/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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First for Debian

>>56264395


lol why link the irc at all you get banned for just saying hello in that shit hole

How are the Fedora spins? I'm looking to try a bunch of different DEs in VM to see which one I prefer, and Fedora's website has a bunch of variants here:

https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/

I'm pretty certain I don't want to use KDE, but I'm curious about LXDE, MATE, and xfce on Fedora. I tried xfce on Debian and I'm pretty sure I don't want to use Debian full time, but I've seen some very nice xfce desktop configurations so I wouldn't be opposed using that as my DE.

>>56264500
Only Windows 10 users get banned

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Just installed arch because I couldn't figure out how to install debian. queer, but it happened.

what gui should I use, my /gnu/ friends?

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What Linux application is this? No one fucking knows.. I've asked this like a week ago or so and got zero replies.

So, /g/eniuses, what the fuck is this?

>>56264395
Daily reminder if you're done with training-wheels distros it's time to install Gentoo.

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>what does this button do?...

>>56264729
GNOME with wayland

>>56264777
>KDE
Not even once.

>>56264729
>Chloe
god damn that bitch got so fat & ugly. disgusting 3dpu.

>>56264763
Dude if you know tge themes, you can customize caja, thunar ir even pcmanfm to look exactly like this.

>>56264817
The*

>>56264817
>Dude if you know tge themes, you can customize caja, thunar ir even pcmanfm to look exactly like this.
this is something stock.

I'm interested in a file manager that can show folders like this and then you can easily open folders without going down a level.

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>>56264395
RARE STALLMAN!!

>>56264805
I like it. Dunno why would they even add an option to rotate widgets but it doesn't hurt to have more possibilities. They could use some antialiasing there though.

What's the best antivirus software for Ubuntu?

I think I have a virus because my mouse keeps moving on it's own (like when I scroll down it scrolls down then up a little), and my screen just crashed, leaving a completely blank screen with a single moving brown line on the left hand side .

>>56264907
That's the standard Linux on desktop experience.

>>56264921
> that tripcode
you must be 18 or older to use this site

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>>56264842
Nemo has it

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>>56264842

>>56264936
I'm not using a tripcode.

>>56264967
But I do like to suck dick though

Happy 25th birthday, Linux!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1bH1Q1j8pk

>>56264998
do i have to be bald or balding to be good at linux?

>>56264943
>Nemo has it
TY anon!

>>56264958
Which one is this, anon?

PS: This type of file view is from a Mac, right?

>>56265035
That's nemo, but dolphin, thunar and caja has it as well

>>56265035
I'm pretty sure that's also Nemo, it comes with the Cinnamon DE.

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>>56265034
nope

(fuck me in the ass, please I'm so horny)

>>56264729
Cinnamon if you want a nice desktop out of the box.
Xfce if you're willing to spend an hour ricing it, but it will be faster (and smaller than LXDE on Debian for some reason).

>>56264998
It was nice until the fucking tranny at the end.

>>56265097
She's also a Jew, lel.

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>>56264468
>using the Autism OS

Any resources for rule34 on GNU&Linux?

>>56265127
*unzips dick*

here you go

>>56265143
thanks bro. EVERYONE PLEASE REMEMBER THIS! NOW AND FOREVER:

F U C K M E
U
C
K
Y
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U

>>56265130
Holy shit I just read the mail replies.....

I think the autism memes are actually fucking true.

Thinking of installing Linux (Ubuntu) for the first time. Kinda anxious desu. Only ever used Windows before

>>56265268
Please read OP's post. It has all the things you need to know.

>>56265268
Why not give 'her a spin in a virtual machine until you're comfortable then?

>>56265285
Are you trolling or just retarded?

>>56265339
Neither

>>56265268
Ubuntu has a live cd.
You can test it before you install.
And by test it, I don't mean look at the desktop and decide if it's pretty.
See if all your hardware works, if you can find software you need in the repos, etc.

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Gonna wipe my entire hard disk and install Gentoo. I pray to GNU I won't regret it.

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Why doesn't anyone use Kubuntu?

>>56265399
Just keep in mind running it from the live CD (or more likely USB decide) will be slower than running it off the HDD or SSD so don't judge the performance based on the live environment.

>>56265415
KDE a shit

>>56264943
>ebin
ebin

>>56265458
It;s the future though? Would you say it's worse than unity? Are you XFCE? Show yourself.

>>56264958
What's that icon theme?

>>56264989
Same here, not gay though.

>>56265508
no u

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>>56265471
>Are you XFCE
MY IDENTIFY HAS BEEN COMPROMISED

ABORT MISSION

I REPEAT ABORT MISSION

>>56265508
Maia, they forked KDE's breeze

I could use a bit of help.

I have 2 hard drives. On one I have Windows and OpenSUSE installed, and I just installed Kubuntu on my second drive because I can't into SUSE. My plan was to install Kubuntu on my second drive, wipe my first drive, and do a fresh Windows install on it, so that instead of having separate partitions for my OSes, I'd just have one OS on each drive.

