/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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First for Trisquel.

Previous thread: >>57078302

who may that 3d girl be?
does she run arch, perhaps?

>>57085254
FreeBSD

original of op's pic, please? nice chica desu

what are some good non-proprietary music streaming alternatives to spotify

>>57085309
define “music streaming”

Do you want a website that will let you download music? If so, what.cd

>>57085369
I don't have to download the music just listen to them like spotify and preferably has a client app

How do I Wayland?

>>57085382
and native to linux? That ought to be a short list.

>>57085399
yep

>>57085369
>what.cd
Never understood why people give up their privacy completly just for torrenting.

>>57085397
You wait til it's ready to use.

>>57085407
Most people would readily give up all their privacy for a 10% lifetime discount coupon at Mcdonald's

>>57085309
>streaming music
>not wanting to own high quality music so you can listen to it whenever you want
What is wrong with normies these days...

I'm installing ubuntu fresh on a new hard drive from a live usb. Went through install and after it completes I reboot and get 2 errors - error failure reading sector "number" and alloc magic is broke n "memory number". What is the issue? I Googled a bit and it was unclear.

>>57085501
idk I don't like pirating

>>57085521
Buy and rip your CDs?

>>57085403
pianobar

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>>57085507
Please avoid using the term “google” as a verb, meaning to search for something on the internet. “Google” is just the name of one particular search engine among others. We suggest to use the term “search the web” or (in some contexts) just “search”. Try to use a search engine that respects your privacy.

>>57085530
I just want a legal way to listen to music for free that's not proprietary ok

>>57085539
Hi there!

You seem to have made a bit of a mistake in your post. Luckily, the users of 4chan are always willing to help you clear this problem right up! You appear to have used a tripcode when posting, but your identity has nothing at all to do with the conversation! Whoops! You should always remember to stop using your tripcode when the thread it was used for is gone, unless another one is started! Posting with a tripcode when it isn't necessary is poor form. You should always try to post anonymously, unless your identity is absolutely vital to the post that you're making!

Now, there's no need to thank me - I'm just doing my bit to help you get used to the anonymous image-board culture!

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>>57085543

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>>57085521
Publishers often refer to copying they don't approve of as “piracy.” In this way, they imply that it is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them. Based on such propaganda, they have procured laws in most of the world to forbid copying in most (or sometimes all) circumstances. (They are still pressuring to make these prohibitions more complete.)

If you don't believe that copying not approved by the publisher is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word “piracy” to describe it. Neutral terms such as “unauthorized copying” (or “prohibited copying” for the situation where it is illegal) are available for use instead. Some of us might even prefer to use a positive term such as “sharing information with your neighbor.”

>>57085551
http://despotify.sourceforge.net/

>>57085309
mpsyt is kinda comfy
https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube

>>57085463
When, the initial release was 4 years ago?

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Threadly reminder.

>>57085539
>>57085596
which one is better?

>>57085543

While I do appreciate your input do you have any insight into my technical issue?

>>57085661
just try them both

>>57085679
does the pandora one have a feature to import my spotify playlist?

>>57085704
No, pandora uses the music genome project to tailor individual stations, you don't get to choose a playlist.

You tell it what you like say BeckyG or Taylor Swift and it will just play similar music for you.

>>57085675
Your installation was corrupted. The former indicates a HDD failure. The latter indicates a severely broken package management system.

>>57085192
>Trisquel
tell me more about it... Im searching for a linux distro

Im thinking at install manjaro, Opinions?

>>57085732
sounds lame

>>57085764
Works well enough that there are people that use it that stopped keeping music locally.

You thumbs up shit you like and thumbs down shit you don't like, after a while your tastes on that station may migrate and the shit it starts playing that you like may surprise you.

>>57085787
>>57085679
alright I'll try both

>>57085126
who's the chick?

>>57085827
Tuxina

>>57085382
How do you listen to something without downloading it? That makes no sense

>>57085553
Where's your point? He friendly asked to avoid the verb "google" since Google obviously doesn't care about privacy therefore it's not a good idea to adverse it. He didn't claim the word doesn't exist.

>>57085884
>responding to bait
see >>57085647

Can someone recommend me Free, non proprietary female homo sapiens?

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>>57085879
He has the sign! Spit at him!

>>57085911
is there a problem, Anon?

>>57085911
>>57085923
It was actually a bad move from moot2. He basically created a new mutation of cancer, worse than tripfags. Just look into >>>/vip/
Pure horror.

>>57085884
There is no substitute word though.

>>57085971
>I googled for a solution.
>I searched for a solution.
Basic english, faggot. Do you speak it?

