/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Which browser should I use?

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>>57390829
stop posting

>>57390829
dumb tripcode poster

Is Ubuntu Minimal a viable alternative to Arch?

What's a lightweight distro with relatively up to date but not bleeding edge packages? Should I just go with Debian testing?

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>>57390881
There is no alternative to Arch if you want to be a real hacker.

>>57390881
Debian Sid.

Why is firefox simply so much faster in Debian?

So i installed i3wm on my laptop.
I have usb keyboard and this is my problem:
I use cyrillic and latinic letters, on my laptop keyboard is working everything but on my usb keyboard is working only cyrillic layout and i cant use ctrl+shift

>>57390978
install gentoo

Is there a distro that's basically a copy of windows?

Is Fedora better than Debian?

>learning python
>start writing a folder cleaner/sorter/whatever
>100 lines of code in I remember that I can do everything I've written in cli

wew might as well keep going desu

>>57391021
No. They doesn't have the same purpose so you can't really compare and say one is better

>>57391021
no

>>57390829
chrome if you want convenience
icecat if you're paranoid and don't care about using shit software

>>57391019
Mint
UI close to windows, easy to use, retarded decisions by the devs, suspicious security for the stability of their DE

>>57391021
Fedora has a bit more polish out of the box and is more up to date than Debian stable. Beyond that, there isn't any other benefit I can think of.

>>57391069
Which is best for someone with severe autism that pretends to have questions?

I guess this thread is officially dead now.
Thanks to all 12 year old meme kings who destroyed it. ;_;

>>57390889
debian testing,
fedoras xfce spin is comfy

>>57391103
There's always /tech/.

>>57391113
I will probably go with Debian testing because it's not bloated, thanks

>>57391145
Don't use testing. Unstable is for the average users. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-choosing.en.html

>>57391155
Might as well use Arch at that point

>>57391175
Not really, Arch has direct upstream, unstable gets some patches in case something upstream breaks. You have apt-listbugs to see if something breaks or not (nearly never) and it's more lightweight.

>>57391019
isnt there one called like clorox/chalet os or some shit
i think it was just windows 10 but chinese linux botnet

>>57391193
actually its more like this

arch:
upstream > home
patches > home

sid: upstream > patches > home

also an arch user should be able to maintain his system himself, no hand holding here

>>57391233
>t. l33t haxX0r

>>57390842
is this a man?

>>57391233
>no hand holding here
arch's packagemanagers are like college students

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>>57391145

>>57391233
Is Arch using bash 4.4?

>>57391302
Why don't you just write your own OS if even that's too bloated for you?

>>57391333
hes not capable of that

>>57391319
arch is using zsh linked to perl linked to ruby linked to bash

Is there a libre alternative to youtube? I like listening to music and watching videos, but youtube has a monopoly and I don't know anything that's even compatible to it.

>>57391333
>bloated

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is gecko the new mint?

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>>57391357
Why is zsh on Arch so bloated?

>>57390829
why not さわこが好き?

>>57391664
because he 黒い巨根が大好き

>>57391366
>2016
>people listen to music from youtube
is this 4 real
literally everything sounds shittier on youtube
just torrent shit for a better experience if you're too poor to use any of these streaming+offline access platforms

>>57391588
its amazing how much kde resembles this.
why are there so many DEs when they all look alike and/or contain the same selling features?

>>57391764
because most of them lack any creativity and are just the source of autists going "i was using xyz but now im going to make my own just the way I like it" and it turns out being the exact shit but in white or some fucking inane shit

>>57391764
familiarity. Most peoples first pc experience was 95/98/xp

>>57391764
KDE looks nothing like that.
Free software has the ability for people to make their own version, that is why there are many DEs which follow the same basic design. The basic design is what people are familiar with and for the most part it works. What you do after that and how you implement it in the OS is the difference.

Is there a way to set the default regex type for find-utils without having to pass the -regextype option everytime I run find?
I want to set it to posix-extended.

>>57391601
The way your terminal looks gave me cancer.

>>57391992
alias

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>>57392012

>>57392017
That would give me errors if I want to run find without using regular expressions.
Also, some options come before others in find.

>>57392040
use function

>>57391601
*sees the "anime" your using*
*literally throws up*
uuugh

>>57392182
Hey /g/ wha....
*slips on vomit and cracks skull open*

>>57392212
RIP

>>57391601
I hope you're happy now, 愛してるさわこ, that you've cause one anon to have cancer, another one to puke, and you killed another one.

>>57392273
Sorry I was watching The Vampire Diaries, I don't have time to reply to every person that quotes me.

