/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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>>56458544
>also first

>>56458437
I've notice a lot of is isn't OC, just copied over from other credited (sometimes not) sources, and many pages tend to link to "Discussion on Reddit about [...]", etc, on said or related topics. I mean, why would someone edit an ArchWiki page to add a link to Reddit, and why does the link remain? Really discredits the entire wiki when it values "Discussion on Reddit" as a source, and when they tolerate such blatant crossposting in their community.

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first for Ubuntu > Debian

What is "GNU/Linux"? Do you mean Linux?

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>>56458604

Are there any compatability issues with Corsair mice and Linux? I think I saw someone here complain about theirs.

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>>56458632
>/g/ hates Ubuntu
>loves Arch, which uses systemd and has used systemdick since way before Ubuntu has and doesn't even support alternative init systems unlike Ubuntu

>>56458541
I custom compiled a new kernel because driver support is pretty bad on my computer (old-ish nVidia laptop, shoddy wifi drivers, etc.). The new kernel takes a while to boot compared to the stock one (about 10 seconds). What can I do to fix this?

I used the old config-* file from the stock kernel (4.4.0, Ubuntu) on the new one (4.7.2)

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Guys where do I get a desktop environment like this one?

>>56458670
op, copypasta link, tiling wms section

>>56458644
>compatibility issues with a mouse
There would be so many things wrong if there were. There shouldn't be.

>>56458604
>b8
and no, you can't have my number

>>56458670
https://i3wm.org/

>>56458541
I want to jump into some light kernel development. What parts are the least well maintained that I can clean up a bit?

>>56458670
https://github.com/Airblader/i3

so are fglt threads just now for shills, strawmen, and fake fanboys? Because thats pretty sad.

>>56458541
Daily reminder that Debian is the only distro worth using and Arch is a hobby OS.

>>56458541
is antergos good?

>>56458712
The binary blobs.

If you want to contribute, learn RE and write free drivers.

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>>56458670

>>56458625
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html

So what's wrong with stacking wms again?

>>56458790
Nothing. I use openbox and love it.

http://gnupluslinux.org/

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Does anyone know what the those circles in the middle are? It doesn't say anything when I hover over them or do anything when I click. They just showed up one day.

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>>56458800
ruined

>>56458800
>>56458829
https://www.stallman.org/guantanamero.ogg

So I tried giving Manjaro a shot, but can't get past the installers.

Calamaris crashes when I try to select my BIOSboot partition.

CLI installer won't mount /home without overwriting.

Wut do?

>>56458541
I am Newbie I want security and user friendliness i am using antergos but it kinda sucks I used to use Ubuntu with cinnamon but switched i also used to use tails but now I want to get a new distro that has user friendliness and security.

>>56458724
besides graphics cards, what are some other major proprietary blobs that I can RE?

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>>56458849

>>56458867
ubuntu

>>56458790
if your screen resolution is small then managing your screen real estate becomes more important. having a tool that automatically places windows side by side is useful then, unless it wastes tons of space for invisible borders like >>56458670 does, then it's pure aesthetics.
I'm personally more of an openbox person too, but sometimes pytyle is useful.

Using the command "glxinfo | grep direct" tells me that direct rendering is enabled and outputs a bunch of different other things.

On the other hand, opening driconf tells me that Screen 0 (my only monitor) is not capable of direct rendering.

Wat do?

>>56458890
Did you try awesome? It's like openbox + tiling.

>>56458889
Which desktop environment?

>>56458858
Download Antergos.

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>>56458867
OpenBSD

>>56458541
hey that pic is actually good rendered

>>56458919
of your choice.

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Confirmation boxes in kde plasma 5 look like this for me, I'm not sure what I changed though and can't find anything for it in the option.
Any one know where I can change this, or even just what they are called?

What's the best distro?

>>56458989
Funtoo.

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>>56458541
Succeeded installing Debian side-by-side of Android, trying some challenges like installing latest Chromium.
Dependency sure is a tiny hell

>Not having the full computing power OS in your phone with apt-get

(Remoting with VNC, keyboard and mouse, thank god for not doing all this with touchscreen)

>>56458989
It depends what you want.

>>56459001
Couldn't they pick a serious name?

I've got a lock shell script that uses i3lock. I want to run it when my laptop lid closes (this by default causes the system to suspend). What's the best tool for this?

I also want it to run after a period of inactivity. I've put

exec xautolock -time 15 -locker '/path/to/script' &

in the openbox autostart file. Should this do the trick?

>>56459014
no.

>>56458989
>inb4 Arch vs Debian: Edition 2435

>>56458541
sup /fglt/
how do I rice? (haven't found any newb docs to help me out)

>>56459014
names gotta be fun too

>I'm not a robot

>>56459028
inb4 that single guy who uses fedora complains

>>56458937
Not sure if you're serious.

