/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Why does he have a goat tattoo'd on his butt?

2nd for audio.
Seriously, I installed Nvidia drivers and now audio doesn't work. Where can I begin?

>second for ubuntu for virtualization host
kek

any open source alternatives to graphpad prism?

(longer version of this question is still in the last thread but this is basically what it boils down to)

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cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted

>12288
Oh, Richard, my beloved, why have thy forsaken thee?

What should I put on my Core2Duo laptop:
>Manjaro Xfce
>Fedora Xfce
>Ubuntu MATE
>Lubuntu

>>57402123
of those four which package manager are you most familiar with

>>57402123
Don't use a DE, you can't afford it.

>>57402123
Ubuntu Mate if you're new, if not Debian Sid.

>>57402132
Synaptic/apt, but I'm open to trying others if they're relatively intuitive.

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>>57402021
he have watched south park

>>57402265
>>57402021
>tfw the average /fglt/ poster age has fallen below 12

>>57402302
that's because mature people use windows.

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>>57402302

>>57402360
>Z7HeRxU.png
Fuck off.

Anyone has a good guide (preferable not narrated by a fucking POO IN THE LOO) about setting up a VM in kvm on CentOS 7? without any GUI

I just setup my centos 7 server as virtualisation host without any gui

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Daily reminder.

>>57402398
>getting triggered over image names.

>>57402458
it means that you need to go back

>>57402410
just mute and use closed captions.

>>57402478
>m-muh special club
fuck off

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Okay /g/., hold me the fuck down

I decided to check if my Intel HD 4600 on my desktop has Vulkan support.

So i downloaded the intel tool to update gpu drivers on ubuntu 16.04, ran the update and switched on the iGPU (i normally use a gtx 760) in uefi, connected the hdmi cable to the card and finally ran Ubuntu.

Turns out the gtx 760 is rendering shit while the display is connected to the intel igpu.

what does /g/ think? Is anyone intrerested by this?
Apparently X can do optimus on desktops too.
Or at least route output from the nvidia gpu to intel display.

As you can see nvidia driver detects no screens , glxgears use nvidia gpu, and there is no vsync, the igpu has RGB limited colors, but overall this seems strange to me.

Can someone try to reproduce?

>>57402516
And i can add that prime-select works. It works literally just like an nvidia-optimus laptop.

>>57402115
da fugg

>>57402516
Because multi GPU or whatever the fuck js enabled in your BIOS

Is LXQt stable enough for daily use now?

It seems development has been moving forward, but a lot of LXDE distros are pushing back their transition to LXQt.

>>57402587
what do you mean? Please elaborate.

>>57402516
>Can someone try to reproduce?
Last time i tried i lost 25m^2 of space and a fuckload of money for 20 years

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

>>57402690
The one i am using.
did you at least automate this post?

>>57402439
lmfao

>>57402690
the one your using

>>57402398
you are so salty, that's beautiful. Keep going on this way

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>>57402439

>>57402115
But anon, that taint value doesn't indicate any non-GPL modules being loaded

>>57402439
remove this racist pic... it degrades my people

Is mate the middle ground of not gnome but more actively developed than xfce?

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>>57401965
This VM is still slower than an Optiplex GX620 running the same OS.

is Linux Mint good?

>>57403080
No. https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/
Go with Ubuntu.

>>57403080
No. It's an ubuntu/debian derivative, but the dev team is much less professional than ubuntu or debian.

how to change the color of folders ?
DE is xfce
i have the numix icon theme installed

Any Python wizards here? I am using Obkey, but it's not picking up any translations once installed. It works when I run it from the directory with "python2 obkey", but not when I install it.
Why doesn't it work when installed? All the translation files are in the correct directories. Are any other Openbox users experiencing the same problem with their obkey?

https://github.com/stevenhoneyman/obkey

>>57403201

You download a new icon theme.

>>57402882

Xfce is actively developed. It's being ported to GTK3. What's it to you if it's working reasonably well (apart from the Thunar bug)?

>>57403093
>>57403098
u sure?

got no answer in /sqt/, reposting here:

>server is centos host with kvm installed (only shell and virt tools)
>client is debian with gnome
is there a way i can connect to the server with my client (via ssh) and manage the VMs running on my server using a gui like virt-manager without installing a DE on my server?

>>57403324
i dont think there is, no. you should probs use something like openbox

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>>57403201
Change the icons you want from your icon theme.
>>57402439

>>57402439
but what if that's my end goal?

>>57403604

Then that means you're a legit idiot, because your "fake" idiotic behaviour cannot be distinguished from real idiotic behaviour.
Kill yourself.

>>57403295
neat, teach me to not read xfce forums. I thought it was dead in the water.

it's quiet here today

>>57404445
I guess people are put off by the endless memes and flame wars over the same half-dozen topics.

>>57404445
I'm here, hru?

>>57404483
doing alright, thanks. you got anything planned this weekend?

right
we need more arch vs debian posting

Updating my scripts ...

Web search didn't help: How do I get the same results of iwgetid with the "new" iw?

>>57404500
wm/de hopping.

