/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

So I stopped using my arch linux partition for about a month, then Syu'd it and it fucking broke.

>>61047107
that's normal.

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>>61047107

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Why do Catfish, calculator and other programs not obey the window manager theme like Firefox and the terminal (XFCE)?

>>61047297
are those gtk3 apps?

>no cemu on gnu+linux
why live?

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>>61047486
> proprietary emulator
> proprietary
> emulator

I don't like GNOME. Its logo is a foot and I hate feet, and having the taskbar at the top of the screen instead of the bottom is completely insane. I looked into KDE, and its terminal is called Konsole instead of Terminal, which is also stupid. Is there a way for me to get everything I want without anything I don't want?

>>61047972
Fucking yes, it's called a minimal install. And use i3

>>61047972
what do you want? something that is basically windows 7?
your best bet is to customize kde or xfce.
but you can also just use a window manager like openbox or i3 plus a panel.

>>61048000
>>61048012

>use i3
Overrated WM. There are so many others and everyone just gets i3 because others got i3.

>>61048012
No need for openbox, just get the i3suite.

i3,i3status,i3bar,i3lock.

>>61048027
I use i3 because it works™ and is a dynamic wm, I don't ask much from a wm.

>>61048027
I tried dwm but it's too minimal.

Linux noob here, when I do uptime it lists

load average: 0.12, 0.15, 0.11

but what exactly does that mean? I know the numbers are the average for 1, 5, 15 minutes, but what do the numbers represent?

>window manager
nope not with wayland

>>61048113
if you are using wayland in 2017 you better have a good reason or you are mentally deficient.

>>61048136
um it's the default idiot

>>61048149
do you even what's is wayland?

>>61048091
https://www.computerhope.com/unix/uptime.htm
GOOGLE
BOTNET

>>61048138
I thought this thread was supposed to be friendly :(

>>61048165
a display protocol?

>>61048138
>the system load averages for the past
1, 5, and 15 minutes.
that wasn't very helpful given that he already knew that part lmao

>>61048181
o shit i forgot,sorry :/

>>61048177
>The load average
I understood so far, but what do the load average numbers mean?
Like what does 0.12 mean
0.1% cpu utilization?

>>61048186
and it's the default on gnome, with stupid bugs like this https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745032 and right now everything on everything works better on xorg.
so I repeat, if you are using wayland in 2017 you better have a good reason or you are mentally deficient.

>>61048218
if you have a 4 core cpu and the load average is 4 it means that in that period of time all 4 cores were on 100%

>>61048223
have fun clinging to the past

>>61048243
but dear, wayland is the future not the present. right now is not good enough.

>>61048235
oh, I see
however I'm struggling to understand the usefulness
4 cores at 25% would show up the same as 1 core at 100%, no?

>>61048253
you realize that chromeOS dropped xorg a long time ago?

>>61048291
do you realize that chromeOS is basically just chrome?

>>61048303
ok?

>>61047128
>>61047201
Should I install it again or what other distro should I try?

>>61048303
this
>Freon is a very limited graphics stack to replace Chrome OS usage of X11/X.Org by having the Chrome browser communicate directly with the Linux kernel's KMS/DRM API and OpenGL ES interfaces for drawing
> Chrome browser communicate directly with the Linux kernel
WEW

>>61047972
>disgusting feet
Not as bad as disgusting vermin. Looking at you, xfeces.

>>61048312
if you like arch just reinstall, or try to fix it.
that distro breaks a lot if you dont constantly update.

>>61048057
>it works™
retard

>>61048387
I don't know. I love how dynamic and lightweight it is. You are able to do whatever you want. But sometimes I can't give it enough attention.
Is Manjaro really as flexible as Arch?

>>61048256
>4 cores at 25% would show up the same as 1 core at 100%, no?
exactly

>>61048453
>dynamic and lightweight
arch is much but not lightweight; even ubuntu packages are more lightweight

>>61048436
What's wrong with i3?

>>61048483
Hmmm, I was under the impression it was.
Then, what distro is more down my alley?

I have limited data so dont want to download something close to a GB. Are distros like Puppy, damn small linux and tiny core eniugh to give me linux experience? Can i install packages on them later on to nake them full fledged OSes?

>>61048499
just go with debian netinstal

>>61048510
thank debian netinstal

>>61048483
The "lightweight" in "A simple and lightweight Linux distribution" refers to not being bloated with preinstalled crap.

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looking for a distro as light as possible while still "friendly" "out-of-the-box". I want to install it on my x200, would switch between i3wm for work/study/""""productivty"""" general, and xfce for whatever other reasons.

I am between
>ubuntu minimall install with xfce and then install i3wm
>fedora xfce spin and then install i3wm
>manjaro xfce spin and then install i3wm

do you have any other recommendation? are there any other 'friendly' distro that have a minimal installation iso? also, is there a way to know how many default packages a distro comes with? thanks

>>61048555
>>manjaro xfce spin and then install i3wm
this, that said, manjaro has a i3 community spin

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>>61048545
basically this, yeah

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>>61048586
Needs more jpeg.

