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

Today I learned about what happens when you run zsh's "expand-word" on {something,like,this}* this is fucking awesome actually

[QUOTE=lavacano;47893372]Today I learned about what happens when you run zsh's "expand-word" on {something,like,this}* this is fucking awesome actually[/QUOTE] works on fish and bash aswell

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;47884182]This was literally the only change in that commit. How much smaller do you want them? People make mistakes, even when they're careful.[/QUOTE] I'm not arguing that it was a bad commit, I'm arguing that making commits larger than they can be easily reverted kind of defeats part of the point of using a DVCS. However, I'm not innocent in that area either :v:

[QUOTE=mastersrp;47897150]I'm not arguing that it was a bad commit, I'm arguing that making commits larger than they can be easily reverted kind of defeats part of the point of using a DVCS. However, I'm not innocent in that area either :v:[/QUOTE] No one is. While coding you often stumble across a one line error. It takes 5 seconds to change, making a separate commit is too much effort. That's really bad and commits should always be highly cohesive, but sometimes you just can't be arsed. It should always be strived for. Some projects are more strict in commit cohesion than others.

I'm a Windows user and would like to switch to Linux sometime. What distro you guys recommend, and what programs are "essential"?

[QUOTE=RockyTV;47908536]I'm a Windows user and would like to switch to Linux sometime. What distro you guys recommend, and what programs are "essential"?[/QUOTE] Hoo boy here we go again. [editline]e[/editline] I mean that as in there's a lot of choices. People argue that as GNU/Linux's downfall, but it's really better to have a freedom of choice. There's [URL=http://www.ubuntu.com/]Ubuntu[/URL] as a semi-decent starting point. At least that's what I started out with back in 2008 through 2014. Their repos have almost everything you could use. Almost. I'm not exactly in the best position to recommend software to looking to just start out using alternatives since most things I do are command-line. If you want graphical (eg. GUI) ones, there's neat stuff like Sublime Text if you like extensible text editors, Steam since Ubuntu's Valve's "officially supported" distribution. MyPaint or even Krita if you enjoy partaking in the arts and The GIMP (also "essential" on Windows) for miscellaneous imagery work. The rest of the GNU/Linux users here save for maybe two others can probably suggest better for you. It really just depends on your needs.

[QUOTE=Stonecycle;47908600]Hoo boy here we go again. [editline]e[/editline] I mean that as in there's a lot of choices. People argue that as GNU/Linux's downfall, but it's really better to have a freedom of choice. There's [URL=http://www.ubuntu.com/]Ubuntu[/URL] as a semi-decent starting point. At least that's what I started out with back in 2008 through 2014. Their repos have almost everything you could use. Almost. I'm not exactly in the best position to recommend software to looking to just start out using alternatives since most things I do are command-line. If you want graphical (eg. GUI) ones, there's neat stuff like Sublime Text if you like extensible text editors, Steam since Ubuntu's Valve's "officially supported" distribution. MyPaint or even Krita if you enjoy partaking in the arts and The GIMP (also "essential" on Windows) for miscellaneous imagery work. The rest of the GNU/Linux users here save for maybe two others can probably suggest better for you. It really just depends on your needs.[/QUOTE] I'd like one that I can game in and play with everything availabe in it.

[QUOTE=RockyTV;47908688]I'd like one that I can game in and play with everything availabe in it.[/QUOTE] Choice of distribution generally doesn't matter in terms of software compatibility. If you want to play games, they'll need to support Linux, or you could try to run their Windows versions using Wine. If you're a hardcore gamer, stick with Windows.

Question for anyone that can help: Current system: Win7 / Ubuntu 15.04 dual boot I am upgrading win7 to win10 preview at the moment. Will this fuck up my dual boot? The only thing I could picture was having to reload grub if the upgrade restored mbr. Thanks!

[QUOTE=Relaxation;47909757]Question for anyone that can help: Current system: Win7 / Ubuntu 15.04 dual boot I am upgrading win7 to win10 preview at the moment. Will this fuck up my dual boot? The only thing I could picture was having to reload grub if the upgrade restored mbr. Thanks![/QUOTE] Windows likes to replace the bootloader every chance it gets; you'll have to reinstall grub after installing Windows 10. [url]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows[/url]

[QUOTE=IpHa;47909845]Windows likes to replace the bootloader every chance it gets; you'll have to reinstall grub after installing Windows 10. [url]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows[/url][/QUOTE] Actually, the upgrade failed. After it auto-restarted, it went to grub menu.. Ok, I picked the win 7 partition... Nothing.

