I have recruited another one to the dark side. I can successfully say that my little sister's first DE is GNOME 3 in Fedora 15. She kept complaining about her netbook with Windows 7 (I can't blame her, it took forever for it to do anything) so I opened up three tabs on her browser, one for Ubuntu, one for Linux Mint, and one for Fedora, and explained to her the basic differences between the distributions and the DEs. As soon as she started into the Fedora live USB she told me to get rid of Windows. I even got to teach her some basic command line things.
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;31290035]I have recruited another one to the dark side. I can successfully say that my little sister's first DE is GNOME 3 in Fedora 15. She kept complaining about her netbook with Windows 7 (I can't blame her, it took forever for it to do anything) so I opened up three tabs on her browser, one for Ubuntu, one for Linux Mint, and one for Fedora, and explained to her the basic differences between the distributions and the DEs. As soon as she started into the Fedora live USB she told me to get rid of Windows. I even got to teach her some basic command line things.[/QUOTE]
Tell your sister she's awesome
Actually, tell it to yourself too
[editline]23rd July 2011[/editline]
That you're awesome
K this has me stumped.
I recently built a brand-new system (literally brand new), trying to install Ubuntu 11.04 as my first OS on it.
I'm getting a "Cannot find live file system" error, then get dumped into CLI.
I assume this is because the disk is not formatted and partitioned.
Can anyone give me a (fairly idiot-proof) guide to creating the necessary partitions & how to install to them using CLI?
[QUOTE=SataniX;31291171]K this has me stumped.
I recently built a brand-new system (literally brand new), trying to install Ubuntu 11.04 as my first OS on it.
I'm getting a "Cannot find live file system" error, then get dumped into CLI.
I assume this is because the disk is not formatted and partitioned.
Can anyone give me a (fairly idiot-proof) guide to creating the necessary partitions & how to install to them using CLI?[/QUOTE]
No, it's the disk. Burn another one on as slow a speed as possible and if you have the feature on your image burning program, verify the data.
[QUOTE=esalaka;31290155]Tell your sister she's awesome
Actually, tell it to yourself too
[editline]23rd July 2011[/editline]
That you're awesome[/QUOTE]
My mom and younger sister both use Gnome 3 on Fedora 15.
The thing I enjoy the most though, is that CUPS is an absolute pleasure to use.
Networked printing is really painless with CUPS.
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;31292105]No, it's the disk. Burn another one on as slow a speed as possible and if you have the feature on your image burning program, verify the data.[/QUOTE]
Thanks :)
[editline]23rd July 2011[/editline]
Different burner, different speed - same image = same problem.
I'm trying with Mint now. This time i'll check the MD5 first.
[QUOTE=snuwoods;31292340]My mom and younger sister both use Gnome 3 on Fedora 15.
The thing I enjoy the most though, is that CUPS is an absolute pleasure to use.
Networked printing is really painless with CUPS.[/QUOTE]
I've never used CUPS, but I hate printers with a passion.
I will never use a printer ever again for the rest of my life.
[editline]23rd July 2011[/editline]
That might be challenging as I'm going to college for a couple more years, but I will stay strong!
Wireless doesn't work OOB on Debian either rrrrrrrrrrrawrujwa8ur5t8 3qwutututututututututututututututututututututututututututututututututµµvv kkkkkkmj bifdoooooo
fuck this shit
gonna install linux 3.0 and if it doesn't work on that i'm going to assume firmware's not included with debian but the driver's in the kernel or fucking magic
[editline]23rd July 2011[/editline]
[code]
#
# Patch for Broadcom 80211 (STA) driver 5.100.82.38
# Fixes the 'init_MUTEX' compile problem seen on newer (> 2.6.37) kernels.
# If you were able to compile, you don't need this patch.
[/code]
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF WHY DIDN'T I FIND THIS THROUGH GOOGLE
Well I fixed my problem by booting it from USB.
[editline]23rd July 2011[/editline]
God this sytem is quick.
[editline]23rd July 2011[/editline]
I might keep running it on this actually, #! off USB3 is darn fast.
[QUOTE=SataniX;31294527]Well I fixed my problem by booting it from USB.
[editline]23rd July 2011[/editline]
God this sytem is quick.
[editline]23rd July 2011[/editline]
I might keep running it on this actually, #! off USB3 is darn fast.[/QUOTE]
bash: off: command not found
#!/usr/bin/env echo
It's a hashbang so I'm assuming you are referring to Crunchbang?
I'm delving into it... Arch in a VM. Oh god...
I don't even want to know how things were in way earlier versions of Linux.
I just dropped Debian on a machine I have laying around in under 15 minutes. Going to run a small LAN-Minecraft server on it.
It's just so easy nowadays.
