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Intended for users of all levels, including absolute beginners.
There are three ways to try Linux, you can:
1) Install a Linux OS on a VM (Virtual Machine/VirtualBox) for "safety purposes"
2) Use the Live ISO directly without installing anything, that way, you can get a "full Linux experience".
3) Go balls deep and overwrite everything with Linux (not recommended)
If you are serious about switching to Linux and if you have Windows dual-booted (recommended for pure newbies),
we recommend you use it exclusively for 2 weeks, and avoid Windows dual booting for that period of time, or it's
likely you will start retreating back to windows instead of getting used to GNU/Linux as your new home and working on
making it feel the way you want it.
>Recommended for beginners:
-Ubuntu MATE
-Debian (For Broadcom devices, use an ISO that includes non-free firmware)
-openSUSE
-LinuxMint (a.k.a Ubuntu LTS + Cinnamon)
Before asking, please find the answers to your questions in resources.
Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly Linux Thread.
Understand that much of your software from Windows will be unavailable, although maybe wine can make up for it.
Resources:
man <insert command here>
your friendly neighborhood search engine
https://www.codecademy.com/en/courses/learn-the-command-line
https://wiki.archlinux.org/
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/
What is Linux (or GNU/Linux for Stallmanists)?
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/GNU/Linux
Babby's First Linux (What distro to choose?)
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux
What software does /g/ recommend? (Please DON'T include the so called infographic -- refer all your recommended software here.)
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/List_of_recommended_GNU/Linux_software
Ricing on Linux (Make it good and functional or make it worse like those at desktop threads)
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/GNU/Linux_ricing
A script designed to ease the transition from Windows to Debian
https://github.com/Chocolate-Chip-Computing/DebianNewbieScript
We now have an entry in the install Gentoo wiki!
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php//flt/
IRC No one uses:
irc://irc.freenode.org:+7000/FriendlyLinux
does not gnu deserve to be a part of the name of the linux os?
>>51872005
Hey, how can i customize my terminal so i can put my waifu sitting on it??? like the image
>>51872077
kill yourself weeb
>>51872075
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linux/Archive_41#Page_move:_GNU.2FLinux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linux/Name
This has been debated several times, family.
>>51872098
not dubs, your words have no meaning
>>51872077
Is waifu supposed to show up sitting on every window, or just terminal? Is it possible to click-drag waifu?
>>51872123
fuck you weeb
>>51872134
she's supposed to show up on your fucking grave you cunt
>>51872121
wow, that is a lot of interesting reading
>>51872098
>friendly linux thread
>>51872134
yes, on every terminal, i want to show the animation, and no, no click-drag
>>51872152
still not dubs
>>51872170
>weebs not welcome
>>51872009
I- I'll use the IRC…
Reminder that if you find your terminal lacking, you can always type man <insert command here> into a google search, and read the same thing from your browser.
>>51872186
still not caring you obese wreck
>>51872187
Uhhh, Linux is synonymous with weeb. That's truth. If you want o live in denial that's fine but proof is in the desktop threads.
>>51872206
go to sleep, child
I installed Arch using Architect and during the install I used UEFI/GPT and now I have my main linux partition and an EFI fat32 partition. Question is, where are my grub config files supposed to go so that they actually do anything?
>>51872215
Desktop threads is pure autism though, even second post of /flt/ (>>51872009) proved it.
>Make it good and functional or make it worse like those at desktop threads
>>51872222
Quads confirm.
>>51872228
/boot/grub/grub.cfg
>>51872215
yep, and weeb is synonymous with autism
>>51872222
go back to reddit, c.uck
>>51872177
Well, it is some sort of window decoration. Maybe it is a custom theme.
>>51872005
i dual boot only to use winblows for gaming. everything else is GNU/Linux. what does thismake me
Didn't see the other thread was dead:
Alright I've just spent the last couple hours having loads of trouble with compton and i3 and I could really use some pointers here. For reference I'm using a newly installed Arch running xfce.
