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Zeftax said:
Man I'm getting fucking filtered HARD by Gentoo (:_(, second try installing it and at least I get to login, but root is mounted as read only for some reason. I guess my setup is probably fairly nonstandard, but I just know I'd have it installed in under an hour on arch. I think that instead of trying to set it all up at once, I'm gonna try to just get the bare minimum working, and then build the system up from there. At least I felt I understood more on this iteration. Third times the charm.
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The handbook pretty good. I recommend following it as closely as you can. Only deviate from what they say, where you absolutely need to. If you do that you should be set up by the end.


SCV said:
That sure is a lot of shit but at the end of the day this all boils down to "don't believe your lying eyes".
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I've literally talked to people in the last month or two that had one of their monitors messed up. That needed mess with it, to get it working.


If you want to find people asking for help with it from the last year or so it's not hard to find them.



I purposely picked ones from as wide of a range a timeline as I could. To show it's been something people have ran into as far back as twelve years. Probably further if I wanted to keep looking.

It's great you have gotten lucky with it. But its crazy anyone would pretend this isn't a thing. I guess if what people want is for X to stay the exactly the same, stagnate, and never improve, that's a winning strategy.

The reason I like xlibre, is because they are actually trying to modernize xorg, and improve on its flaws. Instead of neglecting it, because fixing it will be too hard, or pretending it's perfect because, idk I guess admitting there is a flaw gives Wayland a win?
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
The handbook pretty good. I recommend following it as closely as you can. Only deviate from what they say, where you absolutely need to. If you do that you should be set up by the end.
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Yeah I'm following it, it's just I'm also setting up LVM on LUKS and mdedm, and I still didn't have context for what some of the gentoo-specific stuff does so I ended up going on some weird detours and setting stuff up in a stupid way or just missing parts because I had 10 tabs of the wiki open and all of them important. But I'm pretty sure I finally understand how it all fits together now. Tomorrow I'm giving it another try and I have a good feeling about it.
 
Zeftax said:
second try installing it and at least I get to login, but root is mounted as read only for some reason
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This happens to me when I forget to populate /etc/fstab

Any chance you forgor?
 
I keep forgetting Enlightenment WM is a thing that exists. Very odd distro, had no idea it was sold at Walmart.
 
GNOME 49 Release Candidate Ships With GDM Re-Enabling X11 Support By Default
"Re-enabled X11 support by default. We found it difficult to cleanly separate GDM's ability to launch modern X11 sessions (which we intended to keep enabled in GNOME 49) from the rest of GDM's X11 integration (which we intended to disable but leave intact for GNOME 49). We still plan to remove GDM's full X11 integration in a future version, and leave only the ability to launch modern X11 sessions."
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No idea what they mean by" modern X11 sessions", it's probably just Xwayland but the way they don't say that outright makes me suspect that Wayland lacks the ability to launch a user session from the greeter and they're too embarrassed to admit the oversight
 
Zeftax said:
Yeah I'm following it, it's just I'm also setting up LVM on LUKS and mdedm, and I still didn't have context for what some of the gentoo-specific stuff does so I ended up going on some weird detours and setting stuff up in a stupid way or just missing parts because I had 10 tabs of the wiki open and all of them important. But I'm pretty sure I finally understand how it all fits together now. Tomorrow I'm giving it another try and I have a good feeling about it.
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The important Gentoo specific things. Are setting up your make.conf and your CPU flags which it will have the instructions for.

Setting up the profile you want for what you will need, probably a desktop profile, with multilib, unless you know you want something different.

And the way the actual install is done, in contrast to arch. Instead of a bootstrap command, you just decompress and archive in the the mount point you want to set up.

Other than that, you just need to get how portage (use flags, and the portage tree) and emerge work. And everything else is basically the exact same as arch. Unless you pick openrc. Then of course there will be some openrc specific differences.
 
Froggy Fresh Sextape said:
Ubuntu announced they're moving to sudo-rs in 25.10, and if that goes well it'll be default in the next LTS release

I'm fine with it, but sudo-rs has no --askpass support and that'll break some random things.
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Ubuntu is also doing away with another old Linux staple this release as well, they're dropping wget in server installs in favor of wcurl:

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Not really a huge issue, since you just install wget via apt and server installers usually know their way around a terminal anyways, but I am sure some people will be confused trying to follow old guides.
 
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prollyanotherlurker said:

Watching this. I feel like it really made it obvious why I can stand watching lunduke (besides the fact he is the only person that covers some stories).

It's because I hate the people he talks about SOO much more. Than him. When he talks about these people he seems like a so much more bearable.

Until he makes another video saying we need to strip away Internet privacy to stop the heckin trolls.
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I have to ask, do you use some weird voice to text to write your posts? You could delete half your stops and convert the other to commas and it'd be way less of a pain to parse.
 