My problem though is that Kubuntu only boots when I choose to boot from the first drive, and nothing happens when I choose the second. And I can no longer boot into Windows at all. My first thought was that I fucked up and installed Kubuntu to my first drive, but it is indeed installed on my second drive, it just boots from the first drive for some reason. How do I get it to boot from the second drive and have Windows boot from the first?

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I'm writing an article for a Linux magazine.

I need nice looking vector diagrams.
What programs are there besides Dia, with nicer looking stock icons?
Dia icons look so dated.

>>56265830
Nevermind, I found out where I fucked up. I installed the bootloader to the first drive.

Before I remedy the situation by going back to gnome.

Is there a way to stop the screen tearing in xfce? I heard some people suggest using compton. Is that a definite fix?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAb7OID5lt8

>>56266348
Compton is a pretty good fix. I recommend it before you have to use something you don't like.

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>>56264773
>>56265413
>>56266480
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjGSMUep6_4

What's a good KDE-like light DE?

Quick, list the pros and cons of these distros

>ubuntu

>fedora

>void

>slackware

>GhostBSD

>>56266837
install gentoo

>>56266726
trinity

>>56261703
You mean how to apply patches? Just git diff file
What exactly do you want to change?
First git clone the thing, then cd there, then
cp config.def.h config.h
Then nano config.h and change the stuff you want and then package and install it.

Anyone here moved from Debian to Arch? My impression of Arch is that it's more of a tweaker's distro than Debian.

Looking for something that just werks and I've been enjoying the Arch liveCD, not sure if I'd be ok with full-time though.

>>56265130
I think that is just playing along with a joke.

>>56266481
Wow Compton was pretty straightforward to configure and fixed the tearing.

>>56265415
Because opensuse is a much better distro

Thread needs a track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cegdR0GiJl4

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>>56267038
>I've been enjoying the Arch liveCD

>>56266726
kde is lightweight

>>56266837
>ubuntu
its ubuntu
>fedora
its fedora
>void
its void
>slackware
its slackware
>ghostbsd
its ghostbsd

Is it me or is Linux shit at torrenting?
Or is it Transmission?
Ever since I switched from windows 8.1 to ubuntu, it's been slow. I compared it to my other laptop running 8.1 and it was faster.

>>56268363
>Is it me or is Linux shit at torrenting?
It's you.

>>56268363
tixati, you're welcome.

>>56268410
lel kill yrself

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>>56268207

Whis is this thread so fucking slow today

Why cant I boot any newer distro other than ubuntu 12.04? Ive tried Manjaro, Fedora 24 Workstation, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 14.04.

1090T @ 3.6Ghz & Crossfire 2GB HD6950

mkinicpio cant pick nouveau as a module,saying its not found when generating the initramfs
I removed all traces of nvidia.
I have mesa and xf86-video-nouveau installed;I just want to get rid of nvidia

>>56268557
More info needed.

>>56268605
No live cd's will boot to a gui or anything other than 12.04 which boots all the way to a full unity desktop. All the other ones will start to boot after selecting start but at some point the screen shuts off and goes into power saving mode. I cant ctrl+alt+F# to get to a terminal.

What is a decent non-overpriced mechanical keyboard for linux?

>>56268819
model m from goodwill/flea market/thrift store

>>56268569
Its talking about the kernel module not the Xorg drivers.

Are there any window managers that don't look like shit by default?

>>56269060
Why would a window manager look good or bad? The clue is in the name.

>>56268689
Wipe bios desu

Anyone know a music player that has some decent visualizers? There's nothing I've found with a decent spectrum analyzer

I've tried ncmpcpp but it keeps locking up on me for some reason

Will Dell refuse my XPS 13 DE order if I put in my name as the company name?

>>56268363
use rtorrent anon

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Man, I really wanna switch from Unity, but I'm a sucker for the global menu ... too bad the xfce global menu is shit

>>56265129
>she

I am doing like this:

while [ 1 ]; do ffmpeg -re -i http://blah/chunklist_ao.m3u8 -legacy_icecast 1 -c:a copy -content_type "audio/aac" -f adts icecast://127.0.0.1:8080/stream.aac; done;

in order to restream a HLS stream to my Icecast server. I need to modify it to terminate when I get a specific error from ffmpeg that causes it to become stuck and not terminate on it's own. How can I do that?

>>56269557
deadbeef, ffplay

>>56270082
Only half an answer but you could consider streaming with mpd which is generally quite robust

>>56270082
An idea:

ffmpeg ... 2>&1 | grep -q Warning && pkill ffmpeg

- 2>&1 redirects stderr to stout
- grep -q returns silently true or false

You can also use : as shortcut for [ 1 ].

Hope it helps.

anyone know of any good libre software that i can use to read pdfs? preferably one with text recognition.

dayum running loonix server in a virtual machine is great, when i want the whole server to stop or something breaks i just restore the previous snapshot and if i need t fix it i can put the whole thing on my laptop and fix it somewhere in a forrest and then just put it back on my server and run it, cool as fuck
plus all of that server app bloat is kept separated from my htpc os on which i run the server
wish i thought of it earlier

>>56268819
Ask in a mech thread, it doesn't matter what OS you use with a keyboard.

