#linux-and-android

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teal cape
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you jealous? @strong plover

strong plover
teal cape
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I am speed

dusk kernel
strong plover
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Uh huh

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That’s pitiful tho

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Do you have a faster one

dusk kernel
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Yeah, what's the bottleneck.... the drive, or the USB speed?

strong plover
teal cape
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the drive lol

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it's in a 3.2 port

strong plover
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Thats quite sad :/ just maybe buy a cheap faster usb

teal cape
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I do have a different one

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just didn't want to format it into a bootable USB when I spent so much effort making it a dual bootable win 10/11 usb

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so I grabbed a newegg egg lol

strong plover
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Ohhh

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Newegg egg horrid piece of trash

teal cape
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banned

strong plover
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Nonono wait. Newegg egg handicapped poor soul

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🍳

frank steeple
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That's not PC. Banned

strong plover
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I
I
I dont get it

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Happy thanksgiving @frank steeple

frank steeple
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Happy Thanksgiving

kind panther
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Hmm

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Should i daily linux

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I no longer game nearly as much

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So im not as tied to windows

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@rotund dirge what do u think

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Also if i do go linux, mint or elementary os

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Elementary looks sooo good but mint has great packaage manager

abstract wigeon
abstract wigeon
kind panther
frank steeple
abstract wigeon
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fair nough

kind panther
frank steeple
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Elementary

kind panther
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I was leaning towards elementary as well

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I daily elementary soon

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Btw bob could you link me to some guides on customising grub

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Me no like how it is at stock

rotund dirge
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Just in case.

kind panther
strong plover
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I don’t know what you would want to customize, but on Ubuntu you just install grub customizer. It has a good deal of options.

frank steeple
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grub customizer is great

frank steeple
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New release of proton two days ago, adds BE anti cheat and dlss

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Not all games with be support the proton version right now, but the first wave has added it. More expected shortly

fallow belfry
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DLSS on Linux?! Whaaaat

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Linux never gets the good features

frank steeple
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Valve has power

sturdy sand
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its about drive its about power

strong plover
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Also

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Yay gams on Linux. Happy tux.

frank steeple
strong plover
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Which one

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Also boblasershark, idk if you know about android, but rawr was talking about what I could do to fix my moms phone. I put it in Apple iOS cause no one uses that channel.

frank steeple
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Nuke it from orbit, idk

strong plover
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Is that the song, or what I should do with the phone?

frank steeple
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What to do with the phone

strong plover
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I don’t have a nuclear bomb.

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Rats

frank steeple
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Newegg should stock them

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Hey @fierce pewter,is there any chance of selling small nuclear weapons for "troubleshooting" phones?

strong plover
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Man this phone is even worse off. Factory reset it but it didn’t help. Still won’t connect to WiFi. Gonna have to try a usb to wifi adapter

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But I’m too tired tonight. Tomorrow I’ll have to do it. I really wanted to hackintosh with rawr tomorrow. But my mom needs her phone at least functional.

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And I have to work tomorrow for about an hour or two, depending on when I get it done. And I have to play music so I’m prepared for Sunday. Cmon life why is this so complicated

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This is stupid. Phone dumb. Guys, ifones are so much better.

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Psst don’t get a google pixel

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I hate google with my heart and soul. And my sole. The sole of my shoe (im wanting to stomp them rn)

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I hate google wholeheartedly. I have a gmail account and that’s it. They are junk. Google? More like rip-off stupid. I wanna swear cause of this phone. Because it’s supposed to work now. And troubleshooting dumb android bootloaders and sad excuses for menus is painful. Idiot google. Dumb android 12 that breaks my mothers phone.

fierce pewter
frank steeple
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Cool, thanks!

abstract wigeon
strong plover
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(They are badly needed)

undone lichen
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you have probably been troubleshooting a broken phone this whole time

strong plover
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My mom bought it off of Amazon without consulting me. There is no warranty sadly.

strong plover
undone lichen
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its a broken phone

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it should have taken you 30 minutes to figure that out

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gonna be real here

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every single pixel user i have ever met thinks they are googles greatest gift to mankind

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because from a software perspective, they just work and dont have as much oem garbage as every other phone

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if the software aint working, its not a software problem

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its a hardware problem

strong plover
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Soo you think it is the WiFi that’s broken

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Opens google

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Types

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How to repair google pixel 3xl wifi module

undone lichen
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exactly

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but you already know the solution to such a problem

strong plover
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… get iPhone

abstract wigeon
undone lichen
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i mean

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yeah

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if you wanna pay a ton of money for something that becomes obsolete significantly faster than an android

strong plover
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Okay so my iPhone se and my moms pixel were the same price. The pixel has been nothing but headache and my phone has been a joy to use. No laggy screen keyboard. Also it integrates soo wonderfully with my iPad.

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And the app I use, ForScore, only works on iPhone iPad and Mac

undone lichen
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if you already have bought into the apple ecosystem, why the heck did you leave?

strong plover
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And I get paid a lot of money playing music.

strong plover
undone lichen
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oh right

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your mom

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if her tech support is you, then forcing her to use apple is a convenience factor that makes it worth it

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imo

strong plover
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I buy my own gadgets. Also, when my mom spent like only 2 days researching phones, she used the google search engine back then. It probably recommended google phones

undone lichen
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also once again, your pixel experience is a sample size of one

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vs my sample size of like 10

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so pixels are amazing, and dont let this experience make you think bad on them

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but

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get her an iphone

strong plover
undone lichen
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also how much did she pay for a pixel 3?? and how long ago?

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they dont go for much

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willing to bet it was sold by a sketch amazon seller for some unreasonable price

strong plover
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Oh

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I’m pretty sure she paid 399

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I remember the xl had a bigger screen and was more expensive

undone lichen
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yeah

strong plover
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The thing is, I didn’t know anything about it until after she ordered. I was still trying to fix the battery problems with her old phone.

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So don’t blame me for any of this.

undone lichen
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i would rather buy a smartphone on ebay than amazon lol

strong plover
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I would rather buy an iPhone

undone lichen
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fair

strong plover
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Or buy it from the exchange for military people( my dad)

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They’re not sketchy

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And usually they’re about ten to twenty dollars cheaper depending on the device.

dusk kernel
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facepalms

undone lichen
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oh man

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actually hilarious

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but tbf, not a facepalm moment

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when you have a huge inside joke that an outsider doesnt get, then yeah, me saying I use Arch btw sounds like im saying that i use "Arch btw"

dusk kernel
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Well.... it was a laughing facepalm. 🙂 I suspect it wasn't a real question though.

undone lichen
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yeah thats also possible

strong plover
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It’s kinda sad xD

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I don’t know if I’ll ever need to/want to use arch.

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Maybe sometime I’ll use Arch BTW.