As suggested earlier in this thread, I tried to set up compton. I did all the steps for an AUR build, but when I tried to run it I got "Another composite manger is already running". I double checked the xfce menu; Enable display compositing was unchecked. I ran a bash script to check which compositor was running; it returned xfwm4. I tried modifying xinit to no avail. Setting "compton -b" to run on startup caused my nvidia drivers to go all screwy leaving me with a black screen on startup. I reinstalled the drivers and xfce, haven't touched it since.
i3 wasn't much fun either. Seemed to download fine through pacman, but after picking the modifier key the console returned that it couldn't find the i3 directory. I tried to run i3 in console it returned "ERROR: Another window manager seems to be running (X error 10).
I haven't been able to find an effective online solution and its driving me nuts. Anyone know what might be causing this and how to rectify the situation?
>>51872250
nope didnt do shit when i did grub-mkconfig and generated a .cfg in there
and yes mkconfig did detect windows
also /boot was empty when i finished installing
>>51872295
Did you mount it right?
>>51872271
a faggot
and not even a "haha, we're all friends so we can jokingly diss each other" faggot, a full blown, takes-it-up-the-ass-dry faggot
What does /g/ think of elementary OS?
>>51872299
actually didnt mount shit
good shit rodzina
>>51872313
You mount the EFI partition in /boot/efi right? You didn't mount anything else in partition?
>>51872313
>he didn't mount it first
haha retard
>>51872228
if you check/etc/fstabis /boot listed there as a partition?
>>51872228
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB
>>51872005
>absolute beginners
>https://wiki.installgentoo.com/
wut
>>51872339
nope i completely forgot to do this because im a fucking retard
>>51872259
u shouldnt be sleeping?
How do I rice my desktop for the desktop thread but also KEEPING IT FUNCTIONAL? Also, I don't link anime. Will I have to start? I don't want to watch anime.
>>51872347
M8 it's /g/ wiki
>>51872350
shouldn't you be upvoting?
>>51872193
Did no one see this amazing trick?
>>51872351
/r/unixporn might be the best to get your desktop good and functional at the sametime tbqh
>>51872351
Just modify colors of your theme, or window decoration, to match the desktop wallpaper. Should be easy enough.
>>51872374
MANPAGES HATE HIM!
Small and stupid accomplishment, but I was able to setup auto-rotate on my lenovo yoga.
>>51872379
Ugh, so I have to visit Reddit?
>>51872382
Any distros/WMs I should use? I'm currently using 4chan from my phone (I can use DriveDroid to make a virtual live-iso), my PC currently has no OS.
>>51872374
Amazing trick... How is that amazing? Or a trick?
man is a terminal command. Learn to use your terminal...
>>51872351
using a wm that matches your workflow
floating if you like playing video games and just browse, tiling if you do coding or other kind of multitasking type work
find a nice wallpaper and build a color theme around it
>>51872351
Desktop thread is nothing but a bunch of tripfags licking each other's dick. Fuck, most of the time they don't even post desktop, they just post anime for no obvious reason and brag about their waifus.
Desktop thread is the biggest tumor of /g/, because it does not belong in /g/, it belongs in /a/.
Don't become one of them. You will only ruin your life.
>>51872411
Well, if you're really looking for functionality, then you can go there for inspiration.
As or me, I stole from teknik.io
complete idiot here but how is it possible for my fstab to not have my main linux or boot partitions in it yet im able to still log in and everything
>>51872433
That's why I included the small note in /flt/'s second post.
>>51872431
Do you recommend any?
>>51872433
pls no bully
Arch should replace Noobubuntu as the default for newbies. If they want to use Linux they should only be given a kernel and a terminal. No other help.
>>51872454
Get the fuck out, ushifag.
>>51872426
I use man pages all the time. It is amazing because you can do the same shit on google if you are away from your terminal.
>>51872454
tiling id reccomend awesome,i3, or wmutils if youre brave
floating i can only really recommend openbox
also if youre going the WM only route, get compton or some other kind of compositor for transparency, shadows, fades, all that good shit
>>51872431
>>51872431
Floating if blah
Tiling if blahblah
Or you could get a real WM like awesome and have everything at once
>>51872471
away from terminal... why would that ever happen?
