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I don't follow you?
Also, i am shifting to Arch on my main PC.
Since i actually only play Minecraft and Humble Bundle games well, then it works!
So yea, fuck Windows.
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I've managed to get Arch running with GNOME 3 and im very happy with it but before I choose GNOME as my desktop environment im wondering what the others are like. LXDE, KDE, Xfce.
What do you guys like to use as your Desktop Enviroment?
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The same one as you do.
GNOME 3 is a win when it is configured properly.
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Should you really install Arch if you don't know what OS virtualisation is? I mean, if you don't know that, then you're likely not to know other important things related to operating systems, causing huge problems in understanding Arch Linux and solving the problems it can have.
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Well, you gotta learn it one way or another. Installing Arch isn't the worst way to do so at all.
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I actually tried it, some stuff i got. Some not.
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Wow, i just came out from OIFY.
There is some real shit going on in there. My eyes are burning.
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I could really use some help. Getting sick of that moving cursor every time I try to type. Do I update graphics drivers? Already done that, to no avail.
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I've updated my corner tiling xfwm4 patch for 4.10 if anyone's interested: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40030
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Try before you reformat, regardless how you feel about windows it will be alot easier going about arch if you have some experience with it first.
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I don't see why everyone is so all over arch all the time, I understand how you basically build a super customized distro but in reality I never really learned all that much from it the 2 months I used it. I was always a much bigger fan of debian releases, I felt I learned more having to strip away all the shit I didn't want and change things around and tweak it to what I needed. Just my 2 cents though, arch is still a great distro if you want bleeding edge.
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arch sucks
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objectively
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So I got 2 kernel panics. The first one was because I was dumb, the second one was because I forgot that I'm using IDE, not SATA. Hopefully this next one will get me in. Also, kernel seeds makes the menuconfig process a hell of a lot more easier if you don't know what's going on.
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I did that, before installing gentoo on my main build
but I still managed to fuck shit up.
(some kernel compile error)
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A page late, but
Virtualized, not emulated.
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Arch isn't that hard.
It's basically an Ubuntu-like installer in ~~text mode~~
Where text mode is a Blue screen with big block buttons and you navigate around with the arrow keys and enter.
The hardest part is knowing you have to run pacman -S gnome (or whatever DE you want) when you first boot up, and sticking X in rc.conf DAEMONS.
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du
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Just do something like this:
It includes sizes of directories though, and I don't know how to ignore those and only show files.Code:du --all / | sort -n
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Ive being struggling to get LightDM installed with Pacman. Pacman cant find it.
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looks like its in the AUR
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40708
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I know what Arch is and how it is installed, but I doubt he will know what he's doing if he doesn't even understand the concept behind partitions.
No matter how easy a beginner's guide is, if you lack the very basic understanding of operating systems, you'll have a hard time installing it. Not to mention the problems that can arise with Arch that actually require some computer problem solving skills. Think of drivers not working correctly, pacman being locked inappropriately, package dependency troubles and whatnot.
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Because obviously customizing a UI >>>> getting services running
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I installed archlinux and it seems to have fucked up my windows bootmgr even though I installed everything onto sdc including grub problem is I can't copy all of the files off my windows dynamic disk now which is in stripe mode pretty much everything on it is worthless but I have 300gb worth of steam games which I can't redownload due to my shit internet plan I tried this in console as well as changing the chunk size around and the only way to get it to mount was with this
sdb2 and sda2 are they only part of the 2 disks which are dynamic disks
these are my partitions
and this is what I did in console
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Im trying to build the latest codeblocks source but following the tutorial I get this:
anyone know how to fix it?Code:./bootstrap libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'. libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh' libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.in and libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree. libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. configure.in:79: warning: macro `AM_OPTIONS_WXCONFIG' not found in library configure.in:80: warning: macro `AM_PATH_WXCONFIG' not found in library configure.in:79: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_OPTIONS_WXCONFIG If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. configure.in:80: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_WXCONFIG
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Have you installed libtool and friends?
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including automake and the autotools suite? Because I remember having the exact same problem before, I just don't remember how I fixed it.
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Yea there all installed
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I was missing wx-common which provids the needed wxwin.m4 -___-
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Don't know if i should sit down right now and get on with installing Arch.
I mean:
This.