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>>61048615
needs more gif

>>61048569
I am aware of that, but as I said, I also want to use xfce sometimes, and I think installing i3wm into xfce is easier than the other way around.

Is it possible to format /dev/sdX directly without creating a partition table?

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>>61048641
that's a weird way to spell jpeg

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>>61048641
needs more animation

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>>61048586
needs more glitch

>>61047107
what broke? it's probably an easy fix, like having to delete a certificate file and run pacman - Suu

>>61048027
or maybe it's because i3 is really fucking comfy

>>61048811
>tfw 4chin doesn't support apng
whyyyy hiroshimoot

>>61048113
if on wayland, check out sway

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>>61048857
>mfw

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>>61048837
needs more iOS

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>>61048891
needs more ifunny

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What are some cool terminal commands?

How do i make my own distro

>>61049167
vimtutor

>>61049177
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

>>61049167

man hier

So I'm trying to do the mpv modification with ranger here, but I keep getting syntax error. I'm not good with python.

I'm following https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Image-Previews

and my error is this

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ranger", line 39, in <module>
    sys.exit(ranger.main())
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/core/main.py", line 17, in main
    from ranger.core.fm import FM
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/core/fm.py", line 23, in <module>
    from ranger.ext.img_display import *
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/ext/img_display.py", line 406
    * os.environ.get("MPV", "mpv").split(),
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>61049167
man scrot
haha

>>61049167

for((i=0;;i++)) { printf "%$(bc -l <<< "a=20*s($i/10);scale=0;a/1+20")s|\n"; sleep .05; }

>>61048805
Yeah but everything will complain at you, if you.

>>61049203
> * os.environ.get("MPV", "mpv").split(),

what's before that * ?

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>>61048338
small rodents are cutiepatootie tho

>>61049336
I don't know, the code was like that in that page I linked. If you scroll down here: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Image-Previews#with-mpv (should have linked this earlier), it shows what you gotta add.

Did they miss something?

>>61049405
I don't know why that * is there, try deleting that.

If desktop environments are interchangeable, then what are the differences between Linux distributions?

>>61049462
package management and ethics

>>61049455
I did but it didn't do anything. Though, I did get a different error message

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ranger", line 39, in <module>
    sys.exit(ranger.main())
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/core/main.py", line 17, in main
    from ranger.core.fm import FM
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/core/fm.py", line 23, in <module>
    from ranger.ext.img_display import *
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ranger/ext/img_display.py", line 29, in <module>
    from pathlib import Path
ImportError: No module named pathlib

>>61049379
i wanna protect that smile

>>61049462
package managers, init, rolling release or schedeuled ones

>>61049167
:(){:|:&};:

>>61049491
Install pahtlib.

>>61049500
this plus package versions

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>>61049525

>>61049502
That woun't run, newfag.

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r8 my fonts
renders Beautifully

>>61049491
how did you installed ranger?
was it working before?

>>61049554
anon if you have to hide your hostname you are doing it wrong.

>>61049523
Oh shit nice.

It works again, but damn, it doesn't preview with mpv hmm. I'll mess around with the config and see what's up I guess.

>>61049555
I installed it via a package manager, yeah.

>>61049167
ed

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>>61049576
4chan hacker detected

>>61049596
i tried that command before but it just prints "?" all the time

>>61049576
>tfw "username@laptop" "username@desktop"

>>61049576
what happened to not giving away private information on the internet?
I just don't to show my name

>>61049240
How can I test this online? All the online terminals I tried, none of them are good enough to run basic commands.

>>61049631
>>61049647
also I have an autistic naming scheme for the hostnames

>>61049525
If desktop environments are interchangeable, then what are the differences between GNU/Linux distributions?

>>61049647
your hostname is not private, so you should not name your computer after something private.
your username not being your name is just common sense.

a lot of software leaks username@hostname.

>>61049691
>your username not being your name is just common sense.
w-why

>>61047297
Gtk3 client side decorations.

>>61049763
both windows and linux have separate fields for username and real name.
when a app need your name, to say something like "Hi John Doe" they use the real name field, so if you want that just put your name there.

your username not being your name (and your hostname not being something private) it just so you don't have to worry about the privacy concerns of that.
some stuff includes your name and hostname by default, and others by design.

an example of this, if you try to connect to server with ssh if you dont specify a username by default it's going to use your user, and that's going to be on the logs of that server even if you don't login.

Is there a way to download only new files using svn? svn up [repo] tells me there are two new files and I want to download only those two, but svn checkout tries to download all the files in the repo again (1.2 GB.)

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>>61049648

>>61049898
oo nice that's pretty good!

>>61049525
found him, bottom left

Just built my home server and I'm setting up my partitions

I never really uderstood what people meant by root partition and home partition and stuff. do people really make entire drive partitions just for those folders? Why not just have it be a flat file system?

Just want a little explanation on how file system stuff works so I know how to set up my arch linux

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>>61049898
Check out this guy's stuff
http://wunkolo.tumblr.com/post/161400381792

>>61049966
Keeping /home separate means that you can keep the contents between reinstalls/formats of your root partition. In my desktop's case I do have separate physical devices - a small SSD for root, swap, and Steam games, and a multi-drive software RAID array for /home.