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Also. Serious question. Has anyone seen any hope of running the windows version of affinity photo on Linux?

dusk kernel
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I remember PagePlus, the DTP application from Serif, way back in the day... maybe Windows 3.11 or Win95. I might even have the CD's lurking somewhere. LOL

strong plover
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Wow. Thanks! I couldnt find hope online, there is some. I’m not planning to buy. The desktop version atm, but i want to know if in the future it might possibly work. And i like messing with files and wine (i am a Linux user lol)

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Probably going to get the ipad version

dusk kernel
nocturne dragon
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I will try to find the video for more context if anyone wants to watch it. It was very interesting how he predicted Valve specifically would possibly be necessary to make Linux desktops mainstream

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He addresses several other things as well he thinks makes a difference. It is very amazing how he predicted Valve's intervention at that time.

strong plover
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It would be so cool if it got support

strong plover
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is thiss legit or no

fallow belfry
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You've been able to use iPad as second screen for a while now with the right adapter

strong plover
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What kind of adapter?

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Also, I found that website to be a little sketch looking, and the grammar was really bad and contradictory.

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I did find better links that said how, but I don’t know which one is best

dusk kernel
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Hmmm... I wonder if I can use an old Surface as a 2nd monitor. heh heh

rancid socket
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So im trying out a linux distro on an old laptop and i keep getting a error where it cannot find a pgp key. (im new to linux and chose to try garuda linux based on arch)

strong plover
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I’d you’re new to Linux, you might try using either an Ubuntu based distro, like the official vanilla Ubuntu or something like pop OS. That is, unless you need arch specifically.

rancid socket
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i dont really need arch. i ust wanted to try out garuda until it became a real pain

strong plover
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I personally have not used mint, but I have heard it is good for beginners. It feels a little like windows.

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I have a friend who uses popOS and loves it. I prefer normal Ubuntu (I use Ubuntu studio), but that’s mainly because if there’s a problem with it, it’s gonna be all of ubuntu, not an issue with a niche distro that’s not officially supported by Ubuntu.

rancid socket
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alright, i've taken a look at mint and im gonna give it a try

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this arch based linux called garuda really doesn't show new users how to install it.

strong plover
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Good luck!

rancid socket
strong plover
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Good to hear!

true void
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mint is p good ngl

kind panther
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Mint xfce is weggChefKiss

true void
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mine originally had xfce but i kinda liked mate more

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so i just installed that

late aspen
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Yeet

brave isle
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So i want to dual boot to win7 pc

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Is there anything I need to do before i start the installation, and how do I create a bootable USB?

late aspen
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Does the computer you want to dual boot have a 2nd drive?

brave isle
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No it has partitions

late aspen
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Not as good, but sufficient

brave isle
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ok How do I create a bootable usb drive

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I have the ISO ready

late aspen
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Not entirely sure how to do it from an iso

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All I remember is putting the distro on a USB

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🤔

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And I'm not home to check how

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Sorry it's been a while

brave isle
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ok, I'll just read their official page lol

kind panther
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@brave isle

brave isle
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Thank you. but the website mentions that I need to use the Universal USB installer, but I already used Etcher as said in the official website

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it's almost done, at 86%

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@kind panther

kind panther
strong plover
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Etcher is so easy to use. No options whatsoever. Although Rufus is better for formatting and stuff

maiden pine
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I kinda wish etcher would let me select the sha256 file from file explorer and run ISO verification automatically.
It's such a pain on Windows, and Mint's instructions for Windows is in their forum for some reason.

Anyways, I'm 99% I'll be getting a new PC for christmas and I need someone to talk me out of using regular Debian.

strong plover
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Why not use Ubuntu? Support is great. Or popOS. And mint is still nice. But I mean, plain old Debian probably isn’t gonna hurt. But imho, Ubuntu is the way to go

maiden pine
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I used ubuntu a few years ago on university computers - really hated the UI. Start menu pops up in the center like it's windows 8 and the time is always at the top of the screen so you can't be sloppy when changing tabs in Firefox. It feels like it's made for a touch screen, which is cool but I don't have a touch screen.
I haven't tried popOS yet, I'll look into it. I do like Mint, might just use Mint again.

drifting forge
drifting forge
maiden pine
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yeah I'm guessing I didn't get to experience that because I was using a school computer.

drifting forge
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do you remember if it was a thin client linux or full desktop with linux installed?

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its possible it was sluggish from lack of resources. I have installed ubuntu a few times and albeit, UI is a bit to get used to coming from any other operating system, ive always felt it was fairly snappy

maiden pine
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It wasn't sluggish at all. Pretty good specs, but I don't remember what they were. I was majoring in comp sci at the time and we had a dedicated linux classroom or two. Actually, other users could remote log onto the computers to access a terminal session, so we were never allowed to turn off the machines, but even with that the computer never experienced any sluggishness.
I just didn't like the locations of most of the buttons. I like Windows because buttons often align with the edge of the screen (close, start menu, browser tabs, etc.)

nocturne dragon
strong plover
strong plover
finite cargo
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Any of you use a Facebook Reality Labs headset with Linux?

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I'm getting a FRL Quest 2 and heard about ALVR, but looks like it doesn't support GPU encoding on nvidia, so it's pretty unusable until it gains support for that.

mortal totem
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I am mostly on windows because of the headset

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You can get a windows qemu setup and it would work decent but still a little unstable and you need to passthrough an entire usb controller

maiden pine
rotund dirge
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Unless it uses Wayland.

maiden pine
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We're about to find out

strong plover
maiden pine
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Yeah I decided to do live isos of each Linux distro I wanted to try, rather than piling ten different environments onto Mint at the same time.

Neon / Plasma, dunno which is more responsible, is horrible with multi-resolution setups. TL;DR:
The scale factor slider is applied to all monitors globally, plus it will apply a crop even when just mirroring the display.

4k support looks decent, the trick for applying the new scale is to just log out. I should try 3rd party apps to make sure, though. Monitors with "similar enough" resolutions are good. (For example 1920x1080 and 1920x1200 would probably play well together.)
Kde would be a nightmare on a presentation laptop... Especially for someone not expecting the carnage.

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I forgot to connect to the internet🤣

rotund dirge
maiden pine
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Not yet, but I'm guessing I probably should?

rotund dirge
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It’s not a distro lol.

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It allows you to put multiple ISOs on a USB.

rotund dirge
strong plover
fallow belfry
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Ventoy is fun because unlike other multiboot programs you don't need to extract the iso, you just copy it straight on the drive.

maiden pine
strong plover
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R53400G? Or another one

maiden pine
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5700G or 5600G...
3400G is currently over $300 on Newegg and not even sold on Amazon. I considered the 3600g but the 5600G is not far off in price.

abstract wigeon
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3600g?

sturdy sand
kind panther
sturdy sand
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ah

maiden pine
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Yeah sorry
It doesn't
I forgot the 3600 doesn't have integrated graphics

maiden pine
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Oh thanks mee6 I definitely wanted you to delete (without record) the message I spent the last half hour typing out.

maiden pine
frank steeple
strong plover
zealous lantern
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LineageOS, while Android, is technically a type of Linux distro, so I guess I'll ask here: is Android x86 a good way to revive an older PC?

frank steeple
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Eh

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I'd go with a dedicated light weight Linux distro. What are the specs of the old machine?

zealous lantern
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i have to look

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this one but slim form factor

