/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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https://stallman.org/guantanamero.ogg

>>54880001
https://youtu.be/5Z2O1PUuRGE?t=1m35s

>>54880022
err I put the .iso on to my regular hard drive, then used Rufus to configure the usb drive as a bootable. Seemed to work, and it took me to the Ubuntu installer. I'll try the install again and report back. The problem before was that it was stuck on creating ext4 directory or something like that. New to all this.

Why should I use Linux when it has no video games?

>>54880083
are you trying to install ubuntu TO the USB stick in the installer? or to a hard drive?

>>54880114
I want ubuntu ON the usb drive.

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>>54880095

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can someone tell me why "open with archive manager" shows up twice when i right click a compressed directory. is there a way to remove one of them? i'm on xubuntu 16.04

So, a certain family member of mine always installs crapware, toolbar shit and other malware on her windows laptop. I think I'll install linux on it and see how it goes, just tired of being a constant windows support slave.

What do you guys think is the most idiot-proof desktop linux distro? Usage scenario: basic web browsing, reading PDFs, playing music/video, etc.

I check out a few and sort of thinking about manjaro/mint/ubuntu

Getting a new PC soon and I have the option of either buying Windows 8 or just putting Ubuntu on a USB and going with that.

Be honest, am I going to hinder myself with Ubuntu as a student? I've tried opening Microsoft Word docs from my school in LibreOffice before and the formatting was fucked. Should I just keep Ubuntu in a VM on Windows maybe?

Re-Requesting for the CSS Freinds;
>>>54879315

>>54880095
Use Wine.
>>54880143
You need a second drive. Get a USB Drive, install ubuntu, plug the second one it. Select it as the installer. Be sure to install GRUB

>>54880234
Fuck off, also: filtered.

>>54880149
There is nothing but quake clones and shitty indie games.

>>54880234
Rarely works

>>54880242
>Being so immature you can't handle a tripcode
lol. Enable forced anon if you're so easily triggered

>>54880242
Autism

>>54880274
didn't read; filtered

>>54880223
i dont even know why i answer this question but you have a point.

if you dont need windows to game i would have windows in a virtaul machine not the other way around.

>>54880294
Fag

>>54880217
wasnt there a win xp killer/clone as a linux flavor? maybe that one?

>>54880234
>be sure to install GRUB
The bootloader? If I grab the ubuntu iso from their website, it should be included by default right?
So you need 2 drives to install ubuntu? Or is it purely because I'm not using a Cd to install?

>>54880274
Hi there!
You seem to have made a bit of a mistake in your post. Luckily, the users of 4chan are always willing to help you clear this problem right up! You appear to have used a tripcode when posting, but your identity has nothing at all to do with the conversation! Whoops! You should always remember to stop using your tripcode when the thread it was used for is gone, unless another one is started! Posting with a tripcode when it isn't necessary is poor form. You should always try to post anonymously, unless your identity is absolutely vital to the post that you're making!
Now, there's no need to thank me - I'm just doing my bait to help you get used to the anonymous image-board culture!

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>>54880313
But Adolf, you are the fag here.

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>>54880319
>I'm just doing my bait

>>54880234
>>54880318
Ok this makes more sense now. So basically what I did was turned the USB drive into an installer. It wasn't working because I was trying to install Ubunut onto said installer. Is this more or less correct?
Apologies, I'm essentially learning from scratch here.

>>54880491
yes, that's it. And you can't install Ubunut (I like this typo, has a certain sound to it) because the source is the same as the destination. You would erase the system you're trying to install.

>go to new thread
>no posts
>wait
>1 hour later no posts
>turn off filtering
>every single post is filtered
>what are you doing

anyone try mycroft yet?

haven't had the time to try it after i couldn't get it working the day the core was released. now i see there is even a gnome extension for it.

>>54880816
your filters might be a bit too aggressive. That said, people are arguing with tripfags about being tripfags atm.

What's the best remote desktop software for linux now that teamviewer is kill?

>>54880816
>Using filters

>>54881114
try remmina

>>54881136
what about for the server?

>>54881142
if its on windows i think you only need to enable remote desktop. i havent tried it with a linux server but it's probably something similar

>>54881191
i'm talking about the pros and cons between using x2go, vnc over ssh tunnel, xrdp, etc? You are in the /flt/, remember?

Just installed trisquel for my father on a relatively old machine with 4 gigs of ram. It's so ridicoulusly blazingly fast, I don't even know what to say.

>>54881289
That's because they're freetards and thus have only a small handful of shitty applications to bloat their OS with

>>54881289
Why Trisquel? Is your father Stallman?

>>54881368
He only uses a web browser, libreoffice and thunderbird anyway. I wanted the most lightweight stuff possible and I think I got it.

>>54881397
no that would've been LFS, but it's the thought that counts

>>54881426
>LFS
You know, I wanted something that justwerks

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Guys, for some reason I cannot boot into Ubuntu anymore. After selecting it to boot (I dual boot with Windows 7), I get into a black screen and cannot get out of it.

1) Changing with Ctrl+Alt+F1 or any other has no effect. I cannot use a terminal.
2) I tried booting into recovery mode and checking for broken packages, no success.
3) While the screen is black, its brightness keeps switching between total black and a clearer black.

I can use and run commands through a terminal using a LiveCD, though. Does anyone have any idea of what I could do? Should I just format it?

>>54881500
worst case scenario, back up your list of packages and your entire /home/ directory. If you modified /etc/ file back up those too. Then you can reinstall, transfer the old home directory back and basically have your system back.

Sounds like driver/kernel issues. You definitely did do something before it stopped working (updated system, hardware)? If you have cached packages you might try downgrading your kernel to the previous version and run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg if the *.deb packages don't already have hooks for that.

>>54881533
I don't think I did anything harmful. I think the only commands I used in the last 3 days were apt update and apt upgrade. This happened after the system was up for 3 days downloading anime. The HD where its installed still has plenty of space.

I tried booting into old kernels (there are some available in the boot menu, I didn't install them myself so I suppose apt keeps the old versions?), and got the same problem. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04, ~2 months install.