So I'm newer to Linux, but I've been around the block a little to kinda know what I've been doing. I've been trying to install Clover (there's no active thread so I figure I'd come here) using their script to an empty hard drive, and everything seems to work and download correctly in terminal, except the hard drive cant be booted to at all. In windows, it can't even be accessed as a storage device. Did I need an existing Gentoo installation prior to sit underneath the script as it was installing or is there something else wrong that I'm not seeing here? This is only my second time working with Gentoo-based distros in any way after a long time.

>>61049983
damn boi.

PS1='\[$(tput bold)$(tput setaf 2)\]Anonymous@\w:\$ \[$(tput sgr0)\]' 
neofetch --disable title

>>61050001
windows is not going to see the partition unless you install some drivers.
I don't know how clover install script works but probably the bootloader installer failed.
do you have EFI?

>>61049984
that sounds amazing actually as I have a solid state on the way as well as another hard drive and I'd love the idea of having a primary "os" drive and letting all my media/music storage be on another and being able to modularly swap stuff around should I ever plug more drives or replace a solid state.
Just it just add a symbolic layer to the drive?

like if I plug in a drive and format it with whatever linux uses and then mount it to my os'drives "/media/blah" then would the drive itself just be like a file system that describes its own files that i can plug into any other linux installation?

Just wanna get a grip of the whole file system atmosphere of linux so i can set this server up organized from the start

>>61050036
to all the programs that deal with files everything under / is just one big disk.
the kernel deal with the fact that there are different file system, to userspace it's just files

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>>61050036
actually, I think what I'll do is run arch off of a usb and set up this hard disk as a /media/blah folder so I can just start storing stuff to it now and install arch on the solid state once it comes. It's getting weird to capture my exact current circumstance right now but basically I have a drive that I can start using as a /media/DriveOne (i assume that's where I'd mount a drive like this) so that when the solid state comes ill install the os on it and I can stop running off the flash drive and transition between usb-linux to solid-state linux

>>61050096
is the usb 3.0? if it's not it's going to be slow as molasses.

>>61050096
Use your big drive as /home rather than something under /media.

>>61050096
but why /media/blah?
why don you install arch on the usb and the big drive mounted on /home, then when your ssd arrives install arch on that and mount your old drive on /home again (mind you, you dont need/want to format it again)

>>61050121
rightnow its running off of a 64 gb usb3 flash drive
I have a 1tb drive plugged in and I want to set it up so I can store files to it already so that once my boot drive comes I can do a full install of arch to it and finally settle in the os and have that archive drive ready to go as well

building this server is getting me much more acquainted with linux.

>>61050150
That's exactly what I want to do but I'm unsure how to structure an "archive" drive.
Right now it's running off of a USB looking at a 1tb drive, if i mount it to "home" and start using it as if it was a full installation until the drive comes how hard would the transition be to the solid-state arch and would I have to keep it mounted as my /home if i had it mounted that way during usb-arch?

>>61050150
not them but is it common form to store all your media in /home
I assumed every folder in there is assigned a user so its always /home/foo and /home/bar

where would all your music/movies/anime/etc go?

make some new "AnimeArchive" user and put everything in there?

>>61050030
I have two computers (one laptop which runs Mint) and both have UEFI and it's enabled. I might have to try finding drivers on the desktop, but otherwise, can I check the bootloader integrity somehow?

>>61050227
just boot a live distro, I assume clover is one, and google how to install a grub2 on efi.

>>61050225
it does not have to be /home/user1 /home/user2, that just convetion, you could have /home/Music that is not the folder of any user, /home is just a folder that by convention (man hier) is the folder where you store user homes.

you coul even mount a drive on /home/user/Music so your music is phisically at a different drive than /home.

>>61050183
not hard at all, you just mount that drive on /home, create the user again, chown -R username:users /home/username and off you go.

>>61050284
>man hier
this is exactly what i wanted to see

so say you just got two new 4tb drives that you want to store Movies and Music on. How would you format them and mount them?

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>>61050320
something like that.

okay, /fglt/, I am autismo prime, and I want to use a new distribution.

I'm using funtoo right now, and I've used SMGL, exherbo, LFS, all the binary-based meme distros, and now I'm bored.

What do?

>>61050412
>I'm using funtoo right now,
Im surprised that you didn't switch to gentoo

perfect ffmpeg libvps settings for -qmin -qmax -crf ?

>>61050435
gentoo is fundamentally broken. in fact, the only reason I'm using funtoo right now is because 1. exherbo is a lot of work/still in its formative stages, and I ran out of energy to contribute to the development process 2. there's really no alternative.

>>61050465
vpx*

>>61050386
perfect i see how it works now
so for now since I am running arch off of a usb temporarily, i should format my archive drives as xfs/ext4 or whatever and once the drive comes I just fstab it wherever i want

is the usual convention to do /home/someuser/"MusicDrive"? It feels weird binding the entire drive under some user's home folder so I figured /media/blah to better intuit "this is a hard drive" rather than looking like any other folder and be possibly misleading

also xfs or ext4?

