/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Reposting from previous thread

Distro that just werks and it looks and works good enough out of the box. Can't spend time on customizing it is for uni work, I'm going to install it on a VM. Ubuntu or fedora? Or others?

>>59224925
I would say debian or mint

Reposting

How do I completely remove gnome from ubuntu gnome? I'm using cinnamon.

>>59224925
Linux Mint 18.1

>>59224925
noob? ubuntu
non-noob? whatever

>>59225000
>>59225012
>recommending the worst distro
why?

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I want to go full freetard.
As I understand it, Libreboot is the only option. Or is there a viable alternative?
What is the best laptop for Libreboot?
T400/X200 or is there a better/more modern option?

>>59225020
linux mint is literally ubuntu + cinnamon.

>>59225174
https://minifree.org/

>>59224925
Elementary os looks nice

>>59225176
linux mint is ubuntu + cinnamon + botnet +breakage or insecurity - security - security updates - apparmour -sanity

>>59225197
>https://minifree.org/
so x220 is possible?
they sell it very pricey,
but I dont find this modell in the compatibility list

>>59225215
You don't know whay your talking about.

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Posted in other thread. >>59224022
I broke my linux mint. I can't log in, I get could not update ICEauthority. I CTRL+ALT+F1 and tried a bunch of different commands but I don't have permission to sudo I get pic related. I've tried countless commands but none of them work. What do I do?

>>59225677
https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3036600/linux/is-linux-mint-a-crude-hack-of-existing-debian-based-distributions.html
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-the-linux-mint-hack-is-an-indicator-of-a-larger-problem/
https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules

>>59225698
try sudo apt-get instead of -apt get

>>59225721
I've already read and dismissed all those.
What else you got?

>>59225744
I realized I messed up when I did that but I've tried that. I've been at this for 3 hours now searching for an answer.

>>59225698
did you try turning it off an on again?

>>59225772
what error do you get from sudo ls

>>59225804
Yes, this is a more complex problem that requires a more complex solution. My problem is ICEauthority not letting me log in. I've tried rm. ICEauthority but get no directory or program found.

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

>>59225849
I get pic related everytime I use sudo. I tried sudo adduser 12345, tried installing lxde supposedly logging in with another environment I can get in, but it didn't work.

>>59225881
knoppix

>>59225881
guixsd

>>59225881
puppy

>>59225881
arch

>>59225849
Oh I get command not found. I tried ls-al .ICEauthority to see it's owner.
Tried ls, command not found.

>>59225881
Source Mage GNU/Linux

>>59225881
debian, devuan, bunsenlabs

I'm trying to run Ubuntu through VirtualBox but it keeps freezing/crashing before I get very far in. I'm guessing its a memory issue as I just went with defaults settings

Should I just dualboot instead or will I still possibly have issues?

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This keeps happening and.. I'm not really sure wtf it means. How do I debug this?

pic related: This.

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>>59226253
details

>>59225881
I get pretty good results with lubuntu.

woah

>>59226525
wew

>>59226253
>>59226358
Are you running virtual machines on a Haswell CPU?

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did he divide us?

What would be the exact command I'd use to compile multiple files with xbuild and monogame? Like, I can use xbuild project.sln - but I don't know how SLNs work really and if I add a new cs class how will it get compiled? :S

>>59226548
Yeah actually.

is it safe to mention systemd in these threads?

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What is THE best distro-agnostic place to discuss GNU/Linux?

If it's not a forum, then also what's the best forum for it?
Please don't say linuxforums.org since they split the discussions up by distro anyway so it defeats the purpose. If you're going to segregate yourself like that might as well just go and be isolated to your distros official forum.

Is it /fglt/? Man that would suck

>>59226630
the internet

>>59226577
CPU errata. I ran into it too.

Read more here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1307225

>>59226567
>>59226615
no

>>59226648
Nah, it still mostly splits everything up by distro

>>59226649
Thanks it's very appreciated :)

>>59226630
>>>/r/linux

>>59226687
I thought it went without saying that any "best" discussion site for ANYTHING wouldn't have look-at-me-look-at-me point voting systems

wah

>>59226694
>>>/g/fglt

>Firefox 52 will require rust and llvm as dependencies
Fuck this browser

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>>59226480
+1 on lubuntu. I installed it on a newish built machine and it's fairly lightweight and I haven't broken it yet in about a year of fucking around with it learning linux so it's pretty good.

The fact that rm deletes files completely is just crazy. This is not a user friendly OS.

>>59226799
rm doesn't delete; it just unlinks

>>59226776
GNU/Linux*

>>59226807
The fact remains that there is no easy user-friendly pathway to recover the file.

