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arch troons need to learn their place and stop shitting up everything they touch. you shitters and retards need to go back.
>>108092931Cope and sneethe harder.
i'm trying to run a mint/ubuntu usb sticks on this old system i have lying around. it's a pretty old pc with 2gb ram, no gpu and a E6310 or whatever, 1.8ghz.the problem i'm having is that when i choose USB as the boot device, both systems just show a blinking cursor after the "pci devices listing" table and that's it.at one point i left it for 30 minutes but nothing happened. ubuntu one will show "GRUB" in front of the cursor but that's it.i know that this is a pretty old machine, but i thought it would at least run the installer and tell me to fuck off.
>>108093129>no gpuno dedicated GPU you mean?it has integrated GPU obvtry gentoo/arch installer, see if it loads the CLI livecd
>>108093129if that's a dell latitude, i don't see an "e6310", did you mean e6410? either way it's old enough that it might not support uefiboth mint and ubuntu afaik still support bios booting, how did you make the installation media?
>>108093215yeah i meant no dedicated gpu, there's a vga port on the mobo itselfi'll try another installer, thanks
>>108093237i meant the cpu, maybe e6320? it doesn't really matter, an old 1.8ghz core 2 duo. there's no uefi on this mobo af far as i see it.>how did you make the installation media?used rufus, i'm dling both livegui and minimal gentto installs, we'll see what happens
Looking for advice on good linux distroTech illiterate windows refugee, i just game and browse the web. I chose bazzite because it's designed for retards, but it's kind of a piece of shit. Is there a better linux distro, or do they all have issues? Some of my issues w/ Bazzite include:>bluetooth connection issues, sound drops out from headphones every 5 seconds>weird startup behavior, audio and visual artefacts>screen turns off when watching videos/playing music>xbox controller won't register when turned on, have to unplug and replug its USBthat's off the top of my head
>>108092911why there is no "regular" linux thread, only "friendly"?we shouldn't be friendly to gnu/noobs, they will polute linux userbase like vermin
>>108093385Yeah those sound like typical Bazzite containercucking issues. If you like the general interface of Bazzite then you should just use any NON-immutable distro with Plasma.
>>108093406The paradox of choice is making me sad and confused. Care to name a distro?
>>108093436Ultramarine KDE.
>>108093436debian
>>108093444Trips of truth>>108093457Debian is great unless you have an RTX 50xx card since there's no drivers yet
>>108093457>>108093444>>108093474grug remembers simpler times, when mac vs pc was only choice. now grug has to become computer genius just to enjoy his digital entertainment products. anyways, thanks for the advice. i'll try debian (gots me an amd GPU)
>>108093385>I chose bazzite because it's designed for retards, but it's kind of a piece of shit.Many such cases.Just install fedora kde, ultramarine or mint.
>>108093490>fedoraRedhat won't give you shekels pajeet. Stop harvesting linux newbies for big company testing environment
>>108093483The Debian website was made in grug times so it's a bit confusing to find a Debian Live ISO: https://www.debian.org/CD/live/You want the stable release, and Live KDE if you want a Windows-esque UI.
>>108093497Can you just stop this forced meme you stupid cunt? You realise Fedora Rawhide exists, right? That's the beta test. The main Fedora releases are completely solid operating systems and unless you are a retard who specifically enables telemetry, you are doing NOTHING to advance the development of downstream distributions like RHEL.
>>108093500>>108093483kde is meme desktop, use LXQt or xfce
>>108093497Then just use mint
>>108093500Thanks, freind
>>108093517yes saar pls to be using the needful Fedora, it is good softwares saart. Red Turban chaiwala
okay i dled a minimal-installation-iso, put in on a usb stick using rufus and it still doesn't work, there's a PCI Devices Listing screen etc, and then just a blinking cursor. tried mixing up some bios usb options, changing some rufus settings, and the outcome is always the same.which is pretty bizarre, honestly, 2 different usb sticks, 4 different isos.
>>108093517>You realise Fedora Rawhide exists, right?You realise newbies will google "fedora" and in stall the default shit? >The main Fedora releases are completely solid operating systemsok redhatjust stop giving any attention this corporate "distro" is niggerlicious shit
>>108093519>mintfork of a fork of debian fisher price pseudodistro for iPad kids
>>108093539>You realise newbies will google "fedora" and in stall the default shit?Answer this question: do you believe Fedora Rawhide is the default release channel of Fedora?
>>108093539>Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux ThreadIf you want to chimp out about muh big corpo, go to /fwt/ or make your own thread.
relax dipshits, you will scare the technologically challenged just come up with a coherent step by step guide on how to choose a distro and give it to himits like you've never worked with normies
do not look into who contributes to the kernel
>>108093539Do you believe Fedora Rawhide is the default release channel of Fedora?
>>108093563ebussy is that you? does 4cuck has CoC now?
>>108093598it isn't. but care to explain why is this relevant to anything?...
Why do normies default to using ubuntu for their servers instead of debian? what's so good about ubuntu server over debian?