>>56267046
us legal system is retarded as fuck
i wonder if i make a package, get it included in ubuntu and sneak this into the licence file "Any qt3.14 who uses this package has to use my package until completition"
and then just sue the qts and let law force them to secks me

>>56264805
>not running the same window manager as mr.robot
kill yourself pleb

>>56268819

What's a good mouse-pad for Linux?
What's a good chair to use with Linux?
What's a good neurotransmitter to utilize in my brain with Linux?

Why has Debian rebranded Iceweasel to Firefox, but didn't rebrand Icedove to Thunderbird?
My autism is hurting, guys. REEEEEEEEEEE.

>>56271450

You most likely could and that's why those bug reports for licenses are legitimate.

>>56265130

>i don't understand something
>autism autism! awwfhiuawhfua autism

That's how retarded you sound

>>56267046
Read the answers.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723103

is there some magical commandline that will force ssh to use the key file i generated instead of a password?

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I need to a portable system of my own with all my programs/configuration on a USB flash drive.
How do I go about it?
Do I need to make a remaster of an ISO?
Or are there distros that will let me customize it?

Running Ubuntu 16.04.
I need to connect to eduroam at my uni.
In order to do this I need to install wpa_supplicant.
I already have wpa_supplicant, but I'm unsure wether or not it's working.
When I type wpa_supplicant in the terminal, it gives me a list of arguments, and when I do wpa_supplicant -B it says the daemon initialized successfully.
However when I try to use wpa_cli or wpa_gui, none of these can connect to wpa_supplicant.
There is also an eduroam installer/configurer which I can download and then run as a .sh script from the eduroam website.
This is supposed to configure the network manager to work so that I can connect to eduroam at an accesspoint.

However when I try to run this it says the configuration failed. It generates a file, but this file only contain things like username, password, connection information etc and doesn't really help me because I have tried many times to connect to the wifi at my uni with the options set as in that file.

My wifi at home is working fine btw.

>>56271823
why can't you use your default network manager?
I'm using the one that's default on LXDE, whichever that is and it werks. So does GNOME's.

You need to connect three times in a row until it works.
From then on you should be fine.

Now this is what I'd call trolling: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/12/msg00446.html

>>56271922
Something just happened, so I may not still have a problem.
The configuration . sh script I downloaded from their webpage executed successfully for the first time. So the issue may have resolved itself magically (I've been trying probably 10 times).

Is there a way I could test wether I still have a problem without physically going to an accesspoint at my uni?

I still can't connect to wpa_supplicant with wpa_gui or wpa_cli but I don't know if this is actually a problem.

I am confused, one tutorial says to put my public key into ~/.ssh/id_dsa to work with openssh, but another to ~/.ssh/authorised_keys
so where do i put it?

Is there any reason to use Gnome over Cinnamon? Gnome just feels bloated as shit

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>>56271625
Anyone?
I've looked around and porteus seemd it would allow custom ISO creation.
And puppy linux would allow to create a remaster/ snapshot and burn it to CD.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=71349

Is MPV/ffmpeg/ytdl available on pupy linux?
I just need those and FF profile.

>>56272046
Less buggy, more streamlined, better defaults for workflow imo, well working on wayland, the full version with recommends had all you need, which is really the only point in using a DE instead of a WM+the tools you need.

>>56271962
write an e-mail to whoever admins the network at your uni.
it's his job to fix the most widely spread Linux distro not being able to connect.

>>56271951
That's expert level right there.

I'm looking for a Linux distro that I can boot live that is both fully-featured and fast to boot and operate. I know several that work for either or, but is there something that does both?

>>56272189
Xubuntu

>>56272289
this

>>56272289
Now why do you think I hadn't considered Xubuntu? It's a bad distro with a worse DE. Do yourself a favor and try something else out.

>>56272320
I dunno, because you're an idiot? I've tried a bunch of different distros but keep coming back to Xubuntu because it just werks, what makes it bad?

>>56268088
Antergos probably
>>56271470
Kek

>>56271476
I use Seamonkey because gtk2 filepicker

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>>56272075
Anyone?

Ubuntu 16.04 on thinkpad t450.
Did an update earlier today, rebooted to successfully install the updates and everything went fine.
Tried to turn my PC on about half an hour later; booted to the login screen, entered my password and the system was just stuck showing the wallpaper, but not the taskbar, launcher or my iconpack. Could only move my cursor.
Went into a terminal shut the system down. Turned it on again, and this time when I entered my password, the system paused for a second before continually brining up the login screen ad infinitum.

A bit later I turned my system on again, and now everything went completely fine.

I think there might have been/be a problem with compiz, or some intel drivers.
What should I do to troubleshoot and fix this issue, so that it doesn't happen the next time I try to start my system?

>>56272982
install a second DE and a second DM
switch them out and see if everything is fine afterwards
if it's still broken it's not the DE or the DM.

>>56267792
>not https://youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw

>>56265130
I presume "freedom" to Debian means having the 4 freedoms laid out by our lord and savior RMS. How does "buy the author a drink when you meet him" affect any of those freedoms?

>>56272189
Porteus but depends how fully featured you need it. You can always install anything else you need because it has persistence.

