• General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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I brok Linux. I'm not good with computers... Meanwhile, could you guys suggest me some reading on "how to linux"? I installed Debian on a virtual machine, typed random words into the root console, and now it won't start :downs: I want to really understand how it all works from inside out, but all I know right now is that it's not Windows.
Why is wireless networking under Linux such a pain in the ass? I'm living somewhere else for a while and I can't connect to the local wifi on my Arch install :(
Just installed #! for the first time on my netbook. Holy shit its beautiful. My netbook is finally fast again I can use this for programming in school now.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;37506175]Just installed #! for the first time on my netbook.[/QUOTE] You can't google that, I'm helpless now. [editline]2nd September 2012[/editline] What's the best tiling window manager? I found i3 to be quite nice.
[QUOTE=WeltEnSTurm;37507420]What's the best tiling window manager? I found i3 to be quite nice.[/QUOTE] There is no "best" in the world of Arch Linux - there is only "my favorite". Try them all, pick your favorite, and then be happy forever. Edit: And I'm assuming #! means bash.
[QUOTE=supervoltage;37507432]There is no "best" in the world of Arch Linux - there is only "my favorite". Try them all, pick your favorite, and then be happy forever. Edit: And I'm assuming #! means bash.[/QUOTE] # == crunch ! == bang [editline]2nd September 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Lyoko774;37503329]Why is wireless networking under Linux such a pain in the ass? I'm living somewhere else for a while and I can't connect to the local wifi on my Arch install :([/QUOTE] Crash course # pacman -S netcfg wpa_supplicant # wifi-menu ( Save config's for oft used networks ) # netcfg-menu If you have any issues/need to change an SSID/Password look in /etc/network.d/ for the profile and make your edits. If you have to run netcfg multiple times to connect, increase your timeout (TIMEOUT=60+). Don't jump so quickly to blame Linux/Arch as I've found my ability to connect is drastically effected by which network I'm connecting to.
[QUOTE=WeltEnSTurm;37507420]You can't google that, I'm helpless now. [editline]2nd September 2012[/editline] What's the best tiling window manager? I found i3 to be quite nice.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://crunchbanglinux.org/"]http://crunchbanglinux.org/[/URL] And DWM and xmonad are some cool tiling WM's
[QUOTE=kaukassus;37508369][URL="http://crunchbanglinux.org/"]http://crunchbanglinux.org/[/URL] And DWM and xmonad are some cool tiling WM's[/QUOTE] Wait, what about [url=http://awesome.naquadah.org/]awesome?[/url]
[QUOTE=nehkz;37512602]Wait, what about [URL="http://awesome.naquadah.org/"]awesome?[/URL][/QUOTE] If you already know lua, choose awesome. If you already know haskell, choose xmonad. If you already know C, choose dwm. <-(My second favorite WM) If you already know how you want your WM to function, choose i3. <-(So, use this one) I understand writing configuration using existing languages, but it is easy to lose sight of what you are actually trying to accomplish when the config syntax was actually designed for more general computing. Albeit lua, haskell and C are all very powerful and useful in their own right, the designers of i3 tailored a config file to suit the needs of a tiling WM; they succeeded. I've yet to find a configuration option that I wanted which wasn't offered through a simple, straightforward line in the config.
I wish Valve would release more info on Steam for Linux, mostly how they plan to encourage Linux usage
[QUOTE=The Baconator;37519732]I wish Valve would release more info on Steam for Linux, mostly how they plan to encourage Linux usage[/QUOTE] They're probably gonna say that W8 is a failure (which I slowly agree with them, provided by the recent Microsoft news), and how powerful Linux can be. Linux gives you immense freedom over your system - it's like your own democracy-in-a-box. Except you're the president, and there's no government to regulate your law proposals. And the citizens are nice and report if they don't like something (detailed error messages). Windows (looking at 8) strips your freedom over Microsoft's choice. Microsoft was good - XP was a great system, even though nowadays slightly outdated. XP offered some freedom - it wouldn't cry much if you wanted to install some software or the like. But 8.. 8 is pretty much the representation of a WW2 era ghetto. I may have overreacted, but I haven't tried 8 myself, so I'm only judging based on what I've read from Facepunch members.