No.
>>51872473
>awesome
>piece of shit lua config
yeah, no.
>>51872473
most WMs support both functions you fuck
>>51872454
>pls no bully
fuck off to /a/, cunt... or better yet, to Reddit.
>>51872497
>Can't write own lua config
>Can't search google for lua config
Yeah, no.
I once wine wrapped Sudden Strike. It had some screen resolution issues at startup but ran fine afterwards.
>>51872510
>needing lua to config your wm
LMFAO holy shit thats unreal
>>51872005
I am using debian 8 with gnome. I find gnome rather standard and unabled to be customized like other DEs.
What other DEs can debian use that do not resemble windows xp quality DE.
Anyway to get xubuntu style DE? XFCe
mfw I'm the only person in this thread who has written a window manager.
Listening to this is hard.
>>51872456
They first learn terminal on Ubuntu because if they get stuck they can use the GUI to browser web and find help.
>>51872489
>why would that ever happen?
because I have a life outside my basement?
>>51872527
nice. Did you release it to the public of be a jew and kept it to yourself?
>>51872456
If you have time, why not
>>51872304
thank you. you matter
>>51872526
Just install KDE. Gnome is a cancer.
Install Xfce if you want a lightweight cum featureful DE.
Install LXDE if you're running on a toaster.
Is GNU/Linux slow in VMs? I'm going to try installing Arch there, and then make it completely replace my desktop once I'm readied and used to the terminal.
>>51872551
>KDE
Pure piece of shit Qt.
>>51872555
Depends on your system configuration, familia.
>>51872448
>how is it possible for my fstab to not have my main linux or boot partitions in it yet im able to still log in and everything
Jesus this question is like a riddle.
Maybe you were super good at configuring your bootloader.
Maybe systemd is made of magic and does amazing things.
Maybe you're typing /etc/fstab wrong whenever you try to read it from the terminal.
>>51872555
Nope, not very slow here.
>>51872559
So are you defending Gnome? My point is that it's better than Gnome.
Hell, every DE is shit. Holy fuck, why even use Xorg? Just use wayland, right?
>>51872564
i5-2450M, Intel HD Graphics 3000 or i3-4170, R9 380 (also has Intel HD Graphics 4400 if I can reserve that for Windows)
Is that ok?
>>51872311
good
>>51872566
im going with systemd but i added the partitions in my fstab just in case
i thought it was odd, i went in to add my HDD and then its fucking empty
and i mustve restarted at least like 10 times since I installed arch
>>51872586
Yup, it'll be fine.
>>51872536
No it was just an exercise, I don't use it day-to-day.
Wrote it with the old xlib (synchronous AKA slow) so no one would want to use it.
>>51872583
gnome is not cancer, it decent if you change some defaults. It has not bugged the fuck out for me yet.
My issues is looking past the smooth font and typically layout I can't seem to locate windows that are behind another one without requiring interaction with the dashboard.
Why the fuck they never introduced open program bars beats me.
>>51872583
Use Emacs, m8. It's an OS with a buit in DE, WM, terminal, browser, and even e-mail reader
>>51872599
Would it only be my desktop? I'd prefer my laptop for mobility and being able to sit in my bed.
>>51872608
99% sure theres a plugin to order salads too>>51872608
>>51872612
Both will be able to fine an arch vm without issue
im sure my fucking psp can run an arch vm without issue
>>51872583
That's like using python instead of C...
Question: Which of the following is an OS?
A) Windows
B) Windows NT
C) Windows/Windows NT
D)Windows plus Windows NT
Why?
>>51872642
D
because windows does retard naming
>>51872642
GNU/Linux
>>51872642
E. NSA/Windows.
+1 for awesome, here's a pretty standard lua config in action. KDM for login, nothing else fancy.
>>51872642
Great /flt/ posting there
>>51872642
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Windows, is in fact, NSA/Windows, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, NSA plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another expensive component of a fully functioning spy system made useful by the NSA core-spyware, reverse shell utilities and vital keylogging components comprising a full botnet as defined by Gen. J. Clapper.