>>59226799
user-friendly means that the system does what the user wants
what you're referring to as user-friendly is in fact retard-friendly; a system that hides functionality so the user doesn't fuck up

>>59226799
>This is not a user friendly OS.
It's an OS that trusts the user to know what they want and what they're doing. It'll go ahead and do what its told, instead of trying to guess what you want and save you from yourself.

Some people consider this very user-unfriendly, some people consider it very user-friendly.

>>59225881
Source Mage GNU/Linux

hi, total noob to linux and i can't find anything via google about this-
some albums show up in mpd/ncmpcpp with every song listed twice. if i look at the actual folder with the music files in it, there are no doubles. any idea how i might fix this?

>>59226851
(c)lear the playliste, reinsert album

>>59225881
Source Mage GNU/Linux᠎

>>59226835
I do not dispute this but then GNU/Linux is not for 99% of the population and it is certainly not for member of my family who then come to me when shit goes wrong.

>>59226863
thanks! all fixed. do you know why this happens?

>>59226871
I mean, anon, when you walk over the street while cars are driving, there's a chance that you die. In the same way it should be possible that a person learns what may happen when he runs rm, right? People are stupid, but not THAT stupid.

>>59225881
Source Mage GNU/Linux᠎᠎

>>59225881
kali

>>59226799

alias rm='mv -vit "${HOME}/.local/share/Trash/files/"'

>>59226991
maybe not rm, but del or trash

Are there any problems I should be aware of using an alternative kernel on Arch? I'm compiling the linux-vfio kernel for the ACS patch, it's up to date now but it seems to usually take the guy running it two days to a week to catch up with the standard Acrh kernel. Is there a possibility this will break anything using a slightly out of date kernel?

>>59227105
>on Arch
>Is there a possibility this will break
most likely

Can anybody here clue me in.
Doing xsetwacom list shows all the devices available but I want to see what buttons are on the pen stylus input.

I've read the wiki and I am looking at the wiki but looking at it longer isn't helping.

>>59227105
You wont

How can I unfuck touchpad mouse movement in KDE?
No matter what I do with accel and speed settings, the cursor always ends up in weird places where I did not intend it to go.

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My screen brightness controls on my Lenovo B50-30 have always been inverted. Regardless of distribution (I've have had Debian, Fedora, and Arch on this machine). To be clear

backlight -set 0

is max brightness. No amount of web searching brings me anything that isn't some shitty workaround hack. Do any of you have any experience with this?

tldr; How can I correct my inverted brightness controls?

>>59225698
Do you have any idea what you did? That might help.

How do I start ricing firefox? I'm decent with CSS, I just don't know what the different parts of the browser are called or tagged as, or where to put the CSS once I wanna apply it.

>>59227947
Do what everyone does: Get twilys css and customize it, since reading the DOM and finding every id yourself is a pain in the ass.

>>59227947
since stylish is now botnet, use greasemonkey or just use firefox own usercss file

>>59227984
>stylish is now botnet
w-what?

>>59228000
http://www.ghacks.net/2017/01/04/major-stylish-add-on-changes-in-regards-to-privacy/#comment-4086083
https://forum.userstyles.org/discussion/53233/announcement-to-the-community

tl;dr company bought stylish and added telemetry that sends your browsing history to their servers

>>59227947
http://www.logicalincrements.com/firefox/
chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

is the babbies guide on the wiki still relevant? gonna run one on a VM and mint seems like the choice. am i making the right choice??

>>59228145
no

>>59228155
fuck what do u recommend senpai

>>59228193
>inb4 gentoo

>>59228193
ubuntu, ubuntu mate, xubuntu, debian

>>59228205
here i'll do it for you. Gentoo

>tfw you finally get that one thing you wanted done and now your setup it is comfy and just werks

goddamn this feels good. have secondary things, but will leave it at this for the time being.

>>59228244
Backup then dotfiles

>>59228265
thanks, got most of it backed up.

but doesn't hurt double checking.

Trying to install Lubuntu on an old Inspiron 1521 with 1.5 gb of RAM and an AMD turion x2. Whenever the installer gets to where it installs grub, it throws an error stating 'grub could not be installed to /target/ on sda' pls help.

>>59228398
The OS should be installed. Just load up GRUB from your USB then c.
Type ls and find your drive and partition then sub it in to this.

>linux (hd1,gpt2)/boot/vmlinuz-4.4-xxxxx root=/dev/sda1
Where /dev/sda1 is where you installed the OS and boot you can find by using ls and auto complete.
>initrd (hd1,gpt2)/boot/initrd-4.4-xxxxx
Same path as above.
>boot
Then when you're loaded up update apt and install the grub package from there. Should be bootable now.