>>57085987
jesus christ, just stop responding already
responses -> more tripfag shitposts

>>57085987
Doesn't even remotely mean the same thing.

i just installed xubuntu
any stuff i should do first?
and recommend me some good apps

>>57086040
install gentoo

>>57086056
fuck off

>>57085962
I don't think it matters desu. Attention whores will do so regardless of what options you give them.

We used to have the same problems with avatar scripts & signatures, but eventually mods banned those, so w/e.

I don't really agree that it's "worse than tripcodes" but to each their own.

>>57086040
Welcome home.

If you encounter any problems, you're better off reading documentations or looking into the archwiki. Don't blindly run commands posted on "linux blogs". That way you'll learn fast and understand your system.

>>57085746
Its ubuntu pointed at FOSS repos. You can override them if you needed to. The desktop is kinda nice honestly. The software store they use is really nice though. Expect to have to troubleshoot missing firmware.

>>57086040

>recommend me some good apps
The usual suspects:

media: mpv + youtube-dl, remove flash
browsing: icecat or firefox nightly
circlejerking: screenfetch or neofetch + scrot
impress mommy: cmatrix

>>57086076
no u

>>57085126
Can someone exam file permissions on arch linux for me? I have a lamp stack set up and my php sites won't show on local host (yes, their in the right place). A friend of mine said the file permissions were the problem. A resource written for a 14 year old would be about my education level.

>>57085126
Also I don't have this issue on my Ubuntu virtual machine.

>>57085126
Source on op pic?

>>57085126
I'm using gpicview but it doesn't play gif's or rotate images well. What image viewer do you guys recommend?

>>57086372
mpv

>>57086372
this >>57086389
or just use eog

>>57085126
Source on that girl

How can I see which dependencies a program has? (on Ubuntu)

>>57086418
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux

>>57086420

apt-cache depends youtube-dl

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I'm a newbie to linux, what does this mean?

>>57086722
you're using the free driver

>>57086803
oh, is that bad?

>>57086870
no

>>57086881
is it good?

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I blew away my Windows completely and replaced it with Ubuntu Mate.
As a result I began to get no bootable devices found error, so I enabled Secure Boot and manually set up the efi to boot into Ubuntu.
Unfortunately third party drivers (such as wifi) do not work in secure boot, but if I turn off secure boot I just get no bootable devices error again.
What the fuck am I supposed to do?

>>57086899
pretty good, yea
not quite as fast as the proprietary driver, but it's more stable, and works with every kernel/xorg version out of the box

>>57086949
ok thanks

>>57086949
>works
Strong words when referring to AMD Linux drivers.

>>57086979
i'm not referring to the AMD linux drivers, but the free drivers for AMD graphics cards

>>57086998
I don't make the distinction, one just crashes less often.

>>57086918
install Windows 10

>>57087027
the free ones really do just werk though, i use them myself as well

GPU: Gallium 0.4 on AMD PITCAIRN (DRM 2.45.0 / 4.7.7-1-ck, LLVM 3.8.1)

>>57087075
Until you try to play games T.T

>>57087036
>>57086918
Nevermind I fixed it.
I repaired GRUB then disabled secure boot now everything is working perfectly

>>57087111
i play games just fine with it as well

>>57087134
You are lucky.
Or lying.

>>57086998
>>57087075
>>57087134
see >>57085647

Ubuntu or Mint?

>>57087236
Debian

>>57087111
>playing games
>on linux
kek

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>>57087261

>>57087250
>100 year old packages
>>57087236
install arch

>>57087331
>arch user
>knowledge: /g/ memes
Not surprised.

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>>57087191
lucky then, i guess
i haven't tried any other modern amd gpu, or any amd gpu actually
i moved to this one a couple years ago, and before that i used an nvidia card, whose proprietary driver was a pita, and the free nvidia driver just wasn't good enough (which is why i got this amd card)
before that they were called ati cards, funnily enough, the first installation of linux i did back in 2004 was on an ati mobility radeon (forget which model)

pic related, trying out a private wow server since i never did have the money to play official wow, not exactly a graphically intense game, but neither are most games i run

>>57087368
fuck off and take your tripfag friend with you

>>57087387
this is a friendly thread

any isometric rpg game that either is a native linux version or works hassle-free with wine?


preferably something old so i don't feel bad about pirating it

>>57087438
check the wine appdb website to get an idea on wine compatibility with a particular program/game
it also will give hints on what to do to get them running if they don't work ootb

ok I'm trying to get proprietary drivers why is there only cpu drivers on my ubuntu additional drivers and no gpu driver?

