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Valeyard posted:i need a smallish netbook that has an ok battery and doesnt need to be very powerful, im ok with having a linux and im guessing this is a usecase for the chomebook but idk Don't know what you're going to do with it, but I have an hp stream 13, and it's been working for me. You can lunix or you can windows 8.
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Here's my linux trip report, I installed Debian. The wifi card was a problem and dropped connection at random intervals and required a full ifconfig cycling to get it working again. I searched all over and entered lsusb results and all that crap, and finally found some github somewhere with rtl new, so i installed git and then did all the poo poo I had to do to get that stuff compiled and working. Oh and my built in 4g hotspot didn't work either. There's one reference to it on google by some german guy who says it should work, but it looked like i was going to spend all night echoing poo poo into my /sys/bus/whatever to manually bind a driver to it. So I stopped that right there. Then I didn't really use it because I was tired of fiddling with it, and since it's linux I expected to discover something else broken. So put windows 8 back on. hth moonshine is...... fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Jun 11, 2015 |
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pre:In order to unbind a device from a driver, simply write the bus id of the device to the unbind file:
echo -n "1-1:1.0" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/ub/unbind
and the device will no longer be bound to the driver:
$ tree /sys/bus/usb/drivers/ub/
/sys/bus/usb/drivers/ub/
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|-- module -> ../../../../module/ub
`-- unbind
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https://elementary.io/ It's still Ubuntu, so it's still poo poo. But it's polished poo poo.
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Jun 19, 2015 03:17
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Lysidas posted:just started a new job today and was given a 27" or 29" late 2013 imac, 3.5GHz i7 and 8GB RAM, immediately improved it by installing linux
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my first linux was slackware that i got from a used bookstore. then some really difficult to setup thing on an old 90's imac. powerpc linux or something crazy like that, i want to say mandrake? but who knows.
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Nov 20, 2015 22:09
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late to the party but gnome-terminal or terminator
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the best part about vim/emacs is identification of people who like to waste time. sure if you're sshing into a remote and need to edit something really quick vim is fine. but there's always that person who has a bespoke special snowflake vimrc that they've tirelessly handcrafted in their "free" time. i guess what i'm saying is, vim/emacs are honeypots.
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 Soricidus posted:it's really not that bad. i'm pretty sure i've made fewer customizations to my emacs setup than to, say, my eclipse setup; it's just easier to see because it's all in one place in a form intended for human editing https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=vimrc sooo many rc files, of course once you get one of those that's the baseline for expansion. i know a guy who is in the process of building some insane rc file so that he can have the functionality of sublime text i guess? it does other things too, but he's got a lot of time into it. the solution is use eclipse or sublimetext imo. i get the enjoyment factor of tinkering around with it. it's just not my bag. edited to include the sniiiper. moonshine is...... fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Mar 10, 2016 |
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i hate tinkering with editor / terminal poo poo. my bazillion year old emacs config recently crossed the 100 line mark this is correct. unfortunately that work is probably for *nix thing. so the cycle continues. 
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put arch on some 50 dollar machine hooked to the back of my tv. works great. now if roku would implement a web browser/screen mirroring that worked i wouldn't need a little linux computer.
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Mar 27, 2016 23:56
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Lysidas posted:i think im actually going to switch to arch on my laptop, from kubuntu, since kubuntu 16.04 will ship with plasma 5.5 instead of 5.6, and theres a decent bug in 5.5 which is really irritating: plasma desktop crashes, every. single. loving. time. i plug in or remove a external monitor, and i usually use development kubuntu versions on my laptop anyway, so a rolling release seems more appropriate. just need to set up the every-boot btrfs snapshots im used to so i can easily undo things if `pacman -Syu` breaks everything If you're going to do arch on the desktop and you don't feel like fiddling around and wasting time installing use antegeros. That way you can get to the real dicking around faster.
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Mr Dog posted:this is probably the furthest conceivable thing from being a bug. I liked the lovely GUI install. Sure I could do it all by hand, but I'd just rather let it download and install while I drink coffee or something.
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Mar 29, 2016 22:07
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i know this is the linux thread, but how is pcBSD in comparison to desktop linuxes?
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good to know that pcbsd is a waste of time. sometimes i think maybe i should try a different thing and fiddle around. I was going to try it out despite the threads advice but when i booted the usb stick it just crashed out, so beyond the amount of effort i wanted to put in.
