• General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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Installing my first Linux distro (Debian). What should I expect? [editline]21st February 2013[/editline] Scratch that, I'll go Mint.
[QUOTE=Weirdness;39654083]Installing my first Linux distro (Debian). What should I expect? [editline]21st February 2013[/editline] Scratch that, I'll go Mint.[/QUOTE] Debian is good but more suitable for servers than desktops.
Yeah, decided to go for something simpler. Quick question regarding Mint, which one should I get, Mint 14 or Mint Debian? Sorry I'm new to all this. :v:
[QUOTE=Weirdness;39654748]Yeah, decided to go for something simpler. Quick question regarding Mint, which one should I get, Mint 14 or Mint Debian? I'd like to get Mint Debian for the updates and Debian Repo, but I'm worried about this:[/QUOTE] You should probaly get MATE instead (Or Cinnamon? I don't know)
[QUOTE=Killervalon;39654751]You should probaly get MATE instead (Or Cinnamon? I don't know)[/QUOTE] MATE is not a bad starting point at all. After all, that was the DE (Or rather, GNOME 2.x was) that made me use Linux in the first place. It's really amazing.
Cinnamon looks pretty stylish, so I might go with that. Just formatted my old HDD that was just for backup, so I'm gonna use that once I've downloaded the ISO. Will it run fine off of a USB? (Don't have my disk drive installed.) [editline]21st February 2013[/editline] Sorry for all the questions by the way, just really don't want to fuck it up first time in.
[QUOTE=Weirdness;39654786]Cinnamon looks pretty stylish, so I might go with that. Just formatted my old HDD that was just for backup, so I'm gonna use that once I've downloaded the ISO. Will it run fine off of a USB? (Don't have my disk drive installed.) [editline]21st February 2013[/editline] Sorry for all the questions by the way, just really don't want to fuck it up first time in.[/QUOTE] Well, you can run it on a USB - but don't start whining over the slow speeds... You can run CrystalDiskMark to test what you're going to get.
Cheers. I might have to run it from USB anyway; yet to find a way to use my old CD drive with this motherboard. [editline]21st February 2013[/editline] Thanks again.
Oh, I thought you meant install Linux on it... Putting the installer on a USB is definetly the way to go.. Sorry! =P
No worries, probably didn't sentence that properly.
[QUOTE=lavacano;39653669]Windows flat out does not like suddenly having less space than it did before. People claim it's been getting better in that regard but my experience tells me that's not the case.[/QUOTE] Because of how Windows works resizing any NTFS partitions should be done from Windows instead of with GParted or something.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;39651723]are you one of those people who got all up in arms when google changed their privacy policy?[/QUOTE] Look, we're talking about something that sends keystrokes or at least search queries to Canonical every time you look for a file or application on your computer. If Microsoft made it so that start menu sent your keystrokes/queries to Bing as you typed them, and it was opt-out, there would definitely be some concern. I'm not using Ubuntu until their philosophy changes, and if it doesn't, then I'll quit using it and switch to a distro that's more adapted to what I want. It's Linux after all, I'm free from being stuck to a single version of the OS. [QUOTE=esalaka;39655321]Because of how Windows works resizing any NTFS partitions should be done from Windows instead of with GParted or something.[/QUOTE] Never had any problems doing it from GParted here. As usual, take backups.
Just some info regarding the Cinnamon desktop. For me it crashes a lot, while running wine and steam etc. I want to move to a new desktop environment. I'm running Linux mint 14. Does anyone know of any stable fast ones that work good with wine? Sorta like MATE, but I want to keep my choices open.
[QUOTE=sarge997;39656178]Just some info regarding the Cinnamon desktop. For me it crashes a lot, while running wine and steam etc. I want to move to a new desktop environment. I'm running Linux mint 14. Does anyone know of any stable fast ones that work good with wine? Sorta like MATE, but I want to keep my choices open.[/QUOTE] Why not just MATE? It's really fine, and you can easily reposition any and all panels and whatever content they have in any way you so desire. Don't forget to install compton for a few visual fidelitity such as fading and shadows.
