/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Remember guys you have to be FRIEDLY.

>>55638949
We're always friedly

>>55638949
I don't want to be fried.
Better fry a pepper.

>>55638998
Oh GNU/Jesus please not another pepper-thread!

tfw .net wageslave so i can't use linux

>>55639012
No, this is a Broken Windows thread!

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First for Green Is My Pepper.

>>55638901
That took a while. Very nice OP.

>>55639052
gnu image manipulator program

xubuntu randomly freezes for a minute, i cant even move the mouse, then just continue to work normally. where can i find logs or something to see the cause of this problem

installgentoo is down, anyone know what's up?

>>55639102
It's a common thing

How do I create an AP with iw, thanks for being friendly.

>>55639100
dmesg. It might be that you have some hardware problems.

>>55639140
Oh, ok then... Anyone want to recommend a terminal emulator that looks better than xterm?

>>55639221
urxvt

>>55639221
I use Konsole.

>>55639175
>Fuck this OS
>Please help
No, go fuck yourself.

>>55639221
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kjbj-Ez1vU

>>55639221
But anon, why not configure xterm?
Search the Arch Wiki how to do it.

>>55639281
I'll look into it now, can it be made to not render fonts like it's not 1980s?
>>55639257
>>55639247
>>55639237
Thanks, for the replies, there are so many bloody terminal emulators.

>>55639221
I like Terminator

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Is there a point to using tmux if you're already using i3?

>>55639621
Yes.

>>55639631
What would it be?
Pls no sarcastic responses, I'm genuinely curious

I have 2531 packages installed. Do any of you have anything to say to me?

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>>55639664
ok

>>55639658
Because the work you do has nothing to do with your window manager?

>>55639664
Quit attention whoring

>>55639664
Fact: You have an odd number of packages installed

>>55639686
With KDE that's probably all the appendages alone, I use Xfce.

>>55639687
I ask because as far as I can tell tmux helps you separate your terminal into different windows of different sizes, which i3 can already do

So I wonder what other functionality apart from this it has

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>>55639664
Are said packages free as in freedom?

>>55639707
It runs different jobs in the background, the window sizes are not its purpose at all.

>>55639695
Fact: 2531 is a prime number

>>55639664
Why are you using so much lib32?

>>55639758
So it is:

anon@something ~ $ factor 2531
2531: 2531

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>>55639664

Getting rid of a DE. Which text editor, and file manager should I install? Still want a pretty GUI though.

>>55639889
vim/emacs, no file manager

rice out a tiling wm for prettiness

>>55639905
Ricing i3 atm. Wonder if I should compile i3-gaps for Debian. Never compiled anything though. Kinda lazy to read through vim/emacs info and learn the keybindings. Also need a document viewer, was thinking on Evince or Sumatra?

>>55639960
For vim run vimtutor and it will takes you through a short tutorial that's enough to get you started.

>>55639664
Nothing at all.
Most of my packages are libraries, there's nothing wrong with that when you build software.
>Packages: 2481

linux

>>55640078
Linux-libre

>>55640078
>>55640084
systemd-linuxd

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>>55640089
>>55640084
>>55640078
ubuntu

>>55640084
OpenLinux.Org

>>55640078
linux-torvalds

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Reminder we have two threads on /t/ - Torrents

Training videos for GNU/Linux (torrents)
>>>/t/713097
>>>/t/713097

Ported videogames (torrents)
>>>/t/707928
>>>/t/707928

>>55640845
Holy fuck that's a lot of
derivative projects.

>Christian edition
>Satanic edition

lelz

What should I use for locking my laptop screen when I close it? I found slim, and it's exactly what I want visually, but that's just for logging in and I can't use slimlock

Defenstration edition?

>>55641153
cuz it's "thrown out the windows"

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>>55640845
>mfw Debian

Is there a minimal file manager that can give me image previews and thumbnail previews? Worker has image previews and xfe has thumbnail previews. If Worker had the directory tree view and the thumbnail I would be totally sold, but it doesn't, so sad.

Also, anyone knows if emacs can work as a file manager with thumbnails and image previews?

>>55641269
Seconding this questions.

>>55638901
Any of you guys use Tails? I had a question about it

I was messing around with it, but it turns out that when I shut it down, when the RAM wipe is taking place, it just freezes on my laptop. It doesn't go through with the procedure so I have to press the power button to shut it off.

I also can't simply reboot into it, I have to power it off, take out the USB, boot into my Debian installation, restart the computer, plug in the USB, and boot Tails up again. If I try to simply restart Tails normally, it gives me a black screen (which immediately goes away if I unplug the USB) instead of showing me the Thinkpad logo

This is all on a T420 thinkpad

This behavior doesn't happen on my normal desktop, just on my laptop. Is there any work around? I heard some laptops could be problematic for Tails

Before I just give up and try to install Arch. I currently run Debian. Fsck is done on every boot even after editing the fstab and checking with tune2fs that the max count is -1 or 0.

Is there any other way to stop fsck from running on each boot? It's slowly down my boot time.

>>55639221
Sakura

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I'd like to make my Quitter.se (GNU Social) get all my Twitter posts. Is it possible to do with IFTTT?

I've got a running instance of urxvtd, and I accidentally ran urxvtd (again) when I meant to open a urxvtc. How can I connect to that original daemon again without having to kill it (since I have windows running within it that I don't want killed)?

In the meantime I can just keep a second urxvtd running which the clients can connect to, but that's not an ideal solution.

>>55638901
I really like bash but I want to make simple GUI programs for myself (Format and mkfs USB/Multiple Copy manager/Update manager etc).

Does Bash have anything like PyQt or PyGTK? I'm a complete programming newbie btw

>>55641736
I like bash too... How about this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialog_(software)

>>55639664
946 packages here.
On my ubuntu laptop after 3 years of use I had more than 3k packages. I don't remember how many exactly.

>>55641757
Thanks anon. I also came to know about Zenity

I'm in the middle of running ddrescue on a drive.