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>>61050412
GuixSD

>>61050492
it would make more sense to use the guix package manager with debian than to use guixsd in itself, considering the state that it's in. hell, nixos isn't even all that good at this point, and it isn't source-based.

>>61050481
I used xfs as an example, I use ext4 for everything since it works and I don't really care.

in my computers I puts data stuff under /data (which is not in man hier) and then do stuff like /data/Music

>>61050532
do the BSDs support ext4 and xfs natively? I remember trying to open an ext4 partition on openBSD, and it wasn't recognized.

as far as I'm concerned there are 2 kinds of distros, ones that have dependency resolution and ones that don't. So basically I'm saying WTF slackware

>>61050586
the bsd's have very little support for ext4, read-only.

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>>61049983
>>61049898

perl -e 'while($d+=.1){print"\e[H\e[2J";$a=0;while(($a+=.01)<4*atan2 1,0){$x=$==40+40*cos$d+$a*$ARGV[0];$y=$==13+13*sin$d+$a*$ARGV[1];print"\e[$y;$x"."H#";}print$/;select($v,$v,$v,.03);}' <<< % 2 3

>>61050634
which would you rather have? yet another distro with a half-assed package manager or a distro that's simple, reliable, and consistent? and the tradoff is that you have to build a few packages yourself. boo-hoo.

I still don't why get solus needed a new package manager that does nothing new.

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>>61050691
a few? lol

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>>61050690
>perl
One day I will learn it.

>>61050725
do you need all that stuff?

>>61050740
um ya why not

>>61050725
there are a thousand distros out there with good package managers if you really must have one. slackware is a niche distro, for much of the same reason nix is.

why is it that you autists expect every single distro to pander to you? if it's not for you, it's not for you.

oh and lets not forget that slackware actually becomes by far the most bloated distro ever because the recommended install method is to install around 9GB of packages just so you don't run into dependency issues

>>61050769
Why would anyone use Slackware?

>>61050769
slackware package sets are organized by category. if you, for example, don't need emacs, then don't install package E. if you read the fucking manual, you would know that it is perfectly feasible to get an incredibly minimal slackware install.

>>61050779
strong adherence to unix principles, among other things.

>>61050769
>>61050768
>>61050751
>>61050740
Stop lowercase posting, fags. What's next? Smileys?

>>61050779
my question exactly

>>61050802
maybe :^)

>>61050800
>unix principles
· be proprietary

>>61050800
lol good luck getting help or troubleshooting anything then when people assume you did a full install

>>61050829
oh /fug/ you got me

ext4 xfs or btrfs

>>61050850
reiserfs

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>>61050850
Depends on your use case.

>>61050861
ebin. In all seriousness, I would be curious to know if anyone in /fglt/ actually uses reiser4. If so, why?

>>61050850
btrfs only for things that you dont care about.

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Why are you using a distro that has the systemd?

>>61050893
I actually use btrfs for my root partition with autodefrag and transparent compression enabled. How fucked am I?

>>61050912
who cares about root partition?
when I said data you care about, I'm talking about photos, videos, not software under /usr

babby here, how can I find out my filesystem

>>61050942
cat /etc/fstab

>>61050970
thank you

>>61050906
Because I don't know which is a good distro without systemd

gnome was nice.
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/gnome220redhat9

>>61051037
https://devuan.org/

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html holy shit does anybody actually read all that shit?

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Current state of GTK.

>>61050524
>and it isn't source-based.
It is source based.

Both GuixSD and NixOS are the same in that regard, they only offer downloads of hashed binaries because they're able to claim that their build and your own build if you were to compile it from source are 100% identical bit-for-bit.

The binary downloads are just an add-on service basically to save you time, that's it. If a hashed binary isn't found on their servers then nix automatically compiles it.

>>61050906
Because I'm to stupid to get wifi working without wifi-menu.

I'm using Ubuntu Gnome, had it for a few months, it's what I learnt everything on.

Seen a few people dissing it, I kind of like it but thought i'd see if there are any pitfalls more advanced users can point out?

I'm getting more adept with using terminal, should I try something else?

who here debian stable

In i3, I'm using the bumblebee status bar and I want to use the Todo module.

In the docs, it says that the file it reads is from ~/Documents/todo.txt

What the fuck, I put stuff in that file and it never updates in the status bar. Is there a certain syntax for that stuff?

Here's the source for the module. What do you think is going on? I suck at python.

https://github.com/tobi-wan-kenobi/bumblebee-status/blob/master/bumblebee/modules/todo.py

>>61051746
Who /Sid/ here?

I don't know if I'm the only one who gets this but why the fuck sometimes kmozillahelper fail to save and upload images?
>manjaro 17.0.1 on kde (obv)
>so mad I could go back to xfce any second now

>>61051804
i need stability in my life sir

Anyone have thumbnails on their archive filetypes? I'd love for my .zip/etc to show up the first image for the amount of porn comics I have in there.
Also, I already asked, but I'll do it again. How would you rip images from a chines cartoon porn comic reader? Do you use wget or pick up stuff like python to do it? I found this on my bash_functions for 4chin images back when they were on one server:

function 4chan-dl () {
    wget -r -H -D i.4cdn.org --https-only -e robots=off \
         --user-agent=Mozilla -nc -nd --accept=jpg,jpeg,png,gif,webm \
         -R "*s.jpg","*.html" $1
}

>>61051874
https://github.com/Exceen/4chan-downloader

Can I get some help here?