[QUOTE=supervoltage;37519822]They're probably gonna say that W8 is a failure (which I slowly agree with them, provided by the recent Microsoft news), and how powerful Linux can be. Linux gives you immense freedom over your system - it's like your own democracy-in-a-box. Except you're the president, and there's no government to regulate your law proposals. And the citizens are nice and report if they don't like something (detailed error messages). Windows (looking at 8) strips your freedom over Microsoft's choice. Microsoft was good - XP was a great system, even though nowadays slightly outdated. XP offered some freedom - it wouldn't cry much if you wanted to install some software or the like. But 8.. 8 is pretty much the representation of a WW2 era ghetto. I may have overreacted, but I haven't tried 8 myself, so I'm only judging based on what I've read from Facepunch members.[/QUOTE] Windows 8 isnt that bad. It has the same freedom as Windows 7 in terms of installing software. Its just that theres the "new user interface" wich many people doesent like on the desktop PC (or how its implemented) [editline]3rd September 2012[/editline] Related question to Windows 8 and dual booting: IIRC newer bios on prebuilt machines have secure boot enabled by default to run windows 8. Will there be a way to dualboot Arch/Gentoo alongside with Win8 with Secureboot enabled in Bios?
I don't care so much for the freedoms, I just want Linux to be the OS for games cause Linux is superior to Windows, in every single way possible. Windows has so much development needed to catch up to Linux or OSX in terms of quality, GUI, security, and any other technical superiority you can think of
[QUOTE=supervoltage;37519822]so I'm only judging based on what I've read from Facepunch members.[/QUOTE] Don't. Most of them are bitching about how it's ruined their life, killed their dog and raped their girlfriend when in reality they haven't ever used it.
[QUOTE=lavacano;37520578]Don't. Most of them are bitching about how it's ruined their life, killed their dog and raped their girlfriend when in reality they haven't ever used it.[/QUOTE] Thank you for enlightening me.
So, guys, how do I join a domain? Default seems to be workgroup, I think I have to fiddle around with the file located in etc/samba/smb.conf, but I don't have permission to do so. How do I do it? I can't do shit through the UI and I don't know any commands, so, yeah. Wine was a success though, even our weirdest program worked, not being able to run something from my company was my biggest fear. Holy shit why is it harder to join a Samba PDC server though ubuntu, there are lots of stuff to edit etc while in Windows 7 I just edited some registry settings oh God why
[QUOTE=Fingers!!!;37521080]So, guys, how do I join a domain? Default seems to be workgroup, I think I have to fiddle around with the file located in etc/samba/smb.conf, but I don't have permission to do so. How do I do it? I can't do shit through the UI and I don't know any commands, so, yeah. Wine was a success though, even our weirdest program worked, not being able to run something from my company was my biggest fear. Holy shit why is it harder to join a Samba PDC server though ubuntu, there are lots of stuff to edit etc while in Windows 7 I just edited some registry settings oh God why[/QUOTE] [url]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba/SambaClientGuide[/url]
This may be dumb, but.. I wish Hideo Kojima would think of us - the more humble part of gaming. Linux gamers. I know that Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes will come for PC too, but I wish we had a native Linux version.. Wine would probably chop down the FPS radically (because I'm a lazy ass and can't optimize games to run on Linux for shit). Well, either a Linux version, or I could learn how to more properly optimize games.. Wine AppDB helps, but not much..