>>57087462
Ubuntu hates you

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>>57087462
forgot pic

>>57087462
>proprietary drivers
why

>>57087462
noobuntu is so bloated

>>57087462
your card might be old and not supported with your kernel versions.

happens all the time, hardware manufacturers don't give a shit about lts linux support. it costs money, the market is small, and everyone and their mothers using linux for graphical applications runs rhel/centos which stays on the same kernel version for like 10 years

>>57087478
>microcode firmware enabled
What is wrong with you?

>>57087479
GAMES

Should I install Fedora or Debian on my laptop? No meme answers

>>57087493
pretty sure intel cpus won't work at all without their microcode firmware
not sure how useful his machine will be with the cpu disabled

>>57087493
What is it?

>>57087496
That doesn't answer his question. Did you even try the free drivers first?

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>>57085647
Kys faggot.

Ubuntu is the best distro.

>>57087502
Microcode is already there, no matter if you enable microcode firmware or not. There's no need to enable it; the firmware is basically nothing but an update program aka botnet.

>>57087500
What do you want?

>>57087500
No

>>57087507
the guy that said games wasn't me

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is there a lightweight qt based desktop? I can't fathom upgrading past my Linux Mint 17.3 because of that fucking ugly and terrible GTK titlebar shit they push now. Lxqt 0.10 doesn't really work at all on my machine from the Lubuntu PPA. Maybe there is some distro pushing this? Maybe there's a third option?

thinking about picking up a chromebook because battery life and they're cheap

does anybody have suggestions for what I should get?

should I use crouton or is there a way to install linux straight on to the system? I fully intend to never actually use chromeOS.


is going the chromebook direction entirely misguided here?

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will be installing centos 6.8 as soon as the iso finishes downloading

There is only Arch, Debian and Gentoo.
Everything else is made of ass and poo.

>>57087585
If being cheap is your primary concern and you want a disposable device to fuck around with any take notes aim for asus c201.

It's an ARM chromebook (so don't expect any performance from it whatsoever) but it's extremely easy to reflash it with libreboot.
Which means you have a free-as-in-freedom blobless machine right out of Stallman's dreams.

>>57087191
I play Hearthstone, CS, Day of defeat and a few other things on free AMD drivers. Can't really say they are bad. Much to the contrary, they are great.

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>>57087616
>libreboot
>stallman's dream
It's a nightmare. ;_;

>>57087585
I have a dell chromebook 13. You can swap the hard drive with a larger capacity one, and it also can install linux directly with seabios. Its bit expensive, but you can get an i3 or i5. it also has insane battery life.

>>57087677
He/She/IT's stll crying, by the way: https://libreboot.org/why-not-gnu/

>>57087708
>GNU's main funding source and means of promotion, fired a transgender employee for being trans.
Absolutely
fucking
based

>>57085543
Wrong again, genius.

Oxford Dictionary:
google

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

Search for information about (someone or something) on the Internet using the search engine Google.

‘on Sunday she googled an ex-boyfriend’

[no object]‘I googled for a cheap hotel/flight deal’

is there any fucking way to get the ubuntu installer to use a different name for the fucking volume group? ive got a conflict in volume group names thanks to ubuntu being shit and always choosing the same volume group name and not letting you choose one in the guided install.

>>57087812
>[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
>[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
>[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

>The dismissal of the staff person was not because of her gender.
>Her gender now is the same as it was when we hired her.
>It was not an issue then, and it is not an issue now.

>--
>Dr Richard Stallman
>President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
>Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
>Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.


https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg00052.html

Any live CD with proprietary codecs support?
1. mp3,mp4, bluray

>>57087935
see >>57085884
slowpoke

>>57087992
>not listening to flac

>>57088036
No content in flac, I learn Eglish

I have a Thinkpad with Intel Centrino 6300 N and iwlwifi driver installed. It usually doesn't work after suspend (doesn't even show up with lspci) and recently it stopped working at all. Where do I start troubleshooting?

i am having some troubles
i was installing manjaro and everything went well, but something got fucky and it crashed while i was updating
now when i power on it doesn't even bring me to the grub screen where i'd enter my encryption key and everytime i try to install a different distro the installer crashes saying something about the kernel being fucked and not being able to mount any volumes
can someone help me unfuck my laptop

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <sys/syscall.h>

// [...]

syscall(...)

...

warning: implicit declaration of function ‘syscall’
[/code

Literally what

>>57087368
>not exactly a graphically intense game, but neither are most games i run
It is at 4K on ultra, you need a GTX 1070 or 1080 for it

>>57088248
#include <unistd.h>

>>57088305
I already do. It runs fine but those warning are killing me. :/

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Is blag dead?