>>59228456
Forgive me but I am a complete stranger to Linux. I've only ever messed around with Windows and thus am a wintoddler. How does one boot into grub from the USB?

>>59228587
When you start loading from the USB it starts GRUB. At that point hit 'c'. Type 'ls' to view your drives and then go through each one till you find where your OS is installed. Then follow above by substituting your path. For the root value, you'll have to remember what /dev/ device you installed to.

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>make a vps yesterday
>check auth.log today
>over 60,000 failed ssh logins from chinese IP's
>tail -f auth.log, see them happening in real time

seriously, what the fuck

can we nuke the chinese already?

>>59229294
can you use iptables, fail2ban, port knocking, change default port, disable root, and authorize by key already?

>>59229312
Working on it, but still

>using a relatively old youtube-dl build
>keep getting youtube signature error on some videos
>update to newest youtube-dl
>no more errors

i'm only a little upset

>>59224925
Fedora. If you need anything not in repos you can just install the rpmfusion repos with gnome software (literally just two clicks).

>>59225698
Did you manually edit the sudo config instead of using visudo? Also unless you have access to root (which you might not as mint doesn't make you set a root password at install iirc) you are pretty much fucked. You could try mounting your hard drive from a live cd and fucking around with files from their.

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How do I make Linux to look like Windows 3.1

>>59226799
Your average retard is expected to use a DE and manage files via something like nautilus that has a trash can anyway. Shell is meant for power users and users learning to be power users not for grandma posting pictures of her grandkids on facebook.

>>59227916
Might be a bug with the driver. You could try going to the Linux bugtracker and filing a bug report.

>>59229342
whoda thunk it

>>59229582
You could try this: https://www.xfce-look.org/content/show.php?content=121526

>>59229582
delete the source code

So I just spent like an hour trying to fix X because I accidentally had mesa-libgl installed while trying to install the Nvidia drivers. Yeah, yeah, I know the stereotype of Arch breaking X. Turns out nvidia-libgl by itself will trigger a conflict with mesa-libgl, HOWEVER when nvidia-libgl is installed as a part of the nvidia-utils group (Which I installed) it didn't uninstall the mesa drivers which crashed X every time. That doesn't make sense that pacman didn't catch the file conflict until I reinstalled everything.

I want the output of

curl -s wttr.in | head -7

without colors. Is there any way to strip them? (why isn't there a cat option for this?)

I did a recent install of Fedora 25, everythings working nicely except for Steam. I'm on latest Nvidia drivers from the RPMFusion repo, 375.26, and glxgears confirms I'm actually using the damn thing. On a 970 if that matters

Running Steam on fedora 25 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1484790260)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1484790260)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1484790260)
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1484790260)
glXChooseVisual failedMain.cpp (315) : Assertion Failed: Fatal Error: glXChooseVisual failed
Assert( Assertion Failed: Fatal Error: glXChooseVisual failed ):Main.cpp:315

is what I'm getting

what gives? everything I've looked up online is just about installing different AMD drivers or the problem fixing itself through updates

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so if you want 67 stars on github, post the vanilla ubuntu bashrc https://gist.github.com/marioBonales/1637696

Is RAID worth it? Thus far I've been running NAED (nonredundant array of expensive disks) and it works fine aside from having my stuff spread out over multiple drives.

>>59224214

>implying KISS exists when pacman has a retarded and unnecessarily difficult syntax

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>>59230423

curl -s http://wttr.in | head -7 | perl -pe 's/\e\[[\d;]*m//g'

Strips color escapes
perl -pe 's/\e\[[\d;]*m//g;'
Strips all escapes
perl -pe 's/\e\[?.*?[\@-~]//g'

>>59230659
>baiting a dead and old fish
what is wrong with you

>>59230053
>stereotype
its a fact

>>59230695
other perlfag here, I was always wondering about the point of awk, grep, sed, etc
this can be all done with perl, and at the end, you know a programming language, not some scripting stuff

learn perl faggets

How do I slim journald down as much as possible? I don't care about logs really (except dmesg). On Gentoo with OpenRC I didn't even have a syslog but systemd requires it.

>>59230732
yea but then youd have to learn perl

hey /fglt/, I'm new to Linux
I just installed Arch and I have some problems
when I start arch, i get a black screen and a command line, what do?

>>59230627
Even expensive disks can and do die without warning. Proper modern RAID (ZFS, or btrfs if they ever get off their asses and fix RAID56) will also protect you from silent corruption ("bit rot") And it'll give you Nice Things like snapshots that can save you from e.g. accidental deletions.