It goes smoothly for the first 1.5TB and then starts to have constant read i/o errors (every three seconds) from about 1.6TB.

I've put -r3 and didn't do scrape.

Is there a way to create a complete disk image that is usable without it completing? Or should I just let it go under hte impression that the disk will probably be dead afterwards?

If the disk contains readable files - will the copied disk also have those files readable?

>>55641736
>>55641783
Can you please make a ranger-like file manager? People are asking for one with thumbnails, which is theoretically possible thanks to w3mimage and fbi.

Even if is another ranger clone with ncurses, being python-less is going to attract many people.

>>55641821
Of course. I'lldo my best

Hello!
I've installed gentoo and don't know how to read pdfs in wayland, now I use fbpdf in tty2 to read, but there is two another solutions - install weston-view from weston 1.4.0 or use js-viewer.
I dont know how compile weston-view, it has many <include> and I can't compile just it with gcc, I can compile full weston and install just weston-view, but why developers didn't make it as separate single pascage? This is not Unix-way!
Solution #2 - pdf.js by mozilla, online it works good, but when I had download it and open in browser in didn't work.
What to do?
I know, there is many readers for xorg, and I can use xwayland, but it will be not KISS-way.

>>55641858
Take a look at rover if you want a reference, is a simple ranger clone
https://github.com/lecram/rover

Also don't forget to post here your progress anon.

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>>55639664

>>55641821
you can get image previews in ranger already with w3mimage

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>>55641987
I knew somebody was going to make this mistake, so let me remark than thumbnails are not the same as image previews. What ranger has is previews, of images, text, etc. But thumbnails are inline, not in a separate window like the previews.

Look at this xfe pic.

>>55641183
Deprecated pic
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg

>>55642050
>this fonts
>this hinting shapes
>video
do you disable this shit when watch video?
Why you enable sharpness in OS not in monitor?

>>55642050
gotcha

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>>55641962
>wayland

>>55642067
Damn that's sexy.

>>55642067
Many thanks senpai.

>>55642130
x.org deprecated, actually there is no reason to use it. 2016 already.

>>55642196
Wayland is still not ready.

>>55642281
Don't worry, Red Hat is going to shove it down our throats like pulseaudio and systemd. Not because they want to control all other distros, not-at-all.

>>55638901
>friendly linux thread
HOW FRIENDLY IS IT?

So anyways, I'm wondering about getting into GNU/Linux. I keep going back to my shitty laptop every summer and installing some odd distro or another on it, but every time I use it for a few days and never touch it until I feel like installing a different distro.
Am I missing something? I thought GNU/Linux was supposed to be better than Windows and OS X, but I don't see what the huge advantage is other than muh freedoms.
It's not like Windows or OS X feels any better to use, but at least they have more software support and vidya games.

So tell me why I should spend the time to convert to GNU/Linux

>>55642321
xorg isn't UNIX-way, just like systemd.
You can youse OpenRC or any other init system if you want, you have choice.
If you hate pulseaudio and networkmanager you can delete it.

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>>55642339
>I don't see what the huge advantage is other than muh freedoms

>>55642339
Well, what do you want to use your laptop for?

>>55642339
Windows have games, but not freedom. Anything you do is observed by Microsoft. How about using Steam OS? Is some kind of proprietary GNU/Linux for games...

>>55642339
Linux is worse than other operating systems, but it has the advantage that it is free in a real sense and also free in a freetard ideological sense. Linux is used primarily by welfare cases who can't afford a real operating system, ideologues who support Stallman religiously, and professionals who are not managing desktop computers.

The best you can do is buy Elementary, which tries to replicate Apple's design work and makes freetards angry.

>>55642339
I can no longer differentiate bait posts from serious ones now.

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I want to create a launcher for Minecraft, but for some reason I cannot click OK. What am I missing?

>command
java -Xmx6144M -Xms512M -jar /home/michael/.minecraft/Minecraf

>>55642339
>they have more software support

Commercial software, yes, but there's far more software available for linux than for other OSes (unless you actually count all that random broken Windows shitware that fills the internet, but if you do then just kindly end your life).

>>55642339
Use tiling window-manager, use console app, you can even not youse display server at all, there is browsers for framebuffer and console browsers also, mplayer for video in framebuffer, netsurf or w3m as browser...
You can install gnu/linux on all your digital devices, you can choose your C-library glibc uclibc or musl, you can youse modern filesystems, which doesn't supported by windows and mac.

>>55642364
85% casual browsing (watching muh anime and chatting with friends), 5% fucking around with sysadmin stuff, because I find servers interesting (but I've been using Windows Server, SQL, Wordpress, i.e. Shit that werks with Windows), and then 10% playing vidya

>>55642339
Linux actually runs anywhere and it's pretty much universal. My homeserver, my Desktop, Laptop and my phone all run on Linux.

However you can do the same with Apple but you have to pay extra and Apple ecosystem is going to restrict you with apple only products.

Furthermore Linux is more secure and privacy oriented. Windows and MacOS have more vulnerabilities. You can harden your security in Linux as much as you could and Linux will actually let you do it

>>55642354
Good luck trying to live without systemd if their developers keep demanding other sofware projects to depend on systemd.

Also, good luck trying to erase pulseaudio from Ubuntu and derivatives, all their packages are "optimized" for pulseaudio.

>>55642382
any gnu/linux system also have games. On GNU/Linux gaming may be more comfortable, becouse gnu/linux not have so much backward capability as windows.

>>55642339
>Am I missing something?
How the hell would we know? You haven't stated anything about what you've used or anything other than a few vague opinions.

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>>55642440
>Ubuntu
Ubuntu is shitty fork of Debian, reinventing the wheel like "Mir", delete this.
>Good luck...
I live without systemd at all, and not have any troubles, what I do wrong?

>>55642426
java -Xmx6144M -Xms512M -jar /home/michael/.minecraft/Minecraft.jar

I cut it off...

