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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 GNU/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 Linux as your new home and working on
making it feel the way you want it.
>Recommended for beginners:
-*buntus except vanilla Ubuntu (Unity)
-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
>>>/g/sqt
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/
For some reason gtkmm 2.24.4 keeps giving me emake failed messages. Installing newer versions works fine, but what I'm trying to install requires that specific version. Any idea what I can do to fix?
Font rendering is shit on Debian. It was fine on Windows.
Wat do?
>you finally get wifi working on Linux
>using linux
>>51517009
>wi
>fi
>>51517009
what is this 2005? Wi-fi takes all but a few seconds to set up
Hey guys I checked the catalog and didn't see a friendly linux thread so here it is. And I have an issue I need help with! I'll help with as many as I can if someone can help with this
>want to get into linux
>install Debian Jesse, via USB, because it's not 2006
>try to install lynx
>tells me I have to insert installation cd
>Okay, well, I guess I'll insert installation USB instead and see what happens
>GRRRRR, FEED ME THE INSTALLATION CD THAT I WASN'T INSTALLED FROM
What config file am I gonna have to edit to fix this? And how? Pic related
>>51516897
You should have installed Mint like we told you earlier OP.
>>51516897
You might've disconnected the USB drive, try installing it again
You should be able to simply google the problem dude. Debian includes a line in their config for package sources to use the cd.
Hey /g/ the family laptop finally died after 4 years
Now being young and immensely stupid I put some dumb shit on the computer at times and deleted it
Now they're going to recover the files and out them on a thumb drive, what are the chances deleted files will show back up? Thanks
>>51516892
Bump, pls help
Don't drop the soap son.
>>51517120
Nothing illegal, really, just shit I don't want my family to see
How powerful was the cell processor really?
kinda
there still aren't any processor architectures even 20% as efficient as the cell processor.
>>51516796
This.
Maybe in 10 years there will be something equivalent to it.
It's still the most powerful CPU ever created.
>2015
>Not Running Gentoo On Calculator
Fucking Plebs
good thread OP. this is a nice thread. I'm proud of you
>>51516759
well memed my friend
Define the word 'hacker".
Me.
One who steals a friend's phone to post on their Facebook self depreciating statuses including but not limited to "I'm gay, and I love big black cock"
4chan.
Why aren't you backing up to tape?
>>51516423
Because i'm not a faggot who hoards useless as shit old hardware.
I could keep shit on a pointless 80gb hard drive, or i could put it in a single folder of my 2tb.
And then in 5 years i'll just put the entire 2tb on my 8tb drive, and then in another 5 years
Because tape drives are expensive as fuck and I want quick access to most of my stored data.
>>51516423
I was at work until they sent my tape library to our dc in texas on the CIOs orders.
Now we have no tape backups.
Not my problem, when it blows up in their face, I'm on record as being against this.
>bitgamer is hacked
>all passwords and IP's in plain text
>not a single thread.
welp
hasn't bitgamer been dead for a long time now?
>>51516313
there was a new one, until yesterday.
pirates deserve what they get
What's the best device for wirelessly connecting a relatively modern TV to the internet?
This scene is from a movie m8
>>51516320
Damn I wish you hand't told me that.
Nvidiots will find a way to defend this
It's quite simple really. The bulk of all sales occur within the first month or so. All they have to do is make AMD look bad for a month or two and they're golden. In this case, they pay several major media outlets to release benchmarks showing the Fury X gobbling up way more power than the 980 ti, Nvidia collects 90% of all sales from their product, then months later the truth comes out. Rinse and repeat for every major release. This time it's power usage, next time it will be day one drivers. In the end, AMD products always meet or exceed parity and are of a better value. Stupid people will never realize this. They follow what the media tells them and don't bother looking at trends.
>most power hungry 980ti gpu uses 6.7% more watts than Fury X
>980 ti beats fury x in Performance
Yea nothing seems out of the ordinary here desu senpai
>>51516421
This.
Really not seeing the deal here.
That 290x but.... cool.
>using an OS that doesn't even have emoji
>>51516129
>using emojis
back to college faggot
>using emoji at all
>>51516129
doesn't fucking matter when you cant even use them on 4chan. lol faggot.
Does /g/ have any professional certifications? A+ Certified here, studying for Net+.
how long do a+ and net+ take to complete? can you do it all online?
if you really want to learn, get yourself a lab.
My first lab was vmware server 2 on ubuntu 10.04 lts, dual core athlon x2 5600+ and 4GB of ram.
Just started setting myself up a new lab environment.
xeon e5 2680, 128GB ecc ram.
>>51516125
You study, get hands on experience and sign up for a test at a test center.
>>51516174
I did have a whole curriculum for A+ at my Technical School where I also went to High School.
Greetings!
Previous thread: >>51463660
I am rebuilding the site, to make it load faster, and be a bit more user friendly.
Major goals:
-Site loads the correct parts table for your country, if the country is covered (previously loaded the US by default)
-Site loads faster (previously ~30 seconds, now ~6 seconds)
Minor goals:
-Site is more mobile friendly, and more friendly to those with smaller resolution screens
Previous bugs/issues that I have tried to fix:
-Header floats and takes up too much. Header now no longer floats.
-People do not like ipinfo (and have it blocked). Changed to ip-api.
-People with uMatrix addon installed disabled ipinfo. Site now defaults to loading the US if uMatrix blocks it from finding your country.
-Titles not correctly aligned. Should aligned now.
-Table was too wide. Should have a max width now.
-Weird white space under the video section. Fixed.
-Some images do not show in the popup when you hover over some parts. Fixed.
Items that I have added to the to-do list:
-Provide better fallback for users who have javascript disabled.
Hopefully, I have the major things fixed.
Please check it out:
Original site: http://www.logicalincrements.com/#
Currently in staging: http://www.logicalincrements.com/staging/#!/
Let me know if you find any errors, and/or if it loads faster and detects your country correctly.
Thank you.
Is FX 6300 really the best AMD processor to get?
I propose adding a category after "Monstrous".
"literally a supercomputer"
>>51516099
It is not the best, but it is good for mid-tier gaming. You can get the 8320 (or 8350, since the black friday deals are on), if you like.
/g/, do you trust refurbished drives? I'm in dire need of about 10TB for more media storage; 20TB in actuality for redundancy.
Newegg has 2TB drives on refurb sale for $50, though they're HGST. I'm not sure what to do. This seems too good to be true.
>>51516001
do it
>>51516001
You can get 4TB Seagates for about $110 new, so I have no fucking idea why you would try to save ten bucks by trusting a refurb for your data.
I've never bought "refurbished" drives, but I deal with a lot of older/used shit and honestly I'll readily trust an old drive over a brand new one since most of the shoddy ones usually die out within their first year of service, the ones that survive will usually just keep on running as long as you treat them well.
