>presentations in class
>"we can fit one more in, WOJAK YOU'RE UP"
>awkwardly lug my ancient IBM thinkpad with riced Arch linux to the front table, plug in VGA cord
>nothing on projector
>trying HDMI
>nothing
>"g-give me a minute to set it up"
>10 minutes of messing with xorg.conf and restarting X, still nothing
>make some more changes and reboot
>can't start X on boot because xorg.conf is fucked
>restore xorg.conf, blacklist nouveau, enable nvidia drivers, reboot, nvidia-xconfig
>still nothing
>whatever, try to boot to windows
>select windows from grub menu
>Operating System Not Found
>remember that grub partition table was partially fucked and was planning on fixing it later
>stand awkwardly for 5 more minutes in front of the whole class before prof directs me back to my seat
i don't want to go back
you're really dumb, op.
>>54266307
>you guys, this really happened you guys!
classic linux
>>54266307
why do you lie on the internet, anon?
>>54266307
I don't understand why you would make a post like this.
This has never happened to anyone.
>>54266307
>WOJAK YOU'RE UP!
>everyone looks surprised Wojak is awake and paying attention.
>Wojak walks to the front of the class and shows everyone in class the power of sleeping through your education by not having anything to show for it.
>>54266307
Arch hate thread? Arch hate thread.
>>54266307
Arch + KDE here.
Plugged a shitty panasonic bigscreen on the class via HDMI port last week. Shit worked like a charm.
Even if it didn't work I would've imported the all my presentation backup to the computer mounted into the presentation panel because I am not a retard.
Have fun with your non existent Arch setup, winchild
>>54266483
yeah, except pacman doesn't override config files, saving new ones with extension .pacnew
ITT: winbabbies who couldn't even install manjaro
>>54266307
I'm using Windows 7 and I know this is complete bullshit. KYS faggot
>>54266307
>Wojak
>>54266502
>uses a DE
>calls someone a child
Spotted the "I installed Arch because everyone is doing it" child
Not an Arch Linux user - nobody reboots Linux boxes unless they plan to upgrade their kernel.
>>54266570
>implying archtards don't blindly overwrite their conf files to be bleeding edge
>tfw something similar happened to me when I was suppose to give a presentation and I was running Arch
>wanted to die
>managed to get it working eventually
>what is arandr
>>54266570
why would we waste our time on a timesink OS like arch, when there are actually useful gahnoo+loonix distros around like CentOS?
>>54267766
It's what plebs use instead of xrandr
more like
"we can fit one more in, WOJAK YOU'RE UP"
>awkwardly lug my ancient IBM thinkpad with riced Arch linux to the front table, plug in VGA cord
>win+D, lauches dmenu
>type "ara" and select arandr
>activates the DVA output
>begin presentation.
>>54267884
>win+D
Stopped reading right there
>>54266307
>Computo no worko
>Give presentation with notes and diagrams written on the white/black board
How do you think they did this shit in the old days?
>>54266449
>nobody's ever had graphical problems caused by an arch update
Ok kid
>>54266307
>"you're up"
>pull out my 600E that's smaller and more portable than most of the other students' awkward 15" 16:9 bricks
>nobody cares because they're all normaltards anyway
>hit a function key combination because I'm not a poser trying to act like a hipster security expert and instead use the platform my ThinkPad was built for
>load up a spiffy looking '90s powerpoint
>present it
>360 and walk away
>>54267941
Why would you update Arch right before a presentation? Would you install a new version of Windows before a presentation as well?
>>54268041
Why should you not be able to update your machine whenever and expect it to fully work afterwards?
Never been a problem on any Apple machine I ever used.
>>54266307
This is why I only use Fedora and Ubuntu.
No other distros are worth it.
>>54267103
>Uses a WM
>calls someone a child
Spotted the faggot who's too hipster to use anything that actually works.
>>54268037
>15" 16:9 bricks
>bricks
>implying that looking on a tiny screen is better.
>anon is a small fag
>>54266898
>frog meme
>bring flash drive with presentation on it
>oh fugg compooder cant find file
>use a backup of a older version on dropbox
>just wing it
ez
>>nothing on projector
stopped reading there
>>54267822
To impress other manchildren who think you're a retard anyway.
