/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

*hacks this thread*
*installs arch/debian on every single computer here*
!!hahaha!!
*farts*

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>""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""Friendly""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

First for Stallman is a fat retard.

Fourth for the four essential freedoms.

Fifth for murdering all communists aka the fucktard in the op

>>57316007
xD

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How do you encode an image to screenfetch instead of the ascii logo?

>>57316142
xD

>>57316148
What?

>>57316142
if i was a woman i'd want to look exactly like ellen page here

also just install mac os

>>57316162
>沖縄
subhumauns leave this THREAD LOL
btfo'd 'em lad mate

>>57316164
I have Ubuntu. Can you tell me how to do it?

>>57316183
>沖縄

>using google translate

>>57316186
example of what you're talking about?

>>57316186
Use this

sudo xkeyscore --hack --ascii -t screenfetch
sudo screenfetch --accept-hack -p [path to your image]

>>57316212
>沖縄
yeah a place where mostly Sub-Humans reside

>using google translate
huh? i'm not sure what you meant by me using google services

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>>57316220

>>57316251
oh, add --png or your format name in the first command here then >>57316227

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How to install screenfetch? I'm using Arch Linux if it matters.

>>57316290
emerge screenfetch

I saw someone in the last thread using Devuan. So is it basically Debian without botnet?

>>57316296
zsh: command not found: emerge

>>57316247
>huh? i'm not sure what you meant by me using google services
are you going to play retarded?

>>57316309
xD

>>57316316
nope, i'm going to deny using google services as i haven't been using them for a long time now

>>57316309
sudo emerge screenfetch then.

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Hey /g/, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?

>>57316349
>sudo
if he needs to use sudo to run emerge on Arch, he obviously has $PATH problems that need to be dealt with.

>>57316360
Windows 8.1

>>57316391
stop it faggot, it isn't even remotly funny

>>57316404
He said distro, not linux distro. Windows is a distrobution of the NT kernel.

>>57316360
Lubuntu

>>57316404
Debian

I have same torrent in Deluge and Transmission.
When i start it in deluge, speed is ~0,1 mega
When i start it in transmission speed is ~1 mega
What is problem anon (they are not working at same time)

How do I get neofetch to work?

>>57316508

neofetch --work

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Hey /g/, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly linux distro for daily use?

>>57316539
Devuan MATE

>>57316539
GNU/NT

Why is this subreddit so toxic now? Is it because the GNU tards invaded?

>>57316618
>subreddit

>>57316539
Knoppix

Okay so I'm having some focus troubles in ubuntu. For whatever reason, it likes to focus on the taskbar at random and kinda ignore the application i have open, even if I alt tab into it. I try and work with fixes, it seems as though it wants to click behind my actually opened tab instead of inside it. Any ideas?

>>57316618
>GNU tards invaded?
they've been occupying since the beginning.
the thread will probably settle by Monday evening.
keep in mind that its only 12:50AM UTC or early evening in america plus its halloween weekend.
or americans are getting holiday even earlier for """Thanksgiving"""

what happened to the hackintosh gen

>>57316864
apple dropped real unix because steve job's autism so there's no point.

>>57316898
why are all operating systems basically unusable these days

>>57316910
Gentoo with KDE is pretty usable.

>>57316930
very debatable

>>57316930
as long as you dont poke it with nvidia drivers

>>57316910
they moved away from the "make it work" to the "make it look pretty" way of doing things.

If you visit the win10 feedback hub 90% of the "bug" reports are GUI issues about a pixel being off by one.

>>57316955
This, I ordered a 280x because my maxwell card with nouveau was so fucking glitchy under KDE.

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>>57316539
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>57317076
who is that guy

>>57317098
Linus Torvalds.

>>57317076
Richard. No one likes you, you unwashed fagoot.

>>57317105
thanks, He looks better clean shaven desu

>>57317130
>desu
>>>/a/

>>57317219
thanks senpai

just installed arch linux
any cool programs I could install?

>>57317291
A browser!
I like firefox but icecat is nice also

>>57317219
baka senpai

>>57317291
SCREENFETCH

>>57317291
Emacs, then run screenfetch and cmatrix inside it.

