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so i have a ryzen 3700x and i'm planning on building my own kernel from source, haven't done this since around 2011. did anything major change in the process?
Levi Sanders
>everything looks like shit That's why you installed Manjaro though... for those based defaults they set. And the broken packages. >muh unstable distro
Alternatively you could just change everything to Adwaita, which is default for GNOME. Cinnamon usually comes with a few themes, and you can find more on gnome-look.org (or one of the sister sites like cinnamon-look.org, that's just the main portal). Just extract to ~/.themes and use your tweaking tool (depending on WM/DE) to switch to it.
GRUB has massive lag with high resolutions. I found the best way was to run it in console mode. The arguments against dual booting are that 1) windows and macos aren't free as in freedom and 2) people will just continue using windows for most things because of force of habit.
Charles Baker
what's the closest thing to Gentoo's use flags on Arch?
Cameron Hernandez
Well shit, so I fugged up if I chose "use graphical terminal for bootloader" while installing?
Kayden Martin
i just want to mess around with linux on the weekends, i'm going to dual boot and you can't stop me!
Ian Bailey
GRUB is for dual-booters, I hide it to log in my system faster, it saves me whole 2 secs :^)
Gabriel Phillips
wget -qO- randomfunfacts.com | sed -n '//{s;^.*\(.*\).*$;\1;p}'
Sebastian Morales
So, you've installed the system? Now you can kiss the hand of don Ricardo, welcome to the Family.
to help you visualize what is taking up the most space. The predecessor to qdirstat (kdirstat) inspired the windows program windirstat, if you're familiar with it.
Oliver Sullivan
or any non-babby distribution
Isaac Parker
Dualbooting is worse for the world than sticking to Windows.
First order would be finding out why "open in new tab" doesnt work at all and open in new window just opens a blank window. Also, Firefox just froze on Manjaro and for some reason it literally removed the program when I closed it. Firefox was nowhere to be found and I had to install it again.
What a weird thing.
Joshua Perez
technically they do, or perhaps you didn't look at them properly and are agitated by tech forum bullshit.
You don't need to reboot to apply security updates
Brayden Morales
yep but it quickly changed >Better late than never. I finally got permission from Prentice Hall to change the MINIX license to the BSD license. The lawyers sort of sat on this for two years. >Sorry for the long delay. I had hoped this would happen earlier.
Bentley Miller
Okay, I get that, and I will probably disable it after being embarrased when booting with what I describe here: And yes, I do not dualboot, if I do I have separate disks and access windows via boot options. That said, I do plan on going full linux in a few months.
Eli Howard
what's the quickest system boot you've ever had?
Joseph Butler
Is it possible to boot without grub?
Ayden Williams
Void looks like an os for alt-normals
Robert Baker
You need a bootloader.
Brody Morgan
>running a deprecated kernel >running a deprecated OS (deprecated April 2019) sudo do-release-upgrade
but >muh uptime
Enjoy your pwning
Asher Mitchell
Is it possible to grub without boot?
Luis Johnson
Just edit your /etc/default/grub and run grub-mkconfig. Or just leave it be. Doesn't really matter if you aren't dual-booting and don't need to change between menu entries often. Not trying too. I'm dual booting too. Just wanted to clarify the thought process between the "don't dual boot" line in the OP. Why? I dual boot because I want to keep gaymen separate from everything else and gaymz just run better on windows ootb. Sure. There are a lot of alternatives. I remember using LiLo back in the day. Systemd-boot also exist and works fine if you are using UEFI Sure. Just take off your boots before turning on your computer.
Michael Anderson
cope seething uptimelet don't forget to reboot after replying to this post
Adrian Rogers
dual booters are cancerous, they use linux for fun but continue being wincucks and spread the wincuck mindset (nothing to hide, stallman bad, pls make more proprietary software ports, etc) in the community a normal wincuck just ignores linux, but a dual booter harms the community
Ayden Wilson
You probably meant GNU/Linux.
Camden Young
Maybe you don't have the proper distro? I use void, as a beginner, and it seems to work, but then again, I have yet to configure a fully useable and nice desktop.
Aiden Jones
kernelets will never know the feeling of being on the latest LTS kernel
Go to packetstorn or whatever, enter your kernel version and enjoy the list of vulnerabilities. Unless you've set up live kernel patching (doubt), I've bad news for you.
>I've bad news for you Linux kernel vulnerabilities aren't dramatic. Especially on a server/seedbox/VPN that runs maybe one or two public-facing services.
Aaron Lee
Linux*
Zachary Lopez
Let's go back to terminal commands for a while.
Kayden Brown
mpv $(xclip -selection c -o)
Jack Ramirez
shutdown -r now
Joshua Reed
I've a similar one using xsel. Max. comfy. Is xclip better?
As far as I'm aware, neither is particularly better or worse than the other. Just a matter of xclip being the first one I found when looking for a cli clipboard manipulation program to run that exact command.
it's funny how everyone's overly concerned with kernel vulnerabilities whereas most of them use their system to watch youtube vids and download anime torrents and never ever do anything server-related on it.
Blake Nguyen
I am a little downtrodden right now, for some reason specifying the path to /home/user/imgur.com/image doesn't work when using it in /etc/default/grub reeeeeeeeeeee
Ryan Morales
nvm, I had to update grub... heh
Andrew Peterson
I stopped mentioning proprietary programs windows at all when I realized that the new win 10 system can't run 50% of my normal programs I successfully used on Win 7, and CorelDraw blocked all my blueprint files because of subscription issues
Jayden Cruz
I stopped mentioning proprietary programs and windows at all when I realized that the new win 10 system couldn't run 50% of my normal programs I successfully used on Win 7, and CorelDraw blocked all my blueprint files because of subscription issues
John Young
It worked! I'll probably use a different screen in a few boots time.