Elementary OS is good? will be my first linux

>>57392397
Not particularly.

>>57392397
go ubuntu-gnome, or kubuntu
if you really love elementary design then just install pantheon DE

>buy a new laptop to install Linux upon
>ASUS E200HA

That's the last time I buy before looking into whether or not it even has sound capabilities, much less whether or not it can be installed easily.

Should I return the laptop, or is there a distro I can install on it without being a hassle? Trying to install Debian only shows the USB stick I used to boot the installation in the first place, not to mention that the keyboard didn't work (I had to use a USB keyboard instead). Should I go with Ubuntu or some kind of Arch?

>>57391992
Is you use bash you can use readline to type it. In ~/.inputrc put

"\et": " -regextype posix-extended\ "

which with Alt-t will inset the above.

In zsh do something similar with bindkey.

>>57392732
*If you

>>57392624
return it amd buy a last gen laptop or if hdmi audio works join apple's "Unnecessary Peripherals Club"

>https://www.amazon.com/VicTsing-Gold-Plated-Converter-Adapter-Laptop/dp/B016HL49OS/ref=sr_1_26?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1478316672&sr=1-26-spons&keywords=3.5mm+Audio+Jack+to+HDMI+male&psc=1

>>57391261
Keep your social constructs in /pol/

>>57392790
It's mini-HDMI, but I have a USB thing that I assume might work.

But I still didn't even get anything installed on the system. It doesn't help that the WiFi card wasn't detected. This would have been the perfect machine for most if not every beginner Linux user were it not for the fact that it's built like a Communist Frankenstein Computer Gangster God.

>>57392624
Debian stable has no support for modern hardware. I had trouble a year ago when I installed Debian and I had no sound.

Any Ubuntu or Arch should work. Make a live image and test to see if things work.

>>57392866
I'll try Ubuntu, since I found myself up against a giant list of packages for Arch and have no idea where to begin with that.

>>57391588

get numix green so highlighted stuff matches your wallpaper, you think this is a game?

I need someone to do me a favor, please.

Open your nvidia-settings and go to the PowerMizer tab.

Now with firefox or chomium not open yet, open up an instance of either program.

Please report back wether the performance level of your GPU changes. (Provided you're using adaptive mode)

What WM are you using? X or wayland?

I'd appreciate the input.

>>57391601
>>57392333
the blue one is a cuck

Hey guys I want to rename all instances of "folder.jpg" under the subdirectories of a given directory to "cover.jpg".

What's the easiest way to do this?

>>57392866
>>57392913
Well, I tried to boot Ubuntu from USB, but after the GNU Grub screen I get this:

>error: invalid cluster 0.
>unaligned pointer 0x7b9ed068
>Aborted. Press any key to exit.

Should I try a different fork of Ubuntu, or did I do something horribly wrong on my own?

>>57393383
man find, -exec

>>57393383
maybe something like this (untested)


find . -name 'folder.jpg' -exec mv {} cover.jpg \;

anyway, I suggest to test around with echo first like this:


find . -name 'folder.jpg' -exec echo {} cover.jpg \;

>>57390635
I installed Ubuntu on an old PC. It never had wireless capabilities. How do I get it to have wireless internet? The dongles I have only work for Windows.

>>57393433
>>57393471
Thanks anons, got it to work using more or less the second anon's post just with -execdir instead of -exec

>>57393429
Also, I just looked it up, and it would appear that there should be stronger support for the ASUS E200HA with the next Debian release.

I may keep this around for a while, if only to help me get through my classes for the next few months. Then when it's ready, I'll plug Debian into it.

Hey /fgt/s!
What's a good, native remote access program, similar to Teamviewer for Gnu/Linux? I'd use Teamviewer but truth be told it never really worked properly for me under Arch or Manjaro.
If it's LAN optimized, all the better. GUI required.

>>57393707
ssh

>>57393733
Does SSH let me tunnel the X Session, kinda like what Teamviewer does for windows sessions?

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>>57393707
OpenSSH or HPN-SSH
>>57393759
> tunnel the X Session
It seems like you already know what you are talking about

How do I experience/learn redhat without buying a subscription?

>>57393954
CentOS

>>57393916
It's not bait, though. I want something that's as stupidly easy to use and set up as TV, while being open source.
I'll try setting up OpenSSH and see if it is to my liking, though! If you're all recommending that then it sure must be good.

>>57393956
How similar is CentOS to Red Hat? I'm genuinely asking as someone that's never used Red Hat, but has used other distributions.

Is it gimp vs photoshop, or photoshop v7 vs creative suite?