>>55642530
>4.24MB vs 164KB
just look at this shit! systemd is ugly combine like 3Ds MAX, xorg, windows, OS X etc...
Who use this is fuckin retarded.

>>55642440
I wouldn't even have an issue with systemd being a bloated sack of shit if they didn't so aggressively force it into every distro.

I get that SysVinit has problems. If systemd fixed the init system (and to be fair it does make booting much faster and it's easy to start/stop or enable-on-boot different services) then it would be great, but why does it have to have fucking everything else built in too?

It's just depressing seeing one cancerous project suck everything around it down into its vortex of shit.

>>55642599
Have you tried OpenRC?
It boot system very fast, and easy to enable/disable services.

>>55642436
Shitposting, chinese cartoons and cyber carousing are well supported by linux, vidya is hit and miss, either it works or you will spend months wrestling with drivers and X11, it also depends on what sort of games interest you.

I'm pretty sure most servers run linux these days, probably even those which host windows services do so in a vm on a box running linux.

Honestly, install a justwerks distro like mint or ubuntu, forget about the minamilist stuff because you will probably get frustrated just setting it up for what you do day to day. Use linux for browsing and chatting to friends. You will find you become more reluctant to boot into windows as you find ways to do the things you like to do on linux, eventually you'l only use windows for gaming and even then reluctantly.

The server stuff will just come eventually, there are literally thousands of open source web frameworks, designed on and for nix like systems.

Why is codeblocks ctrl+F so shitty, even the one in internet explorer is better, I mean its a frigging app to write code and it can't even do the "find next" thing right.
The best ctrl+f I have seen is the one in Visual Studio

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>4TB drive giving some problems with permissions
>chown, no problems
>things are going slow on the drive, even on terminal emulator
>pay no mind
>hours later, the drive isn't even recognized by lsblk or fdisk
Oh fuck, I think the drive might have died.

>>55642720
>2016
>he doesn't write code in ed

teehee

>>55642721
smartctl -a that bitch

Unless it's already too late...

Please have backups, anon. ;__;

>>55642633
>OpenRC
You realize you're just bailing out a canoe with a growing hole in it, right? Why continue to waste your time with this? It's demise is inevitable.

>>55642633
>>55642789

Runit seems really sweet but everyone's always got a hard-on for OpenRC.

>>55642740
>ed
what? give me the full name

>>55642847
ed is the standard editor.

is there a way to make scaling work across all the applications?

running ubuntu

>>55642863
is that coding in the "terminal"?

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>>55642750
Holy shit.

$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sde | grep Error
Error logging capability:        (0x01)    Error logging supported.
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 15 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
    ER = Error register [HEX]
Error 15 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11932 hours (497 days + 4 hours)
  04 61 02 00 00 00 a0  Device Fault; Error: ABRT
Error 14 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11932 hours (497 days + 4 hours)
  04 61 06 00 00 00 00  Device Fault; Error: ABRT
Error 13 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11932 hours (497 days + 4 hours)
  04 61 45 00 00 00 a0  Device Fault; Error: ABRT
Error 12 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11932 hours (497 days + 4 hours)
  04 61 02 00 00 00 a0  Device Fault; Error: ABRT
Error 11 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11932 hours (497 days + 4 hours)
  04 61 06 00 00 00 00  Device Fault; Error: ABRT

It's a WD green with the parking at full force, I never got around to stabilizing it. It's not even two years old.
It mounted, but I already lost some files I put in not more than 5 hours ago. It can play the chinese cartoons in it albeit it's taking its damn time to open the file.
What should I do to monitor my drives? Have a script that mails me errors and shit at all times?

>>55642819
And what about Initng? Point is we have more than one service managemer and the systemd developers are being dicks s the sole reason for their adoption.

>>55641802
Anyone?
>>55642721
Maybe try freezer and then dd rescue it?

>>55642720
>>55642740
oh shit I just found there is a Visual studio for linux

>>55642937
Ed is a what you get is what you get editor, if you thought quiting vim was hard....

stand by, let me find it,

>>55642937
>>55643091
here ya go:


When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi
*and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like,
'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor
that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.

Ed, man! !man ed

ED(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual ED(1)

NAME
ed - text editor

SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
---

Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first
alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed
because it's ED!

"Ed is the standard text editor."

And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs

Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed.
Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

"Ed is the standard text editor."

Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:

golem> ed

?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?

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

"Ed is the standard text editor."

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

>>55643026 here
Arch wiki is my friend.
The mailing and log thing is there. Thanks, Arch bros.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S.M.A.R.T.

>>55643164
Even when you aren't using Arch the Arch Wiki is the best source of information.

Just passing by to recommend sxiv, this amazing minimalistic image viewer can browse a list of pics when you press enter and has support for gif.

In conjuction with xfe is amazing when you open multiple images.

Try it.

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OK, let's check the 100% libre distros by FSF...
>blag: Firefox, good! But last release on 2011, dead.
>Dragora: can't find the last version on the official site, Wikipedia says it was released on 2012
>Dynebolic: "audio and video editing"... no
>GuixSD: beta. No.
>gNewSense: seems good, but no Firefox??
>Musix: "audio production"... no
>Parabola: I don't get it!
>Trisquel: good visual, version for netbooks, but no Firefox?? Stopped beindg developed (last release on 2014)?
>Ututo: dead, last release on 2012.
Why are all of them unusable like this?

>>55643426
Because free software isn't really a viable future

A hybrid and making compromises between free software and sometimes just open source software makes more sense

is there a real time sound visualizer out there

>>55643273
>sxiv
can i get it on ubuntu

>>55643426
>>55643450
There was a time when no free as in freedom operative system, now we have choices.

Given time, you can have what you want.

>>55643492
OK, so I should not use any of there distros now?

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>>55641802
Fuck

Hello /g/entoomen. Look what I've found. Literally GEM

https://jes.sc/kb/rTorrent+ruTorrent-Seedbox-Guide.php

>>55643517
what do you wan in a distro? can't you just try them all in a vm?