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stock

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i just need to add storage

fallow belfry
# zealous lantern i just need to add storage

Don't even need that tbh, just a usb for a live distro with persistence file.
Android x86 is a lot harder to run than you think.
If you just need it to run, a lightweight distro like puppy is perfect.

zealous lantern
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yeah i guess i don't need it

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but i'll consider live

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and a tiny drive

strong plover
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You can just try it live. And if it works wonderfully you can permanently install

zealous lantern
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yeah

finite cargo
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slightly cursed

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strong plover
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So I’m gonna back up my important folders on Linux. Is the best way to just copy and paste my home folder to a stick drive?

finite cargo
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pretty much yeah

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(assuming all your important files are in your home folder)

strong plover
finite cargo
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Backing up your home dir should be enough, then.

fallow belfry
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Timeshift

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If you ever bork your system you can restore it with one command

strong plover
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Is that a software that does it, or a manual thing

fallow belfry
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It's a software

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Runs on every debian system

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Never tried it on arch though

strong plover
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Does it backup to external devices, or even a network location? When I make a raspberry pi openmediavault nas I’ll want to back up somehow to it.

fallow belfry
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It's configurable

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Local and network storage support

strong plover
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Nicee

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I’ll have to look into it

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For now I’ve just copied to a stick drive

fallow belfry
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You can also adjust the backup frequency to be daily, monthly, every reboot, etc

frank steeple
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I personally prefer borg over timeshift. The backups take up less space

fallow belfry
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"Timeshift of Borg"
Sounds like a time traveling cube

maiden pine
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I'll look into borg cuz I like the idea of smaller backups, but timeshift came preinstalled with Mint and was drop-dead simple to use. I never had to consult Google to get it up and running.

frank steeple
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Oops

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Timeshift or Borg. Autocorrect got me again

fallow belfry
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Still a fun typo

strong plover
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I’ll look into them, thanks guys :)

finite cargo
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What could cause a file to just... not show up in Dolphin?

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EE_Final.pdf is visible in both windows to the right, but not in Dolphin.

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Firefox's file picker does show it:

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rotund dirge
finite cargo
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Maybe?

rotund dirge
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Search for any hidden files in the directory that dolphin may use.

finite cargo
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Oh what! I just went to the folder and it's there.

rotund dirge
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For custom directory settings.

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Very odd lol.

finite cargo
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It's a poor look for a file browser to randomly not show some files.

rotund dirge
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I’ve never had that happen to me in the years I’ve used it.

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But that is interesting.

finite cargo
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In the past I've encountered bugs that only occur with a specific username

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Such as the Nextcloud Android client being unable to connect if your username has a space

finite cargo
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Maybe something specific about my setup is throwing it off. Just hoping it doesn't happen again haha.

zealous lantern
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finally got my rpi4

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can retropie and razz os share the same ext4 partition?

strong plover
zealous lantern
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thank you!!

strong plover
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They’re so hard to get right now

zealous lantern
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wait, are you trying to say people are looking for these after giving up on graphics cards?

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sounds reasonable tbh

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you know how i got one at my store?

strong plover
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No I want one for a nas

zealous lantern
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someone bought and canceled a second kit and the guy let me buy it

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oh so people who want them for other stuff besides games?

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i'm glad to know people are figuring out better uses for single-core pc's

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tbh i intended to put mine inside a fightstick but also want to use it as a workstation

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i had a spare 200gb micro sd and put it inside the pi, but i also dual booted with retropie and the standard razz

zealous lantern
strong plover
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Yes.

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I want to run openmediavault

strong plover
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I actually don’t know anyone irl who uses on for games. Just permanent applications that are p cool. And two people use them as computers

zealous lantern
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yeah i use mine as a workstation as our old pcs are ancient

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the retropie os is secondary

strong plover
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That’s smart

zealous lantern
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since i was intending to use a fightstick case

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i was going to make something unassuming

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but not in the sense of strong pc disguised as a poor prebuilt

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but workstation disguised as a fightstick

strong plover
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Oh rightttt

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Powerful fight stick.

zealous lantern
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yeah but the pi's inside

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the fightstick controls themselves are stronk

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but when i'm working they become a decoration

strong plover
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Mhm. Best way

zealous lantern
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trick my dad into thinking i'm gaming when i'm doing class work

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at the workplace

strong plover
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I would think you would want the opposite

zealous lantern
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for the pleasant surprise factor

strong plover
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Make him think you’re doing class work while gaming

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Oh well that would be a good surprise for him

zealous lantern
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he knows about this anyway 😛

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i'm a college student too

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so he can't do [quack] about it

strong plover
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Then why does your dad care xD

zealous lantern
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cultural pressure

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to git gud

strong plover
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Unless he’s paying for your college

zealous lantern
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finaid covers

strong plover
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Too true

zealous lantern
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except the one year it didn't

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and he did pay that time

strong plover
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Aw nice

zealous lantern
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but i realized i can handle four classes

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so now he didn't need to

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i'll take four next time too, and possibly five for my final semester

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i also want to become the rare linux art major

strong plover
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Wow

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Are you majored in just art or computer stuff too

zealous lantern
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no comp

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just an art major 🙂

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i only fully got into computers in 2020

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and built my windows desktop november that year
...

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i even built one for my dad, on top of souping up a gba and making a ps2 phat flashcart sata modded network adapter

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the only big project left is finishing what i have of the fightstick

strong plover
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Whoa cool

strong plover
zealous lantern
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which

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souping up a gba or modding a ps2 network adapter?

strong plover
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A ps2 network adapter

zealous lantern
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souping up a gba was more like adding a backlight and repairing the shell/battery

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but the ps2 network adapter

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you just open it up and replace the ide connections with sata ones

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and then plug in whatever ssd you like

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just format it with OPL first, then put whatever games you want on it through certain windows programs

strong plover
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Oh

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That’s not horrible

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But still very cool.

zealous lantern
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yeah it's just extremely tight screws and ribbon cables, no soldering

strong plover
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Noice.

zealous lantern
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the six-point security bits are the hard part

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once you get that out, replace the ide with sata connectors

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and replace the old security bits with a more standard format of screw

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otherwise you're good

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but yeah, it's become easier recently

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and you can still use ethernet with the internal sata mod

strong plover
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Ethernet is amazing

zealous lantern
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it is

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this was before wi-fi became big too

strong plover
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Oh yeah that’s right. WiFi is handy now though.

zealous lantern
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yeah it is too

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but ethernet is nice to have for going fst

sleek halo
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Best desktop enviroment

strong plover
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Hehe which one is that

sleek halo
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CDE

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Common Desktop Enviroment ported to Linux

strong plover
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Oh nice xD it looks so old, I love it

strong plover
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@rotund dirge i made a really simple c++ file to kinda learn. i wrote in vscode on my linux machine, and the only maybe unusual thing i did is use #include <unistd.h>

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can i send it to you to see if itll run that way

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cause my irl friends are asleep

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and the coding friends all have macs. thats the question, will it run on mac

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and you said you have macs

rotund dirge
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Sure.

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I don't mind.