>>57088338
try and compile the code example from 'man syscall' and see if you still get warnings

I'm interested in learning to use linux for work and Im interested in a distro that teaches me how to work with a CLI and learn about how linux operating systems actually work. I would like something a little bit more CLI oriented than ubuntu but easier to setup and maintain than Arch, Any Suggestions? I was wondering if Debian would be a good choice but im open to anything.

Are there any known issues with running Cinnamon on Ubuntu? I want to try it out, but I've seen a few posts on here saying that it can be buggy/unstable.

>>57089015
before you let yourself get dragged into the dark alley of distrowars just pick one (debby is fine) and get going

Is there something like ranger that lets you view image thumbnails on the command line?

>>57089015
honestly, It's user preference. Mainly what package manager you are most familiar/comfortable with.

>>57089015
You can use CLI just fine on any distro

>>57089070
Is there a big difference in the software available on each distro? From what I understand so far each distro manages its own repositories which all have their own selection of software. Is that correct, or is the same selection of software pretty much available on all of them?

Is anyone else having font rendering problems with LibreOffice 5.2.2 and GTK 3.22.1 (package version on Arch specifically)?

>>57089107
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions#Package_management_and_installation
>check table for packages
you get some ballpark estimate, but i don't think anyone keeps track of exact numbers (if some anon has credible sources it'd be an interesting thing to know)

>>57085126
Any awesomeWM users here?
I've been using it for a while, but noticed my config file is outdated.
However, the difference between the latest stable and latest git in configuration is quite noticeable, but the menubar doesn't work for me in the latest git.
How are you guys doing?

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offline open source assistant, arch build only, ubuntu coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tsozePrjvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Vh1ny9FsQ

rough but neat (kinda)

>>57089107
Popular core software is available everywhere
Less popular and obscure varies from distro to distro, there's no distro with "best" selection, though if you'll pick some really obscure distro then expect having less software

>2-in-1 laptop
>want a linux DE that allows me to use all of the tablet features

help. please.

>>57085126

Those are some nice fucking tits.

>>57089293
>project literally started yesterday
>basically a python script connecting together text-to-speech and bash
>called "AI" unironically
It'll die in a week or two

>>57089015
>a distro that teaches me how to work with a CLI and learn about how linux operating systems actually work
No distro can really teach you that. Either you study it, work with it, break it, fix it and learn it or you don't. Shit's all inside you and is like unicorns and stuff, man.

>I was wondering if Debian would be a good choice
It is. Grab the netinst iso and have fun.

>>57089234
It's fine here.

>>57089343
GNOME?

I am installing kali as we speak

Did I fall for the meme? I just want to try as many distros as possible.

>>57089506
kali is useless. just install the tools you need on your current distro...

>>57089506
>I am installing kali as we speak
Do you have brain damage?

>>57089506
don't hack me brah

>>57089506
You don't install kali, it's meant to be used as a live image

is root encryption even possible within gentoo? do you not have to format the partition in order to encrypt the partition after the installation, or is there something i'm missing?

>>57089756
You decrypt root and mount it with an initramfs.

>>57089443
>No distro can really teach you that.
Gentoo can.

>>57089461
onscreen keyboard support is dire isn't it? Also no auto screen rotation that seems to work without bugs.

So if I manually install a theme, how can I make it update by itself automatically?

sudo wget -c https://github.com/lassekongo83/zuki-themes/archive/3.18.zip /usr/share/themes

>>57089998
write your own script that does that

i can't find the 'debian red' theme after doing a fresh install, does anyone know where it's located at?

>>57089998
cron

>>57089506
Kali is a lot less secure than most other distros. It isn't meant to be used as an everyday desktop distro.

Offense != Defense.

>>57085126

What is a good distro to run 100% off a flash drive?

>>57090072
puppy

>>57090072
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=Live+Medium

Stupid question: Is there some way to switch the displayed character for the emoji on Linux from the guy with a speech bubble to the one on Windows and my phone, which has the guy resting a thumb and a finger on his chin? I just prefer the latter, even though this has absolutely nothing to do with productivity.

>>57090335
Apparently 4chan (rightly) doesn't display emoji; the one I'm talking about is found at http://emojipedia.org/thinking-face/.

How do I install .pcf.gz fonts in Debian? I've tried ./configure, make, install, and just dropping the files in ~/.fonts but the font is not showing up in the Tweak Tool.