Also remember the old saying about how if you have data that exists in only one place, you're saying that you're okay with losing that data at any time.

>>59230741
Perl is the door to endless possibilities anon.
>>59230732
perl -e 'map{my$qw;map{!$q[$_]&&rand>.993?do{$q[$_]=${[qw$Just another Perl hacker$]}[$qq++].q$.$x5 .q$ $x5;$qq=$qq>3?0:$qq}:0;$q[$_]?do{($qx, $q[$_])=split//,$q[$_],2;$qw.=$qx}:{$qw.=q$ $}}1..70;;print$qw,$/;select$a,$a,$a,.06}1..300'

>>59230742
build your environment faggot. it's what you signed up for.

>>59230742
are you using a graphics card?

are you actually in the CLI where you can type commands or do you just have the underscore in the top left?

if its the second, google about how you can do something like nomodeset before you boot or alternatively chroot into your installation and install whatever drivers you need for your shit, mesa for intel nvidia for nvidia and if youre on AMD just kill yourself

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>>59230742
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Is gentoo actually worth the compile times?

>>59230758
thats the most disgusting single line of 'code' ive ever fucking seen

perls got the same fucking problem as haskell, cool language but good fucking luck making any maintainable code, let alone fucking legible

>>59230742
welcome to arch, that basically is it
it takes some months to find the right stuff

if you want to speed things up, install ubuntu, use it until you get sick of it and have found your favorite programs, then install arch, then install gentoo, then get bored, get autistic and finally install debian

>>59230783
unless you LITERALLY spend all day in linux doing actual productivity related things that require maximized performance specifically in linux then no, not even close

if youre just gonna install it and go on to shitpost and watch anime then its just a waste of time and effort on your part, more so since you have to maintain it

>>59230795
ah i went ubuntu > crunchbang > antergos > arch > fedora and now I think I've settled

but i started YEARS ago

nowadays I cant stand using arch as my main distro, I keep it on a laptop but to get anything done its just annoying

>>59230795
>>59230817
my line:

>started off with ubuntu
>switched to fedora
>switched back to ubuntu
>used manjaro in vm
>used arch in vm
>used gentoo in vm
>used funtoo in vm
>used random obscure stuff in vm
>basically learned everything at this time on ubuntu
(I want to point out that ubuntu is literally the only distro that does 99% of things right, they may be some open source company motherfucking faggots, but the distro they deliver does a good job unlike fedora, debian, arch, etc)
well on the other hand, I hate them, so
>switched to debian
>configured it to be great
>leveled up to testing
>leveled up to unstable
heaven
:^)

>>59230860
You know the next step: Install Source Mage GNU/Linux

I fucked up and turned an ext4 partition into a btrfs one.
How do I recover all the ext4 data off of it?

>>59230860
>apt
>heaven
pick one

>>59230860
i think fedora does a pretty good job of giving a well put together distro out of the box

gnome3 is pretty fleshed out at this point and has a ton of extensions and everything just werks , i thought I'd hate gnome and immediately switch tback to openbox but everythings pretty well integrated and I can do most things in gnome I could do in openbox

>>59230880
I don't think you can convert it back. Back up the data, reformat it to ext4, and restore is your only option

so whats the difference in hinting and antialiasing when it comes to fonts?

right now im at slight and greyscale but I don't notice much difference between the different options, anyone care to explain

>>59230883
Well, I read the manpages and can make apt doing the things I want it to do, can you?

>>59230942
even pacman is better than apt at this point and pacman is objectively trash

>>59230897
Fedora is (yeah, the memes, but it's true) literally tipping your distro. Fedora has no user repo (the copr is a ghost town), it tells it's users about muh freedoms, but ships a blobbed kernel, it tries to be "enterprise ready", but makes it difficult to install nonfree crap companies need, it tells their users "we are first", wew, no wonder, they're first for software red hat drops for testing, so basically if it doesn't break, it goes to RHEL.

"just werks" is something that doesn't give a fuck about ethical issues like ubuntu

>>59230960
nice read anon, but don't forget that ubuntu is the only distro of all major distros that literally shipped spyware
>lelelel you can turn it off
>hue hue hue it's disabled now
it's still in every vanilla ubuntu install included, once enabled, you open a connection over http(!) to your distro

also, they did it once, who knows what happens one day, when you apt-get upgrade and some program got a simliar "feature"

don't trust canonical

>>59230960
the main repos have everything id need and since its based on .rpm everything else is covered for the most part

i really dont use linux for the 'ethical' arguments so that doesnt really matter to me

its just a distro that I could install that isnt shipped with unity, is kept mostly up to date, and doesnt always break or requires any fiddling with config files to get it working for certain use cases

>>59231034
GNU/Linux*

>>59231040
>i dont use it for the ethical arguments
>implying id care about GNU
if it wasnt so easy and comfy to develop on linux I'd be using windows

id gobble proprietary cock for years

>>59231034
>i really dont use linux for the 'ethical' arguments so that doesnt really matter to me
Why are you using it?