Zeftax said:
Man I'm getting fucking filtered HARD by Gentoo (:_(, second try installing it and at least I get to login, but root is mounted as read only for some reason. I guess my setup is probably fairly nonstandard, but I just know I'd have it installed in under an hour on arch. I think that instead of trying to set it all up at once, I'm gonna try to just get the bare minimum working, and then build the system up from there. At least I felt I understood more on this iteration. Third times the charm.
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I really do recommend the handbook because it teaches you how to fix your system if you mess something up, but Gentoo does have an unofficial install script. You can solve a lot of grief by using artix-chroot (the handbook recommends this) and using a binary kernel for the first install. Once you get a bootable system, you can customize the kernel however you like. I also recommend you use rust-bin and even binary packages for heavy browsers because they consume a lot of RAM. QtWebEngine, for example, takes up 36 GB of RAM.
 
Was randomly checking in on something at NixOS's website today, and I noticed this is still up:

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It's been months since the annual STD superspreader event and nobody seems to have given much of a fuck this year, so why is NixOS still done up in this crap? I am not going crazy, it wasn't always the logo on the website, right? I am actually starting to worry that they may have actually changed the icon to this shit permanently. They even changed the favicon to match it too. Is this really because there were not enough logos that violated our eyes this year so there must be a collective punishment dished out against every sensible NixOS user with eyes to make up for it? I hope this is not going to be distro wide, their logo is/was one of the nicest logos in Linux with it's soft contrasting blue hues, but this redesign is fucking awful. - Apparently the official reasoning may be that the community’s inclusivity is a "year-round stance", not only for June(?). So perhaps it's just out this year, or I assume every year unless they want to be accused of having changed their "inclusivity goals" which would be extremely verboten of course.

I notice that they don't have the obnoxious tranny pride colours or the brown skin tone colours on it like the KDE Pride abomination did, so it can and probably will get worse when people eventually complain about that.
 
analrapist said:
This happens to me when I forget to populate /etc/fstab

Any chance you forgor?
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No, I didn't forget, I think I set up something wrong about the LVM or maybe I forgot to include the xfs module in the kernel, or something. Will find out today.

prollyanotherlurker said:
Stuff that's in the handbook
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Thank you for trying to help, I just wanted to vent more than anything. I assure you I have read the handbook, I'm just retarded.

Frederica Bernkastel said:
I really do recommend the handbook because it teaches you how to fix your system if you mess something up, but Gentoo does have an unofficial install script. You can solve a lot of grief by using artix-chroot (the handbook recommends this) and using a binary kernel for the first install. Once you get a bootable system, you can customize the kernel however you like. I also recommend you use rust-bin and even binary packages for heavy browsers because they consume a lot of RAM. QtWebEngine, for example, takes up 36 GB of RAM.
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Yeah, I did use artix-chroot, really comfy. Its a headless system so I'm not planning to install any web browsers (except maybe lynx for some quick searches or whatever), and I definitely don't want rust if I can avoid it lol. Compiling the kernel is fairly quick so I don't have issues with that, although having a distribution kernel ready for rescue without is probably a smart idea, thanks.
 
Akerman said:
Was randomly checking in on something at NixOS's website today, and I noticed this is still up:

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It's been months since the annual STD superspreader event and nobody seems to have given much of a fuck this year, so why is NixOS still done up in this crap? I am not going crazy, it wasn't always the logo on the website, right? I am actually starting to worry that they may have actually changed the icon to this shit permanently. They even changed the favicon to match it too. Is this really because there were not enough logos that violated our eyes this year so there must be a collective punishment dished out against every sensible NixOS user with eyes to make up for it? I hope this is not going to be distro wide, their logo is/was one of the nicest logos in Linux with it's soft contrasting blue hues, but this redesign is fucking awful. - Apparently the official reasoning may be that the community’s inclusivity is a "year-round stance", not only for June(?). So perhaps it's just out this year, or I assume every year unless they want to be accused of having changed their "inclusivity goals" which would be extremely verboten of course.

I notice that they don't have the obnoxious tranny pride colours or the brown skin tone colours on it like the KDE Pride abomination did, so it can and probably will get worse when people eventually complain about that.
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Reminds me of the time I installed HyFetch.

Upon first launch you are greated with a cocophany of fag flags to choose for your color theme, which I was definately not expecting. Needless to say, I control-c'd the fuck outta there and unistalled it. I still felt raped so I quickly moved to a different distro.
 
Can someone recommend me a good audio player? Something roughly in line with Foobar2000. Both graphical and terminal are a OK.
 
HalHalliday said:
Can someone recommend me a good audio player? Something roughly in line with Foobar2000. Both graphical and terminal are a OK.
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I'd suggest experimenting, there's a lot of options, and none are as comprehensive, performant and customizable as foobar, but they can get close depending on your preferences. For GUI, Strawberry (fork of Clementine (fork of Amarok)) seems to handle large collections better than others but it's really hard to make it look anything but a mess. deadbeef is the first thing people suggest, and it's not bad, but it lacks some big things like the library, you can make up for it in part with the file browser plugin (if it even works now), and it's also glitchy at the edges. Audacious still seems to be maintained, and then you have all the new-wave of players like Tauon, which some seem to like but I wasn't too inspired from last time I used it. cmus also just werks for what it does. Foobar with WINE is also a possibility if you don't mind only a small number of components working and possible issues with file operations.. but seriously?

Just use Amberol.
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