this sudo/dbus/polkit/consolekit/pam/ldap/eudev shit on a single-user gentoo system with just a window manager and no login manager? like, i know how to manually mount USB drives and shit myself, yknow.. idk
Jack Thomas
No, that is just for initial setup. If you're not using GNOME or KDE you can just leave the default, select the Desktop profile, emerge world, and emerge the window manager you want. Is not hard, I think you can download a linux kernel already compiled. There really is no difference with building the kernel yourself or installing a binary one.
Isaac Ross
debian.org suckless.org
Blake Nguyen
based cringe
Jordan Thompson
gentoo.org suckless.org
Nicholas Gonzalez
You could install wireshark on a computer placed between that computer and the network... what did you install? KDE neon is pretty safe, but Ubuntu is compatible with lots of stuff, including potentially malware.
Don't worry about Ubuntu telemetry, it's all anonymized statistics about package use and program crashes. It's nothing like Microsoft and Windows.
How do I remove the space between tabs and global menu in Firefox if i use, like I said, a global menu panel in Plasma? The part with the red squiggle on it needs to go.
kek, yeah. Even if it were faster building times aren't better
Hunter Wood
You could right click your firefox widgets, and then go to customize, and finally uncheck Use System Titlebars... but this is broken on KDE because they don't fully support GTK client side decorations. Works in GNOME though.
Samuel Jenkins
here I'm not sure wtf I did but I fixed it somehow and the empty space disappeared. Cool I guess.
Brayden Bennett
>ignores all evidence itt >keeps le privacy is inane posting ebin
Benjamin Sullivan
i have a gtx980, what driver should i use: nvidia or noveau?
>evidence >literally the opt out that Ubuntu provides >nothing of your intimate details is revealed with anonymous usage statistics but nooooo ubuntu is just as bad as windows with photodna!
Ryder Wright
here Apparently if I right click on the close button, the space goes away, but then it comes back as soon as I open another tab. What the fuck?
So there's no way to not get that ugly empty space if I want to pretent do be a macfag with a globalmenu?
Bentley Perry
leave my house with my phone for a bit and it suddenly works when i come back i tried taking it off the wifi before but that did nothing huh
Nolan Perez
Do you want to play games and have a lag free desktop? Use proprietary
Do you have a hard on for wayland and slowness? use nouveau
Isaac Foster
You could create a kwin rule to remove the decorations for maximized windows (esp. firefox)