>>57402123
Manjaro Xfce

Restarted my antergos laptop and now when I boot it's stuck on screen saying
[ Ok ] Started hostname service
[ Ok ] Started TLP system startup/shutdown

I can't get further than this and have no idea why it would be stuck. What do I do

>>57401965
hi /fglt/
what happens when file is deleted in linux?
is it overwritten or what?

>>57404500
I finally constructed the database but I have to finish feeding data to it. Also thinking of creating a small website for the company.

Hopefully I'll get a bonus but my boss is retarded.

>>57402123
antergos net install

>>57405098
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

>>57405098
It's unlinked, means, it's not accessable anymore, but still there unless it's overwritten by some other stuff.

rm/unlink basically tells the system: "yo, don't care about this file, overwrite it if you want."

>>57405132
>>57405112
>>57404531
>>57404483
Get the fuck off this thread.

>>57405217
this, no need for trip and namefag meme cancer

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>>57405217
why

>>57405231
>namefag
implying there's only one

>>57405086
Or it gets stuck ok blinking cursor

>>57405246
implying I care, everything I read out of KDE Shill is cancer, just go away and take that *pulls down pants and shits everywhere* guy with you

>>57405263
>butthurt

>>57405263
*sees this post*
*scoffs*

>>57405288
exactly you, where the hell do you think you are?

>>57405312
>>57405263
To be quiet honest. Just let it go. It was about time that /fglt/ turns into bullshit like the rest of /g/. Don't be sad it's over, smile because it happened. :^)

>>57405321
>>>/tumblr/

>>57405312
you only encourage it and breed more of them with each response.

Hey Guiez! Whats going on in this thread!?

>>57405486
not too much. pretty quiet tonight. How are you?

>>57405505
I am.

>tried a bunch of different distros
>decided to try Gentoo
>PC has been acting as a brick for the last three months because installing a generic kernel would defeat the purpose but I can't figure out what the fuck is messing my install up and I'm to lazy to look each option up
man, Gentoo is terrible so far

>>57405574
You are doing it wrong: First you fall for the Arch meme, THEN you fall for the Gentoo meme.

kids these days...

>>57405604
I felt an tarded trying to follow the arch handbook so tried gentoo first.

>>57405604
I actually did.

It's just the kernel config that is fucking with me. I don't have enough willpower to get off my ass and finish it, but too much to just give up on le optimized kernel.

>>57405574
>PC has been acting as a brick for the last three months because installing a generic kernel would defeat the purpose but I can't figure out what the fuck is messing my install up and I'm to lazy to look each option up

So you tried compiling your own kernel rightaway, instead of using debian-sources or gentoo-sources?

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So what size does /g/ make their Swap partitions? Half the size of RAM or same size of RAM?

>>57405679
Well I've been following the handbook and I don't recall reading anything about whatever that is.
Besides, compiling your own kernel isn't that hard in itself, I'm just being a lazy shit.

>>57405706
Entirely depends on what you're doing, how much RAM you have and if you want to hibernate.

You don't even need swap for casual use

>>57405706
If you don't know what you are doing: Same size of RAM.

>>57405714
yes compiling is not hard. but its far easier to do 'localmodconfig'

>>57405743
I don't have anymore free slots in my motherboard tho...

>>57405706
Loonix is pretty intelligent when it comes to memory handling. Don't be surprised when you have 70-90% usage, if new shit comes in, it just gets replaced with unused stuff, so basically you don't even need swap, but hybernating needs ofc a place to save all the ram. That said, hybernating is gay anyway.

>>57405706
Old manuals say 1gb for every 100gb of storage space.
Properly function systems should need more than ~3gb though, unless you like hibernate over suspend

>>57405792
"should" meant "should not"

>>57405777
Not only hybernating. Also:
rebooting
suspending
turning it off
A real hacker never turns off his computer.
It's like with lightbulbs; tech dies when you turn it off an on. If's like getting a shock. Do you want to hurt your computer? No. A loved computer is nice to you.

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Hey /fglt/, been looking at Fedora 25 as my next distro for my T431s. Going to set it up tonight. Afterwards I'll hop on the container train and set up some different distributions with them.

If anyone wants to share their experiences with Fedora and if it's notably different than other distros, I'd be happy to hear about it.

>>57405859
It's nice. dnf is a little sluggish right now but dnf 2.0 should be back to yum speeds.

>>57405810
>A real hacker never turns off his computer.
So don't hibernate or sleep or shut off your pc if you can afford it? What's ideal when closing the lid of a thinkpad?

>>57405876
You never, ever close your lid.
https://u.teknik.io/Y85Sc.webm

>>57405859
>Fedora
Why? There is literally no point for it to exist or to use it. There are olny flaws such as wannabe freedom guidelines while keeping blobs and nearly empty user repos.

You end up ad RHEL testing object, doing it for free.

>>57405995
fuck off with your FUD junk

>>57405995
>RHEL testing object
That's fedora raw hide and people are actually paid to test the packages

>>57406027
Your arguments convinced me. Thanks!

