Re: Linux Megathread - PurpleMetro distro switch count: we lost track

[Pikmin]

installman gentoo

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[Nal]

What is a good conky theme and how can I install it?

[Flush535]

http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=conky

do

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sudo apt-get install conky-all
make a text file in your home folder called .conkyrc, and paste your conky thing in it.

kill conky and then open again

that's how I did it on xubuntu, it might be different for other distro's though


Anyways I have another thing I'm trying to figure out with xubuntu...
it doesn't seem to think that I have a battery on my laptop. There's no battery section when I go to /proc/acpi/ and when I put acpi -V into the terminal it outputs

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tyler@tyler-D620:~$ acpi -V
    Adapter 0: on-line
    Thermal 0: ok, 54.5 degrees C
    Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 126.0 degrees C
    Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 10
    Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10
And when I put upower -d in it outputs

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tyler@tyler-D620:~$ upower -d
    Device: /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_AC
      native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/ACPI0003:00/power_supply/AC
    power supply:         yes
    updated:              Wed Jul 24 15:47:27 2013 (1071 seconds ago)
    has history:          no
    has statistics:       no
    line-power
     online:             yes

    Daemon:
    daemon-version:  0.9.20
    can-suspend:     yes
    can-hibernate:   no
    on-battery:      no
    on-low-battery:  no
    lid-is-closed:   no
    lid-is-present:  yes
    is-docked:       no
So I'm not really sure what to do about that...The battery does work when it's unplugged but it only lasts for about 20 minutes.

[PurpleMetro]

kde is officially the best DE ever

[TheBlackParrot]

make a text file in your home folder called .conkyrc, and paste your conky thing in it.

kill conky and then open again

that's how I did it on xubuntu, it might be different for other distro's though

conky -c [location of a config file]

You can also do that and keep multiple configs.

[Nal]

kde is officially the best DE ever

no xfce is best

[No2mad2]

ok you guys, i switched over from windows to linux today on my main pc. what's the best distro? I'm on Ubuntu. :x

[Nal]

ok you guys, i switched over from windows to linux today on my main pc. what's the best distro? I'm on Ubuntu. :x

Not ubuntu I will tell you that
try debian, Mint, Mint Debian edition, Xubuntu, crunchbang or Fedora

[No2mad2]

Not ubuntu I will tell you that
try debian, Mint, Mint Debian edition, Xubuntu, crunchbang or Fedora

Debian it is!

[Marcem]

ok you guys, i switched over from windows to linux today on my main pc. what's the best distro? I'm on Ubuntu. :x

Ubuntu is the best.  Also Arch is the best.  Xubuntu is the best too.  Fedora?  Also the best.  Gentoo is the best with no doubt.

None are the 'best'.  Just use whichever suits your needs, most likely you just want a standard desktop OS, maybe with a few games.  For that, Ubuntu is pretty much the standard choice as it doesn't take hours of customization to make decent (also it has workspaces off by default) and generally looks nice.

Not ubuntu I will tell you that

Have you used Ubuntu?  It's not as bad as nerds think.

[Pikmin]

Ubuntu is the best.  Also Arch is the best.  Xubuntu is the best too.  Fedora?  Also the best.  Gentoo is the best with no doubt.

None are the 'best'.  Just use whichever suits your needs, most likely you just want a standard desktop OS, maybe with a few games.  For that, Ubuntu is pretty much the standard choice as it doesn't take hours of customization to make decent (also it has workspaces off by default) and generally looks nice.
Have you used Ubuntu?  It's not as bad as nerds think.

dude gentoo is absolutel stuff lol

[Nal]

Have you used Ubuntu?  It's not as bad as nerds think.

Yes, its slow as stuff

[Marcem]

Yes, its slow as stuff

No, it's really not.  Maybe if you tried it with early unity, but not now.

[Kingdaro]

Yes, its slow as stuff

^

In addition to eating up CPU and RAM like hell, it's extremely heavyweight and barely customizable.

[Nal]

No, it's really not.  Maybe if you tried it with early unity, but not now.

I tried it with Xfce, Cinnamon and Gnome and they were all horrible