| notnola | Hello guys! For someone that isn't that fluent in the Linux of things... But has been using Ubuntu-Gnome and Manjaro on their laptop for a few months as daily drivers - I am courious as to what exactly makes each distro unique? Mainly - why can't Ubuntu packages be installed into Arch, and as well in reverse? | 01:57 |
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| krbtgt | different package managers | 01:58 |
| krbtgt | manjaro uses pacman, ubuntu uses apt+dpkg | 01:59 |
| krbtgt | most of the time this doesn't even matter much. for the most part, distro hopping is mostly changing default wallpaper. | 01:59 |
| notnola | Haha, sorry I had to AFK for a minute, but thanks for answer krbtgt. | 03:00 |
| notnola | The reason I had asked is because I have been struggling to compile webcamstudio in Arch - while it was as easy as 1.2.3 in Ubuntu. I know it is because of different versions of the dependencies, and what not - But I would have just assumed there is something that would mediate this presumingly simple flaw. | 03:02 |
| notnola | Hello guys! I think I screwed something up. would somehow having installed both gnome2 in ubuntu-gnome be causing gnome to constantly lock up? | 08:52 |
| darkxst | notnola, there is not any gnome2 left | 08:54 |
| darkxst | that was forked to MATE, and won't conflict with gnome3 | 08:55 |
| darkxst | (some apps still use gtk2, but thats not a problem) | 08:55 |
| notnola | Well - why would I have .gnome2 in my home dir? | 08:55 |
| notnola | Ahhh, okay. | 08:55 |
| darkxst | notnola, because firefox, libreoffice are gtk2 | 08:56 |
| darkxst | and probably others | 08:56 |
| notnola | does apt have a command to let me see what other packages are using the gtk2 packages? | 08:56 |
| darkxst | apt-cache rdepends libgtk2 | 08:57 |
| darkxst | but that won't break your system | 08:57 |
| notnola | Hum - Well, I am always getting weird forced closes - this sounds bad but i don't remember many of the applications that get closed - but I do remember "alacarte" getting closed quite often and just not working. | 08:58 |
| darkxst | doesnt seem related to gtk2 | 08:59 |
| darkxst | alacarte should be gtk3? | 09:00 |
| notnola | Sorry about that - Gnome locked up all together. | 09:05 |
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| notnola | I think I am just going to reinstall and start fresh. Is there a program that will take snapshots of the system; that I can restore from when things like this arise again? | 09:06 |
| darkxst | notnola, dejadup | 09:09 |
| darkxst | I think, I do all my experimenting in VMware which has its own snapshot system | 09:10 |
| notnola | How does that work? it takes a snapshot of your current machine witch you can run side by side with your test environment? | 09:15 |
| notnola | I have never used it, it always seemed to complicated compared to VirtualBox | 09:16 |
| darkxst | notnola, vmware kills virtualbox in every possbile way (apart from price) but the vmware player is free and can do most) | 09:17 |
| darkxst | click a button, it saves a snapshot, experiment/break and then you can revert to that snapshot | 09:17 |
| notnola | I assume VMware Workstation is what you are referring to. It has a free trial that I am going to explorer. | 09:18 |
| notnola | I remember hearing about a VM software that would allow you to run a dualboot side by side. For instance, I have Windows installed on another partition; would VMware Workstation allow me to run the Windows partition in a VM within linux? | 09:20 |
| darkxst | notnola, vmware player is free for personal use (although yes I do use worksatation) | 09:20 |
| darkxst | not sure vmware can boot a windows partition directly, never tried that | 09:22 |
| darkxst | it must be 10 years since I had one of those on any of my pc's | 09:22 |
| notnola | To be honest - I am not sure why I have not fully converted other than the lack of support for Grand Theft Auto 5 and Battle Field 4. | 09:24 |
| notnola | Although, I am going to be taking a few classes in school that is going to require me to have Visual Studio's installed, so if I could just run my already configured and installed Windows partition from within Linux... Brilliant! | 09:26 |
| notnola | Thanks for the recommendations. If I could lend your services for one more question - I am curious as to how I would go about diagnosing my issues as they seem to be intermittent, so I don't make the same mistake twice. I am trying to get a better understanding of this. | 09:27 |
| darkxst | notnola, Visual Studio will work in a VM fine, probably not the games though | 10:03 |
| darkxst | vmware 3D is way better than vbox, but still only about 60% of native | 10:04 |
| notnola | Yeah, I know performance won't be up to par, I wouldn't even consider it. My point was it would be cool to not have to even leave Linux, or install Windows in a VM - if I could just run the Windows I have already have installed in a VM. I'm reading about options now actually. | 10:05 |
| krbtgt | vmware can boot windows partitions directly | 11:13 |
| krbtgt | but it's a good way to get a BSoD in the guest or at worst really confuse it | 11:14 |
| Shah | Hello | 12:52 |
| LinDol | hi all :) | 13:17 |
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