>>56458989
Slackware

>>56459028
kek

>>56459031
>how do I rice?
Customize your configs.

>>56459038
t-there's more of us

>>56458758
I still don't understand. Why is he calling it "GNU" when the OS is clearly called Linux? Is he saying that some of the tools are from this GNU thing? It's not like I call Windows "Notepad/Windows".

>>56459062
no I mean some leet DE

>>56459071
It is analogous to Windows NT

>>56458867
Security is about knowledge and common sense, your always going to have a compromise between user friendliness/convenience and security. I'd say if you want security or to customize things take some time with a less user friendly distro or bsd and focus on learning

>>56458604
I would fuck the poo out of her and into her loo if you know what I mean ;^)

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>>56459092

>>56458790
literally nothing. openbox master race.

>>56459071
So GNU made alot of things; the GCC/G++ compiler, emacs, and alot of other userland tools, then the linux kernel was made and was put beside it in distros. So basically its like what makes the OS an OS the kernel or the userland tools. Mostly its all just bullshit and copypasta at this point tho.

would anyone be able to help me get multiple monitors working on xorg
heres my conf

https://p.teknik.io/2KLxG

nvidia settings and the xorg GUI both don't detect my other monitor
one is plugged into my graphics card while other is in motherboard
and heres what this command returns

https://p.teknik.io/fAozA

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Why aren't you using GNU/kFreeBSD?

>>56459140
>what is LLVM

>>56459238
I'm using Ubuntu Satanic tho

apt or aptitude?

>>56458798
>>56458890
>>56459106
>openbox
What's wrong with Xfwm?

>>56459304
The best commands are <= 5 chars.

What are the few staples of linux that a first time Lunix user would try (ubuntu, archlinux etc.)
Choose my distro /g/

>>56459304
aptitude has more features, if you need those features it's better

>>56459341
install kali

>>56459341
Any and all *buntu*

>>56458604
b8

>>56459341
gentoo

>>56459323
Can you even use that stand alone? The question was about window managers, not "window managers" that are just a part of a DE like xfwm or metacity.

>>56458902
can someone help?

The only reason I haven't switched over to using Linux on my main computer, is because I occasionally use Adobe software, primarily Photoshop and Illustrator for different things.

If I use Virtualbox with guest additions, how well would it work for me, compared to running the same programs from a machine only running Windows?

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>>56458989
Debian

>>56459611
Should be fine.

>>56459001
>shitty Gentoo fork
>>56459049
>no dependency resolution
>>56459874
>font rendering so ugly it makes your eyes bleed

>>56458989
Arch with KDE

>>56459930
Configuring font rendering is the first thing you should do on any distro.

I'm a CS student at university and I've been running Arch Linux for about half a year now. I want to make the switch to Gentoo to learn more and I've heard it's better overall, but I don't know if I'll have time to maintain it and install new things.

Should I install Gentoo? How much time will I spend maintaining it?

Since KDE Plasma 5 is broken shit, is KDE 4 still viable?

>>56459981
Gentoo is really easy to maintain, just a bit of a pain in the ass to install.

It depends a lot on what exactly you plan on running, though.

>>56459981
I don't personally use Gentoo. However, if you're already worried about being able to maintain your system effectively, it might be best to just stick with what you're using, especially for the purposes of schooling.

>>56459988
How? I've never had any problems with Plasma 5.

>>56459988
KDE 5 > KDE 4

>>56459988

Just YOU wait till wayland becomes the default KDE compositor...

Muhahahahahah

>>56460028
Shit --->>> Shit

>>56460002
I usually just run Chromium to shitpost and vim to code things for school projects. Is the installation the most time consuming part? I've heard that you have to compile everything from source and I probably won't have time to wait to install new things I might need for class.

>>56460005

It seems to have broken the ability for unprivileged users to mound usb media for one thing

>>56458604
She can shit on my street anytime

If I want RAID and LVM do I make an array with md and use LVM on top of that?

>>56460048
There are binaries for Chromium and Firefox and so on. (One thing that's really nice is that Gentoo pulls the dev version of Furryfox). Probably the longest time you'll spend compiling is if you want a DE. Other than that, compiling isn't that big a deal. Gentoo's package manager (portage) automatically pulls any dependencies you need, so when you want a program, a language, whatever, you just emerge www-fag0t/poo-app and wait a few minutes.

As the other anon said, you could give it a whirl if you're genuinely curious, but if you don't have a pressing need it isn't really necessary. Perhaps try running it in a VM first.

>>56460109
Alright I'll try that out first, thanks for the help.