>>57317291
abiword to write poems in ^.^

>>57317291
aol desktop

>>57317291
Gentoo, the operating system.

>>57317389
gentoo is just a distribution of the gnu/linux operating system

>>57317389
Gentoo is a meme, fuck off.

>>57317291
skype, chrome, flash, steam, sublime text

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>>57317443

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Whats the best distro to run as host for security and anonymity?

>>57317477
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html

>>57317477
Any distro that you can't get networking to work.

>>57317477
>security and anonymity
windows
they'll think you're just another sheeple

>>57317492
thanks, I'll use debian then.

>>57317415
No, you can run gentoo with the freeBSD kernel, and without all the GNU utils except gcc.

>>57317487
>>57317487
Thanks.
Anyone of those I can play vidya with?
(I will be browsing with Whonix in a vm)

I'm thinking of either Trisquel or Parabola.

Is Blag any good?

>>57317544
You can install whatever you want but it doesn't change what Gentoo is in it's default state.

>>57317544
>This page is a joke, it should not be taken seriously.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FreeBSD_kernel_integration

>>57317557
blag is nice but they seem to be down a lot. the links to the ISO's has been dead for two months now.

>>57317565
Gentoo doesn't really have a default state. It's like a meta-distribution.

>>57317557
Try Trisquel, it's works out of the box.

>>57317570
>fedora page is related to gentoo
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_FreeBSD
No mention of jokes here.

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>>57317570
>http://fedoraproject.org

>>57317627
I think the austim from the last thread spread. I read freeBSD twice and thought the first one said fedora

>>57317640
kek

>>57315924
I cannot fully use Linux because libre office cannot grammar,or spellcheck.Why does libre office hate me?

Stupid question of the day:
What is the proper term to use in bash scripting, do I "declare" a variable or "define" a variable?

>>57317682
i use "define" or "set"

>>57317672
install hunspell-* for spell check
substitute * for the language code you desire

Why does every single weechat config I try to copy has broken colors? Do I need to define something in my xresources?

>>57317682

help declare

>>57317951
lol

>>57317986
Does that mean "laugh out loud"?

>>57317951
I'm using Arch, btw.

>>57317994
Why are you using Arch? I'm using ubuntu/debian myself. Should I be using arch too?

>>57318014
>ubuntu/debian
Ubuntu or Debian?

>>57318029
A combined version of them, it said Ubuntu/Debian. I guess it has the ease of use of Ubuntu and the stability and security of Debian.

How is openSUSE for security, stability? Is it better than Manjaro?

>>57318158
One is a made by a multinational open-source software company and the other by some hobbyists in their free time. Which do you think is more secure and stable?

Stock Thinkpad T500.... not exactly an uncommon or weird laptop.

Ubuntu/Kubuntu 16.10 - Installer glitches and never installs bootloader.
Debian - Installs but is incredibly glitchy. Can't dd without DE crashing.
CentOS 7 - Doesn't boot after dd to usb drive.
KDE Neon - Crashes on first boot after install.
Gentoo - could have fucking had all my shit compiled by now.

What the fuck am I supposed to use? How is every distro this bad?

>>57318158

openSUSE is just as shit as it 10, 12 years ago.

>>57318287
>glitches
>crashes
any more non informative buzzwords?

>>57318254
Probably best to get openSUSE and use LUKS-dmcrpyt, dnscrypt, openPGP, and browse through Whonix or Firefox w/ https, Adblock, and Decentralize, for best mixture of security and stability?

Should I be worried about the number of packages? It's sitting at 2655 right now.

>>57318427
Yeah... You could crash your distro

>>57317993
>Look OnLine
its new lingo

>>57318449
What do I do about it? I have Synaptic as my PM

>>57318465
Try to keep it under 3000~3200 or there will be no surviving packages

>>57318310
he hasn't used any of them, so he has to use generic words and others' experiences

>>57318475
Anyway to lower it?

>>57316142
Is she wearing a belt as a tie?

