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SurgicalOntologist posted:Trying to minimize my reliance on a chroot desktop has pushed me toward decentralized tools with minimal dependencies. I can work on someone else's computer or a public computer if need be. If I'm working in a computer lab at school, I don't have to awkwardly squeeze my laptop onto the table between the desktops, I can just use the provided computers. If my Chromebook dies I'll have my full environment within ten minutes of turning on a new one. Also, crouton can be finicky, ChromeOS updates require crouton updates and sometimes new workarounds need to be developed by the devs. Sometimes major changes in ChromeOS change what's possible in crouton. For example Google recently replaced X with Freon (at least that's my understanding of what Freon replaced). Not having to rely on graphical stuff gives me some peace of mind. Thank you for that write up! I'm playing around with Crouton but I'll try out some of your suggestions, especially re: installing different chroots.
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. It also helps that I have a computer in my office that I can install server-client software on, and run stuff remotely. These changes in my workflow have meant that I no longer feel hamstrung when I'm not on my main PC, my workflow is the same wherever I am.
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ShadowHawk posted:oops Not to nag, but it has now been 3 months since an update. Is there something I can do to facilitate this process? I know I could just build it from source, but I appreciate it automatically updating. If you think it would be better to just build it, I will though. EDIT: Just updated, thanks! Grumpwagon fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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Grumpwagon posted:Not to nag, but it has now been 3 months since an update. Is there something I can do to facilitate this process? I know I could just build it from source, but I appreciate it automatically updating. If you think it would be better to just build it, I will though.
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Has anybody got experience with getting a wireless connection using PEAP (MSCHAPv2, specifically) working? In Windows, it just works, no special stuff required. Log into your box, and it passes the domain auth along while connecting, and you're good to go. For the life of me, I haven't been able to get it going in Ubuntu. I've made sure that the config is correct to the best of my ability, I've tried doing it through NetworkManager, wicd, and wpa_supplicant, and none of them would do it. My plan was to make my new laptop primarily boot from Linux and run a Windows VM on it, but if that won't work, I may have to do the opposite.
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ShadowHawk posted:It was confusion between Maarten and I who was still doing them. I really appreciate it, thanks!
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What do people like to code in? I'm coming from OSX where TextWrangler was the absolute best for writing in, but my beard isn't long enough for Vim yet
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I use the same IDEs I use in Windows.
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I mostly used vim when I used Linux, but for a full-featured editor that's available on all 3 major OS platforms, Sublime Text is pretty awesome.
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DEAD MAN'S SHOE posted:What do people like to code in? I'm coming from OSX where TextWrangler was the absolute best for writing in, but my beard isn't long enough for Vim yet Depends on what language I am coding in.
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Geany and Sublime Text seem pretty popular.
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Atom looks kind of neat as well but I haven't got to use it much yet. Recently I installed GNOME but it's not letting me load a shell theme even though I have the user slider shell set to on
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Just bite the bullet and learn emacs
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I'm very new to Ubuntu and I was trying to install spotify when it freaked out my terminal. I removed it from my software and updates list under other software but I get the following when I try to run synaptic And then synaptic crashes when I close that. e: A pal was able to help me, the spotify repository became corrupted and the following fixed it sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list sudo apt update EmmyOk fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jul 5, 2015 |
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DEAD MAN'S SHOE posted:What do people like to code in? I'm coming from OSX where TextWrangler was the absolute best for writing in, but my beard isn't long enough for Vim yet The JetBrains IDEs - in addition to being incredible IDEs (that actually work equally well across all OSes) they have a popular and well supported Vim plugin you can switch on and off at will. Oromo fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jul 11, 2015 |
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Oromo posted:The JetBrains IDEs - in addition to being incredible IDEs (that actually work equally well across all OSes) they have a popular and well supported Vim plugin you can switch on and off at will. I've tried their PyCharm IDE and it was pretty neat, but it lagged substantially on my crouton ubuntu install. I think you need a fairly powerful machine to run it smoothly. EDIT: Well at least more powerful than a 200$ chromebook Radio Talmudist fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Jul 13, 2015 |
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You might want to try it with Oracle Java instead of the default open-source Java. It might still be too slow for your Chromebook but it should be significantly improved.