And I run i3, so the DE compilation won't be a problem

>>56459981
i installed gentoo 3 days ago and have to say the installation took pretty fucking long.
All in all i spent about 30 hours installing it andcompiling shit
~7hours for the installation
~13 hours for the upgrade to testing
~4 hours rebuilding shit with C++11
~1 1/2 hours compiling the new Kernel and rebuilding all modules
~4 1/2 hours using internet search engines and familiarizing myself with gentoo

I really hope maintaining gentoo is less of a pain in the ass

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what program should I use to make webms?

>>56460141
ffmpeg

>>56460136
What sort of hardware are you running? An hour and a half for a kernel sounds unusual.

>>56460148

I've been reading about ffmpeg and seems like you need to convert the whole video to webm

>>56460168
i5 4200 u @1,9ghz

keep in mind i use genkernel all to compile so it is expected to take some time. Also about 50% of that time was rebuilding the modules so the actual kernel compilation took about 45 mins

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>>56460085
>>>/i/ndia

>>56460136
Should have installed funtoo. Comes with a compiled kernel and you don't have to compile much at all since the tarball is so recent.. Longest part is compiling xorg.

>>56460173
no you can select a time and how long your webm will last.
But no one could give me the command to use to convert for 4chan

>>56460242
does funtoo have a tarball for its testing repos? that is one thing i really wish gentoo

>>56460255
i use this and so far it worked

4chanwebmconvert(){command ffmpeg -i $1 -c:v libvpx -an -c:a libvorbis $2 }

>>56458657
what is openrc

>>56460263
Yes. It's called "current" and is the recommended branch of funtoo to use.

I like to think of funtoo as gentoo for the desktop. Just lots of quality of life features.

Don't know if this is the right thread to ask, but is a pure GNU operating system possible yet? What I mean by this is that it runs only GNU software. It runs GNU Hurd, dmd, the GNU coreutils and etc.

I'm interested in this because I like the idea of having multiple kinds of UNIX clones on the "market".

>>56460192
Fair enough anon. You should try to avoid genkernel though, to be honest. You can get by on most machines by just using make menuconfig, choosing Nouveau or AMD and setting your ethernet/wireless driver. You can really slim kernel compile time down, and if it turns out you're missing something you can just load menuconfig again.

>>56460281
If you want better quality webms check this out: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/VP8

>>56460312
GNU/Linux-Libre with GNOME/gtk only applications

Not 100% GNU though

>>56460312
if you want hurd the only stable option seems to be Debian GNU/Hurd
https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/distrib.html

Is there a way I can tell which Kali Linux applications depend on systemd? Im planning on removing the shit but want to know if any of my tools are getting nuked.

>>56460375
Just install a non systemd distro and install the tools seperately. Kali is meant to be used as a live USB on a laptop. It's not maent to be installed.

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Has anyone here used Solus long enough to hate it? I kind of like it live but I hate installing OSes constantly and could always go back to Ubuntu.

>>56460405
Thanks for the suggestion but that didn't answer my question. How do I tell which tools (and apps) depend on systemd.

Does anyone have some good websites, articles, wiki... talking about kernel compiling ? I'm currently doing LFS and wanted to read more about linux itself.

>>56460448
>hackerman doesn't know what dependencies are

>>56460375
>systemd is BOTNET
Surprisingly fitting for a Kali user.

>>56460542
kek

>>56460440
It's way too new a distro to use daily.

Anyone here has powershell experience?

How hard is compiling and installing my own kernel? It's become apparent that I need the latest for my hardware to work better. Also, I think it will be a nice learning experience.

How do I know for sure what modules to choose in the menuconfig?

>>56460690
What distro? And what do you mean by own kernel?

>>56460690
Look up the kernel part on gentoo wiki, it's fairly easy but can be annoyingly repetitive.

What is it about Kali that makes it the pentesting distro?

>>56460452
>>56460690
The gentoo wiki talks about it.

If you miss something, it doesn't matter because you can enable it and recompile it fast.

Configuring your kernel for the first time does take several hours. Compiling and installing requires no effort.

>>56460771
It comes with a bunch of pentesting applications.

>>56460782

So there's nothing at kernel level or anything?

>>56460727
Funtoo (using the included 4.5 debian kernel.) I want to change to gentoo-sources 4.7 and pick all my options myself

>>56460754
Alright I'll check it out. Looks a lot more detailed than the funtoo wiki.

>>56460806
I'll show you something at kernal level

>>56460806
Not really. It's Debian testing with 300 pentesting applications slapped on top of it.

>log of from my session
>black screen
>systemd failed to start lightdm
>ctrl + alt + f1
>log in as root
>reboot
>halt
>shutdown
>nothing works because systemd is dead
>have to stop manually my computer

I thought systemd is bad was just a meme..

>>56460915
Because sysvinit was infallible right?

>>56460587
Yeah I can already find things to not like just from booting.
Is there at least a distro that is as fast? From USB boots in less than 15 seconds with lightdm being the largest to blame.

>>56460915
The more probable answer might be that lightdm is a piece of shit.

