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Q: Is there a good small and lightweight library for C++ which allows me to create gui using html

10:51 AM

Hey people

Is this post on topic in any manner:

I am looking for library that simply renders some html.It should be able to create a new window and render some html.No web browsing is needed.Thanks in advance

c++

This seems like a question meant for Stack Overflow.

Journeyman Geek

11:13 AM

not really

Its a software recommendation with not all that much meat on it

It'd get closed on SO too

hmm..

11:28 AM

But yeah, it is off topic here.

@terdon, what's your Ubuntu story?

11:49 AM

I don't have one. I only used Ubuntu briefly around 15 years ago.

@terdon what... 15 years ago?

That's a very long time..

Um. Yes, why?

@technastic_tc To you, maybe :)

@terdon hmm..

I've been using Linux as my main OS since around 1998 or 1999.

Which distro are you using now?

11:50 AM

Arch.

oh.. ok. What was the last version of Ubuntu which you used?

No idea. I actually use Ubuntu Servers at work, but on my personal machine, I guess it must have been a version 6 or 7?

I've gone through many, many distros. At different times, I've been a user of Mandrake, SuSe, open Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, LMDE, and Arch.

Ah, and RedHat.

Hm distro-hopper :)

yep

Also, they each had their strengths at different times. And I wouldn't have touched Arch when I was a newbie, way too complicated.

which package manager do you prefer?

11:54 AM

I really like Arch's pacman. I haven't had "dependency hell" since moving away from debian-based.

I'm curious of/on arch but have no place left

I've never fallen into dependency hell

@Zanna Really?

Used to happen to me all the time.

apt pinning is great for this.

Meh, apt ties so many packages together in complicated knots, that it can be a nightmare. It's really good when things are working well, but when they aren't...

So, apparently I joined the Ubuntu forums in February 2007, so I guess I must have been using Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10.

11:56 AM

I've managed to mess things up on deliberately for science, but otherwise nothing has gone wrong for me using apt

I realise I'm tempting fate :)

I'm not in any way saying this to disparage pacman BTW - I thought it was great when I was briefly using it

They're all great, really. They do a complicated thing and do it well.

@terdon and there's no generic magically fix your APT problem command or anything haha

if there was we would have about 30% fewer questions I guess :D

@Zanna lol..

@terdon yeah! can you imagine trying to figure out all that stuff yourself? Dependency hell for eternity

@nobody for getting into a mess?

No for a way not to fall in a "dependency hell"

12:02 PM

oh haha

I was thinking if you start pinning stuff, you're bound to get into a muddle sooner or later - it's just kicking the can down the road, but I may well be wrong

On my both system I use apt pinning for external packages source

BTW people, is there any post about installing Android in a Virtual Box in Ubuntu?

hmm probably

If you find any, please do share.

@technastic_tc sounds like you want adb, not to install on a VM

The VM would have to mimic a phone for one thing, I guess.

12:08 PM

Yeah.. I wan to mimic a phone in my PC.. install some apps and try how it works

There seem to be loads of articles on this actually. Just search "android virtual machine"

howtogeek.com/164570/HOW-TO-INSTALL-ANDROID-IN-VIRTUALBOX

I have a small doubt.. I just have 4 GB RAM in my PC. Will VM slow my device?

Yes.

But it will depend on how much ram you give the VM

12:11 PM

hmm.. what's the minimum which we can give?

Dunno. It depends on the minimum that android requires.

Just try it, and see.

ok..

I'm kinda scared to try out a VM.. but anyway, I hope VM won't screw my machine in any manner

No, that's the whole point of a VM

I didn't get you

Q: Is it safe to answer "erase disk and install Ubuntu" on a virtual machine?

@technastic_tc A VM. a virtual machine, is completely separate from your real machine. That's the point of having it: so you can install a completely independent operating system, one you can break horribly without affecting your real machine in any way.

For example:

I am installing on VirtualBox on Mac. During install it asks: Erase disk and install Ubuntu Question: Is it asking about the virtual disk - hopefully. Is it safe to answer OK?

system-installation virtualbox

12:23 PM

@terdon ok..

Pedro Rojas Gavidia

12:59 PM

HI! I just posted my first question, Thanks to the community

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1284544/ubuntu-20-undesired-initial-setup-after-each-boot

1:21 PM

@PedroRojasGavidia welcome :)

3 hours later…

4:40 PM

please is a mod so kind to open a chat for askubuntu.com/questions/1281969/…

1 hour later…

5:52 PM

@nobody You don't need a mod. You can simply open a new room yourself, invite the OP into it and leave a link under the question. Just go to chat.stackexchange.com and create a room. Alternatively, go to the OP's chat profile (chat.stackexchange.com/users/24774/jjd) and use the "Start a new room with this user" button.

6:25 PM

@terdon thanks.

You're welcome. By the way, I'm not a mod here (any more) so I couldn't have done it anyway, just in case you thought I was being lazy :)