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Really not a good idea to use c headers in a C++ program though.

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There are usually C++ equivalents.

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That they want you to use.

strong plover
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what is a C header? is that a header thats specific to C and not C++? all i wanted to do was add a short delay between words showing up, and i found that header on a forum

rotund dirge
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So you're using usleep?

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or sleep?

strong plover
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it let me have a sleep() thing

rotund dirge
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Really, they are just C libraries.

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But C++ is super against using C libraries for whatever reason.

strong plover
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theres the actual executable (i think) file and the cpp file so you can see its not a virus

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you have to run it as a ./ in a terminal

rotund dirge
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I'll recompile.

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Don't want to risk it.

strong plover
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okay

rotund dirge
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Besides, I wouldn't be able to run that executable.

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Executables compiled from Linux don't run on Max.

strong plover
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would a mac physically not be able to run it

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ohh

rotund dirge
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Same for executables compiled from Mac to linux.

strong plover
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thats what i was wondering

rotund dirge
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Yeah different bytecodes.

strong plover
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thats kinda annoying.

rotund dirge
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Here, I'll send you the mac one.

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It will just fail.

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Thing is, if you're wanting to release cross platform binaries versions for your program, you're supposed to compile for each platform.

strong plover
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yep it did an epic fail.

rotund dirge
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Same thing if you were compiling for ARM processor, 32 bit processor, MIPS processor, etc etc

strong plover
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ohh

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is there a way to compile a mac version from my linux computer?

rotund dirge
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Hmmm, not natively I don't think.

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Tools may exist for that.

strong plover
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but if i send him the one you sent me, will it run on his mac?

rotund dirge
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You can however compile 32 bit versions if you're on a 64 bit.

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Yes, unless he's on an M1 mac.

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Different chipset obvs.

strong plover
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hes not. early 2015 imac.

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with a 5k display 🥺

rotund dirge
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Then yes, he should have no problem running it.

strong plover
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ah noice

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thanks so much

rotund dirge
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No problem.

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Feel free to give him that binary, should run no probs.

strong plover
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alright!

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why did the name change to a.out?

rotund dirge
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Oh, I used command line and didn't use -o flag.

strong plover
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ohh i see

rotund dirge
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g++ file.cpp <--

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If I wanted to name it whatever else, I need to do g++ -o filename file.cpp

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And it will compile a file called filename

strong plover
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i use g++ too but i guess its still different for different oss

rotund dirge
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Interesting, do you use the -o flag?

strong plover
rotund dirge
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It's always created a.out if I didn't include it lol.

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I mean, best thing is to use Makefiles or CMake

strong plover
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i did it all inside vscode.

rotund dirge
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Hmmm weird.

strong plover
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it automagically made the runnable file the same name as the cpp file i hit f5 on

rotund dirge
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Ah.

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Must do the whole -o thing for you.

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Gotta get used to Makefiles if you're gonna program in C++ mate.

strong plover
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i understand the command line version, its p easy. but it was simpler to do it all inside vscode

rotund dirge
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Professionally* I mean.

strong plover
#

wait are makefiles diifferent from the file that i can run with ./?

rotund dirge
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Kind of.

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Make is a build system for C.

strong plover
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im sorry, today is my first day of tackling c++ xD

strong plover
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or nah

rotund dirge
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Nah, but it'll make compiling large projects a HELL of a lot easier.

strong plover
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i like the words "easier"

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ill look them up

ripe knotBOT
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GuyInABlueShirt#9163 has been warned

Reason: Duplicated text

rotund dirge
#

Wow

strong plover
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oof bad mee6

rotund dirge
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It deleted my makefile.

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-_-

strong plover
rotund dirge
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I'll dm it to you.

strong plover
#

Hey guyinablueshirt I found the guy you told me about

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He has free YouTube videos about qt 6

rotund dirge
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I should have mentioned that lol.

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Feel free to watch the series, it’s like basics of basics I think.

strong plover
#

I watched the qt installation video, and now I’m watching the hello world one. It’s seems about on my level right now lol. He’s starting with qt core and then he said he’ll do stuff with the widgets in later videos, which is what I want to do

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If I watch the whole thing and there’s more i need to learn, I’ll consider the paid course

maiden pine
#

Why was every online guide to installing Steam on Linux so complicated? "Oh, you need to add i386 support", and "oh, it only works on Ubuntu LTS"
I discovered a couple nights ago that all I needed to do was go on Steam's website and click the little green "install steam" button.
And btw I was looking up guides about it because I didn't notice the button the first time I went on Steam's website.
Ok rant over.

lilac apex
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lol

maiden pine
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I haven't used steam in years and don't remember my account so I dunno if it works... But it installed.

lilac apex
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only linux I remember was back when you had to install it through the CLI

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that took forever

frank steeple
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What distro are you using?

maiden pine
#

Kubuntu latest (not LTS), but I'm getting a new PC for Christmas so I'm currently messing around with it on my old old laptop.

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Honestly the only thing that concerns me now is that I asked for a 4K monitor and based on my experiments with my current old laptop, it's going to be a disaster...

zealous lantern
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hey i decided to use that fightstick i made as a regular controller, so i wanted to use the raspberry pi 4 for something else

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if i use it as a desktop for now, could i then make a phone out of an rpi4?

frank steeple
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Theoretically yes, but only if you're fine with the phone being an inch or two thick and don't mind buying $100+ of additional electronics

zealous lantern
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i'll pass on it for now

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maybe i'll do that as my first tech project during the late spring/early summer next year

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on top of that i can always put my phone in my backpack

zealous lantern
dusk kernel
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One can barely do a google or Youtube search without coming up with some Raspberry Pi projects. E.g.,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjX7nS3kIao

YouTube
element14 presents
Make Your Own Raspberry Pi Cell Phone

Have you ever wanted to make your very own, custom cell phone? Do you love Linux and wish your phone was more open source? Today, we’re going to see how to make a working prototype cell phone using a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino compatible board, and a GSM module packed into a custom 3D printed case. Connect with DJ and get the B.O.M. on element14: ...

▶ Play video
frank steeple
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You need at a minimum a screen, battery, and gsm on top of having the pi

dusk kernel
undone lichen
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i wouldnt have even wasted money on the cameras

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theyre so crappy, just get a real camera smh

zealous lantern
#

yeah

zealous lantern
severe crypt
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Introduced my buddy to arch

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Life is good

frank steeple
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Arch meh

finite cargo
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Is there a way to make an exact clone of a webpage?

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I tried the wget command provided here but it seems to have failed to clone some of the JS (?). I get the following errors when trying to open my HTML file:

unknown.png
frank steeple
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Hit Ctrl+s in your browser

finite cargo
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That has the same issue.

severe crypt
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Good old CORS

strong plover
#

I’m probably not gonna use arch ever unless it gets necessary. Or has crazy better support if games are made for it

rotund dirge
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And it linked a file located in /js/a.js

sleek halo
fallow belfry
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If there's any php code used you'd need to reverse engineer that still, since php doesn't expose code to clients. If the site is badly configured (common tbh) you can simply download the php script, though.

kind panther
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LMFAO MINT HAS A THINGY NOW

Screenshot_20211215-122205_Chrome.jpg
strong plover
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I’m actually laughing

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Wait can that be installed on Ubuntu

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On my Kde desktop

abstract wigeon
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This isn't a serious concern of mine but was doing an assignment on an Ubuntu usb and firefox wouldn't play netflix... Even after installing ffmpeg which some forum said to do but wouldn't play still. Had to download chrome.... Why lol

strong plover
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I would never download chrome. If you need a chrome thing to work, use Brave browser. It does literally everything chrome does. And its faster and doesn’t show any ads.