Many computer users run a modified version of the botnet system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of spyware which is widely used today is often called “Windows”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the NSA system, developed by the NSA. There really is a Windows, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Windows is the cover: the program in the system that hides the spying resources from the other programs that you run. The cover is an essential part of a botnet, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete botnet. Windows is normally used in combination with the NSA spyware: the whole system is basically botnet with Windows added, or NSA/Windows. All the so-called “Windows” versions are really versions of NSA/Windows.
>>51872684
my eyes are fucking bleeding from those colors
Any tips for Linux on Chromebooks?
(Beyond "put Linux on a Chromebook", I mean)
and here's the output from that program
Fixed some issues from >>51870381
>>51872684
If this is what awesome can do, I'd rather go back to tty.
>>51872607
Can you point out any other worse distro than Gnome?
>inb4 KDE
>>51872608
>>51872615
No, I won't fall for this meme. Besides, I am not a programmer.
>>51872698
yeah I've been rethinking my xterm config lately
>>51872700
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromebook
>>51872684
I know this is the friendly thread and not Blackwell's list, but it needs to be said:
That is an impressively ugly workspace.
>>51872712
Thanks, this will be useful as I'm installing Arch for the first time.
>>51872732
well you're on 4chan
at least one of us gets work done
>>51872665
>>51872666
>>51872668
>>51872693
>most stallmanists fail to answer this with a correct explanation
I always knew Linus was right.
>>51872717
Mate. Apart from almost copying XFCE mate is green and carries nothing good in the way is a DE
>>51872739
Glad to help
>>51872684
Can you do any worse with the fonts?
>>51872788
>copying XFCE
MATE is GNOME 2 mate.
>>51872698
>>51872713
>>51872732
Sorry, no waifu on my system tray, I'll try to add more anime for you 4chan fags next time
>>51872712
Is this all I need?
Then why is Beginner's Guide on the Arch wiki so fucking huge?
>>51872793
yeah, i'm sorry you sound like you prefer comic sans. from all the dicks in your throat
What plugins does /flt/ recommend for vim?
why the fuck even use a DE anymore
90% of the garbage they come with is useless as fuck and most of them are nowhere near as customizable as a wm
only people who should be using a DE are old people and tech illiterates
>>51872811
It's bloated because it discusses all the possible installation options
Could a gentoo man post /etc/init.d/xdm script or where to find it
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Display_manager#OpenRC
>>51872832A I R L I N E
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>>51872822
This is not your Desktop Thread, faggot. /flt/ will give honest CnC on what you did.
>>51872837
And beginners. And non NEETs. And people who actually want to get things done and not rice their desktop all day.
>>51872840
'bloated'.
you don't deserve linux you freeloading douchebag.
if you aren't willing to read a 3 page installation guide go the fuck back to ubuntu and get NSAids
>>51872837
Get the fuck out and back off to desktop thread, ben.
>>51872853
excuse me but there is a board for this
/lgbt/
>>51872872
>rice their desktops
this isnt the desktop thread faggot, WMs are faster, less resource intensive, and provide a better workflow
>>51872712
Holy fuck my eyes are burning from that white bg.
Also, truncate that waste whitespace around.
>>51872901
>this isn't a desktop thread
that was my point.
>>51872907
this desu senpai
>>51872762
Saved. Seriously, Stallman and the FSF look like absolute twats for spewing the "It's actually GNU/Linux" bullshit.
>>51872907
>White Background
White background is the standard for information exchange since it's printer friendly, although I myself would like a darker bg.
>Truncate Whitspace
On it
Also please let me know if there is any issue with the actual installation process, or recommendations.
I'm on Ubuntu 15.10
Every time I boot it says: error parsing PCC from pcct
Then something about /dev/sda1
I have browsed the web for help on this but I cannot find any. Will post whatever it takes to get help.
>>51872930
>>51872901
Thread is dead thanks to zed and ted here
>>51872986
disable fast startup from inside windows10
The default file manager in xubuntu sucks.
In fact, most of the default software sucks.