>anon pls present your shit
>fug I forgot my laptop
>wait I didn't bring a laptop because we have a PC in every classroom
>realize the PC is running non-free software
>the botnet wants me to fail
fug man just usexrandr --auto
GNU/Linux is a mental illness.
completly unrelated to whether arch is more prone to issues like this, you should never use stuff you're not comfortable with in a presentation and atleast check once at home whether everything works.
>>54267103
>uses a wm
>calls someone a child
Spotted the friendless weaboo from desktop threads. Go back to calibrating your terminal colors to match your waifu wallpaper
>>54268812
you're aware that DEs contains WMs, right
>>54268819
not an argument
>>54268973
BÖL
>>54266307
>use ubuntu
>connect it to the projector
>it just werks
I use Arch with GNOME
>>54268819
I think he should be aware of the simple fact that linux DEs are unusable, poorly designed buggy shit that you have to spend hours ricing if you want to have something as nice and usable as windows or OS X
The only thing that separates linux DEs and linux WM setups is RAM usage.
>use archanywhere
>get bored of rice and use windows anyway
![iJq8Yo1[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/33ihBnt.gif "iJq8Yo1[1].gif")
>using Debian
>on my laptop
>everything works, including wireless
> be arch user
> have to make presentation
> plug VGA into thinkpad
> "xrandr --output VGA1 --auto"
> open presentation in zathura
> press F5
> everything just works
> present the fuck out of presentation
>>54269115
Absolute madman
>>54266307
Well done. I have done the same to get out of making a presentation on the first day.
>Implying they'd let you bring your portable autismbox for a presentation
They'd tell you to put it on a usb or email it to yourself and make you use the class computer thats already hooked up to the projector.
>>54266467
underrated
>>54266307
Archfags everyone
You deserve it for using linux, you fucking attention seeking autist
>>54266307
>IBM thinkpad
>HDMI
Liar.
>>54269202
Arch is pretty much a Red Hat distro anyway
Your professor wouldn't have any room to talk considering he likely spent 15 minutes getting the projector to even turn on himself.
>>54268041
>go to make presentation
>turn on laptop
>"Please wait while we install your FREE windows 10 upgrade!"
>>54269751
>I'm too stupid for Windows
>>54269667
The poorfag consumershit-in-disguise models have HDMI. But these are just rebranded ideapads with a trackpoint. These models also generally use poorfag hardware like AMD graphics and sometimes even CPUs. Because of this, they also have god awful Linux support.
I don't think IBM ever made any of these, but we already know that OP is a phony, so there ya go.
If OP has a Thinkpad with HDMI, he made a huge mistake in buying it, and then an even bigger mistake in installing Linux on it. GIF related to Thinkpads with HDMI ports.
>>54269769
>too stupid for linux
>>54269817
Using Linux means you're dumb to begin with.
Windows 10 is free and great!
>>54266307
>WOJAK
Horseman?
>>54269780
Hey, I have one of those, an E460. I like the keyboard and display, which is why I bought it though, not because it's a "thinkpad".
Also, Debian stable with latest linux kernel from jessie-backports, all hardware works.
>>54269824
go buy a motherfuckin toilet with your bing points, pajeet
>>54266307
>wow you are retarded
ARANDR
R
A
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D
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>>54269910
Just to clarify its xrandr for retards like OP.
>>54266307
>>54266307
>>54266307
>>54266307
>>54266307
FUCKING SAVED
>>54266307
>Editing xorg.conf
What is this, 2006?
>>54266307
not linux but windows 7 and pretty much this happened to me
nothing worked and it totally ruined my presentation
but I on the other side don't blame the OS, I blame me
I should have tested it before class and fixed the problems
>ancient thinkpad
>hdmi
ok, fucko
>>54270046
It is for debian users.
>Arch Linux
>>54271222
>>54266307
>Didn't go behind grub and boot windows directly from its partition from the bios.
This faggot.
>>54268812
Normalfags get back to /b/
>>54267922
Sergio? Is that you?
>>54268805
This.
Am I the only one who triple-checks everything before giving a presentation from his personal laptop?
Arch is shit
>>54271316
>using uefi
what a faggot you are
>>54271316
You mean UEFI
>>54269826
Bojack
>he fell for the loonix meme
Even worse
>he fell for the arch meme
>>54269111
checked and underrated
>>54272764
pajeet, pls, you earned enough this month already
>>54268676
>run this
>all screens go black
>>54266307
It works ootb on Mint.