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>>55643539
;_;7
Even though my drive has all of those errors, it appears that it can still function fine. I hope you have backups, anon. I've already went through tough times in the past, but losing animu isn't that bad when you have a list of your files.

>>55643585
I'm trying to back it up now.

I think there's a whole section of the drive which is FUBAR. I think the SMART fail is seek errors because it keeps failing at one part of the drive.

Is there a way to make a functional dd of a part of a drive in order?

>>55643560
I want Firefox. If it's banned from the distro, I don't see a reason to use it.

I don't know if I know how to test on a VM. I only used VM for Linux Mint, and never installed more systems. But, not having updates for some years doesn't makes the distro dead? Or in the case of small distros this works differently?

>>55643636
Is that what you want? Search for icecat or iceweasel. Icecat is like a hardened version of firefox and iceweasel is debian rebranded firefox.

>>55643704
None of them are Firefoxes. There is no fire, nor foxes.

Holy shit, when is this trolling ever ends!

>>55643605
>Try remote reboot over ssh
>the server isn't coming back online

It wasnt the drive that root was on but I just know it's at home spinning out

;_;

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>>55643786
RIP
Fuck, magnetic storage is a real bitch sometimes. Flash storage surpassing HDD's $/GB when? DNA storage never? Why are tape drives so expensive?

Okay, so I've got a problem I haven't been able to figure out.

I'm trying to watch HTML5 videos on Firefox in Ubuntu. Everything works fine when I try it in Windows, but on Ubuntu I can't play videos on certain sites. Youtube works fine, but other sites show an error message on the video player saying that no compatible source was found for this media.

I've tried Googling it, but I haven't found anything related to this rather than an older issue from 2+ years ago.

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>Based on Trisquel
>Emulates dnf, zyper and apt-get
Explain why aren't you using the best Distro yet.

https://itsfoss.com/uruk-linux-review/

>>55642789
>>55642819
But it just works. What is better then OpenRC right now? systemd simply sucks.

>>55643975
>>55643786
Entropy takes all, anon.
Eventually all forms of data storage rot and perish.

Unless perpetually struggling to be conserved, all human knowledge (and japanese cartoons) will be lost like dust in the wind, one day.

>>55644263
Because I'm alright on Debian and see no reason to use a derivative of a derivative

Besides it's on 1.0 and the thing still has arabic content in what is supposed to be the english version

It's a cool little thing they're doing and I might try it in a VM sometime, but when you reach a certain age you stop seeing the point in distrohopping when you already have everything you need.

>>55644263
Because OpenSUSE is a-ok.

>>55644319
The neckbeard running this Universe is a huge dick then.

>>55644379
It's actually a derivative of a derivative of a derivative.
Uruk -> Trisquel -> Ubuntu -> Debian

Wew lad.

>>55644379
>when you reach a certain age you stop seeing the point in distrohopping
I'm fairly new at GNU + Linux, not even more than a year on the desktop, and that shit got sidelined in less than a month. I went Debian -> Ubuntu -> Fedora -> Debian and have stayed on testing since then.

>>55644474
You saw the light early then, good for you

>>55644474
I think trying out new distros can be entertaining and even a distraction or a way to kill time for some people. I think that's why it's such a popular activity, specially among newbies. It's almost a game to them

But yeah when you sit down and actually think about it for 2 seconds, you realize it's kind of pointless

>>55644495
>I think trying out new distros can be entertaining and even a distraction or a way to kill time for some people.
If anything, they should try a live CD or simply using other distributions on a VM.

>>55643704
I thought Debian switched back to Firefox?

>>55643727
>checking 100% libre distros
>complain about them not having some not 100% libre software

>>55644658
It did

>>55644658
They did recently. In any case Icecat should be preferable.

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So I mounted the drives already but i keep getting this error when I try to install the base packages.

>>55644695
chrooted?

>>55644707
I haven't because thats later on in the wiki.

>>55644695
Did you create filesystems after partitioning the drive?

>>55644716
yes I did using the

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdxy

I did it to sda1 and sda3. sda1 is my /mnt/boot and sda3 is my /mnt. sda2 is my swap.

>there are no linux drivers for my shitty network card
Why the fuck did I get a broadcom network card. Never again

>>55644715
You forgot generate fstab, read beginners guide on archwiki.

>>55644770
No, he hasn't even installed the system yet; you don't need the fstab.

>>55644741
Post the output of

mount -l

>>55644741
why arch? install gentoo, it worth if you have PC, if laptop and you want youse xorg (deprecated) you can install gentoo uclibc with xfce or install stage3 uclibc.

>>55644741
Are you going for UEFI or MBR?

>>55644810
use
*fix*

>>55644810
>please help
>no, do something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

friendly fuck off

>>55644832
My friendly advice is to skip the crap and go straight to the gold.

But when you've lived in shit all your life, that's hard to do.

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>>55644796
what is fstab? I haven't seen that yet.

>>55644870
You have /dev/sda1 mounted in three places; that's likely the cause of the problem. Umount /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3 so they no longer appear in that listing, then only

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

then run pacstrap again.

>>55644892
ok thank you. If you don't mind, can you tell me how you saw that?

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>>55644907

>>55644923
Ok awesome. Appreciate it.

>>55644923
>>55644933
Just a heads up in case anyone read this with a similar issue, I had to umount /dev/sda1 3 times because it was mounted in three places. Just doing it once didn't solve the issue.

Is there a less bogged down version of Arch essentials? I want to get started with a TWM, but I don't know my way around .xinitrc. Feels like I'm cheating myself when I'm using GNOME + arch.

any archers recommend registering on the forums? I want a comprehensive altnerative to user configuratyion, updating the system, etc. Coming from Slackware, everything just werked.

Can someone explain how to change the terminal emulator in Geany to Terminology (on Arch + xfce if that matters)? I finally found a TE I like, and my favorite editor won't work with it

>>55645016
Read the Wiki about installing your TWM of choice.