I'm not sure if I should just edit the above post, but I think this deserves its own post. With the latest Wine update, Steam started having problems. I can't close the friends list OR main window unless I close the chat window. I click the "x" button to close it, but it instantly reappears. I've launched it using the console and it gives me this: [code]fixme:appbar:SHAppBarMessage unknown msg: 4 fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETSTATE): stub fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=3): stub fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=1): stub fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=0): stub fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=2): stub fixme:appbar:SHAppBarMessage unknown msg: 4 fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETSTATE): stub fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=3): stub fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=1): stub fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=0): stub fixme:appbar:handle_appbarmessage SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETAUTOHIDEBAR, hwnd=(nil), edge=2): stub err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x1015c err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x1015a err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x10158 err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x10156 err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x2012c err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x2012e err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x20130 err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x20128 err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x2012a err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x20132 err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x20134 err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x30138 err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x70136 err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x3013e err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x3013a err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0xa0144 err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x20146 err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x20148 err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x2014a err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x2014c err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x20124 err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x20122 err:ole:RevokeDragDrop invalid hwnd 0x30116[/code] I've tried setting compatibility mode from XP to 7, but that didn't fix anything. I dunno which .dll's to tamper with, so I won't tamper with any .dll's. Any help, guys?
Steam support (NOT Source support) has gone down in quality over the time with the wine updates. Well, no one can blame them.
Using ubuntu, should I keept the defualt unity DE, or go gnome or KDE? [editline]5th September 2012[/editline] Also another question, what's a good display manager? I went with GDM over lightDM when askedd (installed gnome to try it) but i read there are also more choices than those two. [editline]5th September 2012[/editline] Scratch that, I like unity better, I really like it's dashboard as well as the top bar (dash) alot more. Question is, gnome un-tweaked uses more ram (about 1.2GB) versus 800mb of ram on gnome, idle. Why is this? I'd like to keep unity under 1gb idle if possibly. However, on the flip side, if i were to go the whole gnome add on route and customized everything I'm sure it would have bumped it up from 800mb.
[QUOTE=Relaxation;37547439]Using ubuntu, should I keept the defualt unity DE, or go gnome or KDE? [editline]5th September 2012[/editline] Also another question, what's a good display manager? I went with GDM over lightDM when askedd (installed gnome to try it) but i read there are also more choices than those two. [editline]5th September 2012[/editline] Scratch that, I like unity better, I really like it's dashboard as well as the top bar (dash) alot more. Question is, gnome un-tweaked uses more ram (about 1.2GB) versus 800mb of ram on gnome, idle. Why is this? I'd like to keep unity under 1gb idle if possibly. However, on the flip side, if i were to go the whole gnome add on route and customized everything I'm sure it would have bumped it up from 800mb.[/QUOTE] I'm not sure how you're getting those numbers. On my desktop computer, it idles on ~6-700Mb. [editline]5th September 2012[/editline] No wait. That's the entire system usage.
Finally achieved dxlevel 9 again with -nod3d9ex and tried TF2 maxed out. It's stable framerate with everything maxed out except windows aero thingy (duh) it's 34-48 fps. Not bad, but do you guys think that if i install the latest wine in development (1.5.12) which has d3dx9 and XRandR improvements would help me? Thanks for the help.
Well I open the terminal and do free -m. Am I doing it correctly? [editline]5th September 2012[/editline] Running chromium with tabs open and docky I'm using about 1.6GB of ram according to free -m. Any way to make it more efficient, or is it simply because of unity? Also, How do i make window borders transparent (like the border around chromium web browser) unity?
free -m is going to show that the cache is using memory. Subtract the cache from used memory to get true memory usage.
[video=youtube;bTO1D9pg4Ug]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTO1D9pg4Ug&feature=youtu.be[/video] 32:18
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;37552726][video=youtube;bTO1D9pg4Ug]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTO1D9pg4Ug&feature=youtu.be[/video] 32:18[/QUOTE] Get CSI to enhance the 8 pixels of his glasses so we can watch the gameplay demo.
[QUOTE=nikomo;37552118]free -m is going to show that the cache is using memory. Subtract the cache from used memory to get true memory usage.[/QUOTE] ^This If Linux is doing it's job your RAM should be as close to full as possible after just a short while of using your system. Run htop and you will see a color-coated RAM usage bar which goes used/buffers/cache, the latter two being Linux's effort to use your hardware to it's fullest. Also, the column labeled RES is the processes actual resident memory.
Hey guys, what's a good screen-recorder application for Linux?
I decided that since currently the only thing on my computer not controlled by my keyboard is my music, I'm going to move all my music off of google music and onto another partition. What are some good music players? Currently I'm wanting something mpd-based because I can interface that with awesome.
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