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

Fedora for laptop, Debian for my desktop, and ubuntu for my VPS and potato server. Use Windows Server 2012 for my hefty server right now because I'm studying for my MCSA.

I've stuck with Manjaro for at least a year now. I still love it. I have it on both my old laptop and my current one. My old laptop also has XUbuntu on it, because I never bothered to remove it. I don't use that laptop anyway.

Void on all devices but my phone. Even my Banana Pi which doesn't have support (yet *hint*)

Debian 8 on desktop and laptop, CentOS on VPS, but might switch to Fedora

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47765885]Lubuntu on both laptop and my linux partition i'm just a real fan of low resource and plain and fucking simple DEs[/QUOTE] Yeah I'm running LXQt on Arch. It's pretty sweet. Also running Btrfs for maximum bleeding edge :v: [editline]20th May 2015[/editline] Not running testing repo though, that's just suicide.

[QUOTE=lavacano;47765861] RE: What's everyone running?[/QUOTE] [URL=http://www.voidlinux.eu/]Void GNU/Linux[/URL] on a laptop and [URL=http://netbsd.org/]NetBSD[/URL] on a Raspberry Pi 2. If I find something about it I [I]really[/I] like, it'd be time to ditch Linux. If we ever survive long enough to 5K posts, next thread should be *NIX-encompassing.

[QUOTE=Little Donny;47764022]out of interest how many distros does everyone here use in day to day life? i use opensuse and xubuntu for desktop shit and centOS on my server. i'm guessing 2 or 3 is pretty average yeah?[/QUOTE] Arch Linux for all my computers except for main which runs Wangblows (muh gayms), Debian for the server and Ubuntu for my mums computer.

[QUOTE=Stonecycle;47767846][URL=http://www.voidlinux.eu/]Void GNU/Linux[/URL] on a laptop and [URL=http://netbsd.org/]NetBSD[/URL] on a Raspberry Pi 2. If I find something about it I [I]really[/I] like, it'd be time to ditch Linux. If we ever survive long enough to 5K posts, next thread should be *NIX-encompassing.[/QUOTE] Why bsd over linux?

ZFS: Zero Files Stored.

Debian Testing on Desktop an on a Laptop (may set laptop to stable, now that Jessie is stable), xubuntu (i think) on eeepc netbook which my grandma uses for skype :v: Honestly, each time I install Debian Stable I run into so much "already fixed, just not in [I]stable[/I] repositories [I]yet[/I]" it takes me like an hour to say "fuck it" and upgrade to testing.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47769971]I have zero balls to do this :v:[/QUOTE] Btrfs is pretty chill even if you don't use all the fancy schnapschnot features.

I've been running it since 2013, and I haven't used subvolumes or snapshots yet. I've mainly been using it because of on-the-fly compression, need to test subvolumes some day.

[QUOTE=nikomo;47770064]I've been running it since 2013, and I haven't used subvolumes or snapshots yet. I've mainly been using it because of on-the-fly compression, need to test subvolumes some day.[/QUOTE] Same here, I'm mostly using it because of it playing nice with SSDs and the speed with which it copies files.

[QUOTE=FPtje;47770156]Same here, I'm mostly using it because of it playing nice with SSDs and the speed with which it copies files.[/QUOTE] Even better is moving files. Doesn't get any faster than that. [editline]21st May 2015[/editline] Probably goes for most non-Windows filesystems though.

[QUOTE=nikomo;47769750]ZFS: Zero Files Stored.[/QUOTE] I've been rocking ZFS on my Linux server ever since it was just a hacky FUSE based botchjob. Never had a problem with it, except initially with slowness.

Fedora users, does installing gnome-shell just install the desktop environment or does it depend on the entire GNOME software package?

[QUOTE=Van-man;47772857]I've been rocking ZFS on my Linux server ever since it was just a hacky FUSE based botchjob. Never had a problem with it, except initially with slowness.[/QUOTE] I had a problem with it for a long time. Being unable to mount a backup test drive that used ZFS on Solaris. Eventually came around, but took a good long time too.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;47773981]I had a problem with it for a long time. [B]Being unable to mount a backup test drive that used ZFS on Solaris.[/B] Eventually came around, but took a good long time too.[/QUOTE] That's because the Solaris version used a newer version of ZFS. should've created the ZFS volume on the linux box and then mount it on the Solaris box without "upgrading" the volumes ZFS version.

[QUOTE=Van-man;47774053]That's because the Solaris version used a newer version of ZFS. should've created the ZFS volume on the linux box and then mount it on the Solaris box without "upgrading" the volumes ZFS version.[/QUOTE] It was before I knew about ZFS on Linux :v: I simply installed it on an old box I had which barely ran it at all, and tested it out.

what DE/standalone WM does people here use? I personally use Gnome

[QUOTE=ECrownofFire;47733131]You should be able to get a logfile by passing --logfile /some/path/logfile.log to it, I think. [editline]15th May 2015[/editline] Or if you're running it as a service [url]https://askubuntu.com/questions/397589/enable-logging-to-service[/url][/QUOTE] late response, but didn't use Transmission until now. I tried using the logfile parameter but all it does is spit the console output into a logfile which still only says "Closing transmission session... done"

[QUOTE=PredGD;47775532]what DE/standalone WM does people here use? I personally use Gnome[/QUOTE] bspwm all the way

[QUOTE=PredGD;47775532]what DE/standalone WM does people here use? I personally use Gnome[/QUOTE] Used PekWM for quite a while, moved back to Awesome and KDE.

[QUOTE=PredGD;47775532]what DE/standalone WM does people here use? I personally use Gnome[/QUOTE] AwesomeWM, for years now.

[QUOTE=PredGD;47775532]what DE/standalone WM does people here use? I personally use Gnome[/QUOTE] Herbstluftwm. And don't let anyone tell you bspwm's a better luftwm.

[QUOTE=PredGD;47775532]what DE/standalone WM does people here use? I personally use Gnome[/QUOTE] Running LXQt right now, it's pretty sweet, if rather, well, unfinished and unpolished.

[QUOTE=PredGD;47775532]what DE/standalone WM does people here use? I personally use Gnome[/QUOTE] I use openbox. I used to use i3 but I just like Openbox better.

[QUOTE=PredGD;47775532]what DE/standalone WM does people here use? I personally use Gnome[/QUOTE] i3 on my netbook, gnome on my big laptop but might switch to i3 on that too

[QUOTE=PredGD;47775532]what DE/standalone WM does people here use? I personally use Gnome[/QUOTE] KDE 4 on main system, Plasma (née KDE) 5 on craptop. The upgrade to Plasma 5 came unexpectedly because I apparently decided to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed right at a turning point, but I don't mind it so far. I'm still waiting for feature completeness before moving to it on all systems though.

Gnome on my desktop, xfce on my virt machines. Also, does anyone have any good tutorials for installing Arch? The only thing i'm getting hung up on is installing Grub/Gummi. I have no idea how to figure out if my virtual machine is EFI or BIOS since it's through virtualbox. When I try to install either one (either doing MBR for Grub or GPT for Gummi/Grub), I've had issues with the tutorials I've been reading since they're out of date. The guide on Arch was great until the Grub/Gummi section. This is the install process :F