>>57318485
Yeah. use sudo apt-get -prevent-crash when you get to 2900 and you should be fine

>>57317309
I thought Icecat was deprecated

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>Packages: 1658
>run update
>Packages: 1659

>>57318540
HahAAA

>>57318540
"kek" as they say on this forum

How do I set it up so that ctrl+alt+t brings up Terminology instead of the shitty GNOME terminal?

>>57318620
What's your DE?

>>57318620
hack into your DE and type in

sudo ns4toolkit -crack --hack --set-terminal gnome-terminal

into the mainframe

>>57318640
Unity 7.4

>>57318620
Edit keyboard shortcut settings

>>57318646
this >>57318643 , but add in -unity after -crack

>>57318663
Sorry, what would the command be for that?

terminology &

?

>>57318679
Go to your Settings Manager and look for keyboard shortcuts. Idk what it's called in Unity

>>57318643
nice meme

>>57318679

nvm figured it out

>>57318694
In what way is that post a meme?

Is there a way to change Right Click -> Open Terminal to your custom emulator?

What is the best Linux meme?

>>57318937
This thread.

>>57317672
or just use ms office through wine, it works

>>57318956
Nonfree pig disgusting.

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Halp pls.

Why doesn't openSUSE have a 32bit version

What am I missing?

>>57319019
D E P R E C I A T E D

>>57319034
tech illiterate spotted

>>57319057
32 bit is only used is embedded devices now a days. OpenSUSE is ment for server/desktop use, if your server or desktop still has a 32 bit processor, its probably not powerful enough to run OpenSUSE comfortably. Your the tech illiterate spotted, you homosexual nigger-lover.

>>57319101
*You're the tech illiterate

found a way to reboot faster

reboot &

the & puts reboot into the background, so you can stay online while your computer is rebooting

>>57319101
>Your the tech illiterate
>Your
kek

>>57319116
Nice, it works!

what's the best linux for gaming?

>>57319153
I corrected it, I'm typing on a memebrane so I keep making typos.
>>57319112

>>57319184
4.8

>>57317672
Alternatively, you could just learn proper spelling and grammar.

>>57319184
NT

so I read about infinality but how do I install it? I'm using arch

>>57319116
if your system still uses sysinit, setting it to 6 will allow you to never worry with rebooting again

>no sound
>dont feel like figuring out how to setup alsa this late
>install pulseaudio, do no configuration of anything, just install it
>sound
am I making a mistake?

>>57320120
Yeah... How should I put it... Basically I've hacked into pulseaudio and installed various bugs all over the place! I've heard you masterbate!

>>57319621
open your www browsing software ---> google.* (substitute * for your shitty country's domain) / your search engine of choice (i thought you're a google user judging by your style of speaking) ----> enter arch infinality into the search bar ---> open the arch wiki page about infinality ---> read it ----> install it ---> enjoy!

why did you leave me alone in this thread?
T_T

Are we being raided?

>>57318513
Poor man's necktie.

>>57321032
im pretty sure that's a girl

>>57316539
Arch

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Checked Zed Shaw's C book and he writes installing a C development environment on Linux is harder than installing XCode on OSX.

mrw

>>57321282
Must be a shit book

>>57321282
kek'd pretty hard
also definitely this >>57321305

>>57321282
oh and good image i'll be using it in the future, thanks

>>57317502
>proprietary intel drivers
>triggered

>>57318287
Supply more info next time. Also had a similar thing on my PC. Turned out it was a hardware issue.

>>57320120
Just use Alsa.

>>57321387
Could you elaborate? I'm using pulse + alsa like him

Hello /fglt/. Yesterday I switched to Linux Mint KDE and I wanted to have different wallpapers for my four different workspaces. I searched some documentation on that but everything seems outdated (sometimes 6-8 years late). I know there was an option to keep activities separated from each workspace (in Plasma 4.4), does anybody where this option is in Plasma 5.7? Thanks.

