• General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;39672987]Did SysV have some form of systemctl? Was there a way to enable/disable daemons without editing rc files manually?[/QUOTE] /sbin/rc.d
[QUOTE=Weirdness;39672241]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] It might be supported with the brcm80211 driver: [url]http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211[/url]
[QUOTE=esalaka;39673008]/sbin/rc.d[/QUOTE] I guess I just wasn't very savvy :v: systemctl seemed so nice in comparison, but at this point I can't think of many ostensible advantages to systemd.
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;39673327]I guess I just wasn't very savvy :v: systemctl seemed so nice in comparison, but at this point I can't think of many ostensible advantages to systemd.[/QUOTE] Parallel startup and better organised daemon config. In a sense, at least.
[QUOTE=esalaka;39673379]Parallel startup and better organised daemon config. In a sense, at least.[/QUOTE] Compared to SysV maybe, OpenRC has both of those too. In a sense, anyway.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;39673443]Compared to SysV maybe[/QUOTE] I meant SysV Init, yeah, by continuing my previous post. Never used OpenRC.
Getting my friend's laptop to boot Ubuntu was an experience. I made an Ubuntu live-usb (the easy part), and tried to turn off the laptop. Windows 8 makes this very simple: first you open the start screen thing, then you click on the user account icon, sign out, wait for Windows to process your request (and get back to you in the mail within 5-7 business days), before clicking on a screen, finding the power icon and clicking power off. At this point, Windows proceeds to lie to you, as "Shut Down" is apparently synonymous with "Hibernate" in Win8, meaning it is impossible to enter the BIOS unless you hold shift down while powering off... this is all well and good, but it seems rather obscure, and it took me three or four painfully slow reboots and some google searches to map out the proper procedure. Once in the BIOS, I put USB at the top of the boot order and turned off secure boot. Ubuntu now started quickly and I was at a trial desktop in a couple of seconds. But to my dismay, the people at Realtek haven't officially released a driver for this specific wifi card with support for linux; there is just [url=http://askubuntu.com/questions/139632/wireless-card-realtek-rtl8723ae-bt-is-not-recognized]a source tarball up on an anonymous Dropbox account...[/url]. At this point I was a bit disenchanted with the idea of providing support for linux on a machine which seems to abhor it so vehemently, so I gave up. I restore all of the BIOS settings and thanked my friend for letting me give it a shot. :suicide: I hope someday I'll get one of my friends to at least [i]try[/i] linux, or take some interest in computers whatsoever.
While I was a bit drunk earlier I replaced ddwrt with openwrt on my (unsupported) router. Thankfully I didn't brick it and I'm now in love with openwrtEDIT: Why does facepunch keep removing my newlines?
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;39675346]Getting my friend's laptop to boot Ubuntu was an experience. I made an Ubuntu live-usb (the easy part), and tried to turn off the laptop. Windows 8 makes this very simple: first you open the start screen thing, then you click on the user account icon, sign out, wait for Windows to process your request (and get back to you in the mail within 5-7 business days), before clicking on a screen, finding the power icon and clicking power off. At this point, Windows proceeds to lie to you, as "Shut Down" is apparently synonymous with "Hibernate" in Win8, meaning it is impossible to enter the BIOS unless you hold shift down while powering off... this is all well and good, but it seems rather obscure, and it took me three or four painfully slow reboots and some google searches to map out the proper procedure. Once in the BIOS, I put USB at the top of the boot order and turned off secure boot. Ubuntu now started quickly and I was at a trial desktop in a couple of seconds. But to my dismay, the people at Realtek haven't officially released a driver for this specific wifi card with support for linux; there is just [url=http://askubuntu.com/questions/139632/wireless-card-realtek-rtl8723ae-bt-is-not-recognized]a source tarball up on an anonymous Dropbox account...[/url]. At this point I was a bit disenchanted with the idea of providing support for linux on a machine which seems to abhor it so vehemently, so I gave up. I restore all of the BIOS settings and thanked my friend for letting me give it a shot. :suicide: I hope someday I'll get one of my friends to at least [i]try[/i] linux, or take some interest in computers whatsoever.[/QUOTE] It's all fun and games till you don't have a mainline wifi driver.
I think I've finally fixed my problems for good with my usb dongle. I've been having constant dropouts with the driver I was using before, so I've managed to get ahold of some updated ones that are actually detected by ndiswrapper and work with it. Now I just hope it doesn't start dropping out again. [sp]sorry for posting like this was my blog or some shit[/sp]
[QUOTE=Weirdness;39676639]I think I've finally fixed my problems for good with my usb dongle. I've been having constant dropouts with the driver I was using before, so I've managed to get ahold of some updated ones that are actually detected by ndiswrapper and work with it. Now I just hope it doesn't start dropping out again. [sp]sorry for posting like this was my blog or some shit[/sp][/QUOTE] I may not speak for everyone, but posting updates here is fine as long as they pertain to linux.
I think I've become a KDE convert Kwin is so nice and smooooooooth and doesn't seem to slow down everything even when I have desktop effects enabled. And I found some themes for it that don't suck! :D
I tried KDE yesterday, it ate 5GB of RAM and wouldn't load. It's a shame because I'd really like to try it.
Something had to be broken, no way it consumed anywhere near 5GB of ram
[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;39679741]I tried KDE yesterday, it ate 5GB of RAM and wouldn't load. It's a shame because I'd really like to try it.[/QUOTE] What?? What hellish distro are you using that messes KDE up so bad?
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;39680192]What?? What hellish distro are you using that messes KDE up so bad?[/QUOTE] Probably openSUSE.
Arch. Turns out a full install is a bad idea. [editline]22nd February 2013[/editline] Okay, it changed it's mind.
