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Linux plebs. BSD is the only true way.
Quote from: trenzafeeds on Thu, 12 November 2015, 12:19:47Linux plebs. BSD is the only true way. Which BSD?
Just jumped on the Linux bandwagon. After trying out a few distros, I went with Kubuntu. I'm a fan of the KDE interface. And do I need to switch to BSD if I wish to become a bigger nerd? Please, I need to know.
Quote from: vivalarevolución on Sat, 21 November 2015, 21:30:10Just jumped on the Linux bandwagon. After trying out a few distros, I went with Kubuntu. I'm a fan of the KDE interface. And do I need to switch to BSD if I wish to become a bigger nerd? Please, I need to know.Not really, no.
Quote from: sean on Sat, 21 November 2015, 23:10:25Quote from: vivalarevolución on Sat, 21 November 2015, 21:30:10Just jumped on the Linux bandwagon. After trying out a few distros, I went with Kubuntu. I'm a fan of the KDE interface. And do I need to switch to BSD if I wish to become a bigger nerd? Please, I need to know.Not really, no.But please at least switch away from Kubuntu at least, even if its only to like normal ubuntu or mint, just not Kubuntu. It's unfortunately been really broken as of late. You can still use KDE with other distros.
Laptop: Manjaro (i3)/OSX
linux is great but sucks with hardware compatibility.
Quote from: dan002 on Sun, 22 November 2015, 15:42:49linux is great but sucks with hardware compatibility.That's not even wrong…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrongWhat does work: nearly everything, including obscure architectures, a lot of really old expansion cards and peripherals… and a lot of bleeding edge hardware at the other end of the spectrum.What does not work: a whole lot of cheap garbage from sources like DealExtreme, glued together by incompetent wage slaves; some hardware "designed" for MS Windows with various obscure hacks (ahem, ACPI is a good example) due to Microsoft's Embrace, extend and extinguish policy; some common hardware, esp. GPUs and some specialized chips from companies, that deliberately choose to make life harder for the kernel community.
Quote from: davkol on Sun, 22 November 2015, 16:09:12Quote from: dan002 on Sun, 22 November 2015, 15:42:49linux is great but sucks with hardware compatibility.That's not even wrong…What hardware doesn't work?
Quote from: trenzafeeds on Sun, 22 November 2015, 01:47:58Quote from: sean on Sat, 21 November 2015, 23:10:25Quote from: vivalarevolución on Sat, 21 November 2015, 21:30:10Just jumped on the Linux bandwagon. After trying out a few distros, I went with Kubuntu. I'm a fan of the KDE interface. And do I need to switch to BSD if I wish to become a bigger nerd? Please, I need to know.Not really, no.But please at least switch away from Kubuntu at least, even if its only to like normal ubuntu or mint, just not Kubuntu. It's unfortunately been really broken as of late. You can still use KDE with other distros.Yea, this is the kinda stuff I don't know anything about. Works alright for me. I'm such a Linux newb.
Just got Linux Mint up and running. The installation went fine. The problem I had was getting Grub to recognize Win10.The problem turned out to be the Win10 installation. It decided during install to go with MBR instead of an EFI boot partition. How it did this when the MB was set for UEFI is beyond me.Had to resize part of the Win10 install partition to make room for an EFI partition. After that worked out I went back and Grub was able to find the Win10 drive and make it bootable. Now it all works and dual boots without issue.
I liked Crunchbang when it was being updated / maintained, but haven't messed with anything for a while..... seeing lots of folks talking about Manjaro, I might have to give that a shot.
Quote from: FreeCopy on Sun, 22 November 2015, 21:33:35Just got Linux Mint up and running. The installation went fine. The problem I had was getting Grub to recognize Win10.The problem turned out to be the Win10 installation. It decided during install to go with MBR instead of an EFI boot partition. How it did this when the MB was set for UEFI is beyond me.Had to resize part of the Win10 install partition to make room for an EFI partition. After that worked out I went back and Grub was able to find the Win10 drive and make it bootable. Now it all works and dual boots without issue.EFI has ruined my life. Installing any OS now has become strangely complex to me. I always do it wrong. I had arch on the MBR and win on EFI so I could use the EFI menu to choose which os which would then potentially take me to grub. I'm so confused.