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That is annoying about Firefox though

kind panther
nocturne dragon
#

Hey, is there anything similar to default audio device settings in Gnome?

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Every time I turn my PC on, unlock my PC after it has been locked, or plug in my controller (if it was disconnected for some reason) it switches to a speaker output from my controller instead of my headset. This means I constantly have to open up settings, select my Corsair headset, close settings, and then I can use my computer again.

It is starting to really annoy me to the point I would genuinely consider switching DEs or Audio managers (if that is possible to do within a DE) from Pulse.

rotund dirge
strong plover
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And couldn’t I just add those to brave

kind panther
strong plover
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In my experience, Firefox is kinda annoying ngl. The tabs look like they’re from 2013, and it take forever to load webpages. Amazon in particular. I haven’t tried customizing the looks of it tho. Also, brave has a decent iPad app. And I don’t have to worry about using an adblocker with brave. It jist blocks trackers and as a result, most of not all ads.

abstract wigeon
visual carbon
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anyof you guys have tested csgo w vulkan and without vulkan yet? (linux update thing)

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i would like to see how the fps compares

kind panther
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Or run the windows app or the android app for it in an emulator/vm

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Or mirror phone screen to linux and play netflix on there

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Ur welcome

abstract wigeon
frank steeple
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Tldr is with vulkan has more fps than a monitor can display and without vulkan has more fps than a monitor can display

abstract wigeon
fallow belfry
abstract wigeon
brave isle
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so im trying to install cutefish OS, and idk if its bc i havent done it in awhile but idk what to do, i installed the ISO file for cutefish, dragged it and put it on my 64gb USB stick, trying to do advanced restart and

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idk what to do which one to do. pressing USB drive just says it failed to boot from@it and gives me 2 options, 1 is to boot from the usb stick and that just boots to windows 11, the other option is something idk what it is but it’s not for booting

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ping if reply

rotund dirge
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You probably want to use Rufus to put the ISO to the USB.

brave isle
rotund dirge
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Unless you're using Ventoy or something.

brave isle
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thats what i forgot to do.

rotund dirge
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Yep.

brave isle
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thank you

rotund dirge
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np.

brave isle
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last time i installed a linux os was deepin a couple of months ago

visual carbon
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  • the low end market would be able to play now, which in terms makes game go more players
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thats one of the reasons 128tick hasnt been added to match making, according Max from bananagaming, it has a negative impact on fps

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the more players they have the more maney they get

frank steeple
visual carbon
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oh yea res

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i mean still interesting to see, maybe source 2 even comes who knows. Thanks again

maiden pine
# strong plover In my experience, Firefox is kinda annoying ngl. The tabs look like they’re from...

I totally get where you're coming from. I haven't noticed the issue with Amazon, and YouTube is considerably faster with Firefox, but every so often I come across a website that makes me ask "what is my browser doing?"

Firefox CSS https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/ is incredible for personalizing the UI, but first you must spend 50 years honing your mind in a shaolin temple to learn the mystic art of CSS editing, then pray every day to the Mozilla gods that they don't remove the CSS functionality from the browser via an unexpected update. Or you can just go to https://firefoxcss-store.github.io/# to find a theme you like the look of.

Firefox is almost unusable on my iPad as well. I'm interested in Brave for iPad because both Firefox and Microsoft Edge load webpages extremely slowly and crash often. I assumed it was just an issue with iPad's OS messing with stuff, but if Brave works? Great!

reddit
r/FirefoxCSS
FirefoxCSS Store

A curated list of Firefox userChrome.css Themes.

rotund dirge
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No way you’re not a bot lol.

maiden pine
maiden pine
rotund dirge
maiden pine
strong plover
#

Brave better and less distractions

strong plover
#

Which one is the lightest weight?

Normal Ubuntu with gnome
Kubuntu
Mint with cinnamon
Popos

I have a very old laptop with 2gb ram and 2 core processor. It currently has windows 8.1. I’m going to try to put penguin operating system on it.

split spindle
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gentoo /s

strong plover
dusk kernel
frank steeple
strong plover
rotund dirge
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Which is the best part.

frank steeple
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It's not the lightest though

rotund dirge
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No It’s not

strong plover
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I’ve only heard bad things about gentoo. I really like the name though. Hey, someday i might try it as a live OS (need to figure out ventoy or whatever first cause im out of stick drives). Id prefer to stick with something at least Ubuntu based, and something thats not like arch cause my little brothers might be using this for their school sometimes

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And im kinda scared of arch

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Becuase of this

split spindle
#

how about using plain ol' debian

strong plover
split spindle
strong plover
#

I could try plain Debian.

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Manjaro seems cool. But two of my irl friends tried it and it wont let them do gpu acceleration so they ditched it for popos and gnome Ubuntu, respectively

split spindle
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no

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i spent more time troubleshooting manjaro than compiling chromium on pentium 4

strong plover
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Yeah i just tell people to steer clear of arch

brave isle
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ok so im trying to use cutefish OS and it wont download onto my internal disk. it only works off of my USB stick. i unplugged it while to OS ran, clicked the installer app on the software, said it installed but when i went to restart the computer, it just booted onto the "boot device not found" one

rotund dirge
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I can’t help much atm, but I can say this.

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Make sure you are installing onto the correct drive.

rotund dirge
brave isle
#

yea it is installing on the correct drive.

rotund dirge
#

Hmm. Odd..

brave isle
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its fixed

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idk why it wouldnt work before

rotund dirge
#

Now that’s very odd lol.

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Glad it worked out.

true void
#

I Am Going To Use Manjaro

maiden pine
strong plover
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Yesssssss

frank steeple
severe crypt
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Upgraded my Arch laptop, rebooted, bye bye kernel and OS

mortal totem
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Lol

zealous lantern
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oh no

dusk kernel
tropic talon
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my software ran fine on groovy gorilla, it updated to hippo, now my software doesn't run on archive manager, software run.

strong plover
#

Got a question- I want to try a whole bunch of Linux distros, kind of like in the YouTube videos. (I might even make my own video about it idk). I want to use them for about a week, so a temporary live install isn’t gonna work. I’ll need to reboot.

I won’t necessarily need to keep the install once I’m done with it.