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I switched to Windows 10 and apparently my windows key is not legit so I'm having lots of stability issues and can't go back to Win 7. I've been thinking about switching to Linux for quite a while. What would be the easiest way to make the switch? The only thing I'm worried about is my GPU has custom drivers because it's an unlocked/ flashed gpu. I have everything already backed up as well. Thanks for any advise in advance.
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LunaSky posted:I switched to Windows 10 and apparently my windows key is not legit so I'm having lots of stability issues and can't go back to Win 7. I've been thinking about switching to Linux for quite a while. What would be the easiest way to make the switch? The only thing I'm worried about is my GPU has custom drivers because it's an unlocked/ flashed gpu. I have everything already backed up as well. Thanks for any advise in advance. You can always download an Ubuntu DVD image and boot it to see if you like it without making any changes to your HD. You can do it off of a USB stick too if I remember right. You should be able to see how your GPU drivers work as well.
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Booting off a USB stick has the added advantages of being much more responsive (don't have to spin up the disk every time you want to launch a new program) and, if your USB stick has more storage than required for the ISO, you can use the rest of the space for persistent storage so that your settings, etc. are kept through reboots. So yeah, a pretty decent way to try it out.
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Seqenenra posted:You can always download an Ubuntu DVD image and boot it to see if you like it without making any changes to your HD. You can do it off of a USB stick too if I remember right. You should be able to see how your GPU drivers work as well. Awesome thanks a bunch! Edit: I keep getting an error when trying to install ubuntu. It says "cannot download metalink therefore iso". LunaSky fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Aug 19, 2015 |
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fourwood posted:Booting off a USB stick has the added advantages of being much more responsive (don't have to spin up the disk every time you want to launch a new program) and, if your USB stick has more storage than required for the ISO, you can use the rest of the space for persistent storage so that your settings, etc. are kept through reboots. Hmm. I wonder if I could do this as an alternative to dual booting ubuntu on my pc. How's the latency via a usb 3.0 port?
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LunaSky posted:Awesome thanks a bunch! I did a google search for that and found a solution in the Ubuntu forums. It isn't a problem I have run into before. Did your GPU drivers load? What kind is it? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1546833
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I gave that a read and did the USB disk thing. But when I go to boot it just sits there saying loading os. 
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So Ubuntu 15.10 just came out, and it's forcing TRIM on a system that doesn't support it. Over and over I have these kernel errors: quote:ata1.00: failed command: DATA SET MANAGEMENT Similar issue as seen here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=197597 http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2208949 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142855 With Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, I could wipe my drive and install the system without issue. With 15.10, I'm getting the TRIM errors. Running "mkfs.ext4 -E nodiscard" on a partition quickly formats. GParted and the Ubuntu installer default to using "discard", which pushes a quick format to nearly half an hour as it has dozens of timeouts. Even during the install it tries to TRIM blocks. While there are 1,000,000 guides on enabling TRIM, I'd like to know how to DISABLE TRIM. When I run this, the command returns TRIM support: # hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep TRIM Is there a way to make the drive NOT report TRIM support? Is there a way to make the Kernel NOT try to issue discards or "DATA SET MANAGEMENT" commands?
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I need help with sshd on 14.04 LTS armhf I can't get sshd to work on my raspberry pi 2. I want to keep it headless and I had to set up on the TV in the loungeroom. My other raspberry pi 2 running Raspbian works without any issue on the network. I've never had issue with Ubuntu or sshd before. The only thing I can think of that might have caused this is setting it up, the connection was via internet sharing on a macbook. Before I reinstall the OS completely, is there any trick I am missing?
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Are you trying to log in as root? Check your /etc/ssh/sshd_config for PermitRootLogin Is sshd actually running and listening on the proper IP? netstat -ltp and check if sshd is listening on *:ssh or [::]:ssh Can you ping the system? Is there a firewall running? iptables -L Are there any errors in /var/log/auth.log (Maybe increase LogLevel to DEBUG in sshd_config) Try running ssh client with the -v or -vv option for more info.
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Xenomorph posted:So Ubuntu 15.10 just came out, and it's forcing TRIM on a system that doesn't support it. I've worked through kinda the opposite issue, but can't think of anything except compiling the kernel with that option turned off.
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Grey Area posted:Are you trying to log in as root? Check your /etc/ssh/sshd_config for PermitRootLogin I played around, I think it's an issue with how I set it up. Once I buy a HDMI monitor I can get it going with Ubuntu properly. It's too difficult to set up on the tv in the loungeroom when it's running through a different NAT. Raspbian may not be what I want, but it was very easy to set up over just ssh.