>>57406043
Could you speak more on the empty repos? I can see this being a problem since I'm used to adding Ubuntu repos to Linux Mint when I need a package but I can't do that in Fedora.

>>57406171
>tfw all ubuntu/mint/debian/fedora packages are available in Arch

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What do you guys use to create bootable USB's from windows?

I want to carry around a bootable rescue USB to boot into on "unresponsive" computers to retrieve files from them. It would also be helpful if I decide to install linux in another system. I was using Win32DiskImager but that seems to fuck up something about the drives : One of my 128GB flash drives suppsoedly grew to 400GB after deleting the partition Win32DiskImager made in Gparted. This was after I wanted to restore the flash drive to its normal configuration as a large NTFS storage unit.

>>57406171
rpmfusion or copr repo's should have what you need. fedora russian repos as last resort

>>57406228
https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/

>>57406253
Is rufus not good?

>>57402123
Xubuntu 16.04. I have an underpowered machine and works like a charm.

>>57406269
heh, I actually have no idea about making bootable USBs in Windows. I had to do it once and I just googled it.

>>57406269
>>57406408
Rufus is good.

Wtf aren't there any programs on Linux that let me import Soundcloud and Youtube playlists like AIMP?

>>57402123
just for the record, xfce runs just as well, if not better than, lxde on my core2duo, so you could go with xubuntu if you want

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>>57401965
Nice rack today.

>0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
No.
>1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
Tails/Kali on usb, on keys.
>2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or Mac.
Debian/Win7/Arch
>3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.
pic very related

What should I use to create a custom ubuntu iso?

I want to install some packages and programs, then put my system in a form that I can make a live USB from.

>>57402684
Did you at least get a kid out of it?

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how do i wackoff in a chair like pic related.
do i slouch? sitting upright with an erection feels strange.
pls send help

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>>57406921
I do pic related

i'm going to buy a desktop to play games on, do my music production, and also do machine learning stuff since my thinkpad with linux isn't strong enough. the machine learning software i'm going to be looking into at first requires linux. can i use a virtual machine to adequately make use of the GPU? i don't want to dual boot if i don't absolutely have to
>>57406921
i literally bought this chair yesterday and have the same issue. you can loosen it by twisting the knob at the front and lean back easier, but my issue is that it's too high and my dick doesn't have room under the desk

>>57406921
>>57407015
where do you find these anti whacking chairs?

>>57407132
it's the amazon chair

really well made though + comfy. i like it a lot

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>>57406921
fugg i meant to post this in the bst thread
>>57407015
no dice; this is what the chair looks like
i shoulda posted it to begin with
>>57407132
mine came from family storage

>>57407153
why does it have a seat belt?

>>57407254
no idea.

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Son, this "Linux" thing you put on my computer looks slightly different than what I'm used to.

Despite the fact that you've arranged the taskbar, desktop items, and overall copied the aesthetics as closely as you could to how it was for me on Windows as so I could transition to this smoothly, I have immediately determined after not even giving it a try at all that this is something that I can never learn and I humbly request that you put Windows back onto my computer this instant!

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>>57407330
But this is windows pops, I told you MS discontinued that old version you had and released Windows Ubuntu

>>57407340
lol. That's clever. I gotta try that someday.

>>57407254
Bondage

What's a good DE for running 3 screens? The widest one being at the middle.

>>57407533
xfce is pretty easy to configure if that's what you're looking for
pretty much any de should work, i'd think

>>57407574
Ya im going for something highly customizable but realistic with many screens.

>>57407533
all of them are pretty good about displays.
i'd recommend setting them relative to their physical position if your graphics card[s] can handle it.

>>57407631
i'd look into kde, xfce, and maaaybe gnome then

>>57407637
Its a 1050, and none of the screens are 1080p so i think it might work
>>57407646
I liked gnome a lot but i couldnt figure out how to put a taskbar on each screen showing the programs minimized on each screen. KDE is nice tho.

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>he's using a DE

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>>57407691
>he wants to be productive

>>57407691
it's useful for beginners

>>57406758
Check out CUBIC
http://askubuntu.com/questions/741753/how-to-use-cubic-to-create-a-custom-ubuntu-live-cd-image

Add

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse

to the repository sources list (run

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

in the console window part to get to the nano editor, don't forget

apt-get update

afterwards) then you can install other packages like normal.

You can also choose which packages to remove in the screen after the console one.

The output is a custom ISO.

>>57407691
Some people are employed

>>57401965
What's an easy way for me to change my nationality(ip) on irc?

>>57407776
use a vhost and come up for a very australian looking one

321932193.australian-isp.net

>>57407669
>1050
i'd recommend staying away from KDE if you're using proprietary drivers

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Why the fuck does my GTK3 file picker have these dark bars with the Arc GTK theme?

>>57407886
cause its arc """""dark"""""

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>>57407933
No it's not. I'm using the normal Arc theme.

If I make a NAS I will have root access. But is it possible for users to encrypt their home directories so that I can't access them even as root? Through Truecrypt or something like that?

Roommates thinking of getting a NAS but they don't want their downloads to be seen by me.

>>57408016
Containers would work.