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Any suggestions as to what the best way to make these installs is? I’d like to not dual boot off of my current ssds, so maybe stick drive? Or should I buy yet another ssd? Any suggestions or experience appreciated.

sleek halo
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I would just suggest using a hypervisor

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Like VirtualBox or something

#

Way easier than actually installing on hardware

#

You could use a secondary drive in your system for this but if you are going to be trying multiple distributions it would be way more efficient just to use something like VirtualBox

strong plover
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That might work

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I’ll have to test performance. It might not be fast enough

sleek halo
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Assign multiple CPU cores and a good amount of RAM and it should be

strong plover
#

True

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I just won’t be able to play my keyboard with low latency through it, and video editing would be a no go

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Probably photo editing too

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And testing driver stuff would not work at all

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But it might work

rotund dirge
dusk kernel
nocturne dragon
#

Quick question: Do audio managers generally come with your desktop environments or distros?

frank steeple
#

DE

nocturne dragon
#

I am annoyed at Pulse audio not having options to set default audio devices it stays on until I switch it manually and I am still unsure if other ones would allow me to set that anyway

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Oh, do any DEs come with PipeWire or alternatives to Pulse by default?

sleek halo
frank steeple
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I don't know if I want to use whatever distro the fsf decided to put on that drive

sleek halo
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Trisquel, I actually like it quite a bit

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Derived from Ubuntu so it is very traditional

frank steeple
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Still came from the fsf, I'll pass

strong plover
frank steeple
#

Free software foundation, aka the free software fanatics

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It's the organization that stallman made to promote his views

strong plover
#

Is stallman bad? I recognize the name but memory is blank

frank steeple
#

He's interesting and very opinionated

frank steeple
#

I'll have to see if my GPU works now

strong plover
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Oh wow that looks good

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I’ll have to see if my stuff is supported now

maiden pine
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"Logitech mouse issues from 0.6 have been fixed" Oh I hope this is true

#

Ah good, I no longer have to plug in a different mouse when I start the software. Thanks for the announcement!

maiden pine
# strong plover Is stallman bad? I recognize the name but memory is blank

Richard Stallman? The guy who once hacked the MIT computer lab where he worked (or studied IDK when this happened) to display the message "I see you chose the password [such and such]. I suggest that you switch to the password "carriage return." It's much easier to type, and also it stands up to the principle that there should be no passwords."

He has some spicy opinions. He also created the EMACS text editor.
A couple years ago he got "cancelled" for his comments on Jeffry Epstein, but I never looked into it.

sleek halo
#

He created GNU Emacs not the original Emacs editor itself

strong plover
mortal totem
#

I would be all in for an alternative to passwords but no security at all is no no

frank steeple
#

Lots of places are moving to Ed25519 public private key pairs for login

mortal totem
#

ye that's one way to do it

frank steeple
#

I've mostly moved over, I still have some old 4096 bit RSA keys hanging around though

tropic talon
#

Trying to get my SD card to open on my Linux mint laptop, cannot find an app to open it with

zealous lantern
#

what's wrong with the frii software foundation

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i understand if stallman has bad optics but his ideas don't seem terrible

frank steeple
frank steeple
zealous lantern
#

yeah i didn't think they were useful

oblique jay
#

I did a thing.

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rotund dirge
#

Someone has to pin this lmfao.

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“Just because you can”

strong plover
#

Woww

mortal totem
#

i just realized we dont have any pins here?

strong plover
#

There was a glitch when I wanted a thing pinned that I think dude said. It said pins were full even though there weren’t any

dusk kernel
#

Wait.... I said something pin-worthy? Surely not. 😄

rotund dirge
#

I don’t remember what it was.

strong plover
#

It was something about not making fun of users because of their choices for customization

strong plover
#

You’re just usually the one that says the important actually useful stuff in this channel

strong plover
#

There. This should still be pinned I think. At least since there aren’t other pins. And it’s deep. Like the true spirit.

dusk kernel
strong plover
#

You say good things about stuff too…

mortal totem
#

im setting up a traefik config and it's not letting me use a docker compose file version above 2.0, im just attempting to learn this now and can't get passed this, these are the engine and compose versions

unknown.png
#

this is ubuntu 16.04.7 lts

mortal totem
#

ahh i got it, the default apt install of compose is out of date lol

true void
#

the average mint user is

grizzled rune
#

What’s the difference between Linux and windows why do people prefer linux

dusk kernel
abstract wigeon
#

Linux is open source, free without an activation watermark, easier for some things, lots of different strains, similar to android

strong plover
#

Installing Linux is also a whole lot faster, and easier than installing windows.

strong plover
#

Got a dell latitude something or other today, 8gigs ram, no hard drive. Once I get one, GUESS WHAT ILL BE INSTALLING

undone lichen
#

templeos

fallow belfry
#

Lubuntu
They still have that flavor right?

strong plover
#

They still have lubuntu yeah

#

I’ll either be installing kubuntu or Ubuntu studio

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Unless you can convince me to something else

fallow belfry
#

Ubuntu server and no gui

strong plover
#

I have used it before….

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Nice try but no

abstract wigeon
kind panther
#

Elementary os

sleek halo
#

There are many things I rather use CLI for because its now faster to me

strong plover
#

Or like

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Too easy?

abstract wigeon
strong plover
#

Or is it as deep as the distro

abstract wigeon
strong plover
#

I want to look that stuff up, and then maybe install Ubuntu studio and cinnamon on top?

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Idk

#

I also have to figure out a distro/desktop combination for my brother.

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He’s a noob to computers in general, (lives on an iPad), but I want him to learn Linux not windows.

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I use KDE as a daily, and he was kinda interested in that

abstract wigeon
strong plover
#

Hmm that’s what I’ve read

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But the fact that I’m not familiar with mint yet, and that he’ll be whining for help often, I don’t know. I might try him on it

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But he’s not used to windows yet, which is what I think mint is for, supposed to look like windows

frank steeple
rotund dirge
#

Arch?

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As a starter OS?

frank steeple
#

No, Garuda

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Not arch

rotund dirge
#

Isn’t Garuda based on arch?

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Or is my info wrong?

frank steeple
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Yeah but that doesn't make it the same as arch

rotund dirge
#

Fair enough.

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Still don’t think rolling release distro is good for first time Linux.

frank steeple
#

Garuda is to arch as pop is to debian

rotund dirge
#

Interesting.

frank steeple
#

Also I'm pretty sure chip has prior experience

strong plover
#

I have plenty of prior experience. I’m a noob compared to you bob, but my brother has no experience

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And I have laptop for him too

frank steeple
#

Kubuntu for him maybe?

night charm
dusk kernel
#

I always factor in "do I want to support whatever I suggest should be installed?" That's why I rarely suggest Linux to family or friends. Not that Linux couldn't meet their needs, but because I don't want to be their sole means of support until they eventually learn how to find help online.

In this case, since you're familiar with Kubuntu, that's what I vote for. If they have similar musical needs to yours, Ubuntu Studio + KDE would be appropriate.

