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>>108165277>but until then let me enjoy the current peace i haveI don't use Fedora, but I feel the same way.I'm not gonna pretend the road to setting up Linux to my exact preferences has been hassle free and painless, but the small annoyance of leaving my Winshit comfort zone has been more than worth it in the end. Even if in the future the distros I use go to shit for whatever reason, I'll enjoy what I have now, and what I have now is very good, and I'll cherish it while I can.
I'm kind of retarded, how do I write a script to disable the touch screen/trackpad on my laptop on boot and/or login? Preferably one that doesn't need root privileges but that's not a hard requirement. I already know what commands I need to disable them, I just don't know how to automatically apply them at startup>sudo modprobe -r hid_multitouch>sudo su>echo "0018:2A94:A811.0002" > /sys/bus/hid/drivers/hid-generic/unbind
>>108166884Chika!
>>108166907Isn't there like a key combination that disables it? On mine it's fn+f3
from what I can gather, duckstation's dev threw a fit a while back and changed the license to something kinda read-only that you can't redistributeIs there anything stopping me from compiling and using just for personal use? I tried briefly but it seems that he added a bunch of traps and checksappimage is kinda shit
Im just using an old ass ubuntu live to move some data on this machine and holy shit gnome had transparent window borders. Is there a way to make this work on Mate?
>>108166907Usually you disable such things with xinput, no root required.
>>108167136Sorry, should specify that I'm on Ubuntu and Xinput isn't installed by default, and I would rather not install it if I don't have to.
>install Mint>use for few weeks>install Cachy>use for a few weeks>install Ubuntu>use for a few weeks>urge to install a new DistroHow do I stop this?
>>108166907Do you need a script? There may be an option to disable those devices on the GUI.
>>108167175proxmox. vm distros with hw passthrough
>>108167120Are you using compiz? It's been quite a while since I last used Ubuntu or GNOME 2, but I don't think that was the default behavior for windows. I remember using compiz to get effects like that. Ubuntu used to look so nice, that background looks like it may be gutsy gibbon.
>>108167175Virtual machines.
>>108167199Nope, at least not by default, I checked, I'm sure there's something I can install that does this but I'd rather not if I can help it.
>>108167175just use debian or devuan and force yourself to stay there for a week if you really want to stop distrohoppingpeople here will shit on me (which is fine) but in my experience debian is good enough for the vast majority of people. it's a bit more jagged than mint or ubuntu (in fact, i had to disable secure boot on my laptop to get wifi working, then i updated packages and it was fine. kinda had to figure it out myself) but it gets in your way a lot less once things are working. and a lot of the time solutions that work on ubuntu will work on debian.i liked mint in the past and it's good "training wheels" but i disagreed with the philosophy of taking ubuntu, gutting out snap, customizing it, and then shipping it. and sure LMDE is a thing but i was tired of the "abstractions"sorry for the rambling
>>108167175At this point you should've realized that all of them are more or less the same so distro hopping is pointless unless you're experiencing issues
>>108167206I don't know, I didn't really dick with it, it booted like this. It's pretty impressive considering the Intel extreme couldn't do aero on vista.
>>108167175Try out radically different options. Void with runit instead of systemd. NixOS is declarative. Gentoo is Gentoo. Hopping between Ubuntu/Mint/Fedora/Debian/etc. is going to feel mostly the same.
>>108167120I believe that's emerald window decorator, it's meant to be run with compiz 0.8:https://gitlab.com/compiz/emeraldUnfortunately it only works with compiz 0.8 (compiz-reloaded) not compiz 0.9
>>108166907You want a "one shot" systemd unit, here's an example you can use, it will be run as root, so you don't need sudo or su in the script. https://gist.github.com/drmalex07/d006f12914b21198ee43>>108167175If you just want to try out the different flavors use virtual machines like the other anons said, virt-manager is a good option but you may prefer gnome boxes (it works outside of gnome) for something more simple, both use libvirt and qemu+kvm behind the scenes.If you're just struggling with software availability, eg "they only offer a deb and I'm on arch" you should look into distrobox as it offers integrated containers for most distros that will let you run their software and share your home server and x11/wayland session seamlessly
>>108167438>You want a "one shot" systemd unit, here's an example you can use, it will be run as root, so you don't need sudo or su in the script.Saved. Thank you anon, I'll be sure to read up
>>108167257This. Once the initial setup is done, even two distros that on paper are very different behave practically the same in day to day tasks.
any resources for meaning for symbols with expectations / cultural norms in the *nix community? for example, OP used the % symbol for a placeholder, and $ for shell input. i just wanna get caught up to speed on common ways things are communicated
I've tried GNOME and KDE, I don't like either of them, I'm gonna stick with Cinnamon as it's the least ugly DE.
>>108167615I don't think the % has any significance, I've never seen it used outside of the OP here. You already know $ but in addition to that you may see # before a command, sometimes in red, that means it's being run as the root user.When you're actually in a shell the $ is used to reference environmental variables, so for example if you run echo $USER $HOME it will print your current logged in user's username and home directory path.If you're completely new to Linux this list of terms will be pretty useful to become familiar with. https://itsfoss.com/linux-jargon/
>>108167615$VARIABLE is how you get an environment variable on Linux in a posix-compliant shell.%VARIABLE% is how you'd do the same in windows' cmd.exe, but documentation uses that formatting sometimes to mean "replace this yourself" instead of a variable.