Can any give me a relieable dual boot guide?

>>57408083
Have windows, shrink your partitions by the amount you want for GNU/Linux and leave it unallocated, create an usb installer with cp (cp installer.iso /dev/sdX && sync), dd or win32diskimager, boot it, select the enpty unallocated space to make your / mount point, install, install and autoconfigure grub2 if it wasn't done automatically

is there any way to have a tear free desktop while also not having a fuckload of microstutter

forcing compositing vsync on doesn't actually stop tearing and while i can force it at a driver level, everything stutters to ass then

this happens on several distros and across three pcs with different hardware

I have been getting usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -32 on desktop when booting up ubuntu with mouse and keyboard plugged into usb 2.0 ports. when connected to usb 3.0 i dont get issue. I researched and got that it was a power issue as the usb has been drawing too much power and tripped it. Does it mean my psu is going out or a motherboard issue? any help would be appreciated!

Is there any way to sort of easily integrate the way QubeOS handles security through isolation into something like Manjaro?

>>57408172
compton

>Uninstall systemd and switch from gnome to kde
>There aren't any kde themes released more recently than 2 years ago
???

>>57408673
>kde themes
kde breaks the whole scheme into multiple parts. using 'Breeze' theme allows you to use whatever custom color scheme you prefer and apply everywhere.

if you want to change:
>color scheme:
System Settings > Color
>window theme
System Settings > Applications >Window Decorations

>>57408035
>Containers
Didn't know about this but this looks perfect. thanks.

>>57406498
aimp works in linux

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>>57408920
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.

>>57408600
Doesn't help. On both my AMD and NVIDIA machines, tearing is still very present.

>>57409115
Werks for me on amd with foss drivers. and maybe you used the wrong flags with compton.

>>57409567
Nah. Tried various flags. Nothing got rid of tearing. And if I forced it at a driver level in an xorg config or something, the desktop itself had no tearing, but videos and manchildren hobbies all have a lot of stutter.

I think it might just be something I have to deal with in X11 since it sounds like wayland fixes the issue I guess.

>>57409667
The only thing where it does happen to me is the video player in firefox (and for the chromium shills it also happens in the one in surf) but this can be easily fixed by using mpv.
gnome on wayland is pretty stable too if you can not fix it otherwise.

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I'm using zsh and neither i3-sensible-terminal, xterm nor xfce4-terminal get the home or end keys working right. I read that I should get codes from showkey --scancodes but I don't know how to translate 0xe0 0x4f 0xe0 0xc7 into something like ^[[D so I can set a bindkey in .zshrc. Can someone help? I have a hunch I fixed this once with xev or something on another machine but that rc is long gone now.

Who /bsd/ here

>>57409822
>GNU/Linux thread

>Who /bsd/ here

>>57407691

>he has all the components which make up a desktop environment
>still claims that he's not using a desktop environment
>makes fun of others without realizing that he's a retarded hypocrite

Stop embarrassing yourself.

What's the current meme distro?
Is it still arch?

>>57410139
that windows+ubuntu thing that was released

>>57410151
Not a fuck. I mean actual distro.

How do we feel about Manjaro?

>>57410209
I don't know about we. But I kind of think of it as currently the top contender for the best "user friendly" distro, instead of Ubuntu.
I've never used it myself though.

>>57410209

What's it to you?

>>57410243
>>57410239
I'm looking for a distro for work. I like the configurability of arch, but it's going to take too long to set everything up manually.

How stable is it? An alternative would be going with Debian.

>faglet
LOL

Would like some advice

I have an external drive mounted to /home/anon/media. It contains folders such as Videos, Pictures, Books.

However, I would like the folders in ~/media to show up in my home folder as well. Would setting up symlinks be the only way to do this? Am I unable to use mounting tools to have the contents of two filesystems exist in a folder together?

>>57410256

Just as I thought, you're just another naive person who takes all the myths and memes seriously, without a doubt.
First of all, Arch isn't more "configurable" than any other distribution. Secondly, Debian has more branches than just stable. You have no clear idea about stability. You just throw it around as a buzzword. Do you consider your Firefox running on Windows as stable? Yes? Everything else is considered "stable" on Arch or similar distributions. They pick up the software as it's deemed "stable" by upstream and who release the software.

I suggest you look up in to the key defining features of a distribution and then make a choice based on that, instead of basing it off memes and myths you saw on here or elsewhere.

>>57403793
But that doesn't make much sense. I just want the level of this thread to drop so low idiots would feel very comfortable here. and i can mimic an idiot easily so that shouldn't be too hard

>>57410326

Most likely this, but it seems too contrived for your use case.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Overlay_filesystem

>>57410328
>the 'expert' chips in.
I've used all of these distros.
A few years ago I actually had X11 die horrendously for no reason during a pacman update.

My question about stability specifically refers to that. Is arch STILL breaking randomly with pacman updates, as it was years ago?

>>57410336
Yeah, probably a bit too much to avoid setting up symlinks as I go. Most likely layout of the top level of my external drive won't change much anyway. Mostly just curiosity.

In any case, union filesystems look interesting,

>>57410379

Yes, it breaks.