>>56265415
I tried it in a VirtualBox. It was buggy and the only difference I saw were the animations and visual effects, which I dont really care about. Why would you suggest it to someone though? Does it have some features other platforms dont?

>You wake up and weel a cold end of a 3d printed gun made from GPU design pressed against you neck
>You turn your head around
>It's stallman.. he leans closer and whispers
>"Let's check your computer for non foss software boy"
how fucked are you?

>>56265415
I use it. With backports added I like it.

>>56273563
>fuck off you fat slob, let me sleep

>>56264395
i used to have arch with openbox as a wm, i like the fact that it was using only 300Mb of ram at idle. im thinking of using gentoo now, what wm do you suggest? i've already tried chakra but i didnt like it because it was using 1.3Gb by the time of boot

>>56274145
>300 MB
Lol.
Try 180MB on Debian Sid w/i3

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Trying to get indicator-multiload to work but it doesn't show up in the notification area. It will appear at times then suddenly disappear. Anyone know of this issue? Is it compatible with xfce4?

>I always bloat my Arch Install

I haven't figured out a good way of uninstalling shit. Am I retarded? I always just reformat.

>>56274145
Why would your wm be different because of the distro you use? Use openbox in gentoo if you want.

>>56274239
>Am I retarded?
Pretty much
>pacman -Rns package
Why is that difficult?

>>56273563
Guilty for using p7zip-rar, unrar, conky and linux.

>>56274242
because all the other wms have a shortof start up menu and because im scrub i want to see easily all the shit i have installed since there are many things i cant get them to work

Are there any downsides to generating my ssg key with like 1000000bits instead of like 1024?

>>56274228
>people still don't read manpages
screenfetch -t, pleb

>>56274286
I can barely understand that.
You can use openbox in any distro.
You can set up right click to show your programs in awesome and probably others as well.

>>56274283
>conky
>linux
how are these nonfree?

>>56274300
>man screenfetch
>not found

>>56274318
i want to see easily the program i have installed so i know what i have to remove, also i would like the configuration of my new wm to be more automated

>>56274346
Using a wm alone generally isn't an automated option. Why don't you just install xfce or mate or lxqt or budgie or something?

>>56274331
Vanilla Linux includes binary (nonfree) blobs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob

>>56274331
Conky is free, but vrms lists it as "contrib" (programs that may depend on nonfree programs).
For Linux see: >>56274391

>>56274346
lxde is openbox with a panel and some software
almost as light on ram but with some more stuff like a file manager and so on

>>56274391
>>56274414
autism

>>56274267
something something error dependancies.

I've been running arch for like a year now. I've never actually like, gone through and read a lot of the wiki but after using it for a while I've learned what I want this machine to do and what I don't want it to do. I just bought "Programming Principles and Practice Using C++ 2nd Edition" and while I'm waiting on it to come in the mail I'm going to use this time to thoroughly read the Arch wiki, read the fucking manual, and select the packages I want to use very carefully.

I'm a giant scrub when it comes to understanding the basic config files for my installation and I didn't do much better than follow written steps for my install without knowing what some of the steps even did. This time I'm going to understand every step and how to make use of my computer the way I want to use it.

I'm going to become a not retarded user.

>>56274435
>caring about security is autism
>caring about freedom is autism
dumb normalfag

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>>56274300
does it tickle your autism?

>>56274165
an vanilla install of debian sid uses 1Gb
>>56274434
lxde?only knew xfce

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>>56274466
MAKE IT STOP

>>56274448
Sometimes packages cannot be removed by themselves because other packages need them. This is hard coded in arch and all binary distros, you can have more control over this process in gentoo so you don't need all dependencies based on every possible feature a program might have. I think you can do this with arch though as well.

>>56274228
RARE pepe spotted

Can someone explain Apt-Pinning (yes I read all documentation on it)?
When I set my onofficial deb-multimedia repo's priority to -1, I can't install shit from it.
If I set it to 1, Apt pulls packages I install from there even if a (older) version exists in the main repos.

Isn't this exactly what Apt-Pinning is supposed to prevent?

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>>56273563
fuck

>>56274228
It's showing up in here, but it doesn't show up normally.

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I'm on the THIRD reinstall of Fedora (KDE spin) today after trying multiple different guides to install the nvidia graphics drivers I need (otherwise I get graphical glitches) - each time I end up with boot to command line (cannot actually enter anything) or something else goes wrong during boot.

I'm coming from Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu (and actually using them) where they all had an application to find and install the drivers I needed.

Why did they make this so hard to do on Fedora? Is it worth me moving up to Fedora if everything that requires proprietary drivers/software is going to be this difficult?

Also given that Fedora gets frequent updates I'm worried that even if I got my drivers working, the next large update would break everything again.

I thought I was ready...

>>56274796
>I thought I was ready...
It's not you, it's the distro's adherence to "freedom".
If the distro makes like harder for you then forget it.

>>56274796
A normal person would simply install windows, that would take him about an hour, and then used the rest of the time you wasted to plow his 8/10 gf with such might that she would limp for 2 days

>>56274842
>virgin detected

>>56274796
>moving up to Fedora
Stop thinking there's a distro hierarchy

>>56274796
There's nothing very special about fedora, stick to ones that work for you.

