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

Cinnamon

[QUOTE=diwako;44623768]Trying out Mint. Which desktop environment should I try? KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon. I liked Gnome, but it seemed buggy to me.[/QUOTE] I'd say just go with the defaults of Mint, which are either MATE or Cinnamon. Both are actually not bad technologies, and although Cinnamon is built from GNOME tech, it somehow manages to get away being faster and more responsive, at least on my build. [editline]23rd April 2014[/editline] I'd like to point out though, that I am NOT using Mint myself. I have been, but I am not anymore, so the above could have changed. [editline]23rd April 2014[/editline] I'd like to point out though, that I am NOT using Mint myself. I have been, but I am not anymore, so the above could have changed.

Well, I guess I take Cinnamon then, now to overwrite my old linux install and fix the bootloader again... [editline]23rd April 2014[/editline] Of course tons of graphic artifacts and wifi not working on livestick... Not fun

[img]https://i.imgur.com/xspUcYk.gif[/img] Got bored and made this to parody that Mac doesn't have this problem image that get's posted on /g/ every now and then.

[QUOTE=Shotz;44624559][img]https://i.imgur.com/xspUcYk.gif[/img] Got bored and made this to parody that Mac doesn't have this problem image that get's posted on /g/ every now and then.[/QUOTE] What image is that?

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;44624594]What image is that?[/QUOTE] It's some dude on OS X typing "OS X doesn't have this problem" into some sort of notepad program. Don't have it on hand because I'm not autistic.

[QUOTE=Shotz;44624559][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/xspUcYk.gif[/img_thumb] Got bored and made this to parody that Mac doesn't have this problem image that get's posted on /g/ every now and then.[/QUOTE] Fixed for you. I dont get it though.

4chan is down tho atm (read only mode) because someone hacked all the janitor/mod/admin accounts. I was in the /int/ thread where it happened and after that shit just started hitting the fan at a million miles per hour.

Wow, still on lockdown. I'm guessing they still haven't figured out how the guy got in, and I suspect that Moot "Goy" Jewberg is quite unhappy that the guy posted how many 4chan passes have been sold.

[QUOTE=nikomo;44624886]Wow, still on lockdown. I'm guessing they still haven't figured out how the guy got in, and I suspect that Moot "Goy" Jewberg is quite unhappy that the guy posted how many 4chan passes have been sold.[/QUOTE] [url]https://boards.4chan.org/o/res/10178136#p10178136[/url] Last post on the site seems to be about 5 hours ago so shit is serious.

[QUOTE=nikomo;44624886]Wow, still on lockdown. I'm guessing they still haven't figured out how the guy got in, and I suspect that Moot "Goy" Jewberg is quite unhappy that the guy posted how many 4chan passes have been sold.[/QUOTE] I spoke with some mods on rizon and they say that moot doesn't mind people knowing how many got sold. They are more worried about the fact that pretty much the entire mod team got hit. I asked one of the head mods to poke me when there is more news so stay tuned.

Wow, Sure some shit has happened to 4chan. Some info for those who don't know. [url]http://imgur.com/a/hkCdH[/url] (don't hurt me if I'm late)

Already down.

[QUOTE=FPtje;44621181]My XUbuntu is in a quantum state between 13.10 and 14.04. The installation fucked up halfway and the system still boots. Half the packages appear to be updated, the other half are still 13.10. My laptop thinks it's 14.04, *shrug*. I'm afraid to update, though. I don't have the time to fix shit.[/QUOTE] And this is why I don't understand the criticism about Arch being an unstable system. Even "user-friendly" distros like Ubuntu can have catastrophic manual-intervention-required updates.

[QUOTE=Larikang;44625622]And this is why I don't understand the criticism about Arch being an unstable system. Even "user-friendly" distros like Ubuntu can have catastrophic manual-intervention-required updates.[/QUOTE] gotta admit though, Arch is much more prone to it than something like Ubuntu. that said, as long as you're careful with Arch it'll be stable. I've never experienced Arch breaking on me or being unstable either, and I haven't done any precautions at all before doing pacman -Syu for example.

I've been wondering this for a while: [URL]http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/126186/scp-to-local-machine-after-sshing[/URL] Any ideas here? Edit: goddamit it's a dupe [url]http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2857/ssh-easily-copy-file-to-local-system[/url] I tried really hard to search for it before asking.

[QUOTE=PredGD;44625657]gotta admit though, Arch is much more prone to it than something like Ubuntu. that said, as long as you're careful with Arch it'll be stable. I've never experienced Arch breaking on me or being unstable either, and I haven't done any precautions at all before doing pacman -Syu for example.[/QUOTE] I have once. But it was my own fault for using the --force argument. I don't know what I was expecting. :v:

[QUOTE=lavacano;44621158]ok so in the past few days i have managed to run StarCraft Brood War, Photoshop, Silverlight/Netflix and Oblivion all in Wine with acceptable-to-perfect results. Last month I would have told you that Brood War would work [b]maybe[/b]. I'm finally a believer in Wine, man.[/QUOTE] Wine is crazy good these days; you can run games like GTA IV and apart from the fact that GFWL doesn't work in wine (not that it works on Windows) it runs pretty okish. If I had a GPU more powerful than a HD4000 I'd probably play more games with it.

