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lotuspsychjegood morning03:09
lotuspsychjehey mesaboogie04:10
mesaboogiehello lotuspsychje04:10
lotuspsychjewelcome mhpl314159204:12
mhpl3141592lotuspsychje: Hi :)04:12
lotuspsychjeif you have config issues with i3, talk to ducasse when he wakes up in a few mhpl314159204:12
mhpl3141592lotuspsychje: I try to adopts to Gnome as much as possible. But I tried relogin i3 and couple of otehrs.04:13
lotuspsychjemhpl3141592: the ubuntu-docs ? icon also holds up a lot of help resources, and the wiki leftyfb pointed you04:14
mhpl3141592My main problem is how things goes in advanced/intermediate level ubutnu best practice. In Arch for example everything is in the wiki and man pages, the user seldomely need anything else. With ubuntu it seems the mainstream is to search through google and find your way through. This have its advantages. But as a noob. I want to know best practices. If I missed anything. Ubuntu wiki for04:15
mhpl3141592example is very sparse and obsolete04:15
mhpl3141592So, ubuntu docs, wiki, then google. right?04:16
lotuspsychjethere's tons of resources out there mhpl314159204:19
lotuspsychjelike i say, we have an active ubuntu community here aswell for support & discussions04:19
lotuspsychjethere's also #i3 channel04:20
mhpl3141592lotuspsychje: Thanks. I want to learn how things works here. So the resources are diverse and even an advanced user will use combinations of these: Doc/Wiki, IRC and Google04:21
lotuspsychjemanpages, askubuntu, ubuntu forums, individual websites,..04:21
mhpl3141592lotuspsychje: I get it know. I feared that due to being noob I'm doing things wrong through my early adoptation.04:22
lotuspsychjei very like the tutorials on https://linuxconfig.org/ for example04:22
mhpl3141592Actually having such diverse resources has its own merits04:22
mhpl3141592lotuspsychje: this linuxconfig.org seems very polish and good. Thansk04:24
mhpl3141592Does anybody know how to bring back default ubuntu icons? I install regolith and switched to it and when I switched back it changed the icons which I don't like04:25
lotuspsychjemhpl3141592: we can only support the ubuntu !flavours not the other derivatives04:26
mhpl3141592lotuspsychje: I've fresh ubuntu default install. I just install regolish as an DE and login to it, didn't like it04:27
mhpl3141592I'm using vanila Ubuntu04:27
mhpl3141592but the regolith has changed the icons04:28
lotuspsychjemhpl3141592: i dont see regolith on the repos, how did you install?04:28
mesaboogie20.04 fresh install default vanilla here as well.04:29
mesaboogiedefaut theme is really nice04:29
lotuspsychjecool mesaboogie04:29
mhpl3141592lotuspsychje: it was right in their website. I add a ppa repo though04:29
lotuspsychjemhpl3141592: thats also where support stops, adding external ppa's we point back to the maintainers for support04:30
mhpl3141592lotuspsychje: how can I remove that ppa (I can figure it out), uninstall regolith and revert back the icons?04:31
lotuspsychjemhpl3141592: we also strongly advice to use packages from the ubuntu repos, to keep your system healthy, but you are the end admin of your system, you do what you want ofc04:31
lotuspsychje!ppapurge | mhpl314159204:31
mhpl3141592lotuspsychje: I din't know PPAs has such implications04:31
lotuspsychjemhpl3141592: not all, some not so well maintained ppa's can conflict with apt04:32
lotuspsychjeand bring your system into dependency nightmares04:32
mhpl3141592how do you know which one is well maintained? activity or experience?04:32
mhpl3141592lotuspsychje: can it be reversed? purge, unistall and healthy again :)04:33
lotuspsychjemhpl3141592: it sure can, remove your ppa's, packages, and sudo apt update to make apt healthy once again04:35
mhpl3141592what about: remove regolith, ppa-purge, update, upgrade?04:37
mesaboogie!ppapurge | mesaboogie04:37
lotuspsychjeyeah bot needs a fix here04:37
mesaboogieppa-purge --help works just fine04:38
mhpl3141592ppa-purge was easy and neat.04:41
mhpl3141592Is there a way to have gnome less wasted space on title bars. With firefox I have multiple layers of empty bars.04:47
mhpl3141592Is there a "healthy" way to configure gnome kind of like MacOS title bar? integrated in top bar04:48
mhpl3141592What is the difference and role of `apt` and `apt-get`? For install I mostly use `apt install` but sometiems apt-get is used.05:32
guivercmhpl3141592, i see `apt` as a newer front-end for package tools, it's easier for common tasks & can do things `apt-get` didn't do (dpkg- type queries) however it cannot do everything, thus apt-get remains06:52
mhpl3141592guiverc: That's the problem. I want a general view over the role of apt, apt-get, dpkg..06:58
guivercWell you could look at questions on support sites (https://askubuntu.com/questions/445384/what-is-the-difference-between-apt-and-apt-get shows up in a quick search), however that was mostly written for trusty/14.04 where apt has improved since then (covers more uses cases of apt-get now; covering all but rarely used cases)  the best guide would be `man` pages of course (they are more detailed for whatever release you are using)07:01
guivercdpkg installs packages, but they need to already be local (and all dependencies installed on same command or already installed).  apt-get will get (dwonload) the packages & install whatever is required (if dependency is required, it can download which dpkg cannot)07:02
guivercapt-get is like a wrapper around `dpkg` allowing dpkg to do more..  apt-get relies on dpkg to do actual install07:03
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Eickmeyer!ubuntustudio-installer | tomreyn17:19
EickmeyerBroken bot.17:19
Eickmeyertomreyn: Ubuntu Studio Installer is an app that can be used to add Ubuntu Studio's benefits to an existing Ubuntu (or official flavor) installation, or add additional packages. For more info, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/UbuntuStudioInstaller17:20
Eickmeyertomreyn: They were using Ubuntu MATE's raspberry pi image. Also, we don't support rpis.17:20
tomreynEickmeyer: thanks. i will *try* to remember only to send non rpi users to #ubuntustudio if you prefer this? alternatively, what i probably coule remember, i could try not sending anyone there.17:23
Eickmeyertomreyn: The biggest problem is that #ubuntustudio is pretty inactive with only two people from the same timezone (including myself) providing any support. Despite cries for people to help, we've had next to no takers.17:46
tomreynEickmeyer: sorry to hear this. please just be aware i don't send people to the channel out of bad intentions.17:48
Eickmeyertomreyn: Oh, I know. I appreciate everything you do. :)17:48
tomreynoh thanks!17:49
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