General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop! - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;50772093]Mostly preference. I use Pacaur because it lets me accept the installation of packages/say I don't want to view the install script [I]before[/I] they all start installing, so once I do that it's pretty much autonomous. With yaourt you accept/reject things, install a package, then accept/reject things for the next package, then install the next package, and so on. With AUR packages that have a ton of dependencies, yaourt is practically impossible to use. Ive never heard of aura though. Is that a GUI AUR installer perhaps?[/QUOTE] Nah, it's just an AUR helper I find simple and pleasant to use. It essentially acts just like pacman, using the same flags and stuff. You can use it to dl from the Arch repositories just by using aura -S noun, and from the aur with aura -A, search with aura -As, etc.. Handles dependencies well too which is one thing I disliked about yaourt. [sp] also it has pretty colours, sorry for being so vain [/sp]

Ah, I see. Mostly the same as pacaur then, just that pacaur automatically checks the official repos first and then the AUR using the -S flag.

Also since you mentioned a gui helper, the arch wiki does say there is one called argon which is a front-end of pacaur. I've never really enjoyed any gui package management ever, but perhaps it's good?

get that gooey shit out of my face

[QUOTE=PredGD;50771837]I personally love the AUR. on something like Ubuntu I assume you'd have to wait a while before a package becomes available in the official repos since someone with the proper permissions would have to add it. if there's a package missing in the official Arch repos, then some random guy can just create it in the AUR! so much faster and gets you so many more packages[/QUOTE] Ubuntu already does this with PPA's, Fedora with COPR's and openSUSE with OBS. It just seems that Arch and Fedora/openSUSE are far easier to create packages for than Ubuntu

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;50772230]Ubuntu already does this with PPA's, Fedora with COPR's and openSUSE with OBS. It just seems that Arch and Fedora/openSUSE are far easier to create packages for than Ubuntu[/QUOTE] I can't speak for Fedora and openSUSE, but aren't PPA's repos? I always had the impression that if you for example want a package that isn't on the official repo, you'd have to add an entire custom repo (PPA) just for that one package which sounds kinda unneccesary? I might be wrong though, I never really used Ubuntu or its derivatives that much. if that's the case then it sounds a little easier to have a system like the AUR has where you don't have to add an extra repo for one package

[QUOTE=PredGD;50772392]I can't speak for Fedora and openSUSE, but aren't PPA's repos? I always had the impression that if you for example want a package that isn't on the official repo, you'd have to add an entire custom repo (PPA) just for that one package which sounds kinda unneccesary? I might be wrong though, I never really used Ubuntu or its derivatives that much. if that's the case then it sounds a little easier to have a system like the AUR has where you don't have to add an extra repo for one package[/QUOTE] Correct. PPAs are just regular binary repos like for example [URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Repo-ck"]linux-ck[/URL] or [URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#infinality-bundle"]infinality[/URL] to arch linux.

Hey guys, I'm pretty new to the world of Linux, and I've got a problem. I have a mostly fresh install of debian that I'm transferring my files to and from. It seems to be capping out at 300 Mbps, while the rest of my network runs at gigabit. I know my server can handle gigabit speeds, but I have no idea how to find out what's causing this bottle neck. Can any of you point me in the right direction? I'll gladly provide more info, if necessary.

yaourt is too verbose and asks too many god damn questions. I find pacaur to be nice. especially when running pacaur -Syyu which will update my packages from official repositories and AUR packages too. I use arch for general purposes and programming. arch is ideal for programming, it has the latest interpreters, compilers, IDE packages. also proprietary packages(easy to install skype,steam,intellij). archlinux is a serious time saver. [editline]26th July 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Anti Christ;50775952]Hey guys, I'm pretty new to the world of Linux, and I've got a problem. I have a mostly fresh install of debian that I'm transferring my files to and from. It seems to be capping out at 300 Mbps, while the rest of my network runs at gigabit. I know my server can handle gigabit speeds, but I have no idea how to find out what's causing this bottle neck. Can any of you point me in the right direction? I'll gladly provide more info, if necessary.[/QUOTE] what kind of protocol do you use? [editline]26th July 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=thelurker1234;50772142]Also since you mentioned a gui helper, the arch wiki does say there is one called argon which is a front-end of pacaur. I've never really enjoyed any gui package management ever, but perhaps it's good?[/QUOTE] I use octopi, it's qt5 package manager. It supports yaourt/pacaur as backend. also comes with notifier to update your packages. I think octopi comes with manjaro preinstalled.

[QUOTE=Lyoko2;50776270]what kind of protocol do you use?[/QUOTE] ftp via lan, running vsftpd

If you don't want yaourt to prompt you at every step, you could pass `--noconfirm`.

