| xdruppi | on installation, does hostname need to be all lowercase? | 02:56 |
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| mchasard | hi | 07:14 |
| mchasard | i can't no more see my speaker bluetooth under bluetotth devil assistant | 07:14 |
| mchasard | its a jbl go speaker | 07:15 |
| mchasard | an idea ? | 07:15 |
| mchasard | hi again | 07:44 |
| lubot | <JyotiGomes> Hi, I'm trying to do a manual installation of Lubuntu 18.10 and I'm not sure if I should leave an EFI partition of 512 MB or 1024 MB. I saw in the Lubuntu installation manual that it is best to leave about 1 GB for EFI. What do you advise me? The laptop is an HP Stream with only a 32 GB MMC card as disk. | 12:18 |
| lubot | <aptghetto> No, 1024 MiB is normally too much. Dualboot with Windows? | 12:27 |
| lubot | <JyotiGomes> No, just Lubuntu 18.10 | 12:28 |
| lubot | <JyotiGomes> I also thougt that 1024 mb is to much. I asked bkz i have seen this in the Lubuntu manual | 12:29 |
| lubot | <aptghetto> Then use just 100 MiB. The EFI partition normally contains only the bootloaders (some MiB). | 12:30 |
| lubot | <JyotiGomes> Here: https://docs.lubuntu.net/lubuntu_installation | 12:31 |
| lubot | <JyotiGomes> (Photo, 720x1280) https://i.imgur.com/UpgucDS.jpg | 12:31 |
| lubot | <aptghetto> The official Lubuntu page is https://lubuntu.me | 12:34 |
| lubot | <tsimonq2> @JyotiGomes [Here: https://docs.lubuntu.net/lubuntu_installation], You mean manual.lubuntu.me right? | 15:36 |
| lubot | <tsimonq2> Those docs are unofficial and broken. | 15:36 |
| lubot | <JyotiGomes> 👍 | 15:44 |
| lubot | <tsimonq2> @tsimonq2 [Those docs are unofficial and broken.], (to clarify, I'm talking about the docs.lubuntu.net ones) | 15:48 |
| lubot | <N0um3n0> @tsimonq2 [(to clarify, I'm talking about the docs.lubuntu.net ones)], Can we start with https://translate.lubuntu.me ? | 17:01 |
| lubot | <tsimonq2> Not yet | 17:01 |
| lubot | <N0um3n0> Ok | 17:03 |
| lubot | <N0um3n0> Tx | 17:03 |
| on3pk | So, I just had something weird happen. I am on a liveusb browsing the web and a pixilated (think 90s NES graphics) message scrolls across the screen. Is that a lubuntu way of saying something broke? | 20:56 |
| wxl | on3pk: could be all sorts of things but it's not an intentional part of lubuntu | 20:58 |
| on3pk | Sorry, quassel kept crashing. And I tried to use the webchat feature on freenode.net, but, uh, I couldn't pass the captcha. | 21:08 |
| wxl | did you get the message? | 21:08 |
| on3pk | that it wasn't part of lubuntu? Yes, I did see that | 21:08 |
| wxl | ok | 21:09 |
| on3pk | it might've been an ad, I'm used to running adblock, but it isn't installed on a livecd. | 21:09 |
| * wxl shrugs | 21:10 | |
| on3pk | I'm not using lubuntu right now, but when I was using it there was a lot of screen flickering. Is there a way to tell what graphics driver I'm using and how to change it? I've noticed this across all "modern" ubuntu releases, so lubuntu isn't alone I guess... | 21:11 |
| wxl | lspci | 21:11 |
| wxl | you might want to install the proprietary drivers | 21:11 |
| wxl | or if you have something super old, you might want to search for how to tweak it | 21:12 |
| on3pk | Yeah, I have something from several years ago | 21:12 |
| on3pk | so I might need to do research | 21:12 |
| wxl | yep | 21:12 |
| wxl | the unfortunate thing is that it's often really hard for general support to help.. unless they've had experience with that same hardware | 21:13 |
| on3pk | well tbh I think the best solution is just to get something more modern, rather than try to continually tweak old hardware. heh... | 21:14 |
| on3pk | anyway, thanks for your help | 21:14 |
| wxl | np | 21:14 |
| xdruppi | should i use lubuntu 18.10 or LTS? | 21:28 |
| wxl | xdruppi: i'd advise 18.10. there's a major change in the system between the two and upgrading from 18.04 will be more difficult than upgrading from 18.10. | 21:29 |
| xdruppi | wxl: i am using lubuntu as my distro for learning linux through virtual machine | 21:30 |
| xdruppi | wxl: i just want to have little to no issues with it | 21:30 |
| wxl | there's always issues. always. | 21:30 |
| wxl | with everything. | 21:30 |
| wxl | including windows and os x. | 21:30 |
| xdruppi | wxl: but LXQT is very tempting | 21:30 |
| wxl | and android and ios. | 21:30 |
| wxl | and every other piece of software out there, open source and proprietary. | 21:31 |