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This feels a touch like necroing, but w/e. I've been using Ubuntu for about two weeks and find myself wanting to dick around in the terminal because it's fun. Any suggestions on things that will facilitate such things? Maybe some quality of life stuff? I don't know what I'm doing yet, but I figure learning by doing is the best way to go.
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You're going to need to be more specific about the kind of stuff you want. Teach yourself VIm to start. If you want QoL on it, look into spf13 as a package of addons and configs that really make it shine.
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xthnru posted:This feels a touch like necroing, but w/e. I've been using Ubuntu for about two weeks and find myself wanting to dick around in the terminal because it's fun. Any suggestions on things that will facilitate such things? Maybe some quality of life stuff? I don't know what I'm doing yet, but I figure learning by doing is the best way to go. wipe your drive and install arch linux, that should be enough terminal poo poo for you to get a nice handle on it by the end
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xthnru posted:This feels a touch like necroing, but w/e. I've been using Ubuntu for about two weeks and find myself wanting to dick around in the terminal because it's fun. Any suggestions on things that will facilitate such things? Maybe some quality of life stuff? I don't know what I'm doing yet, but I figure learning by doing is the best way to go. I really like fish shell, so maybe give that a try, for terminal QOL. Set up your shell configuration (.bashrc, .pam_environment, .bash_profile, etc. or .config/fish for fish shell), .gitconfig and/or.hgrc, .vimrc or .emacs or whatever, and create some sort of dotfile repo. I use dotbot and really like it. Just that process of configuring your shell, version control, and a text editor will give a good amount of terminal experience, while working to improve your terminal experience.
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Buy a Raspberry Pi, stick Debian on it (very similar to Ubuntu) and learn how to dick about with SSH in the terminal. Communicating with, and controlling, the Pi using an Ubuntu system gave me extra confidence and knowledge with the terminal.
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Thanks, despite the vague question those were the kind of answers I was looking for (less so on the Arch Linux, that poo poo looks too terrifying for me at my current experience level).
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Playing with a Raspberry Pi over SSH is very forgiving to the novice. You just download an ISO file of Raspbian, write it onto a memory card and run it on the Pi. Then if you gently caress something up over SSH you can just write over the memory card and you're back where you started. I remember doing the classic trick of enabling ufw on the Pi, then logging out and realising I hadn't allowed port 22 (the SSH port) so it was impossible to log back in again. A quick image write later and I was up and running again.
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xthnru posted:Thanks, despite the vague question those were the kind of answers I was looking for (less so on the Arch Linux, that poo poo looks too terrifying for me at my current experience level). Just start doing everything you possibly could imagine from the terminal. Move a file? Google and learn how to do it in the terminal. Mount a drive? Format a drive? Google it. Given that you're using Ubuntu you'll be repairing the install every time you do a version bump so Google every problem you encounter. If a program gets lovely with you launch it using the terminal and see what it says. Often times you can just copy/paste the errors into Google and get a bug report / fix. Don't feel anchored to Ubuntu either despite it's "newbie" reputation. Fedora is just as easy to use. Antergos is a decent distro that lets you have the Arch Linux experience without the tryhard installing process.
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Don't forget Linux Mint for the very lazy (like myself), now if i can just get rid of my apathy and to start gaming on it instead of Win 8.
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YouTuber posted:Just start doing everything you possibly could imagine from the terminal. Move a file? Google and learn how to do it in the terminal. Mount a drive? Format a drive? Google it. Given that you're using Ubuntu you'll be repairing the install every time you do a version bump so Google every problem you encounter. If a program gets lovely with you launch it using the terminal and see what it says. Often times you can just copy/paste the errors into Google and get a bug report / fix. That right there is really good advice for a newbie in regards to Linux. You can always download CD/DVD images from any of the distros and try them for free and I think with all of them these days, you can run a live disk to see if you like it or not.
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xthnru posted:Thanks, despite the vague question those were the kind of answers I was looking for (less so on the Arch Linux, that poo poo looks too terrifying for me at my current experience level). You can give this book a try, too: http://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php Creative commons licensed so you can download the digital version right off the site for free (in the future it might be nice to have a printed copy for skimming/easy reference).
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