[00:16] <Dashofpepper> Hey folks!  First foray into Linux via Xubuntu; replacing Windows XP on an older laptop that I wanted to repurpose.
[00:18] <Dashofpepper> Anyone around that can answer a couple of questions?
[00:19] <Andrio> Maybe, if you ask the questions.
[00:20] <Dashofpepper> Does Pale Moon (Firefox fork) work with Xubuntu?  Does Google Chrome?
[00:21] <Andrio> I use Chrome on Xubuntu, so yeah.
[00:22] <Dashofpepper> Oh; installation just finished and I'm being prompted to reboot.
[01:48] <Dashofpepper> Hey folks!  Two questions from a new Xubuntu and Linux user.
[01:49] <Dashofpepper> First - I downloaded Chrome, but can't get it to install - and googling around trying to troubleshoot it hasn't gotten me anywhere; I could use some assistance.
[01:49] <Dashofpepper> I download the Chrome for Linux file (a .deb file), the software installer comes up, I click, "install" which creates a folder in /tmp, but nothing happens.
[01:50] <Dashofpepper> And second - when I'm googling how to do things, a lot of times people give commands to use in the console - how do you open a console in Xubuntu?
[01:50] <Andrio> Try `sudo dpkg -i <.deb file>`
[01:50] <Andrio> And there's a 'Terminal emulator' link on the whisker menu, or you can use Ctrl+Alt+T
[01:51] <Andrio> (or Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to tty1, then Ctrl+Alt+F7 to switch back)
[01:51] <Unit193> (FWIW, apt install ./file.deb works now, and is better as it does deps.)
[01:51] <Dashofpepper> do I replace <.deb file> with the name of the .deb file for the Chrome setup file?
[01:51] <Andrio> ah
[01:52] <Andrio> Dashofpepper, yes
[01:52] <Unit193> Dashofpepper: Ctrl+Alt+t to open a terminal emulator, btw.
[01:59] <Dashofpepper> Hrm....further research indicates that I may not be able to use google Chrome in Xubuntu because I am using 32B and not 64B Xubuntu.
[02:00] <Dashofpepper> The Xubuntu installation guide pointed me to 32B because the laptop I am repurposing here is circa 2006 hardware, and I was replacing Windows XP Pro.
[02:03] <Dashofpepper> I prefer not to use Firefox anymore since it turned into bloatware. :(
[09:00] <joeboom> I haven't used a linux desktop distro in 10yrs, I got the urge to check out since I have been mining crypto with a server distro for a little while, I got all excited downloading it, thought about how much tech has come since then, I was getting more and more excited watching it instal, then I got to the pretty desktop, moved my mouse around, and the same mouse acceleration problem that I had when I left was there, I opened a browser, and the same
[09:00] <joeboom> scrolling bug was still there from when I left, I started looking around and everything was all wonky and stupid, the software manager was garbage and annoying, and I litterally shed a tear, breaks my heart
[09:01] <bazhang> joeboom, try a different DE
[09:01] <bazhang> joeboom, as far as bugs, thats what bug reports are for
[09:11] <joeboom> thats what they said 10yrs ago, and go into xorg and edit mouse acceleration... and of course it didn't work, wasn't even the same distro, you know when we are talking 10yrs its not any one bug, I could go through here in 10min and come up with 20, and google, and get people saying the same things year after year..., the community is obviously broken, nobody cares, the bug reports exist... they just get filed as solved because people gave up on linux,
[09:11] <joeboom> its some other packages fault, or its not that important, the mouse works, you can see a webpage.......... RIP Linux destop
[13:37] <hoijui> i am trying to install xubuntu 16.04 on an old desktop machine (board: Acer Asphire AS85). i managed to get it booting from an USB stick, but after some time, it drops to busybox
[13:37] <hoijui> what should i try?
[13:37] <hoijui> i imagine some kernel parameters
[13:37] <hoijui> btw, this is converting a windows person to a linux one, so... together we might save the world here!
[21:10] <CoderEurope> hello