>>57393963
HPN-SSH is faster

>>57393979
CentOS and RHEL are completely identical and RHEL addresses that.

>>57393988
If they're completely identical... why subscribe to rhel? Just really in depth tech support/training?

>>57393988
Duly noted.

>>57393998
RHEL has paid support that CentOS doesn't

>>57394010
Kudos!

>>57393759
ssh -X then you execute the application command from that shell and it renders on your screen

>>57394038
Alright, but say for instance I want to see whats going down on my desktop remotely, as if I were sitting down on my own computer, and control it. How would I go around that?

>>57394038
>>57394102
use -XC

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>>57394116
Thank you kindly, anon, have a complimentary alien subwoofer/buttplug.

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Jesus fucking christ! Goddammit! why!

>>57394448
noice

I'm trying to get i3-gaps on debian-jessie, but I get syntax errors in configure:

PKG_CHECK_MODULES(PANGOCAIRO, cairo >= 1.14.4 pangocairo)

>>57394577
It means that your pangocairo version is too old. Either compile pangocairo too, or get a older version of i3-gaps (the better idea). Check which version of i3 is in your repos and compile the gaps fork of that version.

Alternativly just use bspwm (IMHO better anyway).

Reposting from /sqt/
What program can I install on linux that works works like dead pixel tester where you can fill the monitor with different colors? I tried screentest and that doesn't have that function.

Does sxhkd have a debug mode or something where I can see what's going on when I'm pressing shit?

>>57394874
You could do that with imagemagick.

Is DebianEdu the best educational Linux?

I have a server standing around with
>2x intel xeon X5450 Quad-Core @3.0 GHz
>32GB DDR2 RAM
>1,4TB HDD

I want to use it for virtualisation of windows- and linux- machines in KVM
CentOS, Debian or anything else?

If I'm using CentOS, are the RedHat-Documentations interchangeable with centos? Should i just select virtualisation host at the start? or a minimal installation and then yum the packages?

>>57395010
Just ad a notify-send 'hi there from hotkey alt+f4' 'its working!'

>>57395176
Linux is a kernel developed by Linus Torvalds.

>>57395303
One Stallman shekel has been deposited into your account

in systemd how can i boot in run level3, as in "i fucked up lets boot in to command line"?

>>57395473
can they be use to buy proprietary software?

>>57395491
disable your login manager.

>>57395491

>apparently such a power user to need that function
>doesn't know how to search the internet for an answer
>asks a simple question for at least the past day on here, hoping to get an answer

Add "systemd.unit=your target" to your kernel line in your bootloader. I'm sure you're smart enough to find the right target which corresponds run level 3 of sysv.
I seriously hope you never require how to list a directory's content with extended info, such as owners. Because that would require you days to figure out and wait for an answer.

Would running unauthorized copies of native Linux games be a bad idea?
I noticed that there's a game I'd like to try available (found it on torrent trackers), but I'm worried that it might contain malicious stuff (apart from the game itself). Is this a reasonable fear? Would using Firejail or something similar help? I'm currently using Firejail, at least to calm me in a placebo way.

I'm so gay for Manjaro.

best linux mint like distro?

>>57396174
Linus Minty

>>57396084
If you're talking about the gog linux versions, it's reasonably safe esp. if it's from a trusted uploader. If you're paranoid, you could always compare the md5sums from their wiki.

>>57396238
>If you're paranoid
He wouldn't be using NSA software if that were the case. It's literally him trying to be so "security conscious" to impress everyone here.

Okay /g/ I want to start using Linux. Like actually using it on a daily basis. Here are my requirements, which distro should I choose?

- Rolling release
- Good multi monitor support, I need to be able to clone monitors 1&2 then extend to monitor 3
- Visually appealing, I don't want an interface that looks like it's stuck in the 1990's
- Easier way to install software, I'm okay with doing terminal commands but I don't want to be doing it every time I need to install every little program.

>>57396259
Gentoo.
Gentoo.
Linux doesn't come with an "interface"
Gentoo, without that last part though.

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What do you use as weather widget ?
I use the weather widget that comes with XFCE goodies, but the data is extremely inaccurate

>>57390842
Whew, she is damn hot.

How can i compile packages using apt-get with cfags?

>>57396326
i use an anime widget i've written myself using the power of C/Haskell

best version of linux if I don't want to use the use the terminal that much and looks good?

>>57396326

Just to this once you need the weather.

curl -s wttr.in/your_mom | head -n 7

>>57396398

4.8.

>>57396415
>>57396398
distro lol

>>57396247

Actually I was worried of the likelihood of those re-packers adding in malicious stuff and becoming part of an actual botnet or similar.
Nice assumptions though or maybe even projecting.