Also no idea why you'd want Arch if you don't want to use pacman

>>55645048
I'm using yaourt, when did I say that I didn't want to use pacman in my post? I meant a comprehensive alternative to resources in these areas, not alternatives to the areas themselves.

>>55645016
>xinitrc
kill yourself fucking retard, or finally just install wayland

>>55645063
What kind of resources do you seek? Updating the system is 1 command, just run it.

>>55645088
Please contain your autism

>>55645088
>kys fucking retard
simmer down, you goober, this is /fglt/ not a shill wayland down people's throat general.

>>55645091
the wiki, condensed in a fashion similar to an o'reilly handbook or gist with user scripts of people's dotfiles so I can see how other user's systems are set up?

[blog post]
So Ive been taking steps to become a linux user,
Ive installed virtual box and set it up on Ubuntu 16.04, beat my head against the wall trying to get steam to work on it. ( Ive sinced fixed it before resorting to here but I guess the problem was something about steam including old libraries that mess with display drivers or something ??) ANYWAYS: Ive picked up
The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction and intend to read it in my downtime. So far Im finding linux stuff pretty neat. I love the terminal and I love doing things via the terminal.
But Im posting because this,
I have a Surface Pro 3 that I use for school, One Note is a great application I use to take notes in all my classes and can carry the surface with me everywhere instead of a big binder or some shit, which allows me to study pretty much anywhere including lunch breaks at work.

But. The Surface runs on windows 10. Id really like to NOT run windows 10, I know installing Ubuntu on the Surface is do-able; But I was curious if there was any software/programs comparable to One Note for linux that would allow me to hand write notes. Cloud storage isnt really something I need but it would be a bonus.

>>55645034
Guys pls :(

>>55642430
>end your life
>friendly
Why do you basement dwellers even post?

>>55645117
The wiki already doesn't go into detail

Seeing what other people did seems totally pointless to me unless you want to figure how to achieve something. In which case you're probably still better up using wiki/official docu/google.

>>55638901
So, if I buy this
>http://www.ebay.com/itm/COMPLETE-ALFA-R36-WiFi-BiQuad-DISH-MACH2-V2-Booster-Long-Range-GET-FREE-INTERNET/141360671589
>flash dd-wrt or openwrt on my rt-n16
>hook Biquad Kit to router, and assign it to Rx (receiving signal)

Will I get free internet? Should I install OpenWrt specifically because it has Reaver? https://github.com/t6x/reaver-wps-fork-t6x/issues/26

>>55645125
>trying to get steam to work on it.
Use Antergos.

>>55645125
>One Note for linux that would allow me to hand write notes.

Libreoffice Draw

>>55645259
I didnt even notice that was a thing. Finding Libreoffice packaged with Ubuntu was a pleasant suprise though

Ill look into it thanks, I hope it works well with the surface pen.

does anyone here actually say GNU/LINUX irl?

I don't want people to know I browse 4chan

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>openbox is a next generation window manager
>awesome is a next generation window manager
>next generation window manager

what do they mean by this?

>>55645462
buzzword bullshit

>>55645454
>does anyone here actually say GNU/LINUX irl?

Do you tell women you refuse to be party to the infringement of freedom caused by non-free software when they ask you to watch netflix with them?

>>55645117
>shill wayland down people's throat
wayland was created for people, for users and for developers, it works much faster, low memory consumption, simple API unlike ugly XORG APIs...

>>55645259
>>55645403
Follow up on this if anyone else was curious

Xournal is also an option,
http://xournal.sourceforge.net/

>>55645481
>it works
I have a hard time believing this one

>>55645462
they mean bullshit, awesome, openbox is retarded.
Next generation it's Sway, Velox, Motorcar (VR), NemoUX shell (for touchscreen), Hawaii, Weston, Orbment, Englitenment.

>>55645500
Try again.
What the troubles it was?

>>55645500
Also I guess it was trouble with DE, wayland it's just protocol, and it works perfect.

When running arch on virtualbox I installed it successfully but now don't have internet connection when I'm in. Is there something special I have to do if running in virtualbox?

>>55645808

systemctl enable dhcpcd
systemctl start dhcpcd

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How much of a benefit in power consumption would I see from a lighter distro / DE?

>>55644695
Arch is shit, install Gentoo or Debian.

>>55645861
Next question is why do I keep getting permission denied to execute commands when I'm root?

>>55645967
very much, try gentoo musl with wayland, or gentoo uclibc with wayland.

>>55645861
>2016
>systemd
>dhcp
dhcp worth only if you don't have a router.

>>55646107
becouse arhcwiki is piece of shit, try gentoo, I use gentoo, becouse I couldn't install arch.

fuck off wayland shill

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Looking to switch fully to Linux for the first time. I played with Ubuntu for like a month a while ago and it was alright.

Looking for a distro to use as my daily driver and I'm torn between Debian, Fedora and Manjaro.
What do you guys think I should use?

>>55646506
Depends what you use your system for and how bleeding edge you want to be. If you're going arch-based don't go with Manjaro, go with Antergos.

>>55639081
GIMP Is Mot a Pemulator

>>55646543
What's wrong with Manjaro?

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>>55638901

font rendering issue, not sure what's causing it. (Fresh install although have installed f.lux to avoid my eyes burning)

>>55646599
Purge botnet.lux, install redshift, use a custom fontconfig.

What browser do u guys use? firefox and chromium are too slow on my machine

Does anyone know anything about customizing Metacity xml theme files? I'm trying to add drop shadows to the windows.

>>55646586
In their desire to be somehow more 'stable' than Arch, they basically hold Arch packages for several weeks before pushing them to stable. The problem with this is that they do a piss poor job of prioritizing bug fixes, even if they're serious. So your system can be very vulnerable for quite some time.

The fact that their solution for their SSL certificate expiring for their domain was to tell users to set their clock back is emblematic of how laughable their commitment to providing a secure user experience is. The funniest bit was that a year later, they let their certificate expire yet again.

So yeah, Antergos is the way to go if you want the Arch experience combined with user-friendliness and little to no setup.

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Alright, I need help.