Trying to dispose of two hard drives with bad sectors, but wanted to wipe them beforehand.

Booted into a Linux live USB flash drive. And did the DD command to write a bunch of zeros. But apparently, it stopped because it could write data to the bad sectors and aborted the task.

How to force it to write zeros to the rest of the disk even if it encounters bad sectors?

Why use info instead of man?

>>61051949
why use man when you can google it

>>61051940
DBAN

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>>61051958
:)

>>61051979
>what is a man

>>61051963
>Dban

Deprecated software

>>61051979
Works on my machine™.

>>61051958
enjoy ur botnet

>>61051949
You get more informations.

>>61051940
>Linux live USB flash drive
what's this

>>61047006
Where to find a tutorial or a guide or at least a documentation to write a custom modern kde window decoration theme(breeze, for example)?

>>61052713
>kde window decoration
KDE uses Qt

>>61051940
Use ddrescue

>>61053022
Why did you write that? That's obviously is not what I was asking.

>>61053111
>That's obviously is not what I was asking
Ok. Keep trying to figure out how to make "KDE" themes.

>>61053022
>>61053111
Qt != KDE

>>61053111
try #kde on freenode, kde.org. kde-look.org (or something like it, google will straighten it out if I'm wrong), and obviously google
something tells me you'll be skimming through lots of arch forums pages (avoid reddit at all costs, fuck those guys)
and them anons are right about qt. Qt is the frank and beans of the kde look

I'm running ubuntu 16.04 off a USB (not my computer) and I'm trying to complete sagemath. I can clone the source from git and try to make it but I get an error "Makefile:16: recipe for target 'all' failed. Is it hopeless?

I have a script setup to email all external ssh logins. It checks the exit status of this grep.

    echo "$PAM_RHOST" | grep "192\.168\.0\.[0-9]\{1,3\}" 

However when I change the grep to add host names, it doesn't work. The grep exits with code 0 when run from a terminal however.

    echo "$PAM_RHOST" | grep "\(192\.168\.0\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\)\|\(anonDesktop\)" 

>>61053239
Compile, not complete

>>61053239
I'm an idiot and I didn't read the error message entirely. I need to put 'm4' in the path. Don't know what that means but I'll find out.

Cant get this script to find the inputfile name.
What am i doing wrong?

#!/bin/bash
for file in *
do
vspipe --arg "in_filename=$file" --arg display_fps=60 --y4m $HOME/bin/motioninterpolation.vpy -|ffmpeg -i - -crf 11 "$file"-60
done

>>61053233
>try #kde on freenode
Thanks, didn't think of that
>anons are right about qt
Well, obviously, but you don't have to mention that kde uses qt, everytime someone mentions kde.

>>61053305
Try using the absolute path to the file.

Also, clearly no-one here knows about you niche shit. Go ask on the forums or debug it yourself. Start by editing the motioninterpolation.py script to print out the current directory right before it calls core.ffms2.Source

>>61053408
As you can tell from the for loop, this is a recursive function,meaning all files in the directory the command is run from, will be processed.Having an absolute path defeats the point of the script

>>61053425
>rf="$(realpath "$file")"
man realpath

>>61053425
>recursive function,meaning all files in the directory the command is run from
That isn't what recursive means

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>>61053318
>Well, obviously, but you don't have to mention that kde uses qt, everytime someone mentions kde

>There are two main toolkits used to make graphical user interfaces for GNU/Linux. They are ___ and ___.

You're asking 'how to make KDE themes' which implies that you don't know that you're really talking about Qt, so within this context they should. Had you asked "how to make Qt themes?" it would be different. KDE isn't the only thing that uses Qt. There is LXQt and Budgie is currently switching to Qt, there may be others that I'm not aware of, but either way 'KDE window manager theme' is incorrect and if you're thinking that you are on the wrong track to figuring out what you're trying to do. It's the toolkit it (and Qt programs) use. It's just like you wouldn't say 'Xfce theme', 'MATE theme', or 'Cinnamon window decoration theme' because non retards know that it's GTK.

>>61053496
Recursion (computer science):
Most computer programming languages support recursion by allowing a function to call itself within the program text. Some functional programming languages do not define any looping constructs but rely solely on recursion to repeatedly call code. Computability theory proves that these recursive-only languages are Turing complete; they are as computationally powerful as Turing complete imperative languages, meaning they can solve the same kinds of problems as imperative languages even without iterative control structures such as “while” and ((((((((((“for”))))))))).

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>>61052713
Where to find a tutorial or a guide or at least a documentation to write a custom modern Cinnamon window decoration theme(Adwaita, for example)?

>>61053511
Loops can be recursive. Not all loops are. The one posted above is not. It is just a loop.

Did you miss the
> allowing a function to call itself within the program text
In the very text you quoted?