>>57396408
I use this with w3m. Fuck curl.

>>57396398
*buntu, Mint, Lite. You can setup policykit to install updates automatically (except if it causes package remove).
The best gui package manager is synaptic, but there are a bunch of alternatives, most of them slow af.

>>57396442
>projecting
Nice meaningless word there. Are you sure you aren't just projecting?

>>57396423

Why do you think there is a distribution for every little use case? Do you think it goes like this?

>don't want to use the terminal that much and looks good
Distribution XXYX
>don't want to use the terminal much and looks good
Distribution XXYY

Hint: it doesn't. There are few defining features for distributions and only a handful distributions to consider.

>>57396444

>polkit to install updates automatically
Polkit has no part whatsoever in software updates, especially not in automation of updates.

>>57396475

Are you the same person who claimed that "pretentious" is also a meaningless word, upon being presented with a widely accepted definition from an established dictionary?

>>57396503
cat /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla

>>57396503
Not that guy, but I wouldn't be surprised by that. If you spend at least a reasonable amount of time on the internet you should know that these words don't mean anything. They have no descriptive power whatsoever and a dictionary isn't going to change the misuse of these words by other people.

Give me some i3wm tip anons

>>57396574
Remove it.

>>57396574
Install it.

>>57396537

I'm not on Ubuntu and I don't have that file. Either way, I don't see what polkit, which does authorization and privilege control, has to do with updating packages automatically. Your package manager updates packages. A cron job or systemd timer might handle the automation.

>>57396574
replace it with dwm, xmonad or bspwm. :^)

>>57396604
>I'm not on Ubuntu and I don't have that file

nuff said

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>>57396584
why anon, i just installed it
>pic
>>57396589
done
>>57396612
why

>>57396545

>Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

Don't make me explain how that can apply to his comment from here >>57396247:
>trying to be so "security conscious" to impress everyone here

If he still claims that it's a meaningless word, then he's in denial or a legitimate idiot. Just because you disagree with something, doesn't mean it's meaningless.

>>57396628

Teach me how to use polkit to update my software. I want to get rid of this useless thing that is my package manager.

>>57396655
I don't have enough patience for spoonfeed you what polkit do on ubuntu. Search it and buzz off.

>>57396612
>xmonad
>xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell
>Haskell

>>57396673

You don't understand. You made the claim, you have to prove it.
I don't see how polkit can be something drastically different on one distribution, compared to others.

I'm thinking about making some sort of auto mailer for reminders and so on in the same fashion that the system does it ("You have new mail" in /var/spool, etc).

However writing there requires root permission and so on, so I was thinking of replicating it.

Does it make sense for setting reminders and organising myself or am I taking my autism too far?

Anyone here using linux with an AMD GCN card? I'm interested in any issues with the amdgpu/amdgpu-pro drivers.

>>57396677
it's still easier to configure than awesome

I'm thinking about making some sort of auto mailer for reminders and so on in the same fashion that the system does it ("You have new mail" in /var/spool, etc).

However writing there requires root permission and so on, so I was thinking of replicating it.

Does it make sense for setting reminders and organising myself or am I taking my autism too far?

>>57390881
depends if you want a minimal install or rolling distro. If rolling - opensuse tumbleweed, debian sid, gentoo
If a minimal install you can also use debian, gentoo, or ubuntu minimal but you have to keep in mind that most of ubuntu packages come preconfigured (some people would say bloated).

Why fglt is a piece of shit?

Why does this network manager need a minute and a half on startup?
What does it do? Do I need it?

>>57391021
Fedora has new packages, a pretty well preconfigured gnome desktop and uses different system tools. Other than that Debian stable has much more officially (and security) supported packages, also better software availability through repositories. But the software is old yeah.

I would say that for a windows-purpose (media, web browsing, productivity, gaming) desktop usage Ubuntu is better than both.
But for developing i would choose Fedora though personally.

>>57390889
Debian testing is ok, but you may experience lack of packages compared to sid (or even stable). (Debian unstable). For example no Krita.

>>57391687
people use youtube because they think its not "piracy" when someone puts a pitched up/down "full album" video they can listen without downloading.
I mean they can at least say that they don't upload torrents but its the most poorfag thing anyone can do

How do I get the font rendering to work!? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>57397105
Have freetype2 installed and create a fonts.conf that you like. It's not exactly rocket science. If you are too lazy just use the one on the debian wiki page about font rendering.

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How do i fix this anons, vim letters are somehow blurry and i have part of syntax selected

>>57395638
believe me i did some reasearch but couldn't make it work. Thank you.