>>57085543
Stallman is an idiot. Language is adaptive, if enough people use a "word" as a word, then guess what, it becomes a defined word based on the general consensus of what it means.
Everyone says "google it," it's not the early 2000s anymore.

>>57090466
gunzip blah.pcf.gz

>>57090670
And then they're installed? Where do I put the files?

>>57090681
You can drop it in ~/.fonts/
Then just run fc-cache.

>>57090481
I think a big part of it is that he doesn't want to encourage people to use Google because he disagrees with their service ethically.

He's pretty good with learning new languages, so I would assume he understands how words change their meaning over time due to common perception.

>>57090735
Its pure narcissism.
He uses it as a way to berate people and pretend hes better then them.

>>57085126
that picture triggered my gender dysphoria :/

>>57090705
Hm, I've tried the gunzip, fc-cache and fc-cache -fv, but it seems like it hasn't installed. It's still not showing up in the Tweak Tool. I just want to change the font of i3status.

>>57090828
Does it show up in fc-list?

>>57090705
This is probably not the problem but ~/.fonts/ is deprecated, use ~/.local/share/fonts.

>>57090862
Nope.
>>57090864
I'll try this.

>>57090875
Might need to convert it to bdf or ttf or something.

>>57090907
Is there an easy way to do this?

>>57090915
Yeah there is a cli app called pcf2bdf that should work.

>>57090112
>>57090148
Thanks senpai

>>57090927
Alright so I picked out one of the many .pcf.gz and converted it to .bdf and placed one in ~/.fonts and and one in ~/.local/share/fonts, ran fc-cache and then fc-list and nothing. Noticed there's only .pfb and .ttf in the fc-list.

>>57089519
>>57089542
>>57089604
>>57090043

t. people who don't remotly know anything about kali, instead parrot /g/ memes

>Do you have brain damage?
Maybe he is just curious and wants to learn more? You can't defend yourself when you don't know how which possibilities are available to harm you. That's the purpose of pentesting.

>kali is useless. just install the tools you need on your current distro...
Some of the programs Kali ships need specific kernel patches. Installing them alone will not provide full functionality.

>You don't install kali, it's meant to be used as a live image
No it isn't, it's available as VM images and regular install images.

>Kali is a lot less secure than most other distros. It isn't meant to be used as an everyday desktop distro.
Not true. Kali is secure in the same way as other distros. You may claim "it comes with root by default" - so come many other distros. Nothing prevents you from creating a user and use it as main OS.

>>57091061
Uh...
I'm not really a font expert, but if I had to guess xft is rejecting it for some reason.

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>>57090864
>>57090927
>>57091113
>run sudo apt-get install console-terminus xfonts-terminus
>it works

Jesus christ, thanks anyways guys.

>>57091113
Holy shit nigger, would you already fuck off and stop penetrating us with your tripfagging clown's face?

>>57091111
quads don't lie

The tray icon for hexchat sometimes just wont work for me, which is to say clicking it wont open the window for the tray anymore. I'm using Gnome Shell (3.22) on Arch, although the issue has existed for me before 3.22, and also I've had it happen on Debian installs as well.

Hexchat seems to be the only thing I actually get this issue with. Anyone nkow how to fix it?

>>57091134
I'm not penetrating people with clown faces.

Take your HPV riddled blown out sphincter and cry to your imaginary boyfriend.

>>57091346
seriously, I've had trip codes hidden for over a week and you're still annoying as fuck.

>>57091388
I'm intentionally annoying to anyone I perceive as condescending pieces of shit.

>>57091410
What's the point of the tripcode?

Okay I will be installing Centos 6.8 on my machine.

It offers gnome 2.32, the last version of gnome 2 (september 2010) before it was ditched in favour of gnome 3 and kde 4.3.4, which is the version from december 2009

my machine is an old fujitsu-siemens laptop with an intel core 2 duo cpu, 2 gigs of ram and an ati mobility radeon.

I have experience with gnome 2 in the form of MATE and lets say it was okay and I have absolutely no clue what to make out of KDE.

Which environment would you pick?

>>57091550
dwm

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I picked up some old linux games from the thread on /t/. Won't there be a load of compatibility problems with most of them since they're looking for dependencies that are 10+ years old?

>>57091625
Games usually ship their own dependencies.

I need help. For some fucking reason the KDE Neon installer doesn't properly install GRUB even though I properly set up the EFI partition etc.. I can't figure out how to install GRUB by hand and if not.. is there a way to make KDE Neon boot via systemd? I tried doing it the same way I do on Arch but it seems like the Ubuntu repos don't provide the vmlinuz and initrd.