Oh and I updated it to Linux 3.0 in 5 minutes. Shit = easy.
Arch works.
Feelin' badass now.
Time to never use Arch again and go to a distro I like :v:
Is there a way to make the menu, quick launch and system tray icons be aligned in the centre rather than on the top (height-wise) in lxde? It's pretty annoying to see them set on the top, while the window list icons are centred where they should be.
Here's a picture to show what I mean. The right side icons is what I'm aiming at and the left side icons are what I don't want.
[img]http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad43/Portal2121/iconThing.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;31299808]Arch works.
Feelin' badass now.
Time to never use Arch again and go to a distro I like :v:[/QUOTE]
That's what I said a year ago..
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;31301212]Is there a way to make the menu, quick launch and system tray icons be aligned in the centre rather than on the top (height-wise) in lxde? It's pretty annoying to see them set on the top, while the window list icons are centred where they should be.
Here's a picture to show what I mean. The right side icons is what I'm aiming at and the left side icons are what I don't want.
[img]http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad43/Portal2121/iconThing.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Which panel is that?
[QUOTE=FPtje;31256077]I just removed gdm. My window manager is started directly through startx now. Less RAM usage :D.[/QUOTE]
If you're trying to save RAM, that's unlikely to help: GDM is idle while you're logged in so all its memory can be paged out anyway. Any space you save by not running it is space in your swap partition, not your RAM.
[QUOTE=moesislack;31270927]I had to remove all the files with the root account.
What a pain typing sudo rm ca.* archive.* was so hard.[/QUOTE]
You don't need to delete those by hand; they'll be overwritten next time apt downloads new package lists.
I have a bit of a problem.. I love me some wobbly windows so I got the Compiz Config Settings Manager from Ubuntu's repos. I enabled desktop cube and wobbly windows and it made me enable composite and openGL
but now there is no bar above my windows, so I can't move them and I can't close them
wat do
[QUOTE=esalaka;31305139]Which panel is that?[/QUOTE]
lxpanel.
[QUOTE=zerosix;31307341]I have a bit of a problem.. I love me some wobbly windows so I got the Compiz Config Settings Manager from Ubuntu's repos. I enabled desktop cube and wobbly windows and it made me enable composite and openGL
but now there is no bar above my windows, so I can't move them and I can't close them
wat do[/QUOTE]
Your window manager seems to have exploded.
Are you using Unity? It should support Compiz out-of-the-box
[editline]24th July 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;31308902]lxpanel.[/QUOTE]
I never quite figured out how to make lxpanel look (or work!) nice so I just swapped tint2 in its place, using avant-window-navigator for launchers and the main menu.
[QUOTE=Jookia;31302308]That's what I said a year ago..[/QUOTE]
And now you're back on Arch?
Installing Arch on my PC.
[QUOTE=thelinx;31310178]And now you're back on Arch?[/QUOTE]
I never left.
Anyway, today I gained a hatred for Vim's autoindent feature. It deletes blank indents and replaces space indents with tabs, even though it claims to copy the indent from the line above. Completely bull, left Vim because of it.
[QUOTE=Jookia;31310854]I never left.
Anyway, today I gained a hatred for Vim's autoindent feature. It deletes blank indents and replaces space indents with tabs, even though it claims to copy the indent from the line above. Completely bull, left Vim because of it.
At least from what I've seen it indeed does copy the indentation from above, just[/QUOTE]
For me the autoindent always works as expected..?
[QUOTE=Jookia;31310854]It deletes blank indents[/quote]
I don't know about that
[quote]replaces space indents with tabs[/QUOTE]
:set expandtab
edit:
googled a bit on the first thing and found this:
[quote]If the autoindent option is on, then running cc on the blank line will switch to insert mode and restore the appropriate level of indentation[/quote]
I beg to differ. Open Vim, :set autoindent on, enter insert mode, indent, go down two lines. You look to be still indented. But the line in the middle is not. So the space between
--int test;
--
--if(blah)
will become
--int test;
--if(blah)
[editline]25th July 2011[/editline]
[url=http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#%27autoindent%27]It's actually documented to do this, with no way to turn it off.[/url]
[editline]25th July 2011[/editline]
Then another problem is that it doesn't use indention from the line above. Let's say S = space and T = tab.
def pythonStuff:
SSS
I then press enter off the SSS line and it creates a TS indention as my tabstop is 2.
Do you really have expandtab on? If it it's turned off, it will use tabs as indentation.
I don't have expandtab on, I never said I did. I'm just saying that autoindent's removing empty lines that're indented is unchangable and annoying, and I don't know where I'm at with it not allowing me to have spaces and tabs indents with the same config.
Oh, your main problem was that empty lines don't get properly indented?
I see. Personally I never had an issue with that.
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