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

Maybe take a look at some of the specialized distros, like [URL="http://www.kali.org/"]Kali[/URL] (To see if you can hack your own Wifi or a VM or something) or [URL="http://www.distroastro.org/index.html"]Distro Astro[/URL] and look at space and stuff.

[QUOTE=lavacano;42528164]There's always Gentoo.[/QUOTE] why is everyone laughing at me ☹

[QUOTE=lavacano;42535862]why is everyone laughing at me ☹[/QUOTE] I'm not sure I think Gentoo is really cool. Though I don't have enough confidence to install it myself though I suppose I could take my own advice and VM it.

[QUOTE=lavacano;42535862]why is everyone laughing at me ☹[/QUOTE] Because Funtoo is way better, man.

Gentoo is a place. Gentoo is a state of mind.

Gentoo (Sabayon - Minimal, easy mode but still) works for me.

[QUOTE=lavacano;42535862]why is everyone laughing at me ☹[/QUOTE] Let me preface this by saying that I really do like Gentoo (the idea of it; I've never been bashful about compiling from source and for a while I used quite a bit of suckless software which is configured through C source) and I respect everyone who uses it (I'm just not in a position to spend the time for what I consider to be marginal returns, at best) but [url=http://funroll-loops.info/]this page[/url] really is a good laugh, and I think about it [i]every[/i] time someone brings up Gentoo now.

thought about getting into linux again (miss it so much) but don't know if I want to go through the process of installing arch again, but at the same time I want the same flexibility and freedom which comes with it. ughhhhhh also, could you guys here who is running KDE show off your desktops? kinda curious to see what people have done with that DE. considering to use it myself

[QUOTE=PredGD;42542133]thought about getting into linux again (miss it so much) but don't know if I want to go through the process of installing arch again, but at the same time I want the same flexibility and freedom which comes with it. ughhhhhh[/QUOTE] Manjaro has a KDE Community version. [URL]http://sourceforge.net/projects/manjarotorrents/files/community/[/URL] It's similar to ArchBang but a bit more professionally done. Comes pre-installed with non-free drivers and codecs (Flash/MP3 and stuff). Even has Yaourt and Steam preinstalled. I use normal Arch on my main PC and Manjaro XFCE on a live USB for college and on my Nan's PC when I stay over.

think I'll just go with arch, thought the installation would be more tedious but got it installed in about 10 mins without much help from the wiki in virtualbox. want to check out the different DE's before going ahead and installing it on my HDD though, but can't get x to work in virtualbox. decided to install the vesa drivers but it won't let me get into x. [IMG]http://puu.sh/4RzSN.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=PredGD;42542445]think I'll just go with arch, thought the installation would be more tedious but got it installed in about 10 mins without much help from the wiki in virtualbox. want to check out the different DE's before going ahead and installing it on my HDD though, but can't get x to work in virtualbox. decided to install the vesa drivers but it won't let me get into x. [IMG]http://puu.sh/4RzSN.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox#Arch_Linux_as_a_guest_in_a_Virtual_Machine[/url]

[QUOTE=PredGD;42542445]think I'll just go with arch, thought the installation would be more tedious but got it installed in about 10 mins without much help from the wiki in virtualbox. want to check out the different DE's before going ahead and installing it on my HDD though, but can't get x to work in virtualbox. decided to install the vesa drivers but it won't let me get into x. [IMG]http://puu.sh/4RzSN.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Are you using VBox 4.3? They've thrown in quite a bit of Serious into guest acceleration...

[QUOTE=benbb;42542506][url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox#Arch_Linux_as_a_guest_in_a_Virtual_Machine[/url][/QUOTE] couldn't get it to work, so I'll just say fuck it and go ahead and FINALLY have my beautiful arch back on my HDD

Yeah, it's better to have it on a HDD. Maybe try VMware Player/Workstation instead?

[QUOTE=PredGD;42542644]couldn't get it to work, so I'll just say fuck it and go ahead and FINALLY have my beautiful arch back on my HDD[/QUOTE] [url]http://wideaperture.net/blog/?p=3851[/url]

First time Linux user here. Looking at which distro to install and I'm stuck between Mint, Elementary and Fedora. Leaning more towards Mint than anything, can anyone help me out on which to choose?

[QUOTE=lew06;42543279]First time Linux user here. Looking at which distro to install and I'm stuck between Mint, Elementary and Fedora. Leaning more towards Mint than anything, can anyone help me out on which to choose?[/QUOTE] First time? Definitely Ubuntu or Mint. Maybe wait until tomorrow. Ubuntu 13.10's coming out tomorrow.