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Am I the only one with an autistic desire for a Linux package manager with 0% artifacts?
(e.g. A 10yr old system with constant package installations and uninstallations should be completely identical to a brand new system that installs the same software aside from any files modified by the user himself)

>>57410379

No, it doesn't break.

>>57410139
Yes

>>57410436

That's how literally all good package managers work.

>>57410438
>>57410428
>>57410379

Which one are you going to believe?

>>57410452
Yeah I agree. If only we had a single good package manager.

>>57406228
https://www.netbsd.org/~martin/rawrite32/
never fails

>>57410459
They could both be telling the truth, and likely are.

Bugger it all, I'm going to go with Obongo.

>>57410464

Name some reasons why none of the existing package managers work for you. Alternatively name reasons what your current package manager is lacking.

No offense, but judging by your comment here >>57410436 and being unaware of one of the core principles of package managers, I'd say you're not a power user (basically a beginner). Therefore I seriously doubt that you'd have valid reasons why all package managers are bad.

>>57410488
GUIX MASTTERACE

>>57410488
Ideals have nothing to do with how something works in practice.
>being unaware of one of the core principles of package managers
Ok so they all want to work properly? Good job. Problem is they don't.

Instead of me listing why every package manager sucks, if you think even a single Linux package manager out there can accomplish what I said in my post:
>A 10yr old system with constant package installations and uninstallations should be completely identical to a brand new system that installs the same software aside from any files modified by the user himself
Then please name it.

>>57410509

Pacman does that.
If I remember correctly, apt's "purge" flag does exactly that too, so add apt on that list.
I haven't used any other package managers, but I assume they also have an option to do that.

Do you even know how package managers work? They track the files they installed. Therefore they can remove them easily.

>>57410522
Gee thanks google.
Stop posting any time.

Could someone help me with manjaro on an x220? I've been using mint for a while and I want to see what an arch based distro is like

>alt button doesn't work for some things (ctrl+alt+t doesn't open terminal, but alt+tab will cycle through open windows)
>installed sublime but typing subl in the command line does nothing
>windows+[direction] doesn't snap windows

Aside from that it was p fun, everything else worked out of the box

>>57410557

>asks a question
>gets answer
>has no argument but to say something completely irrelevant

>>57410567

>>alt button doesn't work for some things (ctrl+alt+t doesn't open terminal, but alt+tab will cycle through open windows)
That depends on your environment. You're obviously using a different desktop environment or the same, but with different default keybindings.

>>installed sublime but typing subl in the command line does nothing
Because there is no executable named "subl". Hit TAB to autocomplete it to "sublime" and then press enter.

>>windows+[direction] doesn't snap windows
Again, that's desktop environment specific.

>>57410637
You mean like you've been doing to me this whole time?
>being unaware of one of the core principles of package managers
>I haven't used any other package managers, but I assume they also have an option to do that
>Do you even know how package managers work? They track the files they installed. Therefore they can remove them easily.

None of this crap has anything to do with the issue.

It's like I'm saying a janitor isn't doing his job properly because there's fucking garbage all over the place and you're just saying "lol do you even know what a janitor is? He's supposed to pick up all the trash dum dum"
I fucking know he's supposed to pick up the trash. That doesn't mean he's doing it.

If fucking know what package managers are supposed to do. That doesn't mean they're doing it properly.

>>57410668

You asked for this >>57410436 and I told you here >>57410522 which package managers do that. You completely ignored that and are still going on about something, I don't know what.

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Is debian sid a systemd distro or not?

>systemctl hibernate
>boots up into a fresh session instead of saved session

>s2disk
>out of the box flawlessly restores saved session from disk

I have problems with wifi on my Thinkpad. The card doesn't show up in lspci. Usually it gets fixed if I remove the battery and turn it on again, but it breaks again upon next shutdown/sleep. Where do I start troubleshooting? I'm using Intel Centrino Ultmate-N 6300 with iwlwifi.

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I know that I must go to /v/, but still.
I've experienced heavy troubles with nvidia drivers last two months. "Steam is unable to perform video driver detection" its name. I tried Steamos and Ubuntu, none helps. I've manually reinstalled drivers, tried dozen solutions, and still I can't force this shit to be detectable. Did anybody had same problem?

>>57410696

What do you define as a session?

>>57410688
If you think pacman and apt can do that then you're a fucking moron.
>and are still going on about something, I don't know what.
Big surprise there.

Maybe you should try understanding a little harder next time before you start calling someone a "beginner" just to sound like you're not one yourself.

I'm done with you. I hope you're not representative of the population on /fglt/

>>57410713
I don't actually know, I guess what I meant by session is the image representing the state of my linux system.

>>57410726

Pacman can do that.

>installs files
>i tell it to remove them
>it removes everything it installed
>repeat

Otherwise, feel free to post an example why it doesn't work like that.

>>57410700
Which driver?
Which distro?
Which GPU?

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>>57409793
pls halp

Is there a gnome extension or script to automove any new windows I create to a different workspace. I tried the auto-move-windows extension but it fucks up half the time and you have to specify which workplace the window should go to.

