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But there's no reason someone couldn't have made a separate Xorg right? So what's the difference?
The difference is that it's easier to re-implement a smaller piece than it is to do a larger piece. That's where the power of "the unix way" comes in. Wayland is much closer to that ideal of "do one thing and do it well".
Likewise, there's no reason someone on Wayland can't invent a separate isolated utility specifically for forwarding and only forwarding and we all use that 1 thing. You still have the same uniformity, but it's uniformity by choice, not by force. And when someone with very special needs comes along and really needs to diverge from that then it's easier for him to re-implement that 1 smaller piece than it is for him to write a whole new Xorg server.
I'm not very knowledgable in this area but one thing I'm weary of is that Wayland has 3D and compositing out of the box. Isn't that more monolithic? askubuntu.com/a/11561 >It's supposed to simplify the whole graphics stack by forcing everything through a standard GEM/DRM stack straight into the kernel and managing compositing itself. >Compare that to the X stack where you have bits and bobs all over the place. Some of the X mess has been through flexible design, some have been growing pains. All the compositors (Compiz/Metacity/Mutter/KWin/etc) have been added as an afterthought. They are, at their core, hacks to do what X should probably be doing itself. To be honest it seems like these things should be the display server's responsibility anyway, but I'm weary of scope creep.
Jaxson Taylor
I don't know about any of that. I'm in favor of whatever is more flexible and I guess I always thought that was Wayland consider it's just a library. Never heard anyone suggest it might be the other way around. But I really wouldn't know.
Brayden Campbell
Downloaded the guixSD qemu image to try it. Looks like guix isn't able to import custom made nix package repos for some reason. That sucks
What is the best book for studying for RHCSA exam?
Aiden Young
Reposting from last thread because no one answered: I can put a drive with an installed distro into a new laptop and it should just werk right? Even the UEFI part?
Levi Bailey
Yes
Jose Campbell
Thanks user
John White
Remember to cross your appendages and pray. Bootloaders are the tricky part.
Angel Lopez
I mean I can just try and if it doesn't work, shred /boot right?
>There's a firmware package in nonfree, my Vega wouldn't work until I installed it. Did you do that?
Which package is that, exactly?
Andrew Russell
Since now antergos is no longer a thing, which distro should I use? No manjaro pls as it breaks like clockwork.
Jackson Campbell
arch sis :)
Charles Clark
firmware-amd-graphics, you wont see it till you enable contrib and nonfree and apt update
Mason Davis
Thanks user! Problem is: it's already installed.
Sebastian Martin
It's not though? Are you waiting on dnf cache updates a lot? alias dnf='dnf -C'
Austin Rogers
Oh. Well, then I'm out of ideas, sorry.
Isaiah Smith
It's ok. Thanks anyway!
John Campbell
Why would you run a server off anything other than RedHat?
Brody Williams
not him but thanks!
Kayden Mitchell
because i know arch well and you can run an (actually) minimal docker host quite easily with it.
Jacob Ward
xfce 4.14 is now available on pacman. on average, how long does it take for pacman to get a new version of a program after the developers release it? seems to have taken just a few days in this case.
Jacob Parker
lol
Christopher Mitchell
Is already fixed that of the c-states issue?
Landon Ward
>simple >minimal >stable what else could you ask for, user?
Caleb Myers
>cups Tried doing something similar. Only took about half an hour,butwhen I went to print the test page, nothing happened. 10 minutes later the printer pooped out a postscript syntax errorr. My dad was like "That's what you get for using a stupidly complicated distro. Let me show show you how it's done." and fired up Ubuntu MATE. Went to print a test page and the printer started shitting out pages with about 5 letters on each.
Printing is fucked, especially if there are no native drivers and you have to resert to using ppd files.
David Martin
Pacman is a packet manager, a means by which to acquire and manage software, it doesn't make software available, that is a question of the repositories. Your question can not be answered, as it is non-sensical, you need to ask about your repository, since the release of software carries between different repositories.
In one case the Arch repositories, from which a default arch system draws it's packages through pacman, is known to update quite quickly, in this case the update became available on the same day, August 12, on which the release of the new xfce version was announced.
This is different from eg. the Manjaro repositories, from which a Manjaro installation draws it's packages, also through the use of Pacman, which usually take a while longer, which can mean weeks.
What do weebs use for Japanese input? ibus+mozc is buggy as fuck from what I tested.
Jack Ward
I can't access the BIOS of a Computer, can I take its Hard disk, install Linux Mint from another one and then put it back on?
Gavin Harris
xfce4-sensors-plugin does not even list entry for HDD temperature monitoring despite hddtemp installed `
Easton Stewart
stop using xfce
Parker Sanders
Why does Qubes use exclusively female pronouns in their documentation when referring to adversaries and the user? Is it a reference to the Eve/Alice/Bob thing?
Jonathan Barnes
I hate printer manufacturers so god damn much
They're like ISP level bad
Carter Butler
The microphone on my Asus X401A (with Intel audio) has a horrible background noise that makes it unusable. I'm using Xubuntu 19.10 now, but it also didn't work on Xubuntu 18.10. Where should I look to fix this? Should I take the Windows blue pill if it just works there?