[QUOTE=deadeye536;50776623]If you don't want yaourt to prompt you at every step, you could pass `--noconfirm`.[/QUOTE] But I do want to confirm or deny things; I just want to do it before installing rather than between each individual installation.

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;50772073]And it's also the fault of steam being a kind of trash program that only cares about Ubuntu. I've seen some wizardry done to get steam working on other distros such as the install script on NixOS having to create a chroot for it.[/QUOTE] That's not really a fair comparison, NixOS always involves wizardry :v:

Tried out cinnamon and mhmm does it taste good I'm contemplating about getting a raspberry to host a static page and my own low traffic game server written in C. Would its performance be enough to do these jobs?

[QUOTE=ichiman94;50782429]Tried out cinnamon and mhmm does it taste good I'm contemplating about getting a raspberry to host a static page and my own low traffic game server written in C. Would its performance be enough to do these jobs?[/QUOTE] I'd go for a Banana Pi for that instead of a Raspberry, it has higher specs and better suited to things like game servers, and the RPi only has DDR2 memory I think too.

ODROID C2 is also superior to the Pi for such a task.

Is a raspi3 gonna be enough to run an HTPC client (Kodi + media streamed from a homeserver) or should I look into more powerful shit? I'm thinking that something as ubiquitous as a raspi will by far have the best support but the PseudoTV Live addon I use for Kodi can be kind of cpu intensive

If you're not afraid of Linux I'd say just go for the more powerful stuff. Even with all the support the Pi has, half the shit I want to run doesn't work thanks to Broadcom's fuckery.

My budget only allows RPi 3 or Banana Pi M2 (the M3 is twice the price them) (ODROID is not avaible in this country) Is the BPi M2 still more preferable somehow? I have no idea about how bad Broadcom is.

I'd go for an Orange Pi Plus 2 over a Banana Pi myself, but an Odroid XU4 will blow any option out of the water. If you buy anything other than a Raspberry Pi you will need a heatsink. And don't forget that Banana and Orange Pi's are both [url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux-sunxi/78MbtijKraY]Allwinner[/url] chips so glhf in that regard.

[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;50785158]And don't forget that Banana and Orange Pi's are both [url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux-sunxi/78MbtijKraY]Allwinner[/url] chips so glhf in that regard.[/QUOTE] This is what I ran into while doing research, seems like they're even LESS supported than the raspi chips

[QUOTE=TrafficMan;50785369]This is what I ran into while doing research, seems like they're even LESS supported than the raspi chips[/QUOTE] You're in America, you can get an ODROID. Buy from AmeriDROID. Also I wouldn't necessarily say the Allwinner chips are less supported. They're actually very common in ARM computers. Mostly in cheap Chinese shit, but they can also be found in low-end products even from big names like HP. The Pi's CPU and more notably the Pi's GPU are practically exclusive to the Pi. The GPU is particular has absolutely horrible support. Basically nothing works on it unless it's been compiled with the video core GPU specifically in mind. You'll find you're very limited in options on what graphical software you can actually run on a Pi. The only thing is Allwinner chips are indeed cheap Chinese shit so I don't know how they stack up against the Pi. That's why I'm vouching for the ODROID C2, which doesn't use an Allwinner chip, because I know it indeed does beat the Pi in every aspect other than community support. Also, it's not like there's no community for the C2; it just isn't as big as the Pi's. If you're buying the Pi just for a cheap mini Linux box, the ODROID C2 is almost certainly a better choice.

What good minimalistic themes do you guys recommend for gnome/cinnamon? Or DMs for that matter. this is what i'm using atm: [t]https://i.imgur.com/QymQjQO.jpg[/t]

What DE gives me the best performance in games?

[QUOTE=poki;50786363]What DE gives me the best performance in games?[/QUOTE] It's pretty irrelevant as long as you've got plenty of ram. If ram is an issue, a WM (or smaller DE like LXDE) will be better than a full DE generally. For performance all you really need to make sure of is that your compositor is disabled when playing the games, as it can kind of interfere. I think GNOME does this by default if you're running a fullscreen program, and KDE has it in options, for talking about the big two. For others it really depends, but pretty much all will let you do it.

Is Fedora still decent? Last time I tried it was back in 2013 in a virtual machine.

More than decent.

Jesus Christ. Everything's so different.

It's my go-to "just werks" distro unless im using KDE then I go for OpenSUSE. Works well, easy, and I find it higher quality/more professional than the others. One tip is that you'll probably need packages other than just what red hat decide to give you, and all you really need to add is RPMFusion and then you basically have everything you'll ever need.

Yep RPMFusion free and nonfree then you're good to go. It's fairly rare I need something that isn't in those.