/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

>>58943276
Friendly tank

>>58943276
How do we stop women from using Linux?

>>58943325
GNU/Linux*

>>58943276
I like that little peper. Great work.

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>>58943276
First for Source Mage GNU/Linux

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>>58943325
>rant about how hard you love linux at >>>/r9k/
>promise killink spree at kindergarten
>do it and kill everyone you find
>you will die in gunfight against donut legion
>normie channel will show your posts about linux too
>linux will be associated with serial killers like you
>???
Profit.

if i set up tailsos on a thumbdrive is it encrypted?

>old one not even at bump limit
>23 mins old
you /fglt/s are getting worse

>>58943495
No. You're not supposed (the OS isn't either) to save any data on the drive what'soever.
It's read only

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>>58943506
>pok pok pok pay attention to my stupid numbers!!!

So I want to display rx/tx speeds in my panel/bar. Currently calculating it with a shell script which reads the outut of /sys/class/net/, waits a secons and reads it again. Is there a better way to do this without blocking?

>>58943506
stop hitlerling your post number autism on us

Why do websites with linux software almost never come with precompiled binaries and instead just dump the source code and expect you to compile it yourself?

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Why does Canonical waste their time with Unity when you can achieve the same concept with gnome?

>>58943569
Because it's one source code for everyone, instead of bajillion different binary packages for every distro variation out there.

Because you should not install binary packages from unknown sources.

Because if it's open-source it probably already exists in your distro's repositories.

Because compiling software is dead easy, programming skills of any sorts is not a requirement.

Companies offering closed-source software usually have a binary package for debian-based, fedora-based distros and eventually one generic archieve you install manually.

>>58943515
oh ok, so i should just set it up with unetbootin and be done with it? can do md5 checks on the drive afterwards?

>>58943636
No idea, I have no use for tails

>>58943526
Holy shit I'm stupid. Fixed it myself by peeking ever 0.1s and *10 the result.

>>58943569
Why would you want binaries over source code?

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>>58943276
This kills the /flt/

>>58943525
kek

>>58943571
So that's GNOME. You changed man.

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How do I disable IPv6? I was told that it can be a security risk to have support running for it if you're not using it.

I'm not using IPv6 for anything so I'd like to disable it.

How do I go about doing it?

>>58943873
I'm on Arch btw.

>>58943901
why do you waste your life on shitposting? isn't there something useful you could do with yourself?

>>58943873
This probably depends on what network manager you have. Look around in the DHCP settings, you should be able to disable it there or, at the very least, use manual address assignment and give yourself a bogus address.

But try to remember how to unfuck it in case something breaks down the line.

>>58943628
>>58943689
If installing precompiled binaries is fine for windows and MacOS, why is that bad for linux.

>>58943636
Do the md5 test on the downloaded iso, to make sure it's the real thing (especially if there are other people on your network, e.g. Airport).

>>58944106
doing a torrent dl from home

>>58944008
Rude

>>58944138
>Finish torrent
>Run md5sum file.iso
>If it matches with the one on the website (make sure you're browsing with https), you're safeto image it on your flash drive.

>>58943628
What possible security issues could arise from a precompiled binary assuming it used the same source code?

>>58944103
GNU/Linux*

>>58944194
>assuming

>>58944194
>assuming
This one

>>58943571
Why would you care when they look the same?

>>58944100
Thanks anon. I use NetworkManager. Will try to set ti there then. I thought there was a lower-level way of doing it.

Few questions...
1. when using

inxi -w

Does it acquire the location for weather data through IP tracking?

2. What service does it use ? Open Weather?

3. What CLI /GUI / Applets do you use to keep informed of the weather?
I used XFCE-weather plugin but it's no longer accurate.

>>58944194
you don't know it's the exact same source code. I don't know a lot about programming or compiling, but I suppose if you knew the exact compiler used to make the pre-compiled binary you could compile the source yourself and compare the hashs. Which makes a pre-compiled binary pointless anyway.

Does your hardware and enviroment have an effect on compiler output? if you have the same source, same compiler, but say one computer as a desktop running amd64 gentoo, the other is a ARM laptop with totally different hardware. Would that result in slightly different code?

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What's this extended partition?

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I'm thinkig of installing Gentoo and making Source Mage the end game.
Should I go for Source Mage right now?

>>58944406
It's extended partition for swap.

>>58944103
Actually, is not the case. Windows has all sort of problems for installing software found on the internet.