[QUOTE=lew06;42543279]First time Linux user here. Looking at which distro to install and I'm stuck between Mint, Elementary and Fedora. Leaning more towards Mint than anything, can anyone help me out on which to choose?[/QUOTE] Don't do Fedora. Have a USB handy? Download both Mint and eOS and try them both by booting from USB.

[QUOTE=benbb;42543428]First time? Definitely Ubuntu or Mint. Maybe wait until tomorrow. Ubuntu 13.10's coming out tomorrow.[/QUOTE] I hope to god they fixed the mouse sensitivity bug

so here I am back, again, but not on linux. the installation itself went fine, but I had completely forgotten what a pain in the ass it was to get my dual screen setup working. not only that, but the catalyst drivers doesn't support the latest version of xorg either. would like not to use the open source ones due to their bad 3D performance.

[QUOTE=PredGD;42543556]so here I am back, again, but not on linux. the installation itself went fine, but I had completely forgotten what a pain in the ass it was to get my dual screen setup working. not only that, but the catalyst drivers doesn't support the latest version of xorg either. would like not to use the open source ones due to their bad 3D performance.[/QUOTE] I'm sorry to hear about that. The open source drivers for both nvidia and amd cards aren't the best for 3D performance, you're right on that. I hope that in the future, when this is fixed, we'll see you back on board the Linux train!

[QUOTE=mastersrp;42543552]Don't do Fedora. Have a USB handy? Download both Mint and eOS and try them both by booting from USB.[/QUOTE] Don't do eOS. It's beautiful, yes, but in my experience it's pretty buggy at times and it's just not that great.

[QUOTE=benbb;42543428]First time? Definitely Ubuntu or Mint. Maybe wait until tomorrow. Ubuntu 13.10's coming out tomorrow.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=mastersrp;42543552]Don't do Fedora. Have a USB handy? Download both Mint and eOS and try them both by booting from USB.[/QUOTE] Yeah I skipped straight past Fedora, and chose Mint instead. Elementary looks real nice and sleek, but I'm done with the whole 'icons along the bottom' type thing, too similar to the MacBook I used to have. Just made a small 50GB partition and gonna install it onto that, pretty excited never having used Linux before and I can't wait to see how it compares. Not going for Unbuntu because I'm not a massive fan of how it looks, and Mint comes with a load of cool software pre-installed too which is handy for a first time user I suppose.

I wouldn't recommend Fedora unless you've had some decent previous Linux experience and you want Gnome 3. It's not exactly the most user-friendly distro around. Mint is pretty nice in the respect that it has MP3 codecs and Flash installed, etc. etc. I just don't like how they mess with app defaults all the time. Firefox has different search engines installed, their bookmarks + homepage etc. etc. Their custom software store isn't very nice either compared to the official USC (It doesn't have commercial/freeware not in the repos). Their update manager blows Ubuntu's out of the water though, and it's nice they have Gdebi installed by default for DEB packages, rather than installing through the rather slow official USC.

decided to take a bite from the sour apple and installed the open source drivers. feels good to be back.

[QUOTE=benbb;42543428]First time? Definitely Ubuntu or Mint. Maybe wait until tomorrow. Ubuntu 13.10's coming out tomorrow.[/QUOTE] Does Xubuntu tend to come out on the same day? I might try installing it on my Ultrabook. Hopefully not wiping the drive in the process like the last time.

[QUOTE=benjgvps;42543965]Does Xubuntu tend to come out on the same day? I might try installing it on my Ultrabook. Hopefully not wiping the drive in the process like the last time.[/QUOTE] According to Wikipedia, yep.

[QUOTE=benbb;42543616]Don't do eOS. It's beautiful, yes, but in my experience it's pretty buggy at times and it's just not that great.[/QUOTE] eOS is good, but I got turned down by the ols kernel that ships with it. 3.2.* just does not work on my notebook, so I settled with mint. No regrets. Cinnamon is really good. (Yes I know there's 3.8 somewhere in the repo)

[QUOTE=lew06;42543279]First time Linux user here. Looking at which distro to install and I'm stuck between Mint, Elementary and Fedora. Leaning more towards Mint than anything, can anyone help me out on which to choose?[/QUOTE] I can't give Elemetary enough praise. I'm not a beginner [sp]anymore[/sp] but it works for what I need it for and with a little bit of work around I can customize it how I like things to be and its Ubuntu based so like 99% of the software will work. [editline]16th October 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=benbb;42543616]Don't do eOS. It's beautiful, yes, but in my experience it's pretty buggy at times and it's just not that great.[/QUOTE] The only problem I ever had was a WiFi issue.

you guys know of any simplistic icon packs which are white? the missing piece for my desktop with cinnamon!