>>56274796
>Why did they make this so hard to do on Fedora?
Because Fedora is a freetard Distro.
Everything non-free isn't officially supported.

>Is it worth me moving up to Fedora if everything that requires proprietary drivers/software is going to be this difficult?
>Also given that Fedora gets frequent updates I'm worried that even if I got my drivers working, the next large update would break everything again.
Why the fuck would you want to run Fedora then. Stay on Ubuntu, it's a lot comfier.

>>56264546
They're good. I prefer vanilla Fedora with gnome, though. Give them a shot and see what you think.

>>56274855
This so fucking much.

Why is baloo making my desktop unresponsive?

>>56274880
>>56274837
Thanks for this guys, I really wanted to give Fedora a good go but I guess I should just move on to trying out other distros for now.

>>56273461
The dfsg are a bit more complicated than the four freedoms.

>>56273563
Not at all. Deblobbed kernel on a fully free Debian sid setup. But I do use bios.
But really, as long as you don't force him to use it he is fine with it.

>>56274995
then how is he not fine with any sw? literally no sw forces you to use it
just because windows is popular and literally everywhere doesn't mean it's forcing him to do anything, he can use is crappy foss laptop instead

>>56275019
Well, at the time proprietary software took over and it was next to impossible to use only free software, thats why he started gnu. The rest is history.

>tfw fresh install of arch on netbook
feels goodman

>>56274956
Did you enable rpm fusion free and non-free? In my experience after you do that, everything just works.

>>56275019
>literally no sw forces you to use it
No, but their users might do it.

>>56271464
>subscribing to the tyrell is elliot theory
Neck yourself

Remember how awesome KDE 3.5 was? I loved it so much.

What branch of debian should I install on my x200t? Ive been using arch but it's such a piece of junk

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I'm looking for a distro to put on my USB drive and all of it seem to be based on slackware.
Why is that?

>>56275066
So? How is foss better? Let's say you love windows but you boss is a cheap fuck and uses arch on all computers at work and thus forces you to use it
Any sw can be forced like that even foss

https://www.maketecheasier.com/persistent-live-usb-vs-full-install-usb/

Is the full install really an issue?

>>56275046

>a year old install
It still feels the same. I don't see why it would start to feel different as time passes.

>>56275095
Install Stable.

If you notice that you need a certain package in a newer version, and it isn't available through backports, pull it from a third party repo (there's one for basically every software that needs to be up-to-date to not suck).

If you feel like installing more than a few packages that way, migrate your system to Testing (it's a pretty painless process).

If this sounds too complicated for you, and you want a cutting edge distro, install Sid right away. Or don't use Debian.

>>56275087
No, but I remember Ubuntu 10.10.
Now that was an awesome release.

>>56275281
As far as stability goes for general purpose use, how bad is Sid? Is it going to break all the time like arch? I'm not a huge fan of the whole you gotta fix it yourself because the package manager doesn't do any of this for you deal

slim keeps throwing an error; "Failed to execute login command"

I made a .xinitrc file, put it inside my home directory, edited the slim.conf file, uncommented
the login.cmd that had the .xinitrc file, commented the other one, and rebooted. Also tried to login as both root and an user

Everywhere I've searched, people say to make a .xinitrc file and all is well, but that doesn't work at all.

>>56275312
>Is it going to break all the time like arch?
That's a question I can't answer cause I never had problems with Arch.
If you rely on proprietary drivers that are upgraded like once a year, and/or don't read the relevant upgrade info your distro provides, and/or simply hit enter no matter what your package manager says it's about to do, then yes, stay away from Sid.

>>56275353
Aight, I'll stick with stable until I'm a little more comfortable with the environment and then switch to Sid if I ever find a need. Thanks

>copy small directory tree to a different computer
>do "find" and pipe output to file on both
>files and directories listed out of order

Why is that happening? I want to "diff" those two files to make sure that all of the files are the same (not content wise, I'm comparing hashsums later).

Brand new to any sort of linux or terminal. Running gnome shell on ubuntu 16.04.

I want do to "-mogrify format jpeg" all the files in a particular directory I have figured out how to do it to one at a time, but not all at once. Feeling dumb. How do I solve this?

>>56275353
>and/or simply hit enter no matter what your package manager says it's about to do
No other way to live.

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is there a GUI program for Linux that allows me to view CPU/GPU/Mobo temperatures and fan speeds?

>>56275575

Enter "lm_sensors GUI frontend" into the search engine of your choice.
Or just install lm_sensors and run it from your terminal emulator since it's more convenient.

>>56275597
thanks anon

>>56275648

You most likely want Psensor.

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Are UEFI/Secure Boots still a concern? Do they still force me to install Windows 8(.1) or 10? Should I avoid buying motherboards with these technology and use only BIOS?

>>56275548

mogrify -format /path/to/directory/*

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>>56275691
>You most likely want Psensor.
thanks. just installed it.

what can you do once connected to wifi network that's not yours?

can you see the hostname of the computers connected to that network?
like, [email protected], [email protected], etc

?