I don't really care which workplace the window goes in as long as it's one that's not being used by anything else.

I'm new to linux. Does anyone know how to disable this high pitched whining noise coming from my headphones? It's really annoying.

>>57401965
Next time find a transvestite without age spots and obvious hair follicles. Is this Brain Wu?

>>57411238
if you have a laptop;
>acquire 1 pint (imperial measurement) of chickens' blood
>draw heptagram on backside of laptop
>pour blood onto keyboard making sure to cover every part

>>57410837
Xubuntu 16.04 for now.
367.57
GTX980

Which are the least autistic distros?

>>57411383
We use stones over here. Would 1 stone be sufficient?

>>57411383
I only have a cup or so of chicken blood. Can I dilute with water or maybe milk?

>>57411463
It's a tie between Gentoo and NT

>>57411238
Just stop whining then.

>>57411486
>>57411480
never tried these, let me know how well they work.

>>57411463
Windows

>>57411383
What if it's not a laptop?

>>57411577
>check grounds
>re-seat sound card
>check for correct kernel modules
etc

What is the command to change the time via command line? I need to change my clock back an hour.

text editor noob here
should I learn how to use vim?
I already know the basics of emacs, but it seems like only vim is included on every base install of linux

>>57411824
You should get used to vim to understand vi. vi is something anyone who uses any UNIX machine should know.

>>57411824
i'd say no, but i'm a pleb who uses nano whenever possible

>>57411854
I too was a nano peasant
It's nice not having character limits on your lines

>>57411787
date +%T -s "0:00:00"

>>57411894
What is the difference between date and hwclock? It seems both can change the time.

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>changed my KDE theme to something else
>Firefox highlight color is still the manjaro green

help

>>57412217
possibly usercss

>>57412244
Actually I figured it out, apparently it was an issue with the GTK theme. I was under the impression that the KDE-build of firefox made it use KDE settings, but I guess I was wrong.

Cheers anon

>>57412269
Does your kde build have the kde file picker and does it show previews?

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>>57412217
if qt makes a mess of your gtk programs, consider tuning off pic related

Guys. htop is a wonderful program, but I keep attempting to kill processes when I try to scroll with j/k. Holy shit.

>>57412359
VI VI VI is the editor of the beast :^)

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>>57412294
Yep, sure does. Although I have to admit, I'm now only using KDE out of principal for wanting a push towards a QT DE. There are some distro-related tweaks I could do to probably make it perform better, but I've kind of realized that having thumbnails isn't a big deal to me anymore. (Especially when there is a patch for GTK2 that gives the same functionality)

I've switched over to using hydrus network to manage my images now, especially since I've learned I can share the library with a sym link. There are things on it that are just weird, and theming KDE is kind of a pain in the ass. Apparently the highlight title-bar color needs to be modified manually? I found that a little weird, so I just switched to arc-dark. There also aren't a lot of theme options for it.

>>57412321
I'll keep that in mind for the future, cheers anon

>>57412395
Can you show your kmozillahelper rc file? I've installed it too but I can't get the previews to work no matter what I do.

>>57412438
Interesting that yours didn't come working after you installed the KDE build of firefox. Is it just flat out not using the KDE build?

Also I don't know what the location of the file is, if you tell me I'll post the contents

>>57412380
kek

>>57401965
I have an Athlon XP1800 @ 1.53GHZ
With 256MB of ram.
What is a good, light distro for browsing needs only?
I was hoping to run android on it, but it seems too much.

>>57412395
going off topic, but whatever: which icon pack are you using?

>>57412489
I'm just using the arc icon pack desu. It fits pretty well with the theme

>>57412462
you could try puppydog linux or slax.

>>57412495
thanks senpai

>>57412462

Hint: everything will be equally shit. Your distribution won't matter. Your desktop environment won't matter. Assuming your browse the same content, with the same software, the distribution won't matter. The difference between performance on a "minimal" desktop environment consisting of a stand-alone window manager and other utilities and something "heavy" like KDE with all the graphically/CPU intensive stuff turned off will be negligible.

>>57412456
It's using the file picker and the KDE build but the previews aren't working. And it isn't DE-dependent since I've tried it in both my wm and KDE.
The file should be in your firefox installation directory if I'm not mistaken.
~/.config/kde/config/kdeglobals would also help.

>>57412520
I just need it to run at least a bit better than fucking windows xp

>>57412528
This might sound dumb but did you click the show preview button at the top beforehand?

anyways here is what it looks like (it was actually just in .config)

[Audio Preview Settings]
Autoplay=false

[FileDialogSize]
Height 1200=633
Height 900=633
Width 1440=1368
Width 1920=1368

[KFileDialog Settings]
Recent Files[$e]=(some stuff)
Recent URLs[$e]=(somestuff)

[Open-with settings]
CompletionMode=5
History=deluge,qbittorrent

I love fancy music players with more features than I need and an actual GUI.

Is clementine the best thing there is, or has there been any other player that covers most needs?