But anyway, for the winrefugee that is accustomed to .exe, there is a project called Snappy where you can do just that, download and run.

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>>58944428
>Source Mage
/g/ have finally went fully chuuni.

How do I know if a USB is failing/faulty?

I have a 32GB SanDisk which as of today, I can't format or create partitions through the disks utility or gparted. It's less than a year old and has always worked fine, except for today.
Pic related comes up when I try to delete the partitions on gparted and create unallocated space, but these weird partitions come up. Also, Gparted reports my USB at 116.72 GiB, when it's actually 31GiB

>>58944491
>using gparted
found your problem

try fdisk and mkfs
or just parted

>>58944428
I have Source Mage installed on a vm right now for testing, I can't imagine Gentoo been easier.
The only thing missing is the wiki, but the Gentoo handbook is almost the same.

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How much longer will poettering get away with it?

>>58944285
1. probably. use

inxi -W location

for more accurate results
2. no idea
3.

alias weather='curl --silent http://wttr.in/ | head -7'

>>58944406
I see the god awful quartus tooling there on your desktop, did you have any luck getting the usb blaster thing to work with it?

>>58944491
Try this

dd -bs=4M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx

x being the USB flash drive which you can find it with lsblk.
Then try re-format and see.

>>58944553
pic saved

What is the most lightweight distro? Looking for something that could run on the most toaster-y toasters out there

>>58944561
>

inxi -W location

Not much of difference.

>curl
I thought you need wego installed.
Also what different curl have over using wget?
Nice alias though viewing it in webpage would be better.

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>>58944662

>>58944683
How much of a toast and for what?

>>58944521
>>58944622
Realised what the problem was:
Previously formatted the USB on a Mac (only computer I had access to) so it was formatted using Apple's partition table - thatms what I could see and that's why I couldn't delete the partitions.

>>58944435
Swap has two partitions then? Is that normal?
>>58944563
Yeah, with very little pain, too. I just made a file for /etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules that said

# Intel FPGA Download Cable II
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6010",
MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6810",
MODE="0666"

>>58944683
Out of the bow or for intermediate users?

>>58944706
Laptop released in 2004 and for general internet browsing and very lightweight programming

>>58944716
Intermediate is fine, they tend to let you chose your packages which goes a long way in keeping it light.

>>58944713
No,MBR can have only 4 logical partitions.
To have more partitions while using MBR, you need extended partition where you can create another partition.
Like hyperthreading.

>>58944683
try Source Mage

>>58944720
>released in 2004
Most distros would be fine then.
>general internet browsing
Given the current state of web design you might want to use an agent switcher to access the mobile version of the websites.

>>58944733
Get Devuan, install a simple window manager like IceWM if you want some friendly setting or use mwm (motif window manager) if you need it.

Also, don't go installing KDE or QT stuff. Pick your apps well.

>>58944683
tinycore

>>58944761
depends on his skill level

>>58944776
unusable tbqh

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>>58944406
Does LXDE (openbox) have a feature to not put window decorations around GNOME applications?

I'm using xfwm4 (Xfce) and every gnome applications has both GNOME title bar and the titlebar put there by xfwm4.

Is there some workaround around it I don't know?

People who use Ubuntu.
How fast does it boot up to the login screen?

>>58944683
source mage

>>58944849
3-5 seconds

>>58944849
2 hours

>>58944889
It takes me the same time as Windows I.e. 50 - 55 seconds. It is a new laptop.
Why is this. Is it maybe because of my laptop having Radeon graphics card?

>>58944921
Disable the boot splash and all that in your grub so you see what is going on.

>>58944822

I'm using Openbox and it does't decorate GTK3 programs which use headerbars.

>>58944921

systemd-analyze blame

>>58944822
>>58944971
Nevermind, I've found that enabling xfwm4 composition effects fixes the problem.

But it introduces another ones so fuck it.


LXQt can't come soon enough, fuck.

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New xfce4-notifyd features are neat.

>>58944751
Sorry, I'm confused. So, I have on my harddrive:
1. Partition for the file system
2. Extended partition for swap
3. Another extended partition
What's that third partition for?

>>58944984

I find it weird that compositing affects that. It shouldn't. There should be a different option to change it.

>>58944977
>using systemd

>>58944937
OK. I will do that.
But please tell if it maybe possible to face performance issues in Ubuntu due to unsupported graphics card or processor like Radeon

>>58944997
This might explain it better than me and easier for you to understand.
http://www.howtogeek.com/184659/beginner-geek-hard-disk-partitions-explained/

>>58945011
There is literally nothing wrong with systemd.