Because it is.

> copying shit to new laptop
> Arch
> claims home partition is full
> check
> maximum capacity 400Mb
> fix that
> Maximum capacity 900GB
> good
> start copying again
> claims there's no space

Whyyyyyyy? I finally have a working, functional Arch install after so many tries and I just want to use my computer.

I just installed GNU/Linux and i am currently using a shit laptop to run it. During the installation I installed GRUB to the MBR now i cant run Windows 10. GRUB did not detect Windows 10. Booting to "Lenovo recovery center" and selecting Windows boot manager brought me to a diagnostic screen. In the diagnostic screen i selected "boot to windows 10" and it just rebooted back to GRUB. can someone help me add Windows 10 to GRUB? I am a little tired and don't feel like using Google.
Thanks in advance.

>>56461239
Install GRUB customizer

>>56461239
Try booting into linux and running os-prober?

>>56461239
Based Stallman trying to save you from the botnet.

In all seriousness maybe you fucked up your Wangblows partition.

>>56461313
no i edited my partitions in windows first before installed linux and set it to only fuck with the free space so idk

>>56461260
GRUB Customizer is only availible for ubuntu if you dont wanna install 347208374 packages to compile it
>>56461267
says its made for debian install images only?

>>56461235
check to see if you have enough free inodes. You need to reformat the partition if you don't

Which distro has better repositories? Fedora 24 or Debian Sid?
>inb4 AUR

>>56461395
> 347208374

That number is way too specific to be made up.

>>56461441
Debian sid has better repos, but I wasn't able to upgrade to it from stable without apt breaking. They've probably fixed that by now but it's still destroyed my confidence in debian. Fedora always worked perfectly for me. RPM fusion helps but you will miss some packages, like, higan is still bsnes version in fedora.

>>56461441
Upstream

>>56461513
But if I install Sid on a new SSD, everything *should* be not broken?

>>56461566
Both Debian and Fedora are well-built distros, so things should work without much trouble.

>>56461513
>They've probably fixed that by now
It is fixed
>but it's still destroyed my confidence in debian.
When you use any rolling release distro, you're welcoming yourself to rapidly changing software, meaning it might break. Debian's stability is only legendary on the stable branch.

Here's an excerpt from the introduction section of the wiki for Unstable:
>If you are a hardcore developer or tester you should use this release. If you are a power user you might also consider using Debian Testing.
Also under "how to install Unstable":
>This method is the most likely to work of those presented here.
>most likely
as in it isn't guaranteed to work, because packages are updating every 6 hours or whatever.

You're supposed to know what you're doing on the testing/unstable repo. It doesn't just magically work. Also, you could've just done "apt-mark hold apt apt-utils" to prevent the error, and then unheld them when the bug was fixed.

I'm trying to post a webm here and I get this error

Error: File contains an invalid stream.

I made it using this line

fmpeg -i video.mkv -ss 00:00:10.000 -to 00:00:20.000 -c:v libvpx -crf 4 -b:v 1500K -vf scale=640:-1 -an output.webm

So what's the problem?

>>56462271
post 'ffprobe /file' output

>>56462355

Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'teste.webm':
Metadata:
encoder         : Lavf57.41.100
Duration: 00:00:15.48, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 937 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: vp8, yuv420p, 640x360, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 23.81 fps, 23.81 tbr, 1k tbn, 1k tbc (default)
Stream #0:1(eng): Subtitle: webvtt (default)

>>56462384
I would guess the subtitle stream but honest I don't know.

>>56460915
>Lightdm broken
>Blame Systemd

Typical /g/

>>56462410

hmm... how do I change that?

>>56462487

ffmpeg input.webm -c:v copy -sn output.webm

>>56462508
Whoops, forgot the -i

ffmpeg -i input.webm -c:v copy -sn output.webm

>>56462508
>>56462520

But I want the subtitle tho...

>>56462572
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HowToBurnSubtitlesIntoVideo
It may also be worth looking into the encoder that mpv has to hardsub your video, as mpv has better subtitle rendering support than ffmpeg alone.

>>56462585

It's really that hard to make a anime webm? Fuck that.

>>56462604
You're a neet you might as well do it.What else are you going to do? Shitpost? It gets old.

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So my brother thinks he's going to be a haxor now that he's watching mr robot, he told me to install kali linux on his laptop, he's never used linux before.

Should I just tell him to fuck off and install ubuntu?

>>56462728
Yes. Also tell him that in the show they're using it as a live usb and not installed on the actual laptop. That it's not meant to be installed outright.