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This evening I shall be installing Arch Linux. Dual booting with Windows 7.

Any tips?

Wish me luck fellow fa/g/s

>>61053531
And look at what a FOR loop does exactly.

You'd rather be a bitter asshat then help someone.

Nice

>>61053554
Don't bother dual booting. If you can't afford a spare machine for Windows just stick to the GNU system.

>>61053573
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/325601/is-a-while-loop-intrinsically-a-recursion

A am helping. I told you to try using the absolute path and you used recursion as an excuse not to. Not only is that not an excuse, in you case it is not true. Now try passing in the absolute path using `realpath` like I told you to. Why are you even here asking for help if you are not going to listen?

>>61047486
>closed source emulator
Who the fuck cares? I'm disgusted with the support it's getting. I love Zelda, but those patreons are downright retarded. Besides, based rpcs3 devs are having strides and the PS3 library is insanely big. I'd love to play some of that shit.

>>61053554
This guy is right: >>61053601
There are very few situations where you legitimately need to dual boot.

If you only need a handful of windows programs, you may be better off with a windows VM

>>61053630
I dont need a realpath.
I put this in $HOME/bin
Go to a directory filled with media files
type the name of the command and boom it starts processing it.

Having an absolute path defeats the purpose of the script.

>wont listen
You arent reading

>>61053601
bullshit
there were times where I quadruple booted, all the while maintaining an identical media playlist picking up where I left from between os's
more will always = more

>>61053253
I've tried shortening to match just the hostname and grep always exits with a 1.

echo "$PAM_RHOST" | grep "anondesktop"

>>61053657
I am not asking you to hardcode anything. Look at the man page for realpath- Fuck it, I'll do it for you. Just try this script.

#!/bin/bash
for f in *; do
  file="$(realpath "$f")"
  vspipe --arg in_filename="$file" --arg display_fps=60 --y4m $HOME/bin/motioninterpolation.vpy - | ffmpeg -i - -crf 11 "$file"-60
done

>>61053692
Would it be weird for me to ask what is in PAM_RHOST?

>>61053732
Basically the remote host, either an IP or hostname. I've echo'd it to a file and it's definitely 'anondesktop'. It's working fine for IPs, aka any IP on my internal network (192.168.0.1/24) is grep'd and returns a successful exit code. However I've recently assigned static IPs on some computers and given them hostnames. Trying to whitelist them as PAM_RHOST no longer contains the IP but the hostname.

So. Partitioning and filesystems. LVM with something stable like ext4? Or Btrfs?

>>61053823
btrfs is an experimental filesystem.
It still cannot handle raid and it likes to randomly corrupt your filesystem

ext4 for everything

Is it possible for a Windows partition(s) to be installed to bare metal both as a dualboot and used with PCIe passthrough empowered VM inside of GNU/Linux at the same time?

>>61053902
Not sure about partitions, it might confuse windows not to find a partition table. Maybe have a boot image and use the passed partition for data.

Regardless, you should try it and report back!

>>61053601
>>61053632
Unfortunately I live with someone who I share this PC with who for the time being isn't willing to learn a new OS. It's hopefully just temporary.

>>61053902
Yeah. Virtualbox has the command 'createrawvmdk' that will point to an actual partition. So it would be something like:

sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename sda1.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdX -partitions 1

>>61054011
>learn a new OS
How hard is it to open a fucking browser or a file manager? Many DEs behave exactly like Windows and would be intuitive to anyone. Besides that you can get a decent laptop for ~100 bucks at a pawn shop or something anyways. If you can't swing that consider getting a job?

-Sent from my $120 used Dankpad-

>>61054052
Sweet. Time to do some research.
Ryzen isn't perfect with VFIO gaming yet, so I want a dual-boot fallback option for the few poorer preforming games until the issues get worked out.

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>>61054098
Just get a second machine. I don't understand this obsession so many people have with everything on one machine. It's ridiculous.

>>61054144
Money and space to put things doesn't grow on trees. You're honestly suggesting I build an entirely separate computer for another OS? Even when using a KVM switch to share monitors/prepherals, that's fucking ludicrous.

The only time two systems makes sense is if one is attached to secure network systems only and the other one is connected to the general web

>>61054221
>The only time two systems makes sense
>You're honestly suggesting I build an entirely separate computer

You don't actually need a whole machine to achieve this. All you need is a spare hard drive. Get a job you fucking nigger.

sudo killall normiescum

>>61050320
mdadm RAID1 and then XFS

>>61054259
This is what happens when you step into a conversation midway.

>>61054144
Just get a second machine

>>61054221
You're honestly suggesting I build an entirely separate computer

>>61054259
All you need is a spare hard drive

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Why has the been no obenbsd level audit of systemd yet?

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>>61054445
there's never been an audit of fecal matter either
yet we all know it's shit

>>61049631
mine is name@distro
e.g. anon@debian, anon@arch, ...

>>61048555

>having to switch between window managers "for productivity"

Wow. That's the most retarded and pretentious thing I've read all month. You are so stupid, there's no way to explain, but I'll try.