What dns resolver are you using?

>>58944986
What's in the application tab?
And did they fix the weather widget?

when will gnome get thumbnails in the filepicker? isn't that bug a bit old now?

>>58944977
>systemd-analyze blame
yes, you can blame systemd for being a resource hog

>>58945115
>t. tech illiterate

>>58945126
>t. implying

when will ubuntu remove the amazon botnet? isn't that bug a bit old now?

>>58945115
what's wrong with systemd?

>>58945059

It lets you turn off notifications for certain programs. I don't know about the weather widget, I just use the notification daemon outside of Xfce.

>>58945174
no

>>58945174
no

>>58945174
nothing, it the fix to the init clutter we all haven been waiting for

>>58945174
It does one thing and does it well.

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>>58945174
>>58945265
>>58945282
>samefagging to bait for replies

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The fanboy is shilling again.

Does Source Mage use systemd?

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>>58945322
no?

>>58945337
What does it use?

>>58945337
it should
systemd makes your system faster

>>58945237
>>58945241
>>58945265
>>58945282
>>58945294
>>58945322
>>58945337
>>58945346
It's the same faggot that previosuly did the "rms a toe-jam eating communist" and "linux sux lelele".

Just stop fucking replying.

thread is lost

>>58945365
this, just stop

>>58945359
newfag here, where can I get systemd?

>>58944822
You can disable decorations on any and all programs through the openbox config. I just hide them all since they're an ugly waste of space

>>58945378
you're probably already using it, all major distribution switched to it because it's so fast

>>58945401
>fast
if speed matters, just get bsd

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Hey /g/, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?

>>58945503
I totally prefer this shitposting to bsd/systemd shiling

>>58945503
I just discovered bunsenlabs, which seems to be the new crunchbang (ootb riced debian+openbox). Seems pretty cool.

>>58945503
Source Mage GNU/Linux

>>58945503
Source Mage GNU/Linux᠎

>>58945503
Source Mage GNU/Linux᠎

>>58945601
>>58945625
>>58945654
I'm falling for it, where is the live-cd?

>>58945668
http://sourcemage.org/Download

>>58945668
kek

Arch is just a stepping stone.

>>58945680
is this new? I thought they didn't have one

>>58945687
towards?

>>58945747
hell

>>58945747
memes

>>58945747
source magic

>>58945747
meme magic

Okay, so far this is what I learn about Source Mage post installation.

In /etc/sysconfig/keymap you can change keymaps by replacing what goes in KEYMAP, examples are in /usr/share/keymaps.

cast smgl-setup

is a man page intro to Source Mage,

sorcery update

updates the package manager,

scribe update

updates the packages list. After you install new programs you need to update the manpages database with

makewhatis

To update get a list of spells needing upgrade

sorcery -q

, to upgrade the spells themselves known to be available for upgrade

cast --queue

>>58945458
BSD is worthless garbage, tho.

How do I delete the oldest file automatically if the disk is nearly full?

>>58946426

>bootloader files have oldest timestamp
>delete bootloader
>complain when his computer stops working

No

>>58946450
I forgot to say in a certain map.

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>doesn't even have previews for files over 4 MB

AYY

>>58943276
Is that a sherman?

I just deleted the rtorrent downloads folder from my seedbox but looks like I have 29GB used somewhere

How fuck can I check which folder is holding that files?

I only have terminal access

I tried installing trash-cli just in case I had some hidden bin somewhere but looks like is not the case

>>58946763
fantasy sherman if anything

>>58946772
I3 only gave you a terminal eh? But you're running awesome, so you must be an expert, right? Surely you know how to do this and this is all in jest ;)

>>58946830
I already did it

Its a homeserver anyways

>>58946772

df -h DIRECTORY

obviously replace with the target diretory

>>58946426
The oldest files will be at the beginning of the disk, so rub the magnet over that part.
or

find -type f -printf '%T+ %p\n' | sort | head -n 1

>>58946877
I just used

df -h .; du -sh -- * | sort -hr

and ncdu

Looks like rtorrent fucked up iteself and was reporting something wrong since both of that shits tell me I'm only using 4GB

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>>58946748
>tfw previews for 7GB+ files
suck it

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>>58946933
Oh wait, something is fucking wrong here
428+6 = 457?
Is this the power of free software?

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Dispel systemd.

du -smc <dir>/* | sort -n
>disk usage summary mb total | sort

>>58946962
5% reserved block by default, RTM.