Post the first thing you type into the terminal when you install a fresh distro. For me, it's:
>sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install vlc steam-launcher

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>>56458541
I just installed XFCE alongeside ChromeOS, what should I do to make it useable? Please excuse the phone pictures, I still haven't quite figured this out yet

>>56462897
https://bpaste.net/raw/a559048ef532

>>56462897

#!/bin/bash
cd /tmp/ && pwd
echo ===============packer===============
sudo pacman -S wget
wget -c https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/packer.tar.gz
tar -xvf packer.tar.gz && cd packer/ ; makepkg -sri ; cd /tmp/
#===============packer===============

echo ===============Broadcom driver===============
packer -S b43-firmware-classic broadcom-wl
sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager.service -f
#===============Broadcom driver===============

echo ===============Common packages===============
sudo pacman -S baka-mplayer viewnior mousepad gufw pinta firefox chromium engrampa unrar zip arj p7zip
sudo systemctl enable ufw -f
sudo pacman -S gnome-tweak-tool lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
#===============Common packages===============

echo ===============AUR installs===============
packer -S gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock-git zuki-themes-git paper-icon-theme-git chromium-pepper-flash gigolo typecatcher 
#===============AUR installs===============

echo ===============Tweaks===============
echo Please install your preferred fonts:
typecatcher
echo Please change fonts and appearance:
gnome-tweak-tool
echo ===============MTP, Samba and others===============
sudo pacman -S gvfs gvfs-mtp libmtp mtpfs gvfs-afc sshfs gvfs-smb 

echo ===============resolv.conf===============
sudo echo "# Generated by resolvconf
#nameserver 192.168.1.1
# Safe Yandex.DNS - Protection from virus and fraudulent content
nameserver 77.88.8.88             # Preferred IPv4 DNS
nameserver 77.88.8.2              # Alternate IPv4 DNS

nameserver 2a02:6b8::feed:bad     # Preferred IPv6 DNS

options timeout:1" > /etc/resolv.conf

sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

echo ===============Virtualbox===============
echo "Installing Virtualbox. For the default kernel choose virtualbox-host-modules-arch"
sudo pacman -S virtualbox virtualbox-guest-iso
packer -S  virtualbox-ext-oracle

sudo systemctl enable vboxservice -f

mkdir -p ~/VM_Shared/
sudo gpasswd -a $(whoami) vboxsf vboxusers

>>56462998
>he hasn't figured out PrtSc yet

>>56463054
Javascript isn't even enabled yet, as of now 4chan is an incomprehensible mess.

I know how to PrtSc but it's easier to phone post

If free software is so superior why have we still not replaced a bloated pile of shit like X11?

>>56463099
Because replacing a core element is not easy or quick.

>>56463099
because it's not
X11 is pretty good
you're shit

>>56463099
They are moving to wayland you know. GNOME already uses Wayland

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>>56463163
>X11 is pretty good

>>56463099
>Not using MIR

>>56463233
Aware me on MIR, anon-kun

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>>56462271


OK, after some research and comparing webms I need to get rid of subtitles by "burning them" into the video. How do I do that?

>>56459173
Still looking for an answer to this.

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/g/ents, I finally managed to get rid of the color fringing on my text!

After 6 months of trying all kinds of shit to get rid of color fringing due to sub-pixel rendering, I installed this font and finally all the rainbow-looking shit is gone!

Even at small text sizes, 9 and 10pt, it still doesn't have any color fringing.

You can find this font on github. It's GOAT!

>>56463306
this is how I bake in subs for 4chins.

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c:v libvpx -vf scale=-1:720 -vf subtitles='subtitles.ass' -ss 00:00:30 -t 00:00:10 -b:v 1M -c:a libvorbis output.webm 

YMMV

I'm fairly new to Linux and looking to transition over soon, however in the meantime I was thinking about installing a distro onto an external HDD and booting off it, however if I just make a live drive it resets after I shut it down. How can I make it so that it's more permanent?

>emerge x11
>4 hours later

>>56463638
Just install it 'properly' onto the external drive. During the installation process, select the external hard drive.
However, some installers are notorious for writing the bootloader onto the incorrect drive, so it would be a good idea to unplug all of your other hard drives before you begin installing, just so it doesn't fuck that up.

I have unmuted the ALSA and am not getting any errors.
However I still cannot hear any sound at all.

My earphones are def plugged in (in the correct slots and everything). Even on max volume I cannot hear anything.

How do I fix?

>>56458541
how do I untar something as a standard user?
whenever I try I have to be sudo every time and it makes no sense

>>56460136
>>56463650
I ran Gentoo in the mid 00's and I remember it not taking longer then 8 hours to install, what happened?

>>56463816

tar xf mytar.tar.gz

>whenever I try I have to be sudo every time and it makes no sense
Do you not have read permissions for the tar itself, or write permissions to the directory you're extracting it to?

>>56463816
what are the permissions of the folder where your'e extracting things? what tar command are you using? what's the ending of the file you're trying to untar?

