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

[QUOTE=Van-man;42593998][url]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ5MTI[/url] [url]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ5MDI[/url] Oh boy, either Mark Shuttleworth will be schooled, or his delusional stubborness will grow to previously unseen proportions. Either way, it's gonna be entertaining.[/QUOTE] wow, Shuttleworth's a prick.

[QUOTE=lavacano;42598678]wow, Shuttleworth's a prick.[/QUOTE] I thought all the people who went to space were supposed to be cool people. We need Chris Hadfield to lead a distro project.

Threw manjaro on my laptop because I have an obsession with arch but was too lazy to configure it from scratch last night. Xfce and arch is rapidly becoming me favorite combination of anything on earth. Well see if SteamOS can change my mind. :v:

[QUOTE=MasterFen006;42599142]I thought all the people who went to space were supposed to be cool people.[/QUOTE] So you're saying Shuttleworth is so out of touch, that he's even been to space?

Can anyone recommend some good (and for [i]total[/i] beginners) learning material for python? I'm having lectures on it for my Geology course (don't really know why..) but the lecturer basically only sets tasks to do with very little explanation, so I'm feeling a bit swamped, especially with some of the new language I'm not used to. Any help appreciated, specifically we are using ipython notebook.

Here. [URL="http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/"]learn pyhton the hardway/[/URL] [URL="www.codecademy.com"]codecademy[/URL]

[QUOTE=Dragonflare;42599487]Threw manjaro on my laptop because I have an obsession with arch but was too lazy to configure it from scratch last night. Xfce and arch is rapidly becoming me favorite combination of anything on earth. Well see if SteamOS can change my mind. :v:[/QUOTE] When SteamOS comes out, you could probably just use their "assets" to make a SteamOS Manjaro community spin.

what themes do you guys recommend for xfce?

[QUOTE=PredGD;42600964]what themes do you guys recommend for xfce?[/QUOTE] Greybird is nice.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;42600434]When SteamOS comes out, you could probably just use their "assets" to make a SteamOS Manjaro community spin.[/QUOTE] I'm very curious to see how their hardware optimization works out. I have AMD cards in this gaming rig, so I'm hoping they didn't solely work with nVidia to improve drivers. If they can actually produce a notable impact on performance (in general, not just with sponsored hardware like nVidia cards, Intel CPUs, specific NICs) I will certainly spend quite a bit of time picking through the source. Imagine a system as light as Arch with awesome 3D, hardware accelerated performance. And AMD drivers that don't make me want to hang myself from the bumper of an 18 wheeler driving off a cliff.

[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;42600107]Here. [URL="http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/"]learn pyhton the hardway/[/URL] [URL="www.codecademy.com"]codecademy[/URL][/QUOTE] A went through most of Learn Python the Hard Way first and then had to do the codecademy for my Linux class recently, I found the codecademy a little better though in Learn Python the Hard Way, you get to make a small webapp.

Advantage of open source software: If you have a problem, you can fix it your damn self. My problem? zsh didn't understand YYYY.MM.DD [img]http://jesusfuck.me/di/RO0G/zshfixing1.png[/img] I knew the problem was I use . instead of / or -, so 30 seconds of vim use and a recompile later... [img]http://jesusfuck.me/di/ZJZ7/zshfixing2.png[/img] Probably not compatible with zsh builds that don't have this patch, but I don't give a flying damn. :v:

I notice I constantly need to list a directory after I change to it, because I don't have my entire directory structure memorized. I wanted to alias something to change directory and list with one command; I had to pass the final argument to the first command (cd) and the rest of the arguments to the second (ls) so I had to read up on positional arguments and substrings :v: [code] cl() { # cd to last positional argument and pass the rest to ls cd "${@: -1}" && ls "${@:1:$#-1}" } [/code] Bash seems rather cryptic at times, but at others it seems very elegant; here, have a forkbomb: [code] :(){ :|:& };: [/code]

[QUOTE=PredGD;42600964]what themes do you guys recommend for xfce?[/QUOTE] Axiom-Dark

[QUOTE=PredGD;42600964]what themes do you guys recommend for xfce?[/QUOTE] I'm using Xfce-dusk right now on my laptop.