>>57316227

>--accept-hack
That has a performance hit. Pipe xkeyscore directly to screenfetch.

sudo xkeyscore --hack --hack-type=multi-keyboard-hacking --ascii -t stdout | screenfetch --accept-hack-type=stdin -p [path to your image]

はっ――――ん、やめ、兄さん、そんな、やめ――――んはァ……!
ン―――――あ、はあ、あ―――ン
ふわぁ―――に、い、さん―――わた、し―――
ふあぁあう……………っ!!!!

>>57321779
what did he mean by this?

Is anyone else using "old" CPUs here? How is your experience?
I have an AMD Athlon64 X2 5600 and it's becoming seriously annoying to browse the "modern" internet with it.
Does anyone have an even older computer/CPU that they're using as your main rig?

>>57316290
How the hell do you not know how to install an application that's in the aur if you use arch.

>>57316360
Gentoo

>>57322354
it's in the main repo

Should I use an editor such as emacs for my beginner C coding to get the hang of it, or would I be shooting myself in the foot?

>>57322364

No, see, he installed Arch from an infographic and everything he knows about it is from g. You install everything from the AUR. Linux kernel? Search the AUR. Coreutils? Get the ones from AUR. How do you install things from the AUR? You add a 3rd party repository and then get Yaourt from that and then just disregard your distribution's package manager and use a shitty abstraction.

>>57322620

You should spend a few more weeks asking pointless, bikeshedding-like questions instead of just programming. That way when you start, you can have the "best" in everything.

>>57322620
I used nano when i was noob.

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I'm heard about canonical live patching on Ubuntu and wanted to see whats it all about.
the hell is that snap and why doesn't it just werk?

>>57322620
geany

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>>57322909
fucking broken shit
had to remove snap and snapd
autoclean
install snapd
now snap is working fine.

sudo snap install canonical-livepatch
cannot install "canonical-livepatch": snap not found
fuck you

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I'm trying to connect pic related to my raspberry pi (Running Raspbian) for some sweet 5.1 tunes.

Is this possible? I cannot connect the 4 3.5mm jack cables to my Pi, And connecting 1 only enables 2 speakers.

Using a red/white tulip cable to 3.5mm also doesnt work with all speakers.

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I had been using Arch for a bit, but wanted to try out Debian.
So I tried a couple of different install methods on a different SSD on my X220. Sadly, it doesn't work as well as Arch for me.

Jessie, the stable branch, works nice and well. But it lacks easy power management and basically everything is outdated. Arch is currently on 4.8.4 and GNOME 3.22, Jessie is I believe on 3.16 and GNOME 3.14. I can respect that, as I would just like to install an OS and not have to worry about updates, or even have many updates per system start. I mostly use my laptop on the go, and do not really care much for a lot of updates when I go somewhere. It does mean you can't have "powertop --auto-tune" as a working systemd service because of outdated packages, and tlp is only available through backporting. I don't think there's an intel_pstate driver either.

So let's try testing/stretch. Using a netinstall and selecting the standard GNOME stuff in tasksel during install. Now I have a start job for NetworkManager waiting for 1 min and 30 seconds on every start up, and even after that it takes ages to load up. Quite the difference from Arch.

So a testing netinstall, and deselecting every single thing in tasksel. You boot up in a trusty shell after installation. You log in, su, "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get install gnome-shell nautilus gnome-terminal epiphany-browser". In other words: the absolute minimum to get it running and having a basic browser. Same networkmanager startup job, and still a slow slow boot.

I'm wondering if there's a way to resolve these issues, if I should really stick to Stable when going Debian, and if it's not just easier to use Arch since I never have any issues there.

Opinions?

>>57323174
Install sid if you want rolling release.
Install stable if you want stable.
Really, what the hell is wrong with you?
if networkmanager is slow for you fix it or use something else.
Stop blaming distros for your problems, learn to fix them instead.
Also if you want a fast boot process why the hell do you use a display manager?

>>57323272
What's the point of fixing bugs on unstable or testing if it's more buggy, yet more outdated than Arch?

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>>57323171
what you need is a 5.1 channel usb soundcard

>>57323303
Sid is about as up to date and stable as arch.
Never needed to fix a bug even if it was my intention when installing sid a year ago.
You having problems with the alpha of the installer/stretch installer and network manager is not related to debian as a whole.