Tbh
>>51873035
>file manager
That is what the terminal is for. Fuck me....
>>51873015
kek
>>51873035
Your opinion is wrong; thunar a beste.
>>51873044
rm
cpy
mv
mkdir
touch
file
man
Here, you'll need these.
>>51873035
thunar is completely fine as a file manager with the plugins you can find in the arch repos
>>51873023
I used to have win 10 installed. I don't anymore. What do?
what's wrong with dolphin. You only need a file manager for like 15 seconds a day, right?
>>51873069
So you had a working ubuntu install, and then it stopped working?
Make sure all advanced windows10 shit is disabled in firmware settings (BIOS). Disable secure boot.
>>51872986
Does GRUB loads up fine?
Time to fuck up my drives with partitioning, woo.
Wish me luck
>>51873105
good luck fucking things up~
>>51873075
Bloated piece of shit.
>>51873105
Why. At most 4 partitions necessary on any disk. Anything else is bad hygiene. Even for dual boot.
>>51873083
It's working still it just pops up with that error every time I turn it on before continuing the bootup.
>>51873127
if your system can't handle 15 seconds of bloat, kill yourself and contact your system admin.
>>51873151
just to let him know you're killing and yourself so he can free up your username
>>51873146
>Not having separate boot, home, var, usr, run, tmp, lib, lib64, opt and srv partitions
>>51873086
I'd say it loads just fine.
>>51873159
What are you, running a webserver from your home? This is totally unnecessary.
>>51873178
Stop using ubuntu then. Compiz is a CPU hog anyway. Fuck it.
>>51873159
>separate /var, /usr and /tmp
Useless.
>>51873147
Then what is your problem? Just roll with the flow.
this is my compton config
http://pastebin.com/BWAY94KK
if i keep trying to fullscreen in youtube it will eventually cause chromium to freeze the fuck up and i have to switch workspaces and kill chromium, usually i'll get the video filling a portion of the screen and gray space the rest
it doesnt do this when i dont have compton running, im using openbox by the way
whats the dealio
>>51873239
>>51873226
>This is totally unnecessary.
I know. I was just shitposting. I only have a /, /boot, /home and swap partition.
>>51872713
You can ruin anything if you try hard enough
>>51873290
Hey fuck you, man. It gets the job done and I've done more in my 70-something years than your diaper ridden ass ever will.
>>51873257
>2015
>swap
>>51873318
Use Emacs if you want to "get your job done".
>>51873157
>not putting expiration limit on a username
>>51873321
Yeah, most of this separation is unnecessary with today's hardware. Although I think swap is an exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging
>>51873349
lol'd
>>51873250
>chromium
You like gay porn?
>>51873321
What's wrong with swap?
>>51873355
Combined SSD/HDD setups actually make it more interesting nowadays
whats up Linux people. Long story short, build a baby itx build specifically for school, anime after work, and overall shitposting. Specs are in pic. What are some "stripping down" things I can do to make Mint a little less laggy? I know the CPU is slower (only 1.3ghz) and it only supports single channel RAM, but overall once something is started up, it keeps up fine. It is just it still takes 6 or so seconds for a program such as Firefox to boot up for the first time. This is off an ssd.
Thanks!
>>51873415
Use a lighter distro, such as Xubuntu/Lubuntu, or use a pure WM to free up resource.
>>51873389
Not really? If you have an old school rotating disk you probably want an entirely separate storage partition (unless your SSD is unusably small). I don't really see any of the drawbacks to partitioning a separate swap space becoming a concern to any PC user.
>>51873415
get rid of mint. remove every system service. uninstall whatever shitty software it comes packed with
>>51873426
that's what everyone says but once I install Firefox with addons like adblock, wouldn't it be just as resource heavy as Mint? Or does Mint simply have more background resources?
Is Lubuntu simply Ubuntu with a stripped down DE or is there more to it?
>>51873459
>AdBlock
It's literally a hog. Use uBlock Origin instead.
