/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

>>55573117
That's a good point. I can't support such a shitty company. But are there any humanely made computers on the market these days?

>>55573198
What about a hackintosh?

Bless Torvalds and Stallman for giving the world the ability to have a free operating system. God bless Linux and GNU.

Why does

set showbreak=>

not work?

>>55573260
Fogrot to mention it is compiled wit the +showbreak option

>>55573274
Nigga, then for god sake's stop using that insanely weak scheme and get a strong Master Passphrase with which to lock all your passwords.

Which by the way should really be randomly generated and at least 20 characters long.

Yes, all of them. Even the non-important ones.

>what do you do when you have to use them outside of your local computer
I wouldn't if I can help it. But if you must, you can keep an encrypted USB with your passwords maybe. Or as a shitty very temporary measure, jot down the one you know you're going to use in a piece of paper and then get rid of it

>>55573192
So for some reason my kubuntu install has stopped booting. I think it would be quicker to reinstall but I want a list of installed packages before I do that. Is this stored somewhere so I can copy it?

>>55573344
Why don't you like...start it up in recovery mode to see where in the boot it hangs?

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Ill post it again here.
Im new to lonux and im trying to find a replacement to a program called wifi audio basically it will send all the audion from my pc to my android phone
Pls help

>>55573380
How can I see that? When I do that it looks like it loads everything ok, last thing I see is something about hda and then I get the recovery menu. Tried fsck and updating grub.

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hey /g/ having some trouble with fstab in my install. i have a 1tb hdd set up as my home dir

#second hdd as home partition
UUID=f9ff0a0e-9c84-46fc-8002-48d56308ce7e /home ext4 defaults 0 2

and its fine for me to get the files there works no problem but when a program say digikam is trying to write a database to my Pictures directory it can't. I tried changing permissions but it reverts back so i'm thinking its fstab and the default ownership. anytip helps

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I'm trying to use urxvt and I'm trying to costumize it but I'm having a hell of a time for some reason. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, when I try to change the settings via the xdefaults file nothing happens. So I thought maybe it was just me so I went and copied a file from https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Urxvt and saved it as ~/.Xdefaults and still nothing is happening.

So I went to the arch wiki and it says that it should go to ~/.Xresources so I copied it there and still nothing. Pic related is Distro/WM if it's relevant at all. (And the terminal pictured is the default Gnome one.)

>>55573436
i'm using minidlna and vlc on my phone. works in the same network. which I'm guessing is what you want. its not too hard to set up, config file is simple
something like
media_dir= A,/home/user/Music (here A -> audio files)
media_dir=V,/home/user/Videos

I use it to stream things to my ps3 since its running low on storage

>>55573699
xrdb -load .Xresources

>>55573344
Try a refind usb stick or google if there's still something the old super_grub_disk around.
Then there's
http://superuser.com/questions/111152/whats-the-proper-way-to-prepare-chroot-to-recover-a-broken-linux-installation

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>>55573748
Did it, got pic related (most of the lines specified are either comments or blank lines) but no change with the program when I run it

>>55573815
You need to start a new instance of urxvt to see the desired changes.

>>55573727

Does it do all audio even youtube vids

What is the FGLT approved ultrabook?

>>55573835
I did, my urxvt is still using all the default settings.

>>55573860
Have not tried that. but vlc plays a lot of stuff the computer is just serving it on the network.

>>55573897
post .Xresources

>>55573929
It's the link here >>55573699
I just copied it exactly to see if I could get it to work

>>55573897
>https://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Urxvt
I checked the config you copied, I don't know it if matters but try it like this URxvt*.

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>>55573860
>>55573925
here's how it looks on my phone
using

# Path to the directory you want scanned for media files.
#
# This option can be specified more than once if you want multiple directories
# scanned.
#
# If you want to restrict a media_dir to a specific content type, you can
# prepend the directory name with a letter representing the type (A, P or V),
# followed by a comma, as so:
#   * "A" for audio    (eg. media_dir=A,/var/lib/minidlna/music)
#   * "P" for pictures (eg. media_dir=P,/var/lib/minidlna/pictures)
#   * "V" for video    (eg. media_dir=V,/var/lib/minidlna/videos)
#   * "PV" for pictures and video (eg. media_dir=PV,/var/lib/minidlna/digital_c$
#media_dir=/var/lib/minidlna

>>55573815
remove the line starting with "urxvt.cutchars", save and load .Xresources again.

Restart urxvt

>>55573599
anyone? I can't be the only person with multiple drives on their linux box

>>55573969
>>55573975
Neither of these worked.

Side note, that may or may not be relevant. I'm currently using rofi to open urxvt. And when I select the program named "urxvt" and hit enter nothing opens so I've been opening the one labeled "rxvt-unicode"

Why does

set showbreak=>

in vim not work?
Yes it is compiled with +showbreak

>>55574028
rxvt-unicode is urxvt. i don't know what you're doing wrong, try with a simpler xresources that doesn't throw config errors?

I have committed a sin and installed Nvidia proprietary drivers.
I'm really hoping AMD gives Vega the Polaris treatment and gives it support on the coming kernel updates. 4.8 has some neat stuff like freesync and whatnot and it would be around the time Vega comes out.
I want to get rid of this 970, but it's still not time.

I have just made a switch from Ubuntu to *tips Fedora* and I fucking love it. This is the most useable and supported distro for desktops.

>>55574181
[subscribed]

Which company is worse, Canonical or Red Hat?

>>55574207
Pls like and sub to our second channel too:
LinusCuckTrips

>>55573260
>>55573278
>it is compiled with the +showbreak option
I think you mean +linebreak, because +showbreak doesn't exist. That may be your problem.

Have you tried

:help showbreak

?

Can someone help me with vim?

I want a differend background color for the current line when I'm in edit mode.

>>55574327

:set cursorline

I'm sure you can edit the appearance of this like you can edit all of vim's color scheme.

>>55574145
Well, that's working now. Not going to question it. Thanks anon.

One less question, I added transparency to urxvt via

URxvt.depth: 32
URxvt.background: rgba:0000/0000/0200/c800

Is there a way I could make it less opaque

>>55574289
Sorry for that I did mean +linebreak
I already tried the commands in help

>>55574428

URxvt.transparent: true
URxvt.shading: n

n=0 is opaque
n=100 is fully transparent

>>55574327
>>55574371
Found the solution just right after posting...

For the guy reading this 10 years later, browsing the archives:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7614546/vim-cursorline-color-change-in-insert-mode

>>55574428
Use hex, it's easier for the brain (at least for me). Syntax is like this:

URxvt.background: [alpha]#color
URxvt.background: [95]#111111

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>>55574151
>pic related
and the article :
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amdgpu-rx480-linux&num=1

when you look at the performances of amd with vulkan and all their work on the linux kernel and their new drivers,

And it was before the issue with the power consumption that was fixed and gave better performances on windows. And the rumours are saying that you'll get better performances with a non reference GPU.