>>58946962
Decrease the amount reserved for root

>>58947066
>>58947077
Oh right, I should do that

How much could a fucking debian server need?

>devuan still in beta
do they plan to release stable together with stretch release?

Also "devuan" is a stupid as fuck name.
dev-one and dev-1 (both quoted on their website) are much superior

>>58946748
>not using the KDE file picker on KDE

I think I've finally found my home lads, Gnome Cinnamon :D

Women and normalfags must be chased out of free software. They're the reason why it's being windowsified and lowering code quality. Based men like linus are always putting cunts in their place by telling them to fuck off. GNU/linux will never need a year of desktop Linux because it already is better than windows or MacOS. If you're too stupid to understand how GNU/Linux works without Fisher Price UI, GNU/Linux is not for you because you're welcoming in SJWs into the last bastion of technology not pozed by the botnet.

>>58947272
Autism

>>58947299
Found the female

>>58947272
openbox was made by a female.
Proven wrong.

Is opensuse good? I'm considering trying it, or maybe fedora.

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is it possible, from a command line (I wanna do it through script) to move and resize a window on screen? I'd like to move my terminal to a specific position on screen and then resize it.

How do you do that?

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>>58947335
A woman calling her software "open box"?

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From the other thread
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOP1LNr70aU
>They do not have so much the normal, friends to distract them, other activities to go to. They don't generally have girlfriends, anything that's going to need a large attachment, commitment of their time. The computer is it and only it.

[liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ sudo dnf install vlc
Last metadata expiration check: 0:36:37 ago on Tue Feb 14 14:09:32 2017.
No package vlc available.
Error: Unable to find a match.
[liveuser@localhost-live ~]$ 

What did Fedora mean by this

>>58947482
>Wizards of the Electronic Age
I didn't know Source Mage was around in the 70's

>>58947436
>How do you do that?
some WMs allow you the start an application with specific size and position. On gome and kde it should be something like

--geometry WidthxHeight+x+y

.

>>58947272
>the last bastion of technology not pozed by the botnet
that would be th BSD's
there are no women, normalfags or sjw's there

>>58947527
you you need to manipulate a windows on X while it is already opened, then you may want to look into xdotools

Is there any reason to use anything other than ext4? Apparently opensuse defaults to brtfs. What advantages do other filesystems have? I've used ext4 with no issues since it became popular.

>>58947335
She won't fuck you if you whiteknight for her dawg, sorry

>>58947511
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems#MP3_Support

enjoy

>>58947581
btrfs is still in alpha after almost a decade of developement, it is not made for daily use,and likes to delete your data randomly

Use ext4

>>58947604
>Forbidden items
Uhh wtf..

>>58947589
lol virgins,
it was a random example.

>>58947604
Wow i hate Fedora now, fuckin thing sucks

On the Gentoo website, the handbook mentions that there are some issues between windows and Linux, in regards to dualbooting. It says that if windows detects a gpt label it will automatically try to boot in EFI mode.

1. Is this an issue if I have Linux and windows on two separate and physical hard drives? Assume I'm installing Linux with a gpt label.

2. If I were to put windows and Linux on the same physical disk (of course with separate partitions, and I have windows configured to boot in EFI mode anyways, then is it really an issue...? Assume I'm using Linux with a gpt label.

>>58947635
learn to read:
>If it is proprietary, it cannot be included in Fedora. (Binary firmware is the only exception to this)
>If it is legally encumbered, it cannot be included in Fedora.
>If it violates United States laws (specifically, Federal or applicable state laws), it cannot be included in Fedora.
>MP3 encoding support is not included in any Fedora package/application/library because of patents in several regions including the United States.

>>58947684
Looks like it's time to find a new Distro then

>>58947684
Explain this one, red hat shills. If you're going to suck off a corporation while using Linux, at least pick a decent distro like openSUSE.

>>58947684
>Binary firmware is the only exception to this
the power of open source

>>58947722
GNU/Linux*

>>58947684
>If it violates United States laws (specifically, Federal or applicable state laws), it cannot be included in Fedora.
>Fedora will soon ship without encryption tools

>>58947684
luckily the mp3 patent dies in a year

>>58947735
>we bend our "morals" when even it is convenient
Typical freetard

>>58947749
JFC I wish they'd change the thread back to flt. All changing it to fglt accomplished was making you retards feel it's okay to spout your retarded copypasta. Side note: it actually is Linux. Many Linux systems have fuck all GNU software, Richard.