>>51873459
he means the DE, cinnamon or whatever, is way more resource intensive than just a wm
for comparison my arch install with nothing open and just openbox is about 400mb
>>51873459
Arch Linux
>>51872684
memory usage
>>51873484
that's not good. how much memory does Openbox need?
>>51873484
I have openbox + tint2 and I got 300 MB, family
>>51873502
18mb according to htop lol
>>51873525
i use xfce4 panel and have a bunch of background daemons running
>>51873525
Is there a browser open? Why is more than 200mb being used?
inb4 Openbox has a memory leak
>>51873549
okay probably due to xfce. better than writing your own network manager applet i guess
>>51873551
Not him, but I am running openbox with Iceweasel and I got 420 MB
>>51873564
a month back the power manager applet had a fucking memory leak
leave it on for a few hours and it got up to 400mb
well, i'm stumped
>my pc can boot to grub, however when it attempts to load debian nothing happens
same problem when i try to load a live usb. i know the live usb works because i tested it on my other pc, so far, i have attempted
>ram test. boots to ram test, pass's
>disable virtulazation
same problem
>>51873551
Well, let's say I have some jobs to do with 150 MB.
(150 MB with OB+Tint2)
>>51873589
CAN'T STUMP THE TRUMP
I am formatting my Windows partition RIGHT NOW, will I regret this decision?
I've been messing around with openbox for a bit, I'm a beginner and it seems unnecessarily difficult, some things are very easy and intuitive but other things aren't or don't really seem to be in the right place or nonexistent at all...is openbox not for beginners?
>>51873615
only if you play video games or your hardware is so new that it has no drivers in the latest kernel
>>51873615
Yes
>>51873628
its ok for beginners if its preconfigured like in crunchbang or bunsen
but even then its one of the easier to configure WMs since everything is in xml, even though xml looks big and scary its really simple
>>51873615
oh yes, defiantly
How much of a performance hit can I expect wen running Windows in a VM?
Say if I want to run a 3D (non-real time) renderer or 3DCG suite in a VM?
>>51872712
Fixed, as suggested by
>>51872907
>>51872931
I'd just like to take this chance to list some cool tools that you /g/uys might not know:
pv
dcadec
aria2
ncdu
inxi
>>51873704
A lot. Look into PCI passthrough.
>>51872522
not being competent enough to understand probably the easiest and most readable programming language ever
>>51873796
All of them, useless
I've decided to just use something debian-based and just run it off a usb drive but I'm not having any success.
I'm using lili usb creator but can't seem to get anything with a persistence option. What do?
>>51873858
What makes you say that?
>>51873830
Damn.
I don't want to use blender.
>>51873754
This is better, family.
So my Gentoo Kernel compilation failed, and the genkernel failed too. What do I do now?
>>51874215
regret
>>51874284
I thought that was the first step in a gentoo install
>friendly linux thread
>full of people shitting on Ubuntu and Unity
Ayyy
How to make LXDM work with OpenRC?
Output of starting xdm is:/etc/openrc/init.d/xdm: line 66: /etc/profile.env: No such file or directory
* Setting up lxdm-binary ...
/etc/openrc/init.d/xdm: line 181: /etc/X11/startDM.sh: No such file or directory
There is no startDM.sh in /etc/X11/ (where to find it?)
distro is Arch
>>51872077
That's probably Amor
>>51872347
>never going to the wiki
>>51872873
Give me one good reason why should every fucking one be bothered with
-setting up a latin keyboard layout
-updating system clock
-3 instances of two partitioning schemes and
-optional initramfs regeneration
There Beginners' guide really is bloated
Furthermore you speak as if Arch is hard to install. Being a newfag is one thing but being an idiot is another.
>>51873035
What's wrong with thunar? Atleast give us the reasons why you think it sucks, so we might help.
>>51873075
nothing if you use KDE
>>51873754
Recheck partition mounts of the GPT example
>>51873796
I have been looking for her name
>>51874579
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Display_manager#OpenRC
Why Xubuntu isn't recommended anymore?
>>51872762
>>51872933
>posting and replying to a fake comment
>>51874411
>meme spewer fails to understand the thread's facetious namesake
That's pretty fucking epic, dude.