>>56275745
or if you're already in the directory where the files are:

mogrify -format *

>>56275489
pipe your find output to sort, then go from there.

>>56275745
>>56275784

Thank you. so * is all files in a directory then?

>>56275831
yes.
*.jpg is all jpg files.
*foobar* is all files that contain the word foobar somewhere in the filename.
It's pretty nifty.

>>56275778
>>56275778
>>56275778
bumperino

>>56275853
Thanks again! is there way to do something to all files that are not a certain format.

for example all non-jpeg files?

What's the deal with puppy linux?

>>56275886
Now you're getting into the interesting territory of bash scripting. There are tutorials for that everywhere on the net.

>>56275922

ok yeah, back to google. thanks for the help

>>56275344
please help, i would like to use my computer again

>>56272044
the key goes from id_dsa.pub on the local machine into one line of authorized_keys on the remote

cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh USER@HOST "umask 077 && mkdir -p ~/.ssh && cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

>>56275952
give more informations. what distro?

What's the best way to send an image from my pc to my raspi that's connected to a screen and show it on that raspi's screen?

>>56275966
Debian Testing

also here's .xinitrc

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Load .Xresources
xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources

source $HOME/.fehbg

while true; do
  xsetroot -name "Db: $(dropbox status) | B: $(acpi -b | awk '{ print $4 $5 }'
  | sed 's/,/ \/ /g') | V: $(amixer get Master | awk '/Front Left:/{ print $5 }'
  | sed 's/\[\|\]//g') | $(date '+%d %b %Y') | $(date '+%H:%M')"
  sleep 10s
done & exec dwm

>>56275829

Yep, that's what I did and it works now.
I'm still confused and curious about why would "find" list the files in a different order. It doesn't appear to be random, since it's always the "same" different order. The computers are running the same distribution, which means the same "find" package with the same options. The files are also identical, with the same meta-data (creation date, size, permissions).

>>56275987
scp and ssh

>>56275344

Slim is deprecated and abandoned. Why are you people still using it? Use LightDM.

>>56276001

How can you do "xsetroot" if you don't have X running yet? Also, don't you need a 2nd ampersand there? I think that it's running your while loop forever in the background and that might cause some issues instead of executing your window manager after that. Also, why are you using that loop?

>>56269532
I thought I was running the newest bios available but I wasn't. Updating seems to have fixed it thanks.

>>56276002
Just checked myself.
Find definitely doesn't keep the alphabetical order of the files it outputs. I think it writes a result as soon as it finds it, and that doesn't seem to depend on filenames.

>>56276068
>Slim is deprecated and abandoned. Why are you people still using it? Use LightDM.
I might change after this
>How can you do "xsetroot" if you don't have X running yet? Also, don't you need a 2nd ampersand there?

thanks, i didn't know that
>I think that it's running your while loop forever in the background and that might cause some issues instead of executing your window manager after that. Also, why are you using that loop?

to keep things updated

Is is better to run a live image from usb than install it on my homeserver?

>>56276167

>to keep things updated

I don't know enough X initialization to dispute you, but I seriously, seriously doubt that's how it works. You're basically running your window manager over and over again. That's ridiculous.

It seems to me that you just copy/pasted a bunch of random commands hoping for it to work. That's the worst thing you can do, but suit yourself.

What is the minimum ram needed for a smooth running of a ubuntu server with a web server on it that has onlz one shittz website which no one (;_;) visits?

>>56275719
Why do you care now when you obviously didn't for years?

>>56276235
A headless Ubuntu installs and runs on 256Mb, won't make you pull your hair out on 512Mb and runs well on 1Gb. Don't know how much a running webserver needs, but I can't imagine it to be much.

Also, what's the address of your website? I want to check it out.

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New to arch but I really want to learn - not sure if my wifi is connected right now, have the Ethernet cord plugged in but not sure how to test that either.

I just want to install cinnamon. Every guide I follow and I get to a point and it'll give me error: failed to download/update packages or such.

>>56276343
We don't need any more proof that even retards can install Arch

>>56276309
It's not really a website, just a collection of tools like youtube link to mp3, qr generator, image hosting, utils for my greasemonkey firefox extension and stuff like that
i was running for several years on php5 and other outdated stuff since i don't work as a webdev anymore, so i lost interest in it, but it was kind of nostalgia tier sad to look at all those projects running there forgotten, with the visito stats showing literally zero visits in over a year
i'm a game dev now after all

>>56276343
Use a more user friendly distro to begin with. Maybe try Fedora cinnamon spin.

>>56276343
While you install Cinnamon, you're not running your Arch system. You're running a Cinnamon live system.

to test if you have working internet, open a terminal and enter

ping google.com

. If you get scrolling text, you're connected.

>>56276343

Your description is like going to a doctor and saying: "doctor, do you think my arm is broken, because it something/sometimes and such". At that point the doctor would just kill you himself because that's how frustrated you made him.

Hey guys,

what would be the recommended course of action to "learn" red hat linux?

gonna be applying for jbos soon and want to have some familiarity with the environment.

I'm comfortable in unix fwiw.