#

@strong plover Speaking of Ubuntu Studio... I can't recall if I've ever mentioned "KXStudio." It might have some audio tools that are useful for you.
https://kx.studio/

strong plover
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Im thinking kubuntu or Ubuntu studio. Hes not a music person. Just wants to play minecraft and normal things.

strong plover
dusk kernel
#

Cool... I'm glad I remembered to mention it. 😄

fallow belfry
#

Consider pop also if you're planning on doing any games or have a nvidia gpu

strong plover
strong plover
#

But Java works great on my computer with Ubuntu studio

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So I’m not scared

true void
#

yes it would personally I find cinnamon to be delightful

#

the same effect can be achieved with mate for less but it requires a Little more

strong plover
true void
#

less resources

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more effort (slightly)

strong plover
#

Ah I see

#

I installed kubuntu on an sd card

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It’s slow as crap

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But it’s kinda like a secret computer

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Lik

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I pull the sd card

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And no one can know what I did

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And if anyone wants to see

#

I break the card in half

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And viola

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Dead

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I win

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No one know

#

Now I need to find something to do that I’m not allowed to

strong plover
#

now im writing from this laptop with this obscure linux distro on a sd card 😎

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on discord

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an i downlod minecoraft

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its just loading stuff that is slow

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butit doenst have autocorrect like my phone does

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so this is me :))

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i hope i dont sound like

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like

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bunny

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idk

languid bluff
#

The guy who made “Linux” spelled his name wrong!

strong plover
dusk kernel
languid bluff
dusk kernel
#

No worries! So what did you find out?

strong plover
#

I actually don’t know why it’s named Linux ….

drifting forge
# strong plover I actually don’t know why it’s named Linux ….

Apparently sending links from Wikipedia isnt allowed....
look up history of linux. there is a naming section. Direct excerpt :

Linus Torvalds had wanted to call his invention Freax, a portmanteau of "free", "freak", and "x" (as an allusion to Unix). During the start of his work on the system, he stored the files under the name "Freax" for about half of a year. Torvalds had already considered the name "Linux", but initially dismissed it as too egotistical.[13]

In order to facilitate development, the files were uploaded to the FTP server (ftp.funet.fi) of FUNET in September 1991. Ari Lemmke at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), who was one of the volunteer administrators for the FTP server at the time, did not think that "Freax" was a good name. So, he named the project "Linux" on the server without consulting Torvalds.[13] Later, however, Torvalds consented to "Linux".

strong plover
dusk kernel
#

We Americans can't even agree on how to pronounce Linux correctly. I shudder at the thought of how confusing Freax would be.

dusk kernel
strong plover
frank steeple
#

No

strong plover
#

loll

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LEEN ucks

frank steeple
#

Lynn-ucks

strong plover
#

LIn-ucks

frank steeple
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What're you, Welsh?

strong plover
#

nah

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indiana

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US

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U.S.A

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are you german

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cause your pfp

frank steeple
#

No

strong plover
#

Is your pfp of your face or just a random dude

frank steeple
#

It's a dead guy named John

strong plover
#

Uncle John

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Dead John.

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Interesting

frank steeple
#

Greatgreatgreatgreat grandpa John actually

unique night
frank steeple
#

No

dusk kernel
#

LEEN-ooks is an option also.

strong plover
strong plover
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(ESL)

kind panther
strong plover
#

LEN ecks

strong plover
#

Has anyone tried installing a desktop environment that is the same one as the distro shipped with?

#

I like Ubuntu studio, but the KDE it comes with is eh. I know i could customize it, but its so much easier to have it nice without that. The KDE that comes with Kubuntu however, is Beautiful. I want to just like use that out of the box.

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Im so confused and frustrated right now im sorry

#

If no one knows I’ll wrestle with a vm

stuck python
#

Does anybody know if/when Autodesk products will be supported on Linux?

frank steeple
#

Technically now

#

It just needs virtualization

unique night
languid bluff
#

my friend said Linux is for poor people because the code is open source. Is that true?

sleek halo
#

You need better friends.

strong plover
#

That is not true. Simply not true. And yes, might wanna get better friends

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Open source gives greater security and honesty, we can personally go check and see if a big company is taking our data. Microsoft? Nope.

strong plover
#

KDE Connect between two different KDE computers is so perfect.

~a pair of jeans that fit just right turn the radio uhh-uhuhh-uhuhh-upppp

strong plover
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Send files effortlessly

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I love it

kind panther
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its pretty cool actually

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you already know its doing it without checking

frank steeple
languid bluff
languid bluff
strong plover
unique night
unique night
languid bluff
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is using an 500 mb SSD good for booting Linux?

frank steeple
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There is something to be said that a lot of well off people use Linux

unique night
languid bluff
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that’s cool

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What distro?

unique night
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Depends what your trying to do.

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I am running Ubuntu 20.04 right now.

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But on other machines I am running Ubuntu 21.10

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and once Ubuntu 22.04 is released I will probably update them all to that one until 24.04 comes up, but might keep one of them current to check out the newest features.

stuck python
dusk kernel
# languid bluff is using an 500 mb SSD good for booting Linux?

500MB... or 500GB?? 500GB would be plenty for a general purpose installation.

The amount of drive space you need will depend on what you're going to use the machine for. A 30GB partition for the OS is probably plenty, anything else would be for files, etc.

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Geez.... flashback... the hard drive in my first PC was 454MB and now that's barely enough for one of the UEFI-related partitions. chuckle

unique night
dusk kernel
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I don't "disagree" but it does depend on what one plans to use the system for.

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Aw geez... I really didn't want to get sucked into the RGB lighting time/money pit.... but....

I have an Asus TUF motherboard and GPU in a dual-boot system (Win10 & Fedora 34). I installed the Asus "Armoury Crate" utility, set the lights to a static color, rebooted to Linux, and the lights are still the correct color. Ugh, now I'm tempted to stuff the case full of gratuitous RGB lighting. facepalm

strong plover
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I’ve heard so much bad about rgb, like calling it unicorn vomit, but ngl i actually love the vibe it gives to my desk

unique night
strong plover
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I won’t judge anyone unless they’re judging me 😎

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But yeah, I spent 12 dollars with tax for two strips that go in my pc.

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And then my sister got me a super long separate strip for my birthday that I put in my bed

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And then a church I play organ at gave me a free keyboard with hotswap outemu blacks and it has rgb

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I’m all decked out

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-to my liking-

unique night
strong plover
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Yeah, the rgb strips in the case

unique night
# strong plover Yeah, the rgb strips in the case

I recall seeing a Reddit post some time ago, a video of a PC boot sequence with mostly or all white lights. The sequentially ran down the AIO cooling tubes at first before everything else popped to life. It looked really cool. I am not sure I'll ever find it again. But I'd like to learn how to do those kinds of controlled effects.

dusk kernel
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That definitely looks cool, but the effects aren't something you need to learn how to do. You just need to buy the correct product. The cables are probably something like these:
https://www.newegg.com/p/1W7-00BS-00005

true void
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why did y'all not tell me about this

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im going to beat all of you up

dusk kernel
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Violence is not the answer. However.... BRING IT. 😄

strong plover
languid bluff
mortal totem
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anyone know how to hook at network share to linux, host is truenas core, client is ubuntu 18.04, closest I got was mounting the drive via nfs but can get any info on contents inside

strong plover
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I said this to emy in dms and I want everyone to know This is Truth

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If you use Kde or similar desktop environment, breeze is so clean. Breeze light mode is for moms and grandmas and married people, breeze twilight is for people who are actually still hanging on to their life, and I use breeze dark

nocturne dragon
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Hey, I am having a tech problem and have no clue what to do. I don't know how to shut down my PC correctly after a bug has made it so my mouse can only not interact with my panel. It is normally set to autohide but is now always visible and I can't open my menu.