Quote from: BigDov on Sun, 22 November 2015, 21:53:30I liked Crunchbang when it was being updated / maintained, but haven't messed with anything for a while..... seeing lots of folks talking about Manjaro, I might have to give that a shot.You may like Crunchbang++Quote from: RoastPotatoes on Mon, 23 November 2015, 07:46:48Quote from: FreeCopy on Sun, 22 November 2015, 21:33:35Just got Linux Mint up and running. The installation went fine. The problem I had was getting Grub to recognize Win10.The problem turned out to be the Win10 installation. It decided during install to go with MBR instead of an EFI boot partition. How it did this when the MB was set for UEFI is beyond me.Had to resize part of the Win10 install partition to make room for an EFI partition. After that worked out I went back and Grub was able to find the Win10 drive and make it bootable. Now it all works and dual boots without issue.EFI has ruined my life. Installing any OS now has become strangely complex to me. I always do it wrong. I had arch on the MBR and win on EFI so I could use the EFI menu to choose which os which would then potentially take me to grub. I'm so confused.I think you mean UEFI, which is what M$ crapped out after eating the EFI standard
Quote from: BigDov on Sun, 22 November 2015, 21:53:30I liked Crunchbang when it was being updated / maintained, but haven't messed with anything for a while..... seeing lots of folks talking about Manjaro, I might have to give that a shot.You may like Crunchbang++
can you guys recommend me a couple of good linux distros for a noob? that would be me.. im quite familiar with windows and i tinker with computer parts from time to time though.
i'm getting more and more interested in void linux; it's basically arch without systemd (YES) and a pretty nifty package management system that supports binaries and a ports-like system. it feels like BSD and linux had a child.anyone give it a spin?
Quote from: ttzhou on Wed, 25 November 2015, 13:58:08i'm getting more and more interested in void linux; it's basically arch without systemd (YES) and a pretty nifty package management system that supports binaries and a ports-like system. it feels like BSD and linux had a child.anyone give it a spin?Wow, that sounds really interesting, I'll have to try it out. I'd love a more BSD like feel with the compatibility of Linux.
Quote from: trenzafeeds on Wed, 25 November 2015, 14:45:09Quote from: ttzhou on Wed, 25 November 2015, 13:58:08i'm getting more and more interested in void linux; it's basically arch without systemd (YES) and a pretty nifty package management system that supports binaries and a ports-like system. it feels like BSD and linux had a child.anyone give it a spin?Wow, that sounds really interesting, I'll have to try it out. I'd love a more BSD like feel with the compatibility of Linux.i will probably try to get it running on my laptop at some point. my only concern is how robust its binary library really is (i mean, building from source is cool, but im super lazy half the time)
Quote from: ttzhou on Wed, 25 November 2015, 13:58:08i'm getting more and more interested in void linux; it's basically arch without systemd (YES) and a pretty nifty package management system that supports binaries and a ports-like system. it feels like BSD and linux had a child.anyone give it a spin?You can remove systemd's **** from arch, but it's not supported. In Manjaro it is, though.
Quote from: iri on Wed, 25 November 2015, 16:37:11Quote from: ttzhou on Wed, 25 November 2015, 13:58:08i'm getting more and more interested in void linux; it's basically arch without systemd (YES) and a pretty nifty package management system that supports binaries and a ports-like system. it feels like BSD and linux had a child.anyone give it a spin?You can remove systemd's **** from arch, but it's not supported. In Manjaro it is, though.But with void you can have an operating system called "void"...
oh yeah I saw that crazy **** if that doesn't win I'm deleting my account
I primarily use Ubuntu with Gnome classic at home. At work I'm forced to use Windows. I've tried most distros, and keep coming back to 'buntu, because I'm very familiar with it.