AMD will deliver, for sure. Seeing those benchmarks, I might buy a new gpu for christmas when all the hype will be over and that we will get more benchmarks of all GPUs

>>55574490
>>55574553
Thanks, one last question and then I should be good on my own. I'm not sure if this is controlled via the terminal or if it's via Vim itself. But does anyone know how I can get vim on urxvt use the same color scheme as vim does on the Gnome Terminal?

I just installed Debian and set up Firefox for secure browsing, noscript, no requests, ran the foritification guide, and now most pages only display the basic layout and text.
This is how I like my browser, however I am aware that it isn't possible to access email/banking/paying for shopping on it, so when I used Windows I always used vanilla Internet Explorer and only for those two purposes, and not for anything else ever.
I wouldn't even browse on it if I was buying shit, I would copy the link from firefox and just buy it from that point to avoid all the ads and gay shit.
Now that I am on debian, I obviously don't have IE, and I'm not sure which browsers are to be used/avoided

What is a good browser to install, with which I will be handling personal info?
Chromium? Opera? Any suggestions that have been tried and proven plox

>>55574628
Strike that, figured it out myself. Thanks anons.

>>55574647
Would something like this work as an alternative to having multiple browsers?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiple_profiles

Elegant versus elephant etc.

>>55574647
You may also want to tweak your about:config.
One of many guides:https://gist.github.com/haasn/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5

Or just use GNU Icecat which comes (AFAIK) with sane defaults.

>>55574647
You might have gone a little overboard there, champ.

Firefox with Ublock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere is already pretty strong. And you can use your bank stuff there.

If you want ultra-secure browsing you can always just have a Tails Live USB for that, it's preconfigured for you.

>>55574710
What's your solution?

>>55574747
For some reason urxvt and the Gnome terminal default to two different color schemes in vim. I just found the one that gnome terminal was using (koehler) and then added

 syntax on
colo koehler

to my .vimrc

>>55574736
>overboard
Maybe so, but I've been doing it like this for the past 4 years, and have had much better browsing experiences since then. No more redundant laggy scripts, no more media autoplay or ads. As for tails, I don't need that level of security, I just do this for convenience of fast browsing

>>55574728
>>55574724
thanks man

Debian Unstable

Best tearfree/good fonts browser?

Best way to automount drives without a DE?

How to use another gui su program on KDE or have it remember my password?

What should I do with a floppy?

How to change ugly notifications from KDE Connect?

How to get DeadBeef to show up?

Best ultra lightweight programs?
>File manager,browser,wm,text editor,media player,document viewer

Any of these would be huge help

>>55575232
>Best
the one I'm using

>>55575266
this

>>55575232
It's (at least) the second time you've posted this

Please put more effort into your questions

>>55575232
>What should I do with a floppy?
rewind it and bring it back

>>55574892
>Tails
>I don't need that level of security
>Coming from a guy paranoid enough to browse the web in plain text

Uhhhhhhhhhh
You might wanna rethink your priorities man.

Where's the bash and other copy-pasta anon?

I need his stuff

>>55575564
not him but here are a few pastas, not sure if anyone changed them recently.
https://ghostbin.com/paste/e36ut

>>55575452
epic bants

Have you browsed the web lately, friend?
Have you not seen the clusterfuck of ads, clickjacking scripts, and wasted space that the majority of internet websites are?

>>55575709
>try to load text on a webpage
>45MB of javascript

What the fuck happened, guys?

>>55575753
normies and greed

>>55575753
programming bootcamps

What will this do if I run it on Ubuntu? Bit scared tbvh

export     PS1="\[\033[0;37m\]\342\224\214\342\224\200\$([[ \$? != 0 ]] && echo \"[\[\033[0;31m\]\342\234\227\[\033[0;37m\]]\342\224\200\")[$(if 
[[ ${EUID} == 0 ]]; then echo '\[\033[0;31m\]\h'; else echo '\[\033[0;33m\]\u\[\033[0;37m\]@\[\033[0;96m\]\h';  
fi)\[\033[0;37m\]]\342\224\200[\[\033[0;32m\]\w\[\033[0;37m\]]\n\[\033[0;37m\]\342\224\224\342\224\200\342\224\200\342\225\274 \[\033[0m\]"

how do you see info on a service that failed to load

>>55575982
systemtl status failedservicename.service

>>55575709
>Clusterfuck of ads
Ublock Origin

>Clickjacking scripts
Ublock Origin

>Wasted space
Ublock Origin

And add HTTPS Everywhere to that

>>55575908
Oh shit dude those are the nuclear launch codes, be careful with that, fuck.

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>>55575753
>>55575878
>>55575886

how does meta keys in GNU/linux work? I use custom alt+gr bindings adding symbols to every letter key, but I'd like to do the same with another set of bindings with another useless key like the windows key (hyper? or w/e)

How do? Currently I've edited the symbols file in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/no (norwegian colemak)

>>55576038
thanks

does anyone know of a torrent for morrowind, but not one with an exe installer, just the base game directory itself perhaps in a zip or somehing

I want to test out openmw and I need textures and other assets and shit

>>55576099

can't you just install with wine and extract from there?

>>55575232
>Best tearfree/good fonts browser?
All browsers are shit. Use Firefox or Icecat.

>Best way to automount drives without a DE?
fstab. Try to use UUID or labels instead of /dev/*

>>55576099
OpenMW is for non pirates only. Don't taint their work with your filthy presence.

[spoiler]>>55576129
is right though.[/spoiler]

>>55576172
And on another note why doesn't /g/ have spoiler tags? We're not cavemen; we have technology!

>>55576172

I assume anyone autistic enough to actually bother with morrowind at one time bought the game. He seemed to want a zip torrent to bypass the need for winshit to extract the assets.

>>55575266
Useless reply

>>55576223
Useless question

>>55576223
Another useless reply.

>>55575908
>\033[number
These will create colors.

>\number
These will create block characters.

The if else stuff checks for the last command's return status.

Anyone using Nemo 2.8.6? I'm getting seg faults occasionally on closing Files windows, and other weird crashes. Anyone else?

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Guys

Check your Google account

Choose to review your privacy settings when prompted

Something's up

>>55576246
Fucking grow up and decide yourself what's best for you.

>>55576480
But anon, I've no Google account.

>>55576487

Debian Unstable

Best tearfree/good fonts browser?

Best way to automount drives without a DE?

How to use another gui su program on KDE or have it remember my password?

What should I do with a floppy?

How to change ugly notifications from KDE Connect?

How to get DeadBeef to show up?