I'd like to avoid formatting, but I guess its the only choice.

>>54881634
Ok so it wasn't the kernel. Then try the graphics-driver -- see if you can downgrade it. After that do the backup/restore path.

I'm sure you could figure out the problem -- possibly by analyzing the logs with journalctl -b, but I'm not sure if you would have to chroot into your installation for that since you can't boot into it directly.

You could alternatively try to disable your login-manager (probably a systemd-service), by removing the appropriate symlink from your filesystem and then boot into a CLI. From there you could check with journactl -b 2 what went wrong.

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>>54880491
>>54880738
Well I followed the installer, it said Ubuntu was successfully installed on the USB. I restarted computer, waited for Bios splash screen, selected the usb as boot device. I got this screen and it's been there for a couple minutes without moving.
What does recovering journal mean? Did I do something wrong?

>>54881634
By the way, this is what you get for using a distro that uses a bootsplash that hides the init/systemd output and is (imho) pretty much shit in general.

After about 5 hours my mouse turns full retard. Tracking issues,flat out stops.
I reconnect it but it dosent change.
Nothing in journalctl or dmesg. wtf is going on

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>>54881717
Welll i set it to first boot priority in BIOS, restarted, and then it did this instead.
If you can't tell from my terrible picture, something about clearing orphaned inode. I have no idea what any of this means and Google isn't helping a lot.

>>54881865
It means it's clearing corrupted data from a forced shut down.

>>54881882
>>>54881865 (You)
>It means it's clearing corrupted data from a forced shut down.
Should I just let it do its thing then? None of the numbers on screen have changed in about 10 minutes.

-
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is it safe tot delete the ~/.thumbnails folder?

i mean clearing the cache by deleting the contents of that folder

>>54881941
It's already clean.

thus the "/dev/sdc1, clean" message from systemd
Hmm... I've had kali linux stick on the screen as well. I usually did a few reboots and it fixed itself.

Reboot by pressing alt + SYSRQ / Print screen together and then typing REISUB. This is a "clean" restart without fucking up your filesystem.

>>54882033
I'm sorry. appchanx fucked up my tripcodes for some reason.
sage

>>54881973
Yes

>>54882033
I had a screen say Ubuntu for a few seconds, then i got the same screen again but without the recovering journals part.

>>54882065
thanks for the reply.

so that folder has 91461 files (564 MB). (all .png files)

how can delete all files inside that folder with the terminal?

>>54882144
rm -rf ~/.thumbnails/*

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>can't afford fancy nice laptop
>current chromebook falling into disrepair
>want to do some pentest stuff
>so no more chromebook
>end up buying an ideapad 100s
>go to install kali
>fucking faggot uefi bullshit
>spend forever trying to get uefi and grub to play nice
>finally get the thing to boot right
>login
>onboard wifi doesn't show up with lspci or lshw or dmesg
>same with sound card
>spend another forever fucking around with modules to try and get the wifi card recognized
>try a number of different modules
>nothing
>decide to just stick with using my usb wifi adapter for now
>sound isn't a necesscity I guess
also the touchpad is incapable mechanically of doing scrolling so I have to use scrollbars like a fucking idiot. fuck you lenovo fuck you microsoft fuck you realtek rrreeee

does anyone have any suggestions for a good wifi dongle, the one I have is pretty basic (2.4ghz only, slow as shit, low power, etc)

>>54882093
>>54882033
Well i did the restart again with the shortcut. I got it to boot to Ubuntu desktop yay! But now it is not recognizing my Wi-Fi but heyyyy progress.

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>>54879983
Again I want to thank the anon community for their help with this installation of arch. I have taken extensive notes and am sharing the 2 page install instructions on ghostbin.

ARCH INSTALL VM
https://ghostbin.com/paste/zrxp9

i hope noobs will be able to use it and if anyone wants to to edit bmg

-anon noob
o7

I installed gohufont from pacaur, but it doesn't appears whatever the software (ide, terminal...) is there a way to fix it ?
Archwiki didn't helped that much

so i tried in my terminal

> feh *

but got

bash: /usr/bin/feh: Argument list too long

what do?

>>54881668
Thanks, I'll try that.

>>54882201
oh ps if you do update please reference

>>54879983

paste so us noobs can maybe google update or something

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>>54881668
So, I chroot'd into my installation. I ran journalctl -b and it says no journal files were found.

>>54882225
ur trying to look at a pic of my dick :^)

>>54882225
you're probably trying to open an image

do this

feh -r images/*
# or simply
feh -r *

>>54882201
Not to be a cunt, all of that is on the arch wiki.

>>54879983
>Stallman in a hoodie
Can someone please photoshop this picture of stallman in with that guy from that Hacker show?

>>54882250
top kek

seriously tough, i have more that 50000 pics in that folder. how can i see it with feh ?

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>>54882264

>>54882222
Duckduckgo gave me the answer

rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
sudo fc-cache -fv

and I realize I wasted quads.

>>54882253
still got

bash: /usr/bin/feh: Argument list too long

>>54882322
>feh: Argument list too long
what command did u runn?

>>54882222
>>54882314
You are blind
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fontconfig#Disable_bitmap_fonts

>>54882309
I meant photoshop/gimp them so that they're both in they're hoodies sitting together. Though this is funny too anon, thanks

>>54882349

  feh -r * 

>>54882368
wierd what version? Im at 2.14

Maybe try, if you know the extensions of your images

feh -r *.{png,gif,jpg,jpeg}

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>>54882360
stallman is looking at him now

>>54882431

[~] >>> feh -v
feh version 2.2

there are only png images on that folder. the thing is, its a lot of files + 50000..

>>54882458
hmm don know how later version will react

but still no luck with

feh -r *.png

>>54882477
still no luck.

well forget it then

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What distro would you reccomend for a netbook with these specs?

>>54882512
Lubuntu or Xubuntu.