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What would you guys normally do if this happened to you?

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I can still open programs, close them and use the mouse normally in them using my super key menu but cannot open my zorin menu directly to power off my system.

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This is worse than I thought. I opened up the logout menu using a shortcut for gnome and I cannot select log out using either my keyboard or mouse.

ripe knotBOT
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CyberianFaux#3044 has been warned

Reason: Duplicated text

nocturne dragon
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UPDATE: I was able to reboot from terminal and everything is fixed now after restarting. tru3Thumb

dusk kernel
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Awwww.... geez, if I hadn't been playing Borderlands 3, "use the terminal" would have been my suggestion. Oh well... I'm only an hour late. Glad you got it sorted though!!

nocturne dragon
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Thanks @dusk kernel anyway!

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I always appreciate how helpful and nice everyone is in this chat.

fallow belfry
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lol no problem, can be through what ever but rn smb and nfs are enabled, i was able to mount and access it using cifs but my end goal is to use it as the database for nextcloud via docker, so it looks like I have to setup a mariadb or mysql database? rn my thought was maybe instead of a mount link the nas drive with a docker volume and try to configure maria with the docker volume. not 100% sure how to do that but im reading up

fallow belfry
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With smb on it should be as easy as hard linking the network folder

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Assuming you have a file explorer capable of opening the share, you can just navigate to the network location and copy the folder address into a hard link

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Then point whatever program to the hard link location

mortal totem
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oh also, this is all one system, one vm is actually hosting the share the other vm is accessing the share but all the host and guest os are command line and web interface only

fallow belfry
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Oh, tui mode. Fun challenge but you can still find the share address and mklink to the share

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I recommend the link be in the home folder for easy use

mortal totem
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ye that might be part of the problem, whenever i got close i got access denied errors, I think docker in this install might only have access to the home folder besides its normal system files

fallow belfry
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Smb does need full access to the shared folder. You can deny and allow individual users permissions from the smb config file. Or enable anonymous user with full access if you're of low security needs.

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Not just the shared folder too, but the parent folder. I've had that issue before.

nocturne dragon
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Okay, is there any resources I can use to find out if hardware is supported by specific linux distros and their child distros? For instance, check if a controller is supported in any way by Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros?

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The reason I am asking is that my dad got an 8bitdo controller finally but he didn't look into whether it was compatible or not (or even have me check if it was compatible or not for him) and likely wouldn't have found any answer to that question anyway. The reason he likely wouldn't find an answer is because he bought an 8bitdo controller that just had to have poor naming (exact same name as a wireless controller that can be used with the wire connected instead of his wired one).

fallow belfry
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You can find the hardware models and check if there's open source drivers (best case), closed source (ok), or wrapped windows drivers (eeehhhh, they work sometimes)

nocturne dragon
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How would I go about that?

fallow belfry
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It varies by what you're checking

nocturne dragon
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I know the name of the controller (though it gets mixed up with an identically named one when searching)

fallow belfry
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usually just a google for "model name" linux driver

nocturne dragon
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I see

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Google has been an... interesting experience with this...

fallow belfry
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What exactly are you looking for? I can try to check too

nocturne dragon
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He has a SN30 Pro+

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but the model that is wired

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There is an identical one that is bluetooth capable but this one is wired.

fallow belfry
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Yeah I see the bluetooth one is compatible for sure

nocturne dragon
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And that is an issue I am having. The bluetooth one is the only one I can find any information of any kind on.

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I found one single reddit post about the model I am talking about but it wasn't helpful and had a single reply.

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If I knew I could post links I would link it here.

fallow belfry
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It looks like firmware updates work on Linux so I imagine basic gamepad support works at a minimum

nocturne dragon
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Is there any articles that might guide me through getting those updates?

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Or whatever is needed to get it to work?

fallow belfry
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I see a github post that says everything is working except the rumble

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Using xpadneo

nocturne dragon
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So, I might be able to just install xpadneo and test then?

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Or would I have to worry about other software first?

fallow belfry
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Seems that way

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xpadneo should have any dependencies listed

nocturne dragon
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Alright, will try that and try to post results here

fallow belfry
nocturne dragon
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It was at this moment I realized how lucky I have been with github as releases usually include .deb package downloads

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I still haven't learned to clone repos yet

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One more thing to learn tonight I suppose

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Nvm, they have simple install instructions in the readme.

nocturne dragon
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Or not so simple when I realize what all has to happen to get it to work.

mortal totem
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take time

nocturne dragon
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Well, I actually did get xpadneo set up as I can now use an xbox controller wirelessly but Steam still cannot see the controller my dad wants to get setup.

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I am almost convinced it won't work unless another person with this controller has created software for it.

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I may have to tell my dad to return it (if still possible) and order the wireless version as it is more common and there are lots of support articles on getting that one working.

nocturne dragon
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Does anyone know what to do about this error?: "Failed to connect to daemon: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.fwupd: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.fwupd': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)"

strong plover
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Okay I have found the only actually valid reason to use Linux.

Open your software center or equivalent, and type in “Extreme Tux Racer”.
Hit install.

Life has a new meaning.

nocturne dragon
strong plover
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It has changed my life….

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Also, I am sorry I do not know the answer to your question, I don’t mean to skip it

nocturne dragon
strong plover
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Glad its working for you now!

languid bluff
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can you use wine to make any program usable on linux?

strong plover
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Not any program, definitely not. But sometimes it is successful.

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Check wine db. If other people have tried it, it may be listed

strong plover
inner grove
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I've officially installed Linux for the first time

strong plover
kind panther
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i too daily a linux based os

languid bluff
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Tux is fat penguin

kind panther
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and huggable

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and cute

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they smell gross tho

languid bluff
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you smell penguins?

kind panther
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ive seen em in a zoo

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they no smell good

strong plover
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❤️ Tux

strong plover
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anyone use a HMB nvme drive with linux? and does it slow the computer down cause of it?

inner grove
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Im having some issues with installing drivers for a radeon hd 6670 on pop os

nocturne dragon
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@inner grove You don't have to install drivers in Linux for the most part. It is baked into the kernel :D

inner grove
nocturne dragon
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Ah okay.

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Also, make sure you have proton and such enabled and that your game is supported

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Do you have the link for ProtonDB?

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It is highly useful.

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@inner grove

inner grove
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Not sure if I have proton enabled but I can check later. But the games I tried are running fine now and my display resolution is back to normal

nocturne dragon
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Awesome!

rotund dirge
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CRAP

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I was supposed to install gentoo on a laptop just because I wanted to.

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Smh.

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Well, time to start.

mortal totem
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Have fun

rotund dirge
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Thanks.

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Am having fun.

rotund dirge