>>59231057
It doesn't matter if you care about etihcal issues or not; Linux is the kernel, nothing else.

>>59231076
this pedantic linguistic shit is really pointless, language develops naturally and linux has come to mean the whole OS as well and GNU being part of it is implied at this point

if you want to talk about the kernel youd say linux kernel

>>59231094
"Linux kernel" implies that you're talking about the kernel in the "Linux system", but Linux is actually the kernel only.

>The Android kernel
>The Windows kernel
etc

>>59231117
because again youre using outdated terminology that isnt relevant to what people actually use outside of their basements

you cant police linguistics like an autist, linux has multiple meanings now and has for years

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>>59231144
We don't think that the popularity of an error makes it the truth.

>>59231156
then boy you really shouldnt try studying linguistics

youd probably have a stroke

>>59231168
Please try again with some actual arguments; insults woun't solve the issue.

>>59231180
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription

there is no argument here youre just ignoring the organics of language

>>59231192
see >>59231156

Users are not incapable of learning. Since “GNU/Linux” includes “Linux”, they will recognize what you're talking about. If you add “(often erroneously referred to as ‘Linux’)” once in a while, they will all understand.

>>59231192
>wikipedia
you already lost

>>59231219
>being ignorant of an entire academic field
im sure i did!

>>59231209
nigger, everyone calls it linux, go with the times

>>59231209
literally does not matter one bit to anyone besides pedants and autists

it makes no difference in its literal use as an OS and it is much easier to call it linux

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>>59231223
We don't think we should go along with large numbers of people because they have been misled. We hope you too will decide that truth is important.

We could never have developed a free operating system without first denying the belief, held by most people, that proprietary software was legitimate and acceptable.

>>59231235
It only takes a second to say or type “GNU/”. If you appreciate the system that we developed, can't you take one second to recognize our work?

>>59231257
stallman is a fucking hack, without linus hed be fucking irrelevant

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>>59231264
>Mail me at "[email protected]" if you have any questions.

>Sadly, a kernel by itself gets you nowhere. To get a working system you
>need a shell, compilers, a library etc. These are separate parts and may
>be under a stricter (or even looser) copyright. Most of the tools used
>with linux are GNU software and are under the GNU copyleft. These tools
>aren't in the distribution - ask me (or GNU) for more info.

>http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/linux/historical/kernel/old-versions/RELNOTES-0.01

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What are some cool terminal commands?

>>59231311
why not

for all i3lock fags who are still waiting ages till imagemagick is finished blurring ...

i3lock -ni <(ffmpeg -f x11grab -s "$(xrandr | awk '/\*\+/{print $1}')" -i "${DISPLAY}" -vf 'boxblur=5:1' -f image2pipe -c:v png -)

- oneliner
- no temp files
- takes ~1 second

>>59231311
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666
telnet freechess.org
telnet nyancat.dakko.us
telnet telehack.com

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>>59231311
cowsay is cool

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>>59231477

>>59226358
>user: unknown user.

Get rid of that user. Create a sane one.

>>59226358
You possibly set up encryption wrong.

>>59224925

Ubuntu. If you need a package or support, it will be there.

>>59231465
>telnet nyancat.dakko.us
Oh fun!!!

>>59231559
how2quit

>>59231568
ctrl + alt + prnt-scrn + c

>>59231568
^]

>>59231582
>>59231583
ty bby

I need a way in ALSA to change outputs without having to restart the audio source

The following doesn't really work but just an example
in .asoundrc

pcm.!default {
    type file
    slave.pcm null
    file "/tmp/sound"
    format "wav"
}

pcm.card0 {
    type hw
    card 0
}
pcm.card1 {
    type hw
    card 1
}

then when run the a program that plays audio

I also run

 aplay -D card0 /tmp/sound 

When I want to switch cards, I just restart aplay with a different cardnumber

 
^C
aplay -D card1 /tmp/sound 

without restarting the audio program

Is there a plugin for ALSA or some other way to achieve this?
I tried jackd but it hangs after a while of playing different things and have to restart it.
Pulseaudio is haram

>>59231607
>Pulseaudio is haram
your fault

>>59231631
>fault
Nothing is broken. I can live with re-editing configuration files when needed.
But I think there is a way to get this one simple feature without having to install a whole package with a lot of functions I will never use.
I need a pipe not a pump.

