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9:04 AM

more and more hats :D

why are the people here always destroy their python?

Seth

it's almost a rite of passage lol

9:20 AM

Oh, so I mis that. Maybe I have to do it too. :D

10:08 AM

I have no words for this one: askubuntu.com/a/1195376/36315

@blade19899 nice answer lol

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12:51 PM

**The Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Pre-release Survey**
https://ubuntu.com/blog/the-ubuntu-20-04-lts-pre-release-survey

@blade19899 this one trumps yours askubuntu.com/questions/1195410/…

@Rinzwind That one made my brain hurt

Vote to delete, got immediately deleted. Forgot I have that power now xD

@Rinzwind you think I should keep this deleted?

yes please :D

Will keep this deleted!

1:28 PM

@Rinzwind > Budgie rocks!

SAME! Its my new default desktop interface!

ubuntu survey: what do you expect from ubuntu desktop in the next 2 years.
answer: buy up and dismantle microsoft.

@blade19899 it has been mine since gnome3 infected ubuntu

@Rinzwind That's not going to happen. Atleast not by Ubuntu. Hopefully some day though

I'm thinking about switching to Fedora altogether though

1:50 PM

I smile everytime I hear about Fedora because that's the name I gave my cat when I got her and now the first thing I think about when I hear it is not the OS haha

(My heart balances between Ubuntu and CentOS, although I shall say, I've been disappointed by the first one the last few months (especially the snap/apt double installation drama...))

next cat name : Cent, Arch or Debian? :D

@damadam I wanted Debian but my spouse wants it to be Kali :p

Although Manjaro could be cool too (but they don't like that either. Bummer D:)

and the drama would be Windows :D

oh god please no xD

@damadam Puppy Linux :D

Thats an actual Linux distro: puppylinux.com

1:55 PM

debian rocks

@blade19899 I didn't understand the aim or main advantage of Puppy :/

@damadam I dont understand the aim or main advantage of most forks. But, people still forking.

Q: Host rebooted when issued `swapoff -a`

download a fork just to have a puppy on background : best answer ever ! :P

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2:29 PM

On a physical host running Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS and serving as a hypervisor via qemu, hosting a single guest, I've issued: swapoff -a To the host, which hung for several minutes before kicking me out of the console. I was unable to get back onto the host, and found that it had rebooted, which re...

2:40 PM

Anybody here has experience with Fedora?

2:51 PM

kinda

Fedora 30 Workstation - Using GNOME 3.32 and Powered by Linux Kernel 5.0

@avazula What are your thoughts and experiences with it?

Completely forgot about Linux Scoop:

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@avazula don't say it purrs and it leaves hair everywhere to @blade19899 question :D

@damadam LOL. My mind is made up. Switching right now! xD

@blade19899 very limited. I used it back in college (t'was the OS on our lab computers). Seems nice for educational purposes and people who like a nice GUI, but Ubuntu still seems better for both those goals. I switched to RH and CentOS when entering the industry ; easier for handling safety rules and policies

3:29 PM

@avazula Thanks for this. I am going to use it for my personal desktop, I just need it to do my basic stuff/and handle some IDE for my coding. Other than that, don't need much.

3:40 PM

@blade19899 Yo :-)

Forgot to mute this tab, on the phone with some co workers, and the sound was very loud.

Now I know he has never been on this SO chat before xD

@Rinzwind Yo D:D

Fedora experience here :=) 6 years of using and 2 years of WEARING one

@Rinzwind I would like to know your experience on the Linux Distro called Fedora, and I would love to know you experience with the hat called a Fedora!

it is very velvety :+) so not good when it rains

Thing is.. the OS is basically a gnome 3 desktop but with no sudo.

4:00 PM

... no sudo? Huh?

they use root

sudo is optional

Ah okay, I was wondering. I actually fired up a Fedora VM, just so that I can verify that statement XD

sigh. I even have 1 HP UX I have to maintain :(

and 2 AIX. even worse

@Rinzwind Arch Linux seems easy next to that :D

Ahhh, Arch Linux, tried that once. Never more then once!

4:14 PM

really? I love Arch.

No more dependency hell!

@terdon That was years ago for me, back when my linux knowledge was limited, eventually I landed on Ubuntu. Just a lil bit easier for a noob to install

Oh, far easier. No question.

But once you have it installed, it's not too hard.

But yes, not for new users. Absolutely.

I might try it out again in gnome-boxes, or one of my laptops

dependencies on Arch are really totally erased? how does that work?

@damadam I was wondering about that myself

4:26 PM

@damadam Not erased. They're just never a problem for some reason. I can't actually tell you why. Their packaging system just deals with it better than apt

@terdon enlighten us Sifu

package system is pacman if I'm not wrong

yep

yes

so it packages better UNLESS your package is a yellow candy

so why pacman isn't available on Ubuntu? :(

is it an issue of dpkg?

4:32 PM

@damadam ?

You can't just change the frontend, you'd need to completely replace dpkg as well.

You can't just use pacman with deb packages, the entire packaging system is different.

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/…

^^ a comparison of Arch and Ubuntu.

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