General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install

[Flaming Spaz]

I like infinality, it looks nice on everything except facepunch :v:

[img]http://y96.pw/0012.png[/img]

[stringy]

Just sold all of my Steam trading cards (got them just playing a few games yesterday) and a couple of old TF2 items (apparently you can sell vintage as if you had bought them in the store) and made $10.60
Bought Red Orchestra: Osfront without actually spending any money :v: Thanks valve!

If you are looking for a fun FPS that runs on Linux I would recommend Red Orchestra, but only if you download the Darkest Hour mod for it.

[smlance]

[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;41230320]I like infinality, it looks nice on everything except facepunch :v:

[img]http://y96.pw/0012.png[/img][/QUOTE]

What browser are you using? I don't have this problem at all, and I'm using Chrome.

EDIT: Ah, never mind. According to Facepunch, you're using Firefox. I don't know what to say except that you might want to see what it looks like in another browser.

[Boris-B]

[QUOTE=FlamingSpaz;41230320]I like infinality, it looks nice on everything except facepunch :v:

[img]http://y96.pw/0012.png[/img][/QUOTE]

Facepunch uses a bunch of windows fonts. You probably don't have them installed.

You'll probably need tahoma.

Here's bit in the css defining the font:

font-family: "Tahoma", "Helvetica", "Arial", "Verdana" !important;

I know that arch doesn't have them installed by default.

[Darkwater]

I'm currently using Ubuntu, and I'm looking to switch to another distro. Any suggestions? It should support Sublime Text, Chrome (or Chromium), Skype (either official client or something else), and MC/TF2 servers.

Also, I currently use i3. I really like it's tiling feature and the fact it's so easy to configure, but after using it for a while it feels kinda too basic to use. (windows that should have a fixed size are automatically tiled, some windows like Steam should have no border, etc.) Any suggestions?

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;41239717]I'm currently using Ubuntu, and I'm looking to switch to another distro. Any suggestions? It should support Sublime Text, Chrome (or Chromium), Skype (either official client or something else), and MC/TF2 servers.

Also, I currently use i3. I really like it's tiling feature and the fact it's so easy to configure, but after using it for a while it feels kinda too basic to use. (windows that should have a fixed size are automatically tiled, some windows like Steam should have no border, etc.) Any suggestions?[/QUOTE]

Every GNU/Linux distribution supports the programs you listed. The only difference would be how you install them. (Different Package manager / Install from source)

As for other Tiling Wm's, try WMFS2, Awesome or DWM.

[editline]29th June 2013[/editline]

And I'd recommend Debian SID, Linux mint 15 or if you can handle it, Archlinux

[AMD Bulldozer]

Well I just switched to Fedora, its been really great so far and getting Skype/Steam to work has been a million times easier than it was on Debian.

I really like Gnome 3, but holy shit does it run slowly.

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=AMD Bulldozer;41240002]Well I just switched to Fedora, its been really great so far and getting Skype/Steam to work has been a million times easier than it was on Debian.

I really like Gnome 3, but holy shit does it run slowly.[/QUOTE]

Gnome Shell really has a long way to go.
They really should work on optimisations right now.

[AMD Bulldozer]

[QUOTE=kaukassus;41240053]Gnome Shell really has a long way to go.
They really should work on optimisations right now.[/QUOTE]

Its such a nice DE UX wise, it really helps with my workflow (unlike KDE,XFCE,Mate or OpenBox which require far too much configuration and bolt-ons to stop them being as clunky as Windows 98 era explorer)

[Comfy]

[QUOTE=AMD Bulldozer;41240729]Its such a nice DE UX wise, it really helps with my workflow (unlike KDE,XFCE,Mate or OpenBox which require far too much configuration and bolt-ons to stop them being as clunky as Windows 98 era explorer)[/QUOTE]

Eh seems like I got used to Tiling Wm's, because I've worked with Archlinux and a tiling WM for about a year at work. I liked it.

[editline]29th June 2013[/editline]

Shame that Gnome Shell needs 3d.
I'd really like having gnome shell in a VM.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;41239717]I'm currently using Ubuntu, and I'm looking to switch to another distro. Any suggestions? It should support Sublime Text, Chrome (or Chromium), Skype (either official client or something else), and MC/TF2 servers.[/quote]

My vote is either Linux Mint if you just want to change it up, or Gentoo if you want hard-mode.

I don't know how things are in Mint, but with Gentoo, Sublime Text is in the sublime-text overlay, both Chrome and Chromium are in the main Portage tree, as is Skype, and I think srcds (TF2 servers) as well.