>>51873575
haha blaze it
How to make conky hide all windows-proof? Googled all the way, basically same instructions repeated over and over again, none of the shite works.
>>51872005
I recently switched to CentOS from windows, why is this /bin a symbolic link to /usr/bin ? I thought this was the directory where magic happened.
>>51874810
I should also add, is directing everything under /usr a new thing? Are these symbolic links exist for backwards compatibility?
>>51874810
just curious.. why centos?
>>51874830
Because every company I worked at was using RHEL, so I wanted something similar at home so that I wouldn't dive into something completely unknown.
>>51874847
gotcha. ive been a pacman/dpkg user since I picked up linux. Figured it'd probably a good move to go rpm soon. Just dunno what to use.
Help, linux keeps complaining about my windows drive on boot, taking up to 10 minutes and spewing ata errors.
The drive works absolutely fine under windows, I don't know what the fuck it wants.
>>51874622
Got it, thanks (3 revises today)
Sonata, Deadbeef or Clementine and why?
Just breaking into my fresh Rafaela build
I have an AMD Radeon R9 280x. For games on Arch is the open source driver better or worse than the Catalyst driver? Getting catalyst to work seems a pain in the ass with having to do things like use an older version of Xorg and shit.
>>51875310
>Sonata, Deadbeef or Clementine
all shit desu
>>51875610
baka so what do you use anon
Got myself a new PC and I decided to do this dual booty thing. The thing is, I just wanted Windows 10 for games and nothing else. Something that I use occasionally rather than frequently.
But I also need to use Adobe stuff. Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. I remember having some trouble a while ago with the CS5 suite on Debian, could I get them to work fine over Wine or maybe virtualization? Is anyone doing this?
>>51872271
A manchild
>>51875716
I would stick with winblows desu.
Hey friends, I wanted to ask you something.
What VM do you guys recommend for Ubuntu 15.10? Should I use VirtualBox or KVM? Which one has the best performance?
>>51875310
Deadbeef is the only correct answer for a foobar-like experience.
>>51875589
i play some games on my 7850 in arch using the free radeon driver and it runs fine, it's only a little slower than the proprietary driver, but with none of the hassle of the proprietary driver
If I reformat Windows 10 Enterprise x64 activated and install Arch Linux x64. Will I be able to just install it by yes/no selections. Or do I have to know various protocols and lines of script by memory?
>>51875749
I thought it was supposed to be a friendly thread. Guess I was wrong.
>>51875650
mpd with mainly mpc, ncmpcpp and sometimes cantata
I also like to use lollypop on GNOME, it's pretty nice
>>51875890
>Will I be able to just install it by yes/no selections
No
Installation guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_guide
>>51875891
He told me to stick with Windows as a suggestion
I don't see anything wrong or unfriendly about that
>>51874622
Anri Okita
>>51875913
No printer, no secondary device to read it, so I can't refer back to that.
>>51874908
Please respond.
>>51875952
Is her upper lip natural?
>>51876018
Your dual boot setup is not done properly.
>>51875986
Then install Mint, Ubuntu or something that has an installer. Arch is not the right choice for you at all.
>>51875986
Disregard this, I can follow the installation guide through my PS3's internet browser.
>>51875822
Anyone?
>>51875822
>Hey friends
>What VM do you guys recommend for Ubuntu 15.10?
>Which one has the best performance?
Top tier bait, m8
>>51876028
No idea.
>>51876115
Merry Xmas.
>>51875901
>all this shit to listen to music
absolutely haram, not even an audiophile
>>51875839
>Deadbeef=linux foobar?
Ok you have my attention, show me themes or something
>>51874641
By whom? It's a perfectly acceptable starting distro.
>>51874622
i have already added the xdm init script to the system's default runlevel. the output in the <code> is from trying to start it with# /etc/init.d/xdm start
>>51872005
>2015-12
>GNU/Linux
>not preping yourself for the year of the GNU/Hurd desktop
>>51876589
is it enough for shitposting and watching videos? will i have driver issues when trying it?
>>51872522
plebian detected