I accidentally deleted a single file, what program can I use to recover it and nothing else?

>>57397577
testdisk, i used it to recover videos from phone

Is it possible to use find -exec when the file is NOT found instead of when it is?

>>57396999

1.098s NetworkManager.service

Takes exactly that long for me and the majority of people. It manages networks and related settings.
I suggest you look at its logs and maybe the output of systemd-analyze to see if something else is blocking it or what's exactly causing the timeout (1 minute and 30 seconds is the default timeout).

>>57393558
get a proper PCI wireless card. Or use non-shit USB wireless dongles.

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>>57396796
bump?

>>57397664

Took me 3 seconds to find an answer on the internet. Suggested keywords: linux find not. Hint: literally the first result on startpage.com.

So how successful is running a Windows VM for games in GNU? Can they generally pass DirectX/OpenGL calls, and things like that?

Should I use SELinux with the hardened profile? And can I turn it on later down the line if I decide I need it without breaking anything?

>>57391681
chuckled

>>57390635
What's the overall best 8-core processor?

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just came to say that you're all worse than african-americans for making me do this myself rather than spoonfeeding me

finally got jagged alliance to run in a window on linux. i had tried different compatibility settings, even using winecfg, but setting wine to run in a virtual desktop of 1024x768 via winetricks, not winecfg, was what finally worked

i know screen res is currently 1366x768 but i have my thinkpad plugged into 1080p ips monitor when i'm at my desk

10/10 would use wine again, i'm okay with everything else running in this window too as now i can switch between different things as i used to on windows

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>>57398327
feels good, the only thing I miss from windows now is fb2k and ms paint

>>57398309
NT 8

>>57398327
Does it not make your eyes bleed? why are you using unity? there are other spins of ubuntu with muuuch better DEs my mate :)

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>>57398648
it actually doesn't bother me. i initially tried linux in 2013 with fedora, back when yum was used rather than dny or whatever is current. i tried out manjaro, and crunchbang too. i didn't really understand it, and i was doing it with a shitty toshiba satellite. i didn't touch it again after basic functions wouldn't work, like the laptop wouldn't go into sleep mode, was really laggy, etc

fast forward to a few months ago, i build my first desktop and get my first thinkpad (t430). i put lubuntu on my thinkpad, and it didn't just work. the cursor would disappear after i returned from suspend, sleep wouldn't work, and it get bad screen tearing. even after i reinstalled xfce power manager, and installed drivers from a ppa. i decided to install stock 16.04, and it actually worked. i was amazed to discover that suspend/sleep works on a laptop with linux.

as for the desktop, i went with radeon because i cheaped out. little did i know that there are conflicts with X and amd drivers now, so when i found out i installed fedora. didn't really like it - it wasn't easy babby shit. then i tried out debian, and got pissed when i realized i had to manually install wifi firmware, and edit xconf when i didn't even know what the fuck those settings meant.

so then i just decided to install ubuntu, the only conflicts i've had are the wifi occassionally stops working and i have to restart the network manager, and secondly, its actually too handholding and i end up using the terminal and package manager often. not that its a bad thing though, its what has actually taught me things, versus just point and click like windows.

tldr, i am too newb for other distros, but am slowly learning

>>57398801
but i'm not talking about fedora or other shit my mate
i'm taking about ubuntu but with different DEs, you could install them even on your current installation by the way. but there are already versions of ubuntu preconfigured to work with much better DEs than the current "DE" you are rocking. try out ubuntu gnome or something i think you might like it if you don't despise unity just upon seeing it

>>57398913
>you could install them even on your current installation by the way

didn't even know, thanks for that

>>57398964
not sure if serious or memeing, but yeah, you could try different shit out. it should do everything you need automatically, just pick a different de in the log in menu after installing it

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Which is the nicest schema for kate?

>mfw when it's available for windows and I can use it at work.

also bump
>>57397720
>>57396796

How do I switch Debian Stable to Debian Testing or Unstable and upgrade all the packages automatically?

not memeing around, i'm so used to walled gardens that this is all quite new to me

is being able to do what you want on linux why people love arch so much, or is that a meme too

>>57399065
>do what you want on linux
pretty much, i wouldn't say it's "do what you want" if you don't have programming skills but it's a lot closer to that than windows or m*c
>arch
mostly a meme, almost anything you can do on arch you can do on other distros. some distros just make it harder, like ubuntu for example.
try it out and see for yourself

>>57399147

How does Ubuntu make doing certain things harder than Arch?
Why do you spread "memes" yourself while trying to combat "memes"?