The [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Rollback_Machine]Arch Rollback Machine[/url] is pretty neat. I found there's an awful bug in the newer Nvidia drivers that basically renders my 500$ GPU into a 5$ GPU from ebay. On Windows it's easy to just sit on an old version of the driver, but in Arch you have to go in all ham-fisted-- degrading random packages that all rely on each-other. (video drivers, kernel, things that rely on the newer kernel). But with the rollback machine I can just put Arch in a specific point in time until Nvidia stops shitting on the drivers-- hope that doesn't take too long...

[QUOTE=RockyTV;47908536]I'm a Windows user and would like to switch to Linux sometime. What distro you guys recommend, and what programs are "essential"?[/QUOTE] I found [URL="http://redd.it/21qq26"]this[/URL] on reddit which might be useful for someone in your position. You experianced users could give your input if you think it's a good guide or not.

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;47911675]I found there's an awful bug in the newer Nvidia drivers that basically renders my 500$ GPU into a 5$ GPU from ebay.[/QUOTE] Specific version?

[QUOTE=lavacano;47912150]Specific version?[/QUOTE] WHQL 350.12 and beyond (The GTAV update) all have the same issue.

[QUOTE=Naelstrom;47915873]WHQL 350.12 and beyond all have the same issue.[/QUOTE] Just making sure, because I'm on 352.09 and I'm fine. So I looked at it. It looks like yet [b]another[/b] problem related specifically to the 900 series. Looks like I'm not using a 900 series card ever.

[QUOTE=lavacano;47915928]Just making sure, because I'm on 352.09 and I'm fine. So I looked at it. It looks like yet [b]another[/b] problem related specifically to the 900 series. Looks like I'm not using a 900 series card ever.[/QUOTE] I'm actually on a 660 ti, though their architectures are very similar. (Maxwell is a successor to Kepler) My real life friend has a gtx 900 series card and he has the same issue, so maybe you're right.

[url=https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750684]I just asked GNOME devs to reimplement customization in GTK3.[/url] And now we wait.

RESOLVED NOTABUG

Status update: burned.

[QUOTE=nikomo;47921376]RESOLVED NOTABUG[/QUOTE] I would be laughing if it wasn't because that's most likely their sincere response.

It's the proper answer, he explained in the response that GTK doesn't use gtkrc for configuration anymore. The links in the email provide details on where to go, if you want to do customization.

[QUOTE=nikomo;47924316]It's the proper answer, he explained in the response that GTK doesn't use gtkrc for configuration anymore. The links in the email provide details on where to go, if you want to do customization.[/QUOTE] I'm surprised they even added something to GTK, usually with them it's "remove something because it's broken and now that feature doesn't exist anymore fuck off you don't matter" hell, they once even [url=https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685]told the Transmission guy to completely remove status icons from the whole program[/url] just because GNOME didn't use them anymore. If they've switched to CSS, fine, I can work with that (I should probably patch something or other to get that automatically set when I'm using not-GNOME but still).

[QUOTE=lavacano;47924751]I'm surprised they even added something to GTK, usually with them it's "remove something because it's broken and now that feature doesn't exist anymore fuck off you don't matter" hell, they once even [url=https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685]told the Transmission guy to completely remove status icons from the whole program[/url] just because GNOME didn't use them anymore. If they've switched to CSS, fine, I can work with that (I should probably patch something or other to get that automatically set when I'm using not-GNOME but still).[/QUOTE] [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B#GTK.2B_3.x[/url] You edit an .ini file rather than gtkrc

[QUOTE=rilez;47924893][url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B#GTK.2B_3.x[/url] You edit an .ini file rather than gtkrc[/QUOTE] Actually, the file I was looking for was ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css I want to change my colors, and the ini doesn't provide for that

I bet you can slam an arbitrary string containing CSS, through DBus, and have it use that, because that's how the GNOME people work, just slam random crap into random inputs.

Trying to install openSUSE, using Ubuntu. When I do a dd of the iso, both the DVD and Live versions, neither is bootable. I can set the first partition to bootable in fdisk but that doesn't do shit either. Is it even worth installing openSUSE? I'm currently running stock Ubuntu 15.04 for gaming reasons, but might go back to other shit now that I quit CS:GO (for now.)

[QUOTE=Protocol7;47931354]Trying to install openSUSE, using Ubuntu. When I do a dd of the iso, both the DVD and Live versions, neither is bootable. I can set the first partition to bootable in fdisk but that doesn't do shit either. Is it even worth installing openSUSE? I'm currently running stock Ubuntu 15.04 for gaming reasons, but might go back to other shit now that I quit CS:GO (for now.)[/QUOTE] Keep in mind that Ubuntu is just the *officially* supported distro. I can play CS:GO on Arch Linux just fine.

I get like 6 extra FPS on my ThinkPad with 15.04, that's the only reason I was using Ubuntu. Unity fucking sucks though. Guess I can just go Kubuntu.

I just Dockerized MariaDB on my laptop, so I can bring it up and down, wipe it clean etc., whenever I want. Yay.