Don't know what's changed in Mandriva, but it appears to bre broken to shit.
The installer crashed on me near the end, but it'd already installed the system, leaving it somewhat usable.
Unrelated: I shall install Linux Mint over Ubuntu on my family's two computers, due to complaints about Unity.
why are you changing the os just to change the window manager
hi i just installed ubuntu because my brother told me because my hard drive is broken somehow and windows blue screens when i try to start
anyways does someone know how i can fix my hard drive? it says one sector is bad but i dunno what that means
your brother is a moron, you probably just needed to delete your page file
one bad sector isn't really a big deal at first but later on it will cause issues as more sectors start to fail.
[editline]25th November 2011[/editline]
especially if it's a seagate drive you can lose like 40 sectors before those will crap out
[editline]25th November 2011[/editline]
but of course seagate drives fail quicker anyway despite all those extra sectors
Well, since you wrecked everything, you might as well reinstall windows. Make sure that you don't do a quick format when you install it. If you do a quick format, it won't check for bad sectors.
So I've been going on my regular 6 month 'popular distro-testing spree'. (woo for spare flash drives)
Gave Ubuntu 11.10 a shot, meh at best and ran like shit on my laptop. Fedora 16 is pretty decent, I suppose, and felt pretty snappy not much to say about it (although I like the default wallpaper a lot). Mint 12 RC was alright, but again not much to say..but I have to say, I rather like Linux Mint's Gnome 3 extensions. Of course, it still doesn't fix the issue with ATI drivers that makes Gnome 3 unusable, sadly.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;33441686]So I've been going on my regular 6 month 'popular distro-testing spree'. (woo for spare flash drives)
Gave Ubuntu 11.10 a shot, meh at best and ran like shit on my laptop. Fedora 16 is pretty decent, I suppose, and felt pretty snappy not much to say about it (although I like the default wallpaper a lot). Mint 12 RC was alright, but again not much to say..but I have to say, I rather like Linux Mint's Gnome 3 extensions. Of course, it still doesn't fix the issue with ATI drivers that makes Gnome 3 unusable, sadly.[/QUOTE]
Considering that Mint 12 is still in the RC stage, it looks really promising.
I plan on installing Arch onto my laptop to get to know Linux better, and I'm wondering what a good window manager for Arch would be. Any suggestions?
I enjoy openbox because you can bind 'move', 'resize' and 'close' to mouse key combinations.
I recommend it if you don't mind sifting through a .xml file to change settings.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;33441686]So I've been going on my regular 6 month 'popular distro-testing spree'. (woo for spare flash drives)
Gave Ubuntu 11.10 a shot, meh at best and ran like shit on my laptop. Fedora 16 is pretty decent, I suppose, and felt pretty snappy not much to say about it (although I like the default wallpaper a lot). Mint 12 RC was alright, but again not much to say..but I have to say, I rather like Linux Mint's Gnome 3 extensions. Of course, it still doesn't fix the issue with ATI drivers that makes Gnome 3 unusable, sadly.[/QUOTE]
The open source drivers should work just fine? Im using a radeon hd 4670 and I havent had any trouble.
Hey guys, i'm planning to switch from Arch Linux to Debian.
I'd like to know which branch is the best? I heard the stable one is terribly outdated.
Definitely testing.
[QUOTE=POWA KILLERDeux;33449257]Hey guys, i'm planning to switch from Arch Linux to Debian.
I'd like to know which branch is the best? I heard the stable one is terribly outdated.[/QUOTE]
Arch to debian? That's a new one I haven't heard.
But go to testing (sid). Debian is, as a non-server OS, terribly outdated (as you put it).
Sid is unstable, Wheezy is the current testing
[QUOTE=Naelstrom;33443157]I enjoy openbox because you can bind 'move', 'resize' and 'close' to mouse key combinations.
I recommend it if you don't mind sifting through a .xml file to change settings.[/QUOTE]
Here's my recommendations:
[B]Floating Window manager:[/B]
Openbox. It's pretty simple and easy to learn, very fast and lightweight and very customizable. Getting auto-application menus to work can be quite a bit of a pain though at first. If you're using Openbox, you'll also need a panel. Tint2, fbpanel, lxde-panel or xfce4-panel are good choices. To set backgrounds you'll want to get nitrogen. Obmenu and Obconf are quite useful tools as well.