>>57399003

You are the first person who wants to do that. Too bad that hundreds of thousand people didn't try to do the same thing as you, because then there would be countless guides how to do so on the internet.

I need to get a new printer.
What's a decent printer to buy with great linux compatibility?

>>57399375
You don't need a printer.

>>57399334
installing systemd. and i didn't say it made things harder than arch, it makes things harder than the better distros out there which don't force you into using systemd

>>57399406
Then how to get things on paper?

>>57399419
I use a pencil

>>57399416
>systemd
LOOK AT THIS MEME LORD!

My google fu is too poor, how do specify what programs bspc rules should deal with?
Like I have firefox installed, I want the bookmark window to be floating.

>>57399473
regardless of what you actually think about it the distro does force you into it. which by definition makes things harder if you don't want systemd. you can't dispute that.

>>57399416

Ubuntu makes installing systemd harder? You literally have not to do anything, it will install itself with the distribution. The same applies to Arch.

arch is literally cancer

it spreads like a virus and provides literally nothing good

proof me wrong (protip you can't)

>>57399518
Nobody can "proof" you wrong, or anyone for that matter, you dimwit.

>>57399514
*shits his pants*
good post!

>>57399504
I figured it out, god bless the arch wiki nerds.

>>57399525
actually i can. i can exploit various loopholes in logic to make any of my statements a priori true
would you like me to declare that arch isn't cancer? know your place

>>57399518
Indeed. It provides less than other distros and what's left is useless package bloat and insane defaults because of obvious incompetence.

But are you surprised? Arch is made by a team of ~10 hobbyist weebs; the result is ofc a meme.

Nobody should recommend Arch to anyone.

war criminal here
AMA (ask me anything)

Yo, can't in to reading.
I'm in Uni studying programming, mostly working with Java and C atm. Which Linux distro should I get. I'm planning on going balls deep.

>>57399591
then why is 99% of /g/ using it?

>>57399626
anything without GNU should be fine.

>>57399626
install gentoo

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proprietary software

>>57399633
Because of recommendations of newfags, who think that Arch is "good for ricing because it's lightweight", which is simply wrong, aka a meme.

You can rice every distro and Arch's package base is actually even more bloated than for example Ubuntu's.

>>57399626
see >>57399651
ps. gentoo is without GNU

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>>57399675
>ps. gentoo is without GNU

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no anime

this gen is the best one on /g/ 2bh

>>57399675
Thanks

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>>57399704
non-free anime

>>57399873
>gets trolled
>says thanks
What has /fglt/ become... ;_;

>>57399889
>Lelelel install gentoo XD

>>57399886
>>57399704
>>57399715
>>57399681
>>57399675
>>57399653
>>57399651
>>57399639

Please stop shitposting.

>>57390635
>Le Artificial Intelligence

EXPOSED
X
P
O
S
E
D

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I want to start making a drm-free library. So far I have simply thought of making aliases for the game executables, like this, so I can autocomplete with tab.

Any ideas?

>>57399994
change your name first that should be way higher on your priority list my mate

>>57400038
Not only that, I also missed the "get". Hahahaha, amirite guys?

>>57399889
>gets recommended one of the best distros
>gets trolled
what did he mean by this?

>>57399994
help complete

>>57400050
>guys
i'm not your fucking "GUY"
>amirite
>>>/r/eddit

>>57400054
What do you mean?

>>57400069
>I come here to meme.
sad life indeed.

>>57400090
help help

>>57400090
>meme
this is the immigration service
.... please proceed to >>>/r/eddit or you will be forcefully deported .... thanks !

Too indecisive to pick a DE for Ubuntu and install.

I tried various and they all have potential but since I'm noob I don't know what extent of tweaking can be done to each.

I guess I kinda want the top combination bar from Unity (that combines the Linux status bar with the top menu bar of program windows so the min/max/close buttons are top left), but with the currently open windows in the unused middle portion like a more traditional taskbar. Then some sort of hidden GNOME like launcher that appears on super or something?

Really don't know.

>>57400119
Linux doesn't have a status bar; it has modules and blobs.

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>:$ whatis apropos
apropos (1) - search the manual page names and descriptions
>:$ #wait, what?
>:$ whatis whatis
whatis (1) - display one-line manual page descriptions
>:$ type -a apropos
apropos is /usr/bin/apropos
>:$ file /usr/bin/apropos
/usr/bin/apropos: symbolic link to whatis

>>57400119
lelelele llee insrtall everything and try it out do you really expect the local "'""""experts"'""""e aka arch users to give good suggestions?

>>57400157
I am sorry, but this is an anime only thread. Delete your post and make a new one with an anime picture instead.