Best ultra lightweight programs?
>File manager,browser,wm,text editor,media player,document viewer

Any of these would be huge help

???????

>>55576502
Mods, can we get this copypasta and their poster banned

Pls and thank you

Is it easy to set up Samba share authentication with a remote Windows Server domain controller?

>>55576502
>Debian Unstable
wew lad
>Best tearfree/good fonts browser?
they're all shit, go nightly or icecat
>Best way to automount drives without a DE?
shell script
>How to use another gui su program on KDE or have it remember my password?
dunno what you mean bro
>What should I do with a floppy?
put a bottle of beer on it
>How to change ugly notifications from KDE Connect?
no idea
>How to get DeadBeef to show up?
$ deadbeef
>Best ultra lightweight programs?
>>File manager,browser,wm,text editor,media player,document viewer
the ones im using
>???????
PROFIT

Talking of Wine, what's the best version to install on Ubuntu? 1.9?

>>55573192
whats a good distro for a laptop

can some one explain how to install pulse audio on ubuntu 16.04
new to linux

>>55576564
Every distro. Preferably one that respects your freedoms.

>>55576564
ubuntu is the best by far
>>55576567
it's already installed you dumb shit

>>55576563
Whatever is in the repos?

>>55576582
Friendly.

>>55576564
Any. If you're looking for light DE's, good options are LXDE and XFCE.

>>55576554
Don't you talk crap about my Unstable-fu

>>55576567
Should already be installed.
run "whereis pulseaudio" to make sure.
>>55576582
>ubuntu is the best by far
fuck off

>>55576554
>>Debian Unstable
>wew lad

What autism is this?

>>55576621
it's a useless information
he could also have posted Gentoo

>>55576618
it is you useless edgy cunt
no other distro has done as much for linux as ubuntu in the last 10-11 years

>>55576657
the information is useless, not the distro
lern to read retard

does lubuntu have the same problem as ubuntu in terms of amazon and privacy

>>55576502
>Debian Unstable
Enjoy your delayed security updates.

>>55576667
Speaking of learning to read...

>>55576657
Copying and pasting Debian unstable must have been so hard huh?

>>55576672
None of the *ubuntu spins have amazon horseshit, as far as I know.

>>55576701
yeah because that's all ubuntu is, a copy paste of debian
that sure explains why debian brought millions of people to linux away from winshit and macshit, it's just a copy paste guise

>>55576657
What have they contributed?

Yeah, I've got a question. Why are Linux users such huge gay nerds? You guys are all like
>let me sudo apt-get that program for you, Pedro
and us Windows™ users are all like
>Oh yeah, Ashley, I'll install photoshop for you. No need to open cmd, I'll just use this handy mouse-based installer GUI. Say, can I get another blowjob?

Why are we shitposting about Debian Sid now
godammit

>>55576742
We are shitposting about Ubuntu.

>>55576741
Because Pedro gives better blowjobs than Ashley.

>>55576738
ease of installation and use

>>55576681
sid has the latest version of any giving package, it doesn't need security patches in the same way Jessie does, it depends on the developer, you know like EVERY rolling release distro.

>>55576738
Unity of course.

<__<

>>55576738
They brought Ubuntu to Windows 10 so people don't need to install Loonix.

>>55576768
That's no contribution to Linux.
Your argument is invalid. Try again.

How do I get that set of shortcuts that appears after you install Ubuntu to appear again?

>>55576772
Read the documentations. Stable gets security updates earlier than testing or unstable.

>>55576618
it says its there but how do i run it
and thanks for the help

>>55576738
>>55576768
>>55576657
>>55576618
>>55576582
Canonical are hated in the community because while they own the most popular distro, they never market themselves as part of the Linux community, and more their own thing. Which is fine on its own. EXCEPT they benefit from all the community projects and efforts that everyone else is working on, while they are basically freeloading and are among the lowest-effort contributors around.

>>55576796
it clearly is valid, since a retarded cunt like you is able to use it now

>/flt/ is shit now too
4chan's really in the gutters these days

>>55576842
You know where to go, don't make me say it

>>55576837
>implying a retard like me can't follow a simple tui installer debian ships by default

>>55576837
>>55576851

GNU/Friendly

>>55569221
>What should I do with a floppy?
Save it until it becomes a collector's item.

>Best ultra lightweight programs?

>File manager
terminal

>wm
Depends on how lightweight you want, I like xmonad for daily use but jwm is also decent and i3 seems to be the meme nowadays. Try here: https://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops/

>text editor
vim/nano

>>55576836
>>55576796
>>55576775
>>55576741
>>55576737
>>55576657
>>55576842
I'd just like to interject for a moment.

>>55576874
I'm sorry, but you may not

http://georgielabs.net/
How do i install this im very new
ubuntu 16.04

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Instead of shitposting, can we talk about how great SSH is?

>>55576860
The minute you cunts added GNU to the heading, I stopped caring about the Friendly part

The guy who originally started /flt/ about a year ago, never gave a fuck about GNU, it's all some RMS-dick-eaters. Until they fuck off, this general will be unfriendly.

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>>55576886
fu

>>55576808
unstable doesn't have "security updates" it has updates, the package simply gets updated. You're confusing security patches, which are done by the package maintainer, with updates which are done by the developer/upstream. sid doesn't have security patches because usually the developer already has a fix/new version, security patches are for repos with old software (Jessie).

>>55576888
ssh is fugging awesome, and nice trips

>>55576888
What are some cool things you can do with SSH?

I literally just set a server up for the first time so I'm totally down to talk about this

>>55576897
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable#Does_sid_have_security_updates.3F

>>55576862
vim (while my preference) is fucking enormous compared to nano or vanilla vi

Name            : vi
Installed Size  : 290.00 KiB

Name            : nano
Installed Size  : 2124.00 KiB

Name            : vim
Installed Size  : 2853.00 KiB
Depends On      : vim-runtime
    Name            : vim-runtime
    Installed Size  : 25.71 MiB

>>55576910
>What are some cool things you can do with SSH?
admin a server anywhere in the world over a secure connection
that's about it tbfh

>>55576910
Literally the only way you should ever interact with your server on the administration side is through ssh. set up your .ssh and /etc/ssh to be key-based unless ABSOLUTELY necessary, change internet-facing port so you don't get bombarded with brute force attempts.

>>55576681
>>55576772
>>55576808
>>55576897
I'll say this again even though it should be obvious: There is a trade-off between stability and up-to-date-ness.

Your computer will be less stable if all its packages are updating without extensive testing. Your packages will be dated if you want them to be secure and tested for bugs.

>>55576842
It's Summer, and the site has grown hugely in the last few years. More people means more idiots on average. It happens to every community that grows big enough. Get over it.

>>55576931
Pretty sure most of that is just the documentation.