[quote]Also, I currently use i3. I really like it's tiling feature and the fact it's so easy to configure, but after using it for a while it feels kinda too basic to use. (windows that should have a fixed size are automatically tiled, some windows like Steam should have no border, etc.) Any suggestions?[/QUOTE]

I like KDE, personally, but I used awesome for a while in the past and I thought it was cool.

[Darkwater]

I've got my /home on a separate partition, can I format everything except that partition, install Archlinux, and set stuff like documents back to my new home dir? How does that work?

[lavacano]

srcds is available in the main Portage tree (as games-server/halflife-steam, masked by the ** keyword for some reason), and games-server/minecraft-server is in the java overlay.

[editline]29th June 2013[/editline]

argh merge etc

[Darkwater]

Oh, uhm, so you have to install Archlinux via cli eh... uhm... okay..?
[sub][sub][sub]please don't hurt me[/sub][/sub][/sub]

[danharibo]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;41241893]Oh, uhm, so you have to install Archlinux via cli eh... uhm... okay..?
[sub][sub][sub]please don't hurt me[/sub][/sub][/sub][/QUOTE]

Welcome to Arch Linux, don't let the shell bugs bite.

[esalaka]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;41241893]Oh, uhm, so you have to install Archlinux via cli eh... uhm... okay..?
[sub][sub][sub]please don't hurt me[/sub][/sub][/sub][/QUOTE]

It's not very difficult but I'd try it on a clean system at first.

Like a VM or something.

[ipha]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;41241282]I've got my /home on a separate partition, can I format everything except that partition, install Archlinux, and set stuff like documents back to my new home dir? How does that work?[/QUOTE]

Just mount your existing home partition in /etc/fstab.

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;41241893]Oh, uhm, so you have to install Archlinux via cli eh... uhm... okay..?
[SUB][SUB][SUB]please don't hurt me[/SUB][/SUB][/SUB][/QUOTE]

Read the installation guide, it's a fairly painless process.

[URL]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide[/URL]

[AMD Bulldozer]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;41241893]Oh, uhm, so you have to install Archlinux via cli eh... uhm... okay..?
[sub][sub][sub]please don't hurt me[/sub][/sub][/sub][/QUOTE]

Just be careful not to accidentally update a package... like ever.

[Darkwater]

Fuck this I'm installing Mint.

[a7y]

When you finish installing Arch you end up with exactly what you started with, a CLI. Imo it makes perfect sense.

[shodan]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;41243509]Fuck this I'm installing Mint.[/QUOTE]

Why not Fedora?

[XxThreedogxX]

I recently gave up on Quantle Quetzel.
Was having major issues with unstable wifi connections.
It would be connected for maybe five secs but after that would disconnect.
I tried upgrading to 13.04 which apparently fixes the issue and I couldn't even do that.
It breaks my heart because I love Ubuntu but now I just to have to completely replace the partion once I get a blank cd on hand.

[Darkwater]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;41243735]Why not Fedora?[/QUOTE]

Why Fedora?

[shodan]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;41243778]Why Fedora?[/QUOTE]

I've tried a couple of distro's before and it always felt like they were missing something. I never had this problem with fedora.
Just install fedora and Gnome-Tweak-Tools after that and you're set to go.

[AMD Bulldozer]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;41243778]Why Fedora?[/QUOTE]

Its Linus Torvalds approved.

Its a great no-fucking-around distro without any of Canonical's idiocy.

[esalaka]

[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;41243749]Quantle Quetzel[/QUOTE]

Quantal Quetzal

But it'd help if you specified YY.MM Codename instead (ie. 12.10 Quantal)

[Flaming Spaz]

[QUOTE=Boris-B;41239665]Facepunch uses a bunch of windows fonts. You probably don't have them installed.

You'll probably need tahoma.

Here's bit in the css defining the font:

font-family: "Tahoma", "Helvetica", "Arial", "Verdana" !important;

I know that arch doesn't have them installed by default.[/QUOTE]

This fixed it, cheers.

[.Lain]

[QUOTE=AMD Bulldozer;41243885]Its Linus Torvalds approved.

Its a great no-fucking-around distro without any of Canonical's idiocy.[/QUOTE]
Debian has more support though.

[editline]30th June 2013[/editline]

Also not in the way of the canonical train

[.Lain]

Yep, XFCE is pretty nice. Good window manager, good built in tools and management. Doesn't fuck around needlessly
Cinnamon definitely has a long way to go stability wise

[esalaka]

[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;41244774]Debian has more support though.

[editline]30th June 2013[/editline]

Also not in the way of the canonical train[/QUOTE]

Debian has the largest derivative tree, too, though more than half of that is Ubuntu.