Is this the right way to grab an image from a video using ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i input-video -ss 00:00:00.35 -vframes 1 output-image.png

>>57323162
halp

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What theme is this

>>57323842

Arc GTK themes.

>>57323402
All right. I hope Debian Stretch will become as stable as Jessie is right now. Or perhaps there will come some paid-for Fedora version which includes codecs, and drivers by default, with long term support. Like Red Hat workstation, come to think of it, but with codecs and drivers out of the box.

>>57323842
>>57323864
You can also enable the shell theme to make it look even more integrated.

>>57323747
while it won't matter much with such a small seek, putting -ss before -i is faster, and just as accurate (unless you're using an old version of ffmpeg)

otherwise, yes

>>57323953
thanks, Don't use ffmpeg much and that line I had saved a long time ago.

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What can I do with bashrc

I went from Windows to Gnome --- a brilliant decision. I love it. I remain a new.

So far, I've put some quotations in that run as I start the shell. Post some cool suggestions please.

Working w/ this stuff is one of the most rewarding things I've done in a while.

>>57324065
a long time ago that was the more accurate method

basically, the difference is this;
-ss before: seeks to the nearest earlier i-frame, then decodes each frame after until the time you specify (used to be that it only seeked to the i-frame and no further)
-ss after: decodes every frame from the beginning of the file up to the time you specify

>>57324072
Classic fortune:

fortune

Teach a random program:

rndwhatis() {
    :() {
        whatis $(shuf -n 1 -e /bin/* /usr/bin/* /usr/local/bin/* \
                | sed 's/.*\///' \
            ) 2>/dev/null \
            || :
    }; :
}; rndwhatis

Random insult:

curl -s randominsults.net | sed -n '/<strong>/{s;^.*<i>\(.*\)</i>.*$;\1;p}'

Random commandlinefu command:

curl -sL commandlinefu.com/commands/random/plaintext | sed '3,4!d'

>>57324072
aliases

>>57324072
Keep it simple for maximum speed.
Don't add random startup trash like this guy >>57324145

>>57324072
Me again. I'm also interested in CRON and using it, mostly to execute scripts that would fetch daily news, etc. Feel free to share good tips or linux resources

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>>57324064

what would a bash script/command to change the theme on gedit to kate look like? i plan on making a cronjob that runs twice a day, and changes the theme to oblivion after 6pm, and back to kate after 6am

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>>57324072
add a spooky skeleton to your .bashrc

>>57323343
Thank you!

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if im on arch and have the option of a deb or an rpm which should i choose?

i know i can technically use both with packagebuild/alien/etc but which should i use if i could choose either

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I cannot get vaapi to work in MPV on Arch. Any clues?

>>57324432
Since gedit is part of gnome you should be able to set it using gsettings.

>>57324562
Apparently MPV/VAAPI/Wayland/whatever conflicts. So for hardware acceleration you need to start GNOME on Xorg.

>>57324504
Neither.
Use AUR, or PKGBuild.

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If I boot from live session, and access data to an already installed GNU/Linux OS.
Will modifying the permissions presets?

some total commander equivalent for unity? tried krusader and it boots for like 10 seconds

why is Arch so fucking shit, nothing works, everything breaks, fuck your memes

>>57324961
>he fell for the arch meme
Your fault. Get a real distro.

>>57324940
Like gnome-commander?

Is there an app that can change the window and taskbar colors to match the theme?

>>57322620
Programming is complicated enough. You don't want to be fiddling with and fumbling over your text editor while simultaneously trying to grok a programming language.

Just use a normal text editor for now and then move on to something fancier like Vim or Emacs later.

>>57325467
In what. Where? On Ubuntu: unity-tweak-tool, on GNOME: gnome-tweak-tool.

>>57325550
on MATE or xfce with ubuntu

Hey /g/, what are some essential software for college students on GNU/Linux?

>Software that can replace Word, OneNote etc.