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I'm not sure if this really falls under the GNU/Linux area, but since it's Android, I'm gonna go out on a limb and try asking

I'm looking to make the switch from an iPhone to an Android phone. Can anybody give me some guidelines on which phones are really good and which ones to avoid at all costs?

Specially if I'm looking to open-source / free software it up whenever possible.

I ask because I really have zero idea when it comes to Android. I made the jump from brick nokia phones to an iPhone many years back.

>>55576910
>>55576933
You make it sound like that isn't the greatest thing imaginable. You have complete access to those servers as if you had them in front of you. You can tunnel traffic and forward ports through it, it has sftp built in. Overall it's one of the most useful tools at your disposal.

>>55576927
That's exactly what I said. sid doesn't have a repo for security patches like Jessie does. It has the newest available package, which means it's the first to get an upstream fix but It will NEVER receive a "security patch" by the maintainer, you are dependent on the developer to fix/release a new version of the software.

>>55576931
It also isn't shit. I mean really, who doesn't have 26 megs to spare?

>>55576994
Well the question was about ultra-lightweight programs.

>>55576892
The only shitposters here are the "It's just Linux" trolls, highjacking the threads, converting good threads into memes, new threads 100 posts before the bump limit in order to troll harder.

I want to stream my audio output over the network (Wi-Fi) to my Android devices. I'm not looking for a music/video streaming solution, but I would stream any audio output of my GNU/Linux desktop to my Android
Im new to linux

Is Ubuntu insecure after removing amazon?

As in, does it have built-in backdoors from the start like Windows does? Is Ubuntu/Canonical even audited?

Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 23
Model name: Celeron(R) Dual-Core CPU T3100 @ 1.90GHz
Stepping: 10
CPU MHz: 1895.452
BogoMIPS: 3790.90
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 1024K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,1

do i have the backdoor

Is there a tool that hides the mouse cursor after a specific amount of time?

>>55576986
Those security patches usually also come from the developer, they just get backported into older versions by the maintainer.

How to avoid package conflicts if I have compiled my own version of program xy?

>>55577195
>does it have built-in backdoors from the start like Windows does?

A theory is that systemd was pushed so hard because it colossal convolution would allow the NSA (whom Red Hat -- a major systemd proponent -- is known to cooperate with) to hide an obfuscated backdoor in there.

If you're trying to avoid three-letter agencies you'd best stay away from anything with systemd or any corporate backing. Of course if that's your threat model you're on a whole other level of fucked, so stick to tails.

>>55577243
>open source
>backdoor
?

this systemd meme if seriously overboad

>>55577243
Not the anon you're replying to, but just curious:

Just how safe is Tails?

>>55577276
>open source cannot be backdoored

I'm not saying FUCK SYSTEMD FOREVER REEEEE, just that it's probably not your best bet if you don't want the NSA up your butthole.

>>55577290
Safe enough that Edward Snowden is comfortable using it, and he's kind of high on their priority list, so they'd be pulling out all the stops for him.

>>55577306
I thought Snowden used Qubes OS?

>>55577323
I'm not sure about currently but I know in the initial aftermath of his leaks he was using Tails.

>>55577306
>>55577243
3 letter groups isn't my threat-model, no because I know we're completely fucked in the end.
I just wanted to be sure it isn't sending my shit to Oogle, Badazon, or anything else.

I am a shitposter who installed Debian and I'm just tired of having to go through hoops and browse old forum posts to find terminal line inputs just to get my system working right since it would be the absolute end of the world for non-free software/codec compatibility to be implemented into the mainstream distributions.

Yes, I am glad and all that the totally free distros and repos exist,(and really I am, I think its great that there are still software devs with principles) but in terms of practical usage this is an unnecessary pain in the ass - I think I'll just get fucked by canonical and start using my computer.

>>55573192
kek https://lwn.net/Articles/290498/

>>55577346
Or use fedora. Better redhat than canonical. Fedora cares also more about free software, while providing proprietary drivers, so your shit will run out of the box.

>>55577306
>probably not your best bet if you don't want the NSA up your butthole.

This is pretty fucking retarded

>>55577346
Ubuntu IS sending your shit to amazon by default (and probably google if you use the unity search, though i'm not sure what they use for search results).

You can disable that stuff, and it's obviously not the enormous undertaking disabling Win10's malware is, but most people prefer to just use a different distro in the first place.

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>>55577330
>>55577306
Maybe I can ask you:

I made a Tails Live USB. When I use it on my laptop (T420 Thinkpad) and shut it down, in the RAM wiping part, it gets stuck and never actually wipes the memory. I have to press the power button to shut it down. And it won't boot up again right away to Tails, in fact it will refuse to show the Thinkpad logo until I remove the USB, which causes to promptly show me GRUB and my regular Debian installation. I then have to boot into Debian, power the computer off, plug the USB again, and boot from the USB for it to be able to boot into Tails again.

Do you have any idea how I could fix this "getting stuck at wiping RAM" bit? A few friends with other different laptops told me it happens to them too.

I tried the same Tails USB on my desktop and it goes through the RAM wiping process without issues

>>55577346
Debian has non-free repos, what are you even talking about?

>>55577195
see https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/#operating-systems
There's a small part talking about canonical and distributions based on it. There is also a big question of how much you can trust them. And seeing how they are toward the open source / free software community, how they make friend with microsoft... you don't trust them.

>>55576974
>Can anybody give me some guidelines on which phones are really good and which ones to avoid at all costs?
There's a thread for smartphone consumerism shit.

>Specially if I'm looking to open-source / free software it up whenever possible.
there's 3 OS that are better than android when it comes to free software and open source
ubuntu touch, tizen and sailfish OS.
Sailfish is the most usable one. Ubuntu touch is too young. We no longer have news from tizen.

>>55577346
Why don't you ask us about the problems you're having with Debian right now? We could help.

Adding non-free software to Debian is as simple as adding a line to a text file, by the way.

>>55577393
Wouldn't it be easier to just kick your CP addiction?

>>55577415
low quality bait, try harder

>>55577415
>dismissing privacy tools by calling people who use them pedophiles

Just stop.

Is ubuntu 16.04 really fucked up? Should I use 15.10 instead?

>>55577433
>needing so much "privacy" that you need a ram wipe every time you jack off
>being a pedophile

>>55577451
you're still not putting much effort into it
Go big or go home, shitposter-kun

How to add more security when using programs in WINE? Is there something easy like a sandbox program, or should I just setup a VM?

>>55577444
Build Ubuntu from Ubuntu Mini, like Archniggers do. You'll have no complain
>>55577460
Use virtualbox's seamless mode instead

>>55577458
>the annoying pedophile is also a weeb
why am i not surprised

>>55577487
You disappoint me, anon. Even more than I disappoint my parents.

