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How much tinkering are you planning to do for reasons and how much just for the sake of it? E: I guess, what are you intending to do with this hypothetical Linux install? Fantastic Foreskin fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Apr 20, 2018 |
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I've only ever managed to bork my install when trying to install things outside of my package manager, and after the 3rd format I don't bother anymore. Linux as a daily system just works, provided you don't want to do the things it can't (AAA gaming) or get too deep into the poweruser space, though it's there if you want to gently caress around. Also, Gnome 2 is the perfect desktop environment and the main reason I can't see moving away from Linux.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Thanks for the response. I'll keep that in mind when I format and start over today, I think the first time I actually went with BTRFS because it seemed fancier not knowing it wasnt stable yet. The native Linux steam works fine in my experience, though you should be able to grab that through apt as well. Haven't mucked about with proton. E: Crotchfruit posted:KDE and/or XFCE would like to have a word with you. Really my biggest complaint about Gnome 2 is simply that Gnome 3 went crazy and I thought that means that Gnome 2 development was officially halted. Sure there are forks, but do the forks have the monetary support of backers like Gnome flashback is built off of Gnome 3 but keeps all the Gnome 2 goodness. Any shortcomings of it I'm not aware of, but I'm not running a mission critical system here either. Fantastic Foreskin fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Apr 2, 2019 |
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Apr 2, 2019 15:49
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For real though, I've been using Linux as a home desktop system for like 5 years now and it's never given me any problems I didn't make myself. Recently it's stopped even being trash for gaming with pretty much every indie release supporting. Every device I've hooked up as been plug & play, without even the wait to download drivers windows has, sound has never been an issue and my network card works fine. The year of Linux on the desktop was years ago, there's just no one with a large financial interest in making it a popular operating system (and you'd be stupid try, but that has more to do with how small the home operating system market is, than any particular shortcoming.)
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Apr 4, 2019 02:12
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Toalpaz posted:I just did a system update on arch linux that killed my laptop. I know this is a pretty basic question but I like to hear people's and goon's opinions on what I, non-computer toucher and basic user, should switch distros too. I was thinking Manjaro because they're basically arch with a stable branch and more package testing, and I'm used to pacman and aur, but I'd understand if you all shouted at me that I should swap to ubunto or something. Ubuntu, with a different desktop environment if you want. Most anything works out of the box and you have to go out of your way to really bork it. I haven't used any other distro personally, but I've never felt a reason to either.
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Jul 15, 2019 01:46
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If you don't mind me asking, how did a self professed "basic user and non-computer-toucher" wind up with an arch install?
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Jul 15, 2019 04:17
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His T-Shirt, I assume. I want to get away from dual booting on my desktop but want to keep a Linux install around for largely irrelevant reasons, and I'd like to use it on my laptop without mucking about with it's windows install. I installed Ubuntu Mate on a USB from a live USB, but the full install isn't bootable. Google suggests that this is due to an oddity in the bootloader that gets installed vs what's on a live drive and recommends copying the one on the live drive over to the drive with the full install, but none of the resources I've found inspire me with confidence. Any goon have experience / advice on making a portable full Linux install? Should I just go with a persistent live USB? Also, 32gb (what I had lying around) looks to be about the minimum space recommended for an Ubuntu install. Any other distros I should consider? I don't expect to keep a lot of files so storage space itself isn't much of a concern.
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Dec 3, 2019 18:39
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Removing a dual boot, would it be easier to smash the partition and restore the windows bootloader, or just nuke the drive and re-install windows? I know this is kind of more a windows question but I figure this thread will have more experience with this sort of thing.
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Feb 8, 2020 17:43
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Volguus posted:If you're full UEFI, just point the bios to the windows bootloader, nuke the linux partitions and you're done. If you're legacy mode (MBR), just restore the MBR from windows, nuke the linux partitions and you're done. I am not 100% sure, but you may need to boot windows in rescue advanced command line mode (no idea how it is actually called) to restore the MBR. UEFI is so much simpler. Well that was simple. Thanks a bunch!
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Feb 9, 2020 02:13
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The true Linux path is just to install both.
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Mar 4, 2020 16:48
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Craptacular! posted:I want to mimic OSX as much as possible since I only installed Linux after Hackintoshing with Nvidia became a dead end. Most specifically I want the global appmenu at the top, which KDE, MATE, Budgie and others can do but GNOME developers actively fight against. I think their point was that you can install any DE you want on top of any distro, the default one is trivial to replace.
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Mar 5, 2020 03:47
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^^^^Gnome 3 was a mistake but classic Gnome is still around Gnome is the main reason I use Linux for anything, but also: The Milkman posted:Endless futzing for dubious purposes may be the #1 linux user pastime but telling people they're doing it wrong has got to be #2
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Mar 5, 2020 19:29
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Let's play the 'what distro should I use' game. With my main PC hooked up to a tv, I decided to revive an old one I had sitting around for things like checking emails and paying bills. Since I didn't want to spend a bunch of money on mere convenience here it's only got 4gb of ram and a 32gb SSD I had lying around in it. I've already got an UbuntuMate liveusb so 99% I'll go with that but I'm open to suggestions. All it needs to do is run a web browser and keepassX.
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Mar 15, 2020 15:41
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Yeah I was just wondering if anyone had any 'interesting' suggestions. I went with Lubuntu over Mate to save ~100Mb of memory usage, but turns out the most limiting factor is the old-rear end AMD dual core that gets up to 80% usage when loading a web page  It works fine for this purpose though.
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Mar 15, 2020 21:54
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uBlock origin and noscript. Considered dropping noscript since I won't be don't any general browsing on this machine but for the same reason the extra overhead isn't meaningful. That said, I did just learn my password manager stopped being developed years ago. What's the go-to choice for a Linux password manager these days, and can it import kdbx files?
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Mar 15, 2020 22:13
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Like I said, it's not really an issue, this machine only exists to pay bills with, it only has to load 6 or so webpages once a month. It's more amusing that this CPU, which was the heart of my main computer like 5 years ago, is barely up to the task of browsing the web anymore.
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Mar 15, 2020 22:57
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F4rt5 posted:I got a cheap HP 6305 SFF with an A8 5500B quad-core to use as a media center thing. CPU actually snappy enough for general use, deluged, emulation etc, 8 GB of RAM is enough, but the 1 TB WD Green from 2012 made everything a nightmare (and to add pain I formatted it as BTRFS lol). Not having used spinning rust for boot drives since 2013, I was surprised how bad it was. What happened in that poor drives life?
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Mar 18, 2020 21:02
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Semi-relatedly, it turns out Windows 10 uses 3 gigs of RAM just to exist. Viva la Linux.
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Mar 19, 2020 15:32
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I know how to read the task manager. Admittedly there are a couple corporate tech support programs running in the background but with nothing but task manager open it's 2.7gb in use, another gig cached, only 250mb is actually "free"
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Mar 19, 2020 16:48
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No, just a amusing difference between it and an lightweight distro that takes a couple hundred megs.
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Having to learn new things was always one of linux's biggest barriers. If the technical implementation is distinct enough to satisfy the ubernerds, why should ease of use matter?
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