Should i just go for a more self-installing distro anyways?
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Gotta learn how to walk before you can run.
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So by saying that.. Simple distro?
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Or something that's extremely well-documented down to the smallest detail, and has every possible scenario.
But that's just me.
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I'd recommend you start with a distro, wich sets up everything for you(ex. ubuntu/fedora/openSUSE), and then if you feel confident, you can read up on the arch installation guide, and then install arch.
Arch Linux isn't that hard, it just needs some time to get used to it. You just need to manually configure and install things (ex. Xorg)
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Xorg? I've never had any need for configuring that, except maybe for the keyboard layout, but there's applications you can install that allow you to change that during runtime.
It works pretty well out-of-the box I'd say.
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What distro would you recommend then? For the more simpler one.
And i wan't to install Arch, just can't get it up in VirtualBox so i can "practice" it.
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I'm just going to go against the current here and say something that might offend everyone here.
Are you ready?
Arch isn't necessarily "straight forward".
There, I said it. It is probably the most well documented distro I have ever used, but due to it's lack of drivers (this is actually a good thing, generally), you might have some problems on some hardware. For instance, I had trouble with Arch being unable to find the boot rom itself and I had to symbolically link the correct one to the one it had anticipated during boot.
It's awesome though.
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I think that the best thing for you would be to install arch or whichever distro in a virtual machine. You can use VirtualBox or VMware. I am experienced with Virtualbox, I might be able to help you if you need help.
I do believe that we have (or used to) a thread describing how to install ubuntu or whatever distro in VirtualBox. Following the first steps should allow you to get your installation going (Setup virtual drives and mounting the ISO). After that you should be able to follow the Beginner's guide on arch's wiki.
The great thing about VMs is that you can play around them without the fear or massively fucking up something. That way, you can learn through experience without the risk of losing all your data.
You should also do some reading. The arch wiki and the gentoo handbook (or whatever it's called) are great resources. They will explain how certain things, like partitions should be done. If you want to know how something like partitions actually work, you should read up on wikipedia or some other sites (Wikipedia tends to be verbose and too in detail for a lot of people).
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Yeah, modern Xorg can auto detect most things, especially video modes and settings.
And the thing about keyboard layouts only really applies if you don't use the US QWERTY layout.
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Workstation > Oracles crap
Use workstation it is loads more stable, the link I posted has a download and key for use till November 15th, use it.
Centos is a good distro that lets dig down into it but still has enough things built in so it is hard to "get stuck"
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Time to install arch in a VM.
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Maybe I just won't install a graphical environmental to force myself to use the terminal.
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I got Gentoo working, but I'm having problems getting slim to start up Xfce. Xfce works on it's own if I use 'startx', so it's a problem with connecting the two. What happens when I log in is it gives me a black screen with that large 'X' cursor. Here's my slim.conf (comments omitted to make it shorter)
/etc/env.d/90xsessionCode:default_path /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin default_xserver /usr/bin/X xserver_arguments -nolisten tcp -br -deferglyphs 16 halt_cmd /sbin/shutdown -h now reboot_cmd /sbin/shutdown -r now console_cmd /usr/bin/xterm -C -fg white -bg black +sb -T "Console login" -e /bin/sh -c "/bin/cat /etc/issue; exec /bin/login" xauth_path /usr/bin/xauth authfile /var/run/slim.auth numlock on login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login /usr/share/slim/Xsession %session sessionstart_cmd /usr/bin/sessreg -a -l :0.0 %user sessionstop_cmd /usr/bin/sessreg -d -l :0.0 %user daemon yes sessiondir /etc/X11/Sessions screenshot_cmd import -window root /slim.png welcome_msg Welcome to %host shutdown_msg The system is halting... reboot_msg The system is rebooting... current_theme gentoo_10_dark lockfile /var/run/slim.pid logfile /var/log/slim.log
Code:XSESSION="startxfce4"
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Don't use viewTime to install arch in a VM.
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Maybe I just won't install a graphical environmental to force myself to use the terminal.
http://communities.vmware.com/commun...kstationtp2012
Workstation Beta is free
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Honestly, if people want to use their Virt-tool of their choice, then why bother telling them to change?
VMware-player and Virtualbox aren't that bad compared to workstation.
if they get the job done, then why change?
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