Cool, a bunch of updates for Arch. If you're using screen, beware. [url]https://www.archlinux.org/news/screen-420-cannot-reattach-older-instances/[/url]

Anyone here run GW2 in Wine? Im having some issues with it, primarily low FPS and some issues with the launcher being completely transparent (and yes, I'm running it with the dx9single flag) Is there anything I should be using with winetricks maybe? I don't use wine a whole lot for games. The playonlinux script doesn't launch the launcher, I've only gotten it to work through terminal. Does wine on arch work differently? Should I use a 32bit version instead? [editline]23rd April 2014[/editline] With a gtx 670 and proprietary drivers + 32bit opengl, I'm getting like 25fps which is pretty bad

[QUOTE=rilez;44628034]Anyone here run GW2 in Wine? Im having some issues with it, primarily low FPS and some issues with the launcher being completely transparent (and yes, I'm running it with the dx9single flag) Is there anything I should be using with winetricks maybe? I don't use wine a whole lot for games. The playonlinux script doesn't launch the launcher, I've only gotten it to work through terminal. Does wine on arch work differently? Should I use a 32bit version instead? [editline]23rd April 2014[/editline] With a gtx 670 and proprietary drivers + 32bit opengl, I'm getting like 25fps which is pretty bad[/QUOTE] did you check the wine app database? might be some useful information there

[QUOTE=nikomo;44627423]Cool, a bunch of updates for Arch. If you're using screen, beware. [url]https://www.archlinux.org/news/screen-420-cannot-reattach-older-instances/[/url][/QUOTE] The screen update totally caught me off guard! This is the first major screen update in [b]8 years[/b]. It sounds like they've really closed the gap with tmux.

path of exile runs better in wine than runescape does natively

[QUOTE=Larikang;44625622]And this is why I don't understand the criticism about Arch being an unstable system. Even "user-friendly" distros like Ubuntu can have catastrophic manual-intervention-required updates.[/QUOTE] Say what you want but it never broke. It's just in a state where I don't know which packages have been updated and which haven't. I think things might fix themselves when I run a casual "dude reinstall everything" or even just an update. The only problem I've seen so far is that I suddenly need root for ping.

[QUOTE=PredGD;44625657]gotta admit though, Arch is much more prone to it than something like Ubuntu. that said, as long as you're careful with Arch it'll be stable. I've never experienced Arch breaking on me or being unstable either, and I haven't done any precautions at all before doing pacman -Syu for example.[/QUOTE] I kept having problems with being unable to shutdown after systemd upgrades (nothing could contact the init system). I was only running -Syu, not telling pacman to do anything interesting. If I had to guess, systemd was attempting to restart itself so it would be on the "new" version and someone (package maintainer, systemd dev, i don't know) kept bungling it. [editline]23rd April 2014[/editline] -i snipped this part because i misunderstood the situation-

[QUOTE=lavacano;44630203]I kept having problems with being unable to shutdown after systemd upgrades (nothing could contact the init system). I was only running -Syu, not telling pacman to do anything interesting. If I had to guess, systemd was attempting to restart itself so it would be on the "new" version and someone (package maintainer, systemd dev, i don't know) kept bungling it. [editline]23rd April 2014[/editline] -i snipped this part because i misunderstood the situation-[/QUOTE] Pacman -Syu used to break my init system every time the kernel had an update. That's [I]really[/I] annoying. That was a couple of years ago though. I should try Arch again when I have time.

LVM is such a pain in the ass, when I was installing Ubuntu Server on my Hyper-V box I thought "Oh, something to make resizing easier!" but if anything it made it more difficult. Before I'd just fire up a GParted ISO and call it a day, though I made the virtual disk too big and I'm still trying to get it to properly resize.

[QUOTE=FPtje;44630427]Pacman -Syu used to break my init system every time the kernel had an update. That's [I]really[/I] annoying. That was a couple of years ago though. I should try Arch again when I have time.[/QUOTE] See though, here's the thing that really pisses me off about that situation - I don't know for sure exactly what to blame. I [b]want[/b] to blame the Arch guys, because systemd was shutting itself down without discombobulating my environment well enough and I have a history of problems with Arch anyway, but at the same time it could be systemd itself not starting up correctly when other things are already running.

[QUOTE=benjgvps;44637102]LVM is such a pain in the ass, when I was installing Ubuntu Server on my Hyper-V box I thought "Oh, something to make resizing easier!" but if anything it made it more difficult. Before I'd just fire up a GParted ISO and call it a day, though I made the virtual disk too big and I'm still trying to get it to properly resize.[/QUOTE] LVM helps more with increasing size, than decreasing. You add another virtual HDD to the VM, format it, add it to the volume group and resize the filesystem.

[QUOTE=FPtje;44630427]Pacman -Syu used to break my init system every time the kernel had an update. That's [I]really[/I] annoying. That was a couple of years ago though. I should try Arch again when I have time.[/QUOTE] I can assure you now that it doesn't seem like an issue any more. I just ran pacman -Syu on my home server, and after updating both the kernel and systemd, I was able to fully use systemctl from starting/stopping jobs to a reboot.