so I have this ancient laptop next to me with some ancient ubuntu on it (12 LTS) and I'm trying to complile ahoviewer and ofc it doesn't work because everything is outdated

is there any way to get that shit without upgrading the whole thing? or, how could I compile/run a program with statically linced libs? any insight/tuts you could recommend?

yeah I could just upgrade, but I'd like to see it it would work without for learning how things work

I have been using i3 for a very long time now.
But somehow I started disliking having to do all settings in many different .conf files
Can I install some packages to have a "normal" settings gui?
I mean for example setting stuff like power management, keyboard and mouse settings, wallpaper, network settings and stuff like that.
The stuff that is available in the settings panel in other desktop environments

>>59231998
>using i3 without a de backend
install a de, install a wm, go to login screen, select wm, run wm and have de crap on your fingertips

>>59231998
You could use KDE and instead of KDE's default WM (Kwin) you can choose i3 or any other from the settings. That's how I've set up my desktop. I run KDE with a tiling wm.

>>59232010
Thought about that, too.

>>59232098
Yeah I thought about that too, as I already used KDE some years ago. I just installe Cinnamon and tried it a bit before you wrote your post, maybe I'll try to install KDE and try to use i3 with it.
I'm a bit bored right now, maybe I'll try Cinnamon first for some days

been reading about different vms and it seems that qemu is the way to go(?) but why is it such a pain in the ass to configure? am I missing something

>>59230860
>apt-get
>heaven

pick one

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hey /g/, fresh arch install, I'm trying to run screenfetch, but I get an error:
zsh: command not found: screenfetch

what do?

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>>59230958
whats your favorite package manager anon

>>59232218
install gentoo

>>59232218
run ./screenfetch

>>59232232
>>>/r/eddit

>>59232225
coreutils

>>59232225
GNU guix

why don't you have a something certificate?


> I would not have passed the RHCSA [Red Hat Certified System Administrator] and RHCE [Red Hat Certified Engineer] exams without the superior training and lab environments that Red Hat Learning Subscription offers. If I had to do it over again, I would have invested my money in Red Hat Training from the very beginning.
> Roger Brown, RHCSA, RHCE

>only $5,500 USD


https://www.redhat.com/en/services/training/learning-subscription

>>59232308
this is even better: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux

>Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® delivers military-grade security, 99.999% uptime

>Features & benefits
>Military-grade security
>99.999% uptime

>btw, I',m on RHEL, military-grade security, 99.999% uptime, if it matters

Where's the any key?

>>59232487
left to mod-key

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>>59231156

Guys, I need help debugging a problem that's been bothering for over a month.

Mpd volume down stops working after a few times, and mpd volume up does a random step between 1 and 5.
Both ncmpcpp show this behaviour.
Plainly setting the volume works.
This problem only arises on my Odroid C2, aarch64. If I try this on my desktop it works perfectly.
Already reimaged the sd card, fresh install shows the same problem, no matter the configuration of mpd.

However, if I use alsamixer to set the volume, ncmpcpp updates the volume accordingly and the volume down works again in ncmpcpp (although only temporarily).

Any ideas what's up and where I can look for the error?

>>59232627
Why the fuck do I always look for solutions for 2 days and then find it as soon as I post a question?

Set my mpd mixer from hardware to software, works again.

What are THE terminal colours? I don't mean the ones that look the best, I mean the ones that are the easiest to read and best on the eyes.

why should I use linux when I can't even play games on it?

>>59232698
green on black

>>59232701
you could remove a random module and see if it boots, fun is fun

>>59232698
font #41afe8
back #1d1d1d

>>59232698
#111, #ddd

>>59232750
>#ddd
>not :DDD
do you even meme, bro!?

can anyone explain what's wrong with systemd?

>>59232816
SystemD*

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>>59232816
talking about systems is what people in the open source community do when they have no idea about tech in general
same with windows users when they talk about cpu, gpu and post speccies, open source people talk about systemd, the kernel and that they are using arch linux

>>59232816
possibly nsa backdoored botnet

>>59232816
There is literally nothing wrong with systemd.
It's Free Software. That's all what matters.

>>59232843
are you on arch btw?

>>59229294
Use this script to ban china

#!/bin/bash

#get latest chinese ip addresses
echo "Fetching chinese ip address ranges..."
curl -o /tmp/cn.zone -L http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/data/countries/cn.zone

#create the set
echo "Generating the blocking set..."
ipset create china hash:net

for i in $(cat /tmp/cn.zone); do
  ipset add china $i
done

iptables -I INPUT -m set --match-set china src -j DROP

echo "China is blocked!"
rm /tmp/cn.zone

>>59233084
There is literally nothing wrong with chinese people.