>>54882512
damn small linux

>>54882512
xubuntu all the way. i'm using it

>>54882512
Bunsenlabs.
You may or may not need to get the non-PAE version.

Question:


how to delete all files in a directory that start with 89?
like

89313431342.pdf <--- delete this
58412552365.pdf
89655258745.pdf <-- delete this

>>54882443
Fuken saved

>>54882512
give up trying to run an de even a light one

maybe lxde at best

but youre gonna have to install awesome or dwm for maximum memory because your de would suck out some free memory

>>54882624
rm 89*.pdf

>>54882512
swm

>>54882641
If they're not all pdf then do "rm 89*.* " without the quotes (make sure you're in the right directory though).

>>54882695
good

make sure to do

ls 89*.* 

and check which files would be selected

>>54882443
I love this

I'm trying out KDE and I really like Dolphin but the one thing I've noticed is that it doesn't allow you to type something and go to a file with what you typed in the name. It works if the file begins with what you type but if I have a file like 'the.file.torrent' and I type 'file' it doesn't jump to it.
Is there a way to enable this or change this behaviour?

>>54882443
More shit needs to be added to this, it has potential

>>54882799
guy who posted the image here.

i'm open to suggestions. i'm no pro in gimp though

>>54882826
A tiny gpl in the background being stomped on by apache,bsd,mit and wtfpl.
gnu hurd mascot getting raped by Tux

>>54882845
hmm too hard maybe.

i can only had to the picture already existent elements

Wait, so is compiling from source just extracting a .tar file? That's what some youtube video made it look like.

>>54882898
>extracting a .tar file
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install

>>54882898
>>54882909
Depends on what you're installing
Check for INSTALL or README files for furthre info
>qmake
>autogen
>etc

Im having a bitch of a time setting up wireless on Ubuntu 16.04. I googled the name of the wireless network card, seems tons of people have the same problem, with various degrees of being fixed. It's recognizing my Wi-Fi but not letting me get on any Firefox pages.

Qualcomm Atheros ar9485.

>>54883033
did you saw this?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/770897/problems-with-qualcomm-atheros-qca6174-in-ubuntu-16-04

>>54882257
every knowledge is out there, why make it easier, right?
>reference books exist, why make tutorials? who cares about saving time? straightforward instructions? pff. I prefer to break the flow scrolling back and forth.

fucking freetards can't see a convenience and they start complaning.

EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.

>why implement this, I can do this in this complicated way, why a GUI, I can work around that

>>54883086
New to me. My computer in question doesn't seem to be able to access the internet at all so I have to type all that how to manually. Idk how I'm going to get that github firmware either.
Posting from Clover atm.
I will try it.

>>54882512
My old pentium machine with 1g of ram, needs to run openbox to be useable. So, choose a window manager and do that. Otherwise, throw it in the garbage can or give it to me.

>>54883133
The arch wiki has a literal tutorial on how to install arch.

>>54883270
yes. and so what?
there's 7 billion people in the world whose final purpose is the same, yet they aren't all the same people.

there can be multiple things of the same purpose, stop whining at every seemingly duplicate thing you find.

>>54883318
>point people to documentation of the thing they're interested about
>waaa stopppp reading is hard!!!

>>54883343
reading isn't hard. but the same way that reading a recipe is can be less straight forward than seeing it done, another tutorial might be better for some.

just stop complaining every time you see another one pop up.

>>54883366
stop wasting your time with that retard. You are right, more learning resources can never be a bad thing -- you know you are right, so why even continue this discussion? It's some retarded ape that you are trying to convince...

>>54883389
the plan was to stop there, but thanks for the input ;^)

and thank you for the guide if it was yours, I saved it. my arch install back then didn't went past syslinux install for some reason. though I enjoyed myself some antergos.

>>54883445
Wasn't mine, but I'm glad everything worked out for you.

>>54883086
Ubuntu wouldn't let me make folders with / the name, and besides that that person used to be using a different model than I am. I'm the anon from above
>>54882180
This is all pretty new to me.

>>54883144
what about ethernet?

>>54883651
Don't have access to ethernet at moment. Maybe in a couple days.

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>>54883033
i've got an HP-2000 with this in it

05:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

worked fine until Linux 4.5 (my hdd also stopped syncing at 4.5), just use Ubuntu 14.04 for now that's what I'm doing (I had to switch from Arch but oh well, pic related.)

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Some times when i let NCMPCPP be for a couple of hours the thing distorts. I can fix this by resizing the terminal and it immediately fixes itself.

Does anyone know if this is a problem for everybody or if there's a fix for me?

Pic semi related.

Too, like dude... how do I like make a windows keyloggers on like Linux and shit

>>54883857
mfw google

>>54883823
Is it the default drivers that are fucky?

>>54883826
What do you mean distorts?

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>>54884060
It just happened, this is before the distortion.

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>>54884072
This is after i resize the window

okay guise im going to try and install Arch in a VM..

>>54880313
juden

I'm going headfirst into an arch build for my XPS13 as I'm tired of Windows. Is there any other distro you anons recommend besides Ubuntu MATE for an ultrabook. It's a tie between the two right now and I'll be testing them tonight.

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>>54884632
I started using arch like a month ago from ubuntu MATE, feels awesome.
I have the MATE DE and I feel quite comfortable getting around.
Those are the two distros I would recommend

>>54884731
What would be the pros of using Arch over Ubuntu?

I'm an Ubuntu man myself and i dont really see the point of going Arch.

>>54884743
pros
getting to know more on how linux works
minimal install, you get to install only the things you want
awesome guides and documentations

not had any drawbacks so far
if you don't see the need to change you can always try running in vm.

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I'm using Ubuntu and i want to remove all native functions these keys have so that i can bind them to whatever i want.

Ctrl+Pause becomes Break as it is now and i cant bind shit to Ctrl+Pause because of it.

How do i clear these keys so that i can bind shit to them without any hassle?

(1/2) Install DKMS modules
==> No kernel 4.5.4-1-1-ARCH headers. You must install them to use DKMS!

Im installing Arch on a virtual box and got this after trying to install guest additons. What do ?

