General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install - Hardware & Software

Been going at it with Debian testing/jessie/whatever for a bit now. Usng GNOME3. My current judgment: It's Fedora, except there's packages for it for everything, because you have APT and .deb instead of .rpm

you can just convert deb to rpm using alien

[QUOTE=supervoltage;43029018]The first distro I tried was Ubuntu, but I hated it. The second was Arch and I immediately fell in love with it. It never broke unless I explicitly fucked something up. Am I a weirdo?[/QUOTE] I never managed to settle down on a single distro before I tried out arch. I was always really scared of trying it since I kept hearing that it was hard to setup and use (which is why I kinda wanted to try it in the first place). it's different for everybody though. I prefer having as much control over my PC as possible. I don't know how to replace many things in other distros, but in arch I know how to easily replace and remove things because I put them there in the first place.

Not automatic though, so you can't just add a source etc. and get automatic updates, which would be a problem.

I'm using Chromium on Arch linux. When I drag and drop some text into a new tab, chromium crash directly. It happens on both my desktop and laptop. Did anyone of you had this problem ?

I've successfully escaped Ubuntu and Ubuntu-derived distributions. [t]http://i.imgur.com/8HViemy.png[/t] It runs great.

use ; instead of &&

[QUOTE=Little Donny;43028877]If you want something a bit like Chrome OS there is always Joli [url]http://www.jolicloud.com/jolios[/url] As for the iso, if by "put" you mean write the image onto it so that it is bootable and stuff then yeah.[/QUOTE] I hear they're retiring that soon. [url]http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/jolicloud-desktop-to-be-discontinued-december-2013[/url]

I changed the font rendering a bit and now everything looks awesome. [t]http://i.imgur.com/Rjm8yoL.png[/t] Oh, and I installed the dropdown terminal extension for GNOME3, and then I installed tmux, so that's cool. [t]http://i.imgur.com/TGbrfOx.png[/t] I like.

[QUOTE=Cyril;43035140]I'm using Chromium on Arch linux. When I drag and drop some text into a new tab, chromium crash directly. It happens on both my desktop and laptop. Did anyone of you had this problem ?[/QUOTE] I can confirm that I don't have that problem at all. I didn't know Chromium had this functionality, so thank you for that.

Does anyone use this? [url]http://lutris.net/[/url] It looks very cool, though I really don't have anything with Linux on it that could run a game worth a damn.

Some more alternate phone OSs would be great. There's news about this Sailfish OS "explosion", Firefox OS is still in desperate need of tweaking, and absolutely nothing about Tizen. Does anything even run Tizen?

need more phone OS' which are similar to distros. I'd love to build upon a phone OS like I can with arch. [editline]2nd December 2013[/editline] ughh, hate it when I haven't used my arch in a while and kinda forget where everything is and where config files are.

Migrated to an SSD, the performance boost is huge, that's great. What's not so great is that in now seems that gdm is starting before the Nvidia kernel module. [url]https://gist.github.com/anonymous/f7c0bb10db3e0392253d[/url] Any suggestions? EDIT: Xorg.0.log and dmesg also show this, they indicate that Xorg is attempting to start about .25 seconds too early.

Installed XFCE alongside GNOME3. It's ugly, but fast.

[QUOTE=nikomo;43048557]Installed XFCE alongside GNOME3. It's ugly, but fast.[/QUOTE] XFCE is just as fast as its flexible and usable, but also just as ugly.

So I'm going to reinstall elementary. When I go to burn the ISO to a USB using Unetbootin, I boot to the USB and it gives an error. The main problem seems to be that there is not Elementay OS ISO option in Unetbootin. Is there anyway to work around that? [editline]2nd December 2013[/editline] I worked around it using wine. So I am now using eOS again.

[url=gnome-look.org/content/show.php/NASCAR+left-turn++GTK-3?content=160190]Unless it's ironic, why do GTK themes like this even exist?[/url] [t]http://gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/160190-1.png[/t] [editline]No, it gets better.[/editline] [url=http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/The+RGB?content=159861]Wow, this takes the cake.[/url]

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". And Linux is all about freedom. If someone wants their desktop to look that fugly then be my guest. [B]Also: [/B]It might be useful for people with sight issues/colour blindness etc.

I'd love to have arch on my netbook (currently using xubuntu with i3 wm) but I have like 2 years of stuff and I can't be arsed to backup.

^ You should be backing up anyway. Says the person who doesn't backup.

[QUOTE=benbb;43059198]^ You should be backing up anyway. Says the person who doesn't backup.[/QUOTE] Just use dropbox of self host owncloud and symlink to important folders. That's what I do. I'm going to change it to a better system tho

[QUOTE=nikomo;43026758]"SO HEY GUYS WE'RE GOING TO BREAK YOUR FUCKING SYSTEM BUT IT'S OK BECAUSE WE SENT A MAIL TO A MAILING LIST NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT FUCK YOU" No, that's not how updates are supposed to be done.[/QUOTE] Who is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use Arch? You want bleeding edge packages, you're going to bleed every now and then. Especially if you ignore pacman's prompts or use --force when it's unnecessary. [editline]3rd December 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=esalaka;43028812]Only an idiot would run bleeding-edge software on a server connected to the internet anyway[/QUOTE] I have a server set up with Arch. Though it's only practical because I have physical access to it, so it's much easier to handle when things go wrong.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;43059712]Just use dropbox of self host owncloud and symlink to important folders. That's what I do. I'm going to change it to a better system tho[/QUOTE] Yeah, I just use SkyDrive for homework and some other stuff. I'm not worried about the NSA looking at my homework.

[QUOTE=benbb;43065001]Yeah, I just use SkyDrive for homework and some other stuff. I'm not worried about the NSA looking at my homework.[/QUOTE] Yea. I only put school stuff on my dropbox because everyone in my class has an account so we can share folders.

Steam on linux for testing purposes. What's the recommended distro? Is Ubuntu the best way to go?

[QUOTE=garry;43065881]Steam on linux for testing purposes. What's the recommended distro? Is Ubuntu the best way to go?[/QUOTE] Yes. Ubuntu is officially supported.

[QUOTE=garry;43065881]Steam on linux for testing purposes. What's the recommended distro? Is Ubuntu the best way to go?[/QUOTE] The officially supported and probably easiest distro is Ubuntu, but Ubuntu-derived distros and Arch(-based) also (usually) work fine. (Arch even has a Steam installer available through the package manager)

[QUOTE=garry;43065881]Steam on linux for testing purposes. What's the recommended distro? Is Ubuntu the best way to go?[/QUOTE] Go for latest Ubuntu, the package versions for latest Ubuntu follow pretty much the latest releases for all other desktop distribution. So if it works in latest Ubuntu, it'll probably work in Debian unstable (despite the name, unstable is what you use for desktop usage), Fedora, Arch etc. You might also want to test the latest Long Term Release (12.04) if you're really feeling like testing stuff. [editline]4th December 2013[/editline] So, this just happened: [url]http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2013/12/cloudius-systems-hsa-foundation-and-valve-join-linux-foundation[/url]

[QUOTE=nikomo;43065915] So, this just happened: [url]http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2013/12/cloudius-systems-hsa-foundation-and-valve-join-linux-foundation[/url][/QUOTE] It's even got a cheesy video to go with it: [video=youtube;g8PMUvuHK4g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8PMUvuHK4g[/video]