>>55577505
>the annoying weeb pedophile hides behind a veil of self deprecating "humor" because he thinks it will earn our respect
get a load of this guy.

>>55577518
Shut the fuck up, nu-male, you are boring

>>55577518
That's "anon" for you, buddy

This is a friendly thread.

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I just installed openwrt, upgraded to Chaos Calmer, and am now locked out of the webUI. This is fun.

>>55577402
Oh, I know they do, but let me tell you why I'm leaving it

>install debian
>install ati/amd proprietary
>add nonfree repo
>install
>reboot
>configure
>plug in wifi dongle
>not supported out of box
>fair enough
>install atheros firmware
>install steam
>update steam
>attempt to run steam
>lol you don't have the libgl1 32 bit dependencies
>why the fuck wouldn't steam install required dependencies by default
>install them
>runs slow even with proprietary drivers
>can't play certain files out of box because lol non-free codec

Look, it isn't that I'm incapable of using it, I just don't want to.
And again, I truly do appreciate that things such as 100% free as in free operating systems exist, however, does the average end user care about that?
No.

>>55577376
Is fedora easier than debian?

>>55577384
yeah, I'm aware, its a shame but at least its better than Windows.
I have to wonder though, why would they do these kinds of actions under the guise of free software

>>55577535
>the annoying weeb pedophile who hides behind self deprecating "humor" to earn our respect also uses meme words he got from /pol/ and probably says "redpill" unironically
wow, just wow.

>>55577563
>steam
What is wrong with you?

>>55576910
I used a virtual machine and port forwarded all my CIFS ports to my home server and I can access it in Windows like I'm on the network.

>>55577573
Keep your mental gymnastics for your next tumblr post SJW faggot. Get the fuck out or I oppress some women instantly

>>55577573
>"""""""our""""""" respect
>says the guy who thinks 3+ anons are the same person

-1/10

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>>55577573
I'm not the guy you're replying to

>>55577574
Nothing. He likes games

Is the default version of Wine a 32bit version? Is a 64bit version Wine available?

>>55577592
>implying he needs steam to play games

>>55577592
>He likes games
Which is exactly why steam would be a horrible choice.

>>55577542
lol

remove GNU
purge FSF
kill RMS

>>55577588 (checked)
>the annoying weeb pedophile who hides behind a veil of self deprecating "humor" to earn our respect while also using /pol/ meme words also happens to think (wrongly) that anyone who disagrees with him is "le liberal boogeyman"
i can't even handle it, this is so unreal
>>55577589
>implying i'm wrong
you're just mad because you didn't get dubs
>>55577592
nice proxy buddy, i know that trick

>>55577624
There's no reason to hate GNU, except you're too fragile for interjection memes.

>>55577595
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wine#Installation

>>55577644
>arch has something useful ubuntu doesn't have
There's a first.

>>55577574
>>55577592
>>55577606
>>55577608
Yeah I will fess up to it being immature, but you can't blame me

Didn't most of us on 4chan all start as high school students on /b/ & /v/ at one time?

I still like to play games on occasion, it is a nice way to forget about real life.
Also of course I am aware that in the end steam is just straight DRM, I do not actually have intentions of using steam forever, as most of my games are older and I'm down to a very short life of games that I even still play

This is besides the point though, I'm just gonna take the easy route and get r8ped by canonical

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>>55577635
Are you triggered right now?

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>>55577675
My guy, I really don't understand the issues you have with Debian.

Just look at this shit. Everything running crisply on Debian Sid here.

>>55577644
>>55577663
gonna see if I can compile it with that flag on Ubuntu

>>55577695
>steam on a freedom distro
jesus christ

>>55577675
>I still like to play games on occasion

This has nothing to do with playing games, I'm sure we all play games all the time. Steam is just an atrocity.

>>55577717
Debian is not a free distro

>>55577717
If it makes you feel better, I also have a bunch of GOG Games I bought installed.

>>55577684
>implying i'm not ironically shitposting

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>>55577733
>buying proprietary software

>>55577739
>I'm just pretending to be retarded

>>55577733
>giving a fuck about people who get angry at you having fun on your computer
literally why are they worth a single shit lmao

>>55577733
GOG is good choice, but why don't you run your other games without steam too?

>>55577746
>he doesn't pretend to be retarded
>he doesn't funpost

>>55577695
Well, I haven't changed anything yet.
I installed amd/ati drivers, did ati config--initial, and booted up TF2

It is laggy in a strange way, I have it to high settings and although it all renders perfectly, the lag is constantly started and stopping in intervals of seconds , and the mouse movement feels like its fucking slowed down and really weird

Is this a case of missing drivers?

Installing steam in order to play games is like installing itunes in order to play music.

Hello fellow /g/entoomen
Just wondering is there an equivalent to i7z but for the integrated GPU? I modified i915_max_freq in the sysfs to limit the GPU clock to 900mhz and I want to make sure it's actually being limited. Intel's thermal optimization is so shitty and doing anything remotely GPU intensive will melt my thinkpad.

What the fuck is going on with my server VM? Which partition do I expand to make this problem be are fix?

I get

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenvwrapper/hook_loader.py", line 223, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenvwrapper/hook_loader.py", line 145, in main
    output.close()
IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device
-bash: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device

As soon as I log in, and that last line is repeated whenever I try to tab-complete anything.

I've increased the size of the VDI so there's space for it to expand into, I just can't figure out the command I need.

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>>55577740
I want you to explain to me how you think a game industry would work with 100% free software

What would be stopping someone from grabbing the publicly available source code from a game I made, and profit from distributing it without me seeing any of it?

I'm not even trying to get anybody riled up, I just want to see ideas being thrown around and maybe learn something in the process. Tell me about game devving in a free software environment and how it could be a sustainable job

>>55577788
ignore him, he's a shiteating communist who thinks people will work for free

>>55577769
You need to mess with the kernel parameters instead

>>55577788
But game devving being a "sustainable job" is exactly what's led to the current AAA shovelware industry. Most of the best games are hobby made in peoples free time.

>>55577764
Just curious, did you install your AMD drivers the Debian way?

Or did you download them from the manufacturer website? Because if it was the latter, you fucked up

>>55577803
this

remove GNU
purge FSF
kill RMS

>>55577803
>the communits meme
everyone who thinks free software is communism should go back to school
I guess your also one of these faggots who claim RMS is a pedophile, right, right?

>>55577819
Debian way, I couldn't even figure out how to install it from the tar.gz file the AMD download came in

I added the jessie main contrib non free, ran
# aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') fglrx-driver
then I did aticonfig --initial

After that I installed steam, discovered the 32bit dependency problem, fixed that, installed tf2, ran it and its a lagfest.