>>54885255
>1/2) Install DKMS modules
>==> No kernel 4.5.4-1-1-ARCH headers. You must install them to use DKMS!
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=210378

>>54880071
is that a flute or a recorder?
I don't trust title

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y/n?

shit okay i installed the MATE desktop in Arch, I am newb at this. I just rebooted into the newly installed arch OS and want to enable the MATE desktop. Its something like

sudo systemctl enable ?????

>>54885434
install lightdm and set it up to start on boot
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM

>>54885434
>>54885469

# pacman -S lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter

from there, uncomment this line "greeter-session=lightdm-yourgreeter-greeter" from the /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
then enable the display manager

# systemctl enable lightdm

>>54885575
from there on, I recommend you read around the wiki and google for the problems..
if you are a wifi connection, remember to run the wifi-menu in the terminal as root so that you can connect before you get a GUI network manager.

>>54885575
I need to resolve my internet connection and Im rtfm right now so I dont ask ignorant shit. Thanks m8

>>54885640
It can be hard to get what you are looking for when you feel cornered. felt something of that nature when architect would not install things for me.
you just ease up and go step by step with the wiki and you will get it working.
>friendly gnu/linux thread

Can we include more than just a few linux distributions in this thread by dropping the GNU part? Very few distros call themselves GNU

>>54885706
yeah Ive used Buntu for years and am not used to the manual configuration of things, but I want to learn my way around GNU/Linux more than I did before.

Also I figgured out that my mirrors are bad and I am updating them now..

Which distro would you recommend for a windblows feel? File system wise etc I need something close to windows so I can get used to linux command line and still use it as a normal pc

>>54885755
all the ones that matter use the gnu

>>54885790
don't pressure yourself m8 ask questions when answers are not in the wiki or the forums

is there a speed difference between desktop environments? as in choosing y over z will result in 5% more performance in glxgears

Hey guys, I'm trying to get started with dwm, as a C programmer.

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out where the number of windows currently viewable is. I know

selmon->nmaster

has the number of windows in the master pane, but I don't know more than that. Can anybody help?

>>54885790
you can head over at the irc arch channels for more information

>>54885881
I figured it out. I have to count them all up myself.
Ah well.

Does anyone know how to make Banshee fullscreen not look like shit? What other music play with last.fm support is there thats not shit?

year of the linux?

Are there any alternatives to desktop environments on linux? I don't want to use them, but I don't want to look at a blank terminal either. Anyone know of something that's a bit prettier to look at and customisable?

>>54880194
You have 2 archive managers installed

>>54886322
Yes, window managers. Try openbox +tint2 (panel) if you prefer floating windows, otherwise use i3 for stacking.

How do I stop being a noob with linux?

What photo viewer do you guys use?

Been using Ristretto and just tried Shotwell but neither allow me to change binds for next picture, zoom etc.

>>54884080
That symbol indicates a missing symbol. It usually shows up when some unicode symbol is missing. Since it's actually not an unicode symbol and not missing, it must be a bug either with your terminal or ncmpcpp. Try another termial.

>>54887468
mpv, also allows changing binds via input.conf
sxiv is also nice
feh is what most people use

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>>54887644
The text isnt supposed to be there at all, nevermind why there's an odd symbol there.

How to change Adwaita's bg_color:#e8e8e7 for GTK+3 ?

>>54887702
I see. Does the same thing happen with a different terminal? (try xterm, should be intalled already).

>>54887748
Never tried before.

Started it up, lets see if it changes.

>>54887702
What's your version? Latest: 0.7.3
If your version is older, try compiling from git
https://github.com/arybczak/ncmpcpp/releases

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>>54887829
I see its a bit old then.

Could try a newer version if xterm shows the same bugs.

Is there a way to see which USE flags an application has?

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dabes

>>54887877
install gentoo

>>54886192
come back in 2017 - 2018.

>>54882201
those are the worst 'instructions' i've ever seen
if i was new to linux there's no way i'd understand any of that
and despite being able to install arch easily without instruction, i still don't follow half of what you wrote

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Guys, how can I reinstall systemd? I tried Dunning sudo apt install --reinstall systems but got the following error:

Setting up systemd(229-4ubuntu6) ...
add group: The group 'systemd-journal' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
Operation failed: No such file or directory

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>>54886192
The year of the GNU/Linux desktop was already there, luckily nobody could discover it, since unlike Windows or OS X, GNU/Linux doesn't phone home, except for updating packages, and even if you count these results for one distro, there are thousands of other distros, and for all of their repos, kernels, enviroments, etc are interchangeable.

inb4 useragents:
Here you'd need to collect ALL of them, which means collecting agents for all websites, since some are simply not interesting for GNU/Linux users, while other websites may be more interesting. And then there is the guy, which useragent is configured to: ""><script>alert(/xss/)</script>" or simply "Your mom."

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>tfw you enable the offensive flag on Gentoo

>>54885387

>going to an event where people who most likely aren't qualified enough to discuss it discuss it

You'd have to be an idiot to attend that.

Anyone else here dealt with the problem of screen tearing when using a Kepler architecture GPU? I can temporarily solve it with this

nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="DFP-1: 1920x1080 +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"

but whenever an application is run that checks my resolution it gets turned off again.

Is there a more permanent solution?
I'd also like to set up my second monitor to run with this, if possible. As it is now I'm only using the one.

>>54889417
compton

>>54887728

Download the Adwaita theme from the GTK git repo, chance the colours in the .sass files and render the theme.

http://hastebin.com/xemaxetepa.vhdl

What does /g/ think of this?

>>54883389

Because that guy's "instructions" are awful and useless for the goals its set out for.
Only an idiot would get his information from a downstream source. Any sane person would go as close as possible to the source. In this case, it's the Arch Wiki Beginner's Guide.

Is Manjaro stable? I'm looking to use linux as my main OS on my desktop however I haven't used linux in around 5 years and the last time I used Arch something went wrong with it roughly every month. I take it things have gotten better since?