>>57091625
Unless it's some weird open source project it will usually come with its own libs

The biggest problem will be audio. If the game was designed in the alsa era, it should plug as a pa device no problem. I'd it's OSS you will have to fiddle with It around.

For older games I usually run wine even if Linux port is available. For me it's just not worth the hassle to fuck around for 2 hours a week.

>>57091550
blackbox

>>57091687
Good point about wine. These games are old and low poly enough to be ran on phones.

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What do i listen to while intalling linux? and funtoo or arch?

>>57091757
>What do I listen to?
Merzbow

>Funtoo or arch?
LFS

>>57091757
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7MBGpZK9wg

>>57091766
lfs takes time and is not worth it for me, i've done but i want a package manager.
>>57091803
thanks friend

What are good 3D game development applications for Linux?

I was using Unity for a while on Windows but about a month ago I switched over to Linux.

I now wanna find an alternative to Unity. I was thinking Blender, but I remember it being kinda crappy when I messed around with it as a kid. But things have probably changed and has become more stable.

Any suggestions?

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>>57091757
aplay -qr2 < /dev/urandom

>>57091388
Why did you disable your filter then?

Not sure if this is the place to post this but...
Can't seem to get Lemonbar to work!
Using i3 wm and can't into Lemonbar.
Please help!

>>57091757
http://gnupluslinux.org/gnu.ogg

>>57091410
You're unintentionally annoying to everyone, probably because you have a personality disorder, and can't help it.

>>57091927
while :; do echo "sup faggot, the time is $(date +%T)"; done | lemonbar

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>>57091859
Unity is working on port. Help their beta: https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-on-linux-release-notes-and-known-issues.350256/

Unreal engine is officially supported as well but you need to build from source on git. Easy enough though, they have step by step copy and paste instructions. Just make sure you have all the prereqs installed.

Alternatively there are lots of older engines OGRE3D, CUBE engine and some of the ID software engines are open source. Blender has it's game engine but that has practically abandoned by the devs.

>>57091480
>What's the point of the tripcode?
In his case, to warn everyone that he's a clueless retard.

>>57091982
Well I guess adding "sleep 1" is a good idea.

>>57091757
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ORhEE9VVg

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Xubuntu 16.10, how do I get my media keys to work with spotify. They work with all the default installed media players when they are the active window. Otherwise nothing.

>linux

kys

>>57091982
What I meant to say is how do I combine it with i3?
Have it start by default in a session or run it as a script? TFW.

>>57092068
Nah, I'm good.

>>57092068
Fuck off wintoddler

what's wrong with Mint?
It seems like the most
>it just werks
Distro

>>57092101
Jews hate it because it's anti sematic

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>>57085126
Want to recalibrate my laptop battery with TLP.
Can it only be done with Thinkpads, or any laptop in general?
What do?

>>57092101
It just works and the fanboys of other distros get pissy.

>>57092101
>>57092109
>>57092252
>Well, Linux Mint is generally very bad when it comes to security and quality.

>First of all, they don't issue any Security Advisories, so their users cannot - unlike users of most other mainstream distributions [1] - quickly lookup whether they are affected by a certain CVE.

>Secondly, they are mixing their own binary packages with binary packages from Debian and Ubuntu without rebuilding the latter. This creates something that we in Debian call a "FrankenDebian" which results in system updates becoming unpredictable [2]. With the result, that the Mint developers simply decided to blacklist certain packages from upgrades by default thus putting their users at risk because important security updates may not be installed.

>Thirdly, while they import packages from Ubuntu or Debian, they hi-jack package and binary names by re-using existing names. For example, they called their fork of gdm2 "mdm" which supposedly means "Mint Display Manager". However, the problem is that there already is a package "mdm" in Debian which are "Utilities for single-host parallel shell scripting". Thus, on Mint, the original "mdm" package cannot be installed.

>>57092329

>Another example of such a hi-jack are their new "X apps" which are supposed to deliver common apps for all desktops which are available on Linux Mint. Their first app of this collection is an editor which they forked off the Mate editor "pluma". And they called it "xedit", ignoring the fact that there already is an "xedit" making the old "xedit" unusable by hi-jacking its namespace.

>Add to that, that they do not care about copyright and license issues and just ship their ISOs with pre-installed Oracle Java and Adobe Flash packages and several multimedia codec packages which infringe patents and may therefore not be distributed freely at all in countries like the US.

>To conclude, I do not think that the Mint developers deliver professional work. Their distribution is more a crude hack of existing Debian-based distributions. They make fundamental mistakes and put their users at risk, both in the sense of data security as well as licensing issues.