How does an ancient thinkpad have HDMI? Are you a wizard OP?
>>54266307
>ancient IBM thinkpad
>HDMI
2/10. You tried.
>WOJACK YOU'RE UP
>i plug in my HDMI cable
>it just works because i'm on mint
>everyone laughs at my anime wallpaper
Lmao rekt
>>54266307
Fucking Liar
Here's what you should have said
"There's something wrong with my computer, would it be possible for me to use someone else's, or to present next class?"
I thought the whole "/g/ is full of autists" thing was a meme, apparently not.
>>54266307
>using linux
why do you have to use your computer? when i did presentations in school i just plugged a USB stick into the teacher's computer which was already connected to the projector and just opened up the presentation from there.
>>54273840
They weren't laughing at your anime wallpaper. They were laughing at the fact that you actually use the bloated and unsecure piece of shit that is Mint.
>>54274225
>USB stick
kill yourself my man
>>54273362
This!
that's what you get for using any linux of any kind
linux is for servers and always will be
>>54266348
>>54266449
>>54266402
>OH NO MY PRECIOUS FREE SOFTWARE IS BEING EXPOSED FOR THE PIECE OF SHIT IT IS
>BETTER CALL LIES
>I'M BETTER THAN EVERYONE
>>54274333
he said he tried to use HDMI on an IBM thinkpad, you fucking moron
>>54266307
I mean I know this is bait, but like:
plug in vga
xrandr
examine output
xrandr --output vga-0 (or whatever it is) --auto + plus whatever your current setting is
I'll never understand how or why people think this is even remotely hard, if you can't be bothered to do even that, then just put into is a shellscript and put that in the path, easy
>>54274364
>implying VGA to HDMI adapters don't exist
>>54267914
don't you like keyboard shortcuts anon?
>>54274647
You know wasn't hard? Plugging the cable in and having the hardware do what it is supposed to do automatically.
You know, like an OS that isn't coded by mentally unstable suicidal people would do.
>>54274286
I mean jump drive
>>54274647
OP's story is fake. We all assume it's fake until proven true, it only serves as entertainment
>>54274683
I agree, if only the hardware were that capable, however it isn't which is why OS's are responsible for it, in DE's this is typically done automatically but with a bare arch installation or just a wm then its down to you, but even then its not really hard or inconvenient as shown by the numerous replies,
>an OS that isn't coded by mentally unstable suicidal people
I don't think such a thing exists anon..
>>54274720
I know but I'm bored so I figure shitposting is the best outlet
>>54266307
>xrandr
>xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1024x768
even if this is fake i kek'd hard tbqh
>>54269179
>wow, i can't believe things actually just work!
this is the mindset of an linux-cuck.
>>54275086
>wow, the bull actually fucked my wife with no prepping at all! actually, i was looking forward to the prepping...
why don't linux cucks just neck themselves?
>>54268041
Yes
Cool story. It kinda matches my past experience but it never was this bad. The truth is, with Windows from like XP, it's super easy and standard. In Linux you have to pepare yourself by reading and testing. Graphics in Linux sucks because there isn't anything good and de facto standard. Maybe Wayland will save us.
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2016-March/027732.html
>bring macbook air for powerpoint
>forget minidisplayport to VGA in my house
>had to transfer my powerpoint to my thumbdrive instead of being able to control the slideshow with my phone
;_;
Are you faggots really still in school?
>>54269115
Gnome, huh? I run KDE, myself. :^)
>>54275377
24 and just starting uni, ayyy lmao
>>54275377
Are you implying you don't give presentations in college?
>>54275604
Is college not a school?
>>54266307
INSTALL GENTOO
>>54275701
I thought you meant school, besides you should by now the majority of 4chan users are kids. Did you not go to school? Is that why you work at Best Buy lmao.
>>54269824
>You're Micro$oft account has been awarded 2000 Bing points
>>54275734
>Did you not go to school?
I did go to school but giving presentations is something done only by current students.
In the real world presentations are just mailed out and maybe given over a phone call or something
>>54266307
Wait, don't most professors want you to email your presentation to them? Why not just pull it up on his/a classmate's computer? I haven't been in school in 5 years but that's how we used to do it.