>>54889432

>running tzselect after already symlinking your timezone
useless

>enabling the multilib repository without any reason
stupid

>recommending a pacman -Sy and installing software after that
stupid and retarded, can cause issues

>installing xinit and a display manager
redundant

>recommending the aur
ignorant and sensational. idiots will go and install everything from it without thinking about the consequences (not even talking about "malware", but bugs stemming from incompatible packages)

I understand that you had fun doing that, but what's the point when your guide is narrow and when there's an even simpler, clearer and broader official guide?

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>>54889475
It has it's flaws, but it's stable and nice for the eye. You basically get arch packages some days delayed and patched if something could break. Unlike /g/ likes to meme it, security updates come instantly.

>>54889520
What flaws? I'm aware of the SSL expiration which is the main reason why I'm uncertain about it.

>>54889547
>I'm aware of the SSL expiration
That's what I was talking about.

>>54882491
wtf am I reading

Bash told you in the first post that your argument list is too long.

>>54885208
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_KeyBoard_extension

>>54889512
>>enabling the multilib repository without any reason
>stupid
What's stupid about it

>>installing xinit and a display manager
redundant
>>running tzselect after already symlinking your timezone
>>enabling the multilib repository without any reason
Removed this

>>recommending the aur
>ignorant and sensational. idiots will go and install everything from it without thinking about the consequences (not even talking about "malware", but bugs stemming from incompatible packages)
What to do with that section?

>>54889520

>You basically get arch packages some days delayed
What's the point of arbitrarily delaying package updates? It doesn't fix anything, it can only introduce more problems.

>and patched if something could break
What do they patch? Name some substantial examples.

>>54881820
Install Gentoo

>>54889636

>What's stupid about it

Because you didn't mention what it does and why someone would want to enable it.

>>54889879
>>54889873

memer pls go

>>54889636
>>54889512
What about this?
http://hastebin.com/utifakixam.vhdl

Do I have to have an installation of Windows in order for Wine to work?

>>54890061
no.

>>54890001
>http://hastebin.com/utifakixam.vhdl
damn hella good.

is that a rewrite of ^ noob instructions.

>>54890189
Thanks
Written from scratch

What do they mean when they say this?

 warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew 

>>54890207
Show me everything
from the command to this line

>>54890217
Nothing to show, it's just upgrading pacman mirrorlist

>>54890207
>>54890237
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave

tldr: mirrorlist updated, instead of overwriting the old one, it installs with a .pacnew extension

>>54890200
bookmarked and downloaded

>>54890342
Fuck so I have to uncomment the lines again? I hated that shit

What even is Redhat Linux? Is it a server-OS, a desktop OS, or both?

A lot of companies have it under preferences to know, and I've been wondering if I should teach myself it on my spare computer.

>>54890355
Lol no, if your mirror is working just ignore it. If it's triggering your autism, you can use pacdiff to merge the 2 files.

>>54890379
Ok i just deleted my old mirrorlist

This new one doesn't even have the scores, what do

>>54890409
Mirror ranking is overrated, I just use kernel.org for my mirror. The speed difference is negligible.

>>54882512
arch.

>>54882518
>>54882529
>>54882548
>>54882578
Using a specific "lightweight" distro is almost strictly a -buntu thing. Use arch and a lightweight wm like the other posters said, that's your best bet.

Gentoo would be even better but I doubt you want to compile on that thing.

>>54890433
Should I pick the https ones?

I was using http b4 desu

>>54890478
Yes, always use https if it's available.

Which DE is easy to tweak, or has a lot of downloadable themes? I don't want to go full autist with customisation.

kek, even more suckless than haste:
http://p.ip.fi/

Here's a command to remove crapware on openSUSE because reasons:

zypper remove -u kget ktorrent konqueror konversation kopete k3b choqok dragonplayer digikam clamz akregator5 hugin kmix krdc krfb

>>54890526
XFCE, gnome, mate

>>54890549
zypper remove -u kde-applications
does that work
I dont use suse myself but will it work
if it does this removes 90% of bloat

>>54890579

~> sudo zypper remove -u kde-applications
root's password:
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'kde-applications' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of 'kde-applications' found.
Resolving package dependencies...

Nothing to do.

>>54880095
It does.
What game do you play that can't run on Linux?

>>54890632
Uncharted 4 :^)

>>54879983
Is there a way to create a black/white list for wireless connections in linux? Yesterday our neighbor setup an open wireless hotspot, and I guess my dad's computer lost it's link to our router and connected to that one automatically. I want to prevent that and allow it to only connect to wireless connections I allow.

>>54890566
Thanks, anon. Found some win10 themes for xfce. Time to go full pleb.

>>54890602
kde-applications-meta?

>>54890374
Both.

>>54890687
Same thing.

>>54890664
That's something your network manager should take care of.

>>54890724
Why are kde systems always so bloated

>>54890726
OK, but I'm asking how. I want to block all known/unknown wireless networks, except the ones I white list, i.e. our router.

>>54890549
Forgot the lock command which prevents them from being installed again on updates:

sudo zypper addlock kget ktorrent konqueror konversation kopete k3b choqok dragonplayer digikam clamz akregator5 hugin kmix krdc krfb

>>54890771
I wouldn't say they're that bloated. I use quite a few of the packages that comes with, but some of them I'll never use even though some of them might be useful once in the foreseeable future.

>>54890805
I havent used NetworkManager in years. On wicd-curses I have an option: [ ] automatically connect to this network. All other spots are ignored, just displayed. I guess NetworkManager has such an option also.

NetworkManagerfags ?

>>54890526
you should give cinnamon a try before any other DE.

Help
I cant install cower (dependency of pacaur)
==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg...
cower-16.tar.gz ... FAILED (unknown public key 1EB2638FF56C0C53)
==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build cower.

What signature to add and how to add it?