>apt update && apt upgrade
>upgrade in progress
>computer shutdown
>try to boot
>debian doesn't start

How can I solve this ? I'm going to :
>boot on a ubuntu live CD
>use boot-repair

>boot on live cd
>chroot into my debian partition
>try to fix apt, dpkg and update & upgrade to fix it


can it works ?

>>57325655
Chrome :)
literally no reason for any other software experiences

>>57325655
openoffice/libreoffice, or latex (actually really useful for things like lab reports, graphics ect)

>>57325655
libreoffice is probably your best bet

>>57325655
>Software that can replace Word
LibreOffice, or run Word in a Windows VM
>OneNote
If you don't use Emacs, you may want to consider using it solely for Org-mode, which is an outliner/note-taker/todo manager/scheduler that is unrivaled in its capabilities. See orgmode.org

>>57325660
have no idea what boot repair is but yeah this is pretty much what you gotta do, live cd -> chroot environment -> fix the bootloader/libraries (or whatever you updated) & reboot

>>57324961

works on my machine(tm)

>>57325655
have a look here.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/19230/microsoft-onenote-alternative

I just use emacs, abiword and gnumeric

>>57325563
>>57325550
Can they change the color without me changing it?

>>57325677
If by Chrome, you mean Google's environment:
Google Docs is pretty alright in a pinch, but it's not as full featured as LibreOffice or Word. Also, everything you do on it is going to Google servers, which bothers some people more than others.

>>57325677
Google got a pretty decent solution online, but i need something offline as i'm not always connected to wifi.

>>57325699
I've heard about latex before, will try it out.

>>57325719
>>57325724
WineHQ states that Office 2010 fully works, that might be much better than LibreOffice?

Will check out Emacs tho, sounds like it could be a good replacement for onenote.

TL;DR
Linux alternatives to maple?

In school we use a program called Maple.
It's a maths program that I don't understand the majority of, but what I really like is that I can set variables and functions when doing homework (instead of doing it manually in a text editor).

Now, I've given up on making Maple run nicely in loonix, and am now looking for a native alternative.

What's good?
Matlab? Mathematica?

>>57326022
http://www.sagemath.org/

>>57326022
>Maple
>Mathematica
https://www.maplesoft.com/products/maple/compare/HowMapleComparestoMathematica.pdf
they made a pdf comparing themselves

>>57325769
>>57325563
Try lxappearance.

>Need to use my arch laptop for when I start work
>Install ubuntu
u mad archfags?

>>57326301
I don't understand what you are trying to say. But enjoy your Ubuntu install, I guess?

>>57326301
not mad, but i am a liitle sad; sad that you aren't capable of installing the same programs.
it means arch has failed you; failed to teach you how to wield a linux distribution.

>>57326496
>pacman -Syyyuuuu
>break x
>can't do any work
why run the risk?

>>57326539

You don't do any work. All you're doing is daydreaming about doing so on an anonymous internet forum while pretending that you know what you're talking about to feel smart.
Kill yourself.

>>57326301
Do you suffer from autism?

Planning to upgrade the ssd in my Linux box and need retard proof advice.

Long story short the ubuntu installation resides on the ssd while grub is loaded from an internal SD card I had lying around and the4e is no way around it with his machine.

I know I can just clone the SSD and try to boot but I'm pretty sure grub would be pointed to the wrong drive since the UUID will change right?

Can i just boot via live CD and fix it after cloning and restoring?

>>57322845
Alright chill anon, I was just thinking of getting myself a cheap laptop for my coding classes that I would run Linux on (since windows would be slow as fuck) and emacs was one of the few editors for Linux that I know, mainly because it's always discussed here. I was asking to see if it would be too complex for me as a beginner.

>>57327035
install a boot loader on your ssd
copy the boot folder from your ssd and put it on /boot, edit the bootloader cfg to change uuid to the ssd as well as fstab

>>57315924
Is arch seriously a meme?
Why?

>>57327338
No

>Had windows 10
>Installed Ubuntu
>people say Ubuntu is faster
>run Ubuntu
>It's shit
>It's laggy and slow, windows 10 was much more faster for me.

What went wrong?