>>59233093
>over 60,000 failed ssh logins from chinese IP's

>>59233102
No reason to ban all chinese people!

>>59233102
>tfw the hacker is from russia using chinese proxies

>>59233106
I have every right to block any and everything i wish too on my server

>>59233114
If you ban only a specific place, you're racist!

>>59233102
but the cartoons...

>>59233131
Im an adult, i dont watch childrens cartoons

>>59233114
stop the bully
#FreeChina

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>>59233114

>>59233123
Tell that to the Russian hackers who all use Chinese proxies.

>>59233135
nice paradox!

how do i set use flags for

dev-lang/python-3.4.5:3.4/3.4m::gentoo

i tried

dev-lang/python sqlite
>=dev-lang/python-3.4.5 sqlite

but both were ignored

>>59233642
If you want to set flags for a specific package version, you just add them to /etc/portage/package.mask/<yourpkg>. Am I right?

>>59233675
Not package.mask but *package.USE. Derp!

How to force my Fedora 25 to use Wayland when I have Nvidia driver installed?

>>59233675
>>59233721
thats what i'm doing. it still gets ignored
i've checked all the files for a conflict but nothing

>>59234070
nvm

for i in * ; do echo "$i" && cat "$i" | grep python ;done

showed the last file having -sqlite

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I want to live life in my own delusional world. I want to be a decker. What distro do I roll with.

>>59234129
>cat | grep
why?

>>59234437
what are you, a script kiddie? write your own!

I've been using Xubuntu for a while. Should I go with Debian+XFCE? would it be very different?

>>59230783
>get gentoo
>recomplie chromium every day
>never get to go online
>forced to go outside and interact with people
completely worth it imho

>>59234538
debian+xfce provides a non-overriced XFCE experience, I prefer that to ooboontoo.
However, since you are using xubuntu for a while, there is no reason to switch just for the sake of switching.

what's going on in this thread

>>59235214
>chromium
just use firefox-bin

>>59235240
>install source based distro to gain benefits from source installations
>uses pre-compiled binaries

>>59235240
>firefox
I bet you use X as well

I've had a few people IRL say that Linux is less secure than windows. One is the IT director of the regional cable one branch, he said he'd "never connect to the internet from a Linux machine".

This sounds like BS to me, I've always thought that Linux was generally more secure than windows. Does what he said hold any truth? What are some general things I can do to improve my Linux security?

>>59235240
Hahaha then why use gentoo at all if you're going to compromise

>>59235269
install gentoo

>>59235280
I'm using a few other distros right now that I like a lot, I might check out Gentoo someday, but that's a ways off. Thanks though

>>59235294
np

>>59235269
read prism break

is there a debloated windows 7 I can put in a VM?

>>59232218
dumb explainposter, gb2/wowg/

Can I use Linux as my browser/music player/ect. In a virtual machine and use Windows for games? Would it not flow well? Would I have to close Linux to play games? I only have about 8 gigs of RAM

I also hear if you use Linux and dedicate your GPU to a Windows VM inside of it, you can play games smoothly

How do I becum THE BEAST?

>>59235399
What you're looking for in your 2nd question is GPU passthrough. Only works if you have both an onboard card like Intel HD and a dedicated vidya card. Just stick to Wangblows if your primary use case for Linux is just to look cool.

>>59231156
Ari Lemmke, Torvalds' coworker at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT), who was one of the volunteer administrators for the FTP server at the time, did not think that "Freax" was a good name. So, he named the project "Linux" on the server without consulting Torvalds.[42] Later, however, Torvalds consented to "Linux".
You dumb fucks need to stop. The name is Linux. The egotists at the FSF are the only ones who have ever called Linux, Gnu/Linux. What good is free and open source, if you can't even name your project whatever you want? Stallman comes off as a hypocrite and a swindler whenever he brings this up.

Is there a way to disable the stupid menu bar in qemu?

How can i use liquorix kernel in ubuntu?

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I could use a little help with permissions.

I just created a folder to mount one of my other hard drives on. I changed the owner and group to myself, then denied permissions to groups and others leaving only my user account with read or write access. After that, I set up my fstab file to mount the hard drive onto that folder.

The problem is, while the folder I've mounted the drive under has the correct permissions, all the folders within that folder give read access to both the group and others. So what I want to ask is, is this safe? Will others actually be able to read these folders, or will the permissions of the main folder prevent read access in spite of whatever permissions the folders within it have?

>>59236449
They won't be able to access regardless of the permission on files deeper in if they have no permissions on the parent directory.