>>58947722
I'm not using fedora (actually never used it). I was just pointing out that the content of the wiki clearly explains what they mean with "forbidden items" and why mp3 encoding is part of this "category".
I never implied that I find this acceptable or good justification. Again, learn to read.

>>58947749
No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.

Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.

One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?

(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.

>>58947780
I was quoting you as evidence that rhel and fedora are garbage, not attacking you

>>58947749
>>58947787
Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.

You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.

Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?

>>58947764
typical opensource tard*

>>58947735
>>58947750
>>58947764
>retards everywhere
It's because RedHat is a private company with 2 billions revenue and they don't want to get sued. It's not about morality of being "freetard"

>>58947511
>>58947604
>>58947665
>>58947714
>>58947722

for nonfree items: https://rpmfusion.org/

I swear to god you guys let yourselves get cucked over the smallest things

>>58947635

"forbidden" items usually refers to items fedora can't include for legal reasons, the inclusion of mp3 codecs (and other such proprietary software) has been a contentious legal issue for years

another example would be libdvdcss that lets you play encrypted dvds on linux, almost *no* distribution provides this out of the box, certainly not any of the major ones, due to the potential legal headache it can provide

(if you do want libdvdcss on fedora though you'll find it on these repos: http://rpm.livna.org/)

>>58947735

the alternative to not providing binary firmware is you end up like stock debian where nothing works out of the box

>>58947796
my bad, missed the "s" at the and of "shills". Looks like I'm the one that should read more carefully.

>>58947837
here comes the redhat shill

pls stop speading stupid ITT
other stupids may join

>>58947830
Explain this mentality using other distros that are not backed by a multi billion dollar company then?

>>58947684
>refuses to use proprietary software
>uses systemd

Really activates my neurons

>>58947862
>here comes the redhat shill

>Many GNU/Linux distributions do not contain libdvdcss (for example, Debian, Fedora, SUSE Linux, and Ubuntu)

and just which meme distro of the week are you using, anon? void linux? :^)

>>58947868
what do you mean? I was talking about fedora.

>>58947876
Sourcemage :^)

>>58947769
>>>/r/eddit

>>58947837
>have to jump through hoops to install a simple piece of software

>>58943276
What the fuck is wrong with lewdposting?

>>58947901
Do you not understand what a patent is?

>>58947876
mage :D

>>58947869
what's the relationship between those two?
systemd is free and open source, and even if it wasn't it is made by RedHad so they could include it in their product without paying any license.

>>58947923
The post is an example of what happens when someone has no argument but won't stop posting.

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>>58947991
Why aren't you using it, /g/?

>>58947987
the argument is pretty clear: redhat will use their own products obviously, so your original post makes no sense.

>>58947987
also, nice ad hominem

>>58948020
because i use Gentoo/kFreeBSD

>>58947527
>>58947561
thanks anon!

Is openSUSE good? Ex arch user looking for a new distro. Pacman and rolling release are pretty comfy, but I want to try something different on a new laptop.

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>>58947919
>mage
>>58947893
>mage
>>58947521
>Mage
>>58945765
>Mage
>>58945680
>>58945654
>>58945625
>>58945601
>>58944869
>>58944761
>>58944526
>>58943381
>samefagging this much

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>>58944683
>toaster
minimum requirements

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>>58948121
wanna see my source magic?

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>>58948121
hey buddy, I'm not the one shilling here

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>> Everyone shilling SM/Gentoo:
please convince me on the benefits of using a distro that is entirely source-based?

>>58948250
Gentoo is for edgy teens Source Mage is the real thing

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>>58948121
faggot

>>58948273
>benefits of using a distro that is entirely source-based?
waiting...

>>58948296
firefox loads .0001 seconds faster because it's optimised for your cpu!

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>>58948283
>>58948228
hi guys

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>>58943525
>>58944008
>>58945319
>>58945365
>>58947914

>>58948332
autism is not a reason, it's a disease
anything else?
I'm serious here.

>>58946772
You should probably learn how to navigate your filesystem and use arguments in bash. It's easy and very rewarding.

>>58948332
Someone actually did some benchmarks to check the speed improvements gained by using software compiled on your own machine:
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7574/1/
tldl: irrelevant except for some encoding applications.

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>>58948397
faggot

So, what Window Manager / Desktop environment does /fglt/ use?