I've tried to DD the entire drive on which this anime is located and it has failed twice.

I would like to start copying individual folders off one by one to save as much data as possible. After three DD attempts and ddrescue attempts that have failed, the drive now reports bad SMART data and looks to be on the way out.

Can you please provide me with the following info;
1) What is the best way to copy these folders (saving on typing).
2) The current drive is NTFS - is there a way I can copy the data over to exfs or something "better"?
2a) Will having the fs as something obscure affect using these files on connecting computers that are not linux (eg. I have an osx and a windows machine in the house)

Thanks guys....

I've attached a pic of what some of the files look like

>>55646716
Try lynx and w3m, or surf for some stuff when you need it. I personally use firefox aurora.

>>55646841
Why dd? Use rsync to transfer to another drive/partition, regardless of its filesystem. If it fucks up during transfer, it can resume from partial data. (you'll want something like rsync -avzP just read the manpage)

> Will having the fs as something obscure affect using these files on connecting computers that are not linux
I don't know how your network is set up but it should be fine if you're using something like samba afaik.

>>55642391
Linux isn't free. It's distributions are full of binary blobs, which makes Linux in a whole a proprietary product.

>>55646691

Where can I find the font configuration panel? Is it a text file? I'm still noobish about Linux.

>>55646934
will rfsync create functional copies of working files? Or should I do it one by one

The whole drive is a single folder

>>55647064
Basics: almost everything is a text file
The debian wiki has an easy to follow article on fonts and font configuration, I would recommend reading it. Have fun.

>>55647188
It'll copy whatever you want, preserving structures of subdirectories.

I'm getting lots of failed SSH attempts into my server.

What do?

>>55647275

It says I should not modify the configuration file, because it will be replaced or some stuff. Also, the page doesn't explain anything. It just says that its called font.conf and that's it. I don't even know how to fix it, I feel so stupid right now. This is a fresh install too, and I'm not very familiar with anything. I just want to fix the ugly issue, which in the config says only xml coding values. Nothing else. Not sure if I'm in the correct config, because it has a bunch of other configs.

>>55647530
It's a chinese telecom btw.

How do I just refuse all connections?

>>55647559
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration

>>55647559
Just use the example on the wiki and replace your current one.

>>55647571
You can use ufw for that.

>>55647652
Yeah cool I used something different but I found a way to stop it :)

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>>55647688
Anyone able to help me out with this one? Much appreciated

>>55647576
I think I'm close, but there is so many configuration files I'm still a bit unsure. I'm thinking to change the local one, but the fonts.conf keeps talking about the conf file in HOME, but I want this to be a global change. Since its a bug with the laptop, then again... It could be a rendering issue...

Not sure, its using RADEON drivers as its fallback instead of the fglrx.

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>>55647844

Laptop screwed up again, let me reupload the file instead of IGNORING my command.

>>55647830
sed -i may help you changing text inside files

>>55648261
>>55648261
Going to take a look into that command, thanks heh

>>55647867
What are you even trying to do? This looks like you are trying to do everything at once for no reason.

>>55648352

Read

>>55646897
ok thank you

can someone explain to me, in retar-- I mean layman's term, what the difference between a LTS and rolling distro are?
I know (somewhat) what it means in theory, but what concrete difference is there for me as an average user? which should I use?

>>55638901
how do i secure linux?

>>55648676

LTS = Stable
Rolling Distro = Bleeding Edge / Sometimes stable

I stick with LTS for better support and compatibility. While your average rolling distro is a bit more fresh, although things could still be edgy in some corners.

>>55648679
Disconnect from any network.

>>55648740

how do i secure linux that is networked

>>55648676
Dont use any LTS or stable versions. Those versions are good for servers which need to run for years, but for a desktop, you want fresh packages.

Especially when it comes to Ubuntu, when you get a LTS, you'll have a bad time a year later when all you get are security updates. This is what LTS means: Long term support, and support is basically security updates.

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New hard drive. Tranmsission.

Getting the following error.

Whats wrong?

>>55648753
Programs have bugs, bugs are potential backdoors, no system is secure. That said, there are some basic things you can do like setting up iptables (or ufw), apparmor etc in order to keep script kids off your lawn.

>>55648814
Which file system? What are your mount options?

Hey /fglt/ is it possible that whenever I start my virtualbox Windows 7 VM on my archlinux (linux 4.6.2) laptop I run out of power to use an external 2.5'' Hitachi HDD?

This is really confusing me but it's the only explanation I came up in order to explain the facts!
Has anyone an idea if that's possible?

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>>55648914
xfs. /NAS/


I added the directory /Anime/ under NAS but I don't know if that means the folder exists on the drive now...

:)

Here's a screenshot of a blkid output

>>55649030
You don't have permission since it is on / I think. Why not put it in /home or cmod it so you can use it?

>>55649215
I tried chmod before and I don't think it changed anything.

You could be right as the folder is listed as owned root root and transmission is creating files owned by transmission transmission.

I've set up an auto mount with rw permissions in fstab and will reboot now to check.

I dunno what /home is. For some reason my user service isn't working right now (and I dunno how to do it with CLI) so I am just using root only.

:)

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>>55649500
>using root only
Restart completely with a more beginner friendly distro honestly. Debian should be fine. Not even trying to be mean or anything, but people jumping into arch without a lot of prior experience is one of the main question supplies of this thread. Running everything as root will fuck you over in the long run.

>>55649030
use UUID

>>55649642
>arch
>main questions
kek

More like
>APT WANTS TO DELETE 50GB OF DOWNGRADES WHEN I JUST WANT TO REMOVE URXVT

>>55649500
Didn't fix the problem.

I could go through and try change the transmission user to root.... but I dunno man

I'm very confused by why it won't write. I can manually copy the thigns downloaded by transmission to a pre-existing drive, (or use mv) and it works just fine.