>>56276395
ping: Google.com: name or service not known

I think it is because I am logged in as [root@foobar ~]#

While I should be able to use the "$" type commands but have since been unable to do anything such as "$ Sudo pacman -Syo" and it will give me failed updates.

test, don't know why my post didn't make it thru

>>56276451
no, it's because you're not connected to the internet.
do you really believe root can't ping, but a normal user can?

>>56276473
Okay. Any help with that?

I am reading the arch wiki ferverously but it is all new and foreign to me. Just trying to learn.

>>56276505
>>56276386
Seriously.

>>56276505
Not with the info provided.

"My internet isn't working" really isn't a useful problem description. Figure out what you did between now and the last time it worked.

inb4 [pacman -Syu]

>>56276535
I was going to install Debian but it wouldn't give me the right fucking Iso but thanks for the mercy suggestion

>>56276550
Okay I am working on it.

Which are some good themes for Openbox?

>>56276615
Dyne

>>56276598
>it wouldn't give me the right fucking Iso
watchu need, senpai?

>>56264395
LOL PLEASE SOMEONE MAKE A GIF FROM THIS XD

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>>56276642
Something for my x64 Thinkpad :(

Basically I was able to format my flash drive and put an Iso on it, and get to the Debian installation, but it said I lacked a CD with files on it or something... So I assume I had the wrong iso. I downloaded the arm64 or AMD 64.

Pls

>>56276736
Okay, same friend here.

I am now a Debian fag.

:/

>>56276736
AMD64. arm is completely different. If you're missing drivers it's because debian is a freetard distro and you'r eshit out of luck.

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>>56276615

Customized Numix with title aligned left and less inane colors.

>>56264395
>
NGVN

>>56276736
>>56276794
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/8.5.0-live+nonfree/amd64/iso-hybrid/

Debian Live images for 64bit, all major desktop environments, with non-free firmware included.

As always, PEBKAC

Okay guys so I just installed Trisquel and I've never used any Linux distro before. How do I install applications on it? Through the terminal? Help a newbie please

>>56277042
1. Why?
2. sudo apt-get install [name of application]

using barebones distros makes me feel as retarded as the ubuntu girl who dropped out of college

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>>56276736
>>56276761
>>56276794
>If you're missing drivers it's because debian is a freetard distro and you'r eshit out of luck.
Wrong. Search for "debian non-free iso" to very easily find the iso which comes with non-free drivers, and access to non-free/contrib repositories by default.

Link: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
(The top-most one is netinstall, and within are methods of download. bt is bittorrent, iso is http download, etc)

AND if you're unlucky and your drivers aren't included, the installer kindly gives you the names of the packages that you need. So just search the name it gives in debian's package search, download the .deb files, put them on the root of a flash drive, and then the installer should detect & use them automatically. You only have to do this once per laptop model, as long as you save the relevant files. But most of the time you don't have to, because the major ones are already included in the non-free iso.

Is there any way to shutdown without the 1 min wait when using the "shutdown" in terminal?
Something like "shutdown /t 1" on Windows?

>>56276450
install CentOS

>>56277285

shutdown -h now

read manpages you dingus

>>56277285
In the description of the manpage for shutdown, it says:
>... [the time argument] may be in the syntax "+m" referring to the specified number of minutes m from now. "now" is an alias for "+0", i.e. for triggering an immediate shutdown.

So

shutdown now

>>56277326
I have alias fucking='sudo', so it always feels good to fucking shutdown now.

I have never used "shutdown".

I always use either "reboot" or "poweroff" -- those do exactly what I want without needing any additional arguments.

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>>56277308
>>56277326
Oh, thanks.
I had looked at the "shutdown --help", but missed the "shutdown [options] [time] [wall]" line and started reading at "shutdown the system."

what wm has auro like snapping which is easy to setup or already looks like win7/xp

>>56277407
Kwin does

>>56277384
different folks like different things

I'm trying to make my KDE comfier. Started with putting the taskbar to the side, but it felt asymmetrical so I put a second panel on the other side. Now I need to make it actually useful and I can't come up with anything more than a launcher. What things do you like to have accessible on taskbar/panels?

How long should it take to add 75,000 iptables rules to a server?

I've been waiting 30 minutes so far. They're all iprange module rules.

>>56277384
>not using init 0

>>56277734
Sounds like you're doinf something very wrong

>>56277842
I just killed the script adding them; it had gotten ~15K through.

I'm removing them now, and going to go with a smaller set.

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>>56275886
!(*.jpg) greps everything not matching .jpg
Needs shopt -s extglob to be set.

>>56275867
Disconnect as fast as possible. Why? Because you can sniff and spoof everything that isn't encrypted - and so can everyone else inside an unknown network. That's why people should be careful with using random hotspots, by the way.

>>56276651
pic related

>>56268968
filtered

>>56277042
Something to start:

update your package list:
sudo apt-get update

search in your package list for a program:
apt-cache search vrms

install a package:
sudo apt-get install gentoo

remove a package:
sudo apt-get remove gentoo

Alternativly you can use good old "synaptic" (you know now how to install it).

