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Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

The ports aren't on the bottom of the arm one right

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Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

my stepdads beer posted:

the windows equivalent is needing to load network drivers from the cd that comes with your motherboard in order to download video card drivers and 4.3 gigs of windows updates. sure the command line isn't involved but it's just as much as a gently caress around

Yea its been my experience that if you're building a computer installing Linux is less hassle than installing windows, including using the command line and installing video drivers etc. I don't know if this speaks to Linux being OK or windows being such poo poo that it makes Linux look good in comparison

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Forums Terrorist posted:

Except this hasn't been true in years, modern windows is surprisingly bulletproof

It was true when I installed windows 7 like 3 years ago. Maybe 8 fixed it lol

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Every time I've installed Debian Ubuntu and fedora they've all worked fine with nvidia AMD and onboard Intel cards for the last several years. Dunno why you have such bad luck, maybe try again with a better distro or smth

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

time to switch to real debian, then

ubuntu is not really supportable, it's just a mess.

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

api call girl posted:

incidentally, also intel chips

2014 year of Linux on the AMD desktop

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

It was a good joke pram

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

being an open relay

when I first set up my email server I hosed up and did this. within minutes someone was using it to spam, I shut it down immediately so didn't get blacklisted or anything. setting up a mail server sucks and I wouldn't do it again, listen to the others and get fastmail or smth

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

ahmeni posted:

it was the default one that came with gnome, i think I'm too used to OS X and things working

i needed to set up a VM, so I decided to use boxes because hey its already there. it was nice and installed easily and I really liked it until I noticed it stops accept keyboard input sporadically after a half hour or so, until you kill x because it also ignores the escape keys :/

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Smythe posted:

It's my Day Job!!!

if you do what you love you'll never work a day your life!

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

da gimp

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

jfc unity looks like poo poo

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

prefect posted:

isn't the guy who runs it rich as gently caress from south african mining companies?

Shuttleworth founded Thawte Consulting in 1995, which specialised in digital certificates andInternet security. In December 1999, Thawte was acquired by VeriSign, earning ShuttleworthR 3.5 billion (about US$ 575 million at the time).[12]

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

oic I've seen a few others but yea it's infrequent, I usually forget it's there

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

at least most of the problems can be fixed through extensions, overall gnome is p good

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Mr Dog posted:

Try stacking a text window on top of a terminal that also has lots of text on it. You'll want to minimize the text in the background so that it doesn't interfere with your ability to read stuff in the foreground

(the foreground window is opaque, it's still annoying to read a block of text hovering over another block of text)

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/891/windows-blur-effects/

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Sagebrush posted:

something really broke anime dogtits' brain

check the last page of the apple thread

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Maximum Leader posted:

vb is trash for idiots. dont use it

I hear this a lot but what is actually wrong with it

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

I like gnome but drat theyre making it hard to

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Progressive JPEG posted:

i would but im still waiting for dnf to finish

well guess what

it does not finish hehe

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Toady posted:

linux nerds are afraid of apple cooties

steve jobs offered OS X free to the OLPC project, and they refused in favor of Red Hat

yea the olpc people wanted the kids to use an operating system that was actually relevant

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

just use beos

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

unity was piss trash garbage and it's good that it's dead

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Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Ubuntu is poo poo and no matter how much you try to clean it you're still left with poo poo. Is simple arithmetic

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