>>54273058
what kind of retarded OS would do this
...
...
...Arch?
>>54266307
>presentation in class
>it's on android development
>go up to the front of the class
>professor made us submit online, she's downloaded them all onto her computer
>open mine
>take one look at the class
>anxiety attack
>arms literally start to fall asleep
>legs do shortly after as well
>get lightheaded
>start talking at light speed
>throw up afterwards
>>54266307
holy shit i have a similar story
>go friends house to watch a very important game
>take laptop because its a pay per view event and we'll just stream it from a pirate site
>connect HDMI, picture works, sound doesn't
>spend at least 20min trying to figure out why
>game is starting
>"dude i though you said linux was the shit whats going on?"
>i say its damn HDMI cable must be broken..
>watch the game on the TV with the sound coming from the shitty laptop speakers
>mfw
>>54275867
>watching sports
>having friends
>being a literal normie
I hate you.
>>54266327
>>54266467
>>54266483
>>54266502
>>54266570
>>54266873
>>54266898
>>54267103
>>54267341
>>54267713
>>54267762
>>54267766
>>54267822
>>54267861
>>54267884
>>54267922
>>54266381
>>54266402
>>54266449
>>54268037
>>54268041
>>54268074
this is a copypasta retards
holy shit summer was never so early here
>>54275777
In a business setting presentations are given in a boardroom via projector connected to some portable device, like a laptop.
>>54275927
I've been on this board for 2 years
>>54275993
ive been browsing 4chan since 2010 but i started visiting /g/ since early 2015 and i seen this pasta countless times
>>54275936
Mine get emailed to me and usually a conference call accompanies it
>>54276025
Yeah but don't you work at Best Buy
>>54276019
I've been on /g/ since 2006 and never saw this copypasta.
>>54266307
>Ancient ChinkPad
>HDMI
Choose one and only one.
>>54276046
no, that place seems too high-pressured for me
>>54269115
I use Arch with Unity
>>54276068
Well over here in Wall Street, we do things a bit differently.
>>54276147
cool
>>54275867
Experienced almost the same thing, except it wasn't laptop and rather than a TV it was a home theater system
>Guy whose laptop it was keeps trying to get the sound to work by connecting and disconnecting the HDMI cable, trying to check that there's nothing wrong with the audio settings of the amp he's connecting it to
>Everyone else starts to getting slightly annoyed
>The autistic guy in our group starts heckling him for using a mac and that he should have bought a PC
>Ask the guy with the laptop if he ever connects the laptop to anything else with HDMI
>Says that he uses it to connect the laptop it to a monitor, but it uses the laptop's speakers because the speakers on the monitor are absolute crap
>"Oh wait... I never bothered to check if it was outputting the sound to HDMI..."
>Issue is now fixed in about 5 seconds
>Autistic guy calls him a retard
>We all tell the autistic guy to shut up
>Proceed to watch the hockey match
>>54276175
Yeah I work at Oldman Sacks, ever heard of it?
>>54276190
*except it wan't MY laptop
D'oh
>>54266348
I bet this happened at some liberal college
>>54275759
you're = you are
>>54276336
Could also be you were.
>>54276350
No it couldn't have
>>54276371
Why not?
>>54276381
Because you're is a contraction of the two words "you are" not "you were".
Where is your handler??
>>54274683
I think this guy's comment >>54274647 is under the assumption that it didn't work right away, which is why xrandr becomes the logical next step.
Naturally, it should just configure the 2nd screen automatically, as it also does on normal distros OOTB.
>>54276399
Why can we not evolve the contraction to cover both cases? I'm smarter than you're so let's just end this here.
>>54269179
>happy that the most basic functionality actually works
welcome to Linux werld
>>54276459
>I'm smarter than you're
You're like that actor who thinks he's smart because he invented his own math language so that 1+1=4. I can guarantee you aren't as smart as you think you are.
