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

[QUOTE=benjgvps;40894772]Finally got around to wiping out the tiny Windows 7 partition on my laptop and replaced it with Xubuntu. Dualbooting with Windows 8 seems to work pretty well. Everything seems to work out of the box, which is a first for desktop Linux in my experience. It also boots in about 16 seconds, which is a little slower than Windows 8, though it's not exactly a fair comparison since 8 does a partial hibernate.[/QUOTE] How fast does Xubuntu come up from a hibernate? Something I've noticed (and now miss..) with systemd is how fast it booted. Tempted to throw Arch back on my laptop now that AMD catalyst supports Xorg 1.14.

why does [del]AwesomeWM[/del] mesa-libgl have wayland as a dependency. what is going on? [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] Aparently its compiled with wayland support now.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;40899064]why does [del]AwesomeWM[/del] mesa-libgl have wayland as a dependency. what is going on? [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] Aparently its compiled with wayland support now.[/QUOTE] Ah, I've been wondering the same. Curiously enough, ldd vim shows that vim is linked to wayland too, presumably to make gvim support it. Which is amusing, since I almost never use gvim.

USE="-wayland" [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] oh wait you guys are probably arch nvm

[QUOTE=lavacano;40900223]USE="-wayland" [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] oh wait you guys are probably arch nvm[/QUOTE] I am currently thinking about permanently switching to gentoo. I don't like having deps that I don't need. [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] Okay I'm going to install gentoo on a spare notebook I have. hold my hand facepunch.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;40900298]I am currently thinking about permanently switching to gentoo. I don't like having deps that I don't need.[/QUOTE] I encourage it. The handbook assumes you're going to use their minimal install CD image. If you want to use something else (an Arch disk, Ubuntu, what have you), then just [url=http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=5]start from chapter 5[/url] (as chapters 1-4 deal with setting up the minimal install CD and formatting your drives and shit).

Going to use an ubuntu USB drive for installation. I tried to install gentoo once. I think I fucked up the kernel. and then I fucked up with genkernel.

[QUOTE=lavacano;40900223]USE="-wayland" [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] oh wait you guys are probably arch nvm[/QUOTE] Doesn't really bother me, and at least it guarantees that when I eventually shift to wayland in like, twenty decades or so, gvim will still work.

What march in the GCC compiler options do I need to use for an I7-620m processor?

native

[QUOTE=jetboy;40897080]Fantastic font rendering for Arch users: [url]https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162098[/url] Never realized how bad my fonts looked until I installed this. I highly recommend trying it out.[/QUOTE] And don't forget infinality-config as well, just to give the default aggressive hinting a whopping whack that it may shrink off and never darken your interfaces again.

[QUOTE=danharibo;40900606]native[/QUOTE] Pretty much, you just should always use native when you're compiling for the same platform.

Okay. anything I should keep in mind when configuring the kernel?

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The kernel is compiling now. I hope I did everything right. Will report back in ~30min. I bet I fucked something up. [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] Holy shit, it took me like 10 minutes to compile [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] Update: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjGSMUep6_4[/media] It works!! but somehow I made my rootfs readonly.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;40901072]It works!! but somehow I made my rootfs readonly.[/QUOTE] That's weird, does /proc/mounts say it's read only? [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] try specifying rw in /etc/fstab

[QUOTE=lavacano;40901624]That's weird, does /proc/mounts say it's read only? [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] try specifying rw in /etc/fstab[/QUOTE] I can remount it with rw, so i think it should work, but I thing my fstab gets ignored, because my /boot partition doesen't get mounted. Gonna fix those problems tomorrow.

Does /boot have noauto in it's options? I think Gentoo does that by default

and my terminal las like the word "none" written all over it. even in my $PS1 my $PS1 is literally "(None) #" [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=lavacano;40901772]Does /boot have noauto in it's options? I think Gentoo does that by default[/QUOTE] yes it has.

I can't decide between Mate or Cinnamon for Mint Olivia. I really liked Gnome 2 when Ubuntu had it, but I'm not sure if it will have the same amount of widgets and other nonsense.

[QUOTE=Bonzai11;40903302]I can't decide between Mate or Cinnamon for Mint Olivia. I really liked Gnome 2 when Ubuntu had it, but I'm not sure if it will have the same amount of widgets and other nonsense.[/QUOTE] MATE is not what GNOME 2 was. It looks a bit like it, but it doesn't have all the fancyness of GNOME 2. [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] I realize I might have forgotten to post some Pantheon screenshots. I don't have a lot right now, but have a slight preview: [img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/ZliaarT.jpg[/img_thumb] (only about 2 months late)

Would you recommend Cinnamon then? I have all my old dotfiles, but I don't feel like installing Arch at the moment. Mint seems to be pretty nice for a easy base system, or I may just run with Crunchbang or Ubuntu.

[QUOTE=Bonzai11;40903401]Would you recommend Cinnamon then? I have all my old dotfiles, but I don't feel like installing Arch at the moment. Mint seems to be pretty nice for a easy base system, or I may just run with Crunchbang or Ubuntu.[/QUOTE] Cinnamon is pretty nice, but if you're a bit picky about resources, go with MATE. If you're very picky, try XFCE 4.10 (I'm serious, it's actually VERY mature these days).

[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;40903426]Cinnamon is pretty nice, but if you're a bit picky about resources, go with MATE. If you're very picky, try XFCE 10 (I'm serious, it's actually VERY mature these days).[/QUOTE] Dontcha mean XFCE 4.10? AFAIK the latest LTS version of Xubuntu uses the 4.8 version. A few niggles here & there, but otherwise very lightweight, customizable and easy to use, even for someone used to Windows.

[QUOTE=Van-man;40904306]Dontcha mean XFCE 4.10? AFAIK the latest LTS version of Xubuntu uses the 4.8 version. A few niggles here & there, but otherwise very lightweight, customizable and easy to use, even for someone used to Windows.[/QUOTE] Fixed for clarity, you're right. I only thought about the .10 number and forgot that it's not the tenth stable release. It can easily be customized to look just as good as MATE, and most of the good GTK themes are available as XFCE-panel themes as well.

[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;40904392]Fixed for clarity, you're right. I only thought about the .10 number and forgot that it's not the tenth stable release. It can easily be customized to look just as good as MATE, and most of the good GTK themes are available as XFCE-panel themes as well.[/QUOTE] At worst the themes needs a small bit of tweaking to work, but it's for small & minor stuff.

Linux newbie here. Do you dudes know if I could upgrade my distro (Lubuntu -> Ubuntu) without losing my files?

[QUOTE=Digivee;40905513]Linux newbie here. Do you dudes know if I could upgrade my distro (Lubuntu -> Ubuntu) without losing my files?[/QUOTE] Do you have /home on a separate partition

[QUOTE=esalaka;40905794]Do you have /home on a separate partition[/QUOTE] not that i know of.

[QUOTE=Digivee;40905798]not that i know of.[/QUOTE] Then you essentially need to take backups and wipe everything. If you'd had /home on a separate partition, you would've had to take backups of everything and wipe everything but /home.