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

[QUOTE=reevezy67;52304086]I should use Kali linux as my base OS.[/QUOTE] That's used specifically for pen-testing. Barring law enforcement catching you, even going to regular businesses can get you in shit.

Which airport? I wasn't really serious, I'm not sure why anyone would do that. Put it on a usb drive or something. [editline]3rd June 2017[/editline] After using Kali, I really want to switch back to linux, but I can't really. I think I'll shrink my windows partition and put linux on maybe a 60gb portion and try use it just for development and stuff. Not sure what distro to go with, something without too much maintenance, I'm past using Arch. Maybe something debian based. [t]http://i.imgur.com/5JSLHN9.png[/t]

[t]http://host.mukiwi.com:8188/ShareX/image/MobaXterm_2017-06-05_19-50-12.png[/t] IA64 was a mistake and HP should be flogged for continuing its existence for as long as they have.

[QUOTE=reevezy67;52307171]Which airport? I wasn't really serious, I'm not sure why anyone would do that. Put it on a usb drive or something. [editline]3rd June 2017[/editline] After using Kali, I really want to switch back to linux, but I can't really. I think I'll shrink my windows partition and put linux on maybe a 60gb portion and try use it just for development and stuff. Not sure what distro to go with, something without too much maintenance, I'm past using Arch. Maybe something debian based. [t]http://i.imgur.com/5JSLHN9.png[/t][/QUOTE] I like Fedora myself. On my laptop it doesn't require much maintenance but it still manages to be rather cutting-edge. With Arch or OpenSUSE things broke every other week, with Fedora I'm still getting new and exciting features without it ever breaking. Otherwise I'd look at one of the *buntus.

Yeah, I've been using Fedora for a while now, it's working great.

im new to the concept of IaC, but what I want to do is install a vagrant Ubuntu image using a vagrantfile to a bare-metal hypervisor. so i just want to provide a vagrantfile with all my packages, configuration, and shit and have that image appear on the machine. im using this for testing, basically i just want to install the image, do the testing, and then remove everything. is such a thing possible? i've only ever used vagrant using a hosted hypervisor (ie within another OS). my googlefu is telling me it isn't possible, but does anyone know a way? is this a dumb question?

So, I framed a tiny monitor on my desk connected to my Raspberry Pi and I'd like for it to display a web page that I'm able to refresh from my main desktop. I don't want to have to connect a keyboard to it pretty much ever. Any ideas? I can get it to open straight to fullscreen Chromium but I've got no idea how to refresh it remotely.

I forget the name of the application itself but I'm pretty sure there's a way to send a signal to the Pi's X server to simulate having pressed, say, the F5 key. You could then write a script on your desktop to execute said command via SSH. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but at a glance I think that would be a likely candidate for a solution.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;52365105]im new to the concept of IaC, but what I want to do is install a vagrant Ubuntu image using a vagrantfile to a bare-metal hypervisor. so i just want to provide a vagrantfile with all my packages, configuration, and shit and have that image appear on the machine. im using this for testing, basically i just want to install the image, do the testing, and then remove everything. is such a thing possible? i've only ever used vagrant using a hosted hypervisor (ie within another OS). my googlefu is telling me it isn't possible, but does anyone know a way? is this a dumb question?[/QUOTE] I've never used Vagrant before, but I'm familiar with IaC so I skimmed their documentation. If you are thinking of "bare-metal" hypervisors such as VMWare ESXi then I could not find anything either, however there is a third-party "provider" which apparently allows you to use it here: [url]https://github.com/frapposelli/vagrant-vcenter[/url] You could probably also run VirtualBox headless on a Linux box too, however that may not be as "bare-metal" as you want it. [editline]19th June 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=supervoltage;52372297]I forget the name of the application itself but I'm pretty sure there's a way to send a signal to the Pi's X server to simulate having pressed, say, the F5 key. You could then write a script on your desktop to execute said command via SSH. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but at a glance I think that would be a likely candidate for a solution.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/xdotool.1.html"]xdotool[/URL] allows you to simulate keypresses and such. [editline]19th June 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=wauterboi;52372046]So, I framed a tiny monitor on my desk connected to my Raspberry Pi and I'd like for it to display a web page that I'm able to refresh from my main desktop. I don't want to have to connect a keyboard to it pretty much ever. Any ideas? I can get it to open straight to fullscreen Chromium but I've got no idea how to refresh it remotely.[/QUOTE] You could simulate keypresses like supervoltage suggested (probably the simplest), or AFAIK Chromium allows you to control it remotely aswell (Some, but not much information here: [url]https://blog.chromium.org/2011/05/remote-debugging-with-chrome-developer.html[/url] ).

Wow I switched to Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 and I sort of like it. Shame that there's no global menu, but I don't miss it that much either. Also it's much faster. The Unity scope thing was also quite useless...

This is a must have for me in gnome [URL]https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/307/dash-to-dock/[/URL] It's a launcher. [editline]20th June 2017[/editline] I turn off hot corners and the application icon. Generally launch applications by hitting the windows key and searching. I wasn't careful just now and deleted everything in my downloads folder. Also screen dump [t]http://i.imgur.com/1i6WpE2g.png[/t]

So I've installed Ubuntu 17 some time ago and I'm having some problems with stuff like performance and some of the programs I've installed linux for not working. Do you think that it's a good idea to scrap that and go for some more stable, older version of let's say, linux mint instead?