>>56277863
Besides that you are really unlikely to actually need that many rules, load them from a file instead of adding them one-by-one

>>56277903
>Needs shopt -s extglob to be set.
Can I just put that in .bashrc?

>>56277962
Yes. You may also want to add:
shopt -s globstar
so you can glob recursivly (like zsh) via **
ls **/*.jpg

>>56277341

>not using an operating system with polkit permissions which allow any local user to shutdown the computer without having to be root

Anyone here tried to install Dotnet or Powershell on Arch? When I try installing them, the build() phase spawns several Clang processes that eat 100% of my CPU for several minutes until it stops and gives an error about running out of space on device.

>>56278004
Thanks.

>>56278038
>running out of space on device.
Well, what could that possibly mean?

>>56278104
Don't ask him, he's an Arch user, and that's not verbatim in the Wiki.

>>56278104
Well gosh darn, are the compiled object files are supposed to take 44GB of space?

is wayland ready yet? is there anything I'd have issues with if I changed to it?

my actual question is how to fix tearing while using an nvidia gpu + non-free drivers, but I think I heard wayland fixes tearing

and if I have to use the free drivers to avoid tearing, do they perform well in video games yet? ;-;

>>56278191

Wayland is "ready". You want to ask about Wayland compositors and if they are "ready".

>>56278217
ah yes, compositors. I should mention right now that there is literally nothing you can do with compton to fix the tearing of an nvidia setup

so then moving on, are any of the wayland compositors actually any good? also can I even use wayland with nvidia? I think I heard only amd supported it so far

I want to use linux from now on (I use windows). I've tried ubuntu before on my laptop but never used it extensively. I want to use linux as my main OS now and learn more about it.

I have a few stupid questions:
1- From my understanding GUI is just like the interface that your distro uses? So I'm assuming distros come with a GUI but you can change that GUI yourself after if you want?

2- What is vim/emacs etc? Why does everyone say they use emacs or whatever? Is it just a text editor that people write their code in? Like notepadd++ (lol)? I want to learn how to use these 2 since everyone who talks about linux mentions these

3- what are windows managers?

4- is my understanding correct: different distros come with different preloaded GUIs, windows managers, but you can customize both of those if you like

5- for a total newbie like me who wants to use linux as his main OS, what do you recommend me doing/learning so that I'm not just an idiot who has linux and opens google chrome. I want to actually some stuff. Like should I need to learn how to use the terminal well? how to compile my code without IDE?

6- why is bash called a terminal shell?

Anyways I know most of this can be googled, but thought you guys could help me out a bit. I'll install it tonight on my desktop and start messing around.

The Clinton Foundation has said that they shredded their digital files using Bleachbit and FOX just reported on it. How do you feel about the perception of free software being dangerous magical hacking tools?

>>56278260
> he knows these questions could be googled but still shits up the thread with them

>>56278249

According to these[0][1] it works and it doesn't.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4bcm9w/nvidia_releases_display_driver_36412_with_wayland/
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-364.19-Released

>>56278191
Force full compositing in X

steam not opening in ubantoo mate 16.04.1 amd64
how fix?

>>56278260
1. GUI is a graphical user interface (as opposed to CLI, the command line). You're referring to a DE (desktop environment). You can change them, but it's easier if you install a distro that comes with one you like right away.

2. Text editors. enter vimtutor in the command line to start with vim.

3. The programs that let you open, close and resize your windows.

4. Yes.

5. You don't have to learn to use the terminal on a distro like Ubuntu. But you'll figure it out, and it's worth it. I've run Linux for several years, and I haven't compiled any code yet.

6. Bash is a terminal shell. Zsh is another one, and there are many others. Not that important, until you run into things you'd like to do that bash can't.

Have fun, and think before you sudo!

>>56278260
I'm taking #6:

tl;dr on your desktop, the window that people call "terminal" is an emulator that emulates a real terminal (the stuff you get when you don't have a desktop). the terminal is only the interface, to actually process commands, you need a shell.

terminal: allows you see the shell
shell: allows you to process commands

>>56278373
enable multiarch
install 32-bit libraries

DEBIAN NETINST WON'T WORK OFF MY FAT32 FLASH DRIVE REEE

DETECT CD-ROM? its a fucking flash drive.

debian fags cant even let me be one

>>56271625
>USB flash drive.
you can install just about any distro to a USB flash drive, just as you would to an internal drive

>>56278380
>until you run into things you'd like to do that bash can't.
Like what? Tell me about the amazing zsh features. Let's see if I can proof you wrong.

>>56278403
Rewrite your USB with USBWriter (if your hopping from windows)

>>56278311
fucking commies and their commie software

>>56278401

okay how do I enable that muliarch thing?

>>56278373
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam/Troubleshooting#Steam_runtime_issues

>>56278403
>FAT32

You should have overwritten your entire drive (including the file system) with

dd if=[Debian Iso File] of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

And maybe enable booting from external drives in your BIOS.

>>56278403
use rufus to write the iso to usb

>>56278407
You mean zip disquette?

>>56278463
dpkg --add-architecture i386

But since you're calling it "that multiarch thing" you'd better do some googling.

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