>>58948507
bspwm

>>58948397
>>58948121
>samefag complains about samefagging

>>58948460
You know what else is rewarding? Answering someone instead of sounding like a smug prick that doesn't know what hes talking about.

man du

So i decided to install arch on a spare laptop.
The wifi interface shows up in the installation/live boot but not on the installed system.
halp

>>58948507
Used to use XFCE for many distros before I was forced back into windows for support.
Frankly, that and the KDE Neon interface always tickled my tingly bits.

>>58948523
go tripfagging somewhere else

thread is lost
>>58948523

>>58948503
you could have just pointed at the fact it says "7 minutes ago" when the actual time difference between the two posts in question is more than 20 mins

>>58948523
>>>/r/eddit

>>58943873
You can add 'ipv6.disable=1' to your kernel command line.

>>58948507

gnome but gnome3 is shit and gtk3 is cancer,
xfce but gtk3 is cancer,
kde which is decent but qt is shit and kde plasma is buggy unstable and a resource hog ,
lxde but gtk again, lxqt but qt (and the general unpolished that comes with such small projects)

now I just use i3, probably about to hop to some other tiling wm to find one I really like

>>58948523
hey guy, what do those chineese symbols mean?
are you a chineese person yourself?

>>58948523
answer me you cunt

>>58948507
currently packaging Enlightenment DR21 and most of applications for my distro so that I can submit updated build scripts and binaries for others to use

>>58948575
Enlightenment can be a WM or a DE, it can be stacking or tiling, it can be lightweight or be loaded with eye candy (and still be relatively lightweight), and the EFL is designed to be usable on everything from desktops to tablets to wearable devices.

>>58948569
Thanks. I did a lot more research and it appears that some utilities won't even work if you disable IPv6 (ping for example). So now I haven't still disabled it but I've enabled privacy features and I've disabled IPv6 in NetworkManager. That hasn't affected stability of network utilities.. as far as I can tell for now.

But yeah, it seems that disabling IPv6 can introduce some weird issues that have a potential to waste hours of your life on.

>>58948527
Nevermind, forgot to install ipw2200-fw for my T43

hey if I wanted to play games while going full linux I would do gpu passthrough correct? If so anyone have a guide for it or any tips when setting it up if any anon has done so already?

>>58948741
you would be using windows in a VM, so that wouldn't counts as "full linux"

>>58948655
You can build most packages with ipv6 support disabled including ping.

Need a great package manager like portage on Gentoo to do it easily or even practically though.

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>>58948770

>>58948770
fuck i guess I'm retarded

>>58948250
Minimal requirements, customization, rock solid system overall, Use ccache in the sorcery options and subsequent compiles will be faster. Source Mage is up to bleeding edge but stable, so there is that.

>>58948786
>full linux
>install and use windows
Am I? you may as well dual boot, definitely less hassle than vga passthrough

>>58948774
>>58948786
pls respond >>58948580

>>58948791
Isn't really any guessing involved.
:3

>>58944683
xubuntu? it does run well on a fuck old netbook I have around, intel atom.

>>58948804
what do those chineese characters in your name represent?

>>58945012
I had severe drivers problems in my amd/radeon machine in Kubuntu 16.10, which frequently broke the system. I switched to KDE neon (which is based on ubuntu 16.04) and all is good and well.

>>58948804
what do the letters of the cineese alphabet symbolize?

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Having this issue with mint's package manager, would like to fix it before an update gets broken or something rediculous like that.
Is it consistent with other flavours of ubuntu?
will send foot pictures to the anons who help me*

working on installing arch Linux on a shitty windows laptop I have, from a live USB

(from Arch live USB) How do I completely wipe everything on the computer to replace it with my Arch installation? That is, I want this machine 100% dedicated to Arch

I have experience with Arch on another machine and have everything from the shitty windows computer backed up on OneDrive, so I really do not care about losing anything I just want a 100% wipe

I'm following the installation guide on the wiki but it appears to be focused on fresh machines. Thanks for any help you can give me

>>58948900
delete partitions

>>58948792
>bleeding edge
>stable
pick one or explain how you can have both

>minimal requirements
technically speaking, this is false
there are plenty of software packages that have build dependencies that they don't need runtime
>customization
plenty of distros have build systems for people who /want/ to add or remove optional features at compile-time, but do you really need to customize every single thing that you build? at what point does it become pure autism?
>rock solid system overall
how does compilation enhance solidity? it only introduces extra points for failure if people who are not well-versed in diagnosing build errors have an improperly configured system or are missing a dependency that software or build script maintainers forgot to mention, or if there are bugs in the source that that haven't been fixed yet.
>subsequent compiles will be faster
not compiling a package will always be faster than compiling a package, no matter how much you optimise it

explain the practical benefits (i.e. provide support for your claims) of compiling every single package for your system.