I don't know if I should keep learning how to Use debian when I can cheat and satisfy my lazy american entitlement with the botnet amazon os

>>55577803
>>55577858
>replying to yourself

>>55577863
>The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally — but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.

Not the same poster, and I don't actually think RMS is one either, but that doesn't mean it is socially acceptable to say such things

>>55577875
Are you the guy with the socks from yesterday?

I would honestly wait for some Debian bro who also uses AMD to help you out. I use Debian with NVIDIA propietary drivers and everything just werks, videogame wise. I've got no clue about the AMD propietary drivers as I've never used them

I would encourage you to stick around to try to fix your problem. Ubuntu really isn't worth it.

By the way, are you on Stable, Testing, or Sid?

>>55577907
> All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced.
Learn to read.

>>55577907
>>55577954
Next to this, you're a faggot for not posting the full quote:


Dubya has nominated another caveman for a federal appeals court. Refreshingly, the Democratic Party is organizing opposition.
The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally — but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.
Some rules might be called for when these acts directly affect other people's interests. For incest, contraception could be mandatory to avoid risk of inbreeding. For prostitution, a license should be required to ensure prostitutes get regular medical check-ups, and they should have training and support in insisting on use of condoms. This will be an advance in public health, compared with the situation today.
For necrophilia, it might be necessary to ask the next of kin for permission if the decedent's will did not authorize it. Necrophilia would be my second choice for what should be done with my corpse, the first being scientific or medical use. Once my dead body is no longer of any use to me, it may as well be of some use to someone. Besides, I often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants).

>>55577778
Did you resize the partition?

>>55577991
*quotes

>>55577991
>rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants).

stopped reading write their

>>55578012
That's the point.

>>55577595
Ubuntu provides wine-i386 and wine-amd64 packages. Only issue is there is no WoW64 equivalent so you'll need to use the version that corresponds with your binary.

>>55577996
No, I don't know which one to, as /dev/mapper/ubuserv--dev--vg-root isn't a partition, and I don't know what commands will and won't fuck my shit up.

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>>55577921
>>55577921
meme

I like debian, believe me I do - I've had better experiences so far with it than fedora because there is actually good documentation

Thing is, I'm beginning to be frustrated now, I don't want much more, I just need to find a decent browser on the side because I also made this shitpost >>55574647

I want the few games on steam to run fine, and then I want wine set up correctly for dat Jagged Alliance 2 and a few other old games.

I installed chromium but couldn't deal with it when I found out it still phones home to google.
This has been both a fun and yet annoying learning experience, I feel much better knowing my OS isn't a botnet, yet its a pain in my bottom to have to do everything from the ground up. I suppose there is no better way to do it though, no bloat like this

xwininfo is a tool used to get info about windows on my desktop. For example: If I run "xwininfo" in a terminal and click on the terminal window I will get the following:

xwininfo: Window id: 0x2800be6 "brian@prizm: ~/videos"

  Absolute upper-left X:  627
  Absolute upper-left Y:  569
  Relative upper-left X:  1
  Relative upper-left Y:  26
  Width: 650
  Height: 427
  Depth: 32
  Visual: 0x9d
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x2800003 (not installed)
  Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: no
  Map State: IsViewable
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners:  +627+569  -3+569  -3-28  +627-28
  -geometry 81x25-2-24

Is there a command line tool that will give me similar geometry info if I draw an area on my screen with a mouse?

I found a tool that will do the job called Shutter.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/583698/how-do-i-measure-dimensions-on-screen-without-using-a-ruler

It will give me the geometry data (widthxheight+x+y). But it is overkill for what I need. And I already have a screenshot tool Scrot. Also, scrot will give me the width and height dimension...but it won't give me the offset data.

Any suggestions?

>>55578060
have you considered staying classy?

>>55577635
>nice proxy buddy, i know that trick

You must have a really high opinion of yourself to think people are going to such lengths to forge screenshots

>>55578096
I really wish I was cool enough to understand, but I'm not, and I'm sorry.

>>55578090
https://github.com/naelstrof/slop

>>55577640
>There's no reason to hate GNU
GPL 3.0
RMS
"GNU/Linux"

Pick any

>>55578090
>>55578119
Lightweight: https://github.com/gvalkov/xrectsel

>>55578120
I'm wondering why you are even posting in this thread.

>>55577921
>>55578089
oh and stable netinstall

>>55578119
>>55578130
Thank you . I'll check these out.

>>55578120
fuck off linus, your kernel is nice, but not everything is about you, don't be a nag

>>55578190
>I'm Linus

That is the nicest thing anybody has said to me all day

>>55578190
>your kernel is nice
meh
- it's monolithic
- it's deprecated
- it's blobbed with proprietary modules
- it violates the GPL

GTK error leading up to a Nemo crash; this may or may not still be in the master. Any thoughts?

(nemo:16776): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_draw: assertion '!widget->priv->alloc_needed' failed

(nemo:16776): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_settings: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(nemo:16776): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(nemo:16776): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_mapped: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(nemo:16776): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_is_visible: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(nemo:16776): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_show_internal: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(nemo:16776): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_opacity: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(nemo:16776): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_queue_draw: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
This is SMPlayer v. 15.11.0 running on Linux
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

>>55578239
>- it's monolithic
>- it's blobbed with proprietary modules

It either has modules, or it is monolithic. Pick one

>>55578243
Read your core dump

>>55578243
>

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/92q3/coredb.html

>>55578281
lern2kernel

>>55578316
How about you keep up to date on kernel development?

Many areas of the kernel have been moved to the user-space for security and convenience reasons.The Linux kernel could probably be best classified as a hybrid kernel these days. Originally it was monolith through and through, but that was a long time ago.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI5Njc

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>>55577767
Steam is proprietary, but at least they don't radically change the UI once a year. There are also loads of features and conveniences that come with Steam, unlike iTunes.

>>55577788
I'm not the guy you replied to, but I agree that 100% free software wouldn't work because of how easy it would be to steal and re-release games.

Maybe there could be a neutral 3rd party whose job is to make sure that all publicly released games are free of malware, while still keeping the code proprietary in all other aspects. Kind of similar to Nintendo's "seal of approval" back when that meant something.

However, since proprietary software can't ever be fully trusted, I think that all games should eventually be made FOSS (like Doom and Quake).

>>55578161
How about you try upgrading your shit to testing?
It's pretty good on this side of the fence.

Warning: don't use aptitude to upgrade from stable to testing. It will shit itself with dependency conflicts

If you wanna do it, change your /etc/apt/sources.list file to say "testing" instead of "jessie" everywhere, save it, do apt-get update and then apt-get dist-upgrade. That should work fine. And if you have any problems you can ask here from another computer, your phone, etc.