>>57327338
Yes.
>>57327352
Go troll someone else memer.

>>57327338
It's developed by some incompetent weeb devs, shit breaks all the time and it's packages are bloated at fuck.

am I the only one seeing skeletons on this subreddit?

>>57327372
you use unity. maybe you also installed it on a worse drive.

>>57327399
>shit breaks all the time
[citation needed]
Link last "breakage" with 5+ bug tracker links

It all comes down to user competency with their system

>>57327338
Yes. Don't fal for the install Gentoo or Arch memes.

How do I paste a URL in file upload dialog on Xubuntu? I know this piece of shit can't list icons, so I have the patched GTK ppa, but don't tell me it can't also do this?

>>57327409
Probably, I guess I'll try to do a fresh install.
Or I might get kubunto or xubuntu.

>>57327338
Yes.

>Community memes don't define the distribution, technical choices by the
>developers do. It's clearly not based on what you say it is, and *never*
>has been. It has always used significantly more disk space and a
>measurable amount of additional memory than Debian and especially Gentoo
>as a consequence of keeping things simple (again, from a development
>perspective).
More here: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2015-July/039443.html

>>57327428
Noted.
>>57327419
>>57327399
From what I've seen a bunch of linux distros tend to break from time to time, so I dont think this is such a major problem?

>>57327479
kubuntu is probably even slower. what kind of hardware do you have and what kind of desktop management do you enjoy?

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>tfw you realize this thread is now pure satire.

>>57327573
instead of frogposting you could try to improve it.

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>>57327615
There is literally nothing wrong with frogposting.

>>57327641
It makes you look like a retard

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>>57327539
Xubuntu it is then.
And I'm not sure, I'm currently using an old laptop.

I've decided on switching to elementary OS.

Ignorant question:

Do I need to install Ubuntu before elementary? Or does the elementary DE come with Ubuntu running underneath it?

Thanks and inb4 kys

>>57327696
i would recommend you to reconsider your choices but you can install elementary by itself.

>>57327757
Thanks. Do you mind elaborating?

>>57315924
tfw installing gentoo

>>57327573

You don't know what satire is. This thread isn't satire. It's obnoxiously retarded things repeated continuously over and over again.

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>>57327793
hope you succeed

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Trying to install butt (broadcast tool) and after half an hour of sorting out fucky packages it finally configures, but when I try to make it I get pic related
please help

I want to backup my GNOME 3 settings so that I don't have to reconfigure everything on the off chance that my system breaks, I feel like reinstalling, or switching distros, etc.

Where are these settings located? Is it all related to gconf? Are gnome-tweak-tool settings in a separate place? I am looking these things up, but I figured I should ask here as well, in case I can't figure it out or if someone else can benefit.

>>57328022

gsettings list-recursively | sort > gsettings.log

>>57327781
elementary is pretty buggy and based on a distro that is based on another.

>>57328022
I have this to reset gnome settings

rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity .cache .dbus .dmrc .mission-control .thumbnails ~/.config/dconf/user ~.compiz*

replace rm -rf with cp

Hello friendly Linux users.

Which command(s) can you use to save the output of the ls -al command to file named lab8-ls.txt ?

>>57328153
ls -al > lab8-ls.txt

>>57328056
I'm sure this works, but I'm not sure if all those folders are necessary or not. How did you figure out which ones were relevant?

>>57328053
That's awesome as a backup of settings, but now how would I use that file to restore my settings? man gsettings isn't very clear about that.

>dual boot windows7/kali linux 2016.2
>nvidia 1060
>drivers installed, machine hangs on boot

wat do, i've been stuck on this for almost a day now and i've done a fresh install twice now just to get the same result each time.

>>57328162
thanks m8. I am actually trying to learn. It's just I'm taking 2 math courses, a connections course, C programming, and Unix. I don't have a lot of time to read sadly. :(

>>57328195
>How did you figure out which ones were relevant?
I just copy pasted from a gnome forum after I fucked up my gnome. I think it's mostly deprecated

What's the right way to update Firefox ESR on Debian stable? Should it update from repos or should I go to the thing that says update inside the browser? I'm concerned that updating from the browser might replace the ERS with the latest normal or something.