If you have to switch from your window manager you deem "productive" then it isn't productive in the first place. A window manager is something you don't notice, it manages your windows. If you have to think that hard about it, then it's against its purpose.
I'm not even going to talk about the other retarded buzzwords and phrases you used.

You won't install any distribution, you'll end up on Windows anyway.

>>61051037

You don't even know what a distribution is. You don't know what makes a "good" distribution (hint: it's subjective you retard). You don't know what systemd is.
The only reason you don't want to use systemd is because other idiots tell you it's bad and you being the gullible retard that you are go with it.

>>61051523

wifi-menu has nothing to do with systemd. It's part of netctl, Arch Linux's network utility tool.

>>61051050
outdated.

>>61052145

What replaced it?

>>61053141

He didn't say "KDE theme", he said "KDE window decoration theme". It was implied he wanted to create a window manager theme.

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>>61051621
Don't. There's nothing you can do in another distro that you cannot do in Ubuntu. If you have no problems with it and like how it works, just stay. If you start distro hopping you will find it hard to stop.

>>61051746
stable nation represent

>>61054562

His signature looks like a penis. Is that part of the joke?

>>61054919
What? No. That's just a signature.

I downloaded some music, but all the tracks are in a single file. luckily it came with a .cue with all the track listings. How do I easily split into into separate tracks, with no loss of quality, on gnu/linux?

>>61049474
acthually it's about ethics in linux distro journalism

So I'm trying to install Debian Stretch from a flash drive and I'm getting an error in the installer saying the installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted. Any idea what to do?

>>61055125
I don't know if there's any tool to do it automatically with the cue file but you can always do this:

ffmpeg -i <inputFile> -c:a copy -ss <startTime> -t <duration> <outputFile>

Whenever using "copy" though the time alignment could be off a little (shouldn't be more than a second I don't think) since it doesn't do any re-encoding. If you want perfectly accurate times you'd have to re-encode.

>>61055125
shnsplit from the shntool package or http://etree.org/shnutils/shntool/ can. Eg:

shnsplit -f original_mix.cue -t "%n. %t" original_mix.flac

Will make a bunch of wav file named <track>. <title> in the current dir.

>>61055331
Not that anon, but if its making lossless format outputs from a lossy input then that's kind of silly. The quality is the same but it's going to be much larger file size and if you ever want to convert it back to something else again (like the original format) you're going to lose more quality.

ffmpeg can do it without any quality loss or re-encoding at all and outputs the same format as the original file.

>>61055378
Note that the example uses a flac file and >>61055125 never said what format their mix is.

The mp3split man page says it also supports cue files. From the package of the same name or http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/

>>61055176
Tried a flash drive and it worked fine, guess Debian just doesn't like my USB SSD.

>>61055411
How confident are you though that it doesn't lose quality? Personally I wouldn't trust anything off the bat other than ffmpeg with the copy option to not do re-encoding, and it can do it with pretty much any file type.

But if he does use something else I'd recommend getting a program like "spek" to get some visual representation of the audio that can be compared to the original

>>61055460
Who gives a fuck? If they cared about muh perfect bitwise quality they would use something like shnsplit which doesn't support lossless files and only operates on wav, which is just pcm.
Fucking "audiophiles".

>>61055536
You don't have to be an audiophile to see how retarded it is to convert from a lossy format to a lossless one, especially when _simple_ options exist >>61055230 that literally do exactly what that guy wants. Just chops the files up without any change to audio whatsoever.

>>61055618
>convert from a lossy format to a lossless one
No-one suggested that.

>>61055688
wav is lossless

>>61055761
So is flac.

What FOSS software should I use to read/convert this ebook?

$ file book.azw3
book.azw3: Mobipocket E-book "Title", 114215 bytes uncompressed, version 8, codepage 65001

>>61049607
Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.

>>61049474
And default configs.

>decide to switch from unity because it sucks on dual monitor setups
>install gnome3 through the terminal because i know it works
>it installs a chrome extension
how the fuck is this acceptable

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So I know how to this a bit offtopic, but can someone recommend a cheap minipc for basic tasks
(correcting some code, remote controlled issue fixing, reading pdfs/browsing, should handle 1080p without going dogshit slow after opening one application)?

I'd be running debian.

Ideal would be around 100bucks , but I'd also go up to 300bucks if necessary.

So i am using the ubuntu desktop and want to use the server stuff like samba and apache, is there some simple command that will install them all prepared like they are on the ubuntu server edition?

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>>61055880
>cant even be disabled
im fucking livid

>>61055880
gnome is shite
if you want something pretty just use KDE

>>61055911
my priority is having my dual monitor setup with a downscaled 4k monitor to 1080p work without weird artifacts around things in motion and not even gnome helped
guess i'll have to install every DE just to see what works

>>61048498
Gentoo, Source Mage, Void

>>61055891
Anyone? On windows there is a pack called lamp which i can install and it it install php mysql and apache all preconfigured to work with each other out of the box. Shit i wish linux had easy things like this too.

>>61055880
>>61055900
what does it do?

>>61056233
tasksel is the tool on debian to install generic metapackages and there seem to be ones for web server and ssh server. But no, there is nothing like what you are looking for in ubuntu. I'm sure there are 700 docker images which claim to have the perfect server setup though.