>>56463771
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture/Troubleshooting

>>56460136
Buy a modern cpu

>>56463843
I have read write to both the file and the directory
>>56463844
777 for everything because I'm lazy

either way I made a bash script because I'm lazy

#!/bin/bash
#alias form
#alias untar="sudo tar -xvf"
sudo tar -xvf $1

>>56463602

[AVFilterGraph @ 0x55c8d619a840] Error initializing filter 'subtitles' with args 'subtitles.ass'

>>56463306
>>56463602
The problems you had earlier were caused by adding the subtitles as their own stream (probably webvtt if using webm).

You need to use the subtitles filter (if using text subs, this is probably the case) and the overlay filter. This usually involves stream labelling and mapping (not as hard as it sounds).

Here's a practical example to get you on your way (shows basic filter chain, timing, other normal options omitted as [...]):

ffmpeg -ss TIME_START -i video.mkv  -t TIME_LENGTH -filter_complex "subtitles=video.mkv[s],[0:v][s]overlay[v],[v]scale=-1:YRES[v]" -map "[v]" -map "0:a" -c:v libvpx [...] -c:a libvorbis [...] output.webm

>>56461239
Fuck you.
Use sudo update-grub in a terminal.
If you ever post shit again asking for help without ddging it I'm gonna fucking tickle your nose hairs with my shoe.

>>56463867
>sudo
well, that's why. remove sudo.

wifi is unreliable on my debian laptop and i can't have unreliable wifi. not in terms of signal strength. will an external wifi usb stick solve this?

>>56463878
well obviously
I'm saying that if I run the tar -xvf (file name) it doesn't work and says permission denied

My sound now works with
speaker-test -c 2

however, no other applications have sound.
Why is this and how do I fix it?

also running arch with ASLA

>>56463979
cd to directory where it happens. type 'ls -la' and then 'tar xvf <filename>'.

post screenshot.

How do I get i3 to automatically start on a successful SLiM login?

On a minimal Gentoo install

>>56458541
I'm trying to install openssh on my ubuntu sever vm, but it keeps on saying unable to locate package openssh
how do I fix this?
all the solutions I've found either don't work, or say to use the gui package installer, but I obviously don't have that on the server system

>>56464174
The package is called openssh-server, failing that you don't have the repository with that package listed in your sources list.

>>56464113

n/m I figured it out

Set exec i3 in your ~/.xinitrc

Go to /etc/slim.conf and change login_cmd so it reads xinitrc

>>56460542
>>56460470

Hah, typical Kali l33t hacker. Can't work a simple package manager, but apparently can hack the world.
Let's hope hackerman doesn't hack us for being mean to him.

>>56463870

I did with

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -acodec copy -vcodec copy -scodec "codec" converted.mkv

the only problem is that I have to convert the entire episode and then make the webm.

>>56462897

>sud

... then I experience a brief but acute feeling of despair because I didn't write down all the little things I have to do, install or tweak from the last time to speed things up.

>>56464381
To expand on this, is it a good idea to use SLiM at all? It seems it isn't supported any more.

>>56463771

Use Pulseaudio which will automatically detect plugged in headphones.

>>56463867

>777 for everything
Stupid.

Guys, which is better?
Ubuntu 16.04 or mint 18 sarah cinnamon
I just want a fucking windows 7 replacement

>>56464485
Mint. It just looks a lot closer to Win.

>>56464499
Is there any main difference between the two? Is there something lacking in mint that is in ubuntu?
Cause one of my friends is shilling ubuntu to me quite hard but the shitty Mac OS ripoff theme is quite off putting to me
On the other hand, I just saw mint's interface on somw youtube video and it looks nice

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>>56464485
>Install distro of choice
>Use Plasma 5
You can get the icons-only taskbar and everything.

>>56464536

Mint is based on Ubuntu. Do not pay attention to the interface, because every distribution can look the same.
Mint is like drinking water all the way downstream, when everyone has pissed into it. Only an idiot would do that. At least drink a few kilometers upstream by using Ubuntu. It's cleaner.

>>56459462
s/ge/fu/

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Any idea why I'm getting these?
It should be japanese characters.

My XPS 13 Developer's Edition arrives tomorrow. What are some laptop-essential packages I need?
>>56464583
You need to install a Japanese font.

>>56464605
>You need to install a Japanese font.
Which one?

>>56464614
I'm sure any font would do.

>>56464536
My Mint looks like Win10. It has by far the nicest desktop environment on LInux. You can make Cinnamon (DE) look like anythign you want.

>>56464567
>horrible analogies
stfu

>>56464583
you want otf-ipafont

>>56464629

>a desktop environment makes a distribution

>>56464614
:へ)

>>56464614
Try kochi-substitute

>>56464567
So you're saying that besides looks and interface, mint and ubuntu are the same?