>>57328583
updating thru the browser will keep ERS

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>>57327477
Bump. There is surprisingly next to no info on this.

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>>57328756

>>57328756

I always post about that one and Lincucks always say that no OS can do it, but in Windows it works just fine and you can even drag and drop from another tab to the upload button. I have tried six distros and neither has been able to do that, as far as I'm concerned for some reason Linux just doesn't support it.

What is the way to string 2 lines of text using only echo? I tried echo "text1" > "text2" > filename.txt?

>>57328789
i've never heard of such a feature before

either way, it's not like it'd save bandwidth or anything, you still need to download the image one way or another in order to upload it
so just save it in /tmp, and open it from there

>>57328801
echo -e "text1 \n text2" > filename.txt

does that work?

>>57328823

>using Linux
>his user has privileges over /tmp/

Enjoy your malware fag.

>>57328801
>>57328864

Nobody should ever use echo. Please forget that it even exists, use printf.

>>57328801
Why are you asking this thread about all your basic homework questions? Don't you have a book or something?

Anyway, I don't know how to "string 2 lines of text using only echo", but I think this would have the same effect using two commands:

echo "text 1" > filename.txt
echo "text 2" >> filename.txt

>> will append output to a file.

>>57328921
>2016
>using depleted fortran commands

how to install with pacman
"pacman install firefox" doesn't do anything.

>>57328864
It works but shows a space on my second line of gedit.

>>57328784
Is this KDE? I would sooner use Windows 10 or GNOME than KDE.
>>57328789
Apparently KDE can, but not sure if Firefox even supports it.
>>57328823
>it's not like it'd save bandwidth or anything
The point is you find the file > copy URL > paste and upload without having to save to folder > dialog > upload > dialog with no icon view > delete if not in /tmp.
>>57328866
/tmp is read/write on nearly all distro for all users. You would need to run applications as root for them to use /tmp otherwise.

>>57328973
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/echo+printf/
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/commands/builtin/printf
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/commands/builtin/echo

>>57328784
no, just firefox with 4chanX with dwm.

>>57329049
echo is four letters
printf is six letters

therefor I will continue to use echo because it fits with the POSIX and Unix philosophy.

>>57329090
retard

>>57329119
enjoy wasting time typing two extra letters <:^)

>>57328949
Derp. Thanks. It actually specifies using two commands. We are just learning bash.

The person who attempted to do it on one line, hell of an attempt. I don't think the Chapter gets into that.

>>57329133
>how to alias

>>57329153
google is faggot

>>57329148
printf 'line1\nline2\nline3\n' > file

>>57329133
enjoy your broken scripts
btw, try to echo "-n". :^)

>>57329009
think that's just how it's meant to work. If you add another line like
echo -e "text1 \n text2 \n text3" > filename.txt

the text3 won't have the space before.

>>57329256
Oh neat, never ran into this issue. What would be the alt then.

I tried
text="- n"
echo "${text// /}"

>>57329487
printf -- '-n\n'

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any idea on fix folks?

>>57329523
use pacman -Qo /path/to/file to check if the files are owned by any package. If no packages owns these files its probably save to remove them and continue the upgrade, but keep them as a backup just to be save.

>>57329523
Force the upgrade.
pacman -Sy --force ttf-dejavu

>>57329523
pacman -Rdd ttf-dejavu
pacman -S ttf-dejavu

>>57329562
yeah tried to remove but then wont due to gnome standard themes. and then to cinnamon and so on and so on..

>>57329588
thanks man. that worked !! :)

>>57329599
thanks for help all

>>57329607
ps. don't use --force unless recommended to or you know it's safe to do so
it's not the default for a reason

know if i can use a crystal hd without blobs?

new thread when

>>57315924
All of you are jelly of my thinkpad X60

>>57329649
I wonder if it's werks with newer kernels.

new thread: >>57329708

>>57329523
Uninstall arch, even debian is better than that shit.

>>57316360
Manjaro-i3