[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;39680527]Arch.[/quote] ew [quote]Turns out a full install is a bad idea.[/QUOTE] [code]emerge kdebase-meta[/code] Minimal install of KDE on Gentoo right there. I don't know how to translate it to the hieroglyphs that is pacman command line, but basically you just want to install the kdebase package.
[QUOTE=lavacano;39681324]ew [code]emerge kdebase-meta[/code] Minimal install of KDE on Gentoo right there. I don't know how to translate it to the hieroglyphs that is pacman command line, but basically you just want to install the kdebase package.[/QUOTE] I think it's called kdebase on arch.
I swear my Windows sometimes has input delay (in Firefox) and my Sabayon does not. Windows is terrible sometimes. Then again, Sabayon can't run steam games like TF2: [url]http://pastebin.com/HCTtXaY2[/url] It LOOKS like something is wrong with my drivers, but steam itself starts fine (if I start it with optirun, not without). Obviously, I have a laptop with that intel/NVidia shit card configuration with bumblebee installed. What can I do about it? TF2 just shows a black screen.
[QUOTE=FPtje;39681768]I swear my Windows sometimes has input delay (in Firefox) and my Sabayon does not. Windows is terrible sometimes.[/QUOTE] IMO Firefox has gone down the hill. It crashes almost instantly on me.
[code]Warning: Your steam package is out of date. Please get an updated version from your package provider or directly from [URL]http://repo.steampowered.com/steam[/URL] for supported distributions.[/code] Doesn't sound good, but I don't see why it should be stopping TF2 from running. I don't know anything about PBOs, but [code] [VGL] NOTICE: Pixel format of 2D X server does not match pixel format of [VGL] Pbuffer. Disabling PBO readback. [/code] doesn't appear in the output when I launch TF2. Also a lot of the output you have at the beginning of the log is actually at the end of mine, only printing once I close TF2. Sorry I'm not much help...
[QUOTE=FPtje;39681768]I swear my Windows sometimes has input delay (in Firefox) and my Sabayon does not. Windows is terrible sometimes. Then again, Sabayon can't run steam games like TF2: [url]http://pastebin.com/HCTtXaY2[/url] It LOOKS like something is wrong with my drivers, but steam itself starts fine (if I start it with optirun, not without). Obviously, I have a laptop with that intel/NVidia shit card configuration with bumblebee installed. What can I do about it? TF2 just shows a black screen.[/QUOTE] I have the same thing. It's not really as clear in Ubuntu, but everything is just super fast as hell in Sabayon, especially compared to Windows. I've got Windows 8 installed on my desktop PC, maybe that's the problem. But yeah, Source games aren't that well running on Linux yet. I'm using the open source radeon drivers, and although it works, it's really slow. I hope you figure it out man! [editline]22nd February 2013[/editline] I have really come to LOVE vim, especially gvim. 2.3MB executable size makes it pretty fast in startup time, and then using powerline and syntastic makes programming C and HTML the most sexy experience I've had in a long time. Then I learned of NERDTree, and needless to say, I had to repaint my room from the amount of ejaculation.
[QUOTE=Killervalon;39681950]IMO Firefox has gone down the hill. It crashes almost instantly on me.[/QUOTE] What? I've used Firefox since v2, it's only gotten better. [editline]23rd February 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;39682234]I have really come to LOVE vim, especially gvim. 2.3MB executable size makes it pretty fast in startup time, and then using powerline and syntastic makes programming C and HTML the most sexy experience I've had in a long time. Then I learned of NERDTree, and needless to say, I had to repaint my room from the amount of ejaculation.[/QUOTE] Install Vundle. Also, best editor. :D
[QUOTE=Jookia;39683461]What? I've used Firefox since v2, it's only gotten better.[/QUOTE] I've used it since Firefox 1. I still remember being subscribed to a magazine which sent a CD with it with games and software. Firefox 2 was when Mozilla was at it's best.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;39682234]But yeah, Source games aren't that well running on Linux yet. I'm using the open source radeon drivers, and although it works, it's really slow. I hope you figure it out man![/QUOTE] Surprisingly, source runs pretty well for me on Mint with the proprietary Nvidia drivers (180 fps solid capped). Only issue I get right now is some really annoying micostuttering whenever I change the direction I look at or when I enter a new area/leave spawn, which is putting me off from switching over completely. If valve fixes the remaining performance issues, I could see myself using Linux just for my source games, because so far the framerate and general feel is better for me than on windows.
[QUOTE=Killervalon;39683593]I've used it since Firefox 1. I still remember being subscribed to a magazine which sent a CD with it with games and software. Firefox 2 was when Mozilla was at it's best.[/QUOTE] Well, for me Firefox 3 was a major improvement, at least.
[QUOTE=Jookia;39683461]What? I've used Firefox since v2, it's only gotten better. [editline]23rd February 2013[/editline] Install Vundle. Also, best editor. :D[/QUOTE] I had some issues with Vundle >: I'm using pathogen, are you okay with that?
Does Linux still have significantly less battery life than Windows? I remember trying Ubuntu on my old laptop about a year and a half ago, though I had to switch back since the battery life was pretty much half what I got in Windows.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;39684830]Does Linux still have significantly less battery life than Windows? I remember trying Ubuntu on my old laptop about a year and a half ago, though I had to switch back since the battery life was pretty much half what I got in Windows.[/QUOTE] I haven't had Windows on my netbook, but it easily lasts a good 3-4 hours, depending on how much action is going on. Casual usage includes programming and a lot of other CPU intensive stuff, also gaming, so that's probably not the best battery time possible. I'd like to hear stories on battery life as well.
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