Xubuntu, not Linux Mint. Go for an LTS release and see if everything is stable.

Okay, I'll give it a shot. I wanted to try linux mint since it's the one that comes prepacked with all the fun stuff and it's the one my father uses, but I dislike color green anyway so that might be a better choice

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52382165]Xubuntu, not Linux Mint. Go for an LTS release and see if everything is stable.[/QUOTE] Any particular reason why not Linux Mint? I use it now sometimes and it seems to work well for me. Should I consider switching before I get too settled with mint?

[QUOTE=Pelf;52382929]Any particular reason why not Linux Mint? I use it now sometimes and it seems to work well for me. Should I consider switching before I get too settled with mint?[/QUOTE] Xubuntu is an official flavor so it gets better support, and I personally found it to be much more stable. I also definitely prefer XFCE over Cinnamon. There was also that time Linux Mint got their ISOs infected with malicious code, which doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. Give Xubuntu a try; if you like it there's no reason to use Mint over it.

I do not know ever since when this started happening as I have been mostly using Windows on my laptop, but the network connection on the Arch Linux install on this laptop does not seem to be working anymore. lspci seems to recognize both the Ethernet and Wi-Fi cards, but it just does not connect. What is happening, how can I fix it? Did maybe an update break it? Both Ethernet and Wi-Fi are Intel.

Just did my first full install of arch on my desktop, there were a few bumps along the way but I'm really liking the results.

See you in a few weeks when an update breaks it.

Arch isn't [I]that[/I] unstable :v: Though, I do prefer Manjaro for that reason.

I don't understand how you guys can break Arch I've been running it for years on every device I've had and I've never had an unresolvable problem

Breaking AUR packages, partial upgrades, premature releases, updating [I]too late[/I], weird interactions between packages / dependency hell, custom configuration... same shit you can fuck up on any Linux distribution, but exacerbated because of rolling release and the community's emphasis on unsupported third-party (=> AUR) packages (which in my experience break more often than Ubuntu PPAs). Though in my [I]practical[/I] user experience Arch has been more reliable than, like, Ubuntu Desktop. Maybe it's coincidence, maybe they're just better at distribution-ing.

[QUOTE=supervoltage;52386490]I don't understand how you guys can break Arch I've been running it for years on every device I've had and I've never had an unresolvable problem[/QUOTE] The problem isn't that they're unresolvable. The problem is that simple updates carry such a big risk of things breaking in the first place. You have to spend time and effort into what's gone wrong [I]this[/I] time. It's not even necessarily a bleeding edge problem. Arch devs know which packages they're upgrading. They're (hopefully) testing that shit themselves. I'm sure in 90% of the cases they can write a migration script rather than posting "manual intervention required" on their blog after fixing it for themselves.

I suppose you're right, but I still find it perplexing how so many people seem to just carry this distro-breaking aura with them. It's the only way I can explain some people simply just killing Arch installations with little to no effort.

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[QUOTE=supervoltage;52389542]I suppose you're right, but I still find it perplexing how so many people seem to just carry this distro-breaking aura with them. It's the only way I can explain some people simply just killing Arch installations with little to no effort.[/QUOTE] Though it's quite a few years ago now, breaking my Arch install was as simple as running "pacman -Syyu". Any complaint about it breaking my system was met with "[I]WELL YOU SHOULD HAVE READ THE BLOG[/I]".

That's amazing. I never read the blog and my shit still worked with no problems. Next time you get an Arch install going add me on Steam so I can provide support in case of breakage. I'm really curious what the problem is.

[QUOTE=supervoltage;52390139]That's amazing. I never read the blog and my shit still worked with no problems. Next time you get an Arch install going add me on Steam so I can provide support in case of breakage. I'm really curious what the problem is.[/QUOTE] These days I run NixOS. It is glorious. Even when used bleeding edge it's much more predictable than Arch. "[I]Oh no this nixpkgs upgrade (NixOS update) broke my system[/I]", I say while rebooting in the previous configuration "[I]Eh, I'll look at it later[/I]".

[QUOTE=timbered.plum;52389553]i'm looking to build a new computer for my mom, cuz ours is getting very slow, and I don't wanna buy windows. for an older person with zero real computer knowledge, do you guys think linux would be a viable option? She's never used it, and neither have I, so I don't really know how hard that change might be[/QUOTE] If you knew how to use Linux I'd say maybe because you could show her everything she needs to know, but I dunno about both of you learning together. [editline]22nd June 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=FPtje;52390351]These days I run NixOS. It is glorious. Even when used bleeding edge it's much more predictable than Arch. "[I]Oh no this nixpkgs upgrade (NixOS update) broke my system[/I]", I say while rebooting in the previous configuration "[I]Eh, I'll look at it later[/I]".[/QUOTE] I switched to Manjaro for a similar reason; basically just Arch but updates get extra stability testing so things don't break as easily. Arch is also fun to install the first time but after the novelty of that wears off it's easier just to sit back and let the Manjaro installer do it.

[QUOTE=FPtje;52390351]These days I run NixOS. It is glorious. Even when used bleeding edge it's much more predictable than Arch. "[I]Oh no this nixpkgs upgrade (NixOS update) broke my system[/I]", I say while rebooting in the previous configuration "[I]Eh, I'll look at it later[/I]".[/QUOTE] That's what I adore about OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Rolling release, but if something breaks horribly I can just boot into a btrfs snapshot taken before my [I]zupper dup[/I] and be good.