>>55649712
I answer a lot of questions in these threads on slow days, and issues like this are extremely rare and if they actually happen it is usually because of user error (mixing aptitude and apt-get on one system or removing sources for example). Memeing posts like yours don't help archs reputation. I don't think arch is that bad, but archs approach to user friendliness/simplicity only really benefits experienced users -if at all-.

How hard would it be for me to set up a server? I want it to work as a NAS, be able to stream video to my phone/laptop, act as a Vpn, be able to start torrenting to it via my phone and act as a Dropbox/Google drive. I've lurked in some of the server threads and stuff, but does anyone have any good resources on where to start? All my Linux experience is just installing and running Xubuntu day to day, bit I sort of took up this as a project to learn anyway

>>55644436
No one runs the universe.

>>55644680
Why isn't Firefox 100% libre?

>>55649642
I plan to fix that problem later. But I don't know what transmissions problem is.

>>55649885
Because they added some nonfree software to it and use nonfree licenses for artwork. Icecat even went so far and configured their fork to have better privacy settings.

>>55649825
I /g/lance /sqt and /flt a few hours every day at work, apt problems have been very abundant the past few weeks.

>arch rep
I dont even use arch. But from what i gather, its shitposters loading arch in a vm or a dual boot, to shit post about arch, you'll notice their uptime is within minutes of the shitpost/meme post

>>55649925
I think it has to do with their security sense. A torrent program that has root access could be a security hole.

>>55648679
Encryption. But you need to know what you are doing.

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>>55649642
1) this graphic is outdated as fuck
3) arch is a babby distro

>>55649885
-EME DRM
-Pocket
-Hello
-addons.mozilla.org is baked into the browser's addons page

>>55649949
I didn't see a lot of them. The only one I remwmber from the last week was someone being insecure about removing a metapackage because he was new. That is something that happens every now and then because new users often start with buntu and think they already know everything so they shitpost about apt being bad while in reality they just don't understand how metapackages work.

So I'm currently on ubuntu and I want to install win10. Is it possible for me to install it on a partition from my linux install? I tried adding the contents of the ISO to sda8 which is a logical drive partition formatted with NTFS and editing /etc/grub.d/40_custom to contain

menuentry 'Windows 10 Install Disk' {
set root=(sda, 8)
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
insmod ntldr
drivemap -s (sda) ${root}
ntldr /bootmgr
}

which unsurprisingly didnt work because I dont have a fucking clue about partitions, grub and least of all windows.

Is it possible to install win10 from a linux host? I dont really care if I have to nuke the entire drive.

I am looking for something which would allow me to manage the permissions of users in a domain (AD) to do specific tasks like allowing a user to login only from X PC in the domain or to let X PC to ssh into Y PC but not into Z PC or to allow the usage of sudo on X PC but not on Y PC. I'd prefer it to be free or GNU/Linux based. I've heard about FreeIPA so far, can it do these? How about RADIUS? Thanks for the answers in advance!

>>55650063
>I tried adding the contents of the ISO to sda8 which is a logical drive partition formatted with NTFS

is that your idea of installing windows?

My kernel options are not being honored. I change them in the ncurses ui and save them.
Then i go to look at the 'config' file i just saved and it is not changing the settings i just set.

>>55650063 here, meant of course to say GNU/Linux, or GNU + Linux as I have begun calling it.

>>55650114

Well I was hoping to be able to install it on next boot. I just followed some dumb guide, but the idea was to use the partition I put it on as if it was a USB drive and then install it on a different partition.

>>55650150
ah now it makes sense.
well I can't help you in this case because i've nerver do that.

>>55649987
>EME DRM
Hm... How about MSE? YouTube uses MSE!

>>55650169

Yeah I'd prefer to stay far away from winshit, but I need it for some shitty software.

>>55650194
>need
found your problem

>>55650206

I hear you. Luckily its very temporary.

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Guys. Please tell me there's a better way to make what would be "shortcuts" in Windows.

I have a .jar file that I want to run like so:

java -jar program.jar

, except I would rather just click on an icon or search for it in the start menu. However, it seems the only way to do this is to make a semi-complex .desktop file (pic related), and then put that in a certain folder. I can do this, but it seems way too tedious and annoying.

Any ideas, alternatives, or ways to make the creation of .desktop files easier?

>>55645125
Sounds awesome, dude! I felt like a terminal-wizard after I read that book.

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>>55649953
That's not what I am saying. There are root drives that the program is able to write to.

I just changed the permissions of the drive with chown to root.allusers (which I'm not sure is a thing) and it works now.

But ls -l shows that the other mounted drives, which work are root.root

>>55645454
I only say "GNU/Linux" if I'm talking about FOSS shit, because it's relevant to the conversation. Otherwise I say Linux, because most people probably won't care and they'll just give you weird looks or be confused.

Same as the whole "Jif/Gif" thing, even if I agree with the official pronunciation, I'm going to say hard-g "gif" in public because a majority of people do as well, and I don't feel like explaining myself and being "that guy". Sorry I went a little heavy on the quotes.

>>55650310
Please start over and follow the arch wiki guide.
Your shit is all fucked up.

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Guys, just a small question. Apologies in advance if it's very stupid

The commands "shutdown now" and "reboot" are not harmful to your computer, right? Meaning, do they safely halt running processes (like the power off or restart button on a GUI would) or are they more of an emergency measure?

>>55650310
Changed it all back to root.root.

And it's all working.

I have no idea what the fuck.

>>55646178
>becouse
>arhcwiki
>I couldn't install arch
Why should anyone take advice from someone who can't spell and doesn't know how to follow a list of detailed instructions?

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>>55646969
GNU/Linux*
Also, many distros use/have non-free parts, but it's entirely possible to be 100% FOSS. And it can even be an optimal experience with the right freedom-respecting hardware.

>>55650307
Symlink it to /usr/bin and run it via dmenu or whatever your DE/WM has to launch stuff.

>>55650427
>>GNU/Linux*
Actually I was talking about the kernel only, hence just "Linux".

>>55650388
Why didn't you notice that this was a shitty trolling attempt?
Spelling errors are not much of a problem imo if they don't happen in your terminal.