>>58943325
First you have to learn to spot them, they use Linux instead of GNU/Linux

>>58948900
>arch
why would you want a system that breaks on a daily basis?

>>58948916
ok

>>58948884
Please help me /fglt/ I really like mint and would be heart broken if this problem got worse and i couldn't fix it

>>58948943
Any system can break with an incompetent user at the helm

>>58948912
so if I do something like fdisk /dev/sda, then just delete every partition, will it automatically leave me with one clean root partition?

>>58948943
I like Arch and know it's what I want on this machine, that's not the question here

>>58948978
That what happens when you delete partitions.Main word being 'delete'.

>>58943276
this is nice thread

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>>58948523
Nobody wants you here. Get it through your head. The fact that you've been tripfagging here for years says a lot about you. You aren't important. Nobody cares who you are. You don't fit in. Leave us be or give up your ego and stop namefagging.

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>>58948826
>>58948832
i think i figured it out...

>>58948967
Arch breaks no matter who is at the helm.

pacman -Syu

is Russian roulette with slightly better odds

>>58948884
software applet > edit > software sources
click on main, wait for mirrors to sort themselves by speed. Then the same for base.

>>58949108
I have never had anything break on my 8 year old arch install.
It all comes down to the user being competent

>>58949135
you've never had pacman break dependencies, or break all the links when they merged /usr, or destroy the configs you didn't even think needed to be backed up?
you're either lucky (slightly better odds) or a fucking liar shilling the only distro more autistic than smgl

>>58949121
Seems to have largely fixed it, I removed the SUSE repositories as well because it didn't seem relevant. Cheers.
*I lied about the foot thing

best thread on /g/

>>58949252
install source mage

Good news everyone, mp3 codecs will be libre January 1st, 2018 because the patents expire at the end of this year.

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>>58949270

>>58949286
I know is good news but for me is meh, flacs are godsend.

>>58949270
Is this the new Solus.

>>58949293
install source mage

>>58943571
That's pretty neat. How did you do that?

>>58949318
I have a job

>>58949352
me too

>>58949315
it's the new gentoo

>>58948983
fair enough, I guess my question is do I delete every partition except the first one or do I just delete all of them?

>>58949403
what is your partition table like right now?
you can't just add free space to an existing partition with (c)fdisk. if you just want to wipe everything and start fresh with a simple layout, do:
fdisk /dev/sda
o (creates a new blank partition table)
n (new partition)
p (primary)
[enter] (partition 1 - default)
20GB (size of your root partition, can be smaller or larger based on how much software you plan on installing)
t (type)
83 (Linux)
n
p
[enter] (2 - default)
[RAM * 1.5] (size of your swap partition, if you want to be able to suspend to disk (hibernate) this needs to be more than your RAM)
t
82 (Linux swap)
n
p
[enter]
[enter] (default - all remaining space)
t
83
p (print table to review everything is correct)
w (write)

sda1 is your root partition (/)
sda2 is your swap partition
sda3 is your home partition (/home)
>inb4 just use a swap file

Is xfce really the best?

>>58943873
Don't. For god's sake, don't. The more "hurr just turn it off" is used, the longer the transition will take. Leave it the fuck on.

>>58949525
no

>>58949525
>>58929649

this thread about xfce/competing DEs has been going on for a few days and might be interesting to you

>>58947272
This memey edginess needs to stop or we're going to call your parents.

>>58949529
There is no need for ipv6 on an internal network

>>58949515
ok that's perfect. Thanks a lot anon I appreciate it.

>>58949325
Just a combination of settings of the "dash to dock" extension.

>>58943276
That's the newgrounds tank

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>>58949646
Just promise to ditch Arch once you realize how autistic it is :^)

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>>58949700

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>>58949700
>posting the smiley with an arch nose

>>58949529
>Don't. For god's sake, don't. The more "hurr just turn it off" is used, the longer the transition will take. Leave it the fuck on.
my ISP has plenty of IPv4 IPs. IPv4 is a problem for china/india etc. couldn't care less.