>>54276607
Rekt
>>54275867
at least they're dumb enough to believe HDMI has separate wires for audio
also, who gives a fuck about sport audio, as long as you can hear the announcer and crowd you're good
>>54276603
>do same thing with Windows laptop
>plug in VGA
>just works
>plug in sound because presentation contains a video
>nothing
>mess with volume control and default audio device, plug and unplug audio cable a few times
>still nothing
>reboot, still nothing
>reinstall sound driver, still nothing
>remember some updates came in last night, one of those must have fucked up the sound driver
>go to updates history, fgsfds why are all the descriptions identical, double click each and click the more info link
>finally narrow it down to one update that sounds like it's most likely to mess this up
>uninstall it, reboot
>finally, glorious sound
>too bad, out of time now
>go home, curl up and wish you had an OS that didn't randomly break shit on its own
Why the fuck can't you reboot from grub? Seems really fucking stupid to have to power cycle manually. My laptop doesn't have a power button so if it can't find my partition for some stupid reason (usually because I have a USB drive with a fucked up boot sector or whatever plugged in) I need to unplug the power cord, remove the keyboard, take out the battery, unplug the cmos battery, plug the power back in, but everything else back together, THEN I can finally boot shit up. Its so clumsy and being able to type in "shutdown" or "reboot" would save so much time
>>54278748
ctrl alt delete
>>54276607
>it's a "Jordan get btfo" thread
>>54275499
>tfw 24 and still in community college
>>54275867
Its Linux. You can fix it if you know what you're doing. That's one of the advantages of a completely open system
>>54278760
I swear to kek if that actually works
Also why are you still here? What year is it?
>>54278824
It does work.
The year is 2016, and I'm here because we're all here forever.
>>54278839
Drop your trip. Its 2016 and no one cares anymore. The rest of us did
>>54278861
Currently working on a really nice tripcode and I use different ones all the time anyway.
>>54274674
Alt d is better
>>54266307
>not recording your presentation in advance and just turning on a youtube video of yourself talking
fuarkin plebs I swerve
>>54278893
Why?
>>54278985
I really love Richard Stallman
>>54266307
why did i laugh so much at this?
>>54279007
I share a birthday with Richard Stallman. So what?
>>54278948
nobody allows you to do this
>>54275927
>being posted once late last year
>qualifying as copypasta anons should know
fuck off pleb
>>54280332
So it is a pasta.
Jump off a cliff fucking faggot
>>54280372
>It was only posted once before and you're acting like every one should know about it
and I'm the faggot
Since Google Sheets has been polished, this is literally no longer a problem if the professor has a computer and an internet connection.
There is no reason not to use it, besides being obstinate/special snowflake.
>Privacy
Its a public presentation. Use a public computer with a clean Google account if you are worried so much. Again, you can use it for free, with an account dedicated to it, for an inherently public project.
>LaTeX
No one cares unless its your thesis
>>54266307
Linux, lol
You bought into the whole "linux desktop" meme
You should know better.
Linux is for some server applications and for autistic individuals with no life who are willing to spend hours and hours configuring their system.
>>54276603
before win10 you had to hunt drivers while distro that aren't special snowflake a lot of stuff would just work.
>>54282195
Yep. Often at least generic drivers are available on Windows Update, but what use is that when you have no network connection?
Pic related happened to me when I fresh installed Win7 recently.
>>54282195
That actually was in Win 8 too, but too many tards were turbonerding over the horrid Start Screen to notice.
>>54275867
Happened something similar to me as well.
Fuck Linux.
>>54266307
Have you tried to energize the projector?
>>54282195
>while distro that aren't special snowflake a lot of stuff would just work.
when I started using linux back in ~2010 it was a nightmare to get wireless drivers working, especially with the "muh FOSS" shit
things have improved a lot
>>54266307
>presenting our senior project to professor
>group member trying to get his windows machine working
>"i-it's not logging in"
"man.. I knew I shouldn't have upgraded to windows 10."
>running Ubuntu on my x201 with ssd
>as he's struggling boot my laptop and decrypt ssd
>plug into shitty VGA connector on projector
>give presentation flawlessly from my laptop
>>54282987
Depends on your wifi card. None of my laptops ever had issues and this was pre-2010. Meanwhile I had to navigate through a taiwanese website to get my network card on my desktop working under Windows XP
>>54269137
lol
>>54269780
Oh yeah?
> posting a gif from a toddler movie and referencing to it
Opinion disgarded.
I'm a sys developer and I have to travel quite a bit, I have a newer thinkpad with a hdmi.
>>54274671
He would use DPort for reasons obvious to anyone familiar.
>13 hours ago
Stupidity transcends time.