>>61056272
I'm curious too.

>>61056272
used with gnome tweak tool to install extensions from the website

>>61056272
>>61056283
it's for installing gnome extension from their website.

What is more hand holding, debian or ubuntu?

>>61056493
ubuntu

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How do I encrypt whole hard drive during minimal install of ubuntu?

>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD

>>61056646
Check the "encrypt my harddrive pls" checkbox during the installation processw

>>61056661
there was not such checkbox. It may be in the expert mode install option.

>>61056646
Nobody even cares you exist, why would they care about you data? There is literally no point to encrypt anything unless you work for fbi or some shit

>>61056690
oh look, it's the "I got nothing to hide" guy.
fuck off.

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>>61056690
>Nobody even cares you exist
>mfw

>>61056699
Not really i have my share of gross porn saved like everyone else but nobody cares that is the point here. No point in hiding something nobody wants to even look for

>>61056712
minimal install doesn't even have a GUI, it's not about protecting my porn stash, it's about protecting work related code, and coding in minimal environment

So basically my family is causals so they are using the gui version of ubuntu in polish, but when i connect via ssh i would like the terminal to speak to me in english since i am used to having my OS in english (due to voice command support in windows and android etc)
Is this doable? Without me having to constantly manually switch them of course

>>61056739
>implying you aren't the casual for using voice commands and windows

>>61056739
LANG=POSIX and proceed with your life man

>>61056760
I use it all the time to set reminders and do google searches and shit, it saves me so much time. You are the serf here son.

>>61056773
I could type whatever comes out of your mouth breathing fuckface faster than you can babble it in your polish English hybrid. I'm sure Microsoft loves all the data though.

>>61056820
>I could type
And that is why you always be a pleb, i am using voice commands while typing at the same time and don't waste time like a retard by doing only one thing at the same time

I have to switch a hdd with linux mint installed on from a pc to another pc with different parts, how fucked am I?

Or will it automatic recognize/accept the new parts?

>>61056855
>third worlder calling anyone a pleb
You are barely above India mate

>>61056867
Can you take liver from a cow and just put it into a human and expect it to work?

>>61056867
You will be fine, unless the 2nd PC has an nvidia card and you don't have proprietary drivers installed for it, then shit might go bonkers.

i have a problem with clicking on stuff. mouse moves just fine though. why could be the cause?

>>61056896
>>61057004
Okay then i will dban the hdd.

>>61057004
One of the main sings of autism is among others poor eye-hand coordination

>>61056867
If you are not trying to use it as the OS it will be fine. If you are trying to use it as the OS there are like three things you have to change. IIRC there is the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules for net naming bullshit (actually that may not be a thing anymore, thanks lennart), /etc/fstab the change everything in there other than the current drive, I can't remember the other one. maybe the swap specifier in initramfs. But basically try boot into it and have a live distro on hand to fix things.

>>61057039
>>61057004
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/PEBCAK

>>61057109
I have bootable usb sticks with linux/ubuntu and win 7/10
So if it dont work i will nuke the hdd with dban and do a fresh installation.
I just wanna avoid waiting 20hours to erase the old data.
Or should I install mint over the old partition

>>61047107
Arch is for advanced users only.

>>61056712
>>61056690

Laptops can get stolen you fucking idiot.

>>61056646
Manually. This also applies to installation with "full" media, in case you want different encryption options.

Encryption:

cryptsetup -c aes-xts-plain64 -s 512 -h sha512 --use-random luksFormat disk_name

The options are for better encryption since the defaults suck.

Open the drive:

cryptsetup open disk_name dm_device

dm_device is whatever name you want the device be accessible as, path will be /dev/mapper/dm_device

If you want LVM on top of it, now is the time.
Now proceed with installation.
After installation, you need to add an entry to /etc/crypttab (read the manpage, I'm not going to rewrite it here) and regenerate initramfs and bootloader config (update-initramfs and update-grub, again read through their manpages).

That should be all but I haven't done this in ages so there might be something I've forgotten.

>>61057675
Oh right, the initramfs and bootloader part needs to be done in chroot, but I'm sure you know how to do that.

how do you pronounce linux?

>>61057696
"torvald's-kernel"

>>61057618
Indeed, and you knows what happens next? They get formatted and a fresh version of windows is installed because nobody gives a shit about your bloat, they only want the hw

>>61057730

No, they take it to a computer service shop and the guy working there looks at your stuff. Also even the most computer oblivious people will look up on their search engine "how to view files on found computer".

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I made a new thread for you!
It's here: >>61057746

>>61057691
>>61057675
thanks!

>>61055814
Calibre

>>61055947
I do this with xorg on LXDE with Openbox and lxrandr. Need to restart X when I plug in new monitors if I want LXDE to draw a background.

>>61056233
you can use docker to do this quite easily

>>61057696
Lin rhymes with pin
ux rhymes with ox but with an "u" sound
But since Torvalds' native language is Swedish, the Swedish pronounciation might be more correkt (something like lynúks, can upload vocaroo)