>>54890838
That option is available in most typical network GUIs that many linux distros have (I have my dad on mint in this case and it's a easy to see option). However, it does not ignore other connections, and if it finds a stronger signal it will connect to that instead, and since there's something like 20+ around us, our signal gets eaten alive, and will drop, and the computer will try to connect to the strongest available. Sometimes that's some xfinity open hotspot garbage thing, but in this case it was a neighbor that opened a hotspot right next to us.

>>54890953
The dude who made cower of course, add it your keyring then locally sign it.

I'm pretty much completely new to gnu/linux, is debian a good place to start?

>>54891019
run

 gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu 1EB2638FF56C0C53

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>>54890851
Ayy, this looks like windoze. Excellent.

>>54891036
ubanto and ubanto derivatives, fedora, opensuse

gnome or xfce? Currently using gnome and its comfy, should I change?

>>54891104
If gnome works for you stay with it
there is no point on setting up xfce4 from scratch if you got something else comfy

>>54891104
I also use gnome and prefer it.

Why would you change if you already like it? because it's not "cool" to like gnome or something? Don't listen to the overly vocal xubuntu fags shilling xfce all day long. It's their first linux distro.

How do I list all the packages that I installed
excluding their dependencies
preferrably also packages via AUR

>>54891104
I use XFCE, and agree with what >>54891182
says.
The purpose of a DE is to function how you want it, not to comply with anonymous internet users.

>>54891089
>sending newfriends directly to hell

>>54891104
>should I change?
Absolutely

I mean oh wow What kind of sick degenerate what want to feel comfortable with the environment he's currently using?

That's absolutely not the point of them!

A proper use of a desktop environment is to make it the biggest chore possible!

>>54891206
man pacman
pacman -Qe explicitly installed shit
pacman -Qdt dependendies
pacman -Qdtt dependendies that aren't required
pacman -Qm local shit aka aur

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>>54891223
Ah yes please tell us all how much meme distros like debian, arch or gentoo will improve his experience.

>>54891223
Newbie here, just installed fedora.
Why is this bad?
I'm enjoying the software manager, only time I had to use CLI was to install gcc.

>>54891275
enable rpmfusion
install freetype-freeworld

echo 'Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault' >> .Xresources

relog

enjoy

My laptop uses an MT7630e wifi card, for which I have downloaded the linux driver source.
Every time the kernel updates, wifi breaks until I recompile/reinstall the kernel module.
Is there a straightforward way to automate this?

>>54885387
n

anyone competent has moved into bsds and free distros without SystemD

>>54891333
You can with dkms
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support

>>54891344
and the rest has a job

>>54891353
Awesome, this is exactly what I hoped for.

>>54891309
This seems to be for subpixel rendering?
Thanks, amazing how fedora doesn't have this shit default.

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To the guy who few threads ago happened to ask whether copr is still a ghosttown.

Apparently it's more popular than i thought

I recent installed Lubuntu 16.04 32-bit. When it rebooted I got this screen. I asked elsewhere and I was told to use ctrl alt f2 to log in through the terminal. I tried that but it goes back to the screen in the picture before I start typing. Also what should I do after I login to get to the gui unless logging in will automatically take me there

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>>54891420
Forgot pic

>>54891416
This is related to (supposed) patent infringement of Apple's patents.
It's the reason why freetype-freeworld still doesn't exist in the stock Fedora repositories.

You will find a lot of software that for one or other reason exists only in 3rd party rpmfusion.

redhat is extremely anal about it, they don't want their asses sued.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems

>>54891459
The most annoying this about this is, they still use bsnes instead of higan snes emulator. So I have to settle for snes9x which is in the nonfree category. Which is annoying because I don't need the nonfree category otherwise. It's only nonfree because it has a "you can't sell it" clause.

Other than that, I have all the software I need.

>>54891445
you need to drop to tty2 (ctrl-alt-f2), login, and then kill your display manager or else you'll get kicked back to tty1

i think lubuntu uses lightdm?

sudo systemctl stop lightdm

then troubleshoot with journalctl

Would setting up a dns cache on my ubuntu server actually improve responsiveness when browsing or is it just placebo? Theres two people using my connection but we both have 3 or so devices each.

>>54891515
learn to compile stuff yourself if it bothers you so much.
on rpm-based distros it's actually dead easy once you have a proper SPEC file.

And I doubt something like a snes emulator updates that frequently.

>>54891420
if ctrl+alt+f2 doesn't work try +f1, +f3, +f4, f5 or f6. Different distros are set up differently and some ttys don't let you log in.
When you've logged in run "startx". If you get an error message it will help you figure out what's wrong
>>54891275
there's nothing bad about Fedora, I believe "hell" mostly related to Ubuntu. Debian is usually a better choice.
>>54891309
I tried a lot of font rendering options in Fedora, until I finally concluded that the default config (without freetype-freeworld) is perfectly fine.
Making fonts look like they do on Windows is to make fonts look terrible.

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Hi, I'm the guy that updated Debian from Jessie to Stretch without removing the Nvidia drivers beforehand so the GUI no longer loaded (startx and xinit did nothing).

After removing (purge) all Nvidia related packages, and removing the Xorg config files, the problem persists, but the logfile is naturally different.

I removed xorg and xinit, updated, rebooted, etc. Nothing. The logfile hasn't changed apparently, but I'll update it shortly just in case.

If you could help me out I would appreciate it greatly.

Thanks in advance.

Here's the (previous, but apparently identical to the new one) logfile.
http://pastebin.com/wy40iCDx

I am having a little trouble deciding which Debian release to use on my laptop.

I suppose my question boils down to whether I will regret running Unstable. Should I compromise for Testing instead?

>>54891680
Stretch is on 3.16???

I think you need to run an apt-get update/upgrade before you start troubleshooting archaic problems

>>54891730
I would NEVER run sid on my computers. I would only run testing if I had plenty of time to troubleshoot and the machine was non-critical. If you want a more stable testing version, you really should use a *buntu flavor.

>>54891680
>>54891762

oh I just saw that's the build machine for x11

comment still stands though, looks like an x problem

you should check journalctl for more informative logs

>>54891762
I did that, several times. On each step.