[QUOTE=sarge997;39656178]Just some info regarding the Cinnamon desktop. For me it crashes a lot, while running wine and steam etc. I want to move to a new desktop environment. I'm running Linux mint 14. Does anyone know of any stable fast ones that work good with wine? Sorta like MATE, but I want to keep my choices open.[/QUOTE] MATE, xfce, KDE
oh god I just updated to systemd on my arch server I have no idea what im doing [editline]20th February 2013[/editline] I was very happy before now everything is broken
Can anyone recommend a good graphical file manager to use with Awesome wm on Arch? The ability to automount and such would be great. At the moment I am thinking Thunar, because I can't seem to get spacefm + udevil to automount. I am thinking though to go in reverse and go with something simple like Mint or Buntu. The thing is that I hate how easy pacman and the aur make it to get up to date packages.
[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;39664220]oh god I just updated to systemd on my arch server I have no idea what im doing [editline]20th February 2013[/editline] I was very happy before now everything is broken[/QUOTE] How are you only now updating to systemd?
[QUOTE=Bonzai11;39664502]Can anyone recommend a good graphical file manager to use with Awesome wm on Arch? The ability to automount and such would be great. At the moment I am thinking Thunar, because I can't seem to get spacefm + udevil to automount. I am thinking though to go in reverse and go with something simple like Mint or Buntu. The thing is that I hate how easy pacman and the aur make it to get up to date packages.[/QUOTE] PCManFM and Thunar are both quite nice.
[QUOTE=danharibo;39664515]How are you only now updating to systemd?[/QUOTE] the machine it's on is hundreds of miles away and I didn't want to knock it out of commission/laziness everything is fixed now
[QUOTE=danharibo;39664515]How are you only now updating to systemd?[/QUOTE] I refuse to migrate away from OpenRC to systemd. If it ain't broke...
[QUOTE=lavacano;39665085]I refuse to migrate away from OpenRC to systemd. If it ain't broke...[/QUOTE] systemd is pretty fast, if you're on Arch you should probably switch just to keep it all clean.
Finally got Mint working. Have it dual-booting properly now at startup from my spare HDD. Though now every time I log into Mint with Cinnamon[B] while[/B] I have a internet connection it crashes and goes back to asking for my username and password. Switching to gnome stopped that, hopefully after updating it'll stop crashing. :suicide: What's some good stuff to install?
Just spent the last 4 hours trying to get my wireless dongle to work. [I]never again[/I]
[QUOTE=Weirdness;39668326]Just spent the last 4 hours trying to get my wireless dongle to work. [I]never again[/I][/QUOTE] Chill, I once needed 12 hours to create a dual-boot system :v:
[QUOTE=Weirdness;39668326]Just spent the last 4 hours trying to get my wireless dongle to work. [I]never again[/I][/QUOTE] I did that once too. 99% of the time was spend looking for the driver CD though, and the last 1% was spend on plugging it in and realizing that the kernel drivers worked fine, they just had to be modprobed.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;39669536]I did that once too. 99% of the time was spend looking for the driver CD though, and the last 1% was spend on plugging it in and realizing that the kernel drivers worked fine, they just had to be modprobed.[/QUOTE] I ended up just switching to my gf's dongle, which is a netgear WNDA3100v2, and actually has drivers that work with ndiswrapper. :suicide:
[QUOTE=danharibo;39665096]systemd is pretty fast, if you're on Arch you should probably switch just to keep it all clean.[/QUOTE] Interestingly enough I'm not on Arch. OpenRC is pretty fast as well, as well as the fact that I don't want to spend the huge chunk of time I'll inevitably have to spend migrating over just for a simple speed increase.
[QUOTE=lavacano;39672869]Interestingly enough I'm not on Arch.[/QUOTE] Well the whole migration to systemd only really happened because Arch switched to it as default and deprecated SysV Init Feel free not to change. It's not that much better.
Did SysV have some form of systemctl? Was there a way to enable/disable daemons without editing rc files manually?
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