>>57399436
Why not a pen?

>>57400157
man -k apropos

>>57400164
You sound like one yourself. :^)

>>57400195

       -k, --apropos
              Equivalent to apropos.  Search the short  manual  page  descrip‐
              tions  for keywords and display any matches.  See apropos(1) for
              details.

>>57400204
if using arch for about a day makes me one then sure
lmao

>>57400228
>lelelel lmao
Please do tell us more plebbit.

>>57400206
man -k apropos whatis apropos man -k | wc -l

>>57399003
read the debian wiki and use this website if you need to
https://debgen.simplylinux.ch/

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>>57390635
whats with all the shitposting on fglt lately, after about a week or so its gotta get old. I mean the linux community was never great but some people are working really hard to discredit it lately.

>>57400253
>plebbit
what's that? did you just reference your home website aka reddit.com?
sucks to be you i guess lmao

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>>57400195
Now I'm really mad.

>>57400264

$ man -k apropos whatis apropos man -k | apropos whatis apropos | whatis apropos whatis | cowsay -n
 ______________________________________________________________________
/ apropos (1)          - search the manual page names and descriptions \
\ whatis (1)           - display manual page descriptions              /
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

>>57400282
>community
This isn't a community though. take your commie crap back to >>>/l/eddit

>>57400108
I don't get it.

>>57400118
I'm glad to see kids interested in Linux.

>>57400318
yeah... i'm glad to see youngsters such as yourself interested in this great kernel

>>57400282
Some retard find it funny to post things like
>hurr systemd is fine
>hurr arch is shit
>hrrr debian is old shit
And people take the bait because they are stupid.
No really it's just /g/. For some time /flt/ and now /fglt/ were fine but I guess it's time for this thread to die.

>>57400345
>hurr
>>>/r/eddit
>>>/r/trash
>>>/r/4chan

>>57400369
>>>/l/inking-to-other-places-meme
haha

debian is really shit though

>>57400345
But that's all objectively true.
>>57400380
>can't even use proper formatting
>>>/r/4chan
>>>/r/shit

>>57400402
Systemd is fine and Arch is awesome.
>I guess he's mad about posters being inconsistent.

>>57400429
>he's mad about posters not having a collective consciousnesses
As stated in post >>57400316 take your commie bullshit out of this thread.

>>57400345
Systemd is fine, at least you should be fine with it if you've been tolerating any of the following for the past decade or so, because you're a hypocrite otherwise

>udev
>polkit
>consolekit
>pulseaudio
>gvfs
>qt shit
>GNU coreutils, GNU bash, GNU emacs
>the linux kernel
>firefox
>chrome

>>57400414
>>>/triggered/
Haha

>>57400446
Take your random spazouts to a psychiatrist.

>>57396933
>If rolling - opensuse tumbleweed, debian sid, gentoo
Why do people never mention Void when bringing up rolling release?

>>57400316
>not a community
group holding similar interests then whatever the fuck you call it, still though, at least some people could find some answers, this seems like a big step down from the normal "my distro is better" shit.
>commie crap
sure

>>57400458
thx for proving my point.
Just naming systemd derail a thread because some retards have read an article about it are now expert on what's an init system and why systemd is good or bad.

I never said I like or not systemd I never gave my opinion and no one cares about your opinion because that will just end on an endless shitposting that we read almost every day in this board.

>>57400484
hobby distro made by literally who

>>57400490
>>>/r/meme
>>>/r/feelthebern
>>57400475
Do you know one? I feel like I really need some help right about now

>>57400195
>>57400206
>>57400264
>>57400311
but apropos is a symbolic link to whatis.
man man pretends they're different things.

>>57400494
What would you rather do, spoonfeed retards?

>>57400505
So was Arch at some point

>>57400552
>was
>at some point
use English correctly

>>57390842
Who is this lovely lady?

>>57400336
It's a great kernel indeed... and the GNU Coreutils are great as well!

But back to the drm-free library, any input on that?
>>57399994

>>57400458
>udev
meh
>polkit, consolekit, pulseaudio, gvfs
all pretty shit actually
>qt
actually not terrible, but i have my quibs
>GNU ect. ect., linux kernel
well this is just shitposting
>firefox
best of all evils unfortunately
>chrome
nope
>systemd is find
it really really isn't but big moneys gunna push it through regardless.

>>57400563
Says the spewing retard who's unable to even write a grammatically correct sentence.

>>57400575
But I don't use them so I wouldn't know. I heard they aren't all that good but they might be fine for a kid your age since you're still inexperienced

>>57400157
>>57400157
$ whatis ls | wc -l
$ apropos ls | wc -l

>>57400630
You sure showed me.

t. 25yo aero engineer.