[B]Tiling Window Manager:[/B]
Awesome. You'll need to get it from the AUR (Arch User Repository). I haven't used it too much, but from what I have used from it, it's great. It's got its own wiki. It also uses LUA.
[B]Desktop Environment:[/B]
This one is quite a tricky choice, but you'll need to experiment to find one you like.
[B]XFCE [/B]- Lightweight, GNOME2-ish, simple. A good choice.
[B]LXDE [/B]- Very lightweight, based upon Openbox, simple.
[B]KDE [/B]- The default "pacman -S kde" has LOTS of applications you're probably not going to want (Like education software and games). It's quite windows-ish. I find it ugly, but it is very customizable, and has lots of tools for finding themes without even having to use your web browser. I'm not a huge fan, but each to their own.
[B]
GNOME 3[/B] - With a large bit of tweaking, contradictory to popular beliefs, it can be quite a good DE. Works very well out of the box with "pacman -S gnome gnome-extra". With the use of gnome-tweak-tool, the AUR (For extensions) and a panel, it's very usable. There's also a fallback mode, which is a GNOME 2 like interface. Not as good as GNOME 2 though.
[B]MATE[/B] - A fork of GNOME 2. Still a bit buggy, but if you was a fan of GNOME 2, this may be good for you.
Have fun, and remember to use the wiki!
[QUOTE=Jetsurf;33441799]Considering that Mint 12 is still in the RC stage, it looks really promising.[/QUOTE]
Mint 12 came out today, literally the day after I installed Mint 11 on both family computers
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;33457551]Mint 12 came out today, literally the day after I installed Mint 11 on both family computers[/QUOTE]
Not sure if this works for mint, but you might be able to upgrade simply by changing your apt mirror list to the new mirrors, and then run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade
I really wish the AUR wouldn't go down when I really want to play Sonic and don't have Gens installed.
[QUOTE=nos217;33463119]I really wish the AUR wouldn't go down when I really want to play Sonic and don't have Gens installed.[/QUOTE]
Compile it then :v:
Either there is something wrong with my PS3 controller or emulators don't like SixAxis controllers.
Apt-get update returns these errors after changing my repos to "testing".
W: Failed to fetch [url]http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing-updates/main/source/Sources.gz[/url] 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch [url]http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing-updates/main/binary-i386/packages.gz[/url] 404 Not Found
E: Some index files have failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
( Should i use testing-proposed-updates? )
[QUOTE=POWA KILLERDeux;33467259]Apt-get update returns these errors after changing my repos to "testing".
W: Failed to fetch [URL]http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing-updates/main/source/Sources.gz[/URL] 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch [URL]http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing-updates/main/binary-i386/packages.gz[/URL] 404 Not Found
E: Some index files have failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
( Should i use testing-proposed-updates? )[/QUOTE]
There is no testing-updates repo. You can either remove it or change it to testing-proposed-updates.
[QUOTE=IpHa;33469412]There is no testing-updates repo. You can either remove it or change it to testing-proposed-updates.[/QUOTE]
That worked. Thanks.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;33444464]The open source drivers should work just fine? Im using a radeon hd 4670 and I havent had any trouble.[/QUOTE]
Glitches the fuck out after ~15 minutes or so no matter what drivers I'm using.
Does it on both my laptop (Mobility 3200) and my desktop (Radeon HD 6870).
I was about to ask something about that.
Sure we all know that proprietary is faster than open source, but has anyone ever had a computer that was [I]broken[/I] on open-source, and only usable in the slightest when proprietary was installed?
I just had this happen with my family's computer. Couldn't find out why all my Linux distributions were shitting out on me suddenly. It's a GeForce 6150.
I had the same problem with a 7025
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;33470873]I was about to ask something about that.
Sure we all know that proprietary is faster than open source, but has anyone ever had a computer that was [I]broken[/I] on open-source, and only usable in the slightest when proprietary was installed?
I just had this happen with my family's computer. Couldn't find out why all my Linux distributions were shitting out on me suddenly. It's a GeForce 6150.[/QUOTE]
ATI
(doesn't really count as it's broken on closed source as well.)
Well, the final version of Mint 12 seems to work better than the RC did graphics driver wise - I don't really know how, but it just does.
No icon corruption in Gnome 3 or anything this time around.
Weird. :s
Still very buggy for me on my family computer. Had to quickly ctrl-alt-F1 to a tty, then install the nvidia proprietary driver before it crashed on me.
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