However, I think it might be possible to mount in a certain way that does give them permissions. (not sure how it works exactly)
But as long as you're not mounting it with those special permission options then it shouldn't matter

>>59236736
Ah good. I thought that was probably the case but wanted to be sure.

Thanks.

how do I change my cmus colors?

i'm too retarded to know what the fuck is the color 240, I miss HEX colors

>>59236862
240 is short for 240240.

>>59236988
i'm a retard, it uses the 8-bit color sheet

When is devuan going to be released?

If I'm looking for a distro that can have the latest GNOME available and install FDK AAC without a fuss and use those fancy NVIDIA technologies for placebo video encoding and decoding, and install Firefox with that specific flag that stops it from spiking your CPU when you refresh the page, the only one to use is Gentoo, isn't it?

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>>59224891
Friend gave me a Radeon HD 6870, but steam won't start :(

What i understand there is no more proprietary drivers for amd, so is it possible to play steam games with this card?

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>tfw you will never go GNU/skiing in the GNU/Alps with rms

I have a machine running ubuntu and it has two drives, the second one is just a bunch of pics, music, movies and so on. How can I make it automatically mount at startup?

>>59238528
Add an entry to your /etc/fstab

man fstab

>>59235782
This. The Linux guys call it Linux, and it's trademarked as Linux, so it's called Linux. You can't call someone's else's project something else just because you want to. It would be like if Debian tried to force Canonical to call it Debian/Ubuntu just because Ubuntu is based off of Debian code.

>>59238192
fedora is the official gnome distro.

How easy is it to debug c++ and c# in linux? Used to VS on windows, but I work on those files on my laptop sometimes and I don't know how to insert breakpoints etc (if it's possible?)

>>59239122
Right, but the nvidia support is iffy and you can't even get it or fdk-aac without installing some third-party shit, and you don't get firefox optimized to be not shitty unless you like reading thorugh dependency lists.

I want to count kilobytes per 1024 bytes.
How do I turn this on?

>>59239305
that's kibibytes

>>59231168
If you're a linguist, you clearly are the bottom of the barrel: you can hardly type.

Plus your understanding of lingüistics is trash.

>>59239326
those are kilobytes

Debian or Fedora?

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Is this terminal even useful for any Android use cases? What can it not do?

>>59240088
I've used it to painfully do a programming assignment for class when my laptop died. It had to be turned in before the end of class, so I had to fall back to it as a last resort. Wrote legit 150+ lines on a thumb keyboard, would never do again.

>>59239918
kilo is 10^3 and kibi is 2^10

>>59240147
kilo is 2^10 for bytes and bits and 10^3 for other measure units.

I accidentally deleted the ~/usr/bin directory (I used ~/usr as a prefix for when I compile stuff from source); it had some things that I needed, is there a way to get it back?

>>59234437
just use whatever with a tiling manager and lots of random monitering shits all over like htop and glasses

>>59240214
Read a fucking book.

>>59240088
Dirty phoneposter

>>59240299
It doesn't answer original question.

>>59240348
You'll find the answer in a book.

How to install Ubuntu without Grub? I want to boot straight from UEFI boot menu. I also have Win 7 & 10 on different disks installed.

>>59240299
No need for him to read a book, a simple web search would show him that he's wrong.

>>59240375
>>59240407
The book says kilo is 2^10.
The web says kilo is 2^10.

How do I make system to refer to kilobytes as 1024 bytes?

>>59240466
What does the system refer to as kilobytes then? (2^10 == 1024, if you didn't know)

>>59240502
>What does the system refer to as kilobytes then?
1024 before 2008.
Now they went full retard and decided to please HDD manufacturers.

Debian Stable vs Testing?

>>59240831
One is a beta test of the other. What are you using it for?

>>59240865
Daily driver

I just installed playonlinux for the first time ever. I've wanted to play some windows games on steam, but some of the modding applications (fallout new vegas, etc.) require packages that can only be installed in a 32-bit prefix of wine when I've installed the 64-bit. It seems play on linux will allow me to have both at the same time and interchange between them reliably.

I see that there are a number of wine versions available in x86 and amd64.

My question is, is there a recommend version of wine that I should use or should I just install the latest version of wine for x86 and amd64?

new bread:
>>59240903
>>59240903

>>59235782
>>59238692
y so mad tho senpai. Linux will always be Linux. GNU will always be GNU. GNU/Linux is the combination of both.

Hey /g/, how do I use a custom gif or video screensaver using xscreensaver? I've been messing around with mvplayer scripts and some other stuff, but no cigar. I'm running 64-bit XFCE Mint btw.