I have a VPS on linode as my personal server. Would it be ok if I started tracking torrents on it (with a bandwidth cap)? Would linode get angry at me? I want to start learning /ptg/ but I would rather not spend the $$ on my electricity bill with my dtop always on, and I don't have the $$ for a the hd's to make a home server

>>57412597
Yeah. It doesn't react at all.
Is that kmozillarc? Could you show your kdeglobals too?

>>57412633
weird, what distro are you on by chance?
I want to point something out: I've tried KDE on kubuntu, debian, arch, and finally manjaro. The only time I've EVER had it work this well is on manjaro. I'm not one to usually blame linux distributions on the oeprating system, but fuck KDE is the only thing I've ever had give me this much trouble in my life. (Hell it still gives me trouble. When I go to access my external drive for the first time, it basically freezes the whole system for a minute.)

Anyways, here it is in a hastebin. I don't know if this helps, but it might!
http://hastebin.com/edecubowev.makefile

>>57412611
Clementine to my knowledge is the most feature rich GUI program. I just think the GUI looks really shitty.

Try looking into MPD (frontend probably doesn't matter). If you don't mind spending some time in a config file, you can get a mess of plugins and other things that will tickle your fancy to no end.

>>57412681
Too bad musicbee doesn't work on lunix... unless it does. banshee is alright. shows the albums in library. not the best looking but works. sure more options.

I installed ubuntu 16.04 recently and can't connect to my router. Neither wired nor wireless. I know my wireless card works as I booted into a live debian and it worked. When I boot into live ubuntu it doesn't work either. I tethered my mobile network into ubuntu and it worked. Any advice? I'm desperate.

Is there a way to show image miniatures on mouse hover/selection with a pop-up feh borderless window, maybe scaled to a limited size or something? I mean in a file browser.

So, I'm connected to my Ubuntu server through SMB and I just finished up transfering some files. I didn't log out right away and decided to browse some shit on the web. I had the syslogs open on the the server and noticed my web searches from the client machine are showing up! WTF? Any advice on how to troubleshoot this? I'm not really sure about the search terms I should be feeding Google.

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>>57412817

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>>57412781
So musicbee DOES run in Wine, but I had to do a lot of fiddling with it the second time around. You will probably have to install 4.0 framework yourself, then might have to fiddle with the internet settings since WINE didn't coem out of box working with last.fm for me for whatever reason.

However, I switched to MPD and have no regrets. I really like how seamless it is, and it has so many fucking features to configure and tweak the way you want. The fact that it can run as a service in the background is also super nice. If I want to listen to something, I simply put it in the folder, and it's there because the folder monitoring werks well. It never wastes a second buffering, it will start playing as soon as you want. I think linux has a severe lack of good music player GUI's desu. I like having a cover art browser and album artist picture browser. I think that's why I couldn't use clementine, I just think the UI was too outdated for me. Small icons really don't do a whole lot for me, either.
Overall, the only modern feeling music experiences on Linux have been the following for me:
1) MPD + Cantata (because the GUI combines well with how powerful MPD is)
2) Tomahawk (but it is still a buggy release. Lot of potential though)
3) Lollypop (same as above)

I still just use musicbee on windows for the things I'm not comfortable letting Linux handle though, for now.

>>57412887
There is no error message though. Everything seems to be perfectly happy running like this.

what tui file manager should I use? I'm tired of ranger

>>57412901
>>57409010

>>57412901
>using windows
>>57412944
vifm, mc

>>57412949
>not using GNU-less Linux
top kek
>>57412965
Muh games, muh engineering shit. I unfortunately can't purge my windows dependency, and it's nice to have a fallback if one fails.

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What's a good, user-friendly WM that has big image thumbnails that make it super easy to find and organize your shit?

>>57413080

What's a WM?

>>57413143
Window manager

>>57413157

Your window manager has nothing to do with thumbnails. I'm not even going to comment on the other buzzphrases or misconceptions like "user-friendly".

>>57413211
I'm just looking for a way to quickly go through my images. Ubuntu's thumbnails are too small

>>57413225
Do you mean in the file picker dialog?

>>57413225

I'm going to assume that you mean the GTK2/3 file-dialog and its thumbnails.
I suggest you don't use a file-dialog to organize and manipulate pictures. I suggest you use a proper file manager and an image editing-organizing program, which is part of some image viewers.

>>57413260
That and the normal file manager

>>57413278
post pic? I've used ubuntu before and the file picker in firefox will be small (nothing you can easily do about it sorry) but I don't know why your thumbnails in nemo would be small

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>>57413289

>>57413303
well I meant of the whole window but that seems plenty big.

I struggle to believe there isn't a zoom in anywhere in nemo. Try holding ctrl and scrolling your mousewheel, that's the shortcut in KDE

>>57413272
Any suggestions? I was looking in to PCManFm

>>57413321
You can only fit in like 4 images at worst on the biggest size and it persists on other folders. It's not usable

>>57413303
Just use dolphin

>>57413225
Install pcmanfm and change the sizes from >preferences>display>Icons. Nautilus might have similar settings, I don't know, I quit using it years ago.