Remember to back your personal stuff up anyway

And use Ublock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere on Firefox, seriously man, it works.

>>55578520
Oh I already am, plus my other addons. I only allow scripts for the sites I frequent (such as this one), and I enjoy my browser.
I tried opening iceweasel only to discover that it shares the same things as firefox and it opened up the same way, so now I'm left trying to figure out what other browser to install.

You think opera is safe for banking?

Will try to upgrade to testing then, I didn't transfer personal shit either yet so its kay if I totally fuck the OS

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I'm having a very hard time installing Debian for dual boot with Windows 8.1 on my desktop. I've never had trouble installing Debian for dual boot with Win7 on my laptop (but that's not UEFI based).

I have UEFI motherboard with a solid state that is split into 4 partitions (pic related) plus ~80 gigs of unallocated space. This unallocated space is where I want my Debian installation to go. I also have an nVidia graphics card (this might be related to the black screen problem).

As far as I can tell, windows is partitioned exactly how it's supposed to be (300 MB recovery tools, 100 MB for System, and 128 MB for MSR). EFI is on the 100 MB System Partition.

Initially, I tried installing Debian with a desktop environment selected. I think when I did this the first time, I forgot to select to install under UEFI. Installation went smoothly. However, Debian was all I could boot in to, and all I got was a black screen. I eventually managed to be able to boot back in to Windows and deleted the Debian partitions to start over.

Next attempt, I chose to install Debian under UEFI. Installation went smoothly again, but I was not given any option to boot in to Debian. Wiped Debian partition and start over...

A couple more attempts, and I was getting hung up at "grub-install dummy" at 50%. I even let it sit for 30 minutes, but nothing. Tried installing grub manually from my liveUSB, but at that point it was just way over my head.

Wiped Debian partition. Tried installing it again, without the graphical installer, and with no desktop environment selected. This time it randomly worked, I managed to see grub, and went to boot into Debian, but got the fucking black screen. No systemd, no bash, no blinking cursor, just a black screen.

Hard shutdown my computer, turned it back on, no grub, boot straight into Windows.

I've tried a lot of shit but I don't know what to do anymore. While typing this I just had an idea to go check my boot order.

>>55578978
Iceweasel is Firefox.
There was a rebranding issue thing. It's solved now, but it's remnants are still in Stable.

I tried installing Ruby from source (since the quick way doesn't install 2.x on Mint for some reason), but a bunch of the parts did not successfully install.(I would post what it said but the messages are long gone.)

I used this page for instructions:
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/#installers

and I don't see info on dependencies and such I need for installation. Any tips?

>>55579035
*its, sorry

>>55579051
I'm uber pissed now, you had an error in your grammar

I don't think I'll be able to forgive you

i need help, i forgot my sudo password on lubuntu, how do i get it back or make a new one?

Which part of mint controls the color of highlighting?

>>55579230
gtk

>>55579222
You are fucked

>>55579230
If you are using Cinnamon, Themes/Controls

>>55578520
What should be used for privacy on Chrome? Was using ScriptSafe but it's annoying and recently asked for a ton of permissions, now I'm using PrivacyBadger.

>>55579369
>privacy
>chrome

nice meme

So I'm trying to setup Awesome as a window manager for Gnome 3.20. I like the look of Awesome, but would like to keep all the handy Gnome extentions. There's a wiki on how to do it, but it's 3 years old and only covers up to Gnome 3.9.

Is it still possible to do use Awesome as a window manager for Gnome? As I can't find anything pertaining to more recent versions.
I'm using Arch now and pretty new to this.

>>55579369
>Chrome
>Privacy

Jesus christ, man. You're too far gone already. The Matrix has you.

>>55579222
-> reboot
-> hit shift
-> recovery mode
-> start root shell
-> mount -rw -o remount /
-> passwd anon
-> reboot

>>55579369
>privacy on chrome
Are you serious my friend?

>>55579369
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux

np

>>55579387
Get rid of gnome completly and add programs that do what gnome does.
Thats the point of a WM

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So I got Debian Testing XFCE working fine, already configured it to my liking, but I have no idea how to fix those shadows, and it's fucking annoying me every time I look at my desktop.
Any idea on how to fix them?

>>55579520
check xfce for themes settings
or open up the theme settings and look for shadow settings

>>55579520
hola amigo, que tal

es que no se puede cambiar, no hay un opcion
gracias

>>55579537
I already checked there, there is no way to change the shadowing, also tried to change themes just in case, no dice.
>>55579584
>implying it's spanish, not portuguese

>>55579483
Makes sense. I had something else in mind, but i don't think it's supported anymore.

Hi guys, new to Linux here, currently using Windows 10, but would like to switch to Linux. What distro would you recommend for a beginner? I tried Ubuntu already, but it won't install due to an error with my hard drive.

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I'm reading on the openwrt wiki and am lost on a few things, any further reading to help me git gud? I know pretty much shit about networks and would like to learn. ssh is available, so give me your best shot.

>>55573192
How do I make a command run as root when fstab or whatever it is notices my phone's hardware ID is connected? Tired of running dhcpcd everytime i connect my phone.

Also I'm on arch with cinnamon and lightdm. When the computer locks I have to enter my password, the desktop shows up, then like 10 seconds later I have to enter my password again. Any idea why?

>>55579714
Which error?

>>55579714
>Ubuntu didn't work
I thought they fixed their installer. I recommend purging the entire drive for the install, make sure you have backups of course. Ubuntu is good as a first distro, but I would recommend switching to Fedora or Debian after a few weeks after getting dirty with GNU and Linux.

Not related, butI tried Ubuntu last year with 15.* and the installer was being shit. It was definitely on Debian's side since not only was Stretch's installer saying it had problems, Ubuntu's installer prompted up that Debian couldn't be installed on the system. Canonical is a fucking joke.

>>55579781
post your bashrc and xinitrc
>fstab notices
You'll want to setup udev rules to make it notice it and mount it

>>55579643
>portuguese

ABSOLUTELY HUE

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Guys, if I do a fresh install of Icedove (Thunderbird) on my laptop but copy over my .icedove folder over from my desktop's /home, when I open it up for the first time, will it be as if I just opened Icedove preconfigured with everything the way I want it?

Because if so, holy shit that's awesome

>>55579846
make sure to grab any other config file for icedove that might not be in .icedove (/home/config/icedove for example; idk where icedove puts all its configs) and yes, it will be like that.

>>55579714
You should probably go with Debian. Cut the middleman, Ubuntu's derivative, mediocre trash in comparison.

Keep in mind, Debian's not as hand-holdy as Ubuntu, but there's still a wealth of resources to learn how to install and use it

Another friendly option I've heard of is openSUSE, but I have no experience with it so I can't comment.

Fedora is another popular distro, but I'm kinda iffy of recommending rpm distros to regular users.