| xdruppi | wxl: I'll go for 18.10 | 21:31 |
| xdruppi | by the way, what happened with the .net domain of lubuntu? | 21:32 |
| wxl | it's never been under the control of the lubuntu team | 21:32 |
| wxl | it's essentially a fan site | 21:32 |
| wxl | completely and totally unofficial | 21:32 |
| xdruppi | really? | 21:32 |
| xdruppi | isnt that unsafe? | 21:32 |
| wxl | yep | 21:33 |
| wxl | define unsafe? | 21:33 |
| xdruppi | lubuntu is shared but altered | 21:33 |
| xdruppi | and since its not official... | 21:33 |
| wxl | for what it's worth the downloads they offer are all from the our repos | 21:33 |
| xdruppi | it's odd though, why would someone make a fan site of lubuntu | 21:34 |
| xdruppi | why is lubuntu switching to LXQt? | 22:00 |
| wxl | among other reasons: because lxde development has slowed to a wee trickle | 22:00 |
| xdruppi | sorry, what do you mean "wee trickle"? | 22:01 |
| xdruppi | can't understand | 22:01 |
| wxl | meaning it's not happening very much at all | 22:01 |
| xdruppi | so LXDE has stopped development? | 22:01 |
| wxl | it's not fair to say that it's been abandoned or that it's not being developed at all, but it's so slow as to be effectively stalled | 22:02 |
| xdruppi | when did this start? | 22:02 |
| wxl | when a segment of the devs got sick of gtk requirements (and the fact that gtk3 incompatibility was a real hurdle to overcome) and started working on a qt version | 22:03 |
| wxl | and with this came some fresh ways of thinking. i would call lxqt much more approachable, complete, pretty, modern, usable, functional | 22:03 |
| wxl | basically it's better in every regard | 22:03 |
| xdruppi | dont know much about gtk history, but i sort of understand the issue | 22:04 |
| xdruppi | wxl do you use lubuntu yourself? | 22:04 |
| wxl | absolutely | 22:05 |
| xdruppi | is it a preference or a necessity due to hardware limitations? | 22:05 |
| wxl | originally the latter, now the former | 22:06 |
| xdruppi | haha that's pretty cool | 22:06 |
| xdruppi | by the way, can you recommend me a irc client? im using freenode web irc right now | 22:07 |
| wxl | well you're going to find my opinion rather biased | 22:07 |
| xdruppi | don't worry, i dont know much about irc | 22:08 |
| wxl | i got started on irc before graphical clients were a thing and i used remote unix shells i telnetted to. that said, it's a terminal based client for me: irssi | 22:08 |
| xdruppi | only terminal chat i ever attempted to use is WeeChat | 22:10 |
| wxl | more or less the same | 22:10 |
| xdruppi | im a shameless newbie | 22:10 |
| xdruppi | alright, thanks for your help | 22:11 |
| wxl | np | 22:12 |
| xdruppi | wxl, sorry to bother you again | 22:18 |
| xdruppi | is there any naming convetion for hosts? | 22:18 |
| wxl | in what context? | 22:18 |
| xdruppi | for example, should i use all lowercase characters only? | 22:18 |
| xdruppi | i cant find anything about it on google | 22:19 |
| wxl | again i don't know your context but linux is in general case sensitive | 22:19 |
| xdruppi | when i install lubuntu itll ask me to name the device/host/computer | 22:19 |
| xdruppi | is there any convetions? | 22:19 |
| wxl | oh the hostname.. yeah, you can be pretty general. no spaces, though | 22:20 |
| xdruppi | sounds fair enough | 22:20 |
| wxl | think of it like a domain name | 22:21 |
| wxl | you can just call it foo, but you could also call it foo.bar | 22:21 |
| xdruppi | in that case i think i should use only lowercase letters | 22:21 |
| xdruppi | seems more appropriate/practical | 22:22 |
| wxl | you might want to read the hostname man page (`man hostname`) if you want to dig deeper on the subject | 22:22 |
| wxl | (which involves fqdn/dns) | 22:23 |
| xdruppi | wxl i doubt i will ever encounter a situation that requires knowledge of that, but i like to follow general conventions | 22:23 |
| xdruppi | so i'll check it out | 22:23 |
| wxl | http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html | 22:23 |
| wxl | that's, i guess, the "official" convention | 22:23 |
| wxl | here's some alternately interesting, useful, funny, and frustrating suggestions https://serverfault.com/questions/17274/naming-conventions | 22:24 |
| xdruppi | haha thank you | 22:24 |
| wxl | np | 22:24 |
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