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I remember when everyone was using enlightenment because dumb ripple effects and other garbage. I guess it made up for not having sound/a useless desktop environment.
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OldAlias posted:i'm just being stupid. i used to have those problems many years ago (blah blah "read the fuckin release notes") but it is not as bad today. they have some p good resources that are applicable across distro, although the community is generally hostile, and the advice of "just use arch" is often not useful Arch has really good resources because it's essentially necessary to run Arch.
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atomicthumbs posted:is manjaro any good? considering using it for a ham radio laptop I took it for a test spin and it seemed fine, everything worked out of the box minus my track pad. I liked it, but I wasn't really willing to put in the research to make sure it wasn't Ubuntu the Arch version. If I was looking at Arch i'd probably just install Arch. Though if you're going to dick around with a Linux the official yospos distro's are Cent, RHEL, and Fedora. I was using openSUSE tumbleweed for a media box, I liked it. Unfortunately I didn't read up on BTRFS.
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Fedora is fine. If you're worried about slow running on old hardware try out crunchbang++ it's nice.
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http://takacsmark.com/the-top-5-linux-systems-for-elderly-people/ The problem is that windows and osx are just to confusing with files and apps and directories. The answer is linux. This is like saying "oh yeah she's getting old and having a hard time driving." Well have you tried using a crane as transport? Articles like this crack me up.
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I did the wrong thing and decided to try Fedora outside of a VM. Installer was buggy but did its job, worked for a few minutes. Popped up a dialog saying get some updates. I got the updates, system is rendered unusable. Probably has to do with a nouveau issue+having 2 monitors plugged in. Not going to troubleshoot. I'll try again next year. 2017 year of Linux in a VM.
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I started using Gentoo on the desktop and now I've rolled it out as a production server using some great technologies: ReiserFS, RAID-5, Gentoo patched kernel, Samba ... you name it.
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i just had a linux guy tell me it's easier to manage bins that everyone on the system needs if you symlink them from a users home instead of putting them in /usr/local/bin. then when you need to remove the user you just go through the whole directory structure and sort them out and leave it on the system. because it's easier than putting it in /usr/local/bin
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Soricidus posted:I don’t really give a gently caress about the implementation. I just want to be able to run something on one computer and display it on another. and right now the only way to do that with desktop linux appears to be to go back to the old x11 technology that we’re constantly being told is obsolete
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VikingofRock posted:I'm always very tempted to install OpenSUSE Tumbleweed because after using Arch I'm addicted to rolling release. Does anyone have any experience with it? I've used OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's fine. I didn't land on it though. I love the idea of rolling release, but at the end of the day I went with Fedora. I realized for what I'm doing, rolling release wasn't all that important.
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quote:There is no formal issue tracking system and no official procedure to become a code contributor or developer. The project does not maintain a public code repository. Bug reports and contributions, while being essential to the project, are managed in an informal way. All the final decisions about what is going to be included in a Slackware release strictly remain with Slackware's benevolent dictator for life, Patrick Volkerding.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:with these innovations i am sure the year of linux on the desktop is just around the corner of course linus uses g+, probably the first person i've ever seen actually use it.
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Suspicious Dish posted:you'd love my actual desktop then missing a good conky setup imo.
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TheCoach posted:So what would be a good distro that uses KDE for the desktop and is not a total shitshow on Asus business laptops? Fedora. It's good.
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Gazpacho posted:arthur when the cows fell
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VikingofRock posted:The higher initial set-up cost of arch is a fair point, but fwiw my personal experience is that now that I've set it up I janitor my arch install way less than I had to janitor Ubuntu. Arch pretty much just does what I want it to do and doesn't break, and when I want to install something that's not in the official repos it's almost always in the AUR and easily installed via yay. I've had the same experience with Arch. The initial set up cost in time is high, but once it's going it's going, and you get really fresh software. I'd still never use Arch for anything critical. Just a shameful secret desktop OS.
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Amethyst posted:is anyone using a dell xps 13 with fedora? how is it? do random keys not work? does the fan spin at max constantly? Its really hard to find an honest answer about this stuff, often you'll read a post that says "it's rock solid, absolutely flawless, I couldn't be happier" but then further down the thread the user will reveal that the wifi itermittently disable itself and a bunch of keyboard buttons don't work XPS 13 and Fedora is good.
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akadajet posted:the linux kernel is shipping soon with windows 10 making it the best linux not soon enough.
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