Hm, I have weird rendering faults sometimes appearing at the bottom of the screen, sort of minor spazzing and it looks as it doesn't update the faulty rendered part often enough, causing an obvious "line". Anyone have an idea what it might can be? Most of the time, it looks like it really rendered it wrong, in that sense that it's "shifted" or not aligned like the rest. So the rendering fault even happens when there is only the wallpaper, it sometimes look like if you cut the lower part of the wallpaper and made that part not fully align with the rest of the picture. I'm running Sabayon (minimal, running X with awesome). I have a Macbook Pro Mid 2009 13". For some reason when I updated some week ago, rigo decided to install ATI drivers, when I have an nvidia card in it. So I uninstalled the ATI drivers, but the graphical error(s) is still there. I also feel like that I have a lot less preformance then I should, sure it ain't the strongest laptop GPU, and it's aged. But I have been able to play source games at lowest without a problem, but I get less then 20 fps.

[QUOTE=lavacano;42602739]Advantage of open source software: If you have a problem, you can fix it your damn self. My problem? zsh didn't understand YYYY.MM.DD [img]http://jesusfuck.me/di/RO0G/zshfixing1.png[/img] I knew the problem was I use . instead of / or -, so 30 seconds of vim use and a recompile later... [img]http://jesusfuck.me/di/ZJZ7/zshfixing2.png[/img] Probably not compatible with zsh builds that don't have this patch, but I don't give a flying damn. :v:[/QUOTE] Did you change the date format, or add a new one?

I found an old pc in my house. Today I will install Xubuntu, hope the pc will work well with this os :).

[QUOTE=aehm ?;42606555]I found an old pc in my house. Today I will install Xubuntu, hope the pc will work well with this os :).[/QUOTE] You'd be best off with Lubuntu or Crunchbang. Xubuntu is pretty resource-heavy.

Why in the fuck won't grub boot when I install to my partitioned SSD? It is around ~20GB. Should it be more?

You tried to install grub to the drive rather than a partition? grub-install /dev/sda

[QUOTE=benbb;42607431]You tried to install grub to the drive rather than a partition? grub-install /dev/sda[/QUOTE] Yeah, I did that. It didn't work.

[QUOTE=benbb;42607249]You'd be best off with Lubuntu or Crunchbang. Xubuntu is pretty resource-heavy.[/QUOTE] I thought Xubuntu was famous for being lightweight or at the very least xfce was.

[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;42607752]I thought Xubuntu was famous for being lightweight or at the very least xfce was.[/QUOTE] XFCE is pretty lightweight when stripped down. Xubuntu is more lightweight than normal Ubuntu but it's still pretty heavy. Lubuntu is now more famous for being lightweight.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;42606528]Did you change the date format, or add a new one?[/QUOTE] Added a new one, of course

[QUOTE=benbb;42607809]XFCE is pretty lightweight when stripped down. Xubuntu is more lightweight than normal Ubuntu but it's still pretty heavy. Lubuntu is now more famous for being lightweight.[/QUOTE] eh [sp]crunchbang is better anyway[/sp]

[QUOTE=nehkz;42607446]Yeah, I did that. It didn't work.[/QUOTE] Is your drive MBR or GPT? Are you trying to boot via BIOS or EFI?

[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;42608020]eh [sp]crunchbang is better anyway[/sp][/QUOTE] Crunchbang is cool but it's essentially Debian rather than Ubuntu which while it's a Debian-based system it also has some other tweaks. Crunchbang/Debian doesn't have the PPA system which is pretty damn useful for installing software for example.

[QUOTE=benbb;42609297]Crunchbang is cool but it's essentially Debian rather than Ubuntu which while it's a Debian-based system it also has some other tweaks. Crunchbang/Debian doesn't have the PPA system which is pretty damn useful for installing software for example.[/QUOTE] I fell in love with Crunchbang (I love Debian in general) it's literally my favorite distro but for some reason it just does not play nice with my WiFi card so I gave up and went to ElementaryOS

[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;42610041]I fell in love with Crunchbang (I love Debian in general) it's literally my favorite distro but for some reason it just does not play nice with my WiFi card so I gave up and went to ElementaryOS[/QUOTE] You could always take Lubuntu, which uses LXDE which is built upon OpenBox which is what Crunchbang uses, strip out the LXDE parts you don't need and use OpenBox. Then just install whatever theme they use, edit your menus (You have to configure them manually using the menu.xml file in your home folders' .config/openbox folder and configure tint2 (The taskbar thing at the bottom). It sounds hard but it's really not that bad.