>>55650170
The youtube web player isnt recommended because of nonfree JS, FSF would recommend using youtube-dl to get the video source

>>55650307
Symlinks brah

>>55650427
The one you posted is not 100% freedom-respecting hardware. It's a T420, I own one. It needs non-free firmware for the Wi-Fi card

That doesn't mean I don't love it though

Why are Arch Linux users so toxic? I've checked out a bunch of linux distros and Arch seems to be the best, but I'd a bit scared since after lurking, I realized that 90% of rm -rf shitposters are Arch users.

>>55650496
Check out the arch forums. They are allright.

>>55650502
Do we read the same arch forums

They're elitist as fuck

What is the best video editor available for GNU/Linux ?

>>55650525
ffmpeg

>>55650474
Or use mpv, it automatically streams via youtube-dl

>>55650525
The one I'm using.

>>55650474
MSE is exactly the nonfree JS. So, these nonfree JS are simply "not recommended", or there is some kind of limitation on the free distros that doesn't allows this type of script to run?

>>55650496
>the best
You got memed, there is no general best distro, only distros that fit certain users and usecases better than others.

>>55650525
Blender, cinelarra and kdenlive. In that order. But >>55650558 is kinda right, it is a matter of preference.

Y

>>55650557
Well yea, that's included in the scope of "using youtube-dl"

>>55650610
BC

>>55650496
>seems to be the best
According to what criteria? Oh god you're becoming one of them without even using Arch. Be careful. I guess it's contagious

And to answer your question

>Elitism
>Pride in ability to follow an install guide recipe from a wiki
>Pride in non-friendly user experience
>Claims about minimalism and user freedom
>The developers themselves say it's not about that

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2015-July/039443.html

The only attractive thing Arch has is the AUR, and even that is not that great. Don't get me wrong, it definitely has its place, but it's way too hyped up.

>>55650610
Y not

>>55650559
Well, if you install icecat it has LibreJS installed, other than that it's up to you what JS you run

>>55650624
AUR is awesome, I use the pkgbuilds all the time.
T. Debian user.

>>55650610
M C A

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I change the GTK theme and now I have this problem. I dont know how to fixed.

>>55649987
>addons.mozilla.org is baked into the browser's addons page
I don't get, what is the problem here?

>>55638979
Lol wut

>>55650662
Disable shadow on text

>>55649642
>>55649971
Try man hier

>>55650491
>>55650432
Thanks, that was very simple. Symlinks are rad as heck, yo.

>>55650450
>>55650494
My bad, I am a fool.

>>55650459
Poe's law. You can't discern the difference between a real troll and a fake one, if the fake one is convincing enough.

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>>55650377
pls respond

>>55650738
IDK, I always use poweroff.

I'm a tech noob. So please bear with me.

I got recently interested in security of Windows and Linux (Ubuntu, which I am fiddling with)

Assuming on a computer running Windows 10,
1. Flash and Java are uninstalled and their browser plugins are disabled too.
2. Adblock is installed on the browser to block malicious code.
3. An antivirus is present to kill malware and malicious files.
4. Only a limited user account is ever used to
- prevent malware from installing or being executed.
- prevent malware from affecting system files or other programs.
(I am just guessing the above two points. Is it right?)

What extra security benefits does a computer running Ubuntu provide compared to the above computer?
I can only think of sandbox. Is there more?

What got me thinking about this is the realization that

"only using a limited user account on Windows" is really similar to "using Ubuntu."
(getting prompted to enter password for every important events in system etc)

Yet people seem to say that Ubuntu (Linux) is inherently more secure than Windows.

What factors make them think so? Point them to me so that I can read up on them today.

Thanks.

8==============================D >>55650815

>>55649987
>Pocket
There is no way to install some kind of free addon that connects to Pocket? Anyway, I'm not worried about it, it can be used as a site.

>Hello
Fuck this shit.

Other than these 4 topics you listed, there are other proprietary parts on Firefox?

>>55650765
see you on the next thread, was typing a response for you

>>55650377
I've been using a key combination bound to

shutdown now

on my computer for months, and nothing bad has happened.

Can someone please tell me the correct way to download files at the following location with a wildcard using wget.

http://badpodcast.biz/content/images/audio/*.mp3

I keep getting 404'd

>>55651434
Maybe this will help:

       -Q quota
       --quota=quota
           Specify download quota for automatic retrievals.  The value can be
           specified in bytes (default), kilobytes (with k suffix), or megabytes
           (with m suffix).

           Note that quota will never affect downloading a single file.  So if you
           specify wget -Q10k https://example.com/ls-lR.gz, all of the ls-lR.gz will
           be downloaded.  The same goes even when several URLs are specified on the
           command-line.  However, quota is respected when retrieving either
           recursively, or from an input file.  Thus you may safely type wget -Q2m -i
           sites---download will be aborted when the quota is exceeded.

           Setting quota to 0 or to inf unlimits the download quota.

>>55651434
Are you sure that direction is ok? I can't access it.

>>55651486
I hid the name of the actual podcast.

I also worked it out I can use {} to include all numbers :)

So I used TDS{1..99}.mp3

Cool

>>55651472
Wat

Hi all. Want to install a distro on my desktop for some software development, shitposting and VM stuff. I'd also like to try a hardware passthough to a kvm VM.

I'm fairly comfortable with linux as I've used it plenty at work and I've tried lots of VMs - what's my best option? I really want something that won't get in my way and need shit tons of configuration and reconfiguration after every update - but I don't want to wait months for new packages either. I was thinking Debian just because it's a simple distro that I can bend to suit my needs, but I just want to check in for some advice as I haven't used it as a "daily driver" before.

>>55651596
There's Debian sid if you want a rolling-release distro.

>>55651596
>tons of configuration and reconfiguration after every update

reconfigurations rarely need to be done, and if it's needed it's usually not a ton of it, given you have small steps between updates. With LTS you might have to to do much more each upgrade, but those are only once every 2 years.