>I would therefore highly discourage anyone using Linux Mint until Mint developers have changed their fundamental philosophy and resolved these issues.

>Adrian
https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/
https://github.com/linuxmint/mdm
https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules

>>57092329
>>57092341
nice blog :^)

>>57091111
Parroting /g/ memes is installing Kali because you're "curious", e.g. you have no idea where to start, too lazy to read a fucking book, and heard of a 1337 haxx0r distro from /g/. Learning something via installing Kali is akin to a 5 year old kid grabbing dad's toolbox and playing with it's content, but at least in our case our dim-witted anon can't nail his hand to the floor by accident.

Also, it's still faster to install whatever software you need and patch your kernel, than install a fucking new distro.

I'm getting a dependency issue when installing amdgpu pro on arch, what do? Got the tarball from aur and did everything yet i'm getting this bs
I just want 144hz on my linux partition ;(

>>57092409
>he fell for the arch meme

>>57092421
FUCK OFF

>>57092329
>>57092341
>2006: Debian is a mess and has security issues, dont use it
>2010: Ubuntu is a mess. Dont use it... Use Debian.
>2016: LM is a mess. Dont use it. Use Ubuntu even though half the community is saying avoid Ubuntu still.
>2020: YearOfTheHurdDesktop is a mess. Dont use it. Use RedStarOS instead.

>>57090787
We should care about your mental illness ona technology board, why?

>>57092429
It's not like he just tells "don't use it" without any arguments. Mint is actually horrible insecure under it's shiny surface.

Imagine a new kernel vunerability was discovered. Other distros get security updates. Mint users don't.

>>57092470
and still probably has better security then windows.

>>57092486
Granted.

Why do so many distro's ask for a password when you open almost anything? I've gotten used to it but it doesn't make sense to have this level of security, it's overkill.

It makes sense if you have it on your laptop because it can be easily stolen, but on a desktop?

>>57092003
Thanks friend, I'll do some research on the ones you listed and see which one would work best for my needs.

>>57092497
Can you give some examples of what you deem unnecessary?

>>57092486
Windows users don't even want updates, kek. Completly different world over there.

>>57092497
for commands it's mainly so you don't accidentally the whole system. If you mean when accessing 2nd hard drives you can always add them to fstab to mount on boot.

>>57092409
>>57092427
AUR being broken isn't a meme.

Sadly Arch is.

>>57091859
You messed with blenders game engine as a kid? are you sure are old enough to lurk on 4chan?
Or was it just the 3d editor? Because the development of that in the last few years is one of the most impressive things in the free software world.

>>57092547
Nobody asked you.

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>>57092547
AUR isn't broken, but too many Arch users do not understand what AUR is

>>57092524
Like every time I open my browser, download any applications, update drivers. I don't know, I think it adds an unnecessary step, a yes or no administration box I think is enough. it should be an optional layer of security, not forced.

>>57092592
When you open your browser? That shouldn't happen.

>>57092587
Its a repository full of broken packages with no quality control.

>>57092587
aur; git wrapper for easy installing badly written scripts by clueless arch users in order to bloat up and break the system
even ubuntu's ppa is less bloated and has basic stable checks lol

>>57092609
Well I'm running KDE, so maybe their password wallet functions a lot more secure than other distro's wallets.

How am I supposed to use other distros if they don't have wifi drivers yet require internet connection to begin the installation?
Why have Video and Music players when you refuse to use mp3 and other codecs that are a must for everyday user.
All other distros except Mint fail at the simplest things that are required for the simplest tasks.
Do you want me to use your OS? It seems like the answer is a big no.

Proprietary software? Non-free software? Give me break.
Linux is a mess, complete anarchy, get used to the 1% market share because it is not going to change anytime soon.

>>57092637
Ah I see, that's the equivalent of the gnome keyring I think, which stores all your passwords.

>>57092628
It's actually just a git wrapper, but doesn't include repos especially made for Arch. It just makes git installs more convenient and it isn't meant to be used by linux beginners (experts usually check what they run before they run it).

>>57092682
so what's the point if you check everything manually anyway? where's the "convenience"?

>>57092664
>How am I supposed to use other distros if they don't have wifi drivers yet require internet connection to begin the installation?

Not true.

>Why have Video and Music players when you refuse to use mp3 and other codecs that are a must for everyday user.

Not true.

>>57092706
>Not true.
true
>Not true.
true

>>57092706
True.

>>57092710
Prove it.