>>57413322

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications#Graphical_9

>>57413143
window system = suite of programs which create a window system (wayland, xorg, ...)

destop enviroment = suite of random programs such as; window manager, window toolkit, terminal, editors, torrent client, media players

window manager=the thing that manages windows, created by the window system, moving around, theming, etc

toolkits: programs wich create graphical user interfaces (dialoges, messageboxes, etc) like qt, gtk

>>57413373
Too complicated. Why doesn't systemd handle these?

>>57413399

Because it's out of its scope.

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In kate (text editor), I can't find the proper syntax highlighting for writing VBA macros. Visual Basic doesn't appear there. What should I look for?

If it doesn't exist (how?!), can I write my own? How much would it take from scratch?
https://kate-editor.org/2005/03/24/writing-a-syntax-highlighting-file/
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/applications/katepart/highlight.html

>>57413373
Fun fact.

X is actually also a DE. It ships a text editor, pager, clock, and more. There is even spyware included. (xeyes)

>>57413476
I think I know how to fix this one.
Open your Konsole (terminal) and input the following command:
vim
Then type in this:

:syntax on

>>57413476

+ use a better editor
+ use a better language

>>57413500
>>57413504
Why bother to to reply if your answer is empty?

>>57413536
But I gave you the answer to solving your problem. Also consider this poster's >>57413504 second suggestion

>>57410696
I dunno what's up with hibernation on Debian. I'm on Sid as well and it seems to have varying degrees of success.

Thoughts on NeoVim?

I want to get the alsa volume level to put on my dwm status bar with xsetroot
amixer outputs

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 32766 [50%] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 32766 [50%] [on]

How do I get just that volume level %? awk/sed sorcery?

>>57413593
>I always try to force-feed my personal preferences to everyone.

You must be very loved among your friends.

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>>57413476
Bumparoo.

>>57413736
Force-feed? Where did I apply any force to you and how is that even possible through the internet?
>treats suggestions about using better software as personal attacks
You must be very loved among your friends.

>>57401965

I am fairly confident that's an ass and not a rack.

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This can't be right. I'm sure there's SOMETHING on my system that's proprietary..

>>57411824
Yeah, just run the vimtutor and you'll be capable of using it to do basic editing.

It isn't necessary to learn, but it can be used over ssh, it's very ubiquitous like you said, and if you take it beyond the basics it's a very versatile and useful tool.

>>57413721
amixer get Master | grep -Eom1 '[0-9]+%'

If you use pulse, use the pulse device:

amixer -D pulse get Master | grep -Eom1 '[0-9]+%'

>>57412380
I actually can't count how many times I've accidentally closed a tab while typing a message because I pressed CTRL-W to delete the last word.

>>57413758
>Hey, /*/, how can I do X on A?
>Just use B.
Nobody asked for your text editor preference. Nobody cares. Your posts are useless.

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I'm trying to forward codeblocks over ssh -X from a raspi3, but I get pic related. Anyone know how to fix it? ddg wasn't too cooperative.

>>57413837
why

>>57413752
see >>57413500 >>57413504

>>57413805
>Hey, /*/, how can I do something on A that it wasn't designed for?
>Just use B.
>your trying to force feed me XDDDD
Nobody asked for your text editor preference. Nobody cares. Your posts are useless.

>>57413958
Have to do hardware interfacing on a raspi3 in C for uni. Hate having to work on a seperate screen and a seperate keyboard all the time.

->
-> >>57413992
->

New thread.

>>57401965
linux mint 18
I have manually included the nvidia driver in the update
now cinnamon crashes and I'm in fallback mode.
what can I do to not make it crash?

>>57414041
Install a better distro.

When installing Gentoo, how do I know which options to select when compiling the kernel?

>>57414041
>linux mint
found your problem

>>57413801
Thanks
How do you learn this kind of thing? Extensive manpage reading?

>>57414315

For learning the command line:

https://linuxjourney.com/

To learn specific commands, just look at their man pages. "man $command".

So I'm trying to configure smplayer to work with livestreamer, but can't find anything with an issue like this.

I think it has something to do with the pipe and smplayer, since MPV works just fine. When I try to play a stream from shitbox under smplayer, it doesn't even play. Just gives me this:

Playing: -
[file] Reading from stdin...
Failed to recognize file format.
Exiting... (Errors when loading file)

(Of course after some other stuff that doesn't seem relevant)

Anybody have a suggestion? Not a big deal I can just tweak up the MPV settings a bit.

Is Ubuntu MATE a good distro to learn to use Linux?

>>57414614
Good for a few months. You'll move on in that time if you aren't mentally disabled

how much GNU is there actually in linux? or how much linux is there in GNU? code wise?

is it like majority GNU or majority linux components?

it just feels like RMS is pulling a meme on me when he paints his picture where linux is basically a tiny gadget that makes up a small fraction of the work that went into modern GNULINUX systems

someone pls REDPILL me

>>57414646
I've been using Xubuntu for quite a few months already. I can't find a reason to switch to anything else.

>>57414755
I don't use GNU at all. But the major distros contain about 3-5% of GNU impurities, the rest is made by The Linux Foundation and other independent developers.