>>108093385>>108093436>>108093483>>108093524grug while retards were arguing i've simply clicked on the on the first link in the thread, you should check it out:https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux
Is there a big difference between X11 and Wayland for gaming?
>>108093624clearly defined support times
>>108093615>You claimed Fedora is a beta test>I clarify that only Rawhide is a beta test>You then claimed that users will simply install whatever the default on the website is, as though this was a rebuttal though I saidThere is literally no other possible interpretation of your argument than that you thought Rawhide was the default release channel.
>>108093654Nope
>>108093654Yes, X11 has no support for HDR, borderless fullscreen VRR, and it requires you to disable the compositor while playing or else you'll tank frames (some distros automate the latter).
>>108093662>as though this was a rebuttal to what I said*
>>108093648oh look, another one of those flow charts. it's not like relase cycle and maintainers and community are deciding factors, nahh, let's give those newbies arbitrary choices on a flowchart
>try kde wayland on my 5070 nvidia system (yes i know)>actually works fine for a couple days after updating but then says something crashed>steam started to crash randomly whenever i'm playing deadlock>have to force reboot and when i log back in my notifications are spammed with something crashingtried ultramarine which is fedora and before like months ago same thing happened on manjaro like wtf
>>108093686well come up with the better method then smartass
>>108093571>>108093648
>>108093571Normie don't care about guides. They'll just go with whatever distro their favorite shituber shilled to them that week, which right now is either Mint, Bazzite, or Cachy.
>>108093702>https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux1. rolling or stable?2. read https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Babbies_First_Linux#Desktop_operating_systems3. need freedom or extra stuff? you smart enough to find yourself
>>108093703I still don't get the "Mint won't let you right-click on hard drives" thing. It literally does let you do that no problem.
>>108093385I think Fedora KDE or Debian with KDE would be the safest thing to try because both are easy to use as long as you don't try to do anything complicated with the innards. Fedora has some scary things like SELinux on it though, and Debian tends to have relatively outdated packages so neither is 100% perfect.I just don't feel that great about recommending Arch with KDE to someone who wants a retard friendly distro. Even if it is easy to use, it's just not as straightforward.
I won't ever install Fedora simply because it's called Fedorasimple as
>>108093730Is this Mint Cinnamon or Mint Xfce?
>>108093737you can't spell fedora without fed
>>108093745Cinnamon
>>108093624>normalfags>even knowing what a server is
>>108093624Professional support.
>>108093703lichess was hosted on arch by a single dev>wait for SteamOSyou already can download it>gentoo is attentionwhoringwhat>>108093712well local /v/ tourists like to ask here what should they go for every single day so maybe you shouldnt play into a fucking stereotype and actually come up with the systemeven if you fucking hate them and some of them will go back there are some that are above 95 iq so they will be useful to havebut you need to train them at least
>>108093782>you need to train them at leastlinux submissivness kink now we are on the same wavelength
What's the best gui IRC client for linux nowadays?
>>108093801A web browser
>>108093801>gui>linux
>>108093799>putting zoomers on a leashkinky anon
>>108093821Yeah, I'm sure you're posting this from tty
>>108093782Not that guy, but there are plenty of people who do use Gentoo for attention whroing purposes. No clue if it's the majority or a minority of users, but they are not that uncommon.
>using cachy>runs pretty nice but some normally undemanding games have little frame hitches>remember someone's post about cpu governors in a previous threadIt turns out my cpu governor was "powersave", changing it to "performance" removed the little hitches and had no apparent ill effects. Everything feels snappier on the desktop too. Dolphin was already a lot faster than the w11 explorer but god damn son.So, why is a "performance-oriented" distro like cachy still defaulting to powersave? Battery life? It didn't even ask me if I was using a laptop during the install (I'm not). I vaguely remember having to do something similar a long time ago on Windows too as part of some epic gamer tweaks thing. Is it treehugger cartels?
>>108093839chan-cli
>>108093839akshually...https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Internet#Web_browsers>>108093853minorityjust look at their wikiits pretty fucking good, sometimes better than arch one even>>108093870they should add a one time popup as a warning
>>108093801does it matter? Don't they all offer the same shit anyway?
>>108093870its a meme distro i dont know what you expected
>>108093909Plenty of people use Arch for attention whoring too. How good the wiki is hardly influences the reason people use the distro.
Freedom.
>>108093948no but it shows quality of the community if arch didnt have skilled people they wouldn not have had a pretty decent wikithey wouldve had something similar to alpine wiki(not to shit on alpine users, there are just not many of them)
>>108093870Maybe they don't change the upstream default setting for that software? I don't have the service for managing power profiles installed on Arch so I don't really know what it defaults to, but defaulting to power save wouldn't be surprising because a lot of Linux software does default to aggressive power saving.
Since both steamos and kde are using arch for their immutable distros has anyone actually made a general purpose arch-based immutable distro?
>>108093444>another Fedora KDE distroThis is the same shit as Bazzite or Fedora KDE except infinitely more obscure. He will have the same issues.
>>108094187No, why would you want to do that? Immutable+Arch based is a completely pointless combination unless you have a reason to do that. Which Valve and KDE do have.