I am being very annoyed. I changed my mother board, CPU and graphics card. I was running ubuntu. Ethernet didn't work after change. I googled and found out it is probably the MAC address change, with no clear information how to change it. I found out later I should change udev 70 persistent net file, which didn't exist for some reason. I tried to generate it but it didn+t work even after reboot. I gave up and reinstalled a ubuntu. it still didn't work. I am sure the ethernet cable works, as i plugged it in a lubuntu laptop where it worked. i am at a loss now, what should I do?

system recognizes an interface and if I set static IP manually the connection is "active" but internet doesn't work.

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>>58949884

god, why are you guys so obsessed about arch?

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>>58949952
Install Source Mage

>>58949889
is this the right thread to ask about problems? I can shitpost about timesink OS too if you'd like that.

>>58949889
>I googled and found out it is probably the MAC address change, with no clear information how to change it
can you post link? this doesn't make much sense.

>>58950040
well the interface is associated with the MAC adress of the ethernet/LAN module on the motherboard, so when you change it it also messes with the interfaces. it renamed my interface.

I'm thinking i should reconfigure my router, it might be that it still links tha IP with the MAC adress of the previous motherboard and it gets confused

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>>58949967
>sport scooter

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>>58950105
yes

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>>58950189
i don't know the meaning of your image :(

seems like you're mocking me

Help me guys, how do I install Slackware from a Windows partition. CD/USB IS NOT AN OPTION.
I want to directly install from one partition to the other. I'm trying unebootin right now and I'll see how it goes.

>>58950242
Start over with Ubuntu and work forwards.

>>58950242
i don't think you can do that
why is CD/USB not an option?

Now that this thread is over, where are we moving to?

>>58950259

This is why Linuxes lag behind Windows.

All I want to do is download on Windows an ISO of what ever distro, move it to a formatted ext4 partition and boot it from there and install. Why does it have to be so convoluted?

>>58950269
to the new thread

>>58950295
>windows
>ext4 partition
that's why

>>58950295
GNUs/Linuxes*

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Finally for my gentoo box running.

>>58949931
All of these anti Arch memes are baseless just so you know.

>>58950297
Where is it?

>>58950264

No CD burner, no USB large enough. Looks like I have to install Ubuntu.

>>58950311

>>58950264

Can I move the ISO to the partition and just set boot order to that?

NEW THREAD WHEN

>>58950329
The Slackware USB installer image is 35MB. You can either download the packages to your Windows partition and mount them from the installer or set an http mirror as the installation source. option 1 requires basic understanding of Linux and the command line, option 2 requires you to enter the right URL during one of the installation steps.
I had 64MB flash drives back in 1998.

>>58950358

Thank you. For the partition I want to install into, does it have to be formatted to an ext?

>>58950323
i think you still need to configure xorg because your resolution is fucked

>>58950347
No, because the ISO does not contain a ready-made OS. It contains the installation image, a stripped down live environment that has only the programs needed to install the system and a copy of all the packages included in a full installation. Even if you could directly write the ISO to a free partition, you would not be able to install to the same partition you were installing from because you'd need to reformat it (for starters) and probably add at least a swap partition, and if you did that you'd lose the packages and the programs your installer needs to install them and the thing would break.
It would let you break it though, because Slackware respects your freedoms and stays out of your way, even if you want to do something completely retarded. What makes it a good system for learning is that the installation process is simple and straighforward (once you've done it once or twice), doesn't take a long time, so even if you do something retarded you just reinstall and learn not to do it again. You can't learn unless the OS lets you fail. After about a 3-12 months you should be able to avoid fatal mistakes, unless you are a complete idiot and have no business using Linux

>>58950413
GNU/Linux*

>>58950349

new thread >>58950415

>>58950400
The installer handles the formatting but you need to make sure it is partitioned and the type is set to 83 (Linux). I recommend using cfdisk which is "graphical"/menu-based. Don't touch your Windows partition, make at least a root partition and a swap partition (type 82, Linux swap). If you have an extra physical partition (limited to 4), make that your /home partition and have your root partition be about 15 GB or so, unless you want to install lots and lots of software.
If you don't have enough physical partitions, you can make extended partitions, but if you want to do that look it up yourself because I don't feel like explaining that right now. It's not hard. Basically you divide a physical partition into smaller partitions.
The installer will detect partitions and ask you where you want to mount them. It will also detect your windows partition and offer to mount it somewhere too.
When you get to LILO, try the "simple" option and it will guide you through setting up a boot menu. The easiest thing to do is install it to the MBR, but that will make it hard to get rid of. You'll still be able to boot windows normally even if you want to get rid of Linux later.