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>>57400669

man ls | grep Stallman
       Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.

>>57400704
god i wanna make a few dents in that face
what are soem good meds to stop this? i feel like i'm almost going to fucking punch my screen

>>57400704
is mister understallman gay?

>>57400795
cyanide worked marvels in my husband.

>>57400704
sorry mate i had to hide your post
i cajn't fucking look at this and still keep my sanity

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>>57396259
1. If you like apt, then Debian Sid. If you like pacman & AUR, then Arch
2. Idk, you should research which DE does that best
3. Idk, you should research which DE looks best to you and fits the #2 criteria.
4. For Debian, see Synaptic. For Arch, see Octopi. Both are graphical package manager frontends.

Seriously, there are only like ~5 worthwhile DEs to look into. Just get some live CDs of whatever distro and see which fits your taste most.

>>57400533
stop taking the bait and leave the posts without replies like any sane person would do.

>>57396259
>- Good multi monitor support, I need to be able to clone monitors 1&2 then extend to monitor 3
Xfce can do this drag-and-drop out of the box.

What's the difference between

cmd | cmd

and

cmd &> | cmd

?

I have a server that needs to perform two tasks: git and handling media (torrents etc.). I have fail2ban set up and disabled root login. I thought about changing the default port, but I read that it's security through obscurity. To further improve the security I want to create three accounts: maintenance, git and media. The first two have

PasswordAuthentication no

set on them. The media one requires password authentication because fucking VLC Android doesn't give me the public key.
Does that sound feasible, or should I just dump everything into a single account?

Does the Gentoo Hardened profile increase average compile time?

>>57401063

>but I read that it's security through obscurity
Can't you think for yourself? I can't believe that some people are that stupid and just stop at the first thing they're told.

>>57401048
the first is correct the second is wrong

>>57401163
Thanks for your constructive feedback.
If the NSA is that zealous on getting into my machine, they simply try each port from the result of a port scan.

why is my arch kernel full of modules I don't need? how to turn them off (also I though arch is lightweigh?!)

>>57401287
its lightweight for the developers not the user! XD

>>57401224

Along with the other measures, there is absolutely no reason not to change the default port. It won't stop anything, but at least it will scale down the number of attempts. Name one thing you lose by changing it?

>>57401414
Other than having to specify the port upon connecting, nothing really. I'll change it to somewhere in the 40k range just to be safe.

whats the best distro for a virtualization host?
what to use? kvm, virtualbox?

>>57401287
>>57401384
>This level of samefagging

>>57401566
Any distro, I personally use Xubuntu.

Virtualbox for non-gaming work stuff

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>>57400484
>Why do people never mention Void when bringing up rolling release?

>>57401646
>uses ub*ntu
>is so retarded he can't detect samefagging properly
who would've fucking thought?
lol

Hey /g/, checked the wiki and decided to go with Mint.
What cool things can I do?

>>57401729
Uninstall it.

>>57401729
You can play Grand theft auto with it

>>57401729
Drain /dev/urandom.

0-4 install Ubuntu
5-9 install Linux mint
roll

>>57401833
is repeating do you install gentoo?

>>57401833
dubs - install gentoo

>>57401899
yes

>>57401384
Sad, but true. They adopted systemd simply out of convenience.

i'm about to get another, more portable laptop (probably a used thinkpad x220 but that's not for this thread) for school, taking into lectures and travel, and would like to try out linux (windows user all my life). i've only got two related questions.

i'd probably like to choose some user friendly distro similar to windows but easy to experiment/play around with later if i got time, and am currently reading the Babbies First Linux article on the wiki - i'm probably going to be doing MOSTLY internet and office stuff but i'm also a biology student about to start my bachelor's thesis and it's possible that i'm going to need to analyze data from the lab etc. our whole lab/department uses graphpad prism, with some exceptions here and there but nothing important. i myself haven't even used it yet but still - is there a good linux alternative for that? and what's the best linux distro that would fullfill those requirements?

>tl;dr: open-source alternative to graphpad prism? best distro for bio student that does mostly office work and shitposting but also scientific data analysis?

->
-> >>57401965
->

New thread.

>>57390842
Who's this girl?

>>57401048

cmd1 | cmd2

The output of cmd1 is being directed as input into cmd2.

cmd1 &> | cmd2

Results in an error, because &> is for redirecting standard output into a file. Since | isn't a valid filename, it spits out an error.

You should really just run those commands and experiment to figure it out yourself.

>>57390889
manjaro-i3