>>54891810
Anon, at this point wouldn't it be more beneficial and less time consuming to just backup and reformat/reinstall?

>>54891821
Are you joking?

I moved and resized my linux boot partition in gparted (on live USB) and I didn't listen to the warnings, and now can't boot from it. what went wrong /fglt/? I'm dualbooting but I don't think that should matter.

is there a text file I should edit, or am I boned? I'm can deal with having to format and reinstall debian on the boot partition but I'd rather not.

>>54891831
I would do the same.

>>54891831
you honestly wouldn't update to a pre-release OS on a critical computer, right?

>>54891843
could be that GRUB got overwritten somehow. Try fixing that with your live usb.

>>54891843
check your fstab

>>54891843
you moved it? Then you'll need to update grub

>>54891808
>>54891846
>>54891856
It's not critical, but I never thought I'd need to format and reinstall with Debian.

Let me check journalctl first.

>>54891893
Here's the updated logfile (Xorg.0.log) meanwhile.

http://pastebin.com/9GPeLX7S

>>54891880
>>54891867
>>54891866
>>54891843

Update your fstab so that /boot is mounted using the new UUID of the boot partition you just made

grub should be fine, it finds /boot/grub2/grub.cfg after its been mounted properly

>>54891893
Debian being "stable" is a meme. Stable just means it's old. Upgrading to a new distro version is always risky with any distro. Except Fedora, it just werks. Anyway, when installing stretch or sid, you want to start from a minimal base system. Not just willy nilly update a system you've been using for months.

>>54891914
that points to the video card being the culprit but doesn't give much insight, journalctl will have better info

Manjaro or kubuntu?

I've used manjaro for the past 3 months and I like it, yet I wanted to know which distro run kde the most smoothly

>>54891953
Dunno about kubuntu, but OpenSUSE seems to have good integration.

>>54891953
If it works for you, why change?

>>54891914
>>54891939

I'll save you the hassle of troubleshooting and tell you to just purge all of the nvidia packages and then reinstall the driver manually from the nvidia unix .run file

If you need help doing that, let me know. Key steps:

wget the .run file from nvidia's site
drop to tty2
stop your display manager
chmod a+x the .run file
sudo ./NVIDIA-xxxxx.run
make sure to allow it to update nvidia-xorg so it is used at startup

>>54891935
I'd have liked to know in advance that I should remove the Nvidia stuff before upgrading.

>Anyway, when installing stretch or sid, you want to start from a minimal base system. Not just willy nilly update a system you've been using for months.

Then what's the point of rolling releases?

>>54891939
journalctl is on its way.

>>54891843
what is your distribution ?

there's two solution :
>use a live CD and the software boot-repair
>mount the partition / chroot on it and use the command

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

The second option should regenerate a .conf file for grub and fix it.
Boot repair will probably do that

>>54891975
Well, the ssl expiring meme happened again. That doesn't bode well to user confidence on said distro.

>>54891975
I'm just a little curious fuck who likes to try new things and expand my knowledge

>>54879983
How do i install something like this http://www.byuu.org if they don't have a .rpm package? I'm using Fedora 23.

>>54891990
>Then what's the point of rolling releases?

Generally they are for development machines, not for home users

And there's a difference between starting with a stable release and then replacing all of the packages with the latest versions when your configs and shit are legacy

Generally update systems like fedora and ubuntu's are able to work out all of the inconsistencies between older configs/packages and the new ones using a highly debugged update system, whereas just moving from a stable install to a rolling install, you get none of those assurances

>>54892017
the problem is that if he moved the boot partition there might not even be anything at /boot if he's not mounting it properly via fstab or some other mechanism

>>54892023
repeatedly changing linux distros isn't 'expanding your knowledge' they are all the same thing under the hood, if you haven't learned that yet you should probably just stick with one and learn its ins and outs

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While using GNOME3, how do I get a large icon view when browsing through photos to post from Firefox?

Currently I only get a list of pictures and a small ass preview to the right

Here's the journalctl. I would like to avoid format and reinstall...
http://pastebin.com/ACWmS1E8

>>54891843
you need to install grub again (grub-install /dev/sdz)
grub stage1 is far too small to actually support your partitions/filesystems, so it loads stage2 from a pre-defined position on the disk
the file is immutable in the filesystem it's on, so it won't be accidentally moved by the filesystem, but if you move the whole partition, then it won't be at the expected place anymore

>>54892065
Ok mate.

>>54892035
Install from source with make.

Or settle with snes9x until they finally add it to rpm fusion. (my choice)

Or learn to package an RPM yourself.

>>54892071
> Filepicker pasta (GTK2 only!):

Tippers:
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jkisielewicz/gtk2-filepicker-iconview/

Amazuntu:
https://launchpad.net/~helkaluin/+archive/ubuntu/gtk2-filechooser-iconview

Arsch Linux:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk2-patched-filechooser-icon-view/

Absolute Madmen aka "but i run something else"
https://gist.github.com/ahodesuka/01213036b58e510dc074
https://gist.github.com/ahodesuka/49c1d0eea4b64f24c4c7

>>54892097
I'm on the Debian madmen camp. Where do I insert these?

>>54892097
>gtk2 only
trash

>>54892073
you've got nouveau installed? that's your first problem, you have to blacklist nouveau if you want to use the nvidia driver

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/nouveau#Keep_NVIDIA_driver_installed

>>54892035
>>54892089
Is this emulator licensed under GPL-compatible license.

If yes I could set up a COPR for both of you.

>>54892108
You need to download the source for the gtk applications then apply the .patch files to the source code.

Thus, "Mad Men"

Not even memeing, this shit is 100% easier on gentoo because you can just use an overlay. Try installing all the .debs from launchpad :^)

>>54892121
GPLv3

>>54892148
>Not even memeing, this shit is 100% easier on gentoo because you can just use an overlay. Try installing all the .debs from launchpad :^)
So is on rpm distros since all you do is add two lines in the SPEC file and put the patch in the same directory as the source tarball

>>54892148
Oh god, fuck that. That could seriously fuck me over later on, given the Debian way of doing things

Any other alternative?