>>56464645
sometimes it does because if you want to run a specific DE, it's best to do it on a supported distribution... unless you wanna waste hours trying to track down issues.

>>56464629
>otf-ipafont
8 MB?
Also Even though I have NotoColorEmoji.ttf Many emojies don't show up properly?
What do you use?

>>56463867
>777 for everything
anon, what the fuck

>>56464677
>8 MB?
yeah, it's big. what can you do... it has a lot of hinting data which makes it render kanji perfectly.

>Also Even though I have NotoColorEmoji.ttf Many emojies don't show up properly?
>What do you use?
I use this one:

https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font

it's perfect.

>>56463867
find / -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

>helping you will make you more lazy, die young

>>56464708
Do I need to delete the old fonts?

I created a jail in freenas to run hentai@home, but there's no programs installed. tmux and wget don't work

>>56464668

>supported
What does that mean?
If an environment's packages are in the distribution's repositories, they're "supported". There is no difference between installing Xfce on Ubuntu (or the netinstall) and Xubuntu. They all have the same packages. The only difference are some themes Xubuntu slaps on.
mayor prospect

>>56464717

What's the "\" for after "{}"?

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will ubuntu work on my laptop???

>>56464902
doesn’t it concern you that your temperature almost reached 0,5GC

>>56464902
You could run a power plant off that thing.

>>56464902
>AMD GPU
Nope, don't even bother.

>>56464965
>>56464971
Will ubuntu work on my laptop???

Mint or ubuntu
Tell me faggots

>>56465037
Xubuntu

>>56465065
really is it good???

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>Fresh install xubuntu
>install firefox
>install recommended addons
>open a few tabs
>slow as fuck

Why.

>>56465086
No
Try regular ubuntu, the other ones don't work

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So I've installed this >>56464708
Do I need to delete the Noto font?
And do I need to run fc-cache?
Aldo when was ~.fonts removed?

>>56465133
>Do I need to delete the Noto font?
Yes. Move it somewhere outside font folders.

Find & clear out your font folders to avoid conflicts:

fc-list -f '%{file}\n' :lang=jp

>And do I need to run fc-cache?
Yes.
sudo fc-cache -f

>Aldo when was ~.fonts removed?
mine's still here...

>>56465229
>font folders
/user/share/fonts?
>fc-list -f '%{file}\n' :lang=jp
What does this do?
>mine's still here
Well, in the arch wiki, it says ~.fonts is deprecated now.

I'm trying to remove a repository with dnf so I took a look at -h and found --disablerepo
>I typed dnf --disablerepo (the repository i want to disable)
But it didn't work. What I did wrong?

>>56464255
on my other ubuntu server VM it installed just fine, same with any other ubuntu based distro

>>56465280
it shows you jap fonts you have installed.
well, depreciated or not, mine's still there and works. i drop all new fonts into my personal account.

>>56465313
>dnf
found your problem

>>56465347
>it shows you jap fonts you have installed
It returns nothing.
Do I need to insert a file name?

Is the AUR slow for anybody else?

>>56464689
everything in that folder
and only when shit doesnt work
after that I go back to 550 or 554
>>56464717
what does that to?
I'm guessing it converts executable files to 644
but since it's running in the / I'm worried
>>56464902
holy fuck that gpu temp
and that's why you never use speccy to monitor temps

>>56464863
the \ is an escape key
so if you need to open to a file with a space in it you'd type something like this:

ping\ pong 

instead of:

ping pong[
/code]
which wouldn't work, or
"ping pong"

>>56464708
>https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font
Perfect indeed.
Though some emojies are displayed incorrectly.
Also why need sudo when rebuilding the font cache?

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>>56464485
>>56464499
>>56464536
>>56464567
>>56464629
>>56464667
>mint

>>56465635
>jewish propaganda

>>56465659
Everything is real.

>>56465659
https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules

https://github.com/linuxmint/mdm
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mdm

Hey, can anyone point me towards some good descriptive tutorials on how to handle email? I'm currently using gmail and my university mail but it's far from optimal. Ideally I would like to use emacs as my mail client.

From what I've gathered the usual way to do this seems to be mbsync and mu4e, but the guides I've found aren't very beginner friendly.

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>>56463052
anon, please use pacaur instead

>>56465758
>being a archcuck

>>56465451

Why are you escaping ";"?

>>56465423

The website works fine for me.

>>56465819
It's actually part of ffmpeg, telling it that it's over. Without it would tell the shell that it's over.

>>56465840
s/ffmpeg/find/

>>56458858
well, just spitballing here, you could just use gparted or fdisk or whatever and make your partitions, "mount" them to wherever, install some basic stuff like compiler n all on it, then chroot into it and install the OS stuff from there manually. Not ideal but it would get you around it. But calamaris seems like a huge unnecessary clusterfuck to me.

>>56465830
For whatever reason, downloading tarball is taking too long.