>>55579818
nano 2.6.1 File: .bashrc

#
# ~/.bashrc
#

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '

No .xinitrc in my home dir. Is it maybe under a different name like .config or .Xauthority

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About overclocking, how would you do it on Linux? It's the same shit by moving around the BIOS, but what would I use for testing stability?

>>55580120
>oc in bios
>boot to liveusb with mprime on it
>run for 2 hours
>did it explode?
>Yes: Too much
>No: Done boot

>>55578994
Reinstall and use bios instead pf uefi

>>55580161
I don't have it on Debian. How's stress?

>>55580250
http://www.mersenne.org/download/

So is Lo/g/os still usable?
I've heard people saying that it isn't maintained anymore and it shouldn't be downloaded.

>>55580161
>>55580268
>>55580289
Fine, I'll use a live USB. I did leave my overclocks the same when moving from Windows 7 to Debian testing and there have been 0 problems.

>>55580314
Your hardware does not care what software is on it.
You are setting them in the BIOS, not in windows/linux.They operate on different levels

Also the link has a downloadable binary that you can run within your distro.
But not having your environment setup, will provide extra support.

>>55579870
Is there something similar to Fedora's easylife package (installs non-free codecs, software, graphics drivers) for Debian?

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>>55580302
Long story short, people started to work on riceDB, a package manager like tool for configs and lo/g/os should have been the showcase for it later. riceDB got forgotten and so lo/g/os.

A mega link: https://mega.nz/#!vocnTSDR!I4dpkby6Dew3O0ur3BUJEX1ULJDFMX2tLjFfX3-BWKw

Torrent for an official, but older version: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3e69fa5202d10f9325c3de90e3e8830637184a9c&dn=logoslinux-2015.03.13-dual.iso&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969

Next to this, there's no point in using lo/g/os, even for fun, since everything which was added (to plain Arch) was just some custon configs you can download from it's github page.
https://github.com/install-logos/rice

>>55580421
If you install Debian, go to your /etc/apt/sources.list and add "contrib non-free" after all the "main", this'll allow all of these stuff you want.

>want to ask stallman legit question about something
>send email
>next day response
>this is just a response that i only access the internet for one hour a day to download and publish emails from the prior days, please allow 48 hours for a response
Is this nigga serious?

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>>55580678
>Is this nigga serious?

Does this man LOOK like he's joking around?!?

How do you change Debian stable to testing?

>>55580732
Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list with your favorite text editor. Replace any instance of "jessie" with "testing". Also install apt-listbugs so you don't break anything later.

>>55579846
I dual boot Windows & GNU/Linux, and I have one Firefox profile shared between them (via a symbolic link in ~/.mozilla/firefox/). It's awesome.

The only oddity/annoyance is that, upon booting Linux and opening Firefox the first time, all my extensions are disabled. It only takes a few seconds to re-enable and reboot though.

>>55580732
To add to what >>55580827 said, this page (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting) has more details. You really should read the Debian manual/wiki, because it's pretty simple and straight-forward.

Have any of you guys got this working?

https://github.com/chrippa/ds4drv

It's for Dualshock 4 usage on Linux

>>55580964
I ask because after following install instructions, I keep getting this error:

anon@anonPC:~$ ds4drv --hidraw
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/ds4drv", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/__main__.py", line 355, in main
    options = load_options()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/__main__.py", line 334, in load_options
    parse_uinput_mapping(name, mapping)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/uinput.py", line 386, in parse_uinput_mapping
    mouse=mouse, mouse_options=mouse_options)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/uinput.py", line 41, in create_mapping
    mouse = {getattr(ecodes, k): v for k,v in mouse.items()}
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/uinput.py", line 41, in <dictcomp>
    mouse = {getattr(ecodes, k): v for k,v in mouse.items()}
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'REL_WHEELDOWN'

Any idea what I should do?

>>55580993
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ds4drv/Dk1EH2IFMz4
Very bottom might help

>>55581043
I appreciate the help, but it seems like after commenting out those bits, I still get this afterward:

why@sufferingPC:~$ sudo ds4drv --hidraw
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/ds4drv", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/__main__.py", line 374, in main
    thread = create_controller_thread(index + 1, controller_options)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/__main__.py", line 343, in create_controller_thread
    controller = DS4Controller(index, controller_options, dynamic=dynamic)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/__main__.py", line 59, in __init__
    self.load_options(self.options)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/__main__.py", line 117, in load_options
    self.fire_event("load-options", options)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/__main__.py", line 62, in fire_event
    self.loop.fire_event(event, *args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/eventloop.py", line 70, in fire_event
    self.process_events()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/eventloop.py", line 75, in process_events
    callback(*args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/actions.py", line 282, in load_options
    joystick = create_uinput_device(joystick_layout)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/uinput.py", line 363, in create_uinput_device
    device = UInputDevice(mapping)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/uinput.py", line 227, in __init__
    self.create_device(layout)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ds4drv/uinput.py", line 268, in create_device
    product=layout.product, version=layout.version)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/evdev/uinput.py", line 107, in __init__
    _uinput.create(self.fd, name, vendor, product, version, bustype, absinfo)
IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

I am planning to live in a van. Part of this means that I will get rid of my laptop with an i7 in it running Windows 7. I want a machine with low power consumption, maybe a netbook? I won't be using it constantly, but when I am it will need to be charged off solar panels/deep cycle battery. I won't be doing any gaming using the machine so I think it's a good time to jump to Linux.

Any hardware recommendations for this kind of setup?

there, >>55581212

>>55581168
>hardware
current i3 or if you have a few months, polaris.
Ssd with low power consumption, little amounts of RAM.
>software
try to use gpu acceleration whereever you can, use tlp on a minimal install of debian or anything other deblobbed and minimal. Either use a WM and compositor that supports gpu acceleration or uses very litthe cpu. And check your media players for cpu or gpu usage.

I recently installed ubuntu 16.04 on a m2 950 pro, and when it starts up there is no gui, but i can use the tty, also if i open the terminal it flashes a lot, and a notification that wifi is available comes up, but it flashes too and cant be clicked on. im running a gtx 970, and i dont know if its the gpu of m2 thats causing a problem. has anyone here experienced something like this before?

>>55582186
is your display refresh set up right?

>>55578053
wine supports WoW64 now

>>55582291
no idea, but the screen works fine with windows, ive had problems running ubuntu with my gpu before, they were solved by using nvidiias driver, but now i can even get on the wifi so i cant my driver :(

>>55582291
Definitely the gou, i can run it fine of the integrated graphics. Any idea what driver i should use for a gtx 970?

Recently found out I had an extra 500gb ssd in my laptop which I forgot even existed... Going to fall for Arch Linux meme

Wish me luck.