>>57092717
see >>57092713

>>57092421
arch may be a meme, but it is a particular spicy and enjoyable meme!

>>57092547
So am I out of luck? I don't think the regular amdpro is working either.

>>57092470
What should I use instead of Mint then?
>inb4 Gentoo, arch, Kali meme distros
I'm still a pleb and while I'm not totally helpless I want something stable and easy to manage do I can not worry about things.

So far Mint has been stable and convenient but switching now would be nbd
Would Debian be better?

>>57092710
>>57092713
There's plenty of distributions that have non-free firmware and non-free repositories by default. Even Debian has an ISO that includes non-free firmware.

>>57092724
Arch is a bad meme. It promises simplicity and and being lightweight, but what you get is overcomplicated crap and stuff you need to fix first before Arch is even usable and when you're finished, it's more bloated than ubuntu because of the lack of package splitting.

>>57092560
Maybe it was just the 3D editor. But I'm 19, I think I used it when I was 10.

>>57092780
are you sure those true's where true agree trues and not not agree trues?

>>57092637
This is a KDE "feature".

KWallet's the devil's butthole though. I'd recommend disabling it.

>>57092768
Ubuntu is really easy and comfy, I would suggest ubuntu. Arch isn't too bad now that I've installed it, but it is a pain in the ass to install if it's your first time as missing something is quite easy.

>>57085126
i've that a file thats a hexdump of a file that has been repeatedly compressed. any idea how i can recover any original text data that's in it? i can post the hexdump or the file if it helps. pls

>>57092805
uncompress it..

>>57092805
and then xxd it

>>57092831
it says data.txt isn't a bzip2 file when i do bunzip2 on it. but i see BZh91AY&SY in the hex dump, so does that mean i can rename it to data.bz2 and it'll uncompress properly?

>>57092780
>>57092780
Just today tried Debian, Fedora 25 Beta and Opensuse Tumbleweed/Leap 42.2 Beta 3

Fedora had wifi drivers and nothing else worked. Videos require codecs, mp3 is not supported. Can't install Opensuse, Debian doesn't recognize my wifi (probably no firmware). Debian has ISO with firmware but its not official release as you know.

>>57092853

file data.txt 

>>57092853
i dunno anon why don't you try it

maybe you could also use

file data.txt

to actually view what type of file it is

>>57092869
>>57092862
it says it's ascii text

>>57092853
Is it part of a hackme game?

>>57092889
kek p0wned as they say

>>57092889
then the magic bytes are prob forged

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>>57092620
Senpai pls stop spreading FUD

>>57092889
Try 7z x, 7z understands all sorts of formats. If it doesn't work, it's most likly missing the magic byte.

>>57092890
yeah. i don't really know what to do now, all the other previous stuff it basically told you what you needed to do or the hints were obvious enough that the wikipedia page told you what to do

>>57092933
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>/a/

>>57092944
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>/r/4chan

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>>57092944
Does it trigger your SJW syndrome?

>>57092933
>asking for yet another tripfag shitpost
kys weeb

>>57092952
>>>/lgbt/

http://pastebin.com/B7igYgNA

if anyone knows what i'm doing wrong i'd appreciate it

>>57092970
>>>/f/acebook

>>57092979
>>>/t/umblr

>>57092984
>>>/r/eddit

>>57092989
>>>/b/asement

>>57092968
>Pedobear was an iconic symbol for the pedophile subculture in 2010. But its use as a mascot faded away due to backlash.

These people are really deluded.

I am going to buy a new laptop in the next few days.

Can anyone give me some general advice about using Linux with the current new laptops out? Both advice on laptop choice and Linux distro, thanks.

PS I have technophobia so explain things as simply and dumbed down as possible

>>57092995
>>>/s/jwhugbox

>>57092999
Not according to neo-/g/

>>57093003
What's your price range and why do you want to use Linux?

>>57093030
>>57093030
>>57093030

>>57092976
xxd -r data.txt > fglt
gzip -d fglt
bzip2 -d fglt
gzip -d fglt
etc.
always do file fglt to get the compression
at the end you get a ascii string, propably a password

>>57093049

bandit12@melinda:/tmp/0193$ xxd -r data.txt > fglt
bandit12@melinda:/tmp/0193$ ls
data.txt  fglt
bandit12@melinda:/tmp/0193$ file fglt
fglt: gzip compressed data, was "data2.bin", from Unix, last modified: Fri Nov 14 10:32:20 2014, max compression

do i rename it fglt.gz and gunzip it? or do i rename it data2.bin?

Looking for a good gtk theme to use with Nitrux iconset. Any recommendations?