>>56465804
Fuck off newbie

>>56465840

It works fine for me without it when ran from inside an interactive shell (not a script).

>>56463163
>X11 is pretty good
objectively wrong, not even xorg devs like X11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44

>>56459930
>no dependency resolution
so?

>>56465876

>Arch is the *opposite* of a user-centric freedom. The opinion of users
>has no weight here. Only the developers have an opinion, and there
>aren't voting systems as there are in Debian. Technical decisions are
>made based on merit via consensus among the developers, not popularity.

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

Enjoy your cuck distro.

Which torrent client should i install anons?
I'm using qBit but i feel i can call it qStalled

>>56465897
Knowing most users I don't blame them. Democracy is a meme.

"ubuntu software" could be down or somthing, it only loads nonfree shit when i search, nothing when i click catagories.

And only lists "checkbox" in installed apps, does that mean they have some access to whats on my system? <.<

>>56465881
Too bad wayland is bad too.

>>56465877
More specific:

It's part of find's -exec command.
For comparsion:
exec echo {} \; will echo every result line by line
exec echo {}\+ will echo all results in one line (can speed up scripts)

>>56463833
last time i installed it was in 2011, with an athlon 64 X2 (dual core) and 3G ddr2 ram
took me around 6 hours to get to an xfce desktop with firefox and a few other basics
this was the first time i'd installed it, so there were some mistakes and needing to recompile things to add new USE flags

Anyone here have a Raspberry Pi 3? A friend of mine is trying to get it to play 720p video without issues. I swear there are people running Kodi on these things and using them as HTPCs, so the fact that neither youtube nor anime in mpv can play smoothly on it makes me think something is wrong.

Just wondering if anyone knows of some tweaking that might not be obvious, but that would boost performance. Currently Raspbian is on it, I think, but my friend actually prefers Arch anyway. I think he's holding off on switching in case it's harder to get support on Arch. (e.g. people with a Pi 3 blaming the difference in distro for the issues)

>>56461239
windows sucks, so you have to configure it different.

https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Chain_002dloading.html

>>56464075
permissions? installed it as a user and not root?

>>56461239
answered pretty much the same question (almost) yesterday
https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S56443684#p56452659

>>56465922
One could also use ';' and '+' instead. Makes it cleaner for the brain.

>>56465910
its also been acting sorta weird... turning on screen reader and rearranged desktop
is "checkbox" somthing i should maybe use right now?

>>56461313
>>56461341
>>56461421
Reminder peoples if your partitioning or anything like it backup your MBR.

"dd if=/dev/yourdrive of=mbr.bin bs=512 count=1"

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>ocd prevents me using anything but minimal gentoo
>just want a comfy space to write my erlang

>>56465897
>>56465804

b8

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>>56465903
transmission

>>56466000
>dd if=/dev/yourdrive of=mbr.bin bs=512 count=1
Is this a meme?

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What are the differences between compressed files and which is better to be used and for what?
Should I use tar/zip/rar?

>>56466121
no, just good advice in case you fuck up.

>>56466126
tar is no compression. it just combines multiple files into one big file.
gz/xz and so on are compression methods.
tar.gz isn't as small as tar.xz but xz takes a longer time to unpack
rar is ancient cavemen technology and anyone using it should be shot.
zip is fine, but tar.xx is the proper neckbeard way of doing things.

>>56466241
But mbr is already saved in /usr/lib/syslinux

>>56466273
So tar.gz are best if I want to access files repeatedly.
And CBR/CBZ are best for images?
Then what about 7z? and why rar is caveman tech?
What application do you use with file manager? is Engrampa good?

What the fuck is it with Loonix and arbitrary config files everywhere?

>>56466301
if you want to access files repeadedly I wouldn't even put compression on them
and cbr is just a wrapper format for multiple images so you can use a comic book reader program on that one cbr file with all the comic's pages in it.
rar is shit at compression compared to modern methods. don't use rar.

>>56466301
gz is good enough, bzip2, 7zip, etc offer better compression but they take longer to compress/decompress.

cbr is just RAR and cbz is just ZIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_archive

Engrampa is like any other archive manager, they all use the same backends basically.

>>56466316
They aren't arbitrary. /etc for system-wide config and /home/.config for user specific config. Most normal applications respect the standard.

>>56466062
>buttmad archtard detected
Can't stand reality?
Arch is bloated, far from being lightweight and userfriendlyness.

>>56466392
>most
Welcome to Anarchy.

>>56466121
&& sync

---------> >>56466388

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>>56465903
Where does this meme really come from?

So, in a couple of hours Apple's event is gonna take place and it will be streamed.

How do I stream it under Linux without booting into Windows???

http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2016/

>>56468946
someone will probably find some generic link that works in most media players, like always

what is the name of the image viewer with no borders?