>>54892168
n-uh

say hello to the retarded gnome devs that never give a fuck about user's needs

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>>54892168
Arch AUR or using KDE. KDE uses Kdialog.

Personally i just name my memes and place them in descriptive folders. Pic related.

>>54892181
This. So much This. 10 year old bug report that's STILL not fucking fixed.

>>54892209
Well fuck. I'm really at home at Debian Sid, so I don't want to switch to Arch. And I've always disliked KDE.

Seems I'm just gonna have to deal with it, or eventually try going Cinammon, XFCE, LXDE or even DE-less.

>>54892120
No, no, no. My problem had to do with having the wrong Nvidia driver in the first place (because of reasons). The system logs said that the current driver was ignoring the GPU, so I tried removing that one so the other one would be enabled. And it didn't work. That's why I decided to use Nouveau, purged everything Nvidia related, removed the config files from Xorg and so on, but still doesn't work.

I followed this question.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/206283/how-can-i-uninstall-a-nvidia-driver-completely

The question is, why after uninstalling the Nvidia stuff completely and reinstalling xorg and xinit it still doesn't work.

>>54892238
I hate to break this too you, but all the DEs you've listed have this same problem.

KDE or arch is your only option if you want to get thumbnails.

>>54892246
DE-less then? And just go openbox with it or something else.

>>54892238
>>54892246
>>54892246
why do so many people feel so strongly bout KDE? I don't understand

what's wrong with it? and what's good about it?

>>54892257
Openbox uses the gtk file picker.
You literally CANNOT escape the cancer. Unless you figured out some hack to get kdialog to open with firefox, which is beyond me.

>>54892161
Someone has already done it. https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/brollylssj/higan/

>>54892277
GTK3 Firefox don't have that problem.

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>>54891680
>>54891762
>>54891808
>>54891808
>>54891893
>>54891914
>>54891935
>>54891939
>>54891985
>>54891990
>>54892036
>>54892120
>>54892239
Quoting everyone because I'd like to avoid formatting, reinstalling Debian, calling my ex-gf to tell her she memed me, and throwing my tracking devide out of the window so her laughter fades away.

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>>54892121
>>54892161
I back what I said off.

I got no fucking clue how to compile it.
How come there's absolutely not a single word of documentation on it?
Shieeet

>>54892298
EXPLAIN
YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE

>>54892301
device*

>>54892301

nouveau is dying

in lieu of opening a bug report, by far the easiest thing to do at this point is to blacklist it and install the non-free driver using the .run file

>>54892277
>Openbox uses the gtk file picker.
openbox is a WM you dumb negro, it doesn't have anything to do with the graphical toolkit and thus even less to do with the filechooser dialog

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If I want to learn CUDA and GPU programming with NVIDIA stuff, am I damned to have to do it on Windows or is it possible to do it on GNU/Linux with their propietary drivers?

>>54892275
I can tell you why.

After using Gnome for a few years I recently checked out Fedora 23 KDE Spin, which has Plasma Desktop 5.4. I wanted to try it out, so I replaced my F23 with Gnome with it.
Now F23 KDE Spin is not particularly good. The devs themselves complain about this. It took me five minutes until it crashed for the first time.

So I decided to run it The Way It's Meant To Be Run(tm) and use Opensuse, which has always been mentioned favourably as -the- distro for a good KDE implementation.
After installing Opensuse, which was way more difficult than anything else that I've installed previously for some reason, the display manager (which previously was KDM and now is something else) wasn't able to start KDE. At that point I gave up and went back to Gnome.

It's no joke when people complain about KDE crashing. When it works, it works well and it's a wonderful project, doing so many things right that Gnome and others do wrong. It would deserve more attention and love.
But in my experience, whenever I tried to use KDE for a while, there was always a point at which I couldn't stand the crashes or the little bugs. Gnome has always worked better and more consistently, even though it has a lot of it's own problems.

>>54892311
Firefox 46 is on gtk3 by default I think? Just install it. Your distro might not have it turned on by default so you might need to recompile and set the flag manually. Idk, I'm on bleeding edge and I just noticed one day my fucking file picker finally had previews.

>>54892327
>using the .run file
What's that?

Should I then just reinstall the Nvidia drivers and see how that goes?

>>54892348
i do CUDA shit all the time on my linux machine

>>54892366

see
>>54891985

This was the right answer all along tbqh

The nvidia packages always end up failing at some point and the .run file is the only way to be assured that you are installing the driver correctly versus what some package maintainer THINKS is the best way to install them

>>54892309
There's a make file in the higan folder of the source, but it doesn't work.

This project does not have a README yet 

haha

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Changing my distro
Is this good partitioning

>>54892401
Looks aight.
Do you have 2GB or 4GB of memory?

>>54892401
96 gigs for root is overkill. Do 16 for minimal purposes or 32 if you want a pretty big leeway.

>>54892400
Nevertheless some mad man got it to compile
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/brollylssj/higan/

But upon checking his spec file I can definately say such trickery and mental gymnastics is waaay beyond me

>>54892430
8

>>54892443
I was dumb enough to get 96G partiton previous install
Want to keep home directory
Good ways to not waste space?

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>>54892328
Okay pal.

>>54892401
just keep / and /home on the same partition, you can always rsync /home if you need to reinstall later and it saves you the hassle of 'guessing' how big your partitions need to be

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>>54892396
Oh, thank you! I missed this post while I was fetching the journal.
>>54891985
Thanks a lot! I could use help with the following.

>wget the .run file from nvidia's site
Looking into the exact website.
>drop to tty2
No problem.
>stop your display manager
How?
>chmod a+x the .run file
No problem.
>sudo ./NVIDIA-xxxxx.run
No problem.
>make sure to allow it to update nvidia-xorg so it is used at startup
How?

I should also blacklist Nouveau and create a new Xorg config file, right? I saved the ones that I had before, so it shouldn't be hard.

Many thanks.

>>54892485
Ill look into it
Thanks