Thomas Ross
They want to imagine all their users are cute little girls.
Bentley Green
>using memedora
Ryan Young
How is KDE?
Ryder Clark
What are some modern GNU/Linux distros that can run on a PII system with 97MB RAM? Pic related. Doesn't seem to be enough RAM for Puppy Linux, and TinyCore is having severe driver issues out of the box.
I'm debating whether to just grab some lightweight distro from 15+ years ago.
just installed fedora on my laptop and i'm sorry i didn't do this earlier. sure, it uses wayland, gnome, systemd etc but it works fucking great out of the box, its fast and i don't have to fiddle with setting for hours just to make it usable
Luis Perry
yes Fedora is my go-to distribution to get things done
Grayson Martin
what's wrong with systemd and wayland?
Kevin Jenkins
Is there a way to open an openbox menu from the command line? I want a .desktop file to open an openbox menu I made, but I can't seem to find a way.
Andrew White
Whats a good qt image browser? Im using gwenview and the delay between opening and browsing images is shit. ideally i want speed, like when i used honeyview on windows shit was fast. Also are there ANY image viewers that are good that also support zip and cbz that arent exclusively for comicbooks?
Jonathan Long
install xfce
Juan Sullivan
Weird issue. Just installed kubuntu and my mouse works but won’t click on things? Like I can hover over things on the desktop but I’m unable to click on them.
Juan Butler
perhaps some dirt between the button and the mouse?
Dylan Cooper
Yeah bud. Working on windows fine. It’s a weird issue. Trying to install all these extra drivers now
William Ramirez
You simply don't belong here if you're not using Arch GNU.
Wyatt Collins
comfy once you've configured it correctly (the defaults suck)
Samuel Turner
On my laptop my touchpad sometimes just doesn’t work when trying to start Ubuntu and the only solution is to restart
Ian Myers
How do I add multiple commands to /etc/issue ? I've been able to add "clear" to it by running clear > /etc/issue but I also want to add neofetch to it, but adding neofetch overwrites everything.
Eli Wright
how will that add a command line option to openbox?
Evan Johnson
Can I install Linux Mint on a Hard disk and then have it run on another PC?
Nathaniel Parker
yes
Samuel Smith
Could you recommend me (if such a thing is even available) a document/research server software that allows storing thesis PDFs, manuscripts and maybe download lectures under a self defined graph structure? eg. I might access the milewski category theory book under authors->milewski, topics->programming->fundamental concepts->category theory or topics->programming->Haskell. If it's possible, l would combine the results with download lecture videos from youtube
Asher Garcia
>not posting links to a previous thread >not posting links to a new thread in a previous thread Jeez-louise.. Get it together, would you?
GNU/Linux is not for you. Install some obscure bsd version that doesn't work on most hardware and is maintained by "libertarians" and go be a massive faggot there.
Jonathan King
allg, i have bootable drives for using on different machines (library, school, etc)
Carson Miller
Remember the times when library computers had open USB ports and you were allowed to install stuff on it as long as you asked nicely? Good for us kids that didn't have a PC at home
If I need to 1:1 clone a 128GB SD card, block for block, to a 256GB SD card, should I use dd if=/dev/sdX ? And then simply reverse it to "of" to copy the image to the larger drive? It needs to be a block-level clone, I need to replicate the filesystem already on the SD card to the new one.
James Murphy
Yes.
Adam Stewart
My CPU is stuck at max boost with the slightest of loads, even though I'm explicitly telling it to stay at lower frequency. I'm using arch btw, on an i5-3360M analyzing CPU 0: driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. hardware limits: 1.20 GHz - 3.50 GHz available cpufreq governors: performance powersave current policy: frequency should be within 1.20 GHz and 2.80 GHz. The governor "powersave" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware current CPU frequency: 3.33 GHz (asserted by call to kernel) boost state support: Supported: yes Active: yes 25500 MHz max turbo 4 active cores 25500 MHz max turbo 3 active cores 25500 MHz max turbo 2 active cores 25500 MHz max turbo 1 active cores
what do
Jordan Nguyen
>dmesg shows me these issues on Debian 10: >[drm:amdgpu_device_suspend [amdgpu]] *ERROR* amdgpu asic reset failed >[drm:gfx_v8_0_hw_fini [amdgpu]] *ERROR* KCQ disabled failed (scratch(0xC040)=0xFFFFFFFF) >Any ideas how to fix this?
V8_0 HARDWARE Fini error
ASIC reset failed
Is it just me or this reads PROCESSING CHIP WONT TAKE INSTRUCTIONS
Benjamin Watson
Sorry if this is dumb but is there a decent GUI-based program that would do this? gparted only seems to create or edit partitions, not clone them. I only know about dd.
Nolan Rivera
who? to whom?
Jose Morales
Why would you want a GUI for a one line dd command?
Nolan Moore
For verification so that I don't fuck it up like the moron I am
Liam Gutierrez
hey nix bros, who's for this new flakes concept? >github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/49 I personally don't have the brains to fully get if this is good or bad but based eelco always comes up with the best models
Also do you think guix will follow suite or have the developpements of these two projects gone completely seperate?
